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thought to up to 10 metres (33ft) in length - made a navigational error.", "TV watchdog Ofcom has \"serious concerns\" over what the BBC published about the Naga Munchetty row.", "A new BBC Scotland documentary explores what it's like to be black and Scottish.", "The universities minister calls for action as wave of private student housing is still unfinished.", "The PM says he does not think \"it can be right to use the process of diplomatic immunity for this type of purpose\" when asked about the case of 19-year-old Harry Dunn.", "Hundreds of online videos are removed for breaking rules on nudity and sexual conduct after a BBC investigation.", "The general manager of the Houston Rockets had expressed support for Hong Kong protesters.", "Stephen Barclay is asked about the government's strategy for a law that could force it to ask for a Brexit delay.", "Business woman Jennifer Arcuri says her answer would be \"weaponised\" against her and the prime minister.", "The rapper has moved his Revenge is Sweet tour dates from November to January", "A High Court judge rules the kit supplier's marketing offer was \"less favourable\" than a Nike deal.", "From Somaliland to picking strawberries and becoming a fintech leader, Ismail Ahmed has topped the Powerlist 2020.", "A Maine student suspended for a note warning of a \"rapist in the school\" wins her case in court.", "Carson Price, 13, is one of at least 12 under-16s who have died since 2017 after taking ecstasy.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Too many excluded school pupils get only a couple of hours teaching each day, says their report.", "The first global atlas of earthworms has been compiled to help protect the fauna beneath our feet.", "The position is fluid in Westminster as the PM says he will ask for an election in the run-up to Christmas.", "Toddlers might better recognise the concept of quantity if numbers are counted out, scientists say.", "The Duchess of Sussex says conversations about the issue \"can't happen without men\".", "The eighteen-year-old would not take his jailed ex's no for an answer - and broke into the prison.", "Post-mortem tests have begun on 39 people found dead in a lorry. How are people identified in such circumstances?", "A photography project has highlighted the extent of ice loss from Iceland’s largest glaciers.", "Some women are being driven to sex work because of problems with universal credit, MPs say.", "Train citizens to stop \"outbreaks\" of non-native species in the UK, a committee urges ministers.", "A National Audit Office report investigated the reasons for falling pre-school vaccine uptake.", "The victim was raped by Anthony Carling while she was walking her dogs in 1991.", "President Macron is concerned a 12-week extension could encourage more UK indecisiveness.", "\"We know people are dying on smart motorways,\" Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs.", "The mother of Josh Hanson, who was killed in 2015, says the sentencing of Shane O'Brien is 'bittersweet'.", "A coroner says she has \"grave concerns\" about the Army's \"ability to learn from previous mistakes\".", "Police continue to question the driver on suspicion of murdering the eight women and 31 men.", "Lungs turns highly personal into powerfully political: it lays the issue of our age at our door.", "Labour says it will \"absolutely support\" an election but only if a no-deal Brexit is \"off the table\".", "Anna Kirsopp-Lewis and her unborn baby died when her car was struck on her way to see a midwife.", "Russian scientists tracking eagles got huge SMS bills when some birds flew to Iran and Pakistan.", "Police continue to question the driver on suspicion of murdering the eight women and 31 men.", "Pham Thi Tra My and Nguyen Dinh Luong are among those who are feared to have died in the trailer.", "Mobile giants unveil plan to end rural 'not-spots', aiming to get 4G coverage to 95% of the UK by 2025.", "The BBC's response follows reports that that Lion said \"shut up Gandhi\" to a fellow candidate.", "The family of a woman from Vietnam say they last heard from her in a text saying she was suffocating.", "The Motown icon announces her first UK dates since 2008.", "The prime minister calls on the Labour leader to back a snap December poll.", "A study identified one-and-a-half-million abusive comments posted over a three-and-a-half year period.", "Harry Dunn's parents want a judicial review into the diplomatic immunity for suspect Anne Sacoolas.", "Firefighters are battling the wildfires in northern California's wine country.", "Leicester City equal the record for the biggest ever Premier League victory as dismal 10-man Southampton are dismantled at a rainswept St Mary's.", "Local members back the Edinburgh South MP who the Unite union had said undermined the Labour leadership.", "Dom Ansah and Ben Gillham-Rice, both 17, were attacked in Milton Keynes on Saturday.", "Network Rail warned of disruption at London Euston until the end of services on Friday.", "Find out if your MP voted for the government's Brexit bill.", "Belgian Paralympian Marieke Vervoort ends her own life through euthanasia at the age of 40.", "The plan means it will be easier to offer incentives such as cheaper parking for zero-emission cars.", "More than 100 personnel were taken off by helicopter following a subsea structural inspection.", "A lawyer for Shamima Begum says stripping her citizenship left her stateless and should be reversed.", "George King-Thompson, who scaled the London landmark in July, admits being in contempt of court.", "Soap stars defended Katie Jarvis after a paper splashed her shop security guard job on the front page.", "Angela Irwin will serve a year in prison for preventing the lawful burial of a corpse in 2018.", "Adnan Ahmed targeted dozens of women on the streets of Glasgow and posted secretly-filmed videos online.", "The teenager's family said the statement from Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab \"added insult to injury\".", "The man was one of 60 full skeletons found after work began at the Aberdeen Art Gallery site.", "Searching the presenter's name links to the most malicious websites, a cyber-security firm says.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Japan's Emperor Naruhito formally proclaims his ascension to the throne in an elaborate ceremony.", "The Brexit secretary says there'll be no forms to fill in - then reverses his position shortly afterwards.", "Severn Trent Water urges boaters on Ladybower Reservoir to stay well away from the overflow.", "The Wikileaks co-founder is fighting extradition to the US over claims he leaked government secrets.", "The home rental site has warned a tax inquiry by HM Revenue & Customs could lead to litigation.", "Manchester City Council asked residents to report issues after some cars were vandalised.", "The 83-year-old who died after an incident in Moray is described as \"doting and warm-hearted\" by relatives.", "Police say the victims were seriously assaulted at Birkenhill Woods in New Elgin.", "MPs voted against a proposal to examine the prime minister's bill in three days.", "Police are investigating the arson attack on a house in Sheffield on Monday evening.", "The tech giant has set out extra measures for fighting the spread of disinformation.", "Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party projected to win in Canada but as a minority government, says CBC News.", "The EU has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay for the third time - so how does the process work?", "After MPs voted \"aye\" then \"no\" over the PM's Brexit plans, we explain what went on in Parliament.", "Abortion is now decriminalised and same-sex marriage is to be legalised in Northern Ireland.", "'The WAB' has passed all its stages in Parliament. Here's what it is.", "Staff at Sunday Riley were found to have posted fake positive reviews on beauty giant Sephora's website.", "The man is accused of murdering two teenagers who were stabbed to death at a house in Milton Keynes.", "The procurator fiscal who brought charges against protesters says bridge tolls were a \"scam\" and prosecutions could be wrong.", "The original plan had been to shut the \"most dilapidated\" jails and sell the sites for housing.", "Three people - including baby twins - were injured after the emergency vehicle careered into them.", "A thermal imaging camera in Edinburgh showed that a Slough visitor's breast was a different colour.", "Four years after the bombing of a Russian plane, the UK says airport security at the resort is safe.", "Anna Roselyn Evans died eight days after a car hit the tent she was sleeping in.", "MPs back the second reading of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - but reject the government's timetable.", "Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds were injured in the Manchester bombing in 2017.", "Hospitals and care homes should be fined if they do not ask about sexual orientation, MPs say.", "Drug company says it will seek permission in the US to start marketing the potentially 'life-changing' new drug.", "The crowd started singing after the toddler's mother told them he was scared.", "The supermarket chain says it will fire staff who do not sign up to new terms and conditions.", "Newswatch and Front Row presenter claims she was paid less than male colleagues for equivalent work.", "The oldest prisoner in a jail in England or Wales was aged 104, figures from this summer showed.", "The latest figures come as the chancellor is preparing to announce spending rises in next month's Budget.", "Hashem Abedi is accused of 22 counts of murder and conspiring with his brother to cause explosions.", "British detectives will fly to the US to interview Anne Sacoolas over 19-year-old Harry Dunn's death.", "Rapman on being discovered by one of the richest artists in music and becoming a film director.", "Raheem Sterling scores an 11-minute hat-trick as Manchester City come from behind to thrash Atalanta in the Champions League.", "The prime minister concedes he cannot form a coalition, handing an opportunity to his main rival.", "Scotland's finance secretary uses his speech to the SNP conference to argue that the country can \"more than afford\" independence.", "England move a step closer to qualification for Euro 2020 with a 6-0 win against Bulgaria but the game is overshadowed by incidents of racism.", "Five-year-old Ava Macfarlane died from sepsis in December 2017.", "Boris Johnson has made several announcements on law and order. But what exactly is he proposing?", "Amira, Heba and Hamza, thought to be from the UK, are among 24 orphans taken to safety by the UN.", "Several hectares of green space is being covered over each year by paving or home extensions in Edinburgh.", "A 30-year-old man was arrested by officers in Antrim on Monday morning.", "Dashcam footage shows a series of near-misses on the A505 in Hertfordshire.", "A British man has died in Sofia before England's Euro 2020 qualifier, the Foreign Office says.", "Hagibis - the worst typhoon to hit the country in decades - leaves at least 40 dead, with 16 missing.", "Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn hope to take up the offer of meeting Anne Sacoolas.", "The prime minister wants to remove the Brexit backstop and has a new plan to avoid a hard Irish border.", "An ex-Army chief is 'disappointed' over reports a proposed law will be left out of the monarch's address.", "Scotland crash out of the World Cup at the pool stage for only the second time after being beaten by an irrepressible Japan in Yokohama.", "The conservative nationalist Law and Justice party wins Sunday's general poll, with most of the results in.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "The former f(x) band member, know for pushing the boundaries in K-pop, was found dead at her home.", "The Labour leader says suggestions he would go if he loses the next election are \"hypothetical\".", "Jack Monroe's bank and PayPal accounts were used after her mobile phone number was hijacked.", "Glitch sees customers abroad hit with thousands of pounds of charges and unable to use their phones.", "Negotiating teams meet again after all sides warn there is still a lot of work to do to find agreement.", "Esther Duflo, who won the prize as part of a team of three, is only the second woman since 1969 to win.", "Parents of motorcyclist Harry Dunn will not meet US suspect unless she agrees to return to UK.", "The CBI employers' group claims Labour's plans would cost the combined health and education budgets.", "Catalan independence supporters and police clash as thousands protest at El Prat airport.", "Gareth Bale's equaliser against Croatia in Cardiff keeps Wales' European Championship qualifying hopes alive.", "The Mike Ashley-owned retailer says the \"must-have\" brands hold too much market power.", "England's Euro 2020 qualifier with Bulgaria in Sofia is halted twice with fans warned about racist behaviour.", "SNP conference delegates unanimously pass a motion backing the decriminalisation of drugs.", "Crime and health take centre stage in Boris Johnson's new programme - but Jeremy Corbyn calls it \"fool's gold\".", "England defender Tyrone Mings says he could hear the racist abuse \"as clear as day\" in the Euro 2020 qualifier against Bulgaria.", "Catalan independence supporters and police clash as thousands protest at El Prat airport.", "Will Gompertz reviews Oscar hopeful The Irishman, which is being released on Netflix.", "The Queen says the government's priority \"has always been to secure the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union on the 31 October\".", "John Henry Newman is the first English person born since the 17th Century to be canonised.", "The card was left on the windscreen of a police car following the Arndale Centre stabbings.", "Brigid Kosgei claims a new women's marathon world record in Chicago, beating the time set by Britain's Paula Radcliffe in 2003.", "Crime and health take centre stage, but opposition parties dismiss the programme as \"election manifesto\".", "The ex-footballer said he was trying to give her a \"confidence boost\", a sex assault trial hears.", "Sajid Javid says it will be the UK's first Budget after leaving the EU.", "Ministers say a deal with the EU is a \"priority\" as they prepare to outline their future plans.", "The attack is believed to have been carried out by a drug cartel in western Michoacán state.", "The BBC discovered three children from the same family stranded after their parents died in the fighting with Islamic State.", "The pop star says he still locks his bedroom door every night after he was followed and sent notes.", "Salih Khater used his vehicle to try to kill people outside Parliament before crashing into barriers.", "Police say they are are looking for the parents of the newborn and trying to find out who buried her.", "Concerns are raised about a major dairy amid claims it stops taking farmers' milk supplies.", "The ex-photographer, who abused up to 200 Malaysian children, was attacked with a \"makeshift knife\".", "The 1998 Good Friday Agreement allows people to identify as British, Irish or both.", "Peers dressed in their finery, alongside MPs and guests, listen as the Queen sets out plans for Brexit and beyond.", "The women had been told they would get 100% of the settlement money offered by Glasgow City Council.", "PC Andrew Harper's widow tells mourners he \"vowed to challenge the bad and celebrate the good\".", "NI should remain in a UK customs union \"full stop\" and the PM \"knows it very well\", says Nigel Dodds.", "The prime minister appeared at a rally in a bulletproof vest and surrounded by uniformed officers.", "The prolific stage, screen and TV actor played the Douglas Adams' paranoid android Marvin.", "The lowdown on the 26 bills being proposed by Boris Johnson's government.", "The technology firm, which has already built the first cars, says the project is not commercially viable.", "It follows an investigation into the alleged smuggling of billions of pounds of drugs into the UK.", "Home Office minister says those who don't apply for settled status after Brexit by December 2020 must leave.", "Around two million people are in the second day of no electricity following organised power cuts.", "In a historic moment, female football fans attend a World Cup qualifier against Cambodia.", "Disabled presenter Jessica Kellgren-Fozard's secrets of happiness on World Mental Health Day.", "There are warm words from Leo Varadkar, but it would be an epic assumption to conclude a Brexit deal will happen.", "The man from south west Wales fathered at least six children with one of his daughters.", "Notes held by Donald Trump show a suspect in a crash that killed a teenager will not return to the UK.", "The Met Police calls the action \"stupid and dangerous\", as officers arrest 50 people at London airport.", "The Labour activist was attacked outside a pub in north London while celebrating his birthday.", "Does the Turkish offensive in north-eastern Syria pave the way for a comeback by the jihadist group?", "The prime minister wants to remove the Brexit backstop and has a new plan to avoid a hard Irish border.", "Student Sophie Bennett developed anxiety and depression but then she discovered surf lifesaving.", "Gregor Townsend is confident Sunday's game against Japan will go ahead despite Typhoon Hagibis threatening Scotland's World Cup progress.", "Juliette Kaplan played Pearl in the classic BBC sitcom for 25 years.", "Iranian women have attended a World Cup qualifier in Tehran for a men's match after being freely allowed to enter a stadium.", "Nicola Sturgeon is urged to intervene after a world leading surgeon cancelled his visit to Scotland to help remove mesh implants.", "A one-off Commons sitting may show how far Boris Johnson is willing to go to resist another Brexit delay.", "The scheme works in 31 countries but only three have agreed to cover UK tourists if there is no deal.", "The identity of the winner will not be revealed unless they decide to go public.", "Residents flee areas in northern Syria as Turkey launches an offensive against Kurdish-led forces.", "Sara and Shadi arrived in Cardigan a year ago and are now fluent Welsh speakers.", "Was one tweet sent months ago key to a social media storm that is fast becoming legend?", "Plans to allow councils to impose a levy on workplace parking spaces are passed as part of the transport bill.", "The London Assembly criticises the PM's response to its inquiry into his contacts with the US businesswoman.", "Joy Morgan was last seen in December and a man was found guilty of her murder in August.", "In one of the world's most gridlocked cities, the president's spokesman says: \"Leave earlier.\"", "From free trade agreement to no deal, find out what the key terms mean.", "Eimi Haga handed in what looked like a blank sheet of paper - but left her professor a crucial clue.", "Rebekah - the wife of Leicester City's Jamie Vardy - denies she has leaked stories to a tabloid.", "Kevin McAleenan was shouted off stage in Washington DC. Did the protest violate freedom of speech?", "Snowboarder Ellie Soutter's mother talks to the BBC about losing her daughter, finding her voice and helping others.", "England's World Cup match against France is called off because of Typhoon Hagibis, but Scotland must wait on their crucial game, while Ireland's fixture is set to go ahead.", "Karli the muppet will reveal she was placed in foster care as her mother had a \"grown-up\" problem.", "Ex-Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt pleads with the EU to avoid a \"catastrophic failure in statecraft\".", "Files show there were 2,000 snags at Edinburgh's new children's hospital months after it was \"completed\".", "The 24/7 scheme run by a West Midlands-based charity will be available throughout the UK.", "A \"relentless\" drive for profits is fuelling poverty, abuse, and discrimination, the charity says.", "Police were not guarding the synagogue attacked in Halle - yet it was Yom Kippur, a major festival.", "The Japanese carmaker is concerned about the impact of export duties in the event of no-deal Brexit.", "The soul icon is the first artist to be confirmed for the 2020 Glastonbury Festival.", "Scotland's first minister insists that a legal referendum remains the only way for the country to win independence.", "Thousands of patients wait more than four hours, as doctors warn of a difficult winter ahead.", "Boris Johnson talks to Donald Trump and they agree to \"work together to find a way forward\".", "\"The more you look, the worse it gets,\" said road policing officers who spotted the car in Glasgow.", "Another force should have investigated two Operation Midland complainants who both lied, a report says.", "The 29-year-old shot was shot dead by police in London in 2011, sparking riots across England.", "Most people who think they have chronic Lyme disease are more likely to have chronic fatigue syndrome, say experts.", "Fifteen-year-old Gadi was attacked on his way home from football practice after wandering into the wrong area.", "Cpl Jonathan Bayliss, 41, from Kent, died when a Hawk aircraft crashed on Anglesey.", "The men were rescued from the fire at the club in Morecambe but died soon after, police say.", "The prime minister has sent the EU a Brexit extension request - but could no deal still happen?", "There are 22 uncompleted student housing blocks, prompting complaints of a lack of official scrutiny.", "Medina Hall asked for an ingredients list but says she was told customers had to read it themselves.", "There are no laughs in this tale of a man who wants to be funny. It's heavy, serious, at times, slow.", "A firm in a row with elusive street artist Banksy denies trying to take \"custody\" of his trademark.", "Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price says an independence referendum will take place in the next decade.", "Health campaigners criticise The Hundred for targeting families and children with KP Snacks' brands.", "The Duke of Sussex says he fears his wife is \"falling victim\" to press intrusion as his mother did.", "Carl Beech's lies about murder and child sexual abuse led to a £2m Metropolitan Police investigation.", "A report on nature in the UK also shows 41% of species have experienced decline.", "Two members of the Nine Trey Bloods gang are found guilty after 6ix9ine testified against them.", "The prime minister wants to remove the Brexit backstop and has a new plan to avoid a hard Irish border.", "Officers may have taken Beech too seriously because of past failings, a Met chief told an inquiry.", "Priti Patel orders a third inquiry into the Met's handling of the widely criticised Operation Midland.", "Why did Carl Beech make false allegations of murder and sexual abuse against public figures?", "Unrivalled control of a robotic arm has been achieved using a paralysed woman's thoughts, a US study reports.", "The leak resulted in a cordon being placed around a KLM aircraft and a partial evacuation at Glasgow Airport.", "Sandy Ratcliff, one of the BBC soap's original cast members, was in the show from 1985 to 1989.", "The Met is heavily criticised for its investigation into false allegations of a VIP paedophile ring.", "The retailer tells property firms it will withhold 20% of a quarterly service charge.", "The Oscar-winning actor says his former assistant's claims are \"beyond absurd\".", "The Europa League game between F91 Dudelange and FK Qarabag is temporarily halted as a drone is flown over the ground.", "But Boris Johnson says the UK will still leave on 31 October \"new deal or no deal - but no delay\".", "The ticket and coach packages for next year's Glastonbury Festival sell out ahead of the general sale on Sunday.", "Edward Putman was helped by an insider who knew how to cheat the National Lottery system.", "The Oscar winner is releasing her version of trip-hop track Glory Box for an all-star covers album.", "The Beatles' album sets a new record for the longest gap between appearances at number one.", "The artist says it is a \"record price for a Banksy painting\".", "Priti Patel says extra security in messages will hamper attempts to fight terrorism and child abuse.", "Consumers are overpaying by £1.2bn a year for home and car insurance, the financial regulator says.", "Health officials urge people to stop vaping until the cause of a mystery illness is identified.", "A new Ministry for Sanctuary should oversee a \"fairer\" immigration system, Jonathan Bartley says.", "There are no laughs in this tale of a man who wants to be funny. It's heavy, serious, at times, slow.", "Police force says it lacks records of the outcome of a facial recognition tie-up with private firm.", "The former leadership candidate will quit as an MP to stand as an independent in next year's contest.", "A judge has quashed the ex-footballer's jail sentence for failing to take a breath test in August.", "Nearly half the UK population is being offered a winter flu vaccine - with all primary school pupils eligible for the first time.", "The female inmate gave birth to the baby at HMP Bronzefield and police are investigating the death.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is giving up weekly visits from her daughter so she can start school in the UK.", "Hopes of a big sales increase in September are dashed, but growth in electric vehicles continues.", "Katarina Johnson-Thompson ends her wait for her first global outdoor title by powering to heptathlon gold at the World Championships in Doha.", "The research vessel is spearheading the biggest ever scientific expedition at the North Pole.", "The Dynasty star was the first black woman to get her own sitcom and to win best actress at the Tonys.", "The Mail on Sunday denies it \"unlawfully\" published the Duchess of Sussex's private letter.", "A government survey shows \"overwhelming\" support for restricting their use, say campaigners.", "Nottingham Trent has passed the matter to a disciplinary panel after the image spread on social media.", "Tashan Daniel died in Hillingdon station as he made his way to watch Arsenal at the Emirates stadium.", "Two men died and a third was seriously injured in the explosion at the steelworks in Cardiff.", "Anthony O'Sullivan was suspended six years ago after a row over pay.", "Thirty-one people died when two trains collided after a driver missed a red signal on 5 October 1999.", "Teenage striker Gabriel Martinelli scores two goals and sets up another to give Arsenal victory over Standard Liege in the Europa League.", "England beat two-time defending champions New Zealand and reach the World Cup final for the first time in 12 years.", "At a migrant camp in France, a group of Vietnamese await the final leg of their dangerous journey.", "A Maine student suspended for a note warning of a \"rapist in the school\" wins her case in court.", "Carson Price, 13, is one of at least 12 under-16s who have died since 2017 after taking ecstasy.", "Half of the 40 victims reportedly died trying to storm government and militia offices.", "Coach Eddie Jones has urged England to \"make the script\" in Saturday's keenly anticipated Rugby World Cup semi-final against New Zealand on Saturday.", "An estimated one million people - some 5% of Chile's population - peacefully marched in Santiago.", "Traffic was queued back for about two miles while police officers recovered the bird from Glasgow's M8.", "Preview and team details as Wales prepare to take on South Africa in Sunday's World Cup semi-final in Yokohama.", "Toddlers might better recognise the concept of quantity if numbers are counted out, scientists say.", "A new report finds the number of people working through the night is at its highest since 2005.", "The Duchess of Sussex says conversations about the issue \"can't happen without men\".", "Captain Owen Farrell says England's 'flying V' response to the New Zealand haka showed they were ready to take hold of their Rugby World Cup semi-final.", "Milat murdered seven hitchhikers between 1989 and 1992 and dumped their bodies in a state forest.", "Torrential rain and mudslides have hit parts of Japan just weeks after Typhoon Hagbis left almost 80 dead", "A couple who found a fake GoFundMe page in the name of their dead six-year-old daughter want the problem tackled.", "Billionaire owners the Barclay twins are reviewing their key assets after slump in papers' profits.", "Nguyen Dinh Sat fears his son was among the 39 found dead inside a refrigerated trailer.", "Lungs turns highly personal into powerfully political: it lays the issue of our age at our door.", "Russian scientists tracking eagles got huge SMS bills when some birds flew to Iran and Pakistan.", "It was impossible to find an area in which England were not superior to the All Blacks, writes Tom Fordyce.", "Dom Ansah and Ben Gillham-Rice, both 17, died after being stabbed at a birthday party.", "Eddie Jones says England \"can play better\" in the World Cup final after their historic semi-final win over New Zealand.", "One of the few people to have tasted a single malt that sold for a record £1.5m gives his verdict.", "V Nanammal, who trained more than a million students, said her health was down to daily yoga.", "Maurice Robinson, 25, is charged with the manslaughter of 39 people in a trailer in Essex.", "England were the \"better team\" and deserved to reach the World Cup final, says New Zealand coach Steve Hansen.", "Pham Thi Tra My and Nguyen Dinh Luong are among those who are feared to have died in the trailer.", "The family of a woman from Vietnam say they last heard from her in a text saying she was suffocating.", "Gap year student Amelia Bambridge (left) was last seen in the resort of Koh Rong on Wednesday.", "Diana Johnson was the first MP to face a reselection battle under new Labour rules.", "Leicester City equal the record for the biggest ever Premier League victory as dismal 10-man Southampton are dismantled at a rainswept St Mary's.", "Network Rail warned of disruption at London Euston until the end of services on Friday.", "The findings could explain why being overweight or obese increases asthma risk, researchers say.", "Protesters take to Oxford Circus, Whitehall and Trafalgar Square to demand action on climate change.", "The six-year-old boy is in a rehabilitation centre with splints keeping some of his limbs in place.", "Extinction Rebellion says it will \"take stock\" of the reaction to the action for future protests.", "This month's El Clasico between Barcelona and Real Madrid is postponed because of fears of civil unrest.", "Fifty-eight guests fell ill after eating the contaminated meat at Vicki and Phil Kemp's reception.", "People lent thousands of pounds to a company which was founded by the Grand Designs presenter.", "EH Shepard drew the pictures, due to be auctioned, for a teenager who did not know who he was.", "Evha Jannath, 11, died after falling from Drayton Manor's Splash Canyon water ride in 2017.", "The Cuban was considered one of the greatest 20th Century ballerinas.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "The PM is facing an uphill battle to get his new Brexit deal through the House of Commons on Saturday.", "Extinction Rebellion activists climbed on to trains at Stratford, Canning Town and Shadwell on Thursday.", "President Trump reacts to Turkey's ceasefire in Syria after it was announced by his vice-president.", "Boris Johnson makes a fresh appeal to MPs ahead of Saturday's knife-edge Commons vote on his Brexit deal.", "The Duchess of Sussex tells ITV of being under the spotlight \"on top of just trying to be a new mom\".", "Two female astronauts made history as they replaced a power unit on the International Space Station.", "The latest gambit by an alliance of anti-no deal MPs could be a real problem for government whips.", "The former US defence secretary hits back after the president described him as \"the world's most overrated general\".", "The PM reached a deal with the EU, overturning conventional wisdom - but what risks remain?", "No 10 is trying to persuade MPs to back the PM's deal ahead of a vote in the Commons on Saturday.", "Figures reveal an 807% increase in the number of known child victims of modern slavery.", "Harry Dunn's family say US officials are \"ruthlessly\" protecting Anne Sacoolas from facing justice.", "Security forces and cartel gunmen clash after drug lord Joaquín \"El Chapo\" Guzmán's son is discovered.", "Catalonia is set for a general strike on Friday, over the jailing of pro-independence leaders.", "Lord Pentland ruled the application by Remain campaigners was \"misconceived and unjustified\".", "Footage shows a woman being knocked off a platform in Buenos Aires, Argentina.", "Andy Murray reaches his first ATP semi-final since 2017 with victory over Marius Copil at the European Open.", "Benjamin Field, 28, seduced 69-year-old Peter Farquhar into changing his will before killing him.", "After a wave of violence rocks the country, we profile the most notorious organised crime groups.", "The prime minister urges MPs to \"come together\" and vote for his Brexit deal on Saturday.", "The Mexican drug lord has been found guilty on all 10 counts at his drug trafficking trial in New York.", "The supermarket is the first to end sales amid calls for a ban to protect pets and the vulnerable.", "A week of raids across England and Wales netted cocaine, crack and heroin worth over £400,000.", "Democratic Congressman and former Marine officer Seth Moulton on Turkish ceasefire in Syria.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge tour an army dog training school on the last day of their tour.", "British luxury goods are targeted by the US as new taxes on exports take effect.", "Latest updates as Boris Johnson tries to win support for his Brexit deal with the European Union.", "Stopping staff accessing email outside the office could leave some feeling stressed, research suggests.", "The body of a man, believed to be Kenyan, was found in a garden in Clapham in June.", "The chain's 318 shops will remain open while a buyer is sought for the business.", "The ex-footballer has been cleared of both assault and sexual assault after kissing a woman on a train.", "After tense negotiations, both sides made concessions to reach a new deal.", "What does Mr Johnson's new agreement say about environmental standards or workers' rights?", "Google confirms its new security system may unlock a person's device even if their eyes are shut.", "The Oracle shopping centre decides \"not to extend the lease\" of the popular US fast-food chain.", "Ian Blackford tables an amendment calling for a three-month delay to allow time for a general election.", "The arrest then freeing of \"El Chapo's\" son could send the wrong signal to the drug cartels.", "Jack Waple, 13, suffered a cardiac arrest at his home in Hockwold, Norfolk, in June, an inquest hears.", "Boris Johnson calls on the Extinction Rebellion protesters to stop blocking the streets of London.", "The mammal was found motionless on mudflats at Greenhithe, a marine rescue group says.", "Europeans arrived in New Zealand 250 years ago, but Maori activist Tina Ngata says there is little to celebrate.", "Boris Johnson says he is prepared to seek the help of the White House to bring Anne Sacoolas to the UK.", "The dukes and duchesses of Cambridge and Sussex voiced a promotional film which aired on television.", "Nicky Newman and Laura Middleton-Hughes have cancer that has spread around their bodies.", "The former Conservative says she will fight her South Cambridgeshire seat for her new party.", "Ben Stokes' wife Clare denies \"nonsense\" allegations the couple had a physical altercation at an awards ceremony last week.", "Experts say holding clinics at supermarkets and music festivals would make a bigger difference.", "The five-day suspension will last until Monday, 14 October, when there will be a Queen's Speech.", "The source says Germany's Angela Merkel was highly pessimistic in a call with Boris Johnson, but the EU's top official hits back.", "The PM says he does not think \"it can be right to use the process of diplomatic immunity for this type of purpose\" when asked about the case of 19-year-old Harry Dunn.", "Downing Street complies with a London Assembly order to hand over details of the PM's contact with businesswoman.", "The prime minister has sent the EU a Brexit extension request - but could no deal still happen?", "Anyone who thought that the defeat of IS would simplify the conflict in Syria was wrong.", "The prime minister wants to remove the Brexit backstop and has a new plan to avoid a hard Irish border.", "The eco-friendly Goldsmith Estate of 100 homes in Norwich is described as a \"pioneering exemplar\".", "A woman at the jail, which is managed by Sodexo, gave birth while on her own in a cell.", "Footage of US-military vehicles leaving the Syrian border area ahead of a planned Turkish offensive.", "Sophie McKinna threw a personal best at the World Championships to reach the final and qualify for Tokyo 2020.", "The currently unidentified UK ticket holder has become Britain's biggest ever lottery winner.", "The Civil Aviation Authority says it has taken \"urgent action\" over suspicious online activity.", "Crucial workers' rights derive from EU law, so a no-deal Brexit could harm the lowest paid, a union says.", "It is believed the whale - thought to up to 10 metres (33ft) in length - made a navigational error.", "Johnny Miller was the last person to see Charlotte Murray alive before her disappearance in 2012.", "The former PM says leaving the EU without a deal would be a boost for those backing Scottish independence.", "It is thought the adult elephants may have been trying to save a calf who slipped down a waterfall.", "A disused port could be used to hold up to 300 HGVs in the event of \"traffic flow\" problems following a no-deal Brexit.", "One customer who fell outside the two-week window to be repatriated says she can't afford a new flight.", "Sex offenders placed on a now discredited rehabilitation programme say it made them more likely to reoffend.", "It may be the smallest ozone hole in three decades but scientists are warning against complacency.", "A care worker recalls the moment a 15-year-old arrived at a home, alone and late at night.", "The woman is taken to hospital for treatment and two rides at the fair in Hull are closed.", "US diplomat's wife Anne Sacoolas is a suspect in inquiries into motorcyclist Harry Dunn's death.", "Government borrowing would reach its highest level in more than half a century, a think tank warns.", "The award-winning actor says growing up in Kenya, she 'wished to have skin that was different'.", "A woman who lost three babies says no improvements can \"take away or heal any of the pain\".", "New leads are being pursued by officers probing claims Maryanne Pugsley was abused as a school pupil.", "Diplomatic immunity puts officials from overseas above the law of the country in which they live. Is the system open to abuse?", "Officials say Samuel Little's confessions to 93 murders across the US over 40 years are \"credible\".", "More than 19,300 people across Northern Ireland are waiting for a first outpatient appointment.", "Jupiter had been the \"moon king\" for some 20 years.", "It is more likely by the hour that there will not be a new Brexit deal at next week's EU summit.", "The restaurant chain is not in imminent danger, but a debt restructuring looks inevitable.", "One of the victims on the Kiribati ship was a woman who died while giving birth after the sinking.", "Both services and manufacturing saw a fall in the second quarter of the year, official figures show.", "An 18-month investigation tracked drugs allegedly smuggled into the UK in lorry loads of vegetables and juice.", "The large artwork is criticised for looking like marshmallows or parts of human anatomy.", "Environmental activists are targeting key sites in central London as part of global protests.", "BBC Spotlight is told MI5 wiped secret information relating to the murder of solicitor Pat Finucane.", "The shutdown comes two weeks after the UK Supreme Court said a previous attempt to prorogue was unlawful.", "The DUP's Jim Shannon breaks down during a Commons debate on baby loss and is comforted by another MP, Anna Soubry.", "A joint police and council project in Cardiff is targeting and seizing illegally-ridden bikes.", "Tashan Daniel was heading to an Arsenal football match when he was stabbed at Hillingdon station.", "The usually secretive Australian singer-songwriter says she has a rare disease called EDS.", "Lucia Lucas is playing a male role suited to her baritone voice at English National Opera.", "Medina Hall asked for an ingredients list but says she was told customers had to read it themselves.", "There are no laughs in this tale of a man who wants to be funny. It's heavy, serious, at times, slow.", "A firm in a row with elusive street artist Banksy denies trying to take \"custody\" of his trademark.", "The Duke of Sussex says he fears his wife is \"falling victim\" to press intrusion as his mother did.", "The incident began after a baby elephant fell from a Thai waterfall and others tried to rescue it.", "Three men are arrested and a man treated for minor injuries, Dyfed Powys Police say.", "The familiar backdrop to the long-running Radio 4 drama is captured in a podcast of its own.", "The rapper received medical help at the Arena Birmingham and the sold-out show was called off.", "The UK may do further work on the details before talks resume amid calls for \"fundamental changes\".", "The wife of a US diplomat left the UK after being made a suspect in a crash in which a teenager died.", "The NHS has said it will not appeal against a High Court decision to allow Tafida Raqeeb to travel abroad.", "England qualify for the World Cup quarter-finals with a game to spare thanks to a bonus-point victory over 14-man Argentina in Tokyo.", "Police arrest seven women and three men on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.", "Aman Vyas is charged with raping and murdering Michelle Samaraweera 10 years ago.", "Justin Bieber told Peta to 'suck it' after they criticised him for buying two designer kittens.", "Libra has been strongly opposed by regulators around the world over privacy and financial concerns.", "The dance star says she will perform on live show after accident with partner Dev.", "Eight people are seriously hurt and a total of 37 people are being treated in hospital.", "The Beatles' album sets a new record for the longest gap between appearances at number one.", "Dina Asher-Smith becomes the first Briton to win three medals at a major global athletics championships as the 4x100m relay team win world silver.", "Mick Barber died four months before Charlotte got married, but was still with her on the big day.", "Relatives say the mobster was not killed by the FBI in 1934, and an imposter is buried in the grave.", "There was a party atmosphere as campaigners waving Saltires made their way up the Royal Mile.", "The research vessel is spearheading the biggest ever scientific expedition at the North Pole.", "Lin-Manuel Miranda says the death of his childhood best friend shaped his plays and his outlook.", "The Mail on Sunday denies it \"unlawfully\" published the Duchess of Sussex's private letter.", "Tashan Daniel died in Hillingdon station as he made his way to watch Arsenal at the Emirates stadium.", "Thirty-one people died when two trains collided after a driver missed a red signal on 5 October 1999.", "The Democratic presidential candidate, 78, says he feels “great” as he’s discharged from hospital.", "England beat two-time defending champions New Zealand and reach the World Cup final for the first time in 12 years.", "From a viral Ted Talk to being on the cover of British Vogue, here's why Sinéad Burke is a big deal.", "The olive-green button-up - complete with cigarette burn - has not been washed since Cobain wore it.", "There has been no official confirmation of reports that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in the raid.", "Preview and team details as Wales prepare to take on South Africa in Sunday's World Cup semi-final in Yokohama.", "The leader of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) was arguably the world's most wanted man.", "Gap year student Amelia Bambridge (left) was last seen in the resort of Koh Rong on Wednesday.", "Two men and a woman are released as work to identify 39 bodies found inside a trailer continues.", "It follows a study which found that former players are three and half times more like to die of dementia.", "Milat murdered seven hitchhikers between 1989 and 1992 and dumped their bodies in a state forest.", "Downing Street says it could look at ideas similar to those proposed by other opposition parties.", "Five people died in the crash outside the King Power Stadium exactly a year ago.", "Ian Russell meets other parents bereaved by suicide; he wants tech firms to protect children more.", "Torrential rain and mudslides have hit parts of Japan just weeks after Typhoon Hagbis left almost 80 dead", "The eleventh day of protests in Lebanon saw an attempt to create a human chain over 105 miles long.", "PC Andrew Harper's wife Lissie leads a huge convoy of motorcycles in honour of her late husband.", "Nguyen Dinh Sat fears his son was among the 39 found dead inside a refrigerated trailer.", "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the \"caliph\" of so-called Islamic State, rose through the ranks of Iraqi insurgents to lead the world's most prominent militant group, writes William McCants.", "Labour says it will \"absolutely support\" an election but only if a no-deal Brexit is \"off the table\".", "Justin Welby said it was \"extraordinarily dangerous\" for MPs to make careless comments.", "Wales fall agonisingly short of a first Rugby World Cup final as Handre Pollard's 76th-minute penalty hands the Springboks victory.", "Stephen Darby, who is married to England women's captain Steph Houghton, has motor neurone disease.", "President Trump says the leader of the Islamic State Group killed himself during an operation by US special forces.", "Direct rail services between north and south Wales could be cancelled for days due to flood damage.", "Maurice Robinson, 25, is charged with the manslaughter of 39 people in a trailer in Essex.", "V Nanammal, who trained more than a million students, said her health was down to daily yoga.", "Even the most advanced technology seems unable to track the world's most wanted man, writes the BBC's Frank Gardner.", "GoFundMe removes the page, which sought to raise £10,000 to have the anti-Brexit campaigner killed.", "When passengers once held at gunpoint were asked to forgive their hijacker, how did they respond?", "Gap year student Amelia Bambridge (left) was last seen in the resort of Koh Rong on Wednesday.", "Worker rights: UK negotiators remove “adequate” from employment and environmental standards enforcement.", "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's demise does not mean the automatic end of Islamic State, writes Lina Khatib.", "Josh Taylor beats Regis Prograis to become the unified IBF and WBA super-lightweight champion and win the World Super Series trophy in London.", "Around two million people are in the second day of no electricity following organised power cuts.", "Five industry bodies are concerned a new Brexit deal won't give them a level playing field in the EU.", "Detectives used voice recognition to identify Mohammed Yamin as the man who made a speech in a documentary.", "Joy Morgan was last seen in December and a man was found guilty of her murder in August.", "England suffer their first qualifying loss in 10 years against the Czech Republic and must wait to clinch a spot at Euro 2020.", "Bidder Jo Bamford says a deal has been reached \"for the Wrightbus factory and land\".", "With 1,100 arrests so far during the week's climate protests, police say they has diverted resources.", "The Japanese carmaker is concerned about the impact of export duties in the event of no-deal Brexit.", "Harry Dunn's father says the family has \"heard nothing\" since meeting Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.", "England's probable last eight opponents Australia labour to victory over Georgia in swirling wind and rain in Shizuoka.", "Mastercard, Visa, eBay and Stripe join PayPal in no longer supporting Facebook's effort to launch a currency.", "Five-year-old Gabriella has promised her jailed mum she will be \"brave\", dad Richard tells reporters.", "Long-distance great Eliud Kipchoge says he'll feel like the first man on the Moon if he does it.", "Police used an electric stun gun on a man after four people were injured in a stabbing at Manchester's Arndale Centre.", "The prime minister has sent the EU a Brexit extension request - but could no deal still happen?", "The technology firm, which has already built the first cars, says the project is not commercially viable.", "Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov floated above the Earth for 12 minutes in 1965.", "The Royal National College for the Blind says special-needs funding cuts are threatening its future.", "There are warm words from Leo Varadkar, but it would be an epic assumption to conclude a Brexit deal will happen.", "The Met Police calls the action \"stupid and dangerous\", as officers arrest 50 people at London airport.", "Does the Turkish offensive in north-eastern Syria pave the way for a comeback by the jihadist group?", "The prime minister wants to remove the Brexit backstop and has a new plan to avoid a hard Irish border.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "The two-time Wimbledon champion said his wife could give birth as early as next week", "Aerospace firms say it is \"vital\" the UK and EU have regulatory alignment.", "Industry figures reveal the 50% mark has been reached for the first time as the way we pay changes.", "The man molested a seven-year-old girl after luring her away from the toy aisle of a Kmart store.", "Formula 1 cancels all activities at the Japanese Grand Prix on Saturday as a result of the threat of Typhoon Hagibis.", "Juliette Kaplan played Pearl in the classic BBC sitcom for 25 years.", "The Labour leader pledges to end in-work poverty on a visit to Hastings.", "Iranian women have attended a World Cup qualifier in Tehran for a men's match after being freely allowed to enter a stadium.", "Scottish Rugby chief executive Mark Dodson thinks there is a strong legal case against World Rugby cancelling their World Cup game with Japan.", "One of the fires was sparked by a bin lorry that dumped burning rubbish near tinder-dry vegetation.", "The 18 and 19-year-old are accused of posting messages and sending out fake tweets.", "David Pomphret admitted killing his wife Ann Marie but denied murder \"due to loss of control\".", "Nike says it considers head coach Alberto Salazar's four-year ban \"an unfair burden\" for athletes as it shuts down its Oregon Project.", "For Hong Kong businesses, voicing support for China or the police can make them a target.", "NI Secretary Julian Smith does not rule out possible NI-only referendum on post-Brexit plans.", "Gait speed in mid-life indicates how fast the brain and body are ageing, researchers found.", "Thousands of patients wait more than four hours, as doctors warn of a difficult winter ahead.", "Hayley Lancaster suffered a \"potentially fatal\" reaction due to her egg allergy, a court hears.", "Victims were taken from Slovakia to Glasgow and forced into prostitution or sham marriages.", "Grime artist Stormzy is playing down his role in the increased numbers.", "The swab tests - dubbed \"drugalysers\" - will be introduced along with updated drug-driving laws.", "The experts tell us that small, easy changes alone will not be enough to combat climate change.", "Tech firms have been criticised for the amount of tax they pay, but Facebook says it pays what is legally owed.", "Baptista Adjei was killed when he was attacked on a bus or shortly after getting off, police say.", "The pound hits a three-month high, and UK-focussed shares soar, on optimism of a Brexit breakthrough.", "Apple's removal of an app used to track Hong Kong police leads to claims it was bowing to Beijing pressure.", "Baptista Adjei, 15, was murdered near a shopping centre in Stratford, east London.", "Karli the muppet will reveal she was placed in foster care as her mother had a \"grown-up\" problem.", "A man initially arrested on suspicion of terror offences is detained under the Mental Health Act.", "The government has awarded medicine supply contracts to four ferry firms.", "BBC North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher breaks down everything you need to know.", "The government's five-year plan will invest in institutions like York's National Railway Museum.", "Mo Farah insists he is one of the world's \"most tested athletes\" as he faces questions after his former coach was banned.", "Markets have edged higher amid renewed optimism over the talks, despite diplomatic tensions.", "A man in his 40s has been arrested following the stabbings in Manchester city centre.", "Live reports following a number of stabbings at the Arndale Centre in Manchester.", "Exports will be kept under review amid Turkey's military actions in Syria, the foreign secretary says.", "Royal Mail faces its first national postal strike in a decade after 97% of votes cast were in favour.", "Pupils at Raheem Sterling's old school give their reaction to the abuse England players faced in Bulgaria.", "It is not clear if President Trump will meet the family of the teenager killed in a road crash.", "Season 11 or Chapter 2 is now live with a new map and updated gameplay.", "They felt \"ambushed\" by Donald Trump's offer to meet suspect Anne Sacoolas at the White House.", "The High Street chain says that it does not have a commercial relationship with Amazon.", "Prince Harry takes a moment as he talks about becoming a father at the WellChild Awards.", "Jen McAdam, from Glasgow, was threatened after speaking out about the OneCoin cryptocurrency.", "EU leaders want a new deal, but it's hard to see how this can be agreed before this week's summit.", "The 1998 Good Friday Agreement allows people to identify as British, Irish or both.", "The Americans' departure is a victory for Syria, Russia and Iran, writes the BBC's Jeremy Bowen.", "The royal pair make a colourful entrance at the Pakistan Monument in Islamabad.", "England move a step closer to qualification for Euro 2020 with a 6-0 win against Bulgaria but the game is overshadowed by incidents of racism.", "Could Bulgaria's latest football racism scandal change how it deals with the problem?", "The prime minister wants to remove the Brexit backstop and has a new plan to avoid a hard Irish border.", "His parents ask to see government advice given to police over the US suspect's diplomatic immunity.", "The government in England must find a solution for social care to ease pressure, the regulator says.", "Downing Street plays down the chances of an imminent breakthrough amid reports the sides are close to agreement.", "The UK teenager says Cypriot police \"forced\" her to retract her claim that she had been raped.", "From free trade agreement to no deal, find out what the key terms mean.", "Catalan independence supporters and police clash as thousands protest at El Prat airport.", "The UK's financial regulator plans to ban the way some car dealers earn commission.", "Police found the illegal weapons in a \"panic room\" in Douglas Urquhart's house in Midlothian.", "A new scheme allows convictions under homophobic legislation before 1980 to be removed from criminal records.", "Syria's army has started to reach the north of the country as Turkey continues its offensive.", "Young people are often trapped by a lack of knowledge about job options, a report says.", "Peter Fankhauser says he was not solely at fault for the firm's collapse but will reconsider the reward.", "Parents of motorcyclist Harry Dunn will not meet US suspect unless she agrees to return to UK.", "The first order since a long-standing ban was imposed in 1996 is celebrated at an event in Japan.", "The Mike Ashley-owned retailer says the \"must-have\" brands hold too much market power.", "England's Euro 2020 qualifier with Bulgaria in Sofia is halted twice with fans warned about racist behaviour.", "The \"football family and governments\" need to \"wage war on the racists\", says the Uefa president after the abuse of England players by home fans in Bulgaria.", "Environmentalists welcome parts of the new law, but others say the government is going backwards.", "The former BBC Breakfast host says the UK needs to have a \"proper conversation\" about cannabis laws.", "The unemployment rate rises unexpectedly to 3.9% between June and August.", "The pop star says he still locks his bedroom door every night after he was followed and sent notes.", "The UK's best-known stockpicker shuts his firm after a crash in the value of his multi-billion-pound funds.", "Almost 40% of sellers targeted by councils sold vaping goods to under-age teenagers in 2018-19.", "An animal rescue centre says it has seen a significant rise in the number of pets it has taken in.", "The government's plans will \"disproportionately\" affect ethnic minorities, the Labour leader says.", "Amira, Heba and Hamza, thought to be from the UK, are among 24 orphans taken to safety by the UN.", "Ann Marie Pomphret was struck 30 times by her husband at the stables they owned in Warrington.", "England defender Tyrone Mings says he heard racist abuse coming from the crowd before he had made it across the pitch during the warm-up ahead of their game in Bulgaria.", "A cheap, common drug could save hundreds of thousands of lives a year if used routinely, doctors say.", "The ex-England footballer is accused of \"forcefully and sloppily\" kissing a woman on a train.", "A record number of offences were recorded in England and Wales for 2018-19, the Home Office says.", "England coach Gareth Southgate says his side made a \"major statement\" in the way they played and the way they reacted in the face of racist behaviour during their game in Bulgaria.", "Analysis of Police Scotland data shows that officers found nothing in almost two thirds of cases.", "England defender Tyrone Mings says he could hear the racist abuse \"as clear as day\" in the Euro 2020 qualifier against Bulgaria.", "The UK will not meet its climate change targets without a revolution in home heating, a think tank says.", "Bulgaria Football Union president Borislav Mihaylov resigns following the racist abuse of England players by fans in Sofia.", "Crime and health take centre stage, but opposition parties dismiss the programme as \"election manifesto\".", "The attack is believed to have been carried out by a drug cartel in western Michoacán state.", "Rick Osterloh suggests house guests have the right to know smart speakers are in use before entering.", "PC Andrew Harper's widow tells mourners he \"vowed to challenge the bad and celebrate the good\".", "Belgian Paralympian Marieke Vervoort ends her own life through euthanasia at the age of 40.", "Advertising watchdog bans weight loss posts by Katie Price, Lauren Goodger and Georgia Harrison.", "Find out if your MP voted for the government's Brexit bill.", "Viewers complained after the TV host accused the home secretary of laughing during a Brexit debate.", "Torrential rain in Spain, Italy and France leaves people dead or missing.", "Prof Ian Shanks used his daughter's toy microscope to build a prototype for the device in the 1980s.", "Reaction after Boris Johnson faced questions from MPs in the Commons after pausing his Brexit bill.", "Its collapse comes just three months after buying customers from another failing supplier.", "Murderer Shane O'Brien, who dodged police for more than three years, is given a life sentence.", "Support for families of British people murdered abroad can be \"patchy and inadequate\", a report says.", "Angela Irwin will serve a year in prison for preventing the lawful burial of a corpse in 2018.", "Adnan Ahmed targeted dozens of women on the streets of Glasgow and posted secretly-filmed videos online.", "Michy Batshuayi climbs off the bench to score a late winner at Ajax as Chelsea stun last year's Champions League semi-finalists at the Johan Cruyff Arena.", "Brussels is now the focus of attention. Will the EU grant a new Brexit extension and for how long?", "The man was one of 60 full skeletons found after work began at the Aberdeen Art Gallery site.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "With about a quarter of minority students affected, universities must tackle harassment, a report says.", "The former civil servant admitted killing at least 15 boys and men in the 1970s and 1980s.", "They demanded to hear the closed-door impeachment deposition of a Department of Defense official.", "He hopes to \"get the whole truth\" after Anne Sacoolas left the UK claiming diplomatic immunity.", "The 83-year-old who died after an incident in Moray is described as \"doting and warm-hearted\" by relatives.", "Julian Peters, 35, will appear at Camberwell Magistrates' Court on Thursday, the Met has said.", "North Korea's leader described a once flagship inter-Korean complex as \"shabby\" and \"a hotchpotch\".", "After MPs voted \"aye\" then \"no\" over the PM's Brexit plans, we explain what went on in Parliament.", "The company claims a quantum computer has surpassed conventional devices for the first time.", "'The WAB' has passed all its stages in Parliament. Here's what it is.", "The union wants to prevent Edinburgh South MP Ian Murray from being a candidate in the next general election.", "A BBC radio interview revealed the author had misunderstood British legal terms about homosexuality.", "The UK's position on drugs is \"clearly failing\" and a \"radical new approach\" is required, MPs say.", "The bodies of 39 people are found in a lorry container on an industrial park in Essex.", "The procurator fiscal who brought charges against protesters says bridge tolls were a \"scam\" and prosecutions could be wrong.", "A thermal imaging camera in Edinburgh showed that a Slough visitor's breast was a different colour.", "Anna Roselyn Evans died eight days after a car hit the tent she was sleeping in.", "Families of children with special educational needs face a \"treacle of bureaucracy, MPs say.", "An advert for Everyday Life sat alongside ones for a fridge-freezer, bales of hay and a divan bed.", "Not washing hands after going to the toilet is behind the spread of a key strain of E. coli.", "Researchers hope the study will steer work into why those with long-term health issues are affected.", "A growing number of students sell intimate pictures online or more to pay for university life, a survey says.", "Evening doses gives more protection against heart attacks and strokes, a study suggests.", "Drug company says it will seek permission in the US to start marketing the potentially 'life-changing' new drug.", "The crowd started singing after the toddler's mother told them he was scared.", "Updated coverage as 39 bodies are found in a container in Grays, Essex.", "Manny Fontenla-Novoa and Harriet Green defend their roles at the tour firm as its debts mounted.", "Effects showing what people might look after surgery will go, amid concerns they harm mental health.", "A lawyer for Shamima Begum says stripping her citizenship left her stateless and should be reversed.", "The Last \"Ent\" of Affric beat five other outstanding Scottish trees to win the coveted Woodland Trust award.", "People smugglers are picking new routes into the UK after a security drive at Dover and the Channel Tunnel.", "European newspapers see little likelihood of the UK leaving the EU by 31 October.", "USA striker Alex Morgan announces she is pregnant for the first time and is expecting a baby girl in April.", "The extradition bill is formally withdrawn by the legislature but the move is unlikely to quell unrest.", "Raheem Sterling scores an 11-minute hat-trick as Manchester City come from behind to thrash Atalanta in the Champions League.", "Boris Johnson says claims he touched a female journalist's thigh are \"not true\" and \"very sad\".", "Stormzy's stab vest and a cradle surrounded by CCTV cameras appeared overnight at a shop in London.", "The Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica produces its largest iceberg in more than 50 years.", "The Duchess of Sussex says that South Africa is in a \"crisis state\" when it comes to gender-based violence.", "Private detectives were hired to track the Swiss bank's former head of wealth management.", "The Duke of Sussex says he fears his wife is \"falling victim\" to press intrusion as his mother did.", "Many politicians and business leaders unite in criticism of a UK government proposal to replace the backstop.", "Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse hears \"overwhelming\" evidence for mandatory reporting.", "The remnants of ex-Hurricane Lorenzo are heading to Britain later this week.", "Norman was one of the rare black singers to reach fame in the opera world.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "It is the first time the Duke and Duchess's son has been seen during their 10-day tour of Africa.", "The rules will make household appliances longer-lasting and easier to fix.", "The BBC described her as a \"talented young journalist who was widely admired\".", "He visits the spot where his mother was photographed in 1997, which is now a \"bustling community\".", "The photo of 17-month-old Carter Bagshaw at his father's funeral was posted on Facebook.", "The bakery chain wants to make sure that ingredients for its sausage rolls are safeguarded.", "Is the prime minister right to say the UK's bill for staying in the EU would rise to £400m per week?", "Christopher Nicol's children, aged five and six, were in the flat in Greenock when he was violently attacked.", "Boris Johnson says plans will go to the EU soon, but some customs checks will be needed in Ireland.", "John McDonnell also says a no confidence vote is \"unlikely\" before 17 October's EU council meeting.", "But the PM rejects reports there could be a series of customs posts set five or 10 miles back.", "Cardiff City have been told to pay the first instalment of £5.3m to Nantes for striker Emiliano Sala, who died in a plane crash.", "Activists say the charges against Hajar Raissouni are part of a crackdown on critical reporters.", "The diplomatic dance between the EU and the UK is familiar - even retro.", "Serge Gnabry scores four goals as Bayern Munich demolish Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League.", "It includes the legal text of an updated Brexit deal, including suggested \"customs clearance zones\" in Northern Ireland.", "Martin Cameron had been banned from driving three times before the fatal smash in the Highlands.", "A French comedian is ushered off stage during the Chanel fashion show in Paris by Gigi Hadid.", "Hong Kong demonstrations threatened to overshadow celebrations in Beijing for China's 70th anniversary.", "Gareth Delbridge and Michael Lewis died when they were struck by a train while working in July.", "Former employees are working for free in cafes, pubs and empty shops to help customers rebook.", "A former student says he received shocks at Queen's University Belfast in the 1970s.", "The US secretary of state said five officials due to testify before committees this week would not appear.", "Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was speaking after reports the UK had proposed customs sites near the border.", "The Islamic Republic's judiciary says it has convicted four people of spying for the US and the UK.", "Alberto Salazar, Mo Farah's former athletics coach, is banned from the sport for four years after being found guilty of doping violations.", "The conversations that will decide the fate of the Brexit process are taking place far away from events in Manchester.", "A number of people have been injured, with some feared trapped under the road bridge.", "Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown tried to enter a room with a guest without the relevant pass.", "The Finnish PM says EU leaders need written proposals by the end of September.", "A complaint by two female German sprinters limits close-ups at the World Athletics Championships.", "The government insists \"constructive\" talks are ongoing after the EU's chief negotiator's remarks.", "Fr Oliver O'Reilly says there is a \"cancer of evil in our midst\" after the attack on Kevin Lunney.", "Mr Johnson told BBC Breakfast he was \"not going to be producing now what we are going to be tabling\" to the EU.", "A worker had to intervene after a catering truck lost control at O'Hare International airport in Chicago.", "A Canal and River Trust inspection report of the Whaley Bridge dam is heavily censored.", "A single management team will oversee the department store chain and Waitrose from next year.", "A UK-based energy company steps in to buy the Belfast shipyard, with 79 jobs retained.", "Two men were jailed for three offences after they tried to pull an ATM from a wall five times.", "Residents were trapped in their homes as a river burst its banks in the village of Laxey.", "The chancellor says it will be £10.50 an hour by 2024, with a lower age threshold - down from 25 to 21.", "England and Scotland's final pool matches at the World Cup this weekend are under threat from Typhoon Hagibis.", "A US jury finds Johnson & Johnson guilty of negligence over an anti-psychotic drug.", "Leo Varadkar says \"big gaps\" remain between the EU and the UK as the 31 October deadline looms.", "Gerald Deehan says his family is fortunate to be alive after a gun attack by two masked men.", "Nearly 400 all-time high temperature records were broken over the summer.", "Sex offenders placed on a now discredited rehabilitation programme say it made them more likely to reoffend.", "In a bid to stop wildfires, San Francisco Bay Area residents could be denied power for several days.", "The prime minister wants to remove the Brexit backstop and has a new plan to avoid a hard Irish border.", "They say they are no closer to an agreement, but \"with goodwill\" there is still a chance a deal can be done.", "The world's most valuable public company has been told to leave its Gourock warehouse in a row over rent.", "The London Assembly criticises the PM's response to its inquiry into his contacts with the US businesswoman.", "A one-off Commons sitting may show how far Boris Johnson is willing to go to resist another Brexit delay.", "Residents flee areas in northern Syria as Turkey launches an offensive against Kurdish-led forces.", "Former MP who was falsely accused of being part of a VIP paedophile ring calls for an investigation.", "It is more likely by the hour that there will not be a new Brexit deal at next week's EU summit.", "The mammal was found motionless on mudflats at Greenhithe, a marine rescue group says.", "Lycopene - a nutrient found in tomatoes - may boost sperm quality, a study suggests.", "The eco-friendly Goldsmith Estate of 100 homes in Norwich is described as a \"pioneering exemplar\".", "The leaked document advises councils on handling disruption over the teaching of LGBT relationships.", "Rebekah - the wife of Leicester City's Jamie Vardy - denies she has leaked stories to a tabloid.", "A generation of school children have been let \"down by the system\", says head teacher Jane Jenkins.", "Ex-Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt pleads with the EU to avoid a \"catastrophic failure in statecraft\".", "The currently unidentified UK ticket holder has become Britain's biggest ever lottery winner.", "Greenpeace asks fast-food chains to stop selling meat from animals fed on soya from Brazil.", "Ben Stokes' wife Clare denies \"nonsense\" allegations the couple had a physical altercation at an awards ceremony last week.", "Steps singer Ian \"H\" Watkins will make British TV history with professional skater Matt Evers.", "Boris Johnson talks to Donald Trump and they agree to \"work together to find a way forward\".", "Parliament will meet on Saturday 19 October after a key EU summit to approve the next steps for the UK.", "The shutdown comes two weeks after the UK Supreme Court said a previous attempt to prorogue was unlawful.", "Although efforts officially continue, nobody in the EU seems to be holding their breath.", "Stanley Johnson told protesters their work is \"extremely important\" as he joined them in London.", "The source says Germany's Angela Merkel was highly pessimistic in a call with Boris Johnson, but the EU's top official hits back.", "Turkey says its operation is targeting Kurdish militants and creating a \"safe zone\".", "Josh Adams scores a hat-trick as Wales survive a fright against Fiji to claim a place in the quarter-finals of the World Cup.", "Another force should have investigated two Operation Midland complainants who both lied, a report says.", "Turkey is expected to launch an offensive following the US troop withdrawal from the area.", "The DUP's Jim Shannon breaks down during a Commons debate on baby loss and is comforted by another MP, Anna Soubry.", "Fifteen-year-old Gadi was attacked on his way home from football practice after wandering into the wrong area.", "Six warrants were granted by Howard Riddle for Operation Midland following false claims by Carl Beech.", "The men were rescued from the fire at the club in Morecambe but died soon after, police say.", "Downing Street complies with a London Assembly order to hand over details of the PM's contact with businesswoman.", "The prime minister has sent the EU a Brexit extension request - but could no deal still happen?", "People living on the coast typically earn £1,600 less than those inland, BBC News analysis finds.", "Ryan McDade says he felt \"dehumanised\" by bus drivers and was left stranded for an hour.", "Footage shows a woman being knocked off a platform in Buenos Aires, Argentina.", "Supporters of the \"People's Vote\" cheered as MPs voted to withhold approval of the PM's deal.", "Australia captain Michael Hooper expects England flankers Tom Curry and Sam Underhill to be formidable opponents in Saturday's Rugby World Cup quarter-final.", "Champions Manchester City narrow the gap on Premier League leaders Liverpool with victory over Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.", "Furtado showed \"a complete disrespect for others\" when he stole the man's phone and wallet, police say.", "The chain's 318 shops will remain open while a buyer is sought for the business.", "EU leaders are happy with their Brexit deal with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson - but what happens next?", "Andy Murray reaches his first ATP semi-final since 2017 with victory over Marius Copil at the European Open.", "The bacterium has infected at least 33 people in Essex, claiming 15 lives.", "But Boris Johnson is told by Jeremy Corbyn that Labour will not back the agreement he secured with the EU.", "Benjamin Field, 28, seduced 69-year-old Peter Farquhar into changing his will before killing him.", "After suffering a narrow defeat, by Brexit standards, the government and its opponents plot their next moves.", "Holders and tournament favourites New Zealand score seven tries in a 46-14 win over outplayed Ireland who fall at the quarter-final stage yet again.", "Protests sparked by a metro fare increase turn violent and spread across Santiago.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Boris Johnson urges MPs to back his agreement with the EU, amid moves by MPs to delay approval of the deal until Brexit laws are passed.", "Protesters take to Oxford Circus, Whitehall and Trafalgar Square to demand action on climate change.", "The prime minister urges MPs to \"come together\" and vote for his Brexit deal on Saturday.", "Boris Johnson makes a fresh appeal to MPs ahead of Saturday's knife-edge Commons vote on his Brexit deal.", "A strikingly contemporary novel with plenty to say and some of the finest writing I've read in ages.", "Are MPs ready to approve a departure from the EU on the prime minister's terms or not?", "The Duchess of Sussex tells ITV of being under the spotlight \"on top of just trying to be a new mom\".", "Governor of the Bank of England says deal takes away the threat of a 'disorderly' Brexit.", "The Mexican drug lord has been found guilty on all 10 counts at his drug trafficking trial in New York.", "The Serious Fraud Office unexpectedly closes an investigation into interest rate fraud.", "Two female astronauts made history as they replaced a power unit on the International Space Station.", "Local officials open a criminal investigation over reports the dam was built illegally.", "The EU has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay for the third time - so how does the process work?", "The latest gambit by an alliance of anti-no deal MPs could be a real problem for government whips.", "Provides an overview of Chile, including key dates and facts about this South American country.", "What does Mr Johnson's new agreement say about environmental standards or workers' rights?", "An FA Cup tie is abandoned after Haringey Borough's manager takes his team off the field amid accusations of racism.", "No 10 is trying to persuade MPs to back the PM's deal ahead of a vote in the Commons on Saturday.", "Thousands of Leicester City fans mark the first anniversary of the crash which claimed five lives.", "Protesters calling for \"final say\" vote on new Brexit deal march in capital.", "He tells EU Council President Donald Tusk he will send a letter seeking another extension - but warns MPs the EU may reject the request.", "Fifty-eight guests fell ill after eating the contaminated meat at Vicki and Phil Kemp's reception.", "MPs vote in favour of the Letwin amendment, delaying Brexit until legislation is passed by Parliament.", "A UK-assembled European spacecraft aims to take the closest ever pictures and movies of the Sun.", "Security forces and cartel gunmen clash after drug lord Joaquín \"El Chapo\" Guzmán's son is discovered.", "Members of the public confronted ministers near Parliament buildings.", "Find out if your MP voted for a proposal to withhold Commons approval to the Brexit deal until it becomes law.", "Harry Dunn's family say US officials are \"ruthlessly\" protecting Anne Sacoolas from facing justice.", "The Oracle shopping centre decides \"not to extend the lease\" of the popular US fast-food chain.", "The EU is likely to grant a delay through gritted teeth - but they will want to know what it's for.", "The arrest then freeing of \"El Chapo's\" son could send the wrong signal to the drug cartels.", "The protests were sparked by a rise in metro fares, which has since been suspended.", "Ex-students say they are \"staggered\" the academic has been readmitted to Trinity Hall.", "The biggest primary school academy trust is setting up food banks in its schools to feed families.", "Latest updates as MPs vote to delay Brexit until necessary UK legislation is passed.", "Lord Pentland ruled the application by Remain campaigners was \"misconceived and unjustified\".", "Spectators at a US basketball match don T-shirts and masks in support of the Hong Kong protests.", "But Boris Johnson insists he is \"not daunted\" with his Brexit strategy despite MPs backing a delay to the process.", "England are into the World Cup semi-finals for the first time in 12 years as they ruthlessly dispatch old rivals Australia.", "Tashan Daniel was heading to an Arsenal football match when he was stabbed at Hillingdon station.", "What happens behind closed doors at some of West Africa’s most prestigious universities.", "About 27,500 runners have been taking on the Cardiff Half Marathon - the UK's third biggest race.", "Lucia Lucas is playing a male role suited to her baritone voice at English National Opera.", "More than 2.4m people registered to try to buy tickets to the 2020 event.", "One of rock's most influential musicians, he played with Cream, Blind Faith and Public Image Ltd.", "The rapper received medical help at the Arena Birmingham and the sold-out show was called off.", "A \"growing numbers\" of students in Bath seek counselling independent of universities, a charity says.", "PM Antonio Costa says voters showed they wanted his party's pact with far-left parties to continue.", "The wife of a US diplomat left the UK after being made a suspect in a crash in which a teenager died.", "The amount of children waiting to become Scouts, Beavers, Cubs or Explorers rose by 20% since 2017.", "Anti-government protests resume in Hong Kong after a day of rioting on Friday.", "The ban is meant to help curb protests which began in June and have grown increasingly violent.", "The weekend has seen riots over the mask ban, a second person shot and tear gas fired at protesters.", "A diplomat's wife involved in a crash which killed 19-year-old Harry Dunn is named as Anne Sacoolas.", "Police arrest seven women and three men on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.", "How Wales' industrial past led to one of the oldest multi-cultural communities in the UK.", "An English Heritage plaque is unveiled at the London house where Marley lived when he recorded Exodus.", "It comes after two people went into cardiac arrest and died at last year's event.", "Two men are found in a property and another in a car after police are called to reports of a fight.", "Operation Matterhorn has returned 150,000 passengers to the UK since the holiday firm collapsed.", "A 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, police say.", "Ian Blackford suggests the SNP would support a minority government in return for an independence referendum.", "The former Scottish Conservative leader says she will see out her term as MSP for Edinburgh Central.", "Joshua Molnar stabbed Yousef Makki in a row over an attempt to rob a drug dealer, a trial heard.", "The UK government says it will offer up to £2 million to help remove landmines in the country.", "Andrew Marr is joined by Stephen Barclay MP and Baroness Shami Chakrabarti.", "Dina Asher-Smith becomes the first Briton to win three medals at a major global athletics championships as the 4x100m relay team win world silver.", "Eight people are seriously hurt and a total of 37 people are being treated in hospital.", "Dogs and owners enjoyed a swim together at the lido in Inverclyde.", "It earned the distinction of being the only town in Britain to have a cinema open in September 1939.", "Thousands of women have revealed to the BBC how endometriosis has affected their lives.", "President Trump claims rules for whistleblowers were changed just before his Ukraine phone call.", "Provides an overview of Iraq, including key dates and facts about this Middle Eastern country.", "The protesters, who are demanding action on unemployment and corruption, defied an open-ended curfew.", "Ewan Ireland stabbed Peter Duncan to death at the Eldon Square shopping centre in Newcastle.", "Pret a Manger rolls out more comprehensive food labelling in the wake of a teenager's allergy death.", "Attic findings reveal Welsh artist Saxon Jenkins' links to the Royal Family.", "A four-minute long film, worth £10,000, was found during a house clearance in Wales.", "The Bake Off winner says the trauma she experienced as a five year old played a role in her PTSD.", "Lin-Manuel Miranda says the death of his childhood best friend shaped his plays and his outlook.", "Stephen Barclay is asked about the government's strategy for a law that could force it to ask for a Brexit delay.", "It is thought the teenagers from east Africa were found in the city in recent weeks.", "The Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse describes St Benedict's School as a \"beastly place\"", "The 21-year-old student's body was found seven weeks after she vanished on a night out in Hull.", "The actress files a lawsuit alleging Harvey Weinstein and his team conspired to discredit her.", "Indian police hail the arrest of a man wanted for tiger and bear poaching after a years-long chase.", "Prof Ian Shanks used his daughter's toy microscope to build a prototype for the device in the 1980s.", "Users have found a glitch that lets anyone unlock the device via its fingerprint authentication system.", "Torrential rain in Spain, Italy and France leaves people dead or missing.", "The trail reaches as far as private schools and interior designers, says Transparency International.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "George Ford returns at fly-half as England shuffle their backline for their Rugby World Cup semi-final against New Zealand on Saturday.", "The former civil servant admitted killing at least 15 boys and men in the 1970s and 1980s.", "Aidan James, from Merseyside, had no previous military knowledge when he set out for Syria in 2017.", "A woman from London is now a credited writer on Lizzo's Hot 100 song Truth Hurts.", "The first global atlas of earthworms has been compiled to help protect the fauna beneath our feet.", "The victim was stabbed in the shoulder in a school corridor in a random attack, a court hears.", "Allowing more inmates to borrow for degrees would cut reoffending rates, a report says.", "The position is fluid in Westminster as the PM says he will ask for an election in the run-up to Christmas.", "The state-backed lender's third-quarter loss came amid a challenging period for its investment bank.", "Barclays reverses its decision to prevent customers withdrawing money from the Post Office network.", "USA striker Alex Morgan announces she is pregnant for the first time and is expecting a baby girl in April.", "A ground-breaking drug should be available within 30 days, after the NHS and the manufacturer reach a deal.", "The boy's mother had fallen down a ravine on Ben Cruachan, landing on a ledge with a steep drop below.", "Most EU leaders favour a three-month delay - but France is sceptical about it, the BBC understands.", "Donald Trump says Paris deal would \"punish the American people\" as he hails US fossil fuel boom.", "Regis UK, the owner of the Supercuts hairdressing chain, has called in administrators.", "The company claims a quantum computer has surpassed conventional devices for the first time.", "A BBC radio interview revealed the author had misunderstood British legal terms about homosexuality.", "The British Retail Consortium calls for political action as it estimates the scale of job cuts.", "\"We know people are dying on smart motorways,\" Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs.", "The Radio 2 breakfast show host sees audience drop for a third consecutive quarter.", "Anna Kirsopp-Lewis and her unborn baby died when her car was struck on her way to see a midwife.", "Problems with advertising products have led to lower-than-forecast profit for the micro-blogging site.", "Labour says it will \"absolutely support\" an election but only if a no-deal Brexit is \"off the table\".", "An advert for Everyday Life sat alongside ones for a fridge-freezer, bales of hay and a divan bed.", "Ministers are being urged to go for an early election - but some want to get a Brexit deal through first.", "Police continue to question the driver on suspicion of murdering the eight women and 31 men.", "Researchers hope the study will steer work into why those with long-term health issues are affected.", "Harry Dunn's parents want a judicial review into the diplomatic immunity for suspect Anne Sacoolas.", "The prime minister calls on the Labour leader to back a snap December poll.", "Firefighters are battling the wildfires in northern California's wine country.", "Police are given extra time to question the driver on suspicion of murdering the eight women and 31 men.", "People smugglers are picking new routes into the UK after a security drive at Dover and the Channel Tunnel.", "Dom Ansah and Ben Gillham-Rice, both 17, were attacked in Milton Keynes on Saturday.", "Substitute Nicolas Pepe rescues Arsenal with two sublime free-kicks in their Europa League group game against Vitoria Guimaraes.", "The prime minister has sent the EU a Brexit extension request - but could no deal still happen?", "It's the latest in a string of films and TV series to have been affected by real-life tragedy.", "Floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Hagibis leave at least nine people dead.", "Scotland will be eliminated from the World Cup if Sunday's match against Japan is cancelled on safety grounds.", "The Royal National College for the Blind says special-needs funding cuts are threatening its future.", "Shortlisted entries for the Royal Society of Biology Photography Competition.", "The Indian prime minister launched a \"clean India\" campaign in 2014.", "Was there a green light to Erdogan or not? The muddled messages shed little light on the US strategy in Syria.", "An ex-Army chief is 'disappointed' over reports a proposed law will be left out of the monarch's address.", "BBC Radio 2 reveals the UK's most popular records of the 2000s, to mark National Album Day.", "\"Technical discussions\" are going on after the PM suggested there is a \"pathway to a possible deal\".", "Anne Sacoolas breaks her silence as UK and US officials say diplomatic immunity no longer applies.", "The Labour leader pledges to end in-work poverty on a visit to Hastings.", "Team Ineos discuss the factors that could prove to be the difference for Eliud Kipchoge as he attempts to run a marathon in under two hours in Vienna, Austria this Saturday.", "Former stars of the popular soap opera pay tribute to \"a legend\" and a \"pioneer of drama\".", "The family of Harry Dunn are to travel to the US on Sunday to speak with the media and politicians.", "The worst typhoon to hit the country in decades brings deadly flooding and landslides.", "The law change follows concerns about the number of buds washing up on beaches after being flushed down toilets.", "Britain's Heather Watson beats Veronika Kudermetova in straight sets to reach the final of Tianjin Open in China.", "The County Donegal man is now in Northern Ireland after being arrested by Irish police on Friday.", "Baptista Adjei, 15, was murdered near a shopping centre in Stratford, east London.", "England suffer their first qualifying loss in 10 years against the Czech Republic and must wait to clinch a spot at Euro 2020.", "Prague police make 31 arrests, a total that includes 14 England fans, at the Euro 2020 qualifying match in the Czech Republic.", "Ireland are through to the World Cup quarter-finals after beating Samoa 47-5 in their Pool A match in Fukuoka.", "A senior SNP MSP says the party could negotiate Scottish independence without another referendum being held.", "Kevin McAleenan was the fourth person to head the agency and oversaw Donald Trump's border policies.", "Eliud Kipchoge becomes the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours, beating the mark by 20 seconds.", "A man initially arrested on suspicion of terror offences is detained under the Mental Health Act.", "The boy, aged 15, is charged with the murder of Baptista Adjei outside a busy London shopping centre.", "At least 23 people are reported dead and dozens have been injured as Typhoon Hagibis hit Japan.", "A worker and a member of the public are praised for helping to stop a stabbing in Manchester.", "Gait speed in mid-life indicates how fast the brain and body are ageing, researchers found.", "Boris Johnson talks to Donald Trump and they agree to \"work together to find a way forward\".", "Watch the moment Eliud Kipchoge makes history to become the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours, beating the mark by 20 seconds.", "The government's five-year plan will invest in institutions like York's National Railway Museum.", "Mo Farah insists he is one of the world's \"most tested athletes\" as he faces questions after his former coach was banned.", "The man was arrested on a European Arrest warrant after reportedly boarding a flight from Paris to Glasgow.", "Nine students are called back by Edinburgh University after two were detained by Egyptian authorities.", "Mastercard, Visa, eBay and Stripe join PayPal in no longer supporting Facebook's effort to launch a currency.", "The attack prompted many people to flee the northern village of Salmossi.", "Police used an electric stun gun on a man after four people were injured in a stabbing at Manchester's Arndale Centre.", "Formula 1 cancels all activities at the Japanese Grand Prix on Saturday as a result of the threat of Typhoon Hagibis.", "The Oscar-nominated actor died of brain cancer in Los Angeles on Friday.", "The former Paralympian James Brown is accused of climbing on to the aircraft.", "The royal pair make a colourful entrance at the Pakistan Monument in Islamabad.", "Are we at the point where the political pressure overcomes the policy obstacles in the Brexit process?", "Bethan Roper, 28, suffered a fatal head injury when she was struck by a tree next to the track.", "Hospital bosses in the UK had tried to block attempts to move Tafida Raqeeb to the hospital in Genoa.", "The Duke of Sussex shared an emotional moment with attendees at the WellChild Awards.", "Could Bulgaria's latest football racism scandal change how it deals with the problem?", "The online fashion retailer blames \"challenging\" growth and warehouse problems for its weak performance.", "Murderer Ian Simms, who has never revealed where Helen McCourt's body is, may shortly be released.", "His parents ask to see government advice given to police over the US suspect's diplomatic immunity.", "The prime minister wants to remove the Brexit backstop and has a new plan to avoid a hard Irish border.", "Police found the illegal weapons in a \"panic room\" in Douglas Urquhart's house in Midlothian.", "The wife of a man killed in a road accident says the US soldiers responsible must be \"held accountable\".", "Jenny Evans is fed intravenously, but says a lack of deliveries left her without essential nutrition.", "The government is considering whether the management of the train service should be taken into public hands.", "Knives, swords and machetes are among the weapons taken into school, police figures show.", "Anne Sacoolas says she had hoped Harry Dunn's parents would agree to meet her at the White House.", "The coffins, whose decorations are still visible, were uncovered at a Theban necropolis near Luxor.", "Mobile clinics and evening and weekend opening could help increase uptake of NHS screening programmes.", "Pupils at Raheem Sterling's old school give their reaction to the abuse England players faced in Bulgaria.", "The Duke of Cambridge calls for more education and awareness during a visit to northern Pakistan.", "The MP leaves after 55 years, saying anti-Semitism has become \"mainstream\" under Jeremy Corbyn.", "Harry Dunn's mother said Mr Trump held her hand and said he would \"try to push this from a different angle\".", "Downing Street plays down the chances of an imminent breakthrough amid reports the sides are close to agreement.", "A massacre denier is told to compensate the father of a child killed in the 2012 school shooting.", "The UK teenager says Cypriot police \"forced\" her to retract her claim that she had been raped.", "Six Bulgarian football fans suspected of subjecting black England players to racist abuse are detained following police raids.", "Arti Dhir and Kaval Raijada are fighting extradition over the murder of their adopted son, aged 11.", "Royal Mail faces its first national postal strike in a decade after 97% of votes cast were in favour.", "Neil Crilley said his wife begged him not to call an ambulance after she fell at home in West Dunbartonshire.", "A British teenager accused of lying about being raped told the court she was forced her to retract her claims.", "Each conversation brings new contradictions as Westminster speculates on the chances of a deal.", "Analysis of Police Scotland data shows that officers found nothing in almost two thirds of cases.", "The High Street camera chain, owned by Dragons Den star Peter Jones, has seen big rent rises.", "The sex offender, who abused as many as 200 children, was found dead in prison on Sunday.", "The advert for clothes in skin tones was not socially responsible, the UK advertising watchdog rules.", "The \"football family and governments\" need to \"wage war on the racists\", says the Uefa president after the abuse of England players by home fans in Bulgaria.", "The actress makes a possibly record-breaking Instagram debut with a selfie with her former co-stars.", "They felt \"ambushed\" by Donald Trump's offer to meet suspect Anne Sacoolas at the White House.", "The Royal British Legion says it has expanded the meaning of the red poppy to be more \"inclusive\".", "The High Street chain says that it does not have a commercial relationship with Amazon.", "About £10,000 has been raised for the family of Rob Spray, who died ahead of the Bulgaria match.", "Prince Harry takes a moment as he talks about becoming a father at the WellChild Awards.", "Bulgaria Football Union president Borislav Mihaylov resigns following the racist abuse of England players by fans in Sofia.", "A plan to force porn sites to verify users' ages will be shelved, says Digital Secretary Nicky Morgan.", "EU leaders want a new deal, but it's hard to see how this can be agreed before this week's summit.", "Officers searching for Brooke Morris, 22, say they have found the body of a woman in the River Taff.", "The actress, who played Zoe Tate in the soap, was diagnosed with cancer in 2016.", "The Supreme Court rules in favour of Claire Gilham, who says she was bullied after speaking out about cuts.", "All the news as talks continue ahead of a key EU summit, and MPs and peers debate the government's policy plans.", "The UK's best-known stockpicker shuts his firm after a crash in the value of his multi-billion-pound funds.", "Japanese firm Hi-Lex makes parts for car manufacturers including BMW, Honda and Bugatti.", "The Noughts and Crosses author is already published by Penguin Random House, which runs Merky Books.", "Supporters of the \"People's Vote\" cheered as MPs voted to withhold approval of the PM's deal.", "Josh Goodwin aims to win the British Grasstrack Championships 500cc sidecar title in memory of his dad.", "Senior officer details hunt to catch those responsible", "The PM sends three letters to Brussels after MPs voted to withhold support for his new Brexit deal.", "Two refuse centre workers trawl through hundreds of bags to find a woman's missing ring.", "The pound eases in Asia trading but could see a stronger move when parliament votes on the Brexit deal.", "The broadcaster on his cult status, protecting 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scaled one of Europe's tallest buildings unaided has been detained for six months.\n\nGeorge King-Thompson, from Oxford, climbed the 310-metre (1,017ft) Shard skyscraper in London on 8 July.\n\nThe 20-year-old was given a police caution at the time but the building's owners began legal proceedings against him for breaching an injunction.\n\nKing-Thompson appeared at the High Court where he admitted being in contempt of court.\n\nLondon Bridge Station was briefly closed when the 20-year-old took 45 minutes to make the free-solo climb - without ropes or protective equipment - at about 05:00 BST.\n\nKing-Thompson was given a police caution but not arrested at the time of the climb\n\nDavid Forsdick QC, representing The Shard's owners Teighmore Limited, earlier told the court that King-Thompson had been planning the climb for about eight months, including moving to east London and visiting the building up to 200 times \"specifically to prepare\" for it.\n\nIn his written case, he said the 20-year-old \"knew of The Shard injunction\" and \"recognised that the climb was illegal\" by using the hashtag \"rooftopillegal\" when he posted a video of his efforts on Instagram.\n\nThe climb was also a \"highly dangerous trespass, both to him [King-Thompson] and potentially to members of the emergency services and the public if he had fallen\", Mr Forsdick said.\n\nKing-Thompson, seen here during a previous climb, had not been seeking \"fame or notoriety\", the court heard\n\nPhilip McGhee, for King-Thompson, told the court his client \"wishes to make an unreserved apology for his actions\" including to those who were \"inconvenienced\" by London Bridge Station being closed.\n\nHe explained the free-solo climber had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and had not been seeking \"fame or notoriety\", but had \"laudable aims\" to \"inspire others\".\n\n\"Mr King-Thompson will not climb another building in the UK. He very much regrets and is very sorry for doing what he did,\" he said.\n\nSentencing him to six months in a young offenders institution, Mr Justice Murray said the defendant's breach of the order, which was designed to deter trespassers, had been \"deliberate and knowing\".\n\nHe said despite King-Thompson's \"young age and previous good character, it is not a sentence I am able to suspend\".\n\nReal Estate Management (UK) Limited which manages The Shard, said it hoped \"today's outcome will deter other prospective climbers, and help them recognise the great dangers that these actions pose\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tributes have been paid to the Scottish journalist and author Deborah Orr, who has died aged 57.\n\nThe former Guardian and Independent writer's death was confirmed over the weekend by her family.\n\nAfter being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, Orr wrote candidly about being treated for the disease.\n\nObserver columnist Catherine Bennett described her friend Orr as \"one of the cleverest, most unconventional, most fearless people on the planet\".\n\nShe is survived by her two sons, Ivan and Luther, from her marriage with fellow writer Will Self, as well as her stepchildren, Alexis and Madeleine.\n\nOrr, who was born in Motherwell, joined the Guardian in 1990, becoming the first female editor of its Weekend magazine before she was 30.\n\nAccording to the publication her \"refusal to suffer fools was legendary\", as was her \"pitch-black humour\".\n\n\"Really shocked and upset to hear about the death of Deborah Orr,\" wrote Guardian columnist Owen Jones.\n\n\"When I first started writing she invited me round to hers, we got merry together, she was so witty, sardonic, clever, bright. RIP Deborah.\"\n\nDeborah Orr, right, hosted An Evening With Vivienne Westwood in 2016\n\nKatharine Viner, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, said Orr was \"a brilliant, clever, funny writer and editor whose uncompromising and insightful approach to her work brought powerful journalism to the Guardian over many years.\"\n\nJournalist and broadcaster Mariella Frostrup noted how Orr had been making plans for a future she knew she probably wouldn't see.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mariella Frostrup This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOrr went on to work for Independent in 1999, before returning to The Guardian as a columnist for almost a decade.\n\nShe also agreed a deal to publish her first book - a memoir, which is due out next year. Writer John Niven was given an early copy and predicted it will be \"a huge hit\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Niven HQ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ex-EastEnders actress describes how she was made to feel during her job-shaming story\n\nFormer EastEnders actress Katie Jarvis says she felt \"degraded\" and \"hurt\" after a newspaper splashed pictures of her working as a shop security guard.\n\nOn Sunday, the Daily Star revealed the actress, who played Hayley Slater, was now working at a B&M store in Romford.\n\nIt prompted an outpouring of empathy on social media, as many actors underlined the uncertain nature of the profession.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire Show, Jarvis said the tone of the story was \"really quite nasty\".\n\n\"I woke up really embarrassed and made to feel quite ashamed, to be honest\" said the 28-year-old, who now works alongside her sister.\n\n\"See over my career I've done by best to try and stay away from social gatherings, get-togethers and celebrity things, to keep my private life as private as possible.\n\n\"So to wake up with my kids and see myself on the front of the pages just for simply having a job in between my acting, it really did hurt me.\"\n\nShe added: \"It took a day or so for me to actually let it all digest and realise I had nothing to be ashamed about.\"\n\nJarvis first made her name starring as Mia Williams in the 2009 British drama film Fish Tank, before heading to Albert Square for a year-long stint which ended in February 2019.\n\nThe east Londoner explained she's worked in a range of jobs to support her acting career - including as a waitress and for a credit card company.\n\nShe admitted she's been \"overwhelmed\" by the support she's received from her acting colleagues, like Kathy Burke, who comically re-interpreted the headline of the tabloid story - or non-story, as she saw it.\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\nIn a show of solidarity, other TV stars revealed they too supplement their acting careers with other types of employment.\n\nTamzin Outhwaite posted: \"Yes, I am a landlady, a voice over artist, car boot salesperson, art dealer, up cyclist, interior designer, motivational speaker, and many other jobs... it's what artists do to earn a living. They work in between jobs.\"\n\n\"It's called grafting!\" she added. \"Or not being afraid of hard work... or loving your family enough to drop your dream for a bit to earn a living so the family can live life. And there is no shame in wanting to work hard to make sure your offspring are cared for.\"\n\nTV critic Emma Bullimore told the BBC she understands why actors are getting upset with the newspaper for splashing Jarvis's new non-acting job all over the front page in a \"humiliating\" manner. But, she says, the situation is \"more complicated\" than some soap stars are making out.\n\n\"I can see both sides of it really as it does feel quite cruel in the way that they did it, kicking her while she's down I suppose,\" says Bullimore.\n\n(L-R) Shane Richie as Alfie Moon, Jessie Wallace as Kat Moon and Katie Jarvis as Hayley Slater holding baby Cherry Slater in 2018\n\n\"But with a tabloid hat on, you can totally see that it is the perfect story - she was in one of the biggest shows on TV, had a massive part in it and she was basically in every scene for a little while.\n\n\"Then she disappeared, slightly oddly, and now suddenly she's working at B&M. I think if she was working at Waitrose it would not be as good a story.\"\n\nCharlie Condou, who played Marcus Dent in Coronation Street, called the Jarvis story \"shameful journalism,\" adding he'd done something similar himself.\n\n\"When I left Corrie I had a string of very nice TV and theatre jobs,\" he tweeted. \"Then I didn't.\n\n\"So I got a job working in a restaurant to pay my bills and take care of my kids. That's what responsible adults do.\"\n\nIn one of her most memorable EastEnders scenes from last Christmas, Jarvis's character Hayley pushed Alfie Moon, played by Shane Ritchie, down the stairs in defence of her relative Kat Moon.\n\nSince leaving EastEnders, Jarvis has kept a relatively low profile. However, in March, she tweeted to say she was \"absolutely fine\" following reports she had been \"glassed\" on a night out.\n\nBullimore believes \"it feels like a choice\", in this instance, for her to make the move away from the camera so soon, making the newspaper article all the more intriguing for readers.\n\n\"I can see why people would want to read it because they'll think 'surely you're really well paid if you're on EastEnders and you're living the life of an actress.' And she was in it so recently, so why would you need the money so quickly?\n\n\"That's not to say that I think it [the story] is fair, but I don't think it's necessarily any worse than the way that tabloids treat actors in general.\"\n\n(L-R) Sorry We Missed You stars Debbie Honeywood, Katie Proctor, Rhys Stone, Kris Hitchen and Ken Loach at the Cannes Film Festival in May\n\nJarvis is not the first and won't be the last actor to do a \"normal job\" before, during or after an acting career.\n\nIn fact, award-winning director Ken Loach told the BBC's arts editor Will Gompertz he actively shied away from casting big name Hollywood stars in his latest drama, Sorry We Missed You, in favour of actors who have had recent experience working in relevant industries.\n\nThe film features actor/plumber and van driver Kris Hitchen and actress/teaching assistant and care worker Debbie Honeywood at the head of a Newcastle family, struggling to make ends meet on zero-hour contract jobs.\n\n\"Finding people to bring a story to life is the second-most important decision you ever make in filmmaking, second to the script - which is the most important,\" explained Loach.\n\n\"The camera can see who you are, maybe in ways you're not aware of - how you stand, how you use your hands, the quality of your skin depends on your diet. Every mannerism that you're not aware of. And you've also got to believe that people can do the job they say that they can do in the film and reach the character and absolutely have the capacity to draw the audience in.\n\n\"So the audience laughs with them and cries with them and is angry with them and identifies with them and has solidarity with them. And we were really lucky to find Chris and Debbie.\"\n\nHe added: \"They're both terrific, but they can act, make no mistake.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Director Ken Loach explains why he doesn't use Hollywood actors in his films.\n\nElsewhere in the industry, former Hollyoaks and Holby City actor Jeremy Edwards found work, like Jarvis, as a security guard, and as a gardener. As Celebs Now reported, in 2011, he noted: \"I don't know any actors who work consistently without other work. A lucky few, but not many, I had a good 10-year run!\"\n\nGemma Merna, who played Carmen McQueen in Hollyoaks for eight years - winning best comedy performance at the 2007 British Soap Awards - now also works as a yoga instructor and personal trainer.\n\nMeanwhile, Geoffrey Owens, who played Elvin in the Cosby Show between 1985 and 1992, thanked supporters last year after photos of him working as a cashier at US grocery Trader Joe's were mocked online.\n\nRap star and Cosby Show fan Nicki Minaj donated $25,000 (£22,433) to the \"legend\" after he was similarly job-shamed, however, Owens donated the amount to a fund helping actors in need.\n\n(L-R) Jeremy Edwards, Geoffrey Owens and Gemma Merna have all acted and performed other jobs\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 Hearts\n\nHearts have opened an investigation after claims that Rangers striker Alfredo Morelos was racially abused in Sunday's Scottish Premiership draw.\n\nThe Colombian was allegedly targeted as he celebrated his equaliser in front of the Hearts supporters at Tynecastle.\n\nPolice Scotland say they are unaware of any complaints, with the only arrest made being for a separate incident.\n\n\"The club is aware of an incident of alleged racism and is currently investigating it,\" read a statement.\n• None Players should walk off if abused - Lennon\n\n\"It goes without saying that Heart of Midlothian Football Club utterly condemns any form of racism and any individuals found guilty of such an offence will face an indefinite ban from Tynecastle Park.\"\n\nThe incident comes at the end of a week scarred by several incidents of racism in football.\n\nEngland's Euro 2020 qualifier in Bulgaria last Monday was halted twice as fans were warned about racist behaviour, including Nazi salutes and monkey chanting.\n\nAnd an FA Cup match between Haringey Borough and Yeovil Town was abandoned on Saturday amid reports of racial abuse by fans.\n\nFurthermore, Bristol City are investigating reports of racist language being used by their fans during their Championship game at Luton.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAndy Murray broke down in tears after winning his first singles title since career-saving hip surgery by beating Stan Wawrinka at the European Open.\n\nThe Briton, 32, launched a stunning comeback from a set and a break down to win 3-6 6-4 6-4 in Antwerp to take his first title for more than two years.\n\nMurray had surgery in January and was playing in just his seventh tournament since returning to singles.\n\nHe described it as \"one of the biggest\" wins of his career.\n\n\"It means a lot,\" the three-time Grand Slam champion said. \"The last few years have been extremely difficult.\n\n\"I didn't expect to be in this position at all. I'm happy, very happy.\"\n\nFellow Grand Slam champion Wawrinka, who has also had a number of recent injury issues, said: \"To see you back at this level, it's amazing.\n\n\"We're all really happy. I'm sad I lost today but I'm really happy to see you back.\"\n\nA title 961 days - and one new hip - later\n\nAt the Australian Open in January a tearful Murray said he feared his hip problem would force him to retire after the tournament.\n\nBut the Scot made a promising return to doubles action in June and then made his singles comeback in August and in doing so became the first player to resume his career after a hip resurfacing operation.\n\nHis comeback had been encouraging, reaching the quarter-finals of the China Open, but on Sunday in Belgium he produced his best performance yet against a fellow Grand Slam champion who was playing close to his best.\n\nMurray played well in the first set but was overcome by Wawrinka's scintillating hitting which continued into the second set when the Swiss hit four winners to win Murray's serve for a set and a break lead.\n\nMurray crucially saved two more break points soon after to stop himself falling two breaks behind and then won three games in a row before forcing the decider through his trademark athletic tennis.\n\nBoth players looked nervous at the start of the third set with four consecutive breaks of serve but at 4-4 Murray saved two more critical break points, the second seen off with a big first serve.\n\nIn the following game, Wawrinka surged ahead but at 40-15 he hit a volley to a Murray lob that looked to be going wide and then Murray hit a running passing shot winner to move to deuce.\n\nShortly afterwards, on Murray's first match point, Wawrinka hit a forehand wide and, after the pair embraced at the net, Murray was visibly emotional as he waved to the crowd.\n\nFormer British number one Greg Rusedski: \"Andy Murray has won his first ATP singles title with a metal hip. Incredible effort. What a competitor to win from a set and a break down against Stan the man. Who would have believed it. Amazing.\"\n\nGreat Britain's Davis Cup captain Leon Smith: \"An astonishing effort Andy Murray. So so proud of you!!!!\"\n\nBBC North America editor Jon Sopel: \"Best news of the day. Who'd have thought it? Andy your spirit and your fight are remarkable. Skill has never been in doubt.\"\n\nFormer world number three Ivan Ljubicic: \"Hip hip hurray Murray. Amazing stuff. Congrats to the whole team.\"\n\nJamie Delgado, Murray's coach: \"Back in the winners circle again!!! Amazing Andy Murray and of course a big well done to all the team.\"\n\nTo win the match - from a set down, three games to one, and two further break points down - was remarkable.\n\nBut to win the title nine months after an operation which was likely to end his career at the highest level is an astonishing feat.\n\nThis was just Murray's 17th match back. Never mind the hip; stamina is usually a major issue after such a long absence from the tour.\n\nNot in Murray's case, it appears. Here he was completing, and winning, a fourth match in four days at the end of four weeks on the road.\n\nHe will finish the year just outside the world's top 100 after an unimaginably successful and beneficial run of seven tournaments.\n\nMurray now returns home, where his wife is soon to give birth to their third child, and will then finish the season with his Great Britain team-mates at November's Davis Cup finals.\n\nElsewhere in men's tennis, Canada's Denis Shapovalov won his first ATP Tour title at the Stockholm Open by beating Filip Krajinovic 6-4 6-4 in the final.\n\nShapovalov, 20, hit 16 aces and lost just two points on his first serve in a one-sided match in which he faced just one break point\n\nThe world number 34 will look to carry his good form into the 21-and-under Next Gen ATP Finals starting on 5 November in Milan.\n\nRussia's Andrey Rublev celebrated his 22nd birthday by winning the Kremlin Cup for his second career title.\n\nRublev beat France's Adrian Mannarino, who was also runner-up last year, 6-4, 6-0.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nThe US Embassy told the British government the suspect in a crash which killed Harry Dunn would be leaving the UK, the foreign secretary has said.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died after a collision outside RAF Croughton with a car owned by US citizen Anne Sacoolas.\n\nDominic Raab told the Commons his department asked for her diplomatic immunity to be waived, but the request was refused by the US.\n\nMr Dunn's family said the statement \"added insult to injury\".\n\nTheir spokesman Radd Seiger said there was an \"unacceptable lack of information being provided to the family\".\n\n\"There is even more anger and frustration tonight than there was before this statement was made in the House of Commons,\" he said.\n\n\"The statement Dominic Raab gave tonight, he could have given to the family directly when they met with him two weeks ago.\"\n\nCharlotte Charles and Tim Dunn met Donald Trump at the White House last week to discuss the case\n\nMr Dunn died from his injuries when his motorbike and a car collided outside the RAF station in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nMr Raab said the US Embassy informed his office of the crash and said Mrs Sacoolas was \"covered by immunity\".\n\nThe Foreign Office requested to waive her immunity \"to enable the police investigation to follow its proper course\", he told MPs.\n\nBut Mr Raab said on 13 September his office was told by the US \"that they would not waive immunity and that the individual would be leaving the country imminently, unless the UK had strong objections\".\n\nHe said his office \"duly and immediately objected in clear and strong terms\" but when they spoke to US officials on 16 September they were told Mrs Sacoolas had left the UK the day before.\n\nThe foreign secretary said they immediately informed Northamptonshire Police but asked officers to delay telling Mr Dunn's family the suspect had left the country \"by a day or two\" to give them time to \"agree the next course of action\".\n\nHowever, the police force did not tell Mr Dunn's family that Mrs Sacoolas had gone back to the US until 26 September, Mr Raab said.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, left the UK after the crash\n\nMrs Sacoolas' husband is reportedly stationed at the base as an intelligence officer.\n\nAt the time of the crash she had diplomatic immunity, but both the British and US governments agree that by returning to the US she had forfeited that right.\n\nMr Raab said he had commissioned a review into immunity arrangements for US personnel and their families at the RAF Croughton annex in light of this case.\n\n\"As this case has demonstrated, I do not believe the current arrangements are right and the review will look at how we can make sure that the arrangements at Croughton cannot be used in this way again,\" he said.\n\nHe said the case was \"now with Northamptonshire Police and Crown Prosecution Service and it is for them to consider the next steps as part of their criminal investigation\".\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab spoke in the Commons about the Harry Dunn case\n\nMr Dunn's family were due to meet with the Chief Constable of Northamptonshire Police on Wednesday but were told he could not say anything more than offering his condolences.\n\n\"They feel completely abandoned by both [the police and the foreign office],\" Mr Seiger said.\n\n\"This is incredibly stressful and exhausting and gruelling. The family just want answers.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Six months ago, on Easter Sunday, Sri Lanka was hit by one of the world’s worst terrorist attacks this century.\n\nThe town of Negombo suffered the deadliest bombing, when 115 people died while attending Mass.\n\nHasaru Jayakody lost his mother in the explosion – and spent his 17th birthday recovering from shrapnel injuries in hospital.\n\nBBC correspondent Caroline Hawley went to find out how Hasaru and his community are recovering.", "A state of emergency has been declared in the Chilean capital, Santiago, after protests sparked by increased metro ticket prices turned violent.\n\nProtesters - many of them high school and university students - jumped turnstiles, attacked several underground stations, started fires and blocked traffic, leaving widespread damage across the city and thousands of commuters without transport.\n\nTelevision pictures showed protesters throwing stones, attacking police vehicles and burning at least one bus. Anti-riot police used tear gas and batons against some protesters, who have been demonstrating for days against the increase.\n\nThe unrest exposes divisions in the country, one of Latin America's wealthiest but also one of its most unequal. There have been growing complaints about the cost of living - especially in Santiago, a city of some six million people - and calls for economic reforms.\n\nSpeaking on television, President Sebastián Piñera said the aim of the state of emergency was to \"ensure public order and the safety of public and private property\". The measure allows authorities to restrict people's freedom of movement and their right to assembly.\n\nHe also said the government would \"call for a dialogue... to alleviate the suffering of those affected by the increase in fares\".\n\nEarlier this month, the government increased fares to $1.17 (£0.90) for a journey during peak hours, blaming higher energy costs and a weaker peso.\n\nSpeaking to Radio Agricultural earlier, President Piñera said: \"It's one thing to demonstrate and another to commit the vandalism we have observed. This isn't protest, it's crime.\"\n\nIt was not immediately clear how many people had been detained or injured. Despite the protests, authorities said they would not reverse the fare increase.\n\nThe Chilean government condemned what it described as \"acts of violence and vandalism\" that were \"being carried out by organised groups\", and invoked the State Security Law that imposes harsher sentences for those found guilty of public disorder.\n\nThe protests continued after nightfall, with people clanging pots and blocking traffic.\n\nEnergy company Enel Chile said vandals had set fire to its high-rise corporate headquarters in the centre of Santiago. It said its workers were evacuated and no-one was injured.\n\nAfter Friday's protests, metro authorities said all lines would remain closed for at least two days due to the serious destruction that made it impossible to operate the system safely. The damages were estimated at $700,000, including broken surveillance cameras and other equipment.\n\nSantiago's underground system is considered one of Latin America's most modern, with 140km (86 miles) of track and 136 stations.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Pacer trains have been described as \"buses on train wheels\"\n\nPoliticians in northern England are demanding that passengers still having to use the heavily-criticised Pacer trains should be offered reduced fares.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, Sheffield City Region Mayor Dan Jarvis and Leeds City Council leader Judith Blake have told operator Northern that using the ageing units is unacceptable.\n\nNorthern will meet with them to discuss \"what offer we can put to customers\".\n\nPacers are 1980s-built rail-buses meant as a short-term alternative to trains.\n\nNorthern had planned to withdraw them all by the end of this year.\n\nManaging director David Brown said it was \"very frustrating\" that a small number would have to be retained into 2020 as a result of delays in the construction and delivery of new trains from manufacturer CAF.\n\nThe much-derided Pacers were originally constructed from the body of a bus and were intended to have a maximum lifespan of 20 years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey were a joint venture between British Rail and Leyland Motors.\n\nIn a letter to Northern, Mr Burnham, Mr Jarvis and Ms Blake said it was \"unacceptable\" that Northern would still be using Pacers into 2020, and called for an urgent meeting.\n\n\"However, the alternative of withdrawing the Pacers without any alternative replacements would be an even worse outcome,\" they said.\n\n\"As we are forced into accepting the temporary retention of Pacers, we expect you to commit, as a matter of urgency, to appropriate financial compensation to the passengers affected.\"\n\nThey said fares should be reduced on all affected routes while the trains were being used.\n\nCommuters complained of the trains being hot, noisy and bumpy.\n\nEach Pacer is essentially a Leyland Motors bus mounted on train wheels\n\nStudent Rimsha Sawant from Blackburn said she sighs when she sees her train is a Pacer.\n\n\"They need replacing because they are not good enough,\" she said.\n\n\"With all the technology we have we should at least have decent trains.\"\n\nCommuter Sam Brown said in the summer the heat gets trapped inside \"leaving you a sweaty mess\".\n\n\"It's always a massive disappointment when you see a Pacer train waiting at the platform to take you.\n\n\"They are incredibly loud when revving up, making it impossible to have a conversation with friends, and you also feel the full force of any bumps on the track,\" she said.\n\nHowever, Sally Carter said she preferred them to more modern trains because of the seating arrangement and large windows.\n\n\"I'm rather fond of them and will be sad to see them go,\" she said.\n\nPacer trains have been regularly used on busy commuter routes, including those into Manchester, Leeds, Middlesbrough, Sheffield and York, as well as on the Merseyrail network.\n\nAs of October 2018, almost one in four vehicles operated by Northern was a Pacer, according to the Department for Transport (DfT).\n\nA report from DfT said of the 875 vehicles in its fleet at that time, 158 were Class 142 Pacers, built between 1985 and 1987, while a further 56 were Class 144, built between 1986 and 1988.\n\nPacers are the laughing stock, rolling stock of the north. Introduced in the 1980s, they are rail-buses originally meant as a short-term solution to a shortage of trains.\n\nSupporters say they've helped keep certain routes open and used. Detractors say they highlight the North/South divide and are relics.\n\nNorthern promised to withdraw Pacers by the end of this year. In February, the BBC reported concerns they were unlikely to meet that target but Northern strongly denied that was the case.\n\nThey insisted they would be gone by the beginning of 2020. More recently, they have admitted some Pacer units will still be in operation into next year.\n\nManaging director Mr Brown added: \"Everyone wants to see Pacers go from the north of England.\n\n\"Nobody in Northern wants to retain the Pacers but it's something we've been forced into doing because our new trains, which are fantastic, are arriving slightly slower than we'd expect.\n\n\"It's a small number of trains for a small number of weeks on a small number of routes. We've taken the decision that this is far better than cancelling trains or running them without enough seats.\n\n\"We want to talk through how we're going to deal with the retention of those trains and what can we do for customers that will be forced to use them into the new year.\n\n\"Of course we're not ruling anything out in terms of what package we can put together for customers.\"\n\nThere were calls for Northern to be stripped of its franchise when \"carnage\" followed the introduction of new timetables in May 2018.\n\nIts franchises cover the North West, Yorkshire, parts of Derbyshire, and the North East.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nAdam Lallana's late equaliser rescued a point for Liverpool at Old Trafford as Manchester United ended the leaders' flawless start to the Premier League season.\n\nLiverpool were in search of their 18th successive league win to equal Manchester City's top-flight record set between August and December 2017 but had to settle for a point after a scrappy encounter.\n\nMarcus Rashford's hotly-contested first-half goal, allowed after a video assistant referee check for a foul by Victor Lindelof on Divock Origi, looked to be condemning Liverpool to their first league loss since they went down at Manchester City in January.\n\nRashford finished neatly from Daniel James' cross in the 36th minute but Liverpool, who saw a first-half strike from Sadio Mane ruled out by VAR for handball, struck back when substitute Lallana arrived unmarked at the far post to score from Andy Robertson's cross five minutes from time.\n\nThe draw means Liverpool's advantage at the top of the table has been cut to six points.\n• None Analysis - how Solskjaer found a way to stop Liverpool\n• None Klopp: Man Utd always set up to defend against us\n• None Was Liverpool's run always destined to end at Man Utd?\n• None Discover how you rated the players\n\nLiverpool's relentless start to the season ended here at Old Trafford, an arena where they always struggle to produce their best.\n\nThey have failed to win on their past six visits to Manchester United, comprising three losses and three draws, meaning manager Jurgen Klopp is still searching for his first win here with Liverpool.\n\nRobbed of the injured Mohamed Salah, Liverpool started with Origi on the left and rarely displayed the intensity and attacking verve that has become their trademark in a strangely subdued performance. They had 68% of the ball but barely created any clear-cut opportunities in a match that swiftly became a war of attrition.\n\nLiverpool, however, are sustained by a fierce determination even when not in top gear and Lallana was on the mark after a lengthy spell of possession to score his first league goal for over two years.\n\nKlopp's side even threatened to snatch victory, but substitute Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's shot flashed inches wide.\n\nKlopp was furious about the decision to award Rashford's goal but he must also accept that this was a below-par Liverpool performance and in the end they and their fans, who taunted their United counterparts with inflatable Champions League trophies and the number \"6\", were grateful for a draw that means they still have a healthy advantage at the Premier League summit.\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will be bitterly disappointed they could not hang on for five more minutes for what would have been a hugely satisfying landmark win.\n\nHe will, however, be delighted with the fight, spirit and organisation shown by his side, especially as the five-man defensive system United had been working on this week was disrupted minutes before kick-off when Axel Tuanzebe was injured in the warm-up and replaced by Marcos Rojo.\n\nThey subdued Liverpool until they switched off carelessly late on when Rojo went missing and Ashley Young failed to spot the danger from Lallana in behind him.\n\nOverall, however, this was a huge improvement simply in terms of resilience and character.\n\nGoalscorer Rashford worked tirelessly while Scott McTominay continues to mature in midfield, and the Stretford End showed their appreciation at the final whistle.\n\nThis is a mediocre Manchester United side but there was no shortage of effort and they deserved a point that Solskjaer will hope provides a platform for a rise up the table.\n\n'A step in the right direction' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer: \"It's important to get results. That's the only way to grow confidence. A win would have been great but a draw is a step in the right direction.\n\n\"As a manager you want results now - you can't lose four, five or six games on the bounce. We're looking to win games as soon as possible.\"\n\nOn the lack of a free-kick to Liverpool in the build-up to Rashford's goal: \"It's maybe a slight touch but it's not a clear and obvious error. It's still a man's game with tackles allowed, and the second one [Sadio Mane's disallowed goal] was a handball. Today we were on the right end of the VAR decisions.\"\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: \"The result is OK. It's not what we wanted but we have to be happy given how the game developed. The first half I didn't like because we gave United the chance to do what they want to do - to put us under pressure and be aggressive. They were not better than we were but they did what they wanted to do.\n\n\"They scored a goal which shows all the problems with VAR. Mr Atkinson let the game run I'm sure because there is VAR. For me it was a clear foul. It's a general problem. VAR looks and says 'you decided like this'. But it was a foul. Then we scored a goal that was disallowed. Pretty much everything went against us but we still didn't lose so that is OK.\n\n\"We were in charge 100% towards the end. We wanted a different result but to do that you have to play better.\"\n• None Liverpool failed to win for the first time in 18 Premier League games, since a goalless draw with Everton in March.\n• None No side has dropped more points from winning positions in the Premier League this season than Manchester United (8, level with Aston Villa).\n• None United registered their second lowest possession figure (32.1%) in a Premier League home match since 2003-04, second only to 32.06% against Liverpool in March 2018.\n• None Five of the past seven Premier League meetings between United and Liverpool have ended level (one win each) - just four of the previous 36 between the sides had been drawn.\n• None English players scored for both Manchester United and Liverpool in a Premier League meeting for the first time since November 2001 (David Beckham and Michael Owen).\n• None Since the start of last season, Liverpool have scored 28 Premier League goals in the final 15 minutes of games, more than any other side.\n• None Man Utd boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is the only manager Jurgen Klopp has faced more than once in the Premier League and failed to beat (P2 D2).\n• None 35% of Marcus Rashford's 31 Premier League goals for Manchester United have come against 'big six' opponents (11/31).\n• None Liverpool's Adam Lallana netted his first goal in 29 Premier League appearances, since scoring against Middlesbrough in May 2017.\n• None Since the start of 2017-18, Liverpool's Andrew Robertson has registered 19 assists in the Premier League, more than any other defender.\n\nLiverpool visit Genk in the Champions League on Wednesday, with United at Partizan Belgrade in the Europa League on Thursday.\n\nNext Sunday in the Premier League, Liverpool host Tottenham with United at Norwich City.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Daniel James tries a through ball, but Andreas Pereira is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1, Liverpool 1. Adam Lallana (Liverpool) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a cross.Goal confirmed following VAR Review.\n• None Attempt missed. Fred (Manchester United) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Attempt saved. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Soldiers in armoured personnel carriers have confronted protesters in the Chilean capital, Santiago, amid protests sparked by a metro fare increase.\n\nDemonstrators erected barricades and set buses on fire while others protested by banging pots and honking car horns.\n\nThe protests have broadened to reflect general discontent about the high cost of living in one of Latin America's wealthiest but also one of its most unequal countries.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nA dramatic late Ross Moriarty try booked Wales a World Cup semi-final place at the expense of 14-man France as Warren Gatland's side came from behind to win 20-19 in Oita.\n\nFrance lock Sebastien Vahaamahina was sent off after 48 minutes for a blatant elbow on Wales flanker Aaron Wainwright in a decisive moment.\n\nFrance were leading 19-10 at the time and Wales scored 10 unanswered points.\n\nWales overcame the loss of centre Jonathan Davies just before kick-off to reach a third World Cup semi-final to follow their exploits of 1987 and 2011.\n• None Davies could be fit for World Cup semi-final\n\nVahaamahina, Charles Ollivon, and the brilliant Virimi Vakatawa scored France tries in a relentless first-half display, while Wales responded through Wainwright and Moriarty tries and 10 points from Dan Biggar's boot.\n\nFrance won the only other previous World Cup meeting between the two nations in the 2011 semi-final when then Wales skipper Sam Warburton was red-carded.\n\nThis time it was a French sending off that proved pivotal.\n\nWales will be relieved after producing a disappointing and disjointed performance but again resilience and character took them to victory in a game where they trailed from the fifth minute until the 74th.\n\nMoriarty shrugged off a first-half yellow card to score the decisive try with the ball adjudged not to have gone forward in the build-up from a rip by replacement scrum-half Tomos Williams.\n\nWales fans woke up to the news they did not want to hear but feared when key centre Davies was ruled out just before kick-off with the knee injury he suffered against Fiji.\n\nDavies initially had been cleared to play and was selected in the team before being pulled out 75 minutes before kick-off.\n\nThe Scarlets centre aggravated the injury in Wales' final training session on Saturday and was officially ruled out on Sunday morning.\n\nOwen Watkin was Davies' replacement for the biggest game of his career with full-back Leigh Halfpenny coming in on the bench.\n\nFrance had defeated Argentina, Tonga and USA but not played for two weeks after their Pool C decider had been called off because of Typhoon Hagibis, but they made a blistering start in Oita.\n\nSo it was a battle-hardened Wales against a rested France. Who would prevail?\n\nFrance provided a glimpse of what they offered with Wales grateful for crucial defensive interventions from George North and Justin Tipuric before Les Bleus powered through the gears.\n\nFrance benefitted from a loose clearing kick from scrum-half Gareth Davies as Wales gifted their opposition possession and Vahaamahina powered over in the fifth minute, though Romain Ntamack hit the post with the conversion, one of two key missed kicks from France.\n\nLes Bleus responded with a brilliant second try two minutes later. Vakatawa exposed the Wales midfield defence by stepping past Josh Navidi and linking up with Ntamack and Dupont before flanker Ollivon cantered away to score as they built up a 12-0 lead inside eight minutes.\n\nWales had trailed Fiji by 10 points early on in their last game in Oita and again appeared rattled following a slow start as they seemed set to duplicate the Six Nations clash where France led by 16 points at half-time.\n\nHowever, the Grand Slam winners responded from nowhere when a heavy tackle from Jake Ball on France captain Guilhem Guirado resulted in a dropped ball which Wainwright latched onto and sprinted away to score.\n\nBiggar converted and added a penalty to reduce the deficit to two points to complete a frantic opening quarter.\n\nWales suffered another injury blow when Navidi was forced off by a hamstring problem. He was replaced by Moriarty whose first contribution was to be sent to the sin-bin for a high tackle on centre Gael Fickou.\n\nFrance immediately took advantage of their numerical superiority when Vakatawa powered over after patient build-up with Ntamack converting.\n\nA rejuvenated and rampant France continued to attack as they capitalised on Wales' kicking tactic of keeping the ball on the field.\n\nWales were thankful to crucial defensive interventions from wings North and Josh Adams while Ntamack hit the post for the second time with a penalty.\n\nGatland's side would have been content with a 19-10 interval deficit in a half where they missed 18 tackles, which would have infuriated defence coach Shaun Edwards.\n\nFrance made a half-time change with injured fly-half Ntamack replaced by Camille Lopez and looked comfortable until Vahaamahina had his inexplicable red-mist moment.\n\nThe lock was sent off for elbowing Wainwright in the head after already having his arm around his neck.\n\nIt was a game-changing moment and instantly led to comparisons to the 2011 semi-final when Warburton's red card tipped the scales in France's favour.\n\nWales piled on the pressure with Biggar reducing the deficit to within a score before 14-man France rallied again.\n\nVakatawa was causing havoc and Wales were grateful Penaud dropped the ball with the line at his mercy.\n\nWales then failed with an attacking overlap when Yoann Huget intercepted an attempted try-scoring pass before the decisive moment at a French scrum a few metres in front of their own line.\n\nTomos Williams ripped the ball away and flanker Justin Tipuric latched onto it before Moriarty dived over.\n\nReferee Jaco Peyper checked with television match official Marius Jonker to see whether the ball had gone forward from Williams and to confirm that Moriarty's grounding was legal; the try was awarded.\n\nMoriarty's score was converted by Biggar as Wales led for the first time with just six minutes remaining and they held on for a famous victory.\n\n'It was similar to 2011' - reaction\n\nWales coach Warren Gatland: \"The message at half-time was just that we had to score next and we were able to do that.\n\n\"The red card was obviously pretty significant, but the thing I am proud about is the guys didn't give in, they just kept waiting for an opportunity that they knew would come.\n\n\"It was similar to 2011 when we had the red card and lost by a point. It wasn't the prettiest game in the world, but we showed great character.\n\n\"We will take it even though it was a little bit ugly, the important thing is going through, for us we look to get ourselves right now for the next two weeks.\"\n\nWales captain Alun Wyn Jones: \"We were slow out of the blocks, we started similar to against Fiji but the character we showed to come through, we kept plugging away and it came right on the scoreboard. We wanted to take the advantage with territory and take the opportunities.\n\n\"We have plenty to work on, but we are very pleased with the result. We saw a lot of red from the Japanese fans, but the way the Welsh support have come over here is awesome.\"\n\nFormer Wales international Tom Shanklin: \"I'm emotionally spent! What a game that was from start to finish. I'm looking at the players here, some hugging and jumping, some totally spent, exhausted.\n\n\"It's taken a toll on them this World Cup, the big games they've had against Australia and Fiji.\n\n\"The turning point was the red card, but I expected a little bit more from Wales if I'm honest. I don't think we saw the best of them in attack. They were certainly shell-shocked in that first half.\n\n\"The character those boys showed to come back when it really mattered - that scrum which just blew France away and allowed Tomos Williams to get on the ball and the way they saw the game out... they're through to a semi-final and what more could you ask.\"\n• None Wales completed their biggest comeback to win a World Cup match. They came back from 12 points down, beating their previous largest total of 10 points.\n• None This match marked the fifth time Wales were involved in a World Cup match decided by a single point. No other team has been involved in as many.\n• None This was the second Rugby World Cup meeting between France and Wales, with each side picking up one win with both matches being won by a single point.\n• None Both World Cup matches between France and Wales have featured a red card.\n• None Wales have equalled their record for most victories in a single World Cup (five in 1987).\n• None Sebastien Vahaamahina scored his first Test try in his 46th appearance and became the first France player to be sent off in a World Cup match.\n• None Since their defeat against France at the 2011 World Cup, Wales have won eight of their nine subsequent matches against France, only the All Blacks have beaten France more often in this timeframe (10 times).\n• None Ross Moriarty crossed for a crucial try after being sin-binned, just the third Wales player to score and be yellow-carded in a Rugby World Cup match after both Colin Charvis and Sonny Parker did that in the same game against Canada in 2003.", "Two anglers in small boats have been filmed dangerously close to a giant \"plug hole\" at a reservoir.\n\nThey were spotted on Saturday a few metres from a 66ft-deep overflow hole at Derbyshire's Ladybower Reservoir.\n\nSevern Trent Water, which owns the reservoir, warned people boating and fishing there to keep \"well away\" from the plug hole and to stay safe.\n\nFlo Neilson, who captured the footage while walking her dogs, said: \"It looked a dangerous and risky thing to do, but they seemed to be in control of the boats and had soon moved away after I'd stopped filming.\"\n\nOverflow water goes down the hole into a tunnel and eventually flows into the river below the dam.", "Emergency vehicles were seen near to the American Airlines plane at Dublin airport\n\nA London flight to Philadelphia has been diverted to Dublin after reports of a \"chemical spillage\" on board.\n\nAmerican Airlines said two crew members and one passenger went to hospital \"for evaluation\" after flight AA729 from Heathrow landed at 13:15 GMT on Monday.\n\nAirbus A330-300 landed due to an odour \"caused by a spilled cleaning solution in the galley\", it added.\n\nOne passenger wrote on Twitter that the spillage \"led to [a] sickness outbreak and an emergency landing\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Katie Phillips This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother passenger reported noticing \"noxious smells\" on board the flight.\n\nAn audio clip has appeared online, purporting to be a recording of a conversation between the pilot and an air traffic controller.\n\nIn it, the pilot is heard to say that two cabin staff had \"actually lost consciousness\" after being exposed to the cleaning product.\n\n\"I'm told it is not a toxic substance,\" he added.\n\nThe Irish Aviation Authority said it does not release such conversations and was therefore \"not in a position to authenticate it\".\n\nA spokeswoman for Dublin Airport said that the flight had been diverted \"for a medical emergency\".\n\n\"As per standard operating procedures there was a full turn-out of Dublin Airport's emergency fire services,\" she added.\n\nAmerican Airlines said the flight had been rescheduled to leave Dublin on Tuesday morning and that all passengers had been offered free hotel rooms for the night.\n\nMeanwhile, a second of the airline's transatlantic flights was also diverted to Dublin on Monday, where it was met by emergency vehicles.\n\nA second American Airlines flight - an Airbus A330-200 - was followed by fire crews on arrival at Dublin Airport\n\nThe airline said flight 787, from Paris to Charlotte in North Carolina was diverted after a passenger fell ill.\n\nThe passenger was taken from the plane for treatment and the flight is scheduled to depart later on Monday, a spokeswoman added.\n\nWere you onboard the flight? Or do you know someone who was? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The boys were stabbed at a house party in Archford Croft in Milton Keynes\n\nTwo 17-year-old boys were stabbed to death at a house party as part of a \"targeted attack\", police believe.\n\nThe boys, named locally as Dom Ansah and Ben Gillham-Rice, were attacked at the house in Milton Keynes at about midnight on Saturday.\n\nThames Valley Police said those responsible \"arrived at the party uninvited, wore face coverings and were armed with knives\".\n\nNo arrests have been made in the double murder inquiry.\n\nOne of the boys died at the scene and the other in hospital.\n\nAnother 17-year-old boy and a 23-year-old man were also hurt and were taken to hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries. One has since been discharged.\n\nThames Valley Police said there was an \"increased presence\" in the area\n\nDet Ch Supt Ian Hunter described the attack as a \"dreadful incident\".\n\n\"We know that the party was a private birthday party, and although we believe that all of those involved were known to each other, we believe that those responsible arrived at the party uninvited, wore face coverings and they were armed with knives in what appears to be a targeted attack,\" he said.\n\nDet Ch Supt Hunter said officers were \"working around the clock\" to trace the suspects.\n\n\"I have a clear message to those responsible. We are looking for you and I urge you to hand yourself into a police station as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nHe said the victims' families were being supported by specially trained officers and post-mortem examinations are due to take place on Tuesday.\n\nForensic searches were still taking place on Monday\n\nOfficers are expected to remain at the scene, which is in a cul-de-sac on a housing estate in the Emerson Valley area, for several days.\n\nStains of what appeared to be blood could be seen on the front door of a house inside the police cordon.\n\nThe two deaths have been labelled \"senseless\" by those paying tribute to the boys.\n\nDiane Ackah-Sanzah addressed Mr Ansah's family on Facebook and said: \"This is so senseless... I am truly heartbroken for you.\"\n\nWendy Ince said: \"Shocked to hear of the senseless loss of your boy... thinking of you at this awful time\", and Kevin Amoakuh said: \"So sad, so painful, so untimely.\"\n\nFamily members visited the scene on Sunday to leave flowers\n\nTwo of Dom Ansah's cousins laid flowers at the cordon on Sunday afternoon.\n\n\"He's come here with his long-time best friend since childhood, comes to a party and both of their lives just got ripped away from them,\" said one, who did not give her name.\n\n\"He was just so respectful to like his family and friends. Many, many people's hearts are broken.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Hunter appealed for \"anybody who thinks that they have any information, no matter how insignificant you believe this to be, to come forward\".\n• None Two teenage boys stabbed to death at house party\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Assange was clean shaven and wore his white hair combed back as he appeared in the dock\n\nA judge in London has rejected Julian Assange's attempt to delay his US extradition case.\n\nThe United States wants to try the Wikileaks co-founder over allegations of leaking government secrets.\n\nHis lawyers had asked for more time \"to gather evidence\" but District Judge Vanessa Baraitser refused and said a full hearing will begin in February.\n\nAssange, 48, mumbled and paused as he gave his own name and date of birth in court.\n\nAsked by the judge for his personal details, frail-looking Assange stuttered - apparently finding it hard to remember when he was born, according to the BBC's Richard Galpin in court.\n\nWhen his case at Westminster Magistrates' Court was adjourned, the Australian complained that he had not understood proceedings, and said: \"This is not equitable.\"\n\nAssange added: \"I can't research anything, I can't access any of my writing. It's very difficult where I am.\"\n\nHe told the judge he is up against a \"superpower\" with \"unlimited resources\" and that he \"can't think properly\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAssange was jailed for 50 weeks in May for breaching his bail conditions after going into hiding in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for nearly seven years in order to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex offence allegations - which he has denied.\n\nHe was due to be released from Belmarsh prison in London last month, but a judge remanded him in custody because there were \"substantial grounds\" for believing he would abscond.\n\nIn court on Monday, Assange went on to complain about conditions in the high-security prison where he is being held in a medical ward.\n\nAsking for a three-month delay to proceedings, Assange's barrister, Mark Summers QC, told the court there was a \"direct link\" between the \"reinvigoration\" of the investigation and US President Donald Trump's administration.\n\n\"Our case will be that this is a political attempt to signal to journalists the consequences of publishing information,\" he said. \"It is legally unprecedented.\"\n\nMr Summers also claimed the US was involved in invading his client's legal privilege.\n\n\"The American state has been actively engaged in intruding into privileged discussions between Mr Assange and his lawyers in the embassy, also unlawful copying of their telephones and computers (and) hooded men breaking into offices,\" he said.\n\nHowever, District Judge Baraitser refused the request to delay the extradition hearing.\n\nShe said Assange's next case management hearing will take place on 19 December before the full extradition hearing begins next year.\n\nOn Twitter, Assange's mother Christine offered her \"deepest gratitude\" to the dozens of protesters who appeared outside the courthouse.\n\nEx-CIA contractor turned whistle-blower Edward Snowden also quoted comments made by Assange's legal team, saying the judge had dismissed their request for more time \"despite new evidence\".\n\nFormer Mayor of London Ken Livingstone and journalist John Pilger were among Assange's supporters in the public gallery.\n\nLast week, Assange's legal team said the extradition case was an \"outrageous assault on journalism\".", "Boris Johnson has been accused of trying to \"frustrate\" the law that required him to seek a Brexit extension if a deal had not been agreed.\n\nThe prime minister has sent an unsigned letter to Brussels asking for a delay, along with a second letter saying he believed any delay was a mistake.\n\nLeading SNP MP Joanna Cherry said the second letter, which was signed, may be a violation of the so-called Benn Act.\n\nScotland highest court is due to meet on Monday to consider the matter.\n\nMs Cherry told the BBC the fact that Mr Johnson had been forced to send an extension request was a victory for campaigners seeking to rule out a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut she pointed out that at the Court of Session earlier this month, the government gave an undertaking not to frustrate the act.\n\nThe court had been asked to sign a letter on the prime minister's behalf if he failed to do so, but delayed giving a ruling until Monday to allow the political debate to play out.\n\nMs Cherry added: \"As a matter of law it is arguable that the prime minister's signed letter seeks to frustrate what the Benn Act sets out to do. The principle of frustration is well recognised in law.\n\n\"When we were in court in Edinburgh the prime minster gave promises that not only would he obey the Benn Act but that he wouldn't seek to frustrate it. Now arguably that is what he has done.\"\n\nJoanna Cherry has played a leading role in legal challenges to the government over Brexit\n\nScottish Conservative MP Luke Graham said he was \"cautiously optimistic\" that Boris Johnson's deal would be passed in the Commons next week and he insisted the prime minister had complied with the law.\n\nHe told Sunday Politics Scotland: \"The prime minister has written his letter in accordance with the law and now we are focusing on getting a deal.\"\n\nHe added: \"We want to try to get a deal and we've got one on the table. It's time for MPs across the House of Commons to come together to vote for that deal so we can move forward.\"\n\nLabour has said it plans to amend the deal when the legislation is brought to Parliament, for example by demanding a UK-wide customs union with the EU and single market alignment.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer also said Labour would support an amendment requiring the deal to be put to another referendum.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said the priority should be to seek a Brexit extension and, once that was secured, his party would press for a no-confidence vote.\n\n\"Once we have got that position of safety, once the extension is in place, I would call on all opposition parties to come together. The SNP is prepared to accept its responsibility,\" he said.", "The alarm was raised at Birkenhill Woods at about 09:00 on Monday\n\nAn 83-year-old man has died and two other pensioners have been injured after they were attacked at woods in New Elgin in Moray.\n\nPolice Scotland said the group was seriously assaulted at Birkenhill Woods at about 09:00 on Monday.\n\nThey were taken to Dr Gray's Hospital but the eldest victim later died. A man and woman, both 70, suffered serious, but not life-threatening, injuries.\n\nA 35-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident.\n\nDet Insp Brian Geddes, of Police Scotland's major investigation team, said: \"First and foremost, I'm sure I speak on behalf of everyone within North East Division when I say my thoughts are with the family and friends of all those affected by this tragic incident.\n\n\"I know the circumstances will understandably cause concern within the local community, particularly because incidents of this nature are so incredibly rare.\"\n\nAdditional patrols are being carried out in the area while the investigation continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook has set out extra measures for fighting the spread of disinformation at the next UK election.\n\nThese include extending its partnership with fact checker Full Fact and improving the ad library in which political ads are archived.\n\nIn addition, it announced separate plans for the 2020 US Presidential vote, including a way to track how much each candidate spends on Facebook ads.\n\nIt also confirmed it continues to be a target for foreign influence campaigns.\n\nThe company's cyber-security chief said his team had just removed four distinct networks of accounts, pages and groups from Facebook and Instagram earlier in the day.\n\n\"Three of them originated in Iran, and one in Russia - they targeted a number of different regions including the United States, North Africa and Latin America,\" said Nathaniel Gleicher.\n\n\"The Russian operation showed some links to the [St Petersburg-based] Internet Research Agency and had the hallmarks of a well resourced operation.\n\n\"They took consistent operational security steps to conceal their identity and location, and it appears that this operation was still in the early stages, and was focused on trying to build its audience when we took it down.\"\n\nRichard Allan, Facebook's vice president of policy solutions, detailed its plans for an expected UK election in an article for the Daily Telegraph.\n\nHe said it would also set up \"a dedicated operations centre\" for the UK if an election is declared.\n\nThe centre's job would be to quickly remove content which breaks Facebook rules, said\n\nHowever, he reiterated that it would not be Facebook's job to \"fact check or judge the veracity of what politicians say\".\n\nAll political ads, including ads in the UK on social issues such as immigration, health and the environment, will be subject to verification of the identification of the poster, and stored in the firm's political archive, searchable by anyone, whether or not they are a member of Facebook.\n\nThe library, designed to make political ads more transparent and trackable, has faced criticism for being difficult to use because of bugs and crashes.\n\nIn July 2019 the New York Times covered the case of a researcher from Mozilla who reported a bug which crashed the library after 59 pages of results.\n\nFacebook replied that the issue was \"unfortunately a won't fix for now\" although it later said it had resolved the problem\n\nMr Allan also pledged to offer all political candidates a dedicated channel for reporting harassment.\n\nFull Fact was co-founded by Conservative party donor Michael Samuel in 2010, and it operates as a charity.\n\nIn September it identified that a Conservative party advert had featured a BBC article with an altered headline.\n\nFacebook later removed the ad. Full Fact said that various versions of the headline would have received up to 510,000 impressions, although that could have included multiple viewings by one person.\n\n\"Images and videos on Facebook which [Fact Check] assess to be untrue will now be more clearly labelled as false, and we'll continue pointing people to reports which debunk the myth,\" said Mr Allan.\n\n\"Our algorithm also heavily demotes this content so it's seen by fewer people and far less likely to go viral.\"\n\nMr Allan stopped short of saying that the extra measures would be sufficient to prevent election interference in the next UK election.\n\n\"While we can never say for sure that there won't be issues in future elections, we are confident that we're better prepared than ever,\" he said.", "Campaigners on both sides of the emotive debate were at Stormont on Monday\n\nAbortion has been decriminalised and same-sex marriage is to be legalised in Northern Ireland.\n\nLegislation making the changes - which was passed by MPs at Westminster - came into force at midnight.\n\nThe first same-sex weddings in Northern Ireland are set to take place in February 2020.\n\nThe government has until the end of March to come up with regulations for the provision of abortion services.\n\nThe legislation took effect after the 21 October deadline passed without a devolved government being re-formed.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) - and some politicians from other unionist parties - triggered a recall of the Northern Ireland Assembly in an attempt to block the lifting of a near-ban on terminations.\n\nThe assembly at Stormont had not sat for more than 1,000 days after devolved government collapsed when power-sharing coalition partners the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row.\n\nBut the move failed because a new speaker could not be elected on a cross-community basis.\n\nAbortion law in Northern Ireland had been more restrictive than in England, Scotland and Wales\n\nSinn Féin, Alliance, the Green Party and People Before Profit did not attend the Stormont sitting, which Sinn Féin described as a \"cynical political stunt\".\n\nBefore now, abortion was only allowed in Northern Ireland if a woman's life was at risk or there was a danger of permanent and serious damage to her physical or mental health.\n\nSection 58 and Section 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 - which made abortion a criminal offence - have been repealed.\n\nThe Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019 has also placed a duty on the government to implement the recommendations of a report by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), published in 2018.\n\nThe CEDAW report said abortion should be legalised where there is a threat to a pregnant woman's mental or physical health, without the conditionality of \"long-term or permanent\" effects.\n\nIt recommended terminations should be permitted in cases of rape or incest.\n\nCharges can no longer be brought against those who have an abortion or against health workers who provide terminations\n\nThe committee also said abortions should be allowed where there is \"severe fetal impairment\", but that provision should not \"perpetuate stereotypes\" towards disabled people.\n\nIt added that social and financial support should be ensured for women who decided to carry such pregnancies to term.\n\nA further series of recommendations included providing access to \"high quality abortion and post-abortion care in all public health facilities\", and making \"age-appropriate, comprehensive and scientifically accurate education\" on \"sexual and reproductive health and rights\" a compulsory part of the curriculum.\n\nThe government in London will decide on more detailed measures to fulfil the requirements of the legislation.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith is mandated to put in place regulations by 31 March 2020.\n\nThe government has issued guidance to medical professionals which covers the period from now until that date.\n\nSame-sex marriages have been allowed in England, Scotland and Wales since 2014, but Stormont did not legalise them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News NI looks at the history of Northern Ireland's same-sex marriage debate\n\nThe last of five votes on the issue in the devolved assembly - in November 2015 - resulted in a numerical majority in favour of same-sex marriage for the first time.\n\nBut the DUP blocked a change in the law by using a veto known as the Petition of Concern.\n\nThe new legislation says the Westminster government must bring in regulations to provide for same-sex marriage by 13 January 2020.\n\nBecause couples have to indicate their intention to marry 28 days before doing so - the first gay weddings are expected to be held in the week of Valentine's Day.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Catholic bishops said Monday was a tragic day for unborn children and a sad day for local democracy.\n\nThey say they are also concerned at the redefinition of marriage and appealed to the political parties to re-double their efforts to restore the power-sharing executive.\n\nThe new legislation has also had an impact on payments for those affected by the Troubles.\n\nThe government is to bring in a payment scheme for those people injured during Northern Ireland's Troubles through no fault of their own.\n\n\"As the Northern Ireland Executive was not restored by 21 October 2019, the UK government will introduce a victims payments scheme by the end of May 2020,\" a government spokesperson said.\n\n\"We will consult widely on the details of a proposal in the coming weeks.\"", "The European Union (EU) has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay until 31 January 2020, with an option to leave sooner if a deal is approved by Parliament.\n\nDelaying the UK's exit date requires an extension to Article 50, the part of the Lisbon Treaty that sets out what happens when a country decides it wants to leave the EU.\n\nArticle 50 allows an initial two-year period for negotiations on the terms of exiting.\n\nIt was triggered by then Prime Minister Theresa May on 29 March 2017, giving an exit date of 29 March 2019. But this date was extended twice, first to 12 April and then until 31 October, after Mrs May's deal was rejected in successive votes in the House of Commons.\n\nNow it is being extended for a third time - so how does this process work?\n\nThe UK cannot make a decision about extending Article 50 on its own - it has to send a request to the 27 other EU countries.\n\nAll 27 have to agree in order to secure an extension.\n\nOn Saturday 19 October, Mr Johnson sent a letter, as he was compelled to by a law known as the Benn Act. The law stated he must send an extension request should he fail to get a Brexit deal through the House of Commons by the end of 19 October.\n\nMr Johnson also sent a second letter saying he believed that a \"further extension would damage the interests of the UK and our EU partners\".\n\nNevertheless, on 28 October the EU agreed to the extension proposed in his first letter.\n\nThe EU was not obliged to say yes.\n\nOnce it received the UK's delay request, in the form of a letter, the 27 leaders consulted with each other on their decision. It was then made following a meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels.\n\nIf EU leaders had decided to offer a longer extension they would have been likely to have met in person to set conditions of the extension.\n\nIt's worth pointing out that Article 50 can also be revoked - effectively cancelling Brexit.\n\nThe UK can in theory do that without consulting anyone else. That would mean that Brexit would not happen and the UK would remain in the EU on the same terms it has now.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are the only party to say that would they would revoke Article 50 without a referendum if they won a majority in a general election.\n\nThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a revocation should be \"unequivocal and unconditional\", suggesting that the ECJ would take a dim view of any attempt to withdraw an Article 50 notification and then resubmit it again a short time later.", "The government's Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB), which will take the UK out of the EU on 31 January, has passed all its stages in Parliament and been given Royal Assent.\n\nThe WAB turns Boris Johnson's withdrawal agreement, which is a draft international treaty, into UK law and gives the government permission to ratify it.\n\nNo new clauses or amendments were passed by MPs, who also rejected changes made in the House of Lords.\n\nWhat does the WAB actually cover? Among other things:\n\nA number of clauses in the previous version of the bill have been removed. They include:\n\nBetween 2016 and 2018, 426 unaccompanied children came to the UK in this way.\n\nAfter the WAB becomes law, the withdrawal agreement also needs to be ratified by the European Parliament.\n\nThen the stage will be set for Brexit on 31 January, when the post-Brexit transition period will begin.\n\nFor 11 months, the UK will still follow all the EU's rules and regulations, it will remain in the single market and the customs union, and the free movement of people will continue.\n\nThe challenge for the government will be to get all its new rules and policies in place by the end of this year.\n\nThis article was originally published on 21 October and has been updated to reflect changes to the Withdrawal Agreement Bill and its passage towards becoming law.", "Chile is one of South America's most stable and prosperous nations. It has been relatively free of the coups and arbitrary governments that have blighted the continent.\n\nThe exception was the 17-year rule of General Augusto Pinochet, whose 1973 coup was one of the bloodiest in 20th-Century Latin America and whose dictatorship left more than 3,000 people dead and missing.\n\nChile's unusual, ribbon-like shape - 4,300km long and on average 175km wide - has given it a hugely varied climate.\n\nThis ranges from the world's driest desert - the Atacama - in the north, through a Mediterranean climate in the centre, to a snow-prone Alpine climate in the south, with glaciers, fjords and lakes.\n\nLeftist candidate Gabriel Boric won the presidential election in December 2021, defeating his right-wing rival José Antonio Kast to become the country's youngest head of state.\n\nThe former student protest leader has promised curbs on the market economy, after mass protests against inequality and corruption.\n\nChile's national and local terrestrial TV channels operate alongside extensive cable TV networks, which carry many US and international stations.\n\nRadio is an important source of news; there are hundreds of stations, most of them commercial.\n\nTroops fire on the presidential palace during the 1973 coup in which President Allende died\n\n1810 - Junta in Santiago proclaims autonomy for Chile following the overthrow of the king of Spain by Napoleon.\n\n1817 - Spanish defeated by Army of the Andes led by Jose de San Martin and Bernardo O'Higgins at the battles of Chacabuco and Maipu.\n\n1818 - Chile becomes independent with O'Higgins as supreme leader.\n\n1823-30 - O'Higgins forced to resign; civil war between liberal federalists and conservative centralists ends with conservative victory.\n\n1851-61 - President Manuel Montt liberalises constitution and reduces privileges of landowners and church.\n\n1879-84 - Chile increases its territory by one third after it defeats Peru and Bolivia in the War of the Pacific.\n\nLate 19th Century - Pacification of Araucanians paves way for European immigration; large-scale mining of nitrate and copper begins.\n\n1891 - Civil war between president and congress ends in congressional victory, with president reduced to figurehead.\n\n1925 - New constitution increases presidential powers and separates church and state.\n\n1938-46 - Communists, Socialists and Radicals form Popular Front coalition and introduce economic policies based on US New Deal.\n\n1970 - Salvador Allende becomes world's first democratically elected Marxist president and embarks on an extensive programme of nationalisation and radical social reform.\n\n1973 - Chief of Staff General Augusto Pinochet ousts Allende in coup and proceeds to establish a brutal dictatorship.\n\n1988 - Gen Pinochet loses a referendum on whether he should remain in power.\n\n1989-90 - Christian Democrat Patricio Aylwin wins presidential election; Gen Pinochet steps down in 1990 as head of state but remains army head.\n\n1994-95 - Eduardo Frei succeeds Aylwin as president and begins to reduce the military's influence.\n\n1998 - Gen Pinochet retires from the army and is made life senator. He is arrested in the UK at the request of Spain on murder charges.\n\n2000 - UK Home Secretary Jack Straw decides Gen Pinochet is not fit to be extradited. Pinochet returns to Chile.\n\n2000 onwards - Chilean courts strip Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution several times but attempts to make him stand trial for alleged human rights offences fail, with judges usually citing concerns over the general's health.\n\n2005 - Senate approves changes to the Pinochet-era constitution, including one which restores the president's right to dismiss military commanders.\n\n2006 - Michelle Bachelet becomes Chile's first woman president. Chile and China sign a free-trade deal, Beijing's first in South America. Pinochet dies.\n\n2008 - Peru files a lawsuit at the International Court of Justice in a bid to settle a long-standing dispute over maritime territory with Chile.\n\n2010 - Hundreds die as an 8.8 magnitude quake strikes central Chile, the biggest to hit the country in 50 years.\n\n2013 - Bolivia files a lawsuit against Chile at the International Court of Justice in The Hague to reclaim access to the Pacific it lost in the 19th Century War of the Pacific. Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru agree to scrap most tariffs on trade between them.\n\n2020 - Chileans decide to rewrite the Pinochet-era constitution in a referendum.\n\nFormer dictator General Augusto Pinochet was put under house arrest in Britain, where the government later overruled a decision to extradite him to Spain\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Higher air pollution in the UK trigger hundreds more heart attacks, strokes and acute asthma attacks each year, research suggests.\n\nA team at King's College London looked at data from London, Birmingham, Bristol, Derby, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford and Southampton.\n\nThey calculated days with above average pollution levels would see an extra 124 cardiac arrests over the year.\n\nNHS England boss Simon Stevens said it was evidence of \"a health emergency\".\n\nThe figure is based on ambulance call data and does not count heart attacks suffered by patients already in hospital.\n\nIt points to significant short-term health risks caused by air pollution, on top of contributing to almost 500,000 premature deaths in Europe every year.\n\nOn days with high pollution levels, across the nine cities in total, they calculated that there would be a total of 231 additional hospital admissions for stroke, with an extra 193 children and adults taken to hospital for asthma treatment.\n\nDr Heather Walton, of King's College London's Environmental Research Group, said air pollution reduction policies concentrated in the main on effects connected to life expectancy.\n\n\"However, health studies show clear links with a much wider range of health effects,\" she added.\n\nThe research suggests the problem is most acute in London\n\nIn London, high-pollution days would see an extra 87 cardiac arrests per year, an extra 144 strokes, and 74 children and 33 adults ending up in hospital with asthma-related issues.\n\nIn Birmingham the figure would be 12 more out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, 27 additional admissions for stroke and 26 more for asthma.\n\nBristol, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford and Southampton would see between two and six more out-of-hospital heart attacks and up to 14 extra hospital admissions for both stroke and asthma.\n\nOnly in Derby would there be no apparent increase.\n\nAmong the long-term risks associated with high pollution levels are stunted lung growth and low birth weight.\n\nThe King's College research also suggests cutting air pollution by a fifth would decrease incidents of lung cancer by between 5% and 7% across the nine cities surveyed.\n\nMr Stevens said: \"It's clear that the climate emergency is in fact also a health emergency.\n\n\"Since these avoidable deaths are happening now - not in 2025 or 2050 - together we need to act now.\"\n\nThe figures were published ahead of Wednesday's International Clean Air Summit hosted by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and the UK100 network of local government leaders.\n\nUK100 director Polly Billington said: \"Local government needs additional powers and resources to address this public health crisis.\"\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said it was \"taking urgent action to improve air quality and tackle pollution\" and that new legislation will \"increase local powers to address key sources of air pollution\".\n\n\"We are already working hard to reduce transport emissions and are investing £3.5 billion to clean up our air.\"\n\nResearchers sometimes struggle to make their statistics human.\n\nThis team worries that \"life years lost\" are too abstract.\n\nSo they have looked at things that might hit closer to home like heart attacks or asthma attacks that hospitalise children.\n\nUsing already published studies, they have worked out how many more of these events to expect on days with above-average pollution.\n\nThe numbers might not knock your socks off: in London, for every 100 cardiac arrest ambulance callouts on low-pollution days, they would expect to see 102 on high-pollution days.\n\nBut the numbers add up and reinforce the case for further reductions in air pollution.", "The boys were stabbed at a house party in Archford Croft in Milton Keynes\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering two teenagers who were stabbed to death at a house party.\n\nThe boys, named locally as Dom Ansah and Ben Gillham-Rice, were attacked at the house in Milton Keynes at about midnight on Saturday.\n\nThames Valley Police said the pair were stabbed as part of a \"targeted attack\".\n\nA 21-year-old man, from Milton Keynes, has been arrested on suspicion of two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder.\n\nOne of the boys died at the scene and the other in hospital.\n\nAnother 17-year-old boy and a 23-year-old man were also hurt and were taken to hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries. One has since been discharged.\n\nThames Valley Police said there was an \"increased presence\" in the area\n\nThames Valley Police previously said those responsible \"arrived at the party at the house in Archford Croft uninvited, wore face coverings and were armed with knives\".\n\nDet Ch Supt Ian Hunter described the attack as a \"dreadful incident\".\n\n\"We know that the party was a private birthday party, and although we believe that all of those involved were known to each other, we believe that those responsible arrived at the party uninvited, wore face coverings and they were armed with knives in what appears to be a targeted attack,\" he said.\n\nDet Ch Supt Hunter said the victims' families were being supported by specially trained officers and post-mortem examinations are due to take place on Tuesday.\n\nForensic searches were still taking place on Monday\n\nOfficers are expected to remain at the scene, which is in a cul-de-sac on a housing estate in the Emerson Valley area, for several days.\n\nStains of what appeared to be blood could be seen on the front door of a house inside the police cordon.\n\nTwo of Dom Ansah's cousins laid flowers at the cordon on Sunday afternoon.\n\n\"He was just so respectful to like his family and friends. Many, many people's hearts are broken,\" said one, who did not give her name.\n\nFamily members visited the scene on Sunday to leave flowers\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Comedian Katherine Ryan has described how her boyfriend fought off an intruder at her home to save a laptop containing the scripts to her new show.\n\nIn an Instagram Story, the Canadian showed police at her London home and wrote: \"Cool to be robbed tonight by a masked man in our home.\"\n\nThe 36-year-old appealed for help in tracing a ring that was stolen.\n\nRyan is known for stand-up and panel shows but has written a Netflix sitcom, The Duchess, about a single mother.\n\nShe previously told Radio Times that writing the series \"was a challenge because I'm not a screenwriter who's experienced, I don't know the rules\".\n\nAnd in an Instagram clip posted at the weekend, she pointed out blood on the laptop and told followers: \"This is why I love Bobby K [Kootstra]. He got in a fight and wrestled back my Netflix series, all my scripts.\"\n\nKootstra was the childhood sweetheart with whom Ryan was reportedly reunited after two decades during a chance meeting while filming for BBC series Who Do You Think You Are? in her hometown of Sarnia, west of Toronto.\n\nShe has been living in London for more than a decade and has a young daughter she regularly mentions in her comedy routines.\n\nIn another post after the burglary, Ryan suggested she was finding it hard to sleep.\n\n\"That's fine, I never liked sleeping anyway,\" 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 Katherine 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\nShe joked she would get a German shepherd after her small dogs were \"asleep at the wheel\" during the incident.\n\nRyan is a regular performer on Netflix, having filmed stand-up specials In Trouble and Glitter Room and appeared alongside Jimmy Carr in The Fix.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Katharine Ryan explains how she fell into comedy after working in Hooters\n\nShe also teamed up with Carr for a reboot of Your Face or Mine? on Comedy Central.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @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. From flag waving and calls for revolution, watch how anti-government protests have unfolded in Lebanon\n\nLebanon's government has approved a package of economic reforms as it attempts to quell the biggest protests to sweep the country in over a decade.\n\nMeasures include steps to cut Lebanon's huge deficit, slashing politicians' salaries by half and giving financial help to families in poverty.\n\nIn a televised address, PM Saad Hariri said the protesters had been heard.\n\nIt comes as demonstrators took part in a fifth day of protests and widespread strikes.\n\nHundreds of thousands of Lebanese have taken to the streets, angry at corruption and austerity measures.\n\nThe Lebanese economy is struggling with low growth and high debt, and a deteriorating infrastructure has made power cuts and piles of uncollected rubbish part of daily life.\n\nThe Lebanese cabinet passed the raft of measures at an emergency meeting on Monday. Mr Hariri had hinted at resigning if the package was not approved.\n\nThe prime minister appeared on television immediately afterwards, acknowledging protesters' grievances.\n\n\"These decisions are not designed as a trade-off,\" he said, \"They are not to ask you to stop expressing your anger. That is your decision to make.\"\n\n\"Your movement is what led to these decisions that you see today,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, protesters blocked main roads in central Beirut and held fresh demonstrations. Many schools, banks and universities were closed.\n\nPeople blocked main roads in Beirut ahead of the cabinet meeting\n\n\" Lebanon is getting ruined more and more, day after day because of all the politicians,\" Sara, a 17-year-old protester, told the BBC.\n\n\"That's why the Lebanese are standing hand in hand against the corruption and against the bad economical state. This revolution is the key to a better Lebanon.\"\n\nThe demonstrations began on Thursday, when a proposed $6 (£4.60) monthly tax on WhatsApp voice calls was announced.\n\nThe tax was scrapped, but the unrest escalated and demonstrators turned their focus to wider grievances with the government, including widespread corruption, economic mismanagement and poor public services.\n\nOn Sunday, hundreds of thousands people gathered in in the capital and other cities for the biggest demonstrations seen in Lebanon since 2005.\n\nLebanon's economic situation has worsened in recent weeks, with the local currency losing value against the US dollar for the first time in two decades.\n\nTens of thousands of people gathered in downtown Beirut on Sunday\n\nThe Lebanese pound has been pegged at 1,500 to the dollar since 1997, but a shortage of dollars at local banks has led to the black market exchange rate rising to about 1,650.\n\nLebanon has one of the world's highest levels of public debt. At $86bn, it is equivalent to more than 150% of gross domestic product (GDP).\n\nBefore Monday's protests people helped clear up rubbish left on the streets\n\nThe country's economy has also stagnated. Real GDP growth was only 0.2% in 2018 and is estimated to be -0.2% in 2019, according to the World Bank.\n\nLast year, international donors pledged $11bn of aid and loans to boost Lebanon's economy. In return, the government committed to implement reforms that would help reduce its debt.\n\nLebanon's public infrastructure, which was already stretched before more than one million refugees arrived from neighbouring Syria, is also ailing. Electricity and water supplies are disrupted frequently and rubbish often piles up on the streets.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nObservers say one of the striking features of the protests has been how demonstrators have remained above the sectarian divides that have caused so much conflict in the past.\n\nLebanon has long had a political system designed to balance power between the country's main religious groups.", "Billboards telling the public to prepare for Britain's exit from the EU will launch soon\n\nThe government has changed the wording of its Get Ready for Brexit campaign appearing to suggest a no-deal exit on the 31 October is now less likely.\n\nIts website now says: \"We could still leave with no deal on 31 October.\"\n\nThe wording has been altered from earlier this month, when it said: \"The UK is due to leave on 31 October.\"\n\nThe tweak comes after MPs backed a move to delay approval of the deal. The government has insisted it will still meet the 31 October deadline.\n\nIt has vowed to press ahead with the legislation - the Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB) - to implement the Brexit deal next week.\n\nBut the BBC economic's editor Faisal Islam tweeted that the wording on the government's \"Get Ready for Brexit\" website had been \"markedly toned down\" with \"less emphasis on the 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 by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nProminent logos on the website saying \"Brexit 31 October\" also appear to have been removed.\n\nFaisal said the wording also indicated preparation for 31 October was for the possibility of \"no deal\" rather than Brexit generally.\n\nThe campaign, aimed at preparing businesses and the public for leaving the European Union, has previously been criticised by members of the public arguing the ads are inaccurate for implying the UK will definitely leave on that date.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said last month it would not investigate the ads, saying the 31 October departure date was the \"date that has been declared by the government\".\n\n\"This therefore currently remains the default date that the public will consider as the official 'leave' date for the UK, as agreed with the EU, last autumn,\" the ASA said in September.\n\nCabinet minister Michael Gove, who is in charge of no-deal Brexit planning, told Sky News's Sophy Ridge on Sunday the government now planned to step up preparations for a no-deal Brexit, including triggering its \"Operation Yellowhammer\" contingency plans.\n\n\"The risk of leaving without a deal has actually increased because we cannot guarantee that the European Council will grant an extension,\" he said.\n\nThe information campaign urging the public and businesses to \"get ready for Brexit\" was launched in early September.\n\nThe campaign is reported to have cost the government £100m and has run on billboards as well as in social media adverts and on TV.", "Boris Johnson has sent an unsigned request to the EU for a delay to Brexit - followed by a signed one arguing against it.\n\nThe PM sent three letters in all - an unsigned photocopy of the request as outlined by the Benn Act; an explanatory note from the UK's ambassador to the EU; and a personal, signed, letter saying why he does not want a delay.\n\nThe UK Parliament has passed the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019. Its provisions now require Her Majesty's Government to seek an extension of the period provided under Article 50(3) of the Treaty on European Union, including as applied by Article 106a of the Euratom Treaty, currently due to expire at 11 p.m. GMT on 31 October 2019, until 11 p.m. GMT on 31 January 2020.\n\nI am writing therefore to inform the European Council that the United Kingdom is seeking a further extension to the period provided under Article 50(3) of the Treaty on European Union, including as applied by Article 106a of the Euratom Treaty. The United Kingdom proposes that this period should end at 11 p.m. GMT on 31 January 2020. If the parties are able to ratify before this date, the Government proposes that the period should be terminated early.\n\nPrime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland\n\nAs the United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the European Union, I invite your attention to the following matter.\n\nAttached is a letter sent as required by the terms of the European Union (Withdrawal) (No.2) Act 2019.\n\nIn terms of the next steps for parliamentary process, Her Majesty's Government will introduce the necessary legislation next week in order to proceed with ratification of the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nI would be grateful for your acknowledgement of receipt of this letter.\n\nIt was good to see you again at the European Council this week where we agreed the historic new deal to permit the orderly withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on October 31.\n\nI am deeply grateful to you, President Juncker and to all my fellow European leaders for the statesmanship and statecraft which enabled us to achieve this historic milestone. I should also register my appreciation for Michel Barnier and his team for their imagination and diplomacy as we concluded the negotiations.\n\nWhen I spoke in Parliament this morning, I noted the corrosive impact of the long delay in delivering the mandate of the British people from the 2016 referendum. I made clear that, while I believe passionately that both the UK and the EU will benefit from our decision to withdraw and develop a new relationship, that relationship will be founded on our deep respect and affection for our shared culture, civilisation, values and interests.\n\nWe will remain the EU's closest partner and friend. The deal we approved at last week's European Council is a good deal for the whole of the UK and the whole of the EU.\n\nRegrettably, Parliament missed the opportunity to inject momentum into the ratification process for the new Withdrawal Agreement. The UK Parliament Representative will therefore submit the request mandated by the EU (Withdrawal) (No.2) Act 2019 later today.\n\nIt is, of course, for the European Council to decide when to consider the request and whether to grant it. In view of the unique circumstances, while I regret causing my fellow leaders to devote more of their time and energy to a question I had hoped we had resolved last week, I recognise that you may need to convene a European Council.\n\nIf it would be helpful to you, I would of course be happy to attend the start of any A50 Council so that I could answer properly any question on the position of HM Government and progress in the ratification process at that time.\n\nMeanwhile, although I would have preferred a different result today, the Government will press ahead with ratification and introduce the necessary legislation early next week. I remain confident that we will complete that process by 31 October.\n\nIndeed, many of those who voted against the Government today have indicated their support for the new deal and for ratifying it without delay. I know that I can count on your support and that of our fellow leaders to move the deal forward, and I very much hope therefore that on the EU side also, the process can be completed to allow the agreement to enter into force, as the European Council Conclusions mandated.\n\nWhile it is open to the European Council to accede to the request mandated by Parliament or to offer an alternative extension period, I have made clear since becoming Prime Minister, and made clear to Parliament again today, my view, and the Government's position, that a further extension would damage the interests of the UK and our EU partners, and the relationship between us.\n\nWe must bring this process to a conclusion so that we can move to the next phase and build our new relationship on the foundations of our long history as neighbours and friends in this continent our peoples share. I am passionately committed to that endeavour.\n\nI am copying this letter to Presidents Juncker and Sassoli, and to members of the European Council.", "Europe's papers see ongoing Brexit turmoil in the UK\n\nEuropean newspapers have been taking stock of Saturday's drama at Westminster and Boris Johnson's appeal to Brussels to block an extension to the Brexit deadline.\n\n\"The fight over Brexit will continue for even longer\" declares Germany's Die Zeit.\n\nItaly's Corriere della Sera believes \"this unprecedented 'game of two letters' seriously embarrasses the EU: it will have to decide whether to give Britain an extension that parliament is asking for but the British government does not want\".\n\nNRC Handelsblad in the Netherlands says, \"Saturday cannot be viewed as a failure for Johnson. It is likely that the 306 members of parliament who voted against the Letwin act will also support him next week.\" Dutch De Volkskrant agrees: \"It is understandable that there were cheers from the opposition benches and the thousands of anti-Brexit protesters in Parliament Square. But this could prove to be a pyrrhic victory.\"\n\nIn France, Le Figaro says: \"It should have been a day of clarification; it has been a moment of additional confusion. British MPs have added an incredible episode to the already lengthy Brexit series - by deciding not to decide anything.\"\n\nFrench liberal weekly Le Point notes: \"And so, Boris Johnson is back at square one. We should soon know if his future at the head of the country is guaranteed until the general elections, for which he is the favourite, or whether he will have contented himself with running around in circles. Until then, the Brexit series continues.\"\n\nSpain's El Mundo sees yesterday's amendment vote as a \"blow of enormous scale\" to Mr Johnson, and \"another unpredictable scenario of this labyrinth\". An editorial in the paper says \"while parliament was trying to win time and narrow down the result of hard Brexit, over a million of protesters demanded another referendum at its doorstep. Political chaos and social discontent - the effects of populism.\"\n\n\"House of Commons forces Johnson and EU into Brexit overtime\" declares the headline in Austria's Der Standard. Noting the police escorts for MPs, it says \"The dark side of the Brexit debate appeared once again: polarisation and hatred for the opposite side\".\n\nMeanwhile, an analysis on Germany's centre-left news website Spiegel Online notes: \"Just when you think it cannot get any crazier, the British parliament adds another thing: yet again, it has outmanoeuvred its own government. With that, Brexit, which was almost within reach, is uncertain again.\"\n\n\"Only one thing can be said with certainty. It is far from being over,\" the article says.\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.", "Thirty wooden coffins of men women and children, thought to belong to the families of high priests, have been found in Luxor, Egypt.\n\nThe well-preserved burials are around 3,000 years old and will be shown in the Grand Egyptian Museum.", "Green parties' gains have given them significant influence in Swiss politics\n\nGreen parties made strong gains in Switzerland's parliamentary election, though the anti-immigration Swiss People's Party (SVP) came top.\n\nFinal results showed the Green Party (GPS) surging into fourth place, with 28 seats in the 200-seat lower house.\n\nThe Green Liberals (GLP) got 16 seats. The two green parties took more than 20% of the vote.\n\nTheir gains reflect voters' concerns over climate change, seen as the dominant issue in Sunday's election.\n\nThe Green Party overtook one of the parties in the coalition government, the Christian Democrats (CVP), and could for the first time get a seat in the coalition that governs Switzerland.\n\n\"It is not a green wave, it is a tsunami, a hurricane,\" deputy party leader Celina Vara told Swiss radio.\n\nThe SVP won, getting 53 seats - but that is 12 fewer than it had in the outgoing National Council (lower house).\n\nThe centre-left Socialists came second, winning 39 seats (down by four), and the centre-right Liberals (FDP) came third, winning 29 seats.\n\nIf the two Green parties are able to overcome policy differences and unite, they would represent a potent political force.\n\nAs is usual in Switzerland, no single party secured a majority.\n\nFor decades, the seven-seat Federal Council has been dominated by the same four main parties: the SVP, the Social Democrats, the FDP liberals and the CVP, says the BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva.\n\nThe SVP has campaigned for over a decade on two key messages: restrictions on immigration and asylum seekers, and limiting non-EU member Switzerland's ties with Brussels.\n\nBut these issues were scarcely mentioned in the election campaign, and climate change dominated as the single most important issue.\n\nHow are Greens doing in Europe?\n• None 20.5% of German vote in May 2019 Euro elections\n\nAll year, climate strikes have been taking place in the country, culminating in a huge rally in Bern in September that drew 100,000 people.\n\nThe Swiss have only to look up to see the effects of climate change: the Alpine glaciers are melting, and rock and mud slides are threatening mountain communities, our correspondent says.\n\nClimate change could cause the biggest glacier in the Alps, the Aletsch in Switzerland, to vanish by the end of the century\n\nBut the election campaign was about more than just a rise in support for green parties.\n\nA record 40% of candidates for the National Council were women (as were more than a third of those standing for the second house, the chamber of states).\n\nIn June this year, hundreds of thousands of women across Switzerland took to the streets to call for equal pay and conditions, and an end to discrimination.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Socialist MP Flavia Wasserfallen told Imogen Foulkes in June why women were taking to the streets", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nTwo men have been arrested by police investigating reports of racist abuse during Saturday's FA Cup match between Haringey Borough and Yeovil Town.\n\nThe men - aged 23 and 26 - were arrested in Chard and Yeovil on Monday morning on suspicion of racially aggravated common assault.\n\nThey are both in custody at a police station in Somerset.\n\nSaturday's match was abandoned after Haringey's manager took his team off the field.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is leading the investigation with the assistance of colleagues from the Avon and Somerset force.\n\nOfficers are also investigating after items were reportedly thrown on to the playing area.\n\nThe match at Haringey's Coles Park Stadium was in the fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup, with the winner set to progress to the first round proper.\n\nHaringey goalkeeper Valery Douglas Pajetat was reportedly spat at and hit by an object thrown from the Yeovil Town end.\n\nThe home club's chairman described what happened as \"soul-destroying\".\n\n\"I am of the view that we had no choice. We could not carry on and play football,\" said Aki Achillea.\n\nThe alleged incident was one of several over the weekend, with Bristol City investigating the behaviour of some fans in the away section at their match at Luton Town.\n\nHearts have opened an investigation after claims that Rangers striker Alfredo Morelos was racially abused in Sunday's Scottish Premiership draw.\n\nAnd in Italy, Roma gave a lifetime ban to a supporter who racially abused Brazilian defender Juan Jesus on social media.\n\nEngland's Euro 2020 qualifier in Bulgaria last Monday was halted twice as fans were warned about racist behaviour, including Nazi salutes and monkey chanting.", "Ahmed worked for Channel 4 from 2000 to 2011\n\nBBC presenter Samira Ahmed is taking the BBC to an employment tribunal over alleged unequal pay.\n\nAccording to court listings, Ahmed's case is due to be heard over five days from next Monday.\n\nThe papers allege \"failure to provide equal pay for equal value work\" under the Equality Act 2010.\n\nAhmed presents Newswatch, which examines BBC editorial decisions, and the Radio 4 arts show Front Row. The BBC has declined to comment.\n\nAhmed began her career as a BBC News trainee in 1990 and has worked as a news correspondent and a reporter on BBC Radio 4's Today programme and BBC Two's Newsnight.\n\nShe covered the OJ Simpson case as the BBC's Los Angeles correspondent and was a presenter and reporter at Channel 4 News from 2000 to 2011.\n\nBBC News has asked Ahmed for a comment on the employment tribunal.\n\nThe 51-year-old is not the first woman to take issue at the corporation's pay structure. Carrie Gracie previously resigned from her role as China editor in a dispute over equal pay.\n\nCarrie Gracie resigned from her role as the BBC's China editor\n\nThe BBC then apologised for underpaying her and said it \"has now put this right\" by giving her back pay.\n\nShe donated the full, undisclosed amount to the Fawcett Society - a charity that campaigns for gender equality and women's rights.\n\nThe issue of gender pay inequality at the BBC came to a head in July 2017, when it was revealed its best-paid star, Radio 2 presenter Chris Evans, made between £2.2m and £2.25m in 2016/2017. During the same period its highest-paid female presenter, Claudia Winkleman, earned between £450,000 and £500,000.\n\nAbout two-thirds of stars earning more than £150,000 - and all of the top seven earners - were male, the annual report revealed.\n\nDirector general Tony Hall said there is \"more to do\" on gender and diversity and in September 2017 the BBC announced sweeping pay reviews.\n\nSix male BBC presenters, including Huw Edwards, Nicky Campbell and John Humphrys, agreed to pay cuts in January 2018, to help level the playing field.\n\nThe BBC's most recent annual review showed an improvement for women, with Winkleman, Zoe Ball and Vanessa Feltz now among the corporation's top earners.\n\nRights watchdog, The Equality and Human Rights Commission, is investigating the BBC over pay historical gender pay discrimination.\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.", "Cathy Murphy has worked at Asda for more than four decades.\n\nCathy Murphy has worked for Asda for the last 44 years and says it has been an \"absolutely amazing employer\".\n\nHowever, recently the supermarket chain told Ms Murphy she will be fired unless she signs up to a new contract that will strip her of her long-service benefits, paid tea breaks and Bank Holidays off.\n\nShe is one of thousands of employees who have been told to sign the new contract before 2 November or leave the business. But Ms Murphy describes it as \"just not fair\".\n\nThe GMB union says up to 12,000 workers face a choice between signing the new contracts - which increase wages to £9 an hour but scrap many other perks - or being sacked in the run up to Christmas.\n\nBut Asda told the BBC: \"This contract is an investment of more than £80m and increases real pay for over 100,000 colleagues.\"\n\nDespite this, Ms Murphy worries for night shift staff who will have their pay cut, as well as people with caring responsibilities who may struggle with the new contracts.\n\nMs Murphy works in the fruit and vegetable section at Asda's Parkhead Forge store in Glasgow.\n\nAs a union representative, she has been aware of the contract changes since the spring. However, her colleagues at the store only found out through meetings with managers over the summer.\n\nWorkers were given a document, which said they would have private meetings - or one-to-ones (121s) - with management.\n\n\"As part of the 121 process we hope that you agree to move to the new contract,\" Asda said in the document. \"If you still don't want to sign up to the new contract at your final 121 we will issue you notice to terminate your employment.\"\n\nIt said staff who had not signed the new contract would \"leave the business\" at the end of their notice period.\n\nThen, earlier this month, Asda bosses handed out a leaflet with tips on getting a new job.\n\nIt suggested staff use their local job centre, get an email address and offered advice on CV writing. Ms Murphy called the leaflets \"condescending\".\n\nIt is not the first time that Asda has tried to move staff onto flexible contracts.\n\nIn 2017, the supermarket chain offered workers a salary increase in exchange for voluntarily switching to a new contract that introduced unpaid breaks and a requirement to work over Bank Holidays.\n\nBut over the summer, those changes were made compulsory.\n\nThe GMB union has written to the supermarket chain, which is owned by US retail giant Walmart, asking it to delay the introduction of the new contracts.\n\n\"On November 2nd, we understand up to 12,000 of your loyal Asda workers will be given the sack - just before Christmas,\" it said in a letter sent over the weekend. \"That can not be right.\"\n\nBut Asda says the vast majority of staff have signed up to the new contract.\n\n\"We have been clear that we don't want any of our colleagues to leave us,\" a spokesman said, explaining that the changes would help the chain \"adapt to the demands of the highly competitive retail industry\".\n\nMs Murphy thinks the chain will go through with its threat to fire the rest but she says it is unfair after giving more than four decades to the supermarket chain.\n\n\"I'm coming to the end of my working life,\" she says. \"And for this to happen [now], it's just not fair.", "The pound slipped against the dollar as currency markets got their first chance to react to MPs backing a move to delay approval of the Brexit deal.\n\nMany banks in London had called in extra staff, expecting volatile trading after the first Saturday sitting in the House of Commons for 37 years.\n\nBut the pound's reaction was muted, slipping 0.6% against the dollar to $1.29, and down 0.4% against the euro.\n\nOn Friday, the pound had been trading at its highest level for five months.\n\nJeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at Oanda, said the fall in the currency was limited because \"despite more twists and turns than any other soap opera in history, a hard Brexit is now highly unlikely\".\n\nJane Foley, senior foreign exchange strategist at Rabobank, told the BBC's Today programme: \"[Investors] are a little bit more anxious certainly than they were at the end of last week. There was a lot of confidence going in to Saturday's vote that there would be something a little bit more constructive.\n\n\"Instead, of course, we've got this delay, so the lower pound this morning reflects the delay. But sterling hasn't sold off very much. If we go back 10 to 12 days, we were trading at $1.22, so we are significantly higher and this is of course related to optimism that Boris Johnson's government may have the numbers to push this deal through. This could still be done in a very short period of time.\n\n\"But of course, if we look at the medium term, there is still plenty of scope for volatility, there is still plenty of risk.\"\n\nDeutsche Bank, like many other banks, had set up additional staff to come in on Sunday expecting a strong reaction to Saturday's vote.\n\nBut it scaled back numbers after the weekend's events - which saw Prime Minister Boris Johnson send an unsigned request to the EU for a further delay, accompanied by another letter - signed this time - clarifying that was not his own personal position.\n\nEvents serious enough to require extra staffing out of normal trading hours are relatively rare in currency trading, normally linked to a big infrequent event such as an election with an uncertain outcome, for example.\n\nBut Russell Lascala, global head of FX at Deutsche Bank, said that, since the Brexit referendum, there had been five or six such events.\n\n\"The uncertainty has been going on for years. The market is begging for clarity, to be able to invest or not invest.\"\n\nSir Ian Cheshire, chairman of Barclays' UK operations, told the BBC that the deal on offer was \"acceptable\".\n\n\"No deal is perfect, but this deal is actually doable and it is, I think, very frustrating to see what appears to be a protracted process when most business leaders would like to see some certainty and get on,\" he said.\n\n\"The chances of yet another round of negotiations are extremely unlikely to yield anything significantly different and now the delay is beginning to affect consumer confidence, particularly investment confidence, and I think we have to push ahead and make the best of what we've got coming down the track.\"\n\nCurrency analysts say they expect the next strong movement in the pound to be when the Brexit deal is voted on in Parliament.\n\nHowever, after Saturday's vote, many believe a no-deal Brexit is now less likely. US investment bank Goldman Sachs, which issues regular updates to its clients, now thinks there is a 5% chance of a no-deal Brexit, down from 10% previously.", "Protesters have clashed with security forces in Chile's capital Santiago as violent demonstrations continued for a third day across the country.\n\nAt least seven people have died in the unrest, sparked by a now suspended metro fare hike. Residents are now venting their discontent over the high cost of living and inequality in one of Latin America's most stable countries.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThree people have been killed by a fire inside a supermarket in Santiago during a second night of protests in Chile.\n\nTwo people died at the scene and another died in hospital after the store was looted, Santiago's regional governor, Karla Rubilar, said.\n\nPresident Piñera has suspended the rise in metro fares that sparked the protests, but unrest has continued.\n\nSoldiers and tanks were deployed after the government declared a state of emergency and imposed a night curfew.\n\nThe protests have broadened to reflect general discontent about the high cost of living in one of Latin America's most stable countries.\n\nThe unrest, the worst in decades, has exposed divisions in the nation, one of the region's wealthiest but also one of its most unequal, and intensified calls for economic reforms.\n\nIn parts of Santiago, hundreds of troops were deployed on the streets for the first time since 1990, when Chile returned to democracy after the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.\n\nIn the second day of violent demonstrations, protesters erected barricades and set buses on fire, and police used tear gas and water cannon. Clashes erupted in the city centre with Mayor Felipe Alessandri describing the situation as chaotic.\n\nMore than 300 people have been arrested, and 156 police injured, as were 11 civilians, police said.\n\nDemonstrators clashed with security forces in the capital, Santiago\n\nSpeaking on television, President Sebastián Piñera, whose response to the protests has been criticised, said he had listened \"with humility\" to \"the voice of my compatriots\" and to discontent over the cost of living.\n\nGen Javier Iturriaga del Campo, who is in charge of security in Santiago under the state of emergency, said a curfew would be enforced between 22:00 and 07:00 (01:00-10:00 GMT) in the city and outlying areas.\n\nThe military is due to help police patrol the streets during a declared 15-day state of emergency that allows authorities to restrict people's freedom of movement and their right to assembly.\n\nLater on Saturday, the mayors of the Valparaíso region and Concepción province also announced states of emergency.\n\nEarlier, cultural and sporting events were cancelled and shops remained closed. The city's underground system will remain shut down until Monday, with 41 of 136 stations vandalised.\n\nProtesters continued on Saturday despite the military deployment\n\nProtests were also reported in the cities of Concepción, Rancagua, Punta Arenas, Valparaíso, Iquique, Antofagasta, Quillota and Talca, according to El Mercurio newspaper.\n\nMeanwhile, a picture of President Piñera in an upmarket Italian restaurant on Friday evening as police and demonstrators clashed in Santiago was heavily criticised on social media.\n\nCritics said the image, reportedly during a birthday celebration for the president's grandson, were emblematic of a leader out of touch with ordinary Chileans.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by el mostrador This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British and American scientists are teaming up to search for the earliest signs of cancer in a bid to detect and treat the disease before it emerges.\n\nThey plan to \"give birth\" to cancer in the lab to see exactly what it looks like \"on day one\".\n\nIt is just one of the research priorities of the new International Alliance for Cancer Early Detection.\n\nWorking together on early detection of cancer will mean patients benefitting more quickly, it says.\n\nCancer Research UK has teamed up with the Universities of Cambridge, Manchester, University College London, and Stanford and Oregon in the US, to share ideas, technology and expertise in this area.\n\nTogether, the scientists are aiming to develop less invasive tests, such as blood, breath and urine tests, for monitoring high-risk patients, improve imaging techniques for detecting cancer early and look for virtually undetectable signs of the disease.\n\nBut they admit this is \"like looking for a needle in a haystack\" and could be 30 years off.\n\n\"The fundamental problem is that we never get to see a cancer being born in a human being,\" says Dr David Crosby, head of early detection research at Cancer Research UK.\n\n\"By the time it's found, it's already established.\"\n\nA blood test for cancer has long been sought after by scientists\n\nResearchers from Manchester, for example, are growing human breast tissue in the lab with synthetic immune cells to see if they can spot the very earliest, subtle changes that could lead to cancer.\n\nProf Rob Bristow said it was akin to a \"living tissue bank outside patients\".\n\nYet there is always the danger of over-diagnosis, because not all early cell changes turn into cancers.\n\nSo the cancer researchers say they must be more precise, also looking at the genes people are born with and the environment they grow up in, to work out an individual's unique personal risk of different cancers.\n\nOnly then will they know when to intervene.\n\nTo date, scientists say research on early detection has been small-scale and disconnected, lacking the power of trials in big populations of people.\n\nDr Crosby said the collaboration would \"induce a sea-change in our health systems, shifting it from expensive firefighting of late-stage disease, to being able to intervene at its earliest point and deliver rapid, cost-effective treatment\".\n\nFigures show that 98% of breast cancer patients live for five years or more if the disease is diagnosed at stage 1 - the earliest stage- compared to just 26% at stage 4, the most advanced stage.\n\nBut, at present, only around 44% of breast cancer patients are diagnosed at the earliest stage.\n\nHyper-polarised MRI scans could be the future for diagnosing prostate cancer\n\nIn the UK, screening programmes exist for breast, bowel and cervical cancers, when people reach a particular age.\n\nHowever, there are currently no reliable screening tools for other cancers, such as pancreas, liver, lung and prostate, which means survival rates are often much lower.\n\nProf Mark Emberton, from UCL, said the growth of imaging, such as MRI, was a \"silent revolution\" which could replace needles, used in biopsies, in the diagnosis of prostate cancer.\n\n\"Imaging only sees the aggressive cells, it overlooks the stuff you don't want to find and addresses over-diagnosis,\" he said, but he warned it was expensive and took time, and was \"not ready for prime time yet\".\n\nMore accurate hyper-polarised MRI scans and photo acoustics, where laser light is delivered to the tumour, creating sound waves which are analysed to produce images, are the next advances being tested in imaging.\n\nScientists are searching for new ways of detecting prostate cancer\n\nProf Emberton said the next goal was to see which cancers lent themselves to this type of imaging.\n\nAt the University of Cambridge, Prof Rebecca Fitzgerald is developing an advanced endoscope to detect pre-cancerous lesions in the food pipe and colon.\n\nShe said early detection hadn't been given the attention it deserved, and some tests for cancer could be very simple and inexpensive.\n\nProf Fitzgerald said she looked forward to working with international colleagues to take ideas \"all the way from the bench to the bedside\".\n\nCancer Research UK is investing £40m in the International Alliance for Cancer Early Detection over the next five years, with $20m being contributed by Canary Center at Stanford University and the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute in Oregon.", "One of the world's leading fund managers has been forced to resign after the BBC discovered he had broken investment rules.\n\nMark Denning helped to manage more than $300bn (£229bn; €265bn) of investors' money at Capital Group.\n\nBBC One's Panorama uncovered evidence that suggests he was secretly acquiring shares for his own benefit in some of the same companies as his funds.\n\nMr Denning, who had worked at the firm for 36 years, denies any wrongdoing.\n\nThe 62-year-old fund manager left his job five days after Panorama wrote to Capital Group about the findings of its investigation.\n\nCapital Group - which manages almost $2 trillion of assets - said Mr Denning was no longer with the firm.\n\n\"We have a Code of Ethics and personal investing disclosure requirements that hold our associates to the highest standards of conduct. When we learned of this matter, we took immediate action,\" it said.\n\nFund managers are not supposed to invest in the same companies as their funds, because they could potentially profit at the expense of investors.\n\nThis is because their size means the funds can drive up a company's share price when they invest. The fund manager could use this power to push up the share price in the companies where they have personal investments, rather than picking the companies that offer the best returns for investors.\n\nThe Panorama investigation discovered that shares were bought on Mr Denning's instructions through a secretive fund based in Liechtenstein.\n\nLeaked documents show the Morebath fund had invested in a medical research company called Mesoblast, an Indian film company called Eros International and a gold mining company called Hummingbird Resources.\n\nCapital Group funds also invested in all three companies, and the investments in Mesoblast and Eros were made by funds that Mr Denning himself helped to manage.\n\nIn the case of Hummingbird Resources, Mr Denning appeared to have another potential conflict of interest as the company was set up and run by his son-in-law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"If there was an intention by the fund manager to financially benefit themselves, that does raise serious concerns.\"\n\nAn expert on the financial rules told Panorama that the private purchases by Mr Denning could represent a serious conflict of interest.\n\nMichael Ruck, investigations partner at the law firm TLT, said: \"The whole point behind the regime, in relation to declaring conflicts of interest, is to protect investors.\n\n\"If there was an intention by the fund manager to financially benefit themselves, then that does raise serious concerns in relation to their actions.\"\n\nThe stakes in the three companies were ultimately held through an offshore entity called the Kinrara Trust. It was set up and controlled by Mr Denning.\n\nMr Denning's lawyers deny that he owns the shares in the three companies because they say he is not a beneficiary of the Kinrara Trust.\n\n\"Our client did not declare his interest in the Kinrara Trust to his former employers because he had been irrevocably excluded as a beneficiary. He believed that he had complied with all of his relevant duties.\"\n\nMr Denning's lawyers say he received bad advice. They also say the Morebath fund had an independent asset manager and fund administrator.\n\nHowever, Panorama has seen evidence that Mr Denning was behind the share purchases in the three companies and documents show the Morebath fund was regularly included in a summary of his personal assets.\n\nMr Denning appears to have named the Liechtenstein-based fund after the village of Morebath in North Devon. He owns a nine bedroom house, Morebath Manor, and 21 acres of parkland in the village.\n\nThe fund manager also owns luxury homes in Chelsea and the Bahamas.\n\nMr Denning used to work for Capital Group in London and was approved by the City watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority until 2018.\n\nHowever, four of the funds he managed were aimed at American investors and he had been working from the company's office in Los Angeles.\n\nPanorama also discovered that the Kinrara Trust owned Kinrara International - a company that profited from a controversial energy deal in Senegal.\n\nKinrara International made $22m after the exploration rights to a huge gas field off the Senegalese coast were sold to BP.\n\nExperts have told Panorama that they believe Mr Denning should also have declared this - because Capital Group had investments in BP and another company involved in the deal called Kosmos Energy.\n\nMr Denning's lawyers say he has never been a legal or beneficial owner of Kinrara International.\n\nPanorama Can You Trust the Billion Pound Investors? is broadcast on Monday at 20.30", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry on his brother, William in 2019: \"We are certainly on different paths at the moment\"\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex has said friends advised her not to marry Prince Harry to avoid pressure from the media.\n\nMeghan, 38, said she was told \"you shouldn't do it because the British tabloids will destroy your life\".\n\nIn an ITV documentary, she admitted motherhood was a \"struggle\" due to intense interest from newspapers.\n\nPrince Harry also responded to reports of a rift between him and his brother William, Duke of Cambridge, by saying they were on \"different paths\".\n\nThe duke, 35, said he and Prince William have \"good days\" and \"bad days\".\n\nHe added: \"We are brothers. We will always be brothers.\n\n\"We are certainly on different paths at the moment but I will always be there for him as I know he will always be there for me.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a 2019 interview Meghan said it was a “struggle” becoming a mother amid intense media scrutiny\n\nIn the documentary, Meghan said adjusting to royal life had been \"hard\", adding that she was not prepared for the intensity of the tabloid media scrutiny.\n\n\"When I first met my now-husband my friends were really happy because I was so happy,\" she said.\n\n\"But my British friends said to me, 'I'm sure he's great but you shouldn't do it because the British tabloids will destroy your life'.\"\n\nMeghan also told the programme that that it was a \"struggle\" being pregnant and a new mother amid the intense interest from newspapers.\n\nOn whether she can cope, Meghan added: \"In all honesty I have said for a long time to H - that is what I call him - it's not enough to just survive something, that's not the point of life. You have got to thrive.\"\n\nPrince Harry was asked if he worried whether his wife may face the same pressures as his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, who died in 1997 in a car crash in Paris.\n\nHe said: \"I will always protect my family, and now I have a family to protect.\n\n\"So everything that she [Diana] went through, and what happened to her, is incredibly important every single day, and that is not me being paranoid, that is just me not wanting a repeat of the past.\"\n\nThe prince later described his mental health and the way he deals with the pressures of his life as a matter of \"constant management\".\n\nHe said: \"I thought I was out of the woods and then suddenly it all came back, and this is something that I have to manage.\n\nThe duke and duchess visited southern Africa last month with their son Archie\n\n\"Part of this job is putting on a brave face but, for me and my wife, there is a lot of stuff that hurts, especially when the majority of it is untrue.\"\n\nThe Africa tour was Prince Harry, Meghan and their baby son Archie's first official royal tour as a family.\n\nThe duchess, who married Prince Harry at Windsor Castle in May 2018 and gave birth to their son Archie this year, spoke about her experiences as a new royal since her wedding day.\n\nAn average of 2.8 million people watched the ITV documentary, Meghan and Harry: An African journey, on Sunday night.\n\nHarry has learned to be diplomatic. But his words about his brother confirm that, perhaps unsurprisingly given the way his life has changed, they are not that close anymore. Of course, there will always be love. But things have changed.\n\nMeghan is a superb communicator and her message was controlled, carefully thought out and brilliantly delivered. \"I never thought it would be easy,\" she said of tabloid newspaper coverage, \"but I thought it would be fair\". She's clearly horrified at her portrayal over the past few months. The British pride themselves on being fair and her use of that word stung.\n\n\"Has it been a struggle?\" pressed Tom Bradby. \"Yes,\" said Meghan. Harry acknowledged that he still struggles with his mental health. The couple are feeling and talking about the pressure and Harry now sees the shadow of his mother in every camera, every headline. This was a very unhappy story.\n\nWhich is odd. Because they are much-loved and - with Harry's energy and Meghan's back story - continue to touch the parts that other royals don't. But now there is a long, low rumble of discontent.\n\nIn a statement released at the beginning of this month, Prince Harry said his wife was the latest \"victim\" of a British tabloid press which \"wages campaigns against individuals with no thought to the consequences\".\n\nHe said \"knowingly false and malicious\" reports and \"continual misrepresentations\" were made by \"select media outlets\".\n\nThe duke and duchess are both bringing legal actions against the press, with Meghan suing the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters.\n\nPrince Harry filed his own proceedings at the High Court against the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in relation to alleged phone-hacking dating back more than a decade.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer professional footballers are three and a half times more likely to die of dementia than people of the same age range in the general population, according to new research.\n\nExperts at Glasgow University have been investigating fears that heading the ball could be linked to brain injuries.\n\nThe study began after claims that former West Brom striker Jeff Astle died because of repeated head trauma.\n\nIt compared deaths of 7,676 ex-players to 23,000 from the general population.\n\nThe sample was taken from men who played professional football in Scotland, and were born between 1900 and 1976.\n\nThe long-awaited study was commissioned by the Football Association and the Professional Footballers' Association after delays in initial research had angered Astle's family.\n\nIt began in January last year and was led by consultant neuropathologist Dr Willie Stewart, who said that \"risk ranged from a five-fold increase in Alzheimer's disease, through an approximately four-fold increase in motor neurone disease, to a two-fold Parkinson's disease in former professional footballers compared to population controls\".\n\nAlthough footballers had higher risk of death from neurodegenerative disease, they were less likely to die of other common diseases, such as heart disease and some cancers, including lung cancer.\n\nDr Stewart said: \"This is the largest study to date looking in this detail at the incidence of neurodegenerative disease in any sport, not just professional footballers.\n\n\"Our data show that while former footballers had higher dementia rates, they had lower rates of death due to other major diseases.\n\n\"As such, while every effort must be made to identify the factors contributing to the increased risk of neurodegenerative disease to allow this risk to be reduced, there are also wider potential health benefits of playing football to be considered.\"\n\n'This is only the start of our understanding'\n\nThe link between contact sport participation and neurodegenerative disease has been subject to debate in recent years, but until this study, it was not clear whether there was any evidence of an increase in neurodegenerative disease rate in former footballers.\n\nFormer England international Astle developed dementia and died in 2002 at the age of 59. The inquest into his death found heading heavy leather footballs repeatedly had contributed to trauma to his brain.\n\nBut research by the FA and the PFA was later dropped because of what were said to be technical flaws.\n\nAstle's family has campaigned for the football authorities to launch a comprehensive research programme.\n\nHis daughter Dawn said she was \"relieved\" the study eventually went ahead, and her father's case was highlighted by former England captain Alan Shearer in a BBC documentary Alan Shearer: Dementia, Football and Me.\n\nSpeaking about the findings of the Field (Football's Influence on Lifelong Health and Dementia Risk) research, various stakeholders said more research was needed.\n\nFA chairman Greg Clarke said: \"The whole game must recognise this is only the start of our understanding and there are many questions that still need to be answered.\n\n\"It is important the global football family now unites to find the answers and provide a greater understanding of this complex issue. The FA is committed to doing all it can to make that happen.\"\n\nPFA chief executive Gordon Taylor added: \"Research must continue to answer more specific questions about what needs to be done to identify and reduce risk factors.\"\n\n\"It is important world football takes a lead on this to ensure the appropriate action to such a complex matter,\" said Scottish FA president Rod Petrie.\n\nScottish FA chief executive Ian Maxwell added that the organisation \"will also consider any implications for the grassroots game\".\n\nBrain injury charity Headway said further research should focus on modern lightweight footballs.\n\n\"We welcome the work done by Dr Stewart and his team, but this study was always going to leave a lot of questions unanswered.\n\n\"We have known for some time there is a link between the cumulative effect of repeated blows to the head - such as those suffered by boxers - and degenerative neurological conditions such as dementia.\n\n\"The fact this long-awaited study has now identified a link in former footballers will no doubt lead to questions about how this will impact the modern game.\n\n\"It is vital this research is now built upon, with a particular focus on the relative risks of heading lightweight modern footballs.\"", "Police have asked anyone with information to come forward\n\nTwo 17-year-old boys have been stabbed to death at a house party.\n\nPolice and paramedics were called to a house in Archford Croft in Milton Keynes at about midnight on Saturday.\n\nThe teenagers have been named locally as Dom Ansah and Ben Gillham-Rice, as relatives said their \"hearts are broken\".\n\nOne of the boys died at the scene and the other in hospital. Thames Valley Police said no arrests had been made in the double murder inquiry.\n\nA 17-year-old boy and a 23-year-old man were also hurt and were taken to hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries, the force said.\n\nDet Ch Supt Ian Hunter said the stabbings happened \"at a private house party\" and those involved in the violence \"are all likely to have known each other\".\n\nHe said police believed the victims had been invited to the party, which was attended by 15 to 20 people.\n\nOfficers are carrying out inquiries and have cordoned off the area\n\nOfficers are expected to remain at the scene, which is on a cul-de-sac in a housing estate in the Emerson Valley area, for several days.\n\nStains of what appeared to be blood could be seen on the front door of a house inside the police cordon.\n\nTwo of Dom Ansah's cousins laid flowers at the cordon on Sunday afternoon.\n\n\"He's come here with his long-time best friend since childhood, comes to a party and both of their lives just got ripped away from them,\" said one, who did not give her name.\n\n\"He was just so respectful to like his family and friends. Many, many people's hearts are broken.\"\n\nFamily members visited the scene on Sunday to leave flowers for the two boys\n\nA neighbour said she believed the gathering was a party for a teenage girl living in the house, while others said a birthday banner had been hanging at the door earlier in the evening.\n\nShe said she saw police cars and ambulances at the scene after being woken by her husband during the night.\n\n\"I was so terrified,\" she said. \"I've never seen such a scene until today.\"\n\nAnother neighbour, who lives in an adjacent cul-de-sac, said: \"This gang of kids have been hanging around Archford Croft, it's all gang-related.\n\n\"I think it's just because there was a house party and then the trouble started from there.\"\n\nMilton Keynes South MP Iain Stewart said he would offer assistance to the families affected.\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\nDet Ch Supt Hunter appealed for \"anyone who has any information which could help with our inquiries or anyone who witnessed any suspicious activity\" to come forward.\n\n\"Thames Valley Police is in the early stages of a double murder investigation after two teenage boys have tragically died in this shocking incident,\" he said.\n\n\"Even if you think details may be insignificant, please come forward and speak to police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The SNP's Tommy Sheppard calls on Michael Gove to say \"what is he not telling us\".\n\nHe wants to know why the minister \"continues to commit hundreds of civil servants and waste hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money on an objective we have consistently ruled out\".\n\nMr Sheppard says the PM has acted with \"all the enthusiasm of a petulant schoolboy\" in asking the EU for an extension to Brexit - but he has done it.\n\nSo he wonders whether all the planning is based on an expected refusal from the bloc.\n\nThe SNP MP also pushes Mr Gove on why 31 October is so important.\n\n\"How come this date... has become elevated to extent it has?\n\n\"This government has a Halloween fetish. The only reason it matters... is to save face for this prime minister.\"\n\nHe adds: \"It is a rum day indeed when the government is more concerned with the vanity of the prime minister than making good legislation.\"", "Mr Netanyahu has been in power for the past decade\n\nIsrael's long-standing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said he cannot form a government, handing the opportunity to his political rival.\n\nMr Netanyahu has been in power for the past decade, but he was unable to build a coalition with a majority after September's election ended in deadlock.\n\nHis rival Benny Gantz of the Blue and White party will now be invited to attempt to form a government.\n\nAnnouncing the decision to abandon his efforts, Mr Netanyahu stressed that he had tried repeatedly to form a majority coalition but had been rebuffed.\n\n\"I have made all efforts to bring Benny Gantz to the negotiating table, all efforts to form a broad national unity government, all efforts to prevent another election. Unfortunately, time after time, he simply refused,\" he said.\n\nIsrael's President, Reuven Rivlin, said he would give Mr Gantz 28 days to carry out the same negotiations.\n\nIsraeli Arab lawmakers pledged their backing, but Mr Gantz - who leads a centre-right alliance - remains more than a dozen seats short of the 61 seats he would need for a majority in the 120-seat parliament.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Blue and White This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Blue and White\n\nPresident Rivlin said he would try to avoid calling another election in a country that had already held two this year. If Mr Gantz also fails, parliament could put forward a third candidate in a final bid to avoid another poll.\n\nSeptember's poll saw Mr Netanyahu's Likud party win 32 seats and Mr Gantz's Blue and White party 33. The president initially selected Mr Netanyahu as the candidate with the best chance of successfully forming a coalition.\n\nReacting to Mr Netanyahu's message, Blue and White said: \"The time for spin is over and it's now time for action.\"\n\nMr Rivlin has suggested the two main parties form a national unity government. That arrangement could see Mr Gantz as de facto prime minister, while Mr Netanyahu holds onto the position in name only.\n\nMany in Israel believe a third election may be the only way to break the deadlock.\n\nMr Gantz is a former head of the Israeli military, and served in that role while Mr Netanyahu was prime minster. He was propelled to political leadership after forming his party in February, saying that the country had \"lost its way\".\n\nMr Netanyahu has far more frontline political experience, but is facing his own battle over corruption.\n\nWhile trying to negotiate his coalition in October, he also attended hearings with the attorney general, who will decide whether or not to charge Mr Netanyahu with bribery, fraud, and breach of trust in three cases. Mr Netanyahu has denied any wrongdoing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tafida's mother Shelina Begum said the case had been \"exhausting and traumatic\"\n\nThe parents of a brain-damaged girl will be allowed to take her abroad to continue her treatment, the High Court has ruled.\n\nFive-year-old Tafida Raqeeb has been on life support at the Royal London Hospital since suffering a traumatic brain injury in February.\n\nHer parents have organised funding to take her to the Gaslini children's hospital in Genoa, Italy.\n\nBut UK specialists had argued any further treatment would be futile.\n\nBosses at Barts Health NHS Trust, which runs the hospital in Whitechapel, had asked the judge to rule that ending Tafida's life-support was in her best interests.\n\nHer mother, solicitor Shelina Begum, and father, construction consultant Mohammed Raqeeb, said doctors in Italy would continue to treat their daughter until she was diagnosed as brain dead.\n\nThey argued that Tafida was from a Muslim family and Islamic law said only God could take the decision to end her life.\n\nTafida Raqeeb suffered a traumatic brain injury in February and has been on life support ever since\n\nFollowing the ruling, Mr Raqeeb said the couple were \"thrilled by the judgement\".\n\nTheir barrister David Lock QC said the ruling was an \"enormous relief\" for the couple who he said now \"wanted to get on with the transfer\".\n\nLawyers representing Barts Health NHS Trust said hospital bosses would consider appealing against the ruling.\n\nBarrister Katie Gollop QC told Mr Justice MacDonald that his ruling could have implications for other children.\n\nSpecialists at the Royal London Hospital believe the five-year-old has no chance of recovery\n\nThe High Court had heard that Tafida woke her parents one morning in February complaining that she had a headache, and then had collapsed.\n\nShe was taken to hospital where doctors discovered that blood vessels in her brain were tangled and had ruptured.\n\nIn his ruling, Mr Justice MacDonald found that \"where a child is not in pain and is not aware of his or her parlous situation, these cases can place the objective best interests test under some stress\".\n\n\"Tests must be looked for in subjective or highly value laden ethical, moral or religious factors... which mean different things to different people in a diverse, multicultural, multi-faith society,\" he said.\n\nLawyer Mathieu Culverhouse, who represented Tafida, said there were \"no winners in a case like this\" but added the family were \"relieved they are now a step closer to taking Tafida to Italy\".\n\nAccording to the family solicitor Paul Conrathe, they hoped to do that \"within the next 10 days\" - although it could be delayed if the trust appeal.\n\n\"That is a huge anxiety for the parents\", he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 800 people were injured in the attack\n\nVictims of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting have reached a settlement of at least $735m (£592m) from MGM Resorts.\n\nThe chain owns the Mandalay Bay Hotel, from where the gunman killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more before killing himself in October 2017.\n\nThe victims were attending a country music festival at a venue across from the hotel, also owned by MGM.\n\nIt remains the single deadliest mass shooting committed by an individual in US history.\n\nOutrage at the killing led to a ban on bump stocks - devices that make rifles fire like machine guns.\n\n\"While nothing will be able to bring back the lives lost or undo the horrors so many suffered on that day, this settlement will provide fair compensation for thousands of victims and their families,\" said Robert Eglet, a lawyer for the victims.\n\nJim Murren, Chairman of MGM Resorts, said their aim was always to \"resolve these matters so our community and the victims and their families can move forward in the healing process\".\n\n\"We have always believed that prolonged litigation around these matters is in no-one's best interest.\"\n\nThe total settlement is expected to be between $735m and $800m, depending on how many claimants come forward.\n\nMGM Resorts previously filed a lawsuit against the victims seemingly to dismiss claims against it. This settlement is not an admission of liability by the company.\n\nAbout 22,000 people were attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip on 1 October 2017 when the gunman opened fire.\n\nStephen Paddock, 64, fired more than 1,000 rounds into the crowds from his room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, killing 58 people and wounding more than 422 others.\n\nMore than 800 were eventually injured in the panic that followed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A year since America's worst ever mass shooting, Rosemarie Melanson has only just left hospital\n\nPolice stormed the hotel room minutes after he stopped firing and found he had killed himself. He had 23 weapons with him in the room.\n\nThere remains no official motive for the attack.", "The Scottish wildcat is on the brink of disappearing\n\nMore than a quarter of mammals are facing extinction, according to a detailed and devastating report on the state of the natural world in the UK.\n\nIt also said one in seven species were threatened with extinction, and 41% of species studied have experienced decline since 1970.\n\nProviding the clearest picture to date, the State of Nature report examined data from almost 7,000 species.\n\nIt drew on expertise from more than 70 different organisations.\n\nThe report said 26% of mammal species were at risk of disappearing altogether.\n\nA separate report outlined the picture in Scotland, where the abundance and distribution of species has also declined.\n\nScotland saw a 24% decline in average species abundance, and about one in 10 species threatened with extinction.\n\nMore than 80% of Frosted Green moths have been lost\n\nA quarter of moths have been lost, and nearly one in five butterflies. Their numbers continue to plunge.\n\nThe State of Nature report shows, in grim detail, that almost one in five plants are classified as being at risk of extinction, along with 15% of fungi and lichens, 40% of vertebrates and 12% of invertebrates.\n\nIt paints a picture of what conservationists call \"the great thinning\", with 60% of \"priority species\" having declined since 1970.\n\nThere has been a 13% decline in the average abundance of species studied.\n\nOur wildlife is also changing more and more quickly. Researchers found more than half of species had either rapidly decreased or increased in number over the last 10 years.\n\nDaniel Hayhow from the RSPB, lead author of the report, said: \"We know more about the UK's wildlife than any other country on the planet, and what it is telling us should make us sit up and listen. We need to respond more urgently across the board.\"\n\nWildflowers have been lost at a rate of up to nearly one species per year, per county, since the 1950s, the report said\n\nRosie Hails, nature and science director at the National Trust said: \"The UK's wildlife is in serious trouble... we are now at a crossroads when we need to pull together with actions rather than words.\n\n\"We need a strong new set of environmental laws to hold our governments and others to account and to set long-term and ambitious targets.\"\n\nThe study cited the intensification of agriculture as a key driver of species loss. While this has, the report's authors said, led to greater food production, it has also had a \"dramatic impact on farmland biodiversity\". The study said the area of crops treated with pesticides increased by 53% between 1990 and 2010.\n\nThe report said targeted wildlife-friendly farming, supported by government-funded agri-environment schemes (AES) \"may have helped slow the decline in nature but has been insufficient to halt and reverse this trend\".\n\nThe UK population of skylarks halved during the 1990s. Farmland birds have declined more severely than those in any other habitat\n\nThe report also underlined the ongoing impact of climate change. According to the Met Office, the UK's 10 hottest years occurred since 2002.\n\nThe report said climate change was \"driving widespread changes in the abundance, distribution and ecology of the UK's wildlife, and will continue to do so for decades or even centuries to come\". The authors also said that, in the UK, many species, including birds, butterflies, moths and dragonflies have shifted their range north over the last four decades, moving by, on average, 20km per decade.\n\nWarming seas also caused disruption, with marked changes in plankton and fish distribution.\n\nNatural England chair Tony Juniper said: \"Today's report paints a stark picture of the state of some of our most-loved species. These losses matter as they represent an unravelling of the web on which we depend.\"\n\nOne positive piece of data is that a quarter of UK species studied have increased, including bitterns and the large blue butterfly.\n\nAlso, public support for conservation continued to grow. The amount of time donated by volunteers increased by 40% since 2000, to around 7.5m hours.\n\nYoung volunteers for a pioneering charity, Action for Conservation (AFC), were involved in the foreword to the State of Nature. AFC recently launched what it described as the largest youth-led conservation project in the world, in Penpont, near Gwent.\n\nAFC volunteers Danny, 15 from Manchester (front), and Dominic, 17 from Aylesbury, gather oysters to research ocean health\n\nFifteen year-old AFC volunteer Danny said: \"I got involved in conservation because I wanted to see more wildlife where I live and hopefully reverse some of the devastating trends we're seeing right now when it comes to climate and biodiversity.\n\n\"I think the most important thing that young people can do to help the environment is to educate the adults around them, put pressure on the people in charge and show other young people that even small actions can have a big impact.\n\nHe added: \"Young people understand the urgency of the situation we're in and we're ready to tackle the challenge.\"\n\nAnother example of charities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) having a marked impact was the return of the pine marten, one of the rarest mammals in Britain, to the Forest of Dean. This re-introduction was overseen by the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust and Forestry England.\n\nMinette Batters, president of the National Farmers Union (NFU), said: \"Farming has already embarked on a long journey of protecting and maintaining the iconic British countryside; huge amounts of work have been carried out to enhance our landscapes, benefit soil and water and encourage wildlife and farmland birds - this year 140 different species of birds were recorded on farms during the Big Farmland Bird Count.\n\nShe added: \"Over the next 30 years farmers will need to produce more food to meet the demands of a growing population, using less land, less water and fewer agricultural inputs.\"\n\nPine martens are one of the rarest mammals in Britain; perilously close to extinction", "A knife attack at police headquarters in Paris has left four members of staff dead, French media say.\n\nThe attacker was shot dead by police.\n\nThe area has been cordoned off as investigations continue.", "Boris Johnson has outlined his plan to the European Union (EU) to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said the plan \"removes the so-called backstop\".\n\nThe backstop is the insurance policy negotiated by Theresa May and the EU. It is designed to avoid any physical border infrastructure, which it is feared would bring back memories of the Troubles, after Brexit.\n\nIt would keep the UK in the same customs territory as the EU, and Northern Ireland closely tied to EU regulations - until the UK and the EU reach a trade deal.\n\nBut it would stop the UK striking its own trade deals, which is why so many Conservative MPs, including Mr Johnson, oppose the backstop.\n\nSo, what is his alternative?\n\nThe government wants the UK to leave the EU customs union. This would mean Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland ending up in two different customs territories.\n\nThis means lorries entering the Republic of Ireland from Northern Ireland will need to complete customs declarations. This is to ensure the correct tariffs (tax on imports) are paid when UK goods enter the EU customs union.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: From the beginning the EU has struggled to see how Ireland and Northern Ireland can exist in different customs territories while keeping the border as open as it is now under all circumstances. They will argue that - in the absence of a future free trade deal - this proposal means the UK is breaking commitments it has made about the border. The UK counters that the backstop has already been rejected in Parliament three times, and something needs to change.\n\nInstead of installing customs posts and other physical infrastructure at the Irish border, the UK says declarations should be done electronically.\n\nThe government says physical checks would still be needed \"on a very small proportion of movements\". Currently, about one in 100 consignments entering the EU customs union are inspected to check that the goods match the information on the declaration.\n\nThese inspections could be carried out at warehouses or \"designated locations, which could be located anywhere in Ireland or Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThe government's proposal does not spell out what these \"designated locations\" would look like, but it adds there should be \"a firm commitment (by both parties) never to conduct checks at the border in future\".\n\nIf adopted, a border solution relying on technology and remote checks would be a first. The EU does not currently share a single border with a non-EU country where checks have been completely eliminated.\n\nThat includes Norway (not in the EU) and Sweden (an EU member) - which share one of the most technologically advanced borders in the world. Their main crossing point processes about 1,300 lorries a day, with each waiting 20 minutes on average.\n\nThe EU has previously rejected a customs solution that relies on technology.\n\nBack in January, Sabine Weyand, the EU's director-general for trade, said: \"We looked at every border on this Earth, every border the EU has with a third country - there's simply no way you can do away with checks and controls.\"\n\nThe government says that some small traders should be exempt from paying duty. However, the document does not address smuggling head on. In other words, what will be done to detect and prevent traders, who should be paying duty, from crossing the border without completing custom declarations first?\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The EU will see much of this as a rehash of previous ideas that it doesn't think will work. And many people will worry that unspecified \"designated locations\" could become targets for anyone seeking to undermine the Northern Ireland peace process. The EU will push back hard against suggestions that it needs to revise its own customs rules to suit the UK.\n\nWhen it comes to the regulation of goods, Northern Ireland would keep to the rules of the EU's single market, rather than UK rules.\n\nThat removes the need for product standard and safety checks on goods at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, because both will be part of an \"all-island regulatory zone\".\n\nBut it creates the need for checks between the rest of the UK - which will not be sticking to EU single market rules - and Northern Ireland..\n\nAll agricultural, food or animal products entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK will have to go through a Border Inspection Post. That's a bit of infrastructure where goods can be physically examined and paperwork checked.\n\nManufactured goods in Northern Ireland would also have to keep to EU rules, and these goods would be checked \"at the boundary of the zone\" - presumably at crossings between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, on the Irish Sea.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: This is quite a big concession from the UK side - basically accepting that there would have to be quite intrusive checks between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK for a number of years, on things like product standards and food safety. The EU has always said there have to be checks carried out somewhere, and both sides will try to deny any suggestion that this amounts to a new border in the Irish Sea.\n\nHaving Northern Ireland following EU rules for the production of goods over which it has no say is, as the document says, \"a significant democratic problem\".\n\nAs a result, it is proposed that the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive will have to sign off on the plan before it takes effect.\n\nThe Northern Irish institutions will be asked to approve the plan again every four years, and if they do not then Northern Ireland would stop following EU rules one year later.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly has not met since early 2017.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The issue of democratic legitimacy is a crucial one, but it cannot be applied unevenly. The EU is likely to have a problem with anything which suggests that only Northern Ireland could have - in effect - a veto on this plan. The point of the backstop was to provide a legal guarantee to keep an open border under all circumstances. Being subject to approval every four years simply isn't the same thing. If Northern Ireland voted to leave this arrangement things like checks on food safety would have to take place at the Irish border.", "Flight Lieutenant Mathew \"Stanny\" Stannard will be seconded to Virgin Orbit for three years\n\nFifty years after the lunar landing the Royal Air Force is taking its first small steps into space.\n\nFlight Lieutenant Mathew Stannard will be the first RAF pilot to help launch a satellite as part of the Ministry of Defence's £30m space programme.\n\nHe will be swapping the cockpit of his RAF Typhoon jet for a heavier and slower Boeing 747.\n\nThe specially adapted passenger plane has been designed to carry a rocket which can launch satellites into space.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC in his first interview since being selected for the project, Flt Lt Stannard, who is based at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, said he was \"very excited\" to be joining a \"very cool\" space industry.\n\nA handful of British-born men and women have already made it to space: Helen Sharman and Michael Foale along with, more recently, Tim Peake, who once served in the Army. Flt Lt Stannard will be the RAF's \"first person to go along this route to be followed by many more\".\n\nThe MoD's spending on the space programme is modest when compared with the billions of dollars already being spent by the US, China and India. But it is yet more proof that space is the new frontier and next frontline for defence.\n\nWorking with the Virgin Orbit programme in California, the RAF pilot notes that \"it's the commercial sector leading the way\".\n\nHistorically, it has taken a much larger rocket to launch a satellite from the ground, but Virgin Orbit aims to make it cheaper and quicker.\n\nIts specially adapted 747 named Cosmic Girl carries a much smaller rocket under its wing, which will be fired into orbit at about 30,000 feet.\n\nThe rocket will contain a small satellite of about 300kg. Flt Lt Stannard said the unique selling point of Virgin Orbit is that it can be \"launched from anywhere in the world\" including the UK.\n\nThe other game changer is the satellite technology. The one that he will fire into orbit next year will be the \"size of a washing machine\".\n\nThe RAF already has a similar small satellite in orbit - launched conventionally from India last year. The UK-developed Carbonite 2 provides high quality video to the RAF and the plan is to have a \"constellation\" of these small satellites in orbit, providing high quality images, video and secure communications.\n\nIn theory, they will be quicker and cheaper to build, launch and to replace so \"that they no longer become valuable targets,\" Flt Lt Stannard said.\n\nIt highlights the evolving threats in space. The US, China, Russia and India have all been developing anti-satellite weapons from missiles to lasers and jammers.\n\nWith that threat in mind the UK has also become the first formal partner of a new US-led coalition aimed at deterring \"hostile acts in space\".\n\nBritain is sending eight military personnel to join Operation Olympic Defender to work alongside allies at the Combined Space Operations Centre in California.\n\nThese are the first small steps for the RAF in space and with limited resources it is largely having to rely on the US and the commercial sector to get beyond the Earth's atmosphere.\n\nBut it is still a giant leap into the unknown for Flt Lt Mathew Stannard.", "Beech was jailed for 18 years in July after making false claims of abuse\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has ordered a third inquiry into the Metropolitan Police's much-criticised investigation into claims of a VIP paedophile ring.\n\nSparked by false claims made by Carl Beech against politicians and senior military officers, Operation Midland cost £2.5m but led to no arrests.\n\nBeech was later jailed for 18 years for his \"malicious\" lies and other charges.\n\nNow the Inspectorate of Constabulary, the police watchdog, has been told to review the force's actions.\n\nIt comes a day before the Met is due to release further sections of a separate review by ex-High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques.\n\nMs Patel wrote to the Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Sir Tom Winsor, on Thursday asking him to examine the police probe.\n\nIn her letter, she said: \"It is imperative that the public receive assurance that the MPS has learned from the mistakes identified in Sir Richard's report and have made - and continue to make - necessary improvements.\n\n\"To this end I am writing to you to request, under the provisions in s54 of the Police Act 1996, that Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) undertake an inspection at the earliest practicable opportunity to follow up on Sir Richard's review.\"\n\nA report by the Independent Office of Police Conduct - expected to be published next week - previously examined the role of three detectives in applying for search warrants, but did not look into Operation Midland as a whole.\n\nWhen - following Beech's convictions in July - the IOPC announced it had cleared the officers, Sir Richard criticised that outcome.\n\nWriting about the IOPC findings in July, he said a criminal investigation should take place into what he described as the unlawful obtaining of search warrants.\n\nSir Richard - who conducted a review commissioned by the Met itself - stated: \"I remain unable to conclude that every officer acted with due diligence and in good faith.\"\n\nHarvey Proctor, who was falsely accused of murder by Beech, has also called on the home secretary to order a criminal inquiry by an independent police force.\n\nFurther chapters from Sir Richard's review on behalf of the Met are due to be made public on Friday.\n\nHowever, a summary of his report published in 2016 said that 43 errors were made during Operation Midland.\n\nThese included believing the testimony of Beech - who was previously referred to as \"Nick\" in the media - for too long, as well as an officer referring to those claims as being \"credible and true\".\n\nSir Richard's summary added that a culture that alleged victims must be believed was a \"major contributing factor\" to the investigation's failing.\n\nMet Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, who oversaw the early stages of Operation Midland, has previously rejected demands for a new investigation into the officers involved.\n\nBeech accused former politicians and Army and security chiefs of sadistic sexual abuse up to four decades ago.\n\nThe 51-year-old, who was described by the sentencing judge as a \"manipulative and devious person\", also claimed to have seen boys being murdered.\n\nThose falsely accused by Beech, and relatives of some of those who have died since the investigation began, said the effect of his lies had been \"incalculable\" and they had been victims of \"a totally unjustified witch-hunt\".", "The UK's economy may have tipped into recession following a downturn in the dominant service sector, according to closely-watched figures.\n\nThe IHS Markit/CPS purchasing managers' index for services fell to a six-month low of 49.5 in September. The 50 level divides growth from expansion.\n\nIt suggests the economy shrank 0.1% in the three months to September, after a 0.2% fall in the previous quarter.\n\nSome experts urged caution, as official data last month eased recession fears.\n\nCombined with even weaker manufacturing and construction purchasing managers' indexes (PMI) earlier this week, September's all-sector PMI sank to 48.8 from 49.7. This was its lowest since the month after the referendum decision to leave the EU in June 2016, and before that 2009.\n\n\"Coming on the heels of a decline in the second quarter, [this] would mean the UK is facing a heightened risk of recession,\" said IHS Markit economist Chris Williamson. A recession is normally defined as when an economy contracts over two consecutive quarters.\n\n\"September's decline is all the more ominous, being the result of an insidious weakening of demand over the past year rather than a sudden shock,\" Mr Williamson added. He highlighted Brexit uncertainty, worries about trade tensions between the US, China and Europe, and weaker growth in the eurozone.\n\nSeparate PMI figures on Thursday showed Germany's services sector sharply lost momentum in September, fuelling fears that contraction in the country's manufacturing sector was spilling over into the rest of Europe's largest economy. Germany's services PMI fell to 51.4 from 54.8 in August, the lowest reading for three years.\n\nAlthough the PMI data is closely followed it is not considered foolproof. Immediately after the Brexit referendum, the data indicated a sharper downturn than was actually the case.\n\nLast month, latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) pointed to the UK economy growing faster than expected in July, easing fears that it could fall into recession.\n\nGrowth was flat over the three months to July, but this was an improvement on the 0.2% contraction seen in the April-to-June quarter. ONS growth data for August is due for publication on 10 October.\n\nThis survey has sounded the recession alarm bells - pointing to a second quarter of shrinking GDP. Not only does it imply one of the biggest slumps in activity in the dominant service sector since the financial crisis but, taken with its counterparts for manufacturing and construction, signals output falling across the economy.\n\nShould we be worried? These surveys are the first monthly insight into the health of major parts of our economy. But in these tumultuous times, they may be more of a mood check rather than a whole-body MOT.\n\nThe authors refer to Brexit-related anxiety: sentiment, rather than activity, may be clouding or obscuring the picture. It wouldn't be the first time. Earlier this year (because of course we've been here before) these surveys failed to fully reflect the flurry in Brexit preparations. Nor do they cover retail or the public sector - two areas that have underpinned the growth we have seen. The surveys can and do deviate from official growth numbers.\n\nBut it'd be dangerous to ignore the warnings. Sentiment can dictate all sorts of business plans - from investment to hiring. The impact of those can last longer than one quarter's GDP.\n\nEconomists said Thursday's PMI figures were a warning. Ruth Gregory, senior UK economist at Capital Economics, said they reignited concerns the economy is in recession as it \"suggests that growth in the biggest part of the economy has fizzled out\".\n\nHowever, while Dean Turner, UK economist for UBS Global Wealth Management, said the figures were \"gloomy\", he added that the PMIs \"have had a tendency to overreact relative to reality. It is too early to conclude that the UK is heading for a recession on these numbers alone.\"\n\nAnd Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, went further. \"The survey's poor track record recently means its recession signal should not be believed,\" he said. \"Markit's services survey has been far too downbeat over the last year.\"", "Mahatma Gandhi led the fight for India's independence from British colonial rule\n\nThieves stole some of Mahatma Gandhi's remains on what would have been his 150th birthday, police say.\n\nThe ashes were taken from a memorial in central India, where they had been kept since 1948 - the year of Gandhi's assassination by a Hindu extremist.\n\nThe thieves also scrawled \"traitor\" in green paint across photographs of the independence leader.\n\nSome Hindu hardliners view Gandhi as a traitor for his advocacy of Hindu-Muslim unity.\n\nThis is despite Gandhi being a devout Hindu himself.\n\nPolice in Rewa, in Madhya Pradesh state, confirmed to BBC Hindi's Shuriah Niazi that they were investigating the theft on the grounds of actions \"prejudicial to national integration\" and potential breach of the peace.\n\nMangaldeep Tiwari, caretaker of the Bapu Bhawan memorial, where the ashes were being held, said the theft was \"shameful\".\n\n\"I opened the gate of the Bhawan early in the morning because it was Gandhi's birthday,\" he told Indian website The Wire. \"When I returned at around 23:00 [17:30 GMT], I found the mortal remains of Gandhi missing and his poster was defaced.\"\n\nPolice took action after Gurmeet Singh - leader of the local Congress political party - filed a complaint.\n\n\"This madness must stop,\" Mr Singh told The Wire. \"I urge Rewa police to check CCTV cameras installed inside Bapu Bhawan.\"\n\nThe thieves are believed to have also scrawled \"traitor\" across Gandhi's photograph\n\nGandhi led a non-violent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India, inspiring people across the world.\n\nMost Indians still revere him as the \"father of the nation\".\n\nBut Hindu hardliners in India accuse Gandhi of having betrayed Hindus by being too pro-Muslim, and even for the division of India and the bloodshed that marked Partition, which saw India and Pakistan created after independence from Britain in 1947.\n\nHe was assassinated by a Hindu extremist in January 1948.\n\nAfter his death, he was cremated, but his ashes were not scattered in a river, in accordance with Hindu belief.\n\nBecause of his fame, some were held back and sent around the country to various memorials - including the one in the Bapu Bhawan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Gandhi's last day was photographed", "A former US police officer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting dead her neighbour Botham Jean inside his own apartment.\n\nAmber Guyger argued she killed him after mistakenly thinking she was in her own home and that he was an intruder.\n\nIn an emotional testimony, Jean's brother Brandt said he \"loved [Guyger] as a person\" before giving her a hug.\n\nRead more: US ex-cop who killed neighbour jailed for 10 years", "Former EastEnders actress Sandy Ratcliff died after taking an excessive amount of morphine while suffering from two terminal lung conditions, an inquest has heard.\n\nShe was one of the BBC soap's original cast members, appearing as cafe owner Sue Osman from 1985 to 1989.\n\nOff-screen she battled a heroin addiction for 20 years, an inquest at Poplar Coroner's Court was told.\n\nRatcliff died aged 70 in April, in sheltered housing in north-east London.\n\nThe actress's first major role was in Ken Loach's Family Life in 1971, in which she played a schizophrenic teenager.\n\nHer EastEnders character Sue Osman contended with cot death and her husband's infidelity before she was sectioned and written out of the BBC soap.\n\nRatcliff's other TV appearances after EastEnders included an episode of Maigret in 1992, opposite Michael Gambon.\n\nThe inquest heard Ratcliff had been discharged from hospital the day before she died and given morphine for pain relief.\n\nHer son, William Palmer, said his mother suffered three strokes in the years leading up to her death - the first taking place shortly after her partner died in 2013.\n\n(L-R) Nejdet Salih, Oscar James, Sandy Ratcliff, John Altman and Tom Watt starred in EastEnders in 1985\n\nGiving evidence, he said the stroke had left her with pain in her left arm, for which she was prescribed codeine, but the inquest heard Ratcliff would take more than her prescribed amount for both pain management and \"recreational use\".\n\nGiving her conclusion, coroner Mary Hassell said Ratcliff was \"near to the end\" when she was admitted to hospital.\n\n\"I don't think the morphine was used to end her life,\" she said. \"She was using it as she had used drugs for many years.\"\n\n\"She died from a combination of two naturally occurring terminal conditions and an excess of morphine.\"\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 alarm was raised at Bridge Street station just before midday\n\nGlasgow's Subway services were suspended for more than three hours after a man was seriously hurt in a fall onto rail tracks.\n\nBritish Transport Police said his injuries were \"life-threatening\" after the incident at Bridge Street station.\n\nThe 32-year-old, who is blind, fell onto tracks with his guide dog just before 12:00.\n\nHe was treated at the scene then taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The dog was collected by the Scottish SPCA.\n\nIt is now in the care of Guide Dogs UK and was said to be \"distressed but unhurt\".\n\nBTP confirmed: \"A 32-year-old man has been taken to hospital. At this stage his injuries are believed to be life-threatening. The incident is not being treated as suspicious.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Scottish Ambulance Service said: \"We received a call at 11.59 hours to attend an incident Glasgow's Bridge Street Subway 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 by Glasgow Subway This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We sent an ambulance, a critical care advanced practitioner, the trauma team and the special operations response team to the scene.\n\n\"One male patient was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital travelling with the trauma team.\"\n\nServices on Glasgow Subway were fully operational by about 15:35.\n\nA Guide Dogs spokesman said: \"We are aware of an incident that happened at Bridge Street station. We will be looking into it thoroughly to establish exactly what happened, but our immediate thoughts and concerns are for the welfare of our guide dog owner and their guide dog.\n\n\"Members of Guide Dogs staff have been supporting the guide dog owner's family in hospital, and the guide dog is being examined by a vet before being taken into Guide Dogs' care for the short term.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The zebra was one of two that escaped from a circus\n\nA runaway zebra has been shot dead in Germany after it escaped from a circus and fled onto a motorway, causing a traffic accident, police say.\n\nPolice in the northern city of Rostock said the animal disrupted traffic, damaged cars and caused an accident on the A20 motorway on Wednesday before being shot dead by officers.\n\nA second zebra that escaped from the circus was captured.\n\nDetails of the shooting have not been made public.\n\nIt is also not yet clear how the two animals escaped from the circus in northern Germany on Tuesday evening.\n\nPolice on Wednesday morning issued a warning on Twitter that one of the escaped zebras was disrupting traffic on the A20 highway and had caused an accident.\n\n\"The animal was going in the wrong direction on the autobahn from Tessin to Rostock,\" a police spokesperson told Deutsche Welle.\n\nIn a later statement, they said no one was injured in the collision, which occurred when one car braked to avoid the animal, causing another to crash into it.\n\nThe animal also damaged vehicles and forced the temporary closure of the highway, they said.\n\nThe zebra was later shot near the municipality of Thelkow after efforts by officials and a circus tamer to capture it alive were unsuccessful.\n\nThe second zebra was reportedly returned to the circus.", "Climate change activists' plan to spray fake blood on the Treasury did not get off to the best start.\n\nExtinction Rebellion protesters used a hose from an old fire engine to spray 1,800 litres liquid at the 100 year-old building, but they quickly lost control of the powerful water jet.\n\nProtesters say they are \"highlighting the inconsistency between the UK government’s insistence that the UK is a world leader in tackling climate breakdown, and the vast sums it pours into fossil fuel exploration\".\n\nThe Met Police said five men and three women had been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage.", "Reports of rape, sexual assault and harassment at UK universities have trebled in three years, a BBC investigation suggests.\n\nUniversities told the BBC they recorded 1,436 allegations of sexual harassment or sexual violence against students in 2018-19 - up from 476 in 2016-17.\n\nThe data, from 124 of 157 universities, shows not all have robust systems to prevent or respond to sexual violence.\n\nUniversities said they were making progress in dealing with the issue.\n\nIt is believed the increase may partially reflect the fact that some universities have made it easier for students to report allegations and receive support - three years ago universities promised action amid concern about sexual violence on campus.\n\nOut of the 157 universities contacted by the BBC with a freedom of information request, 124 responded.\n\nBehind the statistics are the experiences of students such as Louisa - not her real name - who was raped by a fellow-student.\n\nShe thinks a drink was spiked at a student party, leaving her nauseous and disorientated the next day.\n\nLouisa kept the experience to herself for months, she says, until she confided in friends and family about the reason for her escalating anxiety and depression.\n\n\"I felt that there wasn't really any point in being here because I was just constantly on edge, constantly frightened that he was gonna, like, burst through my bedroom door,\" she said.\n\nLouisa had panic attacks, and found it increasingly difficult to leave her student flat.\n\nShe says she began to feel life was not worth living, and attempted suicide.\n\nIt was only when she was given hospital treatment for her mental health that she found the courage to go to the police, and then to the university.\n\nAlthough she was offered counselling by the university welfare service, the wait was several months, so she sought help elsewhere.\n\nBut it was when she had to face questions on camera from two university investigators that Louisa says she felt retraumatised.\n\nThey told her they had not investigated a rape or serious sexual assault before, and then went on to ask detailed intimate questions.\n\n\"I was starting, just beginning, to heal slightly from it, and that just completely broke that down again,\" she says.\n\n\"And they asked me to talk about my mental health. It felt like I was being interrogated.\"\n\nThree years ago Universities UK, which speaks for 130 of the largest institutions, promised change in response to growing concern about sexual violence on campus.\n\nA special taskforce came up with a series of recommendations to prevent sexual harassment and violence, and to improve the response to victims.\n\nOne key guideline was to introduce an approach that involves training students and staff to have the confidence to intervene in inappropriate situations, known as bystander intervention.\n\nUniversities UK endorses this approach, because its effectiveness has been backed by research.\n\nDr Rachel Fenton, from the University of Exeter, carried out the research in the UK, showing that bystander interventions can work in a changing campus culture.\n\nShe says research has shown that victims find it hard to report incidents, and can be retraumatised by poor systems and support.\n\nBut just 48 of the universities who responded to the BBC said they were using it.\n\nOnly eight carried out an anonymous survey of students to gauge the prevalence of sexual violence, and 75 provided students with specialist support for victims.\n\nOf the 124 universities providing information, 33 confirmed they used specialist investigators, suggesting Louisa's experience is far from isolated.\n\nDr Fenton said: \"Universities need to be using specialist investigators - people who have training on how to hear evidence, on how to assess it, to make sure they don't buy into popular myths about sexual violence.\"\n\nDr Fenton is part of a team of academics across several universities who have just carried out a national study to investigate how British universities are responding to sexual violence.\n\nThe BBC has exclusive access to this, and it reveals that some working within universities believe their institutions are too concerned about the risk to their reputations.\n\nWhile some universities have appointed specialist staff, making it easier for victims of sexual violence to report and be supported, others - it seems - are not.\n\nDr Fenton says this means students face different campus cultures and different levels of support.\n\n\"I think we're at the point where we have to have accountability, with legal obligations on universities that they have to adhere to baseline criteria, to get any kind of consistency.\"\n\nThe university decided to take no action against the man Louisa had accused of rape.\n\nA spokesman for Universities UK said: \"Students and staff must feel able to report an incident with the confidence that it will be addressed, and an increase in disclosures suggests more willingness to report as well as a growing awareness about what constitutes sexual misconduct.\n\n\"Our own research shows that while universities are making progress, more must be done.\n\n\"Since 2016, the vast majority have improved support for students reporting incidents and updated their disciplinary procedures.\n\n\"We will be releasing more details shortly on the steps taken to tackle harassment and hate crime and how universities can continue to make progress\".\n\nLouisa is considering dropping out, and says she is angry that by the end she felt as though it would almost have been better to keep her experience to herself.\n\n\"A lot of people don't report because they see how bad the system is.\n\n\"There are a lot of victims out there who are probably just sat in their uni rooms, not going to lectures, not doing anything because this awful thing has happened to them.\n\n\"And they feel that their university won't listen,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The ticket and coach packages were made available ahead of a general ticket release\n\nThe first batch of tickets released for next year's Glastonbury Festival have sold out in just 27 minutes.\n\nThe ticket plus coach packages went on sale at 18:00 BST and were all gone by 18:27.\n\nThat was the time organisers posted a tweet saying they had all been snapped up.\n\nGeneral tickets to the 2020 event, which runs from 24 to 28 June at Worthy Farm in Somerset, will be released at 09:00 on Sunday.\n\nFans who missed out on ticket and coach packages complained on Twitter.\n\nOne wrote: \"The Glastonbury ticket stress is reallllllll.\"\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\nAnother disappointed fan shared a picture of a skeleton sitting in a chair, with the caption: \"Waiting in the queue for Glastonbury tickets.\"\n\nAnother said: \"Glastonbury tickets are a myth.\"\n\nGlastonbury 2019 was headlined by Stormzy, The Killers and The Cure.\n\nThe 2020 line-up is yet to be announced, though Sir Paul McCartney has been tipped as a potential headliner.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Relive the moment Dina Asher-Smith became the first British woman to win a major global sprint title as she stormed to 200m victory at the 2019 World Championships, and catch-up with Dina tonight as she joins Gabby Logan to look back at the events of last year.\n\nWatch 'How Dina and Kat struck World gold' on Sunday, 31st May at 1500 - BBC One", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool held off a stunning fightback by Red Bull Salzburg to get their Champions League defence up and running with victory in an incredible game at Anfield.\n\nThe visitors trailed 3-0 in the first half but battled back to 3-3 before Mohamed Salah grabbed the winner midway through the second half.\n\nLiverpool lost their Group E opener to Napoli last month but got off to the ideal start in this game when former Salzburg player Sadio Mane struck inside 10 minutes, sweeping home at the near post.\n\nAndrew Robertson turned in a cross from Trent Alexander-Arnold before Salah poked a third under keeper Cican Stanokovic.\n\nIt seemed as though the game was over as a contest 10 minutes before half-time.\n\nBut Salzburg, like Liverpool, have scored goals for fun this season - 40 in nine league games - and began their fightback when Hwang Hee-chan got the better of Virgil van Dijk before scoring with a powerful strike.\n\nThe visitors reduced the deficit further when Takumi Minamino volleyed in and the away fans erupted when substitute Erling Braut Haaland tapped in an equaliser - his 18th goal of the season.\n\nSalah finally got Liverpool over the line when he latched on to Roberto Firmino's header and scored with a fierce strike.\n\nLiverpool have not lost at Anfield in Europe since 2014, winning 16 and drawing seven of their games before Salzburg's visit.\n\nIt looked like win number 17 was going to be a formality with the Reds at their clinical best in a devastating first-half display, scoring from three of their four shots on target.\n\nWhile scoring is undoubtedly Liverpool's strength, this game once again raised concerns about their defence.\n\nThey have kept only three clean sheets this season - against Burnley and Sheffield United in the Premier League and against MK Dons in the Carabao Cup - and against an attack as prolific as Salzburg's they struggled to cope.\n\nVan Dijk has undoubtedly been a rock for Liverpool but this game perhaps underlined the importance of Joel Matip to their defence as well - the Cameroon international missed the match through injury.\n\nAll talk pre-match about Red Bull Salzburg had been focused on their in-form striker Haaland.\n\nThe Leeds-born 19-year-old, son of ex-Leeds United midfield Alf Inge Haaland, had scored 17 goals in 11 games before the game, including a hat-trick in Salzburg's 6-2 defeat of Genk in their group opener.\n\nIllness restricted Haaland to a place on the bench against Liverpool but, while he is undoubtedly a key player for the Austrian side, they have plenty of goals in the rest of the team.\n\nThe visitors were the first to threaten in the opening few minutes when Minamino flashed a shot just wide and there were other chances as well, with Patson Daka hesitating when in on goal, allowing Liverpool to recover.\n\nIn the end, they fell just short but the away fans were cheering and singing long after the final whistle. This performance against the Champions League holders will have felt like a victory.\n\nLiverpool return to Premier League action this weekend as they host in-form Leicester City on Saturday (15:00 BST).\n• None Liverpool have won their past 12 home matches in all competitions, their best since an 18-game streak between April and November 1985.\n• None Red Bull Salzburg became only the fourth visiting team to score three goals at Anfield in the Champions League (after Barcelona, Chelsea and Real Madrid), and the only one of those four to fail to win.\n• None Since the start of the 2017-18 season, there have been 47 goals scored in Champions League games at Anfield - more than at any other venue.\n• None Since the start of tha, Liverpool forward Roberto Firmino is the only player to have both scored (14) and assisted (10) at least 10 goals in the Champions League.\n• None Salzburg's two Champions League matches this season have featured 15 goals (9 scored, 6 conceded), more than any other team.\n• None Salzburg's Hwang Hee-chan has had a hand in five goals in only two Champions League games this season (2 goals, 3 assists).\n• None Liverpool forward Sadio Mane became the sixth African to score 15 Champions League goals, with only Didier Drogba reaching that tally in fewer games (25) than Mane (26).\n• None Fabinho (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. James Milner (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Attempt saved. Masaya Okugawa (FC Red Bull Salzburg) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Zlatko Junuzovic. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Global stocks have fallen sharply with the UK's FTSE 100 suffering its worst day in over three-and-a-half years.\n\nThe blue-chip index lost over 3% in its worst day since January 2016. US and European stock markets also dropped.\n\nThe falls came after poor US jobs and manufacturing figures and a World Trade Organization decision paving the way for $7.5bn in US tariffs on EU goods.\n\nAnalysts said these factors had sparked fears over the strength of the global economy.\n\nIn Europe, Germany's main index, the Dax, closed 2.8% lower, while France's Cac 40 lost over 3%.\n\nIn the US, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended trading 1.9% lower, marking the second day in a row it has lost more than 1%.\n\nThe S&P 500 fell 1.8% while the Nasdaq, which is largely made up of technology firms, lost 1.6%.\n\nOn Tuesday, one of the most closely-watched US manufacturing figures, the Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) index of factory activity, dropped to its lowest level since June 2009.\n\nFresh figures on Wednesday showing a slowdown in jobs growth in the private sector in September accelerated concerns over the US economy.\n\n\"Given that most other areas in the world aren't covering themselves in economic glory, the fact that the US is having a volatile time makes people a little worried,\" said Ben Kumar, an analyst at Seven Investment Management.\n\nRobert Pavlik, chief investment strategist manager at SlateStone Wealth, said the slowdown in China was also driving investors to sell shares.\n\n\"It's all adding up to the same thing essentially: worries that the global economy is slowing and giving investors reason to pause and take profits,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Kumar said it was too early to be concerned.\n\n\"It's hard to tell anything from a one day perspective.\n\n\"People have overreacted which does tend to happen. We're in this world where everyone freaks out first and asks questions later.\n\n\"It's just one of those days where lots of things go wrong at the same time.\"\n• None US set to impose tariffs on $7.5bn of EU exports", "Hilary Simmons (right) collapsed less than half an hour after the confrontation\n\nA Tesco worker collapsed and died after an altercation with a shoplifter, an inquest has heard.\n\nHilary Simmons, 59, was taken ill at a Tesco Express store on Corporation Road in Middlesbrough on 30 April 2018.\n\nA pathologist concluded the stress of the confrontation \"directly contributed to her death\", but not to a criminal standard.\n\nA post-mortem exam found she was suffering from heart disease which could have caused death at any time.\n\nThe inquest, at Teesside Coroner's Court, heard shoplifter Michael James Love was later convicted of theft.\n\nGiving evidence, Mr Love said he had concealed a bottle of wine inside his jacket but was challenged by Mrs Simmons.\n\nIn his police interview, he claimed she shouted and swore at him and alleged that she pushed him, though this was denied by other witnesses.\n\nHe denied pushing her and claimed he had wanted to leave but Mrs Simmons stopped him, which was also disputed by other witnesses.\n\nHilary Simmons was taken ill soon after the incident at the Tesco Express store\n\nThe jury was played CCTV footage from the store's cameras which showed Mr Love and another man leaving the store ahead of Mrs Simmons.\n\nThe mother of two then appears to be speaking to them on the street outside.\n\nAfterwards, Mrs Simmons, from Ingleby Barwick, began to feel unwell and told colleagues: \"I feel like I'm having a heart attack.\"\n\nShe collapsed less than half an hour later and died that evening at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.\n\nMr Love was questioned by Cleveland Police on suspicion of manslaughter but this was not taken further, the inquest jury heard.\n\nSince Mrs Simmons death, Tesco has employed a security guard at the store and the court heard staff were told not to confront thieves.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man carrying a knife has killed four people at the police headquarters in Paris where he worked, according to French media.\n\nThe attack happened at about 13:00 local time (11:00 GMT) in the courtyard of the building.\n\nThe attacker, who has not been named, was shot dead by police. There has been no official statement as yet.\n\nEmergency services are at the scene and investigators have cordoned off the surrounding area in the île de la Cité.\n\nThe attack occurred a short distance away from the Notre-Dame cathedral and other major tourist landmarks.", "Uber is testing new ground with an app to put casual workers in touch with employers, as it faces an increasingly tough climate for its core ride-hailing business.\n\nUber Works will allow cleaners, bar staff and warehouse workers to compare pay rates and sign up for shifts.\n\nThe app, which launches on Friday, will initially only be available in Chicago.\n\nIt will compete with a range of rival apps in the US market including Wonolo, Workpop and Shiftgig.\n\nThe move comes as several parts of the world tighten regulation around Uber's operations as a ride-hailing firm. California recently passed legislation designed to pave the way for so-called “gig workers” to become employees and gain additional rights, which is expected to increase costs for firms such as Uber.\n\nMillions of American workers use staffing agencies, Uber said in a blog post announcing the venture. But it believes the process can be made more transparent and faster for both employees and firms.\n\nThe app will provide information on pay, location and working conditions. Workers can also use it to track working hours and breaks, the firm said.\n\nEmployers would be able to tap into a ready pool of \"vetted and qualified\" temporary labour, Uber said.\n\nUber will focus on making the app successful in Chicago, where it has already operated in a test phase for the past year, before introducing it elsewhere, it added.\n\nThe growth of casual hiring, dubbed the \"gig economy\", has been controversial. Some staff hired on an ad hoc basis say they appreciate the flexibility it offers, while others suffer income insecurity and a lack of other welfare benefits of employee status.\n\nDrivers working for Uber's original ride-hailing business have taken the company to court to establish the firm's duty to provide staff benefits such as holiday pay and sickness cover.\n\nUber Works has agreed partnerships with staffing agencies in Chicago that employ, pay and handle worker benefits, potentially side-stepping this issue with the new platform.", "Fred Scappaticci strenuously denies he was an Army agent within the IRA\n\nStakeknife, the top British spy within the IRA, was a key factor in successful Army operations against the group in County Tyrone, a relative of one of those killed has told the BBC.\n\nTwenty-six IRA men based in the county were shot dead by the SAS during the Troubles.\n\nBBC Spotlight examines the role of agents in the latest part of its Secret History series.\n\nThe agent, who was working for the Army, headed up the internal IRA investigation into the Loughgall ambush in 1987.\n\nThe SAS, the elite Army unit, was lying in wait for an eight-man IRA team as it attacked a police station, and shot them dead.\n\nThe investigation did not find out who was responsible for compromising the operation.\n\nThe programme, quoting republican sources, states a local IRA man, Gerard Harte, fell out with Stakeknife over who may have been to blame.\n\nMr Harte was later killed in another SAS ambush near Drumnakilly in 1988.\n\nHis brother, Ignatius Harte, was asked by BBC Spotlight if he held Stakeknife responsible.\n\n\"If Freddie Scappaticci was dealing with internal (IRA) security in Tyrone, which we know he was, obviously that was a leading role in how so many operations were carried out in Tyrone.\n\n\"All wars are dirty wars, but this was an exceptionally dirty war.\"\n\nKieran Conway, a former IRA intelligence officer, told the programme: \"The attrition rate was just so appalling.\n\n\"British intelligence were obviously in a position to intercept most operations.\"\n\nMr Scappaticci left Northern Ireland when identified by the media as Stakeknife\n\nFred Scappaticci is alleged to have been the most high-ranking British agent within the Provisional IRA, who was given the codename Stakeknife.\n\nHe was the grandson of an Italian immigrant who came to Northern Ireland in search of work.\n\nHe has admitted to being a republican but denied claims he was an IRA informer.\n\nHe is believed to have led the IRA's internal security unit, known as 'the nutting squad', which was responsible for identifying and interrogating suspected informers.\n\nMr Scappaticci left Northern Ireland when identified by the media as Stakeknife in 2003.\n\nThe activities of Stakeknife - for decades the Army's \"golden egg\" within the IRA - are being investigated by the former chief constable of Bedfordshire, Jon Boutcher.\n\nHis inquiry, Operation Kenova, could involve about 50 killings.\n\nMr Boutcher has previously said he may be able to bring charges against former members of the IRA, the Army and MI5.\n\nYou can see the fourth episode of Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History on BBC iPlayer", "The painting is nearly four metres (13ft) wide and is the largest known canvas by Banksy\n\nA painting by Banksy showing the House of Commons overrun with chimpanzees has sold at auction for just under £9.9m.\n\nThe 4m (13ft) wide artwork Devolved Parliament was painted by the anonymous Bristol artist in 2009.\n\nExpected to fetch up to £2m, it sold for nearly five times its estimate at Sotheby's in London on Thursday.\n\nBanksy reacted on Instagram, saying it was a \"record price for a Banksy painting\" and \"shame I didn't still own it\".\n\nSotheby's tweeted the painting had sold \"to applause at £9,879,500 - nine times its previous record - after a 13-minute bidding battle\".\n\nThe auction house said: \"Regardless of where you sit in the Brexit debate, there's no doubt that this work is more pertinent now than it has ever been.\"\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 banksy 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\nHowever, the record-breaking price was seemingly questioned by the elusive artist who posted a quote from Robert Hughes on his Instagram account, stating: \"Instead of being the common property of humankind the way a book is, art becomes the particular property of someone who can afford it.\"\n\nDevolved Parliament is the artist's biggest known work on canvas.\n\nIt beat the previous auction record for a Banksy, thought to be the $1.8m (£1.4m) for Keep It Spotless, which sold at Sotheby's in New York in 2008.\n\nAlex Branczik, from Sotheby's, said Banksy \"confronted the burning issues of the day\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The anonymous artist's Girl With Balloon self-destructs after £1m auction sale\n\nHe said the artist \"distils society's most complicated political situations into just one, deceptively simple image that is readily shareable in our social media age\".\n\nBanksy created Devolved Parliament for the takeover of Bristol Museum in 2009, which attracted more than 300,000 visitors and was said to be one of the most visited exhibitions in the world that year.\n\nThe painting's anonymous owner lent it to the museum earlier this year to mark both the exhibition's 10th anniversary and Britain's original planned exit from the EU on 29 March.\n\nThe auction took place a year after Banksy himself intervened in a Sotheby's auction, when his artwork Girl with Balloon self-destructed as the gavel came down to become the newly titled Love is in the Bin.\n\nDevolved Parliament was put on display in April at Bristol Museum", "Labour MP and chair of the Brexit Committee, Hilary Benn, reiterates his call for another EU referendum.\n\nHe says the Commons has \"made it quite clear\" they do not support a no-deal Brexit, but Boris Johnson's plan has too many flaws.\n\nHe tells BBC News: \"We need to find another way out of this.\n\n\"There is a growing number of MPs that recognise the only way to resolve this is to go back to the people - put a deal to them that has been negotiated and the option of remain and say, 'look, we are deadlocked, you need to decide'.\"\n\nMr Benn adds: \"Three-and-a-half years on, we now know what was offered by the Leave campaign... wasn't true.\n\n\"There are choices that need to be made and trade-offs involved here, and the democratic thing to do is that confirmatory referendum.\n\n\"This began with the people. We should end it with going back to the people.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website and app; Listen live on BBC Radio 5 Live; Live streams, clips and text commentary online.\n\nDina Asher-Smith became the first British woman to win a major global short sprint title as she stormed to victory in 200m at the World Championships.\n\nThe 23-year-old, who won silver in the 100m, was the outstanding favourite and outclassed the field to take gold in a British record of 21.88 seconds.\n\n\"I'm lost for words. I dreamed of this and now it's real,\" she told BBC Sport. \"I don't think it's properly sunk in.\"\n\nAsher-Smith is also the first Briton to win a world or Olympic sprint title since Linford Christie at Stuttgart 1993.\n\n\"I woke up today thinking, 'This is it. This is the moment you did all your work for'. The tiredness disappeared,\" she added.\n\n\"[My coach] John [Blackie] and I knew I could do it, it means so much.\"\n• None Asher-Smith gold the beginning of a new era - sprint legend Johnson\n\nThere was no light show as seen in some other showpiece finals here in Doha, but instead a loud cheer greeted Asher-Smith as she smiled on her way to her starting blocks.\n\nThe race itself was a formality. Asher-Smith came off the bend with her nose in front before powering away from the rest of the pack in the final 60m.\n\nLike on the celebration lap following the women's 100m final there were rows of empty seats in the Khalifa Stadium but Asher-Smith, who paraded the flag after winning silver on Sunday, enjoyed her victory with a large British contingent. There were also tears as she embraced her mother Julie.\n\nMany had already placed the gold medal around the European champion's neck after the pre-event withdrawal of 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce followed by that of fellow Jamaican and Olympic champion Elaine Thompson. And before the championships Bahamas' Shaunae Miller-Uibo, unbeaten in the 200m this season, opted only to run in the 400m because of the tight scheduling.\n\nBut bar the Bahamian, Asher-Smith had got the better of her other rivals during the Diamond League season. The lack of competition simply made the task easier for the Kent athlete.\n\nAnother world medal to come? And what about the Olympics?\n\nIt has been a tremendous six-year period for the Briton between winning the European youth 200m title in 2013 to becoming the senior world champion in Doha.\n\nBy her side since the age of eight has been coach John Blackie, who had spotted her potential at the Blackheath and Bromley Athletics Club.\n\nTheir partnership has produced junior titles at European and world level before she stole the show at the 2018 European championships by winning three titles.\n\nAsher-Smith remains Britain's sole medallist in Doha with two, although that again might become three with the 4x100m relay team looking to add to the Euro title won in Berlin last year.\n\nHer success here, however, is a stepping stone to her ultimate aim, which is Olympic success at Tokyo 2020.\n\nFind out how to get into athletics with our special guide.\n\nSydney 2000 heptathlon champion Denise Lewis has been following Asher-Smith's progress for several years now.\n\nLewis said the sprinter will not have to work on too much during the off-season, although she did not want to speculate whether the Briton could replicate her feats in Doha.\n\n\"If I had a crystal ball I'd give you answer,\" she said.\n\n\"The Olympics aren't that far away. Athletes have a well-deserved break then it's game on again - they'll be thinking of training in December.\n\n\"How can she do? She can do very well. There's no reason to think she can't be top three again. We can't hang medals around athletes' necks.\n\n\"She still has to go there and do it - she has to maintain a healthy status and that's most important thing.\"\n• None How to follow live on BBC TV, radio and online\n\n'She has realised her full potential' - Reaction\n\nBBC Sport athletics commentator Steve Cram: \"She has dazzled everyone all year and she has done it again. She ran a superb race. She has planned it so well, her whole season gearing towards this moment.\"\n\nFour-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson on BBC TV: \"It's Dina's attitude [that has taken her to the next level]. She has taken every year to learn and to get better. Not just from a technical aspect, training or race standpoint. She is very careful how she handles her career and how she gets the most out of this potential.\n\n\"She makes it her responsibility. She has realised her full potential.\"\n\nOlympic heptathlon gold medallist Denise Lewis on BBC TV: \"She has managed to unlock the formula. Many have come and tried but not been able to do this, two global medals.\n\n\"She has broken the American dominance and the Jamaican stranglehold on this competition.\"", "A plane wing is seen among the wreckage\n\nA rare World War Two-era plane has crashed at an airport in the US state of Connecticut, killing seven people.\n\nThirteen people were on board the vintage Boeing B-17 - dubbed the Flying Fortress - when it went down and burst into flames minutes after take-off outside Hartford on Wednesday.\n\nThe aircraft was civilian-registered and was not being flown by the US military, aviation officials say.\n\nExperts say only about 10 B-17 planes are still being flown around the US.\n\nState Police Commissioner James Rovella told reporters at a news conference, adding: \"Victims are very difficult to identify, we don't want to make a mistake.\"\n\nThe B-17 flight departed at 09:45 local time (14:45GMT). Five minutes later it reported having difficulties. The crash occurred near the Bradley International Airport at 09:54.\n\n\"We observed that the aircraft was not gaining altitude,\" said Connecticut Airport Authority Executive Director Kevin Dillon.\n\nThe B-17 was considered state-of-the-art when it was first introduced in 1936\n\nWitness Antonio Arreguin told NBC News that he felt the heat from the fire 250 yards (229m) from the crash site.\n\n\"In front of me, I see this big ball of orange fire, and I knew something happened,\" said Mr Arreguin.\n\nAngela Fletcher, who lives about a half-mile from the airport, told the Hartford Courant newspaper: \"It sounded like an 18-wheeler coming down the street and then it got louder.\n\n\"Like so loud, it was vibrating things in the house. I looked out the window, and I saw this giant old plane come over the house that was very close.\"\n\nAccording to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the plane crashed at the end of a runway during an attempted landing.\n\nThe Collings Foundation, a non-profit that owned the plane, said it was scheduled to participate in a \"Wings of Freedom Tour\" at the airport later this week.\n\nJeremy Kinney, the curator for World War Two aviation at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, says only about 10 B-17 planes are still considered \"airworthy\", while another 40 or so exist in museums and private collections.\n\nMr Kinney tells BBC News that the strategic bombers were famous for their \"ability to take the air war to the Nazis\".\n\nThey played a \"central role\" in the campaign over Europe, he says, adding that they became a \"stirring symbol\" for allied fighters.\n\nThe aircraft's nickname comes from a newspaper reporter who dubbed it a \"flying fortress due to all the machine guns that were protruding from the body\" as well as its reputation for delivering US airmen home safely after missions flown from England and Italy.\n\nIt could carry up to 13 50-calibre machines guns and 4-8,000lbs (1,800-3,600kg) of bombs.\n\nWhen it was first introduced in 1936 it was considered state-of-the-art, but by the end of World War Two it had largely been replaced by the B-29 \"Super Fortress\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"They are one of the most popular and one of the most important airplanes that people want to see,\" says Mr Kinney, adding that aviation fans also come to hear the \"lumbering sound\" of the plane's four engines.\n\n\"It's an iconic symbol of World War Two.\"", "On Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed the Conservative Party conference in Manchester.\n\nThe government also delivered its new Brexit proposals to the EU including plans to replace the Irish backstop.\n\nThe plan would see Northern Ireland stay in the European single market for goods, but leave the customs union - resulting in new customs checks.\n\nThe European Commission said there had been progress but \"problems\" remained.", "The home secretary says that if Facebook has a credible plan to protect its users then it is time to disclose the details\n\nUK Home Secretary Priti Patel and counterparts in the US and Australia have sent an open letter to Facebook calling on it to rethink its plans to encrypt all messages on its platforms.\n\nThe policy threatens \"lives and the safety of our children\", they said.\n\nThey said it could hamper international efforts to grant law enforcers faster access to private messages on social media, as agreed between the UK and US.\n\nFacebook said \"people have the right to have a private conversation online.\"\n\nThe head of Facebook-owned WhatsApp Will Cathcart had previously posted on Hacker News: \"End-to-end encryption protects that right for over a billion people every day.\"\n\nFacebook said it is \"consulting closely with child safety experts, governments and technology companies and devoting new teams and sophisticated technology\" to keep people safe.\n\nThe letter was signed by Ms Patel, the US Attorney General William P Barr, Acting US Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan and the Australian minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton. It comes off the back of a data access agreement between the US and the UK designed to remove the barriers to cross-border surveillance.\n\nIt allows British law-enforcement agencies to demand from US tech firms data relating to terrorists, child-sexual abusers and other serious criminals.\n\nIt is hoped it will dramatically speed up investigations - previously, the process of requesting data from US firms could take anything from six months to two years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnder the new agreement that could be cut to a matter of weeks or even days.\n\nBut there is one major problem - messages sent over services using end-to-end encryption, such as WhatsApp, will remain unreadable.\n\nFollowing scandals over the misuse of personal data, the social network has focused on privacy and it now offers encryption as an option to users on its Messenger service.\n\nIt also has plans to introduce it to Instagram.\n\n\"Tech companies like Facebook have a responsibility to balance privacy with the safety of the public,\" the letter read.\n\nIt added: \"So far nothing we have seen from Facebook reassures me that their plans for end-to-end encryption will not act as barrier to the identification and pursuit of criminals operating on their platforms.\n\n\"Companies cannot operate with impunity where lives and the safety of our children is at stake, and if Mr Zuckerberg really has a credible plan to protect Facebook's more than two billion users, it's time he let us know what it is.\"\n\nIn 2018, Facebook made 16.8 million reports of child sexual exploitation and abuse content to the US National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, which the National Crime Agency estimates have led to more than 2,500 arrests and 3,000 children made safe.\n\nHead of online child safety at the NSPCC Tony Stower said: \"It's an absolute scandal that Facebook are actively choosing to provide offenders with a way to hide in the shadows on their platform, seamlessly able to target, groom and abuse children completely undetected.\n\n\"The landmark agreement between the US and UK on accessing data will radically reduce the time it takes for police to get hold of the data they need from tech giants to bring offenders to justice.\n\n\"It should be a hugely important step forward in tackling online child abuse - if tech giants play their part too.\"\n\nThere has been some confusion about whether the Cloud Act could force firms such as Facebook to offer so-called back doors to law enforcement.\n\nIn a series of tweets on the issue, Facebook's ex-technology officer Alex Stamos attempted to clarify.\n\n\"This agreement would allow UK courts to issue requests equivalent to US courts, but it does not grant them access to anything a US court can't get already,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Orders for wire taps of products like WhatsApp can get some data, like IP addresses, phone numbers, contact lists and avatar photos. It cannot get encrypted messages and attachments.\"\n\nA BBC investigation earlier this year found that encrypted apps were taking over from the dark web as a place to host criminals.", "How will the EU respond to Mr Johnson's proposals?\n\nWorkable proposals or non-workable proposals? That's the EU's question.\n\nThe prime minister says he has delivered a \"constructive and reasonable\" plan to Brussels, containing UK compromises on finding alternative arrangements to the Irish backstop in a Brexit deal.\n\nNow it's the EU's turn, he reasons.\n\nSo what compromises, if any, is the EU now willing to make?\n\nWell, Brussels' mantra since Boris Johnson became prime minister has been: we already compromised in our backstop agreement with Theresa May, if the UK's new PM wants to rip up that agreement and start again, then the onus is on him, not the EU, to find an alternative solution.\n\nThe EU has said it needed concrete, legally operable, realistic UK proposals on the table before it could entertain re-thinking its position.\n\nUK proposals have now been delivered but the EU suspicion is that they are neither realistic, nor legally operable as they stand.\n\nAnd before anyone objects that \"the EU was always going to pour cold water on the PM's offer, whatever he said!\" let me tell you, it's not all gloom.\n\nBefore the EU read the prime minister's offer, many predicted it would confirm their suspicion that his focus was on a domestic UK audience and on an upcoming general election - not on engaging with the EU.\n\nBut senior diplomats told me on Wednesday night that some of Boris Johnson's proposals were \"better than expected\".\n\n\"His offer on regulatory alignment (keeping Northern Ireland tied to EU rules on goods) was great, as was the tone of his covering letter to Jean-Claude Juncker,\" one northern European diplomat told me. \"All very professional. I believe he wants a deal. That it wasn't just rhetoric.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. DUP leader says new proposals \"sensible and serious\"\n\nAnother hit with much of the EU audience was Boris Johnson's recognition that the backstop and any alternative arrangements to replace it would be specific to the island of Ireland and the delicate balance needed there to protect the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe prime minister promised the UK would not seek to mirror advantages in that special arrangement in its other post-Brexit borders with the EU - such as the Dover-Calais crossing.\n\nBut diplomats also echoed the concerns of the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, who commented - tight-lipped - that while \"there's improvement... we're not there yet\".\n\nMr Barnier's team says it will have many detailed questions for the government on Thursday, after closer scrutiny of the UK offer.\n\nIn fact, Boris Johnson's proposals raise a number of concerns for the EU, including a question mark over the regulatory alignment that the northern European diplomat so praised.\n\nYou see, the prime minister calls for Northern Ireland's power-sharing government, not currently sitting, but which includes the ultra-unionist DUP party, to have a veto over the alignment.\n\nThis means they could refuse to renew the agreement or even stop it ever kicking in.\n\nSome of the UK proposals concern regulatory alignment on the island of Ireland\n\nBut the big flashing red light for the EU concerns customs arrangements.\n\nThe EU thinks the prime minister's proposals would leave the single market exposed after Brexit (primarily because of smuggling risks but also VAT fraud) and could also pose a threat to the Northern Ireland peace process.\n\nThe EU, led by Dublin, has ruled out any customs checks on the island of Ireland; any procedures that interrupt the all-Ireland economy. Another EU criticism is that the UK proposal lacks detail on how customs checks would be carried out, even away from the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.\n\nA high-level EU diplomat suggested to me that while it might eventually allow a time limit to the backstop/alternative arrangements (if Dublin could be persuaded), Brussels would need Boris Johnson to budge on customs.\n\nIn the meantime, don't expect the EU to rush forward to crush the prime minister's proposals, because:\n\nB) If there isn't going to be a deal, the EU doesn't want to be seen to be slamming the door in the UK's face.\n\nEuropean Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker was quick to welcome the arrival of the UK proposals in Brussels on Wednesday. He expressed concern over some elements of the paper but also immediately volunteered that the EU would be available night and day for further negotiations.\n\nHis intention: to put the ball back in the UK's court.\n\nMr Juncker was quick to welcome the arrival of the UK proposals\n\nWhile the prime minister appears to have walked back from his declared \"take it or leave it\" approach - instead declaring that he would look carefully at the response - the EU questions how flexible he can or will want to be in further negotiations, especially with a general election looming.\n\nBrussels is keen to clear up a constant EU confusion since Boris Johnson became prime minister: should the EU believe it's in real negotiations with the government, or are the talks ultimately a backdrop to an election campaign for the prime minister?\n\n\"All eyes will now be on [Brexit Secretary] Steve Barclay,\" a senior EU source told me. \"He's the one who talks to the European Commission and he's the tough one.\"\n\nThere are diplomats who suggest that it's almost as if Boris Johnson and the Brexit secretary have a good cop, bad cop thing going when it comes to talking to the EU.\n\nBefore the EU thinks of offering compromises - and Ireland is key here - it has to believe negotiations are sincere and that an acceptable agreement can be found.\n\nIs Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay playing the role of bad cop?\n\nRight now the differences between the two sides remain huge. There are also questions marks over whether seething MPs in Westminster would approve a \"Boris-engineered deal\" and also whether the European Parliament would give the go-ahead. MEPs are scheduled to outline their opposition to the Johnson proposals on Thursday.\n\nNo-one I speak to on the EU side thinks a new Brexit deal can be done in time for the leaders' summit in mid-October. Few think it possible even by the end of the month.\n\nUltimately the EU doesn't buy the prime minister's line that it's either this deal or no deal.\n\nBrussels believes another extension is the most likely new chapter in the ongoing Brexit process.", "Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is in the top tier of 2020 candidates\n\nThe 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, 78, has cancelled campaign events after undergoing a heart procedure.\n\nMr Sanders was treated in hospital for an arterial blockage after having chest pain at an event in Nevada on Tuesday.\n\nThe Vermont senator tweeted that he was \"feeling good\". An aide said Mr Sanders would rest over the next few days.\n\nIf Mr Sanders were to win the US presidency, he would become the oldest person to hold the office.\n\nThe presidential hopeful tweeted that he was recovering, taking the opportunity to promote his healthcare policy inspired by Britain's National Health 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 by Bernie Sanders This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenior adviser Jeff Weaver said in a statement: \"Following medical evaluation and testing he was found to have a blockage in one artery and two stents were successfully inserted.\"\n\nMr Weaver said Mr Sanders is \"conversing and in good spirits\" and will be \"resting up over the next few days\". He is recovering at a hospital in Las Vegas.\n\nA stent is a small mesh tube used to help keep arteries open. Receiving stents is \"a minimally invasive procedure\", typically with a short recovery time, the US National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute says.\n\nMr Sanders' wife, Jane, released a statement on Thursday saying he was doing well.\n\n\"Yesterday, he spent much of the day talking with staff about policies, cracking jokes with the nurses and doctors, and speaking with his family on the phone,\" she said.\n\n\"His doctors are pleased with his progress, and there has been no need for any additional procedures. We expect Bernie will be discharged and on a plane back to Burlington before the end of the weekend.\"\n\nMrs Sanders also confirmed that he still plans to attend the 15 October Democratic debate.\n\nPolls show Mr Sanders is third in the Democratic race behind Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and former Vice-President Joe Biden.\n\nMr Sanders recently announced his campaign raised over $25.3m (£20.5m) from July through September, the largest of any Democratic candidate in a quarter so far.\n\nMs Warren and Mr Biden have not released their most recent fundraising totals. But in the previous quarter, April through June, they each raised $19.1m and $21.5m respectively.\n\nMr Sanders had been in Las Vegas to participate in a gun safety forum on Wednesday, along with some other 2020 candidates.\n\nMany of his presidential rivals wished him a \"speedy recovery\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Joe Biden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Elizabeth Warren This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Pete Buttigieg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Sanders on Tuesday announced a $1.3m television advertising purchase in Iowa, but US media report that on Wednesday, his campaign began cancelling the ads. It is unclear why. Iowa hosts the first voting contest in the US presidential race.\n\nThe senator's health made headlines last month as well, when he cancelled three events in South Carolina after losing his voice, taking two days to recover.\n\nMr Sanders labels himself a Democratic socialist, which he has defined as someone who seeks to \"create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy\".\n\nHe is the longest-serving independent in congressional history, but competes for the Democratic nomination as he says standing as a third-party candidate would diminish his chances of winning the presidency.\n\nWhen he ran for the Democratic nomination in 2016, he was Hillary Clinton's closest rival.\n\nHis 2020 platform has focused largely on his universal health coverage plan, Medicare for All. The policy has also become a key point of contention between Democrats during the last debates, with moderates like Mr Biden criticising it as unfeasible and too expensive.", "Seventy days into Boris Johnson's time in office we now know how he wants to change Theresa May's deal with the European Union.\n\nWhat we don't know, and he doesn't know, is whether his counterparts on the continent have the faintest intention of letting him do so.\n\nAt the highest levels of government there is a belief that senior figures in the EU, even in Dublin, were certainly willing to contemplate a set of plans like this.\n\nBut those polite promises to consider became less firm when MPs voted to make it much harder to leave without a deal.\n\nMr Johnson does now not have the option of forcing the EU and then Parliament to say a simple \"yes\" or \"no\" to these proposals.\n\nWith the option of a delay, they can say \"maybe\" instead.\n\nDespite widespread suspicion, Number 10 does genuinely want a deal.\n\nBut wanting is not the same as getting - and the next steps in this process will not be decided by them.\n\nRather than taking back control, Mr Johnson must wait for the judgement of others.\n\nHis party gave him a hero's welcome to the platform, but there is tonight huge doubt over whether he can live up to the Tories' hopes.", "The UK's first \"locum MP\" is to provide maternity cover for pregnant MP Stella Creasy in her constituency.\n\nAn advert says the role has an annual salary of £50,000 pro rata and is \"rooted in Walthamstow not Westminster\".\n\nThe \"locum MP\" will cover constituency work over seven months and will not sit in the Commons or vote.\n\nIpsa - the body which regulates MPs' pay - says it provides extra funding for all MPs' offices to cover absences.\n\nMPs themselves are paid in full for the whole period of leave.\n\nThe locum MP will represent Labour MP Ms Creasy - who has previously spoken out about the maternity rights of MPs - in constituency surgeries, at events and visits and will answer queries from constituents.\n\nLocum is a word most often used in the medical profession to describe a doctor who is covering the duties of another physician while they are ill or absent from work for some other reason.\n\nThe \"locum MP\" advert says in \"the last few years alone\" Ms Creasy, who represents Walthamstow, in North London, has answered more than 133,000 queries, in addition to her staff.\n\nIt adds that the role will begin in November and will \"play a key role\" in ensuring Ms Creasy's campaigns progress until May 2020.\n\nShe will be represented in Parliamentary votes via a proxy - an MP who is allowed to vote on a colleagues' behalf.\n\nMPs have previously arranged unofficial cover for their constituency work through their staff or colleagues.\n\nMs Creasy said: \"If the place that makes the law doesn't recognise the value of ensuring cover for the duties of MPs, then how can it advocate for the millions of parents across the country worried that if they take time out to care for newborn children they will suffer?\n\n\"As yet Parliament has still to get its act together to come up with a policy on this area and has not yet even begun to consult on the issue as promised, but this post means residents in Walthamstow can be confident that when my child is born they will still have someone to take up their cases with ministers, local public services and an advocate for the causes they care about.\"\n\nIn June, Ms Creasy wrote in the Guardian that she was being \"forced to choose between being an MP and a mum\" because Ipsa does not automatically provide paid cover for MPs on parental leave.\n\nResponding to the general issue rather than Ms Creasy's specific case, Ipsa's chairwoman Ruth Evans said: \"To provide MPs with extra money, Ipsa asks for an explanation to be provided of how the additional money would be spent.\n\n\"We support proposals to allow maternity cover for MPs, and this would be for the House of Commons to take forward.\n\n\"In the last few years, we have more than doubled the funding available for MPs' dependants to support family life and will continue to strive to modernise our rules.\"\n\nIn January, MPs backed a year-long trial to allow MPs who were about to give birth or had recently become a parent to nominate another MP to vote on their behalf in the Commons.\n\nIpsa said that during the pilot it will pre-approve any applications for staff cover for MPs' parliamentary functions during their period of parental leave - and then consider creating a new budget to put the scheme on a permanent footing.\n\nThe debate over Parliament's rules was reignited earlier this year when Labour MP Tulip Siddiq delayed a Caesarean section to attend a vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nLater that month, the Hampstead and Kilburn MP became the first to vote in the Commons by proxy.", "The government has confirmed it plans to prorogue Parliament next Tuesday and hold a Queen's Speech on 14 October.\n\nBoris Johnson's last attempt to suspend Parliament in this way was ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court.\n\nBut the government needs to bring the current parliamentary session to an end, before it can hold a Queen's Speech setting out its agenda for the next session.\n\nIt means there will be no Prime Minister's Questions next week.\n\nThe only time Boris Johnson - who missed PMQs on Wednesday due to his Conservative conference speech - has taken part in the session since becoming PM was on 4 September.\n\nIn a statement, No 10 said the planned prorogation - which must be approved by the Queen - would be \"for the shortest time possible\" to enable logistical and security preparations for the State Opening of Parliament.\n\nThe current Parliamentary session was thought to have come to an end in the early hours of Tuesday, 10 September.\n\nBut the Supreme Court ruled the prorogation unlawful, meaning the session did not technically end at all.\n\nDowning Street said the Queen's Speech would set out the government's plans for the NHS, schools, tackling crime, investing in infrastructure and building a strong economy.\n\nBut without a Commons majority, it is thought unlikely MPs would back the PM's legislative agenda.\n\nNumber 10 had been studying the implications of the Supreme Court judgment - and will hope a shorter suspension of a few days rather than five weeks causes it less trouble.\n\nIt also avoids another potentially awkward conversation with the Palace about rescheduling the Queen's plans.\n\nAlready, however, opposition parties have raised concerns.\n\nA source told the BBC that Boris Johnson was trying to avoid Prime Minister's Questions and Parliamentary scrutiny.", "MSPs passed the Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Bill , on Thursday 3 October 2019.\n\nIt will make it a criminal offence for parents to smack their children.\n\nParents and carers are currently allowed to use \"reasonable\" physical force to discipline children.\n\nThe ban on all physical chastisement was overwhelmingly backed by MSPs, with 84 MSPS backing it and 29 against.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website and app; Listen live on BBC Radio 5 Live; Live streams, clips and text commentary online.\n\nKatarina Johnson-Thompson ended her wait for her first global outdoor title by powering to heptathlon gold at the World Championships in Doha.\n\nThe 26-year-old, previously without an outdoor medal at this level, won with a British record 6,981 points, beating 2017 champion Nafissatou Thiam by 304 points.\n\nJohnson-Thompson secured Britain's third medal in Doha, after Dina Asher-Smith's 200m gold and 100m silver.\n\n\"This is the result of so many attempts of trying to perform on this stage,\" Johnson-Thompson told BBC Sport.\n\n\"The low moments have helped me come back and look at myself. This has been my dream.\n\n\"It has been such a long road. I am just happy that I'm coming into my best in these two big years.\n\n\"I just want more.\"\n\nJohnson-Thompson led Thiam by 137 points going into the concluding 800m and stormed to victory in two minutes 07.26 seconds - her fourth personal best of the competition.\n• None How to follow live on BBC TV, radio and online\n\nThe omens looked good for her when, in the first event on day one, she took 0.21 seconds off her previous best to win the 100m hurdles in 13.09 seconds.\n\nHer high jump of 1.95cm was matched by Thiam, before she scored a huge personal best in the shot put - one of her weaker events. The distance of 13.86m was 71cm further than she had ever gone before.\n\nAfter the 200m, the Briton had a 96-point overnight lead over the Belgian, nine more than her advantage at last year's European Championships, where she finished second.\n\nThe pattern continued on Thursday as Johnson-Thompson's consistency, paired with a below-par Thiam, saw the Liverpool athlete extend her lead.\n\nIn the long jump, another of her strong events, she leapt to 6.77m. Thiam, who managed 6.86m in Birmingham in August and defeated the Briton, could only register 6.40m.\n\nThen came the moments that effectively clinched gold for Johnson-Thompson as first she recorded another PB by throwing the javelin to 43.93m before Thiam, who had been struggling with an elbow injury, only managed 48.04m - her best is 59.32m - and skipped her final throw.\n\nThat gave Johnson-Thompson a 137-point lead over the Belgian going into the 800m, having previously trailed her rival at this stage.\n\nShe kept her cool during the final event, after which she lay on the track to contemplate what she had achieved.\n\nHer points total surpassed the previous British best of 6,955 set by Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill at the London 2012 Olympics.\n\nThiam finished with 6,677 points, with bronze medallist Preiner on 6,560.\n\nTo some, it has taken longer than expected for Johnson-Thompson to reach this level, with errors costing her medals at previous championships, coupled with the emergence of Thiam.\n\nWhen double world and 2012 Olympic champion Ennis-Hill was coming towards the end of her career, the focus turned to the young pretender to continue the great recent tradition of British heptathlon success. But luck and form kept deserting Johnson-Thompson.\n\nShe finished well down the heptathlon field at the 2015 Worlds after three fouls in the long jump, while below-par performances in the shot put and javelin cost her a medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics.\n\nAt the London 2017 World Championships, she underperformed in one of her favourite events - the high jump - which again damaged her podium hopes.\n\nBy this stage she had moved her training base to Montpellier in France, where she has been coached by Bertrand Valcin, who also works with Kevin Mayer, the world record holder in the decathlon.\n\nJohnson-Thompson finally began to see positive effects from the move last year when she won the World Indoor pentathlon gold and the Commonwealth title before taking silver behind Thiam at the European Championships in Berlin.\n\nA new personal-best score of 6,813 followed in winning at the traditional multi-event Gotzis meeting this year, and now she has eclipsed all of her previous achievements with success in Doha.\n\n'She has slayed the dragon' - analysis\n\nTo come back and deliver in this way with all these personal bests is incredible.\n\nYou have to get to the lowest point, the breaking point.\n\nShe got to that and she made big changes and decisions and they are the reason she has gone on to improve and become the world champion now.\n\nShe has slayed the dragon and banished the demons. What you used to see between events was a worry that the demons are going to come back. She has now overcome that.\n\nShe is smiling and happy but she is focused. The difference now is she is focused on execution and technique.\n\nMuir into 1500m final as Naser stuns Miller-Uibo in 400m\n\nElsewhere, Laura Muir booked her place in Saturday's 1500m final by finishing third in her semi-final.\n\nThe 26-year-old had not raced since July before arriving in Doha because of injury, but qualified third fastest in four minutes 1.05 seconds.\n\nUSA's Jenny Simpson ran 4:00.99 to qualify fastest while Dutch 10,000m champion Sifan Hassan also progressed.\n\nThe Dutchwoman, who broke the world mile record this year, was a lot slower as she won her semi-final in 4:14.69.\n\nBriton Sophie McKinna, 25, finished 11th in the shot put final. The Great Yarmouth athlete threw a personal best of 18.61m to qualify but only managed 17.99m on Thursday. China's Gong Lijiao defended her title with a throw of 19.55m\n\nBahrain's Salwa Eid Naser ran the third fastest women's 400m time in history and the fastest for 34 years as she stunned Shaunae Miller-Uibo to take gold in 48.14 seconds.\n\nThe Bahamian was favourite going into the race having not lost a 200m or 400m race in 2019.\n\nBut she was left chasing throughout with Naser improving on her silver from two years ago. Miller-Uibo's time of 48.37 is a personal best and the sixth fastest of all time.\n\nGermany's Niklas Kaul, 21, scored 8,691 points to become the youngest decathlon world champion and set a new under-23 record.\n\nMaicel Uibo of Estonia took silver and Canada's Damian Warner was third.\n\nFrench London 2017 champion and world record holder Mayer pulled out during the pole vault with an injury he appeared to sustain in the 110m hurdles.\n\nBritons Jake Wightman, Josh Kerr and Neil Gourley all comfortably qualified for Friday's men's 1500m semi-finals.\n\nMeanwhile, Spaniard Orlando Ortega will receive a 110m hurdles bronze having been impeded by Omar McLeod during Wednesday's final.\n\nThe Jamaican's tumble forced Ortega to slow and he eventually finished fifth. The original bronze medallist, Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, will keep his medal.", "Abi Anderson (centre) with colleagues Shelley Matthews and Donna Kelly outside Downing Street.\n\nAfter 23 years with Thomas Cook, cabin crew member Abi Anderson learned over messaging app WhatsApp that last-ditch rescue talks to save the firm - and her job - had failed.\n\nAbout 9,000 staff in the UK were left jobless when the business failed to secure a last-ditch rescue deal.\n\nMs Anderson, like all former staff of the collapsed travel firm, was due to be paid on Monday for September, but did not receive it because the firm is in liquidation\n\n\"Luckily, I didn't pay my credit card bill last month, so I had the cash in my bank.\"\n\nBut now she'll have to turn to her mum for help. \"The bank of mum will be coming to the rescue,\" she says.\n\nMs Anderson joined former colleagues Donna Kelly and Shelley Matthews, and dozens of other ex-Thomas Cook staff to deliver a petition to Downing Street signed by more than 50,000 people demanding answers about the firm's collapse. They are also urging an inquiry into where the money from the business has gone.\n\nShe blames the management, saying: \"These people are supposed to be the best at what they do and they've let us all down.\"\n\n\"We need answers from them and - if there is something that isn't quite right - accountability for it.\"\n\nAl White marched past Parliament with other former Thomas Cook staff.\n\nFormer Cabin manager Al White says he is angry that the firm's boss, Peter Fankhauser, was paid £8.3m in his five years at the top.\n\n\"We haven't got any money, we're literally just relying on friends, family [and] savings,\" he says.\n\n\"[Mr Fankhauser's] ok, we're not.\"\n\nShortly before it went under, Thomas Cook turned to the UK government for a £250m rescue package. But the government turned it down arguing that the troubled travel company would not survive even with a bailout.\n\nBut Mr White thinks that was a mistake.\n\n\"If we'd been bailed out we could have paid money back like it was when the government bailed the banks out.\"\n\nInstead, he says, that the government will now pick up a large share of the bill for repatriating holidaymakers and reimbursing travellers whose holidays have been cancelled.\n\nAlessandro Rossinelli is worried that Thomas Cook's failure may hurt his new wife's visa application.\n\nFormer cabin crew member, Alessandro Rossinelli, said £250m was \"peanuts\" for the government, while 9,000 families were affected by the collapse.\n\nHe got married earlier this year and fears that, without a job, he may not be able to sponsor his new wife's application for a UK visa.\n\n\"I support her so I don't know if… they'll reject it,\" he says.\n\nJo Cooke and Colleen Gibson say they believed assurances from Thomas Cook management that the firm would survive.\n\nFormer store manager Jo Cooke worries that she misled customers about the health of the company in the days before it collapsed.\n\nHer colleague Colleen Gibson said they were told there would be \"a lot of noise\", but that \"it would be OK\".\n\n\"I don't know if we were just gullible or naive but we really believed that.\"\n\nIn a statement, the government said: \"The collapse of Thomas Cook is devastating for those who have lost their jobs and affected holidaymakers and the government will do all it can to support them.\"\n\n\"Unfortunately a government bailout would not have solved the company's problems, which are well-documented.\"\n\nThomas Cook staff have been told to apply for their salary and redundancy related payments from the Insolvency Service's Redundancy Payment Service (RPS).\n\nThe Insolvency Service has said claims would be paid within 14 days of receipt of information, but \"special arrangements are being put in place to pay sooner if practicable to do so\".", "The duchess says people have the power to change a \"dangerous\" world\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has told an event in Johannesburg that he and his wife will \"seek to challenge injustice\".\n\nHis comments come a day after it emerged that they were taking legal action against the Mail on Sunday for publishing a private letter sent by the Duchess of Sussex to her father.\n\nThe duke said the legal action was in response to \"relentless propaganda\".\n\nThe paper says it will defend itself vigorously and stood by the story it published.\n\nOn the final day of their 10-day overseas tour, Prince Harry set out what he believes his role in public life should be, saying he and the duchess would \"stand up for what we believe\".\n\nSpeaking to a group of young people and fledgling entrepreneurs in Tembisa township, near Johannesburg, the duke said: \"We are fortunate enough to have a position that gives us amazing opportunities and we will do everything that we can to play our part in building a better world.\n\n\"We will also seek to challenge injustice and to speak out for those who may feel unheard.\n\n\"So no matter your background, your nationality, your age or gender, your sexuality, your physical ability, no matter your circumstance, or colour of your skin - we believe in you.\n\n\"And we intend to spend our entire lives making sure that you have the opportunity to succeed and change the world.\"\n\nPrince Harry went on to reminisce about a visit to Africa in the months following the sudden death of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\n\"Ever since I came to this country as a young boy, trying to cope with something I could never possibly describe, Africa has held me in an embrace that I will never forget and feel incredibly fortunate for that,\" he said.\n\n\"Every time I come here I know that I'm not alone. I always feel wherever I am on this continent that the community around me provides a life that is enriching and is rooted in the simplest things - connection, connection with others and the natural environment.\"\n\nPrince Harry said he wanted to teach his baby son Archie the lessons he had learned from Africa, including those about \"community and friendship\".\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan met Nelson Mandela's widow, Graca Machel, at a reception in Johannesburg\n\nLater, in a speech at the Johannesburg residence of Britain's high commissioner, the duchess said people have the power to change a world that seems \"aggressive, confrontational and dangerous\".\n\nMeghan told designers, entrepreneurs and business people: \"Whether you're here in South Africa, at home in the UK or the US, or around the world, you actually have the power within you to change things, and that begins with how you connect to others.\"\n\nLater in the day, the duke and duchess met Nelson Mandela's widow, Graca Machel. She offered to work with the couple, who launch their Sussex Royal Foundation next year.\n\nCoverage of the tour had been positive, exposing the double standards of the press pack, says the duke\n\nThe law firm Schillings, acting for the duchess, has filed a High Court claim against the Mail on Sunday and its parent company - Associated Newspapers - over the alleged misuse of private information, infringement of copyright and breach of the Data Protection Act 2018.\n\nThe duchess's action comes after the newspaper published a handwritten letter she sent her father shortly after she and Prince Harry got married in 2018.\n\nThe paper is accused of an \"intrusive and unlawful publication of a private letter\" and of a campaign of publishing false and derogatory stories about the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nSometimes there are exceptions to copyright which can allow part of a letter or document to be published, for example for reporting current events.\n\nBut even if this is used, under what is known as the \"fair dealing\" defence, publications have to strike a balance between public interest and the interest of the copyright owner.\n\nReferring to his late mother Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Harry said his \"deepest fear is history repeating itself\".\n\nIn a lengthy personal statement on the couple's official website, he said the \"painful\" impact of intrusive media coverage had driven him and his wife to take action.\n\nPrince Harry said: \"I lost my mother, and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces.\n\n\"I've seen what happens when someone I love is commoditised to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person,\" he added.\n\nDiana was once described as the \"most hunted person of the modern age\".\n\nShe died in a car crash in 1997 after being pursued through Paris by a pack of paparazzi journalists.\n\nThe new legal proceedings are being funded privately by the couple and any proceeds will be donated to an anti-bullying charity.\n\nIn his statement Prince Harry said he and Meghan believed in \"media freedom and objective, truthful reporting\" as a \"cornerstone of democracy\".\n\nBut he said his wife had become \"one of the latest victims of a British tabloid press that wages campaigns against individuals with no thought to the consequences\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earlier on in their tour of Africa, the couple introduced baby son Archie to Archbishop Desmond Tutu\n\nThe duke accused the paper of misleading readers when it published the private letter, by strategically omitting paragraphs, sentences and specific words \"to mask the lies they had perpetrated for over a year\".\n\n\"Put simply, it is bullying, which scares and silences people. We all know this isn't acceptable, at any level,\" he said.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday spokesperson said: \"We categorically deny that the duchess's letter was edited in any way that changed its meaning.\"", "Google has angered a privacy expert by repeatedly identifying him as a \"dwarf character actor\" famous for playing a winged monkey in The Wizard of Oz.\n\nPat Walshe told BBC News he had had the issue resolved twice, only to discover last week it had happened again.\n\nThe issue involves his photo being run next to text from another source about a dead American who had the same name.\n\nHe now aims to make an official complaint to data privacy watchdogs. Google has once again fixed the flaw.\n\nA day after BBC News raised the matter, Mr Walshe's photo had been removed from the \"knowledge box\" near the top of the Google's search results.\n\nThe US company has not explained or apologised for the mistake.\n\nBut a spokeswoman said she did not believe the correction had been made as a result of BBC News's intervention.\n\nMr Walshe said he was \"shocked\" to discover he had again been misidentified as a dead actor\n\nMr Walshe said he had first flagged the problem several years ago and then again in February of this year, after which he had hoped the issue had been resolved for good.\n\nIt was only when he discussed the matter at a conference in Berlin and another attendee carried out a Google Search that he realised one of his profile images had again been linked to an unrelated Wikipedia entry.\n\n\"Everybody felt it was funny,\" he said.\n\n\"But what if the text's biography was that of someone who had committed a terrible crime?\n\n\"That could have consequences for me in an age of artificial-intelligence-driven decision-making, for example.\"\n\nGoogle provides a way to for users to \"suggest changes\" but Mr Walshe said he had ultimately had to resort to personal contacts to have the matter addressed in the past.\n\nThe first time he involved a lawyer he knew at Google. The second time he emailed Google's chief executive directly - and when he received no response, raised the matter at a major conference attended by the company.\n\nAs the former privacy director of the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA), Mr Walshe said, he had the means to ensure he was not ignored - but others in a similar situation might not.\n\n\"I will make a formal complaint both to the ICO [Information Commissioner's Office] and to the Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland because it's very clear that individuals need a much simpler process by which they can exercise their rights.\" he said.\n\nAn American author told the BBC he has faced related problems of his own.\n\nIn Ernest Dempsey's case, the Knowledge Box shows his photo and the images of books he has written, but the biography of a Pakistani writer.\n\nMr Demspey said he had tried in vain to get Google to correct the error\n\n\"It's been an impossibly infuriating process to try to get Google to fix the bio with my image,\" he explained.\n\n\"The mix-up is there is another writer who used my name as his pen name, which is fine. But I get emails every month about how I went from Pakistan to America to be a writer.\n\n\"Perhaps it's cost me money, perhaps not. But either way it's frustrating.\"\n\nGoogle referred BBC News to a blog it had posted in July explaining how people and organisations could provide \"authoritative feedback\" about mistakes.\n\n\"If an image or a Google Images results preview that's shown in a knowledge panel does not accurately represent the person, place or thing, we'll... fix the error,\" it says.", "The UK government has announced a ban on some drug exports to protect NHS patients' access to medicines.\n\nThe move comes after a survey of local pharmacists found shortages of every major type of medicine in the past six months.\n\nMinisters said the restrictions were not linked to Brexit and medicine shortages did occasionally occur.\n\nPharmaceutical industry leaders welcomed the move, saying stockpiles of medicines would now be better protected and available for NHS use only.\n\nThe government restrictions will stop wholesalers selling some medicines meant for UK patients for a higher price in another country, potentially causing or worsening supply problems.\n\nThe drugs on the export ban list include 19 HRT drugs and five other medicines, including all adrenaline pens for severe allergies, hepatitis B vaccines and a number of contraceptives.\n\nAbout 360,000 prescriptions of HRT, which relieve symptoms of the menopause, are dispensed every month,\n\nBut these drugs, along with contraceptives and anti-epileptic drugs, are in short supply, according to a UK-wide survey of 402 community pharmacies by the Chemist and Druggist.\n\nThe government has also introduced a \"serious shortage protocol\" for the antidepressant Fluoxetine, which allows pharmacists to give patients an alternative strength or form of the drug because of temporary shortages of some doses.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"I know how distressing medicine shortages can be for those who rely on drugs like HRT and it is absolutely crucial patients can always access safe and effective treatments through the NHS.\"\n\nThe new measures would help \"ensure patients get the medicines they need\", he added.\n\nDr Rick Greville, from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, said: \"It means that these stockpiles of medicines which companies have built over previous months are better protected and available for use only by the NHS patients for which they were intended.\n\n\"Companies can now work with the [health] department to identify any problem areas.\"\n\nThis is an unprecedented move for the UK.\n\nSome other EU countries have considered such action or implemented measures in the past to stop the flow of drugs out of their countries.\n\nThe Greek authorities, for example, banned exports during the financial crisis.\n\nBut it's the first time the government has decided the risk of shortages for NHS patients requires intervention to protect supplies.\n\nUK wholesalers with regulatory licences have the right to move stocks of drugs to sell in other European markets if they wish.\n\nThe incentive to do so in the eurozone increases as the pound weakens.\n\nNow, they have been told they will lose those licences if they shift products elsewhere.\n\nOfficials say the risk of the UK leaving the European Union without a withdrawal agreement in place is not the reason for the new policy, as shortages do occur from time to time in the medicine markets.\n\nBut that is certainly the backdrop to the new export ban, as ministers decide action is needed to protect existing supplies.\n\nDr Farah Jameel, from the British Medical Association, said there were lots of different reasons why drugs shortages happened.\n\n\"But they are gradually getting worse and can have a serious effect on how quickly patients receive appropriate treatment,\" she said.\n\n\"Practices often won't know that a drug is in short supply until patients return from the pharmacy and these extra GP appointments can dramatically add to their already burgeoning workload - as well as distressing patients.\"\n\nPatients should continue to order their repeat prescriptions and keep taking their medicines as normal - but not ask for more medicines than they need, the Department for Health and Social Care said.\n\nIt added it was working to ensure the supply of medicines and medical products \"remains uninterrupted after 31 October, [when the UK is set to leave the EU,] whatever the circumstances\".\n\nThe government has made arrangements to stockpile six weeks' supply of drugs for the NHS in case of a no-deal exit from the EU.\n\nBut a recent report said it was not clear exactly what level of stockpiling was in place.\n• None Medicines that cannot be parallel exported - gov.uk 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. Their actions were uncovered by the BBC Wales Investigates programme\n\nFour men convicted of badger baiting following an undercover investigation by BBC Wales have been jailed.\n\nChristian Latcham, 32, from Porth, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Thomas Young, 26, from Newbridge, Caerphilly, Cyle Jones, 31 and Jamie Rush, 27, both from Brecon, Powys, were all found guilty at Cardiff Crown Court.\n\nThey denied attempting to kill or take badgers in Pembrokeshire in March 2018.\n\nBut their actions were uncovered by the BBC Wales Investigates programme.\n\nThe four defendants were handed the following sentences on Thursday:\n\nWhen Jones was taken away, someone in the public gallery shouted \"keep your head up love\", he was previously jailed in June for 18 weeks after admitting unnecessary cruelty to animals, relating to two dogs who were injured.\n\nThe latest prosecution followed investigations by the RSPCA after the programme was shown.\n\nThe trial was told it was accepted the four defendants had not caught a badger at Llanddewi Velfrey on 24 March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut prosecutor Jon Tarrant said: \"There is ample evidence here that they were attempting to take a badger.\"\n\nThe prosecution said the defendants were \"on the chase\" when a badger was spotted in woodland near Narbeth.\n\nThe court heard the group pursued it, dug a large hole to try and catch it, but ultimately failed to corner the animal.\n\nDistrict Judge Neil Thomas said it had been a \"strong prosecution case\".\n\nHe said a BBC researcher who gave evidence against the four men was \"a clear, confident and compelling witness\".\n\nThe judge said he did not believe the only defendant to give evidence, Jamie Rush.\n\nHe said: \"I have no difficulty coming to the unreserved conclusion, that he was not telling the truth.\"\n\nThe court heard the previous convictions of the four defendants - Latcham has 12 previous convictions for 24 offences, including for causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.\n\nJones has 13 previous convictions for 18 offences, including animal cruelty, while Rush has eight previous convictions for nine offences and has previously been sentenced to two years in prison, and Young also has previous animal cruelty convictions.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Speaking at an energy conference in Moscow, Mr Putin said: \"Nobody explained to Greta that the modern world is complicated and complex.\"\n\nMs Thunberg, 16, gave a speech at the United Nations in New York in September as millions of people joined climate strike protests worldwide.", "Last updated on .From the section Europa League\n\nTeenage striker Gabriel Martinelli scored two goals and set up another to give Arsenal victory over Standard Liege in the Europa League.\n\nThere was less than three minutes between the 18-year-old Brazilian's first and second goals while team-mate Joe Willock, 20, made it 3-0 before half-time.\n\nMartinelli, who joined for £6m this summer, later set up Dani Ceballos for his first Arsenal goal.\n\nArsenal sit top of Group F with two wins from two games.\n• None Did Man Utd miss out on 'new Ronaldo' Martinelli?\n\nThere were 10 changes to the Arsenal team who drew with Manchester United in the Premier League on Monday but no place in the squad for German midfielder Mesut Ozil.\n\nInstead, manager Unai Emery put faith in the likes of academy graduate Willock, Martinelli and 19-year-old Reiss Nelson - as well as summer signing Kieran Tierney, making just his second start for the club.\n\nAll four impressed as Tierney set up Martinelli's first with a whipping cross from the left before teeing up Nelson's shot in the build-up to Willock's goal.\n\nNelson recorded an assist - feeding Martinelli for his second - before slipping in the Brazilian to tee up Ceballos' goal in the second half.\n\nIt could easily have been more for the Gunners on a very positive night which also saw full-back Hector Bellerin, captain for the night, make his first start in over nine months following a knee injury.\n\nMartinelli was already a fan favourite after he became the youngest player since Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in 2011 to score on his first start for Arsenal, against Nottingham Forest in the Carabao Cup.\n\nTwo goals in that 5-0 win was the perfect way for the summer signing to announce himself and every time he got on the ball at the Emirates on Thursday the crowd grew excited.\n\nThe teenager spent last season playing in the fourth tier of the Brazilian Football League with Ituano but his quality was evident against Standard Liege and he has now bagged four goals after just two starts for the club.\n\nHis first of the night was exceptional - a perfectly-timed header at the near post which flew past goalkeeper Vanja Milinkovic-Savic - while his second was equally impressive, cutting on to his right foot and drilling the ball into the far corner.\n\nBoth goals drew a smile from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on the Arsenal bench, and if the Gabonese striker had not scored seven goals in as many Premier League appearances this season, there may be a case for Martinelli to start more often.\n\nThe young Brazilian capped off an impressive night with an excellent assist - showing pace to reach Nelson's pass before coolly lifting it over the goalkeeper and on a plate for Ceballos to tap in.\n\n'Close to playing for us at highest levels'\n\nArsenal manager Unai Emery on BT Sport: \"To have six points after the two matches, it's really important. The players, when they did all they can, it is perfect. We did a lot of good, we can analyse to continue to improve. It's a fantastic victory.\n\n\"We can improve in how to keep the ball and make more chances but for the players [on Thursday], they are very tired after playing on Monday and they still played fantastic, it's a fantastic victory.\"\n\nOn playing young players: \"We have to give the chances to the young players and they take them. They are close to playing for us at the highest levels. They showed that they can perform and they can score. They are playing well, it's good.\"\n\nArsenal goalscorer Joe Willock on BT Sport: \"One of my targets is to get more goals in my game and it's even better that my goal and my team's goals has also come with a clean sheet. The manager told us to keep going even if it's three or four nil. We want to get the ball back and get more goals. He drills that into us.\n\n\"We have a manager here who wants to play youngsters and I have to make sure I take my chances and prove why that is the way forward.\"\n\nA youthful era - the best of the stats\n• None Arsenal have won six consecutive home European matches (excluding qualifiers) for the first time in the Emirates era - their longest such run since winning seven in a row between March 2001 and February 2002 at Highbury.\n• None Standard Liege have lost eight of their nine trips to England in all European competition, with the only exception being a 2-2 draw with Everton during the 2008-09 Uefa Cup.\n• None Arsenal netted three goals within the opening 22 minutes of a European game for the first time since October 2008 vs Fenerbahce.\n• None Only Romelu Lukaku (16 years and 218 days) and Mario Gotze (18 years and 105 days) have scored braces in the Europa League at a younger age than Martinelli (since the competition's rebranding in 2009-10).\n• None Arsenal's starting line-up had an average age of 22 years and 350 days; the second youngest in their European history (after Olympiakos away in December 2009 at 21 years and 215 days).\n• None Manager Emery has won 19 of his last 21 home Europa League matches across spells with Sevilla and the Gunners (W19, D1, L1), including the last six in a row.\n\nArsenal return to Premier League action on Sunday when they host Bournemouth at Emirates Stadium. Their next Europa League match is at home to Vitoria Guimaraes on Thursday, 24 October.\n• None Attempt missed. Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) header from very close range misses to the right. Assisted by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.\n• None Attempt missed. Selim Amallah (Standard Liège) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Attempt missed. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Gabriel Martinelli.\n• None Attempt blocked. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kieran Tierney with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Mergim Vojvoda (Standard Liège) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lucas Torreira (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gabriel Martinelli.\n• None Attempt missed. Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "As Wednesday draws to a close, a deal is still, DBP - difficult but possible, in case you haven't caught the lingo by now.\n\nI hear from both sides of the Channel that the issues between the UK, Ireland and the EU are pretty much ironed out.\n\nA schedule is in place for EU leaders to be able to sign off a deal tomorrow, discussing it as the first item on the agenda at the summit if the ink is dry.\n\nThe government has in place its plan to ask MPs to approve the hypothetical deal in Parliament on Saturday.\n\nDespite all the obstacles, all the warnings about the tightness of the timetable, it is not yet too late.\n\nHappy sentiments in Westminster or Brussels however do not turn into signatures on a page.\n\nThe DUP tonight tell me there are still concerns, still gaps.\n\nThey expect conversations to continue, perhaps late into the night, and certainly into the morning.\n\nHowever you see their position, their concerns are genuine, and can't be brushed aside, not least for the government.\n\nEven though they only have 10 MPs, it's not just that Boris Johnson has no majority of his own, but Brexiteers listen to their counsel too.\n\nIf the DUP isn't buying, some Eurosceptics might pass on a deal too.\n\nSo buckle up for the next twenty four hours.\n\nThere may be more moments where it seems it's all on, only to seem all off, then all on again.\n\nOne cabinet minister joked it's \"like the moment when the bar comes down to strap you in on a rollercoaster - you know that it will end, but you start screaming anyway.\"\n\nOnly seven days after Boris Johnson had that crucial walk around a country house with Leo Varadkar, we might just be at the point where the political pressure overcomes the policy obstacles.\n\nThe prime minister might be able to get off the big dipper, punching the air with a victory of sorts.\n\nBut to resort to Brussels cliche, because phrases become well worn for good reason, nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.\n\nAnd if it is agreed tomorrow, there's then Parliament for the prime minister to deal with, where it is already obvious there are swathes of MPs ready to stand and fight.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arriving in Lahore at the start of the day\n\nA Royal Air Force plane carrying the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge aborted a landing in Pakistan after being caught in a severe thunderstorm.\n\nThe RAF Voyager twice tried to land in Islamabad - at Rawalpindi air base and the main airport - before returning to Lahore, from where they had departed.\n\nPrince William and Catherine are on a four-day official visit to Pakistan.\n\nThe aircraft was on a 25-minute journey but stayed in the air for more than two hours due to the thunder and lightning.\n\nA passenger described the incident as a \"pretty serious storm\" and the turbulence on the flight as a \"rollercoaster\".\n\nAnother passenger said: \"The plane was making large jerking movements as we tried to battle through the wind.\"\n\nThe duke and duchess had spent the day in Lahore\n\n...where they took to the cricket field\n\nThe duke and duchess had spent the day in Lahore, joining in a cricket match and touring the Badshahi Mosque.\n\nThey also went to the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, where Prince William's mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, had visited a year before her death in 1997.\n\nThe first sign of any trouble was a delay, then an announcement - the royal flight back from Lahore to Islamabad would wait for storms above the capital to clear.\n\nThen there was a descent - and steadily building turbulence. Quite a bit of turbulence. Seat belt signs went on, the plane pulled up. Some calm returned.\n\nThen came a second attempt at landing; this time the plane shook, bucked and fell in the stormy air; seasoned flyers on board were gripping armrests and the seats in front of them.\n\nBut after the aborted landing Prince William was in good spirits and joked about the flight.", "MP Dame Louise Ellman has quit the Labour Party, saying Jeremy Corbyn is \"not fit\" to become prime minister.\n\nThe Liverpool Riverside MP said in a letter she had been \"deeply troubled\" by the \"growth of anti-Semitism\" in Labour in recent years.\n\nDame Louise, who is Jewish, has been a party member for 55 years but said she \"can no longer advocate voting Labour when it risks Corbyn becoming PM\".\n\nLabour said it was taking \"robust action\" to root out anti-Semitism.\n\nHer local Labour Party said it \"recognises the hard work and commitment Louise has shown to her constituents over the past 22 years\".\n\nDame Louise, who has been an MP since 1997, said anti-Semitism had become \"mainstream\" in Labour under Mr Corbyn's leadership.\n\n\"I believe that Jeremy Corbyn is not fit to serve as our prime minister,\" she said.\n\n\"With a looming general election and the possibility of him becoming prime minister, I feel I have to take a stand.\"\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said her resignation letter was \"extraordinary\".\n\nDame Louise told Radio 4's Today programme that under Mr Corbyn the Labour Party had \"become a very extreme and uncomfortable place, with no room for dissent\".\n\n\"It's now come to a situation where the Equality and Human Rights Commission is conducting a statutory investigation into the Labour Party to establish whether it is intuitionally anti-Semitic,\" she said.\n\n\"This is extremely distressing, indeed I found it very traumatic, and I think it does mean that the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn is simply not fit.\"\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission launched a formal investigation in March into the Labour Party over allegations of anti-Semitism, following referrals from Jewish groups.\n\nIt is only the second time the government-funded equality watchdog has investigated a political party, after ordering the far-right British National Party to rewrite its constitution in 2010.\n\nThe MP said she now had \"no political home\" and stressed she had no intention of defecting to another political party, as other former Labour MPs had done, and hoped to be able to return to Labour under different leadership.\n\nShe described her decision as \"truly agonising, as it has been for the thousands of other party members who have already left\".\n\nEarlier this year, Luciana Berger, MP for Liverpool Wavertree since 2010, left Labour in protest at the handling of anti-Semitism allegations.\n\n\"Jewish members have been bullied, abused and driven out,\" Dame Louise added in her letter.\n\n\"A party that permits anti-Jewish racism to flourish cannot be called anti-racist.\n\n\"This is not compatible with the Labour Party's values of equality, tolerance and respect for minorities.\n\n\"My values - traditional Labour values - have remained the same. It is Labour, under Jeremy Corbyn, that has changed.\"\n\nThe Labour Party has been the focus of a series of anti-Semitism allegations since mid-2016.\n\nAn initial inquiry by Labour peer Baroness Chakrabarti concluded the party was not overrun by anti-Semitism but had an \"occasionally toxic atmosphere\".\n\nDespite pledges by Mr Corbyn that he is getting to grips with the issue and strengthening internal disciplinary procedures, the allegations have continued.\n\nIn May, a member of the National Executive Committee was suspended after LBC Radio reported he had been recorded saying the Israeli embassy was \"almost certainly\" behind the anti-Semitism row. He has since apologised and been re-elected.\n\nAnd in June, the newly elected Peterborough MP apologised for liking a Facebook post which said Theresa May had a \"Zionist slave masters agenda\" - although she said she had not read that part of the text.\n\nLabour MP Hilary Benn called Dame Louise an \"outstanding\" MP, telling the BBC: \"I think it is a terrible shame that Louise feels she has had to come to this decision.\n\n\"It's clear from reading her letter that she has agonised over this and I think it shows there is a continuing problem which the party needs to get to grips with.\n\n\"I think all of us need to do more to confront this.\"\n\nFellow MPs reacted to the news of Mrs Ellman's resignation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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 Corbyn has insisted the party is addressing concerns and in July proposed changes to Labour's complaints system to speed up the expulsion of members over anti-Semitism.\n\nA party spokesman said Mr Corbyn thanked Dame Louise for her service \"over many years\".\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party are fully committed to the support, defence and celebration of the Jewish community and continue to take robust action to root out anti-Semitism in the party and wider society,\" they said.\n\nTim Hayden, chairman of the Liverpool Riverside Constituency paid tribute to Dame Louise's \"hard work and commitment\", but said: \"Unfortunately she made it very clear at the last CLP that she could not support a Jeremy Corbyn-led government.\n\n\"This inevitably meant that Louise would be triggered and was very unlikely to win any reselection process.\"\n\nHe said the group \"totally supports Jeremy Corbyn and the policies of the Labour Party that seek to benefit the many\".", "Noah Pozner was one of 20 children killed at Sandy Hook\n\nA US jury has awarded $450,000 (£350,000) to the father of a boy killed in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook school, in a defamation lawsuit against a conspiracy theorist writer.\n\nIn June a Wisconsin judge ruled that James Fetzer had defamed Leonard Pozner by claiming he had fabricated the death certificate of his son Noah.\n\nMr Fetzer, who co-wrote Nobody Died at Sandy Hook, said he would appeal.\n\nNoah, aged six, was the youngest of 26 people killed in the shooting.\n\nIn the Dane County court in Wisconsin, Mr Pozner thanked the jury for recognising \"the pain and terror that Mr Fetzer has purposefully inflicted on me and on other victims of these horrific mass casualty events, like the Sandy Hook shooting\".\n\nIn his book, written with co-author Mike Palacek, Mr Fetzer claimed that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax, manufactured by the Obama administration as part of an effort to tighten gun laws.\n\nThe book, and a later blog post by Mr Fetzer, included several false statements about Noah's death certificate, including claims that Mr Pozner had circulated fabricated copies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The sister of a Sandy Hook victim tells the BBC she is getting threats from conspiracy theorists\n\nMr Pozner reached a settlement with Mr Palacek last month. The terms have not been disclosed.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Pozner emphasised that the case was not about First Amendment protections for free speech.\n\n\"Mr Fetzer has the right to believe that Sandy Hook never happened. He has the right to express his ignorance,\" he said, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.\n\n\"This award, however, further illustrates the difference between the right of people like Mr Fetzer to be wrong and the right of victims like myself and my child to be free from defamation, free from harassment and free from the intentional infliction of terror.\"\n\nMr Pozner's lawyer Genevieve Zimmerman described Mr Fetzer's claims in both the 2015 book and 2018 blog post as \"alt-right opium\".\n\nAlex Jones faces multiple defamation suits related to his claims about Sandy Hook\n\nIt is one of several defamation cases launched in the wake of Sandy Hook, many led by Mr Pozner.\n\nHe and Noah's mother, Veronique De La Rosa, have also sued prominent conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for defamation. The pending case is one of at least five faced by Mr Jones.\n\nLast week, a Texas court ruled that Mr Jones could not invoke free-speech law to end a separate suit, waged by Scarlett Lewis, the mother of Sandy Hook victim Jesse Lewis.\n\nParents of Sandy Hook victims who have spoken publicly about their experiences have been targeted by trolls, both online, as well as in person.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One eyewitness captured the moment a climate protester was dragged from top of Tube train\n\nCommuters have dragged climate change protesters from the roof of a London Underground train.\n\nExtinction Rebellion activists climbed on to trains at Stratford, Canning Town and Shadwell in Thursday's rush hour. Eight protesters have been arrested, British Transport Police (BTP) said.\n\nThe Jubilee Line and Docklands Light Railway were temporarily suspended.\n\nExtinction Rebellion later said it would \"take stock\" of the reaction to the latest action for future protests.\n\nSpokesman Howard Rees said: \"Was it the right thing to do? I am not sure.\n\n\"I think we will have to have a period of reflection. It is too early to say.\"\n\nExtinction Rebellion previously said the disruption was \"necessary to highlight the emergency\".\n\nProtesters climbed to the top of a train carriage at Shadwell station\n\nHayden Green, a commuter at Canning Town, said he saw the protester \"dragged to the floor and kicked repeatedly\".\n\n\"Police have struggled to deal with the protest in London so the public stepped in and in the heat of the moment it was taken too far,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I support their cause but I think how the protests have been carried out has led to more divisions.\"\n\nHayden Green said violence broke out after a protester tried to \"kick a commuter\"\n\nIn footage shared on social media, a passenger waiting for a train is seen climbing on the carriage to get to one of the protesters.\n\nThe activist is grabbed by the knees and dragged down, falling to the platform where he appears to then be kicked and hit by angry commuters on the platform.\n\nOthers can be heard shouting and swearing at the protesters.\n\nOne shouts: \"I have to get to work too - I have to feed my kids.\"\n\nExtinction Rebellion protesters climb on to a Jubilee line train at Canning Town station\n\nA second protester was chased along the top of the train carriage by a commuter before being dragged off.\n\nA third Extinction Rebellion activist, who was broadcasting the protest on the group's social media accounts, said he was also attacked and \"kicked in the head\".\n\nBTP said it was investigating what happened at Canning Town station, adding it was \"concerning to see that a number of commuters took matters into their own hands, displaying violent behaviour to detain a protester\".\n\nIt has appealed for anyone with information, pictures or mobile phone footage of any of the incidents to upload them to its website.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Sean O'Callaghan said: \"It is important that commuters and other rail users allow the police, who are specially trained, to manage these incidents.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there is still a risk that Extinction Rebellion will target the rail network during this evening's peak. We will continue to have extra officers on patrol and will work to disrupt any potential criminal action before it happens.\"\n\nToday's Extinction Rebellion action against London's public transport network represents a significant escalation of its strategy of \"disruption\".\n\nIt is one thing to stage a colourful protest in a few roads in Whitehall, quite another to target the Tubes and trains that so many Londoners rely on to get them to work on time.\n\nMany commuters were left scratching their heads this morning, bewildered by an environmental protest that targeted one of the most environmentally-friendly ways to travel.\n\nThe tactic has been the subject of much discussion within Extinction Rebellion - a loose affiliation of interested groups and individuals.\n\nA poll among members taken yesterday suggests the vast majority were against any action targeting the London Underground.\n\nOut of 3,800 votes, 72% said they were opposed to any action against Tube trains and 14% were against the idea if people could get blocked underground.\n\nPerhaps not surprisingly, the decision to go ahead has upset many members - as well as commuters - and for good reason.\n\nTackling climate change will be easier if there is a consensus that action is necessary. The Extinction Rebellion activists behind this action will want to consider whether gluing yourself to a train is really the best way to build that consensus.\n\nAt Shadwell station several activists glued themselves to trains, including 83-year-old Phil Kingston.\n\nIn April, Extinction Rebellion protesters also glued themselves to a DLR train at Canary Wharf, causing minor delays.\n\n\"If XR wants to make an inclusive movement, these tactics on public transport at rush hour won't get them far,\" Ana Zarraga told the BBC.\n\nThe 35-year-old, who was prevented from catching her train at Shadwell, said: \"The bankers and the CEOs of the most polluting industries are certainly not travelling on the DLR at 07.00 BST.\"\n\nEarlier Extinction Rebellion co-founder Clare Farrell defended the Tube action, saying \"the public, I don't think, realise quite how serious this situation is\".\n\nShe added: \"Someone has been hurt today. We understand that putting ourselves in these positions is potentially dangerous for us.\n\n\"But what else can we do?\"\n\nThe protester who appeared to try to kick a commuter acted \"in self defence in a moment of panic when confronted by a threatening situation,\" Extinction Rebellion said.\n\n\"He acknowledges his accountability for this action,\" it said.\n\nThe group has invited the commuters involved in today's protest \"to have a conversation\" about what happened.\n\nAt Shadwell station, one of the protesters who had glued themselves to trains was 83-year-old Phil Kingston\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said in a statement: \"I strongly condemn the Extinction Rebellion protesters who have targeted the London Underground and DLR this morning.\n\n\"This illegal action is extremely dangerous, counterproductive and is causing unacceptable disruption to Londoners who use public transport to get to work.\"\n\nTrain drivers' union Aslef said the Tube and other public transport services were \"part of the solution to climate change, not the problem\".\n\nExtinction Rebellion should \"stick to protesting against those who create the problem - not our industry, members and hard-working commuters\", the union added.\n\nA public order ban has been put in place on Extinction Rebellion activities in London since Monday.\n\nAt the High Court a judge has refused the request to hear Extinction Rebellion's appeal against the ban early. The group wanted a hearing before the scheduled end of the protest on 19 October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The organs of Gemma Catalá's late husband, Jordi, have been given to three other patients\n\nFrom next year the organ donation system in Scotland is changing. Under the new \"opt-out\" regime, it will be assumed that people want to donate their organs for transplants after they die, unless they have stated otherwise. BBC Scotland's The Nine has been to see how a similar scheme in Spain works.\n\nThe doctors and nurses in the gleaming new intensive care unit at Vall d'Hebron hospital are focused on their duties, but they are happy for us to film them at work.\n\nThey're rightly proud of the care they give some of the most seriously ill patients in Barcelona.\n\nBut while we're there the relaxed mood suddenly changes and we are ushered out of the area quickly.\n\nAlong the corridor a young woman breaks down in tears as the doctors explain her mother will never wake up after suffering a stroke.\n\nIt is a reminder that every story of a life saved by organ transplant must begin with a heartbreaking moment.\n\nIn 1979 Spain moved to a \"soft opt-out\" organ donor register, similar to the one that will come into effect in Scotland and England from 2020.\n\nIt means that when someone dies, it is presumed they want to donate their organs - unless they have actively opted out of the system. But the approval of their family is also required.\n\nIn the UK, it is hoped this will increase the number of organs available for life-saving transplants but in Spain there was no significant increase in donations for a decade after the law changed.\n\nThirty years on the country's organ donation rates are the highest in the world and the number of donors per million of population is about 48.\n\nThis is double the UK figure and compares with 18 in Scotland last year.\n\nDr Ernest Hidalgo is a liver transplant surgeon who was based in Edinburgh for several years\n\nVall d'Hebron has pioneered the role of specialist doctors in promoting high levels of organ donation.\n\nIn the corridors of the intensive care unit, as the woman's family is learning of her death, Dr Alberto Sandiumenge talks to the doctor who treated her about her suitability as a donor.\n\nOrgan donation in the UK is largely co-ordinated by specialist nurses but Dr Sandiumenge is a fully qualified intensive care physician, as well as a transplant co-ordinator.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland's The Nine: \"Being a doctor allows me to talk as an equal with the treating physician.\"\n\nThey call it \"active detection\" - moving from the trauma ward, to accident and emergency, to intensive care, constantly monitoring which patients might become potential donors.\n\nStaff are trained to monitor which patients might become potential donors\n\nGemma Catalá was returning to the hospital for the first time since her husband, Jordi, died suddenly from a brain haemorrhage. He was 50.\n\nShe believes he would have wanted to be a donor.\n\nShe said: \"My husband always said we should help other people. He was a very generous person.\n\n\"He used to tell me that when you die you disappear, so why don't we help other people?\"\n\nShe says it helped her and her teenage sons to know that Jordi's death had allowed others to live.\n\n\"That's the first thing I thought - let's learn something from this misfortune, and that's what I told my kids.\n\n\"In that moment if I could have done something for my husband, and we had got an organ [from a donor], I would have accepted it.\n\n\"That's why I told my kids, in this moment, your dad is going to make some other families happy.\"\n\nJordi's organs went on to be given to three other patients.\n\nDr Teresa Pont said nearly 350 transplants were performed at the hospital last year\n\nFor Dr Christopher Mazo, Dr Sandiumenge and their colleagues, the underlying principle of an opt-out system changes the nature of each conversation with a bereaved family member.\n\nDr Sandiumenge said: \"We ask the family if they have any knowledge of their relative opposing to donation.\n\n\"More often, when we talk about organ donation, in the worst possible situation when their relative has just died, they actually approach the subject in a completely spontaneous way.\n\n\"They say, do you think he could be a donor? Do you think he can help others? So they approach the subject before we do.\"\n\nBut doctors involved in the so-called Spanish model seem convinced that a change in the law is not enough alone.\n\nDr Teresa Pont has been working at Vall d'Hebron since the national system in Spain was set up.\n\nThirty years ago, the annual number of transplants performed at the hospital was around 80 or 90. Last year it was nearly 350.\n\nDr Pont, who is now the director of the transplant team, said there are many factors in the success of the Spanish model, from the opt-out system to continuous training of the doctors and nurses in every hospital.\n\nShe added: \"It is all of these factors together. But the important thing is that it starts in the hospital; that the transplant co-ordinator is in the hospital and knows the position of the different patients.\n\n\"The law is a cover but it's not enough, because it's a soft opt-out system. We interview every family to know the will of the specific patients. And then the important thing is that the family has trust in the system and trust in the doctors.\"\n\nFrancesc Sala received a liver transplant at Vall d'Hebron in 2018. He said: \"When I die, I am going to be a donor as well.\"\n\nOne of Spain's achievements is translating a greater number of patients who meet initial organ donation criteria into actual donors.\n\nBut that's a complex task. Last year in Scotland, 420 patients could have been considered eligible. Of those, 228 of their families were approached for consent, and ultimately only 98 became actual donors.\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Organ and tissue donation can be a life-changing gift and the introduction of an opt-out system in autumn 2020 provides further opportunities to save and improve lives.\n\n\"The new system will add to the package of measures already in place that have led to significant increases in donation and transplantation over the last decade.\"\n\nFollowing up with the families of donors is the final piece of the jigsaw for Dr Sandiumenge and the team at Vall d'Hebron.\n\nHe said: \"We call them one month after the transplantation process has passed, to tell them how the recipients are.\n\n\"They are so proud and relieved, and I'm sure it helps them with the grieving process.\"\n\nGemma Catalá agrees that thinking of Jordi's gift to others has helped her to believe that he lives on.\n\nShe said: \"It's a way I use to imagine my husband, part of him, is still alive in other people.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFour Bulgaria fans arrested for subjecting England players to racist abuse have been fined 1,000 Bulgarian lev (£443) and banned from sports events for two years.\n\nEngland's 6-0 Euro 2020 qualifier win in Sofia on Monday was stopped twice in the first half following racist chanting by home supporters.\n\nThe four fans were punished by police - rather than the country's courts - under Bulgaria's law for the \"protection of public order during sports events\".\n\nAnother fan was arrested on Wednesday, bringing the total number detained to seven.\n\nOne of the seven is a minor, the Bulgaria Ministry of Interior told BBC Sport.\n\nBulgaria manager Krasimir Balakov said after the game he \"didn't hear\" any chanting, having previously accused England of having a bigger racism problem.\n\nBut Balakov later posted a statement on Facebook , acknowledging the incidents on Monday and apologising to \"English footballers and to all those who felt offended\".\n\n\"I condemn all forms of racism as an unacceptable behaviour that contradicts normal human relations,\" he added.\n\nBulgarian legend Hristo Stoichkov became emotional when he was asked on television how to prevent a similar occurrence in future. He advocated that \"fans are not allowed in the stadium or even [face] heavier punishments\".\n• None How Bulgarian media reacted to racism at England's Euro 2020 qualifier in Sofia", "A couple going on holiday found a surprise visitor inside their hand luggage at the airport.\n\nNick and Voirrey Coole, from the Isle of Man, were travelling to New York from the island's airport when Candy was discovered by security staff.\n\nThe couple said the team at the airport were \"fantastic\" when they discovered the four-legged additional passenger.\n\nCandy was taken back home while the couple continued with their journey.", "The pound is trading up on the day - but a surge in the currency triggered by news of the Brexit agreement failed to last, amid concerns that the deal could still be scuppered. Sterling rose to a five-month high against the dollar, coming close to $1.30, soon after the UK and EU's negotiating teams agreed a deal. It then began to lose ground after the DUP said it would not vote for the deal and by early afternoon, sterling had fallen back below $1.28. It later regained momentum to trade at $1.2863, up 0.26% on the day. There was a similar pattern against the euro. At first the pound jumped above €1.16, before falling back to €1.1576.", "TV presenter Kevin McCloud founded the two companies, which have called in the liquidators\n\nPeople who put money into two businesses started by Grand Designs star Kevin McCloud face the prospect of losing almost their entire investment.\n\nBut investors could be almost wiped out after the company and its owner, HAB Land - which was set up to buy sites for housing estates in Oxford and Winchester - called in liquidators.\n\nHowever, according to KPMG, which has been appointed to liquidate the two companies, the firms were hurt by a period of \"difficult trading\".\n\nIn 2017, Mr McCloud had told potential investors his company was delivering \"triple bottom line returns with progress on energy positivity\".\n\nThose potential investors were pitched so-called \"mini-bonds\" with 8% returns to crowdfund the projects in Oxford and Winchester.\n\nAlmost 300 people put their money in to lend HAB Land Finance £2.4m to build the estates.\n\nBut they have not seen a return on that investment.\n\nIn August, the firm wrote to bondholders to inform them that they could lose up to 97% of their investment.\n\nA letter, published by the Guardian, said: \"After final completion of the projects at both Kings Worthy and Cumnor Hill [in Oxford], the net return available to bondholders would be expected to range from £606,000 (best case) to £69,000 (worse case) which, in each case, is equivalent to 26 pence and 3 pence for every £1 of bond monies invested.\"\n\nMr McCloud resigned from both firms in March last year.\n\nSince then directors of HAB Land have reviewed the firm's finances and reached the conclusion that \"they may not be in a position to repay\" bondholders, according to KPMG.\n\nIt said the directors wrote to the bondholders \"putting forward proposals in order to repay them\" but those plans were rejected.\n\nAs a result, the firm's board decided to put the company into liquidation.\n\nIn a statement, one of the liquidators James Bennett said: \"The directors have reported that higher than anticipated design and project management costs, coupled with delays to the delivery of the sites, resulted in the companies experiencing significant liquidity issues.\"\n\nHe said the directors decided to liquidate the firm after they were unable to raise further finance or renegotiate existing debts.\n\nA promised orchard and play area at HAB Housing's Lovedon Fields site in Hampshire is currently a building site\n\n\"This has resulted in a considerable loss to mini-bond holders who largely financed the project,\" he said.\n\nHAB Land director, Simon Bullock, said in a statement: \"With only 22% of the mini-bond holders voting for the resolution and having exhausted all other options we were left with no alternative but to commence proceedings to put these companies into liquidation.\n\n\"With respect to the current HAB development sites in Oxfordshire and Winchester, none of the homeowners are directly impacted by this change although the situation remains fluid and under review,\" he said.\n\n\"This has meant that there is, what we hope to be, a temporary pause on the remaining works on the sites.\"\n\nThe site in Winchester has been criticised because a road was left unsurfaced and promised facilities have still not been built.\n\nWinchester City Council said HAB Housing had not built allotments, an orchard or play area at Lovedon Fields, Kings Worthy, Hampshire.\n\nThe BBC has contacted a spokesperson for Mr McCloud for comment.\n\nDid you invest in HAB Land Finance? If so please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "People should not make health decisions based on genetic tests they do at home, experts have warned.\n\nThe University of Southampton team, writing in the British Medical Journal, warn results can be unreliable.\n\nThe geneticists said the tests could be wrongly reassuring - or lead to unnecessary worry.\n\n23andMe, one of the companies offering tests, said there were \"many cases\" where results had prompted further checks and preventative treatment.\n\nThe research does not cover genetic screening offered by the NHS to people with a family history of a disease, or other risk factors.\n\nProf Anneke Lucassen, president of the British Society for Genetic Medicine and a consultant in clinical genetics at University Hospital Southampton led the research.\n\nShe said: \"Genetic tests sold online and in shops should absolutely not be used to inform health decisions without further scrutiny.\n\n\"Finding a 'health risk' via these tests often does not mean a person will go on to develop the health problem in question, while 'reassuring' results might be unreliable.\"\n\nProf Lucassen described seeing patients whose tests wrongly indicated they had faulty genes suggesting a high risk of certain cancers.\n\nShe said she understood people might be drawn to the tests in the hope of getting clear information about their future health.\n\nBut the BMJ paper warns genetic tests often prioritise \"breadth over detail\", citing a 23andMe test that checks for a few variants of Brca1 and 2, linked to breast and ovarian cancer risk, when there are actually thousands.\n\nA 23andMe spokesman said its processes were \"extremely accurate\" and it spelt out exactly what its Brca test looked for.\n\n\"We are very clear with customers that we test only for certain genetic variants,\" he said.\n\n\"As far as the variants we are testing for, they are some of the most well studied and associated with extremely high risk.\"\n\n\"23andMe results can and do facilitate valuable conversations with healthcare providers.\n\n\"In fact, we've had many cases where customers have taken a 23andMe result to their doctors, been prescribed confirmatory testing and have had preventative treatment as a result.\"\n\nBut Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard, who chairs the Royal College of GPs, said: \"Genetic testing shouldn't simply be done to satisfy a patient's curiosity about their health, as the results could have very real implications.\n\n\"Our members have reported patients coming to see them with the results of commercial genetic tests, asking for them to be interpreted - and some commercial companies actually advise this instead of providing the necessary advice and feedback themselves.\n\n\"This is not a good use of our time or NHS resources and should be the direct responsibility of the companies that are being paid to perform the tests.\"\n\nDr Helen Wallace, director of GeneWatch UK, said: \"We recommend that you do not buy these tests, which are at best a waste of money.\n\n\"Handing your DNA to a private company also raises privacy concerns for you and members of your family.\"", "The drawings are expected to fetch between £2,000 and £3,000 each when sold at auction\n\nA woman found two sketches of Winnie the Pooh - drawn for her by illustrator EH Shepard - in a box under a bed where they had been kept for 60 years.\n\nThe artist whipped up the unsigned originals for Tina Thornber after his wife invited her to their home in Guildford, Surrey.\n\nMrs Thornber, who worked at a hairdresser's at the time, said she had no idea who her client's husband was.\n\nThe artworks are expected to fetch up to £3,000 at auction next month.\n\nMrs Thornber recalled: \"I was a teenager, about 17 or 18, working at Stewarts the hairdresser in Guildford.\n\n\"Mrs Shepard was one of my clients and one day we were talking about art and I was saying how I liked drawing.\n\n\"She told me that her husband drew and invited me to visit them at their home so that he could do me a drawing.\n\n\"I went up there on my bike and when I arrived went into his study where he drew me the pictures.\"\n\nMrs Thornber rediscovered the drawings when she was clearing some of her things, and added them to other items she was putting aside for auction.\n\n\"I didn't really think about them until the auction specialist took an interest. I was amazed,\" she said.\n\nDating back to 1959/60, one ink sketch features Pooh and Christopher Robin, while the other shows a queue for \"Tikits\" at the railway station, with Piglet, Pooh, Kanga and Eeyore.\n\nShepard was the illustrator of Winnie the Pooh and its associated stories, which were created and written by AA Milne.\n\n\"Unseen works like this by EH Shepard are a rarity these days,\" said auctioneer Chris Ewbank.\n\n\"It is even rarer to have a consignment with primary source provenance that places the consignor in the room with the artist as he drew them.\"\n\nThe drawings have been given estimates of between £2,000 and £3,000 when they go under the hammer at Ewbank's Auctions on 28 November.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The singer was filmed performing an acoustic version of the song\n\nLana Del Rey's haunting ballad Video Games has been named song of the decade at the Q Awards in London.\n\n\"I'm so honoured. This is unreal,\" said the star, who accepted the prize via video link.\n\nReleased in 2011, Video Games was initially rejected by dozens of record labels, who said it was too long, too moody, and lacked the drums it needed to get played on the radio.\n\nBut it became the singer's breakthrough hit, reaching number nine in the UK.\n\n\"I just can't tell you how much this means,\" the star said in her acceptance speech. \"I got my start in London so I wish I could be there, but I'm there in spirit.\"\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 LanaDelReyVEVO 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 rest of the Q Awards were dominated by grime- with Stormzy, Dizzee Racsal and Little Simz all picking up major prizes.\n\nStormzy picked up best solo act, beating Liam Gallagher, and seemed uncharacteristically nervous as he took to the podium.\n\n\"This means a lot to me. It's been a very crazy year for myself and my team and my family... I'm at a loss for words.\"\n\nThe star, who headlined Glastonbury in June, also announced that his publishing company, Merky Books, had acquired the rights to the autobiography of best-selling Young Adult author Malorie Blackman.\n\nGrime pioneer Dizzee Rascal received the \"innovation in sound\" award, while Mercury-nominated rapper Little Simz won best vocal performance.\n\nScottish troubador Lewis Capaldi picked up the best track award for his heartbreak ballad Someone You Loved.\n\n\"Music isn't a competition, but I won!\" he joked as he accepted his prize at the Roundhouse in Camden.\n\nChristine and the Queens picked up the coveted Q Icon award\n\nThe 1975 were named \"greatest act in the world right now\", an accolade that singer Matty Healy described as \"a bit silly\".\n\n\"Actually, 'greatest act' is really, really humbling, because there's a lot of great acts, but there's not many great bands,\" he added.\n\n\"Bands are kind of dead. Or at least, four white guys with guitars being the zeitgeist is not where we are.\"\n\nElsewhere, the Q Hero award went to Kim Gordon, co-founder of New York band Sonic Youth and \"godmother of grunge\"; while French pop phenomenon Christine and the Queens was named the 2019 Q icon.\n\n\"Okay, no biggie,\" said the star as she took to the stage.\n\n\"It's a bit unreal because this just started with a computer and a crazy hunger at 20 to be a bit freer, so thank you for letting me do that since then.\n\n\"Here's to more crazy ideas and crazy people.\"\n\nThe full list of winners is as follows.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Evha Jannath fell out of a circular boat on the Splash Canyon attraction\n\nThe operator of a theme park where an 11-year-old girl died after falling from a water ride is to be prosecuted under health and safety laws.\n\nEvha Jannath, from Leicester, was on a school trip in 2017 when she fell from Splash Canyon at Drayton Manor.\n\nStaffordshire-based Drayton Manor Park Ltd will face a charge under Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nAn inquest will take place before the criminal proceedings begin, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said.\n\nThe ride has remained closed at the theme park in Tamworth since the schoolgirl's death.\n\nEvha was one of a party of children on a school trip to the park from Jameah Girls Academy on 9 May 2017.\n\nShe suffered chest injuries and died at Birmingham Children's Hospital after being rescued from the water by theme park staff.\n\nThe Splash Canyon ride has remained closed since the death\n\nIn a statement, the HSE said: \"The criminal proceedings have not yet commenced, because an inquest into Evha's death, due to be heard in November, needs to take place first.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Drayton Manor Park said: \"It would not be appropriate for us to comment until the inquest concludes.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A graphic symbol tells users where they need to press to provide a fingerprint\n\nA flaw that means any fingerprint can unlock a Galaxy S10 phone has been acknowledged by Samsung.\n\nIt promised a software patch that would fix the problem.\n\nThe issue was spotted by a British woman whose husband was able to unlock her phone with his thumbprint when it was stored in a cheap case.\n\nWhen the S10 was launched, in March, Samsung described the fingerprint authentication system as \"revolutionary\".\n\nThe scanner sends ultrasounds to detect 3D ridges of fingerprints in order to recognise users.\n\nSamsung said it was \"aware of the case of S10's malfunctioning fingerprint recognition and will soon issue a software patch\".\n\nSouth Korea's online-only KaKao Bank told customers to switch off the fingerprint-recognition option to log in to its services until the issue was fixed.\n\nPrevious reports suggested some screen protectors were incompatible with Samsung's reader because they left a small air gap that interfered with the scanning.\n\nThe British couple who discovered the security issue told the Sun newspaper it was a \"real concern\".\n\nAfter buying a £2.70 gel screen protector on eBay, Lisa Neilson registered her right thumbprint and then found her left thumbprint, which was not registered, could also unlock the phone.\n\nShe then asked her husband to try and both his thumbs also unlocked it.\n\nAnd when the screen protector was added to another relative's phone, the same thing happened.", "A woman was killed as she leaned out of a train window below an inadequate warning sign, a report said.\n\nBethan Roper, 28, was hit in the head by a tree branch while on board a Great Western Railway (GWR) service travelling at about 75mph (120km/h) near Twerton, Bath.\n\nThe Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) also noted trees along the route had not been inspected since 2009.\n\nSigns around the window were updated after Ms Roper's death.\n\nThe investigation said Ms Roper was returning to Penarth, South Wales, from Bath Spa station on 1 December 2018.\n\nShe was with friends, and the RAIB said it believed \"at least one other friend leant out of the window before [Ms Roper]\".\n\nWitnesses told investigators Ms Roper had her head out of the window for a few seconds \"before falling back into the vestibule\".\n\nDespite the efforts of other passengers, including some with medical training, she was pronounced dead at Bristol station, the report said.\n\nThe RAIB said the doors of the London Paddington to Exeter service were fitted with an opening window to enable passengers to open the door at stations.\n\nIt said a warning sign above the droplight window met industry guidance but \"did not adequately convey the level of risk\".\n\nThis photo, taken before the accident, shows the tree branch involved\n\nInvestigators claimed the use of the word \"caution\" suggested that leaning out the window could be done safely if care was taken.\n\nThey said it was much smaller than other surrounding signs, and red, not yellow, would have been a more appropriate background colour for conveying danger.\n\nGWR had completed a risk assessment of its droplight windows after an earlier passenger death,\n\nIt had planned to install enhanced warning signs by May 2018, but this had not happened by the time of Ms Roper's death, investigators found.\n\nGWR told investigators it did not meet its schedule as two staff members involved in the task left the company and a system which tracks pieces of work failed.\n\nThere were no other measures in place to mitigate the risk of people leaning out the window, the report found\n\nThe RAIB also noted that Network Rail, responsible for managing lineside vegetation, had not undertaken a tree inspection of the area since 2009 and this was \"possibly causal to the accident\".\n\nAn inspection of the tree after the accident reported the stem was in \"poor health\" growing from a decayed stump.\n\nEnhanced signage is now in use on affected trains\n\nThe arboricultural report said the tree had been \"in hazardous condition for several years, and prior to January 2018 at least three stems would have been clear threats to the railway\".\n\nMs Roper worked for the Welsh Refugee Council charity and was chairman of Young Socialists Cardiff.\n\nHer father, Adrian Roper, released a statement after her death saying his daughter \"enjoyed life to the full whilst working tirelessly for a better world\".\n\nHe said the Bethan Roper Trust for Refugees has been set up in her memory.", "The Mayor of Woodbridge, Green Party member Eamonn O'Nolan, was part of the Extinction Rebellion protest\n\nA mayor arrested at an Extinction Rebellion protest in London while wearing his robes said he was \"representing the people\" of his town.\n\nEamonn O'Nolan, mayor of Woodbridge in Suffolk, was detained after being part of a group of more than 500 climate change activists in Trafalgar Square.\n\nThe Green Party member has faced criticism for protesting in his robes, usually donned for civic duties.\n\nMr O'Nolan said he was prompted to join in by a letter from people in the town.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police began making arrests after activists defied an order banning them from demonstrating anywhere in London.\n\nHundreds defied the protest ban to gather in Trafalgar Square\n\nMr O'Nolan was in Trafalgar Square on Wednesday, alongside some protesters who had covered their mouths with black tape to symbolise the silencing of their protest.\n\nHe said: \"What specifically got me out there yesterday was a letter I got from people in Woodbridge. It was a small petition with about 35 signatures.\n\n\"They asked that the town council represent them at the public assembly which Extinction Rebellion were running yesterday, so that's what I did.\n\n\"I am the mayor, I was elected by the people of Woodbridge. Sure, it was an unusual thing for the police and public to see but I was there representing the people of Woodbridge.\"\n\nSome have criticised his decision to wear the robes at the protest, with one saying he had bought the outfit \"into disrepute\".\n\nHowever, Mr O'Nolan said \"95 to 98%\" of internet traffic had been \"highly supportive\" of his actions.\n\n\"People who are vehemently opposed to what I did [on Wednesday] really should have been there with an open mind and a lot of them would not have liked what they saw,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he had expected to be charged by police, but was 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. \"It's appalling they can mess with people's lives\"\n\nMore than 1,000 people have been waiting more than a year for specialist surgery at one hospital.\n\nNumbers climbed after beds on one ward in Morriston Hospital were given to \"very high levels\" of emergency cases.\n\nTrisha Adams, 55, who has waited nearly 18 months for a hip operation, said she was \"at my wits' end\".\n\nSwansea Bay health board said: \"We appreciate this can be distressing for our patients and we apologise to those facing delays\".\n\nAt the end of September, 1,768 orthopaedic and spinal patients were waiting longer than the 36 week-target, with 741 waiting more than 52 weeks, and a list of 1,000 year-long waits across all specialities.\n\nHealth officials aim to cut the backlog by transferring hundreds of cases to other health boards and specialist private hospitals.\n\nUnder referral for treatment times (RTT), there are 7,057 patients waiting longer than the target. At its worst two years ago, more than 10,000 patients were waiting more than nine months.\n\nSwansea Bay has seen numbers steadily increase after major orthopaedic operations were stopped at Morriston's ward W - although less complicated surgery is still being done there.\n\nMs Adams, who lives near Llangadog, Carmarthenshire, has a congenital condition and had a hip replacement which has started to fail and now needs fresh surgery.\n\nWhen a build-up of fluid surrounding her existing implant started causing her pain, she saw a specialist in Carmarthen in February 2017 who told her she needed the operation within six months to avoid further tissue damage.\n\nShe asked for a second opinion and saw another specialist at Morriston - a centre of excellence for the type of surgery she needs - it is now 76 weeks since she first saw her consultant.\n\n\"I can't believe I'm still in this process and not getting anywhere,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm a pretty healthy person and try to look after myself but because the deterioration of my hip it means I don't sleep well at night, I put off going to bed because it's so painful. I'm lucky to get four or five hours sleep at night.\"\n\nTrisha is frustrated she cannot help her husband Paul with property renovations\n\nMs Adams used to enjoy walking and cycling with her husband Paul, but is now unable to help him renovate buildings at their smallholding.\n\n\"If I try to walk too far, it flares up - the pain becomes even worse,\" she said.\n\n\"It's like a red hot poker in my leg, it hurts sitting down or standing. I'm on prescription pain killers. But it's there 24/7, it doesn't matter how many drugs you take.\"\n\nShe contacted her MP, who wrote to the health board and got her an appointment with management who told her they were \"riding the perfect storm and they had issues with consultants leaving, shortage of theatre and anaesthetists at the time\".\n\nMs Adams said she was told they would try and get her operation done by July, but she is still waiting.\n\nHer surgery is too complicated to be transferred out of Morriston and had a pre-operation examination in February, but no letter came confirming a surgery date.\n\n\"How could they do this? No-one had bothered to write to me, tell me what was going on, no-one had contacted me. I was just left there in limbo.\n\n\"My surgeon said 'I came into this profession to be a surgeon, to make people's lives better but I can't see you because they won't let me'.\"\n\nThe health board said it had performed 1,200 elective orthopaedic operations at its three hospitals, including 338 at Morriston, in 2019.\n\nBut it said due to \"very high\" numbers of emergency cases and other pressures, Morriston was unable to provide a dedicated orthopaedic facility on ward W.\n\n\"This has significantly compromised our ability to offer elective orthopaedic services there,\" said chief operating officer Chris White.\n\n\"We are doing all we can to re-provide this facility in Morriston as soon as possible and we apologise to patients experiencing delays.\"\n\nThe health board said between April and August, 240 procedures were transferred to other health boards or specialist private providers and it planned to do a minimum of 606 surgeries this year.\n\n\"For more complex procedures, or for those patients with other medical conditions that restricts where they can have surgery, we are looking at further options to provide surgery in a suitable setting,\" Mr White added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"They will want to vote for it on Saturday\"\n\nBoris Johnson says he is \"very confident\" MPs will back the Brexit deal he has struck with the EU - despite the DUP's opposition to it.\n\nThe prime minister claimed he would win what is expected to be a knife-edge Commons vote on Saturday.\n\n\"This is our chance in the UK as democrats to get Brexit done, and come out on 31 October,\" he said.\n\nThe DUP is against concessions he made to the EU on customs checks at points of entry into Northern Ireland.\n\nThe party's deputy leader, Nigel Dodds, accused the prime minister of being \"too eager by far to get a deal at any cost\".\n\nThe PM must win support for his deal from Brexiters on his own side, as well as from 23 former Tory MPs who now sit as independents - including 21 whom he kicked out of the Tory parliamentary party last month after they rebelled against him in a bid to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe must also convince Labour MPs concerned about protection for workers and the environment in the new deal.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said Labour would oppose the deal, citing concerns it would allow the UK to move further away from EU regulations in the future.\n\nHe said the new agreement \"paves the way for a decade of deregulation\" and argued it would give the government \"licence to slash\" worker, environment and consumer protections.\n\nSpeaking in Brussels, Mr Johnson denied he would meet the same fate as his predecessor Theresa May, who repeatedly failed to get a Brexit deal through Parliament.\n\n\"I am very confident that when my colleagues in Parliament study this agreement that they will want to vote for it on Saturday and in succeeding days,\" he said at an EU summit in Brussels.\n\nAppealing to the DUP, which the government relies on for support in key Commons votes, he insisted the UK could leave the EU \"as one United Kingdom\" and \"decide our future together\".\n\nMr Dodds earlier said he expected a \"massive vote\" against Mr Johnson's deal on Saturday in the House of Commons - and the DUP expected to \"play a crucial role\" in amending the legislation.\n\nThe new deal is largely the same as the one agreed by Theresa May last year - but it removes the controversial backstop clause, which critics say could have kept the UK tied indefinitely to EU customs rules.\n\nNorthern Ireland would now remain in the UK's customs union, but there would also be customs checks on some goods passing through en route to Ireland and the EU single market.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. DUP: PM 'too eager for deal at any cost'\n\nThe DUP said: \"This is not acceptable within the internal borders of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nThe party also objects to Northern Ireland potentially being part of a different VAT regime to the rest of the UK and is concerned about the deal violating the Good Friday Agreement's principle of consulting the nationalist and unionist communities on important issues.\n\nEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker caused a flurry earlier when he said there was no need for a Brexit extension as \"we have a deal\".\n\nThis was seen as a major boost for Mr Johnson, who has always insisted he would not go beyond 31 October - even if he was forced to ask for an extension under the terms of the so-called Benn Act, which kicks in on Saturday if MPs vote his deal down.\n\nBut Mr Juncker's EU colleagues were more cautious, with European Council President Donald Tusk saying he would \"consult\" member states about an extension if necessary.\n\nAt a joint press conference, Mr Tusk, Mr Juncker, EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier and Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar all expressed regret that the UK was leaving the EU.\n\nMr Tusk said: \"On a more personal note, what I feel today, frankly speaking, is sadness, because in my heart I will always be a Remainer, and I hope that our British friends decide to return one day, our door will always be open.\"\n\nThe winning post for votes in the House of Commons is 320 if everyone turns up - seven Sinn Fein MPs don't sit and the Speaker and three deputies don't vote.\n\nThere are currently 287 voting Conservative MPs. The prime minister needs to limit any rebellion among them.\n\nThen, if the DUP won't support his deal, he'll need the backing of 23 former Conservative MPs who are currently independents. Most will probably support the deal, but not all.\n\nThat's still not quite enough, though, so the PM will also need the backing of some Labour MPs and ex-Labour independents. In March, when MPs voted on Theresa May's deal for the third time, five Labour MPs backed it, plus two ex-Labour independents.\n\nThis time it's likely to be a bit higher than that because several MPs have said they would now back a deal.\n\nAll this still leaves the vote very close. And it's possible some MPs could abstain, making it even harder to predict the outcome.\n\nDo you have any questions about the proposed Brexit deal?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "President Trump reacts to Turkey's ceasefire in Syria after it was announced by his vice-president.", "A British teenager accused of lying about being raped has said her statement withdrawing the claims was \"not in proper English\" and there was \"no way\" she would have written it.\n\nThe 19-year-old woman, who cannot be identified, told the court that police forced her to make the statement.\n\nShe is on trial in Cyprus accused of causing public mischief by allegedly falsely claiming to have been raped by 12 Israeli men in Ayia Napa on 17 July.\n\nThe woman, who is giving evidence at Famagusta District Court in Paralimni, broke down in tears as she was cross-examined for more than three hours on Wednesday.\n\nAccording to her testimony, she was gang raped in a hotel room in the resort but 10 days later she says police forced her to retract the statement.\n\nProsecutors say she willingly wrote and signed the statement, which was brought out in court.\n\nGiving evidence, the woman said: \"This is not in proper English. This is in Greek English.\n\n\"I'm very well educated. I'm going to university, I got an unconditional offer so there is no way I would write a paragraph like this.\"\n\nHer lawyers say she was told what to write by Cypriot police, led by Detective Sergeant Marios Christou, and the teenager made the statement fearing she would be kidnapped or killed.\n\n\"It doesn't make grammatical sense,\" the teenager said.\n\n\"All the way through there isn't one sentence an English person would write.\"\n\nShe broke down in court as she said she had lied to her mother in a text sent from the police station, when she messaged: \"Trust me, I'm OK.\"\n\nShe told the court: \"I think any child will lie to their parents to tell them they are OK because parents don't stop worrying about their child.\n\n\"If your child had just been raped by 12 Israelis and wouldn't get out of bed and had a throat so swollen she couldn't breathe and was taken to the police station for what she thought was an hour but then went on to be nearly eight hours.\"\n\nShe stood through hours of intensive cross-examination inside the claustrophobic courtroom. Mostly calm, occasionally frustrated by a line of questioning.\n\nShe fiddled with her hair, necklace and white knit jumper. British, Israeli and local Cypriot journalists scribbled notes.\n\nEagle-eyed police watched from the sidelines, ready to swoop the moment anyone tried to covertly check their mobile phones. The understated district courtroom offers an unlikely backdrop for a trial that's generated considerable foreign attention.\n\nThe 19-year-old had just left high school. She came to Ayia Napa in an attempt to \"grow up\" before embarking upon her university degree.\n\nThe only moment the teenager's composure crumbled was when the prosecutor probed her relationship with her mother.\n\nHer mum - who the teenage girl described as her best friend - flew over from the UK immediately after the alleged rape to provide physical and emotional support. She smiled reassuringly from the cramped wooden benches.\n\nThe woman also said she had previously suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after an accident, and has been experiencing renewed symptoms following the alleged rape.\n\nShe added that she also had to take eight tablets a day, including HIV prevention medication.\n\n\"After it happened, even if a man was within a metre of me it would make me feel horrible, but they wouldn't make me feel threatened for my life,\" she said, adding that she felt \"vulnerable\" by the way Detective Sergeant Christou \"was approaching me and shouting at me to stop crying\".\n\n\"I felt like I was in danger because he wasn't going by the law, I wasn't allowed a lawyer,\" she added.\n\n\"I immediately assumed corruption and conspiracy so I wouldn't put it past him, I wouldn't be surprised if at that moment he would have kidnapped me and killed me.\"\n\nTwelve young Israelis were arrested in connection with the allegations but were later released and have returned home.\n\nThe woman was granted bail at the end of August, after spending four and a half weeks in prison. She cannot leave the island.\n\nShe could face up to a year in prison and a 1,700 euro (about £1,500) fine if she is found guilty.", "Boris Johnson and his team, who beat the odds in 2016, have overturned the conventional wisdom again.\n\nThe EU said they would not budge; their former Tory colleagues and the opposition colleagues said it was all a sham.\n\nBut after a breakneck set of negotiations, a deal's been struck and the rest of the continent gave way on the controversial backstop, the feature of the former agreement that did for Theresa May.\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson had to cede some ground too, accepting that Northern Ireland will be treated differently to the rest of the UK and follow some EU rules and regulations, perhaps for good.\n\nThere's no question that, for some Brexit purists and unionists too, it's a breach of some of the promises he made to them.\n\nMrs May's deal wasn't dead after all, but there to be altered. Northern Ireland and the rest of the country will be still united theoretically, but more different in some practices.\n\nSticking to those vows was ultimately much less important to Number 10 than just getting a deal.\n\nBut it's made the next stage an almighty gamble, because there is resistance from the prime minister's allies as well as the opposition, who will deplore this deal.\n\nMr Johnson has put his name on the dotted line in Brussels with absolutely no guarantee that it will pass through Parliament.\n\nDowning Street is well aware of that. But they concluded that it was better to strike the agreement, better to try, better to risk it, than do nothing.\n\nThis prime minister might have made a career of taking risks, but this might be his most serious bet of all.", "A body has been found in the search for 22-year-old Brooke Morris, police have confirmed.\n\nMs Morris, from Trelewis, Merthyr Tydfil, disappeared after being given a lift home from the town centre in the early hours of Saturday.\n\nPolice officers carrying out searches of rivers and waterways near the town have located the body of a woman in a stretch of the River Taff.\n\nFormal identification has not taken place but her family has been informed.\n\nSouth Wales Police said her family was being supported by specialist officers.\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. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nMs Morris was last seen at about 02:30 BST on Saturday after a night out, wearing a long-sleeved red top and jeans.\n\nPolice believe the rugby player did not go inside her house and instead went down a lane that leads towards a bridge that goes into Treharris.\n\nHundreds of people from the area, some on scrambler bikes or with dogs, had joined the search, co-ordinated from Treharris Phoenix RFC.\n\nPolice say the body was found in the River Taff downstream of Treharris.\n\nBrooke Morris was last seen in the early hours of Saturday\n• None Search for woman missing after night out", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Passenger Gayle Fitzpatrick: \"There was a lot of smoke pouring into the plane\"\n\nPassengers on a British Airways flight to Valencia which filled with smoke mid-air have told the BBC they are still experiencing breathing difficulties two months on.\n\nGayle Fitzpatrick, 40, from Glasgow, says she is breathless walking up-hill.\n\n\"I don't smoke, I've never had any health concerns. So I know [it] must be directly attributable to that flight and whatever I inhaled,\" she says.\n\nBritish Airways said it could not comment for legal reasons.\n\nBA said it was waiting for the outcome of a Spanish air accident investigation, which is examining why the cabin of flight BA422 to Valencia in August filled with smoke shortly before landing.\n\nGayle has been referred by her doctor to a respiratory specialist, as has fellow passenger, Stephen McConnon.\n\nMr McConnon says he has sores in his throat and is often \"struggling breathing\".\n\nBefore the flight, he went to the gym on a regular basis.\n\nHowever, he says his performance at the gym has subsequently \"fallen off a cliff\" and his latest prognosis was \"really not good\".\n\nMr McConnon's colleague, Frank Sweeney, who was with him on the flight, and who is also suffering breathing difficulties, says he wants answers.\n\n\"I want to know, first of all, what did we breathe in? Was the plane maintained properly? Should it have been in the air?\"\n\nFlight BA422 was evacuated following an emergency landing\n\nIn a statement, British Airways said it would never operate an aircraft if it believed \"it posed any health or safety risk to customers or crew\".\n\nThe airline said it supported customers after the incident and it continues to offer \"ongoing help and support.\"\n\n\"We are legally unable to comment on causes until the Spanish air accident investigation is concluded,\" the airline said.\n\nAlthough it is not confirmed, pilots and cabin crew have told the BBC they have no doubt that the incident on the flight to Valencia was a \"fume event\".\n\nThe air you breathe on board virtually every model of airliner (except for the Boeing 787) is sucked in via the engines, where it is compressed, after which it flows into the cabin.\n\nIf oil or hydraulic fluid leaks it can contaminate the air supply.\n\nFlight BA422 filled with smoke shortly before landing in Valencia, Spain\n\nPassenger, Frank Sweeney, who was a passenger on board the BA flight to Valencia, says the fumes were \"acrid\".\n\n\"It wasn't like a wood smoke or a fire smoke, it was more chemical,\" he says.\n\nFellow passenger Gayle Fitzpatrick says at the beginning of the flight there was a \"really strange chemical smell\".\n\nIf it is confirmed that it was a fume event, then the thick, visible smoke and the fact the plane had to make an emergency landing would make it an extreme case.\n\nPilots and cabin crew say there have been a number of less severe events on BA flights in recent weeks. None has been confirmed as a fume event, but they have been reported as potential ones.\n\nAccording to an internal BA report seen by BBC News, the crew on a flight into Gatwick earlier this month reported \"a damp smell\" mid-flight.\n\nThat type of smell is often associated with fume events.\n\nThe memo states that the pilots removed their oxygen masks on arrival and the first officer \"proceeded to vomit on two occasions\".\n\nThe captain \"proceeded to A&E the next morning after experiencing a strong headache\" the memo said.\n\nAfter a similar smell was detected by the crew on another flight bound for Gatwick in early October the \"fumes (were) reported to get worse\" and the plane was diverted to Basel, Switzerland.\n\nAnd when a fume event was reported on a flight into Heathrow, also earlier this month, the crew were later taken to hospital and then \"medically discharged\".\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest these incidents are connected or emanating from the same cause.\n\nBritish Airways says it always encourages staff to report any concerns and it passes reports onto the UK's Civil Aviation Authority.\n\n\"Safety is our first priority and every report is thoroughly investigated, with typically 151 engineering checks before an aircraft is cleared to continue flying.\"\n\nThe airline says fume events can be caused by \"a wide range of issues, including burnt food in the oven, aerosols and e-cigarettes, strongly-smelling food in cabin bags, and de-icing fluid\".\n\nBut the issue of fume events is by no means confined to UK airlines.\n\nPassengers disembarked via emergency chutes after the BA August flight landed in Valencia\n\nJudith Anderson from the US Association of Flight Attendants says she gets a report of a fume event almost every day.\n\nAfter an incident on a flight with a US airline in July, one crew member was hospitalised for eight days and another for three days.\n\n\"The one that was hospitalised for eight days developed a speech impediment. She couldn't communicate properly, had severe headaches and cognitive issues,\" says Ms Anderson.\n\nAustralian physician Dr Jonathan Burdon acknowledges that the effects of breathing in contaminated air on an aircraft are not \"in the medical text books\" and the symptoms can vary.\n\nBut Dr Burdon, who is also a respiratory specialist, says he treats hundreds of cabin crew and pilots every year.\n\n\"If I'd seen one or two patients over a number of years I might have thought, I'm not sure about that,\" he says.\n\n\"But we're seeing thousands (of cases) worldwide. And the thing is, they are all chronologically-linked to a fume event.\"\n\nBoth British Airways and EasyJet say they have been testing filters which could be retrofitted to aircraft and potentially prevent fume events from taking place.\n\nHowever, aviation regulators first need to certify the filters before they can be fitted to aircraft.", "Ten children were orphaned when the IRA murdered their mother Jean McConville in 1972\n\nThe first prosecution linked to the murder of mother-of-10 Jean McConville over 40 years ago has found a former senior IRA leader not guilty.\n\nThe 1972 killing was one of the most notorious of the Troubles.\n\nOn Thursday, Ivor Bell, from Ramoan Gardens in west Belfast, was cleared of soliciting the widow's murder.\n\nThe court also heard allegations that former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams had recommended her murder and disappearance.\n\nHowever, Mr Adams, who was called as a defence witness at Belfast Crown Court, strenuously denied involvement.\n\nThe case against the 82-year-old Mr Bell was based on alleged admissions made to a Boston College oral history project, which were played in public for the first time during the legal action.\n\nReporting restrictions were placed on the court case, but they were lifted on Thursday.\n\nDuring the hearing, the jury was played taped recordings of an interview with a man - alleged to be Bell - who said Gerry Adams was the IRA's \"officer commanding\" in Belfast and had been involved in the decision to kill and secretly bury Mrs McConville.\n\nThe judge later ruled the tapes were unreliable and could not be used as evidence against Mr Bell.\n\nIvor Bell was in his late 70s when he was first arrested over the McConville case\n\nAddressing the jury, Mr Justice O'Hara said: \"There is now no evidence which the prosecution can put before you in order to support the case.\n\n\"My role now is to direct you to return a verdict of not guilty, because you simply cannot find him to have done the acts alleged.\"\n\nFive of Mrs McConville's children were in court and in a statement issued afterwards, Mrs McConville's son, Michael, said the family was \"bitterly disappointed\" the Boston tapes could not be used as evidence and demanded a full public inquiry.\n\nHe said: \"Throughout this, we have got many doors closed on us and we have walked many a road.\n\n\"This is the closest that we are going to get to justice.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jean McConville's children say they are \"bitterly disappointed\" by the verdict\n\nSusan Townsley, who was aged six when her mother was abducted, choked back tears as she said: \"This is the only thing we are going to get at the end of the day.\n\n\"As a family we are just going to have to stick together. It has been very hard on all of us.\"\n\nMr Bell's solicitor, Peter Corrigan, said his client had been vindicated and that the Boston tapes were \"inherently unreliable\".\n\nThe Public Prosecution Service defended the decision to take the case.\n\nDeputy Director Michael Agnew said: \"This case presented the PPS with a number of novel and complex legal and evidential issues. Whilst we respect the ruling of the judge, we remain satisfied the proceedings were properly brought.\"\n\nDetective Chief Superintendent Bobby Singleton of PSNI's Legacy Investigation Branch said: \"First and foremost our thoughts are with Jean's family on what will have been a day of mixed emotions.\n\n\"We will take some time to consider judgement and its implications on similar cases. It was always our firm belief that we had assembled a strong case and that it was in the public interest for the details to be heard.\"\n\nMr Adams has always denied being in the IRA and, in his evidence, he said he had no part to play in Mrs McConville's abduction, murder or secret burial.\n\nAppearing in court on Monday, the former west Belfast MP told the jury: \"I categorically deny any involvement in the abduction, killing and burial of Jean McConville, or indeed any others.\"\n\nMr Adams, who spent over an hour giving evidence, said he believed Mrs McConville should \"not have been shot\", but should have been shown \"compassion\".\n\nMrs McConville, who was wrongly accused of being an Army informer, was dragged from her west Belfast home in front of her children in December 1972.\n\nShe was shot and secretly buried by the IRA, becoming one of the Disappeared victims of the Troubles.\n\nHer body was recovered from Shelling Hill Beach in County Louth in 2003.\n\nIvor Bell's defence team argued it could not be proven that he was the man on the tapes, known as 'Interviewee Z' and that he had been living in County Louth at the time of the murder.\n\nIn a ruling on Wednesday, the judge said there was \"overwhelming\" evidence it was Mr Bell speaking on the recording.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe so-called Boston tapes collated accounts from former IRA and UVF paramilitaries about their activities during the Troubles on the understanding these would not be made public until after their deaths.\n\nIn 2014, the PSNI won a trans-Atlantic court battle and seized some of the tapes.\n\nIvor Bell was subsequently charged with two counts of soliciting murder. He was deemed unfit to stand trial in 2018 and a legal process known as a 'trial of the facts' was launched to establish the truth of the allegations.\n\nHe was excused from attending the court hearings on health grounds.\n\nOn the tapes, Z was asked if there was \"a possibility\" that allegations Mr Adams had given the order for Mrs McConville's killing and disappearance were wrong.\n\nInterviewee Z replied: \"The only thing I have to say is this - Gerry would have just passed the information back to GHQ [IRA's general headquarters] that one, she was a tout, two, she was taking money, three, she had to be executed. Right?\n\n\"Whether he knew she had 10 kids or not, I don't know.\"\n\nInterviewee Z was also asked about a \"policy\" of disappearing informants.\n\nHe claimed it would have ultimately been a decision for the IRA's general headquarters, but that the \"Belfast brigade\" would have \"advocated\" it.\n\nInterviewee Z claimed Mr Adams was the IRA's commanding officer (OC) in Belfast at the time.\n\nHe said: \"He was the OC of Belfast. I was operations officer. Pat [McClure] was the IO [intelligence officer]. Pat handled it and directly tied in with Gerry.\n\n\"The first I knew about that woman was [when] I was told she was being shot as a tout and the reason for it was she was an informer.\n\n\"They told me about radios, signals and pulling the curtains up and down.\n\n\"I said: 'I don't know anything about anything, other than we did not have jails so we should shoot touts.'\n\n\"The people who came to me was Pat and Gerry.\"\n\nThe interviewer also asked about Mr Adams' attitude towards \"burying\" Mrs McConville.\n\nInterviewee Z said: \"Just that she was a tout and she should be shot.\n\n\"I wouldn't say he would have liked it very much.\"\n\nIvor Bell was a leading figure in the IRA at the time Jean McConville was murdered\n\nZ further described his own attitude towards informants.\n\n\"At the end of the day, she's an informer,\" he said. \"Worse than that, she's an informer for money.\n\n\"Whatever is decided, I will back that up. I said: 'I don't have a problem with shooting touts.'\n\n\"But they said: 'We are going to bury her.'\n\n\"I said I didn't agree with that... If that's done, it's done without my agreement. It defeats the entire purpose.\"\n\nHe later added: \"I said: 'If she's a tout, the fact that she's a woman shouldn't save her.'\n\n\"I wasn't told she had 10 kids and no husband.\n\n\"I can't say for sure that I would have said: 'No, don't shoot her.'\n\n\"But I may have had second thoughts.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it was also alleged Mr Adams had asked a priest to get Jean McConville out of Belfast.\n\nAccording to Interviewee Z: \"Gerry said that they asked a priest to get her out of town and the priest for St Peter's refused.\"\n\nWhen asked about his motivation for taking part in the oral history project, Z provided two reasons - historical accuracy and annoyance at discovering he was being blamed for the controversial killing.\n\nThe court heard claims high-profile republican Bobby Storey, referred to as a \"clown\" called at Z's house to make enquiries because Sinn Féin were coming under political pressure over the Disappeared.\n\nRepublican Bobby Storey, pictured here with Gerry Adams, was mentioned by Witness Z on the tapes\n\nZ said: \"What annoyed me, he sent an idiot to my house to ask about the woman in the flats.\n\n\"I told him... my knowledge of that would be second-hand, why don't you ask Gerry?\n\n\"The annoying thing is, he actually believed Gerry.\"\n\nMost of the Boston College interviews with republicans were carried out by former IRA prisoner Anthony McIntyre, an outspoken critic of Sinn Féin.\n\nFormer IRA man Anthony McIntyre was a lead researcher on the oral history project\n\nThe judge ruled Dr McIntyre had asked leading questions, which tainted the evidential value of the tapes.\n\nMr Justice O'Hara also ruled the false promise that testimony would remain confidential until the contributor's death could have liberated Mr Bell to speak the truth, but could also have given him the freedom to lie, distort, blame or mislead.\n\nThere was clear bias that both Mr McIntyre and Mr Bell had an agenda and were \"out to get\" Mr Adams and others, the judge said.\n\nEarlier in the case, Professor Kevin O'Neill, a director of Irish Studies at Boston College, said the project was now held up as a model of how not to conduct oral history.\n\nBut Ed Moloney, the journalist behind the Boston College project, said he welcomed Mr Bell's acquittal and called on the authorities to drop all other cases related to the tapes.\n\nHe added those who criticised the project overlooked the fact that because of it the McConville family knows more about her disappearance than before.\n\nHe said: \"If they had been reliant on the PSNI they would be in for a long wait.\"", "Millions of litres of water disappeared at Loch Vaa between September 2018 and May this year\n\nThe water level of a Highlands loch likely dropped to its lowest in at least 750 years in May this year, according to archaeologists.\n\nLoch Vaa, near Aviemore, had been mysteriously losing water since September last year.\n\nArchaeologists were asked to check for any impact on a crannog, an ancient fortified settlement, in the loch.\n\nJust below the water's surface they found pieces of wood that had survived since the 13th Century.\n\nAny old wood which was not underwater at the crannog site has been long lost through exposure to the elements.\n\nBy May this year Loch Vaa, which is fed by a spring, was estimated to have dropped by 1.4m (4.5ft) since September 2018 - with no clear explanation of the reason.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It's like somebody's pulled the plug' on our loch\n\nThere were concerns that timbers which had been used in the construction of the crannog, and preserved for centuries in the loch, would be exposed to damage by the dramatic fall in water level.\n\nArchaeologists and the Living On Water crannog project were asked to investigate the state of the archaeological site in the Cairngorms.\n\nThe site was found to have survived the drop in water level unscathed.\n\nThe archaeologists also radiocarbon dated samples of timbers found just a few centimetres underwater.\n\nThe birch, a species of tree \"not known for being particularly robust\" according to the archaeologists, was dated back to the 13th Century.\n\nThe research confirmed a medieval phase of the crannog, and that the water level likely reached its lowest level since that time in May this year.\n\nThe water level has since returned to normal.\n\nLoch Vaa is managed as a community asset for recreational fishing and water sports.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency suggested the loch had suffered due to a \"relatively dry\" winter.\n\nScottish Water countered claims it might be responsible by saying that an underground aquifer and boreholes that supplied water to the Badenoch and Strathspey area were located about three miles (6km) upstream of Loch Vaa, and too far away to affect it.\n\nCrannogs were fortified settlements constructed on artificial islands in lochs.\n\nIt was thought they were first built in the Iron Age, a period that began around 800 BC.\n\nBut four Western Isles sites have been radiocarbon dated to about 3640-3360 BC in the Neolithic period - before the erection of Stonehenge's stone circle.\n\nArchaeologists said it was possible there was earlier activity at the crannog in Loch Vaa dating back to Pictish or Iron Age times.", "There are two lighthouses at Dovercourt at risk of being lost, according to Historic England\n\nA cliff lift, a railway viaduct and a pair of lighthouses have been added to a list of sites at risk of being lost.\n\nHistoric England has added 247 sites to its At Risk Register but 310 have been removed as they were regarded as saved.\n\nThe 134-year-old Leas Lift in Folkestone, England's oldest surviving timber trestle railway bridge in Maldon and both Dovercourt Lighthouses in Harwich are on the list.\n\nA well in London, a lead mine and a Georgian warship have been removed.\n\nSt Andrew's Church in Sunderland has been removed from the At Risk Register\n\nHistoric England praised those who had \"lovingly cared for\" and \"brought back to life\" empty buildings and \"valued historic places\".\n\nChief executive Duncan Wilson said: \"The message is clear - our heritage needs to be saved and investing in heritage pays.\n\n\"There are buildings still on the register that can be rescued and can be brought back to beneficial use and generate an income, contributing to the local community and economy.\"\n• None 2,375Grade I and II* listed buildings and places of worship\n\nBelieved to be unique examples of 19th century prefabricated lighthouses, the two towers off the Essex coast are a \"well-regarded\" feature of the deep water harbour but they are deteriorating.\n\nA survey was carried out in 2018 with a view to repair work commencing over the next two years.\n\nThe oldest surviving timber trestle railway bridge in England, the structure at Wickham Bishops, also in Essex, comprises two adjoining viaducts and was part of the Braintree to Maldon branch line between 1848 and 1966.\n\nDespite extensive repairs in the 1990s, many timbers are suffering from rot and decay caused by damp, lack of maintenance and heavy tree growth.\n\nThe Grade II* listed funicular railway in Kent was built in 1885 and is one of only three remaining water-balanced lifts in the UK.\n\nIt closed in January 2017 because of safety issues with the braking system, since when the building, tracks and machinery have degraded further.\n\nA trust has been formed to manage the building with the hope of reopening the lift in 2023.\n\nThe military complex was constructed as a major depot for arms and ammunition during the Napoleonic Wars and included barracks and a military prison.\n\nIt would have served as a refuge for the king and government if Napoleon had invaded and remained a main supplier of arms and clothing to the British Army until the 1960s.\n\nPart of the site in Northamptonshire has been refurbished and Historic England has funded a survey to see what can be done with the rest.\n\nThis \"much-loved landmark\" was built in 1827 for writer William Beckford to house his collection of art, books and furniture.\n\nHe was buried at the tower and the surrounding Lansdown Cemetery has also been put on the register because of the poor condition of some of its main features.\n\nThe Bath Preservation Trust acquired the tower in 1993 and carried out extensive repairs, opening the building to the public in 2001. It is now preparing for another phase of major repairs, which is dependent on fundraising.\n\nThis area was the first to be developed beyond Leeds' medieval boundaries in the 1600s and was transformed by cloth merchant John Harrison, who also funded the construction of St John's Church, the oldest church in the city centre, in 1630.\n\nBuildings from each following century remain today, including the Victorian Grand Theatre, but heavy traffic, empty shops and loss of architectural details have left it looking \"down at heel\", Historic England said.\n\nThe Grand Quarter has recently been chosen as a High Street Heritage Action Zone with Historic England funding due to help revive and improve the area's \"special character\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "DUP leader Arlene Foster and her deputy Nigel Dodds met the PM in Downing Street this week\n\nBoris Johnson has managed to achieve what he was repeatedly told was impossible.\n\nThe withdrawal agreement was, after all, able to be opened up again.\n\nThe backstop, after all, was changed - although some of its principles remain in the form of Northern Ireland having some different customs rules and regulations to the rest of the UK.\n\nAnd there is, after all that, a way of finding a route out of those special arrangements in the shape of votes in the Northern Ireland Assembly - Stormont.\n\nThe withdrawal agreement is not \"dead\" as he promised Brexiteers, but in the words of one former minister briefed on the shape of the deal, he has managed to \"perform some major surgery on it\".\n\nAnd with a fateful sense of deja vu, there is a big problem in the form of the DUP, who - as things stand - are not yet on board.\n\nThey might face criticism for being stubborn, for holding things up in the face of huge political pressure when a whole continent appears on the verge of signing a deal.\n\nBut what they see as a legitimate concern is the proposed way of getting out of Northern Ireland's proposed relationship with the EU - those votes in Stormont - would give too much power to Sinn Fein, the nationalist party who are much more pro EU.\n\nThey fear being outvoted by the other parties, who might well want to linger in the closer relationship with the bloc, will change the political gravity there.\n\nOver time, the fear is it would anchor Northern Ireland closer to Dublin than London, which for a unionist party is a grave risk.\n\nPut simply by a DUP insider this morning, \"we can't sell this at home\".\n\nWhat we don't know yet is whether the DUP's resistance can be smoothed over by tweaks to the deal in the next 24 hours at the summit.\n\nThese big meetings are a special time zone of their own - in summit time, treaty problems can melt away or new ones can rear their ugly, obstructive heads.\n\nYet what Theresa May discovered to her cost is that concerns from the DUP can't be wished away.\n\nIf Boris Johnson were to try to bounce them, he may come to regret it. And their votes matter so much because they are totem for Brexiteers at Westminster too.\n\nAt the risk of sounding like a broken record, nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.\n\nThe prime minister has no majority so he cannot just ignore the criticisms and push on.\n\nThis morning's unsurprising developments are a reminder of one of the truths of this whole process, as put by a former Brexit minister: \"To deliver in Brussels, the UK must compromise - but to deliver in Parliament, the UK cannot compromise in Brussels.\"\n\nThat's the problem that could be the undoing of this fragile deal.", "The \"eRosary\" is activated by making the sign of a cross\n\nThe Vatican is hoping to pull in tech-savvy youngsters with the launch of an \"eRosary\" bracelet.\n\nThe gadget, which costs $109 (£85), can be worn as a bracelet and is activated by making the sign of a cross.\n\nIt is connected to the \"Click to Pray eRosary\" app, which is designed to help Catholic users pray for world peace and contemplate the gospel.\n\nThe app tracks a user's progress, and contains visual and audio explanations of the rosary.\n\nThe traditional rosary is used to aid prayer and meditation. Its beads are counted as prayers are recited.\n\nUsers can choose from three ways of praying. There is the standard rosary, a contemplative rosary or a thematic rosary.\n\nThe rosaries are made up of 10 black agate and hematite beads, plus a metal cross that detects movement.\n\n\"This project brings together the best of the Church's spiritual tradition and the latest advances of the technological world,\" a Click to Pray press release said.\n\nTaiwan-based tech company GadgTek Inc developed the gadget, which is water-resistant and compatible with Android and iOS smartphones.\n\nThis is not the first time the Catholic Church has attempted to attract young people with technology.\n\nIn 2018, a Catholic evangelical group launched \"Follow JC Go!\", a Christian take on the hugely successful Pokemon Go gaming app. It let players \"catch\" saints or Bible characters, instead of monster characters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pope Francis is charmed as small boy interrupts his general audience", "A tiny microphone records the \"noises\" produced by the knee\n\nTechnology used by engineers to listen for faults in bridges could be used to diagnose 'noisy' arthritic knees, a study suggests.\n\nIt involved a tiny microphone being attached to participants' knees to pick up high-frequency sounds.\n\nAlthough not audible to humans, the waveforms can be analysed by computers to give an insight into knee health.\n\nBetter diagnosis of osteoarthritis and more tailored treatments are possible, the researchers said.\n\nBut they acknowledged that more research and trials in larger numbers of people were needed first.\n\nOsteoarthritis of the knee is a common degenerative joint condition, which can cause pain, stiffness and swelling in the joint.\n\nNormally, the body can repair low-level damage to the joints - but with osteoarthritis, the protective cartilage on the ends of bones breaks down and cannot mend itself.\n\nIn this study, involving Lancaster University, the University of Central Lancashire and Manchester University, researchers \"listened\" to the noise produced by the knees of 89 adults with osteoarthritis.\n\nThey were all asked to stand up from a seated position five times while acoustic signals from their joints were recorded.\n\nThey assumed the knees would act like engineering structures - with \"smooth and well-lubricated surfaces\" moving quietly against each other, and \"uneven movements of rough, poorly-lubricated surfaces\" generating acoustic signals.\n\nScientists attach sensors to a participant's knee to record the signals produced by the joint\n\nTheir results showed that the technique could \"hear\" the difference between the signals produced by healthy knees and those with osteoarthritis.\n\nProf John Goodacre, from Lancaster University, who led the study, said it was a promising technique.\n\n\"The current way of grading knee osteoarthritis is crude, usually involving an X-ray, and the picture can change every few months.\n\n\"This is a finer, more sensitive way of grading severity without relying on an X-ray.\"\n\nThe research team, who published their findings in PLOS One, found that the more \"hits\" that were visible on the waveforms produced by the knees, the more \"noisy\" the knee and the more severe the osteoarthritis.\n\nAlthough it is not possible to listen to these sounds with the human ear, it is possible that each individual knee has its own \"tune\", Prof Goodacre said.\n\nAudible grating or crackling sounds or sensations in the joints can also be a symptom of osteoarthritis.\n\nProf Goodacre said the technique could lead to more personalised treatments, tailored to the particular characteristics of someone's knee condition.\n\nHe said that with more research, the new approach could be used as a diagnostic tool for athletes to avoid injury - and to see whether patients' knees were responding to treatment.\n\nThe technology has not yet been tested on any other forms of osteoarthritis, in the hip or hand, for example.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has dropped a plan to use strict age verification checks to stop under-18s viewing porn online.\n\nIt said the policy, which was initially set to launch in April 2018, would \"not be commencing\" after repeated delays, and fears it would not work.\n\nThe so-called porn blocker would have forced commercial porn providers to verify users' ages, or face a UK ban.\n\nDigital Secretary Nicky Morgan said other measures would be deployed to achieve the same objectives.\n\nThe government first mooted the idea of a porn blocker in 2015, with the aim of stopping youngsters \"stumbling across\" inappropriate content.\n\nPornographic sites which failed to check the age of UK visitors would have faced being blocked by internet service providers.\n\nBut critics warned that many under-18s would have found it relatively easy to bypass the restriction using virtual private networks (VPNs), which disguise their location, or could simply turn to porn-hosting platforms not covered by the law, such as Reddit or Twitter.\n\nLikewise, platforms which host pornography on a non-commercial basis - meaning they do not charge a fee or make money from adverts - would not have been affected.\n\nThere were also privacy concerns, amid suggestions that websites could ask users to upload scans of their passports or driving licences.\n\nIt was a plan, said ministers, to protect children from stumbling across pornography - an objective bound to be hugely popular with parents and anyone concerned about child safety. But throughout its troubled life the porn block has met opposition from across the political spectrum.\n\nThe critics said it was an attack on civil liberties, it was the government trying to censor the web, it could endanger privacy and any database of porn users would be a honeypot for scammers. Most of all questions were raised about whether it would work, with pornography shared on social media sites not affected by the ban, and savvy teenagers able to use VPNs to get round it.\n\nNow the fifth culture secretary to be in post since the idea was first mooted has dropped the plan. Nicky Morgan insists its objectives can still be achieved via the new regulator envisaged by the recent Online Harms White Paper.\n\nBut expect more wrangling about the precise nature of the \"duty of care\" the watchdog will impose on the pornography websites and how they will be punished for any failings.\n\nIn a written statement issued on Wednesday, Ms Morgan said the government would not be \"commencing Part 3 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 concerning age verification for online pornography\".\n\nInstead, she said, porn providers would be expected to meet a new \"duty of care\" to improve online safety. This will be policed by a new online regulator \"with strong enforcement powers to deal with non-compliance\".\n\n\"This course of action will give the regulator discretion on the most effective means for companies to meet their duty of care,\" she added.\n\nThere were concerns users would have had to upload scans of their passports\n\nOCL, one of the firms offering age verification tools, was not happy about the decision.\n\n\"It is shocking that the government has now done a U-turn and chosen not to implement [this],\" said chief executive Serge Acker.\n\n\"There is no legitimate reason not to implement legislation which has been on the statue books for two years and was moments away from enactment this summer. [This] would have protected children against seeing pornography on the internet, a move which would undoubtedly have been welcomed by all sensible parents in the UK.\"\n\nBut Jim Killock, executive director of civil liberties organisation Open Rights Group, welcomed the news.\n\n\"Age verification for porn as currently legislated would cause huge privacy problems if it went ahead. We are glad the government has stepped back from creating a privacy disaster, that would lead to blackmail scams and individuals being outed for the sexual preferences.\n\n\"However it is still unclear what the government does intend to do, so we will remain vigilant to ensure that new proposals are not just as bad, or worse.\"\n\nIn June, the porn blocker was delayed a second time after the government failed to tell European regulators about the plan, leading Labour to describe the policy as an \"utter shambles\".", "Former Emmerdale actress Leah Bracknell has died at the age of 55, her manager has confirmed.\n\nBracknell, who played Zoe Tate in the soap for 16 years, was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in 2016.\n\nA statement on behalf of her family confirmed \"with the deepest sadness\" that Bracknell died last month.\n\n\"Leah had an energy and enthusiasm for life, a kind heart and much love to give to those around her,\" it read.\n\n\"Leah continued to embrace life and faced her illness with positivity.\"\n\nBracknell also had television roles in Judge John Deed, A Touch of Frost, The Royal Today and DCI Banks, as well as performing on stage and in pantomime.\n\nBracknell played Zoe Tate in Emmerdale from 1989 until 2005\n\nIn February, the actress spoke of the debilitating effects terminal cancer had had on her, leaving her feeling like she was \"trapped in a cage\".\n\n\"If only you could find the door and step out to freedom and life as it was before,\" she wrote.\n\n\"If only you could wake from the nightmare: dawn breaks and you realise that it was all just a bad dream. And life is wonderfully normal again. Yes, if only.\"\n\nHer family have asked for privacy, but said \"many aspects of Leah's journey can be found on her blog.\"\n\nITV drama boss John Whiston paid tribute to a \"much-loved\" former colleague, noting how her gay on-screen character blazed a trail.\n\n\"Everyone on Emmerdale is very sad to hear of the death of Leah Bracknell,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Leah was a hugely popular member of the Emmerdale cast for over 16 years. During that time she featured in some of the show's most high profile and explosive plots and always delivered a pitch perfect performance.\"\n\nHe added: \"Zoe Tate was one of soap's first lesbian characters and Leah made sure the character was both exciting and credible. Leah herself was a very generous and caring colleague, much loved by cast and crew alike.\"\n\nBafta-winning actress Sarah Lancashire described Bracknell as \"brilliant,\" adding \"thoughts go out to her family and friends.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sarah Lancashire This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmmerdale and Coronation Street actress Sally Ann Matthews called her \"a beautiful soul\", writing on Twitter the \"world has lost a little sparkle\".\n\nBracknell left the series in 2005 in an episode voted the best exit at the British Soap Awards the following year.\n\nThe multi-talented mother-of-two was also known for her work teaching at the British School of Yoga and for creating her own line of jewellery.\n\nHer cancer diagnosis came to light when her partner launched a Go Fund Me page to raise money for her to undergo treatment overseas.\n\nMore than 2,500 fans joined together to raise £50,000 to help pay for her treatment in Germany.\n\nShe thanked everyone involved, adding: \"I really did not expect or feel deserving of such interest and kindness.\"\n\nSpeaking on ITV's Loose Women in February , she said she had a positive outlook on life and was not fearful despite being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.\n\nHowever, in August she revealed her cancer treatment had stopped working.\n\nShe appeared on ITV again in December on Lorraine Kelly's show, where she revealed how much she hated people taking pity on her due to her condition.\n\n\"I think I just decided, it's still my life, but other people were writing me off quicker and even people close to me, they'd come and - I don't mean to be unkind - but people were embarrassed, or didn't know what to say.\n\n\"They come in and they're feeling very sorry and very pitiful, and actually it's the worst - the one thing that nobody wants is pity.\n\n\"It's obviously part of one's life, whether it's cancer or another disease or chronic condition, but the point is, it's life. It's living. I'm alive until the point I am not. And that to me is the key, not to surrender to something else.\"\n\nIn her final blog post Bracknell wrote about going from being a cancer \"victim\" to a \"rebel\", in a poem entitled A Cancer Rebel's Manifesto for Life.\n\n\"For I am a CANCER REBEL with a fierce heart, an independent mind, a warrior spirit, and an ocean of desire to keep on keeping on and making a difference and making a noise as long as there is sweet breath in my body.\n\n\"To LIFE. Long and sweet may it be for us all.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The rally in the pound triggered by news of a Brexit agreement has failed to last following concerns that the deal could still be scuppered.\n\nSterling had surged to a five-month high against the dollar, coming close to $1.30, after the UK and EU's negotiating teams agreed a deal.\n\nHowever, the pound began to lose ground after Northern Irish party the DUP said it would not vote for the deal.\n\nSterling fell back below $1.28 in early afternoon before steadying again.\n\nThere was a similar pattern against the euro. At first the pound jumped above €1.16, before falling back to stand at €1.1582.\n\nWorries about the possibility of the UK leaving the EU without a deal have been weighing on the value of the pound, as markets view a no-deal Brexit scenario as damaging for the UK's economy.\n\nSterling has risen in value whenever there have been signs that a deal could be reached.\n\nAnnouncing news of the breakthrough in the Brexit talks, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted: \"We've got a great new deal that takes back control.\"\n\nEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said the deal was \"a fair and balanced agreement for the EU and the UK and it is testament to our commitment to find solutions\".\n\nPaul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics, said: \"If the Brexit deal agreed by the EU and UK earlier today passes through Parliament, then there is scope for economic growth, interest rates, gilt yields and the pound to all rise further than is widely expected.\"\n\nThe agreed deal will still need the approval of both the UK and European parliaments, but the opposition from the DUP has cast doubts on its sign-off.\n\nIn a statement, the DUP, which the government relies on for support in key votes, said: \"These proposals are not, in our view, beneficial to the economic well-being of Northern Ireland and they undermine the integrity of the Union.\"\n\nAnalysts warned that this opposition from the DUP could scupper the deal.\n\nMichael Brown, senior analyst at Caxton, noted that \"some of the wind has been taken out of the pound's sails after reports that the DUP are not yet on board to back a deal\".\n\n\"The Parliamentary arithmetic for passing a deal looks challenging,\" he said. \"Attention will continue to focus on whether the new agreement will pass in the Commons on Saturday.\"\n\nSeema Shah, chief strategist at Principal Global Investors, said: \"Sterling is giving us the clearest indication of market sentiment on Boris Johnson's Brexit deal.\n\n\"Immediately after the deal was announced this morning, sterling rose to within a whisker of $1.30, before weakening back to around $1.28 as concerns about the DUP's lack of support took its toll.\n\n\"Negative positioning suggests that, if the deal passes on Saturday, you could see another climb in the pound to around $1.35-$1.40.\n\n\"If the deal fails on Saturday, you could see sterling re-testing lows of $1.20. Looking beyond that, if a 'no-deal Brexit' once again rears its ugly head, a level of $1.10 or below would be likely.\"\n\nNews of the agreement initially lifted the stock market too, but by the close, the FTSE 100 index had fallen back and closed just 0.4% higher.\n\nThe prime minister wrote an open letter to British businesses following the deal's announcement, recognising business leaders' need for certainty and their preference for leaving the EU with a deal.\n\nHe said his deal would provide \"the basis of a new relationship with the EU based on free trade and friendly co-operation\".\n\n\"We can now get Brexit done and leave the EU in two weeks' time, without disruption and in a friendly way,\" the letter said.\n\nAdam Marshall of the British Chambers of Commerce said many businesses would \"reserve judgement until they see the detail\", adding that firms \"need a chance to analyse precisely what the terms of this agreement would mean for all aspects of their operations\".\n\n\"Let's not forget, we've been here before,\" he added. \"There is still a long way to go before businesses can confidently plan for the future.\n\n\"For business, this deal may be the end of the beginning - but it is far from the beginning of the end of the Brexit process.\"\n\nFor business, pretty much anything is better than no deal so there was a ripple of cautious applause from the business audience today.\n\nSome groups, including the manufacturing lobby in Northern Ireland, specifically urged MPs to accept the deal while others, like the CBI said privately they did not want to take a political position.\n\nFor most businesses, the withdrawal agreement is less important than the vision of the future sketched out be the accompanying political declaration and here there were some specific concerns. First there are huge misgivings that the 14 months left until the end of the transition period is anywhere near long enough to thrash out a future relationship, second that the services sector which makes up 80% of the UK economy is barely mentioned, and third, that the commitment to maintain close regulatory alignment between the UK and the EU has been watered down.", "Ms Ali does not usually wear a niqab but said she wanted to keep a low profile for her interview\n\nThe head teacher of an unregistered Islamic school, prosecuted for operating illegally, has said it has a \"unique\" approach and will remain open.\n\nNadia Ali, of Ambassadors High, in Streatham - which an inspection found \"wilfully neglected\" safeguarding - was given community service last month.\n\nShe called the pupils \"happy learners\" and denied it was breaking the law, as it was now open 18 hours a week only.\n\nOfsted has urged improved legislation to deal with unregistered schools.\n\nBy law, any institution with more than five full-time pupils has to be officially registered and inspected. Government guidance defines full-time education as more than 18 hours a week.\n\nThe south London school, which describes itself as having an Islamic ethos, says it charges £2,500 a year per pupil and had 45 children on the roll at the time of its last inspection. But it has not yet met standards required to register.\n\nMs Ali told the BBC's Today and Victoria Derbyshire programmes the school had remained open as its work with the children was \"quite unique\".\n\n\"I've been teaching for 15 years and I've seen how children need a different approach and that what we're trying to do at Ambassadors,\" she said.\n\n\"This is why I believe in what we're trying to do because we've seen a lot of results within our children. They're happy learners.\"\n\nIt is unclear how many hours the school now operates\n\nInspectors twice issued warnings they believed the school was operating illegally, after it first applied to register in 2016.\n\nAnd it failed its pre-registration inspection, in February 2019, with inspectors judging it would not meet the Independent School Standards.\n\nHowever, the school remained open - leading to Ms Ali's prosecution.\n\nThe inspection found she had, \"wilfully neglected to meet some basic, crucial, safeguarding responsibilities\".\n\nInspectors found six out of 11 teachers had not had Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) or criminal-record checks.\n\nBut Ms Ali said all staff working at the time of the inspection had been thoroughly checked.\n\n\"At that time, we only had four members of staff at that school,\" she said.\n\n\"So, the staff who had left were still on the central record... we did try to explain it to the inspector.\"\n\nInspectors also said ''teachers do not have the skills'' to help pupils progress and concluded there was ''no capacity for improvement'' at the school.\n\nAnd they found there was ''no plan in place to actively promote fundamental British values''.\n\nIn 2018, inspectors found texts in the staffroom that:\n\nBut they found no evidence children had access to these books.\n\nOfsted says it has inspected 260 unregistered schools since 2016\n\nMs Ali said the books had been donated by a mosque and had been kept locked in the office. Accepting they were unsuitable, she denied they contributed to a perception she did not want the school to be part of modern British society.\n\nShe said: \"I don't believe that just by finding some books or a paragraph from a book like that makes us go against the fundamental British values... because our children and us, we've grown in British society.\"\n\nIt is unclear how many hours the school currently operates, although Ms Ali insisted it was not longer than 18 hours. But we saw a timetable for pupils aged 11-14 that added up to 21 hours per week. Ms Ali denied it was accurate.\n\nThe pupils used to be taught the Koran in school - but this now happens at a nearby mosque. Ms Ali said the Koran lessons were run by parents - but the school website, no longer online, asked parents to pay £80 a month for the lessons.\n\nParents also say they run a home-tuition club in a separate setting close to the school.\n\nMs Ali said she was getting her paperwork in order to apply again to register the school in a few weeks' time.\n\nDespite Ofsted inspecting almost 260 suspected unregistered schools since January 2016, and issuing warning notices to 71 settings, this was only the second time a case was brought for prosecution.\n\nAn Ofsted spokeswoman said there needed to be a proper legal definition of \"schools\" and \"full-time\", as the current legislation was too vague.\n\n\"If it's providing all, or substantially all, of a child's education, then it's a school and it should be registered, so we can make sure children are safe and getting a good education,\" she said.\n\n\"The law didn't expect unregistered schools to exist - it wasn't designed to prevent these places from happening.\"\n\nEducation Minister Lord Agnew said unregistered schools were \"illegal, unsafe and anyone found to be running one will be prosecuted\".\n\n\"Where settings are only operating part-time, there are a range of legal powers in place to make sure children are safe in their care\n\n\"And in the vast majority of cases those settings are doing an excellent job in enriching young peoples' lives.\"\n\n\"We have provided funding to a number of councils to boost their capacity to take action on settings causing concern.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Protesters from the climate campaign group Extinction Rebellion have been dragged from the roof of a Tube by angry commuters.\n\nThe men were demonstrating at Canning Town but were pulled down to the ground by people waiting on the platform after the Tube was unable to leave the station.\n\nElliot Laughlin, who describes himself as an independent journalist, was also pulled to the ground as he tried to film the disruption. He said he was then protected by members of the public on the platform.\n\nThe campaigners said the disruption was \"necessary to highlight the emergency\".", "Jo Maugham expects the legal challenge to be heard on Friday\n\nAnti-Brexit campaigners have launched a legal bid to stop the UK government from passing its proposed EU withdrawal agreement.\n\nThey believe it contravenes legislation preventing Northern Ireland forming part of a separate customs territory to Great Britain.\n\nMPs are due to debate the agreement at a special Commons sitting on Saturday.\n\nCampaigner Jo Maugham QC confirmed the petition had been lodged at Scotland's highest civil court.\n\nHe expects the legal challenge to be heard on Friday.\n\nThe move followed the earlier announcement by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker that the two sides had come to an agreement on a \"great new deal\" for Brexit, ahead of a crucial EU summit in Brussels.\n\nMr Johnson tweeted that the new withdrawal agreement \"takes back control\" and removes the \"anti-democratic\" Irish backstop, although the Tories' Northern Irish allies in the DUP have indicated they cannot support the deal.\n\nEU chief negotiator Michel Barnier revealed the deal means Northern Ireland will remain in the UK's customs territory but that the island of Ireland will be aligned to some EU rules, meaning goods must be checked on entry to the island rather than border checks between Northern Ireland and the Republic.\n\nMr Barnier said: \"We are fully committed to protecting peace, to protect stability on the island of Ireland,\" adding that a hard border would be avoided while protecting the integrity of the single market.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jo Maugham QC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nExplaining his legal objections to the agreement, Mr Maugham said it contravenes legislation stating it is \"unlawful for Her Majesty's Government to enter into arrangements under which Northern Ireland forms part of a separate customs territory to Great Britain\".\n\nMr Maugham claims that if the court finds the proposed agreement is unlawful the government would be obliged to request an extension to Brexit negotiations, under the terms of the Benn Act.\n\nThat legislation stipulates the prime minister must ask the EU for a delay if Parliament does not agree a deal by Saturday.\n\nMr Maugham, right, and Joanna Cherry, left, were part of a group who took the prime minister to court over his decision to prorogue parliament for five weeks\n\nUnder the current law, Section 55 of the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018 prevents Northern Ireland from having different customs rules than the rest of the UK.\n\nThis is purportedly to \"uphold the constitutional integrity of the United Kingdom and safeguard the Union for the future\", according to a government briefing on the Bill.\n\nAfter details emerged of the Brexit deal, Mr Maugham said: \"We do not understand how the government might have come to negotiate a withdrawal agreement in terms that breach amendments tabled by its own European Research Group.\n\n\"Unless and until Section 55 is repealed by the UK Parliament, it is simply not open, as a matter of law, for the United Kingdom to enter into such an agreement.\n\n\"If the proposed withdrawal agreement is unlawful, the government will be obliged to request an extension as mandated by the Benn Act and in accordance with undertakings given to the Court of Session in Vince, Maugham, Cherry v Boris Johnson.\"\n\nMr Maugham was involved in the legal fight against Boris Johnson's decision to suspend parliament for five weeks - a move that was ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court.\n\nHe was also part of the team that wants the Court of Session to rule on whether it could use a special power called nobile officium to sign letter requesting an extension to the Brexit process on behalf of the government.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "The man is believed to be Kenyan and in his 30s\n\nPolice are looking for help to identify a man who fell out of a plane from Kenya into a garden in London.\n\nOfficers were called to an address in Offerton Road, Clapham, in June, where the body of the man, believed to be in his 30s, was found.\n\nHe is thought to have fallen from the landing gear compartment of the aircraft headed for Heathrow Airport.\n\nScotland Yard has released an e-fit image of the man.\n\nThe force said it believed the man was Kenyan but was \"keeping an open mind\".\n\nThis rucksack was found in the landing gear compartment of the aircraft the man fell from\n\nOfficers also released images of a bag which was found in the landing gear compartment when the plane landed.\n\nThe bag contained a small amount of Kenyan currency and had a strap with \"MCA\" written on it, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nThese items were found in the rucksack\n\nDet Sgt Paul Graves said: \"We have pursued a number of lines of inquiry in what has been a very sad incident to investigate.\n\n\"This man has a family somewhere who need to know what has happened to their loved one.\n\n\"Our investigation has included liaison with the authorities in Kenya, from where the flight took off, but so far our efforts to identify this man have proved fruitless.\"\n\nThe force said the man's death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nThe bag had \"MCA\" written on its strap\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mobile network Three has acknowledged \"technical difficulties with voice, text and data\" that left many customers unable to use their devices.\n\nThe problems appear to have started on Wednesday night, according to the Down Detector website.\n\nBy late Thursday, the company said it had managed to restore service for most of its subscribers.\n\nThree apologised for the problem and said it was \"sorting this out right now\".\n\nOn Thursday evening it added: \"Most of our customers are now back on our network. our engineers will continue to work into the night on any remaining issues.\"\n\nEarlier it had advised customers still experiencing problems \"to turn their phones off and on or turn airplane mode on and off, which may resolve the issue\".\n\nThree has about 10 million customers in the UK.\n\nID Mobile, a virtual network that uses Three's infrastructure, was also affected.\n\nThe problems, which were nationwide, started after some maintenance work on Three's network infrastructure.\n\nOn Wednesday, rival network O2 switched on its next-generation 5G service in a number of UK cities.\n\nThree tagged O2 in a tweet saying: \"Oi, did you unplug our network so you could plug in your 5G? not cool guys.\"\n\nOne customer said the joke would have been \"cute\" if the problems had not been ongoing for more than nine hours.\n\nSo many customers tried to access the status checker on Three's website that it was temporarily unavailable on Thursday morning.\n\nA queuing system was switched on, to limit access to the tool.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ben Thompson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"History shows that once service is restored people quickly forget about the issues,\" said Ben Wood, an analyst at the CCS Insight consultancy.\n\n\"The challenge for Three UK will be getting its network back online reliably. Often it can take time for things to stabilise after such a massive outage, which can lead to intermittent service for a period of time after the original problems.\"", "Paul Gascoigne arrived to hear the verdict with his legal team and personal manager Katie Davies\n\nFormer England footballer Paul Gascoigne has been cleared of sexually assaulting a woman on a train.\n\nThe 52-year-old had been accused of \"forcefully and sloppily\" kissing the fellow passenger on a service from York to Newcastle in August 2018.\n\nMr Gascoigne wept in the dock and thanked the jury to cheers of \"yes\" from the public gallery as the verdict was announced.\n\nHe was also cleared of the lesser charge of assault by beating.\n\nJudge Peter Armstrong told Gascoigne: \"You are now discharged and free to go.\" He was told he could apply to have his defence costs paid.\n\nLeaving Teesside Crown Court, the former Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Rangers, Middlesbrough and Everton midfielder thanked the judge and his dentist - an apparent reference to evidence earlier in the trial about him not having his false teeth in when he was on the train.\n\nHis solicitor Imogen Cox read a statement on his behalf, saying: \"To have a sexual allegation for over 12 months has been tough.\n\n\"I am so glad I was finally able to put over my side of the story and that the jury came to the correct verdict.\n\n\"I'm now looking forward to getting on with my life.\"\n\nGascoigne himself then said: \"I am off to the dentist.\"\n\nIn a tweet Mr Gascoigne's personal manager Katie Davies, who has been with him on all four days of the trial, said the verdicts had \"restored her faith in humanity\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt emerged that during legal argument in the absence of the jury, the prosecution tried and failed to be allowed to tell the jury about Gascoigne's previous convictions, which include offences of battery, criminal damage and racially aggravated harassment.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said it had considered the charge before the case.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We reviewed the case in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors and it was determined that there was a realistic prospect of conviction and it was in the public interest to prosecute Mr Gascoigne for the offence of sexual assault.\"\n\nMr Gascoigne had told the court he gave the woman a \"peck on the lips\" to \"boost her confidence\" after he heard a male passenger call her overweight.\n\nHowever, prosecutor William Mousley had told the jury that the accused had \"lied, and lied, and lied\" during the trial, which heard he had been drunk on board the train.\n\nBut Michelle Heeley QC, defending, said the former player had no sexual intention.\n\nMr Gascoigne has spoken to onlookers outside the court\n\nShe said: \"In his own naive way, he thought he was making a larger woman have more body confidence.\n\n\"It's a clumsy way to go about building someone's confidence, but it was not sexual.\"\n\nJurors were handed a file of photos showing Mr Gascoigne kissing and being kissed by famous footballers and fans.\n\nA photo of him kissing Diana, Princess of Wales, was also shown to the jury.\n\nMr Gascoigne broke down as he told the court about what happened on the journey from Birmingham to Newcastle, on 20 August last year.\n\nThe former footballer, who had been travelling with his nephews, said while passengers were asking for selfies and autographs he heard a man say about a passenger: \"What do you want a photo of her for? She's fat and ugly.\"\n\nMr Gascoigne told the jury he had previously had trouble with his weight and \"automatically\" went to sit next to the woman to reassure her.\n\nHe said he told her: \"You're not fat and ugly, you're beautiful.\"\n\nMr Gascoigne was in a \"drunken state\" when he was arrested, the court was told - although he said he had had pellets implanted in his stomach that made him sick if he drank spirits, and denied being drunk.\n\nBritish Transport Police PC Robert Moody said Mr Gascoigne had been drinking beer in a hotel lobby when he arrived to arrest him.\n\nPC Moody said he had spoken to him before travelling to the hotel, telling jurors Mr Gascoigne had said: \"I know what it's about, I kissed a fat lass.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Zuckerberg gave his speech to an audience of students and others at Georgetown University in Washington DC\n\nFacebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg has said he does not think it is right for a company to censor politicians or the news in a democracy.\n\nHe was giving a speech in Washington DC following weeks of criticism over the firm's decision not to ban political adverts that contain falsehoods.\n\nHe added he had considered barring all political ads on his platforms.\n\nBut he said he believed the move would favour incumbent politicians and whoever the media chose to cover.\n\nAnd Mr Zuckerberg said that even if he had supported the idea, it was not clear where his firm would draw the line.\n\nInstead, he said, he had decided the company should \"err on the side of greater expression\".\n\n\"We're at another crossroads,\" he said.\n\n\"We can either continue to stand for free expression, understanding its messiness but believing that the long journey towards greater progress requires confronting ideas that challenge us. Or we can decide that the cost is simply temporary.\n\n\"The future depends on all of us,\" he added.\n\n\"And whether you like it or not. I think we need to recognise what is at stake, and come together to stand for voice and free expression at this critical moment.\"\n\nMr Zuckerberg referenced Martin Luther King Jr's imprisonment in Birmingham Jail, Alabama as an example of a previous backlash against free expression.\n\nBut the comparison drew criticism from the late civil rights campaigner's daughter, who said that disinformation spread by politicians had helped lead to her father's murder.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Be A King This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Be A King\n\nThe speech was delivered at Georgetown University in Washington DC, after which the audience was invited to ask questions. However the question-and-answer section was not broadcast on a livestream provided to the public.\n\nDuring his talk, Mr Zuckerberg also took the opportunity to make a dig at Chinese rival TikTok, which he said was censoring news of political protests.\n\nAnd he suggested that his thwarted attempts to bring Facebook and Instagram to mainland China had worked out for the best.\n\n\"I wanted our services in China because I believe in connecting the whole world and I thought maybe we can help create a more open society,\" he explained.\n\n\"But we could never come to agreement on what it would take for us to operate there there, and they never let us in.\n\n\"And now, we have more freedom to speak out and stand up for the values that we believe in and fight for free expression around the world.\"\n\nThe event came three days after it emerged that since July, the Facebook chief executive had hosted private dinners at several of his homes to which he had invited conservative journalists, commentators and at least one Republican politician. These social events followed claims that the firm had shown bias against the right.\n\nFacebook has also recently been attacked on the left, by two of the leading candidates in the contest to be the Democratic Party's candidate for the 2020 presidential election.\n\nLast week, Senator Elizabeth Warren paid to run an intentionally misleading advert on its platform that claimed Mark Zuckerberg had personally endorsed Donald Trump for re-election.\n\nShe said she had done so in protest against the firm's decision to allow politicians to run ads containing\" known lies\".\n\n\"When profit comes up against protecting democracy, Facebook chooses profit,\" she claimed.\n\nA spokesman for Joe Biden had previously criticised the firm for refusing to remove a video posted by Donald Trump's re-election campaign which promoted an unproven conspiracy theory involving the former vice president and his son.\n\n\"It is unacceptable for any social media company to knowingly allow deliberately misleading material to corrupt its platform,\" Mr Biden's press secretary said.\n\nMr Zuckerberg has also faced recent criticism from some of his Silicon Valley peers.\n\nOn Wednesday, Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff described Facebook as being the \"new cigarettes - it's addictive, bad for us, and our kids are being drawn in\".\n\nHe also said that the company should be broken up to prevent it gathering so much data on the public.\n\n\"Why they can't say that trust is our highest value is beyond me,\" he added.\n\nApple's Tim Cook has also criticised Facebook in the past. He has claimed it lets people's personal data be patched together and used against them, and suggested that its cryptocurrency plans go beyond the bounds of where private companies should operate.\n\nHowever, he has done so without mentioning the social media's firm by name.\n\nI think Mark Zuckerberg may have prepared by watching Barack Obama's speeches.\n\nThe Facebook chief gave emphasis to his key points by delivering them in short bursts.\n\n\"At least we can... disagree!\"\n\n\"That's what freedom of expression...is!\"\n\nI could almost hear the 44th president's accent.\n\nThere was a time, of course, when we thought Mr Zuckerberg fancied himself as a future president. But if it's no longer likely he'll lead the US, he perhaps sees a chance to lead on a defining issue: the changing nature of free expression.\n\nProgressive regimes in history, he noted, have allowed more speech, not less. And, in what will play well in the corridors of western power, he repeated his view that restricting what people say on the internet - he meant Facebook - could cede power of the internet to China's tech giants rather than Silicon Valley's.\n\nI often flip between thinking Mr Zuckerberg is right to say Facebook should take a light-touch approach to limiting what people can post, and seeing a chief executive who is reneging on a responsibility to fix his creation.\n\nUltimately, I believe, a big part of the problem isn't that people use Facebook to express themselves, but that it then tends to amplify the most outrageous, divisive content.\n\nEven so, Mark Zuckerberg has achieved some important things today. First, he's clearly and openly asked for help.\n\nAnd second, he's elevated the current debate on online speech into one of historical importance, a \"crossroads\" in line with the American civil rights struggle.\n\nA hero of that movement, Congressman Elijah Cummings, died on Thursday - and Mr Zuckerberg paid tribute.\n\nCummings was a legendary advocate of free speech - but also a man who called loudly for Mr Zuckerberg to get his house in order.", "Both sides have had to make concessions to reach this agreement.\n\nBut the biggest single concession has probably been made by Boris Johnson, who has had to accept the European Union's (EU) demand that there can be no border checks of any kind for customs or regulations on the island of Ireland.\n\nThat means that there will - under this plan - be checks within the United Kingdom between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nIt is something that the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) continues to oppose, and something Mr Johnson himself had said previously would be unacceptable.\n\nNo British Conservative government could or should sign up to any such arrangement\n\n\"We would be damaging the fabric of the Union with regulatory checks and even customs controls between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on top of those extra regulatory checks down the Irish Sea that are already envisaged in the withdrawal agreement,\" he told the DUP party conference in November 2018.\n\n\"Now I have to tell you, no British Conservative government could or should sign up to any such arrangement.\"\n\nPartly because he needed a dramatic gesture to get this deal over the line.\n\nBut also because there is compromise on the other side too.\n\nThe EU said the text of the withdrawal agreement it concluded with Theresa May could never be reopened. But it has been.\n\nEveryone has to know that the withdrawal agreement will not be reopened.\n\nIt said anything that replaced the backstop plan for the Irish border would have to meet the same standard of ruling out the return of a hard border \"under all circumstance\".\n\nBut this new deal does not quite do that.\n\nThere is a mechanism that would allow a simple majority in the Northern Ireland Assembly to vote against these proposed new economic arrangements in the future.\n\nIf it did so, there would be a two-year notice period to find a new solution. That makes it, if you like, a form of time-limited backstop - although the EU would argue that it is highly unlikely that the Assembly would ever vote to trigger such uncertainty.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nThe other big difference though - which is an important point of principle for Mr Johnson - is that Northern Ireland will leave the EU's customs union with the rest of the UK.\n\nYes, it will continue to apply EU rules on customs, tariffs and regulations under the auspices of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBut - through diplomatic manoeuvring - it will remain part of the UK's customs territory.\n\nThat means it will be able to take a full part in any future trade deals the UK government negotiates around the world.\n\nBut there is no denying that this is not the most elegant of solutions. It is not only the DUP in Northern Ireland that is unhappy. Such is the nature of a negotiated compromise.\n\nOne other issue is worth highlighting - promises by the UK to stick close to the EU's regulatory system after Brexit have been removed from the legally binding withdrawal agreement text.\n\nThey still appear in broad form in the political declaration on future relations - but the EU is well aware that Mr Johnson is looking for a looser economic relationship with the EU than his predecessor was.\n\nThat may well cause problems in the future, as several EU countries are concerned that the UK - a major economy on their doorstep - could seek to gain a competitive advantage by undercutting the EU's system of regulation.\n\nThe revised text of the political declaration says the aim is to complete a free trade agreement between the EU and the UK in the future.\n\nA high-level meeting will be convened in June 2020 to assess progress towards such a deal, before the end of the post-Brexit transition period.\n\nDuring trade negotiations, the UK will be treated as a potential competitor as well as a partner.\n\nIn that sense - as has been said before - even if this deal passes in the next few weeks (still a big if) it will not \"get Brexit done\".\n\nMuch of the hard work, including negotiating that future trade deal, is still to come, and it will last for many years.", "Ron Ely and his wife Valerie Lundeen at a tennis match in New York City in June 1977\n\nThe wife of Ron Ely, star of the 1960s Tarzan TV series, was stabbed to death by their son at their California home on Tuesday evening, say police.\n\nOfficers called to the Santa Barbara house found Valerie Lundeen Ely, 62, dead with \"multiple stab wounds\".\n\nAuthorities said police cornered 30-year-old Cameron Ely outside the home, deemed him a threat and shot him dead.\n\nThere was no report of 81-year-old Ely being injured during the attack in the luxury suburb of Hope Ranch.\n\nRon Ely plays Tarzan in the television series of that name, circa 1967\n\nBut earlier the sheriff's office said a disabled elderly man in the home was taken to a hospital for evaluation.\n\nThe latest Santa Barbara County sheriff's statement said: \"Deputies searched the residence and surrounding area for Cameron Ely.\n\n\"During the search, the suspect was located outside the home.\n\n\"He posed a threat and in response four deputies fired their service weapons at the suspect, fatally wounding him.\"\n\nRon Ely is best known for his role in the Tarzan TV show that aired on NBC between 1966-68.\n\nTarzan was a fictional character raised by apes in the African jungle, from a 1914 book by Edgar Rice Burroughs.\n\nEly also played the lead role in the 1975 film Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze.\n\nThe couple also have two daughters, Kirsten and Kaitland.\n\nAccording to US media, Cameron Ely attended the elite Philips Exeter Academy boarding school in New Hampshire, before going to Harvard University.\n\nRon Ely took a break from showbiz between 2001-14 before he returned to the small screen to play an Amish elder in the Lifetime movie Expecting Amish.\n\nHe told the Charlotte Observer when the film came out: \"I stepped out of acting to raise a family and be able to spend more time with them here in Santa Barbara.\n\n\"Now, all the kids are through college with advance degrees.\"\n\nThe actor was also a novelist, penning two action thrillers, Night Shadows, in 1994, and East Beach, a year later.", "Google has confirmed the Pixel 4 smartphone's Face Unlock system can allow access to a person's device even if they have their eyes closed.\n\nOne security expert said it was a significant problem that could allow unauthorised access to the device.\n\nBy comparison, Apple's Face ID system checks the user is \"alert\" and looking at the phone before unlocking.\n\nGoogle said in a statement: \"Pixel 4 Face Unlock meets the security requirements as a strong biometric.\"\n\nSpeaking before the launch, Pixel product manager Sherry Lin said: \"There are actually only two face [authorisation] solutions that meet the bar for being super-secure. So, you know, for payments, that level - it's ours and Apple's.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, BBC News tested the Face Unlock feature on the new Pixel 4.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chris Fox This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUsing the default settings, the phone still unlocked if the user pretended to be asleep.\n\nThe test was repeated on several people, with the same result.\n\nImages of the Pixel 4 leaked before launch showed a setting labelled: \"Require eyes to be open,\" in the facial-recognition menu.\n\nHowever, this setting was not present on the devices loaned to BBC News.\n\nAnd Google told BBC News it would not feature on the Pixel 4 when it went on sale, on 24 October.\n\n\"If someone can unlock your phone while you're asleep, it's a big security problem,\" said cyber-security expert Graham Cluley.\n\n\"Someone unauthorised - a child or partner? - could unlock the phone without your permission by putting it in front of your face while you're asleep,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I wouldn't trust it to secure the private conversations and data on my phone.\"\n\nGoogle's Pixel 4 support website tells customers: \"Your phone can also be unlocked by someone else if it's held up to your face, even if your eyes are closed.\"\n\nIt says concerned customers can switch on \"lockdown\" mode - which deactivates facial recognition - when they want enhanced security.\n\nGoogle told BBC News Face Unlock could not be fooled by photos or masks, however.\n\n\"We will continue to improve Face Unlock over time,\" it said in a statement.", "Ian Blackford has tabled an amendment to Saturday's motion.\n\nThe SNP is to call for a three-month extension to Brexit to allow time to hold a general election.\n\nIan Blackford, the party's Westminster leader, has tabled an amendment to Saturday's motion in the Commons, rejecting the new Brexit deal.\n\nHe also calls for an extension until at least 31 January 2020, allowing for an early election.\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is \"very confident\" MPs will back the Brexit deal he has struck with the EU.\n\nThey are due to debate the withdrawal deal at a special sitting of Parliament on Saturday.\n\nEarlier, first minister Nicola Sturgeon warned that the prime minister's deal would lead to a \"much harder Brexit\" than earlier plans.\n\nMr Blackford said Mr Johnson's Brexit deal would be \"devastating for Scotland\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We will have all 35 SNP MPs in Westminster and will certainly be voting against this deal.\n\n\"This is a disaster for Scotland. It weakens our economy, takes us out of the European Union, takes us out of the single market and the customs union.\"\n\nMr Blackford also called on opposition parties to \"quit dithering, back our amendment, and finally act to bring this appalling Tory government down and stop Brexit\".\n\nHe said: \"I would simply say to those on the Labour benches, don't be the midwife of a Tory Brexit.\n\n\"I hope it is the case that we defeat this tomorrow. It won't be the end of the road if it goes through, because the government has to bring a bill forward.\n\n\"But it would be very significant…and pretty devastating if the government were to get this through on a small number of Labour votes.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier, the first minister said it was \"clear that Scotland is being treated unfairly\", and confirmed that SNP MPs \"will not vote for Brexit in any form\".\n\nAfter an agreement between the UK and EU was announced on Thursday morning, Ms Sturgeon said a \"much harder Brexit beckons if this deal passes\".\n\nIt is unclear if the new deal will pass a vote of MPs, with the DUP saying they still cannot support it.\n\nMr Johnson said the \"great new deal\" would see the UK \"take back control of our laws, borders, money and trade without disruption\".\n\nThe deal was announced by Mr Johnson and European leaders via Twitter on Thursday morning, ahead of a summit in Brussels.\n\nIt removes the much-disputed \"backstop\" proposals for the Irish border post-Brexit, and would instead see Northern Ireland remain in the UK's customs territory - while adhering to a limited set of EU rules on goods. Representatives in Northern Ireland would be able to decide whether to continue this arrangement every four years.\n\nEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said it was a \"fair and balanced agreement\" - and suggested that it was the final deal on offer, saying there would be \"no other prolongation\".\n\nMr Johnson said the \"great\" new deal \"allows us to get Brexit done and leave the EU in two weeks' time, so we can then focus on the people's priorities and bring the country back together again\".\n\nHowever, opposition parties in the UK have been critical, with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn saying the deal sounded \"even worse\" than what was negotiated by the previous prime minister, Theresa May\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon and Boris Johnson do not see eye to eye on Brexit\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon said Mr Johnson's plan would lead to a \"much harder Brexit\", highlighting that people in Scotland voted for Remain by 62% to 38% in the 2016 poll.\n\nThe SNP leader had always been clear that her 35 MPs would reject any deal brought back by Mr Johnson which takes the UK out of the EU's single market and customs union.\n\nReiterating this on Thursday, she said: \"We support efforts to ensure peace and stability on the island of Ireland, in line with the Good Friday Agreement, which must be respected.\n\n\"At the same time, it cannot be right that Scotland alone is facing an outcome it did not vote for - that is democratically unacceptable and makes a mockery of claims that the UK is in any way a partnership of equals.\n\n\"The Brexit envisaged by Boris Johnson is one which sees a much looser relationship with the EU when it comes to issues like food standards, environmental protections and workers' rights. That is not the future that I or my government envisage for Scotland.\"\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said the \"onus\" was on Ms Sturgeon and her MPs to back the deal, saying it would be \"unforgivable\" if opposition parties \"put their narrow party interests, grievances and ambitions over the best interests of the country\".\n\nMs Sturgeon also repeated her call for a second independence referendum to take place in 2020, saying it was \"clearer than ever that the best future for Scotland is one as an equal, independent European nation\".\n\nShe told her party conference on Tuesday that she would submit an official request to the UK government for an agreement to hold such a referendum by the end of this year.\n\nHowever, the UK government has repeatedly said it will not do such a deal, saying the 2014 ballot was a \"once in a generation decision\".", "The inquest at Carrow House, Norwich, heard the boy died of misadventure\n\nA teenage boy died after inhaling deodorant he sprayed because it \"smelt like his mother\", an inquest has heard.\n\nJack Waple, 13, was found unresponsive at his home in Main Street, Hockwold, Norfolk, in June, with an aerosol can by his side.\n\nThe boy had previously reassured his mother he only \"sprayed it about\" to smell her if he felt anxious when she left the house, the hearing was told.\n\nA post-mortem examination recorded his medical cause of death as \"aerosol inhalation\". He also suffered a cardiac arrest, the inquest at Carrow House heard.\n\nThe hearing was told Jack's mother Susan Waple had previously noticed deodorant cans were going missing around the house or seemed lighter than usual.\n\nAddressing Mrs Waple, Ms Blake said: \"[Jack had] assured you nothing was going wrong and said he sprayed his deodorant about as it smelt like you.\"\n\nHis parents had spoken to him about aerosol misuse, Ms Blake added.\n\nOn 13 June, Jack's mother discovered the teenager unresponsive in his bedroom and found an aerosol can nearby.\n\nMs Blake said breathing in the gases from aerosols can \"jolt\" and damage the heart, rather than the lungs.\n\n\"I think it's more likely than not he used the aerosol and unexpectedly died,\" she said, adding there was no evidence Jack intended to harm himself.\n\nShe concluded he died by misadventure, where a deliberate action has an unintended consequence.\n\n\"He would have gone into cardiac arrest and he wouldn't have known anything,\" she told his parents.\n\n\"I'm very sorry for your loss. You don't expect to bury your children.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Christian Dior has become the latest foreign brand to apologise to China after it used a map that Beijing sees as misrepresenting its territory.\n\nThe French luxury brand was criticised on Chinese social media after an employee reportedly used a China map in a presentation that excluded Taiwan.\n\nTaiwan has been self-ruled since the 1950s, but Beijing's official policy is that the island is a Chinese province.\n\nDior apologised for the \"mistake in representation\" made by an employee.\n\nThe row broke out after a video was posted online anonymously claiming to show a Dior employee giving a talk at a university in China and showing the map.\n\nIt sparked a huge reaction on social media, as people complained that Dior was not respecting Chinese territorial claims.\n\n\"Dior statement\" was one of the top 10 most searched items on Weibo on Thursday.\n\n\"The company firstly deeply apologises for the incident on 16 October 2019 where a member of the Dior HR team was... giving a presentation when [the employee] made a mistake in representation and gave an incorrect explanation,\" the company said in its statement.\n\nChristian Dior said it had done a \"diligent investigation\", adding it would \"seriously handle\" the matter.\n\n\"Dior has always respected and upheld the principle of one China, strictly upholding China's rights and complete sovereignty, treasuring the feelings of Chinese citizens,\" it added.\n\nIn recent years, Chinese social media users have aggressively been pursuing companies which they believe are challenging China's territorial claims.\n\nChina is a huge market for luxury brands, so they are keen not to risk negative PR or a boycott by offending Chinese consumers.\n\nVersace apologised in August after an image on one of its T-shirts appeared to imply Hong Kong and Macau were independent territories.\n\nCoach and Givenchy have also faced a backlash recently over the representation of Chinese territories on some of their garments.\n\nAirlines and hotel chains have also had to apologise after listing Taiwan as a separate country on their booking menus, not as part of China.\n\nEarlier this week, Vietnam banned the animated movie Abominable over another map row.\n\nThe film, the first tie-in between Dreamworks and China's Pearl Studio, briefly displayed a map that showed areas of the South China Sea claimed by Vietnam as being Chinese territory.", "The author Malorie Blackman has announced she's writing her autobiography, to be published by Stormzy's Merky Books imprint.\n\nMerky Books is part of Penguin Random House, which has already published the writer's Noughts and Crosses series.\n\nStormzy is known to be a fan of her work, and he's said before that the Noughts and Crosses stories are some of his favourite books.\n\nMalorie's autobiography will be out in 2022.\n\nShe said: \"Not only will my autobiography be a full and frank account of my life journey as an author, it will also contain all the writer's tips and tricks I've learned over the years.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by #Merky Books This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking to Newsbeat in August around the launch of her last book Crossfire, Malorie said part of the reason she started writing was because she didn't feel represented in books she read as a child.\n\n\"Stories should not just be doors and windows, but they should be mirrors, and every child and every team has the right to see themselves in what they're reading,\" she said.\n\nBut Malorie - who's been writing for almost 30 years - says that's changed recently.\n\n\"Before, I could list every single person of colour who was writing in this country. And now I couldn't, because there's so many - and that's so fantastic.\n\n\"There is a real will from publishers to actually be more inclusive and to embrace more diverse voices in their publishing.\"\n\nMalorie was part of Stormzy's Merky Books launch in 2018 and he makes a cameo appearance in the upcoming BBC adaptation of Noughts and Crosses.\n\nThe TV series is based on her book, which takes place in a world where black people rule over white people.\n\n\"Early last year I met him,\" she says about Stormzy. \"He was just so wonderful and was telling me how he loved my books and grew up with them.\"\n\n\"He started Merky Books with Penguin and they're looking for more diverse voices and voices that perhaps feel like traditional publishing routes are not for them, but they're encouraging people to come to Merky Books.\n\n\"The fact that he's paying the tuition of two students going to Cambridge - I just love him for that.\"\n\nMalorie was also part of a big cultural moment in 2019 - when Stormzy used an extract from Noughts and Crosses during his headline set at Glastonbury.\n\n\"I thought that whole set was amazing and the fact that he had the ballet dancers and it was so hard for ballet dancers of colour to find shoes that match their skin-tone.\n\n\"In the same way that, in Noughts and Crosses, I have a scene where a Nought girl comes to school with a dark brown plaster on her forehead, and someone says 'that stands out' and she says 'well they don't make pink plasters, they only make dark brown ones'.\n\n\"I had such a response to that especially when the book first came out. A lot of white teens said to me, 'I'd never thought about this before'.\n\n\"Not just white teens, readers said they'd never thought about the colour of plasters before.\n\n\"It's something that a minority in a society will see that the majority won't necessarily see until it's pointed out to them.\"\n\nMalorie's last novel Crossfire, the fifth in the Noughts and Crosses series, explores the same theme of racial division as the others.\n\nThe original book was inspired by the Stephen Lawrence murder case in 1993 and how police handled it.\n\n\"I remember watching a docu-drama about how the Lawrence family had been treated, particularly by the police,\" she says.\n\n\"I remember being so angry about that, and I thought, 'I want to write something about racism and what it's like to experience racism'.\"\n\nNoughts and Crosses will be on the BBC in 2020\n\nShe says before she started the Noughts and Crosses series, she discussed writing about slavery with her friends, but the response was \"kind of underwhelming\".\n\n\"They were saying why do you want to write about that, it's so painful and so long ago\".\n\n\"Then I thought - how can I flip it, and make the noughts the minority and the ones who are experiencing racism, the white people the ones who are experiencing racism. And so that's how the idea was born.\"\n\n\"I called it Noughts and Crosses because I wanted to make up my own terms for society, where the darker you were it was deemed the better you were.\n\n\"Noughts kind of sounds like zero, nothing, and so that's the term I applied to white people and then crosses, who some of them in the book consider themselves closer to god in every way.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Glastonbury: 10-year-old Princess K performs on stage with Stormzy at Glastonbury\n\nMalorie says there are a number of things that made her write the next book in the series, but mostly \"it was inspired by current events\".\n\n\"It was what was going on with Brexit, the result of Brexit in terms of hate-crimes and it was also Trump, his inauguration and being made US president,\" she adds.\n\nShe says she also was concerned by how 20 years on from her first book, attitudes to race in the UK and abroad didn't seem to be changing.\n\n\"In terms of race - we seem to be going backwards on that one.\"\n\nRaheem Sterling was subject to more racist abuse against Bulgaria recently\n\n\"In March 2018 I was reading something that said there was a rise of 17% in hate crimes, but in the five years to 2018, it's risen 123%.\"\n\nBlackman says other current affairs also inspired her new novel, including a storyline in the book about a white footballer being racially attacked on the pitch.\n\n\"I was watching something which said that racism at football matches have actually got worse over the last 12 months,\" she says.\n\n\"We just look at what happened to Raheem Sterling when he got abused by those four Chelsea supporters.\n\n\"We can't be complacent about it and say 'things are getting better', because they're not.\"\n\nA version of this article entitled: \"Malorie Blackman: UK hate crimes inspired my new book\" appeared on 11 August 2019.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Helicopters rescued people trapped in their homes when the Chikuma river burst its banks\n\nAt least nine people are reported dead as Japan recovers from its biggest storm in decades.\n\nTyphoon Hagibis triggered floods and landslides as it battered the country with wind speeds of 225km/h (140mph).\n\nRivers have breached their banks in at least 14 different places, inundating residential neighbourhoods.\n\nThe storm led to some Rugby World Cup matches being cancelled but a key fixture between Japan and Scotland will go ahead on Sunday.\n\nHagibis is heading north and is expected to move back into the North Pacific later on Sunday.\n\nIt made landfall on Saturday shortly before 19:00 local time (10:00 GMT), in Izu Peninsula, south-west of Tokyo and moved up the east coast. Almost half a million homes were left without power.\n\nIn the town of Hakone near Mount Fuji more than 1m (3ft) of rain fell on Friday and Saturday, the highest total ever recorded in Japan over 48 hours.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than seven million people were urged to leave their homes\n\nFurther north in Nagano prefecture, levees along the Chikuma river gave way sending water rushing through residential areas, inundating houses. Flood defences around Tokyo have held and river levels are now falling, reports the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Japan.\n\nOfficials said some of those killed were swept away by landslides while others were trapped in their cars as floodwaters rose. Another 15 people are listed as missing and dozens are reported injured.\n\nMore than seven million people were urged to leave their homes as the huge storm approached, but it is thought only 50,000 stayed in shelters.\n\nMany residents stocked up on provisions before the typhoon's arrival, leaving supermarkets with empty shelves.\n\nA huge clean-up operation was under way in Kawasaki near Tokyo\n\n\"Unprecedented heavy rain has been seen in cities, towns and villages for which the emergency warning was issued,\" Japan's Meteorological Agency (JMA) forecaster Yasushi Kajiwara told a press briefing.\n\nMany bullet train services were halted, and several lines on the Tokyo metro were suspended for most of Saturday.\n\nAll flights to and from Tokyo's Haneda airport and Narita airport in Chiba have been cancelled - more than 1,000 in total.\n\nTwo Rugby World Cup games scheduled for Saturday were cancelled on safety grounds and declared as draws - England-France and New Zealand-Italy. The cancellations were the first in the tournament's 32-year history.\n\nSunday's Namibia-Canada match due to take place in Kamaishi was also cancelled and declared a draw.\n\nThe US-Tonga fixture in Osaka and Wales-Uruguay in Kumamoto will go ahead as scheduled on Sunday, organisers said.\n\nMeanwhile, a crunch game between Scotland and tournament hosts Japan on Sunday will now go ahead. The decision followed a safety inspection.\n\nThe Japanese Formula One Grand Prix is also taking place on Sunday.\n\nLocal resident James Babb spoke to the BBC from an evacuation centre in Hachioji, western Tokyo. He said the river near his house was on the brink of overflowing.\n\n\"I am with my sister-in-law, who is disabled,\" he said. \"Our house may flood. They have given us a blanket and a biscuit.\"\n\nTornado-like winds whipped up by the typhoon struck east of Tokyo\n\nAndrew Higgins, an English teacher who lives in Tochigi, north of Tokyo, told the BBC he had \"lived through a few typhoons\" during seven years in Japan.\n\n\"I feel like this time Japan, generally, has taken this typhoon a lot more seriously,\" he said. \"People were out preparing last night. A lot of people were stocking up.\"\n\nOnly last month Typhoon Faxai wreaked havoc on parts of Japan, damaging 30,000 homes, most of which have not yet been repaired.\n\n\"I evacuated because my roof was ripped off by the other typhoon and rain came in. I'm so worried about my house,\" a 93-year-old man told NHK, from a shelter in Tateyama, Chiba.\n\nJapan suffers about 20 typhoons a year, but Tokyo is rarely hit on this scale.\n\nShopkeepers tried to protect their stores from the powerful winds and rain\n\nMany supermarket were left empty as people stocked up", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC Radio Scotland, Radio 5 Live, plus text updates on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nScotland's World Cup game with Japan will go ahead on Sunday, World Rugby has confirmed.\n\nGregor Townsend's men would have been eliminated from the World Cup had the Pool A finale been cancelled.\n\nThe game was under threat from Typhoon Hagibis, with a switch of dates already ruled out.\n\nThe host nation lead Scotland by four points after three victories and a cancellation would have resulted in the match being declared a draw.\n\nGroup rivals Ireland have secured their place in the last eight with a bonus-point win over Samoa.\n\nScotland must now take four more points than Japan to progress to the quarter finals.\n\nThe pool runners-up will face New Zealand in the last eight next Saturday, while the pool winners will face South Africa next Sunday.\n\nAn inspection of the stadium in Yokohama by World Rugby took place at 22:00 BST on Saturday, with an announcement made nearly five hours later.\n• None 'It doesn't get any bigger' - Hogg on Japan showdown\n\nThe New Zealand v Italy and England v France games scheduled for Saturday were cancelled.\n\nSunday's World Cup Pool B match between Namibia and Canada in Kamaishi was also cancelled because of safety concerns.\n\nWorld Rugby rules state that \"where a pool match cannot be commenced on the day in which it is scheduled, it shall not be postponed to the following day and shall be considered as cancelled. In such situations, the result shall be allocated two points each and no score registered\".", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Rugby\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC Radio Scotland, Radio 5 Live, plus text updates on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nWorld Rugby \"remain optimistic\" that Scotland's World Cup match with Japan on Sunday will go ahead, despite cancelling Namibia's clash with Canada.\n\nScotland will be eliminated from the World Cup if the Pool A finale is cancelled on safety grounds because of Typhoon Hagibis, with a switch of dates already ruled out.\n\nA cancellation would result in the match being declared a draw.\n\nAn inspection of the stadium began at 22:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nNamibia and Canada in Kamaishi was called off on safety grounds, though it is around 350 miles north of Yokohama, where Scotland against Japan is due to take place.\n\nIn a statement, World Rugby said: \"We remain optimistic that Sunday's remaining matches will go ahead as scheduled in Kumamoto, Hanazono and Yokohama, which are much further south and therefore outside of the impact of the storm conditions this morning.\"\n\nThe host nation lead Scotland by four points after three victories, while group rivals Ireland have secured their place in the last eight with a bonus-point win over Samoa.\n\nIf the match gets the green light, Scotland must take four more points than the host nation to progress to the quarter finals.\n• None 'It doesn't get any bigger' - Hogg on Japan showdown\n\nA World Rugby spokesman said: \"Our primary consideration is the safety of everyone.\n\n\"We will undertake detailed venue inspections as soon as practically possible with an announcement following as soon as decisions are made in the morning.\n\n\"Our message to fans continues be stay indoors today, stay safe and monitor official Rugby World Cup social and digital channels.\"\n\nThe New Zealand v Italy and England v France games scheduled for Saturday were cancelled.\n\nWorld Rugby rules state that \"where a pool match cannot be commenced on the day in which it is scheduled, it shall not be postponed to the following day and shall be considered as cancelled. In such situations, the result shall be allocated two points each and no score registered\".\n\nScottish Rugby has argued for the match to be switched to Monday and believes it has a legal case against the game's governing body if it does not go ahead.\n\n\"Right from the get go, we said we will play any place, anywhere, behind closed doors, in full stadiums,\" said Scottish Rugby's chief executive Mark Dodson.\n\nWhen it looked like Ireland's game against Samoa on Saturday would fall victim to Hagibis, Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend said: \"The Ireland game cannot be postponed, it has to be played that day.\"\n\nScotland got off to a dismal start in Japan as they were beaten 27-3 by Ireland in their Pool A opener but bounced back-to-back with bonus point wins without conceding a single score against Samoa and Russia.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Dunn's mother Charlotte spoke to the BBC while on a plane to the US\n\nThe parents of Harry Dunn say they are hopeful about meeting the US diplomat's wife who was involved in the crash that killed their son.\n\nThe 19-year-old motorcyclist died in the crash near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nAnne Sacoolas left the UK under diplomatic immunity while police were investigating her as a suspect.\n\nMr Dunn's mother, Charlotte Charles, told the BBC they were stepping in the right direction towards a meeting.\n\nSpeaking on a plane to the US, where she hopes to publicise the case, she said: \"The statement from [Mrs Sacoolas's] lawyer is promising, that we may be able to hopefully get a meeting put together.\n\n\"Whether it's face-to-face or lawyer-to-lawyer, we're not really sure yet, but fingers crossed we're stepping in the right direction.\"\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nMrs Sacoolas - who is reportedly married to a US intelligence official - said in a letter from her lawyers she was \"devastated by the tragic accident\" and extended her \"deepest sympathies\" to Mr Dunn's family.\n\nMs Charles told Sky News earlier that \"sorry doesn't cut it\" but she would not be aggressive if they were to meet.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nThe Foreign Office said Mrs Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity following the crash, but it no longer applied. On Saturday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab wrote to Mr Dunn's family to explain that the British and US governments now considered Mrs Sacoolas's immunity irrelevant.\n\nMs Charles said receiving the letter was \"amazing\" and described it as a \"breakthrough\". Mr Dunn's father, Tim Dunn, said he was \"shocked, but hopeful something can come of this\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told The Andrew Marr Show earlier the situation had moved on over the last 24 hours and it was \"right\" that \"co-operation takes place\".\n\n\"It is right that justice is served, that an investigation takes place, and that Anne Sacoolas actually does co-operate with investigation,\" she said.\n\nPriti Patel said it was \"right\" that \"co-operation takes place\"\n\nNorthamptonshire Police said it was liaising with the Foreign Office and International Crime Co-ordination Centre about what to do next.\n\nIn a statement, it said it was \"absolutely committed\" to achieving justice for the teenager and his family.\n\nA statement issued on behalf of Mrs Sacoolas, whose husband worked at RAF Croughton near the scene of the crash, said she had \"fully co-operated with the police\".\n\nIt added: \"She spoke with authorities at the scene of the accident and met with the Northampton police at her home the following day. She will continue to co-operate with the investigation.\n\n\"Anne would like to meet with Mr Dunn's parents so that she can express her deepest sympathies and apologies for this tragic accident.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump described the 19-year-old's death as a \"terrible accident\"\n\nAbout 23,000 individuals in the UK have diplomatic immunity, a status reserved for foreign diplomats and their families, as long as they do not have British citizenship.\n\nIt means that, in theory, they cannot face court proceedings for any crime or civil case.\n\nHowever, where crimes are committed, the Foreign Office can ask a foreign government to waive immunity.\n\nDiplomatic immunity is by no means restricted to those named on the Diplomatic List. Drivers, cooks and other support staff who have been accredited to Britain (\"the receiving state\") have the same diplomatic status and immunity.\n\nCharlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, with Radd Seiger (centre), who hope to visit New York and Washington DC during their trip\n\nMr Dunn's parents have previously said they are considering civil action against Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nThe family's spokesman Radd Seiger said they would be \"engaging with the media and politicians as they reach out for support from all Americans and to ask them to put pressure on the US administration to do the right thing\".\n\nHarry Dunn's Kawasaki motorcycle was involved in a crash with a Volvo near RAF Croughton in August\n\nOn Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the US was \"absolutely ruthless\" in its safeguarding of Mrs Sacoolas following the decision to grant her diplomatic immunity.\n\nHe said although President Donald Trump was sympathetic towards Mr Dunn's family, the US was \"very reluctant\" to allow citizens to be tried abroad.\n\nMr Raab said now that neither government deemed Mrs Sacoolas's immunity relevant, the matter was \"in the hands\" of Northamptonshire Police and the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nThe police force previously said CCTV of the crash in which Mr Dunn died shows a Volvo travelling on the wrong side of the road.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Gymnastics\n\nSimone Biles became the most decorated gymnast in World Championships history with two more golds on Sunday.\n\nThe American, 22, surpassed the overall medal record held by Vitaly Scherbo by winning on the balance beam - her 24th medal, 18 of them gold - in Stuttgart.\n\nBiles put in another sublime display to post a score of 15.066 and pick up her fourth gold of these championships.\n\nShe then produced a stunning 15.133 to beat compatriot Sunisa Lee, 16, and win another gold in the floor final.\n\nChina's Liu Tingting and Li Shijia took silver and bronze respectively on the balance beam.\n\nLee took silver in the floor final with a score of 14.133, while Russian Angelina Melnikova finished third.\n\nHaving won four gold medals and one bronze at Rio 2016, Biles now has 30 medals in World Championships and Olympics, three short of the record held by Scherbo, who represented the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States and Belarus in the 1990s.", "Kirsteen's daughter Tess was delighted to see her pet again\n\nA stolen dog has been reunited with its owners after a social media campaign brought together a Glasgow community to track down the missing pet.\n\nSix-year-old Shih Tau Bichon cross Blake was stolen from outside a shop in the Gorbals area at 21:25 on Monday.\n\nOwner Kirsteen Marshall turned to social media and launched the Bring Blake Home appeal to find him.\n\nIn just over 48 hours she and her friends had tracked him down at a house in another part of the city.\n\nBlake was reunited with his owners at 02:00 on Thursday.\n\nMs Marshall, 34, said \"an army\" of friends, family and members of the public had helped find her prized pet.\n\nCCTV image of a man walking towards the shop where Blake was stolen\n\nIn a message to the thief, she said: \"Wrong dog, wrong community, wrong city. We did this the old school way and it worked.\"\n\nBlake was stolen from a Nisa store on Ballater Street in the Gorbals area on Monday evening.\n\nThe following day Ms Marshall started her Bring Blake Home appeal on social media.\n\nShe said: \"This is a message to the people that took Blake. In only 24 hours we have managed to access numerous CCTV footage which shows very clearly the man who took him.\"\n\nMr Marshall added: \"I need you to know that I am not interested in you being charged or persecuted or hurt in any way but I also need you to know that we have an army of social media friends who are helping to bring Blake home.\n\n\"And we have the amazing people of Glasgow who are behind this.\"\n\nShe said she thought the man who took Blake wanted to sell him, and offered a £5,000 reward for his safe return - \"way more money than he is worth\".\n\nIn other posts, Ms Marshall released CCTV footage, including an image of a man walking to the shop and another of a man carrying Blake away.\n\nAt 02:00 on Thursday, Blake was recovered from a property in the Possil area of the city.\n\nMs Marshall said: \"This was honestly like that Liam Neeson film, Taken.\n\n\"We were blown away by the support on social media. For three days I was inundated with messages of support.\n\n\"We spent a lot of time out in the street speaking to people and asking for CCTV. Every message we got meant that we were pointed in a certain direction and we could eliminate other things.\"\n\nShe added: \"We pieced the puzzle together and knew he was in Possil and we were closing in. Then out of the blue, I got a message saying: 'I have your dog'.\"\n\nShe thanked everyone who helped spread the word and share her posts.\n\nShe promised to return all donations made to a fundraising page, or pass them on to an animal charity.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland news: \"I am exhausted. I haven't slept in 50 hours.\n\n\"But I am so relieved and over the moon that Blake is home with us.\"\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman confirmed a dog was reported stolen on Monday evening from Ballater Street and that officers were carrying out inquiries.\n\nShe said: \"Information was passed to officers in the early hours of Thursday, 10 October, regarding the potential location of the dog.\n\n\"Officers passed on advice to the owner regarding their safety and the call was given an appropriate priority based on other ongoing incidents and operational demand.\n\n\"We fully appreciate the distress that this incident will have caused. Officers continue to investigate and are following a positive line of inquiry in connection with this.\"", "The Queen's Speech is due to take place on Monday as part of the State Opening of Parliament\n\nA former Army chief has expressed dismay that legislation to protect veterans from prosecution will not feature in this Queen's Speech.\n\nBoris Johnson has previously pledged to end the pursuit of soldiers over historical allegations in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\nLord Dannatt said he was \"very disappointed\" that soldiers might be punished for \"doing their duty\".\n\nA government source said the PM is committed to legislating on the issue.\n\n\"The PM has been clear that we need to end the unfair trials of people who served their country when no new evidence has been produced and when the accusations have already been exhaustively questioned in court,\" the source said.\n\nThe proposed law would have included a statutory presumption against prosecution for current or former personnel for alleged offences committed in the course of duty more than a decade ago.\n\nLord Dannatt was head of the Army between 2006 and 2009\n\nLord Dannatt, a former chief of the general staff, told the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme it was unacceptable that serving and former soldiers run the risk of prosecution for taking part in military operations.\n\nHe said: \"Nobody is above the law. If soldiers have broken the law and if there is evidence to back up charges against them, then of course they must face the rigours of the law and take the consequences.\n\n\"But in the vast majority of cases, British soldiers, particularly in the campaign in Northern Ireland, got up in the morning to do their duty to keep the peace according to the rules of engagement we had, in sharp contrast to terrorists who got up in the morning whose aim was to maim and kill.\"\n\nSix former soldiers who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles are facing prosecution\n\nThe government source told the BBC: \"We are determined to make progress and legislate on the issue of legacy prosecutions.\n\n\"Our clear and overriding objective remains to provide a better way to address the past for all those affected by the Troubles.\"\n\nThe source said the Northern Ireland Office has consulted on the question of legacy prosecutions and the government is engaging with the main parties in Northern Ireland, MPs in Westminster and wider society across Northern Ireland to reach a broad consensus.\n\nSix former soldiers who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles are facing prosecution.\n\nThe cases relate to the killings of two people on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in January 1972; as well as the deaths in separate incidents of Daniel Hegarty, John Pat Cunningham; Joe McCann and Aidan McAnespie.\n\nNot all of the charges are for murder.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nJapan are in the quarter-finals for the first time after ending their seven-game losing run against Scotland Scotland crashed out of the Rugby World Cup at the pool stage for only the second time after being beaten by an irrepressible Japan in Yokohama. Gregor Townsend's side needed four more points than the hosts but, despite leading through Finn Russell's try and mounting a comeback, they fell short. Kotaro Matsushima, Keita Inagaki and Kenki Fukuoka all crossed before half-time, before the latter blasted over again to secure Japan's maiden quarter-final - against South Africa in Tokyo on Sunday. Scotland, forced to go for broke in a febrile contest that had been in doubt until about 03:00 BST because of the effects of Typhoon Hagibis, scored through WP Nel and Zander Fagerson after the break. But that second-half rally was not enough to prevent a first defeat at the hands of the Brave Blossoms in eight Tests. The result also means Ireland finish runners-up in Pool A and will face New Zealand in the last eight in Tokyo on Saturday.\n• None 'It will eat away at me for a long time'\n• None 'We are celebrating but some are not' After a horrendous Saturday that brought death and destruction, it was a minor miracle the game went ahead in the first place, a roaring tribute to the people responsible for clean-up after Hagibis battered this area 24 hours earlier. There was a moment's silence for the stricken in a stadium that heaved with emotion and power. The home national anthem was haunting and ominous, a moment of foreboding for Scotland. The visitors had hoped that the sense of occasion might get to the hosts, that the pressure would grind them down as they pushed for a quarter-final against the Springboks next weekend. So much for that tin-pot theory. In their minutes of total dominance, before Scotland came roaring back, Japan were a full of invention and pace. Their accuracy while playing at full throttle was astounding. Every Scotland mistake was punished. It was absolutely relentless. And magnificent. What a game this was. What an occasion. The Scots had a great start, which was played at bewildering pace. Russell's cross-kick and Magnus Bradbury's follow-up created the opportunity and Russell, having started it, then finished it with a hand-off of Yutaka Nagare to score. It was probably the only less-than-perfect moment that scrum-half Nagare delivered all night. Japan took over at that point. They lorded it over possession, whipped left and right and down the middle. Jamie Ritchie, playing utterly heroically, kept them out on 10 minutes with a terrific turnover near his own line, but that respite was short. Before the end of the first quarter, Japan got their reward when attacking up the left through the wonderful Fukuoka, who eluded Chris Harris and drew in Stuart Hogg before chucking a one-handed offload to Matsushima to gallop away to the posts. Yu Tamura converted and the home crowd erupted. More Japan heat and more Japan brilliance. Their second try was an epic, a thing of rugby wonder. Matsushima burst through Grant Gilchrist and Blade Thomson and away he went. What happened next was wondrous. Five sets of hands offloaded at speed as if they were on a training run. Nagare, Tamura and Shota Horie worked it to James Moore. The lock flicked it on to William Tupou, who spun and got it to Inagaki for the last act. Sheer genius, pure and simple. The conversion made it 14-7, then just before the break came the try that looked like sending Scotland heading home. Timothy Lafaele grubbered in behind and Fukuoka seized on it to get Japan's third try. Two more points from Tamura made it 21-7 at half-time. Scotland were on the floor. Three minutes into the second half, Japan scored again. Fukuoka ripped it from Harris and, when the ball went spinning in the air after contact, the wing caught it and sprinted off to score. Tamura made it 28-7. A rout. Or so it seemed. Scotland needed the kind of miracle they produced at Twickenham in March. When Nel grunted his way over the line to narrow the gap, Laidlaw's conversion made it a 14-point game. Scotland were still a mile off their target. The bench got busy. Six of them came on at once - and Scotland scored again. Hogg began it, there was a lovely one-two between the immense Jonny Gray and Scott Cummings, Gray running on and feeding Fagerson, who thumped his way through Horie to get the ball down. Russell banged over the extras this time. Seven points in it now. Still a mountain to climb, but this was pulsating stuff.\n• None Ireland to face All Blacks in last eight Japan were denied after another turnover by the towering Ritchie, then they asked their own questions again. It was Scottish pressure now. Chasing two converted tries and a penalty or drop goal they had to take risks, had to force the issue, had to make sure that every pass stuck, every attack counted. They owned the ball in the closing minutes, but Japan's defence was unbreakable. Their crowd roared and roared and roared again. Scotland were not going to get the points they needed now. There was no time. For them, the battle was all about getting another try and a conversion and a draw. They bust a gut but Japan would not let them through. When they turned over that last Scottish raid the acclaim of the home support was deafening. A huge moment for this incredible country, a huge moment for this World Cup. Scotland are heading home. Japan? Who knows how far they're heading. Further than they've ever gone before, that's for sure.\n• None Japan are just the fourth non tier-one side to reach the quarter-finals, and the first since Fiji in 2007.\n• None Scotland have failed to make it out of the pool stages for just the second time (also in 2011).\n• None Japan have won six consecutive World Cup matches - only Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa have enjoyed longer winning runs.\n• None Samoa (1991 and 1995) are the only other non tier-one side to beat two tier-one teams in the same World Cup, as Japan have in 2019 with victories over Ireland and Scotland.\n• None Kotaro Matsushima has scored five tries at this year's tournament.\n• None Luke Thompson, 38, made a record 13th World Cup appearance for Japan and became the third-oldest player from any nation to feature.", "On Mental Health Awareness Day, student Sophie Bennett shares her story of anxiety and depression - and how surf lifesaving saved her.\n\nDirected and produced by Will Candelent", "The chart was revealed to mark National Album Day\n\nAdele's 21 is the UK's best-selling album of the 21st Century, selling more than five million copies since 2011.\n\nThe record, which features the hits Rolling In The Deep and Someone Like You, is more than a million copies ahead of the second biggest-seller, Amy Winehouse's Back To Black.\n\nAdele also takes third place in the chart, with her most recent record, 25.\n\nThe century's 40 biggest albums were revealed on Radio 2's Pick of the Pops, as part of National Album Day.\n\nEd Sheeran appears in the top five twice too, while other artists in the top 20 include Coldplay, Kings of Leon, Lady Gaga and Scissor Sisters.\n\nEven with streaming taken into account, albums from the first decade of the century dominate the chart, making up 28 of the top 40.\n\nDavid Gray's White Ladder is the only record in the list to have been released before 2000 - having first been issued on his own label HIT Records in 1998, before being re-released in the early months of the new millennium.\n\nRadio 2's head of music Jeff Smith said it was \"heartening\" to see that 70% of the artists in the Top 40 were British, \"proving that home-grown music is still as popular as ever\".\n\nNational Album Day was launched last year to mark the 70th anniversary of the album format. This year's theme is \"don't skip\", encouraging people to appreciate \"the benefits of taking time out to listen to an album from start to finish\".\n\nThe idea is to challenge the cherry-picking approach to music listening that first took hold with the advent of the iPod in 2001.\n\nA recent study by streaming service Deezer found 15% of people below the age of 25 had never listened to an album all the way through.\n\nThe survey of more than 2000 UK-based adults, found that 42% of people simply opted for playlists - either their own, or ones curated by streaming services - rather than playing albums in full.\n\nHowever, a separate study revealed that listening to an album is one of the best ways to de-stress - beating activities like gardening, exercising or taking a nap.\n\nAccording to a survey of 2,019 adults, listening to an album was the third most-popular activity for improving mood and mental well-being, after comfort-eating and reading (which came first).\n\nBear in mind the research was commissioned by music industry body the BPI and the Entertainment Retailers Association to mark National Album Day, so treat the findings accordingly.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Negotiators from the UK and EU are having what has been described as \"intense technical discussions\" in an attempt to agree a new Brexit deal.\n\nAbout a dozen British officials, including the UK's EU adviser David Frost, are taking part in the talks at the EU Commission in Brussels.\n\nThe meetings are expected to continue through the weekend.\n\nBut European Council President Donald Tusk has suggested there is only the slightest chance of an agreement.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU at 23:00 GMT on 31 October and a European leaders' summit next Thursday and Friday is seen as the last chance to agree a deal before that deadline.\n\nUK Europe adviser David Frost is involved in the talks\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson's revised proposals - designed to avoid concerns about hard border on the island of Ireland after Brexit - were criticised by EU leaders at the start of last week.\n\nHowever, on Thursday, Mr Johnson and the Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar held talks and said they could \"see a pathway to a possible deal\".\n\nBBC Europe reporter Gavin Lee said there is no scheduled timetable for the discussions in Brussels and neither the UK or EU are offering any detail yet on the apparent common ground that has been found on the Irish border.\n\nOur correspondent said the first public announcement on the talks may come on Monday, after the EU's 27 ambassadors have been updated on the progress so far.\n\nBoris Johnson and Leo Varadkar held talks on Thursday in Thornton Manor, in the Wirral\n\nMeanwhile, shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer says Labour would take action through the courts if Mr Johnson tries to push through a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAddressing the Co-operative Party conference in Glasgow, Sir Keir said if the PM did not secure a deal at the EU summit on 17 and 18 October, he must comply with the so-called Benn Act passed by MPs in September, which requires him to seek a further delay.\n\n\"If he doesn't, we'll enforce the law - in the courts and in Parliament. Whatever it takes, we will prevent a no-deal Brexit,\" he said.\n\nThis weekend's talks in Brussels follow a meeting on Friday between Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay and EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier, described by both sides as \"constructive\".\n\nIn a statement issued later, the European Commission said: \"The EU and the UK have agreed to intensify discussions over the coming days.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan reiterated that \"lots of details\" needed to be worked out between both parties but said the \"mood music\" on negotiations \"seems positive\".\n\nShe added that \"speculation doesn't really help\" and politicians needed to \"stand back and give those negotiations and discussions the best chance of succeeding\".\n\nCulture Secretary Nicky Morgan said \"speculation doesn't really help\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Tusk said he had received \"promising signals\" from the Irish PM, before adding: \"Of course there is no guarantee of success and time is practically up, but even the slightest chance must be used\".\n\nMr Johnson also acknowledged there was not \"a done deal\", saying: \"The best thing we can do now is let our negotiators get on with it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: Brexit is not a done deal\n\nSupport from Democratic Unionist Party MPs could be crucial to get a deal through Parliament.\n\nBut DUP leader Arlene Foster said: \"Anything that traps Northern Ireland in the EU... will not have our support.\"\n\nBrexiteer Sir John Redwood believes Mr Johnson should \"table a free trade agreement\" which would \"unlock\" most of the issues around borders and immigration.\n\nHe added: \"I think the border issue is greatly exaggerated, because it is in the interest of the European Union and Ireland to exaggerate it.\"\n\nMs Morgan was asked on the Today programme about reports of Downing Street briefings that the Tories could contest a general election on a no-deal Brexit ticket, if an agreement cannot be reached.\n\nThe Loughborough MP - who voted Remain - did not say whether she would contest an election on such a ticket, but said reports that Mr Johnson is preparing to fight a general election on a no deal platform are \"wide of the mark\".\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nMonday 14 October - The Commons is due to return, and the government will use the Queen's Speech to set out its legislative agenda. The speech will then be debated by MPs throughout the week.\n\nThursday 17 October - Crucial two-day summit of EU leaders begins in Brussels. This is the last such meeting currently scheduled before the Brexit deadline.\n\nSaturday 19 October - Special sitting of Parliament and the date by which the PM must ask the EU for another delay to Brexit under the Benn Act, if no Brexit deal has been approved by Parliament and they have not agreed to the UK leaving with no-deal.\n\nThursday 31 October - Date by which the UK is due to leave the EU, with or without a withdrawal agreement.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nThe US diplomat's wife granted immunity after the crash which killed teenager Harry Dunn is \"devastated by the tragic accident\", her lawyer has said.\n\nAnne Sacoolas's legal representative, Amy Jeffress, said she would \"continue to co-operate with the investigation\".\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, left for the US under diplomatic immunity despite being a suspect in the crash with Mr Dunn, 19, in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nBut the Foreign Office said, having gone home, she no longer has immunity.\n\nA statement issued on behalf of Mrs Sacoolas, whose husband worked at RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire, said: \"Anne is devastated by this tragic accident.\n\n\"No loss compares to the death of a child and Anne extends her deepest sympathy to Harry Dunn's family.\"\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nIt added she had \"fully co-operated with the police\".\n\n\"She spoke with authorities at the scene of the accident and met with the Northampton police at her home the following day. She will continue to co-operate with the investigation,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"Anne would like to meet with Mr Dunn's parents so that she can express her deepest sympathies and apologies for this tragic accident.\n\n\"We have been in contact with the family's attorneys and look forward to hearing from them.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab wrote to Mr Dunn's family on Saturday to explain both the British and US governments now considered Mrs Sacoolas' immunity irrelevant.\n\nThe letter said: \"We have pressed strongly for a waiver of immunity, so that justice can be done... Whilst the US government has steadfastly declined to give that waiver, that is not the end of the matter.\n\n\"We have looked at this very carefully... the UK government's position is that immunity, and therefore any question of waiver, is no longer relevant in Mrs Sacoolas's case, because she has returned home.\n\n\"The US have now informed us that they too consider that immunity is no longer pertinent.\"\n\nRadd Seiger (centre) has travelled to the US ahead of Harry Dunn's parents\n\nIn response to the letter, Mr Dunn's mother, Charlotte Charles, said: \"We've known from the start that the \"extra\" feeling in the pit of our tummies, told us that something wasn't right.\n\n\"We're proud of ourselves for fighting for justice for Harry, and not ignoring this gnawing within our bodies.\n\n\"We'd rather have our beautiful boy back, but we are also elated that all this fighting for justice for Harry has not been in vain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump described the 19-year-old's death as a \"terrible accident\"\n\n\"We'll continue to fight for change to the diplomatic immunity laws and any other positive changes we can achieve.\"\n\nMark Stephens, a lawyer for the Dunn family said: \"She was allowed to, or encouraged to be spirited away on an American transport plane and effectively rendered a fugitive from British justice.\n\n\"And now of course we find out that she's not entitled to diplomatic immunity, and in those circumstances she is in a foreign land a fugitive from British justice.\n\n\"We do hope she returns herself voluntarily and that this was just a bad piece of advice she received from the American authorities.\"\n\nAbout 23,000 individuals in the UK have diplomatic immunity, a status reserved for foreign diplomats and their families, as long as they don't have British citizenship.\n\nIt means that, in theory, they cannot face court proceedings for any crime or civil case.\n\nHowever, where crimes are committed, the Foreign Office can ask a foreign government to waive immunity.\n\nDiplomatic immunity is by no means restricted to those named on the Diplomatic List. Drivers, cooks and other support staff who have been accredited to Britain (\"the receiving state\") have the same diplomatic status and immunity.\n\nEarlier, the lawyer for Mr Dunn's family, Radd Seiger, appealed for anyone with information about Mrs Sacoolas's return to the United States to come forward.\n\nMr Dunn's parents, who have previously said they are considering civil action against Mrs Sacoolas, are set to fly out to the US on Sunday and will visit both New York and Washington DC.\n\nMr Seiger said they would be \"engaging with the media and politicians as they reach out for support from all Americans and to ask them to put pressure on the US administration to do the right thing\".\n\nHarry Dunn's Kawasaki motorcycle was involved in a crash with a Volvo near RAF Croughton in August\n\nOn Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the US was \"absolutely ruthless\" in its safeguarding of Mrs Sacoolas following the decision to grant her diplomatic immunity.\n\nHe said although President Donald Trump was sympathetic towards Mr Dunn's family's views on the use of diplomatic immunity, the US was \"very reluctant\" to allow citizens to be tried abroad.\n\nThat followed the revelation that Mrs Sacoolas would not return to the UK when briefing notes held by Mr Trump were photographed at a White House news conference.\n\nChief Constable of Northamptonshire Police Nick Adderley has said the investigation into the crash will continue.\n\nThe force has said CCTV of the crash in which Mr Dunn died shows a Volvo travelling on the wrong side of the road.", "Boris Johnson has said he can see \"a way forward\" to reaching a deal with the EU in \"all our interests\" before Brexit is due to happen on 31 October.\n\nBut the prime minister warned the cabinet there was still a \"significant amount of work\" to do, as EU and UK officials continue to hold talks.\n\nParliament will meet on Saturday and vote on any deal achieved by Mr Johnson at a Brussels summit this week.\n\nLabour said it would \"wait and see\" but would oppose anything \"damaging\".\n\nThe European Commission echoed the prime minister, saying: \"A lot of work remains to be done.\"\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"We don't think the Tories have moved too far on their deal.\"\n\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon told the same programme: \"We will not vote for the kind of deal specified by Boris Johnson.\"\n\nTalks in Brussels between UK and EU officials - described as \"intense technical discussions\" - continued on Sunday and will re-start on Monday.\n\nHouse of Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg, a leading Brexiteer, told Sky News that \"compromise\" would be inevitable during negotiations.\n\nHe added: \"I trust Boris Johnson to ensure the relationship the United Kingdom has with the European Union is one where we are not a vassal state.\"\n\nMr Rees-Mogg also said he might have to \"eat my words\" and support a plan close to the one put forward by former Prime Minister Theresa May, which MPs rejected three times.\n\nIs there going to be a deal then?\n\nForgive me a politician's answer, but the truth is nobody knows for sure. Not yet.\n\nBoth sides are being tight-lipped on the exact discussions happening behind closed doors in Brussels.\n\nIndeed the cabinet was given very little detail about what exactly is being discussed.\n\nSome might see that as a positive sign; nobody is going public on the concerns they have.\n\nThat doesn't mean they don't have them, but it suggests there is serious work going in to try to solve them.\n\nI'm told Boris Johnson sounded genuinely confident in the cabinet conference call that a deal can be done.\n\nOthers in Westminster are filling up the coldest water they can find to pour all over reports a deal could be coming.\n\nOne opposition source told me they have war-gamed six potential outcomes for this mammoth political week.\n\nThey didn't give any of them more than a 50% chance.\n\nMichel Barnier, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, is expected to update ambassadors from the bloc's 27 member countries on Tuesday.\n\nThe summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday is seen as the final chance to get a Brexit deal agreed ahead of the deadline of 23:00 GMT on 31 October.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"The prime minister updated cabinet on the current progress being made in ongoing Brexit negotiations, reiterating that a pathway to a deal could be seen but that there is still a significant amount of work to get there and we must remain prepared to leave on 31 October.\"\n\nThe spokesman said Mr Johnson believed a deal could \"respect the Good Friday Agreement\", signed in 1998 in an effort to end the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt could also \"get rid of\" the backstop - the plan to prevent the return of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic - which the government says threatens the future of the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel: \"Northern Ireland must not be treated differently\"\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson told Sky News that any agreement reached by Mr Johnson should \"be put to the public so they can have the final say\".\n\nBut asked whether more MPs would be likely to support a deal, if the Commons first voted in favour of putting it to a referendum, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"I think many in Parliament, not necessarily Labour MPs - others - might be inclined to support it because they don't really agree with the deal.\n\n\"I would caution them on this.\"\n\nAsked about Labour's stance, Home Secretary Priti Patel replied: \"They are clearly playing politics. The British public want to ensure that we get Brexit done.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rebecca Long-Bailey: \"The only option that we’ve got now is to let the people decide\"\n\nMr Johnson's revised proposals - designed to avoid concerns about the backstop - were criticised by EU leaders at the start of last week.\n\nHowever, on Thursday, Mr Johnson and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar held talks and said they could \"see a pathway to a possible deal\".\n\nThe Benn Act, passed by Parliament last month, requires Mr Johnson to ask EU leaders for a delay to Brexit if a deal has not been reached and agreed to by MPs by 19 October.\n\nThe first Queen's Speech of Mr Johnson's premiership, delivered during the State Opening of Parliament on Monday, will see the government highlight its priorities, including on Brexit.\n\nMonday 14 October - The Commons is due to return, and the government will use the Queen's Speech to set out its legislative agenda. The speech will then be debated by MPs throughout the week.\n\nThursday 17 October - Crucial two-day summit of EU leaders begins in Brussels. This is the last such meeting currently scheduled before the Brexit deadline.\n\nSaturday 19 October - Special sitting of Parliament and the date by which the PM must ask the EU for another delay to Brexit under the Benn Act, if no Brexit deal has been approved by Parliament and they have not agreed to the UK leaving with no-deal.\n\nThursday 31 October - Date by which the UK is due to leave the EU, with or without a withdrawal agreement.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Jeremy Corbyn has refused to say whether he would stand down as Labour leader if the party lost the next general election.\n\nEarlier this week, shadow chancellor and close ally John McDonnell said he \"can't see\" how Mr Corbyn could stay on in such a scenario.\n\nBut the leader told Sky News he expected to win the election, and would not answer \"hypothetical\" questions.\n\nMr Corbyn has been in the job since 2015, when he replaced Ed Miliband.\n\nA general election is expected to take place in the autumn, with Labour currently trailing the Conservatives in the opinion polls.\n\nMr McDonnell told GQ magazine this week that he did not want to succeed Mr Corbyn, adding that a woman should become the next party leader.\n\nQuestioned by Sky's Sophy Ridge, Mr Corbyn said: \"We are not expecting to lose the next election. It is a hypothetical question. It is up to the members of our party to decide who the leader is.\n\n\"John gave an answer to an interview that he undertook. My answer is this: I am leading this party to go into an election. We have hundreds of thousands of members determined to win that election.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am determined to get a message that it is only Labour that is going to get a message out there, that it is only Labour that is going to end austerity and invest in a better future for this country. I want to lead the party to do that.\"\n\nRebecca Long-Bailey: Talk of who might succeed Mr Corbyn \"hypothetical\"\n\nMr Corbyn saw off a leadership challenge from Owen Smith in 2016.\n\nAnd Labour did better than expected in the snap 2017 general election but still got 56 fewer seats than the Conservatives.\n\nAmong the figures touted as potential future leaders are shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry and shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey.\n\nBackbench MP Jess Phillips has also said she \"might\" enter any contest.\n\nMs Long-Bailey told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"It would be fantastic for the next Labour leader to be a woman and we've got a whole list of amazing MPs that could vie for that position.\n\n\"But it's a hypothetical situation at the moment. We're fighting a general election to elect Jeremy Corbyn as our next prime minister and we think we're in touching distance of that.\"", "Boris Johnson (l) and Leo Varadkar (r) met last week to discuss a Brexit deal\n\nEfforts to reach a Brexit deal before Thursday's summit of European leaders are continuing in Brussels.\n\nNegotiators from both sides are trying to bridge what senior EU official Michel Barnier called \"big gaps\".\n\nEU ambassadors were told on Sunday the UK would make concessions on its customs plan for Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Boris Johnson said the government was preparing to leave on 31 October and it was time to \"get Brexit done\".\n\nOutlining his legislative agenda for the year ahead - which includes seven Brexit-related bills - the prime minister hit out at those who were advocating what he called more \"dither and delay\".\n\nBoth sides have said they hope to agree a deal before the EU summit on Thursday and Friday, and if that happens, the government says it will introduce a withdrawal agreement bill to be voted on next Saturday in a special Parliamentary session.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nThe PM's official spokesman told journalists on Monday morning: \"Talks remain constructive, but there is a lot of work still to do.\"\n\nThat echoes the message delivered by Mr Johnson to his cabinet on Sunday and the latest comments by Ireland's Tanaiste (deputy prime minister) Simon Coveney\n\n\"A deal is possible, and it's possible this month,\" Mr Coveney said. \"It may even be possible this week. But we're not there yet.\"\n\nIf the Commons backs a deal, the PM's spokesman said Mr Johnson would expect MPs to \"work around the clock\" to pass the necessary legislation so Brexit can happen on schedule at 23:00 GMT on 31 October.\n\nTalks between the EU and the UK, led by envoy David Frost, pictured, have intensified in recent days\n\nThe issue of the Northern Ireland border in post-Brexit arrangements is seen as the key factor in the EU-UK talks.\n\nMr Johnson submitted new proposals to the EU earlier this month, and its leaders promised to examine them carefully.\n\nHowever, a number of figures, including Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar, said they did not form the basis of a deal.\n\nHope of progress were faint until Mr Johnson and Mr Varadkar met last Thursday and the Irish leader said afterwards their discussions had been \"positive\" and \"sufficient to allow negotiations to resume in Brussels\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Barnier told EU diplomats in a briefing this weekend the UK had dropped its proposals to include an up-front veto for the Stormont Assembly before any new arrangements for Northern Ireland come into force, said BBC Brussels correspondent Adam Fleming.\n\nBut he said the UK was still seeking the power for Northern Ireland to leave the arrangements at some point in the future.\n\nAccording to a note of his meeting with EU ambassadors on Sunday evening, Mr Barnier also said he would be willing to accept Mr Johnson's plan for Northern Ireland to remain part of the UK's customs territory but apply EU customs procedures.\n\nHowever, he said he could not accept a British proposal to track goods entering Northern Ireland to determine whether they ended up in Ireland.\n\nAdam Fleming said it appeared EU negotiators had \"softened\" their position by indicating they were prepared to keep talking until Wednesday - the eve of the summit - despite saying previously that a revised deal had to be ready a week in advance.\n\nIn a statement, the EU it added that the \"intense technical discussions\" between officials would continue on Monday before member states were updated on the progress at a meeting in Luxembourg on Tuesday.\n\nThe Irish border has been a policy conundrum for a long, long time, but it seems now there has genuinely been a bit of push and pull, and a little bit of movement on both sides.\n\nThere are swathes and swathes of technicalities going on here. One cabinet minister, who was briefed by the prime minister on Sunday, even told me they are blind to the detail.\n\nAs far as they are concerned, that's a good sign - it means the talks are genuine and negotiators are able to get on with their work without too much political pell-mell.\n\nBut while a deal is possible, it is still a massive if.\n\nThe politicians' mood has changed very much in the last seven days, particularly since that meeting between Leo Varadkar and Boris Johnson.\n\nAnd getting a deal is obviously the most straightforward, politically advantageous way for the government to leave at the end of this month and keep Mr Johnson's promise that got him into No 10.\n\nBut it doesn't mean the really, really thorny policy questions have disappeared.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Chancellor Sajid Javid announced he intends to hold the Budget on 6 November, insisting it will be \"the first after leaving the EU\".\n\nBut Labour's shadow minister for the Cabinet Office, Jon Trickett, told Today he would be \"surprised\" if the Budget went ahead as planned as \"we have no idea if they are going to get this Brexit proposal through the House or not\".\n\nMonday 14 October - The Commons returns, and the government has outlined its legislative agenda in the Queen's Speech. The speech will then be debated by MPs throughout the week.\n\nThursday 17 October - Crucial two-day summit of EU leaders begins in Brussels. This is the last such meeting currently scheduled before the Brexit deadline.\n\nSaturday 19 October - Special sitting of Parliament and the date by which the PM must ask the EU for another delay to Brexit under the Benn Act, if no Brexit deal has been approved by MPs and they have not agreed to the UK leaving with no-deal.\n\nThursday 31 October - Date by which the UK is currently due to leave the EU.", "Reg Watson created the popular Australian television show in the 1980s\n\nThe creator of the popular Australian television show Neighbours, Reg Watson, has died aged 93.\n\nThe show announced his death on Friday evening.\n\nNeighbours, set on the fictional Ramsay Street, is Australia's all-time longest running drama and is due to celebrate its 35th year in 2020.\n\nExecutive producer of the show, Jason Herbison, described Mr Watson as \"a pioneer of drama\" and \"a lovely person to work with.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neighbours This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Watson was born in Queensland but moved to the UK in 1955 and helped create television show Crossroads.\n\nHe was then headhunted in Australia to establish a new drama department for Grundy Television.\n\nAside from Neighbours, he also helped create Prisoner: Cell Block H, The Young Doctors and Sons and Daughters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Steve Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Watson developed Neighbours in the 1980s, with television producer Reg Grundy.\n\nIt was originally screened on Channel 7 in Australia but was dropped after it underperformed. It was then picked up by the Ten Network who saw promise in the show.\n\nNeighbours is also a popular show in the UK. It was first screened on the BBC before moving to Channel 5.\n\nThe show has launched many careers including Kylie Minogue, Margot Robbie, Holly Vallance and Jason Donovan.\n\nDonovan, who played Scott Robinson in the soap drama, wrote on Twitter: \"Many Australian careers have a lot to thank for this man. A legend....Mr Reg Watson.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussell Crowe also appeared for several episodes as former prisoner Kenny Larkin, so too did Hunger Games star Liam Hemsworth as Josh Taylor and singer Natalie Imbruglia as Beth Brennan.\n\nIn 2010, Mr Watson was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for services to the media.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nThe lawyer for the family of a teenage motorcyclist killed in a crash has appealed for \"witnesses\" to the suspect's return to the United States.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, the wife of a US diplomat, left the UK despite being a suspect in the fatal crash with Harry Dunn, 19, on 27 August.\n\nThe US government has not waived Mrs Sacoolas' diplomatic immunity.\n\nLawyer Radd Seiger asked for those with information \"before, during, or after her departure\" to come forward.\n\nMr Dunn's parents, who have previously said they are considering civil action against Mrs Sacoolas, are set to fly out to the US on Sunday and will visit both New York and Washington DC.\n\nMr Seiger said they would be \"engaging with the media and politicians as they reach out for support from all Americans and to ask them to put pressure on the US administration to do the right thing\".\n\nOn Wednesday, US President Donald Trump said his administration would speak to Mrs Sacoolas \"very shortly and see if we can do something where they meet\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump described the 19-year-old's death as a \"terrible accident\"\n\nBut a briefing note held by Mr Trump at the press conference appeared to suggest Mrs Sacoolas would not be returning to the UK after being granted diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles said the US's apparent approach was \"beyond any realm of human thinking\".\n\nHis father Tim Dunn said: \"We have to go to America and speak to the American people. We can't let this be swept under the carpet.\"\n\nThe family met Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Wednesday, which they have since described as a \"publicity stunt\".\n\nAfterwards Mr Raab said the justice process was \"not being allowed to properly run its course\".\n\nChief Constable of Northamptonshire Police Nick Adderley said the investigation into the crash was \"carrying on\" and that a file would be passed to the Crown Prosecution Service soon.\n\nMr Dunn died after his Kawasaki motorcycle was involved in a crash at about 20:30 BST near the RAF base at Croughton in Northamptonshire, where Mrs Sacoolas's husband Jonathan had been working.\n\nPolice have said CCTV of the crash in which the teenager died shows a Volvo travelling on the wrong side of the road.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Wales\n\nGareth Bale's excellent equaliser helped Wales to hold 2018 World Cup finalists Croatia in a bad-tempered contest in Cardiff.\n\nThe Real Madrid forward's composed finish in injury time in the first half ensured Wales maintained their eight-year unbeaten run in home European Championship qualifiers, a record that has extended to 10 matches.\n\nThe Wales goal cancelled out Nikola Vlasic's opener on nine minutes as the former Everton man found the net with a shot that hit the inside of the post.\n\nThe result means Wales' destiny is no longer in their own hands in Group E, as they are now relying on Slovakia dropping points in their remaining two fixtures, while Wales will need to claim six points from their final two games in Azerbaijan and at home to Hungary.\n\nShould Wales and Slovakia finish level on points, Wales would qualify by virtue of their better head to head record.\n\nCroatia remain top of Group E on the cusp of qualifying for Euro 2020, while Wales remain fourth, though they know that the Nations League could yet offer them a backdoor route to the play-offs if they fail to finish second.\n\nWales supporters have in the past expressed disappointment at the perception that Ryan Giggs was often unavailable for his country in his playing days, but he is having rotten luck in terms of dealing with injuries as manager.\n\nNot many would dispute that Bale and Aaron Ramsey are Giggs' key players and senior figures, yet Ramsey has not played a second of the 630 minutes of Group E action that Wales have competed in.\n\nRamsey did not play for Arsenal last term after 18 April because of an abductor injury and despite featuring five times for new club Juventus this season, a flare-up of the same injury prevented him from travelling to Slovakia and from training intensely enough to be considered to feature against Croatia.\n\nHis absence, however, did at least allow Giggs to name an unchanged line-up for the first time in competitive matches during his 17-game tenure as the national team boss.\n\nThe lack of Ramsey was especially pivotal in a game where the opposition have such exceptional talent in midfield, as England found out painfully in last year's World Cup semi-final.\n\nCroatia's talent in the middle of the pitch is such that even with Inter Milan's Marcelo Brozovic suspended, they were still able to leave out Barcelona's Ivan Rakitic, who came on as a half-time substitute.\n\nThat talent and Croatia's ability to keep the ball was evident from the early stages and the visitors scored with their first attack as they cut the Wales defence to shreds with a quick break.\n\nJosip Brekalo advanced and Wales did not close down the space as he freed Bruno Petkovic, who cleverly laid the ball into the path of Vlasic and he precisely fired home via the inside of the post.\n\nA heavy collision between Domagoj Vida and Daniel James gave Wales even more to fret about, with James remaining on the field, but looking groggy after a heavy landing.\n\nThe challenge was almost exactly replicated after the interval when Petkovic crashed into Ethan Ampadu who landed awkwardly. It was something of a surprise the match finished with 22 players on the field.\n\nThe challenge on Ampadu saw Petkovic booked - he was one of eight - but arguably the punishment could have been stronger for a late arrival that would have most likely resulted in a red at the Rugby World Cup in Japan.\n\nAmpadu could not continue while James at least looked to be fully recovered in the second half, though he shot at the near post when he should have fired across goal with Wales' first foray forward after half time. Dominik Livakovic was able to smother at the second attempt.\n\nRight-back Tin Jedvaj fired just over in the second half, but Croatia largely had plenty of possession without looking like finding a winner.\n\nDavies the creator as he wins golden cap\n\nWales' difficult start could have been even worse on 12 minutes but Wayne Hennessey saved Ivan Perisic's flicked header after Petkovic's inviting cross was misjudged by Ben Davies.\n\nIt was a tough moment for Davies as he celebrated becoming the 41st Wales player to reach 50 caps.\n\nStill feeling his way back from summer hernia surgery and currently playing second fiddle at Tottenham Hotspur to Danny Rose, Davies picked the perfect moment to ignite his season with a brilliant assist for Bale's leveller in first-half stoppage time.\n\nThe left-back rampaged forward and just got his foot to the ball as Mateo Kovacic looked for a free kick that never arrived.\n\nDavies keept his composure to slide a pass into the penalty area. The delivery was perfectly weighted for Bale, who collected brilliantly to settle himself and shoot across Livakovic into the bottom corner of the net.\n\nIt was a night where clear chances were at a premium and Wales could not afford to over-commit in pursuit of a winner in a tense second half.\n\nThe night ended on a slight note of disappointment for Wales with Joe Allen receiving a late yellow card that will mean he is suspended in Azerbaijan, but they deserve credit for containing Croatia.\n\nBale continues to inspire an entire nation as he hits top form in the environment where he feels comfortable and appreciated. Scored a classic Bale goal and always gave Croatia a cause for concern until he limped through the last few minutes with Giggs later citing cramp as the Real Madrid star's problem.\n• None Daniel James (Wales) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Ivan Rakitic (Croatia) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Borna Barisic.\n• None Luka Modric (Croatia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Connor Roberts (Wales) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tyler Roberts.\n• None Joe Allen (Wales) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Ivan Rakitic (Croatia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. 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\nA black woman was shot dead by police through her own bedroom window in the early hours of Saturday morning, after a request to check on her welfare.\n\nAtatiana Jefferson, 28, had been living at the residence in Fort Worth, Texas with her eight-year-old nephew.\n\nA neighbour had called a non-emergency police number after growing concerned that her front door was open at night.\n\nPolice have released body cam footage of the incident, which shows an officer shooting within seconds of seeing her.\n\nThe clip shows police searching the perimeter of the residential property, before noticing a figure at the window. After demanding the person put their hands up, an officer then fired a shot through the glass.\n\nThe Fort Worth Police Department said in a statement that the officer, who is a white man, had \"perceived a threat\" when he drew his weapon.\n\nHe has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation, officials added.\n\nThe shooting happened at about 02:30 local time (07:30 GMT) on Saturday morning.\n\nA lawyer for Ms Jefferson's family said she was \"very close\" to her family\n\nAlthough it is edited, the body cam footage does not appear to show the officers identifying themselves as police.\n\nIt does not show footage from inside the property but includes images of a weapon that police say they found inside the bedroom.\n\nIt is unclear if Ms Jefferson was holding a weapon at the time, but firearm possession is legal for people aged over 18 in Texas.\n\nPolice said officers provided emergency medical care to Ms Jefferson at the scene, but she was declared dead at the property.\n\nThe 28-year-old had been playing video games with her nephew before she went to investigate the noise outside the window, according to a lawyer representing her family.\n\n\"Her mom had recently gotten very sick, so she was home taking care of the house and loving her life,\" lawyer Lee Merritt said on Facebook. \"There was no reason for her to be murdered. None. We must have justice.\"\n\nMs Jefferson was a university graduate who was working in pharmaceutical equipment sales, he added.\n\nThe shooting comes less than two weeks after an off-duty police officer was jailed for shooting a black man, Botham Jean, dead in his own Dallas apartment less than 35 miles (55km) from Saturday's incident.\n\nA number of high-profile shootings of unarmed black men in US cities in recent years have sparked protests about the police use of force.\n\nDemocratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, himself from Texas, has spoken out about Ms Jefferson's death.\n\n\"As we mourn with Atatiana's loved ones, we must demand accountability and promise to fight until no family has to face a tragedy like this again,\" he posted on Twitter.\n\nThe National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) labelled Ms Jefferson's death \"unacceptable\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NAACP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNeighbour James Smith, 62, said he had checked the property himself before calling police, but failed to spot movement inside.\n\n\"I'm shaken. I'm mad. I'm upset. And I feel it's partly my fault,\" Mr Smith told the Star Telegram newspaper about requesting the welfare check. \"If I had never dialled the police department, she'd still be alive.\"", "Scotland currently has the highest rate of drug related deaths in Europe\n\nThe SNP has backed decriminalising the possession and consumption of drugs.\n\nAt its conference in Aberdeen, a resolution was unanimously passed by delegates branding current drug control legislation \"not fit for purpose\".\n\nAnd they called for powers to be devolved to Holyrood to enable the \"decriminalisation of possession and consumption of controlled drugs\".\n\nThe Scottish government has set up a taskforce to tackle drug deaths, which hit a record high in 2018.\n\nThere were 1,187 drug-related deaths in Scotland in 2018, by far the highest death rate in the European Union and three times that of the UK as a whole.\n\nExisting drugs legislation - covered by the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 - is reserved to Westminster.\n\nThis has led to a standoff between the two governments over policy, with the Home Office refusing to give permission for a trial of \"safe consumption rooms\" for drugs in Glasgow.\n\nThe SNP has repeatedly called for drugs control to be devolved to Holyrood, and the party's official policy is now to use these powers - if they are ever handed to Holyrood - to decriminalise drugs.\n\nA motion unanimously passed by delegates said decriminalising \"consumption and possession of controlled drugs\" would mean \"health services are not prevented from giving treatment to those that need it\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We could not get any financing\" from Hollywood, says Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese.\n\nMartin Scorsese says he couldn't get a Hollywood studio to back his three-and-a-half-hour mob movie The Irishman. \"Nobody was interested in making a film with me and Bob [Robert De Niro] anymore,\" he said. \"I just think they thought the audience wasn't there.\"\n\nAlthough I think they probably ran the numbers first. I mean, if you're a studio exec and have one of the greatest movie directors of all time pitching an idea in a genre he's made his own, starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, you'd listen, wouldn't you?\n\nI imagine it came down to money and cautiousness.\n\nThe Irishman sees the reunion of Joe Pesci (Russell Bufalino), Robert De Niro (Frank Sheeran) and Martin Scorsese for the first time in 24 years\n\nThe three male leads are all in their 70s, which is not a problem in itself, but the majority of their screen-time is spent when their characters are in their late 30s, early 40s. No amount of make-up was going to paper over those facial cracks. Stand-ins were discounted. Digital de-aging was the only option, but it had never been done in the way that Scorsese demanded: no green-screen, no image-capture head-gear - new technology was required.\n\nToo risky, maybe. Would it work? Would it cost a fortune? Would the actors play ball?\n\nNetflix stepped in and answered all three questions in the affirmative. But for all the very expensive high-tech trickery The Irishman is a staunchly old-school movie spanning half a century of mafia mischief in post-war America.\n\nClassic Scorsese, you could say.\n\nAnd so it is, up to a point. Cars are dramatically blown up, there are a lot of cold-blooded murders, and attention to every detail is paid with a historian's soul and an artist's eye.\n\nMartin Scorsese says The Irishman has \"the rhythm of how we think when we look back on time\"\n\nIt starts with a long tracking shot inside an old people's home, at the end of which we meet our elderly narrator Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), the eponymous Irishman. He tells us his story in a series of flashbacks in which we see a de-aged De Niro go from a trigger-happy American soldier to a trigger-happy Pennsylvania gangster working for mafia don Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci).\n\nScorsese says Pesci took a lot of persuading to put away his golf clubs and return to acting.\n\nFor Marty and for us it was time well invested. Pesci's performance as the quietly-spoken, business-like organised crime boss is exceptional.\n\nIt will take something very special to deprive him of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar.\n\nRobert De Niro (Frank Sheeran), with Joe Pesci, who wasn't keen to return to movie making, plays the role of the \"quiet-don\" Russell Bufalino\n\nThe spine of the movie is a road trip he takes with Frank (whom he calls \"kid\" throughout without even the smallest twinkle in his eye) to attend a family wedding. It's a structural device that allows Scorsese to take all the side-tracks he needs to fill in the back story of the three inter-connected protagonists: Frank, Russell, and trade union president Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino).\n\nRussell engineers a job interview for Frank as Hoffa's wingman, which takes place over the phone. \"I heard you paint houses\", Hoffa posits. \"I do\", replies Frank, \"and I do my own carpentry\" - a line that wins an approving Sicilian smile from Russell.\n\nThey are not discussing DIY.\n\nIn a 1960s world of phone taps and wire traps, underworld America developed its own patois: hit men were known as house painters. Those who cleaned up afterwards did their own joinery.\n\nIt's a central exchange in the film, establishing the crime triangle, the pecking-order of the protagonists, and the relationships that would develop.\n\nPacino is excellent, although slightly undermined by the de-aging process which, at times, makes him look more like the camp British TV host Larry Grayson than a tough-as-teak union leader.\n\nOscar-winning Al Pacino had never worked with Scorsese before, and said \"the character of Jimmy Hoffa was irresistible\"\n\nDe Niro is also let down by the technology, which is a shame, because he is on top form. The facial changes are fine, they work. But it still leaves him with a body of a septuagenarian, which looks incongruous when moving stiff-hipped over rocks, or assaulting a local shopkeeper with arms pinned to his body.\n\nIt's not a disaster, but it looks odd: it jars and distracts from an otherwise first-class film, which wears its duration lightly. In fact, the slow pace acts as another character, giving a very specific personality to the film, which is a re-telling of a true story made public in book form by Charles Brandt, a lawyer and friend of Frank Sheeran.\n\nPesci, Pacino, Scorsese, De Niro, and Harvey Keitel attending the world premiere of \"The Irishman\" in New York\n\nMartin Scorsese says it is about \"power, love, betrayal, and then, ultimately, the price you pay for the life you lead\". I said I thought it was also about old age, which elicited the sort of look you don't quickly forget from the legendary helmsman.\n\n\"Old age?\" he said, eyebrows raised.\n\n\"Yeah\", I replied, \"it's about the aging process\".\n\n\"The aging process\", he says and slowly and nods, \"yes, the aging process ultimately… [pauses, smiles] without scaring an audience saying we won't go and see a film about old age.\"\n\nPerhaps the perception that it was a film about old folk was an issue when it came to financing.\n\nThat is the perspective from which the story is being told and rationalised: Sheeran is an old man facing his day of reckoning, like King Lear on the heath: not with two cruel daughters on his mind, though, but the two powerful masters he served.\n\nIt is a story of divided loyalties we've heard before, from 18th Century commedia dell'arte to the National Theatre's hit play One Man Two Guvnors. They were comedies, The Irishman isn't, but it is not beyond the realms of reason that Netflix ends up laughing all the way to the bank with a hit Hollywood rejected.", "Pope Francis led the open-air service in St Peter's Square, Rome, attended by tens of thousands\n\nCardinal John Henry Newman has been declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church at a ceremony in Rome.\n\nThe open-air service at the Vatican, celebrated by the Pope, was attended by tens of thousand of pilgrims.\n\nTheologian and poet Newman, who died in Birmingham in 1890, is the first English person to be made a saint in almost 50 years.\n\nThe Prince of Wales joined the Mass in St Peter's Square, at which four women were also canonised.\n\nPrince of Wales attended the Mass to canonise 19th-century cardinal John Henry Newman\n\nMother Mariam Thresia from India, Swiss Marguerite Bays, Mother Giuseppina Vannini from Italy and Brazilian-born Sister Dulce Lopes Pontes were also made saints at the Mass, celebrated by Pope Francis in Italian.\n\nJohn Henry Newman is the first English saint since the Forty Martyrs, who were executed under laws enacted during the English Reformation and canonised in 1970\n\nThousands of Britons travelled to Rome to join the celebration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCarol Parkinson, the secretary of the Friends of Newman from Birmingham, said it was a special and emotional day.\n\n\"His integrity, his friendship, his capacity for friendship and loyalty and hard work set a very good and hopeful example to everyone,\" she added.\n\nA priest gave instructions to other clergymen ahead of the Mass for the canonisation of 19th Century British cardinal John Henry Newman\n\nNewman is the first Englishman born since the 1600s to be promoted to full sainthood by the Catholic Church.\n\nTo hear Pope Francis quoting the words of one of John Henry Newman's sermons from almost two centuries ago to the huge crowd gathered in St Peter's Square for the canonisation ceremony shows just how important a figure the English Cardinal and Saint has become in 21st Century inter-church relations.\n\nNewman described the Christian character as \"cheerful, easy, kind, courteous, candid, and unassuming.\" In fact, someone very much in tune with Pope Francis.\n\nThe new English saint is being held up as a model by Pope Francis for modern Christians to follow.\n\nAt the time of his conversion most Anglicans thought Newman was out of his mind to defect to a despised minority religion. But today he is being revered as a bridge-builder not a defector.\n\nCardinal Newman was born in London in 1801 and attended Trinity College, Oxford, going on to become an Anglican priest and a leading theologian.\n\nHe converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism in 1845.\n\nNewman has been credited with two miracles by the Vatican, curing a man's crippling spinal disease and healing a woman's unstoppable bleeding.\n\nThe service, led by Pope Francis at the Vatican, also canonised a Swiss laywoman, an Indian nun, an Italian nun and a nun known as the \"Mother Teresa of Brazil\"\n\nThe cardinal was beatified in 2010 by Pope Benedict in an open-air Mass in his home city of Birmingham after the first miracle was recognised.\n\nHis remains lie in a closed sarcophagus at Birmingham Oratory.\n\nThe last English canonisations were in 1970 of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, a group of Catholics who were executed between 1535 and 1679 under laws enacted during the English Reformation.", "Baptista Adjei, 15, lived with his family in North Woolwich, London\n\nA 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of another 15-year-old near a London shopping centre.\n\nBaptista Adjei, from North Woolwich, was found critically injured on Stratford Broadway, east London, shortly after 15:20 BST on Thursday.\n\nPolice said a 15-year-old boy who handed himself in to a police station was charged with murder on Saturday.\n\nHe will appear in Stratford Youth Court on Monday.\n\nScotland Yard previously said officers believed Baptista and a 15-year-old friend were either attacked on a bus, or shortly after getting off.\n\nBaptista's friends and members of the public provided first aid but he died at the scene at about 15:50, police said.\n\nThe teenager's former football team, Mindset FC, tweeted that Baptista was a \"very humble boy, with great manners and very talented\".\n\nIt added: \"Dark moment at Mindset as one of our former players from the U16s last season went to sleep today at Stratford due to knife crime.\n\n\"All of us at Mindset have the family in our thoughts and prayers. RIP Bap.\"\n\nThere have been more than 110 homicides in the capital this year, with about 70 of those being fatal stabbings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man was apprehended by police after an attack at the Manchester Arndale\n\nA Manchester Arndale worker and a member of the public have been praised for helping to stop a stabbing in which three people were hurt.\n\nA man \"lunged\" at people in the shopping centre on Friday and attacked a 19-year-old woman, a man, 59, and another woman, who are in hospital.\n\nTwo others were hurt, but none of the injuries are thought to be life-threatening.\n\nA 40-year-old man has been detained under the Mental Health Act.\n\nWitnesses said people were \"screaming and running\" as they evacuated the centre after a man started to attack shoppers with a large knife.\n\nA police spokesman said the 19-year-old woman required surgery after being stabbed in her arm, while the 59-year-old man suffered stab wounds to his hand.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson, from Greater Manchester Police, said: \"We know that at least one member of staff from the Arndale and a member of the public intervened in the attack and we would like to praise and thank them for their bravery.\"\n\nAt a press conference earlier, police revealed they had searched a property in the city where the arrested man lived. Officers said they were trying to establish if he had any political, religious or ideological motivation for the attack, although nothing has so far has come to light.\n\nHe was initially held on suspicion of assault then re-arrested on suspicion of terror offences before he was detained under the Mental Health Act.\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said officials were keeping an \"open mind\".\n\n\"It's important not to jump to any conclusions although what I can say is that, at this stage, it would appear to be more mental-health related than political or religiously motivated.\"\n\nHe said the attack appeared to be \"an isolated incident\" and urged people to \"go about their weekend\" as they had planned.\n\nStaff were allowed back into the centre on Friday afternoon\n\nThe shopping centre, which is close to the arena where a terror attack killed 22 people in 2017, re-opened for business on Saturday.\n\nSir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester City Council, said: \"Every time we have had an incident of this sort in the city, Manchester shows its resilience, its ability to come together and its determination to get on with business - to get on with life - and that's what we see today.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Pat Karney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Burnham added the attack highlighted \"the debate about knife crime\" and he would ask police to consider \"more use of stop-and-search powers but in a way that is intelligence-led, non-discriminatory\".\n\n\"Like other cities in the UK, in the past few years, Greater Manchester has seen an increase but… we actually recorded a significant fall over summer 2019 and that was, in part, due to a more targeted use of stop-and-search powers.\"\n\nThe force has appealed for anyone who was in the Arndale at the time to send images or footage via its website.\n\nManchester was praised for showing \"resilience\" after the attack by the city's council leader\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nKenya's Brigid Kosgei eclipsed the 16-year-old women's marathon world record held by Britain's Paula Radcliffe as she retained her Chicago title.\n\nThe 25-year-old recorded a time of two hours 14 minutes 04 seconds, easily inside Radcliffe's mark of 2:15:25 set at the London Marathon in 2003.\n\nIt adds to the Kenyan's win in London this year when she clocked 2:18:20 and became the youngest winner of the race.\n\nEthiopa's Ababel Yeshaneh was second in Chicago, six minutes 47 seconds behind.\n\nOnly 22 runners in the men's race finished faster than Kosgei, whose time would have been a men's world record in 1964.\n\nThe Kenyan, who won last year in 2:18:35, admitted: \"I am feeling good and happy because I was not expecting to run like this.\"\n\nRadcliffe's 2003 time was the longest-standing marathon world record by either men or women in the post-war era.\n\nThe former world champion was at the finish line in Chicago to witness Kosgei's remarkable performance and was among the first to congratulate her.\n\n\"When I saw how fast Brigid was running in the first half I knew it was going to be broken,\" said Radcliffe.\n\nEthiopa's Gelete Burka completed the top three in Chicago on Sunday with a time of 2:20:51.\n\nMeanwhile, Switzerland's Manuela Schar retained her wheelchair title, finishing 30 seconds faster than last year in 1:41.08.\n\nKosgei has been in such good shape this year.\n\nHer performance in London, where she ran the quickest ever second half of a race after a slow start, gave indications of what she was capable of and she certainly set out with the intention of going fast today. The first 5km made us sit up.\n\nIt actually looked too ambitious at the beginning but she didn't really slow down. This is an incredible new benchmark. If that stood for 20 years I wouldn't be surprised.\n\nFind out how to get into athletics with our special guide.", "Could the scanning of the seabed lead to more offshore energy projects like Gwynt y Mor?\n\nA study mapping hundreds of shipwrecks around the Welsh coast is crucial for the development of green energy, a university scientist has said.\n\nSonar is being used to survey ships which sank during World War One, but green projects are benefitting from data about tides and the seabed.\n\nBangor University's Dr Mike Roberts said the coast had \"unique\" qualities for marine energy.\n\nRenewable UK said it was \"incredibly important\" for offshore energy.\n\nUsing multi-beam sonar on a research vessel called the Prince Madog, the team has surveyed more than 300 shipwrecks in the Irish Sea, with many of those being sunk in World War One.\n\n\"While these wartime relics can provide valuable information to historians and archaeologists, they may also help lead to the birth of a new industry,\" Dr Roberts said.\n\n\"The data we're collecting is providing unique insights into how these wrecks influence physical and biological processes in the marine environment.\n\n\"Every one has its own story.\"\n\nThe Amlwch Rose sunk in 1940, killing 10, and is just north of the offshore wind site Gwynt y Mor off the north Wales coast\n\nBy looking at the wrecks, scientists can assess how structures have been affected by being in water for the past 100 years.\n\nEnergy that can be generated at sea - such as offshore wind, tidal, wave, tidal ranges and turbines - \"needs an understanding\" of the seabed, Dr Roberts said.\n\nThe research has already been used for two projects - Morlais marine energy, a tidal stream energy scheme off the coast of Anglesey and a wave energy project south of Pembrokeshire, where construction on a test site is set to begin in 2020.\n\nThe SS Dalewood, which was sunk off the coast of Holyhead in 1918, is shorter than scientists expected\n\nDr Roberts said: \"The ambition in Wales is to generate energy from the sea. It's a unique place to do it because not everywhere has got strong currents, big waves or tidal surges, but you get all of that in Wales.\n\n\"If you're going to put lots of machines on the seabed we need to know the impact on the seabed. It could sink or get buried in sediment.\n\n\"We're hoping to inform them through research about the seabed - what ships are there and the most stable places to do this.\"\n\nRhys Jones, head of Renewable UK Cymru, said: \"This sort of thing is incredibly important because offshore wind is clearly going to make an increasing contribution to both Wales and the UK renewable energy generating capacity over the coming decades.\n\n\"There's the potential for the development to go out into deeper water because of the increasing capabilities of the turbines themselves, so technology like this has a real part to play in the future of offshore wind development.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Queen will outline the government's plans at the State Opening of Parliament\n\nMeasures to help the UK prosper after Brexit are to be set out in the Queen's Speech, the government has said.\n\nPlans to end the free movement of EU citizens into the UK and provide faster access to medicines will be unveiled.\n\nMinisters say a Brexit deal is a \"priority\" and they hope one can be passed through Parliament \"at pace\".\n\nBut the UK and EU are still involved in talks ahead of a key summit - with a Downing Street source saying they were \"a long way from a final deal\".\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU at 23:00 GMT on 31 October and the European leaders' summit next Thursday and Friday is being seen as the last chance to agree any deal before that deadline.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson updated his cabinet on the progress of the talks in Brussels on Sunday, saying he believed there was a \"way forward\" but also \"a significant amount of work\" to do.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Home Secretary Priti Patel said she believed it was important for people to see Parliament delivering on the issues that matter to them.\n\nShe said: \"Tomorrow you will see a Queen's Speech being announced - 22 new bills, working on the people's priorities, these are the types of issues that absolutely matter to the British public.\"\n\nThe first Queen's Speech of Mr Johnson's premiership, delivered during the State Opening of Parliament on Monday, will see the government highlight its priorities.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Getting Brexit done by 31 October is absolutely crucial, and we are continuing to work on an exit deal so we can move on to negotiating a future relationship based on free trade and friendly co-operation with our European friends.\n\n\"But the people of this country don't just want us to sort out Brexit... this optimistic and ambitious Queen's Speech sets us on a course to make all that happen, and more besides.\"\n\nThe government says the Queen's Speech will outline 22 bills including some that will introduce measures to allow the UK to \"seize the opportunities that Brexit presents\". The proposals include:\n\nThere are also proposals to tackle serious and violent crime, improve building standards, and increase investment in infrastructure and science.\n\nThe government said if it can strike a deal with the EU, it will introduce a withdrawal agreement bill and aim to secure its passage through Parliament before 31 October.\n\nBut Labour has criticised the decision to hold a Queen's Speech before any general election as a \"stunt\".\n\nParty leader Jeremy Corbyn told Sky News: \"Having a Queen's Speech and a State Opening of Parliament tomorrow is ludicrous. What we have got in effect is a party political broadcast from the steps of the throne.\"\n\nThe government does not have a Commons majority but Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly is urging opposition MPs not to reject the Queen's Speech - saying they should \"put differences over Brexit aside and give Parliament the power to get our country moving forward\".\n\nMonday 14 October - The Commons is due to return, and the government will use the Queen's Speech to set out its legislative agenda. The speech will then be debated by MPs throughout the week.\n\nThursday 17 October - Crucial two-day summit of EU leaders begins in Brussels. This is the last such meeting currently scheduled before the Brexit deadline.\n\nSaturday 19 October - Special sitting of Parliament and the date by which the PM must ask the EU for another delay to Brexit under the Benn Act, if no Brexit deal has been approved by Parliament and they have not agreed to the UK leaving with no-deal.\n\nThursday 31 October - Date by which the UK is due to leave the EU, with or without a withdrawal agreement.", "The war in Syria has been reignited on new fronts by Turkey's incursion into the north east of the country.\n\nIn camps across the regions are thousands of terrified children whose parents supported the Islamic State group, but most of their countries don't want them home.\n\nIn one camp, the BBC has discovered three children, believed to be from London, whose parents joined IS five years ago, and were subsequently killed in the fighting.\n\nThe children - Amira, Heba and Hamza - are stranded, in danger and they want to come home.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dunn family on Raab meeting: \"We feel let down\"\n\nThe family at the centre of a row over diplomatic immunity after their son died in a car crash described a meeting with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab as feeling like a \"publicity stunt\".\n\nHarry Dunn, 19, died in a crash with a Volvo in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nAmerican diplomat's wife Anne Sacoolas, suspected of driving the other vehicle, later left the UK to return to the US.\n\nBoris Johnson has spoken to President Trump who told a press briefing Harry's death was a \"terrible accident\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump says fatal car crash by diplomat's wife was 'accident'\n\nPolice have said CCTV of the crash which killed the teenager shows the Volvo travelling on the wrong side of the road.\n\nSpeaking after his conversation with the prime minister, President Trump said: \"The woman was driving on the wrong side of the road, and that can happen.\n\n\"You know, those are the opposite roads, that happens. I won't say it ever happened to me, but it did.\n\n\"So a young man was killed, the person that was driving the automobile has diplomatic immunity, we're going to speak to her very shortly and see if we can do something where they meet.\n\n\"It was an accident, it was a terrible accident.\"\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was in a crash with a Volvo\n\nAfter meeting the foreign secretary, Harry's mother Charlotte Charles said she felt \"let down\" by both the UK and US governments.\n\nShe said: \"I can't really see the point as to why we were invited to see Dominic Raab. We are no further forward than where we were this time last week.\n\n\"Part of me is feeling like it was just a publicity stunt on the UK Government side to show they are trying to help.\n\n\"But, although he is engaging with us, we have no answers. We are really frustrated that we could spend half an hour or more with him and just come out with nothing.\"\n\nTogether with Harry's father Tim Dunn, she met Mr Raab in the hope he would urge the US to waive Ms Sacoolas' diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn said: \"I felt extremely let down by the Government today, or by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.\n\n\"I'm deeply, deeply disappointed that they think it's okay to kill a young lad on his bike and they can just walk away.\n\n\"I don't think the government or the Commonwealth Office have any clout to do anything.\"\n\nTim Dunn and Charlotte Charles felt there was little point to their meeting with the foreign secretary\n\nNumber 10 said the Prime Minister urged US President Donald Trump to reconsider the decision to allow Ms Sacoolas immunity in order that \"the individual involved can return to the UK, cooperate with police and allow Harry's family to receive justice\".\n\nDowning Street said the \"leaders agreed to work together to find a way forward as soon as possible\" during their conversation on Wednesday evening.\n\nFollowing the meeting with Harry's parents, the foreign secretary said: \"I share the frustration of Harry's mother and father.\n\n\"They have lost their son and the justice process is not being allowed to properly run its course.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Charles urged Ms Sacoolas to do the \"humane thing to do and get on a plane and come back\".\n\nTheir lawyer Radd Seiger said they were in talks to launch a civil case against Ms Sacoolas and they were \"going to Washington soon to help us get that justice for Harry\".\n\nHe also invited the US President to meet the family about the case.\n\n\"If meeting with President Trump would help us get a step closer to seek justice for Harry, to get justice for that boy who died that night needlessly, one of the most wonderful kids in our community, if that's what it takes then I will extend an invitation now to President Trump.\n\n\"Meet us. Let's have a chat. Nobody wants to litigate.\"\n\nMr Johnson had already urged the US to reconsider its decision to allow Ms Sacoolas immunity, while Mr Raab has previously spoken to the US ambassador and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\nNorthamptonshire's chief constable and its police and crime commissioner have also urged the Americans to waive Ms Sacoolas's diplomatic immunity.\n\nAbout 23,000 individuals in the UK have diplomatic immunity, a status reserved for foreign diplomats and their families, as long as they don't have British citizenship.\n\nIt is granted by the 1961 Vienna Convention and means that, in theory, diplomats cannot face court proceedings for any crime or civil case.\n\nThe convention also states that those entitled to immunity are expected to obey the law.\n\nWhere crimes are committed, the Foreign Office can ask a foreign government to waive immunity where they feel it is appropriate.\n\nDiplomatic immunity is by no means restricted to those named on the Diplomatic List from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.\n\nDrivers, cooks and other support staff whose names do not appear, but have been accredited to Britain (\"the receiving state\") have the same diplomatic status and immunity as those who are listed.\n\nEqually, there are a number of foreign nationals in Britain attached to international organizations who have the same status and protection.\n\nHarry Dunn died after his Kawasaki motorcycle was in a crash with a black Volvo XC90 in Croughton, close to an RAF base.\n\nHe was taken to Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford where he died.\n\nChief Constable Nick Adderley said \"based on CCTV evidence\", officers knew that \"a vehicle alighted from the RAF base at Croughton\" and was \"on the wrong side of the road\".\n\nHe said the suspect, Ms Sacoolas, had \"engaged fully\" following the crash and said \"she had no plans to leave the country in the near future\".\n\nHowever, she then left for the United States and has not returned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nA shadow Wales side laboured to a bonus-point victory over minnows Uruguay to set up a World Cup quarter-final against France.\n\nWales only led 7-6 after a first half littered with handling errors, the only try coming from prop Nicky Smith.\n\nJosh Adams' fifth score in Japan and a penalty try extended the advantage, only for German Kessler to drive over.\n\nReplacements Tomos Williams and Gareth Davies both crossed to seal the bonus point as Wales topped Pool D.\n\nThey only needed two points to do so - thanks to their head-to-head record against Australia - but this result also means they have won all of their World Cup group matches for the first time since the inaugural tournament in 1987.\n\nThis was not the match Wales had envisaged.\n\nHead coach Warren Gatland was always planning to make wholesale changes because this fixture came just four days after their bruising victory over Fiji.\n\nThe physical nature of that match increased the need for squad rotation, with fly-half Dan Biggar, centre Jonathan Davies and wing George North among those to sustain injuries and prompt 13 changes.\n\nBut regardless of the 15 players taking to the field - and no matter how impressive Uruguay were in their shock opening victory over Fiji - Wales were expected to make light work of Los Teros.\n\nThe Six Nations champions started with plenty of attacking intent, with backs and forwards alike throwing the ball around freely and trying to make the game as wide and open as possible.\n\nHowever, the execution did not match the ambition.\n\nThere were multiple handling errors - Aaron Wainwright squandered a chance to score a try as he spilled the ball over the line, and Hallam Amos had a try disallowed for a forward pass by Hadleigh Parkes.\n\nBetween the many knock-ons and dropped balls, Wales took the lead as prop Smith burrowed over from close range to score his first international try.\n\nA half-time lead of 7-6 left a lot to be desired, and the mistakes continued in the second half.\n\nThe sheer volume of errors was illustrated by the fact Amos had a hat-trick of tries disallowed, two for forward passes and one for dropping the ball over the line.\n\nLuckily for Wales, however, it did not matter. Four second-half tries sealed a bonus-point win which few will remember - not that anybody in Wales will care if they follow it up with victory over France on 20 October (08:15 BST).\n\nUruguay had already ensured this was their best World Cup campaign thanks to their thrilling victory over Fiji in their opening fixture.\n\nLos Teros were not content with one win, though, and they spelled that out with a message written in big red letters on a whiteboard at their hotel which read: \"Shock the world.\"\n\nGiven Uruguay had lost all eight of their previous World Cup fixtures against tier-one sides - by an average of 54 points - beating Wales would have done just that.\n\nTheir squad is largely comprised of amateur and semi-professional players, and their tight-head prop in Kumamoto, Diego Arbelo Garcia, is a taxi driver.\n\nBut they made a mockery of the gulf in quality and resources as they defended stoically to frustrate their opponents on Sunday.\n\nThey got under Welsh skins too, with captain Juan Manuel Gaminara goading Aled Davies and Parkes to prompt a scuffle in the tunnel at half-time.\n\nUruguay had their tails up at that point, only trailing 7-6 at the break thanks to two penalties from Felipe Berchesi.\n\nAnd although any hopes of another famous win disappeared with Wales' flurry of second-half scores, Kessler's try was reward for an admirable effort from a Uruguay side who have made huge progress during this World Cup.\n\nMAN OF THE MATCH - Bradley Davies. Only added to the squad following Cory Hill's injury, the experienced lock was busy with ball in hand and carried Wales forward with his power in his first appearance of the tournament.\n\nWales coach Warren Gatland said: \"I'm happy with four from four, not too happy with some of tonight. We were poor at times, not clinical, too many turnovers in that first half and probably blew about four or five chances but we showed a little bit of character in the second half.\n\n\"We spoke about being a bit more direct. We were probably trying to play a bit too much rugby.\n\n\"They're a tough outfit to put away. They're tenacious, they make the tackles and they're a tidy little side.\n\n\"We probably didn't respect the ball enough, (there were) a lot of turnovers. Then, second half, we started being a bit more direct and earning the right to play and we were a bit better.\"", "The man was arrested at Glasgow Airport on Friday\n\nA man arrested at Glasgow Airport on suspicion of murdering his family eight years ago was detained by mistake.\n\nIdentity checks have shown that the man is not Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes, Police Scotland confirmed.\n\nThe 58-year-old has been on the run since his wife and four children were found buried at their home in Nante in 2011.\n\nThe detained man was stopped at the airport after arriving on a flight from Paris.\n\nXavier Dupont de Ligonnes is suspected of murdering his wife and four children\n\nIn a statement Police Scotland said: \"On Friday, 11 October 2019, a man was arrested at Glasgow Airport following information provided to police.\n\n\"He was held in police custody in connection with a European Arrest Warrant issued by the French Authorities.\n\n\"Inquiries were undertaken to confirm the man's identity.\n\n\"Following the results of these tests it has been confirmed that the man arrested is not the man suspected of crimes in France.\n\n\"The man has since been released.\"\n\nMr Dupont de Ligonnes is suspected of murdering his wife Agnès, 48, and his children, Arthur, 21, Thomas, 18, Anne, 16, and Benoît, 13, whose bodies, as well as those of the family's two dogs, were discovered buried in the garden of the family house in Nantes in 2011.\n\nThe murders, known as the \"Nantes slaughter\", deeply shocked France at the time.\n\nFrench prosecutors previously said he killed his victims in a \"methodical execution\", firing two bullets from a silenced weapon at close range into their heads, before he rolled them in lime and buried them under cement.\n\nMr Dupont de Ligonnes reportedly told his teenage children's private Catholic high school that he had been transferred to a job in Australia.\n\nAnd he also allegedly told friends he was a US secret agent who was being taken into a witness protection programme.\n\nA large police operation was mounted in the Var region of southern France in January last year after witnesses reported seeing a man resembling him near a monastery.", "The business expanded from a doorstep milk round in 1983\n\nFarming leaders are seeking \"urgent clarification\" about a major dairy amid claims farmers have been told it could no longer accept their milk supplies.\n\nFarmers who supply Tomlinsons Dairies, Wrexham, said they have been told to find an alternate milk processor but not given any reasons why.\n\nThe dairy has been asked to comment.\n\nA spokesman for NFU Cymru said it was \"investigating further to understand the problem\". One affected farmer said the situation was \"a mess\".\n\nI'm desperately concerned - dairy farming is something myself, my wife and family have done all our lives.\"\n\nFarmer Keith Thompson said he was lucky enough to find another firm able to process the 4,500 litres of milk his herd produces daily.\n\n\"Our immediate priority is to secure a milk buyer,\" he said. \"That's why my milk is on its way to Lancashire.\"\n\nHe said he had received a text message from an agricultural agent advising him to find a new milk processor on Sunday morning.\n\n\"I'm desperately concerned - dairy farming is something myself, my wife and family have done all our lives.\"\n\nIt is not yet known how many farmers have been affected.\n\nAled Jones, who is deputy president of NFU Cymru and has a farm outside Caernarfon in Gwynedd, said: \"I could hardly sleep last night. Everything was going on in my mind.\n\n\"I just felt disappointed. It's extremely worrying and margins are very very tight as it is.\"\n\nMr Jones was able to get the milk in his tank taken by a processor in Pwllheli, but he said it was just a \"stopgap\" before a permanent solution could be found.\n\nNFU Cymru said it had \"received reports of issues at Tomlinson's Dairy\", adding: \"We are currently seeking urgent clarification and investigating further to understand the problem and the potential impact on our members.\n\n\"We will work to assist any affected members where possible.\"\n\nIn 2017, Tomlinson's Dairies expanded its cold storage facilities after receiving £5m from Welsh Government, £2m from Finance Wales and £14.5m from HSBC.\n\nIt was employing about 170 staff that year and planned to create 70 more jobs with its expansion.\n\nThe business was established in 1983 by brothers Philip and John Tomlinson, expanding from a doorstep round using milk from their family dairy farm in Minera.\n\nAnother Tomlinsons supplier, Wrexham dairy farm JH Morris, said it received a phone call on Saturday advising it to contact one of three alternate milk processors, including Cheshire-based County Milk, to arrange milk collection.\n\n\"We don't know what's happening,\" said Judith Morris.\n\nMark Langslow, a director at County Milk, said he was \"surprised\" to start receiving calls on Saturday from worried farmers asking him to accept milk supplies.\n\nHe said he had not received any advance notice from Tomlinsons, but pledged to help farmers.\n\n\"I don't know the underlying cause that has prompted this,\" he added.", "A former Paralympian accused of gluing himself to the top of a plane has denied causing a public nuisance.\n\nJames Brown is alleged to have climbed on to the British Airways plane at London City Airport on Thursday, during the Extinction Rebellion protests.\n\nThe 55-year-old, of Magdalen Road, Exeter, denied the charge at Westminster Magistrates' Court earlier.\n\nDistrict judge John Zani granted conditional bail prohibiting him from going within a mile of any UK airport.\n\nThe case was heard in front of a full public gallery, including Extinction Rebellion protesters, and there was applause at the end of the hearing.\n\nBrown, who is visually impaired, is due to appear for trial at Southwark Crown Court on 8 November.\n\nSupporters marched along Oxford Street on a sixth day of protests in London\n\nHis solicitor, Raj Chada, requested the cyclist's cane be returned to him after it was confiscated by officers, which was granted.\n\nBrown competed for Britain, Ireland and Northern Ireland in a career which saw him participate at five Paralympic Games and earn two gold medals and a bronze.\n\nThe case came after a week of demonstrations, which police say has seen nearly 1,300 arrests across the capital.\n\nOn the sixth day of protests, Extinction Rebellion supporters marched in what they described as a \"funeral procession\" on Oxford Street.\n\nThe demonstration along the major shopping street aimed to highlight the impact of climate change on wildlife and saw some supporters carry coffins and models of skeletons of extinct or threatened animals.\n\nDoctors protested alongside 180 pairs of shoes in Trafalgar Square, symbolising deaths due to pollution\n\nA separate demonstration to highlight air pollution involved doctors, nurses and medical students and was described as a \"health march for the planet\".\n\nMeanwhile, it has been revealed that Belgian Princess Esmeralda Dereth was arrested, after she joined a sit-in protest at Trafalgar Square on Thursday.\n\nThe 63-year-old told Belgian newspaper L'Echo: \"The more people from all sections of society protest, the greater the impact will be.\"\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. Troops and rescue workers are battling flooding in the wake of the deadly storm\n\nJapan has deployed tens of thousands of troops and rescue workers after one of the strongest storms in years hit, killing at least 23 people.\n\nTyphoon Hagibis made landfall south of Tokyo on Saturday, moving north and bringing severe flooding.\n\nSeventeen people are missing from the storm, public broadcaster NHK said.\n\nIn central Nagano prefecture, water surrounded Japan's famous bullet trains while helicopters plucked stranded residents from rooftops.\n\nA total of 27,000 military troops and other rescue crews have been deployed in relief operations, authorities said.\n\n\"The government will do its utmost,\" Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said, promising to deploy more troops if needed.\n\nBy Sunday the storm had weakened and moved off land.\n\nIn Kawagoe city, north of Tokyo, emergency crews used boats to help residents trapped in a nursing home.\n\nNearly 150,000 homes in the greater Tokyo area are without power with running water also hit. Train and flight services cancelled under the threat of Hagibis are resuming.\n\nMany of the deaths came as people were buried in landslides or swept away by flood waters.\n\nOne woman in her 70s died after accidentally being dropped while being moved by a rescue helicopter, AP reported, citing fire officials.\n\nSome areas of Japan saw up to 40% of their average rainfall in just a few days.\n\nIn the town of Hakone near Mount Fuji more than 1m (3ft) of rain fell on Friday and Saturday, the highest total ever recorded in Japan over 48 hours.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than seven million people were urged to leave their homes\n\nThe rain also hit farming with fields and warehouses inundated.\n\n\"We never had a flood like this before,\" one farmer, in Higashi Matsuyama city, northwest of Tokyo, told AFP.\n\nThe storm led to some Rugby World Cup matches being cancelled but a key fixture between Japan and Scotland will go ahead on Sunday.\n\nQualifying for Japan's Formula One Grand Prix was also disrupted but the race went ahead and was won by Valtteri Bottas.\n\nAs the huge storm approached, more than seven million people were urged to leave their homes but it is thought only 50,000 stayed in shelters.\n\nOnly last month Typhoon Faxai wreaked havoc on parts of Japan, damaging 30,000 homes, most of which have not yet been repaired.\n\nSwathes of the country were left submerged", "Military enforcements have been put in place in the area following the attack\n\nAt least 15 people have been killed and two seriously injured in an attack on a mosque in northern Burkina Faso.\n\nGunmen entered the Grand Mosque in the village of Salmossi on Friday evening as those inside were praying.\n\nThe attack prompted many locals to flee the village which is close to the Malian border.\n\nHundreds of people have been killed in the country over the past few years, mostly by jihadist groups.\n\nOne resident from the nearby town of Gorom-Gorom told AFP news agency: \"Since this morning, people have started to flee the area.\"\n\nHe added that there was a \"climate of panic despite military reinforcements\" put in place following the attack.\n\nNo group has admitted carrying out the attack.\n\nJihadist attacks have increased in Burkina Faso since 2015, forcing thousands of schools to close down.\n\nThe conflict spread across the border from neighbouring Mali where Islamist militants took over the north of the country in 2012 before French troops pushed them out.\n\nThe UN Refugee agency says more than a quarter of a million people in Burkina Faso have been forced to flee their homes over the past three months.\n\nLast week, 20 people were killed in an attack on a gold-mining site in the north.\n\nOn Saturday, about 1,000 people protested in the capital Ouagadougou to denounce violence in their country and the presence of foreign military forces in the region.", "Staff at Thomas Cook's largest subsidiary in Spain say they are the biggest victims of its demise\n\n\"We have the hotels here, open and waiting - but the customers can't get here,\" says Ramón Estalella, head of Spain's leading hotelier association.\n\nThe sudden collapse last month of one of Europe's biggest travel groups, Thomas Cook, ruined the holidays of 600,000 stranded tourists.\n\nHundreds of thousands more had trips booked when the news was announced.\n\nBut for parts of Spain's tourist sector, Thomas Cook's demise is also an existential threat.\n\nThe economic future of industry workers and staff at Thomas Cook's local suppliers and subsidiaries is at stake.\n\nThe Spanish Confederation of Hotels and Tourist Accommodation has said that 1.3 million autumn and winter visitors will be unable to fly into Spanish destinations.\n\nThis will result, it says, in the shutting down of at least 500 hotels, generating losses to the tourism sector running into the hundreds of millions of euros.\n\nSpain's government has announced a package of measures worth €300m (£260m; $330m), including emergency credit lines and a reduction in airport fees, particularly for hubs in the Balearic and Canary islands, plus plans to spend €500m in improving tourism infrastructure.\n\nSpain's Canary Islands archipelago is preparing for its high season as a popular winter sun destination, but the Spanish government calculates that 400,000 Thomas Cook travellers will not be reaching the islands after all.\n\nThomas Cook staff hug at an airport on the island of Majorca after word of the group's collapse\n\nThe first hotel on the islands to close its doors as a result of the impact on tourism was the Fuerteventura Princess, which had an exclusive deal with Thomas Cook covering 95% of its 688 rooms up to 2023. Its 160 staff are to be laid off, a fate to be shared by at least 3,400 others in the sector, according to estimates.\n\nFor Mr Estalella from Spain's CEHAT hotelier association, an immediate response is required to fill the hole left by Thomas Cook.\n\n\"They need to do something to get airlines to pick up the slack and take more slots by slashing costs. We need to take a bigger risk. Meanwhile, it's unfair that hotels are having to pay VAT on bills charged to Thomas Cook and its subsidiaries which they know they'll never be paid.\"\n\nMore than 700 staff at Thomas Cook's largest subsidiary in Spain say they are the biggest victims of the travel giant's crash, having not been paid since the summer and now finding themselves in a legal limbo.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hotel owners in Majorca are worried about what the collapse of Thomas Cook means for their livelihoods.\n\nThe In Destination Incoming agency, based in Palma, Majorca, went into liquidation days after Thomas Cook ceased operations, reportedly announcing debts of a €57m.\n\n\"We have no guests in any resorts, but due to Spanish law we have to present ourselves at work every day to complete our 40 hours,\" one worker from Palma told the BBC on the condition of anonymity due to what she described as \"ongoing legal proceedings\".\n\n\"If we do not go, they will take it as our resignation instead of an official dismissal or redundancy, and we won't be able to claim anything at all,\" she added.\n\nPep Ginard, of the CCOO services sector union in the Balearics, confirmed that staff at In Destination Incoming faced a \"long and difficult process\" to claim back pay and a redundancy package which, under Spanish labour laws, should be worth at least 20 days' wages per year of service.\n\n\"We are in no man's land and have just been left. Part of our job was dealing with deaths, rapes, assaults and serious illness. We have worked extra hours with no extra pay as Thomas Cook didn't follow the new labour laws this year. All of this is for nothing,\" the worker said.\n\nBeyond the immediate impact of the Thomas Cook crash, some Spanish tourism sector leaders say there is some soul-searching to be done regarding the future of the country's biggest industry.\n\nAfter six years of record international tourist arrivals, reaching 82.8 million in 2018, the negative impact from Thomas Cook's collapse may lead to stagnation, with growth up to August reaching only 1.5%, according to government figures.\n\n\"There is an unsustainable level of saturation in sunshine and sand tourism, and we have to start competing on another level, in long-distance travel,\" said Juan Antonio Samaranch, a vice-president of the International Olympic Committee, speaking at an event in Madrid earlier this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpain saw non-European arrivals grow by close to 14% in the first half of this year, but Mr Samaranch claimed that much more could be done, especially to attract visitors from China in search of cultural experiences.\n\nAccording to Rafael Gallego, president of Spain's CEAV travel agency association, the Thomas Cook debacle should jog policymakers into realising that increasingly few travellers merely sign up to a package based on a destination's climate or vibes.\n\n\"People travelling today don't go so much to a place, but rather to do something specific,\" he told the newspaper El Mundo.\n\nNowadays, he argued, tourists were looking for a product. Either active holidays such as playing golf, paragliding and diving, or more leisure-based breaks involving nature, gastronomy and cultural tourism.", "California has become the first US state to ban the manufacture and sale of animal fur.\n\nResidents will no longer be able to sell or make clothing, shoes or handbags from fur as of 2023.\n\nThe move has been celebrated by animal rights groups which have been calling for a ban for some time.\n\nGovernor Gavin Newsom also signed a bill banning most animals from circus shows, except cats, dogs and horses. It does not apply to rodeos.\n\n\"California is a leader when it comes to animal welfare and today that leadership includes banning the sale of fur,\" Mr Newsom said in a statement.\n\nThe ban does not apply to leather, cow hides and the full skin of deer, sheep and goats, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. It also does not apply to stuffed animals.\n\nThose found breaking the law could face a fine of $500 (£395) or in repeat cases, $1,000.\n\n\"We applaud Gov Newsom and the state's lawmakers for recognising that California citizens do not want their state's markets to contribute to the demand for fur products,\" a statement from Humane Society USA said.\n\nBut the decision was criticised by the Fur Information Council's spokesman Keith Kaplan. He claimed it was part of a \"radical vegan agenda using fur as the first step to other bans on what we wear and eat.\"\n\nLast May, fashion house Prada announced that it would stop using fur, starting with its spring-summer 2020 line.\n\nIn February, the UK's Selfridges announced it would be banning the sale of exotic animal skins from February 2020.", "Stephen Moore was described as the \"most sweet, charming and affable of men\"\n\nStephen Moore - known as the voice of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy's Marvin the Paranoid Android - has died aged 81.\n\nHe also played Adrian Mole's father on TV, and the dad to Harry Enfield's grumpy teenager Kevin.\n\nHitchhiker's producer and director Dirk Maggs said Moore was the \"most sweet, charming and affable of men\".\n\nHe paid tribute to \"an amazing, varied career\", adding that he was best known for the role of Marvin.\n\nMoore was the voice of Marvin for five series of Hitchhiker's on radio, and the 1980s TV adaptation\n\nThe first series of Hitchhiker's appeared on Radio 4 in 1978, and after being adapted for TV in the 1980s, it returned to the airwaves in 2003.\n\nIn it Marvin is a failed prototype robot with \"genuine people personalities\", which has led him to struggle with severe depression.\n\nMaggs said: \"That was the thing that won the hearts of people, Marvin is the most miserable character but people seem to love him.\n\n\"It was Stephen's voice that made that happen.\"\n\nThe prolific actor also played teenage diarist Adrian Mole's father George on TV\n\nAlongside the paranoid android, Moore had a successful career on stage, TV and in film.\n\nHe was Major Robert Steele in Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far.\n\nHe played teenage diarist Adrian Mole's father George on TV, and the dad of Melody and Harmony Parker on children's show The Queen's Nose.\n\nHe also played the dad of grumpy teenager Kevin in Harry Enfield sketches\n\nMaggs said: \"I'll always remember the story of him getting locked in a mic cupboard in the Paris studio at the BBC, and they forgot he was in there and went out to lunch.\n\n\"He was an infinitely professional actor, would put up with any discomfort and waited to play his part.\n\n\"And then outside the working situation he was the most sweet, charming and affable of men.\"\n\nActor Ben Barnes - who worked with Moore in a West End production of The History Boys - wrote on Twitter that \"he was a sensitive, brilliant actor and a funny, lovely man\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon said she favoured replacing Boris Johnson's Tory government with a \"progressive-style alliance\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon has told Jeremy Corbyn not to \"bother picking up the phone\" to ask the SNP to put him in government unless he backs an independence vote.\n\nThe Scottish first minister said she was in favour of removing Boris Johnson from office and holding an election.\n\nBut she said her backing for a future \"progressive alliance\" government relied on a deal to hold a referendum.\n\nMs Sturgeon also said she would seek UK government consent this year to hold a new independence vote.\n\nMr Corbyn has said he does not think a new independence poll is \"a good idea\", but has not ruled out allowing one.\n\nMs Sturgeon wants to hold a new vote in the second half of 2020, but has yet to ask UK ministers for the required \"section 30\" request to allow it.\n\nShe said it was not yet clear who the prime minister would be at that point.\n\nShe told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that she would be willing to oust the Conservatives in favour of a \"progressive-type alliance\", but warned Mr Corbyn to not \"even bother picking up the phone to me\" unless he accepted \"Scotland's right to choose our own future\".\n\nMs Sturgeon's comments come as the SNP gathers in Aberdeen for its autumn conference, and at a pivotal moment in UK politics and the Brexit process.\n\nBoris Johnson has repeatedly challenged other parties to support a snap general election, but opposition leaders want to rule out a no-deal Brexit first - and are divided on whether a fresh EU referendum should come before an election.\n\nThe SNP leader told Andrew Marr she was \"ruling nothing out\" in the coming weeks, but said an election would be the most realistic outcome due to the difficulty of leaving an interim government in place throughout a referendum campaign.\n\nMr Corbyn has said he would not allow an independence referendum in the \"formative years\" of a Labour government\n\nShould an election not produce a clear winner, Ms Sturgeon said the SNP \"will not put the Tories in office and are not in favour of coalitions\".\n\nHowever, she warned that votes from her MPs - currently the third-largest group at Westminster - would be contingent on the new prime minister giving the green light to an independence referendum.\n\nShe said: \"We would favour a progressive-type alliance, but I would say this to Jeremy Corbyn or any Westminster leader who's looking to the SNP for support - if you don't accept Scotland's right to choose our own future, at the time of our own choosing, don't even bother picking up the phone to me.\"\n\nMr Corbyn has previously said Labour would not actively stand in the way of \"indyref2\", but has indicated he would seek to delay it.\n\nHe said he would not agree to a vote \"in the formative years of a Labour government\", while focusing on \"central priorities\" such as \"sorting the Tory Brexit nightmare\" and pursuing \"transformative investment in Scotland's people, communities and public services\".\n\nThis approach could see the independence vote pushed back beyond Ms Sturgeon's preferred timetable in 2020, and past the Holyrood elections in 2021.\n\nA \"section 30\" agreement is the same legal mechanism used to facilitate the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would make a section 30 request \"over the next matter of weeks - it is coming soon. But we don't yet know who is likely to be in Downing Street - the situation is very fluid, and that is why I've chosen to do the preparations that are within our control and we're getting on with that.\"\n\nSome supporters of independence have called for a \"plan b\" for securing independence\n\nThe current UK government has repeatedly refused to countenance allowing a new independence vote, with Home Secretary Priti Patel telling the same programme that ministers were determined to \"respect the result of referendums that took place previously\".\n\nThis has led some SNP members - including MPs, MSPs and councillors - to call for a \"plan B\", such as securing a majority in an election or holding an unauthorised poll.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon ruled out such an approach, saying a legal and constitutional referendum was the only way forward.\n\nShe said: \"If I thought there was any quicker way, an easier way, a plan B that would get us there quicker, I would have taken it by now.\n\n\"What we have to do is have a process that allows us to demonstrate that there is majority support in Scotland for independence, and we have to have a process that is legal and accepted, otherwise our independence will not be recognised.\"\n\nAt the conference in Aberdeen, an attempt to add a debate on \"plan B\" to the agenda was voted down overwhelmingly.\n\nEarlier, the party's Westminster leader Ian Blackford told delegates that the SNP had prepared a motion of no confidence in Boris Johnson and his government.\n\nMr Blackford said the only way to put an end to the \"chaos\" was to have a general election.\n\nHe called on the leaders of the other opposition parties to act with the SNP, although he didn't specify when they would bring the motion in Parliament.", "Valtteri Bottas won the Japanese Grand Prix with team-mate Lewis Hamilton third behind Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, securing a Formula 1 record sixth straight World Championship double for Mercedes.\n\nThe result sealed the constructors' title with four races to go and, while Hamilton is not quite world champion yet, only Bottas can catch him.\n\nIt breaks the record set by Michael Schumacher and Ferrari from 2000 to 2004, and confirms this Mercedes team as the greatest in F1 history.\n\nBriton Hamilton leads Bottas by 64 points and needs to be 78 clear of the Finn to win his sixth drivers' title at the next race in Mexico.\n\nMercedes team boss Toto Wolff said: \"It has never been done before and that's why it feels great.\n\n\"It's F1, it's motor racing. Is it historic? I don't know. There are more important things out there but for us it feels great.\"\n• None Chequered Flag podcast: 'The best team in Formula 1 history'\n\nMercedes take advantage of another Ferrari farce\n\nMercedes' triumph will rub the salt into the wounds of Ferrari, who somehow turned a front-row lockout, with Vettel on pole ahead of team-mate Charles Leclerc, into a second place and a sixth.\n\nAgain, as so often this season, Ferrari's race unravelled as a result of driver errors - from both in this case.\n\nVettel moved forward in his position box before the red lights had gone out at the start, forcing him to have to stop and then go again, and allowing Bottas to spring past him into the lead at the first corner.\n\nBeside him, Leclerc also made a slow start, if not as poor as Vettel's, and he had Red Bull's Max Verstappen alongside him through the first two corners.\n\nIn Turn Two, Leclerc slid wide and into Verstappen, pitching the Red Bull into a spin that ultimately led to its retirement, and damaging the Ferrari's front wing.\n\nLeclerc tried to hang on but was forced to pit on lap three, and was only able to recover to sixth in a race that forced him to spend most of the afternoon picking his way past back markers.\n\nAt the front, it was immediately apparent that Bottas had too much pace for Vettel, but the interest was in the divergent strategies of the three top runners.\n\nFerrari blinked first, pitting Vettel on lap 16 and putting the German on a two-stop strategy. Mercedes responded by pitting Bottas on the next lap to ensure he retained the lead.\n\nThey left Hamilton out and told him he was going for one stop on lap 21 for medium tyres.\n\nBut the high tyre degradation on a 'green' track washed clean on Saturday by Typhoon Hagibis forced them to change their minds and he ran a divergent two-stop, stopping 11 laps after Vettel and hoping to chase him down on fresh tyres in the closing laps.\n\nHamilton complained about the strategy over the radio, asking how he had lost so much time, why he was not given the hardest tyres and allowed to try for a one-stop strategy, and what he needed to do to win.\n• None Listen: Frustrated Hamilton wants to know why he lost the race\n\nWhen Hamilton did stop on lap 42, he had 10 laps to pass Vettel. He caught him within three laps, but the Ferrari's straight-line speed advantage made it too difficult to pass and the Briton had to be satisfied with third as his team-mate won his first race since the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in April on a weekend when he was quicker than Hamilton pretty much throughout.\n\nVettel said afterwards that he suspected Mercedes were too strong for Ferrari and would have found a way to beat him on strategy with two drivers against one - even if he had not made the mistake at the start.\n\nBut Leclerc's incident with Verstappen and Vettel's poor start put Mercedes in that position and Ferrari again have reason to rue errors that cost them dearly.\n\nVettel's start was investigated but the officials decided it was \"within the acceptable tolerance of the F1 jump start system which formerly defines a jump start\" and he was not penalised.\n\nLeclerc was penalised five seconds for his collision with Verstappen and a further 10 seconds for Ferrari delaying their decision to bring him in to replace the front wing that was damaged in the incident.\n\nTogether they demoted him from sixth to seventh, behind Renault's Daniel Ricciardo, with McLaren's Carlos Sainz Jr in fifth.\n\nHowever, Racing Point protested Renault, claiming that their car has an automatic brake-bias adjustment system. The stewards ruled the protest was admissible, the cars' of Ricciardo and team-mate Nico Hulkenberg, who finished 10th, had their steering wheels and electronic control units impounded and the FIA will investigate the matter further for a judgement at a later date.\n\nWith Verstappen out of the race, fourth place was taken by his team-mate Alexander Albon, who had excelled in qualifying by matching the Dutchman's lap time in qualifying on his first experience of the Suzuka track.\n\nAlbon lost ground to the two McLarens when he was delayed by the Leclerc-Verstappen incident and collided with Lando Norris' car while passing the Englishman early in the race.\n\nHowever, he then caught Sainz and drove a steady race to consolidate his position.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nMexico in two weeks' time. Can Hamilton clinch a sixth title there? It's possible, but it won't be easy.", "Sitting on the Sovereign's Throne, Elizabeth II delivered the 65th Queen's Speech of her reign to Parliament earlier.\n\nThe speech outlined the government's agenda for the coming parliamentary session, with 26 bills - pieces of proposed legislation - spanning health, education, defence, technology, transport and crime, as well as Brexit.\n\nHere's what the Queen's Speech contained, and what it may mean in practice.\n\nWhat the speech said: \"My government intends to work towards a new partnership with the European Union, based on free trade and friendly co-operation.\"\n\nWhat it means: If Boris Johnson can secure a deal this week - which is backed by MPs - he will then need to pass the European Union Agreement Bill, ratifying it into UK law.\n\nHer Majesty also spoke of \"new regimes\" post-Brexit for fisheries, agriculture and trade and a new immigration system. All of these require new laws.\n\nWhat the speech said: \"My government is committed to addressing violent crime, and to strengthening public confidence in the criminal justice system.\"\n\nWhat it means: Law and order dominated the government's announcements. They included separate bills covering sentencing, foreign national criminals, extradition, serious violence, prisoners and police protections.\n\nThe extradition bill would create powers to immediately arrest suspected criminals who are in the UK but wanted in other \"trusted\" countries.\n\nThe sentencing bill would push back the automatic release point for violent and sexual offenders from half-way to two-thirds of the way through a sentence.\n\nA Foreign Nationals Offenders Bill would increase the maximum punishment for those who return to the UK in breach of a deportation order.\n\nWhat the speech said: \"Proposals on railway reform will be brought forward.\"\n\nWhat it means: Ministers are signalling that a new commercial model for the railways will arrive in 2020, replacing the existing franchised system - with more details to be published soon.\n\nWhat the speech said: \"New laws will be taken forward to help implement the National Health Service's Long Term Plan in England.\"\n\nWhat it means: On top of a renewed commitment to the plan - first published under Theresa May - the government will focus on improving mental health care and will bring in new laws aimed at improving patient safety and increasing the number of clinical trials for new drugs.\n\nHealth is devolved, so Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have other plans.\n\nWhat the speech said: \"My government will bring forward proposals to reform adult social care in England to ensure dignity in old age.\"\n\nWhat it means: In the long term, ministers are promising a further consultation - in the form of a green paper - on reforming the existing system.\n\nIn the shorter term, local authorities could be allowed to increase council tax by an extra 2% to raise £500m towards paying for care for the elderly.\n\nWhat the speech said: \"For the first time ever, environmental principles will be enshrined into law.\"\n\nWhat it means: Recalling especially pollutant vehicles, charges for certain single-use plastics and protecting trees are just some of the measures being considered in a new environment bill.\n\nThere is also a strong focus on animal welfare, with bills pledged increasing the sentence for animal cruelty.\n\nWhat the speech said: \"A white paper will be published to set out my government's ambitions for unleashing regional potential in England, and to enable decisions that affect local people to be made at a local level.\"\n\nWhat it means: The government is not committing to specific new laws in this area, but the policy paper is expected to expand the number, powers and funding of local mayors in England.\n\nWhat the speech said: \"My Ministers... will bring forward laws to implement new building safety standards.\"\n\nWhat it means: With the continuing fall-out from the Grenfell disaster in 2017, ministers plan to put into law a new safety framework for high-rise housing blocks.\n\nIt would include giving local residents more of a say and putting in place strong significant sanctions for house builders that don't meet the safety standards.\n\nThe government also plans to pass a new law to secure the compensation scheme for victims of the Windrush scandal.\n\nWhat the speech said on drones: \"An aviation bill will provide for the effective and efficient management of the UK's airspace.\"\n\nWhat it means: A bill would give police more powers to tackle unlawful use of drones and other model aircraft following last year's high-profile disruption at Gatwick airport.\n\nWhat the speech said on tips: \"Take steps to make work fairer, introducing measures that will support those working hard.\"\n\nWhat it means: This is a popular measure, welcomed by Labour, that would force employers in England and Wales to distribute all tips to workers without deductions.\n\nWhat the speech said: \"My government will take steps to protect the integrity of democracy and the electoral system.\"\n\nWhat it means: A new law is being touted which would require people to show photo ID to vote in UK elections.\n\nLabour says this is an attempt to \"rig\" the next election, by suppressing turnout among younger and ethnic minority voters.\n\nThere are four pieces of legislation that were \"carried over\" from the last session.\n\nThis means the government has decided to carry on from where they left off before prorogation, rather than starting from scratch.\n\nThe four include the Domestic Abuse Bill, which has cross-party support and started its journey through Parliament at the beginning of October.\n\nAfter six days of debate, MPs will vote on the Queen's Speech and any amendments made by MPs.\n\nBoris Johnson, who does not have a majority in the Commons, is at risk of potential defeat. The last PM to lose such a vote was Stanley Baldwin in 1924.", "Academic institutions in West Africa have increasingly been facing allegations of sexual harassment by lecturers. This type of abuse is said to be endemic, but it’s almost never proven.\n\nAfter gathering dozens of testimonies, BBC Africa Eye sent undercover journalists posing as students inside the University of Lagos and the University of Ghana.\n\nFemale reporters were sexually harassed, propositioned and put under pressure by senior lecturers at the institutions – all the while wearing secret cameras.\n\nReporter Kiki Mordi, who knows first-hand how devastating sexual harassment can be, reveals what happens behind closed doors at some of the region’s most prestigious universities.\n\nHow have you been impacted by our investigation into sex for grades? If you would like to share your experience with BBC Africa Eye, contact us here.\n\nFurther information and support for anyone affected by sexual assault can be found through the BBC Action Line.", "Diplomatic immunity puts officials from overseas above the law of the country in which they live. Is the system open to abuse?\n\nImagine breaking the law and no-one can stop you. Ignoring parking tickets. Never paying tax. Getting away with murder.\n\nIt's all possible, in theory, if you're an ambassador. Under the 1961 Vienna Convention, diplomats are immune from prosecution in their host country.\n\nThe system has long proved controversial - not least since PC Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead outside the Libyan Embassy in 1984 - and is once again under the spotlight thanks to an unusual battle fought in London's courts.\n\nSaudi businessman Sheikh Walid Juffali launched a diplomatic immunity defence after his ex-wife, former Pirelli model Christina Estrada, made a claim on his estimated £4bn fortune. The court heard they separated in 2013.\n\nIn a move that had led to raised eyebrows in the press, Juffali was appointed in 2014 by the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia as its permanent representative to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), which has its secretariat in London.\n\nIn February, Mr Justice Hayden ruled at the High Court this diplomatic status was \"an entirely artificial construct\" as Juffali had \"no pre-existing connection to St Lucia\" and there was no evidence that he had \"any knowledge or experience of maritime matters\".\n\nLast week, the Court of Appeal said the judge had been wrong to rule Juffali was not \"entitled in principle to immunity\". However, it dismissed the appeal on the basis that his diplomatic status was irrelevant as Juffali was a permanent British resident and thus liable to civil action, as permanent residents serving as diplomats are immune only from prosecution for official acts.\n\nAfter the verdict, a spokesman for Juffali said he was \"committed to maintaining his diplomatic duties\" and noted that St Lucia's prime minister had testified to the \"exemplary manner\" in which Juffali had carried out his role. However, he was \"dismayed\" by the court's decision that he was a UK permanent resident.\n\nIn a statement, the government of St Lucia said it \"has, and will always, follow full due process\" in appointing diplomats and Juffali's case was no different. The IMO declined to comment.\n\nThe convention of diplomatic immunity - intended to prevent embassy staff being harassed when operating in hostile countries - is a long-standing cornerstone of international relations that dates back centuries prior to being enshrined in the Vienna Convention.\n\nHowever, the Juffali case is not the first time diplomatic immunity - which covers around 25,000 people in the UK, including families of some diplomats as well as the officials themselves - has attracted scrutiny.\n\nIn 2010 the then-Foreign Secretary William Hague released details of 18 crimes - including sexual assault, human trafficking, threats to kill and drink-driving - of which diplomats in the UK had been accused during 2010.\n\nIn December it was reported that embassy workers had run up £95m of unpaid congestion charges in London - because they argue it is a tax, not a charge for service, and thus exempt under the Vienna Convention.\n\nIt was ruled in February that because of his diplomatic status, Sheikh Hamad Bin-Jassim Bin-Jaber Al Thani - one of the world's richest men and the former prime minister of Qatar - could not be sued in the UK over claims a British-Qatari dual national was falsely imprisoned. Sheikh Hamad and the state of Qatar have denied any wrongdoing, with lawyers for the billionaire saying the man in question had been treated \"in the manner that accorded fully with Qatari and international law\".\n\nCases like these have led to calls for the whole system to be overhauled. Human rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson QC says the Vienna Convention made sense in the days of the Cold War - when embassy staff working in hostile nations were at risk of being framed or caught in honeytraps - but has passed its sell-by date.\n\n\"What it does is put diplomats above the law,\" he says. \"It's a breach of Magna Carta.\n\n\"I think the Vienna Convention needs redrafting to limit diplomatic immunity. I don't think diplomatic immunity should extend to any civil case. It should only extend to criminal cases in limited circumstances.\"\n\nHe also argues that the definition of \"diplomat\" is too wide - encompassing not just ambassadors representing their nation in overseas embassies, but also at specialised agencies of the United Nations and other international bodies.\n\nAnd while it's unusual for states to nominate foreign nationals as diplomats, as in the case of Juffali, there are concerns that the system could potentially be exploited by those trying to evade the court process.\n\nSheikh Walid Juffali with his former wife Christina Estrada\n\n\"There are a number of countries around the world where you can effectively buy citizenship,\" says solicitor Mark Stephens, a former president of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association. There's a danger this could be taken a step further for the right price, he believes. \"If you are a Mr Big behind a multi-million-pound fraud it behoves you to get a diplomatic passport so you have diplomatic immunity.\"\n\nIn practice, however, ambassadorial status does not put you entirely outside the boundaries of the law - unlike Joss Ackland's drug-smuggling South African consul-general in that definitive big-screen portrayal of diplomatic statecraft, Lethal Weapon 2, who waves his diplomatic passport while committing nefarious deeds.\n\nThe Vienna Convention allows host nations to declare persona non grata and expel diplomats - who, after all, are civil servants, liable to be prosecuted for serious offences in their own country.\n\nIn exceptional cases, they can be brought to justice in the host nation. After Georgian diplomat Gueorgui Makharadze, who had been drinking heavily, killed a teenager in a car crash in Washington, DC in 1997, US authorities asked Georgia to revoke his immunity. They did so, and Makharadze pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. And in November 2015 a Libyan man was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder PC Fletcher as a result of new lines of inquiry opening up following fall of the Col Muammar Gaddafi's regime.\n\nSupporters of the system say it is vital to prevent ambassadors and other embassy staff being harassed and hauled before courts on spurious grounds in an effort to prevent them doing their job. \"It's an essential tool. It protects our diplomats serving abroad,\" says Craig Barker, professor of international law at London South Bank University. He adds that it is up to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to block any diplomatic appointments that appear suspicious or to expel any who commit serious offences.\n\nA spokesman for the FCO says diplomatic immunity allows British officials to represent the UK's national interests around the world, even in hostile regimes. He adds that the system is not intended to benefit individuals personally and the Vienna Convention expects diplomats to abide by the law of their host countries. \"The UK takes a firm line with diplomatic missions whose diplomats commit offences and in the most serious cases we will demand they withdraw the individual from the country.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Philip Hammond had criticised the high court judge's decision to strip Juffali's immunity, and the FCO submitted an opinion to the Court of Appeal saying the original High Court judge had \"erred\" in doing so. The FCO did not, however, intervene in the ruling that Juffali was ineligible for immunity due to being a UK resident.\n\nThe system may be as old as statecraft itself, but the debate is likely to continue.\n\nSubscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.", "A Labour MP has been suspended while a sexual harassment claim is investigated.\n\nStephen Hepburn, who represents Jarrow, in South Tyneside, allegedly targeted a female party member in her 20s at a curry house 14 years ago, according to the HuffPost.\n\nThe Labour Party has referred a case to its ultimate disciplinary body, the National Constitutional Committee.\n\nMr Hepburn said he \"completely refutes\" the allegation.\n\nThe NCC has the power to expel people from the party or impose time-limited suspensions.\n\nMr Hepburn, who has represented Jarrow since 1997, has had his party membership suspended which means he loses the Labour whip in the Commons.\n\nHowever, he continues to sit as an independent MP.\n\nMr Heburn, 59, said he \"welcomes the investigation so that the matter can be put to rest\".\n\nIt was reported by HuffPost earlier this year that a fellow MP, who was said to be present at the time of the alleged incident, had submitted evidence to the party's investigation.\n\nA party spokesman said Labour \"takes all complaints of sexual harassment extremely seriously\" but added it could not comment on individual complaints.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson with Jennifer Arcuri at an event in 2014\n\nA move to refer Boris Johnson to the police watchdog is \"a politically motivated attack\", a senior government source has said.\n\nThe watchdog will decide whether or not to investigate the prime minister for a potential criminal offence of misconduct in public office while he was London mayor.\n\nIt is alleged businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri received favourable treatment due to her friendship with Mr Johnson.\n\nHe was referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) on Friday by the Greater London Authority's monitoring officer - whose job it is to oversee the conduct of the mayor and other members.\n\nThe allegations regarding Mr Johnson's friendship with technology entrepreneur Ms Arcuri first emerged last weekend in the Sunday Times.\n\nThey refer to claims that Ms Arcuri joined trade missions led by Mr Johnson when he was mayor of London and that her company received several thousand pounds in sponsorship grants.\n\nA senior government source said the timing of the referral, coming days before the start of the Conservative Party conference, was \"overtly political\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary Theresa Villiers said the issue had been \"blown out of all proportion\" and the complaint against Mr Johnson was \"politically motivated\".\n\nHowever, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn rejected the claim, saying the monitoring officer had made a \"wholly independent assessment\" and decided there were \"serious questions to answer\".\n\nThe GLA's monitoring officer said it had referred the PM to the IOPC \"so it can assess whether or not it is necessary to investigate the former mayor of London for the criminal offence of misconduct in public office\".\n\nIt said it had recorded a \"conduct matter\" against Mr Johnson, which happens when there is information that indicates a criminal offence may have been committed.\n\nBut it does not mean that a criminal offence is proved in any way, the monitoring officer added.\n\nThe reason the IOPC is involved is because the role of the mayor of London is also London's police and crime commissioner.\n\nThe IOPC deals with complaints against police forces in England and Wales.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Johnson setting out the referral, the monitoring officer said it related to his time as London mayor between 2008 to 2016.\n\n\"During this time it has been brought to my attention that you maintained a friendship with Ms Jennifer Arcuri and as a result of that friendship allowed Ms Arcuri to participate in trade missions and receive sponsorship monies in circumstances when she and her companies could not have expected otherwise to receive those benefits,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"Everything done in the proper way\"\n\nResponding to the referral, No 10 said: \"The prime minister, as Mayor of London, did a huge amount of work when selling our capital city around the world, beating the drum for London and the UK.\n\n\"Everything was done with propriety and in the normal way.\"\n\nA senior government source said \"no evidence of any allegations\" had been provided by the monitoring officer, nor was the prime minister given an opportunity to respond before a press release was published on Friday night.\n\n\"The public and media will rightly see through such a nakedly political put-up job,\" the source added.\n\nMs Villiers told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The Prime Minister is very clear that proprieties were observed.\"\n\n\"I do feel this is a distraction and it is people seeking to use the complaints process in a highly political way,\" the environment secretary added.\n\nMs Arcuri appearing on the BBC's Talking Business programme in 2013\n\nThe BBC has now spoken to several people who went on the overseas \"trade missions\" with Boris Johnson to Malaysia and Singapore, to New York, and to Tel Aviv.\n\nThey said that Jennifer Arcuri seemed a bit out of place on the trips, as her companies were much less substantial than those of the other participants,\n\nJennifer Arcuri was originally turned down for the trip to Malaysia and Singapore, but then re-applied using a different company and was accepted.\n\nShe was told her companies were not relevant for the trip to New York, but she went under her own steam and was allowed into some of the events.\n\nShe was also turned down for the Tel Aviv trip, but Boris Johnson's office intervened and she was allowed to join the trade mission. She paid for her own flight, and although the organisers of the trip, London & Partners, booked a hotel for her, she settled the bill.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Johnson denied any wrongdoing, telling the BBC: \"All I can say is I am very proud of what we did as mayor of London... particularly banging the drum for our city and country around the world.\"\n\nHe added: \"I can tell you that absolutely everything was done entirely in the proper way.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said he would comply with an order from the London Assembly to explain his links to Ms Arcuri.\n\nSeparately, a junior minister, Matt Warman, has said the government has launched a \"review\" of the £100,000 award made in February this year to Ms Arcuri's training company Hacker House.\n\nBut he insisted it had been an \"open, transparent and competitive process\".", "Boris Johnson has outlined his plan to the European Union (EU) to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said the plan \"removes the so-called backstop\".\n\nThe backstop is the insurance policy negotiated by Theresa May and the EU. It is designed to avoid any physical border infrastructure, which it is feared would bring back memories of the Troubles, after Brexit.\n\nIt would keep the UK in the same customs territory as the EU, and Northern Ireland closely tied to EU regulations - until the UK and the EU reach a trade deal.\n\nBut it would stop the UK striking its own trade deals, which is why so many Conservative MPs, including Mr Johnson, oppose the backstop.\n\nSo, what is his alternative?\n\nThe government wants the UK to leave the EU customs union. This would mean Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland ending up in two different customs territories.\n\nThis means lorries entering the Republic of Ireland from Northern Ireland will need to complete customs declarations. This is to ensure the correct tariffs (tax on imports) are paid when UK goods enter the EU customs union.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: From the beginning the EU has struggled to see how Ireland and Northern Ireland can exist in different customs territories while keeping the border as open as it is now under all circumstances. They will argue that - in the absence of a future free trade deal - this proposal means the UK is breaking commitments it has made about the border. The UK counters that the backstop has already been rejected in Parliament three times, and something needs to change.\n\nInstead of installing customs posts and other physical infrastructure at the Irish border, the UK says declarations should be done electronically.\n\nThe government says physical checks would still be needed \"on a very small proportion of movements\". Currently, about one in 100 consignments entering the EU customs union are inspected to check that the goods match the information on the declaration.\n\nThese inspections could be carried out at warehouses or \"designated locations, which could be located anywhere in Ireland or Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThe government's proposal does not spell out what these \"designated locations\" would look like, but it adds there should be \"a firm commitment (by both parties) never to conduct checks at the border in future\".\n\nIf adopted, a border solution relying on technology and remote checks would be a first. The EU does not currently share a single border with a non-EU country where checks have been completely eliminated.\n\nThat includes Norway (not in the EU) and Sweden (an EU member) - which share one of the most technologically advanced borders in the world. Their main crossing point processes about 1,300 lorries a day, with each waiting 20 minutes on average.\n\nThe EU has previously rejected a customs solution that relies on technology.\n\nBack in January, Sabine Weyand, the EU's director-general for trade, said: \"We looked at every border on this Earth, every border the EU has with a third country - there's simply no way you can do away with checks and controls.\"\n\nThe government says that some small traders should be exempt from paying duty. However, the document does not address smuggling head on. In other words, what will be done to detect and prevent traders, who should be paying duty, from crossing the border without completing custom declarations first?\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The EU will see much of this as a rehash of previous ideas that it doesn't think will work. And many people will worry that unspecified \"designated locations\" could become targets for anyone seeking to undermine the Northern Ireland peace process. The EU will push back hard against suggestions that it needs to revise its own customs rules to suit the UK.\n\nWhen it comes to the regulation of goods, Northern Ireland would keep to the rules of the EU's single market, rather than UK rules.\n\nThat removes the need for product standard and safety checks on goods at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, because both will be part of an \"all-island regulatory zone\".\n\nBut it creates the need for checks between the rest of the UK - which will not be sticking to EU single market rules - and Northern Ireland..\n\nAll agricultural, food or animal products entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK will have to go through a Border Inspection Post. That's a bit of infrastructure where goods can be physically examined and paperwork checked.\n\nManufactured goods in Northern Ireland would also have to keep to EU rules, and these goods would be checked \"at the boundary of the zone\" - presumably at crossings between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, on the Irish Sea.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: This is quite a big concession from the UK side - basically accepting that there would have to be quite intrusive checks between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK for a number of years, on things like product standards and food safety. The EU has always said there have to be checks carried out somewhere, and both sides will try to deny any suggestion that this amounts to a new border in the Irish Sea.\n\nHaving Northern Ireland following EU rules for the production of goods over which it has no say is, as the document says, \"a significant democratic problem\".\n\nAs a result, it is proposed that the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive will have to sign off on the plan before it takes effect.\n\nThe Northern Irish institutions will be asked to approve the plan again every four years, and if they do not then Northern Ireland would stop following EU rules one year later.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly has not met since early 2017.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The issue of democratic legitimacy is a crucial one, but it cannot be applied unevenly. The EU is likely to have a problem with anything which suggests that only Northern Ireland could have - in effect - a veto on this plan. The point of the backstop was to provide a legal guarantee to keep an open border under all circumstances. Being subject to approval every four years simply isn't the same thing. If Northern Ireland voted to leave this arrangement things like checks on food safety would have to take place at the Irish border.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"Everything done in the proper way\"\n\nBoris Johnson has been given 14 days to give details of his relationship with a US businesswoman, following claims he failed to declare a potential conflict of interest when he was London mayor.\n\nA committee that scrutinises the mayor's spending has asked for details \"of all contact\" with Jennifer Arcuri.\n\nThe Sunday Times said Ms Arcuri joined trade missions he led and received thousands in sponsorship grants.\n\nMr Johnson has said everything was done \"entirely in the proper way\".\n\nMs Arcuri told the paper any grants she received and any trade missions she joined were \"were purely in respect of my role as a legitimate businesswoman\".\n\nIn a letter addressed to Mr Johnson and dated 23 September, Len Duvall, chairman of the London Assembly GLA (Greater London Assembly) Oversight Committee, said he wanted the \"details and a timeline of all contact\" with Ms Arcuri \"including social, personal and professional during his period of office as Mayor of London\".\n\nHe also asked for \"an explanation of how that alleged personal relationship was disclosed and taken into account in any and all dealings with the GLA\".\n\nThe committee has the legal power to summon Mr Johnson to appear before it for questioning and has done once before - when it quizzed him over the failed Garden Bridge project in 2018.\n\nBoris Johnson with Jennifer Arcuri at an event in 2014\n\nOn Monday evening, when asked about the allegations, Mr Johnson told the BBC's John Pienaar: \"All I can say is I am very proud of what we did as Mayor of London... particularly banging the drum for our city and country around the world.\"\n\nHe added: \"I can tell you that absolutely everything was done entirely in the proper way.\"\n\nTechnology entrepreneur Ms Arcuri is believed to have moved to London seven years ago, when Mr Johnson was mayor.\n\nShe joined a number of trade missions led by him while in office, and it is understood she attended events on two of these trips - to New York and Tel Aviv - despite not officially qualifying for them as a delegate.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported that one of her businesses received £10,000 and £1,500 in sponsorship money from a mayoral organisation when Mr Johnson was mayor, as well as a £15,000 government grant for foreign entrepreneurs to build businesses in Britain.\n\nThe newspaper also said Ms Arcuri received a £100,000 grant from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport earlier this year.\n\nThe grant was intended for \"English-based\" businesses - although she had moved back to the US in June 2018.\n\nThe Sunday Times said it had found the registered address on the grant application form was a rented house in the UK and no longer connected to her.\n\nThe government has confirmed to the BBC it is investigating, but said the funds were awarded to a UK-registered company.\n\nThe woman at the centre of this story is Jennifer Arcuri, who describes herself on Twitter as an entrepreneur, cyber security expert and producer.\n\nShe began her career as a DJ on Radio Disney, before moving into film - where she wrote, produced and directed a short film that went on to be sold at Cannes Film Festival.\n\nMs Arcuri then brought in her tech skills to create a streaming platform for independent film makers.\n\nBut it was her founding of The Innotech Network in London that saw her path cross with Boris Johnson.\n\nThe network hosts events to discuss tech policy, and Mr Johnson was the keynote speaker at the first of those in 2012.\n\nSince then, Ms Arcuri has also founded another company called Hacker House, which uses ethical hackers to find tech solutions for businesses.", "Portugal's Prime Minister Antonio Costa has won re-election, however he has no outright majority in parliament.\n\nWith over half of the votes counted so far, his Socialist party led with 36.7% and will have to form a minority government.\n\nMr Costa said he was delighted with the result and added that voters had shown they wanted stability.\n\nThe party's rival, the centre-right Social Democratic Party, has come in second place.\n\nMr Costa said Portuguese voters had shown they wanted his party to continue its pact with two far-left parties - the Left Bloc and the Communists.\n\nHe said he would govern with determination and responsibility.\n\nHe also mentioned negotiations with the People-Animals-Nature party (PAN) party, Reuters reported.\n\nWhile the far left has been calling for more investment in public services, Mr. Costa is expected to renew his commitment to stick to euro-zone budget rules.\n\nNearly 11 million people are registered to vote in the race for control of Portugal's 230-seat parliament.\n\nThe Socialists' popularity had been hit by a string of scandals, including accusations of nepotism and a suspected cover-up of weapons theft at a military base.\n\nIn 2015 the Social Democrats (PSD) won the most votes, but the Socialist Party came to power after reaching formal agreements with smaller left-wing parties.\n\nSince then the country's economy has grown above the EU average. Cuts to public sector wages and pensions have been reversed.", "Roll over Jupiter, Saturn is the new moon king\n\nSaturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with the most moons, according to US researchers.\n\nA team discovered a haul of 20 new moons orbiting the ringed planet, bringing its total to 82; Jupiter, by contrast, has 79 natural satellites.\n\nThe moons were discovered using the Subaru telescope on Maunakea, Hawaii.\n\nEach of the newly discovered objects in orbit around Saturn is about 5km (three miles) in diameter; 17 of them orbit the planet \"backwards\".\n\nThis is known as a retrograde direction. The other three moons orbit in a prograde direction - the same direction as Saturn rotates.\n\nTwo of the prograde moons take about two years to travel once around the ringed planet.\n\nThe more-distant retrograde moons and one of the prograde moons each take more than three years to complete an orbit.\n\n\"Studying the orbits of these moons can reveal their origins, as well as information about the conditions surrounding Saturn at the time of its formation,\" said Dr Scott Sheppard, from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC, who led the team.\n\nDr Sheppard told BBC News that Jupiter had been the planet with most known moons since the late 1990s.\n\nThe outer moons in the new haul appear to be grouped into three distinct clusters, based on the inclinations of the angles at which they orbit the planet.\n\nScientists think the retrograde and prograde moons are the broken up remnants of at least three larger bodies. These bigger objects were smashed up by collisions, either between distinct moons or with outside objects such as passing asteroids.\n\nOne of the newly discovered retrograde objects is the furthest known saturnian satellite.\n\n\"These moons have fairly inclined orbits to Saturn and are pretty far out, so we don't think they formed with the planet, we think they were captured by the planet in the past. If an asteroid happens to be passing by, you can't capture it today because you can't dissipate its energy,\" Dr Sheppard told BBC News.\n\nHowever, in the Solar System's youth, when Saturn was in the process of forming, a cloud, or \"disc\", of dust and gas surrounded the planet. This helped dissipate the energy of passing objects. But in most cases, these bodies ended up spiralling into the planet and becoming part of it.\n\nThe observations that led to the discovery were made with the Subaru telescope\n\n\"We think these moons interacted with that gas and dust. These were comets or asteroids that happened to be passing by,\" Dr Sheppard explained.\n\n\"Most objects would spiral into the planet and help form the planet itself. But we think these objects were captured right when the gas and dust started dissipating. So they were captured into orbits around the planet rather than falling into the planet. We think these are the last remnants of what formed [Saturn].\"\n\nThe finds were made by applying new computing algorithms to data gathered between 2004 and 2007 with the Subaru telescope. These algorithms were able to fit orbits to potential moons identified in the old data.\n\n\"We thought they were moons of Saturn, but we weren't able to get full orbits to determine this,\" said Dr Sheppard.\n\n\"By using this new computer power, I was able to link these 20 objects that we thought were moons to officially find orbits for them.\"\n\nThe original observing team included Dr Sheppard, David Jewitt of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Jan Kleyna of the University of Hawaii.\n\nDr Sheppard said more moons were probably waiting to be found around Saturn. But astronomers would need larger telescopes - such as those set to come online in coming decades - to discover these smaller satellites of around 1km in size.\n\nThe team has initiated a contest to name the moons. They have to be named after giants from Norse, Gallic or Inuit mythology, corresponding to the three different clusters.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: 'Everything has been done with full propriety'\n\nBoris Johnson says there was \"no interest to declare\" regarding links with US businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri.\n\nIt is alleged Ms Arcuri received favourable treatment due to her friendship with Mr Johnson.\n\nThe police watchdog are deciding whether to investigate the prime minister for a potential criminal offence of misconduct in public office while he was London mayor.\n\nMr Johnson said everything had been done \"with full propriety\".\n\nThe allegations, first reported in the Sunday Times, claim Ms Arcuri joined trade missions led by Mr Johnson when he was mayor of London and that her company received several thousand pounds in sponsorship grants.\n\nThe paper has also reported Ms Arcuri told four friends that she had an affair with Mr Johnson while he was mayor of London.\n\nOn Friday, the Greater London Authority's monitoring officer referred the prime minister to the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) - whose job it is to oversee the conduct of the mayor and other members of the GLA.\n\nAsked on the Andrew Marr show if he had declared any interest, Mr Johnson said \"there was no interest to declare\".\n\n\"I was proud of everything I did as mayor of London,\" he added.\n\nHe also attacked Sadiq Khan, the current mayor of London, saying the Labour politician \"could possibly spend more time investing in police officers than he is investing in press officers and peddling this kind of stuff\".\n\nMr Johnson added that someone in his position \"expects a lot of shot and shell\".\n\nThe woman at the centre of this story is Jennifer Arcuri, who describes herself on Twitter as an entrepreneur, cyber security expert and producer.\n\nShe began her career as a DJ on Radio Disney, before moving into film - where she wrote, produced and directed a short film that went on to be sold at Cannes Film Festival.\n\nMs Arcuri then brought in her tech skills to create a streaming platform for independent film makers.\n\nBut it was her founding of The Innotech Network in London that saw her path cross with Boris Johnson.\n\nThe network hosts events to discuss tech policy, and Mr Johnson was the keynote speaker at the first of those in 2012.\n\nSince then, Ms Arcuri has also founded another company called Hacker House, which uses ethical hackers to find tech solutions for businesses.\n\nSpeaking on Sky News, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the prime minister did not have questions to answer regarding alleged links with the US businesswoman.\n\n\"Any monies involved went through proper due process - this was a long time ago.\n\n\"Of course, in politics, there is always squalls and there are always debates about individuals.\"\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the GLA's monitoring officer had made a \"wholly independent assessment\" and decided there were \"serious questions to answer\".\n\nIn a letter to Mr Johnson, the monitoring officer set out their reasons for referring the matter to the police watchdog.\n\n\"During this time [2008 - 2016] it has been brought to my attention that you maintained a friendship with Ms Jennifer Arcuri and as a result of that friendship allowed Ms Arcuri to participate in trade missions and receive sponsorship monies in circumstances when she and her companies could not have expected otherwise to receive those benefits,\" it said.\n\nThe monitoring officer said it had referred the PM to the IOPC \"so it can assess whether or not it is necessary to investigate the former mayor of London for the criminal offence of misconduct in public office\".\n\nIt said it had recorded a \"conduct matter\" against Mr Johnson, which happens when there is information that indicates a criminal offence may have been committed.\n\nBut it does not mean that a criminal offence is proved in any way, the monitoring officer added.", "Deepfake videos typically involve computer-generated images of a subject's face created via analysis of thousands of still images of the person\n\nNew research shows an alarming surge in the creation of so-called deepfake videos, with the number online almost doubling in the last nine months. There is also evidence that production of these videos is becoming a lucrative business.\n\nAnd while much of the concern about deepfakes has centred on their use for political purposes, the evidence is that pornography accounts for the overwhelming majority of the clips.\n\nThe research comes from cyber-security company Deeptrace. Its researchers found 14,698 deepfake videos online, compared with 7,964 in December 2018.\n\nThey said 96% were pornographic in nature, often with a computer-generated face of a celebrity replacing that of the original adult actor in a scene of sexual activity.\n\nWhile many of the subjects featured were American and British actresses, the researchers found that South Korean K-Pop singers were also commonly inserted into fake videos, highlighting that this is a global phenomenon.\n\nThe report does highlight the potential for the use of deepfake technology to be used in political campaigns. But in the two cases it highlights - in Gabon and Malaysia - the allegations that faked videos had been used turned out to be incorrect.\n\nWhat seems clear, though, is that the real danger at the moment is the use of the technology in revenge porn and cyber-bullying.\n\nHenry Ajder, head of research analysis at Deeptrace, says too much of the discussion of deepfakes misses the mark.\n\n\"The debate is all about the politics or fraud and a near-term threat, but a lot of people are forgetting that deepfake pornography is a very real, very current phenomenon that is harming a lot of women,\" he explains.\n\nDeeptrace's very existence is evidence of how rapidly the deepfake phenomenon has become a concern for corporations and governments.\n\nIt describes its mission as protecting \"individuals and organisations from the damaging impacts of AI- generated synthetic media\".\n\nThe term deepfake was first coined in a Reddit post in 2017, and this report explains that in just two years a whole industry has emerged to profit from this phenomenon.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDeeptrace found that the four leading deepfake-themed pornography websites, supported by advertising, had attracted 134 million views for their videos since February 2018.\n\nApps making it possible to create this material are now proliferating.\n\nOne that allowed users to synthetically remove the clothes from still images of women charged $50 (£40) for removing a watermark from each finished product.\n\nVisits to the app's website surged after a critical article was written about it, and the owners took it down.\n\nBut the software is still out there, repackaged by others seeking to profit from it.\n\nOne independent expert highlighted that other software has also made it much easier to create fake videos than before.\n\n\"It's now become possible to create a passable deepfake with only a small amount of input material - the algorithms need smaller and smaller amounts of video or picture footage to train on,\" explained Katja Bego, principal researcher at innovation foundation Nesta.\n\n\"As the technology is advancing so rapidly, it is important for policymakers to think now about possible responses. This means looking at developing detection tools and raising public awareness, but also [to] consider the underlying social and political dynamics that make deepfakes potentially so dangerous.\"\n\nThe authors of the Deeptrace report also describe service portals - online businesses generating and selling deepfake videos.\n\nOne such portal required 250 photos of the target subject and two days of processing to generate a video. Deeptrace says the prices charged vary but can be as little as $2.99 per video.\n\nAnother report earlier this year by the Witness Media Lab, a collaboration between a human-rights organisation and Google, found that creating deepfake videos still requires some skill - but that is changing quickly.\n\nThe report says right now simulating actual faces completely realistically still involves a significant team of people with specialised skills and technology.\n\nBut the lengthy process is being automated, allowing people without that specialist knowledge to make videos that may be less sophisticated but can be generated much faster.\n\nLooking at videos flagged with the deepfake hashtag on YouTube, there are some impressive examples of how the technology is being used by professional teams.\n\nOne video where The Shining suddenly features Jim Carrey in the Jack Nicholson role, is made by an artist called Ctrl Shift Face.\n\nThe anonymous creator helpfully warns on his channel: \"Do not believe everything that you see on the internet, OK?\"\n\nCtrl Shift Face's aim is to entertain rather than deceive. But there are obviously fears that such fakery could be used to sway an election campaign or whip up hatred against a particular group.\n\nSo far, however, there appear to be few, if any, instances of deepfakes succeeding in fooling people for malevolent purposes.\n\nNow, as a business set up to protect organisations from this phenomenon, it could be in the interests of Deeptrace to hype this threat. And Ms Bego questioned whether deepfake-detection technology is the right approach.\n\n\"A viral video can reach an audience of millions and make headlines within a matter of hours,\" she explained.\n\n\"A technological arbiter telling us the video was doctored after the fact might simply be too little too late.\"\n\nIn any case, it appears that in the short term the real victims of malicious users of deepfake videos will not be governments and corporations but individuals, most of them women.\n\nIt is unlikely that they will be able to afford to hire specialists to combat their abusers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lydia Lawrence has been stabbed twice but now helps others to avoid the dangers of knife crime\n\nThe rate of knife attacks in some regional towns and cities is higher than in many London boroughs, BBC analysis of police figures suggests.\n\nOverall, London remains the most dangerous part of England and Wales - but data, obtained from 34 of the 43 police forces, shows the rate of serious knife crime offences rising sharply in some areas outside London, and outstripping some of the city's boroughs in places like the city of Manchester, Slough, Liverpool and Blackpool.\n\n\"We are suffering just as much as anywhere else,\" said Byron Highton whose brother Jon-Jo was 18 when he was stabbed to death with a sword and an axe as he walked home in Preston, in 2014.\n\n\"The whole country is suffering from knife crime, but small cities in the north like Preston get no mention.\"\n\nUnder Freedom of Information Law, the BBC asked all 43 regional police forces in England and Wales for details of serious knife crime in their area.\n\nSerious knife crime is defined as any assault, robbery, threat to kill, murder, attempted murder or sexual offence involving a knife or sharp instrument.\n\nIn Lancashire, the figures show knife crime has doubled in five years, rising from 455 offences in 2014, to 981 in 2018.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nJon-Jo had survived a previous attack the year before when he was stabbed 24 times with a machete.\n\nByron, who has suffered from depression since witnessing one of the attacks, now works for Safety Guide Foundation, giving knife crime talks in schools across north-west England.\n\n\"Young people have a lack of respect for life,\" he said.\n\n\"The scary part is how bad is it going to be in 10 years if this generation isn't fixed.\"\n\nByron Highton witnessed one of the attacks on his brother\n\nManchester, Liverpool, Slough and Nottingham are all in the top 25 most dangerous places in England and Wales for serious knife crime.\n\nThe safest areas with less than one crime per 10,000 people include Dorset, the Cotswolds, Monmouthshire and the Malvern.\n\nIn Scotland, police collect crime statistics differently, so there are no separate records for knife attacks. However, knife possession has increased in recent years, with more than 2,300 crimes reported last year.\n\nIt's not just young men who are affected. In Blackpool, students Keeley, 17, and Lauren, 18, have both been threatened on the estate where they live, with knives brandished in relatively trivial teenage disagreements.\n\n\"I got threatened with a machete in a park by a group of lads when I was playing football,\" Keeley said.\n\n\"They wanted to play in our half, but we said no.\"\n\nStudents Lauren (l) and Keeley have both been threatened with stabbing near their homes\n\nLauren says she doesn't feel safe in the town: \"Me and my mate were walking home and a guy came out and threatened to stab one of my mates.\"\n\nIn 2018, the resort had 14.3 serious knife crime offences per 10,000 people, putting it in the top 25 most dangerous places for knife crime in England and Wales, of the 275 areas which gave data.\n\nDrugs gangs, school exclusion rates, poverty, unemployment and cuts to services have all been blamed for a rise in youth violence in towns like Blackpool and Preston.\n\nLast month, official figures showed eight of the 10 most deprived neighbourhoods in England were in Blackpool.\n\n\"There is a significant issue with county lines [drugs courier] gangs in Blackpool, and from that we are seeing that means a lot of young people are carrying knives,\" Ashley Hackett, chief executive of Blackpool Football Club Community Trust , told the BBC.\n\n\"We have an awful lot of children and teenagers who are living in deprivation and whatever way they can find to earn money and support households, legally and illegally, they are doing it. That includes drugs and knives,\" he added.\n\nIn 2018, almost half of all suspects in serious knife crime offences in England and Wales, were aged 24 and under.\n\nThe experiences of young women like Keeley and Lauren are becoming more commonplace.\n\nLast year, 15% of knife crime suspects were female and, including those attacked in domestic abuse incidents, a quarter of victims of knife crime were women.\n\nDr Mike Rowe of Liverpool University, who has been observing police officers at work for the past six years, told the BBC: \"Girls and young women are being exploited to carry weapons because they are much less likely to be stopped and searched by police.\n\n\"The attention on male suspects may lead to the deliberate recruitment of young women.\"\n\nAnti-knife crime campaigner Lydia Lawrence, who has herself survived two stabbings by two different women, agrees that gang violence is on the rise, and girls with low self-esteem are being emotionally exploited.\n\nMs Lawrence, who's from west London, was first a victim of knife crime aged just 12, when she was cut on her face.\n\nShe nearly died when she was 21, after being stabbed through her kidney and liver.\n\nMs Lawrence, who was born in prison, excluded from school at 12 and homeless by 16, warned that girls from troubled backgrounds and broken homes are the most at risk.\n\nDr Rowe believes police responses to knife crime have been \"seriously hampered by the cuts in the past eight years and more\", contributing to a fall in the number of cases solved.\n\nHe said that every time there is a stabbing, officers are pulled from neighbourhood teams to guard the scene as forensics are gathered.\n\n\"It's these neighbourhood teams that would normally be expected to gather the intelligence which investigations of knife crime and gang activity rely on.\n\n\"So there is a vicious cycle in which rising demands hinder the capacity to investigate those very crimes.\"\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Jackie Sebire, the national lead in tackling serious violent crime at the National Police Chiefs' Council, blamed police funding cuts for the fall in charge rates.\n\n\"The large reduction in police funding since 2010 has meant fewer detectives with less time and a bigger workload taking on long investigations, meaning it can be more difficult to get a charge.\n\n\"In some cases police have fearful witnesses, and victims who do not feel able to engage with officers or the court process.\n\n\"This means there is little possibility of a prosecution.\n\n\"Some forces who have been given additional funding to tackle violence are using that to improve forensic capabilities, so even when the victim is unwilling to proceed, police can still progress a case.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesperson responded: \"We are taking action to tackle the violent crime which has such a devastating impact on our communities.\n\n\"This includes supporting the police by recruiting 20,000 new police officers over the next three years, making it easier for them to use stop and search powers, and investing £10m in additional funding to allow forces to increase the number of officers carrying Tasers.\"", "Roger Jenkins was chairman of investment banking in the Middle East\n\nThree former top Barclays executives are due in court on Monday charged with fraud linked to how the bank raised billions of pounds from Qatar in 2008.\n\nThe Serious Fraud Office (SFO) case centres on alleged undisclosed payments to Qatar in return for cash that helped the bank during the financial crisis.\n\nFormer Barclays chief executive John Varley, their co-defendant in a previous trial, was acquitted in June.\n\nThe SFO's criminal proceedings against the bank itself were also dismissed by a court last year. Mr Varley and Barclays had each denied wrongdoing.\n\nMr Jenkins, 64, was the chairman of investment banking in the Middle East, while Mr Kalaris, 63, headed the wealth division and Mr Boath, 60, led the European corporate finance arm.\n\nThe trio is each charged with conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation and fraud by false representation.\n\nThe case centres on claims of secret payments to Qatar as part of a deal to raise more than £11bn ($13.6bn) from investors in two tranches in June and October 2008.\n\nIt is claimed that these multi-million pound payments to investors, including to the then prime minister of the Gulf state, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani, were not property disclosed to the markets.\n\nThe cash injection from Qatar helped Barclays avoid the government bailout fate of High Street rivals, including Royal Bank of Scotland.\n\nThe defendants were charged in 2017 after the SFO spent years investigating the allegations. The trial is regarded as a high stakes case for the SFO, which has been accused of failing to pursue companies and individuals over their part in the financial crisis.\n\nThe charges against Mr Jenkins relate to his involvement in the June and October Qatar fundraisings. The cases of the two other men relate to the June fundraising only.\n\nMonday's Old Bailey trial will start with jury selection, and the case is expected to last several months.", "Pizza Express has reportedly hired financial advisers ahead of a meeting with lenders to review its debt situation.\n\nThe 470-store chain made losses for the last two years as its operating profits were more than offset by high interest payments on its £1.1bn debt pile.\n\nSales in the UK and in its 150 overseas restaurants both fell last year.\n\nFounded in 1965, Pizza Express employs 14,000 people and is now owned by Chinese private investment firm Hony.\n\nThe Chinese company bought it from UK private equity firm Cinven in 2014. Few companies emerge from private equity deals without being laden with borrowing.\n\nInterestingly, Pizza Express uses exactly the same font and layout for its financial statements as it does for its menus. Unlike the menu, however, there are some quite unappetising items in its financials.\n\nMost off-putting of all, of course, is the enormous debt number. The interest on that £1.1bn is costing the company £93m a year, which wiped out all its operating profit last year - and then some.\n\nIn fact, the debt payments have pushed Pizza Express into the red for the last two years with a loss of £55m last year alone.\n\nThe frustrating thing for the business is that it is making a reasonable amount of cash. It's for that reason, its auditors were happy to conclude the chain is a viable going concern when it signed off its accounts in April this year despite the company's debts being worth more than its assets.\n\nTo be clear, Pizza Express is not in imminent danger of going bust. It has until 2021 before it needs to start paying back £600m to its outside creditors. (The other £500m is a loan from its Chinese owners).\n\nBut debt is a serial company killer - just ask Carillion or Thomas Cook. It can suffocate a company, so the earlier you try and address the issue the better.\n\nBonds in Pizza Express are selling for 84p for every £1 worth of loan. That means that investors do not think those lenders will get all their money back.\n\nThe casual dining sector is littered with names which have been through some sort of insolvency process. Prezzo, Byron, Carluccio's needed to close stores and ask creditors to agree to rent reductions, while Jamie's Italian went bust.\n\nIf Pizza Express is going to last another 50 years some sort of debt restructuring looks inevitable. Getting it done in a brutal high street environment will not be straightforward.\n• None What went wrong at Jamie's Italian?", "The former Maoist rebel denies the allegations\n\nPolice in Nepal have arrested the former speaker of parliament, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, after a female member of staff accused him of rape.\n\nThe arrest came after a court in the capital Kathmandu issued a warrant against Mr Mahara, who resigned from his post on Tuesday.\n\nThe former Maoist rebel denies the rape allegations.\n\nThe woman accused him of drunkenly assaulting her at her apartment the previous Sunday.\n\nShe said the politician arrived intoxicated at her home before assaulting her, according to Reuters.\n\n\"I had not thought it would come to this. He forced himself (on me)... he left after I said I will call the police,\" she said in an interview on local media cited by the news agency.\n\nMr Mahara was the chief negotiator for the Maoists during the peace talks that ended Nepal's decade-long civil war in 2006.\n\nHe was elected speaker after an alliance of the rebels and moderate communists won a landslide victory in the 2017 national elections.\n\nHe resigned from his post on Tuesday, saying he wanted to \"facilitate a fair probe into the allegations raising serious questions about my character\".\n\nThe governing Nepal Communist Party had also asked him to step down in light of the allegations and amid growing protest against him on social media.\n\nIt's rare in Nepal for such a senior politician to be arrested on allegations of sexual assault.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry's mother, Charlotte Charles, and father, Tim Dunn plea for the return of fatal crash suspect\n\nA chief constable has written to the US Embassy in London demanding the return of an American diplomat's wife who is a suspect in a fatal crash inquiry.\n\nHarry Dunn, 19, died when his motorbike collided with a car near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nThe diplomat's wife, named as Anne Sacoolas, left the UK despite telling police she did not plan to.\n\nNick Adderley, of Northamptonshire Police, has urged the embassy to waive her diplomatic immunity.\n\nHe said he had appealed to US authorities \"in the strongest terms\".\n\nMr Dunn's mother, Charlotte Charles, said leaving the country was \"such a dishonourable thing to do\" and urged Ms Sacoolas to \"come back\". His father, Tim Dunn, said they needed to get the truth.\n\nMs Charles added: \"We are not out to get her put behind bars. If that's what the justice system ends up doing then we can't stop that but we're not out to do that, we're out to try and get some peace for ourselves.\"\n\nThe US Embassy previously said \"security and privacy considerations\" precluded it from naming the suspect.\n\nThe teenager, from Charlton, Banbury, died in hospital after his motorbike crashed with a Volvo\n\nOn Saturday the US State Department said diplomatic immunity was \"rarely waived\" but Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab urged the US Embassy to reconsider.\n\nUnder the 1961 Vienna Convention, diplomats and their family members are immune from prosecution in their host country, so long as they are not nationals of that country. However, their immunity can be waived by the state that has sent them.\n\nMr Adderley was asked on Twitter whether Ms Sacoolas was lawfully entitled to claim diplomatic immunity.\n\nHe replied: \"The short answer is yes,\" adding that both he and Northamptonshire Police and Crime Commissioner Stephen Mold had written to the US Embassy, urging that the waiver be applied \"in order to allow the justice process to take place\".\n\nThe crash happened on the B4031 near RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire\n\nThe US State Department said on Saturday that the incident involved \"a vehicle driven by the spouse of a US diplomat assigned to the United Kingdom\".\n\nPolice said the suspect had \"engaged fully\" following the crash near RAF Croughton, a US Air Force communications station, and said \"she had no plans to leave the country in the near future\".\n\nThe US State Department has said it is in \"close consultation\" with British officials and has offered its \"deepest sympathies\" to the family of Mr Dunn.\n\n\"Any questions regarding a waiver of immunity with regard to our diplomats and their family members overseas in a case like this receive intense attention at senior levels and are considered carefully given the global impact such decisions carry; immunity is rarely waived,\" it added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson responds to the US diplomatic immunity row\n\nThe prime minister has urged the US to reconsider giving a diplomat's wife immunity after she left the UK despite being a suspect in a fatal crash.\n\nAnne Sacoolas is wanted by police over the death of motorcyclist Harry Dunn, 19, in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nThe US State Department said diplomatic immunity was \"rarely waived\".\n\nBoris Johnson said the UK was speaking to the US ambassador and \"if we can't resolve it then... I will be raising it myself with the White House\".\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who has already urged the US Embassy to reconsider, raised Mr Dunn's case in a conversation with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo earlier.\n\nA spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said Mr Raab \"reiterated his disappointment with the US decision and urged them to reconsider\".\n\nUnder the 1961 Vienna Convention, diplomats and their family members are immune from prosecution in their host country, as long as they are not nationals of that country. However, their immunity can be waived by the state that has sent them.\n\nMs Sacoolas left the UK despite telling police she had no such plans.\n\nHarry Dunn, 19, died in hospital after his motorbike was in a crash with a Volvo\n\nSpeaking during a visit to a hospital in Watford, Mr Johnson said: \"I think everybody's sympathies are very much with the family of Harry Dunn and our condolences to them for their tragic loss.\n\n\"I must answer you directly, I do not think that it can be right to use the process of diplomatic immunity for this type of purpose.\n\n\"And I hope that Anne Sacoolas will come back and will engage properly with the processes of law as they are carried out in this country.\n\n\"That's a point that we've raised or are raising today with the American ambassador here in the UK and I hope it will be resolved very shortly.\n\n\"And to anticipate a question you might want to raise, if we can't resolve it then of course I will be raising it myself personally with the White House.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Dunn crash: Family 'will travel to US to fight for change'\n\nBoth Northamptonshire's chief constable and police and crime commissioner have already urged the Americans to waive Ms Sacoolas's diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn died in hospital shortly after his Kawasaki motorcycle was involved in a crash with a Volvo XC90 at about 20:30 BST near the RAF base at Croughton.\n\nChief constable Nick Adderley said based on CCTV evidence, officers knew that on the night of the crash a vehicle had left the base \"on the wrong side of the road\".\n\nSupt Sarah Johnson said the police were collecting evidence with support from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the RAF base and the Dunn family.\n\n\"We're going to make sure that we deal with it [the investigation] in a way that we can take it through to prosecution,\" she said.\n\nThe appeal from Boris Johnson will undoubtedly be heard at the White House.\n\nBut I think it's unlikely the Americans will change their minds. It happens on a reasonably regular basis around the world that diplomats get into serious situations and don't face the law.\n\nWe understand the diplomat and his wife had only been in Britain for three weeks. On the face of it that sounds like something that has been brought to a premature end, presumably in connection with what happened.\n\nI think the slightly distasteful thing is that apparently Ms Sacoolas promised to stay and co-operate but then left. But we don't know the circumstances around that because we haven't heard her side of the story.\n\nThe crash happened on the B4031 near RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire, in August\n\nMr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles said it was \"such a dishonourable thing to do\" for Ms Sacoolas to leave the country and urged her to come back.\n\nMs Charles told BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme: \"[It was] unintentional. She didn't purposely drive on the other side of the road... if she'd have stayed and faced us as a family we could have found that forgiveness... but forgiving her for leaving, I'm nowhere near.\"\n\nShe has previously said that if the diplomatic waiver was declined then she would travel to see President Donald Trump and \"ask him directly\".\n\nThe US State Department said it was in \"close consultation\" with British officials and has offered its \"deepest sympathies\" to the family of Mr Dunn.\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. Listen to William, Harry, Meghan and Kate in the advert\n\nA mental health website struggled to cope with demand after a promotional video voiced by the dukes and duchesses of Cambridge and Sussex aired on TV.\n\nThe film screened on Sky, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and MTV on Monday evening.\n\nThe Every Mind Matters website for a time was intermittently showing the message: \"Something went wrong. Please refresh or try again later\"\n\nPublic Health England said the crash may have been due to a surge in traffic but the website was now working.\n\nVisitors to the website were greeted with an error message\n\nThe three-minute film is intended to promote Every Mind Matters, an initiative by Public Health England (PHE) and the NHS, to help people look after their mental health and support others.\n\nThe website went down for a short period within minutes of the advert being broadcast.\n\nA PHE spokeswoman said: \"We think it was due to high traffic. We had technicians working on it immediately and we're back up and running now.\"\n\nThe film is narrated by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who in May launched a text messaging service for people experiencing a mental health crisis through their royal foundation.\n\nIn the film, written by Richard Curtis and directed by Rankin, Prince William begins: \"Everyone knows that feeling, when life gets on top of us.\n\n\"All over the country, millions of us face challenges to our mental health - at all ages - at all intensities, and for all sorts of reasons.\n\n\"We feel stressed, low, anxious, or have trouble sleeping. Me, you...\"\n\nPrince Harry continues: \"Your brother, your mother, your colleague, or your neighbour. Waiting, wondering, hoping, hurting.\n\n\"We think there's nothing to be done. Nothing we can do about it.\"\n\nMeghan then says: \"But that's so wrong. There are things we can do. From today, there's a new way to help turn things around. Every Mind Matters will show you simple ways to look after your mental health.\"\n\nThe Sussexes and Cambridges previously had a joint charity called the Royal Foundation\n\nCatherine continues: \"It'll get you started with a free online plan designed to help you deal with stress, boost your mood, improve your sleep and feel more in control.\"\n\nThe royals are joined by other celebrities and public figures whose lives have been affected by poor mental health.\n\nThey include the actresses Gillian Anderson and Glenn Close, singer Professor Green, former England cricketer Andrew Flintoff, television presenter Davina McCall, and Bake Off star Nadiya Hussain.", "A teenage boy who had never had his bed made ready for him and was dropped at a home alone and late at night, had been treated \"like a stray dog,\" a care home manager said.\n\nChris Wild - who has spent time in care himself - told Newsnight about the night that \"broke\" him, when a 15-year-old was dropped off unaccompanied at a home he was working at.\n\nA Newsnight investigation has revealed that more than 100 children under 16 are living in unregulated and unregistered accommodation in England and Wales.\n\nChildren under 16 should not be routinely housed in this sort of housing, according to the regulator, Ofsted.\n\nNewsnight has been investigating this part of the care sector, as part of its Britain's Hidden Children's Homes series.\n\nThe government said local authorities must provide \"safe\" accommodation.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "The road was closed for almost 12 hours but has since reopened\n\nTwo police officers have been seriously injured after crashing while responding to reports of a drunk driver in Fife.\n\nThe single-vehicle collision, involving a marked police car, happened on the northbound carriageway of the M90, near Kelty, at about 21:40 on Sunday.\n\nThe driver was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with head injuries before being transferred to the Western General Hospital.\n\nThe other officer was taken to Ninewells Hospital with back injuries.\n\nThe road was closed for almost 12 hours but has since reopened.\n\nThe marked BMW 330 patrol car left the road about 1.5 miles (2.4km) north of Junction 4 (Kelty) and ended up on a grass verge.\n\nThe driver was freed from the vehicle by firefighters.\n\nCh Insp Mark Patterson said \"The officers in the patrol car were responding to the report of a drunk driver on the motorway when the collision happened.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with both officers and their families at this time.\"\n\nHe appealed for anyone with information to contact police on the non-emergency number.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two rides at Hull Fair have been shut while investigations continue\n\nA woman has been seriously injured falling from a fairground ride.\n\nHumberside Police said she was believed to have fallen from one ride at Hull Fair on to the base of a nearby one, striking a teenage boy as she fell.\n\nShe was taken to hospital with serious injuries which are not thought to be life-threatening. The teenager suffered minor injuries.\n\nTwo rides were closed after the incident, which happened at about 19:30 BST on Monday.\n\nPolice and health and safety officials from Hull City Council are investigating.\n\nCh Insp Paul Kirby, tactical commander for Hull Fair, said: \"We have very well established plans in place with the council for any incident like this at the fair, and I want to thank everyone for their patience while we deal with this.\n\n\"I am appealing for anyone who might have seen what happened, or who has any video footage of it to contact us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Humberside 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\nIn 2017, more than 30 people were trapped in mid-air for five hours when a ride broke down at Hull Fair.\n\nIt is one of Europe's largest and oldest travelling funfairs, dating back to 1278, and is held over a week in October every year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police were called to Wellesley Road in Colchester on Saturday night\n\nThree men have been found dead after reports of a fight in Colchester.\n\nEssex Police said a 32-year-old man was being questioned on suspicion of murder over the deaths on Saturday night.\n\nTwo men were discovered at a property on Wellesley Road and a third was found in a car outside.\n\nOfficers, who were called to the scene at about 22:15 BST, said they were \"keeping an open mind\" about the circumstances.\n\nThe force urged anyone in the area between 18:00 BST on Saturday and 01:00 on Sunday who saw anything suspicion or unusual to contact them.\n\nDavid Beales, 64, an Anglican minister who lives on the street opposite the property affected, said he \"heard nothing\" overnight and woke up to find police officers walking up and down the road.\n\n\"This is normally quite a peaceful street,\" he said, adding: \"There has been a history of sometimes noise in the flats where the incident took place, but nothing dire like this.\"\n\nA police cordon remained at the scene on Sunday afternoon\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A record number of runners took part in Sunday's Cardiff Half Marathon\n\nA runner has died after the Cardiff Half Marathon, organisers have said.\n\nRun 4 Wales said the runner was seen by a medical emergency team on the course then taken to University Hospital of Wales where they died.\n\nThe organisers said everyone connected with the race was \"devastated\" and a full review would be carried out.\n\nNo more details about the person's identity have been revealed, with more statements to be made \"in due course\".\n\nRun 4 Wales chief executive Matt Newman said: \"Our deepest sympathies go out to the family of the runner who tragically passed away after taking part at the event.\n\n\"The emergency services reacted to this terrible situation with great speed and professionalism. Everyone connected with the race is devastated.\"\n\nMatt Jukes, chief constable of South Wales Police, tweeted: \"Terribly sad news. My thoughts are with all those affected\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Jukes This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 2018 Ben McDonald, 25, from Cardiff, and Dean Fletcher, 32, from Exeter, went into cardiac arrest and died after crossing the finishing line at the half marathon within three minutes of each other.\n\nNo inquests took place, and a coroner's investigation found the pair died of natural causes.\n\nA record 27,500 runners signed up to take part in the 2019 event.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Heidi Allen is the seventh former Tory or Labour MP to join the Lib Dems this year\n\nMP Heidi Allen, who quit the Conservative Party earlier this year, has joined the Liberal Democrats.\n\nThe MP for South Cambridgeshire left the Conservatives in February over its Brexit policy and other issues.\n\nShe subsequently became the leader of the fledgling Change UK but left after the party's failure to win any seats in the European elections.\n\nShe is the fourth ex-Tory to join the Lib Dems in recent months, after Sarah Wollaston, Philip Lee and Sam Gyimah.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sam Gyimah is introduced as a Lib Dem MP at their party conference\n\nHer move means the Liberal Democrats now have 19 MPs, eight more than at the start of the year.\n\nIn a statement, the 44-year old said she would fight the South Cambridgeshire seat for her new party at the next election and had been \"bowled over\" by the support she had received.\n\nMs Allen said the Conservatives and Labour had both \"moved to the extremes\" and it was only the Liberal Democrats which now occupied the \"liberal centre ground\" of British politics.\n\nThe MP, who has been sitting as an independent in Parliament for several months, said she could be \"stronger and more effective\" in her opposition to Brexit as \"part of a team\".\n\n\"Now is the time to stand shoulder to shoulder with, not just alongside, those I have collaborated and found shared values with,\" she said.\n\n\"As we face the monumental task ahead of stopping a damaging Brexit, healing the rifts in the UK and rebuilding the UK, there is only one party with the honesty, energy and vision to do that.\"\n\nWelcoming the party's latest new recruit, the Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson said Ms Allen had \"long been an ally\" in the fight to stop Brexit.\n\nShe said her arrival showed that the Lib Dems were the \"strongest party of Remain\".\n\nThe MP was among ex-Tory and Labour politicians to form Change UK\n\nMs Allen was first elected to Parliament in 2015, having previously worked for her family business as well as ExxonMobil and Royal Mail.\n\nShe caused ripples in her maiden speech in the Commons, decrying tribalism in Parliament and attacking elements of the government's welfare policy.\n\nAfter walking out of the Tories earlier this year, she caused controversy by suggesting that if she and other defectors did their job, the Conservatives would no longer \"need to exist\".\n\nBut Change UK only managed to win 3.4% of the vote in May's European elections after reportedly refusing to co-operate with the Lib Dems and other anti-Brexit parties.\n\nShe is the fifth of the 11 founding members of Change UK to join the Lib Dems - following Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Angela Smith and Sarah Wollaston.\n\nShe faces a tough task in retaining her seat at the next election, which has been a safe Conservative seat since its creation in 1997.\n\nIn 2017, the Lib Dems came in third place in the constituency - more than 20,000 votes behind the Tories and more than 5,000 votes behind Labour.\n\nHowever, the Lib Dems took control of South Cambridgeshire council in last year's local authority elections. The area voted strongly to remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Unilever boss, Alan Jope, says his firm is cutting back on plastic to stay relevant\n\nUnilever, which owns brands such as Surf and PG Tips, says it plans to halve the amount of new plastic it uses in a bid to appeal to younger shoppers.\n\nThe firm is responsible for producing 700,000 tonnes of new plastic a year.\n\nBut Unilever plans to slash that figure over the next five years by using more recycled plastic and finding other alternative materials.\n\nNevertheless, Unilever boss, Alan Jope, holds that plastic is a \"terrific material\".\n\nAnd he maintains that many of the alternatives are worse, saying: \"A hysterical move to glass may be trendy but it would have a dreadful impact on the carbon footprint of packaging.\"\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Mr Jope said Unilever, the UK's biggest food producer and which also own dozens of health, beauty and cleaning brands, was trying to remain relevant to younger consumers who worry about plastic use.\n\nHe said millennials - normally thought of as those born between 1980 and 1995 - and Generation Z, which is more poorly defined but generally considered to be those born between the mid-1990s and 2010, cared about \"purpose and sustainability\".\n\nThey also worry about \"the conduct of the companies and the brands that they're buying\".\n\n\"This is part of responding to society but also remaining relevant for years to come in the market.\"\n\nHe said there was \"no paradox\" between sustainable business and better financial performance.\n\n\"We profoundly believe that sustainability leads to a better financial top and bottom line.\"\n\nThe move follows similar announcements by several other companies.\n\nProcter & Gamble - which makes Fairy and Lenor - said in April that it planned to halve the amount of plastic it used by 2030.\n\nMeanwhile, Nestle announced that it would phase out all non-recyclable plastics from its wrappers by 2025 and Coca Cola has said that it will double the amount of recycled plastic it uses in the 200,000 bottles it makes every single minute by next year.\n\nNow, Unilever has added its name to the list of firms promising to cut back on plastic with a pledge to recycle as much plastic as it makes by 2025.\n\nBut Mr Jope said responsibility for reducing plastic could not fall to industry alone.\n\nHe called on UK councils to harmonise recycling policies so that manufacturers can make instructions clearer to consumers.\n\n\"If there was a standardised approach to collecting, sorting and processing, I think it would allow industry to standardise labelling and make it easier for people to segment their waste,\" he said.\n\nUnilever, which is one of the largest companies in the UK, has insisted that changing its packaging would not push up prices.\n\nRichard Kirkman, the chief technology officer for waste management giant Veolia, said plants had seen an increase in the amount of packaging that was \"really hard\" to recycle.\n\n\"Now we need to work with manufacturers to change the way they design things in the first place,\" he said.", "A teenager is critically ill after he was stabbed at a railway station in South Lanarkshire.\n\nBritish Transport Police said the attack took place shortly after 17:00 at Rutherglen station.\n\nA BTP spokesman said: \"A teenage boy suffered wounds to his leg and chest, he has been taken to hospital and is reported to be in a critical condition.\n\n\"Officers remain at the scene and inquiries into the incident are ongoing.\"\n\nPolice Scotland officers are also at the station and ScotRail services were unable to stop there for a short period before resuming normal operations.\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 record number of runners took part in Sunday's Cardiff Half Marathon\n\nA runner who died after the Cardiff Half Marathon was treated \"instantly\" after an incident at the finish line, the race organiser has said.\n\nRun 4 Wales chief executive Matt Newman said the man's family was being supported.\n\nThe runner was seen by a medical emergency team on the course then taken to the University Hospital of Wales where he died.\n\n\"Everyone at Run 4 Wales is devastated,\" Mr Newman said.\n\n\"It's terribly sad news... not just our thoughts but our support is with the family at this really difficult time,\" he told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"It was an incident at the finish line, yards away from the primary medical centre so it was an instant response.\"\n\nBen McDonald and Dean Fletcher died after crossing the finish line within minutes of each other in 2018\n\nMr Newman added Run 4 Wales had worked to raise awareness of unknown heart conditions following the deaths of two men at last year's event.\n\n\"We've done an incredible amount of work in terms of raising the profile... flagging that anyone that had any symptoms or history in their family or felt unwell in the run up to it that they would go to the doctor, they would get checked out and no one would come to the start line with any risk to their health.\n\n\"We can only reiterate that really, it's cast obviously a big shadow on what was otherwise a very good day for Cardiff.\n\n\"We've had 16 years and until last year we hadn't had incidents of this kind, they have happened before in big events, unfortunately it is something that does happen when you get this volume of people running.\"\n\nMr Newman encouraged anyone intending to embark on an event like the half marathon to have a health check first.\n\nNo more details about the person's identity have been revealed, with more statements to be made \"in due course\".\n\nIn 2018 Ben McDonald, 25, from Cardiff, and Dean Fletcher, 32, from Exeter, went into cardiac arrest and died after crossing the finishing line at the half marathon within three minutes of each other.\n\nNo inquests took place, and a coroner's investigation found the pair died of natural causes.\n\nAbout 50 of Mr McDonald's friends and family walked the course in his memory this year, wearing yellow t-shirts.\n\n\"I think for them, an impossible day but they wanted to walk in his footsteps and follow the course,\" Mr Newman said.\n\nA record 27,500 runners signed up to take part in the 2019 event.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBritain ended the World Athletics Championships with five medals - their worst total since the three they won at Helsinki 2005.\n\nIt appeared as if they would match their tally from 2017 when the women's 4x400m team were upgraded to bronze after Jamaica's disqualification.\n\nBut it was overturned on appeal as the final day ended in GB disappointment.\n\nTheir men's 4x400m team had earlier failed to finish their race after a changeover error.\n\nThe USA won the race as they finished top of the medal table with 14 golds.\n\nGolds for Dina-Asher Smith in the 200m and Katarina Johnson-Thompson in the heptathlon, plus a silver for Asher-Smith in the 100m and two 4x100m silvers meant Britain finished sixth in the table.\n\nThe 10-day event, where the spotlight has fallen on some low attendances and the ban for coach Alberto Salazar as much as on the sporting action, ended by being hailed as the \"best we have ever had\" in terms of athletic performance by IAAF chief Lord Coe.\n• None BBC to air next two World Championships\n\nBritain have traditionally won medals in the 4x400m relays at World Championships, but that run came to an end on Sunday.\n\nThe British women, medal winners in this event in the past seven editions, struggled in the final.\n\nLaviai Nielsen was fourth when she took the baton on the final leg and could not close the gap on Poland, Jamaica and runaway leaders USA, who took gold.\n\nBritain were temporarily moved into bronze position when Jamaica were disqualified for an issue regarding their changeover position, before that decision was reversed.\n\n\"We ran our socks off today, every single one of us. We wanted that medal so, so badly,\" said third-leg runner Emily Diamond.\n\n\"That's the fastest we've run in many years, it surpasses the Olympics, and I think we can be proud of ourselves.\"\n\nAs for the British men, their final was over when Toby Harries slipped over as he tried to hand over to Rabah Yousif on the third leg. Jamaica took silver and Belgium won bronze.\n\n\"It's a hard pill to swallow having medalled in the past,\" said Yousif.\n\n\"It was the right time to try something new, it's a hard lesson to learn but we move on from here.\"\n\nElsewhere at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Germany's European long jump champion Malaika Mihambo added the world title with a magnificent third-round effort of 7.30m - the 12th longest distance of all time.\n\nUkraine's European silver medallist Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk came second with 6.92m and Nigeria's Ese Brume, fifth at Rio 2016, leapt to 6.91m to claim bronze.\n\nBriton Abigail Irozuru, who returned to the sport last season having retired three years ago, finished seventh with 6.64m. Team-mate and Beijing 2015 silver medallist Shara Proctor came 11th.\n\nTimothy Cheruiyot, 23, claimed 1500m gold with one of the best performances of these championships.\n\nThe Kenyan, who has won 11 of his last 12 Diamond League races, moved to the front in the opening lap and held that lead to win in three minutes 29.26 seconds.\n\nAlgeria's Taoufik Makhloufi took silver and Poland's Marcin Lewandowski set a national record of 3:31.46 as he finished in bronze position. Norway's European champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen was fourth.\n\nThere were personal bests for fifth-placed Briton Jake Wightman (3:31.87) and his sixth-placed compatriot Josh Kerr (3:32.52). Wightman's position was the highest a Briton has finished in this event since Steve Cram and Steve Ovett in 1983. Neil Gourley was 11th.\n\n\"I feel I should be celebrating and not disappointed, but I think it was a lot closer than I thought it was going to be for the medals,\" said Wightman.\n\n\"It would have taken literally a tiny little bit more than I had, but that is the best I could give today and I'm proud of finishing fifth still in that kind of field.\n\n\"If you run a PB you can't complain because I've delivered my best performance at the most important time, so I'll happily take that and work into the winter into next season.\"\n\nUSA's Nia Ali, silver medallist at Rio 2016, claimed 100m hurdles gold with a personal best of 12.34 seconds. World record holder and compatriot Kendra Harrison clinched silver ahead of Jamaica's Danielle Williams.\n\nGrenadian 21-year-old Anderson Peters took javelin gold with 86.89m. Pre-event favourite Magnus Kirt, who has twice thrown further than 90m this year, took silver. The Estonian retired hurt before his sixth throw.\n\nJoshua Cheptegei, second to Briton Mo Farah at London 2017, won 10,000m gold in 26 minutes 48.36 seconds.\n\nThe Ugandan got the better of Ethiopia's Yomif Kejelcha in a sprint finish. Kenya's Rhonex Kipruto clinched bronze.\n\nUSA dominate the medal table - and the sprints\n\nWith just nine months to go until the Tokyo Olympics, the USA finish these championships with four more gold medals than they won at London 2017.\n\nTheir 14 golds were nine more than second-placed Kenya and their total of 29 was almost three times more than any other country managed.\n\nAmong the highlights was Dalilah Muhammad improving her own world record in the 400m hurdles - which BBC pundit and former Olympic champion Michael Johnson said was his favourite moment of the championships - and sprinter Allyson Felix breaking Usain Bolt's record for most World Championship gold medals.\n\nFelix won her 12th in the 4x400m mixed relay and her 13th in the women's event - although she did not actually race in Sunday's final - all 11 months after giving birth.\n\nAfter picking up just one one gold medal in the men's sprinting events in London two years ago, the Americans head home with five out of a possible seven golds.\n\nIt was the largest tally since the six sprinting golds won by the US at the 2007 championships in Osaka, a year before the start of Jamaican Bolt's decade of dominance at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.\n\nChristian Coleman, who won the men's 100m, and 200m winner Noah Lyles put in performances in Doha that suggest they could be the ones to beat for some time to come in a sport that is still searching for the athlete who will take over from the charismatic Bolt as its leading light.\n\nYes, this is the worst performance at a World Championships in 14 years, but it was arguably worse two years ago when Mo Farah was the only individual medallist as Britain finished with six medals.\n\nDina Asher-Smith and Katarina Johnson-Thompson were touted as medallists - they delivered and more. Had Laura Muir avoided injury during the season then who knows what she might have achieved in the 1500m.\n\nThen there was the unsuccessful appeal to overturn Nick Miller's potential medal-winning 'no throw' in the hammer, Holly Bradshaw's fourth place in the pole vault and Adam Gemili's near miss in the 200m.\n\nFor British Athletics it is all about the Olympic cycle, so save judgement until after Tokyo.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA large tulip sculpture in Paris in tribute to the victims of the 2015 attacks in the city has been criticised for looking more like marshmallows - or even parts of human anatomy.\n\nThe Bouquet of Tulips, a gift from US artist Jeff Koons unveiled near the Champs-Elysées on Friday, features the flower often used to symbolise love.\n\nBut the work, created in Koons' typical kitsch style, has divided opinion.\n\nIn November 2015, mass shootings and a bomb attack killed 130 people in Paris.\n\nThe co-ordinated terror attacks on a concert hall, a major stadium, restaurants and bars in the French capital wounded hundreds more.\n\nUnveiling his 40ft (12m) high structure near Le Petit Palais art gallery on Friday, Koons said the large handheld bouquet of balloon-like tulips was intended to show his support and US solidarity with the French people.\n\nThe Bouquet of Tulips artwork in Paris has divided opinion\n\n\"I did, as a citizen in New York, experience 9/11 and the depression that hung over the city,\" he said, adding that 80% of the money raised after selling the copyright to the artwork would be given to the victims' families.\n\nBut since Bouquet of Tulips was made public, Parisians and critics have been sharing their thoughts, with some referring to the piece as \"awful\", \"grotesque\" and \"pornographic\".\n\n\"Eleven coloured anuses mounted on stems,\" wrote philosopher Yves Michaud (in French) in France's L'Obs magazine, adding he felt that it was \"in fact a pornographic sculpture\".\n\nOne Twitter user, Gilles Brandet, said the sculptor's work was \"eye-candy for philistines\", adding: \"I find Jeff Koons' 'kitsch neo-pop' totally devoid of interest.\"\n\nAnother, Rosa, tweeted that Parisians would \"now think that tulips are large coloured marshmallows\".\n\nColumnist Eric Naulleau, who earlier criticised Koons for \"imposing his poor bouquet of tulips\" on Paris, said on Monday the artwork was \"dreadful\".\n\nSome even suggested they would avoid that particular area of the park when passing through.\n\nOthers, though, said they did not understand the controversy, describing the work as \"pretty\" and \"a gift from the heart\".\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\nPatricia Correia, whose daughter was killed in the attack at the Bataclan concert hall, told the Associated Press that it was \"a very strong testament\" to France's relationship with the US, adding \"for me it represents the colours of life\".\n\nParis Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Friday she was very happy to unveil the work, calling it a \"beautiful gift\" and \"a magnificent symbol of freedom and friendship\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Anne Hidalgo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 donation of Koons' Bouquet of Tulips was first announced in November 2016. The original plan was to erect it near the Palais de Tokyo, a contemporary art museum, but that was later criticised for lacking a connection with the attacks.\n\nIn January 2018, a letter drafted by artists urged government officials to abandon the \"shocking\" project, but they later selected the site at Le Petit Palais.\n\nThe 64-year-old US artist's sculptures have provoked controversy for decades after he emerged as a leading figure in New York's art scene in the 1980s.\n\nKoons' artworks are often large colourful balloon-like structures, such as puppies and swans, and made from steel. He already has a sculpture of multicoloured balloon tulips exhibited in the Guggenheim in Bilbao.\n\nHe has also displayed large inflatable pieces around New York.\n\nA 45ft (14m) high inflatable ballerina by Koons outside the Rockefeller Center in New York in 2017\n\nHe holds the record price for a living artist's work for his piece Rabbit, which fetched $91.1 (£74.1m) at auction in May.\n\nThe artist also created a series of pornographic artworks which some critics considered vulgar and unacceptable.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Ruth Davidson has confirmed she is unlikely to seek re-election in 2021.\n\nThe former leader of the Scottish Conservatives told an audience at a book festival she would see out her term as MSP for Edinburgh Central.\n\nMs Davidson quit her role as the party's leader in August after eight years in the job.\n\nShe said at Saturday's event that she did so because she was \"hopelessly conflicted by Brexit\" and also wanted to spend more time being a mum.\n\nSpeaking at the Wigtown Book Festival, she told event chairwoman Sarah Smith that it was true that she and Boris Johnson were \"not buddy, buddy pals\" but she did not leave due to disagreements with him.\n\nMs Davidson added that she believed that the public would soon demand higher standards of public debate.\n\nAsked if she worried about the tone of public discourse - especially on social media - she said: \"Yes, I do. I personally think that it will self-right. I think there comes a point where the public of this country will be so disgusted that they will demand better.\"\n\nOn the issue of a second independence referendum, she was asked if she would consider leading any future equivalent of 2014's Better Together campaign.\n\nShe replied: \"Look, I hope there won't be a next time … I will do what I can to stop that happening, but if it is happening there is absolutely no way that I am going to sit it out.\n\n\"This is my country it's what I've fought for, it's what I believe in. And whether anyone wants me to hold a position or whether they want me to go round, knock doors and hand out leaflets, I'm happy doing both.\"\n\nShe added: \"I've just left a big job, I'm not angling for another, I could be yesterday's news a week on Tuesday. I'm not going to pretend that I would be best the person for the job, if it ever happens, in 10 or 15 years time, but if people want a hand then I'll help.\"\n\nAfter saying that she was unsure what direction her career will take in future, it may be in business or charity, Ms Davidson added that she \"was gainfully employed until May 2021\".\n\nAsked if this meant she would not be standing for the Scottish Parliament again she said: \"It's a fairly open secret that I think I'm going to see out my term… I'm giving myself the option to change my mind but I don't think that I will stand again.\"", "Thomas Cook customers who had booked holidays with the firm have submitted 60,000 refund forms in the first hours of operation since a special website for the process was launched.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority said the process was now running smoothly after initial delays caused by high demand.\n\nCustomers had complained they had tried to submit the claim form several times, but kept receiving error messages.\n\nThe CAA blamed \"unprecedented demand\" and urged users to try later.\n\nIn total, the aviation regulator has to refund some 360,000 customers.\n\nIt will take 60 days for people to get their money back, the CAA said.\n\n\"We would like to thank Thomas Cook customers for their patience during the peak claims period earlier today,\" the CAA said in a tweet.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by UK Civil Aviation Authority This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 people told the BBC earlier on Monday that they had completed the form, but when they tried to submit it they received a message telling them \"an unhandled fault occurred while processing this flow. Please contact your administrator\".\n\nJoly Shapley told the BBC he had tried to put in his claim at 08:16 BST, but with no success.\n\n\"At 8:20 am I called their helpline and after 10 minutes I got through to a call handler who... suggested I try later. She assured me [there was] no problem making multiple attempts but told me that she was not allowed to take my claim over the phone.\n\n\"Since then I have made seven further attempts to complete this online form. Sadly, although the CAA had extra time to prepare this process it appears to be too fragile for its purpose,\" he said.\n\nSue Nicolson said she had tried to submit her claim a dozen times.\n\n\"The 60-day timescale for refunds only starts once they have received the claim, so how much longer are we going to have to wait for the thousands of pounds we are owed for a holiday we were supposed to depart for this Friday?,\" she said.\n\nThe CAA said people who had paid by direct debit would get their money back by 14 October.\n\nAnyone who bought a package holiday with Thomas Cook will be covered by the Air Travel Organiser's Licence scheme (Atol). Customers would have received an Atol certificate when they booked. This means the cost of any holiday booked with the collapsed firm will be refunded.\n\nThe CAA launched the refund website as the final flight bringing holidaymakers back by emergency repatriation landed on Monday morning.\n\nThe few remaining passengers who did not return on a CAA-organised flight will have to make their own plans, although those covered by the Atol scheme will be refunded.\n\nCAA chair Dame Deirdre Hutton said she was \"deeply relieved\" that \"Operation Matterhorn\", the two-week operation to return 150,000 passengers to the UK after the package tour company collapsed last month, was over.\n\n\"Staff worked like Trojans 24 hours a day to help everyone, but that was only task one, now it's task two,\" she said, referring to the refund process.\n\nMeanwhile, staff of the collapsed firm have not been paid for September and have to apply for their salary and redundancy related payments to the Insolvency Service's Redundancy Payment Service (RPS).\n\nAbout 9,000 staff in the UK were left jobless when the business failed to secure a last-ditch rescue deal.\n\nThe travel firm collapsed in the early hours of 23 September, after failing to obtain rescue funds from its banks.\n\nAn inquiry has been launched by the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, with MPs focussing on the directors' stewardship of the company.\n\nThe Financial Reporting Council, the accounting watchdog, will also investigate the auditing of the company.", "Extinction Rebellion activists have begun two weeks of protests in London\n\nPolice have arrested 280 people in London at the start of two weeks of protests by environmental campaigners.\n\nExtinction Rebellion activists are protesting in cities around the world, including Berlin, Amsterdam and Sydney.\n\nOrganisers have blockaded key sites in central London, in addition to demonstrating outside government departments.\n\nSome have glued and chained themselves to roads and vehicles, while others were planning to camp overnight.\n\nExtinction Rebellion claims protests in the capital will be five times bigger than similar events in April.\n\nThe protests are calling for urgent action on global climate and wildlife emergencies.\n\nActivists barricaded themselves to vehicles in Westminster early on Monday as the demonstrations got under way.\n\nMeanwhile, hundreds of campaigners filled Trafalgar Square and blocked Lambeth and Westminster bridges.\n\nA hearse containing a coffin with the plaque Our Future was parked in Trafalgar Square, with the driver attaching himself to the steering wheel with a bicycle lock.\n\nThe driver of the funeral car attached himself to the steering wheel with a bicycle lock\n\nExtinction Rebellion said a police officer later gave the hearse a parking ticket.\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, church leaders helped to create a \"faith bridge\" on Lambeth Bridge, with services and prayer vigils planned.\n\nRev Jon Swales, 41, Mission Priest at the Church of England's Lighthouse Church in Leeds and Associate Faculty at St Hild Theological Centre, said: \"The science is clear.\n\n\"Unless we radically change the way we live in the world we will face the full force of climate catastrophe.\"\n\nProtesters dubbed the Red Rebels wore red robes and white face paint as they gathered outside the Cabinet Office in Whitehall.\n\nThe activists, wearing red robes and white face paint, gathered outside the Cabinet Office\n\nThe singer Declan McKenna performed an impromptu free gig on the Mall in the evening, as people gathered in the rain to listen.\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 roads behind Downing Street were blocked throughout the day by protesters, some of whom had erected tents in the street and were sitting down and singing songs together.\n\nAmong the group were two girls, Esme, 11, and Rafi, nine, who had taken the day off school to attend the protests.\n\nTheir mother Laurie, 41, told PA: \"They've already done a spelling test this morning, sat down in the street, so we're not wasting time.\n\n\"We've talked about the protests at home and the school knows where they are.\"\n\n\"We're here because we want the world to still be alive when we die,\" said Rafi.\n\nProtesters who had glued and chained themselves outside Westminster Abbey were removed by police.\n\nPolice attempted to move protesters from outside Westminster Abbey\n\nA protester was cut free by police after chaining himself outside Westminster Abbey\n\nA staggered police cordon was later set up along Millbank, near Parliament, before officers attempted to move demonstrators from Lambeth Bridge.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Helena Wilkinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nExtinction Rebellion organisers told protesters to sit down and \"be arrested\" as police continued to try to remove them - and a police cordon later closed off the bridge.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice were seen cutting two protesters from a car that had blocked Victoria Embankment, while campaigners also locked themselves to a mock Trident missile outside the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall.\n\nActivists were also pictured on a barge on the Thames.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Bruce Thain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwo women were pictured getting married on Westminster Bridge, Extinction Rebellion 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 Extinction Rebellion 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. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 wearing abseiling gear and equipped with acetone syringes were seen removing protesters who had glued themselves to scaffolding in Trafalgar Square.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Camilla Horrox This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 protester wearing a gasmask and boiler suit was taken away by police\n\nA string of celebrities including fashion model Daisy Lowe, actress Juliet Stevenson and comedian Ruby Wax joined campaigners in Trafalgar Square.\n\nActress Juliet Stevenson was among those protesting in Trafalgar Square, central London\n\nStevenson said the protests were \"a very wonderful action\", revealing her son was attending them as a worker for Extinction Rebellion.\n\nShe told the Press Association: \"We can't any longer allow governments to do this, so we have to make it clear that there is no more time.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Lowe, 30, hosted a dinner to \"celebrate and be educated\" by Extinction Rebellion activists, and encouraged followers to join the protests.\n\nShe wrote on Instagram: \"It is a terrifying reality we live in, but we have the power to change the course of history and save our planet.\"\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 daisylowe 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\nSir Mark Rylance, the Oscar-winning actor, joined a blockade on the Mall before addressing protesters at St James' Park.\n\nHe said: \"People have been saying to me, it doesn't make a difference having a celebrity joining the protests.\n\n\"I am confident these protests are going to lead to a solid change. Extinction Rebellion isn't going to go away.\"\n\nIn June, Sir Mark resigned as an associate artist at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) over its partnership with BP, which the theatre company has since vowed to end.\n\nHe told the crowds Greta Thunberg, the teenage climate change activist, had inspired his decision to quit the RSC when he did.\n\nMeanwhile, activists from Animal Rebellion, a movement allied to Extinction Rebellion, marched from Russell Square to Smithfield Meat Market.\n\nOrganisers say they planned to remain overnight at the market to share their \"vision of a future plant-based food system\".\n\nOn arriving at the market, protesters said they held a minute's silence for \"animals whose lives are lost\" at Smithfield, and then went on to set up stalls selling plant-based products inside one of the world's most famous meat-trading spaces.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Animal Rebellion This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an update posted shortly after 17:00 BST, organisers said 11 sites remained occupied across Westminster, as groups of protesters prepared to camp out for the night.\n\nEmily, an activist from Wales, said on Twitter she planned to stay overnight.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nExtinction Rebellion said many activists were preparing to go on hunger strike to illustrate \"that our just-in-time food system is too fragile to repeatedly withstand the shocks of extreme weather\".\n\nThere had been 280 arrests in connection with the protests as of 21.30 BST, according to the Metropolitan Police.\n\nExtinction Rebellion said this included Sarah Lasenby, 81, a Quaker and retired social worker from Oxford.\n\nMs Lasenby, who the group says was part of efforts to block Embankment, said: \"It is imperative that the government should take serious actions and put pressure on other states and global powers to radically reduce the use of fossil fuels.\"\n\nExtinction Rebellion (XR for short) wants governments to declare a \"climate and ecological emergency\" and take immediate action to address climate change.\n\nIt describes itself as an international \"non-violent civil disobedience activist movement\".\n\nExtinction Rebellion was launched in 2018 and organisers say it now has groups willing to take action in dozens of countries.\n\nIn April, the group held a large demonstration in London that brought major routes in the city to a standstill.\n\nExtinction Rebellion organisers say they are expecting up to 30,000 people to take part in the fortnight-long demonstrations in the capital, which form part of an \"international rebellion\".\n\nSimilar protests in the UK earlier this year brought major disruption to London and resulted in more than 1,100 arrests.\n\nUp to 60 other cities around the world may also be disrupted in simultaneous events, according to a spokesperson for the group.\n\nActivists will call on government departments to detail their plans to tackle the climate emergency.\n\nPolice in Australia and New Zealand have already arrested dozens of Extinction Rebellion activists on Monday.\n\nSome 30 campaigners in Sydney were charged with committing offences after hundreds of protesters blocked a busy road.\n\nMore than 100 people were arrested in Amsterdam after they erected a tent camp on the main road outside the Rijksmuseum, the Dutch national museum\n\nExtra police were outside key landmarks early on Monday\n\nThe latest arrests in London come after the Met police arrested 11 people during the weekend.\n\nA spokesperson for the force said eight people were arrested on Saturday after previously reporting 10. They have all been released under investigation.\n\nOne woman and two men were arrested on Sunday on suspicion of conspiracy to cause public nuisance. The men remain in custody while the woman has been released under investigation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jennifer Arcuri: \"I'm not going to put myself in a position where you can weaponise my answer\"\n\nA US businesswoman at the centre of a row over whether Boris Johnson failed to declare a conflict of interest says he never showed her \"any favouritism\".\n\nJennifer Arcuri also refused to say whether the pair had an intimate relationship when he was London mayor.\n\nMs Arcuri told ITV's Good Morning Britain that Mr Johnson spoke at events she ran and came to her flat - also her office - \"a handful\" of times.\n\nThe PM denied breaking any rules of conduct, but would not comment further.\n\nHe has insisted everything was done \"entirely in the proper way\".\n\nBut Labour's shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, said Mr Johnson - who served as mayor between 2008 and 2016 - \"had a duty\" to declare their friendship.\n\n\"Regardless of the exact nature of his relationship with [Ms] Arcuri, it is clear that she and Boris Johnson were close, and that he misled the public when he said there was no interest to declare,\" he added.\n\nThe code governing conduct at London City Hall states that public office holders should not act in any way to gain benefits for families or friends, and should declare private interests to resolve any conflicts.\n\nBut speaking after Ms Arcuri's interview, Mr Johnson said he had not broken the code, adding: \"I think I have said everything I am going to say on that matter.\"\n\nThe story first emerged in the Sunday Times, with claims technology entrepreneur Ms Arcuri had joined trade missions led by Mr Johnson and received thousands of pounds in public money.\n\nIt is understood she attended events on two of the trade missions - to New York and Tel Aviv - despite not officially qualifying for them as a delegate.\n\nThe newspaper reported that one of her businesses received £10,000 and £1,500 in sponsorship money from a mayoral organisation when Mr Johnson was mayor, as well as a £15,000 government grant for foreign entrepreneurs to build businesses in Britain.\n\nThe newspaper claimed she had received favourable treatment due to her friendship with Mr Johnson.\n\nBut Ms Arcuri insisted he was just \"a really good friend\", and \"categorically\" had \"nothing to do with my other achievements\".\n\n\"Boris never, ever gave me favouritism. Never once did I ask him for a favour. Never once did he write a letter of recommendation for me. He didn't know about my asking to go to trips,\" she told ITV.\n\nThe current London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has launched an investigation into the allegations at City Hall, and the Greater London Authority's Oversight Committee has given Mr Johnson 14 days - ending this week - to explain his relationship.\n\nMr Johnson has also been referred to the police watchdog, who will consider whether there are grounds to investigate the prime minister for the criminal offence of misconduct in public office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: 'Everything has been done with full propriety'\n\nAsked repeatedly on the ITV breakfast programme whether she was having an affair with Mr Johnson when he was mayor, Ms Arcuri refused to answer.\n\n\"I am not going to be putting myself in a position for you to weaponise my answer,\" she said.\n\nShe did confirm he had visited her home - which was also her office - \"five, 10, a handful of times\", but added: \"It's really not anyone's business what private life we had.\"\n\nThey had tried to meet in public, she went on, but it \"became too much of a mob show\".\n\n\"So I said 'you just have to come to my office.'\"\n\nOn the issue of trade missions, Ms Arcuri said she had access because of the work she was doing - not because of any relationship with Mr Johnson.\n\n\"At the end of the day, I was allowed to go on that trade mission as a delegate because of who I was,\" she said.\n\nMs Arcuri said she had never discussed any sponsorship or grants with Mr Johnson, and asked if he had helped with any \"sponsorship money\", she said: \"Categorically no. Do you think I would waste his time talking about this stuff?\"\n\nShe also said Mr Johnson had nothing to do with an additional £100,000 grant awarded to her company by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in January.\n\nAnd she denied reports he had written her a letter of recommendation to run the taxpayer-funded Tech City organisation, promoting technology companies in east London.\n\nPolitically, this interview still leaves the big question hanging out there - did Boris Johnson use his influence or seek to intervene in any way to help Jennifer Arcuri secure grants or to go on trade delegations?\n\nWhat we did learn was that she was most certainly a very, very close friend.\n\nWhy that matters is because if there is any suggestion - or proof, more importantly - that Mr Johnson did intervene on her behalf, then he would have had to declare that she was a friend.\n\nAnd that is the missing piece of the jigsaw.\n\nWe don't know whether Boris Johnson did seek to use his office in any way to lean on city officials to get her on those trade trips or to also get her the grants.\n\nWe do know that he went to speak at a number of events she organised and we do know that Boris Johnson was on three of the trade trips she was on.\n\nSo that raises the question that, in any case, should he have declared he was a close friend of Ms Arcuri's?\n\nThere will be a lot of headlines about her refusal to deny they had a relationship, but in terms of the politics, the big question is still to be answered on whether he intervened on her behalf because of their relationship.\n\nMs Arcuri told Good Morning Britain the pair shared \"a love\" and \"passion\" for Shakespeare and literature during their friendship.\n\n\"Boris is extremely personable. He cares a lot about this country, and he cares a lot about people... he is a guy you want to hang out with.\"\n\nAsked whether she ever loved Mr Johnson, she said: \"I've been asked that many times. And I care about him deeply as a friend, and we do share a very close bond, but I wish him well.\n\n\"I really do want him to focus on making Britain great again.\"\n\nJennifer Arcuri describes herself on Twitter as an entrepreneur, cyber security expert and producer.\n\nShe began her career as a DJ on Radio Disney, before moving into film - where she wrote, produced and directed a short film that went on to be sold at Cannes Film Festival.\n\nMs Arcuri then brought in her tech skills to create a streaming platform for independent film makers.\n\nBut it was her founding of The Innotech Network in London that saw her path cross with Boris Johnson.\n\nThe network hosts events to discuss tech policy, and Mr Johnson was the keynote speaker at the first of those in 2012.\n\nSince then, Ms Arcuri has also founded another company called Hacker House, which uses ethical hackers to find tech solutions for businesses.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Endometriosis: The condition that can take more than seven years to diagnose\n\nMore than 13,500 women have taken part in BBC research revealing the devastating effect of endometriosis.\n\nHalf said they had had suicidal thoughts, and many said they rely on highly addictive painkillers.\n\nMost also said endometriosis - involving painful periods - had badly affected their education, career and relationships.\n\nMPs are to launch an inquiry into women's experiences of endometriosis following the research.\n\nWomen with the condition answered questions on how the condition has affected them. The charity Endometriosis UK helped gather the responses.\n\nThe condition affects one in 10 women and, as well as extremely heavy periods, can cause debilitating pain and sometimes infertility.\n\nBethany Willis, who lives in Essex, was one of those who took part in the research. She began having endometriosis symptoms aged just nine.\n\nShe knew what it was because her mum and grandmother also have the condition.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNow 19, Bethany says: \"The pain is like barbed wire wrapped around your insides and someone's pulling it while at the same time an animal is trying to eat its way through you.\"\n\nAt one point she was in so much pain that she took an overdose.\n\n\"I texted my boyfriend and said goodbye. I was ready to end my life there and then because of the pain.\"\n\nShe was finally diagnosed this summer following surgery and - though still in daily pain - she is managing to cope.\n\n\"My mind is clearer and I have more energy, but the years of not being treated mean I've had to drop out of veterinary school and my dream career,\" she said.\n\nAnna Turley MP, a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Endometriosis which will carry out the inquiry, said: \"It wasn't until I was hospitalised and had the diagnosis that I realised how little attention endometriosis receives, how limited research funding is, and how many women are misdiagnosed.\"\n\nShe said the data gave \"millions of affected women a voice\" and the APPG would be calling on the government to act.\n\nTayla Marshall, 24, from Northamptonshire, is one of those who relies on pain relief to cope with her symptoms.\n\nShe has been through multiple operations and two chemically-induced menopauses and she is now addicted to strong opioid medication.\n\n\"I worry every day about my opioid intake. I take 50ml of morphine sulfate, Fentanyl patches, Naproxen and 30mg of amitriptyline and although I'm not addicted in my mind, my body is physically dependant on this now.\n\n\"If I went a day without it, I would start to experience nasty withdrawal symptoms.\"\n\nBecause her condition is so severe, Tayla is considering having a hysterectomy when she's 30.\n\n\"I have six years to try for a family,\" she said.\n\n\"But my last relationship ended due to the impact of endometriosis. I wasn't able to be intimate with my partner very often, unless I was dosed up on medication.\n\n\"I am also in a position where I have reduced chances of falling pregnant naturally and carrying a baby.\n\n\"I have sort of managed to get my head around the idea of not having children but it breaks my heart every day.\"\n\nEmma Cox, CEO of the charity Endometriosis UK, which helped gather the women's testimonies, said: \"It cannot be overstated the devastating impact this condition is clearly having on people's physical and mental health.\n\n\"Without investment in research, a reduction in diagnosis time - which averages at a shocking 7.5 years - and better access to pain management, women will continue to face huge barriers in accessing the right treatment at the right time.\"\n\nSome women choose to undergo a hysterectomy and early menopause in a bid to stop their symptoms.\n\nMichelle recently underwent surgery in a bid to end her symptoms\n\nMichelle Middleton, 42, from West Yorkshire, recently underwent the operation to remove her ovaries, womb, fallopian tubes and cervix.\n\nShe says it is her last hope: \"I just want rid of everything,\" she said.\n\nBut she added: \"The risk is that I'm no better and that there's damage and it gets worse but you have to have hope.\"\n\nMinister for women's health, Caroline Dinenage said: \"I urge clinicians to play their part in breaking down the ongoing stigma around endometriosis by ensuring they follow NICE guidelines and encourage employers to rise to the challenge by creating supportive and flexible ways to help those living with these conditions.\"", "One in 10 consultant psychiatrist positions in Scotland are vacant, according to a new report, leading to claims the profession is facing a \"workforce crisis\".\n\nA census by the Royal College of Psychiatrists found that vacancy rates are particularly high in child and adolescent mental health services.\n\nMore than one in six consultant posts (17.5%) in Camhs is vacant.\n\nMinisters say they have invested £54m in mental health services.\n\nThe census found that 72 out of 747 consultant psychiatry posts (9.7%) in Scotland are vacant. In 2017, one in 16 posts (6.3%) were vacant.\n\nAcross the UK, the vacancy rate is 9.6%.\n\nProfessor John Crichton, chairman of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) in Scotland, said: \"We have a workforce crisis on our hands and need more junior doctors to choose psychiatry.\n\n\"Simply put the supply does not meet the demand.\"\n\nHe said many psychiatrists were expected to retire within five years and there had been a drop in the numbers of psychiatrists choosing to progress to higher training.\n\nJunior doctors need to spend six years training before gaining consultant status, he added, which also contributes to the shortage.\n\nHe said the Scottish government needed to do more.\n\nCharlie MacKenzie, from Glasgow, waited eight years to finally get the specialist mental health treatment she needed.\n\nThe 21-year-old has autism, borderline personality disorder and complex PTSD.\n\nHer first interaction with Camhs was aged seven when she went for an assessment but was rejected for treatment until eventually being accepted eight years later.\n\nShe said: \"My mental health is better than it was once was, but I still have my ups and downs.\n\n\"If I had been seen quicker way back when this all started, then I might have not had the same mental health problems.\n\n\"We urgently need more psychiatrists, especially within Camhs.\"\n\nThe Scottish government standard states that 90% of children and young people should start treatment within 18 weeks of referral to Camhs.\n\nHowever, the research found that just under seven out of 10 (69.7%) children and young people were seen within 18 weeks in the three months to June, down from 73.6% for the previous quarter and 67.5% for the quarter ending June 2018.\n\nA Scottish Children's Services Coalition spokeswoman said the country was experiencing a \"mental health epidemic\".\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Over the past five years we have increased the number of posts and in 2018 we saw a significant improvement in recruitment to psychiatric specialities.\n\n\"There has also been an increase of 15% (11.8 whole time equivalent) in the number of Camhs psychiatrists since this additional funding came into place in March 2016.\n\n\"We are investing £54m in a comprehensive package of support to improve access to mental health services for adults and children, providing funding for additional staff and workforce development.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Dunn's mother, Charlotte Charles, and his father, Tim Dunn pleaded for the return of the suspect\n\nA mother whose son was allegedly killed in a crash involving a US diplomat's wife says, if necessary, she will ask President Trump to waive the woman's diplomatic immunity.\n\nMotorcyclist Harry Dunn, 19, died in a collision with a car in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, who is a suspect in the investigation, left the UK despite telling police she had no such plans.\n\nMr Dunn's mother said the family would \"do what we can to bring her back\".\n\nNorthamptonshire's chief constable and police and crime commissioner have already urged the Americans to waive Ms Sacoolas's diplomatic immunity.\n\nUnder the 1961 Vienna Convention, diplomats and their family members are immune from prosecution in their host country, as long as they are not nationals of that country. However, their immunity can be waived by the state that has sent them.\n\nOn Saturday, the US State Department said diplomatic immunity was \"rarely waived\".\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab urged the US Embassy to reconsider.\n\nMr Dunn's mother, Charlotte Charles, said leaving the country was \"such a dishonourable thing to do\" and urged Ms Sacoolas to come back.\n\n\"We don't wish her any harm. She's a mum; we don't want to take her away from her kids either, but she's taken one of ours and she's taken my twin boys' twinship away,\" she told BBC 5 Live.\n\nHarry Dunn, from Charlton, Banbury, died in hospital after his motorbike was in a crash with a Volvo\n\nMs Charles said if the diplomatic waiver was declined then funds raised by friends and family would be used to go to Washington.\n\n\"We will go and see President Trump. We will ask him to waive it; we will ask him directly. We will do what we can to bring her back,\" she said.\n\nIf that failed, the family would campaign for a change in the law around diplomatic immunity, she said.\n\n\"It's a horrible situation we're finding ourselves in, but if we sit back and do nothing and we don't at least try to bring her back to face justice or if we don't at least try and change the laws we could never live with ourselves if this happens to another family.\"\n\nNorthamptonshire's chief constable Nick Adderley said that \"based on CCTV evidence\", officers knew that \"a vehicle alighted from the RAF base at Croughton\" and was \"on the wrong side of the road\".\n\nMs Charles told the Victoria Derbyshire programme: \"[It was] unintentional. She didn't purposely drive on the other side of the road... if she'd have stayed and faced us as a family we could have found that forgiveness... but forgiving her for leaving, I'm nowhere near.\"\n\nHarry's father, Tim Dunn, said: \"I'd like to think she was more made to leave by the US Embassy than [it be] her own choice.\"\n\nMr Adderley said he had written to the US Embassy in London urging it to waive diplomatic immunity.\n\nHe said both he and the county's Police and Crime Commissioner, Stephen Mold, had called for the waiver \"in order to allow the justice process to take place\".\n\nThe US State Department said it was in \"close consultation\" with British officials and has offered its \"deepest sympathies\" to the family of Mr Dunn.\n\nThe crash happened on the B4031 near RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A humpback whale thought to be up to 10 metres (33ft) in length has been spotted in the River Thames.\n\nIt first surfaced in Dartford over the weekend and experts, who say it does not seem to be distressed, hope it will find its own way back to sea.\n\nShip pilots in the area have been told to proceed with caution.", "Ofcom said Naga Munchetty's exchange with co-host Dan Walker did not break its broadcasting rules\n\nMedia watchdog Ofcom has said it has \"serious concerns around the transparency of the BBC's complaints process\" following its handling of the Naga Munchetty case.\n\nThe BBC's director general Lord Hall recently reversed a decision to partially uphold a complaint against the BBC Breakfast host for comments she made about US President Donald Trump.\n\nOfcom criticised the \"lack of transparency\" around the original ruling, which sparked a public outcry, and Lord Hall's subsequent U-turn.\n\nThe regulator has decided not to investigate Munchetty's exchange with co-host Dan Walker, saying it did not break its broadcasting rules around impartiality.\n\nBut it said the corporation should have published more details of the reasons behind both the BBC Executive Complaints Unit [ECU]'s original decision and the subsequent change of mind.\n\nOfcom said: \"The BBC ECU has not published the full reasoning for its partially upheld finding. Neither has the BBC published any further reasoning for the director-general's decision to overturn that finding.\"\n\nThe case \"highlights the need for the BBC to provide more transparency on the reasons for its findings\", the watchdog said, adding that it \"will be addressing the BBC's lack of transparency as a matter of urgency\".\n\nKevin Bakhurst, Ofcom's director for content and media policy, said: \"We have serious concerns around the transparency of the BBC's complaints process, which must command the confidence of the public.\n\n\"We'll be requiring the BBC to be more transparent about its processes and compliance findings as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nIn response, a BBC spokesman said: \"We note Ofcom's finding and the fact they agree with the director-general's decision.\"\n\nThe BBC's complaints framework says that, whenever the ECU upholds or resolves a complaint, it publishes a summary of its findings, rather than its full reasoning.\n\nOfcom received 18 complaints, mostly about the ECU's original decision, which said Munchetty was wrong to criticise Mr Trump's motives after he said four female politicians should \"go back\" to \"places from which they came\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This exchange, broadcast on 17 July, sparked the complaint\n\nLetters between the BBC and Ofcom were published by the regulator and revealed a disagreement over whether Ofcom had the right to investigate a BBC programme for breaches of content standards.\n\nThe BBC took legal advice on the matter and declined to supply additional information to Ofcom while the regulator was deciding whether to investigate the Breakfast hosts' comments.\n\nThe ECU's full reasons for partially upholding the original complaint were sent to the complainant, but had not been provided to Ofcom, the watchdog said.\n\nOfcom said: \"We had an exchange of correspondence with the BBC in which we invited the BBC to provide any further background information that it considered relevant for the purposes of helping us to carry out our assessment of the programme against the code.\n\n\"The BBC stated that it did not wish to provide any further information at this time. It also questioned whether it was within Ofcom's remit under the BBC Charter and Agreement to assess this programme.\"", "If you are black and you grew up in Scotland, how are you supposed to feel? Black? Scottish? Or Both?\n\nFilmmaker Stewart Kyasimire wanted to understand how his eight-year-old daughter might see herself fitting into Scottish life.\n\nBorn and bred here, she is immersed in Scottish culture.\n\nBut having grown up in the 1980s, with few black and Scottish role models, Stewart knew his experience was very different to what Yasmin's will be.\n\nHe asked prominent black Scots from three generations what it means to be black and Scottish.\n\nTheir answers feature in a new BBC Scotland documentary, which reveals how growing up black in Scotland, for a lot of people, meant feeling like the only black person in the world.\n\nFor Scotland's first Rasta councillor, who views himself as black, Scottish and Rastafarian, race was less important to his peers than the football team he supports.\n\nSpeaking of Glasgow's black history, Graham Campbell says: \"We are like walking exhibits in a crime scene\"\n\nSNP councillor Graham Campbell recounts peculiar questioning in his home city of Glasgow.\n\nHe said: \"I have often been asked the stupid Rangers - Celtic question: 'Are you Protestant Rasta or a Catholic Rasta?'\"\n\nMr Campbell is bringing more prominence to Black History Month at events in the city. He has worked to highlight the role of the slave trade in his city's history.\n\nHe said: \"If you have a slavery name, it's inherited from the ancestors who were owned and enslaved by the people who owned these plantations. I knew Scotsmen had done that. We are like the walking exhibits in a crime scene as the evidence Scotland had that colonial past.\"\n\nComedian Bruce Fummey said he had to \"prove\" he was Scottish\n\nActors, TV personalities, academics, sportsmen and social media stars all said they stood out in a predominantly white country.\n\nComedian Bruce Fummey, from Perth, said: \"You had to prove you were Scottish. You were always challenged - 'but where are you really from?'- they'd ask.\"\n\nFilmmaker Stewart said the most common thing he heard when he went anywhere with his Scottish accent was: \"I didn't know there were black people in Scotland.\"\n\nAccording to the last census, African, Caribbean or Black groups made up 1% (about 36,000) of the population of Scotland, an increase of 28,000 people since 2001.\n\nMixed or multiple ethnic groups represented 0.4% (20,000) and other ethnic groups 0.3% (14,000) of the total population.\n\nNcuti Gatwa felt like the only black man in the world growing up in the East of Scotland\n\nNcuti Gatwa, actor and star of Netflix hit series Sex Education, grew up in Dunfermline and Edinburgh after moving to Scotland from Rwanda in 1994.\n\nHe said his mother walked around Edinburgh thinking that \"everyone looked the same\".\n\nHe jokes about growing up the odd one out: \"When you see another black person you say 'There's another one - I must find them and I must be friends with him'.\n\n\"I'd be like: ''I think I might be the only black person in the world!'\"\n\nBut he also described the devastating racism that was the norm at school.\n\n\"It was so normal to have racial abuse spat at you,\" he said. \"When I moved to Dunfermline, there were a group of boys who ended up making up a racist social media page geared at me.\n\n\"I came home that day and told my mum about it and it wasn't the most empathetic of responses - it was like, 'get on with it'.\"\n\nNcuti has struggled with his national identity.\n\n\"I've always been a bit scared to say that I'm Scottish because it's almost as if people wouldn't believe me.\n\n\"I wasn't seen as the same as anyone around me because no one around me looked like me. There were no black Scottish role models.\"\n\nAnother theme from many of the contributors was that of not feeling \"fully Scottish\" and of not fitting in.\n\nMany black Scots speak of being torn between two worlds.\n\nJean Johansson said it can be hard to fit in\n\nLike many other mixed race people in the documentary, TV presenter Jean Johansson, from Glasgow, said it can be hard to fit in anywhere.\n\nShe said: \"In Africa, I was regarded as white.\n\n\"I have never been described as white, so for Africans to see me as a white person was just weird.\n\n\"I identify most as being Scottish but I am a black Scottish woman and I am OK with that.\n\n\"To think there is anyone watching my TV shows and thinking they can be like me or do what I've done - that is everything to me - because I never had that.\"\n\nStewart's greatest hope is that by putting role models in front of his daughter, she will be able to look in the mirror and be proud to be black and proud to be Scottish.\n\nHe said: \"Maybe one day she will only have to say one thing: 'I'm Scottish'.\"", "Students were expecting to move into this building in Portsmouth for the new term\n\nThe universities minister says it is \"deeply concerning\" so many student housing blocks remain unfinished, leaving students in temporary accommodation.\n\nChris Skidmore is calling together providers of student accommodation, many of them private developers, to \"ensure these failures don't happen again\".\n\nHe was responding to a BBC News report into how 22 private student housing projects under construction have not been completed for the new term.\n\nThis represents almost a third of the current private student-housing developments, according to the Unipol student housing charity.\n\nMr Skidmore tweeted: \"We cannot allow this inadequacy to continue.\"\n\nStudent housing has been seen as a lucrative option for investors - but this autumn has seen a rash of accommodation projects not delivered on time.\n\nIt has meant housing problems for students in places including Portsmouth, Bristol, Lincoln, Swansea and Liverpool.\n\nThere have been concerns from student leaders about wellbeing and mental health when those leaving home for the first time might find themselves in temporary housing away from other students.\n\nAt the University of Portsmouth, about 250 students have had to be placed in alternative accommodation.\n\nPolitics student Destiny said she had spent the past three weeks in a hotel, away from other students and with no cooking facilities.\n\n\"I've been feeling really anxious,\" she told BBC News. \"I can't concentrate on my studies.\"\n\nDestiny has been stuck in temporary accommodation after her student block was not completed on time\n\nAs with many new student housing blocks, the building project in Portsmouth was a private property development - with no involvement or link with the university.\n\n\"In many cases, universities have absolutely no say in how private student accommodation is run, its price, or how providers treat our students when things go wrong,\" the university's vice-chancellor, Prof Graham Galbraith, said.\n\nMuch of the growth in student housing has been fuelled by billions of pounds of public money - in the form of maintenance loans for their living costs.\n\nBut Prof Galbraith said there was \"no real control\" or strategic planning for private student housing.\n\nHe welcomed Mr Skidmore's intervention and is calling for greater scrutiny and regulation of the sector.\n\nHe also wants better consumer protection for students signing housing contracts, as some \"arrangements are incredibly one-sided\".\n\nUniversities UK said its code of conduct applied only to university-owned housing - which means any private student developments will not be covered.\n\nAnd the higher education regulator, the Office for Students, said it \"doesn't have powers to regulate private accommodation providers\".\n\nPrime Student Living, the private housing company behind the Stanhope House site in Portsmouth, said it had \"unreservedly apologised to students\".\n\n\"We believe that we have done everything possible to mitigate the impact for those affected in the time available,\" said a spokesman.\n\n\"We will continue to do all we can to get students into the building as an urgent priority.\"", "The prime minister has said he will raise the case of Harry Dunn with the White House if a resolution cannot be found any other way.\n\nThe 19-year-old was allegedly killed in a crash involving a US diplomat's wife - she has since left the UK despite telling police she had no such plans.\n\nAsked about calls for Anne Sacoolas to return to face further questioning, Boris Johnson said: \"I do not think that it can be right to use the process of diplomatic immunity for this type of purpose.\"", "Street Attraction told the BBC that everything was \"completely consensual\"\n\nYouTube has deactivated two channels run by \"pick-up artists\" after a BBC investigation into the online industry.\n\nIt has removed hundreds of videos from accounts linked to Addy A-Game and Street Attraction for violating its rules on nudity and sexual conduct.\n\nIn September, Adnan Ahmed, who ran the Addy A-Game channel, was convicted of threatening and abusive behaviour towards young women.\n\nStreet Attraction's coaches insist that they have done nothing wrong.\n\nThe investigation for Panorama and BBC Scotland's Disclosure examined the global \"game\" business that claims to sell the secrets to picking up women.\n\nIt looked into channels that host videos of the sexual exploits of so-called pick-up artists, including what they claim are secret recordings of women having sex.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nYouTube said it had terminated the channels Addy A-Game and Street Attraction.\n\nIt added: \"YouTube strictly prohibits explicit sexual, graphic or harassing content. Nothing is more important than protecting the safety of our community, and we will continue to review and refine our policies in this area.\"\n\nAdnan Ahmed, 38, was found guilty of five charges at Glasgow Sheriff Court.\n\nPolice began an investigation after his behaviour was revealed by the BBC's The Social earlier this year.\n\nAhmed had secretly filmed himself approaching dozens of women in Glasgow and in Eastern Europe.\n\nAdnan Ahmed was found guilty of threatening and abusive behaviour\n\nReporter Myles Bonnar went undercover at a \"bootcamp\" run by Street Attraction, which claimed to teach techniques on seducing women such as overcoming \"last minute resistance\".\n\nStreet Attraction's founder Eddie Hitchens told the BBC that everything was \"completely consensual\".\n\nHe said: \"We actually help men…so if anything we help prevent rape culture to help prevent them get involved in anything illegal or non-consensual.\"\n\nPanorama: Secrets of the Seduction Bootcamp is on BBC One and BBC One Scotland at 20:30 and later on the BBC iPlayer.", "A number of NBA teams, including the Rockets (in red) have worn uniforms with Chinese characters to help promote the game in China\n\nThe general manager of the Houston Rockets basketball team has apologised after a tweet in support of Hong Kong protesters led to a Chinese backlash.\n\nDaryl Morey's original tweet included an image captioned: \"Fight For Freedom. Stand With Hong Kong.\"\n\nBut the coach backpedalled after a fierce criticism from Chinese fans, sponsors and commercial partners.\n\nChinese broadcasters and streaming platforms said they would no longer broadcast Rockets games.\n\nNBA games draw huge viewership in China, with millions watching games primarily through streaming platforms. The Rockets have been popular since the team signed Chinese star Yao Ming in 2002.\n\nThe Rockets and the National Basketball Association in the US quickly distanced themselves from Mr Morey's tweet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The weekend saw riots over the mask ban, a second person shot, and tear gas fired at protesters\n\nAnd, in a follow-up statement, Mr Morey said he had reconsidered his position. \"I was merely voicing one thought, based on one interpretation, of one complicated event,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I have had a lot of opportunity since that tweet to hear and consider other perspectives.\n\n\"I have always appreciated the significant support our Chinese fans and sponsors...I would hope that those who are upset will know that offending or misunderstanding them was not my intention.\n\n\"My tweets are my own and in no way represent the Rockets or the NBA.\"\n\nHong Kong has seen months of protests - sparked by an extradition law that has since been withdrawn - that have grown increasingly violent.\n\nMr Morey's original tweet, sent on Friday, caused uproar in China.\n\nOn Sunday, the Chinese Basketball Association suspended cooperation with the Houston Rockets, as did Chinese sportswear brand Li-Ning.\n\nDaryl Morey, who has a degree in computer science, is regarded as an innovative figure in the NBA\n\nThe club's sponsor in China, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, suspended co-operation, too.\n\nAnd Chinese state broadcaster CCTV and Tencent Holdings, which streams NBA games in China, both said they would stop broadcasting Rockets matches.\n\nRockets owner Tilman Fertitta tweeted that Morey didn't speak for the team, which he said was \"not a political organisation\". Rockets player James Harden said: \"We apologise. We love China.\"\n\nThe NBA described Mr Morey's comments as \"regrettable\" and acknowledged he had \"deeply offended many of our friends and fans in China\".\n\n\"We have great respect for the history and culture of China and hope that sports and the NBA can be used as a unifying force.\"\n\nYao Ming - 7ft 6ins tall (2.29m) - played for the Houston Rockets between 2002 and 2011\n\nAnd, in a lengthy Facebook post, Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai criticised Mr Morey for his \"damaging\" tweet, saying he misjudged how strongly many Chinese people felt about Hong Kong.\n\nThe Canadian, who is also the vice-chairman of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba, said he had \"spent a good part of my professional life in China\".\n\n\"There are certain topics that are third-rail issues [untouchable] in certain countries, societies and communities,\" he went on.\n\n\"Supporting a separatist movement in a Chinese territory is one of those third-rail issues, not only for the Chinese government, but also for all citizens in China.\"\n\nMr Tsai said the damage from Mr Morey's tweet \"will take a long time to repair\". He added that 1.4 billion Chinese citizens \"stand united when it comes to the territorial integrity of China\" and the issue \"is non-negotiable\".\n\nThe NBA zone defence over Mr Morey's tweet provoked accusations from Democratic and Republican lawmakers that the league was bowing to Beijing instead of supporting democracy.\n\nFormer US presidential hopeful - and Rockets fan - Ted Cruz accused the NBA of \"shamefully retreating\" in pursuit of profit.\n\nMr Cruz said he was proud to see Mr Morey \"call out the Chinese Communist Party's repressive treatment of protestors in Hong Kong\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ted Cruz This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 NBA wants money, and the Communist Party of China is asking them to deny the most basic of human rights. In response, the NBA issued a statement saying money is the most important thing.\"\n\nDemocratic presidential hopeful Julian Castro tweeted that the US must \"not allow American citizens to be bullied by an authoritarian 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 2 by Julián Castro This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther Democrats, including Mr Castro's 2020 rival Andrew Yang and congressman Eric Swalwell also criticised the NBA's move.", "Stephen Barclay has been pressed on how the government will respond to a new law designed to force it to seek an extension to the Brexit deadline if a deal is not reached by 19 October.\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Marr \"pleaded\" with the Brexit secretary to reveal the \"cunning plan\".", "Businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri says she will not reveal whether she had an intimate relationship with Boris Johnson because any answer would be \"weaponised\" and used against her and the prime minister.\n\nMs Arcuri has been at the centre of a row over whether Mr Johnson failed to declare a conflict of interest over their relationship when he was London mayor.\n\nMr Johnson has dismissed allegations of impropriety over public money and access given Ms Arcuri.\n\nShe told ITV's Good Morning Britain she was \"being used as a pawn\".", "Krept, one half of Krept and Konan, has cancelled his shows in October after a warning from his doctor.\n\nThe pair were due to do seven shows back-to-back in November performing songs from their newest album Revenge is Sweet.\n\nHe says he has been \"back and forth\" from hospital since he was attacked backstage at the BBC's 1Xtra Live event in October.\n\nThe rapper says his plans for the tour \"require 100% strength\".\n\nKrept was \"slashed\" in a backstage scuffle at the event in Arena Birmingham and treated on site.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFollowing the assault, the concert was called off early and the headliners didn't get to perform.\n\nWest Midlands police told Newsbeat no arrests have been made but investigations are ongoing.\n\nKrept says he made the decision to postpone the tour because he didn't want to \"collapse on stage\".\n\nHe said: \"All tickets remain valid of course and I promise it will be worth the wait... health is priority and I'm sorry for any inconvenience.\"\n\nThe show in London's O2 will go ahead as planned in December.\n\nYungen has collaborated with Krept and Konan before\n\nLove Island winner Amber Gill was among those who left supportive comments on the rapper's Instagram post.\n\nDue to perform with Krept and Konan are rappers Yungen and K Trap, as well as Kiico who won BBC Three's The Rap Game UK.\n\nAnother contestant from the talent show, Ransom FA, will perform at the duo's Glasgow show.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "New Balance has been Liverpool's official kit supplier since 2015\n\nLiverpool FC have won a legal battle over a multimillion-pound sponsorship deal with the US company New Balance.\n\nThe European champions were taken to court over their alleged refusal to honour a reported £40m-a-year deal, which expires in May 2020.\n\nUnder the terms, the footwear firm is entitled to renew its sponsorship if it matches any competitor's offer.\n\nBut Liverpool argued that New Balance could not match Nike's five-year deal of £30m a year in terms of marketing.\n\nNike said sports stars like Serena Williams could promote Liverpool products\n\nGiving his ruling in London, Mr Justice Teare ruled in Liverpool's favour, finding that \"the New Balance offer on marketing was less favourable to Liverpool FC than the Nike offer\".\n\nThe judge said New Balance could not match Nike's offer to use \"three non-football global superstar athletes and influencers of the calibre of\" tennis legend Serena Williams, basketball star LeBron James and the musician Drake.\n\nNew Balance has been Liverpool's official kit supplier since the 2015-16 season. The sportswear firm said at the time it was \"an important step for... launching into football and reflects the global growth ambitions of the brand\".\n\nOpening the firm's case last week, Daniel Oudkerk QC said the key issue was whether New Balance had matched \"the material, measurable and matchable terms of a third-party offer\".\n\nLiverpool argued New Balance had not matched Nike's offer, which includes a commitment to sell licensed products in at least \"6,000 stores worldwide, 500 of which shall be Nike-owned\".\n\nBut Mr Oudkerk said New Balance has \"approximately 40,000-odd retail doors globally\".\n\nHe argued Liverpool dismissed New Balance's offer to match terms as the club was \"wedded to Nike\", and that \"it appears that the club had resolved to reject the New Balance match come what may\".\n\nNew Balance was responsible for designing Liverpool's strips and training kit\n\nGuy Morpuss QC, representing the Premier League club, said New Balance's claim it could distribute the club's kit to 40,000 stores was \"a myth\", adding the company had \"grossly overstated\" the number of stores to which it could distribute.\n\n\"The idea that New Balance would even get football kit into anything close to those 40,000 stores is utterly fanciful,\" he added.\n\nThe court also heard that Liverpool spent more than £555,000 on the case, with 20% to be paid by New Balance.\n\nIn his ruling, Mr Justice Teare said: \"Liverpool FC is not obliged to enter into a new agreement with New Balance.\"\n\nA Liverpool spokesperson said the club was pleased with the judge's decision.\n\n\"We will continue with New Balance for the current season, in combination with preparing next season's Liverpool kits with our new supplier.\"\n\nA New Balance spokeswoman said the firm was disappointed, adding: \"We believe strongly that we matched the competing offer and would have delivered many more years of record-breaking kit sales.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ismail Ahmed, the founder and chairman of WorldRemit - a global digital money transfer service operating in six continents - has been named the most influential black Briton.\n\nThe Powerlist 2020 covers the most powerful people of African and African Caribbean heritage in the UK, and includes grime artist Stormzy and the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nAdina Campbell went to meet him to hear about his journey from Somaliland to picking strawberries, to becoming a fintech leader.", "A US judge has blocked the suspension of a high school girl who was punished for posting a note at school warning of a \"rapist\" in their midst.\n\nIn September Aela Mansmann, 15, was accused of bullying by school officials in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, after she posted notes in the girls' toilets.\n\nBut on Thursday a judge issued a temporary stay on the suspension citing concerns over free-speech rights.\n\nA lawsuit filed by the girl's family against the school is still pending.\n\nThe case began on 16 September after Aela posted notes in two bathrooms at Cape Elizabeth High School reading: \"There's a rapist in the school and you know who it is.\"\n\nAfter another student brought the note to school administrators, they investigated and identified Aela through camera footage.\n\nAela Mansmann shows the note she posted, leading to her punishment\n\nShe and two other girls were suspended for three days on 4 October after officials determined the behaviour constituted bullying.\n\nThe district's investigation revealed that one male student felt targeted by the notes and was ostracised by his peers, forcing him to miss classes.\n\nIn an interview with CBS, Aela said her note was never intended to single out anyone as a rapist, but was rather highlighting the issue of sexual assault.\n\nThe Bangor Daily News reports that after the notes were posted, \"the rumour mill spun out of control, creating fear in the high school\".\n\nThe principal, Jeffrey Shedd, conducted 47 interviews and determined the school was safe, according to the newspaper.\n\nHe previously said the three suspended girls had \"made a really bad choice\", despite meaning well.\n\nThe suspension led about 50 students in the 550-pupil school to walk out in protest on 7 October.\n\nThe American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the school district near Portland, Maine's largest city.\n\nIt argued that the girl had simply taken a \"public stance as an ally for victims and survivors of sexual violence\".\n\nIn the order temporarily blocking the suspension on Thursday, US District Court Judge Lance Walker cited \"a fair likelihood\" that the suspension would ultimately be overturned on the grounds of free speech and Title IX - a federal law that bans gender discrimination in education.\n\nThe notes, the judge wrote, were \"neither frivolous nor fabricated, took place within the limited confines of the girls' bathroom, related to a matter of concern to the young women who might enter the bathroom and receive the message, and [were] not disruptive of school discipline\".\n\nIn interviews before the judge's order, Aela said she was shocked that the school chose to investigate her rather than the person who alerted school administrators to the note.\n\n\"I was really surprised that my school took that report and decided to open an investigation into whether or not I'm a bully versus opening an investigation on whether or not this person who self-identified is a perpetrator,\" she told Business Insider.\n\nThe ACLU praised the decision, saying: \"Speaking up about sexual assault is already difficult for young people. If this punishment had been allowed to stand, it would have only made it more difficult.\"\n\nShael Norris, the girl's mother, also hailed the decision.\n\n\"All my daughter ever wanted was for students to feel safe speaking out about sexual assault,\" she said in a statement through the ACLU.\n\n\"I'm so proud of her for standing up for what she believes in.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tatum Price said her son was \"taken away within an hour\"\n\nMost adults are \"living in ignorance\" about the accessibility of drugs to \"very young children\", the UK's four children's commissioners have said.\n\nThey said they were worried by how many youngsters used cheap Class A drugs.\n\nIt follows the death of at least 12 under-16s since 2017 after taking ecstasy, including Carson Price, 13, from Hengoed, Caerphilly county.\n\nDetectives have warned teenagers are increasingly being targeted by dealers through social media.\n\nOn a table in the corner of Carson's family's dining room, there is a cast of his hand.\n\nAfter his death in April, his mother Tatum Price wanted something visible and touchable to connect her to her son.\n\n\"Carson was a lovely, brainy, intelligent boy with so much of a future,\" she said.\n\n\"And it just got taken away within an hour.\"\n\nCarson died after taking a high-strength pill called Donkey Kong - his family has been told the ecstasy was sold to him through Snapchat and cost just a few pounds.\n\nCarson was 13 when he died in April\n\n\"It was too easy,\" said Ms Price.\n\n\"When you assume Class A drugs, you think 'my God, that would be hard to get hold of' - not as easy as going to buy sweets in a sweet shop for the same price.\"\n\nHis mother said she regularly used to check Carson's phone to monitor his use of social media and had discussed the dangers of different substances with him.\n\nThere were no warning signs that he was going to take a Class A drug.\n\n\"We're the naive ones - the parents,\" she said.\n\n\"Kids and dealers are brazen today, and are selling them in the park.\"\n\nLast year there were at least seven deaths of children below the age of 16 in the UK after taking ecstasy, including two 13 year olds.\n\n\"The vast majority of parents and adults would be hugely shocked at the availability of really dangerous, strong, Class A drugs to very young children\" said Sally Holland, the children's commissioner for Wales.\n\n\"I think we're all probably living in ignorance.\"\n\nSally Holland, the children's commissioner for Wales, said \"we're all probably living in ignorance\"\n\nAlong with the UK's three other commissioners, she has raised concerns about how exposed young people have become to drugs such as ecstasy.\n\nSince the 1990s, the cost of the drug has fallen from an average of £25 per tablet to as low as £5.\n\nAt the same time, the average strength has doubled, with some so-called \"super pills\" such as Donkey Kong testing at four to five times as strong.\n\n\"I've known people take them as young as 12,\" said Lois, a member of the Cardiff Youth Council.\n\n\"It can start off like marijuana but it can really quickly grow to ecstasy because it's just not enough.\"\n\nAnother member of the youth council said children were being exposed to Class A drugs because they were often sold by teenagers.\n\n\"That person in the library revising is a drug dealer part-time,\" said 17-year-old Zahara.\n\n\"You can look outside your window, there's about eight kids running back and forth, you know exactly what they're doing - they're selling drugs.\"\n\nCarson Price's mum says his death has destroyed her life\n\nPolice officers investigating organised crime said the sale of Class A substances has moved away from drug dens and towards smart phones, making children more vulnerable.\n\n\"Youngsters are being targeted because youngsters are very comfortable using social media platforms,\" warned Det Insp Sarah Trigg from South Wales Police.\n\n\"Branding is popular, like Donkey Kong and Versace.\"\n\nSnapchat said there was no place on its messaging service for drugs and encouraged users to report any illegal activity.\n\nThe four children's commissioners have called for the UK government to address the issue of drug sales through social media in its plans for a new independent digital regulator.\n\nThey also want a reversal of cuts to youth services, which they said have taken away a first line of defence to protect young people.\n\nThe Home Office said it was concerned about the increased use of Class A drugs and recognised the role of early intervention in steering young people away from drugs.\n\nIt is awaiting the results of an independent review into drug issue, commissioned earlier this year.\n\nBut for Ms Price, the fear is that other children are still being left vulnerable while their parents are oblivious.\n\n\"Please don't think it won't be you,\" she warned.\n\n\"My son was highly educated, from a loving home, I felt my son would never do it, tell them harsh realities - it destroys your life.\"", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Excluded teens are \"easy pickings\" for criminal gangs, says a group of MPs and peers\n\nBetter support for excluded pupils could help stem the rise in knife crime, a report from a cross-party group of MPs and peers has found.\n\nToo many excluded pupils get only a couple of hours teaching each day, says the report.\n\nThere is evidence this leaves them at risk of being drawn into knife crime, it adds.\n\nMinisters warned that \"simple causal links between exclusions and knife crime cannot not be drawn\".\n\nHowever, research by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Knife Crime found only a third of councils were able to confirm they had space for newly excluded pupils in their pupil referral units (PRUs).\n\nAnd the report, Back to school? Breaking the Link between School Exclusions and Knife Crime, urges the government to ensure councils give all excluded pupils full-time, high quality education.\n\nThe MPs and peers heard evidence that pupils who are not found places or are only taught part-time have more opportunity to get into trouble.\n\n\"Since they kicked me out, I've got time on my hands to... commit more crime in Croydon with my friends who have also been kicked out, who are also doing wrong things, who are also selling drugs who are also carrying knives,\" said one excluded pupil.\n\nOthers said their schools had not been very good at supporting them when they were on the cusp of trouble, with zero-tolerance policies leading to exclusions for relatively minor offences.\n\n\"I would get excluded more often and sent home more often, for unnecessary reasons, like not wearing a blazer, my socks not coming up to my knees. Just silly things like that,\" said one.\n\n\"It is encouraging kids to go out and do what they want because you are not giving them an education.\"\n\nThe report includes official statistics, showing that in 2017-18, more than 17,500 boys aged 14 in England and Wales carried a knife or weapon, with a third of these having had weapons used against them.\n\nSeparate statistics for the same year showed permanent exclusions from England's schools stood at 7,900, up 70% on 2012.\n\nBy law, all pupils are entitled to full-time education, starting six days after their exclusion begins but \"too often this is not happening\", says the report.\n\nThe researchers sent questionnaires to all of England's 150 local education authorities and received responses from 80% of them.\n\nCroydon Central MP Sarah Jones, who chairs the parliamentary group, called the number of children excluded from school \"a travesty\".\n\n\"Often these children have literally nowhere to go,\" Ms Jones said.\n\n\"They are easy pickings for criminal gangs looking to exploit vulnerable children.\"\n\nJaved Khan, chief executive of children's charity Barnardo's, added: \"Exclusions must be a last resort and alternative education provision must be full-time.\"\n\nThe report calls for a government review into the use of part-time education for excluded pupils and says school rankings and results should take account of all pupils, including those who have been excluded.\n\nThe government said ministers would \"always back teachers and heads in delivering discipline in the classroom\".\n\n\"The issues surrounding knife crime and poor behaviour in schools are complicated and multi-faceted,\" said a spokeswoman.\n\n\"We are clear that permanent exclusion should only be used as a last resort and exclusion from school must not mean exclusion from education.\n\n\"Furthermore, we must be just as ambitious for young people in alternative provision as we are for those in mainstream schools, and we are taking a range of actions to drive up the quality of those settings.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association said the recent rise in knife crime by young people was of \"enormous concern\" and councils shared MPs' and peers' concerns.\n\nJudith Blake, chairwoman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, said councils welcomed changes to Ofsted inspections to take exclusion numbers into account.\n\n\"We are also calling for councils to be given the powers and funding to hold all schools to account where there is evidence of unexplained pupil exits,\" said Ms Blake.", "Earthworms are the engineers of the soil, bringing benefits to farmers\n\nThe first global atlas of earthworms has been compiled, based on surveys at 7,000 sites in 56 countries.\n\nThe findings will help protect the hundreds of different earthworm species found on all continents except Antarctica.\n\nClimate change might have \"substantial effects\" on earthworms, said an international team of scientists.\n\nThe burrowing creatures play a vital role in improving the soil but little is known about them on a global scale.\n\nWe rely on earthworms for increasing crop yields and aerating the soil, but they have been overlooked in the past, said Dr Helen Phillips of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research in Leipzig.\n\n\"As children probably the vast majority of us held earthworms in our hands and probably weren't quite aware how significant they are in the environment and for the things that we rely upon,\" she said.\n\n\"We should never stop looking at the above ground biodiversity but we really shouldn't be overlooking what's beneath our feet, as well.\"\n\nThe international team of 141 researchers from 35 countries mapped global patterns in the number and type of different earthworms and how this is related to factors like soil pH and the climate.\n\nThey discovered that temperature and rainfall can shape patterns of earthworms in the soil, suggesting climate change might have \"serious implications\" for both earthworms and the services they provide to nature.\n\nDr Noah Fierer of the University of Colorado, Boulder, who is not connected with the study, said the results underscore that earthworm distributions are highly sensitive to climate, though \"it remains unclear how earthworm communities will respond to ongoing climate change\".\n\nThe study, published in Science, found that at a local level, the number of species and the abundance of earthworms is lower in the tropics than in the temperate regions.\n\nFor example, the soils of southern England are an earthworm paradise, harbouring some of the highest diversity and abundances of earthworms in the world.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: Take no-deal off the table and we absolutely support a general election\n\nHe did it, sort of. The prime minister has said he'll ask MPs to back an election in seven weeks time, just in time for Christmas.\n\nThe government's laying the motion tonight to hold the vote on Monday, trying to lay down the gauntlet to the opposition parties, who can keep him trapped in Number 10 if they like.\n\nRemember this time last week there was delight in Downing Street that they had overcome expectations and agreed a deal with the EU.\n\nBut that euphoria fell away on that side of the argument, when MPs booted out the timetable to debate and pass all the new laws that would actually make Brexit happen.\n\nFor some of those objecting, it's a part of the ruse to stop our departure. But many others had what they considered entirely legitimate concerns about the speed with which he was trying to ram it through\n\nNumber 10's wheeze now is to dangle the offer of a few extra days of scrutiny to get it through, but only if MPs give in to Boris Johnson's other demand, backing to go to the ballot box soon after.\n\n'Have the extra time you called for, but only if I get my ultimate prize' he's asking Parliament.\n\nDowning Street knows full well however that opposition MPs are unlikely suddenly to swoon for this new timetable, it is hardly much extra time for scrutiny.\n\nAnd while there are cabinet ministers who reckon it would be better to try as hard as possible with the bill, calmly and on a more conventional timetable, the dominant view in government is that there really is not a serious chance of the Brexit legislation getting through unmangled, so the only way, reluctantly for some, is to push the button for an election.\n\nAnd this is where it gets very sticky for the government.\n\nWhat happens next is partly dependent on exactly how the EU responds to the UK request for delay to Brexit.\n\nThat will become clear either on Friday or Monday. Although President Macron is understood to be on board for a short extension that would focus the minds, apparently texting as much to the prime minister on Thursday, the wider view in the EU is not expected to fall in line with that.\n\nPrecisely how they respond will shape the opposition parties' next moves. They might even, whisper it, come up with a fudge.\n\nBoris Johnson cannot be remotely sure Labour and the smaller parties will let him have his way. The SNP and the Lib Dems are both tempted to go for an election as soon as a three month delay is agreed.\n\nThe Labour Party's official position has always been that they would agree to an election, in fact officially they are chomping at the bit, like the other parties, as long as a delay is agreed.\n\nOne senior member of the shadow cabinet predicted they would not be able to withstand the pressure if the Lib Dems and the SNP said yes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says an early poll would create a \"credible\" deadline for passing a Brexit deal\n\nJeremy Corbyn himself, and certainly one group in his camp, are understood to be very tempted too. But, just as in 2017, lots of Labour MPs are horrified at the idea, partly because of Labour's standing in the polls.\n\nBut also, there are senior shadow cabinet ministers who believe the smart thing would be to leave the PM in his purgatory, twisting, unable to get his bill through, unable to get to an election.\n\nIn short, the position is fluid, and Labour is having words with itself tonight.\n\nPlenty of Tory MPs worry that Labour will pursue precisely a delaying tactic - \"like a boa constrictor they will slowly squeeze Boris until his novelty fun factor starts to grate\".\n\nIf Boris Johnson therefore is totally and utterly stuck in a few days time, he in turn vows that he would raise the temperature even higher, to turn an already fraught and bizarre situation into something completely extraordinary, making MPs vote day after day after day on whether or not to have an election, and bringing forward no business to the House of Commons - the government going on a form of political strike.\n\nThe belief in Number 10 is that while it might be hellish getting there, in the end the logic moves towards the opposition allowing an election, in the end.\n\nEither way, the opposition's final responses to the prime minister's gambit tonight are not final. They will wait to see exactly what the EU says.\n\nWhat is obvious though is that the prime minister's 'do or die' Brexit deadline has disappeared. Whether his vow to get an election is one he is able to keep is also not in his control.\n\nThere will be no budget, there may not be an election, and there may not be Brexit any time soon, and depending what happens next there may not really be a government either in any traditional sense of the word.", "The research involved counting toys out loud into a box and looking at toddlers' reactions\n\nInfants as young as 14 months can understand the concept of counting long before they learn the true meaning of \"one, two, three\", scientists say.\n\nThe US researchers said toddlers who hear counting out loud appear to be able to recognise quantities.\n\nYet most children don't understand the full meaning of number words until they are about four years old, they argue.\n\nThe scientists now want to see whether early counting practice leads to better number skills later on.\n\nIn the study, from Johns Hopkins University, 16 toddlers watched four toys - little dogs or cars - being hidden in a box that they could reach into without seeing the contents.\n\nSometimes the researchers counted out loud as they dropped each toy in, saying, \"Look - one, two, three, four. Four dogs.\"\n\nAt other times, the researchers simply said: \"This, this, this and this - these dogs.\"\n\nWhen the toys were actually counted in, the babies clearly expected more than one to be pulled from the box.\n\nThey didn't remember the exact number, but they did remember the approximate number, the researchers said.\n\nBut when the toys were not counted, the babies became distracted after researchers pulled just one out, as though there was nothing else to see.\n\nStudy author Jenny Wang said: \"When we counted the toys for the babies before we hid them, they were much better at remembering how many toys there were.\"\n\nShe said she found this \"really surprising\", and said it showed very young infants \"have a sense that when other people are counting it is tied to the rough dimension of quantity in the world\".\n\nThe researchers believe counting out loud with toddlers and introducing them to counting books could help them to understand the concept well before the pre-school years.\n\nThe research team now wants to see whether English-speaking babies react to counting in a foreign language.\n\nThe findings are published in Developmental Science.\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. Thank you for letting Harry crash the party, jokes Meghan\n\nConversations about gender equality \"can't happen without men\", the Duchess of Sussex has said at a roundtable discussion on the issue.\n\nMeghan was joined by the Duke of Sussex, and jokingly thanked delegates for \"letting him crash the party\".\n\nHarry was described as a \"surprise appearance\" by co-organisers, the Queen's Commonwealth Trust.\n\nYoung ambassadors from around the world took part in the talks, which were held at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe couple arrived together in an electric Audi - driven by the duke - after they were accused of hypocrisy for using private jets while supporting environmental campaigns.\n\nThe participants - who represented organisations from countries including South Africa, Nigeria, Iraq, Malawi and Bangladesh - shared their personal achievements and the best practices that had helped them overcome complex challenges.\n\nBeginning the discussion, Meghan, seated next to her husband, told the group: \"In terms of gender equality, which is something I have championed for a long time, I think that conversation can't happen without men being a part of it.\n\n\"So for this reason it made complete sense to let him [Harry] join today. So thank you for letting him crash the party.\"\n\nAmong those to share their experiences with the royal couple was the founder of the South African organisation Motholung Network Against Women and Child Abuse, Lebogang Bogopane.\n\n\"I got married very young and experienced domestic violence,\" she said. \"My mother is a survivor and I'm also a survivor. One day I said 'I'm tired, this needs to stop.'\"\n\nYoung people from countries including South Africa, Iraq and Bangladesh took part in the roundtable\n\nOne participant said they were surprised by how \"genuine\" the royal couple were\n\nThe roundtable was led by Queen's Commonwealth Trust chief executive Nicola Brentnall and moderated by One Young World counsellors, social media influencer Rossana Bee and Canada's first openly gay Olympic gold medallist, Mark Tewksbury.\n\nMr Tewksbury said the duke's appearance at the event was a \"wonderful surprise\".\n\n\"I guess we should have known because there were two empty chairs there, but I just assumed that an assistant was going to come along,\" he said.\n\nThe founder of the first Iraqi LGBT+ organisation, Amir Ashour, who also took part in the roundtable, said the duke's attendance was an indication of how important the issue was to the royal couple.\n\n\"They were asking questions and getting engaged,\" the 29-year-old said, adding that he was \"surprised at how genuine they were\".\n\nMeghan and her husband arrived at the roundtable in an electric car\n\nHarry and Meghan are president and vice president of the Queen's Commonwealth Trust respectively.\n\nAnd Meghan is a long-standing supporter of One Young World, which she called \"the best think tank imaginable\".\n\nThe One Young World Summit is a four-day global forum for young leaders, which aims to bring together 2,000 young people from more than 190 countries to accelerate social impact.\n\nOn Tuesday, Meghan attended the summit's opening ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall in London.\n\nShe has previously spoken about her belief that men can also be feminists - and, while pregnant, said she wanted her baby to be a feminist, whether they were a girl or a boy.\n\nThe roundtable on Friday was the couple's first public engagement since an emotional ITV documentary, when they described the pressure they had faced from intense media scrutiny.", "A lovesick German teenager outdid Shakespeare's Romeo by scaling a 4m (13ft) prison wall and climbing up to his ex-girlfriend's barred window.\n\nBut the 18-year-old refused to come down and the fire brigade in northern Germany used a ladder to rescue him.\n\nGerman media report that the ex-girlfriend, also 18, had broken up with him shortly before his jail break-in.\n\nHe was half-naked, apparently to avoid snagging clothes on the barbed wire. He could face prosecution for trespass.\n\nA spokesperson for the youth prison in Vechta in Lower Saxony said the spurned young man was desperate to persuade his ex to change her mind. He managed to reach her first-floor window.\n\nHe took advantage of a street lamp to get over the wall - so now the authorities have wrapped the lamppost in barbed wire, German broadcaster NDR says.\n\nIt is not clear why the young man did not book a prison visit instead of going on his climbing adventure last week.\n\nNo more details were given about him or the young offender he was trying to see and it is unknown if his bid to save the relationship was a success.\n\nRomeo, Shakespeare's passionate romantic hero, scales a garden wall in Romeo and Juliet. Climbing up to her balcony is not however in the stage directions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This Matthew Bourne production of Romeo and Juliet gives a step-up to young dancers.", "The bodies were found in a lorry trailer in the early hours of Wednesday\n\nPost-mortem examinations are beginning of the 39 people who were found dead in a lorry container in Essex. How are people identified in such circumstances?\n\nThe first step is to look for circumstantial evidence, says Dr Noemi Procopio, a lecturer in forensic science at Northumbria University in Newcastle.\n\nThese are items on or around the body that can give a clue to identity including clothes, belongings and documents, but they are not enough to prove who someone is.\n\n\"For example, clothing can be moved from one person to another,\" she said. \"These things can be important but cannot be used to prove identity, just as a clue in the first instance.\"\n\nThe next step is a visual identification but this really depends on the state of decomposition, which can vary significantly depending on the conditions.\n\nDecomposition starts soon after the heart stops beating, with enzymes released internally that start breaking down the body. \"It can alter the shape of the face drastically for example quite quickly,\" Dr Procopio said.\n\nIn a hot, humid place with access for insects and scavengers, a body can be reduced to the skeleton within a week, she said.\n\nDr Noemi Procopio says scars and tattoos can help to confirm a person's identity\n\nBut if decomposition is still at an early enough stage, facial recognition can be carried out with pictures taken and shown to relatives or friends to help identify the person, although this still cannot conclusively prove identity.\n\nMarks such as scars, tattoos or other characteristics are \"more reliable ways to identify a person,\" Dr Procopio said.\n\nThe next stage is the biological identification, starting with the cheapest option of fingerprints (although this again relies on the state of decomposition). Fingerprints last as long as the soft tissue does, which in the right conditions can be several days or even a week.\n\nBBC China correspondent Robin Brant said it was possible China could help identify the individuals \"fairly quickly\" through fingerprints. \"Chinese nationals living [in China] require an ID card and since 2012 you need to submit a fingerprint most times to get that card,\" he said, adding the country's use of biometric and facial recognition could also help.\n\n\"The good point of fingerprints is you can have quantifiable information that is good statistically and not subjective,\" Dr Procopio said.\n\nAs well as determining how someone died and how long ago, a post-mortem examination can also provide an identity through bone and dental records. \"You will have specific features in your bones after fracturing them for years after,\" she said.\n\nBut again, there need to be records to compare the features to and Dr Procopio said there are some academic arguments about the reliability of bone and teeth checks. Although there is a \"lower strength\" to such evidence compared to fingerprints or DNA, she said it could still be \"very useful\".\n\nVigils have been held for those who died in the lorry\n\nDNA can be extracted from many different tissues, from \"biological fluids\" such as blood and saliva to the flesh, hair, organs and bones. And DNA can tell you two main things about a person.\n\nThe first is their bio-geographical ancestry by looking at specific regional modifications of the DNA. \"You can get an understanding of the provenance of the person,\" Dr Procopio said.\n\nSecondly, you can identify relatives going back three or four generations.\n\nDr Procopio described DNA as \"the most powerful identifier\"\n\nThis depends on having either a relative or family member willing to be tested or having a database large enough so that even if the person isn't in it, an immediate or distant relative might be.\n\nChina is understood to have the largest DNA database in the world, contains profiles of about 40 million people.\n\n\"DNA is the most powerful identifier,\" Dr Procopio said. Collecting DNA data can take up to two days, while the amount of time it takes to then find matches in a database depends on the country the database is in.\n\n\"From my experience working in one country, within a week we were able to get the DNA checked,\" she said.\n\nPolice have not said how long they think it will take to identify those found in the lorry container, but know there will be many worried families desperate to find out.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "These images Breiðamerkurjökull glacier taken in 1989 (top) and one taken this year (bottom) show how much ice has been lost over this period\n\nA photography project has highlighted the extent of ice loss from Iceland's glaciers.\n\nA team from Scotland and Iceland compared photographs taken in the 1980s with present-day drone images.\n\nThey focused on the south side of the Vatnajökull ice cap, which covers about 7,700sq km of land.\n\nDr Kieran Baxter, from the University of Dundee, said: \"We saw a staggering difference in a very short amount of time.\"\n\nThe project - which also involved the University of Iceland and the Icelandic Meteorological Office - used aerial photos taken by a survey plane in the 1980s.\n\nThousands of images were taken, often of overlapping areas, and the team then used software to transform these into a hi-res 3D model of the terrain.\n\nDr Baxter said this meant that photographs looking straight down on to the landscape could then be re-framed to show the terrain from different angles.\n\nHe added: \"We can then align them with drone photographs that we can take today.\"\n\nThe team hopes the comparison photos will be used for public outreach, to show how rapidly Iceland's glaciers are retreating.\n\nIceland's Met Office says the country's glaciers have retreated by a total area of about 750sq km since 2000 - and are losing an average area of 40 sq km each year.\n\nThis summer, Icelanders gathered to commemorate the loss of Okjökull glacier. It lost its glacier status in 2014, when the ice became too thin to move.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut the problem of glacier loss caused by climate change is a global issue. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report warned that smaller glaciers in Europe, Africa, the Andes and Indonesia were projected to lose more than 80% of their current ice mass by 2100 if carbon emissions remained high.\n\nThe resulting rise in sea level could have huge consequences for millions of people, the UN panel warned.\n\nThis image of the Heinabergsjökull glacier was taken in 1989\n\nThe 2019 drone image shows the extent that the glacier has lowered over 30 years\n\nImages courtesy of National Land Survey of Iceland and Dr Kieran Baxter, University of Dundee", "Women say being left short of money by universal credit is forcing them to make desperate decisions\n\nEvidence that women are being driven to sex work because of problems with universal credit must lead to government action, MPs have said.\n\nA number of women told the work and pensions committee they turned to sex work because their benefits payments did not cover their basic needs.\n\nThe committee said the government had previously been \"dismissive\" of the issue but had now changed its position.\n\nThe government said it was taking the evidence \"very seriously\".\n\nThe committee has been investigating a potential link between universal credit and \"survival sex\" - when people, overwhelmingly but not exclusively women, turn to sex work to meet their basic needs, including food, shelter and clean clothes.\n\nUniversal credit merges six benefits into one payment and was designed to simplify the benefits system and help people move into work.\n\nHowever, the committee has heard evidence that problems with the new system, including a five-week wait for the first payment, are forcing some women to rely on sex work.\n\nA 21-year-old woman - referred to as T to protect her identity - told the committee she was abused as a child and had not been to school since the age of 11. She worked in a cafe, then became a carer - gaining a social care qualification - but had to leave her job because of mental health problems.\n\nShe said she turned to sex work because her universal credit payments were not enough to cover her basic living costs.\n\n\"It is horrible to say, but it is the easiest thing to keep us girls alive,\" she said.\n\nAdvances are available while people wait for their first payment, however this must then be paid back from subsequent payments so T said she continued to struggle to make ends meet.\n\n\"I only spend £20 on gas and electric a fortnight... I am trying my best, £30 on shopping, not a penny over, because if I go a penny over I can't get other stuff that I need, tampons and things.\n\n\"By the time I got [the advance payment] I had spent it and then I was waiting another three to four weeks for my benefit.\n\n\"Even then when I got my benefit, they were taking £150 off my benefit and I was left with £50.\"\n\nShe said she is now \"sofa-surfing\", having been evicted from her house because she fell behind on rent payments.\n\nAn adviser for a London-based housing association shared the experience of one mother - referred to as Ms J - who had resorted to survival sex after being caught shoplifting because she could not afford to buy food.\n\n\"The manager said if I gave him [oral sex] he'd let me off. What could I do? It was that or have the police called,\" she said.\n\n\"He said afterwards that if I did the same next week he'd let me have forty quid's worth of stock. It seemed like a fortune.\"\n\nThe woman had faced long waits for her universal credit payments, which she said did not cover her basic costs.\n\n\"In the end, I held out for two weeks. I got my [universal credit] money, and again it was short, and again it was gone on bills before I'd even thought of food.\n\n\"So, I left the baby with next door and went down to the shop... It's been like that for months now.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Independent MP Frank Field says women in his Birkenhead constituency are being forced into survival sex\n\nThe committee said the government's initial response to the issue was \"defensive, dismissive and trite\".\n\nIn a written submission to the committee's inquiry, the DWP described reports linking universal credit and survival sex as \"anecdote\" and said the benefits system could not be \"robustly attributed as a sole cause\" of the issue.\n\nHowever, after listening to the testimony of women, work and pensions minister Will Quince apologised for the department's previous submission and said there was a need for better understanding of the issue.\n\nThe committee's chair, independent MP Frank Field, said he welcomed the minister's comments but said they must be accompanied by action.\n\n\"The department, having belatedly acknowledged that there is a problem, must take the steps to resolve it,\" he said.\n\nThe committee's report made a number of recommendations, including scrapping the five-week wait for the first payment and, in the meantime, offering non-repayable advances to vulnerable claimants who would otherwise suffer hardship.\n\nIt also called on the department to take account of people's \"lived experience\" of universal credit and publish a review on improving services and support for those engaged in survival sex.\n\nLaura Watson from the English Collective of Prostitutes, which gave evidence to the committee, said single mothers have been \"hit particularly hard\" by universal credit.\n\nShe added that payment delays have led to \"increased destitution and homelessness\" as well as pushing more women into \"survival sex\".\n\n\"The report strengthens demands for universal credit to be scrapped,\" she said.\n\nA DWP spokesperson said it was \"committed to providing a safety net for the most vulnerable in society\" and had made improvements to universal credit, including extending advance payments, removing waiting days and allowing claimants to continue to be paid housing benefit for two weeks after moving on to universal credit.", "The Asian hornet is one of the invasive species in the UK\n\nMore than a million volunteers are needed to tackle the spread of invasive non-native species in the UK, MPs say.\n\nIt is estimated that between 36 and 48 new such species will become established in the next 20 years, according to a report by the Environmental Audit Committee.\n\nClimate change is putting \"the future of our natural landscape at risk,\" said committee chairwoman Mary Creagh.\n\nA government spokesperson said it was \"committed\" to tackling the problem.\n\nThe phrase \"invasive non-native species\" (Inns) describes those species that have been directly moved as a result of human activity. In the UK, examples include the Asian hornet and giant hogweed.\n\nThe report says slowing their rate of arrival is the first priority in stopping their establishment.\n\nIt cites New Zealand's plan to train 150,000 people in biosecurity by 2025 and says the government should significantly expand its approach to public engagement.\n\nThe committee wants 1.3 million people to be taught how to spot \"outbreaks\" of invasive species.\n\nIt also calls for a dedicated border force to be established by 2020 to improve biosecurity at UK borders, and bans on importing problem species before they present a risk to the UK.\n\nAsh dieback in a forest in Norfolk in 2012\n\nMs Creagh, a Labour MP, said: \"Inns is one of the UK's top five threats to the natural environment. If we're to beat this, we need people power, with an army of volunteers trained to spot and stop an invasive species before it becomes established.\n\n\"Oak processionary moth caterpillars can strip an oak tree bare as well as posing a hazard to our own health. We face losing half of the UK's native ash trees to ash dieback within a century, costing £15bn.\n\n\"New regulations to halt their progress are welcome but they are too little, too late. Government funding to tackle invasive species is tiny and fails to match the scale of the threat.\"\n\nThe report also calls for the government to set up a rapid-response emergency fund to enable agencies to tackle a threat before it gets out of control and to increase funding for the Non-Native Species Secretariat to £3m per year.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said: \"Invasive non-native species not only challenge the survival of some of our rarest species but damage our natural ecosystems as well as costing the economy more than £1.7bn per year.\n\n\"We are committed to being leaders in tackling invasive species, and our 25-year Environment Plan commits us to enhancing the biosecurity of the country even further.\n\n\"We welcome the EAC's report and will now carefully consider its findings and recommendations.\"", "There has been a fall in uptake of nearly all pre-school vaccinations since 2012-13\n\nThe NHS system for reminding parents to have their children vaccinated is \"inconsistent\" and making an appointment can be difficult, says a report on vaccine uptake in England.\n\nIt says there should be a greater push to identify vulnerable and underserved groups, like travellers.\n\nSince 2012-13, there has been a fall in uptake of nearly all pre-school vaccinations, such as MMR.\n\nNHS England says it is bringing health professionals together to take action.\n\nThe National Audit Office has investigated the reasons why increasing numbers of children are missing out on getting seven vaccinations before they start school in England.\n\nAlthough the government target is for 95% uptake, in 2018-19 only 86.4% received the second dose of the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine by age five and 84.8% the four-in-one pre-school booster.\n\nSix out of seven of the pre-school jabs did not meet the target, which is required to keep diseases at bay.\n\nAnd earlier this year, the UK lost is measles-free status after cases of the potentially deadly illness began to circulate in some communities.\n\nThe report found there were issues with \"inconsistencies\" and \"no coherent system\" across the country over how parents were contacted and re-contacted about booking vaccine appointments.\n\nIt said this followed an NHS England reorganisation of the system in 2013, which led to GP practices managing the system in some areas and other providers in other areas.\n\nThe report said there was also no consistent national approach by NHS England and Public Health England to engage with \"under-served\" groups, such as travellers, recent migrants and some religious faith groups.\n\nThe percentages of vaccinated children within these groups are often lower than average.\n\nPractical steps can be taken by the government to improve the situation, said NAO report author Ashley McDougall.\n\n\"These include sending out proper invitations to parents and re-inviting them when needed, as well as allowing parents to book convenient appointments with their families,\" he said.\n\nThere are wide variations in the uptake of vaccinations in different parts of the country, with London having the lowest levels of uptake.\n\nFor example, 96.4% of children in County Durham get the second MMR dose compared with 64.1% in Westminster.\n\nAnd 97.5% have the Hib/MenC jab in Country Durham compared with 71.2% in Hackney and City of London.\n\nIt is thought that a highly mobile population in the capital could be one factor, and a lack of reliable GP data.\n\nBut the report says parents still appeared to have confidence in vaccinations and there was \"limited evidence\" that anti-vaccination messages had had any major impact on uptake.\n\nNHS England says it is looking at how payments to GPs for vaccinating children could improve uptake rates, particularly for 10 to 11-year-olds as part of a new MMR catch-up programme.\n\nIt also says new \"primary care networks\" - groups of GP surgeries joining up - could mean more convenient evening and weekend appointments for parents.\n\nThe prime minister is expected to announce a new strategy on vaccination soon.\n\nDr Richard Vautrey, BMA GP committee chairman, said practices were doing their best to reach everyone who could be vaccinated.\n\n\"However, we need resources for improved information systems, particularly regional databases, so that records and vaccination figures are always accurate.\"\n\nAnd he said cuts to health visitors and school nurses meant there were fewer opportunities for positive discussions around the importance of vaccines.\n\n\"It's positive that the government, NHS England and Public Health England are beginning to prioritise improving vaccine uptake, and crucially we need better research into why certain groups are still not having their children protected and how best to target them effectively.\"\n\nDr Sarah Wollaston, chairwoman of the Health and Social Care Committee, said the decline in vaccination rates in recent years was \"worrying\".\n\nShe said she would be questioning health bodies at a hearing in November on their plans to protect children and their communities by improving the uptake of vaccinations.\n• None NHS vaccinations and when to have them - NHS 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. Anthony Carling's victim recalls the day she was raped\n\nA man has been jailed for raping a woman who was walking her dogs in a park almost 30 years ago.\n\nAnthony Carling, 63, from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, dragged the woman into bushes and raped her in Harlequin Field in Roath, Cardiff, in 1991.\n\nHe admitted rape and attempted rape and was sentenced to 12 years in prison at Newport Crown Court on Friday.\n\nHe was arrested after a semen stain on the victim's coat was examined using new technology.\n\nIn 2013 Carling provided a DNA swab for an unrelated matter and officers were able to link him to the crime.\n\nProsecutor Marian Lewis said the 40-year-old woman, who was not known to her attacker, was leading two dogs through the park and heard \"the sound of footsteps walking behind her\".\n\nShe turned around and asked Carling: \"What do you want?' He replied: 'I want you'\".\n\nCarling punched the woman to the floor and dragged her into a field where he raped her.\n\nShe handed her clothes to police - but officers were unable to trace Carling until the case was reopened years later.\n\nIn a victim impact statement the woman said she has been \"fit and healthy\" before the attack and held down two jobs - but Carling's rape \"ended\" her life.\n\nShe said: \"This horrendous offence destroyed my life. They say life begins at 40 but my life ended at that age.\"\n\nThis e-fit was created by police almost 30 years ago\n\nThe court heard Carling was jailed in 1989 for following a woman down a lane and indecently assaulting her.\n\nJudge Daniel Williams said the rape happened within a year of Carling being released from prison for that attack.\n\nHe said: \"You were out looking for your next victim, but determined this time to do even greater harm than before.\"\n\nSpeaking after sentencing, Det Ch Insp Mark O'Shea, head of South Wales Police Specialist Crime Review Unit, described the crime as \"every woman's worst nightmare\".\n\nHe said the \"extensive investigation\" carried out at the time included house-to-house inquiries, media appeals and producing an e-fit but a suspect was never identified.\n\nCarling had \"shown no remorse\" and \"only pleaded guilty because of the strength of the evidence,\" he added.\n\nHe added: \"We remain committed to investigating undetected serious crimes and often re-look at cases as forensic science develops.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The French president is fed up with how long the Brexit process is taking\n\nThere's a strong sense of déjà vu in the EU's Brexit extension discussions.\n\nAs Westminster waits and the prime minister calls for an official EU decision to be made, France is acting as a spoke in the wheels. Much as it did back in spring when leaders debated the April Brexit extension.\n\nA consensus is forming amongst most EU countries, including powerful Germany, to grant the three-month delay outlined in Boris Johnson's letter to Brussels requesting a new Brexit extension. They hope to formally announce this on Friday. Ambassadors representing the 27 EU leaders are expected to meet mid-morning in Brussels.\n\nBut France worries a 12-week extension could encourage more UK indecisiveness or a general election which may prove inconclusive on Brexit.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron favours a short, sharp Brexit delay; encouraging MPs and the UK government to concentrate on ratifying the newly-negotiated Brexit deal.\n\nMr Macron is fed up with the more than three-year EU focus on Brexit and the ever-present threat of a no-deal scenario. He'd rather shift attention to reforming the EU itself, to the benefit (he believes) of the countries remaining in it.\n\nBoris Johnson insists the UK will leave the EU next week with or without a deal\n\nOf course, the French president knows Brexit won't be over if and when the UK leaves. Brexit Chapter Two, the negotiations on a comprehensive EU-UK trade deal will likely be lengthy and complex, but they will largely be the competence of the European Commission, landing far more rarely on EU leaders' in-trays.\n\nBut will President Macron really veto the three-month extension Germany and others favour? He has already angered a number in the EU of late by putting his foot down on widening the bloc to include two new member states.\n\nIf he refuses to agree with an EU majority over the new Brexit extension, then Mr Macron will be using up exactly the kind of good will/openness to consensus decision-making that he needs if he wants to make headway on his EU reform agenda.\n\nIs the length of the Brexit extension really worth that to him?\n\nIt could well be that Mr Macron is using the days before the extension decision is formally announced to stamp his feet that:\n\na) The UK should not take Brexit extensions for granted and\n\nb) That the extension time should be used for something concrete.\n\nThere is an active EU debate right now (as there was prior to the last Brexit extension being granted) over whether to attach specific conditions. For example, to say that the EU will only grant the extension if the UK begins a new parliamentary timetable aimed at ratifying the Brexit deal or if it holds a general election.\n\nBut while it's easy for EU politicians to make assertions like that, it's far more complex to formally put these conditions into writing. It risks looking like Brussels meddling in the domestic politics of a sovereign EU country. So, as with the previous extension, there are unlikely to be formal take-it-or-leave-it conditions attached.\n\nAnd why are the majority of EU leaders in favour of approving the UK-requested three-month extension? Well, they believe it:\n\na) Prevents the EU having to agonise over two extensions in quick succession. A short one to see if the Brexit deal can be ratified in the UK parliament and, if not, then a second extension soon after, to allow the UK to hold elections or a referendum.\n\nb) Most EU leaders think opting for the extension time asked for by UK (the three months mentioned in the PM's request letter and in the Benn Act compelling him to write that letter) is the most neutral thing Brussels can do, considering the heated political climate in the UK.\n\nGermany, for example, worries that offering more than three months could be viewed in the UK as the EU \"trying to keep the UK in as long as possible\" while opting for a shorter time could be regarded as an attempt to meddle in UK parliamentary procedure by \"forcing\" MPs hands over the ratification of the Brexit deal or even as the EU \"throwing the UK out\".\n\nThat explains the EU majority preference for three months but, as with the last Brexit delay, Brussels dubs this a 'flextension'. The UK would not be compelled to remain in the EU for the full extra 12 weeks. It would leave as soon as the UK parliament and the European parliament ratified the Brexit deal.\n\nHowever, watching the ongoing divisions in Parliament - inside Boris Johnson's Conservative party over whether to prioritise elections vs getting the Brexit deal ratified and also the splits in the Labour party to back, or not to back calling a general election, EU figures mutter in private, that they half expect to be asked for yet another Brexit extension come January.\n• None What is in Boris Johnson's new Brexit deal?\n• None What happens after Brexit?", "Some smart motorways use the hard shoulder at all times while others use it during busy times\n\nSmart motorways are to be reviewed following concerns over driver safety, the transport secretary has said.\n\nGrant Shapps told MPs: \"We know people are dying on smart motorways\".\n\nHe said recommendations are expected \"in a matter of weeks\" to ensure all motorways are \"as safe as they possibly can be\".\n\nEarlier this week, Highways England boss Jim O'Sullivan warned \"dynamic\" smart motorways are \"too complicated\" for drivers.\n\nMr O'Sullivan said he did not think he would build any more dynamic smart motorways because too many motorists do not understand them.\n\nThere are two types of smart motorway in the UK: The first is where the hard shoulder is opened to traffic when it is busy, and the second is where the hard shoulder is open all the time.\n\nThey already account for about 400 miles of England's roads, including sections of major motorways like the M1, M6, and M62.\n\nThey were created to ease congestion, using computers to monitor the roads and change speed limits.\n\nCritics have called for smart motorways to be scrapped over safety concerns and several deaths.\n\nEight-year-old Dev Naran was killed on the M6 last May when a lorry struck his grandfather's Toyota while it was pulled up on the hard shoulder, which was in use.\n\nSpeaking to MPs on the Commons Transport Select Committee, Mr Shapps said: \"I have asked my department to carry out at pace an evidence stock-take to gather the facts quickly and make recommendations.\"\n\nHe said his department would lead the review \"because some of the statistics have been difficult to understand, and we know people are dying on smart motorways\".\n\nHe added: \"Understanding whether they are less safe, the same or safer - it turns out not to be as straightforward as members might imagine - I want all of those facts and recommendations that can be put into place to ensure that all of our motorways are as safe as they possibly can be.\n\n\"I will get this done in a matter of weeks.\"\n\nDerek Jacobs, 83, was killed when his car was hit after it stopped on a smart motorway section of the M1 in Derbyshire.\n\nHis death came six months after another woman was killed after a breakdown on the same section of road.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, died on the M1 near Sheffield, where the hard shoulder is an active lane.\n\nHe was involved in a minor collision but when he got out his car to exchange details he and the other driver were hit by a lorry. Both died at the scene.", "Shane O'Brien, a killer once dubbed one of Britain's most wanted fugitives, has been jailed for at least 26 years.\n\nThe 31-year-old evaded police for three-and-a-half years after slashing Josh Hanson's neck in 2015.\n\nJosh’s mum Tracey, who pressed for his capture, said the sentencing was bittersweet.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT - and see more of our stories here.", "Cpl Hoole was described as \"fit, capable and determined\"\n\nA coroner has \"grave concerns\" about the Army's \"ability to learn from previous mistakes\", an inquest heard.\n\nCpl Joshua Hoole, 26, from Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway, died after a fitness test in Brecon, Powys, on 19 July 2016.\n\nShe said his death was caused by a \"combination of factors\" and recorded a conclusion of sudden arrhythmogenic cardiac death.\n\nHis death came three years after three Army reservists died during an SAS selection march in the Brecon Beacons.\n\nCpl Hoole, who had previously been deployed to Afghanistan and was described as \"fit, capable and determined\", died within an hour of collapsing 400 metres (1,300 ft) from the end of an annual fitness test (AFT).\n\nThe inquest heard it was the hottest day of the year and of the 41 soldiers taking part, 18 dropped out, collapsed or were withdrawn.\n\nThee years before Cpl Hoole's death, L/Cpl Edward Maher, 31, L/Cpl Craig Roberts, 24, and Cpl James Dunsby, 31, died after a trek during which they carried up to 27kg (4st) on their backs of on one of the hottest days of 2013.\n\nAt an inquest into their deaths, the same coroner concluded there had been a lack of awareness about key health and safety documents, including one called JSP 539.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Phillip Hoole says the Army needs to improve the way it communicates with grieving families\n\nHighlighting the Army's \"continuing\" failure in that field at Cpl Hoole's inquest, Ms Hunt said she would be sending a report to prevent future deaths to the defence secretary.\n\nShe added: \"There was a report to prevent future deaths issued in July 2015 following inquests which specifically raised concerns about lack of awareness of JSP 539.\n\n\"I consider the continuing lack of awareness and failure to follow up to be a very serious failing which directly impacted on the safety of the AFT.\n\n\"The failure of the Army to learn from previous mistakes is a very concerning matter for me.\n\n\"It is a matter of grave concern for me I am raising the same concerns - I really want to give a message to the Army.\"\n\nAcknowledging the presence of relatives of the reservists who died in 2013 alongside Cpl Hoole's parents, she said: \"They need to think about how to learn from things that have happened, because I also know there are others here feeling this very hard, knowing perhaps the only comfort they had from their inquest was something might change, and we're sitting here and it hasn't changed.\"\n\nSpeaking after the inquest, Cpl Hoole's father Phillip Hoole urged the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to improve the way it communicates with grieving families.\n\nMr Hoole, from Carlisle, said he had made a \"number of recommendations\", many of which he said the MoD had acted on but had \"not had the common decency to acknowledge this\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope now that the inquest is over they will approach me and have a meaningful conversation regarding not just those failings, but how they can make improvements when they communicate with families going through the grieving process who ultimately just want honesty so they can start to get some form of closure.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thirty nine bodies were found in the trailer container\n\nPost-mortem examinations are due to be carried out on some of the 39 people found in a refrigerated lorry in Essex.\n\nEleven of the victims were taken by ambulance from the Port of Tilbury to Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford on Thursday evening.\n\nPolice, who are still questioning the lorry driver on suspicion of murder, believe the victims were Chinese.\n\nGPS data shows the container crossed back and forth between the UK and Europe in the days before it was found.\n\nThe BBC understands that full details of the tracking data have been passed to Essex Police.\n\nThe force has been given extra time to hold driver Mo Robinson, 25, who was arrested on Wednesday.\n\nThe lorry driver has been named locally as Mo Robinson, from County Armagh\n\nPolice said recovering the bodies of the 31 men and eight women would take time and the dignity of the victims was its primary concern.\n\nThe Chinese Ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, said he had sent a team to Essex to help verify the identity of the victims. He added that their nationality was yet to be confirmed.\n\nThree properties in Northern Ireland have been raided and the National Crime Agency is working to establish if \"organised crime groups\" were involved.\n\nPolice believe the tractor unit - the front part of the lorry - arrived at Holyhead in north Wales on Sunday, having travelled from Dublin.\n\nThe trailer arrived in Purfleet on the River Thames from Zeebrugge in Belgium at 00:30 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe lorry and trailer left the port at Purfleet shortly after 01:05 the same day and the bodies were found in the container at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays about 30 minutes later.\n\nPurfleet has been described as a \"magnet\" for illegal immigrants by locals.\n\nJanet Lilley, 61, said about a decade ago she started to notice people \"wandering around with suitcases and backpacks\".\n\n\"Over the last few years it's got worse,\" she said.\n\n\"People would come strolling out of the docks, get in the vans and that's it, they drive off.\"\n\nMrs Lilley described seeing pages of torn-up passports blowing into her garden.\n\nLee Tubby, 45, who lives opposite the port, said he has seen people \"climbing out the top and out the back\" of lorries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV shows the lorry arriving at the industrial park\n\nGlobal Trailer Rentals Ltd told RTE News that it owned the trailer and said it had been hired on 15 October.\n\nSources say an outline of tracking data shows the container left GTR's yard in Carrickmacross in County Monaghan in Irelandthat day and crossed into Northern Ireland before returning to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe data shows it then travelled to Dublin and crossed over to Wales overnight on 16 October, before going to Europe on the Dover to Calais route that evening.\n\nOnce in Europe it appears the container travelled between cities in Belgium and France, including Dunkirk, Bruges, and Lille.\n\nBelgian authorities have said it is \"highly unlikely\" the victims got into the container at Zeebrugge.\n\nDirk De Fauw, chairman of the port of Zeebrugge and mayor of Bruges, told VRT News: \"Breaking the seal, putting 39 people in a trailer and resealing the trailer without anybody noticing is virtually impossible.\"\n\nChina's ambassador to the UK, Mr Liu, tweeted: \"The Chinese Embassy has sent a team led by the minister-counsellor in charge of consular affairs to Essex, England.\n\n\"They have met with the local police, who said that they are verifying the identity of the 39 deceased, whose nationality still cannot be confirmed.\"\n\nThe deaths follow warnings from the National Crime Agency and Border Force about the increased risk of people-smuggling using quieter ports such as Purfleet and routes through Belgium.\n\nIt also emerged the Home Office was warned two years ago that Border Force had staffing problems at east coast ports including Purfleet, where the container containing the 39 Chinese nationals docked.\n\nAn inspection report in July 2017 from David Bolt, The Chief Inspector for Borders and Immigration, said that although Border Force was coping, it was \"stretched\".\n\nIn some instances, he said it was \" too thinly\" stretched.\n\nThe chief inspector also criticised the lack of strategic management by Border Force of its relationships with the companies who own and run the ports, the BBC's Home Affairs Correspondent, Danny Shaw, reports.\n\nDo you have any information to share about the incident? If it is safe for you to do so please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "You can imagine the casting conversation down at the Old Vic theatre in London when they decided to reprise Duncan Macmillan's play Lungs: a two-hander featuring a right-on young couple thinking about settling down...\n\nSenior Creative [SC]: So, we're after a box office pairing the public would love (pay) to see reunited.\n\nJunior Creative [JC]: What about Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio?\n\nSC: Great idea! [pauses to think] A bit old, maybe?\n\nJC: Okay, how about Letitia Wright and Daniel Kaluuya?\n\nSC: Another awesome suggestion! But is she old enough?\n\nJC: Ooh, ooh, ooh… I've got it! This is brilliant!\n\nAnd so it came pass - probably not quite like that - the two British actors who formed a dream team double-act in The Crown for Netflix as The Queen and Prince Philip were reunited to play another young couple trying to work out their place in the world.\n\nThis time around tiaras and Buckingham Palace have been traded-in for trainers and IKEA, but they are essentially dealing with the same issues of love, commitment, betrayal, duty, compromise and existential anxiety.\n\nThere's none of the expensive paraphernalia that came with The Crown such as lavish sets and a large supporting cast.\n\nClaire Foy as the Queen and Matt Smith as Prince Philip received critical acclaim for their performances in The Crown\n\nIn Lungs, Matt Smith and Claire Foy play an unnamed couple who wrestle with the big issues of climate change and having children in an overpopulated world\n\nIn Lungs the stage is almost bare; the actors don't have a prop to call their own. It is entirely down to their talents to bring to life Duncan Macmillan's words in an 80-minute play in which they are constantly on the stage bantering to-and-fro without an interval to catch their breath.\n\nIt's a tall order, made slightly easier by the sheer quality and directness of the writing and their palpable stage chemistry.\n\nFoy is superb as the doubting yet strident left-leaning intellectual with a PhD who is at once perceptive and blindly self-absorbed.\n\nSmith does what he did as Prince Philip in The Crown, which is to play Foy's foil. Here, he is a struggling musician intimidated by his partner's intelligence and rhetorical ferocity. The full force of which is evident in the opening exchange caused by his unwitting decision to wonder aloud if they should have a child together.\n\nShe is staggered by his thoughtlessness, impudence, and lazy arrogance.\n\n\"It's like you punch me in the face and then asked me a maths question\" is one of the many ways she describes the effect of his casual conversation opener while they queued in IKEA. He tries to put the pin back in the grenade but it's too late. Before he knows it she is telling him that his predatory countenance when they are in the throes of passion freaks her out, \"Sometimes it looks like you are going to hack off my limbs and bury me in the woods.\"\n\nHe tries back-peddling, and then justifying, and eventually - when all else fails - agreeing.\n\nIt's like watching a boxing match in which one fighter is clearly stronger and more assertive while the other ducks and dives and seeks a way out by fair means or foul.\n\nInto this semi-comic world of domestic disharmony Macmillan introduces the underlying theme of his decade-old play (first professionally staged in 2011), which is the negative impact we gas-guzzling humans are having on the planet.\n\nFoy's character wants to know if she and he can still be \"good people\" if they decide to have a child, which she says will have a lifetime carbon footprint amounting to 10,000 tonnes of CO2, \"That's the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I'd be giving birth to the Eiffel Tower.\"\n\nIt's a great line from which you can extrapolate the bigger question being asked: can we in the wealthy West ever be \"good\" when our privilege is at the expense of others and the planet? It is a subject that deeply troubles the playwright who wrote this \"end of days\" play in a single night having put aside a more complex concept.\n\nPlaywright Duncan Macmillan says since he wrote Lungs, the threat of climate change has grown, but as a parent, he \"doesn't feel as if despair is an option\"\n\nIt is a good piece of work.\n\nBut unlike his excellent subsequent plays like Every Brilliant Thing and People, Places, Things - which deal with depression and addiction respectively - Lungs runs out of breath about two-thirds of the way through.\n\nThe witty repartee between Foy and Smith pales, the unevenness of their relationship loses credibility.\n\nThat said, it is a bold and invigorating idea to focus their entire relationship on the single issue of procreation in the form of a discussion taking place over years but presented as one seamless conversation (a time-shifting exercise beautifully executed by director Matthew Warchus).\n\nThe upside for Macmillan is it allows him to highlight what he considers to be the \"thing that makes drama interesting\", which is, \"present-tense decision-making.\" The downside is it ends up leaving the characters boxed in and the story with nowhere to go.\n\nFoy's character gets bigger but predictable, Smith's smaller and boring.\n\nBut not before landing some heavy blows.\n\nLungs turns the highly personal - deciding to have a child - into the powerfully political: it lays the issue of our age at our door. And it does so with biting wit, a sense of urgency and an appropriate level of high anxiety, all expertly delivered by the two actors.\n\nMore Claire Foy and Matt Smith combos please.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says an early poll would create a \"credible\" deadline for passing a Brexit deal\n\nThe PM has said he will give MPs more time to debate his Brexit deal, if they agree to a 12 December election.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC he expected the EU to grant an extension to his 31 October deadline, even though he \"really\" did not want one.\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn said he would not support an election until a no-deal Brexit is \"off the table\".\n\nEU leaders could give their verdict on delaying Brexit for up to three months on Friday.\n\nCommons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg told MPs the government would on Monday table a motion calling for a general election.\n\nUnder the 2011 Fixed-Term Parliament Act, two-thirds of MPs must vote for a general election before one can be held.\n\nIn a letter to Labour leader Mr Corbyn, Mr Johnson said his \"preferred option\" was a short Brexit postponement \"say to 15 or 30 November\".\n\nBut Mr Corbyn said: \"Take no-deal off the table and we absolutely support a general election.\n\n\"I've been calling for an election ever since the last one because this country needs one to deal with all the social injustice issues - but no-deal must be taken off the table.\n\n\"The EU will decide whether there is an extension tomorrow... and then we can decide.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: Take no-deal off the table and we absolutely support a general election\n\nMr Johnson wrote that, in that case, he would try to get his deal through Parliament again, with Labour's support.\n\nThe prime minister added that he \"assumes\" Mr Corbyn \"will cooperate with me to get our new Brexit deal ratified, so we leave with a new deal rather than no deal\".\n\nIf, as widely expected, the EU's Brexit delay is to the end of January, Mr Johnson said he will hold a Commons vote next week on a 12 December election.\n\nIf Labour agrees to this, the government said it will try to get its deal through before Parliament is dissolved for the campaign on 6 November.\n\nTreasury sources told the BBC that the Budget would not now be delivered on 6 November as scheduled.\n\nThe prime minister told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg: \"I'm afraid it looks as though our EU friends are going to respond to Parliament's request by having an extension, which I really don't want at all.\n\n\"So, the way to get this done, the way to get Brexit done, is, I think, to be reasonable with Parliament and say if they genuinely want more time to study this excellent deal, they can have it but they have to agree to a general election on 12 December.\"\n\nAsked what he would do if Labour refused to vote for an election, he said: \"We would campaign day after day for the people of this country to be released from subjection to a Parliament that has outlived its usefulness.\"\n\nThe prime minister has repeatedly insisted the UK will leave the EU on 31 October, with or without a deal.\n\nBut he was forced to send a letter to the EU requesting an extension, under legislation passed by MPs last month.\n\nMPs voted on Tuesday to back the first stage of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, putting the deal the PM agreed with Brussels into law - but rejected Mr Johnson's plan to push it through the Commons in three days.\n\nThe BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler says EU leaders are set to decide on Friday whether to grant the UK a three-month Brexit extension - although the decision could be delayed to Monday.\n\nMost EU nations back it but France \"is digging its heels in\", she adds.\n\nSo there could be an emergency summit in Brussels on Monday to allow leaders to reach agreement face-to-face.\n\nBoris Johnson cannot be remotely sure Labour and the smaller parties will let him have his way. The SNP and the Lib Dems are both tempted to go for an election as soon as a three month delay is agreed.\n\nThe Labour Party's official position has always been that they would agree to an election, in fact officially they are chomping at the bit, like the other parties, as long as a delay is agreed.\n\nOne senior member of the shadow cabinet predicted they would not be able to withstand the pressure if the Lib Dems and the SNP said yes.\n\nJeremy Corbyn himself, and certainly one group in his camp, are understood to be very tempted too. But, just as in 2017, lots of Labour MPs are horrified at the idea, partly because of Labour's standing in the polls.\n\nBut also, there are senior shadow cabinet ministers who believe the smart thing would be to leave the PM in his purgatory, twisting, unable to get his bill through, unable to get to an election.\n\nIn short, the position is fluid, and Labour is having words with itself tonight.", "Anna Kirsopp-Lewis was nine months pregnant with her second child and on the way to see a midwife\n\nA heavily pregnant woman was killed weeks before she was due to give birth when her car was hit by a driver who lost control at more than 100mph.\n\nAnna Kirsopp-Lewis, 34, suffered multiple injuries in the crash on the A36 near Warminster, Wiltshire, on 18 December, an inquest heard.\n\nThe driver of the other car Ian Barton, 62, died in hospital five days later.\n\nWiltshire coroner David Ridley said Mr Barton's driving had been \"aggressive, audacious and quite frankly abhorrent\".\n\nMrs Kirsopp-Lewis was nine months pregnant with her second child, a boy named Oscar, when the crash happened on Black Dog Hill, near Warminster.\n\nShe was driving to a midwife appointment when her Peugeot 208 was struck from behind by a 4x4 Porsche Cayenne.\n\nThe teacher, from Warminster, was thrown from her vehicle by the impact.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe inquest heard collision investigators estimated Mr Barton, who ran a pub in Combe Hay, near Bath, was driving in excess of 100mph on the road which had a 60mph speed limit.\n\nWitness statements said it was raining and conditions were poor.\n\nDashcam footage, provided by lorry driver Paul Cloak, showed Mr Barton's car overtaking his vehicle at high speed.\n\nHe told the hearing in Salisbury he saw a \"black blur\" when the Porsche passed him \"like a rocket\".\n\nSgt Joseph Sample, of Avon and Somerset Police, said a colleague who attended the scene believed Mr Barton \"lost control\" and his car \"fishtailed\" before impact.\n\nThe coroner said both drivers died of multiple injuries and recorded a verdict of unlawful killing for Mrs Kirsopp-Lewis.\n\nHe ruled Mr Barton died as a result of a road traffic collision.\n\nHe said the manner in which Mr Barton drove at \"excessive speed\" in \"appalling conditions\" had \"demonstrated indifference to the lives of Anna and other road users\".\n\nAnna Kirsopp-Lewis died from multiple injuries after being thrown from her car\n\nPaying tribute to his wife, Chris Lewis said she was a devoted teacher and mother to their young son, Henry.\n\n\"Anna was my wife, my best friend and my future, she was kind and compassionate, funny and clever, the reason I was happy.\n\n\"She didn't want Henry to be an only child and Oscar was that baby, he was planned for, loved, and much anticipated.\"\n\nCaroline Kirsopp said her daughter was \"a wonderful, wonderful person\".\n\n\"There aren't any words to describe the emptiness, the space that isn't filled by Anna,\" she said.\n\nShe said she struggled with the fact that there was no formal recognition of her unborn grandson, who was cremated with his mother.\n\n\"Oscar had a right to be born, he had a right to live. That was taken away from him,\" she said.", "A steppe eagle: the species is threatened by farming and power lines\n\nRussian scientists tracking migrating eagles ran out of money after some of the birds flew to Iran and Pakistan and their SMS transmitters drew huge data roaming charges.\n\nAfter learning of the team's dilemma, Russian mobile phone operator Megafon offered to cancel the debt and put the project on a special, cheaper tariff.\n\nThe team had started crowdfunding on social media to pay off the bills.\n\nThe birds left from southern Russia and Kazakhstan.\n\nThe journey of one steppe eagle, called Min, was particularly expensive, as it flew to Iran from Kazakhstan.\n\nMin accumulated SMS messages to send during the summer in Kazakhstan, but it was out of range of the mobile network. Unexpectedly the eagle flew straight to Iran, where it sent the huge backlog of messages.\n\nThe price per SMS in Kazakhstan was about 15 roubles (18p; 30 US cents), but each SMS from Iran cost 49 roubles. Min used up the entire tracking budget meant for all the eagles.\n\nThe Russian researchers are volunteers at the Wild Animal Rehabilitation Centre in Novosibirsk. Their crowdfunding appeal, which has paid off more than 100,000 roubles (£1,223), was called \"Top up the eagle's mobile\".\n\nThe SMS messages deliver the birds' coordinates as they migrate, and the team then use satellite photos to see if the birds have reached safe locations. Power lines are a particular threat for the steppe eagles, which are endangered in Russia and Central Asia.\n\nThey are currently tracking 13 eagles. The birds breed in Siberia and Kazakhstan, but fly to South Asia for the winter.\n\nMegafon's offer to bail out the team, reported by RIA Novosti news, means they can continue monitoring the eagles' routes, collecting vital data to help their survival.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thirty nine bodies were found in the trailer container\n\nPolice have begun the process of moving the bodies of 39 people found dead in a refrigerated lorry in Essex.\n\nEleven of the victims - believed to be Chinese nationals - were taken by ambulance from the Port of Tilbury to Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford.\n\nPolice have been granted extra time to question lorry driver Mo Robinson, 25, on suspicion of murdering the eight women and 31 men.\n\nPost-mortem examinations will be the next step in the investigation.\n\nThe ambulance carrying the bodies left the port at 19:41 BST under police escort.\n\nA spokesperson for Essex Police said recovering all the bodies would take time and the dignity of the victims was their primary concern.\n\nThe lorry driver has been named locally as Mo Robinson, from County Armagh\n\nThree properties in Northern Ireland have been raided and the National Crime Agency is working to establish if \"organised crime groups\" were involved.\n\nPolice believe the tractor unit - the front part of the lorry - had entered the country via Holyhead in Wales on Sunday, having travelled from Dublin.\n\nThe trailer arrived in Purfleet on the River Thames from Zeebrugge in Belgium at 00:30 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe lorry and trailer left the port at Purfleet shortly after 01:05 the same day.\n\nAmbulance staff discovered the bodies in the container at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays about 30 minutes later, just after 01:30.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV shows the lorry arriving at the industrial park\n\nEssex Police said the victims were all \"believed to be Chinese nationals\".\n\nChina's ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming later tweeted: \"The Chinese Embassy has sent a team led by the minister-counsellor in charge of consular affairs to Essex, England.\n\n\"They have met with the local police, who said that they are verifying the identity of the 39 deceased, whose nationality still cannot be confirmed.\"\n\nVigils were held outside the Home Office in London and at the front of City Hall in Belfast on Thursday.\n\nPolice officers and councillors have signed a book of condolences, which was opened at Thurrock Council's chambers in Essex.\n\nSpeaking earlier, Essex Police Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington said he had the \"utmost confidence\" in his officers as the force leads its largest-ever murder investigation.\n\nThe deaths follow warnings from the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Border Force about the increased risk of people-smuggling using quieter ports such as Purfleet and routes through Belgium.\n\nGlobal Trailer Rentals Ltd confirmed to RTE News that it owned the trailer and said it had leased it on 15 October.\n\nThe firm said it had given Essex Police the details of the person and company they had leased it to.\n\nThurrock's Conservative MP Jackie Doyle-Price said there needed to be an international response.\n\n\"We have partnerships in place but those efforts need to be rebooted, this is an international criminal world where many gangs are making lots of money and until states act collectively to tackle that it is going to continue,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I've seen people running out of a lorry\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, councillor Paul Berry said the village of Laurelvale in County Armagh, where the Robinson family live, was in \"complete shock\".\n\nHe said he had been in contact with Mr Robinson's father, who had learned of his son's arrest on Wednesday through social media.\n\nLucy Moreton, from the Immigration Services Union, said the sheer number of containers coming into the UK every day made it impossible to look inside them all.\n\nA spokesman for C.RO Ports, which operates terminals at Purfleet and Zeebrugge, said they would \"fully assist\" the police investigation.\n\nThe bodies were found inside a lorry container at Waterglade Industrial Park\n\nDo you have any information to share about the incident? If it is safe for you to do so please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pham Thi Tra My's brother said the family had arranged for £30,000 to be paid to smugglers\n\nAt least six of the 39 people found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex may have been from Vietnam.\n\nThe BBC knows of six Vietnamese families who fear their relatives are among the victims.\n\nThey include Pham Thi Tra My, 26, who has not been heard from since she sent text messages on Tuesday saying she could not breathe.\n\nA man was earlier arrested at Stansted Airport on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people.\n\nThe 48-year-old from Northern Ireland is the fourth person to be arrested in connection with the investigation.\n\nTwo people from Warrington are being held on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people and the lorry driver is in custody on suspicion of murder.\n\nMs Tra My's brother, Pham Ngoc Tuan, said some of the £30,000 charge for getting his sister to the UK had been paid to people smugglers and her last-known location had been Belgium.\n\nThe smugglers are understood to have returned money to some families.\n\nMeanwhile, relatives of Nguyen Dinh Luong, 20, have also said they fear he is among the 39 victims.\n\nNguyen Dinh Luong has been named by relatives as a possible victim\n\nMs Tra My's brother told the BBC: \"My sister went missing on 23 October on the way from Vietnam to the UK and we couldn't contact her. We are concerned she may be in that trailer.\n\n\"We are asking the British police to help investigate so that my sister can be returned to the family.\"\n\nThe last message received from Ms Tra My was at 22:30 BST on Tuesday - two hours before the trailer arrived at the Purfleet terminal from Zeebrugge in Belgium.\n\nHer family have shared texts she sent to her parents which translated read: \"I am really, really sorry, Mum and Dad, my trip to a foreign land has failed.\n\n\"I am dying, I can't breathe. I love you very much Mum and Dad. I am sorry, Mother.\"\n\nThe bodies were discovered in the early hours of Wednesday\n\nMs Tra My's brother told the BBC her journey to the UK had begun on 3 October. She had told the family not to contact her because \"the organisers\" did not allow her to receive calls.\n\n\"She flew to China and stayed there for a couple days, then left for France,\" he said.\n\n\"She called us when she reached each destination. The first attempt she made to cross the border to the UK was 19 October, but she got caught and turned back. I don't know for sure from which port.\"\n\nThe BBC has passed details of Ms Tra My, who is from Nghen town in Can Loc district of Ha Tinh province area of Vietnam, to Essex Police, along with details of other people claiming to have information.\n\nThe BBC also knows of two other Vietnamese nationals who are missing - a 26-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman.\n\nThe brother of the 19-year-old said his sister called him at 07:20 Belgian local time (06:20 BST) on Tuesday, saying she was getting into a container and was turning off her phone to avoid detection.\n\nHe has not heard from her since.\n\nHe said a people smuggler returned money to the family overnight, and the family of the 26-year-old who she was travelling with also received money back.\n\nA spokesman from the Vietnamese Embassy in London confirmed they had been in contact with Essex police since Thursday.\n\nThey said Vietnamese families had appealed to them for help finding out if their relatives were among the victims but added they had not yet received any official confirmation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thirty nine bodies were found in the trailer container\n\nThe victims of the trailer were 31 men and eight women and Essex Police initially said they were all believed to be Chinese.\n\nThey were found at an industrial estate in Grays at 01:40 BST on Wednesday.\n\nAt a press conference on Friday evening Deputy Chief Constable Pippa Mills said the force was working with the National Crime Agency, the Home Office, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Border Force and Immigration Enforcement.\n\nShe said she would not be drawn on any further detail about the nationalities of the victims until formal identification processes had taken place.\n\n\"We gave an initial steer on Thursday on nationality, however, this is now a developing picture,\" she said.\n\nPolice have confirmed the scene at Waterglade Industrial Estate in Eastern Avenue was closed on Friday.\n\nEssex Police also urged anyone fearing their loved ones may have been in the lorry to get in touch.\n\n\"I can't begin to comprehend what some of you must be going through right now. You have my assurance that Essex Police will be working tirelessly to understand the whole picture to this absolute tragedy,\" said Det Ch Con Mills.\n\nShe also urged anyone living illegally in the UK who may have information to come forward, without fear of criminal action being taken against them.\n\nGPS data shows the refrigerated container trailer crossed back and forth between the UK and Europe in the days before it was found.\n\nIt was leased from the company Global Trailer Rentals on 15 October. The company said it was \"entirely unaware that the trailer was to be used in the manner in which it appears to have been\".\n\nEssex Police said the tractor unit (the front part of the lorry) had entered the UK via Holyhead - an Irish Sea port in Wales - on Sunday 20 October, having travelled over from Dublin.\n\nThe lorry driver has been named locally as Mo Robinson, from County Armagh\n\nPolice believe the tractor unit collected the trailer in Purfleet on the River Thames and left the port shortly after 01:05 on Thursday. Police were called to the industrial park where the bodies were discovered about half an hour later.\n\nTemperatures in refrigerated units can be as low as -25C (-13F). The lorry now is at a secure site in Essex.\n\nA spokesman for the UN International Organization for Migration said the discovery of bodies in Essex did not necessarily indicate a major shift in migration patterns.\n\n\"These are the kind of random crimes that occur every day in the world somewhere,\" he said. \"They get huge attention when they do but they don't necessarily indicate a big shift in migration or patterns in any place in particular. It's just the condition of what happens when this many people are engaging this many criminal groups to reach a destination, which of course we deplore.\"\n\nDetectives are still questioning the lorry driver, Mo Robinson, of County Armagh in Northern Ireland, on suspicion of murder. He was arrested on Wednesday.\n\nTwo other people were also earlier arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.\n\nThe man and woman, both 38, from Warrington, Cheshire, are also being held on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic people.\n\nPolice officers were seen at the couple's home address in Warrington, with a police van and two squad cars parked outside.\n\nThe container made its final crossing from Zeebrugge to Purfleet on Tuesday\n\nDo you have any information to share about the incident? If it is safe for you to do so please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sian Davies and her husband Jonathan at their local pub in Rossett, Wales\n\nA promise to end rural 'not-spots' can't come too soon for Sian Davies. She moved to Rossett, north-east Wales, with her husband this year - and the lack of mobile coverage has been \"a real bugbear\".\n\n\"The signal is almost non-existent,\" she said. \"If I want to send or receive texts, I have to go upstairs in my home,\" she said.\n\nShe's not alone. Currently one third of the UK has patchy or non-existent mobile phone coverage.\n\nBut on Friday, a £1bn plan between the UK's four main mobile phone companies and the government was unveiled with the aim of banishing these signal dead zones.\n\nThe proposed deal - which includes EE, O2, Three and Vodafone - promises to get 4G coverage to 95% of the UK by 2025.\n\nThe operators would invest in new and existing phone masts they would all share under the proposal, which the government hopes will be formalised early next year.\n\nIt is estimated that an additional 280,000 homes and businesses and 16,000km of roads will have coverage.\n\nThe four main mobile networks plan to contribute a total of £530m for the Shared Rural Network, with the government potentially supporting it with another £500m once the deal is finalised.\n\nThe government had threatened to force the mobile firms to allow customers to roam onto each other's networks in not-spots, a move the companies said would deter new investment.\n\nDigital Secretary Nicky Morgan said \"it is not yet a done deal and I want to see industry move quickly so we can reach a final agreement early next year.\"\n\nFor people like Mrs Davies, lack of coverage is a huge inconvenience. She's lost online purchases, as it takes so long for confirmation texts to come through. She ended up upgrading her phone so she could receive calls over wi-fi at home:\n\n\"Rossett is only six miles from both Chester and Wrexham, yet we are lucky to even get 3G never mind 4G,\" she said.\n\n\"One day O2 (her provider) called trying to get me to upgrade, but the caller said reception was bad and they would call later.\"\n\nShe contacted the company when it announced it was rolling out 5G: \"I am flabbergasted that they can do this when many people cannot even get 3G!\"\n\nThis deal follows years of wrangling between the government and the mobile operators with each side aware that the stakes were high.\n\nIt was under David Cameron's government that poor rural mobile coverage became a live issue - the Prime Minister was reportedly maddened by the lack of a mobile signal on his Cornish holidays, and residents and businesses in the countryside were understandably angry that poor connectivity was excluding them from the digital revolution.\n\nThe government repeatedly threatened to bring in so-called national roaming, forcing operators to allow customers to connect to rival networks in places where they could not provide a signal. They hated this proposal, insisting it would bring investment to a halt - why would you build a new mast only to see it used by customers of a rival who'd failed to invest?\n\nBut the threat has forced them to come up with a plan to invest £500m in a shared network which will see one mast hosting antennas from several operators.\n\nIn return they've won two concessions- the government will hand over cash to reach the really remote areas and Ofcom will drop coverage requirements from the rules for the next 5G spectrum auction.\n\nNow though the final details of the deal have to be agreed - and rural residents may still have to wait some years before they can be confident of connecting wherever they are.\n\nVodafone's chief technology officer, Scott Petty, told the BBC the plan has been 12 months in the making.\n\n\"As an industry we really believe this is the most effective way to get the UK from the bottom end of the coverage tables in Europe to the top end,\" he said.\n\nMark Bridgeman of the Country Land and Business Association said the news was is a big step forwards.\n\n\"We have been hugely frustrated at the lack of progress in improving mobile reception to date,\" he said.\n\n\"This announcement will be welcomed by everyone who lives or works in the countryside.\"\n\nFelicity Burch, director of digital and innovation at business lobby group the CBI, said the proposal would \"unleash investment and boost productivity\".\n\n\"This is another crucial step in making the UK match-fit for the digital revolution.\"\n\nSian Davies says she's \"all for it, as long as the four companies can negotiate together and deliver what is promised.\"\n\nShe is worried though that her area will miss out: \"I fear they may concentrate on more remote areas, and places such as Rossett which are relatively close to large urban areas, will be forgotten.\"", "Lottie Lion is in \"no doubt\" about the BBC's views on her comments\n\nThe BBC has told Apprentice candidate Lottie Lion that comments she made to a fellow candidate on a WhatsApp group were \"unacceptable\".\n\nIt follows reports that Lion said \"shut up Gandhi\" to Lubna Farhan.\n\nThe production company reported back to the BBC after looking into the issue, which took place after filming had concluded.\n\nLion has previously told the Press Assocation her comments were \"taken out of context\".\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said: \"While this happened on a private messenger service once filming had concluded, the BBC nevertheless still expects the candidates to behave appropriately.\n\n\"The production company have looked into the issue and reported back, Lottie has been informed that her comments were wholly unacceptable and is in no doubt about our view on this.\"\n\nThe comments were reportedly made to Lubna Farhan\n\nMahatma Gandhi led the fight for India's independence from the British Empire in 1947.\n\nIn her previous statement, Lion said her use of the word Gandhi was \"misinterpreted\".\n\n\"It is not true that I would ever be racist,\" she said. \"My use of the word Gandhi was misinterpreted, it was as candidates in the group chat had been quoting Gandhi previously.\n\n\"The comments were taken out of context, and I ask the public not to make judgment without knowing the full context.\"\n\nFarhan told The Independent earlier this week that there was \"truth\" to the \"rumours\" about friction between the two candidates, adding: \"There's no point me talking about it because it has already been spoken about.\"\n\nThe BBC One show, which pits aspiring candidates against each other in business challenges, has been running on the BBC for 15 years, with Lord Sugar investing £250,000 in the winning candidate's business idea.\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 bodies were discovered in the early hours of Wednesday\n\nTwo people have been arrested on suspicion of the manslaughter of 39 people found dead in a refrigerated lorry in Essex.\n\nThe man and woman, both 38, from Warrington, Cheshire, were also held on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to the families of three Vietnamese people who are worried their relatives may have been in the trailer.\n\nThe family of one woman say she sent a text saying she could not breathe.\n\nThey say Pham Tra My, 26, sent the message on Tuesday night and they have not been able to contact her since. They said they had paid £30,000 for her to be smuggled to Britain.\n\nTwo other families have also been in touch with the BBC. They are relatives of a 26-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman.\n\nThe 19-year-old's brother said she called him early on Tuesday to say she was getting in to a container and was turning off her phone to avoid detection.\n\nThere has been no word from her since, he said, but a people smuggler had returned money to the family.\n\nRelatives of the 26-year-old - with whom she was said to be travelling - also received money back, according to the younger woman's brother.\n\nMonth-long journey: Ms Pham's brother said that £30,000 had been paid to people smugglers\n\nEssex Police initially said the victims - 31 men and eight women - were believed to be Chinese.\n\nThey were found at an industrial estate in Grays at 01:40 BST on Wednesday.\n\nDetectives are still questioning the lorry driver on suspicion of murder.\n\nPolice have been given extra time to question driver Mo Robinson, of County Armagh in Northern Ireland, who was arrested on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thirty nine bodies were found in the trailer container\n\nPost-mortem examinations are due to start later after the first 11 bodies were moved from Tilbury Port to Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford.\n\nPrivate ambulances continued transporting more of the 39 bodies from the refrigerated lorry trailer to the mortuary on Friday.\n\nThe trailer arrived in Purfleet on the River Thames from Zeebrugge in Belgium at 00:30 on Wednesday.\n\nIt left the port shortly after 01:05 the same day and the bodies were found in the trailer at Waterglade Industrial Park about 30 minutes later.\n\nThe lorry driver has been named locally as Mo Robinson, from County Armagh\n\nPolice said recovering the bodies would take time and the dignity of the victims was its primary concern.\n\nThe Chinese Ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, said he had sent a team to Essex to help verify the identity of the victims. He added that their nationality was yet to be confirmed.\n\nEssex Police believes the lorry arrived in Holyhead in north Wales on Sunday, having travelled from Dublin.\n\nGlobal Trailer Rentals Ltd told RTE News it owned the trailer and said it had been hired on 15 October.\n\nTracking data from the trailer shows it had travelled between cities in Belgium and France, including Dunkirk, Bruges, and Lille, in the days before the discovery, sources said.\n\nDo you have any information to share about the incident? If it is safe for you to do so please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Motown icon Diana Ross has announced her first UK tour in 15 years.\n\nThe former Supremes star's six-date tour will follow her Sunday \"legends slot\" at next year's Glastonbury Festival.\n\nThe Diamond Diana Top of the World Tour shows will also be her first live appearances in this country since 2008.\n\nRoss, 75, who had solo hits with Upside Down, I'm Coming Out and Endless Love, described her return to these shores as \"like coming home.\"\n\n\"I look forward to coming to the UK to be with all my fans, friends and family,\" she said in a statement. \"I look forward to performing at Glastonbury and touring in the UK and being in London and the UK is like coming 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 Ms. 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.\n\nRoss' music career spans almost 60 years, dating back to her role as lead vocalist in The Supremes - the most successful act on the iconic Motown label. They had huge hits including Stop! In the Name of Love, Baby Love and You Keep Me Hangin' On.\n\nShe went solo in 1970 and enjoyed more worldwide success with songs that encompassed '70s disco, '80s ballads and pop number ones.\n\nThe Detroit singer declared she was \"no stranger to the UK,\" having lived there with her husband, Arne Naess, and family.\n\n\"It was a glorious time,\" she recalled. \"It is an honour and a privilege to sing and dream, every concert is a blessing and a gift, I am filled with excitement and huge appreciation. Dreams do come true.\"\n\nBack in 2012, Ross was given a Grammy lifetime achievement award. In 2016, then US President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.\n\nWhen asked her opinion of today's music landscape, she suggested it's a game of give and take, more now than ever.\n\n\"The music industry feels different today,\" she said. \"The business of the music industry mostly, so many changes, yet changes are inherent in our lives and in the world.\"\n\n\"Yet, the creative part of music has not changed, it's an idea and it is a natural part of creation,\" she added.\n\n\"For me it's about harmony and love.\"\n\nThe Diamond Diana Top of the World UK Tour starts on 30 June at the Leeds First Direct Arena.\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.", "Boris Johnson has written to Jeremy Corbyn urging the Labour leader to back a general election.\n\nIn the letter, the prime minister tells Mr Corbyn it is \"our duty to end this nightmare\" over Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson adds that if Labour supports a December poll, he will provide \"all the possible time\" for scrutiny of his proposed Brexit deal before 6 November.\n\n\"We could get Brexit done before the election on 12 December, if MPs choose to do so,\" he says.\n\nHere is Mr Johnson's letter in full:\n\nLast week, I agreed a new Withdrawal Agreement with the European Union. This is a great new deal which Parliament could have ratified and allowed us to honour our promises and leave by 31 October. Sadly you succeeded in persuading Parliament to ask the EU to delay Brexit until 31 January 2020.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Commons voted for our new deal but again voted for delay and, even worse, handed over control of what happens next to the other EU member states.\n\nI have repeatedly made clear to EU leaders since I became prime minister that I believe any delay to be extremely damaging for the country and my view has never changed that we should leave on 31 October.\n\nHowever, it is clear from public and private comments of President Tusk that it is likely that the EU will offer a delay until 31 January, though it is possible that a shorter delay will be offered.\n\nIn our meeting yesterday [Wednesday] you suggested that we propose a new timetable for getting the Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB) through Parliament.\n\nThis Parliament has, with your encouragement, voted repeatedly for delay. The vote on Tuesday was Parliament's last chance to get Brexit done before 31 October and it voted, again, for delay.\n\nI am extremely sceptical this habit will change and many will doubt that this Parliament will do anything other than waste more time and then, in January, ask for yet another delay.\n\nThese repeated delays have been bad for the economy, bad for businesses, and bad for millions of people trying to plan their futures. If businesses assume that this Parliament will stay, paralysed, refusing to take responsibility for month after month into 2020, it will cause misery for millions.\n\nIt is our duty to end this nightmare and provide the country with a solution as soon as we reasonably can.\n\nThe EU may offer only a short extension, say to 15 or 30 November. This would, obviously, be my preference but I was legally prevented by Parliament and the courts from suggesting this. In this circumstance, I assume you will reverse your vote of Tuesday and you will co-operate with me to get our new Brexit deal ratified so we leave with a new deal rather than no deal.\n\nIf the EU offers the delay that Parliament has requested - that is, we must stay in until 31 January - then it is clear that there must be an election. We cannot risk further paralysis.\n\nIn these circumstances, the Commons will vote next week on whether to hold an election to be held on 12 December. This would mean that Parliament would dissolve just after midnight on 6 November.\n\nIf you commit to voting for an election next week (in the event of the EU offering a delay until 31 January and the government accepting, as it is legally forced to do by Parliament), then we will make available all possible time between now and 6 November for the WAB to be discussed and voted through, including Fridays, weekends, the earliest starts and the latest finishes.\n\nThis means that we could get Brexit done before the election on 12 December, if MPs choose to do so.\n\nBut if Parliament refuses to take this chance and fails to ratify by the end of 6 November, as I fear it will, then the issue will have to be resolved by a new Parliament.\n\nAn election on 12 December will allow a new Parliament and government to be in place by Christmas.\n\nIf I win a majority in this election, we will then ratify the great new deal that I have negotiated, get Brexit done in January and the country will move on.\n\nIf you win a majority, then you will, I assume, implement your policy: that is, you will ask for another delay after 31 January 2020 to give you the time both to renegotiate a new deal then have a referendum, in which you may or may not campaign for your own deal.\n\nIt is time for MPs finally to take responsibility. More people voted Leave in 2016 than have ever voted for anything. Parliament promised to respect the referendum result. But Parliament has repeatedly avoided doing this.\n\nGiven this situation, we must give the voters the chance to resolve this situation as soon as reasonably possible before the next deadline of 31 January. We cannot risk wasting the next three months then this farce being replayed with yet another delay in January 2020 and still no way for the country to move on.\n\nThis Parliament has refused to take decisions. It cannot refuse to let the voters replace it with a new Parliament that can make decisions.\n\nProlonging this paralysis into 2020 would have dangerous consequences for businesses, jobs and for basic confidence in democratic institutions, already badly damaged by the behaviour of Parliament since the referendum. Parliament cannot continue to hold the country hostage.\n\nYou have repeatedly said that once the EU accepts Parliament's request for a delay until 31 January, then you would immediately support an election. I assume this remains your position and therefore you will support an election next week so the voters can replace this broken Parliament.\n\nI am copying this letter to the other Westminster political party leaders.\n• None PM to try for 12 December election", "\"Tranny\" and \"shemale\" are the slurs most commonly used against trans people online, according to a study.\n\nAnti-bullying charity Ditch The Label and its analytics partner Brandwatch described the harassment as being \"inhumane\".\n\nResearchers analysed 10 million posts on the topic of transgender identity, shared from the UK and the US over a period of three-and-a-half years.\n\nThey said more than 1.5 million of them were anti-trans.\n\nOther common transphobic themes of online posts included misgendering people - purposefully labelling somebody as a gender that they do not identify as.\n\nVideo streaming sites and message boards were found to host the most transphobic abuse and the \"least constructive conversation\" about trans lives.\n\n\"This report uncovers the shocking and inhumane ways in which transgender people are targeted, harassed, and abused on digital platforms,\" said Ditch the Label's chief Liam Hackett.\n\n\"Using the largest dataset of its kind, it is easy to see how, left unchallenged, digital hate speech can and does evolve into acts of physical violence committed towards trans people.\"\n\nMr Jones said it was sad to see the scale of the problem confirmed, but he was not shocked by the findings\n\n\"Transphobia is something I witness every single day,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I'm often intentionally misgendered and I'm always on the receiving end of comments like, 'You're not a real man,' 'You're confused and you need God,' 'You don't deserve to live.'\n\n\"I wonder if people understand the effect that these abusive comments have on my mental health.\n\nThe study compared transphobia across a range of sites, including social media, blogs, news outlets and forums.\n\nLarger sites such as Twitter and Instagram had the lowest percentage of abuse in general discussion around trans issues, at 5% and 12% respectively.\n\nWhereas on video streaming site YouTube, 78% of such discussion was abuse. Researchers said it should be noted that the volume of posts on this site was much lower than Twitter and Instagram.\n\nComments sections on news sites made up much of its abuse total (19%), and forums featured a high percentage of abusive language (40%).\n\nMeanwhile, mentions of trans issues across most of the site categories were more hostile in the US.\n\nThe BBC has approached Twitter, Instagram and YouTube for comment.\n\nThe transphobic insult \"tranny\" featured more than 1.2 million times between 2015 and 2019, accounting for 80% of the insults studied.\n\nThe researchers also found examples of dead-naming: purposefully using a transgender person's previous name from before they transitioned.\n\nIn the UK, politics appeared to be a key theme associated with the abuse, with the topic appearing in 27% of all the transphobic posts.\n\nRace came a close second. It was raised in 24% of the transphobic messages, and was especially common when the abused person was black.\n\nIn the US, race was found to be the main driver, appearing in 34% of the abusive comments, followed by politics, which was raised in 33%.\n\nParenting topics were also seen to be used as triggers for transphobia, with people using their parental status - \"as a mother of two kids…\" - to justify their views. This type of abuse tended to centre around the parents' fears, for example not wanting their children to be around trans people.\n\nIn addition, transphobic slurs were used by some sports fans alongside racist, sexist and homophobic abuse, even when the intended victim did not identify as transgender. For example, Serena Williams had transphobic insults directed at her because she was not deemed to look feminine enough.\n\nJay Hulme is a 22-year-old children's poet from Leicester. He's a transgender man and he says he constantly receives harassment on social media because of his identity.\n\nMr Hulme said online hatred would not stop him from fighting for trans rights\n\n\"It can be a full-scale hate storm with thousands of people attacking me relentlessly for days, or individual accounts sending general hate. I've been called an abuser, a sexual harasser, a sexist. I think the worst ones would have to be the times people call me a paedophile, just because I'm trans and write books for children.\n\n\"About four or five months ago I started an instant block policy when it comes to anyone who sends me harassment on Twitter. As of today, I've blocked almost 5,000 accounts who reached out and sent me transphobic messages.\"\n\nHe thinks social media companies should do more to prevent their platforms being used for hate speech.\n\n\"Online harassment of trans people is a really prevalent problem, and often goes a lot further than the things people say in real life.\n\n\"Social media companies should do more, but I think there's a lack of understanding of transphobia within their teams so they struggle to counter it. Also, they should do more for all kinds of hate - their moderation tactics have been proven ineffective time and again.\"\n\nFor more stories like this, follow the BBC LGBT correspondent Ben Hunte on Twitter and Instagram.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nThe family of Harry Dunn is to begin legal action against the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).\n\nHarry, 19, died outside RAF Croughton in a crash with a car owned by US citizen Anne Sacoolas, who later left the UK claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nFamily spokesperson Radd Seiger told Sky News: \"The first action we will be taking is against the FCO.\"\n\nAn FCO spokeswoman said: \"We have done everything we can properly to clear a path so that justice can be done for Harry's family.\n\n\"As the foreign secretary set out in Parliament, the individual involved had diplomatic immunity whilst in the country under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.\"\n\nThe FCO said it would respond to any legal action in due course.\n\nRadd Seiger (centre) said Harry Dunn's parents have met lawyers in London\n\nMr Seiger said: \"We will be shortly issuing a letter of claim which is a prelude to a judicial review.\n\n\"We are absolutely clear that the Foreign Office's decision to advise Northamptonshire Police that Mrs Sacoolas had the benefit of diplomatic immunity was unlawful and we will be seeking a judicial review of that decision to have it quashed.\"\n\nHe also appealed for Mrs Sacoolas \"to come back to this country and face the music\".\n\nThe family has also referred Northamptonshire Police to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nA Northamptonshire Police spokeswoman said the force would be happy to support the IOPC with any concerns raised by the family.\n\nOn Tuesday, Northamptonshire Police Chief Constable Nick Adderley said Mrs Sacoolas would be interviewed under caution in the US.\n\nOfficers are waiting for the necessary visas.\n\nMr Seiger said the force had \"not disclosed all the information this family are entitled to\".\n\n\"We have deep concerns about the manner in which this investigation was conducted, and simply adding insult to injury to this family at their darkest hour,\" he added.\n\nMr Adderley had previously said Northamptonshire Police had at all times \"acted with the utmost integrity and transparency\".\n\nMr Seiger said: \"This family have a steely determination about them to ensure that Harry has not died in vain.\n\n\"I think the whole nation, the whole world now, is looking at this set of circumstances and it isn't right.\"\n\nMr Dunn's motorbike was in a collision outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on 27 August. He later died in hospital.\n\nMrs Sacoolas' husband Jonathan is a US intelligence official who was working at the base at the time of the crash.\n\nBoth the British and US governments agree that by returning to the US Mrs Sacoolas forfeited the right to diplomatic immunity.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nearly 180,000 people are without power and hundreds have been evacuated as a fast-moving wildfire rages through California's wine country.\n\nJets have sprayed pink flame retardant across Sonoma County to stop the spread of the Kincade Fire.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City equalled the 24-year-old record for the biggest ever Premier League victory as 10-man Southampton were dismantled at a rainswept St Mary's.\n\nThe victory sees Brendan Rodgers' side climb into second place, leapfrogging Manchester City and moving five points behind leaders Liverpool.\n\nThe result, which matches Manchester United's 9-0 win against Ipswich in 1995, was only confirmed in stoppage time thanks to Jamie Vardy's penalty.\n\nBoth Vardy and Ayoze Perez scored hat-tricks, with the visitors aided by Ryan Bertrand's red card for a reckless challenge on Perez in the build-up to Ben Chilwell's opener.\n\nThat opened the floodgates for Leicester, who turned on the style just two days before the first anniversary of the helicopter crash that killed the club's former chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four other people.\n\nYouri Tielemans also scored his third goal of the campaign and James Maddison added a superb free-kick on a miserable evening for Southampton, who drop into the bottom three.\n• None recorded the biggest ever victory by an away side in an English top-flight league match in the 131-year history of the Football League\n• None inflicted Southampton's biggest ever defeat as an English league side in all competitions in their history\n• None became only the second team in Premier League history to establish a five-goal lead in the first half of an away game in the competition, after Manchester City against Burnley in April 2010 (also 5-0)\n• None became only the second side in Premier League history to have two players score a hat-trick in the same game (Perez and Vardy), after Arsenal in May 2003 - also against Southampton (Pennant and Pires)\n\nLeicester 'here to stay at top' - Chilwell\n\nLeicester may have played a game more than Liverpool but this emphatic result means that they have now scored more goals than the league leaders and are just four behind Manchester City.\n\nAnd the omens look good for Rodgers' side who have now collected one point more from the opening 10 games of the current season than at the same stage of their title-winning campaign in 2015-16.\n\nWith trips to Crystal Palace and Brighton on the horizon either side of hosting Arsenal, Leicester have every chance to kick on from their strong start, but given the strength and form of Liverpool and Manchester City, a title challenge appears unlikely.\n\nBut the manner in which the Foxes ruthlessly cut through the hosts will nevertheless serve as a warning to others, with their three goals inside the opening 19 minutes the fastest they have amassed that scoreline in a Premier League match since 1998.\n\nAlso working in Leicester's favour is the attacking menace still being provided by Vardy.\n\nWhile the forward is approaching his 33rd birthday, there are few signs, if any, that his physical capabilities are waning and he looked as sprightly as ever as he recorded his first hat-trick for almost three years.\n\nHis first showed nimbleness and awareness as he cut inside Saints defender Maya Yoshida to drill a close-range effort into the bottom corner, while his second showcased smart movement as he headed past Angus Gunn from close range. His trademark blistering pace then took him clear of the Southampton defence to win and convert a late penalty.\n\nHis exploits were also complemented by Perez, who opened his account for the season after finding the bottom-right corner following a neat one-two with Tielemans.\n\nThe Spaniard then superbly swept home Chilwell's pinpoint cross for his second before finding the bottom corner with a left-footed shot to complete his treble.\n\nWhat does this mean for sorry Southampton?\n\nAt the start of the evening Southampton's focus was purely on ending a barren run of seven games without a home win dating back to April.\n\nBut by half-time manager Ralph Hasenhuttl had changed tack considerably, by simply trying to avoid any further embarrassment.\n\nThe Austrian, who at times appeared exasperated and spent much of the interval sitting in his technical area, introduced Kevin Danso and Jack Stephens to replace Jannik Vestergaard and Danny Ings, but it was too little to late.\n\nWith the crowd visibly thinning in the second period, Hasenhuttl must now hope the scale of this defeat has not eroded the confidence of his players too much.\n\nWhile the Saints are a couple of points better off than at the same time last term, they appear in danger of being dragged into another relegation fight.\n\nAnd their road to redemption is unlikely to be an easy one with their next two fixtures away at Manchester City in both the Carabao Cup and Premier League.\n\n'We were ruthless' - what they said\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers, speaking to BBC Match of the Day:\n\n\"I'm very pleased to see our work rate, we scored some great goals and we were very hungry tonight. It was horrible weather but our focus was outstanding. I'm very pleased how we defended, and we were ruthless. I'm very proud to stand and be the manager of that team.\n\n\"We wanted to get the ball back quickly and attack again. A mark of the good sides is you don't let up. We wanted to show we're a good side and we certainly did that in the second half.\n\n\"We were ruthlessly simple in our game. When you're so many goals up you can easily slow but we kept focused. We want to be a top team and to be a top team you must be clinical.\n\n\"It was a very good team performance and we're pleased to keep a clean sheet. It's good for our goals for but the clean sheet is equally important.\"\n\nSouthampton manager Ralph Hasenhuttl, speaking to BBC Match of the Day:\n\n\"That was one of the tough ones tonight. The performance was a disaster today and I have to apologies and take 100% responsibility - I've never seen a team act like this, there was no fight for anything.\n\n\"It was horrible to watch and everyone who stayed to watch is really a fan of this football club. Leicester were in every part of the game better than us I'm a proud man but the way we play today is not the way I want to see my team play. We must get our heads up and that is my job in the next few days.\n\n\"I said we must play to the last minute but I can understand why the fans that left. We all must to do everything to pull this back. I haven't looked at the [Ryan Bertrand] red card but it doesn't make any difference in this moment.\"\n\nOn what was said after the game: \"There is nothing I want to speak of here in front of the camera - we keep that for in the dressing room.\"\n\nSouthampton travel to Manchester City in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday (19:45 GMT) before returning to the Etihad in the Premier League on Saturday, 2 November (15:00 GMT).\n\nLeicester travel to Burton in the EFL Cup also on Tuesday (19:45 GMT) before going to Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Sunday, 3 November (14:00 GMT).\n• None Goal! Southampton 0, Leicester City 9. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Jan Bednarek (Southampton) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Youri Tielemans (Leicester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marc Albrighton with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ben Chilwell.\n• None Offside, Southampton. Jack Stephens tries a through ball, but Nathan Redmond is caught offside.\n• None Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Southampton 0, Leicester City 8. James Maddison (Leicester City) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Ben Chilwell (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Youri Tielemans.\n• None Attempt missed. Nathan Redmond (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Kevin Danso following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Mr Murray received the backing of all four member branches in his constituency\n\nLabour MP Ian Murray has been reselected as a candidate in the next general election despite union opposition.\n\nThe Unite union accused the MP for Edinburgh South of consistently undermining the Labour leadership.\n\nParty rules could have triggered a contest to replace him if the move was backed by a third of local members or affiliated unions.\n\nHowever, all four constituency member branches have voted to reselect him.\n\nMr Murray said: \"It is a huge honour to have been reselected as Labour's candidate in Edinburgh South for the forthcoming general election.\n\n\"Representing my home city of Edinburgh is a great privilege, and I have always put this constituency first and foremost.\"\n\nUnite had led the calls for Mr Murray's deselection over his criticism of the Labour leadership in Scotland and at Westminster.\n\nIt also claimed he had, on occasion, attacked the union.\n\nAfter the reselection decision was announced, Mr Murray said he was grateful for the backing of \"the overwhelming majority of trade unions\".\n\nHe also thanked the \"hard-working and committed local Labour party activists\" for their continued support.\n\nMr Murray said: \"My focus remains on standing up for the 80,000 people in my constituency, regardless of how they voted, and working tirelessly to secure a People's Vote to avoid a devastating Brexit.\"\n\nBefore becoming an MP, Mr Murray served for seven years as a councillor for the city's Liberton and Gilmerton ward.\n\nThe Edinburgh University graduate was elected to Westminster in 2010 and, after an SNP landslide in 2015, he was Labour's only Scottish MP.\n\nIn 2017, Mr Murray retained his Edinburgh South seat with 54.7% of the vote.\n\nHe increased his majority to 15,514 (32%) - the largest in Scotland.\n\nHe also increased his profile by leading the campaign to save Hearts Football Club from administration.\n\nIn February, Mr Murray declined to join seven Labour MPs who left to form an independent group in protest at the party's approach to Brexit and anti-Semitism under Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nAt the time Mr Murray said Mr Corbyn should \"listen and learn and decide if he wants to keep the Labour Party together\".", "Ben Gillham-Rice (left) and Dom Ansah (right) were stabbed to death at a house party on Saturday\n\nA man has been charged with murdering two teenagers who were stabbed to death at a house party.\n\nDom Ansah and Ben Gillham-Rice, both 17, were attacked in Archford Croft, Milton Keynes, on Saturday.\n\nCharlie Chandler, 21, of Fitzwilliam Street, Bletchley, has been charged with two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder.\n\nPolice said Mr Chandler was due to appear at Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nA 22-year-old man from Milton Keynes remains in police custody on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.\n\nThe boys were stabbed in Archford Croft in Milton Keynes\n\nPost-mortem examinations concluded Dom died from a stab wound to the back and Ben's cause of death was a knife wound to the chest.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Trains leaving the station were being delayed by up to 90 minutes or cancelled, National Rail said\n\nCommuters travelling from a major London railway station faced severe disruption after a \"serious trespass incident\".\n\nLines into London Euston were shut as emergency services helped someone near Wembley Central station.\n\nBritish Transport Police said they were called at 16:25 BST and a male had been \"taken to a place of safety\".\n\nNetwork Rail warned problems would last until the end of service on Friday as trains were out of place.\n\nCrew on board the train halted for more than an hour have handed passengers glow sticks after turning off the power\n\nLines later reopened but Network Rail had warned the station concourse remained \"very busy\" and that crowd management would be put in place.\n\nPower was cut on some trains with one commuter describing how they were stuck on a train.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emma Dunn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLondon Northwestern Railway, London Overground, Southern and Virgin Trains were all affected:\n\nNetwork Rail warned problems would last until the end of service as trains were out of place\n\nNational Rail said anybody unable to travel on Friday night could use trains on Saturday for no extra cost.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs have voted for the Withdrawal Agreement Bill to take the UK out of the European Union ending a series of defeats for the government on Brexit.\n\nThe first vote on Boris Johnson's bill passed by 329 to 299 but he failed to get approval for the swift timetable that would have allowed it to pass through the House of Commons by Thursday.\n\nThe government lost the timetable vote by 308 to 322.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted, use the search box below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did your MP vote? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nThe Withdrawal Agreement Bill passed with the help of 19 Labour MPs who defied their leader Jeremy Corbyn to vote for the bill.\n\nDespite supporting the bill not all those Labour MPs agreed with the timetable proposed by the government. This would have seen the bill pass through the House of Commons by the end of Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nBelgian Paralympian Marieke Vervoort has ended her own life through euthanasia at the age of 40.\n\nVervoort, who won gold and silver at the London 2012 Paralympics, and two further medals at Rio 2016, had an incurable degenerative muscle disease.\n\nEuthanasia is legal in Belgium and in 2008 Vervoort signed papers which would one day allow a doctor to end her life.\n\nA statement from her home city of Diest said Vervoort \"responded to her choice on Tuesday evening\".\n• None 'I'll never forget her' - an emotional tribute to Marieke Vervoort\n\nVervoort's disease caused constant pain, seizures, paralysis in her legs and left her barely able to sleep.\n\nIn an extensive interview with BBC Radio 5 Live's Eleanor Oldroyd in 2016 she said: \"It can be that I feel very, very bad, I get an epileptic attack, I cry, I scream because of pain. I need a lot of painkillers, valium, morphine.\n\n\"A lot of people ask me how is it possible that you can have such good results and still be smiling with all the pain and medication that eats your muscles. For me, sports, and racing with a wheelchair - it's a kind of medication.\"\n• None What different countries say about assisted dying\n\nVervoort won gold in the T52 100m wheelchair race at London 2012 as well as silver in the T52 200m wheelchair race.\n\nAt the Rio Paralympics she claimed silver in the T51/52 400m and bronze in T51/52 100m.\n\nAsked about the fact she had signed euthanasia papers, after the Rio Paralympics she told the BBC: \"It gives a feeling of rest to people. I know when it's enough for me, I have those papers.\"\n\nThe city of Diest said a book of condolence will be accessible in its town hall from Wednesday.\n\nShe was a remarkable champion, on and off the track. She was outrageously funny and full of life, but I've never had such frank conversations about death with anyone.\n\nSomehow, though, those conversations weren't depressing; she had accepted her time on earth would be shorter than many, but she was determined to wring every last drop of fun out of it that she could.\n\nWe drank cava on a beautiful summer's evening; she was still able to enjoy the good moments, but they were becoming less frequent.\n\nHer friend Lieve told us then she thought she might have another six months, maybe a year. That was two years ago.\n\nI hope and pray that, when the end came, it was a soft and beautiful death, as she wished.\n\nYou can read Eleanor Oldroyd's interview with Marieke Vervoort here.", "The government is consulting on possible designs for the number plates\n\nDrivers of electric cars across the UK may soon be using special green number plates under new plans.\n\nThe aim is to make it possible for local authorities to allow zero-emission vehicles to benefit from incentives such as cheaper parking.\n\nThe government hopes it will boost electric car sales, helping it achieve its 2050 target of net zero emissions.\n\nBut Friends of the Earth said without better financial incentives and more charging points, little would change.\n\nThe government is asking industry and the public for their views on how to implement the scheme.\n\n\"As the UK moves at pace towards net zero emissions, the initiative aims to raise awareness of the increasing number of zero tailpipe emission vehicles on UK roads,\" said the Department for Transport (DfT).\n\n\"Through the introduction of green number plates, local authorities would have a useful visual identifier should they wish to introduce incentives to promote the use of zero-emission vehicles, such as allowing these drivers to use bus lanes and to pay less for parking.\"\n\nCPT UK, the trade body for the bus and coach industry, said it would be a mistake to allow electric cars to use bus lanes.\n\n\"If local authorities allow some cars to use bus infrastructure, which is already severely strained and in need of significant investment, we will simply increase congestion for bus passengers and drive people off the bus and back into cars the vast majority of which are not electric,\" said chief executive Graham Vidler.\n\nSales of all-electric vehicles (EVs) are up sharply since last year, leading to suggestions the market has reached a turning point.\n\nBut all-electric vehicles still represent only a fraction of total car sales and there are challenges to uptake, including a lack of charging points on roads and too few low-cost models.\n\nThe government said a similar licence plate scheme introduced on a trial basis in the Canadian province of Ontario had led to an increase in electric vehicle registrations.\n\nHowever, RAC head of roads policy Nicholas Lyes said: \"While the sentiment seems right, there are question marks as to whether drivers would see this as a badge of honour or alternatively it could foster resentment among existing drivers of petrol and diesel vehicles.\n\n\"On the face of it, drivers we've questioned don't seem too impressed - only a fifth think it's a good idea and the majority said the number plates wouldn't have the effect of making them any more likely to switch to an electric vehicle.\"\n\nFriends of the Earth campaigner Jenny Bates urged the introduction of a national scrappage scheme, saying it would \"help fund a switch to a cleaner vehicle or greener transport alternative\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRod McClair-Burgess regularly drives his electric car into the City. He says, incentives such as being allowed to use bus lanes would make his journey \"faster and easier\" and be \"a huge plus\".\n\n\"That would probably half my commute time and would be a real incentive for me for driving a car like this,\" he says.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the UK was \"in the driving seat\" of global efforts to tackle vehicle emissions, but wanted to \"accelerate\" progress.\n\n\"Green number plates are a really positive and exciting way to help everyone recognise the increasing number of electric vehicles on our roads,\" he added.\n\nThe DfT has issued three potential number plate designs and is consulting on which one should be adopted.\n\nThe move comes as part of the government's £1.5bn Road to Zero Strategy, a package of measures aimed at making the UK \"the best place in the world to own an electric vehicle\".\n\nThe Norwegian capital Oslo has plenty of electric vehicles. You can spot them relatively easily by looking for an \"e\" at the start of each number plate.\n\nE-vehicles park for free in some public car parks which are loaded with charging points.\n\nAnd a commute in or out of the city in an electrical vehicle is generally much faster than in a petrol or a diesel car because on several main roads, electric cars can zoom down the bus lane.\n\nThis type of incentive does exist in some parts of the UK (for example Nottingham has a bus lane which e-vehicles are allowed in) but the government hopes by marking low emission vehicles out with a green number plate more councils will do more to persuade drivers thinking about making the switch.\n\nIn Norway, such incentives have played a role.\n\nBut high taxes for petrol and diesel cars as well as tax breaks for electric cars, together with a good network of fast-charging points, have also been critical factors in pushing Norway beyond the electric adoption tipping point.\n\nIn the UK, consumers get £3,500 towards the cost of a new electric car and if the vehicle is valued at under £40,000 it is exempt from annual vehicle tax.\n\nBut the government admits the UK's charging infrastructure still needs to improve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is Norway the land of electric cars?", "The Thistle platform's owners said the evacuation was a precautionary measure\n\nA North Sea oil platform has been shut down and all 115 workers taken off after a subsea structural inspection.\n\nEnQuest said it evacuated the Thistle platform, about 125 miles (201km) north-east of Shetland, in a precautionary move on Monday evening.\n\nThe company said personnel were transferred to the nearby Dunlin Alpha platform by helicopter.\n\nThe coastguard said its Sumburgh helicopter and one from the Norwegian offshore sector were involved.\n\nThe RMT union said the speed of the operation suggested \"quite a significant event\".\n\nEnQuest later said the inspection related to a \"support element on a redundant subsea storage tank\".\n\nThe company's North Sea managing director, Bob Davenport, said: \"The safety of our people is our absolute priority. Our offshore installation manager took proactive action to transfer everyone from the platform as a precaution following yesterday's inspection.\n\n\"This was carried out safely and quickly, with plans then made for their onward travel home. Further inspection work will be conducted and the platform will remain shut,down until that has concluded and any necessary remedial action undertaken.\n\n\"I'd like to thank everyone involved for their support including the team onboard Dunlin, employees, contractors and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.\"\n\nCoastguards had been made aware of the situation at about 18:30.\n\nThe Thistle platform is off Shetland\n\nPersonnel were flown to the Dunlin Alpha platform\n\nJake Molloy, from the RMT union, said the evacuation was a very unusual set of circumstances.\n\nHe told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"You don't shut a platform down and remove over 100 people if you haven't got concerns.\n\n\"For structural integrity reasons this is only the second time that I can remember in 40 years.\n\n\"The last one was the Ninian South pending the Beast from the East arriving.\n\n\"This is quite serious, there's no storms, there's no significant weather problems. They've clearly found an issue which needs further investigation and they've thought it necessary to take a precautionary down-man as they call it.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was the speed at which it was done, and the fact that they are utilising Norwegian aircraft that suggests this is quite a significant event - the haste and the pace to get people off.\"\n\nEnQuest has set up a response line for relatives on 0845 271 2201.\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. Shamima Begum's lawyers say she professed sympathy for IS to protect herself and her son (Video from February 2019)\n\nRemoving Shamima Begum's citizenship after she went to Syria left her stateless and at risk of hanging, a court has heard.\n\nHer lawyer said Ms Begum, now 20, is in \"an incredibly fragile and dangerous\" position in a Syrian refugee camp.\n\nAfter leaving London as a 15-year-old, Ms Begum lived under the rule of the Islamic State group for three years, before being found in February.\n\nThe Home Office denies that the decision left her stateless.\n\nIt says that she could claim Bangladeshi nationality through her family, but her lawyers told the court that Bangladesh said it will not allow Ms Begum into the country and she would face hanging if she tried to enter secretly.\n\nA four-day preliminary hearing is taking place at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, a semi-secret court that deals with cases where the UK government wants to keep someone out of the country on national security grounds.\n\nIn submissions to the court, Ms Begum's lawyers said she had only professed sympathy for the Islamic State group in media interviews to protect herself and her newborn son, who later died in the refugee camp.\n\nIn February 2015, Ms Begum left Bethnal Green in east London for Syria with two friends.\n\nWithin days she had crossed the Turkish border and eventually reached the IS headquarters at Raqqa, where she was married to a Dutch convert recruit. They had three children - all of whom have since died.\n\nAfter she was found in February, former home secretary Sajid Javid stripped her of her UK citizenship.\n\nTom Hickman QC told the court that Ms Begum was challenging the decision on three grounds, including that it had made his client stateless.\n\nMs Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nHe also argued that removing her citizenship led to a \"real risk of death\" or suffering other human rights abuses.\n\nAnd he said that she was denied an effective right to challenge the citizenship decision because it was taken while she was in a Syrian refugee camp.\n\nMs Begum is unable to speak confidentially with her lawyers or to give evidence in support of her appeal, Mr Hickman said.\n\nThe Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) can be found in an airless basement of an anonymous block behind the Royal Courts of Justice.\n\nIt's fitting because a great deal of its work happens behind locked doors as judges hear secret intelligence assessments from MI5 that inform decisions by the home secretary to ban someone from the UK.\n\nMs Begum's lawyers must prove she does not have Bangladeshi citizenship as an alternative to being a Brit. The government has to prove it has not left her \"stateless\", contrary to basic law.\n\nSIAC has previously ruled that a British national of Bangladeshi heritage can't be stripped of their nationality if they're over 21 years old and do not already hold proof of the other nation's citizenship.\n\nMs Begum's case is different. She was 19 when she lost her citizenship. Her lawyers argue that Bangladeshi ministers have made clear they won't accept her - and predict that the country's Supreme Court wouldn't overrule the politicians.\n\nIf SIAC rules against Ms Begum on this point, it will go on to consider whether she is a genuine threat to national security.\n\nThe UK government claims that under Bangladeshi law, Ms Begun is a citizen by descent, and so she cannot be made stateless by losing her British citizenship.\n\nIn its submissions to court, it said any risks she faces are \"wholly unrelated\" to the citizenship decision and are a consequence of travelling to Syria and joining IS.\n\nBut her lawyers say Ms Begum has never visited Bangladesh and does not speak Bengali.\n\n\"The Bangladeshi government has made clear it will not allow the appellant to go to that country. It has said that if she arrived covertly she would be hanged,\" they said in legal papers.\n\nThe UK government has also claimed that Camp Roj in northern Syria, where Ms Begum now lives, is \"likely to be unguarded\" - meaning she was free to leave.\n\nBut Mr Hickman said there was no evidence for this and that the environment was \"incredibly fragile and dangerous\".\n\nThe conditions in the camp are \"wretched and squalid\" as the death of her child demonstrates, he said.\n\nMs Begum has been \"abandoned\" there because the citizenship decision was \"designed\" to prevent her returning to the UK, he added.\n\nA second stage of Ms Begum's legal challenge, to be heard at a later date, will look at the government's allegations that she poses an ongoing threat to national security.", "George King-Thompson admitted being in breach of an injunction designed to deter trespassers\n\nA free-solo climber who scaled one of Europe's tallest buildings unaided has been detained for six months.\n\nGeorge King-Thompson, from Oxford, climbed the 310-metre (1,017ft) Shard skyscraper in London on 8 July.\n\nThe 20-year-old was given a police caution at the time but the building's owners began legal proceedings against him for breaching an injunction.\n\nKing-Thompson appeared at the High Court where he admitted being in contempt of court.\n\nLondon Bridge Station was briefly closed when the 20-year-old took 45 minutes to make the free-solo climb - without ropes or protective equipment - at about 05:00 BST.\n\nKing-Thompson was given a police caution but not arrested at the time of the climb\n\nDavid Forsdick QC, representing The Shard's owners Teighmore Limited, earlier told the court that King-Thompson had been planning the climb for about eight months, including moving to east London and visiting the building up to 200 times \"specifically to prepare\" for it.\n\nIn his written case, he said the 20-year-old \"knew of The Shard injunction\" and \"recognised that the climb was illegal\" by using the hashtag \"rooftopillegal\" when he posted a video of his efforts on Instagram.\n\nThe climb was also a \"highly dangerous trespass, both to him [King-Thompson] and potentially to members of the emergency services and the public if he had fallen\", Mr Forsdick said.\n\nKing-Thompson, seen here during a previous climb, had not been seeking \"fame or notoriety\", the court heard\n\nPhilip McGhee, for King-Thompson, told the court his client \"wishes to make an unreserved apology for his actions\" including to those who were \"inconvenienced\" by London Bridge Station being closed.\n\nHe explained the free-solo climber had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and had not been seeking \"fame or notoriety\", but had \"laudable aims\" to \"inspire others\".\n\n\"Mr King-Thompson will not climb another building in the UK. He very much regrets and is very sorry for doing what he did,\" he said.\n\nSentencing him to six months in a young offenders institution, Mr Justice Murray said the defendant's breach of the order, which was designed to deter trespassers, had been \"deliberate and knowing\".\n\nHe said despite King-Thompson's \"young age and previous good character, it is not a sentence I am able to suspend\".\n\nReal Estate Management (UK) Limited which manages The Shard, said it hoped \"today's outcome will deter other prospective climbers, and help them recognise the great dangers that these actions pose\".\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. Ex-EastEnders actress describes how she was made to feel during her job-shaming story\n\nFormer EastEnders actress Katie Jarvis says she felt \"degraded\" and \"hurt\" after a newspaper splashed pictures of her working as a shop security guard.\n\nOn Sunday, the Daily Star revealed the actress, who played Hayley Slater, was now working at a B&M store in Romford.\n\nIt prompted an outpouring of empathy on social media, as many actors underlined the uncertain nature of the profession.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire Show, Jarvis said the tone of the story was \"really quite nasty\".\n\n\"I woke up really embarrassed and made to feel quite ashamed, to be honest\" said the 28-year-old, who now works alongside her sister.\n\n\"See over my career I've done by best to try and stay away from social gatherings, get-togethers and celebrity things, to keep my private life as private as possible.\n\n\"So to wake up with my kids and see myself on the front of the pages just for simply having a job in between my acting, it really did hurt me.\"\n\nShe added: \"It took a day or so for me to actually let it all digest and realise I had nothing to be ashamed about.\"\n\nJarvis first made her name starring as Mia Williams in the 2009 British drama film Fish Tank, before heading to Albert Square for a year-long stint which ended in February 2019.\n\nThe east Londoner explained she's worked in a range of jobs to support her acting career - including as a waitress and for a credit card company.\n\nShe admitted she's been \"overwhelmed\" by the support she's received from her acting colleagues, like Kathy Burke, who comically re-interpreted the headline of the tabloid story - or non-story, as she saw it.\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\nIn a show of solidarity, other TV stars revealed they too supplement their acting careers with other types of employment.\n\nTamzin Outhwaite posted: \"Yes, I am a landlady, a voice over artist, car boot salesperson, art dealer, up cyclist, interior designer, motivational speaker, and many other jobs... it's what artists do to earn a living. They work in between jobs.\"\n\n\"It's called grafting!\" she added. \"Or not being afraid of hard work... or loving your family enough to drop your dream for a bit to earn a living so the family can live life. And there is no shame in wanting to work hard to make sure your offspring are cared for.\"\n\nTV critic Emma Bullimore told the BBC she understands why actors are getting upset with the newspaper for splashing Jarvis's new non-acting job all over the front page in a \"humiliating\" manner. But, she says, the situation is \"more complicated\" than some soap stars are making out.\n\n\"I can see both sides of it really as it does feel quite cruel in the way that they did it, kicking her while she's down I suppose,\" says Bullimore.\n\n(L-R) Shane Richie as Alfie Moon, Jessie Wallace as Kat Moon and Katie Jarvis as Hayley Slater holding baby Cherry Slater in 2018\n\n\"But with a tabloid hat on, you can totally see that it is the perfect story - she was in one of the biggest shows on TV, had a massive part in it and she was basically in every scene for a little while.\n\n\"Then she disappeared, slightly oddly, and now suddenly she's working at B&M. I think if she was working at Waitrose it would not be as good a story.\"\n\nCharlie Condou, who played Marcus Dent in Coronation Street, called the Jarvis story \"shameful journalism,\" adding he'd done something similar himself.\n\n\"When I left Corrie I had a string of very nice TV and theatre jobs,\" he tweeted. \"Then I didn't.\n\n\"So I got a job working in a restaurant to pay my bills and take care of my kids. That's what responsible adults do.\"\n\nIn one of her most memorable EastEnders scenes from last Christmas, Jarvis's character Hayley pushed Alfie Moon, played by Shane Ritchie, down the stairs in defence of her relative Kat Moon.\n\nSince leaving EastEnders, Jarvis has kept a relatively low profile. However, in March, she tweeted to say she was \"absolutely fine\" following reports she had been \"glassed\" on a night out.\n\nBullimore believes \"it feels like a choice\", in this instance, for her to make the move away from the camera so soon, making the newspaper article all the more intriguing for readers.\n\n\"I can see why people would want to read it because they'll think 'surely you're really well paid if you're on EastEnders and you're living the life of an actress.' And she was in it so recently, so why would you need the money so quickly?\n\n\"That's not to say that I think it [the story] is fair, but I don't think it's necessarily any worse than the way that tabloids treat actors in general.\"\n\n(L-R) Sorry We Missed You stars Debbie Honeywood, Katie Proctor, Rhys Stone, Kris Hitchen and Ken Loach at the Cannes Film Festival in May\n\nJarvis is not the first and won't be the last actor to do a \"normal job\" before, during or after an acting career.\n\nIn fact, award-winning director Ken Loach told the BBC's arts editor Will Gompertz he actively shied away from casting big name Hollywood stars in his latest drama, Sorry We Missed You, in favour of actors who have had recent experience working in relevant industries.\n\nThe film features actor/plumber and van driver Kris Hitchen and actress/teaching assistant and care worker Debbie Honeywood at the head of a Newcastle family, struggling to make ends meet on zero-hour contract jobs.\n\n\"Finding people to bring a story to life is the second-most important decision you ever make in filmmaking, second to the script - which is the most important,\" explained Loach.\n\n\"The camera can see who you are, maybe in ways you're not aware of - how you stand, how you use your hands, the quality of your skin depends on your diet. Every mannerism that you're not aware of. And you've also got to believe that people can do the job they say that they can do in the film and reach the character and absolutely have the capacity to draw the audience in.\n\n\"So the audience laughs with them and cries with them and is angry with them and identifies with them and has solidarity with them. And we were really lucky to find Chris and Debbie.\"\n\nHe added: \"They're both terrific, but they can act, make no mistake.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Director Ken Loach explains why he doesn't use Hollywood actors in his films.\n\nElsewhere in the industry, former Hollyoaks and Holby City actor Jeremy Edwards found work, like Jarvis, as a security guard, and as a gardener. As Celebs Now reported, in 2011, he noted: \"I don't know any actors who work consistently without other work. A lucky few, but not many, I had a good 10-year run!\"\n\nGemma Merna, who played Carmen McQueen in Hollyoaks for eight years - winning best comedy performance at the 2007 British Soap Awards - now also works as a yoga instructor and personal trainer.\n\nMeanwhile, Geoffrey Owens, who played Elvin in the Cosby Show between 1985 and 1992, thanked supporters last year after photos of him working as a cashier at US grocery Trader Joe's were mocked online.\n\nRap star and Cosby Show fan Nicki Minaj donated $25,000 (£22,433) to the \"legend\" after he was similarly job-shamed, however, Owens donated the amount to a fund helping actors in need.\n\n(L-R) Jeremy Edwards, Geoffrey Owens and Gemma Merna have all acted and performed other jobs\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.", "Robin McMaster's body was discovered after family members became increasingly worried about his whereabouts\n\nA woman who lived with her partner's decomposing corpse for more than a week and then claimed his prescription medication, has been jailed for a year.\n\nAngela Irwin, whose address was given as Holywell Hospital in Antrim, admitted preventing the lawful burial of a corpse.\n\nThe offences took place between 13 and 22 November 2018.\n\nIrwin, who is 54, also admitted a charge of false representation on 21 November 2018.\n\nThat involved ordering prescription medication from a GP on the pretence that such medication was for the treatment of another.\n\nThe charges followed the death of 40-year-old Robin McMaster, whose body was found at Devenagh Court in Ballymena on 22 November 2018.\n\nMr McMaster's body was discovered after family members became increasingly worried about his whereabouts.\n\nRelatives who phoned the home Mr McMaster and Irwin shared were told by Irwin that he was in bed with back pain and could not be disturbed.\n\nIrwin was originally arrested on suspicion of murder, but Mr McMaster's cause of death was later found to be \"most likely\" an overdose of Tramadol and other prescription drugs\n\nHis brother entered the flat on 22 November last year to find scented candles burning and \"barged past\" Irwin to find Robin McMaster dead in the bedroom.\n\nThe court was told Mr McMaster's brother has since been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.\n\nA prosecution barrister said police investigating the case found Mr McMaster had not been seen since 13 November - nine days before his body was found.\n\nHowever, medical evidence suggested he could have been dead between two and three weeks given the level of decomposition.\n\nIrwin was originally arrested on suspicion of murder, but Mr McMaster's cause of death was later found to be \"most likely\" an overdose of Tramadol and other prescription drugs he was taking for medical conditions.\n\nThe court was told that a plumber carrying out work at the flat on 15 November had \"interrogated\" Irwin on the smell in the property.\n\nA day before Mr McMaster's body was found, the court heard Irwin ordered sleeping tablets and antihistamines from his GP in his name which she used herself.\n\nA defence barrister said Irwin wanted to \"convey her unreserved apology and sympathy\" to the family of the deceased.\n\nIt was heard Irwin suffers from anxiety and depression, and has abused prescription medication.\n\nA judge said it was \"a very tragic case\".\n\nShe read a statement from Robin McMaster's mother in which she detailed how she had called to check on her son to be told by Irwin that he was unwell, the details of what he had eaten that day and how she had helped him shower.\n\nIn fact Robin McMaster was already dead.\n\nThe statement continued: \"She kept my son lying there like a piece of rotting meat.\n\n\"I was unable to touch his hair or tell him goodbye.\n\nThe judge told Irwin she had been living a \"sad and squalid\" life at the time of the incident, and \"simply lived in a retreated world and denied what was happening\".\n\nIrwin was given a two-year sentence - one to be served in prison and one on licence.", "Adnan Ahmed was convicted of five counts of threatening and abusive behaviour towards young women\n\nA so-called pick-up artist who targeted \"young and vulnerable\" women has been jailed for two years.\n\nAdnan Ahmed - who called himself Addy A-game - secretly filmed himself approaching dozens of women in Glasgow and Lanarkshire.\n\nAhmed was convicted last month of threatening and abusive behaviour towards five women.\n\nThe 38-year-old from Maryhill, Glasgow, has also been placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years.\n\nPolice launched an investigation after his actions were revealed by the BBC's The Social earlier this year.\n\nThe self-styled \"lifestyle coach\" would approach women in the street, often secretly filming the encounter and posting videos offering advice to other men.\n\nIn the videos, he offered tips on how to overcome \"last-minute resistance\" to sex. One clip included audio of a woman apparently recorded during sex.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adnan Ahmed, also known as Addy A-game, approaches women in the street\n\nFive young women, aged between 16 and 21, gave evidence at his trial about how they had been intimidated by Ahmed in Glasgow city centre and in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire.\n\nPassing sentence, Sheriff Lindsay Wood said Ahmed - who has been on remand in prison since January - had shown a lack of remorse.\n\nHe told him: \"You gave evidence and said that the victims were lying or mistaken, but the jury thought otherwise.\n\n\"It was very obvious when they gave evidence how they were affected.\n\n\"You have acquired notoriety and an unenviable reputation, the public will be wise to such inappropriate behaviour by you and others like you.\"\n\nThe trial heard how Ahmed approached two schoolgirls in a secluded lane in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, in 2016, when they were aged 16 and 17.\n\nHe called one of them \"pretty\", tried to get her phone number and made her feel \"uncomfortable\" but she walked away.\n\nAdnan Ahmed, appearing here in one of his online videos, claimed they were educational\n\nAnother woman broke down in court as she described how Ahmed followed her through Glasgow city centre and grabbed her head as he tried to kiss her.\n\nThe BBC investigation into Ahmed earlier this year revealed a wider pattern of predatory behaviour.\n\nAhmed was part of a global network of \"pick-up artists\" who practise what they call \"game\".\n\nYouTube has since removed hundreds of videos and deactivated two channels run by Addy A-Game and another group called Street Attraction following a BBC investigation into the online industry.\n\nA social worker who compiled a background report on Ahmed prior to sentencing described his behaviour as \"entrenched.\"\n\nDefence counsel Donna Armstrong said: \"The accused accepts he was convicted and will change the way he speaks to women.\"\n\nHis two-year sentence was backdated to January when he was first remanded in custody.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nThe US Embassy told the British government the suspect in a crash which killed Harry Dunn would be leaving the UK, the foreign secretary has said.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died after a collision outside RAF Croughton with a car owned by US citizen Anne Sacoolas.\n\nDominic Raab told the Commons his department asked for her diplomatic immunity to be waived, but the request was refused by the US.\n\nMr Dunn's family said the statement \"added insult to injury\".\n\nTheir spokesman Radd Seiger said there was an \"unacceptable lack of information being provided to the family\".\n\n\"There is even more anger and frustration tonight than there was before this statement was made in the House of Commons,\" he said.\n\n\"The statement Dominic Raab gave tonight, he could have given to the family directly when they met with him two weeks ago.\"\n\nCharlotte Charles and Tim Dunn met Donald Trump at the White House last week to discuss the case\n\nMr Dunn died from his injuries when his motorbike and a car collided outside the RAF station in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nMr Raab said the US Embassy informed his office of the crash and said Mrs Sacoolas was \"covered by immunity\".\n\nThe Foreign Office requested to waive her immunity \"to enable the police investigation to follow its proper course\", he told MPs.\n\nBut Mr Raab said on 13 September his office was told by the US \"that they would not waive immunity and that the individual would be leaving the country imminently, unless the UK had strong objections\".\n\nHe said his office \"duly and immediately objected in clear and strong terms\" but when they spoke to US officials on 16 September they were told Mrs Sacoolas had left the UK the day before.\n\nThe foreign secretary said they immediately informed Northamptonshire Police but asked officers to delay telling Mr Dunn's family the suspect had left the country \"by a day or two\" to give them time to \"agree the next course of action\".\n\nHowever, the police force did not tell Mr Dunn's family that Mrs Sacoolas had gone back to the US until 26 September, Mr Raab said.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, left the UK after the crash\n\nMrs Sacoolas' husband is reportedly stationed at the base as an intelligence officer.\n\nAt the time of the crash she had diplomatic immunity, but both the British and US governments agree that by returning to the US she had forfeited that right.\n\nMr Raab said he had commissioned a review into immunity arrangements for US personnel and their families at the RAF Croughton annex in light of this case.\n\n\"As this case has demonstrated, I do not believe the current arrangements are right and the review will look at how we can make sure that the arrangements at Croughton cannot be used in this way again,\" he said.\n\nHe said the case was \"now with Northamptonshire Police and Crown Prosecution Service and it is for them to consider the next steps as part of their criminal investigation\".\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab spoke in the Commons about the Harry Dunn case\n\nMr Dunn's family were due to meet with the Chief Constable of Northamptonshire Police on Wednesday but were told he could not say anything more than offering his condolences.\n\n\"They feel completely abandoned by both [the police and the foreign office],\" Mr Seiger said.\n\n\"This is incredibly stressful and exhausting and gruelling. The family just want answers.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The skull found in Aberdeen was reconstructed\n\nThe face of a Medieval man whose remains were found in Aberdeen has been reconstructed.\n\nThe man - known as skeleton 125 - was one of 60 full skeletons and more than 4,000 human bone fragments found after work began at the Aberdeen Art Gallery redevelopment site.\n\nTesting indicated the man was over the age of 46 and shorter than average.\n\nThe researchers - AOC Archaeology Group - said he had suffered from extensive dental disease.\n\nThe man was said to have suffered from extensive dental disease\n\nDr Paula Milburn, from AOC Archaeology, described the work as providing a \"fascinating glimpse\" into the lives of Aberdonians 600 years ago.\n\nDr Milburn said: \"The ongoing post-excavation work is examining the remains in detail and will provide us with amazing information on the kind of people buried here, including their ages, gender, health and lifestyles.\"\n\nShe said research also indicated that the man possibly spent his childhood in an area such as the north-west Highlands or Outer Hebrides.\n• None New art gallery to open in November", "Caroline Flack is the most dangerous celebrity to search for on the internet in the UK, according to a cyber-security firm.\n\nThe Love Island presenter's name links through to the most malicious websites and viruses, McAfee says.\n\nThe former Strictly winner has knocked Kim Kardashian off the top spot, with reality stars generally ranking lower than in 2018.\n\nActress Maisie Williams and presenter James Corden join her in the top three.\n\nGame of Thrones star Maisie came second on the list\n\nSpeaking on Nick Grimshaw's Radio 1 show on Tuesday, Caroline said it wasn't the worst story she'd read about herself in the news.\n\n\"I kind of like it,\" she told Grimmy.\n\n\"When I was doing Strictly Come Dancing, I was at home on my own one night and there was breaking news on the front page of a paper that I was being haunted by a ghost child.\n\n\"That's the only one I've printed out, framed and put on my wall because it was so ridiculous.\"\n\nCaroline also said she was pleased to have knocked Kim Kardashian off the top spot.\n\nMcAfee measured how many search results featuring a celebrity name contained links to sites that could potentially slow your computer down, copy your private data or - in worst case scenarios - gain total access to your device.\n\nWhile it's not exactly Mi6 levels of investigative work, it still highlights some of the risks out there.\n\nCaroline Flack made it into the top five last year and has risen again, while Kim Kardashian has fallen to 26th place.\n\nRapper Nicki Minaj and singer Billie Eilish also feature in this year's top five, while Josh Gad - the voice of Olaf in Frozen - is another potentially risky name to search.\n\nNicki Minaj is one of four musicians in the top 10\n\nSearches to find out what these celebs are up to can be populated with links meant to trick you into visiting sites that can trigger a virus.\n\nActress Mischa Barton, musicians Sam Smith and Dua Lipa and Hunger Games star Liam Hemsworth make up the rest of the top 10.\n\nLiam Hemsworth has been in the news since his break-up with Miley Cyrus\n\nWith Love Island so popular, McAfee's chief scientist Raj Samani isn't surprised that Caroline Flack tops the list.\n\n\"People want to keep up to date with the latest pop culture and celebrity news at any time from any device. Often consumers put that speed and convenience over security by clicking on suspicious links that promise content featuring our favourite celebrities.\"\n\nTo avoid online threats the firm suggests caution - like thinking twice when you come across what claims to be a snippet of a new Billie Eilish song, and waiting for the official release instead.\n\nIt also says to avoid illegal streaming sites and keep apps and anti-virus software up to date.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Emperor Naruhito and his wife Empress Masako were unveiled on their respective thrones in an elaborate ceremony held in the Japanese capital Tokyo.\n\nAfter the emperor read out a formal proclamation, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivered a congratulatory address, ending with shouts of \"Banzai, banzai!\", which means \"long live the emperor\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'The Brexit minister didn't really know the answer'\n\nFirms in Northern Ireland will have to submit declaration forms for goods heading to the rest of the UK, under the government's Brexit deal.\n\nBrexit Secretary Steve Barclay was forced to make the admission after initially denying it was the case.\n\nThis followed previous assurances that Northern Ireland-GB trade would be \"unfettered\".\n\nHowever, Boris Johnson has since told MPs there will only be \"light-touch checks\" between NI and Great Britain.\n\nMeanwhile, a government risk assessment has warned the new Brexit deal could mean a reduction in business investment, consumer spending and trade in Northern Ireland.\n\nGiving evidence to the House of Lords Exiting the EU committee on Monday, Mr Barclay had initially said he did not believe exit forms would be necessary for trade between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nBut he later conceded: \"The exit summary declarations will be required in terms of NI to GB.\"\n\nThe minister's admission came after questions from Labour peer Lord Wood, who later tweeted:\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\"What's astonishing is that firstly the Brexit minister didn't really know the answer and when he checked or was given notes from his officials, the answer became clear,\" Lord Wood told BBC News NI.\n\n\"Actually Northern Irish businesses are going to be required to fill out exit declaration forms - that's forms for every item they ship into Great Britain - and similarly Great Britain companies shipping into Northern Ireland.\n\n\"So from a commercial point of view, there is going to be a new border - not in a nation state sense - but a commercial border between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.\"\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party MP Sammy Wilson said the plan represented a \"clear breach\" of previous commitments made by the government.\n\nEuropean Commission rules state exit summary declarations are needed when goods leave the EU's customs territory, but regular customs declarations are not required.\n\nIn December 2017, the joint report agreed by the UK and EU as they began Brexit negotiations stated: \"In all circumstances, the United Kingdom will continue to ensure the same unfettered access for Northern Ireland's businesses to the whole of the United Kingdom internal market.\"\n\nUnder Boris Johnson's Brexit plan, the whole of the UK would leave the EU customs union.\n\nThe UK will also leave the single market, but Northern Ireland would continue to apply EU rules relating to agricultural and other manufactured products.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party has already said it would not support the plan because it leaves NI subject to different rules than GB.\n\nMost of the changes in the revised deal are to do with the status of the Irish border after Brexit\n\nAccording to the government risk assessment, published on Tuesday, the costs of new checks and administration may affect the profitability of businesses trading to and from Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Due to data limitations around the number and nature of consignments of goods being moved from GB to NI, it is not possible to estimate the associated administrative burden on businesses,\" it said.\n\nIt adds that HM Revenue & Customs has estimated that for trade between the UK and the rest of the world, the administrative cost of customs declarations ranges from £15 to £56 per declaration.\n\nBut it cautions that it may not be possible to translate the same estimates to GB to NI trade.\n\nOn the issue of exit declarations, the risk assessment states: \"Some practical information will need to be provided electronically on movement of goods,\" but due to \"data limitations\" it has not been possible to estimate the associated costs to business.\n\nIn an evidence session with the Treasury Committee on Tuesday, HMRC said it had not calculated the administrative cost of the government's new Brexit deal for business.\n\nLabour MP Catherine McKinnell, interim chair of the committee, said: \"Yet again, there is a void of economic information on the impact of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill.\n\n\"It's astonishing the government hasn't analysed the impact of such a monumental piece of legislation.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the government is beginning the final process of trying to push its Brexit deal through Parliament.\n\nMPs will be asked to vote on the legislation to implement Brexit - known as the Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB).\n\nThe 110-page document was published on Monday night and the government wants to get the entire bill through Parliament in three days.\n\nIf they back his deal, they will then be asked to approve an intensive three-day timetable in which to consider the legislation.\n\nMPs have criticised the government for its proposed timetable, saying it is not long enough to scrutinise the details of the bill.\n\nOn Saturday, the DUP, which the government relies on for support in key votes, helped inflict defeat on the government by voting to delay Brexit until the WAB has been passed in Parliament.\n\nMr Wilson had said the party would also vote against the WAB in principle on Tuesday.\n\nIf the government loses Tuesday's votes, it will be harder for it to meet its Brexit deadline of 31 October.", "Two anglers in small boats have been filmed dangerously close to a giant \"plug hole\" at a reservoir.\n\nThey were spotted on Saturday a few metres from a 66ft-deep overflow hole at Derbyshire's Ladybower Reservoir.\n\nSevern Trent Water, which owns the reservoir, warned people boating and fishing there to keep \"well away\" from the plug hole and to stay safe.\n\nFlo Neilson, who captured the footage while walking her dogs, said: \"It looked a dangerous and risky thing to do, but they seemed to be in control of the boats and had soon moved away after I'd stopped filming.\"\n\nOverflow water goes down the hole into a tunnel and eventually flows into the river below the dam.", "Assange was clean shaven and wore his white hair combed back as he appeared in the dock\n\nA judge in London has rejected Julian Assange's attempt to delay his US extradition case.\n\nThe United States wants to try the Wikileaks co-founder over allegations of leaking government secrets.\n\nHis lawyers had asked for more time \"to gather evidence\" but District Judge Vanessa Baraitser refused and said a full hearing will begin in February.\n\nAssange, 48, mumbled and paused as he gave his own name and date of birth in court.\n\nAsked by the judge for his personal details, frail-looking Assange stuttered - apparently finding it hard to remember when he was born, according to the BBC's Richard Galpin in court.\n\nWhen his case at Westminster Magistrates' Court was adjourned, the Australian complained that he had not understood proceedings, and said: \"This is not equitable.\"\n\nAssange added: \"I can't research anything, I can't access any of my writing. It's very difficult where I am.\"\n\nHe told the judge he is up against a \"superpower\" with \"unlimited resources\" and that he \"can't think properly\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAssange was jailed for 50 weeks in May for breaching his bail conditions after going into hiding in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for nearly seven years in order to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex offence allegations - which he has denied.\n\nHe was due to be released from Belmarsh prison in London last month, but a judge remanded him in custody because there were \"substantial grounds\" for believing he would abscond.\n\nIn court on Monday, Assange went on to complain about conditions in the high-security prison where he is being held in a medical ward.\n\nAsking for a three-month delay to proceedings, Assange's barrister, Mark Summers QC, told the court there was a \"direct link\" between the \"reinvigoration\" of the investigation and US President Donald Trump's administration.\n\n\"Our case will be that this is a political attempt to signal to journalists the consequences of publishing information,\" he said. \"It is legally unprecedented.\"\n\nMr Summers also claimed the US was involved in invading his client's legal privilege.\n\n\"The American state has been actively engaged in intruding into privileged discussions between Mr Assange and his lawyers in the embassy, also unlawful copying of their telephones and computers (and) hooded men breaking into offices,\" he said.\n\nHowever, District Judge Baraitser refused the request to delay the extradition hearing.\n\nShe said Assange's next case management hearing will take place on 19 December before the full extradition hearing begins next year.\n\nOn Twitter, Assange's mother Christine offered her \"deepest gratitude\" to the dozens of protesters who appeared outside the courthouse.\n\nEx-CIA contractor turned whistle-blower Edward Snowden also quoted comments made by Assange's legal team, saying the judge had dismissed their request for more time \"despite new evidence\".\n\nFormer Mayor of London Ken Livingstone and journalist John Pilger were among Assange's supporters in the public gallery.\n\nLast week, Assange's legal team said the extradition case was an \"outrageous assault on journalism\".", "Home rentals site Airbnb has warned a tax inquiry by HM Revenue & Customs could lead to legal proceedings.\n\nA note in newly filed accounts for Airbnb UK said it had been contacted by HMRC over \"tax laws or regulations impacting the company's business\".\n\n\"The company is also subject to tax inquiries and proceedings concerning its operations and intra-company transactions,\" it added.\n\n\"Some of these matters may result in litigation.\"\n\nThe San Francisco-based company has two UK entities - Airbnb UK, which markets and supports the business, and Airbnb Payments UK, which processes payments between Airbnb hosts and guests outside the US, China and India.\n\nLast year, Airbnb UK paid tax of £146,059 on profits of £455,076 and a £14.2m turnover.\n\nThe payments arm had a turnover of $353.7m (£273.2m), but it only made a $1.5m profit and paid tax of $303,823.\n\nIn a statement, the company said: \"We follow the rules and pay all the tax we owe in the places we do business. That is true as rules apply today and will remain true for whatever rules apply in future.\n\n\"The Airbnb model is unique and boosted the UK economy by £4.2bn last year alone. The vast majority of money generated on our platform stays with hosts and local communities, which makes Airbnb fundamentally different to companies that take large sums of money out of the places they do business.\n\n\"As with many other companies, these are routine checks and we are working closely with HMRC.\"\n\nAirbnb plans to float next year in what is expected to be one of the highest-profile share sales of 2020. In September, it said second-quarter global revenue reached $1bn, but did not say whether it made a profit.\n\nGeorge Bull, senior tax partner at accountancy firm RSM, said: \"Nobody is saying that Airbnb has done anything wrong. The law is complicated, they have to decide how they are going to file their tax returns, they may do it on a basis that HMRC doesn't like.\n\n\"However, the phrase 'This may result in litigation' sounds quite serious. It sounds as though Airbnb is expecting a big tussle with HMRC to get these figures across the line.\"\n\nHe added: \"The UK company has a turnover of £14m and it pays tax of around £200,000, so people are saying, 'How can this be? Why are the figures so out of kilter?'\n\n\"The answer goes back to the 1920s. These basic tax rules for these companies are decades old and they really haven't kept up with the growth of the digital platforms.\"\n\nBoth eBay and PayPal paid extra tax in 2017 following a HMRC review. In recent months, Amazon and Facebook have come in for criticism over the size of their UK tax bills.\n\nEarlier this month, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) proposed tax changes aimed at making global firms pay more tax.\n\nThe proposals would give governments more power specifically to tax big technology firms such as Apple, Facebook and Google.\n\nHMRC declined to comment on the case.\n\nYou can listen to more on this story here on the Wake up to Money podcast", "Some cars parked on residential streets have been vandalised\n\nAlmost 50 vehicles have been removed from residential streets in Manchester and nearly 3,000 fines issued in a crackdown on holidaymakers' cars parked near the city's airport.\n\nLast year, the city council set up a dedicated enforcement team to deal with issues caused by \"rogue\" meet-and-greet companies leaving cars in Wythenshawe.\n\nAccording to figures seen by the BBC, the council has made 25,000 callouts.\n\nBut some residents say the crackdown has not made any difference.\n\nManchester Airport has scrapped free drop-offs outside terminals and the railway station, with drivers now charged unless they use a free drop-off parking area about a mile away from the terminals.\n\nThe council has also asked residents to report any issues after some cars parked for long periods were vandalised.\n\nBut Steph Emmanuel, from the Woodhouse Park area, said the parked cars remain \"a hell of a problem. We can't move anywhere\".\n\n\"Try and get a pram past on the pavement. You just can't, it's always chocker,\" she said.\n\nNeighbour Georgina Robinson said: \"They say they can park anywhere because they pay road tax and there are no double yellow lines.\"\n\nSome people \"can get aggressive, so it can be intimidating\", she added.\n\nAlmost 50 vehicles have been removed from residential roads\n\nAdam Jupp, from Manchester Airport, said: \"We're working with the council on a scheme to publicise firms with secure parking so people can make an informed choice.\n\n\"We've also been working with the city's highways team on changes to the road layout - yellow lines and closing off one-way streets - to hopefully disrupt some of this behaviour.\"\n\nCouncillor Rabnawaz Akbar, executive member for neighbourhoods, said: \"This problem has not gone away and there is still work to be done, but I am confident the message is starting to sink in. Wythenshawe cannot be treated as an overflow car park.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Frank Kinnis died after being attacked at Birkenhall Woods\n\nA man has been charged in connection with the death of an 83-year-old man in Moray.\n\nPolice were called to Birkenhill Woods on Monday after reports three people had been seriously assaulted.\n\nOne later died and he has been named as Frank Kinnis, who relatives described as a \"beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather\".\n\nPolice Scotland said a 35-year-old man had been charged and was due in Elgin Sheriff Court on Wednesday.\n\nA woman and man, both aged 70, were also injured.\n\nRelatives of Mr Kinnis said: \"He was a doting, warm-hearted and unfailingly dependable presence in each of our lives.\n\n\"There will also be fond memories of him among the farming and bowls communities in Elgin, where he was well known and liked.\n\n\"We will fondly remember him as he was in life, and ask everyone who knew him to make certain that it is these memories of him that endure.\"\n\nPolice were called to the scene on Monday\n\nSupt Kate Stephen said the couple and the 83-year-old had been out walking in the area that morning.\n\nShe said Mr Kinnis died in hospital later that day. The couple suffered head injuries and are in a stable condition.\n\n\"Given how incredibly rare and unusual this incident is for such a well-used and loved area, officers will be carrying out additional patrols here and providing an increased presence over the coming days - please approach any of our officers if you have information, or even if you just want to speak to someone about your concerns,\" she added.\n\n\"I am acutely aware of the impact this incident has had on the local community, and I include in that my own officers who not only work in the area but many of whom also live in the communities. Moray prides itself on being one of the safest places to live which makes this incident all the more tragic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The alarm was raised at Birkenhill Woods at about 09:00 on Monday\n\nAn 83-year-old man has died and two other pensioners have been injured after they were attacked at woods in New Elgin in Moray.\n\nPolice Scotland said the group was seriously assaulted at Birkenhill Woods at about 09:00 on Monday.\n\nThey were taken to Dr Gray's Hospital but the eldest victim later died. A man and woman, both 70, suffered serious, but not life-threatening, injuries.\n\nA 35-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident.\n\nDet Insp Brian Geddes, of Police Scotland's major investigation team, said: \"First and foremost, I'm sure I speak on behalf of everyone within North East Division when I say my thoughts are with the family and friends of all those affected by this tragic incident.\n\n\"I know the circumstances will understandably cause concern within the local community, particularly because incidents of this nature are so incredibly rare.\"\n\nAdditional patrols are being carried out in the area while the investigation continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs have rejected a proposal to examine Boris Johnson's Brexit bill in the Commons in three days.\n\nIt was rejected by 322 votes to 308.", "The lorry was reversed into the house in Sheffield\n\nA skip lorry was deliberately driven into a house before being set alight by arsonists.\n\nPolice said the arson attack on a property in Shirehall Road, Sheffield, on Monday evening was targeted.\n\nThe lorry was deliberately reversed into the house, then its cab was set on fire before the arsonists fled.\n\nThey left in another vehicle that crashed on Beck Road. Police said the fire did not spread, but two people had been rescued from the property.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said in a statement: \"Detectives are currently investigating a suspected arson in Sheffield.\n\n\"Police believe the incident on Shirehall Road was a targeted act and officers are in the local area carrying out initial inquiries.\"\n\nThe house has been badly damaged\n\nTwo residents who did not want to be named spoke to BBC News.\n\nThe first, a woman, said: \"I'm absolutely disgusted, those next door to me, they've had bricks put through their window, but that is absolutely shocking.\n\n\"It's the first time I've seen it, I could cry seeing that. It used to be a beautiful estate.\n\n\"I just don't know what people are thinking about these days, it's just disgusting.\"\n\nThe second person said: \"I could just hear this skip, this banging on this house, back and forward, it was really trying to knock this house out.\n\n\"It shocked my kids, I took them out when the fire was on, it's not safe to be honest.\"\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.", "Facebook has set out extra measures for fighting the spread of disinformation at the next UK election.\n\nThese include extending its partnership with fact checker Full Fact and improving the ad library in which political ads are archived.\n\nIn addition, it announced separate plans for the 2020 US Presidential vote, including a way to track how much each candidate spends on Facebook ads.\n\nIt also confirmed it continues to be a target for foreign influence campaigns.\n\nThe company's cyber-security chief said his team had just removed four distinct networks of accounts, pages and groups from Facebook and Instagram earlier in the day.\n\n\"Three of them originated in Iran, and one in Russia - they targeted a number of different regions including the United States, North Africa and Latin America,\" said Nathaniel Gleicher.\n\n\"The Russian operation showed some links to the [St Petersburg-based] Internet Research Agency and had the hallmarks of a well resourced operation.\n\n\"They took consistent operational security steps to conceal their identity and location, and it appears that this operation was still in the early stages, and was focused on trying to build its audience when we took it down.\"\n\nRichard Allan, Facebook's vice president of policy solutions, detailed its plans for an expected UK election in an article for the Daily Telegraph.\n\nHe said it would also set up \"a dedicated operations centre\" for the UK if an election is declared.\n\nThe centre's job would be to quickly remove content which breaks Facebook rules, said\n\nHowever, he reiterated that it would not be Facebook's job to \"fact check or judge the veracity of what politicians say\".\n\nAll political ads, including ads in the UK on social issues such as immigration, health and the environment, will be subject to verification of the identification of the poster, and stored in the firm's political archive, searchable by anyone, whether or not they are a member of Facebook.\n\nThe library, designed to make political ads more transparent and trackable, has faced criticism for being difficult to use because of bugs and crashes.\n\nIn July 2019 the New York Times covered the case of a researcher from Mozilla who reported a bug which crashed the library after 59 pages of results.\n\nFacebook replied that the issue was \"unfortunately a won't fix for now\" although it later said it had resolved the problem\n\nMr Allan also pledged to offer all political candidates a dedicated channel for reporting harassment.\n\nFull Fact was co-founded by Conservative party donor Michael Samuel in 2010, and it operates as a charity.\n\nIn September it identified that a Conservative party advert had featured a BBC article with an altered headline.\n\nFacebook later removed the ad. Full Fact said that various versions of the headline would have received up to 510,000 impressions, although that could have included multiple viewings by one person.\n\n\"Images and videos on Facebook which [Fact Check] assess to be untrue will now be more clearly labelled as false, and we'll continue pointing people to reports which debunk the myth,\" said Mr Allan.\n\n\"Our algorithm also heavily demotes this content so it's seen by fewer people and far less likely to go viral.\"\n\nMr Allan stopped short of saying that the extra measures would be sufficient to prevent election interference in the next UK election.\n\n\"While we can never say for sure that there won't be issues in future elections, we are confident that we're better prepared than ever,\" he said.", "This concludes our live coverage of Canada's 43rd national election.\n\nJustin Trudeau's Liberals have retained power, with a projected 156 seats. This is short of an overall majority, but more than the estimated 122 seats won by the Conservatives opposition.\n\nThe prime minister will thus lead a minority government in his second term\n\nWant more election news? You can follow updates on our main story, here.", "The European Union (EU) has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay until 31 January 2020, with an option to leave sooner if a deal is approved by Parliament.\n\nDelaying the UK's exit date requires an extension to Article 50, the part of the Lisbon Treaty that sets out what happens when a country decides it wants to leave the EU.\n\nArticle 50 allows an initial two-year period for negotiations on the terms of exiting.\n\nIt was triggered by then Prime Minister Theresa May on 29 March 2017, giving an exit date of 29 March 2019. But this date was extended twice, first to 12 April and then until 31 October, after Mrs May's deal was rejected in successive votes in the House of Commons.\n\nNow it is being extended for a third time - so how does this process work?\n\nThe UK cannot make a decision about extending Article 50 on its own - it has to send a request to the 27 other EU countries.\n\nAll 27 have to agree in order to secure an extension.\n\nOn Saturday 19 October, Mr Johnson sent a letter, as he was compelled to by a law known as the Benn Act. The law stated he must send an extension request should he fail to get a Brexit deal through the House of Commons by the end of 19 October.\n\nMr Johnson also sent a second letter saying he believed that a \"further extension would damage the interests of the UK and our EU partners\".\n\nNevertheless, on 28 October the EU agreed to the extension proposed in his first letter.\n\nThe EU was not obliged to say yes.\n\nOnce it received the UK's delay request, in the form of a letter, the 27 leaders consulted with each other on their decision. It was then made following a meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels.\n\nIf EU leaders had decided to offer a longer extension they would have been likely to have met in person to set conditions of the extension.\n\nIt's worth pointing out that Article 50 can also be revoked - effectively cancelling Brexit.\n\nThe UK can in theory do that without consulting anyone else. That would mean that Brexit would not happen and the UK would remain in the EU on the same terms it has now.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are the only party to say that would they would revoke Article 50 without a referendum if they won a majority in a general election.\n\nThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a revocation should be \"unequivocal and unconditional\", suggesting that the ECJ would take a dim view of any attempt to withdraw an Article 50 notification and then resubmit it again a short time later.", "MPs have approved Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit legislation on its first hurdle through the House of Commons.\n\nBut minutes later they rejected his proposed timetable for passing the Withdrawal Agreement Bill in three days, in order to hit the 31 October deadline for the UK to leave the EU.\n\nBBC Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake reports on the two crunch votes - and what happens next.", "Campaigners on both sides of the emotive debate were at Stormont on Monday\n\nAbortion has been decriminalised and same-sex marriage is to be legalised in Northern Ireland.\n\nLegislation making the changes - which was passed by MPs at Westminster - came into force at midnight.\n\nThe first same-sex weddings in Northern Ireland are set to take place in February 2020.\n\nThe government has until the end of March to come up with regulations for the provision of abortion services.\n\nThe legislation took effect after the 21 October deadline passed without a devolved government being re-formed.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) - and some politicians from other unionist parties - triggered a recall of the Northern Ireland Assembly in an attempt to block the lifting of a near-ban on terminations.\n\nThe assembly at Stormont had not sat for more than 1,000 days after devolved government collapsed when power-sharing coalition partners the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row.\n\nBut the move failed because a new speaker could not be elected on a cross-community basis.\n\nAbortion law in Northern Ireland had been more restrictive than in England, Scotland and Wales\n\nSinn Féin, Alliance, the Green Party and People Before Profit did not attend the Stormont sitting, which Sinn Féin described as a \"cynical political stunt\".\n\nBefore now, abortion was only allowed in Northern Ireland if a woman's life was at risk or there was a danger of permanent and serious damage to her physical or mental health.\n\nSection 58 and Section 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 - which made abortion a criminal offence - have been repealed.\n\nThe Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019 has also placed a duty on the government to implement the recommendations of a report by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), published in 2018.\n\nThe CEDAW report said abortion should be legalised where there is a threat to a pregnant woman's mental or physical health, without the conditionality of \"long-term or permanent\" effects.\n\nIt recommended terminations should be permitted in cases of rape or incest.\n\nCharges can no longer be brought against those who have an abortion or against health workers who provide terminations\n\nThe committee also said abortions should be allowed where there is \"severe fetal impairment\", but that provision should not \"perpetuate stereotypes\" towards disabled people.\n\nIt added that social and financial support should be ensured for women who decided to carry such pregnancies to term.\n\nA further series of recommendations included providing access to \"high quality abortion and post-abortion care in all public health facilities\", and making \"age-appropriate, comprehensive and scientifically accurate education\" on \"sexual and reproductive health and rights\" a compulsory part of the curriculum.\n\nThe government in London will decide on more detailed measures to fulfil the requirements of the legislation.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith is mandated to put in place regulations by 31 March 2020.\n\nThe government has issued guidance to medical professionals which covers the period from now until that date.\n\nSame-sex marriages have been allowed in England, Scotland and Wales since 2014, but Stormont did not legalise them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News NI looks at the history of Northern Ireland's same-sex marriage debate\n\nThe last of five votes on the issue in the devolved assembly - in November 2015 - resulted in a numerical majority in favour of same-sex marriage for the first time.\n\nBut the DUP blocked a change in the law by using a veto known as the Petition of Concern.\n\nThe new legislation says the Westminster government must bring in regulations to provide for same-sex marriage by 13 January 2020.\n\nBecause couples have to indicate their intention to marry 28 days before doing so - the first gay weddings are expected to be held in the week of Valentine's Day.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Catholic bishops said Monday was a tragic day for unborn children and a sad day for local democracy.\n\nThey say they are also concerned at the redefinition of marriage and appealed to the political parties to re-double their efforts to restore the power-sharing executive.\n\nThe new legislation has also had an impact on payments for those affected by the Troubles.\n\nThe government is to bring in a payment scheme for those people injured during Northern Ireland's Troubles through no fault of their own.\n\n\"As the Northern Ireland Executive was not restored by 21 October 2019, the UK government will introduce a victims payments scheme by the end of May 2020,\" a government spokesperson said.\n\n\"We will consult widely on the details of a proposal in the coming weeks.\"", "The government's Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB), which will take the UK out of the EU on 31 January, has passed all its stages in Parliament and been given Royal Assent.\n\nThe WAB turns Boris Johnson's withdrawal agreement, which is a draft international treaty, into UK law and gives the government permission to ratify it.\n\nNo new clauses or amendments were passed by MPs, who also rejected changes made in the House of Lords.\n\nWhat does the WAB actually cover? Among other things:\n\nA number of clauses in the previous version of the bill have been removed. They include:\n\nBetween 2016 and 2018, 426 unaccompanied children came to the UK in this way.\n\nAfter the WAB becomes law, the withdrawal agreement also needs to be ratified by the European Parliament.\n\nThen the stage will be set for Brexit on 31 January, when the post-Brexit transition period will begin.\n\nFor 11 months, the UK will still follow all the EU's rules and regulations, it will remain in the single market and the customs union, and the free movement of people will continue.\n\nThe challenge for the government will be to get all its new rules and policies in place by the end of this year.\n\nThis article was originally published on 21 October and has been updated to reflect changes to the Withdrawal Agreement Bill and its passage towards becoming law.", "Sunday Riley, the founder of the eponymous skincare brand, has been reprimanded for telling staff to write fake product reviews to boost sales.\n\nThe US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found Ms Riley directed staff to post on beauty retailer Sephora's website.\n\nAs part of a settlement, Ms Riley and her firm have been ordered not to post fake reviews in the future.\n\nBut two FTC commissioners criticised the settlement and said Ms Riley and her company should be fined.\n\nThe Texas based firm, which makes premium skincare products, was started 10 years ago by Ms Riley.\n\nIt sells its products around the world, including at Space NK in the UK, and counts Victoria Beckham and British model Jourdan Dunn among its fans.\n\nAn investigation by the FTC - which was sparked by a whistleblower's post on social news site Reddit - found that between November 2015 and August 2017 managers at the firm, including Ms Riley, submitted fake, positive reviews of its products on Sephora's site.\n\nSephora is a global beauty retailer, selling nearly 300 brands through its shops and website.\n\nSunday Riley employees, including the founder, also created multiple accounts on Sephora using fake identities on a virtual private network in order to hide their company email addresses, according to the FTC.\n\nVictoria Beckham has been a fan of Sunday Riley products\n\nSunday Riley had become concerned that Sephora was taking down fake reviews because the beauty retailer realised they were coming from the firm's IP address.\n\nMs Riley emailed staff to advise them on how to create fake accounts and told them to \"always leave 5 stars\" when reviewing Sunday Riley Skincare products, and to \"dislike\" negative reviews.\n\nAccording the email quoted by the FTC, Ms Riley wrote: \"If you see a negative review - DISLIKE it. After enough dislikes, it is removed. This directly translates into sales!!\"\n\nThe FTC charged the company and Ms Riley with two violations of the Federal Trade Commission Act.\n\nA commission reached a proposed settlement that prohibits Sunday Riley and Ms Riley from posting fake reviews in the future.\n\nHowever, two FTC commissioners who oversaw the case voted against the proposed settlement, and said that by not penalising Sunday Riley or seeking financial redress \"this action does little to address the epidemic of fake reviews online\".\n\nIn a joint statement, Rohit Chopra and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter of the FTC, said: \"This settlement sends the wrong message to the marketplace.\n\n\"Dishonest firms may come to conclude that posting fake reviews is a viable strategy, given the proposed outcome here. Honest firms, who are the biggest victims of this fraud, may be wondering if they are losing out by following the law. Consumers may come to lack confidence that reviews are truthful.\"\n\nThe FTC said it will accept comments from the public for 30 days before finalising the proposed settlement with Sunday Riley.", "The boys were stabbed at a house party in Archford Croft in Milton Keynes\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering two teenagers who were stabbed to death at a house party.\n\nThe boys, named locally as Dom Ansah and Ben Gillham-Rice, were attacked at the house in Milton Keynes at about midnight on Saturday.\n\nThames Valley Police said the pair were stabbed as part of a \"targeted attack\".\n\nA 21-year-old man, from Milton Keynes, has been arrested on suspicion of two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder.\n\nOne of the boys died at the scene and the other in hospital.\n\nAnother 17-year-old boy and a 23-year-old man were also hurt and were taken to hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries. One has since been discharged.\n\nThames Valley Police said there was an \"increased presence\" in the area\n\nThames Valley Police previously said those responsible \"arrived at the party at the house in Archford Croft uninvited, wore face coverings and were armed with knives\".\n\nDet Ch Supt Ian Hunter described the attack as a \"dreadful incident\".\n\n\"We know that the party was a private birthday party, and although we believe that all of those involved were known to each other, we believe that those responsible arrived at the party uninvited, wore face coverings and they were armed with knives in what appears to be a targeted attack,\" he said.\n\nDet Ch Supt Hunter said the victims' families were being supported by specially trained officers and post-mortem examinations are due to take place on Tuesday.\n\nForensic searches were still taking place on Monday\n\nOfficers are expected to remain at the scene, which is in a cul-de-sac on a housing estate in the Emerson Valley area, for several days.\n\nStains of what appeared to be blood could be seen on the front door of a house inside the police cordon.\n\nTwo of Dom Ansah's cousins laid flowers at the cordon on Sunday afternoon.\n\n\"He was just so respectful to like his family and friends. Many, many people's hearts are broken,\" said one, who did not give her name.\n\nFamily members visited the scene on Sunday to leave flowers\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Campaigners in the long-running Skye bridge toll protest are still fighting to have 130 people's criminal convictions repealed more than 15 years after tolls were abolished.\n\nIn a BBC documentary, David Hingston, the former Dingwall procurator fiscal who prosecuted the first protesters, has said the toll was an \"outrageous\" scam.\n\nAnd if a pivotal piece of evidence produced by the Crown in the court cases was fabricated, Mr Hingston said it would be a \"very serious crime\" and could invalidate protesters' convictions.\n\nThe Skye bridge between the island and the mainland opened in October 1995.\n\nDespite an outcry from the community about the way the Conservative government of the time had commissioned the bridge as Scotland's first Private Finance Initiative (PFI), the construction was seen by many as the route to economic prosperity for Skye.\n\nHowever, it soon became clear that this was to be the most expensive toll bridge in Europe. Car drivers were charged up to £5.70 each way, compared with an 80p charge on the Forth Road bridge.\n\nDavid Hingston, former procurator fiscal, said he thought someone had tried to \"paper over\" a very large hole\n\nBBC documentary The Battle of Skye Bridge draws together recollections from campaigners and the authorities, along with never-broadcast archive footage.\n\nThe tolls were introduced at midnight on 17 October 1995. A storm was raging, but the uproar from the community was only beginning to stir.\n\nCameraman Alex Ingram recalled the first cars arriving at the booth with the drivers refusing to pay the toll, then through the rain came a pipe band, walking across the bridge, followed by dozens of cars.\n\nAnd then, driver after driver refused to pay the toll. Several hours later, after refusing to leave, the protesters were charged and reported to the procurator fiscal.\n\nAndy Anderson, one of the organisers of that protest, said: \"What was important to me was on the first night, when I saw how many people turned up, [I thought] now we've got a chance, now we can fight them.\"\n\nSo began a long and creative protest under the banner of Skye and Kyle Against Tolls (Skat) that drew in islanders from all walks of life and attracted international attention.\n\nFrom driving flocks of sheep across the bridge to paying in pennies, the protesters sought to create drama as well as a disturbance.\n\nOut of hundreds of non-payment cases, 130 people ended up with criminal convictions, and some spent time in prison because they refused to pay fines.\n\nThey are still fighting to repeal those convictions.\n\nRobbie The Pict established that the toll charges being collected for a US-based company could be illegal\n\nRobbie The Pict, a former policeman and RAF serviceman, took a leading role in the campaign and was charged for non-payment more than 100 times, leading to 25 convictions.\n\nHe established that the toll charges being collected for a US-based company could be illegal.\n\n\"The secretary of state allowed a private company to demand tolls, but it has to be done via an accompanying document called an assignation,\" he told the documentary.\n\n\"Your name has to be on the assignation statement, otherwise it's unlawful.\"\n\nLeaked documents seemed to prove that The Skye Bridge Company's assignation document provided to the court by the Crown Office was fabricated from contractual agreements between the government and developers.\n\nIn an interview for the documentary, Mr Hingston said: \"It is a very important document. If it didn't exist then the prosecutions are wrong.\n\n\"It looked genuine, full stop. I had no reason to doubt it.\"\n\nHe said: \"I think the answer is there was no assignation and this document was produced to try and paper over this very large hole in the process.\n\n\"Someone, somewhere has perverted the course of justice and that's a very, very serious crime.\"\n\nHe added: \"One if the main problems with the Skye Bridge is that it is surrounded in secrecy. Everything is apparently financially confidential. It is ludicrous, frankly.\"\n\nBy the time the toll was scrapped in 2004, the £20m bridge had raised £33m for the American company that owned it. The Scottish government then bought the bridge for £27m and cancelled the toll. The total cost to the public was an estimated £93m.\n\nMr Hingston, who had a nervous breakdown because of the stress he came under dealing with the case, said: \"As a fiscal I had to do what I did, but as a human being and a citizen I thought they were a scam. It should never have happened, it was outrageous.\"\n\nRobbie the Pict told the documentary: \"It is a matter of justice. We are still fighting it and we will win it.\"\n\nThe Battle of Skye Bridge is on BBC Scotland at 22:00 on Tuesday, 22 October as part of the People Power series, and later on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Plans to close Victorian-era jails in England and Wales and sell them for housing have been scrapped.\n\nThe government proposed shutting the \"most dilapidated prisons\" with hopes of building more than 3,000 new city centre homes on the old sites.\n\nBut the move has been scrapped after Prisons Minister Lucy Frazer told MPs that ageing cells were still needed to house increasing numbers of offenders.\n\nPM Boris Johnson has promised to build an extra 10,000 new prison places.\n\nNew prisons are regarded as cheaper to run and easier to equip with the training and work facilities needed to help rehabilitate offenders.\n\nThe programme of \"new for old\" jails was first outlined in November 2015 when Michael Gove was justice secretary.\n\nThe move was then suspended in 2017 after a sudden rise in the prison population.\n\nBut plans were revised in November of the following year when the government said \"old, expensive and unsuitable accommodation\" would be shut down.\n\nHowever, Ms Frazer told the justice select committee on Tuesday: \"If the numbers... stay the same we need to be prepared to house people who come to prison and that will mean we need to keep our Victorian prisons in operation.\"\n\nAmong those thought to be given a reprieve from closure are Dartmoor, in Devon, and Pentonville and Wormwood Scrubs in London, according to BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw.\n\nDartmoor Prison, which opened in 1809, was among those thought to be at risk of closure\n\nMs Frazer said Downing Street remained committed to building the extra places because more offenders would be locked up after police forces begin recruiting an additional 20,000 officers by 2023.\n\nAnd she said a further 2,000 places would be required by 2030 as a result of sentencing changes for violent criminals and sex offenders.\n\nLast week, it was announced that a 200-bed 'open' prison unit on the site of Hewell Prison, Worcestershire, would be closed because it would be too costly to refurbish.\n\nThe Prison Reform Trust said the government had \"quietly abandoned the policy that would have made the biggest difference\" to improving jail conditions.\n\nDirector Peter Dawson said: \"All the many Victorian prisons that time and again attract the worst inspection reports will stay open.\"\n\nHe added that overcrowding was \"more likely to get worse than better\" as a result.\n\n\"Ministers know that this produces an unsafe, indecent prison system that puts lives at risk,\" he said. \"The responsibility for it lies squarely at their door.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The ambulance crashed after a rampage through Oslo\n\nA man has been charged with attempted murder after a stolen ambulance crashed into a family in the Norwegian capital Oslo, injuring three people - including twin babies.\n\nPublic broadcaster NRK showed images of the ambulance driving through the city as gunshots were apparently fired from inside the vehicle.\n\nA woman has been charged with illegal possession of a firearm.\n\nA motive for the attack has yet to be established although police are investigating possible links with far-right extremists.\n\nPolice say a man stole the ambulance on Tuesday afternoon and drove it at pedestrians in the capital.\n\n\"We have taken control of an ambulance that was stolen by an armed man,\" Oslo police said on Twitter.\n\n\"Shots were fired to arrest the suspect, he is not seriously injured,\" they added.\n\n\"A woman with a pram and an elderly couple were run over or had to throw themselves out of the way\" of the stolen vehicle, police said in another Twitter post.\n\nAn Oslo University hospital spokesman told the Reuters news agency that seven-month-old twins were injured.\n\nThe spokesman said the stolen ambulance belonged to the hospital, and that a second ambulance had been used to stop the hijacked vehicle by crashing into it.\n\nAn Oslo police spokeswoman told the BBC that the man was aged 32 and the woman was 25.\n\nThe woman was arrested at a nearby shopping centre, she said.", "The thermal imaging camera showed that Ms Gill's breast was a different colour\n\nA tourist has told of her \"life-changing\" visit to the Camera Obscura in Edinburgh after one of its thermal cameras detected she had breast cancer.\n\nBal Gill, 41, from Slough in Berkshire, was at the Camera Obscura and World of Illusions at the top of the Royal Mile with her family in May.\n\nWhen she went into the museum's thermal imaging camera room she noticed her left breast was a different colour.\n\nWhen she returned home she saw a doctor who confirmed she had breast cancer.\n\nShe discovered that thermal imaging cameras can be used as a tool by oncologists.\n\nThermography, also called thermal imaging, uses a special camera to measure the temperature of the skin on the breast's surface.\n\nIt is a non-invasive test that does not involve any harmful radiation.\n\nCancer cells grow and multiply very fast. Blood flow and metabolism are higher in a cancer tumour as blood flow and metabolism increase, which makes skin temperature rise.\n\nThe thermal camera was installed at Camera Obscura in 2009 and is a popular attraction\n\nMs Gill, a deputy-director of finance for a university, said: \"We had been to Edinburgh Castle and on the way down we saw the museum.\n\n\"While making our way through the floors we got to the thermal imaging camera room. As all families do, we entered and started to wave our arms and look at the images created.\n\n\"While doing this I noticed a heat patch coming from my left breast. We thought it was odd and having looked at everyone else they didn't have the same. I took a picture and we carried on and enjoyed the rest of the museum.\"\n\nA few days later when the mother-of-two returned home she was flicking through her photographs and saw the image.\n\nOn Google she found a number of articles about breast cancer and thermal imaging cameras. She was later diagnosed with early stage breast cancer.\n\nShe has since had two surgeries, including a mastectomy, and has a final surgery in November. She has been told she will not need chemotherapy or radiotherapy afterwards.\n\n\"I just wanted to say thank you, without that camera I would never have known,\" she said. \"I know it's not the intention of the camera but for me it really was a life-changing visit.\n\n\"I cannot tell you enough about how my visit to the Camera Obscura changed my life.\"\n\nThe Thermal Camera is a popular part of the Edinburgh attraction and lets visitors see a visual of all their body hot spots.\n\nAndrew Johnson, general manager of Camera Obscura and World of Illusions said: \"We did not realise that our thermal camera had the potential to detect life-changing symptoms in this way.\n\n\"We were really moved when Bal contacted us to share her story as breast cancer is very close to home for me and a number of our team.\n\n\"It's amazing that Bal noticed the difference in the image and crucially acted on it promptly. We wish her all the best with her recovery and hope to meet her and her family in the future.\"\n\nDr Tracey Gillies, NHS Lothian medical director, said: \"In the past thermal imaging cameras have been experimented with to detect cancer, however, this has never been a proven screening tool.\n\n\"Early diagnosis of breast cancer improves the ability to treat the cancer and the chance of survival is higher. We encourage any woman that has received an invite to a screening to attend and anyone with concerns who does not qualify for the screening programme to visit their GP.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sharm el-Sheikh attracted hundreds of thousands of UK visitors each year\n\nDirect flights from the UK to Sharm el-Sheikh are to resume after the government ended a ban imposed in 2015.\n\nFlights to the Egyptian resort were stopped after 224 people died in the bombing of a Russian airliner, linked to the Islamic State group.\n\nEgyptian officials have since admitted the airport fell well short of international security standards.\n\nThe Department for Transport said there had been improvements in security procedures.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said lifting the restriction was \"the first step\" in resuming direct flights.\n\nHe said: \"The safety and security of British nationals remains our top priority and this decision follows close co-operation between our aviation security experts and their Egyptian counterparts, and improvements in security procedures at the airport.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office and Commonwealth Office has updated its advice, saying it \"no longer advises against all but essential travel by air to/from Sharm el-Sheikh\".\n\nHowever, it says \"there remains a heightened risk of terrorism against aviation in Egypt\" and additional security measures are in place for flights departing from Egypt to the UK.\n\nTravel company Tui said it would reintroduce Sharm el-Sheikh flights following the decision, \"taking into account customer demand\".\n\nEasyJet said it would \"look at any opportunities\" as a result of the lifting of the flying restriction from the UK.\n\nTrade organisation Abta said the lifting of restrictions was \"welcome news\" for its members.\n\n\"Sharm el-Sheikh has been a very popular destination for UK holidaymakers in the past, before the restrictions were in place,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"The news is also positive for the local economy in this region of Egypt that is reliant on the benefits travel and tourism bring.\"\n\nAccording to the Foreign Office, 900,000 UK visitors travelled to the beach resort in 2015, but that number dropped to 231,000 in 2016 after the ban on direct flights.\n\nUK holidaymakers heading to Sharm el-Sheikh were forced either to take multiple flights or book a place on a ferry from the Red Sea resort of Hurghada.\n\nEarlier this year, the Egyptian ambassador to the UK, Tarek Adel, told the BBC that Egypt had finished working with British security teams to upgrade its airports and was ready to welcome flights again.\n\nThe plane was on its way to St Petersburg when it crashed\n\nAfter the UK government suspended flights to the Red Sea resort, more than 16,000 Britons stranded in the area were brought home on rescue flights amid increased security.\n\nThe Airbus A321, operated by the Russian airline Kogalymavia, was brought down by a bomb on 31 October 2015 in the Sinai peninsula soon after take-off.\n\nMost of the 224 passengers killed on the plane in 2015 were tourists, including 219 Russian citizens, four Ukrainians and one Belarus national. Of the 217 passengers, 17 were children.\n\nUK security service investigators said they suspected someone with access to the aircraft's baggage compartment inserted an explosive device inside or on top of the luggage just before the plane took off. The Islamic State group claimed it was behind the attack.", "Anna Roselyn Evans was trapped after the car hit the tent she was staying in\n\nA man who killed a woman and injured three others after driving while drunk around a campsite has been jailed for eight years and four months.\n\nJake Waterhouse, 27, of Partington, Greater Manchester, had been drinking whiskey before driving on 19 August.\n\nHe drove over a tent where Anna Roselyn Evans, 46, from Aberystwyth, and her husband were sleeping at the Rhyd Y Galen site in Snowdonia.\n\nIt took five people to lift the car off Mrs Evans before the mother-of-two was taken to hospital, but she died eight days later.\n\nThe court heard how Waterhouse and a friend had travelled to Wales on a fishing trip but Waterhouse only had a provisional licence and had not passed his driving test.\n\nEarlier in the day Waterhouse's friend suggested he learn to drive on private land, saying there would not be many people on the campsite.\n\nIn the early hours, while his friend was in the tent, Waterhouse drove his friend's Subaru Impreza around the campsite.\n\nCampers described hearing \"revving as if a vehicle was stuck in mud\" and one person shouted: \"He's running over the tents.\"\n\nHe hit one tent, injuring its occupants before the car ploughed into the Evans's tent.\n\nThe court heard how the \"tent was clearly destroyed, and he couldn't find his wife Anna\" before he saw her legs sticking out from underneath a car.\n\nWaterhouse ran from the scene and sent a text to his partner to say he was on the run. He also called his mother, who told him to \"do the right thing\" and he handed himself in to police shortly after.\n\nA roadside breath test showed him to be over the alcohol limit but he refused to give further specimens once in custody, which Judge Rhys Rowlands said was probably to hide how drunk he was.\n\nThe judge described the circumstances of this case as \"harrowing\" and said Waterhouse showed \"complete disregard for the safety of others\".\n\nMrs Evans had \"lost her life in front of her husband in quite the most horrific way,\" the judge added.\n\nHe said the combination of Waterhouse's drunken state and his lack of driving experience was \"pretty much an accident waiting to happen\".\n\n\"It completely understates matters to say it was the height of drunken stupidity on your part,\" he added.\n\nHe said if the occupants of the first tent had not been woken by the noise they too might have received serious or fatal injuries.\n\nWaterhouse had also admitted driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence, driving with no insurance and failing to provide a breath specimen for analysis.\n\nAs well as the custodial sentence, he was disqualified from driving for 12 years and two months.\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Sgt Dafydd Curry of North Wales Police said: \"This was a horrific incident where the mindless actions of an individual have taken the life of an innocent person.\"\n\nShortly after Ms Evans died, her son Richard posted on Facebook: \"Tonight I had to say goodbye to the most amazing woman I've ever known.\n\n\"It was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. She was my mother, my best friend, my rock and I'm going to miss her so so much.\"\n• None Woman dies after tent is hit by car", "Boris Johnson said the government will \"pause this legislation\" over Brexit Image caption: Boris Johnson said the government will \"pause this legislation\" over Brexit\n\nIt was a game of two halves for the government in its bid to pass Boris Johnson's Brexit bill into law.\n\nHere's a brief recap of what happened:\n• MPs held two key votes on the government's new Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB) after a day of debate.\n• No 10 won the first - MPs backed Mr Johnson's Withdrawal Agreement Bill, by a majority of 30.\n• However, just minutes later No 10 lost a second vote - MPs rejected Boris Johnson's three-day timetable to get the bill through the Commons, by a majority of 14.\n• In response, the PM said the government would \"pause this legislation\" and \"accelerate\" preparations for a no-deal Brexit.\n• After the vote, European Council President Donald Tusk said he would recommend EU leaders back an extension to the 31 October Brexit deadline.\n\nAnd what to expect next:\n• All eyes turn to Europe, with the 27 other EU leaders to decide whether to grant an extension to Article 50 and, if so, how long that extension should be.\n• A No 10 source has told BBC News that if they agree an extension until 31 January - as the UK requested last week - then Downing Street would seek a general election.\n• MPs will now return to discussing the contents of the Queen's Speech on Wednesday and Thursday, Leader of the Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg said.\n\nWe are going to bring our live coverage to an end here - but our main news story will be updated with any further developments.\n\nFind out how your MP voted on the Brexit bill by using our search box here.", "Twenty-two people were killed in the attack on 22 May 2017\n\nA public inquiry will be held to investigate the deaths of the victims of the 2017 Manchester Arena attack, the Home Office has said.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she made the decision after the \"careful consideration of advice\" from the coroner Sir John Saunders.\n\nThe inquest into the deaths was adjourned after Sir John said a public inquiry was necessary.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds were injured in the bombing.\n\nMs Patel said it was \"vital that those who survived or lost loved ones in the Manchester Arena attack get the answers that they need and that we learn the lessons, whatever they may be\".\n\n\"This process is an important step for those affected as they look to move on from the attack,\" she said.\n\nThe inquiry will be chaired by Sir John, a retired High Court judge who was nominated by the Lord Chief Justice to lead the investigation and inquest into the deaths.\n\nSir John previously said it was \"a matter of vital public importance\" that a \"full, fair and fearless\" investigation was held into the events of 22 May 2017.\n\nHe also ruled that evidence from MI5 and the police should be kept secret on national security grounds.\n\nA public inquiry would allow evidence to be heard in closed sessions.\n\nSalman Abedi, 22, detonated a device at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nHis younger brother Hashem Abedi, 22, has been charged with murder and attempted murder after being extradited from Libya. He denies the charges against him.\n\nThe arrangements for the inquiry will now be decided by Sir John with support provided by the Home Office.", "All NHS providers must ask patients about their sexual orientation to improve the \"deep inequalities\" in care for LGBT people, says an MPs' report.\n\nThe Women and Equalities committee says hospitals and care homes should be fined if they don't collect the data.\n\nLGBT people are often less healthy than the wider population, but receive lower levels of care.\n\nNHS England said all patients received the physical and mental health care they needed.\n\nSince 2017, NHS guidelines have recommended that GPs and nurses ask about a person's sexual orientation when they see them face to face, but few seem to be doing so, the committee said.\n\nThat is why MPs now want it to become mandatory, in line with asking people about their ethnicity.\n\nWithout knowing how many LGBT people are using health services in different areas, MPs questioned how local health groups could plan for their needs.\n\nThe committee based its report on evidence given by community groups, local authorities, public service providers and LGBT people.\n\nThis highlighted the range of health disparities faced by LGBT people, and the need for more training for staff to better understand their needs.\n\nThe report said: \"Health and social care professionals do not always understand the needs that LGBT people have, and often do not consider these needs to be relevant to their care.\"\n\nThey are normally expected to fit into systems that assume they are straight and not transgender, but treating them in the same way as other people doesn't work, it said.\n\nThere is a lack of research into health and social care issues faced by LGBT people and, as a result, sexual health ended up being the main priority when they came into contact with the NHS.\n\nMaria Miller MP, chair of the committee, said there was a lot of goodwill in health and social care services to make them inclusive - but there were big issues too.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the best will in the world won't change the systemic failings in areas such as data collection and training that are leading to poorer experience when accessing services, and to poorer health outcomes for LGBT people.\n\n\"This can never be acceptable.\"\n\nThe report also recommends that:\n\nDr Joanna Semlyen, an LGBT health expert from UEA's Norwich Medical School, has found higher levels of smoking, hazardous alcohol use, common mental disorders and unhealthy BMI (body mass index) in the LGBT population in the UK.\n\nShe said: \"These health disparities need to be addressed through not only the development of interventions that are sensitive to the needs of this population, but also the development of more inclusive mainstream services\".\n\nAn NHS England spokesman said: \"The NHS is there for everyone, where people are respected and all patients receive the excellent physical and mental health care they need.\"\n• None Patients to be questioned about sexuality", "A US drug company says it has created the first therapy that could slow Alzheimer's disease, and it is now ready to bring it to market.\n\nCurrently, there are no drugs that can do this - existing ones only help with symptoms.\n\nBiogen says it will soon seek regulatory approval in the US for the \"groundbreaking\" drug, called aducanumab.\n\nIt plans to file the paperwork in early 2020 and has its sights on Europe too.\n\nApproval processes could take a year or two. If successful, the company aims to initially offer the drug to patients previously enrolled in clinical studies of the drug.\n\nThe announcement is somewhat surprising because the company had discontinued work on the drug in March 2019, after disappointing trial results.\n\nBut the company says a new analysis of a larger dataset of the same studies shows that higher doses of aducanumab can provide a significant benefit to patients with early Alzheimer's, slowing their clinical decline so they preserve more of their memory and every day living skills - things that the disease usually robs.\n\nAducanumab targets a protein called amyloid that forms abnormal deposits the brains of people with Alzheimer's. Scientists think these plaques are toxic to brain cells and that clearing them using drugs would be a massive advance in dementia treatment, although not a cure.\n\nThere haven't been any new dementia drugs in over a decade.\n\nBiogen's chief executive Michel Vounatsos said: \"We are hopeful about the prospect of offering patients the first therapy to reduce the clinical decline of Alzheimer's disease.\"\n\nHilary Evans from Alzheimer's Research UK said: \"People affected by Alzheimer's have waited a long time for a life-changing new treatment and this exciting announcement offers new hope that one could be in sight.\n\n\"Taking another look at aducanumab is a positive step for all those who took part in the clinical trials and the worldwide dementia research community. As more data emerges, we hope it will spark global discussions about the next steps for delivering much-needed treatments into people's hands.\"\n\nProf Bart De Strooper, Director of the UK Dementia Research Institute at University College London, said: \"It is fantastic to hear of these new positive results emerging from the aducanumab trials. We currently have no effective treatments to slow or halt the progression of Alzheimer's disease and I hope this signifies a turning point.\"\n\nDementia is not a single disease, but is the name for a group of symptoms that include problems with memory and thinking.\n\nThere are lots of different types of dementia and Alzheimer's is said to be the most common and most researched.\n\nThere are currently 850,000 people with dementia in the UK.\n\nIt's been a long and tortuous journey to find new drugs for the disease and recent attempts have ended in failure.\n\nExperts hope a treatment is in sight, but they are cautious and will need to closely scrutinise these aducanumab trial findings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A group of protesters in Lebanon began singing Baby Shark after a mother told them her 15 month-old son was scared.\n\nEliane Jabbour was driving through Baabda District, just south of Beirut, when a crowd of cheering protesters surrounded her car. Her 15-month-old son, Robin, was with her.", "Cathy Murphy has worked at Asda for more than four decades.\n\nCathy Murphy has worked for Asda for the last 44 years and says it has been an \"absolutely amazing employer\".\n\nHowever, recently the supermarket chain told Ms Murphy she will be fired unless she signs up to a new contract that will strip her of her long-service benefits, paid tea breaks and Bank Holidays off.\n\nShe is one of thousands of employees who have been told to sign the new contract before 2 November or leave the business. But Ms Murphy describes it as \"just not fair\".\n\nThe GMB union says up to 12,000 workers face a choice between signing the new contracts - which increase wages to £9 an hour but scrap many other perks - or being sacked in the run up to Christmas.\n\nBut Asda told the BBC: \"This contract is an investment of more than £80m and increases real pay for over 100,000 colleagues.\"\n\nDespite this, Ms Murphy worries for night shift staff who will have their pay cut, as well as people with caring responsibilities who may struggle with the new contracts.\n\nMs Murphy works in the fruit and vegetable section at Asda's Parkhead Forge store in Glasgow.\n\nAs a union representative, she has been aware of the contract changes since the spring. However, her colleagues at the store only found out through meetings with managers over the summer.\n\nWorkers were given a document, which said they would have private meetings - or one-to-ones (121s) - with management.\n\n\"As part of the 121 process we hope that you agree to move to the new contract,\" Asda said in the document. \"If you still don't want to sign up to the new contract at your final 121 we will issue you notice to terminate your employment.\"\n\nIt said staff who had not signed the new contract would \"leave the business\" at the end of their notice period.\n\nThen, earlier this month, Asda bosses handed out a leaflet with tips on getting a new job.\n\nIt suggested staff use their local job centre, get an email address and offered advice on CV writing. Ms Murphy called the leaflets \"condescending\".\n\nIt is not the first time that Asda has tried to move staff onto flexible contracts.\n\nIn 2017, the supermarket chain offered workers a salary increase in exchange for voluntarily switching to a new contract that introduced unpaid breaks and a requirement to work over Bank Holidays.\n\nBut over the summer, those changes were made compulsory.\n\nThe GMB union has written to the supermarket chain, which is owned by US retail giant Walmart, asking it to delay the introduction of the new contracts.\n\n\"On November 2nd, we understand up to 12,000 of your loyal Asda workers will be given the sack - just before Christmas,\" it said in a letter sent over the weekend. \"That can not be right.\"\n\nBut Asda says the vast majority of staff have signed up to the new contract.\n\n\"We have been clear that we don't want any of our colleagues to leave us,\" a spokesman said, explaining that the changes would help the chain \"adapt to the demands of the highly competitive retail industry\".\n\nMs Murphy thinks the chain will go through with its threat to fire the rest but she says it is unfair after giving more than four decades to the supermarket chain.\n\n\"I'm coming to the end of my working life,\" she says. \"And for this to happen [now], it's just not fair.", "Ahmed worked for Channel 4 from 2000 to 2011\n\nBBC presenter Samira Ahmed is taking the BBC to an employment tribunal over alleged unequal pay.\n\nAccording to court listings, Ahmed's case is due to be heard over five days from next Monday.\n\nThe papers allege \"failure to provide equal pay for equal value work\" under the Equality Act 2010.\n\nAhmed presents Newswatch, which examines BBC editorial decisions, and the Radio 4 arts show Front Row. The BBC has declined to comment.\n\nAhmed began her career as a BBC News trainee in 1990 and has worked as a news correspondent and a reporter on BBC Radio 4's Today programme and BBC Two's Newsnight.\n\nShe covered the OJ Simpson case as the BBC's Los Angeles correspondent and was a presenter and reporter at Channel 4 News from 2000 to 2011.\n\nBBC News has asked Ahmed for a comment on the employment tribunal.\n\nThe 51-year-old is not the first woman to take issue at the corporation's pay structure. Carrie Gracie previously resigned from her role as China editor in a dispute over equal pay.\n\nCarrie Gracie resigned from her role as the BBC's China editor\n\nThe BBC then apologised for underpaying her and said it \"has now put this right\" by giving her back pay.\n\nShe donated the full, undisclosed amount to the Fawcett Society - a charity that campaigns for gender equality and women's rights.\n\nThe issue of gender pay inequality at the BBC came to a head in July 2017, when it was revealed its best-paid star, Radio 2 presenter Chris Evans, made between £2.2m and £2.25m in 2016/2017. During the same period its highest-paid female presenter, Claudia Winkleman, earned between £450,000 and £500,000.\n\nAbout two-thirds of stars earning more than £150,000 - and all of the top seven earners - were male, the annual report revealed.\n\nDirector general Tony Hall said there is \"more to do\" on gender and diversity and in September 2017 the BBC announced sweeping pay reviews.\n\nSix male BBC presenters, including Huw Edwards, Nicky Campbell and John Humphrys, agreed to pay cuts in January 2018, to help level the playing field.\n\nThe BBC's most recent annual review showed an improvement for women, with Winkleman, Zoe Ball and Vanessa Feltz now among the corporation's top earners.\n\nRights watchdog, The Equality and Human Rights Commission, is investigating the BBC over pay historical gender pay discrimination.\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.", "Many prisons are not designed to cater for an ageing group of inmates\n\nThe ageing jail population has left prison officers providing care for a growing number of older inmates \"dying in front of them\", officers have said.\n\nThe warning from the Prison Officers' Association (POA) has come as new figures revealed the oldest prisoner in England and Wales was 104 years old.\n\nThe data showed there were 13,617 inmates aged above 50 out of a prison population of 82,710 in June 2019.\n\nThe Prison Service said it was working to meet the needs of elderly prisoners.\n\nMore and more inmates were frail, incontinent or had dementia, the POA said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A former prison officer says staff are increasingly being asked to care for older prisoners\n\n\"You're looking at young prison staff that are trained to be prison officers that are becoming carers,\" said Dave, who has worked in prisons as a custodial manager for more than 30 years.\n\nThe former officer, who did not want his real name used, said when he started work older prisoners were transferred to less secure jails when they approached the end of their sentences but that had changed.\n\n\"Now you're getting older prisoners starting big sentences and the young prison officers are coming straight from university, with very, very little life experience and then they're having to deal with major traumatic events like somebody dying in front of them or caring for somebody that is at the end of their life.\"\n\nHis concerns were echoed by the chief inspector of prisons, Peter Clarke, who said the Prison Service should consider whether a new type of accommodation was needed, specifically designed to deal with older prisoners.\n\n\"It feels to me as if they're trying to shoehorn this problem into existing accommodation instead of thinking more radically,\" Mr Clarke said.\n\nKen Denton, from West Yorkshire, was released from prison in June after serving a sentence for fraud and threats to kill. Aged 53, he was housed in an over-50s wing at a Yorkshire prison.\n\n\"When you look at some of the prisons, you know, they're three or four landings high, thin ladder stairways, how do you expect an elderly person to climb them?\n\n\"When they come in, you are assessed and they'll say well you should be located 'flat' but if there's no space where you going to put somebody? How can you put somebody at second or third landing? You can't, it's inhumane.\n\n\"I saw people with cancer, saw people with diabetes, long term prisoners that need their medication but can't get to their medication because the medication hatch is on the second floor and they've got to go to a lift but they can't get into the lift because there's no staff to take them.\n\n\"If you needed a wheelchair, it might take you three to four months to get a wheelchair because one had to be designed for yourself and it also had to come from the specific local authority in the area you came from.\"\n\nThe Prison Service said: \"An ageing prison population poses particular challenges, which is why we work closely with local councils and healthcare providers to make sure we meet the needs of elderly prisoners.\n\n\"Last year, a report by the chief inspector of prisons found there was good work ongoing to adapt prisons for older inmates, and we have updated guidance for governors on how to best support them.\"\n\nHowever, national chair of the POA, Mark Fairhurst, said the system was failing to meet the needs of elderly inmates.\n\n\"We need more disabled access cells situated at ground floor level. We need 24-hour healthcare and we need proper training for staff.\"\n\nThe number of prisoners over the age of 50 has almost tripled from 4,824 in 2002, the point at which comparable records start, to 13,617 in 2019.\n\nThe overall prison population in England and Wales has risen 16% in that time.\n\nAbout 16% of prisoners were over the age of 50 as of June 2019, compared with just 7% in 2002.\n\nThe figures showed that of the 13,617 over 50s, 1,759 were at least 70.\n\nWomen made up 548 of the over 50s prisoners, including 32 aged 70 and over.\n\nPeople in their 30s are still the largest age group in prison, making up just under a third of the overall population.\n\nTougher prison sentences and the rise in the number of those convicted of historic sexual offences are believed to be part of the reason for the ageing prison population.\n\nIn 2016, 101-year-old Ralph Clarke was jailed for 13 years for committing 30 child sex offences dating from the 1970s and 80s. He was believed to be the oldest person convicted in British legal history.\n\nPeter Clarke, the chief inspector of prisons, said the issue of an ageing prison population had to be addressed\n\nDr Mary Turner, reader in health services research at Huddersfield University, said: \"People tend to get longer sentences, even in older age, now than they might have done in the past and there are now more older people going into prison than there are being released.\"\n\nShe said the situation was not sustainable.\n\n\"We can't just see these numbers going up and up and trying to cope with it in a prison environment so we're going to get to a point where we have to think of alternatives and we have to find solutions.\"\n\nShe said options could include building secure care homes and considering alternatives to custodial sentence for older offenders.\n\nPeter Clarke warned the number of men over 50 being held in jails would rise to more than 14,000 by 2022, representing 17% of the prison population.\n\n\"The Prison Service has so far has said that it's not going to develop an overall strategy to deal with this issue,\" the chief inspector of prisons said.\n\n\"When prisoners get older, less capable physically or infirm, they don't provide an escape risk, they still have to be held in custody very often and it's not to say they wouldn't present a risk to the public if they were completely at liberty.\n\n\"But the question is do they need to be held still in levels of security which are not needed for their physical capabilities and which inevitably are very expensive as well?\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Public sector borrowing has risen by a fifth during the first half of the financial year, official figures show.\n\nBorrowing for the six months to September has now hit £40.3bn, up £7.4bn from the same period in 2018.\n\nIn the month of September, borrowing was £9.4bn - slightly lower than expected but still up from £8.8bn last year.\n\nThe figures raise questions about the chancellor's room to manoeuvre in next month's Budget.\n\nSajid Javid has said he is \"turning the page on austerity\" and promised big spending rises in his November statement.\n\nBut John Hawksworth, chief economist at PwC, said: \"Today's data showed the UK public finances heading further into the red, with the deficit more than £7bn higher in the first half of this financial year than the same period last year.\n\n\"This borrowing overshoot will not make the chancellor's choices any easier as he heads towards his first Budget on 6 November.\"\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the borrowing figures for September mark the first annual rise in that month for five years.\n\nThe increase comes despite the government receiving a £1.1bn dividend boost last month from part-nationalised lender Royal Bank of Scotland.\n\nThe ONS said borrowing was pushed higher due to seasonal payments of £2bn for winter fuel and £2.7bn of student loan write-offs - both of which are recorded in September each year.\n\nSajid Javid is expected to loosen fiscal policy in the Budget\n\nMr Javid plans to set out new long-term fiscal rules in next month's Budget.\n\nCurrently the rules state that borrowing should remain below 2% of national income, but most expect him to relax this.\n\n\"September's better-than-expected public finance figures do not change this year's overarching themes of higher spending and borrowing. If anything, today's release will only encourage the chancellor to loosen fiscal policy at the Budget next month,\" said Thomas Pugh, UK economist at Capital Economics.\n\n\"We already know that the chancellor wants to review the fiscal rules in the Budget on 6 November, as there is very little chance of hitting the current ones.\n\n\"We don't know what the new fiscal rules will be, but they are likely to allow for a substantial loosening of fiscal policy at the Budget, which would support economic growth. Of course, whether this happens depends on whether there is a Brexit deal.\"", "Hashem Abedi was extradited from Libya to the UK in July\n\nThe younger brother of the Manchester Arena bomber has denied murdering the 22 victims of the attack.\n\nSalman Abedi, 22, detonated a suicide bomb as music fans left an Ariana Grande concert, killing 22 people and injuring hundreds more, on 22 May 2017.\n\nHis brother Hashem, 22, is charged with 22 counts of murder and conspiring with his brother to cause explosions.\n\nMr Abedi, of no fixed address, was remanded in custody and is due to go on trial on 13 January at the Old Bailey.\n\nHe is also charged with one count of attempted murder for all those at the Manchester Arena who were not murdered.\n\nTop (left to right): Lisa Lees, Alison Howe, Georgina Callender, Kelly Brewster, John Atkinson, Jane Tweddle, Marcin Klis - Middle (left to right): Angelika Klis, Courtney Boyle, Saffie Roussos, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Martyn Hett, Michelle Kiss, Philip Tron, Elaine McIver - Bottom (left to right): Eilidh MacLeod, Wendy Fawell, Chloe Rutherford, Liam Allen-Curry, Sorrell Leczkowski, Megan Hurley, Nell Jones\n\nA public inquiry will be held to investigate the deaths of the victims of the attack, the Home Office announced earlier.\n\nEach murder victim's name was read out as the charges were put to Hashem Abedi, with the defendant responding \"not guilty\" 22 times.\n\nThe victims were: off-duty police officer Elaine McIver, 43, Saffie Roussos, 8, Sorrell Leczkowski, 14, Eilidh MacLeod, 14, Nell Jones, 14, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, 15, Megan Hurley, 15, Georgina Callander, 18, Chloe Rutherford, 17, Liam Curry, 19, Courtney Boyle, 19, Philip Tron, 32, John Atkinson, 26, Martyn Hett, 29, Kelly Brewster, 32, Angelika Klis, 39, Marcin Klis, 42, Michelle Kiss, 45, Alison Howe, 45, Lisa Lees, 43, Wendy Fawell, 50 and Jane Tweddle, 51.\n\nIt took six minutes to read the 24 count indictment.\n\nHashem Abedi, who was born and raised in Manchester, was extradited to the UK from Libya in July.\n\nHe was remanded in custody until the trial which is expected to last up to eight weeks.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nThe suspect in the crash that killed Harry Dunn will be interviewed under caution in the United States, British police have said.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died in a crash outside RAF Croughton with a car owned by US citizen Anne Sacoolas, who later left the UK claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nChief Constable Nick Adderley said Mrs Sacoolas had requested the interview.\n\nThe Dunn family said they had \"lost all faith and confidence in both the police and the Foreign Office\".\n\nSpeaking at a news conference, Mr Adderley said Mrs Sacoolas \"wants to be personally interviewed by officers from Northamptonshire Police in order for them to see her and the devastation this has caused her and her family\".\n\n\"She did not want to provide a pre-prepared statement which is her right to do so,\" he added.\n\n\"We do understand from colleagues in the US that the family is utterly devastated.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Northamptonshire Police Chief Constable Nick Adderley says officers will travel to the US\n\nMr Adderley said: \"This investigation has not stalled, it has not slowed down. The suspect not being in the country clearly frustrates the investigation but it does not stop it.\"\n\nHe also urged the Dunn family's spokesman Radd Seiger \"to exercise constraint in his commentary because it is not helpful\".\n\nThe chief constable added: \"A file of evidence has been handed to the Crown Prosecution Service but...that file is incomplete - you can't complete the file until you have an account from the suspect.\"\n\nIn response, Mr Seiger said: \"We are glad that he has given a press conference and we will digest what he has had to say and respond.\n\n\"But all this noise will only stop when the family sees it is going in the right direction.\n\n\"The family have lost all faith and confidence in both the police and the Foreign Office.\"\n\nMr Dunn died from his injuries when his motorbike and a car collided outside the RAF station in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nMrs Sacoolas' husband was reportedly stationed at the base as an intelligence officer.\n\nAt the time of the crash she had diplomatic immunity, but both the British and US governments agree that by returning to the US she had forfeited that right.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, left the UK after the crash\n\nMr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles said the family believe the US and UK governments, and Northamptonshire Police are all \"at fault\" for Mrs Sacoolas leaving the country.\n\nThe force has not answered a number of questions the family has put to them about the investigation, she added.\n\nMrs Charles told BBC Breakfast: \"It just seems to be one cover-up and one lie after another.\n\n\"We don't seem to be getting the truth from anybody.\"\n\nMr Dunn's father Tim said: \"We want the government to be truthful, we want the police to be truthful - there's justice in the truth about everything now.\"\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry has asked for all correspondence between the US Embassy, Foreign Office and Northamptonshire Police to be made public.\n\nAfter a meeting with the Dunn family earlier, she said she \"smelt a rat\" and would be \"digging\" on their behalf.\n\n\"My worry is that over the last three years, [the UK Government has] been pulling our punches with the current [US] administration. It's as though we're worried and scared of upsetting Donald Trump. I just think that's the wrong approach,\" said Ms Thornberry.\n\n\"There are times when you just have to stand up for British citizens. For heaven's sake, this family have just lost their teenage boy - if we are not going to stand up for parents like this, what are we about these days?\"\n\nShe accused the Foreign Office of \"running around like headless chickens\" in the aftermath of the crash.\n\nMr Seiger said the family had been left in tears at the meeting as they felt they were finally being listened to.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK music artist and film director Rapman is well-known for his short films, narrated in the form of a rap.\n\nHis Shiro's Story trilogy has had more than 20 million views online and led to him signing a deal with one of the richest artists in the music industry, Jay-Z.\n\nRapman's latest project, Blue Story, is a London-based film that is out in cinemas on 22 November.\n\nHe spoke to the BBC about Blue Story and his journey to becoming a film director.", "Last updated on .From the section Champions League\n\nPep Guardiola hailed Raheem Sterling as an \"extraordinary\" talent after his 11-minute second-half hat-trick helped Manchester City demolish Atalanta and maintain their 100% start in Champions League Group C.\n\nSterling is City's leading scorer with 12 goals in 13 games in all competitions this season and this latest ruthless display demonstrated again what a potent finisher he has become.\n\nGuardiola feels there is even more to his game than just his goalscoring however, explaining afterwards: \"His physicality is incredible. He is strong - the day after the game, he could play another game - his regeneration is incredible.\n\n\"He can play both sides and he is fast so, defensively, he helps us a lot. He is an extraordinary, extraordinary player.\"\n• None Rodri could be out for a month with hamstring injury\n• None Football Daily podcast: High fives all round for Spurs and Man City\n\nSterling's treble, which followed a first-half Sergio Aguero double, turned this game into another emphatic statement of City's attacking power but it was a far from perfect evening for Guardiola.\n\nRodri limped off with a hamstring injury before half-time and Phil Foden was sent off for the first time in his career for two late bookings.\n\nThere was another reminder of City's current defensive vulnerability too, when a Ruslan Malinovskyi penalty gave Atalanta a surprise lead after Fernandinho clumsily fouled Josip Ilicic.\n\nCity, who began with an unfamiliar three-man defence, had shown some early uncertainty at the back and took time to get into their stride going forward.\n\nBut Aguero quickly levelled from close range when he ran on to Sterling's in-swinging cross and the Argentine fired City ahead from the spot before half-time after Sterling was fouled by Andrea Masiello.\n\nSterling took over goalscoring duties after the break, firstly when he rounded off a fine move involving Riyad Mahrez, Kevin de Bruyne and Foden.\n\nBy now Atalanta's defence had completely crumbled and Sterling soon took full advantage, running on to an Ilkay Gundogan pass and cutting inside past Rafael Toloi before finding the net.\n\nFive minutes later Sterling made it 5-1 when he ran on to a Mahrez cross, and he should have added to his tally before the end when he fired wide after running clear.\n\nFoden, making only his second start of the season, saw red eight minutes from time after being booked for dragging back Marten de Roon as he shaped to shoot.\n\nThe 19-year-old's first yellow card had come six minutes earlier when he tangled with Malinovskyi in midfield, and appeared harsh.\n\nIt remains to be seen how serious Rodri's injury is, but Guardiola showed his frustration as John Stones prepared to replace him, slamming the back of one of the seats in his dugout.\n\nHe did have some good news, however. Shakhtar Donetsk's draw with Dinamo Zagreb earlier on Tuesday means a win in Italy when these two sides meet again on 6 November will seal City's progress to the last 16 for a seventh successive year.\n\nEarlier this week Guardiola called on his side to be more clinical in front of goal if they are to go deep into the competition this season, but it is their displays at the back that should be a more pressing concern.\n\nAlthough he had two centre-halves on his bench in the shape of Stones and Nicolas Otamendi, Guardiola opted to play with three at the back against Atalanta, with a converted midfielder, Fernandinho, at the heart of his new-look backline and Kyle Walker and Benjamin Mendy on either side.\n\nRodri and Gundogan were supposed to give protection in the centre of midfield but the experiment did not work, with Atalanta finding all sorts of space down both flanks.\n\nBy the time the Italian side took the lead, City had already survived one scare when Robin Gosens escaped down the left and Timothy Castagne headed over from six yards.\n\nA better team would have punished City, and Guardiola must go back to the drawing board to find the answer at the back, while any absence to Rodri will also give him a problem to solve in midfield.\n\nGuardiola emphatically ruled out punishing Foden for his red card, the first of his fledgling career, instead focusing on his impressive performance in midfield before he was sent off.\n\n\"Will I fine him? Absolutely not,\" Guardiola said. \"I have never fined a player except for when they did stupid things but for this part of the game, absolutely not. Maybe I should pay him, because of how well he played.\n\n\"The important thing with Phil is not the red card, it is the way he played. We know it - he can do it - and he played so good, at a high level.\n\n\"Now he will know after having one yellow card that he has to be more careful for the second but this experience is good and it is going to help him.\n\n\"People say 'you have to play him more minutes, more minutes'. Yes I want him to play but there are still things like this where he is far away from David Silva, Ilkay Gundogan or Kevin de Bruyne.\n\n\"He will learn. He has to live this kind of situation to understand that, with a yellow card, he has to be careful. Because the result was 5-1 it was OK, but if the score is 2-1 or 3-2 it can be difficult.\"\n\nIt is back to the Premier League for City and they can narrow the gap on leaders Liverpool to three points - for 24 hours at least - when they host Aston Villa at 12:30 BST on Saturday.\n• None Attempt missed. Rafael Tolói (Atalanta) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ruslan Malinovskiy with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Luis Muriel (Atalanta) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Luis Muriel (Atalanta) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ruslan Malinovskiy with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Remo Freuler (Atalanta) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Luis Muriel.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruslan Malinovskiy (Atalanta) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Timothy Castagne.\n• None Attempt missed. Marten de Roon (Atalanta) right footed shot from the left side of the box is too high following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt blocked. Rafael Tolói (Atalanta) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luis Muriel. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Mr Netanyahu has been in power for the past decade\n\nIsrael's long-standing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said he cannot form a government, handing the opportunity to his political rival.\n\nMr Netanyahu has been in power for the past decade, but he was unable to build a coalition with a majority after September's election ended in deadlock.\n\nHis rival Benny Gantz of the Blue and White party will now be invited to attempt to form a government.\n\nAnnouncing the decision to abandon his efforts, Mr Netanyahu stressed that he had tried repeatedly to form a majority coalition but had been rebuffed.\n\n\"I have made all efforts to bring Benny Gantz to the negotiating table, all efforts to form a broad national unity government, all efforts to prevent another election. Unfortunately, time after time, he simply refused,\" he said.\n\nIsrael's President, Reuven Rivlin, said he would give Mr Gantz 28 days to carry out the same negotiations.\n\nIsraeli Arab lawmakers pledged their backing, but Mr Gantz - who leads a centre-right alliance - remains more than a dozen seats short of the 61 seats he would need for a majority in the 120-seat parliament.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Blue and White This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Blue and White\n\nPresident Rivlin said he would try to avoid calling another election in a country that had already held two this year. If Mr Gantz also fails, parliament could put forward a third candidate in a final bid to avoid another poll.\n\nSeptember's poll saw Mr Netanyahu's Likud party win 32 seats and Mr Gantz's Blue and White party 33. The president initially selected Mr Netanyahu as the candidate with the best chance of successfully forming a coalition.\n\nReacting to Mr Netanyahu's message, Blue and White said: \"The time for spin is over and it's now time for action.\"\n\nMr Rivlin has suggested the two main parties form a national unity government. That arrangement could see Mr Gantz as de facto prime minister, while Mr Netanyahu holds onto the position in name only.\n\nMany in Israel believe a third election may be the only way to break the deadlock.\n\nMr Gantz is a former head of the Israeli military, and served in that role while Mr Netanyahu was prime minster. He was propelled to political leadership after forming his party in February, saying that the country had \"lost its way\".\n\nMr Netanyahu has far more frontline political experience, but is facing his own battle over corruption.\n\nWhile trying to negotiate his coalition in October, he also attended hearings with the attorney general, who will decide whether or not to charge Mr Netanyahu with bribery, fraud, and breach of trust in three cases. Mr Netanyahu has denied any wrongdoing.", "Scotland's finance secretary has used his speech to the SNP conference to claim the party is winning the argument on Scotland's economic future.\n\nDerek Mackay said the country can \"more than afford\" to be independent.\n\nHe also argued that staying part of the UK leaves Scotland \"subject to the whim of Westminster turmoil\".\n\nAnd Mr Mackay told delegates that convincing people they will be better off after independence is key to winning them over.\n\nNicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader and Scottish first minister, says she wants to hold a second independence referendum next year, but the UK government has repeatedly said it will not give the consent Ms Sturgeon says is needed to ensure any vote is legal.\n\nShe is expected to formally ask the prime minister for consent before the end of the year - with the Scottish government's Brexit secretary, Mike Russell, not ruling out the possibility of legal action being taken if it is not granted.\n\nMr Mackay told the conference in Aberdeen that the party's unionist opponents are \"panicking\" because the \"case for the Union has been \"completely demolished over the last few years\" due to Brexit and austerity.\n\nHe added: \"We have always known that convincing people that they will be better off in an independent Scotland is key to winning their support and opinion polls clearly show that confidence in an independent Scotland's economy is growing.\n\n\"The message is ringing through loud and clear - Scotland cannot afford the Union. Our economy, our public services and our people cannot afford to be subject to the whim of Westminster turmoil for years and years.\n\n\"Scotland cannot afford the Union, but it can more than afford to be independent.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon will bring the SNP conference to a close with her keynote speech on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nScottish government statistics published in August showed that Scotland spent £12.6bn more on public services than it raised in taxes over the previous year.\n\nThis was lower than the £13.8bn deficit estimated for the previous year, and was equivalent to 7% of the country's GDP. The UK as a whole has a deficit of £23.5bn - or 1.1% of its GDP.\n\nPro-UK parties argue that the Scottish deficit figures show there would be \"black hole\" at the centre of an independent Scotland's finances.\n\nThe Queen stressed the importance of the Union during the state opening of Parliament\n\nThe second day of the three-day SNP conference is being held as Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled his new legislative agenda in the Queen's Speech, which the UK government has described as an ambitious programme for a post-Brexit Britain.\n\nIn her speech, which is written by the government, the Queen said: \"The integrity and prosperity of the Union that binds the four nations of the UK is of the utmost importance to my government.\n\n\"My ministers will bring forward measures to support citizens across all the nations of the UK.\"\n\nWith the Conservatives having no majority in the Commons, there is a chance that the Queen's Speech could be rejected by Parliament, which would trigger renewed calls for a general election.\n\nLabour has described the exercise - which comes just a fortnight before the UK is due to leave the EU on 31 October - as a political \"stunt\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme on Monday morning, Ms Sturgeon said she is unsure if Mr Johnson's government will still be in office to deliver its proposed Budget on 6 November.\n\nShe said: \"On one hand, as first minister, I want there to be a Budget because we need that in order to know what the spending envelope of the Scottish government is for the next year.\n\n\"But, I have to say, I think it's another example of this government making things up as they go along. I'm not sure they will still be in office on 6 November.\n\n\"It doesn't appear to be at all certain we will leave the EU on 31 October. It's still a big risk of leaving with no deal, but I certainly hope that we will manage to see an extension secured to the Article 50 process.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC on Sunday that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn should not \"bother picking up the phone to me\" to ask for her party's support to help him form a government he is willing to agree to an independence referendum.", "England's Euro 2020 qualifying victory over Bulgaria in Sofia was overshadowed by shameful scenes of racism that saw the game stopped twice and officials threaten to abandon the match.\n\nGareth Southgate's side strolled to a 6-0 victory in an atmosphere that was toxic in the first half and eerie in the second, with a large section of the Vasil Levski Stadium already closed after racist incidents here in June.\n\nEngland debutant Tyrone Mings was an early victim, turning towards the home fans when chants were aimed in his direction and referee Ivan Bebek stopped the game in the 28th minute after Raheem Sterling was a target for further abuse.\n\nAfter lengthy discussions, and in accordance with Uefa's protocol for dealing with racism, the crowd were warned of the consequences if there were further problems - and there was a further stoppage just before half-time.\n\nOn the pitch, England moved closer to Euro 2020 qualification as they romped to victory with the recalled Marcus Rashford opening the scoring early on with a superb rising drive.\n\nRoss Barkley added a tap-in and a head from Kieran Trippier's cross before Sterling got on the scoresheet with another simple finish just before half-time.\n\nAnd Sterling provided an even more emphatic answer to those who directed the shameful chants at England's players when he strode through for the fifth goal after 68 minutes.\n\nThe issue of racism provided a disturbing backdrop to this game and it was only a matter of minutes before England's worst fears were realised.\n\nMings was clearly perturbed by chanting, a sorry state of affairs for the 26-year-old who should have been savouring the greatest moment of his career by winning his first England cap.\n\nWhen England manager Gareth Southgate, captain Harry Kane and several players gathered near the touchline before half-time after more audible abuse, it looked as if the game may be abandoned but it swiftly resumed.\n\nA large group of black-clad supporters, some of whom were making right-wing salutes, were moved from an area behind the dugout and Bulgaria captain Ivelin Popov went into that part of the stadium while the teams walked off at half-time to plead with supporters.\n\nThe atmosphere, not to mention the one-sided scoreline, was almost surreal in the second half with the Bulgarian players seemingly demoralised and dispirited themselves by the shocking events of the night.\n\nEngland needed to produce a significant response after the disappointment of their first loss in 44 qualifying matches in the Czech Republic on Friday - and they delivered in every way in these most trying of circumstances.\n\nMings kept his head under the most disgraceful provocation, while Sterling did what he does well - answered with his actions with another stellar performance.\n\nThis was a shockingly poor Bulgaria side but the environment here in the Levski Stadium meant this was an examination of England's character, their ability to stay cool while recording the impressive result they required to boost their chances of being seeded for Euro 2020.\n\nIn this context, it was a remarkably impressive effort from Southgate's players.\n\nKosovo's win against Montenegro means England must wait to confirm qualification, although that will surely come in the next round of qualifiers at home to Montenegro and in Kosovo in November.\n\nWhat next for Bulgaria?\n\nOne can only imagine the severest sanctions await the Bulgarian FA (BFU) after another serious incident of racism scarred a Euro 2020 game here.\n\nA section of around 5,000 seats were already closed after incidents against Kosovo and the Czech Republic in June and 3,000 will be cordoned off for the qualifier against the Czech Republic in November.\n\nThere was a grim inevitability about how events unfolded in Sofia given the build-up, with England manager Southgate having reminded his players of Uefa's protocol on racism after they were abused in Montenegro in March.\n\nThe Bulgarian authorities responded angrily, with BFU president Borislav Mihaylov sending a letter of complaint to Uefa and coach Krasimir Balakov insisting England's problems with racism were worse than theirs.\n\nIt is now up to Uefa to act once it receives the report of the referee and observers.\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We had to prepare for this eventuality. The most important thing was the players and staff knew what we were going to do and were in agreement. Nobody should have to experience what our players did. We followed the protocol. We gave two messages - one that our football did the talking and two, we stopped the game twice.\n\n\"That might not be enough for some people but we are in that impossible situation that we can't give everyone what they want. But we gave the players what they wanted and the staff what that they wanted. Remarkably, after what we have been through, our players walked off smiling and that's the most important thing for me. Not one player wanted to stop, they were absolutely firm on that.\"\n\nEngland defender Tyrone Mings to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"It was a great night for me personally. It was a really proud moment in my career. I hope everyone enjoys this moment and it isn't overshadowed. I am proud of how we dealt with it and took the appropriate steps. I could hear it as clear as day. It doesn't affect me too much. I feel more sorry for those people who feel they have to have those opinions.\n\n\"I am very proud of everyone for the decisions we made. It's important not to generalise the whole country. It was a minority, not a representation of the country.\"\n\nGoals flowing for England - the best of the stats\n• None England have faced Bulgaria without losing more times than they have any other opponent in their history (P12, W8, D4, L0).\n• None Only Belgium (30) and Russia (27) have scored more goals than England in Euro 2020 qualifying (26).\n• None Bulgaria suffered their heaviest ever home defeat in a European Championship/World Cup qualifier.\n• None England have scored five or more goals in four different matches in 2019, their joint-most in a single calendar year (also in 1937 and 1908). Indeed, they had only scored five or more goals in four matches across the last six calendar years combined (2013-2018).\n• None All six of Barkley's goals for England have been away from home - only Freddie Steele (eight) and James Windridge (seven) scored more for the Three Lions without netting at home.\n• None Sterling has been directly involved in 13 goals in Euro 2020 qualifying (eight goals, five assists). Only Russia's Artem Dzyuba has been involved in more (14).\n• None Kane has been directly involved in 15 goals in his last 10 games for England in all competitions (nine goals, six assists). In this match he registered three assists in a game for the first time for the Three Lions.\n• None Rashford's opener was his eighth goal for England - his first five came in home games, while his last three have come outside England.\n• None Callum Wilson (England) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Harry Kane.\n• None Attempt saved. Jadon Sancho (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Wilson.\n• None Attempt saved. Mason Mount (England) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Bulgaria 0, England 6. Harry Kane (England) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner.\n• None Harry Kane (England) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Jordan Henderson.\n• None Offside, Bulgaria. Kristiyan Malinov tries a through ball, but Galin Ivanov is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Mount (England) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right is high and wide to the right. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A hospital trust in Nottingham is being asked to explain what changes it’s made after an inquest found failings in the treatment of a five-year-old girl who died.\n\nThe hospital says they have made a \"number of changes\" since her death.", "Since becoming prime minister under a month ago, Boris Johnson has made a number of law-and-order announcements affecting England and Wales.\n\nBut what exactly is being proposed?\n\nThe plan: Most serious offenders to spend more time in prison.\n\nWhat it means: Any prisoner sentenced to four or more years for a violent or sexual offence will serve at least two thirds of their sentence in jail.\n\nAt present, nearly all prisoners in England and Wales will be automatically released at the halfway point of their sentence.\n\nThis is to ensure they serve time in jail and supervised time in the community, as well as helping manage the prison population.\n\nSerious violent and sexual offenders can be forced to serve two thirds of their sentences - but last year, only 389 offenders were given these \"extended sentences\".\n\nBy extending it to all new serious violent and sexual offenders, the government estimates it would increase the prison population by 3,000.\n\nThe plan: Foreign criminals who try to return to the UK will be given tougher sentences for breaching a deportation order.\n\nWhat it means: Currently, the maximum sentence for breaching a deportation order is six months, but the government hasn't said what they would like to extend that to.\n\nAt present, the Home Secretary must make a deportation order against a foreign national offender who has been convicted of an offence which carries a sentence of 12 months in prison.\n\nThere are limits to this, such as whether the criminal could face torture in their home country or if they have strong family links to the UK.\n\nAt the end of last year, around 9,000 foreign nationals were in custody in England and Wales, representing just over 10% of the total prison population, with Albanians, Romanians and Irish nationals representing the highest proportion.\n\nMy job is to make your streets safer – and we are going to begin with another 20,000 police on the streets\n\nThe plan: Hire an extra 20,000 police officers by 2022. Mr Johnson says the policy will cost £1.1bn.\n\nWhat it means: There are currently 123,171 police officers in England and Wales, down from 143,000 in 2010, when the Conservatives came to power and Theresa May became home secretary.\n\nSo if Mr Johnson delivers on his recruitment plan, it will put officer levels to around where they were nine years ago.\n\nThere has been some dispute about the link between police numbers and levels of violent crime, with Theresa May saying there was not a direct link.\n\nBut Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has said there is \"some link\" between the two.\n\nThe plan: Up to £2.5bn funding to create 10,000 new prison places.\n\nWhat it means: The government already had a target, announced in 2015, of creating 10,000 places in new prisons by 2020.\n\nHowever, this target was to create new places in order to shut old, outdated prisons, not to increase the overall capacity of the prison system.\n\nAnd the government has now reduced this target to 3,360 by 2023.\n\nBut Mr Johnson has now set a new target of another 10,000 by \"the mid-2020s\".\n\nThis will see a 10,000 increase in capacity, rather than just create new places in order to shut old ones.\n\nThis new target will partly be achieved by expanding HMP Full Sutton, in Yorkshire, although expansion at this site has been planned since 2016.\n\nCurrently, the prison population in England and Wales is almost 83,000, which is 8,700 above the prisons service's own overcrowding limits.\n\nAnd since 2011, those overcrowding limits have been cut by about 2,500 as cells have been closed or fallen into disrepair.\n\nThe plan: £100m to be spent on improving prison security. The money will fund airport-style security, including X-ray scanners and metal detectors, as well as technology to detect and block mobile phones.\n\nWhat it means: The Ministry of Justice says the money will target crime, including violence and drug smuggling as well as dishonest prison staff.\n\nViolence in prison has reached a record high in England and Wales. There has also been an increase in drug use and self-harm incidents.\n\nThese increases coincided with a 25% decrease in prison officers up to 2015.\n\nSince then, the government has committed to recruiting more staff, meaning there are now just 10% fewer prison officers than in 2010.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe plan: Police forces across England and Wales will now be able to carry out stop-and-searches in designated areas without authorisation from a senior officer.\n\nWhat it means: Stop-and-search refers to stopping a person in order to search them for weapons or other prohibited items, such as drugs.\n\nA return to stop-and-search will represent a big departure from the approach of Theresa May's government.\n\nFollowing fears it was being used too widely and unfairly targeting ethnic minorities, especially young black men, stop-and-search fell by 80% between 2009-10 and 2017-18.\n\nUnder the new plans, some restrictions will be lifted on Section-60 searches.\n\nCurrently, Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 allows officers to search anyone in a designated area - even if they have no reasonable grounds to suspect they are carrying a weapon - as long as they have intelligence of serious violence.\n\nFor example, Section 60 was used at last year's Notting Hill Carnival, in west London, which followed two days in which the city saw five shootings and a fatal stabbing.\n\nBut officers will now be able to do so as soon as they have reason to suspect serious violence may take place - and they will no longer require the authorisation of an assistant chief constable.\n\nPriti Patel, the new Home Secretary, says stop-and-search works.\n\nBut Labour's shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, says it does not reduce violent crime.\n\nThe government's Serious Violence Strategy, published in April 2018, says knife crime, gun crime and homicide have all risen in recent years as stop-and-search has fallen.\n\nBut it dismisses any direct link between the two, saying \"the data do not support such a conclusion\".\n\nA 2017 College of Policing study of Metropolitan Police data found higher rates of stop-and-search had seen \"very slightly lower than expected rates of crime in the following week or month\".\n\nAnd a 2016 Home Office analysis was unable to reach a firm conclusion on whether stop-and-search reduced crime or not.\n\nThe plan: £85m for the CPS over the next two years\n\nWhat it means: The CPS deals with the prosecution of those charged with criminal offences.\n\nSince 2010-11, it has had its budget cut by roughly 30% in real terms - a total of about £225m.\n\nIn the same period, staff numbers have decreased from 7,978 to 5,518.\n\nEarlier this year, the attorney general said the CPS could not cope with any more cuts.\n• None The return of stop and search?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC spoke to Amira, Heba and Hamza while they were still in the camp\n\nOrphaned siblings, thought to be from the UK, have been removed from a detention camp in northern Syria.\n\nAmira, Heba, and Hamza, were taken to Raqqa along with 24 other orphans, the United Nations children's agency said.\n\nThe BBC spoke to 10-year-old Amira last week, when she described how her mother and father were killed during bombing.\n\nThe siblings, whose parents are believed to have left London for Syria after joining the IS group five years ago, are now with Save the Children.\n\nTheir mother, father, two sisters and two brothers were killed in April during the last battle in Baghouz before IS surrendered.\n\nAmira, Heba, eight, and Hamza, six, were being held in the Ain Issa camp, which contained around 200 IS supporters but is now empty, following the advance of Turkish troops.\n\nAmira also said she had a grandmother in the UK but couldn't remember her name, and that she wanted to go home.\n\nThe UK government said it was continuing to look for relatives of the three children.\n\nBBC Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville, who met the children in the Kurdish-controlled camp, said: \"They had a really last-minute escape just before the Ain Issa detention camp fell... Turkish troops were advancing - the UN got in there and scooped up the kids.\"\n\nThe children are now in Raqqa, which will soon be under regime control, he added.\n\n\"Damascus has in the past allowed the children of extremists to be repatriated to their countries, but only countries they have diplomatic relations with,\" our correspondent said\n\n\"Britain doesn't have any embassy or any consular assistance inside Syria. So it's going to be very complicated to get the kids out of there.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Kurdish officials said hundreds of IS-affiliated foreigners escaped from the camp amid a Turkish offensive.\n\nThe Turkish military has launched a major cross-border operation in north-eastern Syria against a Kurdish-led militia alliance.\n\nIn a statement, Save the Children said the three children were unharmed. The charity added: \"Yesterday over 900 people including 700 children fled the annex in Ein Issa [Ain Issa], where foreign families were staying. Most of them are unaccounted for. We are deeply concerned for their wellbeing and safety of the children among them.\n\n\"Children in Syria who have fled ISIS-held areas are innocent. They are swept up in horrific events far beyond their control and deserve to be safe and protected.\"", "An area of Edinburgh the size of nine football pitches is being lost each year to urban creep, a study has found.\n\nThis happens when green spaces such as gardens are covered over, either by paving or home extensions.\n\nUrban creep can cause problems because it reduces the amount of open land which can absorb rain water, putting extra pressure on drains.\n\nIt is hoped the study, the first of its kind in Scotland, will help with future flood management planning.\n\nResearchers studying aerial images found that 11 hectares of green land in the capital is being lost annually, more than six hectares of it through urban creep.\n\nAbout one hectare is being gained each year through the regeneration of former industrial areas.\n\nThe study was carried out by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.\n\nDr Clare Rowland, who led the research, said: \"People might assume that most of this loss is from urban expansion, through the construction of new housing and commercial estates.\n\n\"Certainly that accounts for 4.8 hectares of the annual loss, but urban creep accounts for 6.4 hectares of vegetation loss each year.\n\n\"Home owners have added car parking spaces, conservatories and driveways, or allowed properties to be built in their gardens - all of which have contributed to the loss of greenery.\"\n\nUrban expansion is the construction of new housing and commercial estates\n\nSome areas have been identified where the opposite effect - urban decrease - was taking place by creating vegetation and gardens on areas which were previously covered over.\n\nThe Quartermile development, on the site of the old Royal Infirmary, is one such example.\n\nDr James Miller, a hydrologist who project-managed the research, said the loss of green land increased the risk of localised flooding because it created more runoff, which could exceed the drainage capacity.\n\n\"The scale of this increase was unknown, but mapping and quantifying urban creep means we can improve our understanding of where surface water may need improved management,\" he said.\n\nSatellite images and aerial photography were compared from 1990, 2005 and 2015 for Edinburgh.\n\nIt revealed that 161 hectares of land had been subjected to urban creep over that 25-year period.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Muckamore Abbey Hospital provides treatment for people with severe learning disabilities and mental health needs.\n\nAn arrest has been made in connection with abuse allegations at Muckamore Abbey Hospital in County Antrim.\n\nA 30-year-old man was arrested by officers in Antrim on Monday morning.\n\nHe is the first person to be arrested since the allegations about the hospital emerged.\n\nIn recent months the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has been investigating thousands of incidents after allegations were made about the physical and mental abuse of patients.\n\nMuckamore Abbey provides treatment for people with severe learning disabilities and mental health needs.\n\nIt has been alleged a number of vulnerable men and women were abused.\n\nA total of 33 staff members, mainly nurses, have been suspended at the hospital since 2017 when allegations of ill treatment first began to surface.\n\nThey have been placed on precautionary suspension from the hospital while police investigations into abuse allegations continue.\n\nIn addition, the BBC understands five other members of staff resigned from their posts last week.\n\nWhile it is nurses and care assistants who have been suspended, the Belfast Health Trust has confirmed to the BBC no-one from management was involved in the police investigation.\n\nAccording to families who have spoken to the BBC those in charge should also be held to account and they say that is why only a public inquiry will provide the answers to what actually happened inside the hospital.\n\nThey also say an inquiry is where issues such as accountability, governance and leadership within the trust and the hospital can be explored.\n\nThe Belfast Health and Social Trust said the suspensions followed viewing of CCTV footage from the facility.\n\nTwo of the suspended staff members were also referred to social services in relation to the care of their own children.\n\nIn August 2018, it was reported there had been 53 assaults on patients by staff at the hospital - five of those incidents were investigated and substantiated.\n\nThe Belfast Trust as offered its \"sincere apologies\" to patients and families affected.\n\nFormal action was taken by the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) in August 2019, when the health regulator issued three enforcement notices about staffing and nurse provision; adult safeguarding and patient finances.\n\nAs a result of the ongoing staffing crisis, the trust has asked for staff that work in the community to be pulled and placed in Muckamore Abbey Hospital instead.", "A woman who has campaigned for safety improvements on a \"dangerous\" road since her husband was seriously hurt in a crash says she has \"never come across a road like it\".\n\nLynsey Langdon's partner Greg was left in a wheelchair after being hit by a car dashing across a cut-through in the A505, between Baldock and Royston in Hertfordshire, in 2016.\n\nIt led to Mrs Langdon setting up a Facebook group, Make the A505 Safer, where people could upload dashcam footage of their near-misses. Despite getting politicians on board with her campaign, she said little had changed to the 70mph road.\n\nFigures from Hertfordshire County Council have shown a fall in accidents since 2016, but the number of casualties in the first six months of 2019 was higher than in all of 2018.\n\nHertfordshire County Council said it was \"actively addressing safety concerns... following a number of high-profile incidents\".\n\nIt said it had improved the Baldock Road roundabout, would soon start work on the Litlington junction and was working with police to improve \"driver behaviour\".", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nA British man has died in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia before England's Euro 2020 qualifier.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said it was \"supporting the family of a British man who died following an incident in Sofia\".\n\nAnother British man suffered a minor injury in a separate incident, the FCO spokesperson said.\n\nThe announcement of the man's death came as England prepared to take on Bulgaria in Sofia on Monday night.\n\nThe FA said it would not be commenting until the full circumstances of both incidents were clarified.\n\nMeanwhile, a statement on Bulgaria's Ministry of Interior said police officers in Sofia were called to help a 32-year-old \"foreign national\" at about 10:00 local time (08:00 BST).\n\n\"The police received a signal for a man in a helpless condition\", it said, and he was taken to hospital.\n\n\"He suddenly began to act aggressively, raging and threatening.\"\n\nThe ministry said the man died while being taken to the Sofia Police Department and they would \"work to clarify the circumstances of the incident continues\".\n\nEngland fans were involved in clashes with police in Prague on Friday, before their 2-1 defeat by the Czech Republic.", "Typhoon Hagibis was the worst storm to hit the country in decades\n\nMore than 110,000 people are taking part in search and rescue operations after Typhoon Hagibis struck Japan on Saturday.\n\nThe typhoon - the worst storm to hit the country in decades - has left at least 40 dead, with 16 missing.\n\nTyphoon Hagibis also caused the cancellation of three Rugby World Cup matches but a key match between Japan and Scotland went ahead.\n\nJapan won 28-21 to reach the quarter-finals for the first time.\n\nAfterwards, national team coach Jamie Joseph paid tribute to those affected.\n\n\"Everyone who is suffering with the typhoon, this game was all for you guys. The crowd was massive for us, and today was more than just a game,\" he said.\n\nJapan reached the quarter-finals of the Rugby World Cup\n\nThe typhoon has weakened and moved away from land but has left a trail of destruction.\n\nThousands of police officers, firefighters, coastguards and military are working to reach those trapped by landslides and floods.\n\nThe typhoon battered eight prefectures across Japan, with wind speeds of up to 225km/h (140mph).\n\nIn the central prefecture of Nagano, group of rescuers wearing snorkels and goggles began searching for survivors in waist-high water.\n\nThe rescuers were decked out in snorkels\n\nA train depot in Nagano was also flooded, causing 10 high-speed (\"bullet\") trains to be submerged. Each train has been valued at $30m (£23m).\n\nThe Prime Minister's Office of Japan said the rescuers would focus on \"houses isolated by floods... and search for those unaccounted for\".\n\nThere are many remarkable things about what has just happened in Japan. One is that Tokyo took a direct hit from the biggest storm in half a century, and survived pretty much unscathed.\n\nThat is a testament to Tokyo's extraordinary flood control system - an elaborate underground system of pipes big enough to fit an airliner through - which cost billions of dollars to build.\n\nThe second is the extent of the destruction - stretching right across Honshu, from Mie prefecture in the west, to Iwate in the north - an area equivalent to the whole of the United Kingdom.\n\nFlooding has been worst in Nagano prefecture, an area deep in the mountains, more used to worrying about snow.\n\nTyphoon Hagibis was not only exceptionally large, it came very late in the season. Japan's typhoon season used to last from July to September.\n\nBut it is getting longer, and the storms are getting bigger. A study published in 2015 found that since the late 1970s typhoons hitting the coastlines of east Asia had become around 15% stronger, and the number of super typhoons had doubled.\n\nJapan has probably the best flood defences of any country in Asia, if not the world. Tokyo's flood system is designed to withstand a once-in-a-hundred-years event.\n\nBut the rest of Japan - and other mega cities like Shanghai and Manila - are not nearly so well prepared.\n\nAround 92,000 households remain without power - down from 262,000 households on Sunday - with 120,000 experiencing water outages.\n\nMore than seven million people were urged to leave their homes at the peak of the storm, but it is thought only 50,000 stayed in shelters.\n\nThe capital Tokyo was left relatively unscathed but other cities and towns across the country were inundated by water.\n\nSatellite imagery of the Hinuma river in the Ibaraki prefecture\n\nMore than 1m (3ft) of rain fell in the town of Hakone, the highest total ever recorded in Japan over 48 hours.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Troops and rescue workers are battling flooding in the wake of the deadly storm\n\nIn Nagano, levees along the Chikuma river gave way, sending flood water into residential areas.\n\nIt was only last month that Typhoon Faxai wreaked havoc on parts of Japan, damaging 30,000 homes, most of which have not yet been repaired.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Dunn's mother Charlotte spoke to the BBC while on a plane to the US\n\nThe parents of Harry Dunn say they are hopeful about meeting the US diplomat's wife who was involved in the crash that killed their son.\n\nThe 19-year-old motorcyclist died in the crash near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nAnne Sacoolas left the UK under diplomatic immunity while police were investigating her as a suspect.\n\nMr Dunn's mother, Charlotte Charles, told the BBC they were stepping in the right direction towards a meeting.\n\nSpeaking on a plane to the US, where she hopes to publicise the case, she said: \"The statement from [Mrs Sacoolas's] lawyer is promising, that we may be able to hopefully get a meeting put together.\n\n\"Whether it's face-to-face or lawyer-to-lawyer, we're not really sure yet, but fingers crossed we're stepping in the right direction.\"\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nMrs Sacoolas - who is reportedly married to a US intelligence official - said in a letter from her lawyers she was \"devastated by the tragic accident\" and extended her \"deepest sympathies\" to Mr Dunn's family.\n\nMs Charles told Sky News earlier that \"sorry doesn't cut it\" but she would not be aggressive if they were to meet.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nThe Foreign Office said Mrs Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity following the crash, but it no longer applied. On Saturday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab wrote to Mr Dunn's family to explain that the British and US governments now considered Mrs Sacoolas's immunity irrelevant.\n\nMs Charles said receiving the letter was \"amazing\" and described it as a \"breakthrough\". Mr Dunn's father, Tim Dunn, said he was \"shocked, but hopeful something can come of this\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told The Andrew Marr Show earlier the situation had moved on over the last 24 hours and it was \"right\" that \"co-operation takes place\".\n\n\"It is right that justice is served, that an investigation takes place, and that Anne Sacoolas actually does co-operate with investigation,\" she said.\n\nPriti Patel said it was \"right\" that \"co-operation takes place\"\n\nNorthamptonshire Police said it was liaising with the Foreign Office and International Crime Co-ordination Centre about what to do next.\n\nIn a statement, it said it was \"absolutely committed\" to achieving justice for the teenager and his family.\n\nA statement issued on behalf of Mrs Sacoolas, whose husband worked at RAF Croughton near the scene of the crash, said she had \"fully co-operated with the police\".\n\nIt added: \"She spoke with authorities at the scene of the accident and met with the Northampton police at her home the following day. She will continue to co-operate with the investigation.\n\n\"Anne would like to meet with Mr Dunn's parents so that she can express her deepest sympathies and apologies for this tragic accident.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump described the 19-year-old's death as a \"terrible accident\"\n\nAbout 23,000 individuals in the UK have diplomatic immunity, a status reserved for foreign diplomats and their families, as long as they do not have British citizenship.\n\nIt means that, in theory, they cannot face court proceedings for any crime or civil case.\n\nHowever, where crimes are committed, the Foreign Office can ask a foreign government to waive immunity.\n\nDiplomatic immunity is by no means restricted to those named on the Diplomatic List. Drivers, cooks and other support staff who have been accredited to Britain (\"the receiving state\") have the same diplomatic status and immunity.\n\nCharlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, with Radd Seiger (centre), who hope to visit New York and Washington DC during their trip\n\nMr Dunn's parents have previously said they are considering civil action against Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nThe family's spokesman Radd Seiger said they would be \"engaging with the media and politicians as they reach out for support from all Americans and to ask them to put pressure on the US administration to do the right thing\".\n\nHarry Dunn's Kawasaki motorcycle was involved in a crash with a Volvo near RAF Croughton in August\n\nOn Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the US was \"absolutely ruthless\" in its safeguarding of Mrs Sacoolas following the decision to grant her diplomatic immunity.\n\nHe said although President Donald Trump was sympathetic towards Mr Dunn's family, the US was \"very reluctant\" to allow citizens to be tried abroad.\n\nMr Raab said now that neither government deemed Mrs Sacoolas's immunity relevant, the matter was \"in the hands\" of Northamptonshire Police and the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nThe police force previously said CCTV of the crash in which Mr Dunn died shows a Volvo travelling on the wrong side of the road.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has outlined his plan to the European Union (EU) to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said the plan \"removes the so-called backstop\".\n\nThe backstop is the insurance policy negotiated by Theresa May and the EU. It is designed to avoid any physical border infrastructure, which it is feared would bring back memories of the Troubles, after Brexit.\n\nIt would keep the UK in the same customs territory as the EU, and Northern Ireland closely tied to EU regulations - until the UK and the EU reach a trade deal.\n\nBut it would stop the UK striking its own trade deals, which is why so many Conservative MPs, including Mr Johnson, oppose the backstop.\n\nSo, what is his alternative?\n\nThe government wants the UK to leave the EU customs union. This would mean Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland ending up in two different customs territories.\n\nThis means lorries entering the Republic of Ireland from Northern Ireland will need to complete customs declarations. This is to ensure the correct tariffs (tax on imports) are paid when UK goods enter the EU customs union.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: From the beginning the EU has struggled to see how Ireland and Northern Ireland can exist in different customs territories while keeping the border as open as it is now under all circumstances. They will argue that - in the absence of a future free trade deal - this proposal means the UK is breaking commitments it has made about the border. The UK counters that the backstop has already been rejected in Parliament three times, and something needs to change.\n\nInstead of installing customs posts and other physical infrastructure at the Irish border, the UK says declarations should be done electronically.\n\nThe government says physical checks would still be needed \"on a very small proportion of movements\". Currently, about one in 100 consignments entering the EU customs union are inspected to check that the goods match the information on the declaration.\n\nThese inspections could be carried out at warehouses or \"designated locations, which could be located anywhere in Ireland or Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThe government's proposal does not spell out what these \"designated locations\" would look like, but it adds there should be \"a firm commitment (by both parties) never to conduct checks at the border in future\".\n\nIf adopted, a border solution relying on technology and remote checks would be a first. The EU does not currently share a single border with a non-EU country where checks have been completely eliminated.\n\nThat includes Norway (not in the EU) and Sweden (an EU member) - which share one of the most technologically advanced borders in the world. Their main crossing point processes about 1,300 lorries a day, with each waiting 20 minutes on average.\n\nThe EU has previously rejected a customs solution that relies on technology.\n\nBack in January, Sabine Weyand, the EU's director-general for trade, said: \"We looked at every border on this Earth, every border the EU has with a third country - there's simply no way you can do away with checks and controls.\"\n\nThe government says that some small traders should be exempt from paying duty. However, the document does not address smuggling head on. In other words, what will be done to detect and prevent traders, who should be paying duty, from crossing the border without completing custom declarations first?\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The EU will see much of this as a rehash of previous ideas that it doesn't think will work. And many people will worry that unspecified \"designated locations\" could become targets for anyone seeking to undermine the Northern Ireland peace process. The EU will push back hard against suggestions that it needs to revise its own customs rules to suit the UK.\n\nWhen it comes to the regulation of goods, Northern Ireland would keep to the rules of the EU's single market, rather than UK rules.\n\nThat removes the need for product standard and safety checks on goods at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, because both will be part of an \"all-island regulatory zone\".\n\nBut it creates the need for checks between the rest of the UK - which will not be sticking to EU single market rules - and Northern Ireland..\n\nAll agricultural, food or animal products entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK will have to go through a Border Inspection Post. That's a bit of infrastructure where goods can be physically examined and paperwork checked.\n\nManufactured goods in Northern Ireland would also have to keep to EU rules, and these goods would be checked \"at the boundary of the zone\" - presumably at crossings between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, on the Irish Sea.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: This is quite a big concession from the UK side - basically accepting that there would have to be quite intrusive checks between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK for a number of years, on things like product standards and food safety. The EU has always said there have to be checks carried out somewhere, and both sides will try to deny any suggestion that this amounts to a new border in the Irish Sea.\n\nHaving Northern Ireland following EU rules for the production of goods over which it has no say is, as the document says, \"a significant democratic problem\".\n\nAs a result, it is proposed that the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive will have to sign off on the plan before it takes effect.\n\nThe Northern Irish institutions will be asked to approve the plan again every four years, and if they do not then Northern Ireland would stop following EU rules one year later.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly has not met since early 2017.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The issue of democratic legitimacy is a crucial one, but it cannot be applied unevenly. The EU is likely to have a problem with anything which suggests that only Northern Ireland could have - in effect - a veto on this plan. The point of the backstop was to provide a legal guarantee to keep an open border under all circumstances. Being subject to approval every four years simply isn't the same thing. If Northern Ireland voted to leave this arrangement things like checks on food safety would have to take place at the Irish border.", "The Queen's Speech is due to take place on Monday as part of the State Opening of Parliament\n\nA former Army chief has expressed dismay that legislation to protect veterans from prosecution will not feature in this Queen's Speech.\n\nBoris Johnson has previously pledged to end the pursuit of soldiers over historical allegations in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\nLord Dannatt said he was \"very disappointed\" that soldiers might be punished for \"doing their duty\".\n\nA government source said the PM is committed to legislating on the issue.\n\n\"The PM has been clear that we need to end the unfair trials of people who served their country when no new evidence has been produced and when the accusations have already been exhaustively questioned in court,\" the source said.\n\nThe proposed law would have included a statutory presumption against prosecution for current or former personnel for alleged offences committed in the course of duty more than a decade ago.\n\nLord Dannatt was head of the Army between 2006 and 2009\n\nLord Dannatt, a former chief of the general staff, told the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme it was unacceptable that serving and former soldiers run the risk of prosecution for taking part in military operations.\n\nHe said: \"Nobody is above the law. If soldiers have broken the law and if there is evidence to back up charges against them, then of course they must face the rigours of the law and take the consequences.\n\n\"But in the vast majority of cases, British soldiers, particularly in the campaign in Northern Ireland, got up in the morning to do their duty to keep the peace according to the rules of engagement we had, in sharp contrast to terrorists who got up in the morning whose aim was to maim and kill.\"\n\nSix former soldiers who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles are facing prosecution\n\nThe government source told the BBC: \"We are determined to make progress and legislate on the issue of legacy prosecutions.\n\n\"Our clear and overriding objective remains to provide a better way to address the past for all those affected by the Troubles.\"\n\nThe source said the Northern Ireland Office has consulted on the question of legacy prosecutions and the government is engaging with the main parties in Northern Ireland, MPs in Westminster and wider society across Northern Ireland to reach a broad consensus.\n\nSix former soldiers who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles are facing prosecution.\n\nThe cases relate to the killings of two people on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in January 1972; as well as the deaths in separate incidents of Daniel Hegarty, John Pat Cunningham; Joe McCann and Aidan McAnespie.\n\nNot all of the charges are for murder.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nJapan are in the quarter-finals for the first time after ending their seven-game losing run against Scotland Scotland crashed out of the Rugby World Cup at the pool stage for only the second time after being beaten by an irrepressible Japan in Yokohama. Gregor Townsend's side needed four more points than the hosts but, despite leading through Finn Russell's try and mounting a comeback, they fell short. Kotaro Matsushima, Keita Inagaki and Kenki Fukuoka all crossed before half-time, before the latter blasted over again to secure Japan's maiden quarter-final - against South Africa in Tokyo on Sunday. Scotland, forced to go for broke in a febrile contest that had been in doubt until about 03:00 BST because of the effects of Typhoon Hagibis, scored through WP Nel and Zander Fagerson after the break. But that second-half rally was not enough to prevent a first defeat at the hands of the Brave Blossoms in eight Tests. The result also means Ireland finish runners-up in Pool A and will face New Zealand in the last eight in Tokyo on Saturday.\n• None 'It will eat away at me for a long time'\n• None 'We are celebrating but some are not' After a horrendous Saturday that brought death and destruction, it was a minor miracle the game went ahead in the first place, a roaring tribute to the people responsible for clean-up after Hagibis battered this area 24 hours earlier. There was a moment's silence for the stricken in a stadium that heaved with emotion and power. The home national anthem was haunting and ominous, a moment of foreboding for Scotland. The visitors had hoped that the sense of occasion might get to the hosts, that the pressure would grind them down as they pushed for a quarter-final against the Springboks next weekend. So much for that tin-pot theory. In their minutes of total dominance, before Scotland came roaring back, Japan were a full of invention and pace. Their accuracy while playing at full throttle was astounding. Every Scotland mistake was punished. It was absolutely relentless. And magnificent. What a game this was. What an occasion. The Scots had a great start, which was played at bewildering pace. Russell's cross-kick and Magnus Bradbury's follow-up created the opportunity and Russell, having started it, then finished it with a hand-off of Yutaka Nagare to score. It was probably the only less-than-perfect moment that scrum-half Nagare delivered all night. Japan took over at that point. They lorded it over possession, whipped left and right and down the middle. Jamie Ritchie, playing utterly heroically, kept them out on 10 minutes with a terrific turnover near his own line, but that respite was short. Before the end of the first quarter, Japan got their reward when attacking up the left through the wonderful Fukuoka, who eluded Chris Harris and drew in Stuart Hogg before chucking a one-handed offload to Matsushima to gallop away to the posts. Yu Tamura converted and the home crowd erupted. More Japan heat and more Japan brilliance. Their second try was an epic, a thing of rugby wonder. Matsushima burst through Grant Gilchrist and Blade Thomson and away he went. What happened next was wondrous. Five sets of hands offloaded at speed as if they were on a training run. Nagare, Tamura and Shota Horie worked it to James Moore. The lock flicked it on to William Tupou, who spun and got it to Inagaki for the last act. Sheer genius, pure and simple. The conversion made it 14-7, then just before the break came the try that looked like sending Scotland heading home. Timothy Lafaele grubbered in behind and Fukuoka seized on it to get Japan's third try. Two more points from Tamura made it 21-7 at half-time. Scotland were on the floor. Three minutes into the second half, Japan scored again. Fukuoka ripped it from Harris and, when the ball went spinning in the air after contact, the wing caught it and sprinted off to score. Tamura made it 28-7. A rout. Or so it seemed. Scotland needed the kind of miracle they produced at Twickenham in March. When Nel grunted his way over the line to narrow the gap, Laidlaw's conversion made it a 14-point game. Scotland were still a mile off their target. The bench got busy. Six of them came on at once - and Scotland scored again. Hogg began it, there was a lovely one-two between the immense Jonny Gray and Scott Cummings, Gray running on and feeding Fagerson, who thumped his way through Horie to get the ball down. Russell banged over the extras this time. Seven points in it now. Still a mountain to climb, but this was pulsating stuff.\n• None Ireland to face All Blacks in last eight Japan were denied after another turnover by the towering Ritchie, then they asked their own questions again. It was Scottish pressure now. Chasing two converted tries and a penalty or drop goal they had to take risks, had to force the issue, had to make sure that every pass stuck, every attack counted. They owned the ball in the closing minutes, but Japan's defence was unbreakable. Their crowd roared and roared and roared again. Scotland were not going to get the points they needed now. There was no time. For them, the battle was all about getting another try and a conversion and a draw. They bust a gut but Japan would not let them through. When they turned over that last Scottish raid the acclaim of the home support was deafening. A huge moment for this incredible country, a huge moment for this World Cup. Scotland are heading home. Japan? Who knows how far they're heading. Further than they've ever gone before, that's for sure.\n• None Japan are just the fourth non tier-one side to reach the quarter-finals, and the first since Fiji in 2007.\n• None Scotland have failed to make it out of the pool stages for just the second time (also in 2011).\n• None Japan have won six consecutive World Cup matches - only Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa have enjoyed longer winning runs.\n• None Samoa (1991 and 1995) are the only other non tier-one side to beat two tier-one teams in the same World Cup, as Japan have in 2019 with victories over Ireland and Scotland.\n• None Kotaro Matsushima has scored five tries at this year's tournament.\n• None Luke Thompson, 38, made a record 13th World Cup appearance for Japan and became the third-oldest player from any nation to feature.", "PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski (C) and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki celebrated in Warsaw\n\nPoland's governing Law and Justice party (PiS) has won Sunday's parliamentary election, with most of the results now counted.\n\nThe conservative nationalist party has nearly 44% of the vote, enough to boost its majority in the lower house.\n\nMain rival the centrist Civic Coalition (KO) had about a quarter of the vote.\n\nPiS has been at loggerheads with the EU over reforms to Poland's judiciary and has also been criticised over its position on gay rights.\n\nCivic Platform, led by Grzegorz Schetyna, is predicted to be in second place\n\n\"We have victory,\" jubilant PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski told supporters at party headquarters in Warsaw late on Sunday.\n\n\"We have four years of hard work ahead. Poland must change more and it must change for the better.\"\n\nDuring its first term in office, the party put in place generous welfare programmes, boosting its support among poorer voters.\n\nMeasures included a popular child allowance, tax breaks for low-income earners and increases to pensions and the minimum wage.\n\n\"The PiS is finally taking care of the weakest, most vulnerable members of society,\" Kasia, a 40-year-old psychologist working at a women's shelter, told AFP news agency after voting in Warsaw on Sunday. \"I've seen it first hand at work.\"\n\nLaw and Justice seems to have won the highest percentage of votes since democracy was restored here in 1989.\n\nThe party will have a slightly increased majority and a strong mandate to continue its socially conservative programme.\n\nLaw and Justice has pledged to continue its controversial reform of the judiciary despite opposition from the European Commission, which says the independence of Poland's judges is being eroded. That issue has not dented Law and Justice's popularity.\n\nInstead the party has reaped the rewards of its generous welfare scheme, which has benefitted millions of families. For the first time in years, it has proposed a balanced budget for next year despite economists' warnings that the scheme would ruin public finances.\n\nLaw and Justice now has a reputation of a party that delivers on its promises.\n\nResults from 99% of constituencies published on Monday suggest an increase for PiS on the 231 MPs they currently hold in the 460-seat lower house to 239.\n\nThe state electoral commission will announce the breakdown of parliamentary seats with the final official result, which is expected later on Monday.\n\nIt is not yet clear whether PiS will retain its majority in the upper house, the Senate.\n\nExit polls suggested turnout was more than 60%.\n\nRobert Biedroń, of Lewica, celebrated the return of left-wing parties\n\nThe left-wing coalition Lewica is expected to come third. Lewica was also celebrating its predicted result after left-wing parties lost their seats four years ago due to fragmentation.\n\nRobert Biedroń, one of the bloc's three co-leaders and Poland's first openly gay lawmaker, told a rally: \"We are returning to parliament. We are going back to where the Polish left has always belonged.\"\n\nLGBT rights became the single biggest cultural issue ahead of the election. PiS - and the Roman Catholic Church - maintain that gay rights are a threat to traditional Polish families and values.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police fired tear gas and clashed with anti-LGBT protesters in Bialystok in July 2019\n\nA year ago, the EU ordered Poland halt the application of a new law which critics said would have given PiS political control of the Supreme Court.\n\nThe governing party had argued that reforms were needed to remove judges appointed during the communist era and to make the court more efficient.\n\nBut the European Commission - the EU's executive arm - argued the reforms undermined the rule of law by giving the governing party control of the judiciary.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "K-pop star Sulli, formerly a member of the band f(x), has died aged 25.\n\nPolice told the BBC the singer's manager found her dead at her home near Seoul, South Korea.\n\nThe cause of her death is still being investigated, but fans and fellow K-pop stars have been paying tribute to the star online.\n\nSulli, who had more than five million followers on Instagram, was a member of f(x) until she left in 2015 to focus on her acting career.\n\n‎Sulli appeared on a number of TV programmes to describe the online abuse she faced as a celebrity.‎\n\nSome believe the artist, whose real name is Choi Jin-ri, suspended her K-pop work after struggling with the abuse she got online.\n\nPolice have said they believe Sulli may have taken her own life but are investigating all possibilities.\n\n\"She was one of the idols who decided to live her life in the way she wanted to and that didn't always sit well with the general public,\" she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\n\"For idols, everything is about appearance, everything is quite monitored and she just didn't [monitor her content]. She was herself\".\n\n\"She clapped back and she wouldn't take people's narrow-mindedness\".\n\nSulli released her first solo song this year\n\n\"They were one of the girl groups that didn't fit in, they did their own thing. Their music was more hard-hitting. It was innovative and complex, and it helped cement an entire sub-genre within K-pop - girl crush.\n\n\"When she left, her legacy became being outspoken. It became taking control of her own image. I admired her spirit to do so despite the constant negativity that was directed at her by some less open minded citizens.\"‎\n\nSulli's former f(x) bandmate, Amber Liu, has posted her shock at what's 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 Amber J. Liu 刘逸云 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSulli was known for being outspoken and breaking the K-pop mould. She unashamedly told her fans that they had a choice about ‎how to display their bodies. ‎\n\nShe was involved in the so-called \"no bra\" movement in South Korea - where women go braless to make a statement about expectations and judgement of their bodies.\n\nSulli showed her nipples on social media on a number of ‎occasions - the first appeared on her Instagram account in May 2016. She faced a huge ‎amount of abuse in response.\n\nLast month her breasts were shown by accident during a live ‎Instagram stream - which again caused controversy in conservative South Korea.\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 jelly_jilli 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\nSulli was good friends with K-pop star Jonghyun, who took his own life aged 27.\n\nThe artist paid tribute at his funeral 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 2 by Laura Bicker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIf you or someone you know are feeling emotionally distressed, these organisations offer advice and support. In addition, you can call the Samaritans free on 116 123 (UK and Ireland). Mind also has a confidential telephone helpline- 0300 123 339 (Monday-Friday, 9am-6pm).\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Jeremy Corbyn has refused to say whether he would stand down as Labour leader if the party lost the next general election.\n\nEarlier this week, shadow chancellor and close ally John McDonnell said he \"can't see\" how Mr Corbyn could stay on in such a scenario.\n\nBut the leader told Sky News he expected to win the election, and would not answer \"hypothetical\" questions.\n\nMr Corbyn has been in the job since 2015, when he replaced Ed Miliband.\n\nA general election is expected to take place in the autumn, with Labour currently trailing the Conservatives in the opinion polls.\n\nMr McDonnell told GQ magazine this week that he did not want to succeed Mr Corbyn, adding that a woman should become the next party leader.\n\nQuestioned by Sky's Sophy Ridge, Mr Corbyn said: \"We are not expecting to lose the next election. It is a hypothetical question. It is up to the members of our party to decide who the leader is.\n\n\"John gave an answer to an interview that he undertook. My answer is this: I am leading this party to go into an election. We have hundreds of thousands of members determined to win that election.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am determined to get a message that it is only Labour that is going to get a message out there, that it is only Labour that is going to end austerity and invest in a better future for this country. I want to lead the party to do that.\"\n\nRebecca Long-Bailey: Talk of who might succeed Mr Corbyn \"hypothetical\"\n\nMr Corbyn saw off a leadership challenge from Owen Smith in 2016.\n\nAnd Labour did better than expected in the snap 2017 general election but still got 56 fewer seats than the Conservatives.\n\nAmong the figures touted as potential future leaders are shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry and shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey.\n\nBackbench MP Jess Phillips has also said she \"might\" enter any contest.\n\nMs Long-Bailey told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"It would be fantastic for the next Labour leader to be a woman and we've got a whole list of amazing MPs that could vie for that position.\n\n\"But it's a hypothetical situation at the moment. We're fighting a general election to elect Jeremy Corbyn as our next prime minister and we think we're in touching distance of that.\"", "Jack Monroe says she has lost about £5,000 after her phone number was hijacked and re-activated on another Sim card.\n\nThe criminals were then able to receive her two-factor authentication messages and access her bank and payment accounts.\n\nThe bestselling food writer tweeted she was \"paranoid about security\" and already had strong measures in place.\n\nA privacy campaigner said the industry had failed to address \"Simjacking\".\n\nMs Monroe tweeted she was \"white-hot angry\" and had been told although she should get her phone number back soon, the money \"will take longer to recover\".\n\n\"The money stolen has run into thousands of pounds - I'm a self-employed freelancer and I have to absolutely hustle for every single pound I earn. And someone has just helped themselves to around five thousand of them,\" she tweeted.\n\nMs Monroe is a best-known for her low-cost recipes and her support for anti-poverty campaigns.\n\nIn 2017, she successfully sued the right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins for libel.\n\nSimjacking, also known as Simswapping, is when criminals port a phone number over to a new Sim card, which they can then use as if it was their own.\n\nThey do this by posing as a customer who wishes to move to a different mobile provider but keep their existing phone number.\n\nWhile mobile phone operators often request personal information to complete the request, this can be data already in the public domain - Ms Monroe's date of birth, for example, was on Wikipedia.\n\nSometimes individuals working for mobile operators or phone shops can be bribed into making the switch.\n\nOften the first clue for the victim is when their own phone stops working.\n\nIncreasingly, banks and other services will use a text message to send a code as an extra layer of security to a registered phone number before allowing access to an account.\n\nOne critic of the industry's response to the crime is a privacy campaigner who used to work for the GSMA, the trade body that represents mobile operators.\n\nPat Walshe, now managing director of Privacy Matters, told BBC News the scale of the problem in the UK was currently unknown but there were cases of Simjacking from around the world.\n\n\"The industry has failed to address this problem for a number of years,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not trivial [to carry out a Simjack attack] but someone could do it easily enough.\"\n\nMr Walshe said victims should report the crime to their mobile provider, Action Fraud and the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).\n\n\"I think Jack Monroe's case should now force the ICO to investigate whether mobile operators are meeting their obligations to safeguard services and data under telecom privacy rules, in addition to the [EU data protection law] GDPR,\" he said.\n\nThe GSMA has championed an alternative mobile identity authenticator called Mobile Connect.\n\nBBC News has contacted the ICO, which deals with data protection issues.\n\nJack Monroe has also been contacted.", "Vodafone has apologised after an error meant customers using the mobile network abroad were hit with roaming bills of up to £10,000.\n\nCustomers took to Twitter, saying they were unable to use their phones and could not reach the operator.\n\nMany received alerts from Vodafone that their data had run out, despite the fact that many still had data remaining in their monthly allowances.\n\nVodafone said the issue was caused by a technical error.\n\nSince 2017, under EU regulations UK consumers are able to use the minutes, texts and data included on their mobile phone tariffs when travelling in the EU at no extra charge.\n\nVodafone customers posted on Twitter that their bills had risen by between hundreds and thousands of pounds within just 12 hours.\n\nAndy Pearch told the BBC that on Sunday, just 24 hours into his holiday in Malta, he had a shock when he received a text message from Vodafone informing him that he had spent £4,902.75 in \"additional charges\".\n\nTo prevent him from incurring an even larger bill, Vodafone said it was preventing him from making any calls, sending text messages or using mobile data on his phone.\n\nBut when Mr Pearch logged onto his Vodafone account using the hotel Wi-Fi, it showed that he still had 14.2GB of data remaining out of his 20GB monthly data allowance.\n\n\"Stress is not the word for it,\" Mr Pearch said. \"My service was cut off from 22:00 last night till about 08:00 this morning.\"\n\nRegional sales manager Kevin Navette is currently abroad, but he has been blocked by Vodafone from using his work phone.\n\nMr Navette told the BBC that he has been charged £3,000 and his service stopped working on Sunday. However, despite contacting Vodafone on Twitter on Sunday and Monday morning, his service is still not working.\n\n\"This is my professional phone so it's big trouble for me,\" he said.\n\nVodafone said: \"We are very sorry that some customers could not use their phones yesterday, when roaming abroad. This was due to a technical error, which we have now fixed.\n\n\"Some customers are receiving billing messages in error; we are working through these as an urgent priority and are removing any errors from customer accounts. Customers will not be charged and do not need to worry about contacting us as we are proactively checking accounts.\"\n\nIn August, a similar issue affected Three Ireland. The mobile operator had to apologise after a system upgrade error added bogus roaming fees to customers' bills and suspended their services.", "Boris Johnson (l) and Leo Varadkar (r) met last week to discuss a Brexit deal\n\nEfforts to reach a Brexit deal before Thursday's summit of European leaders are continuing in Brussels.\n\nNegotiators from both sides are trying to bridge what senior EU official Michel Barnier called \"big gaps\".\n\nEU ambassadors were told on Sunday the UK would make concessions on its customs plan for Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Boris Johnson said the government was preparing to leave on 31 October and it was time to \"get Brexit done\".\n\nOutlining his legislative agenda for the year ahead - which includes seven Brexit-related bills - the prime minister hit out at those who were advocating what he called more \"dither and delay\".\n\nBoth sides have said they hope to agree a deal before the EU summit on Thursday and Friday, and if that happens, the government says it will introduce a withdrawal agreement bill to be voted on next Saturday in a special Parliamentary session.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nThe PM's official spokesman told journalists on Monday morning: \"Talks remain constructive, but there is a lot of work still to do.\"\n\nThat echoes the message delivered by Mr Johnson to his cabinet on Sunday and the latest comments by Ireland's Tanaiste (deputy prime minister) Simon Coveney\n\n\"A deal is possible, and it's possible this month,\" Mr Coveney said. \"It may even be possible this week. But we're not there yet.\"\n\nIf the Commons backs a deal, the PM's spokesman said Mr Johnson would expect MPs to \"work around the clock\" to pass the necessary legislation so Brexit can happen on schedule at 23:00 GMT on 31 October.\n\nTalks between the EU and the UK, led by envoy David Frost, pictured, have intensified in recent days\n\nThe issue of the Northern Ireland border in post-Brexit arrangements is seen as the key factor in the EU-UK talks.\n\nMr Johnson submitted new proposals to the EU earlier this month, and its leaders promised to examine them carefully.\n\nHowever, a number of figures, including Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar, said they did not form the basis of a deal.\n\nHope of progress were faint until Mr Johnson and Mr Varadkar met last Thursday and the Irish leader said afterwards their discussions had been \"positive\" and \"sufficient to allow negotiations to resume in Brussels\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Barnier told EU diplomats in a briefing this weekend the UK had dropped its proposals to include an up-front veto for the Stormont Assembly before any new arrangements for Northern Ireland come into force, said BBC Brussels correspondent Adam Fleming.\n\nBut he said the UK was still seeking the power for Northern Ireland to leave the arrangements at some point in the future.\n\nAccording to a note of his meeting with EU ambassadors on Sunday evening, Mr Barnier also said he would be willing to accept Mr Johnson's plan for Northern Ireland to remain part of the UK's customs territory but apply EU customs procedures.\n\nHowever, he said he could not accept a British proposal to track goods entering Northern Ireland to determine whether they ended up in Ireland.\n\nAdam Fleming said it appeared EU negotiators had \"softened\" their position by indicating they were prepared to keep talking until Wednesday - the eve of the summit - despite saying previously that a revised deal had to be ready a week in advance.\n\nIn a statement, the EU it added that the \"intense technical discussions\" between officials would continue on Monday before member states were updated on the progress at a meeting in Luxembourg on Tuesday.\n\nThe Irish border has been a policy conundrum for a long, long time, but it seems now there has genuinely been a bit of push and pull, and a little bit of movement on both sides.\n\nThere are swathes and swathes of technicalities going on here. One cabinet minister, who was briefed by the prime minister on Sunday, even told me they are blind to the detail.\n\nAs far as they are concerned, that's a good sign - it means the talks are genuine and negotiators are able to get on with their work without too much political pell-mell.\n\nBut while a deal is possible, it is still a massive if.\n\nThe politicians' mood has changed very much in the last seven days, particularly since that meeting between Leo Varadkar and Boris Johnson.\n\nAnd getting a deal is obviously the most straightforward, politically advantageous way for the government to leave at the end of this month and keep Mr Johnson's promise that got him into No 10.\n\nBut it doesn't mean the really, really thorny policy questions have disappeared.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Chancellor Sajid Javid announced he intends to hold the Budget on 6 November, insisting it will be \"the first after leaving the EU\".\n\nBut Labour's shadow minister for the Cabinet Office, Jon Trickett, told Today he would be \"surprised\" if the Budget went ahead as planned as \"we have no idea if they are going to get this Brexit proposal through the House or not\".\n\nMonday 14 October - The Commons returns, and the government has outlined its legislative agenda in the Queen's Speech. The speech will then be debated by MPs throughout the week.\n\nThursday 17 October - Crucial two-day summit of EU leaders begins in Brussels. This is the last such meeting currently scheduled before the Brexit deadline.\n\nSaturday 19 October - Special sitting of Parliament and the date by which the PM must ask the EU for another delay to Brexit under the Benn Act, if no Brexit deal has been approved by MPs and they have not agreed to the UK leaving with no-deal.\n\nThursday 31 October - Date by which the UK is currently due to leave the EU.", "Esther Duflo has said she is \"humbled\" by her success in winning this year's Nobel prize for economics and hopes it will \"inspire many, many other women\".\n\nProf Duflo was part of a trio, alongside her husband Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer, to win the prize.\n\nTheir work had \"dramatically improved our ability to fight poverty in practice\", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the prize, said.\n\nProf Duflo is only the second woman to win the prize since it began in 1969.\n\nAt 46 years old, she is also the youngest recipient of the prize.\n\n\"Showing that it is possible for a woman to succeed and be recognised for success I hope is going to inspire many, many other women to continue working and many other men to give them the respect that they deserve like every single human being,\" she said.\n\nProf Duflo's husband was her PhD supervisor and their work, alongside that of Prof Kremer's, has focused on poor communities in India and Africa. Their research helps show which investments are worth making and also what has the biggest impact on the lives of the poorest people.\n\nFor example, their research in India found a high level of absenteeism among teachers. They found employing them on short-term contracts, which would be extended if they had good results, led to significantly better test results for students.\n\nAnother project looked at how the demand for de-worming pills for parasitic infections was affected by price. They found that three quarters of parents gave their children these pills when the medicine was free, compared to just 18% when they cost less than a US dollar, which was still heavily subsidised.\n\nThe research has helped inform decisions on whether medicine and healthcare should be charged for and, if so, at what price.\n\nProf Banerjee and Prof Duflo both work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US, while Prof Kremer works at Harvard University.\n\n\"I didn't think it was possible to win the Nobel Prize in Economics before being significantly older than any of the three of us,\" Prof Duflo said.\n\nThe trio will receive nine million Swedish krona (£728,000).\n\nThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the winners had introduced \"a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty\".\n\nIt said they had broken the complex issue into \"smaller, more manageable questions\" making it easier to tackle.\n\n\"As a direct result of one of their studies, more than five million Indian children have benefited from effective programmes of remedial tutoring in school,\" the Academy said.\n\n\"Another example is the heavy subsidies for preventive healthcare that have been introduced in many countries.\"\n\nThe Nobel economics prize - technically known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize - is the only award not created by philanthropist Alfred Nobel.\n\nInstead, the economics prize was created by the Swedish central bank \"in memory of Alfred Nobel\" and first awarded in 1969.\n\nLast year, William Nordhaus and Paul Romer won the prize for their work on sustainable growth.\n\nThe US economists' research focused on how climate change and technology have affected the economy.\n\nIn 2017, US economist Richard Thaler, author of the best seller Nudge, won for his work in behavioural economics.\n\nSince it was first awarded in 1969, Americans have dominated the awards.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Dunn suspect 'should do the right thing'\n\nThe parents of a motorcyclist killed in a crash say they will only meet the US woman allegedly involved if she promises to return to Britain.\n\nAnne Sacoolas left the UK under diplomatic immunity while police were investigating. She has offered to meet Mr Dunn's parents, who are in the US.\n\nA Dunn family spokesman said the parents' pre-condition for a meeting was a \"hurdle\" to it taking place.\n\nRadd Seiger told the BBC the parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, who have travelled to the US, were unlikely to meet Mrs Sacoolas this week.\n\n\"Mrs Sacoolas has to commit to returning to the United Kingdom to submit herself to the English authorities, to Northamptonshire Police, and to co-operate with their inquiries,\" he said.\n\nHer return was \"a non-negotiable red line\", he told Sky News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Dunn's mother says Mrs Sacoolas's statement is \"too little, too late\"\n\nThe parents hope to gain media exposure in the US, to put pressure on President Donald Trump \"to send Mrs Sacoolas back\", he said and have been involved in a round of media interviews on Monday.\n\nMs Charles told the BBC's Duncan Kennedy they had received messages of support from people in the US \"probably in their thousands\", and similar messages from \"all around the world\".\n\n\"I think everyone can see she's not done the right thing and she needs to do the right thing. She should have just stayed. It should not have come to this. It's ludicrous,\" she added.\n\nSpeaking on CBS This Morning, Mr Dunn described how he spoke to his son for the last time as paramedics loaded him on to a stretcher by the roadside.\n\nTim Dunn spoke to Gayle King on CBS's This Morning programme in the US\n\n\"I could see broken bones out of his arms and stuff. He was talking. He knew [that I was there],\" said Mr Dunn.\n\n\"I called over to him and said 'Harry, it's your dad - they are going to fix you. Be calm. Let them help you'.\"\n\nLater Mr Dunn told a press conference: \"I've always wanted to ask her if she could explain the moment of the crash. Find out if she comforted Harry. If she spoke to Harry. Find out what her movements were. Did she try and call the emergency services?\n\n\"I'm just struggling because I can't imagine my lad being in the ditch and not having any comfort from anybody until the ambulance and police turn up 'X' minutes later.\"\n\nMs Charles added: \"We're not inhumane, we still don't wish her any ill harm but we need to hear it from her, in her own words, in a room, on our terms, in the UK with therapists and whoever else can help us, mediators.\n\n\"But just hearing it through a statement...we're seven weeks in now, it's a bit too much too little too late, I'm afraid.\"\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nAt a press conference last week. a briefing note held by Mr Trump at the press conference appeared to suggest Mrs Sacoolas would not be returning to the UK.\n\nMr Dunn said: \"I would say to him (President Trump) as a man, as a father, how could you let this happen, if you are a father and your child died surely you'd want that person to own up and take responsibility for their action?\"\n\nMr Seiger said on Radio 4's Today programme the weeks since the teenager's death had been \"a very, very dark time\" for the family and that \"every second that passes is another second of pain\".\n\nDiscussions over Anne Sacoolas's potential extradition from the US are likely to be a \"delicate interplay\" of legal obligations and political realities, says an expert in international law.\n\nMrs Sacoolas's case appears to meet the conditions agreed in the US-UK extradition treaty in force since 2007, said Prof Tarcisio Gazzini from the University of East Anglia. Given that she is no longer in the UK, diplomatic immunity no longer applies, he said.\n\nProf Gazzini predicted the process was likely to end in one of two ways - Mrs Sacoolas agreeing to return to the UK to face prosecution; or the US extraditing her in accordance with the treaty, and waiving her immunity. It is unlikely she would return to the UK to reinvoke diplomatic immunity, he said.\n\nProf Gazzini said: \"My guess is that the US will discuss this with the lady and say that they are prepared to allow her to be tried in the UK.\n\n\"The two governments would prefer to go through the treaty, and preferably through Article 17 [where she agrees to be surrendered].\n\n\"Assuming all the conditions are satisfied and documents are in order then the US is obliged to [extradite]. If not, they commit a breach of international law.\"\n\nMrs Sacoolas is reportedly married to a US intelligence official.\n\nA letter from her lawyers said she wanted to meet Mr Dunn's parents \"so that she can express her deepest sympathies and apologies for this tragic accident\".\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, was said to be covered by diplomatic immunity as the spouse of a US intelligence official, though that protection is now in dispute.\n\nOn Saturday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab wrote to Mr Dunn's family to explain that the British and US governments now considered Mrs Sacoolas's immunity irrelevant.\n\nHe said the matter was now \"in the hands\" of Northamptonshire Police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said Labour's nationalisation plans would be cost-neutral\n\nLabour's nationalisation plans would cost at least £196bn, according to the Confederation of British Industry.\n\nThe employers' group said the up-front cost of taking control of the water and energy utilities, train firms and Royal Mail was equivalent to all income tax paid by UK citizens in a year.\n\nIt was the combined total of the £141bn health budget, and the £61bn spent on education, analysis by the CBI said.\n\nA Labour Party spokesman said it was \"incoherent scaremongering\" by the CBI.\n\nJohn McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, has said that nationalisation would be cost-neutral as the companies' profits would cover the cost of borrowing needed to finance it.\n\nIn addition, the party has said that rail nationalisation, for example, would be hugely popular with travellers tired of poor services. And bringing National Grid back under state control would be part of plans to create a National Energy Agency to help usher in Labour's proposed Green Industrial Revolution.\n\nLabour's shadow transport secretary, Andy McDonald, said the CBI had \"chosen to fabricate false information about Labour's rail policy\" by suggesting that the party was advocating buying rolling stock instead of leasing it.\n\nHe added: \"The CBI's shoddy research and shabby conduct does a great disservice to our political debate during the hugely challenging times through which we now live.\"\n\nBut a CBI spokesperson said the organisation stood by its analysis, adding: \"The cost of purchasing rolling stock is a fraction of the £196bn and was included as that is what full-scale renationalisation of the rail industry would likely involve.\n\n\"If a Labour government chose not to purchase the rolling stock, they would still need to pay the cost of leasing them.\"\n\nIn correspondence seen by the BBC, the CBI refused to give a breakdown of its £196bn figure.\n\nThe CBI's report estimated there could be a 10.7% increase in debt from bringing industries back into public ownership.\n\nThis would raise debt levels to 94% of GDP, the highest point since the 1960s, and would cost about £2bn a year, according to the study.\n\nIt also said that under Labour's plans, savers and pensioners could suffer an estimated £9bn loss to their holdings, which translates into £327 for every household in the country.\n\nThe CBI bases its analysis on the nationalisation of:\n\nThe report said the confidence of international investors in the UK would be \"severely hit\" if Labour refused to pay full market value for the industries.\n\nLabour has said nationalisation of energy infrastructure would help create a green revolution\n\nAlthough the analysis said that the state-owned assets would increase in value and there would be potential revenues generated, the study's focus was on costs rather than estimates of potential benefits.\n\nRain Newton-Smith, the CBI's chief economist, called the price tag \"eye-watering\". And she said that £196bn was only the starting point.\n\n\"It doesn't take into account the maintenance and development of the infrastructure, the trickle-down hit to pension pots and savings accounts, or the impact on the country's public finances.\n\n\"There are so many other genuine priorities for public spending right now, from investing in our young people to the transition to low carbon economy and connecting our cities and communities.\n\n\"These issues are what keep businesses up at night and what they want to see the government get on with addressing. Nationalisation would waste time, energy and public money.\"\n\nLast week, the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggested that focusing on the upfront cost of Labour's plans was the wrong approach. \"Economically what matters is whether these assets would be better managed by the public or the private sector,\" it said.", "Protests have erupted in Barcelona after Spain's Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to between nine and 13 years in prison.\n\nThousands of demonstrators blocked road access to Barcelona's El Prat airport. More than 100 flights were cancelled. Riot police charged protesters, who threw rocks, cans and fire extinguishers, AFP news agency reported.\n\nThe separatist leaders were convicted of sedition over their role in an illegal independence referendum in 2017.", "Last updated on .From the section Wales\n\nGareth Bale's excellent equaliser helped Wales to hold 2018 World Cup finalists Croatia in a bad-tempered contest in Cardiff.\n\nThe Real Madrid forward's composed finish in injury time in the first half ensured Wales maintained their eight-year unbeaten run in home European Championship qualifiers, a record that has extended to 10 matches.\n\nThe Wales goal cancelled out Nikola Vlasic's opener on nine minutes as the former Everton man found the net with a shot that hit the inside of the post.\n\nThe result means Wales' destiny is no longer in their own hands in Group E, as they are now relying on Slovakia dropping points in their remaining two fixtures, while Wales will need to claim six points from their final two games in Azerbaijan and at home to Hungary.\n\nShould Wales and Slovakia finish level on points, Wales would qualify by virtue of their better head to head record.\n\nCroatia remain top of Group E on the cusp of qualifying for Euro 2020, while Wales remain fourth, though they know that the Nations League could yet offer them a backdoor route to the play-offs if they fail to finish second.\n\nWales supporters have in the past expressed disappointment at the perception that Ryan Giggs was often unavailable for his country in his playing days, but he is having rotten luck in terms of dealing with injuries as manager.\n\nNot many would dispute that Bale and Aaron Ramsey are Giggs' key players and senior figures, yet Ramsey has not played a second of the 630 minutes of Group E action that Wales have competed in.\n\nRamsey did not play for Arsenal last term after 18 April because of an abductor injury and despite featuring five times for new club Juventus this season, a flare-up of the same injury prevented him from travelling to Slovakia and from training intensely enough to be considered to feature against Croatia.\n\nHis absence, however, did at least allow Giggs to name an unchanged line-up for the first time in competitive matches during his 17-game tenure as the national team boss.\n\nThe lack of Ramsey was especially pivotal in a game where the opposition have such exceptional talent in midfield, as England found out painfully in last year's World Cup semi-final.\n\nCroatia's talent in the middle of the pitch is such that even with Inter Milan's Marcelo Brozovic suspended, they were still able to leave out Barcelona's Ivan Rakitic, who came on as a half-time substitute.\n\nThat talent and Croatia's ability to keep the ball was evident from the early stages and the visitors scored with their first attack as they cut the Wales defence to shreds with a quick break.\n\nJosip Brekalo advanced and Wales did not close down the space as he freed Bruno Petkovic, who cleverly laid the ball into the path of Vlasic and he precisely fired home via the inside of the post.\n\nA heavy collision between Domagoj Vida and Daniel James gave Wales even more to fret about, with James remaining on the field, but looking groggy after a heavy landing.\n\nThe challenge was almost exactly replicated after the interval when Petkovic crashed into Ethan Ampadu who landed awkwardly. It was something of a surprise the match finished with 22 players on the field.\n\nThe challenge on Ampadu saw Petkovic booked - he was one of eight - but arguably the punishment could have been stronger for a late arrival that would have most likely resulted in a red at the Rugby World Cup in Japan.\n\nAmpadu could not continue while James at least looked to be fully recovered in the second half, though he shot at the near post when he should have fired across goal with Wales' first foray forward after half time. Dominik Livakovic was able to smother at the second attempt.\n\nRight-back Tin Jedvaj fired just over in the second half, but Croatia largely had plenty of possession without looking like finding a winner.\n\nDavies the creator as he wins golden cap\n\nWales' difficult start could have been even worse on 12 minutes but Wayne Hennessey saved Ivan Perisic's flicked header after Petkovic's inviting cross was misjudged by Ben Davies.\n\nIt was a tough moment for Davies as he celebrated becoming the 41st Wales player to reach 50 caps.\n\nStill feeling his way back from summer hernia surgery and currently playing second fiddle at Tottenham Hotspur to Danny Rose, Davies picked the perfect moment to ignite his season with a brilliant assist for Bale's leveller in first-half stoppage time.\n\nThe left-back rampaged forward and just got his foot to the ball as Mateo Kovacic looked for a free kick that never arrived.\n\nDavies keept his composure to slide a pass into the penalty area. The delivery was perfectly weighted for Bale, who collected brilliantly to settle himself and shoot across Livakovic into the bottom corner of the net.\n\nIt was a night where clear chances were at a premium and Wales could not afford to over-commit in pursuit of a winner in a tense second half.\n\nThe night ended on a slight note of disappointment for Wales with Joe Allen receiving a late yellow card that will mean he is suspended in Azerbaijan, but they deserve credit for containing Croatia.\n\nBale continues to inspire an entire nation as he hits top form in the environment where he feels comfortable and appreciated. Scored a classic Bale goal and always gave Croatia a cause for concern until he limped through the last few minutes with Giggs later citing cramp as the Real Madrid star's problem.\n• None Daniel James (Wales) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Ivan Rakitic (Croatia) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Borna Barisic.\n• None Luka Modric (Croatia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Connor Roberts (Wales) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tyler Roberts.\n• None Joe Allen (Wales) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Ivan Rakitic (Croatia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Mike Ashley's Sports Direct has called for an investigation into the sportswear industry, complaining about the dominance of Adidas and Nike.\n\nThe firm said the \"must-have\" brands hold a bargaining position which allows them to control both the supply and the price of their products.\n\nAdidas has blocked the company from selling some of its products, Sports Direct said in a statement.\n\nIt follows reports that Nike is ending supply deals with several retailers.\n\n\"Sports Direct believes that the industry as a whole would benefit from a wide market review by the appropriate authorities in both the UK and Europe,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"The sports industry has long been dominated by the must-have brands such as Adidas. These must have brands hold an extremely strong bargaining position vis-à-vis the retailers within their supply networks and use their market power to implement market wide practices aimed at controlling the supply and, ultimately, the pricing of their products,\" Sports Direct said.\n\nMr Ashley's grievance stretches as far back as 2013 when the German giant withdrew replica Chelsea shirts from Sports Direct stores. The retailer said the dominance of Nike and Adidas allows them to \"[refuse] to supply key products... with no apparent justification\".\n\nThe Sunday Times disclosed that Nike had told several independent retailers it will pull its products from their stores. It is part of a move by the US giant to reduce the number of retailers it uses and push customers towards its website, the newspaper said.\n\n\"All those companies that built a business on the back of Nike and Adidas are toast - there's no way they can replace that [business],\" a source told the Sunday Times.\n\nLast month, Sports Direct complained that its rival JD Sports' planned £90m takeover of Footasylum could reduce Mr Ashley's access to the top brands.\n\nIn the past, Adidas and Nike have preferred to work with JD Sports but Sports Direct has attempted to make inroads, appointing former Nike executive David Daly as chairman of its board.\n\n\"Sports Direct has consistently aimed to provide the widest range of products at attractive prices and will continue to work constructively with all its suppliers to enhance its product offering for the benefit of consumers,\" the company said.\n\nA Nike spokesperson said: \"Nike continually evaluates the marketplace and competitive landscape to understand how we can best serve consumers. As part of this, from time to time we do make adjustments to our sales channels, in order to optimize distribution.\" Adidas has yet to respond to a BBC request for comment.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland's Euro 2020 qualifier in Bulgaria was halted twice as fans were warned about racist behaviour including Nazi salutes and monkey chanting.\n\nThe first pause came in the 28th minute with England leading 2-0.\n\nA stadium announcement then condemned the abuse before stating the match would be abandoned if it continued.\n\nHowever, the game was stopped again in the 43rd minute before restarting after discussions between the referee and England manager Gareth Southgate.\n\nEngland went on to win 6-0 in Sofia to strengthen their place at the top of Group A.\n• None Unsavoury and sinister - a bleak night handled with dignity by England\n\n'One of the most appalling nights I've seen in football'\n\nFootball Association chairman Greg Clarke was at the game and witnessed the abuse first hand, saying it had left a number of the England players and staff visibly upset.\n\n\"I heard examples of appalling racist chanting,\" he said.\n\n\"I was looking at a group of people, all in black - about 50 of them - who were making what looked like political fascist gestures. I couldn't be sure, it was 100 metres away but it looked appalling.\n\n\"I've spoken to one or two of the players and I've also spoken to one or two of the backroom staff, because we don't just have a multiracial team, we have a multiracial backroom staff.\n\n\"They were visibly emotionally upset, and I spoke to Gareth after the game too and I offered him our full support.\"\n\nClarke says he expects European football's governing body Uefa to conduct a thorough review of the incident.\n\n\"Uefa, who I've spoken to throughout the game, at half-time and at the end of the game, will be carrying out a thorough investigation to make sure this appalling scene of terrible racism is treated appropriately,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement, the FA confirmed England players were subjected to \"abhorrent racist chanting\" and that it was \"unacceptable at any level of the game\".\n\nEngland defender Tyrone Mings, who was making his international debut, said the players had decided as a group at half-time to continue the game.\n\n\"Just before the end of the first half the appropriate next step was to return to the changing room,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"We made a common-sense decision to play the remaining few minutes and decided at half-time. Everybody made the decision. The manager, the team, the supporting staff. We spoke about it at half-time and we dealt with it and escalated it in the right way.\n\n\"I am proud of how we dealt with it and took the appropriate steps.\"\n\nThe Vasil Levski Stadium was subject to a partial closure for this match after Bulgaria were sanctioned for racist behaviour of fans during qualifiers against Kosovo and the Czech Republic in June.\n\nThe build-up to the game had been dominated by concerns of potential incidents of racism, with England striker Tammy Abraham saying the players would be prepared to walk off the pitch if they were targeted.\n\nSouthgate held a meeting with his players over the weekend to underline the Uefa three-step protocol in dealing with racist incidents - but the subject provoked an angry response from the Bulgarian football authorities.\n\nBulgaria coach Krasimir Balakov had accused England of having a bigger racism problem than his own country.\n\nWhat exactly happened during the game?\n\nAfter making a pass, England defender Mings glanced over his shoulder and could be heard calling towards the touchline: \"Did you hear that?\"\n\nWithin minutes the game was stopped.\n\nStriker Harry Kane was in conversation with referee Ivan Bebek on the halfway line while a stadium announcement was made to condemn racist abuse and warn fans that the game could be abandoned if it continued. At the same time, England manager Southgate was talking to a number of his players.\n\nThe game resumed but was stopped again just before half-time. Southgate and several England players were in discussion with match officials before the game was restarted for a second time.\n\nA group of Bulgaria supporters wearing black hooded tops - some wearing bandanas covering their faces - started to leave the stadium after the game was halted for a second time. BBC Radio 5 Live reported that some made racist gestures while heading towards the exits.\n\nAfter six minutes of time added at the end of the first half because of the delay, Bulgaria captain Ivelin Popov was seen in a heated debate with a section of home supporters near the tunnel while the rest of the players headed for the dressing rooms for half-time.\n\nWhat is Uefa's approach to dealing with incidents of racism?\n\nUefa has a three-step protocol, introduced in 2009, in place for dealing with such incidents in matches.\n\nFor the first step, the referee will speak to the stadium announcer and demand the halting of racist behaviour.\n\nIf it continues, the referee can take the players off the field into the dressing rooms for a period of time and the stadium announcer will make another address.\n\nIf it still continues, the match will be abandoned.\n\nIn this incident, the first step was taken. The players were asked if they wanted to come off the pitch, but decided to continue.\n\nSouthgate said: \"I explained to the players that if anything else did happen in the second half we would be coming off.\n\n\"We all saw the second half was calmer and that allowed our players to do their talking with the football.\"\n\nRoss Barkley and Raheem Sterling scored twice, while Marcus Rashford and Kane were also on target in a win which moves England to the brink of a place at Euro 2020.\n\n'There can be no more pitiful fines or short stadium bans'\n\nThis is not the first time in England's Euro 2020 qualifying campaign that their players have been subjected to racist abuse.\n\nIn March Sterling was vocal in condemning the abuse received by England players during their 5-1 win in Montenegro.\n\nMontenegro's punishment was to have two home games played behind closed doors and a fine of 20,000 euros (£17,000).\n\nAnti-racism group Kick it Out has urged Uefa to take strong action, saying the governing body's current sanctions are \"not fit for purpose\".\n\n\"We are sickened by the disgusting racist abuse directed at England men's team by Bulgaria supporters - including TV footage which appeared to show Nazi salutes and monkey noises,\" it said.\n\n\"It's now time for Uefa to step up and show some leadership. For far too long, they have consistently failed to take effective action. The fact Bulgaria are already hosting this game with a partial stadium closure for racist abuse shows that Uefa's sanctions are not fit for purpose.\n\n\"There can be no more pitiful fines or short stadium bans. If Uefa cares at all about tackling discrimination - and if the Equal Game campaign means anything - then points deductions and tournament expulsion must follow.\"\n\nUefa told BBC Sport any action in response to Monday's events would have to follow on from a disciplinary committee, which in turn has to wait for a referee's report.\n\nAnti-discrimination group Fare said it had observers in the stadium who will report to Uefa and form part of the governing body's investigation.\n\nFare's executive director Piara Powar said \"the fact that it was widespread racism cannot be in doubt\".\n\n\"Given the debate that took place before this match, the focus on the Bulgarian fans and the widespread warnings that were issued, the concerns expressed by players, officials, it was quite shocking to see what took place,\" he said.\n\n\"It seemed almost like the Bulgarian fans were determined to live up to the worst representation of themselves.\"\n\nFormer England striker Ian Wright, a pundit for Match of the Day who was covering the game for ITV Sport, said what happened in Sofia could be a \"seminal moment\" for the issue of racism in football.\n\n\"It's a fantastic moment,\" he said, referring to the players' response to the abuse. \"What is good about it is we have a generation of players - not just black players - who won't tolerate it any more.\n\n\"This is the 'by any means necessary' generation. They don't need to take that any more when they have their own platforms and the protocol to stick to.\n\n\"It's a great day. I feel really good watching this. We have had so many games where we have had this racial abuse and people say 'just beat them on the pitch'. It doesn't do anything. Today, they won because [the abusers] had to leave.\"", "Scotland currently has the highest rate of drug related deaths in Europe\n\nThe SNP has backed decriminalising the possession and consumption of drugs.\n\nAt its conference in Aberdeen, a resolution was unanimously passed by delegates branding current drug control legislation \"not fit for purpose\".\n\nAnd they called for powers to be devolved to Holyrood to enable the \"decriminalisation of possession and consumption of controlled drugs\".\n\nThe Scottish government has set up a taskforce to tackle drug deaths, which hit a record high in 2018.\n\nThere were 1,187 drug-related deaths in Scotland in 2018, by far the highest death rate in the European Union and three times that of the UK as a whole.\n\nExisting drugs legislation - covered by the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 - is reserved to Westminster.\n\nThis has led to a standoff between the two governments over policy, with the Home Office refusing to give permission for a trial of \"safe consumption rooms\" for drugs in Glasgow.\n\nThe SNP has repeatedly called for drugs control to be devolved to Holyrood, and the party's official policy is now to use these powers - if they are ever handed to Holyrood - to decriminalise drugs.\n\nA motion unanimously passed by delegates said decriminalising \"consumption and possession of controlled drugs\" would mean \"health services are not prevented from giving treatment to those that need it\".", "MPs will spend the next few days debating aspects of the Queen's Speech:\n\nThey will break from discussing the Queen's Speech on Saturday 19 October for a special sitting of Parliament.\n\nThis is the date by which the PM must ask the EU for another delay to Brexit under the Benn Act, if no Brexit deal has been approved by MPs and they have not agreed to the UK leaving with no-deal.", "England defender Tyrone Mings says he could hear the racist abuse \"as clear as day\" but \"everybody made the decision\" to continue the Euro 2020 qualifier against Bulgaria in Sofia.\n\nPlay was halted twice in the first half because of abuse from supporters.\n\nIn line with Uefa protocol, England had the option to walk off the pitch but played the full 90 minutes and won 6-0.\n\n\"I am very proud of everyone for the decisions we made,\" Mings told BBC Radio 5 Live after his England debut.\n• None Unsavoury and sinister - a bleak night handled with dignity by England\n\nAbuse, including Nazi salutes and monkey chanting, were aimed at Mings and his team-mates and the Aston Villa defender was shown on TV to turn towards the linesman and ask: \"Did you hear that?\"\n\nPlay was first stopped just before the half-hour mark when the referee came to the side of the pitch to speak to England manager Gareth Southgate.\n\nAfter a stoppage of around five minutes, play continued until the 43rd minute when the game was halted for a second time.\n\nMings said: \"I went to Harry Kane first. He spoke to the manager, who then spoke to the fourth officials. Everyone was aware of it but we ultimately let our football do the talking and didn't get distracted by anything.\n\n\"Just before the end of the first half the appropriate next step was to return to the changing room. We made a common-sense decision to play the remaining few minutes and decided at half-time.\n\n\"Everybody made the decision. The manager, the team, the supporting staff. We spoke about it at half-time and we dealt with it and escalated it in the right way.\n\n\"I am proud of how we dealt with it and took the appropriate steps. I could hear it as clear as day. It doesn't affect me too much. I feel more sorry for those people who feel they have to have those opinions.\n\n\"It was a great night for me personally. It was a really proud moment in my career. I hope everyone enjoys this moment and it isn't overshadowed.\"\n\nThis was the second Group A match in which England players had suffered racist abuse, having been subjected to similar in the 5-1 win over Montenegro in Podgorica in March.\n\nMontenegro's punishment from Uefa was to have two home games played behind closed doors and a fine of 20,000 euros (£17,000).\n\nManager Southgate told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Nobody should have to experience what our players did. We followed the protocol. We gave two messages - one that our football did the talking and two, we stopped the game twice.\n\n\"That might not be enough for some people but we are in that impossible situation that we can't give everyone what they want.\n\n\"But we gave the players what they wanted and the staff what that they wanted. Remarkably, after what we have been through, our players walked off smiling and that is the most important thing for me.\n\n\"I have to give credit because the referee communicated with us all the time. You heard the stadium announcement on the first instance.\n\n\"In the second instance, we could have walked off but the players were very keen to finish the first half and talk it through. Not one player wanted to stop, they were absolutely firm on that.\n\n\"I explained to the players that if anything else did happen in the second half we would be coming off. We all saw the second half was calmer and that allowed our players to do their talking with the football.\"\n\nA number of England players gave their reaction on social media, including striker Marcus Rashford, who scored the opening goal. The Manchester United player thanked the \"brilliant support\" and also praised Bulgaria captain Ivelin Popov for speaking to the fans at half-time.\n\n\"Not an easy situation to play in and not one which should be happening in 2019,\" said Rashford. \"Proud we rose above it to take three points but this needs stamping out.\n\n\"Also been told what the Bulgaria captain did at half-time. To stand alone and do the right thing takes courage and acts like that shouldn't go unnoticed. #NoToRacism.\"\n\nManchester City forward Raheem Sterling, who scored twice, said \"we did our job\", adding: \"Feeling sorry for Bulgaria to be represented by such idiots in their stadium.\"\n\nManchester United defender Harry Maguire called it \"disgraceful behaviour\" and said \"there is no place in football for that\", while club-team Jesse Lingard said it was \"shameful\" but the \"England boys are stronger than those who chose to destroy the beautiful game.\"\n\nEverton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford said the victory came \"under difficult circumstances\" and Leicester full-back Ben Chilwell said \"football did the talking\".", "Catalan independence supporters and police clash as thousands protest at El Prat airport.\n\nThis video has been optimised for mobile viewing on the BBC News app. The BBC News app is available from the Apple App Store for iPhone and Google Play Store for Android.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We could not get any financing\" from Hollywood, says Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese.\n\nMartin Scorsese says he couldn't get a Hollywood studio to back his three-and-a-half-hour mob movie The Irishman. \"Nobody was interested in making a film with me and Bob [Robert De Niro] anymore,\" he said. \"I just think they thought the audience wasn't there.\"\n\nAlthough I think they probably ran the numbers first. I mean, if you're a studio exec and have one of the greatest movie directors of all time pitching an idea in a genre he's made his own, starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, you'd listen, wouldn't you?\n\nI imagine it came down to money and cautiousness.\n\nThe Irishman sees the reunion of Joe Pesci (Russell Bufalino), Robert De Niro (Frank Sheeran) and Martin Scorsese for the first time in 24 years\n\nThe three male leads are all in their 70s, which is not a problem in itself, but the majority of their screen-time is spent when their characters are in their late 30s, early 40s. No amount of make-up was going to paper over those facial cracks. Stand-ins were discounted. Digital de-aging was the only option, but it had never been done in the way that Scorsese demanded: no green-screen, no image-capture head-gear - new technology was required.\n\nToo risky, maybe. Would it work? Would it cost a fortune? Would the actors play ball?\n\nNetflix stepped in and answered all three questions in the affirmative. But for all the very expensive high-tech trickery The Irishman is a staunchly old-school movie spanning half a century of mafia mischief in post-war America.\n\nClassic Scorsese, you could say.\n\nAnd so it is, up to a point. Cars are dramatically blown up, there are a lot of cold-blooded murders, and attention to every detail is paid with a historian's soul and an artist's eye.\n\nMartin Scorsese says The Irishman has \"the rhythm of how we think when we look back on time\"\n\nIt starts with a long tracking shot inside an old people's home, at the end of which we meet our elderly narrator Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), the eponymous Irishman. He tells us his story in a series of flashbacks in which we see a de-aged De Niro go from a trigger-happy American soldier to a trigger-happy Pennsylvania gangster working for mafia don Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci).\n\nScorsese says Pesci took a lot of persuading to put away his golf clubs and return to acting.\n\nFor Marty and for us it was time well invested. Pesci's performance as the quietly-spoken, business-like organised crime boss is exceptional.\n\nIt will take something very special to deprive him of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar.\n\nRobert De Niro (Frank Sheeran), with Joe Pesci, who wasn't keen to return to movie making, plays the role of the \"quiet-don\" Russell Bufalino\n\nThe spine of the movie is a road trip he takes with Frank (whom he calls \"kid\" throughout without even the smallest twinkle in his eye) to attend a family wedding. It's a structural device that allows Scorsese to take all the side-tracks he needs to fill in the back story of the three inter-connected protagonists: Frank, Russell, and trade union president Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino).\n\nRussell engineers a job interview for Frank as Hoffa's wingman, which takes place over the phone. \"I heard you paint houses\", Hoffa posits. \"I do\", replies Frank, \"and I do my own carpentry\" - a line that wins an approving Sicilian smile from Russell.\n\nThey are not discussing DIY.\n\nIn a 1960s world of phone taps and wire traps, underworld America developed its own patois: hit men were known as house painters. Those who cleaned up afterwards did their own joinery.\n\nIt's a central exchange in the film, establishing the crime triangle, the pecking-order of the protagonists, and the relationships that would develop.\n\nPacino is excellent, although slightly undermined by the de-aging process which, at times, makes him look more like the camp British TV host Larry Grayson than a tough-as-teak union leader.\n\nOscar-winning Al Pacino had never worked with Scorsese before, and said \"the character of Jimmy Hoffa was irresistible\"\n\nDe Niro is also let down by the technology, which is a shame, because he is on top form. The facial changes are fine, they work. But it still leaves him with a body of a septuagenarian, which looks incongruous when moving stiff-hipped over rocks, or assaulting a local shopkeeper with arms pinned to his body.\n\nIt's not a disaster, but it looks odd: it jars and distracts from an otherwise first-class film, which wears its duration lightly. In fact, the slow pace acts as another character, giving a very specific personality to the film, which is a re-telling of a true story made public in book form by Charles Brandt, a lawyer and friend of Frank Sheeran.\n\nPesci, Pacino, Scorsese, De Niro, and Harvey Keitel attending the world premiere of \"The Irishman\" in New York\n\nMartin Scorsese says it is about \"power, love, betrayal, and then, ultimately, the price you pay for the life you lead\". I said I thought it was also about old age, which elicited the sort of look you don't quickly forget from the legendary helmsman.\n\n\"Old age?\" he said, eyebrows raised.\n\n\"Yeah\", I replied, \"it's about the aging process\".\n\n\"The aging process\", he says and slowly and nods, \"yes, the aging process ultimately… [pauses, smiles] without scaring an audience saying we won't go and see a film about old age.\"\n\nPerhaps the perception that it was a film about old folk was an issue when it came to financing.\n\nThat is the perspective from which the story is being told and rationalised: Sheeran is an old man facing his day of reckoning, like King Lear on the heath: not with two cruel daughters on his mind, though, but the two powerful masters he served.\n\nIt is a story of divided loyalties we've heard before, from 18th Century commedia dell'arte to the National Theatre's hit play One Man Two Guvnors. They were comedies, The Irishman isn't, but it is not beyond the realms of reason that Netflix ends up laughing all the way to the bank with a hit Hollywood rejected.", "The Queen has said the government's priority \"has always been to secure the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union on the 31 October\".\n\nDelivering the Queen's Speech in the House of Lords, Her Majesty said ministers would also continue to work on new regimes for agriculture, fisheries and trade after Brexit.", "Pope Francis led the open-air service in St Peter's Square, Rome, attended by tens of thousands\n\nCardinal John Henry Newman has been declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church at a ceremony in Rome.\n\nThe open-air service at the Vatican, celebrated by the Pope, was attended by tens of thousand of pilgrims.\n\nTheologian and poet Newman, who died in Birmingham in 1890, is the first English person to be made a saint in almost 50 years.\n\nThe Prince of Wales joined the Mass in St Peter's Square, at which four women were also canonised.\n\nPrince of Wales attended the Mass to canonise 19th-century cardinal John Henry Newman\n\nMother Mariam Thresia from India, Swiss Marguerite Bays, Mother Giuseppina Vannini from Italy and Brazilian-born Sister Dulce Lopes Pontes were also made saints at the Mass, celebrated by Pope Francis in Italian.\n\nJohn Henry Newman is the first English saint since the Forty Martyrs, who were executed under laws enacted during the English Reformation and canonised in 1970\n\nThousands of Britons travelled to Rome to join the celebration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCarol Parkinson, the secretary of the Friends of Newman from Birmingham, said it was a special and emotional day.\n\n\"His integrity, his friendship, his capacity for friendship and loyalty and hard work set a very good and hopeful example to everyone,\" she added.\n\nA priest gave instructions to other clergymen ahead of the Mass for the canonisation of 19th Century British cardinal John Henry Newman\n\nNewman is the first Englishman born since the 1600s to be promoted to full sainthood by the Catholic Church.\n\nTo hear Pope Francis quoting the words of one of John Henry Newman's sermons from almost two centuries ago to the huge crowd gathered in St Peter's Square for the canonisation ceremony shows just how important a figure the English Cardinal and Saint has become in 21st Century inter-church relations.\n\nNewman described the Christian character as \"cheerful, easy, kind, courteous, candid, and unassuming.\" In fact, someone very much in tune with Pope Francis.\n\nThe new English saint is being held up as a model by Pope Francis for modern Christians to follow.\n\nAt the time of his conversion most Anglicans thought Newman was out of his mind to defect to a despised minority religion. But today he is being revered as a bridge-builder not a defector.\n\nCardinal Newman was born in London in 1801 and attended Trinity College, Oxford, going on to become an Anglican priest and a leading theologian.\n\nHe converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism in 1845.\n\nNewman has been credited with two miracles by the Vatican, curing a man's crippling spinal disease and healing a woman's unstoppable bleeding.\n\nThe service, led by Pope Francis at the Vatican, also canonised a Swiss laywoman, an Indian nun, an Italian nun and a nun known as the \"Mother Teresa of Brazil\"\n\nThe cardinal was beatified in 2010 by Pope Benedict in an open-air Mass in his home city of Birmingham after the first miracle was recognised.\n\nHis remains lie in a closed sarcophagus at Birmingham Oratory.\n\nThe last English canonisations were in 1970 of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, a group of Catholics who were executed between 1535 and 1679 under laws enacted during the English Reformation.", "The handwritten note was left on the windscreen of a police car in the city centre\n\nA young boy has thanked police for \"saving our lives and keeping us safe\" following the stabbings at Manchester's Arndale Centre.\n\nThe handwritten note was left on the windscreen of a police patrol car in the city centre on Saturday.\n\nInsp Jon Middleton said the card, written by a boy named Adam, acted as \"a great reminder to us of why we do what we do\".\n\nThe force has urged the boy to get in touch so he can visit the station.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Insp Middleton said: \"We would love to meet you and you could sit in a police car and try on some of the equipment, although I'm afraid we can't let you play with a Taser.\"\n\nThe note included a drawing of an officer and police equipment\n\nA 19-year-old woman, a 59-year-old man and another woman were injured during the stabbing at the shopping complex on Friday.\n\nTwo others were hurt, but none of the injuries is thought to be life-threatening.\n\nA 40-year-old man was detained under the Mental Health Act.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nKenya's Brigid Kosgei eclipsed the 16-year-old women's marathon world record held by Britain's Paula Radcliffe as she retained her Chicago title.\n\nThe 25-year-old recorded a time of two hours 14 minutes 04 seconds, easily inside Radcliffe's mark of 2:15:25 set at the London Marathon in 2003.\n\nIt adds to the Kenyan's win in London this year when she clocked 2:18:20 and became the youngest winner of the race.\n\nEthiopa's Ababel Yeshaneh was second in Chicago, six minutes 47 seconds behind.\n\nOnly 22 runners in the men's race finished faster than Kosgei, whose time would have been a men's world record in 1964.\n\nThe Kenyan, who won last year in 2:18:35, admitted: \"I am feeling good and happy because I was not expecting to run like this.\"\n\nRadcliffe's 2003 time was the longest-standing marathon world record by either men or women in the post-war era.\n\nThe former world champion was at the finish line in Chicago to witness Kosgei's remarkable performance and was among the first to congratulate her.\n\n\"When I saw how fast Brigid was running in the first half I knew it was going to be broken,\" said Radcliffe.\n\nEthiopa's Gelete Burka completed the top three in Chicago on Sunday with a time of 2:20:51.\n\nMeanwhile, Switzerland's Manuela Schar retained her wheelchair title, finishing 30 seconds faster than last year in 1:41.08.\n\nKosgei has been in such good shape this year.\n\nHer performance in London, where she ran the quickest ever second half of a race after a slow start, gave indications of what she was capable of and she certainly set out with the intention of going fast today. The first 5km made us sit up.\n\nIt actually looked too ambitious at the beginning but she didn't really slow down. This is an incredible new benchmark. If that stood for 20 years I wouldn't be surprised.\n\nFind out how to get into athletics with our special guide.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What did we learn from the Queen's Speech? The BBC's Helen Catt explains\n\nBoris Johnson's government has set out \"ambitious\" policies on crime, health, the environment and Brexit in a Queen's Speech that opposition parties have dismissed as an \"election manifesto\".\n\nPlans for tougher sentences for violent offenders and legal targets for cutting plastic pollution are among 26 bills set out at Parliament's State Opening.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Kuenssberg said it was a \"long shopping list\".\n\nBut with the PM having no majority, many of the bills may not become law.\n\nOur political editor said the PM was keen to focus on \"bread and butter issues\" like investment in schools and the NHS, or coming up with, at long last, a new way of funding care for the elderly.\n\nBut she said there was no guarantee the legislative programme would be approved by Parliament. If MPs reject it, it will trigger renewed calls for a general election.\n\nDuring a debate in the Commons later on Monday, Mr Johnson said his plans offered \"a new age of opportunity for the whole country\".\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the speech was \"a propaganda exercise\", adding: \"The prime minister promised that this Queen's Speech would dazzle us. On closer inspection, it is nothing more than fool's gold.\"\n\nMPs will be able to debate the Queen's speech for a further five days, with a different theme for each of them, including the NHS and the economy.\n\nDespite continuing Brexit uncertainty, the government has said it is determined to press ahead with its plans, announcing its intention to hold a Budget on 6 November.\n\nNegotiations over the UK's departure, with Mr Johnson trying to secure an agreement that will enable the country to leave by 31 October.\n\nThe government says if it can strike a deal with the EU, it will introduce a withdrawal agreement bill and aim to secure its passage through Parliament before the Halloween deadline.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe origins of the current State Opening date back to the 1850s\n\nThe prime minister's partner, Carrie Symonds, was among those watching\n\nLabour described the Queen's Speech as a \"party political broadcast\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look at the fanfare and formality behind this year's State Opening of Parliament\n\nThe Queen's Speech is famous for its pageantry - with the monarch arriving at the Palace of Westminster in a carriage procession and delivering her speech from the throne in the House of Lords, flanked by the Prince of Wales.\n\nMr Johnson said his government was focused on \"seizing the opportunities that Brexit present\".\n\nThere is also a commitment to reform adult social care in England, although no legislation planned at this stage.\n\nNew measures will also be brought forward to tackle electoral fraud, including requiring people to show an approved form of ID before voting in general and local elections.\n\nA shake-up of the rail franchising system in England is also being proposed to improve service reliability, reduce \"fragmentation\" and introduce a \"greater distance\" between ministers and the day-to-day running of the network.\n\nMr Johnson said the programme, which includes four bills carried over from the last session, demonstrated Brexit was not the limit of the government's ambitions.\n\nHe told the Commons: \"At the heart of this speech is an ambitious programme to unite this country with energy, optimism and with the basic common sense of one-nation Conservatism.\"\n\nBut Mr Corbyn criticised a number of the proposals, saying mental health care was \"getting worse and worse\", social care proposals \"offered the same promise after two years of inaction and failure\", and plans for education were \"shockingly weak\".\n\nHe told MPs: \"There has never been such a farce of a government with a majority of minus 45 and a 100% record of defeat in the House of Commons, setting out a legislative agenda they know cannot be delivered in this Parliament.\"\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, focused his criticism on the PM's plans for Brexit, saying the UK had \"entered very dark days\".\n\nHe said the EU was \"the greatest example of political co-operation and peace - leaving behind the scars of war, the pain of loss, and instead choosing to take the hand of friendship across this continent\" and to leave would be a \"tragedy\".\n\nFormer Tory cabinet minister Dominic Grieve, who now sits as an independent after rebelling over Brexit, said the PM would find it \"very difficult\" to govern until Brexit was resolved.\n\nThat was a very long shopping list of things, but the unsaid reality, of course, is that the biggest question hanging over it all is Brexit.\n\nThe Queen may have said the government's priority is to leave on 31 October, but there's no way anyone in this square mile can be sure that happens. Whether it happens - and how it happens - is a much bigger influence than anything we've just heard being said.\n\nIn many ways, it's a Queen's Speech from a parallel universe - one in which Boris Johnson gets his way. Where he definitely gets his deal with Brussels by the end of this week, he definitely gets it through Parliament on Saturday and definitely gets all the Brexit legislation passed. It's also a world in which he definitely gets the general election he wants in the next few weeks and then definitely gets a Conservative majority.\n\nWe shouldn't dismiss this speech - it does mean something, but what it means is this is what we are likely to see as the basis for a Conservative manifesto whenever that election does come.", "Paul Gascoigne arriving at Teesside Crown Court for the start of the trial\n\nFormer footballer Paul Gascoigne \"forcefully and sloppily\" kissed a woman on the lips while drunk on a train, a court has heard.\n\nThe 52-year-old is accused of an \"unpleasant\" sex assault on the service from York to Newcastle in August 2018.\n\nThe ex-England star, who denies sexual assault by touching, told police he had \"kissed a fat lass\" to give her a \"confidence boost\", jurors were told.\n\nThe complainant was left \"shocked and upset\", Teesside Crown Court heard.\n\nOpening the case for the prosecution, William Mousley QC said: \"This case concerns a brief but unpleasant assault with sexual overtones on a train.\"\n\nThe jury heard that after his arrest, Mr Gascoigne, who now lives in Leicester, told police it was \"a peck on the lips\" and indicated he did not consider it a serious matter.\n\nMr Mousley said the woman, who had been travelling home, noticed a \"shouty and sweary\" passenger behind her.\n\nThe prosecutor said that after drawing attention to himself, the man, whom the woman later learned was Mr Gascoigne, had tried to sit on her.\n\nAfter the woman tried to move away from the former footballer, he put his hands on her cheeks and kissed her, the court heard.\n\nWhen confronted by other passengers, the former Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Rangers, Middlesbrough and Everton midfielder told them he had tried to give her a \"confidence boost\", the court heard.\n\nMr Mousley added that, when questioned by police, the accused had tried to defend himself by saying other passengers had been teasing her about her build and that he had given her a \"peck on the lips to reassure her\".\n\nDescribing the alleged offence as a \"blatant act\", the prosecutor added that it was \"humiliating\" for the woman involved, adding: \"Perhaps it was him showing off.\"\n\nHe added: \"The prosecution case is this was a sexual assault and we will seek to prove it by making you sure that it was nothing else.\"\n\nMr Gascoigne smiled at onlookers outside the court\n\nThe complainant, giving evidence from behind a screen, told the jury the kiss was \"forceful\" and \"not like a peck on the cheek\".\n\nShe said she noticed Mr Gascoigne being \"very noisy\" on the train, adding: \"There were lots of cans on the floor.\"\n\nShe told the jury she had put on her headphones and tried to ignore the noise coming from Mr Gascoigne behind her.\n\n\"He kept saying sorry,\" she told the jury. \"I said 'It's fine'. I was just looking out of the window.\n\n\"He said sorry a second time, and then tapped my arm.\n\n\"I turned around to face him and he grabbed my face and kissed me full on the lips, and I was taken aback because it was just completely out of the blue. I just completely froze.\"\n\nMr Gascoigne's barrister, Michelle Heeley QC, asked the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, whether a fellow passenger had said, following the kiss: \"You've got a responsibility to other women on this train to do something [about the incident].\"\n\nThe woman said: \"I had already made up my mind to report it to the travel police, because it was unwanted behaviour, there was no instigation on my part of wanting any attention from him.\"\n\nConcluding her evidence, she added any attempt by Mr Gascoigne to apologise was for only appearance, telling the court: \"He was just saying sorry for the sake of it, not because it was actually meant.\"\n\nA female passenger who was on the train told the jury that she saw Mr Gascoigne kiss the woman, saying that the alleged victim was \"very shaken\".\n\nShe told Teesside Crown Court that, moments after the incident, she had heard the former footballer say: \"I was just trying to give her some confidence.\"\n\nThe witness said that earlier on in the journey she had seen Mr Gascoigne drinking something from a milk carton, saying: \"It was not the colour of milk.\"\n\nThe trial, which is due to last five days, continues.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Budget has been announced for 6 November, with Chancellor Sajid Javid saying it will be \"the first budget after leaving the EU\".\n\n\"This is the right and responsible thing to do - we must get on with governing,\" he said.\n\nIt will be Mr Javid's first Budget since he became chancellor in July.\n\nThe Budget date is normally announced in September. Mr Javid said the Budget would detail the government's plans to \"shape the economy for the future\".\n\nBBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said that in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the full Budget would be delayed and the 6 November announcement would be \"a simple economic statement\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by norman smith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government's independent financial watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which produces economic forecasts for the Budget would normally get ten weeks notice to prepare.\n\nThe OBR said it was able to prepare some information in advance, but that its forecasts would be based on the UK securing a Brexit deal.\n\nIt said since the EU referendum, its forecasts had been based on \"broad brush assumptions for a relatively smooth [Brexit] outcome\". The OBR said that approach would continue \"in the absence of any specific information\".\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said he expected the Budget to be \"an electioneering stunt rather than a Budget to rebuild our stalling economy and reset the direction of our country\".\n\nThe Budget is the government's yearly announcement on its plans for tax and spending for the coming financial year, which starts in April 2020.\n\nThere are expectations that the chancellor could relax the government's borrowing rules to give him more spending power.\n\nThe rules state that borrowing should remain below 2% of national income, at about £46bn.\n\nMr Javid has already suggested he is prepared to borrow more to take advantage of current record-low borrowing costs, and has previously said he plans to review the borrowing rules.\n\nIn August's spending review, Mr Javid declared the government had \"turned the page on austerity, announcing its largest increase in spending for 15 years.\n\nNaming the date of a Budget is a sign from the chancellor to communicate that at least some Treasury business continues as normal.\n\nBut there is nothing routine about a government yet to win a vote in the Commons, trying to pass a Budget.\n\nIn theory there will be measures to boost infrastructure, spending and some taxes.\n\nBut if there is a no-deal Brexit, the Treasury will instead turn its focus on giving immediate support to the economy, businesses and households.\n\nSo, in that case, there would be a delay to the Budget.\n\nIn a no-deal scenario, there might be some extra scope for a cut to VAT which could be part of a general fiscal stimulus package for the economy.\n\nWhatever happens, a new set of Budget numbers and economic forecasts is being prepared by the government's independent financial watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility. The Bank of England too will be preparing its new forecasts for the 7 November Inflation Report, and any implications for interest rates.\n\nThe Treasury will also reveal its new self-imposed constraints on borrowing - \"fiscal rules\"- designed to help create more space for spending and tax cuts.\n\nAnd if there is a Budget a week after a Brexit deal has passed the Commons, there could be a chance that the government could get support for its fiscal measures too.\n\nOr rather it could be part of the pathway to a general election next month.", "The Queen will outline the government's plans at the State Opening of Parliament\n\nMeasures to help the UK prosper after Brexit are to be set out in the Queen's Speech, the government has said.\n\nPlans to end the free movement of EU citizens into the UK and provide faster access to medicines will be unveiled.\n\nMinisters say a Brexit deal is a \"priority\" and they hope one can be passed through Parliament \"at pace\".\n\nBut the UK and EU are still involved in talks ahead of a key summit - with a Downing Street source saying they were \"a long way from a final deal\".\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU at 23:00 GMT on 31 October and the European leaders' summit next Thursday and Friday is being seen as the last chance to agree any deal before that deadline.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson updated his cabinet on the progress of the talks in Brussels on Sunday, saying he believed there was a \"way forward\" but also \"a significant amount of work\" to do.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Home Secretary Priti Patel said she believed it was important for people to see Parliament delivering on the issues that matter to them.\n\nShe said: \"Tomorrow you will see a Queen's Speech being announced - 22 new bills, working on the people's priorities, these are the types of issues that absolutely matter to the British public.\"\n\nThe first Queen's Speech of Mr Johnson's premiership, delivered during the State Opening of Parliament on Monday, will see the government highlight its priorities.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Getting Brexit done by 31 October is absolutely crucial, and we are continuing to work on an exit deal so we can move on to negotiating a future relationship based on free trade and friendly co-operation with our European friends.\n\n\"But the people of this country don't just want us to sort out Brexit... this optimistic and ambitious Queen's Speech sets us on a course to make all that happen, and more besides.\"\n\nThe government says the Queen's Speech will outline 22 bills including some that will introduce measures to allow the UK to \"seize the opportunities that Brexit presents\". The proposals include:\n\nThere are also proposals to tackle serious and violent crime, improve building standards, and increase investment in infrastructure and science.\n\nThe government said if it can strike a deal with the EU, it will introduce a withdrawal agreement bill and aim to secure its passage through Parliament before 31 October.\n\nBut Labour has criticised the decision to hold a Queen's Speech before any general election as a \"stunt\".\n\nParty leader Jeremy Corbyn told Sky News: \"Having a Queen's Speech and a State Opening of Parliament tomorrow is ludicrous. What we have got in effect is a party political broadcast from the steps of the throne.\"\n\nThe government does not have a Commons majority but Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly is urging opposition MPs not to reject the Queen's Speech - saying they should \"put differences over Brexit aside and give Parliament the power to get our country moving forward\".\n\nMonday 14 October - The Commons is due to return, and the government will use the Queen's Speech to set out its legislative agenda. The speech will then be debated by MPs throughout the week.\n\nThursday 17 October - Crucial two-day summit of EU leaders begins in Brussels. This is the last such meeting currently scheduled before the Brexit deadline.\n\nSaturday 19 October - Special sitting of Parliament and the date by which the PM must ask the EU for another delay to Brexit under the Benn Act, if no Brexit deal has been approved by Parliament and they have not agreed to the UK leaving with no-deal.\n\nThursday 31 October - Date by which the UK is due to leave the EU, with or without a withdrawal agreement.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After firing at the officers, the group set the police vehicles on fire.\n\nFourteen police officers have been killed and three injured in a shooting in western Mexico.\n\nThe police were carrying out a court order in El Aguaje, Michoacán state, when their convoy was ambushed.\n\nA powerful criminal group, the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, is believed to have carried out the attack.\n\nAuthorities said all resources would be put into finding those responsible. The region is a hotspot for violence linked to turf wars between drug cartels.\n\nMexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been trying to tackle drug crime since he took office last December.\n\nPolice patrol vehicles were ambushed as they passed through the town.\n\nReports say the convoy was surrounded by heavily armed men in a number of pick-up trucks who then fired on the officers and set their vehicles on fire.\n\nAt least 14 police officers were killed and three others injured.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mexico's drug war: Has it turned the tide?\n\nEl Aguaje is considered to be of strategic importance between two battling cartels: the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) and a splinter group of the Knights Templar called Los Viagras.\n\nA message left at the site suggested the attack was carried out by gunmen connected to the CJNG.\n\nThe supposed leader of the CJNG was killed by Michoacán police less than a week ago.\n\nIn Michoacán in August, nine people were found hanging from a bridge with seven other corpses found on the road.\n\nThe federal government offered assistance to the state authorities after Monday's attack.\n\nMichoacán Governor Silvano Aureoles Conejo said there would be \"no impunity\" for the attack on his officers.\n\nHowever, the Jalisco cartel has grown much more powerful in recent years and there have been no significant victories against them by either the state or federal government, the BBC's Will Grant in Mexico City reports.\n\nDespite the government's efforts to tackle drug crime, last year saw a record number of murders with over 29,000 recorded.\n\nWorse still, this year could be set to surpass that figure.", "The war in Syria has been reignited on new fronts by Turkey's incursion into the north east of the country.\n\nIn camps across the regions are thousands of terrified children whose parents supported the Islamic State group, but most of their countries don't want them home.\n\nIn one camp, the BBC has discovered three children, believed to be from London, whose parents joined IS five years ago, and were subsequently killed in the fighting.\n\nThe children - Amira, Heba and Hamza - are stranded, in danger and they want to come home.", "Harry Styles said he still checks \"weak spots\" in his home after he said he received notes through his letterbox\n\nA homeless man who camped outside pop star Harry Styles' house for several months has been found guilty of stalking the singer.\n\nMr Styles, 25, offered to buy Pablo Tarazaga-Orero, 26, food after he saw him sleeping rough outside his north west London home in March.\n\nSpeaking at Hendon Magistrates' Court, the singer said he locks his bedroom door every night after being followed.\n\nMr Styles said the man's behaviour was \"erratic and frightening\".\n\nThe former One Direction singer said he was \"sad to see someone so young sleeping rough\" when he first saw Tarazaga-Orero.\n\nHe bought him vegan sandwiches, salads and muffins, after the rough sleeper asked for some edamame beans.\n\nAfter trying to cut contact, the pop star saw him nearly every day, and received notes and money in his letterbox, District Judge Nigel Deane heard.\n\nWhen asked whether he had stalked the celebrity, Tarazaga-Orero said: \"That was never my intention. In the end I just wanted the money he offered me.\n\n\"I don't have any feelings for him. I'm not in love with him.\"\n\nTarazaga-Orero will be sentenced on 21 October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Salih Khater said he had panicked after getting lost, causing him to drive into pedestrians, cyclists and police\n\nA man who drove at cyclists and police officers outside Parliament has been jailed for life for attempted murder.\n\nSalih Khater, 30, of Highgate Street, Birmingham, aimed his car at members of the public before swerving towards the officers in Parliament Square on 14 August 2018.\n\nHe must serve at least 15 years in jail, the Old Bailey judge said.\n\nKhater was accused of attempting to cause maximum carnage, and it was said to be \"miraculous\" no-one was killed.\n\nThe silver Ford Fiesta driven by Khater smashed into a security barrier\n\nThe court was told he tried to \"kill as many people as possible\" with his Ford Fiesta.\n\nCCTV footage showed how he careered into a security lane and crashed into barriers as two police officers jumped out of the way.\n\nAlison Morgan QC told jurors Khater's attack was \"premeditated and deliberate\" and had a terrorist motive.\n\nThe defendant claimed he had driven to London to find the Sudanese embassy to get a visa but \"got lost\" around Westminster and panicked.\n\nHowever, a jury rejected his explanation for the crash and found him guilty of two charges of attempted murder in July.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jurors were shown CCTV footage of the defendant's car driving at cyclists before crashing into barriers\n\nIn mitigation, Peter Carter QC told the court Khater had still not offered an explanation for what he did.\n\nHe argued: \"The lack of evidence is not a proper basis for drawing a conclusion there is evidence of a terrorist connection.\"\n\n\"Your undoubted intention was to kill as many people as possible and by doing so spread fear and terror,\" she said; adding that he had \"replicated the acts of others who undoubtedly have acted with terrorist motives\".\n\nIt was \"miraculous\" that no-one died as a result of the defendant's actions, the Old Bailey heard\n\nThe court heard Khater was born in Sudan before being granted asylum in Britain in 2010, claiming he had been tortured in his birth country.\n\nIn the months before the attack, Khater had showed signs of \"paranoia\" about British authorities, emailing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to express concern about an \"event\" involving the intelligence services.\n\nRichard Smith, head of the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, said: \"This was a man who used his car as a weapon to attempt to kill as many people as possible, spreading fear and terror.\n\n\"It was our view that this attack was carried out with a terrorist purpose and the sentence confirms this,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The newborn is recovering in hospital\n\nA newborn baby girl has been discovered buried alive in northern India, a local police chief has revealed.\n\nAbhinandan Singh told reporters the baby was found by a villager who was burying his own daughter, who had died minutes after birth.\n\nThe baby girl, who had been placed inside an earthen pot about 3ft (90cm) below the ground, was rushed to hospital, where she is recovering.\n\nPolice have now launched an investigation into the incident.\n\n\"We are trying to find the parents of the baby and we suspect that this must have happened with their consent,\" Mr Singh told reporters in the state of Uttar Pradesh.\n\nAccording to the police chief, the villager found the girl by accident as he dug a grave in a burial ground for his own daughter.\n\n\"As they were digging a grave for her, at a depth of three feet, the spade hit an earthen pot, which was pulled out. There was a baby lying in it,\" Mr Singh explained.\n\n\"The police took the baby to the city hospital where she is getting treatment.\"\n\nIndia's gender ratio is one of the worst in the world. Women are often discriminated against socially and girls are seen as a financial burden, particularly among poor communities.\n\nCampaigners say a traditional preference for sons has meant millions of female children lost to foeticide and infanticide over the years.\n\nAlthough most unwanted female foetuses are aborted with help from illegal sex determination clinics, cases of baby girls being killed after birth are not uncommon either.", "The business expanded from a doorstep milk round in 1983\n\nFarming leaders are seeking \"urgent clarification\" about a major dairy amid claims farmers have been told it could no longer accept their milk supplies.\n\nFarmers who supply Tomlinsons Dairies, Wrexham, said they have been told to find an alternate milk processor but not given any reasons why.\n\nThe dairy has been asked to comment.\n\nA spokesman for NFU Cymru said it was \"investigating further to understand the problem\". One affected farmer said the situation was \"a mess\".\n\nI'm desperately concerned - dairy farming is something myself, my wife and family have done all our lives.\"\n\nFarmer Keith Thompson said he was lucky enough to find another firm able to process the 4,500 litres of milk his herd produces daily.\n\n\"Our immediate priority is to secure a milk buyer,\" he said. \"That's why my milk is on its way to Lancashire.\"\n\nHe said he had received a text message from an agricultural agent advising him to find a new milk processor on Sunday morning.\n\n\"I'm desperately concerned - dairy farming is something myself, my wife and family have done all our lives.\"\n\nIt is not yet known how many farmers have been affected.\n\nAled Jones, who is deputy president of NFU Cymru and has a farm outside Caernarfon in Gwynedd, said: \"I could hardly sleep last night. Everything was going on in my mind.\n\n\"I just felt disappointed. It's extremely worrying and margins are very very tight as it is.\"\n\nMr Jones was able to get the milk in his tank taken by a processor in Pwllheli, but he said it was just a \"stopgap\" before a permanent solution could be found.\n\nNFU Cymru said it had \"received reports of issues at Tomlinson's Dairy\", adding: \"We are currently seeking urgent clarification and investigating further to understand the problem and the potential impact on our members.\n\n\"We will work to assist any affected members where possible.\"\n\nIn 2017, Tomlinson's Dairies expanded its cold storage facilities after receiving £5m from Welsh Government, £2m from Finance Wales and £14.5m from HSBC.\n\nIt was employing about 170 staff that year and planned to create 70 more jobs with its expansion.\n\nThe business was established in 1983 by brothers Philip and John Tomlinson, expanding from a doorstep round using milk from their family dairy farm in Minera.\n\nAnother Tomlinsons supplier, Wrexham dairy farm JH Morris, said it received a phone call on Saturday advising it to contact one of three alternate milk processors, including Cheshire-based County Milk, to arrange milk collection.\n\n\"We don't know what's happening,\" said Judith Morris.\n\nMark Langslow, a director at County Milk, said he was \"surprised\" to start receiving calls on Saturday from worried farmers asking him to accept milk supplies.\n\nHe said he had not received any advance notice from Tomlinsons, but pledged to help farmers.\n\n\"I don't know the underlying cause that has prompted this,\" he added.", "A British man jailed for numerous sex crimes against Malaysian children has been found stabbed to death in prison.\n\nRichard Huckle, 33, from Ashford, Kent, abused as many as 200 children.\n\nIn 2016, he was given 22 life sentences after admitting 71 charges of sex abuse of children aged between six months and 12 years, between 2006 and 2014.\n\nIt is understood he was attacked on Sunday in his cell at Full Sutton Prison, near York, with what was described as a makeshift knife.\n\nPolice were called shortly after 12:30pm and have launched an investigation into his death, which they are treating as suspicious.\n\nHuckle's trial at the Old Bailey in 2016 heard that investigators who checked his computer found more than 20,000 indecent pictures and videos of his assaults.\n\nThese were shared with paedophiles worldwide through a hidden website on the so-called dark web.\n\nHuckle, who worked as a freelance photographer, tried to make a business out of his abuse by crowd-funding the release of the images. He was compiling a paedophile's manual at the time of his arrest in 2014.\n\nAt the end of his trial, Judge Peter Rook said Huckle's sentence reflected the \"public abhorrence\" over his \"campaign of rape\".\n\nHe said: \"It is very rare indeed that a judge has to sentence sexual offending by one person on such a scale as this.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Angus Crawford traces the path of Richard Huckle in Kuala Lumpur\n\nHuckle was arrested at Gatwick Airport by National Crime Agency officials in December 2014, following a tip-off by Australian authorities.\n\nHe presented himself as a practising Christian and first visited Malaysia on a teaching gap year when he was 18 or 19.\n\nHe went on to groom children while doing voluntary work.\n\nIn online posts, Huckle had bragged: \"Impoverished kids are definitely much easier to seduce than middle-class Western kids.\"\n\nCommenting on one of his victims, he boasted: \"I'd hit the jackpot, a 3yo girl as loyal to me as my dog and nobody seemed to care.\"\n\nHuckle's encrypted paedophile manual was found on his laptop ready for publication on the dark web.\n\nLast year, BBC Three produced a documentary about Huckle, which explored his proximity to children in Cambodia, India and the UK.\n\nIn it, retired police officer Jim Gamble, who used to lead child abuse investigations in Britain, called for a more extensive investigation into potential abuses in the UK.\n\nFull Sutton is a maximum security men's prison around 11 miles east of York that holds \"some of the most difficult and dangerous criminals in the country\", according to the Ministry of Justice website.\n\nResidents have protested against plans to expand Full Sutton\n\nIt has a total capacity of around 550, and holds only Category A prisoners, whose escape would be considered highly dangerous, and Category B prisoners, whose escape must be made \"very difficult\".\n\nLast August one hundred officers were called when a prisoner went on a rampage, attacking staff and starting a fire.\n\nPlans to build a Category C facility alongside the current facilities, making a 1,440-inmate \"mega prison\", have been opposed by Humberside Police, who fear it would increase violent crime within the jail and raise demands on the force.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'This decision goes against Good Friday Agreement'\n\nPeople born in Northern Ireland remain British citizens according to the law, even if they identify as Irish, tribunal judges have determined.\n\nIn 2017, NI woman Emma De Souza won a case against the Home Office after it deemed she was British when her US-born husband applied for a residence card.\n\nThe Good Friday Agreement allows people to identify as British, Irish or both.\n\nBut on Monday an immigration tribunal upheld an appeal of the case, brought by the Home Office.\n\nTánaiste (Irish deputy PM) Simon Coveney said the Irish government had concerns about \"citizenship and identity provisions\" of the Good Friday Agreement being delivered, and would raise them with NI Secretary Julian Smith on Tuesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs De Souza said she was \"disappointed\" and that she would now seek for the case to be heard in the Court of Appeal.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said it was pleased the tribunal agreed that UK nationality law was consistent with the Good Friday Agreement.\n\n\"We respect the right of the people of Northern Ireland to choose to identify as British or Irish or both and their right to hold both British and Irish citizenship,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nIn September, judges in London considered the case in the Upper Tribunal, which handles appeals against decisions made in First Tier Immigration Tribunals.\n\nThe Home Office argued people born in Northern Ireland remained British citizens according to the law, even if they identify as Irish.\n\nAnyone born in Northern Ireland has the right to identify as Irish or British or both, thanks to the Good Friday Agreement, signed in April 1998 by the British and Irish governments and Northern Ireland's political parties.\n\nThe agreement said the British and Irish governments would: \"Recognise the birthright of all the people of Northern Ireland to identify themselves and be accepted as Irish or British, or both, as they may so choose, and accordingly confirm that their right to hold both British and Irish citizenship is accepted by both governments and would not be affected by any future change in the status of Northern Ireland.\"\n\nResponding to the decision, Mrs De Souza criticised the British government and said it had failed, in her view, to implement the agreement.\n\nMrs De Souza applied for a residence card for her US-born husband in December 2015, making the application under her Irish passport.\n\nHowever, the Home Office rejected the application as it deemed Mrs De Souza was British, even though she says that she never held a British passport.\n\nThey requested that Mrs De Souza either reapply as a British citizen or renounce her British citizenship and pay a fee to apply as an Irish citizen.\n\nBut she challenged the decision, citing the Good Friday Agreement's terms that assert her ability to identify as Irish, British or both.\n\nIn 2017, a judge said Mrs De Souza was an \"Irish national only who has only ever been such\" and the following February, the first tier tribunal ruled in favour of Mrs De Souza.\n\nLater in 2018, the Home Office lodged an appeal and the case was heard by a panel of judges in the Upper Tribunal court in September 2019.\n\nIn its ruling, the tribunal judges determined that despite the Good Friday Agreement giving people the right to identify as British or Irish or both, it did not supersede the 1981 British Nationality Act, which sets out the terms of citizenship for people born in the UK, including in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe judges also said: \"To make citizenship by birth in the United Kingdom (or any part of it) dependent on consent raises a host of difficult issues.\"\n\nThe couple said they would try to take their case to the Court of Appeal\n\nLawyers for Mrs De Souza and her husband had argued that on one of the web pages of the Northern Ireland Executive, there is a passage which says \"people born in Northern Ireland can choose to be British citizens, Irish citizens or both\", but the court ruled that the webpage was not \"an authoritative source of law\" and said it must therefore be regarded as wrong.\n\nMrs De Souza had previously been told by the Home Office to renounce her British citizenship, but argued she did not consider herself a British citizen and therefore had no need to renounce it.\n\nHowever, in its ruling the judges said that: \"As a matter of law, Mrs De Souza is, at present, a British citizen at the current time.\n\n\"Whilst we fully appreciate her strength of feeling on this matter, it is not disproportionate... for her nevertheless to be required to give notice of revocation, if she wishes only to be a citizen of Ireland.\"\n\nThe ruling added that in order to renounce British citizenship, an individual must pay a fee.\n\nMrs De Souza has said she will now try to take the case to the Court of Appeal.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Peers dressed in their crimson velvet robes hurry into the Lords chamber, which is filled with the excited chatter of members and their guests.\n\nMen dressed in morning suits and women in their finest dresses - several are wearing tiaras - file in alongside them, taking their seats in the famous chamber.\n\nAmong those in the small, packed gallery are the prime minister's partner, Carrie Symonds, and his father, Stanley Johnson, chatting and laughing, waiting patiently for the Queen to arrive.\n\nSupreme Court justice Lady Hale is seen milling about the front of the room, smiling and talking to colleagues.\n\nIt was only three weeks ago she gave the bombshell ruling that Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament was unlawful.\n\nNow, she is among the justices who have a front row seat for the announcement of his plans for government.\n\nThe prime minister's partner and father, Carrie Symonds with Stanley Johnson\n\nThe famous red benches fill up fast, a number of peers using their large, white programmes to fan themselves as many of the 779 House of Lords members attempt to squeeze in. They turn to each other, catching up like it is the first day of school.\n\nThere are only a few empty seats in the centre and towards the back.\n\nThe noise - and the excited atmosphere - builds. It regularly switches from full roar to complete silence and back again, as those gathered sense the monarch may be about to arrive - only to realise it's a false alarm.\n\nThis chamber is far grander than the Commons, full of red and gold and adorned with paintings and statues.\n\nFor a room that appears too small to seat all peers, it is amazing how tiny you can feel with stained glass windows towering above and a beautifully ornate ceiling to top it off.\n\nThe Imperial State Crown is carried through Parliament and into the Lords chamber\n\nSuddenly, a trumpet fanfare is heard in the distance, signalling that the Queen is indeed arriving and with that, a permanent hush descends.\n\nThen, the lights are brought up as the Imperial State Crown - seen only at Coronations and State Openings of Parliament - is brought into the chamber.\n\nThe Queen follows - her long, white dress catches the light with every movement, sparkling as much as the crown she is wearing.\n\nPeers and guests stand during her arrival, as the monarch takes her seat at the golden throne, with her son, Prince Charles, to her left. This is the 65th time she has performed this duty.\n\nThe House sits in silence as Black Rod - a senior parliamentary official who is the Queen's representative in the Lords - heads to the Commons to summon MPs.\n\nAlmost every seat was taken as the Queen read the speech\n\nThe atmosphere feels slightly jovial as the MPs file in from the Commons led by a smiling and laughing John Bercow, the Speaker, in his ceremonial robe.\n\nThis will be his last Queen's Speech in the job.\n\nMPs pack into a small space below the reporters' gallery. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tucked behind the Speaker.\n\nThe Queen clears her throat and begins her speech, her voice echoing around the chamber and accompanied only by the occasional clicking of a press photographer or coughs from her audience.\n\nThe Queen was accompanied by the Prince of Wales\n\nShe begins with Brexit, saying the government's \"priority\" has always been to secure the UK's departure from the EU on 31 October - just 17 days away.\n\nIn total, 26 bills are introduced, covering criminal justice, the NHS, education and the environment.\n\nTen minutes later and it's all over. The Queen rises and takes the hand of the Prince of Wales, walking slowly back to the robing room.\n\nThe doors close and the chamber bursts into noise again. Parliament is open.", "Thousands of council workers staged a strike over the dispute\n\nThousands of women who fought Glasgow City Council for equal pay have had money deducted to pay legal fees, despite pledges from their unions.\n\nMembers of Unison, Unite and the GMB were told they would get 100% of the settlement money offered.\n\nBut BBC Disclosure has seen legal documents showing \"all claimants\" have had fees \"deducted\".\n\nThe long-running dispute over women being paid less than men in jobs of the same grade was settled in January.\n\nGlasgow City Council agreed to pay out a reported £548m to compensate the women for the money they should have been paid, in many cases going back to 2006 when the new job evaluation scheme was adopted.\n\nThe scheme was supposed to ensure that men and women received equal pay for jobs of the same value.\n\nBut instead, some traditionally female-dominated roles such as catering or home care ended up being paid up to £3 an hour less than male-dominated jobs such as bin lorry workers or gardeners.\n\nStefan Cross was the claims lawyer who acted for the majority of the women\n\nThe majority of the 16,000 equal pay claimants were represented by private claims company Action 4 Equality, run by lawyer Stefan Cross.\n\nEmployment lawyer Carol Fox, who worked with Mr Cross on the Glasgow case, told BBC Scotland that the unions only began to put claims in for the women when they saw the success of claims companies, who were taking on councils and winning.\n\nBy the time of the settlement with Glasgow, Unison had dealt with 5,000 claims, while the GMB had more than 2,500 and Unite had 345 claims.\n\nThe unions promised members they would get all the money they were owed.\n\nHowever, BBC Disclosure can reveal that, when Glasgow City Council finally conceded last year, the three unions - as well as Action 4 Equality - entered into a deal before negotiations began.\n\nEmployment lawyer Carol Fox said she was \"troubled\" by aspects of the settlement\n\nAs part of this deal, it was agreed that every claimant would have a percentage of the settlement offered by the council deducted in legal fees. This included those backed by their unions.\n\nAccording to Stefan Cross 6.9% was deducted from \"all the claimants\", with a proportion being paid to his company, Action 4 Equality.\n\nIn his interview with the BBC, Mr Cross acknowledged the percentage deducted equated to \"many millions\" of pounds.\n\nHe said: \"The unions' proposal was that we had to agree parity, to start with. The cost of that is that fees had to be paid somehow. And this is the most fair, most beneficial way for everybody that we did it on that basis.\"\n\nThe BBC understands none of the claimants represented by their unions were told they would be paying fees.\n\nUnder the terms of the settlement, none of the women are allowed to speak about how much they were awarded.\n\nThey were also not told the formula that was used to calculate their offer.\n\nEach woman had an \"individual offer\" depending on how far back they were allowed to claim, how much they were underpaid per hour and how many hours they worked.\n\nMs Fox, who also worked on equal pay cases in North and South Lanarkshire, said she was \"troubled\" by aspects of the settlement.\n\nShe worked alongside Stefan Cross but left the company in 2015 and played no part in the final negotiations for the Glasgow settlement.\n\n\"That deal is very different from all the other settlements that we reached,\" she said.\n\n\"It doesn't appear to me that they've been told the detail of what they've paid. And who they've paid it to, and what it's been for.\"\n\nAudrey Masson worked as a home carer for 15 years but is receiving only five years of back-pay\n\nAll of the claimant organisations said their members or clients benefited from this deal and received higher offers by working together.\n\nBut Audrey Masson, a home carer represented by the GMB, said: \"Nothing against Stefan Cross, why should we have to pay, because I never signed for him to represent me. I signed for the unions.\"\n\nHelen Mitchell, a home carer represented by Unison, said: \"I object to paying Unison, I certainly object to paying Stefan Cross. I would like my money back.\"\n\nMr Cross, the director of Action 4 Equality, said that by signing their settlement offers, claimants agreed to the terms.\n\nHe said: \"Every single agreement includes a legal commitment to make that payment.\"\n\nHelen Mitchell said she would like her money back\n\nThe unions said settlements were based on a \"complex formula\" and they could not discuss them because they were confidential.\n\nAs well as the legal fees, BBC Disclosure also discovered that potentially thousands of workers have missed out on claiming for the full extent of their discrimination.\n\nUnder Scottish law, workers who have been discriminated against are entitled to five years of back-pay if their case is successful. Because the pay dispute at Glasgow City Council has gone on since 2006, the maximum time period claimants can receive compensation for is 12 years.\n\nAudrey Masson worked as a home carer for 15 years but is receiving only five years of back-pay. She alleges her union never told her to put in a claim.\n\nShe did eventually lodge a claim but too late to receive the full amount of 12 years of back-pay.\n\nMs Masson said: \"We stood on the picket lines for equality, and we didn't even get it. Most of the people that stood on the picket lines didn't even know they were only getting five years.\"\n\nAccording to Mr Cross, thousands of claims were lodged too late.\n\nHe said it was a legal requirement that each individual must make their own decision as to whether they pursued a claim.\n\nBut he said: \"It is undoubtedly the case that there was not a campaign by the trade unions in the early days to put in cases.\"\n\nMr Cross said: \"You have half the women getting [the full] worth of claim, and the other half getting a maximum of five years of claim, because their claims were not put in at the right time.\"\n\nMs Fox, who worked on numerous council equal pay claims, said the unions were \"conflicted\" because they had a concern for the higher-earning male workers who were also members.\n\nThere was a fear their bonuses and extra payments could be lost if they pushed for equal pay for women, she said.\n\nThe GMB union, which represented Ms Masson, denied that claims were put in late.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Gary Smith, GMB Scotland secretary, said: \"We were given the wrong legal advice.\n\nHe added: \"We did not pursue the same cases as the private lawyers, or indeed one of the other unions, but our members were not left at a detriment in the end.\"\n\nPeter Hunter, Unison's regional manager, said the union was proactive in pursuing claims. He said: \"Some union members and some employees generally missed out, because the system is individual. People need to consent to have somebody act for them, and they need to lodge a personal claim.\"\n\nThe third union involved, Unite, said it did not accept its members had been left \"in any detriment by failing to support and submit early equal pay claims\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe widow of a police officer killed on duty said he was \"gentle giant with a heart of gold\" as she addressed hundreds of people at his funeral.\n\nUniformed colleagues of PC Andrew Harper lined the route as the cortege made its way to the private service at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford.\n\nThe 28-year-old died after being dragged under a vehicle on a road near Sulhamstead, Berkshire, on 15 August.\n\nHis widow Lissie Harper said he \"wore his uniform with pride\".\n\nReading the eulogy, she said: \"You used to tell me we were a team and that we would get through all of life's hurdles together, how I wish you were here with me now. The hardest challenge of all is losing you.\n\n\"Keeping everyone safe was your priority, not only in your job but with your family too. Everything was always okay when you were around.\n\n\"Although Andrew was strong he was also unfailingly kind, a gentle giant with a heart of gold.\"\n\nThe couple, who were childhood sweethearts and had been together for 13 years, had only been married for four weeks.\n\nShe added: \"He was my hero and his spirit will live on in my memories forever.\"\n\nPC Andrew Harper had married his wife Lissie four weeks before his death\n\nEarlier members of the public paid their respects as the cortege led by mounted officers travelled through Oxford before the service, which was attended by 800 mourners.\n\nThe coffin was draped in a navy flag with a police crest on the side and was carried into the cathedral at 11:00 BST by six officers.\n\nLeading the service, the Dean of Christ Church the Very Rev Dr Martyn Percy said: \"The tributes that have poured in for Andrew exemplify a truly outstanding young man, but also the very best virtues in policing.\n\n\"He represented policing at its best. He was everything you wanted in a police officer. Authentic, brave, genuine, and kind.\"\n\nLissie Harper left a symbol of her husband's life during the service\n\nMrs Harper placed her husband's police hat on his coffin, while members of PC Harper's family also laid symbols of his life in front of a large photograph of him inside the cathedral.\n\nSongs by Shirley Bassey and Russell Watson were played during the service, in addition to performances from the cathedral's choir.\n\nColleague PC Jordan Johnstone paid tribute to his \"infectious smile and relentless humour\".\n\n\"I'm privileged to have worked with you and even more so to call you my friend,\" he added.\n\nOfficers lined the streets as the cortege travelled through Oxford\n\nPC Harper had married his childhood sweetheart Lissie just 28 days before he died.\n\nToday she, with other family and friends, came to Christ Church Cathedral to say their final goodbye.\n\nPeople who didn't know him came out to pay their respects. Hundreds of officers from PC Harper's force also lined the route. Many looked as young as he was.\n\nAs the hearse led by officers on horseback passed, silence fell. Officers bowed their heads. Some people in the crowds began to cry.\n\nThrough the glass of the hearse PC Harper's coffin could be seen draped in a Thames Valley Police flag.\n\nA young officer who died while doing his job. A hero to so many.\n\nPC Harper, from Wallingford in Oxfordshire, was killed on the A4 Bath Road while investigating a reported break-in.\n\nThames Valley Police Federation chairman Craig O'Leary said PC Harper was \"a hero\" who \"loved being a police officer\".\n\nThe force said its flags would be flying at half-mast as a mark of respect to the officer.\n\nIt added on Twitter: \"Today is going to be a tough day for all our officers, staff and volunteers as we pay tribute to our fallen colleague.\"\n\nLissie Harper placed her husband's police hat on his coffin\n\nThree teenagers remain in custody charged with murdering PC Harper.\n\nHenry Long, 18, from Mortimer in Reading, and two 17-year-old boys, who cannot be named because of their age, are accused of murder and conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nThomas King, 21, from Basingstoke, is also accused of conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nJed Foster was also accused of murder but prosecutors dropped his charges following further police investigation.\n\nToday I would like to remember and honour the kind brave and lovely man we all know. We are all here just for you.\n\nFrom the ever sweet, lanky, red faced boy passing me notes in class, to the strong and loyal man you grew to be. I have always known how special you are. We often talked about how lucky we were to have found and kept each other, true childhood sweethearts, loving one another more and more with each passing day. Not a day went past that we didn't say I love you.\n\nYou used to tell me we were a team and that we would get through all of life's hurdles together, how I wish you were here with me now. The hardest challenge of all is losing you.\n\nWe managed to pack so many amazing memories into the last 13 years, travelling the world, buying a house and getting married. You had a contagious love for life, filling each day with laughter and appreciating all the little things.\n\nYou have always been a protector. Whether in your role of big brother, fierce friend, loving husband or keeper of peace among the public, keeping everyone safe was your priority, not only in your job but your family too. Everything was always okay when you were around.\n\nAlthough Andrew was strong he was also unfailingly kind, a gentle giant with a heart of gold. He wore his uniform with pride and vowed to challenge the bad and celebrate the good.\n\nHe loved to be part of a team and had a work ethic to admire. Looking around me today I know that he was classed so very highly among his peers, known for being proactive, kind and fair.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Northern Ireland must stay in a \"full UK customs union\" after Brexit, the Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) deputy leader Nigel Dodds has said.\n\nHis comment came as UK and EU officials held what were described as \"intense\" talks in a bid to secure a new deal.\n\nNeither side has given details about the common ground that has reportedly been found on the Irish border issue.\n\nMr Dodds said: \"There is a lot of stuff coming from Brussels, pushed by the Europeans in the last hours.\n\n\"One thing is sure - Northern Ireland must remain fully part of the UK customs union and Boris Johnson knows it very well,\" he told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.\n\nNegotiations between the UK and the EU are taking part at the EU Commission in Brussels and are expected to continue on Sunday.\n\nA summit of European leaders is due to take place next Thursday and Friday is seen as the last chance to agree a deal before 31 October - the date the UK is due to leave the EU.\n\nPlans by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to avoid concerns about hard border on the island of Ireland after Brexit were criticised by EU leaders at the last week.\n\nBut he held talks with Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar on Thursday, with both leaders saying they could \"see a pathway to a possible deal\".\n\nSince then, European Council President Donald Tusk has suggested there was only the slightest chance of an agreement.", "Justin Trudeau was surrounded by high profile security at the Mississauga rally\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he plans to continue election campaigning as normal, a day after wearing a bulletproof vest to a political event.\n\nPolice sources quoted by Canadian media said there had been a security threat, but details were not made public.\n\nSenior political figures in Canada rarely need high levels of protection.\n\nMr Trudeau's rival candidates have condemned any threats to political figures.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Trudeau appeared 90 minutes late at a campaign rally in Mississauga, Ontario, and body armour was visible beneath his shirt and jacket.\n\nHe was also surrounded by a uniformed security detail wearing backpacks. The backpacks held firearms, police sources quoted by Canadian broadcaster CBC said. Another officer was carrying a ballistic shield, CBC added.\n\nMr Trudeau made a speech surrounded by officers and then mixed with the audience before leaving. His wife, Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau, had been expected to introduce him but did not appear, local media reported.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Trudeau appeared at another campaign event wearing just shirtsleeves without any protection underneath.\n\n\"This will not change at all how I campaign,\" he said during the event in York.\n\nAsked about any threats against him, he declined to give details saying that his first concern had been for his family and for those at the rally.\n\n\"I took advice from the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police), worked with them,\" he added.\n\nMr Trudeau was back in normal clothes during public engagements on Sunday\n\nAndrew Scheer, leader of Canada's Conservative Party and Mr Trudeau's main election rival, took to Twitter saying that \"threats against political leaders have absolutely no place in our democracy\".\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\nAlso on Twitter, leader of the New Democratic Party (NPD) Jagmeet Singh called the threats \"troubling\".\n\nIt is not the first time in recent months that normally relaxed Canadian politicians have needed increased security.\n\nIn September, environment minister Catherine McKenna was assigned a security detail because of abuse she had received over her stance on climate change.\n\nCBC said police were compiling daily reports on online threats against political leaders leading up to the 21 October federal election.", "Stephen Moore was described as the \"most sweet, charming and affable of men\"\n\nStephen Moore - known as the voice of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy's Marvin the Paranoid Android - has died aged 81.\n\nHe also played Adrian Mole's father on TV, and the dad to Harry Enfield's grumpy teenager Kevin.\n\nHitchhiker's producer and director Dirk Maggs said Moore was the \"most sweet, charming and affable of men\".\n\nHe paid tribute to \"an amazing, varied career\", adding that he was best known for the role of Marvin.\n\nMoore was the voice of Marvin for five series of Hitchhiker's on radio, and the 1980s TV adaptation\n\nThe first series of Hitchhiker's appeared on Radio 4 in 1978, and after being adapted for TV in the 1980s, it returned to the airwaves in 2003.\n\nIn it Marvin is a failed prototype robot with \"genuine people personalities\", which has led him to struggle with severe depression.\n\nMaggs said: \"That was the thing that won the hearts of people, Marvin is the most miserable character but people seem to love him.\n\n\"It was Stephen's voice that made that happen.\"\n\nThe prolific actor also played teenage diarist Adrian Mole's father George on TV\n\nAlongside the paranoid android, Moore had a successful career on stage, TV and in film.\n\nHe was Major Robert Steele in Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far.\n\nHe played teenage diarist Adrian Mole's father George on TV, and the dad of Melody and Harmony Parker on children's show The Queen's Nose.\n\nHe also played the dad of grumpy teenager Kevin in Harry Enfield sketches\n\nMaggs said: \"I'll always remember the story of him getting locked in a mic cupboard in the Paris studio at the BBC, and they forgot he was in there and went out to lunch.\n\n\"He was an infinitely professional actor, would put up with any discomfort and waited to play his part.\n\n\"And then outside the working situation he was the most sweet, charming and affable of men.\"\n\nActor Ben Barnes - who worked with Moore in a West End production of The History Boys - wrote on Twitter that \"he was a sensitive, brilliant actor and a funny, lovely man\".", "Sitting on the Sovereign's Throne, Elizabeth II delivered the 65th Queen's Speech of her reign to Parliament earlier.\n\nThe speech outlined the government's agenda for the coming parliamentary session, with 26 bills - pieces of proposed legislation - spanning health, education, defence, technology, transport and crime, as well as Brexit.\n\nHere's what the Queen's Speech contained, and what it may mean in practice.\n\nWhat the speech said: \"My government intends to work towards a new partnership with the European Union, based on free trade and friendly co-operation.\"\n\nWhat it means: If Boris Johnson can secure a deal this week - which is backed by MPs - he will then need to pass the European Union Agreement Bill, ratifying it into UK law.\n\nHer Majesty also spoke of \"new regimes\" post-Brexit for fisheries, agriculture and trade and a new immigration system. All of these require new laws.\n\nWhat the speech said: \"My government is committed to addressing violent crime, and to strengthening public confidence in the criminal justice system.\"\n\nWhat it means: Law and order dominated the government's announcements. They included separate bills covering sentencing, foreign national criminals, extradition, serious violence, prisoners and police protections.\n\nThe extradition bill would create powers to immediately arrest suspected criminals who are in the UK but wanted in other \"trusted\" countries.\n\nThe sentencing bill would push back the automatic release point for violent and sexual offenders from half-way to two-thirds of the way through a sentence.\n\nA Foreign Nationals Offenders Bill would increase the maximum punishment for those who return to the UK in breach of a deportation order.\n\nWhat the speech said: \"Proposals on railway reform will be brought forward.\"\n\nWhat it means: Ministers are signalling that a new commercial model for the railways will arrive in 2020, replacing the existing franchised system - with more details to be published soon.\n\nWhat the speech said: \"New laws will be taken forward to help implement the National Health Service's Long Term Plan in England.\"\n\nWhat it means: On top of a renewed commitment to the plan - first published under Theresa May - the government will focus on improving mental health care and will bring in new laws aimed at improving patient safety and increasing the number of clinical trials for new drugs.\n\nHealth is devolved, so Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have other plans.\n\nWhat the speech said: \"My government will bring forward proposals to reform adult social care in England to ensure dignity in old age.\"\n\nWhat it means: In the long term, ministers are promising a further consultation - in the form of a green paper - on reforming the existing system.\n\nIn the shorter term, local authorities could be allowed to increase council tax by an extra 2% to raise £500m towards paying for care for the elderly.\n\nWhat the speech said: \"For the first time ever, environmental principles will be enshrined into law.\"\n\nWhat it means: Recalling especially pollutant vehicles, charges for certain single-use plastics and protecting trees are just some of the measures being considered in a new environment bill.\n\nThere is also a strong focus on animal welfare, with bills pledged increasing the sentence for animal cruelty.\n\nWhat the speech said: \"A white paper will be published to set out my government's ambitions for unleashing regional potential in England, and to enable decisions that affect local people to be made at a local level.\"\n\nWhat it means: The government is not committing to specific new laws in this area, but the policy paper is expected to expand the number, powers and funding of local mayors in England.\n\nWhat the speech said: \"My Ministers... will bring forward laws to implement new building safety standards.\"\n\nWhat it means: With the continuing fall-out from the Grenfell disaster in 2017, ministers plan to put into law a new safety framework for high-rise housing blocks.\n\nIt would include giving local residents more of a say and putting in place strong significant sanctions for house builders that don't meet the safety standards.\n\nThe government also plans to pass a new law to secure the compensation scheme for victims of the Windrush scandal.\n\nWhat the speech said on drones: \"An aviation bill will provide for the effective and efficient management of the UK's airspace.\"\n\nWhat it means: A bill would give police more powers to tackle unlawful use of drones and other model aircraft following last year's high-profile disruption at Gatwick airport.\n\nWhat the speech said on tips: \"Take steps to make work fairer, introducing measures that will support those working hard.\"\n\nWhat it means: This is a popular measure, welcomed by Labour, that would force employers in England and Wales to distribute all tips to workers without deductions.\n\nWhat the speech said: \"My government will take steps to protect the integrity of democracy and the electoral system.\"\n\nWhat it means: A new law is being touted which would require people to show photo ID to vote in UK elections.\n\nLabour says this is an attempt to \"rig\" the next election, by suppressing turnout among younger and ethnic minority voters.\n\nThere are four pieces of legislation that were \"carried over\" from the last session.\n\nThis means the government has decided to carry on from where they left off before prorogation, rather than starting from scratch.\n\nThe four include the Domestic Abuse Bill, which has cross-party support and started its journey through Parliament at the beginning of October.\n\nAfter six days of debate, MPs will vote on the Queen's Speech and any amendments made by MPs.\n\nBoris Johnson, who does not have a majority in the Commons, is at risk of potential defeat. The last PM to lose such a vote was Stanley Baldwin in 1924.", "Dyson, the technology company best known for its vacuum cleaners, has scrapped a project to build electric cars.\n\nThe firm, headed by British inventor Sir James Dyson, said its engineers had developed a \"fantastic electric car\" but that it would not hit the roads because it was not \"commercially viable\".\n\nIn an email sent to all employees, Sir James said the company had unsuccessfully tried to find a buyer for the project.\n\nDyson had planned to invest more than £2bn in developing a \"radical and different\" electric vehicle, a project it launched in 2016. It said the car would not be aimed at the mass market.\n\nHalf of the funds would go towards building the car, half towards developing electric batteries.\n\nIn October 2018 Dyson revealed plans to build the car at a new plant in Singapore. It was expected to be completed next year, with the first vehicles due to roll off the production line in 2021.\n\nDyson wanted to make something revolutionary - but also needed to make it pay. And the sums simply didn't add up.\n\nSales of electric cars are climbing rapidly. Yet they still cost more to make than conventional cars, and generate much lower profits - if any.\n\nMajor manufacturers like VW can afford to plough tens of billions into the EV industry - on the basis that economies of scale will ultimately make the technology cheaper and generate returns.\n\nEven the upstart Tesla, widely credited with showing everyone else just how good electric cars could be, has burnt through mountains of cash and had to go cap in hand to investors.\n\nDyson has concluded it simply can't afford to play with the big boys - although its efforts to make a quantum leap in battery technology will continue.\n\nThe company also planned to invest £200m in the UK in research and development and test track facilities. Much of that money has already been spent and Dyson said it would use the site for other projects.\n\nThe rest of the funds intended for the electric car project would still be spent on developing other products, including its battery technology, Dyson said.\n\nThe assistant managing director of Singapore's Economic Development Board Tan Kong Hwee said the country would still play a significant role in Dyson's growth plans.\n\n\"As Dyson's decision not to pursue the electric vehicle business was taken at an early stage, the disruption to its operations and workforce in Singapore will be minimal,\" he said.\n\nThe first cars had already been developed and were being tested.\n\nBut in an email on Thursday, Sir James revealed that Dyson was closing electric car facilities both in the UK and Singapore.\n\nThe project employed 523 people, 500 of whom were in UK, and Sir James praised their \"immense\" achievements.\n\n\"This is not a product failure, or a failure of the team, for whom this news will be hard to hear and digest,\" Sir James wrote.\n\nBut, he said: \"We have tried very hard throughout the development process, we simply can no longer see a way to make it commercially viable.\n\n\"The Dyson automotive team has developed a fantastic car; they have been ingenious in their approach while remaining faithful to our philosophies.\"\n\nHe said the firm was trying to find alternative roles for the workers in its home division, which makes things such as vacuum cleaners, fans and hairdryers.\n\nSir James said Dyson would continue to work on the battery technology, which was used in the car.\n\n\"Our battery will benefit Dyson in a profound way and take us in exciting new directions.\"\n\n\"In summary, our investment appetite is undiminished and we will continue to deepen our roots in both the UK and Singapore,\" he said.\n\n\"This is not the first project which has changed direction and it will not be the last.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A flat in Hammersmith in London was one of the properties raided on Tuesday\n\nPolice investigating what they say is the UK's biggest ever drugs conspiracy have charged 13 men.\n\nThe charges of conspiracy to import drugs follow a National Crime Agency investigation into the alleged smuggling of billions of pounds of cocaine, heroin and cannabis.\n\nThe NCA said the men were suspected of being members of an international organised crime group.\n\nThe group appeared at Manchester Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nIt comes after the men, aged 34 to 59, were arrested in dawn raids on Tuesday in London, Manchester, Stockport, St Helens, Warrington, Bolton, Dewsbury, and Leeds.\n\nThe NCA said seven men were charged with four counts of conspiracy to import class A drugs and four counts of conspiracy to import class B drugs.\n\nThey are Paul Green, 54, of Eccleston, St Helens; Sohail Quereshi, 59, of Wood Crescent, White City, London; Mohammed Ovais, 41, of Bournlee Avenue, Burnage, Manchester; Ghazanfar Mahmood, 48, of Green Lane, Bolton; Ifthikar Hussain, 46, of Upland Grove, Leeds, West Yorkshire; Vojtech Dano, 38, of Vulcan Gardens, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire and Ivan Turtak, 34, of Vulcan Gardens, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.\n\nA further six men were charged with two counts of conspiracy to import class A drugs and two counts of conspiracy to import class B drugs.\n\nThey are Khaleed Vazeer, 56, of Westwood Avenue, Timperley, Manchester; Steven Martin, 48, of Chorley Old Road, Bolton; Andrew Reilly, 37, of Grange Park Road, St Helens; Mark Peers, 55, of Norbeck Close, Warrington; Paul Ruane, 58, of Bewsey Rd, Warrington and Oliver Penter, 37, of Gladstone Street, Stockport.\n\nAll 13 men are due to appear at Manchester Crown Court on 7 November.\n\nFour men and two women from the Netherlands - who were arrested in April by the Dutch National Police on European Arrest Warrants - are currently awaiting extradition to the UK.", "The UK will deport EU citizens after Brexit if they do not apply for the right to remain in time, Home Office minister Brandon Lewis says.\n\nHe told a German newspaper they would have to leave even if they met all the criteria for a residency permit.\n\nCampaign group the3million, which represents EU citizens in the UK, said this was \"no way to treat people\".\n\nThe Home Office said 1.8 million people had applied to the scheme and others have until \"at least\" December 2020.\n\nIt said those with \"reasonable grounds\" for missing the date would be granted an extension to apply for the right to live and work in the UK.\n\nCurrently, EU nationals - and their families - living in the UK by 31 October have until the end of 2020 to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme in the event of a no-deal Brexit, or the end of June 2021 if there is a deal.\n\nThe Home Office says it does not have a figure for the number of EU citizens currently living in the UK, but estimates by the Migration Observatory put it at 3.3 million, excluding Irish citizens who have the right to settled status already.\n\nMr Lewis told Die Welt (in German): \"If EU citizens until this point of time have not registered and have no adequate reason for it, then the valid immigration rules will be applied.\"\n\nWhen pressed on whether that would include those who met the legal requirements for residence but did not apply in the next 14 months, he replied: \"Theoretically yes. We will apply the rules.\"\n\nMaike Bohn, spokeswoman for the3million, said the organisation had pressed the government \"for years\" to acknowledge what would happen to those who have not acquired the status in 2021.\n\n\"Today, after much wait, it is confirmed that hundreds and thousands of people will be punished with the threat of removal from their home. This is no way to treat people, let alone what was promised,\" she said.\n\n\"Those people who miss the tight deadline will face the full force of the hostile environment.\"\n\nShe said this was the \"grim reality\" of the government's position, \"no matter how many times they repeat the phrase 'EU citizens and their families are our friends, neighbours and colleagues and we want them to stay'\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. EU citizen Lily has lived near Bristol for 16 years. But she's worried about what Brexit means for her future\n\nThose applying for settled status must prove their identity, show they live in the UK and declare any criminal convictions.\n\nOnce granted settled status, they can use the NHS, study and access public funds and benefits, as well as travel in and out of the country.\n\nThe total number of settlement applications finalised by the end of September was 1.5 million, according to figures released this week by the Home Office.\n\nOf these, 61% were granted settled status and 38% were given pre-settled status, which can be applied to be updated once someone has lived in the country continuously for five years. The conclusion in 0.5% of cases was classed as having \"other outcomes\".\n\nLib Deb home affairs spokeswoman Christine Jardine said she was \"absolutely appalled\" by Brandon Lewis's deportation threat and she predicted \"thousands\" of people would be left undocumented by the \"arbitrary\" deadline.\n\nShe warned it could create another Windrush-style scandal - when individuals who arrived from Commonwealth countries between 1948 and 1971 were wrongly told they were in the UK illegally, despite living in the country for decades.\n\n\"Brandon Lewis has finally confirmed what we've known all along: Boris Johnson has no intention of keeping his promise to automatically guarantee the rights of EU citizens living in the UK,\" said Ms Jardine.\n\nMr Lewis tweeted in response to his critics:\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\nA statement from the Home Office said: \"We have received two million applications and are looking for reasons to grant status, not refuse, and EU citizens have until at least December 2020 to apply.\n\n\"We've always been clear that where they have reasonable grounds for missing the deadline, they'll be given a further opportunity to apply.\"", "Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) estimates around two million people are without electricity after the utility company cut the power.\n\nThis is the largest power outage in California's history and is meant to prevent the spread of wildfires.\n\nPG&E says they're starting to restore power in areas where the weather is improving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's a feeling that cannot be described\"\n\nIranian women have attended a World Cup qualifier in Tehran after being freely allowed to enter a stadium for a men's match for the first time in decades.\n\nWomen have effectively been banned from stadiums when men are playing since just after the 1979 Islamic revolution.\n\nThe change followed the death of a fan who had set herself alight after being arrested for trying to attend a match.\n\nBut Amnesty International described the move on Thursday as a \"cynical publicity stunt\".\n\nThe human rights organisation said there were only a \"token number\" of tickets for female fans as it called for all restrictions on female attendance to be lifted.\n\nMore than 3,500 women bought tickets to Thursday's World Cup qualifier against Cambodia, where they were granted access to a special women's-only section of the Azadi Stadium. The stadium has a capacity of about 78,000.\n\nThe tickets for women reportedly sold out within minutes.\n\nPhotos from inside the stadium showed female football fans excitedly waiving Iranian flags and cheering on their team. They were elated to see Iran win the match 14-0.\n\n\"We had fun for three hours. All of us laughed, some of us cried because we were so happy,\" one woman posted on Twitter. \"We had this experience very late in our life but I am so happy for younger girls who came to the stadium today.\"\n\nWomen were previously allowed into the Azadi Stadium to watch a screening of their team playing Spain in the 2018 World Cup, but Thursday was the first time in decades that they had been allowed to watch a game on Tehran's pitch.\n\nThe issue of gender discrimination in Iranian football came to global prominence last month when Sahar Khodayari, known as \"blue girl\" because of the team she supported, set fire to herself outside court while awaiting trial for trying to attend a match disguised as a man. The 29-year-old died a week later.\n\nFootball's governing body Fifa responded by stepping up pressure on Tehran to meet its commitments to allowing women to attend World Cup qualifiers.\n\nIt said this week that it would \"stand firm\" in ensuring that women had access to all football matches in Iran.\n\n\"It's not just about one match. We're not going to turn our eyes away from this,\" Fifa's head of education and social responsibility, Joyce Cook, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"We are firm and committed that all fans have an equal right, including women, to attend matches.\"\n\nSaudi Arabia last year allowed women for the first time to attend a football match as part of an easing of strict rules on gender separation by the ultra-conservative Muslim country.", "On World Mental Health Day, a disabled presenter shares her simple secrets of happiness.\n\nJessica Kellgren-Fozard gets a real kick out of life's small pleasures - a beautiful dress, a warm bath, or a good night's sleep (on a good day, all three).\n\nThe YouTuber, who has more than half a million subscribers to her channel, is deaf, partially visually impaired and has a rare autoimmune disorder, MCTD, as well as a nerve disorder, HNPP.\n\nSuch chronic disabilities may make her life tough at times, but she's determined not to let them define it.\n\n\"Because the medical condition that I live with is very unpredictable, I can wake up one morning and not have the use of my legs,\" she tells the BBC.\n\n\"Or I wake up in the morning - when I was fine the day before - and now all I can do is vomit and I can't lift my head and it's like, 'oh, right!' Because of that I never know what tomorrow is going to be, so I've kind of I've got to just enjoy now - otherwise, who knows?\"\n\nShe adds: \"I have to do the fun things now, I can't just be waiting.\"\n\nKellgren-Fozard lives in Brighton with her wife Claudia (and dogs Walter and Tilly). Their relationship even has its own Instagram page, \"for people who enjoy adorable and quite cheesy lesbians\". On her channel she posts about a wide range of topics from why you don't have to love your body, losing your hearing and whether or not straight people should go to Pride.\n\nNow, along with a host of other popular YouTube creators, including the Martinez Twins and Lady Leshurr, the activist has joined forces with modern philosopher Alain de Botton to tackle some of \"the greatest philosophical questions of our age\" for his School of Life channel.\n\nShe was handpicked for the unenviable task of grappling with a topic that has troubled mankind since the year dot - what is the secret of happiness?\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 The School of Life 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. End of youtube video by The School of Life\n\nFor some it meant money, for others it was dream holidays, and in one instance a Chanel handbag (other handbags are available). But in her seven secrets of happiness, the presenter went for more modest and noble targets - such as acceptance, appreciation and personal growth.\n\nIn the pursuit of this happiness, she thinks it's time we cut ourselves, and each other, some slack.\n\n\"Oh gosh, for sure. Things that we focus on on my channel are things like it's OK not to be OK, and the importance of kindness,\" she explains, via a subtitled video call app.\n\n\"We give ourselves a very hard time and we give other people a very hard time. From my experiences of living with an invisible disability, you feel the weight that society puts upon you.\n\n\"I don't look like a traditional disabled person, I don't act like I'm supposed to and there's this fear around it. What we need to be doing is really deconstructing that and, when we look at other people, take a moment to think with kindness. 'That looks like an able-bodied person walking into a disabled toilet, but maybe that person needs that help.'\n\n\"'Maybe I shouldn't be judging other people', and that in turn I think helps us to learn not to judge ourselves.\n\n\"Because,\" she goes on, \"it's very difficult in our modern hustle culture. Where we think you've got to be doing things and being productive all the time, to all become CEOs and making loads of money and it'll be great.\n\n\"What we really should be doing is going 'Oh, you know, I am actually a bit tired today, I should be kinder with myself, and give myself a bit of a break'. Or 'I didn't quite reach that goal that I wanted to reach but you know what, I was really struggling this month with a terrible cold so I actually did pretty well considering.'\"\n\nThe 30-year-old sometimes has to use a mobility aid and, on days when she's housebound, social media is her only her gateway to the outside world.\n\nShe stresses the importance of regularly connecting with people, both online and on her infrequent but treasured trips out - like this week's new series launch and her recent visit to the University of Worcester, where she was given an honorary degree for her work as a disability rights activist.\n\nCompleting her own actual degree in five years \"literally almost killed me\", she jokes - but you sense she means it.\n\nThe broadcaster has been greatly encouraged by the \"body positive movement\" she's seen developing on platforms like Instagram, though she does feel that others could do their bit for the general happiness index by curating their feeds with more \"intelligence\".\n\n\"You've also got a great community of people who talk about realities in life, and there's great mental health support on there as well.\n\n\"I think it's healthy to have a mix with the real life, terrible, grainy photo that my dad took of the sunset... but then there's a beer can in the foreground! That's real life.\n\n\"You should have that mixed in with your perfect Instagram shot.\"\n\nThe YouTube Originals The School Of… series is online now.\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by a mental health issue, help and support is available at bbc.co.uk/actionline.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None How to switch off auto-pilot", "\"No one's cracking open the champagne… don't even pour a pint of warm Guinness,\" joked one of the few people familiar with what actually happened on Thursday after talks between Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar.\n\nNothing that happened in the privacy of a country house wedding venue on the Wirral means there will be a deal with the EU in the next seven days.\n\nNothing has made the obstacles in the way of reaching an agreement magically disappear.\n\nBut something has changed today.\n\nAfter days of various EU players publicly scorning the UK's proposals, explaining the objections and lamenting the weaknesses, there is a tangible willingness, on the bloc's side at least, to see seriously if they can work.\n\nWe've discussed here so many times why Ireland's attitude matters so much, so the very public positivity from Mr Varadkar - his \"maybe\", instead of \"no\" to Mr Johnson's proposals - is extremely important.\n\nThere is hardly any detail out there of the compromises or concessions that might be actually in play to make a deal work.\n\nDon't give too much credence to even the best informed speculation that's already whirring online as to how it could happen.\n\nWhat Mr Varadkar's warm words represent though, perhaps, is an appetite on the EU side to focus on what might be possible, rather concentrate on the gaps.\n\nIt would be an epic assumption tonight to conclude that a deal will happen.\n\nMore heroic still to conclude that even if Ireland and the UK have found common cause, that their new understanding would automatically pass muster among all the other political players - the powerful EU member states, not to mention the DUP and the other parties in Parliament.\n\nAs Theresa May found to her cost, any compromises with the EU often cost her votes back at home.\n\nAll of the policy and political complexities are also up against the intense demands of the clock.\n\nThere is progress, but it is tentative.\n\nThe process has moved forward a few paces, but there are miles to go.\n\nRemember too with so much at stake, neither side want to be the ones to admit defeat first.\n\nBut against what was felt even on Thursday morning - almost a lost cause - these talks have produced a slight lift in the gloom.\n\nBoth sides will have to move if there's to be a deal, but at least for now, it seems they are willing to try.", "A jury at Swansea Crown Court found the man guilty of rape after a three-week trial\n\nA man who fathered at least six children with one of his daughters has been found guilty of rape.\n\nThe defendant, from south west Wales, who cannot be named, was also found guilty of repeatedly raping one of the girls she gave birth to, and another of his daughters.\n\nHe denied a total of 36 counts of rape, and one count of assault by penetration.\n\nThe man will be sentenced on 18 October at Swansea Crown Court.\n\nDuring the trial, the court was told the defendant \"groomed\" his two daughters, and a daughter subsequently born as a result, into having sex with him by acting as a \"psychic\" who sent them emails telling them what to do.\n\nHe \"created a false world touched by witchcraft and mysticism\", the court heard.\n\nThe man also organised the rape of one daughter by his friend, as he watched.\n\nDNA tests showed he had fathered at least six of his own daughters' children, one of whom he went on to abuse, Swansea Crown Court heard.\n\nHe claimed it was the girls who were blackmailing him and the sex was consensual because he did not know they were his own children.\n\nThe jury took four hours and 23 minutes to find him guilty on all counts.\n\nHe showed no emotion as the the unanimous verdicts were delivered.\n\nJudge Paul Thomas QC told the court it was a harrowing case.\n\n\"I've been involved in criminal cases as a barrister and as a judge for 40 years.\n\n\"This is in the top three worst cases I've ever dealt with.\n\n\"I can only thank you for your public duty,\" he said, before telling jurors counselling was available should they need it.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has described the abuse as \"sickening\".\n\nHayley Fackrell said after the hearing: \"These sickening acts of abuse were carried out by a person that was supposed to protect and care for the victims, but instead he systematically controlled their lives, grooming them for his sexual gratification.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Paul Jones of Dyfed-Powys Police said it was \"very difficult to summarise the impact of the crimes\".\n\nHe added: \"I wish to thank the victims in this case for their courage in coming forward.\n\n\"Their bravery and composure throughout this difficult trial has led to the conviction of a very dangerous offender, and I hope from today they can begin to move on and rebuild their lives.\"\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 at the centre of a row over diplomatic immunity will not return to the UK, according to briefing notes held by US President Donald Trump.\n\nAnne Sacoolas is suspected of being involved in a car crash that killed British motorcyclist Harry Dunn, who died in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nMrs Sacoolas later left the UK to return home to the US, after telling local police she had no such plans.\n\nThe note was photographed as Mr Trump addressed reporters at the White House.\n\nIt reads: \"(If raised) Note, as Secretary Pompeo told Foreign Secretary Raab, that the spouse of the US government employee will not return to the United Kingdom.\"\n\nMr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles said the US's apparent approach was \"beyond any realm of human thinking\".\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 to Sky News about the photograph of the notes, Mrs Charles said: \"I'm just disgusted.\n\n\"I don't see the point in Boris Johnson talking to President Trump, or President Trump even taking a call from Boris Johnson.\n\n\"If he'd already made his decision that if it were to be asked and if it were to be raised, the answer was already going to be no.\"\n\nDowning Street confirmed Mr Johnson had urged the US president to reconsider the decision to grant immunity to Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nAt the press briefing, Mr Trump called Mr Dunn's death a \"terrible accident\" and confirmed his administration would seek to speak to Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was in a crash with a Volvo\n\nPolice have said CCTV of the crash in which the teenager died shows a Volvo travelling on the wrong side of the road.\n\nSpeaking at the press briefing on Wednesday evening - after his conversation with the prime minister - Mr Trump said: \"The woman was driving on the wrong side of the road, and that can happen.\n\n\"You know, those are the opposite roads, that happens. I won't say it ever happened to me, but it did.\n\n\"So a young man was killed, the person that was driving the automobile has diplomatic immunity, we're going to speak to her very shortly and see if we can do something where they meet.\"\n\nAbout 23,000 individuals in the UK have diplomatic immunity, a status reserved for foreign diplomats and their families, as long as they don't have British citizenship.\n\nIt means that, in theory, they cannot face court proceedings for any crime or civil case.\n\nHowever, where crimes are committed, the Foreign Office can ask a foreign government to waive immunity.\n\nDiplomatic immunity is by no means restricted to those named on the Diplomatic List. Drivers, cooks and other support staff who have been accredited to Britain (\"the receiving state\") have the same diplomatic status and immunity.\n\nSpeaking in Northampton, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the use of diplomatic immunity in the case was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"We would put every possible bit of pressure we could on the United States and if we could mount legal action on the United States, we would do so.\"\n\nThe crash in which Mr Dunn died happened close to RAF Croughton, a US Air Force communications station, where Mrs Sacoolas's husband Jonathan worked.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police Chief Constable Nick Adderley said, \"based on CCTV evidence\", officers knew \"a vehicle alighted from the RAF base at Croughton\" and was \"on the wrong side of the road\".\n\nMr Dunn's parents are planning to travel to Washington DC as soon as possible.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said the UK was \"getting the brush-off\" from the US as a result of \"cuddling up\" to Mr Trump.\n\nSpeaking on the Victoria Derbyshire programme, Ms Thornberry said the UK had been \"holding his hand... and being a Trump tribute act\", which flattered the president who is \"only interested in himself\".\n\nShe said although it was \"very unusual\" for the prime minister to ask for assistance from the president, Britain needed to \"hold its head a bit higher and look Donald Trump in the eye and be clear about what it is we want\".\n\nThe speaking note which the president held in his hand seems to be confirmation the United States simply will not agree to the return of Anne Sacoolas to the UK.\n\nWhatever the rights and wrongs of their case, that has always been and seems likely to remain the American position. Why?\n\nWashington has a whole raft of unstated motives. They simply don't want the spouse of this particular \"US government employee\" exposed to questioning, particularly, but not exclusively, because of the likely nature of his work in super-secret military communications routed through RAF Croughton.\n\nMore broadly, the Americans are determined not to encourage any country to believe they will succeed in requesting a waiver of diplomatic immunity. After all, if we don't do it for our first among allies, the UK, what chance has any other country got.\n\nAnd, most broadly of all, America's idea of its own \"exceptionalism\" means it hates the idea of offering up any citizen for trial in a foreign court - that is, by anyone other than fellow Americans.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dunn family on Raab meeting: \"We feel let down\"\n\nNumber 10 said the prime minister had urged Mr Trump to reconsider the decision to allow Mrs Sacoolas immunity in order that \"the individual involved can return to the UK, co-operate with police and allow Harry's family to receive justice\".\n\nThe teenager's parents have described a meeting with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Wednesday as a \"publicity stunt\".\n\nMrs Charles said she felt \"let down\" by both the UK and US governments, while Mr Dunn's father Tim Dunn said: \"I'm deeply, deeply disappointed that they think it's OK to kill a young lad on his bike and they can just walk away.\"\n\nFollowing the meeting, Mr Raab said the justice process was \"not being allowed to properly run its course\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Paralympic medallist climbed on top of a British Airways plane at London City Airport as part of ongoing protests by Extinction Rebellion.\n\nJames Brown, who is visually impaired, filmed himself clinging to the fuselage as he streamed a live message online.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick described the action as \"reckless, stupid and dangerous\". About 50 arrests were made at the airport.\n\nAnother man refused to sit in his seat, delaying a flight by nearly two hours.\n\nBoth men had bought flight tickets and passed through airport security.\n\nOn the fourth day of climate change protests, disruption in the UK centred on London City Airport.\n\nPolice arrested people blocking the airport entrance as others glued themselves to the floor.\n\nAirport chief executive Robert Sinclair said flights ran largely on time or with slight delays, although two flights were cancelled.\n\nAt about 19:00 BST, he said protesters were no longer outside the terminal, although he advised people flying on Thursday evening or Friday to check their flight status before travelling to the airport.\n\nEarlier in Westminster, tents and protesters were cleared from the roads leading to Parliament Square.\n\nPolice said they were working to clear a camp in St James' Park, with Trafalgar Square the only other site still occupied in central London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBBC Newsnight's Nicholas Watt was on a Dublin-bound flight when a \"smartly dressed man\" stood up and walked down the aisle, delivering a lecture on climate change.\n\nCabin crew \"calmly and very politely\" asked the protester to retake his seat and, when he declined, they alerted the pilot, Watt said in a tweet.\n\nHe said the plane then taxied back to the gate, where police escorted the protester off the plane.\n\nAer Lingus said the passenger was removed \"due to disruptive behaviour on board\" and a full security check of the aircraft was completed before the delayed flight could depart.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Mew This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 lunchtime, James Brown, a Paralympian cyclist from Northern Ireland, filmed himself sitting on top of an Amsterdam-bound plane which had been due to take off just after 13:00 BST. He was booked on to the flight.\n\nIn a live stream posted on Facebook, he said it was \"scary\" because he hated heights, felt cold and hoped they would get him down soon.\n\n\"Oh man I'm shaking,\" he went on. \"This is all about the climate and ecological crisis. We're protesting at government inaction on climate and ecological breakdown. They declare climate emergency and do nothing about it.\"\n\nAfter more than an hour on the roof, Mr Brown was brought down and led away by police.\n\nMet Commissioner Dame Cressida said: \"My early understanding is somebody has been arrested after they presumably bought a ticket, went through security perfectly normally, went up the steps of a plane and hurled themselves on top of a plane.\n\n\"Actually, that was a reckless, stupid and dangerous thing to do for all concerned.\n\n\"But I think you can see that it is quite a hard thing to predict or stop from happening.\"\n\nShe said a full review of security at the airport would be carried out.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor pointed out there was no law to stop a protester buying a plane ticket and, once they did so, they were \"a legitimate passenger\".\n\n\"There is a difference between a security threat and a protest threat,\" he said. \"Protesting is not an offence.\"\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\nPolice said more than 1,000 people have been arrested since Monday, including about 50 at the airport on Thursday.\n\nTwenty-nine people have been charged with various offences, police said.\n\nSome protesters were carried away by police during the demonstrations\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Question Time, Rupert Read, from Extinction Rebellion, defended the group's methods, saying he had spent 20 years campaigning and knocking on doors for the Green Party \"and none of it worked\".\n\nBefore the April protests \"we were still on the same trajectory for disaster as the last 20 years - but then we managed to push the issue up the agenda\", he said, adding that the hundreds of people who have been arrested were \"brave souls\".\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Schapps said he could not understand why the action was centred on the UK - the only G7 country to have pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.\n\n\"Rather than stopping people from getting to work, go to a country which isn't doing any of these things, and protest there,\" he said.\n\nActivists had been attempting a three-day \"Hong Kong-style occupation\" of London City Airport's terminal building to highlight what they claim is the \"incompatibility\" of the east London airport's planned £2bn expansion meeting the government's legally-binding commitment to go net carbon neutral by 2050.\n\nHowever, by Thursday afternoon, the number of protesters at the airport had begun to dwindle.\n\nFormer Metropolitan Police detective John Curran was among those arrested, after he glued himself to the pavement outside the airport.\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\nAn 83-year-old man, Phil Kingston, was also arrested, as hundreds of people blocked the main passenger entrance.\n\nIt is the third time he has been arrested as part of the Extinction Rebellion protests this week.\n\nProtesters also caused disruption outside the terminal, as several sat down on the zebra crossing, blocking traffic going in and out of the passenger drop-off zone.\n\nCars and buses were backed up in both directions before the demonstrators were cleared from the roads by police.\n\nOne protester stood on the roof of the terminal building\n\nTaxi driver Jason Lempiere said the protests had disrupted his work in and around the city.\n\n\"It's disturbing everyone's everyday life; working, travel in and out of the airport,\" he said.\n\n\"Yeah, have a voice, but [do] not disrupt people's lives like this.\"", "Three men have been charged after Labour activist Owen Jones was assaulted outside a north London pub.\n\nThe Guardian columnist said he had been celebrating his birthday with friends at the Lexington pub, Islington, when he was attacked on 17 August.\n\nThe men from Portsmouth, London and Brighton have been charged, by post, with actual bodily harm and affray, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nThey will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court on 6 November.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inside the camp of IS families in Syria\n\nYes, quite possibly, in some form, is the short answer. Jihadist groups like Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda thrive on chaos and disruption. This incursion threatens to bring both to a region that was already a tinderbox of tension.\n\nBut the outcome will partly depend on the depth, duration and intensity of the Turkish incursion into Syria.\n\nThe jihadists of IS lost the last remaining square miles of their self-declared caliphate following the battle for Baghuz in Syria in March this year.\n\nBut thousands of their fighters are still alive and not all are in prisons. The group has vowed to fight on through what it calls a \"war of attrition\", hoping to grind down its adversaries by a succession of covertly planned attacks, such as the bombings it claimed in Raqqa this week.\n\nIn north-eastern Syria, previously an IS stronghold, their resurgence has been kept in check by the large number of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) soldiers, mostly Kurds, backed by US special forces and the firepower at their disposal.\n\nThe Kurds have not only been a military presence on the ground and on the border with Turkey but they have also performed the task that almost nobody else wanted to do: guarding the thousands of IS fighters and their dependants in overcrowded prisons and camps under their control.\n\nBut with Turkey's powerful army now pushing into areas the Kurds have controlled, Kurdish priorities have changed. Defending themselves has become more important than guarding unprosecuted prisoners whose countries are unwilling to take them back.\n\nThere are basically two risks here. The first and most immediate is that of a prison break. There are an estimated 12,000 IS members in SDF-run prisons and a further 70,000 IS dependants in camps like Al-Hol.\n\nThe IS members include hardcore veterans likely to have carried out or witnessed beheadings, crucifixions and amputations, as well as those with experience of planning military attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some residents began to flee as smoke rose over the border town of Ras al-Ain\n\nThere is a growing fear in Western intelligence communities that in the event of a successful jailbreak then some of these hardened fighters will find their way back to Europe or other home countries and plan a repeat of the sort of attacks witnessed in London, Paris, Barcelona and elsewhere.\n\nHere the West has only itself to blame. Between 2014-2019 the US-led coalition of around 70 nations conducted a hard-fought and successful military campaign to degrade and eventually destroy the IS caliphate that was terrorising an area roughly the size of Belgium.\n\nBut it failed to plan sufficiently for the aftermath. There is no internationally accepted mechanism for prosecuting the remnants of the IS caliphate, captured on the battlefield. Instead they are crammed together, in conditions condemned by human rights groups, with no prospect of a trial.\n\nThe women's camps are teeming with IS supporters and former members of the Hisbah, the morality enforcers, who are still carrying out strict punishments inside the tented camps, including floggings and burning down the tents of those they disapprove of.\n\nMost of the camps are sited south of the border strip that Turkey intends to occupy. But already there have been Kurdish announcements that they will have to move some of those previously guarding the camps further north to defend against the Turkish advance.\n\nTwo of the most wanted IS members, El-Shafee Elsheikh and Alexander Kotay, the so-called \"Beatles\" who come from London, have been under Kurdish guard in north-east Syria since their capture by SDF forces near the border.\n\nBut late on Wednesday it was announced they had been transferred to US military custody pending trial in the US, a sign of just how concerned the West is about the risk of prisoners going free.\n\nThe Kurdish fighters of the SDF did much of the hard fighting to defeat IS. US air power, Western special forces and even Iranian-backed Shia Muslim militias all played a part too in dismantling the five-year caliphate that stretched across northern Syria and Iraq.\n\nBut if the Kurds are now to become fully occupied in fighting the Turkish army and dodging air strikes then they will no longer be an effective force against IS. The West is unwilling to fill their place.\n\nKurdish-led SDF fighters - seen here preparing to counter the Turkish incursion - did much of the hard fighting to defeat IS\n\nAll of which suits IS just fine. Its fugitive leadership has been making occasional announcements of a comeback and already in Iraq, long before this week's Turkish offensive, there have been signs that IS is regrouping and mounting small-scale attacks on Iraqi government posts.\n\nYet the dire predictions may not all come to fruition. The mixed and confusing messages coming out of the White House may be enough to deter Turkey from pressing too far into Syria.\n\nIts incursion may turn out to be limited and when the dust settles then a new order may eventually re-establish itself in this northern corner of the Middle East.\n\nUltimately though, the future state of this region looks likely to be highly unstable - unless and until rivalries are set aside and populations get something they have been sorely lacking: good governance.\n\nJihadist groups thrive on poor or absent governance, whether that be in remote areas of Somalia, Yemen, West Africa or in the tribal heartlands of Iraq and Syria.\n\nThere is little sign that is about to improve.", "Boris Johnson has outlined his plan to the European Union (EU) to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said the plan \"removes the so-called backstop\".\n\nThe backstop is the insurance policy negotiated by Theresa May and the EU. It is designed to avoid any physical border infrastructure, which it is feared would bring back memories of the Troubles, after Brexit.\n\nIt would keep the UK in the same customs territory as the EU, and Northern Ireland closely tied to EU regulations - until the UK and the EU reach a trade deal.\n\nBut it would stop the UK striking its own trade deals, which is why so many Conservative MPs, including Mr Johnson, oppose the backstop.\n\nSo, what is his alternative?\n\nThe government wants the UK to leave the EU customs union. This would mean Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland ending up in two different customs territories.\n\nThis means lorries entering the Republic of Ireland from Northern Ireland will need to complete customs declarations. This is to ensure the correct tariffs (tax on imports) are paid when UK goods enter the EU customs union.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: From the beginning the EU has struggled to see how Ireland and Northern Ireland can exist in different customs territories while keeping the border as open as it is now under all circumstances. They will argue that - in the absence of a future free trade deal - this proposal means the UK is breaking commitments it has made about the border. The UK counters that the backstop has already been rejected in Parliament three times, and something needs to change.\n\nInstead of installing customs posts and other physical infrastructure at the Irish border, the UK says declarations should be done electronically.\n\nThe government says physical checks would still be needed \"on a very small proportion of movements\". Currently, about one in 100 consignments entering the EU customs union are inspected to check that the goods match the information on the declaration.\n\nThese inspections could be carried out at warehouses or \"designated locations, which could be located anywhere in Ireland or Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThe government's proposal does not spell out what these \"designated locations\" would look like, but it adds there should be \"a firm commitment (by both parties) never to conduct checks at the border in future\".\n\nIf adopted, a border solution relying on technology and remote checks would be a first. The EU does not currently share a single border with a non-EU country where checks have been completely eliminated.\n\nThat includes Norway (not in the EU) and Sweden (an EU member) - which share one of the most technologically advanced borders in the world. Their main crossing point processes about 1,300 lorries a day, with each waiting 20 minutes on average.\n\nThe EU has previously rejected a customs solution that relies on technology.\n\nBack in January, Sabine Weyand, the EU's director-general for trade, said: \"We looked at every border on this Earth, every border the EU has with a third country - there's simply no way you can do away with checks and controls.\"\n\nThe government says that some small traders should be exempt from paying duty. However, the document does not address smuggling head on. In other words, what will be done to detect and prevent traders, who should be paying duty, from crossing the border without completing custom declarations first?\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The EU will see much of this as a rehash of previous ideas that it doesn't think will work. And many people will worry that unspecified \"designated locations\" could become targets for anyone seeking to undermine the Northern Ireland peace process. The EU will push back hard against suggestions that it needs to revise its own customs rules to suit the UK.\n\nWhen it comes to the regulation of goods, Northern Ireland would keep to the rules of the EU's single market, rather than UK rules.\n\nThat removes the need for product standard and safety checks on goods at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, because both will be part of an \"all-island regulatory zone\".\n\nBut it creates the need for checks between the rest of the UK - which will not be sticking to EU single market rules - and Northern Ireland..\n\nAll agricultural, food or animal products entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK will have to go through a Border Inspection Post. That's a bit of infrastructure where goods can be physically examined and paperwork checked.\n\nManufactured goods in Northern Ireland would also have to keep to EU rules, and these goods would be checked \"at the boundary of the zone\" - presumably at crossings between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, on the Irish Sea.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: This is quite a big concession from the UK side - basically accepting that there would have to be quite intrusive checks between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK for a number of years, on things like product standards and food safety. The EU has always said there have to be checks carried out somewhere, and both sides will try to deny any suggestion that this amounts to a new border in the Irish Sea.\n\nHaving Northern Ireland following EU rules for the production of goods over which it has no say is, as the document says, \"a significant democratic problem\".\n\nAs a result, it is proposed that the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive will have to sign off on the plan before it takes effect.\n\nThe Northern Irish institutions will be asked to approve the plan again every four years, and if they do not then Northern Ireland would stop following EU rules one year later.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly has not met since early 2017.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The issue of democratic legitimacy is a crucial one, but it cannot be applied unevenly. The EU is likely to have a problem with anything which suggests that only Northern Ireland could have - in effect - a veto on this plan. The point of the backstop was to provide a legal guarantee to keep an open border under all circumstances. Being subject to approval every four years simply isn't the same thing. If Northern Ireland voted to leave this arrangement things like checks on food safety would have to take place at the Irish border.", "On Mental Health Awareness Day, student Sophie Bennett shares her story of anxiety and depression - and how surf lifesaving saved her.\n\nDirected and produced by Will Candelent", "Gregor Townsend has \"put faith\" in World Cup organisers ensuring Scotland will not be denied a chance to play their way into the quarter-finals.\n\nTwo Saturday games have been cancelled and declared draws on safety grounds as Typhoon Hagibis closes in and a repeat on Sunday could eliminate Scotland.\n\nTownsend's side must defeat hosts Japan in Yokohama to have a chance of staying in the competition.\n\n\"We've been told now that Sunday looks clear,\" Scotland's head coach said.\n\n\"Saturday is the day the typhoon comes in and it comes through quite quickly.\"\n\nScottish Rugby has called on World Rugby to devise \"contingency plans\" to protect the integrity of the competition in the event that the Pool A fixture cannot go ahead in Yokohama.\n\nA final decision will not be made until the morning of Sunday's match, seemingly ruling out any rescheduling.\n• None Rugby Union Weekly at the World Cup: The Hobgoblin and Hagibis\n\n\"What may happen is infrastructure might not be in place even though the weather is nice,\" Townsend said. \"That's what we've got to believe and have faith that the game will be played even if it's behind closed doors or a different venue.\n\n\"If it's played elsewhere in Yokohama or Tokyo on Sunday, there are lots of venues that might not be affected by the weather.\"\n\nScotland lie third in their group and need to defeat Japan - and take four more points than the hosts - to progress to the knock-out stage.\n\nEach team in Saturday's cancelled matches - New Zealand v Italy and England v France - have received two points.\n\nSuch a scenario would almost certainly see Scotland knocked out of the World Cup, with Ireland - should they beat Samoa - and hosts Japan advancing to the knockout stages.\n\nWorld Rugby's statement earlier on Thursday gave no indication that any alternatives were being considered other than the match being staged in Yokohama on Sunday.\n\nHowever, there are provisions in the tournament participation agreement on \"force majeure\", which includes a \"storm or tempest\", concerning matches that cannot be played.\n\n\"It would make things very unusual for any World Cup in any sport to be decided by the game being called off on one day,\" Townsend said. \"If we are looking outside the hotel window on Sunday and it's sunny, it would be quite strange if a game could not be played that day or the next day.\n\n\"If they have made the decision that the game will still be played in Yokohama, they must be pretty certain that the game will go ahead.\"\n\nTownsend's squad will have one less day to prepare for the match as they will be unable to train during the height of the storm on Saturday.\n\nWorld Rugby stressed that \"The decision to cancel matches has not been taken lightly\" and that \"a thorough assessment of venues will take place after the typhoon has passed before a final decision is made ‪on Sunday morning\".\n\n\"We've looked again at the potential to apply some kind of consistent contingency plan across all the games that could be affected this weekend,\" tournament director Alan Gilpin said.\n\n\"Again, it's important that we treat all those consistently and fairly. I think it's important to remember, Italy are in exactly the same position that Scotland are in.\n\n\"The Japan v Scotland game clearly is a huge match. We'd love to be playing that game. We'll be working incredibly hard with our colleagues from Japan Rugby 2019, the host cities and all the authorities on Sunday morning to do everything possible to see that match played, but we won't treat that match - if it can't be played - any differently to the other matches.\"\n\n'Rugby world wants Japan to go through' - analysis\n\nMy feeling is that the Scotland v Japan game will go ahead by the information we have. It is not just that the typhoon will have passed by then, it will be the residual damage it has caused. There are many factors that come into play.\n\nThe excitement around the game is enormous and everybody wants it to happen - and, although it cannot happen beyond Sunday night, we understand that might not be as set in stone as we thought. Everything is up in the air and the decision has to be made six hours before kick-off, so we just have to wait and see.\n• None Scotland creating storm of their own\n• None Who needs what to reach quarter-finals?\n\nScotland say they are ready to play on Monday if needs be. Tournament organisers have said that the fact Italy have been knocked out by the typhoon means it would be difficult to play Scotland and Japan on Monday. Scotland are a slightly better side than Japan, but it is no more than a 50/50 game because of the will of the rugby world to see Japan go through.\n\nIt would be the kind of upset the World Cup needs because the top eight sides almost seem to be set in stone. There aren't many shocks, so everyone wants to see Japan go through. They both play an exciting brand of rugby and the pressure is huge for both sides, so hopefully the game will go ahead.", "Juliette Kaplan, who played battleaxe Pearl Sibshaw in BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine for 25 years, has died at the age of 80, her agent has said.\n\nKaplan appeared in 226 episodes of the show from 1985 to 2010, with the sharp-tongued Pearl trying to thwart husband Howard's attempts to have an affair.\n\nKaplan also appeared in Coronation Street in 2015 as Agnes Tinker.\n\nBarry Langford thanked \"everyone who sent their love and support to this fearless and supremely gifted actress\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by barry langford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe news comes after the agent said on 31 July that she was \"gravely ill\", describing her as a \"very brave lady\".\n\nLast of the Summer Wine ran from 1973 to 2010, taking a comical look at the lives of the elderly residents of a Yorkshire town.\n\nKaplan told Kent Life in 2012 she first got the role as Pearl when it toured the UK as a play in 1984. Creator and writer Roy Clarke then wrote Pearl into the TV series as one of the permanent characters.\n\nThe actress was born in Bournemouth but moved around as a child as a result of her South African father's job in the Navy.\n\nShe told the Summer Winos fan site in 2012 that having lived in South Africa and New York, her mother wanted to refine her daughter's accent, \"so she sent me to elocution lessons\" at drama school.\n\nShe went on to pursue an acting career and worked in theatre. She married and had three children, but her husband died in 1981 when she was 42.\n\nJuliette Kaplan worked as an actress throughout her life\n\nKaplan also appeared in TV shows including EastEnders, Brookside and Doctors, but the role of Pearl was the most enduring of her career. She said she helped create her character's distinctive look, complete with wig and glasses.\n\n\"They actually gave me a wig from stock, and it used to flap at the back,\" she said. \"So every time the wind blew, my wig came off! So it was my idea to anchor it with either a turban or a beret.\"\n\nShe was in a 2005 Christmas special with (left-right) June Whitfield and Kathy Staff\n\nShe also appeared in a show written by Clarke called Just Pearl, which toured the UK in 2003, telling the story of Pearl's life before she met Howard.\n\nShe told Summer Winos: \"My show starts with me turning into Pearl in front of the audience.\n\n\"I put the make-up on, put the coat on, and say 'There you are… there's Pearl'. And the audience likes that sort of thing.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "Iranian women have attended a World Cup qualifier in Tehran for a men's match for the first time in decades.\n\nWomen have effectively been banned from stadiums when men are playing since just after the 1979 Islamic revolution.\n\nThe change followed the death of a fan who had set herself alight after being arrested for trying to attend a match.", "The mesh implants are used to ease incontinence and to support organs Image caption: The mesh implants are used to ease incontinence and to support organs\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon was urged to intervene after a world leading surgeon cancelled his visit to Scotland to help remove mesh implants from women who are in pain.\n\nDuring FMQs Scottish Conservative interim leader Jackson Carlaw said there was a suspicion there had been a co-ordinated attempt to block the trip.\n\nMr Carlaw, in tears, asked Nicola Sturgeon to give the controversy her personal attention.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she hadn't seen any evidence of obstruction, but that she was willing to speak personally to Dr Dionysios Veronikis as the government still wants him to come to Scotland.\n\nThe first minster also pointed out no vaginal mesh implants have been carried out in Scotland since the chief medical officer ordered a halt last October.\n\nThat's all from Holyrood Live on Thursday 10 October 2019, we're back after the recess.", "A new date in the diary, a new countdown.\n\nNot the EU summit, not the prime minister's deadline, but what might be a decisive day in the immediate aftermath, already being joked about as Super Saturday.\n\nAs I wrote a couple of weeks ago, in the unlikely event that there is a deal with the EU (progress check, still unlikely but not completely impossible) then the 19 October had been pencilled in as the day when Parliament would be asked to approve the arrangement the prime minister had brokered.\n\nWhatever happens now though, Mr Johnson plans to summon MPs to Westminster, where by whatever mechanisms available, he'll essentially try to force a decisive moment.\n\nIf as expected now, there is no deal, why would he not just automatically do what Parliament has changed the law to do, to seek a delay from the EU immediately?\n\nThe deadline for that to happen is midnight on that Saturday night.\n\nBut up until that moment, and perhaps well beyond, Boris Johnson will fight the delay - not just because he believes it would be a mistake, but also because it is a political embarrassment for him to break the promise he flamboyantly made during the summer's leadership campaign and relentlessly since.\n\nThat promise is that he would not ask for a delay, he'd stick to his Halloween deadline \"do or die\" - you can pick your particular dramatic metaphor, there are plenty to choose from.\n\nBut he will overtly do his utmost to pin the blame for a delay on MPs. Whether you agree or find it repellent, there is nothing subtle about the obvious pitching of this No 10 against former Remainers.\n\nThe truth is a delay would be a policy failure for the prime minister - forget for the moment that he and his team would use it to help their efforts to win a broader political argument.\n\nBut inside government there is a belief that it might not quite be over. Don't all scream at once. Yes, there are lawyers everywhere warning that there is no way round the so-called Benn Act and they may well be absolutely right.\n\nThere are active attempts in court to make sure that the legal provisions to force an extension are watertight. And several Cabinet ministers have told me they can see no way to avoid a delay if there is no deal. More in sorrow than in anger one told me \"the EU will do what it always does, play long, and we'll have to agree\".\n\nBut inside Number 10 there are still discussions about whether to send a second letter to the EU - meaning the government would comply with the Benn Act demanding that the government has to seek a delay in letter one but then send another letter alongside it essentially denouncing that idea from a political perspective.\n\nPut that alongside likely protestations from the prime minister that a delay would be pointless, and perhaps that he would refuse to negotiate any further, and we might all find ourselves in an extremely turbulent period, where the reactions of the EU could be hard to predict.\n\nThis would likely see the government almost immediately facing challenges in court, or perhaps even pursuing a few of their own.\n\nBut despite all of the legal and political speculation, as I've written before, this is an untested area where there are no precedents and no conventions to guide us. That's why some of the wilder suggestions, including one that Boris Johnson might even refuse to move out of Number 10 if he loses a confidence vote and can't form a government, are impossible at the moment to exclude.\n\nWhatever happens on 19 October, that may be the moment when the extent of the provocation Downing Street is willing to pursue becomes clear.\n\nPS. Whatever you think of the aggressive noises coming out of the government about the state of the negotiations and the audacity of their plans, be in no doubt it is designed to convey a message to the EU not to expect Boris Johnson to compromise more readily after the likely general election.\n\nEssentially the dramatic language is designed not just to irritate their opponents, but also to make it clear to their negotiating opponents that any Brexit offer from the UK, if there is a Tory majority after the election, is likely to be a harder not softer one and the EU will face a government less willing to compromise, not more.\n\nThe hope is to make it seem to the EU that their safest choice is to grab this deal. But at this stage, there is not much sign of that happening.\n\nPPS. All the hostility has created a separate row in the Tory Party over what goes in their election manifesto. Some Brexit hawks believe it ought to promise an automatic no-deal departure if they win the election (a huge if!)\n\nThat suggestion riled some ministers and MPs who believe they now have some assurances from Mr Johnson that it would not be so stark.\n\nAs I understand it there is no final decision. But a likely position is a souped-up version of the PM's 31 October pledge - where the manifesto would say the Conservatives would like to leave with a deal, but if a tight deadline - maybe extremely tight - can't be met, then it's no deal at a pace.\n\nTheir upset is yet more evidence of Boris Johnson's challenge in keeping the Tories together, and trying to be able to please both former Remain voters and Leavers alike.\n• None What is in Boris Johnson's Brexit plan?", "Michaela Sheehan, who has epilepsy, takes her European Health Insurance Card on holiday to Europe\n\nEuropean Health Insurance Cards let UK residents get medical care for free, or at a reduced cost, in 31 countries.\n\nBut if the UK leaves the European Union without a deal, that will no longer be the case.\n\nThe government has asked all 31 countries to keep EHICs in use until 31 December 2020, no matter what happens with Brexit.\n\nBut only three have agreed to cover UK tourists if there's no deal.\n\nThe UK's largest travel insurance provider is warning that this would mean prices will go up, especially for people with health problems.\n\nMichaela Sheehan always takes her EHIC on holiday to Europe.\n\nThe 24-year-old, from Woking, has epilepsy.\n\n...in the event of a no-deal Brexit\n• None Check bank accountIt might already have travel insurance included\n• None Be clearTell insurers as much as possible about your destination(s)\n• None Bewareannual policies may work out more than short cover\n\nHer first seizure happened when she was a teenager on a school trip to France.\n\nShe remembers queuing for a ride at Disneyland Paris.\n\nThe next thing she knew, she woke up in a French hospital.\n\nShe had been rushed there in an ambulance and had emergency treatment.\n\nShe explains: \"It was all completely free, because of my EHIC card.\"\n\nEarlier this year she went to Majorca with a group of friends.\n\nHer health condition meant that at £60, her insurance for just one week was three times more expensive than her boyfriend's annual policy.\n\n\"For some people with long-term health conditions such as epilepsy, travelling abroad can be a challenge.\n\n\"European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) have made it much easier for people like Michaela to travel safely to 31 European countries, without the additional worry about potential costs should they need medical treatment following a seizure abroad.\"\n\nThe EHIC scheme covers the EU countries as well as Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.\n\nBritish people get about £150m worth of treatment a year, using the EHIC scheme.\n\nIt can be used for unexpected medical emergencies, as well as pre-existing conditions.\n\nThe government has made it very clear that it wants EHIC to continue, deal or no deal.\n\nBut so far, only Spain has agreed to that.\n\nPortugal says it won't carry on with the scheme if there is a no-deal Brexit. But it has passed a law saying that UK tourists can still get healthcare as before, for now, if they show their passport.\n\nThere is a similar agreement with Ireland, too.\n\nIf British people need medical help in any of them, after a no-deal Brexit, they will either need to pay or rely on travel insurance.\n\nThe government says it is still trying to sort more healthcare deals.\n\nBut a spokesperson points out it \"always advises UK citizens to take out comprehensive travel insurance when going overseas, both to EU and non-EU destinations. This remains our advice\".\n\nThe Association of British Insurers says that if EHICs largely disappear in a no-deal Brexit \"insurers will inevitably see an increase in claims costs - this could have a direct impact on the prices charged to consumers\".\n\nAxa Insurance's travel director, Nel Mooy, agrees: \"If nothing changes between now and 31 October and there was no deal, then I'm expecting prices to go up.\"\n\nShe says there are \"too many unknowns\" to predict how much prices could go up by but points out that travel insurance generally is not all that expensive.\n\nShe adds: \"People who are not well at all already have a higher premium and therefore anything extra, I can totally appreciate that anything more, might be more difficult for them to afford.\"\n\nThis tallies with the government's own analysis of a reasonable worst case scenario for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe Operation Yellowhammer document says that people could need to pay for treatment in the EU and a minority of patients \"could face substantial costs.\"\n\nHealth experts warn that even if there is a Brexit deal, EHIC may not continue after a transition period.\n\nMark Dayan, from the Nuffield Trust, says he is not \"optimistic\".\n\nHe explains: \"EHIC is connected to the part of EU law that deals with free movement of people.\n\n\"The European Union doesn't like the idea of us cherry picking only the bits we like.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n• None How to win at holidays after Brexit", "If the winner is an individual, they now have a fortune eclipsing those of singers Sir Tom Jones, Adele and Ed Sheeran\n\nA UK ticket-holder has claimed a record £170m EuroMillions jackpot won on Tuesday, operator Camelot has said.\n\nThe identity of the ticket-holder, and whether they are an individual or a syndicate, will not be revealed unless they decide to go public.\n\nIf it is an individual, they would rank amongst the Sunday Times Rich List's 1,000 wealthiest people living in the UK or with British business links.\n\nThe prize will be paid out at a \"ticket validation appointment\".\n\nAndy Carter, senior winners adviser at the National Lottery, said the team \"look forward to helping the ticket-holder start to enjoy their new-found wealth\".\n\nThe £170,221,000.00 jackpot was won when the winning numbers picked were 7, 10, 15, 44 and 49, with 3 and 12 selected for the Lucky star numbers.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times Rich List's 2019 rankings, the winner's wealth eclipses that of singers Sir Tom Jones, Ed Sheeran and Adele, who are worth £165m, £160m and £150m respectively.\n\nThe lucky ticket-holder has also beaten the previous record set by Colin and Chris Weir who became Britain's richest lottery winners when they claimed £161m in 2011.\n• None £161mColin and Chris Weir, from North Ayrshire, Scotland in 2011.\n• None £148mAdrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, in 2012.\n• None £114.9mPatrick and Frances Connolly, from NI, in January.\n\nMillionaires from previous lottery wins have shared their experiences about how to make the most of the jackpot since the win was announced on Tuesday.\n\nThe Euromillions jackpot had rolled over 22 consecutive times since July 19, first reaching the maximum prize fund of £170m (€190m) on 24 September.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnder jackpot cap rules, the top prize can roll over four consecutive times once the cap has been reached, before it must be won in the fifth and final draw, which happened on Tuesday.\n\nIf no one had won the jackpot by matching five numbers plus two Lucky Stars, the entire jackpot would have rolled down to the next highest tier, most likely where five numbers and one Lucky star are matched.\n\nIt is the first time that a jackpot has gone the full five draws at its cap and only the second time that a Must Be Won draw has ever been held; the first was on November 17, 2006.\n\nTickets for Euromillions are sold in nine countries - the UK, France, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Irish Republic, Portugal and Switzerland - with ticket-holders in all those countries trying to win a share of the same jackpot each week.", "Turkey has launched a ground and air offensive on territory held by Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria.\n\nResidents began to flee some areas, and plumes of smoke were seen rising from towns near the border.\n\nPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the operation was to create a \"safe zone\" cleared of Kurdish militias, which will also house Syrian refugees.\n\nThe Kurdish-led militias have been key US allies in the fight against the Islamic State group, but Ankara regards them as terrorists because of their links to Kurdish rebels inside Turkey.", "Syrian refugees Sara and Shadi have been learning about Welsh culture and have fallen in love with their new language.\n\nThey arrived in Cardigan a year ago and described how, despite family members wanting to return home, they want to stay in Ceredigion.", "It was a January evening. On what was a normal winter's night, one of the biggest entertainment news stories of our time was brewing.\n\nColeen Rooney tweeted: \"It's happened several times now over the past couple of years. It's sad to think someone, who I have accepted to follow me is betraying for either money or to keep a relationship with the press.\"\n\nThis week, she accused someone using Rebekah Vardy's Instagram account of leaking stories to the press, something that Rebekah - the wife of Jamie Vardy - denies.\n\nBut nine months ago, Coleen's original tweet was seen by 30-year-old Dave Burrows, who works as a joiner in Manchester. This was his moment...\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by detective dave This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 1 Newsbeat, Dave explains why he came to Coleen's aid.\n\n\"I came across it, so I thought if I was in that situation, that's what I'd do.\"\n\nSo he put the word out there and then forgot about it. Until his phone started going \"beserk\".\n\nPeople reading the story had started to spot the tweet.\n\nDave's life was about to change forever. For he had become, Detective Dave.\n\n\"My phone kept beeping. At first I looked and thought: 'What's going on here?' And then I realised.\n\n\"People were writing to me, saying things like 'Detective Dave you're a hero.'\n\n\"There's been thousands and thousands of tweets and messages about it, it's non-stop, it's crazy.\n\nDetective Dave pictured when he was just, well, Dave with his partner Sarah\n\nWhat Coleen did was relatively simple, and remarkably similar to the idea Dave tweeted her in January.\n\nColeen says she had an Insta account for just close friends. By hiding its story from all of them, except one, she claims only that account (and whoever had access to it), could have seen the content posted.\n\nSo when that content was leaked to the papers, she knew where to point the finger.\n\nThe only account not blocked belongs to Rebekah Vardy. Since the allegations were made, she's said other people had access to her account and insists she's looking to find out who that was.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Rebekah Vardy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 did Coleen get the cunning plan from Detective Dave? He thinks so.\n\n\"I reckon she saw my tweet. She's claiming she thought of it herself but I reckon maybe I was a bit of an influence towards it, and I feel good about that.\"\n\nAs well as the thousands of tweets, Dave has found himself across the airwaves to talk about the story that's got the world gossiping.\n\n\"The fame is crazy. I love it! I've had papers, radio stations, even one in Ireland wanting to talk to me.\n\n\"I've been on with Greg James on BBC Radio 1, magazines have been in touch as well. It's mad, it's crazy but I know it won't be forever so I have to make the most of it. Fifteen minutes of fame, that's what they say don't they?\"\n\n\"I'm waiting for a few people to bring me a few offers, we'll have to see. I wrote to Netflix though. Surely if ever they make a film I have to be involved in that.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Councils in Scotland are to have the power to charge a levy on workplace parking under a new law passed by MSPs.\n\nThe new local tax power is part of a package of reforms to transport, including a shakeup of bus services and low-emission zones in cities.\n\nAn attempt by Scottish Labour to remove the parking levy aspect was defeated during a debate on Wednesday.\n\nAfter two days of debate, the Transport (Scotland) Bill approved by a vote of 56 to 29, with 18 MSPs abstaining.\n\nThe move was hailed by green groups, who said it would help \"combat congestion and air pollution in our city centres\".\n\nThe SNP agreed to back the workplace parking levy proposals as part of a budget deal with the Scottish Greens, giving them a majority in parliament to pass the plans into law despite opposition from other parties.\n\nThe system gives local authorities across Scotland the power to charge businesses an annual fee for every parking space they provide for workers.\n\nThe firms themselves would then decide whether to pass the cost on to staff.\n\nRead more about the workplace parking levy here.\n\nThe Transport (Scotland) Bill also aims to halt a decline in bus passenger numbers by giving councils and regional transport partnerships more flexibility to improve services, either by working with bus companies or by stepping in and running services themselves.\n\nIt also provides for a ban on double parking and parking on pavements, powers for enforcing low-emission zones in cities and new regulations overseeing roadworks.\n\nA series of amendments to the wide ranging-bill were put forward by MSPs in a late sitting of Holyrood on Wednesday.\n\nThis included a bid to remove the workplace parking levy by Scottish Labour MSP Neil Bibby, who claimed less well-off workers would be the hardest hit.\n\nHe said: \"Be in no doubt, this levy is a regressive tax on workers that will hit the lowest paid hardest.\n\n\"It is not consequence-free, it is not fundamentally a solution to climate change and far from incentivising modal shift, it penalises those for whom modal shift is not an option.\n\n\"It's not an option because for many working people, public transport in Scotland is simply not good enough.\"\n\nThe bill includes measures both on bus services and low emission zones in cities\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson accused Scottish Labour of \"hypocrisy\" over their opposition to the proposal, highlighting the introduction of a similar scheme at the Labour-run Nottingham City Council.\n\nHe added: \"It's a power, not a duty. There is a high degree of local decision making in how a scheme is set up, with local authorities having wide powers to shape how that scheme is shaped to meet local needs.\"\n\nTory MSPs moved a string of amendments, aimed at ensuring a range of workplaces, such as schools and colleges, police and fire stations, prisons and veterinary practices were exempt, as well as shift workers and night workers.\n\nBut these were rejected, with Mr Matheson saying local authorities would have a \"very wide range of powers to apply local exemptions to premises, persons or motor vehicles\".\n\nDavid Lonsdale, director of the Scottish Retail Consortium, said the plan was a \"charter for extra cost and complexity\".\n\nHe added: \"The introduction of a levy will see firms' taxed twice for the parking places they provide for staff, on top of the business rates already paid on those spaces.\n\n\"The dearth of any business and regulatory impact assessment to accompany the introduction of this new tax is bewildering, and suggests MSPs risk voting for a pig in a poke.\"\n• None Will you have to pay to park your car at work?", "Boris Johnson spoke at four of Jennifer Arcuri's events in London when he was mayor\n\nBoris Johnson is under fire for failing to provide details of his contacts with US businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri to a London Assembly inquiry.\n\nThe PM responded to the assembly's request for information on Tuesday.\n\nBut the assembly said the letter it received - marked \"confidential and not for publication\" - did not answer any of its questions.\n\nMr Johnson denies claims of a conflict of interest over his friendship with Ms Arcuri when he was London mayor.\n\nThe assembly had asked for details and a timeline of all contact between the pair, including private text messages and emails.\n\nA London Assembly spokeswoman told the BBC the letter \"doesn't answer any of the questions we asked\", adding: \"I can't understand why it is labelled confidential.\"\n\nThe assembly is now seeking legal advice over whether members of its oversight committee can discuss the contents of the letter at their meeting next week.\n\nIn a statement, Len Duvall, Labour chairman of the committee, said: \"We did finally receive a response from Boris Johnson, through his solicitors, which they have indicated may not be published. At this stage we are respecting that, but we are seeking further clarification.\n\n\"Nothing in the response, in our opinion, reflects the need for confidentiality. In fact, the response is insufficient as far as our request for information is concerned.\n\n\"We are focused on our investigation and considering next steps. A number of options are open to us; they include speaking to various people and using our power of summons.\"\n\nLen Duvall says his committee is considering its next move\n\nHe said the committee was liaising with the Independent Office for Police Conduct, which has been asked to consider whether Mr Johnson, who as mayor was responsible for policing in London, should be investigated for misconduct in public office.\n\nLabour's shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett said: \"With an issue as serious as potential abuse of public office, it is absolutely in the public interest that this letter be published.\n\n\"Boris Johnson might think he is above the law but he cannot hide from scrutiny.\"\n\nIf the PM fails to answer the assembly's questions, added Mr Trickett, \"he is showing contempt for the inquiry and the people of this country.\"\n\nMr Johnson held the office of London mayor between 2008 and 2016.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times, which first reported the story, technology entrepreneur Ms Arcuri joined trade missions led by Mr Johnson when he was mayor and received thousands of pounds in public money.\n\nIt is also understood she attended events on two of the trade missions - to New York and Tel Aviv - despite not officially qualifying for them as a delegate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jennifer Arcuri: \"I'm not going to put myself in a position where you can weaponise my answer\"\n\nMs Arcuri told ITV's Good Morning Britain Mr Johnson was \"a really good friend\" who had spoken at event she organised - but denied the then mayor had shown any \"favouritism\" towards her.\n\nThe code governing conduct at London City Hall states that public office holders should not act in any way to gain benefits for families or friends, and should declare private interests to resolve any conflicts.\n\nThe prime minister has denied breaking any rules of conduct and insisted everything was done \"entirely in the proper way\".\n\nSeparately, the current Mayor Sadiq Khan has asked a senior lawyer to review a 2013 decision by London and Partners, the mayor's promotional agency, to sponsor a conference organised one of Ms Arcuri's companies, for £10,000.\n\nLondon and Partners say they have found no evidence of Mr Johnson's involvement in the decision.\n\nThe Department for Culture, Media and Sport is, meanwhile, \"reviewing\" a £100,000 grant made in February this year to Ms Arcuri's cyber-security business Hacker House.", "Officers were called by a member of the public to woodland at Norton Green on Saturday\n\nA body found in woodland has been confirmed as that of student midwife Joy Morgan, police have said.\n\nMs Morgan's remains were discovered in woodland in Stevenage on Saturday by members of the public.\n\nA post-mortem examination could not establish a cause of death and further tests will be carried out.\n\nMs Morgan, 20, was murdered by Shohfah-El Israel but her body had not been found. She was last seen in December and was reported missing in February.\n\nHertfordshire Police said officers were called to reports of a suspected human body found in woodland at Chadwell Road, Norton Green.\n\nJoy Morgan was a student midwife at the University of Hertfordshire\n\nMs Morgan, who lived in Hatfield where she was studying at the University of Hertfordshire, was last seen on Boxing Day at a church event in Ilford.\n\nShe was reported missing on 7 February after failing to return to her studies.\n\nShohfah-El Israel, 40, of Fordwych Road, north-west London, a fellow worshipper at the Israel United In Christ church, was found guilty of her murder at Reading Crown Court in August.\n\nAfter confirmation the body found was Ms Morgan, her mother Carol said: \"Joy was so beautiful and completely lived up to her name - she brought joy to all our lives.\n\n\"Our family has been living a nightmare and we miss her so, so much. Joy was studying to be a midwife and would have graduated by now.\n\n\"I know she would have been amazing as a midwife. I was so proud of her and I always will be. She was our star.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Manila consistently features in global traffic lists for its notoriously bad jams\n\nThe Filipino president's spokesman has been criticised for dismissing commuters' concerns in Manila - one of the world's most gridlocked cities.\n\nTrain breakdowns and worsening traffic have put commuters on edge.\n\nBut Salvador Panelo - Rodrigo Duterte's spokesman - told commuters if they wanted to arrive earlier, they should set off earlier.\n\nThat led to many frustrated Filipinos accusing Mr Panelo of being \"out of touch with reality\".\n\nOne resident told the BBC that it already took students three hours to reach class. The situation was worsened recently by three major train breakdowns.\n\nAnd Mr Panelo's boss, President Duterte, was not spared from criticism, either.\n\nHis government recently bought an ex-US military plane for $39.9m (£32m) to use as his private jet.\n\nThe government said the jet, set to be delivered next year, would also be used by other senior officials and in crisis situations. But that didn't pacify some Filipinos.\n\n\"Manila traffic is getting worse and worse and [the administration] is rewarding themselves with junkets and jets. It's insane,\" said one tweet.\n\nManila - which, in the wider metropolitan area, has a population of more than 12 million - is one of the most densely populated cities in the world.\n\nIt suffers from gridlock and in 2015 was named the worst city to drive in. But Mr Panelo seemed less than sympathetic.\n\n\"What do they mean by transportation crisis? I just see traffic,\" local media quoted him as saying.\n\n\"There is transportation, we all manage to get a ride. People get to where they need to go.\n\n\"There is a solution here, if you want to arrive early (at) your destination, then you go there earlier.\"\n\nHis comments were not received well.\n\n\"There is a transport crisis in Manila, there always has been,\" student activist John Gemuel Maramba told the BBC.\n\n\"Students leave at 5am for an 8am class. Millions rely on public transport to get to school and work, yet are subjected to the horrors of excruciatingly slow traffic, overcrowded public vehicles and malfunctioning trains.\n\n\"There is a lot of stress and rage that stems from the poor systems.\"\n\nMany Filipinos took to social media to express outrage at Mr Panelo's \"insensitive\" remarks.\n\n\"The mass transportation crisis is real,\" wrote one Twitter user. \"Don't agree with some high official who tells who otherwise, who himself doesn't even use public transportation to get around.\"\n\nMr Panelo has since promised to take public transportation to the presidential palace on Friday.\n\n\"The challenge to commute is accepted,\" he said. \"I'll take the jeepney [a type of bus] and the train in going to work.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post by Niccolo Manahan, but spooky 👻\n\nMany Filipinos also brought up President Rodrigo Duterte's private plane. \"The budget for health and education was cut for this,\" tweeted medical student Iya Elago.\n\nBut one commenter did offer a solution - for her, at least.\n\n\"I just work from home,\" she said. \"It eliminates the need for me to deal with people and stress.\"", "The UK and the European Union are in talks about how they could live and work together after Brexit.\n\nPoliticians use many different terms when discussing Brexit - here is what some of the key ones mean.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nA period lasting from 31 January to 31 December 2020, when the UK is no longer a member of the EU, but still follows all its rules.\n\nIt was agreed by the UK and the EU to allow both sides time to reach a deal on their future relationship.\n\nTrade between two countries, where neither side charges taxes or duties on goods crossing borders.\n\nA deal between countries to reduce, but not necessarily eliminate, trade barriers such as:\n\nHow the agreement between the EU and the UK would be enforced if there is a dispute.\n\nOne controversial issue has been about what role, if any, the European Court of Justice should play.\n\nA tax or duty to be paid on goods crossing borders.\n\nRules on who can fish where, and how much of each species can be caught.\n\nA set of rules to ensure that one country, or group of countries, doesn't have an unfair advantage over another.\n\nThis can involve areas such as workers' rights and environmental standards.\n\nEU laws which prevent a government in one country from supporting companies there - over competitors in another country.\n\nThis support could be financial - for instance, allowing companies to borrow more cheaply, or charging them less in tax.\n\nThe 2019 agreement which set out how the UK would leave the EU.\n\nThe Northern Ireland protocol is part of this agreement. It set out special arrangements for Northern Ireland, to avoid the need for checks along the Irish border.\n\nThis will be the situation if the UK and the EU don't reach a trade agreement by the end of 2020.\n\nIt means that both sides would have to charge tariffs - or taxes - on goods crossing borders.\n\nIf countries don't have free-trade agreements, they usually trade with each other under what's called WTO (World Trade Organization) rules, where each country sets tariffs - or taxes - on goods entering, and applies them equally to all its trading partners.\n\nThe government currently refers to this as an \"Australian-style deal\".", "Eimi Haga became interested in ninjas by watching TV shows\n\nA Japanese student of ninja history who handed in a blank paper was given top marks - after her professor realised the essay was written in invisible ink.\n\nEimi Haga followed the ninja technique of \"aburidashi\", spending hours soaking and crushing soybeans to make the ink.\n\nThe words appeared when her professor heated the paper over his gas stove.\n\n\"It is something I learned through a book when I was little,\" Ms Haga told the BBC. \"I just hoped that no-one would come up with the same idea.\"\n\nMs Haga has been interested in ninjas - covert agents and assassins in medieval Japan - since watching an animated TV show as a child.\n\nAfter enrolling at Mie University in Japan, the first-year student took a class in ninja history, and was asked to write about a visit to the Ninja Museum of Igaryu.\n\n\"When the professor said in class that he would give a high mark for creativity, I decided that I would make my essay stand out from others,\" she said.\n\n\"I gave a thought for a while, and hit upon the idea of aburidashi.\"\n\nThe essay, showing the heated and unheated sections\n\nMs Haga, 19, soaked soybeans overnight, then crushed them before squeezing them in a cloth.\n\nShe then mixed the soybean extract with water - spending two hours to get the concentration right - before writing her essay with a fine brush on \"washi\" (thin Japanese paper).\n\nOnce her words had dried, they became invisible. But, to ensure her professor didn't put the essay in the bin, she left a note in normal ink saying \"heat the paper\".\n\nThe professor, Yuji Yamada, told the BBC he was \"surprised\" when he saw the essay.\n\n\"I had seen such reports written in code, but never seen one done in aburidashi,\" he said.\n\n\"To tell the truth, I had a little doubt that the words would come out clearly. But when I actually heated the paper over the gas stove in my house, the words appeared very clearly and I thought 'Well done!'\n\n\"I didn't hesitate to give the report full marks - even though I didn't read it to the very end because I thought I should leave some part of the paper unheated, in case the media would somehow find this and take a picture.\"\n\nAs for the essay itself, Ms Haga said it had more style than substance.\n\n\"I was confident that the professor would at least recognise my efforts to make a creative essay,\" she said.\n\n\"So I wasn't really worried about getting a bad score for my essay - though the content itself was nothing special.\"\n\nAdditional reporting by the BBC's Hideharu Tamura in Tokyo\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There are very few ninjas left in Japan, and Mariko Oi has met two of them", "Coleen Rooney has claimed that someone using Rebekah Vardy's Instagram account has leaked stories about her to a tabloid newspaper.\n\nThe wife of Wayne Rooney says she spent five months working out who was giving out information from her personal Instagram account.\n\nShe claims she worked out it was Rebekah's account by blocking everyone else's account apart from hers.\n\nRebekah - the wife of Jamie Vardy - has denied the allegation.\n\nBoth Wayne and Jamie have played together for the England football team.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Coleen Rooney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPosting on Twitter, Coleen claimed that someone she trusted to follow her on her personal Instagram account has been leaking stories to the Sun newspaper for several years.\n\n\"After a long time of trying to figure out who it could be, for various reasons, I had a suspicion.\"\n\nIn order to try to prove it, she came up with a plan in which she blocked everyone from viewing her Instagram stories apart from one account.\n\nAfter that, she posted various false stories on to her account to see if they ended up in the newspaper - which she says they did.\n\nThe stories Coleen mentioned were about gender selection in Mexico, being excited to go on Strictly Come Dancing and one about a flooded basement.\n\nWayne Rooney and Jamie Vardy last played together in 2016\n\n\"It's been tough keeping it to myself and not making any comment at all, especially when the stories have been leaked; however, I had to. Now I know for certain which account/individual it's come from.\n\n\"I have saved and screenshotted all the original stories which clearly show just one person has viewed them.\n\nColeen's post on Twitter had more than 12,000 retweets and 42,000 likes within an hour of it being uploaded.\n\nRebekah Vardy has responded to the claims in a message back to Coleen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Rebekah Vardy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe denied it was her and said she wishes Coleen had spoken to her directly about her suspicion as she would have changed the password to her account.\n\n\"Over the years various people have had access to my Insta and just this week I found I was following people I didn't know or have never followed myself,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm not being funny but I don't need the money, what would I gain from selling stories on you?\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm disgusted that I'm even having to deny this. You should've called me the first time it happened.\"\n\nNow, The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme has learned Rebekah has instructed lawyers to do a \"forensic investigation\" on her Instagram account to see who has had access to it and when.\n\nThe Sun newspaper said it did not want to comment on the claim, but it has removed one of the three stories Coleen flagged.\n\nColeen and Rebekah were pictured together at Euro 2016\n\nUnsurprisingly, it wasn't long before the internet reacted.\n\nRebekah Vardy's name has been used almost 50,000 times on Twitter today.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Tom Carnduff This 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 4 by Have I Got News For You\n\nIt wasn't long before Coleen was renamed \"WAGatha Christie\" after Agatha Christie, the writer known for her detective novels.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Phoebe Roberts This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 it seems the drama could be coming to a screen near you...\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Netflix UK & Ireland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Acting US Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan was shouted off stage at a university in Washington DC by student protesters.\n\nWas it a legitimate form or protest or a violation of freedom of speech? The BBC's Aleem Maqbool spoke to some of the demonstrators.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Sports\n\nOn Lorraine Denman's left forearm is a tattoo depicting her daughter.\n\nEllie Soutter stands with her arms aloft, the waters of a French lake lapping around her legs - looking out into the distance.\n\n\"It was one of her favourite pictures,\" Lorraine says. \"I see happiness, I see freedom.\"\n\nEllie, one of Britain's most talented young snowboarders, was tipped for success at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.\n\nBut on 25 July 2018, she took her own life. It was her 18th birthday.\n\n\"Life is completely empty,\" Lorraine says. \"I have a massive void in my life.\n\n\"It's like having the battery taken out of me. There's nothing there and I'm just running on empty.\"\n\nEllie won bronze at the 2017 Youth Olympic Winter Festival in Turkey and carried the British flag at the closing ceremony. But, as her father Tony has previously told the BBC, \"funding played massively\" on her mind and that pressure took its toll.\n\nIn the days leading up to her death, Ellie - due to attend a training camp - had missed a flight, and as a result, felt she had \"let everyone down\".\n\n\"Ellie was the other half of me,\" Lorraine tells BBC Breakfast's Sally Nugent in an interview broadcast on World Mental Health Day. \"She was very strong, very passionate about her own thoughts. She was very driven and she was very articulate.\n\n\"She knew what she wanted, even from an early age. She had her own ambitions and her own drive.\"\n\n'I just fell to the floor'\n\nLorraine spoke to Ellie the day before her birthday, a conversation in which Ellie had told her about the missed flight.\n\n\"We managed to get things into line, we were talking and I said to go home, to enjoy her evening and I would give her a call the next day.\"\n\nAlarm bells rang when neither Lorraine, nor her father, nor any of Ellie's friends, could get hold of her on her milestone birthday.\n\n\"As a mum, I knew something wasn't right,\" Lorraine says.\n\nA veterinary nurse in Hove, she left work early. As the day went on, and Ellie's phone remained unanswered, police in Les Gets - the French village where she lived with her father - were called and search parties deployed.\n\nLater that night, Lorraine called Ellie's father again.\n\n\"He didn't answer and then he called me back,\" she says.\n\n\"I just said to him: 'Have you seen Ellie? Have you heard from her?' He said: 'We've found her.'\n\n\"For a split second, I thought she was alive. And then he said: 'She's dead'. He said: 'Lorraine, she's dead.'\n\n\"I got out of bed and I just fell to the floor. Someone might as well have just taken my heart out.\"\n\nThat night, Lorraine and her husband walked the streets for five hours. Where they went or what they saw, she has no recollection.\n\nFifteen months on, she takes time to hold Ellie's ashes and talk to her daughter every day. The tattoo on her arm, she says, allows her to feel close to her only child.\n\n\"Sometimes, I've heard stories, be it on the news or I've read it in the newspaper, of other people who have lost their children, and I think 'those poor people',\" she says.\n\n\"Then all of sudden, it hits me. That is me. I am one of those people.\"\n\n'I am a voice for Ellie now' - a call to other parents\n\nEllie, according to her mum, \"was a worrier\".\n\n\"She worried about people, she worried about money, she worried about was I OK, was her dad OK. She worried about whether she was going to meet expectations.\"\n\nYet from the outside, Ellie looked anything but a worrier. And that, for Lorraine, is what needs to be \"recognised\".\n\n\"She looked like she had everything,\" she says.\n\n\"As parents, we have to take that as a responsibility as well, because it was easy for us to turn around and say 'Ellie, you've got nothing to worry about, everything is going to be fine, you've got so much to look forward to, you've got this coming up, you've got that', but actually, I think people have to listen and read between the lines.\"\n\nLorraine adds: \"You can't wrap your children in cotton wool, they are people and they've got minds of their own, but you can have time to sit and listen to them, or just take on board if they have said something to you, don't just disregard it.\"\n\nIn the days after Ellie's death, her parents established the Ellie Soutter Foundation in order to help young winter athletes \"achieve their potential and dreams\" and to help end the \"vicious cycle\" around young athletes' funding.\n\nTo date, the Foundation has sponsored two young snowboarders - Maisie Hill and Mia Brookes.\n\nOn a personal level, Lorraine has now found the inner strength to tell her daughter's story, in the hope it can help others. Ellie's death, she says, \"can't be in vain\".\n\n\"I am a voice for Ellie now, and I have to move forward and make other people aware that she couldn't say how she felt for whatever reason, but I can now encourage people to speak up, to share or to talk to their parents or their friends if they are having any problems, and I think that is what is pushing me on.\n\n\"Have I wanted to give up? Quite frankly, yes. What is the point in living without her anymore? But equally, she is me and I am her.\n\n\"If I'm going to represent her, I'm going to do it in the right way.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by a mental health issue, help and support is available at bbc.co.uk/actionline", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland's Rugby World Cup match against France on Saturday has been called off because of Typhoon Hagibis, but organisers hope Scotland against Japan can go ahead as planned on Sunday.\n\nThe typhoon, described as the biggest of the year, is set to wreak havoc in Tokyo and surrounding areas.\n\nIreland's match with Samoa in Fukuoka is expected to go ahead as scheduled.\n\n\"The decision to cancel matches has not been taken lightly,\" said tournament director Alan Gilpin.\n\n\"It has been made with the best interest of team, public, and tournament volunteer safety as a priority based on expert advice.\"\n• None 'We've got no issue with it' - England coach Jones on cancellation\n\nThe Pool B match between New Zealand and Italy in Toyota on Saturday has also been cancelled, denying Italy their outside chance of qualifying.\n\nIf the Scotland-Japan match was to be called off, Gregor Townsend's side are likely be knocked out of the World Cup.\n\nCancelled matches see both teams awarded two points as part of a 0-0 draw.\n\nThat means England progress as winners of Pool C, two points ahead of France in second place, and face a probable quarter-final against Australia, with Wales expected to top Pool D and therefore play the French.\n\nFrance would have the advantage over Wales of a two-week rest, compared to one week.\n\nWhat has been announced?\n• ON: Ireland v Samoa (11:45 BST, Sat) and Australia v Georgia (Fri) both set to go ahead.\n• ON AS IT STANDS: All four Sunday games - including Scotland v Japan (11:45 BST) - but a review will be made on Sunday morning depending on the damage caused by the typhoon.\n• None Who needs what to reach quarter-finals?\n\nScotland, third in Pool A on 10 points with leaders Japan on 14, need to beat the hosts to go through, potentially relying on bonus points.\n\nIf second-placed Ireland beat Samoa, a weather-enforced two-point haul would mean Scotland finish third in Pool A and go out, although, in this scenario, an Ireland defeat would mean Scotland progress.\n\n\"We are in regular dialogue with World Rugby at all levels to work to ensure our fixture against Japan on Sunday can be played as planned,\" said a Scottish Rugby spokesman.\n\n\"Scottish Rugby fully expects contingency plans to be put in place to enable Scotland to contest for a place in the quarter-finals on the pitch, and will be flexible to accommodate this.\"\n\nEngland coach Eddie Jones said his squad will leave Tokyo for Miyazaki, the base for their pre-tournament training camp.\n\n\"We're told what to do. There's no use speculating on the alternatives. We're excited about having great preparation for the quarter-finals,\" he said.\n\n\"We'll have a short pre-season camp in Miyazaki and then we're off to Oita. We have an exceptional record in two-week preparations.\"\n\nThe typhoon is expected to clear by Sunday morning, when tournament bosses will stage a comprehensive review to see if the four scheduled games can proceed as planned.\n\nThe deadline for a final decision is six hours before kick-off.\n\n\"We are continuing to review Sunday's matches and make every effort to ensure they are as played as scheduled,\" added Gilpin.\n\n\"A thorough assessment of the venues will take place after the typhoon has passed before a final decision is made on Sunday morning.\"\n\nGilpin said World Cup organisers looked \"exhaustively\" at contingency plans, which involved moving or rearranging matches, before deciding that was unfeasible on both logistical and safety grounds.\n\n\"The risks are just too challenging to enable us to deliver a fair and consistent contingency approach for all teams and participants and importantly to provide confidence in the safety of spectators,\" he said.\n\nAll fans with tickets to cancelled matches will be entitled to a full refund.\n\nBBC weather presenter Simon King said the typhoon will bring wind gusts in excess of 120mph and 300-500mm of rain.\n\n\"This will be significant in a built-up area such as Tokyo with damage and flooding expected,\" he added.\n\nJapan is used to being hit by heavy storms, with the most recent at the start of September, when Typhoon Faxai hit Tokyo. It brought wind gusts of 130mph and left nearly a million without power when it tore through.\n\n\"Hagibis is about three-and-a-half times bigger than Faxai and will therefore bring impacts over a much larger area of Japan,\" said King.\n\nGilpin said there are \"no regrets\" about bringing the tournament to Japan during typhoon season.\n\n\"What we have seen over the last three weeks in every respect vindicates the right decision to be here in Japan,\" he said.\n\n\"It's been an incredible tournament on and off the field and we always knew there were going to be risks.\n\n\"It is rare for a typhoon of this magnitude to cause this impact this late on the typhoon season.\"\n\nMeanwhile, race organisers will monitor the storm's path before deciding whether to cancel Formula 1's Japanese Grand Prix qualifying on Saturday. And a 2020 Olympic Games test event for BMX racing scheduled for this weekend in Tokyo has been brought forward to Friday.\n\nEngland supporters told the BBC how their travel plans have been thrown into chaos.\n\n\"We are absolutely devastated,\" said Karl Green, who had hoped to begin his honeymoon with new wife Shannan at the England-France fixture in Yokohama, about 20 miles south of the capital.\n\nThe couple were at Heathrow Airport, waiting for their flight to Tokyo, when they got the news that this would not be possible.\n\n\"We got married in May and planned our delayed honeymoon over a year ago so we could watch England in the World Cup,\" Karl, 27, from Essex.\n\nEngland coach Jones said he had sympathy for supporters who would miss out.\n\n\"It is difficult for them because it was going to be a special occasion and we feel for them and we are lucky to have such great supporters,\" said Jones.\n• None 'Devastated and terrified' - More from England fans", "Karli (left) discusses her experience having a parent with an opioid addiction\n\nThe organisation behind US children's TV show Sesame Street is set to reveal that one of its muppets' mothers has an addiction.\n\nKarli was introduced earlier this year as a muppet in foster care.\n\nShe is set to reveal that she was placed in foster care as her mother had a \"grown-up problem\".\n\nAbout 5.7 million children in the US under the age of 11 live with a parent who suffers from substance addiction, according to the Associated Press.\n\nKarli will tell her story on the Sesame Street in Communities project, which is run by Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organisation behind the show.\n\nIn the online episodes, Karli tells Elmo and another muppet about her mum's meetings and the special kids-only meetings where she gets to spend time with other children who are going through the same experience.\n\nElmo's father, Louie, also explains what addiction is.\n\nThe series also features Salia, a ten-year-old from California whose parents have \"been there\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAddiction to substances such as opioids is a huge problem in the US.\n\nAccording to the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, 399,000 deaths between 1999 and 2017 were linked to opioids.\n\nAbout 192 people die from an opioid overdose every day in the US.\n\nSherrie Westin, president of Social Impact and Philanthropy at Sesame Workshop, said: \"Addiction is often seen as a 'grown up' issue, but it impacts children in ways that aren't always visible. Having a parent battling addiction can be one of the most isolating and stressful situations young children and their families face.\"\n\nSesame Street has been a childhood favourite since 1969, and runs on American public broadcaster PBS as well as cable channel HBO.\n\nLast December, the show introduced Lily, a seven-year-old homeless muppet. Lily told viewers that she had to leave her house behind and had been staying in all different kinds of places since.\n\nIn 2017, it introduced an autistic muppet, Julia, to the show.\n\nIt has also featured children who have been bullied and also children who have parents in prison.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has issued a plea to EU foreign ministers to avoid a \"catastrophic failure in statecraft\" over Brexit.\n\nHe has urged them in an open letter to reach a compromise with Prime Minister Boris Johnson while they still can.\n\nDelaying Brexit would only increase the chances of a no-deal exit, he warned.\n\n\"If they think this is bad - just wait until what happens after Boris wins an election,\" he told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg in an exclusive interview.\n\nMr Hunt - who lost out to Mr Johnson in July's Conservative leadership contest - has written to the 27 EU foreign ministers, urging them to show greater flexibility in talks with the UK.\n\nIn his interview with Laura Kuenssberg, he said: \"I think we could be about to see a catastrophic failure in statecraft, not because of malevolence by the EU. I think they are sincere in wanting a deal.\n\n\"But just because they haven't really understood what's happening in British politics right now.\n\n\"And there is bureaucratic inertia. If you're trying to get 27 countries to agree a common position the easiest thing is always to do nothing. And that's the risk we face.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nMr Hunt, who backed Remain in the 2016 EU referendum but went on to be a strong supporter of Mrs May's withdrawal agreement, quit the cabinet in July after Mr Johnson attempted to remove him as foreign secretary.\n\nHe told the BBC Mr Johnson had made mistakes in his handling of Brexit, although he declined to say what they were, but stressed they both agreed on the need for a speedy resolution to Brexit.\n\nHe argued that the EU had been guilty of misreading the political situation in the UK in the past - over David Cameron's ill-fated renegotiation attempt in 2015 and Theresa May's withdrawal agreement - and could do so again.\n\n\"My worry is that they're about to make the same profound miscalculation that 'oh we can just hang tight, see if there's an election and if Boris Johnson wins it we can negotiate on the same deal but if he doesn't, so much the better because maybe we'll have a second referendum.'\n\n\"If Boris wins, which is what the polls are saying, at the moment, and he comes back with a majority, that British government will be much less willing to compromise,\" he said.\n\nThis, he argues in his open letter to his former EU colleagues, will make a no-deal Brexit more likely - an outcome they had always agreed it was \"vital\" to avoid.\n\n\"I fear a profound and mutual lack of understanding is leading the EU to make the same mistakes over and over again,\" he writes.\n\nLeo Varadkar is set for further talks with Boris Johnson\n\n\"I am hoping and praying that does not happen because the implications for our future relationship would be extremely grave.\"\n\nMr Johnson has said he remains \"cautiously optimistic\" about a deal, while continuing to insist the UK will leave on 31 October with or without an agreement.\n\nHe is set to meet his Irish counterpart, Leo Varadkar, on Thursday to try and break the deadlock.\n\nMr Varadkar has expressed concern about Mr Johnson's proposal to give the Northern Ireland Assembly a vote over entering into a \"regulatory zone\" with the EU, which would involve it leaving the customs union.\n\nMr Hunt said: \"I'm sure they would love to keep Northern Ireland in the single market and customs union in perpetuity.\n\n\"But in the end, that is not going to work for the UK, I don't think this is just the strong supporters of Boris Johnson who feel this, this would be to divide up a sovereign country, and that wouldn't be acceptable I don't think any other country in Europe either.\"\n\nHe urged Ireland to take a \"statesmanlike approach at this stage\" adding that there was a \"deal to be done which prevents a hard border on the island of Ireland, which allows regulatory alignment, the smooth flow of people and products across that border, which is so important for the Belfast Good Friday Agreement, it's going to need compromise on all sides\".\n\nHe added: \"It's Ireland's call now because I don't think that the EU are going to budge unless they get that signal from Varadkar.\"", "An unusable children's hospital still had thousands of snagging problems after a health board accepted it as ready, new documents show.\n\nThe Sick Kids facility in Edinburgh will not be fully operational until next autumn after last-minute safety concerns stopped it opening in July.\n\nMinutes of the dedicated NHS Lothian board overseeing the project show there were 2,000 snagging issues in May.\n\nThis was nearly three months after the health board took over the facility.\n\nNHS Lothian said a snagging list was to be expected on any project of this complexity and would be addressed by the contractor.\n\nThey added that IHSL, the private consortium which built the hospital, was responsible for reviewing the quality of the build during the process.\n\nRepayments for the hospital building - the equivalent of about £1.4m a month - started when NHS Lothian moved into the hospital in February.\n\nBut minutes of the project board highlighted repeated concerns about defective work.\n\nThe documents also showed more than £2m was diverted from the new hospital's \"equipment budget contingency\" in order to offset increased construction costs.\n\nA public inquiry to examine safety and wellbeing issues at the new hospital has been called by the Scottish government.\n\nIHSL has pointed out that its works on the hospital were signed off as complete by an independent certifier on 22 February before NHS Lothian moved in.\n\nDaniel Johnson, Labour MSP for Edinburgh Southern, said: \"With thousands of outstanding issues months after the NHS had accepted handover of the new Sick Kids hospital, it is clear that this project had critical failings.\n\n\"The key question is why it took the government until the 11th hour to step in when it is now clear there were multiple warning signs that the new building was not up to standard.\n\n\"The sheer volume of problems, additional payments to the contractor and issues found at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital [in Glasgow] should have prompted a root and branch review of the delivery of this much needed hospital months earlier.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Scottish government said Health Secretary Jeane Freeman received assurances from NHS Lothian that \"all relevant compliance issues had been met under its contractual obligations\".\n\n\"However these assurances subsequently proved to be incorrect and when the issues with the ventilation in critical care in the new hospital came to light, the health secretary suspended the move to the new hospital site in order to ensure patient safety was maintained,\" she added.\n\n\"Patient safety is our utmost priority, and the cabinet secretary will ensure that staff, patients and families are supported, stepping in to address any issues and working with partners to undertake any required improvement work to the current facilities to help continue the delivery of high quality clinical services.\"\n\nAs well as calling a public inquiry, the government is also establishing a national centre of expertise to ensure new builds comply with relevant guidance.\n\nThe Royal Hospital for Sick Children is now due to open in the autumn of 2020 after a series of delays\n\nThe NHS Lothian minutes, released under freedom of information laws, from May 2017 show the board reporting on how \"many quality issues are emerging\" and cited issues with damage to doors, power supplies and \"a poor standard of decoration/finishing quality\".\n\nThe minutes then spell out how a dispute between NHS Lothian and IHSL began over standards of construction.\n\nA planned legal challenge against the construction consortium was dropped in favour of paying IHSL £11.6m to settle the outstanding issues - a move approved by the Scottish government.\n\nThis was to address concerns over issues such as the site's drainage not working properly and the fitting of automatic fire detection systems in the building's voids.\n\nBy May of this year the minutes noted \"there are currently 2,000 snags on the system\" and pointed to \"high level concerns\" about the \"large number of building related 'defects'\".\n\nNHS Lothian's finance director, Susan Goldsmith, said the contract to build the hospital meant the health board did not have the opportunity to review its quality.\n\n\"That responsibility lies with IHSL and their supply chain,\" she added.\n\n\"NHS Lothian is given reviewable design data to ensure it provides operational functionality. The Independent Assessor is appointed, by NHS Lothian and IHSL, to verify the building meets the specification and design requirements.\"\n\nShe added that when they became aware of issues, \"urgent negotiations\" led to the £11.6m settlement.\n\nThe corridors of the new hospital will remain empty for some time\n\nThe new Sick Children's Hospital cost about £150m to build, but its full price tag over the next 25 years, including maintenance and facilities management fees, will be £432m.\n\nIn addition to this outlay, £81.7m was spent by NHS Lothian on enabling and equipment works at the site.\n\nThis was more than first anticipated and the minutes show that the board, which included senior members of the Scottish Futures Trust government agency, agreed that \"£2.3m of the £3.3m equipment budget contingency should be used to balance the capital programme\".\n\nMs Goldsmith, of NHS Lothian said: \"Initial estimated budgets for the costs involved in the project, including equipment, were identified in the business case, which was agreed in 2015.\n\n\"When it moved into the development phase, the detailed requirements and costs were finalised and in some cases the overall budget could be reallocated. There was no reduction in the amount or quality of equipment sought for the new facility for budgeting reasons.\"\n\nA spokesman for Multiplex, which was part of the IHSL consortium, said his firm welcomed the public inquiry into the issue and would not be commenting further.\n\nThe firm previously pointed out its works on the building \"were signed off as complete by the independent certifier on 22 February 2019\".", "Ex-Wales footballer David Cotterill, who has spoken about his own mental health, is backing the new text service\n\nA suicide prevention text message service to encourage more men to \"open up\" has been started by a charity on World Mental Health Day.\n\nThe 24/7 hotline run by The Kaleidoscope Plus Group is available across the UK to people of all ages.\n\nAnyone texting will get an instant response from a trained volunteer who will attempt to keep the person safe and access support services.\n\nAn official launch at Solihull Moors FC will take place later.\n\nIt has been organised after matches there raised about £15,000 for the hotline.\n\nThirty-six teams, including former footballers, took part in a fundraising competition in memory of 41-year-old football coach Nick Mowl, who took his own life in 2017.\n\nThe charity said 2018 figures showed 84 men in the UK died by suicide each week.\n\nIts chief executive Monica Shafaq said generally \"men don't open up as much as women\".\n\nBut she added: \"I do think that's changing [with] the likes of lots of sporting personalities and celebrities who've come forward and openly said they've had mental health issues.\"\n\nMrs Shafaq said sometimes people \"don't feel able\" to talk because the condition could \"make them believe they'll be judged\".\n\nShe said: \"We wanted to take that away as a barrier. You can text someone. You have that conversation, but via text instead.\"\n\nGarry Monk, when he was Birmingham City boss, joined a host of former footballers at The Nick Mowl Cup\n\nThe charity began the service via Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at 07:00 BST, with people in need able to text TeamKPG to 85258 and get help.\n\nTwo of the speakers at Thursday evening's launch event, ex-Wales winger David Cotterill and fellow former professional footballer Drewe Broughton, have spoken openly about their mental health issues.\n\nCharity chief executive Monica Shafaq said there was \"support out there\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Workers on fruit farms in Brazil told Oxfam they had developed skin conditions from using pesticides without adequate protection\n\nWorkers on farms and plantations that supply big UK supermarkets are being subjected to poverty and human rights abuses, according to Oxfam.\n\nA \"relentless\" drive for retailer profits is fuelling poverty, abuse, and discrimination, the charity said.\n\nPoor conditions were rife on farms that supply supermarkets including Tesco, Sainsbury's and Morrisons, it added.\n\nBut the British Retail Consortium said retailers were \"spearheading actions\" intended to improve millions of lives.\n\nOxfam conducted research in India and Brazil, and surveyed workers in five other countries.\n\nWorkers on 50 tea plantations in Assam told Oxfam that cholera and typhoid are \"prevalent because workers lack access to toilets and safe drinking water\".\n\nHalf the workers questioned got ration cards from the government due to low wages, while female employees regularly worked for up to 13 \"back-breaking\" hours a day, it said.\n\nWorkers in Assam told Oxfam that cholera and typhoid are \"prevalent\" due to unsanitary conditions.\n\nTesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and Aldi all source tea from those suppliers, while Asda-owner Walmart would neither confirm nor deny whether it did, the charity said.\n\nOxfam found that, of the 79p paid by shoppers for a 100g pack of black Assam tea in the UK, supermarkets and tea brands receive 49p while workers collectively received 3p.\n\nThe charity said workers on the Assam estates could earn a living wage if they were paid 5p more of the retail price.\n\nWorkers on fruit farms in Brazil told Oxfam they had developed skin conditions from using pesticides without adequate protection.\n\nWomen on those grape, melon and mango farms also said they had to rely on government handouts outside of harvest season.\n\nThose farms supply supermarkets including Lidl and Sainsbury's, and previously Tesco and Morrisons, the charity said.\n\nWalmart again neither confirmed nor denied links.\n\nRachel Wilshaw, Oxfam ethical trade manager, said: \"Despite some pockets of good practice, supermarkets' relentless pursuit of profits continues to fuel poverty and human rights abuses in their supply chains.\n\n\"Supermarkets must do more to end exploitation, pay all their workers a living wage, ensure women get a fair deal and be more transparent about where they source their products.\"\n\nA separate Oxfam survey of more than 500 workers in the Philippines, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Peru and the US found three quarters of workers saying they were not paid enough to cover basic needs such as food and housing.\n\nMore than a third said they were not protected from injury or harm at work and were not able to take a toilet break or have a drink of water when they needed it.\n\nAn Oxfam spokesperson said abuses in supermarket supply chains were \"endemic\".\n\nHowever, Peter Andrews, head of sustainability at the British Retail Consortium (BRC), said: \"Supermarkets in the UK are spearheading actions aimed at improving the lives of the millions of people across the globe who contribute to the retail supply chain.\n\n\"Our members are working hard to address existing injustices and continue to collaborate internationally with NGOs [non-governmental organisations], business groups and government on this vital issue.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Oxfam ranked supermarket giants on their sourcing policies, with all showing an improvement compared with last year.\n\nTesco, which was at the top of the pile, was given a score of 38%.\n\nA Tesco spokesperson said: \"This is the second year in a row that Tesco has been assessed by Oxfam as doing most, of all major supermarkets globally, to ensure human rights are respected in food supply chains.\"\n\nIt said its tea was Rainforest Alliance certified and that it was \"committed to improving the lives of tea workers and ensuring minimum working conditions.\"\n\nIt added: \"We know there is always more to do and we are working collaboratively with NGOs, trade unions and others to improve wages in the key produce, tea and clothing sectors and ensure working conditions are fair.\"\n\nAn Aldi spokesperson said: \"We continue to work hard to ensure every person working in our supply chain is treated fairly and has their human rights respected.\n\n\"We share the values behind Oxfam's campaign and are in regular dialogue with them.\"", "Mourners hugged in front of the synagogue on Thursday\n\nGermany's main Jewish community group has accused police of \"negligence\" after a gunman killed two people while attacking an east German synagogue.\n\nThe head of the Central Council of Jews said it was \"scandalous\" that police were not protecting the synagogue in Halle on the Jewish Yom Kippur holiday.\n\nThe German police union (GdP) said police were too thinly spread for 24-hour protection of places of worship.\n\nThe suspected gunman, named only as Stephan B, was arrested.\n\nAbout 2,200 people watched a live stream he allegedly posted on the internet gaming platform Twitch.\n\n\"If police had been stationed outside the synagogue, then this man could have been disarmed before he could attack the others,\" said the council's president, Josef Schuster, on Deutschlandfunk public radio.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Schuster added that it was \"a miracle that there were no further casualties\" during the incident at the city's synagogue. About 60 worshippers were at a Yom Kippur service at the time.\n\nAuthorities say the suspect is a German national.\n\nThe suspect was filmed wearing a helmet and shooting in a street in Halle\n\nThe video - which has been removed from Twitch - showed him making anti-Semitic and misogynistic comments before driving to the synagogue and shooting at its door.\n\nAfter failing to get into the synagogue, he shot dead two people: a woman in a nearby street and a man inside a kebab shop about 500 metres (yards) away. Two people were also wounded by bullets and underwent surgery.\n\nReports say the gunman also tried to set off explosives at the synagogue.\n\nWitnesses said he was heavily armed, and an online anti-Semitic \"manifesto\" attributed to him shows guns, apparently home-made.\n\nSurvivors say they hid behind the synagogue's heavy locked doors until police arrived, which took more than 10 minutes.\n\n\"This case shows us how thinly spread the police cover is,\" Oliver Malchow, chairman of the GdP, told German broadcaster ZDF.\n\n\"While we're tackling terrorism we cannot at the same time involve many staff in monitoring far-right extremists,\" he added. \"We didn't underestimate it, but we can't foresee everything and prevent it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angela Merkel joined the Jewish community for a vigil in solidarity in Berlin\n\nAuthorities have noted a recent rise of anti-Semitic incidents in Germany, a country that is still haunted by the murder of six million Jews under Nazi rule.\n\nThey provide varying degrees of protection to synagogues. But when this is not possible, local Jewish communities sometimes work with law enforcement to provide for their own security.\n\nSince the shooting, police presence has been increased outside synagogues in several east German cities, including Leipzig and Dresden, according to local media.\n\nThe attack has been condemned by European leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n\nAt an event in Nuremberg, Ms Merkel said the government would use \"all means available\" to tackle hatred and bigotry.\n\nElsewhere, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the shooting as a \"terror attack\" and warned anti-Semitism was on the rise in Europe.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The head of Nissan Europe says a no-deal Brexit threatens the firm's business model\n\nJapanese carmaker Nissan has warned that a no-deal Brexit could make its European business model unsustainable.\n\nNissan's European chairman, Gianluca de Ficchy, said if a 10% export tariff was introduced after the UK left the EU it would put its operations \"in jeopardy\".\n\nThis would be the case if the UK moved to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules after Brexit, he said.\n\nHe was speaking at Nissan's plant in Sunderland, where work on a new model of the Juke is due to start.\n\nThe Japanese firm said it had invested £100m in the plant, which also makes the Qashqai and electric Leaf models.\n\nMr de Ficchy said Nissan still intended to build in Sunderland, the UK's biggest car plant, but that it was difficult to plan for the future amid Brexit uncertainty.\n\nThe new Juke has been designed and manufactured in the UK, aimed specifically at European markets, with two-thirds of its components coming from the EU and 70% of production destined for the continent.\n\nNissan, which employs 7,000 in Sunderland, also has operations in Spain.\n\nMr de Ficchy said the cost of moving to WTO rules would mean the \"entire business model for Nissan Europe will be in jeopardy\".\n\nMr de Ficchy said if duties were applied after a no-deal Brexit it would \"create an enormous problem\"\n\nThe car industry is the UK's biggest exporter of goods and eight out of every 10 cars built in the UK are exported.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr de Ficchy said: \"We do not know still what a no-deal means.\n\n\"There are many alternatives, and today there is a lot of uncertainty.\n\n\"The only message I can [give] is that if a no-deal will be associated with the application of 10% duties under the WTO rules, that will create an enormous problem for the overall European activities of Nissan Europe.\n\n\"If we will have to sustain 10% export duties on the vehicles that we export from UK to EU, knowing that those vehicles represent 70% of total production, the overall business model won't be sustainable.\n\n\"It's not a question of Sunderland, it's a question of the overall economic sustainability of our business [in Europe].\"\n\nHe said the business was asking for tariffs not be imposed if there is a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"We are asking not to have tariffs being applied in a no-deal scenario because otherwise the tariffs won't be sustainable for us,\" he said.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: \"We continue to work closely with the sector as they get ready for Brexit on 31 October.\"\n\nNissan employs 7,000 people at its plant in Sunderland\n\nOn Wednesday, union leaders revealed night shifts at Sunderland would end - but Mr Ficchy said this was not the result of Brexit.\n\nOther carmakers have warned about the impact of Brexit on their business, not just because of the cost of tariffs but the potential slowdown in production caused by new customs checks after the UK leaves the EU.\n\nThe industry operates a \"just-in-time\" model, shifting parts around the EU to construct cars in plants across the 28-nation bloc.\n\nLast month, Carlos Tavares, chief executive of PSA - the car group that owns Vauxhall - compared a no-deal Brexit to a head-on train crash.\n\nHe has warned previously that Vauxhall plants at Ellesmere Port and Luton were under threat from Brexit.\n\nIn June, PSA Group announced plans to build a new version of the Vauxhall Astra at its Ellesmere Port factory in Cheshire.\n\nThe industry is also under pressure with fewer diesel cars being bought and emissions standards presenting challenges for carmakers.\n\nIn February, Honda announced the closure of its Swindon plant but said it was nothing to do with Brexit.", "Diana Ross has had 27 UK top 10 singles, both solo and in The Supremes\n\nSoul icon Diana Ross is the first artist to be confirmed for the 2020 Glastonbury Festival.\n\nThe Motown star, who first found fame in The Supremes, will play the coveted \"legend slot\" on Sunday 28 June.\n\nShe follows in the footsteps of Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie and Kylie Minogue - whose set this June became the most-watched Glastonbury moment of all time.\n\nRoss, who is celebrating her 75th birthday with a US tour, said playing the festival was \"a dream come true\"\n\nIt will be her first show in the UK since 2008.\n\nThat gig, at Petworth Park in Sussex, reportedly ended after 50 minutes when the singer took exception to fans filming the show on their phones.\n\nAssuming she avoids a repeat of that incident, Ross's Glastonbury set is bound to be a major crowd-pleaser.\n\nRoss (centre) enjoyed success with The Supremes in the 1960s before going solo in 1970\n\nThe diva has decades of hits to draw on, from 1960s Supremes classics like Baby Love and Stop! In The Name Of Love, to her solo disco reinvention on such 1980s hits as Upside Down and I'm Coming Out.\n\n\"To all my fans across the world, this is my tribute to you,\" the singer said. \"Every concert feels like a private party. I can see your eyes and feel your hearts. I'm coming to Glastonbury, with love.\"\n\nNext year's Glastonbury takes place from 24 to 28 June. The event sold out in just 34 minutes last weekend, although there will be a chance to purchase returned tickets in April 2020.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Glastonbury Festival This 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\nNext year will be festival's golden anniversary, marking 50 years since Michael Eavis first invited 1,500 hippies to his farm Pilton, Somerset, to watch acts like Al Green, Wayne Fontana and headliners T Rex.\n\nIn those days, tickets cost £1 and came with a free bottle of milk. In 2020, a ticket will set you back £265, with 175,000 people expected to attend.\n\nHeadliners have yet to be announced, but acts rumoured for the top of the bill include Sir Paul McCartney, Fleetwood Mac and Taylor Swift.\n\nOne band who won't be taking part, however, is Abba. Asked if the quartet would ever consider reforming to play the legend slot, Bjorn Ulvaeus told BBC Radio 2: \"Oh, no. It's a straight, straight no.\n\n\"We recorded some new songs and you'll probably hear them next year, at least one of them,\" he told Nicky Chapman, who was sitting in for breakfast host Zoe Ball.\n\n\"But that's quite a different thing from going through the hassle of rehearsing and - just one show, it would be the same as doing a whole year of tours,\" he added. \"It would take 10 years out of our life.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @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. Sturgeon: \"Way to independence is legal process\"\n\nScotland's first minister has insisted that a legal referendum is the only way for the country to win independence.\n\nNicola Sturgeon dismissed claims that the SNP winning a majority of Scottish seats in a general election would be enough for independence to be declared.\n\nShe said there was \"no easy or shortcut route to independence\" and that a future referendum had to be \"beyond any doubt in terms of its legitimacy\".\n\nBut she insisted that independence was now closer than ever.\n\nThe SNP leader was speaking to BBC Scotland's political editor Brian Taylor ahead of her party's three-day conference, which opens in Aberdeen on Sunday afternoon.\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeatedly said she wants to hold a second referendum on independence next year - but the move has been ruled out by the UK government.\n\nAnd she is facing mounting pressure from some SNP activists and MPs, as well as others in the wider independence movement, to adopt a so-called Plan B if consent for a referendum is not granted.\n\nMs Sturgeon has been criticised by some activists for not attending a huge pro-independence march in Edinburgh at the weekend\n\nThere have been calls for an unofficial independence referendum to be held, similar to the disputed one in Catalonia in 2017.\n\nAnd others, including MP Angus MacNeil, have suggested that winning a majority of Scottish seats at Westminster should be enough for independence negotiations to begin without the need for a referendum - which was once the SNP's official policy.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon insisted: \"I have campaigned for independence all of my life. If there was an easy or shortcut route I would have taken it by now.\n\n\"We have to demonstrate majority support for independence in a process that is legal and legitimate and that crucially - not just domestically in the UK but internationally and in Europe in particular - will be accepted. That is the right way to go.\"\n\nA general election is widely expected to be held before the end of the year, which Ms Sturgeon said would offer Scottish voters the chance to demonstrate their support for a referendum and independence.\n\nBut she pointed out that the SNP has previously won a majority of Scottish seats in a general election on a minority of the votes.\n\nAhead of the SNP conference in Aberdeen, Ms Sturgeon has urged members to \"keep playing with the heid\"\n\nAnd she said \"nobody in Europe would listen to me in terms of the legitimacy of that\" if she was to claim it was a mandate for independence.\n\nThe SNP leader added: \"I am absolutely confident we will win independence sooner rather than later, but the only way to do that is to clearly demonstrate that the majority of people in Scotland want it.\n\n\"I think we're closer to that than we've ever been before and we should stick with that course, because it's the right one and ultimately it will be the successful one\".\n\nMs Sturgeon also rejected suggestions that a referendum might ultimately be delivered by a different leader, after Mr MacNeil spoke of fellow MP Joanna Cherry as \"the next SNP leader in waiting\".\n\nShe said: \"With the greatest of respect, I'm the leader of the SNP. For as long as I'm leader, which is entirely down to my party, I'll continue to take the steps I think are right for my party and right in terms of achieving independence.\n\n\"I've worked for that goal all my adult life, and I believe heart and head that if we keep playing with the heid, that we're closer to achieving it than ever before.\"", "This summer was the worst for A&E waiting times in England since the four-hour target was introduced.\n\nAnalysis by BBC Newsnight and the Nuffield Trust found an average of 86% of patients were admitted, transferred or discharged from A&E within four hours in the six months to September.\n\nThis is the worst performance in that period since the 95% target was brought in in 2004.\n\nNHS England said it had been \"the busiest ever summer\" for A&Es.\n\n\"In the past six months, there have been half a million more visits to A&E than at the same point last year,\" a spokesman said.\n\nDoctors warned that the system was \"running out of resilience\" and that winter in A&Es was going to be \"really difficult\".\n\nIn September, there were 41,000 more people treated in A&Es within four hours, compared with September 2018.\n\nBut there were 64,921 patients waiting more than four hours from decision to their actual admission to further care.\n\nOf these patients, 455 waited more than 12 hours. This is a 195.5% increase from the previous year.\n\nThese are known as trolley waits, because patients are left on trolleys in temporary waiting areas while a bed is found.\n\n\"Lying on a trolley is not good for you in any way,\" said Dr Katherine Henderson, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.\n\n\"We know these patients can suffer harm because they're in the department for so long.\"\n\nOver the April-September period, there were 2,591 trolley waits - more than double the number last year.\n\nThe numbers of trolley waits are small compared with the numbers of patients who go through A&E (there were 2.14 million attendees in September this year).\n\nThe last time the government's four-hour target was met was in July 2015.\n\nSince then, A&E waiting times have typically increased in winters - the \"winter crisis\" - and recovered in summers, with around 90% of patients being seen within four hours in the summer months (April - September).\n\nBut this summer that figure was 85%.\n\n\"This is the worst summer on record,\" said Helen Buckingham of the Nuffield Trust. \"And the thing that we have to remember is that behind those numbers there are people.\"\n\n\"Looking forward to winter,\" she added, \"the NHS has historically used the summer to catch its breath. It's been much harder to do that this year. It's not going to be easy.\"\n\nDr Henderson agreed. \"I think the system is running out of resilience,\" she said. \"It looks like we are really struggling with our workforce at times and we're not recovering as quickly as we used to.\n\n\"We're seeing sicker, more complex older patients coming to the emergency department... Very often those patients are the successes of the NHS.\"\n\nSorry, your browser is unable to display this content. Please upgrade to a more recent browser.\n\nIf you can't see the NHS Tracker, click or tap here.\n\nThe four-hour target was introduced in NHS England in 2004-2005 in an attempt to reduce waiting times.\n\nThe target itself is currently under review, after NHS England said it seemed to be distorting priorities.\n\nNHS England wants to see patients who come in with heart attacks, acute asthma, sepsis and stroke starting their care within an hour.\n\nThe changes will be piloted this year and, if successful, could be introduced in 2020.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said: \"Winter is always challenging and we're backing the NHS with £1.8bn for world-class facilities to improve front-line patient care across the country - on top of our historic commitment of £33.9bn more of taxpayers' money a year by 2023-24.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weeknights. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dunn family on Raab meeting: \"We feel let down\"\n\nThe family at the centre of a row over diplomatic immunity after their son died in a car crash described a meeting with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab as feeling like a \"publicity stunt\".\n\nHarry Dunn, 19, died in a crash with a Volvo in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nAmerican diplomat's wife Anne Sacoolas, suspected of driving the other vehicle, later left the UK to return to the US.\n\nBoris Johnson has spoken to President Trump who told a press briefing Harry's death was a \"terrible accident\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump says fatal car crash by diplomat's wife was 'accident'\n\nPolice have said CCTV of the crash which killed the teenager shows the Volvo travelling on the wrong side of the road.\n\nSpeaking after his conversation with the prime minister, President Trump said: \"The woman was driving on the wrong side of the road, and that can happen.\n\n\"You know, those are the opposite roads, that happens. I won't say it ever happened to me, but it did.\n\n\"So a young man was killed, the person that was driving the automobile has diplomatic immunity, we're going to speak to her very shortly and see if we can do something where they meet.\n\n\"It was an accident, it was a terrible accident.\"\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was in a crash with a Volvo\n\nAfter meeting the foreign secretary, Harry's mother Charlotte Charles said she felt \"let down\" by both the UK and US governments.\n\nShe said: \"I can't really see the point as to why we were invited to see Dominic Raab. We are no further forward than where we were this time last week.\n\n\"Part of me is feeling like it was just a publicity stunt on the UK Government side to show they are trying to help.\n\n\"But, although he is engaging with us, we have no answers. We are really frustrated that we could spend half an hour or more with him and just come out with nothing.\"\n\nTogether with Harry's father Tim Dunn, she met Mr Raab in the hope he would urge the US to waive Ms Sacoolas' diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn said: \"I felt extremely let down by the Government today, or by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.\n\n\"I'm deeply, deeply disappointed that they think it's okay to kill a young lad on his bike and they can just walk away.\n\n\"I don't think the government or the Commonwealth Office have any clout to do anything.\"\n\nTim Dunn and Charlotte Charles felt there was little point to their meeting with the foreign secretary\n\nNumber 10 said the Prime Minister urged US President Donald Trump to reconsider the decision to allow Ms Sacoolas immunity in order that \"the individual involved can return to the UK, cooperate with police and allow Harry's family to receive justice\".\n\nDowning Street said the \"leaders agreed to work together to find a way forward as soon as possible\" during their conversation on Wednesday evening.\n\nFollowing the meeting with Harry's parents, the foreign secretary said: \"I share the frustration of Harry's mother and father.\n\n\"They have lost their son and the justice process is not being allowed to properly run its course.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Charles urged Ms Sacoolas to do the \"humane thing to do and get on a plane and come back\".\n\nTheir lawyer Radd Seiger said they were in talks to launch a civil case against Ms Sacoolas and they were \"going to Washington soon to help us get that justice for Harry\".\n\nHe also invited the US President to meet the family about the case.\n\n\"If meeting with President Trump would help us get a step closer to seek justice for Harry, to get justice for that boy who died that night needlessly, one of the most wonderful kids in our community, if that's what it takes then I will extend an invitation now to President Trump.\n\n\"Meet us. Let's have a chat. Nobody wants to litigate.\"\n\nMr Johnson had already urged the US to reconsider its decision to allow Ms Sacoolas immunity, while Mr Raab has previously spoken to the US ambassador and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\nNorthamptonshire's chief constable and its police and crime commissioner have also urged the Americans to waive Ms Sacoolas's diplomatic immunity.\n\nAbout 23,000 individuals in the UK have diplomatic immunity, a status reserved for foreign diplomats and their families, as long as they don't have British citizenship.\n\nIt is granted by the 1961 Vienna Convention and means that, in theory, diplomats cannot face court proceedings for any crime or civil case.\n\nThe convention also states that those entitled to immunity are expected to obey the law.\n\nWhere crimes are committed, the Foreign Office can ask a foreign government to waive immunity where they feel it is appropriate.\n\nDiplomatic immunity is by no means restricted to those named on the Diplomatic List from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.\n\nDrivers, cooks and other support staff whose names do not appear, but have been accredited to Britain (\"the receiving state\") have the same diplomatic status and immunity as those who are listed.\n\nEqually, there are a number of foreign nationals in Britain attached to international organizations who have the same status and protection.\n\nHarry Dunn died after his Kawasaki motorcycle was in a crash with a black Volvo XC90 in Croughton, close to an RAF base.\n\nHe was taken to Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford where he died.\n\nChief Constable Nick Adderley said \"based on CCTV evidence\", officers knew that \"a vehicle alighted from the RAF base at Croughton\" and was \"on the wrong side of the road\".\n\nHe said the suspect, Ms Sacoolas, had \"engaged fully\" following the crash and said \"she had no plans to leave the country in the near future\".\n\nHowever, she then left for the United States and has not returned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police tweeted a photo of a car they came across in Glasgow\n\nPolice were stunned when they spotted this dangerous load travelling along one of Glasgow's busiest roads.\n\nPiled high with leather chairs, the car was being driven along Aitkenhead Road.\n\nThe suite was balanced at precarious angles and secured to the car with just a few straps. One was tied to the front passenger seat.\n\nOfficers from Police Scotland's road policing unit stopped the car and reported the driver for the load and other offences on Monday.\n\nThey also tweeted a photograph of their discovery with the hashtags #TheMoreYouLookTheWorseItGets and #WeNeedTheManWithAVan.\n\nPolice said the driver was given some advice on the transport of couches in the future.\n\nThe tweet attracted a raft of replies - most of disbelief.\n\nJames Alexander wrote: \"If it weren't so bad it would be funny.\"\n\nAnother thought the image had to have been photoshopped.\n\nAnd Gordon Struth said: \"It's the football that raises this to the level of contemporary art.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Road Policing Scotland 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.", "Carl Beech was jailed for 18 years after being found guilty of perverting the course of justice, fraud and child sexual offences\n\nThe Metropolitan Police ignored a recommendation to investigate two other accusers for apparently lying to the force alongside Carl Beech during Operation Midland, it has emerged.\n\nThe two complainants - referred to as \"A\" and \"B\" - had \"both deliberately lied\", according to retired High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques in his report into the much-derided Scotland Yard investigation.\n\nThe Henriques report recommended that \"offences of attempting to pervert the course of justice be considered in the cases of A and B\" and it would be appropriate for another police force to carry out such investigations.\n\nThe main accuser in Operation Midland, Carl Beech, was referred to Northumbria Police. He is now serving 18 years in prison for perverting the course of justice.\n\nBeech - who was known as \"Nick\" during the police investigation - made false allegations of sexual abuse and murder about a group of MPs, generals and senior figures in the intelligence services in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nThe investigation prompted searches of the homes of former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor, D-Day veteran and former chief of the defence staff Lord Bramall and former home secretary Leon Brittan's widow, Lady Diana Brittan.\n\nThe two men were first interviewed in September 2015, with the high profile inquiry not closing until the following March.\n\nScotland Yard made an internal decision against investigating the pair despite a senior officer privately saying they were liars.\n\nOne of them - who previously made other false claims to police - admitted researching the falsely accused, and also has convictions for fraud, theft and sexual offences against children.\n\nThe other man, whose brother described him as a \"prolific liar\", has convictions for theft, fraud and violence.\n\nThe Henriques report also said a senior Met officer - then Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Rodhouse - considered the men to be liars.\n\nIt quotes from a private presentation given to Sir Richard in August 2016 by Mr Rodhouse, who oversaw Operation Midland, in which he said: \"I am satisfied that both A and B have told deliberate lies\".\n\nHowever, when Operation Midland closed on 21 March 2016, Scotland Yard issued a statement which said detectives \"have not found evidence to prove that they were knowingly misled by a complainant\".\n\nMr Rodhouse told the media that day there were three complainants and, in June that year, the force answered a Freedom of Information request about the number of accusers interviewed by stating: \"Three relate directly to Operation Midland.\"\n\nFollowing questions from the BBC about whether it had referred the other accusers for investigation, Scotland Yard said: \"Sir Richard recommended the MPS [Metropolitan Police Service] consider whether A and B committed criminal offences.\n\n\"Neither undertook a sustained campaign of damaging lies like Carl Beech did and, on the basis of their individual cases, no investigation was initiated.\"\n\nThe force also said it concluded that \"investigating them was not appropriate or proportionate due to a number of issues including their mental health - consequently the matters were not referred to an external force\".\n\nThe Henriques report recorded the men's \"detailed and lengthy\" allegations \"occupied considerable amounts of police time\" and that \"if their accounts had withstood scrutiny, it is highly likely that charges would have been brought against the suspects\".\n\nSir Richard's review of Operation Midland was published in largely unredacted form last week, three years after a heavily redacted version - which did not disclose the recommendation about complainants A and B - was made available.\n\nHarvey Proctor, who lost his home and job after being falsely accused by Carl Beech, said the evidence suggested the effect of A and B on Operation Midland was to \"extend the investigation into me by five or six months\".\n\nHe added: \"All the information suggests they should be referred to an outside force for seeking to pervert the course of justice.\n\n\"They should be regarded as innocent until a police inquiry and a jury shows otherwise, the reverse of how I was treated.\"", "Mark Duggan was shot by police in Tottenham who believed he was carrying a weapon\n\nThe family of Mark Duggan, whose death sparked riots across England in August 2011, has settled a damages claim against the Met over his shooting.\n\nMr Duggan, 29, was killed by police who believed he was carrying a gun and posed a threat.\n\nThe High Court heard mediation had taken place between the two parties last month and terms had been agreed.\n\nMr Duggan's family said the two sides agreed to \"bring all proceedings... to a conclusion and move forward\".\n\nIn a statement, they added the two parties had \"reached an agreed position without acceptance of liability on the part of the Metropolitan Police Service or its officers\".\n\nThe terms of the settlement will remain confidential at the request of the family.\n\nThe Met said neither party would make \"any further comment about the terms of the settlement or the mediation\".\n\nIn 2014, an inquest jury found Mr Duggan was not holding a weapon when he was shot, but concluded he had been lawfully killed.\n\nRioting spread to other parts of England\n\nThe jury heard Mr Duggan was shot after armed police intercepted a minicab he had been travelling in.\n\nOfficers had been following intelligence that indicated he was part of a gang and had arranged to collect a gun.\n\nAfter the 29-year-old got out of the cab, one of the firearms officers - referred to as V53 - shot him twice, including once in the chest.\n\nA pistol, wrapped in a sock, was later found on grassland behind railings 10-20ft (3-6m) from Mr Duggan's body.\n\nJurors concluded Mr Duggan had dropped the gun when the minicab came to a stop, but decided that V53 had \"honestly believed\" he still had the weapon and acted lawfully in self-defence.\n\nMr Duggan's family challenged the decision but were ruled against by the High Court and Court of Appeal, while the UK Supreme Court declined to hear the case.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Exclusive footage obtained by the BBC shows the aftermath of Mark Duggan's shooting\n\nApproving the terms of the settlement at the latest High Court hearing, Mr Justice Stewart said the case had concerned the \"legality\" of the shooting.\n\nHe said had it gone to trial, the court would have examined whether Mr Duggan did have a gun and if V53 had a \"reasonable belief that Mr Duggan was holding a gun when he was shot\".", "The majority of people who believe they have a chronic form of Lyme disease are more likely to have chronic fatigue syndrome, experts suggest.\n\nThere are around 3,000 cases of Lyme disease, caused by tick bites, in the UK each year.\n\nMost of those who take antibiotics make a full recovery within months.\n\nBut infectious disease doctors are warning that long-term Lyme disease cases are often misdiagnosed through expensive and unvalidated tests abroad.\n\nDr Sarah Logan, from London's Hospital for Tropical Diseases, said: \"Most people who now think they may have had Lyme disease, in fact have a syndrome that is more in keeping with chronic fatigue syndrome.\"\n\nSpeaking at a Science Media Centre briefing, she added: \"And because there is increased awareness about it, they are testing for Lyme disease and then they are going on to various different Lyme disease forums on the internet and being told, 'Well actually the UK tests are rubbish, but you need to send it off to Germany.'\n\n\"Then they are coming back with a test that is positive and saying, 'You doctors are all wrong and I don't have chronic fatigue syndrome, I have chronic Lyme disease.'\n\n\"I think that most people who think they have got Lyme disease in the UK, probably don't.\"\n\nShe cited two cases she had seen where patients, believing they had chronic Lyme disease, had been taking intravenous antibiotics - one developed a Clostridium difficile infection as a result of being on the medication for more than six months. The second patient also developed a serious infection.\n\nDr Logan said it could be that chronic fatigue syndrome was a difficult diagnosis for doctors to give, because it could be hard for patients to get treatment and support, and because of persisting negative views of the condition.\n\n\"I think there is a bit about patients not wanting to hear it because of all those stigma reasons, and there is a little bit about GPs hoping - probably not unreasonably - and saying, 'Let's look for an alternative diagnosis because then that is something we can treat.'\"\n\nWhen a Lyme disease test comes back negative, patients may decide to seek testing elsewhere, she said, adding that some patients were paying up to £600 for a consultation and test that has not been validated.\n\nDr Matthew Dryden, a consultant microbiologist at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said he was also concerned about the issue of \"chronic\" Lyme disease.\n\n\"These are reported as true cases of Lyme when almost certainly they're not. The symptoms are very real but most medical tests tend to be normal which confuses both doctors and patients.\"\n\nHe said the focus should be improving the management and care offered to patients with chronic fatigue.\n\n\"It really needs improved research and improved management services for these patients.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fifteen-year-old Gadi was stabbed on his way home from football practice simply because he wandered into the wrong area.\n\nMore than 20,000 people in England and Wales were injured by knives or sharp instruments last year and survived.\n\nMany, like Gadi from London, struggle to come to terms with what happened. He tells Clive Myrie his story.", "A Red Arrows pilot involved in a fatal crash was almost certainly fatigued and distracted, investigators have said.\n\nThe Service Inquiry Panel (SIP) found distraction may have directly influenced Flight Lt David Stark's actions on 20 March 2018.\n\nFlight Lt Stark suffered non-life threatening injuries after ejecting from the plane.\n\nHe was later discharged from hospital.\n\nThe SIP report stated the jet departed from RAF Valley with the intention of simulating an engine failure, before flying to RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire.\n\nDuring the training manoeuvre, the plane stalled and crashed near the runway as it was flying too low to recover.\n\nFlight Lt Stark was described by the panel as an experienced pilot who was familiar with the exercise.\n\nThe inquiry found he generally worked from 07:30 until 17:30 and his routine did not include \"sufficient time for rest\", which was a contributory factor in the crash.\n\nIt noted he was distracted by an air traffic control call asking him to confirm the aircraft's landing gear was down shortly before the accident.\n\nThe pilot's actions make it \"very likely\" he was suffering from reduced situational awareness, the report said.\n\nThe panel concluded: \"At the critical moment of the sortie he may not have recognised the associated hazards as the situation developed.\"\n\nIt added the pressures felt by Red Arrows pilots were \"exacerbated by resource constraints\" and the \"shortfall\" in engineering and air safety personnel could lead to a future incident.\n\nThe inquiry found Lt Stark ejected half a second before the crash \"following the dramatic realisation that the aircraft would impact the ground\", and there was not enough time for him to properly warn the engineer.\n\nCpl Bayliss was born in Dartford, Kent, and worked at the Brands Hatch motor racing circuit before joining the RAF in 2001.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two men have died in a fire at a working men's club in Lancashire.\n\nThe men were rescued from Gordon Working Men's Club on Springfield Street, Morecambe but died a short time later, police said.\n\nTen fire engines, including appliances from Cumbria, two helicopters and three road ambulances, were called after the blaze broke out at 14:45 BST.\n\nAn investigation into the cause of the fire is under way, Lancashire Police said.\n\nFirefighters would remain at the scene overnight, Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nA number of roads have been closed while crews continue to tackle the fire\n\nOne eyewitness, who did not want to be named, said she was in The Cavern pub opposite the club when the fire broke out.\n\n\"Next minute there's smoke coming in through the main window, coming through the door,\" she said.\n\nTwo air ambulances were called to the scene\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson is at odds with Parliament on the issue of leaving the EU without a deal\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said the UK will leave the European Union (EU) on 31 October \"deal or no deal\". But Chancellor Sajid Javid has now conceded that the deadline \"can't be met\".\n\nWhile opposition parties decide in which circumstances they could support Mr Johnson's request for a December general election, the fate of the Brexit deadline currently lies with European leaders.\n\nAs things stand, it is still just about possible for the UK to leave the EU without a deal at the end of the month.\n\nNow that EU ambassadors have agreed that there should be an extension, this route to a no-deal is extremely unlikely.\n\nMr Johnson sent a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk on 19 October, requesting a three-month Brexit delay\n\nBut for an extension to the Halloween deadline to go ahead, leaders of the other 27 EU countries have to agree unanimously. Until the change is formalised, the legal \"exit date\" remains at 31 October.\n\nNow that the EU has agreed to an extension, it could still offer the UK a leaving date other than 31 January. In that instance, MPs would have up to two days in which they could vote to reject the proposal. If they don't vote, the proposal is automatically agreed to.\n\nThe EU may not announce the length of the extension until Tuesday, meaning any vote by MPs could theoretically happen on 31 October itself.\n\nIf the proposal was rejected, the extension would be off and a no-deal Brexit would happen next Thursday.\n\nMPs would be unlikely to reject a proposal, however, for two reasons:\n\nEven with an extension agreed and put in place before the end of the month, a no-deal Brexit is not \"off the table\". Instead, it just pushes the possibility further into the future.\n\nThe UK will need to wait for an answer from the EU\n\nRegardless of the length of the extension, the prime minister would probably still try to push his deal through Parliament.\n\nHowever, if the government is unable to implement his deal (or another) before the new deadline, the UK would leave without a deal.\n\nThis is the most controversial and unlikely scenario.\n\nIf an extension were agreed, a minister would be required to change the deadline in law using something called a statutory instrument (the power to change the law without a vote of MPs).\n\nAnd, theoretically, they could simply refuse to do this.\n\nBut not only would this be unlawful, it could be argued the \"exit date\" would be automatically changed anyway, because international law trumps domestic law.\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016 to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Destiny has been stuck in temporary accommodation after her student block was not completed on time\n\nShe is one of about 250 students at the University of Portsmouth left in the lurch when their accommodation was not finished in time for the new term.\n\nInstead of a glossy new room, she has been stuck temporarily in a hotel, away from other students - and with no cooking facilities she's had to live on take-away food for nearly three weeks.\n\n\"I've been feeling really anxious. I can't concentrate on my studies,\" says the politics student.\n\nThere are 22 private student blocks across the UK that have been delayed this term - almost a third of those being built, according to student housing charity Unipol.\n\nEva Crossan Jory, of the National Union of Students, says she is \"extremely concerned at the significant rise\" in students being disrupted.\n\nBut the University of Portsmouth is also angry - because even though there might be an assumption that it has some link to the unfinished student flats, these are private developments over which the university has no control.\n\nStanhope House for students in Portsmouth is still not ready for students to move in\n\nThe university's vice-chancellor, Graham Galbraith, says there is a serious lack of scrutiny about how the private student accommodation system operates.\n\n\"At the end of the day, those housing providers know that the universities will step in. So where does the responsibility for this lie? Because they seem to be able to walk away,\" he says.\n\nAnyone going through university towns and cities will have seen new blocks of student flats mushrooming skywards.\n\nBilgesu says she is having to stay in a hotel room away from students and without access to wi-fi\n\nThese are often private investments, but the cash fuelling this building boom is public money - in the form of the maintenance loans to cover students' living costs.\n\nProf Galbraith says it seems extraordinary that billions of pounds of taxpayers' money should go into these private rental projects with so little accountability.\n\n\"There is no real control,\" he says, and he warns that new blocks can open without even a \"conversation\" with the university.\n\nHe also wants better consumer protection for students signing housing contracts, arguing that some \"arrangements are incredibly one-sided\".\n\nThis autumn there have been reports of unfinished flats in locations from Portsmouth to Swansea, Lincoln to Liverpool. In Bristol, delays have meant students being put up temporarily in Wales.\n\nBut it's not clear who might intervene.\n\nStudents were expecting to move into this building in Portsmouth for the new term\n\nUniversities UK says its code of conduct applies only to university-owned housing - which means any private student developments will not be covered.\n\nThe higher-education regulator, the Office for Students, says it \"doesn't have powers to regulate private accommodation providers\".\n\nPortsmouth South MP Stephen Morgan asked a parliamentary question about \"safeguards for students affected by properties not being built in time\".\n\nBut universities minister Chris Skidmore said universities were autonomous and that \"government plays no direct role in the provision of student residential accommodation\".\n\nIn Portsmouth, Bilgesu is another student unable to move into the new Stanhope House student building.\n\nShe is in a hotel with no free wi-fi, where she feels unable to get on with her degree course and isolated from student life.\n\n\"It's just so far away from the student environment,\" says the biomedical science student.\n\nAlex, an overseas student, found out that he had no accommodation when he was on his way to the UK\n\nAlex, an international student from the Netherlands, found out about the accommodation not being ready just as he was travelling to the UK.\n\nHe was coming to a new country and a new city for the first time - and had nowhere to go, so booked himself into a hotel at his own expense.\n\n\"I didn't know anything about this city, I couldn't make any friends. It was hard for the first week,\" says Alex, who was then found a room by the university.\n\nHe says he was even more taken aback when \"on the day they told people they can't move in, they were asking for money from them\".\n\n\"I feel like students are really easy to exploit. I just came here expecting the building to be ready, I'm trusting what I saw on the website.\"\n\nDestiny says the disruption has meant she can't get the term started. \"I can't organise my books. It's affecting my studies,\" she says.\n\nThe students are unimpressed by a compensation offer of £150 - less than they are still being charged for a week's rent.\n\nStudent union president Helena Schofield says starting university is stressful enough without problems over housing\n\nThe students' union and university officials have been trying to help students who have found themselves unable to move in.\n\nUnion president Helena Schofield says the link between housing and students' mental health is underestimated.\n\nStarting at university can be an emotional time - and such uncertainty about accommodation, and being away from other students, can only add to the stress.\n\nThe private housing company behind Stanhope House, Prime Student Living, says it has \"unreservedly apologised to students\".\n\nThe University of Portsmouth has been trying to help students caught out by the non-completion of accommodation\n\nBut it blames its building contractor for a lack of advance warning of the failure to open on time and says finding alternative accommodation was made an \"immediate priority\".\n\nThe spokesman said the company was \"disappointed to hear that the university does not consider that we have communicated effectively to them\".\n\n\"We believe that we have done everything possible to mitigate the impact for those affected in the time available,\" said the Prime Student Living spokesman.\n\n\"We will continue to do all we can to get students into the building as an urgent priority.\"", "Medina Hall said restaurants should provide menus in different formats\n\nBurger King has apologised to a blind woman with a food allergy after she was told staff were not allowed to read out a list of ingredients to her.\n\nMedina Hall had gone to the Folkestone branch of the burger chain and told staff about her nut allergy.\n\nShe said she was told staff could give her a menu but company policy meant customers had to read it themselves.\n\nBurger King said there was no such policy and it was \"looking into this matter further\".\n\nMs Hall said her nut allergy could trigger severe asthma attacks and so she asked for the ingredients of a brownie to be read out to her.\n\n\"I was shocked.. had I eaten it and it had nuts in, I would've had a major asthma attack and ended up in hospital,\" she said.\n\n\"In today's day and age you'd think they would want to read it and get it right.\"\n\nA Burger King spokesman said: \"We would firstly like to apologise to Medina, her experience this week is not reflective of the high standards we would expect within any of our restaurants.\n\n\"Everyone should have an enjoyable experience when they visit us and we are looking into this matter further.\"\n\nHe added: \"I can also confirm that there is no such policy to refrain from reading allergen information to visually-impaired customers.\"\n\nMs Hall said restaurants should provide menus in alternative formats \"so that we can be independent and read it ourselves\".", "They say people only go to the movies nowadays to see all-singing-all-dancing multi-million-dollar, computer-enhanced Hollywood franchises. They say there's no money to be made anymore with serious, gritty dramas. They say, that's what box sets on streaming services are for. The golden days of cinema are over. They say.\n\nBut then they haven't seen Joker, the origin story of Batman's arch-enemy, co-written and directed by Todd Phillips. Sure, it might sound like another of those action-packed, special effects-laden fantasy epics that overshadow all else. It might even be what the folk who go to see it expect.\n\nBut Joker has about as much in common with your typical superhero caper as Wonder Woman has with Dennis the Menace.\n\nJoker is a Trojan Horse: a dark art house film smuggled into the neon-lit world of multiplexes, disguised as a DC Comic Universe action adventure.\n\nIt's an interesting move by Warner Brothers. The studio knows audiences love \"Thwack!\", \"Pow!\" action sequences; that they expect witty dialogue and plenty of banter, and CGI is a given.\n\nWell, there's none of that in Joker.\n\nInstead you have Joaquin Phoenix giving it the full Daniel Day-Lewis in a slow-burn performance of such intensity and weirdness, it will either have the Academy purring come the Oscars or shunning altogether.\n\nJoaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a \"misunderstood man whom life is repeatedly beating down\"\n\nPhoenix plays misfit Arthur Fleck, a man who hasn't exactly run out of luck, because he never had any in the first place. From an early age Arthur has suffered from a neurological condition that causes him to laugh like a hyena at the most inappropriate moments. Not a fun infectious laugh, but a laugh so dry and hard it makes him retch and everybody else feel nauseous.\n\nAnd then there is his mother (Frances Conroy) whom he loves and who loves him, but… well, as I said, he's not a lucky guy.\n\nArthur cares for his frail mother, Penny (played by Frances Conroy)\n\nArthur Fleck is an oddball in a cruel, intolerant world that doesn't have time to care for vulnerable people.\n\nHe lives in a Gotham City that's gone to the dogs: uncollected garbage bags pile up like stinking black skyscrapers, welfare budgets have been slashed, and mass civil unrest is one small trigger-point from becoming a reality.\n\nArthur is trying to find his way in a Gotham City, which is in turmoil and struggling to provide services for its people\n\nIf Arthur were sensible he'd take an admin job in a library and keep his head down. But Arthur isn't sensible, he's delusional and therefore makes choices that are not good for him or anyone else.\n\nHe's a chap who wants to put a smile on people's faces, and so he becomes a clown-for-hire during the day and an amateur stand-up comic at night.\n\nThere is not a career adviser on the planet who would have pushed him in that direction.\n\nJoaquin Phoenix said at times he \"understood the Joker's motivation\", but would then be \"repulsed\" by his decisions\n\nPhoenix plays Arthur's tragic descent in a way which seemingly encourages our empathy but makes sure he never really gets it: we know he's not a character to whom you'd want to get too close. There is a maniacal darkness behind his eyes which is a bit creepy.\n\nHis only pleasure comes from watching Murray Franklin's chat show, on to which he dreams of being invited one day. Robert De Niro plays the legendary TV host, thereby reversing the role he played as Rupert Pupkin in The King of Comedy, a film to which Joker owes a debt (as well as Psycho and Taxi Driver).\n\nRobert de Niro as Rupert Pupkin in Martin Scorsese's film, The King of Comedy, which influenced Todd Phillips\n\nEverything about the film is downbeat.\n\nThe sun never shines in this Gotham City.\n\nClass war simmers while the media crank up the tension with inflammatory headlines and irresponsible TV shows that give airtime to the wrong people for the wrong reasons. The elite live in a pampered bubble without a care in the world, wilfully ignorant of the hardships other folk suffer. It might be set in the early 1980s, but it is clearly a parable about the here and now.\n\nIt is several galaxies away from a piece of light comic entertainment with cartoon violence and clever sight gags. There are no laughs in this tale about a man who wants to be funny.\n\nIt is a heavy, serious and, at times, a painfully slow piece: Beckettian almost.\n\nSeveral of the minor supporting characters are too thinly drawn to allow them to be anything more than \"types.\" And you might want to challenge some of the assumptions and conclusions it makes around issues of mental health right down to its central question: what turns someone like Arthur into the Joker?\n\nThe violence is bloody and hard to watch, but valid in terms of context and mood.\n\nI say this because Joker is a film that not only raises the issue of a culture in which there is wide accessibility to firearms, but also because it sits within a franchise that tragically became associated with the real-life consequences of gun crime. In 2012 James Holmes killed 12 people and injured dozens more at the midnight premier of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado.\n\nJoker's director Todd Phillips responded to concerns that the film is too violent, by asking \"Isn't it a good thing to put real-world implications on violence?\"\n\nThe conversation about art and life and the relationship between the two is ancient and modern. It will and should continue.\n\nI didn't think Joker was flippant or indulgent. Nor do I think it is encouraging or inciting violence.\n\nIt is reflecting on it, which art is there to do.\n\nMy only reservation was the 15 certificate, given the graphic nature of some scenes in a genre when parents might be expecting a more slapstick approach.\n\nI've seen a lot of yellow-toothed Jokers in my life, from Cesar Romero to Heath Ledger. They've all brought something to the part but none gave the character the fragility and psychosis of Joaquin Phoenix's desperate and desperately sad Joker.\n\nI think it will become a classic.", "A card by the company involved in the trademark dispute with Banksy\n\nA greeting cards company has denied it attempted to \"take custody\" of the graffiti artist Banksy name to sell \"fake\" merchandise of his art.\n\nFull Colour Black, which is involved in a trademark legal row, said the artist's comment was \"entirely untrue\".\n\nThe north Yorkshire company insisted it was a \"legitimate enterprise\" that did not \"infringe his rights in any way\".\n\nBanksy claimed he had been forced to open a shop in Croydon, south London, this week, as a result of the dispute.\n\nThe store, Gross Domestic Product, is selling a range of \"impractical and offensive\" merchandise created by Banksy.\n\nThe street artist was advised by his legal team to sell his own merchandise to avoid his trademark being used by someone else under EU law.\n\nBanksy's store is selling a range of \"impractical and offensive\" merchandise\n\nIn a statement, owner Andrew Gallagher said it was a three-person \"tiny business\" and not a \"big corporate group\".\n\n\"We sell greetings cards from our home. It is entirely untrue that we are attempting to 'take custody' of his name. We don't use his trademarks or his brand name.\"\n\nThe company which has been supplying cards since 2007 claimed its operations saw it \"legally photograph public graffiti\" to make it available to Banksy fans.\n\nIt posted a statement on Facebook and claimed it had contacted Banksy's lawyers several times to offer to pay royalties.\n\nThe firm put a statement on its Facebook page\n\nBanksy previously said: \"A greetings cards company is contesting the trademark I hold to my art, and attempting to take custody of my name so they can sell their fake Banksy merchandise legally.\"\n\nThe artist whose identity has never been revealed added: \"I think they're banking on the idea I won't show up in court to defend myself.\"\n\nItems on display in the shop, which are only available to buy online, range in price from a £10 signed spray paint can to a handbag made from a house brick.\n\nThe shop appeared overnight on Wednesday at a disused retail outlet in Croydon\n\nProceeds have been pledged towards funding a new migrant rescue boat.\n\nHe added: \"I still encourage anyone to copy, borrow, steal and amend my art for amusement, academic research or activism.\n\n\"I just don't want them to get sole custody of my name.\"\n\nItems that will be available to buy are on display in Croydon\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. Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price says he wants \"economic justice\" from Westminster\n\nThere will be a referendum on Welsh independence by 2030, Plaid Cymru's Adam Price has said.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales' Breakfast programme that a referendum would take place \"definitely in the next decade\".\n\nThe party leader claimed Wales could get £2bn extra as a European Union member in its own right.\n\nSpeaking at the Plaid Cymru conference in Swansea, Mr Price said Wales deserved £20bn in reconstruction funds paid for by Westminster.\n\nHe outlined policies aimed at lifting 100,000 children out of poverty, and said a Plaid government would build a rapid transit line for the south Wales valleys.\n\nPredicting a referendum on independence for Wales would be held in the next ten years, Mr Price told BBC Wales on Friday that \"things are accelerating\".\n\n\"The UK as we know it could cease to exist in a short few years\", he said.\n\nAddressing party members at Swansea's Grand Theatre, Mr Price argued an independent Wales would be able to issue its own long-term bonds, taking advantage of low interest rates.\n\nHis party's mission is to convince Welsh voters \"that independence is imperative if we are to solve our problems as a nation\", he said.\n\nThe plans include free childcare for one to three-year-olds\n\nMr Price used his speech to unveil some of the policies his party would pitch at the next Welsh assembly elections, in 2021.\n\nHe pledged Plaid would introduce a payment of £35 a week for every child in every low-income family in Wales, as well as 40 hours a week of free childcare for all children over a year old.\n\nThe party leader recounted his experience of growing up in Ammanford.\n\n\"Aged 15 all my family had to sustain me was my child benefit\" and free school meals, he said. \"I was raised out of poverty and I can never rest until we've done the same for every child in Wales.\"\n\nThe leader, who took the helm of the party last year, promised he would make Wales \"not just a great country to grow up in, but a decent place to grow old in\".\n\nThe party says it will provide detailed costings alongside its manifesto for the 2021 election.\n\n\"Our new cradle to the grave promise to the Welsh people will see us finally deliver a seamless National Health and Care Service,\" he said.\n\nLabour announced a similar social care policy for England at its annual conference in Brighton last month.\n\n\"If Labour can promise to England what Scotland already has, then why don't they do it when they are actually in government in Wales?\" Mr Price added.\n\nIt may have taken him a little while to get into his rhetorical stride, but Adam Price gave his party what they wanted: a vision of a Plaid Cymru government rooted in the love of the land.\n\nLike all conference speeches, this was pitched at many different audiences. For the converted he described Welsh independence, not Brexit, as the way to take back control.\n\nFor those he wants to convert - especially voters in the Valleys seats which voted leave in 2016, and which Plaid must win to form a government in 2021 - there were big spending pledges on child care, jobs for young people, and a 50km rapid transit service \"allowing cross-valley travel for the first time in 50 years\".\n\nPlaid isn't the only party making big spending pledges for the years to come. The question of how they'd pay for any of it has been deferred to another day.\n\nThe AM for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr said a Plaid government could \"transform Wales from bottom of the pile to leader of the pack\", boosting digital and physical infrastructure.\n\nHe told conference the party would increase infrastructure investment by 2% of GDP by 2025.\n\nIt was time, he said, for a \"Crossrail for the valleys\" - a 50km rapid transit service from Treherbert to Pontypool.\n\n\"We'll take people out of their cars by giving them a real alternative,\" he said.\n\nMr Price said Wales needed a \"National Reconstruction programme\" - a \"£20 billion Fund for Wales\" - paid for by Westminster.\n\nHe said Wales is owed reparations for \"a century of neglect that has left a country, rich in its resources, a bitter legacy of poverty, sickness, blighted lives and broken dreams\".\n\n\"Westminster owes us twenty times that for the wealth that they stole. Northern Ireland deserves a New Deal absolutely, but surely that's right for Wales too.\"\n\nTurning his line of attack to the Welsh Government, the former MP accused Labour of being the \"handmaidens of continuing Tory austerity here at home\".\n\n\"The cold, hard, truth is that the Brexit vote in 2016 wasn't merely or even mainly a rejection of Europe. Rather, it was a rejection of politics as business as usual, of a complacency of twenty years of drift and decline - an indictment of the promise of a better life that devolution offered but, under Labour, failed to deliver,\" he said.\n\nPlaid Cymru is hoping to build on its performance at May's European elections when the party came second in Wales behind the Brexit Party but ahead of Labour.\n\nIt was the first time Plaid had beaten Labour in a Wales-wide election.\n\nWestminster leader Liz Saville Roberts used her speech in Swansea to criticise Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\n\"This is the man who weaponises language, who brought the words of civil war to the chamber, only to be brought down by civil law and a girly swot in a spider brooch,\" she said, referring to the president of the Supreme Court, Lady Hale.\n\nMeanwhile South Wales West AM Dai Lloyd announced that he would not stand on the regional list in the next assembly election in 2021.\n\nHe will stand in the Swansea West constituency only.\n\nPlaid Cymru has four MPs, 10 assembly members and one MEP.", "A new cricket tournament designed to appeal to children and families has been criticised by health campaigners for its snack food sponsorship.\n\nEach team in The Hundred, a new format from the England and Wales Cricket Board, features a KP Snacks logo.\n\nAn anti-obesity group said brands such as KP wanted junk food to \"take centre stage in children's minds\".\n\nEngland cricketer Kate Cross said she hoped the competition would inspire children to be active.\n\nThe tournament, which begins in July 2020, is intended to attract new audiences to cricket with a rapid-fire format where each team faces just 100 balls.\n\nFeaturing men's and women's teams from Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham, Southampton and two in London - based at Lord's and the Oval - it will be screened on Sky Sports and the BBC.\n\nA spokesperson for the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said: \"Our goal for cricket is to connect communities and improve lives by inspiring people to discover and share their passion for cricket.\n\n\"Across their portfolio of brands, KP has almost unprecedented reach into the lives of all of Britain's diverse consumers and is keen to work with us to help grow the game of cricket.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added that the partnership with KP will allow the ECB to engage with more people and educate them about health, activity and balance.\n\nBut after the teams, players and kits were unveiled on Thursday, anti-obesity campaigners criticised the KP Snacks branding on the teams' shirts, promoting foods such as Hula Hoops, Skips, McCoy's crisps and Butterkist popcorn.\n\nCaroline Cerny at the Obesity Health Alliance, which represents dozens of health charities, said: \"Junk food brands sponsorship of popular sporting events is just another way they make sure their unhealthy products take centre stage in children's minds.\"\n\nShe said the \"relentless exposure\" to junk food marketing influences children's food choices and how much they eat.\n\nJoe Root will play for Trent Rockets, based in Nottingham, with Skips-branded kit\n\nTam Fry, chairman of the National Obesity Forum, said snack food companies argued their products could be eaten as part of a balanced diet \"but children don't know what a balanced diet is\".\n\nHe said the high salt content of junk food was an increasing concern, with some children as young as 10 now at risk of heart problems due to their salt intake.\n\nThe criticism comes after new rules were introduced to prevent companies advertising food and drinks which are high in fat, salt and sugar to under-16s.\n\nSeveral companies have seen their advertising banned, but the rules only apply to TV and online adverts.\n\nThe ECB declined to comment, but when the sponsorship was first announced in July, commercial director Rob Calder said: \"We're thrilled to be partnering with KP Snacks to help grow the game of cricket and get families active.\"\n\nKate Cross, the England and Lancashire player who will play for Manchester Originals in The Hundred, told BBC Breakfast there had been \"negativity\" over the sponsorship on social media.\n\nBut she said: \"For us it's about inspiring kids to pick up a bat and ball and get involved in exercise. As a professional sports person, you know you can have a balanced lifestyle, there can be a bit of both.\"\n\nThe sponsorship money was crucial to giving the women's sport a greater platform and allowing more women to go professional, she said.\n\nSponsorship helps to support the women's game, says England international Kate Cross\n\nAsked about the gender pay gap, where men will earn up to £125,000 in the month-long tournament while women only earn up to £15,000, she said it was still \"very desirable\" compared to other women's teams worldwide.\n\nA spokesman for KP Snacks said: \"We believe that snacks can be enjoyed as part of a balanced diet and healthy lifestyle, including regular exercise. We have partnered with The Hundred to help encourage families to get active through cricket.\"\n\nBut he said the company recognised \"we have a responsibility to provide people with healthier snacking choices\".\n\nSince 2005, KP has cut salt in Hula Hoops by 42% and in some McCoy's flavours by 25%, while 29 products in its range have 100 calories or fewer per pack, the spokesman said.", "The Duchess of Sussex has begun legal action against the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters.\n\nIn a statement, the Duke of Sussex said he and Meghan were forced to take action against \"relentless propaganda\".\n\nPrince Harry said: \"I lost my mother and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces.\"\n\nA Mail on Sunday spokesman said the paper stood by the story it published and would defend the case \"vigorously\".\n\nLaw firm Schillings, acting for the duchess, accused the paper of a campaign of false derogatory stories.\n\nThe firm has filed a High Court claim against the paper and its parent company over the alleged misuse of private information, infringement of copyright and breach of the Data Protection Act 2018.\n\nThe claim comes after the Mail on Sunday published a handwritten letter from Meghan to her father, Thomas Markle, sent shortly after she and Prince Harry got married in 2018.\n\nIn a lengthy personal statement on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's official website, Prince Harry said the \"painful\" impact of intrusive media coverage had driven the couple to take action.\n\nReferring to his late mother Diana, Princess of Wales, the prince said his \"deepest fear is history repeating itself\".\n\n\"I've seen what happens when someone I love is commoditised to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person,\" he said.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the statement was \"remarkably outspoken\" and \"nothing less than a stinging attack on the British tabloid media\".\n\nFormer Daily Mirror editor and Guardian columnist Roy Greenslade said the duchess could win the legal action, but added Prince Harry had taken a risk by attacking the press for the actions of one newspaper.\n\n\"The press - particularly the tabloid press - is far less powerful now than it was during his mother's era,\" he told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Is he taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut here? I think he may well find that this is counter-productive.\"\n\nThe language is clearly Harry's: an unrestrained expression of anger and pain aimed at the British tabloid media.\n\nDid any of his advisers urge restraint? We simply don't know. Judging by the length and intensity of the statement, Harry would have been in no mood to listen to any such cautionary advice.\n\nIs it fair to castigate the entire British tabloid media off the back of one dispute with one newspaper over one story, however painful? That is a matter of individual opinion and clearly Harry - supported one assumes by Meghan - believes that it is.\n\nThe timing certainly is curious. They are concluding a visit to Southern Africa which by wide consent (much of it expressed in the tabloid media) has been a considerable success. It has lifted their reputation after a series of mis-steps involving private jets and expensive property renovations.\n\nNow they have chosen to take one of the most powerful newspaper groups in Britain to court and launched this stinging assault on an entire section of the British media.\n\nBritish tabloids are not afraid of a fight. They may well feel provoked by the language in this statement. Was it wise? We shall see.\n\nIt is not the first time the royals have taken legal action against the press. In 2017, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were awarded £92,000 (100,000 euros) in damages after French magazine Closer printed topless pictures of the duchess in 2012.\n\nA French court ruled the images had been an invasion of the couple's privacy.\n\nThe new legal proceedings are being funded privately by the couple and any proceeds will be donated to an anti-bullying charity.\n\nIn his statement, Prince Harry said he and Meghan believed in \"media freedom and objective, truthful reporting\" as a \"cornerstone of democracy\".\n\nBut he said his wife had become \"one of the latest victims of a British tabloid press that wages campaigns against individuals with no thought to the consequences - a ruthless campaign that has escalated over the past year, throughout her pregnancy and while raising our newborn son\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earlier on in their tour of Africa, the couple introduced baby son Archie to Archbishop Desmond Tutu\n\nPrince Harry said: \"There is a human cost to this relentless propaganda, specifically when it is knowingly false and malicious, and though we have continued to put on a brave face - as so many of you can relate to - I cannot begin to describe how painful it has been.\"\n\nHe said \"positive\" coverage of the couple's current tour of Africa had exposed the \"double standards\" of \"this specific press pack that has vilified her almost daily for the past nine months\".\n\n\"They have been able to create lie after lie at her expense simply because she has not been visible while on maternity leave,\" he said.\n\n\"She is the same woman she was a year ago on our wedding day, just as she is the same woman you've seen on this Africa tour.\"\n\nThe duke said he had been a \"silent witness to her private suffering for too long\".\n\n\"To stand back and do nothing would be contrary to everything we believe in,\" he said.\n\nHe accused the paper of misleading readers when it published the private letter, by strategically omitting paragraphs, sentences and specific words \"to mask the lies they had perpetrated for over a year\".\n\n\"Put simply, it is bullying, which scares and silences people. We all know this isn't acceptable, at any level,\" he said.\n\n\"We won't and can't believe in a world where there is no accountability for this.\"\n\nThe Mail on Sunday spokesperson said: \"We categorically deny that the duchess's letter was edited in any way that changed its meaning.\"", "Carl Beech was said by the judge to have shown \"no remorse\" for his claims, which were \"all a fabrication\"\n\nA man who made false allegations of murder and child sexual abuse against public figures has been jailed for 18 years.\n\nCarl Beech, 51, from Gloucester, was sentenced for 12 counts of perverting the course of justice, one of fraud, and for several child sexual offences.\n\nMr Justice Goss said Beech \"repeatedly and maliciously told lies to the police\" and showed \"no remorse\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police spent £2m looking into Beech's allegations.\n\nThe judge told Newcastle Crown Court that Beech was \"an intelligent, resourceful, manipulative and devious person\" who \"accused living persons of the highest integrity and decency of vile acts\".\n\nPeople falsely accused by Beech, and relatives of some of those who have died since the investigation began, said they were the victims of \"a totally unjustified witch hunt\".\n\nThey were also critical of those who publicised the allegations.\n\nFormer Conservative MP Harvey Proctor, accused by Beech of being involved in murdering two boys, broke down in court at times as he read a victim impact statement.\n\nHe said Beech's \"false and malicious lies\" had caused \"ordinary people to revile and despise\" him and accused police of \"misconduct\" over their handling of the investigation.\n\nLady Brittan said the impact of the allegations against her late husband, former home secretary Lord (Leon) Brittan, was \"indescribable, incalculable and unending\" and resulted in her having to arrange security at his funeral.\n\n\"My husband's name has now been cleared, but he will never know this,\" she said.\n\nKnown as \"Nick\" in initial media reports, Beech accused senior politicians, army and security chiefs of sadistic sexual abuse and claimed to have witnessed boys being murdered in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nThe former NSPCC volunteer's claims led to a two-year Met Police investigation, Operation Midland, which closed in March 2016 with no arrests or charges made.\n\nBeech was then referred for investigation by Northumbria Police, and it was discovered that he was himself a paedophile.\n\nHe pleaded guilty in January to possessing hundreds of indecent images of children and to covertly filming a teenage boy.\n\nProsecutor Tony Badenoch said the evidence showed that Beech \"derived sexual pleasure from graphically describing the violent sexual abuse of young boys\" and \"enjoyed the attention and celebrity\".\n\nAmong the establishment figures Beech wrongly accused of sexual abuse were former prime minister Sir Edward Heath, former Labour MP Lord Janner and ex-MI6 boss Sir Maurice Oldfield.\n\nHe accused his stepfather, Major Raymond Beech, of raping him and passing him to public figures to be abused.\n\nThe major's daughter, Victoria Taylor, said in a statement read in court that the family \"totally refute\" these claims.\n\nFormer Tory MP Harvey Proctor said Beech had waged a \"despicable vendetta\"\n\nBeech also fabricated a claim that he had been raped by DJ and prolific sexual abuser Jimmy Savile, fraudulently collecting £22,000 in compensation.\n\nThe prosecutor said Beech had also given \"entirely false hope\" to the family of Martin Allen, missing since 1979, by speculating that he may have been one of the boys abused by the paedophile ring.\n\nThe Met publicly described Beech's allegations at the time as \"credible and true\", and they were given further publicity by Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, and media organisations, including the BBC.\n\nLady Brittan said her husband was \"alone in hospital terminally ill with cancer\" when the allegations became public and the BBC interviewed \"Nick\".\n\n\"I felt he was caught up in a totally unjustified witch hunt which took its toll on both him and me,\" she said.\n\nField Marshal Lord Bramall, a D-Day veteran, said in a statement that he was \"never as badly wounded in all my time in the military\" as he was by the false allegations.\n\nThe harm had been \"compounded\" by the police publicly supporting the allegations, he said, adding that his wife of 62 years \"died without knowing I had been cleared of the most horrific of crimes\".\n\nDaniel Janner said false claims against his late father, Lord Janner, made him \"physically sick and distressed\"\n\nLincoln Seligman, godson of the late Sir Edward Heath, said the former prime minister was the \"wholly innocent victim of a wicked tissue of lies\" and that Beech had been encouraged by \"some opportunist politicians, who should be ashamed of themselves\".\n\nSpeaking outside court, Daniel Janner, son of the late Lord Janner, called for Mr Watson to apologise.\n\n\"He hasn't apologised to us, he hasn't apologised to Harvey Proctor. He should hang his head in shame and he should resign,\" he said.\n\nAfter Beech's conviction on Monday, Mr Watson said he did not apply pressure \"improperly\" on police to investigate and denied he had any reason to apologise.\n\nThe Met Police said they had been working in \"good faith\" but \"did not get everything right\" and said they would strive to learn lessons about \"complex and challenging\" sexual offences cases.\n\nThe BBC said it had reported \"serious allegations, in the public interest\" and said that a Panorama investigation played a part in eventually exposing Beech as a \"fantasist and serial liar\".", "The Scottish wildcat is on the brink of disappearing\n\nMore than a quarter of mammals are facing extinction, according to a detailed and devastating report on the state of the natural world in the UK.\n\nIt also said one in seven species were threatened with extinction, and 41% of species studied have experienced decline since 1970.\n\nProviding the clearest picture to date, the State of Nature report examined data from almost 7,000 species.\n\nIt drew on expertise from more than 70 different organisations.\n\nThe report said 26% of mammal species were at risk of disappearing altogether.\n\nA separate report outlined the picture in Scotland, where the abundance and distribution of species has also declined.\n\nScotland saw a 24% decline in average species abundance, and about one in 10 species threatened with extinction.\n\nMore than 80% of Frosted Green moths have been lost\n\nA quarter of moths have been lost, and nearly one in five butterflies. Their numbers continue to plunge.\n\nThe State of Nature report shows, in grim detail, that almost one in five plants are classified as being at risk of extinction, along with 15% of fungi and lichens, 40% of vertebrates and 12% of invertebrates.\n\nIt paints a picture of what conservationists call \"the great thinning\", with 60% of \"priority species\" having declined since 1970.\n\nThere has been a 13% decline in the average abundance of species studied.\n\nOur wildlife is also changing more and more quickly. Researchers found more than half of species had either rapidly decreased or increased in number over the last 10 years.\n\nDaniel Hayhow from the RSPB, lead author of the report, said: \"We know more about the UK's wildlife than any other country on the planet, and what it is telling us should make us sit up and listen. We need to respond more urgently across the board.\"\n\nWildflowers have been lost at a rate of up to nearly one species per year, per county, since the 1950s, the report said\n\nRosie Hails, nature and science director at the National Trust said: \"The UK's wildlife is in serious trouble... we are now at a crossroads when we need to pull together with actions rather than words.\n\n\"We need a strong new set of environmental laws to hold our governments and others to account and to set long-term and ambitious targets.\"\n\nThe study cited the intensification of agriculture as a key driver of species loss. While this has, the report's authors said, led to greater food production, it has also had a \"dramatic impact on farmland biodiversity\". The study said the area of crops treated with pesticides increased by 53% between 1990 and 2010.\n\nThe report said targeted wildlife-friendly farming, supported by government-funded agri-environment schemes (AES) \"may have helped slow the decline in nature but has been insufficient to halt and reverse this trend\".\n\nThe UK population of skylarks halved during the 1990s. Farmland birds have declined more severely than those in any other habitat\n\nThe report also underlined the ongoing impact of climate change. According to the Met Office, the UK's 10 hottest years occurred since 2002.\n\nThe report said climate change was \"driving widespread changes in the abundance, distribution and ecology of the UK's wildlife, and will continue to do so for decades or even centuries to come\". The authors also said that, in the UK, many species, including birds, butterflies, moths and dragonflies have shifted their range north over the last four decades, moving by, on average, 20km per decade.\n\nWarming seas also caused disruption, with marked changes in plankton and fish distribution.\n\nNatural England chair Tony Juniper said: \"Today's report paints a stark picture of the state of some of our most-loved species. These losses matter as they represent an unravelling of the web on which we depend.\"\n\nOne positive piece of data is that a quarter of UK species studied have increased, including bitterns and the large blue butterfly.\n\nAlso, public support for conservation continued to grow. The amount of time donated by volunteers increased by 40% since 2000, to around 7.5m hours.\n\nYoung volunteers for a pioneering charity, Action for Conservation (AFC), were involved in the foreword to the State of Nature. AFC recently launched what it described as the largest youth-led conservation project in the world, in Penpont, near Gwent.\n\nAFC volunteers Danny, 15 from Manchester (front), and Dominic, 17 from Aylesbury, gather oysters to research ocean health\n\nFifteen year-old AFC volunteer Danny said: \"I got involved in conservation because I wanted to see more wildlife where I live and hopefully reverse some of the devastating trends we're seeing right now when it comes to climate and biodiversity.\n\n\"I think the most important thing that young people can do to help the environment is to educate the adults around them, put pressure on the people in charge and show other young people that even small actions can have a big impact.\n\nHe added: \"Young people understand the urgency of the situation we're in and we're ready to tackle the challenge.\"\n\nAnother example of charities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) having a marked impact was the return of the pine marten, one of the rarest mammals in Britain, to the Forest of Dean. This re-introduction was overseen by the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust and Forestry England.\n\nMinette Batters, president of the National Farmers Union (NFU), said: \"Farming has already embarked on a long journey of protecting and maintaining the iconic British countryside; huge amounts of work have been carried out to enhance our landscapes, benefit soil and water and encourage wildlife and farmland birds - this year 140 different species of birds were recorded on farms during the Big Farmland Bird Count.\n\nShe added: \"Over the next 30 years farmers will need to produce more food to meet the demands of a growing population, using less land, less water and fewer agricultural inputs.\"\n\nPine martens are one of the rarest mammals in Britain; perilously close to extinction", "Two gang members have been convicted after the rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine gave evidence against them in a trial.\n\nAnthony Ellison and Aljermiah Mack were found guilty of racketeering and other offences.\n\nEllison was also found guilty of kidnapping 6ix9ine, maiming and assault - while Mack was also found guilty on drug dealing charges.\n\nTekashi 6ix9ine has turned on other alleged gang members as part of a plea deal with the US government.\n\nHe hopes the deal will reduce his prison time.\n\nThe rapper was facing a minimum of 47 years and a maximum of life imprisonment, but there is the possibility he could be released by 2020 after becoming a star witness for the US government.\n\nAnthony Ellison and Aljermiah Mack, also known as Harv and Nuke respectively, face a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, according to the New York Times.\n\nThey were part of the Nine Trey Bloods - a New York gang also known as TreyWay, which 6ix9ine has mentioned on Twitter before.\n\nThe inner workings of the gang was exposed by 6ix9ine - real name Daniel Hernandez - and another ex-gang member, Kristian Cruz.\n\nNine Trey Bloods committed robberies, dealt drugs and were violent against rivals and each other according to their testimonies.\n\nBut defence lawyers argued the witnesses exaggerated their testimonies to try and get a better deal with the government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTekashi 6ix9ine, 23, joined the gang in 2017 but left less than a year later.\n\n\"He testified that he was a member of this gang but that he was basically doing it as a publicity stunt to promote his career,\" says Lisa Evers, a Fox 5 News reporter who is covering the trial.\n\n\"I can't even tell you how shunned he is right now by the hip-hop world here. They even call him 'Tekashi Snitch 9ine.'\"\n\nSnoop Dogg posted a picture on Instagram calling 6ix9ine a \"snitch\" - and Meek Mill commented on it calling him a \"ratgoon\".\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 snoopdogg 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\nTekashi 6ix9ine has evaded jail time on previous charges, including child sex offences in 2015.\n\nIn 2018, he was charged with six offences including racketeering, carrying a firearm, assault with a dangerous weapon, and conspiracy murder charges.\n\nRacketeering is when people use criminal actions to repeatedly take money from others.\n\nHe initially pleaded not guilty to the charges, before entering a plea bargain with the US government later on - that's when he started giving evidence against former fellow gang members.\n\nThat could dramatically reduce his prison time.\n\n\"Whether or not he is going to be given leniency with his sentencing remains to be seen,\" Lisa Evers tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"It's a big deal because he's looking at 47 years to life in prison.\"\n\nShe adds: \"Once he comes out [of prison], he may be given a new identity, but how's he going to be given a new identity with that 69 tattoo on his forehead?\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Boris Johnson has outlined his plan to the European Union (EU) to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said the plan \"removes the so-called backstop\".\n\nThe backstop is the insurance policy negotiated by Theresa May and the EU. It is designed to avoid any physical border infrastructure, which it is feared would bring back memories of the Troubles, after Brexit.\n\nIt would keep the UK in the same customs territory as the EU, and Northern Ireland closely tied to EU regulations - until the UK and the EU reach a trade deal.\n\nBut it would stop the UK striking its own trade deals, which is why so many Conservative MPs, including Mr Johnson, oppose the backstop.\n\nSo, what is his alternative?\n\nThe government wants the UK to leave the EU customs union. This would mean Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland ending up in two different customs territories.\n\nThis means lorries entering the Republic of Ireland from Northern Ireland will need to complete customs declarations. This is to ensure the correct tariffs (tax on imports) are paid when UK goods enter the EU customs union.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: From the beginning the EU has struggled to see how Ireland and Northern Ireland can exist in different customs territories while keeping the border as open as it is now under all circumstances. They will argue that - in the absence of a future free trade deal - this proposal means the UK is breaking commitments it has made about the border. The UK counters that the backstop has already been rejected in Parliament three times, and something needs to change.\n\nInstead of installing customs posts and other physical infrastructure at the Irish border, the UK says declarations should be done electronically.\n\nThe government says physical checks would still be needed \"on a very small proportion of movements\". Currently, about one in 100 consignments entering the EU customs union are inspected to check that the goods match the information on the declaration.\n\nThese inspections could be carried out at warehouses or \"designated locations, which could be located anywhere in Ireland or Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThe government's proposal does not spell out what these \"designated locations\" would look like, but it adds there should be \"a firm commitment (by both parties) never to conduct checks at the border in future\".\n\nIf adopted, a border solution relying on technology and remote checks would be a first. The EU does not currently share a single border with a non-EU country where checks have been completely eliminated.\n\nThat includes Norway (not in the EU) and Sweden (an EU member) - which share one of the most technologically advanced borders in the world. Their main crossing point processes about 1,300 lorries a day, with each waiting 20 minutes on average.\n\nThe EU has previously rejected a customs solution that relies on technology.\n\nBack in January, Sabine Weyand, the EU's director-general for trade, said: \"We looked at every border on this Earth, every border the EU has with a third country - there's simply no way you can do away with checks and controls.\"\n\nThe government says that some small traders should be exempt from paying duty. However, the document does not address smuggling head on. In other words, what will be done to detect and prevent traders, who should be paying duty, from crossing the border without completing custom declarations first?\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The EU will see much of this as a rehash of previous ideas that it doesn't think will work. And many people will worry that unspecified \"designated locations\" could become targets for anyone seeking to undermine the Northern Ireland peace process. The EU will push back hard against suggestions that it needs to revise its own customs rules to suit the UK.\n\nWhen it comes to the regulation of goods, Northern Ireland would keep to the rules of the EU's single market, rather than UK rules.\n\nThat removes the need for product standard and safety checks on goods at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, because both will be part of an \"all-island regulatory zone\".\n\nBut it creates the need for checks between the rest of the UK - which will not be sticking to EU single market rules - and Northern Ireland..\n\nAll agricultural, food or animal products entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK will have to go through a Border Inspection Post. That's a bit of infrastructure where goods can be physically examined and paperwork checked.\n\nManufactured goods in Northern Ireland would also have to keep to EU rules, and these goods would be checked \"at the boundary of the zone\" - presumably at crossings between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, on the Irish Sea.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: This is quite a big concession from the UK side - basically accepting that there would have to be quite intrusive checks between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK for a number of years, on things like product standards and food safety. The EU has always said there have to be checks carried out somewhere, and both sides will try to deny any suggestion that this amounts to a new border in the Irish Sea.\n\nHaving Northern Ireland following EU rules for the production of goods over which it has no say is, as the document says, \"a significant democratic problem\".\n\nAs a result, it is proposed that the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive will have to sign off on the plan before it takes effect.\n\nThe Northern Irish institutions will be asked to approve the plan again every four years, and if they do not then Northern Ireland would stop following EU rules one year later.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly has not met since early 2017.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The issue of democratic legitimacy is a crucial one, but it cannot be applied unevenly. The EU is likely to have a problem with anything which suggests that only Northern Ireland could have - in effect - a veto on this plan. The point of the backstop was to provide a legal guarantee to keep an open border under all circumstances. Being subject to approval every four years simply isn't the same thing. If Northern Ireland voted to leave this arrangement things like checks on food safety would have to take place at the Irish border.", "Officers may have taken Beech too seriously because of past failings in historical abuse cases, a Met boss says\n\nAn investigation into false claims of murder and child sexual abuse against public figures could cost the Metropolitan Police £4m.\n\nOperation Midland was sparked by Carl Beech, 51, who made claims against Tory MP Harvey Proctor, among others.\n\nBeech, 51, of Gloucester, was jailed for 18 years in July for perverting the course of justice and child sex abuse.\n\nOn Wednesday the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee heard the investigation bill could hit £4m.\n\nThe hearing was told that so far the Met Police had spent £2m, while a further £900,000 racked up by Northumbria Police investigating and convicting Beech would be charged to the Met.\n\nIn addition, former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor is suing the force for raiding his home and if successful it could cost the Met a further £1m.\n\nFormer Tory MP Harvey Proctor has said Beech waged a \"despicable vendetta\"\n\nThe homes of D-Day veteran Lord Bramall and Lady Diana Brittan, the widow of former home secretary Leon Brittan, were raided after acting on Beech's claims.\n\nGiving evidence to the committee, the Met's deputy commissioner Sir Stephen House said investigating officers may have \"overcompensated\" because of past failings into sex abuse.\n\nHe said: \"Because of criticism that we had failed to investigate properly, officers may have overcompensated and could have been more forensic in their questioning of the complainant when he came forward.\"\n\nIn the wake of the investigation, the force commissioned a review by retired High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques who did not find any evidence of misconduct.\n\nSir Stephen said the Met was talking to Mr Proctor and the family of Lord Brittan and would publish a report with recommendations.\n\n\"We made mistakes and it has damaged people's lives, and people who have given a huge amount of public service,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Beech was jailed for 18 years in July after making false claims of abuse\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has ordered a third inquiry into the Metropolitan Police's much-criticised investigation into claims of a VIP paedophile ring.\n\nSparked by false claims made by Carl Beech against politicians and senior military officers, Operation Midland cost £2.5m but led to no arrests.\n\nBeech was later jailed for 18 years for his \"malicious\" lies and other charges.\n\nNow the Inspectorate of Constabulary, the police watchdog, has been told to review the force's actions.\n\nIt comes a day before the Met is due to release further sections of a separate review by ex-High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques.\n\nMs Patel wrote to the Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Sir Tom Winsor, on Thursday asking him to examine the police probe.\n\nIn her letter, she said: \"It is imperative that the public receive assurance that the MPS has learned from the mistakes identified in Sir Richard's report and have made - and continue to make - necessary improvements.\n\n\"To this end I am writing to you to request, under the provisions in s54 of the Police Act 1996, that Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) undertake an inspection at the earliest practicable opportunity to follow up on Sir Richard's review.\"\n\nA report by the Independent Office of Police Conduct - expected to be published next week - previously examined the role of three detectives in applying for search warrants, but did not look into Operation Midland as a whole.\n\nWhen - following Beech's convictions in July - the IOPC announced it had cleared the officers, Sir Richard criticised that outcome.\n\nWriting about the IOPC findings in July, he said a criminal investigation should take place into what he described as the unlawful obtaining of search warrants.\n\nSir Richard - who conducted a review commissioned by the Met itself - stated: \"I remain unable to conclude that every officer acted with due diligence and in good faith.\"\n\nHarvey Proctor, who was falsely accused of murder by Beech, has also called on the home secretary to order a criminal inquiry by an independent police force.\n\nFurther chapters from Sir Richard's review on behalf of the Met are due to be made public on Friday.\n\nHowever, a summary of his report published in 2016 said that 43 errors were made during Operation Midland.\n\nThese included believing the testimony of Beech - who was previously referred to as \"Nick\" in the media - for too long, as well as an officer referring to those claims as being \"credible and true\".\n\nSir Richard's summary added that a culture that alleged victims must be believed was a \"major contributing factor\" to the investigation's failing.\n\nMet Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, who oversaw the early stages of Operation Midland, has previously rejected demands for a new investigation into the officers involved.\n\nBeech accused former politicians and Army and security chiefs of sadistic sexual abuse up to four decades ago.\n\nThe 51-year-old, who was described by the sentencing judge as a \"manipulative and devious person\", also claimed to have seen boys being murdered.\n\nThose falsely accused by Beech, and relatives of some of those who have died since the investigation began, said the effect of his lies had been \"incalculable\" and they had been victims of \"a totally unjustified witch-hunt\".", "But for 18 months between 2014 and 2016, he was the star witness in a high-profile investigation into allegations of sexual abuse and murder, involving MPs, generals and senior figures in the intelligence services.\n\nThose falsely accused had their properties raided, and one of them - ex-MP Harvey Proctor - lost both his home and his job.\n\nAt the time, Beech, a former NHS paediatric nurse, was working as a hospital inspector with the Care Quality Commission. He was also the governor of two schools in Gloucestershire where he lived.\n\nPolice referred to him only using the pseudonym \"Nick\", to protect his identity.\n\nHis claims that he and others had been the victim of sexual abuse by a \"VIP ring\" in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and that he had witnessed three child murders by members of the same group, featured prominently on BBC News, in a British national newspaper and on a now-defunct website called Exaro.\n\nHowever, while he was promoting his lies, Beech was busy downloading child abuse imagery and covertly filming a teenage boy.\n\nThe investigation - known as Operation Midland - would cost some £2.5m. But by the time it was wound up, not one arrest had been made.\n\nBeech, however, received more than £20,000 in public money as compensation for injuries he claimed were inflicted during the alleged abuse - injuries he had never actually suffered.\n\nAfter a 12-week trial, Beech was sentenced to 18 years in prison, having been found guilty of 12 counts of perverting the course of justice, one of fraud, and several child sexual offences.\n\nBut what led the 51-year-old divorced father of a teenage son to make the allegations in the first place?\n\nBorn as Carl Stephen Gass in Wrexham in 1968, his parents separated when he was young.\n\nIn 1976, his mother Charmian remarried Major Raymond Beech, a soldier based in Wiltshire.\n\nCarl took his stepfather's surname and spent time in the county living in a military property. But when that marriage broke down he moved with his mother first to Bicester in Oxfordshire, and then, in 1979, to the London suburb of Kingston upon Thames.\n\nIt was this period of his life that Beech would build his allegations around, claiming that between the ages of seven and 16 he was abused by a powerful paedophile ring that included the late British media personality Jimmy Savile.\n\nIn 2012, Beech approached the Metropolitan Police, which had launched Operation Yewtree to investigate alleged sexual abuse in the wake of the Savile scandal.\n\nThey referred him to Wiltshire Police as the most relevant to his claims.\n\nSpeaking to a detective from Wiltshire, Beech claimed he had been abused by his stepfather, before being introduced by him to a group of other alleged abusers including Savile, an unnamed lieutenant colonel - whom he identified as the ringleader - and up to 20 other unidentified men.\n\nThe only two people he named were Raymond Beech and Savile. When asked by the police for other names, Beech said that he didn't know them.\n\nHe claimed that he was regularly taken out of school to be abused and that this continued even after his mother had separated from his stepfather.\n\nHe said that over the nine years, an unnamed driver took him to abuse \"parties\" at military bases, and later at central London locations.\n\nHe also told detectives that a friend called Aubrey had also been abused by the same group.\n\nBut after examining the wider claims, Wiltshire Police decided not to take any further action.\n\nThe inquiry had found that Charmian had only been married to Raymond Beech for a few months, and that she had subsequently sought a non-molestation injunction against him.\n\nArmy records suggested he had a drink problem, had been violent towards Charmian, and retired from the army on mental health grounds after they divorced. He died in 1995.\n\nIn 2013, Beech came across a post on an abuse charity website. Documentary makers were looking to interview male survivors of Savile for a programme to be broadcast on a satellite TV channel.\n\nBeech readily volunteered, and appeared anonymously using his middle name Stephen.\n\nThe documentary didn't make much of an impact, and Beech continued building up his sexual abuse allegations online. It was this activity that gained him far greater attention.\n\nIn the years immediately following the Savile scandal, parts of the internet were rife with allegations of historical sexual abuse by prominent people.\n\nAnd Sunday newspapers regularly ran stories about VIP abuse rings and alleged cover-ups.\n\nAt the time, some MPs - including the now Deputy Labour Leader Tom Watson - were prominently campaigning on the issue of historical abuse.\n\nSeveral well-known people had been arrested - and some charged and convicted - for non-recent sexual offences.\n\nBut the rumours online went beyond these inquiries and raised the spectre of a far bigger conspiracy.\n\nBeech's online allegations, therefore, came amid claims of establishment cover-ups, controversies over lost dossiers of evidence, calls for a national inquiry into child abuse, and rumours about which famous figure would next be revealed as a paedophile.\n\nHis own accounts, which would eventually draw together several existing conspiracy theories, presented himself as the victim of a sadistic culture at the heart of British power.\n\nInto his story went several men and locations already the subject of online rumours, others who were known to be under investigation by separate inquiries, as well as senior figures within the armed forces and military intelligence.\n\nIn total, he was accusing 10 new men.\n\nBeech eventually went on to tweet and blog under the name \"Carl Survivor\", with graphic posts about sexual abuse and torture appearing on a website for those allegedly abused as children.\n\nIn one post he referred to \"very powerful people\" who had controlled every part of his life.\n\nIn others, he penned poems describing nightmarish events like being locked in a room full of wasps.\n\n\"Sometimes when I had broken the rules, been bad. They shut me in a room of wasps all mad,\" he wrote.\n\nA retired child protection manager - Peter McKelvie - brought the posts to the attention of a BBC journalist, who met Beech but didn't look into his claims or follow up with a story.\n\nArticles about Beech's claims and a subsequent police investigation did, however, begin to appear on the Exaro News website. Mark Conrad, a then Exaro reporter, met Beech and maintained regular contact with him.\n\nAs he went through Beech's allegations, Conrad showed him 42 images, apparently as a form of picture test, with Beech picking out people he had already named.\n\nThe pair also visited locations apparently relevant to the allegations, including Dolphin Square, an apartment block in central London, which has long been home to MPs and other notable figures, and the London home of the former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath.\n\nBeech was also taken to Parliament to meet Tom Watson, who subsequently stayed in touch with him.\n\nDuring his later interviews with detectives from the Met, Beech said Watson had been part of a \"little group that was supporting me and trying to put some of my information out there to try and encourage others to come forward\".\n\nThe MP had previously triggered various Met inquiries after passing the force a series of allegations.\n\nCarl Beech was interviewed by police in 2014\n\nBeech had been given the pseudonym \"Nick\" in Exaro's coverage of his allegations. These came to the notice of Scotland Yard, who asked for access to their source.\n\nBeech met detectives, and went on to give them 20 hours of recorded testimony. But in contrast to his earlier interviews with Wiltshire Police, Beech now started giving detectives multiple names - falsely implicating a string of famous figures at the heart of British public life in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nFrom the military, he named two former heads of the armed forces, Lord Bramall and Sir Roland Gibbs, and another senior general, Sir Hugh Beach.\n\nThe former chiefs of MI5 and MI6, Sir Michael Hanley and Sir Maurice Oldfield, as well as the former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath, former Home Secretary Lord Brittan, and the ex-MPs Harvey Proctor and Lord Janner, also became part of his story.\n\nBeech alleged his stepfather handed him over to this \"group\" and that it operated using chauffeurs who collected him from school or his local railway station.\n\nDespite his apparent strong recall of incidents involving famous names, he offered nothing tangible about the various drivers, witnesses and non-famous abusers his account incorporated.\n\nSadistic abuse was alleged to have taken place at various military sites in southern England, before the locations switched to central London hotels and properties, after he moved to Kingston with his mother.\n\nHe claimed other boys were present at the sessions, which were said to include torture and elaborate punishments such as electrocution, being used as a human dartboard, and having spiders tipped over his naked body.\n\n\"I couldn't scream because if you screamed then the chances are one would go in your mouth,\" he told detectives.\n\nBeech even said the MI5 boss oversaw the abduction of his dog and \"collared\" him outside school to threaten that if he failed to follow orders the pet would come to harm.\n\nHe provided the first names of other boys, including Aubrey and someone he claimed to still be in touch with, who was given the pseudonym \"Fred\".\n\nMost significantly of all, Beech alleged he had witnessed the murders of three children. These were claims that he had not previously made to Wiltshire police.\n\nOne - a schoolmate called Scott - was said to have been deliberately run over by a car in a Kingston street as some kind of warning by the group.\n\nThe second - an unnamed boy - was alleged to have been stabbed and strangled by Harvey Proctor in a London townhouse.\n\nThe third, also unnamed, was said to have been beaten to death by Proctor and Sir Michael Hanley, while Lord Brittan and several children watched.\n\nBeech claimed that, on a separate occasion, Proctor was only prevented from removing his genitals with a penknife after Sir Edward Heath intervened.\n\nWithin weeks - before any major investigative steps had been taken - there was a high-profile appeal for witnesses.\n\nThe accuser was publicly praised by the officer overseeing the inquiry, Det Supt Kenny MacDonald, who said detectives considered his account to be \"credible and true\" and stated: \"We do believe what Nick is saying\".\n\nDetails of Beech's murder allegations had already appeared on the Exaro site and in the Sunday People newspaper. In November 2014, a television interview with him had led the main BBC News bulletins.\n\nThe men he accused were not named, but it was reported that they included senior figures from politics, the military and law enforcement.\n\nHis contact with the media fed into the police investigation.\n\nA later review of Operation Midland by retired judge Sir Richard Henriques said journalists making their own inquiries had provided an \"unwelcome intrusion\" by showing him pictures of suspects, potentially relevant locations, and missing or murdered boys.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds, who interviewed Beech, had shown him images from recent newspaper stories of two boys who vanished from London in the late 70s and early 80s, one of whom Beech subsequently claimed was the victim of the second murder he claimed to have witnessed.\n\nThe child - Martin Allen, a 15-year-old who disappeared in 1979 - became a focus of the police inquiry and detectives contacted his family.\n\nBeech claimed Allen had been held at an address in Pimlico, central London, before being killed. But he only identified the property after he had been shown an image of it by Exaro's Conrad.\n\nBeech then drew a picture of the property in a notebook, but claimed to police that he had done it sometime before from memory. The flat had once been occupied by a paedophile called Alfred Leslie Goddard, who was connected to a murderous gang of abusers that included Sidney Cooke - a child killer and one of Britain's most notorious paedophiles.\n\nOther location sketches were also given to police and Beech later falsely claimed that he recognised several places from memory - such as military bases and the former homes of suspects - when taken on site visits by detectives.\n\nThe reality, though, was that he had carried out extensive research about people and places on the internet.\n\nIt was enough to convince Scotland Yard.\n\nWhen Lord Brittan died in January 2015, Tom Watson wrote an article in the Sunday People newspaper to accompany its revelation that the peer was under investigation by Operation Midland.\n\nWatson wrote how one \"survivor\" told him that Lord Brittan was \"as close to evil as a human being could get in my view\".\n\nThat person, it can now be revealed, was Carl Beech.\n\nIn the article, Watson wrote: \"It is not for me to judge whether the claims made against Brittan are true.\"\n\nBut, the following month, he tweeted: \"I think I have made my position on Leon Brittan perfectly clear. I believe the people who say he raped them.\"\n\nIn March 2015, Operation Midland raided the homes of Harvey Proctor, Lord Bramall, and the recently deceased Lord Brittan.\n\nProctor, who lived and worked at Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire, which was owned by the Duke and Duchess of Rutland, subsequently lost both his job and home.\n\nBeech was informed of the raids in a phone call from a detective who was standing in Harvey Proctor's house.\n\nThe raids were reported in the media, with a consequent loss of anonymity for the accused.\n\nJust before news about the raids on Lord Brittan and Lord Bramall was reported by Exaro, Beech emailed his main police contact DC Danny Chatfield to say that the website wanted to publish a piece encouraging other victims to come forward and wanted a quote.\n\nBeech sent a draft set of comments, which included the line: \"There are some excellent detectives from the Metropolitan Police who are working on the information that I have given to them.\"\n\nThe detective replied: \"The wording is fine with us, so please go ahead.\"\n\nHe then sent Beech the approximate locations of the searches, saying Exaro had been asking for them.\n\nBeech wrote back: \"Thanks for telling me the other places.\"\n\nHowever, the search warrants were flawed and contained inaccurate information.\n\nIt was one of many errors.\n\nThe officers who interviewed Beech had not read his earlier Wiltshire interview, which would have revealed inconsistencies in his account of the alleged abuse.\n\nOfficers seemed keen not to upset Beech.\n\nThey failed to prioritise the tracing of important witnesses, such as people who worked alongside some of the accused at the relevant time.\n\nSome of them were not initially approached because officers wanted to avoid upsetting Beech, who kept expressing discomfort and demanding updates on progress.\n\nFor example, his mother was not contacted for more than six months, even though her son had been living with her throughout the period under investigation.\n\nIt took them longer to contact Beech's ex-wife, Dawn, who would eventually give evidence against him at trial.\n\nOfficers also took months to trace all of the boys called Scott from Beech's secondary school to rule out the possibility that any had been murdered in Kingston. Two detectives were also unnecessarily sent to Australia to speak to one former student in person.\n\nBeech was also helped by Met detectives to get a claim processed that he had previously made to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority, following the allegations he made to Wiltshire police.\n\nThe information contained in this claim was inconsistent with the story that he had told the Met.\n\nBeech eventually received a payout of £22,000, some of which he used to buy an expensive Ford Mustang. Pictures of the car were uploaded to his Facebook page with Beech declaring that it had \"always been a dream\" to own the convertible.\n\nIn terms of the investigation, Beech was keen to keep across details of the case, pestering officers about whether arrests were imminent, and insisting that he wanted the case to go to court.\n\nPolice were desperate to speak to a man who Beech claimed was abused alongside him as a child and had witnessed one of the alleged murders.\n\nHe claimed he was still in touch with this man, who was given the name \"Fred\", and agreed to pass on emails from the police. A psychologist Dr Elly Hanson, then acted as a go-between for the police. She wrote that Operation Midland was \"committed to documenting the truth\" and would do so \"whatever that entails, including exposing prominent people\".\n\n\"Fred\" appeared reticent to come forward, telling Hanson in an email: \"Nick and I went through Hell together but he's dealt with it a lot better than I ever will.\"\n\n\"Fred\" told police his real name was John, but declined to meet them or elaborate about the allegations, hinting darkly that: \"I have received a threat that I take seriously. I have not told Carl about this, but if they can trace me, they can trace him.\"\n\nIt would transpire later, after detectives from a different force examined the encrypted email account, that the man behind it was Carl Beech himself.\n\n\"Fred\" was yet another fiction.\n\nOperation Midland started to flounder, but the public turning point came when Harvey Proctor held a furious press conference to denounce both Scotland Yard and Beech's allegations. He set them out in graphic detail to show the public how implausible they were.\n\nThe media, particularly the Daily Mail and the BBC's Panorama programme, challenged the Met by casting serious doubt on the allegations. Senior officers - including the Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe - publicly defended their operation.\n\nBeech himself began withdrawing cooperation and cancelled interviews with police, who now wanted to challenge him on various inconsistencies.\n\nThe emails from \"Fred\" also ceased.\n\nIn January 2016, Lord Bramall was told he would face no further action. His wife Avril had died during the inquiry.\n\nThe operation ended in March 2016 when Harvey Proctor - the final living suspect - was also told he would face no further investigation.\n\nBoth men had been interviewed under caution twice.\n\nScotland Yard stated that it had investigated the possibility that Martin Allen was one of the alleged murder victims and said they had no reason to believe \"Nick\" had misled them.\n\nBut it was forced to commission a review of the investigation, which was carried out by Sir Richard Henriques.\n\nThe retired judge's report was damning. It listed 43 serious errors and said Operation Midland should have been terminated much earlier. It said the inquiry could have been completed without the accused ever having learnt about it.\n\nThe Met apologised and later paid compensation to Lord Bramall and the family of Lord Brittan. Harvey Proctor is currently suing the force, which is resisting his claim in the High Court.\n\nScotland Yard referred Beech for investigation by the independent Northumbria Police.\n\nDetectives arrived at his Gloucester home on 2 November 2016, and what they found there revealed that Beech was himself a paedophile.\n\nThree of his devices - two laptops and an iPad - contained hundreds of child sexual abuse images, including dozens denoting the gravest abuse imagery.\n\nSome of the images had been hidden behind an app that appeared to be calculator.\n\nIt also became clear that Beech was a perverted voyeur - he had installed a recording device in a toilet to secretly film a young boy.\n\nBeech, who had volunteered for the NSPCC, was relieved of his position as a governor at two local schools and suspended from his CQC role.\n\nHis role would be terminated the following summer - a time when Beech was charged with six counts relating to the images and one count of voyeurism.\n\nA year later he was charged with 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nThe charges detailed the many ways in which he had lied. He had fabricated the murders, invented the paedophile ring, and lied about the serious injuries.\n\nHe had given police a small knife - the one he claimed Harvey Proctor had wanted to castrate him with - and two military epaulettes, falsely alleging he had retained them from when he was abused as a child.\n\nThe knife had actually been used by his grandmother to cut fruit and had been kept by Beech for years in a \"happy memory box\".\n\nBeech, who was on bail, was due to stand trial in Worcester for the sexual offences last summer.\n\nInstead, he went on the run.\n\nWhen he failed to turn up for his trial at Worcester Crown Court, a warrant was issued for his arrest.\n\nA manhunt focused on Sweden, where he was known to frequent, and two months later, he was arrested at Gothenburg railway station.\n\nWhen apprehended, he was in possession of a knife and rope.\n\nBeech had gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid detection. He had bought a remote house in the far north of the country under an assumed name. He moved around using five different aliases, six phones, numerous email addresses and making purchases with untraceable gift cards.\n\nOn the first morning of his trial for child sexual offences in January he pleaded guilty to all counts.\n\nBut he denied the charges in the larger case, leading to a 12-week trial at Newcastle Crown Court.\n\nThe evidence showed he had pieced together his story using the internet to research those he accused.\n\nThe sketches he had given to police, suggesting a surprising visual recall of places he was allegedly taken as a child, had been copied from online photographs.\n\nHis body lacked scars and injuries and his medical history was free of any such traumas, despite his stories of childhood broken bones, burns, and savage beatings.\n\nSchool records and former classmates showed he was not absent in the way he alleged.\n\nHe based \"Fred\" - or \"John\" - on the best man at his wedding, using details about his life to make the pretence more credible.\n\nThe best man, who told police he had never been abused by anyone, was not the only former Beech friend falsely dragged into his claims.\n\nHis so-called friend Aubrey was based on a childhood acquaintance from Bicester, who was traced and also confirmed that he had not been abused, as alleged.\n\nIt also emerged that Beech was a prolific writer of fantasies that had not been published online, some of which were found in his garage or on a memory stick.\n\nThe details they contained contradicted his accounts to police, confusing and blending still further the alleged roles of \"John\", \"Aubrey\" and others.\n\nUnder cross examination, Beech admitted various parts of the documents, which included his draft memoirs, were fiction.\n\nBeech, who nevertheless insisted most of his claims were true, was totally absorbed in his violent paedophile fantasies, imagining parts for people he knew, then changing their roles and adding in new characters as he went along.\n\nIn the witness box, habitually pausing and humming when asked a seemingly unanticipated question about his account, Beech had the look of a man scanning his mind for a lie dressed as a memory.\n\nIt seemed natural for him to transpose self-pity into apparent vulnerability and sadness at what he claimed occurred in his childhood.\n\nProsecutors said his motivations were varied.\n\nMoney was one. Beech was in debt and spending beyond his means, including on lavish holidays.\n\nHe also enjoyed the attention, with a supportive community of online followers, his media appearances, and access to the police and Parliament all bolstering his sense of self importance.\n\nBeech also seemed to admire - and even to have copied - some of the claims contained in a book by an American alleged abuse victim. His own memoirs and plans to become a speaker at conferences would have provided him with a new income.\n\nIn addition, prosecutors regarded his interest in child pornography as central, saying he watched it, possessed it, recorded young boys covertly, and wrote about it over hundreds of pages - all suggesting he also wanted to be a part of it.\n\nJenny Hopkins, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said Beech was not a fantasist or a victim, but a \"manipulative, prolific, deceitful liar\" who would have been happy to see innocent men arrested and facing the full force of the law.\n\nHarvey Proctor, who gave evidence at trial, is calling for a fully independent investigation into Operation Midland, which he calls the \"worst failing in the history of policing in the last 40 years\".\n\nHe said Beech's \"criminality and the Metropolitan Police's gullibility have threatened the future position of genuine child abuse complainants\".\n\nLord Bramall, now 95, was not well enough to attend court.\n\nHis long-time friend General Sir Hugh Beach gave evidence by video link from his retirement home.\n\nSir Hugh, 96, was interviewed as a witness - rather than a suspect - by Met detectives.\n\nHe says the \"mental wear and tear to Lord Bramall must have been enormous in the circumstances\".\n\nHe thinks Beech's crimes are \"damaging to the society at large\" but \"particularly damaging to the people who were the victims of this man's fabrications.\"\n\nBeech is, quite simply, he says, an \"evil man\".", "Unrivalled control of a robotic arm has been achieved using a paralysed woman's thoughts, a US study says.\n\nJan Scheuermann, who is 53 and paralysed from the neck down, was able to deftly grasp and move a variety of objects just like a normal arm.\n\nBrain implants were used to control the robotic arm, in the study reported in the Lancet medical journal.\n\nExperts in the field said it was an \"unprecedented performance\" and a \"remarkable achievement\".\n\nJan was diagnosed with spinocerebellar degeneration 13 years ago and progressively lost control of her body. She is now unable to move her arms or legs.\n\nShe was implanted with two sensors - each four millimetres by four millimetres - in the motor cortex of her brain.\n\nA hundred tiny needles on each sensor pick up the electrical activity from about 200 individual brain cells.\n\n\"The way that neurons communicate with each other is by how fast they fire pulses, it's a little bit akin to listening to a Geiger counter click, and it's that property that we lock onto,\" said Professor Andrew Schwartz from the University of Pittsburgh.\n\nThe pulses of electricity in the brain are then translated into commands to move the arm, which bends at the elbow, wrist and could grab an object.\n\nJan was able to control the arm after the second day of training and over a period of 14 weeks became increasing skilful.\n\nThe report said she gained \"co-ordination, skill and speed almost similar to that of an able-bodied person\" by the end of the study.\n\nProf Schwartz told the BBC that movements this good had not been achieved before.\n\n\"They're fluid and they're way better, I don't know how to say it any other way, they're way better than anything that's been demonstrated before.\n\n\"I think it really is convincing evidence that this technology is going to be therapeutic for spinal cord injured people.\n\n\"They are doing tasks already that would be beneficial in their daily lives and I think that's fairly conclusive at this point.\"\n\nThe arm was controlled by thought\n\nThe field of harnessing a healthy brain to overcome a damaged body is advancing rapidly.\n\nEarlier this year, Cathy Hutchinson used a robotic arm to serve herself a drink for the first time since her stroke 15 years before.\n\nIn both studies the results were achieved inside a laboratory so are of little help in the home.\n\nResearchers are now trying to mount the arm on Jan's wheelchair so she will be able to use it in her everyday life.\n\nThere are also attempts to give sensation to the prosthetic arms to restore a sense of touch.\n\nIn a review researchers Gregoire Courtine, Silvesto Micera, Jack DiGiovanna and Jose del Millan described the control of the arm as \"highly intuitive and probably responsible for the unprecedented performance of the brain-machine interface\".\n\nThey added that the system was a \"remarkable technological and biomedical achievement\" and that such designs were getting closer to a point which \"might soon become revolutionary treatment models\" for paralysed patients.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn emergency incident at Glasgow Airport was caused by a leak from a package containing glass tubes of vaccine in the cargo hold of a plane.\n\nAn exclusion zone was placed around the aircraft after concerns were raised about the leaking package onboard KLM flight KL1473 from Amsterdam.\n\nThe airline said the leak affected dry ice packed to cool the package and the tubes of vaccine remained intact.\n\nThe incident was stood down and the area declared safe at 13:30 on Friday.\n\nPart of the international terminal had earlier been evacuated and closed off while a team examined the package, but all other areas of the airport remained fully operational.\n\nPictures from the airport showed a large number of emergency vehicles, including several fire appliances, ambulances and an environmental protection unit, close to the runway.\n\nIn a statement, KLM said: \"On KL1473 operated between Amsterdam to Glasgow, a package on board packed in dry ice started to leak this afternoon.\n\n\"The package contained glass tubes with vaccines. These tubes have remained intact with only the cooling around them starting to leak.\n\n\"As a precaution, the fire brigade cordoned off the immediate vicinity of the aircraft. Passengers were never in danger but were taken off board as a precaution.\"", "Former EastEnders actress Sandy Ratcliff died after taking an excessive amount of morphine while suffering from two terminal lung conditions, an inquest has heard.\n\nShe was one of the BBC soap's original cast members, appearing as cafe owner Sue Osman from 1985 to 1989.\n\nOff-screen she battled a heroin addiction for 20 years, an inquest at Poplar Coroner's Court was told.\n\nRatcliff died aged 70 in April, in sheltered housing in north-east London.\n\nThe actress's first major role was in Ken Loach's Family Life in 1971, in which she played a schizophrenic teenager.\n\nHer EastEnders character Sue Osman contended with cot death and her husband's infidelity before she was sectioned and written out of the BBC soap.\n\nRatcliff's other TV appearances after EastEnders included an episode of Maigret in 1992, opposite Michael Gambon.\n\nThe inquest heard Ratcliff had been discharged from hospital the day before she died and given morphine for pain relief.\n\nHer son, William Palmer, said his mother suffered three strokes in the years leading up to her death - the first taking place shortly after her partner died in 2013.\n\n(L-R) Nejdet Salih, Oscar James, Sandy Ratcliff, John Altman and Tom Watt starred in EastEnders in 1985\n\nGiving evidence, he said the stroke had left her with pain in her left arm, for which she was prescribed codeine, but the inquest heard Ratcliff would take more than her prescribed amount for both pain management and \"recreational use\".\n\nGiving her conclusion, coroner Mary Hassell said Ratcliff was \"near to the end\" when she was admitted to hospital.\n\n\"I don't think the morphine was used to end her life,\" she said. \"She was using it as she had used drugs for many years.\"\n\n\"She died from a combination of two naturally occurring terminal conditions and an excess of morphine.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Carl Beech was jailed for 18 years after being found guilty of perverting the course of justice, fraud and child sexual offences\n\nA review of Scotland Yard's disastrous inquiry into false allegations of a VIP paedophile ring found warrants to search the homes of the wrongly accused suspects were obtained \"unlawfully\".\n\nRetired High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques said searches of the homes of three prominent people \"should not have taken place\".\n\nHe has reviewed the Met's investigation into allegations made by Carl Beech.\n\nBeech, 51, from Gloucester, was jailed for 18 years for his false accusations.\n\nBeech, previously known as \"Nick\" in the media, made false allegations of murder and child sexual abuse against prominent public figures.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police spent £2.5m investigating his claims after publicly saying they were \"credible and true\".\n\nThe Met has published the first three chapters of the 2016 Henriques report after being criticised for previously releasing a heavily redacted version.\n\nA report by the Independent Office of Police Conduct - expected to be published next week - previously examined the role of three detectives in applying for search warrants, but did not look into Operation Midland as a whole.\n\nWhen - following Beech's convictions in July - the IOPC announced it had cleared the officers, Sir Richard criticised that outcome, saying a criminal investigation should take place.\n\nThe searches of the homes of Lord Bramall, Harvey Proctor and Lord Brittan were deemed unlawful\n\nAmong the establishment figures Beech wrongly accused of sexual abuse were former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath, former Labour MP Lord Janner and ex-MI6 boss Sir Maurice Oldfield.\n\nThe homes of several men were raided by police, including those owned by Normandy veteran Field Marshall Lord Bramall, former Home Secretary Lord Brittan - who died while under investigation - and former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor, which Sir Richard said were \"unlawful\".\n\nIn the now published 2016 report, the retired judge said police \"misled\" the magistrate who authorised the search by claiming Beech's claims were \"consistent and credible\".\n\nSir Richard said Beech's account \"had not been consistent\" and there were \"no reasonable grounds\" to believe him.\n\nMr Proctor told the BBC the police search had been \"intimidating\" and \"completely out of the blue\".\n\nSir Stephen House, deputy commissioner of the Met, said the officers who applied for the search warrants had acted with \"due diligence and in good faith\" and an Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) review found there were \"no grounds for misconduct\".\n\nSir Richard is also highly critical of the Met's decision to hold a press briefing on 18 December 2014 - soon after the investigation began - in which detectives said they believed \"Nick\" and considered his claims to be \"credible and true\" - a phrase that was repeated several times that day by Det Supt Kenny McDonald.\n\nIn a finding, the retired judge wrote: \"Since the credibility of 'Nick' was not established, a decision to inform the public via the media that 'we believe 'Nick' was a serious mistake.\"\n\nSir Richard's report makes clear that Det Supt McDonald's line manager - Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Rodhouse - knew he would use such language.\n\nThe judge wrote that if Mr Rodhouse \"did believe 'Nick' his judgement was at fault. If he did not believe 'Nick', he had decided to mislead the public.\"\n\nMr Rodhouse said he was \"sincerely sorry for the distress caused\".\n\nCarl Beech triggered the Met's Operation Midland with his allegations\n\nMr Proctor heavily criticised the police for saying they believed Beech's accusations to be \"true\".\n\nHe said: \"The effect of that was that for nine months before they withdrew the word 'true', the Met Police were putting on the record that I was a serial murderer of children.\n\n\"That is outrageous and has been very difficult to live with. I'm not the same person I used to be, I don't think I will ever be that person again.\"\n\nHe said he had received death threats and lost his job, his home and his reputation.\n\nSir Richard was also critical of how Mr Rodhouse handled a separate Met inquiry into a rape claim against Lord Brittan by a female complainant, stating that his actions prolonged the inquiry.\n\nThe former Home Secretary died without being informed that he had been cleared.\n\nSir Richard commended a decision by the original investigating officer - Det Chief Insp Paul Settle - to end the investigation without interviewing Lord Brittan, which was reversed after he was removed from the case.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Met's deputy commissioner Sir Stephen House says he is \"deeply sorry for mistakes made\"\n\nSir Stephen said he was \"deeply, deeply sorry\" for the pain caused by the Met's \"serious mistakes\", although he said the force does not accept everything in the report.\n\nHe said he was conscious of the \"dreadful impact on wrongly accused individuals and their families\".\n\nSir Stephen said: \"There was a significant amount of pressure on a lot of different public bodies in relation to not taking seriously allegations around this type of assault.\n\n\"That does not excuse the mistakes made but it explains some of the thinking we had.\"\n\nLabour deputy leader Tom Watson met \"Nick\" and \"created further pressure upon police\", said the report\n\nThe report also said \"there can be no doubt\" Labour MP Tom Watson \"believed Nick\" and \"created further pressure upon officers\".\n\nMr Watson - who is now the party's deputy leader - said the review \"contains multiple inaccuracies\" about him and police asked him to \"encourage the hundreds of people that came to me with stories of child abuse to report their stories to the police\".\n\nSir Richard also criticised the effect BBC journalists had upon the investigation.\n\nHe records how BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds showed Beech pictures of two boys who were either murdered or went missing in the late 1970s and early 1980s when he met him in November 2014.\n\nPolice subsequently investigated whether one of the boys - Martin Allen, who went missing in London - was one of the three boys allegedly murdered by the people Beech accused.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has ordered a third review of the Met's investigation\n\nSir Richard records that relatives of Martin Allen were subsequently spoken to by detectives and that the \"upset caused to that family is one of several distressing aspects of this case\".\n\nThe retired judge wrote that the \"photographic identification by Symonds was fundamentally flawed and would not be admitted in a court\".\n\nHe said senior officers should have told the BBC's reporters and a retired social worker who was also working with Beech \"not to feed information to 'Nick'\".\n\nSir Richard also criticised the now-defunct news website Exaro News, which also met with Beech and showed him 42 pictures of men, through which Beech identified Mr Proctor and Lord Bramall.\n\nHe said: \"There can be no doubt that 'Nick' received information and assistance from Exaro and other journalists that misled officers and contributed to their concluding at an early stage that 'Nick' was credible.\"\n\nThe report also criticised officers who helped Beech claim £22,000 from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority, for which he was later convicted of fraud.\n\nSir Richard said: \"Assisting a claimant to recover compensation before an investigation is complete prejudges the outcome of the investigation and should not have happened.\n\n\"Having assisted 'Nick' to claim compensation rendered it more difficult to discontinue this investigation,\" he said.\n\nNumber 10 said the case was \"deeply concerning\" which is why Home Secretary Priti Patel has ordered an inspection by the chief inspector of constabulary, following Sir Richard's review.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Lewis is seeking discounts from its landlords to cut costs, in a highly unusual move that highlights the huge pressures on retailers.\n\nThe BBC has learned that the retail giant has been telling landlords in some locations that it will withhold 20% of this quarter's service charge.\n\nThese are the fees retailers pay on top of rent for services such as heating and security.\n\nJohn Lewis said the charges had become too high and urged landlords to help.\n\nBut the move could lead to legal action by property owners to recover any unpaid money.\n\nJohn Lewis Partnership announced a major restructuring of its management teams earlier this week in a bid to cut £100m a year from its costs. From next year its supermarkets and department store divisions will be run as one business.\n\nBut it's also clearly trying to make savings across its portfolio of stores as well.\n\n\"This was done without any consultation,\" one landlord told the BBC.\n\n\"Every landlord will be looking at their lease, talking to lawyers who will get revved up to recover this money as a debt,\" he added.\n\nA service charge is a sum due under the terms of a lease between a landlord and tenant, towards the costs incurred in providing a range of services for the operation of a building's common parts.\n\nThat could include cleaning, security, maintenance, marketing, heating/cooling and staffing. Tenants are then charged on an apportioned basis relating to the size of the space occupied with larger stores getting a significant weighted discount.\n\nJohn Lewis has around 20 stores in covered shopping centres.\n\nIt's understood that it wants mainly these landlords to shoulder some of the service charge during the so called \"golden quarter\" - the fourth quarter that includes Christmas. In September, the group posted its first ever loss for the first half of this year.\n\nIn a statement John Lewis said: \"At a time when we are doing everything we can to reduce our cost base, we have unfortunately been faced with regular increases to the service charges we pay for some of our shops in shopping centres.\n\n\"Over the last three years we have seen an increase in service charges of 20% and these continued increases are simply not acceptable, particularly in the absence of strenuous efforts by landlords to work collaboratively with us to reduce these costs.\n\n\"We are investing more in our current shop estate than ever before to do everything we can to encourage customers to grow footfall to our shops and we hope that our landlords will support us in continuing to do this,\" it added.\n\nBut John Lewis is under contract to meet its service charge obligations and withholding a big chunk of it could put it in direct conflict with some of its property owners.\n\n\"John Lewis is in a much better place than most of its rivals but its revenues are under enormous pressure right now,\" said another landlord.\n\n\"What they're up to, I think, is trying to open up a broader conversation about property costs more generally. The market is distorted right now. The stronger retailers are pretty concerned about this uneven playing field,\" he added.\n\nDebenhams has managed to slash its rent bill with reductions of up to 50% after securing a restructuring deal with its creditors. Struggling retailers have been turning to these so-called company voluntary arrangements as a way to cut costs.\n\nHouse of Fraser was bought out of administration by Mike Ashley's Sports Direct and many of these stores are currently paying little if any rent.\n\nJohn Lewis is one of Britain's stronger retail chains and has a reputation for plain dealing. This particular cost-cutting measure, if it succeeds, will be controversial for the already beleaguered retail property industry. The group's biggest landlords include Hammerson and Intu.\n\n\"I am astounded to hear this from a company which sets the gold standard in retail,\" one seasoned property expert told the BBC.\n\n\"There's nothing new in retailers trying to challenge the specifics of a service charge. But to seek to withhold money like this is in breach of a contract. This is going to go down like a lead balloon.\"\n\nLandlords are already grappling with falling rents and property values. Now they may have something else to worry about if other retailers follow suit.", "Robert De Niro's former assistant has sued the actor for $12m (£9.7m), accusing him of \"years of gender discrimination and harassment\".\n\nGraham Chase Robinson claimed the Raging Bull star was verbally abusive and subjected her to unwanted physical contact and sexually-charged comments.\n\nIn response, his lawyer said the allegations were \"beyond absurd\".\n\nThe case comes weeks after De Niro sued Robinson, accusing her of misusing funds and bingeing on Netflix at work.\n\nHer legal documents, which were published by US media on Thursday, said he \"concocted false allegations\" designed to prevent her from taking action and to destroy her career and reputation.\n\nShe started working as the star's executive assistant in 2008 and said he referred to her as his \"assistant\" despite two subsequent promotions.\n\nHe communicated with her in a \"hostile, abusive and intimidating\" way, she claims, including making \"vulgar, inappropriate and gendered comments\" towards her.\n\nHer case said: \"He would joke with Ms Robinson about his Viagra prescription. De Niro smirked to Ms Robinson about his young paramour, who was around Ms Robinson's age.\n\n\"De Niro directed Ms Robinson to imagine him on the toilet. He told Ms Robinson that doing manual labour would 'make a man out of you.' De Niro suggested that Ms Robinson could get pregnant using sperm from her (married) male co-worker.\"\n\nHe paid her less than a man, and asked her to do \"stereotypically female\" tasks like putting away his underwear, hanging up his clothes and vacuuming his apartment, she said.\n\nThe \"gratuitous physical contact\" involved him asking her to \"scratch his back, button his shirts, fix his collars, tie his ties, and prod him awake when he was in bed\", she said.\n\nDe Niro's lawyer told US media: \"The allegations made by Graham Chase Robinson against Robert De Niro are beyond absurd.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Europa League\n\nThe Europa League game between F91 Dudelange and FK Qarabag was temporarily halted when a drone was flown over the ground.\n\nA delay of more than 15 minutes followed the appearance of the drone, which was carrying a flag.\n\nPlayers from Luxembourgish side Dudelange and Qarabag, of Azerbaijan, tried to bring the drone down by kicking the ball at it.\n\nThe incident happened in the first half of the match, which Qarabag won 4-1.\n\nBosnia-Herzegovina goalkeeper Asmir Begovic, who is on loan from English Premier League side Bournemouth until January, was in goal for Qarabag.\n\nThe flag appeared to be that of the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, a landlocked separatist region within Azerbaijan.\n\nAlthough the area is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan, it is in practice an independently-run, ethnically-Armenian enclave which came into being after a conflict between the two countries starting in 1988.\n\nOriginally, FK Qarabag was a team from the city of Agdam in Nagorno-Karabakh, but it moved to Baku in 1993.\n• None Read more about Nagorno-Karabakh here\n\nBoth countries signed a ceasefire in 1994, although the war has never technically ended. Dozens were killed when clashes broke out in the region in 2016.\n\nArmenian midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan refused to play in the Europa League final in Baku last May because he feared for his safety in Azerbaijan's capital.\n\nChelsea beat Arsenal 4-1 to take the trophy.\n\nIn 2014 a drone trailing an Albanian flag and a map showing Albanian nationalist claims on neighbouring states was flown over the pitch during a Euro 2016 qualifying match between Serbia and Albania.\n\nThe incident sparked a brawl and the match had to be abandoned.\n• None Attempt missed. Richard Almeida de Oliveira (FK Qarabag) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Simeon Slavchev.\n• None Goal! F91 Dudelange 1, FK Qarabag 4. Antoine Bernier (F91 Dudelange) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Corenthyn Lavie (F91 Dudelange) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Antoine Bernier.\n• None Attempt missed. Ailton (FK Qarabag) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Araz Abdullayev with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Abdellah Zoubir (FK Qarabag) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Rashad Sadiqov.\n• None Mahir Emreli (FK Qarabag) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Danel Sinani (F91 Dudelange) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Sabir Bougrine.\n• None Attempt missed. Sabir Bougrine (F91 Dudelange) right footed shot from outside the box is too high following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The PM said last month he would rather \"die in a ditch\" than ask for a Brexit delay\n\nBoris Johnson will send a letter to the EU asking for a Brexit delay if no deal is agreed by 19 October, according to government papers submitted to a Scottish court.\n\nThe document was revealed as campaigners sought a ruling forcing the PM to comply with the law.\n\nTheir QC said it contradicted statements by Mr Johnson in Parliament.\n\nBut the prime minister said the UK would still be leaving on 31 October, deal or no deal, \"but no delay\".\n\nTalks between the two sides aimed at resolving differences over the Irish border will resume on Monday, with the UK urging the EU \"to work with us at pace to agree a new deal\".\n\nThe so-called Benn Act - named after Labour MP Hilary Benn who spearheaded its passage into law - requires the government to request an extension to the 31 October Brexit deadline if a deal has not been signed off by Parliament by 19 October.\n\nA senior Downing Street source said: \"The government will comply with the Benn Act, which only imposes a very specific narrow duty concerning Parliament's letter requesting a delay - drafted by an unknown subset of MPs and pro-EU campaigners - and which can be interpreted in different ways.\n\n\"But the government is not prevented by the Act from doing other things that cause no delay, including other communications, private and public.\n\n\"People will have to wait to see how this is reconciled. The government is making its true position on delay known privately in Europe and this will become public soon.\"\n\nAny extension to the Article 50 process - the mechanism taking the UK out of the EU - would have to be agreed by all 27 other EU leaders.\n\nMr Johnson has said he would rather be \"dead in a ditch\" than ask for a delay. In a tweet on Friday afternoon, he said: \"New deal or no deal - but no delay.\"\n\nThe European Commission said its position that the UK's proposed new deal did \"not provide a basis for concluding an agreement\" had not changed after a day of talks with UK officials, but discussions would continue on Monday.\n\nSo there it is. In black and white. An undertaking that the prime minister accepts something that he has never publicly accepted before.\n\nThat if Parliament hasn't approved a deal - or given the nod to no-deal - by 19 October, he will have to send a letter asking for an extension.\n\nMinisters have previously said that they will abide by the Benn Act but also \"test\" it, leading to speculation that they were hunting for a loophole.\n\nBut don't imagine that today's news means Number 10 has given up on sticking to its 31 October deadline, deal or no deal.\n\nIn fact, some will suspect that the document submitted to the Court of Session is simply a way of discouraging the court from issuing an order that could have handed the power, of writing that letter, to someone else; a court clerk or the Cabinet Secretary.\n\nAnd Downing Street is hardly trying to stymie the suspicion that they have something else up their sleeve.\n\nIt's a question everyone in Westminster is asking.\n\nThe Scottish legal action has been initiated by businessman Dale Vince, QC Jo Maugham and SNP MP Joanna Cherry.\n\nThey want the Court of Session, Scotland's highest court, to rule on the extent to which Mr Johnson is bound by the Benn Act.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This is not a prime minister who can be trusted\"\n\nSpeaking outside the court in Edinburgh, Mr Maugham said: \"Our concern has always been that this is not a prime minister who can be trusted.\n\n\"He is making contradictory statements and we do not trust that he will do what he has said to the court he will do. So we want to make the court to make orders obliging him to do it, and if he doesn't then do it then he will face personal criminal consequences.\"\n\nSteve Baker, chairman of the European Research Group of Brexiteer Conservative MPs, said the government document changed nothing.\n\n\"All this means is that government will obey the law. It does not mean we will extend. It does not mean we will stay in the EU beyond 31 October. We will leave.\"\n\nSNP MP Joanna Cherry speaks to reporters outside the Court of Session\n\nBut Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said: \"Boris said we would leave by October 31st 'do or die'.\n\n\"Why does he keep saying things that are not true?\"\n\nAnd anti-Brexit former Tory MP Anna Soubry, leader of the Independent Group for Change, said: \"I just think this is further evidence that you can't trust a single word that this prime minister says.\"\n\nIrish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said he did not want to \"comment on court cases that are happening in the UK. They'll play themselves out\".\n\nHe told a press conference in Denmark the EU would consider a request for a further Brexit extension if Mr Johnson asked for one, adding: \"Certainly an extension would be better than a no deal\".\n\nHowever, he said many other EU countries would need a \"good reason\" to approve a further delay to the UK's exit.\n\nHe said his preference was to reach a deal with the UK by the summit of European leaders on 17 October and said he believed this was still possible.\n\n\"Our focus is getting a deal at the EU Council and I believe that's possible,\" he added.", "The ticket and coach packages were made available ahead of a general ticket release\n\nThe first batch of tickets released for next year's Glastonbury Festival have sold out in just 27 minutes.\n\nThe ticket plus coach packages went on sale at 18:00 BST and were all gone by 18:27.\n\nThat was the time organisers posted a tweet saying they had all been snapped up.\n\nGeneral tickets to the 2020 event, which runs from 24 to 28 June at Worthy Farm in Somerset, will be released at 09:00 on Sunday.\n\nFans who missed out on ticket and coach packages complained on Twitter.\n\nOne wrote: \"The Glastonbury ticket stress is reallllllll.\"\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\nAnother disappointed fan shared a picture of a skeleton sitting in a chair, with the caption: \"Waiting in the queue for Glastonbury tickets.\"\n\nAnother said: \"Glastonbury tickets are a myth.\"\n\nGlastonbury 2019 was headlined by Stormzy, The Killers and The Cure.\n\nThe 2020 line-up is yet to be announced, though Sir Paul McCartney has been tipped as a potential headliner.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Edward Putman was found guilty of fraud by false representation\n\nA conman who cashed in a fake National Lottery ticket to claim a £2.5m jackpot has been jailed for nine years.\n\nEdward Putman, 54, claimed he had found the winning ticket under a seat in his van in 2009 just before the deadline to claim the win passed.\n\nBut St Albans Crown Court heard he was helped by Camelot insider Giles Knibbs who knew how to cheat the system.\n\nPutman, of Kings Langley in Hertfordshire, was found guilty of fraud by false representation.\n\nThe court heard the fraud came to light after Mr Knibbs, who had a row with Putman over how the winnings were divided, took his own life in October 2015.\n\n\"You would have got away with this but quite plainly you were greedy\", he added.\n\n\"This crime struck at the integrity of the National Lottery. You have also undermined the public's trust in the lottery itself.\"\n\nThe fake ticket was used by Putman to claim the Lottery win\n\nPutman claimed the win on 28 August 2009 by using a badly-damaged ticket forged by Mr Knibbs, who worked for Camelot in the fraud detection department.\n\nMr Knibbs had seen a document containing details of big wins which had not yet been claimed and prosecutor James Keeley said there was \"some trial and error\" in producing the successful forgery.\n\nThe court heard each ticket had one of the 100 different possible unique codes at the bottom and Putman had gone to 29 different shops, providing a different ticket in each, before the right number was found at a shop in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.\n\nMr Knibbs confessed to friends he had \"conned\" the Lottery after the row with Putman, a convicted rapist and benefits cheat, in June 2015.\n\nHe also told them about technical inaccuracies in the creation of the ticket that Putman, of Station Road, had used.\n\nEvidence suggested Mr Knibbs was initially paid £280,000 by Putman for his part in the ruse, followed by much smaller increments totalling £50,000.\n\nEdward Putman was pictured outside court covering his face\n\nPutman was paid the jackpot by Camelot in September 2009 despite the bottom part of the mangled slip missing the barcode, the trial heard.\n\nThree years later he was sentenced to nine months in jail for benefit fraud after claiming £13,000 in housing and income support following his win.\n\nIn 2016, the Gambling Commission fined Camelot £3m for breaching its operating licence regarding controlling databases, investigating prize claims, and paying out prizes.\n\nA Camelot spokeswoman said there were \"some weaknesses in some of the specific controls relevant to this incident at the time and we're very sorry for that\".\n\n\"We've strengthened our processes significantly since then and are completely confident that an incident of this nature could not happen today,\" she added.\n\nThe genuine winning ticket, which was bought in Worcester, has never been discovered.\n\nTapashi Nadarajah, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said Putman's \"lies unravelled with the tragic death of his co-conspirator who he wasn't prepared to share the money with\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Olivia Colman [L] will cover Glory Box, sung by Beth Gibbons [R], a story of a doomed romance\n\nOlivia Colman has covered Portishead's brooding classic Glory Box in aid of Children In Need.\n\nThe Oscar winner is just one of several stars who has lent their voice to a covers album, recorded at Abbey Road, in aid of the charity.\n\nIt also features two Doctor Whos: David Tennant, singing The Proclaimers' Sunshine on Leith; and Jodie Whittaker, who covered Coldplay's Yellow.\n\nWhittaker's track is out now, with the full album due next month.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of youtube video by Various Artists - Topic\n\nColman's appreciation of mid-90s trip-hop was hitherto unknown, but Portishead's debut album Dummy would have been a fixture in student digs while she studied at Cambridge University and the Bristol Old Vic theatre school.\n\nWhile she isn't known for singing roles, she did sing Something's Gotten Hold of my Heart in Yorgos Lanthimos' 2015 film The Lobster. Colman was also part of her school choir and played Sarah Brown in a production of Guys And Dolls at her sixth form college in Norfolk.\n\n\"She has a beautiful singing voice,\" her drama tutor Paul Hands told The Times [subscription] earlier this year. \"We haven't really seen that voice in public yet.\"\n\nThe actress also delivered a half-sung, half-spoken performance in London Road, the 2015 film version of a musical about the serial killer Steve Wright.\n\nThe unusual score required Colman and her co-star Tom Hardy to perform songs using the rhythms and pitch of speech, rather than using a top-line melody.\n\n\"It was really scary,\" she told the Evening Standard. \"I can hold a tune, but I'm not under any impression I'm a proper singer.\"\n\nCoincidentally, Colman also filmed several scenes in the Somerset town of Portishead while starring in the ITV crime drama Broadchurch.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of youtube video 2 by BBC Children in Need\n\nThe Children In Need album will be released on 1 November, with at least £1.50 from each sale going to charity.\n\nCalled Got It Covered, the full tracklist is as follows:\n\nA BBC One documentary about the making of the record will be broadcast on BBC One ahead of the annual Children In Need fundraiser in November.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @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.", "Harold Wilson was the Prime Minister and Sir Alf Ramsey was the England football manager last time Abbey Road was number one.\n\nThe Beatles' Abbey Road has returned to number one in the UK, 50 years after it first topped the album charts.\n\nThe Fab Four reclaimed the top spot with an expanded anniversary edition.\n\nThe feat also sees the album set a record - the gap of 49 years and 252 days since its initial chart-topping run ended in early 1970 is the longest gap before returning to number one.\n\n\"It's hard to believe that Abbey Road still holds up after all these years,\" tweeted Sir Paul McCartney on Friday.\n\n\"But then again it's a bloody cool album,\" he added.\n\nThe new version features original tracks such as Here Comes The Sun and Come Together as well as previously unheard material from the recording sessions.\n\nThe previous record for longest gap between number one appearances by the same album was held by (yup, you guessed it) The Beatles again, for their seminal 1967 record, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The sprawling psych-rock masterpiece returned to number one in 2017 courtesy of another anniversary re-release - a mere 49 years and 125 days after its previous spell at the top.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAbbey Road was also this week's best-selling album on vinyl, shifting just under 9,000 copies.\n\nIt knocked the new album by self-confessed Beatles superfan Liam Gallagher off the number one slot. The former Oasis rock 'n' roll star's second solo effort, Why Me? Why Not, debuted at the top of the chart last week.\n\nDespite being their penultimate release, Abbey Road was in fact the last album The Beatles ever recorded together. Let It Be, which came out the following year, had been recorded first, but was initially shelved over disagreements about its production.\n\nThe first side of Abbey Road contains well known songs like Something and Octopus's Garden. But it's the eight track medley on side two, from the McCartney piano ballad, You Never Give Me Your Money, to The End - which contains one of Ringo Starr's rare recorded drum solos - which for many marks the LP out as their crowning glory.\n\nThe Liverpool band revealed they created the sequence to \"use up\" a host of incomplete songs and while it was McCartney's idea, producer George Martin - aka the fifth Beatle - takes the credit for the kaleidoscopic structure.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast week, thousands of fans made the pilgrimage to northwest London recording studio from which the album takes it name, to mark its half-century.\n\nMany of them recreated the classic cover artwork, which depicted The Beatles bass player walking barefoot over a zebra crossing, alongside bandmates Starr, George Harrison and John Lennon.\n\nJaime Garri, 61, flew more than 14 hours from Santiago, Chile, to mark the occasion.\n\n\"You have to say thank you to them for giving us such lovely music,\" he said.\n\nThe Arctic Monkeys paid their own tribute to the record back in 2012 when they performed its Chuck Berry-inspired opening track, with the eyes of the world upon them, at director Danny Boyle's opening ceremony to the London Olympics.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The painting is nearly four metres (13ft) wide and is the largest known canvas by Banksy\n\nA painting by Banksy showing the House of Commons overrun with chimpanzees has sold at auction for just under £9.9m.\n\nThe 4m (13ft) wide artwork Devolved Parliament was painted by the anonymous Bristol artist in 2009.\n\nExpected to fetch up to £2m, it sold for nearly five times its estimate at Sotheby's in London on Thursday.\n\nBanksy reacted on Instagram, saying it was a \"record price for a Banksy painting\" and \"shame I didn't still own it\".\n\nSotheby's tweeted the painting had sold \"to applause at £9,879,500 - nine times its previous record - after a 13-minute bidding battle\".\n\nThe auction house said: \"Regardless of where you sit in the Brexit debate, there's no doubt that this work is more pertinent now than it has ever been.\"\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 banksy 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\nHowever, the record-breaking price was seemingly questioned by the elusive artist who posted a quote from Robert Hughes on his Instagram account, stating: \"Instead of being the common property of humankind the way a book is, art becomes the particular property of someone who can afford it.\"\n\nDevolved Parliament is the artist's biggest known work on canvas.\n\nIt beat the previous auction record for a Banksy, thought to be the $1.8m (£1.4m) for Keep It Spotless, which sold at Sotheby's in New York in 2008.\n\nAlex Branczik, from Sotheby's, said Banksy \"confronted the burning issues of the day\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The anonymous artist's Girl With Balloon self-destructs after £1m auction sale\n\nHe said the artist \"distils society's most complicated political situations into just one, deceptively simple image that is readily shareable in our social media age\".\n\nBanksy created Devolved Parliament for the takeover of Bristol Museum in 2009, which attracted more than 300,000 visitors and was said to be one of the most visited exhibitions in the world that year.\n\nThe painting's anonymous owner lent it to the museum earlier this year to mark both the exhibition's 10th anniversary and Britain's original planned exit from the EU on 29 March.\n\nThe auction took place a year after Banksy himself intervened in a Sotheby's auction, when his artwork Girl with Balloon self-destructed as the gavel came down to become the newly titled Love is in the Bin.\n\nDevolved Parliament was put on display in April at Bristol Museum", "The home secretary says that if Facebook has a credible plan to protect its users then it is time to disclose the details\n\nUK Home Secretary Priti Patel and counterparts in the US and Australia have sent an open letter to Facebook calling on it to rethink its plans to encrypt all messages on its platforms.\n\nThe policy threatens \"lives and the safety of our children\", they said.\n\nThey said it could hamper international efforts to grant law enforcers faster access to private messages on social media, as agreed between the UK and US.\n\nFacebook said \"people have the right to have a private conversation online.\"\n\nThe head of Facebook-owned WhatsApp Will Cathcart had previously posted on Hacker News: \"End-to-end encryption protects that right for over a billion people every day.\"\n\nFacebook said it is \"consulting closely with child safety experts, governments and technology companies and devoting new teams and sophisticated technology\" to keep people safe.\n\nThe letter was signed by Ms Patel, the US Attorney General William P Barr, Acting US Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan and the Australian minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton. It comes off the back of a data access agreement between the US and the UK designed to remove the barriers to cross-border surveillance.\n\nIt allows British law-enforcement agencies to demand from US tech firms data relating to terrorists, child-sexual abusers and other serious criminals.\n\nIt is hoped it will dramatically speed up investigations - previously, the process of requesting data from US firms could take anything from six months to two years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnder the new agreement that could be cut to a matter of weeks or even days.\n\nBut there is one major problem - messages sent over services using end-to-end encryption, such as WhatsApp, will remain unreadable.\n\nFollowing scandals over the misuse of personal data, the social network has focused on privacy and it now offers encryption as an option to users on its Messenger service.\n\nIt also has plans to introduce it to Instagram.\n\n\"Tech companies like Facebook have a responsibility to balance privacy with the safety of the public,\" the letter read.\n\nIt added: \"So far nothing we have seen from Facebook reassures me that their plans for end-to-end encryption will not act as barrier to the identification and pursuit of criminals operating on their platforms.\n\n\"Companies cannot operate with impunity where lives and the safety of our children is at stake, and if Mr Zuckerberg really has a credible plan to protect Facebook's more than two billion users, it's time he let us know what it is.\"\n\nIn 2018, Facebook made 16.8 million reports of child sexual exploitation and abuse content to the US National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, which the National Crime Agency estimates have led to more than 2,500 arrests and 3,000 children made safe.\n\nHead of online child safety at the NSPCC Tony Stower said: \"It's an absolute scandal that Facebook are actively choosing to provide offenders with a way to hide in the shadows on their platform, seamlessly able to target, groom and abuse children completely undetected.\n\n\"The landmark agreement between the US and UK on accessing data will radically reduce the time it takes for police to get hold of the data they need from tech giants to bring offenders to justice.\n\n\"It should be a hugely important step forward in tackling online child abuse - if tech giants play their part too.\"\n\nThere has been some confusion about whether the Cloud Act could force firms such as Facebook to offer so-called back doors to law enforcement.\n\nIn a series of tweets on the issue, Facebook's ex-technology officer Alex Stamos attempted to clarify.\n\n\"This agreement would allow UK courts to issue requests equivalent to US courts, but it does not grant them access to anything a US court can't get already,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Orders for wire taps of products like WhatsApp can get some data, like IP addresses, phone numbers, contact lists and avatar photos. It cannot get encrypted messages and attachments.\"\n\nA BBC investigation earlier this year found that encrypted apps were taking over from the dark web as a place to host criminals.", "Diane saw her annual home insurance premium shoot up\n\nDiane's reward for staying with the same home insurance provider for 10 years was a rise in her annual premium from £1,500 to £3,500.\n\nThe 76-year-old, from Kent, said: \"Being a pensioner, I don't like changing.\" She ended up looking in the phone book, calling around for a deal.\n\nShe is an example of the six million people who pay on average £200 too much on premiums.\n\nThe City regulator has found consumers are overpaying by £1.2bn a year.\n\nCompetition in the home and insurance market is not working and loyal customers are being penalised, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says.\n\nIt is considering bans on automatic price rises and making firms move consumers to cheaper deals, but said \"the ball is now in the industry's court\".\n\n\"This market is not working well for all consumers,\" said Christopher Woolard, executive director of strategy and competition at the FCA.\n\n\"While a large number of people shop around, many loyal customers are not getting a good deal. We believe this affects around six million consumers.\n\n\"We have set out a package of potential remedies to ensure these markets are truly competitive and address the problems we have uncovered. We expect the industry to work with us as we do so.\"\n\nMr Woolard said the review did not reveal the insurance industry was breaching the rules on a wholesale basis. But he said it was clear that changes needed to be made, and some in the industry would accept this.\n\nHe said in many cases - as was the case for Diane - it was much easier for consumers to renew a policy, sometimes just by ticking a box, than it was to switch away to a cheaper deal.\n\nThe FCA said that more than one in 10 people were paying very high prices for their insurance. One in three of them were vulnerable in some way, perhaps elderly or lower paid.\n\nThe regulator found that some insurers targeted price increases at those less likely to switch.\n\nThe FCA intends to publish its final report on possible remedies in early 2020 after further consultation with the industry and consumer groups.\n\nYou have never had a problem with your insurer or bank so you have stayed with them for years.\n\nWhat the FCA's, and other reviews, have shown is that this is an expensive option - for home and motor cover, overdrafts and more.\n\nThose unable or uncomfortable with searching for a better deal online, or haggling, pay more. There is also a nod in this FCA report to the poverty premium - you get a worse deal if your finances are less \"resilient\" or you struggle with handling money.\n\nMany of the same people will be among the eight million who an independent report estimated would be left behind if the UK became a cashless society.\n\nUndoubtedly, they will feel like the financial victims of the advances in technology which have changed the way we live our lives.\n\nHuw Evans, director general of the Association of British Insurers, the industry's trade body, said his members accepted that the home and car insurance markets could work better for consumers who do not shop around at renewal.\n\nBut he added: \"This is not an issue unique to insurance. It is important that any unintended consequences are carefully considered to ensure that a fair and balanced approach is achieved for all customers.\"\n\nThe consequences could be more expensive premiums for those shopping around, but the FCA said that, while it was keen to maintain a level of competition, the variation in prices to cover the same level of risk was too great.\n\nGillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said \"it's great to see the FCA acknowledging that the insurance market isn't working\".\n\nBut she cautioned that the FCA's report set out proposals only. \"The FCA must now follow through on these bold ideas to stop loyal insurance customers being penalised,\" she said.\n\nCitizens Advice said it should not be left to the consumer to find the best deals. Rather, the market should be set up to ensure everyone is treated fairly. However, its advice to people searching for the lowest prices is:", "At least 18 deaths and more than 1,000 cases of a mysterious lung illness have been linked with vaping by US health authorities.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said cases were up a quarter from last week.\n\nDoctors have been unable to establish what is causing the illness, whose symptoms include chest pain, fatigue and shortness of breath.\n\nDr Anne Schuchat from the CDC said the outbreak was expected to continue.\n\n\"I cannot stress enough the seriousness of these injuries. This is a critical issue. We need to take steps to prevent additional cases,\" Dr Schuchat said.\n\nVaping-related injuries have been confirmed in 48 states, with deaths in 15 of those. The average age of those who died is nearly 50. The youngest victim was in their 20s and the oldest was in their 70s.\n\nInvestigators have not linked the illnesses to any particular product or compound, but say vaping oils containing THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, pose a greater risk.\n\nLast month, the CDC advised people to stop using vaping products, or e-cigarettes, regardless of whether they contain nicotine or marijuana.\n\nSome US states, most recently Massachusetts, have moved to ban vaping altogether until its health effects are better understood.\n\nLast month President Donald Trump said vaping was a \"new problem\", especially for children.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Trump administration plans to pull fruit flavoured e-cigarettes from the US market, unless approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in an attempt to make them less attractive to young consumers.\n\nThe CDC said deaths linked to vaping products occurred in the states of Alabama, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oregon and Virginia.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The oceans are rising but so are we\"\n\nThe Green Party's co-leader is calling for the Home Office to be scrapped in a radical shake-up of immigration policy.\n\nJonathan Bartley said the department was \"pernicious\" in its treatment of people and a new Ministry for Sanctuary should oversee a \"fairer\" system.\n\nIn a speech to his party conference, he warned of a \"new authoritarianism\" in Britain and said he was \"ashamed of what our country has become\".\n\nOnly the Greens could deal with the injustices that led to Brexit, he said.\n\nAddressing activists on the first day of the Green Party conference in Newport, Mr Bartley also called for free bus travel in England, and for all future laws passed by Parliament to be measured against their environmental impact on the next generation.\n\nThe party, which opposes Brexit and supports another referendum, has only one MP in Westminster, Caroline Lucas, but performed strongly in council and European elections earlier this year.\n\nIn his speech, Mr Bartley - who shares the leadership with Sian Berry - said a \"green wave was sweeping the continent and we are surfing it in England and Wales\".\n\nPaying tribute to climate protesters, including Extinction Rebellion, who he said had made the future of the planet a political imperative, he said the \"oceans are rising but so are we\".\n\nOutlining a \"radical plan\" to revamp government and the economy, he said the Home Office should be scrapped and its responsibilities shared between two new departments.\n\nAll bus travel should be free in England and Wales, Mr Bartley said\n\nWhile the Ministry for Sanctuary would be in charge of immigration policy, the Ministry for the Interior would have responsibility for law and order.\n\nThe changes, he said, were needed to address the \"austerity, inequality and political exclusion\" which he said had contributed to the Brexit vote.\n\n\"We would abolish the pernicious Home Office because transformation of our country demands a system that is truly representative of and fair to everyone,\" he said.\n\nWhile his party opposed Brexit, he said it would not be joining the Liberal Democrats in calling for Article 50 to be revoked, which would end the process entirely.\n\nWelcoming Labour's \"late\" conversion to the idea of another referendum on Brexit, he said only the people could settle the issue of the UK's future in Europe.\n\n\"If we want to stay in Europe, we must win the argument over Europe,\" he said.\n\n\"If they (the government) were on the side of the people they would trust the people, and give the people a people's vote\"\n\nHe called for the a total overhaul of the economy to deal with the climate emergency, saying policy-makers \"must do what the science demands not what is deemed politically possible\".\n\n\"This can be a new start,\" he concluded. \"We need a decisive break from business as usual, and we are ready to make the leap.\n\n\"The Green Party has always been on the right side of history. The time is now to shape our future.\"\n\nMs Berry, who is running to be Mayor of London, will address the three-day event on Sunday.", "They say people only go to the movies nowadays to see all-singing-all-dancing multi-million-dollar, computer-enhanced Hollywood franchises. They say there's no money to be made anymore with serious, gritty dramas. They say, that's what box sets on streaming services are for. The golden days of cinema are over. They say.\n\nBut then they haven't seen Joker, the origin story of Batman's arch-enemy, co-written and directed by Todd Phillips. Sure, it might sound like another of those action-packed, special effects-laden fantasy epics that overshadow all else. It might even be what the folk who go to see it expect.\n\nBut Joker has about as much in common with your typical superhero caper as Wonder Woman has with Dennis the Menace.\n\nJoker is a Trojan Horse: a dark art house film smuggled into the neon-lit world of multiplexes, disguised as a DC Comic Universe action adventure.\n\nIt's an interesting move by Warner Brothers. The studio knows audiences love \"Thwack!\", \"Pow!\" action sequences; that they expect witty dialogue and plenty of banter, and CGI is a given.\n\nWell, there's none of that in Joker.\n\nInstead you have Joaquin Phoenix giving it the full Daniel Day-Lewis in a slow-burn performance of such intensity and weirdness, it will either have the Academy purring come the Oscars or shunning altogether.\n\nJoaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a \"misunderstood man whom life is repeatedly beating down\"\n\nPhoenix plays misfit Arthur Fleck, a man who hasn't exactly run out of luck, because he never had any in the first place. From an early age Arthur has suffered from a neurological condition that causes him to laugh like a hyena at the most inappropriate moments. Not a fun infectious laugh, but a laugh so dry and hard it makes him retch and everybody else feel nauseous.\n\nAnd then there is his mother (Frances Conroy) whom he loves and who loves him, but… well, as I said, he's not a lucky guy.\n\nArthur cares for his frail mother, Penny (played by Frances Conroy)\n\nArthur Fleck is an oddball in a cruel, intolerant world that doesn't have time to care for vulnerable people.\n\nHe lives in a Gotham City that's gone to the dogs: uncollected garbage bags pile up like stinking black skyscrapers, welfare budgets have been slashed, and mass civil unrest is one small trigger-point from becoming a reality.\n\nArthur is trying to find his way in a Gotham City, which is in turmoil and struggling to provide services for its people\n\nIf Arthur were sensible he'd take an admin job in a library and keep his head down. But Arthur isn't sensible, he's delusional and therefore makes choices that are not good for him or anyone else.\n\nHe's a chap who wants to put a smile on people's faces, and so he becomes a clown-for-hire during the day and an amateur stand-up comic at night.\n\nThere is not a career adviser on the planet who would have pushed him in that direction.\n\nJoaquin Phoenix said at times he \"understood the Joker's motivation\", but would then be \"repulsed\" by his decisions\n\nPhoenix plays Arthur's tragic descent in a way which seemingly encourages our empathy but makes sure he never really gets it: we know he's not a character to whom you'd want to get too close. There is a maniacal darkness behind his eyes which is a bit creepy.\n\nHis only pleasure comes from watching Murray Franklin's chat show, on to which he dreams of being invited one day. Robert De Niro plays the legendary TV host, thereby reversing the role he played as Rupert Pupkin in The King of Comedy, a film to which Joker owes a debt (as well as Psycho and Taxi Driver).\n\nRobert de Niro as Rupert Pupkin in Martin Scorsese's film, The King of Comedy, which influenced Todd Phillips\n\nEverything about the film is downbeat.\n\nThe sun never shines in this Gotham City.\n\nClass war simmers while the media crank up the tension with inflammatory headlines and irresponsible TV shows that give airtime to the wrong people for the wrong reasons. The elite live in a pampered bubble without a care in the world, wilfully ignorant of the hardships other folk suffer. It might be set in the early 1980s, but it is clearly a parable about the here and now.\n\nIt is several galaxies away from a piece of light comic entertainment with cartoon violence and clever sight gags. There are no laughs in this tale about a man who wants to be funny.\n\nIt is a heavy, serious and, at times, a painfully slow piece: Beckettian almost.\n\nSeveral of the minor supporting characters are too thinly drawn to allow them to be anything more than \"types.\" And you might want to challenge some of the assumptions and conclusions it makes around issues of mental health right down to its central question: what turns someone like Arthur into the Joker?\n\nThe violence is bloody and hard to watch, but valid in terms of context and mood.\n\nI say this because Joker is a film that not only raises the issue of a culture in which there is wide accessibility to firearms, but also because it sits within a franchise that tragically became associated with the real-life consequences of gun crime. In 2012 James Holmes killed 12 people and injured dozens more at the midnight premier of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado.\n\nJoker's director Todd Phillips responded to concerns that the film is too violent, by asking \"Isn't it a good thing to put real-world implications on violence?\"\n\nThe conversation about art and life and the relationship between the two is ancient and modern. It will and should continue.\n\nI didn't think Joker was flippant or indulgent. Nor do I think it is encouraging or inciting violence.\n\nIt is reflecting on it, which art is there to do.\n\nMy only reservation was the 15 certificate, given the graphic nature of some scenes in a genre when parents might be expecting a more slapstick approach.\n\nI've seen a lot of yellow-toothed Jokers in my life, from Cesar Romero to Heath Ledger. They've all brought something to the part but none gave the character the fragility and psychosis of Joaquin Phoenix's desperate and desperately sad Joker.\n\nI think it will become a classic.", "King's Cross Estate's managers say the facial recognition scans ended in 2018\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police Service says it does not have any records of the outcomes of a facial recognition tie-up with a private firm in the city.\n\nLast month, it acknowledged it had shared people's pictures with the managers of the city's King's Cross Estate development.\n\nIt had previously denied the alliance.\n\nIn a new report, the Met added that it had only shared seven images and did not believe there had been similar arrangements with other private bodies.\n\nIt said the pictures were of \"persons who had been arrested and charged/cautioned/reprimanded or given a formal warning\" and had been provided by Camden Borough Police. The aim, it added, had been to \"prevent crime, to protect vulnerable members of the community or to support the safety strategy\".\n\nBut it admitted that it had no record of whether the estate manager's surveillance camera system had ever made facial matches of those involved, nor whether any police action had been taken as a result.\n\n\"The findings of this report need to be caveated by noting the limitations of technology which was not designed to be audited in this way, and the limitations of corporate memory,\" it explained.\n\nIt also confirmed that the facial recognition system in use at the estate was that of the Japanese firm NEC - something the management firm, Argent, had repeatedly declined to divulge itself.\n\nNEC's systems have also been deployed by the Met as well as South Wales Police in their own trials of live facial recognition.\n\nThe Met also confirmed that the image-sharing arrangement had lasted between May 2016 and March 2018, and added that a new agreement had been put in place at the start of this year. However, it said no images had been shared under the new tie-up.\n\nArgent had previously said it intended to launch a more advanced facial recognition system at the property but had yet to do so. It has since ditched the proposal.\n\nThe Met has again apologised for misinforming the mayor and members of London's Assembly about its involvement and blamed the mistake on the agreement having been struck at a \"borough level\".\n\nLondon's deputy mayor for policing and crime, Sophie Linden, added that she had been informed that the police service had written to all the city's basic command units to make it \"clear that there should be no local level agreements on the use of live facial recognition\".\n\nIn a statement given to the BBC she added: \"The Mayor and I are committed to holding the Met to account on its use of facial recognition technology and that's why the [Met's] commissioner agrees with us that there will be no further deployment anywhere in London until all of the conditions set out in the London Policing Ethics Panel report have been addressed.\"\n\nUse of the tech was frozen earlier in the year before details of the King's Cross partnership emerged.\n\nBritish Transport Police had previously confirmed it too had shared images with Argent for use in its facial recognition system.\n\nPrivacy campaigners have raised concerns about the affair because it had not been apparent to the public that facial recognition scans were in use in what is a popular open-air site, home to shops, offices, education and leisure facilities.\n\nMoreover, any formal tie-up between the police and an independent organisation concerning the use of facial recognition is supposed to be flagged to a surveillance camera commissioner. The watchdog previously blocked another similar arrangement involving police in Manchester and a local shopping centre.\n\nIn a related development, Argent has revealed further details of the scheme to Big Brother Watch after the privacy campaign group submitted a data subject access request.\n\n\"The fact that police initially denied involvement and have few records about it shows how out of control facial recognition use is in this country,\" said Big Brother Watch's director Silkie Carlo.\n\nArgent cancelled plans to turn on a new facial recognition system at King's Cross\n\nThe surveillance camera commissioner for England and Wales, who has also been looking into the matter, said he believed the case highlighted the need for the government to refresh a code of practice intended to give the public confidence in the use of the technology.\n\n\"The concern I've got about private organisations working with the police, is the lack of oversight,\" commented Tony Porter.\n\n\"Who is providing oversight to the watch list? Who's on the watch list? What's the standard of equipment as being used? And how do we know it's any good?\n\n\"Now, as a regulator, I cannot tell you the answer to those questions, because there are no standards to support it. And that in itself is a wrong position.\"\n\nLondon Assembly member Sian Berry - who is co-leader of England and Wales' Green Party added that the Mets report \"raises more questions than it answers\".\n\n\"They have now admitted they also signed a new data-sharing agreement in January, claiming that facial recognition was included by mistake, but I want to know what else was being shared and why this was allowed to happen so recently, with so much concern about facial recognition amongst the public at this time,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rory Stewart: Political parties are becoming \"more extreme\"\n\nFormer Conservative leadership hopeful Rory Stewart is quitting as an MP to run for London mayor as an independent candidate.\n\nHe will stand in next year's election against current Labour mayor Sadiq Khan and Tory candidate Shaun Bailey.\n\nHe told the BBC the Tories had moved in a direction \"more difficult for me\" and he wanted to \"get back to real issues\".\n\nMr Stewart was expelled from the Tories in the Commons with 20 other Brexit rebels, but remained a party member.\n\nThe MP for Penrith and The Border has now left the party. Announcing his intention to stand for London mayor in a video on Twitter, he said: \"I'm leaving that gothic shouting chamber of Westminster.\n\n\"I'm getting away from a politics which makes me sometimes feel as though Trump has never left London and I want to walk through every borough of this great city to get back to us on the ground.\"\n\nHis Conservative rival, Mr Bailey, said he welcomed \"any candidate's decision to stand and hold Mr Khan to account over his woeful record in London\".\n\nHe said he would \"continue to focus on serious violent crime and how we're going to get a grip on the violence on our streets\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted: \"Rory Stewart wholeheartedly backed Tory cuts that have ripped the heart out of our communities and done so much damage to our police, NHS and schools. He would be a disaster for London.\"\n\nIt comes after Mr Stewart's announcement that he was stepping down as an MP at the next election and quitting the Conservative Party.\n\nThe next scheduled general election is in 2022, but it is widely anticipated a snap poll is imminent, with the prime minister urging MPs to support his call for one. The London mayoral election will be held on 7 May, 2020.\n\nMr Stewart told the BBC he thought the political parties were \"becoming more and more extreme and being driven apart\" and said there was a \"gaping hole in the centre ground of British politics\".\n\n\"The way to really make change in the modern world is intensely local - through being a mayor, not through being a member of Parliament,\" he said.\n\nThe MP said it was \"certainly true\" that having the Tory whip withdrawn was a \"very important\" part in making his decision.\n\nBut also that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's tone was \"more populist than I am comfortable with\", saying: \"I have seen the Conservative Party move in a direction which is more and more difficult for me.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe has also written an open letter to Londoners in the Evening Standard, saying he will make a stand against the \"mutual insults... lazy habits, half-baked ideas and pointless compromises\" of party politics.\n\nMr Stewart first publicly mentioned his resignation on stage at a charity event at London's Royal Albert Hall on Thursday evening, but it was not widely reported.\n\nWriting for his constituency newspaper, the Cumberland and Westmorland Herald, Mr Stewart said he was \"hugely grateful\" for the support he had received from members of his local party, but added: \"It should be no secret that there are also local party members who would rather I did not run again.\"\n\nRobert Craig, president of the Penrith and The Border Conservative Association, said: \"It's a great shame.\"\n\nA Conservative Party spokesperson said: \"We would like to thank Rory for his hard work and wish him all the best for the future.\"\n\nA Conservative parliamentary candidate for Penrith and The Border will be selected \"in due course\", a statement added.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson expelled 21 MPs from the Parliamentary party at the start of September after they rebelled against him in a bid to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nSome long-serving figures - such as Ken Clarke and Sir Nicholas Soames - are planning to stand down at the next election, while others, such as former Chancellor Philip Hammond and former attorney general Dominic Grieve - are reported to be considering standing as independents.\n\nSam Gyimah, another of the expelled rebels, who has now joined the Liberal Democrats, tweeted that Mr Stewart's decision to step down as an MP showed the Conservative Party's \"soul has been captured by those who want to turn it into a nationalist party\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer Tory MP Nick Boles, who resigned from the Conservatives earlier this year, tweeted that Mr Stewart's departure showed that the \"last rites are being read for moderate One Nation conservatism\".\n\nMr Stewart's former cabinet colleague, Amber Rudd, tweeted, before Mr Stewart announced his London mayoral candidacy, that he was an \"outstanding minister\" and it was a \"loss\" to politics.\n\nBut Conservative MP Shailesh Vara said Mr Stewart's departure did not make the Conservatives \"any less One Nation\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Shailesh Vara 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.", "Ex-Liverpool striker Dean Saunders has won his appeal against a jail sentence for failing to take a breath test.\n\nSaunders, 55, was jailed for 10 weeks by District Judge Nicholas Sanders when he appeared at Chester Magistrates' Court on 28 August.\n\nHe admitting failing to comply with a roadside breath test and failing to provide a breath specimen.\n\nJudge Steven Everett has quashed the immediate jail term and instead suspended the sentence for 18 months.\n\nSaunders also played for Aston Villa, Derby County, and Nottingham Forest and won 75 caps for Wales.\n\nJudge Everett, the Honorary Recorder of Chester Crown Court, also ordered Saunders to do 200 hours of unpaid work in the community. His 30-month road ban remains.\n\nSaunders failed to comply with a roadside breath test when he was stopped in an Audi A8 by a police patrol in Chester city centre on May 10 after spending a day at the races.\n\nHe spent just one day in custody and was given bail after his lawyers launched an appeal against his jail sentence.\n\nThe court was shown footage from a police body-cam taken in the custody suite at Blacon police station.\n\nFor several minutes Saunders is repeatedly offered the chance to provide a breath specimen but he tells police he wants to wait for the duty solicitor.\n\nAfter being told that is not an option he continues to question the instruction and is told that he will be prosecuted for failing to provide a specimen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dean Saunders was filmed by an officer's body camera after his Audi was stopped\n\nAlistair Webster QC, defending, told the court the immediate prison sentence was \"disproportionate\".\n\nHe said the footage which was issued to the media by the police and had left his client \"humiliated\".\n\n\"He rapidly went from an icon to a laughing stock,\" the barrister said.\n\nMr Webster added: \"He's not been able to watch (the footage) before because he feels overwhelming humiliation by everything that happened.\"\n\nJudge Everett said he believed Saunders \"had a lot to drink\" and \"prevaricated\" over taking a breath test so the reading would be lower.\n\nThe judge said he took \"entirely wrong approach\" at the magistrates' court in telling probation officers he could not do work in the community because of his job as a TV pundit.\n\nThe court heard Saunders was now willing to carry out community service and the only other realistic option was serving a sentence in jail.\n\nJudge Everett said the district judge had been right to jail Saunders but, because of his previous good character and the prospect of rehabilitation, he could now suspend the sentence.\n\n\"The sheer shame is going to live with you for the rest of your life,\" he added.\n\n\"You should literally hang your head in shame by what you did.\n\n\"I suggest you take the opportunity to tell others that it really isn't worth it. Drink-driving is a terrible thing.\"\n\nIn a statement released by the League Managers Association, Saunders said: \"I want to apologise to the court, my family and all of the people I have let down as a result of my actions.\n\n\"I made a terrible error of judgment for which I have been rightly punished, and I wholeheartedly regret that it happened.\n\n\"I accept that I have been given an opportunity by the court and I hope that people can learn from my experience. The message is a simple one - don't ever drink and drive.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "About 30 million people - nearly half the UK population - are being offered the flu vaccine, in the biggest winter vaccination campaign the NHS has seen.\n\nFor the first time, all primary school pupils can have the vaccination free.\n\nAlongside children - so-called super-spreaders - the over-65s, pregnant women and those with existing illnesses will also be offered the vaccine.\n\nMeanwhile, the government said it was confident the flu campaign would not be disrupted by a possible no-deal Brexit.\n\nManufacturers have been asked to ensure all supplies are in the UK by 31 October, when the UK is set to leave the EU. Normally, deliveries continue into November and December.\n\nCurrently, only one supplier - Sanofi - has indicated this deadline will be missed. And one delivery, of one million doses for people with long-term conditions, will not be shipped until November.\n\nBut Sanofi added it had contingency plans in place in case of problems using the Dover port - and was prepared to fly the doses in if necessary.\n\nNHS staff can have the vaccination free, to protect patients and the public\n\nMinisters have also ordered extra supplies from another manufacturer in case of difficulties.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan van Tam, said there had been \"robust\" planning and he was confident there would not be any problems for those who chose to be vaccinated.\n\n\"We do recognise it is an extraordinary year - that is why we have taken the steps we have,\" he said.\n\nBut Prof Van Tam also dismissed suggestions the UK was set for a bad flu season.\n\nIt has been reported Australia, which is coming to the end of its flu season, has struggled and, as a result, the UK could follow suit.\n\nBut Prof Van Tam said flu was \"unpredictable\" and the latest evidence suggested flu cases had peaked earlier than normal in Australia, sparking alarm.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Reality Check takes a look at the flu vaccine.\n\nIt is only in the past six years the flu vaccine has been offered to healthy children, via a nasal spray, and this year marks the first time it will be available to all year groups at primary school across the UK.\n\nThe flu programme was extended to children because they are more likely to spread the virus between themselves and on to older, more vulnerable family members.\n\nPrimary pupils can have the vaccine in school, while the other groups can use pharmacies and GPs.\n\nPeople not in one of the target groups can pay privately to be vaccinated if they wish.\n\nProf Yvonne Doyle, of Public Health England, urged people to come forward for the vaccine - the NHS was able to vaccinate less than half of those in some of the target groups last year.\n\n\"Some people think the flu is like the common cold. It's not. It can be a really serious illness and can be deadly for some,\" she said.\n\nAbout 1,700 deaths last year were linked to flu.\n\nDr Jim McMenamin, of Health Protection Scotland, said: \"Getting the vaccine only takes a few minutes and helps to provide protection from flu for around a year.\"", "The woman gave birth to the baby at HMP Bronzefield\n\nA newborn baby has died at the largest women's prison in Britain.\n\nAn inmate gave birth to the baby at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey on 27 September but it did not survive.\n\nSurrey Police has launched an investigation into the death, which it said was being treated as unexplained.\n\nSodexo, which runs the jail, has declined to comment on reports in the Guardian that the woman gave birth to the baby while she was unsupervised and alone.\n\nPrison director Vicky Robinson confirmed the baby had died and said they were undertaking a full review.\n\n\"We are supporting the mother through this distressing time and our thoughts are with her, her family and our staff involved,\" she said.\n\n\"We are undertaking a full review and working with all relevant authorities during their investigations. It would not be appropriate to comment any further.\"\n\nA police spokesman said officers were called to the prison at about 09:00 BST on 27 September.\n\nHMP Bronzefield, which holds more than 500 inmates, is the main prison for female offenders in London and the south of England.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@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. 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\nA British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran is to send her daughter home to the UK to start school, she has said in an open letter.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was jailed for five years in 2016 after being convicted of spying, which she denies.\n\nHer family insist she was in Iran to introduce her daughter to relatives.\n\nFive-year-old Gabriella - who has been living with her grandparents in Tehran - has visited her mother at least once a week since her arrest.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab described the letter as \"heart-breaking\" and said Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's detainment was \"unjustifiable and unacceptable\".\n\nHer husband, Richard Ratcliffe, told BBC diplomatic correspondent Caroline Hawley that the couple have decided to bring Gabriella back to the UK to start school.\n\nIt is hoped she will be back in London before Christmas. The couple have applied to the Iranian authorities for an exit visa for Gabriella, but they have not yet had a response.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said that his wife is hoping for a \"magic\" last-minute release to enable her to come home with Gabriella. \"I don't think she's expecting it though,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the decision will be a big adjustment for Gabriella as they had \"always talked about how she was going to come home with Mummy\".\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family told the Times they had agreed Gabriella should return to the UK for the start of the school year in September but postponed the decision after Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was taken to a psychiatric hospital.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, was returned to prison after a week but not permitted phone calls with Mr Ratcliffe, who is in London.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was reunited with her daughter Gabriella during a temporary release from prison\n\nIn an open letter addressed to \"the mothers of Iran\", Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, from West Hampstead, pleaded with the Iranian authorities to free her so she can return to London with Gabriella.\n\n\"I have no hope or motivation after my baby goes. There is no measure to my pain,\" she wrote in the letter, which was smuggled out of Tehran's Evin prison and published online in Farsi and English.\n\nShe said her daughter's journey back to the UK would be \"a daunting trip for her travelling, and for me left behind\".\n\n\"And the authorities who hold me will watch on, unmoved at the injustice of separation. That first day of school not for me,\" she added.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is giving up Gabriella's weekly visits to see her in prison so that she can live in Britain, where she was born.\n\n\"Those brief minutes might be the shortest of cuddles, but without doubt the most beautiful and uplifting cuddles in the whole world,\" she wrote.\n\nShe described the thought of not being able to hold her child as \"the deepest torture of them all\".\n\nIn her letter, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe said she was a \"pawn in the hands of politicians - abroad and in Iran - to reach their goals in their games of chess\".\n\nMr Raab said Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's letter showed \"the pain and suffering that she and her family are going through\".\n\n\"Her callous and cruel detainment for political purposes by the government of Iran is wholly unjustifiable and unacceptable,\" he said.\n\n\"The government of Iran should, as a matter of international law and basic decency, release Nazanin immediately so she can be reunited with her loved ones.\"\n\nLast week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson called for the release of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe during a meeting with Iran's president.\n\nIn 2017, when he was foreign secretary, Mr Johnson apologised after saying she was in Iran \"teaching people journalism\" - despite her family's insistence she was there to visit relatives.", "Hopes of a big rise in UK car sales in September have been dashed, spreading more gloom about the sector's health.\n\nSales in what is the industry's second most important month rose 1.3% from a year earlier, well below the double-digit growth hoped for.\n\nIn the first nine months of the year, car sales fell 2.5% to 1.86 million, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said.\n\nThe small rise compared with what Mr Hawes described as a \"pretty awful\" September 2018, when sales slumped 20% due to the introduction of tougher emissions rules restricting the availability of certain vehicles.\n\n\"Any uplift from last year was welcome,\" Mr Hawes told the BBC. \"So we were hoping for something like a double-digit increase this September.\"\n\nMarch, followed by September, are traditionally the industry's most important sales months due to licence plate changes typically prompting a spike in demand.\n\nOther major European markets had seen much stronger sales growth last month.\n\nMr Hawes said: \"Consumer confidence is being undermined by political and economic uncertainty. We need to restore stability to the market which means avoiding a no-deal Brexit and, moreover, agreeing a future relationship with the EU that avoids tariffs and barriers that could increase prices and reduce buyer choice.\"\n\nSales of diesel models were down 20.6% during the first nine months of 2019, while demand for new petrol models was up 2.6%.\n\nMake no mistake, these figures are pretty dire.\n\nRegistrations are up slightly compared to last year. But in September 2018 sales plummeted across Europe, due to supply problems resulting from the introduction of a new emissions testing regime.\n\nIn other countries, they've recovered. In Germany last month they were up 22% for example. In Spain, they were up 18%.\n\nWe ought to be seeing a double-digit improvement here, too. But we're not.\n\nThe SMMT blames political and economic uncertainty linked to Brexit. Though the collapse in demand for diesel is still having an impact.\n\nBig picture, registrations have been falling pretty steadily for more than two years, and are at levels not seen since 2013.\n\nEven in an industry used to swinging fortunes, it's become a deeply worrying trend.\n\nBut at least sales of electric cars have been accelerating. So there's a spark of optimism among the gloom.\n\nThe market for battery electric cars is up by 122.1% but the plug-in hybrid sector is down by 29.2%. While growth in electric cars is good news, it still only represents a fraction of the market, Mr Hawes said.\n\nGovernment grants for new low-emission cars were slashed in October last year, meaning hybrid models are no longer eligible for the scheme.\n\nMotoring groups have warned that the decision will leave the UK struggling to meet targets to reduce vehicle emissions.\n\nKaren Johnson, head of retail and wholesale at Barclays Corporate Banking, said: \"The first increase in new car sales for some time will offer no relief, as the comparison with an extremely weak September 2018 was expected to be better than this.\n\n\"New fuel regulations lowered sales a year ago, and this time around it's hard to look beyond a lack of consumer confidence due to Brexit uncertainty as the primary reason for the pick-up not materialising as hoped.\n\n\"We're also seeing increasing evidence of purchasers who would previously have looked to buy a new vehicle instead switching to the used car market.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website and app; Listen live on BBC Radio 5 Live; Live streams, clips and text commentary online.\n\nKatarina Johnson-Thompson ended her wait for her first global outdoor title by powering to heptathlon gold at the World Championships in Doha.\n\nThe 26-year-old, previously without an outdoor medal at this level, won with a British record 6,981 points, beating 2017 champion Nafissatou Thiam by 304 points.\n\nJohnson-Thompson secured Britain's third medal in Doha, after Dina Asher-Smith's 200m gold and 100m silver.\n\n\"This is the result of so many attempts of trying to perform on this stage,\" Johnson-Thompson told BBC Sport.\n\n\"The low moments have helped me come back and look at myself. This has been my dream.\n\n\"It has been such a long road. I am just happy that I'm coming into my best in these two big years.\n\n\"I just want more.\"\n\nJohnson-Thompson led Thiam by 137 points going into the concluding 800m and stormed to victory in two minutes 07.26 seconds - her fourth personal best of the competition.\n• None How to follow live on BBC TV, radio and online\n\nThe omens looked good for her when, in the first event on day one, she took 0.21 seconds off her previous best to win the 100m hurdles in 13.09 seconds.\n\nHer high jump of 1.95cm was matched by Thiam, before she scored a huge personal best in the shot put - one of her weaker events. The distance of 13.86m was 71cm further than she had ever gone before.\n\nAfter the 200m, the Briton had a 96-point overnight lead over the Belgian, nine more than her advantage at last year's European Championships, where she finished second.\n\nThe pattern continued on Thursday as Johnson-Thompson's consistency, paired with a below-par Thiam, saw the Liverpool athlete extend her lead.\n\nIn the long jump, another of her strong events, she leapt to 6.77m. Thiam, who managed 6.86m in Birmingham in August and defeated the Briton, could only register 6.40m.\n\nThen came the moments that effectively clinched gold for Johnson-Thompson as first she recorded another PB by throwing the javelin to 43.93m before Thiam, who had been struggling with an elbow injury, only managed 48.04m - her best is 59.32m - and skipped her final throw.\n\nThat gave Johnson-Thompson a 137-point lead over the Belgian going into the 800m, having previously trailed her rival at this stage.\n\nShe kept her cool during the final event, after which she lay on the track to contemplate what she had achieved.\n\nHer points total surpassed the previous British best of 6,955 set by Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill at the London 2012 Olympics.\n\nThiam finished with 6,677 points, with bronze medallist Preiner on 6,560.\n\nTo some, it has taken longer than expected for Johnson-Thompson to reach this level, with errors costing her medals at previous championships, coupled with the emergence of Thiam.\n\nWhen double world and 2012 Olympic champion Ennis-Hill was coming towards the end of her career, the focus turned to the young pretender to continue the great recent tradition of British heptathlon success. But luck and form kept deserting Johnson-Thompson.\n\nShe finished well down the heptathlon field at the 2015 Worlds after three fouls in the long jump, while below-par performances in the shot put and javelin cost her a medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics.\n\nAt the London 2017 World Championships, she underperformed in one of her favourite events - the high jump - which again damaged her podium hopes.\n\nBy this stage she had moved her training base to Montpellier in France, where she has been coached by Bertrand Valcin, who also works with Kevin Mayer, the world record holder in the decathlon.\n\nJohnson-Thompson finally began to see positive effects from the move last year when she won the World Indoor pentathlon gold and the Commonwealth title before taking silver behind Thiam at the European Championships in Berlin.\n\nA new personal-best score of 6,813 followed in winning at the traditional multi-event Gotzis meeting this year, and now she has eclipsed all of her previous achievements with success in Doha.\n\n'She has slayed the dragon' - analysis\n\nTo come back and deliver in this way with all these personal bests is incredible.\n\nYou have to get to the lowest point, the breaking point.\n\nShe got to that and she made big changes and decisions and they are the reason she has gone on to improve and become the world champion now.\n\nShe has slayed the dragon and banished the demons. What you used to see between events was a worry that the demons are going to come back. She has now overcome that.\n\nShe is smiling and happy but she is focused. The difference now is she is focused on execution and technique.\n\nMuir into 1500m final as Naser stuns Miller-Uibo in 400m\n\nElsewhere, Laura Muir booked her place in Saturday's 1500m final by finishing third in her semi-final.\n\nThe 26-year-old had not raced since July before arriving in Doha because of injury, but qualified third fastest in four minutes 1.05 seconds.\n\nUSA's Jenny Simpson ran 4:00.99 to qualify fastest while Dutch 10,000m champion Sifan Hassan also progressed.\n\nThe Dutchwoman, who broke the world mile record this year, was a lot slower as she won her semi-final in 4:14.69.\n\nBriton Sophie McKinna, 25, finished 11th in the shot put final. The Great Yarmouth athlete threw a personal best of 18.61m to qualify but only managed 17.99m on Thursday. China's Gong Lijiao defended her title with a throw of 19.55m\n\nBahrain's Salwa Eid Naser ran the third fastest women's 400m time in history and the fastest for 34 years as she stunned Shaunae Miller-Uibo to take gold in 48.14 seconds.\n\nThe Bahamian was favourite going into the race having not lost a 200m or 400m race in 2019.\n\nBut she was left chasing throughout with Naser improving on her silver from two years ago. Miller-Uibo's time of 48.37 is a personal best and the sixth fastest of all time.\n\nGermany's Niklas Kaul, 21, scored 8,691 points to become the youngest decathlon world champion and set a new under-23 record.\n\nMaicel Uibo of Estonia took silver and Canada's Damian Warner was third.\n\nFrench London 2017 champion and world record holder Mayer pulled out during the pole vault with an injury he appeared to sustain in the 110m hurdles.\n\nBritons Jake Wightman, Josh Kerr and Neil Gourley all comfortably qualified for Friday's men's 1500m semi-finals.\n\nMeanwhile, Spaniard Orlando Ortega will receive a 110m hurdles bronze having been impeded by Omar McLeod during Wednesday's final.\n\nThe Jamaican's tumble forced Ortega to slow and he eventually finished fifth. The original bronze medallist, Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, will keep his medal.", "RV Polarstern (left), aided by the Russian icebreaker Akademik Fedorov, has found the right floe\n\nGerman Research Vessel Polarstern has found a location to begin its year-long drift in Arctic sea-ice.\n\nThe ship, which will head the North Pole's biggest scientific expedition, will settle next to a thick ice floe on the Siberian side of the ocean basin.\n\nThe precise location is 85 degrees north and 137 degrees east.\n\nHundreds of investigators will use it as a base from which to probe the impacts of climate change at the top of the world.\n\n\"After a brief but intensive search, we've found our home for the months to come,\" said expedition leader Prof Markus Rex, from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI).\n\n\"It may not be the perfect floe but it's the best one in this part of the Arctic and offers better working conditions than we could have expected after a warm Arctic summer.\"\n\nScientists hope to glean valuable information about climate change in the Arctic\n\nRV Polarstern set out on its MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) mission two weeks ago.\n\nIt travelled from the Norwegian port of Tromsø, supported by other icebreakers in search of a suitable piece of ice where it could set up a camp.\n\nSixteen possible locations were scouted with the aid of satellite imagery and helicopters. A metres-thick floe measuring roughly 2.5km by 3.5km was eventually chosen.\n\nThe international expedition considers itself lucky to have identified its home so soon after departing Tromsø. This summer's warmth has produced the second smallest Arctic sea-ice extent in the satellite era. As a consequence, the ice capping the ocean surface is very thin.\n\nThe ship has been enjoying some of its last direct sunlight until next year\n\nThe floes, though, are now succumbing to the winter freeze-up. The Sun no longer rises above the horizon at the ship's location and it won't be long before the 24-hour darkness of \"polar night\" descends on the MOSAiC expedition.\n\nRV Polarstern will soon be locked solid in the ice.\n\nThe vessel won't break free again until September or October next year, by which time it will have drifted past the North Pole and be in waters somewhere in the Fram Strait. This is the passage that runs between northeast Greenland and the Svalbard archipelago.\n\nMOSAiC's objective is to study all aspects of the climate system in the Arctic. Instrument stations will be set up on the ice all around the ship, including some up to 50km away.\n\nThe ice, the ocean, the atmosphere, even the wildlife will all be sampled. The year-long investigations are designed to give more certainty to the projections of future change.\n\nThe ice needs to be thick enough and strong enough to support scientists and their instruments\n\nProf Rex told the BBC before departure that the Arctic was currently warming at twice the rate of the rest of the planet but that the climate models were highly uncertain as to how this temperature trend would develop in the coming decades.\n\n\"We don't have any robust climate predictions for the Arctic and the reason is we don't understand the processes there very well,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's because we were never able to observe them year-round, and certainly not in winter when the ice is at its thickest and we can't break it with our research vessels.\"\n\nSomething similar to the €130m (£120m/$150m) MOSAiC mission has been tried before, but nothing comparable in scale.\n\nAbout 600 scientists are expected to spend months at a time with the Polarstern.\n\nThey'll be brought in by the support icebreakers.\n\nWhen that's not possible at the height of winter, when the sea-ice is at its thickest, aircraft and long-range helicopters will have to deliver the necessary supplies and relief teams.", "US actress Diahann Carroll, who won Golden Globe and Tony awards and was nominated for an Oscar, has died.\n\nCarroll, who was 84, starred in 1960s TV show Julia, the first US sitcom to centre on a black woman.\n\nShe was also the first black woman to win the Tony for best actress in 1962, for Broadway musical No Strings. She went on to be nominated for an Oscar for best actress in 1975 for Claudine.\n\nIn the 1980s, she played the scheming Dominique Deveraux in TV hit Dynasty.\n\nPictured with her Dynasty co-star Linda Evans in 1984\n\nShe had been suffering from cancer and died at home in Los Angeles on Friday, her publicist said.\n\nBorn Carol Diann Johnson in Harlem, New York, in 1935, she was modelling by the age of 15 and was reportedly the model for one of the first black Barbie dolls.\n\nAt the age of 19, she won her first Hollywood role, appearing opposite Dorothy Dandridge in Carmen Jones.\n\nShe was engaged to British broadcaster David Frost in the early 1970s\n\nShe suffered racism both in Hollywood and as on stage as a singer. In her autobiography, she detailed a concert when the orchestra conductor told her the audience didn't want to hear a black person sing. She confronted him, called the police and eventually had the man removed from the show, she wrote.\n\nReturning to the big screen, she starred in Porgy and Bess alongside Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr and Dandridge. Other film credits included 1961's Paris Blues with Paul Newman, and Hurry Sundown in 1967 with Michael Caine and Jane Fonda.\n\nDiahann Carroll starred in the US sitcom Julia between 1968-1971\n\nIn the late 60s, Carroll played the title role in Julia - a nurse who was a Vietnam widow and single mother - and the role earned her a Golden Globe for best female TV star in 1969.\n\nShe said she saw the show as \"a chance to say something else about the black community\", adding: \"I was amazed at the number of people who had no idea there was a black middle class.\"\n\nHalle Berry and Angela Bassett are among the stars who have cited her as an inspiration for their careers.\n\nCarroll was married four times, had a tempestuous affair with Sidney Poitier for nine years, and was engaged to the British broadcaster David Frost - which she described as \"one of the best things that ever happened to me\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The duchess says people have the power to change a \"dangerous\" world\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has told an event in Johannesburg that he and his wife will \"seek to challenge injustice\".\n\nHis comments come a day after it emerged that they were taking legal action against the Mail on Sunday for publishing a private letter sent by the Duchess of Sussex to her father.\n\nThe duke said the legal action was in response to \"relentless propaganda\".\n\nThe paper says it will defend itself vigorously and stood by the story it published.\n\nOn the final day of their 10-day overseas tour, Prince Harry set out what he believes his role in public life should be, saying he and the duchess would \"stand up for what we believe\".\n\nSpeaking to a group of young people and fledgling entrepreneurs in Tembisa township, near Johannesburg, the duke said: \"We are fortunate enough to have a position that gives us amazing opportunities and we will do everything that we can to play our part in building a better world.\n\n\"We will also seek to challenge injustice and to speak out for those who may feel unheard.\n\n\"So no matter your background, your nationality, your age or gender, your sexuality, your physical ability, no matter your circumstance, or colour of your skin - we believe in you.\n\n\"And we intend to spend our entire lives making sure that you have the opportunity to succeed and change the world.\"\n\nPrince Harry went on to reminisce about a visit to Africa in the months following the sudden death of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\n\"Ever since I came to this country as a young boy, trying to cope with something I could never possibly describe, Africa has held me in an embrace that I will never forget and feel incredibly fortunate for that,\" he said.\n\n\"Every time I come here I know that I'm not alone. I always feel wherever I am on this continent that the community around me provides a life that is enriching and is rooted in the simplest things - connection, connection with others and the natural environment.\"\n\nPrince Harry said he wanted to teach his baby son Archie the lessons he had learned from Africa, including those about \"community and friendship\".\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan met Nelson Mandela's widow, Graca Machel, at a reception in Johannesburg\n\nLater, in a speech at the Johannesburg residence of Britain's high commissioner, the duchess said people have the power to change a world that seems \"aggressive, confrontational and dangerous\".\n\nMeghan told designers, entrepreneurs and business people: \"Whether you're here in South Africa, at home in the UK or the US, or around the world, you actually have the power within you to change things, and that begins with how you connect to others.\"\n\nLater in the day, the duke and duchess met Nelson Mandela's widow, Graca Machel. She offered to work with the couple, who launch their Sussex Royal Foundation next year.\n\nCoverage of the tour had been positive, exposing the double standards of the press pack, says the duke\n\nThe law firm Schillings, acting for the duchess, has filed a High Court claim against the Mail on Sunday and its parent company - Associated Newspapers - over the alleged misuse of private information, infringement of copyright and breach of the Data Protection Act 2018.\n\nThe duchess's action comes after the newspaper published a handwritten letter she sent her father shortly after she and Prince Harry got married in 2018.\n\nThe paper is accused of an \"intrusive and unlawful publication of a private letter\" and of a campaign of publishing false and derogatory stories about the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nSometimes there are exceptions to copyright which can allow part of a letter or document to be published, for example for reporting current events.\n\nBut even if this is used, under what is known as the \"fair dealing\" defence, publications have to strike a balance between public interest and the interest of the copyright owner.\n\nReferring to his late mother Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Harry said his \"deepest fear is history repeating itself\".\n\nIn a lengthy personal statement on the couple's official website, he said the \"painful\" impact of intrusive media coverage had driven him and his wife to take action.\n\nPrince Harry said: \"I lost my mother, and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces.\n\n\"I've seen what happens when someone I love is commoditised to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person,\" he added.\n\nDiana was once described as the \"most hunted person of the modern age\".\n\nShe died in a car crash in 1997 after being pursued through Paris by a pack of paparazzi journalists.\n\nThe new legal proceedings are being funded privately by the couple and any proceeds will be donated to an anti-bullying charity.\n\nIn his statement Prince Harry said he and Meghan believed in \"media freedom and objective, truthful reporting\" as a \"cornerstone of democracy\".\n\nBut he said his wife had become \"one of the latest victims of a British tabloid press that wages campaigns against individuals with no thought to the consequences\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earlier on in their tour of Africa, the couple introduced baby son Archie to Archbishop Desmond Tutu\n\nThe duke accused the paper of misleading readers when it published the private letter, by strategically omitting paragraphs, sentences and specific words \"to mask the lies they had perpetrated for over a year\".\n\n\"Put simply, it is bullying, which scares and silences people. We all know this isn't acceptable, at any level,\" he said.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday spokesperson said: \"We categorically deny that the duchess's letter was edited in any way that changed its meaning.\"", "Campaigners have called for action to end the \"misery\" caused by fireworks after a government consultation found support for tougher controls on their use and sale.\n\nAlmost everybody who responded to the consultation wanted to see tighter regulations.\n\nIt was launched after a series of fireworks attacks on the emergency services last year.\n\nMinisters said an action plan would be announced later this month.\n\nMore than 16,000 people responded to the Scottish government consultation. It found that:\n\nA separate YouGov survey, also commissioned by the Scottish government, found 71% of respondents supported tighter controls on the sale of fireworks and more than half (58%) backed a ban.\n\nThe results of the consultation were \"overwhelming\", according to Danny Philips, a community campaigner against fireworks.\n\n\"Communities have made it absolutely clear, in one of the largest consultations ever by the Scottish government that they are looking for action from government to end the misery caused by fireworks in so many communities across Scotland,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to ban the sale of fireworks, restrict the use and get more police on the street.\"\n\nMr Philips added: \"First Minister Nicola Sturgeon met Pollokshields residents last year and promised action. We only have one month to go to bonfire night 2019.\n\n\"It is disappointing that we are still waiting to hear what that action will be.\"\n\nResearchers who conducted the survey heard reports that fireworks were being illegally set off in streets and other public places.\n\nAnd respondents told them of concerns that adults are buying fireworks and passing them on to young people and children.\n\nThe consultation was launched after fire crews and police officers came under attack last Bonfire Night.\n\nIn Glasgow, police officers had fireworks thrown at them by a group of up to 40 masked youths.\n\nThe Scottish SPCA said most of its firework calls related to animals trying to escape the noise of fireworks.\n\n\"Incidents include dogs running on to roads and being hit by oncoming traffic, birds - such as swans - flying into electricity pylons, and horses being badly injured after running through barbed wire fences,\" said its head of education and policy Gilly Mendes Ferreira.\n\n\"We will continue to work closely with the Scottish government to improve animal welfare surrounding the use of fireworks.\"\n\nLegislation on the sale of fireworks is reserved to Westminster but Scotland's Community Safety Minister Ash Denham said: \"I will work with stakeholders to look at the powers we have to drive forward action to reduce the damage caused by fireworks misuse.\"\n\nShe added: \"I will update parliament shortly on our intended action to ensure fireworks are used safely and appropriately.\"", "A Palestinian flag was digitally edited into the sleeping man's mouth\n\nA student has been suspended following complaints about his dating app profile picture, posing next to a sleeping orthodox Jewish man on the London underground.\n\nThe image shows a Palestinian flag digitally edited into the Jewish man's mouth.\n\nIt was used in the Nottingham Trent University student's Tinder profile.\n\nThe picture has since spread across Twitter, with many people critical of it.\n\nThe university, where the student was due to start his first year, has referred the matter to a disciplinary panel.\n\nJess, a Jewish student at the University of Cambridge, first shared the photo on Twitter last Friday, after it was sent to her by a friend.\n\n\"When she sent it to me she was quite confused, and we both were quite alarmed by it.\n\n\"Not necessarily because we thought the boy who took the photo was in any way an anti-Semite, but because we thought it was wrong to instantly conflate this man's religious identity with a political conflict.\n\n\"When I wrote that tweet I didn't have any intention of trying to punish the boy. It's more important to me that he learns from his mistake, and other people can learn from it too,\" she told the BBC.\n\nActress Tracey Ann Oberman, who has appeared in EastEnders and New Tricks, expressed her disgust in a tweet which has been liked and re-tweeted hundreds of times.\n\nEastenders and New Tricks actress Tracey Ann Oberman called on the student to apologise and \"donate to a Jewish charity of his choice\"\n\nMs Oberman, who has written for the Jewish Chronicle, said the photograph displayed 1930s \"levels of Nazism\" and called on the university to take action.\n\nOther social media users described the image as \"disgraceful\" and \"horrendous.\"\n\nHowever, another Twitter user commented: \"This is a joke pic, that's all. I'm Jewish and not offended.\"\n\nNottingham Trent University - which replied to the tweets by saying they take \"hate crime, including anti-Semitism, very seriously\" - confirmed the student was suspended earlier this week.\n\nIts spokesperson told the BBC: \"We launched an immediate investigation the moment we were made aware of a screen grab circulating on social media, in which NTU was mentioned in an individual's personal profile.\n\n\"We acted very quickly to identify an individual who had not yet started his first year at the university.\n\n\"An investigatory officer interviewed this individual and they were immediately suspended.\n\n\"As part of this investigation we have been told that a Palestinian flag had been superimposed onto the image.\n\n\"A disciplinary panel will now decide on appropriate action. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive community, and do not tolerate any form of hate crime, including anti-Semitism.\"\n\nDaniel Kosky, Campaigns Organiser at the Union of Jewish Students, welcomed the university's response.\n\n'We are pleased to hear about the swift action taken by Nottingham Trent University in launching an investigation and suspending a student.\n\n\"It will reassure Jewish students that Nottingham Trent University takes anti-Semitism seriously, and will act upon it if it appears on their campus.\"", "Arsenal Football Club paid tribute to Tashan Daniel who was on his way to The Emirates when he was stabbed\n\nThree people have been arrested over the killing of a 20-year-old man who was stabbed to death in a London Underground station.\n\nTashan Daniel was attacked in Hillingdon station on 24 September.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) said a 21-year-old man from Uxbridge and a 19-year-old man from Wembley had been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nAn 18-year-old woman from West Drayton has also been held on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nAll three remain in police custody for questioning, BTP said.\n\nThe 20-year was stabbed in Hillingdon Underground station\n\nMr Daniel was killed as he made his first solo trip to the Emirates stadium to watch Arsenal play Nottingham Forest.\n\nHis father Chandy told the BBC he arrived at the station to find paramedics fighting to save his son.\n\nPaying tribute to him, he said: \"He set his standards high, he was hardworking and did everything we asked him to.\"\n\nArsenal FC and Prime Minister Boris Johnson are among others to have paid tribute to the full-time athlete.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mark Sim (left) and Peter O'Brien both died in the explosion in November 2015\n\nA steel company has been fined £1.8m after an explosion which killed two men.\n\nCelsa pleaded guilty to failing to make a risk assessment before the blast at its Cardiff plant.\n\nPeter O'Brien, 51, from Llanishen, Cardiff and Mark Sim, 41, of Caldicot, Monmouthshire, both died in November 2015 following the incident.\n\nThe company apologised \"for the shortcomings which contributed to the most tragic event in our history\".\n\nAt Cardiff Crown Court, a judge said the steelworks looked \"like a bomb site\" after the blast.\n\nA safety mechanism failed to shut down a heater which got too hot and then exploded, the court heard.\n\nThe explosion took place at Celsa manufacturing in Splott, Cardiff, in 2015\n\nFive other men were also injured in the blast at the plant in Splott, Cardiff in November, 2015. Worker Darren Wood was seriously injured.\n\nOther workers who heard the explosion tried to go to their colleagues' aid but were met with intense fires and smoke preventing them from getting to the cellar.\n\nThe court was told the workers were probably unaware the oil levels in the tank had dropped below the minimum safety level as the oil heater, which was still switched on, would have turned off but for an electrical failure.\n\nMr O'Brien's wife Marie said: \"No person should ever go to their place of work and not return.\n\nMarie O'Brien said her husband was torn away \"so suddenly and cruelly\"\n\n\"This was a preventable accident, he was torn away from us so suddenly and cruelly and no sentence will ever be enough for our loss.\n\n\"We will always love and miss Peter very much, but we need to find some closure now.\"\n\nMr Sim's wife Samantha described her husband's death as \"the most traumatic experience I have ever dealt with\".\n\n\"He has left a huge void in our hearts and our lives, a void people say heals in time but I believe it never truly heals, we just learn to live our lives differently.\"\n\nCelsa admitted failing to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of risks under the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nRichard Bowen, the factory's health and safety manager, said some employees had \"little or no training\" on risk assessments, and Celsa had not put in place steps to make sure workers carried them out.\n\nSamantha Sim described her husband's death as \"the most traumatic experience I have ever dealt with\"\n\nJudge Neil Bidder said Spanish-owned firm Celsa had \"failed to ensure\" the machinery was safe.\n\nHe added: \"The company failed to make suitable and sufficient assessment of risks.\n\n\"Photographs of the scene shown to me are reminiscent of a bomb site.\"\n\nHe said the risk of explosion \"could and should have been recognised\".\n\n\"If the job being done by Mr O'Brien and Mr Sim had been properly risk assessed, I am sure that this accident would not have occurred and that they would not have been killed and Mr Wood seriously injured.\"\n\nFire crews at Celsa steelworks on the day of the fatal blast\n\nCivil proceedings between the families and Celsa were said to be in progress.\n\nRichard Matthews, defending Celsa, said the company accepted it had failed to identify risk of explosion when the oil tank was drained, saying: \"It was the cause of this tragedy and cause of these men's deaths, and the cause of the suffering and incalculable pain that has resulted.\n\n\"We underline that nothing that occurred was as result of any failure or error or mistake of any sort on the men's part.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Celsa said: \"Whilst nothing we can do will ever bring Mark and Peter back, our thoughts and deepest sympathies remain with those closest to them. The loss of two friends and colleagues will always be felt deeply by the whole Celsa family.\n\n\"We have left no stone unturned to ensure that nothing like this could ever happen again. All of us work incredibly hard every day to prioritise the safety of every single colleague.\"\n\nCelsa was ordered to pay the £1.8m within six months, plus £145,771.85 in costs and a £120 victim surcharge.\n\nThe prosecution was brought by the Heath and Safety Executive and a second charge of breaches of health and safety laws will lie on file.\n\nCelsa UK employs more than 500 people and produces 1.2 million tonnes of steel each year from scrap.", "Mr O'Sullivan had promised to \"robustly refute all the allegations against him\"\n\nA council chief who was suspended six years ago after a pay row has been sacked with immediate effect.\n\nCaerphilly council's Anthony O'Sullivan was suspended in March 2013 after claims over wage increases for him and two other senior officers.\n\nAfter criminal charges were dropped in 2015, the two other men agreed payouts worth £300,000 between them.\n\nMr O'Sullivan has been on special leave for three years and was sacked for gross misconduct.\n\nAt a meeting of councillors held in private, they backed an investigation's report recommending they dismiss him.\n\nBarbara Jones, the council's interim leader, said: \"We regret the amount of time and money that has been spent on this matter, but we had no choice other than to follow the agreed statutory process.\n\n\"It should also be noted that during this time we had to allow criminal investigations to proceed, which added almost two-and-a-half years to the overall timeframe.\"\n\nShe said the decision concluded a \"very difficult chapter\" for the council.\n\nCharges against Anthony O'Sullivan, Nigel Barnett and Daniel Perkins were dropped in 2015\n\nMr O'Sullivan, 60, had gone into the meeting promising to \"robustly refute all the allegations against him\".\n\nHe was accused of having \"no regard to the council's code of conduct\" when he authorised wage rises for himself and other senior officers.\n\nThe row flared after claims he and two other officials authorised a 20% pay rise for senior officers, while most other staff had a pay freeze.\n\nIt has meant he has been paid his salary of £137,000 a year for six-and-a-half years without turning up to work.\n\nIt is thought the long-running row has cost the local authority £4m and an investigation has now been carried out by an independent person appointed by the Welsh Government.\n\nThe report accused Mr O'Sullivan of being \"grossly negligent\".\n\nColin Mann, leader of the Plaid Cymru group on Caerphilly council, said: \"Money has been spent on paying senior officers to stay at home, legal and audit fees when it should have been spent on front-line services, such as keeping public toilets open, keeping street lights on and securing the future of all our leisure centres.\n\n\"The losers have been the residents of the county borough. It is vital lessons are learnt and this never, ever happens again.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 500 people were injured when two trains collided head-on after a train driver missed a red signal on 5 October 1999\n\nA Paddington rail disaster survivor has said he fears safety standards may be slipping 20 years after the crash.\n\nThirty-one people died when two trains collided almost head-on after a driver missed a red signal on 5 October 1999.\n\nIn 2018-19, 304 trains passed through red signals, a 10-year high, according to official data for England, Wales and Scotland.\n\n\"The risk now is that standards might drop,\" said Jonathan Duckworth, chair of the Paddington Survivors Group.\n\nHe was one of 227 people hospitalised when his First Great Western train collided with another train at Ladbroke Grove, about two miles from its destination of Paddington, at a combined speed of about 130mph.\n\nIn the 10 years following 1999 the number of Signals Passed at Danger (Spads) more than halved, from 593 to 273.\n\nBut the number has begun to creep up again and July saw 41 Spads, more than one a day, the highest number in a single calendar month for 12 years.\n\nThe UK has \"one of the safest railway networks in Europe\", rail minister Chris Heaton-Harris said.\n\nHe added: \"We are continually learning how to make our railways safer, that is the legacy of a terrible disaster such as this.\n\n\"But disasters could happen any time. That is why one of my many jobs is to ensure we have safety hardwired into every decision that they make.\"\n\nEmergency services freed 20 trapped survivors and took eight days to clear the scene of the crash.\n\nA 70-metre wall of fire engulfed the two trains as fuel caught alight following the collision at about 08:10 BST on a Tuesday morning 20 years ago.\n\n\"We went through a massive fireball. I could feel the heat coming through the windows,\" Mr Duckworth said.\n\n\"I had no idea what was going on. I thought perhaps it was a bomb.\n\n\"We basically derailed and overturned, so our coach ended up on its side.\n\n\"There was a bit of a battle to get out. It's not easy to get out of an overturned carriage.\"\n\nWhen he got out Mr Duckworth saw \"smoke billowing out from charred carriages\" lying on their sides as police and rescuers swarmed over the wreckage to try to locate trapped survivors.\n\nIt would take days to remove all the bodies from the wreckage.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jonathan Duckworth said the crash gave him PTSD and ruined his career\n\nThe outcry that followed led to the biggest-ever safety reform of the country's rail network.\n\nA series of complex public inquires culminated in two reports by Lord Cullen.\n\nThe inquiry found the crash was caused by the Thames Trains service travelling from Paddington passing through a red signal.\n\nBut Lord Cullen concluded the crash was the culmination of \"a catalogue of failures to act\".\n\nHe levelled severe criticism at Thames Trains for its \"slack and less than adequate\" safety culture. It was fined £2m in 2004.\n\nRailtrack, Network Rail's predecessor, was accused of a \"lamentable failure\" to introduce safe signalling systems in the entrance to Paddington station.\n\nLord Cullen levelled severe criticism at the rail industry for \"a catalogue of failures to act\" on known rail safety problems\n\nPaddington was supposed to be a watershed but a series of fatal rail crashes followed at Hatfield in 2000, at Selby in 2001 and at Potters Bar in 2002.\n\nThe Paddington Survivors Group, set up to help victims and bereaved families cope with trauma, campaigned to improve rail safety.\n\nUnder pressure from the group, a train protection warning system that halted trains passing through red signals became industry standard.\n\nThe group worked with the Office for Rail and Road and Network Rail to reorganise the industry in the wake of the crash.\n\nNetwork Rail, which superseded Railtrack in 2002, was fined £4m in 2007 for health and safety breaches in the run-up to the Paddington crash, after years of campaigning by the survivors group.\n\nIn addition to July seeing the highest number of Spads for more than a decade, the past 12 months has seen 10 trains pass red signals and reach the \"conflict point\" - the position along the track at which a collision could theoretically take place.\n\nThe average over the past five years has been between four and five.\n\nCarriages overturned as the two trains crashed\n\nA memorial garden has been created, partially overlooking the site of the rail crash\n\nConcern over the increase led the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) to write to Network Rail and all train and freight operating companies.\n\nMark Phillips, RSSB chief executive, said the 20th anniversary of the disaster was \"a timely reminder of what can go wrong if we don't keep our eyes on the ball\".\n\n\"We need to look at current train protection technology and industry initiatives, and ask whether enough is being done,\" he added.\n\nMr Duckworth said: \"The risk is now that there hasn't been a serious rail crash for 20 years, standards might drop and focus might change.\n\n\"The industry needs to keep recognising that safety is of great importance, because though these incidents don't happen anymore, when they do occur they are devastating.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Europa League\n\nTeenage striker Gabriel Martinelli scored two goals and set up another to give Arsenal victory over Standard Liege in the Europa League.\n\nThere was less than three minutes between the 18-year-old Brazilian's first and second goals while team-mate Joe Willock, 20, made it 3-0 before half-time.\n\nMartinelli, who joined for £6m this summer, later set up Dani Ceballos for his first Arsenal goal.\n\nArsenal sit top of Group F with two wins from two games.\n• None Did Man Utd miss out on 'new Ronaldo' Martinelli?\n\nThere were 10 changes to the Arsenal team who drew with Manchester United in the Premier League on Monday but no place in the squad for German midfielder Mesut Ozil.\n\nInstead, manager Unai Emery put faith in the likes of academy graduate Willock, Martinelli and 19-year-old Reiss Nelson - as well as summer signing Kieran Tierney, making just his second start for the club.\n\nAll four impressed as Tierney set up Martinelli's first with a whipping cross from the left before teeing up Nelson's shot in the build-up to Willock's goal.\n\nNelson recorded an assist - feeding Martinelli for his second - before slipping in the Brazilian to tee up Ceballos' goal in the second half.\n\nIt could easily have been more for the Gunners on a very positive night which also saw full-back Hector Bellerin, captain for the night, make his first start in over nine months following a knee injury.\n\nMartinelli was already a fan favourite after he became the youngest player since Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in 2011 to score on his first start for Arsenal, against Nottingham Forest in the Carabao Cup.\n\nTwo goals in that 5-0 win was the perfect way for the summer signing to announce himself and every time he got on the ball at the Emirates on Thursday the crowd grew excited.\n\nThe teenager spent last season playing in the fourth tier of the Brazilian Football League with Ituano but his quality was evident against Standard Liege and he has now bagged four goals after just two starts for the club.\n\nHis first of the night was exceptional - a perfectly-timed header at the near post which flew past goalkeeper Vanja Milinkovic-Savic - while his second was equally impressive, cutting on to his right foot and drilling the ball into the far corner.\n\nBoth goals drew a smile from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on the Arsenal bench, and if the Gabonese striker had not scored seven goals in as many Premier League appearances this season, there may be a case for Martinelli to start more often.\n\nThe young Brazilian capped off an impressive night with an excellent assist - showing pace to reach Nelson's pass before coolly lifting it over the goalkeeper and on a plate for Ceballos to tap in.\n\n'Close to playing for us at highest levels'\n\nArsenal manager Unai Emery on BT Sport: \"To have six points after the two matches, it's really important. The players, when they did all they can, it is perfect. We did a lot of good, we can analyse to continue to improve. It's a fantastic victory.\n\n\"We can improve in how to keep the ball and make more chances but for the players [on Thursday], they are very tired after playing on Monday and they still played fantastic, it's a fantastic victory.\"\n\nOn playing young players: \"We have to give the chances to the young players and they take them. They are close to playing for us at the highest levels. They showed that they can perform and they can score. They are playing well, it's good.\"\n\nArsenal goalscorer Joe Willock on BT Sport: \"One of my targets is to get more goals in my game and it's even better that my goal and my team's goals has also come with a clean sheet. The manager told us to keep going even if it's three or four nil. We want to get the ball back and get more goals. He drills that into us.\n\n\"We have a manager here who wants to play youngsters and I have to make sure I take my chances and prove why that is the way forward.\"\n\nA youthful era - the best of the stats\n• None Arsenal have won six consecutive home European matches (excluding qualifiers) for the first time in the Emirates era - their longest such run since winning seven in a row between March 2001 and February 2002 at Highbury.\n• None Standard Liege have lost eight of their nine trips to England in all European competition, with the only exception being a 2-2 draw with Everton during the 2008-09 Uefa Cup.\n• None Arsenal netted three goals within the opening 22 minutes of a European game for the first time since October 2008 vs Fenerbahce.\n• None Only Romelu Lukaku (16 years and 218 days) and Mario Gotze (18 years and 105 days) have scored braces in the Europa League at a younger age than Martinelli (since the competition's rebranding in 2009-10).\n• None Arsenal's starting line-up had an average age of 22 years and 350 days; the second youngest in their European history (after Olympiakos away in December 2009 at 21 years and 215 days).\n• None Manager Emery has won 19 of his last 21 home Europa League matches across spells with Sevilla and the Gunners (W19, D1, L1), including the last six in a row.\n\nArsenal return to Premier League action on Sunday when they host Bournemouth at Emirates Stadium. Their next Europa League match is at home to Vitoria Guimaraes on Thursday, 24 October.\n• None Attempt missed. Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) header from very close range misses to the right. Assisted by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.\n• None Attempt missed. Selim Amallah (Standard Liège) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Attempt missed. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Gabriel Martinelli.\n• None Attempt blocked. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kieran Tierney with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Mergim Vojvoda (Standard Liège) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lucas Torreira (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gabriel Martinelli.\n• None Attempt missed. Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "England are into their first Rugby World Cup final in 12 years after a brilliant demolition of three-time world champions New Zealand.\n\nEngland had stormed into a 10-0 lead, Manu Tuilagi's second-minute try and a long-range penalty from George Ford fitting reward for a blistering first half.\n\nThe 2003 winners could have been out of sight had tries for Sam Underhill and Ben Youngs not been ruled out by the video referee, but when Ardie Savea pounced on a wayward line-out throw to reduce the deficit to 13-7 the three-time world champions were on the charge.\n\nYet the superb Ford landed a trio of nerveless penalties and with the young dynamos Underhill and Tom Curry outstanding in the back row England held on in style to pull off one of their greatest victories.\n\nThe All Blacks had not lost a World Cup game in 12 years and had won 15 of the past 16 games between the two nations.\n\nBut four years after crashing out at the group stage England tore the crown from their head with a performance of unremitting energy and excellence on a night for the ages in Yokohama.\n• None England can play better in final - Jones\n• None 'Finest performance of their lives dethrones All Blacks'\n\nIt was a start Eddie Jones' men would have dreamed of.\n\nAnthony Watson escaped down the right, England came in white-shirted waves and after Kyle Sinckler and Courtney Lawes crashed on, Tuilagi dived over from two metres out.\n\nWe've come here to be the world's best and we haven't done that yet, so that's where we need to go\n\nFarrell landed the conversion for 7-0 with only two minutes on the clock - and when Tuilagi picked off a stray pass from Beauden Barrett and found Jonny May accelerating up on his outside shoulder it looked for all the world like a second try, only for flanker Scott Barrett to get across and force the winger inside and into heavy traffic.\n\nThe pace was ferocious, England playing with a glorious tempo and precision, New Zealand using full-back Barrett as playmaker as they struggled to exert their usual control.\n\nEngland went close again before Owen Farrell spilt the ball deep in the opposition 22, and then a possible try for Underhill was correctly ruled out because Curry's run had blocked off two defenders.\n\nBut Jones' men were dominating the set-piece and the breakdown, Ford sending a long-range drop goal just to the right of the posts as England searched for the points to match their endeavour.\n\nThe points finally came right on the half-time gong after Underhill won a breakdown penalty, and Ford - with Farrell struggling with a leg injury - landed a precious three points from 45 metres out.\n• None We didn't just want to stand there - England's haka response\n\nIf 10-0 was the least England's dominance merited, it was a remarkable enough half-time scoreline.\n\nOnly once before have the All Blacks failed to score a point in the first half of a World Cup game, and not in 28 years.\n\nSteve Hansen threw on Sam Cane for Scott Barrett in the second period but it was England who appeared to have struck the killer blow when Youngs darted over off a driving maul.\n\nWith the most kickable of conversions to come it looked like 17-0 and the game - but as Ford stood over his tee the big screens in the stadium showed a knock-on in the maul, and referee Nigel Owens, in consultation with the TMO, chalked it off to choruses of boos from the vast English support.\n\nBut Henry Slade came on for the struggling May and Dan Cole for a spent Sinckler and the white tide came again.\n\nThis time it was Billy Vunipola digging for the turnover, and with New Zealand infringing again in front of the posts Ford made it 13-0.\n\nEngland were dreaming, until with 24 minutes still to go disaster struck.\n\nJamie George over-threw his line-out jumpers five metres from his own try-line, and Savea ran on to the ball and gratefully flopped over.\n\nWith Richie Mo'unga sliding over the conversion it was suddenly 13-7 and the outcome right back in the balance.\n\nIn a battle of heavyweights it was England who landed the next jab through Ford's third penalty after another tenderising tackle by the indefatigable Underhill.\n\nAnd with tournament favourites New Zealand running out of ideas as the game entered its dying moments and English tacklers pummelling their ball-carriers, Jones had pulled off yet another underdog triumph.\n• None 'We lost to the better side' - NZ coach Hansen\n\n'We've come here to be world's best'\n\nEngland head coach Eddie Jones on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"What we've done is earn another week in the comp, which is great. I thought our tactical discipline was great, our defensive work-rate was good. I thought when we had opportunities to attack, we attacked well.\n\n\"You want to go right to the death and we're in the death now. We've got another week to enjoy ourselves and work as a team. Our players made a commitment to each other that they'd enjoy the World Cup and I think we're seeing that.\n\n\"Whenever you play against New Zealand, you're never happy. You might beat them on the scoreboard but you never really beat them. They kept coming at us and we needed to dig deep and a find a bit extra.\n\n\"We've come here to be the world's best and we haven't done that yet, so that's where we need to go.\"\n\nNew Zealand head coach Steve Hansen: \"Congratulations to England - they played a tremendous game of footy and deserved to win. You cannot give them half a step, but they took it.\n\n\"I am really proud of our team. They have done a tremendous job, but we were not good enough. We take it on the chin. The boys tried their guts out and I am proud of them.\"\n\nEngland World Cup winner Matt Dawson on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"They are now in the final, which makes this next week so much easier, so much more relaxed. They don't need to do much work; they can rest up, focus on the opposition, do loads of video analysis - if they do the detail for next week as much as they did today they are close to invincible.\"\n\nFormer England fly-half Paul Grayson: \"England got it absolutely right. The quality of some of the tackling - you were never two passes away from a dominant hit and they picked when to go in and compete almost perfectly. England spent the whole of the second half forcing New Zealand to play out from their own third. They were physically and mentally dominant today.\"\n\nFormer New Zealand fly-half Andrew Mehrtens: \"Steve Hansen has been part of a group that has left them in a position for sustainable success. He's broadened and strengthened the depth of the squad. He's done amazing things for New Zealand rugby, so he won't be judged for this performance, but he'll be bitterly disappointed.\n\n\"New Zealand haven't been exposed to that level of physicality and intensity maybe since 2012. England were able to shut down the key players tonight.\"\n• None England beat New Zealand for the first time since 2012, ending a six-game losing streak against the All Blacks, and for the first time at a World Cup after three previous defeats.\n• None New Zealand lost a World Cup match for the first time since the 2007 quarter-final, having recorded an 18-game winning streak since that defeat.\n• None England have reached the final for the fourth time - no side has reached that stage more often (level with New Zealand and Australia).\n• None New Zealand were kept scoreless in the first half of a World Cup match for just the second time (the other versus Australia in the 1991 quarter-final) and for the first time in any Test match since their 2012 defeat by England.\n• None England won 16 turnovers against New Zealand, the most by any side at this year's World Cup and England's joint-most in a match at the tournament, also winning 16 against Japan in 1987.\n• None Maro Itoje won three turnovers in a match for the third time at the tournament - no other player has managed that more than once at this World Cup.\n• None Sam Whitelock lost a World Cup match for the first time in his career - his 18-game winning run was the longest of any player in the tournament's history.\n\nReplacements: Joseph for Tuilagi (73), Slade for May (44), Heinz for Youngs (62), Cowan-Dickie for M Vunipola (69), Marler for George (69), Cole for Sinckler (46), Kruis for Lawes (54), Wilson for Underhill (69).\n\nReplacements: Williams for Goodhue (53), J Barrett for Bridge (49), Perenara for A Smith (53), Tu'ungafasi for Moody (62), Coles for Taylor (49), Taavao-Matau for Laulala (53), Tuipulotu for Whitelock (66), Cane for S Barrett (41).", "Some of the Vietnamese aim to board lorries to get to the UK\n\nAn hour's drive inland from the French coast, a dozen Vietnamese men nurse tea over a smoking campfire, as they wait for a phone call from the man they call \"the boss\". An Afghan man, they say, who opens trailers in the lorry-park nearby and shuts them inside.\n\nDuc paid €30,000 ($33,200; £25,000) for a prepaid journey from Vietnam to London - via Russia, Poland, Germany and France. It was organised, he says, by a Vietnamese contact back home.\n\n\"I have some Vietnamese friends in UK, who will help me find jobs when I get there,\" he told me. \"These friends help me get on lorries or container trucks to go across the border.\"\n\nDuc says he paid €30,000 to travel from Vietnam to London\n\nSecurity is much less tight in the nearby lorry park than around the ports further north. But few people here have managed to get past the border controls.\n\nWe were told there is a two-tier system in operation here; that those who pay more for their passage to Britain don't have to chance their luck in the lorries outside, but use this base as a transit camp before being escorted on the final leg of their journey.\n\nA Vietnamese smuggler, interviewed by a French paper several years ago, reportedly described three levels of package. The top level allowed migrants to ride in the lorry cab and sleep in hotels. The lowest level was nicknamed \"air\", or more cynically \"CO2\" - a reference to the lack of air in some trailers.\n\nA local volunteer in the camp told us that they'd seen Vietnamese and British men visiting migrants here in a Mercedes. And that once migrants arrived in the UK, some went to work in cannabis farms, after which all communication stopped.\n\nThe migrants while away the time playing games and drinking tea\n\nDuc tells me he needs a job in the UK to pay back the loan for his journey.\n\n\"We can do anything,\" he says, \"construction work, nail bars, restaurants or other jobs.\"\n\nA report by one of France's biggest charities described smugglers telling Vietnamese migrants that refrigerated lorries gave them more chance of avoiding detection, and giving each of them an aluminium bag to put over their heads while passing through scanners at the border.\n\nNo one here had heard about the 39 people found dead this week.\n\nThis journey is about freedom, one said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thirty-nine bodies were found in the trailer container\n• None Essex lorry deaths: What we know", "A US judge has blocked the suspension of a high school girl who was punished for posting a note at school warning of a \"rapist\" in their midst.\n\nIn September Aela Mansmann, 15, was accused of bullying by school officials in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, after she posted notes in the girls' toilets.\n\nBut on Thursday a judge issued a temporary stay on the suspension citing concerns over free-speech rights.\n\nA lawsuit filed by the girl's family against the school is still pending.\n\nThe case began on 16 September after Aela posted notes in two bathrooms at Cape Elizabeth High School reading: \"There's a rapist in the school and you know who it is.\"\n\nAfter another student brought the note to school administrators, they investigated and identified Aela through camera footage.\n\nAela Mansmann shows the note she posted, leading to her punishment\n\nShe and two other girls were suspended for three days on 4 October after officials determined the behaviour constituted bullying.\n\nThe district's investigation revealed that one male student felt targeted by the notes and was ostracised by his peers, forcing him to miss classes.\n\nIn an interview with CBS, Aela said her note was never intended to single out anyone as a rapist, but was rather highlighting the issue of sexual assault.\n\nThe Bangor Daily News reports that after the notes were posted, \"the rumour mill spun out of control, creating fear in the high school\".\n\nThe principal, Jeffrey Shedd, conducted 47 interviews and determined the school was safe, according to the newspaper.\n\nHe previously said the three suspended girls had \"made a really bad choice\", despite meaning well.\n\nThe suspension led about 50 students in the 550-pupil school to walk out in protest on 7 October.\n\nThe American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the school district near Portland, Maine's largest city.\n\nIt argued that the girl had simply taken a \"public stance as an ally for victims and survivors of sexual violence\".\n\nIn the order temporarily blocking the suspension on Thursday, US District Court Judge Lance Walker cited \"a fair likelihood\" that the suspension would ultimately be overturned on the grounds of free speech and Title IX - a federal law that bans gender discrimination in education.\n\nThe notes, the judge wrote, were \"neither frivolous nor fabricated, took place within the limited confines of the girls' bathroom, related to a matter of concern to the young women who might enter the bathroom and receive the message, and [were] not disruptive of school discipline\".\n\nIn interviews before the judge's order, Aela said she was shocked that the school chose to investigate her rather than the person who alerted school administrators to the note.\n\n\"I was really surprised that my school took that report and decided to open an investigation into whether or not I'm a bully versus opening an investigation on whether or not this person who self-identified is a perpetrator,\" she told Business Insider.\n\nThe ACLU praised the decision, saying: \"Speaking up about sexual assault is already difficult for young people. If this punishment had been allowed to stand, it would have only made it more difficult.\"\n\nShael Norris, the girl's mother, also hailed the decision.\n\n\"All my daughter ever wanted was for students to feel safe speaking out about sexual assault,\" she said in a statement through the ACLU.\n\n\"I'm so proud of her for standing up for what she believes in.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tatum Price said her son was \"taken away within an hour\"\n\nMost adults are \"living in ignorance\" about the accessibility of drugs to \"very young children\", the UK's four children's commissioners have said.\n\nThey said they were worried by how many youngsters used cheap Class A drugs.\n\nIt follows the death of at least 12 under-16s since 2017 after taking ecstasy, including Carson Price, 13, from Hengoed, Caerphilly county.\n\nDetectives have warned teenagers are increasingly being targeted by dealers through social media.\n\nOn a table in the corner of Carson's family's dining room, there is a cast of his hand.\n\nAfter his death in April, his mother Tatum Price wanted something visible and touchable to connect her to her son.\n\n\"Carson was a lovely, brainy, intelligent boy with so much of a future,\" she said.\n\n\"And it just got taken away within an hour.\"\n\nCarson died after taking a high-strength pill called Donkey Kong - his family has been told the ecstasy was sold to him through Snapchat and cost just a few pounds.\n\nCarson was 13 when he died in April\n\n\"It was too easy,\" said Ms Price.\n\n\"When you assume Class A drugs, you think 'my God, that would be hard to get hold of' - not as easy as going to buy sweets in a sweet shop for the same price.\"\n\nHis mother said she regularly used to check Carson's phone to monitor his use of social media and had discussed the dangers of different substances with him.\n\nThere were no warning signs that he was going to take a Class A drug.\n\n\"We're the naive ones - the parents,\" she said.\n\n\"Kids and dealers are brazen today, and are selling them in the park.\"\n\nLast year there were at least seven deaths of children below the age of 16 in the UK after taking ecstasy, including two 13 year olds.\n\n\"The vast majority of parents and adults would be hugely shocked at the availability of really dangerous, strong, Class A drugs to very young children\" said Sally Holland, the children's commissioner for Wales.\n\n\"I think we're all probably living in ignorance.\"\n\nSally Holland, the children's commissioner for Wales, said \"we're all probably living in ignorance\"\n\nAlong with the UK's three other commissioners, she has raised concerns about how exposed young people have become to drugs such as ecstasy.\n\nSince the 1990s, the cost of the drug has fallen from an average of £25 per tablet to as low as £5.\n\nAt the same time, the average strength has doubled, with some so-called \"super pills\" such as Donkey Kong testing at four to five times as strong.\n\n\"I've known people take them as young as 12,\" said Lois, a member of the Cardiff Youth Council.\n\n\"It can start off like marijuana but it can really quickly grow to ecstasy because it's just not enough.\"\n\nAnother member of the youth council said children were being exposed to Class A drugs because they were often sold by teenagers.\n\n\"That person in the library revising is a drug dealer part-time,\" said 17-year-old Zahara.\n\n\"You can look outside your window, there's about eight kids running back and forth, you know exactly what they're doing - they're selling drugs.\"\n\nCarson Price's mum says his death has destroyed her life\n\nPolice officers investigating organised crime said the sale of Class A substances has moved away from drug dens and towards smart phones, making children more vulnerable.\n\n\"Youngsters are being targeted because youngsters are very comfortable using social media platforms,\" warned Det Insp Sarah Trigg from South Wales Police.\n\n\"Branding is popular, like Donkey Kong and Versace.\"\n\nSnapchat said there was no place on its messaging service for drugs and encouraged users to report any illegal activity.\n\nThe four children's commissioners have called for the UK government to address the issue of drug sales through social media in its plans for a new independent digital regulator.\n\nThey also want a reversal of cuts to youth services, which they said have taken away a first line of defence to protect young people.\n\nThe Home Office said it was concerned about the increased use of Class A drugs and recognised the role of early intervention in steering young people away from drugs.\n\nIt is awaiting the results of an independent review into drug issue, commissioned earlier this year.\n\nBut for Ms Price, the fear is that other children are still being left vulnerable while their parents are oblivious.\n\n\"Please don't think it won't be you,\" she warned.\n\n\"My son was highly educated, from a loving home, I felt my son would never do it, tell them harsh realities - it destroys your life.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters cover their faces to shield themselves from tear gas in Baghdad\n\nAt least 40 people have died in Iraq during a fresh wave of anti-government protests that descended into violence.\n\nTwo of the dead were reportedly hit by tear gas canisters fired by security forces in the capital Baghdad.\n\nReports say half of the victims were killed while trying to storm the offices of militia groups and the government.\n\nProtesters are demanding more jobs, better public services and an end to corruption.\n\nAbout 2,000 people were wounded in protests across the country, AFP quoted a security source as saying.\n\nSimilar protests earlier this month were brutally put down by security forces, leaving nearly 150 people dead.\n\nA government report has acknowledged that authorities used excessive force in quelling that unrest.\n\nAhead of the latest protests, Iraq's leading clerics and the United Nations issued calls for restraint.\n\nA day earlier Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, who took office a year ago on Friday, warned protesters that violence would not be tolerated.\n\nHe has promised a cabinet reshuffle and a package of reforms to address protesters' demands but many remain unconvinced.\n\nHundreds of protesters gathered in Baghdad's Tahrir Square on Friday morning.\n\nWhen some tried to enter the Green Zone, where government buildings are based, security forces used tear gas to drive them back.\n\nIraqi security forces blocked protesters as they tried to reach government buildings\n\nPolice and medical sources told Reuters news agency that two demonstrators had died in Baghdad after being struck by tear gas canisters.\n\nPictures from Baghdad show at least one person, apparently hit by a canister, lying motionless on the street.\n\nTwelve died while setting fire to the headquarters of a paramilitary force in the southern city of Diwaniyah, security sources told AFP.\n\nThere is no official confirmation of the figures. The Iraqi interior ministry said 68 members of the security forces were injured across the country.\n\nDemonstrators disperse as Iraqi security forces use tear gas in Baghdad\n\nIraqi protesters burn items to block a road during clashes with security forces\n\nThe government's handling of the protests this month has fuelled discontent across Iraq, with political leaders facing calls to resign.\n\n\"We're not hungry, we want dignity,\" shouted one marcher. Another said that Iraq's politicians had \"monopolised all the resources\".\n\nProtesters have called on the Shia-led government to overhaul Iraq's sectarian political system, in which power is shared along religious and ethnic lines.\n\nElsewhere, as unrest spread through Iraq's southern cities:\n\nAnti-government protesters march through flood waters in the city of Najaf\n\nThe protests started in Baghdad on 1 October. Most of those taking part were young and unemployed.\n\nAfter security forces used live ammunition against demonstrators, the unrest escalated and spread to other cities and towns.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA government committee that was tasked with investigating the violence said 149 civilians and eight security personnel had been killed in protests between 1 and 6 October.\n\nThe committee concluded that \"officers and commanders lost control over their forces during the protests\" and that this \"caused chaos\".", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCoverage: Full commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live, plus live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nCoach Eddie Jones has urged England to \"make the script\" in Saturday's Rugby World Cup semi-final against champions New Zealand in Yokohama.\n\nEngland, bidding to reach a first final since 2007, face a side who have won their last 18 World Cup matches.\n\nAnd they have played New Zealand three times at World Cups but have never won.\n\n\"To beat New Zealand you can't sit and be a spectator at the show. You have to be on the stage, making the script,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\nEngland's only previous meeting with New Zealand during Jones' time in charge was a 16-15 defeat in the Twickenham rain in November.\n\nEngland were 15-0 up until Damian McKenzie's try just before half-time began the All Blacks' assault on their lead.\n\nDuring the Six Nations earlier this year there were more squandered leads with England failing to win from seven points up after 50 minutes against Wales and drawing with Scotland having led 31-0.\n\nJones admitted that psychologically his team \"have some hand grenades in the back\" after the latter result and brought in psychologist Corinne Reid to work with the team.\n\nReid oversaw squad \"honesty sessions\", in which England players were encouraged to feed back on how their team-mates acted on and off the field.\n\nJones believes his team has unified in the wake of those results, Reid's work and the experience of going out at the pool stage of the last World Cup four years ago.\n\n\"Saturday will definitely come down to the mind. The team have worked a lot harder off the pitch to form a tighter unit which helps them get through situations on the field,\" he added.\n\n\"I definitely know there is more togetherness.\n• None What's it like to face the haka?\n\n\"Sport is one of those things that sometimes you can't teach; you have to learn from experience.\n\n\"I'm pleased for this group of players that had to endure 2015, which was a tough time for them. They have been exceptional in the way that they have attacked this World Cup.\n\n\"And Saturday is a great opportunity for us to attack the New Zealanders.\"\n\nNew Zealand, who have won 33 of their 41 matches against England and are aiming for an unprecedented third successive World Cup, are well used to the pressure according to assistant coach Ian Foster.\n\n\"It has always been one of the great challenges of sport how you keep growing the group that is performing well,\" he said. \"I guess that's part of the All Blacks story and we feel pressure to keep writing that.\n\n\"We know the expectations and pressure upon us every time we play. It's a matter of getting used to that. We don't always get it right.\"\n\nIf you are viewing this page on the BBC News app please click here to vote.\n\nEngland have recalled George Ford at fly-half and shifted Owen Farrell to centre, with Henry Slade dropping to the bench.\n\nThe pack is the same as the side that beat Australia in the quarter-finals, with the only other change being on the bench where Mark Wilson replaces Lewis Ludlam as back-row cover.\n\nWorld champions New Zealand have sprung a surprise by dropping flanker Sam Cane to the bench and picking Scott Barrett, normally a lock, at number six.\n• None All Blacks seek to inspire youngsters to take up rugby\n• None The mullet that has become an All Blacks mascot\n\n\"Eddie Jones was brought in by the Rugby Football Union for weekends such as this.\n\n\"The players are relaxed. There is an inner-confidence about this England team. I genuinely do think there is total self-belief and that is coming from the top, from Jones.\n\n\"There are English rugby legends in waiting but they have got to do what the 2003 lot did. On the flip side you've got New Zealand, a captain in Kieran Read who has been there and done it but has not won a World Cup as skipper.\n\n\"Both these teams have serious hunger to take themselves into the history books for their respective countries. It feels like a real game for the ages.\"\n• None New Zealand have won 15 of their last 16 matches against England, the exception in that run being a 21-38 defeat at Twickenham in 2012.\n• None This will be the fourth World Cup clash between England and New Zealand, the All Blacks have won each of the previous three (1991, 1995, 1999) including the only knock-out encounter when Jonah Lomu scored four tries in the 1995 semi-final in South Africa.\n• None New Zealand have won their last 18 World Cup matches, the longest run in the tournament's history. They last lost a game in the 2007 quarter-finals against France. Lock Sam Whitelock has played in all 18 of those games and holds the individual record for most consecutive wins in World Cup history.\n• None The All Blacks have averaged the most points (51), tries (7.3), metres (642), clean breaks (22), defenders beaten (39) and offloads (17) of any side at the 2019 World Cup, they are also one of four sides yet to lose a scrum on their own feed (30/30).\n• None England are one of just four sides yet to receive a card of either colour at this World Cup and the only one of the four semi-finalists.\n• None Neither England nor New Zealand have conceded a first-half try in this tournament so far, the only sides to manage this. Both have conceded three tries in the second half.\n• None Maro Itoje has won more turnovers (7) than any other player at this World Cup. Ardie Savea (5) tops New Zealand's standings but has won the joint most jackal turnovers of any player (5).\n• None Billy Vunipola is in line to win his 50th cap for England. New Zealand are the one side he has yet to beat in an England shirt, notching up victories against each of the other 11 nations he has faced.\n• None Jonny May needs one try to equal Jason Robinson on 28 tries for England, the joint fifth most for the country. It will be May's 51st match - Robinson won 51 caps for England.\n\nWho makes the cut from Saturday's World Cup semi-finalists?", "An estimated one million people peacefully marched in Santiago on Friday 25 October against inequality.\n\nSantiago's governor said it was a \"historic\" moment for the country, which has seen days of protests.\n\nProtesters also took to the streets in every major Chilean city.\n\nRead more: One million join peaceful march for reform", "A swan has caused lengthy tailbacks on one of Scotland's busiest roads.\n\nPolice flew into action after they received reports that the bird was on the M8 in Glasgow at about 16:50.\n\nOne eastbound lane of the motorway was closed at junction 16 while officers safely recovered the bird.\n\nBut it led to major congestion - Traffic Scotland said vehicles were queued for two miles, from junction 22, as a result of the disruption.\n\nIt also led to knock-on delays on the nearby Clydeside Expressway.\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.", "Coverage: Full commentary on BBC Radio Wales and Radio Cymru, BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, plus text updates on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nWales stand on the brink of history as they prepare to face South Africa in Yokohama on Sunday, bidding to reach their first World Cup final with old rivals England lying in wait.\n\nThis will be Wales' third semi-final and the second under head coach Warren Gatland, who will step down at the end of the tournament.\n\nThat will bring to an end a glittering 12-year tenure which has yielded four Six Nations titles - including three Grand Slams - and a first stint as the world's number one-ranked side.\n\nThis is also likely to be a final World Cup for some Wales players such as captain Alun Wyn Jones, an inspirational leader who will join Italy's Sergio Parisse as the second-most capped international of all time with 142 appearances, including nine for the British and Irish Lions.\n\nWales have been building up to this moment for years and, with many believing this is their best chance yet to win a World Cup, Gatland is urging his players to seize the moment.\n\n\"I have got two games to go as the Wales coach and I want to enjoy these last two games, and there are probably nine or 10 players who won't be involved in another World Cup as well so they have got to relish that opportunity and be excited about this,\" he said.\n\n\"You have got a chance to do something special in your life and these chances come along very rarely and you have got to grab them with both hands.\n\n\"When you want something bad enough and you really, really want it then it can happen.\n\n\"We have a group of players that really want to do a good performance on Sunday and hopefully get to the World Cup final.\"\n\nStanding in Wales' way are a resurgent South Africa side, who pummelled their way past hosts Japan in the quarter-final.\n\nHaving slipped down the rankings in recent years, the two-time world champions seem to be on their way to reviving past glories since Rassie Erasmus was appointed head coach in 2018.\n\nThe former Munster boss has the enormous Springboks forwards back to their muscular best, while the likes of scrum-half Faf de Klerk and wing Cheslin Kolbe have provided the stardust to help their side claim notable results such as last year's series win over England and a draw in New Zealand during this summer's Rugby Championship.\n\nSouth Africa will be without the electric Kolbe against Wales because of an ankle injury, which Erasmus admits is a \"big blow\".\n\nS'busiso Nkosi takes his place in the Springboks' only change from the victory over Japan.\n\nWales have multiple injury woes of their own, with full-back Liam Williams and back-rower Josh Navidi ruled out for the rest of the tournament with ankle and hamstring injuries respectively.\n\nLeigh Halfpenny replaces Williams and Ross Moriarty comes in for Navidi, while centre Jonathan Davies returns having missed the quarter-final win over France with a knee problem.\n\nWhat they said\n\nWales head coach Warren Gatland: \"If we can make the World Cup final with the playing numbers we have got, it would be one hell of an achievement.\n\n\"It's one step at a time. We have got a challenge on our hands on Sunday against a side that has been improving.\n\n\"I think they have definitely improved under Rassie in terms of going back to some of the things they are good at, their strengths.\n\n\"I am excited about it. I'm more looking forward to this game than I was last week, and more confident about this game than we probably were against France.\"\n\nSouth Africa head coach Rassie Erasmus: \"I think we have been under pressure to redeem ourselves for the last couple of years. We've been number five, six and seven in the world over the last three or four years and we've had some proper hidings against almost every team since 2015.\n\n\"We've lost to Italy, we've lost to Japan, we've been beaten by 57 points, 39-3 by Ireland. Some people have lost a lot of faith in us at different stages.\n\n\"We've got a different challenge which is to get respect back and so people start believing in us again. That was the pressure for us.\n\n\"Now we're at the stage where we want to be number one in the world again. Now there is internal pressure and expectation and that's different.\"\n\nInternational Stadium Yokohama is a 72,327-capacity ground which will host both Rugby World Cup semi-finals and the final.\n\nIt opened in 1998 and hosted football's 2002 World Cup final, in which Brazil beat Germany 2-0.\n\nThe ground has also staged several Fifa Club World Cups as well as rugby Test matches including last year's 37-20 win for New Zealand over Australia.\n• Wales have won each of their past four test encounters with South Africa, after winning only two of their first 31 against them.\n• South Africa's most recent victory over Wales came in the quarter-finals at the 2015 World Cup. The Boks won the game on a 75th-minute Fourie du Preez try.\n• South Africa won each of the previous two World Cup meetings between these countries, 17-16 in the pool phase at 2011 and 23-19 in the 2015 quarter-finals.\n• South Africa and New Zealand are the only World Cup opponents Wales have only lost against.\n• Following their quarter-final win over France, Wales were the only team in the World Cup who have won five matches.\n• The only player to feature in all four recent Wales victories over South Africa is Cory Hill, who dropped out of this World Cup squad injured.\n• Pieter-Steph du Toit, Steven Kitshoff and Elton Jantjies are the only Springboks to feature in all four recent defeats by Wales.\n• No team in World Cup history has lost a match in a tournament and then gone on to win it. South Africa lost their opening fixture against New Zealand.", "The research involved counting toys out loud into a box and looking at toddlers' reactions\n\nInfants as young as 14 months can understand the concept of counting long before they learn the true meaning of \"one, two, three\", scientists say.\n\nThe US researchers said toddlers who hear counting out loud appear to be able to recognise quantities.\n\nYet most children don't understand the full meaning of number words until they are about four years old, they argue.\n\nThe scientists now want to see whether early counting practice leads to better number skills later on.\n\nIn the study, from Johns Hopkins University, 16 toddlers watched four toys - little dogs or cars - being hidden in a box that they could reach into without seeing the contents.\n\nSometimes the researchers counted out loud as they dropped each toy in, saying, \"Look - one, two, three, four. Four dogs.\"\n\nAt other times, the researchers simply said: \"This, this, this and this - these dogs.\"\n\nWhen the toys were actually counted in, the babies clearly expected more than one to be pulled from the box.\n\nThey didn't remember the exact number, but they did remember the approximate number, the researchers said.\n\nBut when the toys were not counted, the babies became distracted after researchers pulled just one out, as though there was nothing else to see.\n\nStudy author Jenny Wang said: \"When we counted the toys for the babies before we hid them, they were much better at remembering how many toys there were.\"\n\nShe said she found this \"really surprising\", and said it showed very young infants \"have a sense that when other people are counting it is tied to the rough dimension of quantity in the world\".\n\nThe researchers believe counting out loud with toddlers and introducing them to counting books could help them to understand the concept well before the pre-school years.\n\nThe research team now wants to see whether English-speaking babies react to counting in a foreign language.\n\nThe findings are published in Developmental Science.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nearly one in three overnight workers are aged over 50, according to analysis by one of the UK's largest unions.\n\nOver-50s account for about 924,000 of a record 3.2 million people who regularly work through the night, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) says.\n\nIt wants better protection for night workers' health and wellbeing, saying the government does not do enough.\n\nThe government said it was proposing new rights for flexible workers, including those who work night shifts.\n\nJobs most likely to involve night work include care work, nursing, road transport and security, the TUC said.\n\nThe union has called for greater protection for those workers, saying that the hours can have a damaging effect on family life, as well as physical and mental health.\n\nAccording to its analysis, the number of people regularly working night shifts is at its highest level since current official records began in 2005.\n\nIt found that about 100,000 more people are regularly working overnight than five years ago.\n\nIt found that 173,000 more over-50s were working overnights than in 2014.\n\nThe research also indicated that there are 222,000 people over the age of 60 working nights, and 69,000 over 65.\n\nThe union said its findings were taken from analysis of information collected in the Office for National Statistics labour force survey.\n\nThe survey of 38,000 households in the UK provides information on the UK labour market.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Night shifts: The toll they can take on your life\n\nGeneral secretary Frances O'Grady said: \"Britain's loyal army of night workers has been boosted significantly by older workers.\n\n\"We all owe them a huge debt for keeping the country ticking over while we are asleep.\n\n\"Night work can be really hard - disrupting family life and placing a strain on people's health.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said it was \"determined to make the UK the best place in the world to work and start a business\" and that older workers \"provide a huge benefit to our economy\".\n\nThey said the government was proposing new reforms that would see all flexible workers, including night workers, benefit from new rights and protections.\n\nAre you over 50 and working nights in an unusual job? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n• None Why are more people working nights?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thank you for letting Harry crash the party, jokes Meghan\n\nConversations about gender equality \"can't happen without men\", the Duchess of Sussex has said at a roundtable discussion on the issue.\n\nMeghan was joined by the Duke of Sussex, and jokingly thanked delegates for \"letting him crash the party\".\n\nHarry was described as a \"surprise appearance\" by co-organisers, the Queen's Commonwealth Trust.\n\nYoung ambassadors from around the world took part in the talks, which were held at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe couple arrived together in an electric Audi - driven by the duke - after they were accused of hypocrisy for using private jets while supporting environmental campaigns.\n\nThe participants - who represented organisations from countries including South Africa, Nigeria, Iraq, Malawi and Bangladesh - shared their personal achievements and the best practices that had helped them overcome complex challenges.\n\nBeginning the discussion, Meghan, seated next to her husband, told the group: \"In terms of gender equality, which is something I have championed for a long time, I think that conversation can't happen without men being a part of it.\n\n\"So for this reason it made complete sense to let him [Harry] join today. So thank you for letting him crash the party.\"\n\nAmong those to share their experiences with the royal couple was the founder of the South African organisation Motholung Network Against Women and Child Abuse, Lebogang Bogopane.\n\n\"I got married very young and experienced domestic violence,\" she said. \"My mother is a survivor and I'm also a survivor. One day I said 'I'm tired, this needs to stop.'\"\n\nYoung people from countries including South Africa, Iraq and Bangladesh took part in the roundtable\n\nOne participant said they were surprised by how \"genuine\" the royal couple were\n\nThe roundtable was led by Queen's Commonwealth Trust chief executive Nicola Brentnall and moderated by One Young World counsellors, social media influencer Rossana Bee and Canada's first openly gay Olympic gold medallist, Mark Tewksbury.\n\nMr Tewksbury said the duke's appearance at the event was a \"wonderful surprise\".\n\n\"I guess we should have known because there were two empty chairs there, but I just assumed that an assistant was going to come along,\" he said.\n\nThe founder of the first Iraqi LGBT+ organisation, Amir Ashour, who also took part in the roundtable, said the duke's attendance was an indication of how important the issue was to the royal couple.\n\n\"They were asking questions and getting engaged,\" the 29-year-old said, adding that he was \"surprised at how genuine they were\".\n\nMeghan and her husband arrived at the roundtable in an electric car\n\nHarry and Meghan are president and vice president of the Queen's Commonwealth Trust respectively.\n\nAnd Meghan is a long-standing supporter of One Young World, which she called \"the best think tank imaginable\".\n\nThe One Young World Summit is a four-day global forum for young leaders, which aims to bring together 2,000 young people from more than 190 countries to accelerate social impact.\n\nOn Tuesday, Meghan attended the summit's opening ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall in London.\n\nShe has previously spoken about her belief that men can also be feminists - and, while pregnant, said she wanted her baby to be a feminist, whether they were a girl or a boy.\n\nThe roundtable on Friday was the couple's first public engagement since an emotional ITV documentary, when they described the pressure they had faced from intense media scrutiny.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCaptain Owen Farrell says England planned their response to the haka to show New Zealand they would not have things all their own way in their Rugby World Cup semi-final.\n\nEngland's players lined up in a V formation to receive the challenge, with Farrell seemingly smiling during the All Blacks' performance.\n\n\"We didn't just want to stand in a flat line and let them come at us,\" he said.\n\nEngland scored a try within two minutes, eventually winning 19-7.\n• None 'The king is dead, the throne is empty'\n• None What's it like to face the haka?\n\nThey will play either Wales or South Africa, who contest the second semi-final on Sunday, in next Saturday's final.\n\nThe tone for a ferocious encounter was set when England broke from the customary shoulder-to-shoulder stance and instead lined up in a V shape, with two prongs projecting towards the New Zealanders, to receive the haka.\n\nWorld Rugby rules stipulate teams must remain within their own half of the pitch to receive the challenge and referee Nigel Owens and his team had to usher several England players back as they strayed over halfway.\n\n\"Everyone wanted to show that we were ready and together. It was something different that I think Eddie [Jones] suggested,\" said centre Manu Tuilagi.\n\n\"We wanted to go at them early doors and that is the first part of the game, isn't it?\" added flanker Tom Curry.\n\nWhile New Zealand captain Kieran Read said England's haka reception had \"no impact\" on the match, All Black scrum-half Aaron Smith admitted the sight of Farrell spurred him on during the pre-match display.\n\n\"The All Blacks have been doing it for 110 years,\" he said. \"It's about us; I didn't really notice them.\n\n\"I was looking at the guy straight opposite me and that was Owen Farrell. He was giving me a few winks so I was trying to scare him as much as I could.\"\n\nFormer England scrum-half Matt Dawson was at first sceptical but felt that England's stance had worked in the end.\n\n\"From minute one, from the kick-off, from the haka, England were mentally in the right spot to throw something on the All Blacks,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"With the pressure they put on New Zealand, you saw them start to crack.\"\n\nIt is not the first time that New Zealand's opponents have faced down the haka with a challenge of their own.\n\nThe last time that the three-time winners lost a World Cup match was in 2007 when France, wearing red, white and blue T-shirts to form their national flag, advanced as one to eyeball the All Blacks.", "Ivan Milat was convicted of murdering seven backpackers\n\nIvan Milat, a notorious Australian serial killer who kidnapped and murdered hitchhikers, has died aged 74.\n\nMilat had been serving a life sentence for killing seven backpackers between 1989 and 1992 and dumping their bodies in a New South Wales forest.\n\nHe died of cancer in a Sydney hospital early on Sunday local time.\n\nPolice said Milat's lifelong refusal to admit his crimes had hampered further investigations into the killings and other unsolved cases.\n\nHis murder victims were three Germans, two Britons and two Australians. All were aged between 19 and 22.\n\nMilat was arrested after targeting another backpacker, British man Paul Onions, who escaped and alerted police.\n\nA subsequent trial heard that Milat had searched for hitchhikers to abduct from a major highway between Sydney and Melbourne.\n\nThe bodies of his victims were found buried in the Belanglo State Forest, 120km (75 miles) south-west of Sydney, in 1992 and 1993.\n\nMilat was diagnosed with terminal oesophagus and stomach cancer earlier this year.", "Heavy rain in eastern and northeastern Japan has led to the deaths of 10 people.\n\nChiba and Fukushima prefectures have been affected by torrential rain and landslides, with a months worth of rain falling in half a day in some areas.\n\nIt comes just weeks after Typhoon Hagbis left almost 80 dead and caused widespread damage.", "A grieving couple who discovered a fake GoFundMe page had been set up in the name of their dead daughter say the problem needs to be taken seriously.\n\nAmanda and Graeme Jackson, from Kirkcaldy in Fife, lost their six-year-old daughter Darci to cancer last year.\n\nThey had created a GoFundMe page to raise money for vital treatments but she died before it could be used.\n\nAs they were making funeral arrangements, the couple found a fake page using Darci's images and story.\n\nHundreds of pounds had been donated to the fraudulent campaign.\n\nGraeme said he made the \"sick\" discovery when the couple were in the midst of terrible grief.\n\nAmanda and Graeme Jackson lost their daughter Darci last year\n\n\"Scammers are going to scam, but to go to that low level and scam a dead child's page is unbelievable,\" he told BBC Scotland's The Nine.\n\nHis wife added: \"You can't fathom that another person would do such as thing. It's absolutely vile.\"\n\nThe couple described their daughter as \"an incredibly fun-loving, sassy, determined, brave, special little girl\".\n\nThey had launched the fundraising campaign to pay for potentially life-saving treatment in the US for her acute lymphoblasic leukaemia but she died days later.\n\nThe money raised was never withdrawn by the Jacksons and all donors were refunded\n\nHer parents said Darci was fun-loving, sassy and determined\n\nThe fake funding appeal was discovered as they prepared to bury her.\n\nGraeme said: \"Going through the pain of losing your daughter is hard enough without someone setting up a fake page that you have then to deal with.\"\n\nThe Jackson's alerted GoFundMe and the company removed the page and passed the details to police.\n\nHowever, the police investigation was eventually dropped. Although officers were able to trace the IP address responsible, they were not able to identify a suspect.\n\nAmanda said: \"If there were consequences to carrying out these kinds of things then it might make people stop and think about doing it. There is no deterrent at all.\"\n\nHer husband said websites such as GoFundMe were often a \"good thing\" but when fake pages were set up more needed to be done about it.\n\nThe people who donated to the scammed account were all refunded by GoFundMe.\n\nDarci's images were used by a fake fundraising page\n\nIt said it had the strongest and most effective processes in the market for dealing with fake pages.\n\nHe said: \"If you say we have about 75,000 campaigns a year, you are talking about maybe five confirmed cases of fraud each year, which is really quite low.\n\n\"The thing about any financial technology products is people are constantly trying to beat the system and we are constantly trying to beat them.\n\n\"We put almost a third of our company's resources into trust and safety. That's a huge investment on our part and we are continually working to make the system safer to make sure we eliminate fraud entirely.\"", "Directors at the Telegraph Media Group said they were 'naturally disappointed' with the profit slump\n\nThe billionaire owners of the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph are to put both titles up for sale.\n\nSir Frederick and Sir David Barclay are understood to be reviewing all of their key assets, which includes the Telegraph Media Group (TMG).\n\nFigures published on 17 October showed TMG's profit for the last financial year was £900,000 - a 94 per cent drop on the previous financial year.\n\nThe Barclay twins, who bought the paper in 2004, have declined to comment.\n\nThe news of the sale was first reported by the Times.\n\nThere have been rumours of a sale of the Telegraph for several years, which the owners have consistently denied.\n\nSir David Barclay (L) and his twin brother Sir Frederick received knighthoods in 2000\n\nSales of the print editions have plummeted in recent years, with the Daily Telegraph averaging a daily circulation of 310,586. The Sunday Telegraph sells, on average, 244,351 copies.\n\nA source close to the matter told the BBC the brothers were not under any time pressure to sell the paper, which could happen over the next 12-18 months.\n\nNo adviser has so far been appointed for the sale but it is expected the Telegraph will be the first asset to be sold.\n\nAidan Barclay, 63, and Howard Barclay, 59, are thought to be evaluating the family's businesses on behalf of their father, Sir David Barclay, and his 84-year-old twin Sir Frederick.\n\nThe brothers also own the Spectator magazine, delivery company Yodel and retailer Shop Direct, which includes online outlets Littlewoods and Very.\n\nThe Ritz hotel, which is also owned by the Barclay brothers, is already on the market.\n\nFor newspaper owners, the Barclay twins aren't very media-friendly. They live in the Channel Islands and Monaco - they say - for health reasons, and few photos of them exist.\n\nThough the Telegraph newspapers have been struggling with falling circulation and profits, the reason for the sale is understood to be more personal.\n\nThe brothers are looking to hand over to the next generation of their large family, where there are differing views about the future of the business.\n\nThere have been rumours over the years that several buyers have expressed an interest, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and the owner of the Independent and Evening Standard, Evgeny Lebedev.\n\nIts political ally on the right - the Daily Mail - is also thought to be a contender.\n\nNotable columnists for the Telegraph include Sir William Hague, Allison Pearson and Boris Johnson.\n\nBefore becoming Prime Minister, Mr Johnson earned £275,000 for weekly columns between 11 July 2018 and 10 July 2019.\n• None Who are the Barclay brothers?", "The father of a Vietnamese man who is feared to be among the 39 dead victims found in a lorry near London has spoken out.\n\nNguyen Dinh Tu's father, Nguyen Dinh Sat, said he was certain his son was in the truck's container.\n\nHe said relatives in the United Kingdom had told him that Tu was inside the lorry, and had been planning to pick him up.", "You can imagine the casting conversation down at the Old Vic theatre in London when they decided to reprise Duncan Macmillan's play Lungs: a two-hander featuring a right-on young couple thinking about settling down...\n\nSenior Creative [SC]: So, we're after a box office pairing the public would love (pay) to see reunited.\n\nJunior Creative [JC]: What about Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio?\n\nSC: Great idea! [pauses to think] A bit old, maybe?\n\nJC: Okay, how about Letitia Wright and Daniel Kaluuya?\n\nSC: Another awesome suggestion! But is she old enough?\n\nJC: Ooh, ooh, ooh… I've got it! This is brilliant!\n\nAnd so it came pass - probably not quite like that - the two British actors who formed a dream team double-act in The Crown for Netflix as The Queen and Prince Philip were reunited to play another young couple trying to work out their place in the world.\n\nThis time around tiaras and Buckingham Palace have been traded-in for trainers and IKEA, but they are essentially dealing with the same issues of love, commitment, betrayal, duty, compromise and existential anxiety.\n\nThere's none of the expensive paraphernalia that came with The Crown such as lavish sets and a large supporting cast.\n\nClaire Foy as the Queen and Matt Smith as Prince Philip received critical acclaim for their performances in The Crown\n\nIn Lungs, Matt Smith and Claire Foy play an unnamed couple who wrestle with the big issues of climate change and having children in an overpopulated world\n\nIn Lungs the stage is almost bare; the actors don't have a prop to call their own. It is entirely down to their talents to bring to life Duncan Macmillan's words in an 80-minute play in which they are constantly on the stage bantering to-and-fro without an interval to catch their breath.\n\nIt's a tall order, made slightly easier by the sheer quality and directness of the writing and their palpable stage chemistry.\n\nFoy is superb as the doubting yet strident left-leaning intellectual with a PhD who is at once perceptive and blindly self-absorbed.\n\nSmith does what he did as Prince Philip in The Crown, which is to play Foy's foil. Here, he is a struggling musician intimidated by his partner's intelligence and rhetorical ferocity. The full force of which is evident in the opening exchange caused by his unwitting decision to wonder aloud if they should have a child together.\n\nShe is staggered by his thoughtlessness, impudence, and lazy arrogance.\n\n\"It's like you punch me in the face and then asked me a maths question\" is one of the many ways she describes the effect of his casual conversation opener while they queued in IKEA. He tries to put the pin back in the grenade but it's too late. Before he knows it she is telling him that his predatory countenance when they are in the throes of passion freaks her out, \"Sometimes it looks like you are going to hack off my limbs and bury me in the woods.\"\n\nHe tries back-peddling, and then justifying, and eventually - when all else fails - agreeing.\n\nIt's like watching a boxing match in which one fighter is clearly stronger and more assertive while the other ducks and dives and seeks a way out by fair means or foul.\n\nInto this semi-comic world of domestic disharmony Macmillan introduces the underlying theme of his decade-old play (first professionally staged in 2011), which is the negative impact we gas-guzzling humans are having on the planet.\n\nFoy's character wants to know if she and he can still be \"good people\" if they decide to have a child, which she says will have a lifetime carbon footprint amounting to 10,000 tonnes of CO2, \"That's the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I'd be giving birth to the Eiffel Tower.\"\n\nIt's a great line from which you can extrapolate the bigger question being asked: can we in the wealthy West ever be \"good\" when our privilege is at the expense of others and the planet? It is a subject that deeply troubles the playwright who wrote this \"end of days\" play in a single night having put aside a more complex concept.\n\nPlaywright Duncan Macmillan says since he wrote Lungs, the threat of climate change has grown, but as a parent, he \"doesn't feel as if despair is an option\"\n\nIt is a good piece of work.\n\nBut unlike his excellent subsequent plays like Every Brilliant Thing and People, Places, Things - which deal with depression and addiction respectively - Lungs runs out of breath about two-thirds of the way through.\n\nThe witty repartee between Foy and Smith pales, the unevenness of their relationship loses credibility.\n\nThat said, it is a bold and invigorating idea to focus their entire relationship on the single issue of procreation in the form of a discussion taking place over years but presented as one seamless conversation (a time-shifting exercise beautifully executed by director Matthew Warchus).\n\nThe upside for Macmillan is it allows him to highlight what he considers to be the \"thing that makes drama interesting\", which is, \"present-tense decision-making.\" The downside is it ends up leaving the characters boxed in and the story with nowhere to go.\n\nFoy's character gets bigger but predictable, Smith's smaller and boring.\n\nBut not before landing some heavy blows.\n\nLungs turns the highly personal - deciding to have a child - into the powerfully political: it lays the issue of our age at our door. And it does so with biting wit, a sense of urgency and an appropriate level of high anxiety, all expertly delivered by the two actors.\n\nMore Claire Foy and Matt Smith combos please.", "A steppe eagle: the species is threatened by farming and power lines\n\nRussian scientists tracking migrating eagles ran out of money after some of the birds flew to Iran and Pakistan and their SMS transmitters drew huge data roaming charges.\n\nAfter learning of the team's dilemma, Russian mobile phone operator Megafon offered to cancel the debt and put the project on a special, cheaper tariff.\n\nThe team had started crowdfunding on social media to pay off the bills.\n\nThe birds left from southern Russia and Kazakhstan.\n\nThe journey of one steppe eagle, called Min, was particularly expensive, as it flew to Iran from Kazakhstan.\n\nMin accumulated SMS messages to send during the summer in Kazakhstan, but it was out of range of the mobile network. Unexpectedly the eagle flew straight to Iran, where it sent the huge backlog of messages.\n\nThe price per SMS in Kazakhstan was about 15 roubles (18p; 30 US cents), but each SMS from Iran cost 49 roubles. Min used up the entire tracking budget meant for all the eagles.\n\nThe Russian researchers are volunteers at the Wild Animal Rehabilitation Centre in Novosibirsk. Their crowdfunding appeal, which has paid off more than 100,000 roubles (£1,223), was called \"Top up the eagle's mobile\".\n\nThe SMS messages deliver the birds' coordinates as they migrate, and the team then use satellite photos to see if the birds have reached safe locations. Power lines are a particular threat for the steppe eagles, which are endangered in Russia and Central Asia.\n\nThey are currently tracking 13 eagles. The birds breed in Siberia and Kazakhstan, but fly to South Asia for the winter.\n\nMegafon's offer to bail out the team, reported by RIA Novosti news, means they can continue monitoring the eagles' routes, collecting vital data to help their survival.", "This time, against New Zealand in a stone-cold World Cup classic, there was no need to go to boundaries scored.\n\nIf England have ever produced a better 80 minutes of rugby union then no-one dancing round Yokohama or screaming the sofas down back home could care to remember it.\n\nIt was supposed to be close. It was supposed to be the All Blacks, because it is almost always the All Blacks, going back through the years at Twickenham and Auckland and all points in between.\n\nAnd yet it was comfortable, in an excruciating sort of way, if you ignore the dread tension of being up and ahead from the second minute against a side who routinely make late comebacks like other teams make touch.\n\nAnd if you could watch George Ford's penalties arcing towards the posts while still breathing, and watch the percussive demolition hits of Sam Underhill, Tom Curry and Maro Itoje without grabbing your own ribs and wincing.\n\nFrom the first minute to the last England were demonstrably the superior team. There's a decent argument they also won the time before then too; when you can stare down the haka and grin, as Owen Farrell did, or stroll towards it like a man off to the bar, as Joe Marler did. There was no fear when so many down the years have quaked.\n• None England made All Blacks look like 'they hadn't a clue' - pundit reaction\n• None England had to stand up to haka - Farrell\n\nNever before have New Zealand conceded a World Cup try as early as Manu Tuilagi's second-minute score. Only once before have they been kept scoreless in the first half of a World Cup match.\n\nIt is 18 games - across 12 years - since they were beaten in this tournament, and this was only a second loss to England in 17 meetings. Yet on a night of the gloriously strange, the most nonsensical stat of all was also among the most startling: the three-time world champions scored fewer points than Leicester did away goals against Southampton the night before.\n\nTo tip the All Blacks from their throne, even the most ebullient among England's support thought half their team would have to produce the finest performance of their lives.\n\nAnd so it came to pass: Ford and Underhill and Curry and Itoje all at dreamy, terrifying peak that left black shirts retreating and panicking and doing all the things they usually dish out to others.\n\nSteve Hansen picked Scott Barrett to dominate the line-out. England owned the airwaves instead, except for the one ghastly moment when Ardie Savea was gifted the chance to bring a game that could have been 17 points distant back to a six-pointer.\n\nThe biggest Barrett was hooked at half-time, Sam Cane thrown on with the game half-gone, the Kiwi breakdown a shellshocked mess. Curry and Underhill went at the wreckage like some kind of demonic twins.\n\nThere was nothing kamikaze about it. It was the death-knell instead for a team that had cut Ireland apart in the quarter-finals with quick ball and who love to slow that of their opposition so they can get up fast and flat and shut everything else off.\n\nIn total England won 16 turnovers. No team has won more at this World Cup. The last time England managed as many in the tournament was back in 1987, against Japan, when there were 4,893 spectators watching, which gives you some sort of idea how remarkable the comparison is.\n\nBreakdown won, set-piece won, discipline won. England conceded just six penalties to the All Blacks' 11.\n\nBut it was impossible to find an area in which England were not out in front. They were faster and they were more precise. They kicked from hand better, and they tackled in the way that wrecking-balls meet walls.\n• None All Blacks lost to the better side - Hansen\n• None England can play better in final - Eddie Jones, Vunipola & Itoje on historic win\n\nThe team got it all right and so did their coach Eddie Jones. Right in bringing back Ford, right in resisting the temptation to buttress his line-out with another jumper in place of the relentless Curry, right with the conditioning that allowed his picks to keep going at a pace that first stretched the black-shirted resolve and then broke it.\n\nA first World Cup final since 2007 but done in such a contrasting way.\n\nEngland in Paris 12 years ago were a gutsy collection of old warriors and stalwarts who refused to beaten. They won games through the last true international hurrah of Jonny Wilkinson and disbanded quietly once coldly dismantled by South Africa in the final.\n\nThis is a young team that is accelerating into world-beating maturity before our eyes, a squad that shipped 31 second-half points against Scotland as recently as last March and finished a dismal fifth in the Six Nations a year before, now pushing back fresh boundaries with every game that comes.\n\nThe only England team to ever win the Webb-Ellis trophy arrived at the tournament in 2003 as the best team in the world and held their position on the curve just long enough to make it count when it truly mattered.\n\nThis one shows no sign of stalling. Jones has had some luck in having Tuilagi and both Vunipolas fit when Stuart Lancaster lost two of the three four years ago. He has reaped the harvest that Lancaster sowed in giving debuts to a young Farrell, and Ford, and May, and Slade.\n\nBut he is taking that raw mix and turning it into something special. At a time of financial crisis the RFU bet the house on Jones. He has now narrowed the odds in a way that many doubted he could.\n\nNo-one is remembered for winning a semi-final. Should all this momentum, hope and belief come crashing down in the same stadium in a week's time then Saturday's triumph will fade and pale.\n\nYet as Hey Jude and Wonderwall blasted out around the two tiers of blue seats on Saturday evening, and white shirts in the stands cavorted and bellowed along, it was all about the now and this night.\n\nThe kings are dead, their throne empty. Next week can wait for another dawn.", "Ben Gillham-Rice (left) died from a knife wound to the chest and Dom Ansah (right) was killed by a stab wound to the back\n\nA third man has been arrested in connection with the deaths of two teenagers who were stabbed to death at a house party.\n\nDom Ansah and Ben Gillham-Rice, both 17, died after being attacked at a birthday party in Archford Croft in Milton Keynes on 19 October.\n\nA 27-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and released under investigation.\n\nTwo other men have been charged with two counts of murder.\n\nCharlie Chandler, 21, of Fitzwilliam Street, Bletchley, and Earl Bevans, 22, of no fixed abode, are due to appear at Luton Crown Court on Monday.\n\nThe two men have also been charged with two counts of attempted murder in relation to two \"males\" who were seriously injured in the incident.\n\nEarlier, Thames Valley Police said they believed others were involved in the stabbings and urged them to come forward or risk being publicly named.\n\nThe boys were stabbed in Archford Croft in Milton Keynes\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCoverage: Listen to live radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live and follow live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nHead coach Eddie Jones promised an even better England performance in the World Cup final after their dominant semi-final victory against New Zealand.\n\nJones' side demolished the three-time world champions 19-7 to reach their first final in 12 years.\n\nWhen asked if it was one of the best England showings of all time, Jones replied: \"Give us another week\".\n\n\"We're not historians, we don't know. We know we can play better next week,\" he added.\n• None 'Finest performance of their lives dethrones All Blacks'\n\nNew Zealand had not lost a World Cup game in 12 years, but England took control of the semi-final immediately thanks to a Manu Tuilagi try in the second minute.\n\nNew Zealand flanker Ardie Savea took advantage of a line-out error to score the All Blacks' only try, but four George Ford penalties kept England out of reach.\n\nIt is the first time England have beaten New Zealand in a Rugby World Cup match and means they will now face Wales or South Africa in the final next Saturday.\n\nBut Jones is not getting ahead of himself, insisting that England are not thinking about the implications of their stunning victory.\n\n\"All that stuff you guys are talking about is for you to talk about so enjoy it because you won't be getting anything from us,\" Jones told journalists.\n\n\"We're ready for a good week. That's the only thing we have to be ready for.\n\n\"We've got the right focus. I remember our first meeting together four years ago.\n\n\"We wanted to be the best team in the world. We're not the best team in the world. We've got the opportunity to play in the game to prove that.\"\n• None All Blacks lost to the better side - Steve Hansen\n\n'Wales v South Africa will go to extra time'\n\nWales will face the Springboks in the other semi-final on Sunday and a Welsh victory would set up the first home nations final in Rugby World Cup history.\n\nEngland were beaten by Wales as they crashed out at the group stage of a home World Cup in 2015.\n\nWhoever his side face in the final on 2 November, Jones jokingly predicted their opponents will have had to play extra time to get there.\n\n\"We're looking forward to Wales and South Africa playing through to a draw, then they have to play extra time and if it's still a draw they have to play even more extra time,\" he said.\n\n\"I'll definitely come and watch the game tomorrow.\"\n\nNumber eight Billy Vunipola, who won his 50th England cap in the semi-final victory, said Jones told the players to focus on their \"own brand of rugby\".\n\n\"At the start of the week, Eddie said he wanted us to rewrite history and we have gone one step towards doing that,\" he said.\n\n\"We talked all week about that fact the All Blacks don't go away. They are the number one team in the world for a reason, and you have to work for everything.\n\n\"You have to play in the right areas and I thought our generals were amazing putting us in the right places and giving us opportunities to get our breath back.\"\n\nVunipola also praised the performance of young flankers Tom Curry and Sam Underhill.\n\n\"It's made my job easier so I'm happy that I'm on their side,\" he said. \"They are like the Duracell bunnies, they just go all day and that allows me to rest and hopefully I can make use of that by helping in other ways.\"\n\nCurry, 21, added: \"You have to take the occasion in and not let it pass you by but control is massive to our game and we have to make sure we deliver that again.\n\n\"We don't want to do a disservice to ourselves because of the occasion.\n\n\"The World Cup is such a fast-moving pace we have to shift our focus quickly on to South Africa or Wales.\"\n\nLock Maro Itoje was named man of the match but says he can still improve by being \"more engaged, more in the moment\".\n\n\"We will just build and build towards the final,\" he added. \"We will make sure the guys have the right attitude, as well as the right time to relax and switch off a little bit.\"\n\nEngland won 90% of their own line-outs and stole the ball twice on the New Zealand throw, though the only All Blacks' try came from an England error.\n\n\"You don't win two World Cups for no reason,\" said Itoje.\n\n\"They are a top, top team. They've set the standard for the last eight to ten years of world rugby. We had to be at our absolute best to try and challenge them.\n\n\"The moment you slip off against them, they score. And that line-out just proved that.\"", "A rare bottle of Scotch whisky hit the headlines this week after it was sold for a world record £1.45m at auction in London.\n\nThe Macallan 1926 60-year-old single malt from cask number 263 had been described by Sotheby's as the \"holy grail\" of whisky.\n\nAt more than £50,000 a dram, you might expect it to taste spectacular.\n\nWe tracked down one of the few people in the world to have tried the whisky to give us his verdict.\n\nDavid Robertson tasted it a number of times between 1994 and 2000 when he was distillery manager and then master distiller at The Macallan.\n\nIt's a great whisky - but I've had better\n\nMr Robertson, who is now a co-director of whisky experts Rare Whisky 101 (RW101), recalls: \"My boss and I were lucky enough to have a few samples in the nosing room that we had to ensure were 'ok'.\n\n\"From memory it was an incredibly rich, intense spirit - full of dried fruits, of prunes and dates and tons of incredible spicy notes of cloves, ginger and cinnamon.\n\n\"I also recall zesty orange marmalade, hints of peat and smoke, finished with a delicious drying oak tannin from the sherry cask, and waxy, linseed oil and leather notes.\"\n\n\"It's a great whisky - but I've had better. The Macallan 1979 Gran Reserva, for example, was truly a stunning dram. There are other bottles from other distillers that are at least as good.\"\n\nThe Spanish oak sherry cask was distilled in 1926 and bottled in 1986.\n\nMacallan commissioned pop artists Peter Blake and Valerio Adami to design labels for a limited edition of 24 bottles - 12 Adami and 12 Blake.\n\nOne bottle was hand-painted by Irish artist Michael Dillon.\n\nThe rest of the bottles form part of The Macallan Fine and Rare Collection, which includes the Macallan 1926.\n\nExperts believe at least one of the bottles has been consumed.\n\nThe new owner of the Macallan 1926, who has not been identified, may never get round to tasting this particular bottle.\n\nRW101 co-director Andy Simpson says purchasers of rare whisky fall into three categories - the drinker, the investor and the collector.\n\nThe 60-year-old Macallan sold for a record £1.45m at auction\n\nMr Simpson thinks it unlikely that the bottle was bought to be consumed, given its value.\n\nNor does he think an investor is behind the purchase.\n\nHe explains: \"The investor is looking to leverage value in a bottle by buying low and selling high, which is clearly not the case here.\n\n\"In my opinion - and I could be wrong - this bottle was bought by a collector who simply didn't care about the price because they needed it to complete a collection.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nanammal talked to the BBC in 2017\n\nIndia's oldest exponent and teacher of yoga, V Nanammal, has died at her home near Coimbatore, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.\n\nShe was 99 and still teaching a hundred students a day until a few months ago.\n\nBorn into an agricultural family, she was taught yoga by her father.\n\nShe went on to master more than 50 postures or asanas, and trained more than a million students - hundreds of them now yoga instructors themselves around the world.\n\nV Nanammal (right) was known for her trademark pink sari\n\nKnown affectionately as \"Yoga Grandma\", Nanammal received the Padma Shri - one of India's highest civilian honours.\n\nShe became a popular figure on YouTube in her later years, still performing some of the most formidable yoga positions in her trademark pink sari.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The inspiration behind eight famous yoga poses\n\nA week ago, she fell from her bed and had been unwell since then, family sources were quoted as saying by India's PTI news agency.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News in 2017, Nanammal attributed her good health to her daily yoga routine.\n\n\"Health becomes your priority and everything is achievable,\" she said.", "Maurice Robinson will appear before magistrates on Monday, police have said\n\nA lorry driver has been charged with the manslaughter of 39 people found dead inside a refrigerated trailer.\n\nMaurice Robinson, 25, was arrested after the bodies of 31 men and eight women were found in Grays on Wednesday.\n\nHe is further charged with people trafficking, immigration and money laundering offences, Essex Police said.\n\nMr Robinson, of Laurel Drive, Craigavon, Northern Ireland, is due before Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nThree others, a man and a woman, both 38, from Warrington, Cheshire, and a 48-year-old man from Northern Ireland remain in police custody.\n\nAll three were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people.\n\nA man in his 20s arrested by Irish police in Dublin was said to be \"of interest\" to the Essex Police investigation.\n\nEarlier police said efforts to identify the 39 people were focusing on the Vietnamese community.\n\nThe bodies were discovered in the early hours of Wednesday\n\nThe victims - who police initially believed to be Chinese nationals - were inside a refrigerated trailer which came to the UK via the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.\n\nOfficers said there had been a \"large amount of engagement\" from the Vietnamese population since the discovery of the bodies in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nThey said all the bodies had now been removed from the trailer and post-mortem examinations were being carried out.\n\nThe victims had been carrying \"very few\" identity documents, leaving officers to rely on fingerprints, DNA and distinguishing features such as tattoos or scars, he said.\n\nThe families of Pham Thi Tra My and Nguyen Dinh Luong are concerned they may be among the victims\n\nVietHome, an organisation that represents the Vietnamese community in the UK, said it had received photos of nearly 20 people reported missing.\n\nThe BBC has been contacted by Vietnamese families who fear their relatives were among the dead, including the family of Pham Thi Tra My, 26, who last messaged her family late on Tuesday.\n\nIn a text message shared by her parents, she said: \"I am really, really sorry, Mum and Dad, my trip to a foreign land has failed.\n\n\"I am dying, I can't breathe. I love you very much Mum and Dad. I am sorry, Mother.\"\n\nNguyen Dinh Gia believes his son, Nguyen Dinh Luong, 20, was also among the 39 victims.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nguyen Dinh Sat fears his son was among the 39 people found dead inside a refrigerated lorry\n\nRelatives of a third man - Nguyen Dinh Tu - have also contacted the BBC saying they had not heard from him. His father, Nguyen Dinh Sat, said his son had been in debt so decided to travel abroad to seek work.\n\nIt also emerged on Saturday that the family of a 19-year-old Vietnamese woman Bui Thi Nhung fear she may be among the dead.\n\nPrayers have been said for her during a service in Yen Thanh, in the northern central coast region of Vietnam.\n\nTran Ngoc An, the Vietnamese ambassador to the UK, visited Grays on Saturday morning with embassy officers and held meetings with Essex Police and the local council.\n\nThe ambassador has also spoken to Home Secretary Priti Patel about the deaths.\n\nIn a statement, the embassy said there was a \"willingness to exchange information and to co-ordinate\" with British authorities to help identify the victims.\n\nIt added that there had been no official confirmation of the identity of the victims.\n\nThe Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said he had asked the relevant authorities to urgently establish the identities of victims and look into the cases of Vietnamese nationals who were sent abroad illegally.\n\nDo you have any information to share about the incident? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland were the \"better team\" and deserved to reach the World Cup final, says New Zealand coach Steve Hansen.\n\nEngland produced a dominant performance to beat the three-time world champions 19-7 in the semi-final in Yokohama.\n\nIt was a first defeat for the All Blacks at the tournament since 2007, having won the past two editions.\n\n\"There's a lot of hurt. That adversity will feed a lot of All Blacks teams in the future, so we'll find one positive out of it,\" said Hansen.\n\n\"Congratulations to England. They were deserved winners. You had two very good sides going at each other and the team that took the game won the game.\n\n\"We've got no regrets. I'm really proud of our team, they've done a tremendous job for their country and tonight they weren't good enough.\n\n\"We have to take that on the chin and so do the people back home.\"\n• None England can play better in final - Jones\n• None 'England produce finest performance of their lives to dethrone All Blacks'\n\nManu Tuilagi crossed after 98 seconds for England, who opened a 13-0 lead before Ardie Savea responded with a try 23 minutes from time.\n\nGeorge Ford kicked two further penalties to earn England a place in the final for the first time in 12 years.\n\nHansen was New Zealand assistant coach in 2007 when the All Blacks were beaten by France at the quarter-final stage.\n\n\"Having been here in 2007 it's disappointing,\" said Hansen, who took charge in 2012 and oversaw the All Blacks' 2015 success.\n\n\"The big difference is the fact that we stepped up to the plate today - we played as well as we possibly could and just got beaten by a better team.\n\n\"England created the goforward in the game, we struggled to dominate them at the set-piece or breakdown.\n\n\"When you're going forward you get all the 50-50 decisions - I'm not trying to make an excuse, that's just what happens in the game.\n\n\"You start making fundamental errors because you're desperate; you start offloading balls that you wouldn't have to if the scoreboard was in your favour. That's how I knew the guys were trying.\"\n\nHansen dismissed any suggestions his side were not \"hungry\" having headed into the match on an 18-game winning run at the World Cup and as two-time defending champions.\n\n\"The boys are desperately hurting,\" he added. \"You put a lot of time and energy into trying to come and win the thing.\n\n\"If you don't achieve what you wanted to do you have to put your big boy pants on and stand up and be counted.\"\n\n'England gave us a punch on the nose'\n\nNew Zealand wing George Bridge says Tuilagi's try inside two minutes put England on top from the off.\n\n\"They came out with a hiss and a roar, gave us a punch to the nose from the get-go,\" he said.\n\n\"Their big ball carriers really got the momentum and defensively they were really sharp.\n\n\"When they hit their numbers they put a lot of pressure on us and then when they were short of numbers they held and pushed really well.\"\n\nAll Blacks scrum-half Aaron Smith says England's dominance at the breakdown and set-piece hurt his side.\n\n\"They were great there. I felt in the first 30 minutes we were bending them and finding half-gaps but we were just missing key cleanouts,\" he said.\n\n\"Their guys were all over the ball all night. They were at us at set-piece, they were at us in our phase and they kept turning us around in their phase-play attack by kicking it a lot.\n\n\"We just weren't able to get out of our half at critical times.\"", "Pham Thi Tra My's brother said the family had arranged for £30,000 to be paid to smugglers\n\nAt least six of the 39 people found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex may have been from Vietnam.\n\nThe BBC knows of six Vietnamese families who fear their relatives are among the victims.\n\nThey include Pham Thi Tra My, 26, who has not been heard from since she sent text messages on Tuesday saying she could not breathe.\n\nA man was earlier arrested at Stansted Airport on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people.\n\nThe 48-year-old from Northern Ireland is the fourth person to be arrested in connection with the investigation.\n\nTwo people from Warrington are being held on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people and the lorry driver is in custody on suspicion of murder.\n\nMs Tra My's brother, Pham Ngoc Tuan, said some of the £30,000 charge for getting his sister to the UK had been paid to people smugglers and her last-known location had been Belgium.\n\nThe smugglers are understood to have returned money to some families.\n\nMeanwhile, relatives of Nguyen Dinh Luong, 20, have also said they fear he is among the 39 victims.\n\nNguyen Dinh Luong has been named by relatives as a possible victim\n\nMs Tra My's brother told the BBC: \"My sister went missing on 23 October on the way from Vietnam to the UK and we couldn't contact her. We are concerned she may be in that trailer.\n\n\"We are asking the British police to help investigate so that my sister can be returned to the family.\"\n\nThe last message received from Ms Tra My was at 22:30 BST on Tuesday - two hours before the trailer arrived at the Purfleet terminal from Zeebrugge in Belgium.\n\nHer family have shared texts she sent to her parents which translated read: \"I am really, really sorry, Mum and Dad, my trip to a foreign land has failed.\n\n\"I am dying, I can't breathe. I love you very much Mum and Dad. I am sorry, Mother.\"\n\nThe bodies were discovered in the early hours of Wednesday\n\nMs Tra My's brother told the BBC her journey to the UK had begun on 3 October. She had told the family not to contact her because \"the organisers\" did not allow her to receive calls.\n\n\"She flew to China and stayed there for a couple days, then left for France,\" he said.\n\n\"She called us when she reached each destination. The first attempt she made to cross the border to the UK was 19 October, but she got caught and turned back. I don't know for sure from which port.\"\n\nThe BBC has passed details of Ms Tra My, who is from Nghen town in Can Loc district of Ha Tinh province area of Vietnam, to Essex Police, along with details of other people claiming to have information.\n\nThe BBC also knows of two other Vietnamese nationals who are missing - a 26-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman.\n\nThe brother of the 19-year-old said his sister called him at 07:20 Belgian local time (06:20 BST) on Tuesday, saying she was getting into a container and was turning off her phone to avoid detection.\n\nHe has not heard from her since.\n\nHe said a people smuggler returned money to the family overnight, and the family of the 26-year-old who she was travelling with also received money back.\n\nA spokesman from the Vietnamese Embassy in London confirmed they had been in contact with Essex police since Thursday.\n\nThey said Vietnamese families had appealed to them for help finding out if their relatives were among the victims but added they had not yet received any official confirmation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thirty nine bodies were found in the trailer container\n\nThe victims of the trailer were 31 men and eight women and Essex Police initially said they were all believed to be Chinese.\n\nThey were found at an industrial estate in Grays at 01:40 BST on Wednesday.\n\nAt a press conference on Friday evening Deputy Chief Constable Pippa Mills said the force was working with the National Crime Agency, the Home Office, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Border Force and Immigration Enforcement.\n\nShe said she would not be drawn on any further detail about the nationalities of the victims until formal identification processes had taken place.\n\n\"We gave an initial steer on Thursday on nationality, however, this is now a developing picture,\" she said.\n\nPolice have confirmed the scene at Waterglade Industrial Estate in Eastern Avenue was closed on Friday.\n\nEssex Police also urged anyone fearing their loved ones may have been in the lorry to get in touch.\n\n\"I can't begin to comprehend what some of you must be going through right now. You have my assurance that Essex Police will be working tirelessly to understand the whole picture to this absolute tragedy,\" said Det Ch Con Mills.\n\nShe also urged anyone living illegally in the UK who may have information to come forward, without fear of criminal action being taken against them.\n\nGPS data shows the refrigerated container trailer crossed back and forth between the UK and Europe in the days before it was found.\n\nIt was leased from the company Global Trailer Rentals on 15 October. The company said it was \"entirely unaware that the trailer was to be used in the manner in which it appears to have been\".\n\nEssex Police said the tractor unit (the front part of the lorry) had entered the UK via Holyhead - an Irish Sea port in Wales - on Sunday 20 October, having travelled over from Dublin.\n\nThe lorry driver has been named locally as Mo Robinson, from County Armagh\n\nPolice believe the tractor unit collected the trailer in Purfleet on the River Thames and left the port shortly after 01:05 on Thursday. Police were called to the industrial park where the bodies were discovered about half an hour later.\n\nTemperatures in refrigerated units can be as low as -25C (-13F). The lorry now is at a secure site in Essex.\n\nA spokesman for the UN International Organization for Migration said the discovery of bodies in Essex did not necessarily indicate a major shift in migration patterns.\n\n\"These are the kind of random crimes that occur every day in the world somewhere,\" he said. \"They get huge attention when they do but they don't necessarily indicate a big shift in migration or patterns in any place in particular. It's just the condition of what happens when this many people are engaging this many criminal groups to reach a destination, which of course we deplore.\"\n\nDetectives are still questioning the lorry driver, Mo Robinson, of County Armagh in Northern Ireland, on suspicion of murder. He was arrested on Wednesday.\n\nTwo other people were also earlier arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.\n\nThe man and woman, both 38, from Warrington, Cheshire, are also being held on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic people.\n\nPolice officers were seen at the couple's home address in Warrington, with a police van and two squad cars parked outside.\n\nThe container made its final crossing from Zeebrugge to Purfleet on Tuesday\n\nDo you have any information to share about the incident? If it is safe for you to do so please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bodies were discovered in the early hours of Wednesday\n\nTwo people have been arrested on suspicion of the manslaughter of 39 people found dead in a refrigerated lorry in Essex.\n\nThe man and woman, both 38, from Warrington, Cheshire, were also held on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to the families of three Vietnamese people who are worried their relatives may have been in the trailer.\n\nThe family of one woman say she sent a text saying she could not breathe.\n\nThey say Pham Tra My, 26, sent the message on Tuesday night and they have not been able to contact her since. They said they had paid £30,000 for her to be smuggled to Britain.\n\nTwo other families have also been in touch with the BBC. They are relatives of a 26-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman.\n\nThe 19-year-old's brother said she called him early on Tuesday to say she was getting in to a container and was turning off her phone to avoid detection.\n\nThere has been no word from her since, he said, but a people smuggler had returned money to the family.\n\nRelatives of the 26-year-old - with whom she was said to be travelling - also received money back, according to the younger woman's brother.\n\nMonth-long journey: Ms Pham's brother said that £30,000 had been paid to people smugglers\n\nEssex Police initially said the victims - 31 men and eight women - were believed to be Chinese.\n\nThey were found at an industrial estate in Grays at 01:40 BST on Wednesday.\n\nDetectives are still questioning the lorry driver on suspicion of murder.\n\nPolice have been given extra time to question driver Mo Robinson, of County Armagh in Northern Ireland, who was arrested on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thirty nine bodies were found in the trailer container\n\nPost-mortem examinations are due to start later after the first 11 bodies were moved from Tilbury Port to Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford.\n\nPrivate ambulances continued transporting more of the 39 bodies from the refrigerated lorry trailer to the mortuary on Friday.\n\nThe trailer arrived in Purfleet on the River Thames from Zeebrugge in Belgium at 00:30 on Wednesday.\n\nIt left the port shortly after 01:05 the same day and the bodies were found in the trailer at Waterglade Industrial Park about 30 minutes later.\n\nThe lorry driver has been named locally as Mo Robinson, from County Armagh\n\nPolice said recovering the bodies would take time and the dignity of the victims was its primary concern.\n\nThe Chinese Ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, said he had sent a team to Essex to help verify the identity of the victims. He added that their nationality was yet to be confirmed.\n\nEssex Police believes the lorry arrived in Holyhead in north Wales on Sunday, having travelled from Dublin.\n\nGlobal Trailer Rentals Ltd told RTE News it owned the trailer and said it had been hired on 15 October.\n\nTracking data from the trailer shows it had travelled between cities in Belgium and France, including Dunkirk, Bruges, and Lille, in the days before the discovery, sources said.\n\nDo you have any information to share about the incident? If it is safe for you to do so please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amelia Bambridge's sister Georgie (right) said the family were trying to be strong\n\nA British student who disappeared after a beach party on a Cambodian island has been reported missing.\n\nAmelia Bambridge, 21, who was on her gap year, was last seen in the resort of Koh Rong on Wednesday.\n\nMembers of her family, from Worthing, Sussex, flew from the UK to Cambodia where searches of the sea, beaches and jungle have begun.\n\nMs Bambridge's sister Georgie said the family was in touch with police and trying to stay strong as concerns grew.\n\nFriends reported Amelia's \"out-of-character\" disappearance after her belongings were found on a beach.\n\nRyan Harris said \"alarm bells started\" when she could not be found after the party.\n\n\"She always sticks with the group. She never wanders off on her own,\" he said.\n\nSearches have covered areas of water, beach and jungle on Koh Rong\n\nMr Harris said Koh Rong was \"quite a small island\" which someone could walk around in two or three hours.\n\n\"You might lose your friend after a night out but you'll see them in 20 minutes or you might see them the next morning,\" he said.\n\nMr Harris, who said he was on a neighbouring island with another group at the time of the party, said volunteers had come together to search for his friend.\n\nMs Bambridge has gone missing on the small Cambodian island\n\nMs Bambridge had been travelling with her friend Ryan Harris\n\n\"People are diving. People are checking the jungles and the beaches,\" he said.\n\n\"Police sent three search teams out, so they're helping as well. It's a whole island thing now. Everyone's looking.\"\n\nGeorgie Bambridge said relatives were distraught by her sister's disappearance.\n\n\"She is such a big part of this family,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to be strong and we are trying to be really positive, but it's the unknown.\"\n\nMs Bambridge, seen on the left with her mother Linda Bambridge and her sister Georgie, had been to a party when she disappeared\n\nThe family told the BBC that Ms Bambridge, who has three sisters and a brother, set off on her trip on 27 September and first flew to Vietnam to meet her Vietnamese father.\n\nThey both travelled to Cambodia before she checked into the hostel on Koh Rong.\n\nOn the night she disappeared, she had been with friends she had met at the hostel and they went to a party on Police Beach - named after its proximity to a disused police station.\n\nHer sister Georgie said she had spent two years saving and planning for her gap year trip while working at Lloyds bank. Her sisters described her as \"meticulously organised\".\n\nMs Bambridge, who is a vegan, has a Highland cow tattoo on her arm\n\nA Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman said: \"We are assisting the family of a British woman who has been reported missing in Cambodia and are in close contact with the Cambodian police.\"\n\nThe Lucie Blackman Trust, which supports the families of missing people overseas, has put out an appeal on Facebook.\n\nThe charity said Ms Bambridge was last seen at Police Beach where she attended a party in the early hours of 23 October, but had not returned to the Nest Beach Club Hostel where she was staying, and there were serious concerns for her welfare.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Labour MP who faced deselection under new party rules has won the contest to be the prospective candidate in her constituency in the next election.\n\nDiana Johnson, for Hull North, faced losing the seat she had held for 14 years after becoming the first MP to face a reselection battle.\n\nShe said it had been a \"very stressful\" campaign but said she was delighted to win.\n\nMs Jonson took 292 votes against Hull councillor Aneesa Akbar who had 101.\n\nHer reselection was triggered under rules that trigger a run-off election if a third of Labour branches in the constituency lose confidence in their candidate.\n\nMs Johnson said her victory reflected the fact she had a \"strong track record\" and \"her hard work and dedication to Hull\".\n\nShe added: \"It's been a very stressful campaign because obviously it's been in the middle of the national crisis around Brexit, so it has been a very difficult few weeks trying to balance being a member of parliament in Westminster and running a campaign.\"\n\nIn 2018, the MP was named Backbencher of the Year by the Political Studies Association for her campaigning on the NHS contaminated blood scandal.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City equalled the 24-year-old record for the biggest ever Premier League victory as 10-man Southampton were dismantled at a rainswept St Mary's.\n\nThe victory sees Brendan Rodgers' side climb into second place, leapfrogging Manchester City and moving five points behind leaders Liverpool.\n\nThe result, which matches Manchester United's 9-0 win against Ipswich in 1995, was only confirmed in stoppage time thanks to Jamie Vardy's penalty.\n\nBoth Vardy and Ayoze Perez scored hat-tricks, with the visitors aided by Ryan Bertrand's red card for a reckless challenge on Perez in the build-up to Ben Chilwell's opener.\n\nThat opened the floodgates for Leicester, who turned on the style just two days before the first anniversary of the helicopter crash that killed the club's former chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four other people.\n\nYouri Tielemans also scored his third goal of the campaign and James Maddison added a superb free-kick on a miserable evening for Southampton, who drop into the bottom three.\n• None recorded the biggest ever victory by an away side in an English top-flight league match in the 131-year history of the Football League\n• None inflicted Southampton's biggest ever defeat as an English league side in all competitions in their history\n• None became only the second team in Premier League history to establish a five-goal lead in the first half of an away game in the competition, after Manchester City against Burnley in April 2010 (also 5-0)\n• None became only the second side in Premier League history to have two players score a hat-trick in the same game (Perez and Vardy), after Arsenal in May 2003 - also against Southampton (Pennant and Pires)\n\nLeicester 'here to stay at top' - Chilwell\n\nLeicester may have played a game more than Liverpool but this emphatic result means that they have now scored more goals than the league leaders and are just four behind Manchester City.\n\nAnd the omens look good for Rodgers' side who have now collected one point more from the opening 10 games of the current season than at the same stage of their title-winning campaign in 2015-16.\n\nWith trips to Crystal Palace and Brighton on the horizon either side of hosting Arsenal, Leicester have every chance to kick on from their strong start, but given the strength and form of Liverpool and Manchester City, a title challenge appears unlikely.\n\nBut the manner in which the Foxes ruthlessly cut through the hosts will nevertheless serve as a warning to others, with their three goals inside the opening 19 minutes the fastest they have amassed that scoreline in a Premier League match since 1998.\n\nAlso working in Leicester's favour is the attacking menace still being provided by Vardy.\n\nWhile the forward is approaching his 33rd birthday, there are few signs, if any, that his physical capabilities are waning and he looked as sprightly as ever as he recorded his first hat-trick for almost three years.\n\nHis first showed nimbleness and awareness as he cut inside Saints defender Maya Yoshida to drill a close-range effort into the bottom corner, while his second showcased smart movement as he headed past Angus Gunn from close range. His trademark blistering pace then took him clear of the Southampton defence to win and convert a late penalty.\n\nHis exploits were also complemented by Perez, who opened his account for the season after finding the bottom-right corner following a neat one-two with Tielemans.\n\nThe Spaniard then superbly swept home Chilwell's pinpoint cross for his second before finding the bottom corner with a left-footed shot to complete his treble.\n\nWhat does this mean for sorry Southampton?\n\nAt the start of the evening Southampton's focus was purely on ending a barren run of seven games without a home win dating back to April.\n\nBut by half-time manager Ralph Hasenhuttl had changed tack considerably, by simply trying to avoid any further embarrassment.\n\nThe Austrian, who at times appeared exasperated and spent much of the interval sitting in his technical area, introduced Kevin Danso and Jack Stephens to replace Jannik Vestergaard and Danny Ings, but it was too little to late.\n\nWith the crowd visibly thinning in the second period, Hasenhuttl must now hope the scale of this defeat has not eroded the confidence of his players too much.\n\nWhile the Saints are a couple of points better off than at the same time last term, they appear in danger of being dragged into another relegation fight.\n\nAnd their road to redemption is unlikely to be an easy one with their next two fixtures away at Manchester City in both the Carabao Cup and Premier League.\n\n'We were ruthless' - what they said\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers, speaking to BBC Match of the Day:\n\n\"I'm very pleased to see our work rate, we scored some great goals and we were very hungry tonight. It was horrible weather but our focus was outstanding. I'm very pleased how we defended, and we were ruthless. I'm very proud to stand and be the manager of that team.\n\n\"We wanted to get the ball back quickly and attack again. A mark of the good sides is you don't let up. We wanted to show we're a good side and we certainly did that in the second half.\n\n\"We were ruthlessly simple in our game. When you're so many goals up you can easily slow but we kept focused. We want to be a top team and to be a top team you must be clinical.\n\n\"It was a very good team performance and we're pleased to keep a clean sheet. It's good for our goals for but the clean sheet is equally important.\"\n\nSouthampton manager Ralph Hasenhuttl, speaking to BBC Match of the Day:\n\n\"That was one of the tough ones tonight. The performance was a disaster today and I have to apologies and take 100% responsibility - I've never seen a team act like this, there was no fight for anything.\n\n\"It was horrible to watch and everyone who stayed to watch is really a fan of this football club. Leicester were in every part of the game better than us I'm a proud man but the way we play today is not the way I want to see my team play. We must get our heads up and that is my job in the next few days.\n\n\"I said we must play to the last minute but I can understand why the fans that left. We all must to do everything to pull this back. I haven't looked at the [Ryan Bertrand] red card but it doesn't make any difference in this moment.\"\n\nOn what was said after the game: \"There is nothing I want to speak of here in front of the camera - we keep that for in the dressing room.\"\n\nSouthampton travel to Manchester City in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday (19:45 GMT) before returning to the Etihad in the Premier League on Saturday, 2 November (15:00 GMT).\n\nLeicester travel to Burton in the EFL Cup also on Tuesday (19:45 GMT) before going to Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Sunday, 3 November (14:00 GMT).\n• None Goal! Southampton 0, Leicester City 9. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Jan Bednarek (Southampton) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Youri Tielemans (Leicester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marc Albrighton with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ben Chilwell.\n• None Offside, Southampton. Jack Stephens tries a through ball, but Nathan Redmond is caught offside.\n• None Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Southampton 0, Leicester City 8. James Maddison (Leicester City) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Ben Chilwell (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Youri Tielemans.\n• None Attempt missed. Nathan Redmond (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Kevin Danso following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Trains leaving the station were being delayed by up to 90 minutes or cancelled, National Rail said\n\nCommuters travelling from a major London railway station faced severe disruption after a \"serious trespass incident\".\n\nLines into London Euston were shut as emergency services helped someone near Wembley Central station.\n\nBritish Transport Police said they were called at 16:25 BST and a male had been \"taken to a place of safety\".\n\nNetwork Rail warned problems would last until the end of service on Friday as trains were out of place.\n\nCrew on board the train halted for more than an hour have handed passengers glow sticks after turning off the power\n\nLines later reopened but Network Rail had warned the station concourse remained \"very busy\" and that crowd management would be put in place.\n\nPower was cut on some trains with one commuter describing how they were stuck on a train.\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 Northwestern Railway, London Overground, Southern and Virgin Trains were all affected:\n\nNetwork Rail warned problems would last until the end of service as trains were out of place\n\nNational Rail said anybody unable to travel on Friday night could use trains on Saturday for no extra cost.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fatty tissue has been found in the lungs of overweight and obese people for the first time.\n\nAustralian researchers analysed lung samples from 52 people and found the amount of fat increased in line with body mass index.\n\nThey said their findings could explain why being overweight or obese increased asthma risk.\n\nLung experts said it would be interesting to see if the effect could be reversed by weight loss.\n\nIn the study, published in the European Respiratory Journal, scientists looked at post-mortem samples of lung donated for research.\n\nFifteen had had no reported asthma, 21 had asthma but died of other causes and 16 died of the condition.\n\nThe scientists used dyes to carry out detailed analyses of almost 1,400 airways from the lung samples under the microscope.\n\nThe researchers found adipose (fatty) tissue in the walls of airways, with more present in people with a higher body mass index,\n\nAnd they say the increase in fat appears to alter the normal structure of the airways and cause inflammation in the lungs - which could explain the increased risk of asthma in overweight or obese people.\n\nDr Peter Noble, an associate professor at the University of Western Australia, in Perth who worked on the study, said: \"Being overweight or obese has already been linked to having asthma or having worse asthma symptoms.\n\n\"Researchers have suggested that the link might be explained by the direct pressure of excess weight on the lungs or by a general increase in inflammation created by excess weight.\"\n\nBut, he said, their study suggested \"another mechanism is also at play\".\n\n\"We've found that excess fat accumulates in the airway walls, where it takes up space and seems to increase inflammation within the lungs,\" Dr Noble said.\n\n\"We think this is causing a thickening of the airways that limits the flow of air in and out of the lungs and that could at least partly explain an increase in asthma symptoms.\"\n\nProf Thierry Troosters, president of the European Respiratory Society, said: \"This is an important finding on the relationship between body weight and respiratory disease because it shows how being overweight or obese might be making symptoms worse for people with asthma.\n\n\"This goes beyond the simple observation that patients with obesity need to breathe more with activity and exercise.\n\n\"The observation points at true airway changes that are associated with obesity.\"\n\nHe said more research was needed to find out if this build-up of fatty tissue could be reversed through weight loss but asthma patients should be helped to achieve a healthy weight.\n\nDr Elizabeth Sapey, chair of the science committee at the British Thoracic Society, said this was the first time body weight had been shown to impact the structure of the airways in the lungs.\n\n\"Given the increasing incidence of obesity nationally and across the globe, the study could be of major importance in helping us understand why asthma remains a major health issue and identify new ways to improve asthma treatment,\" she said.\n\n\"It is only a small study though, and we need to assess this in larger groups of patients and in other lung diseases,\" Dr Sapey added.", "Extinction Rebellion protests continued in central London despite police banning the group's climate change demonstrations in the capital.\n\nActivists blocked Oxford Circus with a wooden pyramid structure and descended on Westminster before moving to Trafalgar Square.\n\nOne man, who was dressed up as Boris Johnson, scaled the scaffolding surrounding Big Ben.\n\nMore than 1,760 arrests have been made in connection with the London protests.\n\nA \"closing ceremony\" to mark the end of nearly two weeks of protests was held in Trafalgar Square.\n\nProtesters moved there from Westminster, where an activist was arrested after climbing the scaffolding around the Elizabeth Tower.\n\nHe unfurled an Extinction Rebellion banner to \"highlight government inaction on the climate and ecological emergency\".\n\nThe man, named by the group as tree surgeon Ben Atkinson, 43, was on the scaffolding for nearly three hours, before police brought him down safely using a lift at about 19:00 BST.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An Extinction Rebellion protester has scaled Big Ben, dressed as Boris Johnson\n\nMr Atkinson had been willing to stay up there until his demand to speak to the prime minister was met, according to a fellow activist.\n\nOutside the gates of Downing Street, protesters sang and held up their hands - which many had painted red to symbolise blood.\n\n\"We will raise our red hands, taking responsibility for our actions - we all have blood on our hands,\" a post on Extinction Rebellion's website reads.\n\nEarlier police used a cherry picker to clear protesters perched on a wooden structure built to block the road at Oxford Circus.\n\nSpecialist teams brought in a JCB to dismantle the structure that protesters had made.\n\nThe Extinction Rebellion London Twitter account said the junction, which was also occupied by the group for several days in April, was targeted because Oxford Street is a centre of fast fashion and is heavily polluted.\n\nIt also said the central London street was a \"hub of luxury goods for the wealthiest\", citing an Oxfam report from 2015 that claimed the richest 10% of people are responsible for half of all carbon emissions.\n\nThe protests come despite a ban on two or more people linked to Extinction Rebellion assembling in London, announced by police on Monday.\n\nThe Met Police lifted the ban following the \"closing ceremony\" at Trafalgar Square, explaining that it was no longer necessary because the stretch of protests, dubbed the Autumn Uprising, had ended.\n\nThe demonstrations had originally been due to finish on Saturday.", "Emergency services were called to the Tate Modern on 4 August\n\nA six-year-old boy who was allegedly thrown off a 10th floor balcony at the Tate Modern is out of intensive care, his family has said.\n\nThe boy, who was visiting London with his family, suffered a \"deep\" bleed to the brain in the fall on 4 August.\n\nThe French national, who cannot be named, is in a rehabilitation centre with splints on some of his limbs.\n\nJonty Bravery, from west London, has been charged with attempted murder.\n\nThe 18-year-old, who was 17 when he was charged in August, is due to appear in court for a plea hearing next month.\n\nJonty Bravery, 18, has been charged with attempted murder\n\nIn a post on a crowdfunding page, which has raised more than £107,000 for the injured boy's care, his family said he was making progress but had not yet been able to speak.\n\n\"He is now in a rehabilitation centre,\" the post said, adding: \"He still has some metal in his body but instead of plasters he has got a full armour of splints - legs, feet, hands, arms, neck and torso.\"\n\nThe family described him as a \"little knight\" and added his splints could sometimes be taken off.\n\n\"He also makes some little progresses - he moves his right hand more and more, and arm on command,\" the post continued.\n\n\"We really hope he will speak and eat again as soon as possible, but we know that it can take months.\n\nA court has previously heard the boy sustained a fractured spine, along with leg and arm fractures.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One eyewitness captured the moment a climate protester was dragged from top of Tube train\n\nCommuters have dragged climate change protesters from the roof of a London Underground train.\n\nExtinction Rebellion activists climbed on to trains at Stratford, Canning Town and Shadwell in Thursday's rush hour. Eight protesters have been arrested, British Transport Police (BTP) said.\n\nThe Jubilee Line and Docklands Light Railway were temporarily suspended.\n\nExtinction Rebellion later said it would \"take stock\" of the reaction to the latest action for future protests.\n\nSpokesman Howard Rees said: \"Was it the right thing to do? I am not sure.\n\n\"I think we will have to have a period of reflection. It is too early to say.\"\n\nExtinction Rebellion previously said the disruption was \"necessary to highlight the emergency\".\n\nProtesters climbed to the top of a train carriage at Shadwell station\n\nHayden Green, a commuter at Canning Town, said he saw the protester \"dragged to the floor and kicked repeatedly\".\n\n\"Police have struggled to deal with the protest in London so the public stepped in and in the heat of the moment it was taken too far,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I support their cause but I think how the protests have been carried out has led to more divisions.\"\n\nHayden Green said violence broke out after a protester tried to \"kick a commuter\"\n\nIn footage shared on social media, a passenger waiting for a train is seen climbing on the carriage to get to one of the protesters.\n\nThe activist is grabbed by the knees and dragged down, falling to the platform where he appears to then be kicked and hit by angry commuters on the platform.\n\nOthers can be heard shouting and swearing at the protesters.\n\nOne shouts: \"I have to get to work too - I have to feed my kids.\"\n\nExtinction Rebellion protesters climb on to a Jubilee line train at Canning Town station\n\nA second protester was chased along the top of the train carriage by a commuter before being dragged off.\n\nA third Extinction Rebellion activist, who was broadcasting the protest on the group's social media accounts, said he was also attacked and \"kicked in the head\".\n\nBTP said it was investigating what happened at Canning Town station, adding it was \"concerning to see that a number of commuters took matters into their own hands, displaying violent behaviour to detain a protester\".\n\nIt has appealed for anyone with information, pictures or mobile phone footage of any of the incidents to upload them to its website.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Sean O'Callaghan said: \"It is important that commuters and other rail users allow the police, who are specially trained, to manage these incidents.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there is still a risk that Extinction Rebellion will target the rail network during this evening's peak. We will continue to have extra officers on patrol and will work to disrupt any potential criminal action before it happens.\"\n\nToday's Extinction Rebellion action against London's public transport network represents a significant escalation of its strategy of \"disruption\".\n\nIt is one thing to stage a colourful protest in a few roads in Whitehall, quite another to target the Tubes and trains that so many Londoners rely on to get them to work on time.\n\nMany commuters were left scratching their heads this morning, bewildered by an environmental protest that targeted one of the most environmentally-friendly ways to travel.\n\nThe tactic has been the subject of much discussion within Extinction Rebellion - a loose affiliation of interested groups and individuals.\n\nA poll among members taken yesterday suggests the vast majority were against any action targeting the London Underground.\n\nOut of 3,800 votes, 72% said they were opposed to any action against Tube trains and 14% were against the idea if people could get blocked underground.\n\nPerhaps not surprisingly, the decision to go ahead has upset many members - as well as commuters - and for good reason.\n\nTackling climate change will be easier if there is a consensus that action is necessary. The Extinction Rebellion activists behind this action will want to consider whether gluing yourself to a train is really the best way to build that consensus.\n\nAt Shadwell station several activists glued themselves to trains, including 83-year-old Phil Kingston.\n\nIn April, Extinction Rebellion protesters also glued themselves to a DLR train at Canary Wharf, causing minor delays.\n\n\"If XR wants to make an inclusive movement, these tactics on public transport at rush hour won't get them far,\" Ana Zarraga told the BBC.\n\nThe 35-year-old, who was prevented from catching her train at Shadwell, said: \"The bankers and the CEOs of the most polluting industries are certainly not travelling on the DLR at 07.00 BST.\"\n\nEarlier Extinction Rebellion co-founder Clare Farrell defended the Tube action, saying \"the public, I don't think, realise quite how serious this situation is\".\n\nShe added: \"Someone has been hurt today. We understand that putting ourselves in these positions is potentially dangerous for us.\n\n\"But what else can we do?\"\n\nThe protester who appeared to try to kick a commuter acted \"in self defence in a moment of panic when confronted by a threatening situation,\" Extinction Rebellion said.\n\n\"He acknowledges his accountability for this action,\" it said.\n\nThe group has invited the commuters involved in today's protest \"to have a conversation\" about what happened.\n\nAt Shadwell station, one of the protesters who had glued themselves to trains was 83-year-old Phil Kingston\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said in a statement: \"I strongly condemn the Extinction Rebellion protesters who have targeted the London Underground and DLR this morning.\n\n\"This illegal action is extremely dangerous, counterproductive and is causing unacceptable disruption to Londoners who use public transport to get to work.\"\n\nTrain drivers' union Aslef said the Tube and other public transport services were \"part of the solution to climate change, not the problem\".\n\nExtinction Rebellion should \"stick to protesting against those who create the problem - not our industry, members and hard-working commuters\", the union added.\n\nA public order ban has been put in place on Extinction Rebellion activities in London since Monday.\n\nAt the High Court a judge has refused the request to hear Extinction Rebellion's appeal against the ban early. The group wanted a hearing before the scheduled end of the protest on 19 October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nThis month's El Clasico between Barcelona and Real Madrid has been postponed because of fears of civil unrest.\n\nThe match was scheduled for 26 October but there have been days of protest in Barcelona after nine Catalan separatist leaders were jailed on Monday.\n\nBoth Barcelona and Real Madrid disagreed with calls to switch the game to Madrid.\n\nThe clubs have proposed Wednesday, 18 December as a new date.\n\nManager Ernesto Valverde had said Barcelona were against switching the game to Madrid as they visit Slavia Prague in the Champions League on 23 October, three days before El Clasico had been scheduled.\n\nAnd on Friday the club issued a statement saying their \"desire\" was to play the match as originally scheduled because they had the \"utmost confidence\" in the fans who they say \"always express themselves in exemplary fashion\" at the ground.\n\nReal Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane was asked about the postponement in a news conference on Friday and said \"we will be ready to play on the date told by the right person\".\n\n\"We will adapt to what we are asked,\" he added\n\nLa Liga made the postponement request because of \"exceptional circumstances beyond our control\" as more protests are expected in Barcelona on the day of the match.\n\nProtests have continued into a fifth day in Spain's Catalonia region with protesters clashing with riot police.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people waving pro-independence flags and chanting \"freedom for political prisoners\" took part in marches across Catalonia on Friday.\n\nAt least 96 people have been hurt across the region.\n\nCatalonia is a semi-autonomous region in north-east Spain and in a referendum on 1 October 2017, declared illegal by Spain's Constitutional Court, about 90% of Catalan votes cast backed independence. Turnout was 43%.\n\nThe nine separatist leaders were convicted of sedition over their role in the referendum and handed jail sentences of between nine and 13 years by Spain's Supreme Court.", "A total of 58 people fell ill after attending Vicki and Phil Kemp's wedding in October 2017\n\nA catering firm that \"spoiled\" a couple's wedding day with a salmonella-ridden hog roast has been ordered to pay nearly £250,000.\n\nIn total, 58 guests fell ill after tucking into the meaty centrepiece at Vicki and Phil Kemp's reception.\n\nThe pair were so ill they had to cancel their Dominican Republic honeymoon, Cannock Magistrates' Court heard.\n\nGalloping Gourmet Ltd admitted two food safety offences, was fined £200,000 and ordered to pay £49,936 in costs.\n\nIn a statement, the firm apologised \"for the distress and discomfort\" caused and said it has since made changes in its procedures to \"ensure that this never happens again\".\n\nSymptoms experienced by guests, three of whom needed hospital treatment, included nausea, stomach cramps, vomiting, diarrhoea, and fatigue, it said.\n\nLichfield District Council, which identified the salmonella outbreak, described the contaminated meat as \"dangerously undercooked\".\n\nIt added the firm had not taken customers' health and safety seriously enough.\n\nIT technician Mr Kemp, 35, of Burntwood, Lichfield, said in a statement: \"My illness lasted around 10 days all in all, but the symptoms were so bad that we had no option but to cancel our honeymoon. I was totally devastated.\n\n\"No-one should have to go through what we have, especially in relation to their wedding day - it is just not acceptable.\n\n\"Sadly a lot of the memories about what should have been the happiest day of mine and Vikki's lives are spoilt by what happened.\"\n\nThe company admitted placing unsafe food on the market and failing to ensure safety procedures were adequately implemented.\n\nJatinder Paul, of law firm Irwin Mitchell, said the case was \"particularly devastating for those involved... on what was meant to be a memorable and very special day\".\n\nVenue Packington Moor, which hosted the October 2017 event, was not at fault, the council said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "TV presenter Kevin McCloud founded the two companies, which have called in the liquidators\n\nPeople who put money into two businesses started by Grand Designs star Kevin McCloud face the prospect of losing almost their entire investment.\n\nBut investors could be almost wiped out after the company and its owner, HAB Land - which was set up to buy sites for housing estates in Oxford and Winchester - called in liquidators.\n\nHowever, according to KPMG, which has been appointed to liquidate the two companies, the firms were hurt by a period of \"difficult trading\".\n\nIn 2017, Mr McCloud had told potential investors his company was delivering \"triple bottom line returns with progress on energy positivity\".\n\nThose potential investors were pitched so-called \"mini-bonds\" with 8% returns to crowdfund the projects in Oxford and Winchester.\n\nAlmost 300 people put their money in to lend HAB Land Finance £2.4m to build the estates.\n\nBut they have not seen a return on that investment.\n\nIn August, the firm wrote to bondholders to inform them that they could lose up to 97% of their investment.\n\nA letter, published by the Guardian, said: \"After final completion of the projects at both Kings Worthy and Cumnor Hill [in Oxford], the net return available to bondholders would be expected to range from £606,000 (best case) to £69,000 (worse case) which, in each case, is equivalent to 26 pence and 3 pence for every £1 of bond monies invested.\"\n\nMr McCloud resigned from both firms in March last year.\n\nSince then directors of HAB Land have reviewed the firm's finances and reached the conclusion that \"they may not be in a position to repay\" bondholders, according to KPMG.\n\nIt said the directors wrote to the bondholders \"putting forward proposals in order to repay them\" but those plans were rejected.\n\nAs a result, the firm's board decided to put the company into liquidation.\n\nIn a statement, one of the liquidators James Bennett said: \"The directors have reported that higher than anticipated design and project management costs, coupled with delays to the delivery of the sites, resulted in the companies experiencing significant liquidity issues.\"\n\nHe said the directors decided to liquidate the firm after they were unable to raise further finance or renegotiate existing debts.\n\nA promised orchard and play area at HAB Housing's Lovedon Fields site in Hampshire is currently a building site\n\n\"This has resulted in a considerable loss to mini-bond holders who largely financed the project,\" he said.\n\nHAB Land director, Simon Bullock, said in a statement: \"With only 22% of the mini-bond holders voting for the resolution and having exhausted all other options we were left with no alternative but to commence proceedings to put these companies into liquidation.\n\n\"With respect to the current HAB development sites in Oxfordshire and Winchester, none of the homeowners are directly impacted by this change although the situation remains fluid and under review,\" he said.\n\n\"This has meant that there is, what we hope to be, a temporary pause on the remaining works on the sites.\"\n\nThe site in Winchester has been criticised because a road was left unsurfaced and promised facilities have still not been built.\n\nWinchester City Council said HAB Housing had not built allotments, an orchard or play area at Lovedon Fields, Kings Worthy, Hampshire.\n\nThe BBC has contacted a spokesperson for Mr McCloud for comment.\n\nDid you invest in HAB Land Finance? If so please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The drawings are expected to fetch between £2,000 and £3,000 each when sold at auction\n\nA woman found two sketches of Winnie the Pooh - drawn for her by illustrator EH Shepard - in a box under a bed where they had been kept for 60 years.\n\nThe artist whipped up the unsigned originals for Tina Thornber after his wife invited her to their home in Guildford, Surrey.\n\nMrs Thornber, who worked at a hairdresser's at the time, said she had no idea who her client's husband was.\n\nThe artworks are expected to fetch up to £3,000 at auction next month.\n\nMrs Thornber recalled: \"I was a teenager, about 17 or 18, working at Stewarts the hairdresser in Guildford.\n\n\"Mrs Shepard was one of my clients and one day we were talking about art and I was saying how I liked drawing.\n\n\"She told me that her husband drew and invited me to visit them at their home so that he could do me a drawing.\n\n\"I went up there on my bike and when I arrived went into his study where he drew me the pictures.\"\n\nMrs Thornber rediscovered the drawings when she was clearing some of her things, and added them to other items she was putting aside for auction.\n\n\"I didn't really think about them until the auction specialist took an interest. I was amazed,\" she said.\n\nDating back to 1959/60, one ink sketch features Pooh and Christopher Robin, while the other shows a queue for \"Tikits\" at the railway station, with Piglet, Pooh, Kanga and Eeyore.\n\nShepard was the illustrator of Winnie the Pooh and its associated stories, which were created and written by AA Milne.\n\n\"Unseen works like this by EH Shepard are a rarity these days,\" said auctioneer Chris Ewbank.\n\n\"It is even rarer to have a consignment with primary source provenance that places the consignor in the room with the artist as he drew them.\"\n\nThe drawings have been given estimates of between £2,000 and £3,000 when they go under the hammer at Ewbank's Auctions on 28 November.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Evha Jannath fell out of a circular boat on the Splash Canyon attraction\n\nThe operator of a theme park where an 11-year-old girl died after falling from a water ride is to be prosecuted under health and safety laws.\n\nEvha Jannath, from Leicester, was on a school trip in 2017 when she fell from Splash Canyon at Drayton Manor.\n\nStaffordshire-based Drayton Manor Park Ltd will face a charge under Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nAn inquest will take place before the criminal proceedings begin, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said.\n\nThe ride has remained closed at the theme park in Tamworth since the schoolgirl's death.\n\nEvha was one of a party of children on a school trip to the park from Jameah Girls Academy on 9 May 2017.\n\nShe suffered chest injuries and died at Birmingham Children's Hospital after being rescued from the water by theme park staff.\n\nThe Splash Canyon ride has remained closed since the death\n\nIn a statement, the HSE said: \"The criminal proceedings have not yet commenced, because an inquest into Evha's death, due to be heard in November, needs to take place first.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Drayton Manor Park said: \"It would not be appropriate for us to comment until the inquest concludes.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cuba's president said her death had left \"an enormous void\"\n\nCuban ballet dancer Alicia Alonso has died age 98, the country's state media has announced.\n\nAlonso is considered one of the greatest 20th Century ballerinas. She began to lose her sight at 19, relying on only the stage lights to guide her.\n\nAfter the 1959 revolution, she helped found the National Ballet of Cuba with then leader Fidel Castro.\n\n\"Alicia Alonso has gone and left an enormous void but unbeatable legacy,\" President Miguel Diaz-Canel said.\n\n\"She positioned Cuba at the altar of the best of dance worldwide. Thank you Alicia for your immortal work,\" he added.\n\nBorn Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad Martínez del Hoyo on 21 December 1921, she first appeared on stage in 1931. She fell in love with ballet.\n\nDuring her recovery from eye operations, teachers came to teach her dance moves using her fingers\n\n\"When you look out and you see the theatre full of people you feel that you are alive, that you have been born. It's wonderful, it's unique,\" she told the BBC in 2015.\n\nAt the age of 16, she married fellow student Fernando Alonso and the pair moved to New York, joining Ballet Caravan.\n\nThree years later, her eyesight began to deteriorate. She was diagnosed with a detached retina.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"I suffered terribly with my sight and had to have various operations on my eyes. Detachment of the retina. It was terrible. They told me not to quickly lower my head or move it side to side. I was like that for two years.\n\n\"They told me I'd never dance again. Well I did dance again.\"\n\nDuring her recovery, teachers came to her bedside to teach her the steps to Giselle, moving her fingers to practice the steps.\n\nAt 19, her eyesight began to deteriorate and she was diagnosed with a detached retina\n\nHowever the issues with her sight later came back and at one point she was unable to see her fellow dancers, relying on stage lights.\n\nShe had a number of operations.\n\nBy the late 1940s, she had performed major roles, particularly Giselle, in both New York and London.\n\nIn 1948, she founded the Alicia Alonso Ballet Company in Cuba's capital. She said every time she came home to Cuba she would question why there couldn't be ballet for everyone in the country.\n\nHer ballet company collapsed in 1956 due to a lack of finance.\n\nEvery time she came home to Cuba, Alonso always wondered why Cuba couldn't also have ballet\n\nAlonso then formed the National Ballet of Cuba after the revolution. According to a 1981 biography of the dancer, she was asked by Fidel Castro how much money was needed to form the ballet company.\n\nShe recalled telling Castro that she needed $100,000.\n\nHis reply was: \"We will give you $200,000.\"\n\nThe company brought ballet to everyone with performances in factories and other workplaces.\n\nAlonso continued to direct the company until her 70s and also kept dancing during that time.\n\nShe is so respected in Cuba that she has perfume named after her and an ice cream parlour named Coppelia after one of her most famous roles.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"They will want to vote for it on Saturday\"\n\nBoris Johnson says he is \"very confident\" MPs will back the Brexit deal he has struck with the EU - despite the DUP's opposition to it.\n\nThe prime minister claimed he would win what is expected to be a knife-edge Commons vote on Saturday.\n\n\"This is our chance in the UK as democrats to get Brexit done, and come out on 31 October,\" he said.\n\nThe DUP is against concessions he made to the EU on customs checks at points of entry into Northern Ireland.\n\nThe party's deputy leader, Nigel Dodds, accused the prime minister of being \"too eager by far to get a deal at any cost\".\n\nThe PM must win support for his deal from Brexiters on his own side, as well as from 23 former Tory MPs who now sit as independents - including 21 whom he kicked out of the Tory parliamentary party last month after they rebelled against him in a bid to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe must also convince Labour MPs concerned about protection for workers and the environment in the new deal.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said Labour would oppose the deal, citing concerns it would allow the UK to move further away from EU regulations in the future.\n\nHe said the new agreement \"paves the way for a decade of deregulation\" and argued it would give the government \"licence to slash\" worker, environment and consumer protections.\n\nSpeaking in Brussels, Mr Johnson denied he would meet the same fate as his predecessor Theresa May, who repeatedly failed to get a Brexit deal through Parliament.\n\n\"I am very confident that when my colleagues in Parliament study this agreement that they will want to vote for it on Saturday and in succeeding days,\" he said at an EU summit in Brussels.\n\nAppealing to the DUP, which the government relies on for support in key Commons votes, he insisted the UK could leave the EU \"as one United Kingdom\" and \"decide our future together\".\n\nMr Dodds earlier said he expected a \"massive vote\" against Mr Johnson's deal on Saturday in the House of Commons - and the DUP expected to \"play a crucial role\" in amending the legislation.\n\nThe new deal is largely the same as the one agreed by Theresa May last year - but it removes the controversial backstop clause, which critics say could have kept the UK tied indefinitely to EU customs rules.\n\nNorthern Ireland would now remain in the UK's customs union, but there would also be customs checks on some goods passing through en route to Ireland and the EU single market.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. DUP: PM 'too eager for deal at any cost'\n\nThe DUP said: \"This is not acceptable within the internal borders of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nThe party also objects to Northern Ireland potentially being part of a different VAT regime to the rest of the UK and is concerned about the deal violating the Good Friday Agreement's principle of consulting the nationalist and unionist communities on important issues.\n\nEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker caused a flurry earlier when he said there was no need for a Brexit extension as \"we have a deal\".\n\nThis was seen as a major boost for Mr Johnson, who has always insisted he would not go beyond 31 October - even if he was forced to ask for an extension under the terms of the so-called Benn Act, which kicks in on Saturday if MPs vote his deal down.\n\nBut Mr Juncker's EU colleagues were more cautious, with European Council President Donald Tusk saying he would \"consult\" member states about an extension if necessary.\n\nAt a joint press conference, Mr Tusk, Mr Juncker, EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier and Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar all expressed regret that the UK was leaving the EU.\n\nMr Tusk said: \"On a more personal note, what I feel today, frankly speaking, is sadness, because in my heart I will always be a Remainer, and I hope that our British friends decide to return one day, our door will always be open.\"\n\nThe winning post for votes in the House of Commons is 320 if everyone turns up - seven Sinn Fein MPs don't sit and the Speaker and three deputies don't vote.\n\nThere are currently 287 voting Conservative MPs. The prime minister needs to limit any rebellion among them.\n\nThen, if the DUP won't support his deal, he'll need the backing of 23 former Conservative MPs who are currently independents. Most will probably support the deal, but not all.\n\nThat's still not quite enough, though, so the PM will also need the backing of some Labour MPs and ex-Labour independents. In March, when MPs voted on Theresa May's deal for the third time, five Labour MPs backed it, plus two ex-Labour independents.\n\nThis time it's likely to be a bit higher than that because several MPs have said they would now back a deal.\n\nAll this still leaves the vote very close. And it's possible some MPs could abstain, making it even harder to predict the outcome.\n\nDo you have any questions about the proposed Brexit deal?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Protesters climbed to the top of a train carriage at Shadwell station\n\nFive people have been charged following climate change protests at three London Tube stations.\n\nSome of the activists were dragged from the roof of trains by commuters at Stratford, Canning Town and Shadwell during Thursday's rush hour.\n\nTwo men and two women have been charged with obstructing a train at Shadwell.\n\nOne man has been charged with breaching bail conditions over the Canning Town protest. All five appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nMargreit Bos, 32, of Parish Road, Chartham, Kent, Martin Newell, 52, of Ivor Road, Birmingham, Philip Kingston, 83, of Blakeney Road, Patchway, South Gloucestershire, and Sue Parfitt, 77, of Rectory Gardens, Bristol, have each been charged with obstructing an engine or carriage on the railway contrary to Section 36 of the Malicious Damage Act.\n\nMark Ovland, 36, of High Street, Keinton Mandeville, Somerset, has been charged with breaching bail conditions.\n\nThere was disruption to trains at Canning Town, Stratford and Shadwell on Thursday\n\nA second man, 35, from Filton, South Gloucestershire, who was arrested at Canning Town on suspicion of obstructing the railway has been bailed while inquiries continue.\n\nTwo other men, both aged 32 and from Lewisham and Kingston Upon Hull, were arrested at Stratford station for obstructing the railway. They have also been bailed while inquiries continue.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sadiq Khan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBritish Transport Police has urged anyone with information or video footage of the disruptions to come forward.\n\nA public order ban has been put in place on Extinction Rebellion activities in London since Monday.\n\nAt the High Court a judge has refused the request to hear Extinction Rebellion's appeal against the ban early.\n\nThe group wanted a hearing before the scheduled end of the protest on Saturday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Trump reacts to Turkey's ceasefire in Syria after it was announced by his vice-president.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"Chance to move on\" with Brexit\n\nBoris Johnson has urged MPs to \"come together\" to back the Brexit deal he has secured with the EU, insisting there is \"no better outcome\".\n\nThe prime minister told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg he wanted the country to \"move on\" from Brexit, which he described as \"divisive\".\n\nAnd he said he was hopeful the deal would pass the Commons on Saturday.\n\nThe government's former allies in the DUP and every opposition party plans to vote against it.\n\nThe new deal, agreed by Mr Johnson and the EU on Thursday, is similar to the one agreed by Theresa May last year - but it removes the controversial backstop clause, which critics say could have kept the UK tied indefinitely to EU customs rules.\n\nNorthern Ireland would remain in the UK's customs union under the new agreement, but there would also be customs checks on some goods passing through en route to Ireland and the EU single market.\n\nMr Johnson and his team are trying to persuade enough Labour rebels, former Conservatives and Brexiteer Tory rebels to get it across the line in Parliament.\n\nHe told the BBC's political editor: \"I just kind of invite everybody to imagine what it could be like tomorrow (Saturday) evening, if we have settled this, and we have respected the will of the people, because we will then have a chance to to move on.\n\n\"I hope that people will think well, you know, what's the balance, what do our constituents really want?\n\n\"Do they want us to keep going with this argument, do they want more division and delay? Look, you know, this has been a long exhausting and quite divisive business Brexit.\"\n\nHe repeated his commitment to leave the EU on 31 October, adding: \"There's no better outcome than the one I'm advocating tomorrow.\"\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly said Brexit will happen by the end of the month with or without a deal.\n\nBut MPs passed a law in September, known as the Benn Act, which requires the PM to send a letter to the EU asking for an extension until January 2020 if a deal is not agreed - or if MPs do not back a no-deal Brexit.\n\nFormer Tory Sir Oliver Letwin - who was kicked out of the party for backing the law - has put an amendment down to ensure the extension is asked for even if MPs back the deal in the Commons on Saturday.\n\nHe said the government could still leave without a deal on 31 October if the PM's proposals had not passed every stage in Parliament to become law - so the motion would withhold MPs' approval until that final hurdle is passed.\n\nMeanwhile, responding to the deal, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said taking no deal off the table was a \"net economic positive\".\n\nIt really is extremely tight. It would be foolish to make a guess on which way it will go.\n\nWhat we do know might happen tomorrow is rather than there being a thumbs up or thumbs down vote to the deal, there could be an attempt by some MPs to bring in what they see as an insurance policy.\n\nThis could mean another delay in case this deal falls through in the next couple of weeks.\n\nThat is potentially being put forward as an amendment so MPs will have a chance to vote on it.\n\nWithout going in to all the potential machinations it could mean tomorrow turns, not just into MPs giving an opinion on Boris Johnson's deal, but also wrangling again about a potential delay.\n\nThis could make things more fuzzy, and certainly more frustrating for Downing Street.\n\nIt will be a showdown of sorts.\n\nDowning Street always knew that Parliament would be a very tricky hurdle.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Johnson was also quizzed about the deal he has struck with the EU to resolve the issues over the Irish border.\n\nHe denied breaking a promise to the DUP, saying: \"No I don't accept that at all.\n\n\"I think that what you have is a fantastic deal for all of the UK, and particularly for Northern Ireland because you've got a single customs territory. Northern Ireland leaves the EU with the rest of the UK.\"\n\nThe DUP has accused Mr Johnson of \"selling Northern Ireland short\" by accepting checks on some goods passing through Northern Ireland to get a deal with the EU.\n\nThe party's Brexit spokesman, Sammy Wilson, has described the deal as \"toxic\" and is urging Conservative MPs not to back it.\n\nThe pro-Brexit European Research Group has previously given its full backing to the DUP.\n\nOn Friday evening vice-chairman Mark Francois told the BBC he would be voting for the deal, while another member, Andrew Bridgen, said the \"vast majority\" of the group \"will come to the conclusion that this deal is tolerable\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour plans to vote against the government motion, and in a letter to his own MPs Jeremy Corbyn said it was a \"worse deal\" than the one Theresa May struck with Brussels.\n\nHe said the proposals \"risk triggering a race to the bottom on rights and protections\".\n\n\"This sell-out deal won't bring the country together and should be rejected,\" Mr Corbyn added.\n\nThe party also attacked the deal after one Conservative MP, John Baron, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the UK would be able to leave the EU \"on no-deal terms\" if trade talks failed at the end of the so-called transition period in December 2020.\n\nLabour chairman Ian Lavery said: \"The cat has been let out of the bag... [and] no one should be in any doubt that Johnson's deal is just seen an interim arrangement.\"\n\nHowever, the government appears to have moved to try and win the support of some Labour MPs by promising to boost workers' rights and environmental standards after Brexit.\n\nDowning Street said the pledge followed discussions with Labour MPs and would also include a commitment to giving Parliament a say in the future relationship with the EU.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford has also tabled an amendment, calling for a three-month extension to Brexit to allow for an early general election.\n\nAnd Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage called the deal \"the second worst deal in history\" behind Theresa May's withdrawal agreement.\n\nCommons business will start at 9:30 BST on Saturday - the first weekend sitting since the invasion of the Falklands in 1982.\n\nMr Johnson will make a statement to the House and face questions from MPs, before they move on to a debate about the deal.\n\nThe timing of any votes depends on which amendments are chose by the Speaker of the Commons, John Bercow.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a 2019 interview Meghan said it was a “struggle” becoming a mother amid intense media scrutiny\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex has admitted it was a \"struggle\" becoming a new mother amid intense media scrutiny.\n\nMeghan Markle married Prince Harry at Windsor Castle in May 2018 and gave birth to their son Archie this year.\n\nSpeaking in an ITV documentary, the duchess referred to her life under the spotlight \"on top of just trying to be a new mom or trying to be a newlywed\".\n\nShe added: \"Not many people have asked if I'm OK. But it's a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes.\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex were both interviewed by Tom Bradby during their tour of southern Africa in September.\n\nAsked how she was coping, Meghan said: \"Look, any woman - especially when they are pregnant - you're really vulnerable and so that was made really challenging, and then when you have a new born - you know?\n\n\"And especially as a woman, it's a lot...\"\n\nThe duchess added: \"And also, thank you for asking, because not many people have asked if I'm OK...\"\n\nWhen asked if it would be fair to say it had \"really been a struggle\", Meghan said: \"Yes.\"\n\nThe duke and duchess visited southern Africa last month with their son Archie\n\nThe documentary Harry & Meghan: An African Journey airs on ITV on Sunday at 21:00 BST.\n\nPrince Harry described the memories surrounding the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997 as \"a wound that festers\".\n\nOn the tour, the prince visited an anti-landmine project championed by his mother in Angola and told ITV it had been \"emotional\" to trace her footsteps.\n\n\"I think being part of this family, in this role, in this job, every single time I see a camera, every single time I hear a click, every single time I see a flash, it takes me straight back, so in that respect it's the worst reminder of her life, as opposed to the best.\"\n\nPrince Harry visited a landmine project championed by his late mother during the trip\n\nAs the tour ended, the duke and duchess both brought legal actions against the press.\n\nMeghan sued the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters.\n\nHarry filed his own proceedings at the High Court against the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in relation to alleged phone-hacking.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNasa astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir have made history by completing the first ever all-female spacewalk.\n\nThey spent seven hours outside the International Space Station (ISS) replacing a failed power control unit.\n\nMs Koch had already carried out four spacewalks but it was the first such mission for Dr Meir, who became the 15th woman to walk in space, Nasa said.\n\nUS President Donald Trump congratulated them in a video call. \"You are very brave, brilliant women,\" he told them as they carried out the spacewalk.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch answer questions about their all-female space walk\n\nMs Koch, an electrical engineer, and Dr Meir, who has a doctorate in marine biology, stepped outside in their Nasa spacesuits at 11:38 GMT (07:38 EDT) on Friday. They made their way to a location called the Port 6 truss structure to replace the battery charge-discharge unit (BCDU).\n\nThey then returned to the airlock with the failed part which will subsequently be loaded on to the next SpaceX Dragon resupply ship for inspection on Earth.\n\nBack on Earth, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris tweeted that the spacewalk was \"more than historic\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNasa had announced in March that Ms Koch would take part in the first all-female \"extra-vehicular activity\" (EVA) with colleague Anne McClain. But the spacewalk was called off because a medium-sized suit wasn't available in the near-term for McClain.\n\nThe Port 6 truss structure is at one end of the ISS\n\nThe first woman to spacewalk was the Russian Svetlana Savitskaya, who went outside the USSR's Salyut 7 space station for three hours, 35 minutes on 25 July 1984.\n\nThe first person in history to spacewalk was Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who died earlier this month aged 85.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Tuesday, Nasa unveiled a prototype for a new spacesuit that might be worn by the next astronauts on the Moon. It said the new Moon suit, known formally as the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), is designed to give the wearer a customised fit whatever their shape or size.\n• None First person to walk in space dies aged 85", "The latest gambit by the alliance of MPs around Sir Oliver Letwin looks like a real problem for the government whips, as they prepare for Saturday's critical vote on the new-look Brexit deal.\n\nThe amendment would withhold approval of the deal, until the legislation to enact it was safely passed - a move that would automatically trigger the \"Benn Act\" and force the prime minister to request a further postponement of Brexit until 31 January.\n\nSir Oliver's amendment is a cunningly-crafted proposition which, crucially, could be voted for by MPs who want a deal, but don't trust this one, and don't trust the government.\n\nIt rests on the idea that were Parliament to approve the deal for the purposes of the Benn Act now, there might then be a danger that the subsequent legislation to enact it might be, somehow, derailed, resulting in a no-deal exit on 31 October.\n\nWith the Benn Act out of the way, they believe that some manoeuvre, some legislative judo move, by factions inside and outside the government, who favour a \"clean Brexit\" could leave no time for any effective counter… and Britain would be out, with no deal.\n\nThis reflects the sheer level of distrust that has accumulated over several cycles of Brexit angst.\n\nThe government's attempt to prorogue Parliament in September has permanently scarred the soft Brexit/Remain faction; they might be offered some reassurances, but they could well demand a pact signed in blood.\n\nSo never mind the plausibility of the betrayal scenario, look at the support for the amendment.\n\nIt is signed by Sir Oliver, the former Chancellor Philip Hammond, and the former Work and Pensions Secretary David Gauke - the big names of the rebel Conservative group who lost the party whip - and by Nick Boles, one of the apostles of a \"Norway Option\" compromise.\n\nThat suggests the amendment may well have enough (ex) Tory support to pass… unless there's a countervailing Labour rebellion in the government's favour.\n\nThere are certainly a number of Labour MPs (and independents of various stripes) who, like Mr Boles, yearn for a Brexit deal they can back.\n\nA key factor is that they want a deal which keeps the UK in close alignment with the EU - particularly on labour standards, environmental protection and consumer safeguards, and they detect what they believe is a weakening of the government's commitment to those \"level playing field\" commitments.\n\nBrexit Secretary Steve Barclay insisted at this week's Brexit Select Committee meeting that the government was not seeking to turn Britain into a deregulated \"Singapore-on-Thames\", competing with the EU on its very doorstep.\n\nLabour voices, like the influential former minister Pat McFadden question whether, after a journalistic career which produced scores of columns denouncing EU red tape, the PM would really keep those protections in place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Crunching the numbers as MPs prepare for key Brexit vote\n\nThe Letwin amendment would invite the government to put forward a bill to implement their deal - but bills are amendable, and you can bet that everything from a requirement to stay in a customs union to making the whole thing subject to a further referendum would then be proposed.\n\nAnd with a minority government struggling for control of the Commons, ministers could well see a number of unwelcome changes imposed by MPs.\n\nThe government seems to be all but conceding that the Letwin amendment will pass, and is making its dispositions accordingly - announcing plans to hold a \"meaningful vote\" on the Withdrawal Agreement Bill on Tuesday.\n\nThis would corner MPs into a Yes/No vote on their deal, and given there are a fair number of Labour rebels, the government could well win.\n\nCertainly, the vote would put any number of Labour MPs - and MPs for other parties - from Brexit-voting constituencies in a very awkward place.\n\nWatch out for an attempt to attach a second referendum to the deal in some way.\n\nBut the success of that effort would require full-throated support (and whipping of their MPs) from the Labour Party. They are not there yet, and they may never be.\n\nIf the government wins a \"meaningful vote\" on Tuesday, the legislation to underpin the new deal would then go forward - and that would provide further opportunities to attempt amendments.\n\nWinning the next meaningful vote is only the beginning of a new phase of Brexit; it's not even the beginning of the end.", "Former US Defence Secretary James Mattis poked fun at Donald Trump as he spoke at a charity event in New York.\n\nHis comments came a day after the US president referred to him as \"the world's most overrated general\".", "Boris Johnson and his team, who beat the odds in 2016, have overturned the conventional wisdom again.\n\nThe EU said they would not budge; their former Tory colleagues and the opposition colleagues said it was all a sham.\n\nBut after a breakneck set of negotiations, a deal's been struck and the rest of the continent gave way on the controversial backstop, the feature of the former agreement that did for Theresa May.\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson had to cede some ground too, accepting that Northern Ireland will be treated differently to the rest of the UK and follow some EU rules and regulations, perhaps for good.\n\nThere's no question that, for some Brexit purists and unionists too, it's a breach of some of the promises he made to them.\n\nMrs May's deal wasn't dead after all, but there to be altered. Northern Ireland and the rest of the country will be still united theoretically, but more different in some practices.\n\nSticking to those vows was ultimately much less important to Number 10 than just getting a deal.\n\nBut it's made the next stage an almighty gamble, because there is resistance from the prime minister's allies as well as the opposition, who will deplore this deal.\n\nMr Johnson has put his name on the dotted line in Brussels with absolutely no guarantee that it will pass through Parliament.\n\nDowning Street is well aware of that. But they concluded that it was better to strike the agreement, better to try, better to risk it, than do nothing.\n\nThis prime minister might have made a career of taking risks, but this might be his most serious bet of all.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"They will want to vote for it on Saturday\"\n\nBoris Johnson is in a race against time to sell the Brexit deal he has struck with the EU to MPs ahead of a Commons vote on Saturday.\n\nThe prime minister insists he is \"very confident\" of getting the majority he needs to \"get Brexit done\" by his 31 October deadline.\n\nBut the DUP and every opposition party plans to vote against his deal.\n\nThat means he must persuade Labour rebels, ex-Tories and Brexiteers in his own party to get on board.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Johnson said he and and his team were spending the day on the phone to MPs from across the Commons to sell the deal.\n\nThe PM is also holding a cabinet meeting in No 10.\n\nThe DUP's Brexit spokesman, Sammy Wilson, said his party would not only vote Mr Johnson down, but urge Conservative MPs to \"take a stand\" with them, setting the scene for a frantic day of arm-twisting on all sides at Westminster.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sammy Wilson 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\nLabour has also attacked the deal after one Tory MP, John Baron, said the UK would be able to leave the EU \"on no-deal terms\" if trade talks failed come December 2020 - the so-called transition period.\n\nThe party's chairman, Ian Lavery, said: \"The cat has been let out of the bag... [and] no one should be in any doubt that Johnson's deal is just seen an interim arrangement.\"\n\nBut Home Secretary Priti Patel urged colleagues to look at the deal as an opportunity to \"start a new chapter for our country\".\n\nThe prime minister will make a statement to the Commons on Saturday, before another minister opens a debate on the deal.\n\nIf he does not manage to get the numbers needed to win a vote, then he is expected to try again to trigger a general election.\n\nThe law states that the PM must ask the EU for a three month extension to the Brexit deadline if he cannot get a deal through Parliament.\n\nThe text of the letter he must send to Brussels is contained in the so-called Benn Act, passed last month by MPs determined to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson has said the UK will leave on 31 October with or without a deal - but he has also said he will abide by the law.\n\nBut even if MPs vote for his deal on Saturday, he may still have to ask the EU for an extension.\n\nFormer Conservative MP Oliver Letwin has tabled an amendment that would ensure the deadline is extended until the Brexit deal had passed each step in Parliament to become law.\n\nSir Oliver, who is among the MPs seeking to prevent a no-deal Brexit, said he did not want to \"let the government off the hook\".\n\nSir Oliver's amendment is a cunningly-crafted proposition which, crucially, could be voted for by MPs who want a deal, but don't trust this one, and don't trust the government.\n\nIt rests on the idea that were Parliament to approve the deal for the purposes of the Benn Act now, there might then be a danger that the subsequent legislation to enact it might be, somehow, derailed, resulting in a no-deal exit on 31 October.\n\nWith the Benn Act out of the way, they believe that some manoeuvre, some legislative judo move, by factions inside and outside the government, who favour a \"clean Brexit\" could leave no time for any effective counter… and Britain would be out, with no deal.\n\nThis reflects the sheer level of distrust that has accumulated over several cycles of Brexit angst.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford has also tabled an amendment, calling for a three month extension to Brexit to allow for an early general election.\n\nHe told the BBC the deal gives Northern Ireland a \"competitive advantage\", but \"shafted\" Scotland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMeanwhile, cabinet ministers have been touring the TV and radio studios to sell the deal.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was \"an opportunity to get Brexit done, turn the page and move forward\".\n\nThe new deal is largely the same as the one agreed by Theresa May last year - but it removes the controversial backstop clause, which critics say could have kept the UK tied indefinitely to EU customs rules.\n\nNorthern Ireland would remain in the UK's customs union under the new agreement, but there would also be customs checks on some goods passing through en route to Ireland and the EU single market.\n\nThe prime minister is expected to focus his attention on winning over three groups to support his deal:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. DUP: PM 'too eager for deal at any cost'\n\nThe DUP is unhappy with the changes, claiming they are not in the best interests of Northern Ireland.\n\nBut the Northern Irish party can no longer rely on the automatic support of the the pro-Brexit European Research Group - formed of backbench Tory MPs.\n\nVice-chairman of the group, Mark Francois, told reporters he \"still has some concerns about some of the specifics of the deal\", and was meeting the prime minister \"to put some questions directly to [him].\"\n\nBut ERG member Andrew Bridgen told BBC Breakfast he believed the \"vast majority\" of the group \"will come to the conclusion that this deal is tolerable and we need to get Brexit across the line\".\n\nThe ERG will hold a meeting on Saturday morning to advise a position to members to take in Parliament.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell told the Today programme the deal was \"worse deal than Theresa May's\", adding: \"We can't vote for that or let it go through\".\n\nBut while Labour's focus was on defeating the government's proposals, Mr McDonnell said discussions were ongoing about a further referendum - either on Mr Johnson's deal or a \"sensible deal\" negotiated by Labour.\n\n\"There are discussions taking place [about] when the right time to put an amendment down is,\" he said. \"There is a principle here to be established to let the people decide.\"\n\nHe also warned there would be \"consequences\" for MPs in his party who voted for Mr Johnson's deal.\n\nHowever, on Wednesday, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn played down the possibility of removing the party whip from any rebels.\n\n\"I believe in the power of persuasion rather than the power of threat,\" he said.\n\nLabour MP Ronnie Campbell, who is standing down at the next election, said \"at the moment\" he would vote to support the deal.\n\nBut he told the BBC: \"I am getting a lot of pressure from the head lads of the Labour Party... to abstain.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Crunching the numbers as MPs prepare for key Brexit vote\n\nThe winning post for votes in the House of Commons is 320 if everyone turns up - seven Sinn Fein MPs do not sit and the Speaker and three deputies do not vote.\n\nThere are currently 287 voting Conservative MPs. The prime minister needs to limit any rebellion among them.\n\nThen, if the DUP will not support his deal, he will need the backing of 23 former Conservative MPs who are currently independents. Most will probably support the deal, but not all.\n\nThat is still not quite enough, though, so the PM will also need the backing of some Labour MPs and ex-Labour independents. In March, when MPs voted on Theresa May's deal for the third time, five Labour MPs backed it, plus two ex-Labour independents.\n\nThis time it is likely to be a bit higher than that because several MPs have said they would now back a deal.\n\nAll this still leaves the vote very close. And it is possible some MPs could abstain, making it even harder to predict the outcome.", "There has been an eightfold increase in the number of child victims of modern slavery referred by local councils in England for support.\n\nNational Crime Agency figures reveal the number of children earmarked for help grew from 127 in 2014 to 1,152 last year - an increase of 807%.\n\nTown hall bosses say the increase has been fuelled by the growing of issue \"county-lines\" drug gangs.\n\nCouncils receive no specific funding for supporting such victims.\n\nUnder the Modern Slavery Act 2015, it is an offence to hold a person in a position of forced labour or facilitate their travel with the intention of exploiting them soon after.\n\nThe act introduced tougher sentences, and more help for people forced into labouring, domestic servitude, sex work or selling drugs.\n\nCounty-lines drug gangs move young people around the country with the intention of forcing them to aid with the distribution of drugs for criminal gain.\n\nThe Local Government Association is warning the rapid increase in child referrals for modern slavery is adding to the already huge pressure on the services they provide for vulnerable children.\n\nIn one year alone, from 2017 to 2018, the number of child referrals grew 67%, and 92% of all referrals from councils related to children.\n\nAt the same time, increases in adult victims are putting pressure on the already stretched adult social care system, the LGA says.\n\nIt is calling for the chancellor to use next year's spending review to ensure long-term, sustainable funding to support modern slavery's victims.\n\nSimon Blackburn, who chairs the LGA's Safer and Stronger Communities Board, said: \"The despicable crime of modern slavery is a rising threat to our communities and can destroy the lives of vulnerable people working in fear of physical violence from ruthless gangmasters.\n\n\"The spiralling rate of council referrals, especially relating to children who face specific risks through county-lines drug trafficking or child sexual exploitation, is having a huge impact on overstretched council services, particularly children's services.\n\n\"Extra funding next year will help but government needs to ensure councils have adequate long-term resources to tackle this abuse and support its victims, as well as creating a sustainable NRM [national referral mechanism] system in the long term.\"\n\nAnyone who believes someone is in immediate danger due to modern slavery or exploitation should call police on 999, or 101 if there is no immediate danger. Alternatively, call the Modern Slavery Helpline on 08000 121 700.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nHarry Dunn's parents say they expect UK police to charge a US diplomat's wife in connection with his death.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died after a collision with a car owned by Anne Sacoolas, who was allegedly driving on the wrong side of the road.\n\nHis parents Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn travelled to the US as part of their campaign for justice and met President Donald Trump.\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, went back to the US after the crash in Northamptonshire.\n\nMr Dunn's family is due back in the UK later, after their trip to the US to seek justice, following the crash outside RAF Croughton - where Mrs Sacoolas' husband is reportedly stationed as an intelligence officer - on 27 August.\n\nAt the time, Mrs Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity, but both the British and US governments agree that by returning to the US she had forfeited that right.\n\nRadd Seiger, the family's spokesman, said they have concerns of \"misconduct and a cover up on both sides of the Atlantic\".\n\nHarry Dunn's parents said a meeting with Anne Sacoolas would not have brought healing to either side.\n\nA statement from the family said: \"It is clear that the Americans are desperate to protect Mrs Sacoolas and are intent on ruthlessly and aggressively not letting her return. We are trying to find out why that is. We will not let up in our search for Justice for Harry.\n\n\"We now expect Northants Police to take over from the work we have done and the progress we have made, charge her and begin extradition proceedings to bring her back.\"\n\nIn an interview with ITV, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said: \"We have done everything we can properly and within the law to clear a path so that justice can be done for the family. And we continue to do so.\"\n\nMrs Sacoolas can only be extradited if she is charged by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) with a criminal offence that is serious enough to warrant it.\n\nNorthants Police confirmed they were continuing to prepare evidence to hand over to the CPS.\n\nMr Dunn's parents rejected a \"bombshell\" offer from Donald Trump to meet Anne Sacoolas at the White House on Tuesday.\n\nCharlotte Charles and Tim Dunn had felt \"a little ambushed\" when the president revealed she was in the next room.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nMr Trump described his meeting with the couple as \"beautiful\" but \"very sad\".\n\nMs Charles and Mr Dunn are due to meet Northamptonshire's Chief Constable Nick Adderley next week.\n\nMr Seiger said: \"In all my years of practice, I have never seen a family so badly let down after a tragedy and abandoned completely by the system. \"\n\nThe US State Department has been contacted for comment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been heavy fighting in a northern Mexican city between the security forces and members of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel after one of the group's leaders was discovered.\n\nOvidio Guzmán López, the son of convicted drug lordJoaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzmán, was found during a routine patrol in Culiacán.", "A general strike has been called in Catalonia on Friday, marking the end of a week of protests following the ruling of Spain’s Supreme Court on Monday.\n\nThe court sentenced nine Catalan pro-independence leaders to jail for sedition.\n\nAt the heart of the mobilisation are the Catalan youth.\n\nProtesters have been clashing with the police and setting fires in the streets of Barcelona.", "Jo Maugham QC led the action at the Court of Session in Edinburgh\n\nScotland's highest civil court has dismissed a legal bid to stop the UK government from passing its proposed EU withdrawal agreement.\n\nAnti-Brexit campaigners had argued the deal contravened legislation preventing Northern Ireland from forming part of a separate customs territory.\n\nHowever, Lord Pentland ruled the application was \"misconceived and unjustified\".\n\nCampaigner Jo Maugham QC said the case was now unlikely to proceed further.\n\nIn his written opinion, the judge described the petition \"of very doubtful competency\" and concluded the petitioner had at best a \"weak\" case.\n\nMr Maugham had lodged the petition on Thursday in an attempt to stop Parliament from passing the EU withdrawal agreement.\n\nAfter the ruling was published he tweeted: \"That was a difficult decision to make. It is difficult to move quickly and accurately and, the court has found, I got that decision wrong.\n\n\"We will review the decision carefully but my instinct is that we are unlikely to proceed to a full hearing for reasons indicated above.\"\n\nHe launched the legal challenge after the prime minister and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced on Thursday that the two sides had come to an agreement on a Brexit withdrawal deal, ahead of a crucial EU summit in Brussels.\n\nEU leaders then approved the deal, and MPs are expected to vote on it on Saturday.\n\nAidan O'Neill QC is representing Mr Maugham in the case\n\nEarlier Aidan O'Neill QC, acting for the petitioner, told the court that the proposed Brexit deal would mean a \"continuing regime of EU law applicable to Northern Ireland\" - contrary to Section 55 of the Taxation (Cross-Border Trade) Act 2018.\n\nHe said this would breach the Act's terms by creating different customs rules in Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK, leaving the deal void and unsuitable to be put before Parliament.\n\nMr O'Neill said: \"The agreement which was presented yesterday is void; is of no effect as a matter of law.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker leave their joint press conference on Thursday\n\nGovernment lawyers defended the deal and claimed the legal action was a \"direct and manifest interference with Parliament\".\n\nGerry Moynihan QC, acting for the government, described the legal challenge as \"a gross intrusion into the separation of power.\"\n\nHe argued Northern Ireland would remain in the UK's customs territory because \"a substantial part\" of trade would still be with the UK.", "Footage shows a woman being knocked off a platform at Pueyrredon station in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires. Bystanders quickly responded to help.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Andy Murray reached his first ATP semi-final since 2017 with a hard-fought victory over Marius Copil at the European Open.\n\nThree-time Grand Slam champion Murray came through 6-3 6-7 (7-9) 6-4 in two hours 35 minutes in Antwerp.\n\nThe Scot served for the match at 5-4 in the second set and held match point in the tie-break before Copil fought back.\n\nHowever, the 32-year-old produced the decisive break in the final set to reach the last four.\n\nMurray will face Ugo Humbert on Saturday after the Frenchman beat Argentina's Guido Pella 5-7 6-4 6-4.\n\nIt is the former world number one's first semi-final since the 2017 French Open, when he lost to Stan Wawrinka.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\n\"It was a tough one to get through. Thankfully I managed to get the break right at the end,\" Murray said.\n\n\"I feel OK now. It's more about how you pull up the following day.\"\n\nMurray broke down in tears after beating Romania's Copil in a gruelling match at the Washington Open in 2018.\n\nMurray, continuing his return from hip surgery, moved well, particularly when coming up to the net, but his forehand faltered when he first attempted to serve out the match.\n\nHe led the resulting tie-break 5-3 and had a match point at 7-6, but Copil forced a decider with some strong serving.\n\nIn a tight final set, Murray converted his second break point to take a 5-4 lead, before wrapping up victory with his ninth ace of the match.\n\nAntwerp is likely to be his last tournament of the year, with the possible exception of the Davis Cup, for which Great Britain will announce their squad on Monday.\n\nHe could still leave early if his wife, Kim, goes into early labour with their third child.\n\nEarlier, 18-year-old Jannik Sinner of Italy reached his first ATP semi-final with a 6-4 3-6 6-3 win over American Frances Tiafoe.\n\nSinner, who is likely to break into the world's top 100 following the tournament, will face Switzerland's Wawrinka in the other semi-final.", "A churchwarden who murdered an author to inherit his estate has been jailed for a minimum of 36 years.\n\nBenjamin Field, 28, duped 69-year-old Peter Farquhar into a fake relationship to get him to change his will.\n\nMr Farquhar died in the Buckinghamshire village of Maids Moreton in October 2015 and Field tried to make his death look like an accident or suicide.\n\nThe Baptist minister's son was found guilty of murder at Oxford Crown Court in August.\n\nHe was also accused of plotting to kill Mr Farquhar's neighbour Ann Moore-Martin, 83, but was found not guilty.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said Field was a \"well-practiced and able liar\", adding: \"I have no doubt that you are a dangerous offender.\"\n\nField admitted duping both Mr Farquhar and Miss Moore-Martin into fake relationships with him as part of a plot to get them to change their wills, but denied any involvement in their deaths.\n\nMiss Moore-Martin died of natural causes in May 2017.\n\nUniversity lecturer Mr Farquhar and Field had undergone a \"betrothal\" ceremony while the trial heard Field and former headmistress Miss Moore-Martin had a sexual relationship.\n\nOxford Crown Court heard Miss Moore-Martin could not believe she had fallen for Field's lies\n\nThe court heard Field carried out a sustained \"gaslighting\" plot aimed at making Mr Farquhar question his sanity.\n\nMr Farquhar's drinks were topped up with bioethanol and poteen, a high strength Irish alcohol, and his food was laced with drugs.\n\nJurors were told Field \"suffocated him\" when he was too weak to resist, and left a half-empty bottle of whisky in Mr Farquhar's room to create the misconception he had drunk himself to death.\n\nMr Farquhar, who taught part-time at the University of Buckingham, had three novels published.\n\nHis third book, A Wide Wide Sea, was dedicated to Field, who delivered the eulogy at his funeral.\n\nBenjamin Field has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 36 years\n\nIn an attempt to get Miss Moore-Martin to change her will, Field would write \"messages from God\" on mirrors around her home.\n\nThe deeply religious retired teacher who never married or had children, later changed her will to leave her home to Field.\n\nA consultant psychiatrist said Field \"knew exactly what he was doing, in a carefully planned and orchestrated way and was in full control of his own decision making\".\n\nIn a statement after the sentencing Mr Farquhar's brother, Ian Farquhar, said: \"Ben Field is a deeply malevolent and thoroughly evil man who callously and greedily seduced his way into my brother's life.\n\n\"His sentence today brings some justice to this horrific event in our family's life. Though of course the wound will always remain\n\nMark Glover, of Thames Valley Police, said Field was \"unlike any other criminal\" he had encountered in his 31-year career.\n\n\"The extent of his planning, deception and cruelty towards his victims is frankly staggering, and I do not believe he has ever shown an ounce of remorse or contrition,\" he said.\n\n\"If he is sorry for anything it is that he got caught.\"\n\nBenjamin Field took photos of the messages he wrote on mirrors in Miss Moore-Martin's home\n\nField, of Wellingborough Road, Olney, Buckinghamshire, previously pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud relating to the fake relationships and defrauding Miss Moore-Martin out of £4,000 for a car and £27,000 for a dialysis machine. He also admitted two counts of burglary.\n\nHe was sentenced to life in prison and ordered to serve a minimum of 36 years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mexico's brutal drug war claims thousands of lives every year, as powerful trafficking groups battle it out for territory and influence.\n\nThese cartels control vast areas of the country and are also responsible for political corruption, assassinations and kidnappings.\n\nBut which groups are the most powerful?\n\nTerritory: Much of the north-west.\n\nThe US government has described the Sinaloa Cartel as one of the largest drug-trafficking organisations in the world.\n\nFounded in the late 1980s, it was for many years headed by the notorious drug lord Joaquín \"El Chapo\" Guzmán. \"El Chapo\" - or \"Shorty\" - was once ranked as one of the world's richest men. His life and vast drug-trafficking empire have been the subject of numerous books and TV series.\n\nUnder his leadership, the cartel garnered a fierce reputation for violence and outfought several rival groups. Mexican cartels often clash with one another, but it's also worth noting that they can form strategic alliances as well.\n\nThe Sinaloa became the biggest supplier of illegal drugs to the US during Guzmán's long reign as leader, officials say.\n\n\"El Chapo\" was arrested in 2014 and is now serving a life sentence in prison\n\nThe cartel kidnapped, tortured and slaughtered members of rival criminal gangs. It also had access to a huge arsenal of weapons, including a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and Guzmán's own gold plated AK-47.\n\nBut in July 2019, the drug lord was sentenced to life in prison following one of the most high-profile trials in recent US history.\n\nProsecutors said Guzmán had trafficked cocaine, heroin and marijuana, and kept a network of dealers, kidnappers and assassins on his payroll.\n\nHis jailing led to an increase of violence in the region as other groups sought to take advantage. Despite this, the Sinaloa Cartel remains hugely powerful. It still dominates north-west Mexico and is reported to have a presence in cities ranging from Buenos Aires to New York.\n\nIt also continues to make billions of dollars from trafficking illicit narcotics to the US, Europe and Asia, experts say. With its long-time leader now behind bars, the cartel is said to be partially controlled by Mr Guzmán's son, Ovidio Guzmán Lopez.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen the younger Guzmán was arrested by the security forces in October 2019, Sinaloa Cartel gunmen were quick to demonstrate the group's serious military might.\n\nThey fought street battles with the army in broad daylight, set fire to vehicles, and even staged a prison break before their leader was eventually freed. It was a sign the group remains an immensely powerful force.\n\nTerritory: The west, mainly the Tierra Caliente region.\n\nFormed in about 2010, the Jalisco cartel is the strongest and most aggressive competitor to the Sinaloa.\n\nThe group has expanded rapidly across Mexico and is now one of the country's most dominant organised crime groups. Its assets are thought to be worth more than $20bn (£15.5bn).\n\nThe cartel is led by Ruben Oseguera, known as \"El Mencho\", a former police officer who is Mexico's most wanted man. The bounty for his capture? A cool $10m.\n\nThe US government is offering a $10m reward for the capture of the Jalisco cartel's leader\n\nThe Jalisco cartel is one of the main distributors of synthetic drugs on the continent, according to the US government. It is a key player in the illegal amphetamine market in the US and Europe and is also thought to have links to the drug market in Asia.\n\nIt has grown much more powerful in recent years and its rise has been fuelled by its use of extreme violence.\n\n\"It remains the most aggressive cartel in Mexico,\" according to the US-based geopolitical analysis firm Stratfor. \"Its efforts to expand its area of control are largely responsible for the persistent wave of violence racking Tijuana, Juarez, Guanajuato and Mexico City.\"\n\nIndeed, the cartel has gained notoriety for a series of attacks on security forces and public officials.\n\nIt has downed an army helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade, killed dozens of state officials, and has even been known to hang the bodies of its victims from bridges to intimidate its rivals.\n\nAnd, according to experts in the region, it is set to expand further.\n\nTerritory: The north-east, centred around the border state of Tamaulipas.\n\nThis is one of Mexico's oldest criminal groups and its roots can be traced back to the 1980s.\n\nIt became known around this time for trafficking cocaine and marijuana into the US. It is also thought to have smuggled heroin and amphetamines, and it worked closely with cartels in Colombia.\n\nBy the 1990s, the Gulf Cartel's drug trafficking operation was reportedly bringing in billions of dollars every year. It maintained this network by engaging in political corruption and bribery as a means to keep officials on side.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mexico's drug war: Has it turned the tide?\n\nThe cartel was initially led by Juan García Abrego, the first Mexican drug lord to be included in the FBI's 10 most wanted list. He was captured in 1996 and jailed for life in the US.\n\nHis heir, Osiel Cardenas Guillen, built up the cartel's military wing. He recruited a number of corrupt special forces soldiers and pushed an even more violent approach. Those soldiers would eventually go rogue and form a rival cartel of their own (more on this later).\n\nCardenas was arrested in 2003 and is currently serving 25 years in jail in the US. His brother and top leader of the cartel, Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, was killed in a shootout with Mexican troops in 2010.\n\nThe cartel then split into multiple factions with different leaders. It has been weakened as a result, and is engaged in a vicious turf war with the...\n\nThis group was founded by corrupt members of an elite unit of Mexico's special forces.\n\nMore than 30 ex-soldiers were hired by the leader of the Gulf Cartel in the 1990s but, as mentioned above, they broke away and formed their own operation in 2010.\n\nThe two cartels then clashed violently, particularly in Mexico's north-east. The Zetas became particularly well-known for their brutality, often torturing and decapitating their victims.\n\nBy 2012, the Zetas had reached the peak of their powers. The were named as the country's biggest drug gang, overtaking their bitter rivals the Sinaloa, and were thought to operate in more than half of the Mexican states.\n\nThey moved beyond drugs and turned their hand to any crime that brought them money, from cigarette smuggling to human trafficking.\n\nBut, later in 2012, one of their leaders was killed in a shootout with the Mexican Navy. His replacement, Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales, was captured. His younger brother, Omar Treviño Morales, took over but was also caught in 2015.\n\nThis marked the beginning of the cartel's decline. A lack of leadership caused the Zetas to splinter and allowed rival groups to assert dominance, according to analysis from Insight Crime, which monitors organised crime in the Americas.\n\nThe Zetas lost ground as others, notably the Jalisco cartel, expanded to take their east coast territory. Internal divisions have also served to weaken the group, but it remains a dangerous force.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged MPs to \"come together\" ahead of a crucial vote on his Brexit deal on Saturday.\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Johnson said he wanted the country to \"move on\" from Brexit.", "From incredible escapes to bribe allegations, smuggling drugs in plastic bananas to spying on his wife and mistresses, here are five astonishing things about El Chapo.\n\nThe Mexican drug kingpin has been found guilty on all 10 counts at his drug trafficking trial at a federal court in New York.", "Some have called for firework sales to be banned to protect pets and the vulnerable\n\nSainsbury's has become the first major supermarket to stop selling fireworks at its 2,300 stores across the UK.\n\nThe company said it made the decision following a regular yearly review of all its products.\n\nLast year, a petition to ban the public sale of fireworks to protect animals, children and people with a phobia attracted more than 300,000 signatures.\n\nPet-owners welcomed Sainsbury's decision with many tweeting that other supermarkets should follow suit.\n\nA spokeswoman for Sainsbury's declined to detail why the supermarket will no longer sell fireworks, stating that it was commercially sensitive.\n\nTesco and Asda said they would continue to sell fireworks.\n\nCatherine Shuttleworth, chief executive and founder of Savvy Marketing, also said that selling fireworks was \"a really expensive way of doing retail in supermarkets\".\n\nShe said: \"When you go and buy your fireworks, obviously they are not on a shelf anywhere in the store. They tend to be in a glass cabinet that's locked up and a member of staff has to go and unlock that cabinet every single time you want to buy fireworks.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fireworks: How do they work and how are they made?\n\nShe also said the customer's age has to be checked because it is illegal to sell fireworks to anyone under 18. In addition, the supermarket cannot send back any unsold products to the distributor, \"and they are quite dangerous to keep in the back of shops, which are busy places\".\n\nA petition last year calling for a ban, which gained 307,897 signatures, said that fireworks \"injure thousands of people every year\" and \"cause damage to buildings, vehicles, [and] emergency vehicles\".\n\nIn response, the government said it \"takes the issue of safety of fireworks very seriously. Legislation is in place to control their sale, use and misuse. We have no plans to change legislation\".\n\nOne healthcare professional said on Twitter: \"Just came here to say a huge thank you and praise to Sainsbury's for the decision to not sell fireworks this year. It is not just the animals who suffer but anyone who is unwell or has a condition like autism.\"\n\nScottish National Party MP Alison Thewliss tweeted: \"Really pleased to see Sainsbury's have taken the responsible decision to stop selling fireworks. I hope other retailers follow suit.\"\n\nA recent consultation in Scotland over the sale of fireworks to the public found that there was support for tougher controls on the selling and use of the products.\n\nOf the 16,000 people who responded, 94% wanted tighter controls on the sale of fireworks and 87% supported an outright ban on the sale of fireworks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On the road with police trying to stop \"county lines\" drugs gangs\n\nPolice have made a record number of arrests in a week-long push to tackle so-called county lines drug gangs.\n\nOfficers arrested 743 people and seized drugs worth over £400,000, 12 guns and dozens of other weapons.\n\nThe operation, by forces across England and Wales, resulted in the \"disruption\" of 49 \"deal lines\", police said.\n\nSenior officers say better co-ordination between police forces means they know more than they've ever done about the gangs and their activities.\n\nCounty lines drugs gangs use dedicated phone lines to send mass texts to customers and organise networks of couriers, often children and vulnerable adults, to move the drugs from cities to smaller towns.\n\nThese phone lines are branded with a gang's name, allowing customers to place orders but the dealers, based in distant cities, remain anonymous to avoid getting caught.\n\nOverall, 652 men and 91 women were arrested in the so-called National Week of Intensification which began on 7 October, the highest number in any week of co-ordinated police activity against county lines gangs.\n\nThe push was led by teams dedicated to fighting organised drug dealing, backed up by uniformed officers expert in pursuing and stopping cars.\n\nThe operation also made use of intelligence from the National Crime Agency and automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras which are being used to spot dealers moving drugs from major cities to the location where they are being sold.\n\nSenior officers say in recent years the lines, and the use of young people to move the drugs, have become the predominant \"business model\" for drug dealing.\n\n\"We know more than we have ever known about the gangs and those people who get exploited as part of county lines activity,\" said Deputy Assistant Commissioner Duncan Ball, from the National Police Chiefs' Council.\n\nHe said better intelligence was the result of police forces working more closely together.\n\n\"We're resolved to tackle the gang leaders and tackle them hard,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC was given access to the West Midlands Police Regional Organised Crime Unit as it tried to stop gangs operating between Birmingham and Worcestershire.\n\nIn Aston, Birmingham, covert officers were on the streets in large numbers looking for gang leaders and drugs couriers.\n\nTraffic patrols trained in high-speed pursuit techniques followed one car which crashed, breaching a gas main.\n\nOfficers had to swiftly clear the street while trying to find the suspect.\n\nAt least one county line is suspected to be moving drugs from Birmingham to the town of Droitwich in Worcestershire.\n\nThe police believe this single line is making £4,000 a day.\n\nThe West Midlands team followed the drugs to their destination and lay in wait for the dealers with the help of West Mercia Police.\n\nEventually a car was picked up by an automatic number plate reading camera outside Birmingham, heading to the area.\n\nThe suspects reportedly switched cars before police mounted a high-speed \"hard stop\" on a busy rural road and arrested them.\n\nWest Midlands police carried out simultaneous raids on Friday 11 October in Tipton, Birmingham, targeting a county line linking Birmingham and Hereford.\n\nA knife and samurai sword were found in a flat.\n\nCounty lines gangs are a challenge for police because they cause significant harm to the young people caught up in their activities - many are groomed to carry drugs and go missing from home.\n\nSgt Jen Edwards, who leads the relatively new West Midlands Police team, called the gangs \"heartless and cruel\".\n\n\"They do not see these children as vulnerable children, they see them as a commodity, and a way of using them to make them more money.\"\n\nSupt Rich Agar, who leads the West Midlands Police county lines operation. said: \"They don't get their hands dirty.\n\n\"They don't carry the drugs, they don't have the weapons used for enforcement. They use vulnerable adults and children.\n\n\"The people at the bottom get caught and go to prison.\"\n\nPolice are increasingly using co-ordinated operations to tackle the gangs.\n\nA knife found during one of the raids\n\nDuring the intensification week, senior officers compared notes on a daily basis to ensure intelligence was shared.\n\nThe government has announced it will expand the new County Lines Co-ordination Centre set up to provide oversight.\n\nPolice and the Home Office are also considering whether new laws could target the way county lines gangs send mass text messages to their customers to advertise drugs.", "On Thursday, Turkey agreed to a ceasefire in northern Syria to let Kurdish-led forces withdraw.\n\nThe deal came after US Vice-President Mike Pence and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met for talks in Ankara.\n\nTurkey launched the cross-border offensive last week, after US President Donald Trump announced he was pulling US forces out of the Syria-Turkey border region.\n\nDemocratic Congressman and former Marine officer Seth Moulton spoke to the BBC.", "The security relationship between the UK and Pakistan is helping to keep British people safe, the Duke of Cambridge has said.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited an army dog training school on the last day of their tour of Pakistan.\n\nA number of UK troops are currently based at the centre in Islamabad, which is modelled on a British programme.\n\nPrince William said \"what happens here in Pakistan directly correlates to what happens in the streets of the UK\".\n\nHe said: \"The fact that we're here today and witnessing UK-Pakistani security working together shows you how important it is.\"\n\nA number of past UK terror plots have been linked to Pakistan.\n\nThe duke added: \"We're involved with the Pakistanis for a very good reason. It will actually keep people safe back in the UK.\"\n\nDogs are trained to identify explosives at the school, which is based on the UK's Defence Animal Training Centre at Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire.\n\nThe couple walked golden Labrador puppies Sky and Salto, which are being trained as search dogs.\n\nPrince William said: \"The whole week we've been hearing about security in Pakistan and it's really brought home to Catherine and I the importance of the relationship between the UK and Pakistan.\"\n\nThe duke and duchess met UK troops who are in Islamabad to help train the dogs\n\nThey played with Salto and Sky at the centre\n\nThe duke and duchess watched the dogs display their skills\n\nHowever, a planned visit to a Pakistani military post in the Khyber region near the border with Afghanistan was called off after a flight carrying the royal couple was delayed by thunderstorms.\n\nThe RAF Voyager twice attempted landings in Islamabad on Thursday evening before turning back. The duke and duchess spent the night in Lahore before returning to the Pakistani capital on Friday morning.\n\nThe royal couple have also highlighted education and the impact of climate change during their four-day tour.\n\nThe trip was organised at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Pakistan government hopes it will boost the country's image as a tourist and business destination, after decades of unrest.\n\nIt was the final day of the royals' visit", "Sean Dixon, co-founder of Richard James, says the Savile Row tailor feels \"a bit like collateral damage\".\n\nHe and the other bespoke tailoring firms who line the world-famous London street feel bruised because, from Friday, every suit they sell to the US faces a new export tax of 25%.\n\nThey are on a list of products the US is targeting with tariffs in retaliation for the EU giving illegal subsidies to plane-maker Airbus.\n\nAnd it has left Savile Row reeling.\n\n\"I don't think anybody on the street was aware of [the tariff],\" says James Sleater, founder and director of Savile Row's newest tailor, Cad & the Dandy, whose clients include British rapper Stormzy and rugby player Mike Tindall.\n\n\"Conversations about Airbus and [US President Donald] Trump and Savile Row are not normally three words that go hand in hand,\" he says.\n\nThe street has had little time to prepare for the tariff, which almost doubles the tax on an exported suit from roughly 13% to 25%.\n\nOn 2 October, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) gave the US permission to impose taxes on $7.5bn (£5.8bn) of goods it imports from the EU.\n\nSavile Row is famous for its bespoke suits\n\nIt was the latest chapter in a long-running battle between Washington and Brussels over illegal subsidies given to planemakers Airbus and rival Boeing.\n\nThat same day, the US published the list of EU products that would face the new taxes, including men's woollen suits made in the UK, as well as cashmere knitwear and Scotch whisky - and told businesses the tariffs would come into force on 18 October.\n\nThe tariffs come at a crucial time for the UK, which is preparing to leave the EU and strike trade deals with other nations, including the US.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss says: \"Resorting to tit-for-tat tariffs is not in any country's best interests and we are in regular contact with the Trump administration, urging them to refrain from resorting to such measures.\n\n\"As well as causing temporary disruption to UK businesses, it would also hit American consumers in the pocket.\"\n\nKathryn Sargent, Savile Row's first female master tailor, is concerned that her clients in the US, who make up a third of her business, may not be aware of the new tax.\n\nShe travels to cities such as New York, Chicago and Washington DC three times a year to visit customers, show them fabrics and do fittings for her suits, which start at about £5,500.\n\n\"It is a conversation that I'll be having with my clients when I'm over there, to sense what their reaction is and to see if it puts them off placing future orders,\" she says.\n\nNorth America is an important market for Savile Row, as well as the wider British luxury industry.\n\nMr Sleater reckons that total sales of the street's goods into the US total some £40m.\n\nThe US is also the second largest export market, behind Europe, for UK luxury products, according to Walpole, the trade body for the British luxury sector, and Frontier Economics.\n\nBut it is not just the business connection between the two countries that is important to Savile Row's tailors.\n\n\"All the past US presidents have had garments made in Savile Row,\" says Ms Sargent. \"When you think of all the Hollywood greats like Fred Astaire and Cary Grant, there is a beautiful relationship between Savile Row and America, so this tariff really hits us hard.\"\n\nShe hopes that her US clients' \"love of British quality craftsmanship\" will overcome any concerns about the added cost of buying a Savile Row suit.\n\nFred Astaire, seen here with Audrey Hepburn while filming Funny Face, was a fan of Savile Row suits\n\nSmall bespoke tailoring firms like Ms Sargent's will not be able to absorb the cost of the tax.\n\nMr Dixon says that Richard James, one of the few Savile Row tailors with a store in the US, says it will do its best to absorb the cost: \"But we think there will be a price… we will have to pass some of this on to our customers.\"\n\nArguably, the type of people who have a bespoke suit made by a Savile Row tailor are not short of a pound or two.\n\n\"The customer base is fairly affluent,\" admits Mr Dixon, whose clients include actor Benedict Cumberbatch, footballer David Beckham and rapper P Diddy. \"Nevertheless, an increase is an increase and we pride ourselves on people getting value for money, especially for a Savile Row suit.\n\n\"The amount of man-hours that go into it, the incredible fabrics used and a suit that can last 20 years or 30 years and then to have a big part of that being paid in tax. I don't know how people are going to feel about that.\"\n\nWhile Savile Row's tailors were shocked by the tariffs, Walpole was not.\n\n\"We're disappointed, of course,\" says Helen Brocklebank, Walpole's chief executive. \"But we're not surprised that suiting and textiles and fine fabrics came so heavily top of the list.\"\n\nShe says that UK luxury goods such as cashmere sweaters have often been targeted by the US in trade tussles.\n\nCad & the Dandy dressed Mike Tindall for his marriage wedding to Zara Phillips, daughter of Princess Anne, in 2011\n\nIn 1999, when Bill Clinton was in the White House, Scottish cashmere sweaters faced sanctions following a WTO ruling in a row between the US and the UK about bananas.\n\nBut Ms Brocklebank does not think this latest round of tariffs will have a major impact on sales of UK luxury goods.\n\n\"You have quite a weak pound at the moment and the number of US visitors coming to the UK to shop for these kinds of goods is at an all-time high, so I don't think that the impact is going to be enormous,\" she says.\n\nPresident Trump, who reportedly favours suits made by Italy's Brioni, described the WTO ruling at the beginning of October as a \"big win\" for the US.\n\nBut his jubilation - and any pain felt by UK businesses - may be short-lived.\n\nMs Brocklebank points out that next spring, the WTO will rule on Boeing, the US planemaker, which it found had benefited from tax breaks.\n\nThe EU could then be given the green light to enforce its own tariffs on US goods.\n\nMr Sleater says that while Cad & the Dandy was caught unaware by the new taxes, Savile Row should use the opportunity to elevate its brand, which has historically always been about understatement.\n\nHe says that while Italy's suitmakers - who are not facing US tariffs - have actively promoted their industry, Savile Row has not.\n\n\"The key thing about this is to stomach the tariffs being placed on us and - I'm talking about the street here - we somehow need to find a way to make our clothes even more appealing.\n\n\"Never before has there been such a time when branding is really, really important.\"", "It really is extremely tight. It would be foolish to make a guess on which way it will go.\n\nWhat we do know might happen tomorrow is rather than there being a thumbs up or thumbs down vote to the deal, there could be an attempt by some MPs to bring in what they see as an insurance policy.\n\nThis could mean another delay in case this deal falls through in the next couple of weeks.\n\nThat is potentially being put forward as an amendment so MPs will have a chance to vote on it.\n\nWithout going in to all the potential machinations it could mean tomorrow turns, not just into MPs giving an opinion on Boris Johnson's deal, but also wrangling again about a potential delay.\n\nThis could make things more fuzzy, and certainly more frustrating for Downing Street.\n\nIt will be a showdown of sorts.\n\nIt is only a week since Downing Street began seriously to believe that they might get this deal over the line.\n\nBut they always knew that Parliament would be a very tricky hurdle.", "Banning staff from accessing their work emails outside office hours could do more harm than good to employee wellbeing, a study suggests.\n\nUniversity of Sussex researchers found while a ban could help some staff switch off, it could also stop people achieving work goals, causing stress.\n\nCompanies are increasingly curbing email use to tackle burnout. France has even legislated on the issue.\n\nBut human resources body CIPD said it agreed with the university's findings.\n\nAccording to the research, strict policies on email use could be harmful to employees with \"high levels of anxiety and neuroticism\".\n\nThat was because such employees needed to feel free to respond to a \"growing accumulation of emails\", or they could end up feeling even more stressed and overloaded, the researchers said.\n\nDr Emma Russell, a senior lecturer in management at the University of Sussex Business School, said despite the best intentions of policies limiting email use, a one-size-fits-all approach should be avoided.\n\n\"[Blanket bans] would be unlikely to be welcomed by employees who prioritise work performance goals and who would prefer to attend to work outside of hours if it helps them get their tasks completed.\n\n\"People need to deal with email in the way that suits their personality and their goal priorities in order to feel like they are adequately managing their workload.\"\n\nSome companies have previously introduced measures to try to stop people checking work emails on holiday\n\nCompanies to have restricted email use include German carmaker Volkswagen, which has configured its servers so emails can be sent to employees' phones from half an hour before the working day begins to half an hour after it ends only and not at all during weekends.\n\nAnd, last year, Lidl bosses in Belgium banned all internal email traffic between 18:00 and 07:00 to help staff clear their minds and enjoy time off.\n\nGovernments are now looking at implementing the policies more widely.\n\nA law passed in France in 2017 requires companies with more than 50 employees to establish hours when staff should not send or answer emails, although some doubt everyone will follow the rules.\n\nAnd, earlier this year, New York City discussed proposals to become the first city in the US to grant employees the \"right to disconnect\" after work.\n\nAt the time, Rafael L Espinal Jr, who proposed the idea, said: \"Technology has really blurred the lines between our work hours and personal time.\"\n\nBut, on Thursday, CIPD head of public policy Ben Willmott told BBC News: \"Simply banning the use of emails out of hours may actually make some people more stressed because they would like to, or need to, work flexibly.\"\n\n\"Employers need to provide clear guidance on remote working, including on the use of email and other forms of digital communication, to ensure that if people are accessing emails out of hours they are doing so because it suits them.\"", "The man is believed to be Kenyan and in his 30s\n\nPolice are looking for help to identify a man who fell out of a plane from Kenya into a garden in London.\n\nOfficers were called to an address in Offerton Road, Clapham, in June, where the body of the man, believed to be in his 30s, was found.\n\nHe is thought to have fallen from the landing gear compartment of the aircraft headed for Heathrow Airport.\n\nScotland Yard has released an e-fit image of the man.\n\nThe force said it believed the man was Kenyan but was \"keeping an open mind\".\n\nThis rucksack was found in the landing gear compartment of the aircraft the man fell from\n\nOfficers also released images of a bag which was found in the landing gear compartment when the plane landed.\n\nThe bag contained a small amount of Kenyan currency and had a strap with \"MCA\" written on it, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nThese items were found in the rucksack\n\nDet Sgt Paul Graves said: \"We have pursued a number of lines of inquiry in what has been a very sad incident to investigate.\n\n\"This man has a family somewhere who need to know what has happened to their loved one.\n\n\"Our investigation has included liaison with the authorities in Kenya, from where the flight took off, but so far our efforts to identify this man have proved fruitless.\"\n\nThe force said the man's death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nThe bag had \"MCA\" written on its strap\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Women's fashion chain Bonmarché has appointed administrators, putting the future of the business in doubt.\n\nThe chain's 318 shops will remain open while a buyer is sought for the chain.\n\nBonmarché chief executive Helen Connolly said she had made the decision with \"deep regret and sadness\", and blamed tough High Street trading conditions, and the Brexit delay.\n\nThe Yorkshire-based chain, which specialises in clothing for the over-50s, employs 2,887 people.\n\n\"We have spent a number of months examining our business model and looking for alternatives. But we have been sadly forced to conclude that under the present terms of business, our model simply does not work,\" she added.\n\nShe added the \"the drawn-out Brexit process\" had damaged sales.\n\n\"Without such a delay, it is feasible to believe that our issues would have been more manageable. Instead, it has only intensified the pressures,\" she said.\n\nMs Connolly said the firm had considered a refinancing or a rescue deal, known as a company voluntary agreement (CVA) with its landlords and lenders.\n\nThis is an insolvency process that allows a business to reach an agreement with its creditors to pay off all or part of its debts and is often used as an opportunity to renegotiate rents.\n\nHowever, she said the firm had concluded that neither option would \"fundamentally change the core challenges facing the business\".\n\n\"We are sadly no longer in a position to demonstrate to our shareholders that the business can continue as a going concern,\" she added.\n\nThe struggling retailer warned earlier this year that trading had deteriorated.\n\nPhilip Day started his career at clothing manufacturers Coats Viyella and Wensum\n\nUK billionaire and Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group owner Philip Day is the majority owner of the chain, with a 95% stake via his Dubai-based investment vehicle Spectre.\n\nSpectre said: \"We are disappointed with the result of our investment in Bonmarche, but our primary thought at this time is with the business' employees and families.\"\n\nAdministrator FRP Advisory said it had been appointed because the business was no longer able to meet its financial obligations.\n\nIt emphasised that trading would continue and no redundancies had been made.\n\n\"There is every sign that we can continue trading while we market Bonmarché for sale and believe that there will be interest to take on the business,\" it said.\n\nBonmarché is the latest retailer to be hit by tough conditions amid growing competition from online retailers and higher operating costs, such as a rising minimum wage and business rates.\n\nIt has led to big names such as Toys R Us going into administration, while others such as Topshop-owner Arcadia, Debenhams and New Look have announced large-scale closures.\n\nDo you run a business? Have you been affected by the issues raised here? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Paul Gascoigne arrived to hear the verdict with his legal team and personal manager Katie Davies\n\nFormer England footballer Paul Gascoigne has been cleared of sexually assaulting a woman on a train.\n\nThe 52-year-old had been accused of \"forcefully and sloppily\" kissing the fellow passenger on a service from York to Newcastle in August 2018.\n\nMr Gascoigne wept in the dock and thanked the jury to cheers of \"yes\" from the public gallery as the verdict was announced.\n\nHe was also cleared of the lesser charge of assault by beating.\n\nJudge Peter Armstrong told Gascoigne: \"You are now discharged and free to go.\" He was told he could apply to have his defence costs paid.\n\nLeaving Teesside Crown Court, the former Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Rangers, Middlesbrough and Everton midfielder thanked the judge and his dentist - an apparent reference to evidence earlier in the trial about him not having his false teeth in when he was on the train.\n\nHis solicitor Imogen Cox read a statement on his behalf, saying: \"To have a sexual allegation for over 12 months has been tough.\n\n\"I am so glad I was finally able to put over my side of the story and that the jury came to the correct verdict.\n\n\"I'm now looking forward to getting on with my life.\"\n\nGascoigne himself then said: \"I am off to the dentist.\"\n\nIn a tweet Mr Gascoigne's personal manager Katie Davies, who has been with him on all four days of the trial, said the verdicts had \"restored her faith in humanity\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt emerged that during legal argument in the absence of the jury, the prosecution tried and failed to be allowed to tell the jury about Gascoigne's previous convictions, which include offences of battery, criminal damage and racially aggravated harassment.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said it had considered the charge before the case.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We reviewed the case in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors and it was determined that there was a realistic prospect of conviction and it was in the public interest to prosecute Mr Gascoigne for the offence of sexual assault.\"\n\nMr Gascoigne had told the court he gave the woman a \"peck on the lips\" to \"boost her confidence\" after he heard a male passenger call her overweight.\n\nHowever, prosecutor William Mousley had told the jury that the accused had \"lied, and lied, and lied\" during the trial, which heard he had been drunk on board the train.\n\nBut Michelle Heeley QC, defending, said the former player had no sexual intention.\n\nMr Gascoigne has spoken to onlookers outside the court\n\nShe said: \"In his own naive way, he thought he was making a larger woman have more body confidence.\n\n\"It's a clumsy way to go about building someone's confidence, but it was not sexual.\"\n\nJurors were handed a file of photos showing Mr Gascoigne kissing and being kissed by famous footballers and fans.\n\nA photo of him kissing Diana, Princess of Wales, was also shown to the jury.\n\nMr Gascoigne broke down as he told the court about what happened on the journey from Birmingham to Newcastle, on 20 August last year.\n\nThe former footballer, who had been travelling with his nephews, said while passengers were asking for selfies and autographs he heard a man say about a passenger: \"What do you want a photo of her for? She's fat and ugly.\"\n\nMr Gascoigne told the jury he had previously had trouble with his weight and \"automatically\" went to sit next to the woman to reassure her.\n\nHe said he told her: \"You're not fat and ugly, you're beautiful.\"\n\nMr Gascoigne was in a \"drunken state\" when he was arrested, the court was told - although he said he had had pellets implanted in his stomach that made him sick if he drank spirits, and denied being drunk.\n\nBritish Transport Police PC Robert Moody said Mr Gascoigne had been drinking beer in a hotel lobby when he arrived to arrest him.\n\nPC Moody said he had spoken to him before travelling to the hotel, telling jurors Mr Gascoigne had said: \"I know what it's about, I kissed a fat lass.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Both sides have had to make concessions to reach this agreement.\n\nBut the biggest single concession has probably been made by Boris Johnson, who has had to accept the European Union's (EU) demand that there can be no border checks of any kind for customs or regulations on the island of Ireland.\n\nThat means that there will - under this plan - be checks within the United Kingdom between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nIt is something that the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) continues to oppose, and something Mr Johnson himself had said previously would be unacceptable.\n\nNo British Conservative government could or should sign up to any such arrangement\n\n\"We would be damaging the fabric of the Union with regulatory checks and even customs controls between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on top of those extra regulatory checks down the Irish Sea that are already envisaged in the withdrawal agreement,\" he told the DUP party conference in November 2018.\n\n\"Now I have to tell you, no British Conservative government could or should sign up to any such arrangement.\"\n\nPartly because he needed a dramatic gesture to get this deal over the line.\n\nBut also because there is compromise on the other side too.\n\nThe EU said the text of the withdrawal agreement it concluded with Theresa May could never be reopened. But it has been.\n\nEveryone has to know that the withdrawal agreement will not be reopened.\n\nIt said anything that replaced the backstop plan for the Irish border would have to meet the same standard of ruling out the return of a hard border \"under all circumstance\".\n\nBut this new deal does not quite do that.\n\nThere is a mechanism that would allow a simple majority in the Northern Ireland Assembly to vote against these proposed new economic arrangements in the future.\n\nIf it did so, there would be a two-year notice period to find a new solution. That makes it, if you like, a form of time-limited backstop - although the EU would argue that it is highly unlikely that the Assembly would ever vote to trigger such uncertainty.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nThe other big difference though - which is an important point of principle for Mr Johnson - is that Northern Ireland will leave the EU's customs union with the rest of the UK.\n\nYes, it will continue to apply EU rules on customs, tariffs and regulations under the auspices of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBut - through diplomatic manoeuvring - it will remain part of the UK's customs territory.\n\nThat means it will be able to take a full part in any future trade deals the UK government negotiates around the world.\n\nBut there is no denying that this is not the most elegant of solutions. It is not only the DUP in Northern Ireland that is unhappy. Such is the nature of a negotiated compromise.\n\nOne other issue is worth highlighting - promises by the UK to stick close to the EU's regulatory system after Brexit have been removed from the legally binding withdrawal agreement text.\n\nThey still appear in broad form in the political declaration on future relations - but the EU is well aware that Mr Johnson is looking for a looser economic relationship with the EU than his predecessor was.\n\nThat may well cause problems in the future, as several EU countries are concerned that the UK - a major economy on their doorstep - could seek to gain a competitive advantage by undercutting the EU's system of regulation.\n\nThe revised text of the political declaration says the aim is to complete a free trade agreement between the EU and the UK in the future.\n\nA high-level meeting will be convened in June 2020 to assess progress towards such a deal, before the end of the post-Brexit transition period.\n\nDuring trade negotiations, the UK will be treated as a potential competitor as well as a partner.\n\nIn that sense - as has been said before - even if this deal passes in the next few weeks (still a big if) it will not \"get Brexit done\".\n\nMuch of the hard work, including negotiating that future trade deal, is still to come, and it will last for many years.", "Labour has warned that Boris Johnson's revised Brexit deal would threaten workers' rights and protections in the future. The concerns have been echoed by several union leaders.\n\nBut Boris Johnson has insisted the UK will \"maintain the highest possible standards in social protections and the environment\".\n\nSo, why the sudden focus on workers' rights?\n\nIt's all to do with something called the \"level playing field\" - the idea that countries keep their rules and standards close, to stop one country giving their businesses a competitive advantage - for example by having lower standards and so lower costs.\n\nThe extent to which the UK might diverge from EU regulations in the future and become an economic competitor has been a big issue in the Brexit debate.\n\nThey set minimum standards below which government cannot go. After Brexit, UK governments would no longer have to abide by these minimum levels.\n\nIn the new Brexit deal finalised this week, references to a level playing field were removed from the legally-binding withdrawal agreement.\n\nInstead, they appear in the non-binding political declaration on the future relationship - as an aspiration, but not a legal commitment.\n\nLabour's shadow Brexit secretary, Sir Keir Starmer accused the government of pursuing \"a licence to deregulate\" the economy in the future.\n\nHe warned that - after Brexit - the UK might choose to follow other \"economic models\" (than the EU's) and cited the example of the United States where, he said, the holiday entitlement was 10 days a year and companies \"had far more power than the workforce\".\n\nIn response to concerns, the government said that after Brexit it would report back to parliament whenever the EU changes its rules on workers' rights, on whether the UK plans to take action to mirror them. MPs would be given a chance to vote on this.\n\nBoris Johnson has made it known that he wants a slightly more distant economic relationship with the EU in the future than Theresa May did.\n\nShe talked about the \"broadest and deepest possible\" economic partnership. He wants a more basic free trade agreement, with zero tariffs (taxes on imports) or quotas, which gives the UK more opportunity to go its own way.\n\nToo many level playing field commitments could get in the way of that.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe revised political declaration says that the UK and the EU should \"uphold the common high standards... in the areas of state aid, competition, social and employment standards, environment, climate change, and relevant tax matters\".\n\nBut if words of that kind do not appear in a binding treaty, then this or any future government could opt to change its mind.\n\nThe EU is well aware of that - and some countries are more concerned about the nature of the future relationship in this area than in the precise details of the divorce agreement.\n\n\"With the departure of Great Britain, a potential competitor will of course emerge for us,\" Angela Merkel said on a visit to Paris in the run-up to this summit.\n\n\"That is to say, in addition to China and the United States of America, there will be Great Britain as well.\"\n\nThe UK is a far smaller economy than the US or China. But it is right on the EU's doorstep, intimately connected to European markets, and thus is seen as a potential threat.", "Google has confirmed the Pixel 4 smartphone's Face Unlock system can allow access to a person's device even if they have their eyes closed.\n\nOne security expert said it was a significant problem that could allow unauthorised access to the device.\n\nBy comparison, Apple's Face ID system checks the user is \"alert\" and looking at the phone before unlocking.\n\nGoogle said in a statement: \"Pixel 4 Face Unlock meets the security requirements as a strong biometric.\"\n\nSpeaking before the launch, Pixel product manager Sherry Lin said: \"There are actually only two face [authorisation] solutions that meet the bar for being super-secure. So, you know, for payments, that level - it's ours and Apple's.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, BBC News tested the Face Unlock feature on the new Pixel 4.\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\nUsing the default settings, the phone still unlocked if the user pretended to be asleep.\n\nThe test was repeated on several people, with the same result.\n\nImages of the Pixel 4 leaked before launch showed a setting labelled: \"Require eyes to be open,\" in the facial-recognition menu.\n\nHowever, this setting was not present on the devices loaned to BBC News.\n\nAnd Google told BBC News it would not feature on the Pixel 4 when it went on sale, on 24 October.\n\n\"If someone can unlock your phone while you're asleep, it's a big security problem,\" said cyber-security expert Graham Cluley.\n\n\"Someone unauthorised - a child or partner? - could unlock the phone without your permission by putting it in front of your face while you're asleep,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I wouldn't trust it to secure the private conversations and data on my phone.\"\n\nGoogle's Pixel 4 support website tells customers: \"Your phone can also be unlocked by someone else if it's held up to your face, even if your eyes are closed.\"\n\nIt says concerned customers can switch on \"lockdown\" mode - which deactivates facial recognition - when they want enhanced security.\n\nGoogle told BBC News Face Unlock could not be fooled by photos or masks, however.\n\n\"We will continue to improve Face Unlock over time,\" it said in a statement.", "The restaurant in Reading's Oracle shopping centre opened on 10 October\n\nA US fast-food chain will cease trading at its first UK outlet amid a row over donations to anti-LGBT groups.\n\nGay rights campaigners called for a boycott of Chick-fil-A, which opened its first branch at The Oracle shopping centre in Reading on 10 October.\n\nA spokeswoman for the centre said \"the right thing to do\" was to not extend the restaurant's lease beyond the \"six-month pilot period\".\n\nChick-fil-A said its donations were purely focused on youth and education.\n\nThe family-owned company, founded in Atlanta in 1967, is one of the biggest fast-food chains in the USA and boasts about 2,400 outlets across North America.\n\nAccording to US news website Think Progress, in 2017 the Chick-fil-A Foundation donated millions of dollars to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the Paul Anderson Youth Home and the US Salvation Army.\n\nCampaigners from LGBT organisation, Reading Pride, said all three organisations have a reputation of being hostile to LGBT rights.\n\nIn 2012, the company's chairman sparked a US boycott when he said he opposed gay marriage.\n\nThe Oracle said: \"We always look to introduce new concepts for our customers, however, we have decided on this occasion that the right thing to do is to only allow Chick-Fil-A to trade with us for the initial six-month pilot period, and not to extend the lease any further.\"\n\nReading Pride said The Oracle's decision was \"good news\", adding the six-month period was a \"reasonable request... to allow for re-settlement and notice for employees that have moved from other jobs\".\n\nBut the organisation said it would continue to campaign against the outlet until it left.\n\nChick-fil-A had previously told the BBC: \"Our giving has always focused on youth and education. We have never donated with the purpose of supporting a social or political agenda.\n\n\"There are 145,000 people - black, white; gay, straight; Christian, non-Christian - who represent Chick-fil-A.\"\n\nIn a statement, the UK Salvation Army said it \"strongly objected to being presented as homophobic or transphobic\", adding that it had LGBT+ members and served people \"without discrimination\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ian Blackford has tabled an amendment to Saturday's motion.\n\nThe SNP is to call for a three-month extension to Brexit to allow time to hold a general election.\n\nIan Blackford, the party's Westminster leader, has tabled an amendment to Saturday's motion in the Commons, rejecting the new Brexit deal.\n\nHe also calls for an extension until at least 31 January 2020, allowing for an early election.\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is \"very confident\" MPs will back the Brexit deal he has struck with the EU.\n\nThey are due to debate the withdrawal deal at a special sitting of Parliament on Saturday.\n\nEarlier, first minister Nicola Sturgeon warned that the prime minister's deal would lead to a \"much harder Brexit\" than earlier plans.\n\nMr Blackford said Mr Johnson's Brexit deal would be \"devastating for Scotland\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We will have all 35 SNP MPs in Westminster and will certainly be voting against this deal.\n\n\"This is a disaster for Scotland. It weakens our economy, takes us out of the European Union, takes us out of the single market and the customs union.\"\n\nMr Blackford also called on opposition parties to \"quit dithering, back our amendment, and finally act to bring this appalling Tory government down and stop Brexit\".\n\nHe said: \"I would simply say to those on the Labour benches, don't be the midwife of a Tory Brexit.\n\n\"I hope it is the case that we defeat this tomorrow. It won't be the end of the road if it goes through, because the government has to bring a bill forward.\n\n\"But it would be very significant…and pretty devastating if the government were to get this through on a small number of Labour votes.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier, the first minister said it was \"clear that Scotland is being treated unfairly\", and confirmed that SNP MPs \"will not vote for Brexit in any form\".\n\nAfter an agreement between the UK and EU was announced on Thursday morning, Ms Sturgeon said a \"much harder Brexit beckons if this deal passes\".\n\nIt is unclear if the new deal will pass a vote of MPs, with the DUP saying they still cannot support it.\n\nMr Johnson said the \"great new deal\" would see the UK \"take back control of our laws, borders, money and trade without disruption\".\n\nThe deal was announced by Mr Johnson and European leaders via Twitter on Thursday morning, ahead of a summit in Brussels.\n\nIt removes the much-disputed \"backstop\" proposals for the Irish border post-Brexit, and would instead see Northern Ireland remain in the UK's customs territory - while adhering to a limited set of EU rules on goods. Representatives in Northern Ireland would be able to decide whether to continue this arrangement every four years.\n\nEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said it was a \"fair and balanced agreement\" - and suggested that it was the final deal on offer, saying there would be \"no other prolongation\".\n\nMr Johnson said the \"great\" new deal \"allows us to get Brexit done and leave the EU in two weeks' time, so we can then focus on the people's priorities and bring the country back together again\".\n\nHowever, opposition parties in the UK have been critical, with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn saying the deal sounded \"even worse\" than what was negotiated by the previous prime minister, Theresa May\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon and Boris Johnson do not see eye to eye on Brexit\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon said Mr Johnson's plan would lead to a \"much harder Brexit\", highlighting that people in Scotland voted for Remain by 62% to 38% in the 2016 poll.\n\nThe SNP leader had always been clear that her 35 MPs would reject any deal brought back by Mr Johnson which takes the UK out of the EU's single market and customs union.\n\nReiterating this on Thursday, she said: \"We support efforts to ensure peace and stability on the island of Ireland, in line with the Good Friday Agreement, which must be respected.\n\n\"At the same time, it cannot be right that Scotland alone is facing an outcome it did not vote for - that is democratically unacceptable and makes a mockery of claims that the UK is in any way a partnership of equals.\n\n\"The Brexit envisaged by Boris Johnson is one which sees a much looser relationship with the EU when it comes to issues like food standards, environmental protections and workers' rights. That is not the future that I or my government envisage for Scotland.\"\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said the \"onus\" was on Ms Sturgeon and her MPs to back the deal, saying it would be \"unforgivable\" if opposition parties \"put their narrow party interests, grievances and ambitions over the best interests of the country\".\n\nMs Sturgeon also repeated her call for a second independence referendum to take place in 2020, saying it was \"clearer than ever that the best future for Scotland is one as an equal, independent European nation\".\n\nShe told her party conference on Tuesday that she would submit an official request to the UK government for an agreement to hold such a referendum by the end of this year.\n\nHowever, the UK government has repeatedly said it will not do such a deal, saying the 2014 ballot was a \"once in a generation decision\".", "Two of the many vehicles burned out during the clashes\n\nEven to a nation hardened to drug war images, the scenes in Culiacán were shocking.\n\nScores of cartel gunmen shut down the streets and engaged in sustained battles with the armed forces. Vast patrols of military vehicles descended on the neighbourhood of Tres Rios.\n\nThere were burning cars, roadblocks and heavy weaponry being fired in the middle of the day in the centre of the commercial district of the city.\n\nThere soon followed equally disturbing images of people - families with children - diving for cover.\n\n\"Can we get up now?\" one child asked her father as they cowered behind the wheels of their car. \"Not yet, darling,\" he replied, his voice strained and frightened.\n\nElsewhere, mobile phone footage emerged of panic inside a shopping mall, the rapid gunfire audible in the background.\n\nOnce the smoke eventually lifted, the explanations began.\n\nThe state government's initial reasoning posed more questions than it answered.\n\nSpeaking on television, the State Security Secretary, Alfonso Durazo, claimed the police had discovered the wanted leader of the Sinaloa Cartel by pure chance when a routine patrol was fired on from a house.\n\nThe Guzmán family lawyer says thank you\n\nOn entering the building, they identified one of the men inside as Ovidio Guzmán López , the son of the notorious former head of the organisation, \"El Chapo\" Guzmán, currently serving life plus 30 years in the US.\n\nYet that didn't seem to tally with eyewitness reports and videos of an apparently co-ordinated operation.\n\nWhat's more, Mr Durazo was deliberately ambiguous as to whether or not they still had \"El Chapo's\" son in their hands.\n\nIt soon became evident that they did not. They had let him go.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt was a huge embarrassment for the government. They had captured one of the most wanted men in Mexico and, outgunned and overwhelmed by the cartel, they simply turned him back over to his men.\n\nBy the following morning, both state and federal government were on damage control.\n\n\"This was a failed operation,\" Mr Durazo admitted, \"a rushed operation.\" The police had acted without orders from above and the decision to release Guzmán was only taken to prevent further violence to the civilian population, he argued.\n\n\"We are not going to convert Mexico into a greater cemetery than it already is.\"\n\nForensics on the case the day after in Culiacan\n\nMr Durazo could at least count on a similar song-sheet being sung at the federal level. In his daily press conference, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he wasn't only aware of the decision to let \"El Chapo's\" son go but approved it.\n\n\"The capture of a criminal cannot be worth more than people's lives. They took that decision and I supported it,\" he said with characteristic defiance.\n\nThere were extenuating circumstances, the government points out, in that a number of military men were taken hostage by the cartel.\n\nYet whether any of them were killed or harmed is another of the murky details that remains undisclosed in this debacle.\n\nAs does an apparent prison break. In the middle of it all, dozens of inmates at the Aguaruto prison escaped amid the confusion. Mobile phone footage shows them pulling drivers from their cars and making their getaway.\n\nWith the state authorities suggesting the police patrol which detained Guzmán acted without authority from above, the mayhem in Culiacán could be seen as a failure of co-ordination by the state, of planning or intelligence.\n\n\"It was a failure of everything,\" says Professor Raul Benitez, a security expert at the National Autonomous University in Mexico (UNAM).\n\n\"What it showed was the great power and control that the Sinaloa Cartel still exercises over the city of Culiacán.\" The shocking scenes bury the theory, he says, that the group is \"bruised or broken after El Chapo was imprisoned in the United States.\"\n\nDespite the chaos in Culiacán, President Lopez Obrador insists his approach of non-violence towards the drug gangs remains the right one. \"We don't want a war,\" he said.\n\nMaybe so - but this week's spike in drug-related violence in several states in Mexico shows they are still in a war all the same.\n\nAt least eight people were killed\n\nThere was an ambush on a police patrol in Michoacan in western Mexico which left 13 police officers dead on Monday and then an apparent clash between cartel members and the military the following day which left another 14 dead.\n\nThe policy under previous governments of all-out war against the cartels was misguided, says Professor Benitez. However, he believes so is the \"softly, softly\" strategy by the current administration.\n\nNow the fear is that other cartels in the country will have learned an important lesson from what happened in Culiacán.\n\n\"The Gulf Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel must be pleased,\" Professor Benitez said. \"Now they know what to do when one of their leaders is lifted: bring out their biggest guns and sow chaos and anarchy.\"", "The inquest at Carrow House, Norwich, heard the boy died of misadventure\n\nA teenage boy died after inhaling deodorant he sprayed because it \"smelt like his mother\", an inquest has heard.\n\nJack Waple, 13, was found unresponsive at his home in Main Street, Hockwold, Norfolk, in June, with an aerosol can by his side.\n\nThe boy had previously reassured his mother he only \"sprayed it about\" to smell her if he felt anxious when she left the house, the hearing was told.\n\nA post-mortem examination recorded his medical cause of death as \"aerosol inhalation\". He also suffered a cardiac arrest, the inquest at Carrow House heard.\n\nThe hearing was told Jack's mother Susan Waple had previously noticed deodorant cans were going missing around the house or seemed lighter than usual.\n\nAddressing Mrs Waple, Ms Blake said: \"[Jack had] assured you nothing was going wrong and said he sprayed his deodorant about as it smelt like you.\"\n\nHis parents had spoken to him about aerosol misuse, Ms Blake added.\n\nOn 13 June, Jack's mother discovered the teenager unresponsive in his bedroom and found an aerosol can nearby.\n\nMs Blake said breathing in the gases from aerosols can \"jolt\" and damage the heart, rather than the lungs.\n\n\"I think it's more likely than not he used the aerosol and unexpectedly died,\" she said, adding there was no evidence Jack intended to harm himself.\n\nShe concluded he died by misadventure, where a deliberate action has an unintended consequence.\n\n\"He would have gone into cardiac arrest and he wouldn't have known anything,\" she told his parents.\n\n\"I'm very sorry for your loss. You don't expect to bury your children.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dozens of people have been arrested around the world\n\nExtinction Rebellion protesters on the streets of London have been labelled \"uncooperative crusties\" by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nThe demonstrators - who are demanding action on climate change - should abandon their \"hemp-smelling bivouacs\" and stop blocking roads, the PM added.\n\nPolice have already arrested more than 300 people at the start of two weeks of protests by environmental campaigners.\n\nSome activists glued themselves to government buildings early on Tuesday.\n\nSpeaking at a book launch, Mr Johnson said: \"I am afraid that the security people didn't want me to come along tonight because they said the road was full of uncooperative crusties and protesters of all kinds littering the road.\n\n\"They said there was some risk that I would be egged.\"\n\nMr Johnson added protesters could learn from former PM Margaret Thatcher, who he said had taken the issue of greenhouse gases seriously long before activists such as Greta Thunberg were born.\n\n\"I hope that when we go out from this place tonight and we are waylaid by importunate nose-ringed climate change protesters, we remind them that she was also right about greenhouse gases.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson's comments came as he attended a book launch\n\nExtinction Rebellion activists are protesting in cities around the world, including Berlin, Amsterdam and Sydney.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said there have been 319 arrests in relation to the demonstrations since 00:01 BST on Tuesday.\n\nSome 200 campaigners who camped overnight on streets in central London also faced arrest on Tuesday morning after being issued with warnings by police.\n\nActivists who blocked Horseferry Road, in Westminster, throughout the night were warned that they will be arrested unless they move to nearby Trafalgar Square.\n\nBut many said they were prepared to stay in the camp. Mike Gumn, 33, from Bristol, told the PA news agency: \"We will decide as a group when we are going to move and we are not going to let police tell us when.\"\n\nA food van served porridge to protesters who stayed in Parliament Square overnight\n\nBehind Parliament Square there are dozens of tents where protesters from Scotland, Cumbria and north-east England have camped overnight.\n\nMikaela Loach, 21, travelled from Edinburgh on Monday with a friend on a bus organised for protesters.\n\nShe says she has attended protests before but this is her first time camping out overnight.\n\n\"I was a bit worried about police coming in the middle of the night, but it was a nice atmosphere having people around you that are here for the same cause,\" she said.\n\n\"I've spoken to my local MP, I've taken part in protests, I just feel like I haven't been listened to. This is a last resort,\" she said.\n\n\"I have been changing things in my lifestyle for a long time to try and be more eco-friendly, but I had a realisation that it doesn't matter if I go vegan or zero waste if the government doesn't do anything.\n\n\"There need to be big structural changes.\"\n\nSome activists glued themselves to the Department for Transport building early on Tuesday, a tactic used in demonstrations earlier this year.\n\nA lorry was also parked on Marsham Street, outside the entrance to the Home Office, with protesters attaching themselves to the vehicle.\n\nOn Monday, organisers blockaded key sites in central London, in addition to demonstrating outside government departments.\n\nSome glued and chained themselves to roads and vehicles - those who did so outside Westminster Abbey were later removed by police.\n\nActivists had planned to target government buildings in the protests\n\nExtinction Rebellion protesters settled in for the night outside Westminster Abbey\n\nThe roads behind Downing Street were blocked throughout the day by protesters, some of whom had erected tents in the street and were sitting down and singing songs together.\n\nThe protests are calling for urgent action on global climate and wildlife emergencies.\n\nFurther road closures are expected on Tuesday, with Parliament Street, Great Smith Street and Westminster and Lambeth bridges predicted to be heavily affected.\n\nExtinction Rebellion claims protests in the capital will be five times bigger than similar events in April, which saw more than 1,100 people were arrested.\n• None 2025year when the group aims for zero carbon emissions\n\nExtinction Rebellion (XR for short) wants governments to declare a \"climate and ecological emergency\" and take immediate action to address climate change.\n\nIt describes itself as an international \"non-violent civil disobedience activist movement\".\n\nExtinction Rebellion was launched in 2018 and organisers say it now has groups willing to take action in dozens of countries.\n\nIn April, the group held a large demonstration in London that brought major routes in the city to a standstill.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The humpback whale was spotted swimming near Dartford\n\nA humpback whale seen swimming in the River Thames over the weekend has died.\n\nThe mammal was spotted lying motionless on mudflats along the River Thames at Greenhithe on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nSam Lipman, from the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR), said the death was \"not wholly unexpected\".\n\nBDMLR said the whale, seen surfacing off Greenhithe on Sunday, was \"definitely a humpback\" and was probably lost but did not appear to be in any distress.\n\n\"It's really sad to find a humpback whale like this, deceased,\" Ms Lipman said.\n\n\"As the days were going on, we were seeing more photos of its condition, we were starting to realise that maybe it wasn't in the greatest of health.\n\n\"I think we weren't expecting this to happen so soon and we were hoping it wasn't going to happen at all,\" she added.\n\nThe BDMLR had said the creature likely arrived because of a navigational error, possibly during the recent high spring tides.\n\nA year ago \"Benny the beluga\" spent about three months in the busy waterway.\n\nRichard Banner saw the whale surfacing while sailing on the Thames on Saturday\n\nOn Sunday, a group of volunteers had observed the mammal surfacing repeatedly over a three-hour period.\n\nA Port of London Authority (PLA) spokesman said people who had seen it had estimated it was five or 10 metres in length.\n\n\"Benny the beluga\" was regularly seen in the River Thames at the end of last year\n\nPostings on social media have been mourning the humpback's death.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by David Callahan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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.", "Captain Cook arrived in New Zealand exactly 250 years ago, leading the first European fleet to reach its shores.\n\nNew Zealand (or Aotearoa) is marking the anniversary in a big way, but Maori activist Tina Ngata says there is little to celebrate.\n\nShe says Maori people are disproportionately poor, in jail and discriminated against, and that this all has its roots in New Zealand's colonial past.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson responds to the US diplomatic immunity row\n\nThe prime minister has urged the US to reconsider giving a diplomat's wife immunity after she left the UK despite being a suspect in a fatal crash.\n\nAnne Sacoolas is wanted by police over the death of motorcyclist Harry Dunn, 19, in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nThe US State Department said diplomatic immunity was \"rarely waived\".\n\nBoris Johnson said the UK was speaking to the US ambassador and \"if we can't resolve it then... I will be raising it myself with the White House\".\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who has already urged the US Embassy to reconsider, raised Mr Dunn's case in a conversation with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo earlier.\n\nA spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said Mr Raab \"reiterated his disappointment with the US decision and urged them to reconsider\".\n\nUnder the 1961 Vienna Convention, diplomats and their family members are immune from prosecution in their host country, as long as they are not nationals of that country. However, their immunity can be waived by the state that has sent them.\n\nMs Sacoolas left the UK despite telling police she had no such plans.\n\nHarry Dunn, 19, died in hospital after his motorbike was in a crash with a Volvo\n\nSpeaking during a visit to a hospital in Watford, Mr Johnson said: \"I think everybody's sympathies are very much with the family of Harry Dunn and our condolences to them for their tragic loss.\n\n\"I must answer you directly, I do not think that it can be right to use the process of diplomatic immunity for this type of purpose.\n\n\"And I hope that Anne Sacoolas will come back and will engage properly with the processes of law as they are carried out in this country.\n\n\"That's a point that we've raised or are raising today with the American ambassador here in the UK and I hope it will be resolved very shortly.\n\n\"And to anticipate a question you might want to raise, if we can't resolve it then of course I will be raising it myself personally with the White House.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Dunn crash: Family 'will travel to US to fight for change'\n\nBoth Northamptonshire's chief constable and police and crime commissioner have already urged the Americans to waive Ms Sacoolas's diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn died in hospital shortly after his Kawasaki motorcycle was involved in a crash with a Volvo XC90 at about 20:30 BST near the RAF base at Croughton.\n\nChief constable Nick Adderley said based on CCTV evidence, officers knew that on the night of the crash a vehicle had left the base \"on the wrong side of the road\".\n\nSupt Sarah Johnson said the police were collecting evidence with support from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the RAF base and the Dunn family.\n\n\"We're going to make sure that we deal with it [the investigation] in a way that we can take it through to prosecution,\" she said.\n\nThe appeal from Boris Johnson will undoubtedly be heard at the White House.\n\nBut I think it's unlikely the Americans will change their minds. It happens on a reasonably regular basis around the world that diplomats get into serious situations and don't face the law.\n\nWe understand the diplomat and his wife had only been in Britain for three weeks. On the face of it that sounds like something that has been brought to a premature end, presumably in connection with what happened.\n\nI think the slightly distasteful thing is that apparently Ms Sacoolas promised to stay and co-operate but then left. But we don't know the circumstances around that because we haven't heard her side of the story.\n\nThe crash happened on the B4031 near RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire, in August\n\nMr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles said it was \"such a dishonourable thing to do\" for Ms Sacoolas to leave the country and urged her to come back.\n\nMs Charles told BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme: \"[It was] unintentional. She didn't purposely drive on the other side of the road... if she'd have stayed and faced us as a family we could have found that forgiveness... but forgiving her for leaving, I'm nowhere near.\"\n\nShe has previously said that if the diplomatic waiver was declined then she would travel to see President Donald Trump and \"ask him directly\".\n\nThe US State Department said it was in \"close consultation\" with British officials and has offered its \"deepest sympathies\" to the family of Mr Dunn.\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. Listen to William, Harry, Meghan and Kate in the advert\n\nA mental health website struggled to cope with demand after a promotional video voiced by the dukes and duchesses of Cambridge and Sussex aired on TV.\n\nThe film screened on Sky, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and MTV on Monday evening.\n\nThe Every Mind Matters website for a time was intermittently showing the message: \"Something went wrong. Please refresh or try again later\"\n\nPublic Health England said the crash may have been due to a surge in traffic but the website was now working.\n\nVisitors to the website were greeted with an error message\n\nThe three-minute film is intended to promote Every Mind Matters, an initiative by Public Health England (PHE) and the NHS, to help people look after their mental health and support others.\n\nThe website went down for a short period within minutes of the advert being broadcast.\n\nA PHE spokeswoman said: \"We think it was due to high traffic. We had technicians working on it immediately and we're back up and running now.\"\n\nThe film is narrated by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who in May launched a text messaging service for people experiencing a mental health crisis through their royal foundation.\n\nIn the film, written by Richard Curtis and directed by Rankin, Prince William begins: \"Everyone knows that feeling, when life gets on top of us.\n\n\"All over the country, millions of us face challenges to our mental health - at all ages - at all intensities, and for all sorts of reasons.\n\n\"We feel stressed, low, anxious, or have trouble sleeping. Me, you...\"\n\nPrince Harry continues: \"Your brother, your mother, your colleague, or your neighbour. Waiting, wondering, hoping, hurting.\n\n\"We think there's nothing to be done. Nothing we can do about it.\"\n\nMeghan then says: \"But that's so wrong. There are things we can do. From today, there's a new way to help turn things around. Every Mind Matters will show you simple ways to look after your mental health.\"\n\nThe Sussexes and Cambridges previously had a joint charity called the Royal Foundation\n\nCatherine continues: \"It'll get you started with a free online plan designed to help you deal with stress, boost your mood, improve your sleep and feel more in control.\"\n\nThe royals are joined by other celebrities and public figures whose lives have been affected by poor mental health.\n\nThey include the actresses Gillian Anderson and Glenn Close, singer Professor Green, former England cricketer Andrew Flintoff, television presenter Davina McCall, and Bake Off star Nadiya Hussain.", "Nicky (left) and Laura (right) want to spread awareness while also offering hope to others\n\nTwo women with incurable breast cancer whose lives were \"flipped upside down\" by the diagnosis have set up a group to offer hope to others.\n\nNicky Newman and Laura Middleton-Hughes, both 31, have stage four cancer that has spread around their bodies.\n\nWhen Nicky, from Guildford, was told her secondary cancer was incurable, she said it sent her into a \"blind panic\".\n\nThe pair said they hoped their online community, Secondary Sisters, would help others facing such difficult news.\n\nLaura, from Norwich, said it had given them both a \"positive, therapeutic, way of talking about our cancer\".\n\n\"We both potentially face a very bumpy future, but we do have a future and we are going to live it,\" she said.\n\n\"And if we can help even one person feel better about themselves and like they are part of a community, that's amazing.\"\n\nBoth women are supporting Stand Up To Cancer, a joint fundraising campaign from Cancer Research UK and Channel 4.\n\nAn X-ray of Nicky's body showed white patches where the cancer had spread around her body\n\nNicky and her husband Alex were undergoing IVF treatment when she found a lump in her breast.\n\nShe said even before cancer was mentioned she could \"see it in the doctor's face\".\n\nDuring tests, she mentioned back pains, so was referred for specialist imaging.\n\n\"The surgeon said to me: 'I'm really sorry, there's nothing I can do'. It sent me into a blind panic,\" she said.\n\nHowever, she was given a drug called Palbociclib, which had only just been approved for NHS use.\n\n\"If it hadn't, my prognosis would have been very different,\" Nicky said.\n\nIn stage four breast cancer, the breast cancer cells have spread to other parts of the body, such as the bones, lungs, liver or brain.\n\nIt is also called advanced cancer, secondary breast cancer, or metastatic breast cancer.\n\nThe cancer is not curable at this point but may be controlled with treatment for some years.\n\nTreatment may have halted the spread of the disease but it has robbed both women of the chance to have children.\n\nNicky said when she left hospital, she was \"grieving more for the fact that I had lost my chance to be a mother than because I had cancer\".\n\nThey hope Secondary Sisters will spread awareness of what it means to have secondary cancer\n\nLaura was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014 after finding a lump while on holiday.\n\nShe underwent a mastectomy and chemotherapy and recovered well.\n\nBut in April 2016, pain in Laura's right shoulder got steadily worse and she was referred for a scan.\n\nA tumour had overtaken the head of the humerus - the bone in the arm between the shoulder and elbow.\n\n\"It was terrifying, 2016 was a rubbish year, a really rubbish year,\" she said.\n\nLaura has traces of breast cancer in her spine, 12 vertebrae and pelvis but said: \"I'm very grateful the treatment I'm having is managing to give me a fairly normal life.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Heidi Allen is the seventh former Tory or Labour MP to join the Lib Dems this year\n\nMP Heidi Allen, who quit the Conservative Party earlier this year, has joined the Liberal Democrats.\n\nThe MP for South Cambridgeshire left the Conservatives in February over its Brexit policy and other issues.\n\nShe subsequently became the leader of the fledgling Change UK but left after the party's failure to win any seats in the European elections.\n\nShe is the fourth ex-Tory to join the Lib Dems in recent months, after Sarah Wollaston, Philip Lee and Sam Gyimah.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sam Gyimah is introduced as a Lib Dem MP at their party conference\n\nHer move means the Liberal Democrats now have 19 MPs, eight more than at the start of the year.\n\nIn a statement, the 44-year old said she would fight the South Cambridgeshire seat for her new party at the next election and had been \"bowled over\" by the support she had received.\n\nMs Allen said the Conservatives and Labour had both \"moved to the extremes\" and it was only the Liberal Democrats which now occupied the \"liberal centre ground\" of British politics.\n\nThe MP, who has been sitting as an independent in Parliament for several months, said she could be \"stronger and more effective\" in her opposition to Brexit as \"part of a team\".\n\n\"Now is the time to stand shoulder to shoulder with, not just alongside, those I have collaborated and found shared values with,\" she said.\n\n\"As we face the monumental task ahead of stopping a damaging Brexit, healing the rifts in the UK and rebuilding the UK, there is only one party with the honesty, energy and vision to do that.\"\n\nWelcoming the party's latest new recruit, the Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson said Ms Allen had \"long been an ally\" in the fight to stop Brexit.\n\nShe said her arrival showed that the Lib Dems were the \"strongest party of Remain\".\n\nThe MP was among ex-Tory and Labour politicians to form Change UK\n\nMs Allen was first elected to Parliament in 2015, having previously worked for her family business as well as ExxonMobil and Royal Mail.\n\nShe caused ripples in her maiden speech in the Commons, decrying tribalism in Parliament and attacking elements of the government's welfare policy.\n\nAfter walking out of the Tories earlier this year, she caused controversy by suggesting that if she and other defectors did their job, the Conservatives would no longer \"need to exist\".\n\nBut Change UK only managed to win 3.4% of the vote in May's European elections after reportedly refusing to co-operate with the Lib Dems and other anti-Brexit parties.\n\nShe is the fifth of the 11 founding members of Change UK to join the Lib Dems - following Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Angela Smith and Sarah Wollaston.\n\nShe faces a tough task in retaining her seat at the next election, which has been a safe Conservative seat since its creation in 1997.\n\nIn 2017, the Lib Dems came in third place in the constituency - more than 20,000 votes behind the Tories and more than 5,000 votes behind Labour.\n\nHowever, the Lib Dems took control of South Cambridgeshire council in last year's local authority elections. The area voted strongly to remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum.", "Ben Stokes' wife Clare has denied \"nonsense\" allegations the couple had a physical altercation at an awards ceremony on 2 October.\n\nPictures published on Tuesday appeared to show the England player with his hand on her face after the Professional Cricketers' Association Awards.\n\n\"Unbelievable what nonsense these people will make up,\" she said.\n\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board said it was satisfied there was an \"innocent context\" to the images.\n\nAll-rounder Stokes, 28, was named PCA player of the year at the ceremony after helping England win the World Cup for the first time and hitting a remarkable unbeaten 135 to win the third Ashes Test against Australia at Headingley.\n\nPhotographs published on the Guido Fawkes website appeared to show the England player with his hand on his wife's face at the event at the Roundhouse in Camden.\n\nIn response, Clare Stokes posted on Twitter: \"Me and Ben messing about squishing up each other's faces cos that's how we show affection and some pap tries to twist it in to a crazy story!\n\n\"And all before we then have a romantic McDonald's 20 mins later!\"\n\nBen Stokes also later issued a response, saying that the \"way that this has come across is so far removed from what it was\".\n\n\"I have become used to people making stuff up about me, but of all the topics not to mess with domestic abuse has to be at the top of the list,\" he said in a statement to the Mirror.\n\n\"It's an incredibly serious issue for thousands of women - and men - who do suffer domestic abuse. For it to be toyed with for cheap headlines in this way just damages the cause of those who are abused.\n\n\"We have a wonderful relationship and I never tire of saying how lucky I am to be with her. We both had a great night at the PCA Awards, ending with us dining out at McDonald's together.\n\n\"To falsify and spread these kind of allegations so willingly is totally irresponsible.\"\n\nECB chief executive Tom Harrison said: ''We have spoken with both Clare and Ben - as well as others in attendance - who have all clarified the innocent context behind the still photographs taken at last week's PCA Awards.\n\n\"While it is not the case here, we recognise that for the millions who are impacted by domestic violence, this is a very real and serious issue.''", "The health secretary is wrong to think compulsory child vaccination will help tackle falling immunisation rates in England, a leading doctor says.\n\nMatt Hancock has said he is \"looking very seriously\" at the option.\n\nBut Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health expert Dr David Elliman said it could be counter-productive and make people more suspicious.\n\nHe joined others in calling for vaccines to be offered in places such as supermarkets and music festivals.\n\nFigures released last month showed vaccination rates for all nine vaccines given to children before the age of five fell in the last year in England - figures for the rest of the UK nations are better.\n\nThe UK lost its measles-free status in August amid a rising number of cases.\n\nDuring 2018 there were nearly 1,000 cases - more than double the number in 2016.\n\nSpeaking at the Science Media Centre in London, Dr Elliman, a consultant in community child health at Great Ormond Street Hospital, said he found Mr Hancock's view on compulsory vaccination \"concerning\" and \"not evidence-based\".\n\n\"Compulsory vaccination ain't going to work and isn't going to get the support of most health professionals.\"\n\nHe said it risked breaking the trust that exists between health professionals and the public and creating a row about civil liberties.\n\nHe also pointed out that it would do nothing to encourage those who have already missed vaccinations to take part in catch-up programmes, citing the need to reach out to people in their 20s who did not have the MMR vaccine at the height of the scare two decades ago.\n\nMatt Hancock says unvaccinated children are putting other children at risk\n\nInstead, he wants the government, which is drawing up a new vaccinations strategy, to focus on accessibility, saying he would like to see pop-up clinics being held at music festivals to reach out to those who missed out on the MMR jab at the turn of the century when uptake rates were even lower than they are now.\n\n\"People live busy lives so if we can make it easier for them to get vaccinated I think we would see an increase in uptake.\"\n\nShe said clinics could be held in children's centres and even supermarkets, but warned it would require investment in vaccination teams and nurses to give the jabs.\n\nThe government said the vaccination strategy would be out later in the year.", "The prorogation ceremony has just finished, bringing an end to the longest session since the English civil war, at 349 sitting days (or two years and three months).\n\nAfter Baroness Evans addressed the House of Lords to set out what was achieved during the previous Parliamentary session, MPs then traipsed back into the Commons to hear the formal suspension of that House.\n\n\"This Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Monday the 14th day of October,\" Speaker John Bercow said, in the final formal words of the ceremony.\n\nHe's now shaking hands with MPs - many taking the opportunity to thank him for one of his last acts as Speaker before he steps down.", "Angela Merkel and Boris Johnson spoke on the phone on Tuesday morning\n\nA No 10 source has said a Brexit deal is \"essentially impossible\" after a call between the PM and Angela Merkel.\n\nBoris Johnson and the German chancellor spoke earlier about the proposals he had put forward to the EU - but the source said she made clear a deal based on them was \"overwhelmingly unlikely\".\n\nMrs Merkel's office said it would not comment on \"private\" conversations.\n\nBut the BBC's Adam Fleming said there was \"scepticism\" within the EU that Mrs Merkel would have used such language.\n\nAnd the EU's top official warned the UK against a \"stupid blame game\".\n\nPresident of the European Council Donald Tusk sent a public tweet to Mr Johnson, telling him \"the future of Europe and the UK\" was at stake.\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\nWith efforts to get a deal by the end of the month on an apparent knife edge, Mr Johnson and his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar have said they hope to meet later in the week.\n\nBut Mr Varadkar told an interviewer on Tuesday evening he thought it would be \"very difficult\" to secure an agreement by next week.\n\nHe said the UK had \"repudiated\" the deal negotiated previously with Theresa May's government and had \"sort of put half of that now back on the table, and are saying that's a concession. And of course it isn't, really\".\n\nAnd following talks in Downing Street, the president of the European Parliament said there had been \"no progress\" and MEPs would not agree to a compromise deal \"at any price\".\n\nDavid Sassoli said the UK's new proposed customs arrangements for Northern Ireland were a \"long way from something to which the Parliament could agree\".\n\nThe president of the European Parliament said the EU faced a no-deal exit or a further delay\n\nAmid frantic diplomatic manoeuvring in European capitals, details of a call earlier on Tuesday between the UK and German leaders have reignited tensions across the continent.\n\nThe No 10 source suggested Mrs Merkel told her counterpart the only way to break the deadlock was for Northern Ireland to stay in the customs union and for it to permanently accept EU single market rules on trade in goods.\n\nThis, the source said, marked a shift in Germany's approach and made a negotiated deal \"essentially impossible\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said the conversation had been \"frank\" but denied the negotiations were all but over.\n\nNorbert Rottgen, an ally of the chancellor who is chair of the Bundestag's Foreign Affairs Committee, said there was \"no new German position\".\n\nHe tweeted that a deal based on the UK's latest proposals had \"been unrealistic from the beginning and yet the EU has been willing to engage\".\n\nThe BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler said it was \"no secret\" Berlin found the UK's proposed new customs solution for Northern Ireland problematic.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 katya adler This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhile Berlin had not given up hope, she said the chances of a no-deal exit were rising again as the nature of the UK's proposals made any compromise very difficult.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUnder Mr Johnson's proposals, which he calls a \"broad landing zone\" for a new deal with the EU:\n\nThe UK's chief negotiator, David Frost, is continuing to meet EU counterparts in Brussels, but the No 10 source said Tuesday morning's phone call had been a \"clarifying moment\", adding: \"Talks in Brussels are close to breaking down.\"\n\nThey said the UK was not willing to move away from the principle of providing a consent mechanism for Northern Ireland, or the plan for leaving the customs union, and if the EU did not accept those principles, \"that will be that\" and the plan moving forward would be an \"obstructive\" strategy towards Brussels.\n\nThey also accused the EU of being \"willing to torpedo the Good Friday agreement\" - the peace process agreed in Northern Ireland in the 1990s - by refusing to accept Mr Johnson's proposals.\n\nHands up if all this stuff about \"spokesman\" and \"sources\" is driving you bonkers? Here's the in-brief explanation of how it works at Westminster.\n\nThe prime minister has an official spokesman. They work for the government, not the political party that is in government. They give two briefings a day to reporters when Parliament is sitting and they are on the record. That is to say we report what is said and we report who said it - although by convention we don't actually name the spokesman.\n\nThere are two reasons for this: they are speaking on behalf of the PM, not themselves. And sometimes a deputy does the briefing instead.\n\nIn addition to the official spokesman, there are other people in Downing Street who will talk to journalists. For some, that is their specific job. For others, it is not.\n\nThese people will always talk to us off the record - so we can quote them, but not name them, or do anything that risks identifying them.\n\nJournalists always prefer on the record quotes, but in politics as in life, people are often more candid in private, and so we can get a greater sense of what is going on in return for respecting the terms on which the information has been given to us.\n\nUpdating MPs on contingency planning for a no-deal exit, minister Michael Gove said there was still \"every chance\" of a deal but the EU must engage with the UK's plans.\n\n\"In setting out these proposals, we've moved - it is now time for the EU to move too,\" he said.\n\nIreland's Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister), Simon Coveney, said a deal was still possible but \"not any at cost\" - and the UK must accept it had \"responsibilities\" on the island of Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK and Irish leaders spoke on the phone for 40 minutes on Tuesday, after which No 10 said both sides \"strongly reiterated\" their desire to reach a deal.\n\nBut Labour's shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer told MPs the government was \"intent on collapsing the talks and engaging in a reckless blame game\".\n\n\"The stark reality is the government put forward proposals that were designed to fail,\" he said, adding that it was \"beneath contempt\" that, according to a Downing Street source reported by the Spectator, the UK could withdraw security co-operation from other EU countries if it were forced to remain beyond 31 October.\n\nThe PM has insisted the UK will leave the EU on that date, with or without a deal.\n\nThat is despite legislation passed by MPs last month, known as the Benn Act, which requires Mr Johnson to write to the EU requesting a further delay if no deal is signed off by Parliament by 19 October - unless MPs agree to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nNo-one really wants to comment directly on this phone call - certainly not Berlin - but talking to EU officials and diplomats in Brussels, there is considerable scepticism.\n\nThat's because the words attributed to Angela Merkel do not reflect the EU's agreed language.\n\nFor one, Mrs Merkel and the EU have repeatedly said they will keep talking to the last second and will not pull the plug before that.\n\nAnd secondly, the No 10 source claims the EU wants to keep Northern Ireland permanently \"trapped\" in the customs union - Brussels insists it doesn't want that at all, it just wants the option for Northern Ireland stay inside temporarily until something else is worked out.\n\nSo as I say, scepticism. It could be a misinterpretation or it could be a deliberate bit of spin, because we're now entering into a blame game about whose fault it is that progress isn't being made.\n\nThe key focus of the new UK plans is to replace the so-called backstop - the policy negotiated by Theresa May and the EU to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland - which has long been a sticking point.\n\nAfter presenting them, government sources hoped the sides might be able to enter an intense 10-day period of talks almost immediately, but a number of senior EU figures, including Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, warned they did not form the basis for deeper negotiations - even if they believed a deal could still be done.\n\nMr Varadkar has warned the Johnson plan could actually undermine that principle by giving one party in Northern Ireland a veto over what happens to the country as a whole.\n\nTuesday 8 October - Last working day in the House of Commons before it is will be prorogued - suspended - ahead of a Queen's Speech to begin a new parliamentary session.\n\nMonday 14 October - The Commons is due to return, and the government will use the Queen's Speech to set out its legislative agenda. The speech will then be debated by MPs throughout the week.\n\nThursday 17 October - Crucial two-day summit of EU leaders begins in Brussels. This is the last such meeting currently scheduled before the Brexit deadline.\n\nSaturday 19 October - Date by which the PM must ask the EU for another delay to Brexit under the Benn Act, if no Brexit deal has been approved by Parliament and they have not agreed to the UK leaving with no-deal.\n\nThursday 31 October - Date by which the UK is due to leave the EU, with or without a withdrawal agreement.", "The prime minister has said he will raise the case of Harry Dunn with the White House if a resolution cannot be found any other way.\n\nThe 19-year-old was allegedly killed in a crash involving a US diplomat's wife - she has since left the UK despite telling police she had no such plans.\n\nAsked about calls for Anne Sacoolas to return to face further questioning, Boris Johnson said: \"I do not think that it can be right to use the process of diplomatic immunity for this type of purpose.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jennifer Arcuri: \"I'm not going to put myself in a position where you can weaponise my answer\"\n\nDowning Street has complied with an order to hand over details of Boris Johnson's contacts with Jennifer Arcuri, the London Assembly has said.\n\nBut No 10 has asked the Assembly not to publish the document as it is \"confidential\", an Assembly spokesperson said.\n\nThe PM is facing questions about his friendship with the US businesswoman when he was London mayor.\n\nHe has denied claims of failing to declare a conflict of interest.\n\nMr Johnson had been given until Tuesday to provide details of contacts with Ms Arcuri.\n\nThe Assembly has said that they will comply with Downing Street's request for confidentiality, having previously said that they would publish the response.\n\nSpeaking before the details were released, Len Duvall, chairman of the Assembly's oversight committee, said: \"The allegations are serious, I hope the prime minister is treating them seriously.\"\n\nHe said the assembly's powers to take action against Mr Johnson, if he was found to have breached its code of conduct, were limited because he was no longer mayor of London.\n\nHe held the office between 2008 and 2016.\n\nBut it could still summon the prime minister to appear before the oversight committee to answer further questions about his contacts with Ms Arcuri, along with others connected to the case.\n\nThe committee has asked for the details and a timeline of all contact between Mr Johnson and Ms Arcuri, including private text messages and emails.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times, which first reported the story, Ms Arcuri joined trade missions led by Mr Johnson when he was mayor and received thousands of pounds in public money.\n\nIt is also understood she attended events on two of the trade missions - to New York and Tel Aviv - despite not officially qualifying for them as a delegate.\n\nThe prime minister has denied breaking any rules of conduct and insisted everything was done \"entirely in the proper way\".\n\nMs Arcuri told ITV's Good Morning Britain Mr Johnson was \"a really good friend\" - but denied the then mayor had shown any \"favouritism\" towards her.\n\nThe code governing conduct at London City Hall states that public office holders should not act in any way to gain benefits for families or friends, and should declare private interests to resolve any conflicts.\n\nMr Duvall, a Labour member of the London Assembly, said his committee was attempting to \"make a judgement call on what the relationship was\" before deciding what, if any, action it would take at a meeting next week.\n\nSeparately, the Independent Office for Police Conduct has been asked to consider whether Mr Johnson, who as mayor was responsible for policing in London, should be investigated for misconduct in public office, a criminal offence.\n\nCurrent Mayor Sadiq Khan has asked a senior lawyer to review a 2013 decision by London and Partners, the mayor's promotional agency, to sponsor a conference organised one of Ms Arcuri's companies, for £10,000.\n\nLondon and Partners say they have found no evidence of Mr Johnson's involvement in the decision.\n\nThe Department for Culture, Media and Sport is, meanwhile, \"reviewing\" a £100,000 grant made in February this year to Ms Arcuri's cyber-security business Hacker House.", "Boris Johnson is at odds with Parliament on the issue of leaving the EU without a deal\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said the UK will leave the European Union (EU) on 31 October \"deal or no deal\". But Chancellor Sajid Javid has now conceded that the deadline \"can't be met\".\n\nWhile opposition parties decide in which circumstances they could support Mr Johnson's request for a December general election, the fate of the Brexit deadline currently lies with European leaders.\n\nAs things stand, it is still just about possible for the UK to leave the EU without a deal at the end of the month.\n\nNow that EU ambassadors have agreed that there should be an extension, this route to a no-deal is extremely unlikely.\n\nMr Johnson sent a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk on 19 October, requesting a three-month Brexit delay\n\nBut for an extension to the Halloween deadline to go ahead, leaders of the other 27 EU countries have to agree unanimously. Until the change is formalised, the legal \"exit date\" remains at 31 October.\n\nNow that the EU has agreed to an extension, it could still offer the UK a leaving date other than 31 January. In that instance, MPs would have up to two days in which they could vote to reject the proposal. If they don't vote, the proposal is automatically agreed to.\n\nThe EU may not announce the length of the extension until Tuesday, meaning any vote by MPs could theoretically happen on 31 October itself.\n\nIf the proposal was rejected, the extension would be off and a no-deal Brexit would happen next Thursday.\n\nMPs would be unlikely to reject a proposal, however, for two reasons:\n\nEven with an extension agreed and put in place before the end of the month, a no-deal Brexit is not \"off the table\". Instead, it just pushes the possibility further into the future.\n\nThe UK will need to wait for an answer from the EU\n\nRegardless of the length of the extension, the prime minister would probably still try to push his deal through Parliament.\n\nHowever, if the government is unable to implement his deal (or another) before the new deadline, the UK would leave without a deal.\n\nThis is the most controversial and unlikely scenario.\n\nIf an extension were agreed, a minister would be required to change the deadline in law using something called a statutory instrument (the power to change the law without a vote of MPs).\n\nAnd, theoretically, they could simply refuse to do this.\n\nBut not only would this be unlawful, it could be argued the \"exit date\" would be automatically changed anyway, because international law trumps domestic law.\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016 to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Turkish tanks taking part in an offensive in northern Syria\n\nAnyone who thought that the defeat of the Islamic State group would lead to an end or a simplification of the conflict in Syria was wrong.\n\nJust look at Turkey's controversial offensive in Syria's northern region of Afrin, intended to extend Turkey's existing buffer zone inside the country and to evict Kurdish fighters from a broad swathe of territory.\n\nThe Ankara government sees the fighters as allies of Kurdish separatists inside Turkey. Indeed, despite various shifts in Turkish policy towards the conflict in Syria, opposition to Kurdish autonomy has been constant and absolute.\n\nThe Turks will simply not tolerate what they see as the threat posed by an autonomous Kurdish zone on their southern frontier. And they are clearly willing to use significant force to remove it.\n\nBut just how much force, and how far could this conflict in northern Syria go?\n\nThe Kurdish fighters have long been trained and backed by the Americans, indeed, they have proved to be the most capable of Washington's allies in the struggle against Islamic State.\n\nAnd with IS defeated, at least as a territorial entity, the Kurds were able to consolidate control over a considerable region in the north.\n\nIt was poor messaging by a US military spokesman speaking about the creation of a Kurdish border force to maintain security in northern Syria that gave Ankara its immediate cause to launch its attack.\n\nWhile the Americans have subsequently sought to play down the novelty of this border force - characterising it as merely the continuation of existing arrangements - US commanders in the region and Trump administration spokesmen in Washington have not been reading from the same playbook.\n\nA Turkish tank arrives at an army base in the border town of Reyhanli\n\nThe military men have been stressing America's continuing support for their Kurdish allies, while officials have been uneasily trying to distance themselves from the Kurds while urging restraint on the Turkish government.\n\nThis is an uncomfortable position for Washington: its Nato ally Turkey engaged in fierce combat with its main ally in Syria, the Kurds. And it could get worse.\n\nIf the Turkish assault moves eastwards towards the town of Manbij, there is a very real risk of the fighting extending into areas where US trainers and special forces may be based.\n\nFor the Americans, the Kurdish fighters remain an important element in their evolving strategy for Syria.\n\nIS may be largely defeated in purely military terms, but Washington's attention is shifting. Its new organising principle in the region is the containment of Iran, which, through its support for the Assad regime, has emerged as one of the few beneficiaries of the struggle in Syria.\n\nThe US wants to constrain the Assad government's ability to extend its control over key parts of the country, and it also wants to limit Russia's ability to call the diplomatic shots.\n\nAnd to do all of these things it needs reliable allies on the ground like the Kurds.\n\nThe Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance captured the IS stronghold of Raqqa\n\nThe crisis in northern Syria shows that the simple focus of US policy on the defeat of IS was insufficient to bring stability to the country.\n\nIndeed, many parts of Syria remain as much dangerous battlegrounds as they ever were. Large areas of the country are nominally under the Assad government's control, but in some cases, they are actually in the hands of semi-autonomous militia forces.\n\nIran also has its proxies on the ground in significant numbers. Opposition groups affiliated one way or another with al-Qaeda hold significant territory. This is hardly a basis for stability, and could well prove the breeding ground for the next upsurge in Islamist extremism.\n\nIt is hard to see how the new focus in Washington on containing Iran in Syria will reduce tensions.\n\nBut the Turkish military operation poses huge risks for the Ankara government too. Turkish progress on the ground has been steady but mixed, because of fierce Kurdish resistance and poor weather that has hampered operations.\n\nDozens of Kurdish fighters and civilians have been killed in the fighting\n\nThe fighting is throwing up a series of paradoxes.\n\nTurkey, which a few years ago shot down a Russian aircraft that it said intruded into its territory from Syria, has reportedly done a deal with Moscow to enable it to use its air power in northern Syria. (Russia, which pretty much controls Syrian air space, has not intervened.)\n\nThere is also evidence - cited by US think tank the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) - which suggests that Syrian government forces have allowed Kurdish reinforcements to pass through their territory on the way to help fighters in the Afrin pocket.\n\nThe recent ISW study also cites an episode earlier this week when pro-Syrian government forces fired upon and halted a large Turkish armoured column that was driving southwards to the south-west of Aleppo through opposition-held territory.\n\nThe intent might have been to establish a blocking position hindering future operations by Syrian government forces in the area.\n\nThe government in Damascus regards the Turkish operation as a whole as an infringement of its sovereignty. Ankara is eager to ensure that the Assad regime does not give any support to the embattled Kurdish fighters.\n\nNew battles are being waged where the interests of the outside players are becoming the dominant factor. Turkey has genuine security concerns about what happens in northern Syria, which the US has tried to acknowledge, and the risks it faces are political as much as military.\n\nTurkish policy towards the Syrian crisis has oscillated back and forth.\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he is prepared to take the fight against Kurdish forces in northern Syria as far east as Iraq\n\nIts long-standing hostility to the Assad regime has softened slightly as it sought both Moscow and Tehran's help to create a diplomatic route to shape the future of Syria, or at least that part of the country closest to its own borders.\n\nThat diplomatic effort has largely failed, Russia's recent peace conference in Sochi achieving as little as the more broadly-backed Geneva process has done over successive meetings.\n\nThe extent and scale of Turkey's military operations will influence its relations with Russia, Syria and Iran. It will impact its ties with Washington and its wider relationships within Nato.\n\nAnd it risks accentuating the sense of Turkish independence and drift away from the West which is a growing concern in many of the alliance's capitals.", "Boris Johnson has outlined his plan to the European Union (EU) to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said the plan \"removes the so-called backstop\".\n\nThe backstop is the insurance policy negotiated by Theresa May and the EU. It is designed to avoid any physical border infrastructure, which it is feared would bring back memories of the Troubles, after Brexit.\n\nIt would keep the UK in the same customs territory as the EU, and Northern Ireland closely tied to EU regulations - until the UK and the EU reach a trade deal.\n\nBut it would stop the UK striking its own trade deals, which is why so many Conservative MPs, including Mr Johnson, oppose the backstop.\n\nSo, what is his alternative?\n\nThe government wants the UK to leave the EU customs union. This would mean Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland ending up in two different customs territories.\n\nThis means lorries entering the Republic of Ireland from Northern Ireland will need to complete customs declarations. This is to ensure the correct tariffs (tax on imports) are paid when UK goods enter the EU customs union.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: From the beginning the EU has struggled to see how Ireland and Northern Ireland can exist in different customs territories while keeping the border as open as it is now under all circumstances. They will argue that - in the absence of a future free trade deal - this proposal means the UK is breaking commitments it has made about the border. The UK counters that the backstop has already been rejected in Parliament three times, and something needs to change.\n\nInstead of installing customs posts and other physical infrastructure at the Irish border, the UK says declarations should be done electronically.\n\nThe government says physical checks would still be needed \"on a very small proportion of movements\". Currently, about one in 100 consignments entering the EU customs union are inspected to check that the goods match the information on the declaration.\n\nThese inspections could be carried out at warehouses or \"designated locations, which could be located anywhere in Ireland or Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThe government's proposal does not spell out what these \"designated locations\" would look like, but it adds there should be \"a firm commitment (by both parties) never to conduct checks at the border in future\".\n\nIf adopted, a border solution relying on technology and remote checks would be a first. The EU does not currently share a single border with a non-EU country where checks have been completely eliminated.\n\nThat includes Norway (not in the EU) and Sweden (an EU member) - which share one of the most technologically advanced borders in the world. Their main crossing point processes about 1,300 lorries a day, with each waiting 20 minutes on average.\n\nThe EU has previously rejected a customs solution that relies on technology.\n\nBack in January, Sabine Weyand, the EU's director-general for trade, said: \"We looked at every border on this Earth, every border the EU has with a third country - there's simply no way you can do away with checks and controls.\"\n\nThe government says that some small traders should be exempt from paying duty. However, the document does not address smuggling head on. In other words, what will be done to detect and prevent traders, who should be paying duty, from crossing the border without completing custom declarations first?\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The EU will see much of this as a rehash of previous ideas that it doesn't think will work. And many people will worry that unspecified \"designated locations\" could become targets for anyone seeking to undermine the Northern Ireland peace process. The EU will push back hard against suggestions that it needs to revise its own customs rules to suit the UK.\n\nWhen it comes to the regulation of goods, Northern Ireland would keep to the rules of the EU's single market, rather than UK rules.\n\nThat removes the need for product standard and safety checks on goods at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, because both will be part of an \"all-island regulatory zone\".\n\nBut it creates the need for checks between the rest of the UK - which will not be sticking to EU single market rules - and Northern Ireland..\n\nAll agricultural, food or animal products entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK will have to go through a Border Inspection Post. That's a bit of infrastructure where goods can be physically examined and paperwork checked.\n\nManufactured goods in Northern Ireland would also have to keep to EU rules, and these goods would be checked \"at the boundary of the zone\" - presumably at crossings between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, on the Irish Sea.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: This is quite a big concession from the UK side - basically accepting that there would have to be quite intrusive checks between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK for a number of years, on things like product standards and food safety. The EU has always said there have to be checks carried out somewhere, and both sides will try to deny any suggestion that this amounts to a new border in the Irish Sea.\n\nHaving Northern Ireland following EU rules for the production of goods over which it has no say is, as the document says, \"a significant democratic problem\".\n\nAs a result, it is proposed that the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive will have to sign off on the plan before it takes effect.\n\nThe Northern Irish institutions will be asked to approve the plan again every four years, and if they do not then Northern Ireland would stop following EU rules one year later.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly has not met since early 2017.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The issue of democratic legitimacy is a crucial one, but it cannot be applied unevenly. The EU is likely to have a problem with anything which suggests that only Northern Ireland could have - in effect - a veto on this plan. The point of the backstop was to provide a legal guarantee to keep an open border under all circumstances. Being subject to approval every four years simply isn't the same thing. If Northern Ireland voted to leave this arrangement things like checks on food safety would have to take place at the Irish border.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A resident explains what she enjoys about her home\n\nAn eco-friendly council estate in Norwich has scooped this year's prestigious Riba Stirling Prize for architecture.\n\nThe Royal Institute of British Architects gives out the award each year to the UK's best new building.\n\nThe estate, called Goldsmith Street, is made up of almost 100 ultra low-energy homes for Norwich City Council.\n\nIt beat the likes of London Bridge Station and the Nevill Holt Opera, Market Harborough, to the prize.\n\nGoldsmith Street meets rigorous \"Passivhaus\" environmental standards, which means it \"provides a high level of occupant comfort while using very little energy for heating and cooling\", according to the Passivhaus Trust.\n\nRiba said the estate's environmental credentials made it a \"beacon of hope\" and highly unusual for a mass housing development.\n\n\"Faced with a global climate emergency, the worst housing crisis for generations and crippling local authority cuts, Goldsmith Street is a beacon of hope,\" said Riba president Alan Jones.\n\n\"It is commended not just as a transformative social housing scheme and eco-development, but a pioneering exemplar for other local authorities to follow.\"\n\nGoldsmith Street is made up of two-storey houses, bookended by three-storey flats.\n\nThe estate has been designed by architect company Mikhail Riches to be eco-friendly down to the smallest of detail.\n\nLetterboxes are built into external porches, rather than the front doors, to reduce draughts.\n\nHomes run on a passive solar scheme, estimated to bring residents annual energy bills which are 70% cheaper than those for the average household.\n\nAll face south to get as much sunlight as possible; walls are more than 60cm thick and the roofs are tilted in such a way to avoid blocking sunlight from the neighbours.\n\nAs for the aesthetic, they are made in materials referencing Norwich's history, such as glossy black roof pantiles, which are a nod to the city's Dutch trading links, and creamy clay bricks similar to Victorian terraces nearby.\n\nTo give residents a sense of individuality and ownership, touches have been included such coloured front doors, generous lobby space for prams and bikes and private balconies.\n\nAnd to encourage a community spirit, the back gardens of the central terraces share a secure play area for children and a landscaped walkway for communal gatherings runs through the middle of the estate.\n\n\"It is not often we are appointed to work on a project so closely aligned with what we believe matters; buildings people love which are low impact,\" said David Mikhail of Mikhail Riches.\n\n\"We hope other local authorities will be inspired to deliver beautiful homes for people who need them the most, and at an affordable price.\n\n\"To all the residents - thank you for sharing your enthusiasm, and your homes, with everyone who has visited.\"\n\nLast year's winning building was the European headquarters of Bloomberg, the world's most sustainable office and largest stone building in the City of London.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @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 woman gave birth to the baby at HMP Bronzefield\n\nThe death of a newborn baby whose mother gave birth alone at Britain's largest women's prison is the subject of 10 investigations, a justice minister has told the Commons.\n\nLucy Frazer said the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman had been asked to conduct an \"overarching\" investigation into the incident at HMP Bronzefield.\n\nA woman at the Surrey jail, run by Sodexo, gave birth on 27 September.\n\nCatherine West, Hornsey and Wood Green's Labour MP, had asked: \"In the tragic case of the baby which died in prison and the mother who laboured on her own in her cell, would the minister please in her review look at two things.\n\n\"Number one - were there enough prison officers on duty that night?\n\n\"And number two - will every single pregnant prisoner please be given a healthcare plan suitable to her needs in her pregnancy for every day of that pregnancy in which she's in prison?\"\n\nMs Frazer responded by outlining the investigations and added that she had spoken to the prison governor who had introduced hourly checks through the night for all pregnant women.\n\nShe added: \"Fortnightly pregnancy review boards are being held for all pregnant women involving a multidisciplinary team. That's happening throughout the female prisoner estate.\"\n\nNaomi Delap, director of the charity Birth Companions, said care should be taken that hourly checks did not compromise women's wellbeing.\n\nShe said: \"Individualised and carefully-informed care plans are the most effective way to safeguard the health and wellbeing of women and babies throughout pregnancy, birth and in the postnatal period.\"\n\nDeborah Coles, director of the charity Inquest, welcomed the involvement of the ombudsman and said: \"There must be the most robust scrutiny of how this tragic death was able to happen.\"\n\nAdding that it was vital findings were made public, she said: \"The investigation must identify clear actions to safeguard the lives of mothers and babies, who we believe, should not be in prison at all.\"\n\nHMP Bronzefield, near Ashford, which holds more than 500 inmates, is the main prison for female offenders in London and the south of England.\n\nA Sodexo spokesman said the company had no further comment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kurdish fighters in northern Syria have accused the US of betrayal, after American forces abruptly began to pull back from the border area ahead of a planned offensive by Turkey.\n\nUS-military vehicles were filmed leaving positions near the border towns of Sari Kani and Tal Abyad", "British shot putter Sophie McKinna talks to BBC Breakfast about her World Championships experience in Doha and how heavy a shot really is.", "The UK winner now has a fortune eclipsing those of singers Sir Tom Jones, Adele and Ed Sheeran\n\nA UK ticket-holder has won the full £170m Euromillions jackpot, making them Britain's richest ever lottery winner.\n\nNational Lottery operator Camelot said the £170,221,000.00 jackpot was won by a single ticket-holder on Tuesday.\n\nThe ticket-holder is yet to be named and it is unknown if it is a single person, a family or a syndicate.\n\nThe winning numbers picked were 7, 10, 15, 44 and 49, with 3 and 12 selected for the Lucky star numbers.\n\nIf the winner is an individual, their new found fortune would earn them a place on the Sunday Times' Rich List of the 1,000 wealthiest people living in the UK or with British business links.\n\nAccording to the paper's 2019 rankings, the winner's wealth eclipses that of singers Sir Tom Jones, Ed Sheeran and Adele, who are worth £165m, £160m and £150m respectively.\n• None £161mColin and Chris Weir, from North Ayrshire, Scotland in 2011.\n• None £148mAdrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, in 2012.\n• None £114.9mPatrick and Frances Connolly, from NI, in January.\n\nThe lucky ticket-holder has also beaten the previous record set by Colin and Chris Weir who became Britain's richest lottery winners when they claimed £161m in 2011.\n\nAndy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"One incredibly lucky ticket-holder has scooped tonight's enormous £170m Euromillions jackpot.\n\n\"They are now the UK's biggest ever winner. Players all across the country are urged to check their tickets as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe Euromillions jackpot has rolled over 22 consecutive times since July 19, first reaching the maximum prize fund of £170m (€190m) on 24 September.\n\nUnder jackpot cap rules, the top prize can roll over four consecutive times once the cap has been reached, before it must be won in the fifth and final draw, which happened on Tuesday.\n\nIf no one had won the jackpot by matching five numbers plus two Lucky Stars, the entire jackpot would have rolled down to the next highest tier, most likely where five numbers and one Lucky star are matched.\n\nIt is the first time that a jackpot has gone the full five draws at its cap and only the second time that a Must Be Won draw has ever been held; the first was on November 17, 2006.\n\nTickets for Euromillions are sold in nine countries - the UK, France, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Irish Republic, Portugal and Switzerland - with ticket-holders in all those countries trying to win a share of the same jackpot each week.\n\nAde Goodchild won £71m in the Euromillions lottery in March", "Scammers are suspected of making fraudulent claims on a website set up to refund Thomas Cook customers, the Civil Aviation Authority has said.\n\nThe aviation regulator said it has taken \"urgent action\" over the suspicious online activity and will notify the police.\n\nIt has added further verification checks to its refund process, it said.\n\nA spokesman said that Thomas Cook customers themselves were also being targeted by fraudsters.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is administering refunds from the Atol travel fund, an insurance levy collected from travel firms.\n\nIt is understood to be concerned by a series of low-level claims which could indicate fraud.\n\nThe regulator said it would seek prosecutions where there was evidence of deception.\n\nThe CAA also warned some fraudulent claims management websites had been set up, echoing warnings made by consumer group Which? on Friday.\n\nIt said that Thomas Cook customers should only make claims directly through its dedicated website.\n\nAbout 100,000 claims have been made since Monday morning when the refunds website went live.\n\nIt was set up to let people with Atol-protected Thomas Cook holidays that were due to begin after the firm collapsed on 23 September claim refunds.\n\nThis covers more than 360,000 bookings for trips that were to be taken by 800,000 people.\n\nAtol-protected customers who were already abroad when Thomas Cook failed can also claim for out-of-pocket expenses for delayed flights.\n\nThe CAA has said it will pay refunds within 60 days of receiving a valid claim and wants to crack down on fraudulent activity to avoid delays.\n\nDame Deirdre Hutton, who chairs the organisation, said: \"This morning we have taken urgent action in response to what we believe is attempted fraudulent activity in relation to refunds for Thomas Cook customers.\n\n\"If you have made a claim directly with us, then your claim is being processed and you do not need to take any action.\"\n\nShe added: \"Please help us to combat the risk of fraud by not submitting your details to any other website.\n\n\"Our focus is on getting money back to the right people as soon as possible and combating fraud in every way possible.\"\n\nThe CAA apologised on Monday after its system struggled to cope with \"unprecedented demand\" in the hours after it launched.\n\nMany people received an error message after entering their details, meaning their claims were not submitted.", "The three low paid workers and their union are launching a no-deal Brexit court case\n\nThree low paid workers and their union are launching a legal challenge to make the prime minister seek an extension to the Brexit deadline.\n\nThe government has promised EU-law derived employment rights will remain in UK law after Brexit.\n\nBut if there were a no-deal Brexit, the union says, ministers would have free rein to water down these rights.\n\nAnd workers could no longer rely on the supremacy of EU law, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights or Court of Justice.\n\nThe Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB), is currently relying upon these aspects of EU law in a number of worker's rights court cases.\n\nThe organisation, which represents some 5,000 workers - 1,000 of whom are citizens of other EU states - has now filed court papers to begin legal proceedings.\n\nThere are an estimated 3.5 million citizens of other EU member states living and working in the UK.\n\nOne of them, Maritza Castillo Calle, who has a Spanish passport and works in catering and part-time for the IWGB, is a claimant in the case.\n\nShe told BBC News: \"Many low paid and precarious workers like me use laws from the EU in order to defend ourselves, and also when a company transfers to another company, to defend our rest, our hours and our rights overall.\"\n\nIWGB general secretary Jason Moyer-Lee told BBC News: \"Low paid workers, like couriers and cleaners, need all the protections and employment rights they can get.\n\n\"Many of these come from EU law and are at serious risk in a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"The IWGB will do everything possible to protect these rights, including legal action to force the prime minister to obey the law and request an extension to the Brexit deadline.\"\n\nThe union's court action is one of three similar ongoing challenges, which all seek to hold the prime minister to the so-called Benn Act.\n\nThe act, named after Labour's Hilary Benn who spearheaded the law's passage through Parliament, requires the prime minister to write to the EU to request an extension to the 31 October Brexit deadline if a deal has not been signed off by Parliament by 19 October and if MPs have not voted to leave without a deal.\n\nIn England and Wales, civil rights group Liberty is bringing a challenge in the High Court seeking assurances that the government will abide by the act.\n\nIn Scotland, a separate challenge has been brought to the Inner House of the Court of Session - Scotland's highest court - by businessman Dale Vince, Jolyon Maugham QC and SNP MP Joanna Cherry.\n\nIt will ask judges to consider whether a court can sign a Brexit extension request letter on behalf of the government.\n\nThe court will also hear an appeal against a ruling, given on Monday, that Mr Johnson can be trusted to apply the law.\n\nAll three actions claim Mr Johnson has repeatedly said he will not seek a time extension in the event of no-deal.\n\nIt is argued those statements by the prime minister and members of the cabinet seek to frustrate an act of Parliament and so represent a clear breach of the rule of law.\n\nAll three actions seek orders compelling Mr Johnson to comply with the act and send a letter to the president of the European Council seeking an extension to 31 January 2020.\n\nBoris Johnson says the government will obey the law - and leave the EU on 31 October\n\nMr Johnson has previously said the government \"will obey the law - and will come out on 31 October\" in any event, without specifying how he would achieve these apparently contradictory goals.\n\nThe IWGB says such statements are an attempt to frustrate the purpose of the Benn act and are therefore unlawful.\n\nThe prime minister's statements have led to speculation the government has identified a legal loophole to get around the Benn act\n\nIf the UK appears to be heading towards a no-deal Brexit on 31 October and the prime minister found a way to get around the Benn act, all three legal challenges could end up at the UK Supreme Court in a dramatic last-minute legal bid to prevent a no-deal departure just days before the deadline.\n\nOn Friday, government papers submitted in the Scottish case stated the prime minister would send a letter to the EU asking for a Brexit delay if no deal was agreed by 19 October.\n\nSimilar assurances, to obey the Benn act and not seek to frustrate it, have been given by the government to the IWGB in pre-action correspondence seen by BBC News.\n\nHowever, a senior Downing Street source has said: \"The government will comply with the Benn act, which only imposes a very specific narrow duty concerning Parliament's letter requesting a delay, drafted by an unknown subset of MPs and pro-EU campaigners, and which can be interpreted in different ways.\n\n\"But the government is not prevented by the act from doing other things that cause no delay, including other communications, private and public.\n\n\"People will have to wait to see how this is reconciled.\n\n\"The government is making its true position on delay known privately in Europe and this will become public soon.\"\n\nThis has led to increased speculation Downing Street has seen a way around the Benn act.\n• None Court asked to consider Brexit delay letter to EU", "A humpback whale thought to be up to 10 metres (33ft) in length has been spotted in the River Thames.\n\nIt first surfaced in Dartford over the weekend and experts, who say it does not seem to be distressed, hope it will find its own way back to sea.\n\nShip pilots in the area have been told to proceed with caution.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Tyrone man has been found guilty of the \"cold, calculating murder\" of his ex-fiancee seven years ago.\n\nThe body of Charlotte Murray, 34, from Omagh, has never been found.\n\nHowever, in a unanimous decision, a jury found Johnny Miller, from Redford Park in Dungannon, killed her between 31 October and 2 November 2012.\n\nAfterwards, Charlotte' s identical twin sister Denise read a statement outside court appealing for Miller to let the family know where her body is.\n\n\"We still don't have Charlotte back,\" she said.\n\n\"We are now appealing to Mr Miller to do the decent thing, the honourable thing and let us know where Charlotte is so we can bring her home.\"\n\nCharlotte Murray was 34 when she was reported missing\n\nThe family's call was echoed by the police.\n\nThe 48-year-old chef had been engaged to Ms Murray and was the last person to see her alive.\n\nMiller shook his head as the judge told him he was sentencing him to life in prison.\n\nA further hearing will take place next month to set a minimum term.\n\nMembers of Ms Murray's family, including her mother and twin sister, who had been in court throughout the trial, cried and hugged each other.\n\nMiller had insisted throughout the four-week trial at Dungannon Crown Court that he did not kill Ms Murray and he did not believe she was dead.\n\nHowever, the prosecution said the strands of circumstantial evidence pointed to Ms Murray being dead and that Miller had murdered her.\n\nJohnny Miller has been told he will serve a life sentence\n\nThe lawyer alleged Miller had done so in a \"murderous rage\" because he had been \"lied to, betrayed and cuckolded\" and on the morning of her disappearance she had emailed him explicit images of her with his friend.\n\nHe had searched the internet for pawn shops to sell their engagement ring, however this was shown to have been several minutes before he had received the explicit images.\n\nMiller's evidence she had left to start a new life in Belfast had been described as \"riddled with inconsistencies, inaccuracies and downright lies\".\n\nHis attempts to \"lay a false trail\" that Ms Murray was alive had been exposed, according to the prosecution, by mobile telephone and computer data.\n\nThe prosecution said this had revealed Mr Miller had used Ms Murray's phone to send text messages during the two weeks after her disappearance and he had posted a message on her Facebook account saying she had to leave.\n\nThe data showed Ms Murray's phone had connected to mobile phone cell sites covering the area of Roxborough Heights in Moy - where the couple lived - and had never travelled to Belfast after the time she went missing.", "Tony Blair said he believed a no-deal Brexit was a \"threat\" to the United Kingdom\n\nTony Blair has said the prospect of a no-deal Brexit is a boost for those supporting Scottish independence.\n\nThe former prime minister said the chances of the UK leaving the EU without a deal have increased on the basis of latest briefings from No 10.\n\nBut Mr Blair said a deal with the EU was still possible.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Scotland, Mr Blair also acknowledged that he now finds it a \"struggle\" to support Labour.\n\nHe said: \"A no-deal Brexit is a threat to the United Kingdom, there is no doubt about that.\n\n\"It is a threat to Northern Ireland, it is a threat to Scotland remaining in the UK,\n\n\"Do I hope either of these things happen? No, of course not and I will argue strongly against it.\"\n\nMr Blair added that a no-deal Brexit would give supporters of independence an \"additional argument that they did not have before\".\n\nAngela Merkel and Boris Johnson spoke on the phone on Tuesday morning and this has led to reports that the chances of a Brexit deal have decreased\n\nReflecting on reports that a Brexit deal is \"essentially impossible\" after a call between the prime minister Boris Johnson and Angela Merkel, Mr Blair said there needed to be better conduct in negotiations.\n\nHe added: \"On the basis of the way the government has behaved today I think a no deal is more likely.\n\n\"I think there is a genuine desire on the part of Europe to reach a deal if at all possible, no-one sensible wants a no deal.\n\n\"Let's see what happens over the next days but if the government is seriously going to assemble the semblance of a deal it has got to stop doing these briefings and stop conducting its business through the media.\"\n\nAsked about his personal support for the party he led for 13 years, Mr Blair added that \"It's a struggle for me with Labour and I am quite open about that.\"\n\nSpeaking at another event in Edinburgh, a lunch organised by the Scottish Parliamentary Journalists' Association, Mr Blair warned about a UK government briefing that the Tories would contest an election on a platform supporting a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe said: \"The strategy is laid out very clearly, and it's a vast elephant trap of great width and depth, with neon signs flashing around it saying: 'Elephant trap - elephants of limited awareness please fall in'.\n\n\"They should avoid that.\"\n\nMr Blair added: \"The right thing is indeed to go back to the people but I beg you, please, not by way of a general election.\n\n\"To mix a general election up with the specific issue of Brexit is wrong in principle and it's wrong in the politics.\"", "Some observers believe the herd fell while trying to help a baby elephant\n\nThe number of elephants that died after falling down a waterfall in Thailand has increased to 11.\n\nIt is thought the animals may have been trying to save a baby elephant that slipped over the edge.\n\nLocal authorities at the Khao Yai National Park in central Thailand initially spotted only six dead elephants over the weekend.\n\nThe additional five were spotted by drone near the notorious fall known as Haew Narok (Hell's Fall).\n\nThe dead elephants included a three-year-old calf, park officials said at the weekend, according to the Reuters news agency.\n\n\"We understand that the elephants were trying to cross over to the other side of the river,\" local official Badin Chansrikam told the agency.\n\n\"Probably, one of the smaller elephants might have slid and the adult ones were trying to rescue them but instead, were swept away by the water.\"\n\nAccording to local media though, the reason the animals fell into the strong current is not known.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some believe the herd fell while trying to help a baby elephant\n\nWhen the first six dead animals were discovered at the weekend, two surviving elephants were found struggling on a rock.\n\nPark rangers lowered food laced with supplements to the stranded animals to help them regain strength and climb back into the forest.\n\nBut experts warn their long-term survival may be difficult as elephants rely on large herds for protection and finding food.\n\nThe incident could also take an emotional toll. Elephants have been known to display signs of grief.\n\nThere are around 300 wild elephants in the park, which is home to various wild animals, including bears and gibbons, and is a popular destination for tourists.\n\nThai authorities shared an image of one survivor attempting to revive its companion\n\nNational park officers are trying to retrieve the bodies from the river as there are fears the carcasses might contaminate the water.\n\nAccording to the Bangkok Post, the new death toll makes it one of the biggest losses to Thailand's elephant population in recent memory.\n\nThe Haew Narok waterfall has a history of similar incidents. A herd of eight elephants died after falling in 1992, in a case that brought national attention.\n\nAround 7,000 Asian elephants remain in Thailand, with more than half living in captivity.", "The port in Stranraer was used for ferry services to Northern Ireland up until 2011\n\nThe Scottish government could repurpose the old port at Stranraer as a lorry park in the event of a no-deal Brexit, MSPs have been told.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said there were concerns about traffic flows with Northern Ireland if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.\n\nHe also warned that the Scottish economy could be tipped into recession.\n\nThe UK government insisted it wanted a deal, and was supporting devolved administrations for exit on 31 October.\n\nSources within Downing Street have said a Brexit deal was \"essentially impossible\" after talks between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n\nThe Scottish government has set out a paper of preparations for the impact of a no-deal departure, which Mr Swinney said was becoming a \"significant risk\".\n\nThe most recent extension to the Brexit deadline expires at the end of the month, with Mr Johnson vowing to leave with or without a deal.\n\nThis is in spite of legislation passed in the Commons which requires him to write to European leaders requesting a fresh extension if no agreement is struck by 19 October.\n\nSetting out the Scottish government's analysis and plans at Holyrood, Mr Swinney said the latest UK proposals \"appear designed to fail\" and were \"part of a political tactic to shift the blame on to Ireland and the EU as a whole\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ferries to Ireland move from the port of Stranraer to Cairnryan after more than 150 years in a move to cut costs and travel time\n\nPlans have been made in parts of England for emergency lorry parking in the event of delays post-Brexit, with suggestions of motorways being used as holding areas.\n\nThe Scottish plans could see similar provisions at Stranraer, a former ferry port which was last used in 2011 when services to Northern Ireland switched to nearby Cairnryan.\n\nThe most recent proposals put to Brussels would see Northern Ireland adhering to EU rules on the regulation of some goods - meaning there would have to be checks between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, potentially at crossings on the Irish Sea.\n\nJohn Swinney updated MSPs on the latest plans for a no-deal exit, something he said was a \"significant risk\"\n\nMr Swinney said: \"In the event of increased traffic flows between Northern Ireland and Scotland, we are looking to repurpose the disused port at Stranraer to hold up to 300 HGVs to help deal with any potential disruption.\"\n\nOther plans to mitigate the effects of a no-deal exit include:\n\nMr Swinney warned that \"there is no amount of preparation that could ever make us 'ready', in any real sense, for the needless and significant impact of a no-deal outcome\".\n\nHe said such a move \"has the potential to generate a significant economic shock\" which could \"tip the Scottish economy into recession\" - and cause prices to rise by 5%, which would \"push an additional 130,000 people it poverty\".\n\nThe deputy first minister added: \"There is no doubt that a no-deal outcome would have profound consequences for jobs, investment and living standards across Scotland and the rest of the UK - the UK government should do the responsible thing and rule it out now.\"\n\nMuch planning has gone into how to keep traffic flowing at vital Channel crossings such as Dover\n\nThe UK has its own assessment for the possible affects of a no-deal Brexit, known as \"Operation Yellowhammer\".\n\nThis includes a warning of significant queues at Channel crossings, particularly in Dover - with contingency plans to hold up to 6,000 lorries at Manston Airfield, near Ramsgate, and thousands more on the M26 and M20 motorways.\n\nPlans have also been made to deal with disruption to food supplies, shortages of medicines, energy prices rises and protests.\n\nA spokesman said the UK government \"want a deal and want to talk\" with European counterparts, but said any deal \"will require movement from the EU\".\n\nHe said: \"We will be ready for Brexit on 31 October with or without a deal.\n\n\"We are also supporting the devolved administrations to get ready for Brexit on 31 October and we have committed almost £140 million to the Scottish government to fund their preparations.\"\n\nThis position was echoed at Holyrood by Scottish Conservative MSP Donald Cameron, who said the best way to avoid a no-deal exit was to agree a deal, but that \"any responsible government\" should be preparing for either outcome.\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish Labour's Alex Rowley meanwhile agreed with Mr Swinney that any talk of a deal was \"disingenuous\" in light of the \"unworkable solutions\" put forward.", "A Thomas Cook passenger due to fly home on Tuesday has said she is \"stuck\" in Tunisia, unable to secure a new flight.\n\nJulie Paige told the BBC that she had booked a flight with the collapsed travel firm which was not covered by the industry insurance fund Atol.\n\n\"I had a flight booked with Thomas Cook to return back to the UK on 8 October which no longer exists,\" she said.\n\nMs Paige said she did not have enough money to book a return flight to the UK and did not know what to do.\n\nThe Air Travel Organiser's Licence (Atol) protection covers customers who booked a package deal with the firm, not flight-only deals.\n\nMs Paige's flight on Tuesday falls just outside the two-week repatriation scheme organised by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), which organised replacement flights back for those affected by Thomas Cook's failure.\n\nMs Paige, a nurse, said she did not have travel insurance and did not have enough money to book a replacement flight and only had a basic bank account.\n\n\"It's nearly 900 Tunisian dinar. I haven't got £300 for another flight.\n\n\"I'm stuck. I just didn't expect this to happen. I live month to month as a single parent and I have no spare money. I don't know what to do. When you haven't got any money, you haven't got any options.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thomas Cook passengers have been brought home in \"Operation Matterhorn\"\n\nThe final flight bringing holidaymakers back by emergency repatriation and organised by the CAA landed on Monday.\n\nThose who did not return on a CAA-organised flight are expected to have to make their own plans, although those covered by the Atol scheme will be refunded.\n\nThe CAA said people without Atol protection due to return after the 7 October could return earlier on a repatriation flight if there was availability, but passengers due to return before then would be prioritised.\n\nIn response to Ms Paige's situation, the CAA said there would be very few people who fell outside the repatriation window.\n\nIn such cases, it said, people should turn to their travel insurance, or to their bank or the Foreign Office.\n\nMost Thomas Cook passengers have been flown home in the two weeks since the firm collapsed\n\nMaureen Foster told the BBC that she had to borrow £726 to be able to afford her flights home from Cyprus. She was due to return on 17 October, but is now returning three days early.\n\n\"We didn't bring any credit cards with us. Our brother has helped us out and we have to pay him back when we get home.\n\n\"It's a lot of money, there's so many people trying to get back from Cyprus.\n\n\"It was very upsetting at the start. We've had to come to terms with it and wonder how we're going to claim it back when we get home.\"\n\nJohn Robinson, from Stoke-on-Trent, said he had also booked Thomas Cook flights that returned on 8 October, and had not been able to come home earlier because his flights fell outside the 14-day repatriation window.\n\n\"We were told because we're outside the 14 days we had to book our own flights and sort it out when we get home.\n\n\"So now we're out of pocket for the return flight we should have had from Thomas Cook and we've had to pay £702 for the return flights to England on Tuesday.\"", "In 2017, the government's flagship treatment scheme for people convicted in England and Wales of rape or child sexual abuse was scrapped after it was shown to raise the risk of reoffending. Two sex offenders have told BBC Radio 4's File on 4 programme what it was like to take part in the rehabilitation programme.\n\n\"Everything was discussed in minute detail. They had what was called the 'hot seat' and every prisoner that was in a group had to sit in the hot seat and they were bombarded - it was like an interrogation.\"\n\nThese are Paul's experiences of group sessions on the discredited Sex Offender Treatment Programme (SOTP), which ran from the early 1990s until 2017.\n\nPaul has been convicted of numerous offences, including rape, and is serving a long jail sentence.\n\nSpeaking to me from a prison pay-phone, he says he started the SOTP on three occasions - it was a cognitive behaviour therapy designed to teach offenders to think and act differently.\n\nBut, the 60-year-old says, each time, he was removed from the course before the end because group facilitators thought he \"wasn't learning anything\".\n\n\"Being in group settings, discussing serious offences and some less serious offences - because these groups were mixed - actually made prisoners worse and normalised what prisoners were doing,\" he says.\n\nRapists, murderers, child sex offenders and \"flashers\" were all placed together, says Paul.\n\n\"People were learning from their mistakes - they were learning from other group members how to perhaps be better sex offenders without being caught.\"\n\nMinistry of Justice (MoJ) research showed 10% of men who had completed the SOTP reoffended, compared with 8% of those who had not done the programme.\n\nKathryn Hopkins's research revealed those who went on the SOTP were more likely to reoffend.\n\nThe results were published five years after analyst Kathryn Hopkins first alerted the department the scheme might not be working.\n\nPaul also claims some inmates were told to disclose the names of their victims as part of the process of setting out their offending history in graphic detail.\n\n\"It was to physically humiliate you and break you - I could see no other purpose for it,\" he says.\n\nMany of Paul's observations are shared by Dr Robert Forde, a retired forensic psychologist who used to work for the Home Office and is an expert on assessing risk.\n\nDr Forde told File on 4: \"One prisoner said to me, 'I hate doing this course because I've never had so many deviant sexual thoughts as I've had since I started because we're talking about sex offending all the time and actually I want to get away from all that.'\"\n\nAnother prisoner, who had himself been a victim of sex abuse as a child, told him he had been asked to give details of what had happened to him in front of paedophiles who had became aroused as a result.\n\nDr Forde said some prisoners on the SOTP courses would \"play the system\" in order to convince the Parole Board they were safe to be released.\n\nHe said one prisoner had told him: \"You claim to have things like deviant thoughts about victims or indulge in deviant sexual practices and then after the course is finished and you're doing the post-course assessment, you then drop all these things and you just tell the truth.\"\n\nThe inmate claimed this would then result in the prisoner being given a lower risk score by course assessors.\n\nFormer prisoner Peter, who has served two sentences for sexual offences against children and possessing indecent images, tells me the SOTP provided a false sense of security.\n\n\"You come out thinking you're fixed,\" he says.\n\n\"There's that feeling... because it's a treatment programme and that's what treatment does, doesn't it - fixes what's wrong?\"\n\nNow in his 50s, Peter had to do a \"booster\" course when he was first released.\n\n\"You're going back over the offences, so you keep reliving this stuff that just isn't helpful,\" he says.\n\n\"You're not going to forget what you've done and you know you've made victims... if you're going to be a useful member of society, you need to try and move your life forward.\"\n\nDuring his second spell in jail, Peter completed one-to-one sessions as part of the Healthy Sex Programme, which he found far more beneficial because it focused less on his offending and more on steps to overcome his problems.\n\nHe is now receiving support at the Corbett Centre, a groundbreaking project in Nottingham run by the Safer Living Foundation Charity.\n\nIt provides a range of emotional help and practical support for about 30 sex offenders living in the community.\n\n\"You're in an environment where people know what's happened,\" Peter says.\n\n\"So you're not having to start your life with a lie... you can put your life back on track.\"\n\nAlthough the Corbett Centre shows some promising early signs, it will be some years before it is known whether it reduces reoffending in the long term.\n\nA number of Ministry of Justice initiatives are also unproven - the Healthy Sex Programme is currently being evaluated, while the two sex offender rehabilitation schemes that replaced the SOTP, Horizon and Kaizen, have yet to be tested.\n\nThe MoJ says it works \"closely\" with the Correctional Services Accreditation and Advice Panel in the design of programmes delivered in prison and on probation.\n\nThe department says the panel, which has to approve such schemes before they can be used, is made up of \"independent experts from academia and practice from across the world\".\n\nBut two forensic psychiatrists, Penny Brown and Callum Ross, have been so alarmed by the failings in the SOTP programme they are calling for greater oversight of new forms of treatment.\n\nThis week, the Lancet Psychiatry medical journal published a paper they have written.\n\n\"We want to get reassurance that government-funded policy research is subjected to the same requirements and high academic standards that are placed on everybody else and all other scientists,\" says Dr Brown.\n\n\"The need to show that you're doing something shouldn't override the risk of actually causing harm.\"\n\nFile on 4 is on BBC Radio 4 at 20:00 on 8 October and 17:00 on 13 October and BBC Sounds.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jonathan Shanklin: \"Natural phenomena are responsible for this year's small hole\"\n\nThe recovery of the ozone layer over Antarctica cannot be taken for granted and requires constant vigilance.\n\nThat's the message from Jonathan Shanklin, one of the scientists who first documented the annual thinning of the protective gas in the 1980s.\n\nThis year's \"hole\" in the stratosphere high above the White Continent is the smallest in three decades.\n\nIt's welcome, says Shanklin, but we should really only view it as an anomaly.\n\nThe better than expected levels of ozone have been attributed to a sudden warming at high altitudes, which can occasionally happen.\n\nThis has worked to stymie the chemical reactions that usually destroy ozone 15-30km above the planet.\n\n\"To see whether international treaties are working or not, you need to look at the long term,\" Shanklin told BBC News.\n\n\"A quick glance this year might lead you to think we've fixed the ozone hole. We haven't. And although things are improving, there are still some countries out there who are manufacturing chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), the chemicals that have been responsible for the problem. We cannot be complacent.\"\n\nThe ozone hole (dark blue) will close completely in the coming weeks\n\nJonathan Shanklin, along with Joe Farman and Brian Gardiner, first alerted the world in 1985 that a deep thinning was occurring in the ozone layer above Antarctica each spring.\n\nOzone filters out harmful ultraviolet radiation from the Sun.\n\nThe team's discovery, confirming the theoretical predictions of others, led to the Montreal Protocol.\n\nThis international treaty phased out most of the chlorine- and bromine-containing chemicals involved in ozone depletion.\n\nAt the time, these substances were being used widely as refrigerants, cleaning agents, and as the propellants in aerosol cans.\n\nHalley's experiments are powered by a micro-turbine through the winter\n\nJonathan Shanklin and his colleagues at the British Antarctic Survey made their seminal observations at the Halley research station on the Brunt Ice Shelf.\n\nThey used a Dobson ozone spectrophotometer - an instrument that is traditionally operated manually.\n\nThis became a major issue three years ago when BAS was forced to pull all winter staff out of Halley because of the uncertainty over the stability of nearby ice. It meant ozone measurements couldn't take place in those critical weeks when the hole begins to open.\n\nWith summer-only staffing set to continue for the foreseeable future, the situation has forced BAS to introduce an automated solution.\n\nThe survey is now running a mini-jet engine non-stop at Halley, which is providing the electricity for a host of computer-controlled experiments, including the Dobson ozone spectrophotometer.\n\nIt's delivering ozone measurements direct to Shanklin's computer back in the UK via satellite.\n\n\"It's very clear that the ozone data coming back from Halley is different to previous years; we haven't seen that rapid decline. As time progresses, probably later in October, we'll see the final demise of this year's ozone hole as warm air sweeps across the continent.\"\n\nThomas Barningham, who's implemented the novel Halley set-up, added: \"Resuming springtime stratospheric ozone observations with the automated Dobson, for the first time since the winter closure of the station, is what the project is all about - maintaining long-term monitoring datasets that are of global significance.\n\n\"We're very pleased to have reached this milestone. The next will be in 40 days' time, when the first personnel arrive back on station to begin our summer season.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. SF6 is used in electrical gear to prevent arcing\n\nShanklin is now an emeritus fellow at BAS. He goes into its Cambridge HQ twice a week to advise and help interpret the Dobson data. And, of course, he's still very plugged in to the politics of ozone and other atmospheric issues.\n\nOne topic that's caught his eye recently is sulphur hexafluoride, or SF6.\n\nThis substance is used in the electrical industry to prevent short circuits and accidents. It's an extremely potent greenhouse gas, and although emissions to the atmosphere are relatively small at the moment, they are increasing.\n\nShanklin worries that SF6 is being treated in the same way that CFCs were treated when they were first introduced in the 1930s. There was an assumption they would do no harm.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"I think we're treating SF6 in the same way. We think it possibly won't have a problem, although we know it's a greenhouse gas. And therefore we're using it perhaps not as wisely as we might do. And that's why we need the various monitoring sensors around the globe so we can... say to the scientific community that something's increasing, so they can do the modelling and find out what the likely consequences are.\"\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "A teenage boy who had never had his bed made ready for him and was dropped at a home alone and late at night, had been treated \"like a stray dog,\" a care home manager said.\n\nChris Wild - who has spent time in care himself - told Newsnight about the night that \"broke\" him, when a 15-year-old was dropped off unaccompanied at a home he was working at.\n\nA Newsnight investigation has revealed that more than 100 children under 16 are living in unregulated and unregistered accommodation in England and Wales.\n\nChildren under 16 should not be routinely housed in this sort of housing, according to the regulator, Ofsted.\n\nNewsnight has been investigating this part of the care sector, as part of its Britain's Hidden Children's Homes series.\n\nThe government said local authorities must provide \"safe\" accommodation.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "Two rides at Hull Fair have been shut while investigations continue\n\nA woman has been seriously injured falling from a fairground ride.\n\nHumberside Police said she was believed to have fallen from one ride at Hull Fair on to the base of a nearby one, striking a teenage boy as she fell.\n\nShe was taken to hospital with serious injuries which are not thought to be life-threatening. The teenager suffered minor injuries.\n\nTwo rides were closed after the incident, which happened at about 19:30 BST on Monday.\n\nPolice and health and safety officials from Hull City Council are investigating.\n\nCh Insp Paul Kirby, tactical commander for Hull Fair, said: \"We have very well established plans in place with the council for any incident like this at the fair, and I want to thank everyone for their patience while we deal with this.\n\n\"I am appealing for anyone who might have seen what happened, or who has any video footage of it to contact us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Humberside 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\nIn 2017, more than 30 people were trapped in mid-air for five hours when a ride broke down at Hull Fair.\n\nIt is one of Europe's largest and oldest travelling funfairs, dating back to 1278, and is held over a week in October every year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Dunn's mother, Charlotte Charles, and his father, Tim Dunn pleaded for the return of the suspect\n\nA mother whose son was allegedly killed in a crash involving a US diplomat's wife says, if necessary, she will ask President Trump to waive the woman's diplomatic immunity.\n\nMotorcyclist Harry Dunn, 19, died in a collision with a car in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, who is a suspect in the investigation, left the UK despite telling police she had no such plans.\n\nMr Dunn's mother said the family would \"do what we can to bring her back\".\n\nNorthamptonshire's chief constable and police and crime commissioner have already urged the Americans to waive Ms Sacoolas's diplomatic immunity.\n\nUnder the 1961 Vienna Convention, diplomats and their family members are immune from prosecution in their host country, as long as they are not nationals of that country. However, their immunity can be waived by the state that has sent them.\n\nOn Saturday, the US State Department said diplomatic immunity was \"rarely waived\".\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab urged the US Embassy to reconsider.\n\nMr Dunn's mother, Charlotte Charles, said leaving the country was \"such a dishonourable thing to do\" and urged Ms Sacoolas to come back.\n\n\"We don't wish her any harm. She's a mum; we don't want to take her away from her kids either, but she's taken one of ours and she's taken my twin boys' twinship away,\" she told BBC 5 Live.\n\nHarry Dunn, from Charlton, Banbury, died in hospital after his motorbike was in a crash with a Volvo\n\nMs Charles said if the diplomatic waiver was declined then funds raised by friends and family would be used to go to Washington.\n\n\"We will go and see President Trump. We will ask him to waive it; we will ask him directly. We will do what we can to bring her back,\" she said.\n\nIf that failed, the family would campaign for a change in the law around diplomatic immunity, she said.\n\n\"It's a horrible situation we're finding ourselves in, but if we sit back and do nothing and we don't at least try to bring her back to face justice or if we don't at least try and change the laws we could never live with ourselves if this happens to another family.\"\n\nNorthamptonshire's chief constable Nick Adderley said that \"based on CCTV evidence\", officers knew that \"a vehicle alighted from the RAF base at Croughton\" and was \"on the wrong side of the road\".\n\nMs Charles told the Victoria Derbyshire programme: \"[It was] unintentional. She didn't purposely drive on the other side of the road... if she'd have stayed and faced us as a family we could have found that forgiveness... but forgiving her for leaving, I'm nowhere near.\"\n\nHarry's father, Tim Dunn, said: \"I'd like to think she was more made to leave by the US Embassy than [it be] her own choice.\"\n\nMr Adderley said he had written to the US Embassy in London urging it to waive diplomatic immunity.\n\nHe said both he and the county's Police and Crime Commissioner, Stephen Mold, had called for the waiver \"in order to allow the justice process to take place\".\n\nThe US State Department said it was in \"close consultation\" with British officials and has offered its \"deepest sympathies\" to the family of Mr Dunn.\n\nThe crash happened on the B4031 near RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire\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\nEven a \"relatively benign\" no-deal Brexit would push UK debt to its highest since the 1960s, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has said.\n\nThe think tank said borrowing was likely to rise to £100bn and total debt would soar to 90% of national income.\n\n\"The government is now adrift without any effective fiscal anchor,\" said IFS director Paul Johnson.\n\nThe Treasury said any decisions would be made \"with a view to the long-term sustainability of the public finances\".\n\nThe gloomy forecasts are part of the IFS Green Budget, looking at the challenges facing Chancellor Sajid Javid as he prepares for his first Budget.\n\nThe IFS's Mr Johnson said: \"Given the extraordinary level of uncertainty and risks facing the economy and public finances, it [the government] should not be looking to offer further permanent overall tax giveaways in any forthcoming Budget.\n\n\"In the case of a no-deal Brexit, though, it should be implementing carefully targeted and temporary tax cuts and spending increases where it can effectively support the economy.\"\n\nBut even before the cost of a possible no-deal Brexit is factored in, the think tank said the government was set to break its own spending rules.\n\nThe IFS forecasts that annual borrowing - the difference between what the government spends and what it receives through, for example, taxation - will top £50bn next year.\n\nThat will be about 2.3% of gross domestic product (GDP), a measure of national income. Under current spending rules the government can only borrow up to 2% of national income.\n\nThe think tank said the government's current plans for day-to-day spending next year are closer to the levels proposed by Labour's 2017 manifesto than plans laid out by the Conservative party at the time.\n\nAn HM Treasury spokesperson said: \"September's spending round supported the people's priorities of health, education and the police within the existing fiscal rules, as we said it would be.\n\n\"Beyond that, the chancellor has already said that we will be reviewing the fiscal framework as we turn the page on austerity. In so doing, we will retain a fiscal anchor to public spending so that decisions are taken with a view to the long-term sustainability of the public finances.\"\n\nA doubling in the annual budget deficit, leading, in relation to the size of the economy, to the highest government debt since the 1960s.\n\nThese are the new forecasts of the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies for how a no-deal Brexit is likely to drench the UK's public finances in red ink. Only on the extraordinary scale of the fiscal collapse of the 2008 financial crisis are these numbers modest.\n\nOn any ordinary scale they do matter - an annual deficit heading back up towards £100bn, and national debt closer to 90% of GDP for the first time in half a century.\n\nAnd all this comes at a time where the institute concludes that the government is no longer taking its own fiscal rules seriously, borrowing more to spend more on public services even as the Treasury approaches its self-imposed limits.\n\nIn the case of a no-deal Brexit, the IFS said a temporary government spending spree could help to smooth the path for growth, although it would also add to government debt.\n\nThe think tank forecasts that the debt stock - the total amount of money owed by the government - would climb to almost 90% of national income. It currently stands at about 80%.\n\nEven with \"substantial\" government spending, the IFS expects the UK economy to flatline for two years following a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIt warned that a rise in public spending in 2020 would likely be followed by \"another bust\" as the government would have to deal with \"the consequences of a smaller economy and higher debt for funding public services\".\n\nMr Johnson said that it would be \"crucial\" that government spending programmes were temporary.\n\n\"An economy that turns out smaller than expected can, in the long run, support less public spending than expected, not more,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChristian Schulz, the chief UK economist at Citi, which contributed to the report, said: \"The UK economy is already around £60bn smaller than it would have been without a vote to leave the European Union, with the UK missing out on a bout of global growth.\n\n\"Business investment is up to 20% lower than it would otherwise have been, hurting productivity and wage growth,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Mr Schulz added that a further Brexit delay would create more uncertainty, denting investment and leaving growth at around 1% a year.\n\n\"From a growth perspective, a Brexit deal is a little better, leaving growth at 1.5%, but it would leave no chance of Brexit being cancelled,\" he said.\n\n\"A no-deal Brexit - even with a substantial stimulus - could mean no growth at all for the next two years. Remaining in the EU would be the best scenario for economic growth in the next few years.\"", "Lupita Nyong'o has starred in Black Panther and 12 Years A Slave\n\nLupita Nyong'o has said she was the \"victim of colourism\" as a child, when she \"wished to have skin that was different\".\n\nThe Oscar-winning actor told BBC Newsnight that colourism \"is the daughter of racism\" in \"a world that rewards lighter skin over darker skin\".\n\nNyong'o was raised in Kenya, before moving to the United States.\n\nShe was speaking ahead of the release of her children's book, Sulwe, about a girl with darker skin than her family.\n\nColourism is prejudice against people who have a darker skin tone or the preferential treatment of those who are of the same race but lighter-skinned.\n\n\"I definitely grew up feeling uncomfortable with my skin colour because I felt like the world around me awarded lighter skin,\" the Black Panther star told Newsnight's Emily Maitlis.\n\nShe said her younger sister, whose skin was lighter, was called \"beautiful\" and \"pretty\".\n\n\"Self-consciously that translates into: 'I'm not worthy'.\"\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\nNyong'o, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for 12 Years a Slave, said colourism was \"very much linked to racism\" despite the fact she experienced it in a predominantly black society like Kenya.\n\n\"We still ascribe to these notions of Eurocentric standards of beauty, that then affect how we see ourselves among ourselves,\" she said.\n\nThe actor said she was once told at an audition that she was \"too dark\" for television.\n\nBut Nyong'o said the relationship to her skin had been separate to the relationship to her race.\n\n\"Race is a very social construct, one that I didn't have to ascribe to on a daily basis growing up,\" she said. \"As much as I was experiencing colourism in Kenya, I wasn't aware that I belonged to a race called black.\"\n\nThat changed when she moved to the US, \"because suddenly the term black was being ascribed to me and it meant certain things that I was not accustomed to.\"\n\nNyong'o played Nakia in Marvel's superhero film Black Panther, which took more than a billion US dollars (£794m) at cinemas worldwide.\n\nAsked whether the film's success had changed the casting experience for black actors, Nyong'o told Newsnight: \"I think time will tell whether this has been that pivotal shift. It definitely feels that way.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weeknights. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chrystie Jenkins says there was no communication or teamwork at the hospital she was treated in\n\nThere is a \"very long way to go\" before maternity services at a health board can be declared safe, an independent review panel has said.\n\nThe panel was appointed after a damning review into Cwm Taf, prompted by the death of a number of babies.\n\nIt revealed it would review more than 100 extra cases between 2016 and 2018 where it believed lessons could be learnt, although not all were serious.\n\nHowever, it said the health board was beginning to make improvements.\n\nThe review - which branded maternity services \"dysfunctional\" - was prompted by 25 serious incidents, including eight stillbirths and five neonatal deaths, between January 2016 and September 2018.\n\nIt uncovered failings at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taff, and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nResponding to the update, Greg Dix, director of nursing, midwifery and patient care at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, said he knew how important it was to learn from the past.\n\n\"The clinical review process, which has been outlined today, will identify any further action to ensure the right systems and continual improvements are in place for the future,\" he added.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said there was \"clearly still a considerable way to go\" to address the problems.\n\nChrystie Jenkins, 33, who lost three babies at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, said: \"It doesn't make a difference whether they change things in the trust and they've got the perfect staff that do the perfect job.\n\n\"It's never going to take away or heal any of the pain any of us are going through.\"\n\nWhen she was about 25-27 weeks pregnant with her first baby in 2011, she was in \"hideous pain\" but said \"nobody was listening to me\".\n\nAfter two weeks of phoning daily, she went into hospital to be examined and was told there was nothing to worry about.\n\nHowever, when she went back several hours later because she was losing blood, she was told there was nothing they could do to save her baby boy.\n\nOn Monday she went to a meeting held by the panel in advance of the update report being published, along with other families.\n\n\"There was a lot of anger, mainly around obviously the care and the way they were treated by the staff,\" she said.\n\n\"But I think with the stories that came out from everyone, I think it was just pure shock in the room more than anger. Some of the stories being spoken about hadn't even been identified or investigated.\"\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\nIn April, the review led by the Royal College of Gynaecologists unearthed a catalogue of serious failings and highlighted many distressing examples of where mothers and babies had likely been harmed as a result of poor care.\n\nAlong with placing the area's maternity services into special measures, Mr Gething appointed the independent panel, chaired by the former chief constable of Gwent Police, Mick Giannasi, to oversee changes.\n\nThe review suggested further cases dating back to 2010 should now be looked at\n\nThe panel found eight out of 11 urgent safety recommendations made by the Royal College of Gynaecologists had been addressed, but three were still being worked on:\n\nThe health board originally looked at 43 potentially serious incidents between 2016 and 2018 as part of its own internal review after concerns about standards of care first emerged.\n\nAfter taking over responsibility, the independent panel said about 150 cases during this period would be looked at to establish what lessons can be learnt, although it stressed these cases were not all serious incidents.\n\nAll women and families will be given opportunity to contribute.\n\nThe panel is yet to decide how many more cases on top of these it might need to look at as part of a review - stretching as far back as 2010.\n\nIn conclusion, the panel said there were \"encouraging signs of progress\" but it was \"too early to provide the assurance which the minister and the women and families of the former Cwm Taf need in order to be confident that all necessary improvements have been achieved to ensure safe, effective, patient-centred, responsive, well managed and well-led services\".\n\nIn a frequently asked questions document, the panel said it would not estimate the timescale for the review because of the need to be thorough, but understood the anxiety for families and expectant mothers and advised any concerned pregnant women to speak to their community midwife.\n\nIt added: \"We hope that the health board will be able to provide you with the right support. However, if your concerns remain, the minister has ensured that alternative arrangements can be made should you feel that you do not wish to use the services in Cwm Taf Morgannwg.\"\n\nMr Gething acknowledged the problems still facing the health board, but said it was reassuring the panel's engagement work with women, families and staff continued \"to move at pace\".\n\n\"I am encouraged by the way in which they have accepted the need to make sustainable, organisational wide change which puts quality, safety and patient experience at the heart of all that they do,\" he added.\n\nIf would like to get in touch about this story, please email: news.focus.team@bbc.co.uk\n\nIf you have been affected by stillbirth, the following organisations might be able to help:\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. Maryanne Pugsley: \"The impact of this has infiltrated every single aspect of my life\"\n\nPolice have launched a fresh probe into claims a woman was sexually abused by her teacher at a South Ayrshire school.\n\nMaryanne Pugsley first spoke about the allegations - which date back to the 1970s - at Holyrood when she was calling for an inquiry into abuses at state schools.\n\nA Police Scotland investigation into the claims was launched in 2016 but no-one was charged.\n\nHowever, BBC Scotland understands the force is now pursuing new leads.\n\nMrs Pugsley, 55, claims the man abused her over a number of years from the age of 12 and alleges they had a \"meeting place\" in the middle of the Ayrshire countryside, where their initials are carved into a tree.\n\nThe mother-of-two made a complaint to South Ayrshire Council in the 1990s but said she was told at the time there was not enough evidence for the case to proceed to prosecutors.\n\nTwo years ago Mrs Pugsley, who works as a classroom assistant, asked the local authority for a copy of her complaint file but was told that they could not find any records.\n\nShe has also now launched a civil legal action against South Ayrshire Council seeking compensation for her alleged abuse.\n\nThe local authority has said its current safeguarding procedures for children are far more robust than in the past.\n\nMrs Puglsey said: \"I'm hoping that this investigation will finally lead to resolving my quest for justice.\n\n\"Repeatedly revisiting the sexual abuse that I suffered as a child leaves me exhausted, both mentally and physically.\n\n\"Many times I have been praised for the courage in putting forward the petition and complimented on how strong I am but what people don't see are the days when I have a complete meltdown and cannot function.\"\n\nMrs Puglsey said she would \"not rest\" until her case had been resolved.\n\nMaryanne Pugsley, whose former surname is Fitzsimmons, lodged a petition at the Scottish Parliament in April calling for an inquiry into child abuse at state schools\n\nMrs Puglsey has lodged a petition at the Scottish Parliament calling for a public inquiry into the abuse of children within Scottish state schools, an issue not currently covered by the ongoing Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.\n\nThe petition has the backing of Tory MSP Brian Whittle who has been supporting Mrs Puglsey in her case.\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"In 2016 a report of non-recent sexual abuse (1970s) of a female pupil by a male teacher at a school in South Ayrshire was received by Police Scotland.\n\n\"An investigation was carried out at that time and no-one was charged.\n\n\"However, inquiries are still continuing.\"\n\nA spokesman for South Ayrshire Council said: \"The council is sympathetic to anyone suffering as a result of the unresolved injustice of historical child abuse.\n\n\"We are also confident that there are far more robust procedures in place today which safeguard our children and young people.\"", "Diplomatic immunity puts officials from overseas above the law of the country in which they live. Is the system open to abuse?\n\nImagine breaking the law and no-one can stop you. Ignoring parking tickets. Never paying tax. Getting away with murder.\n\nIt's all possible, in theory, if you're an ambassador. Under the 1961 Vienna Convention, diplomats are immune from prosecution in their host country.\n\nThe system has long proved controversial - not least since PC Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead outside the Libyan Embassy in 1984 - and is once again under the spotlight thanks to an unusual battle fought in London's courts.\n\nSaudi businessman Sheikh Walid Juffali launched a diplomatic immunity defence after his ex-wife, former Pirelli model Christina Estrada, made a claim on his estimated £4bn fortune. The court heard they separated in 2013.\n\nIn a move that had led to raised eyebrows in the press, Juffali was appointed in 2014 by the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia as its permanent representative to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), which has its secretariat in London.\n\nIn February, Mr Justice Hayden ruled at the High Court this diplomatic status was \"an entirely artificial construct\" as Juffali had \"no pre-existing connection to St Lucia\" and there was no evidence that he had \"any knowledge or experience of maritime matters\".\n\nLast week, the Court of Appeal said the judge had been wrong to rule Juffali was not \"entitled in principle to immunity\". However, it dismissed the appeal on the basis that his diplomatic status was irrelevant as Juffali was a permanent British resident and thus liable to civil action, as permanent residents serving as diplomats are immune only from prosecution for official acts.\n\nAfter the verdict, a spokesman for Juffali said he was \"committed to maintaining his diplomatic duties\" and noted that St Lucia's prime minister had testified to the \"exemplary manner\" in which Juffali had carried out his role. However, he was \"dismayed\" by the court's decision that he was a UK permanent resident.\n\nIn a statement, the government of St Lucia said it \"has, and will always, follow full due process\" in appointing diplomats and Juffali's case was no different. The IMO declined to comment.\n\nThe convention of diplomatic immunity - intended to prevent embassy staff being harassed when operating in hostile countries - is a long-standing cornerstone of international relations that dates back centuries prior to being enshrined in the Vienna Convention.\n\nHowever, the Juffali case is not the first time diplomatic immunity - which covers around 25,000 people in the UK, including families of some diplomats as well as the officials themselves - has attracted scrutiny.\n\nIn 2010 the then-Foreign Secretary William Hague released details of 18 crimes - including sexual assault, human trafficking, threats to kill and drink-driving - of which diplomats in the UK had been accused during 2010.\n\nIn December it was reported that embassy workers had run up £95m of unpaid congestion charges in London - because they argue it is a tax, not a charge for service, and thus exempt under the Vienna Convention.\n\nIt was ruled in February that because of his diplomatic status, Sheikh Hamad Bin-Jassim Bin-Jaber Al Thani - one of the world's richest men and the former prime minister of Qatar - could not be sued in the UK over claims a British-Qatari dual national was falsely imprisoned. Sheikh Hamad and the state of Qatar have denied any wrongdoing, with lawyers for the billionaire saying the man in question had been treated \"in the manner that accorded fully with Qatari and international law\".\n\nCases like these have led to calls for the whole system to be overhauled. Human rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson QC says the Vienna Convention made sense in the days of the Cold War - when embassy staff working in hostile nations were at risk of being framed or caught in honeytraps - but has passed its sell-by date.\n\n\"What it does is put diplomats above the law,\" he says. \"It's a breach of Magna Carta.\n\n\"I think the Vienna Convention needs redrafting to limit diplomatic immunity. I don't think diplomatic immunity should extend to any civil case. It should only extend to criminal cases in limited circumstances.\"\n\nHe also argues that the definition of \"diplomat\" is too wide - encompassing not just ambassadors representing their nation in overseas embassies, but also at specialised agencies of the United Nations and other international bodies.\n\nAnd while it's unusual for states to nominate foreign nationals as diplomats, as in the case of Juffali, there are concerns that the system could potentially be exploited by those trying to evade the court process.\n\nSheikh Walid Juffali with his former wife Christina Estrada\n\n\"There are a number of countries around the world where you can effectively buy citizenship,\" says solicitor Mark Stephens, a former president of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association. There's a danger this could be taken a step further for the right price, he believes. \"If you are a Mr Big behind a multi-million-pound fraud it behoves you to get a diplomatic passport so you have diplomatic immunity.\"\n\nIn practice, however, ambassadorial status does not put you entirely outside the boundaries of the law - unlike Joss Ackland's drug-smuggling South African consul-general in that definitive big-screen portrayal of diplomatic statecraft, Lethal Weapon 2, who waves his diplomatic passport while committing nefarious deeds.\n\nThe Vienna Convention allows host nations to declare persona non grata and expel diplomats - who, after all, are civil servants, liable to be prosecuted for serious offences in their own country.\n\nIn exceptional cases, they can be brought to justice in the host nation. After Georgian diplomat Gueorgui Makharadze, who had been drinking heavily, killed a teenager in a car crash in Washington, DC in 1997, US authorities asked Georgia to revoke his immunity. They did so, and Makharadze pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. And in November 2015 a Libyan man was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder PC Fletcher as a result of new lines of inquiry opening up following fall of the Col Muammar Gaddafi's regime.\n\nSupporters of the system say it is vital to prevent ambassadors and other embassy staff being harassed and hauled before courts on spurious grounds in an effort to prevent them doing their job. \"It's an essential tool. It protects our diplomats serving abroad,\" says Craig Barker, professor of international law at London South Bank University. He adds that it is up to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to block any diplomatic appointments that appear suspicious or to expel any who commit serious offences.\n\nA spokesman for the FCO says diplomatic immunity allows British officials to represent the UK's national interests around the world, even in hostile regimes. He adds that the system is not intended to benefit individuals personally and the Vienna Convention expects diplomats to abide by the law of their host countries. \"The UK takes a firm line with diplomatic missions whose diplomats commit offences and in the most serious cases we will demand they withdraw the individual from the country.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Philip Hammond had criticised the high court judge's decision to strip Juffali's immunity, and the FCO submitted an opinion to the Court of Appeal saying the original High Court judge had \"erred\" in doing so. The FCO did not, however, intervene in the ruling that Juffali was ineligible for immunity due to being a UK resident.\n\nThe system may be as old as statecraft itself, but the debate is likely to continue.\n\nSubscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.", "The FBI released Samuel Little's drawings in the hope that the victims could be identified.\n\nThe FBI has confirmed an imprisoned murderer who confessed to 93 murders over four decades is the most prolific serial killer in US history.\n\nPolice have matched Samuel Little, 79, to 50 cases from 1970 to 2005 thus far.\n\nHe has been serving life in prison since 2012 for the murders of three women.\n\nLittle targeted vulnerable individuals, mostly black women, many of whom were sex workers or drug users, officials say.\n\nA former competitive boxer, Little would knock his victims out with punches before strangling them - meaning that there were not always \"obvious signs\" that the person had been brutally murdered.\n\nSome of these deaths were never investigated by the FBI as a result, and many deaths were incorrectly determined to be overdoses or accidental. Some bodies have never been found, the agency said.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, the FBI said its analysts believe \"all of his confessions are credible\".\n\n\"For many years, Samuel Little believed he would not be caught because he thought no one was accounting for his victims,\" FBI crime analyst Christie Palazzolo said in the statement.\n\n\"Even though he is already in prison, the FBI believes it is important to seek justice for each victim - to close every case possible.\"\n\nLaw enforcement is still working to verify the remaining 43 cases he confessed to.\n\nA recent mugshot of Little, who reportedly also went by the name Samuel McDowell\n\nOfficials have now released additional information about five cases in Kentucky, Florida, Louisiana, Nevada and Arkansas to the public in hopes of identifying the unconfirmed victims.\n\nThe agency had previously shared Little's coloured portraits of his victims, which he drew in prison, in an effort to identify more victims.\n\nThey have also published video clips of the interviews where he described details of the murders.\n\nIn one of the five cases the FBI is seeking public assistance to solve, Little describes meeting a young black transgender woman named Marianne or Mary Ann in Miami, Florida, in the early 70s.\n\nHe described killing the 19-year-old on a driveway near a sugarcane field, dragging her body deeper into the Everglades. \"The earth was mushy,\" Little recounted. \"I turned her loose and she fell into it face down.\"\n\nIn another case, Little detailed strangling a woman in 1993 in a motel room in Las Vegas. He recalled having met her son before, even shaking his hand. After murdering her, he drove to the outskirts of the city and rolled her body down a slope.\n\nOfficials have said Little's memory of the killings has been mostly precise, but he is unable to remember specific dates, which has hindered the investigation.\n\nIt is unclear if Little will face more charges over the recent confessions.\n\nLittle was arrested in 2012 on a drugs charge in Kentucky and extradited to California, where officers carried out DNA testing on him. Little already had an extensive criminal record, with offences from armed robbery to rape across the US.\n\nThe DNA results linked him to three unsolved murders from 1987 and 1989 in Los Angeles County. He pleaded not guilty at trial, but was eventually convicted and sentenced to three consecutive life sentences, with no chance of parole.\n\nHe was then referred to the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) - a scheme that works to analyse serial offenders of violent and sexual crimes, and share information with local law enforcement agencies to cross-reference unsolved crimes.\n\nLast year, Texas Ranger James Holland travelled with a ViCAP team to interview Little in California. They say Little agreed to talk to them because he was hoping to move prisons. Ranger Holland was able to question Little \"nearly daily\" and built up the full picture of his crimes.", "The number of people waiting for a first neurology outpatient appointment has more than doubled in Northern Ireland in the past four years.\n\nIn March 2015, 9,123 patients were waiting, but by 2019, that figure had risen to 19,376.\n\nMore than 11,000 patients have also been waiting more than one year to be seen.\n\nThe Department of Health said it was hoping to secure additional funding for more junior doctors in neurology.\n\nThe information was released by the department as part of a review of neurology services.\n\nNeurological conditions include strokes or acquired brain injuries as well as more unpredictable conditions like epilepsy or multiple sclerosis (MS).\n\nStaff shortages across the neurology workforce is also an issue with \"insufficient consultant neurologists to deliver a 24/7 on call rota on any site other that the Royal Victoria Hospital\".\n\nThe Department of Health's interim review paints a depressing picture, with waiting times, staff shortages and the considerable backlog of patients emphasising the need for change.\n\nThe interim review says staff shortages also extend to nursing staff with Northern Ireland having significantly fewer epilepsy, MS and Parkinson's disease specialist nurses than is recommended by healthcare guidelines.\n\nTo tackle waiting list figures and modernise services, the Health and Social Care Board is attempting to secure and fund additional training places in neurology for junior doctors.\n\nThere are also a number of different training and multi-disciplinary pathways being developed.\n\nThe review is expected to identify an optimal service configuration of neurology services through to 2035.\n\nPatients and carers are being consulted about the future role of technology, new models of care and training.", "Roll over Jupiter, Saturn is the new moon king\n\nSaturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with the most moons, according to US researchers.\n\nA team discovered a haul of 20 new moons orbiting the ringed planet, bringing its total to 82; Jupiter, by contrast, has 79 natural satellites.\n\nThe moons were discovered using the Subaru telescope on Maunakea, Hawaii.\n\nEach of the newly discovered objects in orbit around Saturn is about 5km (three miles) in diameter; 17 of them orbit the planet \"backwards\".\n\nThis is known as a retrograde direction. The other three moons orbit in a prograde direction - the same direction as Saturn rotates.\n\nTwo of the prograde moons take about two years to travel once around the ringed planet.\n\nThe more-distant retrograde moons and one of the prograde moons each take more than three years to complete an orbit.\n\n\"Studying the orbits of these moons can reveal their origins, as well as information about the conditions surrounding Saturn at the time of its formation,\" said Dr Scott Sheppard, from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC, who led the team.\n\nDr Sheppard told BBC News that Jupiter had been the planet with most known moons since the late 1990s.\n\nThe outer moons in the new haul appear to be grouped into three distinct clusters, based on the inclinations of the angles at which they orbit the planet.\n\nScientists think the retrograde and prograde moons are the broken up remnants of at least three larger bodies. These bigger objects were smashed up by collisions, either between distinct moons or with outside objects such as passing asteroids.\n\nOne of the newly discovered retrograde objects is the furthest known saturnian satellite.\n\n\"These moons have fairly inclined orbits to Saturn and are pretty far out, so we don't think they formed with the planet, we think they were captured by the planet in the past. If an asteroid happens to be passing by, you can't capture it today because you can't dissipate its energy,\" Dr Sheppard told BBC News.\n\nHowever, in the Solar System's youth, when Saturn was in the process of forming, a cloud, or \"disc\", of dust and gas surrounded the planet. This helped dissipate the energy of passing objects. But in most cases, these bodies ended up spiralling into the planet and becoming part of it.\n\nThe observations that led to the discovery were made with the Subaru telescope\n\n\"We think these moons interacted with that gas and dust. These were comets or asteroids that happened to be passing by,\" Dr Sheppard explained.\n\n\"Most objects would spiral into the planet and help form the planet itself. But we think these objects were captured right when the gas and dust started dissipating. So they were captured into orbits around the planet rather than falling into the planet. We think these are the last remnants of what formed [Saturn].\"\n\nThe finds were made by applying new computing algorithms to data gathered between 2004 and 2007 with the Subaru telescope. These algorithms were able to fit orbits to potential moons identified in the old data.\n\n\"We thought they were moons of Saturn, but we weren't able to get full orbits to determine this,\" said Dr Sheppard.\n\n\"By using this new computer power, I was able to link these 20 objects that we thought were moons to officially find orbits for them.\"\n\nThe original observing team included Dr Sheppard, David Jewitt of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Jan Kleyna of the University of Hawaii.\n\nDr Sheppard said more moons were probably waiting to be found around Saturn. But astronomers would need larger telescopes - such as those set to come online in coming decades - to discover these smaller satellites of around 1km in size.\n\nThe team has initiated a contest to name the moons. They have to be named after giants from Norse, Gallic or Inuit mythology, corresponding to the three different clusters.", "It's not the official policy of the government yet, and the publication of more of the potentially gory details of leaving the EU without a deal is likely today.\n\nBut in government and EU circles it is more likely by the hour that there will not be an agreement at next week's EU council.\n\nDespite the prime minister's assertion that his proposals are a \"fair and reasonable compromise\" - and signals to No 10 that some influential member states were willing to contemplate the concepts of the deal over the summer - in the words of one official, so far the EU had not shown a desire to \"budge one centimetre\".\n\nIn a call with the German leader Angela Merkel this morning, a No 10 source said \"she made clear a deal is overwhelmingly unlikely\", and even said the EU could veto whether Northern Ireland leaves the customs union, adding: \"Talks in Brussels are close to breaking down, despite the fact the UK has moved a long way.\"\n\nBut there is no intention in Downing Street to move away from the broad concepts of what they are suggesting regarding either customs or the so-called principle of consent for gaining approval for the PM's plans from Northern Irish politicians.\n\nSo short of a political escape worthy of Houdini, this prime minister is moving towards making the case for leaving without a deal.\n\nNow, as we've discussed many times before, Parliament's changed the law to make that as hard as possible. But No 10 still vows to do everything it can to press ahead - expecting further tangles in the courts, despite widespread scepticism that would have any effect.\n\nAnd above all else, sources in government vow they would be as obstructive as possible to the EU, daring them perhaps to impose a delay on a reluctant and restive administration.\n\nTo their opponents, that might appear petulant and counter productive, but be in no doubt, if there is no deal this month, Boris Johnson's government would not suddenly play nice.\n\nAnd in the likely event that there is an extension, for political reasons No 10 wants to give the impression it was forced into that position.\n\nMinisters hoped their proposals might get a fair hearing from the EU. But there is frustration that this just doesn't appear to have happened.\n\nOne senior source told me the talks are \"meant to be a dialogue, not a question and answer session\", suggesting that rather than getting down to business, the EU is simply tying up the UK's negotiators by making query after query after query.\n\nSources say the EU ought to listen \"to the people who won the referendum, not the people who lost\".\n\nAnd there's a warning from this end that they will make a \"historic miscalculation\", if they expect saying no now will lead to calmer times ahead.\n\nBack here, there's also an ongoing discussion over whether a future Conservative manifesto should include the outline of a potential deal with the EU or a straightforward plan to leave immediately without a deal.\n\nI understand there has not been a decision on this yet.\n• None What is in Boris Johnson's Brexit plan?", "Pizza Express has reportedly hired financial advisers ahead of a meeting with lenders to review its debt situation.\n\nThe 470-store chain made losses for the last two years as its operating profits were more than offset by high interest payments on its £1.1bn debt pile.\n\nSales in the UK and in its 150 overseas restaurants both fell last year.\n\nFounded in 1965, Pizza Express employs 14,000 people and is now owned by Chinese private investment firm Hony.\n\nThe Chinese company bought it from UK private equity firm Cinven in 2014. Few companies emerge from private equity deals without being laden with borrowing.\n\nInterestingly, Pizza Express uses exactly the same font and layout for its financial statements as it does for its menus. Unlike the menu, however, there are some quite unappetising items in its financials.\n\nMost off-putting of all, of course, is the enormous debt number. The interest on that £1.1bn is costing the company £93m a year, which wiped out all its operating profit last year - and then some.\n\nIn fact, the debt payments have pushed Pizza Express into the red for the last two years with a loss of £55m last year alone.\n\nThe frustrating thing for the business is that it is making a reasonable amount of cash. It's for that reason, its auditors were happy to conclude the chain is a viable going concern when it signed off its accounts in April this year despite the company's debts being worth more than its assets.\n\nTo be clear, Pizza Express is not in imminent danger of going bust. It has until 2021 before it needs to start paying back £600m to its outside creditors. (The other £500m is a loan from its Chinese owners).\n\nBut debt is a serial company killer - just ask Carillion or Thomas Cook. It can suffocate a company, so the earlier you try and address the issue the better.\n\nBonds in Pizza Express are selling for 84p for every £1 worth of loan. That means that investors do not think those lenders will get all their money back.\n\nThe casual dining sector is littered with names which have been through some sort of insolvency process. Prezzo, Byron, Carluccio's needed to close stores and ask creditors to agree to rent reductions, while Jamie's Italian went bust.\n\nIf Pizza Express is going to last another 50 years some sort of debt restructuring looks inevitable. Getting it done in a brutal high street environment will not be straightforward.\n• None What went wrong at Jamie's Italian?", "A file picture of the MV Butiraoi in the harbour\n\nA ferry that sank off the Pacific nation of Kiribati - killing 95 people - was overloaded, had a drunken crew, and was not allowed to carry passengers at sea, an inquiry has found.\n\nOf the 102 people aboard the MV Butiraoi last year, only five passengers and two crew survived.\n\nAfter the boat sank, it was eight days before the alarm was raised, and most victims died at sea from hunger, dehydration and hypothermia.\n\nThe 17m (57ft) catamaran departed Nonouti island on 18 January last year for a routine two-day trip to the capital, Tarawa. It was due to cover 260km (160 miles) of Pacific waters in the archipelago country.\n\nBut it set off without notifying authorities, and did not issue a distress signal when it began to fall apart hours after leaving shore.\n\nIt did not have a working or activated radio beacon - meaning it was days before anyone realised the ferry was missing.\n\nWhen the alarm was finally raised, an international search effort got under way, with aircraft from New Zealand, Australia and the US scanning the ocean.\n\nOn 27 January, a New Zealand military plane found one of the ferry's aluminium boats carrying seven survivors, among them a 14-year old girl.\n\nThe inquiry was ordered by the Kiribati government. It found:\n\nThe inquiry made a number of recommendations, including a national standard on boat building; a ban on alcohol for crew during working hours; and a strengthened code of ethics.\n\nThe aluminium boat was spotted from the air and rescued", "Productivity in the UK fell at its fastest annual pace in five years in the April-to-June quarter, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe figure - measured by output per hour - fell by 0.5%, after two previous quarters of zero growth.\n\nBoth services and manufacturing saw a fall from April to June, the ONS said.\n\nIt added: \"This sustained period of declining labour productivity represents a continuation of the UK's 'productivity puzzle'.\"\n\nThe ONS added that productivity since the economic downturn in 2008 was \"growing more slowly than during the long period prior to downturn\".\n\nTej Parikh, chief economist at the Institute of Directors, said: \"These figures hammer home the impact uncertainty is having on the business environment.\n\n\"Unsure of what's around the corner, businesses' investment in the new equipment and technology that drives up their performance has been stifled. Many companies are also trimming their investment pipelines for the year ahead to build up a cash cushion in anticipation of challenging economic conditions ahead.\"\n\nWhy does productivity, the amount of output you get from each worker, matter so much\n\nIn the long term, rising living standards need rising productivity.\n\nThere's a well-known line from the Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on this: \"Productivity isn't everything, but in the long run it is almost everything. A country's ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise its output per worker\".\n\nThe period of weak productivity growth after the financial crisis has been a time when the economy has, for most of the time, been growing but not strongly.\n\nThe one rather brighter spot has been the other element in the productivity calculation, employment.\n\nBritain now has the highest percentage of the population in employment since at least 1971 (that's how far back this particular data series goes).\n\nMore jobs, but less productive than they would have been, had productivity grown at the rates we have seen in previous decades.\n\nJon Boys, from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, said: \"Businesses may have more immediate concerns than raising productivity, but it's the only way to increase pay packets in the long term.\n\n\"We mustn't be fooled by recent strong earnings growth figures, which have been driven by a tight labour market and not an increase in employers' ability to pay.\"\n\nHoward Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club, commented: \"Heightened concerns over Brexit - especially serious concerns among many companies of the UK leaving the EU without a deal - has clearly caused companies to limit their investment with damaging implications for productivity.\n\n\"If a Brexit deal is agreed and enacted by 31 October, this will hopefully dilute business uncertainty and provide some boost to business investment, which would be good news for productivity prospects.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A flat in Hammersmith in London was one of the properties raided on Tuesday\n\nPolice investigating what they say is the UK's biggest ever drugs conspiracy have arrested 13 men in dawn raids.\n\nThe arrests follow a National Crime Agency investigation tracking drugs allegedly smuggled into the UK in lorry loads of vegetables and juice.\n\nThe conspiracy was around the importation of more than 50 tonnes of drugs, worth millions of pounds, from the Netherlands, officers say.\n\nThe arrests took place in London, Manchester, Stockport, St Helens, Warrington, Bolton, Dewsbury, and Leeds.\n\n\"We believe it's the biggest ever conspiracy that we've seen in the UK,\" said Ms Lloyd, NCA regional head of investigations for the north of England.\n\nThe 13 are suspected of being part of the UK arm of a well established organised crime group that allegedly used Dutch and British front companies to import heroin, cocaine and cannabis.\n\nFour men and two women arrested in April by Dutch police, on a European Arrest Warrant, are awaiting extradition to the UK and are suspected of being part of the same conspiracy.\n\nThis investigation has got results thanks to cross-border European co-operation.\n\nSix arrests by Dutch investigators were under the EU's European Arrest Warrant, which aims to swiftly extradite suspects to face justice in the UK.\n\nBut the UK won't be able to use this tool if it leaves the EU without a security deal.\n\nThe UK will also, overnight, leave Europol and Eurojust - both of which were involved in this investigation.\n\nThey co-ordinate the sharing of information and evidence that police and prosecutors use to put serious criminals behind bars.\n\nThe government has, however, today published a 159-page \"No Deal Readiness\" report.\n\nIf you get to page 153, you will find it admits that leaving the EU without a deal amounts to a \"loss of capability\" for British police.\n\nAnd it further admits that the proposed alternatives \"cannot fully compensate for the loss of EU co-operation tools\".\n\nThe 13 men are alleged to have imported drugs on numerous occasions between February 2017 and October 2018, including three consignments intercepted in 2018 with a total street value of more than £38m.\n\n\"We suspect these men were involved in an industrial-scale operation - the biggest ever uncovered in the UK - bringing in tonnes of deadly drugs that were distributed to crime groups throughout the country,\" Ms Lloyd said.\n\nThe 13 arrested are believed to be part of a drugs smuggling gang\n\nThe investigation is linked to an operation in 2015 that saw 13 people jailed for a total of 176 years after the seizure of more than 100kg of heroin.\n\nMs Lloyd said she hoped the arrests would \"have a big impact\" on the county lines drugs trade - in which drugs are transported form cities to users across the country - which was having a \"devastating effect on the public, vulnerable children and the economy\".\n\nThe NCA says the investigation involved European police forces and agencies, including Europol and Eurojust, as well as the UK Border Force and Revenue & Customs.\n\n\"By working closely with partners here and overseas, in particular the Dutch national police, we believe we have dismantled a well established drug supply route,\" Ms Lloyd said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA large tulip sculpture in Paris in tribute to the victims of the 2015 attacks in the city has been criticised for looking more like marshmallows - or even parts of human anatomy.\n\nThe Bouquet of Tulips, a gift from US artist Jeff Koons unveiled near the Champs-Elysées on Friday, features the flower often used to symbolise love.\n\nBut the work, created in Koons' typical kitsch style, has divided opinion.\n\nIn November 2015, mass shootings and a bomb attack killed 130 people in Paris.\n\nThe co-ordinated terror attacks on a concert hall, a major stadium, restaurants and bars in the French capital wounded hundreds more.\n\nUnveiling his 40ft (12m) high structure near Le Petit Palais art gallery on Friday, Koons said the large handheld bouquet of balloon-like tulips was intended to show his support and US solidarity with the French people.\n\nThe Bouquet of Tulips artwork in Paris has divided opinion\n\n\"I did, as a citizen in New York, experience 9/11 and the depression that hung over the city,\" he said, adding that 80% of the money raised after selling the copyright to the artwork would be given to the victims' families.\n\nBut since Bouquet of Tulips was made public, Parisians and critics have been sharing their thoughts, with some referring to the piece as \"awful\", \"grotesque\" and \"pornographic\".\n\n\"Eleven coloured anuses mounted on stems,\" wrote philosopher Yves Michaud (in French) in France's L'Obs magazine, adding he felt that it was \"in fact a pornographic sculpture\".\n\nOne Twitter user, Gilles Brandet, said the sculptor's work was \"eye-candy for philistines\", adding: \"I find Jeff Koons' 'kitsch neo-pop' totally devoid of interest.\"\n\nAnother, Rosa, tweeted that Parisians would \"now think that tulips are large coloured marshmallows\".\n\nColumnist Eric Naulleau, who earlier criticised Koons for \"imposing his poor bouquet of tulips\" on Paris, said on Monday the artwork was \"dreadful\".\n\nSome even suggested they would avoid that particular area of the park when passing through.\n\nOthers, though, said they did not understand the controversy, describing the work as \"pretty\" and \"a gift from the heart\".\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\nPatricia Correia, whose daughter was killed in the attack at the Bataclan concert hall, told the Associated Press that it was \"a very strong testament\" to France's relationship with the US, adding \"for me it represents the colours of life\".\n\nParis Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Friday she was very happy to unveil the work, calling it a \"beautiful gift\" and \"a magnificent symbol of freedom and friendship\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Anne Hidalgo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 donation of Koons' Bouquet of Tulips was first announced in November 2016. The original plan was to erect it near the Palais de Tokyo, a contemporary art museum, but that was later criticised for lacking a connection with the attacks.\n\nIn January 2018, a letter drafted by artists urged government officials to abandon the \"shocking\" project, but they later selected the site at Le Petit Palais.\n\nThe 64-year-old US artist's sculptures have provoked controversy for decades after he emerged as a leading figure in New York's art scene in the 1980s.\n\nKoons' artworks are often large colourful balloon-like structures, such as puppies and swans, and made from steel. He already has a sculpture of multicoloured balloon tulips exhibited in the Guggenheim in Bilbao.\n\nHe has also displayed large inflatable pieces around New York.\n\nA 45ft (14m) high inflatable ballerina by Koons outside the Rockefeller Center in New York in 2017\n\nHe holds the record price for a living artist's work for his piece Rabbit, which fetched $91.1 (£74.1m) at auction in May.\n\nThe artist also created a series of pornographic artworks which some critics considered vulgar and unacceptable.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Extinction Rebellion activists have begun two weeks of protests in London\n\nPolice have arrested 280 people in London at the start of two weeks of protests by environmental campaigners.\n\nExtinction Rebellion activists are protesting in cities around the world, including Berlin, Amsterdam and Sydney.\n\nOrganisers have blockaded key sites in central London, in addition to demonstrating outside government departments.\n\nSome have glued and chained themselves to roads and vehicles, while others were planning to camp overnight.\n\nExtinction Rebellion claims protests in the capital will be five times bigger than similar events in April.\n\nThe protests are calling for urgent action on global climate and wildlife emergencies.\n\nActivists barricaded themselves to vehicles in Westminster early on Monday as the demonstrations got under way.\n\nMeanwhile, hundreds of campaigners filled Trafalgar Square and blocked Lambeth and Westminster bridges.\n\nA hearse containing a coffin with the plaque Our Future was parked in Trafalgar Square, with the driver attaching himself to the steering wheel with a bicycle lock.\n\nThe driver of the funeral car attached himself to the steering wheel with a bicycle lock\n\nExtinction Rebellion said a police officer later gave the hearse a parking ticket.\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, church leaders helped to create a \"faith bridge\" on Lambeth Bridge, with services and prayer vigils planned.\n\nRev Jon Swales, 41, Mission Priest at the Church of England's Lighthouse Church in Leeds and Associate Faculty at St Hild Theological Centre, said: \"The science is clear.\n\n\"Unless we radically change the way we live in the world we will face the full force of climate catastrophe.\"\n\nProtesters dubbed the Red Rebels wore red robes and white face paint as they gathered outside the Cabinet Office in Whitehall.\n\nThe activists, wearing red robes and white face paint, gathered outside the Cabinet Office\n\nThe singer Declan McKenna performed an impromptu free gig on the Mall in the evening, as people gathered in the rain to listen.\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 roads behind Downing Street were blocked throughout the day by protesters, some of whom had erected tents in the street and were sitting down and singing songs together.\n\nAmong the group were two girls, Esme, 11, and Rafi, nine, who had taken the day off school to attend the protests.\n\nTheir mother Laurie, 41, told PA: \"They've already done a spelling test this morning, sat down in the street, so we're not wasting time.\n\n\"We've talked about the protests at home and the school knows where they are.\"\n\n\"We're here because we want the world to still be alive when we die,\" said Rafi.\n\nProtesters who had glued and chained themselves outside Westminster Abbey were removed by police.\n\nPolice attempted to move protesters from outside Westminster Abbey\n\nA protester was cut free by police after chaining himself outside Westminster Abbey\n\nA staggered police cordon was later set up along Millbank, near Parliament, before officers attempted to move demonstrators from Lambeth Bridge.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Helena Wilkinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nExtinction Rebellion organisers told protesters to sit down and \"be arrested\" as police continued to try to remove them - and a police cordon later closed off the bridge.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice were seen cutting two protesters from a car that had blocked Victoria Embankment, while campaigners also locked themselves to a mock Trident missile outside the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall.\n\nActivists were also pictured on a barge on the Thames.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Bruce Thain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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\nPolice wearing abseiling gear and equipped with acetone syringes were seen removing protesters who had glued themselves to scaffolding in Trafalgar Square.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Camilla Horrox This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 protester wearing a gasmask and boiler suit was taken away by police\n\nA string of celebrities including fashion model Daisy Lowe, actress Juliet Stevenson and comedian Ruby Wax joined campaigners in Trafalgar Square.\n\nActress Juliet Stevenson was among those protesting in Trafalgar Square, central London\n\nStevenson said the protests were \"a very wonderful action\", revealing her son was attending them as a worker for Extinction Rebellion.\n\nShe told the Press Association: \"We can't any longer allow governments to do this, so we have to make it clear that there is no more time.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Lowe, 30, hosted a dinner to \"celebrate and be educated\" by Extinction Rebellion activists, and encouraged followers to join the protests.\n\nShe wrote on Instagram: \"It is a terrifying reality we live in, but we have the power to change the course of history and save our planet.\"\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 daisylowe 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\nSir Mark Rylance, the Oscar-winning actor, joined a blockade on the Mall before addressing protesters at St James' Park.\n\nHe said: \"People have been saying to me, it doesn't make a difference having a celebrity joining the protests.\n\n\"I am confident these protests are going to lead to a solid change. Extinction Rebellion isn't going to go away.\"\n\nIn June, Sir Mark resigned as an associate artist at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) over its partnership with BP, which the theatre company has since vowed to end.\n\nHe told the crowds Greta Thunberg, the teenage climate change activist, had inspired his decision to quit the RSC when he did.\n\nMeanwhile, activists from Animal Rebellion, a movement allied to Extinction Rebellion, marched from Russell Square to Smithfield Meat Market.\n\nOrganisers say they planned to remain overnight at the market to share their \"vision of a future plant-based food system\".\n\nOn arriving at the market, protesters said they held a minute's silence for \"animals whose lives are lost\" at Smithfield, and then went on to set up stalls selling plant-based products inside one of the world's most famous meat-trading spaces.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Animal Rebellion This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an update posted shortly after 17:00 BST, organisers said 11 sites remained occupied across Westminster, as groups of protesters prepared to camp out for the night.\n\nEmily, an activist from Wales, said on Twitter she planned to stay overnight.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nExtinction Rebellion said many activists were preparing to go on hunger strike to illustrate \"that our just-in-time food system is too fragile to repeatedly withstand the shocks of extreme weather\".\n\nThere had been 280 arrests in connection with the protests as of 21.30 BST, according to the Metropolitan Police.\n\nExtinction Rebellion said this included Sarah Lasenby, 81, a Quaker and retired social worker from Oxford.\n\nMs Lasenby, who the group says was part of efforts to block Embankment, said: \"It is imperative that the government should take serious actions and put pressure on other states and global powers to radically reduce the use of fossil fuels.\"\n\nExtinction Rebellion (XR for short) wants governments to declare a \"climate and ecological emergency\" and take immediate action to address climate change.\n\nIt describes itself as an international \"non-violent civil disobedience activist movement\".\n\nExtinction Rebellion was launched in 2018 and organisers say it now has groups willing to take action in dozens of countries.\n\nIn April, the group held a large demonstration in London that brought major routes in the city to a standstill.\n\nExtinction Rebellion organisers say they are expecting up to 30,000 people to take part in the fortnight-long demonstrations in the capital, which form part of an \"international rebellion\".\n\nSimilar protests in the UK earlier this year brought major disruption to London and resulted in more than 1,100 arrests.\n\nUp to 60 other cities around the world may also be disrupted in simultaneous events, according to a spokesperson for the group.\n\nActivists will call on government departments to detail their plans to tackle the climate emergency.\n\nPolice in Australia and New Zealand have already arrested dozens of Extinction Rebellion activists on Monday.\n\nSome 30 campaigners in Sydney were charged with committing offences after hundreds of protesters blocked a busy road.\n\nMore than 100 people were arrested in Amsterdam after they erected a tent camp on the main road outside the Rijksmuseum, the Dutch national museum\n\nExtra police were outside key landmarks early on Monday\n\nThe latest arrests in London come after the Met police arrested 11 people during the weekend.\n\nA spokesperson for the force said eight people were arrested on Saturday after previously reporting 10. They have all been released under investigation.\n\nOne woman and two men were arrested on Sunday on suspicion of conspiracy to cause public nuisance. The men remain in custody while the woman has been released under investigation.", "Pat Finucane, a 39-year-old solicitor, was shot dead in front of his wife and children in 1989\n\nThe security service MI5 wiped secret information from computer hard drives being held by an inquiry examining the murder of solicitor Pat Finucane.\n\nRetired Canadian Judge Peter Cory, head of the inquiry, complained to police and feared a diplomatic incident.\n\nIn 2004, he recommended a public inquiry into the killing, but one has yet to be held.\n\nMr Finucane's family believes state collusion in his murder went to the top of government.\n\nThe prominent solicitor was shot dead by loyalists at his home in north Belfast in 1989.\n\nDetails of a visit by MI5 to Judge Cory's London offices in 2002 - corroborated by the inquiry's senior counsel - are contained in a BBC Spotlight programme.\n\nMI5 told his staff they were removing all the inquiry's hard drives in the interests of national security.\n\nThey were erased before being returned.\n\nGeraldine Finucane has been campaigning for a public inquiry into her husband's death\n\nBBC Spotlight was told MI5 was concerned the inquiry's computer system was insecure and a leak could expose the identities of informers.\n\nJudge Cory raised MI5's intervention with the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir John Stevens, but decided against pursuing the matter to prevent a diplomatic incident.\n\nThe judge had printed back-up copies of the material and believes nothing was ultimately lost.\n\nMr Finucane's widow, Geraldine, said: \"I was told that papers marked 'cabinet eyes only' involved the collusion and the killing of my husband.\n\n\"There is something there that needs to be exposed,\" she told the programme.\n\nBBC Spotlight also reveals that the late Willie Frazer, the campaigner for victims of republican violence, had a role in distributing weapons to loyalist paramilitary groups.\n\nThe automatic rifles had been brought into Northern Ireland from South Africa in 1987 by Ulster Resistance.\n\nThe weapons were used to murder at least 70 people.\n\nUlster Resistance was launched in Belfast's Ulster Hall in 1986\n\nUlster Resistance was a loyalist paramilitary-style group set up in protest against the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement.\n\nUnionists were angered by the deal which, for the first time, gave the Irish government an official consultative role in Northern Ireland's affairs.\n\nUlster Resistance was launched during a large rally in the Ulster Hall in Belfast on 10 November 1986.\n\nThe rally was addressed by the then leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Ian Paisley, as well as senior DUP members Peter Robinson and Sammy Wilson.\n\nFurther rallies followed in towns across Northern Ireland and Mr Paisley and Mr Robinson were both photographed wearing red military-style berets at Ulster Resistance events.\n\nThe DUP publically cut its links with Ulster Resistance in the late 1980s after members of the group were linked to the importation of weapons into Northern Ireland.\n\nIn 1988, 10 people were arrested after police found a suspected Ulster Resistance weapons dump in County Armagh.\n\nThe following year, three men were arrested in Paris over an alleged Ulster Resistance plot to exchange British missile secrets for South African guns.\n\nAll three men were convicted of arms trafficking and were given fines and suspended sentences.\n\nA number of South African diplomats were expelled from Britain and France after the missile plot was uncovered.\n\nA police report on the activities of the former UDA boss Johnny Adair states he was receiving weapons from Ulster Resistance in the early 1990s.\n\nFormer UDA boss Johnny Adair states he was receiving weapons from Ulster Resistance in the 1990s\n\nHis contact in Ulster Resistance was Willie Frazer.\n\nSpotlight on The Troubles: A Secret History can be viewed on BBC iPlayer here", "Parliament has been suspended ahead of a Queen's Speech - to set out the government's plans - next Monday.\n\nThe ceremony brought to an end to the longest session since the English civil war, at 349 sitting days.\n\nIt comes two weeks after the UK Supreme Court said the government's previous attempt to prorogue Parliament was unlawful.\n\nThere were noisy protests in the House of Commons in September.", "The DUP's Jim Shannon has broken down in tears during a Commons debate on baby loss as he read out a letter from a bereaved mother.\n\nHe was comforted by another MP, Anna Soubry, who praised him for speaking with \"a big heart\".\n\nMr Shannon said there must be more support for those who suffer from miscarriage.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"If you partake in this madness you will be caught\"\n\nIt is a \"matter of time\" before someone is killed because of off-road motorbikes being ridden illegally in Cardiff, South Wales Police has said.\n\nThe force is asking residents to be its \"eyes and ears\" to curb the problem.\n\nIn July, 84-year-old John Miller was badly hurt after a hit-and-run incident in the capital when a rider allegedly lost control while \"pulling a wheelie\".\n\nA joint project between Cardiff Council and the police has confiscated and destroyed 38 bikes since 2017.\n\nThe force has urged the public to share information and pictures of anti-social bike use so they can identify those illegally riding powerful off-road motorcycles and quad bikes.\n\nSgt Duncan Mitchell, from South Wales Police, said they were not \"small, children's scrambler bikes\".\n\n\"Often riders aren't using correct protective equipment,\" he said. \"They're riding on a road at speed, again without helmets, without any safety equipment. It puts them at danger. It puts others at danger.\"\n\nThis photo taken by a member of the public captured a motorbike driving dangerously in Tremorfa Park as children played rugby\n\nSt Albans RFC has had problems with off-road bikes on and around their pitch on Tremorfa Park.\n\nTeam manager Ian Watkins, who has been involved with the club since 1976, said they had been \"plagued\" with off-road bikes trespassing on the park.\n\n\"[They're] riding onto the pitches, damaging the pitches and causing a hazard and danger to all park users, particularly our younger section,\" he said.\n\nIan Watkins said on one occasion bike riders in the park were goading members of the public\n\nMr Watkins said: \"It can be intimidating, there's been occasion where some of the riders are actually goading members of the public and goading the police when they attend.\n\n\"I think the worst occasion was six bikes on the park.\n\n\"It only takes one accident for somebody to be hurt, God forbid fatally injured.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police and Cardiff Council's Operation Red Mana is aiming to catch illegally-ridden bikes\n\nSince 2017 the police and council have been collaborating on Operation Red Mana, aimed at tackling the illegal use of off-road bikes.\n\nLocal authority officers ride on off-road motorcycles, while the police follow in cars to discourage would be offenders.\n\nTim Morgan, operational chief inspector for the west of Cardiff, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast police also use drones, helicopters and road units to catch riders.\n\nHe said it can be a \"very difficult\" task, as \"riders will often cover their faces and won't often stop for the police\".\n\nThey aim to confiscate as many bikes as possible.\n\nAll 38 riders whose bikes have been confiscated in the last two years were handed anti-social behaviour referrals - 29 of them were found to be driving without insurance.\n\nSgt Mitchell said they were not trying to be killjoys but needed people to be aware of the dangers.\n\n\"We need [the community] to be our eyes and ears on the ground, not only telling us about the problem but who is responsible, what bikes are being used and if possible sharing any pictures or images with us,\" he said.\n\nSgt Duncan Mitchell stressed they did not want people to put themselves in danger\n\n\"We need to identify who these people are and where the bikes are stored so we can deal with the problem fully,\" Sgt Mitchell said.\n\n\"I will stress never to put themselves in danger when they're doing this, but share anything they know.\n\n\"It's not just people popping wheelies and doing skids in a park and tearing up fields, it's fatalities.\n\n\"These parks are being used by young children and it's a matter of time before we get a fatal accident involving a young person.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two men have been charged with murder over the death of a 20-year-old athlete in a London Underground station.\n\nTashan Daniel was heading to an Arsenal football match when he was stabbed on 24 September at Hillingdon station.\n\nTwo men, aged 21 and 19, have been remanded in custody and will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nA woman, 18, arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender has been released under investigation.\n\nMr Daniel, a full-time athlete, was attacked as he made his first solo trip to the Emirates stadium to watch Arsenal play Nottingham Forest.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sia is usually known for being secretive about her life, and regularly covers her face with wigs and headgear\n\nAustralian pop star Sia has revealed that she suffers from a disease that gives her chronic pain.\n\nIn a tweet, the singer-songwriter said she had Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), a rare condition that can cause joint pain and extreme fatigue.\n\nSia, 43, is known for being secretive about her life, and regularly hides her face under wigs and headgear.\n\nShe has had a string of solo hits and has written other songs for Rihanna, Beyonce, Katy Perry and Adele.\n\n\"I just wanted to say to those of you suffering from pain, whether physical or emotional, I love you, keep going,\" Sia tweeted on Friday. \"Pain is demoralizing, and you're not alone\".\n\nAccording to the UK's National Health Service there are 13 types of EDS, a condition that affects connective tissue around the body. Some forms are mild while others can be disabling.\n\nSia has opened up in the past about her addiction to alcohol and pain medication.\n\nLast year she posted a tweet celebrating that she was \"eight years sober\".", "Lucia Lucas has entered into the history books by becoming the first transgender singer to perform with the English National Opera in London.\n\nShe will make her UK operatic debut playing Public Opinion in Orpheus in the Underworld, on Saturday 5 October at the London Coliseum.", "Medina Hall said restaurants should provide menus in different formats\n\nBurger King has apologised to a blind woman with a food allergy after she was told staff were not allowed to read out a list of ingredients to her.\n\nMedina Hall had gone to the Folkestone branch of the burger chain and told staff about her nut allergy.\n\nShe said she was told staff could give her a menu but company policy meant customers had to read it themselves.\n\nBurger King said there was no such policy and it was \"looking into this matter further\".\n\nMs Hall said her nut allergy could trigger severe asthma attacks and so she asked for the ingredients of a brownie to be read out to her.\n\n\"I was shocked.. had I eaten it and it had nuts in, I would've had a major asthma attack and ended up in hospital,\" she said.\n\n\"In today's day and age you'd think they would want to read it and get it right.\"\n\nA Burger King spokesman said: \"We would firstly like to apologise to Medina, her experience this week is not reflective of the high standards we would expect within any of our restaurants.\n\n\"Everyone should have an enjoyable experience when they visit us and we are looking into this matter further.\"\n\nHe added: \"I can also confirm that there is no such policy to refrain from reading allergen information to visually-impaired customers.\"\n\nMs Hall said restaurants should provide menus in alternative formats \"so that we can be independent and read it ourselves\".", "They say people only go to the movies nowadays to see all-singing-all-dancing multi-million-dollar, computer-enhanced Hollywood franchises. They say there's no money to be made anymore with serious, gritty dramas. They say, that's what box sets on streaming services are for. The golden days of cinema are over. They say.\n\nBut then they haven't seen Joker, the origin story of Batman's arch-enemy, co-written and directed by Todd Phillips. Sure, it might sound like another of those action-packed, special effects-laden fantasy epics that overshadow all else. It might even be what the folk who go to see it expect.\n\nBut Joker has about as much in common with your typical superhero caper as Wonder Woman has with Dennis the Menace.\n\nJoker is a Trojan Horse: a dark art house film smuggled into the neon-lit world of multiplexes, disguised as a DC Comic Universe action adventure.\n\nIt's an interesting move by Warner Brothers. The studio knows audiences love \"Thwack!\", \"Pow!\" action sequences; that they expect witty dialogue and plenty of banter, and CGI is a given.\n\nWell, there's none of that in Joker.\n\nInstead you have Joaquin Phoenix giving it the full Daniel Day-Lewis in a slow-burn performance of such intensity and weirdness, it will either have the Academy purring come the Oscars or shunning altogether.\n\nJoaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a \"misunderstood man whom life is repeatedly beating down\"\n\nPhoenix plays misfit Arthur Fleck, a man who hasn't exactly run out of luck, because he never had any in the first place. From an early age Arthur has suffered from a neurological condition that causes him to laugh like a hyena at the most inappropriate moments. Not a fun infectious laugh, but a laugh so dry and hard it makes him retch and everybody else feel nauseous.\n\nAnd then there is his mother (Frances Conroy) whom he loves and who loves him, but… well, as I said, he's not a lucky guy.\n\nArthur cares for his frail mother, Penny (played by Frances Conroy)\n\nArthur Fleck is an oddball in a cruel, intolerant world that doesn't have time to care for vulnerable people.\n\nHe lives in a Gotham City that's gone to the dogs: uncollected garbage bags pile up like stinking black skyscrapers, welfare budgets have been slashed, and mass civil unrest is one small trigger-point from becoming a reality.\n\nArthur is trying to find his way in a Gotham City, which is in turmoil and struggling to provide services for its people\n\nIf Arthur were sensible he'd take an admin job in a library and keep his head down. But Arthur isn't sensible, he's delusional and therefore makes choices that are not good for him or anyone else.\n\nHe's a chap who wants to put a smile on people's faces, and so he becomes a clown-for-hire during the day and an amateur stand-up comic at night.\n\nThere is not a career adviser on the planet who would have pushed him in that direction.\n\nJoaquin Phoenix said at times he \"understood the Joker's motivation\", but would then be \"repulsed\" by his decisions\n\nPhoenix plays Arthur's tragic descent in a way which seemingly encourages our empathy but makes sure he never really gets it: we know he's not a character to whom you'd want to get too close. There is a maniacal darkness behind his eyes which is a bit creepy.\n\nHis only pleasure comes from watching Murray Franklin's chat show, on to which he dreams of being invited one day. Robert De Niro plays the legendary TV host, thereby reversing the role he played as Rupert Pupkin in The King of Comedy, a film to which Joker owes a debt (as well as Psycho and Taxi Driver).\n\nRobert de Niro as Rupert Pupkin in Martin Scorsese's film, The King of Comedy, which influenced Todd Phillips\n\nEverything about the film is downbeat.\n\nThe sun never shines in this Gotham City.\n\nClass war simmers while the media crank up the tension with inflammatory headlines and irresponsible TV shows that give airtime to the wrong people for the wrong reasons. The elite live in a pampered bubble without a care in the world, wilfully ignorant of the hardships other folk suffer. It might be set in the early 1980s, but it is clearly a parable about the here and now.\n\nIt is several galaxies away from a piece of light comic entertainment with cartoon violence and clever sight gags. There are no laughs in this tale about a man who wants to be funny.\n\nIt is a heavy, serious and, at times, a painfully slow piece: Beckettian almost.\n\nSeveral of the minor supporting characters are too thinly drawn to allow them to be anything more than \"types.\" And you might want to challenge some of the assumptions and conclusions it makes around issues of mental health right down to its central question: what turns someone like Arthur into the Joker?\n\nThe violence is bloody and hard to watch, but valid in terms of context and mood.\n\nI say this because Joker is a film that not only raises the issue of a culture in which there is wide accessibility to firearms, but also because it sits within a franchise that tragically became associated with the real-life consequences of gun crime. In 2012 James Holmes killed 12 people and injured dozens more at the midnight premier of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado.\n\nJoker's director Todd Phillips responded to concerns that the film is too violent, by asking \"Isn't it a good thing to put real-world implications on violence?\"\n\nThe conversation about art and life and the relationship between the two is ancient and modern. It will and should continue.\n\nI didn't think Joker was flippant or indulgent. Nor do I think it is encouraging or inciting violence.\n\nIt is reflecting on it, which art is there to do.\n\nMy only reservation was the 15 certificate, given the graphic nature of some scenes in a genre when parents might be expecting a more slapstick approach.\n\nI've seen a lot of yellow-toothed Jokers in my life, from Cesar Romero to Heath Ledger. They've all brought something to the part but none gave the character the fragility and psychosis of Joaquin Phoenix's desperate and desperately sad Joker.\n\nI think it will become a classic.", "A card by the company involved in the trademark dispute with Banksy\n\nA greeting cards company has denied it attempted to \"take custody\" of the graffiti artist Banksy name to sell \"fake\" merchandise of his art.\n\nFull Colour Black, which is involved in a trademark legal row, said the artist's comment was \"entirely untrue\".\n\nThe north Yorkshire company insisted it was a \"legitimate enterprise\" that did not \"infringe his rights in any way\".\n\nBanksy claimed he had been forced to open a shop in Croydon, south London, this week, as a result of the dispute.\n\nThe store, Gross Domestic Product, is selling a range of \"impractical and offensive\" merchandise created by Banksy.\n\nThe street artist was advised by his legal team to sell his own merchandise to avoid his trademark being used by someone else under EU law.\n\nBanksy's store is selling a range of \"impractical and offensive\" merchandise\n\nIn a statement, owner Andrew Gallagher said it was a three-person \"tiny business\" and not a \"big corporate group\".\n\n\"We sell greetings cards from our home. It is entirely untrue that we are attempting to 'take custody' of his name. We don't use his trademarks or his brand name.\"\n\nThe company which has been supplying cards since 2007 claimed its operations saw it \"legally photograph public graffiti\" to make it available to Banksy fans.\n\nIt posted a statement on Facebook and claimed it had contacted Banksy's lawyers several times to offer to pay royalties.\n\nThe firm put a statement on its Facebook page\n\nBanksy previously said: \"A greetings cards company is contesting the trademark I hold to my art, and attempting to take custody of my name so they can sell their fake Banksy merchandise legally.\"\n\nThe artist whose identity has never been revealed added: \"I think they're banking on the idea I won't show up in court to defend myself.\"\n\nItems on display in the shop, which are only available to buy online, range in price from a £10 signed spray paint can to a handbag made from a house brick.\n\nThe shop appeared overnight on Wednesday at a disused retail outlet in Croydon\n\nProceeds have been pledged towards funding a new migrant rescue boat.\n\nHe added: \"I still encourage anyone to copy, borrow, steal and amend my art for amusement, academic research or activism.\n\n\"I just don't want them to get sole custody of my name.\"\n\nItems that will be available to buy are on display in Croydon\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duchess of Sussex has begun legal action against the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters.\n\nIn a statement, the Duke of Sussex said he and Meghan were forced to take action against \"relentless propaganda\".\n\nPrince Harry said: \"I lost my mother and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces.\"\n\nA Mail on Sunday spokesman said the paper stood by the story it published and would defend the case \"vigorously\".\n\nLaw firm Schillings, acting for the duchess, accused the paper of a campaign of false derogatory stories.\n\nThe firm has filed a High Court claim against the paper and its parent company over the alleged misuse of private information, infringement of copyright and breach of the Data Protection Act 2018.\n\nThe claim comes after the Mail on Sunday published a handwritten letter from Meghan to her father, Thomas Markle, sent shortly after she and Prince Harry got married in 2018.\n\nIn a lengthy personal statement on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's official website, Prince Harry said the \"painful\" impact of intrusive media coverage had driven the couple to take action.\n\nReferring to his late mother Diana, Princess of Wales, the prince said his \"deepest fear is history repeating itself\".\n\n\"I've seen what happens when someone I love is commoditised to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person,\" he said.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the statement was \"remarkably outspoken\" and \"nothing less than a stinging attack on the British tabloid media\".\n\nFormer Daily Mirror editor and Guardian columnist Roy Greenslade said the duchess could win the legal action, but added Prince Harry had taken a risk by attacking the press for the actions of one newspaper.\n\n\"The press - particularly the tabloid press - is far less powerful now than it was during his mother's era,\" he told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Is he taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut here? I think he may well find that this is counter-productive.\"\n\nThe language is clearly Harry's: an unrestrained expression of anger and pain aimed at the British tabloid media.\n\nDid any of his advisers urge restraint? We simply don't know. Judging by the length and intensity of the statement, Harry would have been in no mood to listen to any such cautionary advice.\n\nIs it fair to castigate the entire British tabloid media off the back of one dispute with one newspaper over one story, however painful? That is a matter of individual opinion and clearly Harry - supported one assumes by Meghan - believes that it is.\n\nThe timing certainly is curious. They are concluding a visit to Southern Africa which by wide consent (much of it expressed in the tabloid media) has been a considerable success. It has lifted their reputation after a series of mis-steps involving private jets and expensive property renovations.\n\nNow they have chosen to take one of the most powerful newspaper groups in Britain to court and launched this stinging assault on an entire section of the British media.\n\nBritish tabloids are not afraid of a fight. They may well feel provoked by the language in this statement. Was it wise? We shall see.\n\nIt is not the first time the royals have taken legal action against the press. In 2017, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were awarded £92,000 (100,000 euros) in damages after French magazine Closer printed topless pictures of the duchess in 2012.\n\nA French court ruled the images had been an invasion of the couple's privacy.\n\nThe new legal proceedings are being funded privately by the couple and any proceeds will be donated to an anti-bullying charity.\n\nIn his statement, Prince Harry said he and Meghan believed in \"media freedom and objective, truthful reporting\" as a \"cornerstone of democracy\".\n\nBut he said his wife had become \"one of the latest victims of a British tabloid press that wages campaigns against individuals with no thought to the consequences - a ruthless campaign that has escalated over the past year, throughout her pregnancy and while raising our newborn son\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earlier on in their tour of Africa, the couple introduced baby son Archie to Archbishop Desmond Tutu\n\nPrince Harry said: \"There is a human cost to this relentless propaganda, specifically when it is knowingly false and malicious, and though we have continued to put on a brave face - as so many of you can relate to - I cannot begin to describe how painful it has been.\"\n\nHe said \"positive\" coverage of the couple's current tour of Africa had exposed the \"double standards\" of \"this specific press pack that has vilified her almost daily for the past nine months\".\n\n\"They have been able to create lie after lie at her expense simply because she has not been visible while on maternity leave,\" he said.\n\n\"She is the same woman she was a year ago on our wedding day, just as she is the same woman you've seen on this Africa tour.\"\n\nThe duke said he had been a \"silent witness to her private suffering for too long\".\n\n\"To stand back and do nothing would be contrary to everything we believe in,\" he said.\n\nHe accused the paper of misleading readers when it published the private letter, by strategically omitting paragraphs, sentences and specific words \"to mask the lies they had perpetrated for over a year\".\n\n\"Put simply, it is bullying, which scares and silences people. We all know this isn't acceptable, at any level,\" he said.\n\n\"We won't and can't believe in a world where there is no accountability for this.\"\n\nThe Mail on Sunday spokesperson said: \"We categorically deny that the duchess's letter was edited in any way that changed its meaning.\"", "Thai authorities believe the herd fell after trying to help a baby elephant\n\nSix elephants have fallen to their deaths in Thailand while trying to save each other from a notorious waterfall.\n\nOfficials said the incident occurred after a baby elephant slipped over the waterfall in central Thailand's Khao Yai National Park.\n\nTwo other elephants were also found struggling on a cliff edge nearby, and have been moved by Thai authorities.\n\nThe waterfall, known as Haew Narok (Hell's Fall), has a history of similar incidents.\n\nA herd of eight elephants died after falling in 1992, in a case that brought national attention.\n\nThailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) said officials were called to the scene on Saturday at 03:00 local time (20:00 GMT on Friday) when a group of elephants was blocking a road by the waterfall.\n\nThai authorities shared an image of one survivor attempting to revive its companion\n\nThree hours later, the body of a three-year-old elephant was spotted near the base of Haew Narok, and five others were discovered nearby.\n\nKhanchit Srinoppawan, chief of the national park, told the BBC that the two remaining elephants were being monitored.\n\nEdwin Wiek, the founder of Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand, said the pair may have difficulty surviving as elephants rely on their large herds for protection and finding food.\n\nThe incident could also take an emotional toll. Elephants have been known to display signs of grief.\n\nThai authorities moved the herd's two surviving elephants with the help of ropes\n\n\"It's like losing half your family,\" Mr Wiek told the BBC.\n\n\"There's nothing you can do, it's nature unfortunately,\" he said.\n\nAround 7,000 Asian elephants remain in Thailand, with more than half living in captivity.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment was caught on camera\n\nA man has been injured after a car was caught on camera apparently driving at pedestrians in Aberystwyth.\n\nEmergency services were called to Marine Terrace on the town's seafront in Ceredigion, just before 05:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nOne man was treated for non-life threatening injuries, police said.\n\nThree men have been arrested on suspicion of affray and driving offences and remain in police custody currently.\n\nOne eye witness described the incident as \"car madness\".\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said: \"Reports stated that a dark green car was driving erratically and dangerously in the area, and that it had possibly collided with some pedestrians and the pillar of a shelter on the prom.\"\n\nCounty councillor Ceredig Davies posted on Facebook: \"Sometimes words just aren't enough to express complete and utter contempt for an individual acting in such a dangerous and thoughtless manner.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pip, David and Ruth Archer are familiar to Radio 4 listeners\n\nFor avid Ambridge fans, Saturdays normally mean the absence of The Archers from Radio 4.\n\nBut now a \"soundscape\" based on the long-running soap hopes to fill the gap.\n\nThe new 10-minute podcast depicts the programme's fictional setting on a Saturday, without its characters.\n\n\"Wind rustling through the trees\" and the \"gentle braying of nearby cattle\" are among the noises on the special episode, available through BBC Sounds.\n\nRain, tractors, birds chirping and dogs barking will also be heard.\n\nThe one-off \"soothing soundscape\" is set on Brookfield Farm, at the gate into Marney's Field, \"on a quiet Saturday afternoon\".\n\nThe nearest listeners will get to a character is David Archer in the distance.\n\nThe soundscape follows the success on Radio 4 of Tweet Of The Day, which began as 90 seconds of birdsong.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. June Spencer on turning 100 and her long career\n\nOnly one episode of The Archers' background noise has been made and no plans yet for others.\n\nJeremy Howe, editor of The Archers, said: \"While waiting for next episode... we invite listeners to sit back, relax and bask in the sound of Brookfield Farm on a peaceful Saturday afternoon.\n\n\"For 10 tranquil minutes just enjoy the magic of the Ambridge countryside.\"\n\nThe Archers is broadcast daily from Sunday to Friday on Radio 4.\n\nListeners can find the soundscape podcast episode, called The Archers eavesdrops at Brookfield, on BBC Sounds.", "Rapper Krept has said he is \"good\" and will be \"back in no time\" after he was assaulted backstage at a BBC Radio 1Xtra live event in Birmingham.\n\nThe sold-out Saturday night show at the Arena Birmingham finished early after the incident around 22:00 BST.\n\nThe rapper, one half of duo Krept and Konan, suffered a slash wound. He tweeted on Sunday: \"Can't keep a good man down.\"\n\nPolice said medical help was given on site and he did not go to 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 I SPY OUT NOW This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 I SPY OUT NOW\n\nKrept, whose real name is Casyo Johnson, was not set to perform in the show. No arrests have been made.\n\nWest Midlands Police are looking at CCTV from inside the venue, speaking with potential witnesses and appealing for information about what happened. Forensic investigations are also continuing.\n\nThe force told the BBC the event would have been risk-assessed in advance \"because all large events are\".\n\n1Xtra Live was billed as an \"unmissable night\" with a \"mix of emerging and established artists\", including Aitch, French Montana, Ms Banks and headliner Wizkid.\n\nTickets for the Arena Birmingham, which has a capacity of 15,800, had sold out.\n\nThe gig was broadcast live across 1Xtra and Radio 1 but the stream ended when the event was called off.\n\nThe BBC said it was sorry to do so but safety was a priority.\n\nIn a statement, the corporation added: \"We are upset and saddened that something like this should happen to a guest at one of our events and we remain in close contact and continue to offer our full support.\"\n\nKrept's manager Docta Cosmic and Konan both tweeted on Saturday night, saying: \"Bro's good.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 KONAN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Radio 1Xtra said security was the venue's responsibility. The venue declined to comment.\n\nIt is understood there were security concerns ahead of the gig and the security presence was doubled in response.\n\nArtists, performers and people backstage are thought to have been subject to the same airport-style security measures as the audience.\n\nSeveral audience members posted videos on social media which appeared to show scuffles in the crowd.\n\nIn a separate incident, officers arrested a 23-year-old man on suspicion of possession of a knife at door six of Arena Birmingham. The man remains in custody.\n\nSome people expressed frustration that the concert was brought to an end about an hour before it was due to finish.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Audience members give their reaction after the sold-out event had to end early\n\nOne audience member, Charlotte, bought tickets to the event as a birthday present for her friend who had never been to a concert before.\n\nCharlotte, 27, who did not give her surname, told 1Xtra Newsbeat: \"It's not the best experience. You could tell by everyone's facial expressions they were fuming, and after there were boos.\n\n\"You can understand the frustration if you paid money to get good seats. It's like you've paid for the two main acts and they're not coming out.\"\n\nFriends Charlotte, left, and Becky were at the BBC Radio 1Xtra concert\n\nKrept and Konan have previously spoken out in defence of drill music, a menacing, often lyrically violent subset of British rap which police have linked to a rise in knife crime.\n\nEarlier this year, the duo launched a petition asking the Crown Prosecution Service to stop police from using the Serious Crime Act to target drill musicians.\n\nThey warned that outlawing drill music could push performers back to a life of crime and rob Britain of major talent.", "The UK's Brexit envoy David Frost will be back in Brussels on Monday\n\nThe UK has indicated it could \"clarify\" its new Brexit offer after the EU called for \"fundamental changes\".\n\nTalks will resume on Monday after the EU said the UK's proposed alternative to the Irish backstop could not be the \"basis\" for a legally-binding treaty.\n\nThe UK has said it would work on the details before then but there was \"no path\" to a deal without alternative arrangements in Northern Ireland.\n\nBoris Johnson has insisted the only options are a \"new deal or no deal\".\n\nEarlier on Friday, he posted a message on social media saying there would be \"no delay\" to the UK's exit beyond the 31 October deadline.\n\nThis was despite the government stating, in papers submitted to a Scottish court, that the PM would comply with legislation passed by Parliament, known as the Benn Act.\n\nThis requires him to send a letter to the EU asking for a further three-month Brexit extension if no deal is agreed by 19 October - a day after a crucial summit of European leaders.\n\nThe UK has said its new proposals, presented on Wednesday, represent a \"significant\" shift and the basis for a \"fair and reasonable compromise\" after months of deadlock.\n\nThe BBC's Adam Fleming said, after five hours of talks on Friday, the two sides have not agreed to enter the so-called \"tunnel\" of intense negotiations on a final legal text.\n\nHe said the UK wanted that process to be under way by now but the EU is worried that the UK wants to leave too many details about customs and regulatory checks in Northern Ireland to be agreed during the post-Brexit transition period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Last week in Brexit: The PM revealed his plan to attempt to \"get Brexit done\"\n\nThe EU's negotiators told diplomats on Friday that questions and gaps still remained and that fundamental changes were needed to make the UK blueprint acceptable.\n\nThe UK subsequently informed the European Commission it would do further work over the weekend and possibly submit clarifications by Monday - while stressing that the EU also needed to \"move at pace\" and the backstop must be replaced.\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage told the BBC that Mr Johnson was \"deluding\" himself if he thought he could do a deal, saying the odds were \"hovering close to zero\".\n\nHe told Radio 4's Any Questions that Brexiteers' trust in the prime minister would \"evaporate\" if he failed to keep his promises to meet the 31 October deadline.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour's Barry Gardiner told the same programme the PM seemed to be \"lying to himself\" over the Brexit deadline and he had a \"tangential grasp\" of the truth.\n\nBut Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said people needed to \"move away from that kind of language\" and the PM was \"sincere\" in his intentions.\n\nWhile there were \"hard yards\" ahead in the talks, he said 19 October was an \"eon away\" and Mr Johnson was focused on bridging the gap between the two sides.\n\nAnti-Brexit campaigners say Mr Johnson cannot be trusted, given the apparent contradiction between his repeated insistence on a 31 October Brexit and documents seen by Edinburgh's Court of Session suggesting he will request a delay if the conditions of the Benn Act are met.\n\nThe document emerged during a legal action initiated by QC Jo Maugham and SNP MP Joanna Cherry - who are seeking a legal ruling forcing the PM to comply with the law.\n\nNo 10 has insisted that the government will obey the law in respect of the Benn Act, which is named after Labour MP Hilary Benn who spearheaded its passage into law.\n\nBut a senior Downing Street source told the BBC the law \"can be interpreted in different ways\" and the government was not prevented from \"doing other things\" that might forestall a further delay - which would have to be approved by all other 27 EU countries.\n\n\"The government is making its true position on delay known privately in Europe and this will become public soon,\" the source said.\n\nHungary's foreign minister Peter Szijjarto told the BBC there had been \"rumours\" his country may have been asked to veto another extension \"but no such request has been received\".\n\nIt came after a video posted to social media appeared to show Mr Szijjarto and Hungary's ambassador to Britain leaving the Cabinet Office building in Whitehall earlier this week.\n\nMeanwhile, Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski has said he is considering mounting a private legal challenge to the Benn Act, which has been labelled the Surrender Act by its critics.\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.", "The mother of a teenager killed in a car crash involving the wife of a US diplomat has urged her \"as a mum\" to return to the UK for questioning.\n\nHarry Dunn, 19, died when his motorbike collided with a car near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nThe diplomat's wife, who has diplomatic immunity, left the UK despite telling police that she had no plans to.\n\nMr Dunn's mother, Charlotte Charles, told the BBC the family had been left \"utterly devastated\" by his death.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said he has urged the US embassy to reconsider after the State Department said that diplomatic immunity is \"rarely waived\".\n\n\"I have called the US ambassador to express the UK's disappointment with their decision,\" he said.\n\nThe teenager died in hospital after his motorbike crashed with a Volvo\n\nMrs Charles told the BBC's PM programme: \"We're really hoping to try to get her back; from me, as a mum, to her, as a mum, you just hope that he [Mr Raab] can try to get through to her.\n\n\"We don't wish her any ill harm, but we don't understand how she can just get on a plane and leave our family just utterly devastated.\n\n\"If we don't get any luck over here, then we will go over there.\"\n\nUnder the 1961 Vienna Convention, diplomats and their family members are immune from prosecution in their host country, so long as they are not nationals of that country.\n\nHowever, their immunity can be waived by the state that has sent them - in this case, the US.\n\nThere are more than 22,500 people in the UK who hold diplomatic immunity and most do not break the law.\n\nBut if a diplomat is guilty of an egregious breach, there are some things that a host country can do.\n\nIn a written Parliamentary answer in October 2017, then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said: \"The FCO does not tolerate foreign diplomats breaking the law.\n\n\"When instances of alleged criminal conduct are brought to our attention by the police, we ask the relevant foreign government to waive diplomatic immunity where appropriate.\n\n\"For the most serious offences, and when a relevant waiver has not been granted, we seek the immediate withdrawal of the diplomat.\"\n\nThe problem here is that the US do not appear to have granted a waiver for this particular diplomatic spouse.\n\nInstead, they have removed her from the UK before the British government could threaten to remove her itself if she did not submit to questioning.\n\nAs such, the US appears to have calculated that protecting the woman from identification, questioning and possible prosecution was more important than the potential risk to UK-US relations.\n\nThis is further evidence the adjective \"special\" should rarely be used to describe the alliance between both countries.\n\nSupt Sarah Johnson said that the suspect \"engaged fully\" following the incident near RAF Croughton, a US Air Force communications station, and that she \"had previously confirmed... that she had no plans to leave the country in the near future\".\n\n\"The force is now exploring all opportunities through diplomatic channels to ensure that the investigation continues to progress,\" she said.\n\nThe crash happened on the B4031 near RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire\n\nThe US Embassy in London confirmed the diplomat's family had left the UK, but it could not confirm the identity of the people involved in the incident \"due to security and privacy considerations\".\n\nThe US State Department said it was in \"close consultation\" with British officials, but could not comment on \"private diplomatic conversation\" with the British government.\n\n\"We express our deepest sympathies and offer condolences to the family of the deceased in the tragic August 27 traffic accident involving a vehicle driven by the spouse of a U.S. diplomat assigned to the United Kingdom,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Any questions regarding a waiver of immunity with regard to our diplomats and their family members overseas in a case like this receive intense attention at senior levels and are considered carefully given the global impact such decisions carry; immunity is rarely waived.\"\n\nAndrea Leadsom MP, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, tweeted that she had met Mr Dunn's family, who she described as \"heartbroken\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andrea Leadsom 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\nAngela Rayner MP, shadow secretary of state for education, tweeted that the family have been \"wronged\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Angela Rayner 🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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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.", "Specialists at the Royal London Hospital believe Tafida Raqeeb has no chance of recovery\n\nThe mother of a brain-damaged girl says the law should be amended, after the High Court ruled her daughter could travel abroad to receive treatment.\n\nFive-year-old Tafida Raqeeb has been on life support at the Royal London Hospital since suffering a traumatic brain injury in February.\n\nHealth bosses had tried to block attempts to take her to the Gaslini children's hospital in Genoa, Italy.\n\nTafida's mother Shalina Begum said: \"The law now needs to be revisited\".\n\nThe Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which rules a \"child's best interests are paramount\" in all healthcare decisions, was ratified in 2000.\n\nMrs Begum said the \"country has evolved\" since the law came into effect.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC Today programme, she called for a \"clear law that says if there is a reputable hospital prepared to treat a child then there should be no blocking\".\n\nShelina Begum and husband Mohammed Raqeeb said doctors in Italy would continue to treat their daughter unless she was diagnosed as brain dead\n\nUK specialists had argued any further treatment of Tafida, who suffered a brain haemorrhage, would be futile.\n\nBosses at Barts Health NHS Trust, which runs the hospital in Whitechapel, have argued that ending Tafida's life-support is in her best interests.\n\nTafida's parents, both practising Muslims, argued Islamic law said only God could take the decision to end her life.\n\nThe High Court ruled on Thursday there was no justification to stop the child being taken abroad.\n\nMrs Begum said there had been a \"complete meltdown\" in the relationship with doctors at the hospital since the ruling.\n\n\"We don't talk, we don't speak. They just walk past,\" she said.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Decisions around withdrawing treatment are never easy, and it is important that families and medical experts reach agreement in the best interests of the child.\n\n\"Where this is not possible, as in this sad case, it is right the Courts are asked to make a decision.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England ran in six tries against the 14 men of Argentina to make it three bonus-point wins from three and guarantee themselves a place in the World Cup quarter-finals.\n\nWith Tomas Lavanini sent off early for an illegal tackle on England captain Owen Farrell, Eddie Jones' side cut loose and first-half tries from Jonny May, Elliot Daly and Ben Youngs established a 12-point lead.\n\nGeorge Ford, Luke Cowan-Dickie and the returning Jack Nowell added further tries during a more subdued second half in sweltering conditions in the Japanese capital Tokyo.\n\nThe defeat puts the Pumas - semi-finalists in two of the past three World Cups - out of the tournament at the group stage for the first time in 16 years.\n\nBut England rumble on, building on the displays against Tonga and the USA, and know victory against France in a week's time will set up a likely quarter-final against Australia.\n\nThey were far from flawless once again yet are moving towards where head coach Jones would want them to be, three weeks into a campaign that will surely become far more challenging in the coming matches.\n• None Will Jones keep faith with Ford or switch back to Farrell?\n\nEngland had not been behind in this tournament but after Matias Moroni ran on to Urdapilleta's cross-kick and kicked on again, only May's pace got him to the loose ball first to save the try.\n\nFrom the subsequent five-metre scrum England were penalised and Urdapilleta landed the three points - yet England struck back moments later.\n\nAfter an initial counter-attack down the right through Daly and Anthony Watson, they drove off a line-out to within a few metres, and with the Pumas defence committed fly-half Ford went left to May for the winger to accelerate into the corner.\n\nIt was a frenetic start, and the decisive incident stemmed from all that passion and energy spilling over.\n\nAs Youngs tapped a quick penalty and fed Farrell, Lavanini thumped into him at pace, his left shoulder crashing on to the head of the inside-centre.\n\nArgentina had promised a war, but this was a clear illegal assault under the game's revised tackling protocols and referee Nigel Owens had no option but to reach for the red card.\n\nFarrell hooked the subsequent long-range penalty, but England began to look for width to work and tire the 14 men.\n\nDaly broke down the left to send May deep into the opposition 22, Manu Tuilagi charged on after the ball was worked right and after a series of forward drives to within half a metre Ford sent it out wide left to Daly again, who juggled the ball before accelerating past Emiliano Boffelli and over the line.\n\nAnd with the half-time gong having sounded, England showed an impressive ruthlessness once more - Youngs diving over from three metres after his team went through 20 phases.\n\nOnly the inaccuracy of Farrell's place-kicking kept Argentina anywhere close, with all three conversions missed in addition to that penalty to keep England's lead down to 15-3.\n\nBilly Vunipola had received treatment on his ankle in the first half, and Jones took no risks with the only number eight in his squad by throwing on Lewis Ludlam in his place.\n\nLudlam, nowhere near the team six months ago, added even more dynamism to the impressive back-row performances of Tom Curry and Sam Underhill.\n\nFord was the next to capitalise on all that quick ball and flagging defence, Tuilagi taking three defenders with him before his Leicester team-mate spotted a gap from close in to crash over.\n\nThis time, Farrell did add the extras but he continued to look shaken at times, although while Jones brought on Willi Heinz for Youngs plus Mako Vunipola and Nowell for their first taste of action in this World Cup, he left his talisman on the pitch.\n\nThe expected deluge of points failed to materialise as the pace and punch went out of the contest, and Argentina dug in to prevent humiliation.\n\nAnd it was the Pumas who struck next, running a switch off quick line-out ball to put Santiago Carreras away on first-phase ball to find Moroni on his right and under the posts.\n\nNowell ensured England ended on a high as he bounced off three blue-and-white shirts to dive into the right-hand corner, before Cowan-Dickie profited from another driving maul in the dying seconds.\n• None Namibia's mission impossible against the All Blacks\n• None Quiz: Which rugby position are you?\n\nEngland head coach Eddie Jones: \"We're exactly where we wanted to be - we're 15 points after three games. We've played in front of a fantastic crowd at Tokyo Stadium and it's another great day for the World Cup.\n\n\"We just need to simplify our game a little bit. With them having one off we were probably just trying to push the game a little bit too much and were a bit rusty after two easy games and a long break and that came out a bit. Second half we got a bit of a better rhythm.\"\n\nEngland fly-half George Ford: \"We are happy with the result. As always, there are areas we can improve, but that is the exciting thing because we can get better.\n\n\"We probably lost our way a little bit in terms of building pressure, but I thought we got it back at the start of the second half and we finished well.\"\n\nArgentina head coach Mario Ledesma: \"Obviously after the red card it became really hard. We made many easy mistakes that we could have avoided, especially in the second half. We couldn't build momentum with a guy less.\n\n\"The commitment of the boys was incredible and lasted the whole game. They never stopped fighting.\"\n\nThis is about progress for England. England are finding their feet. They are progressing from week to week and are looking more assured. They do not want to be peaking against Argentina or France. They want to be peaking in the knockout stages.\n\nPlayers we were hoping were going to come in - Slade, Mako Vunipola, Nowell - they looked comfortable. If they get a start versus France, all of a sudden we're talking about a full squad who look at home playing at the top level. You can't ask for anything more from this England squad at the moment.\n• None England have won all three of their World Cup matches against Argentina - before Saturday, they had triumphed 24-18 in 1995 and 13-9 in 2011.\n• None Argentina have failed to reach the knockout stage of the World Cup for the first time since 2003.\n• None England have scored 27 tries and conceded just two in their past four World Cup games, crossing for four or more tries in each - something they had never managed in more than two consecutive matches before this run.\n• None Argentina's Lavanini was shown the fifth red card of this year's tournament, the most in a World Cup.\n• None Cowan-Dickie has scored a try in each of his three World Cup games, only Will Greenwood has scored in more consecutive games at the tournament for England (four in 2003).\n• None Agustin Creevy made his 88th appearance for Argentina, overtaking Felipe Contepomi as his country's most-capped player. Meanwhile, Dan Cole and Ben Youngs won their 91st caps, becoming England's third most-capped players.\n• None Youngs scored his third World Cup try and his first since 2011.\n• None Farrell missed four kicks at goal, his joint most in a game for England.\n• None May has scored 15 tries since the beginning of 2018, more than any other player in Test rugby in that time.\n\nReplacements: Nowell for Watson (69), Slade for Ford (69), Heinz for Youngs (47), M. Vunipola for Marler (63), Cowan-Dickie for George (65), Cole for Sinckler (63), Lawes for Kruis (55), Ludlam for B. Vunipola (41).\n\nReplacements: Delguy for Orlando (56), Mensa for Urdapilleta (61), Ezcurra for Cubelli (58), Vivas for Tetaz Chaparro (49), Creevy for Montoya (49), Medrano for Figallo (49), Lezana for Petti (54), Alemanno for Ortega Desio (49).", "Ten people have been arrested in south London on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.\n\nIt comes ahead of planned environmental protests by Extinction Rebellion around Westminster in central London.\n\nThe Met Police said seven women and three men were taken to a south London police station.\n\nOfficers raided a building in Cleaver Street, Kennington, where environmental protesters said they were storing equipment.\n\nVideos posted on social media showed officers using a battering ram to break down the doors of the now-closed Lambeth County Court and removing items including bikes.\n\nExtinction Rebellion said police had seized tents, toilets and disabled access equipment, claiming they were \"the very things that would make the international rebellion in London safe, clean and accessible to all\".\n\nOfficers also took wheelie bins, solar panels, hot water bottles, cooking urns and flasks, the group said.\n\n\"This escalation of pre-emptive tactics by the government and police is a sign that we are being heard and acknowledged as a significant movement,\" it added.\n\n\"We ask that the government focus their attention and resources on responding to the climate and ecological emergency which threatens us all.\"\n\nIt added that the government could \"take our structures, but we remain resolute in our preparation for the rebellion\".\n\nThe raid in south-east London comes after climate activists sprayed the Treasury with fake blood on Thursday, leading to eight arrests.\n\nAt a media briefing earlier this week on the forthcoming protests, activists said they planned to protest on Lambeth and Westminster bridges and in Trafalgar Square as part of an \"international rebellion\" around the world calling for urgent action on climate change.\n\nThey also said they would protest outside government departments, calling on them to outline their plans to tackle climate change.\n\nIn September, five activists were arrested over plans to fly drones near Heathrow Airport.\n\nIt came after the European Court of Human Rights ruled police could preventatively detain people, even if they have no specific intelligence linking the individual to the crime.", "Aman Vyas is accused of the rape and murder of Michelle Samaraweera in 2009\n\nA man has been charged with murdering a woman in London 10 years ago after being extradited from India.\n\nAman Vyas, 35, arrived at Heathrow on Friday and was charged with the rape and murder of Michelle Samaraweera in Walthamstow in May 2009.\n\nHe is also accused of offences against three other women, including attempted murder, seven counts of rape, five counts of assault and a sexual assault.\n\nMr Vyas is due to appear at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court on Saturday.\n\nScotland Yard said he had also been charged with possession of a knife in public and possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Justin Bieber has told animal rights group Peta to \"suck it\" after it criticised him for buying designer kittens rather than re-homing cats from a shelter.\n\nAccording to the Hollywood Reporter, the singer spent $35,000 (£28,000) on a pair of kittens named Sushi and Tuna.\n\nThe Savannah cats are a cross between a domesticated cat and a medium-sized, large-eared wild African Serval cat.\n\nPeta said the popstar is\" fuelling the dangerous demand for hybrid cats\".\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 kittysushiandtuna This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an Instagram post, Justin, 25, argued that Peta should concentrate on tackling issues like \"poaching and animal brutality\".\n\nHe added, \"Go focus on real problems. Ur tripping because I want a specific kind of cat? U weren't tripping when I got my dog Oscar and he wasn't a rescue... every pet we get must be a rescue?\n\n\"I believe in adopting rescues but also think there are preferences and that's what breeders are for.\"\n\nJustin bought the cats a few days before marrying Hailey Bieber for the second time\n\nBut Peta say Justin Bieber could \"inspire his fans around the world to save a life by adopting a cat from a local ‎animal shelter\".\n\nIn a statement, the group urged the singer to \"think more deeply about this issue\".\n\nResponding to his \"suck it\" comment, they said, \"when millions of animals are ‎losing their lives every year because not enough people adopt - choosing instead to shop - the ‎animal overpopulation crisis is a real problem. That's what sucks.\" ‎‎\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSushi and Tuna are not the Canadian star's first exotic pets.\n\nIn 2013 Justin was given a Capuchin monkey called OG Mally, which he tried to take on tour to Germany.\n\nThe monkey was confiscated from him and donated to a German zoo.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "PayPal was one of the first companies to join Facebook's planned cryptocurrency network\n\nPayments firm PayPal has become the first company to pull out of an alliance that is trying to launch Facebook's digital currency Libra.\n\nPayPal made the announcement in a statement on Friday, but did not specify what had prompted the decision.\n\nLibra, and its digital wallet Calibra, were revealed by Facebook in June.\n\nBut the cryptocurrency has been criticised by regulators, and both France and Germany have pledged to block it from Europe.\n\nPayPal said it \"[remained] supportive of Libra's aspirations\" but had chosen to focus on its own core businesses.\n\nThe firm was one of the original members of the Libra Association, a group of 28 companies and non-profits helping to develop Libra. Its other members include payments company Visa, ride-hailing app Uber and humanitarian charity Mercy Corps.\n\nIn response to PayPal's withdrawal, Libra Association said it was aware that attempts to \"reconfigure the financial system\" would be hard.\n\n\"Commitment to that mission is more important to us than anything else,\" it said in a statement. \"We're better off knowing about this lack of commitment now.\"\n\nFacebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has been criticised for the firm's record on data protection\n\nAt its unveiling this year, Facebook said people would be able to make payments with the currency via its own apps, as well as on messaging service WhatsApp. Partner firms would also be able to accept Libra for transactions.\n\nFacebook said Libra would be independently-managed and backed by real assets, and that paying with it would be as easy as texting.\n\nBut there have been concerns about how people's money and data will be protected, as well as over the potential volatility of the currency.\n\nThe Group of Seven advanced economies warned in July that it would not let Libra proceed until all regulatory concerns had been addressed.\n\nCentral bank chiefs, including the UK's Mark Carney, have also voiced scepticism, and US President Donald Trump has tweeted he is \"not a fan\" of the currency.\n\nThe Libra Association will hold the first meeting of its governing body - the Libra Council - on 14 October.\n\nThe group said in a tweet that it planned to share updates soon afterwards about \"1,500 entities that have indicated enthusiastic interest to participate\".", "The show must go on! That's the message from Strictly Come Dancing's Dianne Buswell.\n\nEarlier this week, the dancer suffered a fall during rehearsals with her celebrity partner, Radio 1 DJ Dev Griffin.\n\nShe was reportedly taken to hospital, but has now tweeted to tell fans that she's \"fine\".\n\n\"We both cannot wait to dance tonight. Thanks again for your thoughts and well wishes.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by dianne buswell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 tweet, Dianne made it clear nobody was to blame, saying: \"we had an accident, key word being accident\".\n\nShe added that \"these things happen\".\n\nSo far, Dianne and Dev have been frontrunners in the competition, earning a total score of 49 points across the first two live shows.\n\nOut of the 14 couples left in the competition they are currently ranked fourth.\n\nTonight the pair will dance to the classic Disney soundtrack song, Friend Like Me by Will Smith from Aladdin.\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 diannebuswell This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBefore the competition started, DJ Dev - who presents Radio 1's afternoon weekend show alongside Alice Levine - cited coming second in a dance competition at a Pontins holiday park in 1996 as the pinnacle of his dancing achievements. Back then, he strutted his stuff to MC Hammer's 90s rap classic Can't Touch This.\n\nIn 2017, Dev was a finalist on Celebrity MasterChef but his langoustines (Norwegian lobster) weren't enough to see him crowned winner.\n\nHe's vowed to improve on those results by winning Strictly.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"I'm really good at dancing. I never had any formal dance training, but I am pretty good.\n\nAll I want is to win. I don't believe in doing things for taking part, if you are going to do something, you do it to win.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The Stagecoach South West service was travelling from Torquay to Plymouth when it crashed on the A385 between Totnes and Paignton in Devon at about 11:00 BST.\n\nPolice said up to eight people had been seriously hurt and were undergoing assessment.\n\nA total of 37 people are currently being treated at several hospitals around Devon, according to the NHS.\n\nThe emergency services closed the road and a major incident was declared, which has now been \"stood down\".\n\nUninjured passengers were taken to Paignton bus station for support and help to continue their journeys.\n\nPassengers had to be cut out of the overturned bus\n\nJane Viner, chief nurse and deputy chief executive at Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust, said many NHS staff had come in on their day off to help deal with the casualties.\n\nShe said: \"It's been a huge team effort by emergency services and hospital staff in Exeter, Plymouth and Torbay - we've had extra surgeons, doctors, GPs, nurses, chaplains and many other support staff reporting for duty. Thank you all.\"\n\nThe road will stay shut in both directions for several hours for \"investigation and recovery\", said Gerald Taylor, the area manager for Devon & Somerset Fire and Rescue Service.\n\nPolice said the bus driver had not been arrested, confirming he was assisting them with their inquiries.\n\nThe bus overturned and ended up in a field by the side of the road\n\nA witness said: \"It's like nothing you've ever seen up here, there's emergency vehicles everywhere.\"\n\nA spokesman for Stagecoach South West said the company was helping emergency services and its thoughts were with the victims of the crash.\n\n\"Safety is our absolute priority and we will be assisting the investigation into the circumstances involved in the incident,\" he added.\n\nThe road will remain closed for several hours while emergency services investigate the crash\n\nSeveral ambulances were sent to the scene, as well as the air ambulance.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat MP for Totnes, Sarah Wollaston, thanked the emergency services for their efforts under difficult circumstances.\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.", "Harold Wilson was the Prime Minister and Sir Alf Ramsey was the England football manager last time Abbey Road was number one.\n\nThe Beatles' Abbey Road has returned to number one in the UK, 50 years after it first topped the album charts.\n\nThe Fab Four reclaimed the top spot with an expanded anniversary edition.\n\nThe feat also sees the album set a record - the gap of 49 years and 252 days since its initial chart-topping run ended in early 1970 is the longest gap before returning to number one.\n\n\"It's hard to believe that Abbey Road still holds up after all these years,\" tweeted Sir Paul McCartney on Friday.\n\n\"But then again it's a bloody cool album,\" he added.\n\nThe new version features original tracks such as Here Comes The Sun and Come Together as well as previously unheard material from the recording sessions.\n\nThe previous record for longest gap between number one appearances by the same album was held by (yup, you guessed it) The Beatles again, for their seminal 1967 record, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The sprawling psych-rock masterpiece returned to number one in 2017 courtesy of another anniversary re-release - a mere 49 years and 125 days after its previous spell at the top.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAbbey Road was also this week's best-selling album on vinyl, shifting just under 9,000 copies.\n\nIt knocked the new album by self-confessed Beatles superfan Liam Gallagher off the number one slot. The former Oasis rock 'n' roll star's second solo effort, Why Me? Why Not, debuted at the top of the chart last week.\n\nDespite being their penultimate release, Abbey Road was in fact the last album The Beatles ever recorded together. Let It Be, which came out the following year, had been recorded first, but was initially shelved over disagreements about its production.\n\nThe first side of Abbey Road contains well known songs like Something and Octopus's Garden. But it's the eight track medley on side two, from the McCartney piano ballad, You Never Give Me Your Money, to The End - which contains one of Ringo Starr's rare recorded drum solos - which for many marks the LP out as their crowning glory.\n\nThe Liverpool band revealed they created the sequence to \"use up\" a host of incomplete songs and while it was McCartney's idea, producer George Martin - aka the fifth Beatle - takes the credit for the kaleidoscopic structure.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast week, thousands of fans made the pilgrimage to northwest London recording studio from which the album takes it name, to mark its half-century.\n\nMany of them recreated the classic cover artwork, which depicted The Beatles bass player walking barefoot over a zebra crossing, alongside bandmates Starr, George Harrison and John Lennon.\n\nJaime Garri, 61, flew more than 14 hours from Santiago, Chile, to mark the occasion.\n\n\"You have to say thank you to them for giving us such lovely music,\" he said.\n\nThe Arctic Monkeys paid their own tribute to the record back in 2012 when they performed its Chuck Berry-inspired opening track, with the eyes of the world upon them, at director Danny Boyle's opening ceremony to the London Olympics.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website and app; Listen live on BBC Radio 5 Live; Live streams, clips and text commentary online.\n\nDina Asher-Smith became the first Briton to win three medals at a major global athletics championships as the 4x100m relay team won world silver.\n\nAsher-Smith, who won 200m gold and 100m silver this week, was on the second leg instead of the anchor leg after a late change as Great Britain finished behind Jamaica.\n\nShelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the 100m champion, won her second title in Doha.\n• None How to follow live on BBC TV, radio and online\n\nFraser-Pryce did the damage on the second leg as she gave Jamaica a clear advantage over the field. Jonielle Smith maintained the lead coming off the bend before Shericka Jackson brought the baton home in 41.44 seconds.\n\nAsha Philip - a late call-up after Imani-Lara Lansiquot pulled out after sustaining an injury during the warm-up - Asher-Smith and Ashleigh Nelson performed faultless changeovers before Daryll Neita held off USA's Kiara Parker to cross the line in a season's best of 41.85.\n\nThe United States' 42.10 was also their best time of the year.\n\nAn ecstatic Asher-Smith revealed the British quartet for the final had not practised the baton changes in the warm-up.\n\n\"I think we all handled the pressure between us which is testimony to how much experience we have got as a squad,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It's been a good champs but obviously it's a team event.\"\n\nNeita, who was moved to the anchor leg from the opening leg, added: \"I'm just so proud of us girls. It was a great leg to run and we're showing we have strength in depth in this team. Last-minute changes but we can still get the job done.\"\n\nThat third medal for Asher-Smith and silver for the men's 4x100m team means Great Britain have five medals in total.\n\nThe team will be hopeful of adding to the tally on the final day, with events including the men's 1500m final and women's 4x400m final.\n• None How to follow live on BBC TV, radio and online\n\nFind out how to get into athletics with our special guide.", "Nail artist Kirsty Meakin put Mick Barber's ashes in clear acrylic on his daughter's nails\n\nA bride whose dad died four months before her wedding still had him with her on the day after his ashes were incorporated into her acrylic nails.\n\nCharlotte Watson and her husband Nick brought their wedding forward when Mick Barber's cancer spread.\n\nWhen he died shortly before the big day, Charlotte's cousin, who works as a nail artist, had the idea to use his ashes in her design.\n\n\"It really felt like he was there,\" said Charlotte, from Stoke-on-Trent.\n\nCharlotte was walked down the aisle by her mum Joanne on her wedding day\n\nCharlotte's cousin Kirsty Meakin, a nail artist and YouTuber, said: \"The ashes were in a little glass pot and we looked through them and picked the pieces we thought would work.\"\n\nKirsty, who has more than a million subscribers on YouTube, said she wanted the ashes to be \"suspended in clear acrylic\" on Charlotte's nails.\n\n\"It was a bit surreal - these were the ashes of my uncle Mick. I felt slightly detached from it at certain points because otherwise I'd have been a blubbering wreck,\" she said.\n\n\"It was only when it was completed it sank in what it was. That her dad would be holding her hand on her wedding day.\"\n\nMick Barber had been looking forward to his daughter's wedding\n\nCharlotte said she \"couldn't believe\" the finished result, which was a pink, grey and white design finished off with gems.\n\nShe had been planning to walk down the aisle alone but the night before the wedding in Congleton in August, she asked her mum to accompany her.\n\nHer dad was included in the day in many other ways, including in pictures on the back of her shoes, in a pendant attached to her flowers and a teddy made from one of his jumpers and a pair of jeans.\n\nCharlotte said it felt like her dad was by her side as she married Nick Watson", "John Dillinger was described as \"Public Enemy No.1\" in the 1930s\n\nA request to exhume the remains of infamous US gangster John Dillinger has been approved by officials in Indiana.\n\nDillinger's relatives have been pressing for the permit, saying an imposter is buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis.\n\nThe FBI says its agents shot dead the gangster in Chicago in 1934, and he was then buried in Indiana's state capital.\n\nThe disinterment is now planned for 31 December 2019 - but the cemetery is fighting the decision in court.\n\nDillinger's nephew Michael Thompson and another family member say they believe that the FBI \"killed the wrong man\" at Chicago's Biograph Theater in 1934.\n\nThey say they have evidence that the imposter in the grave has different eye colour and fingerprints.\n\nThe FBI has dismissed such arguments as \"a conspiracy theory\".\n\nIn a tweet in August, the FBI said it had \"a wealth of information\" proving that Dillinger was indeed shot dead in Chicago.\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\nDillinger, who escaped from jail twice, was described as \"Public Enemy No.1\" in the 1930s - the Great Depression era in the US.\n\nA $10,000 bounty was placed on his head.\n\nHe led the Dillinger Gang, which was accused of carrying out a string of bank robberies.\n\nIn 2009, Public Enemies, a biographical crime drama film directed by Michael Mann, was released.\n\nIt details the final years of Dillinger (played by Jonny Depp), and the birth of the modern-day FBI.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The FBI has over 7,000 guns in its library", "Thousands of people have taken part in a march through Edinburgh in support of Scottish independence\n\nThousands of people have marched through Edinburgh in support of Scottish independence.\n\nThere was a carnival atmosphere as they waved flags and banners from Holyrood Park to a rally in The Meadows.\n\nJoanna Cherry, the SNP MP who led the legal fight against Boris Johnson's decision to suspend parliament, is among those who addressed the rally.\n\nEarlier Nicola Sturgeon tweeted to say she would be at the march \"in spirit\" but not in person.\n\n\"Be in no doubt - independence is coming\", she added.\n\nThe marchers are walking from Holyrood Park to a rally in The Meadows\n\nOrganisers All Under One Banner (AUOB) claimed that more than 200,000 people took part in the event.\n\nGary Kelly, of AUOB, said: \"It's buzzing - the rain may be on but the people are not deterred. Our appetite for independence is still alive.\"\n\nHowever, neither Police Scotland nor the City of Edinburgh Council was able to give an independent estimate of numbers.\n\nFollowing a similar event last year, AUOB said there was a crowd of 100,000 but the council later estimated that 20,000 marchers took part.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by All Under One Banner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 All Under One Banner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿\n\nThe route ran along Queens Drive, Horse Wynd, Canongate, High Street, Lawnmarket, George IV bridge, Forrest Road and Middle Meadow Walk.\n\nImages show Edinburgh's iconic landmarks and streets packed with thousands of campaigners and a sea of Saltire flags.\n\nChants of \"What do we want? Independence\" could be heard as marches made their way up the Royal Mile.\n\nOrganisers All Under One Banner hope 100,000 people will take to the streets\n\nHarry Baird, 19, was among those taking part. He said he wanted to join what he believed would be the biggest rally in the country's history.\n\nThe apprentice marine engineer from Orkney said: \"There's a lot more than I thought I would see, to be honest.\n\n\"[I want] more radical and instant Scottish independence.\n\n\"Any change from what it is now would be worth it.\"\n\nA group of bikers were among those who showed their support for Scottish independence\n\nGemma MacFadyen has backed Scottish independence since she was a child. The 34-year-old from Edinburgh said: \"I'm here to support the cause for independence.\n\n\"To be honest, after the last referendum I was a bit deflated and disenfranchised and I was not going to be taking part anymore.\"\n\nHowever, she said a recent trip to the west coast of Scotland \"re-inspired\" her, and so she decided to join Saturday's march.\n\nShe continued: \"I've not really been caught up in the whole Brexit debate, I'm not bothered about that.\n\n\"But I am for another independence referendum, as soon as possible - it should've been ages ago.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Derrick Farnell 🔭 This 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\nAhead of her speech to the rally, Joanna Cherry MP described the event as party for the grassroots supporters of the independence movement.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"I'm not expecting anyone's minds to be changed on independence today, that's done by conversations on the doorsteps.\n\n\"But this is one opportunity for the Yes movement to get together in celebration and despite the rain I think there's been a fantastic turn out.\"\n\nEarlier this year Nicola Sturgeon said she would demand Holyrood was given the power to hold a second referendum on independence.\n\nThe SNP is expected to put its opposition to Brexit and its desire for another poll at the centre of its manifesto in the event of a snap election.\n\nBut Boris Johnson outlined his opposition to the plan at the Conservative party conference, claiming more referendums would cause \"total national discord\".", "RV Polarstern (left), aided by the Russian icebreaker Akademik Fedorov, has found the right floe\n\nGerman Research Vessel Polarstern has found a location to begin its year-long drift in Arctic sea-ice.\n\nThe ship, which will head the North Pole's biggest scientific expedition, will settle next to a thick ice floe on the Siberian side of the ocean basin.\n\nThe precise location is 85 degrees north and 137 degrees east.\n\nHundreds of investigators will use it as a base from which to probe the impacts of climate change at the top of the world.\n\n\"After a brief but intensive search, we've found our home for the months to come,\" said expedition leader Prof Markus Rex, from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI).\n\n\"It may not be the perfect floe but it's the best one in this part of the Arctic and offers better working conditions than we could have expected after a warm Arctic summer.\"\n\nScientists hope to glean valuable information about climate change in the Arctic\n\nRV Polarstern set out on its MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) mission two weeks ago.\n\nIt travelled from the Norwegian port of Tromsø, supported by other icebreakers in search of a suitable piece of ice where it could set up a camp.\n\nSixteen possible locations were scouted with the aid of satellite imagery and helicopters. A metres-thick floe measuring roughly 2.5km by 3.5km was eventually chosen.\n\nThe international expedition considers itself lucky to have identified its home so soon after departing Tromsø. This summer's warmth has produced the second smallest Arctic sea-ice extent in the satellite era. As a consequence, the ice capping the ocean surface is very thin.\n\nThe ship has been enjoying some of its last direct sunlight until next year\n\nThe floes, though, are now succumbing to the winter freeze-up. The Sun no longer rises above the horizon at the ship's location and it won't be long before the 24-hour darkness of \"polar night\" descends on the MOSAiC expedition.\n\nRV Polarstern will soon be locked solid in the ice.\n\nThe vessel won't break free again until September or October next year, by which time it will have drifted past the North Pole and be in waters somewhere in the Fram Strait. This is the passage that runs between northeast Greenland and the Svalbard archipelago.\n\nMOSAiC's objective is to study all aspects of the climate system in the Arctic. Instrument stations will be set up on the ice all around the ship, including some up to 50km away.\n\nThe ice, the ocean, the atmosphere, even the wildlife will all be sampled. The year-long investigations are designed to give more certainty to the projections of future change.\n\nThe ice needs to be thick enough and strong enough to support scientists and their instruments\n\nProf Rex told the BBC before departure that the Arctic was currently warming at twice the rate of the rest of the planet but that the climate models were highly uncertain as to how this temperature trend would develop in the coming decades.\n\n\"We don't have any robust climate predictions for the Arctic and the reason is we don't understand the processes there very well,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's because we were never able to observe them year-round, and certainly not in winter when the ice is at its thickest and we can't break it with our research vessels.\"\n\nSomething similar to the €130m (£120m/$150m) MOSAiC mission has been tried before, but nothing comparable in scale.\n\nAbout 600 scientists are expected to spend months at a time with the Polarstern.\n\nThey'll be brought in by the support icebreakers.\n\nWhen that's not possible at the height of winter, when the sea-ice is at its thickest, aircraft and long-range helicopters will have to deliver the necessary supplies and relief teams.", "Lin-Manuel Miranda played the title role in early productions of Hamilton\n\nHamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda has spoken about how the death of his childhood best friend has shaped his plays and his outlook on life.\n\nThe actor, writer and composer told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs the tragedy during kindergarten made him \"very aware\" of the spectre of death.\n\nMiranda, 39, said his friend accidentally drowned, which made him \"aware of the ticking clock earlier\".\n\nHe added: \"And I think I am drawn to characters who are very aware of it.\"\n\nMiranda shot to fame in 2015 when Hamilton became a Broadway smash. The show uses hip-hop to tell the story of Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of the United States, who died in a duel in 1804.\n\nThe character raps in the show: \"I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory/When is it gonna get me?\"\n\nDesert Island Discs host Lauren Laverne asked whether his idols - such as Hamilton, Rent writer Jonathan Larson, who died at the age of 35, and late Cabaret choreographer and director Bob Fosse - were connected because their stories all contain \"the ticking clock\".\n\nMiranda replied: \"I think you're marked by your awareness of it and how much you let it affect your day-to-day.\n\n\"Part of it is growing up in New York. You're kind of always a little on alert. And I also experienced death at a young age.\"\n\nSpeaking about the death of his kindergarten friend, he said: \"It's one of those terrible stories where each of the parents thought she was with someone else, and she drowned in the lake behind their home.\n\n\"I have this memory of nursery school of just six months of grey - of my friend, who used to go to this class, didn't go any more. And I remember the morning my mother told me. When that hits you early, you're aware of the ticking clock earlier.\"\n\nMiranda's career has also included roles in Mary Poppins Returns and the forthcoming BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. He is also currently making a film version of his first Broadway musical, In The Heights.\n\nDesert Island Discs is on BBC Radio 4 at 11:15 BST on Sunday, and will then be available online.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The duchess says people have the power to change a \"dangerous\" world\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has told an event in Johannesburg that he and his wife will \"seek to challenge injustice\".\n\nHis comments come a day after it emerged that they were taking legal action against the Mail on Sunday for publishing a private letter sent by the Duchess of Sussex to her father.\n\nThe duke said the legal action was in response to \"relentless propaganda\".\n\nThe paper says it will defend itself vigorously and stood by the story it published.\n\nOn the final day of their 10-day overseas tour, Prince Harry set out what he believes his role in public life should be, saying he and the duchess would \"stand up for what we believe\".\n\nSpeaking to a group of young people and fledgling entrepreneurs in Tembisa township, near Johannesburg, the duke said: \"We are fortunate enough to have a position that gives us amazing opportunities and we will do everything that we can to play our part in building a better world.\n\n\"We will also seek to challenge injustice and to speak out for those who may feel unheard.\n\n\"So no matter your background, your nationality, your age or gender, your sexuality, your physical ability, no matter your circumstance, or colour of your skin - we believe in you.\n\n\"And we intend to spend our entire lives making sure that you have the opportunity to succeed and change the world.\"\n\nPrince Harry went on to reminisce about a visit to Africa in the months following the sudden death of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\n\"Ever since I came to this country as a young boy, trying to cope with something I could never possibly describe, Africa has held me in an embrace that I will never forget and feel incredibly fortunate for that,\" he said.\n\n\"Every time I come here I know that I'm not alone. I always feel wherever I am on this continent that the community around me provides a life that is enriching and is rooted in the simplest things - connection, connection with others and the natural environment.\"\n\nPrince Harry said he wanted to teach his baby son Archie the lessons he had learned from Africa, including those about \"community and friendship\".\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan met Nelson Mandela's widow, Graca Machel, at a reception in Johannesburg\n\nLater, in a speech at the Johannesburg residence of Britain's high commissioner, the duchess said people have the power to change a world that seems \"aggressive, confrontational and dangerous\".\n\nMeghan told designers, entrepreneurs and business people: \"Whether you're here in South Africa, at home in the UK or the US, or around the world, you actually have the power within you to change things, and that begins with how you connect to others.\"\n\nLater in the day, the duke and duchess met Nelson Mandela's widow, Graca Machel. She offered to work with the couple, who launch their Sussex Royal Foundation next year.\n\nCoverage of the tour had been positive, exposing the double standards of the press pack, says the duke\n\nThe law firm Schillings, acting for the duchess, has filed a High Court claim against the Mail on Sunday and its parent company - Associated Newspapers - over the alleged misuse of private information, infringement of copyright and breach of the Data Protection Act 2018.\n\nThe duchess's action comes after the newspaper published a handwritten letter she sent her father shortly after she and Prince Harry got married in 2018.\n\nThe paper is accused of an \"intrusive and unlawful publication of a private letter\" and of a campaign of publishing false and derogatory stories about the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nSometimes there are exceptions to copyright which can allow part of a letter or document to be published, for example for reporting current events.\n\nBut even if this is used, under what is known as the \"fair dealing\" defence, publications have to strike a balance between public interest and the interest of the copyright owner.\n\nReferring to his late mother Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Harry said his \"deepest fear is history repeating itself\".\n\nIn a lengthy personal statement on the couple's official website, he said the \"painful\" impact of intrusive media coverage had driven him and his wife to take action.\n\nPrince Harry said: \"I lost my mother, and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces.\n\n\"I've seen what happens when someone I love is commoditised to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person,\" he added.\n\nDiana was once described as the \"most hunted person of the modern age\".\n\nShe died in a car crash in 1997 after being pursued through Paris by a pack of paparazzi journalists.\n\nThe new legal proceedings are being funded privately by the couple and any proceeds will be donated to an anti-bullying charity.\n\nIn his statement Prince Harry said he and Meghan believed in \"media freedom and objective, truthful reporting\" as a \"cornerstone of democracy\".\n\nBut he said his wife had become \"one of the latest victims of a British tabloid press that wages campaigns against individuals with no thought to the consequences\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earlier on in their tour of Africa, the couple introduced baby son Archie to Archbishop Desmond Tutu\n\nThe duke accused the paper of misleading readers when it published the private letter, by strategically omitting paragraphs, sentences and specific words \"to mask the lies they had perpetrated for over a year\".\n\n\"Put simply, it is bullying, which scares and silences people. We all know this isn't acceptable, at any level,\" he said.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday spokesperson said: \"We categorically deny that the duchess's letter was edited in any way that changed its meaning.\"", "Arsenal Football Club paid tribute to Tashan Daniel who was on his way to The Emirates when he was stabbed\n\nThree people have been arrested over the killing of a 20-year-old man who was stabbed to death in a London Underground station.\n\nTashan Daniel was attacked in Hillingdon station on 24 September.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) said a 21-year-old man from Uxbridge and a 19-year-old man from Wembley had been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nAn 18-year-old woman from West Drayton has also been held on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nAll three remain in police custody for questioning, BTP said.\n\nThe 20-year was stabbed in Hillingdon Underground station\n\nMr Daniel was killed as he made his first solo trip to the Emirates stadium to watch Arsenal play Nottingham Forest.\n\nHis father Chandy told the BBC he arrived at the station to find paramedics fighting to save his son.\n\nPaying tribute to him, he said: \"He set his standards high, he was hardworking and did everything we asked him to.\"\n\nArsenal FC and Prime Minister Boris Johnson are among others to have paid tribute to the full-time athlete.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 500 people were injured when two trains collided head-on after a train driver missed a red signal on 5 October 1999\n\nA Paddington rail disaster survivor has said he fears safety standards may be slipping 20 years after the crash.\n\nThirty-one people died when two trains collided almost head-on after a driver missed a red signal on 5 October 1999.\n\nIn 2018-19, 304 trains passed through red signals, a 10-year high, according to official data for England, Wales and Scotland.\n\n\"The risk now is that standards might drop,\" said Jonathan Duckworth, chair of the Paddington Survivors Group.\n\nHe was one of 227 people hospitalised when his First Great Western train collided with another train at Ladbroke Grove, about two miles from its destination of Paddington, at a combined speed of about 130mph.\n\nIn the 10 years following 1999 the number of Signals Passed at Danger (Spads) more than halved, from 593 to 273.\n\nBut the number has begun to creep up again and July saw 41 Spads, more than one a day, the highest number in a single calendar month for 12 years.\n\nThe UK has \"one of the safest railway networks in Europe\", rail minister Chris Heaton-Harris said.\n\nHe added: \"We are continually learning how to make our railways safer, that is the legacy of a terrible disaster such as this.\n\n\"But disasters could happen any time. That is why one of my many jobs is to ensure we have safety hardwired into every decision that they make.\"\n\nEmergency services freed 20 trapped survivors and took eight days to clear the scene of the crash.\n\nA 70-metre wall of fire engulfed the two trains as fuel caught alight following the collision at about 08:10 BST on a Tuesday morning 20 years ago.\n\n\"We went through a massive fireball. I could feel the heat coming through the windows,\" Mr Duckworth said.\n\n\"I had no idea what was going on. I thought perhaps it was a bomb.\n\n\"We basically derailed and overturned, so our coach ended up on its side.\n\n\"There was a bit of a battle to get out. It's not easy to get out of an overturned carriage.\"\n\nWhen he got out Mr Duckworth saw \"smoke billowing out from charred carriages\" lying on their sides as police and rescuers swarmed over the wreckage to try to locate trapped survivors.\n\nIt would take days to remove all the bodies from the wreckage.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jonathan Duckworth said the crash gave him PTSD and ruined his career\n\nThe outcry that followed led to the biggest-ever safety reform of the country's rail network.\n\nA series of complex public inquires culminated in two reports by Lord Cullen.\n\nThe inquiry found the crash was caused by the Thames Trains service travelling from Paddington passing through a red signal.\n\nBut Lord Cullen concluded the crash was the culmination of \"a catalogue of failures to act\".\n\nHe levelled severe criticism at Thames Trains for its \"slack and less than adequate\" safety culture. It was fined £2m in 2004.\n\nRailtrack, Network Rail's predecessor, was accused of a \"lamentable failure\" to introduce safe signalling systems in the entrance to Paddington station.\n\nLord Cullen levelled severe criticism at the rail industry for \"a catalogue of failures to act\" on known rail safety problems\n\nPaddington was supposed to be a watershed but a series of fatal rail crashes followed at Hatfield in 2000, at Selby in 2001 and at Potters Bar in 2002.\n\nThe Paddington Survivors Group, set up to help victims and bereaved families cope with trauma, campaigned to improve rail safety.\n\nUnder pressure from the group, a train protection warning system that halted trains passing through red signals became industry standard.\n\nThe group worked with the Office for Rail and Road and Network Rail to reorganise the industry in the wake of the crash.\n\nNetwork Rail, which superseded Railtrack in 2002, was fined £4m in 2007 for health and safety breaches in the run-up to the Paddington crash, after years of campaigning by the survivors group.\n\nIn addition to July seeing the highest number of Spads for more than a decade, the past 12 months has seen 10 trains pass red signals and reach the \"conflict point\" - the position along the track at which a collision could theoretically take place.\n\nThe average over the past five years has been between four and five.\n\nCarriages overturned as the two trains crashed\n\nA memorial garden has been created, partially overlooking the site of the rail crash\n\nConcern over the increase led the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) to write to Network Rail and all train and freight operating companies.\n\nMark Phillips, RSSB chief executive, said the 20th anniversary of the disaster was \"a timely reminder of what can go wrong if we don't keep our eyes on the ball\".\n\n\"We need to look at current train protection technology and industry initiatives, and ask whether enough is being done,\" he added.\n\nMr Duckworth said: \"The risk is now that there hasn't been a serious rail crash for 20 years, standards might drop and focus might change.\n\n\"The industry needs to keep recognising that safety is of great importance, because though these incidents don't happen anymore, when they do occur they are devastating.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bernie Sanders said he would return to the political fray after suffering a heart attack\n\nDemocratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders underwent emergency surgery after suffering a heart attack, his campaign has confirmed.\n\nThe senator was taken to hospital on Tuesday after complaining of chest pain at a campaign event in Nevada.\n\nDoctors operated on Mr Sanders, 78, to remove a blockage in one of his arteries.\n\nMr Sanders said he was feeling \"great\" after leaving hospital on Friday.\n\nHis doctors said \"two stents were placed in a blocked coronary artery in a timely fashion\".\n\nA stent is a small mesh tube used to help keep arteries open. Receiving stents is \"a minimally invasive procedure\", typically with a short recovery time, the US National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute says.\n\nThe doctors, Arturo Marchand and Arjun Gururaj, said Mr Sanders's other arteries were \"normal\".\n\nMr Sanders would become the oldest ever US president, should he win the 2020 election\n\nOn Friday, Mr Sanders was well enough to be discharged from Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas, the doctors said.\n\nThe two doctors said that, while Mr Sanders has made \"good progress\", he has been advised \"to follow up with his personal physician\".\n\nIn an upbeat statement, Mr Sanders said: \"After taking a short time off, I look forward to getting back to work.\"\n\nLater on Friday, he told followers he was \"feeling so much better\" in a video filmed outside hospital.\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\nWith the Democratic presidential contest in full swing, Mr Sanders has vowed to take part in the next live televised Democratic National Committee debate, on 15 October.\n\nAs the oldest candidate in the field, Mr Sanders may face questions from his rivals about his fitness to challenge US President Donald Trump for the White House in 2020.\n\nIf Mr Sanders were to win the US presidency, he would become the oldest person to hold the office.\n\nWhen the 2020 US presidential election takes place on 3 November 2020, Mr Sanders will be 79.\n\nMr Sanders labels himself a Democratic socialist, which he has defined as someone who seeks to \"create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy\".\n\nHe is the longest-serving independent in congressional history, but competes for the Democratic nomination as he says standing as a third-party candidate would diminish his chances of winning the presidency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment Bernie Sanders jokes about being a \"white man\" on BBC News\n\nWhen he ran for the Democratic nomination in 2016, he was Hillary Clinton's closest rival.\n\nHis 2020 platform has focused largely on his universal health coverage plan, Medicare for All. The policy has also become a key point of contention between Democrats during the last debates, with moderates like Joe Biden criticising it as unfeasible and too expensive.", "England are into their first Rugby World Cup final in 12 years after a brilliant demolition of three-time world champions New Zealand.\n\nEngland had stormed into a 10-0 lead, Manu Tuilagi's second-minute try and a long-range penalty from George Ford fitting reward for a blistering first half.\n\nThe 2003 winners could have been out of sight had tries for Sam Underhill and Ben Youngs not been ruled out by the video referee, but when Ardie Savea pounced on a wayward line-out throw to reduce the deficit to 13-7 the three-time world champions were on the charge.\n\nYet the superb Ford landed a trio of nerveless penalties and with the young dynamos Underhill and Tom Curry outstanding in the back row England held on in style to pull off one of their greatest victories.\n\nThe All Blacks had not lost a World Cup game in 12 years and had won 15 of the past 16 games between the two nations.\n\nBut four years after crashing out at the group stage England tore the crown from their head with a performance of unremitting energy and excellence on a night for the ages in Yokohama.\n• None England can play better in final - Jones\n• None 'Finest performance of their lives dethrones All Blacks'\n\nIt was a start Eddie Jones' men would have dreamed of.\n\nAnthony Watson escaped down the right, England came in white-shirted waves and after Kyle Sinckler and Courtney Lawes crashed on, Tuilagi dived over from two metres out.\n\nWe've come here to be the world's best and we haven't done that yet, so that's where we need to go\n\nFarrell landed the conversion for 7-0 with only two minutes on the clock - and when Tuilagi picked off a stray pass from Beauden Barrett and found Jonny May accelerating up on his outside shoulder it looked for all the world like a second try, only for flanker Scott Barrett to get across and force the winger inside and into heavy traffic.\n\nThe pace was ferocious, England playing with a glorious tempo and precision, New Zealand using full-back Barrett as playmaker as they struggled to exert their usual control.\n\nEngland went close again before Owen Farrell spilt the ball deep in the opposition 22, and then a possible try for Underhill was correctly ruled out because Curry's run had blocked off two defenders.\n\nBut Jones' men were dominating the set-piece and the breakdown, Ford sending a long-range drop goal just to the right of the posts as England searched for the points to match their endeavour.\n\nThe points finally came right on the half-time gong after Underhill won a breakdown penalty, and Ford - with Farrell struggling with a leg injury - landed a precious three points from 45 metres out.\n• None We didn't just want to stand there - England's haka response\n\nIf 10-0 was the least England's dominance merited, it was a remarkable enough half-time scoreline.\n\nOnly once before have the All Blacks failed to score a point in the first half of a World Cup game, and not in 28 years.\n\nSteve Hansen threw on Sam Cane for Scott Barrett in the second period but it was England who appeared to have struck the killer blow when Youngs darted over off a driving maul.\n\nWith the most kickable of conversions to come it looked like 17-0 and the game - but as Ford stood over his tee the big screens in the stadium showed a knock-on in the maul, and referee Nigel Owens, in consultation with the TMO, chalked it off to choruses of boos from the vast English support.\n\nBut Henry Slade came on for the struggling May and Dan Cole for a spent Sinckler and the white tide came again.\n\nThis time it was Billy Vunipola digging for the turnover, and with New Zealand infringing again in front of the posts Ford made it 13-0.\n\nEngland were dreaming, until with 24 minutes still to go disaster struck.\n\nJamie George over-threw his line-out jumpers five metres from his own try-line, and Savea ran on to the ball and gratefully flopped over.\n\nWith Richie Mo'unga sliding over the conversion it was suddenly 13-7 and the outcome right back in the balance.\n\nIn a battle of heavyweights it was England who landed the next jab through Ford's third penalty after another tenderising tackle by the indefatigable Underhill.\n\nAnd with tournament favourites New Zealand running out of ideas as the game entered its dying moments and English tacklers pummelling their ball-carriers, Jones had pulled off yet another underdog triumph.\n• None 'We lost to the better side' - NZ coach Hansen\n\n'We've come here to be world's best'\n\nEngland head coach Eddie Jones on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"What we've done is earn another week in the comp, which is great. I thought our tactical discipline was great, our defensive work-rate was good. I thought when we had opportunities to attack, we attacked well.\n\n\"You want to go right to the death and we're in the death now. We've got another week to enjoy ourselves and work as a team. Our players made a commitment to each other that they'd enjoy the World Cup and I think we're seeing that.\n\n\"Whenever you play against New Zealand, you're never happy. You might beat them on the scoreboard but you never really beat them. They kept coming at us and we needed to dig deep and a find a bit extra.\n\n\"We've come here to be the world's best and we haven't done that yet, so that's where we need to go.\"\n\nNew Zealand head coach Steve Hansen: \"Congratulations to England - they played a tremendous game of footy and deserved to win. You cannot give them half a step, but they took it.\n\n\"I am really proud of our team. They have done a tremendous job, but we were not good enough. We take it on the chin. The boys tried their guts out and I am proud of them.\"\n\nEngland World Cup winner Matt Dawson on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"They are now in the final, which makes this next week so much easier, so much more relaxed. They don't need to do much work; they can rest up, focus on the opposition, do loads of video analysis - if they do the detail for next week as much as they did today they are close to invincible.\"\n\nFormer England fly-half Paul Grayson: \"England got it absolutely right. The quality of some of the tackling - you were never two passes away from a dominant hit and they picked when to go in and compete almost perfectly. England spent the whole of the second half forcing New Zealand to play out from their own third. They were physically and mentally dominant today.\"\n\nFormer New Zealand fly-half Andrew Mehrtens: \"Steve Hansen has been part of a group that has left them in a position for sustainable success. He's broadened and strengthened the depth of the squad. He's done amazing things for New Zealand rugby, so he won't be judged for this performance, but he'll be bitterly disappointed.\n\n\"New Zealand haven't been exposed to that level of physicality and intensity maybe since 2012. England were able to shut down the key players tonight.\"\n• None England beat New Zealand for the first time since 2012, ending a six-game losing streak against the All Blacks, and for the first time at a World Cup after three previous defeats.\n• None New Zealand lost a World Cup match for the first time since the 2007 quarter-final, having recorded an 18-game winning streak since that defeat.\n• None England have reached the final for the fourth time - no side has reached that stage more often (level with New Zealand and Australia).\n• None New Zealand were kept scoreless in the first half of a World Cup match for just the second time (the other versus Australia in the 1991 quarter-final) and for the first time in any Test match since their 2012 defeat by England.\n• None England won 16 turnovers against New Zealand, the most by any side at this year's World Cup and England's joint-most in a match at the tournament, also winning 16 against Japan in 1987.\n• None Maro Itoje won three turnovers in a match for the third time at the tournament - no other player has managed that more than once at this World Cup.\n• None Sam Whitelock lost a World Cup match for the first time in his career - his 18-game winning run was the longest of any player in the tournament's history.\n\nReplacements: Joseph for Tuilagi (73), Slade for May (44), Heinz for Youngs (62), Cowan-Dickie for M Vunipola (69), Marler for George (69), Cole for Sinckler (46), Kruis for Lawes (54), Wilson for Underhill (69).\n\nReplacements: Williams for Goodhue (53), J Barrett for Bridge (49), Perenara for A Smith (53), Tu'ungafasi for Moody (62), Coles for Taylor (49), Taavao-Matau for Laulala (53), Tuipulotu for Whitelock (66), Cane for S Barrett (41).", "Sinéad Burke grew up in Ireland with three average height sisters, envious of the fashionable clothes they wore.\n\nFast forward to 2019, and she has appeared on the cover of Vogue, and owns a bespoke wardrobe including items from Burberry, Gucci and Prada.\n\nThe writer and disability advocate talks to BBC 100 Women and BBC Ouch about her mission to make fashion - and the world - more inclusive.\n\nSinéad Burke is one of the BBC's 100 Women 2019. BBC 100 Women names 100 influential and inspirational women each year and shares their stories. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and use #100Women.", "The iconic mohair cardigan sold in New York alongside Kurt Cobain's custom Fender Mustang\n\nA stained, cigarette-burned cardigan unwashed in nearly three decades has sold at auction for $334,000 (£260,000).\n\nNirvana frontman Kurt Cobain wore the green button-up during the band's MTV \"Unplugged\" performance in 1993.\n\nIt has not been cleaned since he last wore it.\n\nThe iconic piece of clothing is now reportedly the most expensive sweater ever sold at auction after it was snapped up in New York on Saturday.\n\nDarren Julien, president of Julien's Auction, called Cobain's mohair cardigan \"the holy grail of any article of clothing that he ever wore\".\n\nCobain's custom-made Fender Mustang guitar - which he used during Nirvana's In Utero tour - was also on sale, and fetched $340,000 (£265,000). It had been on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for several years.\n\nThe artist achieved colossal success after forming Nirvana in 1987, but struggled with fame, depression and drug addiction.\n\nHe killed himself in April 1994 aged 27.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kurt Cobain 's last photo session was with photographer Youri Lenquette", "There are unconfirmed reports of a US raid against Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi\n\nThe US military has conducted an operation in Syria against the fugitive leader of the Islamic State (IS) group, US media report.\n\nThere has been no official confirmation of reports that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in the raid. He has been wrongly reported dead on several previous occasions.\n\nUS President Donald Trump is due to make a \"major statement\" at 1300 GMT.\n\nMr Trump earlier tweeted: \"Something very big has just happened!\"\n\nA villager in the village of Barisha in Idlib province, north-west Syria, described to the BBC a dramatic military operation late on Saturday night.\n\nHe said helicopters had launched an assault that lasted 30 minutes, firing missiles at two houses and flattening one, before troops became active on the ground.\n\nThe commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazloum Abdi, said on Sunday that a \"historic, successful operation\" had resulted from \"joint intelligence work\" with the US.\n\nTurkey has also said it co-ordinated with the US military ahead of the operation, describing it as \"a good day for the good guys\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video appearing to show the IS group leader was released earlier this year\n\nThe raid was carried out by US special operations forces after they received \"actionable intelligence\", Newsweek said, citing unnamed sources.\n\nThe Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said helicopter gunfire had killed nine people near a village in the Syrian province of Idlib, where \"groups linked to the Islamic State group\" were present.\n\nThis is not the first time the fugitive IS leader has been reported killed, but this weekend US officials have been speaking with confidence about a decisive operation to target him.\n\nBaghdadi - his adopted nom de guerre rather than his real name - has been a key jihadist leader in both Iraq and Syria since 2010. Before then, he was incarcerated in the US-run Camp Bucca in southern Iraq, where he formed alliances with other future IS operatives.\n\nAs Syria collapsed into civil war and Iraq's government discriminated against its Sunni minority, Baghdadi galvanised the remnants of al-Qaeda into a fluid fighting force that took over Raqqa in Syria in 2013 and then Iraq's second city of Mosul the following year.\n\nHis brutal and destructive self-proclaimed IS \"caliphate\" lasted five years and attracted thousands of jihadists from around the world. But in March 2019, it lost its last piece of territory at Baghuz in Syria.\n\nIS has since vowed to carry on fighting a \"war of attrition\" against its enemies.\n\nThe IS leader has been described as the world's most wanted man.\n\nIn October 2011, the US officially designated him a \"terrorist\" and offered a reward of $10m (£5.8m at the time) for information leading to his capture or death. This was increased to $25m in 2017.\n\nBaghdadi has a reputation as a highly organised and ruthless battlefield tactician.\n\nHe was born near Samarra, north of Baghdad, in 1971, and his real name is Ibrahim Awad al-Badri.\n\nReports suggest he was a cleric in a mosque in the city around the time of the US-led invasion in 2003.\n\nSome believe he was already a militant jihadist during the rule of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Others suggest he was radicalised during the time he was held at Camp Bucca, a US facility in southern Iraq where many al-Qaeda commanders were detained.\n\nHe emerged in 2010 as the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, one of the groups that merged with IS, and rose to prominence during the attempted merger with the al-Nusra Front in Syria.\n\nIS released a video of a man it said was Baghdadi earlier this year. Before this, he had not been seen since 2014, when he proclaimed from Mosul the creation of a \"caliphate\" across parts of Syria and Iraq.", "Coverage: Full commentary on BBC Radio Wales and Radio Cymru, BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, plus text updates on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nWales stand on the brink of history as they prepare to face South Africa in Yokohama on Sunday, bidding to reach their first World Cup final with old rivals England lying in wait.\n\nThis will be Wales' third semi-final and the second under head coach Warren Gatland, who will step down at the end of the tournament.\n\nThat will bring to an end a glittering 12-year tenure which has yielded four Six Nations titles - including three Grand Slams - and a first stint as the world's number one-ranked side.\n\nThis is also likely to be a final World Cup for some Wales players such as captain Alun Wyn Jones, an inspirational leader who will join Italy's Sergio Parisse as the second-most capped international of all time with 142 appearances, including nine for the British and Irish Lions.\n\nWales have been building up to this moment for years and, with many believing this is their best chance yet to win a World Cup, Gatland is urging his players to seize the moment.\n\n\"I have got two games to go as the Wales coach and I want to enjoy these last two games, and there are probably nine or 10 players who won't be involved in another World Cup as well so they have got to relish that opportunity and be excited about this,\" he said.\n\n\"You have got a chance to do something special in your life and these chances come along very rarely and you have got to grab them with both hands.\n\n\"When you want something bad enough and you really, really want it then it can happen.\n\n\"We have a group of players that really want to do a good performance on Sunday and hopefully get to the World Cup final.\"\n\nStanding in Wales' way are a resurgent South Africa side, who pummelled their way past hosts Japan in the quarter-final.\n\nHaving slipped down the rankings in recent years, the two-time world champions seem to be on their way to reviving past glories since Rassie Erasmus was appointed head coach in 2018.\n\nThe former Munster boss has the enormous Springboks forwards back to their muscular best, while the likes of scrum-half Faf de Klerk and wing Cheslin Kolbe have provided the stardust to help their side claim notable results such as last year's series win over England and a draw in New Zealand during this summer's Rugby Championship.\n\nSouth Africa will be without the electric Kolbe against Wales because of an ankle injury, which Erasmus admits is a \"big blow\".\n\nS'busiso Nkosi takes his place in the Springboks' only change from the victory over Japan.\n\nWales have multiple injury woes of their own, with full-back Liam Williams and back-rower Josh Navidi ruled out for the rest of the tournament with ankle and hamstring injuries respectively.\n\nLeigh Halfpenny replaces Williams and Ross Moriarty comes in for Navidi, while centre Jonathan Davies returns having missed the quarter-final win over France with a knee problem.\n\nWhat they said\n\nWales head coach Warren Gatland: \"If we can make the World Cup final with the playing numbers we have got, it would be one hell of an achievement.\n\n\"It's one step at a time. We have got a challenge on our hands on Sunday against a side that has been improving.\n\n\"I think they have definitely improved under Rassie in terms of going back to some of the things they are good at, their strengths.\n\n\"I am excited about it. I'm more looking forward to this game than I was last week, and more confident about this game than we probably were against France.\"\n\nSouth Africa head coach Rassie Erasmus: \"I think we have been under pressure to redeem ourselves for the last couple of years. We've been number five, six and seven in the world over the last three or four years and we've had some proper hidings against almost every team since 2015.\n\n\"We've lost to Italy, we've lost to Japan, we've been beaten by 57 points, 39-3 by Ireland. Some people have lost a lot of faith in us at different stages.\n\n\"We've got a different challenge which is to get respect back and so people start believing in us again. That was the pressure for us.\n\n\"Now we're at the stage where we want to be number one in the world again. Now there is internal pressure and expectation and that's different.\"\n\nInternational Stadium Yokohama is a 72,327-capacity ground which will host both Rugby World Cup semi-finals and the final.\n\nIt opened in 1998 and hosted football's 2002 World Cup final, in which Brazil beat Germany 2-0.\n\nThe ground has also staged several Fifa Club World Cups as well as rugby Test matches including last year's 37-20 win for New Zealand over Australia.\n• Wales have won each of their past four test encounters with South Africa, after winning only two of their first 31 against them.\n• South Africa's most recent victory over Wales came in the quarter-finals at the 2015 World Cup. The Boks won the game on a 75th-minute Fourie du Preez try.\n• South Africa won each of the previous two World Cup meetings between these countries, 17-16 in the pool phase at 2011 and 23-19 in the 2015 quarter-finals.\n• South Africa and New Zealand are the only World Cup opponents Wales have only lost against.\n• Following their quarter-final win over France, Wales were the only team in the World Cup who have won five matches.\n• The only player to feature in all four recent Wales victories over South Africa is Cory Hill, who dropped out of this World Cup squad injured.\n• Pieter-Steph du Toit, Steven Kitshoff and Elton Jantjies are the only Springboks to feature in all four recent defeats by Wales.\n• No team in World Cup history has lost a match in a tournament and then gone on to win it. South Africa lost their opening fixture against New Zealand.", "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi last appeared on camera in a video released in April 2019\n\nAbu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) and arguably the world's most wanted man, killed himself during a raid by US commandos in north-western Syria, President Donald Trump has said.\n\nThe self-styled \"Caliph Ibrahim\" had a $25m (£19m) bounty on his head and had been pursued by the US and its allies since the rise of IS five years ago.\n\nAt its peak, IS controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching from western Syria to eastern Iraq, imposed its brutal rule on almost eight million people, and generated billions of dollars in revenue from oil, extortion and kidnapping.\n\nBut despite the demise of its physical caliphate and its leader, IS remains a battle-hardened and well-disciplined force whose enduring defeat is not assured.\n\nBaghdadi - real name Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim al-Badri - was born in 1971 in the central Iraqi city of Samarra.\n\nHis religious Sunni Arab family claimed to be descended from the Prophet Muhammad's Quraysh tribe - something generally held by pre-modern Sunni scholars as being a key qualification for becoming a caliph.\n\nAs a teenager, he was nicknamed \"the believer\" by relatives because of the time he spent at the local mosque learning how to recite the Koran and because he would often chastise those failing to abide by Islamic law, or Sharia.\n\nIbrahim Awwad Ibrahim al-Badri was born in 1971 in Samarra, Iraq\n\nAfter finishing school in the early 1990s he moved to the capital, Baghdad. He gained bachelor's and master's degrees in Islamic studies before embarking on a PhD at the Islamic University of Baghdad, according to a biography published by supporters.\n\nWhile a student, he lived near a Sunni mosque in Baghdad's north-western Tobchi district. He is said to have been a quiet man who kept to himself, except for when he taught Koranic recitation and played football for the mosque's club. Baghdadi is also believed to have embraced Salafism and jihadism during this time.\n\nFollowing the US-led invasion that toppled President Saddam Hussein in 2003, Baghdadi reportedly helped found an Islamist insurgent group called Jamaat Jaysh Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jamaah that attacked US troops and their allies. Within the group, he was the head of the Sharia committee.\n\nIn early 2004, Baghdadi was detained by US troops in the city of Falluja, west of Baghdad, and was taken to a detention centre at Camp Bucca in the south.\n\nBaghdadi was detained by US forces at Camp Bucca for 10 months\n\nCamp Bucca became what has been described as a \"university\" for the future leaders of IS, with inmates becoming radicalised and developing important contacts and networks.\n\nBaghdadi reportedly led prayers, delivered sermons and taught religious classes while in detention, and was sometimes asked to mediate in disputes by the prison's US administrator. He was considered a low-level threat by the US and was released after 10 months.\n\n\"He was a street thug when we picked him up in 2004,\" a Pentagon official told the New York Times in 2014. \"It's hard to imagine we could have had a crystal ball then that would tell us he'd become head of [IS].\"\n\nAfter leaving Camp Bucca, Baghdadi is believed to have come into contact with the newly formed al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). Under the leadership of the Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, AQI became a major force in the Iraqi insurgency and gained notoriety for its brutal tactics, including beheadings.\n\nIn early 2006, AQI created a jihadist umbrella organisation called the Mujahideen Shura Council, which Baghdadi's group pledged allegiance to and joined.\n\nBaghdadi joined the jihadist insurgency that plagued Iraq after 2003\n\nLater that year, following Zarqawi's death in a US air strike, the organisation changed its name to the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI). Baghdadi supervised the ISI's Sharia committees and joined its consultative Shura Council.\n\nWhen ISI's leader Abu Umar al-Baghdadi died in a US raid in 2010 along with his deputy Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was named his successor.\n\nHe inherited an organisation that US commanders believed to be on the verge of a strategic defeat. But with the help of several Saddam-era military and intelligence officers, among them fellow former Camp Bucca inmates, he gradually rebuilt ISI.\n\nBy early 2013, it was once again carrying out dozens of attacks a month in Iraq. It had also joined the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, sending Syrian militants back from Iraq to set up the al-Nusra Front as al-Qaeda's affiliate in the country. There, they found a safe haven and easy access to weapons.\n\nSupporters of IS celebrated the proclamation of a caliphate in Raqqa in June 2014\n\nThat April, Baghdadi announced the merger of his forces in Iraq and Syria and the creation of \"Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant\" (Isis/Isil). The leaders of al-Nusra and al-Qaeda rejected the move, but fighters loyal to Baghdadi split from al-Nusra and helped Isis remain in Syria.\n\nAt the end of 2013, Isis shifted its focus back to Iraq and exploited a political stand-off between the Shia-led government and the minority Sunni Arab community. Aided by tribesmen and former Saddam Hussein loyalists, Isis overran Falluja.\n\nIn June 2014, several hundred Isis militants overran the northern city of Mosul, routing the Iraqi army, and then advanced southwards towards Baghdad, massacring their adversaries and threatening to eradicate the country's many ethnic and religious minorities.\n\nIn July 2014, Baghdadi was filmed giving a sermon at a mosque in Mosul\n\nAt the end of the month, after consolidating its hold over dozens of Iraqi cities and towns, Isis declared the creation of a \"caliphate\" - a state governed in accordance with Sharia by a caliph - and renamed itself \"Islamic State\". It proclaimed Baghdadi as \"Caliph Ibrahim\" and demanded allegiance from Muslims worldwide.\n\nFive days later, a video was released showing Baghdadi delivering a sermon at Mosul's Great Mosque of al-Nuri - his first public appearance on camera.\n\nExperts said Baghdadi's sermon evoked the letters and speeches of caliphs in the first centuries of Islam. He enjoined Muslims to emigrate to IS territory in order to carry out a war for the faith against unbelievers. Tens of thousands of foreigners went on to heed the call.\n\nUN investigators accused IS of committing genocide against Yazidis in Iraq\n\nJust over a month later, IS militants advanced into areas controlled by Iraq's Kurdish ethnic minority and killed or enslaved thousands of members of the Yazidi religious group.\n\nThe atrocities against the Yazidis, which UN human rights investigators said constituted the crime of genocide, prompted a US-led multinational coalition to launch an air campaign against the jihadists in Iraq. It started conducting air strikes in Syria that September, after IS beheaded several Western hostages.\n\nIS welcomed the prospect of direct confrontation with the US-led coalition, viewing it as a harbinger of an end-of-times showdown between Muslims and their enemies described in Islamic apocalyptic prophecies.\n\nIn the areas under its control, IS implemented an extreme interpretation of Islamic law that terrorised residents. Women accused of adultery were stoned to death, thieves had their hands amputated, and those accused of opposing IS rule were beheaded or crucified. A Jordanian pilot whose plane came down near Raqqa, Lt Moaz al-Kasasbeh, was burned alive.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe group sparked global outrage by destroying many of the region's most famous archaeological sites, from the Syrian desert city of Palmyra to the Assyrian capital of Nimrud in Iraq, and looting artefacts from museums. The UN cultural agency, Unesco, condemned the wanton destruction as a war crime.\n\nAttacks in other countries also began to be attributed to IS or individuals it inspired. Such attacks - including the downing of a Russian airliner over Egypt's Sinai peninsula in October 2015, the Paris attacks that November, and the Sri Lanka suicide bombings in April 2019 - have claimed several thousand lives since 2014.\n\nBaghdadi was personally accused by the US of repeatedly raping an American NGO worker held hostage by IS, Kayla Mueller, and then having her killed. Officials said they learned about the abuse from two enslaved Yazidi girls.\n\nOnce the US-led coalition intervened, IS began to be slowly driven out of the territory it controlled.\n\nThe Iraqi city of Mosul was retaken by Iraqi government forces in July 2017\n\nThe ensuing war left many thousands of people dead across the two countries, displaced millions more, and devastated entire areas.\n\nIn Iraq, federal security forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters were supported by both the US-led coalition and a paramilitary force dominated by Iran-backed militias, the Popular Mobilisation (al-Hashd al-Shaabi).\n\nIn Syria, the US-led coalition backed an alliance of Syrian Kurdish and Arab militias, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and some Syrian Arab rebel factions in the southern desert. Troops loyal to President Assad meanwhile also battled IS with the help of Russian air strikes and Iran-backed militiamen.\n\nThroughout the fighting the question of whether Baghdadi was dead or alive remained a source of mystery and confusion.\n\nIn June 2017, as Iraqi security forces battled the last remaining IS militants in Mosul, Russian officials said there was a \"high probability\" that Baghdadi was killed in a Russian air strike on the outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto IS capital.\n\nBut that September IS released an audio message apparently from Baghdadi that included a call for the group's followers to \"fan the flames of war on your enemies\".\n\nUS-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighters captured the city of Raqqa in October 2017\n\nSuch exhortations were not enough to stop SDF fighters capturing Raqqa the following month and driving its supporters into sparsely populated desert areas.\n\nIt was not until August 2018 that Baghdadi issued a new audio message. He urged followers in Syria to \"persevere\" in the face of its defeats on the battlefield.\n\nThe following month, the SDF launched the final stage of its campaign to clear IS from eastern Syria, targeting a strip of land running along the River Euphrates around the town of Hajin where tens of thousands of IS militants and their families had gathered after fleeing Mosul and Raqqa.\n\nThere was no indication that Baghdadi was among them, but unconfirmed reports emerged later saying that he had been forced to flee to Iraq's western desert after a faction within IS tried to oust him.\n\nThousands of suspected IS supporters and their families were detained in Baghuz\n\nIn March 2019, the last piece of territory held by IS in Syria, near the village of Baghuz, was captured by the SDF, bringing a formal end to Baghdadi's \"caliphate\".\n\nUS President Donald Trump praised the \"liberation\" of Syria, but added: \"We will remain vigilant against [IS].\"\n\nIS was thought to still have thousands of armed supporters in the region, many of them operating in sleeper cells. In Iraq, they were already carrying out attacks in an attempt to undermine the government's authority, create an atmosphere of lawlessness, and sabotage reconciliation and reconstruction efforts.\n\nIn April 2019, Baghdadi appeared in a video for the first time in almost five years. But rather than speaking from a mosque pulpit in Mosul, this time he was sitting cross-legged on the floor of a room with a rifle by his side.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has not been seen on video for five years\n\nHe acknowledged his group's losses and said IS was now waging a \"battle of attrition\", urging supporters to launch attacks to drain its enemies' human, military, economic, and logistical resources.\n\nIt was not clear when or where the video was recorded, but Baghdadi seemed to be in good health. He was seen sitting with at least three other men whose faces were masked or blurred, and going through files on IS branches elsewhere in the world.\n\nAnalysts saw it as an attempt by Baghdadi to assert that he was still in charge.\n\nNo more was heard from him until September, when IS released a purported audio message in which he said \"daily operations\" were under way on \"different fronts\".\n\nHe also called on supporters to free the thousands of suspected IS militants and tens of thousands of women and children linked to IS who were detained at SDF-run prisons and camps in Syria following the fall of Baghuz.\n\nUS special forces targeted a compound in Syria's Idlib province on 22 October\n\nThe following month, a Turkish military offensive against the SDF in north-eastern Syria and President Trump's decision to pull US troops out of the region in response sparked alarm that IS might be able to exploit the security vacuum.\n\nMore than 100 prisoners escaped during the offensive and IS sleeper cells carried out several attacks, but Mr Trump rejected criticism of the US withdrawal. \"Turkey, Syria, and others in the region must work to ensure that [IS] does not regain any territory,\" he insisted. \"It's their neighbourhood; they have to maintain it.\"\n\nEarly on 23 October, US special operations forces carried out a raid outside the village of Barisha, in the north-western Syrian province of Idlib - the last stronghold of the opposition to President Assad. The target of the raid was Baghdadi, despite the area being hundreds of kilometres from the place where he was believed to be hiding.\n\nA resident of Barisha said the US helicopters fired missiles at two houses, flattening one\n\nPresident Trump later told reporters that Baghdadi retreated into a tunnel with three of his children during the raid and then detonated an explosive vest when US military dogs were sent in, killing himself and the children. Baghdadi's body was mutilated by the blast, but test results gave certain and positive identification, he said.\n\n\"A brutal killer, one who has caused so much hardship and death, was violently eliminated - he will never again harm another innocent man, woman or child,\" Mr Trump declared. \"He died like a dog. He died like a coward. The world is now a much safer place.\"\n\nThere was no immediate confirmation of Baghdadi's death from IS.", "Amelia Bambridge's sister Georgie (right) said the family were trying to be strong\n\nThe father and brother of a British student who disappeared after a beach party on a Cambodian island have arrived to join searches for her.\n\nAmelia Bambridge, 21, from Worthing, who was on her gap year, was last seen in the resort of Koh Rong on Wednesday, but did not return to her hostel.\n\nHer mother Linda is also on her way to the island, where divers and drones are being used to find Ms Bambridge.\n\nSussex Police said they were supporting the family.\n\nOn Sunday, Ms Bambridge's sister Georgie said her father and brother had arrived on Koh Rong late at night when searches had halted overnight.\n\nSearches have covered areas of water, beach and jungle on Koh Rong\n\n\"They'll join the police and start searching tomorrow,\" she said.\n\n\"There was a search today, with the number of people up to 90, and they are using divers and drones.\"\n\nShe said her mother had arrived in Cambodia and was hoping to get a ferry to the island first thing on Monday.\n\nShe and Ms Bambridge's two other sisters have remained in the UK where they were working to raise money for extra searches and trying to spread awareness of the family's plight, she added.\n\nGeorgie Bambridge said her sister had sent her pictures from the beach party\n\n\"Right now our mindset is just to get Amelia back,\" she said.\n\n\"Our number one mission is Amelia. We need to find her. We don't know what's happened. We don't know what's gone on.\"\n\nOfficers from Sussex Police had visited the family's home over the weekend, she added.\n\nMs Bambridge has gone missing on the small Cambodian island\n\nA spokesman for the force said: \"Sussex Police are supporting the family of a Worthing student who has gone missing while backpacking in Cambodia.\n\n\"Police officers are liaising with her family and other agencies in the UK and in Cambodia as the search for her continues.\"\n\nThe family are also in contact with the Foreign Office, which said it was assisting the family and talking to the Cambodian police.\n\nThe student had been travelling with her friend Ryan Harris\n\nMs Bambridge had spent two years saving and planning for her gap year trip while working at Lloyds bank. Her sisters have described her as \"meticulously organised\".\n\nShe set off on her trip on 27 September and first flew to Vietnam to meet her Vietnamese father.\n\nThey both travelled to Cambodia before she checked into the hostel on her own on Koh Rong.\n\nOn the night Ms Bambridge disappeared, she had been with friends she had met at the hostel and they had gone to a party on Police Beach - named after its proximity to a disused police station.\n\nFriends reported her \"out-of-character\" disappearance after she did not return to the hostel and her belongings were found on a beach, Ryan Harris, who had been travelling with her, has described.\n\nThe Lucie Blackman Trust, which supports the families of missing people overseas, has put out an appeal on Facebook.\n\nMs Bambridge, seen on the left with her mother Linda Bambridge and her sister Georgie, had been to a party when she disappeared\n\nThe 21-year-old backpacker, who is a vegan, has a Highland cow tattoo on her arm\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The families of Pham Thi Tra My and Nguyen Dinh Luong are concerned they may be among the victims\n\nThree people arrested in connection with the deaths of 39 people found dead inside a lorry in Essex have been released on bail.\n\nThe suspects, two men and a woman, had been held on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people after the discovery in Grays last Wednesday.\n\nLorry driver Maurice Robinson, 25, is due to appear in court on Monday.\n\nMeanwhile, families in Vietnam face an anxious wait to find out if their loved ones were among the dead.\n\nThose bailed were a 46-year-old man from Northern Ireland, who was arrested at Stansted Airport on Friday, and Joanna and Thomas Maher, both 38, from Warrington, Cheshire.\n\nMr Robinson, of Laurel Drive, Craigavon, Northern Ireland, has been charged with 39 counts of manslaughter as well as people trafficking, immigration and money laundering offences.\n\nHe is due before Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nMaurice Robinson has been charged with 39 counts of manslaughter\n\nIn total, five people have been arrested in connection with the investigation into the deaths.\n\nA man in his 20s, arrested by Irish police in Dublin on Saturday was said to be \"of interest\" to the Grays investigation.\n\nHis arrest at Dublin Port is unconnected to the lorry death investigation but Essex Police said they were liaising with Irish police as the man is currently being held outside the jurisdiction of English and Welsh law.\n\nIn Vietnam, relatives of Bui Thi Nhung, 19, said they feared she may be among the dead.\n\nThe teenager is thought to be the youngest of those who died.\n\nBui Thi Nhung is from Nghe An province\n\nSince the bodies were discovered on Wednesday, several families in Vietnam have expressed concerns over missing relatives.\n\nAmong them is Le Van Ha, 30, who left his young son and pregnant wife behind to journey to the UK.\n\nSince he left, his wife has given birth to their second child.\n\nHis father Le Minh Tuan says the family have \"nothing left\" after mortgaging their land to fund the £20,000 journey to the UK.\n\nOthers feared to be among the 39 victims are Pham Thi Tra My, 26, who last messaged her family late on Tuesday, and two men - Nguyen Dinh Luong, 20, and Nguyen Dinh Tu.\n\nA friend of Tran Thi Tho, 21, fears she may also be among the victims. The friend, who lives in Glasgow, did not want to be identified but told the BBC he had been due to meet up with her when she arrived in the UK.\n\nPolice in Vietnam are taking DNA samples from family members of those reported missing in a bid to identify the victims, Reuters has reported.\n\nIn Ha Tinh in Vietnam, police have opened a special criminal case to investigate claims they have received in relation to the lorry deaths, the BBC has learnt.\n\nIncluded in the investigation are allegations of human trafficking in Ha Tinh province.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nguyen Dinh Sat fears his son was among the 39 found dead inside a refrigerated lorry\n\nA representative of VietHome - a website for Vietnamese people in the UK - said it had passed on the pictures of almost 20 people who have been reported missing to detectives.\n\nPolice said they were investigating a \"wider conspiracy\" after reports the lorry may have been part of a convoy of three carrying about 100 people.\n\nCatholic worshippers said prayers for the 39 people at a Mass in Nghe An province, Vietnam\n\nThe victims - who police initially believed to be Chinese nationals - were inside a lorry trailer which came to the UK via the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.\n\nOfficers said post-mortem examinations were being carried out.\n\nThe victims had been carrying \"very few\" identity documents, leaving officers to rely on fingerprints, DNA and distinguishing features such as tattoos or scars, Essex Police said.\n\nThe bodies were discovered in the early hours of Wednesday\n\nMeanwhile, concerns have been raised over the UK's ability to work with European officials to combat people trafficking after Brexit.\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper and exiled Conservative Dominic Grieve voiced the fears over co-operation with Europol as plans for the transition period after Brexit and beyond have yet to be agreed.\n\nHowever, the Home Office said the UK would continue to work with EU law enforcement agencies with or without a Brexit deal.\n\nDo you have any information to share about the incident? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Scottish FA is to consider a ban on children under 12 heading the ball, following a report linking dementia to football.\n\nExperts at the University of Glasgow found former professional players are three and a half times more likely to die of degenerative brain disease.\n\nScottish football's governing body will consider a range of options after discussions with medical experts.\n\nA ban on children heading the ball has been in place in the US since 2014.\n\nAn insider said: \"The new presidential team are determined to be proactive on such a serious issue affecting the national game.\n\n\"While the study says the findings can't automatically be applied to the grassroots game, they are absolutely clear that this should not mean doing nothing in the meantime but being proactive and open to radical steps if appropriate.\n\n\"This is not just about young people heading the ball in matches but taking steps to remove repetitive heading practice in training.\"\n\nA neurosurgeon said Jeff Astle died from a brain condition normally linked to boxers rather than Alzheimer's disease\n\nLast week Dr John MacLean, the Scottish FA's chief medical consultant, told BBC Scotland he wanted to see steps taken to reduce \"heading load on young players\".\n\nHe said: \"Through work with the Scottish FA and Uefa, what we have started to do is put together some sensible guidelines.\n\n\"Some simple things like limiting heading training for young players, perhaps to one session per week to allow the brain to recover.\"\n\nDr MacLean is part of the Uefa medical committee and has backed proposals for rugby-style temporary substitutions for concussion.\n\nThe Scottish FA insider said its presidential team would support his expert advice on children heading balls.\n\n\"It's a clear statement of intent and whatever is considered the most appropriate by the board and the medical team should have no obstacles to implementation,\" they said.\n\nThe Glasgow university study was launched after claims that former West Brom strike Jeff Astle died because of repeated head trauma.\n\nIt was commissioned by the Football Association and the Professional Footballers' Association after delays in initial research angered the family of Mr Astle, who died in 2002.\n\nHis daughter, Dawn, said she was \"staggered\" by the findings.", "Ivan Milat was convicted of murdering seven backpackers\n\nIvan Milat, a notorious Australian serial killer who kidnapped and murdered hitchhikers, has died aged 74.\n\nMilat had been serving a life sentence for killing seven backpackers between 1989 and 1992 and dumping their bodies in a New South Wales forest.\n\nHe died of cancer in a Sydney hospital early on Sunday local time.\n\nPolice said Milat's lifelong refusal to admit his crimes had hampered further investigations into the killings and other unsolved cases.\n\nHis murder victims were three Germans, two Britons and two Australians. All were aged between 19 and 22.\n\nMilat was arrested after targeting another backpacker, British man Paul Onions, who escaped and alerted police.\n\nA subsequent trial heard that Milat had searched for hitchhikers to abduct from a major highway between Sydney and Melbourne.\n\nThe bodies of his victims were found buried in the Belanglo State Forest, 120km (75 miles) south-west of Sydney, in 1992 and 1993.\n\nMilat was diagnosed with terminal oesophagus and stomach cancer earlier this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly said the Lib-SNP bill was 'clearly a gimmick'\n\nDowning Street is prepared to look at other options should its plans for an election fail, a Number 10 source says.\n\nThe government will table a motion calling for a 12 December election on Monday, although this needs support from two-thirds of MPs.\n\nBut the Liberal Democrats and SNP want to see a bill introduced that enshrines a 9 December election in law, subject to a Brexit extension to 31 January.\n\nMeanwhile, ambassadors from the 27 EU member countries are due to meet in Brussels on Monday morning to consider a draft text of a decision to extend the UK's leaving date to 31 January.\n\nIt also includes potential dates for the Withdrawal Agreement to come into force on 1 December 2019, 1 January 2020 or 1 February 2020 - which could mean the UK's departure possibly taking place on either 30 November, 31 December or 31 January.\n\nThe EU will also retain the right to meet without the UK to consider future business during the extension, BBC correspondent Adam Fleming said.\n\nAnd there will be a commitment that the Withdrawal Agreement cannot be renegotiated in future.\n\nAs things stand, the UK is due to leave the EU on Thursday.\n\nThe EU has so far agreed to an extension, but has not made a decision on the new deadline date.\n\nIf the EU approves the UK's request for a three-month extension, Mr Johnson would have to accept it, under the terms of the so-called Benn Act.\n\nThe Lib Dem-SNP bill amends the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 to include the date of 9 December as the next general election - this would come into force if the EU decides to extend the Brexit process to a date no earlier than 31 January.\n\nBBC political correspondent Jessica Parker said it was significant as this method would only require a simple majority rather than the the two-thirds required to back the prime minister's motion for an election on 12 December.\n\nThe Lib Dems have said the bill would remove the threat of any no-deal Brexit in the immediate future.\n\nBut with 35 SNP MPs and 19 Lib Dem MPs in the Commons, the success of their bill would require cross-party support.\n\nA number 10 source said: \"Tomorrow MPs will vote on an election on 12 December so we can get a new Parliament.\n\n\"If Labour oppose being held to account by the people yet again, then we will look at all options to get Brexit done, including ideas similar to that proposed by other opposition parties.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Cleverly said of the Lib Dem-SNP bill: \"It's clearly a gimmick.\n\n\"Their bill moves the election date by three days, takes the withdrawal agreement completely off the table.\"\n\nHe argued the government had put forward proposals for a general election first.\n\n\"What we're not going to do is, we're not going to listen to two parties who have explicitly said they want to stop Brexit from happening,\" he said.\n\nMr Cleverly also said he was \"cynical\" as the bill would be amendable, meaning MPs can suggest changes to it arguably prompting further delays.\n\nJo Swinson has joined forces with the SNP to try to trigger a 9 December election\n\nAsked about possible amendments to her proposed bill, Ms Swinson told the Andrew Marr Show that, although any bill in Parliament can be amended, \"the intention is very much that this is a simple bill that can be passed through Parliament quickly\".\n\nShe said the \"time pressure\" involved in securing an election before their desired 31 January deadline meant the party would not pursue amendments to the bill such as votes for 16-year-olds.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said opposition parties must work together to bring forward an early general election.\n\n\"The SNP are ready for an election but it must be on Parliament's terms - not Boris Johnson's,\" he said.\n\nMr Blackford said that if their bill did not pass, \"all options must be on the table - including a vote of no confidence\".\n\nHe added that the SNP will block attempts by the government to seek an election on 12 December under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act as it allows the prime minister to \"force through his devastating Brexit deal and take the UK out of the EU\".\n\nBut Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan dismissed the proposed bill from the Lib Dems and SNP as a \"stunt\".\n\n\"If they want an election, they have a chance to vote for one tomorrow (Monday),\" Ms Morgan told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday.\n\nResponding to the Lib Dem-SNP bid for a 9 December election, Labour leader Mr Corbyn said: \"I think it's a bit of a stunt.\n\n\"The reality is we have got to have no deal completely off the table and that whole threat removed before anything else.\"\n\nEarlier, Labour's shadow home secretary Diane Abbott told the BBC the party \"haven't had the chance\" to discuss the Lib Dem-SNP bill with the parties involved.\n\nBut she said it was \"problematic\" because the bill is calling on the EU to give the UK an extension and specifies a duration and \"we have to wait for them (the EU) to do that\".\n\nSpeaking on Sky, former chancellor Philip Hammond confirmed he will vote against the government's plans calling for an election on 12 December, adding he would also not back the Lib Dem-SNP plan.\n\nMr Hammond, who was expelled from the parliamentary Conservative Party after rebelling over their Brexit plans, said it was \"a time for cool heads and grown-up government\".\n\n\"The key thing now is to get the deal properly scrutinised in Parliament - that doesn't mean delaying it by months, it means giving Parliament a few days, a couple of weeks - amend it if necessary, and then we can make progress,\" he said.", "Leicester City chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was among the five people who died in the crash a year ago\n\nA memorial garden dedicated to the five people killed in the Leicester City helicopter crash has opened on the site of the disaster.\n\nThe garden, opened on the crash's first anniversary, is named after the club's chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who was among those who died.\n\nIt was grown using compost made from the floral tributes left at the site.\n\nLeicester City striker Jamie Vardy said the garden would show people \"the type of person\" Mr Vichai was.\n\nOn 27 October 2018 the chairman's helicopter crashed shortly after taking off, killing all those on board.\n\nKaveporn Punpare and Nusara Suknamai, members of Mr Vichai's staff, and pilots Eric Swaffer and Izabela Roza Lechowicz also died when the helicopter spiralled out of control after taking off from the club's stadium.\n\nJamie Vardy (right) said he hoped the garden would be somewhere people could come to remember Mr Vichai\n\nOn Sunday there was a private, multi-faith ceremony at the Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha Memorial Garden, attended by players and members of the victims' families.\n\nThe garden, which is outside the King Power Stadium, was then opened to the public at 14:00 GMT.\n\nThe garden took more than three weeks to build\n\nFans have been paying their respects\n\nTributes have been sealed into this well, which is believed to have been built on the spot where Mr Vichai died\n\nVardy visited the site while the garden was still being built.\n\nHe said: \"We want to carry on that legacy that Khun Vichai wanted. This is his garden, we want to be here paying respects - not just Leicester fans but opposition fans and hopefully it will tell you what type of person he was.\n\n\"He gave so much to the football club and the city. He really, really was generous and deep down he was a really lovely guy - he always made us smile.\"\n\nFlowers left outside the stadium in the days after the crash were composted and used in the memorial garden\n\nCliff Ginnetta, chairman of the official supporters club, said: \"It's a tranquil corner where anyone can go and sit and reflect. They've got it right again.\n\n\"It's a tribute to what he's done. When he took over we were all, 'who is this guy?', but they came in and slowly transformed [the club].\n\n\"It was such a dark day and credit to his family, they have carried on. In tragic circumstances you could lose some of that fight and enthusiasm but they've carried on in his name.\"\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said in December cockpit pedals had disconnected from the helicopter's tail rotor.\n\nInquests into the deaths have been opened and adjourned, but will not be held until the AAIB report is complete.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Molly Russell was just 14 when she took her own life. After she died her family found graphic posts about suicide and self-harm on her Instagram account.\n\nHer father Ian spoke out, making headlines around the world and forcing Instagram into a promise to remove the most harmful content.\n\nNow, Ian Russell has taken his message to the US, to meet other bereaved families and find out if the tech giant has kept its word. The BBC followed him on his journey.\n\nFurther information and support for anyone affected by the issues raised in this video can be found through the BBC Action Line.", "Heavy rain in eastern and northeastern Japan has led to the deaths of 10 people.\n\nChiba and Fukushima prefectures have been affected by torrential rain and landslides, with a months worth of rain falling in half a day in some areas.\n\nIt comes just weeks after Typhoon Hagbis left almost 80 dead and caused widespread damage.", "Tens of thousands of Lebanese protesters joined hands in an attempt to form a human chain across the country from Tripoli in the north to Tyre in the south.\n\nOrganisers have said the attempt to create a chain 170km (105 miles) long was successful.\n\nIt marked the eleventh day of anti-government protests which began on 17 October.\n\nPeople have been demonstrating against the handling of a severe economic crisis, and there have been clashes with security forces.", "Organisers said \"a lot of money\" had been raised for PC Harper's family and designated charities. An RAF Benson spokesman said: \"There were motorcycles as far as the eye can see.\" He said bikers started leaving \"in groups of about 500\" from midday, and \"by 2pm they were probably only half-way through\". PC Harper's family was \"overwhelmed with the support when they arrived\", he added", "The father of a Vietnamese man who is feared to be among the 39 dead victims found in a lorry near London has spoken out.\n\nNguyen Dinh Tu's father, Nguyen Dinh Sat, said he was certain his son was in the truck's container.\n\nHe said relatives in the United Kingdom had told him that Tu was inside the lorry, and had been planning to pick him up.", "Baghdadi emerged from the shadows, appearing in Mosul in June 2014\n\nIbrahim Awwad Ibrahim al-Badri, otherwise known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was born in 1971 in Samarra, Iraq, to a lower-middle class Sunni family.\n\nHis family was known for its piety and his tribe claimed descent from the Prophet Muhammad.\n\nAs a youth, Baghdadi had a passion for Koranic recitation and was meticulous in his observance of religious law.\n\nHis family nicknamed him \"the Believer\" because he would chastise his relatives for failing to live up to his stringent standards.\n\nBaghdadi pursued his religious interests at university. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Islamic studies from the University of Baghdad in 1996, and a Master's and PhD in Koranic studies from Iraq's Saddam University for Islamic Studies in 1999 and 2007 respectively.\n\nUntil 2004, Baghdadi spent his graduate school years living in the Tobchi neighbourhood of Baghdad with his two wives and six children.\n\nHe taught Koranic recitation to neighbourhood children at the local mosque, where he was also the star of its football club.\n\nDuring Baghdadi's time in graduate school, his uncle persuaded him to join the Muslim Brotherhood.\n\nBaghdadi quickly gravitated towards the few violent ultra-conservatives in the Islamist movement and by 2000, under their tutelage, had embraced Salafist jihadism.\n\nWithin months of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, Baghdadi helped found the insurgent group Jaysh Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamaah (Army of the People of the Sunnah and Communal Solidarity).\n\nIn February 2004, US forces arrested Baghdadi in Falluja and sent him to a detention facility at Camp Bucca, where he remained for 10 months.\n\nWhile in detention, Baghdadi devoted himself to religious matters, leading prayers, preaching Friday sermons, and conducting classes for prisoners.\n\nThe US held Baghdadi at a detention centre in Iraq for 10 months\n\nAccording to a fellow inmate, Baghdadi was taciturn but had a knack for moving between the rival factions at the facility, where former Saddam loyalists and jihadists mingled.\n\nBaghdadi formed alliances with many of them and stayed in touch when he was freed in December 2004.\n\nAfter his release, Baghdadi contacted a spokesman for al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), a local al-Qaeda affiliate run by the Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.\n\nImpressed with Baghdadi's religious scholarship, the spokesman convinced Baghdadi to go to Damascus, where he was to ensure AQI's propaganda adhered to the principles of ultra-conservative Islam.\n\nZarqawi was killed in June 2006 by a US air strike and was succeeded by an Egyptian, Abu Ayyub al-Masri.\n\nThat October, Masri dissolved AQI and founded the Islamic State in Iraq (ISI). The group continued to privately pledge allegiance to al-Qaeda.\n\nBecause of Baghdadi's religious credentials and his ability to bridge the divide between the foreigners who founded ISI and the local Iraqis who later joined the group, Baghdadi steadily rose through the ranks.\n\nHe was appointed supervisor of the Sharia Committee and named to the 11-member Shura Council that advised ISI's emir, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi.\n\nBaghdadi exploited the chaos in Syria to gain a foothold there for Islamic State\n\nBaghdadi was later appointed to ISI's Co-ordination Committee, which oversaw communication with the group's commanders in Iraq.\n\nAfter the deaths of ISI's founder and its emir in April 2010, the Shura Council chose Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to be the new emir.\n\nBaghdadi set about rebuilding the organisation, which had been decimated by US special operations forces.\n\nHoping to capitalise on growing unrest in Syria in 2011, Baghdadi ordered one of his Syrian operatives to establish a secret branch of ISI in the country, later known as al-Nusra Front.\n\nBaghdadi soon fell out with the leader of al-Nusra, Abu Mohammed al-Julani, who wanted to collaborate with the mainstream Sunni rebels fighting Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.\n\nBut Baghdadi wanted to establish his own state through brute force before going after Assad.\n\nIn the spring of 2013, Baghdadi announced that al-Nusra was part of ISI, which he renamed \"Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham/the Levant\" (Isis/Isil).\n\nSo-called Islamic State was formed in defiance of the al-Qaeda leadership\n\nWhen al-Qaeda's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri ordered Baghdadi to grant al-Nusra its independence, Baghdadi refused. In February 2014, Zawahiri expelled Isis from al-Qaeda.\n\nIsis responded by fighting al-Nusra and consolidating its hold on eastern Syria, where Baghdadi imposed harsh religious laws.\n\nIts stronghold secure, Baghdadi ordered his men to expand into western Iraq.\n\nIn June 2014, Isis captured Iraqi's second largest city, Mosul, and soon after, the group's spokesman proclaimed the return of the caliphate, renaming Isis \"Islamic State\".\n\nDays later, Baghdadi delivered a Friday sermon in Mosul and declared himself caliph.\n\nThe media has wrongly reported Baghdadi's demise several times.\n\nBut if he dies, the organisation will lose a skilled mediator, a ruthless politician, a religious scholar, and a man of noble lineage - an unusual combination for the leader of a global militant organisation, much less a proto-state.\n\nWilliam McCants is the author of The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State. He directs the Project on US Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution and teaches at Johns Hopkins University. Follow him on Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says an early poll would create a \"credible\" deadline for passing a Brexit deal\n\nThe PM has said he will give MPs more time to debate his Brexit deal, if they agree to a 12 December election.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC he expected the EU to grant an extension to his 31 October deadline, even though he \"really\" did not want one.\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn said he would not support an election until a no-deal Brexit is \"off the table\".\n\nEU leaders could give their verdict on delaying Brexit for up to three months on Friday.\n\nCommons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg told MPs the government would on Monday table a motion calling for a general election.\n\nUnder the 2011 Fixed-Term Parliament Act, two-thirds of MPs must vote for a general election before one can be held.\n\nIn a letter to Labour leader Mr Corbyn, Mr Johnson said his \"preferred option\" was a short Brexit postponement \"say to 15 or 30 November\".\n\nBut Mr Corbyn said: \"Take no-deal off the table and we absolutely support a general election.\n\n\"I've been calling for an election ever since the last one because this country needs one to deal with all the social injustice issues - but no-deal must be taken off the table.\n\n\"The EU will decide whether there is an extension tomorrow... and then we can decide.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: Take no-deal off the table and we absolutely support a general election\n\nMr Johnson wrote that, in that case, he would try to get his deal through Parliament again, with Labour's support.\n\nThe prime minister added that he \"assumes\" Mr Corbyn \"will cooperate with me to get our new Brexit deal ratified, so we leave with a new deal rather than no deal\".\n\nIf, as widely expected, the EU's Brexit delay is to the end of January, Mr Johnson said he will hold a Commons vote next week on a 12 December election.\n\nIf Labour agrees to this, the government said it will try to get its deal through before Parliament is dissolved for the campaign on 6 November.\n\nTreasury sources told the BBC that the Budget would not now be delivered on 6 November as scheduled.\n\nThe prime minister told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg: \"I'm afraid it looks as though our EU friends are going to respond to Parliament's request by having an extension, which I really don't want at all.\n\n\"So, the way to get this done, the way to get Brexit done, is, I think, to be reasonable with Parliament and say if they genuinely want more time to study this excellent deal, they can have it but they have to agree to a general election on 12 December.\"\n\nAsked what he would do if Labour refused to vote for an election, he said: \"We would campaign day after day for the people of this country to be released from subjection to a Parliament that has outlived its usefulness.\"\n\nThe prime minister has repeatedly insisted the UK will leave the EU on 31 October, with or without a deal.\n\nBut he was forced to send a letter to the EU requesting an extension, under legislation passed by MPs last month.\n\nMPs voted on Tuesday to back the first stage of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, putting the deal the PM agreed with Brussels into law - but rejected Mr Johnson's plan to push it through the Commons in three days.\n\nThe BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler says EU leaders are set to decide on Friday whether to grant the UK a three-month Brexit extension - although the decision could be delayed to Monday.\n\nMost EU nations back it but France \"is digging its heels in\", she adds.\n\nSo there could be an emergency summit in Brussels on Monday to allow leaders to reach agreement face-to-face.\n\nBoris Johnson cannot be remotely sure Labour and the smaller parties will let him have his way. The SNP and the Lib Dems are both tempted to go for an election as soon as a three month delay is agreed.\n\nThe Labour Party's official position has always been that they would agree to an election, in fact officially they are chomping at the bit, like the other parties, as long as a delay is agreed.\n\nOne senior member of the shadow cabinet predicted they would not be able to withstand the pressure if the Lib Dems and the SNP said yes.\n\nJeremy Corbyn himself, and certainly one group in his camp, are understood to be very tempted too. But, just as in 2017, lots of Labour MPs are horrified at the idea, partly because of Labour's standing in the polls.\n\nBut also, there are senior shadow cabinet ministers who believe the smart thing would be to leave the PM in his purgatory, twisting, unable to get his bill through, unable to get to an election.\n\nIn short, the position is fluid, and Labour is having words with itself tonight.", "Archbishop Welby said he was \"shocked\" by Prime Minister Boris Johnson's dismissal of female MPs' abuse fears as \"humbug\"\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury has warned Boris Johnson and other MPs to avoid using inflammatory language - as the UK prepares for a general election.\n\nJustin Welby said it was \"extraordinarily dangerous for politicians to use careless comments\" in a \"polarised and volatile\" society.\n\nHe told the Sunday Times that use of words like \"traitor\" and \"fascist\" had left MPs fearing for their lives.\n\nThe PM had a special responsibility to moderate his language, he added.\n\nLast month, the prime minister was criticised for using words such as \"surrender\" when discussing Brexit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Johnson was also accused of dismissing abuse fears of female MPs as \"humbug\".\n\nThe PM later told the BBC that there had been a \"misunderstanding\" over his intention in using the word - which he apologised for.\n\nAsked about Mr Johnson's use of the word \"humbug\", Archbishop Welby said he was \"shocked\" and that such concerns \"should never be dismissed in that way\".\n\n\"Death threats are really serious and they need to be taken seriously,\" he said.\n\n\"All sides need to say, 'That is totally and utterly unacceptable'.\"\n\nArchbishop Welby added that \"inflammatory words\" had been said by politicians and voters on all sides of the political divide - which then risked being \"amplified\" by social media.\n\n\"I think we have become addicted to an abusive and binary approach to political decisions: 'It's either this or you're my total enemy'.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I think I've been the model of restraint\"\n\nThe Archbishop said that many MPs and peers had approached him for guidance after being driven to \"the end of their tether\" by the Brexit process, which has seen some expelled from their party.\n\n\"The stress is enormous. And they're being threatened a great deal and they're finding age-old friendships breaking down.\"\n\nThe Jo Cox Foundation - set up in memory of the MP who was murdered in 2016 - has called for an MP code of conduct, including use of language, to help protect politicians.\n\nAnd Archbishop Welby has called for action to heal divisions \"at almost every level of society\", saying: \"I don't only blame government.\"\n\nHis comments follow the release of latest Home Office figures which showed there has been a 10% rise in hate crimes recorded by police in England and Wales over the last year.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nWales missed out on a first World Cup final in gut-wrenching fashion as Handre Pollard's 76th-minute penalty snatched victory for South Africa in a gripping semi-final to set up a showdown against England.\n\nThe first half was a war of attrition, three Pollard penalties giving the Springboks a 9-6 lead as they sought to overpower Wales up front and kick them into submission.\n\nDan Biggar dragged Wales level with a penalty early in the second half, but then Damian de Allende burst through the Welsh defensive line to put South Africa 16-9 ahead.\n\nWales sensed they had to go for broke and, after boldly opting for a scrum rather than a penalty in front of the posts against their hulking opponents, they worked the ball wide for Josh Adams to dive over for a converted try that made it 16-16.\n\nThat set up a captivating final 10 minutes in which Wales drove forward in desperate search of the score that would keep alive their hopes of ending Warren Gatland's reign with the ultimate prize in rugby.\n\nBut they were denied as Pollard struck a fourth and match-winning penalty in the 76th minute.\n\nWhile South Africa can look forward to a final against England here in Yokohama next Saturday, Gatland's final game as Wales head coach will be the third-place play-off against his native New Zealand in Tokyo on Friday.\n\nHeartache has stalked Wales at recent World Cups - Sam Warburton's red card in an agonising 2011 semi-final loss to France, and then an injury-ravaged side's late defeat by South Africa in 2015's quarter-final.\n\nThis was another painful chapter to add to their story - with more than a passing resemblance to that match against the Springboks four years ago - and yet it was so close to being a different story.\n\nAlthough this side contained four players from the 2011 semi-final and largely the same coaching staff, this was not a Wales team weighed down by history.\n\nIn head coach Gatland and captain Alun Wyn Jones, they had leaders who had experienced the pain of those previous defeats but were not consumed by it.\n\nEven as injuries began to mount again in Japan - key players Liam Williams and Josh Navidi before this match, Tomas Francis and George North during it - Gatland and Jones were confident, relishing their tag of underdogs against South Africa, whom they had beaten in their past four meetings.\n\nHowever, this was a resurgent Springboks side on the prowl for a third World Cup.\n\nThe respect was mutual during a cautious start in which both sides kicked constantly, eager not to make the first mistake.\n\nWhen the errors did come, they were punished by the goal-kicking of Pollard and Biggar respectively, South Africa nudging themselves narrowly ahead.\n\nThis was the kind of tight contest the Springboks wanted, and Wales struggled to impose themselves on a game in which the ball seemed to be eternally airborne or moving slowly at the bottom of a ruck.\n\nYet despite their struggles to attack with any cohesion, Wales dug in to keep their deficit down to 9-6 at half-time.\n\nWales' will to win falls just short\n\nAfter Wales fought back from 16-0 down to beat France in their 2019 Six Nations opener, Gatland described his side as having \"forgotten how to lose\".\n\nThey had demonstrated that resilience during this World Cup with hard-fought victories over Australia, Fiji and France in particular.\n\nAnd in the absence of sparkling rugby in Yokohama, it was that will to win which Wales were looking to if they were to scrape past South Africa.\n\nThey found it to drag themselves level twice, with Biggar's penalty and Adams' try, a triumph of gumption and execution.\n\nBut ultimately, through a combination of the Springboks' brutal physicality and their own mounting injuries, Wales could not find their top gear.\n\nIn previous encounters in Japan, it had not mattered; they had found a way to win.\n\nBut that was against a declining Australia team and a French side who had perhaps forgotten how to win these big matches.\n\nThis was against a South Africa side on their way back to claiming a seat at world rugby's top table, a team that ruthlessly seized on any signs of weakness from their opponents to keep Wales still waiting, agonisingly, for a first World Cup final.\n\nWhereas Wales were aiming to write a new chapter in their history, South Africa were looking to rekindle old glories.\n\nWorld champions in 1995 and 2007, the Springboks had meandered in recent years, sliding down the world rankings and suffering chastening defeats such as a first loss to Italy and a 39-3 thrashing by Ireland.\n\nThey turned to Rassie Erasmus in 2018 as the man to halt that decline, and the former back-rower's aim was to \"redeem\" the team by restoring the brute force up front for which the Springboks had so long been renowned.\n\nThey had only conceded three tries during this tournament and limited Japan to just three points in the quarter-final, ending the hosts' run of scoring a try in 46 consecutive Tests.\n\nIt was no secret how the Springboks would look to beat Wales, and they lived up to the \"kicking fest\" Gatland prophesised before the match.\n\nErasmus' side bombarded their opponents with box-kicks, winning the aerial battle and flexing their considerable muscle in the scrum.\n\nIt was not pretty - and it might not have worried England head coach Eddie Jones, who was watching in the stands - but this was a brutal reminder that South Africa are once again a force to be reckoned with.\n• None South Africa have knocked Wales out of the Rugby World Cup in consecutive tournaments, reaching their third Rugby World Cup final (1995, 2007).\n• None That was the first time at the 2019 Rugby World Cup that Handre Pollard had managed a 100% goal kicking rate from the tee.\n• None Apart from a 22-20 win over an experimental South Africa side (13 debutants) in Washington in 2018, Wales have still not beaten South Africa outside of Cardiff.\n• None Josh Adams is now the outright top try scorer at the 2019 Rugby World Cup, his haul of six tries is the joint most a player has managed for Wales in an edition of the tournament (Shane Williams 6 in 2007).\n• None Wales made 39 kicks from hand in the game, the most they had made in a Rugby World Cup game since 1991 v Argentina (48); South Africa also made 39 kicks, their most since the 2007 final vs England (48).\n• None South Africa averaged 4 metres per carry in this match, whilst Wales could only average 1.7 metres per carry.\n\nWhat they said\n\nWales coach Warren Gatland: \"We probably gave away too many penalties in our own half and that cost us dearly.\n\n\"We never gave up and were in the arm wrestle.\n\n\"At 16-16 it was pretty close and you're dreaming of the three points going our way.\n\n\"I am proud of them, we punched massively above our weight in terms of playing numbers in Wales, we gave 100% in a close contest. But South Africa deserved to win tonight.\"\n\nSouth Africa coach Rassie Erasmus: \"We have so much respect for Wales and the coach, we thought they might pull it through late on but we had a bit of luck, but they are a class team. We are only half way there, we would love to win but we will play a class England outfit. You never know.\n\n\"The way our group stands together, no one cares who we substitute, we have a team spirit that will make the nation proud.\"\n\nFormer Wales flanker Martyn Williams speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"I think Wales have a group of players there. I can't see anyone retiring, not Alun Wyn Jones - I think he'll want to go to a fourth Lions tour - but it's not as if it's the end of an era. There's another World Cup in most of these players.\n\n\"Wayne Pivac [the next Wales coach] has done a fantastic job down at Scarlets. He's been around, he's experienced, a lot of the team's still staying. The back team staff are staying on board.\"\n\nReplacements: Watkin for North (39), Patchell for Biggar (57), T. Williams for G. Davies (47), Carre for W. Jones (54), Lewis for Francis (35), Beard for Ball (59), Shingler for Wainwright (68). Not Used: Dee.\n\nReplacements: Steyn for le Roux (68), Marx for Mtawarira (47), Kitshoff for Mbonambi (47), Koch for Malherbe (47), Snyman for Etzebeth (52), Mostert for De Jager (57), Louw for Kolisi (68). Not Used: H. Jantjies.\n\nWatch Scrum V World Cup Special, 20:00 GMT, BBC Two Wales on Sunday, 27 October and later on demand.", "An ex-Premier League player has described how he is living with a \"brutal disease\" with a \"terrible prognosis\".\n\nStephen Darby retired last year after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND).\n\nDarby, who started his career with Liverpool before playing for Bradford and Bolton, wants to raise money for more research into the disease.\n\nThe 31-year-old is supported by his wife Steph Houghton, who is captain of the England women's football team.", "President Donald Trump has said the leader of the Islamic State Group killed himself during an operation by US special forces in northwest Syria.\n\nSpeaking from the White House, Mr Trump said Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died after igniting a suicide vest.\n\nBaghdadi came to prominence in 2014, when he announced the creation of a \"caliphate\" in areas of Iraq and Syria.\n\nIS carried out a number of atrocities that resulted in thousands of deaths.", "The rail line between Hereford and Newport has been damaged at Pontrilas and elsewhere\n\nDirect rail services between north and south Wales could be cancelled for more than a week due to flood damage.\n\nNetwork Rail said flash floods washed away parts of the track at Pontrilas, Herefordshire, affecting services between Hereford and Abergavenny.\n\nSome roads remain shut and there are flood warnings in places across Wales.\n\nThe Met Office said more than 4in (100mm) of rain fell in 24 hours in some places.\n\nEmergency crews rescued people from cars stuck in floods and people were evacuated from homes on Saturday.\n\nAbout 25 homes were evacuated in Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, following flooding and a power cut, according to South Wales Fire and Rescue Service.\n\nPeople were also evacuated from Monmouth Caravan Park while the council's emergency response staff deployed sand bags through the night.\n\nTeams from South Wales Fire and Rescue Service were also on hand in the town to help families who found roads blocked by flood water.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMonmouthshire council leader Peter Fox said the authority was hoping the situation would improve given the immediate danger had passed.\n\n\"I would like to send my thoughts to residents and businesses impacted by the flooding,\" he added.\n\n\"Nobody ever wants to be forced from their home but in these circumstances I'm glad we are able to help.\n\nPeople were also rescued by firefighters from seven properties at Mill Green near the River Teme in Knighton, Powys, where several roads remain blocked, as in other areas.\n\nThere are no direct trains between north and south Wales with the line out at Pontrilas, Herefordshire.\n\nNo trains will run between Hereford and Abergavenny due to several sections of track, ballast and embankment being eroded or washed away.\n\nThe line is expected to remain closed until Monday 4 November, according to Network Rail.\n\n\"We understand how disruptive the closure of the Marches line will be to passengers and we'll work as fast as we can to get it back up and running again,\" said a spokesperson.\n\nFlooding has also led to line closures between Shrewsbury and Welshpool.\n\nThe Cambrian and Heart of Wales lines have been hit with Transport for Wales (TfW) advising people to check journeys before travelling.\n\nHeart of Wales services are terminating at Llanwrtyd Wells and Llandrindod Wells coming from Swansea direction, and the Fishguard Harbour line has also been affected.", "Maurice Robinson will appear before magistrates on Monday, police have said\n\nA lorry driver has been charged with the manslaughter of 39 people found dead inside a refrigerated trailer.\n\nMaurice Robinson, 25, was arrested after the bodies of 31 men and eight women were found in Grays on Wednesday.\n\nHe is further charged with people trafficking, immigration and money laundering offences, Essex Police said.\n\nMr Robinson, of Laurel Drive, Craigavon, Northern Ireland, is due before Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nThree others, a man and a woman, both 38, from Warrington, Cheshire, and a 48-year-old man from Northern Ireland remain in police custody.\n\nAll three were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people.\n\nA man in his 20s arrested by Irish police in Dublin was said to be \"of interest\" to the Essex Police investigation.\n\nEarlier police said efforts to identify the 39 people were focusing on the Vietnamese community.\n\nThe bodies were discovered in the early hours of Wednesday\n\nThe victims - who police initially believed to be Chinese nationals - were inside a refrigerated trailer which came to the UK via the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.\n\nOfficers said there had been a \"large amount of engagement\" from the Vietnamese population since the discovery of the bodies in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nThey said all the bodies had now been removed from the trailer and post-mortem examinations were being carried out.\n\nThe victims had been carrying \"very few\" identity documents, leaving officers to rely on fingerprints, DNA and distinguishing features such as tattoos or scars, he said.\n\nThe families of Pham Thi Tra My and Nguyen Dinh Luong are concerned they may be among the victims\n\nVietHome, an organisation that represents the Vietnamese community in the UK, said it had received photos of nearly 20 people reported missing.\n\nThe BBC has been contacted by Vietnamese families who fear their relatives were among the dead, including the family of Pham Thi Tra My, 26, who last messaged her family late on Tuesday.\n\nIn a text message shared by her parents, she said: \"I am really, really sorry, Mum and Dad, my trip to a foreign land has failed.\n\n\"I am dying, I can't breathe. I love you very much Mum and Dad. I am sorry, Mother.\"\n\nNguyen Dinh Gia believes his son, Nguyen Dinh Luong, 20, was also among the 39 victims.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nguyen Dinh Sat fears his son was among the 39 people found dead inside a refrigerated lorry\n\nRelatives of a third man - Nguyen Dinh Tu - have also contacted the BBC saying they had not heard from him. His father, Nguyen Dinh Sat, said his son had been in debt so decided to travel abroad to seek work.\n\nIt also emerged on Saturday that the family of a 19-year-old Vietnamese woman Bui Thi Nhung fear she may be among the dead.\n\nPrayers have been said for her during a service in Yen Thanh, in the northern central coast region of Vietnam.\n\nTran Ngoc An, the Vietnamese ambassador to the UK, visited Grays on Saturday morning with embassy officers and held meetings with Essex Police and the local council.\n\nThe ambassador has also spoken to Home Secretary Priti Patel about the deaths.\n\nIn a statement, the embassy said there was a \"willingness to exchange information and to co-ordinate\" with British authorities to help identify the victims.\n\nIt added that there had been no official confirmation of the identity of the victims.\n\nThe Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said he had asked the relevant authorities to urgently establish the identities of victims and look into the cases of Vietnamese nationals who were sent abroad illegally.\n\nDo you have any information to share about the incident? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nanammal talked to the BBC in 2017\n\nIndia's oldest exponent and teacher of yoga, V Nanammal, has died at her home near Coimbatore, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.\n\nShe was 99 and still teaching a hundred students a day until a few months ago.\n\nBorn into an agricultural family, she was taught yoga by her father.\n\nShe went on to master more than 50 postures or asanas, and trained more than a million students - hundreds of them now yoga instructors themselves around the world.\n\nV Nanammal (right) was known for her trademark pink sari\n\nKnown affectionately as \"Yoga Grandma\", Nanammal received the Padma Shri - one of India's highest civilian honours.\n\nShe became a popular figure on YouTube in her later years, still performing some of the most formidable yoga positions in her trademark pink sari.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The inspiration behind eight famous yoga poses\n\nA week ago, she fell from her bed and had been unwell since then, family sources were quoted as saying by India's PTI news agency.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News in 2017, Nanammal attributed her good health to her daily yoga routine.\n\n\"Health becomes your priority and everything is achievable,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has not been seen on video for five years\n\nHe is the world's most wanted man. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the fugitive leader of the Islamic State (IS) group and its self-styled \"caliph\", has a $25m (£19m) US government bounty on his head.\n\nFor more than three years he has been dodging capture, and ever mindful of his security, until now he has only ever appeared once in-vision, when he delivered his sermon from Mosul in 2014 declaring a \"caliphate\", ruled by him.\n\nEarlier this week, Baghdadi resurfaced in an 18-minute online video, rallying his supporters but, not surprisingly, giving no clues as to his current whereabouts.\n\nSo where is he, how is he being searched for, and why cannot the US and its allies, with all their sophisticated technology, locate him?\n\nReports say that on 3 November 2016, Baghdadi made a mistake that nearly cost him his life.\n\nThe battle for Iraq's second city of Mosul was getting underway and US-led coalition forces were pressing in on IS fighters.\n\nFrom somewhere just outside the city, Baghdadi made a 45-second radio call exhorting his followers to keep fighting. The message was intercepted by electronic eavesdropping aircraft operated by the coalition, a voice match was made and there was a frantic scramble to react.\n\nBut by then the IS leader was gone, moved on by his bodyguards and no doubt implored by them not to take to the airwaves in real time ever again.\n\nIt is unclear where the IS leader is\n\nIt took US intelligence almost 10 years to track down and kill Osama Bin Laden, between the day of the 9/11 attacks in 2001 until the small hours of 2 May 2011 when US Navy Seal commandos burst into his compound in Pakistan.\n\nAmerica's National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain's GCHQ have a staggeringly large capacity for Signals Intelligence, known as 'Sigint', monitoring, intercepting and decoding both open and encrypted communications around the world.\n\nIn the old days, terrorists on wanted lists would sometimes give away their locations by making calls from their mobile phones or staying online too long from one location.\n\nBin Laden was wise to that, and Baghdadi has been too - mostly.\n\nThe al-Qaeda leader was eventually tracked down to his Abbottabad lair not through his digital footprint but through the courier who ferried his propaganda videos and other messages by hand from there to wherever they were being uploaded onto the internet.\n\nAbu Bakr al-Baghdadi's last appearance was in a mosque in Mosul in 2014\n\nTracing this reverse journey is likely to be one of the first things US intelligence is likely to be doing in the days following Baghdadi's video release, but his security team will be wise to that.\n\nOnly a very small number of trusted associates will be with him and they are likely to be moving him around constantly.\n\nBorn near Samarra, Iraq, in 1971, his real name is Ibrahim Awad al-Badri.\n\nDeeply religious from an early age, he later spent time incarcerated in the US-run internment camp of Camp Bucca in 2004 following the Anglo-US invasion and occupation. There he forged close alliances with other inmates, including former Iraqi intelligence officials.\n\n\"He learned a lot on how to operate from Saddam's former intelligence officials,\" says Michael Stephens, a Middle East expert with the London-based think-tank Royal United Services Institute (Rusi).\n\n\"His operational security is excellent,\" he adds, \"partly because of his excessive paranoia\". Where is he hiding now? Almost certainly still in the Iraq-Syria border area, says Stephens.\n\n\"He'll be able to take advantage of established smuggling networks across that border,\" he says, \"using money to pay his way amongst the tribes there\".\n\nBaghdadi forged alliances with former Iraqi intelligence officials during his time in a US-led prison\n\nIraq's former strongman Saddam Hussein went on the run for nine months after his regime was overthrown.\n\nUS operation Red Dawn tracked him down to an underground hiding place near his birthplace in Tikrit after a human informant betrayed his whereabouts for a multi-million dollar reward.\n\nBut getting such a \"mole\" inside Baghdadi's inner circle would be very difficult indeed. The tiny amount of people in close proximity to him could well be so loyal as to be beyond financial temptation.\n\nSo if the world's most wanted man is staying off-line, he is not making any calls on a mobile phone, and he is possibly moving around constantly from one hiding place to another, then what hope does Washington and the West have of ever finding him? (Preferably before he orchestrates or inspires the next major IS attack).\n\nUltimately, it may well come down to luck and patience: a chance sighting by an inquisitive villager, an unusual configuration of vehicles spotted by an alert drone operator, or even an exhausted and disillusioned IS member who decides it is finally time to take the reward money on offer and spend the rest of his or her life, fabulously rich and forever in hiding.", "Businesswoman Gina Miller has had to employ round-the-clock security after court victories on Brexit\n\nPolice are investigating a crowdfunding page which sought to raise £10,000 to have campaigner Gina Miller killed.\n\nThe GoFundMe page targeting Ms Miller, who twice won Supreme Court cases challenging the government on Brexit, was first posted in April.\n\nPolice said the fundraising campaign was reported to them on Wednesday.\n\nGoFundMe took down the page, which had not raised any money, and apologised for any distress to Ms Miller, who called the crowdfunding \"horrifying\".\n\nSpeaking to the Sunday Mirror, which first reported the police investigation, Ms Miller said: \"This is horrifying. It beggars belief that this can have been allowed to have been put up on this site and stayed there for so long.\"\n\nA Met Police spokesman said: \"Officers from the Met's south west CID team are currently investigating a report of threats to kill that was reported to them on Wednesday October 23.\n\n\"Enquiries remain ongoing and the victim, a female aged in her 50s, has been regularly updated.\"\n\nA GoFundMe spokesman said the company was sorry this campaign \"got through our otherwise robust procedures\".\n\n\"We are particularly sorry for any distress this caused Gina Miller,\" he said.\n\nMs Miller, a 54-year-old investment manager and philanthropist, stepped into the spotlight in 2016 when she launched a crowdfunded legal challenge to the government.\n\nIt forced the government to give MPs a vote on invoking Article 50 and triggering the Brexit process.\n\nIn September, she won a landmark Supreme Court case establishing that Boris Johnson's suspension of Parliament was unlawful, because it prevented MPs carrying out their duties in the run up to the Brexit deadline.\n\nBut since her first court victory, she has suffered online abuse, including rape and death threats against her and her family, prompting her to employ round-the-clock security.\n\nResponding on Twitter to the crowdfunding threat, Ms Miller said: \"We need to heal our nation and my view is that the only way of doing that is to remember true British values of tolerance, decency, reason, civic duty, common-sense and, above all else, honesty and kindness.\"\n\nLabour MP David Lammy tweeted that the threats were \"despicable\", adding that Ms Miller had \"tirelessly fought for British values\". \"What is happening to our country?\" he asked.", "Airline official Norman Kaye looks out at hijacked TWA85 at Bangor airport, Maine\n\nAt the high point of the 1960s spate of hijackings, a plane was held up on average once every six days in the United States. Fifty years ago this week, Raffaele Minichiello was responsible for the \"longest and most spectacular\" of them, as one report described it at the time. Could those on board ever forgive him?\n\nUnder the hills of southern Italy, a little north-east of Naples, a fault ruptured and the earth began shaking. Those living on the surface, in one of the most earthquake-prone parts of Europe, were used to this. The 6.1-magnitude quake in the early evening was enough to frighten everyone, but it was the two powerful aftershocks that did the most damage.\n\nTwenty kilometres up from the epicentre and a few hundred metres north was where the Minichiello family lived, including 12-year-old Raffaele. By the time the third earthquake had subsided, their village of Melito Irpino was uninhabitable. The Minichiello family were left with nothing, Raffaele would later recall, and no-one in authority came to help.\n\nThe damage was such that almost the entire village was evacuated, razed and rebuilt. Many families would return, but the Minichiellos decided to move to the US for a better life.\n\nWhat Raffaele Minichiello found instead was war, trauma and notoriety.\n\nDressed in camouflage, Raffaele Minichiello stepped on to the plane, a $15.50 ticket from Los Angeles to San Francisco in his hand.\n\nThis was the last stop on Trans World Airlines flight 85's journey across the US, which had started several hours earlier in Baltimore before calling at St Louis and Kansas City.\n\nThe crew of three in the cockpit were helped by four young female flight attendants, most of whom had been in the job for only a few months. The most experienced was Charlene Delmonico, a bob-haired 23-year-old from Missouri who had been flying with the airline for three years. Delmonico had swapped shifts to fly on TWA85 as she wanted Halloween night free.\n\nBefore leaving Kansas City, captain Donald Cook, 31, had informed the flight attendants of a change in the usual practice: if they wanted to enter the cockpit, they were to ring a bell outside the door, and not knock.\n\nThe flight landed in Los Angeles late at night. Passengers disembarked and others, bleary-eyed, joined the short night flight to San Francisco. The lights were dimmed so that those who had stayed on board could continue sleeping. The flight attendants checked the passengers' tickets when they boarded quietly, but Delmonico paid particular attention to one of the new arrivals, especially his bag.\n\nThe tanned young man in camouflage, his wavy brown hair flattened, was nervous but polite as he boarded. A thin container protruded from his backpack.\n\nDelmonico moved towards the first-class compartment, where her colleagues Tanya Novacoff and Roberta Johnson were guiding passengers to their seats. \"What was that thing sticking out of the young man's backpack?\" Delmonico asked them. The answer - a fishing rod - calmed her fears and she returned to the back of the plane.\n\nTWA85, one of the notoriously noisy Boeing 707 fleet, during the hijacking\n\nThe flight was far from busy. With only 40 passengers on board, there was room for everyone to spread out and seek their own row in which to sleep.\n\nAmong them were the five mop-topped members of the sunshine pop group Harpers Bizarre, exhausted after a strange concert in Pasadena that night that had been temporarily halted by a man screaming from the balcony of the auditorium. It had been two years since the band's biggest hit, an adaptation of Simon & Garfunkel's The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy), but they would hit the peak of their fame just a few hours later.\n\nSinger-guitarist Dick Scoppettone and drummer John Petersen settled on the left-hand side of the plane and, relaxing into their seats, they lit cigarettes. At 01:30 on Friday, 31 October 1969, TWA flight 85 left Los Angeles for San Francisco. Fifteen minutes into the flight, the hijack began.\n\nAnyone sleeping peacefully would have had their rest disturbed on take-off. To boost the plane's thrust, the Boeing 707 injected water into the engines as it took off, earning it the industry nickname the Water Wagon. The effect inside the plane was violent and noisy, producing an ominous deep rumble.\n\nDarkness fell inside the plane as the flight attendants turned the lights almost all the way down. As silence settled, Charlene Delmonico began tidying the galley in the back of the plane with Tracey Coleman, a 21-year-old languages graduate who had joined TWA only five months earlier.\n\nThe nervous passenger in camouflage from earlier stepped into the galley and stood alongside them. He had an M1 rifle in his hand. Delmonico, calm and professional, responded simply: \"You're not supposed to have that.\" He responded by handing her a 7.62mm bullet to prove the rifle was loaded, and ordered her to lead him to the cockpit to show it to the crew.\n\nCharlene Delmonico (R) demonstrates to the press how the hijacking happened, alongside Tanya Novacoff (L) and Roberta Johnson (C)\n\nDick Scoppettone was drifting off to sleep but the movement further down the aisle roused him. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Delmonico being followed by a man who was pointing a rifle at her back. His bandmate John Petersen turned to him from a few rows in front and stared wide-eyed. \"Is this really happening?\"\n\nTowards the back of the plane, one of the passengers, Jim Findlay, got up to confront Minichiello. The hijacker turned around. He shouted to Delmonico: \"Halt!\"\n\nWith Findlay ordered back to his seat, Delmonico and Minichiello moved up the cabin again. She pushed the curtain aside to enter the first-class compartment, her knees buckling under the nerves, and alerted the two flight attendants ahead of her: \"There's a man behind me with a gun.\" They both moved quickly out of the way.\n\nSome of the passengers heard Minichiello shout at Delmonico as he became more and more agitated next to the cockpit door. For the most part he was polite, respectful and came across, in her words, as \"a nice clean-cut kid\", but by now paranoia was getting the better of him.\n\nDelmonico remembered the captain's instruction: don't knock to enter, ring the bell instead. But Minichiello, afraid he was being tricked, refused to let her do this. She knocked instead, and hoped this would alert the crew. The door opened, and Delmonico told the wary crew there was a man with a gun behind her. Minichiello stepped inside and pointed the rifle at each of the three men inside the cockpit: captain Cook, first officer Wenzel Williams and flight engineer Lloyd Hollrah.\n\nMinichiello appeared to be well trained and well armed, Williams thought. He knew what he wanted from the crew, and was determined to get it. After Delmonico had stepped out of the cockpit, Minichiello turned to the crew and said in heavily accented English: \"Turn towards New York.\"\n\nFBI special agent Scott Werner with the bullet handed to Charlene Delmonico\n\nThe unusual sight of a man walking through the plane with a gun had not gone unnoticed by those passengers who were still awake.\n\nThe members of Harpers Bizarre had all raced to sit next to one another within seconds of the gunman passing by. Their strange evening had just got stranger. They speculated how the man might have been able to sneak a rifle on to the plane. Where could they be going? Hong Kong, maybe? They'd never been to Hong Kong, that could be fun.\n\nNearby, Judi Provance's training kicked in. An off-duty TWA flight attendant, she was returning home to San Francisco after eight days on rota flying around Asia. Every year, she and TWA staff would undertake training in how to respond during emergencies, including hijackings. The main lesson they had been taught was to stay calm. Another was to not fall in love with the hijacker - it was easy, they had been told, for hijackers to elicit sympathy from the crew.\n\nProvance quietly mentioned to those around her that she had seen someone walking down the aisle with a gun. She had been taught not to cause panic, and to help manage the situation calmly. Jim Findlay, the man who had previously tried to intervene, was a TWA pilot \"deadheading\" on board as a passenger. He found the hijacker's bags and went through them to look for clues to his identity, and to make sure no more weapons were on board. Only later did the passengers find rifle magazines full of bullets.\n\nCaptain Cook's voice came over the loudspeaker. \"We have a very nervous young man up here and we are going to take him wherever he wants to go.\"\n\nAs the flight moved further and further from San Francisco, other messages were communicated to the passengers, or started spreading among them: they were heading to Italy, Denver, Cairo, Cuba. The crew inside the cockpit feared for their lives, but some of the passengers felt they were part of an adventure. An odd one, but an adventure nevertheless.\n\nIt was only natural that people on board TWA85 thought they might be heading to Cuba. It had long been hijackers' destination of choice.\n\nFrom the early 1960s, a number of Americans disillusioned with their homeland and entranced by the promise of a communist ideal had fled to Cuba following Fidel Castro's revolution. As American planes did not normally fly to the island, hijacking gave people the means of getting there. And by accepting hijackers from the US, Castro could embarrass and annoy his enemy while demanding money to return the planes.\n\nA three-month period in 1961 heralded the start of the hijacking phenomenon. On 1 May, Antulio Ramirez Ortiz boarded a National Airlines flight from Miami under a false name, and seized control of the plane by threatening the captain with a steak knife. He demanded to be flown to Cuba, where he wanted to warn Castro of a plot to kill him that had been wholly imagined by Ramirez.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brendan I. Koerner: \"There was a lot of rage around. It was a way for people to act out.\"\n\nTwo more hijackings followed over the following two months, and the next 11 years saw 159 commercial flights hijacked in the United States, Brendan I Koerner writes in his book The Skies Belong To Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking.\n\nHijackings that ended in Cuba were so common, he writes, that at one point US airline captains were given maps of the Caribbean and Spanish-language guides in case they had to unexpectedly fly to Havana. A direct phone line was set up between Florida air traffic controllers and Cuba. And there was even a suggestion that a replica of Havana's airport be built in Florida, to fool hijackers into thinking they had reached Cuba.\n\nThe hijackings were able to happen because of a lack of security at airports. There was simply no need to check passengers' luggage because no-one had ever caused any trouble, until the hijackings began. For years after that, the airline industry resisted introducing checks because they feared it would ruin the passenger experience and slow down the check-in process.\n\n\"We lived in a different world,\" Jon Proctor, a gate agent with TWA at Los Angeles International Airport in the 1960s, told the BBC. \"People didn't blow up airliners. If anything, they might hijack an airliner and want to go to Cuba, but they didn't try to blow up an airliner.\"\n\nIt would later emerge that Raffaele Minichiello had disassembled his rifle and carried it on to TWA85 in a tube, before putting the gun back together in the plane's bathroom. Taking it on board would have been \"very easy\", Proctor said. Gate agents would only have weighed his backpack and not checked it.\n\nBy the time TWA85 was held up, there had already been 54 hijackings in the US in 1969, the Associated Press reported at the time, at a rate of one every six days. But no-one had ever hijacked a plane in the US and taken it to another continent.\n\nThe crew were getting mixed messages from their jittery passenger: he wanted to go to New York, or maybe Rome. If their destination was to be New York, that would be a problem: they had enough fuel to fly only to San Francisco, so would have to stop for more. And if they were heading for Rome, there would be an even bigger obstacle: nobody on board was qualified to fly internationally.\n\nEventually, captain Cook was allowed into the cabin to talk to the passengers. \"If you've made any plans in San Francisco,\" he said, \"don't plan on keeping them. Because you're going to New York.\"\n\nAfter some negotiation, Minichiello agreed to let the captain land in Denver to take on enough fuel to reach the east coast. While over Colorado, Cook alerted air traffic control for the first time that the plane had been hijacked.\n\nThe plans soon changed: Minichiello would let the 39 other passengers get off in Denver, but he insisted that one of the flight attendants stay on board. A small debate broke out about who should stay. The hijacker's preference was Delmonico, whom he had led to the cockpit at gunpoint. Cook wanted Roberta Johnson, whom he knew best of all four attendants.\n\nAs Delmonico began writing a manifest of all passengers on board, Tracey Coleman went up to the cockpit with coffee for the crew. When she stepped back out, she insisted to Delmonico: \"I'm gonna go.\" Coleman had a boyfriend in New York, she said, and could go and see him. But Delmonico knew New York would not be the final destination. \"You're not going to stay in New York,\" she told Coleman. \"He can't stay there, he'll be arrested if he gets out there. He's going somewhere else - I don't know where, but he's going somewhere else.\"\n\nColeman, in an interview with TWA Skyliner magazine after the hijacking, said she knew what was at stake. \"It wasn't because I just wanted to go along for the ride,\" she said. \"But it was feared that if one of the stewardesses didn't stay aboard, he may not let the passengers off in Denver.\"\n\nMinichiello had demanded that the lights at Denver's Stapleton International Airport be turned off as the plane landed. He didn't want any surprises, and promised to release the passengers only if there was no trouble.\n\nHis nerves apparently calming, the hijacker proved unexpectedly accommodating. While he was exiting, Jim Findlay, the deadheading TWA pilot, realised he had left behind a Halloween outfit he had bought in Hong Kong. Findlay asked Minichiello if he could return to the back of the plane to retrieve it. He politely replied: \"Sure.\"\n\nAs the passengers filed off the plane in cold, foggy weather with sunrise still two hours away, they were met by an unsmiling FBI agent in an overcoat. The relief among those allowed to leave was clear, and they were led down a darkened corridor through the terminal. At the end was a room swarming with FBI agents, who had rushed to the airport at short notice and were waiting to take statements from the 39 passengers and three flight attendants.\n\nHarpers Bizarre, pictured at Denver airport after the hijacking, said it was their best publicity ever\n\nThe members of Harpers Bizarre remembered what their manager had once told them: if they were ever involved in any trouble, anything at all, they were to call him first, even before they got to a police station or hospital. As soon as they reached the terminal, they did just that, even though it was the middle of the night where he lived.\n\nThe tactic paid off. When they had finished giving their statements, they stepped into another room and were greeted by the flash of camera bulbs, reporters shouting the band's name, and phones ringing as news outlets around the US hoped to hear their story. \"It was the best publicity we ever had, by a mile,\" Dick Scoppettone told the BBC.\n\nThe assembled photographers captured tired passengers slumped against walls. Other passengers smiled, bemused, as they recounted what had happened. The three flight attendants gave statements to the FBI, and Charlene Delmonico's ran to 13 handwritten pages.\n\nAfter a day of interviews, all the flight attendants got home to Kansas City late in the evening, as TV channels kept viewers updated as the unlikely hijack continued.\n\nDelmonico settled in at home after more than a day without sleep. Late in the evening, her telephone rang. It was the FBI, could they come around to see her? They arrived at 23:00 and handed her a photo. The image of Raffaele Minichiello looked back at her. \"Yes, that's him,\" she said.\n\nIt was a face she would encounter again almost 40 years later.\n\nThe three-hour flight from Denver passed peacefully. Minichiello, stretched out in first class with the gun at his side, had calmed down. He poured himself an unusual cocktail from two miniature bottles - Canadian Club whisky and gin. Only five people remained on board TWA85 - captain Cook, first officer Wenzel Williams, flight engineer Lloyd Hollrah, flight attendant Tracey Coleman and the hijacker himself.\n\nThe plane landed at John F Kennedy airport late in the morning, and was parked as far from the terminals as possible. The order from the cockpit, like in Denver, was for as few people as possible to approach the plane. But the FBI was ready, and keen to stop the hijacker before he set a dangerous precedent and took a domestic flight to another continent. Close to 100 agents were waiting for TWA85, many disguised as mechanics hoping to sneak on board.\n\nWithin minutes of the landing, as refuelling was about to take place, the FBI started approaching the plane. Through the cockpit window, Cook spoke to one agent who wanted a reluctant Minichiello to come closer to the window to speak to them.\n\n\"Raffaele was running up and down the aisles to make sure they weren't trying to sneak in the airplane,\" Wenzel Williams told the BBC 50 years on. \"He felt he would be shot if he came to the window.\"\n\nThe captain, one eye on his passenger, warned the agents to stay away from the plane. Soon afterwards, a shot rang out.\n\nTWA85 later in the journey, with its new captain on board\n\nThe accepted version of events now is that Minichiello did not intend to shoot. In his agitated state, just outside the cockpit door, he is thought to have nudged the trigger of his rifle with his finger. The bullet pierced the ceiling and glanced off an oxygen tank, but did not penetrate it or the plane's fuselage. Had it damaged the fuselage, the plane would not have been able to fly on. Had it pierced the oxygen tank and caused an explosion, there might not have been a plane, or crew, left to fly.\n\nEven though the shot had apparently been fired by accident, it sent shivers through the crew and they were reminded that their lives were at stake. Captain Cook - who was sure the rifle had been fired on purpose - shouted at the agents through the window, chastising them and telling them the plane was leaving immediately, without refuelling.\n\nTwo TWA captains of 24 years' experience who were allowed to fly internationally, Billy Williams and Richard Hastings, pushed their way through the FBI agents and onto the plane. Everyone else stayed on board.\n\n\"The FBI plan was damned near a prescription for getting the entire crew killed,\" Cook later told the New York Times.\n\n\"We sat with that boy for six hours and had seen him go from practically a raving maniac to a fairly complacent and intelligent young man with a sense of humour, and then these idiots... irresponsibly made up their own minds about how to handle this boy on the basis of no information, and the good faith we had built up for almost six hours was completely destroyed.\"\n\nThe two new pilots, who were in no mood to humour the hijacker, took charge of the plane. Minichiello ordered everyone else to stay inside the cockpit with their hands on their heads.\n\nThe plane took off quickly, with nowhere near enough fuel on board to reach its intended destination: Rome.\n\nTwenty minutes after the plane had left New York with a bullet lodged in its roof, the tension on board had eased, thanks largely to Cook convincing Minichiello that the crew had nothing to do with the chaos at Kennedy airport.\n\nThe events there meant the plane had been unable to refuel, so within the hour, TWA85 landed in the north-eastern corner of the US in Bangor, Maine, where it took on enough fuel to cross the Atlantic. By now, in the early afternoon, the story of the hijacking and the drama in New York had gained the full attention of the American media. Photographers and reporters turned out en masse at Bangor's airport terminal.\n\nClose to 75 police officers ensured the press stayed as far as possible from the plane in case the gunman was provoked again. Hundreds of people had driven to the airport to get a glimpse of the action, but were kept half a mile away from the terminal. From the plane, the hijacker spotted two people watching from a nearby building. Cook, eager to leave, radioed the control tower: \"You had better hurry. He says he is going to start shooting at that building unless they get a move on.\" The two men quickly left.\n\nOn board, as the plane headed towards international airspace, a sense of solidarity had begun to develop among those who had been together for more than nine hours. But under the surface, even as they tried to keep the hijacker happy, the crew continued to fear for their lives.\n\nWith the new pilots on board, Cook went to sit with Minichiello in the first-class compartment, where they swapped stories. Cook spoke of his time as an air traffic controller with the US Air Force. The rifle rested between them, but at no point did the crew try to take it, mostly out of concern over how the hijacker might react.\n\nMinichiello repeatedly asked Cook if he was married. He replied that he was, despite being a bachelor. \"That seemed wiser,\" Cook told the New York Times later. He had assumed a jittery man with a gun would be less likely to harm married crew. \"He asked how many kids I had and I said one. Then he asked about the other members of the crew and I said: 'Yeah, all of them are married.'\" In fact, only one of the four original crew members was married.\n\nTracey Coleman, too, spent time chatting to Minichiello during the transatlantic trip, the first time she had left the United States or flown for longer than four hours. He taught her card games including solitaire and he was \"a very easy fellow to talk to\", she would later recall. He talked about his family moving to the US and, intriguingly, said he had \"had a little military trouble after coming back to the States and just wanted to go home to Italy\", Coleman later told an airline industry magazine.\n\nShe slept a little during the six-hour flight from Bangor to Shannon, on Ireland's west coast, where TWA85 refuelled once more in the middle of the night. Few others on board were able to sleep. \"We were too keyed up for that,\" Wenzel Williams recalled. The only food on board was a handful of cupcakes left on the original flight from Baltimore to Los Angeles. \"Food wasn't exactly much of an issue,\" Williams told the BBC. \"Having a gun pointed at us a good bit of the time kept most other issues at bay.\"\n\nAs TWA85 crossed time zones on its approach to Ireland, and 31 October became 1 November, Minichiello turned 20. No-one celebrated.\n\nHalf an hour after landing in Ireland, TWA85 was off again, on the final stretch of its 6,900-mile (11,000km) journey to Rome.\n\nTWA85 circled Rome's Fiumicino airport early in the morning. Minichiello had one more demand: the plane was to be parked far from the terminal and he was to be met by an unarmed police official. The hijack was nearing its end, 18-and-a-half hours after it had started over the skies of central California. It was, the New York Times reported at the time, \"the world's longest and most spectacular hijacking\".\n\nIn the last few minutes of the flight, Williams said, the hijacker offered to drive the crew to a hotel once they had landed, an offer they politely declined. Minichiello also feared the crew would be punished for not having stolen his gun when they had the opportunity. \"I've given you guys an awful lot of trouble,\" he told Cook. \"That's all right,\" the captain replied. \"We don't take it personally.\"\n\nAt the airport, shortly after 05:00, a lone Alfa Romeo approached the plane. Out of it emerged Pietro Guli, a deputy customs official who had volunteered to meet the hijacker. He walked up the steps to the plane with his hands up, and Minichiello emerged to meet him.\n\n\"So long, Don,\" the hijacker told the captain as he left. \"I'm sorry I caused you all this trouble.\" Minichiello noted Cook's address in Kansas City so he could later write to him and explain what had happened after they separated.\n\nThe two men walked down the steps towards the car, Minichiello still holding his rifle, and the six people on board felt \"total relief\", according to first officer Wenzel Williams. They were free again. But they all hoped the next stage of the hijacking would end safely, for both Minichiello and his new hostage.\n\nAfter Los Angeles, Denver, New York, Bangor, Shannon and Rome, there was only one destination now. \"Take me to Naples,\" Minichiello ordered Pietro Guli. He was heading home.\n\nFour police cars trailed the Alfa Romeo and the officers' voices crackled over the hostage's radio. Minichiello, sitting in the back seat, switched off the radio and gave his hostage directions where to go.\n\nPolice searched the countryside outside Rome for Raffaele Minichiello, with little luck\n\nIn the countryside about six miles from the centre of Rome, having somehow evaded the pursuing cars, the Alfa Romeo travelled down lanes that became ever more narrow. Eventually it reached a dead end and both men stepped out of the car. Realising he had few options left, Minichiello sprinted away in panic.\n\nTwenty-three hours after TWA85 left Los Angeles, Minichiello's journey came to an end. It did so only because of the publicity the hijacking had generated. Over five hours in the hills around Rome, hundreds of police officers, some with dogs and helicopters, led the search for the hijacker. But in the end, he was found by a priest.\n\nSaturday, 1 November was All Saints Day, and the Sanctuary of Divine Love was full for morning Mass. Among the well-dressed congregation, the young man in his vest and undershorts stood out. Minichiello had sought shelter in the church after shedding his military clothes and stashing his gun in a barn. But his face was now famous and the vice-rector, Don Pasquale Silla, recognised him.\n\nWhen the police finally surrounded Minichiello outside the church, he expressed bemusement - interpreted by reporters as the arrogance of a young criminal - that his countrymen might want to detain him. \"Paisà [my people], why are you arresting me?\" he asked.\n\nMinichiello under arrest in Rome: \"What plane? I don't know what you're talking about\"\n\nHe employed the same tone hours later while speaking to reporters, his hands free of cuffs, after a brief interrogation in a Rome police station. \"Why did you do it?\" one reporter asked. \"Why did I do it?\" he replied. \"I don't know.\" When another asked him about the hijacked plane, he replied in a perplexed tone: \"What plane? I don't know what you're talking about.\"\n\nBut in another interview, he revealed the real reasons for the hijack.\n\nAs the news of Minichiello's arrest spread around the world later that day, Otis Turner sat down for breakfast in the mess of his Marine barracks in California.\n\nThe television in the corner was relaying the details of the daring hijack and the manhunt in the Italian countryside. \"Then they flashed up Raffaele's picture,\" Turner told the BBC. \"I was just floored, absolutely floored.\"\n\nThe two men had served in the same platoon in Vietnam. \"I was confused at first,\" Turner said, \"but when I really got to thinking about it, I knew he had had some issues and it all came together.\"\n\nWhen the hijacking happened, it was four-and-a-half years since US combat forces had first landed in Vietnam and the fall of Saigon was still more than five years away. The US would leave Vietnam having completely failed in its mission, leaving more than 58,000 American service personnel and millions of Vietnamese - both combatants and civilians - dead.\n\nOpposition in the US to the war was at its peak in late 1969. An estimated two million people across the US had taken part in the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam - reported as the biggest demonstration in American history - two weeks before the hijacking.\n\nThe lottery drafting young Americans to fight was still a month away from being enforced, but many thousands of young men had already volunteered, believing back then that the cause - to fight the communists of North Vietnam - was valid. Raffaele Minichiello was one of those who volunteered.\n\nIn May 1967, the 17 year old left his home in Seattle, to where he and his family had moved after the earthquake in their Italian homeland in 1962. He travelled to San Diego to enlist in the Marine Corps, and for those who knew him - a little stubborn, a little gung-ho - this did not come as a surprise.\n\nMinichiello barely spoke English, and had been teased for his thick Neapolitan accent by his classmates before dropping out of school altogether. Doing so had brought an end to his ambitions of being a commercial pilot. But he was proud of his adopted country, and was willing to fight for it in the hope it would make him a naturalised American citizen.\n\nOtis Turner arrived in Vietnam at about the same time as Minichiello, and they served in different squads in the same Marine platoon. They were \"grunts\" - the men dropped on to the jungle-cloaked hills of the front line for a few months at a time to take the fight to the communist forces.\n\n\"Anybody will tell you: the grunts had the toughest job in the Marine Corps,\" Turner, now living in Iowa, said. \"We were in 120-degree (49C) weather, in monsoon season. It was terrible.\"\n\nIn 2019, Turner looks back with some shame at what they were ordered to do, and how they complied. Their mission was brutally simple. \"From the time we joined the Marine Corps, we were basically all about kill, kill, kill,\" he said. \"That's all they wanted us to do. They drilled that into us from the beginning.\"\n\nMinichiello's role brought him into firefights that killed close friends, and led him to save others who were in danger. He was awarded the Cross of Gallantry, which was given out by the government of South Vietnam to those who had displayed heroic conduct in the war.\n\nAdjusting to daily life back in the US proved impossible. \"There was no staging area to regroup or to get your mind and body back working as one unit,\" Turner told the BBC. \"There was no period there just to break it all down and think about what you had just done, to see a professional.\n\n\"There were a lot of sick people, confused people. Raffaele was in some state. All of us were confused when we left Vietnam.\"\n\nTurner said most members of his and Minichiello's platoon - including himself - went on to be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The US Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that up to 30% of all those who served in Vietnam have suffered PTSD at some point in their lives - about 810,000 people.\n\nRaffaele Minichiello would not be diagnosed until 2008. He remains ineligible for treatment having received a \"less than honourable\" discharge by the military, a decision his platoon is still campaigning to reverse.\n\nTracked down by reporters near Naples, Minichiello's father - who was by then suffering from terminal cancer and had returned to Italy - knew immediately what had caused his son to hijack the plane. \"The war must have provoked a state of shock in his mind,\" Luigi Minichiello said. \"Before that, he was always sane.\" He vowed to clip him around the ear when he next saw him.\n\nMaria Minichiello, Raffaele's mother, cries outside court in Rome, to where she had travelled from the US\n\nAnother reason for the hijacking soon emerged. While in Vietnam, Minichiello had been sending money to a Marines savings fund. He had collected $800, but when he returned to base in Camp Pendleton, California, he noticed there was only $600 in his account. It was not enough to pay for a visit to Italy to see his dying father.\n\nMinichiello raised his concerns with his superiors, and insisted he be given the $200 he felt he was owed. His superiors didn't listen, and dismissed his complaint. And so Minichiello took matters into his own hands, albeit clumsily. One night, he broke into the store on the base to steal $200 of goods. Unfortunately for him, he did so after drinking eight beers and fell asleep inside the store. He was caught the next morning.\n\nThe day before he hijacked TWA85, he had been due to appear before a court martial in Camp Pendleton but, fearing prison, he went awol and travelled up to Los Angeles. With him, he took a Chinese rifle he had registered as a war trophy in Vietnam.\n\nAgainst the odds, Minichiello became a folk hero in Italy, where he was portrayed not as a troubled gunman who had threatened a planeload of passengers, but as a fresh-faced Italian boy who would do anything to return to the motherland. He faced trial in Italy - the authorities there insisted on this within hours of his arrest - and would not face extradition to the US, where he could have faced the death penalty.\n\nAt his trial, his lawyer Giuseppe Sotgiu portrayed Minichiello as the poor victim - the poor Italian victim - of an unconscionable foreign war. \"I am sure that Italian judges will understand and forgive an act born from a civilisation of aircraft and war violence, a civilisation which overwhelmed this uncultured peasant.\"\n\nThe promise of a nude modelling career for Minichiello came to nothing\n\nHe was prosecuted in Italy only for crimes committed in Italian airspace, and sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison. That sentence was quickly reduced on appeal, and he was released on 1 May 1971.\n\nWearing a brown suit, the 21 year old stepped out of the Queen of Heaven prison near the Vatican to face crowds of photographers and cameramen. Occasionally overawed by the attention and breaking into a smile that flitted from nervousness to cockiness, he stopped to speak to reporters. \"Are you sorry for what you did?\" one asked. \"Why should I be?\" he replied, grinning.\n\nBut after that, an array of prospects came to nothing. A nude modelling career never took off, and a promise by a film producer to turn Minichiello into a Spaghetti Western star was never kept. For years, rumours swirled that the character John Rambo was based on Minichiello - after all, Rambo was a decorated but misunderstood Vietnam veteran who had lost the plot - but the man who created Rambo has since dismissed the suggestion.\n\nIn the years after prison, Minichiello settled in Rome where he worked as a bartender. He married the bar owner's daughter, Cinzia, with whom he had a son. At one point he also owned a pizza restaurant named Hijacking.\n\nThe earthquake that had destroyed Raffaele Minichiello's hometown in 1962 was just a precursor. Eighteen years later, a magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck southern Italy, its epicentre barely 20 miles from the one in 1962.\n\nThis was the most powerful earthquake to strike Italy in 70 years, and it caused enormous damage across the Irpinia region. Up to 4,690 people were killed and 20,000 homes - many of them in a weakened state after the 1962 quake - were destroyed.\n\nA village that was destroyed in the 1980 Irpinia earthquake\n\nSoon afterwards, Italians began arriving in large groups to the region east of Naples to distribute aid. Among them was Raffaele Minichiello.\n\nThe 31 year old was still living in Rome at the time, but had felt compelled to make the 300-mile trip home three times in only two weeks to deliver aid. \"I know all about earthquakes in Irpinia,\" he told an interviewer from People magazine in December 1980. \"That is where I was born, and that is where all my troubles began.\"\n\nHis distrust of authority, fostered during his time in the Marines, had stayed with him. \"I mistrust institutions, so I give help personally,\" he said. \"I know all about people who don't keep their promises.\"\n\nMinichiello was recognised among the snowy ruins of Irpinia, but he was not quite the minor celebrity he had been when TWA85 landed in Rome 11 years earlier. At that time, his image - slick curled hair, cigarette in his right hand, casual smirk on his face - had been on the front covers of magazines around the world.\n\nMinichiello, seen here in the court building, concocted an even more outlandish plot in 1985\n\nIn the post-earthquake ruins, a more repentant Minichiello began to emerge. \"I'm very different now to who I was,\" he said. \"I'm sorry for what I did to those people on the plane.\"\n\nMinichiello's redemption did not come with the Irpinia earthquake. And his story could have ended very differently had his plan for another attack come to fruition, although this plan was much more poorly thought-out than his hijack.\n\nIn February 1985, Cinzia was pregnant with the couple's second child. After being admitted to hospital in labour, she and her newborn son died as a result of medical malpractice. Minichiello, feeling angry and let down by the authorities again, knew what he would do. He would target a prominent medical conference outside Rome, and draw attention to the negligence that had cost his wife and son their lives. He arranged, via an acquaintance, to acquire guns with which he would launch a violent revenge attack.\n\nWhile he plotted, Minichiello struck up a friendship with a young colleague, Tony, who sensed his distress. Tony introduced him to the Bible and read him passages out loud. Minichiello listened and, over time, decided to devote his life to God. He called off his attack.\n\nIn 1999, Minichiello decided to return to the United States for the first time since the hijack.\n\nHe had learned earlier that year that there were no outstanding criminal charges against him in the US, but his decision to abscond was not entirely without consequence. Because Minichiello had fled a court martial, he was given what is known as an \"other than honourable discharge\" by the Marines. His former platoon comrades have been fighting to get this reduced to a general discharge, to reflect his service in Vietnam, but they remain unsuccessful to this day.\n\n\"Raffaele was a great Marine, a decorated Marine,\" fellow platoon member Otis Turner told the BBC. \"He was always the guy right out front. He would volunteer for everything. He has saved lives. What he did for this country, his part in Vietnam... you just don't throw somebody to the side like that.\"\n\nAs his platoon worked to clear his name, Minichiello asked them to help with another mission: finding those who were on board TWA85, so he could apologise.\n\nBy the summer of 2009, Charlene Delmonico had been retired for more than eight years after spending her whole 35-year career as a flight attendant with TWA. Within a year of her retirement in January 2001, the airline no longer existed after falling into bankruptcy and being taken over by American Airlines.\n\nOut of the blue, Delmonico received an invitation. Would she be willing to meet the man who had once held her up at gunpoint?\n\nThe invitation had come from Otis Turner and other members of Raffaele's platoon. \"I thought the idea was kind of crazy,\" Turner said. \"But I got thinking and I thought: why not try?\"\n\nDelmonico's first reaction to the invitation was shock. The hijacking had defined her life, and reshaped it. Why should she meet the man who had once put a gun against her back? Her second reaction, as a churchgoer, was different. \"I was kind of surprised,\" she told the BBC. \"And I had a strange feeling. This was something that had happened that was very scary and nerve-wracking - it really did get to me.\n\n\"Then I thought: we are taught to forgive. But I didn't know how I would receive him.\"\n\nIn August 2009, Delmonico travelled the almost 150 miles south from her home to Branson, Missouri, where Minichiello and his former platoon were holding a reunion. There she met Wenzel Williams, the first officer on TWA85, who was the only other person to accept the offer to meet Minichiello. Captain Cook had refused, a gesture that hurt the one-time hijacker who believed he had developed a bond with the captain as they had sat chatting in first class.\n\nIn a side room at the Clarion Hotel, Williams and Delmonico sat at a round table with the platoon members, minus Minichiello. The former soldiers presented them with a letter, expressing what they hoped could be achieved through the meeting. Their obvious support for Minichiello convinced Delmonico that they felt this was a man worth fighting for.\n\nRaffaele Minichiello (far left) and Otis Turner (far right) at a reunion of their platoon\n\nAfter some time, Minichiello walked in and sat down. The atmosphere remained tense for a while. But as more questions flowed, and Minichiello began to explain what had happened to him, the group grew closer.\n\nMinichiello seemed different to Williams - smaller, more softly spoken. He appeared weighed down by his guilt as he relived the hijacking. But his remorse appeared sincere.\n\n\"In a way, I got a little closure, saw a different viewpoint,\" Delmonico said. \"I probably felt sorry for him. I thought he was very polite. But he was always polite.\"\n\nBefore they left, Minichiello handed them both a copy of the New Testament.\n\nThank you for your time, so much.\n\nI appreciate your forgiveness for my actions that put you in harm's way.\n\nPlease accept this book, that has changed my life.\n\nGod bless you so much, Raffaele Minichiello.\n\nThe passage reads: \"Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.\"", "Amelia Bambridge's sister Georgie (right) said the family were trying to be strong\n\nA British student who disappeared after a beach party on a Cambodian island has been reported missing.\n\nAmelia Bambridge, 21, who was on her gap year, was last seen in the resort of Koh Rong on Wednesday.\n\nMembers of her family, from Worthing, Sussex, flew from the UK to Cambodia where searches of the sea, beaches and jungle have begun.\n\nMs Bambridge's sister Georgie said the family was in touch with police and trying to stay strong as concerns grew.\n\nFriends reported Amelia's \"out-of-character\" disappearance after her belongings were found on a beach.\n\nRyan Harris said \"alarm bells started\" when she could not be found after the party.\n\n\"She always sticks with the group. She never wanders off on her own,\" he said.\n\nSearches have covered areas of water, beach and jungle on Koh Rong\n\nMr Harris said Koh Rong was \"quite a small island\" which someone could walk around in two or three hours.\n\n\"You might lose your friend after a night out but you'll see them in 20 minutes or you might see them the next morning,\" he said.\n\nMr Harris, who said he was on a neighbouring island with another group at the time of the party, said volunteers had come together to search for his friend.\n\nMs Bambridge has gone missing on the small Cambodian island\n\nMs Bambridge had been travelling with her friend Ryan Harris\n\n\"People are diving. People are checking the jungles and the beaches,\" he said.\n\n\"Police sent three search teams out, so they're helping as well. It's a whole island thing now. Everyone's looking.\"\n\nGeorgie Bambridge said relatives were distraught by her sister's disappearance.\n\n\"She is such a big part of this family,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to be strong and we are trying to be really positive, but it's the unknown.\"\n\nMs Bambridge, seen on the left with her mother Linda Bambridge and her sister Georgie, had been to a party when she disappeared\n\nThe family told the BBC that Ms Bambridge, who has three sisters and a brother, set off on her trip on 27 September and first flew to Vietnam to meet her Vietnamese father.\n\nThey both travelled to Cambodia before she checked into the hostel on Koh Rong.\n\nOn the night she disappeared, she had been with friends she had met at the hostel and they went to a party on Police Beach - named after its proximity to a disused police station.\n\nHer sister Georgie said she had spent two years saving and planning for her gap year trip while working at Lloyds bank. Her sisters described her as \"meticulously organised\".\n\nMs Bambridge, who is a vegan, has a Highland cow tattoo on her arm\n\nA Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman said: \"We are assisting the family of a British woman who has been reported missing in Cambodia and are in close contact with the Cambodian police.\"\n\nThe Lucie Blackman Trust, which supports the families of missing people overseas, has put out an appeal on Facebook.\n\nThe charity said Ms Bambridge was last seen at Police Beach where she attended a party in the early hours of 23 October, but had not returned to the Nest Beach Club Hostel where she was staying, and there were serious concerns for her welfare.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour claims workers' rights will be eroded under Boris Johnson's Brexit deal renegotiation\n\nAn internal UK government memo on the consequences of Boris Johnson's Brexit deal renegotiation singles out the removal of the word \"adequate\" from the UK-EU Political Declaration to describe mechanisms for enforcing common social, environmental, and labour standards after Brexit.\n\nThe word \"adequate\" appears to have been replaced by the word \"appropriate\".\n\nExtracts of a note written for the government's cross-Whitehall Economic Partnership Steering Group, and seen by the BBC, say the \"parties will include \"appropriate\" (rather than \"adequate\") mechanisms for dispute settlement\" of key \"level playing field commitments\" in a future trade deal with the European Union.\n\nThe consequence of that change, the note says, is that it means that it is now possible to argue it is \"inappropriate for the future UK-EU relationship\" that disputes about these commitments on employment, environment, tax, state aid and other standards should be subject to binding arbitration.\n\nThe memo, first leaked to the Financial Times and marked \"Official Sensitive\", contains a series of claimed negotiation wins from the Brexit deal renegotiation, weakening the scope and strength of Level Playing Field Commitments (LPF), a crucial element in a future UK-EU trade arrangement.\n\n\"The previous Protocol applied wide-ranging LPF measures on a UK-wide bases as a response to UK access to the EU market through the single customs territory.\n\n\"UK negotiators successfully resisted the inclusion of all UK-wide LPF rules\" says the memo, with the last four words put in bold for emphasis.\n\n\"The only level playing field provisions in the revised Protocol are those necessary to support the operation of the Single Electricity Market and state aid measures that affect trade between NI and the EU,\" it says.\n\nThe title of the memo is \"Update to EPSG (Economic Partnership Steering Group) on Level Playing Field Negotiations\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 is the first acknowledgement that changing the Level Playing Field commitments agreed by Theresa May was a specific aim of the PM's renegotiation.\n\nIn public, the PM focused on changing what he referred to as \"the anti-democratic backstop\", which had been rejected by the government's parliamentary allies, the Democratic Unionists.\n\nIn the end, the PM's new solution, creating a new trade and regulatory border in the Irish Sea, further alienated the DUP. Backbench eurosceptic Conservative MPs have, however, been won over to the deal.\n\nTheresa May's original 2018 deal included a range of specific enforceable common standards for the UK and the EU within the legally binding Withdrawal Treaty.\n\nSome of these standards were related to EU law, others referred to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), International Labour Organisation and the Council of Europe.\n\nBusiness minister Kwesi Kwarteng said the leaked reports are \"completely mad\"\n\nThese were all removed, along with the backstop, and the only reference remaining in the overall deal was in the non-binding Political Declaration.\n\nThe memo shows that within Whitehall, weakening these provisions was a key part of the renegotiation.\n\nRegarded as an internal success, their removal paves the way for a \"much more open starting point for future relationship negotiations\" that allow for \"a range of landing zones\" for a future deal.\n\n\"The Political Declaration text provides us with a framework for negotiating FTA-style commitments on Level Playing Field,\" the memo concludes under the headline \"Next Steps\".\n\nThat is a reference to the fact that, unlike the original Brexit deal agreed by Theresa May, dispute settlement mechanisms have not applied to existing standard EU Free Trade Agreements.\n\nSam Lowe, trade fellow at the Centre for European Reform, said: \"The Level Playing Field commitments in the EU's Free Trade Agreements with Canada and Japan are unenforceable, because they are specifically excluded from the dispute settlement mechanisms. The government appears to be aiming for the same treatment.\"\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly rejected suggestions there are attempts to relax workplace rights or environmental protections.\n\n\"In many areas we have already gone further than the European Union,\" he said. \"We are making hard improvements on worker rights through an increase in the National Living Wage.\"\n\nThe government was also strengthening rules on maritime protection and animal welfare, he added.\n\nOn Saturday, ministers said stories about the leaked memo were \"not correct\" and \"way exaggerated\".\n\nThe government also said: \"The UK government has no intention of lowering the standards of workers' rights or environmental protection after we leave the EU.\n\n\"UK level playing field commitments will be negotiated in the context of the future UK-EU free trade agreement, where we will achieve a balance of rights and obligations which reflect the scope and depth of the future relationship.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video appearing to show the IS group leader was released earlier this year\n\nThe death of Islamic State (IS) group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a US military raid has been announced with great fanfare by President Donald Trump. Dr Lina Khatib, director of the Middle East programme at the international relations think-tank Chatham House, explains what is likely to happen next.\n\nThe killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi does not mean the automatic end of IS. But the immediate future of IS depends more on local dynamics in Syria than on whether it still has a leader or not.\n\nBaghdadi was a powerful tool for IS, especially at a time when the organisation was planning to establish a so-called state. Considering that there could not be a caliphate without a caliph, IS put Baghdadi in the public eye to give its supporters around the world an identifiable figurehead.\n\nDespite the military defeat of IS in Syria and Iraq, its supporters still saw in the presence of Baghdadi hope of restoring the caliphate one day. His statements mobilised sympathisers, even if only rhetorically, as noted by journalists and aid workers who interviewed the wives and widows of IS fighters in al-Hol camp inside Syria.\n\nIn the run-up to the Turkish invasion of northern Syria, the military capacity of IS had been greatly reduced but the organisation was still active. Sleeper cells would conduct opportunistic attacks in the north-east, mainly against civilians.\n\nSome miles away westwards, in the huge Sokhna desert near Homs, east of Palmyra, IS fighters would sporadically attack Syrian army and Russian targets. In the north-west, many former IS fighters had joined one of the jihadist groups in the region rather than remaining under the IS banner. The group closest to IS in Idlib is al-Qaeda affiliate Hurras al-Din, which despite being militarily active is limited in numbers and popularity among local residents.\n\nThe nucleus of IS activity in Syria is the greater region of Deir al-Zour in the north-east, particularly the areas extending south of Bosaira towards Diban. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) control the area but have struggled to gain acceptance there because the SDF is Kurdish-dominated while the area is populated by Arab tribes that reject not only the SDF but also the Syrian army and Iran-backed militias who are present in surrounding towns. Those tribes have recently been staging demonstrations against the Syrian regime and Iran.\n\nBefore the Turkish invasion of northern Syria, tensions between the tribes in Deir al-Zour and the SDF were regularly followed by an increase in IS activity. A few months ago, an SDF checkpoint shot at an Arab passerby. For the following two weeks, there was an increase in sleeper cell attacks in the Deir al-Zour area, facilitated by some members of Arab tribes. This pattern of tension followed by an increase in IS attacks continues, though the attacks are mainly based on improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and are limited in scale.\n\nSince the Turkish invasion, IS has tried to take advantage of the decrease in the SDF presence in Deir al-Zour as SDF leaders left to go to the front lines to confront Turkey. This has also resulted in an increase in IS activity. However, it has not attempted to retake geographical areas. This, coupled with the use of IEDS, signals that its military capacity is greatly reduced. The presence of the anti-IS international coalition in Deir al-Zour - to protect the oilfields there, according to the US administration - has also been a significant deterrent to IS.\n\nIS is likely to use the death of Baghdadi to rally its supporters in the name of revenge. However, the days of its militants fighting till the last breath appear to be over. Its leader in Syria, Abu Ayman al-Iraqi, had to deploy to the front lines accompanied by only six fighters during his final battle. They abandoned him, leaving him to be killed by the SDF. In its heyday, IS would not have needed commanders of this seniority on the front lines.\n\nIS is likely to choose a successor to Baghdadi, but what is more significant for its operations is the situation in the north-west and the north-east of Syria. President Trump said Baghdadi was in Idlib - where he was killed - because he was trying to rebuild IS there.\n\nDamage from the US raid in the Syrian village of Barisha: IS will use Baghdadi's death to rally supporters\n\nThe Hurras al-Din jihadist group in Idlib, which splintered from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to stay loyal to al-Qaeda, is likely to have hosted Baghdadi. Although HTS is trying to build its own administration in the area, and although HTS collaborated with Hurras al-Din against the Syrian army in the battlefield, there is widespread popular resistance to the IS brand in Idlib, which makes it unlikely that the province will become the new capital of an IS caliphate.\n\nAs for the north-east, the Syrian army is spreading its presence in the area but its capacity there is limited not just because of decreased soldier numbers and lack of equipment, but also because it is dealing with infighting in Daraa in southern Syria as well as preparing for a campaign on Idlib in the north-west.\n\nIt is Kurdish fighters who are still in control in the north-east, even if they have recently started flying the Syrian flag following the entry of the Syrian army into the area. Only if the international anti-IS coalition leaves Deir al-Zour is IS likely to target the area, helped by members of Arab tribes who reject the SDF. But President Trump clearly said the coalition was not budging from protecting the oilfields there.\n\nThe situation in the north-east underlines that even if the international anti-IS coalition regards the killing of Baghdadi as a symbolic victory, local tensions are the main fuel for IS resurgence, while the ground presence of coalition forces remains the greatest IS deterrent.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nJosh Taylor beat Regis Prograis on points to become the unified IBF and WBA super-lightweight champion and win the World Super Series in London.\n\nThe Scot, 28, earned a riveting, see-sawing victory, with judges scoring it 114-114, 115-113, 117-112.\n\nPrograis was composed in the early skirmishes but Taylor grew into the contest and landed telling blows in the eighth, ninth and 10th, before two fiercely contested final rounds.\n\nHe inflicted his American opponent's first loss in 25 fights en route to the Muhammad Ali Trophy, while also claiming the WBC Diamond and Ring Magazine belts.\n\nWith his right eye swollen shut, Taylor dedicated the O2 Arena victory to his late father-in-law, who died last month.\n\n\"He was here with us tonight and I want to dedicate this to him,\" he told Sky Sports.\n\n\"What a fight. All respect to Regis Prograis, a great fight, great champion, but the best man won.\n\n\"The free-flowing boxing, the inside work - I don't think he quite expected I could switch it up and go to range quite as quickly.\"\n\n'Danger everywhere in fight that hung in balance'\n\nThe fight was a mouth-watering prospect for boxing fans - two undefeated world champions, a spot of needle in the build-up and no fewer than five belts up for grabs in a packed stadium as the two southpaws prepared to battle.\n\nTaylor, four years a pro, spoke of his speed, reactions and timing being his greatest assets: all were tested in a thriller.\n\nHe held the advantage in height and reach and was the man on the front foot as the Houston-based WBA champion relied on his head movement to evade Taylor's barrage before countering with both fists.\n\nThere was danger everywhere - and from both fighters. Crunching body shots, uppercuts that began as far south as Louisiana, head-popping jabs, fists flying at close range and big overhead lefts.\n\nBy the mid-point of the scheduled 12 rounds, there was little between the fighters but the momentum seemed to be moving in favour of the Tartan Tornado, two years younger than Prograis.\n\nBut the American, evoking memories of Terence Crawford coming to the UK to take home Ricky Burns' WBO lightweight title in 2014, remained lively if increasingly ragged.\n\nTaylor's right eye was swollen by round eight as the two world-class talents traded blows before Taylor stepped up his work-rate in the ninth with shots to the body and head of his resourceful foe.\n\nIn the hardest fight of their respective careers, the result was in the balance. Another strong round for Taylor in the 10th would have demoralised a lesser opponent but not Prograis - he traded body blows, landed a cracking uppercut on the taller Scot and soaked up heavy shots.\n\nPrograis was back to his cocky, stylish best with three minutes remaining, Taylor replying with his own form of artistry to rouse the crowd once more as the final bell sounded.\n\n'Prograis let him into the fight' - analysis\n\n\"The one judge who gave the win by five rounds, I'm not sure what that was on about, but the other two scores were fair. Taylor found a new energy and I think Prograis let him into the fight.\"\n\n\"What an outcome. What an hour it was to be there ringside. Prograis half made out he won the fight. The last two rounds it was a difficult 10-9 to put down.\"", "Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) estimates around two million people are without electricity after the utility company cut the power.\n\nThis is the largest power outage in California's history and is meant to prevent the spread of wildfires.\n\nPG&E says they're starting to restore power in areas where the weather is improving.", "The government is facing an unprecedented backlash from five key industries over Boris Johnson's plans for post-Brexit trading arrangements.\n\nThe aerospace, automotive, chemicals, food and drink and pharmaceutical sectors warn they could pose \"serious risk to manufacturing competitiveness\".\n\nCollectively, the sectors employ 1.1 million people, contributing £98bn to the UK economy each year.\n\nThe group has sent a letter to the government highlighting its concerns.\n\nThe BBC has seen extracts of the letter, which was sent this week to Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay and the Cabinet Office minister, Michael Gove.\n\nWhile such bodies have in the past made clear their concern at the prospect of a no-deal Brexit, this is the first time they have directly expressed to government their joint concern about a possible Brexit deal, after mostly supporting Theresa May's negotiated proposal.\n\nThe letter outlines their growing concern that Boris Johnson's Brexit negotiators have dropped existing commitments to maintain regulatory alignment in relevant sectors. The manufacturers' key concern is that they may no longer participate in specific EU regulatory institutions after any Brexit deal.\n\nThe group is asking for a \"reassurance\" that industry interests are still being prioritised by EU negotiators, and the letter warns of the \"damage which would be done by the current approach on regulatory divergence\".\n\nIt says: \"Pan-European regulatory alignment has been a success in our industries, supporting continued creation and retention of highly skilled manufacturing jobs in the UK.\n\n\"It is important this regulatory alignment should continue after Brexit as a critical element of the UK's future relationship with the EU\".\n\nA government spokesperson said the UK was \"seeking a best in class\" free trade agreement drawing on existing EU deals.\n\n\"We have been clear that we are committed to maintaining high standards after we leave the EU,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nHowever the public and private noises emerging from London and Brussels is that the government has markedly changed its plan for a future relationship. They say the new proposal has low alignment with EU regulations, and does not have level playing field conditions attached on the environmental, social and labour standards, as proposed in Theresa May's deal.\n\nAfter failing to get reassurances in recent weeks, particularly on the membership of key EU agencies, various sectors joined forces to warn the government directly.\n\nThe letter says that the serious risk to manufacturing \"will result in huge new costs and disruption to UK firms\".\n\n\"It would be disruptive to our complex international supply chains and has the potential to risk consumer and food safety, and confidence, access to overseas markets for UK exporters and vital future investment in innovation in this country.\"\n\nThis letter sees the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, the Chemical Industries Association, the Food and Drink Federation, and the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry join an existing call from the aerospace industry, reported by the BBC earlier on Friday.\n\nThe aerospace industry body the ADS wrote to the government asking for \"reassurance\" that there would be \"continued membership of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and alignment with EU chemicals regulations\" which \"are vital for our sector\".\n\nRepeated attempts to get clarity on this issue have not reassured the aerospace and other industries on this topic.\n\nOther industries have asked for similar reassurances, only to be told in recent weeks that the government is seeking a \"best in class\" free trade agreement, where the UK would set its own regulatory standards.\n\nThe government has acknowledged that it wants to take the \"level playing field\" arrangements out of the political declaration that promised alignment on environmental, social, labour and some tax measures.\n\nThese were also seen as crucial to ongoing industrial regulatory co-operation, and preventing the introduction of many types of checks on trade.\n\nBut the government fears such measures agreed by Theresa May will restrict the ability of a post-Brexit government to strike meaningful trade deals with other countries such as the US.\n\nA source close to the talks acknowledged to the BBC that among changes being negotiated in the political declaration, these references to EU agencies could get scrapped.\n\nEven as most of the negotiating attention remains on Northern Ireland, the change in approach from the Johnson government suggest a significantly different, more diverged end-point for Brexit for England, Scotland and Wales, than envisaged under Theresa May.\n\nA number of Labour MPs who say they want to support a deal have already expressed a desire for a deal with less scope for regulatory divergence.", "Mohammed Yamin was filmed in Syria by a documentary crew for Vice News\n\nA British student has been jailed for al-Qaeda membership - after police used voice recognition to identify him as a masked man who made a militant speech in Syria on a YouTube video in 2013.\n\nMohammed Yamin, 26, from east London, had long returned from the conflict and resumed normal life.\n\nBut, after he was spotted acting suspiciously in Whitehall in June 2017, detectives made the connection.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, Yamin was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison.\n\nHis face had been hidden by a mask in the Syria footage, which was originally recorded for a documentary by Vice News, uploaded by them to YouTube and subsequently viewed by nearly one million people.\n\nBut when police stopped and questioned him in Whitehall four years later, they recorded the encounter on body-worn cameras and this was later checked using both facial and voice recognition technology.\n\nJudge Mark Dennis QC, who jailed Yamin, said the Syria footage showed he had held \"entrenched extremist views and fully supported the use of violence\".\n\nHe added that Yamin had pursued a \"law-abiding life\" since returning to the UK and rejected extremism.\n\nIn June 2017 - a time of heightened security after several terror attacks - police were alerted to a man acting suspiciously behind the 'Women at War' memorial on Whitehall.\n\nYamin, who had been filming the landmark on his mobile phone, was recorded by the body-worn cameras of the responding officers, telling them his name and address, but initially provided incorrect answers to other simple questions.\n\nHe said he was behind the memorial because he wanted to \"be in the shade\" and asked the officers about their weapons.\n\nYamin seen in a picture provided by the Met Police\n\nIt was only later that detectives were able to make a link between the incident and the Vice video, which showed a masked Yamin in the Idlib region of Syria with a group of men who had pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda.\n\nIn the unedited video he is seen holding a rifle and making a speech to camera addressed to the \"people of Britain\" in which he refers to \"Islam and the Caliphate\" and says: \"Our job as al-Qaeda, we just want to bring that back, and I know there is no dialogue that will be fit enough to do this peacefully, so we have to fight\".\n\nEarlier that year Yamin had abandoned an engineering course at City University, London, to travel to Syria.\n\nHe briefly joined an aid convoy before returning to the UK, emptying his bank accounts, buying combat gear, and making his way back via Turkey.\n\nYamin was filmed with a group of militants in Syria\n\nWhatsApp messages from the period show Yamin telling family members he was doing charitable work, with one message saying \"I've seen death in his face and I am after him here in the land of Syria\".\n\nIn May 2014 Yamin was arrested at Heathrow Airport, having arrived on a flight from Athens, on suspicion of travelling to Syria to deliver clothes to another man involved in terrorist activity - but he was subsequently released.\n\nHe then resumed his studies, completing a degree in civil engineering and eventually enrolling in a postgraduate course.\n\nBut, following his arrest this year, he pleaded guilty to membership of a proscribed organisation and preparing acts of terrorism, with the latter charge relating to the steps he took to reach Syria.\n\nA charge of possessing a rifle for terrorist purposes was left to lie on file.\n\nThe prosecution said it had no other evidence of Yamin's actions between October 2013 and his return to the UK in May 2014.\n\nDefence lawyer Hossein Zahir QC said in mitigation that his client was deaf in one ear, effectively blind in one eye, and \"completely rejected his previous mindset\".\n\nHe said Yamin was \"deeply remorseful and struggling with what he did\".\n\nHis case highlights the challenge posed to investigators in proving that people who travelled to Syria took part in terrorist activity. Were it not for the footage on Youtube, it is unlikely Yamin would ever have been charged.\n\nThe government has said that more than 900 people of \"national security concern\" joined the conflict in Syria and that, of these, approximately 40% have returned to the UK of whom around 40 have been charged with criminal offences.", "Officers were called by a member of the public to woodland at Norton Green on Saturday\n\nA body found in woodland has been confirmed as that of student midwife Joy Morgan, police have said.\n\nMs Morgan's remains were discovered in woodland in Stevenage on Saturday by members of the public.\n\nA post-mortem examination could not establish a cause of death and further tests will be carried out.\n\nMs Morgan, 20, was murdered by Shohfah-El Israel but her body had not been found. She was last seen in December and was reported missing in February.\n\nHertfordshire Police said officers were called to reports of a suspected human body found in woodland at Chadwell Road, Norton Green.\n\nJoy Morgan was a student midwife at the University of Hertfordshire\n\nMs Morgan, who lived in Hatfield where she was studying at the University of Hertfordshire, was last seen on Boxing Day at a church event in Ilford.\n\nShe was reported missing on 7 February after failing to return to her studies.\n\nShohfah-El Israel, 40, of Fordwych Road, north-west London, a fellow worshipper at the Israel United In Christ church, was found guilty of her murder at Reading Crown Court in August.\n\nAfter confirmation the body found was Ms Morgan, her mother Carol said: \"Joy was so beautiful and completely lived up to her name - she brought joy to all our lives.\n\n\"Our family has been living a nightmare and we miss her so, so much. Joy was studying to be a midwife and would have graduated by now.\n\n\"I know she would have been amazing as a midwife. I was so proud of her and I always will be. She was our star.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland must wait to confirm their place in Euro 2020 after the Czech Republic deservedly ended their 43-game unbeaten run in qualifiers stretching back 10 years.\n\nGareth Southgate's side would have secured their place in next summer's tournament with victory in Prague but they can have no complaints after a wretched display against a Czech side who were a different proposition from that swept aside 5-0 at Wembley in March.\n\nEngland can still qualify on Monday if they beat Bulgaria and Kosovo do not beat Montenegro.\n\nEngland were handed the perfect start when captain Harry Kane put them ahead from the penalty spot in the fifth minute after Lukas Masopust fouled Raheem Sterling but they were well below their best and slumped to a bitterly disappointing defeat.\n\nThe Czechs were swiftly level when Jakub Brabec scored following a corner. England could not muster further inspiration and substitute Zdenek Ondrasek pounced to score the winner with four minutes left.\n\nEngland were desperately poor throughout and were grateful to goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, who produced fine saves from Vladimir Coufal, Masopust and Alex Kral, while Czech counterpart Tomas Vaclik did well to deny Sterling and Kane.\n\nThey can put things right against Bulgaria in Sofia on Monday but this was a serious reality check for a side hoping to do great things next summer, losing a qualifier for the first time since they went down 1-0 to Ukraine on 10 October 2009.\n• None Czech Republic 2-1 England - how did you rate the players?\n\nThis must rank as one of the worst performances of Southgate's reign and the manager himself has to take his own share of the responsibility.\n\nNo-one can complain about his decision to give Chelsea's in-form Mason Mount his debut ahead of team-mate Ross Barkley but the youngster never flourished in an advanced midfield position in the first half.\n\nQuality sides will relish facing this England defence and Southgate is running out of time to apply the fix\n\nMount was barely able to influence the game and with Jordan Henderson and Declan Rice exposed and pedestrian, England found themselves often overrun by the sprightly Czechs.\n\nEngland's potent attacking trio of Kane, Sterling and Jadon Sancho were starved of service, leaving them under-performing in every area of the pitch.\n\nThe Czech Republic, backed by a noisy crowd in Prague, gathered momentum and confidence and it was no surprise when Ondrasek finally broke Pickford's resistance late on.\n\nThis was simply not good enough from England and the concerns that surfaced about their true quality when they won 5-3 in chaotic style against Kosovo in Southampton will only increase after this.\n• None Euro 2020 qualifying: Who needs what?\n\nAny hope the defensive uncertainty that characterised England's victory against Kosovo had been successfully addressed was banished inside the first 10 minutes in Prague.\n\nPickford saved brilliantly from Coufal as the Czech Republic responded to England's early salvo but there was the trademark confusion at the resulting corner which ended with Brabec stabbing home from close range.\n\nEngland lived dangerously throughout and it was not a shock when they finally conceded late on.\n\nEverton's Michael Keane struggles desperately at this level while full-backs Danny Rose and Kieran Trippier hardly covered themselves in glory either.\n\nHarry Maguire looks the one staple in defence but he does not exude confidence either.\n\nIn other words, quality sides will relish facing this England defence and Southgate is running out of time to apply the fix.\n• None Czech Republic had 17 shots in this match, the most England have faced in a qualifying match since March 2013, when Montenegro had 19 in a World Cup qualifier.\n• None This was England's first defeat in a European Championship qualifier since losing 3-2 at Wembley against Croatia in November 2007.\n• None Harry Kane has scored 20 goals in 21 matches for England when starting as captain - the only player with more is Vivian Woodward (23 goals between 1908 and 1911).\n• None Excluding shootouts, no player has scored more penalties for England than Harry Kane (9, level with Frank Lampard).\n• None Zdenek Ondrasek scored on his international debut for Czech Republic, scoring with his first shot in international football.\n• None Gareth Southgate (W21 D9 L8) has lost as many games as England manager in 38 matches as Roy Hodgson lost in 56 matches as manager (W33 D15 L8).\n\nEngland travel to Bulgaria on Monday (kick-off 19:45 BST) looking to secure a spot at Euro 2020.\n• None Attempt saved. Jan Kopic (Czech Republic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Jaromir Zmrhal.\n• None Jordan Henderson (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Czech Republic 2, England 1. Zdenek Ondrasek (Czech Republic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lukas Masopust.\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ross Barkley with a through ball.\n• None Raheem Sterling (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Alex Kral (Czech Republic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Vladimír Darida. 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. Workers at the troubled bus manufacturer Wrightbus celebrated after a deal for its sale was agreed\n\nA deal has been reached in principle for the sale of Wrightbus.\n\nBidder Jo Bamford said agreement had been reached with \"the Wright family for the Wrightbus factory and land\".\n\n\"We are still to conclude a deal with the administrators but are pleased to report this important step in the right direction,\" he said.\n\nHe thanked DUP MP Ian Paisley for \"his hard work and diligence in helping to mediate what has at times been a tricky negotiation\".\n\nOn Thursday, the owner of the Wrightbus factory, Jeff Wright, said he had not been able to reach a deal to sell the company to a new owner.\n\nThe sticking point had been farmland he did not consider part of the factory site.\n\nHowever, a statement from Jeff Wright on Friday confirmed that the farmland will now be gifted to the local council as \"a tribute\" to his father, Sir William Wright.\n\nThere are plans for a potential innovation centre for start-ups on the site.\n\n\"This legacy gift is a tribute not only to my father, his father before him, and the Wright family members, but most importantly is a tribute to the generations of workers who helped build a proud manufacturing tradition in Ballymena,\" said Mr Wright.\n\n\"It is my true wish to see this legacy used for the purposes of expanding manufacturing and benefiting our local community.\"\n\nGeorge Brash from the Unite union said the \"momentous day\" was \"a tribute to the workforce\" and the solidarity they have shown.\n\n\"There are a lot of smiling faces at the moment,\" he added.\n\n\"We just need everything confirmed.\"\n\nJeff Wright said the farmland would be gifted to the local council as a tribute to his father Sir William Wright (above)\n\nMr Bamford, an English industrialist, who is the son of JCB chairman Lord Bamford, wants to buy the Wrightbus business and the factory through his Ryse Hydrogen company.\n\nMr Paisley, who was involved in negotiations over the farmland on Thursday night, welcomed Friday's announcement, saying Mr Bamford is \"concluding the final arrangements with the administrator to take over Wrightbus and get men and women back to work building buses\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Evening Extra programme, Mr Paisley said: \"To have got a major British industrialist to come over and invest in the workforce of north Antrim, and put significant millions behind them and to get this over the line... a piece of farmland wasn't going to get in the way.\"\n\nHe added that the land would not be used for personal gain and that Jo Bamford \"will work that piece of land in partnership with the council\" to create opportunities for the local population.\n\nTUV leader and North Antrim MLA Jim Allister said he was \"delighted\" to hear the news of the deal.\n\n\"I want to commend all who made this possible, many working tirelessly behind the scenes,\" he added.\n\n\"I particularly salute the fortitude of the workers.\"\n\nWorkers gathered outside Wrightbus breathed a sigh of relief - there were even bottles of champagne opened in celebration.\n\nThe news came through on Friday morning that Jo Bamford has agreed in principle to buy the factory.\n\nWork is ongoing on the details with the administrators - we don't yet know how many of the workers will be kept.\n\nThe farmland that was a sticking point previously has been gifted by Jeff Wright to Mid and East Antrim Borough Council as a tribute to his father and generations of workers.\n\nThe council is in negotiations with Queens university - it hopes the site could be used as an innovation project as part of the Belfast city deal.\n\nManufacturing NI tweeted that it was great news that a deal had been done which could lead to a deal being secured by the administrators, but added that Deloitte needed to be aware that \"in saving some jobs at Wrightbus they don't kill jobs in the SME supply chain who are owed millions\".\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\nWrightbus was started in 1946 from a tin shed in Ballymena by Robert Wright and his son, William - now Sir William Wright.\n\nThe Ballymena business was placed into administration and put up for sale last month.\n\nThe Wrightbus premises are owned separately from the manufacturing business and held in a company called Whirlwind Property Two, which is not part of the Wright group and is therefore not under the control of the administrator.\n\nThe property company is controlled by Jeff Wright, the former owner of Wrightbus.", "Extinction Rebellion protests have \"stretched\" police resources in London, the Metropolitan Police chief has said.\n\nDame Cressida Dick said she hoped the demonstrators would \"protest lawfully\" or \"go home\" after their \"failure to take and occupy\" certain streets.\n\nA week of climate protests, including at Trafalgar Square and the BBC's New Broadcasting House, have seen more than 1,100 people arrested.\n\nThe movement said many protesters will \"risk their liberty\" for their cause.\n\nPolice have asked activists who have been demonstrating close to the Houses of Parliament in Westminster to move their protests in Trafalgar Square or risk arrest.\n\nThey served a Section 14 notice - designed to prevent \"serious disruption\" to communities - before removing those who had camped out in Westminster.\n\nDame Cressida said that if demonstrators protested lawfully she could deploy \"many\" officers \"back to the streets, back to the neighbourhoods, back to the schools, back to the wards of the people of London\".\n\n\"We are responding to all serious matters and urgent matters of course, carrying on with our crime investigations in homicide or armed robbery,\" she said.\n\n\"But we're having to move work from one unit to another and the less urgent, less critical, less important work of course gets delayed.\"\n\nResponding to Dame Cressida's comments, Extinction Rebellion said it is a \"peaceful non-violent movement\" and that many protesters are \"prepared to risk their liberty to stand up for the planet\".\n\nIt added that young people are already experiencing \"eco-anxiety\" - a feeling of being overwhelmed by the existential challenge of climate change - and the police chief's response \"is only going to make the situation worse\".\n\nExtinction Rebellion activists are protesting in cities around the world, including Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and Sydney, and are calling for urgent action on global climate and wildlife emergencies.\n\nAs part of their protests on Friday, activists gathered outside tents at Trafalgar Square and blocked the entrance to the BBC's central London headquarters.\n\nJon Fuller, who is part of Extinction Rebellion's media team, said that while the BBC is reporting more on tackling climate change than ever before, it does not report \"the most frightening\" news stories.\n\nThe BBC said it covers \"many climate change and environmental issues\", adding that programmes such as Blue Planet II and Climate Change: The Facts have a \"huge impact\" on public debate.\n\n\"We know how important these issues are to audiences and will continue to focus on them across both news and non-news programmes, whilst internally doing all we can to lead the way in promoting sustainability in the media industry,\" it said in a statement.\n\nOn Thursday, a Paralympic medallist climbed on top of a British Airways plane at London City Airport.\n\nAnother man refused to sit in his seat, delaying a flight by nearly two hours.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 50 arrests were made at the airport.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The head of Nissan Europe says a no-deal Brexit threatens the firm's business model\n\nJapanese carmaker Nissan has warned that a no-deal Brexit could make its European business model unsustainable.\n\nNissan's European chairman, Gianluca de Ficchy, said if a 10% export tariff was introduced after the UK left the EU it would put its operations \"in jeopardy\".\n\nThis would be the case if the UK moved to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules after Brexit, he said.\n\nHe was speaking at Nissan's plant in Sunderland, where work on a new model of the Juke is due to start.\n\nThe Japanese firm said it had invested £100m in the plant, which also makes the Qashqai and electric Leaf models.\n\nMr de Ficchy said Nissan still intended to build in Sunderland, the UK's biggest car plant, but that it was difficult to plan for the future amid Brexit uncertainty.\n\nThe new Juke has been designed and manufactured in the UK, aimed specifically at European markets, with two-thirds of its components coming from the EU and 70% of production destined for the continent.\n\nNissan, which employs 7,000 in Sunderland, also has operations in Spain.\n\nMr de Ficchy said the cost of moving to WTO rules would mean the \"entire business model for Nissan Europe will be in jeopardy\".\n\nMr de Ficchy said if duties were applied after a no-deal Brexit it would \"create an enormous problem\"\n\nThe car industry is the UK's biggest exporter of goods and eight out of every 10 cars built in the UK are exported.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr de Ficchy said: \"We do not know still what a no-deal means.\n\n\"There are many alternatives, and today there is a lot of uncertainty.\n\n\"The only message I can [give] is that if a no-deal will be associated with the application of 10% duties under the WTO rules, that will create an enormous problem for the overall European activities of Nissan Europe.\n\n\"If we will have to sustain 10% export duties on the vehicles that we export from UK to EU, knowing that those vehicles represent 70% of total production, the overall business model won't be sustainable.\n\n\"It's not a question of Sunderland, it's a question of the overall economic sustainability of our business [in Europe].\"\n\nHe said the business was asking for tariffs not be imposed if there is a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"We are asking not to have tariffs being applied in a no-deal scenario because otherwise the tariffs won't be sustainable for us,\" he said.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: \"We continue to work closely with the sector as they get ready for Brexit on 31 October.\"\n\nNissan employs 7,000 people at its plant in Sunderland\n\nOn Wednesday, union leaders revealed night shifts at Sunderland would end - but Mr Ficchy said this was not the result of Brexit.\n\nOther carmakers have warned about the impact of Brexit on their business, not just because of the cost of tariffs but the potential slowdown in production caused by new customs checks after the UK leaves the EU.\n\nThe industry operates a \"just-in-time\" model, shifting parts around the EU to construct cars in plants across the 28-nation bloc.\n\nLast month, Carlos Tavares, chief executive of PSA - the car group that owns Vauxhall - compared a no-deal Brexit to a head-on train crash.\n\nHe has warned previously that Vauxhall plants at Ellesmere Port and Luton were under threat from Brexit.\n\nIn June, PSA Group announced plans to build a new version of the Vauxhall Astra at its Ellesmere Port factory in Cheshire.\n\nThe industry is also under pressure with fewer diesel cars being bought and emissions standards presenting challenges for carmakers.\n\nIn February, Honda announced the closure of its Swindon plant but said it was nothing to do with Brexit.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nThe parents of a teenage motorcyclist killed in a crash have said they are considering civil action against a US diplomat's wife suspected of driving the other vehicle.\n\nHarry Dunn, 19, died in a crash with a Volvo in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nSuspect Anne Sacoolas later left the UK despite telling police she had no such plans.\n\nMr Dunn's father Tim said the family had \"heard nothing\" since meeting Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.\n\nHe said they were also \"still waiting\" for information from the US government following President Donald Trump's comments.\n\nOn Wednesday, the president said his administration would speak to Mrs Sacoolas \"very shortly and see if we can do something where they meet\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump described the 19-year-old's death as a \"terrible accident\"\n\nBut a briefing note held by Mr Trump at the press conference said Mrs Sacoolas would not be returning to the UK after being granted diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles said the US's apparent approach was \"beyond any realm of human thinking\".\n\nThe family is still planning to go to the US.\n\nTim Dunn said: \"We have to go to America and speak to the American people. We can't let this be swept under the carpet.\"\n\nHe said they had taken legal advice on civil action and it was \"an avenue we are looking at\".\n\n\"We are out of our depth really, I feel like I'm on autopilot,\" he added.\n\nIn a civil case a complaint is made by a person or company in a law court against another person or company said to have done something to harm them.\n\nThis is commonly referred to as being sued.\n\nThe case is then dealt with by a judge, who determines whether the defendant has liability for causing the harm.\n\nThe outcome can differ depending from which country the case is brought, but the if the defendant is found to be liable they often have to pay compensation in the form of damages.\n\nProf Craig Barker, dean of the School of Law and Social Sciences at London South Bank University, said the couple \"could pursue action in the US\".\n\nHe explained that the diplomatic immunity for civil cases only extends to the \"receiving state\", in this case the UK.\n\nBut Prof Barker said the family \"would need to find a court in the US to accept the case,\" which he said would be costly and given the US stance may be difficult.\n\nHe also said there could be a claim made against the US Government in the UK, but a case like that had never been tested in court.\n\nAfter speaking to Mr Raab on Wednesday, as well as their local MP and Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom, Mr Dunn said the family felt \"we've exhausted our governments efforts\".\n\nThe teenager's parents described the meeting with Mr Raab as a \"publicity stunt\".\n\nAfterwards Mr Raab said the justice process was \"not being allowed to properly run its course\".\n\nChief Constable of Northamptonshire Police Nick Adderley said the investigation into the crash was \"carrying on\".\n\n\"We are expediting that file, so that file of evidence will be with the Crown Prosecution Service within the next few days,\" he said.\n\nHe added the force was exploring \"nuances\" within diplomatic immunity in the hope of bringing Mrs Sacoolas back to the UK.\n\nSouth Northamptonshire Council said along with Northamptonshire County Council it had put up new signs around RAF Croughton making clear which side of the road to drive on.\n\nTim Dunn said the message of support the family had received had been \"gobsmacking\"\n\nMr Dunn has welcomed the idea of speaking with Mrs Sacoolas.\n\n\"We want answers from her about what happened, there are things the police cannot answer,\" he said.\n\nPolice have said CCTV of the crash in which the teenager died shows a Volvo travelling on the wrong side of the road.\n\nSpeaking at the press briefing on Wednesday - after his conversation with Prime Minister Boris Johnson - Mr Trump said: \"The woman was driving on the wrong side of the road, and that can happen.\n\n\"You know, those are the opposite roads, that happens. I won't say it ever happened to me, but it did.\n\n\"So a young man was killed, the person that was driving the automobile has diplomatic immunity, we're going to speak to her very shortly and see if we can do something where they meet.\"\n\nSpeaking in Northampton on Thursday, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mr Trump's comments were \"crass and insensitive\".\n\nHe also said the use of diplomatic immunity in the case was \"completely unacceptable\", and that more pressure should be put the US to return Mrs Sacoolas to the UK.\n\nThe crash in which Mr Dunn died happened close to RAF Croughton, a US Air Force communications station, where Mrs Sacoolas's husband Jonathan had been working.\n\nNumber 10 said the prime minister had urged Mr Trump to reconsider the decision to allow Mrs Sacoolas immunity in order that \"the individual involved can return to the UK, co-operate with police and allow Harry's family to receive justice\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland's likely World Cup last eight opponents Australia laboured to victory over Georgia in swirling wind and rain.\n\nWith Typhoon Hagibis approaching Japan, the Wallabies took 22 minutes to open the scoring through Nic White's try.\n\nMichael Cheika's side held a slender 10-3 half-time advantage and saw Isi Naisarani sin-binned for a high tackle.\n\nA solo score from Marika Koroibete gave Australia a buffer but Alexander Todua crossed for Georgia before Jack Dempsey and Will Genia tries sealed the win.\n\nThe bonus-point victory takes the already-qualified Wallabies top of Pool D, although they will be overtaken by Wales if Warren Gatland's side avoid defeat by Uruguay on Sunday.\n• None Relive Australia's win over Georgia as it happened\n\nThat would confirm a quarter-final meeting on 19 October with England, who will finish top of Pool C after their final group game against France was called off because of the extreme weather forecasted on Saturday.\n\nEngland head coach Eddie Jones is likely to be encouraged by the match in Shizuoka, with Australia's faults in this World Cup refusing to go away.\n\nThe Wallabies were not helped early on by losing full-back Kurtley Beale, who did not return to the field after a head-injury assessment.\n\nBut - having trailed at half-time in both of their opening two pool matches and played 20 of the opening 40 minutes against Uruguay with 14 men - Cheika's side again started sluggishly, making errors deep in Georgia territory to allow the Tier 2 side some brief respite out of their 22.\n\nScrum-half White - who will leave Exeter to rejoin the Brumbies Super Rugby franchise next summer - eventually burrowed over from close range to break the deadlock, but a high tackle from Tolu Latu gave Georgia a penalty and was a precursor to further indiscipline.\n\nFive minutes later number eight Naisarani was yellow-carded for leading with his arm and making contact with the face of Giorgi Nemsadze - a fourth sin-binning of the tournament for the Australians, who were without Reece Hodge because of suspension.\n\nThere was a nice moment as Rob Simmons came off the bench for his 100th cap, but even despite the testing conditions and making 10 changes the Wallabies will be concerned at not being able to kill the game off until the closing stages.\n\nThough qualification was beyond the Lelos in their first-ever meeting with Australia, third place in Pool D and a guaranteed spot at the 2023 World Cup were up for grabs.\n\nIt was a dogged display in Milton Haig's last game in charge, with Georgia's 201 tackles the joint second-highest tally in a World Cup match, behind only France's 205 against New Zealand in 2007.\n\nTheir fine defensive performance was spearheaded by veteran Toulon flanker Mamuka Gorgodze, who was playing in his 15th World Cup match, equalling the Georgian record set by Merab Kvirikashvili.\n\nHowever, they struggled to make an impact offensively and lacked the tools to really harm the Wallabies.\n\nTodua's try in the corner, after a fine run from Lasha Khmaladze, will at least live long in the memory and ensured they scored at least one try in each of their four pool stage matches for the first time.\n\nWhat they said\n\n\"The hit-out was good, having to dig in, work hard, get up off the ground, get into some tough stuff.\n\n\"It's how we wanted the game to go, we wanted to work like that.\n\n\"Our forwards stepped right up to it. We handled the Georgian scrum well, we scored a maul try... and the line-out worked.\n\n\"We did drop a bit too much ball. But I thought our carrying was strong, we just didn't have the finishing touch on a lot of stuff so we'll definitely put that on and we'll prepare that and be ready to finish the opportunities that will come next weekend.\"\n\n\"We knew it was going take a toll in the second half.\n\n\"We had some opportunities in the second-half, but we couldn't get our set piece going.\n\n\"I can't fault the boys on how they put themselves about. I was really proud of them tonight, especially in defence.\"", "Facebook had said it hoped to launch Libra in 2020\n\nMastercard, Visa, eBay and payments firm Stripe have pulled out of Facebook’s embattled cryptocurrency project, Libra.\n\nTheir move, first reported in the Financial Times, follows the withdrawal of PayPal, announced last week.\n\nIt represents a huge blow to the social network’s plans to launch what it envisions as a global currency.\n\nThe project has drawn heavy scrutiny from regulators and politicians, particularly in the US.\n\nFacebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg will appear before the House Committee on Financial Services on 23 October to discuss Libra and its planned roll-out.\n\nRegulators have raised multiple concerns over Libra, including the risk it may be used for money laundering.\n\nMercado Pago, a payments firm serving mostly Latin America, also pulled out. It means of the six payments-related firms first involved in Libra, just one, PayU, remains. Netherlands-based PayU did not respond to the BBC's request for comment on Friday.\n\nIn a statement released on Friday, eBay said it “respected” the Libra project.\n\n“However, eBay has made the decision to not move forward as a founding member. At this time, we are focused on rolling out eBay’s managed payments experience for our customers.”\n\nA spokesperson for Stripe said the firm supported the aim of making global payments easier.\n\n\"Libra has this potential. We will follow its progress closely and remain open to working with the Libra Association at a later stage.”\n\nA spokesperson for Visa said: \"We will continue to evaluate and our ultimate decision will be determined by a number of factors, including the Association's ability to fully satisfy all requisite regulatory expectations.\"\n\nThe Libra Association, set up by Facebook to manage the project, said of the departing companies: \"We appreciate their support for the goals and mission of the Libra project.\n\n\"Although the makeup of the Association members may grow and change over time, the design principle of Libra's governance and technology, along with the open nature of this project ensures the Libra payment network will remain resilient.\n\n\"We look forward to the inaugural Libra Association Council meeting in just 3 days and announcing the initial members of the Libra Association.”\n\nFacebook's executive in charge of its Libra effort wrote on Twitter that losing the firms was \"liberating\".\n\n\"I would caution against reading the fate of Libra into this update,\" wrote David Marcus, who before joining Facebook was PayPal's president.\n\n\"Of course, it's not great news in the short term, but in a way it's liberating. Stay tuned for more very soon. Change of this magnitude is hard. You know you're on to something when so much pressure builds up.\"\n\nLast week, PayPal said it would no longer be part of the Libra Association, but did not rule out working on the project in future - prompting a strong reaction from the Association.\n\n\"Commitment to that mission is more important to us than anything else,\" it said in a statement. \"We're better off knowing about this lack of commitment now.\"\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", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's daughter, Gabriella, cuts her own \"welcome home\" cake with help from her dad, Richard\n\nThe five-year-old daughter of a British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran on spying charges has returned to the UK.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, a charity worker from London, has been detained for three years over the allegations, which she denies.\n\nHer British-born daughter Gabriella, who has been living with her grandparents in Tehran, returned on Thursday to start school in the UK.\n\nGabriella's father, Richard Ratcliffe, said she has been \"so brave\".\n\nAppearing with Gabriella at a news conference at the Houses of Parliament, Mr Ratcliffe said she struggled speaking English but had been keen to tell him that she wanted to visit a toy shop.\n\nHe said she \"told mum that she'll see her back in London\".\n\n\"She's promised mummy she's going to be brave. It's just lovely to hold her again.\"\n\nRichard Ratcliffe embraces his daughter, Gabriella, after she landed back in the UK\n\nGabriella brought a cake into a news conference at the Houses of Parliament on Friday afternoon\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in April 2016 during a visit to introduce Gabriella to relatives, her family said. She is now being held in Tehran's Evin prison, where Gabriella visited her at least once a week.\n\nBut in April the family said new prison rules meant Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe could only see her daughter once a month and that she was banned from making international calls.\n\nEarlier this month Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe wrote an open letter to mothers of Iran, in which she said: \"In the near future, my baby will leave me to go to her father and start school in the UK. It will be a daunting trip for her travelling, and for me left behind.\"\n\nLast week, Mr Ratcliffe from West Hampstead, told the Times that they had agreed Gabriella should return to the UK for the start of the school year in September, but postponed the decision after Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was taken to a psychiatric hospital.\n\n\"I spoke to Nazanin yesterday and she was reasonably distraught,\" he told reporters at Westminster on Friday.\n\n\"One of the things she really didn't want to happen was her daughter to leave while she was still in prison.\"\n\nMr Ratcliffe said there is a \"real risk\" his wife's mental and physical condition will deteriorate.\n\nRichard and Nazanin agreed that Gabriella should return to the UK to begin school, the family said\n\nIn response to Gabriella's return, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab reiterated his earlier calls for Iran to release Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and said the family's situation was one that no parent \"should ever have to face\".\n\n\"Gabriella is an innocent child and should be able to go to school and be with both her parents,\" he said. \"We continue to urge Iran to release Nazanin immediately so the family can be reunited in the UK.\"\n\nHis predecessor, Jeremy Hunt, described the news of Gabriella's homecoming as \"the definition of bittersweet\".\n\nHe called on the British government to \"redouble\" its efforts to secure Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release, tweeting: \"Now more than ever, she needs to know she's not alone.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was temporarily reunited with her daughter Gabriella during a three-day release from prison in August last year\n\nMr Ratcliffe told reporters that his wife had shared a prison cell with British-Australian woman Jolie King, who had been detained with her boyfriend in Tehran earlier this year for reportedly flying a drone without a permit.\n\nMs King and her boyfriend, Mark Firkin, were released last week.\n\nIran has detained a number of dual citizens and foreign nationals in recent years, many of them on spying charges. The exact numbers are not known.\n\nThe arrests and a row over the seizure of oil tankers in the Gulf. have led to increasingly tense diplomatic relations between the UK and Iran.\n\nIran also claims it is owed £400m by the UK in relation to contracts signed more than 40 years ago between the International Military Services (IMS) - a company that has ceased trading but was used by the Ministry of Defence to sell defence equipment - and the pre-Islamic Revolution Iranian regime.\n\nThe contracts involved the supply of tanks to Iran, which were paid for but undelivered in the wake of the country's 1979 revolution.\n\nLitigation regarding the dispute is under way.\n\nThe UK government said it does not \"share the view\" that the IMS debt, or any other bilateral issue, is the reason for Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's detention, and that the two issues are \"entirely separate\".\n\n\"Iran must live up to its responsibilities under international human rights law and under the Vienna convention on consular relations, and release Nazanin, and the other dual national cases, without delay,\" a government statement issued by the Foreign Office said.\n\nThe family's MP, Tulip Siddiq, said Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe wants to know why the UK government is not doing more to secure her release.\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\n\"I have now dealt with three prime ministers, with three foreign secretaries, with four Middle East ministers about this case,\" she said.\n\n\"Every single one of those politicians have looked me in the eye and said that this has nothing to do with the debt that we owe Iran. But we know that's not true.\"\n\nLast month, Prime Minister Boris Johnson called for the release of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe during a meeting with Iran's president.\n\nIn 2017, when he was foreign secretary, Mr Johnson had to apologise after saying Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was in Iran \"teaching people journalism\" - despite her family's insistence she was there on holiday.", "Marathon world record holder Eliud Kipchoge will make a second attempt to run the distance in under two hours in Vienna, Austria, on Saturday.\n\nThe Kenyan runner, who ran the marathon in two hours and 25 seconds in his first attempt, told BBC Sport Africa he'll feel like the first man on the moon if he does it.\n\nThe assisted conditions mean it will not be a world record if he succeeds. Kipchoge's world record is two hours, one minute and 39 seconds.\n\nWatch live coverage of the 1:59 Challenge, Saturday 12 October, 07:00-09:30 BST on the BBC Red Button, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website & app (UK only).", "Five people have been injured in a stabbing attack at the Arndale Centre in Manchester city centre.\n\nThere are no reports of fatalities.\n\nA man in his 40s has been arrested on suspicion of serious assault. Police say they're not looking for anybody else in relation to the incident that left four people hurt.", "Boris Johnson is at odds with Parliament on the issue of leaving the EU without a deal\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said the UK will leave the European Union (EU) on 31 October \"deal or no deal\". But Chancellor Sajid Javid has now conceded that the deadline \"can't be met\".\n\nWhile opposition parties decide in which circumstances they could support Mr Johnson's request for a December general election, the fate of the Brexit deadline currently lies with European leaders.\n\nAs things stand, it is still just about possible for the UK to leave the EU without a deal at the end of the month.\n\nNow that EU ambassadors have agreed that there should be an extension, this route to a no-deal is extremely unlikely.\n\nMr Johnson sent a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk on 19 October, requesting a three-month Brexit delay\n\nBut for an extension to the Halloween deadline to go ahead, leaders of the other 27 EU countries have to agree unanimously. Until the change is formalised, the legal \"exit date\" remains at 31 October.\n\nNow that the EU has agreed to an extension, it could still offer the UK a leaving date other than 31 January. In that instance, MPs would have up to two days in which they could vote to reject the proposal. If they don't vote, the proposal is automatically agreed to.\n\nThe EU may not announce the length of the extension until Tuesday, meaning any vote by MPs could theoretically happen on 31 October itself.\n\nIf the proposal was rejected, the extension would be off and a no-deal Brexit would happen next Thursday.\n\nMPs would be unlikely to reject a proposal, however, for two reasons:\n\nEven with an extension agreed and put in place before the end of the month, a no-deal Brexit is not \"off the table\". Instead, it just pushes the possibility further into the future.\n\nThe UK will need to wait for an answer from the EU\n\nRegardless of the length of the extension, the prime minister would probably still try to push his deal through Parliament.\n\nHowever, if the government is unable to implement his deal (or another) before the new deadline, the UK would leave without a deal.\n\nThis is the most controversial and unlikely scenario.\n\nIf an extension were agreed, a minister would be required to change the deadline in law using something called a statutory instrument (the power to change the law without a vote of MPs).\n\nAnd, theoretically, they could simply refuse to do this.\n\nBut not only would this be unlawful, it could be argued the \"exit date\" would be automatically changed anyway, because international law trumps domestic law.\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016 to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Dyson, the technology company best known for its vacuum cleaners, has scrapped a project to build electric cars.\n\nThe firm, headed by British inventor Sir James Dyson, said its engineers had developed a \"fantastic electric car\" but that it would not hit the roads because it was not \"commercially viable\".\n\nIn an email sent to all employees, Sir James said the company had unsuccessfully tried to find a buyer for the project.\n\nDyson had planned to invest more than £2bn in developing a \"radical and different\" electric vehicle, a project it launched in 2016. It said the car would not be aimed at the mass market.\n\nHalf of the funds would go towards building the car, half towards developing electric batteries.\n\nIn October 2018 Dyson revealed plans to build the car at a new plant in Singapore. It was expected to be completed next year, with the first vehicles due to roll off the production line in 2021.\n\nDyson wanted to make something revolutionary - but also needed to make it pay. And the sums simply didn't add up.\n\nSales of electric cars are climbing rapidly. Yet they still cost more to make than conventional cars, and generate much lower profits - if any.\n\nMajor manufacturers like VW can afford to plough tens of billions into the EV industry - on the basis that economies of scale will ultimately make the technology cheaper and generate returns.\n\nEven the upstart Tesla, widely credited with showing everyone else just how good electric cars could be, has burnt through mountains of cash and had to go cap in hand to investors.\n\nDyson has concluded it simply can't afford to play with the big boys - although its efforts to make a quantum leap in battery technology will continue.\n\nThe company also planned to invest £200m in the UK in research and development and test track facilities. Much of that money has already been spent and Dyson said it would use the site for other projects.\n\nThe rest of the funds intended for the electric car project would still be spent on developing other products, including its battery technology, Dyson said.\n\nThe assistant managing director of Singapore's Economic Development Board Tan Kong Hwee said the country would still play a significant role in Dyson's growth plans.\n\n\"As Dyson's decision not to pursue the electric vehicle business was taken at an early stage, the disruption to its operations and workforce in Singapore will be minimal,\" he said.\n\nThe first cars had already been developed and were being tested.\n\nBut in an email on Thursday, Sir James revealed that Dyson was closing electric car facilities both in the UK and Singapore.\n\nThe project employed 523 people, 500 of whom were in UK, and Sir James praised their \"immense\" achievements.\n\n\"This is not a product failure, or a failure of the team, for whom this news will be hard to hear and digest,\" Sir James wrote.\n\nBut, he said: \"We have tried very hard throughout the development process, we simply can no longer see a way to make it commercially viable.\n\n\"The Dyson automotive team has developed a fantastic car; they have been ingenious in their approach while remaining faithful to our philosophies.\"\n\nHe said the firm was trying to find alternative roles for the workers in its home division, which makes things such as vacuum cleaners, fans and hairdryers.\n\nSir James said Dyson would continue to work on the battery technology, which was used in the car.\n\n\"Our battery will benefit Dyson in a profound way and take us in exciting new directions.\"\n\n\"In summary, our investment appetite is undiminished and we will continue to deepen our roots in both the UK and Singapore,\" he said.\n\n\"This is not the first project which has changed direction and it will not be the last.\"", "Leonov's 1965 mission was celebrated in 2017 Russian film, \"The Spacewalker\"\n\nSoviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who in 1965 became the first person in history to spacewalk, has died aged 85.\n\nTethered to his spaceship by a 4.8m (16ft) cable, the Russian floated above the Earth for 12 minutes.\n\n\"You just can't comprehend it. Only out there can you feel the greatness - the huge size of all that surrounds us,\" Leonov told the BBC in 2014.\n\nBut the outing nearly ended in disaster as his spacesuit inflated and he struggled to get back in the spaceship.\n\nAt a time when the US and the USSR were jostling for space supremacy, Leonov's mission was lauded as a triumph at home.\n\nBut Leonov's ambitions did not stop at his spacewalk. He went on to become the commander of Soyuz-Apollo, the first ever joint US-Soviet mission in 1975.\n\nLeonov died at Moscow's Burdenko hospital on Friday after a long illness, his assistant confirmed.\n\nRussian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko said Leonov's death was a \"loss for the whole planet\", while President Vladimir Putin said he admired the astronaut's courage.\n\nLeonov was born in Siberia, his father a victim of Stalinist repression. His family moved to Kaliningrad in western Russia in 1948.\n\nAs an air force pilot he was selected to train as a cosmonaut in 1960. He trained with Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, and they became close friends.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch archive footage of Leonov's and other spacewalks\n\nLeonov described his sortie into outer space in numerous media interviews.\n\n\"It was so quiet I could even hear my heart beat,\" he told the Observer. \"I was surrounded by stars and was floating without much control. I will never forget the moment. I also felt an incredible sense of responsibility. Of course, I did not know that I was about to experience the most difficult moments of my life - getting back into the capsule.\"\n\nIn the vacuum of outer space, his spacesuit began to balloon out of shape and its fabric began to stiffen dangerously.\n\nAlexei Leonov (L) took part in the first joint space mission between the Soviet Union and America in 1975\n\nHis hands slipped out of his gloves, his feet came out of his boots, and Leonov could no longer get through his spaceship's airlock. Even worse, the craft was hurtling towards Earth's shadow. In five minutes, the cosmonaut realised he would be plunged into total darkness.\n\nHe managed to release some of the oxygen from his spacesuit and was barely able to squeeze himself back into the capsule headfirst. He lost 6kg (13 pounds) in the process.\n\nLeonov went into space twice, in 1965 and 1975\n\nHe and his pilot Pavel Belyayev were hailed as heroes on their return, but only after crash-landing in a forest in the Ural mountains and waiting three days to be rescued.\n\nA decade later, Leonov was one of two Soviet cosmonauts involved in the first docking of US and Soviet spaceships - the Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 - during a period of detente between the two countries.\n\nHe was twice awarded the country's top medal, Hero of the Soviet Union.\n\nAlthough Leonov was best-known for his exploits as an astronaut, his artwork also garnered accolades throughout his life.\n\nA self-taught artist, Leonov was adept at drawing in zero gravity. It was during the space-walking mission of 1965 that Leonov created the first artwork in space.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the artwork, Leonov depicted a small yet remarkable sunrise from the vantage point of the Voskhod 2 spacecraft.\n\nLondon's Science Museum exhibited Leonov's coloured pencil drawing as part of a major exhibition on cosmonauts in 2015.\n\n\"You can imagine it being a bit of a nightmare … but he wanted to stop the time and share this moment with other people,\" curator of the exhibition Natalia Sidlina said.\n\nLeonov's artworks drew heavily on his experiences in space. His other notable artworks included a self-portrait of his 1965 spacewalk, sketches of fellow astronauts and landscapes in the former Soviet Union.", "One of the country's most historic educational centres for young blind people is warning that financial pressures are threatening its survival.\n\nThe Royal National College for the Blind, which has operated for almost 150 years, says without extra funding it will cease to be sustainable.\n\nLucy Proctor, chief executive of the college's charitable trust, has blamed a squeeze on special-needs budgets.\n\nBut the government is promising a £700m increase for special needs.\n\nLord Blunkett, a former student at the college, said he was \"very concerned\" about the \"financial difficulty\".\n\nThe former education secretary said a \"unique national asset\" was at risk.\n\nMs Proctor says there might be a perception that the Hereford college must be well-resourced.\n\n\"Even the name makes us sound wealthy,\" she says.\n\nChief executive Lucy Proctor says a national centre should not depend on local funding\n\nBut accounts show a shortfall of £2.7m between income and spending - and in cash terms the college has a smaller income than six years ago.\n\nEven with a recent sale of land, a restructuring and a hiring out of sports facilities, there is still a cash shortage.\n\nAs well as A-levels and vocational qualifications, the students, aged 16 to 25, learn practical skills needed by blind people for university or the workplace.\n\nThe biggest problem, says Ms Proctor, is that the college depends on local authorities paying for residential places, which can cost more than £50,000 a year.\n\n\"It is difficult for the local authorities, because there isn't enough money in the system. They've been subject to cuts in every area,\" says Ms Proctor.\n\n\"We're a national provision, but we're being funded locally.\"\n\nThis means legal wrangles about getting councils to support places - and there are students who should already have started this term who are still at home arguing about funding, she says.\n\n\"Increasing student numbers is critical - and if student numbers don't go up we won't be financially sustainable,\" she says.\n\nAt present, about 75 students are living there, but that number would need to rise to more than 90, says Ms Proctor.\n\nBrandon, 19, says learning how to be independent has made a \"massive difference\" to him.\n\nHe is applying to university and has gone from thinking he would be \"stuck in a room\" all his life to feeling confident in travelling around the country.\n\nBrandon says the college has helped him to become independent and to address his sense of isolation\n\n\"It's so important to have independence - I felt like I couldn't do anything for myself and then I got really depressed thinking I wasn't worth the time and effort.\n\n\"No teenager should have to feel so isolated from the world. It's awful. If other people can do it, why can't we?\n\n\"In the end you can do whatever you want to if you put your mind to it.\"\n\nBrandon says having the support of other young people who have faced similar problems, after years of being the \"odd one out\", has also made a big difference.\n\nThe college is a centre for sport, including \"goalball\", played by people with vision problems\n\n\"They've all gone through sight loss, one way or another, in their life. You can put yourself in their shoes because you've gone through it.\n\n\"It helps massively because if you're dealing with it on your own it can be a very isolating world. It's so painful.\"\n\nHe says students have stories of being bullied, patronised or written off.\n\nIt's even small things, says Brandon, like not being embarrassed if his guide dog starts making noises in lessons.\n\nHe also points out that despite their calm exterior, guide dogs can have \"cheeky days\" and his own had just eaten an entire cheesecake.\n\nSonal says sharing experiences with other young people with visual impairments is as important as the academic study\n\n\"It's not just the academic side, but it's the social side,\" says 20-year-old Sonal.\n\n\"I really like sharing our experiences,\" she says, after enduring years without friends facing similar challenges.\n\n\"I felt like I was the only person with visual impairment.\"\n\nIt also gives her confidence and makes her less self-conscious to learn alongside other people with sight problems, whether it's learning how to get into town or to cook for themselves.\n\nMs Proctor says there is a great deal of information sharing between the young people, swapping apps and technology to assist blind people.\n\nShe mentions a device that can read the colour of clothing, so that people going to work will not dress in a way that makes them look out of place.\n\nLearning to cook is part of the process of becoming independent\n\n\"They're learning so much from each other. The friendship groups, the socialisation, is incredibly important,\" she says.\n\nThe college says only about a quarter of working-age people who are blind or partially sighted are in employment, down from about a third in 2006.\n\nThe spending review, presented by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid in September, also promised more for special-needs funding, alongside a wider school spending increase of £7.1bn.\n\n\"We're providing over £700m to give more support to children and young people with special educational needs - an 11% increase compared to last year,\" the chancellor told MPs last month.\n\nBut Judith Blake, chairwoman of the association's children and young people board, said there were still \"long-term concerns\" about meeting the cost of special educational needs.\n\n\"Without certainty over funding for the future the situation is likely to get worse as the number of children who need support continues to increase,\" she said.", "\"No one's cracking open the champagne… don't even pour a pint of warm Guinness,\" joked one of the few people familiar with what actually happened on Thursday after talks between Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar.\n\nNothing that happened in the privacy of a country house wedding venue on the Wirral means there will be a deal with the EU in the next seven days.\n\nNothing has made the obstacles in the way of reaching an agreement magically disappear.\n\nBut something has changed today.\n\nAfter days of various EU players publicly scorning the UK's proposals, explaining the objections and lamenting the weaknesses, there is a tangible willingness, on the bloc's side at least, to see seriously if they can work.\n\nWe've discussed here so many times why Ireland's attitude matters so much, so the very public positivity from Mr Varadkar - his \"maybe\", instead of \"no\" to Mr Johnson's proposals - is extremely important.\n\nThere is hardly any detail out there of the compromises or concessions that might be actually in play to make a deal work.\n\nDon't give too much credence to even the best informed speculation that's already whirring online as to how it could happen.\n\nWhat Mr Varadkar's warm words represent though, perhaps, is an appetite on the EU side to focus on what might be possible, rather concentrate on the gaps.\n\nIt would be an epic assumption tonight to conclude that a deal will happen.\n\nMore heroic still to conclude that even if Ireland and the UK have found common cause, that their new understanding would automatically pass muster among all the other political players - the powerful EU member states, not to mention the DUP and the other parties in Parliament.\n\nAs Theresa May found to her cost, any compromises with the EU often cost her votes back at home.\n\nAll of the policy and political complexities are also up against the intense demands of the clock.\n\nThere is progress, but it is tentative.\n\nThe process has moved forward a few paces, but there are miles to go.\n\nRemember too with so much at stake, neither side want to be the ones to admit defeat first.\n\nBut against what was felt even on Thursday morning - almost a lost cause - these talks have produced a slight lift in the gloom.\n\nBoth sides will have to move if there's to be a deal, but at least for now, it seems they are willing to try.", "A Paralympic medallist climbed on top of a British Airways plane at London City Airport as part of ongoing protests by Extinction Rebellion.\n\nJames Brown, who is visually impaired, filmed himself clinging to the fuselage as he streamed a live message online.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick described the action as \"reckless, stupid and dangerous\". About 50 arrests were made at the airport.\n\nAnother man refused to sit in his seat, delaying a flight by nearly two hours.\n\nBoth men had bought flight tickets and passed through airport security.\n\nOn the fourth day of climate change protests, disruption in the UK centred on London City Airport.\n\nPolice arrested people blocking the airport entrance as others glued themselves to the floor.\n\nAirport chief executive Robert Sinclair said flights ran largely on time or with slight delays, although two flights were cancelled.\n\nAt about 19:00 BST, he said protesters were no longer outside the terminal, although he advised people flying on Thursday evening or Friday to check their flight status before travelling to the airport.\n\nEarlier in Westminster, tents and protesters were cleared from the roads leading to Parliament Square.\n\nPolice said they were working to clear a camp in St James' Park, with Trafalgar Square the only other site still occupied in central London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBBC Newsnight's Nicholas Watt was on a Dublin-bound flight when a \"smartly dressed man\" stood up and walked down the aisle, delivering a lecture on climate change.\n\nCabin crew \"calmly and very politely\" asked the protester to retake his seat and, when he declined, they alerted the pilot, Watt said in a tweet.\n\nHe said the plane then taxied back to the gate, where police escorted the protester off the plane.\n\nAer Lingus said the passenger was removed \"due to disruptive behaviour on board\" and a full security check of the aircraft was completed before the delayed flight could depart.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Mew This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 lunchtime, James Brown, a Paralympian cyclist from Northern Ireland, filmed himself sitting on top of an Amsterdam-bound plane which had been due to take off just after 13:00 BST. He was booked on to the flight.\n\nIn a live stream posted on Facebook, he said it was \"scary\" because he hated heights, felt cold and hoped they would get him down soon.\n\n\"Oh man I'm shaking,\" he went on. \"This is all about the climate and ecological crisis. We're protesting at government inaction on climate and ecological breakdown. They declare climate emergency and do nothing about it.\"\n\nAfter more than an hour on the roof, Mr Brown was brought down and led away by police.\n\nMet Commissioner Dame Cressida said: \"My early understanding is somebody has been arrested after they presumably bought a ticket, went through security perfectly normally, went up the steps of a plane and hurled themselves on top of a plane.\n\n\"Actually, that was a reckless, stupid and dangerous thing to do for all concerned.\n\n\"But I think you can see that it is quite a hard thing to predict or stop from happening.\"\n\nShe said a full review of security at the airport would be carried out.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor pointed out there was no law to stop a protester buying a plane ticket and, once they did so, they were \"a legitimate passenger\".\n\n\"There is a difference between a security threat and a protest threat,\" he said. \"Protesting is not an offence.\"\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\nPolice said more than 1,000 people have been arrested since Monday, including about 50 at the airport on Thursday.\n\nTwenty-nine people have been charged with various offences, police said.\n\nSome protesters were carried away by police during the demonstrations\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Question Time, Rupert Read, from Extinction Rebellion, defended the group's methods, saying he had spent 20 years campaigning and knocking on doors for the Green Party \"and none of it worked\".\n\nBefore the April protests \"we were still on the same trajectory for disaster as the last 20 years - but then we managed to push the issue up the agenda\", he said, adding that the hundreds of people who have been arrested were \"brave souls\".\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Schapps said he could not understand why the action was centred on the UK - the only G7 country to have pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.\n\n\"Rather than stopping people from getting to work, go to a country which isn't doing any of these things, and protest there,\" he said.\n\nActivists had been attempting a three-day \"Hong Kong-style occupation\" of London City Airport's terminal building to highlight what they claim is the \"incompatibility\" of the east London airport's planned £2bn expansion meeting the government's legally-binding commitment to go net carbon neutral by 2050.\n\nHowever, by Thursday afternoon, the number of protesters at the airport had begun to dwindle.\n\nFormer Metropolitan Police detective John Curran was among those arrested, after he glued himself to the pavement outside the airport.\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\nAn 83-year-old man, Phil Kingston, was also arrested, as hundreds of people blocked the main passenger entrance.\n\nIt is the third time he has been arrested as part of the Extinction Rebellion protests this week.\n\nProtesters also caused disruption outside the terminal, as several sat down on the zebra crossing, blocking traffic going in and out of the passenger drop-off zone.\n\nCars and buses were backed up in both directions before the demonstrators were cleared from the roads by police.\n\nOne protester stood on the roof of the terminal building\n\nTaxi driver Jason Lempiere said the protests had disrupted his work in and around the city.\n\n\"It's disturbing everyone's everyday life; working, travel in and out of the airport,\" he said.\n\n\"Yeah, have a voice, but [do] not disrupt people's lives like this.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inside the camp of IS families in Syria\n\nYes, quite possibly, in some form, is the short answer. Jihadist groups like Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda thrive on chaos and disruption. This incursion threatens to bring both to a region that was already a tinderbox of tension.\n\nBut the outcome will partly depend on the depth, duration and intensity of the Turkish incursion into Syria.\n\nThe jihadists of IS lost the last remaining square miles of their self-declared caliphate following the battle for Baghuz in Syria in March this year.\n\nBut thousands of their fighters are still alive and not all are in prisons. The group has vowed to fight on through what it calls a \"war of attrition\", hoping to grind down its adversaries by a succession of covertly planned attacks, such as the bombings it claimed in Raqqa this week.\n\nIn north-eastern Syria, previously an IS stronghold, their resurgence has been kept in check by the large number of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) soldiers, mostly Kurds, backed by US special forces and the firepower at their disposal.\n\nThe Kurds have not only been a military presence on the ground and on the border with Turkey but they have also performed the task that almost nobody else wanted to do: guarding the thousands of IS fighters and their dependants in overcrowded prisons and camps under their control.\n\nBut with Turkey's powerful army now pushing into areas the Kurds have controlled, Kurdish priorities have changed. Defending themselves has become more important than guarding unprosecuted prisoners whose countries are unwilling to take them back.\n\nThere are basically two risks here. The first and most immediate is that of a prison break. There are an estimated 12,000 IS members in SDF-run prisons and a further 70,000 IS dependants in camps like Al-Hol.\n\nThe IS members include hardcore veterans likely to have carried out or witnessed beheadings, crucifixions and amputations, as well as those with experience of planning military attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some residents began to flee as smoke rose over the border town of Ras al-Ain\n\nThere is a growing fear in Western intelligence communities that in the event of a successful jailbreak then some of these hardened fighters will find their way back to Europe or other home countries and plan a repeat of the sort of attacks witnessed in London, Paris, Barcelona and elsewhere.\n\nHere the West has only itself to blame. Between 2014-2019 the US-led coalition of around 70 nations conducted a hard-fought and successful military campaign to degrade and eventually destroy the IS caliphate that was terrorising an area roughly the size of Belgium.\n\nBut it failed to plan sufficiently for the aftermath. There is no internationally accepted mechanism for prosecuting the remnants of the IS caliphate, captured on the battlefield. Instead they are crammed together, in conditions condemned by human rights groups, with no prospect of a trial.\n\nThe women's camps are teeming with IS supporters and former members of the Hisbah, the morality enforcers, who are still carrying out strict punishments inside the tented camps, including floggings and burning down the tents of those they disapprove of.\n\nMost of the camps are sited south of the border strip that Turkey intends to occupy. But already there have been Kurdish announcements that they will have to move some of those previously guarding the camps further north to defend against the Turkish advance.\n\nTwo of the most wanted IS members, El-Shafee Elsheikh and Alexander Kotay, the so-called \"Beatles\" who come from London, have been under Kurdish guard in north-east Syria since their capture by SDF forces near the border.\n\nBut late on Wednesday it was announced they had been transferred to US military custody pending trial in the US, a sign of just how concerned the West is about the risk of prisoners going free.\n\nThe Kurdish fighters of the SDF did much of the hard fighting to defeat IS. US air power, Western special forces and even Iranian-backed Shia Muslim militias all played a part too in dismantling the five-year caliphate that stretched across northern Syria and Iraq.\n\nBut if the Kurds are now to become fully occupied in fighting the Turkish army and dodging air strikes then they will no longer be an effective force against IS. The West is unwilling to fill their place.\n\nKurdish-led SDF fighters - seen here preparing to counter the Turkish incursion - did much of the hard fighting to defeat IS\n\nAll of which suits IS just fine. Its fugitive leadership has been making occasional announcements of a comeback and already in Iraq, long before this week's Turkish offensive, there have been signs that IS is regrouping and mounting small-scale attacks on Iraqi government posts.\n\nYet the dire predictions may not all come to fruition. The mixed and confusing messages coming out of the White House may be enough to deter Turkey from pressing too far into Syria.\n\nIts incursion may turn out to be limited and when the dust settles then a new order may eventually re-establish itself in this northern corner of the Middle East.\n\nUltimately though, the future state of this region looks likely to be highly unstable - unless and until rivalries are set aside and populations get something they have been sorely lacking: good governance.\n\nJihadist groups thrive on poor or absent governance, whether that be in remote areas of Somalia, Yemen, West Africa or in the tribal heartlands of Iraq and Syria.\n\nThere is little sign that is about to improve.", "Boris Johnson has outlined his plan to the European Union (EU) to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said the plan \"removes the so-called backstop\".\n\nThe backstop is the insurance policy negotiated by Theresa May and the EU. It is designed to avoid any physical border infrastructure, which it is feared would bring back memories of the Troubles, after Brexit.\n\nIt would keep the UK in the same customs territory as the EU, and Northern Ireland closely tied to EU regulations - until the UK and the EU reach a trade deal.\n\nBut it would stop the UK striking its own trade deals, which is why so many Conservative MPs, including Mr Johnson, oppose the backstop.\n\nSo, what is his alternative?\n\nThe government wants the UK to leave the EU customs union. This would mean Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland ending up in two different customs territories.\n\nThis means lorries entering the Republic of Ireland from Northern Ireland will need to complete customs declarations. This is to ensure the correct tariffs (tax on imports) are paid when UK goods enter the EU customs union.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: From the beginning the EU has struggled to see how Ireland and Northern Ireland can exist in different customs territories while keeping the border as open as it is now under all circumstances. They will argue that - in the absence of a future free trade deal - this proposal means the UK is breaking commitments it has made about the border. The UK counters that the backstop has already been rejected in Parliament three times, and something needs to change.\n\nInstead of installing customs posts and other physical infrastructure at the Irish border, the UK says declarations should be done electronically.\n\nThe government says physical checks would still be needed \"on a very small proportion of movements\". Currently, about one in 100 consignments entering the EU customs union are inspected to check that the goods match the information on the declaration.\n\nThese inspections could be carried out at warehouses or \"designated locations, which could be located anywhere in Ireland or Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThe government's proposal does not spell out what these \"designated locations\" would look like, but it adds there should be \"a firm commitment (by both parties) never to conduct checks at the border in future\".\n\nIf adopted, a border solution relying on technology and remote checks would be a first. The EU does not currently share a single border with a non-EU country where checks have been completely eliminated.\n\nThat includes Norway (not in the EU) and Sweden (an EU member) - which share one of the most technologically advanced borders in the world. Their main crossing point processes about 1,300 lorries a day, with each waiting 20 minutes on average.\n\nThe EU has previously rejected a customs solution that relies on technology.\n\nBack in January, Sabine Weyand, the EU's director-general for trade, said: \"We looked at every border on this Earth, every border the EU has with a third country - there's simply no way you can do away with checks and controls.\"\n\nThe government says that some small traders should be exempt from paying duty. However, the document does not address smuggling head on. In other words, what will be done to detect and prevent traders, who should be paying duty, from crossing the border without completing custom declarations first?\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The EU will see much of this as a rehash of previous ideas that it doesn't think will work. And many people will worry that unspecified \"designated locations\" could become targets for anyone seeking to undermine the Northern Ireland peace process. The EU will push back hard against suggestions that it needs to revise its own customs rules to suit the UK.\n\nWhen it comes to the regulation of goods, Northern Ireland would keep to the rules of the EU's single market, rather than UK rules.\n\nThat removes the need for product standard and safety checks on goods at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, because both will be part of an \"all-island regulatory zone\".\n\nBut it creates the need for checks between the rest of the UK - which will not be sticking to EU single market rules - and Northern Ireland..\n\nAll agricultural, food or animal products entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK will have to go through a Border Inspection Post. That's a bit of infrastructure where goods can be physically examined and paperwork checked.\n\nManufactured goods in Northern Ireland would also have to keep to EU rules, and these goods would be checked \"at the boundary of the zone\" - presumably at crossings between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, on the Irish Sea.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: This is quite a big concession from the UK side - basically accepting that there would have to be quite intrusive checks between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK for a number of years, on things like product standards and food safety. The EU has always said there have to be checks carried out somewhere, and both sides will try to deny any suggestion that this amounts to a new border in the Irish Sea.\n\nHaving Northern Ireland following EU rules for the production of goods over which it has no say is, as the document says, \"a significant democratic problem\".\n\nAs a result, it is proposed that the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive will have to sign off on the plan before it takes effect.\n\nThe Northern Irish institutions will be asked to approve the plan again every four years, and if they do not then Northern Ireland would stop following EU rules one year later.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly has not met since early 2017.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The issue of democratic legitimacy is a crucial one, but it cannot be applied unevenly. The EU is likely to have a problem with anything which suggests that only Northern Ireland could have - in effect - a veto on this plan. The point of the backstop was to provide a legal guarantee to keep an open border under all circumstances. Being subject to approval every four years simply isn't the same thing. If Northern Ireland voted to leave this arrangement things like checks on food safety would have to take place at the Irish border.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Sir Andy Murray has revealed his wife Kim is expecting the couple's third child.\n\nThe two-time Wimbledon champion said his wife could give birth as early as next week.\n\nKim, 31, sparked pregnancy rumours in July after arriving at Wimbledon wearing a maternity top while cheering on her husband in a mixed doubles match with Serena Williams.\n\nNow Sir Andy, 32, has confirmed their third child is expected imminently.\n\nThe Dunblane tennis star said he may need to rearrange his playing schedule depending on the timing of the new arrival.\n\nSir Andy told The Times: \"Obviously the baby can come any time from pretty much next week.\n\n\"I would adjust my schedule if I couldn't go to Antwerp.\n\n\"My plan is to play Antwerp and then I am done through to the Davis Cup.\n\n\"If the baby came early, I would miss Antwerp and then maybe play at the Paris Masters.\"\n\nThe couple, who already have two children, were married in Dunblane in April 2015\n\nSir Andy and Kim are already parents to daughters Sophia, three, and Edie, who will turn two next month.\n\nThe couple got married in Sir Andy's home town of Dunblane in 2015.\n\nSir Andy has just lost a fiery encounter with Italian Fabio Fognini in the second round of the Shanghai Masters.\n\nThree-time Grand Slam winner Sir Andy is currently ranked number 289 in the world after battling back from a career-threatening hip injury.", "There is growing concern among key aerospace manufacturers about regulatory alignment and the ability to bring products to market after Brexit.\n\nThe firms have sought reassurance that the UK would continue to be a member of the European Aviation Safety Agency after any Brexit deal.\n\nThey also warned that alignment with chemicals regulations is \"vital\" for the sector.\n\nThe government said it would pursue agreements where necessary.\n\nThe government is facing a backlash from key manufacturers amid growing industrial concern that Boris Johnson's Brexit negotiators have dropped existing commitments to participate in specific EU regulatory institutions after any Brexit deal.\n\nBBC News has obtained a letter from the aerospace industry body, the ADS, to the government asking for \"reassurance\" that \"continued membership of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and alignment with EU chemicals regulations\" which \"are vital for our sector\".\n\nIt said that \"we received assurances from the previous [May] government that the UK would seek to continue membership of or retain participation and influence in EU agencies such as EASA\".\n\nThe letter, dated this week, and sent to Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove and Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay, expresses \"concern\" that the PM has signalled a different approach.\n\nRepeated attempts to get clarity on this issue have not reassured the aerospace and other industries on this topic.\n\nIt says that \"regulatory divergence would pose a serious risk to our sectors\" will result in \"huge new costs and disruptions to many of our member companies\", and an \"inability to shape safety rule making\" which \"will make it much more difficult to bring UK technology to market\".\n\nIn the existing political declaration on the future relationship between the UK and the EU, negotiated under Theresa May, there were specific references to ongoing close cooperation between a post-Brexit UK and three named regulatory agencies - the European Aviation Safety Agency, the European Chemical Agency as well as the European Medicines Agency.\n\nThe political declaration said \"in this context the UK will consider aligning with [European] Union rules in relevant areas\".\n\nAfter the completion of negotiations, Mrs May confirmed to parliament that the political declaration meant for her negotiating a form of UK membership of these agencies which set technical specifications and safety standards across the whole European single market.\n\nThe concerns are shared in other industries, which have asked for similar reassurances, only to be told in recent weeks that the government is seeking a \"best in class\" free trade agreement, where the UK would set its own regulatory standards.\n\nThe government has acknowledged that it wants to take the \"level playing field\" arrangements out of the political declaration that promised alignment on environmental, social, labour and some tax measures.\n\nThese were also seen as crucial to ongoing industrial regulatory cooperation, and preventing the introduction of many types of checks on trade.\n\nBut the government fears such measures agreed by Theresa May will restrict the ability of a post-Brexit government to strike meaningful trade deals with other countries such as the US.\n\nA source close to the negotiations acknowledged to the BBC that among changes being negotiated to the political declaration references to EU agencies could get scrapped.\n\nEven as most of the negotiating attention remains on Northern Ireland, the change in approach from the Johnson government suggests a significantly different, more diverged end point for Brexit for England, Scotland and Wales, than envisaged under Theresa May.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The UK is getting ready for Brexit on 31 October. We want a deal, but we must be prepared for every eventuality and we have recently announced substantial extra funding to support businesses to get ready.\n\n\"The government is seeking a best in class FTA [free trade agreement] drawing on the precedent of existing EU FTA deals.\n\n\"We have been clear that we are committed to maintaining high standards after we leave the EU.\n\n\"Where necessary, the government will pursue additional agreements to cover areas outside traditional FTAs - for example, on aviation and civil nuclear cooperation.\"\n\nA number of Labour MPs who say they want to support a deal have already expressed a desire for a deal with less scope for regulatory divergence.", "Contactless payments have become so popular among UK consumers that they accounted for half of all debit card transactions in July.\n\nIt is the first time the 50% level has been reached, according to figures from banking trade body UK Finance.\n\nContactless allows consumers to pay by placing their card, or smartphone, near the merchant's machine, without the need to enter a PIN.\n\nIt was used 647 million times on debit cards during the month, the data shows.\n\nThe technology was adopted relatively slowly by consumers in its early years, but widespread use on public transport has given it a significant push.\n\nThe use of contactless - which includes cards loaded onto smartphones - outstrips debit card payments using a PIN, as well as online transactions.\n\nConcerns have been raised about the potential harm for those without a bank account, and therefore without a card, if the move to such technology comes at the expense of cash.\n\nIona Bain, founder of the Young Money Blog, said: \"The jury is out about what this means in the long-term for consumers.\n\n\"We have to think about the unbanked customers in the UK. They are very much reliant on cash. The rise in contactless technology risks leaving behind rural and poorer communities.\"\n\nHigh credit card interest rates, and a safety-first approach from consumers, mean that the growth in outstanding credit card debt has slowed in recent months.\n\nThe UK Finance figures show that the annual growth rate stood at 3.67% in July.\n\nThis was down from a recent high of 8.3% in February last year.\n\nCommentators have suggested the Bank of England's base interest rate could be cut in the near future, but such a change might not feed through to better deals for borrowers.", "The man abducted a seven-year-old girl from a Brisbane shopping centre last year\n\nAn Australian man who kidnapped a child from a shopping centre and molested her in remote scrubland has been jailed.\n\nSterling Mervyn Free, 27, lured the seven-year-old girl out of a Kmart store in Brisbane last December.\n\nHe then drove her to an isolated place where he sexually assaulted her, before returning her about an hour later.\n\nA judge called the attack \"every parent's worst nightmare\" and jailed Free for a maximum of eight years - a sentence which has drawn controversy.\n\nSpeaking in the Brisbane District Court, Judge Julie Dick said Free's abduction of the girl form a toy aisle was \"chilling, opportunistic and predatory\".\n\nBut she stopped short of legally classifying him as a serious violent offender, meaning Free will be eligible for parole in 2021.\n\nAustralian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said the sentence was \"grossly inadequate\" and called on Queensland state lawmakers to intervene.\n\n\"To have this young girl treated the way that she was by this animal is unacceptable and that he wouldn't go to jail for a long period of time just doesn't reflect community standards,\" he said.\n\nProsecutors told the court the attack had occurred while the girl's parents were busy doing Christmas shopping.\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Free lingering in the toy aisles, before exiting the store with the girl following him.\n\nHe was arrested two days later and charged with kidnapping and indecent assault. He pleaded guilty to the charges in July.\n\nThe court heard that Free, who has two children, was addicted to pornography and had suffered abuse himself.\n\nHe apologised to his victim and said he accepted his punishment, saying in a statement on Friday: \"I deeply regret the harm that I have done.\"\n\nThe victim's mother said her daughter had been educated about \"stranger danger\" but was tricked into following Free.\n\n\"[No] sentence will ever be long enough to make up for the ongoing effects this will have on her,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The animation designed to teach children how to speak out about abuse", "Formula 1 has cancelled all activities at the Japanese Grand Prix on Saturday as Typhoon Hagibis approaches.\n\nThe tropical storm, the year's biggest, is due to hit Japan on Saturday and strong winds are set to continue into Sunday, when qualifying and race will be held.\n\nValtteri Bottas led Lewis Hamilton to a Mercedes one-two in second practice.\n\nThose results could decide the grid if conditions are too difficult to hold qualifying on Sunday morning.\n\nBottas was 0.1 seconds quicker than Hamilton, with Max Verstappen third and the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel fourth and fifth ahead of Red Bull's Alexander Albon.\n• None Japanese GP first and second practice results\n• None I'm not here to be liked: Verstappen on hard racing and dirty driving\n\nOrganisers said they had taken the decision to postpone qualifying and close the circuit on Saturday \"in the interests of safety for the spectators, competitors, and everyone at the Suzuka Circuit\".\n\nQualifying, which had been due to take place at 15:00 local time (08:00 BST) on Saturday, is now due to take place at 10:00 (02:00 BST) on Sunday.\n\nThe race will be held as scheduled at 14:10 (06:10 BST).\n\nThe potential impact of the tropical storm has already led to the cancellation of two matches at the Rugby World Cup.\n\nF1 organisers delayed a decision on Thursday to have a clearer idea of the path of the storm.\n\nMercedes were first and second, with Bottas ahead of Hamilton, in both practice sessions.\n\nAnd the second session took on more importance than normal because teams were aware it could set the grid.\n\nSuzuka is expected to be hit by high winds and heavy rain throughout Saturday in what is currently a Category Three typhoon and is due to hit the coast not far from the track on Saturday before moving north towards Tokyo.\n\nFlights are being cancelled across the country, as are train services from Tokyo to Nagoya, the closest big city to Suzuka, from Saturday morning, as well as most trains between Nagoya and Osaka to the west.\n\nEfforts were being made to limit the potential damage at the track on Saturday, for which there have been warnings to stay inside and Japanese authorities have set up social media accounts and an app for safety tips during the storm.\n\nBut, even though the storm has weakened slightly from its high point earlier in the week, there are concerns among officials that the damage might be too extensive for the track to be cleared in time to run qualifying on Sunday morning.\n\nMercedes appear to be in a strong position after Friday practice, their cars quicker than anything else on both short runs and longer ones aimed at simulating the race.\n\nIn fact, Mercedes were as much as a second a lap on average quicker than Ferrari on their race simulations.\n\nFerrari, who have won three of the last four races and taken pole position at all of them, appear to have slipped back judging from Friday.\n\nLeclerc was 0.356secs off the pace, with Vettel 0.235secs further behind him, and that was despite the Italian team running their session differently than Mercedes and in a way that should in theory have given them greater potential for a quick time.\n\nAll teams took advantage of the lack of running on Saturday to do an extra low-fuel, high-speed run in second practice, but while Mercedes and Red Bull did both their quick laps in the middle of the session, Ferrari did one then and then one at the end.\n\nThat was the lap that vaulted Leclerc up from sixth to fourth, but although Vettel was able to improve his personal best lap time, he slipped behind his team-mate.\n\nAlbon was 0.336secs off Verstappen, a strong effort from the Anglo-Thai rookie on his first visit to Suzuka and in only his fifth race for the team following his mid-season promotion.\n\nMercedes have an aerodynamic upgrade on the car that the team hope will wrest back the advantage from Ferrari, while Red Bull also have tweaked aerodynamics as well as a new fuel for their Honda engine aimed at boosting performance on the Japanese manufacturer's home track.\n\nBottas said: \"Very positive day, tried some things. Felt good from the beginning, really happy with the car in general, still minor things with the balance to tweak but both short and long runs felt good. It's always so much fun here driving these cars, and especially when the car feels good.\n\n\"It is only practice but I do feel still the gains we've made with the car. We can just push the car further than before. But still Sunday is going to be close.\n\nHamilton added: \"It's a work in progress. When you're first on the track, you're pushing the limits, there is always time to find at this track, always areas you're weak at.\n\n\"This is not my strongest of circuits. Valtteri got a massive tow on his fastest lap and gained like 0.5secs up the back straight so it's an interesting dynamic because you don't want to be behind someone in the first part because you need clear air but if you're lucky and you get a slipstream later on, then it's perfect.\"\n\nBest of the rest was McLaren's Carlos Sainz, ahead of Racing Point's Sergio Perez, Toro Rosso's Pierre Gasly and the second McLaren of Lando Norris.\n\nIn the first session, Japanese Naoki Yamamoto was driving Gasly's Toro Rosso on his first experience of F1 and was a creditable 17th fastest.\n\nYamamoto was just 0.1secs off team-mate Daniil Kvyat but was running the soft tyre while the Russian was on the medium.", "Juliette Kaplan, who played battleaxe Pearl Sibshaw in BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine for 25 years, has died at the age of 80, her agent has said.\n\nKaplan appeared in 226 episodes of the show from 1985 to 2010, with the sharp-tongued Pearl trying to thwart husband Howard's attempts to have an affair.\n\nKaplan also appeared in Coronation Street in 2015 as Agnes Tinker.\n\nBarry Langford thanked \"everyone who sent their love and support to this fearless and supremely gifted actress\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by barry langford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe news comes after the agent said on 31 July that she was \"gravely ill\", describing her as a \"very brave lady\".\n\nLast of the Summer Wine ran from 1973 to 2010, taking a comical look at the lives of the elderly residents of a Yorkshire town.\n\nKaplan told Kent Life in 2012 she first got the role as Pearl when it toured the UK as a play in 1984. Creator and writer Roy Clarke then wrote Pearl into the TV series as one of the permanent characters.\n\nThe actress was born in Bournemouth but moved around as a child as a result of her South African father's job in the Navy.\n\nShe told the Summer Winos fan site in 2012 that having lived in South Africa and New York, her mother wanted to refine her daughter's accent, \"so she sent me to elocution lessons\" at drama school.\n\nShe went on to pursue an acting career and worked in theatre. She married and had three children, but her husband died in 1981 when she was 42.\n\nJuliette Kaplan worked as an actress throughout her life\n\nKaplan also appeared in TV shows including EastEnders, Brookside and Doctors, but the role of Pearl was the most enduring of her career. She said she helped create her character's distinctive look, complete with wig and glasses.\n\n\"They actually gave me a wig from stock, and it used to flap at the back,\" she said. \"So every time the wind blew, my wig came off! So it was my idea to anchor it with either a turban or a beret.\"\n\nShe was in a 2005 Christmas special with (left-right) June Whitfield and Kathy Staff\n\nShe also appeared in a show written by Clarke called Just Pearl, which toured the UK in 2003, telling the story of Pearl's life before she met Howard.\n\nShe told Summer Winos: \"My show starts with me turning into Pearl in front of the audience.\n\n\"I put the make-up on, put the coat on, and say 'There you are… there's Pearl'. And the audience likes that sort of thing.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "Coastal communities have been \"blighted\" by \"nine years of vicious austerity and Tory cuts\", Jeremy Corbyn has said in a speech.\n\nSpeaking in Hastings, East Sussex, the Labour leader also pledged to end the \"evil of in-work poverty\".\n\nBut the Conservatives say seaside areas can benefit from a £3.6bn fund.\n\nBBC analysis this week found that workers living in costal parts of Britain earn £1,600 less on average per year than those living inland.\n\nThe research also found that two-thirds of coastal areas had seen a real-terms fall in wages since 2010.\n\nThe constituency of Hastings and Rye was held by Amber Rudd for the Conservatives by just 346 votes at the last general election, but she has since quit the party and sits in the House of Commons as an independent.\n\nLabour is hoping to win the seat, which Ms Rudd will not contest again, at the next election.\n\nIn his speech, Mr Corbyn said poverty and inequality were \"not inevitable\".\n\n\"In the fifth-richest country in the world, no-one should be forced to rely on a food bank to feed their family, no-one should be sleeping rough on our streets, and nobody should be working for poverty wages,\" he said.\n\nCiting parliamentary research, he said one in five adults in Hastings and Rye could be in receipt of universal credit when it is fully rolled out.\n\nUniversal credit is the benefit for working-age people, replacing six benefits - including income support and housing benefit - and merging them into one payment:\n\nFood banks in Hastings and Rye say they distributed nearly 90,000 meals last year.\n\nMr Corbyn has said a Labour government would immediately increase the minimum wage to £10 an hour and build one million affordable homes over 10 years.\n\nHe also trumpeted plans, unveiled at the party's conference, for a future Labour government to invest in new offshore wind farms and use the profits generated from energy sold to improve recreational and leisure facilities in struggling areas.\n\nDefending the government's record, Minister for Local Growth Jake Berry said: \"Thanks to a thriving economy and record employment, the government can afford to invest more in communities across the country - something that would be put at risk with a reckless high-tax, high-debt Corbyn government.\"", "Iranian women have attended a World Cup qualifier in Tehran for a men's match for the first time in decades.\n\nWomen have effectively been banned from stadiums when men are playing since just after the 1979 Islamic revolution.\n\nThe change followed the death of a fan who had set herself alight after being arrested for trying to attend a match.", "Coverage: Live on BBC Radio Scotland, Radio 5 Live, plus text updates on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nScottish Rugby believes it has a legal case against the game's governing body as it seeks to ensure their decisive World Cup match with Japan goes ahead.\n\nThe game in Yokohama is under threat amid concerns over Typhoon Hagibis.\n\nWorld Rugby will do an inspection of the stadium at 22:00 BST on Saturday, with a decision expected within two hours about whether it will be played.\n\nIt has already cancelled two Saturday games and declared them a draw - a repeat would mean Scotland's exit.\n\nBut Scottish Rugby's Mark Dodson says \"legal opinion unravels\" the case.\n\nGregor Townsend's side lie third behind Ireland and Japan in Pool A and must beat the hosts - earning four more points than them - to progress to the quarter-final stage unless the Irish lose to Samoa.\n\nWorld Rugby rules state that \"where a pool match cannot be commenced on the day in which it is scheduled, it shall not be postponed to the following day and shall be considered as cancelled. In such situations, the result shall be allocated two points each and no score registered\".\n\nBut Dodson said: \"World Rugby have pointed us back to the participation agreement and that it is clearly stated there. We've had a legal opinion and then we've taken a leading sports QC opinion in London that challenges that and unravels the World Rugby case.\"\n\n'We will play anywhere, anytime'\n\nChief executive Dodson argued that rugby fans around the world \"are absolutely astounded\" at World Rugby's \"rigidity\" and thinks the match should be played on Monday if it cannot go ahead on Sunday.\n\n\"We don't want to get in some sort of legal arm wrestle with World Rugby, but our view is it doesn't sit right with us, we don't feel it's just, we feel there's other ways,\" the chief executive said.\n\n\"I think most people feel that if it had been an economic powerhouses - let's say New Zealand - perhaps more thought would have been given to a flexible approach.\n\n\"I think in the court of public opinion, we've already won. Right from the get go, we said we will play any place, anywhere, behind closed doors, in full stadiums. We will travel the length and breadth of Japan.\n\n\"We have spoken to the Japan Rugby Football Union and they are keen for this game to go on. What we're asking for is a common-sense approach that allows this game to be played in perfect safety 24 hours after the storm clears.\"\n\nHowever, World Rugby described those comments as \"disappointing, at a time when we are doing everything we can to enable all Sunday's matches to take place as scheduled\".\n\nIt pointed out that Scottish Rugby signed the competition's terms of participation - which stated that postponed matches would be declared a draw.\n\n\"The sheer predicted scale and impact of the typhoon, and the complexity of team movements for eight matches, meant that an even-handed application was just not possible without putting safety at risk,\" a statement read.\n\n\"Therefore, it was the fair and correct decision for all teams to maintain the position outlined in the terms of participation.\"\n\n'We're not going to be collateral damage'\n\nDodson told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 that \"for World Rugby to simply state that the game has to be cancelled goes against the whole sporting integrity of the tournament\".\n\nWorld Rugby hopes the worst of the typhoon will have passed by Sunday and that the game will go ahead, but Dodson is angered by its refusal to consider moving the game to another time or venue.\n\n\"We've been preparing for this tournament now for the last four years, our guys are over 100 days in camp, we've played three games already and the fourth game in this particular case is pivotal,\" he added.\n\n\"I'm convinced World Rugby and the Japanese authorities are doing everything they can to get this game on, on Sunday. But if their best endeavours fail for whatever reason, that's when we have an issue.\n\n\"My view is that we're not going to let Scotland be the collateral damage for a decision that was taken in haste.\"\n\nA complex situation has now crystallised into something far simpler. Scotland's game against Japan either goes ahead on Sunday in Yokohama as planned or it doesn't happen at all - and the Scots exit the World Cup as a consequence of Typhoon Hagibis.\n\nScottish Rugby has brought in its legal experts but World Rugby are not listening. It's their tournament, their rules, their interpretations. No QC is going to change that. Scotland signed up to the terms of participation and in the eyes of World Rugby, that's that.\n\nIn his news conference in Yokohama on early Friday evening, Dodson attempted to strike a conciliatory tone and tried to throw himself at the mercy of the governing body. He pleaded for common sense. It was the plea of a man with his back to the wall and a plea that will fall on deaf ears.\n\nWhen they called off Italy's game with New Zealand and England's game with France, World Rugby set a precedent and they will move not from their position - pool games that can't be played on the scheduled date will be abandoned. However farcical and unfair this may turn out to be, they will not make an exception for Scotland. Their statement on Friday showed how irked they have become. Scottish Rugby is fighting a losing battle here.\n\nIt's Sunday or nothing for this game. Truly we are in Lap of the Gods territory. It's up to Hagibis now.\n\nOn Thursday, England head coach Eddie Jones spoke about the impact of the typhoon.\n\nHe said: \"We've been talking about it all the time, about the possibility that this was going to happen.\n\n\"It's typhoon season, so you go somewhere else and it's terrorists' season. You know what's going to happen. It's typhoon season here and you've got to be prepared for it.\n\n\"We had an idea it could happen and therefore you have to accumulate points in your games to put yourself in the right position in case that happened.\n\n\"We just knew that there was the possibility of a game like this during the tournament so we just wanted to put ourselves in the best position we could.\n\n\"This is supposed to be a big typhoon, so I don't see any other option that the organisers had [than calling off England's game against France].\n\n\"That's why we're not concerned at all about the comings and goings of it. We think it's the right decision.\"\n\nOn the BBC Sport website we reported Jones had said Scotland 'only have themselves to blame' if they are knocked out of the World Cup because of the typhoon.\n\nWe would like to make clear Jones did not say this - he was speaking purely about England's position and not Scotland or any other team.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I saw the flames and said we gotta go' - wildfires near Los Angeles force thousands to flee\n\nAt least one person is dead in a fast-moving wildfire that has razed 4,700 acres north of Los Angeles, California, forcing thousands of others to flee.\n\nThe Saddleridge fire has led to a mandatory evacuation for 25,000 homes, some of which have been destroyed.\n\nA lorry with burning rubbish sparked another fire on Thursday east of LA.\n\nThe state's largest utility this week pulled the plug on at least 700,000 customers to prevent wildfires sparked by windblown power lines.\n\nThe Saddleridge fire has been fuelled by gusty winds, warm temperatures and low humidity.\n\nThe victim, a man in his late 50s, died from cardiac arrest connected to the blaze, fire officials told local media.\n\nBy Friday morning, the fire had grown to more than seven square miles (18 square km), burning at least 25 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 L.A. County Fire Department This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"Nobody's going home right away. This is going to take a few days,\" Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas told a Friday morning news briefing.\n\nHe said the fire was still zero per cent contained.\n\nTwo major highways have been closed due to the flames.\n\nThe National Weather Service has issued red flag fire condition warnings for Los Angeles and Ventura counties, cautioning of wind gusts of up to 75mph in the mountains and 55mph by the coasts.\n\nSome 100,000 people live in the evacuation zone.\n\nAuthorities have opened shelters for residents forced to abandon their homes.\n\nThe Saddleridge fire started on Thursday night in the San Fernando Valley and has since begun encroaching into northern neighbourhoods of the city. It remains unclear how it started.\n\nIt is one of several fires currently burning in southern California.\n\nThe blaze sparked by the garbage truck in Calimesa - a city some 70 miles east of Los Angeles - has spread to 500 acres and destroyed 74 structures, according to officials.\n\nThat outbreak, dubbed the Sandalwood fire after a local landmark, was 10% contained as of Thursday night.\n\nAt least two other smaller wildfires prompted evacuations on Thursday as well.\n\nUp in the north of the state this week, power company PG&E cut electricity to parts of 22 counties, including portions of the San Francisco Bay Area, as a wildfire prevention method.\n\nEmbers from the fire have been spread across the hillside due to the strong winds\n\nThe planned outage was to prevent power lines felled by strong winds sparking fires. Last year, PG&E's fallen power lines started the deadliest wildfire in California's history.\n\nPG&E has now begun restoring power, though more than 300,000 customers remained in the dark as of Thursday night.\n\nThe outages have been difficult for many residents, but particularly those with medical and health needs.\n\nLocal media report that many breastfeeding mothers have been banding together, connecting via online groups to share access to freezers and tips on how to store milk.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Some tweets called for the release of drill rap artist Digga D\n\nTwo Scottish teenagers have been arrested over claims they hacked into the Metropolitan Police's website and posted a series of bizarre messages.\n\nThe country's largest police force was hit by a cyber attack in July and a series of tweets were sent from its verified account, which has more than 1.2 million followers.\n\nA stream of unusual emails were also sent from the force's press bureau.\n\nThe arrested teenagers are aged 18 and 19 and from Lossiemouth and Glasgow.\n\nThey have been charged with carrying out the alleged hack by Police Scotland.\n\nPresident Donald Trump used the incident to attack London Mayor Sadiq Khan.\n\nQuoting a tweet from right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins, which said officers had \"lost control of London streets\" and \"lost control of their Twitter account too\", Trump wrote: \"With the incompetent Mayor of London, you will never have safe streets.\"\n\nThe Met's account has more than one million followers\n\nScotland Yard previously confirmed its website had \"been subject to unauthorised access\".\n\nThe force said it used an online provider called MyNewsDesk to issue news releases and said \"unauthorised messages\" appeared on its website, Twitter account and in emails sent to subscribers.\n\nThe tweets, which have been deleted, contained offensive language and mentioned the names of several people.\n\nOne of them called for the release of drill rap artist Digga D - real name Rhys Herbert - who was jailed last year for being part of a gang with machetes.\n\nThe posts also included messages such as \"no comment get my lawyer\" and \"what you gonna do phone the police?\".\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"Two men, aged 18 and 19, from the Lossiemouth and Glasgow areas respectively, have been arrested and charged in connection with unauthorised access and publication of content on the Metropolitan Police Service's news platform on Friday 19 July 2019.\n\n\"A report will be submitted to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Pomphret said his wife could go from being happy to depressed \"in minutes\"\n\nA man who battered his wife to death with a crowbar during a row has been found guilty of her murder.\n\nAnn Marie Pomphret, 49, was struck 30 times by her husband David at the stables they owned in Warrington, Cheshire, on 2 November.\n\nPomphret, 51, admitted killing his wife, but denied murder on the grounds of a temporary loss of control.\n\nLiverpool Crown Court heard he had been abused by his \"highly volatile\" wife whose mental health had deteriorated.\n\nRichard Pratt QC, defending, told the 10-day trial Pomphret faced longstanding \"vocal and sometimes violent\" abuse from his wife.\n\nThe jury heard the couple met on Mrs Pomphret's 21st birthday and were happily married with an 18-year-old daughter.\n\nHowever, over the course of their 22-year marriage, his wife's physical and mental health changed.\n\nPomphret said his wife could go from being happy to depressed in minutes and become \"very angry, very quickly\".\n\nThe Barclays bank technology expert said the couple had gone to the stables to check on their horses on 2 November when Mrs Pomphret began \"ranting\" at him.\n\nHe told the trial the next thing he remembered, \"I was standing at the side of her body. There was blood on my hands and the crowbar. She was on the floor...\".\n\nHe dialled 999, saying he had found his wife lying in a pool of blood, \"very dead\", adding: \"There is brain and blood everywhere, and it looks like she has had her head beaten in.\"\n\nPomphret was arrested the next day and initially denied any involvement.\n\nHe burned his bloodstained clothes, disposed of the murder weapon, protested his innocence and was released on bail.\n\nThe court heard Mrs Pomphret's injuries were consistent with the use of a crowbar which was recovered from a nearby pond\n\nBut he did not destroy his socks, which would \"come back to haunt him\", the prosecution said.\n\nHe was re-arrested after police found his wife's \"airborne blood\" on his socks putting him at the scene of the crime, the trial heard.\n\nHe then had to change his story, the jury was told and admitted manslaughter, tearfully telling the jury he \"killed the woman I loved\".\n\nPomphret still denied murder, instead claiming a \"special defence\" and blaming his wife's behaviour for a temporary loss of control.\n\nHe will be sentenced next week.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nThe Nike Oregon Project has been closed down after head coach Alberto Salazar was banned for four years after being found guilty of doping violations.\n\nIn a statement, a Nike spokesperson said the Salazar situation had become \"an unfair burden\" on athletes on the elite training programme.\n\nThe NOP's website and social media channels have been taken down.\n\n\"Nike has always tried to put the athlete and their needs at the front of all of our decisions,\" Nike added.\n\n\"This situation including uninformed innuendo and unsubstantiated assertions has become an unfair burden for current OP athletes. That is exactly counter to the purpose of the team.\n\n\"We have therefore made the decision to wind down the Oregon Project to allow the athletes to focus on their training and competition needs. We will help all of our athletes in this transition as they choose the coaching set up that is right for them.\"\n\nOn Friday, Nike chief executive Mark Parker sent an internal memo calling the Salazar situation a \"distraction\" for NOP athletes.\n\nNOP athlete Suguru Osako also confirmed the news on social media.\n\n\"I am sad that the dear team that made me stronger will be gone,\" the 28-year-old Japanese long-distance runner wrote on Twitter. \"But I will keep exploring myself and I will continue being myself.\n\n\"As Nike has expressed their commitment to continuing support as they have, my activities will not be disrupted at all.\"\n\nOn 6 October, key whistle-blower Kara Goucher told BBC Sport the NOP should be shut down.\n\nSalazar's ban followed a four-year investigation by the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) and a two-year court battle behind closed doors.\n\nThe 61-year-old American said he will appeal against the ruling, which Nike has said it will support.\n\nNike also stressed the Usada findings that performance-enhancing drugs had not been used on or by NOP athletes.\n\nResponding to the closure of the NOP, Usada CEO Travis T. Tygart told BBC Sport: \"It is the right thing and now let's hope they accept that mistakes were made and truly commit to clean sport and the health, wellbeing of athletes.\"\n\nThe NOP, based in Beaverton, Oregon, was established in 2001 and was the home of British four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah between 2011 and 2017.\n\nAt the time of its apparent folding, the NOP counted Dutch runner Sifan Hassan, who won 1500m and 10,000m gold at this month's World Athletics Championships in Doha, among its athletes.\n\nIt stood by disgraced cyclist Lance Amstrong for longer than it should have, and twice banned Justin Gatlin still runs in its shoes. But after head coach Alberto Salazar was banned for doping violations last week, his famed Oregon Project became too toxic even for Nike.\n\nOutwardly, Nike still stands by its man; perhaps it has to - CEO Mark Parker was implicated in the Usada case for being aware of the testosterone experiment conducted on Nike premises.\n\nThis is a seismic development though - and is a stark admission by the company that it needs to put clear blue water between itself and the man who was once hailed as the most revered coach in the world.\n\nIt follows the resignation of Neil Black, the performance director of UK Athletics, the governing body which gave Mo Farah the green light to carry on working with Salazar after my Panorama in 2015.\n\nThere used to be a Lance Armstrong Fitness Center in Nike's sprawling 286-acre campus in Beaverton, Oregon. It's now just called the Fitness Center. The Alberto Salazar Building is bound for the same fate.", "A worker cleans graffiti at a Starbucks coffee shop in Hong Kong on 30 September\n\nBroken glass, raging fires, and smashed up barricades: the pictures from Hong Kong in the past few days look like random chaos.\n\nBut in the middle of the violence, most activists are being deliberate about the places they attack.\n\nSo why are protesters targeting Starbucks? And the metro? And certain shops, restaurants and banks?\n\nHong Kong is complex, but can largely be divided into those who support the protesters and their anti-Beijing stance, and those supportive of the mainland.\n\nSo when peaceful protests turned into violence against property, big mainland firms like Bank of China and tech company Xiaomi became targets for vandalism and spray-painting.\n\nBut other less obvious places are also in the firing line.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The weekend saw riots over the mask ban, a second person shot, and tear gas fired at protesters\n\nWhile Starbucks may be a US brand, the Hong Kong franchise is operated by a local company, Maxim's Caterers.\n\nAnnie Wu, the daughter of the Maxim Group's founder, recently defended Hong Kong's police and criticised activists as \"radical protesters\".\n\nShe made her comments with billionaire businesswoman Pansy Ho, representing the Hong Kong Federation of Women, at the United Nations Human Rights Council on 11 September.\n\nThe two criticised \"a small group of radical protesters\" using \"systematic and calculated violent acts\".\n\nSo protesters started directing their anger against Maxim's and the franchises it operates.\n\nThe restaurant group is one of Hong Kong's largest, and includes other brands such as Genki Sushi and Arome bakery, which have also been targeted.\n\nMaxim's Caterers issued a statement saying Ms Wu \"does not hold any position at the company\" and was not involved in managerial decisions - but so far this has failed to satisfy protesters.\n\nJapanese fast food chain Yoshinoya has also come into the crosshairs.\n\nAfter there was confusion about a Facebook post - which some read as coded criticism of police - the operator of the Hong Kong franchise said he supported the police and government.\n\nBefore long, Yoshinoya restaurants had their windows smashed and graffiti all over their walls.\n\nAnother targeted brand is Best Mart 360, a chain of small grocery stores. It's an example of the divisions running within the Hong Kong population.\n\nThe boss of Best Mart 360 is Hugo Lam Chi-fung, permanent honorary president of the Hong Kong Federation of Fujian Associations which has held several demonstrations in support of China.\n\nFujian is a Chinese province, and many local people have emigrated to Hong Kong over the years. Hong Kong's Fujianese community has been vocal in supporting the city's police force.\n\nThose demonstrations have led to clashes with activists - who have accused their opponents of being part of the Fujian triad gangs, a form of organised crime.\n\nBest Mart 360 has released several statements, insisting it is not linked to any Fujian triad.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hong Kong protests: 'I can't say I love China any more'\n\nThe triad allegation has also been levelled against a mahjong house in a part of town home to the Fujianese community. Mahjong is a Chinese tile game, played socially.\n\nThe Yi Pei Square house was accused of hiding pro-Beijing thugs who attacked local residents.\n\nThe parlour has released a statement saying they are not Fujianese and in fact support the protesters' demands.\n\nThere have also been cases where places have become the target of activists' anger based on mistaken assumptions of China ties.\n\nThe Shanghai Commercial Bank is not mainland-owned but - despite its name - based in Hong Kong.\n\nThe Yifang bubble tea chain was also wrongly associated with the mainland when in fact it's from Taiwan.\n\nIn both those cases, the protesters wrongly targeted outlets only to later issue an apology and in some cases even help in the cleanup.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nIn order to avoid such mix-ups and to coordinate action, the activists have even come up with a colour-coding system.\n\nThe colours black, red and blue are used online to differentiate between thrashing a place, spay-painting it or simply boycotting it.\n\nIn the case of shops thought to support the protests, they're marked yellow with a call to actively support them.\n\nStations along Hong Kong's MTR metro system have repeatedly been attacked, vandalised or even set on fire during the unrest.\n\nThe MTR is privatised, with the Hong Kong government as the largest shareholder.\n\nIn mid-August, the operator was criticised by Chinese state media for helping \"rioters\" move around and protest across the city.\n\nAfter that, the MTR began shutting certain stations before people could gather for demonstrations. At one point the entire network was shut down.\n\nActivists also accuse the operator of allegedly helping the police to arrest protesters, and of failing to release CCTV footage of alleged police brutality.", "NI Secretary Julian Smith made his comments on BBC's The View\n\nThe NI secretary has said there will not be a situation where \"one community has a veto\" over Brexit plans.\n\nJulian Smith was responding to concern from some NI parties that the prime minister's Brexit proposals could give the DUP a veto on post-Brexit arrangements.\n\nSpeaking on BBC's The View, Mr Smith did not deny that a NI-only referendum was on the table.\n\nHe said there were \"a range of options\" for finding consent for the plans.\n\n\"The key thing is we have to have regard to the Good Friday Agreement and have regard to the need to have a cross-community approach to how we resolve this,\" he added.\n\nMr Smith said that a number of options would be looked at to resolve the issue but did not go into details.\n\nThe issue of Northern Ireland's consent - and how it is achieved - for post-Brexit arrangements has emerged as a key factor in negotiations.\n\nIn Mr Johnson's latest proposals, the Northern Ireland Assembly would have to sign off on the plan to have Northern Ireland stay in the European single market for goods but leave the customs union.\n\nIt would then vote to maintain the arrangements every four years.\n\nStormont's power-sharing government is currently not sitting - it collapsed two-and-a-half years ago amid a bitter row about a green energy scheme.\n\nThe assembly previously operated under a system of \"parallel consent\", in which proposals must be backed by a majority of both unionists and nationalists. As such, nationalist parties and the cross-community Alliance Party have criticised the prime minister's proposals as giving the main unionist party, the DUP, a veto.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Johnson and Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar said they could see \"a pathway to a deal\" after meeting one-to-one, but Mr Varadkar maintained there were still issues over \"consent and democracy\".\n\nThe secretary of state added that the \"positivity\" emerging from talks between Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar gives him \"great heart\".\n\nHe said both governments seem to be on the track of coming to an accommodation.\n\nOn Thursday, the prime minister and taoiseach (Irish PM) spoke for more than two hours, including a one-to-one discussion during a walk in the grounds of Thornton Manor in north-west England.\n\nMr Smith told the programme he had spoken to Mr Johnson on Thursday afternoon as well as a number of Stormont parties, but would not say whether that included the DUP.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe also told the programme he is \"not at all\" considering calling a border poll despite Brexit uncertainty and a lack of progress to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a functioning executive since January 2017, when the two governing parties - the DUP and Sinn Féin - split in a bitter row.", "Slow walkers have 'older' brains and bodies, the study found\n\nHow fast people walk in their 40s is a sign of how much their brains, as well as their bodies, are ageing, scientists have suggested.\n\nUsing a simple test of gait speed, researchers were able to measure the ageing process.\n\nNot only were slower walkers' bodies ageing more quickly - their faces looked older and they had smaller brains.\n\nThe international team said the findings were an \"amazing surprise\".\n\nDoctors often measure gait speed to gauge overall health, particularly in the over-65s, because it is a good indicator of muscle strength, lung function, balance, spine strength and eyesight.\n\nSlower walking speeds in old age have also been linked to a higher risk of dementia and decline.\n\nIn this study, of 1,000 people in New Zealand - born in the 1970s and followed to the age of 45 - the walking speed test was used much earlier, on adults in mid-life.\n\nThe study participants also had physical tests, brain function tests and brain scans, and during their childhood they had had cognitive tests every couple of years.\n\n\"This study found that a slow walk is a problem sign decades before old age,\" said Prof Terrie E Moffitt, lead author from King's College London and Duke University in the US.\n\nEven at the age of 45, there was a wide variation in walking speeds with the fastest moving at over 2m/s at top speed (without running).\n\nIn general, the slower walkers tended to show signs of \"accelerated ageing\" with their lungs, teeth and immune systems in worse shape than those who walked faster.\n\nResearchers tested the walking speed of participants on an 8m-long pad\n\nThe more unexpected finding was that brain scans showed the slower walkers were more likely to have older-looking brains too.\n\nAnd the researchers found they were able to predict the walking speed of 45-year-olds using the results of intelligence, language and motor skills tests from when they were three.\n\nThe children who grew up to be the slowest walkers (with a mean gait of 1.2m/s) had, on average, an IQ 12 points lower than those who were the fastest walkers (1.75m/s) 40 years later.\n\nThe international team of researchers, writing in JAMA Network Open, said the differences in health and IQ could be due to lifestyle choices or a reflection of some people having better health at the start of life.\n\nBut they suggest there are already signs in early life of who is going to fare better in health terms in later life.\n\nThe researchers said measuring walking speed at a younger age could be a way of testing treatments to slow human ageing.\n\nA number of treatments, from low-calorie diets to taking the drug metformin, are currently being investigated.\n\nIt would also be an early indicator of brain and body health so people can make changes to their lifestyle while still young and healthy, the researchers said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This summer was the worst for A&E waiting times in England since the four-hour target was introduced.\n\nAnalysis by BBC Newsnight and the Nuffield Trust found an average of 86% of patients were admitted, transferred or discharged from A&E within four hours in the six months to September.\n\nThis is the worst performance in that period since the 95% target was brought in in 2004.\n\nNHS England said it had been \"the busiest ever summer\" for A&Es.\n\n\"In the past six months, there have been half a million more visits to A&E than at the same point last year,\" a spokesman said.\n\nDoctors warned that the system was \"running out of resilience\" and that winter in A&Es was going to be \"really difficult\".\n\nIn September, there were 41,000 more people treated in A&Es within four hours, compared with September 2018.\n\nBut there were 64,921 patients waiting more than four hours from decision to their actual admission to further care.\n\nOf these patients, 455 waited more than 12 hours. This is a 195.5% increase from the previous year.\n\nThese are known as trolley waits, because patients are left on trolleys in temporary waiting areas while a bed is found.\n\n\"Lying on a trolley is not good for you in any way,\" said Dr Katherine Henderson, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.\n\n\"We know these patients can suffer harm because they're in the department for so long.\"\n\nOver the April-September period, there were 2,591 trolley waits - more than double the number last year.\n\nThe numbers of trolley waits are small compared with the numbers of patients who go through A&E (there were 2.14 million attendees in September this year).\n\nThe last time the government's four-hour target was met was in July 2015.\n\nSince then, A&E waiting times have typically increased in winters - the \"winter crisis\" - and recovered in summers, with around 90% of patients being seen within four hours in the summer months (April - September).\n\nBut this summer that figure was 85%.\n\n\"This is the worst summer on record,\" said Helen Buckingham of the Nuffield Trust. \"And the thing that we have to remember is that behind those numbers there are people.\"\n\n\"Looking forward to winter,\" she added, \"the NHS has historically used the summer to catch its breath. It's been much harder to do that this year. It's not going to be easy.\"\n\nDr Henderson agreed. \"I think the system is running out of resilience,\" she said. \"It looks like we are really struggling with our workforce at times and we're not recovering as quickly as we used to.\n\n\"We're seeing sicker, more complex older patients coming to the emergency department... Very often those patients are the successes of the NHS.\"\n\nSorry, your browser is unable to display this content. Please upgrade to a more recent browser.\n\nIf you can't see the NHS Tracker, click or tap here.\n\nThe four-hour target was introduced in NHS England in 2004-2005 in an attempt to reduce waiting times.\n\nThe target itself is currently under review, after NHS England said it seemed to be distorting priorities.\n\nNHS England wants to see patients who come in with heart attacks, acute asthma, sepsis and stroke starting their care within an hour.\n\nThe changes will be piloted this year and, if successful, could be introduced in 2020.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said: \"Winter is always challenging and we're backing the NHS with £1.8bn for world-class facilities to improve front-line patient care across the country - on top of our historic commitment of £33.9bn more of taxpayers' money a year by 2023-24.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weeknights. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "The tzatziki dip did not list egg as an ingredient\n\nA woman suffered a \"potentially fatal\" allergic reaction after a food company mistakenly put egg in a pot of tzatziki.\n\nZorba Delicacies pleaded guilty to three food safety charges at Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates' Court.\n\nHayley Lancaster suffered anaphylaxis after buying the dip from Morrisons in Caerphilly in February 2018.\n\nThe Ebbw Vale-based company was fined £93,000 following a prosecution by Caerphilly Trading Standards.\n\nThe three charges relate to the product being unsafe, not of the \"nature demanded by the purchaser\" and the company providing documents with false or misleading information.\n\nThe court heard Miss Lancaster had been diagnosed with an egg and nut allergy at a young age.\n\nHayley Lancaster was diagnosed with an egg and nut allergy when she was a child\n\nAfter eating a small amount of the dip she immediately showed signs of a reaction - her airway began to close and she felt nauseous.\n\nProsecution barrister Matthew Roberts said if she had not had her Epipen, it \"could have been potentially fatal\".\n\nCaerphilly council's Trading Standards was informed and tested the pot bought by Miss Lancaster and another pot bought from the same Morrisons store.\n\nBoth were found to contain levels of egg protein, which was not listed on the label or in the company's recipe.\n\nThe court was told about relevant food hygiene practices, including swabbing for allergens and a clean-down between products, but there was \"no evidence\" these took place on the day the dip was made.\n\nThe company said a dip of beetroot, mint and yogurt, which contained egg, had been produced on the line before and had contaminated the tzatziki.\n\nThe company employs 490 people and has a turnover of about £50m a year\n\nDefence barrister Carl Harrison said Zorba Delicacies sincerely regretted the incident and offered Miss Lancaster a \"full and unreserved apology\".\n\nHe said changes had been put in place since the incident and products with no allergens were now made at the start of the day.\n\nDistrict Judge Martin Brown fined the company £93,000 and ordered it to pay a surcharge of £120 and prosecution costs of about £14,700.\n\nSpeaking after the case, Tim Keohane, senior Trading Standards officer for the council, said: \"It is a serious fine which only goes to show the seriousness of the offence and how important it is for food manufacturers and retailers to pay attention to allergens in the food that they serve to customers.\"", "Four people have been found guilty of trafficking women from Slovakia to Glasgow and forcing their victims into prostitution and sham marriages.\n\nThe women were transported to flats in the Govanhill area between 2011 and 2017, then exploited by the gang.\n\nOne victim was sold for £10,000 outside a store in the city's Argyle Street.\n\nVojtech Gombar, 61, Anil Wagle, 37, Jana Sandorova, 28, and Ratislav Adam, 31, denied the charges but were found guilty at the High Court in Glasgow.\n\nThey will be sentenced next month.\n\nPolice, who cracked the trafficking ring in a five-year operation dubbed Operation Synapsis, described the crimes as \"despicable\".\n\nVojtech Gombar was described as the ringleader of the gang\n\n\"It's a heinous crime,\" says Detective Inspector Steven McMillan, who led the investigation.\n\n\"It's horrific to think that people think it is acceptable to buy and sell other human beings as a commodity, to have no thought for the impact and trauma it is going to have on them.\"\n\nHe said the convictions were the culmination of a complex investigation involving law enforcement from around the UK and European agencies such as Europol and Eurojust.\n\nPolice first became aware of the trafficking and exploitation in 2014 but it took a three-year operation before about 70 officers raided four flats in the Govanhill area of Glasgow, leading to the arrest of Gombar, Wagle, Sandorova and Adam.\n\nGombar, who was described as the ringleader of the gang, had family ties with fellow Slovakians Adam and Sandorova.\n\nThey are ethnic Romani and came from the town of Trebisov in the east of Slovakia, near its border with Ukraine, from where most of the women were trafficked.\n\nWagle, from Nepal, became involved initially because he wanted to buy a bride.\n\nOver the course of the investigation, police had helped more than a dozen suspected victims, aged between 18 and 25, to safety.\n\nWomen were trafficked from Trebisov in the east of Slovakia\n\nThe women were trafficked to the UK, usually by bus and car, having been promised a better life and work.\n\nBut when they arrived they were sold for between between £3,000 and £10,000 as part of a sham marriage scheme.\n\nThe buyers were mainly men from Pakistan who wanted EU citizenship so they could live and work in Europe, and wanted the women to become their wives.\n\nSome of the victims were used as prostitutes while others were abused by the men who bought them.\n\nPolice found that the women were held in \"safe houses\" in places including Manchester and Yorkshire before being taken to Govanhill.\n\nDet Insp McMillan said the women had their identity documents taken from them and their movements controlled.\n\n\"Some of them suffered abuse, they were forced into sexual exploitation before being forced into sham marriages,\" he said.\n\nDuring the court case, a 28-year-old woman from Slovakia said she had thought that she and her sister were leaving for jobs in London but she ended up in a flat in Govanhill with no job and no money.\n\nShe said she was forced to marry the son of a Pakistani man who had chosen her.\n\nAnother woman told the court she was brought over from her home town of Trebisov, when she was four or five months pregnant, \"for a better life\".\n\nShe was handed over to a Nepalese man outside Primark in Argyle Street in 2014 for £10,000.\n\nThe woman also claimed that prior to being sold, she was made to sleep with Pakistani men for money and described this as \"hitchhiking\".\n\nSome victims stayed at a house belonging to one of Gombar's relatives in Michalovce\n\nThe court also heard how one woman managed to escape and ran to a nearby shop where she raised the alarm.\n\nThe woman spoke no English and the shopkeeper could not understand her, but a beat police officer managed to translate with the help of two young girls who lived nearby.\n\nThe police officer said the woman wanted to get her identification documents and walked with her to the flat to retrieve them.\n\nThe officer told the court: \"We got a phone number for her sister in London, and it was then we realised she had allegedly been trafficked to Glasgow.\"\n\nDet Insp McMillan said all the women involved, most of whom are now back in Slovakia, were severely traumatised by what happened to them, which added extra complications to the investigation.\n\nHe said: \"It is unbelievable in this day and age but, yes, women were being sold as a commodity in Glasgow.\"", "Stormzy has promised to fund the studies of two Cambridge University students a year\n\nThe \"Stormzy effect\" has contributed to more black students being admitted to the University of Cambridge, it has said.\n\nFor the first time, black students made up more than 3% of new undergraduates, according to figures released by the university.\n\nGrime artist Stormzy has pledged to fund the tuition fees and living costs of two students each year.\n\nThe university said the new figures were reflective of wider UK society.\n\nThis year 91 black students were admitted to the university, up about 50% from the 61 who started courses in autumn 2018.\n\nReacting to the news in a tweet, Stormzy said: \"This is amazing - there's no way that this is because of me alone.\"\n\nHe went on to thank the Cambridge University African Caribbean Society and the university itself for their efforts to recruit more black students.\n\nHe said: \"Big up CambridgeACS for the incredible work they do they would of played a massive part in this. And big up Cambridge—Uni for there continued efforts.\"\n\nSince Stormzy's funding announcement there has also been an increase in the number of black students taking part in outreach activities and enquiring about courses, the university said.\n\nOther factors credited for the rise included the involvement of several student societies in promoting the university and proactive campaign work.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stormzy explained why he was funding university scholarships in August 2018\n\nThe university said it meant this year there would be more than 200 black undergraduates studying at Cambridge in total, a record number.\n\nUCAS figures showed that, as of 12 September, 33,730 black UK students had been accepted on to degree courses at British universities and colleges, meaning black students made up 7.9% of acceptances across the country in total.\n\nCambridge's figures showed that 26.8% of its undergraduate students this year were UK residents from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\nProf Graham Virgo, Cambridge's senior pro-vice-chancellor for education, said: \"This record rise in the number of black students is a credit to their hard work and ability. We have not lowered entry standards.\"\n\nWanipa Ndhlovu, president of the university's African-Caribbean Society (ACS), said the rise was \"a testament to the hard work that ACS, as well as the university, has been putting in to break down perceptions\".\n\n\"It should send out a signal to other black students that they can find their place at Cambridge and succeed.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police Scotland has unveiled its new drug-detection kit ahead of updated drug-driving laws coming into force.\n\nOfficers will be able use DrugWipes - dubbed \"drugalysers\" - to check for cannabis and cocaine.\n\nThe roadside kit uses a mouth swab, with and a blue line appearing if the person has taken the drugs.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the regulations coming into force on 21 October will \"not only make our roads safer but will save lives\".\n\nThe new testing kits highlight an \"almost zero limit\" on cannabis and cocaine.\n\nDrivers will still have to be taken to a police station for a blood test for 17 other substances including ecstasy, LSD, ketamine and heroin.\n\nThe DrugWipe gives a positive or negative reading at the roadside\n\nCurrently, when police suspect a motorist of drug-driving they carry out the roadside \"field impairment test\".\n\nIf the individual fails this, they can be arrested and taken to a police station where a doctor must certify that the person is impaired to the extent that they are unfit to drive.\n\nA driver will then be asked to provide a blood sample.\n\nEngland and Wales introduced drug-driving limits and roadside testing in 2015.\n\nThe Scottish government has previously been criticised for not implementing the same regulations - saying it wanted to \"bed in\" new lower drink-drive limits which came into force in 2014.\n\nBut Mr Yousaf said the introduction of the new drug-drive limits meant Scotland was \"far ahead of anywhere else in the UK\".\n\nHe added: \"The police are ready, they have the tools necessary and if your are caught there will be a zero-tolerance approach and you will face some hefty consequences.\"\n\nCh Supt Stewart Carle expects the new kit to detect many more drug-drivers\n\nCh Supt Stewart Carle, head of road policing at Police Scotland, said the kits formed part of a wider crackdown on drug crime.\n\nHe said: \"We hope this will reduce the demand for those drugs and thereby have a wider benefit to to our communities.\n\n\"Drug dealing is a big problem in Scotland - we know that and we're trying to tackle it. This is just another tool in our armoury.\n\n\"At the moment, we catch about 200 drug-drivers every year. This new power is going to allow us to do roadside screening and I would expect to detect a lot more.\n\n\"We've trained over 500 officers and we will continue to train more over the coming year.\"", "The UK government must tell the public small, easy changes will not be enough to tackle climate change, warn experts.\n\nResearchers from Imperial College London say we must eat less meat and dairy, swap cars for bikes, take fewer flights, and ditch gas boilers at home.\n\nThe report, seen by BBC Panorama, has been prepared for the Committee on Climate Change, which advises ministers how to cut the UK's carbon footprint.\n\nIt says an upheaval in our lifestyles is the only way to meet targets.\n\nThe government has passed a law obliging the country to cut carbon emissions to net zero by 2050.\n\nIt is \"going further and faster than any other developed nation to protect the planet for future generations\", a government spokesperson told BBC Panorama. \"If we can go faster, we will.\"\n\nBut the new report warns major shifts in policy across huge areas of government activity are needed to keep the public onside.\n\nChris Stark, the Chief Executive of the Committee on Climate Change, tells Panorama the government's plan for cutting emissions is \"not nearly at the level of ambition required\".\n\n\"Every bit of policy now needs to be refreshed,\" he warned in an interview with BBC Panorama.\n\nThe new report, called Behaviour Change, Public Engagement and Net Zero, amounts to an extensive \"to-do\" list for government.\n\nIt says subsidies for fossil fuels have to go and taxes on low-carbon technologies must be cut.\n\nAt the same time, consumers need to be given far more information on the environmental consequences of their actions.\n\nIt also urges the government to consider introducing a carbon tax, increasing the prices of carbon-intensive products and activities.\n\nIt is an ambitious agenda but necessary, the report says, if Britain is to achieve its Net Zero ambitions.\n\n\"These changes need not be expensive or reduce well-being,\" the report concludes, \"but they will not happen at the pace required unless policy first removes obstacles to change in markets and consumer choice.\"\n\nJustin tucks into a \"bug burger\": There needs to be a shift to lower carbon foods, such as mealworm\n\nFood currently accounts for 30% of a household's carbon footprint in high-income countries like the UK.\n\nThe report says we need to make a significant shift towards lower-carbon foods, particularly towards more plant-based diets.\n\nProducing food from animals uses more resources than food from plants. Some animals, like cows and sheep, also produce and burp up methane - a powerful greenhouse gas.\n\nThe Committee on Climate Change's official recommendation to government is that a 20% cut in red meat and dairy is needed - the emissions from the other 80% will have to be matched by CO2 that has been captured and stored permanently in order to meet the net zero ambition.\n\nThe report implies a bigger shift in diets could be needed, and says one way to get people to change will be to emphasise the health benefits this could bring.\n\nAnother will be to give people much more information on the environmental impact of different foods. It calls for mandatory carbon impact labelling on products, on till receipts, and via shopping websites and apps.\n\nOnce consumers understand the environmental impact of different food choices, the report argues, government should begin to increase the price of foods that involve high emissions. It suggests this could be done by cutting farm subsidies - more than 70% of which go to livestock - and by raising VAT on these products.\n\nHome heating is the single biggest challenge in terms of reducing UK emissions, according to Chris Stark of the Committee on Climate Change. It accounts for 21% of a household's carbon footprint and it will be costly to bring it down.\n\nWith 30 million homes and 30 years to decarbonise, he argues, \"simple arithmetic\" suggests we need to \"decarbonise\" one million homes every year, starting now.\n\nThe Behaviour Change report has a whole catalogue of policy recommendations here. As with electric vehicles, decarbonisation of UK electricity creates opportunities for low-carbon heating systems, in particular air-source heat pumps, which extract heat from air outside the home and remove cold air from inside.\n\nThe report recommends a \"rebalancing\" of the tax and regulatory costs on energy, which currently fall more heavily on electricity than gas.\n\nVAT on installation of insulation and low-carbon heating systems should be removed.\n\nAt the same time, consumers need to be offered a range of incentives to encourage the use of low-carbon technology.\n\nAccording to Chris Stark: \"We haven't even started nibbling away at that heat challenge in any real sense. We need a real plan, and the sooner we do, the cheaper it will be overall.\"\n\nCycle lanes can cut the risk of accidents\n\nTransport currently accounts for 34% of a household's carbon footprint.\n\nThe report calls for a major programme of investment in the rail and bus network, with lower ticket prices and investment in safer cycling.\n\nIt says what's needed is a \"modal shift\" to public transport, walking and cycling and believes the public can be encouraged to do this, in part, because of the health benefits it would bring.\n\nHowever, it recognises the UK's progress in decarbonising electricity creates an opportunity for consumers to reduce emissions by switching to electric vehicles and urges greater subsidies for new electric car purchases.\n\nElectricity companies need to be encouraged to introduce smart EV charging systems so customers can charge their vehicles when electricity is cheap or when renewable power is plentiful and there needs to be a massive rollout of charging infrastructure along motorways, in towns and in cities.\n\nHere, the report says policy-makers need to focus on the 15% of the population that are estimated to take 70% of flights.\n\nIt calls for an \"Air Miles Levy\" to discourage what it calls \"excessive flying\", something the Committee on Climate Change has already proposed.\n\nThe idea is to penalise frequent flyers, while not raising prices for people taking an annual holiday.\n\nIt says air miles and frequent flier reward schemes have to go and passengers need to be given much more information about the emissions generated by flights.\n\nThe BBC Panorama programme Climate Change: What Can We Do? is on BBC One on Monday 14 October (except BBC Scotland)", "Facebook's UK arm paid £28.5m in tax in 2018 as revenues hit a record £1.65bn on the back of strong advertising growth.\n\nThe social media firms's latest UK accounts show that profits last year jumped by 54% to £96.6m.\n\nFacebook's total tax charge on those profits almost doubled to £30.4m, but was reduced due to adjustments.\n\nTax campaigner and MP Margaret Hodge said such a low bill was \"outrageous\", but Facebook said it pays what it owes.\n\nGross revenues from advertising and other activities rose 30% in 2018, a year when the Cambridge Analytica affair was at its height and the company was facing heavy criticism.\n\nThe UK division spent £356m on research, development and engineering in the UK last year, the accounts filed at Companies House showed.\n\nSteve Hatch, the company's vice president for Northern Europe, said: \"The UK is now one of Facebook's most important hubs for global innovation. We continue to grow and invest heavily in the UK and by the end of the year we'll employ 3,000 people here.\n\n\"Businesses across the country use our platforms to grow and revenue from customers supported by our UK teams is now recorded here so that any taxable profit is subject to UK corporation tax.\"\n\nFacebook said it complies with tax laws in all jurisdictions and pays what is legally due.\n\nBut Ms Hodge, a former chairwoman of the Public Accounts Committee, and who now leads an all-party parliamentary group looking into the tax system, tweeted that it was \"still outrageous\" that big tech firms were not paying their fair share into society.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Margaret Hodge This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 month, Amazon came under fire for paying £14.7m in UK corporation tax last year, despite reporting sales of £2.3bn. Google has faced similar criticism.\n\nEarlier this week, the Organisation for Economic and Development (OECD), proposed tax changes aimed at making global firms pay more tax.\n\nThe proposals would give governments more power specifically to tax big technology firms such as Apple, Facebook and Google.\n\nCompanies that do business in more than one country have long been a challenge for tax authorities, because they can structure their business in a way that minimises their tax bills.\n\nThe OECD's proposal includes new rules on where tax should be paid and on the proportion of their profits that should be taxed in each country.", "Schoolboy Baptista Adjei lived with his family in North Woolwich\n\nA 15-year-old boy has been stabbed to death near Stratford Shopping Centre.\n\nOfficers found Baptista Adjei critically injured on Stratford Broadway, east London, shortly after 15:20 BST on Thursday.\n\nPolice believe he was either attacked on a bus, or shortly after getting off.\n\nA 15-year-old friend of Baptista, who had been travelling with him, was also stabbed and remains in hospital with non life-threatening injuries. Scotland Yard said no arrests had been made.\n\nThe boy died on Stratford Broadway on Thursday afternoon\n\nDet Ch Insp Chris Soole said the boy was stabbed during a fight \"on or shortly after alighting from a bus which stopped very close to Stratford Shopping Centre\".\n\nHe added: \"The victim of this stabbing was a schoolboy with his whole life ahead of him. He had everything to live for.\n\n\"This was a senseless attack and we share the concern and alarm this murder will no doubt cause in the local community.\"\n\nPolice said the victim was attacked on or shortly after getting off a bus close to the shopping centre\n\nIn a separate stabbing about five hours later, an 18-year-old man was knifed to death in south London.\n\nPolice found the man suffering from stab injuries on the Brandon Estate in Camberwell, at about 20:20 BST.\n\nHe died at the scene an hour later and no arrests have been made.\n\nThe shopping centre entrance nearest Stratford Station has been closed\n\nBaptista's friends and members of the public provided first aid but he died at the scene at about 15:50, police said.\n\nThe teenager's next of kin have been informed, and the second boy who was stabbed remains in an east London hospital.\n\nThere is a huge crime scene around the Stratford Centre following the boy's death.\n\nA blue and white tent remains in place, marking the spot where he was confirmed dead.\n\nMany children are heading through the area on their way to school and are seeing this crime scene. Some are taking photos, others are in tears.\n\nThere's another police cordon across the road where the other 15-year-old boy was stabbed, while another cordon is in place at the nearby church as police continue to investigate.\n\nA Section 60 order was implemented, giving officers increased stop and search powers across Newham.\n\nPolice have closed off a large part of Broadway, and the shopping centre entrance nearest Stratford Station has also been closed.\n\nOne witness, who did not want to be identified, said the attack happened outside a McDonald's.\n\n\"At that moment there were not many people around him so I could see him all covered in blood. He was in pain and tried getting up,\" they said.\n\n\"There were people around gathering. It was scary as you did not know if any of them could have had a knife too.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was \"utterly devastated\" to hear about the two killings.\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\nThere have been more than 110 homicides in the capital this year, with about 70 of those being fatal stabbings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sterling surged on Friday to a three-month high amid investor optimism about a last-minute Brexit deal between Britain and the European Union.\n\nAgainst the dollar the pound rose 1.9% to $1.2682, and against the euro was up 1.67% at €1.1489.\n\nThe currency has rallied more than 3% since Thursday, its biggest two-day gain since before the June 2016 referendum on leaving the EU.\n\nMany UK-focused shares also surged, with Royal Bank of Scotland up 11.6%.\n\nOn Friday, EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said he had had a \"constructive\" meeting with UK Brexit secretary, Stephen Barclay. That followed talks between the Irish and British prime ministers on Thursday, after which a joint statement spoke of \"a pathway to a possible deal\".\n\nDeutsche Bank's foreign exchange strategist George Saravelos said he was \"turning more optimistic on Brexit\" and no longer negative on the pound, while JPMorgan said the Anglo-Irish statement may have \"changed everything\".\n\n\"The chances of a deal seem to have improved and the pound has moved accordingly but hurdles still remain,\" said Dean Turner, economist at UBS Wealth Management. \"Time to thrash out the details of the deal are tight, and then there is the question of parliamentary approval.\"\n\nOther analysts cautioned that trading on the financial markets was thin, leading to higher volatility and a sharp jump in some share prices. Meanwhile, another analyst said the price surges were probably due to algorithms driving the market.\n\nFollowing the more confident noises coming from Brussels, London and Dublin, there were hopes that a meeting between British and EU negotiators will pave the way for a Brexit transition deal at a summit on 17-18 October.\n\nThe rally in sterling undermined the UK's export-heavy FTSE 100 stocks, and the blue chip index itself was up under 0.9%.\n\nBut shares exposed to UK growth and consumers soared. Housebuilders Persimmon, Barratt and Taylor Wimpey rose more than 10%. Next rose nearly 8.5%, and ITV more than 6%. The more UK-focussed FTSE 250 index was up more than 4%.\n\nThe yield on 10-year British government bonds was on track for its biggest three-day rise since 2017.", "Apple said it had credible information that the hkmap.live app was putting people in danger\n\nAs if piling up sandbags before a flood, Apple was well prepared to face a backlash over its decision to remove an app used by Hong Kong protesters.\n\nBut the firm’s carefully-worded statement offering its reasoning has left China watchers, politicians - and some famed Apple supporters - wholly unconvinced.\n\n“Apple’s decision to cave to Communist China’s demands is unacceptable,” tweeted Rick Scott, a Republican senator for Florida.\n\n“Putting profits above the human rights and dignity of the people of Hong Kong is wrong. No ifs, ands or buts about it.”\n\nLate on Wednesday, the firm started briefing journalists on the move, pushing its view that the HKmap.live was being “used in ways that endanger law enforcement and residents”.\n\n“It’s out of my great respect for the work you do every day that I want to share the way we went about making this decision,” he wrote.\n\n“Over the past several days we received credible information, from the Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau, as well as from users in Hong Kong, that the app was being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence and to victimize individuals and property where no police are present. This use put the app in violation of Hong Kong law.\n\nLong-time Apple commentator John Gruber wrote of Mr Cook’s email: “I can’t recall an Apple memo or statement that crumbles so quickly under scrutiny.”\n\nApple has yet to provide any additional information about those claimed incidents. Charles Mok, a Hong Kong legislator who represents the IT industry in the territory, posted a letter to Mr Cook on Twitter.\n\n“There are numerous cases of innocent passers-by in the neighbourhood injured by the Kong Kong Police Force’s excessive force in crowd dispersal operations,” he wrote.\n\n“The user-generated information shared using HKmap.live in fact helps citizens avoid areas where pedestrians not involved in any criminal activities might be subjected to police brutality which many human rights organisations such as Amnesty International have observed.”\n\nMr Mok went on to argue that users on major social networks, such as Facebook or Twitter, also share information about police activity - but were not being held to the same standard.\n\n“We Hongkongers will definitely look closely at whether Apple chooses to uphold its commitment to free expression and other basic human rights, or become an accomplice for Chinese censorship and oppression.”\n\nApple has not responded to the letter.\n\nApple’s decision comes against a backdrop of major American firms being seen as bowing to political pressure from Beijing.\n\nIn just the past week, the NBA grovelled its way around a tweet from a team executive supporting the protests, while video games published Activision Blizzard banned e-sports competitor Ng Wai \"Blitzchung\" Chung for showing his support for the movement.\n\nAnd Google removed a role-playing game called “Revolution of Our Times” from its app store after deeming it violated its policies on depicting “sensitive events” (the player plays the role of a Hong Kong protester). According to the Wall Street Journal, Hong Kong authorities had contacted Google with concerns about that app - though the company has said it decided to take action before any communication took place.\n\nOne bucking of the trend, however, came via Tim Sweeney, chief executive of Epic Games, the firm behind online multiplayer game Fortnite.\n\n“Epic supports everyone’s right to speak freely,” he wrote on Twitter, in response to a question about gamers voicing support for Hong Kong protesters. Chinese tech giant Tencent owns 40% of the firm.\n\n“China players of Fortnite are free to criticize the US or criticize Epic just as equally as all others,” Mr Sweeney said.\n\nIn characteristically astute timing, an episode of Comedy Central’s South Park earlier this month led Chinese censors to “delete virtually every clip, episode and online discussion of the show from Chinese streaming services, social media and even fan pages”, according to the Hollywood Reporter.\n\nThe episode featured four of the show’s main characters working on a film script that gets constantly altered so that it could be distributed in China.\n\n“Well you know what they say,” the film’s director in the show says, “You gotta lower your ideals of freedom if you wanna suck on the warm teat of China.”\n\nIn Apple’s case that means revenues that are on course to exceed $40bn this year - almost a fifth of the firm’s total global sales. Apple’s reliance on Chinese manufacturing means the relationship goes far deeper than just local sales. The firm has 10,000 direct employees in the firm; the economy around Apple’s presence in China is responsible for around 5m jobs.\n\nWhat happens next depends on the extent to which China feels its hardline stance is working - and there are indications officials are becoming wary. According to reporting in the New York Times, Beijing is concerned its actions are drawing more attention to the protests and harming the country’s standing on the global stage, adding yet more tension to relations with the US as trade talks restart in Washington.\n\nThe rows have also bolstered concerns that China has few qualms when it comes to making demands of companies both based in the Communist state, as well as those who merely want to do business there.\n\n“What would Huawei do if they were the dominant 5G provider for a country, and that country’s leaders said the wrong thing?” speculated Elliott Zaagman, who covers Chinese business and investment,\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", "Baptista Adjei, 15, lived with his family in North Woolwich, London\n\nA 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murdering another 15-year-old near a London shopping centre.\n\nBaptista Adjei, from North Woolwich, was found critically injured on Stratford Broadway, east London, shortly after 15:20 BST on Thursday.\n\nPolice believe he and a 15-year-old friend were either attacked on a bus, or shortly after getting off.\n\nAnother boy was arrested on suspicion of murder after handing himself in on Friday evening.\n\nThe Met Police said he had been remanded in custody.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Metropolitan Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDet Ch Insp Chris Soole said the two boys were stabbed during a fight \"on or shortly after alighting from a bus which stopped very close to Stratford Shopping Centre, near tramway Avenue\".\n\nThe shopping centre is adjacent to Stratford Westfield.\n\n\"The victim of this stabbing was a schoolboy with his whole life ahead of him. He had everything to live for.\n\n\"This was a senseless attack and we share the concern and alarm this murder will no doubt cause in the local community,\" he said.\n\nThe second injured boy was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.\n\nPolice said the victim was attacked on or shortly after getting off a bus close to the shopping centre\n\nBaptista's friends and members of the public provided first aid but he died at the scene at about 15:50, police said.\n\nThe shopping centre entrance nearest Stratford Station has been closed\n\nA Section 60 order was implemented, giving officers increased stop and search powers across Newham.\n\nPolice closed off a large part of Broadway, and the shopping centre entrance nearest Stratford Station was closed.\n\nIn a separate stabbing about five hours later, an 18-year-old man was knifed to death in south London.\n\nPolice found the man suffering from stab injuries on the Brandon Estate in Camberwell, at about 20:20.\n\nHe died an hour later. No arrests have been made.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Sadiq Khan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been more than 110 homicides in the capital this year, with about 70 of those being fatal stabbings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Karli (left) discusses her experience having a parent with an opioid addiction\n\nThe organisation behind US children's TV show Sesame Street is set to reveal that one of its muppets' mothers has an addiction.\n\nKarli was introduced earlier this year as a muppet in foster care.\n\nShe is set to reveal that she was placed in foster care as her mother had a \"grown-up problem\".\n\nAbout 5.7 million children in the US under the age of 11 live with a parent who suffers from substance addiction, according to the Associated Press.\n\nKarli will tell her story on the Sesame Street in Communities project, which is run by Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organisation behind the show.\n\nIn the online episodes, Karli tells Elmo and another muppet about her mum's meetings and the special kids-only meetings where she gets to spend time with other children who are going through the same experience.\n\nElmo's father, Louie, also explains what addiction is.\n\nThe series also features Salia, a ten-year-old from California whose parents have \"been there\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAddiction to substances such as opioids is a huge problem in the US.\n\nAccording to the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, 399,000 deaths between 1999 and 2017 were linked to opioids.\n\nAbout 192 people die from an opioid overdose every day in the US.\n\nSherrie Westin, president of Social Impact and Philanthropy at Sesame Workshop, said: \"Addiction is often seen as a 'grown up' issue, but it impacts children in ways that aren't always visible. Having a parent battling addiction can be one of the most isolating and stressful situations young children and their families face.\"\n\nSesame Street has been a childhood favourite since 1969, and runs on American public broadcaster PBS as well as cable channel HBO.\n\nLast December, the show introduced Lily, a seven-year-old homeless muppet. Lily told viewers that she had to leave her house behind and had been staying in all different kinds of places since.\n\nIn 2017, it introduced an autistic muppet, Julia, to the show.\n\nIt has also featured children who have been bullied and also children who have parents in prison.", "The suspect was apprehended by police\n\nFive people have been injured in a knife attack at the Arndale Centre in Manchester.\n\nA man, aged 40, initially arrested on suspicion of terror offences, has been detained under the Mental Health Act.\n\nThree people were stabbed and two others were hurt when a man with a large knife started \"lunging and attacking people\", according to police.\n\nHe chased two police community support officers (PCSOs) before being detained, the force said.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) believe he was acting alone.\n\nThe force said the man had been assessed \"by specialist doctors\".\n\nInvestigations into the motives behind the attack are continuing.\n\nOne witness said they saw a man \"running around with a knife lunging at multiple people\", while another described people \"screaming and running\".\n\nThe centre was put on lockdown as officers confronted the attacker, with some shoppers taking refuge in stores.\n\nThere was a large police presence outside the Arndale shopping centre\n\nA shop worker, who only gave his name as Jordan, 23, said: \"A man was running around with a knife lunging at multiple people, one of which came into my store visibly shaken with a small graze.\n\n\"Soon after, security staff told all retail staff to close their doors and move the public to the back of the stores.\"\n\nSpeaking at a press conference, Assistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson said it was a \"random\" and \"brutal\" attack.\n\nACC Jackson said a man armed with a knife entered the Exchange Court area of the centre before he \"lunged\" at shoppers and began \"attacking people with the knife\".\n\n\"Two unarmed police community support officers were in Exchange Court and attempted to confront the attacker.\n\n\"He then chased them with the knife as they were calling for urgent assistance.\"\n\nWithin five minutes armed officers detained the suspect on Market Street outside the centre, he added.\n\nIn a tweet, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Shocked by the incident in Manchester and my thoughts are with the injured and all 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\nThree people were taken to hospital, a fourth later went for treatment for a \"superficial\" injury and a fifth person did not require hospital treatment, GMP said.\n\nThe force previously said two women, including a 19-year-old, were in a stable condition in hospital, while a man in his 50s was being treated in hospital for stab wounds.\n\nOne patient suffered \"serious\" injuries, North West Ambulance Service said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The attack was 'random and brutal', police said\n\nFreddie Holder, 22, from Market Drayton, Shropshire, said he heard \"a load of screams just outside\" the shop he was in.\n\nHe said a woman then came into the shop and told others \"a guy just ran past the shop and tried to stab me\".\n\nHe added: \"I'm still kind of in shock from it, I'm shaking a little bit... all shops had been locked down just for safety.\n\n\"The police arrived extremely quickly, which was very lucky.\"\n\nThe Arndale Centre, which is one of the country's most popular shopping venues, was evacuated\n\nFeroze Bilal said he saw \"every single shop\" in the centre \"start closing down\", before police evacuated the building.\n\n\"People were screaming and running,\" he added.\n\nA large number of officers were called to the scene, one of whom was seen with a Taser.\n\nThe suspect was arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of an act of terrorism.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Bev Hughes This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour councillor Pat Karney, for Harpurhey and Collyhurst, tweeted: \"Armed police on guard. Shocking scenes right out of a movie but real people with injuries.\"\n\nStaff were allowed back into the centre on Friday afternoon\n\nThe Arndale Centre is located close to Manchester Arena, where 22 people died in a terror attack in May 2017 when a bomb was detonated at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nThe shopping centre was also damaged in a major IRA bomb in 1996.\n\nMore than 200 people were injured when the 1,500kg (3,300lb) device left on a lorry on Corporation Street exploded.", "The government has awarded £86.6m of contracts to ferry companies to transport medicines in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBrittany Ferries, DFDS, P&O and Stena Line will be able to deliver those supplies from 31 October, it said.\n\nThe contracts are aimed at making sure deliveries of vital products continue, if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.\n\nThe government was criticised earlier this year after awarding a transport contract to a company with no ferries.\n\nThe contracts will be in place for six months so the government is prepared for different Brexit scenarios, a spokesperson said.\n\nShould the contracts need to be cancelled, the UK will pay the firms £11.52m. The UK paid £51m to cancel no-deal ferry contracts after the Brexit deadline extension at the end of March.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said: \"The UK is getting ready to leave the EU on the 31 October and, like any sensible government, we are preparing for all outcomes.\n\n\"Our decisive action means freight operators will be ready and waiting to transport vital medicines into the country from the moment we leave.\"\n\nThe firms will operate on routes away from the busiest ports to minimise disruption, the Department for Transport said.\n\nThe ferries run between Teesport, Hull, Killingholme, Felixstowe, Harwich, Tilbury, Portsmouth and Poole in the UK and Cherbourg, Caen, Le Havre, Zeebrugge, Hook of Holland, Rotterdam, Europort, and Vlaardingen.\n\nEarlier this week, the government established a customs paperwork support unit for medical goods suppliers to help with getting across borders in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe extra capacity will help drugs firms plan for a no-deal Brexit, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry said.\n\n\"This capacity is an important part of our members' preparations,\" said the industry body's chief executive Mike Thompson.\n\n\"Stockpiles are also in place, and some companies have already sourced their own alternative ferry routes.\"\n\nEarlier this week Dame Sally Davies warned that patients could die should there be medical supplies shortages.\n\n\"We cannot guarantee that there will not be shortages, not only in medicines, but technology and gadgets,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. \"There may be deaths, we can't guarantee there won't.\"\n\nIn February the government scrapped a ferry contract with Seaborne Freight, which had no ships, after the Irish company backing the deal pulled out.", "This week we heard about a second whistleblower and a US ambassador being blocked from testifying.\n\nBBC North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher breaks down the key points from the past seven days.", "The National Railway Museum in York - currently home to Stephenson's Rocket - will get further funding\n\nLibraries, museums and other cultural institutions in England are to benefit from a five-year £250m government fund.\n\nThe Department for Culture, Media and Sport said it would set aside £125m for the upkeep of libraries and museums.\n\nIt comes two weeks after museum leaders said infrastructure was at \"breaking point\", with crumbling buildings threatening their collections.\n\n\"Creative and cultural institutions are at the heart of our communities,\" Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan said.\n\n\"This will help drive growth, rejuvenate high streets and attract tourists to our world-class cultural attractions.\"\n\nMore than £90m will go to extending the Cultural Development Fund, which is for arts, culture, heritage and the creative industries in towns and cities outside London.\n\nThe fund was launched last year, with the first grants going to projects hoping to spark regeneration in Grimsby, the Thames Estuary, Plymouth, Wakefield and Worcester.\n\nA further £7m has been allocated to Coventry for its plans as UK City of Culture 2021, while £18.5m has been allocated to York's National Railway Museum.\n\n\"This is wonderful news for the National Railway Museum - and for the City of York,\" museum director Judith McNicol said, noting it could help to turn the museum into \"a truly world-class attraction\".\n\nMany of the nation's cultural institutions have endured funding cuts over recent years, especially outside the capital.\n\nEnglish local authorities' cultural spending reportedly fell by £48m between 2014/15 and 2018/19, while almost 1,000 libraries shut in the UK between 2010 and 2018.\n\nIn August, staff at the Science Museum Group, which runs York's Railway Museum and London's Science Museum, staged a strike in a dispute over pay. Workers at Bradford's libraries and museums also voted to go on strike over what a union called \"swingeing cuts\".\n\nElsewhere, Essex County Council reversed a decision to close 25 of 74 libraries in July but said it wanted volunteers to run some smaller branches, while in August the High Court ruled Northamptonshire County Council's plan to close 21 of its 36 libraries was unlawful.\n\nThe funding will \"make a massive difference\", Museums Association Sharon Heal said. \"Our members have told us about crumbling ceilings, leaking roofs and a lack of money to be able to carry out basic maintenance work.\n\n\"Often museums are housed in historic properties that have suffered from years of neglect and in order to protect our fantastic collections and ensure that our communities can continue to enjoy them we need to act now - this funding will enable museums and galleries in England to do just that.\"\n\nThe £250m will be delivered by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) along with Arts Council England, the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Historic England.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mo Farah insists he has \"not done anything wrong\" as he faced questions over his former coach being banned for doping violations.\n\nAlberto Salazar, who helped transform Farah into Britain's most-decorated athlete, was sanctioned for four years last week.\n\nFarah has never failed a drugs test and said there was an \"agenda\" against him.\n\n\"There is no more I can do,\" the 36-year-old said, adding he was one of the world's \"most tested athletes\".\n\nSpeaking to journalists in Chicago, where he will run in Sunday's marathon, Farah said: \"I am probably one of the most tested athletes in the world.\n\n\"I get tested all the time and I'm happy to be tested anytime, anywhere and for my sample to be used to keep and freeze it.\"\n\nFarah appeared to suggest media scrutiny of him was motivated by racism, the four-time Olympic champion adding: \"There is a clear agenda to this. I know where you are going with it. I have seen it with Raheem Sterling and Lewis Hamilton.\"\n\nFarah was coached by Salazar at the Nike Oregon Project, which was closed down by the sporting brand earlier on Friday.\n\nSalazar's ban followed a four-year investigation by the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) and a two-year court battle behind closed doors.\n\nThe investigation began following a BBC Panorama programme in 2015, meanwhile UK Athletics (UKA), the sport's UK governing body, conducted its own review into the claims, and gave Farah the green light to continue working the American.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, Farah said he flew to meet Salazar at the time to \"get some answers\".\n\n\"He assured me at the time, these are just allegations, this is not true. He promised me. That hasn't been true,\" he said.\n\nThat was as close as Farah got to criticising his former coach, choosing instead to blame the media when asked repeatedly whether he was disappointed in Salazar.\n\nThe Briton said he \"has no time for anyone who has crossed the line\" and asked if Salazar's ban will taint his own legacy Farah replied: \"Not at all. It's just what you want to make it. For me I believe in what I do.\n\n\"This is not about Mo Farah, this is about Alberto Salazar. I am not Alberto.\n\n\"I was never given anything. I am not on testosterone or whatever it is. At the time I never saw any wrongdoing when I was there. This allegation is about Salazar, not Mo Farah.\"\n\nAn animated Farah said: \"I have not done anything wrong. I have not failed any tests and I am happy to be tested anytime anywhere.\n\n\"I feel let down by you guys to be honest, there is no allegation against me.\n\n\"It's taken four years for Usada to get to this position it has right now. The first time I am hearing it is when you guys are reporting it.\"\n\nSalazar, 61, has said he was \"shocked\" by the outcome of Usada's investigation and would appeal against his ban, which Nike has said it will support.\n\nNike also stressed Usada's findings that performance-enhancing drugs had not been used on or by Nike Oregon Project athletes.\n\nFarah has clashed with journalists in the past when asked about Alberto Salazar.\n\nBut his heated 10-minute conversation with several British sports reporters as we sat around a table with him in a crowded conference room at the Chicago Hilton on Friday was arguably the most extraordinary media appearance of his career.\n\nFarah appeared relaxed initially, smiling while he took selfies, accompanied by security, his coach and his agent. But his mood soon changed when asked about the scandal that has engulfed both his sport and Nike, his sponsor.\n\nDespite Salazar's ban, Farah seemed reluctant to criticise his former coach and declined several invitations to condemn a man found guilty of various doping violations.\n\nThe nearest he came was suggesting he may have been misled by Salazar when he received assurances following the publication of allegations in 2015, and reiterating he had \"no time for anyone who's crossed the line\". But there was no obvious anger or disappointment.\n\nHe instead mostly chose to blame the media, refusing to admit to an error of judgement in standing by Salazar until they split in 2017, and appeared to suggest the scrutiny was motivated by a racist agenda.\n\nFarah is no doubt genuinely exasperated as he tries to prepare for the Chicago Marathon. He may also be trying to distance himself from a scandal in which no athlete is implicated.\n\nBut he must surely recognise that questions over his involvement in this story are legitimate.\n\nThe past two weeks have seen the downfall of the man who helped transform him into an Olympic champion, the departure of Neil Black, who is acting as his physiotherapist here, as UKA performance director and now the shutting down of the elite training facility where he became one of the world's best runners over several years.\n\nFarah tried to cast himself as the victim here in Chicago, and by agreeing to face our questions he and his advisors will hope he can now concentrate on Sunday's race. But moving on from this controversy will not be easy.", "US President Donald Trump sounded an optimistic note at the end of the first day of US-China trade talks in Washington DC.\n\n\"We had a very, very good negotiation with China,\" Mr Trump told reporters after the talks wrapped up.\n\nMr Trump will meet directly with Vice Premier Liu He at the White House on Friday.\n\nEarlier reports suggested the Chinese delegation might leave after the first day of talks.\n\nThursday's talks kicked off amid a backdrop of renewed tensions, as the US blacklisted 28 Chinese entities over human rights concerns.\n\nThey were the first high-level negotiations in more than two months.\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer met Mr Liu and other Chinese officials.\n\n\"The Chinese side came with great sincerity, willing to cooperate with the US on the trade balance, market access and investor protection,\" Mr Liu told the official Xinhua news agency.\n\nEarlier in the week, the US government blacklisted 28 Chinese entities it said were \"implicated\" in human rights abuses, and imposed additional visa restrictions for Chinese government officials.\n\nThe Chinese Embassy in Washington denounced the visa action and said the US accusations on human rights violations were \"made-up pretexts\" for interfering in China's affairs.\n\nAlthough many of the blacklisted entities are government security bureaus, the eight companies named include some of China's leaders in artificial intelligence.\n\nThe blacklist could restrict the access of those companies to US microchips, which they currently rely on for many of their products and services.\n\nHuman rights groups and the UN say China has rounded up and detained more than a million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities in detention camps in Xinjiang province.\n\nChina insists they're \"vocational training centres\" aimed at preventing terrorism, promoting integration into Chinese society and providing employment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jay Powell or Xi Jinping: Which chairman is Trump's enemy?\n\nAlthough officials are speaking positively about the meeting, few expect more than incremental progress.\n\n\"I think China's looking for a trade truce,\" said Einar Tangen, a former economic adviser to the Chinese government.\n\n\"At this point, it's not clear that there will ever be any kind of big breakthrough. The idea in Beijing is that they will never allow Chinese policy to be made in Washington DC.\"\n\nThe US and China have been locked in a long-running trade spat over a variety of issues.\n\nOver the past 15 months, the world's two largest economies have imposed tariffs on billions of dollars worth of each other's goods.\n\nThe US has been demanding better protection for US intellectual property, and an end to both cyber theft and the forced transfer of technology to Chinese firms.\n\nIt also wants China to reduce industrial subsidies and improve access to Chinese markets to US companies.", "A man in his 40s has been detained after four people were injured in a knife attack at the Arndale Centre in Manchester city centre.\n\nThe suspect has been arrested on suspicion of terror offences, police have confirmed.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said counter-terror officers were \"keeping an open mind\" as investigations continue.", "Four people have been injured - one seriously - after a number of stabbings at Manchester's Arndale Centre.\n\nA witness described seeing \"a man running around with a knife lunging at multiple people\" shortly after 11:15.\n\nThe shopping centre was evacuated as police detained a suspect.\n\nA 19-year-old woman and another woman were both taken to hospital with stab injuries and their condition was described as stable.\n\nA man in his 50s was also treated for stab wounds, while a woman in her 40s was treated by paramedics at the scene but was not stabbed.\n\nA fifth person presented at hospital with a superficial wound but did not require treatment\n\nA man, 41, is being held on suspicion of terror offences.", "The UK will continue selling arms to Turkey but will not grant new export licences for weapons which might be used in military operations in Syria, the foreign secretary has said.\n\nDominic Raab told the Commons the UK would keep its exports to Turkey under \"very careful and continual review\".\n\nThe Turkish offensive, which began last week, aims to push Kurdish-led forces from the border region.\n\nDozens of civilians have been killed in the operation so far.\n\nMeanwhile, at least 160,000 have fled the area, according to the UN.\n\nThe Turkish government wants to create a \"safe zone\" in the area, where it can resettle as many as two million Syrian refugees currently in Turkey.\n\nMr Raab told MPs the UK government had called on Turkey to \"exercise maximum restraint and to bring an end to this unilateral military action\".\n\n\"This is not the action we expected from an ally,\" he said.\n\n\"It is reckless, it is counter-productive and it plays straight into the hands of Russia and indeed the [Syrian President] Assad regime.\"\n\nHe went on: \"I can tell the House that no further export licences to Turkey for items which might be used in military operations in Syria will be granted while we conduct that review.\"\n\nIt does not mean all UK arms sales to Turkey are suspended - exports can continue under existing licence.\n\nBut it does bring the UK into line with other European powers which have already said they will block future arms deals.\n\nEuropean and Nato allies, including Germany, which is one of Turkey's main arms suppliers, and France have made similar moves.\n\nThe UK has licensed sales of military equipment to Turkey worth more than £1bn since 2013, according to the Campaign Against the Arms Trade.\n\nAmnesty International UK said it was the \"right decision\" but should go further.\n\nPolicy head Allan Hogarth said: \"The government must be clear that this will also apply to all existing licences.\n\n\"The UK has a responsibility to minimise the risk of UK weaponry contributing to violations of international humanitarian law.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC spoke to British orphans found trapped in an IS camp in Syria\n\nEarlier, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg discussed the volatile situation in Syria with Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Downing Street.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting, Mr Stoltenberg said the arms suspensions showed \"many Nato allies are very critical and are condemning the military operation in northern Syria\".\n\nHe added that he was concerned about how Turkey's actions could escalate tensions in the region, cause \"human suffering\" and threaten the gains made in \"fighting our common enemy\" - the Islamic State group.\n\nConcerns have been raised for the future of some British orphans identified as being held in camps in Syria because their parents were supporters of, or fighters in, the so-called Islamic State group.\n\nMr Raab said he did not want to see foreign Islamic State fighters returned to the UK but minors and orphans would be considered.", "Royal Mail is facing its first national postal strike in a decade after staff voted overwhelmingly for action.\n\nThe dispute between workers and the firm is over job security and terms and conditions of employment.\n\nMore than 97% of votes by members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) backed a strike. Turnout was 76%.\n\nStrike dates have yet to be announced, but the union could target the annual Black Friday retail sales event in late November and the Christmas post.\n\nThe CWU says an agreement reached with management last year to raise pay and reform pensions is not being honoured.\n\nAbout 110,000 members of the union were balloted in the dispute.\n\nRoyal Mail says it has 51% by volume of the UK parcel market.\n\nTerry Pullinger, deputy general secretary of the CWU, accused Royal Mail of breaking the \"progressive\" agreement that it reached with the union a year ago.\n\nHe added: \"Our members take honour seriously and have voted to fight for that agreement against those who now seek to break up the great British postal service in the interest of fast-track profit and greed.\"\n\nThe CWU's general secretary, Dave Ward, urged Royal Mail to enter \"serious negotiations\" with the union.\n\nRoyal Mail said it was \"very disappointed\" that the CWU had chosen to ballot for industrial action and said it was still \"in mediation\" with the CWU.\n\n\"We want to reach agreement. There are no grounds for industrial action,\" the firm said.\n\nStrikes at the privatised postal service were averted last year after Royal Mail agreed to raise pay, reform pensions and reduce weekly working hours from 39 to 35 by 2022, subject to productivity improvements.\n\nHowever, the CWU has claimed that the deal is \"under threat\" under recently appointed chief executive Rico Back.\n\nRoyal Mail has said it is abiding by the agreement and has awarded two pay rises since last year.\n\nIt also said it had cut the working week by an hour - although discussions with the CWU about further cuts had stalled.", "Pupils at Raheem Sterling's former secondary school have told the BBC how his reaction to racism motivates them as footballers and young men.\n\nThe England striker was again subjected to racist chanting while playing for his country against Bulgaria, but played on and scored two goals in the 6-0 win.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nCrash victim Harry Dunn's parents have arrived at the White House for a meeting about the diplomatic immunity row over the main suspect in his death.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, 42, left the UK just days after the crash which killed the 19-year-old motorcyclist.\n\nShe has offered to meet Mr Dunn's parents, but they say she must promise to return to Britain first.\n\nIt is not clear if parents Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn will meet President Trump during their visit.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nPrior to the White House meeting, family spokesman Radd Seiger tweeted: \"The White House have just invited #HarryDunn's parents and I to a meeting this afternoon. Looking forward to getting further answers as we search for #JusticeforHarry.\"\n\nRadd Seiger (centre) is the spokesman for Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn\n\nEarlier, Mr Seiger said the family's lawyers, Mark Stephens and Geoffrey Robertson QC, were ready to launch a full investigation into the role the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) played in the decision to grant immunity to Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nOn Monday, Harry's parents gave interviews on US TV after flying to New York in a bid to publicise their case.\n\nThey hope media exposure will put pressure on the US government to force Mrs Sacoolas to return to the UK.\n\nOver the weekend, Mrs Sacoolas - who is reportedly married to a US intelligence official who was stationed at RAF Croughton - broke her silence over Mr Dunn's death in a letter via her lawyers.\n\nIn it she said she wanted to meet his parents \"so that she can express her deepest sympathies and apologies for this tragic accident\".\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nMrs Sacoolas was said to be covered by diplomatic immunity as the spouse of a US intelligence official, though that protection is now in dispute.\n\nOn Saturday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab wrote to Mr Dunn's family to explain that the British and US governments now considered Mrs Sacoolas's immunity irrelevant.\n\nHe said the matter was now \"in the hands\" of Northamptonshire Police and the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Well that didn't last long.\n\nLess than two days after being hit by a massive asteroid and enveloped in a black hole, Fortnite is back online.\n\nSeason 11 - or Chapter 2 - is now live, with gamers getting used to a whole new map and updated gameplay.\n\nSince Sunday night, the game has been offline, replaced by a livestream of a black hole on its Twitter page.\n\nBut now, there's a trailer to the new season.\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 Fortnite 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\nFrom first glance (bear with me, it's only just got back up and running!) the island looks totally different from what gamers have come to expect.\n\nIn total there are 13 new locations to explore - before deciding which one becomes your go-to landing spot.\n\nThe most noticeable change for players in terms of gameplay are the new water based mechanics. From swimming to motorboats - Fortnite has added in ways to play that have been a constant feature in other Battle Royale games like PubG and Call of Duty.\n\nFans will be pleased that the game is live again sooner than some thought - with speculation online that developers had initially planned for Chapter 2 to appear on Thursday.\n\nDevelopers now face a nervy wait to find out how the community reacts to the changes they've made to the most popular game in the world.\n\nThe way in which the game's makers have managed to build the hype around the update has been a masterclass in modern marketing - now they wait and see if the product they've made will live up to it.\n\nFor those who don't know - Fortnite allows up to 100 players to fight individually or as part of a team to be the last standing on a virtual battlefield.\n\nWhen the game went down on Sunday night, Forbes' gaming writer Paul Tassi described the event as \"the end of an era\".\n\nFans had been predicting a dramatic finale of season 10 which kicked off in August.\n\nThe black hole appeared on Fortnite for nearly two days\n\nEpic Games - which owns Fortnite - had confirmed \"The End\" event would take place on Sunday 13 October.\n\nA countdown timer appeared in the game, above the rocket at Dusty Depot.\n\nPlayers who were online during \"The End\" saw an in-game meteor shower which appeared to wipe out the Fornite map.\n\nThese players were then sucked into a rift and the screen was replaced with a black hole in the centre.\n\nThe launch trailer for Fortnite Chapter 2 racked up more than 700,000 views in less than two hours on Twitter.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Dunn's parents say they were told by the president he would \"try to push this from a different angle\"\n\nHarry Dunn's parents rejected a \"bombshell\" offer from Donald Trump to meet the woman accused of involvement in their son's fatal crash.\n\nCharlotte Charles and Tim Dunn said they felt \"a little ambushed\" when the president revealed Anne Sacoolas was in the next room at the White House.\n\nMrs Sacoolas returned to the United States under diplomatic immunity days after the crash which killed Harry, 19.\n\nHarry's parents said they wanted to meet Mrs Sacoolas, 42, in the UK.\n\nMr Dunn said a White House official told them she would not be returning to the UK, but Mr Trump said he would \"try to push this from a different angle\".\n\nHarry Dunn died on 27 August when his motorcycle crashed with a Volvo near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire.\n\nMrs Sacoolas - who is reportedly married to a US intelligence official stationed at the base - was interviewed by police but then returned to the United States after claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nThat status has since been cast into doubt by the Foreign Office and Mr Dunn's family want Mrs Sacoolas to return to the UK.\n\nSpeaking on CBS This Morning, Mr Dunn said the president had suggested the meeting with Mrs Sacoolas \"two or three times\".\n\n\"We said no, we didn't feel it was right. He said 'she's here, let's get it on, get some healing,' something like that,\" Mr Dunn told the US TV network.\n\n\"There was a bit of pressure but we stuck to our guns.\"\n\nIn a separate interview, Mr Dunn said: \"We didn't want to be railroaded into, not a circus as such, but into a meeting we weren't prepared for.\"\n\nMs Charles said they were \"a bit shocked\", adding: \"The bombshell was dropped soon after we walked in the room that Anne Sacoolas was in the building, and was willing to meet with us.\n\n\"I don't think it would be appropriate to meet her without therapists or mediators in the room.\"\n\nHarry died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nFamily spokesman Radd Seiger described the White House meeting as \"absolutely extraordinary\" and \"unprecedented\".\n\nBut he said US National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien told the family during the meeting that Mrs Sacoolas \"was never coming back\" to the UK.\n\nMs Charles said she had told Mr Trump during the White House meeting: \"If it was your son you would be doing the same as us.\"\n\nShe added: \"He actually gripped my hand a little bit tighter and said 'yes I would be'. And that's when he said he would try and look at this from a different angle.\n\n\"I can only hope that he was sincere enough to consider doing that for us.\n\n\"He's the one in control here, but we're the ones in control of our situation as much as we can be - we still want justice for Harry and we will take it as far as we possibly can to ensure that that's done.\n\n\"We do feel that we have done as much as we can at the moment.\"\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nMs Charles later told ITV's Good Morning Britain the family would \"be forever disappointed, forever disgusted in both the UK and US governments\" if Mrs Sacoolas did not return.\n\nMr Dunn said the trip to the White House \"didn't feel like a stunt\".\n\n\"I think the president was very graceful and spoke very well to us,\" he said.\n\n\"I genuinely do think he will look to resolve this in a way that will help us.\"\n\nOver the weekend, Mrs Sacoolas broke her silence over Mr Dunn's death in a letter via her lawyers.\n\nIn it she said she wanted to meet his parents \"so that she can express her deepest sympathies and apologies for this tragic accident\".\n\nMrs Sacoolas was said to be covered by diplomatic immunity as the spouse of a US intelligence official, though that protection is now in dispute.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police said it would be submitting an evidence file to the UK Crown Prosecution Service \"very soon\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The dedicated Harry Potter section at Primark Tottenham Court Road in London\n\nPrimark has warned customers not to purchase its products from third parties online as they will be paying higher prices for them than in store.\n\nReports had suggested Primark - which does not have an online shop - was now selling its products on Amazon.\n\nHowever, the High Street chain said that it did not have a commercial relationship with Amazon.\n\n\"We encourage our customers to visit us in our stores to find the best value,\" Primark said on Twitter.\n\n\"We do not have a commercial partnership with Amazon and any Primark products which appear on the site are being re-sold by third parties, at higher prices.\"\n\nThe BBC found popular Primark homeware and fashion products on both Amazon and eBay at a mark-up of between 50-75% in price.\n\nMany customers took to Twitter to respond to Primark, asking the retailer to reconsider its stance and open an online store as they were unable to visit a Primark store for a variety of reasons.\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\nPrimark, which is owned by Associated British Foods, is well known for its very low prices.\n\nIn the last few years, the retailer has also become known for its merchandising agreements with high-profile film, TV, children's toys and video game brands including Harry Potter, Disney, Game of Thrones, Lol Surprise, Fortnite, Friends, Barbie, Stranger Things, Mean Girls, Peanuts and Garfield.\n\nThe chain, which was founded in 1969, does not have an online store or offer click-and-collect services for its products.\n\nIn November 2018, Primark's head of ethical trade and environmental sustainability Paul Lister was asked by MPs to justify how the retailer could afford to keep prices so low, as part of a government inquiry into the environmental impact of fast fashion.\n\nPrimark's Chip teacup purse was so popular it sold out immediately when it was released\n\nHe said the fact Primark did not advertise meant the retailer could save up to £150m a year.\n\nIn March 2017, a £4 Chip teacup purse that was released in conjunction with the Beauty and the Beast live-action Disney film was so popular that people began bulk-buying the item and selling it on eBay for as much as £80.\n\nThe purse was sold out until Primark flooded its stores with the product, bringing its value back down again, and a similar situation occurred with a porcelain teacup version of the product later that year.", "The Duke of Sussex shared an intimate moment with attendees at the WellChild Awards.\n\nHe recalled how he knew at last year's event that his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, was pregnant and they were both thinking about what it would be like to be parents one day.\n\nThe charity, of which Prince Harry is patron, helps seriously ill children spend time out of hospital and return home to be with their families.\n\nHe welled up as he spoke at the ceremony, which celebrates the children, their families and the people who support them.", "A woman has received death threats after speaking out about an international cryptocurrency \"scam\".\n\nJen McAdam, from Glasgow, has been leading a band of investors who believe they have been duped by the OneCoin digital currency.\n\nOneCoin is said to have raised as much as £4bn around the world in investment.\n\nBut US prosecutors argue that far from being the next Bitcoin, OneCoin is a pyramid scheme masquerading as a cryptocurrency.\n\nThe scheme's founder Dr Ruja Ignatova has disappeared and is facing money laundering charges.\n\nMs McAdam is one of an estimated 70,000 people in the UK who bought packages from OneCoin but have been unable to trade or fully cash in their stake.\n\nThe Bulgaria-based firm is still trading and denies any suggestion OneCoin is a scam, claiming it fulfils all criteria of the definition of a cryptocurrency.\n\nMs McAdam is taking part in the 'Cryptoqueen' BBC Sounds podcast which is investigating the disappearance of Dr Ignatova and OneCoin, and said she has had a torrent of abuse since.\n\nThe 49-year-old revealed she has received scores of messages, mainly through Facebook, threatening her with sexual violence and death in what she claims are co-ordinated attacks by OneCoin supporters, and has now reported the threats to Police Scotland.\n\nShe said: \"It is horrible, the abuse is vile and the threats feel very real to me, I'm always looking over my shoulder now.\n\n\"It is taking its toll on my health but I will not give up until me and the thousands of other OneCoin victims like me see some form of justice.\"\n\nAt a big event at London in 2016, Dr Ruja Ignatova talked up her cryptocurrency OneCoin to supporters\n\nMs McAdam invested about £8,000 of her own money in the scheme, and persuaded family and friends to put in about £220,000, before realising she was not going to get the money back.\n\n\"I know through the different victims' groups around the world that it is people just like me who are affected,\" she said. \"They invested their life savings, they remortgaged homes and they convinced their friends and family to get involved -and they feel as awful as I do about it all because we were all duped.\n\n\"We think there's around 70,000 victims in the UK but it feels as if they are being left behind, nobody here seems interested in this.\"\n\nMs McAdam has called on the UK policing and financial regulation authorities to take the issue more seriously.\n\nThe Cryptoqueen podcast estimates OneCoin has raised as much as £4bn from people in 175 countries, with up to £96m in the UK alone.\n\nThe flamboyant leader of OneCoin, Dr Ignatova, disappeared in 2017 and in March this year US prosecutors charged the Oxford-educated businesswoman in absentia with money laundering, with the Department of Justice calling OneCoin an old-fashioned pyramid scheme.\n\nNew York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance was reported as describing OneCoin as \"an old-school pyramid scheme on a new-school platform\".\n\nInvestment in cryptocurrencies has soared since Bitcoin was invented in 2008\n\nAn alternative to centuries-old forms of currency such as notes and coins, a cryptocurrency is like a virtual token which can be bought and sold on the internet.\n\nThe currency is not printed by governments or traditional banks but created through a complex process known as \"mining\".\n\nThe process is monitored by a network of computers across the world which use cryptography for security.\n\nCryptocurrencies can be used to buy goods and services, like traditional currencies, but are also used as investments where people take advantage of their volatile exchange rates.\n\nBitcoin is probably the most famous cryptocurrency but there are now thousands of the standalone digital currencies, with Facebook looking to launch its own too.\n\nBut as OneCoin has proved, crypto can be more controversy than currency.\n\nResearch published on 7 October showed that UK regulator the Financial Conduct Authority was conducting 87 investigations into the sector as of September, up from 50 a year earlier.\n\nOneCoin has rejected allegations that it is a scam, and states that \"OneCoin verifiably fulfils all criteria of the definition of a cryptocurrency\".\n\nIt says the BBC podcast series into its business does \"not present any truthful information and cannot be considered objective, nor unbiased\".\n\nThe company also claims that the allegations made about it around the world are being challenged, stating: \"Our partners, our customers and our lawyers are fighting successfully against this action around the globe and we are sure that the vision of a new system on the basis of a 'financial revolution' will be established\".\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman confirmed they had visited Ms McAdam and offered her advice in the wake of the anonymous threats against her.\n\nYou can listen to The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast series on BBC Sounds.", "It seemed an understanding had been reached between Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar last week\n\nIt's extremely hard to see how a new Brexit deal can still be agreed by this Thursday.\n\nNegotiations continue - but time is tight, and, to use the words of even the most upbeat of those involved, \"there's still much work to do\".\n\nEU internal talk is focussing now on a possible \"holding pattern statement\" at this week's EU leaders summit, along the lines of \"we've made great progress in negotiations but still need more time\".\n\nThere are also renewed mutterings about a new Brexit summit maybe towards the end of the month.\n\nAt the end of last week there was hope in the air. It seemed an understanding had been reached between Boris Johnson and the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Leo Varadkar.\n\nNow there's lots of speculation, smoke and mirrors - but no sign of white smoke that a new Brexit deal is nigh.\n\n\"We felt last week that things would now move very quickly,\" one northern European diplomat told me. \"Now we realise we're still pretty far apart.\"\n\nRealistically there is no time this week to work out a painstaking middle ground between the EU and UK positions\n\nReplacing the Irish backstop guarantee remains the main stumbling block in ongoing negotiations, particularly when it comes to customs.\n\nThe European Commission says both sides - the EU and UK - are negotiating in good faith, but the not so secret EU hope right now is that time pressure and political pressure will build on Mr Johnson to such an extent this week, that he might yet blur some more of his red lines.\n\nThe EU thinking is that the UK prime minister is running out of options. He promised to do his best to deliver a new Brexit deal this week and he promised not to ask for another Brexit extension.\n\nWith so little time to go before the EU summit, Brussels believes the only option for a deal is for Mr Johnson to pivot towards an already set-to-go replacement for the current UK-wide Irish border backstop.\n\nAnd this is the EU's preferred option: a backstop that would see only Northern Ireland, not the rest of the UK, following EU customs rules after Brexit, while not affecting its territorial identity as part of the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNow for those who've followed the twists and turns of the Brexit process, you'll recognise the EU proposal as what was formally known as the Northern Ireland-only backstop.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson's offer is reminiscent of his predecessor Theresa May's Chequers plan for two customs systems (one EU, one UK) on the island of Ireland.\n\nEach proposal was roundly rejected by the other side.\n\nThe difference now is the political will to get a deal done. And not just in Downing Street.\n\nThose in the UK who claim the EU wants another Brexit extension to keep the UK in the bloc as long as possible are mistaken.\n\nEU leaders are fed up with the Brexit process. They want a deal.\n\nRealistically there is no time this week to work out a painstaking middle ground between the EU and UK positions.\n\nAnd EU leaders are adamant that they won't be negotiating directly with Boris Johnson at the summit.\n\nGermany, France and others say they want a Brexit deal they can live with, rather than something cobbled together in a rush to \"get it over with\" that could leave problems for the Northern Ireland peace process and/or the single market for years to come.\n\nWhile the technical details need to be ironed out (and that cannot be taken for granted), the EU political mood is determinedly more can-do now.\n\nIf the prime minister balks at doing a U-turn on a Northern Ireland-only backstop, despite being encouraged by still-to-be revealed EU sweeteners, then negotiations towards a hybrid solution will likely pick up again next week.\n\nFirst, though, all EU eyes would be on Westminster and the extraordinary session of Parliament on Saturday to see if another Brexit extension will be requested, or not.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What could Brexit mean for sausage rolls?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'This decision goes against Good Friday Agreement'\n\nPeople born in Northern Ireland remain British citizens according to the law, even if they identify as Irish, tribunal judges have determined.\n\nIn 2017, NI woman Emma De Souza won a case against the Home Office after it deemed she was British when her US-born husband applied for a residence card.\n\nThe Good Friday Agreement allows people to identify as British, Irish or both.\n\nBut on Monday an immigration tribunal upheld an appeal of the case, brought by the Home Office.\n\nTánaiste (Irish deputy PM) Simon Coveney said the Irish government had concerns about \"citizenship and identity provisions\" of the Good Friday Agreement being delivered, and would raise them with NI Secretary Julian Smith on Tuesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Coveney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 De Souza said she was \"disappointed\" and that she would now seek for the case to be heard in the Court of Appeal.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said it was pleased the tribunal agreed that UK nationality law was consistent with the Good Friday Agreement.\n\n\"We respect the right of the people of Northern Ireland to choose to identify as British or Irish or both and their right to hold both British and Irish citizenship,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nIn September, judges in London considered the case in the Upper Tribunal, which handles appeals against decisions made in First Tier Immigration Tribunals.\n\nThe Home Office argued people born in Northern Ireland remained British citizens according to the law, even if they identify as Irish.\n\nAnyone born in Northern Ireland has the right to identify as Irish or British or both, thanks to the Good Friday Agreement, signed in April 1998 by the British and Irish governments and Northern Ireland's political parties.\n\nThe agreement said the British and Irish governments would: \"Recognise the birthright of all the people of Northern Ireland to identify themselves and be accepted as Irish or British, or both, as they may so choose, and accordingly confirm that their right to hold both British and Irish citizenship is accepted by both governments and would not be affected by any future change in the status of Northern Ireland.\"\n\nResponding to the decision, Mrs De Souza criticised the British government and said it had failed, in her view, to implement the agreement.\n\nMrs De Souza applied for a residence card for her US-born husband in December 2015, making the application under her Irish passport.\n\nHowever, the Home Office rejected the application as it deemed Mrs De Souza was British, even though she says that she never held a British passport.\n\nThey requested that Mrs De Souza either reapply as a British citizen or renounce her British citizenship and pay a fee to apply as an Irish citizen.\n\nBut she challenged the decision, citing the Good Friday Agreement's terms that assert her ability to identify as Irish, British or both.\n\nIn 2017, a judge said Mrs De Souza was an \"Irish national only who has only ever been such\" and the following February, the first tier tribunal ruled in favour of Mrs De Souza.\n\nLater in 2018, the Home Office lodged an appeal and the case was heard by a panel of judges in the Upper Tribunal court in September 2019.\n\nIn its ruling, the tribunal judges determined that despite the Good Friday Agreement giving people the right to identify as British or Irish or both, it did not supersede the 1981 British Nationality Act, which sets out the terms of citizenship for people born in the UK, including in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe judges also said: \"To make citizenship by birth in the United Kingdom (or any part of it) dependent on consent raises a host of difficult issues.\"\n\nThe couple said they would try to take their case to the Court of Appeal\n\nLawyers for Mrs De Souza and her husband had argued that on one of the web pages of the Northern Ireland Executive, there is a passage which says \"people born in Northern Ireland can choose to be British citizens, Irish citizens or both\", but the court ruled that the webpage was not \"an authoritative source of law\" and said it must therefore be regarded as wrong.\n\nMrs De Souza had previously been told by the Home Office to renounce her British citizenship, but argued she did not consider herself a British citizen and therefore had no need to renounce it.\n\nHowever, in its ruling the judges said that: \"As a matter of law, Mrs De Souza is, at present, a British citizen at the current time.\n\n\"Whilst we fully appreciate her strength of feeling on this matter, it is not disproportionate... for her nevertheless to be required to give notice of revocation, if she wishes only to be a citizen of Ireland.\"\n\nThe ruling added that in order to renounce British citizenship, an individual must pay a fee.\n\nMrs De Souza has said she will now try to take the case to the Court of Appeal.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "The Syrian regime is moving towards the Turkish border after Damascus reached a deal with Kurdish forces\n\nIt has taken a week to reshape the map of the Syrian war, in the seven days since President Donald Trump used what he called his \"great and unmatched wisdom\" to order the withdrawal of US troops from northern Syria.\n\nHe set off a chain of events that betrayed America's ally, the Syrian Kurds, and opened a cornucopia of opportunities for Turkey, the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad, its backers, Russia and Iran, and the jihadist extremists of Islamic State (IS).\n\nEight years of war in Syria have shaped and changed the Middle East. This last week has been another turning point. Perhaps President Trump's wisdom helped him to foresee events. Or perhaps his habit of following his gut instincts is a serious mistake when it comes to the infinite complexities of the Middle East.\n\nFor years it has been clear that Syria's fate would be decided by foreigners, not Syrians. Repeated interventions have sustained and escalated the war. Writing about the contest for influence and power in Syria should start with the war's victims. Every turn of the military screw means disaster and often death for civilians. Video of their suffering should be compulsory viewing for the leaders who give the orders. Those images are not hard to find online and on television.\n\nPresident Trump's decision to pull the US out of what he called an endless war gave Turkey the green light to send troops into Syria. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared he wanted to go after the Kurds of the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) because they are allies of his country's own Kurdish rebels. His plan is to control both sides of the border with north-eastern Syria, and to set up an occupation zone around 20 miles (32km) deep. Into that zone he wants to move a million or more Syrian refugees.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Martin Patience explains what's behind the conflict between Turkey and the Kurds\n\nWhen the US decided to equip and train Syrian Kurds, as well as some Arabs, to fight IS, they were aware of a potential problem, that their would-be Kurdish allies were regarded as terrorists by their Nato ally, Turkey. Washington turned a blind eye to a problem that could be kicked into the future. Now the future is here, and it has blown up.\n\nA week ago, a small number of US troops were the tangible symbol of what seemed to be a security guarantee to the Syrian Kurds, who had become vital allies in the war against the extremist jihadists of Islamic State. The Kurds fought and died on the ground while the US, the UK and others provided air power and special forces troops. When the Caliphate, the self-styled entity of IS fell, the Kurds rounded up and jailed thousands of jihadist fighters.\n\nBut in not much more than the time it took President Trump to send some tweets, the Syrian Kurds were forced to recognise that they had been dumped, sparking consternation in the American military.\n\nUS Defence Secretary Mark Esper denied that the Kurds had been abandoned. But with the Turks advancing, and the Americans leaving, that is not how it felt for the Syrian Kurds. Once again in their troubled history, Kurds had become the disposable allies of a foreign power. They turned to their old enemies in Damascus.\n\nOn Sunday the Kurds announced a deal with the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, agreeing that its troops could advance into the zone that had not been controlled by Damascus since 2012, right up to the border with Turkey. That is a big victory for the regime. The troops moved quickly out of bases they maintained in the north-east. Assad loyalists dug out regime flags.\n\nIt was a disastrous day for American Middle East policy. The alliance with the Kurds, and the security guarantee safeguarding their self-governing slice of Syria, gave the Americans a stake in the war's endgame. It was also a way of pushing against the backers of the Assad regime: Russia and Iran. The departure of the Americans, and the advance of the Syrian army, are victories for them too.\n\nTurkish-backed Syrian fighters are pictured as Turkey and its allies continue their assault on Kurdish-held border towns in north-eastern Syria\n\nNew opportunities seem to be opening up for the jihadist extremists of Islamic State. On the messaging app Telegram, they have declared a new campaign of violence across Syria. They lost their territory, the \"caliphate\", but those who stayed out of jail - or a grave - have reconstituted themselves in sleeper cells to carry out guerrilla attacks.\n\nNow with the Kurds reeling, they see a chance to free the thousands of fighters who are locked up in Kurdish jails. Some of them are notorious killers who would constitute a serious threat if they could get out to carry guns and bombs again, not just in Syria but further afield. Justifiably, western governments are getting nervous about a renewed IS threat.\n\nEuropean governments, rattled in the way that happens when the problems of the Middle East come knocking at their doors, are calling on Turkey to stop the offensive. Some Nato members can see a nightmare scenario unfolding, with Syria, backed by Russian power, potentially facing off against Turkey, a fellow Nato member. The Russians say they are in regular contact with Turkey. But in a fluid, violent theatre of war. the chances for misperception, mistakes and escalation are always present.\n\nPerhaps what has happened in the last week simplifies the endgame of the Syrian war. Two major players, the Americans and the Kurds, look to be out of the picture. And President Assad, along with his allies from Russia and Iran, continue to solidify their victory in Syria's catastrophic war.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke and Duchess Cambridge arrive at the Pakistan Monument by auto rickshaw\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge made a colourful entrance as they arrived by auto rickshaw for a special reception hosted by the British High Commissioner to Pakistan in Islamabad.\n\nKate wore a glittering green dress and William a traditional sherwani suit for the event at the Pakistan Monument.\n\nThe royal pair are on a five-day tour of the country.\n\nEarlier, they met schoolchildren and had lunch with Prime Minister and former cricket star Imran Khan.\n\nAt the reception, which was arranged to showcase the best of Pakistani culture, the duke recognised the country's troubled past, saying: \"For a country so young, Pakistan has endured many hardships, with countless lives lost to terror and hatred.\n\n\"Tonight I want to pay tribute to all those who have endured such sacrifice and helped to build the country that we see today.\"\n\nAnd he promised Pakistan could rely on Britain as \"a key partner and your friend\".\n\nGuests at the reception, hosted by the High Commissioner, Thomas Drew, also included figures from Pakistan's business, music and film industries, as well as members of the government.\n\nEarlier, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met children at a government-run school in Islamabad\n\nThey are on a five-day tour of the Commonwealth country\n\nKensington Palace said organising the tour was \"complex\" because of political tensions in the region\n\nThe couple are the first royals to officially visit the Commonwealth country since the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall visited the region in 2006.\n\nIn Pakistan, Prince William is also following in the footsteps of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, who went there on several charity work trips before her death in 1997.\n\nOn a visit to the Islamabad Model College for Girls, the couple spoke to children, including 14-year-old Aima, who told him she and her classmates were \"big fans\" of his mother.\n\nDiana, Princess of Wales, on a visit to a hospital in Lahore in 1996\n\n\"Oh, that's very sweet of you. I was a big fan of my mother too,\" the duke said.\n\n\"She came here three times. I was very small. This is my first time and it is very nice to be here and meet you all,\" he added.\n\nThe duke and duchess heard how pupils were benefiting from the Teach for Pakistan programme - a fast-track teacher training scheme modelled on the UK's Teach First scheme.\n\nThe British High Commission said UK aid in Pakistan had helped more than 5.5m girls receive a quality education since 2011.\n\nThe duke and duchess met children taking part in activities to learn about environmental protection\n\nLocal education officer, Mohammed Sohailkhan, told reporters the quality of education for girls varied across Pakistan.\n\n\"I can't paint you an entirely rosy picture,\" he said. \"It does still fluctuate wildly, particularly in rural regions, where there has traditionally been cultural barriers towards this, notably in terms of sending girls away to college. But these barriers are slowly being broken down.\"\n\nThe prince and his wife also visited the Margalla Hills National Park in the foothills of the Himalayas, before travelling to Mr Khan's official residence in Islamabad for a private lunch.\n\nMr Khan, a former international cricketing star and now PM, was a friend of the prince's mother.\n\nPrince William and Mr Khan reminisced about meeting each other when the duke was a boy at a gathering in Richmond, south-west London, in 1996.\n\nThe duke told how everyone laughed at the time, when Mr Khan announced his ambition of becoming prime minister to William and his mother Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nThey also met Pakistan's President Arif Alvi and First Lady, Samina Alvi\n\nWhat are William and Catherine doing here in Pakistan? Put simply they are spreading a little royal love around the place.\n\nIt's been 13 years since a royal visit. Some of those have been very tough years for Pakistan, a country that Britain has strong and long historical links with. Around one-and-half million British citizens are of Pakistani descent. Part of the visit is about giving the country a royal hug and showing people here that Britain cares.\n\nIt's also a way of highlighting joint interests - climate change threatens Pakistan more than most, early years education is one of the duchess's biggest single concerns, and security is a key part of the co-operation between the UK and Pakistan.\n\nAnd it is a way of selling Pakistan to the world. The duke and duchess will leave the cities and see something of the spare and rugged countryside.\n\nYes, there's lots of security surrounding the couple. But their travels will also advertise the breathtaking beauty of Pakistan, alongside the bustling cities. It is an opportunity to learn, to encourage and to give something back.\n\nThe five-day trip was organised at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.\n\nThe duke and duchess flew into Rawalpindi on Monday, where they were greeted by Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi (right)\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England's Euro 2020 qualifying victory over Bulgaria in Sofia was overshadowed by shameful scenes of racism that saw the game stopped twice and officials threaten to abandon the match.\n\nGareth Southgate's side strolled to a 6-0 victory in an atmosphere that was toxic in the first half and eerie in the second, with a large section of the Vasil Levski Stadium already closed after racist incidents here in June.\n\nEngland debutant Tyrone Mings was an early victim, turning towards the home fans when chants were aimed in his direction and referee Ivan Bebek stopped the game in the 28th minute after Raheem Sterling was a target for further abuse.\n\nAfter lengthy discussions, and in accordance with Uefa's protocol for dealing with racism, the crowd were warned of the consequences if there were further problems - and there was a further stoppage just before half-time.\n\nOn the pitch, England moved closer to Euro 2020 qualification as they romped to victory with the recalled Marcus Rashford opening the scoring early on with a superb rising drive.\n\nRoss Barkley added a tap-in and a head from Kieran Trippier's cross before Sterling got on the scoresheet with another simple finish just before half-time.\n\nAnd Sterling provided an even more emphatic answer to those who directed the shameful chants at England's players when he strode through for the fifth goal after 68 minutes.\n\nThe issue of racism provided a disturbing backdrop to this game and it was only a matter of minutes before England's worst fears were realised.\n\nMings was clearly perturbed by chanting, a sorry state of affairs for the 26-year-old who should have been savouring the greatest moment of his career by winning his first England cap.\n\nWhen England manager Gareth Southgate, captain Harry Kane and several players gathered near the touchline before half-time after more audible abuse, it looked as if the game may be abandoned but it swiftly resumed.\n\nA large group of black-clad supporters, some of whom were making right-wing salutes, were moved from an area behind the dugout and Bulgaria captain Ivelin Popov went into that part of the stadium while the teams walked off at half-time to plead with supporters.\n\nThe atmosphere, not to mention the one-sided scoreline, was almost surreal in the second half with the Bulgarian players seemingly demoralised and dispirited themselves by the shocking events of the night.\n\nEngland needed to produce a significant response after the disappointment of their first loss in 44 qualifying matches in the Czech Republic on Friday - and they delivered in every way in these most trying of circumstances.\n\nMings kept his head under the most disgraceful provocation, while Sterling did what he does well - answered with his actions with another stellar performance.\n\nThis was a shockingly poor Bulgaria side but the environment here in the Levski Stadium meant this was an examination of England's character, their ability to stay cool while recording the impressive result they required to boost their chances of being seeded for Euro 2020.\n\nIn this context, it was a remarkably impressive effort from Southgate's players.\n\nKosovo's win against Montenegro means England must wait to confirm qualification, although that will surely come in the next round of qualifiers at home to Montenegro and in Kosovo in November.\n\nWhat next for Bulgaria?\n\nOne can only imagine the severest sanctions await the Bulgarian FA (BFU) after another serious incident of racism scarred a Euro 2020 game here.\n\nA section of around 5,000 seats were already closed after incidents against Kosovo and the Czech Republic in June and 3,000 will be cordoned off for the qualifier against the Czech Republic in November.\n\nThere was a grim inevitability about how events unfolded in Sofia given the build-up, with England manager Southgate having reminded his players of Uefa's protocol on racism after they were abused in Montenegro in March.\n\nThe Bulgarian authorities responded angrily, with BFU president Borislav Mihaylov sending a letter of complaint to Uefa and coach Krasimir Balakov insisting England's problems with racism were worse than theirs.\n\nIt is now up to Uefa to act once it receives the report of the referee and observers.\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We had to prepare for this eventuality. The most important thing was the players and staff knew what we were going to do and were in agreement. Nobody should have to experience what our players did. We followed the protocol. We gave two messages - one that our football did the talking and two, we stopped the game twice.\n\n\"That might not be enough for some people but we are in that impossible situation that we can't give everyone what they want. But we gave the players what they wanted and the staff what that they wanted. Remarkably, after what we have been through, our players walked off smiling and that's the most important thing for me. Not one player wanted to stop, they were absolutely firm on that.\"\n\nEngland defender Tyrone Mings to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"It was a great night for me personally. It was a really proud moment in my career. I hope everyone enjoys this moment and it isn't overshadowed. I am proud of how we dealt with it and took the appropriate steps. I could hear it as clear as day. It doesn't affect me too much. I feel more sorry for those people who feel they have to have those opinions.\n\n\"I am very proud of everyone for the decisions we made. It's important not to generalise the whole country. It was a minority, not a representation of the country.\"\n\nGoals flowing for England - the best of the stats\n• None England have faced Bulgaria without losing more times than they have any other opponent in their history (P12, W8, D4, L0).\n• None Only Belgium (30) and Russia (27) have scored more goals than England in Euro 2020 qualifying (26).\n• None Bulgaria suffered their heaviest ever home defeat in a European Championship/World Cup qualifier.\n• None England have scored five or more goals in four different matches in 2019, their joint-most in a single calendar year (also in 1937 and 1908). Indeed, they had only scored five or more goals in four matches across the last six calendar years combined (2013-2018).\n• None All six of Barkley's goals for England have been away from home - only Freddie Steele (eight) and James Windridge (seven) scored more for the Three Lions without netting at home.\n• None Sterling has been directly involved in 13 goals in Euro 2020 qualifying (eight goals, five assists). Only Russia's Artem Dzyuba has been involved in more (14).\n• None Kane has been directly involved in 15 goals in his last 10 games for England in all competitions (nine goals, six assists). In this match he registered three assists in a game for the first time for the Three Lions.\n• None Rashford's opener was his eighth goal for England - his first five came in home games, while his last three have come outside England.\n• None Callum Wilson (England) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Harry Kane.\n• None Attempt saved. Jadon Sancho (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Wilson.\n• None Attempt saved. Mason Mount (England) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Bulgaria 0, England 6. Harry Kane (England) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner.\n• None Harry Kane (England) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Jordan Henderson.\n• None Offside, Bulgaria. Kristiyan Malinov tries a through ball, but Galin Ivanov is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Mount (England) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right is high and wide to the right. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Racism has long been a problem in Bulgarian stadiums\n\nThe monkey chants and Nazi salutes from black-clad Bulgaria fans shocked many of those who watched the match with England in Sofia on Monday night, but they weren't perhaps entirely surprising.\n\nFor years Bulgarian football has been plagued by racism in its stadiums.\n\nIn 2011, the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) was fined after England players Ashley Young, Ashley Cole and Theo Walcott were subjected to racist abuse from fans during a European Championship qualifier.\n\nOn 20 April 2013, halfway through a match, fans of Levski Sofia unveiled a banner wishing Adolf Hitler a happy birthday.\n\nAnd last year the club was fined after photos from the Bulgarian cup final showed a child making a Nazi salute, alongside another with a swastika drawn on his chest.\n\nWhile many have been quick to point out the problem is not only a Bulgarian one - top leagues have faced scandals involving racism in the not-so-distant past, including the English Premier League - it is one of the worst offenders in Europe.\n\n\"I've spoken to some of the ordinary football fans and they feel ashamed of what's going on because this is the image of the country,\" said Yana Pelovska, a Bulgarian journalist based in Sofia.\n\nDespite obvious examples of racism in the Bulgarian league, Ms Pelovska said that most of the worst abuse is saved for the international stage.\n\nHardcore fans of clubs like CSKA Sofia told her that they wouldn't racially abuse local opposition teams because they had black players on their own side.\n\n\"It's complicated. I can't say this racist chanting is normal in Bulgarian matches,\" she said.\n\nKamen Alipiev, a sports reporter based in Sofia, said there were wider societal issues over why racism was still a problem among Bulgarian fans.\n\n\"We have problems with communications with our Roma Gypsies in the area, with refugees coming from Asia and Africa... so maybe sometimes it sounds like it's normal.\"\n\nThe fans \"can't imagine that they are racist,\" he explained.\n\nTihomir Bezlov and Dr Atanas Rusev, researchers at the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) in Sofia, believe the behaviour is not only driven by racist attitudes, but also financial interests.\n\nSome supporters with a history of racist behaviour demand payment from clubs in order to stop, they say.\n\nIn 2015, the CSD produced a report entitled Radicalisation in Bulgaria: Threats and Trends. It documents widespread racism among the country's football supporters.\n\n\"A famous Levski supporter explained that he does not like African-Americans, Turkish people and Arabs, but he does not mind the dark-skinned football players of Levski,\" the report notes.\n\nAlthough \"skinheads sharing racist views used to be very popular in CSKA factions\", the report says their influence has been diminished, partly because of the interventions of a fan leader, Rossen \"the Animal\" Petrov.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe CSD researchers, Mr Alipiev and Bulgarian reporter Momchil Indjov, told the BBC they suspected there were links between football hooligans and far-right nationalist movements.\n\nDr Rusev said hooligans had been mobilised during protests and to attack Roma communities.\n\nMr Indjov said he believed many of those involved in the racist abuse on Monday were part of SW99 - a hooligan faction belonging to Levski Sofia - and said the behaviour appeared planned.\n\nMr Bezlov said police had told him that CSKA Sofia fans were involved.\n\nWhile Bulgaria has faced criticism for its efforts - or lack thereof - at combating racism in football in the past, Monday night's scenes appear to have been taken more seriously.\n\nThe match was halted twice, and on Tuesday the president of the BFU, Borislav Mihaylov, resigned after being told to quit by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov.\n\nBorislav Mihaylov (left) resigned as president of the BFU on Tuesday\n\nThe president of European football's governing body Uefa, Aleksander Ceferin, said the \"football family and governments\" need to \"wage war on the racists\".\n\n\"There were times, not long ago, when the football family thought that the scourge of racism was a distant memory,\" Mr Ceferin said.\n\n\"The last couple of years have taught us that such thinking was, at best, complacent.\"\n\nThe British government said it had written to Uefa to demand more action, and Uefa has opened disciplinary proceedings against Bulgaria.\n\nThe shame many Bulgarians have felt from the behaviour of some of its fans on Monday could result in a long-overdue discussion about racism in the country, Mr Alipiev said.\n\n\"It will definitely create a discussion, especially after the reaction of our prime minister today... I think a red light is going on across the country,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not just about the football fans. We need to speak about our ability to accept others, not only in the stadiums.\n\n\"I really hope there will be a public discussion because it's a discussion about the state of the nation.\"", "Boris Johnson has outlined his plan to the European Union (EU) to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said the plan \"removes the so-called backstop\".\n\nThe backstop is the insurance policy negotiated by Theresa May and the EU. It is designed to avoid any physical border infrastructure, which it is feared would bring back memories of the Troubles, after Brexit.\n\nIt would keep the UK in the same customs territory as the EU, and Northern Ireland closely tied to EU regulations - until the UK and the EU reach a trade deal.\n\nBut it would stop the UK striking its own trade deals, which is why so many Conservative MPs, including Mr Johnson, oppose the backstop.\n\nSo, what is his alternative?\n\nThe government wants the UK to leave the EU customs union. This would mean Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland ending up in two different customs territories.\n\nThis means lorries entering the Republic of Ireland from Northern Ireland will need to complete customs declarations. This is to ensure the correct tariffs (tax on imports) are paid when UK goods enter the EU customs union.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: From the beginning the EU has struggled to see how Ireland and Northern Ireland can exist in different customs territories while keeping the border as open as it is now under all circumstances. They will argue that - in the absence of a future free trade deal - this proposal means the UK is breaking commitments it has made about the border. The UK counters that the backstop has already been rejected in Parliament three times, and something needs to change.\n\nInstead of installing customs posts and other physical infrastructure at the Irish border, the UK says declarations should be done electronically.\n\nThe government says physical checks would still be needed \"on a very small proportion of movements\". Currently, about one in 100 consignments entering the EU customs union are inspected to check that the goods match the information on the declaration.\n\nThese inspections could be carried out at warehouses or \"designated locations, which could be located anywhere in Ireland or Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThe government's proposal does not spell out what these \"designated locations\" would look like, but it adds there should be \"a firm commitment (by both parties) never to conduct checks at the border in future\".\n\nIf adopted, a border solution relying on technology and remote checks would be a first. The EU does not currently share a single border with a non-EU country where checks have been completely eliminated.\n\nThat includes Norway (not in the EU) and Sweden (an EU member) - which share one of the most technologically advanced borders in the world. Their main crossing point processes about 1,300 lorries a day, with each waiting 20 minutes on average.\n\nThe EU has previously rejected a customs solution that relies on technology.\n\nBack in January, Sabine Weyand, the EU's director-general for trade, said: \"We looked at every border on this Earth, every border the EU has with a third country - there's simply no way you can do away with checks and controls.\"\n\nThe government says that some small traders should be exempt from paying duty. However, the document does not address smuggling head on. In other words, what will be done to detect and prevent traders, who should be paying duty, from crossing the border without completing custom declarations first?\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The EU will see much of this as a rehash of previous ideas that it doesn't think will work. And many people will worry that unspecified \"designated locations\" could become targets for anyone seeking to undermine the Northern Ireland peace process. The EU will push back hard against suggestions that it needs to revise its own customs rules to suit the UK.\n\nWhen it comes to the regulation of goods, Northern Ireland would keep to the rules of the EU's single market, rather than UK rules.\n\nThat removes the need for product standard and safety checks on goods at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, because both will be part of an \"all-island regulatory zone\".\n\nBut it creates the need for checks between the rest of the UK - which will not be sticking to EU single market rules - and Northern Ireland..\n\nAll agricultural, food or animal products entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK will have to go through a Border Inspection Post. That's a bit of infrastructure where goods can be physically examined and paperwork checked.\n\nManufactured goods in Northern Ireland would also have to keep to EU rules, and these goods would be checked \"at the boundary of the zone\" - presumably at crossings between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, on the Irish Sea.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: This is quite a big concession from the UK side - basically accepting that there would have to be quite intrusive checks between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK for a number of years, on things like product standards and food safety. The EU has always said there have to be checks carried out somewhere, and both sides will try to deny any suggestion that this amounts to a new border in the Irish Sea.\n\nHaving Northern Ireland following EU rules for the production of goods over which it has no say is, as the document says, \"a significant democratic problem\".\n\nAs a result, it is proposed that the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive will have to sign off on the plan before it takes effect.\n\nThe Northern Irish institutions will be asked to approve the plan again every four years, and if they do not then Northern Ireland would stop following EU rules one year later.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly has not met since early 2017.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The issue of democratic legitimacy is a crucial one, but it cannot be applied unevenly. The EU is likely to have a problem with anything which suggests that only Northern Ireland could have - in effect - a veto on this plan. The point of the backstop was to provide a legal guarantee to keep an open border under all circumstances. Being subject to approval every four years simply isn't the same thing. If Northern Ireland voted to leave this arrangement things like checks on food safety would have to take place at the Irish border.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Dunn suspect \"should do the right thing\"\n\nHarry Dunn's family are asking the government to turn over all documents it has about the diplomatic immunity status of the suspect in the teenager's death.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, 42, left the UK just days after a road crash which killed the 19-year-old motorcyclist.\n\nA Dunn family spokesman said if the advice was not disclosed they would launch a judicial review.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nFamily spokesman Radd Seiger said their lawyers, Mark Stephens and Geoffrey Robertson QC, were ready to launch a full investigation into the role the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) played in the decision to grant immunity to Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nMr Seiger said: \"What Mark [Stephens] and I are going to do, is we are going to write to the FCO very shortly, explaining that we don't want to do a judicial review, but to avoid that, please let us have the following documents - all e-mails, messages and notes in relation to your advice to Northamptonshire Police that this lady had it [diplomatic immunity].\n\n\"What we don't know is whether somebody cocked up or whether they were put under pressure by the Americans to concede.\n\n\"But we want to conduct an investigation into the FCO's decision to advise Northamptonshire Police that this lady had the benefit of diplomatic immunity.\n\n\"If we're not satisfied, then we'll go to a judicial review and ask a High Court judge to review it all.\"\n\nRadd Seiger (centre) is the spokesman for Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn\n\nOn Monday, Harry's parents Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn gave interviews on US TV after flying to New York in a bid to publicise their case.\n\nThey hope media exposure will put pressure on the US government to force Mrs Sacoolas to return to the UK.\n\nOver the weekend Mrs Sacoolas - who is reportedly married to a US intelligence official who was stationed at RAF Croughton - broke her silence over Mr Dunn's death in a letter via her lawyers.\n\nIn it she said she wanted to meet his parents \"so that she can express her deepest sympathies and apologies for this tragic accident\".\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nMrs Sacoolas was said to be covered by diplomatic immunity as the spouse of a US intelligence official, though that protection is now in dispute.\n\nOn Saturday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab wrote to Mr Dunn's family to explain that the British and US governments now considered Mrs Sacoolas's immunity irrelevant.\n\nHe said the matter was now \"in the hands\" of Northamptonshire Police and the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nThe letter was sent three days after a meeting between the Dunn family and Mr Raab, who was described as \"twitchy\" by Mr Seiger.\n\n\"He [Mr Raab] was stiff, he was cold, he was unpleasant, he was rude.\n\nHarry's parents described the meeting as \"terrible\" and said Mr Rabb was \"adamant that Mrs Sacoolas did have immunity\".\n\n\"We do not know what is going on but the matter is now in the hands of our legal team,\" they added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Half of A&Es in England are not good enough - and there are no guarantees services will get better despite the extra money going into the NHS, the regulator says.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission said people were turning to A&E in a crisis because of a lack of support in the community.\n\nIt said services would remain under pressure until a funding solution was found for social care.\n\nThe government pledged in the Queen's Speech to reform social care.\n\nIt has set out a five-year funding plan for the NHS, which will provide the health service with an extra £20bn a year by 2023.\n\nBut attempts to reform the social-care system - run by councils and heavily means-tested - have been delayed.\n\nIt is estimated around 1.4 million older people do not have access to all the care they need because of inadequate access to services such as help in the home and care homes.\n\nCQC chief executive Ian Trenholm said this was having a knock-on effect on hospitals.\n\nSome 44% of A&Es are now rated as requiring improvement and 8% are deemed inadequate - a drop in performance from 2018 - the regulator's annual report showed.\n\nMr Trenholm said A&E was \"the department that we are most concerned about\", adding that there was a \"rising demand and people struggling to provide high-quality care\".\n\nIt is more than four years since the four-hour A&E waiting-time target has been achieved.\n\nMr Trenholm said until a social-care settlement was reached - which the government has promised is imminent - he was not confident services would improve.\n\nDr Nick Scriven, of the Society for Acute Medicine, said the system was being \"failed\" by those in power.\n\n\"As we move into the autumn, pressure has remained relentless,\" he added.\n\nThe CQC also expressed strong concerns about the state of services for people with learning disabilities and mental health.\n\nSome 10% of inpatient services for people with learning disabilities and autism were rated inadequate - up from 1% last year. Child and adolescent mental-health services and psychiatric units for adults had also deteriorated.\n\nInspectors said too many were being looked after by staff who lacked the skills, training and experience to support people with complex needs.\n\nThe warning comes after the BBC Panorama programme exposed abuse, neglect and mistreatment of adults with learning disabilities at Whorlton Hall specialist hospital.\n\nThe CQC said it had seen a rise in complaints since the programme aired in May.\n\nBut the report contained plenty of positives, too - 95% of GP practices were rated outstanding or good and core services other than A&E showed signs of improvement.\n\nEven in social care 84% of services were rated good or outstanding - it was just that there are not enough to go around, leaving some people without the requisite care.\n\nThe CQC said the number of care-home places was declining - and there was not enough home care to keep up with demand.\n\nThe government made a commitment to reform social care in the Queen's Speech on Monday.", "Downing Street is playing down reports of an imminent Brexit deal with the EU, saying talks are still ongoing.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is under pressure to get a fresh agreement by Thursday's EU summit, but his spokesman said there was \"more work still to do\".\n\nEU chief negotiator Michel Barnier had said the two sides must agree the details by the end of Tuesday.\n\nBut the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg said it was not clear whether a text could be signed off by then.\n\nShe said Mr Barnier was due to brief EU ambassadors at 1300 BST on Wednesday, after a possible European Commissioners meeting, meaning a new deal could get the \"green light\" from Brussels in the afternoon.\n\nThe Guardian is reporting that a draft treaty could be published on Wednesday morning, claiming the UK has made further concessions over the issue of customs and the Irish border.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"Talks remain constructive but there is more work still to do.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said talks were \"moving in the right direction\" but gaps between the sides remained, and it was still unclear whether a deal would be ready in time for the Brussels summit.\n\nHis deputy, Tánaiste Simon Coveney, said earlier that \"big steps\" were needed on Tuesday \"to build on progress that has been slow\" because there would be no haggling over the details of the text once the summit began.\n\nThe two-day EU summit is crucial because, under legislation passed last month - the Benn Act - the PM must get a new deal approved by MPs by Saturday if he is to avoid asking for a delay.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU at 23:00 GMT on 31 October and Boris Johnson says that deadline must be honoured.\n\nHe is trying to hold together a coalition of Conservative Brexiteers and Democratic Unionists in support of his proposed alternative to the Irish backstop - the arrangement designed to keep an open border in Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We need to deal with the facts,\" say the Irish deputy PM\n\nThe DUP leader, Arlene Foster, had more than an hour of talks in Downing Street on Monday night and met the PM again on Tuesday evening for a further 90 minutes.\n\nFollowing that meeting, the DUP released a statement saying it would not give \"a detailed commentary\" but added \"it would be fair to indicate gaps remain and further work is required\".\n\nEarlier, Mrs Foster had told the BBC her party would \"stick with our principles\" that Northern Ireland \"must remain\" within the UK's customs union.\n\nShe dismissed as \"speculation\" claims the new Brexit deal included a possible customs border in the Irish Sea - meaning Northern Ireland would be treated differently from the rest of the UK - saying the DUP could never accept that.\n\nGiving the Northern Ireland Assembly a regular vote on post-Brexit customs arrangements - which is reported to have been ditched in response to Ireland's objections - was also important to the DUP, Mrs Foster said.\n\nShe said it was \"right to give space and time\" to negotiators to try to get a deal, but \"everyone knows our position\".\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, members of the pro-Brexit European Research Group attended a meeting at No 10, with chairman Steve Baker saying afterwards he was \"optimistic\" that \"a tolerable deal\" could be reached.\n\nBBC Brussels reporter Adam Fleming said the widely-held view there was that the UK was unlikely to be leaving on 31 October, and the question was whether an extension could be short in order to iron out some small issues, or had to be much longer to deal with bigger problems.\n\nAfter updating EU ministers on Tuesday morning, Mr Barnier signalled that he expected the UK to share the legal text of any proposed changes to the withdrawal agreement within hours.\n\nHe said there was a \"narrow path\" to be trod between the EU's objective of protecting the single market and Mr Johnson's goal of keeping Northern Ireland in the UK's customs territory.\n\nWhile there had been progress, Mr Barnier said there was still a big disagreement about the inclusion of so-called \"level playing field\" provisions in the political declaration sketching out the two sides' future trade relationship.\n\nThese provisions would limit the UK's ability to diverge from the EU across a whole range of areas, including competition policy, employment rights, environmental standards and state aid.\n\nThe UK says loosening these conditions is vital if it is to have an independent trade policy, but the EU says the UK cannot have privileged access to the single market market without following its rules as this would give it an unfair advantage.\n\nAsked whether it recognised talk of an EU deadline later on Tuesday, No 10 said Mr Johnson was \"aware of the time restraints\" and the UK was working hard to secure a deal \"as soon as possible\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegardless of what happens in Brussels, a showdown is anticipated in an emergency sitting of Parliament on Saturday - the first in 37 years, if it goes ahead.\n\nMPs will be able to back or reject any deal presented to them and there will be discussions on what to do next.\n\nLabour has threatened court action to force the PM to obey the Benn Act, amid speculation the PM could seek to sidestep it somehow.\n\nSpeaking in Parliament, Leader of the House Jacob Rees-Mogg did not confirm whether the Saturday sitting would definitely go ahead, adding that it would depend on events in Brussels.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Vicki Young This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThursday, 17 October - Crucial two-day summit of EU leaders begins in Brussels. This is the last such meeting currently scheduled before the Brexit deadline.\n\nSaturday, 19 October - Special sitting of Parliament expected - and the date by which the PM must ask the EU for another delay to Brexit under the Benn Act, if no Brexit deal has been approved by MPs and they have not agreed to the UK leaving with no-deal.\n\nThursday, 31 October - Date by which the UK is currently due to leave the EU.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A British teenager accused of lying about being raped says she was 'scared for her life'\n\nA British teenager was \"scared for her life\" when Cypriot police made her falsely confess to lying about being raped by Israeli tourists, a court has heard.\n\nThe 19-year-old said she texted her mother from the police station saying: \"ASAP. I need help ASAP.\"\n\nShe is on trial in Cyprus, where she is accused of causing public mischief by allegedly falsely claiming to have been attacked at an Ayia Napa hotel in July.\n\nGiving evidence at Famagusta District Court in Paralimni, the woman told the court she was raped but \"forced\" to retract her statement 10 days later.\n\nTwelve young Israelis were arrested in connection with the allegations but were later released and returned home.\n\nThe woman's defence team said she was forced to sign the retraction under duress, threatened with arrest and denied access to a lawyer - which police deny.\n\nThe woman said Cypriot investigators, led by Detective Sergeant Marios Christou, told her police had obtained videos which showed she had consensual group sex.\n\n\"I asked to see the videos because I didn't know they existed,\" she said.\n\n\"He said that wasn't possible but he had studied them and it was very clear there was no rape.\"\n\n\"He threatened to arrest [my friend] and take her for conspiracy and he said that, because of all these so-called videos, he was going to arrest me If I didn't say that I had lied and that I would not see my mum until I was in handcuffs in a court,\" she said.\n\n\"I was messaging my mum, I was messaging my friends, saying, 'They are forcing me to sign these false statements. I need help.'\n\n\"I said I was really scared because I didn't think I would leave that police station without signing that statement,\" she continued.\n\n\"I told my friend that I was scared for my life.\"\n\nThe court was read a string of text and Snapchat messages the woman sent as she hid her phone from police. A Snapchat message to her friend said: \"They wouldn't let me talk to anyone.\n\n\"I said I have a right to a lawyer here they said not in Cyprus.\n\n\"Maybe in the UK not in Cyprus.\n\nThe court heard the woman signed a retraction statement just before 02:00 local time - eight hours after she was picked up by police from her hotel on 27 July.\n\nHe said he began suspecting she had lied about the rape after spotting inconsistencies between her first and second statements.\n\nHe said that, when he raised his suspicions and put forward potential reasons why she might have made up the allegations, she said: \"Because they were videoing me, I felt embarrassed and insulted.\"\n\nThe woman could face a year in jail and a fine of €1,700 (about £1,500) if found guilty.", "The UK and the European Union are in talks about how they could live and work together after Brexit.\n\nPoliticians use many different terms when discussing Brexit - here is what some of the key ones mean.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nA period lasting from 31 January to 31 December 2020, when the UK is no longer a member of the EU, but still follows all its rules.\n\nIt was agreed by the UK and the EU to allow both sides time to reach a deal on their future relationship.\n\nTrade between two countries, where neither side charges taxes or duties on goods crossing borders.\n\nA deal between countries to reduce, but not necessarily eliminate, trade barriers such as:\n\nHow the agreement between the EU and the UK would be enforced if there is a dispute.\n\nOne controversial issue has been about what role, if any, the European Court of Justice should play.\n\nA tax or duty to be paid on goods crossing borders.\n\nRules on who can fish where, and how much of each species can be caught.\n\nA set of rules to ensure that one country, or group of countries, doesn't have an unfair advantage over another.\n\nThis can involve areas such as workers' rights and environmental standards.\n\nEU laws which prevent a government in one country from supporting companies there - over competitors in another country.\n\nThis support could be financial - for instance, allowing companies to borrow more cheaply, or charging them less in tax.\n\nThe 2019 agreement which set out how the UK would leave the EU.\n\nThe Northern Ireland protocol is part of this agreement. It set out special arrangements for Northern Ireland, to avoid the need for checks along the Irish border.\n\nThis will be the situation if the UK and the EU don't reach a trade agreement by the end of 2020.\n\nIt means that both sides would have to charge tariffs - or taxes - on goods crossing borders.\n\nIf countries don't have free-trade agreements, they usually trade with each other under what's called WTO (World Trade Organization) rules, where each country sets tariffs - or taxes - on goods entering, and applies them equally to all its trading partners.\n\nThe government currently refers to this as an \"Australian-style deal\".", "Protests have erupted in Barcelona after Spain's Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to between nine and 13 years in prison.\n\nThousands of demonstrators blocked road access to Barcelona's El Prat airport. More than 100 flights were cancelled. Riot police charged protesters, who threw rocks, cans and fire extinguishers, AFP news agency reported.\n\nThe separatist leaders were convicted of sedition over their role in an illegal independence referendum in 2017.", "The UK's financial regulator has announced a crackdown on the car financing industry which it claims will save drivers £165m.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority wants to ban the way that some car dealers and brokers make commission on sales.\n\nIt said that some dealers make commission on the loan's interest rate, which they set.\n\nThe FCA said this \"creates an incentive for brokers to act against customers' interests\".\n\nSome brokers and car retailers make a commission on the interest rate they charge customers who take out a loan to buy a car. The higher the interest rate, the higher the commission.\n\n\"We have seen evidence that customers are losing out due to the way in which some lenders are rewarding those who sell motor finance,\" said Christopher Woolard, executive director of strategy and competition at the FCA.\n\n\"By banning this type of commission, we believe we will see increased competition in the market which will ultimately save customers money.\"\n\nThe financial watchdog also said it was proposing to make changes to the way in which customers are told about the commission they are paying \"to ensure that they receive more relevant information\".\n\nIt said: \"These changes would apply to many types of credit brokers and not just those selling motor finance.\"\n\nAdrian Dally, head of motor finance at the Finance & Leasing Association, said the announcement was \"good news for the industry and consumers, as it delivers clear rules and a consistent approach to commissions\".\n\nIt added: \"Many lenders have already moved to the commission models that the FCA is proposing.\"\n\nThe FCA will now consult on the proposals until 15 January next year and plans to publish final rules later in 2020.\n\nEarlier this year, a report by the regulator found that the industry's practice of allowing dealers to set their own interest rates was costing consumers millions of pounds a year.\n\nThe FCA also discovered that only a small number of brokers that they examined told customers that they might receive commission for arranging a loan.\n\nThe regulator said at the time that its aim from conducting the investigation was to \"eliminate the harm caused by discretionary commission models\".\n\nIt said: \"We have found a significant difference in the amount of interest customers pay when taking a motor finance deal arranged through a broker who benefits from a discretionary commission model compared to a flat fee model.\"", "A property developer found with four illegal handguns has been jailed for 46 months.\n\nPolice discovered the cache in a \"panic room\" at Douglas Urquhart's home in Loanhead, Midlothian.\n\nThe door to the secure room was hidden behind a wardrobe in a basement garage, and it could only be accessed using an electronic keypad.\n\nThe 45-year-old admitted the offences, including having no firearms certificate for four air rifles.\n\nAt the High Court in Glasgow judge Lady Stacey said: \"We have very strict gun laws and there is a reason for this.\n\n\"Even weapons of this sort can be used by people to threaten others and these weapons can be modified.\n\n\"I accept you kept them safely and you had no ammunition, but Parliament takes this sort of offence very seriously and these offences can attract a sentence up to 10 years in prison.\"\n\nThe NCA said Urquhart imported the handguns from Spain\n\nUrquhart had earlier admitted having four air rifles without a firearms certificate and four front venting starting pistols without the permission of the Secretary of State or the Scottish ministers or a firearms certificate.\n\nThe court heard that the front vented pistols were discovered when police searched Urquhart's home in High Street, Loanhead, on May 17.\n\nUrquhart opened the door using an electronic keypad and then provided access to a further \"panic\" style room located behind a wardrobe.\n\nThe starting pistols were found there along with flare launching adaptors and cleaning brushes.\n\nDefence counsel Tony Lenehan, said: \"Mr Urquhart applied for a shotgun licence and an air weapons licence. The shotgun licence was not granted because he did not have a sporting need and he did not realise he had not been granted the air guns licence.\n\n\"Mr Urquhart, who is a joiner and property developer, has a fascination with 18th century firearms. He has for instance miniature Derringer pistol that a lady would have carried in her purse.\n\n\"With regard to the front venting pistols he ordered them openly using his own name, his own bank card and had them delivered to his own door.\n\n\"He wanted them for their aesthetics. This whole incident has been traumatic, shameful and embarrassing for him.\"\n\nThe conviction followed an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Police Scotland organised crime partnership.\n\nAfter the hearing, the NCA said Urquhart's panic room contained tinned food, bottled water, a safe and a CCTV system which allowed sight of outside - as well as the weapons.\n\nNCA operations manager John McGowan said: \"Urquhart had ordered these weapons online and imported them from Spain and, while they could only fire blanks in the state they were in, they are illegal in the UK because they can easily be converted to fire real ammunition.\"", "Consensual sex between men over the age of 21 was made legal in Scotland in 1980 - 13 years after England and Wales\n\nGay and bisexual men convicted under discriminatory laws which have now been abolished are to receive an automatic pardon from Tuesday.\n\nSame-sex activity between men was illegal in Scotland until laws banning homosexual relations were repealed in 1980.\n\nBut the convictions of those convicted of offences before then were retained on official records.\n\nThey can now apply to have them removed under a \"disregards\" scheme.\n\nThe Historical Sexual Offences (Pardons and Disregards) (Scotland) Act followed an unqualified apology by the first minister to those convicted of same-sex sexual activity that is now legal.\n\nAddressing Holyrood in November 2017, Nicola Sturgeon said: \"Today, categorically and wholeheartedly, as first minister I apologise for those laws, and for the hurt and the harm that they caused.\n\n\"Nothing this parliament does can erase those injustices. But I hope that this apology, alongside our new legislation, can provide some comfort to those who endured them.\"\n\nThe legislation grants an automatic pardon to every gay and bisexual man in Scotland convicted under discriminatory laws, which were repealed almost 40 years ago. The age of consent was equalised in 2001.\n\nCriminal records can also be altered to remove any mention of convictions for same-sex offences which are no longer on the statute book.\n\nAny man with such a conviction can now apply to have it \"disregarded\" so it will never show up on, for example, an enhanced disclosure check. It expects about 25 men to do so over the next five years.\n\nOffences which could have led to a conviction until 1980 including kissing another man in public\n\nThe Scottish government said it had been working closely with Police Scotland and other partners to ensure the \"disregard\" scheme was clear and effective and had appropriate safeguards in place.\n\nBut the scheme will not apply to behaviour that is still illegal today - for example rape or having sex with someone under the age of 16.\n\nAny man wishing to apply for a \"disregard\" can apply on line.\n\nBefore the law changed, men could be prosecuted for offences including consensual sexual activity in private, kissing another man in a public place, or just chatting up another man in a public place - which was known as \"importuning\".\n\nSuch behaviour was legal at the time between a man and a woman, and is legal today between two men.\n\nThe director of the Equality Network, Tim Hopkins said: \"Centuries ago, the death penalty applied in Scotland to sexual relationships between men.\n\n\"More recently, during the 20th Century, hundreds of men in Scotland were sent to prison for consensual adult relationships - and we know of men who as recently as the 1990s were convicted of a criminal offence and fined, for no more than kissing another man in public.\n\n\"Today's pardon applies to all those cases. Nothing can undo the harm of centuries of homophobic discrimination, but at least the state now acknowledges that it was the law that was wrong, and the people convicted under it did nothing wrong.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf said: \"There is no place for homophobia, ignorance and hatred in modern Scotland.\n\n\"This landmark legislation provides an automatic pardon to men convicted of same-sex sexual activity, which is now entirely legal.\"\n\nSophie Bridger, campaigns, policy and research manager for Stonewall Scotland, said: \"Along with the hurt and damage that came with being prosecuted for who they loved, some people have been carrying a criminal record for something which should never have been illegal.\n\n\"They will now finally have the chance to delete these former offences from their criminal record.\n\n\"We hope this will bring comfort and closure to those affected and draw a line once and for all under this dark piece of Scotland's history.\"\n\nIn England and Wales, where homosexual acts between consenting adults was permitted after 1967, there is similar legislation - dubbed the \"Turing law\" after the World War Two code-breaker Alan Turing who was pardoned posthumously in 2013 for his conviction of gross indecency.\n\nGay and bisexual men convicted of now-abolished sexual offences in England and Wales have received posthumous pardons, and those still living can apply for one.\n\nBut campaigners said fewer than 200 men had so far received a pardon under the new law.\n\nThousands of gay men are unable to obtain pardons because the offence they were convicted of - importuning - is not one of those eligible, despite the government acknowledging it was used in a discriminatory way.\n\nCampaigners have said others are put off from even applying by an intimidating, bureaucratic system.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Syria's government forces have entered the town of Ain Issa in the north of the country, hours after Damascus agreed to help Kurdish forces facing a Turkish offensive in the area.\n\nState television showed images of what it said was the entrance of the town, where residents were seen welcoming the arrival of the troops.\n\nAin Issa is located next to the area where Turkey plans to create a \"safe zone\" in northern Syria, cleared of Kurdish fighters.", "By the age of seven, children are already facing limits on their future aspirations in work, according to a report from the OECD international economics think tank.\n\nAndreas Schleicher, the OECD's director of education and skills, says \"talent is being wasted\" because of ingrained stereotyping about social background, gender and race.\n\nHe is backing a project from the Education and Employers careers charity to give children a wider understanding of the range of jobs available.\n\nMr Schleicher says children have begun making assumptions about what type of people will enter different types of work while they are still in primary school.\n\nThere are only \"minimal changes\" in attitudes towards career options between the ages of seven and 17, says the report produced jointly by the OECD and Education and Employers.\n\nThe report says that expectations about jobs are already in place by primary school\n\nThe report, warning of the barriers to social mobility, says too often young people consider only the jobs that are already familiar to them, from friends and family.\n\n\"You can't be what you can't see. We're not saying seven-year-olds have to choose their careers now but we must fight to keep their horizons open,\" says Mr Schleicher.\n\nHe is backing the Education and Employers' efforts to bring people from the world of work into schools, with the aim of widening access to the jobs market and raising aspirations.\n\n\"It's a question of social justice and common sense to tackle ingrained assumptions as early as possible or they will be very tough to unpick later on,\" says Mr Schleicher.\n\nThe OECD education chief will speak at an Education and Employers event in London on Tuesday, where the charity will announce plans to double to 100,000 the network of people who go into schools and talk about their jobs and career paths.\n\nAt present there are more than 50,000 volunteers, representing jobs from \"app designers to zoologists\".\n\nYoung people need to hear about a wider range of jobs and employers, says the study\n\nThe intention is to create \"light-bulb moments\" where young people can see a possible new direction and hear from role models.\n\nResearch for the careers report shows that young people often have very narrow ideas about potential job options.\n\nThe most common influences are the occupations of people in their family, the jobs they see in the media and the type of work they see as most likely for people of their gender and background.\n\nThe findings show that in primary school, boys from wealthier homes are more likely to expect to become lawyers or managers while girls from deprived backgrounds are expecting to go into hairdressing or shop work.\n\nCareer ambitions can often reflect the influence of family background rather than ability\n\nBoys from deprived backgrounds were particularly likely to want to go into careers such as sport or entertainment.\n\nMr Schleicher warns of a mismatch between the limited range of aspirations and the changing demands of the jobs market.\n\n\"Too often young people's ambitions are narrowed by an innate sense of what people from their background should aspire to and what's out of reach,\" says Nick Chambers, chief executive of Education and Employers.\n\n\"The importance of exposure to the world of work at primary age cannot be overstated,\" says Paul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers.\n\n\"The earlier children's aspirations are raised and broadened, the better.\"\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. Thomas Cook ex-boss on bonus: 'It's not up to me'\n\nThomas Cook's ex-boss has been grilled over a bonus payment of £500,000 and said he was not the only one to blame for the holiday firm's collapse.\n\nPeter Fankhauser told a cross-party committee of MPs that he worked \"tirelessly\" for Thomas Cook.\n\nWhile he was sorry for the collapse, he said the reasons were \"not one-sided\".\n\nCommittee chair Rachel Reeves, who asked Mr Fankhauser if he would give the bonus back, told Mr Fankhauser his apologies rang \"rather hollow\".\n\nMr Fankhauser and other members of Thomas Cook's former management were being questioned by MPs over what led to the liquidation of the business on 23 September which cost thousands of jobs and left many holidaymakers stranded overseas.\n\nThe former chief executive said that he did not receive a bonus in 2018 but had received a £750,000 bonus in 2017 - two-thirds of which was in cash, the rest was in shares.\n\nMs Reeves asked Mr Fankhauser if he would return money to repay taxpayers for the massive repatriation programme to bring 150,000 holidaymakers back to the UK and help fund redundancy payments to staff.\n\nHe said: \"I fully understand the sentiment in the public and I understand the sentiment of some of our colleagues.\n\n\"However, what I can say to that is that I worked tirelessly for the success of the company and I am deeply sorry that I was not able to secure the deal.\n\n\"But it was not one-sided that I failed. There was multiple parties who had to contribute to the deal which finally then did not succeed,\" he said. Mr Fankhauser said, on reflection, he will \"consider what is right but I'm not going to decide that today\".\n\nWatching Mr Fankhauser's evidence has not eased the pain for Betty Knight\n\nThe pain of losing her job is still raw for Betty Knight. Watching Peter Fankhauser being grilled by MPs brought a tear to her eye, especially when Rachel Reeves spoke of his failings and the damage done to staff and holidaymakers.\n\nThe former member of Thomas Cook's cabin crew said some of Mr Fankhauser's answers \"were still tinged with arrogance\". She did, though, give him some credit. \"I still believe, in those final few months, they did work very hard to try to turn this round,\" Ms Knight told the BBC.\n\nAn employee for 13 years, she admits to still being in denial that the company no longer exists. \"But I don't feel as angry as I did.\"\n\nOne thing that still grates, however. Even as Mr Fankhauser explained how management had worked tirelessly, it did not sooth her anger that huge salaries and bonuses were paid out for failure. \"They should have been paid on results,\" she said. \"That's just the way it should have been.\"\n\nMs Reeves asked the former chief executive of Thomas Cook why he held on so long for a financing deal to save the company which he \"knew was never going to happen\"?\n\nMr Fankhauser said he was \"confident\" it was going to happen: \"Otherwise I would not have tried so hard and I had the backing from the banks and I had the substantive agreement on 28 August from the banks and the bondholders.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe told MPs that he met with transport secretary Grant Shapps on 9 September and claimed that if the government had backed Thomas Cook's rescue plan, the travel operator would have survived.\n\n\"We made an estimate how much could the collapse of Thomas cook cost, that was far higher than what we requested,\" he said, but added \"I honestly don't dare to criticise the government.\n\n\"I firmly believe that after the recapitalisation... we would have had a new start\".\n\nIn the end, he said, the government did not want to set a precedent. \"I was awfully sad,\" Mr Fankhauser. \"I knew I would have to throw in the towel\".\n\nLast week, Sunderland-based firm Hays Travel announced that it would take over 555 Thomas Cook shops, in a deal that could potentially save 2,500 jobs.\n\nMr Fankhauser said the announcement was \"honestly one of the bright days in the last three weeks\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Dunn suspect 'should do the right thing'\n\nThe parents of a motorcyclist killed in a crash say they will only meet the US woman allegedly involved if she promises to return to Britain.\n\nAnne Sacoolas left the UK under diplomatic immunity while police were investigating. She has offered to meet Mr Dunn's parents, who are in the US.\n\nA Dunn family spokesman said the parents' pre-condition for a meeting was a \"hurdle\" to it taking place.\n\nRadd Seiger told the BBC the parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, who have travelled to the US, were unlikely to meet Mrs Sacoolas this week.\n\n\"Mrs Sacoolas has to commit to returning to the United Kingdom to submit herself to the English authorities, to Northamptonshire Police, and to co-operate with their inquiries,\" he said.\n\nHer return was \"a non-negotiable red line\", he told Sky News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Dunn's mother says Mrs Sacoolas's statement is \"too little, too late\"\n\nThe parents hope to gain media exposure in the US, to put pressure on President Donald Trump \"to send Mrs Sacoolas back\", he said and have been involved in a round of media interviews on Monday.\n\nMs Charles told the BBC's Duncan Kennedy they had received messages of support from people in the US \"probably in their thousands\", and similar messages from \"all around the world\".\n\n\"I think everyone can see she's not done the right thing and she needs to do the right thing. She should have just stayed. It should not have come to this. It's ludicrous,\" she added.\n\nSpeaking on CBS This Morning, Mr Dunn described how he spoke to his son for the last time as paramedics loaded him on to a stretcher by the roadside.\n\nTim Dunn spoke to Gayle King on CBS's This Morning programme in the US\n\n\"I could see broken bones out of his arms and stuff. He was talking. He knew [that I was there],\" said Mr Dunn.\n\n\"I called over to him and said 'Harry, it's your dad - they are going to fix you. Be calm. Let them help you'.\"\n\nLater Mr Dunn told a press conference: \"I've always wanted to ask her if she could explain the moment of the crash. Find out if she comforted Harry. If she spoke to Harry. Find out what her movements were. Did she try and call the emergency services?\n\n\"I'm just struggling because I can't imagine my lad being in the ditch and not having any comfort from anybody until the ambulance and police turn up 'X' minutes later.\"\n\nMs Charles added: \"We're not inhumane, we still don't wish her any ill harm but we need to hear it from her, in her own words, in a room, on our terms, in the UK with therapists and whoever else can help us, mediators.\n\n\"But just hearing it through a statement...we're seven weeks in now, it's a bit too much too little too late, I'm afraid.\"\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nAt a press conference last week. a briefing note held by Mr Trump at the press conference appeared to suggest Mrs Sacoolas would not be returning to the UK.\n\nMr Dunn said: \"I would say to him (President Trump) as a man, as a father, how could you let this happen, if you are a father and your child died surely you'd want that person to own up and take responsibility for their action?\"\n\nMr Seiger said on Radio 4's Today programme the weeks since the teenager's death had been \"a very, very dark time\" for the family and that \"every second that passes is another second of pain\".\n\nDiscussions over Anne Sacoolas's potential extradition from the US are likely to be a \"delicate interplay\" of legal obligations and political realities, says an expert in international law.\n\nMrs Sacoolas's case appears to meet the conditions agreed in the US-UK extradition treaty in force since 2007, said Prof Tarcisio Gazzini from the University of East Anglia. Given that she is no longer in the UK, diplomatic immunity no longer applies, he said.\n\nProf Gazzini predicted the process was likely to end in one of two ways - Mrs Sacoolas agreeing to return to the UK to face prosecution; or the US extraditing her in accordance with the treaty, and waiving her immunity. It is unlikely she would return to the UK to reinvoke diplomatic immunity, he said.\n\nProf Gazzini said: \"My guess is that the US will discuss this with the lady and say that they are prepared to allow her to be tried in the UK.\n\n\"The two governments would prefer to go through the treaty, and preferably through Article 17 [where she agrees to be surrendered].\n\n\"Assuming all the conditions are satisfied and documents are in order then the US is obliged to [extradite]. If not, they commit a breach of international law.\"\n\nMrs Sacoolas is reportedly married to a US intelligence official.\n\nA letter from her lawyers said she wanted to meet Mr Dunn's parents \"so that she can express her deepest sympathies and apologies for this tragic accident\".\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, was said to be covered by diplomatic immunity as the spouse of a US intelligence official, though that protection is now in dispute.\n\nOn Saturday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab wrote to Mr Dunn's family to explain that the British and US governments now considered Mrs Sacoolas's immunity irrelevant.\n\nHe said the matter was now \"in the hands\" of Northamptonshire Police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scotch Beef is back on the menu in Japan for the first time in 23 years.\n\nAn order supplied by West Lothian-based processor AK Stoddart was celebrated at a showcase event in Tokyo as part of the Rugby World Cup celebrations.\n\nThe event, co-organised by Scottish Development International and Quality Meat Scotland, took place in the British Embassy.\n\nJapan banned imports of British beef and lamb in 1996 following the outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.\n\nIn January it agreed to lift the ban following a meeting between Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and former UK prime minister Theresa May.\n\nQuality Meat Scotland chief executive Alan Clarke said the Japanese market would be worth £127m to UK farmers over five years.\n\nHe said Japanese consumers had \"a hunger for high-value, high-quality Scotch Beef\".\n\nHe added: \"Scotch Beef was the first European red meat product to be granted the coveted European Protected Geographic Indication (PGI) status which reflects the unique provenance and quality of this product, and the farming methods behind the production of Scotch Beef are very much part of our Scottish landscape and heritage.\n\n\"We look forward to further developing opportunities to promote and showcase Scotch Beef and Scotch Lamb in Japan.\"\n\nScotland's External Affairs Secretary Fiona Hyslop, who attended the showcase event in Tokyo, said: \"I'm delighted that the people of Japan can once again enjoy one of Scotland's most iconic food products.\n\n\"Our red meat sector is a genuine success story and one I am committed to continue to champion at home and overseas.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mike Ashley's Sports Direct has called for an investigation into the sportswear industry, complaining about the dominance of Adidas and Nike.\n\nThe firm said the \"must-have\" brands hold a bargaining position which allows them to control both the supply and the price of their products.\n\nAdidas has blocked the company from selling some of its products, Sports Direct said in a statement.\n\nIt follows reports that Nike is ending supply deals with several retailers.\n\n\"Sports Direct believes that the industry as a whole would benefit from a wide market review by the appropriate authorities in both the UK and Europe,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"The sports industry has long been dominated by the must-have brands such as Adidas. These must have brands hold an extremely strong bargaining position vis-à-vis the retailers within their supply networks and use their market power to implement market wide practices aimed at controlling the supply and, ultimately, the pricing of their products,\" Sports Direct said.\n\nMr Ashley's grievance stretches as far back as 2013 when the German giant withdrew replica Chelsea shirts from Sports Direct stores. The retailer said the dominance of Nike and Adidas allows them to \"[refuse] to supply key products... with no apparent justification\".\n\nThe Sunday Times disclosed that Nike had told several independent retailers it will pull its products from their stores. It is part of a move by the US giant to reduce the number of retailers it uses and push customers towards its website, the newspaper said.\n\n\"All those companies that built a business on the back of Nike and Adidas are toast - there's no way they can replace that [business],\" a source told the Sunday Times.\n\nLast month, Sports Direct complained that its rival JD Sports' planned £90m takeover of Footasylum could reduce Mr Ashley's access to the top brands.\n\nIn the past, Adidas and Nike have preferred to work with JD Sports but Sports Direct has attempted to make inroads, appointing former Nike executive David Daly as chairman of its board.\n\n\"Sports Direct has consistently aimed to provide the widest range of products at attractive prices and will continue to work constructively with all its suppliers to enhance its product offering for the benefit of consumers,\" the company said.\n\nA Nike spokesperson said: \"Nike continually evaluates the marketplace and competitive landscape to understand how we can best serve consumers. As part of this, from time to time we do make adjustments to our sales channels, in order to optimize distribution.\" Adidas has yet to respond to a BBC request for comment.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland's Euro 2020 qualifier in Bulgaria was halted twice as fans were warned about racist behaviour including Nazi salutes and monkey chanting.\n\nThe first pause came in the 28th minute with England leading 2-0.\n\nA stadium announcement then condemned the abuse before stating the match would be abandoned if it continued.\n\nHowever, the game was stopped again in the 43rd minute before restarting after discussions between the referee and England manager Gareth Southgate.\n\nEngland went on to win 6-0 in Sofia to strengthen their place at the top of Group A.\n• None Unsavoury and sinister - a bleak night handled with dignity by England\n\n'One of the most appalling nights I've seen in football'\n\nFootball Association chairman Greg Clarke was at the game and witnessed the abuse first hand, saying it had left a number of the England players and staff visibly upset.\n\n\"I heard examples of appalling racist chanting,\" he said.\n\n\"I was looking at a group of people, all in black - about 50 of them - who were making what looked like political fascist gestures. I couldn't be sure, it was 100 metres away but it looked appalling.\n\n\"I've spoken to one or two of the players and I've also spoken to one or two of the backroom staff, because we don't just have a multiracial team, we have a multiracial backroom staff.\n\n\"They were visibly emotionally upset, and I spoke to Gareth after the game too and I offered him our full support.\"\n\nClarke says he expects European football's governing body Uefa to conduct a thorough review of the incident.\n\n\"Uefa, who I've spoken to throughout the game, at half-time and at the end of the game, will be carrying out a thorough investigation to make sure this appalling scene of terrible racism is treated appropriately,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement, the FA confirmed England players were subjected to \"abhorrent racist chanting\" and that it was \"unacceptable at any level of the game\".\n\nEngland defender Tyrone Mings, who was making his international debut, said the players had decided as a group at half-time to continue the game.\n\n\"Just before the end of the first half the appropriate next step was to return to the changing room,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"We made a common-sense decision to play the remaining few minutes and decided at half-time. Everybody made the decision. The manager, the team, the supporting staff. We spoke about it at half-time and we dealt with it and escalated it in the right way.\n\n\"I am proud of how we dealt with it and took the appropriate steps.\"\n\nThe Vasil Levski Stadium was subject to a partial closure for this match after Bulgaria were sanctioned for racist behaviour of fans during qualifiers against Kosovo and the Czech Republic in June.\n\nThe build-up to the game had been dominated by concerns of potential incidents of racism, with England striker Tammy Abraham saying the players would be prepared to walk off the pitch if they were targeted.\n\nSouthgate held a meeting with his players over the weekend to underline the Uefa three-step protocol in dealing with racist incidents - but the subject provoked an angry response from the Bulgarian football authorities.\n\nBulgaria coach Krasimir Balakov had accused England of having a bigger racism problem than his own country.\n\nWhat exactly happened during the game?\n\nAfter making a pass, England defender Mings glanced over his shoulder and could be heard calling towards the touchline: \"Did you hear that?\"\n\nWithin minutes the game was stopped.\n\nStriker Harry Kane was in conversation with referee Ivan Bebek on the halfway line while a stadium announcement was made to condemn racist abuse and warn fans that the game could be abandoned if it continued. At the same time, England manager Southgate was talking to a number of his players.\n\nThe game resumed but was stopped again just before half-time. Southgate and several England players were in discussion with match officials before the game was restarted for a second time.\n\nA group of Bulgaria supporters wearing black hooded tops - some wearing bandanas covering their faces - started to leave the stadium after the game was halted for a second time. BBC Radio 5 Live reported that some made racist gestures while heading towards the exits.\n\nAfter six minutes of time added at the end of the first half because of the delay, Bulgaria captain Ivelin Popov was seen in a heated debate with a section of home supporters near the tunnel while the rest of the players headed for the dressing rooms for half-time.\n\nWhat is Uefa's approach to dealing with incidents of racism?\n\nUefa has a three-step protocol, introduced in 2009, in place for dealing with such incidents in matches.\n\nFor the first step, the referee will speak to the stadium announcer and demand the halting of racist behaviour.\n\nIf it continues, the referee can take the players off the field into the dressing rooms for a period of time and the stadium announcer will make another address.\n\nIf it still continues, the match will be abandoned.\n\nIn this incident, the first step was taken. The players were asked if they wanted to come off the pitch, but decided to continue.\n\nSouthgate said: \"I explained to the players that if anything else did happen in the second half we would be coming off.\n\n\"We all saw the second half was calmer and that allowed our players to do their talking with the football.\"\n\nRoss Barkley and Raheem Sterling scored twice, while Marcus Rashford and Kane were also on target in a win which moves England to the brink of a place at Euro 2020.\n\n'There can be no more pitiful fines or short stadium bans'\n\nThis is not the first time in England's Euro 2020 qualifying campaign that their players have been subjected to racist abuse.\n\nIn March Sterling was vocal in condemning the abuse received by England players during their 5-1 win in Montenegro.\n\nMontenegro's punishment was to have two home games played behind closed doors and a fine of 20,000 euros (£17,000).\n\nAnti-racism group Kick it Out has urged Uefa to take strong action, saying the governing body's current sanctions are \"not fit for purpose\".\n\n\"We are sickened by the disgusting racist abuse directed at England men's team by Bulgaria supporters - including TV footage which appeared to show Nazi salutes and monkey noises,\" it said.\n\n\"It's now time for Uefa to step up and show some leadership. For far too long, they have consistently failed to take effective action. The fact Bulgaria are already hosting this game with a partial stadium closure for racist abuse shows that Uefa's sanctions are not fit for purpose.\n\n\"There can be no more pitiful fines or short stadium bans. If Uefa cares at all about tackling discrimination - and if the Equal Game campaign means anything - then points deductions and tournament expulsion must follow.\"\n\nUefa told BBC Sport any action in response to Monday's events would have to follow on from a disciplinary committee, which in turn has to wait for a referee's report.\n\nAnti-discrimination group Fare said it had observers in the stadium who will report to Uefa and form part of the governing body's investigation.\n\nFare's executive director Piara Powar said \"the fact that it was widespread racism cannot be in doubt\".\n\n\"Given the debate that took place before this match, the focus on the Bulgarian fans and the widespread warnings that were issued, the concerns expressed by players, officials, it was quite shocking to see what took place,\" he said.\n\n\"It seemed almost like the Bulgarian fans were determined to live up to the worst representation of themselves.\"\n\nFormer England striker Ian Wright, a pundit for Match of the Day who was covering the game for ITV Sport, said what happened in Sofia could be a \"seminal moment\" for the issue of racism in football.\n\n\"It's a fantastic moment,\" he said, referring to the players' response to the abuse. \"What is good about it is we have a generation of players - not just black players - who won't tolerate it any more.\n\n\"This is the 'by any means necessary' generation. They don't need to take that any more when they have their own platforms and the protocol to stick to.\n\n\"It's a great day. I feel really good watching this. We have had so many games where we have had this racial abuse and people say 'just beat them on the pitch'. It doesn't do anything. Today, they won because [the abusers] had to leave.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nThe \"football family and governments\" need to \"wage war on the racists\", says Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin after the abuse of England players by home fans in Bulgaria.\n\nMonday's Euro 2020 qualifier between the sides was halted twice due to racist abuse of England players.\n\nCeferin said football associations cannot solve the issues alone.\n\n\"Only by working together in the name of decency and honour will we make progress,\" he said.\n\nEuropean football's governing body Uefa has opened disciplinary proceedings against Bulgaria, charging them with the racist behaviour, including Nazi salutes and monkey chants, of their fans.\n\nThe disruption of both teams' national anthems by opposing fans will also be investigated.\n\nMonday night's scenes have been widely condemned by players and politicians.\n\nThe president of the Bulgaria Football Union resigned on Tuesday after being told to quit by the country's prime minister.\n\nIn a statement, Ceferin said Uefa was committed to doing everything it can \"to eliminate this disease from football\".\n• None 'Unsavoury and sinister - a bleak night handled with dignity by England'\n\n\"There were times, not long ago, when the football family thought that the scourge of racism was a distant memory,\" Ceferin said.\n\n\"The last couple of years have taught us that such thinking was, at best, complacent.\n\n\"The rise of nationalism across the continent has fuelled some unacceptable behaviour and some have taken it upon themselves to think that a football crowd is the right place to give voice to their appalling views.\"\n\nFootball's world governing body Fifa said going forward it could \"extend worldwide\" any sanctions by Uefa, or by the other continental confederations, imposed for racist behaviour.\n\nPresident Gianni Infantino said the sport needed \"to think more broadly on what we can do to fix this\".\n\nHe called racism in football an \"obnoxious disease that seems to be getting even worse in some parts of the world\" and said life bans from stadiums should be handed to those found guilty. \"Fifa can then enforce such bans at a worldwide level.\"\n\nThe UK government has written to Uefa to demand more action.\n\n\"There were times, not long ago, when the football family thought that the scourge of racism was a distant memory. The last couple of years have taught us that such thinking was, at best, complacent.\n\n\"The rise of nationalism across the continent has fuelled some unacceptable behaviour and some have taken it upon themselves to think that a football crowd is the right place to give voice to their appalling views.\n\n\"As a governing body, I know we are not going to win any popularity contests. But some of the views expressed about Uefa's approach to fighting racism have been a long way off the mark.\n\n\"Uefa, in close cooperation with the Fare network (Football Against Racism Europe), instituted the three-stage protocol for identifying and tackling racist behaviour during games.\n\n\"Uefa's sanctions are among the toughest in sport for clubs and associations whose supporters are racist at our matches. The minimum sanction is a partial closure of the stadium - a move which costs the hosts at least hundreds of thousands in lost revenue and attaches a stigma to their supporters.\n\n\"Uefa is the only football body to ban a player for ten matches for racist behaviour - the most severe punishment level in the game. Believe me, Uefa is committed to doing everything it can to eliminate this disease from football. We cannot afford to be content with this; we must always strive to strengthen our resolve.\n\n\"More broadly, the football family - everyone from administrators to players, coaches and fans - needs to work with governments and NGOs to wage war on the racists and to marginalise their abhorrent views to the fringes of society.\n\n\"Football associations themselves cannot solve this problem. Governments too need to do more in this area. Only by working together in the name of decency and honour will we make progress.\"\n\nUefa also charged Bulgaria with throwing objects and showing replays on a giant screen.\n\nEngland were also charged with providing an insufficient number of stewards. No date has been set for a hearing.\n\nBulgaria coach Krasimir Balakov said after the match that he \"did not hear\" any racist chanting.\n\nThe Vasil Levski Stadium was already partially closed for the match after Bulgaria were sanctioned for racist behaviour during qualifiers against Kosovo and the Czech Republic.\n• None Bulgarian football and its problem with racism\n\nWhat happened during the game?\n\nAfter making a pass in the first half, Mings glanced over his shoulder and could be heard calling towards the touchline: \"Did you hear that?\"\n\nThe game was stopped in the 28th minute and a stadium announcement was made to condemn racist abuse and warn fans that the game could be abandoned if it continued.\n\nThe game resumed but was stopped again just before half-time. Manager Gareth Southgate and several England players were in discussion with match officials before the game was restarted for a second time.\n\nA group of Bulgaria supporters wearing black hooded tops - some wearing bandanas covering their faces - started to leave the stadium after the game was halted for a second time. BBC Radio 5 Live reported that some made racist gestures while heading towards the exits.\n\nAfter six minutes of time added at the end of the first half because of the delay, Bulgaria captain Ivelin Popov was seen in a heated debate with a section of home supporters near the tunnel while the rest of the players headed for the dressing rooms for half-time.\n\n'Bulgaria should be expelled from the competition'\n\nAnti-discriminatory body Fare has called for Bulgaria to be expelled from the Euro 2020 qualifying campaign.\n\n\"We think that after what happened, Uefa has it in their power to kick Bulgaria out of Euro 2020 qualification for sure,\" said Fare Eastern Europe development officer Pavel Klymenko.\n\n\"There have been too many incidents, too much negligence from the Bulgarian FA. Uefa should make an example of the Bulgarian FA and expel them from the competition.\"\n\nIn line with Uefa protocol, England had the option to walk off the pitch but they continued to play the full 90 minutes.\n\nEngland defender Tyrone Mings, one of the players who was abused, said \"the manager, the team and the supporting staff\" came together to make the decision to play and he was \"very proud\" of the decision.\n\nHowever, former England defender Joleon Lescott said it would have sent a \"huge message to the world\" if captain Harry Kane had led the team off.\n\n\"You've got to think if I'm racist, the last person I want to hear is Raheem Sterling, I don't care what he says or what he thinks but I might listen to a Harry Kane or I might listen to a Jordan Henderson because they're the players I've come to watch and I admire because I'm racist,\" former Manchester City and Everton defender Lescott said.\n\n\"It's great that we're looking to do it collectively but if Harry Kane just took that ball and said we're going, the message that would send to the world would be huge, more than Raheem Sterling.\"", "A bill to tackle environmental priorities is to be published by the government later.\n\nIt aims to improve air and water quality, tackle plastic pollution, restore wildlife, and protect the climate.\n\nEnvironmentalists have welcomed several of the proposals, especially on restoring nature.\n\nBut they say on other green issues ministers are going backwards - and they're anxious to see details of the new policies.\n\nUnder EU rules, for instance, the government has faced heavy fines for failing to meet air quality standards.\n\nWith Brexit set to remove the stick of these rules, an independent watchdog, the Office for Environmental Protection, is being created to hold the government to account.\n\nMinisters say the watchdog won't be able to fine the government if it fails to uphold its commitments - but will ensure it is held to account, with the ability to stop projects and hold authorities in contempt of court if they breach environmental standards.\n\nBut campaigners fear that the new watchdog could be muzzled, tamed and stripped of funding.\n\nConservative peer Lord Randall - a green adviser to former prime minister Theresa May - told BBC News that the Treasury appeared to have relaxed its objections to a powerful independent watchdog.\n\nBut he said it would still be useful if the new body could fine the government for environmental transgressions.\n\n\"I can see it might look silly if one government body fines another, but it would be a very powerful weapon,\" he said.\n\nCrucially, policy details of the bill have not yet been released.\n\nMany parts of the UK breach World Health Organization standards for fine pollution airborne particles.\n\nThe government promises an \"ambitious, legally binding\" target to reduce small particulate matter, known as PM2.5.\n\nBut so far, it hasn't stated what the standards would be, or when they would apply.\n\nPreviously, it was forced to improve nitrogen oxides pollution under the threat of fines from the EU. The new watchdog won't have the power to issue fines.\n\nAlso, it looks as though ministers are preparing to avoid controversial national measures by giving local councils the job of cleaning up the air.\n\nOn waste, Mrs May's government signed up to the EU's \"circular economy\" directive, which would see producers pay 80% of the costs for disposing of the packaging that wraps their goods.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has told the EU that the UK will have separate \"ambitious\" standards after Brexit. Does that mean the UK will stick to, or exceed, the 80% target?\n\nOn plastics, ministers are preparing to introduce charges on single-use plastics, like the plastic bag tax.\n\nBut environmentalists complain that doesn't go far enough.\n\nLibby Peake, from Greener UK - a coalition of pressure groups - told the BBC: \"We have got to be smarter about this.\n\n\"People are already turning to glass and aluminium drinks containers, which have more impact on the climate.\n\n\"The government needs to take wider action to curb the throwaway society.\"\n\nOn wildlife, ministers will follow the advice of conservationists and create nature recovery networks across the country.\n\nIn the meantime, the government has been slipping away from its legally binding targets on the emissions that are over-heating the climate.\n\nThe government's climate advisers recently called for higher taxes for frequent flyers\n\nMinisters are still committed to aviation expansion, fracking, North Sea drilling, building roads that experts say will generate traffic, blocking onshore wind power, and cutting support for home insulation and solar.\n\nThe government will respond later to a rebuke from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) that they're not moving fast enough.\n\nThe government's bill makes it clear that the new environmental watchdog will have more power over ministers than the CCC.\n\nThe bill refers only to England, but many of its measures are designed to apply across the UK.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Theresa Villiers said: \"Our natural environment is a vital shared resource and the need to act to secure it for generations to come is clear.\n\n\"Our landmark Environment Bill leads a green transformation that will help our country to thrive.\n\n\"Crucially, it also ensures that after Brexit, environmental ambition and accountability are placed more clearly than ever at the heart of government.\"\n\nJoan Edwards from the Wildlife Trusts broadly welcomed the bill's emphasis on nature recovery, but she raised a host of questions about the green watchdog.\n\nShe asked: \"Will it be funded with multi-year budgets? Will MPs be able to vet the chairperson of the body? What duty is there on ministers from all departments to set environmental targets? Will the watchdog be fully independent of government?\"\n\nTanya Steele, from the WWF, said: \"Public concern for the environment has never been higher as we face a nature and climate emergency.\n\n\"Legally binding targets to protect and restore nature at home are welcome, but around the world our forests are burning and wildlife is being wiped out.\"\n\nShe added that the bill did not address the role the UK is playing in driving the destruction of nature overseas.\n\n\"We must also reduce and reverse the UK's negative impact on nature abroad and remove deforestation from the supply chains of foods we eat and things we buy.\"\n\nCommenting on the bill, shadow environment secretary Sue Hayman said: \"Boris Johnson is threatening our environment with reckless new trade agreements that would undercut Britain's environmental standards.\"\n\nShe called on the government to ensure \"the UK won't fall behind the EU on environmental standards\".", "Bill Turnbull discusses living with cancer in his new Channel 4 documentary Staying Alive\n\nBroadcaster Bill Turnbull says there should be a \"proper conversation\" in the UK about the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes.\n\nThe former BBC Breakfast presenter, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2017, discusses the issue in a new Channel 4 documentary.\n\n\"It's legal, to a greater or lesser extent, for medicinal purposes in more than 20 countries,\" he said.\n\n\"Intelligent, advanced countries. And I think we should be one of them.\"\n\nThe Classic FM presenter is seen trying cannabis oil in Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive, which follows the presenter as he adjusts to life after his cancer diagnosis.\n\nProducing cannabis oil in the UK can result in a prison sentence of up to 14 years, even if it is for medicinal purposes.\n\nHowever, cannabis can now be legally prescribed to some patients in the UK, although this is carefully monitored and regulated.\n\nThe treatments can be prescribed only by specialist doctors in a limited number of circumstances, where other medicines have failed. They can be prescribed for children with rare, severe forms of epilepsy, and adults with vomiting or nausea caused by chemotherapy, or with muscle stiffness caused by multiple sclerosis.\n\nSian Williams, Turnbull's former co-host, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014\n\nThe documentary sees Turnbull try several techniques, including altering his diet, to fight the cancer and ease his pain. The cannabis oil he samples is made for him illegally by an activist who produces it for free for those he considers to be in need.\n\nTurnbull acknowledges he is breaking the law as he tries the oil. But, he says, given his prognosis, he's willing to \"break the rules, just this once\".\n\n\"I do think we need to have a proper conversation in this country about the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes,\" Turnbull told journalists ahead of the film's broadcast next week.\n\n\"We have something that has been used for thousands of years for medicinal purposes, which has only been illegal for 100 years, if I remember correctly.\" (Cannabis was made illegal in the UK in 1928.)\n\nHe continued: \"We need to start conversations about, 'How can we usefully get the best out of what could be very beneficial to us, without causing damage to other people?'\n\n\"And understand, I'm not talking about recreational use. I'm simply talking about, 'Let's have a look at it for medicinal reasons'.\" He describes it as an \"unlit\" area of the law, which \"needs a lot more examination\".\n\nSome MPs predict the UK will fully legalise cannabis use within 10 years\n\nThe government's decision to relax the laws on cannabis treatments last year followed an outcry when two boys with severe epilepsy were denied access to cannabis oil.\n\nCanada became the first G7 country to allow recreational use of the drug in 2018. Some MPs predict the UK will fully legalise cannabis use within 10 years.\n\nSpeaking at Channel 4's London headquarters in advance of the documentary's broadcast, Turnbull made light of how much crying there is in the film.\n\n\"I'm a bit embarrassed, it's a bit of a blub-a-thon, isn't it? 'God, he's crying again!'\" he laughed. \"But it's a very emotional business.\n\n\"First of all, I am on a hormone treatment to suppress the testosterone, which does make me spill over. It makes you more emotional, more likely to cry, and crying is an important thing to do when you're under this kind of stress.\"\n\nSince the documentary was filmed, Turnbull has continued with some of the lifestyle changes he's seen making - particularly with watching what he eats.\n\n\"The diet is the biggest thing. I really try not to eat meat... I do have one bacon-egg roll a month, just to make life worth living,\" he said.\n\nTurnbull left BBC Breakfast in 2016 and now presents a weekend show on Classic FM\n\n\"And I've pretty much given up alcohol as well, because I was getting a lot of pain. I'm not sure if this was to do with the cancer or something else, I don't know, but I was getting big pain attacks in the middle of the night. So I thought, right, stop alcohol, and funnily enough, since I did that, I haven't had any more [attacks].\n\n\"I try not to have sugar either. So yeah, I'm living a really exciting life!\"\n\nThe film sees Turnbull speak to his former Breakfast co-host Sian Williams, as well as BBC Radio 4 Today presenter Nick Robinson - both of whom have spoken about their own cancer diagnoses.\n\nThe reason he was keen to front the documentary was \"to give people a picture of what it's like\", Turnbull said.\n\n\"A few years ago, cancer was a subject nobody wanted to go near or talk about. And I'm a big believer in shining a light on it actually, a bit like cockroaches, if you shine a light then they run away.\n\n\"And we need to talk about it more, because people who've got it need to talk about it. So I thought it would be useful to show people what it's like to be on that journey, and show what that journey consists of.\n\n\"I'd like to think other people would do the same thing I do, which is to say, 'I've got cancer, so apart from conventional medicine, what else can I do? How can I help myself?' And the process of helping yourself is also therapeutic, rather than being totally dependent on other people.\"\n\nTurnbull with other former Breakfast presenters in 2008, on the show's 25th birthday\n\nTurnbull added that he only decided to get himself checked by his GP after encouragement (or \"nagging\", as he put it) from his youngest son, Will.\n\n\"He lives in London, we live in Suffolk, and so every time he would see me I had a problem,\" Turnbull said. \"And he's always been quite good at telling us what to do. I think because of that, he said, 'Well you've still got this thing, what's the matter with you?'\n\n\"And through the summer I said, 'Oh I don't need to'. And then finally, he said, 'You really should go and see the doctor'. And so partly to stop him nagging I went to my GP, and he gave me a blood test just to be sure. And he called me back to the next day because he knew what was up.\"\n\nBill Turnbull: Staying Alive is broadcast on Channel 4 at 22:00 BST on Thursday 24 October.", "The UK jobs market is showing signs of slowing, after a surprise drop in the number of people in work.\n\nThe unemployment rate unexpectedly rose to 3.9% in the June-to-August period from 3.8%, after the number of people in work unexpectedly fell by 56,000, official figures showed.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics also said employment growth had \"cooled noticeably\".\n\nBut the unemployment rate is still close to its lowest level for 44 years.\n\nClick here to take part in a short study about this article run by the University of Cambridge.\n\nFigures released by the ONS indicated that the number of people in employment fell by 56,000 to 32.69 million during the three-month period.\n\nThis was below economists' forecasts, which had predicted a 26,000 rise in employment.\n\nHowever, wages continued to outpace the rate of inflation, with earnings excluding bonuses growing at an annual pace of 3.8%\n\n\"The UK labour market showed signs of slowing in the three months to August 2019,\" it said.\n\nThe ONS said unemployment increased by 22,000 to 1.31 million.\n\n\"The employment rate is still rising year-on-year, but this growth has cooled noticeably in recent months,\" said the ONS's deputy head of labour market statistics, Matt Hughes.\n\n\"Among the under-25s, the employment rate has actually started to fall on the year.\"\n\nThe ONS said vacancies fell again to 813,000, reaching their lowest level since the three months to November 2017.\n\n\"This is further evidence that the underlying weakness in economic growth is restraining labour market activity,\" said Thomas Pugh, UK economist at Capital Economics.\n\n\"However, it could also be evidence that the uncertainty around Brexit is starting to impact firms' hiring decisions. The survey evidence is consistent with a further softening in employment and wage growth going forward too.\"", "Harry Styles said he still checks \"weak spots\" in his home after he said he received notes through his letterbox\n\nA homeless man who camped outside pop star Harry Styles' house for several months has been found guilty of stalking the singer.\n\nMr Styles, 25, offered to buy Pablo Tarazaga-Orero, 26, food after he saw him sleeping rough outside his north west London home in March.\n\nSpeaking at Hendon Magistrates' Court, the singer said he locks his bedroom door every night after being followed.\n\nMr Styles said the man's behaviour was \"erratic and frightening\".\n\nThe former One Direction singer said he was \"sad to see someone so young sleeping rough\" when he first saw Tarazaga-Orero.\n\nHe bought him vegan sandwiches, salads and muffins, after the rough sleeper asked for some edamame beans.\n\nAfter trying to cut contact, the pop star saw him nearly every day, and received notes and money in his letterbox, District Judge Nigel Deane heard.\n\nWhen asked whether he had stalked the celebrity, Tarazaga-Orero said: \"That was never my intention. In the end I just wanted the money he offered me.\n\n\"I don't have any feelings for him. I'm not in love with him.\"\n\nTarazaga-Orero will be sentenced on 21 October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's best-known stockpicker is to quit his remaining investment funds, signalling the end of his multi-billion-pound empire.\n\nNeil Woodford was sacked from his flagship fund early on Tuesday, and has now announced he will quit the last two funds.\n\nHe described it as a \"highly painful decision\", adding his business would be wound down in \"an orderly fashion\".\n\nAt its peak his business managed more than £14bn.\n\nThe so-called \"Oracle of Oxford\" was dismissed from his troubled £3.1bn Equity Income fund by its administrators on Tuesday. The fund will be wound up and any cash returned to investors. It follows a series of disastrous investments.\n\nThat sacking initially prompted an angry response, with Mr Woodford saying it was a decision \"I cannot accept, nor believe is in the long-term interests\" of the business.\n\nBut on Tuesday evening, in a further announcement, he said he would abandon the last two funds, Income Focus and Woodford Patient Capital and close his investment management business.\n\nOn Wednesday, shares in the Woodford Income Focus Fund were suspended from dealing amid a rush to pull out investor money, with administrators now considering all options.\n\nMr Woodford said: \"We have taken the highly painful decision to close Woodford Investment Management. We will fulfil our fund management responsibilities to WPCT and the LF Woodford Income Focus Fund and once completed will close the company in an orderly fashion.\n\n\"I personally deeply regret the impact events have had on individuals who placed their faith in Woodford Investment Management and invested in our funds.\"\n\nMr Woodford built his reputation during 26 years at the City firm Invesco. An investment of £1,000 in his first funds would have returned £25,000 by the time he left.\n\nHe set up his own business, and his stellar success meant savers poured millions into his new funds. But several big investments in stock market listed companies performed poorly, and investors began withdrawing money.\n\nTo compound the problems, Mr Woodford had built up stakes in a number of unlisted technology and healthcare companies he believed had strong growth potential.\n\nWhen the redemption requests gathered pace, he found it difficult to raise money quickly by selling stakes in these private companies.\n\nThe Equity Income Fund was suspended in June after being crippled by redemption demands. It meant that investors' money would be locked in for months.\n\nRyan Hughes, head of active portfolios at investment firm AJ Bell, said there was \"a feeling of inevitability\" about the closure. Without any money coming in \"it was difficult to see how the business could survive\", he said.\n\nThe unwinding of any funds will be a long process. Darius McDermott, managing director of financial adviser Chelsea Financial Services, said the situation was \"a mess\" and the flagship fund's closure would make it \"a forced seller of all stocks\".\n\nNeil Woodford had been the darling of the armchair investor - but, as one said today, the whole thing had become \"toxic\".\n\nFour years ago, he was giving them 20% returns. Now he is giving them losses, a lot of uncertainty, and perhaps a lesson in hubris.\n\nSome of those investors will be kicking themselves for being too reliant on a \"star\" manager, rather than spreading their investments, as has always been the advice.\n\nThe fund manager may soon have found he had nothing left to manage, so commentators say it was inevitable that he has thrown in the towel.\n\nThose stockpickers who remain in the ring may find individual investors are a lot more cautious about giving them their support, and their money.", "Georgia, Sydney and Kassy all began using e-cigarettes aged 16\n\nAlmost 40% of sellers targeted by councils in England have been caught illegally allowing children to buy e-cigarette products, a report has found.\n\nNinety of the 227 premises tested sold vaping goods to under-age teenagers in 2018-19, data from 34 councils showed.\n\nTrading Standards - which compiled the research - has called for greater resources to enforce the law.\n\nPublic Health England said vaping was 95% healthier than smoking.\n\nIt is estimated 3.6 million people in the UK now use e-cigarettes.\n\nGeorgia 17, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme she had been to shops where she had been given free e-cigarette tutorials and liquids.\n\nShe has been vaping for over a year and \"rarely\" been asked for ID.\n\nAsked for proof of age the first time she had tried to buy vaping products, she had been allowed to complete the purchase after telling the seller she had forgotten it, she said.\n\nThe teenager now believes she has experienced negative health effects as a result of vaping.\n\n\"I went to hospital, they took my blood and they said there's too much liquid in my lungs,\" she said.\n\n\"They gave me some tablets for a course of two weeks. I'm still getting the pain today.\"\n\nVaping is seen as safer than smoking because lower levels of the harmful chemicals found in tobacco smoke are produced\n\nThe Chartered Trading Standards Institute's 2018-19 Tobacco Control Survey shows the proportion of targeted sellers allowing children to buy vaping products has risen 12 percentage points in a year, from 28% to 40%.\n\nForty-seven of the 90 illegal sales were recorded at specialist e-cigarette suppliers.\n\nDiscount shops had the second most illegal sales, 11, while eight were reported at market and car-boot sales.\n\nThe figures also suggest sellers are more than twice as likely to allow under-age purchases of e-cigarette products compared with traditional tobacco products, for which 18% of those tested were found to have acted illegally.\n\nE-cigarette products can also be purchased online and the Victoria Derbyshire programme has spoken to several parents whose children have bought products while under-age.\n\nOne mother, whose 13-year-old son bought them on eBay, said it had been \"scarily easy\" for him to do so.\n\nShe said she felt \"frustration and anger\" towards the retailer because there had not been any age-verification checks.\n\n\"We think probably there were terms and conditions he was signing up to when he opened his eBay account, but probably just a tick box, nothing more than that,\" she added.\n\nAn eBay representative said its sellers \"are required to have an effective age-verification process to prevent the sale of e-cigarettes to minors\".\n\n\"Sellers who do not comply will be permanently suspended and we have banned those referenced by the BBC,\" the representative said.\n\n\"We have also launched an additional review of seller processes and practices to ensure businesses selling these products are carrying out the required age checks on buyers.\"\n\nChief executive Leon Livermore said Trading Standards needed \"appropriate funding and resources\"\n\nLeon Livermore, chief executive of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, said it \"can only do so much\" with its current level of resources.\n\n\"I'd say to the government, 'If you want your policies delivered effectively, you need to provide appropriate funding and resources through to the front line,'\" he said.\n\nHe said he was also in favour of banning flavoured products, which some say lead children who do not smoke into vaping.\n\nBut this is something Public Health England (PHE) rejects.\n\nIts lead on tobacco control, Martin Dockrell, told the BBC there is \"no evidence that flavours are leading kids who don't smoke into vaping, but there is evidence that they are part of what helps smokers to switch\".\n\nPHE added: \"There is widespread academic and clinical consensus that while not without risk, vaping is far less harmful than smoking.\"\n\nSydney, 17, who began using e-cigarettes aged 16 despite not having previously smoked, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme it was the flavours she was \"mainly attracted to\" and she would \"probably\" stop were they taken away.\n\nShe said she had begun to spot the signs of addiction.\n\n\"I can go days without it but then sometimes I will have that feeling of, 'Oh my God, I feel like I do need the nicotine and the vape,'\" she said.\n\nBoth Georgia and Sydney also said they had been originally attracted to vaping because of images on social media.\n\nThey explained it was becoming a \"trend\" led by celebrities.\n\nA recent study by King's College London, which looked at online surveys from more than 12,000 16- to 19-year-olds worldwide, found 38% of English respondents said vaping adverts made e-cigarettes seem appealing.\n\nThis is despite regulations saying adverts can be targeted towards adult consumers only.\n\nThe UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA) told the BBC: \"Products should never be marketed or sold to under-18s.\n\n\"We expect the highest standards from our members to show leadership to the rest of the industry.\n\n\"We also expect our members to make sure that products are not designed to appeal specifically to anyone under 18 years old,\" it added.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.\n• None 'Half as many Britons' vape as smoke", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Henry, a four-year-old shih tzu-pomeranian cross, is looking for a new home\n\nAn animal rescue centre says it has seen a significant rise in pets being abandoned because their owners are facing financial hardship.\n\nBridgend Animal Rescue Centre (Barc) in North Cornelly expects to see a 25% increase this year with owners unable to afford to keep their animals.\n\nThe centre has also seen a sharp rise in demand for their pet food bank.\n\nLast year, 117 animals were rescued by the centre but in 2018-2019 that figure was reached by 1 September.\n\nRebecca Lloyd, managing director of Barc, said: \"We've got animals at the centre at the moment because their owners can't afford medical treatment for them. So we've had to take them in.\n\n\"Just last night we had a call from a member of the community whose cat was very unwell during giving birth and the owner couldn't afford medical treatment so we took the cat to the vet because she was close to death.\n\n\"That ended up costing £600 but the owner couldn't afford that or even vet's medical insurance to cover herself.\n\n\"But it's not just medical treatment, it's also supplies such as food, baskets and blankets and we have those here too at our food bank.\"\n\nWelfare officer Paula Evans with a rabbit called Willow whose teeth were overgrown\n\nThe centre is one of a small number of organisations in Wales to provide the service.\n\nMrs Lloyd said some pet owners cannot even afford to feed themselves, let alone their animals.\n\n\"People who access regular food banks can be referred to us and we can deliver to that food bank, but we also take self-referrals for short-term issues, if someone has lost their job or has fallen ill unexpectedly,\" she added.\n\n\"The economy in this area is far from great. There's a lot of unemployment, there's a lot of young people out of work here and we provide courses for them too in our training centre.\n\n\"There is a big need for this animal rescue centre.\"\n\nThe RSPCA said it had received 1,371 reports of abandoned or dumped animals across Wales so far this year.\n\n\"We will never truly know why people abandon animals - as every circumstance is different, and the reasons are likely to be plentiful,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Sadly, when owners are unable to cope, whether that be with an animal's behaviour, the costs of keeping the pet or other things in their life take over, they sometimes opt to abandon them.\n\n\"Owning an animal can be so rewarding - but the number of abandonments shows that for some, the commitment can be overbearing.\"", "Jeremy Corbyn made the comments at a rally after the Queen's speech\n\nPlans to make all UK voters prove their identity will \"disproportionately\" discriminate against ethnic minorities, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said.\n\nThe government outlined plans in the Queen's speech on Monday to require people to bring photo ID to polling stations in order to vote.\n\nMr Corbyn claimed the move was an attempt to \"suppress voters\" and \"rig\" the next general election result.\n\nMinisters say there will be free ID for people who can't prove their identity.\n\nHowever, people will still have to apply to their local councils for the documents as an alternative to other forms of approved photographic ID, such as passports and driving licences.\n\nThe proposals follow two trials which involved five areas in England during council elections last year and 10 areas in May this year.\n\nDuring the first trial, about 340 people were turned away from voting and did not return with ID, compared to about 750 people in the second trial. That represented less than 1% of eligible voters in both trials.\n\nCurrently, only voters in Northern Ireland have to show photo ID before they can cast their vote.\n\nSpeaking at a rally on Monday, shortly after the Queen's speech, Mr Corbyn said the plans were a \"blatant attempt\" by the Conservative Party to \"deny people their democratic rights\".\n\nHe added: \"The people that the Tories are trying to stop voting will be disproportionately from ethnic minority backgrounds, and they will disproportionately be working class voters of all ethnicities.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What did we learn from the Queen's Speech? The BBC's Helen Catt explains\n\nResearch in 2015 by the Electoral Commission, the independent body that sets the standards of elections in the UK, indicated that about 3.5 million citizens, or 7.5% of the electorate, did not have access to any approved photo ID.\n\nThe research suggested that women are considerably less likely than men, and black people considerably less likely than white people, to have a driving licence.\n\nCertain ethnic groups such as Gypsies and Irish Travellers are also much less likely than the average to have a passport, it found.\n\nThe government said the plans would help give the public confidence that elections are \"secure and fit for the 21st century\".\n\nCommons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg told LBC the practise of showing ID has been used for many years in Northern Ireland and the \"integrity of the voting system is important\", particularly in regard to postal voting.\n\nWhile there would be \"administrative inconvenience\" for people who don't currently have any other documents, he said people would not have to pay for them.\n\nAny changes to the rules would require new legislation, the Cabinet Office has confirmed, making it extremely unlikely it will happen if there is a snap election later this year.\n\nBoris Johnson does not have a majority in the Commons, meaning his ability to pass new laws is extremely limited without the support of the opposition.\n\nCampaign group the Electoral Reform Society said its research suggested there were only eight allegations of impersonation made out of the millions of votes cast during council elections in 2018.\n\nIts chief executive, Darren Hughes, said 3.5 million voters did not have access to photo ID, making them vulnerable to missing out.\n\n\"When millions of people lack photo ID, these mooted plans risk raising the drawbridge to huge numbers of marginalised voters - including many elderly and BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) voters,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nHowever, Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly accused Mr Corbyn of \"sowing the seeds of division\".\n\n\"If anything, tougher checks against electoral fraud will protect the democratic rights of all communities,\" Mr Cleverly added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC spoke to Amira, Heba and Hamza while they were still in the camp\n\nOrphaned siblings, thought to be from the UK, have been removed from a detention camp in northern Syria.\n\nAmira, Heba, and Hamza, were taken to Raqqa along with 24 other orphans, the United Nations children's agency said.\n\nThe BBC spoke to 10-year-old Amira last week, when she described how her mother and father were killed during bombing.\n\nThe siblings, whose parents are believed to have left London for Syria after joining the IS group five years ago, are now with Save the Children.\n\nTheir mother, father, two sisters and two brothers were killed in April during the last battle in Baghouz before IS surrendered.\n\nAmira, Heba, eight, and Hamza, six, were being held in the Ain Issa camp, which contained around 200 IS supporters but is now empty, following the advance of Turkish troops.\n\nAmira also said she had a grandmother in the UK but couldn't remember her name, and that she wanted to go home.\n\nThe UK government said it was continuing to look for relatives of the three children.\n\nBBC Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville, who met the children in the Kurdish-controlled camp, said: \"They had a really last-minute escape just before the Ain Issa detention camp fell... Turkish troops were advancing - the UN got in there and scooped up the kids.\"\n\nThe children are now in Raqqa, which will soon be under regime control, he added.\n\n\"Damascus has in the past allowed the children of extremists to be repatriated to their countries, but only countries they have diplomatic relations with,\" our correspondent said\n\n\"Britain doesn't have any embassy or any consular assistance inside Syria. So it's going to be very complicated to get the kids out of there.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Kurdish officials said hundreds of IS-affiliated foreigners escaped from the camp amid a Turkish offensive.\n\nThe Turkish military has launched a major cross-border operation in north-eastern Syria against a Kurdish-led militia alliance.\n\nIn a statement, Save the Children said the three children were unharmed. The charity added: \"Yesterday over 900 people including 700 children fled the annex in Ein Issa [Ain Issa], where foreign families were staying. Most of them are unaccounted for. We are deeply concerned for their wellbeing and safety of the children among them.\n\n\"Children in Syria who have fled ISIS-held areas are innocent. They are swept up in horrific events far beyond their control and deserve to be safe and protected.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Pomphret was recorded inside an ambulance on police bodycam shortly after the killing\n\nA man who battered his wife to death with a crowbar during a row has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years.\n\nAnn Marie Pomphret, 49, was struck 30 times by her husband David at the stables they owned in Warrington, Cheshire, on 2 November.\n\nPomphret, 51, was found guilty of her murder on Friday after a 10-day trial at Liverpool Crown Court.\n\nHe had admitted killing his wife, but denied murder on the grounds of a temporary loss of control.\n\nPassing sentence, Judge David Aubrey told Pomphret he was \"an accomplished liar\" who had woven \"a web of deceit and lies\".\n\nHe said Mrs Pomphret \"had defensive injuries to both her hands. She must have been pleading and begging for you to stop\".\n\n\"You had had enough of her, saw the opportunity that presented itself that night to kill her and did so.\"\n\nPomphret told jurors his wife could go from being happy to depressed in minutes and become \"very angry, very quickly\".\n\nThe couple had gone to the stables to check on their horses when Mrs Pomphret began \"ranting\" at him and he \"snapped\".\n\nPomphret had initially protested his innocence but was \"undone\" after a speck of blood on his socks showed he was at the scene when she died.\n\nDavid Pomphret initially denied any involvement in his wife's death\n\nJurors heard he dialled 999 saying he had found his wife of 22 years lying in a pool of blood, \"very dead\".\n\n\"There is brain and blood everywhere, and it looks like she has had her head beaten in,\" he added.\n\nThe Barclays bank technology expert was arrested the next day and denied any involvement.\n\nPomphret had burned his bloodstained clothes and thrown the crowbar in a nearby pond\n\nHe was given bail but re-arrested four months later after police found \"airborne blood\" on his socks.\n\nPomphret then admitted manslaughter, but blamed his \"highly volatile\" wife, whose mental health had deteriorated. and claimed a special defence of a temporary loss of control.\n\nJudge Aubrey told Pomphret he had meticulously tried to cover his tracks and may well have got away with the murder, but added: \"You forgot to change your socks.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England defender Tyrone Mings says he heard racist abuse coming from the crowd before he had made it across the pitch during the warm-up ahead of their game in Bulgaria.\n\nREAD MORE: Bulgaria v England halted twice due to racist behaviour from fans", "Pam Foley took part in the trial after a head injury in a road accident\n\nA cheap and widely available drug could save hundreds of thousands of lives a year worldwide if it was routinely given to people brought into hospital with head injuries, UK doctors say.\n\nTranexamic acid helps stop bleeding in and around the brain when blood vessels have been torn.\n\nA large international study in The Lancet now suggests it improves patient survival rates if given early enough.\n\nIt cannot undo damage but can stop smaller bleeds becoming worse.\n\nIntravenous tranexamic acid is already used to treat patients with life-threatening bleeds from chest or abdomen injuries as well as women with dangerous bleeding after childbirth.\n\nPam Foley, an artist from Oxford, is one of the patients who took part in the study, led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).\n\nSome of the 12,000 head-injury patients in the trial were given the drug while others were given a dummy injection or placebo.\n\nPam does not know which she received but is grateful she was able to take part.\n\nAfter falling off her bicycle, she had fractured her skull and cheek bone and was bleeding from her head.\n\nShe said: \"All I remember is one minute on my bike, next minute on the ground trying to get up.\n\n\"I knew I was stunned but I didn't realise how much I had hurt myself.\n\n\"There were people around me, fortunately, who were so kind, and somebody called the ambulance.\"\n\nPam lost her sense of smell and taste after the head injury and they have not returned - but, overall, she said, she felt very fortunate with her recovery.\n\nThe drug appeared to work when given up to three hours after the head injury, reducing the risk of death for some patients.\n\nThe treatment is not effective for everyone.\n\nWhile it can help patients with mild or moderate brain trauma, people with very severe head injuries are unlikely to benefit from it, the researchers say.\n\nThe price of the drug varies slightly around the world - a course of treatment in the UK would cost about £6.20 per patient.\n\nOne of the lead investigators, Prof Haleema Shakur, from the LSHTM, said: \"The results are just amazing. It's the first trial to ever show that a [medical] treatment can reduce the risk of traumatic brain injury patients dying.\n\n\"This is the first time that we have seen a beneficial effect. It will have huge implications worldwide.\n\n\"It's a widely available drug, it's relatively cheap and it's really simple to give.\"\n\nCo-researcher Dr Ben Bloom, consultant in emergency medicine at Barts Health NHS Trust, said: \"Treating traumatic brain injury is extremely challenging, with very few treatment options available for patients.\n\n\"Thanks to these latest results, which are applicable to patients with head injuries of any cause and of all demographics, clinicians now have a potentially powerful new treatment available to them.\"\n\nDr Nicola Magrini, from the World Health Organization, said it would carefully evaluate the findings and consider whether to add tranexamic acid for head injuries to its Essential Medicines List - drugs it considers important enough to be made widely available to patients across the world.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ex-England footballer Paul Gascoigne broke down in tears as he denied sexually assaulting a woman on a train.\n\nThe 52-year-old is accused of \"forcefully and sloppily\" kissing a woman on a service from York to Newcastle in August 2018.\n\nHe told Teesside Crown Court he had wanted to reassure her after overhearing another passenger describe her as \"fat and ugly\".\n\nMr Gascoigne said the kiss was \"just a peck\" and was not sexual.\n\nGiving evidence, the former Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Rangers, Middlesbrough and Everton midfielder said he was travelling from Birmingham to Newcastle with his nephews on 20 August last year.\n\nHe said while passengers were asking for selfies and autographs he heard a man, who he could not see, say about a female passenger: \"What do you want a photo of her for? She's fat and ugly.\"\n\nMr Gascoigne told the jury he previously had trouble with his weight and \"automatically\" went to sit next to the woman to reassure her.\n\nHe said he told her: \"You're not fat and ugly, you're beautiful.\"\n\nA court usher handed him a tissue as he became emotional while giving evidence in the dock.\n\nJurors were handed a file of photos showing Mr Gascoigne kissing and being kissed by famous footballers and fans.\n\nA photo of him kissing Diana, Princess of Wales, was also included.\n\nHis defence barrister, Michelle Heeley QC, read out character references from former professional boxer Ricky Hatton MBE and Mr Gascoigne's former agent Mel Stein.\n\nIn his reference, Mr Stein said the former player was a \"tactile\" and friendly person.\n\nHe said he had invited Mr Gascoigne to several Bar-Mitzvahs, adding that on one occasion: \"He greeted a rabbi's wife by hugging and kissing her. He apologised when he realised what he had done.\"\n\nEarlier, jurors heard how the Mr Gascoigne was in an \"intoxicated, drunken state\" when he was arrested.\n\nBritish Transport Police PC Robert Moody told the court Mr Gascoigne was drinking beer in a hotel lobby when he arrived to arrest him.\n\nPC Moody said he had spoken to Mr Gascoigne prior to travelling to the hotel, telling jurors Gascoigne had said: \"I know what it's about, I kissed a fat lass.\"\n\nThe court has heard Mr Gascoigne \"forcefully and sloppily\" kissed the woman on the lips while drunk on the train and that she was left \"shocked and upset\".\n\nIn a police interview he said he had undergone an operation which made him sick if he drank spirits and that \"thousands\" of strangers had come up to him and kissed him over the years.\n\nHe said he had only consumed \"three or four cans\" prior to the incident because spirits made him \"spew up\" following the operation.\n\nDuring the police interview he told officers: \"I can have beer, I won't spew up. Any shorts, I spew up immediately,\" adding: \"Before the operation I could drink gin no problem.\"\n\nHe said any impression he had been slurring his words was because he did not have a bridge of teeth in. He took the teeth out during his evidence and demonstrated how different his voice sounded without them in.\n\nMr Gascoigne, who now lives in Leicester, denies a charge of sexual assault by touching.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Just under half of religious hate crime offences targeted Muslims\n\nThere has been a 10% rise in hate crimes recorded by police in England and Wales.\n\nThere were a record 103,379 offences in 2018-19, Home Office figures show.\n\nThe Home Office said the increase was largely driven by better recording by police but charities said the figures were \"the tip of the iceberg\".\n\nHate crimes are offences motivated by hostility towards someone's race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity.\n\nRace hate crimes accounted for around three-quarters of offences (78,991) and rose by 11% on the previous year.\n\nTransgender hate crime went up 37% to 2,333. For sexual orientation the rise was 25% to 14,491, for disability 14% to 8,256 and for religion 3% to 8,566.\n\nOver half (54%) of the hate crimes recorded by the police were for public order offences and a further third (36%) were for violence against the person offences.\n\nFive per cent were recorded as criminal damage and arson offences.\n\nHate crimes can include verbal abuse, intimidation, threats, harassment, assault and bullying, as well as damage to property.\n\nThe Home Office said the increase in hate crime over the past five years is thought to have been driven by improvements in recording by police and a growing awareness of hate crime.\n\nHowever, it added that there had been \"short-term genuine rises in hate crime\" following certain events such as the 2016 EU referendum and \"part of the increase over the last year may reflect a real rise in hate crimes recorded by the police\".\n\nIt said the large percentage increases for transgender, disability and sexual orientation hate crimes were \"partly due to the smaller number of these crimes\", while more people may also be coming forward to report them.\n\nLaura Russell, a director at the charity Stonewall, said: \"While it is possible that the increase is due to higher confidence in reporting, these figures are still likely to only represent the tip of the iceberg when it comes to hate crimes against LGBT people.\"\n\nShe added that the rise in hate crime against trans people \"shows the consequences of a society where transphobia is everywhere\".\n\nJust under half (47%) of religious hate crime offences were targeted against Muslims (3,530 offences), a similar proportion to last year.\n\nA further 18% religious hate crime offences were targeted against Jewish people (1,326 offences).\n\nThere were spikes in religious and race hate crime in May, June and July 2018.\n\nIn May 2018 former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson was sentenced to his first jail term, sparking a series of protests, while in July US President Donald Trump visited the UK.\n\nThere was also a spike in March 2019, the month of the gun attacks at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.\n\nThe figures showed racially or religiously aggravated offences were more likely to be dealt with by a charge or summons than their non-aggravated counterparts, which the Home Office said reflected \"the serious nature\" of these offences.", "England coach Gareth Southgate says his side made a \"major statement\" in the way they played and the way they reacted in the face of racist behaviour during their game in Bulgaria.\n\nREAD MORE: Bulgaria v England halted twice due to racist behaviour from fans", "Police stopped and searched more than 3,000 children in 15 months, BBC Scotland has learned.\n\nAnalysis of police data shows that officers found nothing in almost two thirds of cases.\n\nAnd the youngest person to be stopped and searched was a seven-year-old girl who officers suspected to be in possession of drugs.\n\nPolice Scotland insist the rules and guidelines relating to stop and searches were adhered to in all cases.\n\nA code of practice on stop and search came in to force in May 2017, following concerns over the number of people being searched without a legal basis.\n\nIt states that stopping and searching must be done for a good reason and be both \"necessary and proportionate\".\n\nOfficers can search based on \"facts, information and/or intelligence\" or \"reasonable suspicion\" someone is carrying an illegal item.\n\nThe data reveals that 3,172 searches were carried out on children aged 0-15 between April 2018 and June 2019 - and 62% were negative.\n\nFiona Dyer said children needed to be protected\n\nFiona Dyer, of the Centre for Youth and Criminal Justice at the University of Strathclyde, said children could be exploited, coerced or threatened to act criminally by people they trust.\n\n\"This a form of abuse and exploitation that these children need to be protected from,\" she added.\n\n\"So when we hear of primary school-aged children as young as seven involved in what could be classed as serious offending, it is clear that this is a child protection matter and should be responded to as such.\n\n\"These children are victims of other people's actions and there is nothing to be gained by dealing with them in a criminal way.\n\n\"In recognition of this, the Scottish government are including child criminal exploitation in their new child protection guidelines, as they are aware this is placing some children at risk and having detrimental impacts on their lives that they need protected from.\"\n\nA row erupted in 2014 after BBC data revealed 2,912 searches were carried out on children aged eight to 12 between April and December 2013.\n\nThe force now routinely publishes information on its website.\n\nA total of 50,598 stop and search incidents were recorded by police across Scotland between April 2018 and June 2019. Seventy formal complaints were lodged with the force during that period.\n\nSupt Ian Thomson, of Police Scotland, said the stop and search code of practice had a dedicated section for children which provided guidance for officers.\n\n\"All searches carried out are subject to governance and review in line with scrutiny arrangements to confirm they comply with the code of practice being lawful, necessary and proportionate,\" he added.\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"While stop and search is a valuable tool in combating crime and keeping people safe, we must ensure a balance between protecting the public and recognising the rights of individuals.\"\n\nShe added that the code of practice and its use was a matter for Police Scotland, but added that \"it has been designed to ensure searches are carried out with fairness, integrity and respect and contains specific guidance on searches of children and young people.\n\n\"This means police must have the child's well-being as a primary consideration in deciding whether to proceed and, where that is necessary, to conduct searches in a way that minimises potential distress.\"", "England defender Tyrone Mings says he could hear the racist abuse \"as clear as day\" but \"everybody made the decision\" to continue the Euro 2020 qualifier against Bulgaria in Sofia.\n\nPlay was halted twice in the first half because of abuse from supporters.\n\nIn line with Uefa protocol, England had the option to walk off the pitch but played the full 90 minutes and won 6-0.\n\n\"I am very proud of everyone for the decisions we made,\" Mings told BBC Radio 5 Live after his England debut.\n• None Unsavoury and sinister - a bleak night handled with dignity by England\n\nAbuse, including Nazi salutes and monkey chanting, were aimed at Mings and his team-mates and the Aston Villa defender was shown on TV to turn towards the linesman and ask: \"Did you hear that?\"\n\nPlay was first stopped just before the half-hour mark when the referee came to the side of the pitch to speak to England manager Gareth Southgate.\n\nAfter a stoppage of around five minutes, play continued until the 43rd minute when the game was halted for a second time.\n\nMings said: \"I went to Harry Kane first. He spoke to the manager, who then spoke to the fourth officials. Everyone was aware of it but we ultimately let our football do the talking and didn't get distracted by anything.\n\n\"Just before the end of the first half the appropriate next step was to return to the changing room. We made a common-sense decision to play the remaining few minutes and decided at half-time.\n\n\"Everybody made the decision. The manager, the team, the supporting staff. We spoke about it at half-time and we dealt with it and escalated it in the right way.\n\n\"I am proud of how we dealt with it and took the appropriate steps. I could hear it as clear as day. It doesn't affect me too much. I feel more sorry for those people who feel they have to have those opinions.\n\n\"It was a great night for me personally. It was a really proud moment in my career. I hope everyone enjoys this moment and it isn't overshadowed.\"\n\nThis was the second Group A match in which England players had suffered racist abuse, having been subjected to similar in the 5-1 win over Montenegro in Podgorica in March.\n\nMontenegro's punishment from Uefa was to have two home games played behind closed doors and a fine of 20,000 euros (£17,000).\n\nManager Southgate told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Nobody should have to experience what our players did. We followed the protocol. We gave two messages - one that our football did the talking and two, we stopped the game twice.\n\n\"That might not be enough for some people but we are in that impossible situation that we can't give everyone what they want.\n\n\"But we gave the players what they wanted and the staff what that they wanted. Remarkably, after what we have been through, our players walked off smiling and that is the most important thing for me.\n\n\"I have to give credit because the referee communicated with us all the time. You heard the stadium announcement on the first instance.\n\n\"In the second instance, we could have walked off but the players were very keen to finish the first half and talk it through. Not one player wanted to stop, they were absolutely firm on that.\n\n\"I explained to the players that if anything else did happen in the second half we would be coming off. We all saw the second half was calmer and that allowed our players to do their talking with the football.\"\n\nA number of England players gave their reaction on social media, including striker Marcus Rashford, who scored the opening goal. The Manchester United player thanked the \"brilliant support\" and also praised Bulgaria captain Ivelin Popov for speaking to the fans at half-time.\n\n\"Not an easy situation to play in and not one which should be happening in 2019,\" said Rashford. \"Proud we rose above it to take three points but this needs stamping out.\n\n\"Also been told what the Bulgaria captain did at half-time. To stand alone and do the right thing takes courage and acts like that shouldn't go unnoticed. #NoToRacism.\"\n\nManchester City forward Raheem Sterling, who scored twice, said \"we did our job\", adding: \"Feeling sorry for Bulgaria to be represented by such idiots in their stadium.\"\n\nManchester United defender Harry Maguire called it \"disgraceful behaviour\" and said \"there is no place in football for that\", while club-team Jesse Lingard said it was \"shameful\" but the \"England boys are stronger than those who chose to destroy the beautiful game.\"\n\nEverton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford said the victory came \"under difficult circumstances\" and Leicester full-back Ben Chilwell said \"football did the talking\".", "The UK will not meet its climate change targets without a revolution in home heating, a think tank says.\n\nA report from the cross-party Policy Connect says gas central heating boilers also threaten the UK’s clean air goals.\n\nBut a poll conducted among MPs suggests that most do not consider pollution from home heating to be a priority.\n\nThat is despite the fact 14% of UK greenhouse gases come from our homes, a similar level to emissions from cars.\n\nIn major cities gas boilers are also a main source of nitrogen dioxide emissions.\n\nThe government wants low-carbon heat systems to be standard for all new homes built after 2025.\n\nBut that will still leave the vast majority of existing homes in the UK with polluting heat systems.\n\nA spokesman for the Treasury said a plan to support the move to sustainable heating systems would go out to consultation later this year.\n\nThe task is huge. Policy Connect says more than 20,000 homes a week must switch to low-carbon heating between 2025 and 2050 to meet UK climate goals.\n\nThe think tank says many innovations need to be pursued. They include smart systems and controls; more use of the \"internet of things\"; hydrogen boilers; biogas; electric heat and direct infrared heat among others.\n\nPolicy Connect said future heating systems might also need to supply home cooling as UK temperatures rise along with climate change.\n\nIt recommends that the government creates an Olympic-style body to take on the challenge.\n\nThe report’s lead author, Joanna Furtado, said: “The next five years are critical for heat decarbonisation in new and existing homes and for meeting our climate targets.\n\n“We need to spark a national conversation on heat as MPs and consumers are still in the dark on the savings greener home heat solutions could offer.\"\n\nSome argue the focus should be on improving insulation in existing homes\n\nShe said investment was also needed in re-training and re-skilling the nation’s heating engineers and installers for the low carbon transition.\n\nThe document highlights yet another challenge for a government that is already veering away from its medium-term climate goals under the Climate Change Act.\n\nAnd there's a chicken and egg problem.\n\nMinisters have not yet produced policies to insulate Britain's homes - even though well-insulated homes are essential for some low-carbon heat systems.\n\nA report from the advisory Committee on Climate Change said it would cost £4,800 to install low-carbon heating in a new home, and £26,300 in an existing house.\n\nSteve Turner from the Home Builders Federation says they accept the targets, but wonders if they've got their priorities right.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"There are significantly greater emissions savings to be made from existing housing on the basis that they are considerably less efficient than new builds.\n\n\"Big energy saving could be made in inefficient older homes as opposed to the incremental gains from new builds that are already required to be built to low-carbon standards.\n\n\"The cost for retrofitting existing homes would need to be met by owners or government, as opposed to requiring builders to incorporate it into their costs on new homes.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"This report rightly highlights heat as one of the UK's biggest challenges in decarbonisation.\n\n\"Heat accounts for more than a third of our current carbon emissions, which is why we're spending £2.8bn to encourage low-carbon heating in both homes and businesses as well as investing in innovation.\n\n\"Getting the right mix of technologies to increase energy efficiency is vital. We will also require changes in consumer behaviour as we work towards net zero by 2050.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nThe president of the Bulgaria Football Union, Borislav Mihaylov, has resigned.\n\nBulgaria Prime Minister Boyko Borissov called for him to quit on Tuesday after the racist abuse of England players in the Euro 2020 qualifier in Sofia.\n\nMonday's match, which England won 6-0, was stopped twice because of racist behaviour by home fans, which included Nazi salutes and monkey chants.\n\nThe BFU said the move \"is a consequence of the recent tensions\" but did not mention racism in their statement.\n• None Unsavoury and sinister - a bleak night handled with dignity by England\n\nThe statement said the tensions had created \"an environment that is detrimental to Bulgarian football and the Bulgarian Football Union\".\n\nIt added that \"Mihaylov expresses his firm readiness to continue helping in the development of Bulgarian football in every possible way\".\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, the Bulgaria prime minister \"strongly condemned\" the fans' behaviour and called for Mihaylov to resign \"immediately\".\n\n\"After yesterday's shameful loss of the Bulgarian National Team and given the bad results of our football, I ordered to end any relationship with BFU, including financial, until the withdrawal of Borislav Mihaylov from the post,\" he added.\n\nBefore the match, Mihaylov had complained to Uefa about \"unjust branding\" after the build-up was overshadowed by fears England's players could be subjected to abuse.\n\nThe Vasil Levski Stadium was already subject to a partial closure for the match after Bulgaria were sanctioned for racist behaviour during Euro 2020 qualifiers against Kosovo and the Czech Republic.\n\nMihaylov, a former Reading goalkeeper, played at three World Cups for Bulgaria and has been member of Uefa's executive committee since 2011.\n\nUefa president Aleksander Ceferin said the \"football family and governments\" need to \"wage war on the racists\", after the abuse of England players.\n\nUefa told BBC Sport any action in response to Monday's events would have to follow on from a disciplinary committee, which in turn has to wait for a referee's report.\n\nAnti-discriminatory body Fare has called for Bulgaria to be expelled from the Euro 2020 qualifying campaign.\n\nWhat happened during the game?\n\nAfter making a pass in the first half, England defender Tyrone Mings glanced over his shoulder and could be heard calling towards the touchline: \"Did you hear that?\"\n\nShortly afterwards, in the 28th minute, the game was stopped.\n\nStriker Harry Kane was in conversation with referee Ivan Bebek on the halfway line while a stadium announcement was made to condemn racist abuse and warn fans that the game could be abandoned if it continued. At the same time, England manager Southgate was talking to a number of his players.\n\nThe game resumed but was stopped again just before half-time. Southgate and several England players were in discussion with match officials before the game was restarted for a second time.\n\nA group of Bulgaria supporters wearing black hooded tops - some wearing bandanas covering their faces - started to leave the stadium after the game was halted for a second time. BBC Radio 5 Live reported that some made racist gestures while heading towards the exits.\n\nAfter six minutes of time added at the end of the first half because of the delay, Bulgaria captain Ivelin Popov was seen in a heated debate with a section of home supporters near the tunnel while the rest of the players headed for the dressing rooms for half-time.\n\nIn line with Uefa protocol, England had the option to walk off the pitch but they continued to play the full 90 minutes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What did we learn from the Queen's Speech? The BBC's Helen Catt explains\n\nBoris Johnson's government has set out \"ambitious\" policies on crime, health, the environment and Brexit in a Queen's Speech that opposition parties have dismissed as an \"election manifesto\".\n\nPlans for tougher sentences for violent offenders and legal targets for cutting plastic pollution are among 26 bills set out at Parliament's State Opening.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Kuenssberg said it was a \"long shopping list\".\n\nBut with the PM having no majority, many of the bills may not become law.\n\nOur political editor said the PM was keen to focus on \"bread and butter issues\" like investment in schools and the NHS, or coming up with, at long last, a new way of funding care for the elderly.\n\nBut she said there was no guarantee the legislative programme would be approved by Parliament. If MPs reject it, it will trigger renewed calls for a general election.\n\nDuring a debate in the Commons later on Monday, Mr Johnson said his plans offered \"a new age of opportunity for the whole country\".\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the speech was \"a propaganda exercise\", adding: \"The prime minister promised that this Queen's Speech would dazzle us. On closer inspection, it is nothing more than fool's gold.\"\n\nMPs will be able to debate the Queen's speech for a further five days, with a different theme for each of them, including the NHS and the economy.\n\nDespite continuing Brexit uncertainty, the government has said it is determined to press ahead with its plans, announcing its intention to hold a Budget on 6 November.\n\nNegotiations over the UK's departure, with Mr Johnson trying to secure an agreement that will enable the country to leave by 31 October.\n\nThe government says if it can strike a deal with the EU, it will introduce a withdrawal agreement bill and aim to secure its passage through Parliament before the Halloween deadline.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe origins of the current State Opening date back to the 1850s\n\nThe prime minister's partner, Carrie Symonds, was among those watching\n\nLabour described the Queen's Speech as a \"party political broadcast\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look at the fanfare and formality behind this year's State Opening of Parliament\n\nThe Queen's Speech is famous for its pageantry - with the monarch arriving at the Palace of Westminster in a carriage procession and delivering her speech from the throne in the House of Lords, flanked by the Prince of Wales.\n\nMr Johnson said his government was focused on \"seizing the opportunities that Brexit present\".\n\nThere is also a commitment to reform adult social care in England, although no legislation planned at this stage.\n\nNew measures will also be brought forward to tackle electoral fraud, including requiring people to show an approved form of ID before voting in general and local elections.\n\nA shake-up of the rail franchising system in England is also being proposed to improve service reliability, reduce \"fragmentation\" and introduce a \"greater distance\" between ministers and the day-to-day running of the network.\n\nMr Johnson said the programme, which includes four bills carried over from the last session, demonstrated Brexit was not the limit of the government's ambitions.\n\nHe told the Commons: \"At the heart of this speech is an ambitious programme to unite this country with energy, optimism and with the basic common sense of one-nation Conservatism.\"\n\nBut Mr Corbyn criticised a number of the proposals, saying mental health care was \"getting worse and worse\", social care proposals \"offered the same promise after two years of inaction and failure\", and plans for education were \"shockingly weak\".\n\nHe told MPs: \"There has never been such a farce of a government with a majority of minus 45 and a 100% record of defeat in the House of Commons, setting out a legislative agenda they know cannot be delivered in this Parliament.\"\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, focused his criticism on the PM's plans for Brexit, saying the UK had \"entered very dark days\".\n\nHe said the EU was \"the greatest example of political co-operation and peace - leaving behind the scars of war, the pain of loss, and instead choosing to take the hand of friendship across this continent\" and to leave would be a \"tragedy\".\n\nFormer Tory cabinet minister Dominic Grieve, who now sits as an independent after rebelling over Brexit, said the PM would find it \"very difficult\" to govern until Brexit was resolved.\n\nThat was a very long shopping list of things, but the unsaid reality, of course, is that the biggest question hanging over it all is Brexit.\n\nThe Queen may have said the government's priority is to leave on 31 October, but there's no way anyone in this square mile can be sure that happens. Whether it happens - and how it happens - is a much bigger influence than anything we've just heard being said.\n\nIn many ways, it's a Queen's Speech from a parallel universe - one in which Boris Johnson gets his way. Where he definitely gets his deal with Brussels by the end of this week, he definitely gets it through Parliament on Saturday and definitely gets all the Brexit legislation passed. It's also a world in which he definitely gets the general election he wants in the next few weeks and then definitely gets a Conservative majority.\n\nWe shouldn't dismiss this speech - it does mean something, but what it means is this is what we are likely to see as the basis for a Conservative manifesto whenever that election does come.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After firing at the officers, the group set the police vehicles on fire.\n\nFourteen police officers have been killed and three injured in a shooting in western Mexico.\n\nThe police were carrying out a court order in El Aguaje, Michoacán state, when their convoy was ambushed.\n\nA powerful criminal group, the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, is believed to have carried out the attack.\n\nAuthorities said all resources would be put into finding those responsible. The region is a hotspot for violence linked to turf wars between drug cartels.\n\nMexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been trying to tackle drug crime since he took office last December.\n\nPolice patrol vehicles were ambushed as they passed through the town.\n\nReports say the convoy was surrounded by heavily armed men in a number of pick-up trucks who then fired on the officers and set their vehicles on fire.\n\nAt least 14 police officers were killed and three others injured.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mexico's drug war: Has it turned the tide?\n\nEl Aguaje is considered to be of strategic importance between two battling cartels: the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) and a splinter group of the Knights Templar called Los Viagras.\n\nA message left at the site suggested the attack was carried out by gunmen connected to the CJNG.\n\nThe supposed leader of the CJNG was killed by Michoacán police less than a week ago.\n\nIn Michoacán in August, nine people were found hanging from a bridge with seven other corpses found on the road.\n\nThe federal government offered assistance to the state authorities after Monday's attack.\n\nMichoacán Governor Silvano Aureoles Conejo said there would be \"no impunity\" for the attack on his officers.\n\nHowever, the Jalisco cartel has grown much more powerful in recent years and there have been no significant victories against them by either the state or federal government, the BBC's Will Grant in Mexico City reports.\n\nDespite the government's efforts to tackle drug crime, last year saw a record number of murders with over 29,000 recorded.\n\nWorse still, this year could be set to surpass that figure.", "Google's range of camera and microphone-fitted devices include the Nest Hub Max\n\nIt's an admission that appears to have caught Google's devices chief by surprise.\n\nAfter being challenged as to whether homeowners should tell guests smart devices - such as a Google Nest speaker or Amazon Echo display - are in use before they enter the building, he concludes that the answer is indeed yes.\n\n\"Gosh, I haven't thought about this before in quite this way,\" Rick Osterloh begins.\n\n\"It's quite important for all these technologies to think about all users... we have to consider all stakeholders that might be in proximity.\"\n\n\"Does the owner of a home need to disclose to a guest? I would and do when someone enters into my home, and it's probably something that the products themselves should try to indicate.\"\n\nTo be fair to Google, it hasn't completely ignored matters of 21st Century privacy etiquette until now.\n\nAs Mr Osterloh points out, its Nest cameras shine an LED light when they are in record mode, which cannot be overridden.\n\nBut the idea of having to run around a home unplugging or at least restricting the capabilities of all its voice- and camera-equipped kit if a visitor objects is quite the ask.\n\nThe concession came at the end of one-on-one interview given to BBC News to mark the launch of Google's Pixel 4 smartphones, a new Nest smart speaker and other products.\n\nMr Osterloh first worked at Google when he headed its Motorola division, until it was sold in 2014 - he returned to the technology giant in 2016\n\nThe conversation below has been edited for clarity and brevity.\n\nThe new Pixel phones have two cameras on their rear for the first time. But is there a risk consumers say: \"The new iPhone and Galaxy S10 have three and some others have four. I'm just going to go with the ones that have more because two doesn't sound that great\"?\n\nUsers are very sophisticated now about their phone purchases.\n\nThey study them. They'll read the reviews. You're going to live with them for two, three or four years.\n\nA lot of people remember from just a couple of years ago, where all the OEMs [original equipment manufacturers] were touting things such as: \"We have eight cores in our device, so it's super-fast.\"\n\nAnd then they realised the actual practical mechanics of that were almost none of them was used and it was actually just sort of a marketing specification.\n\nGoogle hopes to once again offer the best low-light photography of any smartphone\n\nSo, my view is in this market, people don't fall for simple numbers anymore. They look for user experiences and Pixel certainly has a brand that's known for having an absolutely terrific camera experience.\n\nThe Pixel phone is one of most leaked smartphones. You even tweeted details about its built-in radar in advance. Others go to great lengths to try to keep details of their devices under wraps until launch day. Presumably you don't think that matters?\n\nWe definitely wanted to take a bit of a different approach in how we launch and reveal elements of the products. Several months ago, we started to disclose a little bit about how the product looked and some of the core technologies. We wanted to make sure people started to get excited about it and understood a little bit about it.\n\nOf course, there are other leaks we really would prefer did not happen. And unfortunately that shows a little bit of our adolescence in that we have to make sure we're reducing the amount of unintentional information disclosed.\n\nAt some level, we're at least happy people care and desire this information. But we do want to try to reduce leaks in the future.\n\nThere's been controversy over facial-recognition tests carried out on the phone's behalf. To make sure it worked better with dark skin tones, there's been reports a contractor targeted homeless people offering them $5 (£4) but didn't properly explain what was going on. Can you address that?\n\nGoogle promoted the Pixel 4's ability to use face unlock with dark skin tones, in a teaser video\n\nIt was very important for us to make sure the face unlock system works for all different kinds of people, genders, races, et cetera.\n\nAnd as a consequence, we wanted to make sure we were able to get a large number of data points that allowed us to perfect this model in a fair way. So, we went out and did a lot of research in this area.\n\nIt's come to our attention there may be some methods that were not approved, not how we would do business. So, we're investigating that. We would never find that acceptable. And so we've suspended any data collection until this is straightened out.\n\nJust to be clear about what you think is unacceptable. Was it the targeting of homeless people? Was it not explaining exactly what people were testing? Or what?\n\nAll of those allegations would be different than what we would find acceptable.\n\nBut do you still plan to retain the data collected in this way for 18 months?\n\nI don't know that we've discussed the length of time that we're holding data. But there have been no changes to the programme with respect to data retention.\n\n[Note: The Verge reported being briefed about the 18-month limit in July].\n\nBut some people are going to think if the data wasn't collected with proper consent, surely you should delete it and start again.\n\nThis is all under investigation. So, I just want to be clear we do not know the full facts of what has happened.\n\nBut if the investigation concludes people didn't know what they were consenting to, are you going to delete?\n\nThe best approach here would be to discuss it once we've actually looked into the facts and understood what has happened.\n\nThere's a lot of concern about facial recognition. You're selling camera-enabled devices that sit in people's living rooms, bedrooms, and on their front doors that use the technology. Do you accept reports about what happened with the Pixel tests help undermine confidence in Google and other big technology companies' use of facial recognition data?\n\nThe Pixel 4 is the first in the series to have two cameras on the rear\n\nThere's a distinction between what's being used to train a model for face unlock and facial recognition. There are specific use cases for these different technologies and it's very important to examine each one and determine if they're being used in a way appropriate for local laws and regulations.\n\nIt is definitely important around the world for what is societally acceptable to be clearly defined in collaboration between tech companies and governments. We want to take a very cautious and thoughtful approach to these technologies.\n\nThey are very important to debate and discuss and then together we have to clarify exactly what to do.\n\nWhen Amazon recently unveiled its rival Ring smart cameras many expected them to add facial recognition but it decided not to. Do you think we need politicians to act quickly to set standards because there's a growing crisis of confidence?\n\nIt would be great for regulation to be clarified quickly.\n\nThe approach we're taking is to try to keep all of this information on devices as much as possible and always keep it private and secure and encrypted.\n\nThere's certainly a key responsibility to make sure the user's information is protected.\n\nBut everyone would benefit from clarity of standards and regulation. It is a challenging space to navigate. And it's very important it's thoughtfully navigated.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe widow of a police officer killed on duty said he was \"gentle giant with a heart of gold\" as she addressed hundreds of people at his funeral.\n\nUniformed colleagues of PC Andrew Harper lined the route as the cortege made its way to the private service at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford.\n\nThe 28-year-old died after being dragged under a vehicle on a road near Sulhamstead, Berkshire, on 15 August.\n\nHis widow Lissie Harper said he \"wore his uniform with pride\".\n\nReading the eulogy, she said: \"You used to tell me we were a team and that we would get through all of life's hurdles together, how I wish you were here with me now. The hardest challenge of all is losing you.\n\n\"Keeping everyone safe was your priority, not only in your job but with your family too. Everything was always okay when you were around.\n\n\"Although Andrew was strong he was also unfailingly kind, a gentle giant with a heart of gold.\"\n\nThe couple, who were childhood sweethearts and had been together for 13 years, had only been married for four weeks.\n\nShe added: \"He was my hero and his spirit will live on in my memories forever.\"\n\nPC Andrew Harper had married his wife Lissie four weeks before his death\n\nEarlier members of the public paid their respects as the cortege led by mounted officers travelled through Oxford before the service, which was attended by 800 mourners.\n\nThe coffin was draped in a navy flag with a police crest on the side and was carried into the cathedral at 11:00 BST by six officers.\n\nLeading the service, the Dean of Christ Church the Very Rev Dr Martyn Percy said: \"The tributes that have poured in for Andrew exemplify a truly outstanding young man, but also the very best virtues in policing.\n\n\"He represented policing at its best. He was everything you wanted in a police officer. Authentic, brave, genuine, and kind.\"\n\nLissie Harper left a symbol of her husband's life during the service\n\nMrs Harper placed her husband's police hat on his coffin, while members of PC Harper's family also laid symbols of his life in front of a large photograph of him inside the cathedral.\n\nSongs by Shirley Bassey and Russell Watson were played during the service, in addition to performances from the cathedral's choir.\n\nColleague PC Jordan Johnstone paid tribute to his \"infectious smile and relentless humour\".\n\n\"I'm privileged to have worked with you and even more so to call you my friend,\" he added.\n\nOfficers lined the streets as the cortege travelled through Oxford\n\nPC Harper had married his childhood sweetheart Lissie just 28 days before he died.\n\nToday she, with other family and friends, came to Christ Church Cathedral to say their final goodbye.\n\nPeople who didn't know him came out to pay their respects. Hundreds of officers from PC Harper's force also lined the route. Many looked as young as he was.\n\nAs the hearse led by officers on horseback passed, silence fell. Officers bowed their heads. Some people in the crowds began to cry.\n\nThrough the glass of the hearse PC Harper's coffin could be seen draped in a Thames Valley Police flag.\n\nA young officer who died while doing his job. A hero to so many.\n\nPC Harper, from Wallingford in Oxfordshire, was killed on the A4 Bath Road while investigating a reported break-in.\n\nThames Valley Police Federation chairman Craig O'Leary said PC Harper was \"a hero\" who \"loved being a police officer\".\n\nThe force said its flags would be flying at half-mast as a mark of respect to the officer.\n\nIt added on Twitter: \"Today is going to be a tough day for all our officers, staff and volunteers as we pay tribute to our fallen colleague.\"\n\nLissie Harper placed her husband's police hat on his coffin\n\nThree teenagers remain in custody charged with murdering PC Harper.\n\nHenry Long, 18, from Mortimer in Reading, and two 17-year-old boys, who cannot be named because of their age, are accused of murder and conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nThomas King, 21, from Basingstoke, is also accused of conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nJed Foster was also accused of murder but prosecutors dropped his charges following further police investigation.\n\nToday I would like to remember and honour the kind brave and lovely man we all know. We are all here just for you.\n\nFrom the ever sweet, lanky, red faced boy passing me notes in class, to the strong and loyal man you grew to be. I have always known how special you are. We often talked about how lucky we were to have found and kept each other, true childhood sweethearts, loving one another more and more with each passing day. Not a day went past that we didn't say I love you.\n\nYou used to tell me we were a team and that we would get through all of life's hurdles together, how I wish you were here with me now. The hardest challenge of all is losing you.\n\nWe managed to pack so many amazing memories into the last 13 years, travelling the world, buying a house and getting married. You had a contagious love for life, filling each day with laughter and appreciating all the little things.\n\nYou have always been a protector. Whether in your role of big brother, fierce friend, loving husband or keeper of peace among the public, keeping everyone safe was your priority, not only in your job but your family too. Everything was always okay when you were around.\n\nAlthough Andrew was strong he was also unfailingly kind, a gentle giant with a heart of gold. He wore his uniform with pride and vowed to challenge the bad and celebrate the good.\n\nHe loved to be part of a team and had a work ethic to admire. Looking around me today I know that he was classed so very highly among his peers, known for being proactive, kind and fair.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nBelgian Paralympian Marieke Vervoort has ended her own life through euthanasia at the age of 40.\n\nVervoort, who won gold and silver at the London 2012 Paralympics, and two further medals at Rio 2016, had an incurable degenerative muscle disease.\n\nEuthanasia is legal in Belgium and in 2008 Vervoort signed papers which would one day allow a doctor to end her life.\n\nA statement from her home city of Diest said Vervoort \"responded to her choice on Tuesday evening\".\n• None 'I'll never forget her' - an emotional tribute to Marieke Vervoort\n\nVervoort's disease caused constant pain, seizures, paralysis in her legs and left her barely able to sleep.\n\nIn an extensive interview with BBC Radio 5 Live's Eleanor Oldroyd in 2016 she said: \"It can be that I feel very, very bad, I get an epileptic attack, I cry, I scream because of pain. I need a lot of painkillers, valium, morphine.\n\n\"A lot of people ask me how is it possible that you can have such good results and still be smiling with all the pain and medication that eats your muscles. For me, sports, and racing with a wheelchair - it's a kind of medication.\"\n• None What different countries say about assisted dying\n\nVervoort won gold in the T52 100m wheelchair race at London 2012 as well as silver in the T52 200m wheelchair race.\n\nAt the Rio Paralympics she claimed silver in the T51/52 400m and bronze in T51/52 100m.\n\nAsked about the fact she had signed euthanasia papers, after the Rio Paralympics she told the BBC: \"It gives a feeling of rest to people. I know when it's enough for me, I have those papers.\"\n\nThe city of Diest said a book of condolence will be accessible in its town hall from Wednesday.\n\nShe was a remarkable champion, on and off the track. She was outrageously funny and full of life, but I've never had such frank conversations about death with anyone.\n\nSomehow, though, those conversations weren't depressing; she had accepted her time on earth would be shorter than many, but she was determined to wring every last drop of fun out of it that she could.\n\nWe drank cava on a beautiful summer's evening; she was still able to enjoy the good moments, but they were becoming less frequent.\n\nHer friend Lieve told us then she thought she might have another six months, maybe a year. That was two years ago.\n\nI hope and pray that, when the end came, it was a soft and beautiful death, as she wished.\n\nYou can read Eleanor Oldroyd's interview with Marieke Vervoort here.", "The ASA said it was concerned that The Only Way Is Essex star Lauren Goodger's waist looked \"artificially thin\"\n\nA trio of influencers have had Instagram posts touting diet products banned by the UK's ad regulator.\n\nTV stars Katie Price and Lauren Goodger promoted a BoomBod shot drink on their accounts, while Georgia Harrison showed off Protein Revolution's weight loss gummies.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority said the influencers' posts were irresponsible.\n\n\"The ads must not appear again in the same form,\" it ruled.\n\nBoomBod claims its \"10-calorie shots\" stop people from snacking or overeating, while Protein Revolution says its V24 gummies keep cravings at bay thanks to a vegetable extract.\n\nThe ASA also banned several posts posted by BoomBod and Protein Revolution via their own accounts.\n\n\"It was clear from the ads that the influencers did not need to lose weight in order to achieve a healthy weight,\" the ASA wrote in the BoomBod ruling.\n\nLoose Women panellist Katie Price shared before and after photos on her Instagram account\n\n\"I can't get enough of it!\" Ms Price wrote in September when she posted a photo of the drink, before going on to describe how it contained vitamins and natural fibre but no laxatives.\n\nIn March, Ms Goodger shared a photo of herself wearing athletic clothing and holding a BoomBod box.\n\n\"Can't believe these amazing results I've gotten with @boombod's 7 day Achiever,\" the former Only Way Is Essex cast member posted.\n\n\"The difference I've noticed from using this stuff is amazing.\"\n\nThe regulator said it had concerns that the photo of Ms Goodger appeared to have been edited to make her waist look \"artificially thin\" resulting in a situation \"that the images were not representative of her real body shape\".\n\nThe ASA said the ads from Ms Price and Ms Goodger had created the impression that it was \"necessary or advisable\" for people who were already slim to use products that suppress their appetites.\n\nThis represented \"an irresponsible message\", the watchdog added.\n\nOne fitness expert told the BBC that dieting product companies often rely on health and wellness themes to market their goods.\n\n\"It's a real shame the information online [is sometimes] distorted by these companies and influencers,\" personal trainer Will Latta said.\n\nHe added that people who suffer from self-esteem issues, anxiety, and eating disorders were among those who tended to get drawn in.\n\nLove Island contestant Ms Harrison shared a photo of herself promoting weight loss gummies in March.\n\nLove Island's Georgia Harrison was criticised by her followers after sharing this ad\n\n\"They're delicious and when taken with water they suppress your hunger cravings,\" she posted.\n\nAt the time, many of her 847,000 followers called her out for being irresponsible and ignorant about body image.\n\n\"We received assurances from both advertisers that they have/are removing the posts,\" a spokesman for the ASA told the BBC.\n\nThis is not the first time the authority has raised concern that influencers' social media posts have encouraged people to lose weight in unhealthy ways.\n\nThe ASA removed BoomBod ads featuring other models as part of its ban\n\nReality star Jemma Lucy had a post of her advertising weight loss coffee banned in July, for example.\n\nThe ASA has published an advertising guide for influencers.\n\nMs Price, Ms Goodger, and Ms Harrison did not respond to requests for comment.", "MPs have voted for the Withdrawal Agreement Bill to take the UK out of the European Union ending a series of defeats for the government on Brexit.\n\nThe first vote on Boris Johnson's bill passed by 329 to 299 but he failed to get approval for the swift timetable that would have allowed it to pass through the House of Commons by Thursday.\n\nThe government lost the timetable vote by 308 to 322.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted, use the search box below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did your MP vote? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nThe Withdrawal Agreement Bill passed with the help of 19 Labour MPs who defied their leader Jeremy Corbyn to vote for the bill.\n\nDespite supporting the bill not all those Labour MPs agreed with the timetable proposed by the government. This would have seen the bill pass through the House of Commons by the end of Thursday.", "The BBC has apologised after Andrew Marr accused Priti Patel of laughing during an interview about Brexit.\n\nWhile discussing the subject with the home secretary on his Sunday morning politics show on 13 October, Marr said: \"I can't see why you're laughing.\"\n\nPatel appeared to ignore his comment and continued with her answer.\n\nThe corporation received 222 complaints and now accepts Patel was not \"smiling\" but displaying her \"natural expression\".\n\nDuring the interview, Marr read out a list of industry bodies who had expressed concern about the impact Brexit would have on their businesses.\n\nPatel, who was appearing via video link, did not speak as Marr then recited a letter one group had sent to the government, but her facial expressions prompted him to suggest she was laughing.\n\nIn a statement, the BBC wrote: \"Guests who appear on the Andrew Marr show expect robust interviewing that includes back and forth between themselves and Mr Marr.\n\n\"Andrew Marr commented on Priti Patel laughing after he glanced up while reading a list of business leaders concerned about the impact of Brexit on their industries.\n\n\"He thought he saw the home secretary smile but now accepts this was in fact her natural expression and wasn't indicating amusement at his line of questioning.\"\n\nThe statement concluded: \"There was no intention to cause offence and we are sorry if viewers felt this to be the case.\"\n\nThe Daily Mail quoted a source close to the home secretary as saying: \"Priti is grateful to Andrew for correcting his mistake and looks forward to appearing on his show in future.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None BBC criticised for 'lack of transparency' on Naga", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Italian village of Castelletto d'Orba was hit by a deluge of river water and mud\n\nA man's body has been found and five people are missing after flooding hit parts of north-east Spain.\n\nAmong the missing are a woman and her son, who were inside a mobile home when the River Francolí burst its banks and washed it away.\n\nFlash floods in northern Italy left two people dead on Tuesday and roads in the south of France were blocked as rivers burst their banks.\n\nParts of Narbonne Plage and Béziers were inundated by floodwater.\n\nA woman aged 68 was swept away by a torrent outside her front door at Cazouls-d'Hérault, north-east of Béziers. The mayor told the France Bleu website that she had been found up to 100m (330ft) away and was rushed to hospital.\n\nTen departments in southern France were placed on orange alert. Cars were submerged and the waters of the River Orb rose dangerously beneath a historic bridge in Béziers as the town saw 198mm (nearly 8in) - or the equivalent of two months' average rainfall - in just six hours on Wednesday morning.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by La Mét-Hérault Du 34 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nForecasters said the Hérault area saw 240mm of rain in the past 24 hours, a 50-year record. Local prefect Jacques Witkowski told reporters that shelter had been given to more than 1,000 people whose homes had been flooded.\n\nLocals were relieved that the floods had not caused as much damage as a year ago in the south-western Aude area, when 15 people died.\n\nThis was the scene at Gruissan, down the coast from Narbonne Plage, on Wednesday\n\nThe north-east Spanish region of Catalonia suffered its second period of torrential rain in two months.\n\nStreams became raging torrents, and a 75-year-old man who tried to move his car in the early hours of Wednesday was caught up in the flood at Arenys de Munt. A neighbour said the street had turned into a river and the man was swept away. His body was found on a beach hours later.\n\nA mother aged about 70 and her 40-year-old son were in their prefabricated bungalow at Vilaverd, a village north of Tarragona, when the River Francolí burst its banks and washed the building away.\n\nThree other people are being treated as missing. Two were in a car when it was hit by the flood.\n\nCatalan police were trying to find two missing people after an empty car was found in the river\n\nPolice found an empty car in the flooded River Francolí on Wednesday and were trying to find out if it belonged to the missing pair.\n\nA fifth person, from Belgium, was also reported missing when his lorry was found in the same river at l'Espluga de Francolí.\n\nThe area around Tarragona was among the worst affected. The roof of the baroque church at Savallà del Comtat caved in.\n\nA seven-year-old girl was among three people hurt when torrential rain swamped a campsite near Barcelona.\n\nMeteorologists blamed the torrential rain on a cold front known as a high-level isolated depression.\n\nA taxi driver is thought to have died when this road collapsed\n\nTwo people died and the Piedmont region asked for a state of emergency to be declared in the Alessandria area.\n\nOne of those who died was a taxi driver. Fabrizio Torre, 52, had been driving a customer, reportedly a British man, from Genoa airport to a golf club when his signal disappeared. In his last call to colleagues, he described seeing water everywhere.\n\nThe customer was reportedly found alive, clinging to a tree.\n\nAnother man of 81 died when his car turned over in Turin province.", "Prof Shanks said he was relieved his 13-year legal battle to get compensation was over\n\nA scientist has been awarded £2m compensation by the UK's highest court for his invention of pioneering technology to test blood sugar levels nearly 40 years ago.\n\nProfessor Ian Shanks developed the system, used by many diabetics, while working for Unilever in the 1980s.\n\nThe rights to his invention belonged to the company and until now he was not entitled to a share of the benefits.\n\nProf Shanks said he was relieved by the result, after a 13-year legal battle.\n\nWhile working for a subsidiary of multinational giant Unilever in Bedfordshire in 1982, Prof Shanks developed new technology to measure the concentration of glucose in blood and other liquids.\n\nUsing plastic film and glass slides from his daughter's toy microscope kit and bulldog clips to hold it together, he built the first prototype of what is now known as the electrochemical capillary fill device (ECFD).\n\nHis ECFD technology eventually appeared in most glucose testing products, which are used by diabetics to monitor their condition.\n\nProf Shanks first applied for compensation in 2006 but lost every step in his legal battle until it reached the Supreme Court.\n\nOn Wednesday, the court unanimously ruled that Prof Shanks's invention had provided his former employer with an \"outstanding benefit\" for which he should receive compensation.\n\nJudge Lord Kitchin said the rewards Unilever enjoyed \"were substantial and significant\" and Prof Shanks was entitled to a \"fair share\" of the company's net benefit of around £24m from the patents.\n\nSpeaking after the ruling, Prof Shanks, who lives near Dundee, said he was pleased his \"13-year slog\" to get compensation was over.\n\nHowever, the 72-year-old told the BBC the legal battle was not \"without its costs\" and had caused him a great deal of stress.\n\n\"In 2007 I had a heart attack - which wasn't at all helped by the strain I was under,\" he added.\n\nA finger-prick blood test is one way someone with diabetes can check their blood sugar levels\n\nHowever, he said his persistence was driven by a desire to help future inventors, rather than for his own financial reward, adding that most of the compensation would go towards his legal costs.\n\n\"I would much prefer that employee inventors believe that if they do something that turns out to be really profitable and significant, they may actually stand a chance of getting an award,\" he said.\n\nWhen he first applied for compensation, he said not one employee inventor had benefitted from the provisions of the Patents Act, introduced 30 years earlier.\n\nThe Act entitles workers who invent something from which their employer gains an \"outstanding benefit\" to a \"fair share\" of these benefits.\n\nProf Shanks added that he felt great pride for his invention which he said had probably helped several hundred million people living with diabetes.\n\nOutlining the background to the case, Lord Kitchin said Prof Shanks accepted that the rights to his inventions belonged to Unilever, but argued that he was still entitled to compensation.\n\nThe judge said Prof Shanks' ECFD technology became something most significant companies in the field were willing to pay millions of pounds to use.\n\nProf Shanks had argued at an earlier hearing that, while Unilever ultimately received around £24m from the patents, the company could have earned royalties for \"as much as one billion US dollars\" had his invention been \"fully exploited\".\n\nA spokesperson for Unilever said the company was \"disappointed\" with the decision to award Dr Shanks \"a share of the licence revenue obtained by Unilever in addition to the salary, bonuses and benefits he was compensated with while employed to develop new products for the business.\"", "A spokesman for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says the meeting with Boris Johnson before PMQs was \"perfectly cordial\".\n\nHe adds that Mr Corbyn told the PM he was \"sceptical\" that French President Emmanuel Macron would veto a Brexit extension.\n\n\"I think it is clear that the strong likelihood is that the EU will grant an extension of some kind on the lines requested, whether in a 'flex-tension' form or a simple kind.\"", "Energy supplier Toto has ceased trading, becoming the 16th smaller provider to go bust since the start of last year.\n\nThe company, which had 134,000 domestic customers, had bought 43,000 of those from another failing supplier - Solarplicity - in July.\n\nEnergy regulator Ofgem said it did not have the power to step in at the time of that handover.\n\nThe regulator said Toto customers should take a meter reading.\n\nBut it stressed that their energy supply will not be cut off. They should not switch away but wait for another supplier to be appointed to take up their account.\n\n\"Toto Energy customers do not need to worry, as under our safety net we'll make sure your energy supplies are secure and customers' credit balances are protected,\" said Philippa Pickford from Ofgem.\n\nThousands of Toto customers will be furious at their treatment, having been automatically shifted from Solarplicity in July.\n\nSolarplicity went bust in August after being crippled by poor service and many customers found that nothing improved at Toto.\n\nThey will soon find themselves with their third supplier in as many months.\n\nToto owed £4m in its renewable energy obligations to Ofgem, with a deadline for payment looming at the end of the month. Three other suppliers have outstanding bills.\n\n\"Toto were known to be struggling with customer service and running their operations efficiently,\" said Cordelia Samson of price comparison website Uswitch.\n\nThe Energy Ombudsman has said it is unlikely to be able to complete any ongoing cases against Toto, and would not be able to deal with any new complaints. It has received 730 complaints about Toto this year.\n\nOfgem has proposed stronger powers that would allow it to step in when smaller suppliers grow to such a size that they struggle to provide adequate customer service.\n\nA spokesman said the current rules meant that it could not have approved or rejected the purchase of customers by Toto from Solarplicity.\n\nAmong the host of smaller suppliers that have gone bust, Toto is the fourth-largest in terms of domestic customers to have failed since November 2016, behind GB Energy, Economy Energy and Spark Energy.\n• None Energy prices to fall for millions this winter", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Ch Insp Noel McHugh explains how he managed to track Shane O'Brien\n\nA killer once dubbed one of Britain's most wanted fugitives has been jailed for at least 26 years.\n\nShane O'Brien, 31, evaded police for three-and-a-half years after he slashed Josh Hanson's neck in Hillingdon, west London, on 11 October 2015.\n\nHe fled the UK, changed his appearance and moved around Europe before his extradition from Romania in April.\n\nO'Brien, who jurors found guilty of murder last month, was given a life sentence at the Old Bailey.\n\nCCTV released during the trial showed 21-year-old Mr Hanson clutching his neck and stumbling as blood poured out of a 37cm (14.5in) wound.\n\nAfter the killing, jurors heard, O'Brien was seen \"calmly\" walking out of the bar.\n\nHe made his way to Ashford, Kent, where a contact had chartered a private four-seater plane to take him to the Netherlands.\n\nThe killer grew a beard and long hair and changed his tattoos as he travelled through countries including Germany, Belgium and the Czech Republic, the court was told.\n\nIn 2017, the father-of-two was arrested over a dispute in a Prague nightclub but gave police a false name and fled while on bail.\n\nThe trial heard the 31-year-old was added to Europol and Interpol's most wanted lists but still managed to lie low.\n\nHowever, he was eventually caught by Romanian authorities after he contacted Scotland Yard to arrange a possible meeting, the jury heard.\n\nSentencing the father-of-two, Judge Nigel Lickley QC called it \"a grotesque, violent and totally unnecessary attack on an innocent man\".\n\n\"The reason why you behaved in such a way may never be fully explained. You, however, know the reason,\" he said.\n\nJosh Hanson was pronounced dead at the RE bar in Hillingdon\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Mr Hanson's mother Tracey described her son as being \"considerate, kind and generous\".\n\n\"He was taken from us in the most horrific way possible - suddenly, abruptly, viciously and violently,\" she said.\n\nThe victim's sister, Brooke, said the 21-year-old \"was not just my brother, he was my best friend\", and described his \"infectious smile\" and \"magical presence\".\n\nShe told the court she had suffered from anxiety and post-traumatic stress since the killing and found herself always wondering if she could have protected him from the \"evil\" that took him away.\n\nThe 31-year-old was eventually detained by authorities in Romania\n\nDuring the trial, O'Brien had claimed he felt threatened by Mr Hanson's \"very aggressive body language\" and had only meant to scare his victim.\n\nThere were angry shouts of \"coward\" from the public gallery as he was led away from the dock.\n\nDet Ch Insp Noel McHugh said O'Brien \"thought he could evade justice with the help of his 'associates' but he was wrong\".\n\n\"It is only now, upon sentence, that it's sinking in... that O'Brien has finally been caught and convicted and will be off the streets, away from society, for a very long time\", he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Exactly how Briton Russell Cowan died in Italy in 2016 remains unclear\n\nThe widow of a man who died in Italy in suspicious circumstances says the support she got was \"like a jigsaw that had not been put together effectively\".\n\nTrudy Cowan's husband Russell, 44, from Derbyshire, died of \"catastrophic\" head injuries during a trip in 2016.\n\nShe says her family was \"essentially left on our own\" by the UK authorities.\n\nHer comments come as a report from the victims' commissioner for England and Wales called on the government to offer more help in such cases.\n\nDame Vera Baird said support for the bereaved was \"patchy and sometimes inadequate\".\n\nThe Foreign Office said it had a team supporting the families of British people killed abroad and would look at implementing the commissioner's recommendations.\n\nEvery year between 60 and 90 UK citizens die in suspicious circumstances overseas.\n\nEx-RAF officer Russell, from Chesterfield, had been in Menaggio near Lake Como with three friends to take part in a classic car rally for charity.\n\nHe phoned his wife, with whom he had two children, on Saturday, 4 June, 2016 to say he was going out for a meal and was leaving his phone in his room.\n\nTrudy received a call on the Sunday morning from one of Russell's friends telling her that her partner of 25 years had been involved in an accident and had died.\n\nTrudy Cowan (right) says her family were offered no help following her husband's death\n\n\"Our priorities were getting to Italy, finding out what happened, and getting Russell back home,\" she says.\n\n\"But the support mechanisms that should have been in place for somebody that had lost someone abroad - they weren't there or available for us.\"\n\nShe says the Foreign Office emailed to say nobody would be coming to meet them or help them with the local police.\n\nThe family were not offered a translator or a family liaison officer, she says, while police in the UK said the incident was out of their jurisdiction.\n\n\"Everywhere we turned, we were basically told 'I'm sorry but we can't help you',\" she says. \"It was like trying to swim in a sea of custard, blindfolded.\n\n\"It's just not a joined-up approach. It's unwieldy for families that are trying to navigate through a system at a time when you're expected to make decisions at the worst point in your life, when your mind is like a fog.\"\n\nMr Cowan's body was found at the bottom of a fence by a private villa (left)\n\nItalian authorities concluded his death was an accident after he fell 8m (26ft) from a fence.\n\nBut his family do not believe it was an accident - a UK coroner ruled in 2017 that there may have been third party involvement - and an appeal against the Italian ruling is being heard in Como next month.\n\nTrudy's case was one of those looked at as part of the report published by the Victims' Commissioner on Wednesday.\n\nDespite the dedicated team the Foreign Office set up four years ago to support people whose loved ones were killed or murdered outside the UK, Dame Vera Baird said it was still an uphill struggle.\n\nHer report cites the case of a bereaved mother who said the Foreign Office would not provide an interpreter for a court hearing in case they made a mistake - the family sued them.\n\nA woman whose partner died in India claimed the Foreign Office advised her to have the body cremated rather than repatriated because it was cheaper.\n\nDame Vera said families should get the same entitlements as they do in the UK.\n\nAmong 17 recommendations, she said families of those murdered abroad should be entitled to financial help under the criminal injuries compensation scheme.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said the proposal would be considered as part of a wider review.\n\nTrudy says she \"fully endorses\" the recommendations, although she says she would not personally have pursued financial compensation.\n\n\"As a family we just want the truth. We want justice for Russell,\" she says.\n\nRobert Sebbage, 18, was stabbed to death by a taxi driver in 2011 while on holiday with his friends in Zakynthos.\n\nHis mother Rhian Sebbage, from Tadley in Hampshire, said she felt \"just a number\" when dealing with the fallout from his death.\n\nStelios Morfis was eventually sentenced to 16 years and four months in prison for murder - after three trials and an appeal hearing in Greece.\n\nAt the time of Robert's death, the Foreign Office said it was providing consular assistance to his family. But Mrs Sebbage said British diplomats were unable to \"intervene\" in the case.\n\n\"You are on your own,\" she said, adding that the family were not entitled to help from Greece and had to find and pay for lawyers, interpreters, doctors, hotels and flights themselves.\n\n\"We were backwards and forwards for three years after the event. I've never sat down and worked out all the costs, but my husband and I will probably be working for a very long time,\" she said.\n\nMrs Sebbage added her husband had to take unpaid time off work after suffering a stress-induced heart attack.\n\n\"You're just trying to make sense of it and get your head round it all and move on.\"\n\nThe Lucie Blackman Trust, which supports British nationals in crisis overseas, said it helps UK nationals with some of the issues cited by the report and urged anyone who is facing those problems to contact the charity.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it helped more than 22,000 British people overseas last year, including cases involving more than 4,000 deaths.\n\n\"We now have a dedicated team to support families of homicide victims, including funding translation where required,\" it added in a statement.\n\n\"We will look at what more we can do, including implementing many of these recommendations.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said it had recently conducted a review of consular services and it would set out proposals shortly.", "Robin McMaster's body was discovered after family members became increasingly worried about his whereabouts\n\nA woman who lived with her partner's decomposing corpse for more than a week and then claimed his prescription medication, has been jailed for a year.\n\nAngela Irwin, whose address was given as Holywell Hospital in Antrim, admitted preventing the lawful burial of a corpse.\n\nThe offences took place between 13 and 22 November 2018.\n\nIrwin, who is 54, also admitted a charge of false representation on 21 November 2018.\n\nThat involved ordering prescription medication from a GP on the pretence that such medication was for the treatment of another.\n\nThe charges followed the death of 40-year-old Robin McMaster, whose body was found at Devenagh Court in Ballymena on 22 November 2018.\n\nMr McMaster's body was discovered after family members became increasingly worried about his whereabouts.\n\nRelatives who phoned the home Mr McMaster and Irwin shared were told by Irwin that he was in bed with back pain and could not be disturbed.\n\nIrwin was originally arrested on suspicion of murder, but Mr McMaster's cause of death was later found to be \"most likely\" an overdose of Tramadol and other prescription drugs\n\nHis brother entered the flat on 22 November last year to find scented candles burning and \"barged past\" Irwin to find Robin McMaster dead in the bedroom.\n\nThe court was told Mr McMaster's brother has since been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.\n\nA prosecution barrister said police investigating the case found Mr McMaster had not been seen since 13 November - nine days before his body was found.\n\nHowever, medical evidence suggested he could have been dead between two and three weeks given the level of decomposition.\n\nIrwin was originally arrested on suspicion of murder, but Mr McMaster's cause of death was later found to be \"most likely\" an overdose of Tramadol and other prescription drugs he was taking for medical conditions.\n\nThe court was told that a plumber carrying out work at the flat on 15 November had \"interrogated\" Irwin on the smell in the property.\n\nA day before Mr McMaster's body was found, the court heard Irwin ordered sleeping tablets and antihistamines from his GP in his name which she used herself.\n\nA defence barrister said Irwin wanted to \"convey her unreserved apology and sympathy\" to the family of the deceased.\n\nIt was heard Irwin suffers from anxiety and depression, and has abused prescription medication.\n\nA judge said it was \"a very tragic case\".\n\nShe read a statement from Robin McMaster's mother in which she detailed how she had called to check on her son to be told by Irwin that he was unwell, the details of what he had eaten that day and how she had helped him shower.\n\nIn fact Robin McMaster was already dead.\n\nThe statement continued: \"She kept my son lying there like a piece of rotting meat.\n\n\"I was unable to touch his hair or tell him goodbye.\n\nThe judge told Irwin she had been living a \"sad and squalid\" life at the time of the incident, and \"simply lived in a retreated world and denied what was happening\".\n\nIrwin was given a two-year sentence - one to be served in prison and one on licence.", "Adnan Ahmed was convicted of five counts of threatening and abusive behaviour towards young women\n\nA so-called pick-up artist who targeted \"young and vulnerable\" women has been jailed for two years.\n\nAdnan Ahmed - who called himself Addy A-game - secretly filmed himself approaching dozens of women in Glasgow and Lanarkshire.\n\nAhmed was convicted last month of threatening and abusive behaviour towards five women.\n\nThe 38-year-old from Maryhill, Glasgow, has also been placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years.\n\nPolice launched an investigation after his actions were revealed by the BBC's The Social earlier this year.\n\nThe self-styled \"lifestyle coach\" would approach women in the street, often secretly filming the encounter and posting videos offering advice to other men.\n\nIn the videos, he offered tips on how to overcome \"last-minute resistance\" to sex. One clip included audio of a woman apparently recorded during sex.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adnan Ahmed, also known as Addy A-game, approaches women in the street\n\nFive young women, aged between 16 and 21, gave evidence at his trial about how they had been intimidated by Ahmed in Glasgow city centre and in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire.\n\nPassing sentence, Sheriff Lindsay Wood said Ahmed - who has been on remand in prison since January - had shown a lack of remorse.\n\nHe told him: \"You gave evidence and said that the victims were lying or mistaken, but the jury thought otherwise.\n\n\"It was very obvious when they gave evidence how they were affected.\n\n\"You have acquired notoriety and an unenviable reputation, the public will be wise to such inappropriate behaviour by you and others like you.\"\n\nThe trial heard how Ahmed approached two schoolgirls in a secluded lane in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, in 2016, when they were aged 16 and 17.\n\nHe called one of them \"pretty\", tried to get her phone number and made her feel \"uncomfortable\" but she walked away.\n\nAdnan Ahmed, appearing here in one of his online videos, claimed they were educational\n\nAnother woman broke down in court as she described how Ahmed followed her through Glasgow city centre and grabbed her head as he tried to kiss her.\n\nThe BBC investigation into Ahmed earlier this year revealed a wider pattern of predatory behaviour.\n\nAhmed was part of a global network of \"pick-up artists\" who practise what they call \"game\".\n\nYouTube has since removed hundreds of videos and deactivated two channels run by Addy A-Game and another group called Street Attraction following a BBC investigation into the online industry.\n\nA social worker who compiled a background report on Ahmed prior to sentencing described his behaviour as \"entrenched.\"\n\nDefence counsel Donna Armstrong said: \"The accused accepts he was convicted and will change the way he speaks to women.\"\n\nHis two-year sentence was backdated to January when he was first remanded in custody.", "Last updated on .From the section Champions League\n\nMichy Batshuayi came off the bench to score a late winner at Ajax as Chelsea stunned last year's Champions League semi-finalists.\n\nThe Dutch giants had won both their Group H games prior to the visit of Frank Lampard's side but struggled to break down their disciplined opponents and were undone when Batshuayi slammed home in the final few minutes.\n\nAjax did have a goal ruled out by the Video Assistant Referee in the first half when Quincy Promes' strike was ruled out by the smallest of margins, while Edson Alvarez headed against the post after the break.\n\nBut Chelsea fully deserved their win for a hugely impressive away performance as they recorded a second successive win that moves them top of the group, level with Ajax on six points.\n\nThe victory sets things up for a tantalising top-of-the-table meeting between the two sides at Stamford Bridge on 5 November.\n• None 'Batsman' Batshuayi goes from villain to hero\n• None Football Daily podcast: Liverpool return to form and Chelsea reach their peak\n\nBlues impress in clash of the young titans\n\nMuch has been made of this young Ajax side after they came within a whisker of reaching the Champions League final last season, knocked out by Tottenham in the semi-finals after a stoppage-time goal from Lucas Moura.\n\nDespite the loss of key players Matthijs de Ligt and Frenkie de Jong over the summer, astute signings coupled with yet more talented players emerging from the famed academy meant they picked up where they left off, winning 13 of this campaign's first 17 games and drawing the other four.\n\nBut here they faced a Chelsea side boasting its own impressive collection of improving young talent, who arrived at the Johan Cruyff Arena looking to claim a sixth successive win in all competitions.\n\nFrom the outset Chelsea made things uncomfortable for Ajax, not allowing the home side to utilise their favoured tactic of playing out from the back and disrupting their ability to build attacks.\n\nAs a result, the hosts created few clear-cut chances. They did not manage a shot on target until the 60th minute - when Daley Blind's low effort was held by Kepa, and the closest they came was when Alvarez' header cannoned back off the far post.\n\nThey were perhaps unfortunate to have Promes' goal in the first half ruled out, with his boot deemed offside, but Chelsea deserve huge credit for nullifying a side that failed to score in a game for the first time since 20 August.\n\nLampard's appointment in the summer raised a few eyebrows given his only previous managerial experience was one season in the Championship with Derby.\n\nBut this huge result - the best in his short time in charge of Chelsea - highlighted his credentials as one of the most progressive managers in the game.\n\nThe former midfielder got his tactics spot-on to defeat a previously unbeaten side, while his substitutions turned a credible draw into an excellent win.\n\nGiven Ajax's dominant home form Lampard could have been forgiven for playing it safe and settling for the draw, but opted to take the game to the hosts by sending on attackers Christian Pulisic and Batshuayi.\n\nThe result was Batshuayi's late winner and three points that ensure Chelsea take a big step towards the knockout stages.\n\nA first in five years for Ajax - the stats\n• None Chelsea have registered back-to-back away Champions League victories for the first time since October 2013.\n• None Ajax suffered their first Champions League group stage defeat since November 2014, ending a run of nine matches unbeaten at this stage.\n• None Chelsea have kept consecutive clean sheets in all competitions under Frank Lampard for the first time.\n• None Since the start of the 2016-17 season, Michy Batshuayi has scored nine goals as a substitute for Chelsea in all competitions - four more than any other Blues player.\n• None Despite only appearing as a 71st-minute substitute, Batshuayi had more shots than any other player in the match (4), including scoring the winner.\n• None Callum Hudson-Odoi (18y 350d) became the youngest player to start a Champions League game for Chelsea since Josh McEachran (17y 282d) in December 2010.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Mount (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Christian Pulisic with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt saved. Michy Batshuayi (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jorginho.\n• None Goal! Ajax 0, Chelsea 1. Michy Batshuayi (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Christian Pulisic with a cross.\n• None Kurt Zouma (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Brexit deal is now in limbo after Tuesday's votes in the House of Commons\n\n\"The ball is not in our court. The balls are all stuck in the UK's net.\"\n\nThe EU diplomat I was speaking to was frustrated. Hugely frustrated that the EU's newly negotiated Brexit deal was now stuck in limbo after Tuesday's votes in the House of Commons. He was irritated too that the prime minister said the next move would be decided in Brussels.\n\n\"We've done our part,\" said the diplomat, who represents a key EU country.\n\n\"The 'what next' cannot be seen as our responsibility. We negotiated two Brexit deals with two different UK prime ministers over more than three years. Now we're asked to grant yet another Brexit extension. We have to dance like Pinocchio in this game that isn't ours. It's very upsetting.\"\n\nBut like it or not, Brussels is now the focus of attention.\n\nWill the EU grant a new Brexit extension? If so, for how long?\n\nThe answer to these questions will most likely influence the next political events in the UK.\n\nFor example, if the EU refuses a new extension, MPs might well rush to approve the new Brexit deal, rather than face the possibility of no deal. The EU is hardly likely to run that risk though.\n\nBut if the bloc goes for a longer Brexit delay, then Boris Johnson will want to hold a general election (if parliament grants him one).\n\nIn Brussels, as European Council president, Donald Tusk, tweeted, some kind of new extension is seen as all but inevitable.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe EU doesn't need to wait for the prime minister to ask for one. Forced to do so under UK law (even though he made his personal opposition obvious) the prime minister submitted a letter of request at the weekend.\n\nEU leaders are painfully aware that the length of any extension they now grant will be viewed through a political prism in Brexit-divided UK.\n\nA short delay could be seen by those who want to Remain and who hope for a second referendum - as Brussels throwing the UK out on the streets. While a long extension could be perceived by Brexiteers as an EU attempt at holding on to the UK for dear life.\n\nAnxious to come across as being as neutral as possible and to avoid becoming entangled in the bitter UK debate, many EU leaders seem to prefer adopting the UK request outlined in the prime minister's letter: a three month Brexit extension lasting until 31 January, to avoid a no deal scenario.\n\nAs Donald Tusk tweeted, a Brexit extension is seen as all but inevitable\n\nFor the EU, any Brexit delay is a so-called 'flextension' - meaning the extension can fall way ahead of time.\n\nIn this case, as soon as parliament ratifies the new Brexit deal. But don't expect the EU to deliver its decision in a hurry. EU leaders are openly fed-up with having to interrupt busy schedules to rush to Brussels for more emergency Brexit summits.\n\nThey intend to try to agree the length of this new extension in writing, rather than in person. And this will only work if there are no major disagreements between EU members over the length of the new delay.\n\nIn the meantime, you can expect at least some posturing/grandstanding from certain countries like France, which want to keep the pressure up on MPs and the government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nImmediately after Tuesday night's vote for example, the French Europe minister growled that \"an extension is requested but with what justifications? Time alone will not bring a solution (to Brexit).\"\n\nEU leaders have welcomed the fact that on Tuesday - for the first time ever - a Brexit deal did get the nod from the UK parliament but diplomats point out that the reason they are all especially fatigued and frustrated by the one step forward, at least two steps back Brexit political dance in the UK, is because they fully appreciate this is not even nearly the end of the road.\n\nWhat the EU and UK are grappling with now is merely the UK's leaving process. Real negotiations on the future trade and security relationship - including painful political trade-offs involving fishing rights, work visas and the UK's ability to do trade with other countries - only begin in earnest after Brexit.\n\nThe words of one exasperated EU diplomat from a country traditionally close to the UK were \"I feel like this will never end.\"", "The skull found in Aberdeen was reconstructed\n\nThe face of a Medieval man whose remains were found in Aberdeen has been reconstructed.\n\nThe man - known as skeleton 125 - was one of 60 full skeletons and more than 4,000 human bone fragments found after work began at the Aberdeen Art Gallery redevelopment site.\n\nTesting indicated the man was over the age of 46 and shorter than average.\n\nThe researchers - AOC Archaeology Group - said he had suffered from extensive dental disease.\n\nThe man was said to have suffered from extensive dental disease\n\nDr Paula Milburn, from AOC Archaeology, described the work as providing a \"fascinating glimpse\" into the lives of Aberdonians 600 years ago.\n\nDr Milburn said: \"The ongoing post-excavation work is examining the remains in detail and will provide us with amazing information on the kind of people buried here, including their ages, gender, health and lifestyles.\"\n\nShe said research also indicated that the man possibly spent his childhood in an area such as the north-west Highlands or Outer Hebrides.\n• None New art gallery to open in November", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Universities can be oblivious to racial harassment, a report says\n\nRacial harassment is \"a common occurrence\" for many students in England, Scotland and Wales, Britain's equalities watchdog says.\n\nVictims' grades and mental health too often suffer and some quit altogether, according to an Equality and Human Rights Commission report.\n\nBut too many universities fear facing up to the issue will harm their reputation, the authors say.\n\nThe EHRC carried out in-depth interviews with students and staff, commissioned a survey of a representative sample of more than 1,000 students and sent a questionnaire to universities.\n\nThe report says about 13% of the students questioned had experienced racial harassment, rising to about a quarter of students from minority ethnic backgrounds, but universities are often unaware of the true extent of the problem on their campuses.\n\nOne undergraduate in Wales, reported aggression from fellow students.\n\n\"On multiple occasions, myself or my friends have had the N-word shouted at us or being told they are 'pretty for a black girl',\" she said.\n\nWhile black and Asian students were most likely to report abuse, Jewish and Muslim students also said they were targeted.\n\nA Jewish student said he had been threatened with being put in an oven, amid references to Auschwitz, during a protest event on campus.\n\nMuslim students spoke of feeling the need to play down their religious identity because of security checks at university events.\n\nInternational students said they often felt unwelcome, isolated and vulnerable, treated like commodities only wanted by universities for their fees.\n\nAnd many students reported \"microaggressions\" from staff or fellow students who, for example, expressed surprise they were on a particular course or mixed them up with the only other person of their ethnicity on the course.\n\nStudents who complained about racial \"banter\" said they were often accused of being \"oversensitive\" and felt they received little empathy or understanding.\n\n\"It impacted my academic performance because I didn't enjoy studying or doing group work with students who were so casually racist, sexist and homophobic,\" said one.\n\nOthers said their mental health had been affected\n\n\"I just don't want to be brown anymore. I wish I could boil my skin off or bleach it entirely,\" said an international student at university in England\n\nAnd an academic at a Welsh university said: \"As a Muslim, suicide is never an option but I feel incredibly isolated and alone. This institution is the first time in my life I have felt the target of racism.\"\n\nSome international students felt valued only for their course fees\n\nThe EHRC found a large discrepancy between the proportion of students reporting racial incidents during its research and the number recorded by universities.\n\nStudents are often reluctant to complain at all and many informal complaints are unrecorded, so some universities do not have a true sense of the scale of racial harassment on their campuses, the report says.\n\nAbout one in five universities said they had received no complaints of racial harassment at all in more than three years.\n\nThe report suggests some are reluctant to admit the true scale of the problem for fear of putting off potential students and losing their fees.\n\n\"They are living in the past and have failed to learn from history,\" said EHRC chief executive Rebecca Hilsenrath,\n\n\"No-one should ever be subjected to racial harassment in any setting.\n\n\"Our report reveals that not only are universities out of touch with the extent that this is occurring on their campuses, some are also completely oblivious to the issue.\"\n\nUniversities UK president and Brunel University vice-chancellor Prof Julia Buckingham said the EHRC's findings were \"sad and shocking\", calling on her fellow university leaders to make tackling racial harassment a top priority.\n\nEarlier this month UUK called on universities to give more attention to harassment and hate crimes related to race or faith.\n\nThe body says it will now call on universities to commit publicly to making it easier for people to report incidents and to putting better processes in place to respond more effectively.", "Dennis Nilsen was jailed for life in 1983 for the murder of six men\n\nSerial killer Dennis Nilsen spent his final hours in his cell in \"excruciating pain\" with internal bleeding, his inquest has heard.\n\nNilsen, who admitted murdering at least 15 men and boys in the 1970s and 80s, died in May 2018 at HMP Full Sutton in East Yorkshire.\n\nTwo days before he had been taken to hospital with abdominal pains.\n\nThe 72-year-old - known as the Muswell Hill murderer - underwent an operation but later suffered a blood clot.\n\nNilsen's inquest at Hull Coroner's Court heard he spent his final hours lying in his own filth as he suffered a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm.\n\nHis medical cause of death was given as a pulmonary embolism and retroperitoneal haemorrhage, linked to the ruptured aneurysm.\n\nA report from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman stated that Nilsen had been left \"deteriorating for two and a half hours\" after rejecting the opportunity to be seen for longer in the healthcare wing on the morning of 10 May last year.\n\nBut it also stated that the treatment he initially received in prison was \"commensurate with that which he would have received in the community\".\n\nRecording his verdict, Hull coroner Prof Paul Marks said: \"Dennis Andrew Nilsen died of natural causes.\"\n\nNilsen, far right, was arrested after a plumber checking the drains at his flat found human remains\n\nNilsen, who was born in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, would befriend his victims in pubs and bars before luring them to his flat, where he would kill them and sit with their corpses before dismembering them.\n\nThe civil servant's crimes were discovered when a neighbour called a plumber to unblock a drain outside the house in which Nilsen had a flat on Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill, north London. Human remains the killer had tried to flush away were found.\n\nNilsen's earlier murders were committed at his previous flat, at 195 Melrose Avenue in Cricklewood, north-west London.\n\nHe was jailed for life in November 1983, with a recommendation he serve a minimum of 25 years, following his conviction for six counts of murder and two of attempted murder. The sentence was later upgraded to a whole-life tariff.", "Department of Defense official Laura Cooper was giving testimony behind closed doors as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.\n\nHouse representatives barged into the deposition and demanded they be allowed to see the closed-door proceedings.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nHarry Dunn's father has said he is \"very pleased\" the suspect in the crash that killed him will be interviewed in the United States - but he does not believe she will return to the UK.\n\nTim Dunn's son died in a crash outside RAF Croughton with a car owned by US citizen Anne Sacoolas, who later left the UK claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nChief Constable Nick Adderley said she would be interviewed under caution.\n\nOfficers from Northamptonshire Police are waiting for the necessary visas.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference on Tuesday, Mr Adderley said Mrs Sacoolas had asked to be interviewed by officers from his force \"in order for them to see her and the devastation this has caused her and her family\".\n\nTim Dunn said the family's way to get justice would be to \"get the whole truth of what went on\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Dunn told BBC Radio Northampton: \"We are obviously very pleased to hear they are travelling out to America - that's great news.\n\n\"Hopefully, they are getting somewhere to help get her to come back to the UK and start proceedings.\n\n\"We understand the police are doing their job; yes, we've been frustrated not getting answers, but we understand they've got their things to do. We are happy [with the police], they have been talking to us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Northamptonshire Police Chief Constable Nick Adderley says officers will travel to the US\n\nMr Dunn's motorbike was involved in a collision outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on 27 August. He died in hospital.\n\nMrs Sacoolas' husband Jonathan is a US intelligence official who was working at the base at the time of the crash.\n\nBoth the British and US governments agree that by returning to the US, Mrs Sacoolas forfeited the right to diplomatic immunity.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, left the UK after the crash\n\nHowever, Mr Dunn's father said he did not expect her to return to the UK.\n\n\"If I'm honest, I don't think she'll come back,\" he said.\n\n\"After our meeting with the president and the way that went, they were adamant that she would not be coming back to the UK.\n\n\"Of course I hope for it, but in my heart I don't think she will be.\"\n\nHe said that if Mrs Sacoolas did not return, the family's way to get justice would be to \"get the whole truth of what went on and why she was allowed to leave\".\n\n\"We still believe that she never really had diplomatic immunity from the start,\" he said, adding that \"it was a mistake to let her leave the country\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry has asked for all correspondence between the US Embassy, the Foreign Office and Northamptonshire Police to be made public.\n\nShe said she \"smelt a rat\" and would be \"digging\" on the behalf of the teenager's family.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Frank Kinnis died after being attacked at Birkenhall Woods\n\nA man has been charged in connection with the death of an 83-year-old man in Moray.\n\nPolice were called to Birkenhill Woods on Monday after reports three people had been seriously assaulted.\n\nOne later died and he has been named as Frank Kinnis, who relatives described as a \"beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather\".\n\nPolice Scotland said a 35-year-old man had been charged and was due in Elgin Sheriff Court on Wednesday.\n\nA woman and man, both aged 70, were also injured.\n\nRelatives of Mr Kinnis said: \"He was a doting, warm-hearted and unfailingly dependable presence in each of our lives.\n\n\"There will also be fond memories of him among the farming and bowls communities in Elgin, where he was well known and liked.\n\n\"We will fondly remember him as he was in life, and ask everyone who knew him to make certain that it is these memories of him that endure.\"\n\nPolice were called to the scene on Monday\n\nSupt Kate Stephen said the couple and the 83-year-old had been out walking in the area that morning.\n\nShe said Mr Kinnis died in hospital later that day. The couple suffered head injuries and are in a stable condition.\n\n\"Given how incredibly rare and unusual this incident is for such a well-used and loved area, officers will be carrying out additional patrols here and providing an increased presence over the coming days - please approach any of our officers if you have information, or even if you just want to speak to someone about your concerns,\" she added.\n\n\"I am acutely aware of the impact this incident has had on the local community, and I include in that my own officers who not only work in the area but many of whom also live in the communities. Moray prides itself on being one of the safest places to live which makes this incident all the more tragic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police were called to Lynette Avenue to reports of a man \"causing a disturbance\" on Tuesday\n\nA man has been charged with attempted murder after a Met Police officer survived two attempted stabbings while trying to make an arrest.\n\nJulian Peters, 35, will appear at Camberwell Magistrates' Court on Thursday after being arrested in Clapham, south London, on Tuesday.\n\nHe has also been charged with making threats to kill and being in possession of a bladed article.\n\nThe officer who was attacked did not require hospital treatment.\n\nThe Met said a man \"produced two knives\" as he tried to leave a property in Lynette Avenue, Clapham, south London, at 21:00 BST.\n\nDespite being attacked, the police officer drew her Taser, discharged it and chased the suspect.\n\nCh Supt Simon Messinger praised the officer for her \"bravery\".\n\n\"She'll be back helping keep the streets of south London safe once again today,\" he added.\n\n\"Importantly, it also demonstrates how effective, and unfortunately necessary, a police officer's protective equipment is as this has potentially saved her life.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kim Jong-un ordered the removal of \"all the unpleasant-looking facilities\"\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered the demolition of all hotels and other buildings constructed by South Korea at a famous tourist site.\n\nMr Kim described the complex at Mount Kumgang in the North as being built \"like makeshift tents in a disaster-stricken area\", state media report.\n\nThe resort was once hailed as a symbol of inter-Korean co-operation.\n\nBut after visiting the site, Mr Kim said it would be better off being managed without involvement from Seoul.\n\nCorrespondents say Mr Kim's comments echo recent propaganda in the North that stresses the need to prioritise \"self-reliance\" in order to survive and succeed.\n\nTours to the resort in North Korea started in 1998\n\nThe KCNA news agency released a series of images of Kim Jong-un's visit\n\nThe Mount Kumgang resort, in eastern North Korea, was built in the 1990s by South Korean companies on one of the peninsula's most scenic mountains.\n\nHundreds of thousands of Southern tourists were allowed to visit the site under strict controls but tours were abruptly suspended in 2008 after a female tourist was shot dead by a North Korean guard.\n\nIn 2011 the North seized South Korean assets at the complex and expelled the remaining Southern officials.\n\nOn Wednesday, the North's official KCNA news agency said Mr Kim had visited the resort and declared buildings \"shabby\" and \"just a hotchpotch with no national character at all\".\n\n\"He instructed to remove all the unpleasant-looking facilities of the South side and to build new modern service facilities our own way,\" KCNA said.\n\nMr Kim, touring the site, said the North should be self-sufficient\n\nMr Kim said it would be misguided to view the resort as a symbol of North-South relations and instead it symbolised dependence.\n\n\"Mount Kumgang is our land won at the cost of blood, and even a cliff and a tree on it are associated with our sovereignty and dignity,\" he was quoted as saying.\n\nState media regularly portray Kim Jong-un as a strong and inspirational leader. Earlier this month a series of photos released by KCNA showed him scaling the country's highest mountain, Mount Paektu, astride a white horse.\n\nMount Paektu is one of North Korea's most revered places\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRelations between North and South Korea are currently at a low point.\n\nThe North is angry that the South continues to carry out low-level military exercises with the US, and earlier this summer rejected all further talks with Seoul.\n\nThe two countries are technically still at war. Although the Korean War ended in 1953 with an armistice, a peace treaty was never signed.", "MPs have approved Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit legislation on its first hurdle through the House of Commons.\n\nBut minutes later they rejected his proposed timetable for passing the Withdrawal Agreement Bill in three days, in order to hit the 31 October deadline for the UK to leave the EU.\n\nBBC Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake reports on the two crunch votes - and what happens next.", "Google says an advanced computer has achieved \"quantum supremacy\" for the first time, surpassing the performance of conventional devices.\n\nThe technology giant's Sycamore quantum processor was able to perform a specific task in 200 seconds that would take the world's best supercomputer 10,000 years to complete.\n\nScientists have been working on quantum computers for decades because they promise much faster speeds.\n\nIn classical computers, the unit of information is called a \"bit\" and can have a value of either 1 or 0. But its equivalent in a quantum system - the qubit (quantum bit) - can be both 1 and 0 at the same time.\n\nThis phenomenon opens the door for multiple calculations to be performed simultaneously. But the qubits need to be synchronised using a quantum effect known as entanglement, which Albert Einstein termed \"spooky action at a distance\".\n\nHowever, scientists have struggled to build working devices with enough qubits to make them competitive with conventional types of computer.\n\nSycamore contains 54 qubits, although one of them did not work, so the device ran on 53 qubits.\n\nIn their Nature paper, John Martinis of Google, in Mountain View, and colleagues set the processor a random sampling task - where it produces a set of numbers that has a truly random distribution.\n\nSycamore was able to complete the task in three minutes and 20 seconds. By contrast, the researchers claim in their paper that Summit, the world's best supercomputer, would take 10,000 years to complete the task.\n\n\"It's an impressive device and certainly an impressive milestone. We're still decades away from an actual quantum computer that would be able to solve problems we're interested in,\" Prof Jonathan Oppenheim, from UCL, who was not involved with the latest study, told BBC News.\n\n\"It's an interesting test, it shows they have a lot of control over their device, it shows that they have low error rates. But it's nowhere near the kind of precision we would need to have a full-scale quantum computer.\"\n\nIBM, which has been working on quantum computers of its own, questioned some of Google's figures.\n\n\"We argue that an ideal simulation of the same task can be performed on a classical system in 2.5 days and with far greater fidelity,\" IBM researchers Edwin Pednault, John Gunnels, and Jay Gambetta said in a blog post.\n\n\"This is in fact a conservative, worst-case estimate, and we expect that with additional refinements the classical cost of the simulation can be further reduced.\"\n\nThey also queried Google's definition of quantum supremacy and said it had the potential to mislead.\n\n\"First because... by its strictest definition the goal has not been met. But more fundamentally, because quantum computers will never reign 'supreme' over classical computers, but will rather work in concert with them, since each have their unique strengths.\"", "The government's Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB), which will take the UK out of the EU on 31 January, has passed all its stages in Parliament and been given Royal Assent.\n\nThe WAB turns Boris Johnson's withdrawal agreement, which is a draft international treaty, into UK law and gives the government permission to ratify it.\n\nNo new clauses or amendments were passed by MPs, who also rejected changes made in the House of Lords.\n\nWhat does the WAB actually cover? Among other things:\n\nA number of clauses in the previous version of the bill have been removed. They include:\n\nBetween 2016 and 2018, 426 unaccompanied children came to the UK in this way.\n\nAfter the WAB becomes law, the withdrawal agreement also needs to be ratified by the European Parliament.\n\nThen the stage will be set for Brexit on 31 January, when the post-Brexit transition period will begin.\n\nFor 11 months, the UK will still follow all the EU's rules and regulations, it will remain in the single market and the customs union, and the free movement of people will continue.\n\nThe challenge for the government will be to get all its new rules and policies in place by the end of this year.\n\nThis article was originally published on 21 October and has been updated to reflect changes to the Withdrawal Agreement Bill and its passage towards becoming law.", "Ian Murray has been a consistent critic of Jeremy Corbyn\n\nThe Unite union is pushing to de-select Scottish Labour's Ian Murray as a candidate in the next general election.\n\nThe MP for Edinburgh South was Labour's only Scottish MP between 2015 and 2017 and has been a consistent critic of Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nParty rules trigger a contest to replace an MP if a third of local members or affiliated unions back it.\n\nBut Mr Murray said installing a \"hard left Marxist candidate\" in his place would see Labour lose the seat.\n\nHe said he would now have to decide whether or not to stand as an independent candidate in the constituency.\n\nA Unite spokesman said: \"This decision was taken by Unite members following consultation with the relevant committees and branches of the union under our democratic processes.\n\n\"Our members are clearly concerned that Ian Murray has consistently undermined the Labour leadership in Scotland and at Westminster, and has on occasion attacked our union.\n\n\"No MP is entitled to their seat. It is for Mr Murray to now demonstrate why Unite members in Edinburgh South should return him as their representative.\"\n\nMr Murray vowed he would challenge the move.\n\nThe MP told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"If Unite want to try to de-select me on Thursday I am sure the membership of South Edinburgh - that I get on very well with and have their full, wholehearted support - will take a very dim view of and will vote accordingly.\"\n\nPressed on how he would respond to a move to replace him, Mr Murray added: \"I think constituents deserve to have a choice of candidates in front of them, I would obviously discuss that with friends, family and colleagues to decide whether or not I would stand if I was deselected.\n\n\"But certainly I can guarantee that if the Labour Party ... put in some hard left Marxist candidate they won't win the seat of Edinburgh South.\n\n\"That would be damaging to the Labour Party and damaging to the country.\"\n\nMr Murray said he had not spoken to the Labour Party leadership about the move to deselect him.\n\nFormer Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman branded reports Mr Murray could be ousted from his constituency as \"total madness\".\n\nSources close to Mr Murray have said the de-selection efforts came from a central level at Unite, and not from the union's local branch.\n\nThe vote is due to take place on Thursday evening.\n\nBefore becoming an MP Mr Murray served as a councillor for the city's Liberton and Gilmerton ward from 2003 to 2010.\n\nHe also increased his profile by leading the campaign to save Hearts Football Club from administration.\n\nThe Edinburgh University graduate was elected to Westminster in 2010 and, after an SNP landslide in 2015, he was Labour's only Scottish MP.\n\nIn 2017 Mr Murray retained his Edinburgh South seat with 54.7% of the vote.\n\nHe also increased his majority to 15,514 (32%) - the largest in Scotland.\n\nIn February he declined to join seven Labour MPs who left to form an independent group in protest at the party's approach to Brexit and anti-Semitism under Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nAt the time Mr Murray said Mr Corbyn should \"listen and learn and decide if he wants to keep the Labour Party together\".", "Dr Wolf admitted her \"misinterpretations\" following the BBC interview\n\nThe US publisher of a new book by Naomi Wolf has cancelled its release after accuracy concerns were raised.\n\nOutrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love details the persecution of homosexuality in Victorian Britain.\n\nBut during a BBC radio interview in May, it came to light that the author had misunderstood key 19th Century English legal terms within the book.\n\nPublisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said their parting was \"amicable\".\n\nFollowing the BBC radio interview, Wolf admitted there were \"misinterpretations\" in her book.\n\nHer UK publisher, Virago, had already published the book by the time the interview was broadcast, but said it would make \"necessary corrections\" to future reprints.\n\nHowever, US publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt delayed publication, and has now cancelled it altogether, according to the New York Times.\n\nDr Wolf is best known for her acclaimed third-wave feminist book The Beauty Myth and other works such as Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.\n\nHer new book argues that the British Obscene Publications Act of 1857 led to homosexual persecution in Britain getting worse.\n\nBut, during an interview on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking programme, presenter Matthew Sweet questioned key claims within it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matthew Sweet questions some of Naomi Wolf's evidence in her new book Outrages\n\nDr Wolf alleged she had discovered that \"several dozen\" men were executed for having homosexual sex during the 19th Century.\n\n\"I don't think you're right about this,\" Sweet replied, before detailing the term \"death recorded\" in fact meant that judges had abstained from handing down a death sentence.\n\n\"I don't think any of the executions you've identified here actually happened,\" he said.\n\nIn one particular case, he pointed out a 14-year-old boy had been discharged and not executed as she had detailed.\n\nSweet also raised questions over her interpretation of the surrounding \"sodomy\" - revealing the teenager had in fact committed an indecent assault against a six-year-old boy, and not a consensual homosexual act.\n\n\"I can't find any evidence that any of the relationships you describe were consensual,\" he added.\n\nIn June, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt told the New York Times it was delaying the publication of Dr Wolf's book in order to have time to \"resolve those questions\" raised about its content. They added then that they still intended to publish it in due course.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The government should investigate decriminalising the possession of all illegal drugs in a bid to prevent the rising number of related deaths, a group of MPs has said.\n\nThe health and social care committee said the level of such deaths in the UK had become a public health \"emergency\".\n\nIt found the UK's position on drugs was \"clearly failing\" and called for a \"radical new approach\" in policy.\n\nThe government said it had no plans to decriminalise drug possession.\n\nThere were 2,670 deaths directly attributed to drug misuse in England last year - an increase of 16% from 2017, according to the committee's report.\n\nHowever, if other causes of premature death among people who used drugs were included, it is likely the number of deaths would be roughly double this, it found.\n\nMPs on the committee said they were so concerned by the consequences of the UK's drugs policy that they had rushed their report out early.\n\nThey urged the government to urgently consult on making the possession of drugs for personal use a civil rather than criminal matter - an approach they witnessed in Portugal, where drug death rates have fallen dramatically.\n\nSuch a move would \"save money\" from the criminal justice system and allow for more investment in prevention and treatment, they say.\n\n\"Evidence heard throughout this inquiry leads the committee to conclude that UK drugs policy is clearly failing,\" the report said.\n\n\"The United Kingdom has some of the highest drug death rates in Europe, particularly in Scotland.\n\n\"This report shows how the rate of drug-related deaths has risen to the scale of a public health emergency.\"\n\nCommittee chairman, and Lib Dem MP, Dr Sarah Wollaston said: \"Every drug death should be regarded as preventable, and yet across the UK the number of drugs-related deaths continues to rise to the scale of a public health emergency.\n\n\"Recommendations put forward in this report propose changes to drugs policy that are desperately needed to prevent thousands of deaths.\"\n\nDenmark is among the countries to have introduced supervised drug consumption rooms\n\nMPs said the decriminalisation of the possession of drugs would not be effective without investing in harm reduction, support and treatment services for addiction.\n\nResponsibility for drugs policy, they argue, should be moved from the Home Office to the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\nThey also called for a reverse to recent cuts to drug treatment services, as well as \"sufficient funding\" for alternative approaches, like a pilot of drug consumption rooms - supervised healthcare facilities where users can take drugs in safer conditions.\n\nDr Emily Finch, vice-chairman of the addictions faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, backed the committee's report.\n\nShe said: \"The increasing number of people needlessly dying from drug addiction shows the government's approach to treating addictions is failing.\n\n\"We emphatically support the report's calls for urgent investment in drug treatment services and a return to harm reduction.\"\n\nA government spokesman said the decriminalisation of drug possession in the UK would not eliminate drugs crime or address harms caused by drug taking.\n\nHe added: \"We are committed to reducing the use of drugs and the harms they cause, and the Home Office has commissioned a major independent review to examine these issues.\n\n\"We must prevent drug use in our communities, support people through treatment and recovery, and tackle the supply of illegal drugs.\"", "The bodies of 39 people have been found in a lorry container on an industrial park in Essex.\n\nA 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland has been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe bodies were discovered in the early hours of Wednesday at Waterglade Industrial Park in Eastern Avenue, Grays.\n\nEssex Police said the lorry travelled from Bulgaria and entered Wales via Holyhead, Anglesey, on Saturday.", "Campaigners in the long-running Skye bridge toll protest are still fighting to have 130 people's criminal convictions repealed more than 15 years after tolls were abolished.\n\nIn a BBC documentary, David Hingston, the former Dingwall procurator fiscal who prosecuted the first protesters, has said the toll was an \"outrageous\" scam.\n\nAnd if a pivotal piece of evidence produced by the Crown in the court cases was fabricated, Mr Hingston said it would be a \"very serious crime\" and could invalidate protesters' convictions.\n\nThe Skye bridge between the island and the mainland opened in October 1995.\n\nDespite an outcry from the community about the way the Conservative government of the time had commissioned the bridge as Scotland's first Private Finance Initiative (PFI), the construction was seen by many as the route to economic prosperity for Skye.\n\nHowever, it soon became clear that this was to be the most expensive toll bridge in Europe. Car drivers were charged up to £5.70 each way, compared with an 80p charge on the Forth Road bridge.\n\nDavid Hingston, former procurator fiscal, said he thought someone had tried to \"paper over\" a very large hole\n\nBBC documentary The Battle of Skye Bridge draws together recollections from campaigners and the authorities, along with never-broadcast archive footage.\n\nThe tolls were introduced at midnight on 17 October 1995. A storm was raging, but the uproar from the community was only beginning to stir.\n\nCameraman Alex Ingram recalled the first cars arriving at the booth with the drivers refusing to pay the toll, then through the rain came a pipe band, walking across the bridge, followed by dozens of cars.\n\nAnd then, driver after driver refused to pay the toll. Several hours later, after refusing to leave, the protesters were charged and reported to the procurator fiscal.\n\nAndy Anderson, one of the organisers of that protest, said: \"What was important to me was on the first night, when I saw how many people turned up, [I thought] now we've got a chance, now we can fight them.\"\n\nSo began a long and creative protest under the banner of Skye and Kyle Against Tolls (Skat) that drew in islanders from all walks of life and attracted international attention.\n\nFrom driving flocks of sheep across the bridge to paying in pennies, the protesters sought to create drama as well as a disturbance.\n\nOut of hundreds of non-payment cases, 130 people ended up with criminal convictions, and some spent time in prison because they refused to pay fines.\n\nThey are still fighting to repeal those convictions.\n\nRobbie The Pict established that the toll charges being collected for a US-based company could be illegal\n\nRobbie The Pict, a former policeman and RAF serviceman, took a leading role in the campaign and was charged for non-payment more than 100 times, leading to 25 convictions.\n\nHe established that the toll charges being collected for a US-based company could be illegal.\n\n\"The secretary of state allowed a private company to demand tolls, but it has to be done via an accompanying document called an assignation,\" he told the documentary.\n\n\"Your name has to be on the assignation statement, otherwise it's unlawful.\"\n\nLeaked documents seemed to prove that The Skye Bridge Company's assignation document provided to the court by the Crown Office was fabricated from contractual agreements between the government and developers.\n\nIn an interview for the documentary, Mr Hingston said: \"It is a very important document. If it didn't exist then the prosecutions are wrong.\n\n\"It looked genuine, full stop. I had no reason to doubt it.\"\n\nHe said: \"I think the answer is there was no assignation and this document was produced to try and paper over this very large hole in the process.\n\n\"Someone, somewhere has perverted the course of justice and that's a very, very serious crime.\"\n\nHe added: \"One if the main problems with the Skye Bridge is that it is surrounded in secrecy. Everything is apparently financially confidential. It is ludicrous, frankly.\"\n\nBy the time the toll was scrapped in 2004, the £20m bridge had raised £33m for the American company that owned it. The Scottish government then bought the bridge for £27m and cancelled the toll. The total cost to the public was an estimated £93m.\n\nMr Hingston, who had a nervous breakdown because of the stress he came under dealing with the case, said: \"As a fiscal I had to do what I did, but as a human being and a citizen I thought they were a scam. It should never have happened, it was outrageous.\"\n\nRobbie the Pict told the documentary: \"It is a matter of justice. We are still fighting it and we will win it.\"\n\nThe Battle of Skye Bridge is on BBC Scotland at 22:00 on Tuesday, 22 October as part of the People Power series, and later on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The thermal imaging camera showed that Ms Gill's breast was a different colour\n\nA tourist has told of her \"life-changing\" visit to the Camera Obscura in Edinburgh after one of its thermal cameras detected she had breast cancer.\n\nBal Gill, 41, from Slough in Berkshire, was at the Camera Obscura and World of Illusions at the top of the Royal Mile with her family in May.\n\nWhen she went into the museum's thermal imaging camera room she noticed her left breast was a different colour.\n\nWhen she returned home she saw a doctor who confirmed she had breast cancer.\n\nShe discovered that thermal imaging cameras can be used as a tool by oncologists.\n\nThermography, also called thermal imaging, uses a special camera to measure the temperature of the skin on the breast's surface.\n\nIt is a non-invasive test that does not involve any harmful radiation.\n\nCancer cells grow and multiply very fast. Blood flow and metabolism are higher in a cancer tumour as blood flow and metabolism increase, which makes skin temperature rise.\n\nThe thermal camera was installed at Camera Obscura in 2009 and is a popular attraction\n\nMs Gill, a deputy-director of finance for a university, said: \"We had been to Edinburgh Castle and on the way down we saw the museum.\n\n\"While making our way through the floors we got to the thermal imaging camera room. As all families do, we entered and started to wave our arms and look at the images created.\n\n\"While doing this I noticed a heat patch coming from my left breast. We thought it was odd and having looked at everyone else they didn't have the same. I took a picture and we carried on and enjoyed the rest of the museum.\"\n\nA few days later when the mother-of-two returned home she was flicking through her photographs and saw the image.\n\nOn Google she found a number of articles about breast cancer and thermal imaging cameras. She was later diagnosed with early stage breast cancer.\n\nShe has since had two surgeries, including a mastectomy, and has a final surgery in November. She has been told she will not need chemotherapy or radiotherapy afterwards.\n\n\"I just wanted to say thank you, without that camera I would never have known,\" she said. \"I know it's not the intention of the camera but for me it really was a life-changing visit.\n\n\"I cannot tell you enough about how my visit to the Camera Obscura changed my life.\"\n\nThe Thermal Camera is a popular part of the Edinburgh attraction and lets visitors see a visual of all their body hot spots.\n\nAndrew Johnson, general manager of Camera Obscura and World of Illusions said: \"We did not realise that our thermal camera had the potential to detect life-changing symptoms in this way.\n\n\"We were really moved when Bal contacted us to share her story as breast cancer is very close to home for me and a number of our team.\n\n\"It's amazing that Bal noticed the difference in the image and crucially acted on it promptly. We wish her all the best with her recovery and hope to meet her and her family in the future.\"\n\nDr Tracey Gillies, NHS Lothian medical director, said: \"In the past thermal imaging cameras have been experimented with to detect cancer, however, this has never been a proven screening tool.\n\n\"Early diagnosis of breast cancer improves the ability to treat the cancer and the chance of survival is higher. We encourage any woman that has received an invite to a screening to attend and anyone with concerns who does not qualify for the screening programme to visit their GP.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Anna Roselyn Evans was trapped after the car hit the tent she was staying in\n\nA man who killed a woman and injured three others after driving while drunk around a campsite has been jailed for eight years and four months.\n\nJake Waterhouse, 27, of Partington, Greater Manchester, had been drinking whiskey before driving on 19 August.\n\nHe drove over a tent where Anna Roselyn Evans, 46, from Aberystwyth, and her husband were sleeping at the Rhyd Y Galen site in Snowdonia.\n\nIt took five people to lift the car off Mrs Evans before the mother-of-two was taken to hospital, but she died eight days later.\n\nThe court heard how Waterhouse and a friend had travelled to Wales on a fishing trip but Waterhouse only had a provisional licence and had not passed his driving test.\n\nEarlier in the day Waterhouse's friend suggested he learn to drive on private land, saying there would not be many people on the campsite.\n\nIn the early hours, while his friend was in the tent, Waterhouse drove his friend's Subaru Impreza around the campsite.\n\nCampers described hearing \"revving as if a vehicle was stuck in mud\" and one person shouted: \"He's running over the tents.\"\n\nHe hit one tent, injuring its occupants before the car ploughed into the Evans's tent.\n\nThe court heard how the \"tent was clearly destroyed, and he couldn't find his wife Anna\" before he saw her legs sticking out from underneath a car.\n\nWaterhouse ran from the scene and sent a text to his partner to say he was on the run. He also called his mother, who told him to \"do the right thing\" and he handed himself in to police shortly after.\n\nA roadside breath test showed him to be over the alcohol limit but he refused to give further specimens once in custody, which Judge Rhys Rowlands said was probably to hide how drunk he was.\n\nThe judge described the circumstances of this case as \"harrowing\" and said Waterhouse showed \"complete disregard for the safety of others\".\n\nMrs Evans had \"lost her life in front of her husband in quite the most horrific way,\" the judge added.\n\nHe said the combination of Waterhouse's drunken state and his lack of driving experience was \"pretty much an accident waiting to happen\".\n\n\"It completely understates matters to say it was the height of drunken stupidity on your part,\" he added.\n\nHe said if the occupants of the first tent had not been woken by the noise they too might have received serious or fatal injuries.\n\nWaterhouse had also admitted driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence, driving with no insurance and failing to provide a breath specimen for analysis.\n\nAs well as the custodial sentence, he was disqualified from driving for 12 years and two months.\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Sgt Dafydd Curry of North Wales Police said: \"This was a horrific incident where the mindless actions of an individual have taken the life of an innocent person.\"\n\nShortly after Ms Evans died, her son Richard posted on Facebook: \"Tonight I had to say goodbye to the most amazing woman I've ever known.\n\n\"It was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. She was my mother, my best friend, my rock and I'm going to miss her so so much.\"\n• None Woman dies after tent is hit by car", "Parents seeking support for children with special educational needs face unlawful practices, buck passing and a \"treacle of bureaucracy\", MPs say.\n\nThe Commons Education Committee said the government had set councils up to fail by upping parents' expectations while cutting council budgets overall.\n\nAlready stretched families were being torn apart, its report said, as they fought for their children's rights in schools, with councils and in tribunal.\n\nMinisters say they are boosting funds.\n\nThe government has also commissioned a \"root and branch\" review of the system.\n\nThe committee found a generation of children and young people were not being given the support they deserved, branding the situation a \"major social injustice\".\n\nThe MPs said they had heard overwhelming evidence changes to the system, introduced from 2014, were letting young people down day after day.\n\nFive years on, Robert Halfon, who chairs the committee, said: \"Many parents face a titanic struggle just to try and ensure their child get access to the right support.\n\n\"Families are often forced to wade through a treacle of bureaucracy, in a system which breeds conflict and despair as parents try to navigate a postcode lottery of provision,\n\n\"Children and parents should not have to struggle in this way - they should be supported.\"\n\nThe report, which took 18 months to produce, from numerous interviews and evidence sessions, said a child's access to support should not be determined by their \"parents' education, their social capital or the advice and support of people with whom they happen to come into contact\".\n\n\"Children and parents are not 'in the know' and for some the law may not even appear to exist.\"\n\nIt added: \"For some, Parliament might as well not have bothered to legislate.\"\n\nThe report called for greater oversight of how the system was working and was highly critical of what it saw as the government's failure to monitor how the changes had been received.\n\nIt said: \"The [education] department did not need to preside serenely over chaos for five years to see that things were not going as planned.\"\n\nThe MPs called for tighter monitoring by Ofsted and a direct line to the Department for Education for parents and schools to use if they believed local authorities were not complying with the law.\n\nA DfE spokesman said: \"No child should be held back from reaching their potential, including those with special educational needs.\n\n\"That's why we recently announced a £780m increase to local authorities' high-needs funding, boosting the budget by 12% and bringing the total spent on supporting those with the most complex needs to over £7bn for 2020-21.\n\n\"This report recognises the improvements made to the system over five years ago were the right ones and put families and children at the heart of the process.\n\n\"But through our review of these reforms, we are focused on making sure they work for every child, in every part of the country.\"\n\nNational Deaf Children's Society director Steve Haines said: \"This is the most damning select committee report I've ever read.\n\n\"Line after line, it shows that the education system for disabled children is completely broken.\n\n\"Parents are forced to become protesters, lawyers and bureaucrats to stand any sort of chance of getting the support their child is legally entitled to.\"\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman said: \"We have been warning for a long time that the picture facing schools supporting children with special educational needs and disabilities is unsustainable.\n\n\"Not only are budgets at breaking point, there have been severe cuts to local authority health and social-care provision.\n\n\"Schools and councils have been left struggling to meet the needs of our most vulnerable pupils.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coldplay have apparently revealed the tracks of their latest album in the classified adverts of a local newspaper.\n\nAn advert for Everyday Life sat alongside ones for a fridge-freezer, bales of hay and a divan bed in north Wales' Daily Post.\n\nOn Monday the band announced their latest album in a letter to a fan.\n\nLead guitarist Jonny Buckland, who grew up in Flintshire, tweeted he once had a holiday job at the newspaper.\n\nSimilar adverts have appeared in newspapers in England - in Exeter's Express and Echo, which is lead singer Chris Martin's hometown, and Southampton's Daily Echo, where drummer Will Champion is from.\n\nBassist Guy Berryman is from Kirkcaldy in Scotland, but no advert has yet been found in a newspaper there.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Coldplay This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEditor of the Daily Post, Andy Campbell, said he had been unaware of the advert.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers, he said: \"In editorial, we were blissfully unaware of it until someone phoned us up and pointed it out yesterday...\n\n\"To be honest, it's a brilliant bit of marketing by Coldplay, to get everyone talking about their new album and the track listing.\n\n\"Maybe someone from the record company, maybe Jonny Buckland himself phoned up the adverts team and placed the advert.\"\n\nColdplay are the biggest-selling British band of the 21st Century, with three of the top 20 best-selling albums since 2000, according to the Official Charts Company.\n\nBlack-and-white posters appeared in Madrid last week showing the band dressed as a 1920s wedding band, sparking rumours their latest album was on the way.\n\nThat was followed by the band's letter to fan Lena Tayara, which she initially dismissed as a hoax.", "People not washing their hands after going to the toilet, rather than undercooked meat, is behind the spread of a key strain of E. coli.\n\nExperts looked at thousands of blood, faecal and food samples.\n\nThey found human-to-human transmission was responsible - \"faecal particles from one person reaching the mouth of another\".\n\nPublic Health England said hand-washing and good hygiene were key to preventing the spread of infections.\n\nThere are many different strains of E. coli. Most are harmless but some can cause serious illness.\n\nAntibiotic-resistant E. coli is increasingly common. Strains which have 'Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamases (ESBLs) - enzymes that destroy penicillin and another antibiotic, cephalosporin - are causing particular concern.\n\nE. coli is the most common cause of blood poisoning, accounting for about one third of cases in the UK, with ESBL strains accounting for around 10% of those - around 5,000 a year\n\nIn the study, published in Lancet: Infectious Diseases, the team analysed 20,000 human faecal samples and 300 blood samples plus hundreds of sewage samples, animal slurry and meats including beef, pork and chicken - as well fruit and salad.\n\nOne strain - ST131 - was seen in the majority of human samples from all three sources. It is found in the gut but can, usually via urinary tract infections, cause serious infections.\n\nHowever, the strains found in meat, cattle and animal slurry were mostly different.\n\nProf David Livermore, from the University of East Anglia's Norwich Medical School, who led the research, said: \"Critically - there's little crossover between strains from humans, chickens and cattle.\n\n\"Rather - and unpalatably - the likeliest route of transmission for ESBL-E. coli is directly from human to human, with faecal particles from one person reaching the mouth of another.\"\n\nHe said maintaining food hygiene was still important - people should handle raw meat carefully, not least because there are other strains of food-poisoning bacteria that come through the food chain.\n\nBut he added: \"Here - in the case of ESBL-E. coli - it's much more important to wash your hands after going to the toilet.\n\n\"It's particularly important to have good hygiene in care homes, as most of the severe E. coli infections occur among the elderly, and people may need help going to the toilet.\"\n\nProf Neil Woodford, of Public Health England, said: \"In order to tackle antibiotic resistance, we not only need to drive down inappropriate prescribing, but reduce infections in the first place.\n\n\"In order to limit serious, antibiotic resistant E. coli bloodstream infections, we must focus on thorough hand-washing and good infection control, as well as the effective management of urinary tract infections.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People with long-term health problems such as arthritis are more likely to feel pain on humid days, a study has suggested.\n\nFolklore suggests the cold makes pain worse - but there is actually little research into the weather's effects.\n\nAnd this University of Manchester study of 2,500 people, which collected data via smartphones, found symptoms were actually worse on warmer, damper days.\n\nResearchers hope the findings will steer future research into why that is.\n\nHearing someone say their knee is playing up because of the weather is pretty common - usually because of the cold, Some say they can even predict the weather based on how their joints feel.\n\nBut carrying out scientific research into how different types of weather affect pain has been difficult. Previous studies have been small, or short-term.\n\nIn this research, called Cloudy with a Chance of Pain, scientists recruited 2,500 people with arthritis, fibromyalgia, migraine and neuropathic pain from across the UK.\n\nThey recorded pain symptoms each day, for between one and 15 months, while their phones recorded the weather where they were.\n\nDamp and windy days with low pressure increased the chances of experiencing more pain than normal by about 20%.\n\nSo if someone's chances of a painful day with average weather were five in 100, they would increase to six in 100 on a damp and windy day.\n\nBut there was no association with temperature alone, or rainfall.\n\nProf Will Dixon, of the Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis, at the University of Manchester, who led the study said: \"Weather has been thought to affect symptoms in patients with arthritis since [ancient Greek physician] Hippocrates.\n\n\"Around three-quarters of people living with arthritis believe their pain is affected by the weather.\"\n\nProf Dixon said if other researchers could now \"look at why humidity is related to pain, that opens the door to new treatments\".\n\nAnd it might be possible to develop a \"pain forecast\" that could allow people with chronic pain to plan activities.\n\nAbout 10 million people in the UK have arthritis - and most of them are thought to experience life-altering pain every day.\n\nDr Stephen Simpson, director of research at Versus Arthritis, which funded the study, said: \"It's been almost folklore that weather has an effect on arthritis - but that's all been people's 'lived experiences' rather than studies.\n\n\"This was an innovative way to do research and it's very important that we have been able to draw some conclusions.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "When he was out of money and stealing the milk in student digs, he decided there was only one option to earn some cash.\n\nThe individual, who does not want to be named, said he visited men when he was a teenage university student to earn between £20 and £120 a time.\n\n\"That line of work was sort of always on my radar as an easy way to make money in tough times. I only did it when I really needed it,\" he said.\n\nEventually, his parents found out and put a stop to it. He never talked to anyone else, including a subsequent girlfriend, about what had happened.\n\nHe now has a job, but says he is not in a position to preach to other students who are struggling for money.\n\n\"I regret it looking back. But if I was put back in that same situation, I might do the same thing,\" he said.\n\nA survey of students suggested that one in 25 undergraduates have tried adult work, including sugar dating by going out with older men, selling used underwear and having sex for money.\n\nThe National Student Money Survey, by website Save the Student, gathers the views of more than 3,000 people currently studying.\n\nThe proportion of those asked - who had done some kind of adult work - was double the proportion of the previous year.\n\nAn additional 6% of students said they would try adult work if they needed emergency cash.\n\nNearly four in five students worried about making ends meet, according to the survey which was published in August.\n• None 71%of students turn to parents for cash in an emergency\n• None 4%have done some kind of adult work\n\nAnother student, who wished to remain anonymous, said she was shocked how many of her fellow students were involved in adult work of some kind to make ends meet.\n\n\"I've never been as poor in my life as I was as a student, the rent was so high. I went to the shops and all I could afford was an oven pizza for the day,\" she said.\n\nIn desperation, she found information on social media on how to sell photos on an online fetish site. She made £100 or more a week selling pictures and videos of her feet to men.\n\n\"I was open about it. My Dad knew, my boyfriend knew. I do not regret it because I was finding a way to make money to eat,\" she said.\n\n\"But uni was horrific because it pushed me to that work, which is so unfair. I will always be bitter about it.\"\n\nThe National Student Money Survey found that 57% of those asked said they suffered poor mental health because of money worries - up 11 percentage points from the previous year.\n\nPsychotherapist Hannah Morish said that intimate work could easily lead to anxiety and depression.\n\n\"Adult work can feel isolating because of the stigma attached to it, meaning that if the student has a negative or dangerous experience they might feel unable to talk about it, leading to a deeper sense of loneliness,\" she said.\n\n\"Universities and student unions need to review whether they have advice and safe spaces on campus or online to support students who are considering or actively involved in this kind of work.\"\n\nJake Butler, from Save the Student, said that student funding should be given a top priority.\n\n\"The doubling of students involved in adult and sex work over two years is alarming and very concerning. But it's not all that unexpected, given the financial situation students are put in,\" he said.\n\n\"It is more important than ever for students to be aware of the financial pressures from the outset, so they can plan and budget effectively.\"\n\n\"It is important that we break down stigma that prevents student sex workers seeking help from their institutions, family and friends, public health and survivor support services when they require them,\" said Rachel Watters, NUS Women Students' Officer.\n\n\"Almost all universities and colleges, as well as most larger students' unions have some kind of advice centre offering support and information about student finance.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Get in touch and let us know if you wish to remain anonymous. Email us at 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:", "To get the best out of your daily blood pressure medication, take it just before you go to bed, say researchers.\n\nIt's a simple tip that could save lives, they say in the European Heart Journal.\n\nThe pills offer more protection against heart attacks and strokes when taken at bedtime rather than in the morning, a large new study suggests.\n\nExperts believe our body's biological 'clock' or natural 24-hour rhythm alters our response to the medication.\n\nThere is mounting evidence that many different drugs, including heart pills, might work better when taken at specific times of the day.\n\nThis latest trial is the largest so far to look at the phenomenon with high blood pressure pills, and included more than 19,000 people on these medications.\n\nBlood pressure should naturally dip at night, as we rest and sleep.\n\nIf it doesn't, and remains consistently high, that puts you at increased risk of heart attacks and strokes, experts say.\n\nThe research suggests taking medication in the evening helps keep night-time blood pressure in check, in patients diagnosed with high blood pressure (which doctors call hypertension).\n\nPatients in the study who took their medication at bedtime had significantly lower average blood pressure both at night and during the day, and their blood pressure dipped more at night, when compared with patients taking their medication each morning.\n\nLead researcher Prof Ramon Hermida, from the University of Vigo, said doctors might want to consider recommending it to patients: \"It's totally cost-free. It might save a lot of lives.\n\n\"Current guidelines on the treatment of hypertension do not recommend any preferred treatment time. Morning ingestion has been the most common recommendation by physicians based on the misleading goal of reducing morning blood pressure levels.\n\n\"The results of this study show that patients who routinely take their anti-hypertensive medication at bedtime, as opposed to when they wake up, have better-controlled blood pressure and, most importantly, a significantly decreased risk of death or illness from heart and blood vessel problems.\"\n\nHe said more studies in different populations were needed to check that the findings will apply to all patients on different brands of blood pressure tablets.\n\nVanessa Smith, from the British Heart Foundation, said: \"Although this study supports previous findings in this area, further research amongst other ethnic groups and people who work shift patterns would be needed, to truly prove if taking blood pressure medication at night is more beneficial for cardiovascular health.\n\n\"If you're currently taking blood pressure medication, it's important to check with your GP or pharmacist before changing the time you take it. There may be specific reasons why your doctor has prescribed medication in the morning or night.\"\n\nLifestyle factors also make a difference to blood pressure, so avoid:\n• None What is the worst time of day to get sick- - BBC Future\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A US drug company says it has created the first therapy that could slow Alzheimer's disease, and it is now ready to bring it to market.\n\nCurrently, there are no drugs that can do this - existing ones only help with symptoms.\n\nBiogen says it will soon seek regulatory approval in the US for the \"groundbreaking\" drug, called aducanumab.\n\nIt plans to file the paperwork in early 2020 and has its sights on Europe too.\n\nApproval processes could take a year or two. If successful, the company aims to initially offer the drug to patients previously enrolled in clinical studies of the drug.\n\nThe announcement is somewhat surprising because the company had discontinued work on the drug in March 2019, after disappointing trial results.\n\nBut the company says a new analysis of a larger dataset of the same studies shows that higher doses of aducanumab can provide a significant benefit to patients with early Alzheimer's, slowing their clinical decline so they preserve more of their memory and every day living skills - things that the disease usually robs.\n\nAducanumab targets a protein called amyloid that forms abnormal deposits the brains of people with Alzheimer's. Scientists think these plaques are toxic to brain cells and that clearing them using drugs would be a massive advance in dementia treatment, although not a cure.\n\nThere haven't been any new dementia drugs in over a decade.\n\nBiogen's chief executive Michel Vounatsos said: \"We are hopeful about the prospect of offering patients the first therapy to reduce the clinical decline of Alzheimer's disease.\"\n\nHilary Evans from Alzheimer's Research UK said: \"People affected by Alzheimer's have waited a long time for a life-changing new treatment and this exciting announcement offers new hope that one could be in sight.\n\n\"Taking another look at aducanumab is a positive step for all those who took part in the clinical trials and the worldwide dementia research community. As more data emerges, we hope it will spark global discussions about the next steps for delivering much-needed treatments into people's hands.\"\n\nProf Bart De Strooper, Director of the UK Dementia Research Institute at University College London, said: \"It is fantastic to hear of these new positive results emerging from the aducanumab trials. We currently have no effective treatments to slow or halt the progression of Alzheimer's disease and I hope this signifies a turning point.\"\n\nDementia is not a single disease, but is the name for a group of symptoms that include problems with memory and thinking.\n\nThere are lots of different types of dementia and Alzheimer's is said to be the most common and most researched.\n\nThere are currently 850,000 people with dementia in the UK.\n\nIt's been a long and tortuous journey to find new drugs for the disease and recent attempts have ended in failure.\n\nExperts hope a treatment is in sight, but they are cautious and will need to closely scrutinise these aducanumab trial findings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A group of protesters in Lebanon began singing Baby Shark after a mother told them her 15 month-old son was scared.\n\nEliane Jabbour was driving through Baabda District, just south of Beirut, when a crowd of cheering protesters surrounded her car. Her 15-month-old son, Robin, was with her.", "Lorry may have travelled via 'easier' route of Cherbourg\n\nEssex Police have said investigators believe the lorry came from Bulgaria. Speculating on the route the lorry may have taken, the chief executive of the British Road Haulage Association , Richard Burnett, said it could have travelled on a ferry from Cherbourg in northern France to Rosslare in the Republic of Ireland, before driving to Dublin to get a ferry to Wales. He said it was \"highly unlikely\" the vehicle would have been physically checked if it had come from Europe. \"Because of the migrant issue at Dover and Calais, you've got far more checks that are taking place there,\" he said. \"You've got heartbeat monitors, you've got dogs, you've got CO2. Those checks are done as you drive through. \"Cherbourg, because it's a low-volume port, you probably won't have the same security measures that they have in Coquelles [Eurotunnel terminal] or Calais. \"If this is somebody trying to smuggle a significant number of people through then maybe Cherbourg has been picked because it's a little easier to get through.\"", "Manny Fontenla-Novoa and Harriet Green were questioned by MPs\n\nA former Thomas Cook chief executive has denied contributing to the collapse of the travel firm.\n\nManny Fontenla-Novoa told MPs looking into the demise that a series of acquisitions under his watch had not left the firm with unmanageable debt.\n\nBut Harriet Green, who succeeded him, told the hearing on Wednesday she inherited a \"huge wall of debt\".\n\nThe most recent chief executive, Peter Fankhauser, has also blamed debt as a contributory factor in the collapse.\n\nMr Fontenla-Novoa told MPs on the business, energy and industrial strategy select committee that his strategy, including acquisitions such as a 2007 merger with MyTravel, had left the company \"in great shape\" for future growth.\n\nWhen challenged by committee chair Rachel Reeves, who cited evidence to MPs by Mr Fankhauser that he had \"had his hands tied\" and found his job \"impossible\" due to the debt, Mr Fontenla-Novoa said: \"I can't accept that, because if Peter felt that, then maybe they should have done something about that debt.\n\n\"They should have looked at what we did in 2010 in disposing of some assets. Maybe they should have done that earlier. If they'd believed that they could not service that debt, they should have done something about it before 2019.\"\n\nMr Fontenla-Novoa said that from about 2011, after he had left the business, Thomas Cook \"shrank capacity\" in real terms by reducing the number of available seats on aircraft or hotel rooms.\n\n\"You look at turnover in 2010, it was £9bn. You look at turnover in 2019, [it was] £9bn, which in effect, because of inflation, capacity has gone down,\" Mr Fontenla-Novoa said.\n\n\"In the same period of time, Jet2holidays have grown from nowhere to four million passengers a year. On the Beach have grown from nowhere to 1.6 million passengers a year. Love Holidays, similar amounts. I believe there was growth in the market. I believe we would have grown with that growth in the market. Instead, Thomas Cook... has shrunk, competitors have grown.\"\n\nMs Reeves cited Mr Fankhauser's comments that Thomas Cook could not have grown because it was spending £150m to £170m per year servicing debt.\n\nHowever, Mr Fontenla-Novoa said it \"was not about buying businesses or investing in technology, it's about the capacity that you put onto the marketplace.\"\n\nFormer chief executive Harriet Green said she had inherited in 2012 \"three profit warnings, a huge wall of debt, and a business model that was entirely out of sync with the industry.\"\n\n\"That's what I fought for 28 months, 22 hours a day, to change. And my responsibility is that I failed to complete that. This is a brand that was loved, with staff as loyal and as amazing as I've seen anywhere in the world,\" she added.\n\nMs Green, who now works for IBM, said she had implemented a strategy that was more focused on technology, but was asked to leave her post by the chairman before she had fully implemented it.\n\nThomas Cook, whose founder was born during the Industrial Revolution, was Britain's oldest holiday company before going into liquidation in September. This put around 9,000 UK jobs at risk and left 150,000 holiday-makers overseas, who were repatriated at an estimated cost of £100m to the taxpayer.\n\nFormer Thomas Cook staff protested outside Parliament after the company went into liquidation\n\nMr Fankhauser last week told MPs on the committee that the company was dragged down by its debts, which reached over £1.4bn in 2018. \"I'm sorry for not being able to turn around this company at pace and to really pay back this debt.\n\n\"Since 2012 we paid £1.2bn of interest costs and refinancing costs. Imagine if we had only half of that reinvested in the business, we could have been faster,\" Mr Fankhauser said.\n\nFormer senior Thomas Cook executives told the BBC the company's debt problems began with the MyTravel merger. \"We were told we're carrying this debt from a deal that was done many years ago and now we've got this baggage around our necks,\" said one former executive, who asked not to be identified.\n\n\"What that means is we have to sell about 2,000 holidays to even pay a very small piece of that debt back. What we're doing is essentially working to pay back the interest,\" she said.\n\nThe year after the MyTravel deal, Mr Fontenla-Novoa was awarded a £5m bonus. He said it was \"not for delivering the deal\" but \"for delivering the synergies\". He said \"those synergies were not just delivered, they were audited by external auditors\".", "Instagram is removing all augmented reality (AR) filters that depict or promote cosmetic surgery, amid concerns they harm people's mental health.\n\nEffects that make people look like they have had lip injections, fillers or a facelift will be among those banned.\n\nResearch suggests face-changing filters can make people feel worse about the way they look.\n\nInstagram, which is owned by Facebook, said the ban was about promoting wellbeing.\n\n\"We're re-evaluating our policies - we want our filters to be a positive experience for people,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"While we're re-evaluating our policies, we will remove all effects from the [effects] gallery associated with plastic surgery, stop further approval of new effects like this and remove current effects if they're reported to us.\"\n\nIn August, an update to the Instagram app allowed users to create their own virtual effects, such as animations and custom face filters, that can be superimposed on images and videos.\n\nMany popular filters - such as Plastica - mimicked the effects of extreme cosmetic surgery.\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 danielmooney 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\nAnother filter - FixMe - showed how a cosmetic surgeon marked a person's face before procedures.\n\nIts creator, Daniel Mooney, told the BBC: \"FixMe was only ever supposed to be a critique of plastic surgery, showing how unglamorous the process is with the markings and bruising.\n\n\"My intention was not to show a 'perfect' image, as you can see in the final result. Perfection is over-rated.\n\n\"I can see where Instagram is coming from, but for as long as some of the most-followed accounts on Instagram are of heavily surgically 'improved' people, removing surgery filters won't really change that much.\"\n\nInstagram said it was unsure how long it would take to remove all of the filters but many users welcomed the ban.\n\n\"Most people just pass filters off as 'girls having fun' and to just let girls enjoy things - but when you haven't posted a photo without one of these filters since 2016, then it clearly is something deeper than just 'fun',\" one user said on Twitter.\n\nHowever, some users said they would miss the effects.\n\n\"Has Instagram also considered me and what I'm supposed to do when I'm having a day where I look more clapped than normal? Old haggard witches need to look stunning too,\" tweeted one.\n\nResearch suggests excessive use of social media can cause feelings of depression - although some dispute those claims.\n\nIn February, Instagram said it would remove all graphic images of self-harm from the platform, amid concerns they could affect young and vulnerable people.\n\nIt followed the death of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who killed herself in 2017 after viewing graphic images of self-harm on the site.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum's lawyers say she professed sympathy for IS to protect herself and her son (Video from February 2019)\n\nRemoving Shamima Begum's citizenship after she went to Syria left her stateless and at risk of hanging, a court has heard.\n\nHer lawyer said Ms Begum, now 20, is in \"an incredibly fragile and dangerous\" position in a Syrian refugee camp.\n\nAfter leaving London as a 15-year-old, Ms Begum lived under the rule of the Islamic State group for three years, before being found in February.\n\nThe Home Office denies that the decision left her stateless.\n\nIt says that she could claim Bangladeshi nationality through her family, but her lawyers told the court that Bangladesh said it will not allow Ms Begum into the country and she would face hanging if she tried to enter secretly.\n\nA four-day preliminary hearing is taking place at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, a semi-secret court that deals with cases where the UK government wants to keep someone out of the country on national security grounds.\n\nIn submissions to the court, Ms Begum's lawyers said she had only professed sympathy for the Islamic State group in media interviews to protect herself and her newborn son, who later died in the refugee camp.\n\nIn February 2015, Ms Begum left Bethnal Green in east London for Syria with two friends.\n\nWithin days she had crossed the Turkish border and eventually reached the IS headquarters at Raqqa, where she was married to a Dutch convert recruit. They had three children - all of whom have since died.\n\nAfter she was found in February, former home secretary Sajid Javid stripped her of her UK citizenship.\n\nTom Hickman QC told the court that Ms Begum was challenging the decision on three grounds, including that it had made his client stateless.\n\nMs Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nHe also argued that removing her citizenship led to a \"real risk of death\" or suffering other human rights abuses.\n\nAnd he said that she was denied an effective right to challenge the citizenship decision because it was taken while she was in a Syrian refugee camp.\n\nMs Begum is unable to speak confidentially with her lawyers or to give evidence in support of her appeal, Mr Hickman said.\n\nThe Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) can be found in an airless basement of an anonymous block behind the Royal Courts of Justice.\n\nIt's fitting because a great deal of its work happens behind locked doors as judges hear secret intelligence assessments from MI5 that inform decisions by the home secretary to ban someone from the UK.\n\nMs Begum's lawyers must prove she does not have Bangladeshi citizenship as an alternative to being a Brit. The government has to prove it has not left her \"stateless\", contrary to basic law.\n\nSIAC has previously ruled that a British national of Bangladeshi heritage can't be stripped of their nationality if they're over 21 years old and do not already hold proof of the other nation's citizenship.\n\nMs Begum's case is different. She was 19 when she lost her citizenship. Her lawyers argue that Bangladeshi ministers have made clear they won't accept her - and predict that the country's Supreme Court wouldn't overrule the politicians.\n\nIf SIAC rules against Ms Begum on this point, it will go on to consider whether she is a genuine threat to national security.\n\nThe UK government claims that under Bangladeshi law, Ms Begun is a citizen by descent, and so she cannot be made stateless by losing her British citizenship.\n\nIn its submissions to court, it said any risks she faces are \"wholly unrelated\" to the citizenship decision and are a consequence of travelling to Syria and joining IS.\n\nBut her lawyers say Ms Begum has never visited Bangladesh and does not speak Bengali.\n\n\"The Bangladeshi government has made clear it will not allow the appellant to go to that country. It has said that if she arrived covertly she would be hanged,\" they said in legal papers.\n\nThe UK government has also claimed that Camp Roj in northern Syria, where Ms Begum now lives, is \"likely to be unguarded\" - meaning she was free to leave.\n\nBut Mr Hickman said there was no evidence for this and that the environment was \"incredibly fragile and dangerous\".\n\nThe conditions in the camp are \"wretched and squalid\" as the death of her child demonstrates, he said.\n\nMs Begum has been \"abandoned\" there because the citizenship decision was \"designed\" to prevent her returning to the UK, he added.\n\nA second stage of Ms Begum's legal challenge, to be heard at a later date, will look at the government's allegations that she poses an ongoing threat to national security.", "The Last Ent of Affric is Scotland's 2019 Tree of the Year\n\nA lone elm whose remote location has protected it from Dutch elm disease has been named Scotland's Tree of the Year.\n\nThe Last \"Ent\" of Affric beat competition from five other finalists in the 2019 online vote run by Woodland Trust Scotland.\n\nEnts are mythological tree creatures from JRR Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, which serve as guardians of the forest.\n\nThe tree was nominated for the honour by Giles Brockman of Forest and Land Scotland (FLS).\n\nJudges chose six trees from public nominations which were then put to an online vote in September.\n\nThe Last Ent of Affric will now compete in a vote to be the UK's contender for European Tree of the Year.\n\nThe stunning landmark stood forgotten in a spur off Glen Affric in the Highlands until a site visit by FLS and Trees for Life staff in 2012.\n\nIt is the only one of its kind in the glen and is believed to be the last survivor of an ancient forest.\n\nThe elm is hundreds of years old and has thrived, hidden away from the ravages of Dutch Elm disease.\n\nThe Last Ent of Affric - with its \"face\" - was nominated by Giles Brockman of Forest and Land Scotland\n\nMr Brockman said: \"Given its location, its isolation - and its peculiar 'face' - it's very easy to imagine it as one of Tolkien's Ents standing sentinel over the rebirth of a new native woodland in Affric.\"\n\nThe winning tree receives a £1,000 care award to improve its health, signage or a public celebration.\n\nIt will also be honoured at a ceremony in the Scottish Parliament later in the year, when a trophy will be presented to its supporters.\n\nPrizes were donated by the People's Postcode Lottery.\n\nGiles Brockman nominated the elm which was named after tree creatures from Lord of the Rings\n\nSanjay Singh from the organisation said: \"We're delighted players have supported the Woodland Trust's search for 2019's Tree of the Year, a competition highlighting the need to ensure our ancient trees are valued and protected.\n\n\"There were many fascinating entries with incredible stories behind them.\"\n\nTwo runners-up won £500 towards their upkeep.\n\nCouncillor Colin Pike chose The Peace Tree as his nomination\n\nThe first was the Peace Tree at Dunnottar Church, which was nominated by Councillor Colin Pike.\n\nThis oak was planted in 1919 to mark the signing of the treaty ending the World War One, and is officially recognised as a national war memorial.\n\nOnce hidden away by brambles, the tree has been returned to view in recent years and celebrated its 100th birthday by producing a good crop of acorns for the first time in some years.\n\nAncient tree hunter Judy Dowling (right) and Monica Lennon MSP, who is Oak Champion in the Scottish Parliament, nominated the Cadzow Oak\n\nThe second runner-up was the Cadzow Oak which was nominated by ancient tree hunter Judy Dowling and by Monica Lennon MSP who is Oak Champion in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThis is one of 300 very ancient oaks growing on what were the hunting grounds of the Duke of Hamilton, and one of a handful easily accessible to the public within Chatelherault Country Park.\n\nIt suffered damage from a fire set in its hollow a couple of years ago but survived.\n\nThe Cadzow oakwoods provided much inspiration to the Cadzow Artists, a school of landscape painters including Horatio McCulloch (1805-67) and Samuel Bough (1822-78).\n\nLast year's Scottish Tree of the Year - Netty's Tree on Eriskay - now has a ceilidh tune written in its honour.\n\nOther previous winners include The Suffragette Oak in Glasgow, the Ding Dong Tree in Prestonpans and the Big Tree on Orkney.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dover is the single largest site for people smuggling operations, police say\n\nSince the Calais migrant camps were shut three years ago and security measures were increased at Dover and the Channel Tunnel, people smugglers have increasingly moved to other routes.\n\nAsked which ports are being used, the National Crime Agency told me: \"All of them.\"\n\nMore dangerous methods are being used to get human cargo through.\n\nThe most common one is being hidden in the back of a lorry, but increasingly commercial shipping containers are being used, sometimes even refrigerated ones of the type seen on the back of the truck in Essex.\n\nRisks are substantial for the migrants, who can pay £10,000 or more for a space on these vehicles.\n\nPolice say identifying illegal shipments is a significant challenge and the National Crime Agency now heads a taskforce - Project Invigor - which works with partners in the UK and across Europe, sharing intelligence and resources to try and disrupt the smugglers.\n\nEuropol also has a dedicated centre pulling together every scrap of information on migrant smuggling into the EU - sometimes small-scale operators but also global criminal networks for which clandestine movement of people is a useful way to fund other activities.\n\nThere have been concerted efforts by police and the Home Office to ensure that cross-border co-operation on issues like people smuggling and trafficking is not diminished after Brexit but concerns remain.\n\nThe largest numbers of people identified being taken across UK borders come from Eritrea in East Africa, followed by Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran in the Middle East.\n\nThere are four significant routes into mainland Europe - into Spain from west and north Africa, across the Mediterranean to Italy, through Poland from the east and, probably the busiest route, through Turkey and up through the Balkans.\n\nPolice have recently targeted a number of large gangs in Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina.\n\nTo get across the English Channel to the UK smugglers are increasingly using less direct routes. From Cherbourg, for instance, they can sail to Rosslare or Dublin, and from there on to Holyhead.\n\nSome 280,000 lorries go through the port in North Wales each year but that is almost a tenth of the number going through Dover which, police say, remains the single largest site for people smuggling operations.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many in the European press believe UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not be able to keep his promise of leaving the EU by 31 October following Parliament's rejection of his plan to pass his Brexit bill in three days.\n\nThe question for several is, as the Belgian financial daily De Tijd puts it: \"Will [Mr Johnson] take it to the people after all... Polls predict that his Conservatives would quickly win that... On the other hand, he now has a deal and a parliamentary majority. Is that fetish date of 31 October so important?\"\n\n\"The question is about the length of a delay,\" Italy's Il Corriere della Sera believes.\n\n\"Boris apparently will not mind a short one... But if Europe, quite possibly, prefers a longer extension... Johnson might decide that it would be better to resolve the matter once and for all through early elections before Christmas - and he is sure to win the popular vote.\"\n\n\"In the looming election campaign the prime minister can tell Britons tired of Brexit that, first, he arranged an orderly exit with the Europeans... Second, he can point at the opposition as those 'guilty' of the ongoing agony of leaving the EU,\" says Germany's Welt.\n\nHandelsblatt says Mr Johnson's warning he could call a general election was an \"empty threat\"\n\nBut \"without the opposition's support, he cannot call a new election,\" notes the financial daily Handelsblatt.\n\nDespite his Brexit bill passing its second reading, \"Boris Johnson's obstacle course has not ended. The opposition intends to put a whole set of amendments in his way,\" France's Le Figaro says.\n\nBut this doesn't mean he won't triumph, says Czechia's SeznamZpravy website. \"Boris Johnson might have lost another battle but in the war he is on his way to a final victory. That is if the unbelievably dragging process of the UK's departure from the EU can be called a victory.\"\n\nAnd it is not the only commentary exasperated by the process.\n\n\"Clarity must be provided quickly now, because the human cost of Brexit is already impossible to express in terms of numbers,\" pleads De Morgen in Belgium. \"Politicians are not sufficiently considering the emotional consequences of Brexit.\"\n\n\"Brexit has turned from a tragicomedy into a distasteful horror, which is likely to haunt us for the next decade,\" says the Polish Rzeczpospolita. \"The Brexit deal is just the start. It will be followed by a fight over trade, services, farming, and all sorts of issues... Only lawyers and satirists will earn from this divorce.\"\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.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nUnited States striker Alex Morgan has announced she is pregnant.\n\nMorgan, 30, finished joint-top scorer at the 2019 Women's World Cup and is viewed as one of the world's most influential female players.\n\nHer first child is due in April 2020, three months before USA are scheduled to play at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.\n\nMorgan tweeted an image of her with her husband - LA Galaxy footballer Servando Carrasco - adding they are \"already in love\" with their \"baby girl\".\n\n\"Newest member of the Carrasco family, coming soon,\" tweeted Morgan, who plays for Orlando Pride.\n\nMorgan has scored 107 times for her country in 169 appearances and won the Women's World Cup in 2015 and 2019.\n\nShe was named in the FIFPro World XI in 2016, 2017 and 2019, and also won the Women's Champions League while on loan with Lyon in 2017.\n\nShe made no reference to her availability for USA at the Olympic Games, which officially begin on 24 July, though the football competition starts two days earlier.", "The extradition bill sparked months of protest but its withdrawal is unlikely to quell unrest\n\nHong Kong's legislature has formally withdrawn a controversial extradition bill that has sparked months of unrest.\n\nThe bill - which would have allowed for criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China - prompted outrage when it was introduced in April.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people took to the streets and the bill was eventually suspended.\n\nBut protesters have continued regular demonstrations, which spiralled into a wider pro-democracy movement.\n\nIt is the worst crisis for Hong Kong since the former British colony was handed back to China in 1997.\n\nIt has also presented a serious challenge to China's leaders in Beijing, who have painted the demonstrators as dangerous separatists and accused foreign powers of backing them.\n\nThe proposed bill would have allowed for Hong Kong to extradite criminal suspects to places it does not have an extradition treaty with, including mainland China, Taiwan and Macau.\n\nCritics of the planned law had feared extradition to mainland China could subject people to arbitrary detention and unfair trials.\n\nThe bill's formal withdrawal meets only one of five key demands emphasised by some protesters, who have often chanted \"five demands, not one less\" in Hong Kong's streets.\n\nConnie, a 27-year-old protester, told Reuters news agency the move was \"too little, too late\".\n\n\"There are still other demands the government needs to meet, especially the problem of police brutality,\" she said.\n\nCarrie Lam, the embattled Hong Kong leader, has insisted that other demands by protesters are outside her control.\n\nThe protests - which began peacefully - now often descend into violent running battles between Hong Kong police and hardcore demonstrators who have vandalised shops and hurled petrol bombs at security forces.\n\nPolice have used water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets in response. Live rounds have been fired on a few occasions, and an 18-year-old was shot by police in the chest on 1 October.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Hong Kong got trapped in a cycle of violence\n\nThe Financial Times newspaper reports that China's government is drawing up plans to remove Ms Lam, a figure loathed by protesters whom Beijing has thus far stood by.\n\nIf Chinese President Xi Jinping approves the plan, the paper says, she will be replaced by an interim chief executive after calm returns to Hong Kong.\n\nMs Lam's office told the BBC: \"We do not comment on speculation.\" China's foreign ministry said the FT report was \"a political rumour with ulterior motives\".\n\nSeparately on Wednesday, Hong Kong released the murder suspect whose case led to the extradition bill in the first place.\n\nChan Tong-kai is accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend in Taiwan last year before fleeing back to Hong Kong.\n\nBut Hong Kong and Taiwan do not have an extradition treaty, and his case was cited when the government proposed amending the law.", "Last updated on .From the section Champions League\n\nPep Guardiola hailed Raheem Sterling as an \"extraordinary\" talent after his 11-minute second-half hat-trick helped Manchester City demolish Atalanta and maintain their 100% start in Champions League Group C.\n\nSterling is City's leading scorer with 12 goals in 13 games in all competitions this season and this latest ruthless display demonstrated again what a potent finisher he has become.\n\nGuardiola feels there is even more to his game than just his goalscoring however, explaining afterwards: \"His physicality is incredible. He is strong - the day after the game, he could play another game - his regeneration is incredible.\n\n\"He can play both sides and he is fast so, defensively, he helps us a lot. He is an extraordinary, extraordinary player.\"\n• None Rodri could be out for a month with hamstring injury\n• None Football Daily podcast: High fives all round for Spurs and Man City\n\nSterling's treble, which followed a first-half Sergio Aguero double, turned this game into another emphatic statement of City's attacking power but it was a far from perfect evening for Guardiola.\n\nRodri limped off with a hamstring injury before half-time and Phil Foden was sent off for the first time in his career for two late bookings.\n\nThere was another reminder of City's current defensive vulnerability too, when a Ruslan Malinovskyi penalty gave Atalanta a surprise lead after Fernandinho clumsily fouled Josip Ilicic.\n\nCity, who began with an unfamiliar three-man defence, had shown some early uncertainty at the back and took time to get into their stride going forward.\n\nBut Aguero quickly levelled from close range when he ran on to Sterling's in-swinging cross and the Argentine fired City ahead from the spot before half-time after Sterling was fouled by Andrea Masiello.\n\nSterling took over goalscoring duties after the break, firstly when he rounded off a fine move involving Riyad Mahrez, Kevin de Bruyne and Foden.\n\nBy now Atalanta's defence had completely crumbled and Sterling soon took full advantage, running on to an Ilkay Gundogan pass and cutting inside past Rafael Toloi before finding the net.\n\nFive minutes later Sterling made it 5-1 when he ran on to a Mahrez cross, and he should have added to his tally before the end when he fired wide after running clear.\n\nFoden, making only his second start of the season, saw red eight minutes from time after being booked for dragging back Marten de Roon as he shaped to shoot.\n\nThe 19-year-old's first yellow card had come six minutes earlier when he tangled with Malinovskyi in midfield, and appeared harsh.\n\nIt remains to be seen how serious Rodri's injury is, but Guardiola showed his frustration as John Stones prepared to replace him, slamming the back of one of the seats in his dugout.\n\nHe did have some good news, however. Shakhtar Donetsk's draw with Dinamo Zagreb earlier on Tuesday means a win in Italy when these two sides meet again on 6 November will seal City's progress to the last 16 for a seventh successive year.\n\nEarlier this week Guardiola called on his side to be more clinical in front of goal if they are to go deep into the competition this season, but it is their displays at the back that should be a more pressing concern.\n\nAlthough he had two centre-halves on his bench in the shape of Stones and Nicolas Otamendi, Guardiola opted to play with three at the back against Atalanta, with a converted midfielder, Fernandinho, at the heart of his new-look backline and Kyle Walker and Benjamin Mendy on either side.\n\nRodri and Gundogan were supposed to give protection in the centre of midfield but the experiment did not work, with Atalanta finding all sorts of space down both flanks.\n\nBy the time the Italian side took the lead, City had already survived one scare when Robin Gosens escaped down the left and Timothy Castagne headed over from six yards.\n\nA better team would have punished City, and Guardiola must go back to the drawing board to find the answer at the back, while any absence to Rodri will also give him a problem to solve in midfield.\n\nGuardiola emphatically ruled out punishing Foden for his red card, the first of his fledgling career, instead focusing on his impressive performance in midfield before he was sent off.\n\n\"Will I fine him? Absolutely not,\" Guardiola said. \"I have never fined a player except for when they did stupid things but for this part of the game, absolutely not. Maybe I should pay him, because of how well he played.\n\n\"The important thing with Phil is not the red card, it is the way he played. We know it - he can do it - and he played so good, at a high level.\n\n\"Now he will know after having one yellow card that he has to be more careful for the second but this experience is good and it is going to help him.\n\n\"People say 'you have to play him more minutes, more minutes'. Yes I want him to play but there are still things like this where he is far away from David Silva, Ilkay Gundogan or Kevin de Bruyne.\n\n\"He will learn. He has to live this kind of situation to understand that, with a yellow card, he has to be careful. Because the result was 5-1 it was OK, but if the score is 2-1 or 3-2 it can be difficult.\"\n\nIt is back to the Premier League for City and they can narrow the gap on leaders Liverpool to three points - for 24 hours at least - when they host Aston Villa at 12:30 BST on Saturday.\n• None Attempt missed. Rafael Tolói (Atalanta) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ruslan Malinovskiy with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Luis Muriel (Atalanta) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Luis Muriel (Atalanta) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ruslan Malinovskiy with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Remo Freuler (Atalanta) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Luis Muriel.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruslan Malinovskiy (Atalanta) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Timothy Castagne.\n• None Attempt missed. Marten de Roon (Atalanta) right footed shot from the left side of the box is too high following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt blocked. Rafael Tolói (Atalanta) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luis Muriel. 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\nBoris Johnson has said he is facing accusations about his personal conduct because he is viewed as the person who is \"helping to deliver Brexit\".\n\nThe prime minister said it was \"inevitable\" he would face \"shot and shell\" because of his stance on Brexit.\n\nHe also continued to deny allegations he squeezed a female journalist's thigh at a lunch 20 years ago.\n\nHe said it was \"very sad that someone should make those allegations\", adding they were \"not true\".\n\nJournalist Charlotte Edwardes, writing in the Sunday Times, accused Mr Johnson of touching her thigh, and that of another woman, at a lunch in at the offices of the Spectator magazine.\n\nHe has also faced questions in recent days over his ties to US businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri during his time as London mayor - he insists he acted with \"full propriety\".\n\nIt is alleged Ms Arcuri received favourable treatment due to her friendship with Mr Johnson, but the PM has said there was \"no interest to declare\".\n\nMr Johnson was speaking on the third day of the Conservative conference in Manchester.\n\nAsked about stories regarding his personal conduct, he told BBC Breakfast: \"I've said pretty much what I have to say on all those things.\n\n\"This is a very difficult time...Brexit is about to be done and a lot of people don't want Brexit to be done.\n\n\"And I think, rightly or wrongly, they conceive of me as the person who is helping to deliver Brexit, and it is inevitable that I'm going to come under a certain amount of shot and shell.\n\n\"I don't mind that in the least,\" he added.\n\nAsked in a later interview with LBC radio whether he thought stories about his behaviour were politically motivated, Mr Johnson said he did not \"want to impugn people's motives or to minimise the importance of the issue\".\n\nBut he added: \"I think, generally - you asked me about why is all this shot and shell raining down on the government - I think it is because we're going to get on and deliver Brexit by October 31.\"\n\nIn her first column for the Sunday Times last weekend, Ms Edwardes said the incident took place at a lunch in 1999 - when Mr Johnson was editor of the Spectator.\n\n\"More wine is poured; more wine is drunk. Under the table I feel Johnson's hand on my thigh. He gives it a squeeze,\" she wrote.\n\n\"His hand is high up my leg and he has enough inner flesh beneath his fingers to make me sit suddenly upright.\"\n\nMs Edwardes said another woman at the lunch later told her he had done the same to her.\n\nOn Monday, Spectator magazine commissioning editor Mary Wakefield, who is married to the prime minister's adviser Dominic Cummings, issued a statement to say she was \"not the woman referred to in Charlotte Edwardes's column\".\n\n\"Boris was a good boss and nothing like this ever happened to me. Nor has Charlotte, who I like and admire, ever discussed the incident with me.\"\n\nAfter No 10 first denied the accusation on Sunday evening, Ms Edwardes tweeted: \"If the prime minister doesn't recollect the incident then clearly I have a better memory than he does.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nElusive artist Banksy has set up a shop in south London featuring the stab vest he designed for Stormzy's headline act at the Glastonbury Festival.\n\nA Tony the Tiger rug and a cradle surrounded by CCTV cameras are also on show as part of the venture, at a disused retail outlet in Croydon.\n\n\"I'm opening a shop today,\" the artist said on Instagram. \"Although the doors don't actually open.\"\n\nBanksy said he was going to sell products online and people could visit the shop for the next two weeks.\n\nItems that will be available to buy are on display in Croydon\n\nHe added he was being \"forced\" to launch the online shop - called Gross Domestic Product - because a greeting cards company was attempting to legally trade using his name.\n\nThe artist is being advised that opening a shop which sold his merchandise would help him protect the trademark on his art.\n\nIn a statement, Banksy said: \"A greetings cards company is contesting the trademark I hold to my art, and attempting to take custody of my name so they can sell their fake Banksy merchandise legally.\n\n\"I think they're banking on the idea I won't show up in court to defend myself.\"\n\nThe exhibition has been called Gross Domestic Product\n\nThe grime artist is from Croydon\n\nItems being sold in the shop include welcome mats made from life vests salvaged from the shores of the Mediterranean, which have been hand-stitched by women in detainment camps in Greece.\n\nThere are also disco balls made from police riot helmets and a toddler's counting toy where children are encouraged to load wooden migrant figures inside a haulage truck.\n\nBanksy said proceeds would go towards buying a new migrant rescue boat to replace one allegedly confiscated by Italian authorities.\n\nHe said despite trying to defend his artistic rights in this particular case, he had not changed his position on copyright.\n\n\"I still encourage anyone to copy, borrow, steal and amend my art for amusement, academic research or activism. I just don't want them to get sole custody of my name.\"\n\nRats often appear in Banksy's work\n\nTony the Tiger, a character used on a cereal box, is depicted as a rug\n\nIt comes as one of Banksy's paintings which shows the House of Commons packed with chimpanzees is set to be auctioned at Sotheby's on Thursday.\n\nKevin Zuchowski-Morrison, owner of street art gallery Rise, said: \"It's incredible that we have this work, very clearly the work of a very famous artist who we all kind of love. It couldn't be any more authentic.\"\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 banksy 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 Banksy collector who came to see the display, said: \"It's brilliant. So good that it's happening.\n\n\"I doubt he (Banksy) will turn up and go 'hello lads, how are ya?' But he's obviously around.\"\n\nJohn, another Banksy enthusiast, who is on holiday in the UK from the United States, said: \"It has all the earmarks of Banksy's work.\n\n\"It's graphic, it's cheeky, it's intelligent.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The EU's Sentinel-1 satellite system captured these before and after images\n\nThe Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica has just produced its biggest iceberg in more than 50 years.\n\nThe calved block covers 1,636 sq km in area - a little smaller than Scotland's Isle of Skye - and is called D28.\n\nThe scale of the berg means it will have to be monitored and tracked because it could in future pose a hazard to shipping.\n\nNot since the early 1960s has Amery calved a bigger iceberg. That was a whopping 9,000 sq km in area.\n\nAmery is the third largest ice shelf in Antarctica, and is a key drainage channel for the east of the continent.\n\nThe shelf is essentially the floating extension of a number of glaciers that flow off the land into the sea. Losing bergs to the ocean is how these ice streams maintain equilibrium, balancing the input of snow upstream.\n\nSo, scientists knew this calving event was coming. What's interesting is that much attention in the area had actually been focussed just to the east of the section that's now broken away.\n\nThis is a segment of Amery that has affectionately become known as \"Loose Tooth\" because of its resemblance in satellite images to the dentition of a small child. Both ice areas had shared the same rift system.\n\nLoose Tooth pictured in the early 2000s. D28 is seen forming to the left\n\nBut although wobbly, Loose tooth is still attached. It's D28 that's been extracted.\n\n\"It is the molar compared to a baby tooth,\" Prof Helen Fricker from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography told BBC News.\n\nProf Fricker had predicted back in 2002 that Loose Tooth would come off sometime between 2010 and 2015.\n\n\"I am excited to see this calving event after all these years. We knew it would happen eventually, but just to keep us all on our toes, it is not exactly where we expected it to be,\" she said.\n\nThe Scripps researcher stressed that there was no link between this event and climate change. Satellite data since the 1990s has shown that Amery is roughly in balance with its surroundings, despite experiencing strong surface melt in summer.\n\n\"While there is much to be concerned about in Antarctica, there is no cause for alarm yet for this particular ice shelf,\" Prof Fricker added.\n\nAmery experiences a lot of summer surface melt, but the data indicates it is in equilibrium\n\nThe Australian Antarctic Division will however be watching Amery closely to see if it reacts at all. The division's scientists have instrumentation in the region.\n\nIt's possible the loss of such a big berg will change the stress geometry across the front of the ice shelf. This could influence the behaviour of cracks, and even the stability of Loose Tooth.\n\nD28 is calculated to be about 210m thick and contains some 315 billion tonnes of ice.\n\nThe name comes from a classification system run by the US National Ice Center, which divides the Antarctic into quadrants.\n\nThe D quadrant covers the longitudes 90 degrees East to zero degrees, the Prime Meridian. This is roughly Amery to the Eastern Weddell Sea.\n\nD28 is dwarfed by the mighty A68 berg, which broke away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in 2017. It currently covers an area more than three times as big.\n\nNearshore currents and winds will carry D28 westwards. It's likely to take several years for it to break apart and melt completely.", "The Duchess of Sussex has spoken about the importance of supporting victims of gender-based violence.\n\nMeghan was speaking to girls and campaigners in Johannesburg on the penultimate day of her and Prince Harry's South Africa tour.\n\nThe duchess said the country was in a \"crisis state\" when it comes to gender-based violence, after a spate of attacks against women in the country.\n\nShe also emphasised the importance of mental health support in aftercare.\n\nThe Sussexes are on a 10-day tour in which Prince Harry has visited a minefield and Meghan and their baby son Archie met Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nAt a visit to ActionAid on Tuesday, Meghan said the age range of those experiencing violence was \"really staggering\" and agreed that men and boys should be held accountable for their actions.\n\nDuring her visit she also heard from charity workers how many girls feel unsafe at school.\n\n\"The trouble is as a young girl if you are not feeling safe at school and not feeling safe at home, where does that leave you? And that really is systemic. That is a huge issue,\" Meghan said. \"You will feel very displaced.\"\n\nThe duchess, who was taking part in a discussion, also said it was important victims feel supported when they report such violence.\n\n\"And when they tell somebody, someone does something. That's the other issue right? It's so key being able to feel that they can communicate what's happening when something goes wrong, whatever it is,\" she said.\n\nEarlier, Meghan spoke to students and academics during another discussion on gender issues at the University of Johannesburg.\n\nShe said support was needed for women in higher education in South Africa. \"When a women is empowered it changes absolutely everything in the community,\" she told the group.\n\nThe duchess announced three new \"gender grants\" for the University of Johannesburg, Stellenbosch University and the University of Western Cape at the beginning of Tuesday's discussion with the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU).\n\nIt is the penultimate day of the Sussexes' overseas tour\n\nWell-wishers cheered Meghan on at the University of Johannesburg\n\n\"The goal here is to be able to have gender equality, to be able to support women as they are working in research and higher education roles,\" she told the discussion group.\n\n\"True to what you said, when a women is empowered it changes absolutely everything in the community and starting an educational atmosphere is really a key point of that,\" she added.\n\nMeghan said she was only able to go to university herself because of financial help from a scholarship and \"families chipping in\".\n\n\"If you don't have the support that is necessary that you feel that you can keep taking the next step then you're stunted in growth,\" she said.\n\nMeghan attended a roundtable discussion about the challenges faced by young women in accessing higher education\n\nWell-wishers cheered as the duchess was greeted by the ACU's secretary general, Dr Joanna Newman, and Prof Tshilidzi Marwala, vice chancellor of the university.\n\nMeanwhile, the Duke of Sussex told a group of young people to \"hold on to your dreams\" as he visited a health centre in a remote village in Malawi.\n\nSitting outside the Mauwa Health Centre, they discussed sexual health but also touched on climate change and conservation.\n\nA health official said: \"They asked him what challenges he faced when growing up and he did have challenges but he said they were not similar as the context was different.\n\nThe official added that the prince also urged the youngsters to \"show kindness, empathy and work together.\"\n\nPrince Harry was speaking in a village in rural Malawi\n\nThe prince had travelled to the village near Blantyre to see the pharmacy-in-a-box project, funded by the UK and US governments.\n\nThe pharmacies are prefabricated, solar-powered and air-conditioned storage facilities for medicines, which keep drugs secure, held at the right temperature, and stocked up.\n\nAt the health centre, patients can access a range of services from malaria treatment to a maternity unit, as well as HIV testing and aftercare for those who have the virus.\n\nSpeaking about the drugs used to treat an HIV patient, Prince Harry said: \"You need to know your status and know there's medication, so you can have a happy and healthy life.\"", "Credit Suisse's chief operating officer has resigned after a probe found he arranged the surveillance of an executive who left to join rival UBS.\n\nPrivate detectives were hired to track the Swiss bank's former head of wealth management, Iqbal Khan in September, in a scandal that has rocked the normally staid world of Swiss banking.\n\nThere was no indication chief executive Tidjane Thiam, who had fallen out with Mr Khan, knew about the surveillance.\n\nCredit Suisse said the investigation found that it was chief operating officer Pierre-Olivier Bouée alone who had decided to initiate the observation of Mr Khan.\n\nMr Khan had initially been praised and promoted by Mr Thiam.\n\nBut there were reports that a personal animosity had developed, which intensified after Mr Khan bought and spent two years redeveloping a property near Lake Zurich which neighboured a property belonging to his boss.\n\nMedia reports suggest there was an altercation in January between Mr Khan and Mr Thiam's girlfriend at a cocktail party held by the chief executive at his home, over trees planted on Mr Thiam's property.\n\nShortly after that Mr Khan announced his departure from Credit Suisse.\n\nThe scandal surfaced in September when it transpired that the bank had hired corporate intelligence firm Investigo to track Mr Khan, due to fears he might poach clients when he started work at UBS this week.\n\nMr Khan, after noticing he was being tailed, confronted the person observing him. His version of the altercation that ensued differs markedly from the report from Investigo and the incident is under criminal investigation.\n\nQuestions were raised over who within Credit Suisse instigated the operation to have Mr Khan followed, and who was aware of it.\n\nAs a result Credit Suisse hired law firm Homburger to examine the chain of responsibility and whether Mr Khan had violated the terms of his contract.\n\nMr Thiam joined Credit Suisse as chief executive in 2015 after a career at Prudential\n\nThe personal relationship between Mr Thiam and Mr Khan was not part of the investigation, Credit Suisse said.\n\n\"The Homburger investigation did not identify any indication that the CEO had approved the observation of Iqbal Khan nor that he was aware of it prior to September 18, 2019, after the observation had been aborted,\" the bank said.\n\nCredit Suisse said that the decision to observe Mr Khan was \"wrong and disproportionate and has resulted in severe reputational damage to the bank\".\n\nThe Homburger report said neither its own investigations nor those of intelligence firm Investigo found evidence that Mr Khan had attempted to poach employees or customers away from Credit Suisse.", "The Duchess of Sussex has begun legal action against the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters.\n\nIn a statement, the Duke of Sussex said he and Meghan were forced to take action against \"relentless propaganda\".\n\nPrince Harry said: \"I lost my mother and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces.\"\n\nA Mail on Sunday spokesman said the paper stood by the story it published and would defend the case \"vigorously\".\n\nLaw firm Schillings, acting for the duchess, accused the paper of a campaign of false derogatory stories.\n\nThe firm has filed a High Court claim against the paper and its parent company over the alleged misuse of private information, infringement of copyright and breach of the Data Protection Act 2018.\n\nThe claim comes after the Mail on Sunday published a handwritten letter from Meghan to her father, Thomas Markle, sent shortly after she and Prince Harry got married in 2018.\n\nIn a lengthy personal statement on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's official website, Prince Harry said the \"painful\" impact of intrusive media coverage had driven the couple to take action.\n\nReferring to his late mother Diana, Princess of Wales, the prince said his \"deepest fear is history repeating itself\".\n\n\"I've seen what happens when someone I love is commoditised to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person,\" he said.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the statement was \"remarkably outspoken\" and \"nothing less than a stinging attack on the British tabloid media\".\n\nFormer Daily Mirror editor and Guardian columnist Roy Greenslade said the duchess could win the legal action, but added Prince Harry had taken a risk by attacking the press for the actions of one newspaper.\n\n\"The press - particularly the tabloid press - is far less powerful now than it was during his mother's era,\" he told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Is he taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut here? I think he may well find that this is counter-productive.\"\n\nThe language is clearly Harry's: an unrestrained expression of anger and pain aimed at the British tabloid media.\n\nDid any of his advisers urge restraint? We simply don't know. Judging by the length and intensity of the statement, Harry would have been in no mood to listen to any such cautionary advice.\n\nIs it fair to castigate the entire British tabloid media off the back of one dispute with one newspaper over one story, however painful? That is a matter of individual opinion and clearly Harry - supported one assumes by Meghan - believes that it is.\n\nThe timing certainly is curious. They are concluding a visit to Southern Africa which by wide consent (much of it expressed in the tabloid media) has been a considerable success. It has lifted their reputation after a series of mis-steps involving private jets and expensive property renovations.\n\nNow they have chosen to take one of the most powerful newspaper groups in Britain to court and launched this stinging assault on an entire section of the British media.\n\nBritish tabloids are not afraid of a fight. They may well feel provoked by the language in this statement. Was it wise? We shall see.\n\nIt is not the first time the royals have taken legal action against the press. In 2017, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were awarded £92,000 (100,000 euros) in damages after French magazine Closer printed topless pictures of the duchess in 2012.\n\nA French court ruled the images had been an invasion of the couple's privacy.\n\nThe new legal proceedings are being funded privately by the couple and any proceeds will be donated to an anti-bullying charity.\n\nIn his statement, Prince Harry said he and Meghan believed in \"media freedom and objective, truthful reporting\" as a \"cornerstone of democracy\".\n\nBut he said his wife had become \"one of the latest victims of a British tabloid press that wages campaigns against individuals with no thought to the consequences - a ruthless campaign that has escalated over the past year, throughout her pregnancy and while raising our newborn son\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earlier on in their tour of Africa, the couple introduced baby son Archie to Archbishop Desmond Tutu\n\nPrince Harry said: \"There is a human cost to this relentless propaganda, specifically when it is knowingly false and malicious, and though we have continued to put on a brave face - as so many of you can relate to - I cannot begin to describe how painful it has been.\"\n\nHe said \"positive\" coverage of the couple's current tour of Africa had exposed the \"double standards\" of \"this specific press pack that has vilified her almost daily for the past nine months\".\n\n\"They have been able to create lie after lie at her expense simply because she has not been visible while on maternity leave,\" he said.\n\n\"She is the same woman she was a year ago on our wedding day, just as she is the same woman you've seen on this Africa tour.\"\n\nThe duke said he had been a \"silent witness to her private suffering for too long\".\n\n\"To stand back and do nothing would be contrary to everything we believe in,\" he said.\n\nHe accused the paper of misleading readers when it published the private letter, by strategically omitting paragraphs, sentences and specific words \"to mask the lies they had perpetrated for over a year\".\n\n\"Put simply, it is bullying, which scares and silences people. We all know this isn't acceptable, at any level,\" he said.\n\n\"We won't and can't believe in a world where there is no accountability for this.\"\n\nThe Mail on Sunday spokesperson said: \"We categorically deny that the duchess's letter was edited in any way that changed its meaning.\"", "The UK government has suggested creating \"customs clearance zones\" along the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, as part of proposals for reaching a Brexit deal.\n\nGoods could be declared and cleared at the sites, then their movement would be monitored possibly via mobile phone GPS data or tracking devices.\n\nThe ideas are contained in one of four so-called non-papers, extracts of which have been seen by RTÉ, submitted by UK officials during recent technical discussions in Brussels.\n\nHowever they have not gone down well with some politicians and business leaders, who regard the backstop as a necessary protection.\n\nDeputy Irish prime minister Simon Coveney tweeted: \"Non-Paper = Non-Starter. Time the EU had a serious proposal from the UK Govt if a #Brexit deal is to be achievable in October. NI and IRE deserves better!\"\n\nSinn Féin president Mary-Lou McDonald tweeted the proposal to \"reimpose a hard border on our island... is out of the question\".\n\nThe party's deputy leader Michelle O'Neill said the move was \"farcical and raises risk of no deal\".\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood criticised the government for failing to meet its obligations under the December 2017 joint proposal with the EU, in which it committed to avoiding physical infrastructure at the border.\n\n\"It does not matter if it is a mile, five miles or 10 miles away, the presence of physical checks will create economic and security challenges that are unacceptable,\" 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 Angela McGowan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"People in the north didn't vote for this. We voted to maintain seamless travel, trade and life across this island.\"\n\nAlliance leader Naomi Long echoed Mr Eastwood's criticism that the government had gone back on commitments made in 2017.\n\nMrs Long added the issue had \"never been about the location of new border infrastructure but that it would be created 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 2 by Seamus Leheny This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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, TUV leader Jim Allister accused Dublin and the EU of trying to \"strangle at birth UK's rational border proposals\".\n\n\"The reality of proper Brexit is that UK and RoI will be separate nations, one independent, the other a vassal state of the EU,\" he said.\n\n\"Each must provide and protect their own borders if EU refuses a reasonable deal. Out means out.\"\n\nAodhán Connolly, director of the Northern Ireland Retail Consortium, said if the proposals were true, they showed the government had not listened to business in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe move also \"ripped up\" the joint declaration of December 2017 between the EU and UK.\n\nSeamus Leheny, from the Freight Transport Association, tweeted the proposal contradicted \"every single piece of feedback & advice that we in NI business community has given to the government\".\n\nAngela McGowan, director of the NI branch of the Confederation of British Industry, said the proposals were an \"absolute disgrace\".\n\nManufacturing NI also tweeted its opposition to the proposal, which it said had already been rejected by business and farming communities.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nLisa Chambers, Fianna Fáil spokeswoman on Brexit, said the proposal was \"effectively a border with a buffer zone and clearly not a satisfactory alternative\".\n\nShe called for \"sensible workable solutions that ensure no hard border on the island of Ireland\".", "The schools named include Chetham's in Manchester, one of the UK's best-known music schools\n\nIt should be illegal not to report child abuse, victims have told the child abuse inquiry at the start of its investigation into boarding schools.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse heard of an \"overwhelming body of evidence\" to support the introduction of \"mandatory reporting\".\n\nThe inquiry was given a summary of past emotional, physical and sexual abuse at private residential schools.\n\nA senior IICSA lawyer warned that such abuse could happen again.\n\nThe residential schools phase is one of 14 separate investigations by the inquiry.\n\nIn 2016, the government in England carried out a consultation which examined the case for mandatory reporting - and this is a field where the inquiry is likely to make key recommendations.\n\nIf a law were introduced, it would be illegal for professionals working with children not to pass on reports of abuse.\n\nIn 2014, Wales introduced a duty to inform authorities of suspicions.\n\nThe inquiry is beginning two weeks of hearings looking at how to prevent abuse happening again, with a focus on residential private boarding schools, along with special schools for music and for children with special needs.\n\nThe inquiry's lead counsel read a summary of harrowing evidence of past abuse at seven private boarding schools, all of which have been closed or taken over by other bodies.\n\nFiona Scolding QC described the abuse at St William's in Yorkshire, run by the De La Salle Brothers, a Roman Catholic order until 1992.\n\nShe said boys were raped and sexually assaulted by the head teacher, Brother James Carragher, and other teachers.\n\n\"This institution,\" she said, \"seems to be rotten to its very core\".\n\nThe inquiry also heard that at Sherborne Prep school the head teacher, Robin Lindsay, would walk around in his pyjamas, \"exposing himself, stinking of alcohol and tobacco,\" she said.\n\nBut his behaviour continued \"unimpeded\" for 24 years. He was regarded as eccentric, despite being a \"fixated paedophile\" who posed a risk to children.\n\nThe inquiry has examined past abuse at Ashdown House, in East Sussex, once attended by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nEvidence against one teacher, Martin Haigh, between 1973 and 1975, was set out in detail to the inquiry.\n\nHe would make boys masturbate, while standing in a circle, telling them it was a \"scientific exercise\".\n\nThe headmaster of two schools, St George's and Dalesdown, Derek Slade, committed \"calculated, and deliberate brutality\".\n\n\"Every student was scared witless of him,\" Ms Scolding told the inquiry.\n\nAfter fleeing abroad, having used the identity of a dead child, Slade was convicted of serious child abuse in 2010 and jailed for 21 years. He died behind bars.\n\nDerek Slade abused boys between 1978 and 1983 at schools in Norfolk and Suffolk\n\nMs Scolding said there were few procedures for safeguarding, whistleblowing or staff training in those days.\n\n\"Before individuals start decrying red tape and bureaucracy, they may wish to reflect that in an era of almost total self-regulation, these kinds of behaviours went unchecked and undiscovered.\"\n\nShe said the current system may have improved, but she said there were still many cases where abuse could happen.\n\nThe inquiry will also look at more concerns about four music schools, in particular, Chetham's in Manchester where Michael Brewer abused one of his students, Frances Andrade, in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nMs Andrade took her own life after giving evidence against him in 2013.\n\nFrances Andrade took her own life soon after giving evidence against a former teacher\n\nAnother teacher Christopher Ling, who taught strings, acted like a \"rather dated lothario\", Ms Scolding said.\n\n\"He is described as having a leather jacket, unbuttoned shirts and a medallion, crocodile shoes and a sports car,\" said Ms Scolding.\n\nHe moved to the United States in the 1990s and shot himself dead when police came to arrest him at his home for extradition to the UK.\n\nMs Scolding said in the 1980s and 90s he \"operated a system of punishment and reward, lowering the children's self-esteem and confidence and making them entirely in his thrall, then engaging in sexual activity with them\".\n\nLawyer Richard Scorer said Chetham's victims had been let down by their school.\n\n\"The support has been non-existent. There has been no attempt to reach out to former pupils.\"\n\nHe also criticised the Crown Prosecution Service for failing to prosecute Ling.\n\nOn the eve of the inquiry, a spokesman for Chetham's said: \"It is a matter of deep and profound regret to Chetham's that former teachers at our school betrayed and manipulated the trust that had been placed in them in order to harm children for which we are truly sorry.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents were trapped in their homes in the village of Laxey on the Isle of Man\n\nMore rain and winds are expected in parts of the country later this week as the remnants of ex-Hurricane Lorenzo arrive in the UK.\n\nThe storm - the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the far east Atlantic - will have lost most of its power by the time it arrives on Thursday.\n\nIt comes after torrential rain brought flash flooding and led to some places being evacuated on Tuesday.\n\nOn the Isle of Man a major incident was declared with people trapped indoors.\n\nElsewhere, some areas in the Midlands, Wales and southern England were hit by a week's rain in just an hour, as thunderstorms swept across the UK.\n\nRoads and railways were closed and some flights from London's Heathrow Airport were delayed on Tuesday evening due to the bad weather.\n\nDozens of flood warnings and alerts remain in place across England.\n\nLouise Lear, from BBC Weather, said temperatures would turn colder on Wednesday before an area of low pressure - carrying gale-force gusts and the remnants of former Hurricane Lorenzo - approached Northern Ireland on Thursday.\n\nThe low pressure would move eastwards and south during Thursday and into Friday, bringing \"a spell of wet and windy weather\", she said.\n\nThursday and Friday will see wind and rain hit western parts of the UK, BBC Weather said\n\nThe Met Office said Northern Ireland, western Scotland, Wales and south-west England will most likely be affected.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Met Office issued issued a yellow warning for heavy rain across large parts of central and southern England and Wales.\n\nOn the Isle of Man, the village of Laxey was cut off after its second major flood in four years.\n\nThe river that gave the village its name burst its banks, leaving people trapped in their homes and washing away cars.\n\nThe fire service helped to evacuate several houses, while a coastguard helicopter was flown in on standby.\n\nThe village was previously flooded in 2015, when a 200-year-old stone bridge was washed away. One villager told the BBC that this year's flooding was the worst he had seen.\n\nLocal residents make their way through floodwater in Cossington, Leicester\n\nAlso in Cossington, a clean-up operation is under way at a flooded home\n\nFlights from Heathrow were delayed on Tuesday evening because of \"poor weather conditions across London and the South East\", a spokeswoman for the airport said.\n\nAnd the Thames Barrier closed for the second time in a week to protect London from flooding.\n\nIn Cornwall, floods caused by a coastal surge meant people were told to leave caravans and seaside properties.\n\nThere were several flood warnings in Wales and one flood warning in Scotland, around Loch Ryan, which has since been lifted.\n\nCommuters shelter from the rain under umbrellas in Queen Square, Bristol\n\nUp to 50mm (2 ins) of rain fell in a couple of hours in some places.\n\nBy Tuesday afternoon, the highest hourly rainfall was 25.6mm, recorded at Pennerley in Shropshire. That part of the country normally receives just 96mm of rain in the whole of October.\n\nBut the localised nature of the downpours means the heaviest rainfall may not be recorded by a weather station, the Met Office said.\n\nWorcestershire was one place that experienced torrential rainfall, with the fire and rescue service issuing a warning to drivers after a car was submerged in floods.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by HWFireControl This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 north of England, heavy rain meant a number of roads were flooded in Cumbria and a landslide on the rail line between Carlisle and Newcastle disrupted train services.\n\nFlooding on the Cumbria Coast line between Carlisle and Maryport saw cancellations on Northern services from Carlisle to Barrow and onwards.\n\nHowever, fears of a coastal surge in Hunstanton, west Norfolk, proved unfounded.\n\nAbout 3,000 households were told to evacuate, but Environment Agency confirmed an all-clear had been given just before 10:00.\n\nThe sea at Hunstanton, west Norfolk, where thousands of homes were evacuated\n\nA cyclist braves the floodwaters near the river Soar in Leicestershire\n\nStormy seas batter the lighthouse at Seaham in Durham\n\nFlooding appeared to trap cars in the East Midlands, with two vehicles caught up in high waters at Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire.\n\nFire crews were called to three vehicles stranded in flood water in Birmingham in 20 minutes.\n\nAnd in North Yorkshire, firefighters rescued two people and a dog from a van which had driven into a fast-flowing river,\n\nTwo cars are trapped by water near a church in Colston Bassett\n\nMeanwhile, fire and rescue services across England attended a number of flooded homes to help pump out water.\n\nDo you live in an area affected by flooding? 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:", "Norman was one of the rare black singers to reach fame in the opera world\n\nUS opera singer Jessye Norman, one of the most renowned sopranos of the 20th Century, has died at the age of 74.\n\nA native of Augusta, Georgia, Norman was one of the rare black singers to reach fame in the opera world.\n\nShe established herself in Europe in the 1970s and made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1983.\n\nNorman died in a New York hospital of septic shock and multiple organ failure related to complications from a spinal cord injury in 2015, her family said.\n\nBorn on 15 September 1945, Norman grew up in a family of amateur artists and sang in church from the age of four. She earned a scholarship to study music at the historically black college Howard University in Washington DC before going on to the Peabody Conservatory and the University of Michigan.\n\n\"I don't remember a moment in my life when I wasn't trying to sing,\" she told NPR in an interview in 2014.\n\nShe made her opera debut in Berlin in 1969, and performed across the continent, wowing audiences with a voice described as both sumptuous and shimmering.\n\nNorman sang at the presidential inaugurations of Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, and at the 60th birthday celebrations of Queen Elizabeth in 1986.\n\nHer many awards included a prestigious Kennedy Center Honor, which she earned in 1997 at the age of 52; a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006; a National Medal of Arts in 2009 and France's Legion d'Honneur.\n\nNorman received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2009\n\n\"We are so proud of Jessye's musical achievements and the inspiration that she provided to audiences around the world that will continue to be a source of joy,\" her family said in a statement.\n\n\"We are equally proud of her humanitarian endeavors addressing matters such as hunger, homelessness, youth development, and arts and culture education.\"", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have introduced their baby son Archie to renowned anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nIt is the first time the four-month-old has been seen in public on the couple's 10-day tour of Africa.\n\nArchie was seen smiling in his mother's arms and was held up on her lap.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan joked about their son's time in front of the cameras as they greeted the archbishop and his daughter Thandeka Tutu-Gxashe.\n\n\"He's an old soul,\" said Meghan, while Harry remarked: \"I think he is used to it already.\"\n\nThe duke, duchess and Archie met Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his daughter Thandeka\n\nA Nobel Peace Prize winner for his opposition to apartheid, the archbishop said he was \"thrilled\" by the \"rare privilege and honour\" of meeting the royals.\n\nHe spent half an hour with the couple and Archie at his Legacy Foundation in Cape Town, based in a centuries-old building which was constructed by enslaved people.\n\nThe archbishop told the couple: \"It's very heart-warming, let me tell you, very heart-warming to realise that you really, genuinely are caring people.\"\n\nThe couple also posted a video to their official SussexRoyal Instagram account of their arrival at the meeting with the archbishop in Cape Town, with the caption: \"Arch meets Archie!\"\n\nBiscuits decorated with \"Master Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor\" were offered by the archbishop\n\nJuggling royal duties with a four-month-old baby is \"a lot\", the duchess told female entrepreneurs in Cape Town\n\nLater, the Duchess of Sussex spoke about the excitement and pressures of being a working mother as she met female entrepreneurs in Cape Town.\n\nSpeaking to them at an event called Ladies Who Launch, she said looking after Archie as well as carrying out royal duties was \"a lot\" but added: \"It's all so exciting.\"\n\nShe described one non-profit group, which employs disadvantaged women to make bracelets for good causes, as \"fascinating\".\n\n\"By empowering these women from those backgrounds they are changing the focus of their communities and empowering the next generation,\" she said.\n\nMeghan also met mothers and young children at mothers2mothers, a non-profit organisation which provides support for pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV.\n\nShe played with toddlers on the floor and invited other mothers to join her.\n\nThe duchess met health workers and families at mothers2mothers, which works with women living with HIV\n\nThere was a warm welcome for the duchess outside the non-profit organisation\n\nSome of the children could end up wearing royal hand-me-downs after the duchess handed over two bags of \"loved but outgrown\" clothes as she left.\n\nShe told the women: \"It's so important we're able to share what's worked for our family and know that you're all in this together with each other. So we wanted to share something from our home to yours.\"\n\nOn their tour so far, the duke and duchess have also visited South Africa's oldest mosque and visited a charity which provides mental health support for young people.\n\nMeghan told teenage girls in a deprived part of South Africa she was visiting the country not only as a member of the Royal Family, but also \"as a woman of colour and as your sister\".", "Household appliances will become easier to repair thanks to new standards being adopted across the European Union.\n\nFrom 2021, firms will have to make appliances longer-lasting, and they will have to supply spare parts for machines for up to 10 years.\n\nThe rules apply to lighting, washing machines, dishwashers and fridges.\n\nBut campaigners for the \"right to repair\" say they do not go far enough as only professionals - not consumers - will be able carry out the repairs.\n\nThe legislation has been prompted by complaints from consumers across Europe and North America infuriated by machines that break down when they are just out of warranty.\n\nOwners are usually unable to repair the machines themselves - or find anyone else to do it at a decent price - so are forced to buy a replacement.\n\nThis creates waste and fuels global warming through the greenhouse gases created in the manufacturing process for new machines.\n\nIn the US, around 20 states are said to have right to repair legislation in progress.\n\nUnder the European Commission's new standards, manufacturers will have to make spares, such as door gaskets and thermostats, available to professional repairers.\n\nThese parts will have to be accessible with commonly-available tools and without damaging the product.\n\nCampaigners say individual consumers should also be allowed to buy spares and mend their own machines. But manufacturers said this would raise questions about risk and liability.\n\nInstead, manufacturers will have to ensure that key parts of the product can be replaced by independent professionals.\n\nIf British firms want to sell into Europe after Brexit they will have to follow the new rules, which apply from April 2021.\n\nIt is estimated that the new standards will ensure that appliances have a longer life. The rules also include provisions to make appliances more energy efficient.\n\nFor example, star ratings for the energy efficiency of appliances will be ratcheted up. Current regulations are seen to be outdated, with more than 55% of washing machines sold in the EU ranked A+++ on the label.\n\nThe move could directly save €20bn on energy bills per year in Europe from 2030 onwards - equivalent to 5% of EU electricity consumption.\n\nChloe Fayole of environmental group Ecos said: “From the US to Europe, people are demanding their right to repair things they own because they’re tired of products that are designed to break prematurely.”\n\nLibby Peake from the UK Green alliance told BBC News: “These new standards are a massive step in the right direction and could result in nearly 50 million tonnes of CO2 emissions savings.”\n\nBut Stephane Arditi of the European Environment Bureau said: “When repair activities stay in the hands of a few firms, we’re missing an opportunity to make it more affordable and readily available.\n\n“Small independent repairers can make a great contribution to the economy and our society. We need to help them do their job.”\n\nThe government says that after Brexit the UK will continue to \"match and even exceed EU eco product regulations\" as part of its commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050.\n• None How to fix your own broken gadgets", "BBC journalist Hanna Yusuf, whose recent work included an investigation into working conditions at Costa Coffee stores, has died aged 27.\n\nThe BBC's Fran Unsworth, director of news, said Hanna was a \"talented young journalist who was widely admired\" and her death was \"terrible news\".\n\nHer family said they were \"deeply saddened and heartbroken\" and hoped her legacy \"would serve as an inspiration\".\n\nShe wrote for the BBC News website, and had also worked as a TV news producer.\n\nHanna spoke six languages, including Somali and Arabic, and worked with, among others, whistleblowers and victims of serious crime.\n\nIn 2018, she spoke to Zaynab Hussein, a mother of nine who moved to Leicester in 2003 after escaping violence and instability in Somalia. She told Hanna about the hate crime that left her with life-changing injuries after she was repeatedly run over by a 21-year-old stranger in the street.\n\nHanna's article about Costa Coffee working conditions revealed employees' complaints alleging managers' refusal to pay for sickness or annual leave, working outside of contracted hours and the retention of tips.\n\nA Costa Coffee spokeswoman said in August that an independent audit had been launched \"given the serious nature of the allegations\".\n\nLast year she also wrote about why some homeless people chose the streets over emergency shelter despite sub-zero temperatures.\n\nHanna also covered the story of Shamima Begum, who fled the UK as a 15-year-old schoolgirl to join the Islamic State group in Syria.\n\nWhile working for the BBC News Channel earlier this year, she broke the story that Ms Begum's family had told Sajid Javid, the home secretary at the time, that they were going to challenge his decision to revoke her UK citizenship.\n\nAnd later, she successfully secured an interview with Ms Begum's lawyer, who accused UK authorities of failing to protect her from being groomed by IS.\n\nHanna started at the BBC as a researcher on the News at Six and Ten in May 2017, before moving to the BBC News Channel and News at One and the website.\n\nBefore joining the BBC, Hanna wrote for publications including the Guardian, the Independent, the Times, the Muslim News, the Pool and Grazia Magazine.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lauren Laverne This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 2015, she created a video for the Guardian about her decision to wear the hijab at the time, saying \"it has nothing to do with oppression. It's a feminist statement\", which was picked up by other websites including Teen Vogue and Everyday Feminism.\n\nAppearing on Good Morning Britain after the European Court of Justice's 2017 ruling gave employers the power to ban all political, religious and philosophical symbols at work, Hanna told TV presenters Piers Morgan and Susannah Reid it would \"disproportionately affect Muslim women\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 ikran 🌱 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Somalia in 1992, she received a Scott Trust bursary to do an MA in newspaper journalism at City, University of London in 2017, following her degree at Queen Mary, University of London.\n\nIn a statement, Hanna's family said the death of their \"beloved daughter, sister and niece\" had come as a shock and asked for privacy.\n\n\"Many will know Hanna for her incredible contributions to journalism and for her work at the BBC.\n\n\"While we mourn her loss, we hope that Hanna's legacy will serve as an inspiration and beacon to her fellow colleagues and to her community and her meaningful memory and the people she has touched for many years lives on,\" they said.\n\nThey added that they would notify the community about funeral arrangements in due course.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Rianna Croxford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDirector of BBC News Fran Unsworth said: \"This is terrible news that has left us all deeply saddened... and our utmost sympathies go to her family and many friends. Hanna will be much missed.\"\n\nJohn Simpson, BBC world affairs editor, said Hanna was a \"brilliant young journalist\" who would have been a \"major force\" in UK 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 4 by John 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\nBBC News at Six presenter George Alagiah also paid his respects in a tweet, saying: \"Our newsroom has lost a young journalist of such talent and promise. Our thoughts are with her family and friends.\"\n\nKatharine Viner, editor-in-chief at the Guardian, tweeted it was \"absolutely terrible news that the talented journalist, and lovely person, Hanna has died\".\n\nHanna's fellow BBC journalist Sophia Smith Galer said her friend was \"invariably the kindest, smartest and most captivating person in the room\".\n\n\"We have lost a fierce friend and a force for truth and light which stretched far beyond her journalism to the many lives she touched here at the BBC and beyond,\" she said.\n\n\"We will make sure her legacy of compassionate storytelling rings loud and clear in the time to come and we are going to miss her so, so much.\"\n\nAnd BBC chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet tweeted: \"You left too soon a world where you shone such a bright light.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Harry sits beneath the Diana Tree, which marks the spot where Diana was pictured in the minefield\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has visited the former minefield in Angola where his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, walked 22 years ago, shortly before she died.\n\nPrince Harry visited the site in Huambo, which has become a \"bustling community\" since Diana's campaign.\n\nWearing body armour, he also visited a partially-cleared minefield nearby and set off a controlled explosion.\n\nDiana captured global attention when she walked through the live minefield in 1997.\n\nShe never lived to see the full impact of her visit - such as the signing of an international treaty to outlaw the weapons - as she died later that year.\n\nRetracing his mother's footsteps in central Angola, Prince Harry is being escorted by the British landmine clearance charity the Halo Trust, which also accompanied Diana on her visit.\n\nDiana visited the minefield Huambo in Angola in 1997\n\nThe site is now a bustling community, and Prince Harry retraced his mother's steps on Princess Diana Street\n\nAfter walking along the suburban street, which was once filled with the explosives, the duke said it was \"quite emotional\" to retrace Diana's steps \"and to see the transformation that has taken place, from an unsafe and desolate place into a vibrant community of local businesses and colleges\".\n\nHe added: \"Without question if she hadn't campaigned the way that she did, this arguably could still be a minefield.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud of what she's been able to do, and meet these kids here who were born on this street.\"\n\nThe area has become a \"completely different place\" since demining and now is a \"bustling community\" with houses and schools and shops, added Camille Wallen, director of strategy at the Halo Trust.\n\nEarlier, Prince Harry visited a minefield near the south-eastern town of Dirico, which is in the process of being cleared.\n\nThe site was mined by anti-government forces in 2000 when they retreated from their base.\n\nIn 2005, a 13-year-old girl lost a foot after stepping on one of the explosive devices in the area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry: \"Landmines are an unhealed scar of war\"\n\nHalo Trust staff have been working to make the minefield safe since August and hope to clear it by the end of October.\n\nPrince Harry was given a safety briefing and told not to stray off the cleared lanes, not to touch anything or run.\n\nIn a speech, the duke said the Halo Trust was helping the community \"find peace\".\n\n\"Landmines are an unhealed scar of war. By clearing the landmines we can help this community find peace, and with peace comes opportunity,\" he said.\n\n\"Additionally, we can protect the diverse and unique wildlife that relies on the beautiful Kuito river that I slept beside last night.\"\n\nThe prince called for an international effort to clear landmines from the Okavango watershed in the Angolan highlands, where the weapons remain 17 years after the end of a civil war.\n\nThe conflict - between 1975 and 2002 - has left Angola one of the most mined places in the world, with around 1,200 minefields, according to the Halo Trust.\n\nThe organisation says it has decommissioned almost 100,000 mines since 1994 but it is impossible to know exactly how many remain.\n\nThere are two main types of mine: anti-personnel landmines, aimed at killing or injuring people, and anti-tank mines, designed to destroy vehicles.\n\nThe random placement of the explosive devices became part of military strategy in the 1960s.\n\nAround 50 years later, about 60 countries and territories are still contaminated with anti-personnel mines.\n\nMore than 120,000 people were killed or injured by landmines between 1999-2017, according to research by Landmine Monitor.\n\nCivilians made up 87% of casualties, while nearly half of the victims were children.\n\nMs Wallen described Prince Harry's visit as a \"really significant moment\".\n\n\"As we saw in 1997, Princess Diana really helped raise awareness of the issue of landmines and the plight that people who live with landmines have every day,\" she told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"It effectively transformed what we do, and it transformed it for those people. They really felt they were being heard.\"\n\nPrincess Diana's involvement in the cause involved a call for a global ban on landmines.\n\nThree months after her death in 1997, 122 countries signed the Ottawa Treaty, which prohibits the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of anti-personnel mines.\n\nMs Wallen said Prince Harry's visit helped \"remind the world that landmines are not just a thing of the past\".\n\n\"Decades after conflict they continue to threaten people's lives,\" she added.\n\nAngolan minister Lucio Goncalves Amaral said Diana's anti-mine campaign left a \"humanistic heritage\" that motivated the country's authorities to push to remove all the devices from the country by 2025.\n\n\"We will never forget her priceless contribution to the campaign to ban the anti-personnel landmines,\" Angola's deputy minister for social integration said in a speech.\n\n\"The Angolan people will be eternally grateful for her performance in the demining process of our territory.\"\n\nPrince Harry, who is on a tour of southern Africa, visited Botswana on Thursday, where he helped plant trees.\n\nThe duke said there was a race against time to stop global warming, adding he was \"troubled\" by climate-change deniers.\n\nOn Wednesday, Prince Harry visited South Africa, where he and the Duchess of Sussex introduced their baby son to the veteran anti-apartheid campaigner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nThe couple also met faith leaders at South Africa's first and oldest mosque and visited a mental health charity.\n\nThe duchess told teenage girls in a deprived part of the country she was visiting South Africa not only as a member of the Royal Family, but also \"as a woman of colour and as your sister\".\n\nOn Friday, Buckingham Palace confirmed the duchess had paid a private visit to the memorial of a murdered South African student \"after closely following the tragic story\".\n\nMeghan made the \"personal gesture\" at the post office where 19-year-old University of Cape Town student Uyinene Mrwetyana was raped and murdered last month.\n\nA spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace said: \"Having closely followed the tragic story, it was a personal gesture she wanted to make.\"\n\nA 42-year-old male post office worker has been arrested over the killing.", "The image was shared on Facebook by Lewis Bagshaw's childhood friend\n\nA photograph of a 17-month-old boy shovelling earth into his father's grave has been shared in an attempt to put a stop to violent crime.\n\nLewis Bagshaw, 21, was stabbed to death in Southey, Sheffield, in July.\n\nHis friend Jordan Kissack posted a photo on Facebook of Mr Bagshaw's son Carter putting soil on his coffin as he was buried on 18 September.\n\nCarter's mother Olivia Keeley said she hoped the image \"stops just one person from picking up a knife or a gun.\"\n\nJervaise Bennett, of Bishopholme Close, Shirecliffe, and a 16-year-old boy have been charged with murdering Mr Bagshaw.\n\nMr Kissack, whose post has been shared hundreds of times, wrote: \"Just a little advice for people that carry/use knives and guns. STOP!\"\n\nCarter Bagshaw shouted out \"daddy\" at his father's funeral\n\nHe said as they played videos of Mr Bagshaw at the wake, Carter shouted out \"daddy\".\n\n\"Let that feeling sink in,\" he said.\n\n\"Think before using a knife, or anything in fact, to take somebody's life.\n\n\"RIP my dear friend, and your legacy will live on for Carter to remember every detail about you.\"\n\nThe 21-year-old was found with stab wounds in Piper Crescent\n\nMs Keeley said Mr Bagshaw had been focused on looking after Carter and passing his driving test, which was booked for 24 September.\n\nShe said: \"Life is just completely the total opposite to how it was, it's really empty and lonely, and there is a lot of sadness as well.\"\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.", "High Street bakery chain Greggs is stockpiling pork so that production of its sausage rolls is guaranteed in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"We are preparing for the potential impact of the UK's departure from the European Union by building stocks of key ingredients,\" the firm said.\n\nAround 20% of a Greggs sausage roll is made from pork.\n\nIt has previously said a no-deal Brexit may mean it has to find alternatives for fresh tomatoes and lettuce.\n\nThe bakery chain detailed its planning for the UK's departure from the EU in a trading update which showed that total sales had risen 12.4% in the past 13 weeks.\n\nThe Newcastle-based firm hailed \"very strong\" trading in the third quarter, but also warned that Brexit could put pressure on food and labour costs.\n\nAs well as stockpiling key ingredients the firm has also been acquiring some light equipment, \"that could be affected by disruption to the flow of goods into the UK\".\n\nHowever, shares fell by 12.5% after the company also said it expected fewer shop openings by the end of the year than it had previously forecast.\n\nGreggs now expects to have 90 net openings - taking closures into account - by the end of the year, down from a previous forecast of 100 net openings.\n\nLike-for-like sales, which exclude new store openings, rose up 7.4% in the quarter to 28 September, but that was a slower pace than earlier in the year.\n\n\"The stock was pretty highly valued and there is an underlying sense that the growth cannot continue at the rate it has - today's update suggests this is the turning point on that front,\" said Neil Wilson, chief analyst at Markets.com.\n\n\"The idea being they've taken as much market share as they can, and now have to try to squeeze more from what they've got already.\"\n\nHe added: \"Like-for-like sales growth is slowing now at 7.4% against 10.5% a year before. Management also think the fourth quarter will show further slowing. So the tough comparisons with the last 12 months or so suggests they are maxed out or close to maxing out the organic growth.\"\n\nOther main points in its trading update included:\n\nGreggs added it was continuing to trial evening openings, with deals for pizza and hot food available in some stores after 4pm.", "The claim: Boris Johnson said: \"Were we obliged to the stay in the EU, we would need a bigger bus, because the figure would go up and I think it will be rising [to] £400m gross.\"\n\nReality Check verdict: The UK's gross contribution to the EU budget is due to rise to £406m a week by 2021. But this figure does not include the UK rebate - a discount applied before any money is sent to Brussels. In 2021, once the rebate is deducted, the weekly contribution would be £325m.\n\nBoris Johnson has talked about the cost to the UK of staying in the EU if Brexit is delayed beyond 31 October.\n\nIn a BBC Radio 4 Today programme interview, the prime minister was challenged over his figures. The issue of the claim about £350m weekly payments to the EU, written on the side of a bus in the 2016 referendum campaign and criticised as \"potentially misleading\", was also raised.\n\nMr Johnson responded that if the UK was \"obliged\" to stay in the EU, then \"we'd need a bigger bus\" because the figure would rise, he claimed, to £400m a week gross.\n\nThe Treasury has published a table based on data from the Office for Budget Responsibility - an independent organisation that monitors government spending - setting out how much money the UK would be expected to contribute to the EU in the years ahead.\n\nAdjusting the above numbers to a weekly basis, the OBR's projection shows the UK's gross contribution would rise to £406m a week in 2020-21.\n\nBut this figure does not factor in several key things which - when included - result in a very different net figure.\n\nThis is a discount to the UK's budget contributions, applied before any money is sent to Brussels.\n\nIt was negotiated by former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and introduced in 1985.\n\nWhile it remains a member of the EU, the UK could lose its rebate only if all members (including the UK itself) agreed to it.\n\nFor 2020-21, the rebate is expected to be £4.2bn. Once that amount is knocked off, the UK's bill is £325m a week.\n\nThere's also the money the UK receives from the EU (public sector receipts) for payments to farmers, development and other projects.\n\nThis money is allocated by the EU and distributed by the UK government.\n\nFor 2020-21, it is expected to total £5.9bn. If this was factored in as well this would leave a net figure of just over £210m a week.\n\nThere are further payments the EU makes directly to the UK private sector, such as grants to universities. They do not form part of the above calculation but the ONS says the UK receives on average around £1.1 billion a year, or £21 million a week, in those payments.", "Christopher Nicol was found in the flat after reports of a disturbance\n\nA man who was murdered in a Greenock flat was \"violently\" stabbed in front of his children, police have said.\n\nChristopher Nicol, 27, was attacked inside the property on Maple Road at about 21:05 on Thursday.\n\nOfficers believe the killer had wrongly thought there was a large sum of cash in the flat, and had intended to rob Mr Nicol.\n\nPolice said the victim's children, who are aged five and six, were receiving professional support.\n\nOfficers have launched a murder inquiry, and believe the killer knew Mr Nicol.\n\nHe entered the property after barging past Mr Nicol's girlfriend when she answered the door.\n\nThe attacker has been described as being white, aged 20-30, about 5ft 9in tall, with a slim build. He had a local accent, and an unkempt, reddish, brown beard and moustache. Officers say he also had bad teeth, with some visibly missing.\n\nHe was wearing a black beanie hat with a logo, possibly Timberland, a black top and black jeans or bottoms.\n\nDet Ch Insp Martin Fergus described the killing as \"absolutely sickening\".\n\n\"At this time we believe that the motive for this was robbery, and that Christopher was targeted specifically because his attacker thought there was a large sum of money in the house - which was not the case.\n\n\"For whatever the reason, to carry out such a brutal attack in front of such young children is absolutely sickening. It shows an absolute disregard for their safety or suffering. This callous killer must be caught.\n\nDet Ch Insp Fergus said a public appeal for witnesses and information had been \"disappointing\".\n\n\"I believe that the answer to this murder lies in the local community and I am in no doubt that there are people out there who have vital information on this incident, who have not yet come forward,\" he said.\n\n\"I would urge them to look to their conscience and contact us. I would like to hear from local people in Greenock to give us details of anyone they know who was out and about in the Maple Road area on Thursday evening.\n\n\"The man responsible has quite a distinctive description, so if you have any idea of his identity, then please contact us as soon as possible.\"\n\nAnyone with information has been urged to contact Police Scotland via their non-emergency line.\n• None Police name man stabbed to death in flat\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. PM: Irish customs checks after Brexit can be \"absolutely minimal\"\n\nBoris Johnson says the government is offering the EU \"very constructive and far-reaching proposals\" to break the Brexit impasse.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, he confirmed the UK's plan would include some customs checks on the island of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nBut they would be \"absolutely minimal\" and \"won't involve new infrastructure\".\n\nThe EU says it has \"not received any proposals from the UK\" yet that could replace the backstop.\n\nThe UK is set to leave the EU on 31 October.\n\nMr Johnson has said the exit will go ahead with or without a deal - despite MPs passing a law last month forcing him to ask for an extension from the EU if Parliament hasn't voted in favour of a specific deal or leaving without one.\n\nThe border between Ireland and Northern Ireland has been a contentious part of the Brexit negotiations since day one.\n\nAt present there are no checks on goods moving across it and the backstop was agreed between former PM Theresa May and the EU as an insurance policy to make sure that does not change - and that no infrastructure like cameras or security posts can be installed in the future.\n\nIf used, the backstop would keep the UK in a very close relationship with the EU until a trade deal permanently avoiding the need for checks was agreed.\n\nHowever, the government says it is \"undemocratic\" and unacceptable.\n\nSpeaking on day three of the Conservative conference, Mr Johnson said he believed the UK was offering enough to win the EU round and more detail would be made public soon.\n\n\"Yes, I absolutely do,\" he insisted.\n\n\"So, with great respect to all those who are currently anxious about it - and particularly in Ireland - we do think that our proposals are good and creative.\n\n\"But I accept also... there may be hard yards ahead.\"\n\nHe added: \"That is going to be where the argument is going to be - and that's where the negotiations will be tough.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe PM said there would \"have to be a system for customs checks away from the border\".\n\n\"If the EU is going to insist on customs checks... then we will have to accept that reality,\" he added.\n\nWhen it was put to him that it was not the EU who were insisting on customs checks, the PM replied: \"Well, let's see where we get to. And as you know, we made some very constructive and far-reaching proposals.\"\n\nThe Irish Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, said in the event of a no-deal Brexit, there would need to be checks at ports, airports and perhaps at the border.\n\nBut he said that would only be the case if the UK left without an agreement, telling the Dail: \"We've never been in the position of signing up to checks as part of a deal.\"\n\nMr Johnson told Laura Kuenssberg he always knew \"things would get choppy\" in the lead up to the Brexit deadline.\n\nBut the PM believed \"fevers would cool\" and \"tempers would come down\" once that moment had passed.\n\n\"There's no way of getting Brexit done without... displeasing people who don't want Brexit to get done,\" he said.\n\n\"[There is] no way of delivering Brexit sort of 52% Brexit and 48% Remain - that's just logically impossible.\"\n\nMr Johnson added: \"I think once we get it done, and once we can begin building a new partnership with our new friends... we can start thinking about how we can do things differently.\"\n\nAt a reception hosted by the DUP at the Conservative party conference in Manchester on Tuesday night, Mr Johnson said the UK had made progress in the negotiations, adding: \"I hope very much in the next few days we are going to get there.\"\n\nThe prime minster said that Northern Ireland should remain part of the United Kingdom \"forever\".\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nThe government has made a number of policy announcements at the conference, from raising the National Living Wage over the next five years to toughening prison sentences for the worst offenders.\n\nBut the plans have been overshadowed by allegations that Mr Johnson squeezed the thigh of journalist Charlotte Edwardes under a table at a lunch in 1999.\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly denied the incident, telling the BBC: \"It's simply not true.\"\n\nHe would not answer whether he thought Ms Edwardes - who has stood by her claims - lied or whether he remembered the lunch.\n\nAnd while the PM said such allegations should be taken seriously, he did not agree to an investigation, saying he wanted to \"get on with delivering on... [the] important issue of our domestic agenda\".", "Labour has rejected the idea of a \"government of national unity\" - headed by a figure like Ken Clarke or Margaret Beckett - to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nShadow Chancellor John McDonnell said any interim government - formed after the removal of Boris Johnson - must be headed by Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nHe said Labour was \"unlikely\" to table a no confidence vote in the government until after 17 October's EU summit.\n\nLabour is talking to other opposition parties about toppling the government.\n\nBut there is deadlock over how best to to do this, with the SNP pushing for a no confidence vote as soon as possible.\n\nThe Lib Dems have, meanwhile, said they will not back an interim government headed by Mr Corbyn, with leader Jo Swinson saying the Labour leader had to make clear who else he would support to temporarily take charge.\n\nShe has said Mr Corbyn \"simply does not have the numbers\" to command a majority in the Commons, referencing the 21 MPs expelled from the Conservative Party and the five members of the Independent Group for Change.\n\nTalks between opposition leaders at Westminster on how to best prevent a no-deal Brexit are expected to continue on Wednesday, convened by Mr Corbyn.\n\nJo Swinson does not want to see Mr Corbyn in No 10\n\nThe caretaker PM would have to be \"a figure who is well respected and above the everyday party politics,\" Ms Swinsons told the BBC.\n\nVeteran Europhile and former Tory chancellor Ken Clarke and Labour's Margaret Beckett, who was caretaker leader of her own party in the early 1990s following the death of John Smith, have both been suggested as possible caretakers.\n\nBut asked whether an interim government could be led by anyone other than Mr Corbyn, the official leader of the opposition, Mr McDonnell said: \"No, the rules are the rules.\"\n\nHe said Ms Swinson might change her mind on the issue, adding: \"I'm a great believer in the powers of conversion.\"\n\nIn response, a spokesman for Ms Swinson said she was \"a great believer in the power of mathematics\" and the sums did not add up for the Labour leader.\n\nThe opposition parties say they are united on their desire to prevent Mr Johnson from taking the UK out of the EU on 31 October without a deal.\n\nMr Johnson is urging them to vote for a general election but they say they will not do this until a no-deal Brexit has been ruled out - and they do not trust Mr Johnson to obey the law by asking for an extension at October's EU summit.\n\nThe PM insists a deal is still possible with the EU and the government will set out fresh proposals in the next few days.\n\nMr McDonnell said the 21 former Tory rebels would \"obviously\" want to see what Mr Johnson gets at the EU summit before deciding whether to back a no confidence motion.\n\nHe said Labour was seeking a meeting with Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill to try to establish what would happen if the government was defeated but Mr Johnson still tried to \"squat\" in No 10 until after Britain was out of the EU.\n\n\"We are suggesting that we meet with the Cabinet Secretary to just, at least, get the ground rules sorted,\" he told reporters at Westminster.\n\nSNP sources have expressed frustration that the cross-party talks on the next Brexit steps are becoming little more than \"tea and biscuits\" meetings.\n\nA request from opposition party whips to have a debate over the release of the government's no-deal Brexit planning papers was rejected by the Speaker John Bercow on Monday.\n\nLeaders from the opposition parties met on Monday in Westminster\n\nThe SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, said opposition MPs who supported the law requiring the PM to seek a Brexit delay should have the \"courage of their convictions\" and back a no-confidence vote to remove the \"toxic\" Mr Johnson from Downing Street.\n\n\"That would be real leadership, if the opposition parties were prepared to do that,\" he told BBC2's Politics Live programme.\n\n\"We've got a prime minister that may be prepared to break the law and crash us out at the end of October,\" he added.\n\n\"If we want to guarantee that we're staying in Europe at the end of October, if we want to stop this prime minister, then we have to stand up and be counted - and that means a motion of no confidence\".\n\nMr Blackford also rejected suggestions an interim government could hold a further Brexit referendum before an election, adding it would be \"extremely challenging\".\n\nHe said this would require any such administration to be in place for \"at least six months\", but there was not \"anything like a majority\" in Parliament for such an idea.\n• None What is a vote of no confidence?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson says the \"reality\" of Brexit is there will need to be customs checks on the island of Ireland after the UK leaves the EU.\n\nBut the PM rejected claims that would effectively mean a hard border, in the form of a series of customs posts set five or 10 miles back.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"A sovereign united country must have a single customs territory.\"\n\nHe refused to give details, but said formal proposals would be made soon.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons on Tuesday, Brexit minister James Duddridge said the government would \"set out more detail on an alternative to the backstop in the coming days\".\n\nHe also said he wanted to \"assure the House there will be no infrastructure checks or controls at the border\".\n\nThe UK is set to leave the EU on 31 October.\n\nMr Johnson has said the exit will go ahead with or without a deal - despite MPs passing a law last month forcing him to ask for an extension from the EU if Parliament hasn't voted in favour of a specific deal or leaving without one.\n\nThe issue of the Irish border - and how to keep it free from border checks when it becomes the frontier between the UK and the EU - has been a key sticking point in Brexit negotiations.\n\nThe current government says the solution reached by the EU and Theresa May, the backstop, is unacceptable and an alternative to it must be found.\n\nMr Johnson was speaking at the start of the third day of the Conservative Party conference in Manchester where ministers have made a raft of policy announcements, including raising the National Living Wage.\n\nBut the plans have been overshadowed by allegations that Mr Johnson squeezed the thigh of journalist Charlotte Edwards under a table at a lunch in 1999.\n\nAsked about the accusation, the PM told BBC Breakfast it was \"not true\", but it was \"inevitable\" he would face \"shot and shell\" because of his stance on Brexit.\n\nAccording to leaked proposals, the government has accepted there must be customs checks on the island of Ireland, but they would be conducted away from the border - mostly where goods originate or at their final destination.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Would you notice if you crossed the Irish border? (Video from 2017)\n\nIrish broadcaster RTE had reported that a \"string of customs posts perhaps five to 10 miles away from the frontier\" had been floated by the UK.\n\nThe prime minister told Breakfast: \"They are not talking about the proposals that we are actually going to be tabling.\n\n\"They are talking about some stuff that went in previously.\"\n\nIrish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said the UK government had promised Ireland and the EU there would be no hard border as a result of Brexit, and they expected that commitment to be honoured.\n\n\"No British government should seek to impose customs posts between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland against the will both of the people in Northern Ireland and the people here in the Republic of Ireland,\" he said.\n\nMr Varadkar went on to say that in the event of a no-deal Brexit, there would be checks at ports and airports.\n\nGovernment sources accused unnamed individuals in the European Commission of leaking the suggestion in an effort to create \"a hostile reaction\" to their revised Brexit deal.\n\nA European Commission spokesperson said they would not be commenting on the reports, but their position remained that they had \"not received any proposals from the UK that meet all the objectives of the backstop\".\n\nMr Johnson told the BBC he would not reveal details of the proposals to be put to the EU at this stage, but the UK would be making \"a very good offer\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWe don't have the exact proposals from the UK government, but we're beginning to get the shape of it.\n\nYes, there will be customs checks, but no, there won't be a hard border, and no, these checks won't be done five or 10 miles away from the border.\n\nThe government is saying we can do most of them in the depots and warehouses before lorries even leave.\n\nIn some instances, there will be physical inspections, but then it will be up to customs authorities to decide where to do them - it might be at the depots or they might want their own physical area to carry them out.\n\nThe problem with that is the Irish government and the EU don't want any checks at all, because they view them as a hardening of the border even if it isn't a hard border.\n\nThe view of the British government is that life can't just carry on the same as before because we are leaving and we want to have our own trade policy.\n\nLabour's Hilary Benn asked an urgent question in the Commons about the government's plans for the island of Ireland.\n\n\"Today there are no border posts or checks on goods crossing the border... and the backstop is there to ensure that remains the case after Brexit.\n\n\"The government's position now, however, is that the reality of Brexit will require customs check on the island of Ireland - that is the inexorable logic of the prime minister's statement this morning.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is unacceptable for us to be kept in the dark about what is being proposed in our name on such an important matter.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson spoke to BBC Breakfast about new border proposals.\n\nThe Northern Irish DUP MP, Gregory Campbell, supported the government and said the House should \"draw a little comfort\" from the fact the EU appeared to have shifted somewhat from its previous position of refusing point blank to re-open the withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"At least that is a glimmer of light,\" he said.\n\nBut the SNP's Peter Grant said the \"future of peace and normality on the island of Ireland will critically depend on the action of this prime minister\" and claimed governments around the EU were beginning to believe Mr Johnson \"could not be trusted\".\n\nEarlier, Tory MP and chairman of the pro-Brexit European Research Group Steve Baker said there would be \"some additional checks\" after Brexit, but that was \"inescapable\".\n\nHe told BBC News: \"I'm absolutely confident this can be a world class border with a real minimisation of inconvenience to businesses and individuals - consistent with the kind of approach adopted today.\"\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nCardiff City have been told to pay the first instalment of 6m euros (£5.3m) to Nantes for £15m striker Emiliano Sala.\n\nFifa ruled Cardiff must pay the sum \"corresponding to the first instalment due\" in the transfer agreement.\n\nThe Argentine, who was 28, died in a plane crash in January while travelling from France to join his new club.\n\nCardiff have argued they were not liable for any of the full £15m fee because Sala was not officially their player when he died.\n\nThe club refused to make interim payments, claiming the deal was not legally binding.\n\nBBC Sport has learned that the second instalment of the £15m fee agreed for Sala is due to be paid in January 2020.\n\nA statement issued by FC Nantes' lawyers, Jerome Marsaudon and Louis-Marie Absil, read: \"We welcome this decision by Fifa. Cardiff must respect its commitments and the rules of sports law.\n\n\"Beyond the human tragedy that affected the entire sports community with the death of Emiliano Sala, Fifa has just reminded that the legal security of the commitments made by clubs in the context of player transfers must be respected.\n\n\"It is not a surprise, it confirms the position that FC Nantes has held for the last nine months: Emiliano Sala signed with Cardiff; his contract with Nantes was over; the international transfer contract (ITC), delivered by Fifa, states that on the day of the accident Emiliano was indeed a Cardiff player.\"\n\nCardiff believe the transfer was null and void, saying the Premier League had rejected certain clauses requested by Nantes in the original contract and that Sala never had a chance to review or sign the final version, meaning their record signing was not registered as a Premier League player.\n\nA statement from Fifa read: \"Cardiff City FC must pay FC Nantes the sum of 6m euros, corresponding to the first instalment due in accordance with the transfer agreement concluded between the parties on 19 January 2019 for the transfer of the late Emiliano Sala from FC Nantes to Cardiff City FC.\n\n\"The sum of 6m euros corresponds to the first instalment currently due in accordance with the contract. For confidentiality reasons, we cannot comment at this stage on potential future instalments or other conditions of the transfer agreement.\"\n\nCardiff, who were relegated to the Championship at the end of last season, and Ligue 1 Nantes have 10 days should they wish to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne.\n\n\"Cardiff City FC acknowledges the decision announced today by Fifa's players status committee regarding the transfer of Emiliano Sala. We will be seeking further clarification from Fifa on the exact meaning of their statement in order to make an informed decision on our next steps,\" read a Cardiff statement.\n\nThe plane carrying Sala and pilot David Ibbotson, 59, crashed in the English Channel on 21 January, two days after the players' transfer was announced.\n\nThe footballer's body was recovered from the wreckage, but Ibbotson, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, has still not been found.\n\nSala was exposed to high levels of carbon monoxide prior to the crash, a report later revealed.", "Activists with posters of the journalist held a protest outside the tribunal last month\n\nA Moroccan journalist has been sentenced to a year in prison for premarital sex and having an abortion, in a case activists say is part of a crackdown on critical reporters.\n\nHajar Raissouni was arrested with her fiancé as they left a gynaecologist's clinic in the capital Rabat in August.\n\nThe 28-year-old denied the charges, saying she had sought treatment for internal bleeding.\n\nMs Raissouni works for an independent newspaper critical of the authorities.\n\nA journalist at the Akhbar Al-Yaoum daily, she denounced the case against her as a \"political trial\", saying she had been questioned by police about her family and her writing.\n\nWearing a black veil covering her head, Ms Raissouni appeared calm on arrival at the courtroom in Rabat. She and her fiancé, a Sudanese national, denied that an abortion had taken place.\n\n\"We're shocked by this verdict,\" her lawyer, Abdelmoula El Marouri, told the Reuters news agency, saying that all the medical and legal evidence should have led to an acquittal. He said he would appeal against the verdict.\n\nThe prosecutor in the case said the circumstances of the journalist's arrest had nothing to do with her work as a journalist, and that the clinic she had visited was under police surveillance on suspicion of carrying out illegal abortions.\n\nThe court sentenced her fiancé to a year in prison and her doctor to two years. The doctor's assistant and a nurse at the clinic were also found guilty but were given suspended sentences.\n\nAhmed Benchemsi, regional director for Human Rights Watch, described the verdict as a \"black day for freedom in Morocco\", calling it \"a blatant injustice, a flagrant violation of human rights, and a frontal attack on individual freedoms.\"", "There is something extremely retro about what's going on at the moment - the diplomatic dance between the EU and the UK.\n\nThe UK says: \"Of course there's a plan and we have lots of whizzo ideas we're sharing with our friends on the continent.\"\n\nThe EU then declares: \"There is no plan, we don't know what you want!\" - while at the same time making clear, as today, that they disapprove of some of the proposals that supposedly don't exist.\n\nIf it wasn't so serious for our economy, our politics, the UK's place in the world, you might wonder if it's like the start of a school disco, when the boys are sulking in one corner, trying to look cool and pretending they don't want even to talk to any of the girls.\n\nIn the other corner, the girls are huddled, sneaking glances over to the other side of the hall, wondering who is going to be the first to make any contact.\n\nAt that moment, there's a stand-off, even though both sides know that within a couple of hours, it will be complete bedlam - especially if someone has managed to slips a few cans of cider into the loos or a snifter of peach schnapps in their borrowed handbag.\n\nIt's retro, not just because of the echoes of misspent youth, but because Theresa May's government went through some of this same warm-up.\n\nOn countless occasions, EU leaders anywhere near a microphone demanded the UK give more information.\n\nAnd UK ministers were asked again, and again, and again, what exactly do you intend to do?\n\nThe answer came repeatedly - we do have a plan, but of course we're not going to publish it until the right time.\n\nIt was frustrating on all sides frankly, including for journalists trying to find out exactly what was going on.\n\nIn fact, the time I saw Mrs May most angry was when I asked her about eight times exactly what kind of deal she was really after on a trip to China. Suffice to say, it did not end well.\n\nTheresa May's government went through some of this same warm-up\n\nLike everything about Boris Johnson's premiership though, this familiar process is happening at hyper-speed with an accompanying drama.\n\nWhether that's Xavier Bettel's (un)diplomatic and frustrated showboating, or the box office Supreme Court case unfolding right now, I can't say enough times, what is happening now in politics is not normal.\n\nBut let's ignore the histrionics on all sides for a moment though, and try to understand where the state of play really is - could there, maybe, just maybe, be a deal?\n\nThere are talks taking place. There might not be official talks with official joint press conferences afterwards, but there are discussions going on and possible solutions are being discussed, kept tantalisingly hidden in the UK negotiator David Frost's binders.\n\nAnd there is what the government describes as the \"broad shape\" of a deal, which has been put forward in recent weeks to different actors in the EU, to try to see if it could be the basis of something.\n\nIt's important to say that it is, what one very well placed source describes it as, a \"selection of starters, amuse-bouches, main courses\", and other items that make up a menu of different options that could be chosen from and digested.\n\nIt is not a fixed set of final proposals. But yes, you guessed it, most of them revolve around potential ways of solving the conundrum around the Irish border.\n\nSo what are they? Well, the first part of the possible plan is to build on a system that already exists.\n\nThe island of Ireland, north and south, is already treated as a single zone for animal health. So any livestock that goes into Northern Ireland from Great Britain is checked on entry.\n\nNo 10 is looking at what else you can include in that regime. Could you have a single zone for all food products? Could you expand it to include all manufactured goods?\n\nThere is already an electricity market for the whole island. How much can you lump into this existing regime?\n\nThis is, you guessed it, not a straightforward discussion, but the government believes it could solve part of the problem.\n\nBut no one in Whitehall, and certainly not in Brussels, believes that could solve the whole problem.\n\nThe next question, therefore, is if a part of the economy doesn't conveniently slot into that regime, how do you carry out checks without causing enormous disruption to trade?\n\nThere are conversations going on about where and how this could be feasible, with the driving principle for checks to happen away from the actual border.\n\nBut again, if you've been following this process, there have been many, many conversations about this already - none of which have reached a happy conclusion - but it is part of what the government would like to be the solution.\n\nEven trickier is how to address the customs issue.\n\nIt's clear the government does not want to go back to the idea of a Northern Ireland only backstop - not just because their sometime allies, the DUP, wouldn't want to accept it, but because that would mean it would essentially be in the EU customs union.\n\nWhen you hear the prime minister talk about the UK leaving EU apparatus \"as a whole\", this is what he is ruling out.\n\nThe DUP - led by Arlene Foster - are sometimes allies of No 10\n\nHe wants Northern Ireland to be in the UK customs territory, but the implication of this is some kind of customs border - because when goods go from Northern Ireland into the EU they need to be checked somewhere.\n\nAnd it feels unrealistically optimistic to imagine that the EU would allow these elements to be settled after the UK leaves.\n\nThen there's the question of who would actually police and monitor all of this stuff.\n\nMaybe the Northern Irish Assembly could be given a bigger role - that's one of the UK's ideas not necessarily beloved by the EU.\n\nAnd over the longer term, there is still the hope on the UK side that those \"alternative arrangements\" (remember them?) could replace the need for any kind of draconian arrangements.\n\nBut there are now conversations happening between governments about the principle here, one of consent, that simply weren't happening a while ago.\n\nAgain, a million miles from a happy conclusion, but progress of a sort.\n\nIf you want to read more about the potential technical details of the possible shape of a deal, there have been thousands of column inches in the last few days devoted to it with lots of well informed speculation by different EU pundits, well plugged into to what's going on.\n\nAnd there's a good explanation here by one of my colleagues in Belfast about the border conundrum:\n\nThe details of what, or might not be possible, of course do matter a lot.\n\nAnd it is abundantly clear that the EU does not, at the moment, consider what they have heard (in the non-existent talks remember!) to be anywhere near enough to replace what was agreed with Mrs May.\n\nBut while the policy equations are important, the political choice on whether to try to make something work is the vital one.\n\nAnd there is palpable frustration in some quarters on the UK side that not everyone in the EU actually wants to listen.\n\nPerhaps, and who would blame them, some on the other side of the Channel would rather take their chances and wait to see what happens after the likely general election.\n\nParliament's voted to delay departure if there is no deal after all. Why invest much in this administration's ideas when the political turbulence could just sweep them away in any case?\n\nOne EU insider joked tonight, \"In Boris we trust?\". But next week the prime minister is likely to use encounters with the major EU leaders, like Merkel and Macron, in the margins of the UN Assembly in New York to give the political dynamics a good shove.\n\nSome sources in government reckon that kind of intervention from a big continental player is the only way there can be a resolution in time.\n\nAnother senior figure reckons, guess what, it's still all about Ireland. If they signal that they could be ready to take this set of proposals seriously, then it could be game on.\n\nIs that realistic? It would be a pretty enormous political turnaround. Part of getting any deal done when there has been such a confrontation is to find ways of every party finding a \"win\".\n\nThere's talk tonight of the UK being given a deadline to publish its proposals. Who can blame the EU for making those kinds of demands for concrete and public commitments when events this side of the Channel are so turbulent.\n\nBut as ever, it's the politics, not the process, that will likely make the difference in the end.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nTottenham Hotspur's troubles continued as they were humiliated in the most devastating fashion by Bayern Munich in the Champions League on one of the most embarrassing nights in their recent history as Serge Gnabry scored four goals.\n\nThe scale of this thrashing for manager Mauricio Pochettino and his players was made even more stark by the fact they took an early lead through Son Heung-min and were on level terms until just before half-time.\n\nBayern posed a huge threat throughout and were quickly on terms through Joshua Kimmich's superb 20-yard finish - but Spurs failed to heed the warning signs and ended up reduced to a rabble as they sunk without a fight in the second half.\n\nStrange as it may seem looking at the scoreline, this was an enthralling encounter that really turned on the stroke of half-time when, with matters in the balance, Robert Lewandowski produced a brilliant turn and right-foot finish past Hugo Lloris from 20 yards.\n• None 'Embarrassing, abject, pitiful - make no mistake, Spurs and Pochettino are in trouble'\n• None We must stick together - Pochettino\n• None Gnabry goes from West Brom fringe player to Champions League hero\n\nThe manner in which Spurs subsided once they went behind will be of huge concern to Pochettino and all those who have detected underlying problems with the manager and his team since they lost the Champions League final to Liverpool in June.\n\nBayern gathered momentum and put themselves out of sight when former Arsenal youngster Gnabry scored twice in as many minutes shortly after the interval, taking full advantage of more poor defending to beat Lloris emphatically.\n\nHarry Kane gave Spurs brief hope with a penalty after Kingsley Coman fouled Danny Rose but Bayern were in no mood to open the door, instead running riot as Gnabry added two more, with another smooth finish from Lewandowski sandwiched in between.\n\nIt is the first time in Tottenham's 137-year history that they have ever conceded seven goals at home in any competition.\n\nSpurs left the pitch to a chorus of jeers. They will cling to the fact they reached the final after losing their first two group games last season - but this is the sort of beating that will take a long time to recover from.\n\nTottenham's display had so much to commend it for the first 35 minutes as they closely resembled the side that reached the Champions League final so dramatically last season, playing with passion, urgency and pace to trade blows with this dangerous Bayern.\n\nEven when honours were even, however, danger lurked obviously as Spurs were being exposed on the flanks as the pace of Gnabry and the prowess of Lewandowski flagged up big trouble ahead.\n\nAnd so it proved as, from the moment Lewandowski swept a magnificent low finish past Lloris with virtually the last kick of the first half, Spurs were stretched and picked apart, with the defensive pairing of Toby Alderweireld and Jan Vertonghen looking slow and laboured. The sight of the latter plodding in the wake of Gnabry when he hit the back of the net once more was a particularly ominous sight.\n\nSpurs will also look at early chances squandered by Son but there is no escaping the brutal reality of what was done to them by Bayern.\n\nThis is regarded as a Bayern side in transition, remember they lost at home to Liverpool in the last 16 last season, but by the final whistle it was literally a question of how many they would score as Spurs waited for the whistle like a boxer waiting for the final bell.\n\nSpurs can still get out of this group but serious damage will have been inflicted by this loss and its inglorious manner.\n\nWhat now for Pochettino?\n\nSpurs' battling win against Southampton on Saturday looked to have lifted the siege mentality around manager Pochettino and answered the questions asked after an indifferent start to the season which saw a Carabao Cup exit to League Two Colchester United.\n\nInstead, after this, the questions will not only return but will be more probing. This result will not only stun Pochettino, his players and Spurs supporters, it will come as a jolt to chairman Daniel Levy.\n\nSpurs now see themselves as big players on this elite European stage but this scoreline paints them as the opposite. Levy will not appreciate that.\n\nPochettino must now rally himself and this bedraggled team, who looked lethargic and lacking the stomach for the fight once Bayern took control.\n\nThese are decisive days for Pochettino and Spurs.\n• None Tottenham are the first English side to concede seven goals in a European game since they lost 8-0 to Cologne in the 1995 Intertoto Cup\n• None This was Mauricio Pochettino's joint heaviest defeat as a manager, alongside a 5-0 loss to Real Madrid in March 2012 with Espanyol\n• None This was Bayern's joint second biggest away victory in European competition, behind only a 7-1 win against Roma in October 2014\n• None Spurs conceded seven goals in a competitive match for the first time since December 1996 - a 7-1 Premier League defeat by Newcastle United\n• None Serge Gnabry is the only the second German player to score four goals in a Champions League match after Mario Gomez versus Basel in March 2012 (also for Bayern, 7-0 win).\n• None Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski has scored in his last nine competitive appearances - his longest scoring streak in his German club career. He has scored 14 goals in 10 games for Bayern this season, more than any other player in the big five European leagues.\n• None Spurs' Harry Kane has scored more Champions League goals against German teams (five) than he has against sides from any other nation in the competition.\n\nTottenham visit struggling Brighton in Saturday's Premier League lunchtime kick-off. Bundesliga leaders Bayern are at home to Hoffenheim the same day.\n• None Attempt missed. Corentin Tolisso (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Ivan Perisic following a set piece situation.\n• None Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Serge Gnabry (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 2, FC Bayern München 7. Serge Gnabry (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Corentin Tolisso.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 2, FC Bayern München 6. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Philippe Coutinho following a fast break.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 2, FC Bayern München 5. Serge Gnabry (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Thiago Alcántara with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Son Heung-Min.\n• None Attempt missed. Philippe Coutinho (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Joshua Kimmich.\n• None Substitution, FC Bayern München. Javi Martínez replaces Jérôme Boateng because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Stephen Barclay and Michel Barnier met for Brexit talks in Brussels on Friday\n\nThe government has prepared the legal text of an updated Brexit deal, government sources have told the BBC.\n\nIt is expected to make more of the plans public in the next few days, a senior government figure says.\n\nThe government has suggested creating \"customs clearance zones\" in Northern Ireland and Irish Republic, as part of the proposals put to the EU.\n\nBut Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister Simon Coveney said the plans were a \"non-starter\".\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Coveney said Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland \"deserve better\" than the proposals, which were originally reported by Irish state broadcaster RTE.\n\nProposals for reaching a Brexit deal had been expected ahead of a crucial EU summit on 17 October.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 31 October, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson says this will happen whether or not there is a new deal with Brussels.\n\nMr Johnson says that he would prefer leaving with a deal.\n\nAt the Conservative Party conference on Monday, he said: \"I'm cautiously optimistic. We have made some pretty big moves, we are waiting to see whether our European friends will help us and whether we can find the right landing zone.\"\n\nMPs have passed a law, known as the Benn Act, requiring Mr Johnson to seek an extension to the deadline from the bloc if he is unable to pass a deal in Parliament, or get MPs to approve a no-deal Brexit, by 19 October.\n\nWith the detailed proposals on the table, the UK side hopes that by the end of the week, both the EU and UK would be in a period of intense negotiations where both sides thrash out a final text.\n\nBut there is no certainty over whether the EU will accept the premise of the plans in order to move to the next phase of talks.\n\nThe biggest obstacle to a deal is the backstop - the plan to prevent a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.\n\nThe policy - agreed to by former PM Theresa May in her withdrawal deal with the EU, which was rejected three times by Parliament - is unacceptable to many Conservative MPs.\n\nSince becoming prime minister, Mr Johnson has stressed to EU leaders the backstop would have to be replaced if any deal was to be passed by Parliament.\n\nMr Johnson has argued that the backstop would keep the UK too closely aligned with EU rules after Brexit.\n\nThe EU Commission has said it is willing to look at new proposals but these must achieve the same aims as the backstop - and be legally enforceable.\n\nSources involved in the negotiations with the EU say the checks proposed would not be at the Irish border, and suggestions there would be a series of checkpoints along the border are a misunderstanding.\n\nThe proposals were rejected by political parties in Dublin and non-unionist politicians in Belfast, with the SDLP's Colum Eastwood saying there would be \"economic and security challenges that are unacceptable\".\n\nLisa Chambers, the Fianna Fail Brexit spokeswoman described it as \"effectively a border with a buffer zone\", while Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald said it was \"further evidence of Tory recklessness and belligerence towards Ireland\".\n\n\"Anything that causes there to be customs, tariffs, checks anywhere represents a hardening of the border,\" she told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"[It] goes against all of the commitments that have been entered into by the British government at the get-go of this Brexit process to protect the Good Friday Agreement, to ensure no hardening of the border, to respect the Irish economy, Irish society - to do nothing that would in anyway threaten or destabilise the situation,\" she added.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer described the proposals as \"utterly unworkable\".\n\nTalks have continued between the UK and EU, at a technical level. Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay and the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier met on Friday.\n\nThe BBC has learnt the proposals will accept the need for customs checks on the island of Ireland - but insist these checks, as the government previously pledged, would be conducted away from the border.\n\nCustoms formalities would be carried out mostly where goods originate or at their final destination.\n\nThe UK government maintains that any further customs inspections would be very limited - and these could be conducted either at new locations or at existing business premises.\n\nThe Irish broadcaster RTE had reported that a \"string of customs posts perhaps five to 10 miles away from the frontier\" had been floated by the UK.\n\nHowever, government sources have denied that UK officials had proposed a series of inspection posts on either side of the Irish border.\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats Jo Swinson told the Today programme the proposals showed Mr Johnson was \"not serious\" about getting a deal.\n\n\"He knows that this is going to be rejected,\" she said.\n\nMs Swinson also said cross-party talks continued about how to ensure the Benn Act was \"watertight\".\n\nShe raised concerns that although Mr Johnson has promised to respect the rule of law, he has also promised to deliver Brexit on 31 October, with or without a deal.\n\n\"Those two things can't simultaneously be true,\" she said.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for", "Martin Cameron admitted causing the crash after driving at double the speed limit\n\nA man who was banned from the road three times in five years has admitted causing the death of his friend in a high-speed crash.\n\nMartin Cameron, 25, had been driving at 125mph - double the speed limit - when he crashed his orange Ford Focus in the Highlands in May 2018.\n\nHe was driving to work with Shaun Allan, 26, who suffered fatal injuries in the crash near Farr.\n\nShaun Allan was a passenger in the car that crashed near Farr\n\nProsecutor Allan Nicol told the High Court in Glasgow that Cameron's most recent ban was in 2016. He re-sat his driving test and got his licence back two months before the crash.\n\nOn the morning of the collision, another person was due to pick up Cameron and Mr Allan, but failed to turn up.\n\nCameron decided to take his own car - he drove to collect Mr Allan who was with his partner and young daughter.\n\nThe two worked for a construction company.\n\nMr Nicol said: \"He had driven at an average speed of 125mph. CCTV existed of the vehicle passing about 20 minutes before the incident.\"\n\nAfter picking up Mr Allan, Cameron drove on the rural B851 towards their site in Farr, south of Inverness.\n\nThe court heard witnesses saw his car \"flying past\" at \"quite a speed\".\n\nHe is thought to have been going between 60-70mph in a 40mph zone.\n\nThe car crashed through trees into the garden of a house\n\nA man living nearby said he heard a \"very large noise\" as Cameron's car spun out of control.\n\nIt crashed through the fence of a house and into trees before coming to a halt in the garden of the property.\n\nThe court heard that Cameron, of Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire, asked a witness for help getting out the car.\n\nMr Allan was rushed to hospital, but suffered a cardiac arrest in the back of the ambulance and later died.\n\nCameron received treatment for fractures to his leg and wrist.\n\nHe later handed himself into police, but made no comment when questioned.\n\nMr Nicol continued: \"In their report, collision investigators state that responsibility lies solely with the driver of the Ford Focus.\"\n\nGeoffrey Forbes, defending, said Cameron expressed the \"deepest regret and sorrow\" for what happened.\n\nLord Kinclaven remanded Cameron in custody and sentencing was deferred until 30 October in Edinburgh.", "Supermodel Gigi Hadid confronted an intruder on the catwalk at the Chanel show during Paris Fashion Week.\n\nComedian Marie S'Infiltre - real name Marie Benoliel - climbed onto the runway wearing a Chanel-style dog tooth-patterned outfit and a black hat.\n\nAfter getting most of the way round the runway, Gigi Hadid stepped in and led her away.\n\nIt seems to have been a publicity stunt rather than protest.\n\nA Chanel spokeswoman said: \"We are not going to make a drama out of it.\"\n\nMarie S'Infiltre just before Gigi Hadid marches her off stage\n\nLots of people watching the show captured the moment on camera and shared it on social media.\n\nYou can see a load of models walking in a row, when the comedian jumps up and joins in.\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 supermodel hasn't commented on what happened but has shared other people's Instagram stories from the show.\n\nGigi Hadid and other models on the runway during the Chanel fashion show\n\nIn one post she's tagged in there's the caption \"superhero @gigihadid\".\n\nGigi shared it on her story and added a gif of a winking cat woman.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "It was supposed to be a day of celebration in China, marking 70 years since the start of Communist rule in the world's most populous nation. But even as they tried to impress the wider world, eyes were turning to Hong Kong, where pro-democracy protesters had taken to the streets in their thousands.\n\nAs today's live page comes to a close, China correspondent Stephen McDonell - who has spent the day reporting from the protests - sums up events in Hong Kong:\n\nA teenage student activist was shot in the chest from point blank range. Footage appears to show him trying to strike a police officer with a short pole at the time.\n\nHard line protesters charged up escalators trying to reach a police position. They faced a hail of rubber bullets and tear gas and were forced to retreat.\n\nWater cannon trucks were used not only to clear thousands of demonstrators but to put out the many fires lit in the city, especially the burning barricades built across major roads.\n\nThere had been predictions of a violent escalation in Hong Kong to mark the 70th anniversary of Communist Party rule in China and that’s exactly what’s happened here.\n\nA peaceful mass march turned into a series of running street battles as protesters tried to upstage events in Beijing with their calls for democratic reform.", "Gareth Delbridge (L) and Michael Lewis (R) were hit by a train in July\n\nThere was \"no safe system in place\" when two rail workers were hit and killed by a train in July, an initial report has found.\n\nGareth Delbridge, 64, and Michael \"Spike\" Lewis, 58, died on 3 July after being struck near Margam, Port Talbot.\n\nA Network Rail and Great Western Railway probe said six staff were working on the line and separated of their own accord into groups of three.\n\nThis meant there was no official lookout.\n\nA person was appointed unofficial lookout, but they became involved in the rail work before the train struck Mr Delbridge, from Kenfig Hill, Bridgend and Mr Lewis, from North Cornelly, Bridgend.\n\nThe report said it was \"generally accepted\" groups can be about 20 yards apart during work, but the workers split and worked 150 yards apart.\n\nThe group was working with the line open to trains, with the lookout expected to give 30 seconds' warning time if a train was approaching, the report said.\n\nBut their distance apart compromised the number of lookouts available and a safe system of working.\n\nA Swansea to London Paddington train approached the group at about 70mph, hitting and killing the two workers. A third technician suffered severe shock.\n\nThe men had been instructed to work on freeing, oiling and retightening bolts by the unofficial person in charge, who was also to act as a lookout.\n\nThere was a problem with a bolt, meaning the lookout became involved in the rail work and suggested putting further oil on the bolt, despite being instructed to remain in a position of safety.\n\nSoon afterwards, Mr Lewis and Mr Delbridge were struck.\n\nThe report added the team believed they were working in the \"most effective way\" with an experienced team and no evidence of near-misses or accidents.\n\nAn investigation was launched after the men were killed\n\nThis \"potentially led to overconfidence and a culture that delivered work 'their way',\" the report said, adding that the work they were undertaking should have required more than three members of staff.\n\nThe workers were, according to witness statements, all wearing ear defenders, and despite the train driver sounding the horn a number of times, they did not hear it.\n\nThe report said the driver used a high-low tone of train horn, before two long, continuous blasts in the low tone.\n\nThe train involved was the 09:29 from Swansea to London Paddington\n\nHowever, the rule book said: \"Give a series of short, urgent danger warnings to anyone…who does not…appear to move clear out of the way of the train.\"\n\nThe report said it was \"uncertain\" if using short high-tone warnings could have resulted in track workers becoming aware of the train earlier.\n\nThe report also found the controller of site safety (COSS) was \"undermined\" by the working group of six splitting into threes, and the COSS had not been involved in preparing the site before their arrival.\n\nIt stated the safe system of work was \"inadequate\" and resources were \"insufficient\" to apply a safe system of work after the larger group were divided.\n\nAbout 180 passengers were on the train at the time of the incident, Great Western Railway said\n\nMartin Frobisher, Network Rail's safety director, said: \"The whole railway family shares the loss of Gareth and Spike.\n\n\"Nothing will lessen the pain but understanding what went wrong and learning from that will, I hope, go some way to reassure all those affected that we will do all we can to stop it ever happening again.\n\n\"Today is the first step in that journey as we share an initial investigation into what happened.\n\n\"We will continue for several months to look deeper into the root causes before we make recommendations for our organisation and all of our people for the future.\"\n\nInvestigators are continuing to gather evidence about the several factors of the report, including the appointment of key roles, the separation of groups, why the team undertook work on the crossing bolts and the intuitiveness in the use of the train warning horn in an emergency.\n\nThe interim report, which has not been finalised, added a series of investigated events over recent years had been identified, with some common circumstances to the key facts found at Margam East Junction.", "Ex-Thomas Cook branch manager Donna Jones, centre, said customers first concern was for staff\n\nEx-Thomas Cook staff across England are working for free to help holidaymakers to salvage their trips.\n\nEmployees who lost their jobs when the travel firm collapsed have set up pop-up shops to help customers fill in claim forms or rebook holidays.\n\nAt least 100 people queued in a shopping centre in Longton in Stoke-on-Trent to speak to Thomas Cook staff.\n\nFormer branch manager Donna Jones said staff were working for free \"out of our love for our customers.\"\n\n\"I cried as soon as I opened the door,\" she said. \"There's lots of emotions but we've got to lock them all away just so we can get through and give the advice that we need to give.\"\n\nThomas Cook staff opened a pop-up shop in Stoke-on-Trent to help customers\n\nAlison and Robert Hart were due to go on a family holiday to Egypt last week - but went to Skegness instead.\n\nMr Hart said: \"We might have lost our holiday but they've lost their career. They've lost their jobs, they've got children to feed, a mortgage to pay for - it's just wrong.\"\n\nIn the queue outside, Tara Davidson told the BBC: \"I'm proud of them. It's really good of them that they can do this for us when they don't have to.\"\n\nKenneth Mills said: \"They're a credit to the company that's just sacked them.\"\n\nDiane Spraggon, who started a collection for the former staff, said: \"It's so nice of these girls to come out here and do this for nothing.\"\n\nAt least 100 people queued outside a pop-up shop run by former Thomas Cook staff in Stoke-on-Trent\n\nIn Telford, Shropshire, staff locked out of their former workplace set up shop in a nearby cafe to give customers advice.\n\nIn Walsall, branch manager Georgia Browning and assistant manager Shannon Faulkner based themselves at a local pub.\n\n\"It feels strange sat here in our uniforms for the last time but we wanted to help customers fill in their claims forms and to say goodbye,\" said Ms Browning.\n\n\"Our customers' first thought was for us, they know their holidays are protected they're just concerned about us,\" she said.\n\nPub landlord Clinton Hartland, with Thomas Cook former staff Georgia Browning, Shannon Faulkner and Emily Hartland.\n\nCabin manager Martin Browne and his wife had 40 years of service at Thomas Cook between them when they both lost their jobs.\n\n\"Some of my cabin crew colleagues have been helping stranded people get back,\" he said.\n\n\"Their jobs are over as soon as everyone is repatriated and they've been buying toilet roll and plastic cups out of their own pocket because all they've been given is an empty aircraft.\n\n\"But that's what we do, we are problem solvers and there's no one else the customers can ask at 40,000 feet.\n\nCabin manager Martin Browne has been helping colleagues to fill in redundancy forms\n\nMr Browne is a union rep has been helping colleagues fill out redundancy and benefits forms.\n\n\"I'm a volunteer, I'm not being paid I'm just trying to help as many people as I can, but at the same time, I've still got to fill in my own redundancy forms,\" he told the Manchester Evening News.\n\n\"I think I'm keeping busy because if I stop and think, I don't know what I'll do,\" he said.\n\nSome Thomas Cook customers have been told they may have to wait as long as two months to receive a refund for holidays.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John was sent for aversion therapy at the Department of Mental Health at Queen's during the 1960s\n\n\"Some electrical wires would be attached initially to my feet.\n\n\"They would give me a shock and would continue giving me a shock every 15 or 30 seconds.\"\n\nJohn, not his real name, underwent electrical aversion therapy at Queen's University Belfast (QUB) while a student in the 1960s. He was shown pictures of naked men and given electric shocks if he was aroused.\n\nA spokesperson for QUB has expressed regret for the use of aversion therapy.\n\nJohn had grown up in the 1950s in a rural Northern Ireland town.\n\n\"My church was a Presbyterian church, so that was quite difficult when I realised I was gay,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nDr Tommy Dickinson said that use of electrical aversion therapy had been almost totally abandoned by the mid-1970s in the UK\n\n\"When I was about 15, I realised I am one of these people who are homosexuals and who are reviled really by the society I grew up in, so it was a big shock to me.\n\nJohn initially spoke to his GP who, although sympathetic, arranged counselling for him at a local hospital.\n\nHowever, when he went to QUB as a student in the late 1960s he was referred to the Department of Mental Health at the university.\n\n\"I was quite happy to go along with whatever they told me, I wanted to be cured,\" he said.\n\nThe aim of electrical aversion therapy was for him to associate homosexual desire with pain or unpleasant feelings.\n\n\"I was shown a series of what, I suppose, one would regard these days as mildly pornographic images of naked young men,\" John said.\n\n\"I was given gutties and these were connected up with electric wires to a voltage and I would receive the shock in my feet.\n\n\"Incidentally, I found this quite horrible because I'm quite sensitive in my feet for some reason and I managed to persuade them instead to give them to my hands.\n\n\"So they then tied something to my hands and they then tied something to each hand and I would get a shock from that.\"\n\nJohn had to press a button when he felt aroused by the pictures of men.\n\n\"When I pressed the button that meant I was aroused, then after 15 or 30 seconds if I didn't press the button again they would give me a shock,\" he said.\n\n\"They would continue giving me a shock until I pressed the button again to say I was no longer experiencing any arousal.\n\n\"Yes it was painful, it was pretty horrible.\n\n\"You would then associate any gay, homosexual feelings with something unpleasant - a conditioned reflex really.\"\n\nJohn was also encouraged to date women while undergoing the therapy.\n\nIn a research paper published in the Ulster Medical Journal in 1973, academics from the departments of Mental Health, Social Studies and Psychology at QUB said their use of electrical aversion therapy was rare by that stage.\n\nBut they did still use it.\n\n\"We have a particular interest in the use of methods for producing heterosexual interest in exclusive homosexuals,\" they reported.\n\n\"In fact we rarely use electrical aversion therapy, at least as a treatment of first choice, with any of the patients referred to our clinic.\"\n\nAccording to Dr Tommy Dickinson - the Head of the Department of Mental Health Nursing at King's College London - electrical aversion therapy never became main-stream in the UK.\n\n\"Although they were administered free of charge on the National Health Service it's only been estimated that about 1,000 people ever received the treatment,\" he said.\n\n\"That might seem a relatively small number, but that's not to negate the negative impact that had on those people.\"\n\nDr Dickinson is the author of Curing Queers: Mental Nurses and their Patients, 1935-1974, which examines the use of aversion therapy in the UK by reporting the experiences of those who both underwent and administered it.\n\n\"There is no evidence that the treatment worked,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"In fact, the only evidence I came across was that it had a lasting detrimental effect on these people.\"\n\nDr Dickinson said that use of electrical aversion therapy had been almost totally abandoned by the mid-1970s in the UK.\n\n\"The most influential factor in reducing the use of these treatments was the growing gay liberation movement as queer men and women were uniting and refuting that sickness label that had been attributed to them,\" he said.\n\nA spokesperson for Queen's University Belfast said that, regrettably, aversion therapy was used in a number of situations in the past.\n\n\"There is no scientific support for this approach for behaviour change,\" they said.\n\n\"The use of these techniques have for a long time not been supported by Queen's University or the NHS.\n\n\"While we cannot change practices of the past, Queen's University is fully committed to creating and sustaining an environment that values diversity and strongly supports its LGBT+ community.\"\n\nIn the end, it was John who decided to call a halt to the treatment he was undergoing at Queen's.\n\nJohn was sent for aversion therapy at the Department of Mental Health at Queen's during the 1960s\n\n\"Eventually after a couple years of trying my best with this treatment I realised it simply wasn't working, my feelings for men were as they had always been and I just hadn't been aroused by girls to much extent at all,\" he said.\n\n\"I suppose it is barbaric, what can I say really; I would have done anything to become normal as I saw it.\n\n\"I don't think I've been damaged by it, I haven't suffered post-traumatic stress - I got over it.\n\n\"Luckily, fairly soon afterwards I did start to meet some gay people and my life changed completely then and since then things have been much better.\n\n\"I don't know how people will react to this knowledge.\n\n\"At the time it didn't seem as barbaric to me as it sounds now.\"", "Mr Pompeo was reportedly listening in on the Ukraine call that is at the centre of impeachment efforts by Democrats\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has accused Democrats of bullying his staff as a part of an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.\n\nHe said in a tweet that requests for five officials to appear before a committee were \"not feasible\".\n\nDemocrats are investigating whether President Trump improperly pressured Ukraine's leader for personal gain.\n\nThey have been issuing summonses as part of the inquiry, which centres on a phone call between the two.\n\nThe phone call sparked a formal complaint from a whistleblower which in turn led to formal impeachment proceedings beginning.\n\nA rough transcript emerged last week indicating Mr Trump urged the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate discredited allegations against former vice-president Joe Biden, a 2020 Democratic frontrunner, and Mr Biden's son.\n\nOn Monday, it emerged that Mr Pompeo was present during the Ukraine call.\n\nMr Pompeo said the request from the House Foreign Affairs chairman Eliot Engel could be \"understood only as an attempt to intimidate, bully and treat improperly the distinguished professionals of the Department of State\".\n\n\"I will not tolerate such tactics and I will use all means at my disposal to prevent and expose any attempts to intimidate the dedicated professionals whom I am proud to lead.\"\n\nThe secretary of state was served with a subpoena by House Democrats last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What we know about Biden-Ukraine corruption claims\n\nHouse Democrats have demanded that five department officials - including the former US ambassador to Ukraine and Mr Trump's special envoy to the country - appear for depositions in October as they \"have direct knowledge of the subject matters\".\n\nMr Pompeo said Mr Engel's request raised questions about the authority of his committee to \"compel an appearance for a deposition solely by virtue of these letters\" and without a subpoena.\n\nThe secretary of state also accused Mr Engel of not providing witnesses and the department with adequate time to prepare.\n\nHe said the committee appeared to be attempting to circumvent the White House's \"unquestionably legitimate constitutional interest in protecting potentially privileged information related to the conduct of diplomatic relations\".\n\nIn response to Mr Pompeo's letter, three Democratic committee leaders said failure to comply with their interview request was illegal and \"will constitute evidence of obstruction\".\n\n\"He should immediately cease intimidating Department witnesses in order to protect himself and the President,\" said the letter signed by Congressmen Eliot Engel, Adam Schiff, and Elijah Cummings.", "The proposals could mean customs sites created on both sides of the border\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar has said the Republic is \"not going to allow ourselves to be dragged out of the single market\".\n\nSpeaking in the Dáil, he also welcomed Prime Minister Boris Johnson's rejection of a proposal for custom sites near to the border.\n\nThe taoiseach said the UK government should not \"impose\" customs checks \"against the will of the people\".\n\nHe was echoing calls made by Irish deputy prime minister Simon Coveney.\n\nResponding to a question from People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett, Mr Varadkar said the Republic would not be left in the \"worst of all worlds\" but not introducing border checks in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe taoiseach has said the Republic will not be \"dragged out\" of the single market\n\nHe said not doing so could mean Irish businesses \"facing checks in Rotterdam, and in Zeebrugge, and in Calais\".\n\n\"We certainly can't allow ourselves out of belligerence to end up in a situation whereby we are surrounded by a border on all sides, and that is certainly not a situation we want to be in,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Monday night, Irish national broadcaster RTÉ said the UK suggested 'customs clearance zones' on both sides of the Irish border could replace the backstop.\n\nHowever, on Tuesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson denied tabling that proposal.\n\nBut, in a separate interview, he accepted that some kind of customs checks would be necessary.\n\nProposals for reaching a Brexit deal had been expected ahead of a crucial EU summit on 17 October.\n\nThe BBC understands that any further customs inspections would be very limited.\n\nPolitical correspondent Iain Watson said they could be conducted either at new locations or at existing business premises.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Would you notice if you crossed the Irish border? (Video from 2017)\n\nThe proposals would mean posts created on both sides of the border, potentially five to 10 miles back from the land frontier.\n\nRTÉ said consignments would be checked and cleared at the sites, with data being provided to the customs authorities on both sides of the border.\n\nGoods moving from a customs clearance site on the northern side of the border to a similar site on the southern side would be monitored in real time using GPS via mobile phone data or tracking devices placed on trucks or vans.\n\nIn the Lords on Tuesday, former Police Ombudsman Baroness Nuala O'Loan said the risk of attack on any physical infrastructure was very high.\n\nShe told the chamber dissident republicans are very active, while recent comments from the UVF indicate they could enter into violence if the situation deteriorates.\n\nThe ideas are believed to be contained in one of four so-called non-papers submitted by UK officials during recent technical discussions in Brussels.\n\nIn a tweet, Tánaiste (Ireland's deputy prime minister) Simon Coveney said the proposals were a \"non-starter\", adding Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland \"deserve better\".\n\nA spokesman for the Irish government said: \"The EU Task force has indicated that any non-papers it has received from the UK to date fall well short of the agreed aims and objectives of the backstop.\"\n\nBBC Europe editor Katya Adler said if the customs sites plan was to become the official UK position, it would be dismissed and rejected by the EU as insufficient.\n\nJulian Smith said customs facilities were \"not possible\" in many locations in Northern Ireland\n\nHowever, Northern Ireland Secretary of State Julian Smith said he had not seen reports about custom clearance centres and did not know where the claims had come from.\n\n\"The border in Northern Ireland is not just the border, it's the area around the border so I'm very clear on that,\" Mr Smith told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\nHe added that the prime minister was \"fully committed\" to the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe DUP's Emma Little-Pengelly said Monday night's reports had caused \"surprise and dismay\" to many in Northern Ireland.\n\nShe asked the minister to engage with Northern Ireland businesses in order to make it clear that creating facilities set back from the border is not government policy as this would constitute a hard border.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 31 October, and Mr Johnson has said this will happen whether or not there is a new deal with Brussels.\n\nCurrently, there are no border posts, physical barriers or checks on people or goods crossing the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe backstop is a measure in the withdrawal agreement, between Theresa May and the EU, which is designed to ensure that continues after the UK leaves the EU.\n\nIt comes into effect only if the deal deciding the future relationship between the UK and EU is not agreed by the end of the transition period.\n\nCurrently, there are no border posts, physical barriers or checks on people or goods crossing the border\n\nSinn Féin leader Mary-Lou McDonald told the BBC's Today programme the plan was \"essentially the re-imposition of a hard border on Ireland\".\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the proposals failed to meet the UK's obligations to avoid physical infrastructure.\n\n\"It doesn't matter if it's a mile, five miles or 10 miles away, the presence of physical checks will create economic and security challenges that are unacceptable,\" he said.\n\nAodhán Connolly, director of the Northern Ireland Retail Consortium, said if the proposals were true, they showed the government had not listened to business in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe also said the move \"ripped up\" the joint declaration of December 2017 between the EU and UK.\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\nSeamus Leheny, from the Freight Transport Association in NI, said the proposal contradicted \"every single piece of feedback and advice that we in the NI business community have given to the government\".\n\nHe said while it may work for ports, \"unfortunately it is not suited to a land border\".", "The announcement comes at a time of escalating tension between Iran and the US\n\nIran's judiciary says it has convicted three people of spying for the US, sentencing one of them to death, and another person of spying for the UK.\n\nSpokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said two men, Ali Nafariyeh and Mohammadali Babapour, had received 10-year prison sentences for working for the CIA.\n\nMohammad Amin Nasab was jailed for 10 years for aiding British intelligence.\n\nMr Esmaili said he would not identify the person sentenced to death because the verdict was subject to appeal.\n\nIt was not clear if any of those convicted were among 17 people who Iran's intelligence ministry said had been arrested for spying for the CIA earlier this year.\n\nThe ministry alleged they had been collecting information in nuclear and military facilities and in the private sector - allegations that US President Donald Trump dismissed as \"totally false\".\n\nMr Esmaili also confirmed on Tuesday that the Iranian authorities had arrested the British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady.\n\nKameel Ahmady's wife said he was arrested at their home in western Iran in August\n\nMr Ahmady was being investigated on suspicion of \"links to foreign countries and institutes affiliated with foreign [intelligence] services\", he said.\n\nHis wife said in August that he had been arrested at their home in western Iran.\n\nIn a separate development, state media quoted Mr Esmaili as announcing that an appeals court had reduced the jail term of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's brother from seven years to five.\n\nHossein Fereydoun had been convicted of \"receiving bribes\", ordered to return any illicitly acquired property, and fined about 310bn riyals ($26.7m at the unofficial market exchange rate), Mr Esmaili added.\n\nIt was reported in May that Fereydoun, a close adviser to the president and senior diplomat, had been handed an unspecified jail term for corruption.\n\nThe president's supporters had said that the case was politically motivated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inside Iran: Iranians on Trump and the nuclear deal", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nAlberto Salazar - Mo Farah's former athletics coach - has been banned from the sport for four years after being found guilty of doping violations.\n\nSalazar runs the Nike Oregon Project - home to British four-time Olympic champion Farah from 2011 until 2017.\n\nThe decision follows a four-year investigation by the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) and a two-year court battle behind closed doors.\n\nAmerican Salazar said he was \"shocked\" by the outcome and would appeal.\n\n\"The Oregon Project has never and will never permit doping,\" the 61-year-old added. \"I will appeal and look forward to this unfair and protracted process reaching the conclusion I know to be true.\"\n\nDr Jeffrey Brown, a Nike-paid endocrinologist who treated many of Salazar's athletes, has also been banned for four years.\n\nFarah split with Salazar in 2017, which the BBC can reveal was the same year the coach was first charged by Usada.\n\nThe 36-year-old, also a six-time world champion, said: \"I'm relieved that Usada has, after four years, completed their investigation into Alberto Salazar.\n\n\"I left the Nike Oregon Project in 2017 but, as I've always said, I have no tolerance for anyone who breaks the rules or crosses a line. I'm glad there has finally been a conclusion.\"\n\nThe Briton has never failed a drugs test and has always strongly denied breaking any rules.\n\nThe investigation began after a BBC Panorama programme in 2015.\n\nAn independent panel found Salazar and Brown possessed and trafficked a banned performance-enhancing substance and administered or attempted to administer a prohibited method to multiple track and field athletes.\n\nIt added that Salazar \"tampered and/or attempted to tamper with the doping control process\".\n\nThe panel also said Salazar and Brown \"communicated repeatedly about the athletes of the Nike Oregon Project's (NOP) performance and medical conditions, exchanging information without any apparent formal authorisation by the athletes at the NOP or distinction between Dr Brown's role as an athlete's physician and NOP consultant.\n\n\"[Salazar] and Brown shared information with the aim of improving the athletes' performance via medical intervention, with a particular interest in increasing testosterone levels.\"\n\nUsada chief executive Travis Tygart praised athletes for having the \"courage to speak out and ultimately expose the truth\".\n\n\"While acting in connection with the Nike Oregon Project, Mr Salazar and Dr Brown demonstrated that winning was more important than the health and wellbeing of the athletes they were sworn to protect,\" a statement added.\n\nDoping charges against Salazar and Dr Brown were brought by Usada in June 2017. The pair contested the charges, supported by Nike-paid lawyers, and the case went to the American Arbitration Association.\n\nThe Panorama programme, a joint investigation with the American website ProPublica, revealed allegations of doping and unethical practices at the US training base in Beaverton, Oregon in 2015.\n\nUK Athletics (UKA), the sport's UK governing body, conducted its own review into the claims, and gave Farah the green light to continue working with Cuban-born Salazar.\n\nFarah announced he was leaving Salazar in October 2017, the same year he was knighted, but denied his decision was to do with the doping claims.\n\nDuring his time at the NOP, 5,000m and 10,000m runner Farah won six world titles and four Olympic gold medals.\n\nFarah quit running track races in 2017, deciding to concentrate on the marathon, but earlier this year said he might return to the track for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.\n\nSalazar, who coaches several athletes at the World Athletics Championships in Doha but has had his accreditation revoked, added: \"Throughout this six-year investigation my athletes and I have endured unjust, unethical and highly damaging treatment from Usada.\n\n\"This is demonstrated by the misleading statement released by Travis Tygart stating that we put winning ahead of athlete safety. This is completely false and contrary to the findings of the arbitrators, who even wrote about the care I took in complying with the world anti-doping code.\n\n\"I have always ensured the World Anti-Doping Agency code is strictly followed.\"\n\nNike said the decision had \"nothing to do with administering banned substances to any Oregon Project athlete\".\n\n\"As the panel noted, they were struck by the amount of care Alberto took to ensure he was complying with the World Anti-Doping code,\" it said.\n\n\"We support Alberto in his decision to appeal and wish him the full measure of due process that the rules require. Nike does not condone the use of banned substances in any manner.\"\n\nUK Athletics said it \"acknowledged the announcement made by Usada\" and \"will now review the arbitration decision in full prior to making any further comment\".\n\nIt added: \"It should be noted that at all times UK Athletics fully cooperated with both Usada and UK Anti-doping throughout the investigations.\n\n\"Furthermore, the Performance Oversight Committee's own investigation in 2015 was restricted to the interaction of the Nike Oregon Project with Mo Farah and not an anti-doping investigation. Such investigations can and should only be undertaken by the relevant anti-doping authorities.\n\nBritish former heptathlete Denise Lewis, who won gold at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, has described the news as \"very disappointing\", adding that is casts \"a shadow over the World Athletics Championships\".\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast: \"I looked at the Usada report and it makes for very grim reading.\n\n\"If he is guilty of these allegations, then I really think it's a very sad indictment and sad that a coach who is so reputable and has had the trust of so many athletes over the years has gone down this route.\n\n\"On the positive, it is good news that coaches are finally being sanctioned and banned from the sport, even though it's only four years.\"", "Conferences are always a parallel universe. But this week in Manchester takes that to the extreme.\n\nOn the conference platform speaker after speaker is outlining the promises the Tory party is presenting as a rough draft of their election manifesto - \"schools, cops and docs\" one cabinet minister joked.\n\nBut the chances of the Tory party with Boris Johnson as its leader having an uneventful week at a time like this were always extremely low.\n\nThat's not just because the prime minister has to confront allegations about his own behaviour in years gone by. But also because it's Brexit that will make or break this prime minister, and potentially this party too.\n\nAnd the conversations that will decide the fate of that process are taking place elsewhere.\n\nDespite the briefing wars of the last few weeks between London and Brussels, this process is (again you might wonder) about to reach a point of decision.\n\nNot the final decision on whether there is a deal, but whether both sides are going genuinely to try to find a conclusion.\n\nBrexit Secretary Stephen Barclay has been holding talks with the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier\n\nI understand the government has now completed a legal text of the deal they believe could be done, after the \"non-paper\" papers process, which dipped the toes in the water last week.\n\nThat will be put in front of the EU in the next few days and senior government figures talk of proposals and activity being stepped up by the end of this week.\n\nAnd once a proposed deal is on the table, the hope on the UK side is that the negotiators enter \"the tunnel\" - the process Theresa May's officials went into when the deal that was finally agreed was hammered out. Much to the frustration of the outside world (journalists included), the to and fro of the briefing war, and the pantomime was called off during that time to enable the final bits of negotiation to be completed with a relatively low level of political noise outside.\n\nThe hope then, is that could allow both sides to budge a little to reach an agreement.\n\nAnd while not cheerful about the prospects of achieving an agreement, government insiders say repeatedly, perhaps wrong headedly, that the tone in private is distinctly more positive than the public criticisms of any proposals the UK has put forward.\n\nWe'll see. It is perfectly possible that the EU takes a look at the text once it lands and concludes that it just does not go far enough to meet its objectives - or shrinks back from the agreement they made with Theresa May too much to make it palatable.\n\nThe EU has real concerns about protecting Ireland and also the single market.\n\nBut the decision that will be made in the next few days on whether to try to get a deal over the line is a political choice as well as a policy decision.\n\nWill they consider it worth giving Mr Johnson's deal a try? Or is it better to wait until the outcome of a likely election to make a decision.\n\nOne figure involved in the talks told me the EU's habits up until now suggest they are more likely to sit it out - wait and see.\n\nIt's not necessarily that that EU is not willing to make even tiny concessions ever, but there is consideration over when it is the right time to do so, when the political situation in the UK is so unstable.\n\nOne diplomatic source, when asked if there was a way to tweak the deal, to use the political phrase, put lipstick on the pig, told me, \"we do have a lipstick in our pocket, but we can only use it once\".\n\nTiming and trust may be everything. And we may know in a matter of days, not weeks, if there is a real chance of Boris Johnson achieving a deal.", "A road bridge has collapsed in Nanfangao, eastern Taiwan, leaving at least 12 people injured.\n\nThe cause of the incident is under investigation. The area was recently skirted by a typhoon but conditions at the time of the collapse were favourable.", "Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown is MP for The Cotswolds\n\nA senior MP has been kicked out of the Conservative party conference after an altercation.\n\nSir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown was asked to leave the event after he clashed with staff as he tried to enter a room with a guest without the relevant pass.\n\nThe incident led to a lockdown of part of the Manchester Central Convention Centre for about 20 minutes. The MP apologised \"unreservedly\".\n\nA Conservative spokesman said: \"The incident was totally unacceptable.\"\n\n\"Geoffrey has been asked to leave Conference and we are establishing all of the facts to see if further action is necessary,\" he added.\n\n\"We will always adopt a zero tolerance approach to any inappropriate behaviour towards our hardworking staff.\"\n\nThe Cotswolds MP said in a statement: \"This was a minor verbal misunderstanding.\n\n\"The police have not contacted me at all. I am mortified that something so minor seems to have been blown out of all proportion and if anyone has been offended, I apologise unreservedly.\n\n\"I will co-operate with the party in any investigation.\"\n\nThe International Lounge at the venue was locked down for around 20 minutes\n\nA staff member guarding the door of the International Lounge said the incident was sparked by a disagreement.\n\n\"It was a small misunderstanding,\" the man said.\n\nBBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg said the incident happened just before home secretary Priti Patel stood up to make a speech \"trying to reclaim the Tories as the party of law and order\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Greater Manchester Police spokesman said an attendee \"attempted to enter the International Lounge area of the conference without the relevant pass\".\n\n\"Security staff intervened and resolved the situation without any breach of security occurring,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Finnish PM Antti Rinne (left) says he and French President Emmanuel Macron (right) agreed the new deadline for Boris Johnson\n\nBoris Johnson has 12 days to set out his Brexit plans to the EU, according to Finland's prime minister.\n\nAntti Rinne said he and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed the UK needed to produce the proposals in writing by the end of September, adding if not, \"then it's over\".\n\nA Downing Street source said: \"We will continue negotiating and put forward proposals at the appropriate time.\"\n\nMr Johnson has said a deal is possible at a crucial summit of EU leaders on 17 October, but he has insisted Brexit will happen by the 31 October deadline, even if a deal is not agreed.\n\nThe UK government said talks with the EU have been making progress since Mr Johnson came into No 10 in July.\n\nIt said it had put forward \"a number of proposals\" as alternatives to the Irish border backstop - the policy aimed at preventing the return of a hard border on the island of Ireland and a key sticking point in former PM Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nBut Mr Johnson has repeatedly refused to reveal details of the proposals in interviews, saying he did not want to negotiate in public.\n\nThe EU has continued to criticise the UK for not putting any plans in writing.\n\nEarlier, the European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, said a meeting with Mr Johnson on Monday had been \"constructive\".\n\nBut he said until proposals had been put forward, \"I will not be able to tell you, looking you straight in the eye, that any real progress has been achieved\".\n\nMr Rinne spoke to reporters after a meeting with the French president in Paris on Wednesday.\n\nHe said: \"We both agreed that it is now time for Boris Johnson to produce his own proposals in writing - if they exist.\n\n\"If no proposals are received by the end of September, then it's over.\"\n\nThe Finnish PM intends to discuss the new deadline with the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, and Mr Johnson in the coming days, but the position has not yet been agreed with other EU nations.\n\nAn official at the Elysee said the plan was \"not at all a new proposal\" and added: \"If we don't get the proposals before the end of September, we will not have enough time to discuss them before the summit in October.\"\n\nCommons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg insisted the prime minister was on course to deliver a \"fundamentally different\" Brexit deal to ensure the UK leaves on October 31.\n\nHe told a Telegraph event that to achieve such an outcome the government had to \"listen very carefully to what the DUP says\".\n\nDUP Leader Arlene Foster spoke to the Dublin Chamber of Commerce on issues concerning devolution and Brexit\n\nOn Wednesday, DUP leader Arlene Foster told business leaders in Dublin that she wanted a solution to Brexit that does not affect Northern Ireland's constitutional position.\n\nMrs Foster - whose party's support had until recently given the Conservatives a majority in Parliament - said a Brexit deal \"will not be achieved that involves a backstop - whether it is UK-wide or Northern Ireland specific\".\n\nThe whole of the UK had to leave the customs union and single market, she said.\n\nBut she added that the DUP was prepared to \"look at Northern Ireland-specific solutions achieved with the support and consent of the representatives of the people of Northern Ireland\".\n\nProtesters outside the UK's Supreme Court in London\n\nIt comes as the legal battle over the suspension of the UK Parliament is to go into a third day at the Supreme Court later.\n\nThe UK government is arguing the decision to prorogue Parliament was a political matter and not for the courts to \"design a set of rules\" around it.\n\nBut campaigners say the move was used \"for an improper purpose\" - to stop MPs scrutinising Mr Johnson's plans in the run up to Brexit on 31 October.\n\nThe prime minister prorogued Parliament earlier this month for five weeks, with MPs not scheduled to return until 14 October.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg, who travelled to Balmoral to seek the Queen's approval over the move, said it was \"nonsense\" to suggest she was misled over the decision.", "Two tiny cameras are installed in each sprinter's starting blocks\n\nNew close-up camera shots of sprinters settling into their starting blocks are being restricted following a complaint by two female German athletes.\n\nThe world athletics body IAAF agreed only to show close-ups of athletes crouched, awaiting the starting pistol.\n\nThe \"Block Cam\" is an innovation for the world championships in Doha, Qatar.\n\nGina Lückenkemper and Tatjana Pinto complained they had not been consulted about the cameras installed in the blocks for their 100m races.\n\nTheir complaint was raised with the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) by Germany's athletics association, the DLV.\n\nGina Lückenkemper said it was \"very unpleasant\" to have cameras so close\n\nLückenkemper and Pinto - both knocked out in the 100m semi-finals - called the intimate cameras \"very questionable\".\n\n\"I find it very unpleasant stepping over these cameras as I get into the blocks wearing these scanty clothes,\" Lückenkemper said.\n\nOn 9 September the IAAF announced the introduction of \"trailblazing technology\" for the Doha World Athletics Championships, including \"new cameras that will provide innovative angles on the competition\", to make it more exciting for viewers.\n\nIAAF director of broadcast James Lord said traditional camera shots \"only showed the top or side of their heads as they took their marks\", and \"the new cameras within the blocks will capture that intense moment just before a race\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo miniature cameras were installed in each starting block for the 100m and sprint hurdles races.\n\nUnder the compromise reached late on Sunday, the big-screen close-ups will only show the athletes crouching in their blocks, moments before sprinting off.\n\nThe video data from the cameras will also be erased daily, under the agreement.\n\nThe women's 100m final was won by Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.\n\nA prominent German sportswoman, Amélie Ebert, backed the sprinters' complaint, pointing out: \"I was a synchronised swimmer, in a tight costume, often with just my legs above water.\"\n\n\"I often wondered why we athletes had no right to be consulted over which pictures would be used,\" she told the German daily Rheinische Post. The shots included \"close-ups of us doing the splits\", she added.", "The EU's chief negotiator acknowledged Boris Johnson's concerns about the backstop\n\nThe UK and EU \"should not pretend to be negotiating\" a Brexit deal if there are no new proposals on the table, EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier has said.\n\nHe said the UK telling the EU what it does not like was \"not enough\".\n\nHe cast doubt on a UK proposal to give Northern Ireland a future veto over EU rules, saying all parts of the UK would have to sign up to the terms of exit.\n\nThe government said it had offered \"a number of proposals\" as alternatives to the Irish border backstop.\n\nThe backstop - an insurance policy designed to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland - has proved a key sticking point.\n\nThe government said \"constructive discussions\" were ongoing and the UK had been \"clear\" in those discussions \"that the antidemocratic backstop needs to be removed\" if a new deal was to be reached.\n\nBoris Johnson has insisted a deal is possible at a crucial summit of EU leaders on 17 October - although ministers have been reluctant to reveal the details of new proposals in advance for fear they will be \"rubbished\" by the EU.\n\nThe PM has insisted he will not accept a further delay beyond 31 October despite MPs passing a law requiring him to seek an extension if there is no deal by 19 October.\n\nAfter meeting Mr Barnier and Mr Juncker in Luxembourg on Monday, Mr Johnson said both sides agreed to accelerate efforts to reach an agreement.\n\nThere were significant moments in Strasbourg this morning, even if the discussion lacked the fireworks present in the Brexit debate elsewhere.\n\nJean-Claude Juncker clearly signalled that in his last few weeks in office he will show solidarity with the Republic of Ireland rather than siding with the UK to get a deal. That will disappoint those in the UK who bank on him wanting an agreement to secure his legacy.\n\nThe EU chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, gave a cautious thumbs-up to the big British idea of an all-Ireland zone for plant and animal health.\n\nBut he appeared to give a thumbs-down to another - giving the Stormont Assembly a decisive say over the Irish backstop, or whatever takes its place.\n\nBriefing the European Parliament, Mr Juncker said the lunch had been \"friendly and constructive\" but there had been no progress on the main sticking point - the UK's demand that the Northern Irish backstop should be removed from the current agreement.\n\nMr Juncker said any alternative to the backstop must achieve the same objectives - to prevent the need for physical infrastructure on the border with the Republic of Ireland, to safeguard the EU's single market and protect all-Ireland economic co-operation.\n\n\"I said to Mr Johnson that I have no emotional attachment to the backstop but I stand by the objectives it is intended to achieve,\" he said.\n\n\"That is why I called on the PM to come forward with operational proposals in writing.\n\n\"Until such time those proposals have been presented, I will not be able to tell you looking you straight in the eye that any real progress has been achieved.\"\n\nMr Barnier said the UK had made it clear which parts of the backstop - which would see Northern Ireland closely tied to the single market and the UK follow EU customs rules until a new trade deal is agreed - it did not like, but \"that is not enough to move towards a solution\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Fleming This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"Almost three years after the British referendum, ladies and gentlemen, it is certainly not a question of pretending to negotiate,\" he said.\n\nIf the UK wanted to remove the backstop, he said it must come up with answers to all the problems the temporary \"safety net\" was designed to solve.\n\nHowever, he appeared to reject UK proposals to give the Stormont Assembly in Belfast a say over how much Northern Ireland conforms with EU customs rules and diverges from England, Wales and Scotland while the UK remained in any backstop arrangement.\n\n\"It is up to the UK government to ensure the support of the Northern Irish institutions for the withdrawal agreement that would be signed on behalf of the whole of the UK,\" he said.\n\nFollowing a three-hour debate, the European Parliament approved a motion calling for any Brexit deal to include a backstop and also voted for the UK to be granted a further extension beyond 31 October if it asks for one.\n\nMEPs called on the EU to give the UK a further Brexit extension if it asked for one\n\nDuring the session, MEP Guy Verhofstadt called on the UK to give all three million EU nationals living in the country an automatic right to remain.\n\nRather than channelling the \"angry Hulk\" - a reference to Mr Johnson's recent comparison of the UK to the Incredible Hulk - the Parliament's Brexit spokesman said the PM should adopt the persona of a \"caring nanny\", such as Mrs Doubtfire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said it was clear the UK and EU were paving the way for an agreement next month which would be portrayed as a \"victory\" for both sides.\n\nEven without the backstop, he said the deal on the table would be \"bad\" for the UK as it would see it \"trapped in EU rules and under the auspices of the European Court\".\n\nHe also criticised they way Mr Johnson was treated during a visit to Luxembourg last week.\n\nHe said the country's \"pipsqueak\" leader Xavier Bettel had \"ritually humiliated\" his counterpart by appearing at a press conference without him and berating his Brexit policy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA priest has said there is an \"obvious cancer of evil in our midst\" after an attack on a Fermanagh businessman.\n\nFr Oliver O'Reilly told churchgoers in Ballyconnell, County Cavan, that the evil needed to be \"exorcised before someone is murdered\".\n\nKevin Lunney, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings, was driving from work to his home in Kinawley when he was abducted on 17 September.\n\nHe described it as a \"modern crucifixion carried out by a mafia-style group\".\n\nMr Lunney was found 22 miles (35km) away beside a road in County Cavan.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said Mr Lunney sustained severe and life-changing injuries.\n\nFr O'Reilly said the \"long reign of terror\" now threatened the lives and livelihoods of everybody living in the border areas of Fermanagh and Cavan.\n\nHe said there was a \"false narrative\" being pushed by a \"small group of people in our midst\" about the directors of Quinn Industrial Holding.\n\nFr O'Reilly apologised for being \"too complacent\" in recent years to Mr Lunney, his family and Quinn management.\n\n\"I now believe there has been a Mafia-style group with its own Godfather operating in our region for some time behind the scenes,\" he said.\n\n\"They have decided to ratchet up the intimidation. The Rubicon has now been crossed by this most recent barbaric assault.\"\n\nFr O'Reilly added that no one was above the law.\n\nThe vast majority of peace-loving, law-abiding people in the area were being \"held to ransom by a few unscrupulous individuals who are hugely dangerous\", said Fr O'Reilly.\n\n\"This depraved act and scandalous attack on an innocent and powerless man by hired savage thugs,\" he added.\n\n\"This senseless atrocity follows years of threats, abuse, lies and various forms of violent intimidation, against the directors of Quinn Industrial Holdings.\n\nA burnt out BMW believed to be the one used by Kevin Lunney's attackers\n\n\"Maybe some people in our region need to examine their consciences about their angry rants at public meetings and defamatory statements on one or more social media sites.\n\n\"They need to face the truth that their diatribes added to that climate of intimidation and incited hatred leading up to this dark deed.\n\n\"Let them now take responsibility for their actions and learn lessons.\"\n\nQuinn Industrial Holdings was founded by Seán Quinn but the company later collapsed and was bought over by businessmen backed by three investment funds.\n\nMr Quinn was employed as a consultant at his former company but left that role in 2016.\n\nQuinn executives have allegedly been subject to repeated attacks, something Mr Quinn has publicly condemned on a number of occasions.\n\nA Belfast High Court hearing earlier in the year heard that Mr Lunney was targeted as part of a wider campaign involving arson attacks, firebombs and online harassment.", "The prime minister told BBC Breakfast he was \"not going to be producing now what we are going to be tabling\" to the EU.\n\nHe rejected leaked claims overnight that the government has proposed \"customs clearance zones\" to tackle the Irish border issue.", "A worker had to intervene after a catering truck lost control at O'Hare International airport in Chicago. American Airlines is investigating the incident.", "Redacted parts include information about the \"adequacy\" of the dam\n\nThe Canal and River Trust has been accused of a cover-up after it released heavily-censored reports about a dam which partially collapsed.\n\nResidents in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, were evacuated amid fears Toddbrook Reservoir would burst and flood the town.\n\nThe trust released inspection reports with large sections blacked out, citing concerns over national security.\n\nBut critics said they believed this was just an excuse.\n\nPeople in the town spent almost a week away from home when part of the dam's auxiliary spillway collapsed in August.\n\nThe reservoir and dam were inspected by the Canal and River Trust in November 2018, and separately by an independent inspecting engineer.\n\nResidents have previously raised concerns about the condition and maintenance of the reservoir and dam, after photos emerged of vegetation growing from the spillway.\n\nBoth reports were sent to the BBC and others following Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.\n\nLarge sections of the copies received by the media contained large blacked-out sections.\n\nToddbrook Reservoir was at risk of flooding Whaley Bridge when part of the dam collapsed\n\nMatthew Forrest, who has been among a group of residents to have called for a public inquiry and criminal investigation, said the redactions seemed \"ludicrously heavy-handed\".\n\n\"The population of Whaley Bridge had very little confidence in the Canal and River Trust as things stood after the near disaster in August that could have potentially killed thousands of people,\" he said.\n\n\"This nonsensical black hole of a document does little to build upon any remaining confidence and faith in the Canal and River Trust to internally investigate the causes, let alone replace the neglected Toddbrook Dam.\"\n\nInformation left in the Canal and River Trust report includes dates when the reservoir was inspected, but measures that were taken \"in the interests of safety\" and \"matters specified to be watched by the supervising engineer\" have been redacted.\n\nThe independent report includes a description of the reservoir and the geology of the area, but even parts of these sections have been redacted.\n\nThe recommendations of the inspecting engineer have also been redacted from the independent report\n\nThe trust said it had redacted information on the basis of \"national security and public safety\".\n\nThere was \"a high level of public interest in not releasing information that would result in a threat to public safety\", it said.\n\n\"If the trust were to release copies of these reports, which were not redacted, it would be releasing key details of the infrastructure and potential vulnerabilities of the Toddbrook Reservoir.\n\n\"This would prejudice the protection and safety of the public through potential damage or disruption to the national infrastructure by acts of sabotage.\"\n\nIn response to accusations of a cover-up, the trust said: \"We are following the regulator's - the Environment Agency's - policy on any disclosure given the sensitive nature of inspection documents.\n\n\"For security and safety reasons, they don't release information that could expose a vulnerability with a reservoir.\"\n\nSome of the photos of the reservoir - taken on 14 November 2018 - have been blacked out\n\nThe BBC has challenged the Canal and River Trust's FOI response after being advised it appeared the trust had redacted material not related to public safety.\n\nResidents have pointed out that the reservoir has been drained, which meant there would be no flood risk even if someone was to sabotage it.\n\n\"Surely they [CRT] must have realised the farcical nature of distributing a 90% blacked out report?\" Mr Forrest said.\n\n\"Some may speculate that they have done it in order to quash any further inquiry.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A third of senior management jobs will be axed at the John Lewis Partnership as the company streamlines its structure from February next year.\n\nThe partnership is merging the managements of its High Street department stores and Waitrose grocery chain into a single team.\n\nJohn Lewis has been struggling in a tough retail climate.\n\nThe restructuring aims to save £100m, through the loss of about 75 of its current 225 senior head office roles.\n\nOne of the senior partners who will depart is Rob Collins, managing director of Waitrose, who has been with the business for 26 years. He said there was not a role in the new structure that he believed would be right for him.\n\nJohn Lewis chairman Sir Charlie Mayfield said: \"These changes will be difficult for some of our Partners and we will implement as carefully and sensitively as we can.\"\n\nEmployees at John Lewis, including both management and shop floor staff, are known as \"partners\" due to the company's co-ownership model.\n\nThere would be \"little or no disruption\" for customers, he said, but the restructuring would create a more unified leadership team and cost structure.\n\nLast month, the retailer reported a half-year loss for the first time in its history amidst a difficult UK retail environment.\n\n\"The lesson of the last two years is that we need more innovation, faster decision-making and bolder steps to align our operating model with our strategy,\" the chairman said.\n\nThe company said of the customers that accounted for its greatest sales, the majority shopped at both its department stores and at Waitrose.\n\nRetail analyst Richard Lim said it was a \"bold\" move which should deliver cost-saving efficiencies.\n\n\"Against a backdrop of rising costs and fiercer competition, a new leaner and flexible operating model will help restore profitability during a period of rapid change within the sector,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Thomas Brereton, retail analyst at GlobalData, warned the changes would have to be implemented carefully to avoid disruption.\n\n\"The long-term impact of running a unified strategy for two retailers with such a varied proposition is questionable,\" he said.", "Belfast's Harland and Wolff shipyard has been sold, saving it from closure.\n\nThe yard, best known for building the Titanic, was bought for £6m by the London-based energy firm, InfraStrata.\n\nHarland and Wolff went into administration in August, putting about 120 jobs at risk, after the collapse of its Norwegian parent company.\n\nInfraStrata said it will retain the 79 workers who are still employed. It also hopes to increase the workforce by \"several hundred\" over five years.\n\nThe trade union, Unite, said it expects people to return to work as early as this week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The history of the Belfast shipyard\n\nInfraStrata will initially focus on metal fabrication for its energy projects.\n\nThe company's main project is a gas storage project at Islandmagee in County Antrim where it hopes to begin construction enabling works before the end of the year.\n\nIt is also planning a separate, floating gas storage facility, but there are complications, including planning permission requirements and opposition from local residents.\n\nInfraStrata has said the Islandmagee Gas Storage Project will initially provide the bulk of the work for the shipyard.\n\nIt is a plan to hollow out large caverns under Larne Lough to store gas, something that has been talked about since 2012.\n\nThe proposal has some planning permissions, but a key plank of approval is not yet in place.\n\nA marine licence, necessary for work on the seabed in the North Channel off Portmuck, is still outstanding.\n\nWithout it, the necessary seabed work can not proceed and the process of securing it can sometimes prove a lengthy one.\n\nThere is also considerable local opposition to the gas storage plan on environmental grounds.\n\nThe Islandmagee Gas Storage Project has been discussed since 2012\n\nIn particular conservationists worry about part of the construction process.\n\nSalt water would be used to hollow out the gas caverns, before the brine solution created would be pumped out to sea.\n\nIt has been claimed that brine solution could be harmful to sealife in its immediate vicinity.\n\nThe company said it would quickly be diluted and disperse and would not be harmful.\n\nAn added complication is that the area of the proposed brine outfall has recently been made a protected area.\n\nThe North Channel Marine Protected Area has been designated for its important population of harbour porpoises.\n\nInfrastrata will have to supply environmental information on the impact of the proposal as part of the application process, and there will have to be a public consultation.\n\nInfraStrata chief executive John Wood said: \"Harland and Wolff is a landmark asset and its reputation as one of the finest multi-purpose fabrication facilities in Europe is testament to its highly skilled team in Belfast.\"\n\nThe news follows a nine-week occupation of the shipyard by workers, supported by their unions.\n\nUnite regional officer Susan Fitzgerald said the workers had \"defied the cynics\".\n\n\"As well as safeguarding their own futures, the workers have sent a message that will be heard across Northern Ireland, most immediately by Wrightbus workers in Ballymena,\" she said.\n• None 35,000workers employed at its peak during World War Two\n• None £1bnof taxpayers' money was pumped into it to keep it afloat\n• None 79jobs have been retained following its sale in October 2019\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith said he was \"delighted\" by the news and the fact that the skills and experience of the existing workforce would be retained.\n\n\"I firmly believe that the shipyard has a promising future and InfraStrata's plans present an exciting opportunity for both Belfast and Northern Ireland's manufacturing and energy sectors,\" he said.\n\nThe Titanic in dry dock at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in February 1912\n\nAccountancy firm BDO, who had been formally appointed to oversee the Belfast shipyard when it entered administration, said the \"agreed terms of sale will include the transfer of the remaining employees on their existing terms and conditions to the purchaser upon completion\".\n\n\"In the interim, it is intended that the remaining employees will be able to return to work in the coming days to facilitate the remaining steps required for the completion of a sale,\" a BDO spokesperson said.\n\n\"This is a very positive step towards securing a sale of the shipyard and protecting and safeguarding the employment of the workforce.\"\n\nHe said: \"The last two months have been uncertain for the workforce, but their fortitude and indeed, the support from their Unions and the wider community, has been incredible.\n\n\"Today's announcement not only brings comfort for the workforce who kept their dignified presence at the yard, but Infrastrata have also outlined ambitious plans for growth in the future.\"", "Two thieves have been jailed after trying to steal a cash machine in Abingdon five times.\n\nCCTV captured David Begalov and Goga Kakitadze attempting to pull the ATM from the wall of a petrol station on 3 April.\n\nBegalov, 32, was jailed for two years at Oxford Crown Court Kakitadze, 35, was sentenced to 18 months behind bars.", "A major incident has been declared on the Isle of Man, after a river burst its banks trapping residents in their homes in the village of Laxey.\n\nHeavy rain and flooding have also affected parts of the UK, with cars submerged in Leicestershire and landslides and falling trees blocking railway lines in Cumbria.\n\nDozens of flood warnings were issued and some areas in the Midlands, Wales and southern England were hit by a week's rain in just an hour.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Sajid Javid: \"We are the workers' party\"\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid has pledged to raise the National Living Wage to £10.50 within the next five years.\n\nHe will also lower the age threshold for those who qualify from 25 to 21.\n\nSpeaking to a packed hall at the Tory Party Conference, Mr Javid said the policy would \"help the next generation of go-getters to get ahead\".\n\nThe current rate for over 25s is £8.21 - but the Living Wage Foundation says it should already be £9 across the UK and £10.55 for those in London.\n\nEarlier this year, Labour pledged to raise the National Living Wage to £10 an hour in 2020 and to include all workers under 18 - who currently get a minimum wage of £4.35.\n\nMr Javid also confirmed £25bn for road projects, £220m for bus improvements and £5bn for digital infrastructure in his speech, along with extra funding for youth services.\n\nThe Tories have made a raft of spending announcements so far at their party conference in Manchester.\n\nBut the conference has been overshadowed by allegations that Boris Johnson squeezed the thigh of a journalist during a lunch in 1999 - which the prime minister denies.\n\nCharlotte Edwardes made the claims in a column in the Sunday Times, and said the PM did the same to another woman in the room.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Kuenssberg said a rumour had been circulating at the conference the other woman was journalist Mary Wakefield - the wife of the PM's chief adviser Dominic Cummings - but she released a statement saying \"nothing like this ever happened to me\".\n\nWith the prime minister looking on from the audience, Mr Javid told his party the living wage pledge would make the UK \"the first major economy in the world to end low pay altogether\".\n\nHe said cutting the threshold to 21 would \"reward the hard work of all millennials\" - but it will come in two stages, with 23-year-olds qualifying for the rise in 2021 and 21-year-olds by 2024.\n\n\"It's clear it's the Conservatives who are the real party of labour - we are the workers' party,\" he told delegates.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: National Living Wage rise \"is right thing to do\"\n\nBusiness groups sounded a note of caution about the potential effects of the policy.\n\nThe CEO of the British Retail Consortium, Helen Dickinson, said there was \"nothing wrong with targeting higher wages\", but \"all of this adds to the cumulative pressures you have seen take their toll on the retail sector\".\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, a charity which represents nurseries, said: \"A rise in the national living wage is fantastic for younger workers, but for the early years sector, this could be an additional cost that many providers will not be able to afford to bear.\"\n\nThe TUC, meanwhile, said the chancellor's promise \"should be taken with a huge bucket of salt\".\n\n\"This pledge would be overwhelmed by a no-deal Brexit,\" general secretary Frances O'Grady added. \"If we leave the EU without a deal, jobs will be lost, wages will fall, and our public services will suffer.\"\n\nThe National Living Wage was introduced by then Chancellor George Osborne in 2016, but the Living Wage Foundation argues the level should always have been higher in order to cover the real needs of employees and their families.\n\nDirector of the organisation Katherine Chapman said nearly 6,000 employers across the UK were already \"going further than the legal minimum and paying a real Living Wage that covers the cost of living\".\n\nHe also confirmed £500m for youth services.\n\nThe Youth Investment Fund will be focused on building up to 60 new centres and refurbishing 360 old ones so that young people have \"somewhere to go, something to do and someone to talk to\".\n\nHowever, funding for youth services has fallen in real terms from more than £870m in 2011/12 to £352m in 2017/18 - meaning the pledge still does not return spending to the level of eight years ago.\n\n\"I'd guess that some businesses will worry this is the return of the magic money tree. But with them being asked to grow it...\"\n\nThat was the response from one UK trade body boss to Sajid Javid's announcement that he would give four million workers a pay rise by increasing the National Living Wage to £10.50 an hour over the next five years.\n\nBusiness leaders here at the Conservative Party conference are loathe to publicly object to the elimination of low pay (defined as anything below 66% of the median national average).\n\nHowever, they are worried that the government is making eye-catching and vote winning promises while handing the bill for them to business.\n\nIn truth, the government's wage promise is not as generous as it first looks. A promise made in 2018 to set the National Living Wage at 60% of the median income would have seen wages rise to nearly nearly £9.50 by 2023 - so targeting £10.50 by 2025 is fairly close the trajectory they were already on.\n\nThe biggest disappointment was the lack of detail on how exactly the government intends to cushion business against the costs of no-deal disruption.\n\nHaving talked this up in recent days, the head of the CBI, Carolyn Fairbairn, was not alone in saying she thought there had been a page missing from the chancellor's speech.\n\nHowever, for the chancellor to put numbers around an emergency package would have been to put a hefty price tag on no-deal. Something the government is understandably reluctant to do.\n\nMr Javid also reiterated his government's position of leaving the EU on 31 October, echoing the conference slogan of \"Get Brexit Done\".\n\n\"We are leaving the European Union,\" he said. \"It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of days - 31 days, deal, or no deal.\"\n\nEarlier, in an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said the government had been working on \"mitigations\" which would allow it \"to deal with many of the disruptions\" of a no-deal.\n\nHe also promised \"a significant economic policy response\" in such circumstances.\n\nThe BBC's Norman Smith said that could mean tax cuts to help ease the potential impact.\n\nIn his speech, the chancellor announced the government would commit £4.3bn to replace EU funding received by \"organisations and devolved administrations\" in the coming year, offering them \"extra certainty\".\n\nAnd he said a \"Brexit Red Tape Challenge\" would be launched, letting businesses tell the government what rules they want changing after Brexit through an online portal.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCoverage: Full commentary on every game across BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, plus text updates on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nEngland and Scotland's final World Cup pool matches this weekend are under threat from violent Typhoon Hagibis.\n\nHagibis is moving towards Japan and expected to make landfall on Saturday.\n\nBoth England's game against France in Yokohama on Saturday (09:15 BST) and Scotland's vital match with hosts Japan at the same venue on Sunday (11:45 BST) could be affected.\n\nBBC weather presenter and meteorologist Simon King said it is \"one of the most powerful tropical cyclones this year\".\n\nWorld Rugby has called a news conference on Thursday at 04:00 BST to discuss what action will be taken.\n\nIf the Scotland-Japan match was to be cancelled, under tournament rules Gregor Townsend's side are likely to be knocked out of the World Cup.\n\nWhat is the forecast?\n\nA Met Office spokesperson said on Wednesday that Typhoon Hagibis was in the western North Pacific and on track to hit Japan this weekend.\n\nIt was located around 900 miles south of Tokyo with estimated wind speeds of around 120mph and gusts of 170mph.\n\nThe Met Office says strong and severe winds, very heavy rain and large waves mean a risk of flash flooding in the Tokyo region.\n\nKing explained: \"It is equivalent to a category five hurricane, making it one of the most powerful tropical cyclones around the world this year.\n\n\"The typhoon will start to weaken as it continues its track northward. However, forecasts from the Joint Typhoon Warning centre and the Japanese Meteorological Service suggest it will make landfall in southern Honshu, around the Tokyo area on Saturday lunchtime UK time.\n\n\"By this point, it'll still be categorised as a 'very strong typhoon' with wind gusts in excess of 100mph and bring between 200-500mm of rain.\n\n\"This will be significant in a built-up area such as Tokyo with damage and flooding expected.\"\n\nCould it change before the weekend?\n\n\"Yes, it could,\" added King.\n\n\"Forecasting the path of a typhoon is a tricky one and while there is growing confidence of a landfall near to Tokyo, it still could shift path slightly, even up to 24 hours before time.\n\n\"However, Typhoon Hagibis is huge, covering a diameter of around 500 miles.\n\n\"On landfall, the most powerful winds are expected to extend out 60 miles from its centre. Therefore, even if the location of direct landfall changes, the winds, flooding rain and impacts will still be felt over a large area.\"\n\nWhat are the options?\n\nOrganisers could move games away from the area where Typhoon Hagibis is expected to make landfall. It had been suggested that England's meeting with France, due to be played in Yokohama, could be shifted 600 miles away to Oita.\n\nHowever, Oita is a far smaller venue, with space for 40,000 spectators compared to Yokohama's capacity of 72,327, and that option is considered unlikely. Instead the matches could be played behind closed doors to limit the risk to spectators.\n\nIt has also been suggested Scotland's match with Japan could delayed by 24 hours but, according to the tournament rules, it is not possible to postpone pool-stage matches to another day.\n\nIf both matches are cancelled, this would result in them declared a draw, with two points awarded to each team.\n\nWhat does it mean for the World Cup?\n\nEngland and France are vying for top spot in Pool C having both already qualified for the quarter-finals, but should their match be cancelled it would mean England will progress as winners.\n\nEddie Jones' side would then face a probable quarter-final against Australia, who knocked them out at the pool stage of the last World Cup en route to the final, with Wales expected to top their group and therefore play France.\n\nThe consequences would be far worse for Scotland if their game against Japan is called off.\n\nTownsend's team need to win to go through and may also have to rely on bonus points but - if Ireland beat Samoa in Fukuoka on Saturday - a weather-enforced two-point haul would mean they finish third in Pool A and go out.\n• None Who needs to do what to reach quarter-finals?\n\nWhen will we find out?\n\nWorld Rugby has announced a media conference to discuss the impacts of Typhoon Hagibis on the tournament for 04:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nAlan Gilpin, World Rugby tournament director, and Akira Shimazu, chief executive of Japan Rugby 2019, will be there.", "US drug firm Johnson & Johnson has been told to pay $8bn (£6.6bn) in punitive damages to a man over claims he was not warned that an anti-psychotic drug could lead to breast growth.\n\nA Philadelphia jury made the award to Nicholas Murray, 26, whose case was one of thousands pending in the state.\n\nHis lawyers argued J&J's subsidiary Janssen put \"profits over patients\" in marketing the drug Risperdal.\n\nJ&J will appeal the ruling, which it said was \"grossly disproportionate\".\n\nProfessor Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law said he expected the large damages award to be lowered on appeal.\n\n\"A jury, if it's outrageous enough conduct, will award a big number and let the lawyers and judges work it out,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Prof Tobias said the jury's verdict could mean the firm faces more large damages awards in other Risperdal cases.\n\n\"The kind of evidence in this trial may persuade another jury or judge to do something similar,\" he said.\n\nThe company is facing a series of complaints in the US for allegedly failing to properly warn of Risperdal's side effects.\n\nThe US giant is also facing court challenges over vaginal mesh implants and baby powder allegedly tainted with asbestos. Those cases are in addition to an ongoing legal battle over its role in the US opioid addiction crisis.\n\nIn August, Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay $572m after a judge in Oklahoma ruled that the company contributed to an opioid epidemic in the state by running a \"false and dangerous\" sales campaign. The firm said it will appeal.\n\nMore recently, it agreed a $20.4m settlement with two counties in Ohio ahead of a trial about the opioid crisis, scheduled to take place later this month.\n\nIn the Risperdal lawsuit, Mr Murray said he developed breasts after his doctors prescribed the drug in 2003 when they diagnosed him with autism spectrum disorder.\n\nRisperdal is approved for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but doctors can legally prescribe medicine for any condition they see fit.\n\nThe company said it is confident the ruling will be overturned, and said the court prevented their legal team from presenting \"key evidence\" on the drug's labelling.\n\nA jury in 2015 awarded Mr Murray $1.75m after finding the company was negligent in failing to warn consumers of the risks.\n\nA state appeals court upheld the verdict in last year, but reduced it to $680,000.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says he wants a deal \"but not at any cost\"\n\nIt will be \"very difficult\" for the UK and the EU to reach a Brexit agreement before the 31 October deadline, Irish leader Leo Varadkar has said.\n\nHe told Irish broadcaster RTE \"big gaps\" remained between the two sides.\n\nAmid claims on Tuesday that talks were close to collapse, he also suggested the language around the discussions had turned toxic \"in some quarters\".\n\nMr Varadkar and Boris Johnson are expected to meet for further Brexit talks later this week.\n\nThe UK has said the EU needs to \"move quickly\" to stop it leaving without an agreement at the end of the month.\n\nTaoiseach Leo Varadkar, who spoke with Mr Johnson by phone for about 45 minutes on Tuesday, said he would strive until the \"last moment\" to reach a deal with the UK, but \"not at any cost\" to his country, Northern Ireland and the rest of Europe.\n\nHe also downplayed the chances of any agreement being struck before the crucial summit of EU leaders on 17 October, during which next steps for Brexit are likely to be decided.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A new Brexit deal is possible but cannot come at any cost, says Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney\n\n\"I think it's going to be very difficult to secure an agreement by next week, quite frankly,\" Mr Varadkar said.\n\n\"Essentially, what the UK has done is repudiated the deal that we negotiated in good faith with prime minister [Theresa] May's government over two years and have sort of put half of that now back on the table, and are saying that's a concession. And of course it isn't really.\"\n\nMr Varadkar added that it was his job to hold the UK to commitments it had made since the 2016 referendum to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland and uphold the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe Irish leader's comments came after a No 10 source claimed on Tuesday that Germany was now making it \"essentially impossible\" for the UK to leave the EU with a deal.\n\nThat assessment followed a \"frank\" phone call between Boris Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, during which they discussed Brexit proposals the UK prime minister put forward last week to the EU.\n\nAfter the call, a No 10 source said Mrs Merkel had made clear a deal based on the prime minister's plans was \"overwhelmingly unlikely\" - though the BBC's Adam Fleming said there was \"scepticism\" within the EU that she would have used such language.\n\nThe No 10 source also suggested Mrs Merkel told her counterpart the only way to break the deadlock was for Northern Ireland to stay in the customs union and for it to permanently accept EU single market rules on trade in goods.\n\nThis, the source said, marked a shift in Germany's approach and made a negotiated deal \"essentially impossible\".\n\nAngela Merkel and Boris Johnson spoke on the phone on Tuesday morning\n\nIn response, the EU's top official, European Council President Donald Tusk, accused Mr Johnson of engaging in a \"stupid blame game\".\n\nIn a tweet to the prime minister, he added: \"At stake is the future of Europe and the UK, as well as the security and interests of our people.\n\n\"You don't want a deal, you don't want an extension, you don't want to revoke, quo vadis (where are you going)?\"\n\nEuropean Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said that if negotiations fail, \"the explanation will be found in the British camp (because) the original sin is found on the islands and not on the continent\".\n\nSpeaking to the French Les Echos newspaper, he added: \"A no-deal Brexit would lead to a collapse of the United Kingdom and a weakening of growth on the continent.\"\n\nIn his interview with RTE, Mr Varadkar was asked whether he was concerned the language around the talks was \"getting toxic\".\n\n\"I think it is, from some quarters, but you know I don't play dirty. You know, I don't think most EU leaders do either. We've been very straight up from when the referendum happened.\"\n\nThe prime minister also hosted European Parliament president David Sassoli in Downing Street on Tuesday, but the MEP left saying \"no progress\" had been made.\n\nMr Sassoli later told the BBC's Newsnight programme: \"Angela Merkel's opinions must be taken seriously. We are all very worried because there are only a few days left.\n\n\"Because we understand that going out without an agreement leads to having a real problem, if not a real catastrophe.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFollowing the meeting, Downing Street said there was \"little time\" left to negotiate a new legally-binding withdrawal agreement, but Mr Johnson remained committed to doing all he could.\n\n\"We need to move quickly and work together to agree a deal,\" a No 10 spokesman said.\n\n\"He [the prime minister] reiterated that if we did not reach an agreement then the UK will leave without a deal on 31 October.\"\n\nThe PM's pledge comes despite legislation passed by MPs last month, known as the Benn Act, which requires Mr Johnson to write to the EU requesting a further delay if no deal is signed off by Parliament by 19 October - unless MPs agree to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nWhile negotiations are continuing in Brussels, Mr Sassoli said a deal likely to command the support of MEPs was a \"long way off\".\n\nMeanwhile, 19 Labour MPs have written to the European Commission president Mr Junker calling for a Brexit deal to be made with the government without any further delay.\n\nCaroline Flint, who represents the leave-supporting constituency of Don Valley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the \"uncertainty of Brexit has gone on too long\" and the group did not think it was \"impossible\" to resolve the Irish border issue.\n\nTuesday 8 October - The House of Commons was prorogued - suspended - ahead of a Queen's Speech to begin a new parliamentary session.\n\nMonday 14 October - The Commons is due to return, and the government will use the Queen's Speech to set out its legislative agenda. The speech will then be debated by MPs throughout the week.\n\nThursday 17 October - Crucial two-day summit of EU leaders begins in Brussels. This is the last such meeting currently scheduled before the Brexit deadline.\n\nSaturday 19 October - Date by which the PM must ask the EU for another delay to Brexit under the Benn Act, if no Brexit deal has been approved by Parliament and they have not agreed to the UK leaving with no-deal.\n\nThursday 31 October - Date by which the UK is due to leave the EU, with or without a withdrawal agreement.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'He could have been easily shot dead'\n\nVictims of a gun attack at their home in Londonderry believe they were targeted for speaking out against drug dealers.\n\nGerald Deehan, 58, said his family was fortunate to be alive after two masked men entered their Margaret Street home on Tuesday night.\n\nMr Deehan said shots were fired at him and his son Ryan, 30, who is undergoing surgery after he was shot in the foot.\n\nPolice are treating the incident as attempted murder.\n\nMr Deehan, who was unharmed, said he was in the kitchen when one of the gunmen came in.\n\n\"He shot straight away, straight through my trouser leg,\" he said.\n\n\"As I stepped back, he fired another shot.\"\n\nMr Deehan said his son was shot as he tried to stop the gunmen going upstairs to his other sons.\n\nGerald Deehan says the gunmen tried to kill him because he had spoken out\n\nThe 34-year-old mother of two was dependent on prescription and counterfeit drugs.\n\n\"Their main reason for trying to shoot me dead was because I spoke out and my wife spoke out,\" he said.\n\nHis wife Christine, who was also in the house at the time of the attack, said she would not be deterred by \"drug-dealing scumbags\".\n\n\"This is my message for you,\" she said.\n\n\"I will not shut up. I will give every one of your names.\n\n\"I will not stop my fight until I get the drug dealing scum off this earth that killed my daughter\".\n\nDet Insp Michael Winters said it was only by \"sheer luck\" the situation was not worse.\n\n\"There is absolutely no justification for this type of brutality,\" he said.\n\nParish priest Fr Michael Canny told BBC News NI that people could not \"act as judge and executioner\" and the PSNI should be the \"only law and order\".\n\n\"No matter what issues are at the root of this attack, in any right-thinking society, we cannot have people taking the law into their own hands,\" he added.\n\nSDLP councillor Martin Reilly described the shooting as \"horrific\".\n\n\"This type of violence is not wanted anywhere in the city and region,\" he said.\n\nSandra Duffy, chair of the Derry and Strabane Policing and Community Safety Partnership, said it was clear the criminal gangs responsible had absolutely no concern for local people.\n\n\"Their only aim is to try to exert some sort of coercive control over the people living in these areas,\" she said.\n\nPolice have appealed for anyone with information to come forward.", "Almost 400 all-time high temperatures were set in the northern hemisphere over the summer, according to an analysis of temperature records.\n\nThe records were broken in 29 countries for the period from 1 May to 30 August this year.\n\nA third of the all-time high temperatures were in Germany, followed by France and the Netherlands.\n\nThe analysis was carried out by the California-based climate institute Berkeley Earth.\n\nOver the summer, there were 1,200 instances of places in the northern hemisphere being the hottest they'd ever been in a given month.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nThe data included measurements from weather stations in the northern hemisphere that had at least 40 years of observations.\n\nSome of this data has not yet been subjected to formal review by weather agencies. These reviews, to check for problems that might have produced false readings, sometimes cause a small fraction of the records to be discounted.\n\nHeatwaves in Europe in June and July sent temperatures soaring, smashing a number of local and national records.\n\nFrance set an all-time high-temperature of 46C, while the UK, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands also reported new highs.\n\nThis summer was notable for the very large number of all-time temperature records set in Europe, according to Dr Robert Rohde, Lead Scientist at Berkeley Earth.\n\n\"Some places in Europe have histories of weather observations going back more than 150 years, and yet still saw new all-time record highs,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe extent of the hot spells on the continent is clearly visible when looking at a breakdown of when the most temperature records were broken. In late July, all-time temperature records were set in a number of European countries including the UK.\n\nElsewhere, more than 30 all-time records were broken in the US, according to the Berkeley Earth data. In Japan, where 11 people who died as a result of the summer heatwave, 10 all-time temperature record highs were set.\n\nThe summer saw 396 all-time high temperatures in total.\n\nMost all-time temperature records in measuring stations covered by the data were broken in 2010, followed by 2003.\n\nThe increasing number of record high temperatures are a part of the long-term trend of global warming, said Dr Rohde.\n\n\"As the Earth warms, it has become easier for weather stations to set new all-time records. In the past, we would usually only see about 2% of weather stations recording a new record high in any given year,\" he explained.\n\n\"But, recently, we sometimes see years, like 2019, with 5% or more of the weather stations recording a new all-time record high.\"\n\nIn part, the number of new records is affected by where heatwaves occur, as well as the temperatures recorded. There are more weather stations in the United States and Europe, meaning that a heatwave in those areas has the potential to break more records.\n\nBut with climate change making hot spells like those in Europe this summer more intense, Dr Rohde says that while new records won't be set every year at every location, they will be more likely.\n\nJuly 2019 was the warmest month ever recorded worldwide.\n\nGlobally it was marginally warmer - by 0.04 degrees Celsius (0.072 Fahrenheit) - than the previous hottest month on record, July 2016.\n\nThe new July record followed on from a global record for June, which was confirmed by data from several different agencies.\n\nScientists say it's the latest sign that Earth is experiencing unprecedented warming.\n\nThe scorching July heatwave that hit Europe was made both more likely and more intense by human-induced climate change, scientists reported.\n\nA study reported that warming increased the intensity of the event that impacted the UK, France and the Netherlands by between 1.5 and 3C.\n\n\"This July 2019 heatwave was so extreme over continental Western Europe that the observed magnitudes would have been extremely unlikely without climate change,\" said Dr Friederike Otto, acting director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, and one of the authors of that report.\n\nThe heatwave in France was made at least 10 times and up to 100 times more likely by human activities.\n\nIn the UK, the shorter event was made at least three times as likely, experts said.", "In 2017, the government's flagship treatment scheme for people convicted in England and Wales of rape or child sexual abuse was scrapped after it was shown to raise the risk of reoffending. Two sex offenders have told BBC Radio 4's File on 4 programme what it was like to take part in the rehabilitation programme.\n\n\"Everything was discussed in minute detail. They had what was called the 'hot seat' and every prisoner that was in a group had to sit in the hot seat and they were bombarded - it was like an interrogation.\"\n\nThese are Paul's experiences of group sessions on the discredited Sex Offender Treatment Programme (SOTP), which ran from the early 1990s until 2017.\n\nPaul has been convicted of numerous offences, including rape, and is serving a long jail sentence.\n\nSpeaking to me from a prison pay-phone, he says he started the SOTP on three occasions - it was a cognitive behaviour therapy designed to teach offenders to think and act differently.\n\nBut, the 60-year-old says, each time, he was removed from the course before the end because group facilitators thought he \"wasn't learning anything\".\n\n\"Being in group settings, discussing serious offences and some less serious offences - because these groups were mixed - actually made prisoners worse and normalised what prisoners were doing,\" he says.\n\nRapists, murderers, child sex offenders and \"flashers\" were all placed together, says Paul.\n\n\"People were learning from their mistakes - they were learning from other group members how to perhaps be better sex offenders without being caught.\"\n\nMinistry of Justice (MoJ) research showed 10% of men who had completed the SOTP reoffended, compared with 8% of those who had not done the programme.\n\nKathryn Hopkins's research revealed those who went on the SOTP were more likely to reoffend.\n\nThe results were published five years after analyst Kathryn Hopkins first alerted the department the scheme might not be working.\n\nPaul also claims some inmates were told to disclose the names of their victims as part of the process of setting out their offending history in graphic detail.\n\n\"It was to physically humiliate you and break you - I could see no other purpose for it,\" he says.\n\nMany of Paul's observations are shared by Dr Robert Forde, a retired forensic psychologist who used to work for the Home Office and is an expert on assessing risk.\n\nDr Forde told File on 4: \"One prisoner said to me, 'I hate doing this course because I've never had so many deviant sexual thoughts as I've had since I started because we're talking about sex offending all the time and actually I want to get away from all that.'\"\n\nAnother prisoner, who had himself been a victim of sex abuse as a child, told him he had been asked to give details of what had happened to him in front of paedophiles who had became aroused as a result.\n\nDr Forde said some prisoners on the SOTP courses would \"play the system\" in order to convince the Parole Board they were safe to be released.\n\nHe said one prisoner had told him: \"You claim to have things like deviant thoughts about victims or indulge in deviant sexual practices and then after the course is finished and you're doing the post-course assessment, you then drop all these things and you just tell the truth.\"\n\nThe inmate claimed this would then result in the prisoner being given a lower risk score by course assessors.\n\nFormer prisoner Peter, who has served two sentences for sexual offences against children and possessing indecent images, tells me the SOTP provided a false sense of security.\n\n\"You come out thinking you're fixed,\" he says.\n\n\"There's that feeling... because it's a treatment programme and that's what treatment does, doesn't it - fixes what's wrong?\"\n\nNow in his 50s, Peter had to do a \"booster\" course when he was first released.\n\n\"You're going back over the offences, so you keep reliving this stuff that just isn't helpful,\" he says.\n\n\"You're not going to forget what you've done and you know you've made victims... if you're going to be a useful member of society, you need to try and move your life forward.\"\n\nDuring his second spell in jail, Peter completed one-to-one sessions as part of the Healthy Sex Programme, which he found far more beneficial because it focused less on his offending and more on steps to overcome his problems.\n\nHe is now receiving support at the Corbett Centre, a groundbreaking project in Nottingham run by the Safer Living Foundation Charity.\n\nIt provides a range of emotional help and practical support for about 30 sex offenders living in the community.\n\n\"You're in an environment where people know what's happened,\" Peter says.\n\n\"So you're not having to start your life with a lie... you can put your life back on track.\"\n\nAlthough the Corbett Centre shows some promising early signs, it will be some years before it is known whether it reduces reoffending in the long term.\n\nA number of Ministry of Justice initiatives are also unproven - the Healthy Sex Programme is currently being evaluated, while the two sex offender rehabilitation schemes that replaced the SOTP, Horizon and Kaizen, have yet to be tested.\n\nThe MoJ says it works \"closely\" with the Correctional Services Accreditation and Advice Panel in the design of programmes delivered in prison and on probation.\n\nThe department says the panel, which has to approve such schemes before they can be used, is made up of \"independent experts from academia and practice from across the world\".\n\nBut two forensic psychiatrists, Penny Brown and Callum Ross, have been so alarmed by the failings in the SOTP programme they are calling for greater oversight of new forms of treatment.\n\nThis week, the Lancet Psychiatry medical journal published a paper they have written.\n\n\"We want to get reassurance that government-funded policy research is subjected to the same requirements and high academic standards that are placed on everybody else and all other scientists,\" says Dr Brown.\n\n\"The need to show that you're doing something shouldn't override the risk of actually causing harm.\"\n\nFile on 4 is on BBC Radio 4 at 20:00 on 8 October and 17:00 on 13 October and BBC Sounds.", "A power company is cutting electricity to around 800,000 homes, businesses and other locations in Northern California, in an attempt to prevent wildfires.\n\nLarge swathes of the San Francisco Bay Area - though not the city itself - have lost power, angering residents.\n\nThe region’s utility company, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), has warned the shutdown could last several days.\n\nThe company's transmission lines started the deadliest wildfire in California’s history last year.\n\nWith weather forecasts predicting high winds, the move is intended to prevent the risk of fallen power lines igniting more wildfires.\n\n\"The conditions are ripe: dry fuel, high winds, warm event. Any spark can create a significant event,\" said Ray Riordan, director of the Office of Emergency Management in San Jose, during a press conference on Tuesday.\n\nThe National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning for the Santa Cruz Mountains, North and East Bay regions until Thursday, warning that conditions could result in \"the strongest offshore wind event in the area since the October 2017 North Bay fires\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs of Wednesday morning, PG&E said around 500,000 customers were without power. Another 200,000 were scheduled to lose power by noon, local time, but the utility company has delayed further shutdowns until later in the afternoon due to changing weather conditions.\n\nThe huge “Camp Fire\" in the town of Paradise last year burned 150,000 acres and left 86 people dead. An investigation determined that poorly maintained PG&E equipment was to blame for starting the historic blaze.\n\nThe firm was also blamed for deadly fires in 2017. Subsequent lawsuits led the publicly traded company to declare bankruptcy in 2019, a process that is still ongoing. PG&E is the sole provider of gas and electricity for much of Northern California, and so the vast majority of consumers in the region do not have an alternative source of power.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rebuilding Paradise: 'Our town is gone'\n\n“We have experienced an unprecedented fire season the past two years,” said Tamar Sarkissian, a PG&E spokeswoman, speaking to BBC partner CBS News.\n\n\"And what we learned from that is that we need to be taking further steps to ensure the safety of our customers and the communities that we serve. Public safety power shut off is one of the many steps that we're taking.\"\n\nPG&E has carried out several planned outages over the course of the past year, though none at the scale of what is scheduled this week.\n\n“None of us are happy about it,” said California governor, Gavin Newsom. “But this is part of something that we knew was likely to occur several months ago, when PG&E finally woke up to their responsibility to keep people safe.”\n\nThe outages are expected to affect more than half of the state's counties.\n\nThe warnings stretch north of the San Francisco Bay Area, in areas such as Napa and Sonoma, famed for wine-making. Further south, many cities synonymous with Silicon Valley giants could be affected, such as Cupertino, home to Apple.\n\nLocal shops reported an influx of customers buying up supplies for a black out that could, if the weather remains adverse, last for several days.\n\nExperts are concerned gusty winds could produce the conditions for wildfires to ignite\n\n\"The idea of five days without electricity is devastating,” said Libby Schaaf, mayor of Oakland, but added: \"We fully expect that to be a worst-case scenario. This is our first time going through this.”\n\nBut websites providing information about the cuts have buckled under heavy traffic loads. Many residents have taken to PG&E’s social media channels to express their frustration.\n\n\"You wasted the money you should have been using on safety precautions to give dividends to your stockholders. Now you have to shut down our power like some sort of third world country.\n\n\"When you do shut down the power you can’t even get your notification website to work properly! Get it together PG&E! No more rate increases to pay for your incompetence.”\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dan Pulcrano This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPG&E has opened 28 Community Resource Centers in the region to provide “restrooms, bottled water and electronic-device charging” during daylight hours.\n\nMany schools in the area have told students to stay at home on Wednesday and await further information for the remainder of the week.\n\nDespite widespread frustration, local meteorologist Mike Pechner told CBS the move was warranted.\n\n\"It's not an overreaction at all. As the wind comes in, the wires, of course, oscillate back and forth. If they touch, they start a fire.\n\n\"[Cutting power] is taking downed wires and high winds out of the fire equation.\"\n\nWill the power cuts affect your home or business? 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:", "Boris Johnson has outlined his plan to the European Union (EU) to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said the plan \"removes the so-called backstop\".\n\nThe backstop is the insurance policy negotiated by Theresa May and the EU. It is designed to avoid any physical border infrastructure, which it is feared would bring back memories of the Troubles, after Brexit.\n\nIt would keep the UK in the same customs territory as the EU, and Northern Ireland closely tied to EU regulations - until the UK and the EU reach a trade deal.\n\nBut it would stop the UK striking its own trade deals, which is why so many Conservative MPs, including Mr Johnson, oppose the backstop.\n\nSo, what is his alternative?\n\nThe government wants the UK to leave the EU customs union. This would mean Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland ending up in two different customs territories.\n\nThis means lorries entering the Republic of Ireland from Northern Ireland will need to complete customs declarations. This is to ensure the correct tariffs (tax on imports) are paid when UK goods enter the EU customs union.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: From the beginning the EU has struggled to see how Ireland and Northern Ireland can exist in different customs territories while keeping the border as open as it is now under all circumstances. They will argue that - in the absence of a future free trade deal - this proposal means the UK is breaking commitments it has made about the border. The UK counters that the backstop has already been rejected in Parliament three times, and something needs to change.\n\nInstead of installing customs posts and other physical infrastructure at the Irish border, the UK says declarations should be done electronically.\n\nThe government says physical checks would still be needed \"on a very small proportion of movements\". Currently, about one in 100 consignments entering the EU customs union are inspected to check that the goods match the information on the declaration.\n\nThese inspections could be carried out at warehouses or \"designated locations, which could be located anywhere in Ireland or Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThe government's proposal does not spell out what these \"designated locations\" would look like, but it adds there should be \"a firm commitment (by both parties) never to conduct checks at the border in future\".\n\nIf adopted, a border solution relying on technology and remote checks would be a first. The EU does not currently share a single border with a non-EU country where checks have been completely eliminated.\n\nThat includes Norway (not in the EU) and Sweden (an EU member) - which share one of the most technologically advanced borders in the world. Their main crossing point processes about 1,300 lorries a day, with each waiting 20 minutes on average.\n\nThe EU has previously rejected a customs solution that relies on technology.\n\nBack in January, Sabine Weyand, the EU's director-general for trade, said: \"We looked at every border on this Earth, every border the EU has with a third country - there's simply no way you can do away with checks and controls.\"\n\nThe government says that some small traders should be exempt from paying duty. However, the document does not address smuggling head on. In other words, what will be done to detect and prevent traders, who should be paying duty, from crossing the border without completing custom declarations first?\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The EU will see much of this as a rehash of previous ideas that it doesn't think will work. And many people will worry that unspecified \"designated locations\" could become targets for anyone seeking to undermine the Northern Ireland peace process. The EU will push back hard against suggestions that it needs to revise its own customs rules to suit the UK.\n\nWhen it comes to the regulation of goods, Northern Ireland would keep to the rules of the EU's single market, rather than UK rules.\n\nThat removes the need for product standard and safety checks on goods at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, because both will be part of an \"all-island regulatory zone\".\n\nBut it creates the need for checks between the rest of the UK - which will not be sticking to EU single market rules - and Northern Ireland..\n\nAll agricultural, food or animal products entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK will have to go through a Border Inspection Post. That's a bit of infrastructure where goods can be physically examined and paperwork checked.\n\nManufactured goods in Northern Ireland would also have to keep to EU rules, and these goods would be checked \"at the boundary of the zone\" - presumably at crossings between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, on the Irish Sea.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: This is quite a big concession from the UK side - basically accepting that there would have to be quite intrusive checks between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK for a number of years, on things like product standards and food safety. The EU has always said there have to be checks carried out somewhere, and both sides will try to deny any suggestion that this amounts to a new border in the Irish Sea.\n\nHaving Northern Ireland following EU rules for the production of goods over which it has no say is, as the document says, \"a significant democratic problem\".\n\nAs a result, it is proposed that the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive will have to sign off on the plan before it takes effect.\n\nThe Northern Irish institutions will be asked to approve the plan again every four years, and if they do not then Northern Ireland would stop following EU rules one year later.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly has not met since early 2017.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The issue of democratic legitimacy is a crucial one, but it cannot be applied unevenly. The EU is likely to have a problem with anything which suggests that only Northern Ireland could have - in effect - a veto on this plan. The point of the backstop was to provide a legal guarantee to keep an open border under all circumstances. Being subject to approval every four years simply isn't the same thing. If Northern Ireland voted to leave this arrangement things like checks on food safety would have to take place at the Irish border.", "EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier (r) sat with President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker\n\nEU leaders have pulled apart the UK's Brexit proposals, accusing Boris Johnson of putting forward untested ideas to solve the Irish border crisis.\n\nChief negotiator Michel Barnier said the EU needed workable solutions \"today not tomorrow\".\n\nEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told MEPs that while he would \"not exclude\" a deal in the coming days, progress had been limited.\n\nMr Johnson has said he remains \"cautiously optimistic\" about a deal.\n\nHe will meet his Irish counterpart, Leo Varadkar, on Thursday to try and break the deadlock, while continuing to insist the UK will leave on 31 October with or without an agreement.\n\nIn Westminster, meanwhile, a group of Conservative MPs has been demanding assurances from the PM that he will not take the party into the next general election - whenever it comes - on a straightforward promise to leave with no deal.\n\nAnd earlier, it emerged MPs would be called to Parliament for a special Saturday sitting on 19 October - the day after a crunch EU summit, which is seen as the last chance for a deal ahead of the Halloween deadline.\n\nThe UK put forward fresh proposals for a Brexit deal last week, but so far the reaction from the EU has not been encouraging.\n\nUpdating MEPs on the state of talks, Mr Barnier said he believed \"with goodwill\" on both sides there could be an agreement in the run-up to the summit.\n\nBut he said \"to put things very frankly and to try to be objective, we are not really in a position where we are able to find an agreement\".\n\nAs it stood, he said, the UK was proposing replacing an \"operable, practical and legal solution\" to avoid a hard Irish border with \"one that is simply a temporary solution\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Barnier said the UK's suggested alternative to the Irish backstop - which would see customs checks conducted away from the border at business premises or electronically - \"had not been tested\" and was \"largely based\" on exemptions for small businesses and technology that \"has yet to be developed\".\n\n\"We need operational real controls, credible controls, we are talking about the credibility of the single market here - its credulity to consumers, to companies, and to third counties that we have agreements with.\"\n\nMr Barnier also questioned the viability of the UK's proposals to give the Northern Ireland Assembly a veto over whether it aligned with EU single market rules for goods from 2021 onwards and whether to diverge from them in the future.\n\nHowever, he did confirm the two sides were looking at \"a more important role\" for the Northern Irish political institutions.\n\nUnder Mr Johnson's proposals, which he calls a \"broad landing zone\" for a new deal with the EU:\n\nMr Juncker, meanwhile, took a swipe at the UK in the wake of a political row over the details of Tuesday's phone call between Mr Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n\nFollowing the call, a No 10 source claimed the German leader had said a deal based on the UK's proposals was \"overwhelmingly unlikely\" and made new demands which made an agreement \"essentially impossible\".\n\n\"We remain in discussion with the UK,\" Mr Juncker said. \"Personally I don't exclude a deal. I do not accept this blame game that started in London.\"\n\nDuring a sometimes bad-tempered debate in the European Parliament, former Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt, accused Mr Johnson of treating those seeking to prevent a no-deal Brexit as \"traitors, collaborators and surrenderers\".\n\n\"The reason this is happening is very simple. It is a blame game. A blame game against everybody - against the EU, against Ireland, against Mrs Merkel, against the British judicial system, against Labour, against the Lib Dems, even against Mrs May,\" he said.\n\n\"The only person who is not being blamed is Mr Johnson apparently. All the rest are part of the problem.\"\n\nThe government has said there will be few physical customs checks\n\nLib Dem MEP Jane Brophy urged the EU to give the UK as long an extension as possible to allow time for a general election and a referendum.\n\nBut Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage suggested Brussels was no longer negotiating in \"good faith\" and the UK was fed up with being \"talked down to and insulted\" by EU leaders.\n\n\"You are not looking for solutions. You are looking to put obstacles in our way.\"\n\nMr Farage also suggested a no-deal Brexit would be a \"winning ticket\" at a future general election - a prospect which has reportedly caused some disquiet among Conservative MPs.\n\nAt a meeting on Wednesday afternoon with a group of One Nation Tories - led by ex-minister Damian Green - the PM was told that dozens of his MPs would not be willing to support a straightforward manifesto promise to leave without a deal if there was a snap election before the end of the year.\n\nMr Johnson sought to reassure them he was still very much focused on getting a deal.\n\nBut the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg said while no decision had been taken, she understood a future manifesto could include a promise to leave with an agreement if possible, alongside a vow to leave anyway \"within days or weeks\" if the Tories won a Commons majority and there was no chance of a deal.\n\nThe prime minister has said he is determined the UK will leave the EU on 31 October, despite legislation, known as the Benn Act, which requires him to write to Brussels requesting a further delay if a deal is not signed off by Parliament by 19 October - or unless MPs agree to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nScottish judges decided on Wednesday to delay a decision on whether to sign the letter if Mr Johnson refused to do so, saying instead they would wait until the political debate had \"played out\".\n\nElsewhere, there was anger among some Brexiteers after European Parliament President David Sassoli met Commons Speaker John Bercow in London.\n\nA statement after the meeting from Mr Sassoli said they both \"fully agreed on the important role that our parliaments play in the Brexit process\" and the European institution would support any request from the UK for an extension.\n\nMr Farage said it was \"disgraceful\" the pair had \"agreed to work to prevent a no-deal Brexit\".\n\nConservative MP Marcus Fysh said it was \"so far beyond his (Mr Bercow's) constitutional role\" and accused him of \"colluding with a foreign power\".", "About 300 people work at Amazon's centre in Gourock\n\nAmazon has said it will fight a court's decision to uphold an eviction notice from its landlord at a distribution warehouse in Inverclyde.\n\nThe site is owned by the M7 property investment firm which gave the online giant six months' notice to quit in February.\n\nAmazon challenged the move at the Court of Session, arguing it was entitled to a year's notice.\n\nBut the courts backed M7, though the US firm has said it will appeal again.\n\nAbout 300 people work at the Gourock site and Amazon says it remains \"business as usual\" for them and customers.\n\nInsiders have told BBC Scotland the court battle is a high-stakes negotiation on rent.\n\nAmazon operated its \"fulfilment centre'\" with a 15-year lease running out in August this year.\n\nIt was previously owned by Scottish Enterprise, the government agency, and it is claimed the rent is as much as 60% below the market rate.\n\nLast February, the current owner M7 Real Estate gave Amazon six months' notice to quit.\n\nAmazon responded that it was entitled to a year's notice.\n\nTaking its case to the Court of Session, Amazon lost with a ruling that the six-month notice period was fair and legal.\n\nM7 is seeking not only to evict Amazon but it also wants damages from the retailer for remaining on the site since August.\n\nHowever, that issue has been postponed to a future sitting of the Court of Session.\n\nBehind the eviction notice and court action is a highly unusual rent negotiation.\n\nLondon-based M7 Real Estate owns 800 industrial assets in 13 countries on behalf of its investors, with a fund worth more than £4bn.\n\nIt believes its action was the only way to get Amazon to respond to its demand for a rent increase, and those discussions are now under way.\n\nRetail chains have been putting immense pressure on commercial landlords to lower rents. Although Amazon relies on a different type of commercial property, it is known for its muscular use of bargaining power.\n\nBut the property investor is warning that there are no other similar sites in central Scotland to which Amazon could move at short notice.\n\nIn other words, M7 also has leverage in these negotiations.\n\nAn Amazon spokeswoman said: \"It's business as usual for our customers and associates and we will be appealing the court decision.\"\n\nJohn Murnaghan, head of UK and Ireland real estate for M7, said: \"We're here to engage constructively and proactively with Amazon over this lease. However, we need to ensure we're getting fair value for our investors.\"", "Boris Johnson spoke at four of Jennifer Arcuri's events in London when he was mayor\n\nBoris Johnson is under fire for failing to provide details of his contacts with US businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri to a London Assembly inquiry.\n\nThe PM responded to the assembly's request for information on Tuesday.\n\nBut the assembly said the letter it received - marked \"confidential and not for publication\" - did not answer any of its questions.\n\nMr Johnson denies claims of a conflict of interest over his friendship with Ms Arcuri when he was London mayor.\n\nThe assembly had asked for details and a timeline of all contact between the pair, including private text messages and emails.\n\nA London Assembly spokeswoman told the BBC the letter \"doesn't answer any of the questions we asked\", adding: \"I can't understand why it is labelled confidential.\"\n\nThe assembly is now seeking legal advice over whether members of its oversight committee can discuss the contents of the letter at their meeting next week.\n\nIn a statement, Len Duvall, Labour chairman of the committee, said: \"We did finally receive a response from Boris Johnson, through his solicitors, which they have indicated may not be published. At this stage we are respecting that, but we are seeking further clarification.\n\n\"Nothing in the response, in our opinion, reflects the need for confidentiality. In fact, the response is insufficient as far as our request for information is concerned.\n\n\"We are focused on our investigation and considering next steps. A number of options are open to us; they include speaking to various people and using our power of summons.\"\n\nLen Duvall says his committee is considering its next move\n\nHe said the committee was liaising with the Independent Office for Police Conduct, which has been asked to consider whether Mr Johnson, who as mayor was responsible for policing in London, should be investigated for misconduct in public office.\n\nLabour's shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett said: \"With an issue as serious as potential abuse of public office, it is absolutely in the public interest that this letter be published.\n\n\"Boris Johnson might think he is above the law but he cannot hide from scrutiny.\"\n\nIf the PM fails to answer the assembly's questions, added Mr Trickett, \"he is showing contempt for the inquiry and the people of this country.\"\n\nMr Johnson held the office of London mayor between 2008 and 2016.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times, which first reported the story, technology entrepreneur Ms Arcuri joined trade missions led by Mr Johnson when he was mayor and received thousands of pounds in public money.\n\nIt is also understood she attended events on two of the trade missions - to New York and Tel Aviv - despite not officially qualifying for them as a delegate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jennifer Arcuri: \"I'm not going to put myself in a position where you can weaponise my answer\"\n\nMs Arcuri told ITV's Good Morning Britain Mr Johnson was \"a really good friend\" who had spoken at event she organised - but denied the then mayor had shown any \"favouritism\" towards her.\n\nThe code governing conduct at London City Hall states that public office holders should not act in any way to gain benefits for families or friends, and should declare private interests to resolve any conflicts.\n\nThe prime minister has denied breaking any rules of conduct and insisted everything was done \"entirely in the proper way\".\n\nSeparately, the current Mayor Sadiq Khan has asked a senior lawyer to review a 2013 decision by London and Partners, the mayor's promotional agency, to sponsor a conference organised one of Ms Arcuri's companies, for £10,000.\n\nLondon and Partners say they have found no evidence of Mr Johnson's involvement in the decision.\n\nThe Department for Culture, Media and Sport is, meanwhile, \"reviewing\" a £100,000 grant made in February this year to Ms Arcuri's cyber-security business Hacker House.", "A new date in the diary, a new countdown.\n\nNot the EU summit, not the prime minister's deadline, but what might be a decisive day in the immediate aftermath, already being joked about as Super Saturday.\n\nAs I wrote a couple of weeks ago, in the unlikely event that there is a deal with the EU (progress check, still unlikely but not completely impossible) then the 19 October had been pencilled in as the day when Parliament would be asked to approve the arrangement the prime minister had brokered.\n\nWhatever happens now though, Mr Johnson plans to summon MPs to Westminster, where by whatever mechanisms available, he'll essentially try to force a decisive moment.\n\nIf as expected now, there is no deal, why would he not just automatically do what Parliament has changed the law to do, to seek a delay from the EU immediately?\n\nThe deadline for that to happen is midnight on that Saturday night.\n\nBut up until that moment, and perhaps well beyond, Boris Johnson will fight the delay - not just because he believes it would be a mistake, but also because it is a political embarrassment for him to break the promise he flamboyantly made during the summer's leadership campaign and relentlessly since.\n\nThat promise is that he would not ask for a delay, he'd stick to his Halloween deadline \"do or die\" - you can pick your particular dramatic metaphor, there are plenty to choose from.\n\nBut he will overtly do his utmost to pin the blame for a delay on MPs. Whether you agree or find it repellent, there is nothing subtle about the obvious pitching of this No 10 against former Remainers.\n\nThe truth is a delay would be a policy failure for the prime minister - forget for the moment that he and his team would use it to help their efforts to win a broader political argument.\n\nBut inside government there is a belief that it might not quite be over. Don't all scream at once. Yes, there are lawyers everywhere warning that there is no way round the so-called Benn Act and they may well be absolutely right.\n\nThere are active attempts in court to make sure that the legal provisions to force an extension are watertight. And several Cabinet ministers have told me they can see no way to avoid a delay if there is no deal. More in sorrow than in anger one told me \"the EU will do what it always does, play long, and we'll have to agree\".\n\nBut inside Number 10 there are still discussions about whether to send a second letter to the EU - meaning the government would comply with the Benn Act demanding that the government has to seek a delay in letter one but then send another letter alongside it essentially denouncing that idea from a political perspective.\n\nPut that alongside likely protestations from the prime minister that a delay would be pointless, and perhaps that he would refuse to negotiate any further, and we might all find ourselves in an extremely turbulent period, where the reactions of the EU could be hard to predict.\n\nThis would likely see the government almost immediately facing challenges in court, or perhaps even pursuing a few of their own.\n\nBut despite all of the legal and political speculation, as I've written before, this is an untested area where there are no precedents and no conventions to guide us. That's why some of the wilder suggestions, including one that Boris Johnson might even refuse to move out of Number 10 if he loses a confidence vote and can't form a government, are impossible at the moment to exclude.\n\nWhatever happens on 19 October, that may be the moment when the extent of the provocation Downing Street is willing to pursue becomes clear.\n\nPS. Whatever you think of the aggressive noises coming out of the government about the state of the negotiations and the audacity of their plans, be in no doubt it is designed to convey a message to the EU not to expect Boris Johnson to compromise more readily after the likely general election.\n\nEssentially the dramatic language is designed not just to irritate their opponents, but also to make it clear to their negotiating opponents that any Brexit offer from the UK, if there is a Tory majority after the election, is likely to be a harder not softer one and the EU will face a government less willing to compromise, not more.\n\nThe hope is to make it seem to the EU that their safest choice is to grab this deal. But at this stage, there is not much sign of that happening.\n\nPPS. All the hostility has created a separate row in the Tory Party over what goes in their election manifesto. Some Brexit hawks believe it ought to promise an automatic no-deal departure if they win the election (a huge if!)\n\nThat suggestion riled some ministers and MPs who believe they now have some assurances from Mr Johnson that it would not be so stark.\n\nAs I understand it there is no final decision. But a likely position is a souped-up version of the PM's 31 October pledge - where the manifesto would say the Conservatives would like to leave with a deal, but if a tight deadline - maybe extremely tight - can't be met, then it's no deal at a pace.\n\nTheir upset is yet more evidence of Boris Johnson's challenge in keeping the Tories together, and trying to be able to please both former Remain voters and Leavers alike.\n• None What is in Boris Johnson's Brexit plan?", "Turkey has launched a ground and air offensive on territory held by Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria.\n\nResidents began to flee some areas, and plumes of smoke were seen rising from towns near the border.\n\nPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the operation was to create a \"safe zone\" cleared of Kurdish militias, which will also house Syrian refugees.\n\nThe Kurdish-led militias have been key US allies in the fight against the Islamic State group, but Ankara regards them as terrorists because of their links to Kurdish rebels inside Turkey.", "Harvey Proctor's home was searched as part of the discredited Operation Midland investigation\n\nA former MP falsely accused of being part of a VIP paedophile ring has called on the home secretary to \"act now\" against the police who investigated him.\n\nHarvey Proctor said an outside police force should be appointed to investigate findings officers \"misled\" a judge when obtaining search warrants.\n\nThe warrants led to raids on homes of high-profile men including Mr Proctor.\n\nThe police watchdog cleared the officers involved of misconduct.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police Service spent £2.5m investigating false allegations of sexual abuse and murder made by Carl Beech about a group of MPs, generals and senior figures in the intelligence services in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nThe force publicly said they believed Beech's claims to be \"credible and true\" but their investigation closed without any arrests and Beech - who was known as \"Nick\" during the police probe - was later jailed for his lies.\n\nThe investigation, known as Operation Midland, prompted searches of the homes of former Conservative MP Mr Proctor, D-Day veteran and former chief of the defence staff Lord Bramall and former home secretary Leon Brittan's widow, Lady Diana Brittan.\n\nThe district judge who granted the search warrants in 2015 - Howard Riddle - has said he agreed with a report which concluded he was \"misled\" by detectives.\n\nThe report by retired High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques - which was partly published on Friday - found the warrants were obtained \"unlawfully\" and the searches \"should not have taken place\".\n\nMr Riddle said he agreed with the report's conclusion that he would never have granted the warrants if he had been given all the information available.\n\nHe said Sir Richard had identified a number of factors that undermined the case for warrants being issued \"that should have been drawn to my attention, but were not\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met has not yet responded to Mr Riddle's statement.\n\nHowever, Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has said Sir Richard's report found officers involved acted with \"propriety\", while a police watchdog report cleared them of any misconduct.\n\n\"But if a High Court judge says it is unlawful, clearly, there's something not right with what we did,\" she told the BBC.\n\nCarl Beech was jailed for 18 years after being found guilty of perverting the course of justice, fraud and child sexual offences\n\nIn an email to Home Secretary Priti Patel, released on Wednesday, Mr Proctor said the intervention of the two former judges was \"unprecedented\" and the \"serious allegations of criminality\" that officers misled Mr Riddle should be investigated.\n\n\"Failure to institute such a criminal investigation will rightly be regarded as a continuation of a cover up,\" he wrote.\n\nHe suggested that Northumbria Police Constabulary should undertake such an investigation - at central government expense - because they already held much of the background information on the case from their role in the trial of Beech earlier this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Met's deputy commissioner Sir Stephen House says he is \"deeply sorry for mistakes made\"\n\nA separate report by the police watchdog examined the role of three detectives in applying for search warrants, but did not look into Operation Midland as a whole.\n\nIn July, the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) announced it had cleared the officers, prompting criticism from Sir Richard, who said a criminal investigation should take place.\n\nIn a report published on Monday, the IOPC found \"gaps and shortcomings\" in the police investigation but no evidence of misconduct.\n\nMr Proctor called the IOPC report \"a whitewash\" and \"a pathetic attempt\" to excuse mistakes by police.\n\nMet Commissioner Ms Dick said she was \"deeply sorry\" for the mistakes made during Operation Midland and recognised the \"lasting effect\" on those who endured \"intrusive inquiries\".\n\nThe home secretary has ordered an inspection of how the Met has responded to the recommendations made by Sir Richard and the IOPC.\n\nLast week, Ms Patel wrote to the Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Sir Tom Winsor, asking him to examine the police investigation.\n\nIn her letter she said it was \"imperative\" the public received assurance the Met had learned from the mistakes identified in Sir Richard's report.", "It's not the official policy of the government yet, and the publication of more of the potentially gory details of leaving the EU without a deal is likely today.\n\nBut in government and EU circles it is more likely by the hour that there will not be an agreement at next week's EU council.\n\nDespite the prime minister's assertion that his proposals are a \"fair and reasonable compromise\" - and signals to No 10 that some influential member states were willing to contemplate the concepts of the deal over the summer - in the words of one official, so far the EU had not shown a desire to \"budge one centimetre\".\n\nIn a call with the German leader Angela Merkel this morning, a No 10 source said \"she made clear a deal is overwhelmingly unlikely\", and even said the EU could veto whether Northern Ireland leaves the customs union, adding: \"Talks in Brussels are close to breaking down, despite the fact the UK has moved a long way.\"\n\nBut there is no intention in Downing Street to move away from the broad concepts of what they are suggesting regarding either customs or the so-called principle of consent for gaining approval for the PM's plans from Northern Irish politicians.\n\nSo short of a political escape worthy of Houdini, this prime minister is moving towards making the case for leaving without a deal.\n\nNow, as we've discussed many times before, Parliament's changed the law to make that as hard as possible. But No 10 still vows to do everything it can to press ahead - expecting further tangles in the courts, despite widespread scepticism that would have any effect.\n\nAnd above all else, sources in government vow they would be as obstructive as possible to the EU, daring them perhaps to impose a delay on a reluctant and restive administration.\n\nTo their opponents, that might appear petulant and counter productive, but be in no doubt, if there is no deal this month, Boris Johnson's government would not suddenly play nice.\n\nAnd in the likely event that there is an extension, for political reasons No 10 wants to give the impression it was forced into that position.\n\nMinisters hoped their proposals might get a fair hearing from the EU. But there is frustration that this just doesn't appear to have happened.\n\nOne senior source told me the talks are \"meant to be a dialogue, not a question and answer session\", suggesting that rather than getting down to business, the EU is simply tying up the UK's negotiators by making query after query after query.\n\nSources say the EU ought to listen \"to the people who won the referendum, not the people who lost\".\n\nAnd there's a warning from this end that they will make a \"historic miscalculation\", if they expect saying no now will lead to calmer times ahead.\n\nBack here, there's also an ongoing discussion over whether a future Conservative manifesto should include the outline of a potential deal with the EU or a straightforward plan to leave immediately without a deal.\n\nI understand there has not been a decision on this yet.\n• None What is in Boris Johnson's Brexit plan?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The humpback whale was spotted swimming near Dartford\n\nA humpback whale seen swimming in the River Thames over the weekend has died.\n\nThe mammal was spotted lying motionless on mudflats along the River Thames at Greenhithe on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nSam Lipman, from the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR), said the death was \"not wholly unexpected\".\n\nBDMLR said the whale, seen surfacing off Greenhithe on Sunday, was \"definitely a humpback\" and was probably lost but did not appear to be in any distress.\n\n\"It's really sad to find a humpback whale like this, deceased,\" Ms Lipman said.\n\n\"As the days were going on, we were seeing more photos of its condition, we were starting to realise that maybe it wasn't in the greatest of health.\n\n\"I think we weren't expecting this to happen so soon and we were hoping it wasn't going to happen at all,\" she added.\n\nThe BDMLR had said the creature likely arrived because of a navigational error, possibly during the recent high spring tides.\n\nA year ago \"Benny the beluga\" spent about three months in the busy waterway.\n\nRichard Banner saw the whale surfacing while sailing on the Thames on Saturday\n\nOn Sunday, a group of volunteers had observed the mammal surfacing repeatedly over a three-hour period.\n\nA Port of London Authority (PLA) spokesman said people who had seen it had estimated it was five or 10 metres in length.\n\n\"Benny the beluga\" was regularly seen in the River Thames at the end of last year\n\nPostings on social media have been mourning the humpback's death.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lycopene - a nutrient found in tomatoes - may boost sperm quality, a study has suggested.\n\nHealthy men who took the equivalent of two tablespoons of (concentrated) tomato puree a day as a supplement were found to have better quality sperm.\n\nMale infertility affects up to half of couples who cannot conceive.\n\nFertility experts said more studies were needed involving men known to have fertility problems.\n\nNHS advice for men experiencing fertility problems currently suggests they adopt a healthy lifestyle and wear loose-fitting underwear.\n\nIt also suggests reducing stress as much as possible and ensuring they have regular sex around the time their partner ovulates to maximise the chances of conception.\n\nBut the idea that certain nutrients could boost male fertility has been gaining ground for some time.\n\nLycopene, like vitamin E and zinc which have been the focus of previous research, is an antioxidant which means it prevents oxidation in cells, and therefore damage.\n\nIt has been linked to other health benefits, including reducing the risk of heart disease and some cancers.\n\nThe Sheffield team say they used a lactolycopene supplement because the nutrient in food can be harder for the body to absorb and so they could be confident each man received the same amount each day.\n\nThe men would have needed to eat 2kg of cooked tomatoes each day to get the equivalent dose of lycopene.\n\nIn the 12-week trial, which was partly funded by the company which makes the supplement, 60 men were randomly selected to take 14 milligrams of lactolycopene per day or a dummy pill.\n\nTheir sperm was tested at the start, at six weeks and at the end of the study, and while there was no difference in sperm concentration, the proportion of healthy-shaped sperm and motility - how fast sperm can \"swim\" - was higher in those taking lycopene.\n\nDr Liz Williams, a specialist in human nutrition at the University of Sheffield, who led the research which was published in the European Journal of Nutrition, said: \"At the moment, there is very little advice we can give to men.\n\n\"We tell them to reduce alcohol consumption and eat a healthy diet - but these are very general messages.\"\n\nShe added: \"This was a small study and we do need to repeat the work in bigger trials, but the results are very encouraging.\n\n\"The next step is to repeat the exercise in men with fertility problems and see if lycopene can increase sperm quality for those men and whether it helps couples conceive and avoid invasive fertility treatments.\"\n\nAndrew Drakeley, clinical director at Liverpool Women's Hospital's Hewitt Fertility Centre, said: \"Optimising the health of the subfertile couple, both male and female can often avoid the need for invasive and expensive fertility treatment.\"\n\nBut he said: \"Further work in a subfertile population, demonstrating improved fecundity is needed before the treatment can be recommended.\"\n\nGwenda Burns, of the charity Fertility Network, added: \"Although in the very early stages, this study offers hope for improvement of sperm quality and a greater understanding of male fertility in the future.\"\n• None BBC Radio 4 - One to One, Benjamin Zephaniah meets Kevin McEleny", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A resident explains what she enjoys about her home\n\nAn eco-friendly council estate in Norwich has scooped this year's prestigious Riba Stirling Prize for architecture.\n\nThe Royal Institute of British Architects gives out the award each year to the UK's best new building.\n\nThe estate, called Goldsmith Street, is made up of almost 100 ultra low-energy homes for Norwich City Council.\n\nIt beat the likes of London Bridge Station and the Nevill Holt Opera, Market Harborough, to the prize.\n\nGoldsmith Street meets rigorous \"Passivhaus\" environmental standards, which means it \"provides a high level of occupant comfort while using very little energy for heating and cooling\", according to the Passivhaus Trust.\n\nRiba said the estate's environmental credentials made it a \"beacon of hope\" and highly unusual for a mass housing development.\n\n\"Faced with a global climate emergency, the worst housing crisis for generations and crippling local authority cuts, Goldsmith Street is a beacon of hope,\" said Riba president Alan Jones.\n\n\"It is commended not just as a transformative social housing scheme and eco-development, but a pioneering exemplar for other local authorities to follow.\"\n\nGoldsmith Street is made up of two-storey houses, bookended by three-storey flats.\n\nThe estate has been designed by architect company Mikhail Riches to be eco-friendly down to the smallest of detail.\n\nLetterboxes are built into external porches, rather than the front doors, to reduce draughts.\n\nHomes run on a passive solar scheme, estimated to bring residents annual energy bills which are 70% cheaper than those for the average household.\n\nAll face south to get as much sunlight as possible; walls are more than 60cm thick and the roofs are tilted in such a way to avoid blocking sunlight from the neighbours.\n\nAs for the aesthetic, they are made in materials referencing Norwich's history, such as glossy black roof pantiles, which are a nod to the city's Dutch trading links, and creamy clay bricks similar to Victorian terraces nearby.\n\nTo give residents a sense of individuality and ownership, touches have been included such coloured front doors, generous lobby space for prams and bikes and private balconies.\n\nAnd to encourage a community spirit, the back gardens of the central terraces share a secure play area for children and a landscaped walkway for communal gatherings runs through the middle of the estate.\n\n\"It is not often we are appointed to work on a project so closely aligned with what we believe matters; buildings people love which are low impact,\" said David Mikhail of Mikhail Riches.\n\n\"We hope other local authorities will be inspired to deliver beautiful homes for people who need them the most, and at an affordable price.\n\n\"To all the residents - thank you for sharing your enthusiasm, and your homes, with everyone who has visited.\"\n\nLast year's winning building was the European headquarters of Bloomberg, the world's most sustainable office and largest stone building in the City of London.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @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 advice warns of further protests similar to those in Birmingham\n\nThe government has issued advice to local authorities on dealing with protests outside schools over LGBT-inclusive teaching.\n\nThe 21-page document, seen by the BBC, lays out how councils should support teachers to minimise disruption.\n\nIt comes after continued protests outside schools in Birmingham against the teaching of LGBT relationships.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said it was working to ensure authorities had information to support schools.\n\nThe No Outsiders equality programme, which encourages children to accept differences in religions, families and relationships, was suspended in March amid angry protests at the gates of Parkfield Community School in Birmingham.\n\nProtesters stated the subject matter contradicted the Islamic faith and that primary-age children were too young to be aware of same-sex relationships.\n\nThe DfE advised local authorities to build relationships with parents and faith groups\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) previously said up to 70 schools in England had seen resistance from parents on relationships education.\n\nThe document, produced by the DfE, suggests councils could consider enforcement action if pupils are withdrawn from school because parents do not agree with what is being taught.\n\nIt also suggests if demonstrations are happening outside school gates, head teachers should consider liaising with police in case protesters are breaking the law.\n\nTemplate letters like this are being used to withdraw children from lessons where relationships are discussed, the DfE said\n\nTeachers who have seen the document told the BBC of their frustration at not being consulted beforehand.\n\nThey said they continued to feel unsupported as they tackled such a sensitive and emotive situation.\n\nFrom September 2020, relationships education will be compulsory for all primary pupils.\n\n\"Some organisations are opposed to the introduction of these subjects, or to some of the expected content,\" the leaked document said.\n\nThis has been seen \"most starkly\" in Birmingham, it continued, where demonstrations were held outside Parkfield Community School before spreading to Anderton Park, where protesters continue to gather outside an exclusion zone each week.\n\nA High Court hearing this month will rule whether demonstrations can resume directly outside the school.\n\nSchools were also advised not to speak to the media about any demonstrations\n\nThe DfE recognised campaigners \"do not distinguish\" between individual schools' equality teachings and next year's compulsory relationships education.\n\nIt advised schools to consult with parents on their education programme, but added it was \"right\" that schools should reflect parents' views.\n\nThe advice is aimed at \"encouraging parents to talk to their school about concerns, rather than protest at the school gates\", the DfE said, and \"will also help [authorities] to consider options if protests do materialise\".\n\nThe government has previously been called on to give stronger backing to schools which teach about same-sex relationships.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coleen Rooney has claimed that someone using Rebekah Vardy's Instagram account has leaked stories about her to a tabloid newspaper.\n\nThe wife of Wayne Rooney says she spent five months working out who was giving out information from her personal Instagram account.\n\nShe claims she worked out it was Rebekah's account by blocking everyone else's account apart from hers.\n\nRebekah - the wife of Jamie Vardy - has denied the allegation.\n\nBoth Wayne and Jamie have played together for the England football team.\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\nPosting on Twitter, Coleen claimed that someone she trusted to follow her on her personal Instagram account has been leaking stories to the Sun newspaper for several years.\n\n\"After a long time of trying to figure out who it could be, for various reasons, I had a suspicion.\"\n\nIn order to try to prove it, she came up with a plan in which she blocked everyone from viewing her Instagram stories apart from one account.\n\nAfter that, she posted various false stories on to her account to see if they ended up in the newspaper - which she says they did.\n\nThe stories Coleen mentioned were about gender selection in Mexico, being excited to go on Strictly Come Dancing and one about a flooded basement.\n\nWayne Rooney and Jamie Vardy last played together in 2016\n\n\"It's been tough keeping it to myself and not making any comment at all, especially when the stories have been leaked; however, I had to. Now I know for certain which account/individual it's come from.\n\n\"I have saved and screenshotted all the original stories which clearly show just one person has viewed them.\n\nColeen's post on Twitter had more than 12,000 retweets and 42,000 likes within an hour of it being uploaded.\n\nRebekah Vardy has responded to the claims in a message back to Coleen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Rebekah Vardy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe denied it was her and said she wishes Coleen had spoken to her directly about her suspicion as she would have changed the password to her account.\n\n\"Over the years various people have had access to my Insta and just this week I found I was following people I didn't know or have never followed myself,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm not being funny but I don't need the money, what would I gain from selling stories on you?\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm disgusted that I'm even having to deny this. You should've called me the first time it happened.\"\n\nNow, The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme has learned Rebekah has instructed lawyers to do a \"forensic investigation\" on her Instagram account to see who has had access to it and when.\n\nThe Sun newspaper said it did not want to comment on the claim, but it has removed one of the three stories Coleen flagged.\n\nColeen and Rebekah were pictured together at Euro 2016\n\nUnsurprisingly, it wasn't long before the internet reacted.\n\nRebekah Vardy's name has been used almost 50,000 times on Twitter today.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Tom Carnduff This 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 4 by Have I Got News For You\n\nIt wasn't long before Coleen was renamed \"WAGatha Christie\" after Agatha Christie, the writer known for her detective novels.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Phoebe Roberts This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 it seems the drama could be coming to a screen near you...\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\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCutting the numbers of teaching assistants has had a \"heartbreaking\" impact on pupils, a primary school head teacher has said.\n\nThere are almost 1,400 fewer support staff working in Welsh primary schools compared with four years ago.\n\nJane Jenkins, head of Moorland primary in Cardiff, said she had to axe three out of 30 such posts with budget cuts.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was making \"the biggest single investment\" in the school workforce since 1999.\n\nData from the annual school census shows there has been a 7.5% cut to primary school support staff from 18,655 in 2014-15 to 17,261 in 2018-19.\n\nThat includes the loss of more than 1,000 standard teaching assistants (TAs) and 300 special needs support staff, although there was an increase in the number of higher level teaching assistants from 1,128 to 1,435.\n\nHead teacher Jane Jenkins says a \"generation of children has been let down by the system\"\n\nJane Jenkins told BBC Wales Live that losing teaching assistants meant less one-to-one support for pupils for things like speech and language help.\n\n\"This generation of children has been let down by the system,\" she said.\n\n\"It's absolutely heartbreaking to think the interventions and support we were giving in the school 12 months ago, we're no longer able to deliver.\"\n\nThe adult to pupil ratio in her reception class has increased from 1:10 to 1:12, and she fears she will have to make further staff cuts.\n\n\"I'm really concerned about the future, I'm already dreading next year's budget,\" she said.\n\n\"I've been a head since 1997 and I've never known a budget settlement like the one we had this year.\"\n\nRob Williams, from the National Association of Head Teachers Cymru, said recruiting and retaining important staff had become an \"intractable\" problem for schools.\n\n\"We know that schools are having to reduce the number of teaching assistants they have, or the number of hours TAs are contracted to work, because their budgets are at breaking point,\" he said.\n\n\"It is obvious that until we address this combination of factors, and return to a situation where taking a job in a school is an enjoyable, manageable and decently paid career choice, the young people of Wales will always be losing out on their right to a decent education.\"\n\nIn April, independent research found that school funding in Wales had fallen by £500 per pupil over ten years.\n\nAnd an assembly committee concluded there was not enough money going into the education system.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"In July this year we published the Professional Standards for Assisting Teaching to support all teaching assistants with their development and progression.\n\n\"We are also delivering the biggest ever investment of £24m in teachers' professional learning and a proposed additional inset day to give staff more time for training.\n\n\"Teaching assistants, head teachers, regional consortia and other key partners tested and contributed to the standards, which reflect the importance of collaboration for a highly-skilled, well-supported teaching community.\"\n\nBBC Wales Live is on BBC One Wales and the BBC iPlayer on Wednesday from 22:30 BST\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\nFormer Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has issued a plea to EU foreign ministers to avoid a \"catastrophic failure in statecraft\" over Brexit.\n\nHe has urged them in an open letter to reach a compromise with Prime Minister Boris Johnson while they still can.\n\nDelaying Brexit would only increase the chances of a no-deal exit, he warned.\n\n\"If they think this is bad - just wait until what happens after Boris wins an election,\" he told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg in an exclusive interview.\n\nMr Hunt - who lost out to Mr Johnson in July's Conservative leadership contest - has written to the 27 EU foreign ministers, urging them to show greater flexibility in talks with the UK.\n\nIn his interview with Laura Kuenssberg, he said: \"I think we could be about to see a catastrophic failure in statecraft, not because of malevolence by the EU. I think they are sincere in wanting a deal.\n\n\"But just because they haven't really understood what's happening in British politics right now.\n\n\"And there is bureaucratic inertia. If you're trying to get 27 countries to agree a common position the easiest thing is always to do nothing. And that's the risk we face.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nMr Hunt, who backed Remain in the 2016 EU referendum but went on to be a strong supporter of Mrs May's withdrawal agreement, quit the cabinet in July after Mr Johnson attempted to remove him as foreign secretary.\n\nHe told the BBC Mr Johnson had made mistakes in his handling of Brexit, although he declined to say what they were, but stressed they both agreed on the need for a speedy resolution to Brexit.\n\nHe argued that the EU had been guilty of misreading the political situation in the UK in the past - over David Cameron's ill-fated renegotiation attempt in 2015 and Theresa May's withdrawal agreement - and could do so again.\n\n\"My worry is that they're about to make the same profound miscalculation that 'oh we can just hang tight, see if there's an election and if Boris Johnson wins it we can negotiate on the same deal but if he doesn't, so much the better because maybe we'll have a second referendum.'\n\n\"If Boris wins, which is what the polls are saying, at the moment, and he comes back with a majority, that British government will be much less willing to compromise,\" he said.\n\nThis, he argues in his open letter to his former EU colleagues, will make a no-deal Brexit more likely - an outcome they had always agreed it was \"vital\" to avoid.\n\n\"I fear a profound and mutual lack of understanding is leading the EU to make the same mistakes over and over again,\" he writes.\n\nLeo Varadkar is set for further talks with Boris Johnson\n\n\"I am hoping and praying that does not happen because the implications for our future relationship would be extremely grave.\"\n\nMr Johnson has said he remains \"cautiously optimistic\" about a deal, while continuing to insist the UK will leave on 31 October with or without an agreement.\n\nHe is set to meet his Irish counterpart, Leo Varadkar, on Thursday to try and break the deadlock.\n\nMr Varadkar has expressed concern about Mr Johnson's proposal to give the Northern Ireland Assembly a vote over entering into a \"regulatory zone\" with the EU, which would involve it leaving the customs union.\n\nMr Hunt said: \"I'm sure they would love to keep Northern Ireland in the single market and customs union in perpetuity.\n\n\"But in the end, that is not going to work for the UK, I don't think this is just the strong supporters of Boris Johnson who feel this, this would be to divide up a sovereign country, and that wouldn't be acceptable I don't think any other country in Europe either.\"\n\nHe urged Ireland to take a \"statesmanlike approach at this stage\" adding that there was a \"deal to be done which prevents a hard border on the island of Ireland, which allows regulatory alignment, the smooth flow of people and products across that border, which is so important for the Belfast Good Friday Agreement, it's going to need compromise on all sides\".\n\nHe added: \"It's Ireland's call now because I don't think that the EU are going to budge unless they get that signal from Varadkar.\"", "The UK winner now has a fortune eclipsing those of singers Sir Tom Jones, Adele and Ed Sheeran\n\nA UK ticket-holder has won the full £170m Euromillions jackpot, making them Britain's richest ever lottery winner.\n\nNational Lottery operator Camelot said the £170,221,000.00 jackpot was won by a single ticket-holder on Tuesday.\n\nThe ticket-holder is yet to be named and it is unknown if it is a single person, a family or a syndicate.\n\nThe winning numbers picked were 7, 10, 15, 44 and 49, with 3 and 12 selected for the Lucky star numbers.\n\nIf the winner is an individual, their new found fortune would earn them a place on the Sunday Times' Rich List of the 1,000 wealthiest people living in the UK or with British business links.\n\nAccording to the paper's 2019 rankings, the winner's wealth eclipses that of singers Sir Tom Jones, Ed Sheeran and Adele, who are worth £165m, £160m and £150m respectively.\n• None £161mColin and Chris Weir, from North Ayrshire, Scotland in 2011.\n• None £148mAdrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, in 2012.\n• None £114.9mPatrick and Frances Connolly, from NI, in January.\n\nThe lucky ticket-holder has also beaten the previous record set by Colin and Chris Weir who became Britain's richest lottery winners when they claimed £161m in 2011.\n\nAndy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"One incredibly lucky ticket-holder has scooped tonight's enormous £170m Euromillions jackpot.\n\n\"They are now the UK's biggest ever winner. Players all across the country are urged to check their tickets as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe Euromillions jackpot has rolled over 22 consecutive times since July 19, first reaching the maximum prize fund of £170m (€190m) on 24 September.\n\nUnder jackpot cap rules, the top prize can roll over four consecutive times once the cap has been reached, before it must be won in the fifth and final draw, which happened on Tuesday.\n\nIf no one had won the jackpot by matching five numbers plus two Lucky Stars, the entire jackpot would have rolled down to the next highest tier, most likely where five numbers and one Lucky star are matched.\n\nIt is the first time that a jackpot has gone the full five draws at its cap and only the second time that a Must Be Won draw has ever been held; the first was on November 17, 2006.\n\nTickets for Euromillions are sold in nine countries - the UK, France, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Irish Republic, Portugal and Switzerland - with ticket-holders in all those countries trying to win a share of the same jackpot each week.\n\nAde Goodchild won £71m in the Euromillions lottery in March", "Some 2.5 million tonnes of soya beans are shipped to the UK each year\n\nSome of the UK's largest fast-food chains have been selling meat from animals fed on soya beans linked to Brazil's forest fires, campaigners say.\n\nSome £240m of its soya was shipped to the UK in 2018, EU trade figures show.\n\nGreenpeace said it wanted the companies to stop using soya from Brazil in their supply chains until the environment was better protected.\n\nBrazil's environment minister told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme any boycott could make the situation worse.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brazil's highly biodiverse Cerrado is being destroyed for soybean production, conservationists say\n\nSome 2.5 million tonnes of soya is imported into the UK each year, with a large proportion used to feed farm animals.\n\nIn 2018, about a third of these - 761,739 tonnes - came from Brazil, BBC News analysis of the EU figures showed.\n\nAnd just 14% of total soya imports are certified \"deforestation free,\" according to the Sustainable Trade Initiative - one of the lowest rates in the EU.\n\nGreenpeace head of forests Richard George said: \"All of the big fast-food companies use soya in animal feed, none of them know where it comes from and soya is one of the biggest drivers of deforestation worldwide.\"\n\nTraders have agreed not to buy from farms linked to recent deforestation\n\nEnvironmental campaigners claim ongoing fires in both the Amazon and Cerrado regions of Brazil are being lit deliberately to clear land for raising animals and growing crops.\n\nIn 2019, the total number of fires surpassed 144,000, a 50% rise on the same period in 2018 - but far fewer than in 2010.\n\nIn 2006, Greenpeace and other environmental groups negotiated landmark restrictions on new soya cultivation in the Amazon, with huge agricultural traders agreeing not to buy from farms linked to recent deforestation.\n\nBut campaigners say that has pushed much of the problem south to the Cerrado, a vast tropical savanna where the natural habitat is less well protected.\n\nBrazil's National Institute for Space Research recorded 19,925 fires there in September, significantly higher than the number in the Amazon.\n\nIn October 2017, 23 brands, including McDonald's, Tesco and Marks & Spencer, signed the Cerrado Manifesto, which recognised the need to prevent further deforestation.\n\nBut the agricultural trader Cargill, which acts as a middleman between farmers and food companies, has yet to sign up.\n\nIt is the largest importer to the UK, shipping 78% of the soya from Brazil in 2017, according to data from Trase.Earth, a partnership of non-governmental organisations. Although, Cargill told BBC News that figure was \"not accurate and significantly inflated\".\n\nIn July, Cargill told its Brazilian suppliers it would not support a temporary ban on soya grown on newly deforested land in the Cerrado - which has left environmental groups fuming.\n\n\"We remain committed to the soy moratorium in the Amazon but we believe that is not the right solution for the Cerrado,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"Asking companies to exit won't solve the problem - it will simply move it. By pushing farmers to other buyers, the same practices will continue.\"\n\nIt has pledged $30m (£24m) to fund new ideas for ending deforestation.\n\nA new analysis of satellite data by the Rapid Response project, seen by BBC News, suggests Cargill has been buying soya directly from farms in the region of the Cerrado responsible for forest fires. The project is a partnership between three groups, Aidenvironment, MapHubs and Mighty Earth.\n\nOn one farm, it says, 837 hectares (3.2 sq miles) of wooded savannah was cleared between April and June 2019 and fires were detected by the satellite imagery on 23 August.\n\nIt is impossible to say if crop from that specific farm was exported but trade data shows 7,103 tonnes of soya beans were shipped from the same municipality, Formosa Do Rio Preto, to the UK in 2017, the majority by Cargill.\n\nCargill accepts it does buy soya from the farm in question but says the farm met all compliance criteria and was not on the Brazilian government's embargoed list.\n\n\"As soon as we received an inquiry regarding potential non-compliance... we initiated our grievance process and an investigation is currently under way,\" a spokeswoman for the company told BBC News.\n\n\"We will take immediate action if illegal activity is found.\"\n\nEnvironmental groups have been trying to increase the pressure on western retailers.\n\nTesco, Sainsbury and M&S have all pledged to achieve zero deforestation in their supply chains by 2020, although it is accepted that target is almost certain to be missed.\n\nEnvironmental groups say the fast food sector is a particular concern - Burger King and KFC source some chicken directly from Brazil.\n\nAlong with chains such as McDonald's, Nando's, Pret a Manger and Five Guys they also sell British meat reared, at least in part, on soya shipped from the regions.\n\nThe proportion of animal feed made up of soya can vary dramatically between suppliers and farms in the UK, with some using a diet of grass and grain instead.\n\nMcDonald's says it is working to determine the level of deforestation risk in specific parts of the Cerrado and assessing whether fires are being lit at an individual farm level.\n\nOther retailers and fast-food outlets, including Waitrose and Nando's, buy financial credits designed to offset the deforestation risk.\n\nMr George said: \"This may sound persuasive but the actual soya they use may still come from farms that are destroying forests.\"\n\nBurger King has been particularly criticised after pledging to end deforestation in its supply chains by 2030, a target criticised as \"embarrassingly weak\".\n\nThe company told BBC News it had written to its meat suppliers to remind them of its policy of not accepting products raised on former rainforest land. It says its beef suppliers in the UK use soya as a minor food additive only.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We are aware that in some of our beef, there are trace amounts of soya in the feed. We are also aware that there is no traceability programme in place anywhere in the world that can currently track all soy beans to a single farm in a single country.\"\n\nSoya based foods like soya milk, tofu and meat replacement products are also made from soya beans, but the companies tend to be smaller in scale and more able to trace their supply chain.\n\nThe Vegan Society said: \"The use of Amazonian soya in vegan food manufacturing is fairly insignificant, given that most brands source from Europe, and up to 91% of deforestation in the rainforest comes directly from animal agriculture. Farmed animals eat far more soya than we would if we ate it directly, therefore wasting resources and harming the environment.\"\n\nThe Brazilian government has faced intense criticism for policies environmentalists believe have encouraged the fires.\n\nBut Environment Minister Ricardo Salles told the Victoria Derbyshire programme pressure to shun Brazilian soya would be counterproductive.\n\n\"We need sustainable economic development... and boycotts or behaviours like this will only make things even worse,\" he said.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.\n• None Amazon fires: How bad have they got?", "Ben Stokes' wife Clare has denied \"nonsense\" allegations the couple had a physical altercation at an awards ceremony on 2 October.\n\nPictures published on Tuesday appeared to show the England player with his hand on her face after the Professional Cricketers' Association Awards.\n\n\"Unbelievable what nonsense these people will make up,\" she said.\n\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board said it was satisfied there was an \"innocent context\" to the images.\n\nAll-rounder Stokes, 28, was named PCA player of the year at the ceremony after helping England win the World Cup for the first time and hitting a remarkable unbeaten 135 to win the third Ashes Test against Australia at Headingley.\n\nPhotographs published on the Guido Fawkes website appeared to show the England player with his hand on his wife's face at the event at the Roundhouse in Camden.\n\nIn response, Clare Stokes posted on Twitter: \"Me and Ben messing about squishing up each other's faces cos that's how we show affection and some pap tries to twist it in to a crazy story!\n\n\"And all before we then have a romantic McDonald's 20 mins later!\"\n\nBen Stokes also later issued a response, saying that the \"way that this has come across is so far removed from what it was\".\n\n\"I have become used to people making stuff up about me, but of all the topics not to mess with domestic abuse has to be at the top of the list,\" he said in a statement to the Mirror.\n\n\"It's an incredibly serious issue for thousands of women - and men - who do suffer domestic abuse. For it to be toyed with for cheap headlines in this way just damages the cause of those who are abused.\n\n\"We have a wonderful relationship and I never tire of saying how lucky I am to be with her. We both had a great night at the PCA Awards, ending with us dining out at McDonald's together.\n\n\"To falsify and spread these kind of allegations so willingly is totally irresponsible.\"\n\nECB chief executive Tom Harrison said: ''We have spoken with both Clare and Ben - as well as others in attendance - who have all clarified the innocent context behind the still photographs taken at last week's PCA Awards.\n\n\"While it is not the case here, we recognise that for the millions who are impacted by domestic violence, this is a very real and serious issue.''", "Ian \"H\" Watkins publicly came out in 2007, a decade after Steps launched\n\nDancing On Ice is to beat Strictly Come Dancing to having UK TV's first same-sex dancing couple.\n\nSteps singer Ian \"H\" Watkins will be teamed up with professional skater Matt Evers in the next series of the ITV show early next year.\n\nWatkins is believed to have asked about being paired with a man, and the ITV producers were \"fully supportive\".\n\nIt comes after speculation that Strictly will allow same-sex couples next year.\n\nIn August, the BBC said it was \"completely open\" to having them, \"should the opportunity arise\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ben Cohen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 about same-sex couples earlier this year, former Strictly judge Len Goodman told The Sun: \"If they do it, there'll be people saying, 'I'm not going to watch it any more, [and] if they don't do it, there'll be people saying, 'Well, you're homophobic.' They can't win.\"\n\nGoodman added that he was an \"old traditionalist\" but added that \"if it's done in a tasteful way, I think it would be OK\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Courtney Act This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWelsh star Watkins, 43, will be joined on Dancing On Ice by celebrities including model Caprice Bourret, Love Island's Maura Higgins and TV presenters Trisha Goddard and Michael Barrymore.\n\nThey will all be judged on their moves by a panel including Jayne Torvill, Christopher Dean and new judge John Barrowman.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ian H Watkins This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhile some may see this as a gimmick, many LGBT people will see this as a necessary step to have their lives reflected on prime-time TV.\n\nFor a long time, heterosexual couples have been shown to be the norm. In adverts, films and television dancing competitions, straight pairings were all people saw. However, times really have changed.\n\nFor a prime-time family show to take this step is big, and it means that families up and down the country will be seeing and discussing same-sex pairings.\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. Dunn family on Raab meeting: \"We feel let down\"\n\nThe family at the centre of a row over diplomatic immunity after their son died in a car crash described a meeting with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab as feeling like a \"publicity stunt\".\n\nHarry Dunn, 19, died in a crash with a Volvo in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nAmerican diplomat's wife Anne Sacoolas, suspected of driving the other vehicle, later left the UK to return to the US.\n\nBoris Johnson has spoken to President Trump who told a press briefing Harry's death was a \"terrible accident\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump says fatal car crash by diplomat's wife was 'accident'\n\nPolice have said CCTV of the crash which killed the teenager shows the Volvo travelling on the wrong side of the road.\n\nSpeaking after his conversation with the prime minister, President Trump said: \"The woman was driving on the wrong side of the road, and that can happen.\n\n\"You know, those are the opposite roads, that happens. I won't say it ever happened to me, but it did.\n\n\"So a young man was killed, the person that was driving the automobile has diplomatic immunity, we're going to speak to her very shortly and see if we can do something where they meet.\n\n\"It was an accident, it was a terrible accident.\"\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was in a crash with a Volvo\n\nAfter meeting the foreign secretary, Harry's mother Charlotte Charles said she felt \"let down\" by both the UK and US governments.\n\nShe said: \"I can't really see the point as to why we were invited to see Dominic Raab. We are no further forward than where we were this time last week.\n\n\"Part of me is feeling like it was just a publicity stunt on the UK Government side to show they are trying to help.\n\n\"But, although he is engaging with us, we have no answers. We are really frustrated that we could spend half an hour or more with him and just come out with nothing.\"\n\nTogether with Harry's father Tim Dunn, she met Mr Raab in the hope he would urge the US to waive Ms Sacoolas' diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn said: \"I felt extremely let down by the Government today, or by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.\n\n\"I'm deeply, deeply disappointed that they think it's okay to kill a young lad on his bike and they can just walk away.\n\n\"I don't think the government or the Commonwealth Office have any clout to do anything.\"\n\nTim Dunn and Charlotte Charles felt there was little point to their meeting with the foreign secretary\n\nNumber 10 said the Prime Minister urged US President Donald Trump to reconsider the decision to allow Ms Sacoolas immunity in order that \"the individual involved can return to the UK, cooperate with police and allow Harry's family to receive justice\".\n\nDowning Street said the \"leaders agreed to work together to find a way forward as soon as possible\" during their conversation on Wednesday evening.\n\nFollowing the meeting with Harry's parents, the foreign secretary said: \"I share the frustration of Harry's mother and father.\n\n\"They have lost their son and the justice process is not being allowed to properly run its course.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Charles urged Ms Sacoolas to do the \"humane thing to do and get on a plane and come back\".\n\nTheir lawyer Radd Seiger said they were in talks to launch a civil case against Ms Sacoolas and they were \"going to Washington soon to help us get that justice for Harry\".\n\nHe also invited the US President to meet the family about the case.\n\n\"If meeting with President Trump would help us get a step closer to seek justice for Harry, to get justice for that boy who died that night needlessly, one of the most wonderful kids in our community, if that's what it takes then I will extend an invitation now to President Trump.\n\n\"Meet us. Let's have a chat. Nobody wants to litigate.\"\n\nMr Johnson had already urged the US to reconsider its decision to allow Ms Sacoolas immunity, while Mr Raab has previously spoken to the US ambassador and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\nNorthamptonshire's chief constable and its police and crime commissioner have also urged the Americans to waive Ms Sacoolas's diplomatic immunity.\n\nAbout 23,000 individuals in the UK have diplomatic immunity, a status reserved for foreign diplomats and their families, as long as they don't have British citizenship.\n\nIt is granted by the 1961 Vienna Convention and means that, in theory, diplomats cannot face court proceedings for any crime or civil case.\n\nThe convention also states that those entitled to immunity are expected to obey the law.\n\nWhere crimes are committed, the Foreign Office can ask a foreign government to waive immunity where they feel it is appropriate.\n\nDiplomatic immunity is by no means restricted to those named on the Diplomatic List from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.\n\nDrivers, cooks and other support staff whose names do not appear, but have been accredited to Britain (\"the receiving state\") have the same diplomatic status and immunity as those who are listed.\n\nEqually, there are a number of foreign nationals in Britain attached to international organizations who have the same status and protection.\n\nHarry Dunn died after his Kawasaki motorcycle was in a crash with a black Volvo XC90 in Croughton, close to an RAF base.\n\nHe was taken to Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford where he died.\n\nChief Constable Nick Adderley said \"based on CCTV evidence\", officers knew that \"a vehicle alighted from the RAF base at Croughton\" and was \"on the wrong side of the road\".\n\nHe said the suspect, Ms Sacoolas, had \"engaged fully\" following the crash and said \"she had no plans to leave the country in the near future\".\n\nHowever, she then left for the United States and has not returned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs will be called to Parliament for a special Saturday sitting in a decisive day for the future of Brexit.\n\nParliament will meet on 19 October after a crunch EU summit - seen as the last chance for the UK and EU to agree a deal ahead of 31 October deadline.\n\nIf a deal is agreed, Boris Johnson will ask MPs to approve it - but if not, a range of options could be presented.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Kuenssberg says these could include leaving without a deal, and halting Brexit altogether.\n\nMPs will have to agree a business motion in the Commons for the sitting to take place.\n\nAssuming they do, the additional day would coincide with an anti-Brexit march run by the People's Vote campaign, which could see thousands of protesters heading to Westminster.\n\nThe House of Commons has only sat on four Saturdays since 1939, including on 2 September that year, due to the outbreak of World War Two.\n\nThe last time there was a Saturday sitting was 3 April 1982, due to the invasion of the Falkland Islands.\n\nThe prime minister has said he is determined the UK will leave the EU on 31 October, despite legislation, known as the Benn Act, which requires him to write to Brussels requesting a further delay if a deal is not signed off by Parliament by 19 October - or unless MPs agree to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nScottish judges said on Wednesday they would not rule on a legal challenge from campaigners seeking to force the PM to send the letter - or to allow an official to send it on his behalf if he refused. They said they would delay the decision until the political debate had \"played out\".\n\nNo 10 has insisted Mr Johnson will comply with the law, but Laura Kuenssberg says there are still conversations going on in Downing Street about writing a second letter, making the case that a delay is unnecessary.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his MPs would \"do everything we can in Parliament, including legislating if necessary, to ensure [Mr Johnson] makes that application\".\n\n\"The idea that the prime minister will defy the law yet again is something that needs to be borne in mind,\" he added, appearing to reference the unlawful suspension of Parliament last month.\n\nBut former Conservative MP Dominic Grieve, who now sits as an independent after rebelling over Brexit, said he was a \"bit mystified\" at the need for a one-off Saturday sitting.\n\n\"I realise we are in the middle of a political crisis, but it is not a political crisis which makes me think we could not be sitting on the day before or on the following Monday,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One. \"The government simply has not explained itself.\"\n\nTalks are ongoing between the UK and EU after Mr Johnson submitted new proposals for a Brexit deal, centred on replacing the Irish backstop - the policy negotiated between Theresa May and the EU to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nHowever, the EU has said there would have to be \"fundamental changes\" to the ideas put forward in order for them to be acceptable.\n\nFor example, Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar told the Dail (Parliament) on Wednesday the UK's proposal to take Northern Ireland out of the EU customs union was a \"grave difficulty\" for his government.\n\nMr Varadkar and Mr Johnson are expected to meet for further talks later this week, but after the two leaders spoke on the phone for 45 minutes on Tuesday night, the Irish PM told broadcaster RTE he believed it would be \"very difficult\" to reach an agreement before the end of the month.\n\nThe UK's chief negotiator, David Frost, will meet European Commission officials later - but sources on both sides told BBC Brussels reporter Adam Fleming that technical talks had effectively reached the limit of what they could achieve.\n\nHowever, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the government had been putting in \"very intense\" work in recent weeks to get a deal, so \"nothing is over\".\n\nWhile getting an agreement was still their preference, they were \"absolutely clear\" that the UK would leave the EU on 31 October \"come what may\", she added.\n\nBrexit Secretary Steve Barclay and the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier will also have a lunch meeting on Thursday to discuss the state of play.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel on Brexit: \"Nothing is over yet\"\n\nAs the clock ticks down towards the summit, the political tension has been rising.\n\nA row broke out on Tuesday after a No 10 source said a call between Mr Johnson and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, had made a deal \"essentially impossible\", claiming she made clear a deal based on his proposals was \"overwhelmingly unlikely\".\n\nMrs Merkel's office said it would not comment on \"private\" conversations.\n\nBut the President of the European Council Donald Tusk sent a public tweet to Mr Johnson, accusing him of playing a \"stupid blame game\" - a criticism echoed by a number of opposition parties in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says he wants a deal \"but not at any cost\"\n\nMeanwhile, the UK has been told it will still be liable to pay into the EU budget until the end of next year, even if it leaves without a deal this month.\n\nThe budget commissioner, Gunther Oettinger, said the UK was fully signed up for the whole of 2020 - the last year's of the bloc's current financial framework.\n\n\"If the British are not prepared to pay, we are sure we will get the money at a later stage but not immediately,\" he said.\n\nThis special sitting will be a huge day.\n\nThat is because it will be the moment when Boris Johnson either returns to chants of \"hail the conquering hero\" - if he manages to get this elusive Brexit deal - or, more likely, returns with no-deal and has to set out his next steps.\n\nAnd we are hearing that No 10 may seek to seize the initiative by putting down a series of motions for MPs to vote on - in other words asking them do they want to leave with no deal, do they want to revoke Article 50, etc.\n\nBut at the same time that Boris Johnson wants to use that moment to try and grasp the initiative, it is clear the rebel alliance of opposition MPs also wants to seize the day.\n\nThey want to ensure Boris Johnson sits down, gets out the Basildon Bond and writes that letter to the European Commission asking for a further delay.\n\nSo both sides are now poised to try and gain control of that Saturday to map out the next steps, assuming - and I think it is a fairly widespread assumption in Westminster now - that there is not going to be a deal.", "Parliament has been suspended ahead of a Queen's Speech - to set out the government's plans - next Monday.\n\nThe ceremony brought to an end to the longest session since the English civil war, at 349 sitting days.\n\nIt comes two weeks after the UK Supreme Court said the government's previous attempt to prorogue Parliament was unlawful.\n\nThere were noisy protests in the House of Commons in September.", "Donald Tusk lost his cool with Boris Johnson on Twitter\n\nThe EU has tried very, very hard throughout this Brexit process to present a cool, calm, united front while political volatility reigns in the UK.\n\n\"They want to come across as the adults in the room,\" one Spanish journalist put it to me.\n\nBut sometimes the EU's distant, business-like veneer noticeably cracks.\n\nThere are a few memorable examples: President Macron describing Brexiteers who promised the UK a better life outside the EU as liars; Luxembourg's prime minister recently pouring out in public the frustrations with the Brexit process felt privately by many in the EU; and now, on Tuesday, the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, responding angrily to Downing Street finger-pointing about the state of Brexit renegotiations by addressing this tweet directly to the prime minister.\n\nMr Tusk's flash of emotion did not go down well in European government circles at this sensitive juncture, as the EU leaders summit and the 31 October Brexit deadline fast approach.\n\nThe EU wants a deal and, if negotiations fail, it wants voters across the EU to believe that Brussels did its best - staying focussed on the facts at the negotiating table, rather than getting involved in cross-Channel mud-slinging.\n\nAnd bang on cue, not long after Mr Tusk's blame game outburst, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator tweeted that \"efforts continue to find an agreement with the UK\".\n\nBut no-one I speak to in the EU is holding his or her breath.\n\n\"We have no idea where the UK government wants to go in the next 20 days,\" (ie before the 31 October Brexit deadline) a diplomat from northern Europe told me.\n\nHe said the EU was still unclear how high getting a Brexit deal featured right now on the prime minister's list of priorities - compared, for example, with winning a general election.\n\nThe EU is unclear on what the prime minister's priorities are\n\nSo is the search for a deal now over in EU eyes?\n\nNot really. The EU says it's still open for talks. It hasn't entirely ruled out the possibility of a deal by the end of this month.\n\nRealistically though the prime minister's proposals on how to replace the Irish backstop in a Brexit deal are hugely problematic for Brussels.\n\nWhile diplomats praise some aspects of Boris Johnson's offer, his insistence that Northern Ireland remains in the UK's customs territory after Brexit leaves the EU with unpalatable choices:\n\nEither a) having customs infrastructure on the island of Ireland, which Dublin says is a no no.\n\nor b) the EU not controlling its customs border which Brussels says would both lead to smuggling and contravene WTO regulations.\n\nOne high-level EU diplomat joked: \"If that customs border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland were left open, as the UK pretty much asks, then I would quit my job and start a smuggling enterprise. Far more lucrative.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut the EU isn't laughing. Or playing politics, insists Brussels. It says its objections to Boris Johnson's customs proposals are practical, not political.\n\nEU technocrats maintain that leaving a post-Brexit customs border open on the island of Ireland would compromise food safety and the safety of children's toys, for example.\n\nThey warn that any accident or contamination would affect the whole single market plus the EU's reputation amongst other trading partners.\n\n\"We won't do that,\" said a diplomat from a country traditionally close to the UK. \"We can't risk that.\"\n\nAnd if the EU did take that risk, then diplomats warn that Dublin would pay the price. Goods entering the single market via Ireland would be regarded with suspicion, they say, and the free movement of goods in the single market would be seriously compromised.\n\nEU sources insist that whatever the Johnson government threatens or however it cajoles, the EU \"can't be bullied\" into accepting the prime minister's proposals as they stand.\n\n\"It would be easier if this discussion were about money,\" a European civil servant told me. \"Then both sides could haggle and reach agreement but there's no compromising over food safety.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What could Brexit mean for sausage rolls?\n\nEU diplomats say they accept the principle of two customs systems (EU and UK) on the island of Ireland but that it has to work.\n\nEU leaders still look to the UK to be more flexible in its demands. Though they hear Boris Johnson when he says Northern Ireland must remain in the UK's customs union to preserve UK unity.\n\nAs always when it comes to the backstop, Ireland has a big role to play here too.\n\nSince the EU won't compromise the single market, EU diplomats say Brussels will take its cue from Dublin as to how many checks/controls it could stomach on the island of Ireland.\n\nThe EU attitude here is: \"What's ok for Dublin, works for the rest of us\".\n\nBut the Johnson government has expressed frustration with the Irish government. Their belief is that Dublin is \"holding out\" on making compromises since they believe a new Brexit extension is around the corner.\n\nAnd that is exactly what the EU thinks.\n\nThough no-one I speak to is starry-eyed about the possibility of having more time to talk.\n\nWhether next week or next month, a deal still needs to be found that's acceptable to both sides - and not just to negotiators but to the European and the UK parliaments.\n\nAnd no-one is sure what that would look like. Which is why the feeling in Brussels is that the chances of no deal have gone up again. Extension or no extension.", "The prime minister's father, Stanley Johnson, wore an Extinction Rebellion badge as he addressed crowds in central London\n\nBoris Johnson's father has told Extinction Rebellion protesters that their work is \"extremely important\" - less than two days after his son labelled them \"uncooperative crusties\".\n\nStanley Johnson said the PM's remarks had been \"made in humour\".\n\nMeanwhile, an extra 500 officers from across England and Wales will be sent to London to help police the climate change protests.\n\nMore than 600 arrests have been made since they began on Monday.\n\nIn April, there were 1,130 arrests during the group's 11 days of demonstrations.\n\nSpeaking at an event held by the group in Trafalgar Square in London on Wednesday, Stanley Johnson - a former Tory MEP - said: \"I'm showing up here because I think what they [Extinction Rebellion] are doing is extremely important.\n\n\"From tiny acorns, big movements spring. We have been moving far too slowly on the climate change issue.\n\n\"I regard it as a tremendous compliment to be called an uncooperative crusty, that was a remark made in humour.\"\n\nAt a book launch on Monday, the prime minister said: \"I am afraid that the security people didn't want me to come along tonight because they said the road was full of uncooperative crusties and protesters of all kinds littering the road.\n\n\"They said there was some risk that I would be egged.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson's comments came as he attended a book launch\n\nHowever, his father insisted the Johnsons were \"totally united\" over the issue of climate change, saying: \"I don't believe there is a single dissenting voice in the family.\n\n\"Don't forget we grew up in the country, we grew up on Exmoor, nature is in our blood.\n\n\"I don't think you need to say 'will he [Boris] listen [to the protests]'. If you listen to what he said on the steps of Downing Street that very first day, he ended with an appeal for movement on the environment and animal welfare, and that is a very, very good sign.\"\n\nFurther demonstrations continued into a third day on Wednesday, when hundreds of mothers joined a so-called \"nurse-in\" in Westminster.\n\nPolice have told protesters to demonstrate at a designated site in London's Trafalgar Square\n\nOrganiser Lorna Greenwood took her 16-week-old son to the event outside the Queen Elizabeth II centre, where Boris Johnson was announced as the Conservative Party leader in July.\n\n\"The reality is that our babies aren't safe because of the climate crisis,\" she told Radio 4's Woman's Hour.\n\n\"Babies have died, are dying and will die and this nurse-in protest is about women taking their babies to the centre of government, to the centre of power and saying these are the youngest lives who will be affected by the climate crisis.\"\n\nShe said most mothers would rather be at home recovering from birth and spending time with their child but \"instead we'll be sitting in a cold street in October pleading for our babies lives in a society that hasn't come to terms with breastfeeding - for a lot of women this is a huge act of courage\".\n\nAnna said she had joined the \"nurse-in\" to help protect her young daughter's future\n\nAnother mother, Anna - who was there with her six-week-old baby - told BBC News that she had taken part because she was \"frightened\" for her children's future.\n\nShe said: \"It really brought it home to me when my older daughter asked me when I was pregnant what's going to happen when she had a baby and I couldn't answer her - I don't know.\n\n\"I want to do everything I can to ensure she has a future.\"\n• None 2025year when the group aims for zero carbon emissions\n\nOn Tuesday, police warned activists intending to continue protesting in central London that they \"must\" go to Trafalgar Square or risk arrest.\n\nThe following day, Extinction Rebellion called on any arrested protesters to refuse bail conditions in an attempt to fill police cells across London.\n\nIn a message to supporters, organisers said: \"By not co-operating we fill police cells for longer which means arrested individuals will be sent further and further afield.\"\n\nIn response, the Met Police has told BBC News it has capacity to hold about 650 people in police cells and that \"contingency plans are in place, should custody suites become full\".\n\nThe Home Office has confirmed that it is reviewing police powers around protests in response to Extinction Rebellion protests.\n\nIt follows a letter from Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick after August's protests.\n\nExtinction Rebellion activists are protesting in cities around the world, including Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and Sydney, and are calling for urgent action on global climate and wildlife emergencies.\n• None What are 'uncooperative crusties' anyway?", "Angela Merkel and Boris Johnson spoke on the phone on Tuesday morning\n\nA No 10 source has said a Brexit deal is \"essentially impossible\" after a call between the PM and Angela Merkel.\n\nBoris Johnson and the German chancellor spoke earlier about the proposals he had put forward to the EU - but the source said she made clear a deal based on them was \"overwhelmingly unlikely\".\n\nMrs Merkel's office said it would not comment on \"private\" conversations.\n\nBut the BBC's Adam Fleming said there was \"scepticism\" within the EU that Mrs Merkel would have used such language.\n\nAnd the EU's top official warned the UK against a \"stupid blame game\".\n\nPresident of the European Council Donald Tusk sent a public tweet to Mr Johnson, telling him \"the future of Europe and the UK\" was at stake.\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\nWith efforts to get a deal by the end of the month on an apparent knife edge, Mr Johnson and his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar have said they hope to meet later in the week.\n\nBut Mr Varadkar told an interviewer on Tuesday evening he thought it would be \"very difficult\" to secure an agreement by next week.\n\nHe said the UK had \"repudiated\" the deal negotiated previously with Theresa May's government and had \"sort of put half of that now back on the table, and are saying that's a concession. And of course it isn't, really\".\n\nAnd following talks in Downing Street, the president of the European Parliament said there had been \"no progress\" and MEPs would not agree to a compromise deal \"at any price\".\n\nDavid Sassoli said the UK's new proposed customs arrangements for Northern Ireland were a \"long way from something to which the Parliament could agree\".\n\nThe president of the European Parliament said the EU faced a no-deal exit or a further delay\n\nAmid frantic diplomatic manoeuvring in European capitals, details of a call earlier on Tuesday between the UK and German leaders have reignited tensions across the continent.\n\nThe No 10 source suggested Mrs Merkel told her counterpart the only way to break the deadlock was for Northern Ireland to stay in the customs union and for it to permanently accept EU single market rules on trade in goods.\n\nThis, the source said, marked a shift in Germany's approach and made a negotiated deal \"essentially impossible\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said the conversation had been \"frank\" but denied the negotiations were all but over.\n\nNorbert Rottgen, an ally of the chancellor who is chair of the Bundestag's Foreign Affairs Committee, said there was \"no new German position\".\n\nHe tweeted that a deal based on the UK's latest proposals had \"been unrealistic from the beginning and yet the EU has been willing to engage\".\n\nThe BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler said it was \"no secret\" Berlin found the UK's proposed new customs solution for Northern Ireland problematic.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 katya adler This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhile Berlin had not given up hope, she said the chances of a no-deal exit were rising again as the nature of the UK's proposals made any compromise very difficult.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUnder Mr Johnson's proposals, which he calls a \"broad landing zone\" for a new deal with the EU:\n\nThe UK's chief negotiator, David Frost, is continuing to meet EU counterparts in Brussels, but the No 10 source said Tuesday morning's phone call had been a \"clarifying moment\", adding: \"Talks in Brussels are close to breaking down.\"\n\nThey said the UK was not willing to move away from the principle of providing a consent mechanism for Northern Ireland, or the plan for leaving the customs union, and if the EU did not accept those principles, \"that will be that\" and the plan moving forward would be an \"obstructive\" strategy towards Brussels.\n\nThey also accused the EU of being \"willing to torpedo the Good Friday agreement\" - the peace process agreed in Northern Ireland in the 1990s - by refusing to accept Mr Johnson's proposals.\n\nHands up if all this stuff about \"spokesman\" and \"sources\" is driving you bonkers? Here's the in-brief explanation of how it works at Westminster.\n\nThe prime minister has an official spokesman. They work for the government, not the political party that is in government. They give two briefings a day to reporters when Parliament is sitting and they are on the record. That is to say we report what is said and we report who said it - although by convention we don't actually name the spokesman.\n\nThere are two reasons for this: they are speaking on behalf of the PM, not themselves. And sometimes a deputy does the briefing instead.\n\nIn addition to the official spokesman, there are other people in Downing Street who will talk to journalists. For some, that is their specific job. For others, it is not.\n\nThese people will always talk to us off the record - so we can quote them, but not name them, or do anything that risks identifying them.\n\nJournalists always prefer on the record quotes, but in politics as in life, people are often more candid in private, and so we can get a greater sense of what is going on in return for respecting the terms on which the information has been given to us.\n\nUpdating MPs on contingency planning for a no-deal exit, minister Michael Gove said there was still \"every chance\" of a deal but the EU must engage with the UK's plans.\n\n\"In setting out these proposals, we've moved - it is now time for the EU to move too,\" he said.\n\nIreland's Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister), Simon Coveney, said a deal was still possible but \"not any at cost\" - and the UK must accept it had \"responsibilities\" on the island of Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK and Irish leaders spoke on the phone for 40 minutes on Tuesday, after which No 10 said both sides \"strongly reiterated\" their desire to reach a deal.\n\nBut Labour's shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer told MPs the government was \"intent on collapsing the talks and engaging in a reckless blame game\".\n\n\"The stark reality is the government put forward proposals that were designed to fail,\" he said, adding that it was \"beneath contempt\" that, according to a Downing Street source reported by the Spectator, the UK could withdraw security co-operation from other EU countries if it were forced to remain beyond 31 October.\n\nThe PM has insisted the UK will leave the EU on that date, with or without a deal.\n\nThat is despite legislation passed by MPs last month, known as the Benn Act, which requires Mr Johnson to write to the EU requesting a further delay if no deal is signed off by Parliament by 19 October - unless MPs agree to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nNo-one really wants to comment directly on this phone call - certainly not Berlin - but talking to EU officials and diplomats in Brussels, there is considerable scepticism.\n\nThat's because the words attributed to Angela Merkel do not reflect the EU's agreed language.\n\nFor one, Mrs Merkel and the EU have repeatedly said they will keep talking to the last second and will not pull the plug before that.\n\nAnd secondly, the No 10 source claims the EU wants to keep Northern Ireland permanently \"trapped\" in the customs union - Brussels insists it doesn't want that at all, it just wants the option for Northern Ireland stay inside temporarily until something else is worked out.\n\nSo as I say, scepticism. It could be a misinterpretation or it could be a deliberate bit of spin, because we're now entering into a blame game about whose fault it is that progress isn't being made.\n\nThe key focus of the new UK plans is to replace the so-called backstop - the policy negotiated by Theresa May and the EU to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland - which has long been a sticking point.\n\nAfter presenting them, government sources hoped the sides might be able to enter an intense 10-day period of talks almost immediately, but a number of senior EU figures, including Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, warned they did not form the basis for deeper negotiations - even if they believed a deal could still be done.\n\nMr Varadkar has warned the Johnson plan could actually undermine that principle by giving one party in Northern Ireland a veto over what happens to the country as a whole.\n\nTuesday 8 October - Last working day in the House of Commons before it is will be prorogued - suspended - ahead of a Queen's Speech to begin a new parliamentary session.\n\nMonday 14 October - The Commons is due to return, and the government will use the Queen's Speech to set out its legislative agenda. The speech will then be debated by MPs throughout the week.\n\nThursday 17 October - Crucial two-day summit of EU leaders begins in Brussels. This is the last such meeting currently scheduled before the Brexit deadline.\n\nSaturday 19 October - Date by which the PM must ask the EU for another delay to Brexit under the Benn Act, if no Brexit deal has been approved by Parliament and they have not agreed to the UK leaving with no-deal.\n\nThursday 31 October - Date by which the UK is due to leave the EU, with or without a withdrawal agreement.", "Turkish warplanes have bombed parts of north-eastern Syria at the start of an offensive which could lead to conflict with Kurdish-led allies of the US.\n\nTurkey says the operation is aimed at creating a \"safe zone\" cleared of Kurdish militias, which it regards as terrorist groups. Turkey also wants to move Syrian refugees from its territory into the area.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nWing Josh Adams scored a hat-trick to guide Wales to the World Cup quarter-finals with a pulsating 29-17 victory over Fiji in Oita.\n\nWales came from 10-0 down and overcame an early Fiji onslaught in a bruising battle in Oita.\n\nThe victory came at a cost with injury concerns for the rest of the tournament over fly-half Dan Biggar and centre Jonathan Davies.\n\nCardiff Blues wing Adams limped off in the final minutes, injured in scoring his third try.\n\nBoth sides had two players yellow-carded in a frenetic encounter in which flamboyant Fiji excelled in broken play.\n\nThere were also 31 missed tackles by Wales and five disallowed tries between both sides to demonstrate the captivating contest witnessed in Japan.\n\nIt was a third victory after previous wins over Georgia and Australia. Wales now top Pool D and are in line to win the group by defeating Uruguay in four days' time.\n\nWales will be without Biggar for that final pool match after he suffered a second head injury in successive games and will be a doubt for a quarter-final, probably in 11 days in Oita.\n\nDavies will also be a doubt for the knockout stages after picking up a knee injury.\n\nAssuming Wales clinch Pool D with victory over Uruguay, Warren Gatland's side will play the Pool C runners up.\n\nThat will be either England or France with the two sides scheduled to meet in a group decider on Saturday.\n\nSpare a thought for the Fijians who experienced a mixed tournament with defeats against Australia and Uruguay and an impressive 45-10 victory over Georgia.\n\nAt times, they were breathtakingly brilliant in attack and brutal in defence, while Wales demonstrated courage and class to seal the victory and cement their place in the knockout stages.\n\nFlanker James Davies and Moriarty were the two changes in the Welsh back-row, coming in for Justin Tipuric and Aaron Wainwright.\n\nDavies joined older brother Jonathan Davies in the same Wales starting side for a second time. They became the third pair of Welsh brothers to play in a World Cup game following Paul and Richard Moriarty in 1987 and Scott and Craig Quinnell in 1999.\n\nBut the family telepathic connection failed to work when James gave away a penalty chasing a kick from his older brother to hand a five-metre attacking scrum.\n\nWing Josua Tuisova scored an incredible try as he powered through Adams and held off the challenge of Biggar and Josh Navidi.\n\nIn a breathless start Wales and Fiji had tries ruled out for infringements before Wales hooker Ken Owens was yellow-carded for a dangerous tackle.\n\nFiji immediately made the extra man tell with full-back Kini Murimurivalu powering over although Ben Volavola missed another conversion.\n\nFiji were reduced to 14 men when lock Tevita Cavubati was guilty of a reckless shoulder into the back of Moriarty at a ruck.\n\nThis incident prompted a rapid response by Wales as Adams leapt to catch a pinpoint Biggar cross kick with the Wales fly-half converting.\n\nAdams was denied a try with a foot in touch before Fiji flanker Semi Kunatani was yellow carded for offside.\n\nAfter a series of scrums on the line and some patient build-up, Adams crossed for his second with Biggar again converting from the touchline.\n\nFiji retaliated and were denied another try when Mata crossed because of a forward pass.\n\nTwo tries disallowed for each side by the TMO and three men yellow-carded. Quite the frantic first 40 minutes.\n\nWales' defence had briefly tightened up in the second quarter but Fiji tested the rearguard resilience again at the start of the second-half with Radradra outstanding.\n\nFiji had a third try disallowed for a forward try before James Davies became the second Welsh player to be yellow carded by Jerome Garces for a ruck offence.\n\nFiji took advantage with a penalty try and regained the lead after Wales collapsed a maul.\n\nWales then saw Liam Williams collide into Dan Biggar with the fly-half sickeningly collapsing onto the turf and Garces stopped the game immediately,\n\nBiggar eventually ran off the field to be replaced by Rhys Patchell after suffering a second head injury in successive games.\n\nPatchell's first major contribution was to slot over a penalty as Wales recovered from a ragged period.\n\nCentre Davies provided a brilliant intervention with a searing break and fend before an outstanding offload provided Adams with his third try.\n\nThe try had consequences with Davies forced off the field and Adams struggling with a leg injury before being replaced after hobbling for a short period.\n\nScrum-half Gareth Davies turned provider when he set up Williams for Wales' fourth crucial try to clinch victory.\n\nBut this victory might come at a cost and it was telling that none of the players celebrated at the final whistle.\n\nWales coach Warren Gatland: \"It was tough. From 10-0 down I would've taken a bonus-point win. We showed some real character to get back into that.\n\n\"They have some incredible individual athletes, we showed some character to fight back, I'm pleased with that performance and result. It was a little bit different to the first two games, hopefully it'll set us up nicely going forward.\"", "Carl Beech was jailed for 18 years after being found guilty of perverting the course of justice, fraud and child sexual offences\n\nThe Metropolitan Police ignored a recommendation to investigate two other accusers for apparently lying to the force alongside Carl Beech during Operation Midland, it has emerged.\n\nThe two complainants - referred to as \"A\" and \"B\" - had \"both deliberately lied\", according to retired High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques in his report into the much-derided Scotland Yard investigation.\n\nThe Henriques report recommended that \"offences of attempting to pervert the course of justice be considered in the cases of A and B\" and it would be appropriate for another police force to carry out such investigations.\n\nThe main accuser in Operation Midland, Carl Beech, was referred to Northumbria Police. He is now serving 18 years in prison for perverting the course of justice.\n\nBeech - who was known as \"Nick\" during the police investigation - made false allegations of sexual abuse and murder about a group of MPs, generals and senior figures in the intelligence services in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nThe investigation prompted searches of the homes of former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor, D-Day veteran and former chief of the defence staff Lord Bramall and former home secretary Leon Brittan's widow, Lady Diana Brittan.\n\nThe two men were first interviewed in September 2015, with the high profile inquiry not closing until the following March.\n\nScotland Yard made an internal decision against investigating the pair despite a senior officer privately saying they were liars.\n\nOne of them - who previously made other false claims to police - admitted researching the falsely accused, and also has convictions for fraud, theft and sexual offences against children.\n\nThe other man, whose brother described him as a \"prolific liar\", has convictions for theft, fraud and violence.\n\nThe Henriques report also said a senior Met officer - then Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Rodhouse - considered the men to be liars.\n\nIt quotes from a private presentation given to Sir Richard in August 2016 by Mr Rodhouse, who oversaw Operation Midland, in which he said: \"I am satisfied that both A and B have told deliberate lies\".\n\nHowever, when Operation Midland closed on 21 March 2016, Scotland Yard issued a statement which said detectives \"have not found evidence to prove that they were knowingly misled by a complainant\".\n\nMr Rodhouse told the media that day there were three complainants and, in June that year, the force answered a Freedom of Information request about the number of accusers interviewed by stating: \"Three relate directly to Operation Midland.\"\n\nFollowing questions from the BBC about whether it had referred the other accusers for investigation, Scotland Yard said: \"Sir Richard recommended the MPS [Metropolitan Police Service] consider whether A and B committed criminal offences.\n\n\"Neither undertook a sustained campaign of damaging lies like Carl Beech did and, on the basis of their individual cases, no investigation was initiated.\"\n\nThe force also said it concluded that \"investigating them was not appropriate or proportionate due to a number of issues including their mental health - consequently the matters were not referred to an external force\".\n\nThe Henriques report recorded the men's \"detailed and lengthy\" allegations \"occupied considerable amounts of police time\" and that \"if their accounts had withstood scrutiny, it is highly likely that charges would have been brought against the suspects\".\n\nSir Richard's review of Operation Midland was published in largely unredacted form last week, three years after a heavily redacted version - which did not disclose the recommendation about complainants A and B - was made available.\n\nHarvey Proctor, who lost his home and job after being falsely accused by Carl Beech, said the evidence suggested the effect of A and B on Operation Midland was to \"extend the investigation into me by five or six months\".\n\nHe added: \"All the information suggests they should be referred to an outside force for seeking to pervert the course of justice.\n\n\"They should be regarded as innocent until a police inquiry and a jury shows otherwise, the reverse of how I was treated.\"", "Turkey has sent a tank convoy to its border with Syria amid expectations it may launch an operation in the area.\n\nThe move follows the controversial announcement by President Donald Trump to withdrawal troops from north-eastern Syria, a decision that was seen as paving the way for the Turkish offensive.\n\nTurkey regards the Kurdish militias, which were key allies in defeating Islamic State (IS) in Syria, as terrorists.", "The DUP's Jim Shannon has broken down in tears during a Commons debate on baby loss as he read out a letter from a bereaved mother.\n\nHe was comforted by another MP, Anna Soubry, who praised him for speaking with \"a big heart\".\n\nMr Shannon said there must be more support for those who suffer from miscarriage.", "Fifteen-year-old Gadi was stabbed on his way home from football practice simply because he wandered into the wrong area.\n\nMore than 20,000 people in England and Wales were injured by knives or sharp instruments last year and survived.\n\nMany, like Gadi from London, struggle to come to terms with what happened. He tells Clive Myrie his story.", "Howard Riddle said he had \"complete confidence\" in a review that found he was \"misled\" by police\n\nA judge who granted search warrants in the Met's discredited VIP paedophile inquiry has agreed with a report that concluded he was \"misled\" by police.\n\nSix warrants were granted by Howard Riddle in 2015 for Operation Midland following false claims by Carl Beech.\n\nMr Riddle said he agreed with a review that found he would never have granted the warrants if he had been given all of the information available.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police Service spent £2.5m investigating claims made by Beech - who was later jailed for his lies - after publicly saying they were \"credible and true\".\n\nIn his review of the investigation, retired High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques said searches of the homes of three public figures \"should not have taken place\".\n\nSir Richard's report - published in largely unredacted form on Friday - found detectives had \"misled\" Mr Riddle and the search warrants were obtained \"unlawfully\".\n\nResponding to the report, Mr Riddle said Sir Richard had identified a number of factors that undermined the case for warrants being issued \"that should have been drawn to my attention, but were not\".\n\nHe added: \"Had they been, the report states, 'it is inconceivable…that any application for a warrant would have been granted'.\n\n\"The conclusion is that the search warrants were obtained unlawfully.\n\n\"I have complete confidence in his report and its conclusions.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met chose not to respond to Mr Riddle's statement but Commissioner Cressida Dick has spoken about the issues raised in the original report.\n\nCarl Beech was jailed for 18 years after being found guilty of perverting the course of justice, fraud and child sexual offences\n\nOperation Midland began when Beech, 51, made false allegations of sexual abuse and murder about a group of MPs, generals and senior figures in the intelligence services during the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nThe investigation closed without any arrests being made, and Beech, who had been known as \"Nick\" for the duration of the police probe, was subsequently jailed for 18 years for his lies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Met's deputy commissioner Sir Stephen House says he is \"deeply sorry for mistakes made\"\n\nA report by the police watchdog - separate to Sir Richard's - previously examined the role of three detectives in applying for search warrants, but did not look into Operation Midland as a whole.\n\nIn July, the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) announced it had cleared the officers, prompting criticism from Sir Richard, who said a criminal investigation should take place.\n\nEx-MP Harvey Proctor - one of those who was wrongly accused - said the police watchdog's report was \"a whitewash\" and \"a pathetic attempt\" to excuse mistakes by police.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has ordered an inspection of how the Met has responded to the recommendations made by Sir Richard and the IOPC.\n\nLast week, Ms Patel wrote to the Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Sir Tom Winsor, asking him to examine the police probe.\n\nIn her letter, she said: \"It is imperative that the public receive assurance that the MPS has learned from the mistakes identified in Sir Richard's report and have made - and continue to make - necessary improvements.\"", "Two men have died in a fire at a working men's club in Lancashire.\n\nThe men were rescued from Gordon Working Men's Club on Springfield Street, Morecambe but died a short time later, police said.\n\nTen fire engines, including appliances from Cumbria, two helicopters and three road ambulances, were called after the blaze broke out at 14:45 BST.\n\nAn investigation into the cause of the fire is under way, Lancashire Police said.\n\nFirefighters would remain at the scene overnight, Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nA number of roads have been closed while crews continue to tackle the fire\n\nOne eyewitness, who did not want to be named, said she was in The Cavern pub opposite the club when the fire broke out.\n\n\"Next minute there's smoke coming in through the main window, coming through the door,\" she said.\n\nTwo air ambulances were called to the scene\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jennifer Arcuri: \"I'm not going to put myself in a position where you can weaponise my answer\"\n\nDowning Street has complied with an order to hand over details of Boris Johnson's contacts with Jennifer Arcuri, the London Assembly has said.\n\nBut No 10 has asked the Assembly not to publish the document as it is \"confidential\", an Assembly spokesperson said.\n\nThe PM is facing questions about his friendship with the US businesswoman when he was London mayor.\n\nHe has denied claims of failing to declare a conflict of interest.\n\nMr Johnson had been given until Tuesday to provide details of contacts with Ms Arcuri.\n\nThe Assembly has said that they will comply with Downing Street's request for confidentiality, having previously said that they would publish the response.\n\nSpeaking before the details were released, Len Duvall, chairman of the Assembly's oversight committee, said: \"The allegations are serious, I hope the prime minister is treating them seriously.\"\n\nHe said the assembly's powers to take action against Mr Johnson, if he was found to have breached its code of conduct, were limited because he was no longer mayor of London.\n\nHe held the office between 2008 and 2016.\n\nBut it could still summon the prime minister to appear before the oversight committee to answer further questions about his contacts with Ms Arcuri, along with others connected to the case.\n\nThe committee has asked for the details and a timeline of all contact between Mr Johnson and Ms Arcuri, including private text messages and emails.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times, which first reported the story, Ms Arcuri joined trade missions led by Mr Johnson when he was mayor and received thousands of pounds in public money.\n\nIt is also understood she attended events on two of the trade missions - to New York and Tel Aviv - despite not officially qualifying for them as a delegate.\n\nThe prime minister has denied breaking any rules of conduct and insisted everything was done \"entirely in the proper way\".\n\nMs Arcuri told ITV's Good Morning Britain Mr Johnson was \"a really good friend\" - but denied the then mayor had shown any \"favouritism\" towards her.\n\nThe code governing conduct at London City Hall states that public office holders should not act in any way to gain benefits for families or friends, and should declare private interests to resolve any conflicts.\n\nMr Duvall, a Labour member of the London Assembly, said his committee was attempting to \"make a judgement call on what the relationship was\" before deciding what, if any, action it would take at a meeting next week.\n\nSeparately, the Independent Office for Police Conduct has been asked to consider whether Mr Johnson, who as mayor was responsible for policing in London, should be investigated for misconduct in public office, a criminal offence.\n\nCurrent Mayor Sadiq Khan has asked a senior lawyer to review a 2013 decision by London and Partners, the mayor's promotional agency, to sponsor a conference organised one of Ms Arcuri's companies, for £10,000.\n\nLondon and Partners say they have found no evidence of Mr Johnson's involvement in the decision.\n\nThe Department for Culture, Media and Sport is, meanwhile, \"reviewing\" a £100,000 grant made in February this year to Ms Arcuri's cyber-security business Hacker House.", "Boris Johnson is at odds with Parliament on the issue of leaving the EU without a deal\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said the UK will leave the European Union (EU) on 31 October \"deal or no deal\". But Chancellor Sajid Javid has now conceded that the deadline \"can't be met\".\n\nWhile opposition parties decide in which circumstances they could support Mr Johnson's request for a December general election, the fate of the Brexit deadline currently lies with European leaders.\n\nAs things stand, it is still just about possible for the UK to leave the EU without a deal at the end of the month.\n\nNow that EU ambassadors have agreed that there should be an extension, this route to a no-deal is extremely unlikely.\n\nMr Johnson sent a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk on 19 October, requesting a three-month Brexit delay\n\nBut for an extension to the Halloween deadline to go ahead, leaders of the other 27 EU countries have to agree unanimously. Until the change is formalised, the legal \"exit date\" remains at 31 October.\n\nNow that the EU has agreed to an extension, it could still offer the UK a leaving date other than 31 January. In that instance, MPs would have up to two days in which they could vote to reject the proposal. If they don't vote, the proposal is automatically agreed to.\n\nThe EU may not announce the length of the extension until Tuesday, meaning any vote by MPs could theoretically happen on 31 October itself.\n\nIf the proposal was rejected, the extension would be off and a no-deal Brexit would happen next Thursday.\n\nMPs would be unlikely to reject a proposal, however, for two reasons:\n\nEven with an extension agreed and put in place before the end of the month, a no-deal Brexit is not \"off the table\". Instead, it just pushes the possibility further into the future.\n\nThe UK will need to wait for an answer from the EU\n\nRegardless of the length of the extension, the prime minister would probably still try to push his deal through Parliament.\n\nHowever, if the government is unable to implement his deal (or another) before the new deadline, the UK would leave without a deal.\n\nThis is the most controversial and unlikely scenario.\n\nIf an extension were agreed, a minister would be required to change the deadline in law using something called a statutory instrument (the power to change the law without a vote of MPs).\n\nAnd, theoretically, they could simply refuse to do this.\n\nBut not only would this be unlawful, it could be argued the \"exit date\" would be automatically changed anyway, because international law trumps domestic law.\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016 to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Coram family say low wages make daily life a struggle in Penzance\n\nWorkers living in seaside areas in Great Britain earn on average £1,600 less per year than those living inland, BBC News analysis has found.\n\nThe research also found two-thirds of coastal areas had seen a real terms fall in wages since 2010.\n\nThe All Parliamentary Group for Coastal Communities said the findings showed seaside towns were \"being left behind\".\n\nBut the government said its £200m Coastal Communities Fund was changing lives.\n\nThis week BBC News is profiling what life is like in seaside communities across the country as part of the Coastal Britain project.\n\nThe most deprived places in England are found by the sea, according to government figures.\n\nYoung workers such as Danny (second left), Tamia (second right) and Jack (far right) say low wages in Penzance are a real problem\n\nIn Penzance in Cornwall young workers said they were struggling to find well paid, long-term employment by the coast.\n\n\"I love Penzance but I'm also sick of it,\" said 18-year-old Danny Hammond, who works as a waiter in a local restaurant.\n\n\"I earn £6.30 an hour, which isn't great and people older than me really struggle to pay the rent or the mortgage.\"\n\nTamia Mallam said she could not see many long-term career prospects in Penzance\n\nTamia Mallam, 20, said many people she knew struggled in seasonal jobs connected with the tourism industry.\n\n\"When I worked In St Ives, between May and September there was lots of work because of the summer season, but then you'll be told suddenly that you're going to be unemployed. That is really tough,\" she said.\n\n\"There aren't many prospects for a career around here. It's a choice of working either in a boring retail job or as waitress.\"\n\nTrainee carpenter Jack Slater was more optimistic about his future job prospects.\n\n\"Lots of my friends have moved away from Penzance to look for better paid jobs and that's why I want to get myself a trade,\" the 18-year-old said.\n\n\"I want to stay in Cornwall because it's beautiful and this is my home, and they're always building new homes round here which should mean I'll always have work.\"\n\nThe issue of low pay affects coastal communities across the whole country.\n\nBBC News has analysed income data collected by the Office for National Statistics for 632 parliamentary in England, Scotland and Wales. Comparable data for Northern Ireland is not avaialble. Taking into account full and part time workers the analysis found:\n\nLow wages tended to be prevalent in coastal areas because a higher proportion of people worked in low skilled, low paid seasonal jobs.\n\nA major report published by the House of Lords earlier this year said seaside towns had for too long been reliant on tourism to drive their local economies.\n\nMike Hill MP, chair of the all Parliamentary Group for Coastal Communities, said \"for a long time coastal communities have felt forgotten\".\n\n\"Many of these areas have lost industries like shipbuilding that once provided thousands of well paid jobs,\" he said.\n\n\"There's research that shows that without major changes, by 2030 places like my own constituency of Hartlepool could see lots of young people leave coastal areas, which underlines why we need the right investment to protect the long term future of our coastal towns.\"\n\nAt its party conference in September, Labour promised to build 37 offshore wind farms, which it claimed would generate more than 60,000 new well paid jobs in coastal areas.\n\nPeople who live by the coast are among the lowest paid in the country\n\nThe government said since 2012 its dedicated Coastal Communities Fund had invested more than £200m in seaside areas, while more than a quarter of the 100 towns initially selected to share its £3.6bn Stronger Towns Fund were on the coast.\n\nJake Berry, minister for the Northern Powerhouse and Local Growth, said these initiatives had begun to transform people's lives.\n\n\"For years government has only talked about creating growth in our cities. But we are investing in coastal areas and we've given councils across the country a real terms increase in their budgets for next year,\" he added.\n\nThis article is part of a special series from Penzance, Cornwall. BBC News is exploring the challenges and the opportunities for communities in Coastal Britain.", "Ryan McDade wet himself after he was passed by three buses in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire\n\nA wheelchair user says he was \"forced to wet\" himself when he was left at a bus shelter for an hour.\n\nRyan McDade said he was passed by three Pronto buses in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.\n\nThe 20-year-old said he felt \"dehumanised\" by the drivers and that the experience was \"humiliating\".\n\nBus operator Stagecoach East Midlands wrote to Mr McDade to apologise after reviewing CCTV footage adding \"we do not condone this type of misconduct\".\n\nMr McDade had spent time in Mansfield on Friday and was trying to return to Portland College, a residential specialist college near Ravenshead.\n\nThe musical theatre student, who has cerebral palsy, said: \"We were waiting about an hour and in that time three bus drivers just drove past, one of them even opened the door to the bus and just said 'no'.\n\n\"We were waiting so long that I was forced to wet myself, which is really humiliating.\n\n\"There was a lady sitting next to me, I cannot tell you the embarrassment.\"\n\nMr McDade suffers from curvature of the spine, and therefore cannot use public disabled toilets.\n\nHe said it was the first time he was \"point-blank refused\" entry on a bus, but he said there was space in the wheelchair area of the buses.\n\n\"It was dehumanising, getting on a bus [as a wheelchair user] is a nightmare,\" he said.\n\n\"The bus is my way of having independence, so if somebody were to say 'you can't get on the bus' like they did on Friday, it's like somebody's taking away that independence.\"\n\nStagecoach East Midlands - which operates Pronto buses - said it was \"extremely concerned\" by what happened to Ryan\n\nCeri Smith, policy and campaign manager for disability charity Scope, said: \"It's disgraceful that Ryan had to endure this horrendous experience.\n\n\"Public transport should serve everyone in our society, but disabled people are being let down every day.\"\n\nIn a written response to Mr McDade's complaint, the company said it offered its \"sincere apologies to Ryan\".\n\nIt added: \"Two of our staff have failed to comply with the company's policies in respect of both stopping for passengers and disability awareness.\"\n\nThe drivers will be \"interviewed under the company's formal disciplinary procedure\".\n\nA spokesperson for the operator added: \"We are very disappointed that Ryan was let down on this occasion.\n\n\"We have also spoken directly to Ryan's mother to apologise.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Footage shows a woman being knocked off a platform at Pueyrredon station in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires. Bystanders quickly responded to help.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProtesters demanding another Brexit referendum reacted with jubilation as MPs voted to force a further delay.\n\nSupporters of the \"People's Vote\" converged on Westminster after marching en masse through central London calling for a \"final say\" on a new deal.\n\nAs MPs delivered a blow to the PM's strategy, there were loud cheers among demonstrators in Parliament Square.\n\nOrganisers said up to a million people attended the march, while police said it was \"very busy\".\n\nVideos posted to social media showed the moment the vote for the amendment proposed by former Tory MP Oliver Letwin was announced.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Miriam Mirwitch This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 backed the measure, which withholds approval of Mr Johnson's deal and forces him to seek a delay, by 322 votes to 306.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Members of the public heckled ministers near Parliament buildings\n\nMeanwhile, cabinet ministers Michael Gove and Jacob Rees-Mogg were heckled by protesters as they left Westminster and they both required police escorts.\n\nBusiness Secretary Andrea Leadsom tweeted that she had faced \"frightening\" abuse outside Parliament and was \"grateful\" to the police.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Andrea Leadsom 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\nProtesters travelled from across the UK to attend the march, which started on Park Lane ended in Parliament Square.\n\nAli Lothian, 60, and Mettje Hunneman, 49, travelled from Dundee and Edinburgh respectively overnight to join the protest.\n\nAli told the BBC she felt it was the last chance to show how strongly she felt about having another vote.\n\nMettje Hunneman, left, and Ali Lothian travelled from Dundee and Edinburgh for the march\n\nShe said: \"It's a big commitment - it's a whole weekend. But I regretted not coming last time. This time it was a no-brainer.\"\n\nMettje said the fact Parliament is sitting as well made it \"a momentous day\". \"I would not feel comfortable sitting at home - I've got pals who have got a gig tonight but I just couldn't be there.\"\n\nMillie Bishop-Morris, 17, made the journey from Plymouth with her mum and boyfriend.\n\n\"I think it's important that young people should be angry about this as well,\" she said.\n\nMillie, from Plymouth, has never been on a march before\n\nShe added: \"I just think Brexit has gone completely the wrong way. I want to be optimistic but I'm preparing myself for the worst.\"\n\nOne group of protesters were seen pulling a float depicting top aide Dominic Cummings using Mr Johnson as a puppet.\n\nWith \"Demonic Cummings\" splashed across its forehead, the figure on the float appears to be wearing a Nazi uniform, including an armband which reads Get Brexit Done, and has a Union Jack moustache.\n\nIt was deja vu for many people as they descended on the streets of central London once again to demand a final say on Brexit.\n\nSix months on from the last big rally, there was bright sunshine and blue skies to greet the protesters - which included many returning faces, as well as those marching for the first time.\n\nIn March a carnival vibe accompanied the slow walk from Park Lane to Parliament Square, but university student Ben Stocks said the atmosphere this time was \"more sombre\".\n\nAnother member of the crowd, Simon Gosden, 63, agreed, saying: \"There's more of an air of tension. We know we're getting down to the nitty gritty - it's all or nothing.\"\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell and Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson were among the politicians to address the rally at Parliament Square, alongside celebrities including Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart and TV presenter Sandi Toksvig.\n\nSir Patrick told the crowd they had proven another referendum was not a \"pipe dream\".\n\nHe said: \"You haven't just filled a nice bar in north London, you have taken over an entire city. You haven't just impacted the Brexit debate, you have transformed British politics.\"\n\nWell-known faces also joined in the walk to Parliament Square, including TV chef Rick Stein, who shared a picture from the march.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nAs of Saturday morning, more than £500,000 had been donated to support the protest, with cross-party politicians calling on people to get involved.\n\nPeople's Vote organisers are also asking people to sign a letter to Boris Johnson, EU leaders, MPs, and MEPs, asking them to allow \"the chance to check whether we want to proceed with Brexit\".\n\nIn an email to supporters this morning, Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said the letter \"asks them to honour our shared democratic values, it asks them not to turn away from us now and deny us the chance for a final say.\n\n\"Add your name to the letter now and send a message to the powerful.\"\n\nProtesters gather in Parliament Square at the heart of Westminster", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCoverage: Live commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live and online with text updates on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nAustralia's Michael Hooper says he is prepared for England flankers Tom Curry and Sam Underhill to try usurp him and David Pocock at the breakdown in Saturday's World Cup quarter-final.\n\nCurry and Underhill said on Thursday it would be \"surreal\" to face two players they idolised growing up.\n\n\"It's going to be a good battle,\" said Australia captain Hooper.\n\n\"We've done our work on them. I think they're great players. They are a top-tier international back row.\"\n\nPocock, 31, has announced he will retire from international rugby at the end of his third World Cup campaign, while Hooper, 27, will be playing his 99th Test when he takes on England in Oita.\n\nUnderhill, 23, and Curry, 21, have only 28 caps between them and will be starting together for just the fourth time.\n• None I feel for Ford but it was inevitable - Matt Dawson column\n• None Old mates Jones and Cheika face off again\n\nHowever, Hooper said that his and Pocock's experience is not necessarily an advantage.\n\nHe added: \"It's great to have experience but also being youthful is of benefit. I have been in their shoes before, being wide-eyed, ready to attack things.\n\n\"The ruck is a great part of the game. It's going to be, as always, a huge part of the Test match.\"\n\nFrenchman Jerome Garces, who will referee the match on Saturday, was criticised for being too lenient at the breakdown by some South African pundits in the wake of the Springboks' defeat by New Zealand on the tournament's opening weekend.\n\nHooper, whose side struggled with discipline early in the tournament, is confident the Wallabies can now work with whatever interpretation the Frenchman brings to the contest.\n\n\"I have observed the ruck being refereed a multitude of ways, not any one way in particular. So, it's made it quite tricky there,\" he said.\n\n\"How we start the start the game and definitely adapt to what is going on out there is pretty crucial for us.\"\n\n'We have been able to get out teeth into Australia'\n\nEngland scrum-half Ben Youngs says the cancellation of their final pool-stage match against France because of Typhoon Hagibis had given them the chance to go into more depth in their analysis of the Wallabies.\n\nEddie Jones' side will have had a fortnight out of action when they kick-off in Oita, with their last outing a 39-10 win over a 14-man Argentina on 5 October.\n\n\"We have been able to get our teeth into Australia earlier, look at their footage and the pattern we want to play,\" said Youngs.\n\n\"We feel fresh and ready to go.\"\n\nEngland coach Jones has brought centre Henry Slade into the side as part of a backline reshuffle that saw pool-stage fly-half George Ford dropped to the bench and his preferred Six Nations 10-12-13 combination of Owen Farrell, Manu Tuilagi and Slade restored.\n\nSlade's last international start was in March with his recovery from a knee injury restricting him to replacement appearances against Tonga and Argentina since.\n\nTuilagi believes the trio can rediscover their best form immediately, though.\n\n\"Henry is massive for us,\" he said.\n\n\"He can play, run, kick, he can do it all round, so for him to in our backline adds a massive part to our game.\n\n\"With Faz at 10, we have been together for a while and understand each other well. Hopefully that will come out tomorrow.\"\n• None Best in the family? Youngs jokes with Toomua\n• None Quiz: Can you name England's team from 2015 World Cup?\n\nWhat happens if there's a draw? If scores are tied at full time teams will play 10 minutes of extra time each way If there's still no winner 10 minutes of sudden death will follow where the first team to score wins Finally if the scores are still tied a best-of-five place-kicking competition will take place\n• None England and Australia have met 50 times. England have won 24 of those matches with Australia winning 25, a drawn game in 1997 completes the head-to-head record.\n• None England and Australia have played each other six times in the World Cup, both sides winning three including a triumph each in the final: Australia beat England in 1991 at Twickenham and England exacted revenge in Sydney in 2003.\n• None England have won their last six Tests against Australia, their longest winning run against their rivals. However, their last defeat against them came at the 2015 World Cup.\n• None Catch up with Rugby Union Weekly at the World Cup\n• None England lock Maro Itoje won seven turnovers in the pool stage, the most of any player in the competition, despite playing just two games\n• None Wing Jonny May will win his 50th cap for England - he is sixth on England's try-scoring list with 25 tries, but only two of those have come in World Cup matches (v Wales in 2015 and v Argentina in 2019)\n• None Hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie has scored a try in each of his three World Cup games, only Will Greenwood has scored in more consecutive games at the tournament for England (four in 2003)\n• None Australia's Samu Kerevi beat 20 defenders across three appearances in the pool stage, the most of any centre in the competition and more than England's top two centres combined (Manu Tuilagi nine, Jonathan Joseph eight).", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nChampions Manchester City narrowed the gap on Premier League leaders Liverpool with a comfortable victory over Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.\n\nTwo weeks on from a surprise defeat by Wolves, Pep Guardiola's side made a blistering start to proceedings but had to wait until the 39th minute for the breakthrough to arrive, as Gabriel Jesus met Bernardo Silva's cross with a clever, flicked header.\n\nIt took just 93 seconds for David Silva to double the advantage, the Spaniard allowing Raheem Sterling's delightful chipped pass to drop over his shoulder before volleying past goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey.\n\nHennessey produced quality saves to deny both Bernardo Silva and Jesus twice apiece as City were prevented from running riot, but Christian Benteke's powerful header struck the crossbar as the hosts failed to capitalise.\n\nAs City sought to extend their lead in the second half, the video assistant referee (VAR) upheld referee Anthony Taylor's decision not to award a penalty after Wilfried Zaha and Kevin de Bruyne collided in the Palace penalty area.\n\nGuardiola's side return to second in the table following Leicester City's earlier victory over Burnley, five points behind leaders Liverpool, with Jurgen Klopp's side set to face Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday (16:30 BST).\n\nBeaten 2-0 by Wolves before the international break, Guardiola's side arrived at Selhurst Park having lost two of their previous four league games and desperate not to concede further ground to leaders Liverpool.\n\nRoy Hodgson's in-form Eagles, last beaten at home in the league by City themselves back in April, promised to provide a tricky assignment. It was, ultimately, one they overcame with relative ease.\n\nSetting up without any recognised centre-backs - midfielders Fernandinho and Rodri lining up centrally between wing-backs Joao Cancelo and Benjamin Mendy - the visitors launched wave after wave of attack but were initially frustrated by Hennessey.\n\nJesus was unable to direct Kevin de Bruyne's excellent cross on target within the opening five minutes, while Bernardo Silva's curled effort - bound for the top-corner - was met by Hennessey's fingertips as the visitors peppered his goal with 11 first-half attempts.\n\nStriker Jesus was given the nod ahead of Sergio Aguero, who was involved in a car crash on his way to training on Wednesday, and the Brazilian repaid his manager's faith with a moment of quality to score the crucial opener.\n\nOffering Guardiola much food for thought, Jesus has now scored in each of his last seven starts for City - and 21 times in his last 20 games when starting in all.\n\nWhile Silva's exquisite finish from Sterling's equally delicate pass before half-time suggested the flood gates had opened, City were uncharacteristically unable to add more goals as Jesus and Sterling both passed up glorious second-half opportunities.\n\nThat did not matter. Despite their recent inconsistency, two quick-fire first-half goals were enough to extend their impressive away record to 11 victories from their past 12 in the top flight - and a favour from cross-city rivals United on Sunday would a big help as the champions look to get back on track.\n\nNo joy for Palace despite Hennessey's best efforts\n\nIndicative of the impressive, yet somewhat under-the-radar, start Palace have made to this campaign, Roy Hodgson's side began this match with the potential to leapfrog their opponents in the table and climb into the top four after nine games.\n\nThe hosts were therefore expected to make life rather uncomfortable for Guardiola's stuttering side, but despite Hennessey's superb efforts they were unable to take advantage of the champions' makeshift defence.\n\nThere were unconvincing moments at the back for City, with Wilfried Zaha offering a capable threat on the counter, but their best opportunities did not arrive until the closing stages.\n\nHennessey touched the ball more than any of his team-mates in the opening half an hour, his initial invincibility suggesting his side could add to their tally of three clean sheets in four home matches this term.\n\nIt was, forgivably, two moments of quality that unravelled Hodgson's best laid plans.\n\nThe Eagles, who had won back to back league games, enjoyed a promising final period, however Ederson was equal to what they could offer - most notably keeping out Zaha's powerful strike from close range and tipping Benteke's effort onto the bar - but Palace remain sixth despite the defeat.\n\n'We still have our hat pegged nicely' - what they managers said\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"After the international break, to play here at Selhurst Park and create a lot of chances was good. We played well but didn't score too many - but we didn't concede. We conceded chances at the end but Ederson made two incredible saves. It's three points and we move forward.\n\n\"We enjoyed the second goal - it was nice. But in the Premier League we have to score the third and fourth because it was difficult in the end with the pressure.\n\nCrystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson: \"They were two very good goals, they had had a lot of possession and they had been pushing us back. I am pleased and proud of the way the players did not drop their heads. I take a lot of comfort from that.\n\n\"We are not in a bad place and we are not in a much worse place after today's game. We could have been if we had collapsed. We have still got our hat pegged nicely in place and we have to accept sometimes we will come across a team as good as they were today.\n\nOn goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey's performance: \"He was excellent, absolutely excellent. I was pleased because he's had to wait for his chance because Vicente Guaita has been so good. He has been working hard in the background to show us he's still a good goalkeeper and he showed us that today.\"\n• None Manchester City have won 12 of their 14 away Premier League games in 2019 - at least three more than any other club.\n• None In all competitions, City have won 16 of their last 19 meetings with Crystal Palace, scoring 47 goals.\n• None Gabriel Jesus scored his 50th goal for Manchester City in all competitions.\n• None Jesus has been directly involved in 58 goals in his 64 starts across all competitions for Manchester City.\n• None David Silva has been directly involved in eight goals in his last seven league starts against Crystal Palace.\n• None Raheem Sterling has 13 goals and seven assists in 16 appearances for Manchester City and England combined in 2019-20.\n• None Crystal Palace have lost 10 home league games since the start of last season. Of ever-present Premier League sides in that time, only Burnley and Newcastle have suffered more such defeats on home soil.\n\nManchester City host Atalanta in the Champions League group stages on Tuesday (20:00 BST), before welcoming Aston Villa to Etihad Stadium on Saturday (12:30 BST).\n\nMeanwhile, Crystal Palace travel to face Arsenal on Sunday (16:30 BST).\n• None Offside, Manchester City. João Cancelo tries a through ball, but Gabriel Jesus is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Jordan Ayew (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is too high.\n• None Attempt saved. Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Cheikhou Kouyaté.\n• None Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by João Cancelo.\n• None Attempt blocked. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) hits the left post with a header from the right side of the six yard box. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by David Silva.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Raheem Sterling with a through ball.\n• None Attempt saved. Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Patrick van Aanholt with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Police said Danilo Furtado had shown \"a complete disrespect for others\"\n\nA thief who stole a phone, wallet and jewellery from a man who was suffering a cardiac arrest has been jailed.\n\nDanilo Furtado, 34, admitted stealing from the 73-year-old, who fell ill on the steps near the Metrolink platform at Bury Interchange at about 23:10 BST on 15 August.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said Furtado, of no fixed address, had shown \"a complete disrespect for others\".\n\nHe was jailed for 20 months at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court.\n\nA GMP spokesman said instead of calling for help, Furtado \"chose to steal a number of his personal belongings including his phone, wallet and a gold chain\".\n\nHe said the emergency services were contacted about five minutes later and the man was taken to hospital, but died the next day.\n\nSpeaking after sentencing, Det Con Dave Potter said Furtado had \"preyed on a vulnerable man\", adding: \"I honestly cannot comprehend that someone would stoop to such levels.\"\n\n\"Furtado's actions have shown that he has a complete disrespect for others and I hope this sentencing sends a clear message that this shocking behaviour will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Women's fashion chain Bonmarché has appointed administrators, putting the future of the business in doubt.\n\nThe chain's 318 shops will remain open while a buyer is sought for the chain.\n\nBonmarché chief executive Helen Connolly said she had made the decision with \"deep regret and sadness\", and blamed tough High Street trading conditions, and the Brexit delay.\n\nThe Yorkshire-based chain, which specialises in clothing for the over-50s, employs 2,887 people.\n\n\"We have spent a number of months examining our business model and looking for alternatives. But we have been sadly forced to conclude that under the present terms of business, our model simply does not work,\" she added.\n\nShe added the \"the drawn-out Brexit process\" had damaged sales.\n\n\"Without such a delay, it is feasible to believe that our issues would have been more manageable. Instead, it has only intensified the pressures,\" she said.\n\nMs Connolly said the firm had considered a refinancing or a rescue deal, known as a company voluntary agreement (CVA) with its landlords and lenders.\n\nThis is an insolvency process that allows a business to reach an agreement with its creditors to pay off all or part of its debts and is often used as an opportunity to renegotiate rents.\n\nHowever, she said the firm had concluded that neither option would \"fundamentally change the core challenges facing the business\".\n\n\"We are sadly no longer in a position to demonstrate to our shareholders that the business can continue as a going concern,\" she added.\n\nThe struggling retailer warned earlier this year that trading had deteriorated.\n\nPhilip Day started his career at clothing manufacturers Coats Viyella and Wensum\n\nUK billionaire and Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group owner Philip Day is the majority owner of the chain, with a 95% stake via his Dubai-based investment vehicle Spectre.\n\nSpectre said: \"We are disappointed with the result of our investment in Bonmarche, but our primary thought at this time is with the business' employees and families.\"\n\nAdministrator FRP Advisory said it had been appointed because the business was no longer able to meet its financial obligations.\n\nIt emphasised that trading would continue and no redundancies had been made.\n\n\"There is every sign that we can continue trading while we market Bonmarché for sale and believe that there will be interest to take on the business,\" it said.\n\nBonmarché is the latest retailer to be hit by tough conditions amid growing competition from online retailers and higher operating costs, such as a rising minimum wage and business rates.\n\nIt has led to big names such as Toys R Us going into administration, while others such as Topshop-owner Arcadia, Debenhams and New Look have announced large-scale closures.\n\nDo you run a business? Have you been affected by the issues raised here? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Angela Merkel said the EU did not negotiate the Brexit deal to have it rejected\n\nThe mood among Europe's leaders was triumphant. They had a deal and as they left Brussels, everyone was happy. But will the EU's relief be short-lived?\n\nAcross the capitals of Europe all eyes will now turn to Westminster, for a rare Saturday session of Parliament to decide the fate of the revised Brexit deal.\n\n\"It is now a matter of putting faith in the British parliament to take its decision,\" said Germany's Angela Merkel.\n\nThey have been here before. Theresa May's deal was rejected three times by MPs. Yet more than 90% of the new deal is… Theresa May's deal.\n\nThe challenge of having a porous EU external border in Northern Ireland was the stumbling block that needed solving.\n\nFinally the Eurosceptic Boris Johnson, famous for poking fun at EU bureaucracy, won generous praise from EU leaders at the Brussels summit.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gavin 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\nOne of his fiercest EU critics on Brexit, French President Emmanuel Macron, spoke of Mr Johnson's \"strategic thinking, his willingness to engage and a wish to persevere\". He added that \"he's colourful sometimes\".\n\nSummit chairman Donald Tusk warmly patted Mr Johnson on the shoulder and Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel beamed at him - having only recently mocked him for dodging a press conference.\n\nAfter more than three years of tortuous negotiations the EU believes it now has an innovative solution for the Northern Ireland border.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The Queen will still be the Queen\" - Leo Varadkar\n\nIn one-on-one talks with Irish Taoiseach (PM) Leo Varadkar, before the summit, Boris Johnson accepted that Northern Ireland could keep EU regulatory standards and have a unique customs inspection system.\n\nIt means in effect a customs border in the Irish Sea, with new checks on goods at Northern Ireland's ports and Belfast airport.\n\nGoods destined for the Republic of Ireland - the EU - will come under the EU tariff regime.\n\nThe special arrangement was dictated by both sides' commitment to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. That peace accord demands that there be no \"hard\" land border on the island of Ireland.\n\nBut the Brexit deal would take the UK out of the EU single market and customs union - commonly described as a \"hard\" Brexit.\n\nSo much for the legal technicalities. The big question now is whether Mr Johnson can get the deal through the House of Commons.\n\nA day of high drama is expected, as the vote will be on a knife edge. The government's recent suspension of Parliament - ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court - angered many MPs.\n\nThere was discomfort among EU leaders when asked what they would do if Westminster rejected this deal.\n\nWould they grant another, third, extension to the Brexit negotiations?\n\nMr Varadkar was asked if there was an EU Plan B. His reply: \"Plan B is no deal. Let's hope that doesn't happen.\"\n\nThere was no guarantee of another extension, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Crunching the numbers as MPs prepare for key Brexit vote\n\nThe pressure to meet the 31 October deadline is there in the summit conclusions, calling for the EU to prepare for the deal to \"enter into force on 1 November\".\n\nThe deal allows a transition period until the end of 2020. In contrast, a no-deal scenario would make the UK a \"third country\" overnight, subject to EU tariffs and other barriers immediately.\n\nThe EU's Donald Tusk did not rule out another extension. But President Macron said: \"I don't think that a new delay should be agreed on. I think we need to end the negotiations and move on to talks about future relations.\"\n\nA year is not much time for the EU to negotiate a free trade deal with the UK.\n\nAnd the risk of a no-deal Brexit has not gone away.\n\nBelgium alone could lose 42,000 jobs in the worst-case scenario, according to a Leuven Catholic University study. The port of Zeebrugge does about half of its trade with the UK.\n\nAmid European sadness and frustration over Brexit, there is also some optimism.\n\nMr Varadkar said the EU had shown \"enormous solidarity\" with Ireland, and he called it a union \"in which small states are protected\". And Ulrich Ladurner, Brussels correspondent for Germany's Die Zeit daily, told the BBC: \"Many Europeans feel Brexit has shown the strength of the EU\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Andy Murray reached his first ATP semi-final since 2017 with a hard-fought victory over Marius Copil at the European Open.\n\nThree-time Grand Slam champion Murray came through 6-3 6-7 (7-9) 6-4 in two hours 35 minutes in Antwerp.\n\nThe Scot served for the match at 5-4 in the second set and held match point in the tie-break before Copil fought back.\n\nHowever, the 32-year-old produced the decisive break in the final set to reach the last four.\n\nMurray will face Ugo Humbert on Saturday after the Frenchman beat Argentina's Guido Pella 5-7 6-4 6-4.\n\nIt is the former world number one's first semi-final since the 2017 French Open, when he lost to Stan Wawrinka.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\n\"It was a tough one to get through. Thankfully I managed to get the break right at the end,\" Murray said.\n\n\"I feel OK now. It's more about how you pull up the following day.\"\n\nMurray broke down in tears after beating Romania's Copil in a gruelling match at the Washington Open in 2018.\n\nMurray, continuing his return from hip surgery, moved well, particularly when coming up to the net, but his forehand faltered when he first attempted to serve out the match.\n\nHe led the resulting tie-break 5-3 and had a match point at 7-6, but Copil forced a decider with some strong serving.\n\nIn a tight final set, Murray converted his second break point to take a 5-4 lead, before wrapping up victory with his ninth ace of the match.\n\nAntwerp is likely to be his last tournament of the year, with the possible exception of the Davis Cup, for which Great Britain will announce their squad on Monday.\n\nHe could still leave early if his wife, Kim, goes into early labour with their third child.\n\nEarlier, 18-year-old Jannik Sinner of Italy reached his first ATP semi-final with a 6-4 3-6 6-3 win over American Frances Tiafoe.\n\nSinner, who is likely to break into the world's top 100 following the tournament, will face Switzerland's Wawrinka in the other semi-final.", "The outbreak of Group A streptococcal infection began in Braintree\n\nThe \"most likely cause\" of a bacterial outbreak that has seen 15 people die was district nursing teams, a document obtained by the BBC has revealed.\n\nAt least 33 people in Essex have been infected by the strain of invasive Group A Streptococcus (iGAS) bacterium.\n\nOf 32 cases initially found in the area 29 had previously been visited by Provide nurses, files obtained showed.\n\nMid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) said an investigation into the cause was continuing.\n\nProvide said it had \"robust infection prevention policies\" and that the cause of the infection may never be known.\n\nThe BBC submitted a request under the Freedom of Information Act to Public Health England (PHE) and the CCG, which oversaw health spending in the area, for documents relating to the outbreak.\n\nA PHE briefing note received through the request said: \"The most likely hypothesis as to cause of the outbreak is contact with, and spread via, district nursing services in the area.\"\n\nIt noted 31 of the 32 then-known cases had contact with district nurses in the preceding 14 days - most of those with Provide workers.\n\nHowever, no single nurse had contact with all cases and the most cases an individual had been in contact with was seven.\n\nWhen asked about the link to nurses on 26 June, the day the briefing note was circulated, PHE told the BBC \"we haven't as yet identified a cause\".\n\nThe outbreak was first identified in February in Braintree before spreading to Chelmsford and Maldon.\n\nFurther cases were retrospectively discovered dating back to December 2018.\n\nMid Essex CCG said the risk of healthy people contracting iGAS was \"very low\"\n\nProvide said it had \"an excellent track record\" of infection prevention and had been working with the CCG, PHE and NHS England to understand how the infection spread and prevent it from doing so.\n\nIn a statement it said: \"Firstly, we would like to reiterate our sympathy and condolences to those affected by the outbreak.\n\n\"Identifying the exact cause of the outbreak is particularly complex.\n\n\"Not all cases had contact with our team. The majority of our patients are being treated in their own homes rather than in a contained setting such as a hospital where it is possible to control access and consistently maintain levels of infection control.\n\n\"Therefore, it may never be possible to identify the exact cause of the outbreak due to the number of factors involved.\"\n\nThe company added it was taking part in an independent investigation into the outbreak.\n\nThe CCG said Provide had been rated as \"outstanding\" by the Care Quality Commission in March and said while patients affected were receiving nursing care in the community it was unable to share any learning from the investigation at this time.\n\nIt said: \"To ensure we mitigated the risk of a wider spread of infection, additional enhanced infection prevention control measures were put in place by Provide and continue to be rigorously applied across the area.\"\n\nAfter the discovery of the outbreak nursing stations were deep cleaned and additional infection prevention measures were out in place, the CCG said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As Prime Minister Boris Johnson tries to convince MPs to support his Brexit plan, Jeremy Corbyn tells the Commons he will not give the deal his backing.\n\nRead more: Commons set for knife-edge votes on deal.", "A churchwarden who murdered an author to inherit his estate has been jailed for a minimum of 36 years.\n\nBenjamin Field, 28, duped 69-year-old Peter Farquhar into a fake relationship to get him to change his will.\n\nMr Farquhar died in the Buckinghamshire village of Maids Moreton in October 2015 and Field tried to make his death look like an accident or suicide.\n\nThe Baptist minister's son was found guilty of murder at Oxford Crown Court in August.\n\nHe was also accused of plotting to kill Mr Farquhar's neighbour Ann Moore-Martin, 83, but was found not guilty.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said Field was a \"well-practiced and able liar\", adding: \"I have no doubt that you are a dangerous offender.\"\n\nField admitted duping both Mr Farquhar and Miss Moore-Martin into fake relationships with him as part of a plot to get them to change their wills, but denied any involvement in their deaths.\n\nMiss Moore-Martin died of natural causes in May 2017.\n\nUniversity lecturer Mr Farquhar and Field had undergone a \"betrothal\" ceremony while the trial heard Field and former headmistress Miss Moore-Martin had a sexual relationship.\n\nOxford Crown Court heard Miss Moore-Martin could not believe she had fallen for Field's lies\n\nThe court heard Field carried out a sustained \"gaslighting\" plot aimed at making Mr Farquhar question his sanity.\n\nMr Farquhar's drinks were topped up with bioethanol and poteen, a high strength Irish alcohol, and his food was laced with drugs.\n\nJurors were told Field \"suffocated him\" when he was too weak to resist, and left a half-empty bottle of whisky in Mr Farquhar's room to create the misconception he had drunk himself to death.\n\nMr Farquhar, who taught part-time at the University of Buckingham, had three novels published.\n\nHis third book, A Wide Wide Sea, was dedicated to Field, who delivered the eulogy at his funeral.\n\nBenjamin Field has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 36 years\n\nIn an attempt to get Miss Moore-Martin to change her will, Field would write \"messages from God\" on mirrors around her home.\n\nThe deeply religious retired teacher who never married or had children, later changed her will to leave her home to Field.\n\nA consultant psychiatrist said Field \"knew exactly what he was doing, in a carefully planned and orchestrated way and was in full control of his own decision making\".\n\nIn a statement after the sentencing Mr Farquhar's brother, Ian Farquhar, said: \"Ben Field is a deeply malevolent and thoroughly evil man who callously and greedily seduced his way into my brother's life.\n\n\"His sentence today brings some justice to this horrific event in our family's life. Though of course the wound will always remain\n\nMark Glover, of Thames Valley Police, said Field was \"unlike any other criminal\" he had encountered in his 31-year career.\n\n\"The extent of his planning, deception and cruelty towards his victims is frankly staggering, and I do not believe he has ever shown an ounce of remorse or contrition,\" he said.\n\n\"If he is sorry for anything it is that he got caught.\"\n\nBenjamin Field took photos of the messages he wrote on mirrors in Miss Moore-Martin's home\n\nField, of Wellingborough Road, Olney, Buckinghamshire, previously pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud relating to the fake relationships and defrauding Miss Moore-Martin out of £4,000 for a car and £27,000 for a dialysis machine. He also admitted two counts of burglary.\n\nHe was sentenced to life in prison and ordered to serve a minimum of 36 years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "By the landslide standards of previous Brexit votes, this was a narrow defeat for the government.\n\nAnd they may calculate that they can reel in a few more ex-Tory rebels add a few Labour MPs from Leave seats, and muster a modest majority for Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, in a further vote next week, even without the support of the Northern Ireland DUP.\n\nIn an ill-tempered series of points of order after today's votes, Jacob Rees-Mogg indicated that the government would now seek to hold a further \"meaningful vote\" to win Commons approval for the deal, paving the way for a Withdrawal Agreement Bill to put it into law.\n\nAh, argued a number of opposition MPs, wouldn't that amount to putting the same issue to the vote twice?\n\nRemember that the Speaker prevented the government from staging a third vote on Theresa May's deal, on the principle that it was out of order for ministers to keep asking the same question again and again, until they got the answer they wanted.\n\nThe Speaker, John Bercow, did not give a definitive ruling, saying that he would ponder the matter and take advice.\n\nIf he allows the vote, Labour MPs in pro-Brexit seats will be under massive pressure.\n\nThey would much rather go straight to a Withdrawal Agreement Bill, where they can tinker with the detail to their heart's content - possibly allying with dissident Tories to write a customs union into it.\n\nAnd for the government, putting down a bill without the support of the DUP would be fraught with danger.\n\nAn early indicator will be whether the government can win the programme motion necessary to ensure the Bill gets through in quick time.\n\nMeanwhile, opposition MPs were keen to know whether the PM would follow the terms of the \"Benn Act\" and write to the EU, to request a further extension of UK membership.\n\nHis enigmatic reply that he was not prepared to \"negotiate\" an extension did not, it seems to me, exclude the possibility of sending the required letter.\n\nThere was a very interesting discussion of what might then happen in Lord Pannick's speech to Saturday's sitting of the House of Lords.\n\nThe DUP's Sammy Wilson is disenchanted with the government\n\nHe suggested that a flat refusal to send the required letter should provoke the resignation of the Lord Chancellor and the Attorney General, but that the Benn Act did not preclude the prime minister from saying to EU leaders he didn't want an extension - there was a very thin line, and the result could be \"a very interesting case in the Supreme Court\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Parliamentary programme for next week, including that new \"meaningful vote\" and dicey-looking votes on the Queen's Speech, will have to be rejigged.\n\nWith no government majority, and its DUP allies looking very disenchanted, the chances of an amendment being passed are high - spelling further trouble.\n\nOnce, such a defeat would have automatically triggered the resignation of the government, but in the era of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act it is unclear what the implications would now be.\n\nOne educated guess, from Sir Bernard Jenkin, the senior Conservative who chairs the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, is that the prime minister would be within his rights to demand a formal no-confidence vote in the terms set down in the Fixed-Term Parliament Act - and remain in office unless and until such a vote was passed.\n\nIt's going to be an interesting week.\n\nI promised a blog on what's coming up in Parliament next week, and indeed, it is more than half written; the trouble is, as outlined above, the agenda for next week will have to be reshaped. So I will hold off publishing it until I know more. Apologies.", "New Zealand will meet England in the World Cup semi-finals after condemning Ireland to a seventh quarter-final exit with a 46-14 hammering in Tokyo.\n\nTwo tries from Aaron Smith and one by Beauden Barrett helped the All Blacks to a 22-0 lead at half-time.\n\nThe holders scored further tries through Codie Taylor, Matt Todd, George Bridge and Jordie Barrett.\n\nRobbie Henshaw's score and a penalty try did nothing to recover what was a disastrous display for Ireland.\n\nBilled as the defining final chapter in Joe Schmidt's tenure as head coach, Ireland's World Cup in Japan will go down as another failure with no indication that the team are any closer to the world's elite than they were when they exited at the same stage four years ago.\n\nThis was Ireland's second defeat in the tournament - their 19-12 Pool A loss to hosts Japan having deprived them of a last-eight meeting with South Africa and a possibly easier route to a first semi-final.\n\nMeanwhile, the All Blacks will move into the semi-finals as even stronger favourites to lift a third successive Webb Ellis Cup than they were at the start of the tournament having produced a display that few, if any, sides would be capable of delivering.\n\nThe narrative from the Ireland camp remained consistent throughout the week-long build-up: they had to produce an almost flawless display if they were to even run New Zealand close.\n\nHowever, not for a single minute of Saturday's contest did it look as though Ireland possessed the tools capable of derailing the champions.\n\nIndeed, it was New Zealand who produced what was infinitely closer to perfect rugby, taking their game to a level with which Ireland could not contend.\n\nAfter Richie Mo'unga had kicked his side ahead, Smith navigated the All Blacks deep into Ireland territory before darting through a gap to score.\n\nAlthough still in the first quarter, the signs were looking ominous for Ireland, with New Zealand winning the battle at the breakdown and punching holes in the defence as they stretched their play left, right and back again through the scintillating back three of Barrett, Sevu Reece and Bridge.\n\nIreland needed a spark and had the opportunity to push New Zealand onto their try-line with a kick to the corner, but Johnny Sexton missed his touch and two minutes later the ball was back at the opposite end of the pitch, with Smith diving over again from close range.\n\nThe third try, which killed off any faint Irish hopes of a revival, came from an Ireland move inside the New Zealand half, with Reece's hit on Sexton dislodging the ball, allowing Barrett to kick through and gather beyond the line.\n\nAfter spending much of 2019 clinging onto the form of last year as an indicator of their potential, Ireland's defeat by New Zealand in Tokyo presents a far clearer picture of their place on the world stage than their win over the All Blacks 10 months ago did.\n\nThe manner of the loss leaves little room for an argument that Ireland can be considered among the top sides in the world.\n\nBy the time Taylor dived over on 48 minutes after his side had worked the ball through the phases, it was clear that New Zealand were operating on a level that Ireland were not capable of reaching.\n\nFor all of Ireland's shortcomings, the All Blacks were relentlessly wonderful.\n\nTheir fifth try arrived after the forwards set-up field position for Mo'unga to kick crossfield for Reece to gather and present for Todd to score.\n\nIreland did score eventually, as Henshaw cut back against the grain to put his side on the board 10 minutes from time.\n\nBridge and Jordie Barrett, having been introduced from the bench, benefited from more superb New Zealand ball movement to add further scores either sides of Ireland's penalty try.\n• None New Zealand have won 29 of their 32 meetings with Ireland in Test rugby (D1, L2), including both of their matches at the World Cup (43-19 in 1995).\n• None Ireland have lost all seven of their World Cup quarter-finals, never making it past this round, No side has endured as many losses at this stage.\n• None Two of Ireland's three biggest defeats under Joe Schmidt have now come in World Cup quarter-finals (also 43-20 v Argentina in 2015), while the other came less than two months ago against England (57-15).\n• None New Zealand scored seven or more tries in a World Cup knockout match for the third time in their history (eight v Wales in 1987, nine v France in 2015). No other side has scored more than six tries in a match beyond the pool stage of the tournament.\n• None Matt Todd became the fifth player to score a try and be yellow-carded in a World Cup knockout game - the previous four were all from New Zealand or France (S Betsen, L Picamoles, L McAlister, J Kaino).\n\nFor the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "A state of emergency has been declared in the Chilean capital, Santiago, after protests sparked by increased metro ticket prices turned violent.\n\nProtesters - many of them high school and university students - jumped turnstiles, attacked several underground stations, started fires and blocked traffic, leaving widespread damage across the city and thousands of commuters without transport.\n\nTelevision pictures showed protesters throwing stones, attacking police vehicles and burning at least one bus. Anti-riot police used tear gas and batons against some protesters, who have been demonstrating for days against the increase.\n\nThe unrest exposes divisions in the country, one of Latin America's wealthiest but also one of its most unequal. There have been growing complaints about the cost of living - especially in Santiago, a city of some six million people - and calls for economic reforms.\n\nSpeaking on television, President Sebastián Piñera said the aim of the state of emergency was to \"ensure public order and the safety of public and private property\". The measure allows authorities to restrict people's freedom of movement and their right to assembly.\n\nHe also said the government would \"call for a dialogue... to alleviate the suffering of those affected by the increase in fares\".\n\nEarlier this month, the government increased fares to $1.17 (£0.90) for a journey during peak hours, blaming higher energy costs and a weaker peso.\n\nSpeaking to Radio Agricultural earlier, President Piñera said: \"It's one thing to demonstrate and another to commit the vandalism we have observed. This isn't protest, it's crime.\"\n\nIt was not immediately clear how many people had been detained or injured. Despite the protests, authorities said they would not reverse the fare increase.\n\nThe Chilean government condemned what it described as \"acts of violence and vandalism\" that were \"being carried out by organised groups\", and invoked the State Security Law that imposes harsher sentences for those found guilty of public disorder.\n\nThe protests continued after nightfall, with people clanging pots and blocking traffic.\n\nEnergy company Enel Chile said vandals had set fire to its high-rise corporate headquarters in the centre of Santiago. It said its workers were evacuated and no-one was injured.\n\nAfter Friday's protests, metro authorities said all lines would remain closed for at least two days due to the serious destruction that made it impossible to operate the system safely. The damages were estimated at $700,000, including broken surveillance cameras and other equipment.\n\nSantiago's underground system is considered one of Latin America's most modern, with 140km (86 miles) of track and 136 stations.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson on \"deal that can heal the rift in British politics\"\n\nMPs have been debating the PM's Brexit deal, amid uncertainty about whether the decisive vote on it will go ahead.\n\nThe PM is trying to convince MPs to support the agreement he secured with the EU, in Parliament's first Saturday session in 37 years.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs \"now is the time to get this thing done\", saying any delay beyond 31 October would be \"corrosive\".\n\nMPs are now voting on a proposal that could delay the Brexit deal until all the necessary UK legislation is passed.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow has chosen an amendment that, if passed, would require the PM to write to the EU by the end of the day to ask for a three-month extension to Brexit.\n\nDowning Street has threatened to postpone the vote on the revised deal altogether if MPs vote for a Brexit delay.\n\nIf that happens, ministers are likely to press on by introducing legislation to Parliament needed to ratify the agreement on Monday. A vote on that proposed bill might then be held on Tuesday.\n\nIf the vote on the deal goes ahead, it is expected to be incredibly close, with the PM's former DUP allies, the Lib Dems and the SNP planning to vote against but many Tory Brexiteers who opposed Theresa May's agreement - known as the Spartans - now on board.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party would \"not be duped\" into voting for an agreement which would leave the UK worse off.\n\nHowever, at least nine Labour MPs are expected to support the government while the PM is hoping to be backed by some of the 21 Tory MPs he sacked for opposing him last month.\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly said Brexit will happen by the end of the month with or without a deal.\n\nAs the first weekend sitting since the invasion of the Falklands in 1982 got underway, he defended the terms of of his revised EU withdrawal agreement.\n\nHe urged MPs to come together to begin to \"heal the rifts in British politics\", saying he believed a majority of MPs were committed to delivering the result of the 2016 referendum.\n\nHe suggested any further negotiations would be fruitless and urged opponents of Brexit to \"abandon their delusion\" that another delay would help the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn said the prime minister's Brexit deal was \"a sell-out\"\n\n\"It is my judgement we have reached the best possible solution,\" he said.\n\n\"I must tell the House, in all candour, whatever letters they may seek to force the government to write, it cannot change my judgement that further delay is pointless, expensive and deeply corrosive of public trust.\"\n\nAfter several hours of debate, there will be series of votes, not expected before 14.30 BST.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe first amendment to be voted on is a controversial proposal put down by former Tory Sir Oliver Letwin, who now sits as an independent.\n\nThis would withhold parliamentary support for the deal unless and until legislation implementing the agreement in UK law is passed by MPs.\n\nIf it is passed, it could force the prime minister to seek a further delay to Brexit beyond the 31 October deadline - under the terms of the Benn Act passed last month.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said its \"brutal effect\" would be to deny the PM the opportunity of having the \"conclusive\" vote on his deal he so badly wants.\n\nA No 10 source has said the vote on Mr Johnson's deal will be abandoned if the amendment is passed, saying it will \"render the entire day meaningless\".\n\n\"A vote for Letwin is a vote for delay and the whips will send everyone home,\" they said. \"It would perfectly sum up this broken Parliament.\"\n\nThe ex-Tory Sir Oliver Letwin is at the centre of proceedings in Parliament\n\nSir Oliver told MPs that his amendment was an \"insurance policy\" to stop the UK \"crashing out automatically\" of the EU on 31 October if the necessary legislation is not passed in time.\n\nWhile he would back the Withdrawal Agreement Bill at every stage, he suggested the votes would be \"very close\" and the PM may not be able to keep \"waverers\" on board.\n\nHe said his intervention would ensure the UK sought an extension which could be used to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMinisters have appealed to Sir Oliver to think again while Steve Baker, the chairman of the European Research Group of Tory Brexiteers, has given a commitment that it will not seek to derail the agreement as it is scrutinised by MPs.\n\n\"What I've been saying to Oliver Letwin and others is that we've played a straight bat, we will vote for all of the legislation,\" he told the BBC.\n\nCrucial to Mr Johnson's hopes of success will be the Tories who had the whip withdrawn for supporting a bill to force the PM to seek an extension to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nOne of those, Alistair Burt, said he would not support the Letwin amendment as his intention all along had been to help facilitate a deal and it was time for MPs to have their say on it.\n\n\"I am grateful to the prime minister for having succeeded in that objective and having succeeded in that, I want a vote on that tonight.\"\n\nAnd Labour MP Caroline Flint, who is expected to back the PM's deal, said the amendment was a \"panic measure\" by those who wanted to \"delay and stop\" the UK leaving.\n\nFormer Prime Minister Theresa May - who saw her version of a Brexit deal repeatedly rejected by MPs - urged them to get behind Mr Johnson's agreement, saying: \"If you don't want no-deal, you have to vote for a deal.\"\n\nThe PM's deal, secured at a Brussels summit on Thursday, ditches Mrs May's backstop clause, the measure designed to prevent a return to physical checks on the Irish border.\n\nInstead it will, in effect, draw a new customs border along the Irish Sea.\n\nThe vast majority of Labour MPs will oppose the deal, which Jeremy Corbyn has branded a \"sell-out\" and worse than Theresa May's agreement rejected three times by MPs.\n\nThe government has moved to allay concerns expressed by some Labour MPs by offering them an enhanced role in determining the UK's future relationship with the EU and by announcing workers' rights and environmental standards will be boosted post-Brexit.\n\nIn response to a question from ex-business secretary Greg Clark, Mr Johnson said UK workers would not be short-changed after Brexit and he was prepared to guarantee in law that their rights would not lag behind those on the continent.\n\nBut Mr Corbyn said these were \"empty promises\".\n\n\"This government cannot be trusted and these benches will not be duped,\" he said.\n\nSupporters of another referendum on Brexit have gathered in London\n\nNorthern Ireland's Democratic Unionists have made clear they will not be voting for the deal, saying it would \"drive a coach and horses\" through the power-sharing arrangements enshrined in the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe party's Westminster leader Nigel Dodds said \"weariness\" over the Brexit process \"should not be an excuse for weakness on the union\".\n\n\"There may be special circumstances for Northern Ireland but that can only be with consent of the people - unionists and nationalists together. He must respect that.\"\n\nAnd the SNP's Ian Blackford said it would not support an agreement which would see Scotland \"shafted\" economically.\n\nAs the debate goes on, thousands of people are expected in central London, to call for a so-called People's Vote, asking for a new referendum on the Brexit deal.", "Extinction Rebellion protests continued in central London despite police banning the group's climate change demonstrations in the capital.\n\nActivists blocked Oxford Circus with a wooden pyramid structure and descended on Westminster before moving to Trafalgar Square.\n\nOne man, who was dressed up as Boris Johnson, scaled the scaffolding surrounding Big Ben.\n\nMore than 1,760 arrests have been made in connection with the London protests.\n\nA \"closing ceremony\" to mark the end of nearly two weeks of protests was held in Trafalgar Square.\n\nProtesters moved there from Westminster, where an activist was arrested after climbing the scaffolding around the Elizabeth Tower.\n\nHe unfurled an Extinction Rebellion banner to \"highlight government inaction on the climate and ecological emergency\".\n\nThe man, named by the group as tree surgeon Ben Atkinson, 43, was on the scaffolding for nearly three hours, before police brought him down safely using a lift at about 19:00 BST.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An Extinction Rebellion protester has scaled Big Ben, dressed as Boris Johnson\n\nMr Atkinson had been willing to stay up there until his demand to speak to the prime minister was met, according to a fellow activist.\n\nOutside the gates of Downing Street, protesters sang and held up their hands - which many had painted red to symbolise blood.\n\n\"We will raise our red hands, taking responsibility for our actions - we all have blood on our hands,\" a post on Extinction Rebellion's website reads.\n\nEarlier police used a cherry picker to clear protesters perched on a wooden structure built to block the road at Oxford Circus.\n\nSpecialist teams brought in a JCB to dismantle the structure that protesters had made.\n\nThe Extinction Rebellion London Twitter account said the junction, which was also occupied by the group for several days in April, was targeted because Oxford Street is a centre of fast fashion and is heavily polluted.\n\nIt also said the central London street was a \"hub of luxury goods for the wealthiest\", citing an Oxfam report from 2015 that claimed the richest 10% of people are responsible for half of all carbon emissions.\n\nThe protests come despite a ban on two or more people linked to Extinction Rebellion assembling in London, announced by police on Monday.\n\nThe Met Police lifted the ban following the \"closing ceremony\" at Trafalgar Square, explaining that it was no longer necessary because the stretch of protests, dubbed the Autumn Uprising, had ended.\n\nThe demonstrations had originally been due to finish on Saturday.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged MPs to \"come together\" ahead of a crucial vote on his Brexit deal on Saturday.\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Johnson said he wanted the country to \"move on\" from Brexit.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"Chance to move on\" with Brexit\n\nBoris Johnson has urged MPs to \"come together\" to back the Brexit deal he has secured with the EU, insisting there is \"no better outcome\".\n\nThe prime minister told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg he wanted the country to \"move on\" from Brexit, which he described as \"divisive\".\n\nAnd he said he was hopeful the deal would pass the Commons on Saturday.\n\nThe government's former allies in the DUP and every opposition party plans to vote against it.\n\nThe new deal, agreed by Mr Johnson and the EU on Thursday, is similar to the one agreed by Theresa May last year - but it removes the controversial backstop clause, which critics say could have kept the UK tied indefinitely to EU customs rules.\n\nNorthern Ireland would remain in the UK's customs union under the new agreement, but there would also be customs checks on some goods passing through en route to Ireland and the EU single market.\n\nMr Johnson and his team are trying to persuade enough Labour rebels, former Conservatives and Brexiteer Tory rebels to get it across the line in Parliament.\n\nHe told the BBC's political editor: \"I just kind of invite everybody to imagine what it could be like tomorrow (Saturday) evening, if we have settled this, and we have respected the will of the people, because we will then have a chance to to move on.\n\n\"I hope that people will think well, you know, what's the balance, what do our constituents really want?\n\n\"Do they want us to keep going with this argument, do they want more division and delay? Look, you know, this has been a long exhausting and quite divisive business Brexit.\"\n\nHe repeated his commitment to leave the EU on 31 October, adding: \"There's no better outcome than the one I'm advocating tomorrow.\"\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly said Brexit will happen by the end of the month with or without a deal.\n\nBut MPs passed a law in September, known as the Benn Act, which requires the PM to send a letter to the EU asking for an extension until January 2020 if a deal is not agreed - or if MPs do not back a no-deal Brexit.\n\nFormer Tory Sir Oliver Letwin - who was kicked out of the party for backing the law - has put an amendment down to ensure the extension is asked for even if MPs back the deal in the Commons on Saturday.\n\nHe said the government could still leave without a deal on 31 October if the PM's proposals had not passed every stage in Parliament to become law - so the motion would withhold MPs' approval until that final hurdle is passed.\n\nMeanwhile, responding to the deal, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said taking no deal off the table was a \"net economic positive\".\n\nIt really is extremely tight. It would be foolish to make a guess on which way it will go.\n\nWhat we do know might happen tomorrow is rather than there being a thumbs up or thumbs down vote to the deal, there could be an attempt by some MPs to bring in what they see as an insurance policy.\n\nThis could mean another delay in case this deal falls through in the next couple of weeks.\n\nThat is potentially being put forward as an amendment so MPs will have a chance to vote on it.\n\nWithout going in to all the potential machinations it could mean tomorrow turns, not just into MPs giving an opinion on Boris Johnson's deal, but also wrangling again about a potential delay.\n\nThis could make things more fuzzy, and certainly more frustrating for Downing Street.\n\nIt will be a showdown of sorts.\n\nDowning Street always knew that Parliament would be a very tricky hurdle.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Johnson was also quizzed about the deal he has struck with the EU to resolve the issues over the Irish border.\n\nHe denied breaking a promise to the DUP, saying: \"No I don't accept that at all.\n\n\"I think that what you have is a fantastic deal for all of the UK, and particularly for Northern Ireland because you've got a single customs territory. Northern Ireland leaves the EU with the rest of the UK.\"\n\nThe DUP has accused Mr Johnson of \"selling Northern Ireland short\" by accepting checks on some goods passing through Northern Ireland to get a deal with the EU.\n\nThe party's Brexit spokesman, Sammy Wilson, has described the deal as \"toxic\" and is urging Conservative MPs not to back it.\n\nThe pro-Brexit European Research Group has previously given its full backing to the DUP.\n\nOn Friday evening vice-chairman Mark Francois told the BBC he would be voting for the deal, while another member, Andrew Bridgen, said the \"vast majority\" of the group \"will come to the conclusion that this deal is tolerable\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour plans to vote against the government motion, and in a letter to his own MPs Jeremy Corbyn said it was a \"worse deal\" than the one Theresa May struck with Brussels.\n\nHe said the proposals \"risk triggering a race to the bottom on rights and protections\".\n\n\"This sell-out deal won't bring the country together and should be rejected,\" Mr Corbyn added.\n\nThe party also attacked the deal after one Conservative MP, John Baron, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the UK would be able to leave the EU \"on no-deal terms\" if trade talks failed at the end of the so-called transition period in December 2020.\n\nLabour chairman Ian Lavery said: \"The cat has been let out of the bag... [and] no one should be in any doubt that Johnson's deal is just seen an interim arrangement.\"\n\nHowever, the government appears to have moved to try and win the support of some Labour MPs by promising to boost workers' rights and environmental standards after Brexit.\n\nDowning Street said the pledge followed discussions with Labour MPs and would also include a commitment to giving Parliament a say in the future relationship with the EU.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford has also tabled an amendment, calling for a three-month extension to Brexit to allow for an early general election.\n\nAnd Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage called the deal \"the second worst deal in history\" behind Theresa May's withdrawal agreement.\n\nCommons business will start at 9:30 BST on Saturday - the first weekend sitting since the invasion of the Falklands in 1982.\n\nMr Johnson will make a statement to the House and face questions from MPs, before they move on to a debate about the deal.\n\nThe timing of any votes depends on which amendments are chose by the Speaker of the Commons, John Bercow.", "Indecision is not a trait you'll find in any of the 12 female characters in Bernardine Evaristo's novel Girl, Woman, Other. They're a feisty bunch. Unlike this year's Booker Prize judges who bottled it when it came to their one and only job, which was to pick a single winner.\n\nWe all know arts prizes are a nonsense.\n\nThere's no such thing as a \"best\" anybody when it comes to creative excellence: judgement is subjective and discriminatory. But if you do choose to play the game, then at least have the fortitude to see it through. Don't do what this lot did and give us a shortlist of a shortlist.\n\nI was going to review this year's winner, then I had to pick one of the two finalists. I've gone for Evaristo over Atwood because we know lots about the Canadian and less about the Anglo-Nigerian. You might not agree with my rationale, but at least it's a decision!\n\nMargaret Atwood (The Testaments) and Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other) celebrate their joint Booker Prize success, after the judges \"explicitly flouted the rules\" and gave the award to both of them\n\nThe first thing I will say about Evaristo's 452-page novel is it has - to use a notorious term employed by a previous Booker judge - \"readability\".\n\nThe structure is simple: there are a dozen separate character portraits divided equally into four chapters. Each cluster gives us the lowdown on three (usually) black British woman whose lives are interconnected.\n\nSo, chapter one starts with Amma, a middle-aged, politically engaged lesbian theatre-maker whose latest play is about to be staged at the National Theatre. Next is her daughter Yazz, a precocious undergraduate who hangs with a group of similarly assertive female pals who agree that:\n\n\"…the older generation has RUINED EVERYTHING and her generation is doomed\n\nunless they wrest intellectual control from their elders\n\nsooner rather than later\"\n\nAnd then there's Dominique, Amma's great friend and long-time collaborator, who falls for a controlling radical feminist and moves to America.\n\nThe following three chapters continue the same pattern with occasional stories overlapping to a greater or lesser extent with those earlier in the book. The portraits are well-drawn if a little sketchy. Some characters you want to get to know better, others leave just in time.\n\nThe novel's geometric shape gives it a solid form on which to explore its major themes of identity, race, friendship, loss, love, longing and contemporary Britain. As Roland, Yazz's gay dad, might say in his archly pseudy way, the book is like a cubist painting, examining the same quotidian subjects from a variety of perspectives.\n\nWell, quotidian if you happen to be a black woman living in Britain having to contend with a daily dose of casual racism and prejudice, which is the common dominator that unites the personal vignettes:\n\n\"Amma was shorter, with African hips and thighs\n\nperfect slave girl material one director told her when she walked into an audition for a play about Emancipation\n\nwhereupon she walked right back out again\"\n\nor this, from Bummi's story on migrating to Britain from Nigeria:\n\n\"Bummi complained that people viewed her through what she did (a cleaner) and not what she was (an educated woman)\n\nthey did not know that curled up inside her was a parchment certificate proclaiming her a graduate of the Department of Mathematics, University of Ibadan\n\njust as she did not know that when she strode on to the graduation podium in front of hundreds of people to receive her ribboned scroll, and shake hands with the Chancellor of the University, that her first- class degree from a Third World country would mean nothing in her new country\n\nespecially with her name and nationality attached to it\"\n\nHer characters have plenty to say, most of it worth listening to, some of it enlightening.\n\nFull stops are abandoned in preference for a poetic style of punctuation with line breaks used to control rhythm and beat. If that sounds horribly mannered, blame my shortcomings, not hers, because the technique works a treat with prose flowing and sparkling like the prosecco at Amma's after-party (final chapter).\n\nThe collage of well-composed individual stories the author has constructed into a single, albeit fragmented novel, succeeds in depicting a rich and textured account of life in Britain as seen and experienced by her cast of characters.\n\nIt is very nearly a great book, but not quite.\n\nThe cracks appear about two-thirds through the novel, when it becomes apparent that the sum is never going to be greater than the parts.\n\nThis was the point at which the narrative needed to develop and deepen - to flesh out what has gone before, to draw the reader into the world the characters inhabit.\n\nBut instead of building the story and developing the protagonists and their relationships, we are given yet another batch of brief biographies, all of which are fine in isolation - some excellent, actually - but they are too much in the context of the whole: three more passengers squeezing on to an already packed railway carriage.\n\nThe once effervescent Girl, Woman, Other becomes a bit monotonous, a tad formulaic; a little predictable.\n\nThe lively introductory profiles - the getting-to-know-yous - fail to evolve into complex character studies, the net effect of which is a growing sense of superficiality.\n\nEvaristo does attempt to add drama and three-dimensionality by way of chapter-connecting plot devices, but the set-ups are too obvious and the pay-offs routine.\n\nIt leaves you frustrated - too many delicious starters without a truly satisfying main course. In fact, it is doubly frustrating, because this is a book with so much going for it: compelling characters discussing important subjects with intelligence and verve. It is disappointing to be denied the chance to get to know some of them better.\n\nStill, it is still well worth reading.\n\nIt is a strikingly contemporary novel that has plenty to say (it very occasionally spills over into lecturing), and does so with some of the finest writing I've read in a long time.\n\nGirl, Woman, Other is Bernardine Evaristo's eighth novel. I have not read her previous seven.", "Are they ready to approve our departure from the EU on his terms or not?\n\nThe prime minister was accused of only going through the motions to find a deal.\n\nBut at breakneck speed, he did reach an agreement with the other 27 countries.\n\nYet now he must persuade 319 members on the crowded green benches to walk with him through the lobbies to vote yes.\n\nThat sounds a simple choice, but for MPs it is anything but.\n\nThe compromises in his deal have found ready opponents among rival parties and some of his allies.\n\nThe tribe who seek to stop Brexit happening will not hesitate to block it.\n\nEven some Brexiteers have kept him dangling, still withholding their backing until the last moment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Crunching the numbers as MPs prepare for key Brexit vote\n\nAnd after three years of chicanery, on Saturday another decision will be put before the Commons - one that gives MPs what sounds like an elegant way to give only qualified approval to his deal, which might have brutal political effect.\n\nThe Letwin amendment, which you can read more about here, at best is a mere insurance policy that avoids an accidental departure without a formal agreement.\n\nBut by the author Oliver Letwin's own admission, it blurs today's decision.\n\nAnd at worst, it's seen by government as one more rock cast in the path towards departure, another excuse for reluctant MPs to apply the brakes.\n\nSo today may not be a moment of saying the simple yes or no the prime minister craves.\n\nThe Commons once more will be asked to pick, between this deal, no deal, or another delay.\n\nBut the prime minister will keep, and keep, trying to force a moment of clarity.\n\nBoris Johnson was selected by his party as the man who could drive Brexit to a conclusion.\n\nIn just a few hours time we'll have more of a sense of whether that choice was right.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a 2019 interview Meghan said it was a “struggle” becoming a mother amid intense media scrutiny\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex has admitted it was a \"struggle\" becoming a new mother amid intense media scrutiny.\n\nMeghan Markle married Prince Harry at Windsor Castle in May 2018 and gave birth to their son Archie this year.\n\nSpeaking in an ITV documentary, the duchess referred to her life under the spotlight \"on top of just trying to be a new mom or trying to be a newlywed\".\n\nShe added: \"Not many people have asked if I'm OK. But it's a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes.\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex were both interviewed by Tom Bradby during their tour of southern Africa in September.\n\nAsked how she was coping, Meghan said: \"Look, any woman - especially when they are pregnant - you're really vulnerable and so that was made really challenging, and then when you have a new born - you know?\n\n\"And especially as a woman, it's a lot...\"\n\nThe duchess added: \"And also, thank you for asking, because not many people have asked if I'm OK...\"\n\nWhen asked if it would be fair to say it had \"really been a struggle\", Meghan said: \"Yes.\"\n\nThe duke and duchess visited southern Africa last month with their son Archie\n\nThe documentary Harry & Meghan: An African Journey airs on ITV on Sunday at 21:00 BST.\n\nPrince Harry described the memories surrounding the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997 as \"a wound that festers\".\n\nOn the tour, the prince visited an anti-landmine project championed by his mother in Angola and told ITV it had been \"emotional\" to trace her footsteps.\n\n\"I think being part of this family, in this role, in this job, every single time I see a camera, every single time I hear a click, every single time I see a flash, it takes me straight back, so in that respect it's the worst reminder of her life, as opposed to the best.\"\n\nPrince Harry visited a landmine project championed by his late mother during the trip\n\nAs the tour ended, the duke and duchess both brought legal actions against the press.\n\nMeghan sued the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters.\n\nHarry filed his own proceedings at the High Court against the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in relation to alleged phone-hacking.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Deal takes away the tail risk of a disorderly Brexit'\n\nThe governor of the Bank of England has told the BBC that the new Brexit deal struck by the government is \"welcome\" and a \"net economic positive\".\n\nMark Carney said the deal \"takes away the tail risk of a disorderly Brexit\".\n\nHowever the governor warned that the deal might not boost the economy to the same extent as the deal put forward by Boris Johnson's predecessor, Theresa May.\n\nMr Johnson's deal is due to be voted on by MPs on Saturday.\n\nMr Carney said that the \"different\" future relationship negotiated this week meant it \"remains to be seen\" if overall the deal would be as positive for the economy as the deal put forward by Mr Johnson's predecessor, Theresa May.\n\nWhen pressed about the impact of extra customs checks likely from the more distant relationship with the EU envisaged by the new deal, Mr Carney said its economic outcome would not \"overlap\" the closest version of the previous Theresa May deal, \"and that last bit is diplomacy\".\n\n\"The new economic partnership remains to be negotiated so there's still a wide range of potential relationships that can be struck on the basis of this deal, but short term, it takes away these risks,\" said Mr Carney.\n\n\"Last night in the G20 room it was universally welcomed that this progress had been made because, if I put this into context - the world's global economic outlook - the world is in a precarious position - I'm quoting the IMF - and directionally we'd agree with that characterisation.\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid has been less diplomatic, refusing to recalculate Treasury impact assessments, despite requests from some MPs who want an economic forecast in time for the crucial Commons vote on the deal.\n\nHis decision not to release a new analysis has drawn criticism from those who think MPs should have an updated version of the impact the deal.\n\nCatherine McKinnell MP, interim chair of the Treasury Committee, has written to the chancellor asking him to publish an updated economic analysis ahead of the vote on Saturday.\n\n\"The Treasury Committee asked HM Treasury whether the government has updated its economic analysis of Brexit three months ago, yet we are still awaiting a response,\" she wrote.\n\n\"It appears to be an attempt to avoid scrutiny. If the chancellor does not provide the committee with an update, we can only assume that the existing analysis stands.\"", "From incredible escapes to bribe allegations, smuggling drugs in plastic bananas to spying on his wife and mistresses, here are five astonishing things about El Chapo.\n\nThe Mexican drug kingpin has been found guilty on all 10 counts at his drug trafficking trial at a federal court in New York.", "An investigation into the rigging of Libor, the benchmark interest rate that tracks the cost of borrowing cash, has been unexpectedly closed.\n\nThe decision comes despite evidence that implicates the Bank of England.\n\nIt means no one will now be prosecuted in the UK for so-called \"low-balling\", where banks understate interest rates they pay to borrow cash.\n\nThe Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said its decision followed a detailed review of the evidence.\n\nThirteen traders and money brokers were prosecuted over four years by the SFO in connection with rigging Libor.\n\nSix have been prosecuted by the US Department of Justice (DoJ).\n\nA further 11 traders have been prosecuted for manipulating Euribor, the eurozone equivalent of Libor. The SFO said aspects of its Euribor investigation remain open.\n\nIn a statement, the SFO said: \"Following a thorough investigation and a detailed review of the available evidence, there will be no further charges brought in this case. This decision was taken in line with the test in the Code for Crown Prosecutors.\"\n\nThe code states that the evidence must support a realistic prospect of conviction and must be in the public interest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhat the FTSE 100 index is to share prices, Libor is to interest rates: an index that tracks the cost of borrowing cash. Millions of residential mortgages and commercial loans around the world have interest rates linked to Libor.\n\nEach day banks estimate what interest rate they think they'll have to pay to borrow money and an average is published as the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor).\n\nThe SFO and DoJ prosecuted the traders over requests for Libor estimates to be nudged up or down by one or two hundredths of a percentage point to suit banks' trading positions, which were linked to the Libor average.\n\nHowever more traders have been acquitted than found guilty.\n\nIn the United States, two traders, Matt Connolly and Gavin Black, await sentencing later this month.\n\nConnolly has gone public to protest his conviction. His lawyers told the court it was accepted commercial practice for traders to make requests for high or low Libor estimates to suit the bank's commercial interests, within a range of accurate estimates of the cost of borrowing cash.\n\nRequests for much greater shifts in Libor estimates - up to 50 times the size of the shifts that traders sought - were made by banks' senior managers during the credit crunch of 2007-2009, a practice known as \"low-balling\" for which banks have been fined.\n\nSenior executives were concerned that if banks acknowledged the high interest rates they were paying to obtain scarce funds, it could cause bad publicity and knock their banks' share prices.\n\nDuring the financial crisis of 2007-2009 the Bank of England, concerned about financial stability, intervened in the Libor setting process.\n\nEvidence of low-balling obtained by the BBC includes a secret audio recording from 2008 implicating the Bank of England and sworn testimony given to the US Department of Justice that Barclays was told by the Bank of England to lower its Libor estimates as early as 1 September 2007.\n\nHowever, senior Barclays bankers and Bank of England executives told Parliament in 2012 that they had not known about low-balling until that year, 2012.\n\nWhen the secret audio was broadcast in April 2017, MPs called for an immediate inquiry. The Bank of England has said Libor was unregulated at the time.\n\nDefence lawyers at the Libor trials have questioned why the SFO has charged or prosecuted no one in connection with low-balling.\n\nThe SFO told the court it had an investigation running into low-balling. As recently as May 2019, the SFO re-iterated that stance, telling journalists it was still investigating the practice.\n\nThe SFO said its general counsel, Sara Lawson QC, made the decision to close the Libor investigation because its director, Lisa Osovsky, was recused from the Libor case.\n\nMs Osovsky has a background of roles in enforcement, including as deputy general counsel to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which has investigated Libor rigging.\n• None Can we ever trust bankers again?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNasa astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir have made history by completing the first ever all-female spacewalk.\n\nThey spent seven hours outside the International Space Station (ISS) replacing a failed power control unit.\n\nMs Koch had already carried out four spacewalks but it was the first such mission for Dr Meir, who became the 15th woman to walk in space, Nasa said.\n\nUS President Donald Trump congratulated them in a video call. \"You are very brave, brilliant women,\" he told them as they carried out the spacewalk.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch answer questions about their all-female space walk\n\nMs Koch, an electrical engineer, and Dr Meir, who has a doctorate in marine biology, stepped outside in their Nasa spacesuits at 11:38 GMT (07:38 EDT) on Friday. They made their way to a location called the Port 6 truss structure to replace the battery charge-discharge unit (BCDU).\n\nThey then returned to the airlock with the failed part which will subsequently be loaded on to the next SpaceX Dragon resupply ship for inspection on Earth.\n\nBack on Earth, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris tweeted that the spacewalk was \"more than historic\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNasa had announced in March that Ms Koch would take part in the first all-female \"extra-vehicular activity\" (EVA) with colleague Anne McClain. But the spacewalk was called off because a medium-sized suit wasn't available in the near-term for McClain.\n\nThe Port 6 truss structure is at one end of the ISS\n\nThe first woman to spacewalk was the Russian Svetlana Savitskaya, who went outside the USSR's Salyut 7 space station for three hours, 35 minutes on 25 July 1984.\n\nThe first person in history to spacewalk was Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who died earlier this month aged 85.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Tuesday, Nasa unveiled a prototype for a new spacesuit that might be worn by the next astronauts on the Moon. It said the new Moon suit, known formally as the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), is designed to give the wearer a customised fit whatever their shape or size.\n• None First person to walk in space dies aged 85", "At least 15 people have died and 13 others are missing after a dam collapse at a gold mine in Siberia.\n\nThe dam, on the Seiba river in the region of Krasnoyarsk, burst after heavy rain on Saturday, flooding cabins where workers lived.\n\nRussia's health ministry said 14 miners were taken to hospital, including three with severe injuries.\n\nA criminal investigation has been opened over allegations the dam violated safety regulations.\n\n\"The hydro-technical facility was self-constructed and, I believe, all rules I can and cannot think of were violated,\" Yuri Lapshin, the head of the Krasnoyarsk regional government, was quoted by RIA news agency as saying.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has ordered officials to provide assistance and investigate the reasons behind the accident, his spokesman has said.\n\nSeveral small cabins, where workers are thought to have lived, were swept away by the flood waters, the Interfax news agency reported.\n\nThe mine was in a remote location about 160km (100 miles) south of the city of Krasnoyarsk, itself some 4,000km (2,500 miles) east of Moscow.\n\nDozens of emergency workers have been searching for the missing and have been helping the injured.\n\nPeople are being evacuated from a nearby village of Kuragino because of the raised water levels from the Seiba River and local flooding, Russian media reported.\n\nA local governor said about 80 workers lived in the cabins impacted by the floods", "The European Union (EU) has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay until 31 January 2020, with an option to leave sooner if a deal is approved by Parliament.\n\nDelaying the UK's exit date requires an extension to Article 50, the part of the Lisbon Treaty that sets out what happens when a country decides it wants to leave the EU.\n\nArticle 50 allows an initial two-year period for negotiations on the terms of exiting.\n\nIt was triggered by then Prime Minister Theresa May on 29 March 2017, giving an exit date of 29 March 2019. But this date was extended twice, first to 12 April and then until 31 October, after Mrs May's deal was rejected in successive votes in the House of Commons.\n\nNow it is being extended for a third time - so how does this process work?\n\nThe UK cannot make a decision about extending Article 50 on its own - it has to send a request to the 27 other EU countries.\n\nAll 27 have to agree in order to secure an extension.\n\nOn Saturday 19 October, Mr Johnson sent a letter, as he was compelled to by a law known as the Benn Act. The law stated he must send an extension request should he fail to get a Brexit deal through the House of Commons by the end of 19 October.\n\nMr Johnson also sent a second letter saying he believed that a \"further extension would damage the interests of the UK and our EU partners\".\n\nNevertheless, on 28 October the EU agreed to the extension proposed in his first letter.\n\nThe EU was not obliged to say yes.\n\nOnce it received the UK's delay request, in the form of a letter, the 27 leaders consulted with each other on their decision. It was then made following a meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels.\n\nIf EU leaders had decided to offer a longer extension they would have been likely to have met in person to set conditions of the extension.\n\nIt's worth pointing out that Article 50 can also be revoked - effectively cancelling Brexit.\n\nThe UK can in theory do that without consulting anyone else. That would mean that Brexit would not happen and the UK would remain in the EU on the same terms it has now.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are the only party to say that would they would revoke Article 50 without a referendum if they won a majority in a general election.\n\nThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a revocation should be \"unequivocal and unconditional\", suggesting that the ECJ would take a dim view of any attempt to withdraw an Article 50 notification and then resubmit it again a short time later.", "The latest gambit by the alliance of MPs around Sir Oliver Letwin looks like a real problem for the government whips, as they prepare for Saturday's critical vote on the new-look Brexit deal.\n\nThe amendment would withhold approval of the deal, until the legislation to enact it was safely passed - a move that would automatically trigger the \"Benn Act\" and force the prime minister to request a further postponement of Brexit until 31 January.\n\nSir Oliver's amendment is a cunningly-crafted proposition which, crucially, could be voted for by MPs who want a deal, but don't trust this one, and don't trust the government.\n\nIt rests on the idea that were Parliament to approve the deal for the purposes of the Benn Act now, there might then be a danger that the subsequent legislation to enact it might be, somehow, derailed, resulting in a no-deal exit on 31 October.\n\nWith the Benn Act out of the way, they believe that some manoeuvre, some legislative judo move, by factions inside and outside the government, who favour a \"clean Brexit\" could leave no time for any effective counter… and Britain would be out, with no deal.\n\nThis reflects the sheer level of distrust that has accumulated over several cycles of Brexit angst.\n\nThe government's attempt to prorogue Parliament in September has permanently scarred the soft Brexit/Remain faction; they might be offered some reassurances, but they could well demand a pact signed in blood.\n\nSo never mind the plausibility of the betrayal scenario, look at the support for the amendment.\n\nIt is signed by Sir Oliver, the former Chancellor Philip Hammond, and the former Work and Pensions Secretary David Gauke - the big names of the rebel Conservative group who lost the party whip - and by Nick Boles, one of the apostles of a \"Norway Option\" compromise.\n\nThat suggests the amendment may well have enough (ex) Tory support to pass… unless there's a countervailing Labour rebellion in the government's favour.\n\nThere are certainly a number of Labour MPs (and independents of various stripes) who, like Mr Boles, yearn for a Brexit deal they can back.\n\nA key factor is that they want a deal which keeps the UK in close alignment with the EU - particularly on labour standards, environmental protection and consumer safeguards, and they detect what they believe is a weakening of the government's commitment to those \"level playing field\" commitments.\n\nBrexit Secretary Steve Barclay insisted at this week's Brexit Select Committee meeting that the government was not seeking to turn Britain into a deregulated \"Singapore-on-Thames\", competing with the EU on its very doorstep.\n\nLabour voices, like the influential former minister Pat McFadden question whether, after a journalistic career which produced scores of columns denouncing EU red tape, the PM would really keep those protections in place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Crunching the numbers as MPs prepare for key Brexit vote\n\nThe Letwin amendment would invite the government to put forward a bill to implement their deal - but bills are amendable, and you can bet that everything from a requirement to stay in a customs union to making the whole thing subject to a further referendum would then be proposed.\n\nAnd with a minority government struggling for control of the Commons, ministers could well see a number of unwelcome changes imposed by MPs.\n\nThe government seems to be all but conceding that the Letwin amendment will pass, and is making its dispositions accordingly - announcing plans to hold a \"meaningful vote\" on the Withdrawal Agreement Bill on Tuesday.\n\nThis would corner MPs into a Yes/No vote on their deal, and given there are a fair number of Labour rebels, the government could well win.\n\nCertainly, the vote would put any number of Labour MPs - and MPs for other parties - from Brexit-voting constituencies in a very awkward place.\n\nWatch out for an attempt to attach a second referendum to the deal in some way.\n\nBut the success of that effort would require full-throated support (and whipping of their MPs) from the Labour Party. They are not there yet, and they may never be.\n\nIf the government wins a \"meaningful vote\" on Tuesday, the legislation to underpin the new deal would then go forward - and that would provide further opportunities to attempt amendments.\n\nWinning the next meaningful vote is only the beginning of a new phase of Brexit; it's not even the beginning of the end.", "Chile is one of South America's most stable and prosperous nations. It has been relatively free of the coups and arbitrary governments that have blighted the continent.\n\nThe exception was the 17-year rule of General Augusto Pinochet, whose 1973 coup was one of the bloodiest in 20th-Century Latin America and whose dictatorship left more than 3,000 people dead and missing.\n\nChile's unusual, ribbon-like shape - 4,300km long and on average 175km wide - has given it a hugely varied climate.\n\nThis ranges from the world's driest desert - the Atacama - in the north, through a Mediterranean climate in the centre, to a snow-prone Alpine climate in the south, with glaciers, fjords and lakes.\n\nLeftist candidate Gabriel Boric won the presidential election in December 2021, defeating his right-wing rival José Antonio Kast to become the country's youngest head of state.\n\nThe former student protest leader has promised curbs on the market economy, after mass protests against inequality and corruption.\n\nChile's national and local terrestrial TV channels operate alongside extensive cable TV networks, which carry many US and international stations.\n\nRadio is an important source of news; there are hundreds of stations, most of them commercial.\n\nTroops fire on the presidential palace during the 1973 coup in which President Allende died\n\n1810 - Junta in Santiago proclaims autonomy for Chile following the overthrow of the king of Spain by Napoleon.\n\n1817 - Spanish defeated by Army of the Andes led by Jose de San Martin and Bernardo O'Higgins at the battles of Chacabuco and Maipu.\n\n1818 - Chile becomes independent with O'Higgins as supreme leader.\n\n1823-30 - O'Higgins forced to resign; civil war between liberal federalists and conservative centralists ends with conservative victory.\n\n1851-61 - President Manuel Montt liberalises constitution and reduces privileges of landowners and church.\n\n1879-84 - Chile increases its territory by one third after it defeats Peru and Bolivia in the War of the Pacific.\n\nLate 19th Century - Pacification of Araucanians paves way for European immigration; large-scale mining of nitrate and copper begins.\n\n1891 - Civil war between president and congress ends in congressional victory, with president reduced to figurehead.\n\n1925 - New constitution increases presidential powers and separates church and state.\n\n1938-46 - Communists, Socialists and Radicals form Popular Front coalition and introduce economic policies based on US New Deal.\n\n1970 - Salvador Allende becomes world's first democratically elected Marxist president and embarks on an extensive programme of nationalisation and radical social reform.\n\n1973 - Chief of Staff General Augusto Pinochet ousts Allende in coup and proceeds to establish a brutal dictatorship.\n\n1988 - Gen Pinochet loses a referendum on whether he should remain in power.\n\n1989-90 - Christian Democrat Patricio Aylwin wins presidential election; Gen Pinochet steps down in 1990 as head of state but remains army head.\n\n1994-95 - Eduardo Frei succeeds Aylwin as president and begins to reduce the military's influence.\n\n1998 - Gen Pinochet retires from the army and is made life senator. He is arrested in the UK at the request of Spain on murder charges.\n\n2000 - UK Home Secretary Jack Straw decides Gen Pinochet is not fit to be extradited. Pinochet returns to Chile.\n\n2000 onwards - Chilean courts strip Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution several times but attempts to make him stand trial for alleged human rights offences fail, with judges usually citing concerns over the general's health.\n\n2005 - Senate approves changes to the Pinochet-era constitution, including one which restores the president's right to dismiss military commanders.\n\n2006 - Michelle Bachelet becomes Chile's first woman president. Chile and China sign a free-trade deal, Beijing's first in South America. Pinochet dies.\n\n2008 - Peru files a lawsuit at the International Court of Justice in a bid to settle a long-standing dispute over maritime territory with Chile.\n\n2010 - Hundreds die as an 8.8 magnitude quake strikes central Chile, the biggest to hit the country in 50 years.\n\n2013 - Bolivia files a lawsuit against Chile at the International Court of Justice in The Hague to reclaim access to the Pacific it lost in the 19th Century War of the Pacific. Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru agree to scrap most tariffs on trade between them.\n\n2020 - Chileans decide to rewrite the Pinochet-era constitution in a referendum.\n\nFormer dictator General Augusto Pinochet was put under house arrest in Britain, where the government later overruled a decision to extradite him to Spain\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour has warned that Boris Johnson's revised Brexit deal would threaten workers' rights and protections in the future. The concerns have been echoed by several union leaders.\n\nBut Boris Johnson has insisted the UK will \"maintain the highest possible standards in social protections and the environment\".\n\nSo, why the sudden focus on workers' rights?\n\nIt's all to do with something called the \"level playing field\" - the idea that countries keep their rules and standards close, to stop one country giving their businesses a competitive advantage - for example by having lower standards and so lower costs.\n\nThe extent to which the UK might diverge from EU regulations in the future and become an economic competitor has been a big issue in the Brexit debate.\n\nThey set minimum standards below which government cannot go. After Brexit, UK governments would no longer have to abide by these minimum levels.\n\nIn the new Brexit deal finalised this week, references to a level playing field were removed from the legally-binding withdrawal agreement.\n\nInstead, they appear in the non-binding political declaration on the future relationship - as an aspiration, but not a legal commitment.\n\nLabour's shadow Brexit secretary, Sir Keir Starmer accused the government of pursuing \"a licence to deregulate\" the economy in the future.\n\nHe warned that - after Brexit - the UK might choose to follow other \"economic models\" (than the EU's) and cited the example of the United States where, he said, the holiday entitlement was 10 days a year and companies \"had far more power than the workforce\".\n\nIn response to concerns, the government said that after Brexit it would report back to parliament whenever the EU changes its rules on workers' rights, on whether the UK plans to take action to mirror them. MPs would be given a chance to vote on this.\n\nBoris Johnson has made it known that he wants a slightly more distant economic relationship with the EU in the future than Theresa May did.\n\nShe talked about the \"broadest and deepest possible\" economic partnership. He wants a more basic free trade agreement, with zero tariffs (taxes on imports) or quotas, which gives the UK more opportunity to go its own way.\n\nToo many level playing field commitments could get in the way of that.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe revised political declaration says that the UK and the EU should \"uphold the common high standards... in the areas of state aid, competition, social and employment standards, environment, climate change, and relevant tax matters\".\n\nBut if words of that kind do not appear in a binding treaty, then this or any future government could opt to change its mind.\n\nThe EU is well aware of that - and some countries are more concerned about the nature of the future relationship in this area than in the precise details of the divorce agreement.\n\n\"With the departure of Great Britain, a potential competitor will of course emerge for us,\" Angela Merkel said on a visit to Paris in the run-up to this summit.\n\n\"That is to say, in addition to China and the United States of America, there will be Great Britain as well.\"\n\nThe UK is a far smaller economy than the US or China. But it is right on the EU's doorstep, intimately connected to European markets, and thus is seen as a potential threat.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nAn FA Cup tie was abandoned after Haringey Borough's manager took his team off the field amid accusations of racism, bottle throwing and spitting.\n\nHome keeper Valery Douglas Pajetat was reportedly spat at and hit by an object thrown from the Yeovil Town end.\n\nDefender Coby Rowe was then \"racially abused\", according to Haringey boss Tom Loizou, who said \"there was no way I could let him continue\".\n\n\"If we get punished and thrown out, I don't care,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nThe match, played at non-league side Haringey's home ground Coles Park Stadium, was in the fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup, with the winner set to progress to the first round proper.\n\n\"It's very distressing,\" said Loizou. \"The abuse a few of my players got was disgusting.\n\n\"Yeovil's players and manager were different class. Their team tried to calm their supporters down, they tried their best and they supported us - they said 'if you're walking off we're walking off with you'.\n\n\"I took the decision to take my team off and I don't want Yeovil Town to get punished for it. If we get thrown out of the FA Cup and they go through, there is no hard feelings there.\n\n\"I have not done it for any other reason than looking into my players' faces and seeing how distraught they were. They are not used to this.\"\n\nThe incident comes four days after England's Euro 2020 qualifier in Bulgaria was halted twice as fans were warned about racist behaviour, including Nazi salutes and monkey chanting.\n\nIn a statement issued on Saturday evening, the Football Association said it was \"deeply concerned about the allegation of discrimination\".\n\nIt added: \"There is no room for discrimination in our game and we are working with the match officials and the relevant authorities, as a matter of urgency, to fully establish the facts and take the appropriate steps.\"\n\nWhat actually happened at Haringey v Yeovil?\n\nVisitors Yeovil, of the National League, were leading 1-0 through a Rhys Murphy penalty when the game was halted in the 64th minute.\n\nThere was a long delay for that spot-kick to be taken, with Haringey goalkeeper Pajetat reportedly initially struck by an object from the stands.\n\nShortly after Murphy scored, play was suspended as the hosts left the field.\n\nAbout 35 minutes later, it was confirmed the match had officially been abandoned, with BT Sport reporting that Pajetat was both racially abused and spat at by visiting fans.\n\nIsthmian League Premier Division side Haringey said on Twitter: \"Sorry for the late update but wanted to make sure we gave correct information. Game has been abandoned following racial abuse. Horrendous afternoon.\n\n\"It must be said that 99.9% of [Yeovil] fans are also disgusted by what's happened as much as we are. One club, one community.\"\n\nIn a statement Yeovil said the club \"will not accept racism or discrimination in any form\" and that they will \"be cooperating with the authorities and our friends at Haringey\".\n\nYeovil Town manager Darren Sarll told BBC Somerset: \"On behalf of Yeovil Town, we fully support Haringey and we stand together.\n\n\"The players and I decided we'd support [Haringey] and make a stand together, and be stronger with togetherness.\n\n\"My head is in an absolute spin. I've gone through a situation I never hoped I'd go through.\n\n\"We, footballers and managers, get a lot of abuse but nobody should feel discriminated against when they come to play football.\n\n\"I'd do anything to win but there are certain levels and lines I'd never go over. There was no way I'd support racial discrimination.\n\n\"I feel we've done the right thing. I'm not going to feel anything other than proud for the way the players conducted themselves.\n\n\"Now the authorities will take care of what they need to take care of.\"\n\nEngland and Aston Villa defender Tyrone Mings, who was racially abused in Bulgaria on Tuesday, praised Haringey's response and said: \"Our country isn't perfect either.\"\n\nThe campaign group Kick It Out said in a statement on social media: \"These reports of alleged racist abuse aimed at goalkeeper Valery Douglas Pajetat yet again means players are continuing to receive discriminatory abuse while doing their job.\n\n\"The Haringey manager and players took swift and decisive action as a result of the abuse, similar to that taken by the England team out in Bulgaria.\n\n\"Kick It Out has informed the FA and will support the club in identifying the offender(s) to ensure appropriate action is taken and strong punishment issued.\n\n\"We would also like to offer our full support to Douglas and all at Haringey Borough FC.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"They will want to vote for it on Saturday\"\n\nBoris Johnson is in a race against time to sell the Brexit deal he has struck with the EU to MPs ahead of a Commons vote on Saturday.\n\nThe prime minister insists he is \"very confident\" of getting the majority he needs to \"get Brexit done\" by his 31 October deadline.\n\nBut the DUP and every opposition party plans to vote against his deal.\n\nThat means he must persuade Labour rebels, ex-Tories and Brexiteers in his own party to get on board.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Johnson said he and and his team were spending the day on the phone to MPs from across the Commons to sell the deal.\n\nThe PM is also holding a cabinet meeting in No 10.\n\nThe DUP's Brexit spokesman, Sammy Wilson, said his party would not only vote Mr Johnson down, but urge Conservative MPs to \"take a stand\" with them, setting the scene for a frantic day of arm-twisting on all sides at Westminster.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sammy Wilson 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\nLabour has also attacked the deal after one Tory MP, John Baron, said the UK would be able to leave the EU \"on no-deal terms\" if trade talks failed come December 2020 - the so-called transition period.\n\nThe party's chairman, Ian Lavery, said: \"The cat has been let out of the bag... [and] no one should be in any doubt that Johnson's deal is just seen an interim arrangement.\"\n\nBut Home Secretary Priti Patel urged colleagues to look at the deal as an opportunity to \"start a new chapter for our country\".\n\nThe prime minister will make a statement to the Commons on Saturday, before another minister opens a debate on the deal.\n\nIf he does not manage to get the numbers needed to win a vote, then he is expected to try again to trigger a general election.\n\nThe law states that the PM must ask the EU for a three month extension to the Brexit deadline if he cannot get a deal through Parliament.\n\nThe text of the letter he must send to Brussels is contained in the so-called Benn Act, passed last month by MPs determined to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson has said the UK will leave on 31 October with or without a deal - but he has also said he will abide by the law.\n\nBut even if MPs vote for his deal on Saturday, he may still have to ask the EU for an extension.\n\nFormer Conservative MP Oliver Letwin has tabled an amendment that would ensure the deadline is extended until the Brexit deal had passed each step in Parliament to become law.\n\nSir Oliver, who is among the MPs seeking to prevent a no-deal Brexit, said he did not want to \"let the government off the hook\".\n\nSir Oliver's amendment is a cunningly-crafted proposition which, crucially, could be voted for by MPs who want a deal, but don't trust this one, and don't trust the government.\n\nIt rests on the idea that were Parliament to approve the deal for the purposes of the Benn Act now, there might then be a danger that the subsequent legislation to enact it might be, somehow, derailed, resulting in a no-deal exit on 31 October.\n\nWith the Benn Act out of the way, they believe that some manoeuvre, some legislative judo move, by factions inside and outside the government, who favour a \"clean Brexit\" could leave no time for any effective counter… and Britain would be out, with no deal.\n\nThis reflects the sheer level of distrust that has accumulated over several cycles of Brexit angst.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford has also tabled an amendment, calling for a three month extension to Brexit to allow for an early general election.\n\nHe told the BBC the deal gives Northern Ireland a \"competitive advantage\", but \"shafted\" Scotland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMeanwhile, cabinet ministers have been touring the TV and radio studios to sell the deal.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was \"an opportunity to get Brexit done, turn the page and move forward\".\n\nThe new deal is largely the same as the one agreed by Theresa May last year - but it removes the controversial backstop clause, which critics say could have kept the UK tied indefinitely to EU customs rules.\n\nNorthern Ireland would remain in the UK's customs union under the new agreement, but there would also be customs checks on some goods passing through en route to Ireland and the EU single market.\n\nThe prime minister is expected to focus his attention on winning over three groups to support his deal:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. DUP: PM 'too eager for deal at any cost'\n\nThe DUP is unhappy with the changes, claiming they are not in the best interests of Northern Ireland.\n\nBut the Northern Irish party can no longer rely on the automatic support of the the pro-Brexit European Research Group - formed of backbench Tory MPs.\n\nVice-chairman of the group, Mark Francois, told reporters he \"still has some concerns about some of the specifics of the deal\", and was meeting the prime minister \"to put some questions directly to [him].\"\n\nBut ERG member Andrew Bridgen told BBC Breakfast he believed the \"vast majority\" of the group \"will come to the conclusion that this deal is tolerable and we need to get Brexit across the line\".\n\nThe ERG will hold a meeting on Saturday morning to advise a position to members to take in Parliament.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell told the Today programme the deal was \"worse deal than Theresa May's\", adding: \"We can't vote for that or let it go through\".\n\nBut while Labour's focus was on defeating the government's proposals, Mr McDonnell said discussions were ongoing about a further referendum - either on Mr Johnson's deal or a \"sensible deal\" negotiated by Labour.\n\n\"There are discussions taking place [about] when the right time to put an amendment down is,\" he said. \"There is a principle here to be established to let the people decide.\"\n\nHe also warned there would be \"consequences\" for MPs in his party who voted for Mr Johnson's deal.\n\nHowever, on Wednesday, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn played down the possibility of removing the party whip from any rebels.\n\n\"I believe in the power of persuasion rather than the power of threat,\" he said.\n\nLabour MP Ronnie Campbell, who is standing down at the next election, said \"at the moment\" he would vote to support the deal.\n\nBut he told the BBC: \"I am getting a lot of pressure from the head lads of the Labour Party... to abstain.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Crunching the numbers as MPs prepare for key Brexit vote\n\nThe winning post for votes in the House of Commons is 320 if everyone turns up - seven Sinn Fein MPs do not sit and the Speaker and three deputies do not vote.\n\nThere are currently 287 voting Conservative MPs. The prime minister needs to limit any rebellion among them.\n\nThen, if the DUP will not support his deal, he will need the backing of 23 former Conservative MPs who are currently independents. Most will probably support the deal, but not all.\n\nThat is still not quite enough, though, so the PM will also need the backing of some Labour MPs and ex-Labour independents. In March, when MPs voted on Theresa May's deal for the third time, five Labour MPs backed it, plus two ex-Labour independents.\n\nThis time it is likely to be a bit higher than that because several MPs have said they would now back a deal.\n\nAll this still leaves the vote very close. And it is possible some MPs could abstain, making it even harder to predict the outcome.", "The walk was scheduled for the nearest home game to the anniversary\n\nThousands of Leicester City supporters have taken part in a walk to mark the first anniversary of a helicopter crash which claimed five lives.\n\nThe club's chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four others died in the crash outside the King Power Stadium on 27 October last year.\n\nSupporters walked from Magazine Square in the city to the ground ahead of their game against Burnley\n\nOne fan taking part said Mr Vichai \"made our dreams come true\".\n\nTwo members of Mr Vichai's staff - Kaveporn Punpare and Nusara Suknamai - died in the crash as well as pilots and partners Eric Swaffer and Izabela Roza Lechowicz.\n\nFans of all ages took part, all paying tribute to the man they called \"the boss\"\n\nAbout 5,000 people, many carrying flowers and scarves, were estimated to have taken part in the march which was led by large banner bearing Mr Vichai's face.\n\nLifelong Leicester fan Rishi Kotak said: \"This march means a lot. The whole family cleared their diaries to make sure we could be here.\n\n\"Vichai was a man who brought a lot of different cultures, people and a city a lot closer together.\"\n\nTributes also were paid online, with one fan tweeting: \"Thank you Vichai, thank you Boss.\"\n\nFans said Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha had brought the city and its people closer together\n\nA memorial park, named in Mr Vichai's honour, will open at the crash site on the anniversary itself.\n\nTens of thousands of people took part in a previous walk for the victims two weeks after the crash.\n\nIt was named the 5,000-1 walk, after the odds the club overcame to secure their 2016 Premier League win.\n\nThe new walk was scheduled for the nearest home game to the anniversary.\n\nFan Craig Elliott, who has helped to organise both walks, said: \"We were truly overwhelmed when the estimate of 50,000 people was given for the first walk.\n\n\"With the first anniversary upon us we felt it had to be done again. Khun Vichai did so much, not just for the club but for the city as a whole.\"\n\nThe march took place before Leicester's game against Burnley\n\nMany on the march brought flowers to be placed near a portrait of Mr Vichai\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Supporters of the \"People's Vote\" campaign have gathered in central London to call for a \"final say\" vote on the new Brexit deal.\n\nThe march, which began at midday, started on Park Lane and ends in Parliament Square.\n\nOrganisers say they want to check that the UK is happy to leave the EU under the terms negotiated by the PM Boris Johnson.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has said he will press on \"undaunted\" with Brexit on 31 October, despite losing a crunch Commons vote.\n\nThe PM must now ask the EU for an extension to that deadline after MPs backed an amendment aimed at ruling out a no-deal Brexit, by 322 votes to 306.\n\nMr Johnson has told EU Council President Donald Tusk that he will now send a letter seeking the delay.\n\nUnder the terms of the so-called Benn Act, passed last month by MPs, he has until 2300 BST on Saturday to send it.\n\nHaving spoken to Mr Johnson at 1915 BST, EU Council President Donald Tusk tweeted that he was \"waiting for the letter\".\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\nAn EU source said that once Mr Tusk received the letter, he would start consulting EU leaders on how to react - which may take a few days, BBC Brussels reporter Adam Fleming reported.\n\nMr Johnson has vowed to bring in legislation on Monday to implement the deal he struck with Brussels this week.\n\nMPs could also be given another vote on the deal then, if Commons Speaker John Bercow allows it.\n\nThe Commons defeat is a major setback for the PM, who has repeatedly insisted that the UK will leave at the end of the month come what may.\n\nMr Johnson told the Commons he was not \"daunted or dismayed\" by the defeat and remained committed to taking Britain out by the end of the month on the basis of his \"excellent deal\".\n\nIn a letter to MPs and peers on Saturday evening, he warned the EU could reject \"Parliament's request for further delay\".\n\nHe wrote: \"It is quite possible that our friends in the European Union will reject Parliament's request for further delay (or not take a decision quickly).\"\n\nHe added that it was to his \"great regret\" that MPs had voted for more delay, and that he \"will not negotiate a delay\".\n\n\"I will tell the EU what I have told the British public for my 88 days as prime minister: further delay is not a solution,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I will not negotiate a delay with the EU\"\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"The prime minister must now comply with the law. He can no longer use the threat of a no-deal crash out to blackmail members to support his sell-out deal.\"\n\nAnd the SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, said that if Mr Johnson acted as if he was \"above the law\", he would find himself in court.\n\nDowning Street refused to offer any explanation as to why the prime minister did not consider he was obliged to negotiate a fresh extension.\n\nThe EU said it was up to the UK to \"inform it of the next steps\".\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron spoke to Mr Johnson by phone after his Commons defeat, telling him a delay to Brexit \"would be in no one's interest,\" according to a French official.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: PM \"can no longer use the threat of a no-deal crash-out to blackmail members\"\n\nMPs had been geared up for a make-or-break vote on Mr Johnson's Brexit deal on the first Saturday sitting of Parliament since the Falklands War 37 years ago.\n\nBut in the end there was no vote on whether to back the deal or not.\n\nMPs voted for an amendment tabled by former Conservative MP Sir Oliver Letwin, withholding approval of the deal until the legislation to implement it is in place.\n\nMinisters argue that this would delay Brexit - but Sir Oliver and his supporters, who back the deal, say it is an insurance policy to prevent it turning into a no-deal exit.\n\nThe main government motion, as amended, was passed without a vote, meaning the Benn Act kicks in and the prime minister must request a three-month extension.\n\nA second government motion, on a no-deal Brexit, was pulled, meaning an amendment on a second referendum did not go to a vote either.\n\nThe voting took place as thousands of anti-Brexit demonstrators marched on Westminster.\n\nMany People's Vote supporters cheered when they learned of Mr Johnson's defeat, and the crowds were later addressed by prominent Remain-supporting MPs including Dominic Grieve and Hilary Benn.\n\nFootage posted to social media showed Conservative ministers Jacob Rees-Mogg and Andrea Leadsom being heckled by People's Vote demonstrators as they left Parliament under police escort.\n\nThe EU is not going to rush to take any action following this vote.\n\nAs far as it is concerned, it has negotiated a new Brexit deal as requested by the UK government and now it is up to that government to sell that deal.\n\nThere is zero appetite in the EU to renegotiate the deal and, if the EU receives a request for a new Brexit extension, don't expect a rush on the EU's side to grant it.\n\nIn order to approve or discuss a new extension all EU leaders would have to come back to Brussels, which they left less than 24 hours ago.\n\nThe EU Commission now waits to hear from Boris Johnson about what has changed because he promised them at the summit just 24 hours ago that the new Brexit deal would be voted on in Parliament, and approved by the majority of MPs.\n\nIf push comes to shove, I cannot see EU leaders saying no to another request for an extension if the alternative would be a no-deal Brexit, which they have wanted so much to avoid.\n\nBut that is now all to unfold in the days to come.\n\nSir Oliver Letwin said Saturday's Commons vote meant the UK would not \"crash out\" of the EU on 31 October without a deal if the necessary legislation was held up or derailed.\n\nHe insisted his aim was not to stop the UK leaving and he would vote for the enabling legislation when it comes forward.\n\nHis motion was supported by 10 former Tory MPs who have either quit or been forced out of the party over Brexit, including Philip Hammond, David Gauke and Amber Rudd.\n\nHowever, six Labour MPs voted against the amendment, as did five former Labour MPs who now sit as independents, which the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg said would give the PM hope of passing his agreement the next time around.\n\nThe Democratic Unionists, who backed the Letwin amendment, said the delay would allow for further scrutiny of the PM's agreement - emphasising that its support would depend on preserving the \"constitutional and economic\" integrity of the UK.\n\nBut Brexiteers reacted with anger, Tory MP Peter Bone saying it had been \"a complete waste of time\".\n\nAnd the European Commission spokeswoman said it noted the vote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Mina Andreeva This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDo you have any questions about the latest Brexit developments?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.", "A total of 58 people fell ill after attending Vicki and Phil Kemp's wedding in October 2017\n\nA catering firm that \"spoiled\" a couple's wedding day with a salmonella-ridden hog roast has been ordered to pay nearly £250,000.\n\nIn total, 58 guests fell ill after tucking into the meaty centrepiece at Vicki and Phil Kemp's reception.\n\nThe pair were so ill they had to cancel their Dominican Republic honeymoon, Cannock Magistrates' Court heard.\n\nGalloping Gourmet Ltd admitted two food safety offences, was fined £200,000 and ordered to pay £49,936 in costs.\n\nIn a statement, the firm apologised \"for the distress and discomfort\" caused and said it has since made changes in its procedures to \"ensure that this never happens again\".\n\nSymptoms experienced by guests, three of whom needed hospital treatment, included nausea, stomach cramps, vomiting, diarrhoea, and fatigue, it said.\n\nLichfield District Council, which identified the salmonella outbreak, described the contaminated meat as \"dangerously undercooked\".\n\nIt added the firm had not taken customers' health and safety seriously enough.\n\nIT technician Mr Kemp, 35, of Burntwood, Lichfield, said in a statement: \"My illness lasted around 10 days all in all, but the symptoms were so bad that we had no option but to cancel our honeymoon. I was totally devastated.\n\n\"No-one should have to go through what we have, especially in relation to their wedding day - it is just not acceptable.\n\n\"Sadly a lot of the memories about what should have been the happiest day of mine and Vikki's lives are spoilt by what happened.\"\n\nThe company admitted placing unsafe food on the market and failing to ensure safety procedures were adequately implemented.\n\nJatinder Paul, of law firm Irwin Mitchell, said the case was \"particularly devastating for those involved... on what was meant to be a memorable and very special day\".\n\nVenue Packington Moor, which hosted the October 2017 event, was not at fault, the council said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs have voted in favour of an amendment, which will delay Britain's departure from the European Union.", "The spacecraft has finished its test campaign and is now ready to go to Cape Canaveral in Florida\n\nThe European spacecraft that aims to take the closest ever pictures of the Sun is built and ready for launch.\n\nThe Solar Orbiter, or SolO, probe will put itself inside the orbit of Planet Mercury to train its telescopes on the surface of our star.\n\nOther instruments will sense the constant outflow of particles and their embedded magnetic fields.\n\nScientists hope the detailed observations can help them understand better what drives the Sun's activity.\n\nThis goes up and down on an 11-year cycle. It's sure to be a fascinating endeavour but it's one that has direct relevance to everyone on Earth.\n\nThe energetic outbursts from our star have the ability to damage satellites, harm astronauts, degrade radio communications, and even knock power grids offline.\n\n\"We're doing this not just for the sake of increasing our knowledge but also for being able to take precautions, for example by putting satellites in safe mode when we know big solar storms are coming or letting astronauts not leave the space station on these days,\" said Daniel Müller, the European Space Agency (Esa) project scientist on SolO.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Holly Gilbert: \"Knowledge even more important when we send astronauts to the Moon and Mars\"\n\nThe probe was assembled in Stevenage, UK, by Airbus (Britain has invested €220m in the €1.5bn project), with the past year spent here at the IABG facility in Ottobrunn, Germany, for testing.\n\nThe spacecraft has cleared its checks and will now ship out to Florida to be mated with the United Launch Alliance Atlas rocket that will hurl it towards the Sun in early February.\n\nSolO was first conceived in the late 1990s with the industrial contract to produce it awarded in 2012.\n\nA key challenge has been to mature technologies that can protect a probe that flies to within 43 million km of our star.\n\nTemperatures at this proximity will get up to 600 degrees.\n\nSolO's plan to survive these conditions involves hiding behind a large titanium shield, and cooling itself with a complex series of radiators.\n\nSophisticated fault-recovery systems will also ensure SolO stays out of trouble.\n\n\"If we de-point, we very quickly run into difficulty thermally,\" explained Airbus project manager Ian Walters.\n\n\"Our requirement is to make sure we recover under any failure scenario within 50 seconds and actually our spacecraft will go back to normal pointing in 22 seconds, all autonomously.\"\n\nThe heatshield has peepholes to allow the telescopes to see the Sun\n\nBut the probe still needs to observe the star and to do that it must use peepholes in the shield.\n\nThese will briefly open to allow the telescopes to grab their observations before closing shut again.\n\nThe pictures and movies that come back will be unprecedented in their fine resolution.\n\nFeatures as small as 70km across will be visible.\n\n\"It's amazing; every time we get better resolution we see more and more,\" said Holly Gilbert, the US space agency's deputy project scientist on the mission.\n\n\"The interactions between the Sun's plasma (energetic gas) and its magnetic field are incredibly dynamic, not just on the large scales but on the very, very small scales.\n\n\"When the magnetic fields interact in a very explosive process called reconnection - that's a very small region.\n\n\"And to see how that leads to eruptions, we need to see the small stuff that's happening.\"\n\nOne of the major differences between this mission and all previous such ventures is that SolO will get to take the first close-up images of our star's polar regions.\n\nThe high latitudes are known to be significant locations for magnetic behaviour and the generation of the fastest outflows of particles.\n\n\"We've never seen the solar poles directly because from Earth we just have a very grazing view,\" said Frédéric Auchère, a mission principal investigator from the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France.\n\n\"But these regions are very important because they are the source of the very fast solar wind and we also know that in the solar interior things are happening at the poles that may be the key to understanding solar activity and the solar cycle.\"\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSolO will be following the American Parker Solar Probe, which launched to space last year.\n\nThe pair share many of the same scientific goals and even the same kinds of instruments, although only SolO will look directly at the Sun.\n\nParker can't do that because it's venturing even closer to the star, a mere 6 million km at closest approach.\n\nIt uses just in-situ sensors, to sample for example the particles flowing over it. But scientists believe the duo when in the right position will make a powerful team in observing processes that initiate close in to the Sun but then propagate outwards.\n\n\"There are so many ways we can combine these spacecraft to get incredible science. The first serious opportunity will come in September next year,\" Tim Horbury, from Imperial College London, told BBC News.\n\nArtwork: Parker will work in tandem with SolO, but from much closer in\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "There has been heavy fighting in a northern Mexican city between the security forces and members of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel after one of the group's leaders was discovered.\n\nOvidio Guzmán López, the son of convicted drug lordJoaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzmán, was found during a routine patrol in Culiacán.", "Andrea Leadsom and Michael Gove were among MPs heckled as they left Parliament following a vote on the Letwin amendment.\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott was also filmed being jeered at by pro-Brexit demonstrators.\n\nThe planned vote on Boris Johnson's Brexit deal was pre-empted by the Letwin amendment, which effectively requires the PM to ask for a third extension to the UK's planned departure.\n\nThe primary aim of the amendment is to make sure that Britain can't leave the EU on 31 October without legislation in place.\n\nBy law, Mr Johnson now has to ask the EU for another extension, but he insists he won't do this.\n\nHe says he'll introduce legislation to leave at the end of the month, giving MPs a choice of his deal or no deal.\n\nMeanwhile, supporters of a People's Vote held a march through central London.", "MPs have voted for an amendment to the prime minister's Brexit deal which withholds Commons approval until the necessary UK legislation to leave the EU has been passed.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted, use the search box below.\n\nThe amendment was passed with a majority of 16 votes: 322 to 306.\n\nIn response, the government cancelled Saturday's vote on the actual deal itself.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the government would introduce legislation, next week, needed for Brexit on 31 October.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did your MP vote this time? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nThose MPs described as \"Did not vote\" in the search above, may have done so for a number of reasons. It could be they wished to abstain, or that they had constituency or ministerial business. The Speaker and his deputies cannot vote and Sinn Fein members traditionally do not vote.\n\nSix Labour MPs rebelled to vote with the government. Meanwhile, 10 former Conservative independents voted for the Letwin amendment.\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nHarry Dunn's parents say they expect UK police to charge a US diplomat's wife in connection with his death.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died after a collision with a car owned by Anne Sacoolas, who was allegedly driving on the wrong side of the road.\n\nHis parents Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn travelled to the US as part of their campaign for justice and met President Donald Trump.\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, went back to the US after the crash in Northamptonshire.\n\nMr Dunn's family is due back in the UK later, after their trip to the US to seek justice, following the crash outside RAF Croughton - where Mrs Sacoolas' husband is reportedly stationed as an intelligence officer - on 27 August.\n\nAt the time, Mrs Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity, but both the British and US governments agree that by returning to the US she had forfeited that right.\n\nRadd Seiger, the family's spokesman, said they have concerns of \"misconduct and a cover up on both sides of the Atlantic\".\n\nHarry Dunn's parents said a meeting with Anne Sacoolas would not have brought healing to either side.\n\nA statement from the family said: \"It is clear that the Americans are desperate to protect Mrs Sacoolas and are intent on ruthlessly and aggressively not letting her return. We are trying to find out why that is. We will not let up in our search for Justice for Harry.\n\n\"We now expect Northants Police to take over from the work we have done and the progress we have made, charge her and begin extradition proceedings to bring her back.\"\n\nIn an interview with ITV, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said: \"We have done everything we can properly and within the law to clear a path so that justice can be done for the family. And we continue to do so.\"\n\nMrs Sacoolas can only be extradited if she is charged by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) with a criminal offence that is serious enough to warrant it.\n\nNorthants Police confirmed they were continuing to prepare evidence to hand over to the CPS.\n\nMr Dunn's parents rejected a \"bombshell\" offer from Donald Trump to meet Anne Sacoolas at the White House on Tuesday.\n\nCharlotte Charles and Tim Dunn had felt \"a little ambushed\" when the president revealed she was in the next room.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nMr Trump described his meeting with the couple as \"beautiful\" but \"very sad\".\n\nMs Charles and Mr Dunn are due to meet Northamptonshire's Chief Constable Nick Adderley next week.\n\nMr Seiger said: \"In all my years of practice, I have never seen a family so badly let down after a tragedy and abandoned completely by the system. \"\n\nThe US State Department has been contacted for comment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The restaurant in Reading's Oracle shopping centre opened on 10 October\n\nA US fast-food chain will cease trading at its first UK outlet amid a row over donations to anti-LGBT groups.\n\nGay rights campaigners called for a boycott of Chick-fil-A, which opened its first branch at The Oracle shopping centre in Reading on 10 October.\n\nA spokeswoman for the centre said \"the right thing to do\" was to not extend the restaurant's lease beyond the \"six-month pilot period\".\n\nChick-fil-A said its donations were purely focused on youth and education.\n\nThe family-owned company, founded in Atlanta in 1967, is one of the biggest fast-food chains in the USA and boasts about 2,400 outlets across North America.\n\nAccording to US news website Think Progress, in 2017 the Chick-fil-A Foundation donated millions of dollars to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the Paul Anderson Youth Home and the US Salvation Army.\n\nCampaigners from LGBT organisation, Reading Pride, said all three organisations have a reputation of being hostile to LGBT rights.\n\nIn 2012, the company's chairman sparked a US boycott when he said he opposed gay marriage.\n\nThe Oracle said: \"We always look to introduce new concepts for our customers, however, we have decided on this occasion that the right thing to do is to only allow Chick-Fil-A to trade with us for the initial six-month pilot period, and not to extend the lease any further.\"\n\nReading Pride said The Oracle's decision was \"good news\", adding the six-month period was a \"reasonable request... to allow for re-settlement and notice for employees that have moved from other jobs\".\n\nBut the organisation said it would continue to campaign against the outlet until it left.\n\nChick-fil-A had previously told the BBC: \"Our giving has always focused on youth and education. We have never donated with the purpose of supporting a social or political agenda.\n\n\"There are 145,000 people - black, white; gay, straight; Christian, non-Christian - who represent Chick-fil-A.\"\n\nIn a statement, the UK Salvation Army said it \"strongly objected to being presented as homophobic or transphobic\", adding that it had LGBT+ members and served people \"without discrimination\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "London saw a huge protest on Saturday, calling for a second referendum on Brexit\n\nBoris Johnson made it crystal clear on Saturday: he did not want to write to EU leaders requesting another Brexit extension.\n\nAnd they were crystal clear in telephone calls with him that day that they were far from thrilled to be asked.\n\nBut UK law demanded the letter be sent. So now what?\n\nOn Saturday, French President Emmanuel Macron repeated his view that a new Brexit extension was not good for anyone.\n\nBoris Johnson literally spelling out his opposition to prolonging the Brexit process by writing a separate letter to Brussels to say so, makes it easier for his peers Mr Macron, Angela Merkel and others to drag their feet a little.\n\nThey prefer first to look to the prime minister to make good on his promise to them that their newly-negotiated Brexit deal will *definitely* be passed by parliament.\n\nAnd time (relatively speaking, of course) is on the prime minister's and EU leaders' side. Under EU law the Brexit deadline is not until 31 October.\n\nIn theory, Europe's leaders could wait until the morning of the 31st to hold an emergency summit to discuss an extension.\n\nRight now they are keen to keep up the pressure on MPs, to help them focus their minds on what they really want, rather than rush forward with another extension, allowing them (in EU eyes) to keep going round in circles, never uniting around one particular concrete Brexit plan.\n\nEU leaders like Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel must now decide whether to grant a Brexit extension\n\nAll 27 EU leaders have to agree for a new Brexit extension to be granted and they will grumble, they will moan and they will stamp their feet (metaphorically, at least).\n\nBut, if push comes to shove, with the alternative being no deal at all, then, after more than three years of Brexit process and negotiating two Brexit deals with two UK prime ministers, I cannot imagine the EU slamming the door in the face of the UK now.\n\nIf the House of Commons refuses to approve the new Brexit deal in the next couple of weeks, then granting a new extension would be in EU leaders' interest. They are keen not be blamed by their own citizens for a costly no-deal Brexit.\n\nSo, through gritted teeth, and only if EU leaders believe that it is needed, they will eventually most likely say yes to an extension. But a short one, if possible.\n\nBoris Johnson has struggled to find enough support in parliament, losing a number of key Brexit votes since becoming prime minister\n\nThey will want to know what it's for. Are there plans in the UK to hold a general election, a second referendum or a referendum on the new Brexit deal? Or is a bit more time needed to pass Brexit-related legislation?\n\nEU diplomats rule out the idea of further negotiations or amending the new Brexit deal, whatever comes out of the House of Commons over the next few days.\n\nThe EU fervently hopes this Brexit deal is the last one. Leaders want to move on to the next stage: negotiating future relations between the EU and UK, including a trade deal.\n\nThe leaving bit was originally billed as the easy part.", "Two of the many vehicles burned out during the clashes\n\nEven to a nation hardened to drug war images, the scenes in Culiacán were shocking.\n\nScores of cartel gunmen shut down the streets and engaged in sustained battles with the armed forces. Vast patrols of military vehicles descended on the neighbourhood of Tres Rios.\n\nThere were burning cars, roadblocks and heavy weaponry being fired in the middle of the day in the centre of the commercial district of the city.\n\nThere soon followed equally disturbing images of people - families with children - diving for cover.\n\n\"Can we get up now?\" one child asked her father as they cowered behind the wheels of their car. \"Not yet, darling,\" he replied, his voice strained and frightened.\n\nElsewhere, mobile phone footage emerged of panic inside a shopping mall, the rapid gunfire audible in the background.\n\nOnce the smoke eventually lifted, the explanations began.\n\nThe state government's initial reasoning posed more questions than it answered.\n\nSpeaking on television, the State Security Secretary, Alfonso Durazo, claimed the police had discovered the wanted leader of the Sinaloa Cartel by pure chance when a routine patrol was fired on from a house.\n\nThe Guzmán family lawyer says thank you\n\nOn entering the building, they identified one of the men inside as Ovidio Guzmán López , the son of the notorious former head of the organisation, \"El Chapo\" Guzmán, currently serving life plus 30 years in the US.\n\nYet that didn't seem to tally with eyewitness reports and videos of an apparently co-ordinated operation.\n\nWhat's more, Mr Durazo was deliberately ambiguous as to whether or not they still had \"El Chapo's\" son in their hands.\n\nIt soon became evident that they did not. They had let him go.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt was a huge embarrassment for the government. They had captured one of the most wanted men in Mexico and, outgunned and overwhelmed by the cartel, they simply turned him back over to his men.\n\nBy the following morning, both state and federal government were on damage control.\n\n\"This was a failed operation,\" Mr Durazo admitted, \"a rushed operation.\" The police had acted without orders from above and the decision to release Guzmán was only taken to prevent further violence to the civilian population, he argued.\n\n\"We are not going to convert Mexico into a greater cemetery than it already is.\"\n\nForensics on the case the day after in Culiacan\n\nMr Durazo could at least count on a similar song-sheet being sung at the federal level. In his daily press conference, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he wasn't only aware of the decision to let \"El Chapo's\" son go but approved it.\n\n\"The capture of a criminal cannot be worth more than people's lives. They took that decision and I supported it,\" he said with characteristic defiance.\n\nThere were extenuating circumstances, the government points out, in that a number of military men were taken hostage by the cartel.\n\nYet whether any of them were killed or harmed is another of the murky details that remains undisclosed in this debacle.\n\nAs does an apparent prison break. In the middle of it all, dozens of inmates at the Aguaruto prison escaped amid the confusion. Mobile phone footage shows them pulling drivers from their cars and making their getaway.\n\nWith the state authorities suggesting the police patrol which detained Guzmán acted without authority from above, the mayhem in Culiacán could be seen as a failure of co-ordination by the state, of planning or intelligence.\n\n\"It was a failure of everything,\" says Professor Raul Benitez, a security expert at the National Autonomous University in Mexico (UNAM).\n\n\"What it showed was the great power and control that the Sinaloa Cartel still exercises over the city of Culiacán.\" The shocking scenes bury the theory, he says, that the group is \"bruised or broken after El Chapo was imprisoned in the United States.\"\n\nDespite the chaos in Culiacán, President Lopez Obrador insists his approach of non-violence towards the drug gangs remains the right one. \"We don't want a war,\" he said.\n\nMaybe so - but this week's spike in drug-related violence in several states in Mexico shows they are still in a war all the same.\n\nAt least eight people were killed\n\nThere was an ambush on a police patrol in Michoacan in western Mexico which left 13 police officers dead on Monday and then an apparent clash between cartel members and the military the following day which left another 14 dead.\n\nThe policy under previous governments of all-out war against the cartels was misguided, says Professor Benitez. However, he believes so is the \"softly, softly\" strategy by the current administration.\n\nNow the fear is that other cartels in the country will have learned an important lesson from what happened in Culiacán.\n\n\"The Gulf Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel must be pleased,\" Professor Benitez said. \"Now they know what to do when one of their leaders is lifted: bring out their biggest guns and sow chaos and anarchy.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThree people have been killed by a fire inside a supermarket in Santiago during a second night of protests in Chile.\n\nTwo people died at the scene and another died in hospital after the store was looted, Santiago's regional governor, Karla Rubilar, said.\n\nPresident Piñera has suspended the rise in metro fares that sparked the protests, but unrest has continued.\n\nSoldiers and tanks were deployed after the government declared a state of emergency and imposed a night curfew.\n\nThe protests have broadened to reflect general discontent about the high cost of living in one of Latin America's most stable countries.\n\nThe unrest, the worst in decades, has exposed divisions in the nation, one of the region's wealthiest but also one of its most unequal, and intensified calls for economic reforms.\n\nIn parts of Santiago, hundreds of troops were deployed on the streets for the first time since 1990, when Chile returned to democracy after the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.\n\nIn the second day of violent demonstrations, protesters erected barricades and set buses on fire, and police used tear gas and water cannon. Clashes erupted in the city centre with Mayor Felipe Alessandri describing the situation as chaotic.\n\nMore than 300 people have been arrested, and 156 police injured, as were 11 civilians, police said.\n\nDemonstrators clashed with security forces in the capital, Santiago\n\nSpeaking on television, President Sebastián Piñera, whose response to the protests has been criticised, said he had listened \"with humility\" to \"the voice of my compatriots\" and to discontent over the cost of living.\n\nGen Javier Iturriaga del Campo, who is in charge of security in Santiago under the state of emergency, said a curfew would be enforced between 22:00 and 07:00 (01:00-10:00 GMT) in the city and outlying areas.\n\nThe military is due to help police patrol the streets during a declared 15-day state of emergency that allows authorities to restrict people's freedom of movement and their right to assembly.\n\nLater on Saturday, the mayors of the Valparaíso region and Concepción province also announced states of emergency.\n\nEarlier, cultural and sporting events were cancelled and shops remained closed. The city's underground system will remain shut down until Monday, with 41 of 136 stations vandalised.\n\nProtesters continued on Saturday despite the military deployment\n\nProtests were also reported in the cities of Concepción, Rancagua, Punta Arenas, Valparaíso, Iquique, Antofagasta, Quillota and Talca, according to El Mercurio newspaper.\n\nMeanwhile, a picture of President Piñera in an upmarket Italian restaurant on Friday evening as police and demonstrators clashed in Santiago was heavily criticised on social media.\n\nCritics said the image, reportedly during a birthday celebration for the president's grandson, were emblematic of a leader out of touch with ordinary Chileans.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by el mostrador This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dr Peter Hutchinson stopped teaching after an internal investigation in 2015\n\nA Cambridge academic who was found to have sexually harassed 10 students has been readmitted to his college less than two years after it was announced he had been permanently removed.\n\nIn 2017, Dr Peter Hutchinson was banned from Trinity Hall and from contacting students.\n\nTrinity Hall now says the decision to remove him had \"not been agreed with Dr Hutchinson and was incorrect\".\n\nOne ex-student who had complained said the reversal was \"a slap in the face\".\n\nDr Hutchinson quit teaching modern and medieval languages in 2015 following an internal college investigation into his conduct.\n\nHe faced complaints of nearly a dozen \"inappropriate\" incidents in 2014 and 2015.\n\nIn 2017, Trinity Hall said he had permanently withdrawn from any further involvement with the college after breaching sanctions imposed on him after the initial complaints.\n\nAt the time, a Trinity Hall spokesman said: \"We can confirm Dr Hutchinson has withdrawn permanently from any further involvement with college affairs, including from his role on the finance committee.\n\n\"He will not be present in college at any time in the future.\"\n\nDr Hutchinson told the BBC that there had been \"no legal finding of harassment\" and emphasised that this was an internal, college investigation.\n\nHowever, the college now says Dr Hutchinson automatically became an emeritus fellow upon his retirement.\n\nIn a statement, the college said following \"extensive discussion and legal advice\" it concluded Dr Hutchinson's name had been \"mistakenly removed\" from its website.\n\n\"In line with the rights and privileges afforded to emeritus fellows of the college, Dr Hutchinson will continue to attend certain college events and to exercise his dining rights, but will not attend events primarily aimed at students or alumni except by agreement with the college,\" it said.\n\nBBC News understands the college had been advised Dr Hutchinson could threaten legal action and there were internal concerns about the impartiality of the process.\n\nAllegations of sexual misconduct against Dr Hutchinson date back to 2005, though he was cleared of criminal charges of sexual assault in 2006.\n\nFormer students who brought complaints against him have waived their right to anonymity to speak out about the decision and question what the college did to protect students after the initial allegations.\n\nSophie Newbery, 23, who graduated in German and Russian from Trinity Hall in 2018, said the decision felt like \"a slap in the face\" after complainants had \"worked up the courage to speak out\".\n\nEllie Pyemont, pictured on her graduation day, criticised the college\n\nShe said Dr Hutchinson had offered to give her a \"big kiss\" on her birthday, made comments about her clothing and asked a group of four students if they would \"sleep [their] way to the top\" during a film night at his house.\n\nIn the original grievance, seen by BBC News, she said he had also asked them during a seminar if they had \"ever had any love bites?\" and, while discussing the subject of a dominatrix in a book, asked a female student: \"Does that turn you on?\"\n\nShe said: \"It feels like they never took our complaint seriously and never cared as, one year after graduating, they've snuck him back in.\"\n\nCleodie Rickard, 23, who graduated in Arabic and Middle Eastern studies in 2018, said she was \"outraged\" and it had all been \"hushed-up\".\n\nNeither student had been notified he was returning.\n\nA letter to the complainants, seen by BBC News, asked them not to discuss the matter \"further within the student body\" because of its \"seriousness and sensitivity\".\n\nEllie Pyemont, 38, who graduated in languages in 2003, said she was \"staggered by the college's decision-making\", saying she felt \"self-interest and protectionism appear to be the primary forces\".\n\nThe University of Cambridge is made up of 31 autonomous colleges, all of which have their own internal procedures.\n\nIn a statement, Trinity Hall said: \"Given the extensive and confidential nature of the consultation, it would not be appropriate to comment further on that.\n\n\"Trinity Hall takes all forms of harassment seriously, and the welfare of its students continues to be central to its work as an educational institution.\"\n\nThe University of Cambridge said it takes the personal safety of its students \"very seriously\" and it had made \"a lot of changes\" since universities were given the mandate to investigate sexual misconduct three years ago.\n\nIt said the university had introduced anonymous reporting and appointed a sexual assault and harassment advisor for one-on-one support.\n\nIt added: \"We recognise we have more to do, and will continue to listen to and work with our students on how we can improve our approach to handling sexual misconduct.\"", "Schools are going to have \"community fridges\" where parents can take home food\n\nThe biggest primary school academy trust in England is opening food banks in its schools to stop \"family hunger\".\n\nThe Reach2 trust is going to put \"community fridges\" in its schools to provide food for families who otherwise would not be able to afford it.\n\nThe project is being launched in five schools in the east of England, with the aim of expanding to all of the trust's 60 primary schools.\n\nTrust chief Sir Steve Lancashire says it's \"heartbreaking\" that it is needed.\n\n\"We often hear about children going to school hungry because their families simply cannot afford to provide them with the food that they would want to,\" says Sir Steve, Reach2's chief executive.\n\n\"To think that this is happening in 2019 is heartbreaking,\" said Sir Steve.\n\nHe says the problem is \"very widespread\" in the deprived areas where many of the trust's schools are located.\n\n\"The demands on families are rising, but wages are low, work can be hard to come by - and life is complex,\" says Sir Steve.\n\nThere have been growing numbers of schools providing food to parents in need - with the National Governance Association reporting last month that 8% of governors were in schools which were operating food banks.\n\nLucy Williams, co-head of Unity primary, says hungry children struggle to behave and focus on learning\n\nThis latest project will see the biggest academy group in the primary sector offering free food in its schools, using fridges donated by the manufacturer Amica.\n\nThe food will include surplus school meals and food approaching its use-by date, such as fruit, cheese, eggs, vegetables and yoghurts.\n\n\"Every week school kitchens have to discard food,\" says Sir Steve. But he hopes the community fridges will put the food to better use in tackling \"family hunger\".\n\nIt will begin next week with Reach2's primary schools in Colchester and Clacton in Essex and Ipswich, Beccles and Lowestoft in Suffolk.\n\nFood banks usually provide supplies to people who have referrals from social services, GPs or schools.\n\nBut the community fridges in school will be available to any parents who need to take food - and will be \"discreetly placed to avoid any stigma\".\n\nSir Steve Lancashire says it is \"heartbreaking\" that such a free food scheme is necessary\n\nSir Steve says he does not expect parents to abuse the offer - but says he would rather see a few people wrongly getting free food than see families going hungry.\n\n\"Parents are genuinely on the breadline,\" he says.\n\nUnity primary academy, near Colchester, is one of the schools piloting the food scheme - and its co-head Lucy Williams says it is a response to a daily problem.\n\n\"More and more people are relying on food banks,\" she says.\n\nThose needing help can include families where both parents are working, she says, with families struggling with low wages and high living costs.\n\nSuch working families and those on benefits can end up with \"very little left over at the end of the month\", says Miss Williams.\n\nIt might be a case of having to decide whether to pay for electricity or food, she says.\n\nWhen children come to school without having eaten, she says, it affects their behaviour, \"making terrible decisions and not able to focus\".\n\nShe says teachers can hear from children themselves about anxieties over a lack of food.\n\nFor anyone doubting that children really are not being fed, she says: \"Come and spend a day at school. There could be different reasons for hunger, but many people face challenges that put a strain on what's available at home.\"\n\nThe community fridges project, she hopes, will mean that \"families won't have to worry about hunger\".", "It had been billed as a march to give confident voice to those who want the Brexit debate put back to the people, but as crowds set out on the People's Vote march, the nervous chatter was how the MP Oliver Letwin's amendment might be their only hope.\n\nThis long-planned event provided a noisy soundtrack to government attempts to bring the Brexit argument to an end before the march reached its destination.\n\nPictures from inside the Palace of Westminster were relayed to the vast crowd watching on a big screen erected on Parliament Square outside.\n\nAnd then the moment when it was clear there would be no Brexit deal today. It was less a moment for rejoicing, more a sense of relief.\n\nThe long march that the protesters hope will lead from one people's vote to another will go on.\n\nWhat the final destination looks like, for those on all sides of the argument, that remains frustratingly unclear.", "Jo Maugham QC led the action at the Court of Session in Edinburgh\n\nScotland's highest civil court has dismissed a legal bid to stop the UK government from passing its proposed EU withdrawal agreement.\n\nAnti-Brexit campaigners had argued the deal contravened legislation preventing Northern Ireland from forming part of a separate customs territory.\n\nHowever, Lord Pentland ruled the application was \"misconceived and unjustified\".\n\nCampaigner Jo Maugham QC said the case was now unlikely to proceed further.\n\nIn his written opinion, the judge described the petition \"of very doubtful competency\" and concluded the petitioner had at best a \"weak\" case.\n\nMr Maugham had lodged the petition on Thursday in an attempt to stop Parliament from passing the EU withdrawal agreement.\n\nAfter the ruling was published he tweeted: \"That was a difficult decision to make. It is difficult to move quickly and accurately and, the court has found, I got that decision wrong.\n\n\"We will review the decision carefully but my instinct is that we are unlikely to proceed to a full hearing for reasons indicated above.\"\n\nHe launched the legal challenge after the prime minister and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced on Thursday that the two sides had come to an agreement on a Brexit withdrawal deal, ahead of a crucial EU summit in Brussels.\n\nEU leaders then approved the deal, and MPs are expected to vote on it on Saturday.\n\nAidan O'Neill QC is representing Mr Maugham in the case\n\nEarlier Aidan O'Neill QC, acting for the petitioner, told the court that the proposed Brexit deal would mean a \"continuing regime of EU law applicable to Northern Ireland\" - contrary to Section 55 of the Taxation (Cross-Border Trade) Act 2018.\n\nHe said this would breach the Act's terms by creating different customs rules in Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK, leaving the deal void and unsuitable to be put before Parliament.\n\nMr O'Neill said: \"The agreement which was presented yesterday is void; is of no effect as a matter of law.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker leave their joint press conference on Thursday\n\nGovernment lawyers defended the deal and claimed the legal action was a \"direct and manifest interference with Parliament\".\n\nGerry Moynihan QC, acting for the government, described the legal challenge as \"a gross intrusion into the separation of power.\"\n\nHe argued Northern Ireland would remain in the UK's customs territory because \"a substantial part\" of trade would still be with the UK.", "Protesters held signs and wore masks during the pre-season basketball game in New York\n\nDozens of spectators at a US basketball game have held signs and donned T-shirts and masks in support of protests in Hong Kong.\n\nDemonstrators gathered during a match in New York between the Brooklyn Nets and the Toronto Raptors.\n\nThe move was organised by film producer Andrew Duncan, who bought 300 tickets for the activists.\n\nIt comes amid an ongoing row between China and the NBA over the protests that have rocked Hong Kong since March.\n\nImages from the pre-season game on Friday show demonstrators wearing T-shirts emblazoned with \"Stand With Hong Kong\" and \"Free Tibet\".\n\nTwo other people were also pictured wearing Winnie-the-Pooh costumes. The cartoon bear is used as a symbol to mock Chinese President Xi Jinping and is banned in China.\n\nFootage from the protest was shared on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by lhadon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAmong the group was Hong Kong activist Nathan Law, the former chairman of Demosisto, a pro-democracy party he co-founded with fellow campaigner Joshua Wong.\n\n\"We want to use our performance art to show our support for Hong Kong and the NBA,\" another spectator, Chen Pokong, 55, told the New York Post. \"[China wants] to take away freedom of speech and now spread dictatorship to America.\"\n\nLocal media report that some of demonstrators were ejected from the game for chanting.\n\nSimilar demonstrations have already been held at other games between American and Chinese teams. Earlier this month, during a match between the Philadelphia 76ers and the Guangzhou Loong-Lions, two people were asked to leave for holding signs in support of Hong Kong protests.\n\nAt another game between the Loong-Lions and the Washington Wizards, local media report that spectators had their pro-Hong Kong signs confiscated.\n\nBut Friday's protest was the first to be held during a match between two NBA teams.\n\nThe spat between the league and China's government began earlier this month after Houston Rockets manager Daryl Morey tweeted support for protests in Hong Kong.\n\nAs a result, several Chinese firms suspended sponsorship and telecast deals with the NBA - a huge financial blow to the league, which has millions of followers in China.\n\nIn Hong Kong this week, some protesters burned jerseys of basketball star LeBron James in response to his comments about the demonstrations\n\nThe Rockets and the NBA quickly distanced themselves from Mr Morey's tweet, while basketball superstar LeBron James suggested the Rockets' manager \"wasn't educated on the situation\" in Hong Kong.\n\nBrooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai - who is also the vice-chairman of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba - has also criticised Mr Morey for his \"damaging\" tweet, saying he misjudged how strongly many Chinese people felt about Hong Kong.\n\n\"Supporting a separatist movement in a Chinese territory is one of those third-rail issues, not only for the Chinese government, but also for all citizens in China,\" Mr Tsai added.\n\nMr Morey has since backtracked on his tweet. but US lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle have accused the NBA of bowing to Beijing.", "Nicola Sturgeon said the Commons defeat was a \"severe blow\" to Mr Johnson\n\nMPs putting Boris Johnson's Brexit deal on hold is a \"severe blow\" to the prime minister, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe Scottish first minister reacted after MPs voted to withhold backing for the agreement negotiated with EU chiefs until exit legislation is passed.\n\nThe UK government will now put forward such a bill on Monday, with a view to a decisive vote on it on Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the vote was a \"severe blow\" to Mr Johnson's \"plan to bludgeon his bad deal through\" the Commons.\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"not daunted or dismayed\" by the result, and said he still intended for the UK to leave under the terms of his deal on October 31.\n\nHowever, he is compelled to ask the EU for an extension later today under the terms of legislation previously passed by opposition MPs.\n\nThe Commons held a Saturday sitting for the first time in 37 years to consider the exit deal agreed with European leaders earlier in the week.\n\nMPs did not ultimately vote on the deal itself, after they backed a cross-party amendment from former Tory MP Oliver Letwin by 322 votes to 306.\n\nThe effect of the amendment is to withhold approval of the deal until legislation to enact it is passed, to prevent the UK from leaving the EU without a deal if there were any delay to the legislation.\n\nThe government has now moved to table a withdrawal agreement bill, with Mr Johnson telling MPs: \"Next week the government will introduce the legislation needed for us to leave the EU with our new deal on October 31, and I hope that our EU colleagues and friends will not be attracted by delay - I don't think they will be.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"For the people of Scotland, they now have the chance.... to take back control of their fisheries.\"\n\nOpposition parties are likely to seek to amend the legislation as it goes through the Commons, to include provisions such as a confirmatory referendum.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the delay meant the deal could be \"subjected to real scrutiny\", posting on Twitter: \"PM sounding deflated and defeated - he knows this is a severe blow to his plan to bludgeon his bad deal through.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Johnson needed 320 votes to get his agreement through the Commons, but was facing an uphill battle after losing the support of the DUP.\n\nWhile he was backed in the Letwin vote by the 13 Scottish Conservative MPs, the amendment was passed with the backing of the bulk of Labour's members, including seven from Scottish seats, the 35 SNP MPs, and the four Lib Dems from north of the border.\n\nThe prime minister now faces the prospect of having to write to European leaders requesting a fresh extension to the Brexit deadline, under the terms of the \"Benn Act\" passed by MPs in September.\n\nMr Johnson was warned that he could end up in a Scottish court on Monday if he refuses to send the letter.\n\nCourt of Session judges said they could meet to examine the question of whether to use the court's powers to effectively sign the letter on Mr Johnson's behalf.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Blackford: \"Scotland has been totally and utterly shafted by this prime minister and this Tory government.\"\n\nThere were clashes in the Commons before the debate proper even began, with the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford branding Mr Johnson's effort \"even worse than Theresa May's deal\", which was rejected by MPs on three occasions.\n\nHe said the prime minister \"didn't even consider giving Scotland a fair deal\".\n\nMr Blackford added: \"This is a deal that would see Scotland shafted by this UK government, left at an economic disadvantage, with Scotland's views and interests totally disregarded by this prime minister and his government.\n\n\"He and his cronies in Number 10 don't care about Scotland - this Tory government has sold Scotland out and once again let Scotland down.\"\n\nMr Johnson replied that he had sealed \"a great deal\" for Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said: \"For the people of Scotland, they now have the chance, championed by wonderful Scottish Conservative MPs, to take back control of their fisheries from the end of next year and allow the people of Scotland at last to enjoy the benefits of their spectacular marine wealth - in a way they would be denied under the SNP, who would hand back control of Scottish fishing to Brussels.\"\n\nThe latest proposal removes the much-disputed \"backstop\" proposals for the Irish border post-Brexit, and would instead see Northern Ireland remain in the UK's customs territory - while adhering to a limited set of EU rules on goods. Representatives in Northern Ireland would be able to decide whether to continue this arrangement every four years.\n\nEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said it was a \"fair and balanced agreement\" - and suggested that it was the final deal on offer, saying there would be \"no other prolongation\".\n\nMs Sturgeon has rejected this, saying: \"The alternative to this deal is the Benn Act, which would require an extension request. That's the law of the land. So anybody who says that it's a choice between this deal and no deal is frankly not being straight with people.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland are into the World Cup semi-finals for the first time in 12 years as they ruthlessly dispatched old rivals Australia.\n\nTwo first-half tries in three minutes from Jonny May on his 50th cap helped establish a 17-9 half-time lead before a sensational score from Marika Koroibete brought the Wallabies to within a point.\n\nBut prop Kyle Sinckler smashed through from Owen Farrell's flat pass as England regained control, the fly-half landing 20 points with his boot to crush Australian hopes before Anthony Watson applied the coup de grace with a late interception try.\n\nIt was England's best performance of a World Cup when they have seldom been tested, the decision of coach Eddie Jones to start Farrell in place of George Ford vindicated by a seventh successive win over his home country.\n\nFour years ago England were sent packing at the group stage from the tournament they were hosting by Michael Cheika's side.\n\nBut with the young back-row combination of Tom Curry and Sam Underhill outstanding, this was sweet revenge, a last-four meeting with New Zealand in a week's time the rich reward.\n• None We haven't played at our best yet - England coach Jones\n• None 'England were brilliant - All Blacks semi-final now looks enticing & intimidating'\n• None Cheika to wait before deciding whether he will quit\n• None Ruthless All Blacks thrash Ireland to set up England semi-final\n\nMay day for Australia as clinical England cut loose\n\nAustralia came out fast and battered away at the England defence, the men in white forced into 30 tackles in the first three minutes, Christian Lealiifano's penalty reflecting the early balance of power.\n\nBut after England had twice wasted overlaps in the opposition 22, they struck twice in quick succession to stun the Wallabies.\n\nFirst Farrell went left after Watson had made inroads down the right, and with the defence stretched Curry committed the last man before putting May into the corner.\n\nFarrell curled the conversion over from the touchline and with English celebrations still ringing round the stadium Australia handed over another priceless gift.\n\nDavid Pocock threw a needless loose pass in midfield, Henry Slade gathered, charged into space and kicked cleverly ahead and May gathered the bouncing ball to dive into the same little patch beyond the try-line.\n\nLealiifano brought it back to 14-6 with his second penalty after Slade strayed offside but Farrell popped over one of his own to re-establish the 11-point lead on the half-hour.\n\nAnd there was palpable relief among the gold-shirted support when a scrum penalty after a typically bullocking run from Samu Kerevi allowed Lealiifano to make it 17-9 at the interval.\n• None I've done my mum proud after long, long journey - Sinckler\n\nAustralia had been nine points down to Fiji and 15 to Wales in the group stage before charging back, and within moments of the restart they had closed the gap to a single point.\n\nWinger Reece Hodge spotted space beyond Slade and threw a long pass to 19-year-old Jordan Petaia, and Koroibete came accelerating up on his inside before leaving Elliot Daly for dead on the outside.\n\nIt was a stunning try but England struck back immediately in similar style.\n\nAfter a poor kick from the struggling Will Genia, England battered to within 25 metres before Farrell's sweet flat pass found Sinckler hammering through like a runaway dumper-truck for his first international try.\n\nFarrell made it 27-16 after Australia's scrum splintered and then the defence held firm on their own line despite repeated Wallaby charges.\n\nFarrell twisted the knife again with two more penalties, England taking control at the scrum, the power of their ball-carriers repeatedly punching dents in the Australian rearguard.\n\nWith Australia 17 points down and time running out, Watson picked off Beale's desperate long pass in search of Hooper, and England could celebrate a first win in knockout rugby since 2007.\n\n'We haven't been at our best yet' - reaction\n\nEngland head coach Eddie Jones: \"They came back at us in the second half and we had to find ourselves. It was one of those 'bring it on moments'. We had to decide whether we were going to stick at it or go individual and I thought it was brilliant.\n\n\"We are so excited about the semi-final. We haven't been at our best yet and that is the challenge to see how we can get to our best.\"\n\nEngland captain Owen Farrell: \"Australia made that a brilliant game. They attacked throughout but our boys did well in defence and managed to get some field position off the back of it. We know when we have field position we can be pretty dangerous.\n\n\"We did what was needed. We had the lead and Australia were throwing everything at us again. We wanted to play the game at our pace and we did that in the second half.\"\n\nEngland scrum-half Ben Youngs: \"We stuck in there, the key point was midway in the second half on our line when we pushed them back, pushed them back.\n\n\"We were probably cruising in second gear in those first few games, but we went through the gears today.\"\n• None England's 24-point margin of victory was their biggest in a World Cup knockout game and Australia's heaviest defeat in the knockouts.\n• None This was England's joint biggest victory against Australia in Test history (matching the 30-6 win in November 2017); in fact, England's three biggest wins against the Wallabies have come under Eddie Jones.\n• None Australia have lost just three of their nine Rugby World Cup quarter-final matches, each of those three defeats has come against England (also 1995, 2007).\n• None Jonny May became the first player to score a brace of tries in a World Cup knock-out match for England since Will Carling and Rory Underwood both crossed twice against New Zealand in the 1995 semi-final.\n• None Sam Underhill (20), Mako Vunipola (18), Jamie George (17), and Owen Farrell (17) all surpassed the previous highest tackle tally in a World Cup match by an England player (five players previously made 16).\n• None Kyle Sinckler became just the sixth prop to score a try in a World Cup knockout game and the first since Tony Woodcock in the 2011 final.\n\nReplacements: Ford for Slade (61), Joseph for Tuilagi (74), Heinz for Youngs (73), Marler for M Vunipola (69), Cowan-Dickie for George (69), Cole for Sinckler (64), Kruis for Lawes (64), Ludlam for Underhill (69).\n\nReplacements: O'Connor for Petaia (74), Toomua for Lealiifano (53), White for Genia (61), Slipper for Sio (69), Uelese for Latu (66), Tupou for Alaalatoa (61), Coleman for Arnold (66), Salakaia-Loto for Naisarani (69).", "Two men have been charged with murder over the death of a 20-year-old athlete in a London Underground station.\n\nTashan Daniel was heading to an Arsenal football match when he was stabbed on 24 September at Hillingdon station.\n\nTwo men, aged 21 and 19, have been remanded in custody and will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nA woman, 18, arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender has been released under investigation.\n\nMr Daniel, a full-time athlete, was attacked as he made his first solo trip to the Emirates stadium to watch Arsenal play Nottingham Forest.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Academic institutions in West Africa have increasingly been facing allegations of sexual harassment by lecturers. This type of abuse is said to be endemic, but it’s almost never proven.\n\nAfter gathering dozens of testimonies, BBC Africa Eye sent undercover journalists posing as students inside the University of Lagos and the University of Ghana.\n\nFemale reporters were sexually harassed, propositioned and put under pressure by senior lecturers at the institutions – all the while wearing secret cameras.\n\nReporter Kiki Mordi, who knows first-hand how devastating sexual harassment can be, reveals what happens behind closed doors at some of the region’s most prestigious universities.\n\nHow have you been impacted by our investigation into sex for grades? If you would like to share your experience with BBC Africa Eye, contact us here.\n\nFurther information and support for anyone affected by sexual assault can be found through the BBC Action Line.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 27,500 runners have been taking part in the Cardiff Half Marathon, where the course record has been broken by this year's winner.\n\nLeonard Langat from Kenya completed the 13.1 mile course in 59 minutes 29 seconds.\n\nLucy Cheruiyot, also from Kenya, won the women's race in 68 minutes 19 seconds.\n\nBut, organisers confirmed that one runner died after taking part in the race.\n\nAt least 50,000 spectators lined the course to cheer on the record number of runners, in what has become the UK's third biggest race after the London Marathon and the Great North Run.\n\nRoads have been closed around the city - Castle Street, where the race began, was closed at 04:00 BST while other roads will not reopen until 15:15.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs well as elite athletes, the race has attracted amateur runners from all over the country.\n\nSteve and Liz, from Llandrindod Wells in Powys, are latecomers to the sport but have not looked back since starting in their 70s.\n\n\"My wife started running and I got the idea from her,\" Steve said.\n\nSteve and Liz from Llandrindod Wells are taking part in their third Cardiff Half\n\n\"I started running when I was 70 and I'm now 73 so anybody can do it.\n\n\"This is our third Cardiff half. They're great occasions.\"\n\nStuart is running dressed as a World War Two soldier to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day.\n\nStuart is marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day\n\n\"It's beautiful, you can't ask for better than this,\" he said.\n\n\"A bit cooler maybe, especially running in a uniform like this.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRunners were urged to use sustainable travel to reach the start line after research showed 70% went by car last year.\n\nThe course is unchanged from 2018 with runners starting in front of Cardiff Castle before heading past Cardiff City Stadium, through Penarth Marina, across the barrage and past the Wales Millennium Centre before circling Roath Park lake and finishing along Edward VII Avenue in the civic centre.\n\nA record number of runners have been taking part in this year's race\n\nRunners were cheered on by spectators on Lake Road East\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post 3 by Da Vinci's Workshop Ltd\n\nResidents, runners and spectators have been advised to check all road closures as well as changes to Cardiff Bus services.\n\nA park and walk facility has been provided at Cardiff City Stadium on Leckwith Road.\n\nMany major roads across the city are closed for parts of Sunday\n\nA spectator zone is in place on Corbett Road, close to the finish line where there will be extended tiered standing terraces to allow more people to watch friends or family complete the challenge.\n\nFirst run in 2003 by just 1,500 athletes, the event has grown into the second biggest half marathon in the UK, behind the Great North Run, as well as hosting elite men's and women's races.\n\nResearch by Cardiff University found that runners spent £2.5m in the city at the 2018 event.\n\nPubs and restaurants have previously seen a \"three to fourfold\" increase in trade on a typical Sunday in the capital city though other small businesses said they will not open due to a downturn in shoppers and difficulties for staff getting to work.\n\nLive coverage of the Cardiff Half Marathon is on BBC One Wales from 09:30 and BBC Two network at 09:45. Highlights will be on BBC Two Wales at 22:00 and on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lucia Lucas has entered into the history books by becoming the first transgender singer to perform with the English National Opera in London.\n\nShe will make her UK operatic debut playing Public Opinion in Orpheus in the Underworld, on Saturday 5 October at the London Coliseum.", "Tickets for next year's Glastonbury Festival sold out in just over half an hour when they went on sale earlier.\n\nAll 135,000 tickets for the 2020 event were bought within 34 minutes, according to organisers.\n\nDemand for the Somerset festival far outstripped supply, as 2.4m people registered to try to attend.\n\nGlastonbury celebrates its 50th year in 2020, and big acts are expected to be booked to appear on the various stages at Worthy Farm.\n\nSir Paul McCartney has hinted he may return to play the festival in its anniversary year.\n\nSpeaking on the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2 last month, Sir Paul said: \"It's starting to become some remote kind of possibility.\"\n\nThe former Beatle last played the event in 2004 and delivered a set spanning his career, from his time in The Beatles to Wings and later solo material.\n\nDespite the demand this year, tickets did not go as quickly as in 2015, which sold out in just 20 minutes, or 2016, which took just half an hour.\n\nSir Paul McCartney has hinted he may return to play the festival in its anniversary year\n\nEmily Eavis, daughter of founder Michael, tweeted: \"We have now sold out. Thank you all for your incredible, continued support. Demand was higher than ever, with over 2.4 million people registered. Bring on 2020!\"\n\nThe festival has offered advice on how fans can still buy a ticket if they missed out.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emily Eavis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 festival said: \"Tickets for Glastonbury 2020 have now sold out. Thank you to everyone who bought one, and sorry to those who missed out.\n\n\"There will be a ticket resale in April - plus we'll be announcing details of a special ballot for the sale of 50 pairs of tickets in the coming days.\"\n\nGlastonbury 2020 runs from 24 to 28 June at Worthy Farm in Somerset.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The drummer was known for his hair-trigger temper as much as his music\n\nGinger Baker, one of the most innovative and influential drummers in rock music, has died at the age of 80.\n\nA co-founder of Cream, he also played with Blind Faith, Hawkwind and Fela Kuti in a long and varied career.\n\nHis style combined the lyricism of jazz with the crude power of rock. One critic said watching him was like witnessing \"a human combine harvester\".\n\nBut he was also a temperamental and argumentative figure, whose behaviour frequently led to on-stage punch-ups.\n\nBaker continued to play around the world despite his failing health\n\nNicknamed Ginger for his flaming red hair, the musician was born Peter Edward Baker in Lewisham, south London, shortly before World War Two.\n\nHis bricklayer father was killed in action in 1943, and he was brought up in near poverty by his mother, step-father and aunt.\n\nA troubled student, he joined a local gang in his teens and became involved in petty theft. When he tried to quit, gang-members attacked him with a razor.\n\nHis early ambition was to ride in the Tour de France but he was forced to quit the sport when, aged 16, his bicycle got \"caught up\" with a taxi. Instead, he took up drumming.\n\n\"I was always banging on the desks at school,\" he recalled. \"So all the kids kept saying, 'Go on, go and play the drums', and I just sat down and I could play.\n\n\"It's a gift from God. You've either got it or you haven't. And I've got it: time. Natural time.\"\n\nHe honed his craft in London's pubs and clubs\n\nThe strong legs he'd developed on long bike rides helped him play the double bass drum set-up he favoured and Baker soon talked his way into his first gig.\n\nHe played with jazz acts like Terry Lightfoot and Acker Bilk but his style - fragmented and aggressive, but articulate and insistent - was often an odd fit.\n\nInstead, he gravitated towards London's burgeoning blues scene and, in 1962, joined Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated on the recommendation of Charlie Watts - who was leaving to join the Rolling Stones.\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 rogerhoffman 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\nHe gained early fame as a member of the Graham Bond Organisation alongside bassist Jack Bruce - but it was their partnership with Eric Clapton in Cream that made all three superstars.\n\nOne of rock's first \"supergroups\", they fused blues and psychedelia to dazzling effect on songs like Strange Brew, Sunshine of Your Love, Badge and I Feel Free. They sold more than 35 million albums and were awarded the world's first ever platinum disc for their LP Wheels of Fire.\n\nAlong with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the band expanded the vocabulary of heavy rock, especially during their incendiary live shows, where the three musicians would stretch simple riffs into long, exploratory improvisations.\n\n\"It was as if something else had taken over,\" Baker once said of playing with Cream. \"You're not conscious of playing. You're listening to this fantastic sound that you're a part of. And your part is just… happening. It was a gift, and we three had it in abundance.\"\n\nBut the volatility that fuelled their performances was rooted in animosity. Baker and Bruce's arguments were frequent and violent, even driving Clapton to tears on one occasion. Once, Baker attempted to end one of Bruce's solos by bouncing a stick off his snare drum, and into Bruce's head.\n\n\"So I grabbed my double bass,\" Bruce later recalled, \"and demolished him and his kit.\"\n\nThe band eventually split after two years and four albums, with a farewell concert at London's Royal Albert Hall in 1968.\n\n\"Cream came and went almost in the blink of an eye, but left an indelible mark on rock music,\" wrote Colin Larkin in the Encyclopaedia of Popular Music.\n\nBands who built on their template included Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin - not that Baker was impressed.\n\n\"I don't think Led Zeppelin filled the void that Cream left, but they made a lot of money,\" he told Forbes.\n\nCream in Central Park, shortly before their farewell concert (L-R): Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce\n\nFollowing the band's demise, he teamed up with Clapton and Steve Winwood to form Blind Faith, followed by the ambitious 10-piece Air Force, which combined his interests in jazz and Afro-fusion.\n\nWhile the musicianship was of a high standard, the eclectic mix of jazz, blues, African music and a surfeit of drums - there were three percussionists - was never going to inspire a mass following.\n\nAfter one studio album and a live concert at the Royal Albert Hall, Air Force, undermined by personnel changes, finally crashed and burned.\n\nThe drug-related death of his friend, Jimi Hendrix, persuaded Baker it was time to leave the London music scene and get clean.\n\nHe left Britain to live in Nigeria, where he recorded with Fela Kuti and built his own recording studio. He helped Paul McCartney record the classic Wings' album Band On The Run, although their relationship soured over claims that he was never paid.\n\nFinancial problems of one sort or another dogged him throughout this period and he eventually lost control of his studio.\n\nAway from music, he took up rally driving and, somewhat incongruously, developed a love of polo, building up a sizeable collection of ponies, despite his tendency to get injured.\n\n\"I've had a lot of falls which have wrecked my body,\" he told the Telegraph in 2013. \"They had to take a piece of my hip bone out and screw it into my neck.\"\n\nIn the 1980s, he played with John Lydon's Public Image Ltd, while continuing to form and discard new bands that combined his African and Western musical influences, like African Force and Middle Passage.\n\nWhile commercial success eluded him, his reputation, particularly with a new generation of drummers, remained high.\n\n\"His playing was revolutionary,\" said Neil Peart, drummer with the Canadian band Rush. \"He set the bar for what rock drumming could be.\"\n\nCream were inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, briefly reuniting to play three songs, then teamed up again in 2005 for a series of concerts in London and New York.\n\nAlmost inevitably, the performances ended with Baker and Bruce fighting on stage.\n\n\"It's a knife-edge thing for me and Ginger,\" Bruce said afterward. \"Nowadays, we're happily co-existing in different continents... although I was thinking of asking him to move. He's still a bit too close.\"\n\nBaker had, in fact, headed to South Africa, where he spent the reunion money buying polo ponies and funding a veterinary hospital.\n\nIn 2012, he became the subject of a hugely enjoyable documentary - Beware of Mr Baker - which illustrated how his jaw-dropping drumming was neither as wild nor as extraordinary as his personal life.\n\nIn the opening scene, the musician was seen attacking director Jay Bulger with a metal cane, declaring: \"I'm going to put you in hospital.\" He later settled down to reflect, cantankerously, on the trail of broken bands, ex-wives and neglected children he'd left in his wake.\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 kermodeandmayo 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\nContributors marvelled at his talent, but little else. \"He influenced me as a drummer, but not as a person,\" recalled Free's Simon Kirke, who toured with Cream.\n\nIn later years, he was beset by ill health, breaking most of his ribs and subsequently being diagnosed with a degenerative spine condition and the onset of emphysema.\n\n\"God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as He can,\" he told Rolling Stone at the time.\n\nThe musician fought osteoarthritis to record his final album, Why?, in 2014. Two years later, he underwent open heart surgery and announced his retirement from touring.\n\n\"Just seen doctor… big shock… no more gigs for this old drummer... everything is off,\" he wrote on his official blog.\n\n\"Of all things I never thought it would be my heart.\"\n\nBaker's death will see him feted as one of rock's most influential musicians, but he scoffed at such accolades, insisting: \"Drummers are really nothing more than time-keepers.\"\n\nHe told Rhythm magazine: \"It's the drummer's job to make the other guys sound good.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Rapper Krept has said he is \"good\" and will be \"back in no time\" after he was assaulted backstage at a BBC Radio 1Xtra live event in Birmingham.\n\nThe sold-out Saturday night show at the Arena Birmingham finished early after the incident around 22:00 BST.\n\nThe rapper, one half of duo Krept and Konan, suffered a slash wound. He tweeted on Sunday: \"Can't keep a good man down.\"\n\nPolice said medical help was given on site and he did not go to 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 I SPY OUT NOW This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 I SPY OUT NOW\n\nKrept, whose real name is Casyo Johnson, was not set to perform in the show. No arrests have been made.\n\nWest Midlands Police are looking at CCTV from inside the venue, speaking with potential witnesses and appealing for information about what happened. Forensic investigations are also continuing.\n\nThe force told the BBC the event would have been risk-assessed in advance \"because all large events are\".\n\n1Xtra Live was billed as an \"unmissable night\" with a \"mix of emerging and established artists\", including Aitch, French Montana, Ms Banks and headliner Wizkid.\n\nTickets for the Arena Birmingham, which has a capacity of 15,800, had sold out.\n\nThe gig was broadcast live across 1Xtra and Radio 1 but the stream ended when the event was called off.\n\nThe BBC said it was sorry to do so but safety was a priority.\n\nIn a statement, the corporation added: \"We are upset and saddened that something like this should happen to a guest at one of our events and we remain in close contact and continue to offer our full support.\"\n\nKrept's manager Docta Cosmic and Konan both tweeted on Saturday night, saying: \"Bro's good.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 KONAN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Radio 1Xtra said security was the venue's responsibility. The venue declined to comment.\n\nIt is understood there were security concerns ahead of the gig and the security presence was doubled in response.\n\nArtists, performers and people backstage are thought to have been subject to the same airport-style security measures as the audience.\n\nSeveral audience members posted videos on social media which appeared to show scuffles in the crowd.\n\nIn a separate incident, officers arrested a 23-year-old man on suspicion of possession of a knife at door six of Arena Birmingham. The man remains in custody.\n\nSome people expressed frustration that the concert was brought to an end about an hour before it was due to finish.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Audience members give their reaction after the sold-out event had to end early\n\nOne audience member, Charlotte, bought tickets to the event as a birthday present for her friend who had never been to a concert before.\n\nCharlotte, 27, who did not give her surname, told 1Xtra Newsbeat: \"It's not the best experience. You could tell by everyone's facial expressions they were fuming, and after there were boos.\n\n\"You can understand the frustration if you paid money to get good seats. It's like you've paid for the two main acts and they're not coming out.\"\n\nFriends Charlotte, left, and Becky were at the BBC Radio 1Xtra concert\n\nKrept and Konan have previously spoken out in defence of drill music, a menacing, often lyrically violent subset of British rap which police have linked to a rise in knife crime.\n\nEarlier this year, the duo launched a petition asking the Crown Prosecution Service to stop police from using the Serious Crime Act to target drill musicians.\n\nThey warned that outlawing drill music could push performers back to a life of crime and rob Britain of major talent.", "Independent counselling charity Off The Record said it was seeing hundreds of students each year\n\nMore students are seeking independent counselling away from university over fears their academic record will be affected, a support charity has said.\n\nOff The Record (OTR) in Bath said it saw \"hundreds of students, year on year\" from the city's two universities.\n\nDirector Phil Waters said some people were worried about a stigma if they sought help from their university.\n\nBath University said that would never be the case and added any students with urgent needs would be seen immediately.\n\nStudent Jayme Sims said some of her peers felt the university's services may have \"some other kind of objective\" for wanting students to get better.\n\nThe 20-year-old sociology student has a youth worker placement at OTR, which supports 18 to 24-year-olds, as part of her degree, after previously using the university's wellbeing services.\n\nShe said: \"The university wants you to stay and finish your degree. They have a vested interest.\"\n\nJayme Sims is now a youth support worker who \"aims to be the person that I needed\"\n\nMr Waters added: \"[Students] feel there's perhaps some sort of agenda from the university support staff.\"\n\nBut Dr Cassie Wilson, vice-president for student experience at Bath University, said that would never be the case.\n\n\"Our objective always is to provide advice, support and guidance to any of our students who need it, to help them navigate periods of change and life transitions, and to help them succeed in their studies,\" she said.\n\nFormer GP at Bristol University, Dominique Thompson - now a national advisor to many universities - agreed.\n\n\"The student is at the centre of all decision making, not the university recruitment or retention rates,\" she said.\n\n\"The reality is most [universities] will absolutely prioritise the student's wellbeing above everything else, and will even actively advise them to put studies on hold, or leave university if that would be best for the mental health of the young person.\"\n\nMs Sims said she believed some students struggled because they felt \"not worthy\" of help.\n\n\"There's this big thing that you cannot ask for mental health support unless you're at crisis point, unless something has happened to you, such as trauma or abuse or you are actually suicidal.\n\n\"A lot of students I have spoken to feel like they are not deserving of that support.\n\n\"They feel that by accessing that support when they are experiencing anxiety or depression, it means they have taken away that resource from someone else who is more in need.\"\n\nStress over academic results is a primary source of anxiety for university students, Dr Dominique Thompson said\n\nAcademic stress has become the number one source of anxiety for university students, according to Dr Thompson.\n\nIt is something Ms Sims has experienced first-hand.\n\nShe said: \"It's been a lot of anxiety and panic attacks. I am quite a perfectionist and that's common with students, you feel unless you're getting top marks, you might as well not do anything. You have to be the best, or nothing.\"\n\n\"The idea that 'failure is not an option' is sadly all too common,\" Dr Thompson said. \"As a generation they are frightened of letting down their loved ones.\"\n\nIt is \"common that young people don't seek help [because of that]… whereas we know the sooner you seek help and intervene in a problem, the sooner it will be resolved\", she added.\n\nWhen Ms Sims needed help, she said Bath University's drop-in wellbeing hub helped her, as well as private counselling.\n\n\"They were important to me. You don't need an appointment - you can just turn up and talk to someone. I think that kind of accessibility is really important because it means there's not a lot of pressure.\n\n\"Then it took me up to three months to get counselling, but I was very lucky. I was told it was probably going to be around six months.\"\n\nDirector of Off The Record, Phil Waters said students were seeking more objective help and advice\n\nOff The Record has been contracted by the university to see up to 50 students a year, \"to help ensure greater capacity for counselling students who are desperate for support but have waited longer than is ideal\".\n\nMr Waters said: \"We see a new generation of young people that are very much more open, and that's really positive, but demand for our services grows.\"\n\nDr Wilson from Bath University added: \"This partnership provides an additional counselling resource which helps to bolster what we already offer students.\"\n\nA recent survey by mental health campaigner and ex-health minister Sir Norman Lamb, who obtained information from 110 universities under the Freedom of Information Act, showed many universities were still \"in the dark\" about their students' health and wellbeing needs and struggled to predict the extent of likely demand for mental health support services.\n\nBristol University - where 12 students have taken their own lives in the past three years - said it was spending more than £1m a year on well-being services, including counselling.\n\nBut the majority of universities have a budget of less than half that.\n• None Off The Record Bath and North East Somerset Off the Record Bath and North East Somerset The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Portugal's Prime Minister Antonio Costa has won re-election, however he has no outright majority in parliament.\n\nWith over half of the votes counted so far, his Socialist party led with 36.7% and will have to form a minority government.\n\nMr Costa said he was delighted with the result and added that voters had shown they wanted stability.\n\nThe party's rival, the centre-right Social Democratic Party, has come in second place.\n\nMr Costa said Portuguese voters had shown they wanted his party to continue its pact with two far-left parties - the Left Bloc and the Communists.\n\nHe said he would govern with determination and responsibility.\n\nHe also mentioned negotiations with the People-Animals-Nature party (PAN) party, Reuters reported.\n\nWhile the far left has been calling for more investment in public services, Mr. Costa is expected to renew his commitment to stick to euro-zone budget rules.\n\nNearly 11 million people are registered to vote in the race for control of Portugal's 230-seat parliament.\n\nThe Socialists' popularity had been hit by a string of scandals, including accusations of nepotism and a suspected cover-up of weapons theft at a military base.\n\nIn 2015 the Social Democrats (PSD) won the most votes, but the Socialist Party came to power after reaching formal agreements with smaller left-wing parties.\n\nSince then the country's economy has grown above the EU average. Cuts to public sector wages and pensions have been reversed.", "The mother of a teenager killed in a car crash involving the wife of a US diplomat has urged her \"as a mum\" to return to the UK for questioning.\n\nHarry Dunn, 19, died when his motorbike collided with a car near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nThe diplomat's wife, who has diplomatic immunity, left the UK despite telling police that she had no plans to.\n\nMr Dunn's mother, Charlotte Charles, told the BBC the family had been left \"utterly devastated\" by his death.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said he has urged the US embassy to reconsider after the State Department said that diplomatic immunity is \"rarely waived\".\n\n\"I have called the US ambassador to express the UK's disappointment with their decision,\" he said.\n\nThe teenager died in hospital after his motorbike crashed with a Volvo\n\nMrs Charles told the BBC's PM programme: \"We're really hoping to try to get her back; from me, as a mum, to her, as a mum, you just hope that he [Mr Raab] can try to get through to her.\n\n\"We don't wish her any ill harm, but we don't understand how she can just get on a plane and leave our family just utterly devastated.\n\n\"If we don't get any luck over here, then we will go over there.\"\n\nUnder the 1961 Vienna Convention, diplomats and their family members are immune from prosecution in their host country, so long as they are not nationals of that country.\n\nHowever, their immunity can be waived by the state that has sent them - in this case, the US.\n\nThere are more than 22,500 people in the UK who hold diplomatic immunity and most do not break the law.\n\nBut if a diplomat is guilty of an egregious breach, there are some things that a host country can do.\n\nIn a written Parliamentary answer in October 2017, then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said: \"The FCO does not tolerate foreign diplomats breaking the law.\n\n\"When instances of alleged criminal conduct are brought to our attention by the police, we ask the relevant foreign government to waive diplomatic immunity where appropriate.\n\n\"For the most serious offences, and when a relevant waiver has not been granted, we seek the immediate withdrawal of the diplomat.\"\n\nThe problem here is that the US do not appear to have granted a waiver for this particular diplomatic spouse.\n\nInstead, they have removed her from the UK before the British government could threaten to remove her itself if she did not submit to questioning.\n\nAs such, the US appears to have calculated that protecting the woman from identification, questioning and possible prosecution was more important than the potential risk to UK-US relations.\n\nThis is further evidence the adjective \"special\" should rarely be used to describe the alliance between both countries.\n\nSupt Sarah Johnson said that the suspect \"engaged fully\" following the incident near RAF Croughton, a US Air Force communications station, and that she \"had previously confirmed... that she had no plans to leave the country in the near future\".\n\n\"The force is now exploring all opportunities through diplomatic channels to ensure that the investigation continues to progress,\" she said.\n\nThe crash happened on the B4031 near RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire\n\nThe US Embassy in London confirmed the diplomat's family had left the UK, but it could not confirm the identity of the people involved in the incident \"due to security and privacy considerations\".\n\nThe US State Department said it was in \"close consultation\" with British officials, but could not comment on \"private diplomatic conversation\" with the British government.\n\n\"We express our deepest sympathies and offer condolences to the family of the deceased in the tragic August 27 traffic accident involving a vehicle driven by the spouse of a U.S. diplomat assigned to the United Kingdom,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Any questions regarding a waiver of immunity with regard to our diplomats and their family members overseas in a case like this receive intense attention at senior levels and are considered carefully given the global impact such decisions carry; immunity is rarely waived.\"\n\nAndrea Leadsom MP, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, tweeted that she had met Mr Dunn's family, who she described as \"heartbroken\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andrea Leadsom 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\nAngela Rayner MP, shadow secretary of state for education, tweeted that the family have been \"wronged\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Angela Rayner 🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duchess of Cambridge met children from the Beavers when she visited the Scouts headquarters in Essex earlier this year\n\nMore than 60,000 children are on waiting lists to become Scouts, Beavers, Cubs or Explorers.\n\nThe organisation behind the movement said the figure had increased by 20% over the past three years.\n\nThe Scout Association said it had more volunteers than ever - but many were offering less of their time and some groups had closed as a result.\n\nSome 475,000 children belong to the Scouts in different age ranges, either as Beavers, Cubs, Scouts or Explorers.\n\nMore than 100,000 adults volunteer, which the Scout Association said was \"more than we have had at any point in Scouting's history\", but it also said the demand for leaders was at an all-time high.\n\n\"Our most recent census showed that we grew our volunteer membership by nearly 2,000 in a 12-month period,\" it said.\n\n\"However, with the nature of volunteering in the UK changing and more adults offering their time flexibly, more people are needed to run Scouting than ever before.\"\n\nScouts fall into four groups defined by the age of the children - Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers\n\nChief Scout Bear Grylls said he was proud young people were continuing to sign up to the movement \"but to do more, we need more volunteers\".\n\n\"We still have more than 60,000 young people who want to join and gain new skills but are unable to do so,\" he said.\n\n1st Mobberley Beavers has been forced to shut due to a shortage of volunteers\n\nThe Scouts organisation includes groupings for four different age ranges - Beavers are aged six to eight, Cubs eight to 10, Scouts are children between 10 and 14 and the oldest group for 14 to 18-year-olds is called the Explorers.\n\nOne group to have shut recently because of a lack of volunteers was the section at 1st Mobberley Beavers in Cheshire, which had been running for the past 28 years but remained closed from September following the summer break.\n\nViv Pike, Explorer leader with Knutsford District Scouts, described it as \"a great shame\".\n\n\"Twenty little boys can now not progress from beavers to scouts to explorers,\" she said.\n\n\"There's no option for them to go to any other group - there are waiting lists all the way through.\"\n\nViv Pike - Explorer leader with Knutsford District Scouts (far left) - described the waiting list increase as \"a great shame\"\n\nSince 2017 waiting list figures across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have risen from 51,182 to 60,119.\n\nThe South East has the biggest shortage of leaders, the Scouts Association said.\n\nMrs Pike, who has been involved in scouting since 1981, said the situation had \"definitely got worse\" over her years as a volunteer.\n\nShe said: \"I enjoy doing it, you get a great deal out of it when you see children getting their badges - I just don't understand why people won't give up their time.\"\n\nThe Scout Association said it was working with parents and the local community to find a team to take the Mobberley group forward.", "Hundreds of people have joined an anti-government march in Hong Kong a day after fierce rioting in the Chinese territory.\n\nMost of Hong Kong's metro system remained shut after attacks on stations, as well as businesses.\n\nOnly the Airport Express remained open as the new demonstration started in the autonomous Chinese territory.\n\nChief executive Carrie Lam has defended her decision to invoke emergency powers in order to restore order, saying Hong Kong had been through a \"very dark night\" of \"extreme violence\".", "For months, Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters have taken to the streets, their identities concealed behind masks.\n\nBut on Friday - in the face of increasingly violent clashes between hard-line protesters and police - the Chinese territory's government enacted a ban on face masks with the help of a colonial-era law which hadn't been used in decades.\n\nThe ban came into effect at midnight Hong Kong time (16:00 GMT) - potentially changing the face of the protests.\n\nBecause these masks weren't just a way for the movement to hide their identities from police, employers and parents, but also a layer of protection against the tear gas fired into the demonstrating crowds.\n\nBut protesters were not going down without a fight: legal challenges have been launched, with thousands of masked activists taking to the city's streets to voice their anger.\n\nProtesters wasted no time demanding the ban was revoked, demonstrating against it before it was officially announced\n\nThousands of people donned masks during their lunch breaks, before many returned to their offices\n\nBut they rejoined the protests after chief executive Carrie Lam announced the ban would come into effect at midnight\n\nSome people have taken to wearing gas masks in recent weeks, due to the tear gas\n\nThere was mounting anger at Ms Lam, who critics accuse of being a puppet of the Beijing government\n\nThe comedic tone of some masks belied the anger felt. Opposition figures warned it could be the first of more \"draconian\" steps\n\nAs night fell, the anger appeared to intensify, with buildings and train stations vandalised\n\nBeijing has welcomed the ban, saying it is neccesary to bring the protests to an end\n\nHowever, few know how the police will actually enforce the rule should Hong Kong's protesters choose to ignore it", "The weekend has seen riots over the mask ban, a second person shot and tear gas fired at protesters.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry's mother, Charlotte Charles, and father, Tim Dunn plea for the return of fatal crash suspect\n\nA chief constable has written to the US Embassy in London demanding the return of an American diplomat's wife who is a suspect in a fatal crash inquiry.\n\nHarry Dunn, 19, died when his motorbike collided with a car near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nThe diplomat's wife, named as Anne Sacoolas, left the UK despite telling police she did not plan to.\n\nNick Adderley, of Northamptonshire Police, has urged the embassy to waive her diplomatic immunity.\n\nHe said he had appealed to US authorities \"in the strongest terms\".\n\nMr Dunn's mother, Charlotte Charles, said leaving the country was \"such a dishonourable thing to do\" and urged Ms Sacoolas to \"come back\". His father, Tim Dunn, said they needed to get the truth.\n\nMs Charles added: \"We are not out to get her put behind bars. If that's what the justice system ends up doing then we can't stop that but we're not out to do that, we're out to try and get some peace for ourselves.\"\n\nThe US Embassy previously said \"security and privacy considerations\" precluded it from naming the suspect.\n\nThe teenager, from Charlton, Banbury, died in hospital after his motorbike crashed with a Volvo\n\nOn Saturday the US State Department said diplomatic immunity was \"rarely waived\" but Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab urged the US Embassy to reconsider.\n\nUnder the 1961 Vienna Convention, diplomats and their family members are immune from prosecution in their host country, so long as they are not nationals of that country. However, their immunity can be waived by the state that has sent them.\n\nMr Adderley was asked on Twitter whether Ms Sacoolas was lawfully entitled to claim diplomatic immunity.\n\nHe replied: \"The short answer is yes,\" adding that both he and Northamptonshire Police and Crime Commissioner Stephen Mold had written to the US Embassy, urging that the waiver be applied \"in order to allow the justice process to take place\".\n\nThe crash happened on the B4031 near RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire\n\nThe US State Department said on Saturday that the incident involved \"a vehicle driven by the spouse of a US diplomat assigned to the United Kingdom\".\n\nPolice said the suspect had \"engaged fully\" following the crash near RAF Croughton, a US Air Force communications station, and said \"she had no plans to leave the country in the near future\".\n\nThe US State Department has said it is in \"close consultation\" with British officials and has offered its \"deepest sympathies\" to the family of Mr Dunn.\n\n\"Any questions regarding a waiver of immunity with regard to our diplomats and their family members overseas in a case like this receive intense attention at senior levels and are considered carefully given the global impact such decisions carry; immunity is rarely waived,\" it added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ten people have been arrested in south London on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.\n\nIt comes ahead of planned environmental protests by Extinction Rebellion around Westminster in central London.\n\nThe Met Police said seven women and three men were taken to a south London police station.\n\nOfficers raided a building in Cleaver Street, Kennington, where environmental protesters said they were storing equipment.\n\nVideos posted on social media showed officers using a battering ram to break down the doors of the now-closed Lambeth County Court and removing items including bikes.\n\nExtinction Rebellion said police had seized tents, toilets and disabled access equipment, claiming they were \"the very things that would make the international rebellion in London safe, clean and accessible to all\".\n\nOfficers also took wheelie bins, solar panels, hot water bottles, cooking urns and flasks, the group said.\n\n\"This escalation of pre-emptive tactics by the government and police is a sign that we are being heard and acknowledged as a significant movement,\" it added.\n\n\"We ask that the government focus their attention and resources on responding to the climate and ecological emergency which threatens us all.\"\n\nIt added that the government could \"take our structures, but we remain resolute in our preparation for the rebellion\".\n\nThe raid in south-east London comes after climate activists sprayed the Treasury with fake blood on Thursday, leading to eight arrests.\n\nAt a media briefing earlier this week on the forthcoming protests, activists said they planned to protest on Lambeth and Westminster bridges and in Trafalgar Square as part of an \"international rebellion\" around the world calling for urgent action on climate change.\n\nThey also said they would protest outside government departments, calling on them to outline their plans to tackle climate change.\n\nIn September, five activists were arrested over plans to fly drones near Heathrow Airport.\n\nIt came after the European Court of Human Rights ruled police could preventatively detain people, even if they have no specific intelligence linking the individual to the crime.", "October is Black History Month in the UK and has been celebrated for nearly 40 years.\n\nWhen Mo Jannah moved to Cardiff from Birmingham 14 years ago he had expectations of what Wales would be like.\n\nBut what he did not expect to find was Butetown - \"a vibrant multi-cultural community with deep roots\" .\n\nHere he explores how south Wales' industrial past attracted people from all over the globe to settle in the docklands of Cardiff leading to the creation of one of the UK's oldest multi-cultural communities.", "This plaque is Marley's first from English Heritage.\n\nReggae legend Bob Marley has been honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque at the London house he lived at when he finished recording the ground-breaking album Exodus.\n\nThe plaque marks where Marley lived with his band the Wailers in 1977 at 42 Oakley Street, in Chelsea.\n\nIt comes after a drive to uncover more addresses of ethnic minority figures.\n\nMarley and the Wailers' famous Exodus album included hits such as Jamming, Three Little Birds and One Love.\n\nBenjamin Zephaniah said Marley's music \"came from a small island in the Caribbean and shook up the world\"\n\nThe plaque had been stuck in the planning process because Marley was not registered in phone directories or electoral registers.\n\nMarley also gave a different address during an arrest for cannabis possession in 1977 to prevent the police from searching the house in Oakley Street for drugs.\n\nEnglish Heritage confirmed the house was the band's headquarters and Marley's primary address from contemporary reports.\n\nIn 2015 English Heritage, which manages more than 400 historic buildings and cultural sites across the country, established a working group to reinvestigate the addresses of noted ethnic minority figures.\n\nOut of more than 900 blue plaques across London, only 4% are dedicated to black and Asian individuals.\n\nWhile in London Bob Marley finished recording Exodus, which featured hits such as Jamming, Three Little Birds and One Love\n\nBlue plaques commemorate the link between a location and an individual who was regarded as \"eminent\" in their field.\n\nTheir achievements should have made an \"exceptional impact in terms of public recognition\", and they must have been dead for at least 20 years.\n\nOther musicians to have received the honour include John Lennon, Freddie Mercury and Mozart.\n\nRastafarian writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah unveiled the plaque on Tuesday.\n\nMr Zephaniah, said: \"It's very difficult to say what Bob Marley would have said about this plaque, but he did once say, 'Live for yourself, you will live in vain, live for others, and you will live again', so I'm quite sure he would say that this is for his people and his music.\"\n\nHistorian and broadcaster David Olusoga said: \"More than a brilliant musician, he became a cultural icon who blazed a trail for other black artists.\"\n\nThe plaque at 42 Oakley Street commemorates where Marley lived with his band the Wailers in 1977\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A record number of runners took part in Sunday's Cardiff Half Marathon\n\nA runner has died after the Cardiff Half Marathon, organisers have said.\n\nRun 4 Wales said the runner was seen by a medical emergency team on the course then taken to University Hospital of Wales where they died.\n\nThe organisers said everyone connected with the race was \"devastated\" and a full review would be carried out.\n\nNo more details about the person's identity have been revealed, with more statements to be made \"in due course\".\n\nRun 4 Wales chief executive Matt Newman said: \"Our deepest sympathies go out to the family of the runner who tragically passed away after taking part at the event.\n\n\"The emergency services reacted to this terrible situation with great speed and professionalism. Everyone connected with the race is devastated.\"\n\nMatt Jukes, chief constable of South Wales Police, tweeted: \"Terribly sad news. My thoughts are with all those affected\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Jukes This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 2018 Ben McDonald, 25, from Cardiff, and Dean Fletcher, 32, from Exeter, went into cardiac arrest and died after crossing the finishing line at the half marathon within three minutes of each other.\n\nNo inquests took place, and a coroner's investigation found the pair died of natural causes.\n\nA record 27,500 runners signed up to take part in the 2019 event.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police were called to Wellesley Road in Colchester on Saturday night\n\nThree men have been found dead after reports of a fight in Colchester.\n\nEssex Police said a 32-year-old man was being questioned on suspicion of murder over the deaths on Saturday night.\n\nTwo men were discovered at a property on Wellesley Road and a third was found in a car outside.\n\nOfficers, who were called to the scene at about 22:15 BST, said they were \"keeping an open mind\" about the circumstances.\n\nThe force urged anyone in the area between 18:00 BST on Saturday and 01:00 on Sunday who saw anything suspicion or unusual to contact them.\n\nDavid Beales, 64, an Anglican minister who lives on the street opposite the property affected, said he \"heard nothing\" overnight and woke up to find police officers walking up and down the road.\n\n\"This is normally quite a peaceful street,\" he said, adding: \"There has been a history of sometimes noise in the flats where the incident took place, but nothing dire like this.\"\n\nA police cordon remained at the scene on Sunday afternoon\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The final Thomas Cook holidaymakers to be brought home by the emergency repatriation will arrive in Manchester on a flight from Orlando on Monday.\n\nThe flight is one of the 700 organised by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) as part of \"Operation Matterhorn\".\n\nThe two-week operation returned 150,000 passengers to the UK after the package tour company collapsed last month.\n\nThe flight was one of 24 leaving on Sunday, and brings to an end the biggest-ever peacetime repatriation.\n\nThe CAA said that for the first 13 days of the operation, 94% of holidaymakers arrived home on the day of their original departure.\n\n\"Operation Matterhorn will shortly be complete. The largest peacetime repatriation ever required an extraordinary effort from all involved,\" said Richard Moriarty, the CAA's chief executive.\n\nThe few remaining passengers who did not return on an Operation Matterhorn flight will have to make their own plans, although those covered by the Air Travel Organiser's Licence scheme (Atol) will be refunded.\n\nThe majority of Thomas Cook holidays were packages and are Atol protected.\n\nThe Thomas Cook saga is far from over, with lingering questions over the company's collapse and the future travel plans of many customers in disarray.\n\nThe CAA said it would now turn its attention to refunding the 360,000 bookings cancelled when Britain's oldest travel group went under.\n\nAbout 9,000 staff in the UK were left jobless when the business failed to secure a last-ditch rescue deal.\n\nThe travel firm collapsed in the early hours of 23 September, after failing to obtain rescue funds from its banks.\n\nAn inquiry has been launched by the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, with MPs focussing on the directors' stewardship of the company.\n\nThe Financial Reporting Council, the accounting watchdog, will also investigate the auditing of the company.\n\nAre you one of the remaining Thomas Cook holidaymakers being repatriated today? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The bus driver was stabbed on Arundel Gate\n\nA bus driver has been stabbed in the centre of Sheffield.\n\nPolice were called to Arundel Gate at 13:50 BST after reports of a 40-year-old man being stabbed in what they believed was an attempted robbery.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said a 17-year-old boy had been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nFirst Bus thanked members of the public who helped the driver and detained the teenager at the scene. The driver was taken to hospital but later discharged.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jamie Henderson, of South Yorkshire Police, said: \"Thanks to quick-thinking actions of members of the public, the 17-year-old boy was detained at the scene until officers arrived.\n\n\"Their brave actions meant that we were able to take control of the situation quickly, get the offender into custody and the victim to hospital. I'd like to thank everyone who assisted.\n\n\"At this time, we believe this was an attempted robbery which has escalated, and officers are in the area carrying out inquiries to ascertain exactly what happened.\"\n\nFirst South Yorkshire said the driver was waiting to take over the bus at Arundel Gate when he was stabbed in the lower back.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We would like to thank the emergency services who attended the scene and members of the public who came to the aid of our driver.\n\n\"This was a serious attack on one of our colleagues and we will work closely with the police as part of their investigation.\n\n\"We are supporting our driver and his family at this distressing time.\"\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.", "The SNP would demand the power to hold another independence referendum in return for supporting a minority Labour government, the party's Westminster leader has suggested.\n\nIan Blackford told the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland that the party would not form a coalition with Labour.\n\nBut it would be prepared to work with Jeremy Corbyn on a \"progressive basis\".\n\nA Scottish Labour source said it would not make \"deals, pacts or coalition agreements with any party\".\n\nThere have been mixed messages on the issue from Labour in the past. Last month Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said the party would commit to opposing a further independence poll in its next UK manifesto.\n\nIt came after Mr Corbyn said he would \"decide at the time\" whether to approve a Section 30 order - the legal power giving Holyrood responsibility to stage a referendum.\n\nAs experts predict another hung parliament in the event of a snap election, Mr Blackford was asked whether the SNP's support for a minority Labour government after a general election would be conditional on support for a Section 30 order.\n\nThe MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber said Labour leader Mr Corbyn had to \"respect democracy\".\n\n\"We have that mandate there,\" he added. \"If the people in a Westminster election reinforce that by voting for the SNP, he has to respect that it should be the Scottish Parliament that determines when a referendum is called - not a government in Westminster.\"\n\nInterviewer Gordon Brewer asked: \"Can I take it that is a 'yes'?\"\n\nAnd Mr Blackford added: \"It is absolutely the case that everything that was seen going on at Westminster demonstrates that the people of Scotland have got to have the right to determine their own future - that means that we have to have that Section 30 sitting in the hands of the Scottish parliament.\n\nIn the same interview the MP refused to reveal details of opposition parties' plans to prevent the UK leaving the EU without a deal on 31 October.\n\nHe said they would \"seize control of the order paper\" if the government does not comply with the Benn Act - which compels the prime minister to request a Brexit delay if no deal is agreed by 19 October.\n\n\"The opposition - all opposition parties including the Tory rebels - have a majority to make sure that we can dictate the agenda in parliament any day,\" he added.\n\n\"So we can bring forward legislation. There are mechanisms that we can put in place. I apologise and you'll appreciate that I don't want to go into details on that today but we've gamed out all of this and we know exactly how we can do that. \"\n\nBoris Johnson has committed to leaving the EU on 31 October, deal or no deal, \"but no delay\". But the government has also said it will comply with the Benn law.\n\nWriting in two Sunday papers, the prime minister claimed his latest Brexit proposals have picked up support in Parliament and he urged the EU to compromise.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nMr Blackford called on other parties to bring forward a vote of no confidence in the government as soon as possible - and by the middle of October at the latest.\n\nIf that was successful, they would have 14 days to put in place an administration, led by an \"caretaker\" prime minister.\n\n\"We've got the Benn Act in place but we've still got a prime minister in office that we can't trust and I'm asking each and everyone one of them to go the extra mile and recognise, whether it's Jeremy Corbyn or anyone else, what we're talking about doing is putting someone in No 10 in an administrative capacity to do two things - to send that letter to extend article 50 and to call an election,\" Mr Blackford said.\n\nHe also addressed the fact that a plan to install Mr Corbyn in Downing Street does not have the support of enough opposition MPs.\n\n\"Everyone needs to keep in mind that, whether it's Jeremy or whether it's anyone else in that situation, that their hands are very clearly tied by the fact that it's the collective opposition that are putting that prime minister in place,\" he said.\n\n\"There's not a great deal that PM can do unless they've got the support of that coalition.\"\n\nMeanwhile Christine Jardine, a Scottish Liberal Democrat MP, said her party would not back Mr Corbyn to be interim prime minister.\n\nShe said that if Boris Johnson does not comply with the law, \"parliament will not allow this country to be crashed out of Europe\".", "Ruth Davidson has confirmed she is unlikely to seek re-election in 2021.\n\nThe former leader of the Scottish Conservatives told an audience at a book festival she would see out her term as MSP for Edinburgh Central.\n\nMs Davidson quit her role as the party's leader in August after eight years in the job.\n\nShe said at Saturday's event that she did so because she was \"hopelessly conflicted by Brexit\" and also wanted to spend more time being a mum.\n\nSpeaking at the Wigtown Book Festival, she told event chairwoman Sarah Smith that it was true that she and Boris Johnson were \"not buddy, buddy pals\" but she did not leave due to disagreements with him.\n\nMs Davidson added that she believed that the public would soon demand higher standards of public debate.\n\nAsked if she worried about the tone of public discourse - especially on social media - she said: \"Yes, I do. I personally think that it will self-right. I think there comes a point where the public of this country will be so disgusted that they will demand better.\"\n\nOn the issue of a second independence referendum, she was asked if she would consider leading any future equivalent of 2014's Better Together campaign.\n\nShe replied: \"Look, I hope there won't be a next time … I will do what I can to stop that happening, but if it is happening there is absolutely no way that I am going to sit it out.\n\n\"This is my country it's what I've fought for, it's what I believe in. And whether anyone wants me to hold a position or whether they want me to go round, knock doors and hand out leaflets, I'm happy doing both.\"\n\nShe added: \"I've just left a big job, I'm not angling for another, I could be yesterday's news a week on Tuesday. I'm not going to pretend that I would be best the person for the job, if it ever happens, in 10 or 15 years time, but if people want a hand then I'll help.\"\n\nAfter saying that she was unsure what direction her career will take in future, it may be in business or charity, Ms Davidson added that she \"was gainfully employed until May 2021\".\n\nAsked if this meant she would not be standing for the Scottish Parliament again she said: \"It's a fairly open secret that I think I'm going to see out my term… I'm giving myself the option to change my mind but I don't think that I will stand again.\"", "Joshua Molnar was referred to as Boy A during the trial at Manchester Crown Court\n\nA teenager who stabbed his friend in the heart can be named after an order protecting his anonymity was lifted.\n\nJoshua Molnar was cleared of murder and manslaughter following the death of 17-year-old Yousef Makki but was detained after he admitted possessing a knife.\n\nThe ruling to name him was made after a legal challenge by The Times newspaper.\n\nHis mother said the teenager, who turns 18 on Tuesday, \"accepts responsibility for Yousef's death in the act of self-defence\".\n\nBut Yousef's family said they had \"never seen a shred of true remorse\" from Molnar or a second defendant - a 17-year-old known in court as Boy B, who also admitted possessing a knife.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deborah Makki says her family is devastated\n\nManchester Grammar School pupil Yousef died in the attack in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester, in March.\n\nMolnar was detained for eight months and Boy B for four months - sentences which Yousef's family described as disappointing.\n\nThe trial heard Molnar acted in self-defence when Yousef pulled out a knife in a row over an attempt to rob a drug dealer.\n\nMr Justice Bryan said that with the agreement of his family, the restriction preventing Molnar being named was \"dispensed with in its entirety\".\n\nIn a statement following the judge's ruling, Yousef's sister Jade Akoum and mother Deborah Makki said: \"The utter devastation on our lives is indescribable.\n\nYousef Makki, 17, was stabbed in the heart with a flick knife\n\n\"Yousef was a bright and caring boy who had only just started to associate himself with these boys, who were not in any sense his 'best friends'.\n\n\"We do not accept for one moment that Yousef's death was merely an accident.\n\n\"Together with our legal, campaign and investigation teams, we are exploring all avenues for ensuring that we achieve justice for Yousef.\n\n\"We have never seen a shred of true remorse from Joshua Molnar, or the person known for the time being as Boy B.\"\n\nHis mother Deborah Makki said the family was \"broken\" by his death.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"Every single one of us is broken from my son, my daughters and even grandchildren. Everybody is devastated.\n\n\"There is never a normal day when we don't think about Yousef.\"\n\nMolnar's mother, Stephanie, said: \"Circumstances on the night of 2 March led to our son Joshua accidentally killing his friend Yousef with a knife whilst defending himself against a knife.\n\n\"The events of that night were a tragedy.\n\n\"I cannot imagine what Yousef's parents and family must be going through as they try to come to terms with this.\n\n\"Joshua fully accepts responsibility for Yousef's death in the act of self-defence, and the impact of this acceptance is massive.\n\n\"He will have to live with the responsibility of his role in this for the rest of his life.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry: \"Landmines are an unhealed scar of war\"\n\nThe UK will give Zimbabwe up to £2 million to help remove landmines after the Duke of Sussex backed the cause on his recent tour of Africa.\n\nThe government said it would match public donations to the Halo Trust's Zimbabwe appeal.\n\nPrince Harry followed his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, by wearing body armour and a protective visor on a visit to a minefield in Angola.\n\nThe Zimbabwe appeal aims to help 3,000 people get access to safe land.\n\nPrince Harry's visit, which was part of a tour of southern Africa with his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, highlighted the ongoing threat of land munitions.\n\nDiana's visit to Angola in 1997 provided an iconic image of the campaigning princess\n\nLast month, he visited the same place in Angola as his mother Diana, whose trip in 1997 helped focus calls on world leaders to ban the weapons.\n\n\"Landmines are an unhealed scar of war. By clearing the landmines we can help this community find peace and with peace comes opportunity,\" he said.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex sits beneath the Diana tree in Huambo, Angola\n\nInternational Development Secretary Alok Sharma said: \"Landmines are indiscriminate weapons of war that maim and kill innocent men, women and children.\n\n\"Their devastation lasts long after conflict has ended.\"\n\nThe Halo Trust aims to clear 105,600 square metres of land in Zimbabwe in a year which, the charity said, will help more than 3,000 people get access to safe land which is vital for producing food and creating jobs.\n\nSome 1,600 have lost their lives due to landmines since the war in the region ended in the 1980s, the government said.\n\nJames Cowan, of Halo, added: \"We will clear twice as many minefields and help twice as many people thanks to this new support.\"", "Andrew Marr is joined by Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay MP, shadow attorney general Baroness Shami Chakrabarti and Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš, Prime Minister of Latvia. Plus music from Blossoms.\n\nAndrew Marr is joined by Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay MP, shadow attorney general Baroness Shami Chakrabarti and Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš, Prime Minister of Latvia. Plus music from Blossoms. The newspapers are reviewed by LBC presenter Iain Dale, professor John Curtice of Strathclyde University and Plaid Cymru Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts MP.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website and app; Listen live on BBC Radio 5 Live; Live streams, clips and text commentary online.\n\nDina Asher-Smith became the first Briton to win three medals at a major global athletics championships as the 4x100m relay team won world silver.\n\nAsher-Smith, who won 200m gold and 100m silver this week, was on the second leg instead of the anchor leg after a late change as Great Britain finished behind Jamaica.\n\nShelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the 100m champion, won her second title in Doha.\n• None How to follow live on BBC TV, radio and online\n\nFraser-Pryce did the damage on the second leg as she gave Jamaica a clear advantage over the field. Jonielle Smith maintained the lead coming off the bend before Shericka Jackson brought the baton home in 41.44 seconds.\n\nAsha Philip - a late call-up after Imani-Lara Lansiquot pulled out after sustaining an injury during the warm-up - Asher-Smith and Ashleigh Nelson performed faultless changeovers before Daryll Neita held off USA's Kiara Parker to cross the line in a season's best of 41.85.\n\nThe United States' 42.10 was also their best time of the year.\n\nAn ecstatic Asher-Smith revealed the British quartet for the final had not practised the baton changes in the warm-up.\n\n\"I think we all handled the pressure between us which is testimony to how much experience we have got as a squad,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It's been a good champs but obviously it's a team event.\"\n\nNeita, who was moved to the anchor leg from the opening leg, added: \"I'm just so proud of us girls. It was a great leg to run and we're showing we have strength in depth in this team. Last-minute changes but we can still get the job done.\"\n\nThat third medal for Asher-Smith and silver for the men's 4x100m team means Great Britain have five medals in total.\n\nThe team will be hopeful of adding to the tally on the final day, with events including the men's 1500m final and women's 4x400m final.\n• None How to follow live on BBC TV, radio and online\n\nFind out how to get into athletics with our special guide.", "The Stagecoach South West service was travelling from Torquay to Plymouth when it crashed on the A385 between Totnes and Paignton in Devon at about 11:00 BST.\n\nPolice said up to eight people had been seriously hurt and were undergoing assessment.\n\nA total of 37 people are currently being treated at several hospitals around Devon, according to the NHS.\n\nThe emergency services closed the road and a major incident was declared, which has now been \"stood down\".\n\nUninjured passengers were taken to Paignton bus station for support and help to continue their journeys.\n\nPassengers had to be cut out of the overturned bus\n\nJane Viner, chief nurse and deputy chief executive at Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust, said many NHS staff had come in on their day off to help deal with the casualties.\n\nShe said: \"It's been a huge team effort by emergency services and hospital staff in Exeter, Plymouth and Torbay - we've had extra surgeons, doctors, GPs, nurses, chaplains and many other support staff reporting for duty. Thank you all.\"\n\nThe road will stay shut in both directions for several hours for \"investigation and recovery\", said Gerald Taylor, the area manager for Devon & Somerset Fire and Rescue Service.\n\nPolice said the bus driver had not been arrested, confirming he was assisting them with their inquiries.\n\nThe bus overturned and ended up in a field by the side of the road\n\nA witness said: \"It's like nothing you've ever seen up here, there's emergency vehicles everywhere.\"\n\nA spokesman for Stagecoach South West said the company was helping emergency services and its thoughts were with the victims of the crash.\n\n\"Safety is our absolute priority and we will be assisting the investigation into the circumstances involved in the incident,\" he added.\n\nThe road will remain closed for several hours while emergency services investigate the crash\n\nSeveral ambulances were sent to the scene, as well as the air ambulance.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat MP for Totnes, Sarah Wollaston, thanked the emergency services for their efforts under difficult circumstances.\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.", "As the swimming season for humans finishes, a special dog swim session allowed owners and their pets to enjoy the pool together.\n\nThe first ever session at the pool offered a safe space for dogs to play in the water and socialise with other canine companions and their owners.\n\nExercise in water is good for dogs' health as it reduces the impact of activity on their bones.\n\nBBC Scotland's The Nine went along to see how they got on.", "A sign in London shows where the nearest open cinema is\n\nNot usually known as a seat of rebellion, Aberystwyth was the only town to defy the government and have cinemas open at the outbreak of World War Two.\n\nIn the first week of the conflict in September 1939, all places of entertainment were closed on the orders of the Home Office.\n\nBut from 4 to 8 September, Aberystwyth was the only town in Great Britain to ignore this and have cinemas open.\n\nThis led to a government climb down with all venues open by the weekend.\n\nIt was on 3 September 1939 that Great Britain declared war on Germany after it ignored an ultimatum to cease its invasion of Poland.\n\nFollowing this, the Home Office declared that all places of entertainment should be closed down \"until the scale of the attack is judged\".\n\nAn entry from the Coliseum Cinema's account book showing that it was \"closed owing to the outbreak of war\" on the 4 and 5 September\n\nWriting in The Times on 5 September, George Bernard Shaw called it \"a masterstroke of unimaginative stupidity\".\n\nDespite this verdict, all venues in Britain adhered to the directive - all apart from those in Aberystwyth.\n\n\"The Second World War broke out on 3 September which was a Sunday when most cinemas were normally closed,\" said Ceredigion Museum's former curator Michael Freeman.\n\n\"On the second day all cinemas remained closed except for one, the Pier Pavilion cinema, Aberystwyth, which was due to show The Mad Miss Manton with Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda.\n\n\"On the fourth day of war, the Coliseum, Aberystwyth opened, having obtained delivery of its films.\"\n\nThe Grade II-listed Coliseum Cinema closed in 1977 and reopened in 1983 as Ceredigion Museum\n\nThe town's third cinema, the Forum on Bath Street, was undergoing renovation.\n\nA report about the cinemas remaining open in the Cambrian News said: \"Both had received permission from the chief constable provided that they had someone listening for the air raid siren.\n\n\"Special notices about the risks during an air raid were placed in the cinemas.\"\n\nWhile the chief constable of Cardiganshire JJ Lloyd Williams said he used his \"discretionary powers\" and declared \"all places of entertainment are now available to the public\", this brought an angry response.\n\n\"The Home Office states that neither the chief constable nor anybody else has the power to open a theatre or cinema without Home Office permission,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"They are closed under Home Office orders and that is rigid.\"\n\nThe Pier cinema could seat 1,000 people but after fire damage it never showed films again\n\nWhile the Pier Cinema was closed on the Thursday, the town's other two opened, meaning it was still the only British town where films were being shown.\n\nBy the Saturday, the Home Office's resistance had waned and it sanctioned all venues in \"neutral areas\" - those not in areas in danger of being bombed - opening until 22:00.\n\nThis was on the proviso a member of staff would be posted to listen for air raid warnings.\n\nBut while the government could not close the Pier Cinema down, it was its position near the coast which eventually led to it having to shut its doors.\n\n\"[It] was closed from the 1 October 1941 until 1 April 1942, because of the concern that mines in the Irish Sea might blow it up,\" Mr Freeman said.\n\n\"A mine did explode near it in October 1942 and as a result, the pier was closed from then on, presumably until the end of the war.\"\n\nA report written by the chief constable and kept at the Ceredigion Archives described sea mines washing up between Llanon and the Dyfi Estuary.\n\n\"In consequence of the danger existing from such mines, a notice prohibiting the use of the Aberystwyth Pier and cinema was issued by myself on the instruction of the naval authorities,\" it said.\n\nThe Pier Cinema eventually reopened, but in 1960, it was damaged by fire and closed, never to show a film again.\n• None The abandoned cinema being reclaimed by nature\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. Endometriosis: The condition that can take more than seven years to diagnose\n\nMore than 13,500 women have taken part in BBC research revealing the devastating effect of endometriosis.\n\nHalf said they had had suicidal thoughts, and many said they rely on highly addictive painkillers.\n\nMost also said endometriosis - involving painful periods - had badly affected their education, career and relationships.\n\nMPs are to launch an inquiry into women's experiences of endometriosis following the research.\n\nWomen with the condition answered questions on how the condition has affected them. The charity Endometriosis UK helped gather the responses.\n\nThe condition affects one in 10 women and, as well as extremely heavy periods, can cause debilitating pain and sometimes infertility.\n\nBethany Willis, who lives in Essex, was one of those who took part in the research. She began having endometriosis symptoms aged just nine.\n\nShe knew what it was because her mum and grandmother also have the condition.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNow 19, Bethany says: \"The pain is like barbed wire wrapped around your insides and someone's pulling it while at the same time an animal is trying to eat its way through you.\"\n\nAt one point she was in so much pain that she took an overdose.\n\n\"I texted my boyfriend and said goodbye. I was ready to end my life there and then because of the pain.\"\n\nShe was finally diagnosed this summer following surgery and - though still in daily pain - she is managing to cope.\n\n\"My mind is clearer and I have more energy, but the years of not being treated mean I've had to drop out of veterinary school and my dream career,\" she said.\n\nAnna Turley MP, a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Endometriosis which will carry out the inquiry, said: \"It wasn't until I was hospitalised and had the diagnosis that I realised how little attention endometriosis receives, how limited research funding is, and how many women are misdiagnosed.\"\n\nShe said the data gave \"millions of affected women a voice\" and the APPG would be calling on the government to act.\n\nTayla Marshall, 24, from Northamptonshire, is one of those who relies on pain relief to cope with her symptoms.\n\nShe has been through multiple operations and two chemically-induced menopauses and she is now addicted to strong opioid medication.\n\n\"I worry every day about my opioid intake. I take 50ml of morphine sulfate, Fentanyl patches, Naproxen and 30mg of amitriptyline and although I'm not addicted in my mind, my body is physically dependant on this now.\n\n\"If I went a day without it, I would start to experience nasty withdrawal symptoms.\"\n\nBecause her condition is so severe, Tayla is considering having a hysterectomy when she's 30.\n\n\"I have six years to try for a family,\" she said.\n\n\"But my last relationship ended due to the impact of endometriosis. I wasn't able to be intimate with my partner very often, unless I was dosed up on medication.\n\n\"I am also in a position where I have reduced chances of falling pregnant naturally and carrying a baby.\n\n\"I have sort of managed to get my head around the idea of not having children but it breaks my heart every day.\"\n\nEmma Cox, CEO of the charity Endometriosis UK, which helped gather the women's testimonies, said: \"It cannot be overstated the devastating impact this condition is clearly having on people's physical and mental health.\n\n\"Without investment in research, a reduction in diagnosis time - which averages at a shocking 7.5 years - and better access to pain management, women will continue to face huge barriers in accessing the right treatment at the right time.\"\n\nSome women choose to undergo a hysterectomy and early menopause in a bid to stop their symptoms.\n\nMichelle recently underwent surgery in a bid to end her symptoms\n\nMichelle Middleton, 42, from West Yorkshire, recently underwent the operation to remove her ovaries, womb, fallopian tubes and cervix.\n\nShe says it is her last hope: \"I just want rid of everything,\" she said.\n\nBut she added: \"The risk is that I'm no better and that there's damage and it gets worse but you have to have hope.\"\n\nMinister for women's health, Caroline Dinenage said: \"I urge clinicians to play their part in breaking down the ongoing stigma around endometriosis by ensuring they follow NICE guidelines and encourage employers to rise to the challenge by creating supportive and flexible ways to help those living with these conditions.\"", "Claim: US President Donald Trump and other Republicans say the rules for complaints made by whistleblowers were changed shortly before an anonymous whistleblower raised concerns about the president's phone call with the leader of Ukraine.\n\nThe US president is accused of pressuring Ukraine to dig up damaging information on his Democrat rival, Joe Biden.\n\nVerdict: The regulations governing whistleblower complaints have not changed. The wording of the form that whistleblowers use to raise concerns was already under review, and was changed after the whistleblower made the complaint about President Trump's phone call.\n\nPresident Trump is at the centre of an impeachment inquiry following the phone call he made to the Ukrainian president on 25 July.\n\nIn August, an anonymous intelligence official expressed concern that Mr Trump had used his office to \"solicit interference from a foreign country\" in the 2020 presidential election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What we know about Biden-Ukraine corruption claims\n\nA rough transcript of the call revealed that Mr Trump had urged the Ukrainian leader to investigate former US Vice-President Joe Biden as well as Mr Biden's son.\n\nMr Trump and his supporters allege that Mr Biden abused his power to get Ukraine to back away from a criminal investigation into a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, that employed his son, Hunter, on its board.\n\nThe current Ukrainian prosecutor general and his predecessor have said no evidence has emerged of wrongdoing by the Bidens.\n\nPresident Trump has said that the whistleblower rules were changed just before the submission of the complaint about his phone call to Ukraine.\n\nOther Republicans have joined in, suggesting the rules were amended to allow the whistleblower to submit a complaint based on second-hand sources.\n\nRepublican Senator Lindsey Graham said: \"I want to know why they changed the rules about whistleblowers - the hearsay rule was changed just a short period of time before the complaint was filed.\"\n\nPresident Trump and others seem to be referring to a recent change to the wording of a form used for making whistleblower complaints.\n\nThis did change as part of a review that was already going on before Mr Trump called the Ukrainian leader, according to a statement from the Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community.\n\nThis body deals with complaints made by whistleblowers working within the US intelligence services.\n\nHowever, the change was only made after the whistleblower made his complaint about the Ukraine phone call, and not before, according to the watchdog.\n\nThe statement says the complaint was received on 12 August, using the same form that had been in use since 24 May 2018.\n\nIt says three new forms have now been developed to remove language which the Inspector General for the Intelligence Community thought could be \"incorrectly read as suggesting whistleblowers must possess first-hand information to file a complaint\".\n\nThe statement also says: \"By law, the complainant - or any individual in the intelligence community who wants to report information with respect to an urgent concern to the congressional intelligence committees - need not possess first-hand information in order to file a complaint.\"\n\nIt also points out that with the complaint about the Ukraine call, the whistleblower checked the relevant boxes for having both first and second-hand knowledge of the incident.\n\nAnd legal analysts say any revision to the form could not change underlying US law governing such cases. The legislation makes clear that whistleblowers do not require first-hand information.", "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", "There have been more clashes in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, between security forces and protesters who are demanding action on unemployment and corruption.\n\nThe protesters defied an open-ended curfew put in place by the prime minister after two days of violence left at least 19 people dead.", "Ewan Ireland is due to be sentenced in December\n\nA teenager who stabbed a lawyer to death with a screwdriver can be named after reporting restrictions expired.\n\nEwan Ireland was 17 when he killed Peter Duncan at the Eldon Square shopping centre in Newcastle in August.\n\nIreland, of Newcastle, admitted murder, stealing screwdrivers and carrying an offensive weapon, but could not be identified until his 18th birthday.\n\nHe remains in police custody and will be sentenced in December after psychiatric reports have been prepared.\n\nAt a previous hearing, prosecutors said Ireland had 17 convictions for 31 offences between 2017 and 2019.\n\nNewcastle Crown Court was told 52-year-old Mr Duncan was \"simply in the wrong place at the wrong time\" when he crossed paths with the teenager outside a Greggs.\n\nHe died after being stabbed once in the heart on 14 August.\n\nPeter Duncan's family described him as a \"devoted father and husband\"\n\nMr Duncan was working as legal counsel in the Newcastle office of Royal IHC Limited when he was killed, and previously worked as a solicitor and legal advisor with other companies in Darlington and Newcastle.\n\nHe had trained as an electrical engineer before graduating from Northumbria University with a law degree in 2003.\n\nIn a statement released following his death, Mr Duncan's family said he was a \"kind and caring man who was always first to help others\".\n\n\"His death will leave such a huge hole in our lives and he'll be deeply missed by us all,\" they added.\n\nA cordon was put in place at Eldon Square after the stabbing\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pret a Manger has completed a roll-out of more comprehensive labelling on foods across its stores in the wake of a girl's death after suffering an allergic reaction to one of the chain's sandwiches\n\nNatasha Ednan-Laperouse, 15, died in 2016 because her sandwich contained sesame, but it wasn't listed as an allergen on the packaging as it wasn't required by law.\n\nAs a result of campaigning by Natasha's parents the law will change in 2021, compelling businesses to clearly label all ingredients and allergens on products and help save lives.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Margaret Jenkins thought her father was \"just a dad\" - but he painted for the Queen\n\nHis art has been enjoyed by generations of royal children - yet his own daughter knew little of his talents.\n\nSaxon Jenkins, who died in 1989, made paintings of Welsh castles to go in a miniature house given to the Queen when she was six in 1932.\n\nA self-taught artist, he also submitted work to London's Royal Academy.\n\nBut he stopped painting after starting a family and his daughter only found out about his work when her mother died recently and she found clippings.\n\nMargaret Jenkins is now trying to find out more about Saxon's paintings.\n\nA miniature thatched cottage, Y Bwthyn Bach (The Little Cottage), was given to the Queen (then Princess Elizabeth) as a gift from the people of Wales.\n\nAged 25 in 1932, Saxon read about it in a newspaper, and wondered why nobody had given furnishings to go inside.\n\nSo, he painted St Fagans castle near Cardiff and the since demolished Dunraven castle near Southerndown to offer as decorations.\n\nMargaret's father was 36 when she was born and she doesn't believe he painted at all during her lifetime\n\nDescribing his efforts, he told an unknown newspaper: \"I had to perch myself on a ledge of rock above the sea in order to secure a proper view (of Dunraven Castle).\n\n\"One day there came a sudden violent storm of rain and wind and I was nearly blown into the sea hundreds of feet below.\n\n\"I had to cling to the rock with one hand and save my precious picture with the other, and scramble to safety as best I could in the teeth of a howling gale.\"\n\nThe efforts were fully appreciated, and the Queen Mother requested he be sent a reply saying the Royal Family didn't usually accept unsolicited gifts, but on this occasion were happy to.\n\nA document referring to the Duchess of York, the Queen Mother's wish that Saxon Jenkins be thanked for his paintings\n\n\"There was one time at Easter, we came down for breakfast and he had drawn all the faces on the boiled eggs,\" Margaret said.\n\n\"Apart from that, there was a painting of a field with a tree and bluebells that was in the my nana's front room and she used to say 'your father painted that'.\n\n\"They were the only hints he used to be an artist.\"\n\nMargaret's birth coincided with the outbreak of war, and with a young family, she believes he stopped painting to concentrate on providing for his family.\n\nShe remembers her dad as a quietly spoken, highly-skilled electrician, who worked in Cardiff's Ely paper mill and made crystal radios and model trains out of cardboard in his spare time.\n\nA neighbour glowingly referring to him as \"a genius\" is the only thing that stands out in her mind indicating he was incredibly talented.\n\nMargaret has one photo of Saxon and his work - believed to be Dunraven Castle\n\nShe added: \"When war broke out in 1943, he was 36.\n\n\"It destroyed a lot of things. I don't think he did any painting after and never mentioned his art.\n\n\"He had five girls and one boy and, like everyone else, was busy working and building the country back up.\n\n\"If it wasn't for the war, he could well have been famous.\"\n\nHe was born Harold David Saxon Jenkins in 1907 in Skewen, Swansea and in 1933 submitted work to London's Royal Academy.\n\nDifferent newspapers lavished praise on this oil painting depicting \"the changing face of Wales\".\n\nA faded clipping from an unknown 1930s newspaper is one of only two images Margaret has showing her father's work\n\nIt was of a soon-to-be-destroyed rural thatched cottage, with a despondent-looking old man sitting outside as a motor car sped by.\n\nOne clipping said it was \"remarkable\" how he had captured the light and mood.\n\nSaxon described how he was inspired while cycling from his Cardiff home to Swansea and going out to the Vale of Glamorgan every weekend to draw.\n\nHe would stop and sketch scenes before completing landscapes and seascapes.\n\nHowever, modestly, he told one newspaper: \"Art is only a hobby for me so far.\n\n\"I am afraid it may never be more than that but it is a delightful hobby all the same, and therefore its own reward.\"\n\nSaxon was employed at Ely Paper Mill for most of his career, and worked as an electrician in his spare time\n\nWhen war started, Saxon worked as a policeman in Ely and met his wife, which is when his fledgling art career appears to have ended.\n\nMargaret knew that an aunt in Canada had some of her father's paintings - but when she died, they also disappeared.\n\nOne was donated to Cardiff's Royal Infirmary in the 1930s, but Margaret fears all traces of his talents have now gone from the wards there as well as everywhere else.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The footage shows The Beatles, pictured here in New York, during a playful interview in 1965\n\nLost footage of The Beatles from the 1960s has emerged after being found in a bread bin in Wales.\n\nThe film, which has been valued at £10,000, was found during a clearance of a house and shows the band being interviewed in Cardiff in 1965.\n\nThe find comes a day after a woman found signatures from the Fab Four that had been left in a cupboard.\n\nPaul Fairweather, from Omega Auctions, said the lost reels were a \"great find\".\n\nIn the footage, the band are seen joking with a journalist attempting to interview them, with John Lennon saying Paul McCartney has five children in Swansea and Ringo Starr joking their next film would be a Western.\n\nThey also break into a rendition of There's No Business Like Show Business, and pull funny faces throughout the interview.\n\nOther footage, from 1967, shows spiritual guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and The Beatles being questioned about their adherence to his teachings.\n\nLennon says in the clip: \"Of course it's not a cult and if we didn't take it seriously we wouldn't be here.\"\n\nA third sound recording captures Lennon giving an acoustic rendition of his post-Beatles song God, and has also been valued at £10,000.\n\nMr Fairweather said: \"All four Beatles are in fine form throughout both of the Cardiff films, laughing and joking, while the interviewer tries to remain serious.\n\n\"The sound and image quality is fantastic. I expect these have never been seen since 1965.\"", "TV personality Nadiya Hussain has revealed she was sexually assaulted at the age of five by a relative in Bangladesh.\n\nThe 2015 Great British Bake Off winner said the trauma \"played a role\" in subsequent post traumatic stress disorder and panic attacks.\n\nIn an interview with the Mail on Sunday, she also said she considered killing herself when she was 10.\n\nHussain has previously spoken of her lifelong struggle with anxiety.\n\nShe told the paper she has \"no doubt\" the assault influenced her mental health, calling it a memory that has \"stayed with [her] forever\".\n\nHer forthcoming book, Finding My Voice, is the first time she has written about the assault, having only told her sisters recently, and a friend at school.\n\n\"It turned out a very similar thing had happened to her… [and] I think it's important to talk about it because it probably happens much more than we care to talk about,\" she said.\n\nShe told the paper she only understood what had happened to her years later during a biology lesson explaining sex, prompting her to vomit in the laboratory bench sink.\n\n\"If that happened to my children, I don't even want to say what I would do. I can't even… just as a mother… I can't. I have no words. I very rarely have no words,\" she added.\n\nHussain, who grew up in a Bangladeshi community in Luton, also discusses being a victim of bullying at school in her memoir.\n\nShe writes how a boy in her class exposed himself to her, before calling her a \"black bitch\" and repeatedly slamming her hand in a door.\n\nIn another incident boys forced her head into a toilet - a memory that has left her with persistent flashbacks.\n\nShe writes about how she tried to kill herself at the age of 10.\n\n\"I didn't know what death was. All I knew was that it meant not living the life I had now - and I didn't like my life,\" she writes.\n\nBut she changed her mind after her parents announced her mother was pregnant with her brother, Shak.\n\n\"I can't go anywhere, I have to stay for him. He will need me,\" she writes.\n\nEarlier this year, Hussain opened up about the bullying in BBC One documentary Nadiya: Anxiety and Me.\n\n\"I still have that memory of the water going up my nose and feeling like if they don't pull me up now I am going to drown with my head in this toilet,\" she said.\n\nViewers praised her for allowing cameras to follow her as she sought diagnosis and treatment for \"extreme anxiety\".\n\nShe spoke about her constant struggle with a panic disorder, which she described as a \"monster\", in 2017, two years after she won the Great British Bake Off.\n\nIf you or someone you know is struggling with issues raised by this story, find support through BBC Action Line.", "Lin-Manuel Miranda played the title role in early productions of Hamilton\n\nHamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda has spoken about how the death of his childhood best friend has shaped his plays and his outlook on life.\n\nThe actor, writer and composer told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs the tragedy during kindergarten made him \"very aware\" of the spectre of death.\n\nMiranda, 39, said his friend accidentally drowned, which made him \"aware of the ticking clock earlier\".\n\nHe added: \"And I think I am drawn to characters who are very aware of it.\"\n\nMiranda shot to fame in 2015 when Hamilton became a Broadway smash. The show uses hip-hop to tell the story of Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of the United States, who died in a duel in 1804.\n\nThe character raps in the show: \"I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory/When is it gonna get me?\"\n\nDesert Island Discs host Lauren Laverne asked whether his idols - such as Hamilton, Rent writer Jonathan Larson, who died at the age of 35, and late Cabaret choreographer and director Bob Fosse - were connected because their stories all contain \"the ticking clock\".\n\nMiranda replied: \"I think you're marked by your awareness of it and how much you let it affect your day-to-day.\n\n\"Part of it is growing up in New York. You're kind of always a little on alert. And I also experienced death at a young age.\"\n\nSpeaking about the death of his kindergarten friend, he said: \"It's one of those terrible stories where each of the parents thought she was with someone else, and she drowned in the lake behind their home.\n\n\"I have this memory of nursery school of just six months of grey - of my friend, who used to go to this class, didn't go any more. And I remember the morning my mother told me. When that hits you early, you're aware of the ticking clock earlier.\"\n\nMiranda's career has also included roles in Mary Poppins Returns and the forthcoming BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. He is also currently making a film version of his first Broadway musical, In The Heights.\n\nDesert Island Discs is on BBC Radio 4 at 11:15 BST on Sunday, and will then be available online.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Stephen Barclay has been pressed on how the government will respond to a new law designed to force it to seek an extension to the Brexit deadline if a deal is not reached by 19 October.\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Marr \"pleaded\" with the Brexit secretary to reveal the \"cunning plan\".", "A number of east African children who are thought to have arrived into NI illegally have been taken into care in Belfast in recent weeks.\n\nIt is unclear how they arrived, however some of the teenagers said they travelled in a shipping container.\n\nPolice dispute that and have said officers are trying to find out how they got there.\n\nThe children are from Eritrea in north east Africa and were travelling without an adult.\n\nIt is understood they were found at different times over a number of weeks.\n\nThey have since been placed in the care of Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said it is \"liaising with the relevant health trust to understand the circumstances around a number of unaccompanied children who have been taken into the care of social services\".\n\n\"Our first priority is the safety and wellbeing of the children involved,\" the PSNI added.", "Laurence Soper was jailed for 18 years for abusing boys at St Benedict's\n\nA group of paedophiles behaved \"like the mafia\", abusing dozens of young boys at a west London Catholic school over a 50 year period, a report says.\n\nSt Benedict's School, Ealing, was described as a \"grim and beastly place\" by the Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).\n\nA culture of cover-up and denial of sexual abuse operated at Ealing Abbey, which ran the school, the report found.\n\nTo date five men have been convicted for abusing children at the school.\n\nFather Anthony Gee faced accusations of abuse and a civil action was brought against him\n\nStaff who reported concerns about teacher behaviour compared it to going up against \"the mafia\" and \"ramming your head against a brick wall\".\n\nPeter Halsall, a teacher at St Benedict's for 40 years, made complaints about both Pearce and Maestri \"but they didn't go anywhere and it definitely harmed my career\".\n\nFive men have been jailed for abusing children at St Benedict's\n\nThe IICSA received 18 further allegations against 8 monks and staff, but the true scale of the abuse is \"likely to be much higher\", the report found.\n\nChildren suffered severe corporal punishment which was often used as a means to initiate sexual abuse or for sexual gratification.\n\n\"It remains to be seen whether Ealing Abbey proves itself capable in the future of ensuring proper safeguarding of children at risk,\" the report said.\n\nThe IICSA report highlighted failings by school leadership, police, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and child protection teams.\n\nThe report, the inquiry's tenth, has been published as part of its investigation of abuse within the Roman Catholic church.\n\nA request was sent to the Holy See for a witness statement covering questions on what steps were taken after Soper disappeared from the country in 2011.\n\nThe Vatican declined to provide a statement, a move John O'Brien, secretary to the inquiry, described as \"regrettable\".\n\nCorrection 1 November 2019: An earlier version of this article referred to abuse carried out by a group of paedophile priests and reported that five priests had been jailed. It has since been amended to explain that five men were convicted of abusing children at the school, including two priests.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Libby Squire's body was found in the Humber estuary on 20 March\n\nA man has been charged with the rape and murder of student Libby Squire.\n\nThe 21-year-old disappeared after a night out in Hull on 1 February and her body was found in the Humber estuary almost seven weeks later.\n\nPawel Relowicz, 25, of Raglan Street, Hull, is due to appear before Hull Magistrates' Court on 30 October.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said the charges came after a \"lengthy and complex investigation\" by Humberside Police.\n\nMr Relowicz was questioned by detectives investigating Ms Squire's disappearance earlier in the year but no charges were brought.\n\nChief Crown Prosecutor Gerry Wareham said Ms Squire's family had been informed of the development.\n\n\"This decision was made following a careful review of all the evidence presented to us by Humberside Police as a result of their lengthy and complex investigation,\" he said.\n\n\"Criminal proceedings against Mr Relowicz are now active and he has a right to a fair trial.\"\n\nPawel Relowicz had been questioned by detectives earlier in the investigation\n\nMs Squire, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, was last seen alive just after midnight on 1 February at the junction of Beverley Road and Haworth Street in Hull, near to her student house.\n\nHer body was discovered in the Humber estuary, close to Spurn Point, on 20 March following extensive searches involving hundreds of police officers, specialist divers, dog handlers and member of the public.\n\nHer body was released to her family at the end of August.\n\nHundreds of people attended the University of Hull philosophy student's funeral on 3 October.\n\nThe university's vice-chancellor Prof Susan Lea said: \"My thoughts, and those of my colleagues and our students, are with Libby's family and friends at this time.\n\n\"Libby was and always will be part of our community, which is strong and supportive, and we will continue to support our colleagues and students over the forthcoming months.\"\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.", "The actress was one of the first people to accuse Weinstein of rape\n\nActress Rose McGowan has filed a lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein, his ex-lawyers and a private intelligence agency, accusing them of trying to silence her.\n\nMcGowan was one of the first people to accuse Mr Weinstein of rape in 2017.\n\nShe claims Mr Weinstein and his team conspired to discredit her after they heard she was writing a book.\n\nThe movie mogul is currently awaiting trial and denies all allegations of non-consensual sex.\n\nMs McGowan claims she was raped by Mr Weinstein in a hotel room during a business meeting at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival.\n\nHer lawsuit targets Mr Weinstein, lawyers David Boies and Lisa Bloom, and the private intelligence firm Black Cube. The claims include racketeering, invasion of privacy and fraud.\n\nIt claims that as soon as they heard she was writing a book in 2016 that included details about the alleged sexual assault, Mr Weinstein and his team attempted to ensure the book was never published.\n\nShe alleged that Mr Weinstein recruited Black Cube to obtain information on the book by posing as an advocate for women.\n\nThe suit says: \"This case is about a diabolical and illegal effort by one of America's most powerful men and his representatives to silence sexual-assault victims. And it is about the courageous women and journalists who persisted to reveal the truth.\"\n\nEric George, attorney for Ms Bloom, told AFP news agency: \"There is simply no credible factual or legal basis for her claims against my client. We look forward to our day in court to set the record straight.\"\n\nMr Weinstein's lawyer told the Hollywood Reporter that the allegations against him were \"baseless.\"\n\nRose McGowan's book Brave was published last year and included details on the alleged abuse and how Harvey Weinstein \"poisoned the film and television industry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Indian police have hailed the arrest of a notorious suspected poacher who they say killed sloth bears and ate their penises as a \"very important catch\".\n\nThe man, known as Yarlen, had been on the run for years.\n\nAuthorities were first alerted when they found sloth bear carcasses without genitals in a national park.\n\nThe nomadic Pardhi-Behelia tribe he is part of believe the animal's penis is an aphrodisiac, said Ritesh Sirothia of the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department.\n\nBut Yarlen, who was arrested on 19 October in the state of Gujarat, was also a major figure in the tiger poaching trade in central India, he said.\n\nHe was a suspect in several cases involving the poaching and trading of endangered wild animals, including tigers, in central and western India.\n\nHe is alleged to have used several different identities to evade capture.\n\nYarlen is yet to be charged and neither he nor a lawyer have commented on the allegations. He was produced in court on Wednesday and remanded in custody.\n\n\"We created a special cell to track him down and arrest him. It was our longest chase, it went on for six years,\" said Mr Sirothia, who heads the forest department's special task force.\n\nFound in the southern parts of Madhya Pradesh, the Pardhi-Behelia tribe has traditionally lived in forests and depended on hunting for survival.\n\nYarlen is alleged to have hunted sloth bears and tigers, among other endangered animals\n\nHunting of wild animals is illegal in India, including for tribal communities, though ritual forest hunting continues. The Indian government says it is working to provide alternative livelihoods to tribespeople but many continue to live on the fringes of society.\n\nYarlen was first arrested in 2013 after police found two sloth bear carcasses from the Kanha national park missing genitalia and gall bladders.\n\nHe spent a year in jail before being freed on bail and going on the run, police said. Bear bile, which is produced in the liver and stored in the gall bladder, has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for hundreds of years and fetches a high price in the illegal international market.\n\nMr Sirothia said there were six cases registered against Yarlen in the states of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh under Cites (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). Three of the cases involve the poaching of tigers.", "Prof Shanks said he was relieved his 13-year legal battle to get compensation was over\n\nA scientist has been awarded £2m compensation by the UK's highest court for his invention of pioneering technology to test blood sugar levels nearly 40 years ago.\n\nProfessor Ian Shanks developed the system, used by many diabetics, while working for Unilever in the 1980s.\n\nThe rights to his invention belonged to the company and until now he was not entitled to a share of the benefits.\n\nProf Shanks said he was relieved by the result, after a 13-year legal battle.\n\nWhile working for a subsidiary of multinational giant Unilever in Bedfordshire in 1982, Prof Shanks developed new technology to measure the concentration of glucose in blood and other liquids.\n\nUsing plastic film and glass slides from his daughter's toy microscope kit and bulldog clips to hold it together, he built the first prototype of what is now known as the electrochemical capillary fill device (ECFD).\n\nHis ECFD technology eventually appeared in most glucose testing products, which are used by diabetics to monitor their condition.\n\nProf Shanks first applied for compensation in 2006 but lost every step in his legal battle until it reached the Supreme Court.\n\nOn Wednesday, the court unanimously ruled that Prof Shanks's invention had provided his former employer with an \"outstanding benefit\" for which he should receive compensation.\n\nJudge Lord Kitchin said the rewards Unilever enjoyed \"were substantial and significant\" and Prof Shanks was entitled to a \"fair share\" of the company's net benefit of around £24m from the patents.\n\nSpeaking after the ruling, Prof Shanks, who lives near Dundee, said he was pleased his \"13-year slog\" to get compensation was over.\n\nHowever, the 72-year-old told the BBC the legal battle was not \"without its costs\" and had caused him a great deal of stress.\n\n\"In 2007 I had a heart attack - which wasn't at all helped by the strain I was under,\" he added.\n\nA finger-prick blood test is one way someone with diabetes can check their blood sugar levels\n\nHowever, he said his persistence was driven by a desire to help future inventors, rather than for his own financial reward, adding that most of the compensation would go towards his legal costs.\n\n\"I would much prefer that employee inventors believe that if they do something that turns out to be really profitable and significant, they may actually stand a chance of getting an award,\" he said.\n\nWhen he first applied for compensation, he said not one employee inventor had benefitted from the provisions of the Patents Act, introduced 30 years earlier.\n\nThe Act entitles workers who invent something from which their employer gains an \"outstanding benefit\" to a \"fair share\" of these benefits.\n\nProf Shanks added that he felt great pride for his invention which he said had probably helped several hundred million people living with diabetes.\n\nOutlining the background to the case, Lord Kitchin said Prof Shanks accepted that the rights to his inventions belonged to Unilever, but argued that he was still entitled to compensation.\n\nThe judge said Prof Shanks' ECFD technology became something most significant companies in the field were willing to pay millions of pounds to use.\n\nProf Shanks had argued at an earlier hearing that, while Unilever ultimately received around £24m from the patents, the company could have earned royalties for \"as much as one billion US dollars\" had his invention been \"fully exploited\".\n\nA spokesperson for Unilever said the company was \"disappointed\" with the decision to award Dr Shanks \"a share of the licence revenue obtained by Unilever in addition to the salary, bonuses and benefits he was compensated with while employed to develop new products for the business.\"", "A graphic symbol on the Galaxy S10 tells users where they need to press to provide a fingerprint\n\nRBS and its sister bank Natwest have pulled their apps for the Samsung Galaxy S10 after a security flaw was found on the phone.\n\nLast week, users found the device could be unlocked by anyone via its fingerprint authentication system when used with certain screen protectors.\n\nS10 owners will be unable to download RBS apps until the issue is fixed.\n\nThe bank is also encouraging those with the app already downloaded \"to disable biometrics on their device\".\n\nHowever, it would not confirm whether it had warned all 200,000 of its customers who use the Galaxy S10.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NatWest This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNationwide Building Society and HSBC have issued similar warnings to customers, along with banks in Israel and South Korea, according to reports.\n\nMeanwhile, Wechat and Alipay, who together dominate China's mobile payments market, have reportedly disabled the fingerprint payment option on their apps for the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Note 10.\n\nSo far there have been no reports of people using the glitch to commit fraud - but banks are urging customers to be vigilant.\n\nAn HSBC UK spokeswoman said: \"We have been in direct contact with customers who may be affected by the potential Samsung security issue, and have recommended that they disable their phone's fingerprint authentication until a fix is confirmed and they've updated their device.\"\n\nThe flaw was spotted last week by a British woman, whose husband was able to unlock her Galaxy S10 with his thumbprint when it was stored in a cheap case.\n\nAfter buying a £2.70 gel screen protector, Lisa Neilson registered her right thumbprint and then found her left thumbprint, which was not registered, could also unlock the phone.\n\nShe then asked her husband to try and both his thumbs also unlocked it.\n\nWhen the screen protector was added to another relative's phone, the same thing happened.\n\nThe couple told the Sun newspaper it was a \"real concern\".\n\nWhen the S10 was launched, in March, Samsung described the fingerprint authentication system as \"revolutionary\".\n\nUnlike other ID systems, a scanner sends ultrasounds to detect 3D ridges of fingerprints in order to recognise users. However, reports have suggested some screen protectors are incompatible with the reader because they leave a small air gap that interferes with the scanning.\n\nSamsung has said it is \"aware of the case of S10's malfunctioning fingerprint recognition and will soon issue a software patch\".\n\nBanks understand a fix will be rolled out this week, but on Thursday the South Korean firm was unable to confirm when that might happen.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Italian village of Castelletto d'Orba was hit by a deluge of river water and mud\n\nA man's body has been found and five people are missing after flooding hit parts of north-east Spain.\n\nAmong the missing are a woman and her son, who were inside a mobile home when the River Francolí burst its banks and washed it away.\n\nFlash floods in northern Italy left two people dead on Tuesday and roads in the south of France were blocked as rivers burst their banks.\n\nParts of Narbonne Plage and Béziers were inundated by floodwater.\n\nA woman aged 68 was swept away by a torrent outside her front door at Cazouls-d'Hérault, north-east of Béziers. The mayor told the France Bleu website that she had been found up to 100m (330ft) away and was rushed to hospital.\n\nTen departments in southern France were placed on orange alert. Cars were submerged and the waters of the River Orb rose dangerously beneath a historic bridge in Béziers as the town saw 198mm (nearly 8in) - or the equivalent of two months' average rainfall - in just six hours on Wednesday morning.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by La Mét-Hérault Du 34 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nForecasters said the Hérault area saw 240mm of rain in the past 24 hours, a 50-year record. Local prefect Jacques Witkowski told reporters that shelter had been given to more than 1,000 people whose homes had been flooded.\n\nLocals were relieved that the floods had not caused as much damage as a year ago in the south-western Aude area, when 15 people died.\n\nThis was the scene at Gruissan, down the coast from Narbonne Plage, on Wednesday\n\nThe north-east Spanish region of Catalonia suffered its second period of torrential rain in two months.\n\nStreams became raging torrents, and a 75-year-old man who tried to move his car in the early hours of Wednesday was caught up in the flood at Arenys de Munt. A neighbour said the street had turned into a river and the man was swept away. His body was found on a beach hours later.\n\nA mother aged about 70 and her 40-year-old son were in their prefabricated bungalow at Vilaverd, a village north of Tarragona, when the River Francolí burst its banks and washed the building away.\n\nThree other people are being treated as missing. Two were in a car when it was hit by the flood.\n\nCatalan police were trying to find two missing people after an empty car was found in the river\n\nPolice found an empty car in the flooded River Francolí on Wednesday and were trying to find out if it belonged to the missing pair.\n\nA fifth person, from Belgium, was also reported missing when his lorry was found in the same river at l'Espluga de Francolí.\n\nThe area around Tarragona was among the worst affected. The roof of the baroque church at Savallà del Comtat caved in.\n\nA seven-year-old girl was among three people hurt when torrential rain swamped a campsite near Barcelona.\n\nMeteorologists blamed the torrential rain on a cold front known as a high-level isolated depression.\n\nA taxi driver is thought to have died when this road collapsed\n\nTwo people died and the Piedmont region asked for a state of emergency to be declared in the Alessandria area.\n\nOne of those who died was a taxi driver. Fabrizio Torre, 52, had been driving a customer, reportedly a British man, from Genoa airport to a golf club when his signal disappeared. In his last call to colleagues, he described seeing water everywhere.\n\nThe customer was reportedly found alive, clinging to a tree.\n\nAnother man of 81 died when his car turned over in Turin province.", "Dirty money has spread throughout the UK economy, reaching as far as private schools and interior designers, says watchdog Transparency International.\n\nCorrupt individuals are now channelling their ill-gotten gains through service industries that fall outside anti-money-laundering rules, it said.\n\nThis allows them to \"spend their money with impunity\", it added.\n\nUK banks and luxury goods retailers are also among the institutions which have served the most corrupt, it said.\n\nTransparency International's UK arm looked at more than 400 corruption and money-laundering cases in recent decades with links to UK companies.\n\nFirms' involvement can be unwitting, it said.\n\nThe exact amount of tainted money seeping into the UK is hard to quantify, but the National Economic Crime Centre estimates the total is more than £100bn a year.\n\nTransparency International places that estimate much higher, at £325bn.\n\nThese funds are often from rigged procurement, bribery, embezzlement and \"the unlawful acquisition of state assets\", it said.\n\nSome of the cases examined by the watchdog involved foreign politicians.\n\nFor instance, in February 2019, after a National Crime Agency investigation, a court froze the HSBC bank accounts of Luca Filat, the son of former Moldovan Prime Minister Vladimir Filat, who is serving a nine-year prison sentence for embezzlement in Moldova.\n\nLuca Filat had paid £390,000 upfront to rent an apartment in Knightsbridge, an expensive area of London. He had also funded an \"extravagant lifestyle\" using money from companies in Turkey and the Cayman Islands, including buying a £200,000 Bentley from a Mayfair dealership.\n\nTransparency International researchers also analysed \"suspicious payments\" for high-value goods which mainly came from Russia and Azerbaijan.\n\nThey found transactions including a \"Chanel crocodile skin handbag and Tom Ford crocodile skin jacket from Harrods totalling £50,690\" and \"a shell company paying Chelsea Football Club for a corporate executive box at Stamford Bridge\" costing £126,000.\n\nThere were £570m worth of these transactions between 2003 and 2017, the charity said.\n\nThe funds were paid into accounts at banks including Citibank, Royal Bank of Scotland, JP Morgan, HSBC and Barclays, Transparency International said, while noting that these banks had said they have strict anti-money laundering processes in place.\n\nCash from \"laundromat\" money-laundering also found its way to prestigious public schools, including Charterhouse and Harrow, and universities including University College London and St Andrews, the charity said.\n\nHarrow School responded: \"We never comment on matters concerning pupils, but note the report emphasises that neither we, nor any of the other institutions mentioned, are implicated in any wrongdoing.\"\n\nDuncan Hames, director of policy at Transparency International UK, said: \"We've known for a long time that the UK's world-class services have attracted a range of clients, including those who have money and pasts to hide.\n\n\"Now, for the first time, we have shed light on who these companies are and how they have become entangled in some of the biggest corruption scandals of our time.\n\n\"This should act as a wake-up call for government and regulators and deliver much-needed reforms to the UK's defences against dirty money.\"", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nGeorge Ford (right) is back in the starting line-up after coming off the bench in the last-eight win over the Wallabies Coverage: Full commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live, plus text updates on the BBC Sport website and app. England have recalled George Ford at fly-half for their World Cup semi-final against New Zealand, with captain Owen Farrell shifting to inside centre. Coach Eddie Jones dropped Ford to the bench for the quarter-final win over Australia. But for England's biggest game in 12 years he has reunited the 10-12 combination that saw England past Tonga, USA and Argentina in the group stages. Henry Slade makes way in the backs with Manu Tuilagi moving to outside centre in his place, while winger Jonny May has been declared fit after an injury scare against the Wallabies last weekend.\n• None New Zealand bring Scott Barrett in at blind-side flanker\n• None 'What is it like to face the haka?\n• None The mullet haircut that has become the All Blacks' World Cup mascot Jones said: \"It's the two heavyweights of world rugby - one dressed in black, the crowd favourite, the nation's favourite, the other in white, probably the most disliked team in the world. \"We just feel that [Ford and Farrell] is the best combination for the start of the game. \"New Zealand play a certain way, and George's work-rate off the ball is going to be super-important for us. Jones has beaten New Zealand in the semi-final of a Rugby World Cup before, pulling off a shock win in the 2003 tournament with his native Australia \"They bring a tactical awareness - when you play New Zealand you have to be practically very smart, and George and Owen together are probably at the forefront in that area in the world. \"New Zealand are a great team. They have an impressive winning record since the last World Cup. \"Like any good team, you have to take time and space away from them and you have to find areas you can pressure them - we believe we have identified a number of areas where we can do that.\" Billy Vunipola wins his 50th cap in the back row as Jones keeps faith with his young flankers in Tom Curry and Sam Underhill, but utility back Jack Nowell has lost his fitness battle after a hamstring injury and once again misses out on a place in the match-day 23. Maro Itoje and Courtney Lawes stay together in the second row, with George Kruis among the replacements with back row Mark Wilson - in for Lewis Ludlam - and centre Jonathan Joseph. If you are viewing this page on the BBC News app please click here to vote. 'We're the only people in Japan who believe we can win' Jones has been in ebullient mood all week, the snappiness of a week ago replaced by an obvious enjoyment in talking up the pressure on his team's opponents. He told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"There's always nerves - you're only human - but there's that mixture between being nervous and excited which is the reason you coach. \"To be involved in a game like this is the most fantastic experience as a coach, and it's what you live for. \"Out of one hundred journalists in the room, as we saw, 97 think New Zealand are going to win. \"The three who put up their hands put them up timidly and hoped no-one saw them put up their hands. \"Our 31 players plus 20-odd staff believe we can win, and we're the only people in Japan who believe we can win. We'll take that situation and maximise it.\" Both teams are evenly matched in terms of caps, weight and age New Zealand head coach Steve Hansen has sprung a surprise by dropping flanker Sam Cane to the bench and picking Scott Barrett - normally a lock - in the back row. If that puts more pressure on the England line-out - a year after they lost five second-half line-outs in a 16-15 defeat by the All Blacks at Twickenham in which starred Barrett as a replacement - it may give Underhill and Curry the chance to attack the breakdown as effectively as they did against Australia. Jones has described this as a clash that he foresaw as soon as the World Cup draw was made two and a half years ago. It is the sort of battle that he was brought in at great expense to win, four years after England crashed out of the World Cup they were hosting before the knock-out stage. Jones said: \"Games against New Zealand are always won in the last 20 minutes, because it's always about being alive, it's always about work-rate. \"They're a team that is always in the game, so you've just got to be so disciplined in the way you play the game. \"The breakdown will be a paramount part of the game. They'll go hard in that area, so we have to be equipped to handle that. We have to be good in those transition areas.\" Who makes the cut from Saturday's World Cup semi-finalists?", "Dennis Nilsen was jailed for life in 1983 for the murder of six men\n\nSerial killer Dennis Nilsen spent his final hours in his cell in \"excruciating pain\" with internal bleeding, his inquest has heard.\n\nNilsen, who admitted murdering at least 15 men and boys in the 1970s and 80s, died in May 2018 at HMP Full Sutton in East Yorkshire.\n\nTwo days before he had been taken to hospital with abdominal pains.\n\nThe 72-year-old - known as the Muswell Hill murderer - underwent an operation but later suffered a blood clot.\n\nNilsen's inquest at Hull Coroner's Court heard he spent his final hours lying in his own filth as he suffered a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm.\n\nHis medical cause of death was given as a pulmonary embolism and retroperitoneal haemorrhage, linked to the ruptured aneurysm.\n\nA report from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman stated that Nilsen had been left \"deteriorating for two and a half hours\" after rejecting the opportunity to be seen for longer in the healthcare wing on the morning of 10 May last year.\n\nBut it also stated that the treatment he initially received in prison was \"commensurate with that which he would have received in the community\".\n\nRecording his verdict, Hull coroner Prof Paul Marks said: \"Dennis Andrew Nilsen died of natural causes.\"\n\nNilsen, far right, was arrested after a plumber checking the drains at his flat found human remains\n\nNilsen, who was born in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, would befriend his victims in pubs and bars before luring them to his flat, where he would kill them and sit with their corpses before dismembering them.\n\nThe civil servant's crimes were discovered when a neighbour called a plumber to unblock a drain outside the house in which Nilsen had a flat on Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill, north London. Human remains the killer had tried to flush away were found.\n\nNilsen's earlier murders were committed at his previous flat, at 195 Melrose Avenue in Cricklewood, north-west London.\n\nHe was jailed for life in November 1983, with a recommendation he serve a minimum of 25 years, following his conviction for six counts of murder and two of attempted murder. The sentence was later upgraded to a whole-life tariff.", "A British man who fought with a Kurdish militia against the Islamic State group has been found guilty of attending a terrorist training camp.\n\nAidan James, 28, of Formby, Merseyside, had no previous military knowledge when he set out for Syria in 2017.\n\nHe denied terror offences but was found guilty at a retrial at the Old Bailey of attending a camp in Iraq where the banned PKK group was present.\n\nJames was cleared of attending a terrorist training camp in Syria.\n\nJurors reached unanimous verdicts after just over a day of deliberations.\n\nMr Justice Edis said the verdicts made it plain the defendant's conduct was \"not intended to promote any acts of terrorism by him\".\n\nHe told James: \"I regard this as a highly unusual terrorist case.\"\n\nHe said James' involvement with the PKK was \"quite fleeting\", adding \"it was something that happened on his voyage, but the ultimate destination was elsewhere\".\n\nJames, an unsuccessful applicant to the British Army, grew up in Merseyside and is the first Briton who fought against IS to stand trial for such offences.\n\nThe prosecution case was that his intention to fight IS, and his actions in doing so, did not amount to terrorism, but that he had been present in camps where training took place for a wider ideological cause.\n\nHe kept a diary prior to and during his time in the Middle East, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nIn April 2017, he wrote: \"At least over there I can make a difference, I can do something to be proud of instead of constantly feeling worthless.\"\n\nJames was arrested at Liverpool airport when he returned to the UK in February 2018\n\nAfter revealing his plans online he received a visit from the government de-radicalisation scheme Prevent and a warning against travelling to Syria, the court heard.\n\nWithin days he was arrested on suspicion of preparing for terrorism, but no charges followed and his passport was eventually handed back.\n\nThe jury was told he confided to his diary: \"I'm still planning to go away to Syria/Iraq… to fight this most important of battles against the sick ideology of [IS].\"\n\nIn August 2017, after a period in a mental health facility, he flew to Iraq and sent a message home saying: \"Landed safe mum.\"\n\nHe spent time at an Iraqi refugee camp where the PKK was present, and later at a Syrian YPG training facility.\n\nThe jury heard his journal recorded various interactions with the PKK, which he wrote about in positive terms, but it was after undergoing combat training with the YPG that he joined the fight against IS.\n\nBy the end of 2017 he decided to return to the UK.\n\nIn email correspondence with a police officer from Merseyside Police's Prevent team, the court heard James wrote: \"I am not coming back to be getting accused of terrorism.\"\n\nThe officer replied: \"Nobody is saying that you are a terrorist and there are loads of people like you who have come back from Syria and to the best of my knowledge none of them have been charged.\"\n\nHowever, he was arrested on arrival at Liverpool airport in February 2018 and charged with terror offences the following day.\n\nJames was remanded in custody until sentencing on 7 November.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"I just took a DNA Test, turns out I'm a credited writer for the number one song on Billboard.\"\n\nThat's what British singer Mina Lioness tweeted after officially being credited as a writer on Lizzo's song Truth Hurts.\n\nThe row started after Lizzo wanted to trademark the phrase \"I just took a DNA test turns out I'm 100% that...\".\n\nMina tweeted a similar phrase in 2017, but Lizzo claimed not to have seen it.\n\nIt's the opening lyric to Truth Hurts, which reached number one on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.\n\n\"In 2017, while working on a demo, I saw a meme that resonated with me... I later used the line in Truth Hurts... I later learned that a tweet inspired the meme\", Lizzo said on Twitter.\n\n\"The creator of the tweet is the person I am sharing my success with...\"\n\nWhile she didn't name her, Mina responded shortly after with a tweet thanking Lizzo and her team.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Legendina This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\nLizzo also mentions two men who claimed to have created the lyric with her in a writing session.\n\nJustin and Jeremiah Raisen said the line in question was taken from a song called Healthy that they wrote with Lizzo and two other writers in April 2017.\n\nThey say they'd been \"shutdown\" when trying to resolve the issue for the past two years.\n\nLizzo said they \"did not help me write any part of the song\".\n\n\"There was no-one in the room when I wrote Truth Hurts, except me, Ricky Reed, and my tears.\n\n\"That song is my life, and its words are my truth.\"\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 lizzobeeating This article contains content provided by Instagram. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven though the song was released in 2017, the row began this year when Mina heard that Lizzo wanted to trademark the \"DNA\" phrase.\n\nIt was reported she wanted to use it on t-shirts, jackets, hats, bandanas and wristbands.\n\nLizzo said in an interview that after the initial reaction to Truth Hurts, she almost stopped making music, feeling it wasn't \"even making a splash\".\n\nBut the song began to grow in popularity and was added to the deluxe version of her 2019 debut album Cuz I Love You.\n\nIt's been a big year for Lizzo since then - she made her Coachella debut and Rihanna gave her a standing ovation after her performance at the BET Awards.\n\nShe also starred in the movie Hustlers alongside Jennifer Lopez and Cardi B.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Earthworms are the engineers of the soil, bringing benefits to farmers\n\nThe first global atlas of earthworms has been compiled, based on surveys at 7,000 sites in 56 countries.\n\nThe findings will help protect the hundreds of different earthworm species found on all continents except Antarctica.\n\nClimate change might have \"substantial effects\" on earthworms, said an international team of scientists.\n\nThe burrowing creatures play a vital role in improving the soil but little is known about them on a global scale.\n\nWe rely on earthworms for increasing crop yields and aerating the soil, but they have been overlooked in the past, said Dr Helen Phillips of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research in Leipzig.\n\n\"As children probably the vast majority of us held earthworms in our hands and probably weren't quite aware how significant they are in the environment and for the things that we rely upon,\" she said.\n\n\"We should never stop looking at the above ground biodiversity but we really shouldn't be overlooking what's beneath our feet, as well.\"\n\nThe international team of 141 researchers from 35 countries mapped global patterns in the number and type of different earthworms and how this is related to factors like soil pH and the climate.\n\nThey discovered that temperature and rainfall can shape patterns of earthworms in the soil, suggesting climate change might have \"serious implications\" for both earthworms and the services they provide to nature.\n\nDr Noah Fierer of the University of Colorado, Boulder, who is not connected with the study, said the results underscore that earthworm distributions are highly sensitive to climate, though \"it remains unclear how earthworm communities will respond to ongoing climate change\".\n\nThe study, published in Science, found that at a local level, the number of species and the abundance of earthworms is lower in the tropics than in the temperate regions.\n\nFor example, the soils of southern England are an earthworm paradise, harbouring some of the highest diversity and abundances of earthworms in the world.", "The attacker used this knife to stab a fellow pupil\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been convicted of trying to murder another pupil in a school corridor.\n\nHis victim was stabbed in the shoulder at Eirias High School in Colwyn Bay, Conwy county, in February.\n\nThe defendant, who was 15 at the time, had denied a charge of attempted murder of the other boy.\n\nBut he was found guilty by a jury at Mold Crown Court after a trial was told the youth had \"meant to kill\" his victim.\n\nDuring the four-day trial, the jury was told the attack happened after the teenager had been kicked out of a lesson.\n\nHe told another pupil he wanted to stab the teacher and showed the girl an open bottle of whisky and a penknife, said the prosecution.\n\nTeachers were told and confiscated the whisky after searching his bag, but did not find the knife in his pocket.\n\nMyles Wilson, prosecuting, said the boy then walked behind his victim in a corridor at the school and attempted to stab him in the neck, but missed and hit him in the shoulder.\n\nHe added: \"The defendant told the police that he meant to kill. He didn't have any grievance against him. He didn't know him.\"\n\nPolice were called to Eirias High School in Colwyn Bay on 11 February\n\nThe court heard the defendant told police \"he had been thinking about killing someone for some time\" and \"liked the idea of killing someone\".\n\nGiving evidence in his defence, the boy - who cannot be named - said he \"just wanted to cause him some harm, to injure him\" and wanted to \"let out my frustration\".\n\nHe had admitted wounding his victim but denied he was trying to kill him.\n\n\"I feel regret every single day. I think about him, his family - what they must have felt,\" he told the jury.\n\nJudge Rhys Rowlands remanded him in custody pending sentencing but warned he faced a significant custodial sentence.\n\nHe said he had been convicted \"on the most compelling evidence\" of attempting to kill a fellow pupil \"who had done absolutely nothing at all to you\".\n\nThe victim, the judge said, was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.\n\nDeborah Rogers of the CPS said: \"Fortunately, this injury was not life-threatening, but that does not make the assault any less frightening. We hope that the victim makes a full recovery.\"\n\nNorth Wales Police Det Insp Simon Kneale added: \"I think it is important to reassure parents that this is a very rare and isolated incident.\n\n\"Whilst it is widely publicised that knife crime is on the rise nationally, we are thankful that we have not seen the same trend in our north Wales schools.\"", "Prisoners serving long sentences should be able to take out student loans to pay for degree courses, a report from the Open University and Higher Education Policy Institute says.\n\nThey say improving inmates' education would cut reoffending rates and so reduce the overall cost to the public.\n\nPrisoners would need to borrow £18,000 for tuition fees for a distance-learning Open University degree.\n\nThe Department for Education says there are no plans for a change of policy.\n\nCurrently, only prisoners within six years of release are eligible for student loans to cover tuition fees in England and Wales, which Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) director Nick Hillman said \"beggars belief\".\n\n\"Prisoners who seek to improve their education are positive role models for other prisoners and are less likely to reoffend on release,\" he said.\n\n\"So it is hard to imagine anyone on either the right or left of politics could want the current obstacles to learning to stay in place.\"\n\nRestaurant skills are taught in Brixton prison to try to reduce reoffending\n\nThe Probation Service's deputy director of education, employment and industries, Ian Bickers, says in the report removing the six-year rule would also help prisoners who take a longer number of years to study for a degree\n\nAbout 2,000 prisoners are currently taking higher-education courses, mostly part-time, distance-learning degrees from the Open University.\n\nThe study estimates scrapping the six-year rule would add another 200 prisoners per year to student numbers - at a cost of £2.3m.\n\nBut the analysis also says improving education promotes better behaviour in prison and significantly reduces levels of reoffending - and even without loans being repaid, there would be savings of up to £6m as a result.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has estimated that reoffending costs taxpayers £18bn per year.\n\nStudying for a degree \"brings a sense of purpose and hope as well as offering a realistic pathway towards living a different life on release\", the report says.\n\nOn release, former prisoners would begin paying back loans when they began earning £25,000 per year.\n\nRuth McFarlane, of the Open University, said the distance-learning university was there to \"open up higher education to everyone, regardless of background\".\n\n\"We know that education has the power to transform lives and is recognised as one of the pillars of effective rehabilitation,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: Take no-deal off the table and we absolutely support a general election\n\nHe did it, sort of. The prime minister has said he'll ask MPs to back an election in seven weeks time, just in time for Christmas.\n\nThe government's laying the motion tonight to hold the vote on Monday, trying to lay down the gauntlet to the opposition parties, who can keep him trapped in Number 10 if they like.\n\nRemember this time last week there was delight in Downing Street that they had overcome expectations and agreed a deal with the EU.\n\nBut that euphoria fell away on that side of the argument, when MPs booted out the timetable to debate and pass all the new laws that would actually make Brexit happen.\n\nFor some of those objecting, it's a part of the ruse to stop our departure. But many others had what they considered entirely legitimate concerns about the speed with which he was trying to ram it through\n\nNumber 10's wheeze now is to dangle the offer of a few extra days of scrutiny to get it through, but only if MPs give in to Boris Johnson's other demand, backing to go to the ballot box soon after.\n\n'Have the extra time you called for, but only if I get my ultimate prize' he's asking Parliament.\n\nDowning Street knows full well however that opposition MPs are unlikely suddenly to swoon for this new timetable, it is hardly much extra time for scrutiny.\n\nAnd while there are cabinet ministers who reckon it would be better to try as hard as possible with the bill, calmly and on a more conventional timetable, the dominant view in government is that there really is not a serious chance of the Brexit legislation getting through unmangled, so the only way, reluctantly for some, is to push the button for an election.\n\nAnd this is where it gets very sticky for the government.\n\nWhat happens next is partly dependent on exactly how the EU responds to the UK request for delay to Brexit.\n\nThat will become clear either on Friday or Monday. Although President Macron is understood to be on board for a short extension that would focus the minds, apparently texting as much to the prime minister on Thursday, the wider view in the EU is not expected to fall in line with that.\n\nPrecisely how they respond will shape the opposition parties' next moves. They might even, whisper it, come up with a fudge.\n\nBoris Johnson cannot be remotely sure Labour and the smaller parties will let him have his way. The SNP and the Lib Dems are both tempted to go for an election as soon as a three month delay is agreed.\n\nThe Labour Party's official position has always been that they would agree to an election, in fact officially they are chomping at the bit, like the other parties, as long as a delay is agreed.\n\nOne senior member of the shadow cabinet predicted they would not be able to withstand the pressure if the Lib Dems and the SNP said yes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says an early poll would create a \"credible\" deadline for passing a Brexit deal\n\nJeremy Corbyn himself, and certainly one group in his camp, are understood to be very tempted too. But, just as in 2017, lots of Labour MPs are horrified at the idea, partly because of Labour's standing in the polls.\n\nBut also, there are senior shadow cabinet ministers who believe the smart thing would be to leave the PM in his purgatory, twisting, unable to get his bill through, unable to get to an election.\n\nIn short, the position is fluid, and Labour is having words with itself tonight.\n\nPlenty of Tory MPs worry that Labour will pursue precisely a delaying tactic - \"like a boa constrictor they will slowly squeeze Boris until his novelty fun factor starts to grate\".\n\nIf Boris Johnson therefore is totally and utterly stuck in a few days time, he in turn vows that he would raise the temperature even higher, to turn an already fraught and bizarre situation into something completely extraordinary, making MPs vote day after day after day on whether or not to have an election, and bringing forward no business to the House of Commons - the government going on a form of political strike.\n\nThe belief in Number 10 is that while it might be hellish getting there, in the end the logic moves towards the opposition allowing an election, in the end.\n\nEither way, the opposition's final responses to the prime minister's gambit tonight are not final. They will wait to see exactly what the EU says.\n\nWhat is obvious though is that the prime minister's 'do or die' Brexit deadline has disappeared. Whether his vow to get an election is one he is able to keep is also not in his control.\n\nThere will be no budget, there may not be an election, and there may not be Brexit any time soon, and depending what happens next there may not really be a government either in any traditional sense of the word.", "Royal Bank of Scotland has swung to a loss in the third quarter after taking a hit from the cost of payment protection insurance.\n\nThe Edinburgh-based bank, in which the government owns a 62% stake, added its investment bank had a \"particularly challenging\" three months.\n\nIt reported a pre-tax loss of £8m for the July-to-September period after it took a £900m charge for PPI.\n\nThese are the last results before chief executive Ross McEwan departs.\n\nThe New Zealander is being replaced by Alison Rose next month, when she becomes the first woman to lead one of the UK's big four banks. She joined the bank 27 years ago as a graduate trainee.\n\nThe bank had reported a £961m profit in the same three months a year ago.\n\nBut Katie Murray, the finance director, said the results \"demonstrate our solid underlying performance in a tough operating environment\".\n\n\"The core retail and commercial bank continues to perform well and we are making good progress against our targets for the year,\" she said.\n\nBut its investment banking arm, known as NatWest Markets, reported a £193m loss for the quarter as it felt the impact of a \"deterioration in economic sentiment for the global economy and a fall in bond yields\".\n\nRBS had warned last month that, like other lenders, it faced a bill for further compensation for mis-sold PPI, but its £900m hit was at the top end of expectations.\n\nPPI was designed to cover loan repayments if borrowers fell ill or lost their job, but many were sold to people who did not want or need them.\n\nThe industry says there has been surge in claims for compensation ahead of a 29 August deadline set by the Financial Conduct Authority.\n\nAlison Rose takes the helm after a return to a quarterly loss at the government-backed bank\n\nThe return to a quarterly loss - the first since the last quarter of 2017 - presents a fresh challenge for Ms Rose, who takes over as the UK prepares to leave the EU and when the bank's revenues are under pressure.\n\nThe bank has been trying to demonstrate that it can consistently return to profit.\n\nIt reported about £60bn of losses in the nine years after its 2008 bailout before reporting its first full-year profit since that government-backed rescue in 2018.\n\nOn a nine-month measure, the bank remained in profit, reporting £2.7bn of profits.\n\nJohn Moore, senior investment manager at Brewin Dolphin, said: \"The last set of results for RBS were a watershed moment for the bank, confirming it is on the road to redemption.\n\n\"Whilst this remains the case, today's statement highlights the legacy issues that the bank, and many of its peers, still face - in particular, PPI claims have pushed RBS back to a loss.\n\n\"Despite these bumps on the road, RBS is a very different bank to what it once was and continues to make good progress on a path to recovery.\"\n\nOn another measure, the bottom line or attributable to shareholders, the bank's quarterly losses reached £315m, compared with a £448m profit a year earlier.", "In remote areas, post offices can be the only places offering banking services\n\nBarclays has reversed its decision to prevent customers withdrawing money from the Post Office network.\n\nIt prompted fury when it announced its debit card holders could deposit money but not withdraw cash from a post office counter from January.\n\nCancelling that plan, the bank said it recognised the network was \"valued by many communities in the UK\".\n\nIt had been the only one of 28 banks and building societies not to fully sign up to a Post Office agreement.\n\n\"Our decision provoked a great deal of public and private debate. We have listened very carefully to points that have been made to us by ministers in the government, by MPs, and by interested charities and consumer advocates,\" said Barclays chief executive Jes Staley.\n\n\"Ultimately we have been persuaded to rethink our proposals by the argument that our full participation in the Post Office Banking Framework is crucial at this point to the viability of the Post Office network.\"\n\nEarlier this month, the Post Office unveiled a new agreement, covering the three years from January and allowing for postmasters and post mistresses to be paid more to take in and dispense cash.\n\nBarclays is the only one to exclude cash withdrawals from its part of the agreement.\n\nThis prompted serious concerns from those who have seen bank branches and ATM services disappear from local communities.\n\nBarclays said it would launch a cashback scheme at small businesses in remote towns and areas where there is no branch or ATM alternative within 1km (0.6 miles), and promised to commit to keeping branches open in towns where there are no other options for two years.\n\nThat plan continues despite the latest U-turn.\n\n\"We are confident that those actions would ensure that all of our customers, vulnerable and otherwise, continue to have access to cash, and we believe that our plans will ultimately expand access to cash through, for example, the free to use retailer cashback scheme we are launching,\" Mr Staley said.\n\n\"We remain of that view, and this was confirmed for us in thousands of conversations with our customers in the past couple of weeks.\"\n\nNatalie Ceeney, who chaired the Access to Cash Review which called for an guarantee for future access to notes and coins, said: \"I'm glad Barclays have come to this decision. They have listened to concerns of politicians, charities and most importantly, their customers.\n\n\"Lessons need to be learnt by Government. The cash infrastructure is fragile and cannot be left solely to commercial interests.\"\n\nEconomic secretary to the Treasury, John Glen, who met with Barclays bosses earlier on Thursday, said: \"It is vitally important that we have a model for the Post Office Banking Framework which is sustainable, now and in the future. We welcome Barclays' commitment to engage constructively on this so we can safeguard access to cash for everyone who needs it.\"\n\nRachel Reeves, chair of Parliament's Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy committee, said: \"I met with Barclays yesterday and as a Committee we were very keen that they should face proper public scrutiny for their actions. The BEIS Committee has called out this egregious behaviour towards customers and we welcome the fact that Barclays has belatedly realised the game is up on this policy.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nUnited States striker Alex Morgan has announced she is pregnant.\n\nMorgan, 30, finished joint-top scorer at the 2019 Women's World Cup and is viewed as one of the world's most influential female players.\n\nHer first child is due in April 2020, three months before USA are scheduled to play at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.\n\nMorgan tweeted an image of her with her husband - LA Galaxy footballer Servando Carrasco - adding they are \"already in love\" with their \"baby girl\".\n\n\"Newest member of the Carrasco family, coming soon,\" tweeted Morgan, who plays for Orlando Pride.\n\nMorgan has scored 107 times for her country in 169 appearances and won the Women's World Cup in 2015 and 2019.\n\nShe was named in the FIFPro World XI in 2016, 2017 and 2019, and also won the Women's Champions League while on loan with Lyon in 2017.\n\nShe made no reference to her availability for USA at the Olympic Games, which officially begin on 24 July, though the football competition starts two days earlier.", "A life-extending drug for cystic fibrosis will be available on the NHS in England, health bosses say.\n\nNHS England reached a deal with Orkambi manufacturers Vertex Pharmaceuticals after months of talks. Patients should be able to get the drug within 30 days.\n\nThe drug improves lung function and reduces breathing difficulties and can be given to children as young as two.\n\nThe firm wanted to charge £100,000 per patient per year but a compromise has been reached in a confidential deal.\n\nIt is understood to involve significantly less than the sum originally asked for.\n\nTwo other drugs made by Vertex - Symkevi and Kalydeco - will be made available as part of the deal.\n\nThese also treat cystic fibrosis symptoms. Symkevi is restricted to over 12-year-olds, while Kalydeco can be used from 12 months.\n\nThe treatments do not work for all patients with cystic fibrosis - only those with certain mutations.\n\nIt is estimated about half of the 10,000 patients in the UK will benefit from these drugs.\n\nCystic fibrosis is a life-shortening genetic condition that can cause fatal lung damage.\n\nOnly about half of those with the condition live to the age of 32.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Christina Walker, whose son Luis has cystic fibrosis, tells Victoria Derbyshire: \"There will be families hugging their children\"\n\nPatients and campaigners have expressed delight at the announcement.\n\nChristina Walker said it meant her son, Luis, eight, should be on it by Christmas, calling it the \"best present ever\".\n\n\"I can't stop smiling. I'm overwhelmingly happy. It's absolutely wonderful,\" she said.\n\nDavid Louden, from Carlisle, said the decision would make a \"huge difference\" to his daughter, Ayda, who has cystic fibrosis.\n\nHe said the battle to get it had been \"demoralising\".\n\n\"You could see this drug with all its benefits that was just hanging there in the balance, dangling like a carrot in front of you but you couldn't access it.\"\n\nMore than 10,000 people in the UK have cystic fibrosis, which cause fatal lung damage\n\nThe deal comes after the Scottish government reached an agreement with the manufacturers last month.\n\nUnder the terms of the agreement both Wales and Northern Ireland can now access the drug for the same price as NHS England, but there has been no announcement over whether they will.\n\nNHS England chief executive Simon Stevens said the deal was \"good for patients and fair to British taxpayers\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock described it as \"wonderful news\".\n\nDavid Ramsden, of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, said: \"This is a very special day and I want to thank people with cystic fibrosis, their families and everyone who has been part of this campaign for their persistence and determination to keep on fighting.\"\n\nHe also said there could be more good news in the pipeline as a new therapy Trikafta, which 90% of people with the condition could benefit from, was getting close to be licensed for use.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boy's mother was airlifted off the mountain\n\nA 10-year-old boy climbed down a 328ft (100m) ravine to reach his mother who had fallen during a mountain climb.\n\nThe family, which also included two girls, aged five and nine, ended up on very steep ground after taking a wrong turn on Ben Cruachan near Dalmally.\n\nThe mother fell and landed on a ledge with a \"large drop\" below, resulting in her suffering serious injuries.\n\nAn Oban Mountain Rescue Facebook post said the boy rang emergency services with his mother's phone.\n\nHe also stayed with her and kept talking to her to prevent her losing consciousness. Meanwhile, his father, whose phone is understood to have been out of charge, was looking after his two sisters.\n\nThe mountain rescue team were called out at about 19:50 on Monday. The accident had happened as the family descended the 3,694ft (1,126m) mountain.\n\nThe family were descending Ben Cruachan when the woman fell\n\nThe boy had managed to give police a description of the location and luckily the family had a torch so were reached by mountain rescue in about 30 minutes and a rescue helicopter was called in.\n\nThe mountain rescue post said: \"It takes a while to deal with this sort of situation and the lady was very lucky she stopped where she did as a large drop awaited below. After her injuries were treated the best we could in the situation, she was ready to winch. All the while the lad was with his mum talking to her.\"\n\nThe woman was airlifted to hospital at about 23:00 while the mountain rescue team helped the rest of the family off the mountain.\n\nThe mountain rescue spokesman added: \"This was a superb effort by all the Oban MRT team members and Rescue 199 in dealing with a technical rescue on steep ground in the dark. It was challenging to access, difficult medically and a challenging lift for the helicopter.\"\n\nHe said the boy was a \"brave lad who should get an award for his actions\".\n\n\"Just getting to his mum was hard, then looking after his mother in an extreme situation, talking to the police and keeping calm - he was amazing,\" the spokesman added.\n\nThe woman is said to be \"out of danger and comfortable\" in hospital.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "EU leaders are set to decide on Friday whether to grant the UK a three-month Brexit extension, the BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler says.\n\nMost EU nations back it but France \"is digging its heels in\", she adds.\n\nSo there could be an emergency summit in Brussels on Monday to allow leaders to reach agreement face-to-face.\n\nBoris Johnson insists the UK will leave the EU next week with or without a deal and he will seek a snap election if the EU grants an extension to January.\n\nThe prime minister was forced to send a letter to the EU requesting an extension, under legislation passed by MPs last month.\n\nBut he said he had told EU leaders his policy was still to leave on 31 October.\n\nCommons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg told MPs the government \"does not want an extension\" and was \"making every preparation to leave on 31 October\".\n\nDominic Cummings, Mr Johnson's chief adviser, is reported to be urging ministers to abandon attempts to get the prime minister's Brexit deal through Parliament and go for a December election instead.\n\nBut some ministers - such as Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith - are understood to be urging the prime minister to make another attempt to get his deal through Parliament first.\n\nCabinet ministers are meeting and are expected to discuss the way forward.\n\nJulian Smith says there are 'differing views' around the cabinet table\n\nArriving in Downing Street for the meeting, the Northern Ireland Secretary said: \"Let's just get Brexit sorted and get this bill over the line.\"\n\nHe said there were \"differing views\" on Brexit among ministers but the aim was to \"make sure we've got everyone on board\".\n\n\"Obviously, in Northern Ireland we've been trying to avoid no-deal,\" he added. \"We seem to have succeeded with that. Let's try and get this stage done.\"\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron is concerned that a long extension could lead to more UK indecisiveness or an inconclusive general election, the BBC understands.\n\nBut if the EU approves the UK's request for a three-month extension, Mr Johnson would have to accept it, under the terms of the so-called Benn Act.\n\nHe would also have to accept any alternative duration suggested by EU leaders, unless MPs decide not to agree with it within two days.\n\nNeither a motion for an early election nor another attempt to get the Brexit deal through has so far been scheduled for next week's business in Parliament.\n\nPresident Macron favours a short, sharp Brexit delay, encouraging MPs and the UK government to concentrate on ratifying the newly negotiated Brexit deal.\n\nMr Macron is fed up with the more-than-three-year EU focus on Brexit and the ever-present threat of a no-deal scenario.\n\nHe would rather shift attention to reforming the EU itself, to the benefit (he believes) of the countries remaining in it.\n\nOf course, the French president knows Brexit won't be over if and when the UK leaves.\n\nBrexit Chapter Two - the negotiations on a comprehensive EU-UK trade deal - will likely be lengthy and complex, but they will largely be the competence of the European Commission, landing far more rarely on EU leaders' in-trays.\n\nIf Mr Johnson had got his way in a Commons vote on Tuesday, MPs would now be debating the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, which would put his Brexit deal into law.\n\nInstead, they are debating the Queen's Speech, the government's proposed programme for the next session of Parliament, if there is not an early general election.\n\nMPs are due to vote at about 17:00 BST on whether to approve the Queen's Speech, a formality when the government has a majority, but the result is expected to be close.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said Labour was ready for a general election \"whenever it comes\", but he refused to be drawn on whether his party would back one if Mr Johnson held a vote on it next week.\n\n\"We will see what happens. We are trying to take this in stages,\" he said.\n\nMr McDonnell said Labour remained open to a \"compromise\" with the government, which could allow Mr Johnson to get his Brexit deal through Parliament.\n\nA \"dialogue\" with ministers was continuing, he added, after inconclusive talks on Wednesday between Jeremy Corbyn and the PM.\n\nBoris Johnson believes there should be a general election this winter to break the Brexit deadlock.\n\nThere's not much point, he believes, in talking to Labour because they are never going to help him out.\n\nBut are we now arriving at \"think-again Thursday\"? A growing number of influential Tories are saying: \"Hang on, winter election, not such a good idea.\"\n\nIt's not even clear Mr Johnson could trigger one.\n\nThere are more and more Tories saying: \"Perhaps we should have another go at bringing the bill back and trying to get it through the Commons.\"\n\nThat's because Mr Johnson did get a majority on the broad principles of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill.\n\nAnd perhaps, some say, if you love-bombed Labour MPs who might be tempted to vote for it, you would get it through.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Trump explain why he is pulling the US out of Paris climate accord\n\nThe US will definitely withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, President Trump has confirmed.\n\nHe made the announcement at an energy conference in Pittsburgh on a stage flanked by men in hard hats.\n\nHe described the accord as a bad deal and said his pro fossil fuel policies had made the US an energy superpower.\n\nThe earliest he can formally start the process of withdrawing the US from the Paris accord is 4 November.\n\nThe pull-out will take effect a year later - the day after the 2020 US presidential election.\n\nThe Paris agreement brought together 195 nations in the battle to combat climate change.\n\nIt committed the US to cutting greenhouse gases up to 28% by 2025 based on 2005 levels.\n\nPresident Trump said if he couldn’t improve that deal he’d pull out, but diplomatic sources said there’s been no major effort at renegotiation.\n\nIn the meantime, the president’s staff have conducted what critics call a seek-and-destroy mission through US environmental legislation.\n\nMr Trump promised that he’d turn the US into an energy superpower, and he’s attempting to sweep away a raft of pollution legislation to reduce the cost of producing gas, oil and coal.\n\nHe categorised former US President Barack Obama’s environmental clean-up plans as a war on American energy.\n\nTrump, speaking here at a conference in Pittsburgh, has vowed to deregulate the oil and gas industry\n\nThe gas and oil industries are indeed thriving, but Mr Trump’s pledge to resurrect the coal industry has proved much more challenging.\n\nCoal can't compete on price with gas - or, for that matter, with renewables whose costs have plummeted.\n\nFirms are also reluctant to invest billions in coal-fired plants which could have a limited life if the next administration rejoins the rest of the world on climate change.\n\nAs coal is the dirtiest fuel, the industry’s woes have held down US emissions, despite the President’s policies.\n\nWhat’s more, many US states, cities and businesses remain committed to the Paris Agreement, whatever Mr Trump does.\n\nCampaigners say these now represent nearly 70% of US GDP and nearly 65% of the US population. If they were a country, this group would be the world’s second largest economy.\n\nThe rebels are led by California, which is locked in a battle with the president over his plans to repeal their powers to impose clean air standards.\n\nSo far the biggest negative effect of Mr Trump’s stance has arguably been to relax pressure on countries like Brazil and Saudi Arabia to take action of their own.\n\nEnvironmentalists say Mr Obama would have acted quickly to press Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro to tackle forest fires in the Amazon, for instance.\n\nMr Obama agreed in Paris that the US should take a lead on climate change because it’s contributed far more than any other nation to the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere.\n\nA truck is loaded with coal at a mine near Cumberland, Kentucky\n\nChina - the current top emitter - and India still have relatively low per capita emissions, but Mr Trump said they shouldn’t be allowed to phase out fossil fuels more slowly than the US.\n\nHe said: \"The Paris accord would have been shutting down American producers with excessive regulatory restrictions like you would not believe, while allowing foreign producers to pollute with impunity.\n\n\"What we won't do is punish the American people while enriching foreign polluters,\" he said, adding: \"I'm proud to say it - it's called America First.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment Greta Thunberg saw US President Donald Trump at the UN climate summit\n\nHis opponents warn the president is weakening US global leadership on the clean economy with technologies to boost wind and solar power, advanced batteries and energy conservation.\n\nNeera Tanden, from the liberal think tank Center for American Progress, said: \"Instead of projecting strength, this action weakens America on the world stage and cedes leadership on climate change and other challenges of our time to countries like Russia and China.\"\n\nIn fact, Chinese leadership on the issue has been muted recently as politicians there focus on avoiding a recession.\n\nThe Beijing government is having difficulty persuading provincial leaders to abandon coal plants for which they have taken heavy loans.\n\nIt’s also committed to a massive airport-building programme to stimulate economic growth. Critics say this is incompatible with concern for the climate.\n\nAs extreme weather events alarm the world’s scientists, diplomats will meet in a few weeks in Chile to figure out the path ahead.\n\nAndrew Light, a former State Department official during the Obama administration that helped broker the Paris agreement, said the formal withdrawal would make it difficult for the US to be part of the global conversation.\n\n\"It will take some time to recover from this train wreck of US diplomacy,\" he said.", "The owner of the Supercuts and Regis hairdressing chains, Regis UK, has appointed administrators, putting 1,200 jobs at risk.\n\nAccountants Deloitte have been called in to look for options for the 220-salon business.\n\nThe salons will remain open while a buyer is sought for the business.\n\nDeloitte said changes in consumer behaviour had led to lower footfall in shopping centres where many of the salons are located.\n\n\"The retail trading environment in the UK remains extremely challenging and Regis UK Limited had been seeking to address this through a restructuring of its business,\" said Rob Harding, joint administrator.\n\nLast year, Regis UK negotiated a cut in the rent it paid through a legal process known as a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA), but landlords challenged the proposals in court.\n\nIncreasing numbers of retailers have sought CVAs in an attempt to spread the impact of the downturn, as consumers shift from the High Street to online shopping. CVAs allow companies to seek rent reductions and new debt repayment terms, but are meeting increasing opposition from landlords.\n\nRegis said at the time that a \"perfect storm\" of factors, including falling customer numbers and higher wages, had hurt the business.\n\nDeloitte said the chains would continue trading while options for the business were explored.\n\n\"The group operates two very strong brands and we are working with all key stakeholders to stabilise the situation and provide the best solution possible,\" said Mr Harding.", "Google says an advanced computer has achieved \"quantum supremacy\" for the first time, surpassing the performance of conventional devices.\n\nThe technology giant's Sycamore quantum processor was able to perform a specific task in 200 seconds that would take the world's best supercomputer 10,000 years to complete.\n\nScientists have been working on quantum computers for decades because they promise much faster speeds.\n\nIn classical computers, the unit of information is called a \"bit\" and can have a value of either 1 or 0. But its equivalent in a quantum system - the qubit (quantum bit) - can be both 1 and 0 at the same time.\n\nThis phenomenon opens the door for multiple calculations to be performed simultaneously. But the qubits need to be synchronised using a quantum effect known as entanglement, which Albert Einstein termed \"spooky action at a distance\".\n\nHowever, scientists have struggled to build working devices with enough qubits to make them competitive with conventional types of computer.\n\nSycamore contains 54 qubits, although one of them did not work, so the device ran on 53 qubits.\n\nIn their Nature paper, John Martinis of Google, in Mountain View, and colleagues set the processor a random sampling task - where it produces a set of numbers that has a truly random distribution.\n\nSycamore was able to complete the task in three minutes and 20 seconds. By contrast, the researchers claim in their paper that Summit, the world's best supercomputer, would take 10,000 years to complete the task.\n\n\"It's an impressive device and certainly an impressive milestone. We're still decades away from an actual quantum computer that would be able to solve problems we're interested in,\" Prof Jonathan Oppenheim, from UCL, who was not involved with the latest study, told BBC News.\n\n\"It's an interesting test, it shows they have a lot of control over their device, it shows that they have low error rates. But it's nowhere near the kind of precision we would need to have a full-scale quantum computer.\"\n\nIBM, which has been working on quantum computers of its own, questioned some of Google's figures.\n\n\"We argue that an ideal simulation of the same task can be performed on a classical system in 2.5 days and with far greater fidelity,\" IBM researchers Edwin Pednault, John Gunnels, and Jay Gambetta said in a blog post.\n\n\"This is in fact a conservative, worst-case estimate, and we expect that with additional refinements the classical cost of the simulation can be further reduced.\"\n\nThey also queried Google's definition of quantum supremacy and said it had the potential to mislead.\n\n\"First because... by its strictest definition the goal has not been met. But more fundamentally, because quantum computers will never reign 'supreme' over classical computers, but will rather work in concert with them, since each have their unique strengths.\"", "Dr Wolf admitted her \"misinterpretations\" following the BBC interview\n\nThe US publisher of a new book by Naomi Wolf has cancelled its release after accuracy concerns were raised.\n\nOutrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love details the persecution of homosexuality in Victorian Britain.\n\nBut during a BBC radio interview in May, it came to light that the author had misunderstood key 19th Century English legal terms within the book.\n\nPublisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said their parting was \"amicable\".\n\nFollowing the BBC radio interview, Wolf admitted there were \"misinterpretations\" in her book.\n\nHer UK publisher, Virago, had already published the book by the time the interview was broadcast, but said it would make \"necessary corrections\" to future reprints.\n\nHowever, US publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt delayed publication, and has now cancelled it altogether, according to the New York Times.\n\nDr Wolf is best known for her acclaimed third-wave feminist book The Beauty Myth and other works such as Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.\n\nHer new book argues that the British Obscene Publications Act of 1857 led to homosexual persecution in Britain getting worse.\n\nBut, during an interview on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking programme, presenter Matthew Sweet questioned key claims within it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matthew Sweet questions some of Naomi Wolf's evidence in her new book Outrages\n\nDr Wolf alleged she had discovered that \"several dozen\" men were executed for having homosexual sex during the 19th Century.\n\n\"I don't think you're right about this,\" Sweet replied, before detailing the term \"death recorded\" in fact meant that judges had abstained from handing down a death sentence.\n\n\"I don't think any of the executions you've identified here actually happened,\" he said.\n\nIn one particular case, he pointed out a 14-year-old boy had been discharged and not executed as she had detailed.\n\nSweet also raised questions over her interpretation of the surrounding \"sodomy\" - revealing the teenager had in fact committed an indecent assault against a six-year-old boy, and not a consensual homosexual act.\n\n\"I can't find any evidence that any of the relationships you describe were consensual,\" he added.\n\nIn June, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt told the New York Times it was delaying the publication of Dr Wolf's book in order to have time to \"resolve those questions\" raised about its content. They added then that they still intended to publish it in due course.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The government is facing calls to overhaul its High Street policies after estimates were made of 85,000 retail sector job losses on a year ago.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium made the calculation after finding that the number of retail employees in the third quarter fell by 2.8% on a year earlier.\n\nThis is the 15th consecutive quarter of year-on-year decline, the BRC said.\n\nHelen Dickinson, BRC boss, said it was time to overhaul business rates and the apprenticeship levy.\n\n\"Weak consumer demand and Brexit uncertainty continue to put pressure on retailers already focused on delivering the transformation taking place in the industry.\n\n\"While MPs rail against job losses in manufacturing, their response to larger losses in retail has remained muted,\" she said.\n\nShe said reforms to business rates and the apprenticeship levy would allow retailers to focus on enhancing their online presence and adapt to changes on the High Street.\n\nThe Treasury did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n\n\"The government should enact policies that enable retailers to invest more in the millions of people who choose to build their careers in retail,\" Ms Dickinson said.\n\nThe figures are released at time when shops are closing on the High Street with clothing retailer Karen Millen and Coast among the recent outlets to shut.\n\nIn July the proportion of all shops that are empty reached 10.3%, its highest level since January 2015, according to a BRC and Springboard survey.\n\nThe BRC used data from the Office for National Statistics to calculate that a 2.8% fall in jobs in the third quarter was the equivalent of 85,000 jobs being lost in a year.\n\nThe largest impact was on full-time jobs with a 4.5% fall year-on-year and a 1.5% fall in part-time roles.\n\nThe figures were released ahead of the all-important Christmas season and while the BRC said the retailers it surveyed were not planning on cutting more jobs - unlike a year ago - it was only a temporary seasonal pick-up.\n\n\"We expect the long-term decline in employment to continue due to a combined effect of the on-going structural change, weak consumer spending and fierce competition in the industry,\" the BRC said.\n\nIt said 62% of retailers had plans to increase staff in the coming quarter, higher than the 43% last year.\n\nThe lobby group contrasted the state of the job market in the retail sector with the broader economy where it said ONS data showed employment increased 0.3% on the year.", "Some smart motorways use the hard shoulder at all times while others use it during busy times\n\nSmart motorways are to be reviewed following concerns over driver safety, the transport secretary has said.\n\nGrant Shapps told MPs: \"We know people are dying on smart motorways\".\n\nHe said recommendations are expected \"in a matter of weeks\" to ensure all motorways are \"as safe as they possibly can be\".\n\nEarlier this week, Highways England boss Jim O'Sullivan warned \"dynamic\" smart motorways are \"too complicated\" for drivers.\n\nMr O'Sullivan said he did not think he would build any more dynamic smart motorways because too many motorists do not understand them.\n\nThere are two types of smart motorway in the UK: The first is where the hard shoulder is opened to traffic when it is busy, and the second is where the hard shoulder is open all the time.\n\nThey already account for about 400 miles of England's roads, including sections of major motorways like the M1, M6, and M62.\n\nThey were created to ease congestion, using computers to monitor the roads and change speed limits.\n\nCritics have called for smart motorways to be scrapped over safety concerns and several deaths.\n\nEight-year-old Dev Naran was killed on the M6 last May when a lorry struck his grandfather's Toyota while it was pulled up on the hard shoulder, which was in use.\n\nSpeaking to MPs on the Commons Transport Select Committee, Mr Shapps said: \"I have asked my department to carry out at pace an evidence stock-take to gather the facts quickly and make recommendations.\"\n\nHe said his department would lead the review \"because some of the statistics have been difficult to understand, and we know people are dying on smart motorways\".\n\nHe added: \"Understanding whether they are less safe, the same or safer - it turns out not to be as straightforward as members might imagine - I want all of those facts and recommendations that can be put into place to ensure that all of our motorways are as safe as they possibly can be.\n\n\"I will get this done in a matter of weeks.\"\n\nDerek Jacobs, 83, was killed when his car was hit after it stopped on a smart motorway section of the M1 in Derbyshire.\n\nHis death came six months after another woman was killed after a breakdown on the same section of road.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, died on the M1 near Sheffield, where the hard shoulder is an active lane.\n\nHe was involved in a minor collision but when he got out his car to exchange details he and the other driver were hit by a lorry. Both died at the scene.", "Zoe Ball has lost 364,000 weekly listeners from her Radio 2 breakfast show, the latest industry figures reveal.\n\nThe presenter took over from Chris Evans in January, after he left the station to join Virgin Radio.\n\nBall lost 780,000 listeners in the second quarter of this year.\n\nAnd new figures from industry body Rajar show that she dropped further in the third quarter - from 8.27 million weekly listeners to 7.90 million.\n\nIn the same period last year, when Chris Evans was presenting, the programme attracted an average weekly audience of 8.82 million.\n\nThe latest figures mean the Radio 2 breakfast show has recorded its lowest listener numbers in a decade. The third quarter of 2009 saw Sir Terry Wogan attract 7.76 million weekly listeners.\n\nBBC Radio 4's Today programme also recorded its lowest audience in 10 years. It attracted exactly the same audience - 6.6 million listeners - between July and September 2009 as it did in the latest quarter, which marked the final three months to feature John Humphrys as a host.\n\nOn Thursday, it was announced Humphrys will guest present the Classic FM breakfast show, normally hosted by Tim Lihoreau, next week.\n\nBreakfast show figures often go down in the third quarter of every year, as audiences enjoy their summer holidays.\n\nThe Rajar figures showed Ball's programme remained the nation's most popular breakfast show, in spite of the drop.\n\nEvans boosted Virgin's breakfast audience to a million in the first quarter of this year, but his figures have stayed relatively flat since then. He added 3,000 new listeners this quarter.\n\nHeart's new national breakfast radio show, fronted by Amanda Holden and Jamie Theakston, became the most popular commercial radio breakfast programme.\n\nThe nationwide show was launched on 3 June, replacing the network's string of local breakfast broadcasts.\n\nIts first full quarter of audience figures show Holden and Theakston's show drew an average of 4.56 million weekly listeners in the third quarter.\n\nThe figures will have gone some way to help brighten Holden's mood. This week she revealed to her on-air colleague Theakston that she required emergency surgery to have a metal plate inserted into her leg, following an accident at an inflatable assault course in Europe.\n\nElsewhere, Kiss continued to lose listeners, after breakfast trio Rickie, Melvin and Charlie left to take over the late evening show on Radio 1. Kiss Breakfast has dropped from 1.99m to 1.56m in the last year.\n\nRoman Kemp's Capital breakfast show also went down - losing 143,000 listeners nationally on the previous quarter.\n\nFormer Today host John Humphrys will guest present Classic FM's breakfast show next week\n\nBut there were increases for Dave Berry's breakfast show on Absolute and Ronan Keating and Harriett Scott on Magic.\n\nRadio 5 Live Sports Extra reached record audiences of 2.2 million weekly listeners during the summer months, as people tuned in in their droves to hear commentaries of England's successful Cricket World Cup campaign, and the Ashes.\n\nThere were also record highs for LBC (2.6 million weekly listeners) and Radio X (1.7 million).\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.", "Anna Kirsopp-Lewis was nine months pregnant with her second child and on the way to see a midwife\n\nA heavily pregnant woman was killed weeks before she was due to give birth when her car was hit by a driver who lost control at more than 100mph.\n\nAnna Kirsopp-Lewis, 34, suffered multiple injuries in the crash on the A36 near Warminster, Wiltshire, on 18 December, an inquest heard.\n\nThe driver of the other car Ian Barton, 62, died in hospital five days later.\n\nWiltshire coroner David Ridley said Mr Barton's driving had been \"aggressive, audacious and quite frankly abhorrent\".\n\nMrs Kirsopp-Lewis was nine months pregnant with her second child, a boy named Oscar, when the crash happened on Black Dog Hill, near Warminster.\n\nShe was driving to a midwife appointment when her Peugeot 208 was struck from behind by a 4x4 Porsche Cayenne.\n\nThe teacher, from Warminster, was thrown from her vehicle by the impact.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe inquest heard collision investigators estimated Mr Barton, who ran a pub in Combe Hay, near Bath, was driving in excess of 100mph on the road which had a 60mph speed limit.\n\nWitness statements said it was raining and conditions were poor.\n\nDashcam footage, provided by lorry driver Paul Cloak, showed Mr Barton's car overtaking his vehicle at high speed.\n\nHe told the hearing in Salisbury he saw a \"black blur\" when the Porsche passed him \"like a rocket\".\n\nSgt Joseph Sample, of Avon and Somerset Police, said a colleague who attended the scene believed Mr Barton \"lost control\" and his car \"fishtailed\" before impact.\n\nThe coroner said both drivers died of multiple injuries and recorded a verdict of unlawful killing for Mrs Kirsopp-Lewis.\n\nHe ruled Mr Barton died as a result of a road traffic collision.\n\nHe said the manner in which Mr Barton drove at \"excessive speed\" in \"appalling conditions\" had \"demonstrated indifference to the lives of Anna and other road users\".\n\nAnna Kirsopp-Lewis died from multiple injuries after being thrown from her car\n\nPaying tribute to his wife, Chris Lewis said she was a devoted teacher and mother to their young son, Henry.\n\n\"Anna was my wife, my best friend and my future, she was kind and compassionate, funny and clever, the reason I was happy.\n\n\"She didn't want Henry to be an only child and Oscar was that baby, he was planned for, loved, and much anticipated.\"\n\nCaroline Kirsopp said her daughter was \"a wonderful, wonderful person\".\n\n\"There aren't any words to describe the emptiness, the space that isn't filled by Anna,\" she said.\n\nShe said she struggled with the fact that there was no formal recognition of her unborn grandson, who was cremated with his mother.\n\n\"Oscar had a right to be born, he had a right to live. That was taken away from him,\" she said.", "Twitter shares tumbled 17% in early trading as quarterly profits came in at less than a quarter of what analysts had predicted.\n\nThe company said it made $37m (£28.7m) profit in the third quarter.\n\nProduct bugs and unusually low demand over the summer hampered advertising sales.\n\nRevenues were 9% higher than the previous year at $824m, but still at the lower end of Wall Street forecasts.\n\nThe micro-blogging site said revenue had been predicted to fall from the first two quarters, but that unexpected problems had weighed on sales, including bugs which had an impact on its ability to target ads and share data.\n\nTwitter has also lowered fourth-quarter revenue predictions. The firm now expects to earn between $940m and $1.02bn in the fourth quarter, down from a previously forecast $1.06bn.\n\nThe social media platform did boost the number of daily users who see ads on the site, known as monetisable daily active users (mDAU), which reached 145 million, beating analyst estimates for 141 million, up 17% year-on-year.\n\nTwitter's chief executive Jack Dorsey said the company was making improvements to the platform's algorithm.\n\n\"We also continue to make progress on health, improving our ability to proactively identify and remove abusive content, with more than 50% of the Tweets removed for abusive content in Q3 taken down without a bystander or first-person report,\" he said.\n\nThis crackdown on abusive behaviour is something analysts say separates Twitter from Facebook, which admitted on Thursday to being unable to confirm if hate speech from political candidates would be taken off the platform.\n\n\"Twitter has focused on the core experience for their users instead of politics,\" said Wendy Johansson of digital consultancy Publicis Sapient. \"They're not out fighting a political war like Facebook - they're focused on building the best tech and getting users addicted to the tech.\"\n\nAnthony Macro, head of social advertising at Croud, said the social media platform's attempts to root out bad activity would appeal to advertisers, but that their record was not flawless.\n\n\"It might be even harder to convince more people to join the platform after Twitter admitted in August it may have shared users' data with advertising platforms without consent,\" he said.\n\n\"With privacy so top of mind for users, across all social media platforms, it's absolutely critical for Twitter to sort these issues out if they want to make serious headway with future results,\" he added.\n\nMr Macro said the big question for Twitter was whether it could monetise its profile and turn its political influence into advertising revenue.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says an early poll would create a \"credible\" deadline for passing a Brexit deal\n\nThe PM has said he will give MPs more time to debate his Brexit deal, if they agree to a 12 December election.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC he expected the EU to grant an extension to his 31 October deadline, even though he \"really\" did not want one.\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn said he would not support an election until a no-deal Brexit is \"off the table\".\n\nEU leaders could give their verdict on delaying Brexit for up to three months on Friday.\n\nCommons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg told MPs the government would on Monday table a motion calling for a general election.\n\nUnder the 2011 Fixed-Term Parliament Act, two-thirds of MPs must vote for a general election before one can be held.\n\nIn a letter to Labour leader Mr Corbyn, Mr Johnson said his \"preferred option\" was a short Brexit postponement \"say to 15 or 30 November\".\n\nBut Mr Corbyn said: \"Take no-deal off the table and we absolutely support a general election.\n\n\"I've been calling for an election ever since the last one because this country needs one to deal with all the social injustice issues - but no-deal must be taken off the table.\n\n\"The EU will decide whether there is an extension tomorrow... and then we can decide.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: Take no-deal off the table and we absolutely support a general election\n\nMr Johnson wrote that, in that case, he would try to get his deal through Parliament again, with Labour's support.\n\nThe prime minister added that he \"assumes\" Mr Corbyn \"will cooperate with me to get our new Brexit deal ratified, so we leave with a new deal rather than no deal\".\n\nIf, as widely expected, the EU's Brexit delay is to the end of January, Mr Johnson said he will hold a Commons vote next week on a 12 December election.\n\nIf Labour agrees to this, the government said it will try to get its deal through before Parliament is dissolved for the campaign on 6 November.\n\nTreasury sources told the BBC that the Budget would not now be delivered on 6 November as scheduled.\n\nThe prime minister told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg: \"I'm afraid it looks as though our EU friends are going to respond to Parliament's request by having an extension, which I really don't want at all.\n\n\"So, the way to get this done, the way to get Brexit done, is, I think, to be reasonable with Parliament and say if they genuinely want more time to study this excellent deal, they can have it but they have to agree to a general election on 12 December.\"\n\nAsked what he would do if Labour refused to vote for an election, he said: \"We would campaign day after day for the people of this country to be released from subjection to a Parliament that has outlived its usefulness.\"\n\nThe prime minister has repeatedly insisted the UK will leave the EU on 31 October, with or without a deal.\n\nBut he was forced to send a letter to the EU requesting an extension, under legislation passed by MPs last month.\n\nMPs voted on Tuesday to back the first stage of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, putting the deal the PM agreed with Brussels into law - but rejected Mr Johnson's plan to push it through the Commons in three days.\n\nThe BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler says EU leaders are set to decide on Friday whether to grant the UK a three-month Brexit extension - although the decision could be delayed to Monday.\n\nMost EU nations back it but France \"is digging its heels in\", she adds.\n\nSo there could be an emergency summit in Brussels on Monday to allow leaders to reach agreement face-to-face.\n\nBoris Johnson cannot be remotely sure Labour and the smaller parties will let him have his way. The SNP and the Lib Dems are both tempted to go for an election as soon as a three month delay is agreed.\n\nThe Labour Party's official position has always been that they would agree to an election, in fact officially they are chomping at the bit, like the other parties, as long as a delay is agreed.\n\nOne senior member of the shadow cabinet predicted they would not be able to withstand the pressure if the Lib Dems and the SNP said yes.\n\nJeremy Corbyn himself, and certainly one group in his camp, are understood to be very tempted too. But, just as in 2017, lots of Labour MPs are horrified at the idea, partly because of Labour's standing in the polls.\n\nBut also, there are senior shadow cabinet ministers who believe the smart thing would be to leave the PM in his purgatory, twisting, unable to get his bill through, unable to get to an election.\n\nIn short, the position is fluid, and Labour is having words with itself tonight.", "Coldplay have apparently revealed the tracks of their latest album in the classified adverts of a local newspaper.\n\nAn advert for Everyday Life sat alongside ones for a fridge-freezer, bales of hay and a divan bed in north Wales' Daily Post.\n\nOn Monday the band announced their latest album in a letter to a fan.\n\nLead guitarist Jonny Buckland, who grew up in Flintshire, tweeted he once had a holiday job at the newspaper.\n\nSimilar adverts have appeared in newspapers in England - in Exeter's Express and Echo, which is lead singer Chris Martin's hometown, and Southampton's Daily Echo, where drummer Will Champion is from.\n\nBassist Guy Berryman is from Kirkcaldy in Scotland, but no advert has yet been found in a newspaper there.\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\nEditor of the Daily Post, Andy Campbell, said he had been unaware of the advert.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers, he said: \"In editorial, we were blissfully unaware of it until someone phoned us up and pointed it out yesterday...\n\n\"To be honest, it's a brilliant bit of marketing by Coldplay, to get everyone talking about their new album and the track listing.\n\n\"Maybe someone from the record company, maybe Jonny Buckland himself phoned up the adverts team and placed the advert.\"\n\nColdplay are the biggest-selling British band of the 21st Century, with three of the top 20 best-selling albums since 2000, according to the Official Charts Company.\n\nBlack-and-white posters appeared in Madrid last week showing the band dressed as a 1920s wedding band, sparking rumours their latest album was on the way.\n\nThat was followed by the band's letter to fan Lena Tayara, which she initially dismissed as a hoax.", "Downing Street has denied the government is split over how to move forward with the Brexit process.\n\nThe prime minister has said he will seek a snap general election if the EU decides to delay Brexit until January.\n\nBut some ministers are understood to be urging him to make another attempt to get his deal through Parliament first.\n\nBBC Europe editor Katya Adler says the EU will decide on Friday whether to grant an extension and, if so, for how long.\n\n\"France is digging its heels in, while Germany and most other EU countries support idea of granting the three-month extension,\" adds our correspondent.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macon is thought to be concerned that a long extension could lead to more UK indecisiveness or an inconclusive general election.\n\nIf France remains opposed to a three-month extension, there could be an emergency summit in Brussels on Monday so leaders reach agreement face-to-face, says Katya Adler.\n\nOn Tuesday, MPs backed the prime minister's Brexit deal at its first parliamentary hurdle but rejected his plans to fast-track the legislation.\n\nThat defeat effectively ended any realistic prospect of the UK leaving the bloc with a deal by the government's 31 October deadline.\n\nOn Saturday, the prime minister was forced by law to send a letter to Brussels requesting a three-month extension.\n\nNeither a motion for an early election nor another attempt to get the Brexit deal through has so far been scheduled for next week's business in Parliament.\n\nOutlining the agenda, Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg said the government \"does not want an extension\" and is \"making every preparation to leave on 31 October\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said it was unlikely the government would decide on either option before the EU responded to the extension request.\n\nAfter Tuesday's Commons defeat on the timetable, Mr Johnson said he would pause the progress of his Withdrawal Agreement Bill while he waited to hear from the EU.\n\nBut he insists the UK will still leave in a week's time, with or without a deal - and he says he has told EU leaders that.\n\nIf the EU approves the UK's request for a three-month extension, Mr Johnson would have to accept it under legislation passed by MPs last month.\n\nDominic Cummings is reported to be pushing for a general election before Christmas\n\nHe would also have to accept any alternative duration suggested by EU leaders, unless MPs decide not to agree with it within two days.\n\nDominic Cummings, Mr Johnson's chief adviser, is reported by the Sun to be urging ministers to abandon attempts to get the prime minister's deal through Parliament and go for a December election instead.\n\nBut the newspaper says a series of ministers think getting the Brexit deal through Parliament should be the priority.\n\nOn Wednesday, Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith suggested the government's top priority, after Tuesday's Commons votes, may not be securing an early general election.\n\nHe told the Northern Ireland select committee: \"What I want to do is listen to Northern Irish MPs, get a programme motion that is to the satisfaction of a majority of people in this House and resolve this situation.\n\n\"That is where I feel our responsibility lies, and we can work together to address many of these issues and ensure this bill is completed.\n\n\"I think the prime minister had a big success [on Tuesday], and I hope we can build on that in the coming days and weeks.\"\n\nJulian Smith wants to get the Brexit bill through Parliament\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Johnson met Jeremy Corbyn to discuss how to break the Brexit impasse.\n\nThe Labour leader was keen to discuss a different timetable for the Brexit bill, while the prime minister wanted to know what Mr Corbyn would do if the EU refused to grant an extension.\n\nBut nothing was agreed between the pair and no further talks have been planned.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey told Radio 4's Today programme that Labour would vote for an early election if Mr Johnson pushes for one as soon as an extension is granted by the EU.\n\n\"That's our position. But we also want the prime minister to look at the compromise that's been offered that a lot of MPs support, and that's the ability to be able to properly scrutinise the bill,\" she added.\n\nJames Cleverly, Conservative Party chairman, told the Today programme the government was still preparing for a no-deal Brexit on 31 October.\n\n\"The EU has not agreed an extension and therefore it is absolutely essential that we prepare to leave,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Labour MP Lisa Nandy said keeping to next week's deadline was \"very unlikely\".\n\nThe Wigan MP told the Today programme the \"general consensus\" in her party was that if the government wanted to propose a new schedule for the Commons to debate the bill, \"five or six days\" would be \"sufficient\".\n\nEven if Mr Johnson does decide to press for an early election there is no guarantee he will succeed.\n\nUnder the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, the prime minister needs to have the backing of two-thirds of MPs to hold a snap poll. This has been rejected twice by MPs.\n\nAnother way would be for the Conservatives to vote for a no-confidence motion in their own government - which Mr Johnson could even call himself - which would only require a simple majority of one.\n\nBut Parliamentary rules state that if it passes, the Commons has 14 days to form an alternative administration, so he would run the risk of being forced out of Downing Street if opposition parties can unite around a different leader.\n\nAnother route to an election is a one-line bill, that requires only a simple majority, but any such bill is likely to incur a host of amendments, for example, giving 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote.\n\nTraditionally, UK elections are held on a Thursday. So, if an election were triggered in the week beginning 28 October, the earliest date the poll could take place is Thursday, 5 December.\n\nThat's because the law requires Parliament to dissolve 25 working days before the election.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thirty nine bodies were found in the trailer container\n\nPolice have begun the process of moving the bodies of 39 people found dead in a refrigerated lorry in Essex.\n\nEleven of the victims - believed to be Chinese nationals - were taken by ambulance from the Port of Tilbury to Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford.\n\nPolice have been granted extra time to question lorry driver Mo Robinson, 25, on suspicion of murdering the eight women and 31 men.\n\nPost-mortem examinations will be the next step in the investigation.\n\nThe ambulance carrying the bodies left the port at 19:41 BST under police escort.\n\nA spokesperson for Essex Police said recovering all the bodies would take time and the dignity of the victims was their primary concern.\n\nThe lorry driver has been named locally as Mo Robinson, from County Armagh\n\nThree properties in Northern Ireland have been raided and the National Crime Agency is working to establish if \"organised crime groups\" were involved.\n\nPolice believe the tractor unit - the front part of the lorry - had entered the country via Holyhead in Wales on Sunday, having travelled from Dublin.\n\nThe trailer arrived in Purfleet on the River Thames from Zeebrugge in Belgium at 00:30 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe lorry and trailer left the port at Purfleet shortly after 01:05 the same day.\n\nAmbulance staff discovered the bodies in the container at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays about 30 minutes later, just after 01:30.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV shows the lorry arriving at the industrial park\n\nEssex Police said the victims were all \"believed to be Chinese nationals\".\n\nChina's ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming later tweeted: \"The Chinese Embassy has sent a team led by the minister-counsellor in charge of consular affairs to Essex, England.\n\n\"They have met with the local police, who said that they are verifying the identity of the 39 deceased, whose nationality still cannot be confirmed.\"\n\nVigils were held outside the Home Office in London and at the front of City Hall in Belfast on Thursday.\n\nPolice officers and councillors have signed a book of condolences, which was opened at Thurrock Council's chambers in Essex.\n\nSpeaking earlier, Essex Police Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington said he had the \"utmost confidence\" in his officers as the force leads its largest-ever murder investigation.\n\nThe deaths follow warnings from the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Border Force about the increased risk of people-smuggling using quieter ports such as Purfleet and routes through Belgium.\n\nGlobal Trailer Rentals Ltd confirmed to RTE News that it owned the trailer and said it had leased it on 15 October.\n\nThe firm said it had given Essex Police the details of the person and company they had leased it to.\n\nThurrock's Conservative MP Jackie Doyle-Price said there needed to be an international response.\n\n\"We have partnerships in place but those efforts need to be rebooted, this is an international criminal world where many gangs are making lots of money and until states act collectively to tackle that it is going to continue,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I've seen people running out of a lorry\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, councillor Paul Berry said the village of Laurelvale in County Armagh, where the Robinson family live, was in \"complete shock\".\n\nHe said he had been in contact with Mr Robinson's father, who had learned of his son's arrest on Wednesday through social media.\n\nLucy Moreton, from the Immigration Services Union, said the sheer number of containers coming into the UK every day made it impossible to look inside them all.\n\nA spokesman for C.RO Ports, which operates terminals at Purfleet and Zeebrugge, said they would \"fully assist\" the police investigation.\n\nThe bodies were found inside a lorry container at Waterglade Industrial Park\n\nDo you have any information to share about the incident? If it is safe for you to do so please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People with long-term health problems such as arthritis are more likely to feel pain on humid days, a study has suggested.\n\nFolklore suggests the cold makes pain worse - but there is actually little research into the weather's effects.\n\nAnd this University of Manchester study of 2,500 people, which collected data via smartphones, found symptoms were actually worse on warmer, damper days.\n\nResearchers hope the findings will steer future research into why that is.\n\nHearing someone say their knee is playing up because of the weather is pretty common - usually because of the cold, Some say they can even predict the weather based on how their joints feel.\n\nBut carrying out scientific research into how different types of weather affect pain has been difficult. Previous studies have been small, or short-term.\n\nIn this research, called Cloudy with a Chance of Pain, scientists recruited 2,500 people with arthritis, fibromyalgia, migraine and neuropathic pain from across the UK.\n\nThey recorded pain symptoms each day, for between one and 15 months, while their phones recorded the weather where they were.\n\nDamp and windy days with low pressure increased the chances of experiencing more pain than normal by about 20%.\n\nSo if someone's chances of a painful day with average weather were five in 100, they would increase to six in 100 on a damp and windy day.\n\nBut there was no association with temperature alone, or rainfall.\n\nProf Will Dixon, of the Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis, at the University of Manchester, who led the study said: \"Weather has been thought to affect symptoms in patients with arthritis since [ancient Greek physician] Hippocrates.\n\n\"Around three-quarters of people living with arthritis believe their pain is affected by the weather.\"\n\nProf Dixon said if other researchers could now \"look at why humidity is related to pain, that opens the door to new treatments\".\n\nAnd it might be possible to develop a \"pain forecast\" that could allow people with chronic pain to plan activities.\n\nAbout 10 million people in the UK have arthritis - and most of them are thought to experience life-altering pain every day.\n\nDr Stephen Simpson, director of research at Versus Arthritis, which funded the study, said: \"It's been almost folklore that weather has an effect on arthritis - but that's all been people's 'lived experiences' rather than studies.\n\n\"This was an innovative way to do research and it's very important that we have been able to draw some conclusions.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nThe family of Harry Dunn is to begin legal action against the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).\n\nHarry, 19, died outside RAF Croughton in a crash with a car owned by US citizen Anne Sacoolas, who later left the UK claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nFamily spokesperson Radd Seiger told Sky News: \"The first action we will be taking is against the FCO.\"\n\nAn FCO spokeswoman said: \"We have done everything we can properly to clear a path so that justice can be done for Harry's family.\n\n\"As the foreign secretary set out in Parliament, the individual involved had diplomatic immunity whilst in the country under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.\"\n\nThe FCO said it would respond to any legal action in due course.\n\nRadd Seiger (centre) said Harry Dunn's parents have met lawyers in London\n\nMr Seiger said: \"We will be shortly issuing a letter of claim which is a prelude to a judicial review.\n\n\"We are absolutely clear that the Foreign Office's decision to advise Northamptonshire Police that Mrs Sacoolas had the benefit of diplomatic immunity was unlawful and we will be seeking a judicial review of that decision to have it quashed.\"\n\nHe also appealed for Mrs Sacoolas \"to come back to this country and face the music\".\n\nThe family has also referred Northamptonshire Police to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nA Northamptonshire Police spokeswoman said the force would be happy to support the IOPC with any concerns raised by the family.\n\nOn Tuesday, Northamptonshire Police Chief Constable Nick Adderley said Mrs Sacoolas would be interviewed under caution in the US.\n\nOfficers are waiting for the necessary visas.\n\nMr Seiger said the force had \"not disclosed all the information this family are entitled to\".\n\n\"We have deep concerns about the manner in which this investigation was conducted, and simply adding insult to injury to this family at their darkest hour,\" he added.\n\nMr Adderley had previously said Northamptonshire Police had at all times \"acted with the utmost integrity and transparency\".\n\nMr Seiger said: \"This family have a steely determination about them to ensure that Harry has not died in vain.\n\n\"I think the whole nation, the whole world now, is looking at this set of circumstances and it isn't right.\"\n\nMr Dunn's motorbike was in a collision outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on 27 August. He later died in hospital.\n\nMrs Sacoolas' husband Jonathan is a US intelligence official who was working at the base at the time of the crash.\n\nBoth the British and US governments agree that by returning to the US Mrs Sacoolas forfeited the right to diplomatic immunity.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has written to Jeremy Corbyn urging the Labour leader to back a general election.\n\nIn the letter, the prime minister tells Mr Corbyn it is \"our duty to end this nightmare\" over Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson adds that if Labour supports a December poll, he will provide \"all the possible time\" for scrutiny of his proposed Brexit deal before 6 November.\n\n\"We could get Brexit done before the election on 12 December, if MPs choose to do so,\" he says.\n\nHere is Mr Johnson's letter in full:\n\nLast week, I agreed a new Withdrawal Agreement with the European Union. This is a great new deal which Parliament could have ratified and allowed us to honour our promises and leave by 31 October. Sadly you succeeded in persuading Parliament to ask the EU to delay Brexit until 31 January 2020.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Commons voted for our new deal but again voted for delay and, even worse, handed over control of what happens next to the other EU member states.\n\nI have repeatedly made clear to EU leaders since I became prime minister that I believe any delay to be extremely damaging for the country and my view has never changed that we should leave on 31 October.\n\nHowever, it is clear from public and private comments of President Tusk that it is likely that the EU will offer a delay until 31 January, though it is possible that a shorter delay will be offered.\n\nIn our meeting yesterday [Wednesday] you suggested that we propose a new timetable for getting the Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB) through Parliament.\n\nThis Parliament has, with your encouragement, voted repeatedly for delay. The vote on Tuesday was Parliament's last chance to get Brexit done before 31 October and it voted, again, for delay.\n\nI am extremely sceptical this habit will change and many will doubt that this Parliament will do anything other than waste more time and then, in January, ask for yet another delay.\n\nThese repeated delays have been bad for the economy, bad for businesses, and bad for millions of people trying to plan their futures. If businesses assume that this Parliament will stay, paralysed, refusing to take responsibility for month after month into 2020, it will cause misery for millions.\n\nIt is our duty to end this nightmare and provide the country with a solution as soon as we reasonably can.\n\nThe EU may offer only a short extension, say to 15 or 30 November. This would, obviously, be my preference but I was legally prevented by Parliament and the courts from suggesting this. In this circumstance, I assume you will reverse your vote of Tuesday and you will co-operate with me to get our new Brexit deal ratified so we leave with a new deal rather than no deal.\n\nIf the EU offers the delay that Parliament has requested - that is, we must stay in until 31 January - then it is clear that there must be an election. We cannot risk further paralysis.\n\nIn these circumstances, the Commons will vote next week on whether to hold an election to be held on 12 December. This would mean that Parliament would dissolve just after midnight on 6 November.\n\nIf you commit to voting for an election next week (in the event of the EU offering a delay until 31 January and the government accepting, as it is legally forced to do by Parliament), then we will make available all possible time between now and 6 November for the WAB to be discussed and voted through, including Fridays, weekends, the earliest starts and the latest finishes.\n\nThis means that we could get Brexit done before the election on 12 December, if MPs choose to do so.\n\nBut if Parliament refuses to take this chance and fails to ratify by the end of 6 November, as I fear it will, then the issue will have to be resolved by a new Parliament.\n\nAn election on 12 December will allow a new Parliament and government to be in place by Christmas.\n\nIf I win a majority in this election, we will then ratify the great new deal that I have negotiated, get Brexit done in January and the country will move on.\n\nIf you win a majority, then you will, I assume, implement your policy: that is, you will ask for another delay after 31 January 2020 to give you the time both to renegotiate a new deal then have a referendum, in which you may or may not campaign for your own deal.\n\nIt is time for MPs finally to take responsibility. More people voted Leave in 2016 than have ever voted for anything. Parliament promised to respect the referendum result. But Parliament has repeatedly avoided doing this.\n\nGiven this situation, we must give the voters the chance to resolve this situation as soon as reasonably possible before the next deadline of 31 January. We cannot risk wasting the next three months then this farce being replayed with yet another delay in January 2020 and still no way for the country to move on.\n\nThis Parliament has refused to take decisions. It cannot refuse to let the voters replace it with a new Parliament that can make decisions.\n\nProlonging this paralysis into 2020 would have dangerous consequences for businesses, jobs and for basic confidence in democratic institutions, already badly damaged by the behaviour of Parliament since the referendum. Parliament cannot continue to hold the country hostage.\n\nYou have repeatedly said that once the EU accepts Parliament's request for a delay until 31 January, then you would immediately support an election. I assume this remains your position and therefore you will support an election next week so the voters can replace this broken Parliament.\n\nI am copying this letter to the other Westminster political party leaders.\n• None PM to try for 12 December election", "Nearly 180,000 people are without power and hundreds have been evacuated as a fast-moving wildfire rages through California's wine country.\n\nJets have sprayed pink flame retardant across Sonoma County to stop the spread of the Kincade Fire.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thirty nine bodies were found in the trailer container\n\nThe 39 people found dead in a refrigerated trailer in Essex were Chinese nationals.\n\nPolice have been granted an extra 24 hours to question lorry driver Mo Robinson, 25, on suspicion of murdering the eight women and 31 men.\n\nThree properties in Northern Ireland have been raided and the National Crime Agency is working to establish if \"organised crime groups\" were involved.\n\nThe trailer arrived in Purfleet on the River Thames from Zeebrugge in Belgium.\n\nAmbulance staff discovered the bodies in the container at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays just after 01:30 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe lorry and trailer left the port at Purfleet shortly after 01:05.\n\nPolice said the tractor unit - the front part of the lorry - entered the country via Holyhead in Wales on Sunday, having travelled from Dublin.\n\nSpeaking after a magistrate granted Essex Police more time to question Mr Robinson on Thursday, Deputy Chief Constable Pippa Mills said her priority was \"preserving the dignity of the 39 people who have died and ensuring that we get answers for their loved ones\".\n\nThe lorry driver has been named locally as Mo Robinson, from County Armagh\n\nCouncillor Paul Berry said the village of Laurelvale in County Armagh, where the Robinson family live, was in \"complete shock\".\n\nHe said he had been in contact with Mr Robinson's father, who had learned of his son's arrest on Wednesday through social media.\n\n\"The local community is hoping that he [Mo Robinson] has been caught up innocently in this matter but that's in the hands of Essex Police, and we will leave it in their professional hands to try to catch the perpetrators of this,\" he said.\n\nThe lorry has been moved to a secure site at Tilbury Docks and police are due to begin the process of moving the bodies to a mortuary at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford.\n\nThey will be taken by private ambulance so that post-mortem examinations can take place, with the force expecting all the bodies to have been moved by the weekend.\n\nGlobal Trailer Rentals Ltd confirmed to RTE News that it owned the trailer and said it had leased it on 15 October.\n\nThe firm said it had given Essex Police the details of the person and company they had leased it to.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I've seen people running out of a lorry\"\n\nEssex Police said it was the largest murder investigation in the force's history and the victims were all \"believed to be Chinese nationals\".\n\nIt said formal identification of the 39 people, one of whom is a young adult woman, \"could be a lengthy process\".\n\nChina's ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming tweeted that the embassy had read the reports of the deaths \"with heavy hearts\" and was in close contact with British police.\n\nLucy Moreton, from the Immigration Services Union, said the sheer number of containers coming into the UK every day made it impossible to look inside them all.\n\n\"We don't have the facility to check the vast majority of freight which arrives in the UK, whether it moves or not,\" she said.\n\nShe said disconnected freight containers were less likely to be searched unless there was \"intelligence to the contrary that suggests we need to do that\".\n\nA book of condolences has been opened at Thurrock Council\n\nPolice initially suggested the lorry could be from Bulgaria, but later said officers believed it entered the UK from Belgium.\n\nA spokesman for the Bulgarian foreign affairs ministry said the truck was registered in the country under the name of a company owned by an Irish citizen.\n\nThe Belgian Federal Public Prosecutor's Office said the container arrived in Zeebrugge at 14:29 on Tuesday and left the port later that afternoon.\n\nIt was not clear when the victims were placed in the container or if this happened in Belgium, a spokesman said.\n\nA spokesman for C.RO Ports, which operates terminals at Purfleet and Zeebrugge, said they would \"fully assist\" the police investigation.\n\nShaun Sawyer, the National Police Chiefs Council lead for modern slavery and human trafficking, said while forces had prevented thousands of deaths, \"tragically, for 39 people that didn't work yesterday\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme even if there were routes perceived as easier to get through, organised criminals would still exploit people who could not access those.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV shows the lorry arriving at the industrial park\n\nWhen China makes the news headlines, it's often painted as wealthy global power.\n\nHowever, its boom has also fostered extreme inequality, with the top one percent of Chinese citizens holding one-third of the country's riches. That gap is widening: a continuing trade war with the United States has forced many factories to close, disproportionately punishing some of China's poorest workers.\n\nSurveys have repeatedly found that China's upper and middle class citizens are eager to leave the mainland, citing worries about the lack of high-quality schooling and health care, and lingering pollution and food safety problems.\n\nPoor people in China have the same concerns but they have less opportunity to emigrate overseas. The Chinese government controls who can get a passport and who qualifies for an exit permit. Ever-tightening controls allow people smugglers and human traffickers to prey on those who are desperate to find work.\n\nWe don't yet know the story behind why the people found on the Essex lorry had taken that journey. A UK government report on modern slavery published one year ago found that China was the third most common foreign country of origin for victims of human trafficking.\n\nPolice officers and councillors have signed a book of condolences which was opened at Thurrock Council's chambers.\n\nA vigil was held at 18:00 outside the Home Office to \"call for urgent action to ensure safe passage\" for people fleeing war and poverty.\n\nA candlelit vigil was held in memory of the 39 victims\n\nThurrock's Conservative MP Jackie Doyle-Price said there needed to be an international response.\n\n\"We have partnerships in place but those efforts need to be rebooted, this is an international criminal world where many gangs are making lots of money and until states act collectively to tackle that it is going to continue,\" she said.\n\nDo you have any information to share about the incident? If it is safe for you to do so please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dover is the single largest site for people smuggling operations, police say\n\nSince the Calais migrant camps were shut three years ago and security measures were increased at Dover and the Channel Tunnel, people smugglers have increasingly moved to other routes.\n\nAsked which ports are being used, the National Crime Agency told me: \"All of them.\"\n\nMore dangerous methods are being used to get human cargo through.\n\nThe most common one is being hidden in the back of a lorry, but increasingly commercial shipping containers are being used, sometimes even refrigerated ones of the type seen on the back of the truck in Essex.\n\nRisks are substantial for the migrants, who can pay £10,000 or more for a space on these vehicles.\n\nPolice say identifying illegal shipments is a significant challenge and the National Crime Agency now heads a taskforce - Project Invigor - which works with partners in the UK and across Europe, sharing intelligence and resources to try and disrupt the smugglers.\n\nEuropol also has a dedicated centre pulling together every scrap of information on migrant smuggling into the EU - sometimes small-scale operators but also global criminal networks for which clandestine movement of people is a useful way to fund other activities.\n\nThere have been concerted efforts by police and the Home Office to ensure that cross-border co-operation on issues like people smuggling and trafficking is not diminished after Brexit but concerns remain.\n\nThe largest numbers of people identified being taken across UK borders come from Eritrea in East Africa, followed by Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran in the Middle East.\n\nThere are four significant routes into mainland Europe - into Spain from west and north Africa, across the Mediterranean to Italy, through Poland from the east and, probably the busiest route, through Turkey and up through the Balkans.\n\nPolice have recently targeted a number of large gangs in Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina.\n\nTo get across the English Channel to the UK smugglers are increasingly using less direct routes. From Cherbourg, for instance, they can sail to Rosslare or Dublin, and from there on to Holyhead.\n\nSome 280,000 lorries go through the port in North Wales each year but that is almost a tenth of the number going through Dover which, police say, remains the single largest site for people smuggling operations.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ben Gillham-Rice (left) and Dom Ansah (right) were stabbed to death at a house party on Saturday\n\nA man has been charged with murdering two teenagers who were stabbed to death at a house party.\n\nDom Ansah and Ben Gillham-Rice, both 17, were attacked in Archford Croft, Milton Keynes, on Saturday.\n\nCharlie Chandler, 21, of Fitzwilliam Street, Bletchley, has been charged with two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder.\n\nPolice said Mr Chandler was due to appear at Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nA 22-year-old man from Milton Keynes remains in police custody on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.\n\nThe boys were stabbed in Archford Croft in Milton Keynes\n\nPost-mortem examinations concluded Dom died from a stab wound to the back and Ben's cause of death was a knife wound to the chest.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Europa League\n\nSubstitute Nicolas Pepe rescued Arsenal with two sublime free-kicks in the last 10 minutes of their Europa League group game against Vitoria Guimaraes at Emirates Stadium.\n\nArsenal were losing 2-1 when Pepe came on in the 75th minute and he scored five minutes later with a curling effort from 25 yards.\n\nHe repeated the feat in stoppage time as Arsenal avoided their second straight defeat and retained their place at the top of Group F.\n\nFormer Tottenham youngster Marcus Edwards had earlier cut inside and fired into the bottom corner to give Vitoria a shock lead, before Arsenal's Brazilian teenager Gabriel Martinelli nodded in his fifth goal in just his third start to make it 1-1.\n\nBruno Duarte restored the visitors' lead on 36 minutes, pouncing on a rebound to send Arsenal into the half-time break a goal behind.\n\nThe Gunners, who were poor for large patches of the game, burst into life in the final 10 minutes as Martinelli was denied from close range before Rob Holding's header was well held by the goalkeeper.\n\nArsenal manager Unai Emery made 10 changes from the side that lost to Sheffield United in the Premier League on Monday but was forced to bring on Matteo Guendouzi and Dani Ceballos at half-time, before Pepe made the difference.\n\nPepe heroics - the start of something?\n\nThere was huge excitement this summer when Arsenal signed Ivory Coast winger Pepe from Lille for a club record fee of £72m.\n\nHe showed glimpses of brilliance against Liverpool on his first Premier League start in August and picked up an assist in the following game against Tottenham.\n\nBut the winger has been largely underwhelming and needed to make an impression from the bench in this European tie.\n\nAnd that is exactly what he did, curling both set-pieces past a helpless Miguel Silva to give Arsenal another three points in the group, as they maintained their 100% record in the competition this season.\n\nFormer Arsenal defender Martin Keown said on BT Sport at half-time \"pressure is building\" on manager Emery.\n\nFans were booing as the players walked off at the break trailing 2-1 and banners displaying the words \"Emery out\" and \"Unai, stop freezing Ozil out\" were seen in the stands.\n\nGerman midfielder Mesut Ozil was not included in the squad and has made just two appearances this season.\n\nThe defeat to Sheffield United on Monday looked set to be repeated even after Emery had ruthlessly pulled off youngsters Ainsley Maitland-Niles and Joe Willock at half-time but Pepe had other ideas.\n\nAnd despite discontent, Arsenal remain fifth in the Premier League table and unbeaten in all three matches in Europe this season.\n\nArsenal manger Unai Emery to BT Sport: \"Our aim in this competition is to top the group. Each match is a chance to use different players and grow experience and little by little get better. We didn't play like we wanted but we showed good spirit. It's a good victory. Some players need experience and playing under pressure at this level.\n\n\"It's important for Pepe. He can gain confidence from tonight. When he scores it's good for him and the team. He's getting better, playing minutes, playing matches and scoring goals like tonight and he helped us tonight to win this match.\"\n\nMartinelli continues to shine - the best of the stats\n• None Arsenal have won seven straight home games in European competition (excluding qualifiers) for the first time since February 2002 (a run of seven in the Champions League).\n• None Arsenal are unbeaten in their last six home meetings with Portuguese opponents (W5, D1), scoring 20 goals and conceding just two.\n• None Vitoria Guimaraes are winless in their last eight away matches in the Europa League (D2, L6).\n• None Edwards' goal on eight minutes was the earliest Arsenal have conceded in European competition since Edinson Cavani netted after 42 seconds for PSG in September 2016.\n• None Edwards is the first English player to score for a non-British side against an English team in Europe since Ben Wright for Viking FK against Chelsea in September 2002 in the Uefa Cup.\n• None Martinelli has been directly involved in six goals in three starts for Arsenal in all competitions, scoring five and assisting one.\n• None Pepe is the first player to score two direct free-kicks in a Europa League game since Luis Suarez for Liverpool vs Zenit St. Petersburg in February 2013.\n\nArsenal are back at Emirates on Sunday when they host Crystal Palace in the Premier League (16:30 GMT).\n• None Goal! Arsenal 3, Vitória Guimarães 2. Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) from a free kick with a left footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Rochinha (Vitória Guimarães) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Pepe with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt saved. Rob Holding (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nicolas Pépé with a cross.\n• None Edmond Tapsoba (Vitória Guimarães) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Shkodran Mustafi (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Emile Smith Rowe with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Héctor Bellerín.\n• None Attempt missed. Davidson (Vitória Guimarães) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Edmond Tapsoba following a fast break.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 2, Vitória Guimarães 2. Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) from a free kick with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Florent Hanin (Vitória Guimarães) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Boris Johnson is at odds with Parliament on the issue of leaving the EU without a deal\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said the UK will leave the European Union (EU) on 31 October \"deal or no deal\". But Chancellor Sajid Javid has now conceded that the deadline \"can't be met\".\n\nWhile opposition parties decide in which circumstances they could support Mr Johnson's request for a December general election, the fate of the Brexit deadline currently lies with European leaders.\n\nAs things stand, it is still just about possible for the UK to leave the EU without a deal at the end of the month.\n\nNow that EU ambassadors have agreed that there should be an extension, this route to a no-deal is extremely unlikely.\n\nMr Johnson sent a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk on 19 October, requesting a three-month Brexit delay\n\nBut for an extension to the Halloween deadline to go ahead, leaders of the other 27 EU countries have to agree unanimously. Until the change is formalised, the legal \"exit date\" remains at 31 October.\n\nNow that the EU has agreed to an extension, it could still offer the UK a leaving date other than 31 January. In that instance, MPs would have up to two days in which they could vote to reject the proposal. If they don't vote, the proposal is automatically agreed to.\n\nThe EU may not announce the length of the extension until Tuesday, meaning any vote by MPs could theoretically happen on 31 October itself.\n\nIf the proposal was rejected, the extension would be off and a no-deal Brexit would happen next Thursday.\n\nMPs would be unlikely to reject a proposal, however, for two reasons:\n\nEven with an extension agreed and put in place before the end of the month, a no-deal Brexit is not \"off the table\". Instead, it just pushes the possibility further into the future.\n\nThe UK will need to wait for an answer from the EU\n\nRegardless of the length of the extension, the prime minister would probably still try to push his deal through Parliament.\n\nHowever, if the government is unable to implement his deal (or another) before the new deadline, the UK would leave without a deal.\n\nThis is the most controversial and unlikely scenario.\n\nIf an extension were agreed, a minister would be required to change the deadline in law using something called a statutory instrument (the power to change the law without a vote of MPs).\n\nAnd, theoretically, they could simply refuse to do this.\n\nBut not only would this be unlawful, it could be argued the \"exit date\" would be automatically changed anyway, because international law trumps domestic law.\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016 to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Channel 4's Smuggled followed members of the public as they tried to evade border checks\n\nChannel 4 has postponed the broadcast of a new documentary after 39 bodies were discovered in a lorry in Essex.\n\nSmuggled was set to follow eight members of the public as they tried to enter the UK from Europe by evading border checks.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"In light of the tragic events today we have postponed the transmission of the series.\"\n\nThe 39 people found dead in the refrigerated trailer were Chinese nationals, it is understood.\n\nIn promotional material, Channel 4 said it had commissioned the show at a time when the UK was preparing to \"take back control\" with Brexit and described the programme as an \"unprecedented national security experiment\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows police activity around the lorry where the bodies were found\n\nA press screening of Smuggled had been planned for Thursday but was cancelled after the discovery of the bodies in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nEssex Police initially suggested the lorry could be from Bulgaria, but later said officers believed it entered the UK from Belgium. The lorry was found at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, Essex and police said 38 adults and one teenager were pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThis is far from the first time a TV network or film studio has pulled the broadcast or release of certain projects after a real-life tragedy has hit the headlines.\n\nA movie or TV series which unintentionally reflects a recent horrific event can feel insensitive or distasteful - and they often end up being reshot or rescheduled as a result.\n\nA trailer for a film starring Betty Gilpin (left) and Hilary Swank was pulled after the El Paso shooting\n\nIn August, Universal Pictures cancelled the release of horror movie The Hunt, which was set to star double Oscar winner Hilary Swank and Glow's Betty Gilpin.\n\nThe satirical and gory film told the story of liberals who hunt Trump supporters and kill them for sport, a storyline intended to reflect the divided nature of politics at the moment.\n\nBut after the shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, the trailers were taken off air - including one which opened with the sound resembling an emergency broadcast signal - before the film was pulled altogether.\n\nA statement from Universal at the time said: \"We stand by our filmmakers and will continue to distribute films in partnership with bold and visionary creators, like those associated with this satirical social thriller, but we understand that now is not the right time to release this film.\"\n\nBastille Day, Shooter and Gone Baby Gone have all faced delays because of real-life events\n\nOther films to have been affected by real-life tragedies include Bastille Day, which starred Idris Elba.\n\nBut the film, which was about civilians killed by a bomb explosion in Paris, was pulled from cinemas in France the day after it was released because of the 2016 terror attack in Nice.\n\nStudioCanal stopped adverts for the film immediately after the attack and soon cancelled its release altogether, commenting that it was \"not in line with the national mood\".\n\n\"Studios, like many major corporations, are risk averse,\" says Andreas Wiseman, international editor at Deadline.\n\n\"The performance over its opening weekend can often make or break a film, so distributors spend a long time strategising over an optimum release date.\n\n\"If there is a chance a social or political context might turn media or audiences against a film, studios will reroute.\"\n\nAn episode of Friends was reshot after the 9/11 attacks\n\nThe studio's request to pull Bastille Day out of French cinemas was supported by the film's lead actor. Elba told The Sun that the producers probably thought the film was \"insensitive\" and did not \"feel right to have out there\".\n\nYet some French film fans were disappointed with the studio's decision. One told Reuters he \"didn't make the connection with Nice\".\n\n\"There are so many differences,\" said the cinemagoer. \"I think it's a coincidence and I find it a shame for the people who made the film.\"\n\nProducing a film or TV series is a long and laborious process - the whole operation can often take years.\n\nSo when a project is thrown into uncertainty as a result of reality, studios often try to just delay (rather than cancel) its release.\n\nIn 2017, a remake of Death Wish was pushed back by several months after a mass shooting in Las Vegas.\n\nAnd TV series Shooter - a drama about a sniper - was postponed after unrest prompted by the shooting of black men by police.\n\nRyan Phillippe starred in Shooter, which was also postponed\n\nUSA Network initially delayed the show's debut by a week - and \"after further consideration\", it was subsequently postponed until the autumn.\n\nParis-based film journalist Lisa Nesselson, who saw Bastille Day in a French cinema after the Nice attack, says she is unsure whether TV networks and film studios should react in the same way.\n\n\"I don't know if films are delayed or pulled out of respect for terror victims, or because it's assumed that nobody will be in the mood to see that topic or a little of both,\" she says.\n\n\"I might be in favour of changing television programming in deference to a violent national event,\" she continues.\n\n\"But I find it much harder to grasp why a movie that requires an individual to make the decision to pay to get in should be punished for being about the 'wrong' thing at a particular moment in time.\"\n\nPerhaps the biggest single event of recent times to affect the film and TV industry was the 9/11 attack in 2001.\n\nA 2017 remake of Death Wish starring Bruce Willis was postponed\n\nA scene in Spider-Man featuring the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center was deleted from the film and the trailers in light of the sombre national mood, and the location was also edited out of Men In Black II and Zoolander.\n\nFriends - one of the most successful TV sitcoms of all time - cut an entire storyline from one episode which saw Chandler detained at an airport after making a joke about a bomb.\n\nIt was replaced by a new storyline involving Monica and Chandler, and the already-filmed footage was only released years later as part of a box set.\n\nIn the UK, one of the longest delays to a major film came in 2007 when Gone Baby Gone was due to be released.\n\nIt came out in the US in October and was set for a UK release in December - but was halted by the disappearance of Madeleine McCann as the producers felt the plot, which dealt with a young girl going missing, was distasteful.\n\nBen Affleck directed Gone Baby Gone, whose release was postponed in the UK\n\nWiseman says that while audiences like to identify with characters and storylines, a story which appears to reflect a real-life horror can be difficult to watch.\n\n\"Hollywood studios want and need audience identification in their films, but too much identification can become uncomfortable for some unsuspecting viewers who find material too close to real-life tragedy.\"\n\nHe adds that once promotion has begun, films can be more difficult to change or postpone than TV shows.\n\n\"Delays can be very costly, especially if they happen after advertising has already been booked and campaigns are under way.\n\n\"If a campaign is fragmented or becomes confused in its timing, then audiences are likely to find something else to watch.\"\n\nHowever, he says it \"can work both ways\".\n\n\"While many films about terrorism were shelved around 9/11, a whimsical and sweet film like Amelie unexpectedly took off in the US and in many other countries [because] audiences wanted a joyful escape.\"\n\nEarlier versions of this article have previously appeared on the BBC News website.\n\nFollow us on Facebook and on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Helicopters rescued people trapped in their homes when the Chikuma river burst its banks\n\nAt least nine people are reported dead as Japan recovers from its biggest storm in decades.\n\nTyphoon Hagibis triggered floods and landslides as it battered the country with wind speeds of 225km/h (140mph).\n\nRivers have breached their banks in at least 14 different places, inundating residential neighbourhoods.\n\nThe storm led to some Rugby World Cup matches being cancelled but a key fixture between Japan and Scotland will go ahead on Sunday.\n\nHagibis is heading north and is expected to move back into the North Pacific later on Sunday.\n\nIt made landfall on Saturday shortly before 19:00 local time (10:00 GMT), in Izu Peninsula, south-west of Tokyo and moved up the east coast. Almost half a million homes were left without power.\n\nIn the town of Hakone near Mount Fuji more than 1m (3ft) of rain fell on Friday and Saturday, the highest total ever recorded in Japan over 48 hours.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than seven million people were urged to leave their homes\n\nFurther north in Nagano prefecture, levees along the Chikuma river gave way sending water rushing through residential areas, inundating houses. Flood defences around Tokyo have held and river levels are now falling, reports the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Japan.\n\nOfficials said some of those killed were swept away by landslides while others were trapped in their cars as floodwaters rose. Another 15 people are listed as missing and dozens are reported injured.\n\nMore than seven million people were urged to leave their homes as the huge storm approached, but it is thought only 50,000 stayed in shelters.\n\nMany residents stocked up on provisions before the typhoon's arrival, leaving supermarkets with empty shelves.\n\nA huge clean-up operation was under way in Kawasaki near Tokyo\n\n\"Unprecedented heavy rain has been seen in cities, towns and villages for which the emergency warning was issued,\" Japan's Meteorological Agency (JMA) forecaster Yasushi Kajiwara told a press briefing.\n\nMany bullet train services were halted, and several lines on the Tokyo metro were suspended for most of Saturday.\n\nAll flights to and from Tokyo's Haneda airport and Narita airport in Chiba have been cancelled - more than 1,000 in total.\n\nTwo Rugby World Cup games scheduled for Saturday were cancelled on safety grounds and declared as draws - England-France and New Zealand-Italy. The cancellations were the first in the tournament's 32-year history.\n\nSunday's Namibia-Canada match due to take place in Kamaishi was also cancelled and declared a draw.\n\nThe US-Tonga fixture in Osaka and Wales-Uruguay in Kumamoto will go ahead as scheduled on Sunday, organisers said.\n\nMeanwhile, a crunch game between Scotland and tournament hosts Japan on Sunday will now go ahead. The decision followed a safety inspection.\n\nThe Japanese Formula One Grand Prix is also taking place on Sunday.\n\nLocal resident James Babb spoke to the BBC from an evacuation centre in Hachioji, western Tokyo. He said the river near his house was on the brink of overflowing.\n\n\"I am with my sister-in-law, who is disabled,\" he said. \"Our house may flood. They have given us a blanket and a biscuit.\"\n\nTornado-like winds whipped up by the typhoon struck east of Tokyo\n\nAndrew Higgins, an English teacher who lives in Tochigi, north of Tokyo, told the BBC he had \"lived through a few typhoons\" during seven years in Japan.\n\n\"I feel like this time Japan, generally, has taken this typhoon a lot more seriously,\" he said. \"People were out preparing last night. A lot of people were stocking up.\"\n\nOnly last month Typhoon Faxai wreaked havoc on parts of Japan, damaging 30,000 homes, most of which have not yet been repaired.\n\n\"I evacuated because my roof was ripped off by the other typhoon and rain came in. I'm so worried about my house,\" a 93-year-old man told NHK, from a shelter in Tateyama, Chiba.\n\nJapan suffers about 20 typhoons a year, but Tokyo is rarely hit on this scale.\n\nShopkeepers tried to protect their stores from the powerful winds and rain\n\nMany supermarket were left empty as people stocked up", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Rugby\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC Radio Scotland, Radio 5 Live, plus text updates on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nWorld Rugby \"remain optimistic\" that Scotland's World Cup match with Japan on Sunday will go ahead, despite cancelling Namibia's clash with Canada.\n\nScotland will be eliminated from the World Cup if the Pool A finale is cancelled on safety grounds because of Typhoon Hagibis, with a switch of dates already ruled out.\n\nA cancellation would result in the match being declared a draw.\n\nAn inspection of the stadium began at 22:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nNamibia and Canada in Kamaishi was called off on safety grounds, though it is around 350 miles north of Yokohama, where Scotland against Japan is due to take place.\n\nIn a statement, World Rugby said: \"We remain optimistic that Sunday's remaining matches will go ahead as scheduled in Kumamoto, Hanazono and Yokohama, which are much further south and therefore outside of the impact of the storm conditions this morning.\"\n\nThe host nation lead Scotland by four points after three victories, while group rivals Ireland have secured their place in the last eight with a bonus-point win over Samoa.\n\nIf the match gets the green light, Scotland must take four more points than the host nation to progress to the quarter finals.\n• None 'It doesn't get any bigger' - Hogg on Japan showdown\n\nA World Rugby spokesman said: \"Our primary consideration is the safety of everyone.\n\n\"We will undertake detailed venue inspections as soon as practically possible with an announcement following as soon as decisions are made in the morning.\n\n\"Our message to fans continues be stay indoors today, stay safe and monitor official Rugby World Cup social and digital channels.\"\n\nThe New Zealand v Italy and England v France games scheduled for Saturday were cancelled.\n\nWorld Rugby rules state that \"where a pool match cannot be commenced on the day in which it is scheduled, it shall not be postponed to the following day and shall be considered as cancelled. In such situations, the result shall be allocated two points each and no score registered\".\n\nScottish Rugby has argued for the match to be switched to Monday and believes it has a legal case against the game's governing body if it does not go ahead.\n\n\"Right from the get go, we said we will play any place, anywhere, behind closed doors, in full stadiums,\" said Scottish Rugby's chief executive Mark Dodson.\n\nWhen it looked like Ireland's game against Samoa on Saturday would fall victim to Hagibis, Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend said: \"The Ireland game cannot be postponed, it has to be played that day.\"\n\nScotland got off to a dismal start in Japan as they were beaten 27-3 by Ireland in their Pool A opener but bounced back-to-back with bonus point wins without conceding a single score against Samoa and Russia.", "One of the country's most historic educational centres for young blind people is warning that financial pressures are threatening its survival.\n\nThe Royal National College for the Blind, which has operated for almost 150 years, says without extra funding it will cease to be sustainable.\n\nLucy Proctor, chief executive of the college's charitable trust, has blamed a squeeze on special-needs budgets.\n\nBut the government is promising a £700m increase for special needs.\n\nLord Blunkett, a former student at the college, said he was \"very concerned\" about the \"financial difficulty\".\n\nThe former education secretary said a \"unique national asset\" was at risk.\n\nMs Proctor says there might be a perception that the Hereford college must be well-resourced.\n\n\"Even the name makes us sound wealthy,\" she says.\n\nChief executive Lucy Proctor says a national centre should not depend on local funding\n\nBut accounts show a shortfall of £2.7m between income and spending - and in cash terms the college has a smaller income than six years ago.\n\nEven with a recent sale of land, a restructuring and a hiring out of sports facilities, there is still a cash shortage.\n\nAs well as A-levels and vocational qualifications, the students, aged 16 to 25, learn practical skills needed by blind people for university or the workplace.\n\nThe biggest problem, says Ms Proctor, is that the college depends on local authorities paying for residential places, which can cost more than £50,000 a year.\n\n\"It is difficult for the local authorities, because there isn't enough money in the system. They've been subject to cuts in every area,\" says Ms Proctor.\n\n\"We're a national provision, but we're being funded locally.\"\n\nThis means legal wrangles about getting councils to support places - and there are students who should already have started this term who are still at home arguing about funding, she says.\n\n\"Increasing student numbers is critical - and if student numbers don't go up we won't be financially sustainable,\" she says.\n\nAt present, about 75 students are living there, but that number would need to rise to more than 90, says Ms Proctor.\n\nBrandon, 19, says learning how to be independent has made a \"massive difference\" to him.\n\nHe is applying to university and has gone from thinking he would be \"stuck in a room\" all his life to feeling confident in travelling around the country.\n\nBrandon says the college has helped him to become independent and to address his sense of isolation\n\n\"It's so important to have independence - I felt like I couldn't do anything for myself and then I got really depressed thinking I wasn't worth the time and effort.\n\n\"No teenager should have to feel so isolated from the world. It's awful. If other people can do it, why can't we?\n\n\"In the end you can do whatever you want to if you put your mind to it.\"\n\nBrandon says having the support of other young people who have faced similar problems, after years of being the \"odd one out\", has also made a big difference.\n\nThe college is a centre for sport, including \"goalball\", played by people with vision problems\n\n\"They've all gone through sight loss, one way or another, in their life. You can put yourself in their shoes because you've gone through it.\n\n\"It helps massively because if you're dealing with it on your own it can be a very isolating world. It's so painful.\"\n\nHe says students have stories of being bullied, patronised or written off.\n\nIt's even small things, says Brandon, like not being embarrassed if his guide dog starts making noises in lessons.\n\nHe also points out that despite their calm exterior, guide dogs can have \"cheeky days\" and his own had just eaten an entire cheesecake.\n\nSonal says sharing experiences with other young people with visual impairments is as important as the academic study\n\n\"It's not just the academic side, but it's the social side,\" says 20-year-old Sonal.\n\n\"I really like sharing our experiences,\" she says, after enduring years without friends facing similar challenges.\n\n\"I felt like I was the only person with visual impairment.\"\n\nIt also gives her confidence and makes her less self-conscious to learn alongside other people with sight problems, whether it's learning how to get into town or to cook for themselves.\n\nMs Proctor says there is a great deal of information sharing between the young people, swapping apps and technology to assist blind people.\n\nShe mentions a device that can read the colour of clothing, so that people going to work will not dress in a way that makes them look out of place.\n\nLearning to cook is part of the process of becoming independent\n\n\"They're learning so much from each other. The friendship groups, the socialisation, is incredibly important,\" she says.\n\nThe college says only about a quarter of working-age people who are blind or partially sighted are in employment, down from about a third in 2006.\n\nThe spending review, presented by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid in September, also promised more for special-needs funding, alongside a wider school spending increase of £7.1bn.\n\n\"We're providing over £700m to give more support to children and young people with special educational needs - an 11% increase compared to last year,\" the chancellor told MPs last month.\n\nBut Judith Blake, chairwoman of the association's children and young people board, said there were still \"long-term concerns\" about meeting the cost of special educational needs.\n\n\"Without certainty over funding for the future the situation is likely to get worse as the number of children who need support continues to increase,\" she said.", "The Royal Society of Biology has released the shortlist for its annual photography competition.\n\nThe competition has two categories for amateur photographers: four entries were shortlisted for young photographer of the year and six for the photographer of the year.\n\nThe shortlisted images showcase animals caught on camera around the globe, submitted according to this year's theme of Capturing Movement.\n\nIn the young photographer category, Will Lawson captured this swallowtail butterfly as it was feeding in Hickling Broad, England.\n\nAlso in the young photographer category, this photo by Lillian Quinn shows a herd of stampeding zebras crossing the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.\n\nSundhir Gaikward's entry in the photographer of the year category shows amphibious mudskippers engaged in territorial fighting. Mudskippers in particular are able to survive in air for several days. They breathe through the moist linings of their mouths and throats, so they prefer high humidity and are often found in muddy mangrove swamps.\n\nThis image by Nick Edwards shows a red soldier beetle on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. The common red soldier beetle is usually spotted from June to August, often in mating pairs, in grasslands and woodlands.\n\nKallol Mukherjee's photo captures the near-symmetrical flight of a large flock of grandala birds. These birds remain at very high altitude in Himalayan terrain for nearly eight months of the year, and descend to lower altitudes only when the upper areas are completely covered in snow and food becomes scarce.\n\nIn this nocturnal image taken in Manaus, Brazil Adrià López Baucells captures a small unidentified marsupial leaping.\n\nIan Stone's photo is of a polar bear shaking off snow as it walks through the Hudson Bay, Canada. For two hours before the photo was taken, a blizzard had completely covered the bear and the surrounding area.\n\nThis picture of a hummingbird, Anthracothorax nigricollis, was taken by Kristhian Castro as it flew at sunset in Colombia. Members of this family of birds can flap their wings up to 75 times per second.\n\nEntitled Playtime, this entry in the young photographer category by Amogh Gaikwad shows a 15-month-old tiger cub playing with its prey after a successful hunt in Tadoba tiger reserve in India.\n\nAlso in the young photographer category, Carlos Perez Naval's photo shows two white-headed ducks fighting in the water in Ciudad Real, Spain.\n\nThe winners of the competition will be announced at the RSB annual awards ceremony on 10 October at The Francis Crick Institute, London, as part of this year's Biology Week.\n\nAll images copyright of the individual named photographers.", "Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has released a video of himself walking barefoot on a beach and picking up litter at a resort in India.", "Mr Trump flanked by the Turkish and Saudi leaders at the G20 summit in June\n\nDuring a television interview this week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the US did not give a \"green light\" for Turkey to launch strikes against Kurdish forces in northern Syria. The mixed messages from President Donald Trump over the course of this week, however, tell a different story.\n\nThe latest crisis in war-torn Syria began on Sunday night, with a statement from the White House press secretary - after the president had a phone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - that effectively treated a Turkish military incursion as a done deal.\n\n\"Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into Northern Syria,\" the statement read.\n\n\"The United States Armed Forces will not support or be involved in the operation, and the United States forces, having defeated the Isis territorial 'Caliphate,' will no longer be in the immediate area.\"\n\nThe statement, which contained no mention of the US-backed Kurds or hints of objection to the Turkish operation, quickly set off howls of anger among the US foreign policy establishment and members of Congress on the left and right.\n\n\"This decision to abandon our Kurdish allies and turn Syria over to Russia, Iran, & Turkey will put every radical Islamist on steroids,\" South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham tweeted the following morning. \"Shot in the arm to the bad guys. Devastating for the good guys.\"\n\nThe ferocity of the criticism grew as it became clear that US forces had indeed withdrawn from northern Syria and the Turkish military was launching its assault.\n\nWhat followed was a series of sometimes contradictory statements and tweets from the president - a hodgepodge of calls for disengagement, warnings of dire consequences, and suggestions of peaceful resolution.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Martin Patience explains what's behind the conflict\n\n\"We will fight where it is to our benefit, and only fight to win,\" Mr Trump tweeted on Monday, after saying that he held off a Turkey-Kurdish conflict for three years, but that it was time for the US to get out of \"endless wars\".\n\nBy later in the day, however, the president was cautioning Turkey that if it did anything that he considered \"off limits\" he would \"destroy and obliterate the economy of Turkey\".\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\nOn Tuesday, he was praising Turkey for being a US trading partner and assuring the Syrian Kurds (who were already by this time under Turkish assault) that the US had not abandoned them.\n\nThe next day, he said he hoped the Turkish operation would be conducted \"in as humane a way as possible\" - and, if not, Turkey would pay a \"very big economic price\".\n\nBy Thursday, he was once again distancing himself from the Kurds, telling reporters that while he \"liked\" them, they were only fighting for \"their land\" and did not, for instance, help the US invade Germany in the Second World War. (It should be noted that Kurds did fight against Iraqi forces sympathetic to the Nazis.)\n\nMr Trump concluded Thursday by tweeting that the US \"did our job perfectly\" in Syria and now had three choices in dealing with the crisis: send thousands of troops to secure the area; impose economic sanctions on Turkey; or \"mediate a deal\" between the Turks and the Kurds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump: Kurds \"didn't help us in Second World War\"\n\nHe told reporters he preferred the third option.\n\nMeanwhile, Trump administration officials were left scrambling to realise the frequently conflicting objectives of vocalising their objections to a Turkish operation they had long sought to avoid, while defending the president's decision - which, according to Politico and others, was made without consulting foreign allies, Congress or even some members of his own administration.\n\nOn Monday, Defence Secretary Mark Esper sent - and then deleted - a tweet saying the Turkish move into northern Syria would have \"destabilising consequences... to Turkey, the region, & beyond\".\n\nThe White House on Wednesday released a \"statement\" by the president saying the Turkish invasion was a \"bad idea\" that the US did not \"endorse\". On Friday, Mr Esper called it a \"tough situation\" and said Turkey's action was damaging US-Turkey relations.\n\n\"This was a very big mistake and this has very big implications for all of our security,\" a senior State Department official told CNN on Friday. \"I don't know of anybody who isn't upset with it.\"\n\nAll told, the US moved between 50 to 100 troops out of northern Syria this week, as Turkish forces prepared their assault.\n\nDespite withering criticism, Mr Trump has framed it as fulfilling a campaign promise to extricate the US from a Middle East quagmire it should never have been involved in to begin with.\n\nIndeed, on Thursday night at a rally in Minnesota, he falsely said: \"We don't have any soldiers there because we've left. We won. We left. Take a victory, United States.\"\n\nYet, hours later, the Defence Department announced that 3,000 US soldiers - including two fighter squadrons - were being dispatched to Saudi Arabia \"to ensure and enhance the defence\" of that nation.\n\nSince May, a Pentagon spokesperson noted, US troops in the Middle East and Afghanistan \"Central Command\" region increased by approximately 14,000.\n\nThe endless wars, it seems, may not be coming to an end quite yet.", "The Queen's Speech is due to take place on Monday as part of the State Opening of Parliament\n\nA former Army chief has expressed dismay that legislation to protect veterans from prosecution will not feature in this Queen's Speech.\n\nBoris Johnson has previously pledged to end the pursuit of soldiers over historical allegations in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\nLord Dannatt said he was \"very disappointed\" that soldiers might be punished for \"doing their duty\".\n\nA government source said the PM is committed to legislating on the issue.\n\n\"The PM has been clear that we need to end the unfair trials of people who served their country when no new evidence has been produced and when the accusations have already been exhaustively questioned in court,\" the source said.\n\nThe proposed law would have included a statutory presumption against prosecution for current or former personnel for alleged offences committed in the course of duty more than a decade ago.\n\nLord Dannatt was head of the Army between 2006 and 2009\n\nLord Dannatt, a former chief of the general staff, told the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme it was unacceptable that serving and former soldiers run the risk of prosecution for taking part in military operations.\n\nHe said: \"Nobody is above the law. If soldiers have broken the law and if there is evidence to back up charges against them, then of course they must face the rigours of the law and take the consequences.\n\n\"But in the vast majority of cases, British soldiers, particularly in the campaign in Northern Ireland, got up in the morning to do their duty to keep the peace according to the rules of engagement we had, in sharp contrast to terrorists who got up in the morning whose aim was to maim and kill.\"\n\nSix former soldiers who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles are facing prosecution\n\nThe government source told the BBC: \"We are determined to make progress and legislate on the issue of legacy prosecutions.\n\n\"Our clear and overriding objective remains to provide a better way to address the past for all those affected by the Troubles.\"\n\nThe source said the Northern Ireland Office has consulted on the question of legacy prosecutions and the government is engaging with the main parties in Northern Ireland, MPs in Westminster and wider society across Northern Ireland to reach a broad consensus.\n\nSix former soldiers who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles are facing prosecution.\n\nThe cases relate to the killings of two people on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in January 1972; as well as the deaths in separate incidents of Daniel Hegarty, John Pat Cunningham; Joe McCann and Aidan McAnespie.\n\nNot all of the charges are for murder.", "The chart was revealed to mark National Album Day\n\nAdele's 21 is the UK's best-selling album of the 21st Century, selling more than five million copies since 2011.\n\nThe record, which features the hits Rolling In The Deep and Someone Like You, is more than a million copies ahead of the second biggest-seller, Amy Winehouse's Back To Black.\n\nAdele also takes third place in the chart, with her most recent record, 25.\n\nThe century's 40 biggest albums were revealed on Radio 2's Pick of the Pops, as part of National Album Day.\n\nEd Sheeran appears in the top five twice too, while other artists in the top 20 include Coldplay, Kings of Leon, Lady Gaga and Scissor Sisters.\n\nEven with streaming taken into account, albums from the first decade of the century dominate the chart, making up 28 of the top 40.\n\nDavid Gray's White Ladder is the only record in the list to have been released before 2000 - having first been issued on his own label HIT Records in 1998, before being re-released in the early months of the new millennium.\n\nRadio 2's head of music Jeff Smith said it was \"heartening\" to see that 70% of the artists in the Top 40 were British, \"proving that home-grown music is still as popular as ever\".\n\nNational Album Day was launched last year to mark the 70th anniversary of the album format. This year's theme is \"don't skip\", encouraging people to appreciate \"the benefits of taking time out to listen to an album from start to finish\".\n\nThe idea is to challenge the cherry-picking approach to music listening that first took hold with the advent of the iPod in 2001.\n\nA recent study by streaming service Deezer found 15% of people below the age of 25 had never listened to an album all the way through.\n\nThe survey of more than 2000 UK-based adults, found that 42% of people simply opted for playlists - either their own, or ones curated by streaming services - rather than playing albums in full.\n\nHowever, a separate study revealed that listening to an album is one of the best ways to de-stress - beating activities like gardening, exercising or taking a nap.\n\nAccording to a survey of 2,019 adults, listening to an album was the third most-popular activity for improving mood and mental well-being, after comfort-eating and reading (which came first).\n\nBear in mind the research was commissioned by music industry body the BPI and the Entertainment Retailers Association to mark National Album Day, so treat the findings accordingly.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Negotiators from the UK and EU are having what has been described as \"intense technical discussions\" in an attempt to agree a new Brexit deal.\n\nAbout a dozen British officials, including the UK's EU adviser David Frost, are taking part in the talks at the EU Commission in Brussels.\n\nThe meetings are expected to continue through the weekend.\n\nBut European Council President Donald Tusk has suggested there is only the slightest chance of an agreement.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU at 23:00 GMT on 31 October and a European leaders' summit next Thursday and Friday is seen as the last chance to agree a deal before that deadline.\n\nUK Europe adviser David Frost is involved in the talks\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson's revised proposals - designed to avoid concerns about hard border on the island of Ireland after Brexit - were criticised by EU leaders at the start of last week.\n\nHowever, on Thursday, Mr Johnson and the Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar held talks and said they could \"see a pathway to a possible deal\".\n\nBBC Europe reporter Gavin Lee said there is no scheduled timetable for the discussions in Brussels and neither the UK or EU are offering any detail yet on the apparent common ground that has been found on the Irish border.\n\nOur correspondent said the first public announcement on the talks may come on Monday, after the EU's 27 ambassadors have been updated on the progress so far.\n\nBoris Johnson and Leo Varadkar held talks on Thursday in Thornton Manor, in the Wirral\n\nMeanwhile, shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer says Labour would take action through the courts if Mr Johnson tries to push through a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAddressing the Co-operative Party conference in Glasgow, Sir Keir said if the PM did not secure a deal at the EU summit on 17 and 18 October, he must comply with the so-called Benn Act passed by MPs in September, which requires him to seek a further delay.\n\n\"If he doesn't, we'll enforce the law - in the courts and in Parliament. Whatever it takes, we will prevent a no-deal Brexit,\" he said.\n\nThis weekend's talks in Brussels follow a meeting on Friday between Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay and EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier, described by both sides as \"constructive\".\n\nIn a statement issued later, the European Commission said: \"The EU and the UK have agreed to intensify discussions over the coming days.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan reiterated that \"lots of details\" needed to be worked out between both parties but said the \"mood music\" on negotiations \"seems positive\".\n\nShe added that \"speculation doesn't really help\" and politicians needed to \"stand back and give those negotiations and discussions the best chance of succeeding\".\n\nCulture Secretary Nicky Morgan said \"speculation doesn't really help\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Tusk said he had received \"promising signals\" from the Irish PM, before adding: \"Of course there is no guarantee of success and time is practically up, but even the slightest chance must be used\".\n\nMr Johnson also acknowledged there was not \"a done deal\", saying: \"The best thing we can do now is let our negotiators get on with it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: Brexit is not a done deal\n\nSupport from Democratic Unionist Party MPs could be crucial to get a deal through Parliament.\n\nBut DUP leader Arlene Foster said: \"Anything that traps Northern Ireland in the EU... will not have our support.\"\n\nBrexiteer Sir John Redwood believes Mr Johnson should \"table a free trade agreement\" which would \"unlock\" most of the issues around borders and immigration.\n\nHe added: \"I think the border issue is greatly exaggerated, because it is in the interest of the European Union and Ireland to exaggerate it.\"\n\nMs Morgan was asked on the Today programme about reports of Downing Street briefings that the Tories could contest a general election on a no-deal Brexit ticket, if an agreement cannot be reached.\n\nThe Loughborough MP - who voted Remain - did not say whether she would contest an election on such a ticket, but said reports that Mr Johnson is preparing to fight a general election on a no deal platform are \"wide of the mark\".\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nMonday 14 October - The Commons is due to return, and the government will use the Queen's Speech to set out its legislative agenda. The speech will then be debated by MPs throughout the week.\n\nThursday 17 October - Crucial two-day summit of EU leaders begins in Brussels. This is the last such meeting currently scheduled before the Brexit deadline.\n\nSaturday 19 October - Special sitting of Parliament and the date by which the PM must ask the EU for another delay to Brexit under the Benn Act, if no Brexit deal has been approved by Parliament and they have not agreed to the UK leaving with no-deal.\n\nThursday 31 October - Date by which the UK is due to leave the EU, with or without a withdrawal agreement.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nThe US diplomat's wife granted immunity after the crash which killed teenager Harry Dunn is \"devastated by the tragic accident\", her lawyer has said.\n\nAnne Sacoolas's legal representative, Amy Jeffress, said she would \"continue to co-operate with the investigation\".\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, left for the US under diplomatic immunity despite being a suspect in the crash with Mr Dunn, 19, in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nBut the Foreign Office said, having gone home, she no longer has immunity.\n\nA statement issued on behalf of Mrs Sacoolas, whose husband worked at RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire, said: \"Anne is devastated by this tragic accident.\n\n\"No loss compares to the death of a child and Anne extends her deepest sympathy to Harry Dunn's family.\"\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nIt added she had \"fully co-operated with the police\".\n\n\"She spoke with authorities at the scene of the accident and met with the Northampton police at her home the following day. She will continue to co-operate with the investigation,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"Anne would like to meet with Mr Dunn's parents so that she can express her deepest sympathies and apologies for this tragic accident.\n\n\"We have been in contact with the family's attorneys and look forward to hearing from them.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab wrote to Mr Dunn's family on Saturday to explain both the British and US governments now considered Mrs Sacoolas' immunity irrelevant.\n\nThe letter said: \"We have pressed strongly for a waiver of immunity, so that justice can be done... Whilst the US government has steadfastly declined to give that waiver, that is not the end of the matter.\n\n\"We have looked at this very carefully... the UK government's position is that immunity, and therefore any question of waiver, is no longer relevant in Mrs Sacoolas's case, because she has returned home.\n\n\"The US have now informed us that they too consider that immunity is no longer pertinent.\"\n\nRadd Seiger (centre) has travelled to the US ahead of Harry Dunn's parents\n\nIn response to the letter, Mr Dunn's mother, Charlotte Charles, said: \"We've known from the start that the \"extra\" feeling in the pit of our tummies, told us that something wasn't right.\n\n\"We're proud of ourselves for fighting for justice for Harry, and not ignoring this gnawing within our bodies.\n\n\"We'd rather have our beautiful boy back, but we are also elated that all this fighting for justice for Harry has not been in vain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump described the 19-year-old's death as a \"terrible accident\"\n\n\"We'll continue to fight for change to the diplomatic immunity laws and any other positive changes we can achieve.\"\n\nMark Stephens, a lawyer for the Dunn family said: \"She was allowed to, or encouraged to be spirited away on an American transport plane and effectively rendered a fugitive from British justice.\n\n\"And now of course we find out that she's not entitled to diplomatic immunity, and in those circumstances she is in a foreign land a fugitive from British justice.\n\n\"We do hope she returns herself voluntarily and that this was just a bad piece of advice she received from the American authorities.\"\n\nAbout 23,000 individuals in the UK have diplomatic immunity, a status reserved for foreign diplomats and their families, as long as they don't have British citizenship.\n\nIt means that, in theory, they cannot face court proceedings for any crime or civil case.\n\nHowever, where crimes are committed, the Foreign Office can ask a foreign government to waive immunity.\n\nDiplomatic immunity is by no means restricted to those named on the Diplomatic List. Drivers, cooks and other support staff who have been accredited to Britain (\"the receiving state\") have the same diplomatic status and immunity.\n\nEarlier, the lawyer for Mr Dunn's family, Radd Seiger, appealed for anyone with information about Mrs Sacoolas's return to the United States to come forward.\n\nMr Dunn's parents, who have previously said they are considering civil action against Mrs Sacoolas, are set to fly out to the US on Sunday and will visit both New York and Washington DC.\n\nMr Seiger said they would be \"engaging with the media and politicians as they reach out for support from all Americans and to ask them to put pressure on the US administration to do the right thing\".\n\nHarry Dunn's Kawasaki motorcycle was involved in a crash with a Volvo near RAF Croughton in August\n\nOn Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the US was \"absolutely ruthless\" in its safeguarding of Mrs Sacoolas following the decision to grant her diplomatic immunity.\n\nHe said although President Donald Trump was sympathetic towards Mr Dunn's family's views on the use of diplomatic immunity, the US was \"very reluctant\" to allow citizens to be tried abroad.\n\nThat followed the revelation that Mrs Sacoolas would not return to the UK when briefing notes held by Mr Trump were photographed at a White House news conference.\n\nChief Constable of Northamptonshire Police Nick Adderley has said the investigation into the crash will continue.\n\nThe force has said CCTV of the crash in which Mr Dunn died shows a Volvo travelling on the wrong side of the road.", "Coastal communities have been \"blighted\" by \"nine years of vicious austerity and Tory cuts\", Jeremy Corbyn has said in a speech.\n\nSpeaking in Hastings, East Sussex, the Labour leader also pledged to end the \"evil of in-work poverty\".\n\nBut the Conservatives say seaside areas can benefit from a £3.6bn fund.\n\nBBC analysis this week found that workers living in costal parts of Britain earn £1,600 less on average per year than those living inland.\n\nThe research also found that two-thirds of coastal areas had seen a real-terms fall in wages since 2010.\n\nThe constituency of Hastings and Rye was held by Amber Rudd for the Conservatives by just 346 votes at the last general election, but she has since quit the party and sits in the House of Commons as an independent.\n\nLabour is hoping to win the seat, which Ms Rudd will not contest again, at the next election.\n\nIn his speech, Mr Corbyn said poverty and inequality were \"not inevitable\".\n\n\"In the fifth-richest country in the world, no-one should be forced to rely on a food bank to feed their family, no-one should be sleeping rough on our streets, and nobody should be working for poverty wages,\" he said.\n\nCiting parliamentary research, he said one in five adults in Hastings and Rye could be in receipt of universal credit when it is fully rolled out.\n\nUniversal credit is the benefit for working-age people, replacing six benefits - including income support and housing benefit - and merging them into one payment:\n\nFood banks in Hastings and Rye say they distributed nearly 90,000 meals last year.\n\nMr Corbyn has said a Labour government would immediately increase the minimum wage to £10 an hour and build one million affordable homes over 10 years.\n\nHe also trumpeted plans, unveiled at the party's conference, for a future Labour government to invest in new offshore wind farms and use the profits generated from energy sold to improve recreational and leisure facilities in struggling areas.\n\nDefending the government's record, Minister for Local Growth Jake Berry said: \"Thanks to a thriving economy and record employment, the government can afford to invest more in communities across the country - something that would be put at risk with a reckless high-tax, high-debt Corbyn government.\"", "Team Ineos discuss the factors that could prove to be the difference for Eliud Kipchoge as he attempts to run a marathon in under two hours in Vienna, Austria this Saturday.\n\nIt will be the Kenyan's second attempt at becoming the first person in history to run a marathon in one hour 59 minutes.\n\nWatch live coverage of the 1:59 Challenge, Saturday 12 October, 07:00-09:30 BST on the BBC Red Button, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website & app.", "Reg Watson created the popular Australian television show in the 1980s\n\nThe creator of the popular Australian television show Neighbours, Reg Watson, has died aged 93.\n\nThe show announced his death on Friday evening.\n\nNeighbours, set on the fictional Ramsay Street, is Australia's all-time longest running drama and is due to celebrate its 35th year in 2020.\n\nExecutive producer of the show, Jason Herbison, described Mr Watson as \"a pioneer of drama\" and \"a lovely person to work with.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neighbours This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Watson was born in Queensland but moved to the UK in 1955 and helped create television show Crossroads.\n\nHe was then headhunted in Australia to establish a new drama department for Grundy Television.\n\nAside from Neighbours, he also helped create Prisoner: Cell Block H, The Young Doctors and Sons and Daughters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Steve Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Watson developed Neighbours in the 1980s, with television producer Reg Grundy.\n\nIt was originally screened on Channel 7 in Australia but was dropped after it underperformed. It was then picked up by the Ten Network who saw promise in the show.\n\nNeighbours is also a popular show in the UK. It was first screened on the BBC before moving to Channel 5.\n\nThe show has launched many careers including Kylie Minogue, Margot Robbie, Holly Vallance and Jason Donovan.\n\nDonovan, who played Scott Robinson in the soap drama, wrote on Twitter: \"Many Australian careers have a lot to thank for this man. A legend....Mr Reg Watson.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussell Crowe also appeared for several episodes as former prisoner Kenny Larkin, so too did Hunger Games star Liam Hemsworth as Josh Taylor and singer Natalie Imbruglia as Beth Brennan.\n\nIn 2010, Mr Watson was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for services to the media.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nThe lawyer for the family of a teenage motorcyclist killed in a crash has appealed for \"witnesses\" to the suspect's return to the United States.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, the wife of a US diplomat, left the UK despite being a suspect in the fatal crash with Harry Dunn, 19, on 27 August.\n\nThe US government has not waived Mrs Sacoolas' diplomatic immunity.\n\nLawyer Radd Seiger asked for those with information \"before, during, or after her departure\" to come forward.\n\nMr Dunn's parents, who have previously said they are considering civil action against Mrs Sacoolas, are set to fly out to the US on Sunday and will visit both New York and Washington DC.\n\nMr Seiger said they would be \"engaging with the media and politicians as they reach out for support from all Americans and to ask them to put pressure on the US administration to do the right thing\".\n\nOn Wednesday, US President Donald Trump said his administration would speak to Mrs Sacoolas \"very shortly and see if we can do something where they meet\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump described the 19-year-old's death as a \"terrible accident\"\n\nBut a briefing note held by Mr Trump at the press conference appeared to suggest Mrs Sacoolas would not be returning to the UK after being granted diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles said the US's apparent approach was \"beyond any realm of human thinking\".\n\nHis father Tim Dunn said: \"We have to go to America and speak to the American people. We can't let this be swept under the carpet.\"\n\nThe family met Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Wednesday, which they have since described as a \"publicity stunt\".\n\nAfterwards Mr Raab said the justice process was \"not being allowed to properly run its course\".\n\nChief Constable of Northamptonshire Police Nick Adderley said the investigation into the crash was \"carrying on\" and that a file would be passed to the Crown Prosecution Service soon.\n\nMr Dunn died after his Kawasaki motorcycle was involved in a crash at about 20:30 BST near the RAF base at Croughton in Northamptonshire, where Mrs Sacoolas's husband Jonathan had been working.\n\nPolice have said CCTV of the crash in which the teenager died shows a Volvo travelling on the wrong side of the road.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Typhoon Hagibis has brought deadly flooding and landslides to large parts of Japan.\n\nHagibis - meaning \"speed\" in the Philippine language Tagalog - is Japan's biggest typhoon in six decades.\n\nIt hit the Izu Peninsula, south-west of Tokyo, shortly before 19:00 local time (10:00 GMT) on Saturday, before continuing to move up the eastern coast of Japan's main island.\n\nThe storm has affected the Rugby World Cup games and the Formula One Grand Prix.\n\nTorrential rain caused water levels to rise in a number of rivers, including the Arakawa.\n\nA railway bridge across the swollen Chikuma river collapsed in Ueda.\n\nResidents in Kawasaki were faced with a huge cleaning up operation as the floods receded.\n\nSeveral people were killed and others are missing. Here a rescue worker checks a residential area inundated by the floods.\n\nAs the storm approached on Saturday, usually crowded tourist spots were almost completely deserted, including Harajuku - one of Tokyo's most famous shopping areas.\n\nThose caught in the rain struggled to make their way back indoors as the typhoon approached.\n\nThe typhoon brought transport systems to a standstill. Metro and train services in Tokyo were suspended and flights grounded.\n\nMany in Tokyo tried to protect their homes and businesses from the incoming storm.\n\nFirefighters were later seen patrolling the city's flooded streets.\n\nSome evacuated residents took shelter in a sports hall in Tokyo.\n\nHotel guests in the district of Sengokuhara were also forced to seek shelter, while the typhoon left roads in the area covered in debris.\n\nPeople's homes and businesses were caught in heavy flooding in Ise, central Japan.\n\nAnd a tornado prompted by the typhoon destroyed homes and dismantled electrical poles in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo.", "Johnson and Johnson's iconic blue cotton bud stems are no longer made from plastic\n\nNew laws have come into force in Scotland banning the sale and manufacture of plastic-stemmed cotton buds.\n\nThe move follows concerns about the number of buds washing up on beaches after being flushed down toilets.\n\nMost major retailers switched to paper-stemmed buds in the months leading up to the ban following a campaign.\n\nA similar ban - also including plastic coffee stirrers and straws - comes into force in the rest of the UK next year.\n\nCotton buds are consistently listed in the top 10 forms of beach litter by the Marine Conservation Society.\n\nThousands of plastic-stemmed buds have washed up on beaches around Scotland\n\nAcross the UK, about 1.8 billion of them are sold every year.\n\nIn 2017, the pharmaceutical firm Johnson and Johnson became the first major manufacturer to switch away from plastic.\n\nAll the major supermarkets have followed suit by either switching to biodegradable paper or committing to doing so.\n\nWaitrose is estimated to have saved 21 tonnes of plastic through the policy.\n\nScottish environmental charity Fidra and its volunteers have been at the forefront of working with the industry to promote biodegradable alternatives.\n\nFidra's Heather McFarlane says the buds are particularly harmful to wildlife\n\nIt praised the Scottish law change as \"great news\" for wildlife and the environment.\n\nThe charity's project manager Heather McFarlane said: \"Now we are seeing this ban come into place, that will pick up those last few retailers and manufacturers who haven't made the switch from plastic to paper.\n\n\"The plastic cotton bids have been washing up on beaches for years and they get into the environment in quite high numbers.\n\n\"They are particularly damaging to wildlife. They have been found in our native bird populations and in the intestines of turtles. You can just imagine the damage that can do.\"\n\nWWF Scotland director Lang Banks said: \"Cotton buds are some of the most pervasive forms of marine pollution, so a ban is very welcome step and one that we hope other countries will follow.\n\n\"We know plastic is suffocating our seas and devastating our wildlife with millions of birds, fish and mammals dying each year because of the plastic in our oceans.\n\n\"Plastics are also finding their way into the food we eat and the water we drink, so saving our oceans will require further ambitious action from governments, industry and consumers.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritish number two Heather Watson has reached her first WTA final for three years by beating Veronika Kudermetova in the Tianjin Open semi-finals.\n\nWatson, 27, beat Kudermetova of Russia - ranked 80 places above her - 6-1 6-4 in China.\n\nThe world number 125 will face Sweden's Rebecca Peterson, ranked 59th, in Sunday's final - her first since the Monterrey Open in March 2016.\n\n\"Hopefully I can play as well as I managed today,\" said Watson.\n\nAfter saving four match points and needing more than three hours to beat Magda Linette of Poland in the quarter-finals, things were a lot more comfortable against 22-year-old Kudermetova on Saturday.\n\nWatson broke serve twice to take the first set inside 25 minutes and secured the all-important break at 2-2 in the second, before closing out another impressive victory.\n\nHer form this week means she is guaranteed to climb back inside the world's top 100, while she will look to maintain her 100% success rate in WTA finals, having won at Monterrey in 2016, Hobart in 2015 and Osaka in 2012.", "John Downey was arrested on suspicion of the murder of two soldiers in 1972\n\nA man wanted in Northern Ireland over the murder of two soldiers has been extradited from the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said it had arrested a 67-year-old \"on suspicion of the murder of two UDR soldiers in 1972 and on suspicion of aiding and abetting an explosion\".\n\nMr Downey is due to appear at Omagh Magistrates Court on Saturday morning.\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\nSoldiers Alfred Johnston, a father of four, and James Eames, a father of three, were killed in a bomb attack in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in August 1972.\n\nMr Downey was detained in the Republic of Ireland in October last year under a European arrest warrant.\n\nHe was previously accused of the murders of four soldiers in the 1982 IRA Hyde Park bombing.\n\nMr Downey was to stand trial for those murders in 2014 but the trial collapsed.", "Baptista Adjei, 15, lived with his family in North Woolwich, London\n\nA 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murdering another 15-year-old near a London shopping centre.\n\nBaptista Adjei, from North Woolwich, was found critically injured on Stratford Broadway, east London, shortly after 15:20 BST on Thursday.\n\nPolice believe he and a 15-year-old friend were either attacked on a bus, or shortly after getting off.\n\nAnother boy was arrested on suspicion of murder after handing himself in on Friday evening.\n\nThe Met Police said he had been remanded in custody.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Metropolitan Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDet Ch Insp Chris Soole said the two boys were stabbed during a fight \"on or shortly after alighting from a bus which stopped very close to Stratford Shopping Centre, near tramway Avenue\".\n\nThe shopping centre is adjacent to Stratford Westfield.\n\n\"The victim of this stabbing was a schoolboy with his whole life ahead of him. He had everything to live for.\n\n\"This was a senseless attack and we share the concern and alarm this murder will no doubt cause in the local community,\" he said.\n\nThe second injured boy was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.\n\nPolice said the victim was attacked on or shortly after getting off a bus close to the shopping centre\n\nBaptista's friends and members of the public provided first aid but he died at the scene at about 15:50, police said.\n\nThe shopping centre entrance nearest Stratford Station has been closed\n\nA Section 60 order was implemented, giving officers increased stop and search powers across Newham.\n\nPolice closed off a large part of Broadway, and the shopping centre entrance nearest Stratford Station was closed.\n\nIn a separate stabbing about five hours later, an 18-year-old man was knifed to death in south London.\n\nPolice found the man suffering from stab injuries on the Brandon Estate in Camberwell, at about 20:20.\n\nHe died an hour later. No arrests have been made.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Sadiq Khan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been more than 110 homicides in the capital this year, with about 70 of those being fatal stabbings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland must wait to confirm their place in Euro 2020 after the Czech Republic deservedly ended their 43-game unbeaten run in qualifiers stretching back 10 years.\n\nGareth Southgate's side would have secured their place in next summer's tournament with victory in Prague but they can have no complaints after a wretched display against a Czech side who were a different proposition from that swept aside 5-0 at Wembley in March.\n\nEngland can still qualify on Monday if they beat Bulgaria and Kosovo do not beat Montenegro.\n\nEngland were handed the perfect start when captain Harry Kane put them ahead from the penalty spot in the fifth minute after Lukas Masopust fouled Raheem Sterling but they were well below their best and slumped to a bitterly disappointing defeat.\n\nThe Czechs were swiftly level when Jakub Brabec scored following a corner. England could not muster further inspiration and substitute Zdenek Ondrasek pounced to score the winner with four minutes left.\n\nEngland were desperately poor throughout and were grateful to goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, who produced fine saves from Vladimir Coufal, Masopust and Alex Kral, while Czech counterpart Tomas Vaclik did well to deny Sterling and Kane.\n\nThey can put things right against Bulgaria in Sofia on Monday but this was a serious reality check for a side hoping to do great things next summer, losing a qualifier for the first time since they went down 1-0 to Ukraine on 10 October 2009.\n• None Czech Republic 2-1 England - how did you rate the players?\n\nThis must rank as one of the worst performances of Southgate's reign and the manager himself has to take his own share of the responsibility.\n\nNo-one can complain about his decision to give Chelsea's in-form Mason Mount his debut ahead of team-mate Ross Barkley but the youngster never flourished in an advanced midfield position in the first half.\n\nQuality sides will relish facing this England defence and Southgate is running out of time to apply the fix\n\nMount was barely able to influence the game and with Jordan Henderson and Declan Rice exposed and pedestrian, England found themselves often overrun by the sprightly Czechs.\n\nEngland's potent attacking trio of Kane, Sterling and Jadon Sancho were starved of service, leaving them under-performing in every area of the pitch.\n\nThe Czech Republic, backed by a noisy crowd in Prague, gathered momentum and confidence and it was no surprise when Ondrasek finally broke Pickford's resistance late on.\n\nThis was simply not good enough from England and the concerns that surfaced about their true quality when they won 5-3 in chaotic style against Kosovo in Southampton will only increase after this.\n• None Euro 2020 qualifying: Who needs what?\n\nAny hope the defensive uncertainty that characterised England's victory against Kosovo had been successfully addressed was banished inside the first 10 minutes in Prague.\n\nPickford saved brilliantly from Coufal as the Czech Republic responded to England's early salvo but there was the trademark confusion at the resulting corner which ended with Brabec stabbing home from close range.\n\nEngland lived dangerously throughout and it was not a shock when they finally conceded late on.\n\nEverton's Michael Keane struggles desperately at this level while full-backs Danny Rose and Kieran Trippier hardly covered themselves in glory either.\n\nHarry Maguire looks the one staple in defence but he does not exude confidence either.\n\nIn other words, quality sides will relish facing this England defence and Southgate is running out of time to apply the fix.\n• None Czech Republic had 17 shots in this match, the most England have faced in a qualifying match since March 2013, when Montenegro had 19 in a World Cup qualifier.\n• None This was England's first defeat in a European Championship qualifier since losing 3-2 at Wembley against Croatia in November 2007.\n• None Harry Kane has scored 20 goals in 21 matches for England when starting as captain - the only player with more is Vivian Woodward (23 goals between 1908 and 1911).\n• None Excluding shootouts, no player has scored more penalties for England than Harry Kane (9, level with Frank Lampard).\n• None Zdenek Ondrasek scored on his international debut for Czech Republic, scoring with his first shot in international football.\n• None Gareth Southgate (W21 D9 L8) has lost as many games as England manager in 38 matches as Roy Hodgson lost in 56 matches as manager (W33 D15 L8).\n\nEngland travel to Bulgaria on Monday (kick-off 19:45 BST) looking to secure a spot at Euro 2020.\n• None Attempt saved. Jan Kopic (Czech Republic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Jaromir Zmrhal.\n• None Jordan Henderson (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Czech Republic 2, England 1. Zdenek Ondrasek (Czech Republic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lukas Masopust.\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ross Barkley with a through ball.\n• None Raheem Sterling (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Alex Kral (Czech Republic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Vladimír Darida. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nPolice in Prague made a series of arrests after crowd trouble involving England fans at Friday's Euro 2020 qualifying match.\n\nThere were 31 arrests, 14 of whom were England supporters.\n\nAlmost 3,800 England fans bought tickets for the 20:45 BST kick-off in Prague, although more are believed to have travelled.\n\nEngland lost the match 2-1 and have another game on Monday when they travel to Sofia to play Bulgaria.\n\nUgly scenes erupted just before 7pm local time when some English fans began throwing bottles towards armed officers in riot gear.\n\nA recorded warning was played in English before the Czech police advanced on the group, who had taken over a small square in the city's Old Town.\n\nSpeaking after his team's 2-1 defeat, England manager Gareth Southgate said of the crowd disturbances: \"Of course, it's always disappointing and I think I've always spoken about how we would want everybody to conduct themselves.\n\n\"But equally, tonight, I think everybody would expect me to focus on getting my job right and make sure that I get the performance that we need from the team. So, I think some of these things are for other people to deal with.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nIreland booked their place in the World Cup quarter-finals with a seven-try win over Samoa in Fukuoka.\n\nIreland had to play over half the match with 14 men after Bundee Aki's 29th-minute dismissal, though tries by Rory Best, Tadhg Furlong and Johnny Sexton had already put them in control.\n\nJack Lam replied but another Sexton try secured a bonus point before half-time.\n\nJordan Larmour, CJ Stander and Andrew Conway also crossed as Ireland navigated the second half unscathed.\n\nIreland's opponents in the last eight will be determined by the outcome of the final Pool A fixture between Japan and Scotland on Sunday, which could still be cancelled with Typhoon Hagibis wreaking havoc in Yokohama.\n\nIf that game does not go ahead, both sides would be awarded two points and Japan would top the group ahead of Ireland, leaving Joe Schmidt's side to face three-time champions New Zealand - winners of the past two World Cups - in Tokyo next Saturday.\n\nIf it does go ahead, a Scotland victory without Japan claiming two losing bonus points would see Ireland finish top, with South Africa their quarter-final opponents.\n• None Ireland must scale new heights - Best\n• None World Cup permutations: Who needs what to reach quarter-finals?\n\nKnowing a five-point win would assure their progress regardless of events in Yokohama, Ireland began purposefully, with the decision to kick for the corner as opposed to taking an easy three points paying off twice in the first nine minutes.\n\nCaptain Best drove over from a rolling maul, before the destructive Furlong broke through four would-be tacklers to cross as Ireland made the most of Samoan indiscipline.\n\nSexton's first try, after a slick break and offload from Larmour, put Ireland on the cusp of the bonus point with just a quarter of the game gone.\n\nHowever, two incidents in the space of five moments threatened to completely alter the direction of the contest.\n\nAfter Lam barrelled over the top of Ireland's defence to put Samoa on the board, centre Aki was dismissed for a tackle direct to the head of fly-half Ulupano Seuteni.\n\nSamoa's momentum was short-lived as they failed to translate their numerical superiority into any sort of meaningful advantage.\n\nSexton's show and go off the back of a scrum just before the interval saw Ireland enter the break with the job done, ensuring there was little in the way of tension when the players re-emerged from the tunnel.\n\nIn a satisfactory evening for Ireland, several loose passes and handling errors that contributed to some of their hairiest moments in the first half will come under the microscope with the All Blacks or the Springboks looming on the horizon.\n\nAttention will now turn to team selection for Ireland's biggest game since the last eight in 2015.\n\nWhile in truth there is a clear first-choice player in most positions, Leinster full-back Larmour put in a performance that may just persuade Schmidt to stick with the 22-year-old next week.\n\nAn accusation that has been made against this Ireland team in recent times is that they are one-dimensional in attack.\n\nAgainst Samoa, Larmour was a constant and unpredictable threat with ball in hand as he sought to jink through the opposition defence at every opportunity.\n\nHis probing paid off for Sexton's opening try and he was rewarded with a score of his own nine minutes after the break, latching onto Conor Murray's perfect flat pass.\n\nIn Rob Kearney, Schmidt has a player who has delivered in most of Ireland's biggest games over the past decade, however Larmour's impressive outings against Scotland and Samoa will certainly have given the head coach food for thought.\n\nConcerns over the condition of the pitch at the Hakatanomori Stadium rose to the surface during Friday's captain's run, during which Irish players were able to lift up the turf enough to fit a rugby ball underneath.\n\nMercifully, the injuries that many thought inevitable on such a track did not materialise, and in general the pitch held up well for the 80 minutes.\n\nWith the game being played totally on their terms in the second half, Ireland removed Sexton and Conor Murray, who once again displayed their importance to the side in two perfectly-controlled displays.\n\nThe game situation also allowed Schmidt to give second-choice fly-half Joey Carbery some vital minutes to make an impression, with the Munster man having played just 20 minutes in the previous three games.\n\nAfter Stander powered over following sustained Irish pressure inside the Samoan five-metre line, it was Carbery's well-judged grubber kick that allowed Conway to put the finishing touches on a hugely satisfactory Irish display.\n• None Bundee Aki is the first player to be sent off for Ireland in a World Cup match, and the fourth to be sent off in any game for Ireland (Willie Duggan, Jamie Heaslip, CJ Stander).\n• None Samoa have now lost each of their last 11 games against Tier 1 opposition at the Rugby World Cup, their last such victory coming back in 1999 against Wales.\n• None There have now been seven red cards shown at the 2019 Rugby World Cup, the previous highest at the tournament was four in both 1995 and 1999.\n• None This was the fifth time 14 men have beaten 15 in a Rugby World Cup match (excluding sin-binnings). Only Canada's 72-11 win against Namibia in 1999 has seen a bigger margin of victory (42 points) for the outnumbered side.\n• None This was just the fourth time Ireland have scored 4+ first-half tries in a Rugby World Cup match, five v Namibia 2003, five v Russia 2011, four v Canada in 2015.\n\nFor the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "Alex Neil is a former health secretary in the Scottish government\n\nAn SNP victory in the next Scottish Parliament election could give the party a \"mandate for independence\", one of the party's senior MSPs has claimed.\n\nAlex Neil said winning the election in 2021 would potentially allow the SNP to begin independence negotiations.\n\nBut he stressed this would only be the case if the UK government continued to refuse consent for a referendum.\n\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon says a legal referendum is the only way for Scotland to win independence.\n\nShe wants to hold one next year - but the UK government has already said it would refuse to grant a Section 30 order, which provided the legal basis for the 2014 independence referendum.\n\nSome activists and elected representatives within the SNP and wider independence movement believe Ms Sturgeon is being too cautious, and have called on her to set out a so-called Plan B.\n\nThey include SNP MP Angus MacNeil and Inverclyde councillor Chris McEleny, who have argued that the party winning a majority of Scottish seats in an election would be enough for independence negotiations to begin with the UK government.\n\nOthers activists have called for an unofficial referendum to be held, similar to the disputed one in Catalonia in 2017.\n\nA series of large pro-independence marches have been held across Scotland throughout the summer\n\nMr McEleny is expected to attempt to have a debate on Plan B added to the SNP conference agenda when the three-day event opens in Aberdeen on Sunday.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Scotland's The Nine ahead of the conference, Mr Neil added his voice to the calls for a Plan B to be adopted by the party.\n\nThe former health secretary said the SNP should seek a \"written guarantee\" from the UK prime minister that a referendum will be held if it wins the next Holyrood election.\n\nIf that guarantee is not given, Mr Neil said the party should effectively make the election the referendum. He added: \"Assuming we win that election, then we would negotiate with the UK government an independence treaty\".\n\nHe said there would then be a referendum on the treaty, regardless of whether or not the UK government gave permission.\n\nMr Neil added: \"Scotland will not take no for an answer, so if they're not prepared to give us that democratic guarantee we can't just say that things will continue and we will go another another five years to try and get a referendum in 2026.\n\n\"If we get the mandate in 2021 then we are entitled either to have a referendum, if they are prepared to give us a Section 30, or if they refuse to recognise the democratic wishes of the Scottish people in those circumstances we are entitled to say we have the right to self determination.\n\n\"Therefore our mandate is for independence, not just for an independence referendum\".\n\nMs Sturgeon, the Scottish first minister, has repeatedly said that a Section 30 order would need to be granted by the UK government to ensure the legality of any future referendum.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland earlier this week that the SNP would have to \"demonstrate majority support for independence in a process that is legal and legitimate\", and warned critics of her strategy that there was \"no easy or shortcut route to independence\".\n\nShe also pointed out that the SNP has previously won a majority of the Scottish seats in a general election on a minority of the votes - and argued that \"nobody in Europe would listen to me in terms of the legitimacy of that\" if she was to claim it was a mandate for independence.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump's border chief was hounded off stage - a legitimate protest or a violation of freedom of speech?\n\nThe acting head of US Homeland Security, Kevin McAleenan, has resigned after six months in the post.\n\nIn a tweet, President Donald Trump said Mr McAleenan wanted to spend more time with his family. He said his replacement would be named next week.\n\nMr McAleenan, 48, is the fourth person to serve as the head of Homeland Security during Mr Trump's tenure.\n\nHe has overseen the president's tough policies aimed at curbing immigration across the Mexican border.\n\nHowever, analysts have described a turbulent relationship between the two and Mr McAleenan has criticised the tone of the immigration debate.\n\nRecently he was shouted off stage by student protesters at a university in Washington DC.\n\nAnnouncing his resignation, Mr Trump said Mr McAleenan had done \"an outstanding job\".\n\n\"We have worked well together with border crossings being way down,\" he said.\n\n\"Kevin now, after many years in government, wants to spend more time with his family and go to the private sector.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr McAleenan became acting head of the department after the resignation in April of Kirstjen Nielsen.\n\nPresident Trump had often accused her of not being tough enough on controlling immigration.\n\nDuring the administration of President Barack Obama, Mr McAleenan served as deputy commissioner of Customs and Border Protection (CBP).\n\nIn 2015, he received the highest civil service award from the then-president.\n\nIn 2018, he faced criticism in the media for carrying out Mr Trump's zero-tolerance policy that led to the controversial separation of families at the US southern border, but he has maintained his agency's duty is to carry out the law, not create it.\n\nEarlier this month, the Washington Post described him as increasingly isolated within the Trump administration and overshadowed by others more vocal in their support for President Trump.\n\nIn an interview, Mr McAleenan lamented not having control over \"the tone, the message, the public face and approach of the department in an increasingly polarised time. That's uncomfortable, as the accountable, senior figure.\"\n• None Trump wall: How much has he actually built?", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nEliud Kipchoge has become the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours, beating the mark by 20 seconds.\n\nThe Kenyan, 34, covered the 26.2 miles (42.2km) in one hour 59 minutes 40 seconds in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge in Vienna, Austria on Saturday.\n\nIt will not be recognised as the official marathon world record because it was not in open competition and he used a team of rotating pacemakers.\n\n\"This shows no-one is limited,\" said Kipchoge.\n\n\"Now I've done it, I am expecting more people to do it after me.\"\n\nThe Olympic champion - who holds the official marathon world record of 2:01:39, set in Berlin, Germany in 2018 - missed out by 25 seconds in a previous attempt at the Italian Grand Prix circuit at Monza in 2017.\n\nKnowing he was about to make history on the home straight, the pacemakers dropped back to let Kipchoge sprint over the line alone, roared on by a large crowd in the Austrian capital.\n\nThe four-time London Marathon winner embraced his wife Grace, grabbed a Kenyan flag and was mobbed by his pacemakers, including many of the world's best middle and long-distance runners.\n\nKipchoge, who compared the feat to being the first man on the moon in build-up to the event, said he had made history just as Britain's Sir Roger Bannister did in running the first sub four-minute mile in 1954.\n\n\"I'm feeling good. After Roger Bannister made history, it took me another 65 years. I've tried but I've done it,\" said the Kenyan.\n\n\"This shows the positivity of sport. I want to make it a clean and interesting sport. Together when we run, we can make it a beautiful world.\"\n\nWith a leading pace car beaming green lasers on to the road to indicate the required pace of 2:50 per kilometre, Kipchoge never went slower than 2:52.\n\nTo break the mark, he had to run 100m in 17.08 seconds 422 times in a row at a speed of 21.1kph (13.1 mph).\n\nHe was 10 seconds ahead of schedule at the halfway mark, before appearing to slow with a few 2:52 kilometres, only to regain the pace and kick on in the final stages.\n\nKipchoge was assisted by a team of 42 pacemakers, including Olympic 1500m champion Matthew Centrowitz, Olympic 5,000m silver medallist Paul Chelimo and the Ingebrigtsen brothers Jakob, Filip and Henrik.\n\nThey rotated in and out, running in formation around Kipchoge, with former 1500m and 5,000m world champion Bernard Lagat anchoring the final leg.\n\n\"They are among the best athletes in the world - so thank you,\" added Kipchoge. \"I appreciate them for accepting this job. We did this one together.\"\n\nKipchoge's coaches delivered him water and energy gels by bike over 4.4 laps of a 5.97-mile course in the city's Prater park, instead of having to pick refreshments up from a table as in normal competition marathons.\n\nThese aids are not allowed under the rules of the IAAF, athletics' world governing body, which is why it will not recognise this feat as the official marathon world record.\n\nThe attempt was funded by petrochemicals company Ineos - owned by Britain's richest man, Sir Jim Ratcliffe - which also sponsors the cycling team of the same name.\n\nThe location was selected because of the favourable climate, excellent air quality and almost completely flat terrain, with only 2.4 metres of incline across the route.\n\nAt Kipchoge's request, the course - consisting of two 2.67-mile stretches and two small loops at each end - was lined with spectators, unlike his previous attempt in Nike's Breaking 2 project in Monza.\n\nNike also provided Kipchoge with a new model of the shoe that has been worn by athletes running the five fastest marathons in history.\n\nThe Ineos team selected the start time of 07:15 BST after assessing weather conditions in Vienna this week.\n\n\"That last kilometre where he actually accelerated was super human,\" said Ratcliffe.\n\n\"Everything has to go right to do this. It's so nice to see the 'pacers' be part of this - they are just so full of enthusiasm.\"\n\nKipchoge's coach, Patrick Sang, said \"everything went perfectly right\" in this attempt.\n\n\"He has inspired all of us and shown that we can stretch the limits in our life,\" he added.\n\n\"For the sport, it is a challenge to other young athletes that they can perform better than they think. For humanity, it shows you can move to another level.\n\n\"History has been made. It's unbelievable.\"", "The suspect was apprehended by police\n\nFive people have been injured in a knife attack at the Arndale Centre in Manchester.\n\nA man, aged 40, initially arrested on suspicion of terror offences, has been detained under the Mental Health Act.\n\nThree people were stabbed and two others were hurt when a man with a large knife started \"lunging and attacking people\", according to police.\n\nHe chased two police community support officers (PCSOs) before being detained, the force said.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) believe he was acting alone.\n\nThe force said the man had been assessed \"by specialist doctors\".\n\nInvestigations into the motives behind the attack are continuing.\n\nOne witness said they saw a man \"running around with a knife lunging at multiple people\", while another described people \"screaming and running\".\n\nThe centre was put on lockdown as officers confronted the attacker, with some shoppers taking refuge in stores.\n\nThere was a large police presence outside the Arndale shopping centre\n\nA shop worker, who only gave his name as Jordan, 23, said: \"A man was running around with a knife lunging at multiple people, one of which came into my store visibly shaken with a small graze.\n\n\"Soon after, security staff told all retail staff to close their doors and move the public to the back of the stores.\"\n\nSpeaking at a press conference, Assistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson said it was a \"random\" and \"brutal\" attack.\n\nACC Jackson said a man armed with a knife entered the Exchange Court area of the centre before he \"lunged\" at shoppers and began \"attacking people with the knife\".\n\n\"Two unarmed police community support officers were in Exchange Court and attempted to confront the attacker.\n\n\"He then chased them with the knife as they were calling for urgent assistance.\"\n\nWithin five minutes armed officers detained the suspect on Market Street outside the centre, he added.\n\nIn a tweet, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Shocked by the incident in Manchester and my thoughts are with the injured and all 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\nThree people were taken to hospital, a fourth later went for treatment for a \"superficial\" injury and a fifth person did not require hospital treatment, GMP said.\n\nThe force previously said two women, including a 19-year-old, were in a stable condition in hospital, while a man in his 50s was being treated in hospital for stab wounds.\n\nOne patient suffered \"serious\" injuries, North West Ambulance Service said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The attack was 'random and brutal', police said\n\nFreddie Holder, 22, from Market Drayton, Shropshire, said he heard \"a load of screams just outside\" the shop he was in.\n\nHe said a woman then came into the shop and told others \"a guy just ran past the shop and tried to stab me\".\n\nHe added: \"I'm still kind of in shock from it, I'm shaking a little bit... all shops had been locked down just for safety.\n\n\"The police arrived extremely quickly, which was very lucky.\"\n\nThe Arndale Centre, which is one of the country's most popular shopping venues, was evacuated\n\nFeroze Bilal said he saw \"every single shop\" in the centre \"start closing down\", before police evacuated the building.\n\n\"People were screaming and running,\" he added.\n\nA large number of officers were called to the scene, one of whom was seen with a Taser.\n\nThe suspect was arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of an act of terrorism.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Bev Hughes This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour councillor Pat Karney, for Harpurhey and Collyhurst, tweeted: \"Armed police on guard. Shocking scenes right out of a movie but real people with injuries.\"\n\nStaff were allowed back into the centre on Friday afternoon\n\nThe Arndale Centre is located close to Manchester Arena, where 22 people died in a terror attack in May 2017 when a bomb was detonated at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nThe shopping centre was also damaged in a major IRA bomb in 1996.\n\nMore than 200 people were injured when the 1,500kg (3,300lb) device left on a lorry on Corporation Street exploded.", "Baptista Adjei, 15, lived with his family in North Woolwich, London\n\nA 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of another 15-year-old near a London shopping centre.\n\nBaptista Adjei, from North Woolwich, was found critically injured on Stratford Broadway, east London, shortly after 15:20 BST on Thursday.\n\nPolice said a 15-year-old boy who handed himself in to a police station was charged with murder on Saturday.\n\nHe will appear in Stratford Youth Court on Monday.\n\nScotland Yard previously said officers believed Baptista and a 15-year-old friend were either attacked on a bus, or shortly after getting off.\n\nBaptista's friends and members of the public provided first aid but he died at the scene at about 15:50, police said.\n\nThe teenager's former football team, Mindset FC, tweeted that Baptista was a \"very humble boy, with great manners and very talented\".\n\nIt added: \"Dark moment at Mindset as one of our former players from the U16s last season went to sleep today at Stratford due to knife crime.\n\n\"All of us at Mindset have the family in our thoughts and prayers. RIP Bap.\"\n\nThere have been more than 110 homicides in the capital this year, with about 70 of those being fatal stabbings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At least 23 people have been killed in Japan as torrential rain and tornado-like winds lash large parts of Japan.\n\nThe eye of Typhoon Hagibis - the worst storm to hit the country for 60 years - made landfall shortly before 19:00 local time on Saturday (10:00 GMT), in Izu Peninsula, south-west of Tokyo.\n\nIt is now moving out to sea after moving up the eastern coast of Japan's main island, with wind speeds of 225km/h (140mph).", "A man was apprehended by police after an attack at the Manchester Arndale\n\nA Manchester Arndale worker and a member of the public have been praised for helping to stop a stabbing in which three people were hurt.\n\nA man \"lunged\" at people in the shopping centre on Friday and attacked a 19-year-old woman, a man, 59, and another woman, who are in hospital.\n\nTwo others were hurt, but none of the injuries are thought to be life-threatening.\n\nA 40-year-old man has been detained under the Mental Health Act.\n\nWitnesses said people were \"screaming and running\" as they evacuated the centre after a man started to attack shoppers with a large knife.\n\nA police spokesman said the 19-year-old woman required surgery after being stabbed in her arm, while the 59-year-old man suffered stab wounds to his hand.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson, from Greater Manchester Police, said: \"We know that at least one member of staff from the Arndale and a member of the public intervened in the attack and we would like to praise and thank them for their bravery.\"\n\nAt a press conference earlier, police revealed they had searched a property in the city where the arrested man lived. Officers said they were trying to establish if he had any political, religious or ideological motivation for the attack, although nothing has so far has come to light.\n\nHe was initially held on suspicion of assault then re-arrested on suspicion of terror offences before he was detained under the Mental Health Act.\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said officials were keeping an \"open mind\".\n\n\"It's important not to jump to any conclusions although what I can say is that, at this stage, it would appear to be more mental-health related than political or religiously motivated.\"\n\nHe said the attack appeared to be \"an isolated incident\" and urged people to \"go about their weekend\" as they had planned.\n\nStaff were allowed back into the centre on Friday afternoon\n\nThe shopping centre, which is close to the arena where a terror attack killed 22 people in 2017, re-opened for business on Saturday.\n\nSir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester City Council, said: \"Every time we have had an incident of this sort in the city, Manchester shows its resilience, its ability to come together and its determination to get on with business - to get on with life - and that's what we see today.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Burnham added the attack highlighted \"the debate about knife crime\" and he would ask police to consider \"more use of stop-and-search powers but in a way that is intelligence-led, non-discriminatory\".\n\n\"Like other cities in the UK, in the past few years, Greater Manchester has seen an increase but… we actually recorded a significant fall over summer 2019 and that was, in part, due to a more targeted use of stop-and-search powers.\"\n\nThe force has appealed for anyone who was in the Arndale at the time to send images or footage via its website.\n\nManchester was praised for showing \"resilience\" after the attack by the city's council leader\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Slow walkers have 'older' brains and bodies, the study found\n\nHow fast people walk in their 40s is a sign of how much their brains, as well as their bodies, are ageing, scientists have suggested.\n\nUsing a simple test of gait speed, researchers were able to measure the ageing process.\n\nNot only were slower walkers' bodies ageing more quickly - their faces looked older and they had smaller brains.\n\nThe international team said the findings were an \"amazing surprise\".\n\nDoctors often measure gait speed to gauge overall health, particularly in the over-65s, because it is a good indicator of muscle strength, lung function, balance, spine strength and eyesight.\n\nSlower walking speeds in old age have also been linked to a higher risk of dementia and decline.\n\nIn this study, of 1,000 people in New Zealand - born in the 1970s and followed to the age of 45 - the walking speed test was used much earlier, on adults in mid-life.\n\nThe study participants also had physical tests, brain function tests and brain scans, and during their childhood they had had cognitive tests every couple of years.\n\n\"This study found that a slow walk is a problem sign decades before old age,\" said Prof Terrie E Moffitt, lead author from King's College London and Duke University in the US.\n\nEven at the age of 45, there was a wide variation in walking speeds with the fastest moving at over 2m/s at top speed (without running).\n\nIn general, the slower walkers tended to show signs of \"accelerated ageing\" with their lungs, teeth and immune systems in worse shape than those who walked faster.\n\nResearchers tested the walking speed of participants on an 8m-long pad\n\nThe more unexpected finding was that brain scans showed the slower walkers were more likely to have older-looking brains too.\n\nAnd the researchers found they were able to predict the walking speed of 45-year-olds using the results of intelligence, language and motor skills tests from when they were three.\n\nThe children who grew up to be the slowest walkers (with a mean gait of 1.2m/s) had, on average, an IQ 12 points lower than those who were the fastest walkers (1.75m/s) 40 years later.\n\nThe international team of researchers, writing in JAMA Network Open, said the differences in health and IQ could be due to lifestyle choices or a reflection of some people having better health at the start of life.\n\nBut they suggest there are already signs in early life of who is going to fare better in health terms in later life.\n\nThe researchers said measuring walking speed at a younger age could be a way of testing treatments to slow human ageing.\n\nA number of treatments, from low-calorie diets to taking the drug metformin, are currently being investigated.\n\nIt would also be an early indicator of brain and body health so people can make changes to their lifestyle while still young and healthy, the researchers 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. Dunn family on Raab meeting: \"We feel let down\"\n\nThe family at the centre of a row over diplomatic immunity after their son died in a car crash described a meeting with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab as feeling like a \"publicity stunt\".\n\nHarry Dunn, 19, died in a crash with a Volvo in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nAmerican diplomat's wife Anne Sacoolas, suspected of driving the other vehicle, later left the UK to return to the US.\n\nBoris Johnson has spoken to President Trump who told a press briefing Harry's death was a \"terrible accident\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump says fatal car crash by diplomat's wife was 'accident'\n\nPolice have said CCTV of the crash which killed the teenager shows the Volvo travelling on the wrong side of the road.\n\nSpeaking after his conversation with the prime minister, President Trump said: \"The woman was driving on the wrong side of the road, and that can happen.\n\n\"You know, those are the opposite roads, that happens. I won't say it ever happened to me, but it did.\n\n\"So a young man was killed, the person that was driving the automobile has diplomatic immunity, we're going to speak to her very shortly and see if we can do something where they meet.\n\n\"It was an accident, it was a terrible accident.\"\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was in a crash with a Volvo\n\nAfter meeting the foreign secretary, Harry's mother Charlotte Charles said she felt \"let down\" by both the UK and US governments.\n\nShe said: \"I can't really see the point as to why we were invited to see Dominic Raab. We are no further forward than where we were this time last week.\n\n\"Part of me is feeling like it was just a publicity stunt on the UK Government side to show they are trying to help.\n\n\"But, although he is engaging with us, we have no answers. We are really frustrated that we could spend half an hour or more with him and just come out with nothing.\"\n\nTogether with Harry's father Tim Dunn, she met Mr Raab in the hope he would urge the US to waive Ms Sacoolas' diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn said: \"I felt extremely let down by the Government today, or by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.\n\n\"I'm deeply, deeply disappointed that they think it's okay to kill a young lad on his bike and they can just walk away.\n\n\"I don't think the government or the Commonwealth Office have any clout to do anything.\"\n\nTim Dunn and Charlotte Charles felt there was little point to their meeting with the foreign secretary\n\nNumber 10 said the Prime Minister urged US President Donald Trump to reconsider the decision to allow Ms Sacoolas immunity in order that \"the individual involved can return to the UK, cooperate with police and allow Harry's family to receive justice\".\n\nDowning Street said the \"leaders agreed to work together to find a way forward as soon as possible\" during their conversation on Wednesday evening.\n\nFollowing the meeting with Harry's parents, the foreign secretary said: \"I share the frustration of Harry's mother and father.\n\n\"They have lost their son and the justice process is not being allowed to properly run its course.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Charles urged Ms Sacoolas to do the \"humane thing to do and get on a plane and come back\".\n\nTheir lawyer Radd Seiger said they were in talks to launch a civil case against Ms Sacoolas and they were \"going to Washington soon to help us get that justice for Harry\".\n\nHe also invited the US President to meet the family about the case.\n\n\"If meeting with President Trump would help us get a step closer to seek justice for Harry, to get justice for that boy who died that night needlessly, one of the most wonderful kids in our community, if that's what it takes then I will extend an invitation now to President Trump.\n\n\"Meet us. Let's have a chat. Nobody wants to litigate.\"\n\nMr Johnson had already urged the US to reconsider its decision to allow Ms Sacoolas immunity, while Mr Raab has previously spoken to the US ambassador and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\nNorthamptonshire's chief constable and its police and crime commissioner have also urged the Americans to waive Ms Sacoolas's diplomatic immunity.\n\nAbout 23,000 individuals in the UK have diplomatic immunity, a status reserved for foreign diplomats and their families, as long as they don't have British citizenship.\n\nIt is granted by the 1961 Vienna Convention and means that, in theory, diplomats cannot face court proceedings for any crime or civil case.\n\nThe convention also states that those entitled to immunity are expected to obey the law.\n\nWhere crimes are committed, the Foreign Office can ask a foreign government to waive immunity where they feel it is appropriate.\n\nDiplomatic immunity is by no means restricted to those named on the Diplomatic List from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.\n\nDrivers, cooks and other support staff whose names do not appear, but have been accredited to Britain (\"the receiving state\") have the same diplomatic status and immunity as those who are listed.\n\nEqually, there are a number of foreign nationals in Britain attached to international organizations who have the same status and protection.\n\nHarry Dunn died after his Kawasaki motorcycle was in a crash with a black Volvo XC90 in Croughton, close to an RAF base.\n\nHe was taken to Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford where he died.\n\nChief Constable Nick Adderley said \"based on CCTV evidence\", officers knew that \"a vehicle alighted from the RAF base at Croughton\" and was \"on the wrong side of the road\".\n\nHe said the suspect, Ms Sacoolas, had \"engaged fully\" following the crash and said \"she had no plans to leave the country in the near future\".\n\nHowever, she then left for the United States and has not returned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Watch the moment Eliud Kipchoge makes history to become the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours, beating the mark by 20 seconds.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "The National Railway Museum in York - currently home to Stephenson's Rocket - will get further funding\n\nLibraries, museums and other cultural institutions in England are to benefit from a five-year £250m government fund.\n\nThe Department for Culture, Media and Sport said it would set aside £125m for the upkeep of libraries and museums.\n\nIt comes two weeks after museum leaders said infrastructure was at \"breaking point\", with crumbling buildings threatening their collections.\n\n\"Creative and cultural institutions are at the heart of our communities,\" Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan said.\n\n\"This will help drive growth, rejuvenate high streets and attract tourists to our world-class cultural attractions.\"\n\nMore than £90m will go to extending the Cultural Development Fund, which is for arts, culture, heritage and the creative industries in towns and cities outside London.\n\nThe fund was launched last year, with the first grants going to projects hoping to spark regeneration in Grimsby, the Thames Estuary, Plymouth, Wakefield and Worcester.\n\nA further £7m has been allocated to Coventry for its plans as UK City of Culture 2021, while £18.5m has been allocated to York's National Railway Museum.\n\n\"This is wonderful news for the National Railway Museum - and for the City of York,\" museum director Judith McNicol said, noting it could help to turn the museum into \"a truly world-class attraction\".\n\nMany of the nation's cultural institutions have endured funding cuts over recent years, especially outside the capital.\n\nEnglish local authorities' cultural spending reportedly fell by £48m between 2014/15 and 2018/19, while almost 1,000 libraries shut in the UK between 2010 and 2018.\n\nIn August, staff at the Science Museum Group, which runs York's Railway Museum and London's Science Museum, staged a strike in a dispute over pay. Workers at Bradford's libraries and museums also voted to go on strike over what a union called \"swingeing cuts\".\n\nElsewhere, Essex County Council reversed a decision to close 25 of 74 libraries in July but said it wanted volunteers to run some smaller branches, while in August the High Court ruled Northamptonshire County Council's plan to close 21 of its 36 libraries was unlawful.\n\nThe funding will \"make a massive difference\", Museums Association Sharon Heal said. \"Our members have told us about crumbling ceilings, leaking roofs and a lack of money to be able to carry out basic maintenance work.\n\n\"Often museums are housed in historic properties that have suffered from years of neglect and in order to protect our fantastic collections and ensure that our communities can continue to enjoy them we need to act now - this funding will enable museums and galleries in England to do just that.\"\n\nThe £250m will be delivered by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) along with Arts Council England, the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Historic England.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mo Farah insists he has \"not done anything wrong\" as he faced questions over his former coach being banned for doping violations.\n\nAlberto Salazar, who helped transform Farah into Britain's most-decorated athlete, was sanctioned for four years last week.\n\nFarah has never failed a drugs test and said there was an \"agenda\" against him.\n\n\"There is no more I can do,\" the 36-year-old said, adding he was one of the world's \"most tested athletes\".\n\nSpeaking to journalists in Chicago, where he will run in Sunday's marathon, Farah said: \"I am probably one of the most tested athletes in the world.\n\n\"I get tested all the time and I'm happy to be tested anytime, anywhere and for my sample to be used to keep and freeze it.\"\n\nFarah appeared to suggest media scrutiny of him was motivated by racism, the four-time Olympic champion adding: \"There is a clear agenda to this. I know where you are going with it. I have seen it with Raheem Sterling and Lewis Hamilton.\"\n\nFarah was coached by Salazar at the Nike Oregon Project, which was closed down by the sporting brand earlier on Friday.\n\nSalazar's ban followed a four-year investigation by the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) and a two-year court battle behind closed doors.\n\nThe investigation began following a BBC Panorama programme in 2015, meanwhile UK Athletics (UKA), the sport's UK governing body, conducted its own review into the claims, and gave Farah the green light to continue working the American.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, Farah said he flew to meet Salazar at the time to \"get some answers\".\n\n\"He assured me at the time, these are just allegations, this is not true. He promised me. That hasn't been true,\" he said.\n\nThat was as close as Farah got to criticising his former coach, choosing instead to blame the media when asked repeatedly whether he was disappointed in Salazar.\n\nThe Briton said he \"has no time for anyone who has crossed the line\" and asked if Salazar's ban will taint his own legacy Farah replied: \"Not at all. It's just what you want to make it. For me I believe in what I do.\n\n\"This is not about Mo Farah, this is about Alberto Salazar. I am not Alberto.\n\n\"I was never given anything. I am not on testosterone or whatever it is. At the time I never saw any wrongdoing when I was there. This allegation is about Salazar, not Mo Farah.\"\n\nAn animated Farah said: \"I have not done anything wrong. I have not failed any tests and I am happy to be tested anytime anywhere.\n\n\"I feel let down by you guys to be honest, there is no allegation against me.\n\n\"It's taken four years for Usada to get to this position it has right now. The first time I am hearing it is when you guys are reporting it.\"\n\nSalazar, 61, has said he was \"shocked\" by the outcome of Usada's investigation and would appeal against his ban, which Nike has said it will support.\n\nNike also stressed Usada's findings that performance-enhancing drugs had not been used on or by Nike Oregon Project athletes.\n\nFarah has clashed with journalists in the past when asked about Alberto Salazar.\n\nBut his heated 10-minute conversation with several British sports reporters as we sat around a table with him in a crowded conference room at the Chicago Hilton on Friday was arguably the most extraordinary media appearance of his career.\n\nFarah appeared relaxed initially, smiling while he took selfies, accompanied by security, his coach and his agent. But his mood soon changed when asked about the scandal that has engulfed both his sport and Nike, his sponsor.\n\nDespite Salazar's ban, Farah seemed reluctant to criticise his former coach and declined several invitations to condemn a man found guilty of various doping violations.\n\nThe nearest he came was suggesting he may have been misled by Salazar when he received assurances following the publication of allegations in 2015, and reiterating he had \"no time for anyone who's crossed the line\". But there was no obvious anger or disappointment.\n\nHe instead mostly chose to blame the media, refusing to admit to an error of judgement in standing by Salazar until they split in 2017, and appeared to suggest the scrutiny was motivated by a racist agenda.\n\nFarah is no doubt genuinely exasperated as he tries to prepare for the Chicago Marathon. He may also be trying to distance himself from a scandal in which no athlete is implicated.\n\nBut he must surely recognise that questions over his involvement in this story are legitimate.\n\nThe past two weeks have seen the downfall of the man who helped transform him into an Olympic champion, the departure of Neil Black, who is acting as his physiotherapist here, as UKA performance director and now the shutting down of the elite training facility where he became one of the world's best runners over several years.\n\nFarah tried to cast himself as the victim here in Chicago, and by agreeing to face our questions he and his advisors will hope he can now concentrate on Sunday's race. But moving on from this controversy will not be easy.", "The man was arrested at Glasgow Airport on Friday\n\nA man arrested at Glasgow Airport on suspicion of murdering his family eight years ago was detained by mistake.\n\nIdentity checks have shown that the man is not Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes, Police Scotland confirmed.\n\nThe 58-year-old has been on the run since his wife and four children were found buried at their home in Nante in 2011.\n\nThe detained man was stopped at the airport after arriving on a flight from Paris.\n\nXavier Dupont de Ligonnes is suspected of murdering his wife and four children\n\nIn a statement Police Scotland said: \"On Friday, 11 October 2019, a man was arrested at Glasgow Airport following information provided to police.\n\n\"He was held in police custody in connection with a European Arrest Warrant issued by the French Authorities.\n\n\"Inquiries were undertaken to confirm the man's identity.\n\n\"Following the results of these tests it has been confirmed that the man arrested is not the man suspected of crimes in France.\n\n\"The man has since been released.\"\n\nMr Dupont de Ligonnes is suspected of murdering his wife Agnès, 48, and his children, Arthur, 21, Thomas, 18, Anne, 16, and Benoît, 13, whose bodies, as well as those of the family's two dogs, were discovered buried in the garden of the family house in Nantes in 2011.\n\nThe murders, known as the \"Nantes slaughter\", deeply shocked France at the time.\n\nFrench prosecutors previously said he killed his victims in a \"methodical execution\", firing two bullets from a silenced weapon at close range into their heads, before he rolled them in lime and buried them under cement.\n\nMr Dupont de Ligonnes reportedly told his teenage children's private Catholic high school that he had been transferred to a job in Australia.\n\nAnd he also allegedly told friends he was a US secret agent who was being taken into a witness protection programme.\n\nA large police operation was mounted in the Var region of southern France in January last year after witnesses reported seeing a man resembling him near a monastery.", "The students were studying Arabic degree programmes in Cairo\n\nA Scottish university has recalled nine of its students studying in Egypt amid concerns for their safety.\n\nEdinburgh University said two of the students, who were studying in the capital Cairo, had been detained by authorities.\n\nThe pair have since been released but the university advised all of its students in the country to return home.\n\nAll nine students studying in Egypt have either now returned or are currently heading back to Scotland.\n\nA spokesman for the university said: \"The university is obviously very concerned when it hears of incidents such as this, particularly when they involve our own students.\n\n\"We have a responsibility to act in the best interests of our students and to take decisive action when there are concerns for their safety and wellbeing.\n\n\"We therefore required all nine of our students in Egypt to leave the country. All students have now left Egypt or are in the process of doing so.\"\n\nThe students were spread between the American University of Cairo and the city's International Language Institute, undertaking Arabic degree programmes.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"We are working closely with the students to minimise the impact of any disruption to their studies and to provide alternative placements.\"\n\nFollowing anti-government protests in Egypt last month, several foreign nationals have been detained, released and deported amid a crackdown by the authorities involving more than 2,900 arrests.", "Facebook had said it hoped to launch Libra in 2020\n\nMastercard, Visa, eBay and payments firm Stripe have pulled out of Facebook’s embattled cryptocurrency project, Libra.\n\nTheir move, first reported in the Financial Times, follows the withdrawal of PayPal, announced last week.\n\nIt represents a huge blow to the social network’s plans to launch what it envisions as a global currency.\n\nThe project has drawn heavy scrutiny from regulators and politicians, particularly in the US.\n\nFacebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg will appear before the House Committee on Financial Services on 23 October to discuss Libra and its planned roll-out.\n\nRegulators have raised multiple concerns over Libra, including the risk it may be used for money laundering.\n\nMercado Pago, a payments firm serving mostly Latin America, also pulled out. It means of the six payments-related firms first involved in Libra, just one, PayU, remains. Netherlands-based PayU did not respond to the BBC's request for comment on Friday.\n\nIn a statement released on Friday, eBay said it “respected” the Libra project.\n\n“However, eBay has made the decision to not move forward as a founding member. At this time, we are focused on rolling out eBay’s managed payments experience for our customers.”\n\nA spokesperson for Stripe said the firm supported the aim of making global payments easier.\n\n\"Libra has this potential. We will follow its progress closely and remain open to working with the Libra Association at a later stage.”\n\nA spokesperson for Visa said: \"We will continue to evaluate and our ultimate decision will be determined by a number of factors, including the Association's ability to fully satisfy all requisite regulatory expectations.\"\n\nThe Libra Association, set up by Facebook to manage the project, said of the departing companies: \"We appreciate their support for the goals and mission of the Libra project.\n\n\"Although the makeup of the Association members may grow and change over time, the design principle of Libra's governance and technology, along with the open nature of this project ensures the Libra payment network will remain resilient.\n\n\"We look forward to the inaugural Libra Association Council meeting in just 3 days and announcing the initial members of the Libra Association.”\n\nFacebook's executive in charge of its Libra effort wrote on Twitter that losing the firms was \"liberating\".\n\n\"I would caution against reading the fate of Libra into this update,\" wrote David Marcus, who before joining Facebook was PayPal's president.\n\n\"Of course, it's not great news in the short term, but in a way it's liberating. Stay tuned for more very soon. Change of this magnitude is hard. You know you're on to something when so much pressure builds up.\"\n\nLast week, PayPal said it would no longer be part of the Libra Association, but did not rule out working on the project in future - prompting a strong reaction from the Association.\n\n\"Commitment to that mission is more important to us than anything else,\" it said in a statement. \"We're better off knowing about this lack of commitment now.\"\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", "Military enforcements have been put in place in the area following the attack\n\nAt least 15 people have been killed and two seriously injured in an attack on a mosque in northern Burkina Faso.\n\nGunmen entered the Grand Mosque in the village of Salmossi on Friday evening as those inside were praying.\n\nThe attack prompted many locals to flee the village which is close to the Malian border.\n\nHundreds of people have been killed in the country over the past few years, mostly by jihadist groups.\n\nOne resident from the nearby town of Gorom-Gorom told AFP news agency: \"Since this morning, people have started to flee the area.\"\n\nHe added that there was a \"climate of panic despite military reinforcements\" put in place following the attack.\n\nNo group has admitted carrying out the attack.\n\nJihadist attacks have increased in Burkina Faso since 2015, forcing thousands of schools to close down.\n\nThe conflict spread across the border from neighbouring Mali where Islamist militants took over the north of the country in 2012 before French troops pushed them out.\n\nThe UN Refugee agency says more than a quarter of a million people in Burkina Faso have been forced to flee their homes over the past three months.\n\nLast week, 20 people were killed in an attack on a gold-mining site in the north.\n\nOn Saturday, about 1,000 people protested in the capital Ouagadougou to denounce violence in their country and the presence of foreign military forces in the region.", "Five people have been injured in a stabbing attack at the Arndale Centre in Manchester city centre.\n\nThere are no reports of fatalities.\n\nA man in his 40s has been arrested on suspicion of serious assault. Police say they're not looking for anybody else in relation to the incident that left four people hurt.", "Formula 1 has cancelled all activities at the Japanese Grand Prix on Saturday as Typhoon Hagibis approaches.\n\nThe tropical storm, the year's biggest, is due to hit Japan on Saturday and strong winds are set to continue into Sunday, when qualifying and race will be held.\n\nValtteri Bottas led Lewis Hamilton to a Mercedes one-two in second practice.\n\nThose results could decide the grid if conditions are too difficult to hold qualifying on Sunday morning.\n\nBottas was 0.1 seconds quicker than Hamilton, with Max Verstappen third and the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel fourth and fifth ahead of Red Bull's Alexander Albon.\n• None Japanese GP first and second practice results\n• None I'm not here to be liked: Verstappen on hard racing and dirty driving\n\nOrganisers said they had taken the decision to postpone qualifying and close the circuit on Saturday \"in the interests of safety for the spectators, competitors, and everyone at the Suzuka Circuit\".\n\nQualifying, which had been due to take place at 15:00 local time (08:00 BST) on Saturday, is now due to take place at 10:00 (02:00 BST) on Sunday.\n\nThe race will be held as scheduled at 14:10 (06:10 BST).\n\nThe potential impact of the tropical storm has already led to the cancellation of two matches at the Rugby World Cup.\n\nF1 organisers delayed a decision on Thursday to have a clearer idea of the path of the storm.\n\nMercedes were first and second, with Bottas ahead of Hamilton, in both practice sessions.\n\nAnd the second session took on more importance than normal because teams were aware it could set the grid.\n\nSuzuka is expected to be hit by high winds and heavy rain throughout Saturday in what is currently a Category Three typhoon and is due to hit the coast not far from the track on Saturday before moving north towards Tokyo.\n\nFlights are being cancelled across the country, as are train services from Tokyo to Nagoya, the closest big city to Suzuka, from Saturday morning, as well as most trains between Nagoya and Osaka to the west.\n\nEfforts were being made to limit the potential damage at the track on Saturday, for which there have been warnings to stay inside and Japanese authorities have set up social media accounts and an app for safety tips during the storm.\n\nBut, even though the storm has weakened slightly from its high point earlier in the week, there are concerns among officials that the damage might be too extensive for the track to be cleared in time to run qualifying on Sunday morning.\n\nMercedes appear to be in a strong position after Friday practice, their cars quicker than anything else on both short runs and longer ones aimed at simulating the race.\n\nIn fact, Mercedes were as much as a second a lap on average quicker than Ferrari on their race simulations.\n\nFerrari, who have won three of the last four races and taken pole position at all of them, appear to have slipped back judging from Friday.\n\nLeclerc was 0.356secs off the pace, with Vettel 0.235secs further behind him, and that was despite the Italian team running their session differently than Mercedes and in a way that should in theory have given them greater potential for a quick time.\n\nAll teams took advantage of the lack of running on Saturday to do an extra low-fuel, high-speed run in second practice, but while Mercedes and Red Bull did both their quick laps in the middle of the session, Ferrari did one then and then one at the end.\n\nThat was the lap that vaulted Leclerc up from sixth to fourth, but although Vettel was able to improve his personal best lap time, he slipped behind his team-mate.\n\nAlbon was 0.336secs off Verstappen, a strong effort from the Anglo-Thai rookie on his first visit to Suzuka and in only his fifth race for the team following his mid-season promotion.\n\nMercedes have an aerodynamic upgrade on the car that the team hope will wrest back the advantage from Ferrari, while Red Bull also have tweaked aerodynamics as well as a new fuel for their Honda engine aimed at boosting performance on the Japanese manufacturer's home track.\n\nBottas said: \"Very positive day, tried some things. Felt good from the beginning, really happy with the car in general, still minor things with the balance to tweak but both short and long runs felt good. It's always so much fun here driving these cars, and especially when the car feels good.\n\n\"It is only practice but I do feel still the gains we've made with the car. We can just push the car further than before. But still Sunday is going to be close.\n\nHamilton added: \"It's a work in progress. When you're first on the track, you're pushing the limits, there is always time to find at this track, always areas you're weak at.\n\n\"This is not my strongest of circuits. Valtteri got a massive tow on his fastest lap and gained like 0.5secs up the back straight so it's an interesting dynamic because you don't want to be behind someone in the first part because you need clear air but if you're lucky and you get a slipstream later on, then it's perfect.\"\n\nBest of the rest was McLaren's Carlos Sainz, ahead of Racing Point's Sergio Perez, Toro Rosso's Pierre Gasly and the second McLaren of Lando Norris.\n\nIn the first session, Japanese Naoki Yamamoto was driving Gasly's Toro Rosso on his first experience of F1 and was a creditable 17th fastest.\n\nYamamoto was just 0.1secs off team-mate Daniil Kvyat but was running the soft tyre while the Russian was on the medium.", "Actor Robert Forster, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, has died in Los Angeles aged 78.\n\nThe actor, born in Rochester, New York state, died on Friday of brain cancer.\n\nIt happened on the same day that El Camino, a film in which he had a role and which is based on the TV series Breaking Bad was broadcast on Netflix.\n\nForster also appeared in the Breaking Bad TV series as well as David Lynch's Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks.\n\nHe was best known for his roles in the latter part of his career following his appearance in Jackie Brown.\n\nStarring alongside Samuel L Jackson, Pam Grier and Robert De Niro, his performance was nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar.\n\nThe award eventually went to Robin Williams for his role in Good Will Hunting.\n\nForster is survived by his partner Denise Grayson. children Bobby, Elizabeth, Kate and Maeghen and four grandchildren.\n\nJackie Brown co-stars Samuel L Jackson and Pam Grier were among those to pay tribute.\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 former Paralympian accused of gluing himself to the top of a plane has denied causing a public nuisance.\n\nJames Brown is alleged to have climbed on to the British Airways plane at London City Airport on Thursday, during the Extinction Rebellion protests.\n\nThe 55-year-old, of Magdalen Road, Exeter, denied the charge at Westminster Magistrates' Court earlier.\n\nDistrict judge John Zani granted conditional bail prohibiting him from going within a mile of any UK airport.\n\nThe case was heard in front of a full public gallery, including Extinction Rebellion protesters, and there was applause at the end of the hearing.\n\nBrown, who is visually impaired, is due to appear for trial at Southwark Crown Court on 8 November.\n\nSupporters marched along Oxford Street on a sixth day of protests in London\n\nHis solicitor, Raj Chada, requested the cyclist's cane be returned to him after it was confiscated by officers, which was granted.\n\nBrown competed for Britain, Ireland and Northern Ireland in a career which saw him participate at five Paralympic Games and earn two gold medals and a bronze.\n\nThe case came after a week of demonstrations, which police say has seen nearly 1,300 arrests across the capital.\n\nOn the sixth day of protests, Extinction Rebellion supporters marched in what they described as a \"funeral procession\" on Oxford Street.\n\nThe demonstration along the major shopping street aimed to highlight the impact of climate change on wildlife and saw some supporters carry coffins and models of skeletons of extinct or threatened animals.\n\nDoctors protested alongside 180 pairs of shoes in Trafalgar Square, symbolising deaths due to pollution\n\nA separate demonstration to highlight air pollution involved doctors, nurses and medical students and was described as a \"health march for the planet\".\n\nMeanwhile, it has been revealed that Belgian Princess Esmeralda Dereth was arrested, after she joined a sit-in protest at Trafalgar Square on Thursday.\n\nThe 63-year-old told Belgian newspaper L'Echo: \"The more people from all sections of society protest, the greater the impact will be.\"\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 Duke and Duchess Cambridge arrive at the Pakistan Monument by auto rickshaw\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge made a colourful entrance as they arrived by auto rickshaw for a special reception hosted by the British High Commissioner to Pakistan in Islamabad.\n\nKate wore a glittering green dress and William a traditional sherwani suit for the event at the Pakistan Monument.\n\nThe royal pair are on a five-day tour of the country.\n\nEarlier, they met schoolchildren and had lunch with Prime Minister and former cricket star Imran Khan.\n\nAt the reception, which was arranged to showcase the best of Pakistani culture, the duke recognised the country's troubled past, saying: \"For a country so young, Pakistan has endured many hardships, with countless lives lost to terror and hatred.\n\n\"Tonight I want to pay tribute to all those who have endured such sacrifice and helped to build the country that we see today.\"\n\nAnd he promised Pakistan could rely on Britain as \"a key partner and your friend\".\n\nGuests at the reception, hosted by the High Commissioner, Thomas Drew, also included figures from Pakistan's business, music and film industries, as well as members of the government.\n\nEarlier, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met children at a government-run school in Islamabad\n\nThey are on a five-day tour of the Commonwealth country\n\nKensington Palace said organising the tour was \"complex\" because of political tensions in the region\n\nThe couple are the first royals to officially visit the Commonwealth country since the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall visited the region in 2006.\n\nIn Pakistan, Prince William is also following in the footsteps of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, who went there on several charity work trips before her death in 1997.\n\nOn a visit to the Islamabad Model College for Girls, the couple spoke to children, including 14-year-old Aima, who told him she and her classmates were \"big fans\" of his mother.\n\nDiana, Princess of Wales, on a visit to a hospital in Lahore in 1996\n\n\"Oh, that's very sweet of you. I was a big fan of my mother too,\" the duke said.\n\n\"She came here three times. I was very small. This is my first time and it is very nice to be here and meet you all,\" he added.\n\nThe duke and duchess heard how pupils were benefiting from the Teach for Pakistan programme - a fast-track teacher training scheme modelled on the UK's Teach First scheme.\n\nThe British High Commission said UK aid in Pakistan had helped more than 5.5m girls receive a quality education since 2011.\n\nThe duke and duchess met children taking part in activities to learn about environmental protection\n\nLocal education officer, Mohammed Sohailkhan, told reporters the quality of education for girls varied across Pakistan.\n\n\"I can't paint you an entirely rosy picture,\" he said. \"It does still fluctuate wildly, particularly in rural regions, where there has traditionally been cultural barriers towards this, notably in terms of sending girls away to college. But these barriers are slowly being broken down.\"\n\nThe prince and his wife also visited the Margalla Hills National Park in the foothills of the Himalayas, before travelling to Mr Khan's official residence in Islamabad for a private lunch.\n\nMr Khan, a former international cricketing star and now PM, was a friend of the prince's mother.\n\nPrince William and Mr Khan reminisced about meeting each other when the duke was a boy at a gathering in Richmond, south-west London, in 1996.\n\nThe duke told how everyone laughed at the time, when Mr Khan announced his ambition of becoming prime minister to William and his mother Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nThey also met Pakistan's President Arif Alvi and First Lady, Samina Alvi\n\nWhat are William and Catherine doing here in Pakistan? Put simply they are spreading a little royal love around the place.\n\nIt's been 13 years since a royal visit. Some of those have been very tough years for Pakistan, a country that Britain has strong and long historical links with. Around one-and-half million British citizens are of Pakistani descent. Part of the visit is about giving the country a royal hug and showing people here that Britain cares.\n\nIt's also a way of highlighting joint interests - climate change threatens Pakistan more than most, early years education is one of the duchess's biggest single concerns, and security is a key part of the co-operation between the UK and Pakistan.\n\nAnd it is a way of selling Pakistan to the world. The duke and duchess will leave the cities and see something of the spare and rugged countryside.\n\nYes, there's lots of security surrounding the couple. But their travels will also advertise the breathtaking beauty of Pakistan, alongside the bustling cities. It is an opportunity to learn, to encourage and to give something back.\n\nThe five-day trip was organised at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.\n\nThe duke and duchess flew into Rawalpindi on Monday, where they were greeted by Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi (right)\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As Wednesday draws to a close, a deal is still, DBP - difficult but possible, in case you haven't caught the lingo by now.\n\nI hear from both sides of the Channel that the issues between the UK, Ireland and the EU are pretty much ironed out.\n\nA schedule is in place for EU leaders to be able to sign off a deal tomorrow, discussing it as the first item on the agenda at the summit if the ink is dry.\n\nThe government has in place its plan to ask MPs to approve the hypothetical deal in Parliament on Saturday.\n\nDespite all the obstacles, all the warnings about the tightness of the timetable, it is not yet too late.\n\nHappy sentiments in Westminster or Brussels however do not turn into signatures on a page.\n\nThe DUP tonight tell me there are still concerns, still gaps.\n\nThey expect conversations to continue, perhaps late into the night, and certainly into the morning.\n\nHowever you see their position, their concerns are genuine, and can't be brushed aside, not least for the government.\n\nEven though they only have 10 MPs, it's not just that Boris Johnson has no majority of his own, but Brexiteers listen to their counsel too.\n\nIf the DUP isn't buying, some Eurosceptics might pass on a deal too.\n\nSo buckle up for the next twenty four hours.\n\nThere may be more moments where it seems it's all on, only to seem all off, then all on again.\n\nOne cabinet minister joked it's \"like the moment when the bar comes down to strap you in on a rollercoaster - you know that it will end, but you start screaming anyway.\"\n\nOnly seven days after Boris Johnson had that crucial walk around a country house with Leo Varadkar, we might just be at the point where the political pressure overcomes the policy obstacles.\n\nThe prime minister might be able to get off the big dipper, punching the air with a victory of sorts.\n\nBut to resort to Brussels cliche, because phrases become well worn for good reason, nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.\n\nAnd if it is agreed tomorrow, there's then Parliament for the prime minister to deal with, where it is already obvious there are swathes of MPs ready to stand and fight.", "A woman was killed as she leaned out of a train window below an inadequate warning sign, a report said.\n\nBethan Roper, 28, was hit in the head by a tree branch while on board a Great Western Railway (GWR) service travelling at about 75mph (120km/h) near Twerton, Bath.\n\nThe Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) also noted trees along the route had not been inspected since 2009.\n\nSigns around the window were updated after Ms Roper's death.\n\nThe investigation said Ms Roper was returning to Penarth, South Wales, from Bath Spa station on 1 December 2018.\n\nShe was with friends, and the RAIB said it believed \"at least one other friend leant out of the window before [Ms Roper]\".\n\nWitnesses told investigators Ms Roper had her head out of the window for a few seconds \"before falling back into the vestibule\".\n\nDespite the efforts of other passengers, including some with medical training, she was pronounced dead at Bristol station, the report said.\n\nThe RAIB said the doors of the London Paddington to Exeter service were fitted with an opening window to enable passengers to open the door at stations.\n\nIt said a warning sign above the droplight window met industry guidance but \"did not adequately convey the level of risk\".\n\nThis photo, taken before the accident, shows the tree branch involved\n\nInvestigators claimed the use of the word \"caution\" suggested that leaning out the window could be done safely if care was taken.\n\nThey said it was much smaller than other surrounding signs, and red, not yellow, would have been a more appropriate background colour for conveying danger.\n\nGWR had completed a risk assessment of its droplight windows after an earlier passenger death,\n\nIt had planned to install enhanced warning signs by May 2018, but this had not happened by the time of Ms Roper's death, investigators found.\n\nGWR told investigators it did not meet its schedule as two staff members involved in the task left the company and a system which tracks pieces of work failed.\n\nThere were no other measures in place to mitigate the risk of people leaning out the window, the report found\n\nThe RAIB also noted that Network Rail, responsible for managing lineside vegetation, had not undertaken a tree inspection of the area since 2009 and this was \"possibly causal to the accident\".\n\nAn inspection of the tree after the accident reported the stem was in \"poor health\" growing from a decayed stump.\n\nEnhanced signage is now in use on affected trains\n\nThe arboricultural report said the tree had been \"in hazardous condition for several years, and prior to January 2018 at least three stems would have been clear threats to the railway\".\n\nMs Roper worked for the Welsh Refugee Council charity and was chairman of Young Socialists Cardiff.\n\nHer father, Adrian Roper, released a statement after her death saying his daughter \"enjoyed life to the full whilst working tirelessly for a better world\".\n\nHe said the Bethan Roper Trust for Refugees has been set up in her memory.", "Mohammed Raqeeb and Shelina Begum (centre) were given an official welcome outside Gaslini paediatric hospital\n\nA brain-damaged girl has arrived in Italy after her parents won a High Court battle to take her abroad for treatment.\n\nFive-year-old Tafida Raqeeb had been on life support at the Royal London Hospital since suffering a traumatic brain injury in February.\n\nHealth bosses had tried to block attempts to take her to the Gaslini children's hospital in Genoa.\n\nHer mother said she was seeking Italian citizenship for her daughter.\n\nShelina Begum and her husband Mohammed Raqeeb, from Newham, east London, were met outside the hospital in an official welcome organised by CitizenGo Italy, a community organisation which paid for Tafida's transfer.\n\nDr Andrea Moscatelli is head of intensive care at Gaslini children's hospital and said what Tafida needs is time.\n\n\"We don't know if we can make her improve but if we optimise the support of the vital function we might give her the opportunity for a spontaneous recovery.\n\n\"Maybe just a little bit. Even if we find it very unlikely because the brain injury is devastating,\" he said.\n\nSpecialists at the Royal London Hospital believe Tafida Raqeeb has no chance of recovery\n\nAt a press conference, Mrs Begum thanked the hospital for \"believing in my daughter's recovery\".\n\n\"I visited Tafida this morning, she is stable, she was awake, fully awake, turning her head from side to side,\" she said\n\n\"I am feeling emotionally drained. I think I will burst into tears very soon.\"\n\nShe added: \"I just believe that since Tafida is in Italy it will be wise for her to have Italian citizenship.\"\n\nTafida was transferred by air ambulance via Genoa's Cristoforo Colombo airport\n\nMrs Begum said the family was crowdfunding for Tafida's treatment but added it had sponsors in place and the money \"should not run out\".\n\nUK specialists had previously argued any further treatment of Tafida, who suffered a brain haemorrhage, would be futile.\n\nBosses at Barts Health NHS Trust, which runs the hospital in Whitechapel, had said ending Tafida's life support was in her best interests.\n\nThe treatment in Genoa is centred on keeping Tafida alive.\n\nBut doctors here say although Tafida has suffered devastating brain damage they cannot rule out some small spontaneous recovery in the months ahead.\n\nThe Genoa medical team told the High Court they did not foresee any therapies that might improve Tafida's neurological condition.\n\nBut doctors now intend to give Tafida a tracheostomy - meaning she'll have a tube inserted in her windpipe, connected to a ventilator - which will hopefully allow her to be cared for at home by her parents.\n\nTafida - deemed by the High Court to have minimal awareness and being unable to feel pain - has a sleep-wake cycle and opens and closes her eyes.\n\nDoctors in London had argued it was near-impossible for Tafida to derive any benefit from continued life and she should be allowed the \"dignity of dying peacefully\".\n\nTafida's parents, both practising Muslims, argued Islamic law said only God could take the decision to end her life.\n\nThe High Court ruled on 3 October there was no justification to stop the child being taken abroad.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Harry became overwhelmed with emotion as he recalled thinking about what it would be like to be a parent someday.\n\nThis video has been optimised for mobile viewing on the BBC News app. The BBC News app is available from the Apple App Store for iPhone and Google Play Store for Android.", "Racism has long been a problem in Bulgarian stadiums\n\nThe monkey chants and Nazi salutes from black-clad Bulgaria fans shocked many of those who watched the match with England in Sofia on Monday night, but they weren't perhaps entirely surprising.\n\nFor years Bulgarian football has been plagued by racism in its stadiums.\n\nIn 2011, the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) was fined after England players Ashley Young, Ashley Cole and Theo Walcott were subjected to racist abuse from fans during a European Championship qualifier.\n\nOn 20 April 2013, halfway through a match, fans of Levski Sofia unveiled a banner wishing Adolf Hitler a happy birthday.\n\nAnd last year the club was fined after photos from the Bulgarian cup final showed a child making a Nazi salute, alongside another with a swastika drawn on his chest.\n\nWhile many have been quick to point out the problem is not only a Bulgarian one - top leagues have faced scandals involving racism in the not-so-distant past, including the English Premier League - it is one of the worst offenders in Europe.\n\n\"I've spoken to some of the ordinary football fans and they feel ashamed of what's going on because this is the image of the country,\" said Yana Pelovska, a Bulgarian journalist based in Sofia.\n\nDespite obvious examples of racism in the Bulgarian league, Ms Pelovska said that most of the worst abuse is saved for the international stage.\n\nHardcore fans of clubs like CSKA Sofia told her that they wouldn't racially abuse local opposition teams because they had black players on their own side.\n\n\"It's complicated. I can't say this racist chanting is normal in Bulgarian matches,\" she said.\n\nKamen Alipiev, a sports reporter based in Sofia, said there were wider societal issues over why racism was still a problem among Bulgarian fans.\n\n\"We have problems with communications with our Roma Gypsies in the area, with refugees coming from Asia and Africa... so maybe sometimes it sounds like it's normal.\"\n\nThe fans \"can't imagine that they are racist,\" he explained.\n\nTihomir Bezlov and Dr Atanas Rusev, researchers at the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) in Sofia, believe the behaviour is not only driven by racist attitudes, but also financial interests.\n\nSome supporters with a history of racist behaviour demand payment from clubs in order to stop, they say.\n\nIn 2015, the CSD produced a report entitled Radicalisation in Bulgaria: Threats and Trends. It documents widespread racism among the country's football supporters.\n\n\"A famous Levski supporter explained that he does not like African-Americans, Turkish people and Arabs, but he does not mind the dark-skinned football players of Levski,\" the report notes.\n\nAlthough \"skinheads sharing racist views used to be very popular in CSKA factions\", the report says their influence has been diminished, partly because of the interventions of a fan leader, Rossen \"the Animal\" Petrov.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe CSD researchers, Mr Alipiev and Bulgarian reporter Momchil Indjov, told the BBC they suspected there were links between football hooligans and far-right nationalist movements.\n\nDr Rusev said hooligans had been mobilised during protests and to attack Roma communities.\n\nMr Indjov said he believed many of those involved in the racist abuse on Monday were part of SW99 - a hooligan faction belonging to Levski Sofia - and said the behaviour appeared planned.\n\nMr Bezlov said police had told him that CSKA Sofia fans were involved.\n\nWhile Bulgaria has faced criticism for its efforts - or lack thereof - at combating racism in football in the past, Monday night's scenes appear to have been taken more seriously.\n\nThe match was halted twice, and on Tuesday the president of the BFU, Borislav Mihaylov, resigned after being told to quit by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov.\n\nBorislav Mihaylov (left) resigned as president of the BFU on Tuesday\n\nThe president of European football's governing body Uefa, Aleksander Ceferin, said the \"football family and governments\" need to \"wage war on the racists\".\n\n\"There were times, not long ago, when the football family thought that the scourge of racism was a distant memory,\" Mr Ceferin said.\n\n\"The last couple of years have taught us that such thinking was, at best, complacent.\"\n\nThe British government said it had written to Uefa to demand more action, and Uefa has opened disciplinary proceedings against Bulgaria.\n\nThe shame many Bulgarians have felt from the behaviour of some of its fans on Monday could result in a long-overdue discussion about racism in the country, Mr Alipiev said.\n\n\"It will definitely create a discussion, especially after the reaction of our prime minister today... I think a red light is going on across the country,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not just about the football fans. We need to speak about our ability to accept others, not only in the stadiums.\n\n\"I really hope there will be a public discussion because it's a discussion about the state of the nation.\"", "Profits at Asos have plunged after warehouse problems led to what the online fashion retailer said was a \"disappointing\" year.\n\nOver the last year, Asos has installed more robots in its European warehouses and expanded its facilities in the US.\n\nBut the speed of growth hit profits, which dropped almost 70% falling to £33.1m for the year.\n\n\"With the benefit of hindsight, we were not adequately prepared for the additional complexities,\" Asos said.\n\nThe company said it \"lost focus\" on key areas like \"product, presentation and customer engagement\".\n\n\"The transformation has been huge and we underestimated the impacts of large scale operational change being executed on two continents simultaneously,\" it said in a statement.\n\nDespite the drop in profits, sales rose 13% in the year to the end of August. Animal print, broderie and satin styles had been particularly popular, the firm said.\n\nAsos has enjoyed rapid growth in recent years as it has benefited from the shift towards shopping online.\n\nHowever, last December it surprised investors with a shock profit warning.\n\nIn July, the online retailer said it expected full year profits to be between £30m and £35m, well below the £55m forecast by analysts at the time.\n\nThe firm's stock price has more than halved over the past year.\n\nTom Stevenson, investment director at Fidelity Personal Investing, called Wednesday's drop in profits \"inevitable\" as he said the firm was \"caught in the vice of competitive price cuts and rising costs\".\n\n\"Chief executive Nick Beighton candidly admits that Asos underestimated the cost and complexity of becoming an international player,\" he said.\n\n\"But the halcyon days when Asos had the online fashion marketplace to itself are in the past. It will be a hard slog getting profits back to last year's £100m.\"\n\nHowever, investors welcomed Wednesday's announcement sending the company's share price up by as much as 17% in early trading.\n\n\"Investors will be hoping that these numbers represent a line in the sand,\" analyst Richard Hunter from Interactive Investor said.\n\nBut, he said: \"Without question, Asos has much to do to regain its former status as a market darling.\"", "Helen McCourt was murdered by Ian Simms in Billinge, Merseyside, in 1988\n\nA woman whose daughter was murdered three decades ago has said she is running out of time to find out where the body is.\n\nMarie McCourt, whose daughter Helen was killed in 1988, has successfully fought for a new law to prevent killers being freed if they do not reveal the location of their victims' bodies.\n\nBut her daughter's killer may be released before the law goes through.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland QC said he had \"immense sympathy\".\n\nThe bill to enact \"Helen's Law\" was presented to the House of Commons on Tuesday, after being included in Monday's Queen's Speech.\n\nIt will place a legal duty on parole boards to consider the cruelty of killers who refuse to give the location of a victim's remains when assessing their release.\n\nIt will also apply to paedophiles who take indecent images of children but refuse to disclose their identity, \"and could therefore see them locked away for longer\", the Ministry of Justice has said.\n\nIt is expected to become law in spring 2020.\n\nHelen McCourt's killer Ian Simms is shortly due to be considered for parole.\n\nHe has previously been released from prison for unaccompanied day trips, despite refusing to reveal where he hid his victim's body, which Helen's family fear is a sign he will be permanently let out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marie McCourt says Ian Simms has \"tortured\" her and her family\n\nMs McCourt told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the bill was \"fantastic\" and will help \"so many families\" who have been \"tortured\" by their loved one's killers in the way that she has.\n\nBut, she asked, \"What's the point of it being in the Queen's Speech if it's not going to get signed off any quicker?\"\n\nShe said she was \"begging\" people to talk to their local MPs and tell them \"this isn't right\".\n\n\"Our family is running out of time to get this over the line before he is released,\" she added.\n\n\"We've been trying so hard but we're just not there yet.\n\n\"If he comes out, he could come into our village. He could stalk me, he could stalk our family.\n\n\"He's tortured us all these years. Why should he be allowed out to torture us even more?\"\n\nMs McCourt disappeared in February 1988 at the age of 22, on her way home from her work as an insurance clerk.\n\nSimms, who owned a pub close to her Billinge home in Merseyside, quickly became a suspect.\n\nHe was convicted of murder after blood and an earring - identical to one of Ms McCourt's - were found in his car boot.\n\nSimms was jailed for life in 1989 and told he would have to serve at least 16 years before he could be considered for parole.\n\nMP Conor McGinn and Marie McCourt presented a petition at Downing Street in 2018\n\n\"I can't get closure not knowing where she is,\" Ms McCourt said.\n\n\"I still spend so much of my time looking for her. I spend all my money buying shovels and spades and looking for places I can dig to find her.\n\n\"This law is so important - not just for my family but for so many others too.\n\n\"All we want is to know where our loved ones are.\"\n\nMs McCourt's local MP, Labour's Conor McGinn, told Victoria Derbyshire that Simms \"should never be released, unless he discloses [the location of the body]\".\n\n\"I don't think it's an unreasonable ask.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Mr Buckland said in a statement: \"Innocent families should never have their grief compounded by offenders who refuse to disclose information on their victims.\n\n\"Not only will this bill help prevent the torture of families in Marie's situation but we also believe evil sexual offenders who refuse to identify victims should face longer behind bars.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.\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. Harry Dunn suspect \"should do the right thing\"\n\nHarry Dunn's family are asking the government to turn over all documents it has about the diplomatic immunity status of the suspect in the teenager's death.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, 42, left the UK just days after a road crash which killed the 19-year-old motorcyclist.\n\nA Dunn family spokesman said if the advice was not disclosed they would launch a judicial review.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on 27 August.\n\nFamily spokesman Radd Seiger said their lawyers, Mark Stephens and Geoffrey Robertson QC, were ready to launch a full investigation into the role the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) played in the decision to grant immunity to Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nMr Seiger said: \"What Mark [Stephens] and I are going to do, is we are going to write to the FCO very shortly, explaining that we don't want to do a judicial review, but to avoid that, please let us have the following documents - all e-mails, messages and notes in relation to your advice to Northamptonshire Police that this lady had it [diplomatic immunity].\n\n\"What we don't know is whether somebody cocked up or whether they were put under pressure by the Americans to concede.\n\n\"But we want to conduct an investigation into the FCO's decision to advise Northamptonshire Police that this lady had the benefit of diplomatic immunity.\n\n\"If we're not satisfied, then we'll go to a judicial review and ask a High Court judge to review it all.\"\n\nRadd Seiger (centre) is the spokesman for Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn\n\nOn Monday, Harry's parents Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn gave interviews on US TV after flying to New York in a bid to publicise their case.\n\nThey hope media exposure will put pressure on the US government to force Mrs Sacoolas to return to the UK.\n\nOver the weekend Mrs Sacoolas - who is reportedly married to a US intelligence official who was stationed at RAF Croughton - broke her silence over Mr Dunn's death in a letter via her lawyers.\n\nIn it she said she wanted to meet his parents \"so that she can express her deepest sympathies and apologies for this tragic accident\".\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nMrs Sacoolas was said to be covered by diplomatic immunity as the spouse of a US intelligence official, though that protection is now in dispute.\n\nOn Saturday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab wrote to Mr Dunn's family to explain that the British and US governments now considered Mrs Sacoolas's immunity irrelevant.\n\nHe said the matter was now \"in the hands\" of Northamptonshire Police and the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nThe letter was sent three days after a meeting between the Dunn family and Mr Raab, who was described as \"twitchy\" by Mr Seiger.\n\n\"He [Mr Raab] was stiff, he was cold, he was unpleasant, he was rude.\n\nHarry's parents described the meeting as \"terrible\" and said Mr Rabb was \"adamant that Mrs Sacoolas did have immunity\".\n\n\"We do not know what is going on but the matter is now in the hands of our legal team,\" they added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has outlined his plan to the European Union (EU) to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said the plan \"removes the so-called backstop\".\n\nThe backstop is the insurance policy negotiated by Theresa May and the EU. It is designed to avoid any physical border infrastructure, which it is feared would bring back memories of the Troubles, after Brexit.\n\nIt would keep the UK in the same customs territory as the EU, and Northern Ireland closely tied to EU regulations - until the UK and the EU reach a trade deal.\n\nBut it would stop the UK striking its own trade deals, which is why so many Conservative MPs, including Mr Johnson, oppose the backstop.\n\nSo, what is his alternative?\n\nThe government wants the UK to leave the EU customs union. This would mean Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland ending up in two different customs territories.\n\nThis means lorries entering the Republic of Ireland from Northern Ireland will need to complete customs declarations. This is to ensure the correct tariffs (tax on imports) are paid when UK goods enter the EU customs union.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: From the beginning the EU has struggled to see how Ireland and Northern Ireland can exist in different customs territories while keeping the border as open as it is now under all circumstances. They will argue that - in the absence of a future free trade deal - this proposal means the UK is breaking commitments it has made about the border. The UK counters that the backstop has already been rejected in Parliament three times, and something needs to change.\n\nInstead of installing customs posts and other physical infrastructure at the Irish border, the UK says declarations should be done electronically.\n\nThe government says physical checks would still be needed \"on a very small proportion of movements\". Currently, about one in 100 consignments entering the EU customs union are inspected to check that the goods match the information on the declaration.\n\nThese inspections could be carried out at warehouses or \"designated locations, which could be located anywhere in Ireland or Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThe government's proposal does not spell out what these \"designated locations\" would look like, but it adds there should be \"a firm commitment (by both parties) never to conduct checks at the border in future\".\n\nIf adopted, a border solution relying on technology and remote checks would be a first. The EU does not currently share a single border with a non-EU country where checks have been completely eliminated.\n\nThat includes Norway (not in the EU) and Sweden (an EU member) - which share one of the most technologically advanced borders in the world. Their main crossing point processes about 1,300 lorries a day, with each waiting 20 minutes on average.\n\nThe EU has previously rejected a customs solution that relies on technology.\n\nBack in January, Sabine Weyand, the EU's director-general for trade, said: \"We looked at every border on this Earth, every border the EU has with a third country - there's simply no way you can do away with checks and controls.\"\n\nThe government says that some small traders should be exempt from paying duty. However, the document does not address smuggling head on. In other words, what will be done to detect and prevent traders, who should be paying duty, from crossing the border without completing custom declarations first?\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The EU will see much of this as a rehash of previous ideas that it doesn't think will work. And many people will worry that unspecified \"designated locations\" could become targets for anyone seeking to undermine the Northern Ireland peace process. The EU will push back hard against suggestions that it needs to revise its own customs rules to suit the UK.\n\nWhen it comes to the regulation of goods, Northern Ireland would keep to the rules of the EU's single market, rather than UK rules.\n\nThat removes the need for product standard and safety checks on goods at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, because both will be part of an \"all-island regulatory zone\".\n\nBut it creates the need for checks between the rest of the UK - which will not be sticking to EU single market rules - and Northern Ireland..\n\nAll agricultural, food or animal products entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK will have to go through a Border Inspection Post. That's a bit of infrastructure where goods can be physically examined and paperwork checked.\n\nManufactured goods in Northern Ireland would also have to keep to EU rules, and these goods would be checked \"at the boundary of the zone\" - presumably at crossings between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, on the Irish Sea.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: This is quite a big concession from the UK side - basically accepting that there would have to be quite intrusive checks between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK for a number of years, on things like product standards and food safety. The EU has always said there have to be checks carried out somewhere, and both sides will try to deny any suggestion that this amounts to a new border in the Irish Sea.\n\nHaving Northern Ireland following EU rules for the production of goods over which it has no say is, as the document says, \"a significant democratic problem\".\n\nAs a result, it is proposed that the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive will have to sign off on the plan before it takes effect.\n\nThe Northern Irish institutions will be asked to approve the plan again every four years, and if they do not then Northern Ireland would stop following EU rules one year later.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly has not met since early 2017.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The issue of democratic legitimacy is a crucial one, but it cannot be applied unevenly. The EU is likely to have a problem with anything which suggests that only Northern Ireland could have - in effect - a veto on this plan. The point of the backstop was to provide a legal guarantee to keep an open border under all circumstances. Being subject to approval every four years simply isn't the same thing. If Northern Ireland voted to leave this arrangement things like checks on food safety would have to take place at the Irish border.", "A property developer found with four illegal handguns has been jailed for 46 months.\n\nPolice discovered the cache in a \"panic room\" at Douglas Urquhart's home in Loanhead, Midlothian.\n\nThe door to the secure room was hidden behind a wardrobe in a basement garage, and it could only be accessed using an electronic keypad.\n\nThe 45-year-old admitted the offences, including having no firearms certificate for four air rifles.\n\nAt the High Court in Glasgow judge Lady Stacey said: \"We have very strict gun laws and there is a reason for this.\n\n\"Even weapons of this sort can be used by people to threaten others and these weapons can be modified.\n\n\"I accept you kept them safely and you had no ammunition, but Parliament takes this sort of offence very seriously and these offences can attract a sentence up to 10 years in prison.\"\n\nThe NCA said Urquhart imported the handguns from Spain\n\nUrquhart had earlier admitted having four air rifles without a firearms certificate and four front venting starting pistols without the permission of the Secretary of State or the Scottish ministers or a firearms certificate.\n\nThe court heard that the front vented pistols were discovered when police searched Urquhart's home in High Street, Loanhead, on May 17.\n\nUrquhart opened the door using an electronic keypad and then provided access to a further \"panic\" style room located behind a wardrobe.\n\nThe starting pistols were found there along with flare launching adaptors and cleaning brushes.\n\nDefence counsel Tony Lenehan, said: \"Mr Urquhart applied for a shotgun licence and an air weapons licence. The shotgun licence was not granted because he did not have a sporting need and he did not realise he had not been granted the air guns licence.\n\n\"Mr Urquhart, who is a joiner and property developer, has a fascination with 18th century firearms. He has for instance miniature Derringer pistol that a lady would have carried in her purse.\n\n\"With regard to the front venting pistols he ordered them openly using his own name, his own bank card and had them delivered to his own door.\n\n\"He wanted them for their aesthetics. This whole incident has been traumatic, shameful and embarrassing for him.\"\n\nThe conviction followed an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Police Scotland organised crime partnership.\n\nAfter the hearing, the NCA said Urquhart's panic room contained tinned food, bottled water, a safe and a CCTV system which allowed sight of outside - as well as the weapons.\n\nNCA operations manager John McGowan said: \"Urquhart had ordered these weapons online and imported them from Spain and, while they could only fire blanks in the state they were in, they are illegal in the UK because they can easily be converted to fire real ammunition.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Linda Sprouting says Dean was doing as he would every day - following the designated running path\n\nThe widow of an army captain killed by a forklift truck on a military base in Iraq said the US soldiers responsible must be \"held accountable\".\n\nDean Sprouting, who served with the Black Watch, was hit by the vehicle while out jogging in January 2018.\n\nThe soldiers faced three charges including negligent homicide but an American Brigadier General ruled these be dropped.\n\nCapt Sprouting's wife said it was as if her husband's life \"didn't matter.\"\n\nLinda Sprouting spoke following a military inquest into her husband's death in Oxford last week.\n\nThe inquest coroner concluded that Capt Sprouting's death was accidental.\n\nThe US had jurisdiction as to whether any prosecution was warranted over the incident.\n\nCapt Dean Sprouting was married with two sons\n\nThe father of two, who was from Denny, near Falkirk, was stationed at Al Asad Air Base at the time of his death.\n\nNeither of the US National Guardsmen involved in the incident attended the inquest.\n\nMrs Sprouting told BBC Scotland's The Nine: \"The coroner had ruled it was an accident but it was close to unlawful killing.\n\n\"But because he was bound by the legal procedures it didn't fit one of the criteria, but it was very close.\"\n\nLinda and Dean Sprouting were married for 25 years\n\nMrs Sprouting said she accepted her husband's death had been an accident, but it was a \"totally avoidable accident.\"\n\nShe said Capt Sprouting was following the base's designated running route stipulated by the US.\n\nMrs Sprouting said: \"[The soldiers] were transporting an ISO (shipping) container but the vehicles that they chose were totally unsuitable for that procedure and with the distance they were travelling.\"\n\nShe said the windscreen wipers of the escort vehicle were stuck in the middle, obscuring the driver's view.\n\nCapt. Sprouting was jogging at the Al Asad Air Base at the time of the accident\n\nMrs Sprouting said: \"There was no radio communication, there was no groundsman on the road walking with them to direct them or give them any indication.\n\n\"If you were driving on a frosty morning and your windscreen was obscured by frost and you were to hit somebody and killed them you'd be held accountable for dangerous driving.\"\n\nMrs Sprouting now wants meetings with the Ministry of Defence and Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nShe said: \"It's a duty of care really.\n\n\"If you can't protect our servicemen and women from foreign policies then we shouldn't really be working with the US to protect our servicemen and women.\"\n\nMrs Sprouting said the 22 months since her husband's death had been \"devastating\" for her and the couple's two sons.\n\nShe said: \"The boys have struggled with it because they've lost their father, I've lost my husband of 25 years,\n\n\"To serve 27 years for Queen and country and do various operational tours of duty and then kind of be sidelined really, as if his life didn't count for anything, didn't matter.\"\n\nA Ministry of Defence spokesman said: \"Our deepest sympathies remain with the family and friends of Captain Dean Sprouting at this very difficult time.\n\n\"When British forces are based overseas, either on UK or coalition bases, they come under strict policies and procedures to ensure that any health and safety risks on base are mitigated and kept as low as possible.\n\n\"We liaised closely with the US investigatory authorities throughout their investigation.\"\n• None 'My husband was killed while on his daily run' Video, 00:00:21'My husband was killed while on his daily run'", "Jenny Evans and her husband Rich run a marquee and outdoor bar business\n\nA woman who relies on liquid food after having most of her intestines removed was left without supplies for 10 days after a safety alert.\n\nJenny Evans, 31, from Grosmont near Abergavenny, is fed intravenously with a liquid that is tailored exactly to her needs.\n\nShe hooks up to it four nights a week, and while she sleeps it infuses into her blood over the course of 12 hours.\n\nBut she feared she would end up in hospital after the supply was delayed.\n\nSupplier Calea UK said it was working to \"restore a reliable supply as soon as possible\".\n\nJenny only has 20cm of her small bowel left after her intestines twisted and they needed to be removed.\n\nShe had surgery in 2010 and what is left is not enough for her body to absorb the nutrients she needs from food.\n\nInstead, she relies on a liquid, known as home parenteral nutrition (HPN), or total parenteral nutrition (TPN), which goes straight into her blood supply.\n\nShe is one of about 130 patients in Wales who can live at home and administer parenteral nutrition themselves or with the help of a nurse.\n\nBut in summer, the supply was drastically reduced, and Jenny first knew about it when her bags did not turn up on the usual delivery van in July.\n\n\"I went 10 days without a TPN delivery,\" she told BBC Eye on Wales.\n\n\"I was very tired, I was losing weight rapidly, and my hair began to fall out.\n\n\"It was really nerve wrecking thinking I'm going to end up in hospital because of malnutrition.\n\n\"It was the busiest time for my business and I couldn't afford for that to happen.\"\n\nJenny is fed intravenously with a liquid tailored exactly to her needs\n\nParenteral nutrition bags for home patients in Wales are supplied by Calea UK.\n\nThe bags are bespoke, and based on the patient's blood results, containing proteins, sugars, fats as well as electrolytes, vitamins and essential minerals.\n\nIn June, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) conducted a routine inspection of the Calea UK production plant in Runcorn, Cheshire.\n\nAs a result of the inspection, the MHRA requested that Calea UK make immediate changes to their production process to ensure the safety of the product.\n\nIn order to do so, Calea UK had to reduce its output.\n\nOvernight, its capacity to supply HPN patients in Wales dropped by 40%, leaving the pan-Wales parenteral nutrition service, which is run by Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, in a state of shock.\n\n\"If you can imagine someone phoning you up saying you can't have any food or drink and we can't get you any for the next week or so, that's the analogy,\" said Dr Rhys Hewitt, who heads up the team.\n\n\"My patients are more or less dependent on this intravenous feed and if they don't get it, then worst case scenario, people could be very unwell and have to be admitted to hospital within a few days.\"\n\nThe team risk assessed every patient in their care and then went through a process of prioritising who would continue to get the bespoke compounded bags and who would be given \"off the shelf\" bags, which don't contain all the nutrients that a patient needs and should only be used temporarily.\n\nMeanwhile, desperate patients tried to get through to Calea UK to find out what was happening and when their usual deliveries would resume.\n\n\"The low point was when I spoke to Calea every day requesting to speak to a manager to find out what was going on,\" said Jenny.\n\n\"It was like they were speaking off a script.\n\n\"It took 10 days for me to get a manager's call and me threatening them with legal action before someone called me back.\"\n\nThe pan-Wales parenteral nutrition service had to work out which patients should continue to get bespoke compounded bags\n\nCalea UK said that patients have telephone access to a \"team of dedicated patient care co-ordinators in addition to an out-of-hours advice line, which is supported by Calea nurses\".\n\n\"We understand that the continued disruption is frustrating and this telephone service provides patients with the most accurate information available at the time,\" it added.\n\nAccording to the latest figure from the parenteral nutrition service in Wales, 75 patients are now back on Calea UK's supply list.\n\nBut 48 patients still don't have a compounding place.\n\nIn north Wales, five people are under the care of Wrexham hospital and are back on their compounded bags.\n\nSome patients are being cared for over the border at Salford Hospital.\n\nCalea said it is working with the MHRA and NHS Action Group to \"restore a reliable supply as soon as possible\".\n\nBut it said that \"it is unlikely that our production capacity will have reached the required volume before the end of the year\".\n\nJenny is back on her compounded bags but she is aware that at any point she may be switched back over to 'off the shelf' bags.\n\n\"People need to realise how important this TPN is,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not just a case of giving someone a paracetamol when they have a headache. This keeps me alive.\"\n\nEye on Wales is on BBC Radio Wales at 18:30 BST on Wednesday and it is also available on BBC Sounds.", "The government is considering whether the management of the North of England's largest rail commuter service should be taken into public hands.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said Northern's poor performance, with trains regularly arriving late or not at all, \"cannot continue\".\n\nMr Shapps said he had issued a \"request for proposals\" from the firm and the Operator of Last Resort (OLR).\n\nThis could lead to services being brought into direct government control.\n\nGiving evidence to the Commons' Transport Select Committee, Mr Shapps said: \"As a fellow long-suffering commuter, I entirely believe we cannot carry on just thinking it is OK for trains not to arrive, or Sunday services not to be in place. That has to change.\"\n\nThe Department for Transport confirmed it was developing contingency plans for the replacement of the current franchise \"with either a new short-term management contract with Northern or the Operator of Last Resort (OLR)\".\n\n\"In the context of significant challenges facing the operator, such as delays to infrastructure upgrades and historic underinvestment in the northern rail network, issuing a request for proposal enables the department to examine whether the contract is properly aligned with current operating challenges in the North,\" it said.\n\n\"It also allows us to determine whether the franchise owner or an OLR would be best placed to tackle these issues and deliver for passengers.\"\n\nDavid Brown, managing director at Northern, said the firm had faced several challenges in the past couple of years, outside the direct control of Northern.\n\nThe most significant of these is the continuing late delivery of major infrastructure upgrades, including the North West electrification, which is more than two years late.\n\nMr Brown added: \"Arriva and Northern remain fully committed to delivering the transformation of the North's railways and improving customers' experience. We are delivering the biggest transformation of local rail for a generation.\"\n\nThis is another black mark for Britain's rail system.\n\nA second franchise, potentially brought under government control is not what Conservative ministers wanted.\n\nLabour will press its argument that the system is so broken that the same should happen to all train companies.\n\nBut Northern (a large commuter network) is a much more complex franchise than the East Coast Mainline (intercity services) which the government took control of last year and rebranded LNER.\n\nFor that reason the government is probably keen to stop short of the \"full public control\" option and take-on a more supervisory role, with Arriva (Northern's parent company) still in charge of the day-to-day.\n\nBut several leading politicians argue Northern has failed and therefore should be removed wholesale from managing the franchise.\n\nNorthern argues the system is at fault because delayed infrastructure upgrades (managed by publicly-owned Network Rail) have not allowed it to run the services passengers demand.\n\nThere is no silver bullet to fixing the railways but the government-commissioned rail review will, in a matter of weeks, attempt to come up with answers.\n\nNorthern, which is one of the biggest franchises in the country, has been in trouble for years. Industry sources have confirmed to the BBC that the train company, which is owned by Arriva, has been losing money for some time.\n\nPassenger numbers on Northern dropped after the botched introduction of new timetables in the summer of last year.\n\nMr Shapps said: \"If you are northern, and you are a Northern passenger, you're as frustrated as I was in 2018. With Northern it has failed to recover.\"\n\nOn Friday, Transport for the North said it believed the franchise should be taken into public hands, via what is known as an Operator of Last Resort (OLR). The OLR is, on behalf of the government, currently in charge of London North East Railway, the East Coast Mainline intercity franchise.\n\nHowever, the OLR is not the only option for the government.\n\nIt could also opt for what is known as a \"management contract\", which would mean that Arriva would still operate rail services, but the Department for Transport would adopt a much more hands-on role for the operation of the franchise.\n\nThe OLR has been monitoring Northern for some time and any change to the operation of the franchise would take months to implement.\n\nA review of the railways in the UK is already under way. The Williams Review, led by former British Airways boss Keith Williams, is due to publish its findings in coming weeks. It is expected that the rail franchise system will be completely overhauled, a point mentioned in the Queen's Speech earlier this week.", "More than a thousand children were caught with weapons in school last year, according to a survey of 29 police forces in England and Wales.\n\nThe weapons included knives, blades, knuckledusters and a Taser stun gun, the Press Association survey found.\n\nThe children included a 14-year-old with a sword and a four-year-old with an unnamed weapon.\n\nHead teachers' leader Geoff Barton said the findings were \"grim but unsurprising\".\n\nThe survey, which follows concern about rising levels of knife crime, was based on Freedom of Information data from police forces.\n\nIt found schoolchildren involved in incidents with many different types of bladed weapon, including lock knives, penknives, craft knives and garden shears.\n\nIn Bedfordshire, a pupil was caught in possession of a machete and in Manchester a samurai sword was recovered from school premises.\n\nThames Valley police discovered a bayonet in a school and in the West Midlands, a 15-year-old was found in possession of an axe.\n\nThe figures showed 1,072 incidents involving weapons, up from 831 in the same areas in the previous year - but did not include statistics from the biggest force, the Metropolitan Police in London.\n\nThe data was based on the financial year - and the survey found another 311 incidents between April and August 2019.\n\n\"Serious violence is a growing problem amongst young people and we continue to work closely with partners to address this,\" said Chief Constable Olivia Pinkney, lead for young people on the National Police Chiefs' Council.\n\n\"Police involvement in schools, whether it be officers delivering talks and interactive sessions or based in schools themselves as part of the Safer Schools Partnership, helps us to educate young people and explain why carrying a weapon is never the right choice.\"\n\nBut Lucy Martindale, a youth worker from south London who campaigns against knife violence, said: \"The situation is getting worse, even just this year.\n\n\"Some young people I speak to say before they leave the house - where most people check they have picked up their keys and wallet or purse - they check they have their knives with them.\"\n\nMr Barton, general secretary of the ASCL head teachers' union, said this is a problem that schools cannot tackle on their own and called for more community support and \"investment in policing\".\n\n\"The scourge of weapons has grown worse in recent years, and while there are a number of complex factors involved, a key issue has been cuts in policing and local support services for vulnerable families.\n\n\"Gangs have filled this vacuum and often pressure and groom young people into dealing drugs and carrying weapons,\" Mr Barton said.\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said £10m had been invested in \"behaviour hubs\" to share information between schools on improving discipline.\n\n\"We have strengthened teachers' powers so they can take action if they suspect a pupil has brought a prohibited item, including knives, into school.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump said he \"spoke with Boris\" before meeting Harry Dunn's family\n\nThe US woman accused of involvement in the crash which killed Harry Dunn has said she was \"disappointed\" not to have met his family.\n\nMr Dunn's parents rejected a \"bombshell\" offer from Donald Trump to meet Anne Sacoolas at the White House on Tuesday.\n\nCharlotte Charles and Tim Dunn felt \"a little ambushed\" when the president revealed she was in the next room.\n\nMr Trump described his meeting with the couple as \"beautiful\" but \"very sad\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlotte Charles says meeting Anne Sacoolas on Tuesday \"wouldn't have brought any healing to her or us\"\n\nA statement issued by Mrs Sacoolas' lawyer Amy Jeffress said: \"We are trying to handle the matter privately and look forward to hearing from the family or their representatives.\n\n\"Anne accepted the invitation to the White House with the hope that the family would meet and was disappointed.\"\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, returned to the United States under diplomatic immunity days after the crash which killed Harry, 19.\n\nHarry's parents said they wanted to meet her in the UK.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC Ms Charles said:\"Meeting Anne Sacoolas in the White house yesterday wouldn't have brought any healing to her or us.\"\n\n\"We all accepted right from the off it was a tragic accident. She has to live with that\".\n\nMs Charles called on Mrs Sacoolas to \"do the right thing and set an example to her children\".\n\n\"Come back to UK soil and face the justice system and then we can all sit in a room and then we can all start the healing process,\" she said.\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nSpeaking to journalists about the meeting, President Trump said: \"My meeting with the family, it was beautiful in a certain way.\"\n\nReferring to Mrs Sacoolas he said: \"[Mrs Sacoolas] was in the room right out there, we met right here.\n\n\"I offered to bring the person in question in, and they weren't ready for it.\n\n\"I spoke with [Prime Minister] Boris [Johnson], he asked me if I'd do that, and I did it.\n\n\"Unfortunately they wanted to meet with her and unfortunately when we had everybody together they decided not to meet.\n\n\"Perhaps they had lawyers involved by that time, I don't know exactly.\"\n\nDespite the couple's refusal, Mr Trump described their encounter as \"a very good meeting\" and said the Dunns were \"very nice people\".\n\nReferring to the crash, he said: \"I believe it [the car] was going down the wrong way and that happens in Europe - you go to Europe and the roads are opposite and it's very tough if you're from the United States.\n\n\"That decision to make a right turn when you're supposed to make a left turn when the roads are opposite and she said that's what happened.\n\n\"It happens to a lot of people, by the way - but she said that's what happened.\"\n\nMr Dunn said he felt the President was \"trying to do it right but it didn't seem right\" to them .\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said: \"The Prime Minister and President spoke last Wednesday.\n\n\"The Prime Minister asked the President to do all he could to help resolve this tragic issue. The President agreed to work on trying to find a way forward.\"\n\nHarry Dunn died on 27 August when his motorcycle crashed with a Volvo near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire.\n\nMrs Sacoolas - who is reportedly married to a US intelligence official stationed at the base - was interviewed by police but then returned to the United States after claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nThat status has since been cast into doubt by the Foreign Office and Mr Dunn's family want Mrs Sacoolas to return to the UK.\n\nFamily spokesman Radd Seiger said US National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien told the family during the meeting that Mrs Sacoolas \"was never coming back\" to the UK.\n\nMrs Sacoolas was said to be covered by diplomatic immunity as the spouse of a US intelligence official, though that protection is now in dispute.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police said it will be submitting a file to the Crown Prosecution Service \"very soon\" on the fatal collision that led to the Mr Dunn's death.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More details about the discovery will be released at a news conference on Saturday\n\nArchaeologists have found more than 20 ancient wooden coffins near the Egyptian city of Luxor, the country's antiquities ministry says.\n\nThe coffins, whose brightly-coloured decorations are still visible, were uncovered at the Theban necropolis of Asasif, on the River Nile's west bank.\n\nThey were in two layers, with the ones on top across those below.\n\nThe ministry described the discovery as \"one of the largest and most important\" in recent years.\n\nMore details will be released at a news conference on Saturday.\n\nMost of the tombs at Asasif, which is close to the Valley of the Kings, are from the Late Period (664-332BC) of ancient Egypt.\n\nHowever, there are also tombs from the earlier 18th Dynasty (1550-1292BC), which was the first of the New Kingdom and included the famous pharaohs Ahmose, Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Amenhotep III, Akhenaton and Tutankhamun.\n\nLast week, the antiquities ministry announced that archaeologists had discovered an ancient \"industrial area\" in Luxor's West Valley.\n\nThe area included \"houses for storage and the cleaning of funerary furniture, with many potteries dated to the 18th Dynasty\", it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "There needs to be easier access to NHS screening programmes in England, including evening and weekend clinics, to increase uptake, a review says.\n\nThe report by Prof Sir Mike Richards also called for tests to be offered in a wider variety of locations, including mobile units.\n\nAnd it recommended using social media to promote what was available.\n\nThe government had asked Sir Mike to look at the five adult programmes covering cancer and other conditions.\n\nSir Mike, a former national cancer director and chief inspector of hospitals, said the screening programmes were saving 10,000 lives a year through prevention and early diagnosis.\n\nBut it was clear they were still not reaching their full potential, especially the cancer ones.\n\nSome 15 million people are invited to take part in these screening programmes each year - but just over 10 million take up the invitation.\n\nUptake for bowel cancer screening is lowest, at below 60%.\n\nChanges are already being introduced, including a new easier-to-use screening test for bowel cancer.\n\nAnd Sir Mike said the use of artificial intelligence and genetic testing would continue to drive forward improvements.\n\nBut, he said, more needed to be done.\n\n\"People live increasingly busy lives and we need to make it as easy and convenient as possible for people to attend these important appointments,\" Sir Mike said.\n\nHe wants to see more use of different locations.\n\nMost screening takes places in hospitals and GP centres.\n\nBut there is work being done to offer some of the tests via mobile units at supermarket car parks and in other health clinics, such as sexual health centres for cervical screening.\n\nWeekend and evening opening could also help, Sir Mike said.\n\nHe also called for more to be done to engage the public.\n\nHe highlighted local projects that had increased uptake by posting breast cancer screening opportunities into Facebook community groups and carrying out follow-up phone calls to people who did not take part in bowel cancer screening.\n\nMeanwhile, he said, responsibility for all the screening programmes should lie with NHS England - at the moment it is shared with Public Health England.\n\nAnd improvements in IT programs were needed - something NHS England is already looking at.\n\nNHS England chief executive Simon Stevens said they were \"sensible recommendations\" that would be acted on.\n\nMacmillan Cancer Support gave its backing to the recommendations, saying they should be implemented \"urgently\".", "Pupils at Raheem Sterling's former secondary school have told the BBC how his reaction to racism motivates them as footballers and young men.\n\nThe England striker was again subjected to racist chanting while playing for his country against Bulgaria, but played on and scored two goals in the 6-0 win.", "The Duke of Cambridge says more education and political action is needed to tackle climate change, as he visited a melting glacier in Pakistan.\n\nThe trip to a remote mountain location in the north of the country came on the third day of the royal tour.\n\nThe duke and duchess were shown how the Chiatibo Glacier had retreated rapidly in recent years due to global warming.\n\nPrince William said communities \"vulnerable to change\" needed more awareness of climate change.\n\nThe duke said young people were \"starting to get engaged\", adding that a \"positive conversation\" around the issue was needed.\n\nThe couple arrived by helicopter to the Hindu Kush mountain range in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.\n\nOn a visit to a flood-hit area in the Chitral region, they spoke with a young woman who was named after the duke's late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales - and has a son of her own called William.\n\nPrincess Diana was visiting the area around the time she was born in 1991, a translator later explained. The woman is now part of an emergency response team of volunteers funded by UK aid.\n\nThe duke and duchess were given a traditional Chitrali hat and cloak as they arrived in the Hindu Kush mountains\n\nOn their arrival Catherine was presented with a traditional Chitrali hat - almost identical to one William's mother received on her visit 28 years ago.\n\nThe duke was also presented with a book commemorating his mother's trip to the area.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge wore a similar hat to Diana, Princess of Wales in 1991\n\nGlobal warming has seen the Chiatibo Glacier in Broghil National Park retreat by some 10 metres a year due to higher temperatures melting the ice.\n\nThe first threat from the glacier melting is flooding to communities down stream, while the second is removing the water supply completely - which provides for 200 million people in Pakistan.\n\nGlacier expert Dr Furrukh Bashir said he hoped the duke and duchess' visit would raise awareness of the issue.\n\nFollowing their trip to the glacier, the couple remained in the region to meet with communities affected by global warming.\n\nLater the duke and duchess visited a settlement of the Kalash people in Chitral\n\nSeveral hundred children were present to greet the royal couple\n\nThe duke and duchess learned about the culture and heritage of the area\n\nThe couple visited Bumburet, which was destroyed by flooding in 2015.\n\nThey also watched an emergency response drill, which included demonstrations of how members of the community carry casualties over a river.\n\nThey later visited a settlement of the Kalash people, a non-Muslim minority population, where they watched a traditional dance.\n\nThe duke and duchess visited flood ruins in Bumburet\n\nThey also met an emergency response team\n\nIn a speech on Tuesday evening, William urged the UK and Pakistan to \"work together\" amid an \"impending global catastrophe\" over climate change.\n\nThe duke and duchess also met schoolchildren and had lunch with Pakistan's prime minister and former cricket star Imran Khan, as part of their tour of the country.\n\nThe five-day trip was organised at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.\n\nAll photographs belong to the copyright holders as marked.", "MP Dame Louise Ellman has quit the Labour Party, saying Jeremy Corbyn is \"not fit\" to become prime minister.\n\nThe Liverpool Riverside MP said in a letter she had been \"deeply troubled\" by the \"growth of anti-Semitism\" in Labour in recent years.\n\nDame Louise, who is Jewish, has been a party member for 55 years but said she \"can no longer advocate voting Labour when it risks Corbyn becoming PM\".\n\nLabour said it was taking \"robust action\" to root out anti-Semitism.\n\nHer local Labour Party said it \"recognises the hard work and commitment Louise has shown to her constituents over the past 22 years\".\n\nDame Louise, who has been an MP since 1997, said anti-Semitism had become \"mainstream\" in Labour under Mr Corbyn's leadership.\n\n\"I believe that Jeremy Corbyn is not fit to serve as our prime minister,\" she said.\n\n\"With a looming general election and the possibility of him becoming prime minister, I feel I have to take a stand.\"\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said her resignation letter was \"extraordinary\".\n\nDame Louise told Radio 4's Today programme that under Mr Corbyn the Labour Party had \"become a very extreme and uncomfortable place, with no room for dissent\".\n\n\"It's now come to a situation where the Equality and Human Rights Commission is conducting a statutory investigation into the Labour Party to establish whether it is intuitionally anti-Semitic,\" she said.\n\n\"This is extremely distressing, indeed I found it very traumatic, and I think it does mean that the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn is simply not fit.\"\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission launched a formal investigation in March into the Labour Party over allegations of anti-Semitism, following referrals from Jewish groups.\n\nIt is only the second time the government-funded equality watchdog has investigated a political party, after ordering the far-right British National Party to rewrite its constitution in 2010.\n\nThe MP said she now had \"no political home\" and stressed she had no intention of defecting to another political party, as other former Labour MPs had done, and hoped to be able to return to Labour under different leadership.\n\nShe described her decision as \"truly agonising, as it has been for the thousands of other party members who have already left\".\n\nEarlier this year, Luciana Berger, MP for Liverpool Wavertree since 2010, left Labour in protest at the handling of anti-Semitism allegations.\n\n\"Jewish members have been bullied, abused and driven out,\" Dame Louise added in her letter.\n\n\"A party that permits anti-Jewish racism to flourish cannot be called anti-racist.\n\n\"This is not compatible with the Labour Party's values of equality, tolerance and respect for minorities.\n\n\"My values - traditional Labour values - have remained the same. It is Labour, under Jeremy Corbyn, that has changed.\"\n\nThe Labour Party has been the focus of a series of anti-Semitism allegations since mid-2016.\n\nAn initial inquiry by Labour peer Baroness Chakrabarti concluded the party was not overrun by anti-Semitism but had an \"occasionally toxic atmosphere\".\n\nDespite pledges by Mr Corbyn that he is getting to grips with the issue and strengthening internal disciplinary procedures, the allegations have continued.\n\nIn May, a member of the National Executive Committee was suspended after LBC Radio reported he had been recorded saying the Israeli embassy was \"almost certainly\" behind the anti-Semitism row. He has since apologised and been re-elected.\n\nAnd in June, the newly elected Peterborough MP apologised for liking a Facebook post which said Theresa May had a \"Zionist slave masters agenda\" - although she said she had not read that part of the text.\n\nLabour MP Hilary Benn called Dame Louise an \"outstanding\" MP, telling the BBC: \"I think it is a terrible shame that Louise feels she has had to come to this decision.\n\n\"It's clear from reading her letter that she has agonised over this and I think it shows there is a continuing problem which the party needs to get to grips with.\n\n\"I think all of us need to do more to confront this.\"\n\nFellow MPs reacted to the news of Mrs Ellman's resignation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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 Corbyn has insisted the party is addressing concerns and in July proposed changes to Labour's complaints system to speed up the expulsion of members over anti-Semitism.\n\nA party spokesman said Mr Corbyn thanked Dame Louise for her service \"over many years\".\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party are fully committed to the support, defence and celebration of the Jewish community and continue to take robust action to root out anti-Semitism in the party and wider society,\" they said.\n\nTim Hayden, chairman of the Liverpool Riverside Constituency paid tribute to Dame Louise's \"hard work and commitment\", but said: \"Unfortunately she made it very clear at the last CLP that she could not support a Jeremy Corbyn-led government.\n\n\"This inevitably meant that Louise would be triggered and was very unlikely to win any reselection process.\"\n\nHe said the group \"totally supports Jeremy Corbyn and the policies of the Labour Party that seek to benefit the many\".", "Harry Dunn's mother has met President Trump, and has said he held her hand and said he would \"try to push this from a different angle\".\n\nThe president revealed Mrs Sacoolas was also at the White House, but Harry's parents declined to meet her.\n\nHarry died near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire when his motorcycle was in a crash with a car.\n\nMrs Sacoolas - who is reportedly married to a US intelligence official who was stationed at RAF Croughton - was interviewed by police but then returned to the United States after claiming diplomatic immunity.", "Downing Street is playing down reports of an imminent Brexit deal with the EU, saying talks are still ongoing.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is under pressure to get a fresh agreement by Thursday's EU summit, but his spokesman said there was \"more work still to do\".\n\nEU chief negotiator Michel Barnier had said the two sides must agree the details by the end of Tuesday.\n\nBut the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg said it was not clear whether a text could be signed off by then.\n\nShe said Mr Barnier was due to brief EU ambassadors at 1300 BST on Wednesday, after a possible European Commissioners meeting, meaning a new deal could get the \"green light\" from Brussels in the afternoon.\n\nThe Guardian is reporting that a draft treaty could be published on Wednesday morning, claiming the UK has made further concessions over the issue of customs and the Irish border.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"Talks remain constructive but there is more work still to do.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said talks were \"moving in the right direction\" but gaps between the sides remained, and it was still unclear whether a deal would be ready in time for the Brussels summit.\n\nHis deputy, Tánaiste Simon Coveney, said earlier that \"big steps\" were needed on Tuesday \"to build on progress that has been slow\" because there would be no haggling over the details of the text once the summit began.\n\nThe two-day EU summit is crucial because, under legislation passed last month - the Benn Act - the PM must get a new deal approved by MPs by Saturday if he is to avoid asking for a delay.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU at 23:00 GMT on 31 October and Boris Johnson says that deadline must be honoured.\n\nHe is trying to hold together a coalition of Conservative Brexiteers and Democratic Unionists in support of his proposed alternative to the Irish backstop - the arrangement designed to keep an open border in Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We need to deal with the facts,\" say the Irish deputy PM\n\nThe DUP leader, Arlene Foster, had more than an hour of talks in Downing Street on Monday night and met the PM again on Tuesday evening for a further 90 minutes.\n\nFollowing that meeting, the DUP released a statement saying it would not give \"a detailed commentary\" but added \"it would be fair to indicate gaps remain and further work is required\".\n\nEarlier, Mrs Foster had told the BBC her party would \"stick with our principles\" that Northern Ireland \"must remain\" within the UK's customs union.\n\nShe dismissed as \"speculation\" claims the new Brexit deal included a possible customs border in the Irish Sea - meaning Northern Ireland would be treated differently from the rest of the UK - saying the DUP could never accept that.\n\nGiving the Northern Ireland Assembly a regular vote on post-Brexit customs arrangements - which is reported to have been ditched in response to Ireland's objections - was also important to the DUP, Mrs Foster said.\n\nShe said it was \"right to give space and time\" to negotiators to try to get a deal, but \"everyone knows our position\".\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, members of the pro-Brexit European Research Group attended a meeting at No 10, with chairman Steve Baker saying afterwards he was \"optimistic\" that \"a tolerable deal\" could be reached.\n\nBBC Brussels reporter Adam Fleming said the widely-held view there was that the UK was unlikely to be leaving on 31 October, and the question was whether an extension could be short in order to iron out some small issues, or had to be much longer to deal with bigger problems.\n\nAfter updating EU ministers on Tuesday morning, Mr Barnier signalled that he expected the UK to share the legal text of any proposed changes to the withdrawal agreement within hours.\n\nHe said there was a \"narrow path\" to be trod between the EU's objective of protecting the single market and Mr Johnson's goal of keeping Northern Ireland in the UK's customs territory.\n\nWhile there had been progress, Mr Barnier said there was still a big disagreement about the inclusion of so-called \"level playing field\" provisions in the political declaration sketching out the two sides' future trade relationship.\n\nThese provisions would limit the UK's ability to diverge from the EU across a whole range of areas, including competition policy, employment rights, environmental standards and state aid.\n\nThe UK says loosening these conditions is vital if it is to have an independent trade policy, but the EU says the UK cannot have privileged access to the single market market without following its rules as this would give it an unfair advantage.\n\nAsked whether it recognised talk of an EU deadline later on Tuesday, No 10 said Mr Johnson was \"aware of the time restraints\" and the UK was working hard to secure a deal \"as soon as possible\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegardless of what happens in Brussels, a showdown is anticipated in an emergency sitting of Parliament on Saturday - the first in 37 years, if it goes ahead.\n\nMPs will be able to back or reject any deal presented to them and there will be discussions on what to do next.\n\nLabour has threatened court action to force the PM to obey the Benn Act, amid speculation the PM could seek to sidestep it somehow.\n\nSpeaking in Parliament, Leader of the House Jacob Rees-Mogg did not confirm whether the Saturday sitting would definitely go ahead, adding that it would depend on events in Brussels.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Vicki Young This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThursday, 17 October - Crucial two-day summit of EU leaders begins in Brussels. This is the last such meeting currently scheduled before the Brexit deadline.\n\nSaturday, 19 October - Special sitting of Parliament expected - and the date by which the PM must ask the EU for another delay to Brexit under the Benn Act, if no Brexit deal has been approved by MPs and they have not agreed to the UK leaving with no-deal.\n\nThursday, 31 October - Date by which the UK is currently due to leave the EU.", "Noah Pozner was one of 20 children killed at Sandy Hook\n\nA US jury has awarded $450,000 (£350,000) to the father of a boy killed in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook school, in a defamation lawsuit against a conspiracy theorist writer.\n\nIn June a Wisconsin judge ruled that James Fetzer had defamed Leonard Pozner by claiming he had fabricated the death certificate of his son Noah.\n\nMr Fetzer, who co-wrote Nobody Died at Sandy Hook, said he would appeal.\n\nNoah, aged six, was the youngest of 26 people killed in the shooting.\n\nIn the Dane County court in Wisconsin, Mr Pozner thanked the jury for recognising \"the pain and terror that Mr Fetzer has purposefully inflicted on me and on other victims of these horrific mass casualty events, like the Sandy Hook shooting\".\n\nIn his book, written with co-author Mike Palacek, Mr Fetzer claimed that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax, manufactured by the Obama administration as part of an effort to tighten gun laws.\n\nThe book, and a later blog post by Mr Fetzer, included several false statements about Noah's death certificate, including claims that Mr Pozner had circulated fabricated copies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The sister of a Sandy Hook victim tells the BBC she is getting threats from conspiracy theorists\n\nMr Pozner reached a settlement with Mr Palacek last month. The terms have not been disclosed.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Pozner emphasised that the case was not about First Amendment protections for free speech.\n\n\"Mr Fetzer has the right to believe that Sandy Hook never happened. He has the right to express his ignorance,\" he said, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.\n\n\"This award, however, further illustrates the difference between the right of people like Mr Fetzer to be wrong and the right of victims like myself and my child to be free from defamation, free from harassment and free from the intentional infliction of terror.\"\n\nMr Pozner's lawyer Genevieve Zimmerman described Mr Fetzer's claims in both the 2015 book and 2018 blog post as \"alt-right opium\".\n\nAlex Jones faces multiple defamation suits related to his claims about Sandy Hook\n\nIt is one of several defamation cases launched in the wake of Sandy Hook, many led by Mr Pozner.\n\nHe and Noah's mother, Veronique De La Rosa, have also sued prominent conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for defamation. The pending case is one of at least five faced by Mr Jones.\n\nLast week, a Texas court ruled that Mr Jones could not invoke free-speech law to end a separate suit, waged by Scarlett Lewis, the mother of Sandy Hook victim Jesse Lewis.\n\nParents of Sandy Hook victims who have spoken publicly about their experiences have been targeted by trolls, both online, as well as in person.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A British teenager accused of lying about being raped says she was 'scared for her life'\n\nA British teenager was \"scared for her life\" when Cypriot police made her falsely confess to lying about being raped by Israeli tourists, a court has heard.\n\nThe 19-year-old said she texted her mother from the police station saying: \"ASAP. I need help ASAP.\"\n\nShe is on trial in Cyprus, where she is accused of causing public mischief by allegedly falsely claiming to have been attacked at an Ayia Napa hotel in July.\n\nGiving evidence at Famagusta District Court in Paralimni, the woman told the court she was raped but \"forced\" to retract her statement 10 days later.\n\nTwelve young Israelis were arrested in connection with the allegations but were later released and returned home.\n\nThe woman's defence team said she was forced to sign the retraction under duress, threatened with arrest and denied access to a lawyer - which police deny.\n\nThe woman said Cypriot investigators, led by Detective Sergeant Marios Christou, told her police had obtained videos which showed she had consensual group sex.\n\n\"I asked to see the videos because I didn't know they existed,\" she said.\n\n\"He said that wasn't possible but he had studied them and it was very clear there was no rape.\"\n\n\"He threatened to arrest [my friend] and take her for conspiracy and he said that, because of all these so-called videos, he was going to arrest me If I didn't say that I had lied and that I would not see my mum until I was in handcuffs in a court,\" she said.\n\n\"I was messaging my mum, I was messaging my friends, saying, 'They are forcing me to sign these false statements. I need help.'\n\n\"I said I was really scared because I didn't think I would leave that police station without signing that statement,\" she continued.\n\n\"I told my friend that I was scared for my life.\"\n\nThe court was read a string of text and Snapchat messages the woman sent as she hid her phone from police. A Snapchat message to her friend said: \"They wouldn't let me talk to anyone.\n\n\"I said I have a right to a lawyer here they said not in Cyprus.\n\n\"Maybe in the UK not in Cyprus.\n\nThe court heard the woman signed a retraction statement just before 02:00 local time - eight hours after she was picked up by police from her hotel on 27 July.\n\nHe said he began suspecting she had lied about the rape after spotting inconsistencies between her first and second statements.\n\nHe said that, when he raised his suspicions and put forward potential reasons why she might have made up the allegations, she said: \"Because they were videoing me, I felt embarrassed and insulted.\"\n\nThe woman could face a year in jail and a fine of €1,700 (about £1,500) if found guilty.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBulgarian police have identified 15 fans they suspect are responsible for subjecting black England players to racist abuse and arrested six of them.\n\nThe nine not arrested are under police investigation, with three wanted.\n\nEngland's 6-0 Euro 2020 qualifier win over Bulgaria in Sofia was stopped twice in the first half following racist chanting by home supporters.\n\n\"We do not tolerate such behaviour,\" Bulgaria Ministry of the Interior commissioner Georgi Hadzhiev said.\n\nBulgaria manager Krasimir Balakov said after the game he \"didn't hear\" any chanting, having previously accused England of having a bigger racism problem.\n\nBut Balakov has since posted a statement on Facebook , acknowledging the incidents on Monday and apologising to \"English footballers and to all those who felt offended\".\n\n\"I condemn all forms of racism as an unacceptable behaviour that contradicts normal human relations,\" he added.\n\nBulgarian legend Hristo Stoichkov became emotional when he was asked on TV how to prevent a similar occurrence in future. He advocated that \"fans are not allowed in the stadium or even [face] heavier punishments\".\n\nApparently referring to the five-year European ban imposed on English club sides after 39 people died at Heysel Stadium before the start of the 1985 European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus, he added: \"Like in England for years - five years without going to stadiums. People don't deserve to suffer.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the English Football Association and Uefa have condemned the actions of the 'ultras' section of Bulgaria fans, with Aleksander Ceferin, president of the sport's European governing body, calling for \"football family and governments\" to \"wage war on the racists\".\n\nThe FA has also offered full support to England players following the racist chanting, with counselling one of the options open to them.\n\nAccording to European anti-discrimination body Fare, about 20 stewards joined those involved in racist abuse and far-right activity after taking their hi-vis jackets off.\n\nThe European anti-discrimination body had spotters in the crowd and have included their findings in the report they have handed to Uefa.\n\nFare executive director Piara Powar said: \"It is common practice in Eastern Europe. They use security from fan groups as they know their own people. That's the idea but it's not the idea to take off bibs and join in.\n\n\"There in lies the problem in some countries. Some of the policing is not fit for purpose.\n\n\"We have called for Uefa to kick Bulgaria out of the competition.\"\n\nEngland midfielder Jordan Henderson called the behaviour of Bulgaria fans \"disgusting\", after they were warned for making Nazi salutes and monkey noises.\n\nHenderson added: \"I obviously wasn't happy with the situation that we were in - it wasn't nice to be involved in and it shouldn't be happening in 2019.\"\n\nTeam-mate Tyrone Mings, who was making his international debut on Monday, said he heard racist chanting \"clear as day\" during the pre-match warm-up in Sofia.\n\nA number of players posted on social media following the game, thanking travelling fans for their support and expressing their pride in the performance despite the abuse.\n\n\"Not an easy situation to play in and not one which should be happening in 2019,\" said striker Marcus Rashford . \"Proud we rose above it to take three points but this needs stamping out.\n• None How Bulgarian media reacted to racism at England's Euro 2020 qualifier in Sofia\n• None England stand tall on shameful night of racism in Bulgaria", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asian Network reporter Poonam Taneja asks Arti Dhir about the murder of her adopted son\n\nA couple living in London are facing calls to be extradited to India over allegations they arranged for the murder of their adopted son for profit.\n\nArti Dhir, 55, and Kaval Raijada, 30, from west London, deny arranging to have 11-year-old Gopal Sejani killed for an insurance pay-out in 2017.\n\nBritain has so far rejected requests to extradite the couple to face trial in India on human rights grounds.\n\nHowever, the Indian government has been granted leave to appeal the decision.\n\nThe husband and wife, from Hanwell, had travelled to Keshod, a town in Gujarat, to adopt an orphan in 2015.\n\nAccording to court documents, Indian authorities say the couple placed an advert in a local newspaper, promising they would take an adopted child to live in London.\n\nThe couple then met Gopal, a farm boy who was living with his older sister and her husband, Harsukh Kardani.\n\nKaval Raijada is also accused of the double murder\n\nThe pair, who were his guardians, agreed to the adoption, believing the child would have a better life in the UK. They began preparing adoption papers.\n\nHowever, Indian police claim Ms Dhir and Mr Raijada - who had no children of their own - had other plans.\n\nAuthorities in India say Ms Dhir took out an insurance policy in Gopal's name. The policy was worth approximately £150,000 and would pay out after 10 years, or in the event of his death.\n\nAccording to the documents, she made two premium payments, each of £15,000.\n\n\"After a few days she took out an insurance policy in his name,\" Superintendent Saurab Singh of Junagadh Police, in Gujarat, told the BBC.\n\n\"It was a huge amount and she paid two premiums, knowing very well that in the event of Gopal's death, she would be paid 10 times the insured amount.\"\n\nGopal Sejani was murdered by a gang on motorbikes\n\nThe couple returned home to London but Gopal never made it to the UK. He remained in Gujarat while visa papers were arranged for him.\n\nOn 8 February 2017, he was abducted by two men on motorbikes, stabbed and left by a road in Gujarat.\n\nHis brother-in-law, Mr Kardani, was also attacked as he tried to defend the boy. Both died of their injuries in hospital later that month.\n\nIndian authorities say two previous attempts had been made against the boy's life, but both failed. The insurance policy never paid out.\n\nOfficers in India arrested a suspect who they said was a friend of the couple and had spent time with them as a student in London.\n\nHe is one of four men who have been arrested in India for alleged involvement in the crime. The investigations are ongoing.\n\nMs Dhir and Mr Raijada, who face six charges in India, including conspiracy to murder and kidnapping, were arrested in the UK in June 2017 after a request from the Indian government.\n\nHowever, on 2 July this year, a judge at Westminster Magistrates' Court refused their extradition on human rights grounds.\n\nHarsukh Kardani was also killed in the attack\n\nIn her judgment, Senior District Judge Emma Arbuthnot, found there was sufficient evidence to justify their extradition as there was a \"circumstantial prima facie case that Ms Dhir and Mr Raijada acting together and with others committed the offences\".\n\nBut because the penalty for double murder in Gujarat is life in prison without parole, she ruled extradition would have been contrary to the couple's human rights under UK law.\n\nShe said if extradited, the pair could be given \"an irreducible sentence\" and a lack of a review would be \"inhuman and degrading\".\n\nThe Indian authorities have been granted an appeal, which is expected to be heard in the new year.\n\nCommenting on the case, Nick Vamos, former head of the Crown Prosecution Service's extradition team, said the decision had been made because there was no prospect of release, even in exceptional compassionate circumstances.\n\nSuperintendent Saurab Singh wants the couple to be extradited to India\n\nOutside the couple's west London home, the BBC tried to question Ms Dhir about the case and why she was refusing to travel to India to stand trial. She refused to respond.\n\nBoth Ms Dhir and Mr Raijada deny the allegations. According to the court papers, they say there is \"no prima facie case against them\".\n\nThe couple remain on bail pending an appeal.\n\nSuperintendent Singh added: \"We are trying our best. This is a very serious offence that has taken place in India.\n\n\"We want the two accused to be brought here to face trial in an Indian court as per the Indian laws, and for this we are trying our best to assist the UK court.\"\n\nIf the appeal fails, the chief magistrate said it was \"not impossible\" the couple could be prosecuted in the UK, if there was evidence that an agreement to murder was made in this country.", "Royal Mail is facing its first national postal strike in a decade after staff voted overwhelmingly for action.\n\nThe dispute between workers and the firm is over job security and terms and conditions of employment.\n\nMore than 97% of votes by members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) backed a strike. Turnout was 76%.\n\nStrike dates have yet to be announced, but the union could target the annual Black Friday retail sales event in late November and the Christmas post.\n\nThe CWU says an agreement reached with management last year to raise pay and reform pensions is not being honoured.\n\nAbout 110,000 members of the union were balloted in the dispute.\n\nRoyal Mail says it has 51% by volume of the UK parcel market.\n\nTerry Pullinger, deputy general secretary of the CWU, accused Royal Mail of breaking the \"progressive\" agreement that it reached with the union a year ago.\n\nHe added: \"Our members take honour seriously and have voted to fight for that agreement against those who now seek to break up the great British postal service in the interest of fast-track profit and greed.\"\n\nThe CWU's general secretary, Dave Ward, urged Royal Mail to enter \"serious negotiations\" with the union.\n\nRoyal Mail said it was \"very disappointed\" that the CWU had chosen to ballot for industrial action and said it was still \"in mediation\" with the CWU.\n\n\"We want to reach agreement. There are no grounds for industrial action,\" the firm said.\n\nStrikes at the privatised postal service were averted last year after Royal Mail agreed to raise pay, reform pensions and reduce weekly working hours from 39 to 35 by 2022, subject to productivity improvements.\n\nHowever, the CWU has claimed that the deal is \"under threat\" under recently appointed chief executive Rico Back.\n\nRoyal Mail has said it is abiding by the agreement and has awarded two pay rises since last year.\n\nIt also said it had cut the working week by an hour - although discussions with the CWU about further cuts had stalled.", "Neil Crilley was cleared of the culpable homicide of his wife, Maureen\n\nA pensioner has been cleared of killing his wife by failing to get her medical attention.\n\nMaureen Crilley, 67, died in hospital after spending eight weeks lying on her living room floor with a broken leg.\n\nAt the High Court in Glasgow a jury found a charge of culpable homicide against her husband not proven.\n\nNeil Crilley, 77, claimed his wife begged him not to call an ambulance after she fell at their home in Clydebank in July 2017.\n\nShe died after a pressure sore on her back became infected, causing spinal meningitis.\n\nProsecutors alleged the former shipyard worker with BAE Systems had failed to obtain \"appropriate, timely and adequate\" medical help for his wife from 1 July to 2 September 2017, causing her \"unnecessary suffering\".\n\nMr Crilley, now of Whitecrook, West Dunbartonshire, had denied the charge and previously told the court that evidence given by doctors during his trial made him realise his wife was in agony as she died.\n\nHe said his wife had a fear of hospitals and needles, and that he was unaware that his wife was lying in her own filth and had two sores festering on her back - one of them the size of a saucer.\n\nMay Mackie said justice was not done\n\nSpeaking outside of court, Mrs Crilley's sister May Mackie said: \"Two years we've waited for this, and justice was not done. Leaving my sister to rot in hell, that's what he done.\n\n\"He left her lying for nine weeks, couldn't get up, couldn't eat. Said he put nightdresses on her, [but] she was left naked.\n\n\"What is this all about?\"\n\nThe trial previously heard from a GP called out to the house. She recalled finding Mrs Crilley naked on the living room floor, surrounded by nappies.\n\nThe doctor said it was the worst case she had seen in 32 years.\n\nMrs Crilley was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, where she died on 4 September 2017.\n\nNeil Crilley was acquitted of a charge of culpable homicide\n\nMr Crilley told the court: \"I totally failed her and I don't want to live - I don't deserve to live.\"\n\nIn evidence, he said he cooked mince and potatoes and fish cakes for her while she lay on the floor.\n\nHe said he had no sense of smell and did not realise how bad her injuries were.\n\nThe court heard Mrs Crilley would have survived if medical treatment had been sought promptly.\n\nMr Crilley told his QC Tony Graham that he visited his wife's grave every day and spoke to her.\n\nHe was asked if he had wanted his wife dead and replied: \"No, God, no. Maureen was my life, I will never smile again. I wanted to look after her for the time we had left.\"\n\nHe told jurors that his wife would hide her illnesses from him to avoid going to the doctors. In 2009, she broke her kneecap and he said it took him six weeks to persuade her to go to hospital.", "A British teenager accused of lying about being raped has said her statement withdrawing the claims was \"not in proper English\" and there was \"no way\" she would have written it.\n\nThe 19-year-old woman, who cannot be identified, told the court that police forced her to make the statement.\n\nShe is on trial in Cyprus accused of causing public mischief by allegedly falsely claiming to have been raped by 12 Israeli men in Ayia Napa on 17 July.\n\nThe woman, who is giving evidence at Famagusta District Court in Paralimni, broke down in tears as she was cross-examined for more than three hours on Wednesday.\n\nAccording to her testimony, she was gang raped in a hotel room in the resort but 10 days later she says police forced her to retract the statement.\n\nProsecutors say she willingly wrote and signed the statement, which was brought out in court.\n\nGiving evidence, the woman said: \"This is not in proper English. This is in Greek English.\n\n\"I'm very well educated. I'm going to university, I got an unconditional offer so there is no way I would write a paragraph like this.\"\n\nHer lawyers say she was told what to write by Cypriot police, led by Detective Sergeant Marios Christou, and the teenager made the statement fearing she would be kidnapped or killed.\n\n\"It doesn't make grammatical sense,\" the teenager said.\n\n\"All the way through there isn't one sentence an English person would write.\"\n\nShe broke down in court as she said she had lied to her mother in a text sent from the police station, when she messaged: \"Trust me, I'm OK.\"\n\nShe told the court: \"I think any child will lie to their parents to tell them they are OK because parents don't stop worrying about their child.\n\n\"If your child had just been raped by 12 Israelis and wouldn't get out of bed and had a throat so swollen she couldn't breathe and was taken to the police station for what she thought was an hour but then went on to be nearly eight hours.\"\n\nShe stood through hours of intensive cross-examination inside the claustrophobic courtroom. Mostly calm, occasionally frustrated by a line of questioning.\n\nShe fiddled with her hair, necklace and white knit jumper. British, Israeli and local Cypriot journalists scribbled notes.\n\nEagle-eyed police watched from the sidelines, ready to swoop the moment anyone tried to covertly check their mobile phones. The understated district courtroom offers an unlikely backdrop for a trial that's generated considerable foreign attention.\n\nThe 19-year-old had just left high school. She came to Ayia Napa in an attempt to \"grow up\" before embarking upon her university degree.\n\nThe only moment the teenager's composure crumbled was when the prosecutor probed her relationship with her mother.\n\nHer mum - who the teenage girl described as her best friend - flew over from the UK immediately after the alleged rape to provide physical and emotional support. She smiled reassuringly from the cramped wooden benches.\n\nThe woman also said she had previously suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after an accident, and has been experiencing renewed symptoms following the alleged rape.\n\nShe added that she also had to take eight tablets a day, including HIV prevention medication.\n\n\"After it happened, even if a man was within a metre of me it would make me feel horrible, but they wouldn't make me feel threatened for my life,\" she said, adding that she felt \"vulnerable\" by the way Detective Sergeant Christou \"was approaching me and shouting at me to stop crying\".\n\n\"I felt like I was in danger because he wasn't going by the law, I wasn't allowed a lawyer,\" she added.\n\n\"I immediately assumed corruption and conspiracy so I wouldn't put it past him, I wouldn't be surprised if at that moment he would have kidnapped me and killed me.\"\n\nTwelve young Israelis were arrested in connection with the allegations but were later released and have returned home.\n\nThe woman was granted bail at the end of August, after spending four and a half weeks in prison. She cannot leave the island.\n\nShe could face up to a year in prison and a 1,700 euro (about £1,500) fine if she is found guilty.", "DBP. Let's have a new one, a new acronym of course, because Brexit has been nothing if not a journey through collections of syllables that once might have seemed unfamiliar to even political aficionados, but now trip off the tongue.\n\nERG, obvious too, the European Research Group - the Brexiteers' club.\n\nThen there is NCP, what was once upon a time Theresa May's plan for customs, the IP, the implementation period, the departure lounge after Brexit, and so on, and so on, and so, until we all lose the will to live.\n\nIf you are still with me then let's introduce 'DBP', because on a very odd day in Westminster, it's the phrase I have heard almost more than any other - difficult but possible.\n\nWithout being one of the genuinely tiny group of people who know exactly what has been put on the table, and exactly what concessions and compromises are being wrangled over, you join me, with many others in Brussels and Westminster, in the territory of informed guesswork.\n\nOne government source on the UK side said there were only really about five people who knew everything, only about a dozen negotiators thought to be in the team, and as the numbers go up, and the circle goes wider, the less information those people really hold.\n\nTuesday therefore - the day that Boris Johnson had wanted to be the election - has been hours of piecing together snippets of information from lots of different people with varying levels of knowledge to try to build a picture.\n\nBut through the day almost each conversation has brought a new contradiction - \"they are definitely there - Varadkar and Johnson are in the same place\".\n\nThe next chat, \"there is no way, the chances of a deal happening are less than 1%\".\n\nOn Monday night, Tory MPs full of bravado, \"he's going to be a hero - I'll put money on it happening\", another \"it's clear there is going to be something\".\n\nThen a senior Labour figure reluctantly admitting \"it sounds that way.\"\n\nIt IS very clear that what seemed pretty much impossible seven days ago could happen - there might be a deal ready for EU leaders to discuss and then perhaps sign up to on Thursday.\n\nThose who are actually familiar with what's on the table keep using that phrase, \"difficult but possible\".\n\nThere have been at least 48 hours of genuine back and forth between the negotiating teams, proper consideration of whether the UK's reversioning of the Brexit deal can be wrangled to match up with the EU's priorities in a way that doesn't make it impossible for Boris Johnson to get a deal through Parliament.\n\nAt the UK end the prime minister is being careful to line up Brexiteers and the DUP, who are being briefed on the broad shape of the potential deal.\n\nThey aren't necessarily glowing about it, but nor are they condemning the possibility at this sensitive moment.\n\nSome MPs are frankly desperate to vote for anything. Others are desperate to get to the point where they can try to push their own plan through.\n\nIn Parliament at least though there is a view that a moment of conclusion is on the way.\n\nBut for all that, it also remains difficult. DBP remember.\n\n\"Curb your enthusiasm,\" one government insider joked, if you were looking forward to it being done.\n\nNegotiators will work into the night before the EU chief negotiator can brief ambassadors in Brussels on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nJust because the politics have become much friendlier since Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar's tramp round the country house gardens last week, it doesn't massage all the policy snags away.\n\nBut in 24 hours time we may finally know if this week at least, a deal now is so difficult that it proved impossible, or if it becomes, difficult but done.", "Police stopped and searched more than 3,000 children in 15 months, BBC Scotland has learned.\n\nAnalysis of police data shows that officers found nothing in almost two thirds of cases.\n\nAnd the youngest person to be stopped and searched was a seven-year-old girl who officers suspected to be in possession of drugs.\n\nPolice Scotland insist the rules and guidelines relating to stop and searches were adhered to in all cases.\n\nA code of practice on stop and search came in to force in May 2017, following concerns over the number of people being searched without a legal basis.\n\nIt states that stopping and searching must be done for a good reason and be both \"necessary and proportionate\".\n\nOfficers can search based on \"facts, information and/or intelligence\" or \"reasonable suspicion\" someone is carrying an illegal item.\n\nThe data reveals that 3,172 searches were carried out on children aged 0-15 between April 2018 and June 2019 - and 62% were negative.\n\nFiona Dyer said children needed to be protected\n\nFiona Dyer, of the Centre for Youth and Criminal Justice at the University of Strathclyde, said children could be exploited, coerced or threatened to act criminally by people they trust.\n\n\"This a form of abuse and exploitation that these children need to be protected from,\" she added.\n\n\"So when we hear of primary school-aged children as young as seven involved in what could be classed as serious offending, it is clear that this is a child protection matter and should be responded to as such.\n\n\"These children are victims of other people's actions and there is nothing to be gained by dealing with them in a criminal way.\n\n\"In recognition of this, the Scottish government are including child criminal exploitation in their new child protection guidelines, as they are aware this is placing some children at risk and having detrimental impacts on their lives that they need protected from.\"\n\nA row erupted in 2014 after BBC data revealed 2,912 searches were carried out on children aged eight to 12 between April and December 2013.\n\nThe force now routinely publishes information on its website.\n\nA total of 50,598 stop and search incidents were recorded by police across Scotland between April 2018 and June 2019. Seventy formal complaints were lodged with the force during that period.\n\nSupt Ian Thomson, of Police Scotland, said the stop and search code of practice had a dedicated section for children which provided guidance for officers.\n\n\"All searches carried out are subject to governance and review in line with scrutiny arrangements to confirm they comply with the code of practice being lawful, necessary and proportionate,\" he added.\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"While stop and search is a valuable tool in combating crime and keeping people safe, we must ensure a balance between protecting the public and recognising the rights of individuals.\"\n\nShe added that the code of practice and its use was a matter for Police Scotland, but added that \"it has been designed to ensure searches are carried out with fairness, integrity and respect and contains specific guidance on searches of children and young people.\n\n\"This means police must have the child's well-being as a primary consideration in deciding whether to proceed and, where that is necessary, to conduct searches in a way that minimises potential distress.\"", "Peter Jones bought Jessops out of administration in 2013\n\nDragons Den star Peter Jones, who owns camera chain Jessops, plans to call in administrators to help secure the future of the High Street brand.\n\nMr Jones bought the chain from administrators in 2013 after it collapsed under £81m of debt.\n\nWhile revenues have increased most years since then, profits fell to less than £10,000 last year.\n\nNow Mr Jones reportedly plans to seek a rescue deal for the firm's property arm, JR Prop Limited.\n\nThe division has reported a steep increase in rental costs since 2017.\n\nNow Mr Jones is reportedly planning to seek a rescue deal, known as a company voluntary agreement (CVA) with its landlords and lenders. This is an insolvency process that allows a business to reach an agreement with its creditors to pay off all or part of its debts and is often used as an opportunity to renegotiate rents.\n\nSky News said the CVA was expected to lead to store closures and rent cuts.\n\nBut sources close to Jessops, which employs around 500 people, said Mr Jones still saw a future in the business and would not say how many of the chain's 46 stores were at risk of closure.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peter Jones: \"I've never been more excited about re-launching a business\"\n\nMr Jones bought Jessops in March 2013, just months after it had gone into administration and closed its 187 stores.\n\nAt the time, he said the chain would reopen some of its High Street shops to give it between 30 and 40 stores across the country.\n\nHe told the BBC that he wanted the price charged in store to be the same as online.\n\nAsked then whether there really was a market for cameras that were not integrated into mobile phones, Mr Jones said: \"The amateur photographer, you wouldn't see them walking down the street taking that perfect picture with a mobile phone.\"\n\nBut interest did not live up to his expectations.\n\nHe forecasted sales of at least £80m in the first year under his control. But he failed to turn around the group's performance and the firm reported lacklustre turnover of £57.9m for the period.\n\nHowever, in 2016, the firm's revenues did reach £80.3m. The next year they surpassed £95m before dipping slightly amid tough trading conditions on the High Street.\n\nThe chain is the latest High Street brand to acknowledge tough trading conditions.\n\nLast year, big chains such as Toys R Us, Maplin and Poundworld collapsed and vanished altogether.\n\nOthers such as Homebase, Mothercare, Carpetright and New Look did restructuring deals with their landlords, closing hundreds of shops between them.", "Paedophile Richard Huckle died after being strangled and stabbed with a makeshift weapon that may have been fashioned from a toothbrush, sources have told the BBC.\n\nHuckle, 33, who was in prison for abusing up to 200 Malaysian children, was killed on Sunday in his cell.\n\nIt is thought he was strangled with some sort of bandage.\n\nThe police investigation is reportedly focusing on Paul Fitzgerald, a fellow inmate jailed for serious sex offences.\n\nIt is understood that he has been placed in isolation pending investigation of murder. He has not been arrested or charged.\n\nPolice were called shortly after 12:30pm on Sunday to Huckle's cell at Full Sutton Prison, near York.\n\nIn 2016, Huckle, from Ashford, Kent, was given 22 life sentences after admitting 71 charges of sex abuse of children aged between six months and 12 years, between 2006 and 2014.\n\nHuckle's trial at the Old Bailey in 2016 heard that investigators who checked his computer found more than 20,000 indecent pictures and videos of his assaults.\n\nThese were shared with paedophiles worldwide through a hidden website on the so-called dark web.\n\nHuckle, who worked as a freelance photographer, tried to make a business out of his abuse by crowd-funding the release of the images.\n\nHe was compiling a paedophile's manual at the time of his arrest in 2014. The Old Bailey judge sentencing him described the 60-page manual as a \"truly evil document\".\n\nAt the end of his trial, Judge Peter Rook said Huckle's sentence reflected the \"public abhorrence\" over his \"campaign of rape\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Angus Crawford traces the path of Richard Huckle in Kuala Lumpur\n\nHuckle was arrested at Gatwick Airport by National Crime Agency officials in December 2014, following a tip-off by Australian authorities.\n\nHe presented himself as a practising Christian and first visited Malaysia on a teaching gap year when he was 18 or 19.\n\nHe went on to groom children while doing voluntary work.\n\nIn online posts, Huckle had bragged: \"Impoverished kids are definitely much easier to seduce than middle-class Western kids.\"\n\nCommenting on one of his victims, he boasted: \"I'd hit the jackpot, a 3yo girl as loyal to me as my dog and nobody seemed to care.\"\n\nHuckle's encrypted paedophile manual was found on his laptop ready for publication on the dark web.\n\nLast year, BBC Three produced a documentary about Huckle, which explored his proximity to children in Cambodia, India and the UK.\n\nFull Sutton is a maximum security men's prison around 11 miles east of York that holds \"some of the most difficult and dangerous criminals in the country\", according to the Ministry of Justice website.\n\nIt has a total capacity of around 550, and holds only Category A prisoners, whose escape would be considered highly dangerous, and Category B prisoners, whose escape must be made \"very difficult\".\n\nLast August one hundred officers were called when a prisoner went on a rampage, attacking staff and starting a fire.\n\nPlans to build a Category C facility alongside the current facilities, making a 1,440-inmate \"mega prison\", have been opposed by Humberside Police, who fear it would increase violent crime within the jail and raise demands on the force.", "Boohoo said the word \"nudes\" referred to a beige jacket a model was wearing\n\nUK fashion company Boohoo has been told one of its emailed advertisements must not use the phrase \"Send nudes\".\n\nThe company put the phrase in a message sent to promote a range of clothes coloured to resemble skin.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld a complaint about the advert because it made light of a \"potentially harmful social trend\".\n\nBoohoo has also been told to make sure its advertising is \"socially responsible\".\n\nIn its ruling, the ASA said it knew the term \"nude\" was often used in the fashion world to refer to colours similar to skin tones.\n\nBut it said the phrase \"Send nudes\" was more likely to be interpreted as a harassing request for sexual photos rather than as a reference to a range of clothes.\n\nAs well as the words appearing across an image inside the emailed advert, the phrase also formed the message's subject line.\n\nThe ASA said: \"Increased pressure to share such photos had been linked to negative outcomes for young people.\"\n\nAnd the market Boohoo targeted probably meant the advert had reached children - especially those who wanted to dress like a \"slightly older age group\".\n\nBoohoo said: \"We note the ASA's ruling and recognise our obligations to ensure that advertising is socially responsible.\"\n\nIn a separate ruling, the ASA banned a video advert for clothing company Missguided, broadcast in June, which \"objectified women\".\n\nMissguided said the advert, featuring women assuming a series of seductive poses in swimwear and other summer clothes, served to promote a \"particular lifestyle\" rather than just clothing.\n\nAnd the \"display of skin was relevant, necessary and unavoidable\" given the ad was for beach-wear.\n\nThe ASA disagreed and said the images were \"highly sexualised\" and some of the women depicted in the poses were not wearing the clothes Missguided said it was promoting.\n\nThe ad was likely to cause \"serious offence\" to some people, it said.\n\nMissguided has been told not to run the ad again and must guard against creating similar content that \"objectifies women\".", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nThe \"football family and governments\" need to \"wage war on the racists\", says Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin after the abuse of England players by home fans in Bulgaria.\n\nMonday's Euro 2020 qualifier between the sides was halted twice due to racist abuse of England players.\n\nCeferin said football associations cannot solve the issues alone.\n\n\"Only by working together in the name of decency and honour will we make progress,\" he said.\n\nEuropean football's governing body Uefa has opened disciplinary proceedings against Bulgaria, charging them with the racist behaviour, including Nazi salutes and monkey chants, of their fans.\n\nThe disruption of both teams' national anthems by opposing fans will also be investigated.\n\nMonday night's scenes have been widely condemned by players and politicians.\n\nThe president of the Bulgaria Football Union resigned on Tuesday after being told to quit by the country's prime minister.\n\nIn a statement, Ceferin said Uefa was committed to doing everything it can \"to eliminate this disease from football\".\n• None 'Unsavoury and sinister - a bleak night handled with dignity by England'\n\n\"There were times, not long ago, when the football family thought that the scourge of racism was a distant memory,\" Ceferin said.\n\n\"The last couple of years have taught us that such thinking was, at best, complacent.\n\n\"The rise of nationalism across the continent has fuelled some unacceptable behaviour and some have taken it upon themselves to think that a football crowd is the right place to give voice to their appalling views.\"\n\nFootball's world governing body Fifa said going forward it could \"extend worldwide\" any sanctions by Uefa, or by the other continental confederations, imposed for racist behaviour.\n\nPresident Gianni Infantino said the sport needed \"to think more broadly on what we can do to fix this\".\n\nHe called racism in football an \"obnoxious disease that seems to be getting even worse in some parts of the world\" and said life bans from stadiums should be handed to those found guilty. \"Fifa can then enforce such bans at a worldwide level.\"\n\nThe UK government has written to Uefa to demand more action.\n\n\"There were times, not long ago, when the football family thought that the scourge of racism was a distant memory. The last couple of years have taught us that such thinking was, at best, complacent.\n\n\"The rise of nationalism across the continent has fuelled some unacceptable behaviour and some have taken it upon themselves to think that a football crowd is the right place to give voice to their appalling views.\n\n\"As a governing body, I know we are not going to win any popularity contests. But some of the views expressed about Uefa's approach to fighting racism have been a long way off the mark.\n\n\"Uefa, in close cooperation with the Fare network (Football Against Racism Europe), instituted the three-stage protocol for identifying and tackling racist behaviour during games.\n\n\"Uefa's sanctions are among the toughest in sport for clubs and associations whose supporters are racist at our matches. The minimum sanction is a partial closure of the stadium - a move which costs the hosts at least hundreds of thousands in lost revenue and attaches a stigma to their supporters.\n\n\"Uefa is the only football body to ban a player for ten matches for racist behaviour - the most severe punishment level in the game. Believe me, Uefa is committed to doing everything it can to eliminate this disease from football. We cannot afford to be content with this; we must always strive to strengthen our resolve.\n\n\"More broadly, the football family - everyone from administrators to players, coaches and fans - needs to work with governments and NGOs to wage war on the racists and to marginalise their abhorrent views to the fringes of society.\n\n\"Football associations themselves cannot solve this problem. Governments too need to do more in this area. Only by working together in the name of decency and honour will we make progress.\"\n\nUefa also charged Bulgaria with throwing objects and showing replays on a giant screen.\n\nEngland were also charged with providing an insufficient number of stewards. No date has been set for a hearing.\n\nBulgaria coach Krasimir Balakov said after the match that he \"did not hear\" any racist chanting.\n\nThe Vasil Levski Stadium was already partially closed for the match after Bulgaria were sanctioned for racist behaviour during qualifiers against Kosovo and the Czech Republic.\n• None Bulgarian football and its problem with racism\n\nWhat happened during the game?\n\nAfter making a pass in the first half, Mings glanced over his shoulder and could be heard calling towards the touchline: \"Did you hear that?\"\n\nThe game was stopped in the 28th minute and a stadium announcement was made to condemn racist abuse and warn fans that the game could be abandoned if it continued.\n\nThe game resumed but was stopped again just before half-time. Manager Gareth Southgate and several England players were in discussion with match officials before the game was restarted for a second time.\n\nA group of Bulgaria supporters wearing black hooded tops - some wearing bandanas covering their faces - started to leave the stadium after the game was halted for a second time. BBC Radio 5 Live reported that some made racist gestures while heading towards the exits.\n\nAfter six minutes of time added at the end of the first half because of the delay, Bulgaria captain Ivelin Popov was seen in a heated debate with a section of home supporters near the tunnel while the rest of the players headed for the dressing rooms for half-time.\n\n'Bulgaria should be expelled from the competition'\n\nAnti-discriminatory body Fare has called for Bulgaria to be expelled from the Euro 2020 qualifying campaign.\n\n\"We think that after what happened, Uefa has it in their power to kick Bulgaria out of Euro 2020 qualification for sure,\" said Fare Eastern Europe development officer Pavel Klymenko.\n\n\"There have been too many incidents, too much negligence from the Bulgarian FA. Uefa should make an example of the Bulgarian FA and expel them from the competition.\"\n\nIn line with Uefa protocol, England had the option to walk off the pitch but they continued to play the full 90 minutes.\n\nEngland defender Tyrone Mings, one of the players who was abused, said \"the manager, the team and the supporting staff\" came together to make the decision to play and he was \"very proud\" of the decision.\n\nHowever, former England defender Joleon Lescott said it would have sent a \"huge message to the world\" if captain Harry Kane had led the team off.\n\n\"You've got to think if I'm racist, the last person I want to hear is Raheem Sterling, I don't care what he says or what he thinks but I might listen to a Harry Kane or I might listen to a Jordan Henderson because they're the players I've come to watch and I admire because I'm racist,\" former Manchester City and Everton defender Lescott said.\n\n\"It's great that we're looking to do it collectively but if Harry Kane just took that ball and said we're going, the message that would send to the world would be huge, more than Raheem Sterling.\"", "Jennifer Aniston by herself and with the rest of Friends' main cast\n\nJennifer Aniston has a lot more Friends after making a big splash on Instagram with a reunion photo of the actress with her former co-stars.\n\nThe 50-year-old attracted almost five million followers in 12 hours after posting a selfie with Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry.\n\nThe post followed her recent revelation that the cast had met up at Cox's home.\n\n\"And now we're Instagram FRIENDS too. HI INSTAGRAM,\" the actress wrote.\n\nAfter her profile appeared not to accept new followers for a short time because of a technical difficulty, Aniston joked: \"Sorry, I think I broke it.\"\n\nHer post has been liked by more than eight million users, while her current follower count stands at 7.3 million.\n\nThe actress reportedly gained more than 116,000 followers within 30 minutes of creating her account.\n\nIt's likely she now holds the record for having the fastest Instagram account to reach one million followers.\n\nAccording to Guinness World Records, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have held that title since April when their joint account reached that milestone in five hours and 45 minutes.\n\nIt is believed Aniston's account surpassed that record in a far shorter period, though this has yet to be officially verified.\n\nMariah Carey, Kate Hudson and Reese Witherspoon are among a number of celebrities who have posted messages welcoming Aniston to the platform.\n\n\"YASSSS!!! Welcome to Insta Jen!!!\" wrote Witherspoon, who appears with the actress in her new Apple TV series The Morning Show.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @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. Harry Dunn's parents say they were told by the president he would \"try to push this from a different angle\"\n\nHarry Dunn's parents rejected a \"bombshell\" offer from Donald Trump to meet the woman accused of involvement in their son's fatal crash.\n\nCharlotte Charles and Tim Dunn said they felt \"a little ambushed\" when the president revealed Anne Sacoolas was in the next room at the White House.\n\nMrs Sacoolas returned to the United States under diplomatic immunity days after the crash which killed Harry, 19.\n\nHarry's parents said they wanted to meet Mrs Sacoolas, 42, in the UK.\n\nMr Dunn said a White House official told them she would not be returning to the UK, but Mr Trump said he would \"try to push this from a different angle\".\n\nHarry Dunn died on 27 August when his motorcycle crashed with a Volvo near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire.\n\nMrs Sacoolas - who is reportedly married to a US intelligence official stationed at the base - was interviewed by police but then returned to the United States after claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nThat status has since been cast into doubt by the Foreign Office and Mr Dunn's family want Mrs Sacoolas to return to the UK.\n\nSpeaking on CBS This Morning, Mr Dunn said the president had suggested the meeting with Mrs Sacoolas \"two or three times\".\n\n\"We said no, we didn't feel it was right. He said 'she's here, let's get it on, get some healing,' something like that,\" Mr Dunn told the US TV network.\n\n\"There was a bit of pressure but we stuck to our guns.\"\n\nIn a separate interview, Mr Dunn said: \"We didn't want to be railroaded into, not a circus as such, but into a meeting we weren't prepared for.\"\n\nMs Charles said they were \"a bit shocked\", adding: \"The bombshell was dropped soon after we walked in the room that Anne Sacoolas was in the building, and was willing to meet with us.\n\n\"I don't think it would be appropriate to meet her without therapists or mediators in the room.\"\n\nHarry died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nFamily spokesman Radd Seiger described the White House meeting as \"absolutely extraordinary\" and \"unprecedented\".\n\nBut he said US National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien told the family during the meeting that Mrs Sacoolas \"was never coming back\" to the UK.\n\nMs Charles said she had told Mr Trump during the White House meeting: \"If it was your son you would be doing the same as us.\"\n\nShe added: \"He actually gripped my hand a little bit tighter and said 'yes I would be'. And that's when he said he would try and look at this from a different angle.\n\n\"I can only hope that he was sincere enough to consider doing that for us.\n\n\"He's the one in control here, but we're the ones in control of our situation as much as we can be - we still want justice for Harry and we will take it as far as we possibly can to ensure that that's done.\n\n\"We do feel that we have done as much as we can at the moment.\"\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nMs Charles later told ITV's Good Morning Britain the family would \"be forever disappointed, forever disgusted in both the UK and US governments\" if Mrs Sacoolas did not return.\n\nMr Dunn said the trip to the White House \"didn't feel like a stunt\".\n\n\"I think the president was very graceful and spoke very well to us,\" he said.\n\n\"I genuinely do think he will look to resolve this in a way that will help us.\"\n\nOver the weekend, Mrs Sacoolas broke her silence over Mr Dunn's death in a letter via her lawyers.\n\nIn it she said she wanted to meet his parents \"so that she can express her deepest sympathies and apologies for this tragic accident\".\n\nMrs Sacoolas was said to be covered by diplomatic immunity as the spouse of a US intelligence official, though that protection is now in dispute.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police said it would be submitting an evidence file to the UK Crown Prosecution Service \"very soon\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The red poppy will this year pay tribute to civilian victims of war and \"acts of terrorism\", along with the UK's armed forces.\n\nThe Royal British Legion said it had updated its definition of the remembrance symbol to be \"more explicit\" about its meaning.\n\nRed poppies are traditionally worn to remember those who fought in war.\n\nIt means the symbol will now encompass victims of incidents such the Manchester Arena attack in 2017.\n\nThe move, first reported by the Guardian, comes ahead of the launch of the charity's latest poppy appeal on 24 October.\n\nThe Royal British Legion's assistant director, Robert Lee, said that the organisation has \"always acknowledged the human cost of conflict\" since it was founded in 1912.\n\nHe added: \"Our core positioning hasn't changed but we do want to make it more explicit in our language, because Remembrance is inclusive of all modern Britain.\"\n\nPreviously the charity's website said that the poppy related \"to the armed forces community specifically, but not exclusively\" as a symbol of remembrance and \"hope for a peaceful future\".\n\nThe website now says that the symbol:\n\nThe Peace Pledge Union, which produces white poppies to remember all victims of war, welcomed the decision as \"a good step in the right direction\".\n\nBut it urged the Royal British Legion \"to go further and promote remembrance for people of all nationalities affected by war\", noting that the change \"only uses the word acknowledge in reference to civilians\".\n\nMr Lee added: \"As a charity we have a particular responsibility to the armed forces community under our charitable remit and the deaths of personnel who have served with the British armed forces will always be at the heart of Remembrance for the Legion.\n\n\"But Remembrance has a wider meaning and role, and this does include all civilians affected by conflict and terrorism.\"\n\nThe Royal British Legion, which distributes 40 million poppies each year, raised more than £50m for veterans of the British armed forces and their families in 2018.\n\nRed poppies are traditionally worn at the annual Remembrance Sunday memorial in November\n\nRed poppies began being used as a symbol in 1921 to help to remember those who fought in war.\n\nThe flower was chosen because it grows wild in many fields in northern France and Belgium - where some of the deadliest battles of World War One took place.\n\nIts use was inspired by a poem, written by serving soldier John McCrae, which begins, \"In Flanders' fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row...\"\n\nThe Royal British Legion stresses that is is a symbol for remembrance and hope and should not be seen as a symbol of religion or politics.\n\nWhite poppies have also been distributed by the Peace Pledge Union, the UK's oldest secular and pacifist group, since 1933.\n\nLike the red poppy, the white badge also symbolises remembrance for victims of war.\n\nMany people began wearing white poppies to stress the \"never again\" message, which emerged after World War One, and which pacifists feared was slipping away.\n\nThe Peace Pledge Union says the white poppy also represents a lasting commitment to peace and the belief that war should not be celebrated or glamourised.", "The dedicated Harry Potter section at Primark Tottenham Court Road in London\n\nPrimark has warned customers not to purchase its products from third parties online as they will be paying higher prices for them than in store.\n\nReports had suggested Primark - which does not have an online shop - was now selling its products on Amazon.\n\nHowever, the High Street chain said that it did not have a commercial relationship with Amazon.\n\n\"We encourage our customers to visit us in our stores to find the best value,\" Primark said on Twitter.\n\n\"We do not have a commercial partnership with Amazon and any Primark products which appear on the site are being re-sold by third parties, at higher prices.\"\n\nThe BBC found popular Primark homeware and fashion products on both Amazon and eBay at a mark-up of between 50-75% in price.\n\nMany customers took to Twitter to respond to Primark, asking the retailer to reconsider its stance and open an online store as they were unable to visit a Primark store for a variety of reasons.\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\nPrimark, which is owned by Associated British Foods, is well known for its very low prices.\n\nIn the last few years, the retailer has also become known for its merchandising agreements with high-profile film, TV, children's toys and video game brands including Harry Potter, Disney, Game of Thrones, Lol Surprise, Fortnite, Friends, Barbie, Stranger Things, Mean Girls, Peanuts and Garfield.\n\nThe chain, which was founded in 1969, does not have an online store or offer click-and-collect services for its products.\n\nIn November 2018, Primark's head of ethical trade and environmental sustainability Paul Lister was asked by MPs to justify how the retailer could afford to keep prices so low, as part of a government inquiry into the environmental impact of fast fashion.\n\nPrimark's Chip teacup purse was so popular it sold out immediately when it was released\n\nHe said the fact Primark did not advertise meant the retailer could save up to £150m a year.\n\nIn March 2017, a £4 Chip teacup purse that was released in conjunction with the Beauty and the Beast live-action Disney film was so popular that people began bulk-buying the item and selling it on eBay for as much as £80.\n\nThe purse was sold out until Primark flooded its stores with the product, bringing its value back down again, and a similar situation occurred with a porcelain teacup version of the product later that year.", "The sister of a football fan who died in Bulgaria ahead of England's Euro 2020 qualifier says the family has been left \"absolutely broken\".\n\nRob Spray, 32, was found in Sofia city centre in what authorities said was a \"helpless condition\" on Monday morning.\n\nMr Spray, of Heath Hayes, Staffordshire, was taken to hospital but later died there. The cause of his death has not been established.\n\nHis sister Katie Brown said on Facebook the family did not know what happened.\n\nOn Monday, a spokesperson for Bulgaria's Ministry of Interior said police were working to \"clarify all the circumstances in the incident\".\n\nEngland fans showed vocal support for their team during the match at the Vasil Levski National Stadium\n\nShe said Mr Spray \"suddenly began to act aggressively, raging and threatening\" after he was taken to hospital at about 10:00 local time (08:00 BST).\n\nMs Brown said the suggestion her brother was aggressive was inaccurate, describing him as \"the politest person you've ever met\".\n\n\"He was a gentle giant,\" she said.\n\n\"He always said he was a lover not a fighter.\"\n\nShe said the family had received \"no support\" from the Foreign Office or Bulgarian authorities.\n\n\"They're not helping us at all,\" Ms Brown said.\n\n\"We want to go out and see what's happened but we need someone to help us.\"\n\nFriends have so far raised more than £10,000 to \"bring him back\" and for his family.\n\nThe GoFundMe page describes West Bromwich Albion fan Mr Spray as \"the nicest, softest lad\".\n\nThe Foreign Office confirmed it was supporting his family and that it was in touch with Bulgarian authorities.\n\nAnother British man suffered a minor injury in a separate incident in Sofia, it added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of Sussex shared an intimate moment with attendees at the WellChild Awards.\n\nHe recalled how he knew at last year's event that his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, was pregnant and they were both thinking about what it would be like to be parents one day.\n\nThe charity, of which Prince Harry is patron, helps seriously ill children spend time out of hospital and return home to be with their families.\n\nHe welled up as he spoke at the ceremony, which celebrates the children, their families and the people who support them.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nThe president of the Bulgaria Football Union, Borislav Mihaylov, has resigned.\n\nBulgaria Prime Minister Boyko Borissov called for him to quit on Tuesday after the racist abuse of England players in the Euro 2020 qualifier in Sofia.\n\nMonday's match, which England won 6-0, was stopped twice because of racist behaviour by home fans, which included Nazi salutes and monkey chants.\n\nThe BFU said the move \"is a consequence of the recent tensions\" but did not mention racism in their statement.\n• None Unsavoury and sinister - a bleak night handled with dignity by England\n\nThe statement said the tensions had created \"an environment that is detrimental to Bulgarian football and the Bulgarian Football Union\".\n\nIt added that \"Mihaylov expresses his firm readiness to continue helping in the development of Bulgarian football in every possible way\".\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, the Bulgaria prime minister \"strongly condemned\" the fans' behaviour and called for Mihaylov to resign \"immediately\".\n\n\"After yesterday's shameful loss of the Bulgarian National Team and given the bad results of our football, I ordered to end any relationship with BFU, including financial, until the withdrawal of Borislav Mihaylov from the post,\" he added.\n\nBefore the match, Mihaylov had complained to Uefa about \"unjust branding\" after the build-up was overshadowed by fears England's players could be subjected to abuse.\n\nThe Vasil Levski Stadium was already subject to a partial closure for the match after Bulgaria were sanctioned for racist behaviour during Euro 2020 qualifiers against Kosovo and the Czech Republic.\n\nMihaylov, a former Reading goalkeeper, played at three World Cups for Bulgaria and has been member of Uefa's executive committee since 2011.\n\nUefa president Aleksander Ceferin said the \"football family and governments\" need to \"wage war on the racists\", after the abuse of England players.\n\nUefa told BBC Sport any action in response to Monday's events would have to follow on from a disciplinary committee, which in turn has to wait for a referee's report.\n\nAnti-discriminatory body Fare has called for Bulgaria to be expelled from the Euro 2020 qualifying campaign.\n\nWhat happened during the game?\n\nAfter making a pass in the first half, England defender Tyrone Mings glanced over his shoulder and could be heard calling towards the touchline: \"Did you hear that?\"\n\nShortly afterwards, in the 28th minute, the game was stopped.\n\nStriker Harry Kane was in conversation with referee Ivan Bebek on the halfway line while a stadium announcement was made to condemn racist abuse and warn fans that the game could be abandoned if it continued. At the same time, England manager Southgate was talking to a number of his players.\n\nThe game resumed but was stopped again just before half-time. Southgate and several England players were in discussion with match officials before the game was restarted for a second time.\n\nA group of Bulgaria supporters wearing black hooded tops - some wearing bandanas covering their faces - started to leave the stadium after the game was halted for a second time. BBC Radio 5 Live reported that some made racist gestures while heading towards the exits.\n\nAfter six minutes of time added at the end of the first half because of the delay, Bulgaria captain Ivelin Popov was seen in a heated debate with a section of home supporters near the tunnel while the rest of the players headed for the dressing rooms for half-time.\n\nIn line with Uefa protocol, England had the option to walk off the pitch but they continued to play the full 90 minutes.", "The government has dropped a plan to use strict age verification checks to stop under-18s viewing porn online.\n\nIt said the policy, which was initially set to launch in April 2018, would \"not be commencing\" after repeated delays, and fears it would not work.\n\nThe so-called porn blocker would have forced commercial porn providers to verify users' ages, or face a UK ban.\n\nDigital Secretary Nicky Morgan said other measures would be deployed to achieve the same objectives.\n\nThe government first mooted the idea of a porn blocker in 2015, with the aim of stopping youngsters \"stumbling across\" inappropriate content.\n\nPornographic sites which failed to check the age of UK visitors would have faced being blocked by internet service providers.\n\nBut critics warned that many under-18s would have found it relatively easy to bypass the restriction using virtual private networks (VPNs), which disguise their location, or could simply turn to porn-hosting platforms not covered by the law, such as Reddit or Twitter.\n\nLikewise, platforms which host pornography on a non-commercial basis - meaning they do not charge a fee or make money from adverts - would not have been affected.\n\nThere were also privacy concerns, amid suggestions that websites could ask users to upload scans of their passports or driving licences.\n\nIt was a plan, said ministers, to protect children from stumbling across pornography - an objective bound to be hugely popular with parents and anyone concerned about child safety. But throughout its troubled life the porn block has met opposition from across the political spectrum.\n\nThe critics said it was an attack on civil liberties, it was the government trying to censor the web, it could endanger privacy and any database of porn users would be a honeypot for scammers. Most of all questions were raised about whether it would work, with pornography shared on social media sites not affected by the ban, and savvy teenagers able to use VPNs to get round it.\n\nNow the fifth culture secretary to be in post since the idea was first mooted has dropped the plan. Nicky Morgan insists its objectives can still be achieved via the new regulator envisaged by the recent Online Harms White Paper.\n\nBut expect more wrangling about the precise nature of the \"duty of care\" the watchdog will impose on the pornography websites and how they will be punished for any failings.\n\nIn a written statement issued on Wednesday, Ms Morgan said the government would not be \"commencing Part 3 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 concerning age verification for online pornography\".\n\nInstead, she said, porn providers would be expected to meet a new \"duty of care\" to improve online safety. This will be policed by a new online regulator \"with strong enforcement powers to deal with non-compliance\".\n\n\"This course of action will give the regulator discretion on the most effective means for companies to meet their duty of care,\" she added.\n\nThere were concerns users would have had to upload scans of their passports\n\nOCL, one of the firms offering age verification tools, was not happy about the decision.\n\n\"It is shocking that the government has now done a U-turn and chosen not to implement [this],\" said chief executive Serge Acker.\n\n\"There is no legitimate reason not to implement legislation which has been on the statue books for two years and was moments away from enactment this summer. [This] would have protected children against seeing pornography on the internet, a move which would undoubtedly have been welcomed by all sensible parents in the UK.\"\n\nBut Jim Killock, executive director of civil liberties organisation Open Rights Group, welcomed the news.\n\n\"Age verification for porn as currently legislated would cause huge privacy problems if it went ahead. We are glad the government has stepped back from creating a privacy disaster, that would lead to blackmail scams and individuals being outed for the sexual preferences.\n\n\"However it is still unclear what the government does intend to do, so we will remain vigilant to ensure that new proposals are not just as bad, or worse.\"\n\nIn June, the porn blocker was delayed a second time after the government failed to tell European regulators about the plan, leading Labour to describe the policy as an \"utter shambles\".", "It seemed an understanding had been reached between Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar last week\n\nIt's extremely hard to see how a new Brexit deal can still be agreed by this Thursday.\n\nNegotiations continue - but time is tight, and, to use the words of even the most upbeat of those involved, \"there's still much work to do\".\n\nEU internal talk is focussing now on a possible \"holding pattern statement\" at this week's EU leaders summit, along the lines of \"we've made great progress in negotiations but still need more time\".\n\nThere are also renewed mutterings about a new Brexit summit maybe towards the end of the month.\n\nAt the end of last week there was hope in the air. It seemed an understanding had been reached between Boris Johnson and the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Leo Varadkar.\n\nNow there's lots of speculation, smoke and mirrors - but no sign of white smoke that a new Brexit deal is nigh.\n\n\"We felt last week that things would now move very quickly,\" one northern European diplomat told me. \"Now we realise we're still pretty far apart.\"\n\nRealistically there is no time this week to work out a painstaking middle ground between the EU and UK positions\n\nReplacing the Irish backstop guarantee remains the main stumbling block in ongoing negotiations, particularly when it comes to customs.\n\nThe European Commission says both sides - the EU and UK - are negotiating in good faith, but the not so secret EU hope right now is that time pressure and political pressure will build on Mr Johnson to such an extent this week, that he might yet blur some more of his red lines.\n\nThe EU thinking is that the UK prime minister is running out of options. He promised to do his best to deliver a new Brexit deal this week and he promised not to ask for another Brexit extension.\n\nWith so little time to go before the EU summit, Brussels believes the only option for a deal is for Mr Johnson to pivot towards an already set-to-go replacement for the current UK-wide Irish border backstop.\n\nAnd this is the EU's preferred option: a backstop that would see only Northern Ireland, not the rest of the UK, following EU customs rules after Brexit, while not affecting its territorial identity as part of the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNow for those who've followed the twists and turns of the Brexit process, you'll recognise the EU proposal as what was formally known as the Northern Ireland-only backstop.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson's offer is reminiscent of his predecessor Theresa May's Chequers plan for two customs systems (one EU, one UK) on the island of Ireland.\n\nEach proposal was roundly rejected by the other side.\n\nThe difference now is the political will to get a deal done. And not just in Downing Street.\n\nThose in the UK who claim the EU wants another Brexit extension to keep the UK in the bloc as long as possible are mistaken.\n\nEU leaders are fed up with the Brexit process. They want a deal.\n\nRealistically there is no time this week to work out a painstaking middle ground between the EU and UK positions.\n\nAnd EU leaders are adamant that they won't be negotiating directly with Boris Johnson at the summit.\n\nGermany, France and others say they want a Brexit deal they can live with, rather than something cobbled together in a rush to \"get it over with\" that could leave problems for the Northern Ireland peace process and/or the single market for years to come.\n\nWhile the technical details need to be ironed out (and that cannot be taken for granted), the EU political mood is determinedly more can-do now.\n\nIf the prime minister balks at doing a U-turn on a Northern Ireland-only backstop, despite being encouraged by still-to-be revealed EU sweeteners, then negotiations towards a hybrid solution will likely pick up again next week.\n\nFirst, though, all EU eyes would be on Westminster and the extraordinary session of Parliament on Saturday to see if another Brexit extension will be requested, or not.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What could Brexit mean for sausage rolls?", "A body has been found in the search for 22-year-old Brooke Morris, police have confirmed.\n\nMs Morris, from Trelewis, Merthyr Tydfil, disappeared after being given a lift home from the town centre in the early hours of Saturday.\n\nPolice officers carrying out searches of rivers and waterways near the town have located the body of a woman in a stretch of the River Taff.\n\nFormal identification has not taken place but her family has been informed.\n\nSouth Wales Police said her family was being supported by specialist officers.\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 Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team This article contains content provided by Facebook. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nMs Morris was last seen at about 02:30 BST on Saturday after a night out, wearing a long-sleeved red top and jeans.\n\nPolice believe the rugby player did not go inside her house and instead went down a lane that leads towards a bridge that goes into Treharris.\n\nHundreds of people from the area, some on scrambler bikes or with dogs, had joined the search, co-ordinated from Treharris Phoenix RFC.\n\nPolice say the body was found in the River Taff downstream of Treharris.\n\nBrooke Morris was last seen in the early hours of Saturday\n• None Search for woman missing after night out", "Former Emmerdale actress Leah Bracknell has died at the age of 55, her manager has confirmed.\n\nBracknell, who played Zoe Tate in the soap for 16 years, was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in 2016.\n\nA statement on behalf of her family confirmed \"with the deepest sadness\" that Bracknell died last month.\n\n\"Leah had an energy and enthusiasm for life, a kind heart and much love to give to those around her,\" it read.\n\n\"Leah continued to embrace life and faced her illness with positivity.\"\n\nBracknell also had television roles in Judge John Deed, A Touch of Frost, The Royal Today and DCI Banks, as well as performing on stage and in pantomime.\n\nBracknell played Zoe Tate in Emmerdale from 1989 until 2005\n\nIn February, the actress spoke of the debilitating effects terminal cancer had had on her, leaving her feeling like she was \"trapped in a cage\".\n\n\"If only you could find the door and step out to freedom and life as it was before,\" she wrote.\n\n\"If only you could wake from the nightmare: dawn breaks and you realise that it was all just a bad dream. And life is wonderfully normal again. Yes, if only.\"\n\nHer family have asked for privacy, but said \"many aspects of Leah's journey can be found on her blog.\"\n\nITV drama boss John Whiston paid tribute to a \"much-loved\" former colleague, noting how her gay on-screen character blazed a trail.\n\n\"Everyone on Emmerdale is very sad to hear of the death of Leah Bracknell,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Leah was a hugely popular member of the Emmerdale cast for over 16 years. During that time she featured in some of the show's most high profile and explosive plots and always delivered a pitch perfect performance.\"\n\nHe added: \"Zoe Tate was one of soap's first lesbian characters and Leah made sure the character was both exciting and credible. Leah herself was a very generous and caring colleague, much loved by cast and crew alike.\"\n\nBafta-winning actress Sarah Lancashire described Bracknell as \"brilliant,\" adding \"thoughts go out to her family and friends.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sarah Lancashire This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmmerdale and Coronation Street actress Sally Ann Matthews called her \"a beautiful soul\", writing on Twitter the \"world has lost a little sparkle\".\n\nBracknell left the series in 2005 in an episode voted the best exit at the British Soap Awards the following year.\n\nThe multi-talented mother-of-two was also known for her work teaching at the British School of Yoga and for creating her own line of jewellery.\n\nHer cancer diagnosis came to light when her partner launched a Go Fund Me page to raise money for her to undergo treatment overseas.\n\nMore than 2,500 fans joined together to raise £50,000 to help pay for her treatment in Germany.\n\nShe thanked everyone involved, adding: \"I really did not expect or feel deserving of such interest and kindness.\"\n\nSpeaking on ITV's Loose Women in February , she said she had a positive outlook on life and was not fearful despite being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.\n\nHowever, in August she revealed her cancer treatment had stopped working.\n\nShe appeared on ITV again in December on Lorraine Kelly's show, where she revealed how much she hated people taking pity on her due to her condition.\n\n\"I think I just decided, it's still my life, but other people were writing me off quicker and even people close to me, they'd come and - I don't mean to be unkind - but people were embarrassed, or didn't know what to say.\n\n\"They come in and they're feeling very sorry and very pitiful, and actually it's the worst - the one thing that nobody wants is pity.\n\n\"It's obviously part of one's life, whether it's cancer or another disease or chronic condition, but the point is, it's life. It's living. I'm alive until the point I am not. And that to me is the key, not to surrender to something else.\"\n\nIn her final blog post Bracknell wrote about going from being a cancer \"victim\" to a \"rebel\", in a poem entitled A Cancer Rebel's Manifesto for Life.\n\n\"For I am a CANCER REBEL with a fierce heart, an independent mind, a warrior spirit, and an ocean of desire to keep on keeping on and making a difference and making a noise as long as there is sweet breath in my body.\n\n\"To LIFE. Long and sweet may it be for us all.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A judge, who says she was bullied and had a breakdown after speaking out about government cuts, has won a landmark appeal at the Supreme Court.\n\nThe court ruled Warrington District Judge Claire Gilham could be classified as a \"worker\" and was therefore entitled to whistleblowing protection.\n\nThis means she can now have her case heard at an employment tribunal.\n\nFive Supreme Court justices ruled unanimously in her favour, in contrary to a Court of Appeal ruling from 2017.\n\nSpeaking after the ruling, Judge Gilham said: \"Winning is a great relief after these seven long years.\n\n\"Ethically I always knew that my point was right: that judges should have human rights protections.\n\n\"You can't have justice without independent and unafraid judges, and if judges can't speak out to protect the court system, then justice suffers and the people caught up in the system suffer too.\"\n\nShe had raised several matters with her senior court staff. They included a lack of secure court rooms, a severely increased workload and administrative failures following major cuts to the Ministry of Justice budget from 2010.\n\nThe judge, who sat at Warrington County Court in Cheshire, claimed that as a result of her complaints, she was seriously bullied, ignored and undermined.\n\nShe was informed that her workload and concerns were simply a \"personal working style choice\" and inadequate steps were taken to support her return to work, she said.\n\nShe also said her health severely deteriorated leading to mental health problems and she was signed off work due to stress from the end of January 2013 but has recently returned.\n\nBy tradition and because of their non-political constitutional role none but the most senior judges have sought to publicly voice their concerns about shortcomings in the justice system.\n\nAnd over the years some junior judges have let me know, off the record, that doing so internally may not be the best way to climb the judicial ladder.\n\nBut the public may see it as odd that the judges have not, until now, been afforded protection from suffering a disadvantage if they blew the whistle on genuine concerns about the workings of the courts - when those concerns are raised in the public interest.\n\nWith deep cuts to legal aid, police, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Ministry of Justice budgets in recent years, frustration among the judiciary about a system under intense strain has undoubtedly increased.\n\nWhile we should not expect a torrent of judges blowing the whistle on shortcomings in the system, many will feel more confident in doing so with the protection of this ruling.\n\nIn 2015, she made a claim in an employment tribunal, which depended on her being a \"worker\" under the Employment Rights Act 1996.\n\nBut the tribunal determined that she was not a worker under the act for the purposes of whistleblowing protection.\n\nIn Wednesday's judgment, President of the Supreme Court Lady Hale said: \"I can reach no other conclusion than that the Employment Rights Act should be read and given effect so as to extend its whistleblowing protection to the holders of judicial office.\"\n\nThe court ruled that bullying, victimisation and failure to take complaints seriously would be an interference with a judge's right to freedom of speech under Article 10 of the Human Rights Act.\n\nEmilie Cole from law firm Irwin Mitchell, who represented Judge Gilham in the case, said the ruling also has far reaching consequences for \"non-contractual office holders\" such as trustees or company board members, adding: \"This is a massive step forward in equality law and will have wide implications for the greater good.\"\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesman said the government accepted the court's judgment and was considering how to implement it.", "We're going to end our live coverage here for now. Thanks for sticking with us.\n\nIt has been a confusing day, with reports and counter-reports flying around.\n\nBut here is what has actually happened:\n• UK and EU negotiators continued talks to try to get the text of a deal ready to be signed off by EU leaders at Thursday's summit\n• EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier updated the bloc on the state of negotiations\n• PM Boris Johnson held meetings with his cabinet and backbench MPs and likened the negotiations to climbing Everest, saying the summit was \"not far\" but still surrounded by \"cloud\"\n• Downing Street also held meetings with the DUP, whose support will be key to getting a deal agreed in Parliament\n• Irish PM Leo Varadkar said a \"pathway\" to a deal was possible but added that there were \"issues yet to be resolved\n• But a government source this evening told the BBC there would not be a deal tonight\n• Meanwhile, Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay told MPs Mr Johnson \"will comply with the law\" regarding the terms of any further extension", "The UK's best-known stockpicker is to quit his remaining investment funds, signalling the end of his multi-billion-pound empire.\n\nNeil Woodford was sacked from his flagship fund early on Tuesday, and has now announced he will quit the last two funds.\n\nHe described it as a \"highly painful decision\", adding his business would be wound down in \"an orderly fashion\".\n\nAt its peak his business managed more than £14bn.\n\nThe so-called \"Oracle of Oxford\" was dismissed from his troubled £3.1bn Equity Income fund by its administrators on Tuesday. The fund will be wound up and any cash returned to investors. It follows a series of disastrous investments.\n\nThat sacking initially prompted an angry response, with Mr Woodford saying it was a decision \"I cannot accept, nor believe is in the long-term interests\" of the business.\n\nBut on Tuesday evening, in a further announcement, he said he would abandon the last two funds, Income Focus and Woodford Patient Capital and close his investment management business.\n\nOn Wednesday, shares in the Woodford Income Focus Fund were suspended from dealing amid a rush to pull out investor money, with administrators now considering all options.\n\nMr Woodford said: \"We have taken the highly painful decision to close Woodford Investment Management. We will fulfil our fund management responsibilities to WPCT and the LF Woodford Income Focus Fund and once completed will close the company in an orderly fashion.\n\n\"I personally deeply regret the impact events have had on individuals who placed their faith in Woodford Investment Management and invested in our funds.\"\n\nMr Woodford built his reputation during 26 years at the City firm Invesco. An investment of £1,000 in his first funds would have returned £25,000 by the time he left.\n\nHe set up his own business, and his stellar success meant savers poured millions into his new funds. But several big investments in stock market listed companies performed poorly, and investors began withdrawing money.\n\nTo compound the problems, Mr Woodford had built up stakes in a number of unlisted technology and healthcare companies he believed had strong growth potential.\n\nWhen the redemption requests gathered pace, he found it difficult to raise money quickly by selling stakes in these private companies.\n\nThe Equity Income Fund was suspended in June after being crippled by redemption demands. It meant that investors' money would be locked in for months.\n\nRyan Hughes, head of active portfolios at investment firm AJ Bell, said there was \"a feeling of inevitability\" about the closure. Without any money coming in \"it was difficult to see how the business could survive\", he said.\n\nThe unwinding of any funds will be a long process. Darius McDermott, managing director of financial adviser Chelsea Financial Services, said the situation was \"a mess\" and the flagship fund's closure would make it \"a forced seller of all stocks\".\n\nNeil Woodford had been the darling of the armchair investor - but, as one said today, the whole thing had become \"toxic\".\n\nFour years ago, he was giving them 20% returns. Now he is giving them losses, a lot of uncertainty, and perhaps a lesson in hubris.\n\nSome of those investors will be kicking themselves for being too reliant on a \"star\" manager, rather than spreading their investments, as has always been the advice.\n\nThe fund manager may soon have found he had nothing left to manage, so commentators say it was inevitable that he has thrown in the towel.\n\nThose stockpickers who remain in the ring may find individual investors are a lot more cautious about giving them their support, and their money.", "A car parts firm has announced it will close in 2021, with the loss of about 125 jobs.\n\nHi-Lex Cable System Company makes door and window parts and cables for cars at its plant on Baglan energy park.\n\nManagement at the firm, which supplies Honda, Audi and BMW among others, said it did not anticipate any redundancies in the next 12 months.\n\nAny remaining business at the plant in 2021 will be transferred to a Hi-Lex plant in Hungary.\n\nA statement issued by the company said the decision had been taken following a meeting at the parent company, Hi-Lex Corporation in Japan, which discussed a restructure of its European operations.\n\nIt continued: \"Hi-Lex Corporation regrets the need for the decision to re-structure its operations, but it is based solely upon a significant reduction in the sales forecast at HCS, from 2021 onwards.\n\n\"Hi-Lex will now contact all of our supply chain partners to discuss and agree plans to meet the needs of our customers up to the closure of the HCS facility.\"\n\nAdam Glaznieks, managing director at the Port Talbot site, said: \"The reason for making the announcement now is that we need to commence preparations to transfer any remaining business after 2021 to the Hi-Lex plant in Hungary.\"\n\nThe leader of Neath Port Talbot council, Rob Jones, said the closure would be \"keenly felt\" in the area and the authority would try to support workers \"wherever we can into new employment\".\n\nHi-Lex was founded in 1946 and has 50 sites in 18 countries across North America, Europe and Asia.\n\nThe car industry is facing serious challenges - there's been a drop in demand for diesel cars in the UK, sales abroad have slowed and the industry and consumers have been slow to respond to the development of electric vehicles.\n\nUncertainty over the future trading relationship with the EU after Brexit is also a headache in an industry that's heavily integrated, with components being manufactured and transferred across borders.\n\nThere were concerns about the potential impact on Hi-Lex when Honda announced it would stop production at its Swindon plant in 2021.\n\nFord in Bridgend will close next year and there have been job losses in Llanelli at Calsonic Kansei and Schaeffler.\n\nIt's not all been bad news for the industry though - Aston Martin will take on 1,000 workers at St Athan and Ineos could create up to 500 jobs in the long term at its Bridgend site.", "The author Malorie Blackman has announced she's writing her autobiography, to be published by Stormzy's Merky Books imprint.\n\nMerky Books is part of Penguin Random House, which has already published the writer's Noughts and Crosses series.\n\nStormzy is known to be a fan of her work, and he's said before that the Noughts and Crosses stories are some of his favourite books.\n\nMalorie's autobiography will be out in 2022.\n\nShe said: \"Not only will my autobiography be a full and frank account of my life journey as an author, it will also contain all the writer's tips and tricks I've learned over the years.\"\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 to Newsbeat in August around the launch of her last book Crossfire, Malorie said part of the reason she started writing was because she didn't feel represented in books she read as a child.\n\n\"Stories should not just be doors and windows, but they should be mirrors, and every child and every team has the right to see themselves in what they're reading,\" she said.\n\nBut Malorie - who's been writing for almost 30 years - says that's changed recently.\n\n\"Before, I could list every single person of colour who was writing in this country. And now I couldn't, because there's so many - and that's so fantastic.\n\n\"There is a real will from publishers to actually be more inclusive and to embrace more diverse voices in their publishing.\"\n\nMalorie was part of Stormzy's Merky Books launch in 2018 and he makes a cameo appearance in the upcoming BBC adaptation of Noughts and Crosses.\n\nThe TV series is based on her book, which takes place in a world where black people rule over white people.\n\n\"Early last year I met him,\" she says about Stormzy. \"He was just so wonderful and was telling me how he loved my books and grew up with them.\"\n\n\"He started Merky Books with Penguin and they're looking for more diverse voices and voices that perhaps feel like traditional publishing routes are not for them, but they're encouraging people to come to Merky Books.\n\n\"The fact that he's paying the tuition of two students going to Cambridge - I just love him for that.\"\n\nMalorie was also part of a big cultural moment in 2019 - when Stormzy used an extract from Noughts and Crosses during his headline set at Glastonbury.\n\n\"I thought that whole set was amazing and the fact that he had the ballet dancers and it was so hard for ballet dancers of colour to find shoes that match their skin-tone.\n\n\"In the same way that, in Noughts and Crosses, I have a scene where a Nought girl comes to school with a dark brown plaster on her forehead, and someone says 'that stands out' and she says 'well they don't make pink plasters, they only make dark brown ones'.\n\n\"I had such a response to that especially when the book first came out. A lot of white teens said to me, 'I'd never thought about this before'.\n\n\"Not just white teens, readers said they'd never thought about the colour of plasters before.\n\n\"It's something that a minority in a society will see that the majority won't necessarily see until it's pointed out to them.\"\n\nMalorie's last novel Crossfire, the fifth in the Noughts and Crosses series, explores the same theme of racial division as the others.\n\nThe original book was inspired by the Stephen Lawrence murder case in 1993 and how police handled it.\n\n\"I remember watching a docu-drama about how the Lawrence family had been treated, particularly by the police,\" she says.\n\n\"I remember being so angry about that, and I thought, 'I want to write something about racism and what it's like to experience racism'.\"\n\nNoughts and Crosses will be on the BBC in 2020\n\nShe says before she started the Noughts and Crosses series, she discussed writing about slavery with her friends, but the response was \"kind of underwhelming\".\n\n\"They were saying why do you want to write about that, it's so painful and so long ago\".\n\n\"Then I thought - how can I flip it, and make the noughts the minority and the ones who are experiencing racism, the white people the ones who are experiencing racism. And so that's how the idea was born.\"\n\n\"I called it Noughts and Crosses because I wanted to make up my own terms for society, where the darker you were it was deemed the better you were.\n\n\"Noughts kind of sounds like zero, nothing, and so that's the term I applied to white people and then crosses, who some of them in the book consider themselves closer to god in every way.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Glastonbury: 10-year-old Princess K performs on stage with Stormzy at Glastonbury\n\nMalorie says there are a number of things that made her write the next book in the series, but mostly \"it was inspired by current events\".\n\n\"It was what was going on with Brexit, the result of Brexit in terms of hate-crimes and it was also Trump, his inauguration and being made US president,\" she adds.\n\nShe says she also was concerned by how 20 years on from her first book, attitudes to race in the UK and abroad didn't seem to be changing.\n\n\"In terms of race - we seem to be going backwards on that one.\"\n\nRaheem Sterling was subject to more racist abuse against Bulgaria recently\n\n\"In March 2018 I was reading something that said there was a rise of 17% in hate crimes, but in the five years to 2018, it's risen 123%.\"\n\nBlackman says other current affairs also inspired her new novel, including a storyline in the book about a white footballer being racially attacked on the pitch.\n\n\"I was watching something which said that racism at football matches have actually got worse over the last 12 months,\" she says.\n\n\"We just look at what happened to Raheem Sterling when he got abused by those four Chelsea supporters.\n\n\"We can't be complacent about it and say 'things are getting better', because they're not.\"\n\nA version of this article entitled: \"Malorie Blackman: UK hate crimes inspired my new book\" appeared on 11 August 2019.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProtesters demanding another Brexit referendum reacted with jubilation as MPs voted to force a further delay.\n\nSupporters of the \"People's Vote\" converged on Westminster after marching en masse through central London calling for a \"final say\" on a new deal.\n\nAs MPs delivered a blow to the PM's strategy, there were loud cheers among demonstrators in Parliament Square.\n\nOrganisers said up to a million people attended the march, while police said it was \"very busy\".\n\nVideos posted to social media showed the moment the vote for the amendment proposed by former Tory MP Oliver Letwin was announced.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Members of the public heckled ministers near Parliament buildings\n\nMeanwhile, cabinet ministers Michael Gove and Jacob Rees-Mogg were heckled by protesters as they left Westminster and they both required police escorts.\n\nBusiness Secretary Andrea Leadsom tweeted that she had faced \"frightening\" abuse outside Parliament and was \"grateful\" to the police.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Andrea Leadsom 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\nProtesters travelled from across the UK to attend the march, which started on Park Lane ended in Parliament Square.\n\nAli Lothian, 60, and Mettje Hunneman, 49, travelled from Dundee and Edinburgh respectively overnight to join the protest.\n\nAli told the BBC she felt it was the last chance to show how strongly she felt about having another vote.\n\nMettje Hunneman, left, and Ali Lothian travelled from Dundee and Edinburgh for the march\n\nShe said: \"It's a big commitment - it's a whole weekend. But I regretted not coming last time. This time it was a no-brainer.\"\n\nMettje said the fact Parliament is sitting as well made it \"a momentous day\". \"I would not feel comfortable sitting at home - I've got pals who have got a gig tonight but I just couldn't be there.\"\n\nMillie Bishop-Morris, 17, made the journey from Plymouth with her mum and boyfriend.\n\n\"I think it's important that young people should be angry about this as well,\" she said.\n\nMillie, from Plymouth, has never been on a march before\n\nShe added: \"I just think Brexit has gone completely the wrong way. I want to be optimistic but I'm preparing myself for the worst.\"\n\nOne group of protesters were seen pulling a float depicting top aide Dominic Cummings using Mr Johnson as a puppet.\n\nWith \"Demonic Cummings\" splashed across its forehead, the figure on the float appears to be wearing a Nazi uniform, including an armband which reads Get Brexit Done, and has a Union Jack moustache.\n\nIt was deja vu for many people as they descended on the streets of central London once again to demand a final say on Brexit.\n\nSix months on from the last big rally, there was bright sunshine and blue skies to greet the protesters - which included many returning faces, as well as those marching for the first time.\n\nIn March a carnival vibe accompanied the slow walk from Park Lane to Parliament Square, but university student Ben Stocks said the atmosphere this time was \"more sombre\".\n\nAnother member of the crowd, Simon Gosden, 63, agreed, saying: \"There's more of an air of tension. We know we're getting down to the nitty gritty - it's all or nothing.\"\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell and Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson were among the politicians to address the rally at Parliament Square, alongside celebrities including Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart and TV presenter Sandi Toksvig.\n\nSir Patrick told the crowd they had proven another referendum was not a \"pipe dream\".\n\nHe said: \"You haven't just filled a nice bar in north London, you have taken over an entire city. You haven't just impacted the Brexit debate, you have transformed British politics.\"\n\nWell-known faces also joined in the walk to Parliament Square, including TV chef Rick Stein, who shared a picture from the march.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nAs of Saturday morning, more than £500,000 had been donated to support the protest, with cross-party politicians calling on people to get involved.\n\nPeople's Vote organisers are also asking people to sign a letter to Boris Johnson, EU leaders, MPs, and MEPs, asking them to allow \"the chance to check whether we want to proceed with Brexit\".\n\nIn an email to supporters this morning, Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said the letter \"asks them to honour our shared democratic values, it asks them not to turn away from us now and deny us the chance for a final say.\n\n\"Add your name to the letter now and send a message to the powerful.\"\n\nProtesters gather in Parliament Square at the heart of Westminster", "Josh Goodwin's Dad, Lester, died in a sidecar racing crash at the British Grasstrack Championships in 2007 when Josh was 13 years old.\n\nTwelve years after the accident Josh is a six time British Grasstrack Champion in the 500cc sidecar class.\n\nHe and passenger Liam were also the first 500cc British team ever to win a European Grasstrack Championship.\n\nEarlier this year Josh tried to beat his dad's six British titles, in his memory.\n\nSee more on Inside Out South on BBC One in the south of England on Monday 21 October at 19:30 BST and on the BBC iPlayer here.", "John Grieve headed the Metropolitan Police's anti-terrorist unit, and has spoken about the operation for the first time in a BBC Northern Ireland programme that will be aired on Monday\n\nNext week marks the 20th anniversary of the Canary Wharf bomb.\n\nThe explosion in the heart of London's Docklands marked the end of a 17-month ceasefire in IRA operations.\n\nNow, the man charged with catching those responsible has explained how the manhunt happened.\n\nJohn Grieve headed the Metropolitan Police's anti-terrorist unit, and has spoken about the operation for the first time in a BBC Northern Ireland programme that will be aired on Monday.\n\nDescribing the moment he knew something had happened, Commander Grieve said: \"You saw this whoosh of light, like a long, flat flash across the horizon.\n\n\"You could see looking right across London it was a big bomb that had gone off.\"\n\nThat \"whoosh of light\" was a 500kg bomb.\n\nIt had been loaded on to a lorry in south Armagh, taken across the Irish Sea, driven down the length of England, and parked under the train tracks in Britain's new financial district.\n\nHundreds of people were injured by flying glass in the aftermath of the explosion\n\nWhen Commander Grieve got to the scene, his worst fears were confirmed.\n\n\"Hundreds of people injured by flying glass, a scene of utter devastation... like anything you've ever seen in a movie. And that sort of flickering light from the fire brigade and torches... Like a scene from the apocalypse.\"\n\nTwo people were killed in the explosion, and many more were injured, some permanently.\n\nIt was the responsibility of the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist unit to try and catch the individuals responsible.\n\nAfter appealing on television for information, Commander Grieve soon got his first lead.\n\n\"A call comes in from someone who clearly knows what he's talking about who says 'I'm telling you that truck was here at River Road Barking, on this piece of waste ground'.\n\n\"Exhibits officers go out there, talk to him, look at what they've got, and instantly recognise that they've got something very useful.\"\n\nWhat was discovered was a truckers magazine inside a tyre.\n\n\"It was probably taken out of the vehicle to be burnt so it would disappear. I think they were spooked at that point,\" he said.\n\nThe magazine had a clear fingerprint on which became the first crucial piece of evidence.\n\nThe second print came after following motorway cameras back up to a Carlisle truck-stop.\n\nJames McCardle of Crossmaglen was charged in connection with the bombing\n\n\"It's lucky that the cleaner hadn't polished the ash-tray because there is his thumbprint on that,\" he said.\n\nThe third piece of evidence with that same thumbprint on was the Stenaline ticket from the Stranraer ferry.\n\nBut there was no one matching the print already on the police system.\n\nThe breakthrough came during a joint Scotland Yard and RUC operation on snipers in south Armagh.\n\nCommander Grieve said: \"I got a phone call saying we've arrested the sniper team, and I said congratulations that's wonderful.\n\n\"He said we've got the car, we've got the rifle, we've got them all alive which was really good, and he said the fingerprint officers had a look at the first set of fingerprints they've taken from the people we've arrested... and he just took one look at it and he said this is the triple thumbprint man.\"\n\nJames McCardle of Crossmaglen was charged. The RUC's senior investigating officer was Det Insp Alan Mains.\n\nFormer Congressman Bruce Morris sees the Canary Wharf bomb as a triumph for the IRA\n\nHe said: \"Not only was he caught for being in the car with the rifle, but also he was the suspect in the Canary Wharf bomb. And that was, in the policing world, just like winning the lottery.\"\n\nThe arrests were seen as the perfect example of a co-ordinated anti-terrorism operation, but others, like former Congressman Bruce Morris see the Canary Wharf bomb as a triumph for the IRA.\n\nHe said: \"The great irony for me is that Canary Wharf got the republicans to the table. The actions of the British are really 'yes you can bomb your way to the conference table'. That's really what Canary Wharf was.\"\n\nAfter the bomb the IRA reinstated it's ceasefire, Sinn Féin was brought round the table and the Good Friday Agreement was signed.\n\nThose convicted of the Canary Warf bomb were released months later under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe Docklands Bomb: Executing Peace will be broadcast on Monday 8 February at 21:00 GMT on BBC One Northern Ireland.", "Boris Johnson has sent an unsigned request to the EU for a delay to Brexit - followed by a signed one arguing against it.\n\nThe PM sent three letters in all - an unsigned photocopy of the request as outlined by the Benn Act; an explanatory note from the UK's ambassador to the EU; and a personal, signed, letter saying why he does not want a delay.\n\nThe UK Parliament has passed the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019. Its provisions now require Her Majesty's Government to seek an extension of the period provided under Article 50(3) of the Treaty on European Union, including as applied by Article 106a of the Euratom Treaty, currently due to expire at 11 p.m. GMT on 31 October 2019, until 11 p.m. GMT on 31 January 2020.\n\nI am writing therefore to inform the European Council that the United Kingdom is seeking a further extension to the period provided under Article 50(3) of the Treaty on European Union, including as applied by Article 106a of the Euratom Treaty. The United Kingdom proposes that this period should end at 11 p.m. GMT on 31 January 2020. If the parties are able to ratify before this date, the Government proposes that the period should be terminated early.\n\nPrime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland\n\nAs the United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the European Union, I invite your attention to the following matter.\n\nAttached is a letter sent as required by the terms of the European Union (Withdrawal) (No.2) Act 2019.\n\nIn terms of the next steps for parliamentary process, Her Majesty's Government will introduce the necessary legislation next week in order to proceed with ratification of the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nI would be grateful for your acknowledgement of receipt of this letter.\n\nIt was good to see you again at the European Council this week where we agreed the historic new deal to permit the orderly withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on October 31.\n\nI am deeply grateful to you, President Juncker and to all my fellow European leaders for the statesmanship and statecraft which enabled us to achieve this historic milestone. I should also register my appreciation for Michel Barnier and his team for their imagination and diplomacy as we concluded the negotiations.\n\nWhen I spoke in Parliament this morning, I noted the corrosive impact of the long delay in delivering the mandate of the British people from the 2016 referendum. I made clear that, while I believe passionately that both the UK and the EU will benefit from our decision to withdraw and develop a new relationship, that relationship will be founded on our deep respect and affection for our shared culture, civilisation, values and interests.\n\nWe will remain the EU's closest partner and friend. The deal we approved at last week's European Council is a good deal for the whole of the UK and the whole of the EU.\n\nRegrettably, Parliament missed the opportunity to inject momentum into the ratification process for the new Withdrawal Agreement. The UK Parliament Representative will therefore submit the request mandated by the EU (Withdrawal) (No.2) Act 2019 later today.\n\nIt is, of course, for the European Council to decide when to consider the request and whether to grant it. In view of the unique circumstances, while I regret causing my fellow leaders to devote more of their time and energy to a question I had hoped we had resolved last week, I recognise that you may need to convene a European Council.\n\nIf it would be helpful to you, I would of course be happy to attend the start of any A50 Council so that I could answer properly any question on the position of HM Government and progress in the ratification process at that time.\n\nMeanwhile, although I would have preferred a different result today, the Government will press ahead with ratification and introduce the necessary legislation early next week. I remain confident that we will complete that process by 31 October.\n\nIndeed, many of those who voted against the Government today have indicated their support for the new deal and for ratifying it without delay. I know that I can count on your support and that of our fellow leaders to move the deal forward, and I very much hope therefore that on the EU side also, the process can be completed to allow the agreement to enter into force, as the European Council Conclusions mandated.\n\nWhile it is open to the European Council to accede to the request mandated by Parliament or to offer an alternative extension period, I have made clear since becoming Prime Minister, and made clear to Parliament again today, my view, and the Government's position, that a further extension would damage the interests of the UK and our EU partners, and the relationship between us.\n\nWe must bring this process to a conclusion so that we can move to the next phase and build our new relationship on the foundations of our long history as neighbours and friends in this continent our peoples share. I am passionately committed to that endeavour.\n\nI am copying this letter to Presidents Juncker and Sassoli, and to members of the European Council.", "The ring is now safely back with Jo Carter\n\nA heartbroken woman who accidentally binned her engagement ring thanked recycling centre staff for finding it among piles of rubbish.\n\nShe said two workers at Five Lanes recycling centre, Caldicot, \"trawled through hundreds of bags\" to find it.\n\nJo Carter realised on Saturday she had lost it and it had been taken to the tip along with 15 other black bags.\n\nTwo Monmouthshire council workers spent four hours trying to find it.\n\nMr and Mrs Carter got engaged 15 years ago, but she did not put on the ring - valued at £3,000 a few years ago - very often.\n\nMrs Carter said: \"It has huge sentimental value and is also very expensive and not insured. This morning my husband Craig went to the tip and two amazing human beings trawled through hundreds of bags to find it.\n\n\"Their kindness and good hearts have had me in tears.\"\n\nNot far off trying to find a needle in a haystack\n\n\"I don't normally wear it - it's too big,\" she said.\n\n\"I've lost 10 stone since I had it and haven't worn it for a long time. It was at my mother's for years, but she gave it back to me a few months ago.\"\n\nIt had been kept on an old candle in her bathroom, and when she threw that out, the ring went with it.\n\n\"In the evening it dawned on me. I said to my husband 'Oh my God, it's in the candle, I've binned the candle',\" she added.\n\n\"By the time I realised, the tip had shut. My husband called last night and they said they couldn't promise but to show up in the morning.\n\n\"In all honesty I didn't think they'd find it, I spent most of the evening crying.\"\n\nAfter four hours, the workmen, Rhys and Darren, found the ring\n\nHowever, Mr Carter and workers Rhys and Darren were determined.\n\n\"Craig knew which bag it was in because it had all the things from the bathroom cupboard,\" Mrs Carter said.\n\n\"When they found that bag they carefully put all the contents out.\"\n\nMr and Mrs Carter thanked the workers, saying it showed the Monmouthshire community \"at its best\".\n\nThe couple bought the workers a box of beer each, a £25 food voucher and a £10 scratchcard.\n\nAs for the ring, Mrs Carter said: \"I'm going to give it back to my mum - she's more sensible.\"\n\nThe workers were rewarded for their efforts by the couple\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The pound slipped against the dollar as currency markets got their first chance to react to MPs backing a move to delay approval of the Brexit deal.\n\nMany banks in London had called in extra staff, expecting volatile trading after the first Saturday sitting in the House of Commons for 37 years.\n\nBut the pound's reaction was muted, slipping 0.6% against the dollar to $1.29, and down 0.4% against the euro.\n\nOn Friday, the pound had been trading at its highest level for five months.\n\nJeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at Oanda, said the fall in the currency was limited because \"despite more twists and turns than any other soap opera in history, a hard Brexit is now highly unlikely\".\n\nJane Foley, senior foreign exchange strategist at Rabobank, told the BBC's Today programme: \"[Investors] are a little bit more anxious certainly than they were at the end of last week. There was a lot of confidence going in to Saturday's vote that there would be something a little bit more constructive.\n\n\"Instead, of course, we've got this delay, so the lower pound this morning reflects the delay. But sterling hasn't sold off very much. If we go back 10 to 12 days, we were trading at $1.22, so we are significantly higher and this is of course related to optimism that Boris Johnson's government may have the numbers to push this deal through. This could still be done in a very short period of time.\n\n\"But of course, if we look at the medium term, there is still plenty of scope for volatility, there is still plenty of risk.\"\n\nDeutsche Bank, like many other banks, had set up additional staff to come in on Sunday expecting a strong reaction to Saturday's vote.\n\nBut it scaled back numbers after the weekend's events - which saw Prime Minister Boris Johnson send an unsigned request to the EU for a further delay, accompanied by another letter - signed this time - clarifying that was not his own personal position.\n\nEvents serious enough to require extra staffing out of normal trading hours are relatively rare in currency trading, normally linked to a big infrequent event such as an election with an uncertain outcome, for example.\n\nBut Russell Lascala, global head of FX at Deutsche Bank, said that, since the Brexit referendum, there had been five or six such events.\n\n\"The uncertainty has been going on for years. The market is begging for clarity, to be able to invest or not invest.\"\n\nSir Ian Cheshire, chairman of Barclays' UK operations, told the BBC that the deal on offer was \"acceptable\".\n\n\"No deal is perfect, but this deal is actually doable and it is, I think, very frustrating to see what appears to be a protracted process when most business leaders would like to see some certainty and get on,\" he said.\n\n\"The chances of yet another round of negotiations are extremely unlikely to yield anything significantly different and now the delay is beginning to affect consumer confidence, particularly investment confidence, and I think we have to push ahead and make the best of what we've got coming down the track.\"\n\nCurrency analysts say they expect the next strong movement in the pound to be when the Brexit deal is voted on in Parliament.\n\nHowever, after Saturday's vote, many believe a no-deal Brexit is now less likely. US investment bank Goldman Sachs, which issues regular updates to its clients, now thinks there is a 5% chance of a no-deal Brexit, down from 10% previously.", "Ahead of the launch of his most ambitious series yet, broadcaster Sir David Attenborough talks to the BBC about his cult status, a lifetime protecting the planet and finally finding its most elusive animal.\n\nThis year's Glastonbury Festival was headlined by Stormzy, The Killers, Kylie and The Cure, but the highlight for many was the surprise appearance of a 93-year-old knight of the realm.\n\nSir David Attenborough, who was there to promote his new series Seven Worlds, One Planet, walked out on to the Pyramid Stage to rapturous applause, thanked everybody on Worthy Farm for not drinking out of plastic bottles and urged them to keep looking out for all creatures great and small.\n\nSeveral months on, he admits he finds his growing influence on the environmentally woke youth of today a bit bizarre.\n\n\"It's very odd,\" he laughs. \"But the fact remains I've been at it 60 years. You can say nobody under the age of 75 can have been without my voice coming from the corner of the room at various times and that must have an effect.\n\n\"It's a huge advantage for me because you go there with some sort of reputation and people are aware of you, and in a sense you've been part of the family for quite a long time, which is an extraordinary obligation really and a privilege.\n\n\"I'm sure there's a hell of a lot of young people saying 'for God's sake why don't they move over, give the others a chance,'\" he modestly adds.\n\nIn truth, no-one is saying that.\n\nShowstopper: Sir David Attenborough addresses tens of thousands of festival-goers on Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage\n\nThe broadcaster, who recently had a boat named in his honour, was listed as one of the 100 Greatest Britons in a BBC poll in 2002.\n\nSince then, his stock has risen exponentially due to natural history shows like Planet Earth, Dynasties and Blue Planet II - which brought the issue of plastic waste to the public's attention and bumped climate change up the government's agenda.\n\nLast week, more than 80,000 people applied for just 300 tickets for an early screening of his new documentary, which arrives at what Sir David calls \"the most critical moment on earth since the continents formed\".\n\nThe series, narrated by the \"rock star\" - as BBC boss Tony Hall introduced him earlier in the day - focuses on the human impact on climate change, animal diversity, poaching and deforestation across all seven continents.\n\nThe latest scientific research revealed the effects of climate change are speeding up, as world leaders met to discuss it in New York last month.\n\n\"At last nations are coming together and recognising we all live on the same planet,\" Sir David acknowledges. \"All these seven worlds are actually one and we are dependent on it for every mouthful of food we eat and every breath of air we take.\n\n\"We have it in our hands and we've made a tragic, desperate mess of it so far.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBy sheer coincidence, the press launch for the show occurs on the same day environmental pressure group Extinction Rebellion begin their two-week global protest.\n\nAnd while the presenter won't really be drawn on their methods, or that of political activists like Greta Thunberg (\"they are young people and their voices will be heard\"), he does admit his shows may have helped viewers the world over to open their eyes to \"the facts\".\n\n\"I don't think I've made a series in the last 40 years where I haven't made the end an appeal about caring for the natural world,\" he says.\n\n\"Its an extraordinary thing. At the time I daresay people thought we were sort of cranks or something.\n\n\"But as it's gone on and on and on and we've repeated it on and on and on - 'not wasting things, not polluting things' and so on - suddenly you hit the right note.\"\n\nA colony of young penguin chicks wait for their parents to return with food in Andrews Bay, South Georgia\n\nSir David Attenborough (left) and director Jonny Keeling discuss the script while filming in Iceland\n\n\"With Blue Planet II,\" he goes on, \"suddenly the world was electrified about the crime of chucking plastic into the ocean that can throttle and poison creatures, including ourselves.\n\n\"Quite what it is that makes the messages we all care for ring the bell, is very difficult to say. I dare say if we knew exactly how to do it we'd do it more frequently.\"\n\nThe BBC Natural History unit's biggest project to date, which features music by Sia and Hans Zimmer, involved more than 1,500 people globe-trotting to 41 countries, over several years.\n\nCutting-edge technology - including portable drones capable of shooting in 4K - enabled them to delve inside caves, volcanoes, forests, swamps, jungles and blizzards, to capture images of animals that are new to science and new patterns of behaviour.\n\nFor director/executive producer Jonny Keeling, it was vitally important to place conservation stories at the heart of the series, so viewers can understand why certain animals are in decline. Such as the tale of the grey-headed albatross and its increasing struggle to recognise its own chicks once they are blown off the nest.\n\nThere are positive stories in there too though, notably how whales have come back from the brink of extinction since whaling was banned in 1986. His team were relieved to capture them on camera on just the final day of a seven-week shoot.\n\n\"That's really important as you need to show people the hope and actually when we do something we can make a massive difference,\" says Keeling.\n\n\"In a matter of two decades we can turn things around - we can stop the whales disappearing or we can save sharks.\"\n\nThe population of southern right whales was reduced from 35,000 to having only 35 females. Since their protection it has grown back to 2,000\n\nGrey-headed albatross chicks sit above the wet ground, in an attempt to stay warm and not freeze to death in storms\n\n\"I think there's some key species,\" he adds, \"If they're looked after you can bring back a whole eco-system and its richness.\n\n\"The best solution to climate change is preserving the natural world, preserving forests and oceans and looking after the animals.\n\n\"It's a huge cliché but there are seven billion people on earth and if seven billion all start doing the right thing…\"\n\nSuch is the global interest in any show connected to Sir David that schools in India and South Africa are dialled into the Q&A session following its London world premiere.\n\nA boy in Mumbai enthusiastically asks the man himself what he can do to help the planet.\n\n\"The best motto to think about is to not waste things,\" replies TV's favourite teacher (sorry Walter White fans).\n\n\"Don't waste electricity, paper, food. Live the way you want to live but just don't waste. Look after the natural world and the animals in it and the plants in it too, this is their planet as well as ours.\"\n\nFinally, after more than 50 years of searching, Seven Worlds also sees Sir David catch up with his most evasive animal yet - \"a wonderful creature\" called the golden haired blue-faced snub-nosed snow monkey.\n\n\"I read about them in a scientific paper in the 60s,\" he recalls. \"I always had it in the back of my mind, and blow me, if this lot found it!\n\n\"In the Asia programme I think it's one of the stars.\"\n\nAnd another name fit to grace the Pyramid Stage.\n\nPlease welcome to the stage... the golden haired blue-faced snub-nosed snow monkeys\n\nSeven Worlds, One Planet begins on BBC One at 18:15 GMT on Sunday 27 October.", "Nicola Sturgeon said the Commons defeat was a \"severe blow\" to Mr Johnson\n\nMPs putting Boris Johnson's Brexit deal on hold is a \"severe blow\" to the prime minister, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe Scottish first minister reacted after MPs voted to withhold backing for the agreement negotiated with EU chiefs until exit legislation is passed.\n\nThe UK government will now put forward such a bill on Monday, with a view to a decisive vote on it on Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the vote was a \"severe blow\" to Mr Johnson's \"plan to bludgeon his bad deal through\" the Commons.\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"not daunted or dismayed\" by the result, and said he still intended for the UK to leave under the terms of his deal on October 31.\n\nHowever, he is compelled to ask the EU for an extension later today under the terms of legislation previously passed by opposition MPs.\n\nThe Commons held a Saturday sitting for the first time in 37 years to consider the exit deal agreed with European leaders earlier in the week.\n\nMPs did not ultimately vote on the deal itself, after they backed a cross-party amendment from former Tory MP Oliver Letwin by 322 votes to 306.\n\nThe effect of the amendment is to withhold approval of the deal until legislation to enact it is passed, to prevent the UK from leaving the EU without a deal if there were any delay to the legislation.\n\nThe government has now moved to table a withdrawal agreement bill, with Mr Johnson telling MPs: \"Next week the government will introduce the legislation needed for us to leave the EU with our new deal on October 31, and I hope that our EU colleagues and friends will not be attracted by delay - I don't think they will be.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"For the people of Scotland, they now have the chance.... to take back control of their fisheries.\"\n\nOpposition parties are likely to seek to amend the legislation as it goes through the Commons, to include provisions such as a confirmatory referendum.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the delay meant the deal could be \"subjected to real scrutiny\", posting on Twitter: \"PM sounding deflated and defeated - he knows this is a severe blow to his plan to bludgeon his bad deal through.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Johnson needed 320 votes to get his agreement through the Commons, but was facing an uphill battle after losing the support of the DUP.\n\nWhile he was backed in the Letwin vote by the 13 Scottish Conservative MPs, the amendment was passed with the backing of the bulk of Labour's members, including seven from Scottish seats, the 35 SNP MPs, and the four Lib Dems from north of the border.\n\nThe prime minister now faces the prospect of having to write to European leaders requesting a fresh extension to the Brexit deadline, under the terms of the \"Benn Act\" passed by MPs in September.\n\nMr Johnson was warned that he could end up in a Scottish court on Monday if he refuses to send the letter.\n\nCourt of Session judges said they could meet to examine the question of whether to use the court's powers to effectively sign the letter on Mr Johnson's behalf.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Blackford: \"Scotland has been totally and utterly shafted by this prime minister and this Tory government.\"\n\nThere were clashes in the Commons before the debate proper even began, with the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford branding Mr Johnson's effort \"even worse than Theresa May's deal\", which was rejected by MPs on three occasions.\n\nHe said the prime minister \"didn't even consider giving Scotland a fair deal\".\n\nMr Blackford added: \"This is a deal that would see Scotland shafted by this UK government, left at an economic disadvantage, with Scotland's views and interests totally disregarded by this prime minister and his government.\n\n\"He and his cronies in Number 10 don't care about Scotland - this Tory government has sold Scotland out and once again let Scotland down.\"\n\nMr Johnson replied that he had sealed \"a great deal\" for Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said: \"For the people of Scotland, they now have the chance, championed by wonderful Scottish Conservative MPs, to take back control of their fisheries from the end of next year and allow the people of Scotland at last to enjoy the benefits of their spectacular marine wealth - in a way they would be denied under the SNP, who would hand back control of Scottish fishing to Brussels.\"\n\nThe latest proposal removes the much-disputed \"backstop\" proposals for the Irish border post-Brexit, and would instead see Northern Ireland remain in the UK's customs territory - while adhering to a limited set of EU rules on goods. Representatives in Northern Ireland would be able to decide whether to continue this arrangement every four years.\n\nEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said it was a \"fair and balanced agreement\" - and suggested that it was the final deal on offer, saying there would be \"no other prolongation\".\n\nMs Sturgeon has rejected this, saying: \"The alternative to this deal is the Benn Act, which would require an extension request. That's the law of the land. So anybody who says that it's a choice between this deal and no deal is frankly not being straight with people.\"", "Police have asked anyone with information to come forward\n\nTwo 17-year-old boys have been stabbed to death at a house party.\n\nPolice and paramedics were called to a house in Archford Croft in Milton Keynes at about midnight on Saturday.\n\nThe teenagers have been named locally as Dom Ansah and Ben Gillham-Rice, as relatives said their \"hearts are broken\".\n\nOne of the boys died at the scene and the other in hospital. Thames Valley Police said no arrests had been made in the double murder inquiry.\n\nA 17-year-old boy and a 23-year-old man were also hurt and were taken to hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries, the force said.\n\nDet Ch Supt Ian Hunter said the stabbings happened \"at a private house party\" and those involved in the violence \"are all likely to have known each other\".\n\nHe said police believed the victims had been invited to the party, which was attended by 15 to 20 people.\n\nOfficers are carrying out inquiries and have cordoned off the area\n\nOfficers are expected to remain at the scene, which is on a cul-de-sac in a housing estate in the Emerson Valley area, for several days.\n\nStains of what appeared to be blood could be seen on the front door of a house inside the police cordon.\n\nTwo of Dom Ansah's cousins laid flowers at the cordon on Sunday afternoon.\n\n\"He's come here with his long-time best friend since childhood, comes to a party and both of their lives just got ripped away from them,\" said one, who did not give her name.\n\n\"He was just so respectful to like his family and friends. Many, many people's hearts are broken.\"\n\nFamily members visited the scene on Sunday to leave flowers for the two boys\n\nA neighbour said she believed the gathering was a party for a teenage girl living in the house, while others said a birthday banner had been hanging at the door earlier in the evening.\n\nShe said she saw police cars and ambulances at the scene after being woken by her husband during the night.\n\n\"I was so terrified,\" she said. \"I've never seen such a scene until today.\"\n\nAnother neighbour, who lives in an adjacent cul-de-sac, said: \"This gang of kids have been hanging around Archford Croft, it's all gang-related.\n\n\"I think it's just because there was a house party and then the trouble started from there.\"\n\nMilton Keynes South MP Iain Stewart said he would offer assistance to the families affected.\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\nDet Ch Supt Hunter appealed for \"anyone who has any information which could help with our inquiries or anyone who witnessed any suspicious activity\" to come forward.\n\n\"Thames Valley Police is in the early stages of a double murder investigation after two teenage boys have tragically died in this shocking incident,\" he said.\n\n\"Even if you think details may be insignificant, please come forward and speak to police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As the Channel Tunnel celebrates its 25th anniversary, the BBC was given unprecedented access to life behind the scenes and beneath the sea bed.\n\nThe journey from Folkestone in Kent to the terminal in France takes 35 minutes.\n\nBut here it is condensed to just over a minute, and the journey features the drivers who make three round-trips a day.\n\nThe Channel Tunnel: Life on the Inside is on Wednesday 9 October at 19:30 on BBC Two and on the iPlayer for 30 days thereafter.", "All smiles: Qantas crew celebrate after the 19-hour journey from New York to Sydney\n\nAustralian carrier Qantas has completed a test of the longest non-stop commercial passenger flight as part of research on how the journey could affect pilots, crew and passengers.\n\nThe Boeing 787-9 with 49 people on board took 19 hours and 16 minutes to fly from New York to Sydney, a 16,200-km (10,066-mile) route.\n\nNext month, the company plans to test a non-stop flight from London to Sydney.\n\nQantas expects to decide on whether to start the routes by the end of 2019.\n\nIf it goes ahead with them, the services would start operating in 2022 or 2023.\n\nNo commercial aircraft yet has the range to fly such an ultra-long haul route with a full passenger and cargo load, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nTo give the plane sufficient fuel range to avoid re-fuelling, the Qantas flight took off with maximum fuel, restricted baggage load and no cargo.\n\nPassengers set their watches to Sydney time after boarding and were kept awake until night fell in eastern Australia to reduce their jetlag.\n\nSix hours later, they were served a high-carbohydrate meal and the lights were dimmed to encourage them to sleep.\n\nOn-board tests included monitoring pilot brain waves, melatonin levels and alertness as well as exercise classes for passengers and analysis of the impact of crossing so many time zones on people's bodies.\n\n\"This is a really significant first for aviation. Hopefully, it's a preview of a regular service that will speed up how people travel from one side of the globe to the other,\" said Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce.\n\nCompetition in the ultra-long haul aviation market has intensified in recent years, with various airlines flying extended routes.\n\nSingapore Airlines launched a near-19 hour journey from Singapore to New York last year, which is currently the world's longest regular commercial flight.\n\nAlso last year, Qantas began a 17-hour non-stop service from Perth to London, while Qatar Airways operates a 17.5-hour service between Auckland and Doha.", "Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has told the BBC's Andrew Marr the prime minister had \"proved the doubters wrong\" by securing a new Brexit deal with Brussels and he was confident the UK would still leave on Halloween, without the need for an EU extension.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nChampions Manchester City narrowed the gap on Premier League leaders Liverpool with a comfortable victory over Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.\n\nTwo weeks on from a surprise defeat by Wolves, Pep Guardiola's side made a blistering start to proceedings but had to wait until the 39th minute for the breakthrough to arrive, as Gabriel Jesus met Bernardo Silva's cross with a clever, flicked header.\n\nIt took just 93 seconds for David Silva to double the advantage, the Spaniard allowing Raheem Sterling's delightful chipped pass to drop over his shoulder before volleying past goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey.\n\nHennessey produced quality saves to deny both Bernardo Silva and Jesus twice apiece as City were prevented from running riot, but Christian Benteke's powerful header struck the crossbar as the hosts failed to capitalise.\n\nAs City sought to extend their lead in the second half, the video assistant referee (VAR) upheld referee Anthony Taylor's decision not to award a penalty after Wilfried Zaha and Kevin de Bruyne collided in the Palace penalty area.\n\nGuardiola's side return to second in the table following Leicester City's earlier victory over Burnley, five points behind leaders Liverpool, with Jurgen Klopp's side set to face Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday (16:30 BST).\n\nBeaten 2-0 by Wolves before the international break, Guardiola's side arrived at Selhurst Park having lost two of their previous four league games and desperate not to concede further ground to leaders Liverpool.\n\nRoy Hodgson's in-form Eagles, last beaten at home in the league by City themselves back in April, promised to provide a tricky assignment. It was, ultimately, one they overcame with relative ease.\n\nSetting up without any recognised centre-backs - midfielders Fernandinho and Rodri lining up centrally between wing-backs Joao Cancelo and Benjamin Mendy - the visitors launched wave after wave of attack but were initially frustrated by Hennessey.\n\nJesus was unable to direct Kevin de Bruyne's excellent cross on target within the opening five minutes, while Bernardo Silva's curled effort - bound for the top-corner - was met by Hennessey's fingertips as the visitors peppered his goal with 11 first-half attempts.\n\nStriker Jesus was given the nod ahead of Sergio Aguero, who was involved in a car crash on his way to training on Wednesday, and the Brazilian repaid his manager's faith with a moment of quality to score the crucial opener.\n\nOffering Guardiola much food for thought, Jesus has now scored in each of his last seven starts for City - and 21 times in his last 20 games when starting in all.\n\nWhile Silva's exquisite finish from Sterling's equally delicate pass before half-time suggested the flood gates had opened, City were uncharacteristically unable to add more goals as Jesus and Sterling both passed up glorious second-half opportunities.\n\nThat did not matter. Despite their recent inconsistency, two quick-fire first-half goals were enough to extend their impressive away record to 11 victories from their past 12 in the top flight - and a favour from cross-city rivals United on Sunday would a big help as the champions look to get back on track.\n\nNo joy for Palace despite Hennessey's best efforts\n\nIndicative of the impressive, yet somewhat under-the-radar, start Palace have made to this campaign, Roy Hodgson's side began this match with the potential to leapfrog their opponents in the table and climb into the top four after nine games.\n\nThe hosts were therefore expected to make life rather uncomfortable for Guardiola's stuttering side, but despite Hennessey's superb efforts they were unable to take advantage of the champions' makeshift defence.\n\nThere were unconvincing moments at the back for City, with Wilfried Zaha offering a capable threat on the counter, but their best opportunities did not arrive until the closing stages.\n\nHennessey touched the ball more than any of his team-mates in the opening half an hour, his initial invincibility suggesting his side could add to their tally of three clean sheets in four home matches this term.\n\nIt was, forgivably, two moments of quality that unravelled Hodgson's best laid plans.\n\nThe Eagles, who had won back to back league games, enjoyed a promising final period, however Ederson was equal to what they could offer - most notably keeping out Zaha's powerful strike from close range and tipping Benteke's effort onto the bar - but Palace remain sixth despite the defeat.\n\n'We still have our hat pegged nicely' - what they managers said\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"After the international break, to play here at Selhurst Park and create a lot of chances was good. We played well but didn't score too many - but we didn't concede. We conceded chances at the end but Ederson made two incredible saves. It's three points and we move forward.\n\n\"We enjoyed the second goal - it was nice. But in the Premier League we have to score the third and fourth because it was difficult in the end with the pressure.\n\nCrystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson: \"They were two very good goals, they had had a lot of possession and they had been pushing us back. I am pleased and proud of the way the players did not drop their heads. I take a lot of comfort from that.\n\n\"We are not in a bad place and we are not in a much worse place after today's game. We could have been if we had collapsed. We have still got our hat pegged nicely in place and we have to accept sometimes we will come across a team as good as they were today.\n\nOn goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey's performance: \"He was excellent, absolutely excellent. I was pleased because he's had to wait for his chance because Vicente Guaita has been so good. He has been working hard in the background to show us he's still a good goalkeeper and he showed us that today.\"\n• None Manchester City have won 12 of their 14 away Premier League games in 2019 - at least three more than any other club.\n• None In all competitions, City have won 16 of their last 19 meetings with Crystal Palace, scoring 47 goals.\n• None Gabriel Jesus scored his 50th goal for Manchester City in all competitions.\n• None Jesus has been directly involved in 58 goals in his 64 starts across all competitions for Manchester City.\n• None David Silva has been directly involved in eight goals in his last seven league starts against Crystal Palace.\n• None Raheem Sterling has 13 goals and seven assists in 16 appearances for Manchester City and England combined in 2019-20.\n• None Crystal Palace have lost 10 home league games since the start of last season. Of ever-present Premier League sides in that time, only Burnley and Newcastle have suffered more such defeats on home soil.\n\nManchester City host Atalanta in the Champions League group stages on Tuesday (20:00 BST), before welcoming Aston Villa to Etihad Stadium on Saturday (12:30 BST).\n\nMeanwhile, Crystal Palace travel to face Arsenal on Sunday (16:30 BST).\n• None Offside, Manchester City. João Cancelo tries a through ball, but Gabriel Jesus is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Jordan Ayew (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is too high.\n• None Attempt saved. Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Cheikhou Kouyaté.\n• None Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by João Cancelo.\n• None Attempt blocked. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) hits the left post with a header from the right side of the six yard box. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by David Silva.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Raheem Sterling with a through ball.\n• None Attempt saved. Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Patrick van Aanholt with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAndy Murray broke down in tears after winning his first singles title since career-saving hip surgery by beating Stan Wawrinka at the European Open.\n\nThe Briton, 32, launched a stunning comeback from a set and a break down to win 3-6 6-4 6-4 in Antwerp to take his first title for more than two years.\n\nMurray had surgery in January and was playing in just his seventh tournament since returning to singles.\n\nHe described it as \"one of the biggest\" wins of his career.\n\n\"It means a lot,\" the three-time Grand Slam champion said. \"The last few years have been extremely difficult.\n\n\"I didn't expect to be in this position at all. I'm happy, very happy.\"\n\nFellow Grand Slam champion Wawrinka, who has also had a number of recent injury issues, said: \"To see you back at this level, it's amazing.\n\n\"We're all really happy. I'm sad I lost today but I'm really happy to see you back.\"\n\nA title 961 days - and one new hip - later\n\nAt the Australian Open in January a tearful Murray said he feared his hip problem would force him to retire after the tournament.\n\nBut the Scot made a promising return to doubles action in June and then made his singles comeback in August and in doing so became the first player to resume his career after a hip resurfacing operation.\n\nHis comeback had been encouraging, reaching the quarter-finals of the China Open, but on Sunday in Belgium he produced his best performance yet against a fellow Grand Slam champion who was playing close to his best.\n\nMurray played well in the first set but was overcome by Wawrinka's scintillating hitting which continued into the second set when the Swiss hit four winners to win Murray's serve for a set and a break lead.\n\nMurray crucially saved two more break points soon after to stop himself falling two breaks behind and then won three games in a row before forcing the decider through his trademark athletic tennis.\n\nBoth players looked nervous at the start of the third set with four consecutive breaks of serve but at 4-4 Murray saved two more critical break points, the second seen off with a big first serve.\n\nIn the following game, Wawrinka surged ahead but at 40-15 he hit a volley to a Murray lob that looked to be going wide and then Murray hit a running passing shot winner to move to deuce.\n\nShortly afterwards, on Murray's first match point, Wawrinka hit a forehand wide and, after the pair embraced at the net, Murray was visibly emotional as he waved to the crowd.\n\nFormer British number one Greg Rusedski: \"Andy Murray has won his first ATP singles title with a metal hip. Incredible effort. What a competitor to win from a set and a break down against Stan the man. Who would have believed it. Amazing.\"\n\nGreat Britain's Davis Cup captain Leon Smith: \"An astonishing effort Andy Murray. So so proud of you!!!!\"\n\nBBC North America editor Jon Sopel: \"Best news of the day. Who'd have thought it? Andy your spirit and your fight are remarkable. Skill has never been in doubt.\"\n\nFormer world number three Ivan Ljubicic: \"Hip hip hurray Murray. Amazing stuff. Congrats to the whole team.\"\n\nJamie Delgado, Murray's coach: \"Back in the winners circle again!!! Amazing Andy Murray and of course a big well done to all the team.\"\n\nTo win the match - from a set down, three games to one, and two further break points down - was remarkable.\n\nBut to win the title nine months after an operation which was likely to end his career at the highest level is an astonishing feat.\n\nThis was just Murray's 17th match back. Never mind the hip; stamina is usually a major issue after such a long absence from the tour.\n\nNot in Murray's case, it appears. Here he was completing, and winning, a fourth match in four days at the end of four weeks on the road.\n\nHe will finish the year just outside the world's top 100 after an unimaginably successful and beneficial run of seven tournaments.\n\nMurray now returns home, where his wife is soon to give birth to their third child, and will then finish the season with his Great Britain team-mates at November's Davis Cup finals.\n\nElsewhere in men's tennis, Canada's Denis Shapovalov won his first ATP Tour title at the Stockholm Open by beating Filip Krajinovic 6-4 6-4 in the final.\n\nShapovalov, 20, hit 16 aces and lost just two points on his first serve in a one-sided match in which he faced just one break point\n\nThe world number 34 will look to carry his good form into the 21-and-under Next Gen ATP Finals starting on 5 November in Milan.\n\nRussia's Andrey Rublev celebrated his 22nd birthday by winning the Kremlin Cup for his second career title.\n\nRublev beat France's Adrian Mannarino, who was also runner-up last year, 6-4, 6-0.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Andy Murray produced a fine comeback to beat Ugo Humbert at the European Open and reach his first ATP singles final for two years.\n\nMurray, who had career-saving hip surgery in January, showed his trademark stubbornness to win 3-6 7-5 6-2 in two hours 23 minutes.\n\nHe will face fellow three-time Grand Slam winner Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland in Sunday's final.\n\n\"It's been a big surprise to me. I'm happy to be into the final,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking to Amazon Prime, he added: \"It's been a long road to get back to this point\n\n\"I certainly didn't expect it to come so soon since I started playing again.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nIt is 32-year-old Murray's first final appearance since the Dubai Championships in March 2017, when he was then the world number one.\n\nNo player had ever returned from a hip resurfacing operation to play singles before Murray.\n\nAnd he has managed to reach a final just two months after making his singles return, at Winston-Salem in August.\n\nThe Scot has played four tournaments in just over four weeks and showed signs of fatigue and frustration in the opening set.\n\nHe struggled on his serve, producing three double faults in the first six games, which allowed 21-year-old Humbert to force the first break of the match.\n\nBy contrast, Humbert wrapped up the first set with an ace, and kept up his aggressive play with some deep hitting in the second set.\n\nThe two traded breaks in the second before Humbert, serving to force a tie-break, lost his rhythm, and handed Murray the set on a double fault.\n\nFive games in a row went to Murray, allowing him to open up a 3-0 lead in the decider, and his serving grew stronger as the match progressed.\n\nHe appeared to have some trouble with his right elbow, which may have affected his serve, but he finished the match with six aces and won 77% of points on his first serve.\n\nMurray holds an 11-8 head-to-head record over Switzerland's Wawrinka, 34, and both players have struggled with injuries in recent years.\n\nThe Scot injured his hip in his 2017 French Open semi-final against Wawrinka, while the Swiss had a disrupted two years with a knee injury.\n\n\"Stan's a brilliant player. We've played against each other in some big matches in the past in big tournaments,\" Murray added.\n\n\"He's had his injury troubles as well the last couple of years and done great to get back to the top of the game.\"\n\nAntwerp is likely to be Murray's last tournament of the year, with the possible exception of the Davis Cup, for which Great Britain will announce their squad on Monday.\n\nHe could still leave early if his wife, Kim, goes into early labour with their third child.", "The country remains deeply divided over the likely impact of Brexit, but one clear winner has already emerged - politics departments at universities.\n\nThere has been a 28% surge in applications to politics courses since the debate about Europe took off in the run-up to the 2016 referendum.\n\nApplications went up by from 34,275 in 2013 to 47,445 in 2018 - according to the UCAS, which oversees admissions.\n\nLiverpool University has trebled the size of its politics department.\n\nThat trend is largely reflected at institutions across the country and the number of students accepted on to politics courses in the five years to 2018 rose by 27% to 7,990, according to UCAS.\n\nLiverpool University politics lecturer Jon Tonge says that other dramatic political events, such as the Scottish independence referendum and the 2015 general election, have also boosted applications.\n\nAnd the fierce, often toxic, nature of the debate on social media has also captured the attention of young people, he said.\n\n\"It is a terrible thing to say, but the more unhealthy and divisive the debate is, the better it is for politics departments in terms of bums on seats,\" said Prof Tonge.\n\nIt is all a far cry from the Blair years, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, dubbed the \"tranquil age of politics\" by Prof Tonge, when \"consensus\" reigned and politics courses were \"not recruiting in huge numbers\".\n\nChristopher Massey, a lecturer at Teesside University, which has just launched a BA (Hons) course in politics, agrees that Brexit has had a big impact on student numbers but Donald Trump's presidency and protest movements such as Extinction Rebellion have also played a part.\n\n\"You cannot avoid politics now - it has even ousted celebrity culture in the news headlines, as something that shapes their lives,\" he says.\n\nTed Hollas and Harry Souter are hoping to study politics at university\n\nTed Hollas and Harry Souter are A-level politics students at York College and both are hoping to study the subject at university.\n\nTed, 17, who describes himself as \"right wing, but socially liberal\", said: \"I hear people saying they are so bored with Brexit but I am really interested in it. I follow every twist of it in Parliament and I enjoy the drama.\n\n\"I would like a career in politics. I want to get try to get in there and make a difference.\n\n\"I imagine its is very intimidating, and a lot of pressure, but I am not going to let that put me off.\"\n\nHarry, 18, a self-described left-winger, said: \"I got interested in politics through social media.\n\n\"When Brexit and Trump being elected happened there was so much more discourse about politics. Because people have such strong opinions you end up getting into it more. It feels more important.\n\n\"I like to know what I am talking about and studying politics helps with that. It is rewarding to be able to have a discussion with somebody and explain how you feel.\"\n\nTim Evans, professor of business and political economy at Middlesex University, says politics is a lot less predictable - and lot \"messier\" - than it used to be, and students do not fit neatly into categories like Leave and Remain.\n\n\"I think it's the most exciting time to study and to teach politics since the rise of the libertarian right in the 1980s and the collapse of the Soviet Union,\" he says.\n\nBut like other academics he is at pains to stress that Brexit is not the only game in town. Students are also looking to the global picture and issues such as climate change and artificial intelligence.\n\nRobert Lamb, head of politics at Exeter University, says: \"Our students have chosen to study politics because they are increasingly desperate to make sense of the tumultuous and bewildering times in which they live.\"\n\nOthers see Brexit as a narrow, parochial issue which can put young people off politics.\n\n\"The increase in interest in studying politics should not be seen only as a result of dramatic developments in British politics around Brexit but wider shifts in global politics,\" says Dibyesh Anand, Professor of International Relations and Head of the School of Social Sciences, at Westminster University.\n\n\"In fact, in our case, a very diverse student body has meant relatively tepid interest in British politics but a high interest in politics beyond Britain as well as international relations.\n\n\"To an extent, this could also illustrate a challenge British politics faces - it remains dominated by white men - and students from BME background, especially women, do not feel it is welcoming of them.\"", "At least 15 people have died and 13 others are missing after a dam collapse at a gold mine in Siberia.\n\nThe dam, on the Seiba river in the region of Krasnoyarsk, burst after heavy rain on Saturday, flooding cabins where workers lived.\n\nRussia's health ministry said 14 miners were taken to hospital, including three with severe injuries.\n\nA criminal investigation has been opened over allegations the dam violated safety regulations.\n\n\"The hydro-technical facility was self-constructed and, I believe, all rules I can and cannot think of were violated,\" Yuri Lapshin, the head of the Krasnoyarsk regional government, was quoted by RIA news agency as saying.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has ordered officials to provide assistance and investigate the reasons behind the accident, his spokesman has said.\n\nSeveral small cabins, where workers are thought to have lived, were swept away by the flood waters, the Interfax news agency reported.\n\nThe mine was in a remote location about 160km (100 miles) south of the city of Krasnoyarsk, itself some 4,000km (2,500 miles) east of Moscow.\n\nDozens of emergency workers have been searching for the missing and have been helping the injured.\n\nPeople are being evacuated from a nearby village of Kuragino because of the raised water levels from the Seiba River and local flooding, Russian media reported.\n\nA local governor said about 80 workers lived in the cabins impacted by the floods", "The European Union (EU) has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay until 31 January 2020, with an option to leave sooner if a deal is approved by Parliament.\n\nDelaying the UK's exit date requires an extension to Article 50, the part of the Lisbon Treaty that sets out what happens when a country decides it wants to leave the EU.\n\nArticle 50 allows an initial two-year period for negotiations on the terms of exiting.\n\nIt was triggered by then Prime Minister Theresa May on 29 March 2017, giving an exit date of 29 March 2019. But this date was extended twice, first to 12 April and then until 31 October, after Mrs May's deal was rejected in successive votes in the House of Commons.\n\nNow it is being extended for a third time - so how does this process work?\n\nThe UK cannot make a decision about extending Article 50 on its own - it has to send a request to the 27 other EU countries.\n\nAll 27 have to agree in order to secure an extension.\n\nOn Saturday 19 October, Mr Johnson sent a letter, as he was compelled to by a law known as the Benn Act. The law stated he must send an extension request should he fail to get a Brexit deal through the House of Commons by the end of 19 October.\n\nMr Johnson also sent a second letter saying he believed that a \"further extension would damage the interests of the UK and our EU partners\".\n\nNevertheless, on 28 October the EU agreed to the extension proposed in his first letter.\n\nThe EU was not obliged to say yes.\n\nOnce it received the UK's delay request, in the form of a letter, the 27 leaders consulted with each other on their decision. It was then made following a meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels.\n\nIf EU leaders had decided to offer a longer extension they would have been likely to have met in person to set conditions of the extension.\n\nIt's worth pointing out that Article 50 can also be revoked - effectively cancelling Brexit.\n\nThe UK can in theory do that without consulting anyone else. That would mean that Brexit would not happen and the UK would remain in the EU on the same terms it has now.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are the only party to say that would they would revoke Article 50 without a referendum if they won a majority in a general election.\n\nThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a revocation should be \"unequivocal and unconditional\", suggesting that the ECJ would take a dim view of any attempt to withdraw an Article 50 notification and then resubmit it again a short time later.", "The IRA planned to knock out the power supply to the south east of England in the final years of its bombing campaign, a former insider has claimed.\n\nDetails are revealed in the final episode of the BBC series Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History.\n\nInsiders describe a battle of wits between the IRA and British intelligence.\n\nWhen the British Government refused to admit Sinn Féin to peace talks in the mid-1990s, Canary Wharf was bombed.\n\nTwo people were killed and damage was estimated at £150m in the attack in February 1996.\n\nIn June of the same year, the IRA exploded what was reported as the largest bomb to be planted in Great Britain since World War Two.\n\nMore than 200 people were injured in the blast in Manchester and significant damage to infrastructure caused.\n\nThe final programme in the landmark BBC series, presented by Darragh MacIntyre, includes first-hand accounts of the campaign in Britain after the IRA ceasefire was temporarily abandoned in 1996.\n\nBut the programme reveals how key IRA bombers were caught or killed after extensive surveillance operations by British police and MI5.\n\nJohn Crawley was arrested just before he could bomb London's electricity supply.\n\nFormer US Marine John Crawley, who had already been caught smuggling guns from America for the IRA, was arrested just before he could bomb London's electricity supply.\n\n\"We were going to knock out the power supply of the south east of England,\" he tells the programme.\n\n\"There may have been other operations after that, but we were caught before we could do that.\"\n\nJohn Grieve, who took over Scotland Yard's anti-terror unit on the day of the Canary Wharf bomb, tells Spotlight that Crawley and the other IRA bombers were \"the A team\".\n\n\"They were absolutely excellent and one of them, John Crawley, ex-US Marine Corps demolition specialist, this was the top sort of people for them to bring up.\n\n\"He just epitomised the cunning, skills, experience of the sort of people they were putting against us.\"\n\nJohn Grieve took over Scotland Yard's anti-terror unit on the day of the Canary Wharf bomb\n\nBut Mr Crawley reveals that the IRA was stretched by the bombing campaign by the time he was arrested in 1996.\n\n\"I wondered why they didn't kill us, because we'd have had men tooled up and everything,\" he says.\n\n\"They knew where we were going and to this day, I don't know why they just didn't take us out of it because coffins coming back on the ferry would've been a nice message to anybody else looking to go.\n\n\"And believe me, there wasn't a lot of people putting their hands up to go to England.\"\n\nThe IRA also targeted a Manchester shopping centre in 1996\n\nThe final episode will be broadcast on Tuesday 22 October on BBC One NI and BBC Four at 20.30 BST.\n\nFollowing this broadcast, a programme looking at the making of the series will be available to view on BBC iPlayer.\n\nSpotlight on The Troubles: Behind The Scenes will also be shown on Thursday 24 October on BBC One NI at 21:00.\n\nFollowing the broadcast of the final episode, the series - presented by Mandy McAuley, Jennifer O'Leary and Darragh MacIntyre - will be available as a box set for up to a year on BBC iPlayer.\n\nSpotlight on The Troubles: A Secret History can be viewed on BBC iPlayer here", "Europe's papers see ongoing Brexit turmoil in the UK\n\nEuropean newspapers have been taking stock of Saturday's drama at Westminster and Boris Johnson's appeal to Brussels to block an extension to the Brexit deadline.\n\n\"The fight over Brexit will continue for even longer\" declares Germany's Die Zeit.\n\nItaly's Corriere della Sera believes \"this unprecedented 'game of two letters' seriously embarrasses the EU: it will have to decide whether to give Britain an extension that parliament is asking for but the British government does not want\".\n\nNRC Handelsblad in the Netherlands says, \"Saturday cannot be viewed as a failure for Johnson. It is likely that the 306 members of parliament who voted against the Letwin act will also support him next week.\" Dutch De Volkskrant agrees: \"It is understandable that there were cheers from the opposition benches and the thousands of anti-Brexit protesters in Parliament Square. But this could prove to be a pyrrhic victory.\"\n\nIn France, Le Figaro says: \"It should have been a day of clarification; it has been a moment of additional confusion. British MPs have added an incredible episode to the already lengthy Brexit series - by deciding not to decide anything.\"\n\nFrench liberal weekly Le Point notes: \"And so, Boris Johnson is back at square one. We should soon know if his future at the head of the country is guaranteed until the general elections, for which he is the favourite, or whether he will have contented himself with running around in circles. Until then, the Brexit series continues.\"\n\nSpain's El Mundo sees yesterday's amendment vote as a \"blow of enormous scale\" to Mr Johnson, and \"another unpredictable scenario of this labyrinth\". An editorial in the paper says \"while parliament was trying to win time and narrow down the result of hard Brexit, over a million of protesters demanded another referendum at its doorstep. Political chaos and social discontent - the effects of populism.\"\n\n\"House of Commons forces Johnson and EU into Brexit overtime\" declares the headline in Austria's Der Standard. Noting the police escorts for MPs, it says \"The dark side of the Brexit debate appeared once again: polarisation and hatred for the opposite side\".\n\nMeanwhile, an analysis on Germany's centre-left news website Spiegel Online notes: \"Just when you think it cannot get any crazier, the British parliament adds another thing: yet again, it has outmanoeuvred its own government. With that, Brexit, which was almost within reach, is uncertain again.\"\n\n\"Only one thing can be said with certainty. It is far from being over,\" the article says.\n\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "The walk was scheduled for the nearest home game to the anniversary\n\nThousands of Leicester City supporters have taken part in a walk to mark the first anniversary of a helicopter crash which claimed five lives.\n\nThe club's chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four others died in the crash outside the King Power Stadium on 27 October last year.\n\nSupporters walked from Magazine Square in the city to the ground ahead of their game against Burnley\n\nOne fan taking part said Mr Vichai \"made our dreams come true\".\n\nTwo members of Mr Vichai's staff - Kaveporn Punpare and Nusara Suknamai - died in the crash as well as pilots and partners Eric Swaffer and Izabela Roza Lechowicz.\n\nFans of all ages took part, all paying tribute to the man they called \"the boss\"\n\nAbout 5,000 people, many carrying flowers and scarves, were estimated to have taken part in the march which was led by large banner bearing Mr Vichai's face.\n\nLifelong Leicester fan Rishi Kotak said: \"This march means a lot. The whole family cleared their diaries to make sure we could be here.\n\n\"Vichai was a man who brought a lot of different cultures, people and a city a lot closer together.\"\n\nTributes also were paid online, with one fan tweeting: \"Thank you Vichai, thank you Boss.\"\n\nFans said Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha had brought the city and its people closer together\n\nA memorial park, named in Mr Vichai's honour, will open at the crash site on the anniversary itself.\n\nTens of thousands of people took part in a previous walk for the victims two weeks after the crash.\n\nIt was named the 5,000-1 walk, after the odds the club overcame to secure their 2016 Premier League win.\n\nThe new walk was scheduled for the nearest home game to the anniversary.\n\nFan Craig Elliott, who has helped to organise both walks, said: \"We were truly overwhelmed when the estimate of 50,000 people was given for the first walk.\n\n\"With the first anniversary upon us we felt it had to be done again. Khun Vichai did so much, not just for the club but for the city as a whole.\"\n\nThe march took place before Leicester's game against Burnley\n\nMany on the march brought flowers to be placed near a portrait of Mr Vichai\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Whether they're stealing loo rolls or doing drugs, celebrities have taken a few liberties on visits to Buckingham Palace. Here's a rogues' gallery of the famous faces who got up to no good.\n\nAs the actress playing the Queen in the Netflix series The Crown, Olivia Colman has to channel the monarch's sense of duty and protocol.\n\nBut while promoting the series in an interview for the Sunday Times, she caused a stir by becoming the latest celebrity to admit to being part of misbehaviour at Buckingham Palace - confessing that her husband stole a souvenir.\n\nBuckingham Palace declined to comment, but the palace previously told the BBC that the vast majority of guests do not take anything.\n\n\"We get nearly 50,000 visitors a year and if they all took souvenirs there wouldn't be much left,\" a spokeswoman said after an earlier celebrity incident.\n\nSo who are the famous offenders?\n\nThe TV presenter apologised after admitting to \"borrowing\" an ashtray and a tissue box holder from the palace in 1998.\n\nShe told viewers of Channel 4's The Big Breakfast, which she presented at the time, that it was \"just a bit of fun\".\n\nShe said she sent them back with a gift - a stuffed camel with a note saying: \"Sorry, Ma'am. I didn't meant to give you the hump.\"\n\nThe Spice Girls singer revealed on ITV2's Celebrity Juice that she pinched a sign for the ladies' loos when she was invited to the palace to perform for the Queen.\n\nHer light-fingered moment took place during the concert for the Golden Jubilee in 2002.\n\nThe Good Morning Britain presenter admits to being a serial offender in the loos of the rich and famous.\n\nHe said he once had a collection of toilet paper swiped from celebrity homes, with Simon Cowell's toilet roll (\"black and monogrammed\") now displayed next to the Queen's.\n\nBut his nerve failed in the White House when Barack Obama was president. \"I feared I would find myself in jail,\" he told the Mail on Sunday in 2011.\n\nThe Oscar-winning actress told the Sunday Times that her husband had swiped a toilet roll when the couple were attending a charity event.\n\n\"My husband stole some loo roll just to say we got it from Buckingham Palace,\" she said.\n\nIt's not quite clear how complicit Colman herself was in the crime - we may need to put Broadchurch's finest detective Ellie Miller on the case to learn the full truth.\n\nA former press spokesman for the Queen, Dickie Arbiter says honest visitors to Buckingham Palace who leave without stealing a souvenir are not missing out.\n\n\"It's quite ridiculous. The toilet paper doesn't have 'Buckingham Palace' on it, it's just plain white paper like everyone else has,\" he says.\n\nAnd he questions whether an ashtray could have been taken from the palace in 1998, saying that it had been a non-smoking zone since well before Denise Van Outen's confession.\n\nThere are very few opportunities for souvenir hunters, he says. Cutlery is not embossed with a palace design and visitors to the palace are usually given napkins with their canapes rather than plates.\n\nBut he suggests celebrity thieves are more in search of publicity than mementos.\n\n\"It's not that they're taking anything of value. It's just so they can say, I've stolen a loo roll from Buckingham Palace,\" he said.\n\n\"Go to Poundland and buy yourself a pack of nine.\"\n\nJohn Lennon once claimed that the Fab Four smoked cannabis in the toilets before collecting their MBEs in 1965.\n\nBut fellow Beatle George Harrison later disputed this account, saying that the band just went to the loo for an ordinary cigarette \"because we were so nervous\".\n\nThe singer, best known for his hit Angels, admitted smoking cannabis at Buckingham Palace when denying rumours he had once been sick there.\n\nHe told the Sun in 2017: \"Threw up in Buckingham Palace? No. I smoked a spliff in Buckingham Palace.\"\n\nThe paper suggested the incident had happened at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert in 2012.\n\nBuckingham Palace was just one of the high-profile locations in which the comedian and writer - a friend of the Prince of Wales - says he took cocaine.\n\nIn his memoir More Fool Me, he says he took the drug in several other royal palaces, as well as the House of Lords, House of Commons and BBC Television Centre.\n\nHe wrote: \"I have brought, you might say, gorgeous palaces, noble properties and elegant honest establishments into squalid disrepute.\"", "Andrea Leadsom and Michael Gove were among MPs heckled as they left Parliament following a vote on the Letwin amendment.\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott was also filmed being jeered at by pro-Brexit demonstrators.\n\nThe planned vote on Boris Johnson's Brexit deal was pre-empted by the Letwin amendment, which effectively requires the PM to ask for a third extension to the UK's planned departure.\n\nThe primary aim of the amendment is to make sure that Britain can't leave the EU on 31 October without legislation in place.\n\nBy law, Mr Johnson now has to ask the EU for another extension, but he insists he won't do this.\n\nHe says he'll introduce legislation to leave at the end of the month, giving MPs a choice of his deal or no deal.\n\nMeanwhile, supporters of a People's Vote held a march through central London.", "Parliament's first Saturday sitting in decades was one to remember.\n\nThat's not because MPs made an historic decision either to leave the EU this month or not. MPs voted to delay giving their verdict on the deal the prime minister has negotiated with the EU.\n\nFor some of them, that is to copper-bottom the legal guarantee that No 10 cannot take us out of the EU without a formal agreement in place. But for others who voted that way, it's another chance to give voters another say on Brexit.\n\nThat seems hardly the half of it though. In fact so much happened that it is almost hard to know where to start.\n\nThousands marched on the streets demanding a chance to call a halt to the whole thing. The prime minister lost a vote that slams the brakes (for now) on his government's overwhelming ambition.\n\nLook carefully at the voting lists, however, and Boris Johnson was able to demonstrate he has a genuine chance of getting the support of the Commons for his deal ultimately.\n\nThe likelihood of a Brexit agreement happening appears a thousand times stronger than it ever was under his predecessor.\n\nThat predecessor, Theresa May, argued passionately to support his policy, warning Parliament against conning the public, even though the man she was backing had caused her so much trouble.\n\nAnd the prime minister was forced to ask the EU for a delay to Brexit, something he vowed he would absolutely never do.\n\nBut he has sent the letter requesting it grudgingly, sending just a photocopy of what was spelt out in law, with a personal letter to the rest of the continent pleading with them not to listen.\n\nNot surprisingly that has sent his political enemies into furious overdrive and, as I write, the outrage over his ploy is already in full swing.\n\nHe's been branded \"pathetic\" and \"shameful\", one Labour peer joking \"surely there should be a fourth letter too, saying 'my name is Boris Johnson and I am five years old'.\"\n\nNext week the fight over the deal and delay will continue, in the courts and in Parliament. No 10's opponents may try to show his approach to delay to be against the law in the courts.\n\nHis political enemies in Parliament will try to block his deal, again and again. If you think Parliament has been bruising and bizarre for both sides already, stand by for ever more complicated days.\n\nBut whether the government is determined or simply deluded, it will not be stopped by individual humiliations.\n\nBoris Johnson is looking for one big victory - to leave the EU at the end of this month. That is certainly harder tonight, but not yet impossible.\n\nSaturday's vote gives hope to politicians and those members of the public who want to stop Brexit from happening.\n\nBut remember, MPs have not said \"no\" to his deal, they have said \"not yet\".\n\nNo 10 will use everything in its not inconsiderable power to push and push - and in this moment, rightly or wrongly, Boris Johnson's team believes ongoing tangles in Parliament lead more of the public to take his side.\n\nIf that is a miscalculation, the next few weeks will be an extremely messy way of finding out.", "It is the first AONB in the country to be designated in its entirety\n\nThe night sky above parts of Wiltshire, Dorset, Hampshire and Somerset has been designated an international dark sky reserve.\n\nCranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is only the 14th such area in the world to be certified.\n\nThe status is awarded by the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) to areas which offer \"exceptional starry skies\".\n\nIt is the first AONB in the country to be designated in its entirety.\n\nThe IDA status, which took Cranborne Chase AONB 10 years to achieve, means controls are in place to prevent light pollution.\n\n\"We think of our beautiful landscapes as being on the ground, but 50% of our landscape is above our heads, in the sky,\" said Linda Nunn, director of Cranborne Chase AONB.\n\n\"Here in Cranborne Chase we can see the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy, if the clouds allow.\n\n\"The AONB has pledged to protect and improve its dark sky for future generations.\n\n\"There are huge benefits for nocturnal wildlife, our own human health and wellbeing, for education, tourism and for energy saving. We're thrilled to be playing our part.\"\n\nCranborne Chase is the sixth largest AONB in the country, straddling parts of Wiltshire, Dorset, Hampshire and Somerset\n\nCranborne Chase AONB is the sixth largest AONB in the country. Covering 981 sq km (380 sq mi), it straddles parts of Wiltshire, Dorset, Hampshire and Somerset.\n\nAdam Dalton, from the IDA, said: \"It has the largest central area of darkness of any international dark sky reserve in the UK.\n\n\"For those living and visiting this beautiful area, this is something to be celebrated and enjoyed.\"\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\nThree people have been killed by a fire inside a supermarket in Santiago during a second night of protests in Chile.\n\nTwo people died at the scene and another died in hospital after the store was looted, Santiago's regional governor, Karla Rubilar, said.\n\nPresident Piñera has suspended the rise in metro fares that sparked the protests, but unrest has continued.\n\nSoldiers and tanks were deployed after the government declared a state of emergency and imposed a night curfew.\n\nThe protests have broadened to reflect general discontent about the high cost of living in one of Latin America's most stable countries.\n\nThe unrest, the worst in decades, has exposed divisions in the nation, one of the region's wealthiest but also one of its most unequal, and intensified calls for economic reforms.\n\nIn parts of Santiago, hundreds of troops were deployed on the streets for the first time since 1990, when Chile returned to democracy after the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.\n\nIn the second day of violent demonstrations, protesters erected barricades and set buses on fire, and police used tear gas and water cannon. Clashes erupted in the city centre with Mayor Felipe Alessandri describing the situation as chaotic.\n\nMore than 300 people have been arrested, and 156 police injured, as were 11 civilians, police said.\n\nDemonstrators clashed with security forces in the capital, Santiago\n\nSpeaking on television, President Sebastián Piñera, whose response to the protests has been criticised, said he had listened \"with humility\" to \"the voice of my compatriots\" and to discontent over the cost of living.\n\nGen Javier Iturriaga del Campo, who is in charge of security in Santiago under the state of emergency, said a curfew would be enforced between 22:00 and 07:00 (01:00-10:00 GMT) in the city and outlying areas.\n\nThe military is due to help police patrol the streets during a declared 15-day state of emergency that allows authorities to restrict people's freedom of movement and their right to assembly.\n\nLater on Saturday, the mayors of the Valparaíso region and Concepción province also announced states of emergency.\n\nEarlier, cultural and sporting events were cancelled and shops remained closed. The city's underground system will remain shut down until Monday, with 41 of 136 stations vandalised.\n\nProtesters continued on Saturday despite the military deployment\n\nProtests were also reported in the cities of Concepción, Rancagua, Punta Arenas, Valparaíso, Iquique, Antofagasta, Quillota and Talca, according to El Mercurio newspaper.\n\nMeanwhile, a picture of President Piñera in an upmarket Italian restaurant on Friday evening as police and demonstrators clashed in Santiago was heavily criticised on social media.\n\nCritics said the image, reportedly during a birthday celebration for the president's grandson, were emblematic of a leader out of touch with ordinary Chileans.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by el mostrador This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Michael Gove, the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, tells Sky News that the \"most important thing that all of us can do now is focus on getting the legislation through\".\n\n\"As a result of yesterday's vote, the risk of leaving without a deal has grown,\" he says.\n\n\"Now, as a result of that vote, we can't guarantee that any extension will be granted.\"\n\nMr Gove says he will later today be chairing a cabinet committee meeting to ensure the government's preparations for a no-deal Brexit are \"accelerated\".\n\n\"We're triggering Operation Yellowhammer to ensure if no extension is granted, that we have done everything possible to leave without a deal,\" he says.", "Hundreds of people were injured by flying glass in the aftermath of the explosion\n\nTwenty years ago an IRA bomb detonated in the heart of London's Docklands not only destroyed one of the country's biggest financial and economic centres, but also destroyed a much smaller business - a newsagent's shop. How did the family company recover?\n\nTwo people working in the shop in Canary Wharf - Inam Bashir and John Jeffries - had not managed to evacuate the premises in time. They were killed.\n\nOver the past two decades Mr Bashir's brother, Ihsan, has been not only trying to come to terms with the loss of his brother but fighting to keep the business going.\n\nHe said: \"The bomb was parked right next to our shop. The site itself, if you look at the pictures of it, it looks like a nuclear bomb has hit that. The way the damage is, it looks like the whole city has been wrecked.\"\n\nImam Bashir and John Jeffries were killed in the IRA attack\n\nThe Bashir family not only suffered the loss of a son and brother, but shortly afterwards their father had a heart attack and died.\n\nIhsan has said the differing experiences of Troubles victims on either side of the Irish Sea are clear to him.\n\n\"Once the funerals were over then you just look at your life, how you're going to cope with your loss.\n\n\"People in England don't have much of a voice. People in Northern Ireland do, which is right, because they have suffered a lot. The UK government has tried their best to help, as much as they can, to appease the victims.\n\n\"But most of the time I feel that the appeasement has gone to the IRA, not to the actual families and victims. They have been forgotten. \"\n\nThe half-tonne bomb was left in a small lorry near the Bashir's newsagent\n\nWith the business gone, the family struggled to keep their heads above water, but eventually Mr Bashir reopened the newsagent and began trading again.\n\nNow, he runs a delicatessen on exactly the same spot where it all happened - a new business selling baguettes.\n\nIhsan Bashir now runs Baguette Express on the site of the family newsagent\n\nHe said he views it as continuing the legacy of a hard-working brother, as well as that of the family's friend and colleague John Jeffries.\n\n\"We will run it in their memory, and in memory against terrorism. You can't stop us from moving on, you cannot stop our lives. We will fight to make it survive, and work it.\n\n\"There's a old saying that you give your life for your business. Well we have. We've given our blood to that business. So I'm not going to let that go.\"\n\nThe bombing marked the end of a 17-month IRA ceasefire", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nHaringey Borough's chairman says it is \"soul-destroying\" that their FA Cup tie against Yeovil Town was abandoned.\n\nSaturday's game was called off after Haringey's manager took his team off the field amid reports of racial abuse from Yeovil fans.\n\n\"I am of the view that we had no choice. We could not carry on and play football yesterday,\" Aki Achillea told PA Sport.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police say they are investigating the matter.\n\nOfficers are also investigating after items were reportedly thrown on to the playing area, a Metropolitan Police spokesperson told BBC Sport.\n\nThere have been no arrests yet and inquiries are continuing.\n• None Bristol City investigate claims of racism by away fans at Luton\n\nThe match at Haringey's Coles Park Stadium was in the fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup, with the winner set to progress to the first round proper.\n\nHaringey goalkeeper Valery Douglas Pajetat was reportedly spat at and hit by an object thrown from the Yeovil Town end.\n\nDefender Coby Rowe was then \"racially abused\", according to Haringey boss Tom Loizou, who said \"there was no way I could let him continue\".\n\nAvon and Somerset Police will be assisting the Met, and have asked anyone with information or video footage to contact them.\n\n'There were people with tears in their eyes'\n\nAchillea, chairman of the Isthmian League club, cannot understand what his players were subjected to on Saturday.\n\n\"It is soul-destroying because of the effort we've put in to encourage so many people from our area, from so many cultures, to come and watch what we have on offer,\" he added.\n\n\"If you look at the make-up of our team, we have six or seven Greek-Cypriots, I'm Greek-Cypriot, the manager is.\n\n\"We have a multitude of West Indians, Africans, Portuguese. We have virtually every nationality as part of the playing squad, and to see them have to be subjected to that, it is soul-destroying.\n\n\"Our players' heads had gone, there were people with tears in their eyes in the dressing room. These are young kids and they shouldn't be subjected to that.\n\n\"Ultimately the impact upon them was such that they couldn't carry on and play football, because it's gone beyond football.\n\n\"I'm really, really disappointed for the way it worked out for all of us. To have it wrecked by what was definitely a very small minority of people who attach themselves to the club and call themselves fans.\n\n\"But they're not the real Yeovil fans, we know that.\n\n\"A lot of them spoke to us immediately after the game and sympathised with us, and effectively congratulated us on taking the stand we did.\n\n\"Their management, their chairman, their players, they were a credit to the club - it's this small minority that have tarnished the name of Yeovil.\"\n\nThe Football Association is also investigating and said it was \"deeply concerned\" about the allegations.\n\n\"There is no room for discrimination in our game and we are working with the match officials and the relevant authorities, as a matter of urgency, to fully establish the facts and take the appropriate steps,\" said an FA statement.\n\nThe incident came four days after England's Euro 2020 qualifier in Bulgaria was halted twice as fans were warned about racist behaviour, including Nazi salutes and monkey chanting.\n\n\"It's very distressing,\" Loizou told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"The abuse a few of my players got was disgusting.\n\n\"Yeovil's players and manager were different class. Their team tried to calm their supporters down, they tried their best and they supported us - they said 'if you're walking off, we're walking off with you'.\n\n\"I took the decision to take my team off and I don't want Yeovil Town to get punished for it. If we get thrown out of the FA Cup and they go through, there is no hard feelings there.\n\n\"I have not done it for any other reason than looking into my players' faces and seeing how distraught they were. They are not used to this.\"\n\nVisitors Yeovil were leading 1-0 through a Rhys Murphy penalty when the game was halted in the 64th minute.\n\nThere was a long delay for that spot-kick to be taken, with Haringey keeper Pajetat reportedly struck by an object from the stands.\n\nShortly after Murphy scored, play was suspended as the hosts left the field. About 35 minutes later, it was confirmed the match had officially been abandoned.\n\nHaringey said on Twitter: \"Game has been abandoned following racial abuse. Horrendous afternoon.\n\n\"It must be said that 99.9% of [Yeovil] fans are also disgusted by what's happened as much as we are. One club, one community.\"\n\nIn a statement Yeovil said the club \"will not accept racism or discrimination in any form\" and that they will \"be cooperating with the authorities and our friends at Haringey\".\n\nFormer Haringey left-back Michael O'Donoghue was at the game and went into the dressing room with the team when they came off.\n\nThe 23-year-old, who played for Borough for three and a half years before leaving last season to join Concord Rangers, told the PA news agency: \"As soon as they scored it was starting to kick off again and you could see the Haringey players were getting abused and felt unsettled.\n\n\"The referee was seen removing the bottles thrown at the players and then the managers of both teams went on and escorted their teams off the pitch.\n\n\"I went into the changing room with the boys, the referee called in both captains and managers to have a talk about what to do next. The boys made a group decision to make a stand and not go back out to play.\n\n\"The officials and Yeovil manager came into the Haringey changing room and said they will back whatever decision the Haringey boys made, so that was class from them.\n\n\"The boys were disgusted and you could see a few were distraught from getting abused like that.\"", "Hundreds of people have marched through the streets of Glasgow for a \"Love Rally\" to show their support for those who have experienced care.\n\nCrowds gathered at Glasgow Green before walking to George Square.\n\nSeveral speakers addressed the crowd in a bid to \"show love\" for people who grow up in care, saying a lack of love has consequences throughout a person's life.\n\nMany carried placards and banners adorned with positive messages.\n\nMembers of the Scottish Parliament were also invited to attend, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeting her apologies at being unable to make the event.\n\nShe wrote: \"Best wishes to everyone attending the #LoveRally today - sorry I can't be there in person but my (heart emoji) is with you.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney, however, did join the event and spoke to the marchers as they congregated in the square.\n\nThe rally was organised by Who Cares? Scotland, an organisation working for and on behalf of care experienced people.\n\nThe marchers made their way from Glasgow Green to George Square\n\nKevin Browne-MacLeod from the group said: \"According to our records, care experienced people have been asking to be loved since at least the 1970s.\n\n\"Procedures, resources and attitudes have all gotten in the way. Love isn't a controversial idea.\n\n\"Somewhere along the way, someone decided that love wasn't an essential part of a care experienced person's day. We're marching to change that.\n\n\"Almost three years ago today, the first minister promised to build a care system built on love. This march is about holding her to that promise.\n\n\"It's also about letting the people of Scotland know that we all have a role to play in supporting care experienced people be loved and reach their potential.\"\n• None whocaresscotland.org - Advocacy, Membership and Influencing for care experienced people throughout Scotland 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\nA group of seven former Olympians is set to be the last students to take on a degree at a Welsh university before the course moves to Belgium.\n\nThe course - a master's in sports ethics and integrity at Swansea University - aims to teach future sports administrators about anti-doping, illegal betting and child protection.\n\nThe class of 26 has won two Olympic gold medals, three silvers and a bronze, and one student holds the fifth-longest standing world record in athletics history.\n\nThat man is Kevin Young, a 400m hurdler whose time of 46.78s at the 1992 games in Barcelona has still not been beaten.\n\nKevin Young competing at the 1992 US Olympic Trials in New Orleans\n\n\"I can't believe that was 27 years ago\" he said.\n\n\"It seems like yesterday I was standing on the podium and it's crazy my record has stood for so long.\n\n\"As athletes we're always looking to recreate the buzz of nights like that, and it can be pretty depressing once you're retired, but this sort of course is - not the same feeling - but a good feeling, being able to give something back to the sports which gave us so much.\"\n\nHe is joined in his class by silver medal-winning swimmer Allison Wagner, Grenadian runner Alleyne Francique, taekwondo artitst Sharon Jewell, Australian luger Hannah Campbell-Pegg, middle-distance runner Nikki Hamblin from New Zealand and five-time Olympian Bosede Kaffo, who represented Nigeria in table tennis five times.\n\nThe course is part of the EU's Erasmus Mundus scheme and aims to launch the students into \"high-level sporting administration and governance careers\".\n\nOver two years the students will take modules at five partner universities across Europe, but coming to Wales has been a surprise for some of the former athletes, with Mr Young thinking the course was online.\n\n\"I packed in a hurry, I thought to bring my medal to show people, but didn't think to pack a coat,\" he added.\n\nBut despite the downpours he has enjoyed other parts of Welsh culture, namely an early morning trip to the pub to watch Wales beat Australia 29-25 in the Rugby World Cup in Japan.\n\nNikki Hamblin (centre) competing at the World Athletics Championships in South Korea in 2011\n\nBut there will not be any more Olympians coming to Wales for the course in future years.\n\nProf Mike McNamee, who runs the course, said: \"With the spectre of hard Brexit on the horizon we have had to negotiate with our partners in Belgium to take over the coordinating role.\n\n\"It's great that I'm still the programme director and based here in Swansea University, but Swansea has had to surrender its lead role, which is a tragedy because we conceived of the entire programme.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duchess of Cambridge plays cricket: What happens next?\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have enjoyed a game of cricket at a Pakistan sports academy on the fourth day of their royal tour of the country.\n\nPrince William and Catherine took turns to bat at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore and chatted to young players.\n\nThe couple also visited the country's second largest mosque, the Badshahi Mosque, following in the footsteps of the duke's parents.\n\nHis late mother Diana, Princess of Wales, visited the holy site in 1991.\n\nHis father, the Prince of Wales, went to the mosque with the Duchess of Cornwall on their royal tour in 2006.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge took to the crease at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge put his batting skills to the test too\n\nThe royal couple high-fived and chatted to young players at the ground\n\nThe royal couple were later taken on a tour of the Badshahi Mosque - the second-largest in the country\n\nThe duchess wore a headscarf with a golden-trimmed shalwar kameez for the visit\n\nCatherine had bare feet while the prince wore black socks to enter the mosque\n\nEarlier in the day the couple attended a birthday party at an orphanage in Lahore\n\nThe duchess switched her usual tiara for a toy one during a visit to the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital\n\nThe inevitable media circus awaited the royal couple at the National Cricket Academy", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to Elton John discuss his childhood and plans for retirement\n\nHe may have started out singing cover versions on cheap compilation albums, but Elton John went on to become the fifth highest-selling recording artist of all time.\n\nHe was the first musician to enter the US album charts at number one. He has won a Brit award for outstanding achievement three times. And he owns six gold, 38 platinum and one diamond albums.\n\nNone of this, however, impressed his father.\n\nStanley Dwight, a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, never attended one of Elton's shows, and never expressed pride in his son's success. Their relationship was strained until his death from heart disease in 1991.\n\nWriting in his new autobiography, Me, Elton admits he spent his whole career \"trying to show my father what I'm made of\".\n\n\"It's crazy, but I just wanted his approval,\" the star tells the BBC, in the only print interview about his book. \"I'm still trying to prove to him that what I do is fine - and he's been dead for almost 30 years.\"\n\nStrikingly, however, the star harbours no resentment, describing his father as a \"product of his time\" - uptight, emotionally stunted and trapped in an unhappy marriage.\n\n\"Although he didn't really come to the shows or write me a letter to say, 'well done', I don't think he knew how to,\" he explains.\n\nElton and his father failed to see eye-to-eye\n\nBorn Reginald Dwight and raised in Pinner, near Wembley in north-west London, Elton was frequently on the receiving end of his parents' frustration. He spent his formative years in \"a state of high alert\" amid arguments and \"clobberings\" from his mum.\n\n\"My parents were oil and water. They should never have gotten married,\" he says. \"As you get older, you can see much clearer what they went through, what they tried to do for me at the expense of their happiness.\"\n\nHis salvation came in rock and roll.\n\nBoth his parents were musically inclined - Stanley was a trumpet player with the Bob Miller band, while his mother, Sheila, would bring home new records every week on pay day. One day, she arrived home clutching Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel, a disc that turned Reggie's world upside down.\n\n\"I grew up in the 1950s, which was a very conservative age - people peeking behind the curtains, being very judgmental,\" he says.\n\n\"I knew nothing about sex, it was never even mentioned to me. If a girl got pregnant she was sent away and nobody talked about it. It was a very different place.\n\n\"Then Elvis Presley arrived on the scene and revolutionised things musically and socially, and then the 60s happened and all hell broke loose\".\n\nInitially, the teenager watched these developments as an outsider - in love with the music, but forbidden to participate.\n\n\"I was very shy,\" he says. \"I grew up not being able to wear what I wanted to. Winkle picker shoes? No, they were too disgusting. The mods wore chisel toe shoes and anoraks. I couldn't wear those either.\n\n\"So when I changed my name and became Elton John, I just went off like an Exocet missile, and I had a great time. I lived my teenage years in my 20s, basically.\"\n\nThe star compensated for being stuck behind a piano by creating ever-more elaborate stage costumes\n\nThe story has been told a thousand times: The miraculous meeting with lyricist Bernie Taupin, a blue-touch-paper appearance at LA's Troubador club, and an unbeatable run of hit albums.\n\nBetween 1970 and 1975, there were 11 in all, an astonishingly productive purple patch that generated classic singles like Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting, Tiny Dancer and Rocket Man - the latter of which unexpectedly turned Elton into a sex symbol.\n\n\"It was a surprising time,\" he laughs. \"I mean, I wasn't David Bowie, I wasn't Marc Bolan, I was sitting at the piano. But I suddenly became, you know, the object of screaming girls. I don't know why.\"\n\nEmboldened by success, Elton's outfits became ever more outrageous: Satin capes and winged boots gave way to mohawk wigs, bejewelled top hats and peacock suits adorned with feathers and sequins - the sort of thing Liberace would have worn if he'd had the courage to be really flamboyant.\n\nElton's 1970 shows at the Troubador club made his name. \"He's going to be one of rock's biggest and most important stars,\" said the LA Times.\n\nHis imperial phase culminated with two sold-out shows at LA's Dodger Stadium in October 1975. With a combined audience of 100,000 fans they were, at the time, the largest concerts ever staged by a single artist.\n\n\"He was like Elvis at the height of his career,\" said photographer Terry O'Neill, who shot the gigs. \"It is impossible to try to explain to people today what it was like.\"\n\nBut Elton knew as he played those shows that he would never reach that peak again.\n\n\"I was smart enough to know it couldn't last. It's impossible. You just have to accept that there's going to be someone bigger than you.\"\n\nIt's a sense of perspective other artists lack, he says.\n\n\"When Michael Jackson said, 'I want to sell more records than Thriller', I thought, 'Oh boy, you're in for a big fall'. Because Thriller was a classic record. It sold 40 million albums, which was huge. You can't have a record coming in at number one all the time.\"\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 EltonJohnVEVO 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\nSure enough, Elton would have to wait until 1990 before he returned to the top of the charts. The wilderness years, while hardly hit-free, saw him split temporarily with Bernie Taupin and record an ill-advised disco album, Victim Of Love.\n\nBehind the scenes, his drug and alcohol intake was spiralling out of control. In his memoir, he describes having seizures and witnessing his voice go \"haywire\" as his \"unbelievable appetite\" for cocaine grew stronger.\n\nThe drug had initially given him a \"jolt of confidence and euphoria,\" but as addiction took hold, he became erratic and violent. In 1983, after filming the video for I'm Still Standing, he woke up with his hands throbbing, unaware that the night before, he'd stripped naked, punched his manager John Reid and methodically demolished his hotel room.\n\nAlthough the recent biopic Rocketman depicts I'm Still Standing as Elton's hymn to sobriety, it actually took him another seven years to kick the habit.\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 EltonJohnVEVO 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 turning point came when his then-boyfriend Hugh Williams checked into rehab, plunging Elton into a fortnight-long cocaine and whisky binge. Eventually, he dragged himself to the clinic, where Williams confronted him on his behaviour.\n\n\"You're a drug addict, you're an alcoholic, you're a food addict and a bulimic,\" he said. \"You're a sex addict. You're co-dependent\".\n\n\"Yes,\" said Elton, \"yes, I am,\" and started to cry.\n\nSo on 29 July, 1990, he entered rehab in Chicago to treat \"three addictions at once\".\n\nIn his book, Elton reprints a poignant break-up letter he wrote to \"the white lady\" during his treatment. \"I don't want you and I to share the same grave,\" it reads.\n\nHe kept his word: The singer has now been clean for 29 years, during which time he's revitalised his career, married film producer David Furnish, written the hit soundtrack to the Lion King, launched the stage version of Billy Elliot and become father to two children, Zachary and Elijah.\n\nHe says the autobiography was written for them: A document they could read after he's gone that would tell the unvarnished truth.\n\n\"I want them to know that their dad was being honest, and he made something of his life after a few hiccups along the way\", he says.\n\nElton with his husband David Furnish and their sons Zachary and Elijah\n\nIt was Elton's sons that prompted him to give up touring, too.\n\n\"My kids were only going to grow up once,\" he writes in the memoir. \"Music was the most wonderful thing, but it still didn't sound as good as Zachary chatting about what had happened at football practice.\"\n\nWith typical grandiosity, Elton's farewell tour is scheduled to run for three years, with the final show set for 17 December, 2020, at London's O2 Arena.\n\nBut that is definitively not the end. Last week, Bernie Taupin posted a photo of himself at the writing desk, composing lyrics. Can Elton confirm they're intended for him?\n\n\"Yes, they are,\" he says. \"I said to Bernie, 'I'm going around the world for three years, why don't I write?\n\n\"You know, I wrote the whole of the Captain Fantastic album on the SS France, sailing from Southampton to New York, and I didn't have a tape recorder. So I remembered everything I wrote in my head: The chord changes, the sequences, everything.\n\n\"And I said, 'I'd like to go back and do that, instead of going into the studio and writing on the spot'. It may not be successful but I just want to try it.\"\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 3 by EltonJohnVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nWhat's more, he's already cooking up plans to play concerts after the farewell tour.\n\nHis \"dream thing\" is to put on a theatrical residency, in the style of Kate Bush's Before the Dawn extravaganza in 2014.\n\nLike her, Elton would delve deep into his back catalogue, prioritising lesser-played cuts like Amoreena, Come Down In Time and Original Sin over fan favourites like Your Song or Rocket Man.\n\n\"I've sung these songs nearly 5,000 times, some of them, and although they're wonderful songs, and I'm very appreciative of them, I've sung them enough,\" he says.\n\n\"If I do perform again, I would like to do songs that I think are just as good as the ones that have been popular for 50 years, but haven't had the chance to emerge.\"\n\nElton John's autobiography, Me, is out now, You can hear excerpts, read by Taron Egerton, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week and on BBC Sounds this week.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "There was disorder inside and outside Elland Road stadium following Saturday's game\n\nPolice made 11 arrests following trouble at Leeds United's game with Birmingham City.\n\nThere was disorder both inside and outside United's Elland Road stadium on Saturday, West Yorkshire Police said.\n\nBirmingham fans clashed with police and stewards at the final whistle and then there was a \"public order incident\" in the coach park, the force said.\n\nThe arrests were mainly for public order offences. Minor injuries to several match stewards were reported.\n\nBBC Leeds sports editor Jonathan Buchan described on Twitter \"terrible\" scenes inside the stadium from Birmingham City fans, with \"a few stewards receiving punches and kicks as they tried to apprehend a Birmingham fan who ran onto the pitch\".\n\nPolice said officers were deployed between supporters outside the ground for about 45 minutes before fans dispersed.\n\nMatch commander Ch Insp Jon Arrowsuch said the 11 arrests were made both inside and outside the stadium.\n\n\"Clearly these were scenes no-one would wish to see and we will be examining CCTV footage and working with both clubs as we investigate what took place,\" he said.\n\nLeeds won the game 1-0 as the club marked its centenary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Billboards telling the public to prepare for Britain's exit from the EU will launch soon\n\nThe government has changed the wording of its Get Ready for Brexit campaign appearing to suggest a no-deal exit on the 31 October is now less likely.\n\nIts website now says: \"We could still leave with no deal on 31 October.\"\n\nThe wording has been altered from earlier this month, when it said: \"The UK is due to leave on 31 October.\"\n\nThe tweak comes after MPs backed a move to delay approval of the deal. The government has insisted it will still meet the 31 October deadline.\n\nIt has vowed to press ahead with the legislation - the Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB) - to implement the Brexit deal next week.\n\nBut the BBC economic's editor Faisal Islam tweeted that the wording on the government's \"Get Ready for Brexit\" website had been \"markedly toned down\" with \"less emphasis on the 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 by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nProminent logos on the website saying \"Brexit 31 October\" also appear to have been removed.\n\nFaisal said the wording also indicated preparation for 31 October was for the possibility of \"no deal\" rather than Brexit generally.\n\nThe campaign, aimed at preparing businesses and the public for leaving the European Union, has previously been criticised by members of the public arguing the ads are inaccurate for implying the UK will definitely leave on that date.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said last month it would not investigate the ads, saying the 31 October departure date was the \"date that has been declared by the government\".\n\n\"This therefore currently remains the default date that the public will consider as the official 'leave' date for the UK, as agreed with the EU, last autumn,\" the ASA said in September.\n\nCabinet minister Michael Gove, who is in charge of no-deal Brexit planning, told Sky News's Sophy Ridge on Sunday the government now planned to step up preparations for a no-deal Brexit, including triggering its \"Operation Yellowhammer\" contingency plans.\n\n\"The risk of leaving without a deal has actually increased because we cannot guarantee that the European Council will grant an extension,\" he said.\n\nThe information campaign urging the public and businesses to \"get ready for Brexit\" was launched in early September.\n\nThe campaign is reported to have cost the government £100m and has run on billboards as well as in social media adverts and on TV.", "The device was the biggest bomb to explode in mainland UK since World War Two\n\nIn 1996 two IRA members planted the UK mainland's biggest bomb since World War Two outside a Manchester shopping centre. The explosion ripped the heart out of the city centre but remarkably no-one was killed. In fact, the blast is now credited by some as kick-starting the city's regeneration.\n\nThe sun was shining and England were due to take on Scotland in Euro 96 on 15 June. It was the Saturday before Fathers Day and the Arndale Centre was heaving with shoppers. Football fans were also in town for the next day's Russia v Germany fixture at nearby Old Trafford.\n\nAt about 09:20 BST, a white lorry was parked on double yellow lines near the Marks and Spencer store in the heart of the city. CCTV cameras record two men in hooded jackets getting out and walking away. A short time later, a traffic warden placed a parking ticket on the vehicle's windscreen.\n\nThe white lorry with the bomb was filmed by a CCTV camera near the Marks and Spencer store\n\nJust before 10:00 BST, Gary Hall, a security guard at ITV's Granada studios - on the the other side of town - received a phone call from a man with a \"very calm\" Irish voice. The man said he had planted a bomb that would explode an hour later.\n\nShortly afterwards, police began evacuating about 80,000 people from the city centre, while attempts were made to find the bomb.\n\nAbout 80,000 people were evacuated from the city centre within an hour\n\nPeople ran away in fear as shops and offices emptied. Amid the panic, a police officer spotted the white lorry and noticed wires running from the dashboard.\n\nBomb disposal officers, dispatched from their base in Liverpool, planned to defuse the explosive with a remote-controlled robot.\n\nHowever, the attempt failed and, at 11:17 BST, the 3,300lb device exploded. Smoke mushroomed high above the city while buildings shook and glass shattered, raining debris on people outside the cordoned area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the IRA bomb explode in Manchester in June 1996\n\nSome 220 people were injured and several were traumatised by the massive blast.\n\nAs emergency services dealt with the injured, fire crews searched shops and offices for casualties. In the confusion, fallen shop mannequins were briefly mistaken for bodies.\n\nHowever, to the amazement of many, no-one was killed.\n\nThe bomb caused devastation across the city centre leading to a huge rebuilding project\n\nMany were injured by flying glass and debris\n\nFalse rumours of a second bomb led to one couple and their bridesmaid fleeing for safety\n\nNo-one has ever been charged over the blast although Greater Manchester Police recently launched another review of the evidence.\n\nIt is estimated the IRA bombing caused £700 million worth of damage.\n\nPlans to regenerate Manchester had already been in place - a tram network had been reintroduced earlier in the 1990s, cultural venues were shaping up and the city had already won the bid to host the 2002 Commonwealth Games.\n\nBut the bomb's devastation inevitably widened the scale of rebuilding ahead of the millennium.\n\nA symbol of the city's effort to get back on its feet was the fact that it still managed to stage the Euro 96 match on the day after the attack.\n\nThis post box near the lorry famously withstood the blast and is still in use\n\nAfter the bomb, Manchester received about £583 million in private and public funding towards its regeneration, which saw it attract upmarket retailers such as Selfridges and Harvey Nichols.\n\nWhen a former newspaper printworks nearby was transformed into an entertainment venue in 2000, the relaunch was attended by former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson and singer Lionel Ritchie.\n\nThe National Football Museum moved next door in 2012, occupying the eye-catching Urbis building that was completed before the Commonwealth Games.\n\nThe Urbis building is now the home of the National Football Museum\n\nThe Arndale Centre has undergone a makeover and expansion since 1996\n\nWhen the Marks and Spencer store that took the worst brunt of the blast was reopened in 1999 - a key moment in the rebirth of the city centre - it was not a politician or member of the royal family, nor a sports or entertainment figure, that was invited to cut the ribbon.\n\nThe honour went to three-year-old Sam Hughes, pictured in the most striking image of the day of the explosion, as a security guard tried to help him.\n\nBaby Sam Hughes was injured on the day of the attack\n\nThe Marks and Spencer building was rebuilt and is now surrounded by the construction site for a new tram route\n\nManchester property consultant Ken Bishop says: \"The great irony of the bomb is that the devastation it brought acted as a catalyst for the improvement of what was an unloved part of the city.\"\n\nHe believes the city's business sector would have grown without the attack \"but arguably the uninvited intervention brought about a greater determination and swifter pace for this to happen\".\n• None iWonder: The IRA - from conflict to ceasefire", "Thirty wooden coffins of men women and children, thought to belong to the families of high priests, have been found in Luxor, Egypt.\n\nThe well-preserved burials are around 3,000 years old and will be shown in the Grand Egyptian Museum.", "Green parties' gains have given them significant influence in Swiss politics\n\nGreen parties made strong gains in Switzerland's parliamentary election, though the anti-immigration Swiss People's Party (SVP) came top.\n\nFinal results showed the Green Party (GPS) surging into fourth place, with 28 seats in the 200-seat lower house.\n\nThe Green Liberals (GLP) got 16 seats. The two green parties took more than 20% of the vote.\n\nTheir gains reflect voters' concerns over climate change, seen as the dominant issue in Sunday's election.\n\nThe Green Party overtook one of the parties in the coalition government, the Christian Democrats (CVP), and could for the first time get a seat in the coalition that governs Switzerland.\n\n\"It is not a green wave, it is a tsunami, a hurricane,\" deputy party leader Celina Vara told Swiss radio.\n\nThe SVP won, getting 53 seats - but that is 12 fewer than it had in the outgoing National Council (lower house).\n\nThe centre-left Socialists came second, winning 39 seats (down by four), and the centre-right Liberals (FDP) came third, winning 29 seats.\n\nIf the two Green parties are able to overcome policy differences and unite, they would represent a potent political force.\n\nAs is usual in Switzerland, no single party secured a majority.\n\nFor decades, the seven-seat Federal Council has been dominated by the same four main parties: the SVP, the Social Democrats, the FDP liberals and the CVP, says the BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva.\n\nThe SVP has campaigned for over a decade on two key messages: restrictions on immigration and asylum seekers, and limiting non-EU member Switzerland's ties with Brussels.\n\nBut these issues were scarcely mentioned in the election campaign, and climate change dominated as the single most important issue.\n\nHow are Greens doing in Europe?\n• None 20.5% of German vote in May 2019 Euro elections\n\nAll year, climate strikes have been taking place in the country, culminating in a huge rally in Bern in September that drew 100,000 people.\n\nThe Swiss have only to look up to see the effects of climate change: the Alpine glaciers are melting, and rock and mud slides are threatening mountain communities, our correspondent says.\n\nClimate change could cause the biggest glacier in the Alps, the Aletsch in Switzerland, to vanish by the end of the century\n\nBut the election campaign was about more than just a rise in support for green parties.\n\nA record 40% of candidates for the National Council were women (as were more than a third of those standing for the second house, the chamber of states).\n\nIn June this year, hundreds of thousands of women across Switzerland took to the streets to call for equal pay and conditions, and an end to discrimination.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Socialist MP Flavia Wasserfallen told Imogen Foulkes in June why women were taking to the streets", "MPs have voted for an amendment to the prime minister's Brexit deal which withholds Commons approval until the necessary UK legislation to leave the EU has been passed.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted, use the search box below.\n\nThe amendment was passed with a majority of 16 votes: 322 to 306.\n\nIn response, the government cancelled Saturday's vote on the actual deal itself.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the government would introduce legislation, next week, needed for Brexit on 31 October.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did your MP vote this time? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nThose MPs described as \"Did not vote\" in the search above, may have done so for a number of reasons. It could be they wished to abstain, or that they had constituency or ministerial business. The Speaker and his deputies cannot vote and Sinn Fein members traditionally do not vote.\n\nSix Labour MPs rebelled to vote with the government. Meanwhile, 10 former Conservative independents voted for the Letwin amendment.\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.", "\"If you were trying to design a way to close businesses like mine, you'd behave exactly as the government has done\".\n\nRob Tanner is on the cusp of winding up his 19-year-old business, SEA Oxford. He takes parties of Europeans - mainly teachers - sightseeing to some of the UK's most popular tourist hotspots such as Stonehenge and Bath.\n\nHe says the European Union funds the teachers and that trickles down to his business.\n\nRob has seen the number of people taking his tours drop by a fifth in the past few years, he says, which is not only affecting him, but the coach companies and host families he works with. He can't go on any longer.\n\n\"At some point the uncertainty will level out - but we just don't know when that will be and if it does recover we don't know if EU visitors will return to the levels that they were at,\" he said.\n\nFrustration underpins his every word. Like many small business people, he wanted a decision to be made, and quickly. But it's all come too late for his business.\n\nHe says the uncertainty is sending customers elsewhere.\n\n\"People are going to Malta and Ireland now to learn English because none of the details have been ironed out,\" he said.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses says \"the prolonged period of uncertainty\" caused by the political stalemate has left small businesses like his \"in limbo, with investment plans on hold and confidence low\".\n\nIn many ways, the debate going on in the business world is the same as in Parliament's.\n\nA snap poll carried out by the Institute of Directors (IoD) indicated business leaders were split on the issue of whether politicians should vote Boris Johnson's deal through.\n\nIn the survey of 655 people conducted between 17 and 19 October, a small majority (55%) thought MPs should approve the deal, as opposed to 41% who thought the Commons should vote against it.\n\nThe IoD poll suggests that businesses want to avoid a no-deal and move towards either another referendum (30%) or a general election (24%).\n\nThe Food and Drink Federation - which is concerned about the impact of possible delays on the UK's borders to fresh produce - welcomed the delay.\n\nChief executive Ian Wright said it wanted the extra time to scrutinise the deal, which was only published on Thursday.\n\n\"We shouldn't allow the fact that the nation is exhausted to mean we sleepwalk into mistakes that will haunt the UK economy for a generation,\" he said.\n\nMost business groups say they want the threat of leaving the European Union at the end of the month with no agreement in place to go away.\n\nThe British Chambers of Commerce says they'd like to see an \"iron-clad guarantee\" on that front.\n\nHowever, there are also those who say they just want a decision to be made - whatever the terms. A recent survey of clients by the accountancy firm EY found the majority believe Brexit is inevitable and \"are desperate for clarity to the extent they're now willing to accept no deal if that is what it takes\".\n\nAccording to Stephen Welton, chief executive of the Business Growth Fund which funds high growth start-ups, businesses don't have much time left to play with.\n\n\"At the moment we are stuck in increasingly circular and damaging debate,\" he said. \"One consequence is that business investment is slowing. We urgently need to redress that and a deal will be the catalyst to that.\"\n\nMark Essex, director of public policy for KPMG, agrees the impact of a continued delay will mean damage to the UK's economy - and frustration for companies.\n\nHe said: \"There's a pent up level of investment to be unleashed on things like infrastructure - decarbonisation - digital connectivity - retail. People aren't sure what regulatory environment is going to be - would you make a big bet on that environment?\"\n\nWhatever the specific feelings about Saturday's vote - there's no doubt that three years on from the referendum - businesses still feel paralysed by Parliament.\n\nA desire to see an end to uncertainty has been a unifying force over the past three years - and many still don't see any clarity on the way forward.", "London saw a huge protest on Saturday, calling for a second referendum on Brexit\n\nBoris Johnson made it crystal clear on Saturday: he did not want to write to EU leaders requesting another Brexit extension.\n\nAnd they were crystal clear in telephone calls with him that day that they were far from thrilled to be asked.\n\nBut UK law demanded the letter be sent. So now what?\n\nOn Saturday, French President Emmanuel Macron repeated his view that a new Brexit extension was not good for anyone.\n\nBoris Johnson literally spelling out his opposition to prolonging the Brexit process by writing a separate letter to Brussels to say so, makes it easier for his peers Mr Macron, Angela Merkel and others to drag their feet a little.\n\nThey prefer first to look to the prime minister to make good on his promise to them that their newly-negotiated Brexit deal will *definitely* be passed by parliament.\n\nAnd time (relatively speaking, of course) is on the prime minister's and EU leaders' side. Under EU law the Brexit deadline is not until 31 October.\n\nIn theory, Europe's leaders could wait until the morning of the 31st to hold an emergency summit to discuss an extension.\n\nRight now they are keen to keep up the pressure on MPs, to help them focus their minds on what they really want, rather than rush forward with another extension, allowing them (in EU eyes) to keep going round in circles, never uniting around one particular concrete Brexit plan.\n\nEU leaders like Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel must now decide whether to grant a Brexit extension\n\nAll 27 EU leaders have to agree for a new Brexit extension to be granted and they will grumble, they will moan and they will stamp their feet (metaphorically, at least).\n\nBut, if push comes to shove, with the alternative being no deal at all, then, after more than three years of Brexit process and negotiating two Brexit deals with two UK prime ministers, I cannot imagine the EU slamming the door in the face of the UK now.\n\nIf the House of Commons refuses to approve the new Brexit deal in the next couple of weeks, then granting a new extension would be in EU leaders' interest. They are keen not be blamed by their own citizens for a costly no-deal Brexit.\n\nSo, through gritted teeth, and only if EU leaders believe that it is needed, they will eventually most likely say yes to an extension. But a short one, if possible.\n\nBoris Johnson has struggled to find enough support in parliament, losing a number of key Brexit votes since becoming prime minister\n\nThey will want to know what it's for. Are there plans in the UK to hold a general election, a second referendum or a referendum on the new Brexit deal? Or is a bit more time needed to pass Brexit-related legislation?\n\nEU diplomats rule out the idea of further negotiations or amending the new Brexit deal, whatever comes out of the House of Commons over the next few days.\n\nThe EU fervently hopes this Brexit deal is the last one. Leaders want to move on to the next stage: negotiating future relations between the EU and UK, including a trade deal.\n\nThe leaving bit was originally billed as the easy part.", "Clinton Evbota died after being stabbed in the Brandon Estate in Camberwell, south London\n\nPolice have arrested a man and five youths over the fatal stabbing of an 18-year-old man in south London.\n\nClinton Evbota was attacked on the Brandon Estate, on Grimsel Path, in Camberwell on the evening of 10 October and died at the scene.\n\nA post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as multiple stab wounds.\n\nThe Met said it had arrested six people, aged 14-18, on suspicion of murder. Police are appealing for information.\n\nThose arrested are a 17-year-old boy from Coulsdon, a 14-year-old boy from Southwark, two 15-year-old boys from Camberwell, an 18-year-old man from Stockwell and a 17-year-old boy, also from Stockwell.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One of the world's leading fund managers has been forced to resign after the BBC discovered he had broken investment rules.\n\nMark Denning helped to manage more than $300bn (£229bn; €265bn) of investors' money at Capital Group.\n\nBBC One's Panorama uncovered evidence that suggests he was secretly acquiring shares for his own benefit in some of the same companies as his funds.\n\nMr Denning, who had worked at the firm for 36 years, denies any wrongdoing.\n\nThe 62-year-old fund manager left his job five days after Panorama wrote to Capital Group about the findings of its investigation.\n\nCapital Group - which manages almost $2 trillion of assets - said Mr Denning was no longer with the firm.\n\n\"We have a Code of Ethics and personal investing disclosure requirements that hold our associates to the highest standards of conduct. When we learned of this matter, we took immediate action,\" it said.\n\nFund managers are not supposed to invest in the same companies as their funds, because they could potentially profit at the expense of investors.\n\nThis is because their size means the funds can drive up a company's share price when they invest. The fund manager could use this power to push up the share price in the companies where they have personal investments, rather than picking the companies that offer the best returns for investors.\n\nThe Panorama investigation discovered that shares were bought on Mr Denning's instructions through a secretive fund based in Liechtenstein.\n\nLeaked documents show the Morebath fund had invested in a medical research company called Mesoblast, an Indian film company called Eros International and a gold mining company called Hummingbird Resources.\n\nCapital Group funds also invested in all three companies, and the investments in Mesoblast and Eros were made by funds that Mr Denning himself helped to manage.\n\nIn the case of Hummingbird Resources, Mr Denning appeared to have another potential conflict of interest as the company was set up and run by his son-in-law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"If there was an intention by the fund manager to financially benefit themselves, that does raise serious concerns.\"\n\nAn expert on the financial rules told Panorama that the private purchases by Mr Denning could represent a serious conflict of interest.\n\nMichael Ruck, investigations partner at the law firm TLT, said: \"The whole point behind the regime, in relation to declaring conflicts of interest, is to protect investors.\n\n\"If there was an intention by the fund manager to financially benefit themselves, then that does raise serious concerns in relation to their actions.\"\n\nThe stakes in the three companies were ultimately held through an offshore entity called the Kinrara Trust. It was set up and controlled by Mr Denning.\n\nMr Denning's lawyers deny that he owns the shares in the three companies because they say he is not a beneficiary of the Kinrara Trust.\n\n\"Our client did not declare his interest in the Kinrara Trust to his former employers because he had been irrevocably excluded as a beneficiary. He believed that he had complied with all of his relevant duties.\"\n\nMr Denning's lawyers say he received bad advice. They also say the Morebath fund had an independent asset manager and fund administrator.\n\nHowever, Panorama has seen evidence that Mr Denning was behind the share purchases in the three companies and documents show the Morebath fund was regularly included in a summary of his personal assets.\n\nMr Denning appears to have named the Liechtenstein-based fund after the village of Morebath in North Devon. He owns a nine bedroom house, Morebath Manor, and 21 acres of parkland in the village.\n\nThe fund manager also owns luxury homes in Chelsea and the Bahamas.\n\nMr Denning used to work for Capital Group in London and was approved by the City watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority until 2018.\n\nHowever, four of the funds he managed were aimed at American investors and he had been working from the company's office in Los Angeles.\n\nPanorama also discovered that the Kinrara Trust owned Kinrara International - a company that profited from a controversial energy deal in Senegal.\n\nKinrara International made $22m after the exploration rights to a huge gas field off the Senegalese coast were sold to BP.\n\nExperts have told Panorama that they believe Mr Denning should also have declared this - because Capital Group had investments in BP and another company involved in the deal called Kosmos Energy.\n\nMr Denning's lawyers say he has never been a legal or beneficial owner of Kinrara International.\n\nPanorama Can You Trust the Billion Pound Investors? is broadcast on Monday at 20.30", "Dr Peter Hutchinson stopped teaching after an internal investigation in 2015\n\nA Cambridge academic who was found to have sexually harassed 10 students has been readmitted to his college less than two years after it was announced he had been permanently removed.\n\nIn 2017, Dr Peter Hutchinson was banned from Trinity Hall and from contacting students.\n\nTrinity Hall now says the decision to remove him had \"not been agreed with Dr Hutchinson and was incorrect\".\n\nOne ex-student who had complained said the reversal was \"a slap in the face\".\n\nDr Hutchinson quit teaching modern and medieval languages in 2015 following an internal college investigation into his conduct.\n\nHe faced complaints of nearly a dozen \"inappropriate\" incidents in 2014 and 2015.\n\nIn 2017, Trinity Hall said he had permanently withdrawn from any further involvement with the college after breaching sanctions imposed on him after the initial complaints.\n\nAt the time, a Trinity Hall spokesman said: \"We can confirm Dr Hutchinson has withdrawn permanently from any further involvement with college affairs, including from his role on the finance committee.\n\n\"He will not be present in college at any time in the future.\"\n\nDr Hutchinson told the BBC that there had been \"no legal finding of harassment\" and emphasised that this was an internal, college investigation.\n\nHowever, the college now says Dr Hutchinson automatically became an emeritus fellow upon his retirement.\n\nIn a statement, the college said following \"extensive discussion and legal advice\" it concluded Dr Hutchinson's name had been \"mistakenly removed\" from its website.\n\n\"In line with the rights and privileges afforded to emeritus fellows of the college, Dr Hutchinson will continue to attend certain college events and to exercise his dining rights, but will not attend events primarily aimed at students or alumni except by agreement with the college,\" it said.\n\nBBC News understands the college had been advised Dr Hutchinson could threaten legal action and there were internal concerns about the impartiality of the process.\n\nAllegations of sexual misconduct against Dr Hutchinson date back to 2005, though he was cleared of criminal charges of sexual assault in 2006.\n\nFormer students who brought complaints against him have waived their right to anonymity to speak out about the decision and question what the college did to protect students after the initial allegations.\n\nSophie Newbery, 23, who graduated in German and Russian from Trinity Hall in 2018, said the decision felt like \"a slap in the face\" after complainants had \"worked up the courage to speak out\".\n\nEllie Pyemont, pictured on her graduation day, criticised the college\n\nShe said Dr Hutchinson had offered to give her a \"big kiss\" on her birthday, made comments about her clothing and asked a group of four students if they would \"sleep [their] way to the top\" during a film night at his house.\n\nIn the original grievance, seen by BBC News, she said he had also asked them during a seminar if they had \"ever had any love bites?\" and, while discussing the subject of a dominatrix in a book, asked a female student: \"Does that turn you on?\"\n\nShe said: \"It feels like they never took our complaint seriously and never cared as, one year after graduating, they've snuck him back in.\"\n\nCleodie Rickard, 23, who graduated in Arabic and Middle Eastern studies in 2018, said she was \"outraged\" and it had all been \"hushed-up\".\n\nNeither student had been notified he was returning.\n\nA letter to the complainants, seen by BBC News, asked them not to discuss the matter \"further within the student body\" because of its \"seriousness and sensitivity\".\n\nEllie Pyemont, 38, who graduated in languages in 2003, said she was \"staggered by the college's decision-making\", saying she felt \"self-interest and protectionism appear to be the primary forces\".\n\nThe University of Cambridge is made up of 31 autonomous colleges, all of which have their own internal procedures.\n\nIn a statement, Trinity Hall said: \"Given the extensive and confidential nature of the consultation, it would not be appropriate to comment further on that.\n\n\"Trinity Hall takes all forms of harassment seriously, and the welfare of its students continues to be central to its work as an educational institution.\"\n\nThe University of Cambridge said it takes the personal safety of its students \"very seriously\" and it had made \"a lot of changes\" since universities were given the mandate to investigate sexual misconduct three years ago.\n\nIt said the university had introduced anonymous reporting and appointed a sexual assault and harassment advisor for one-on-one support.\n\nIt added: \"We recognise we have more to do, and will continue to listen to and work with our students on how we can improve our approach to handling sexual misconduct.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry on his brother, William in 2019: \"We are certainly on different paths at the moment\"\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex has said friends advised her not to marry Prince Harry to avoid pressure from the media.\n\nMeghan, 38, said she was told \"you shouldn't do it because the British tabloids will destroy your life\".\n\nIn an ITV documentary, she admitted motherhood was a \"struggle\" due to intense interest from newspapers.\n\nPrince Harry also responded to reports of a rift between him and his brother William, Duke of Cambridge, by saying they were on \"different paths\".\n\nThe duke, 35, said he and Prince William have \"good days\" and \"bad days\".\n\nHe added: \"We are brothers. We will always be brothers.\n\n\"We are certainly on different paths at the moment but I will always be there for him as I know he will always be there for me.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a 2019 interview Meghan said it was a “struggle” becoming a mother amid intense media scrutiny\n\nIn the documentary, Meghan said adjusting to royal life had been \"hard\", adding that she was not prepared for the intensity of the tabloid media scrutiny.\n\n\"When I first met my now-husband my friends were really happy because I was so happy,\" she said.\n\n\"But my British friends said to me, 'I'm sure he's great but you shouldn't do it because the British tabloids will destroy your life'.\"\n\nMeghan also told the programme that that it was a \"struggle\" being pregnant and a new mother amid the intense interest from newspapers.\n\nOn whether she can cope, Meghan added: \"In all honesty I have said for a long time to H - that is what I call him - it's not enough to just survive something, that's not the point of life. You have got to thrive.\"\n\nPrince Harry was asked if he worried whether his wife may face the same pressures as his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, who died in 1997 in a car crash in Paris.\n\nHe said: \"I will always protect my family, and now I have a family to protect.\n\n\"So everything that she [Diana] went through, and what happened to her, is incredibly important every single day, and that is not me being paranoid, that is just me not wanting a repeat of the past.\"\n\nThe prince later described his mental health and the way he deals with the pressures of his life as a matter of \"constant management\".\n\nHe said: \"I thought I was out of the woods and then suddenly it all came back, and this is something that I have to manage.\n\nThe duke and duchess visited southern Africa last month with their son Archie\n\n\"Part of this job is putting on a brave face but, for me and my wife, there is a lot of stuff that hurts, especially when the majority of it is untrue.\"\n\nThe Africa tour was Prince Harry, Meghan and their baby son Archie's first official royal tour as a family.\n\nThe duchess, who married Prince Harry at Windsor Castle in May 2018 and gave birth to their son Archie this year, spoke about her experiences as a new royal since her wedding day.\n\nAn average of 2.8 million people watched the ITV documentary, Meghan and Harry: An African journey, on Sunday night.\n\nHarry has learned to be diplomatic. But his words about his brother confirm that, perhaps unsurprisingly given the way his life has changed, they are not that close anymore. Of course, there will always be love. But things have changed.\n\nMeghan is a superb communicator and her message was controlled, carefully thought out and brilliantly delivered. \"I never thought it would be easy,\" she said of tabloid newspaper coverage, \"but I thought it would be fair\". She's clearly horrified at her portrayal over the past few months. The British pride themselves on being fair and her use of that word stung.\n\n\"Has it been a struggle?\" pressed Tom Bradby. \"Yes,\" said Meghan. Harry acknowledged that he still struggles with his mental health. The couple are feeling and talking about the pressure and Harry now sees the shadow of his mother in every camera, every headline. This was a very unhappy story.\n\nWhich is odd. Because they are much-loved and - with Harry's energy and Meghan's back story - continue to touch the parts that other royals don't. But now there is a long, low rumble of discontent.\n\nIn a statement released at the beginning of this month, Prince Harry said his wife was the latest \"victim\" of a British tabloid press which \"wages campaigns against individuals with no thought to the consequences\".\n\nHe said \"knowingly false and malicious\" reports and \"continual misrepresentations\" were made by \"select media outlets\".\n\nThe duke and duchess are both bringing legal actions against the press, with Meghan suing the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters.\n\nPrince Harry filed his own proceedings at the High Court against the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in relation to alleged phone-hacking dating back more than a decade.", "Ahead of the launch of his most ambitious series yet, broadcaster Sir David Attenborough talks to the BBC about his cult status, a lifetime protecting the planet and finally finding its most elusive animal.\n\nThis year's Glastonbury Festival was headlined by Stormzy, The Killers, Kylie and The Cure, but the highlight for many was the surprise appearance of a 93-year-old knight of the realm.\n\nSir David Attenborough, who was there to promote his new series Seven Worlds, One Planet, walked out on to the Pyramid Stage to rapturous applause, thanked everybody on Worthy Farm for not drinking out of plastic bottles and urged them to keep looking out for all creatures great and small.\n\nSeveral months on, he admits he finds his growing influence on the environmentally woke youth of today a bit bizarre.\n\n\"It's very odd,\" he laughs. \"But the fact remains I've been at it 60 years. You can say nobody under the age of 75 can have been without my voice coming from the corner of the room at various times and that must have an effect.\n\n\"It's a huge advantage for me because you go there with some sort of reputation and people are aware of you, and in a sense you've been part of the family for quite a long time, which is an extraordinary obligation really and a privilege.\n\n\"I'm sure there's a hell of a lot of young people saying 'for God's sake why don't they move over, give the others a chance,'\" he modestly adds.\n\nIn truth, no-one is saying that.\n\nShowstopper: Sir David Attenborough addresses tens of thousands of festival-goers on Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage\n\nThe broadcaster, who recently had a boat named in his honour, was listed as one of the 100 Greatest Britons in a BBC poll in 2002.\n\nSince then, his stock has risen exponentially due to natural history shows like Planet Earth, Dynasties and Blue Planet II - which brought the issue of plastic waste to the public's attention and bumped climate change up the government's agenda.\n\nLast week, more than 80,000 people applied for just 300 tickets for an early screening of his new documentary, which arrives at what Sir David calls \"the most critical moment on earth since the continents formed\".\n\nThe series, narrated by the \"rock star\" - as BBC boss Tony Hall introduced him earlier in the day - focuses on the human impact on climate change, animal diversity, poaching and deforestation across all seven continents.\n\nThe latest scientific research revealed the effects of climate change are speeding up, as world leaders met to discuss it in New York last month.\n\n\"At last nations are coming together and recognising we all live on the same planet,\" Sir David acknowledges. \"All these seven worlds are actually one and we are dependent on it for every mouthful of food we eat and every breath of air we take.\n\n\"We have it in our hands and we've made a tragic, desperate mess of it so far.\"\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 Earth 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\nBy sheer coincidence, the press launch for the show occurs on the same day environmental pressure group Extinction Rebellion begin their two-week global protest.\n\nAnd while the presenter won't really be drawn on their methods, or that of political activists like Greta Thunberg (\"they are young people and their voices will be heard\"), he does admit his shows may have helped viewers the world over to open their eyes to \"the facts\".\n\n\"I don't think I've made a series in the last 40 years where I haven't made the end an appeal about caring for the natural world,\" he says.\n\n\"Its an extraordinary thing. At the time I daresay people thought we were sort of cranks or something.\n\n\"But as it's gone on and on and on and we've repeated it on and on and on - 'not wasting things, not polluting things' and so on - suddenly you hit the right note.\"\n\nA colony of young penguin chicks wait for their parents to return with food in Andrews Bay, South Georgia\n\nSir David Attenborough (left) and director Jonny Keeling discuss the script while filming in Iceland\n\n\"With Blue Planet II,\" he goes on, \"suddenly the world was electrified about the crime of chucking plastic into the ocean that can throttle and poison creatures, including ourselves.\n\n\"Quite what it is that makes the messages we all care for ring the bell, is very difficult to say. I dare say if we knew exactly how to do it we'd do it more frequently.\"\n\nThe BBC Natural History unit's biggest project to date, which features music by Sia and Hans Zimmer, involved more than 1,500 people globe-trotting to 41 countries, over several years.\n\nCutting-edge technology - including portable drones capable of shooting in 4K - enabled them to delve inside caves, volcanoes, forests, swamps, jungles and blizzards, to capture images of animals that are new to science and new patterns of behaviour.\n\nFor director/executive producer Jonny Keeling, it was vitally important to place conservation stories at the heart of the series, so viewers can understand why certain animals are in decline. Such as the tale of the grey-headed albatross and its increasing struggle to recognise its own chicks once they are blown off the nest.\n\nThere are positive stories in there too though, notably how whales have come back from the brink of extinction since whaling was banned in 1986. His team were relieved to capture them on camera on just the final day of a seven-week shoot.\n\n\"That's really important as you need to show people the hope and actually when we do something we can make a massive difference,\" says Keeling.\n\n\"In a matter of two decades we can turn things around - we can stop the whales disappearing or we can save sharks.\"\n\nThe population of southern right whales was reduced from 35,000 to having only 35 females. Since their protection it has grown back to 2,000\n\nGrey-headed albatross chicks sit above the wet ground, in an attempt to stay warm and not freeze to death in storms\n\n\"I think there's some key species,\" he adds, \"If they're looked after you can bring back a whole eco-system and its richness.\n\n\"The best solution to climate change is preserving the natural world, preserving forests and oceans and looking after the animals.\n\n\"It's a huge cliché but there are seven billion people on earth and if seven billion all start doing the right thing…\"\n\nSuch is the global interest in any show connected to Sir David that schools in India and South Africa are dialled into the Q&A session following its London world premiere.\n\nA boy in Mumbai enthusiastically asks the man himself what he can do to help the planet.\n\n\"The best motto to think about is to not waste things,\" replies TV's favourite teacher (sorry Walter White fans).\n\n\"Don't waste electricity, paper, food. Live the way you want to live but just don't waste. Look after the natural world and the animals in it and the plants in it too, this is their planet as well as ours.\"\n\nFinally, after more than 50 years of searching, Seven Worlds also sees Sir David catch up with his most evasive animal yet - \"a wonderful creature\" called the golden haired blue-faced snub-nosed snow monkey.\n\n\"I read about them in a scientific paper in the 60s,\" he recalls. \"I always had it in the back of my mind, and blow me, if this lot found it!\n\n\"In the Asia programme I think it's one of the stars.\"\n\nAnd another name fit to grace the Pyramid Stage.\n\nPlease welcome to the stage... the golden haired blue-faced snub-nosed snow monkeys\n\nSeven Worlds, One Planet begins on BBC One at 18:15 GMT on Sunday 27 October.", "Protesters held signs and wore masks during the pre-season basketball game in New York\n\nDozens of spectators at a US basketball game have held signs and donned T-shirts and masks in support of protests in Hong Kong.\n\nDemonstrators gathered during a match in New York between the Brooklyn Nets and the Toronto Raptors.\n\nThe move was organised by film producer Andrew Duncan, who bought 300 tickets for the activists.\n\nIt comes amid an ongoing row between China and the NBA over the protests that have rocked Hong Kong since March.\n\nImages from the pre-season game on Friday show demonstrators wearing T-shirts emblazoned with \"Stand With Hong Kong\" and \"Free Tibet\".\n\nTwo other people were also pictured wearing Winnie-the-Pooh costumes. The cartoon bear is used as a symbol to mock Chinese President Xi Jinping and is banned in China.\n\nFootage from the protest was shared on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by lhadon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAmong the group was Hong Kong activist Nathan Law, the former chairman of Demosisto, a pro-democracy party he co-founded with fellow campaigner Joshua Wong.\n\n\"We want to use our performance art to show our support for Hong Kong and the NBA,\" another spectator, Chen Pokong, 55, told the New York Post. \"[China wants] to take away freedom of speech and now spread dictatorship to America.\"\n\nLocal media report that some of demonstrators were ejected from the game for chanting.\n\nSimilar demonstrations have already been held at other games between American and Chinese teams. Earlier this month, during a match between the Philadelphia 76ers and the Guangzhou Loong-Lions, two people were asked to leave for holding signs in support of Hong Kong protests.\n\nAt another game between the Loong-Lions and the Washington Wizards, local media report that spectators had their pro-Hong Kong signs confiscated.\n\nBut Friday's protest was the first to be held during a match between two NBA teams.\n\nThe spat between the league and China's government began earlier this month after Houston Rockets manager Daryl Morey tweeted support for protests in Hong Kong.\n\nAs a result, several Chinese firms suspended sponsorship and telecast deals with the NBA - a huge financial blow to the league, which has millions of followers in China.\n\nIn Hong Kong this week, some protesters burned jerseys of basketball star LeBron James in response to his comments about the demonstrations\n\nThe Rockets and the NBA quickly distanced themselves from Mr Morey's tweet, while basketball superstar LeBron James suggested the Rockets' manager \"wasn't educated on the situation\" in Hong Kong.\n\nBrooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai - who is also the vice-chairman of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba - has also criticised Mr Morey for his \"damaging\" tweet, saying he misjudged how strongly many Chinese people felt about Hong Kong.\n\n\"Supporting a separatist movement in a Chinese territory is one of those third-rail issues, not only for the Chinese government, but also for all citizens in China,\" Mr Tsai added.\n\nMr Morey has since backtracked on his tweet. but US lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle have accused the NBA of bowing to Beijing.", "Last updated on .From the section Hearts\n\nHearts have opened an investigation after claims that Rangers striker Alfredo Morelos was racially abused in Sunday's Scottish Premiership draw.\n\nThe Colombian was allegedly targeted as he celebrated his equaliser in front of the Hearts supporters at Tynecastle.\n\nPolice Scotland say they are unaware of any complaints, with the only arrest made being for a separate incident.\n\n\"The club is aware of an incident of alleged racism and is currently investigating it,\" read a statement.\n• None Players should walk off if abused - Lennon\n\n\"It goes without saying that Heart of Midlothian Football Club utterly condemns any form of racism and any individuals found guilty of such an offence will face an indefinite ban from Tynecastle Park.\"\n\nThe incident comes at the end of a week scarred by several incidents of racism in football.\n\nEngland's Euro 2020 qualifier in Bulgaria last Monday was halted twice as fans were warned about racist behaviour, including Nazi salutes and monkey chanting.\n\nAnd an FA Cup match between Haringey Borough and Yeovil Town was abandoned on Saturday amid reports of racial abuse by fans.\n\nFurthermore, Bristol City are investigating reports of racist language being used by their fans during their Championship game at Luton.", "Henry VIII split from the Roman Catholic church after he rowed with the Pope over one of his divorces\n\nHenry VIII's legendary marital troubles paved the way for copycat divorces, new evidence has suggested.\n\nRecords from the 16th Century have been largely lost.\n\nBut experts from Bangor University and the University of Exeter have unearthed evidence of parallels between events at the royal court and the love-life of a member of the Welsh gentry.\n\nEdward Griffith of Gwynedd flip-flopped between two wives in a similar way to and at the same time as the monarch.\n\nTeenager Edward married Jane of Cochwillan who subsequently died aged 13. He then married her sister Agnes in about 1527 but the following year she returned to live with her father.\n\nEdward later married Jane Puleston in about 1529, but he soon began living with Agnes again. He then returned to Jane and they had three daughters - Jane, Elin and Katherine.\n\nThe chronology of these events closely resembles the complicated ending of Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon.\n\nThe king's divorce was mentioned in court documents about Edward's split from Agnes and experts believe the similarity of the two cases showed Edward was following events at the royal court as he managed his own marriages.\n\nAnne Boleyn was executed under Henry's orders while he divorced Catherine of Aragon\n\nDetails about Edward's marriages only exist because his heirs brought a case about the Penrhyn inheritance in 1556.\n\nDr Gwilym Owen, of Bangor Law School, said: \"The evidence is contained in witness depositions taken in Chancery proceedings. Church records for the period are substantially lost. Therefore, these depositions are a lucky survival.\"\n\nProf Rebecca Probert, an expert in marriage law from the University of Exeter, said: \"We have compared the evidence we have about Edward's life and it's very striking that events in his life echo that of events in the royal marriage.\n\n\"Viewed in isolation, Edward appears at best indecisive and at worst a complete cad. But if you put his actions in the context of the actions of the king, it seems he felt bound by the arguments put forward by his ruler.\"\n\nShe added it may also have been because he was \"an impressionable teenager\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "By the landslide standards of previous Brexit votes, this was a narrow defeat for the government.\n\nAnd they may calculate that they can reel in a few more ex-Tory rebels add a few Labour MPs from Leave seats, and muster a modest majority for Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, in a further vote next week, even without the support of the Northern Ireland DUP.\n\nIn an ill-tempered series of points of order after today's votes, Jacob Rees-Mogg indicated that the government would now seek to hold a further \"meaningful vote\" to win Commons approval for the deal, paving the way for a Withdrawal Agreement Bill to put it into law.\n\nAh, argued a number of opposition MPs, wouldn't that amount to putting the same issue to the vote twice?\n\nRemember that the Speaker prevented the government from staging a third vote on Theresa May's deal, on the principle that it was out of order for ministers to keep asking the same question again and again, until they got the answer they wanted.\n\nThe Speaker, John Bercow, did not give a definitive ruling, saying that he would ponder the matter and take advice.\n\nIf he allows the vote, Labour MPs in pro-Brexit seats will be under massive pressure.\n\nThey would much rather go straight to a Withdrawal Agreement Bill, where they can tinker with the detail to their heart's content - possibly allying with dissident Tories to write a customs union into it.\n\nAnd for the government, putting down a bill without the support of the DUP would be fraught with danger.\n\nAn early indicator will be whether the government can win the programme motion necessary to ensure the Bill gets through in quick time.\n\nMeanwhile, opposition MPs were keen to know whether the PM would follow the terms of the \"Benn Act\" and write to the EU, to request a further extension of UK membership.\n\nHis enigmatic reply that he was not prepared to \"negotiate\" an extension did not, it seems to me, exclude the possibility of sending the required letter.\n\nThere was a very interesting discussion of what might then happen in Lord Pannick's speech to Saturday's sitting of the House of Lords.\n\nThe DUP's Sammy Wilson is disenchanted with the government\n\nHe suggested that a flat refusal to send the required letter should provoke the resignation of the Lord Chancellor and the Attorney General, but that the Benn Act did not preclude the prime minister from saying to EU leaders he didn't want an extension - there was a very thin line, and the result could be \"a very interesting case in the Supreme Court\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Parliamentary programme for next week, including that new \"meaningful vote\" and dicey-looking votes on the Queen's Speech, will have to be rejigged.\n\nWith no government majority, and its DUP allies looking very disenchanted, the chances of an amendment being passed are high - spelling further trouble.\n\nOnce, such a defeat would have automatically triggered the resignation of the government, but in the era of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act it is unclear what the implications would now be.\n\nOne educated guess, from Sir Bernard Jenkin, the senior Conservative who chairs the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, is that the prime minister would be within his rights to demand a formal no-confidence vote in the terms set down in the Fixed-Term Parliament Act - and remain in office unless and until such a vote was passed.\n\nIt's going to be an interesting week.\n\nI promised a blog on what's coming up in Parliament next week, and indeed, it is more than half written; the trouble is, as outlined above, the agenda for next week will have to be reshaped. So I will hold off publishing it until I know more. Apologies.", "New Zealand will meet England in the World Cup semi-finals after condemning Ireland to a seventh quarter-final exit with a 46-14 hammering in Tokyo.\n\nTwo tries from Aaron Smith and one by Beauden Barrett helped the All Blacks to a 22-0 lead at half-time.\n\nThe holders scored further tries through Codie Taylor, Matt Todd, George Bridge and Jordie Barrett.\n\nRobbie Henshaw's score and a penalty try did nothing to recover what was a disastrous display for Ireland.\n\nBilled as the defining final chapter in Joe Schmidt's tenure as head coach, Ireland's World Cup in Japan will go down as another failure with no indication that the team are any closer to the world's elite than they were when they exited at the same stage four years ago.\n\nThis was Ireland's second defeat in the tournament - their 19-12 Pool A loss to hosts Japan having deprived them of a last-eight meeting with South Africa and a possibly easier route to a first semi-final.\n\nMeanwhile, the All Blacks will move into the semi-finals as even stronger favourites to lift a third successive Webb Ellis Cup than they were at the start of the tournament having produced a display that few, if any, sides would be capable of delivering.\n\nThe narrative from the Ireland camp remained consistent throughout the week-long build-up: they had to produce an almost flawless display if they were to even run New Zealand close.\n\nHowever, not for a single minute of Saturday's contest did it look as though Ireland possessed the tools capable of derailing the champions.\n\nIndeed, it was New Zealand who produced what was infinitely closer to perfect rugby, taking their game to a level with which Ireland could not contend.\n\nAfter Richie Mo'unga had kicked his side ahead, Smith navigated the All Blacks deep into Ireland territory before darting through a gap to score.\n\nAlthough still in the first quarter, the signs were looking ominous for Ireland, with New Zealand winning the battle at the breakdown and punching holes in the defence as they stretched their play left, right and back again through the scintillating back three of Barrett, Sevu Reece and Bridge.\n\nIreland needed a spark and had the opportunity to push New Zealand onto their try-line with a kick to the corner, but Johnny Sexton missed his touch and two minutes later the ball was back at the opposite end of the pitch, with Smith diving over again from close range.\n\nThe third try, which killed off any faint Irish hopes of a revival, came from an Ireland move inside the New Zealand half, with Reece's hit on Sexton dislodging the ball, allowing Barrett to kick through and gather beyond the line.\n\nAfter spending much of 2019 clinging onto the form of last year as an indicator of their potential, Ireland's defeat by New Zealand in Tokyo presents a far clearer picture of their place on the world stage than their win over the All Blacks 10 months ago did.\n\nThe manner of the loss leaves little room for an argument that Ireland can be considered among the top sides in the world.\n\nBy the time Taylor dived over on 48 minutes after his side had worked the ball through the phases, it was clear that New Zealand were operating on a level that Ireland were not capable of reaching.\n\nFor all of Ireland's shortcomings, the All Blacks were relentlessly wonderful.\n\nTheir fifth try arrived after the forwards set-up field position for Mo'unga to kick crossfield for Reece to gather and present for Todd to score.\n\nIreland did score eventually, as Henshaw cut back against the grain to put his side on the board 10 minutes from time.\n\nBridge and Jordie Barrett, having been introduced from the bench, benefited from more superb New Zealand ball movement to add further scores either sides of Ireland's penalty try.\n• None New Zealand have won 29 of their 32 meetings with Ireland in Test rugby (D1, L2), including both of their matches at the World Cup (43-19 in 1995).\n• None Ireland have lost all seven of their World Cup quarter-finals, never making it past this round, No side has endured as many losses at this stage.\n• None Two of Ireland's three biggest defeats under Joe Schmidt have now come in World Cup quarter-finals (also 43-20 v Argentina in 2015), while the other came less than two months ago against England (57-15).\n• None New Zealand scored seven or more tries in a World Cup knockout match for the third time in their history (eight v Wales in 1987, nine v France in 2015). No other side has scored more than six tries in a match beyond the pool stage of the tournament.\n• None Matt Todd became the fifth player to score a try and be yellow-carded in a World Cup knockout game - the previous four were all from New Zealand or France (S Betsen, L Picamoles, L McAlister, J Kaino).\n\nFor the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nAdam Lallana's late equaliser rescued a point for Liverpool at Old Trafford as Manchester United ended the leaders' flawless start to the Premier League season.\n\nLiverpool were in search of their 18th successive league win to equal Manchester City's top-flight record set between August and December 2017 but had to settle for a point after a scrappy encounter.\n\nMarcus Rashford's hotly-contested first-half goal, allowed after a video assistant referee check for a foul by Victor Lindelof on Divock Origi, looked to be condemning Liverpool to their first league loss since they went down at Manchester City in January.\n\nRashford finished neatly from Daniel James' cross in the 36th minute but Liverpool, who saw a first-half strike from Sadio Mane ruled out by VAR for handball, struck back when substitute Lallana arrived unmarked at the far post to score from Andy Robertson's cross five minutes from time.\n\nThe draw means Liverpool's advantage at the top of the table has been cut to six points.\n• None Analysis - how Solskjaer found a way to stop Liverpool\n• None Klopp: Man Utd always set up to defend against us\n• None Was Liverpool's run always destined to end at Man Utd?\n• None Discover how you rated the players\n\nLiverpool's relentless start to the season ended here at Old Trafford, an arena where they always struggle to produce their best.\n\nThey have failed to win on their past six visits to Manchester United, comprising three losses and three draws, meaning manager Jurgen Klopp is still searching for his first win here with Liverpool.\n\nRobbed of the injured Mohamed Salah, Liverpool started with Origi on the left and rarely displayed the intensity and attacking verve that has become their trademark in a strangely subdued performance. They had 68% of the ball but barely created any clear-cut opportunities in a match that swiftly became a war of attrition.\n\nLiverpool, however, are sustained by a fierce determination even when not in top gear and Lallana was on the mark after a lengthy spell of possession to score his first league goal for over two years.\n\nKlopp's side even threatened to snatch victory, but substitute Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's shot flashed inches wide.\n\nKlopp was furious about the decision to award Rashford's goal but he must also accept that this was a below-par Liverpool performance and in the end they and their fans, who taunted their United counterparts with inflatable Champions League trophies and the number \"6\", were grateful for a draw that means they still have a healthy advantage at the Premier League summit.\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will be bitterly disappointed they could not hang on for five more minutes for what would have been a hugely satisfying landmark win.\n\nHe will, however, be delighted with the fight, spirit and organisation shown by his side, especially as the five-man defensive system United had been working on this week was disrupted minutes before kick-off when Axel Tuanzebe was injured in the warm-up and replaced by Marcos Rojo.\n\nThey subdued Liverpool until they switched off carelessly late on when Rojo went missing and Ashley Young failed to spot the danger from Lallana in behind him.\n\nOverall, however, this was a huge improvement simply in terms of resilience and character.\n\nGoalscorer Rashford worked tirelessly while Scott McTominay continues to mature in midfield, and the Stretford End showed their appreciation at the final whistle.\n\nThis is a mediocre Manchester United side but there was no shortage of effort and they deserved a point that Solskjaer will hope provides a platform for a rise up the table.\n\n'A step in the right direction' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer: \"It's important to get results. That's the only way to grow confidence. A win would have been great but a draw is a step in the right direction.\n\n\"As a manager you want results now - you can't lose four, five or six games on the bounce. We're looking to win games as soon as possible.\"\n\nOn the lack of a free-kick to Liverpool in the build-up to Rashford's goal: \"It's maybe a slight touch but it's not a clear and obvious error. It's still a man's game with tackles allowed, and the second one [Sadio Mane's disallowed goal] was a handball. Today we were on the right end of the VAR decisions.\"\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: \"The result is OK. It's not what we wanted but we have to be happy given how the game developed. The first half I didn't like because we gave United the chance to do what they want to do - to put us under pressure and be aggressive. They were not better than we were but they did what they wanted to do.\n\n\"They scored a goal which shows all the problems with VAR. Mr Atkinson let the game run I'm sure because there is VAR. For me it was a clear foul. It's a general problem. VAR looks and says 'you decided like this'. But it was a foul. Then we scored a goal that was disallowed. Pretty much everything went against us but we still didn't lose so that is OK.\n\n\"We were in charge 100% towards the end. We wanted a different result but to do that you have to play better.\"\n• None Liverpool failed to win for the first time in 18 Premier League games, since a goalless draw with Everton in March.\n• None No side has dropped more points from winning positions in the Premier League this season than Manchester United (8, level with Aston Villa).\n• None United registered their second lowest possession figure (32.1%) in a Premier League home match since 2003-04, second only to 32.06% against Liverpool in March 2018.\n• None Five of the past seven Premier League meetings between United and Liverpool have ended level (one win each) - just four of the previous 36 between the sides had been drawn.\n• None English players scored for both Manchester United and Liverpool in a Premier League meeting for the first time since November 2001 (David Beckham and Michael Owen).\n• None Since the start of last season, Liverpool have scored 28 Premier League goals in the final 15 minutes of games, more than any other side.\n• None Man Utd boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is the only manager Jurgen Klopp has faced more than once in the Premier League and failed to beat (P2 D2).\n• None 35% of Marcus Rashford's 31 Premier League goals for Manchester United have come against 'big six' opponents (11/31).\n• None Liverpool's Adam Lallana netted his first goal in 29 Premier League appearances, since scoring against Middlesbrough in May 2017.\n• None Since the start of 2017-18, Liverpool's Andrew Robertson has registered 19 assists in the Premier League, more than any other defender.\n\nLiverpool visit Genk in the Champions League on Wednesday, with United at Partizan Belgrade in the Europa League on Thursday.\n\nNext Sunday in the Premier League, Liverpool host Tottenham with United at Norwich City.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Daniel James tries a through ball, but Andreas Pereira is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1, Liverpool 1. Adam Lallana (Liverpool) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a cross.Goal confirmed following VAR Review.\n• None Attempt missed. Fred (Manchester United) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Attempt saved. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Ex-England footballer Paul Gascoigne says he suffered a \"year of hell\" before being cleared of a charge of sexually assaulting a woman on a train.\n\nHe was accused of \"forcefully and sloppily\" kissing a passenger on a York to Newcastle service in August 2018.\n\nThe 52-year-old told the court he gave the woman a \"peck on the lips\" to \"boost her confidence\" after he heard a male passenger call her overweight.\n\n\"The last year has been a nightmare,\" he told the Sunday Mirror.\n\n\"I've been in trouble but nothing like this,\" he said. \"I worried people would stop me going down the high street and shout abuse at me, or stop me from being around their kids.\n\n\"Being on the sex offenders list - that's not me. This is the hardest thing I've ever been through.\"\n\nIn an in-depth interview, the former Newcastle and Tottenham Hotspur star - who has a history of alcohol problems - revealed he had not drunk for six months as he prepared for and went through the trial process.\n\nInstead, he turned to exercise.\n\n\"I would be up all night doing sit-ups and squats or on the bike,\" he said. \"Anything to keep my mind busy.\n\n\"Those weeks before the trial were hard but I had to stay strong.\"\n\nGascoigne had been in a \"drunken state\" when he was arrested on 20 August last year, his trial at Teesside Crown Court was told.\n\nHe denied this, saying he had had pellets implanted in his stomach that made him sick if he drank spirits.\n\nHe told officers he had \"kissed a fat lass\" to give her a \"confidence boost\".\n\nIn court, Gascoigne said he had gone to reassure her after overhearing a man say: \"What do you want a photo of her for? She's fat and ugly.\"\n\nThe former midfielder, who won 57 England caps, was cleared of both sexual assault by touching and the lesser charge of assault by beating.\n\nHe told the Mirror he \"didn't mean anything sexual\" and suggested his fame contributed to the decision to prosecute.\n\n\"If it was anyone else this would never have gone to court. I accept I'm not liked by everyone,\" he said.\n\n\"I shouldn't have to change the way I behave. I've been kissed six times this morning - does that mean I have been sexually assaulted?\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nA dramatic late Ross Moriarty try booked Wales a World Cup semi-final place at the expense of 14-man France as Warren Gatland's side came from behind to win 20-19 in Oita.\n\nFrance lock Sebastien Vahaamahina was sent off after 48 minutes for a blatant elbow on Wales flanker Aaron Wainwright in a decisive moment.\n\nFrance were leading 19-10 at the time and Wales scored 10 unanswered points.\n\nWales overcame the loss of centre Jonathan Davies just before kick-off to reach a third World Cup semi-final to follow their exploits of 1987 and 2011.\n• None Davies could be fit for World Cup semi-final\n\nVahaamahina, Charles Ollivon, and the brilliant Virimi Vakatawa scored France tries in a relentless first-half display, while Wales responded through Wainwright and Moriarty tries and 10 points from Dan Biggar's boot.\n\nFrance won the only other previous World Cup meeting between the two nations in the 2011 semi-final when then Wales skipper Sam Warburton was red-carded.\n\nThis time it was a French sending off that proved pivotal.\n\nWales will be relieved after producing a disappointing and disjointed performance but again resilience and character took them to victory in a game where they trailed from the fifth minute until the 74th.\n\nMoriarty shrugged off a first-half yellow card to score the decisive try with the ball adjudged not to have gone forward in the build-up from a rip by replacement scrum-half Tomos Williams.\n\nWales fans woke up to the news they did not want to hear but feared when key centre Davies was ruled out just before kick-off with the knee injury he suffered against Fiji.\n\nDavies initially had been cleared to play and was selected in the team before being pulled out 75 minutes before kick-off.\n\nThe Scarlets centre aggravated the injury in Wales' final training session on Saturday and was officially ruled out on Sunday morning.\n\nOwen Watkin was Davies' replacement for the biggest game of his career with full-back Leigh Halfpenny coming in on the bench.\n\nFrance had defeated Argentina, Tonga and USA but not played for two weeks after their Pool C decider had been called off because of Typhoon Hagibis, but they made a blistering start in Oita.\n\nSo it was a battle-hardened Wales against a rested France. Who would prevail?\n\nFrance provided a glimpse of what they offered with Wales grateful for crucial defensive interventions from George North and Justin Tipuric before Les Bleus powered through the gears.\n\nFrance benefitted from a loose clearing kick from scrum-half Gareth Davies as Wales gifted their opposition possession and Vahaamahina powered over in the fifth minute, though Romain Ntamack hit the post with the conversion, one of two key missed kicks from France.\n\nLes Bleus responded with a brilliant second try two minutes later. Vakatawa exposed the Wales midfield defence by stepping past Josh Navidi and linking up with Ntamack and Dupont before flanker Ollivon cantered away to score as they built up a 12-0 lead inside eight minutes.\n\nWales had trailed Fiji by 10 points early on in their last game in Oita and again appeared rattled following a slow start as they seemed set to duplicate the Six Nations clash where France led by 16 points at half-time.\n\nHowever, the Grand Slam winners responded from nowhere when a heavy tackle from Jake Ball on France captain Guilhem Guirado resulted in a dropped ball which Wainwright latched onto and sprinted away to score.\n\nBiggar converted and added a penalty to reduce the deficit to two points to complete a frantic opening quarter.\n\nWales suffered another injury blow when Navidi was forced off by a hamstring problem. He was replaced by Moriarty whose first contribution was to be sent to the sin-bin for a high tackle on centre Gael Fickou.\n\nFrance immediately took advantage of their numerical superiority when Vakatawa powered over after patient build-up with Ntamack converting.\n\nA rejuvenated and rampant France continued to attack as they capitalised on Wales' kicking tactic of keeping the ball on the field.\n\nWales were thankful to crucial defensive interventions from wings North and Josh Adams while Ntamack hit the post for the second time with a penalty.\n\nGatland's side would have been content with a 19-10 interval deficit in a half where they missed 18 tackles, which would have infuriated defence coach Shaun Edwards.\n\nFrance made a half-time change with injured fly-half Ntamack replaced by Camille Lopez and looked comfortable until Vahaamahina had his inexplicable red-mist moment.\n\nThe lock was sent off for elbowing Wainwright in the head after already having his arm around his neck.\n\nIt was a game-changing moment and instantly led to comparisons to the 2011 semi-final when Warburton's red card tipped the scales in France's favour.\n\nWales piled on the pressure with Biggar reducing the deficit to within a score before 14-man France rallied again.\n\nVakatawa was causing havoc and Wales were grateful Penaud dropped the ball with the line at his mercy.\n\nWales then failed with an attacking overlap when Yoann Huget intercepted an attempted try-scoring pass before the decisive moment at a French scrum a few metres in front of their own line.\n\nTomos Williams ripped the ball away and flanker Justin Tipuric latched onto it before Moriarty dived over.\n\nReferee Jaco Peyper checked with television match official Marius Jonker to see whether the ball had gone forward from Williams and to confirm that Moriarty's grounding was legal; the try was awarded.\n\nMoriarty's score was converted by Biggar as Wales led for the first time with just six minutes remaining and they held on for a famous victory.\n\n'It was similar to 2011' - reaction\n\nWales coach Warren Gatland: \"The message at half-time was just that we had to score next and we were able to do that.\n\n\"The red card was obviously pretty significant, but the thing I am proud about is the guys didn't give in, they just kept waiting for an opportunity that they knew would come.\n\n\"It was similar to 2011 when we had the red card and lost by a point. It wasn't the prettiest game in the world, but we showed great character.\n\n\"We will take it even though it was a little bit ugly, the important thing is going through, for us we look to get ourselves right now for the next two weeks.\"\n\nWales captain Alun Wyn Jones: \"We were slow out of the blocks, we started similar to against Fiji but the character we showed to come through, we kept plugging away and it came right on the scoreboard. We wanted to take the advantage with territory and take the opportunities.\n\n\"We have plenty to work on, but we are very pleased with the result. We saw a lot of red from the Japanese fans, but the way the Welsh support have come over here is awesome.\"\n\nFormer Wales international Tom Shanklin: \"I'm emotionally spent! What a game that was from start to finish. I'm looking at the players here, some hugging and jumping, some totally spent, exhausted.\n\n\"It's taken a toll on them this World Cup, the big games they've had against Australia and Fiji.\n\n\"The turning point was the red card, but I expected a little bit more from Wales if I'm honest. I don't think we saw the best of them in attack. They were certainly shell-shocked in that first half.\n\n\"The character those boys showed to come back when it really mattered - that scrum which just blew France away and allowed Tomos Williams to get on the ball and the way they saw the game out... they're through to a semi-final and what more could you ask.\"\n• None Wales completed their biggest comeback to win a World Cup match. They came back from 12 points down, beating their previous largest total of 10 points.\n• None This match marked the fifth time Wales were involved in a World Cup match decided by a single point. No other team has been involved in as many.\n• None This was the second Rugby World Cup meeting between France and Wales, with each side picking up one win with both matches being won by a single point.\n• None Both World Cup matches between France and Wales have featured a red card.\n• None Wales have equalled their record for most victories in a single World Cup (five in 1987).\n• None Sebastien Vahaamahina scored his first Test try in his 46th appearance and became the first France player to be sent off in a World Cup match.\n• None Since their defeat against France at the 2011 World Cup, Wales have won eight of their nine subsequent matches against France, only the All Blacks have beaten France more often in this timeframe (10 times).\n• None Ross Moriarty crossed for a crucial try after being sin-binned, just the third Wales player to score and be yellow-carded in a Rugby World Cup match after both Colin Charvis and Sonny Parker did that in the same game against Canada in 2003.", "Indecision is not a trait you'll find in any of the 12 female characters in Bernardine Evaristo's novel Girl, Woman, Other. They're a feisty bunch. Unlike this year's Booker Prize judges who bottled it when it came to their one and only job, which was to pick a single winner.\n\nWe all know arts prizes are a nonsense.\n\nThere's no such thing as a \"best\" anybody when it comes to creative excellence: judgement is subjective and discriminatory. But if you do choose to play the game, then at least have the fortitude to see it through. Don't do what this lot did and give us a shortlist of a shortlist.\n\nI was going to review this year's winner, then I had to pick one of the two finalists. I've gone for Evaristo over Atwood because we know lots about the Canadian and less about the Anglo-Nigerian. You might not agree with my rationale, but at least it's a decision!\n\nMargaret Atwood (The Testaments) and Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other) celebrate their joint Booker Prize success, after the judges \"explicitly flouted the rules\" and gave the award to both of them\n\nThe first thing I will say about Evaristo's 452-page novel is it has - to use a notorious term employed by a previous Booker judge - \"readability\".\n\nThe structure is simple: there are a dozen separate character portraits divided equally into four chapters. Each cluster gives us the lowdown on three (usually) black British woman whose lives are interconnected.\n\nSo, chapter one starts with Amma, a middle-aged, politically engaged lesbian theatre-maker whose latest play is about to be staged at the National Theatre. Next is her daughter Yazz, a precocious undergraduate who hangs with a group of similarly assertive female pals who agree that:\n\n\"…the older generation has RUINED EVERYTHING and her generation is doomed\n\nunless they wrest intellectual control from their elders\n\nsooner rather than later\"\n\nAnd then there's Dominique, Amma's great friend and long-time collaborator, who falls for a controlling radical feminist and moves to America.\n\nThe following three chapters continue the same pattern with occasional stories overlapping to a greater or lesser extent with those earlier in the book. The portraits are well-drawn if a little sketchy. Some characters you want to get to know better, others leave just in time.\n\nThe novel's geometric shape gives it a solid form on which to explore its major themes of identity, race, friendship, loss, love, longing and contemporary Britain. As Roland, Yazz's gay dad, might say in his archly pseudy way, the book is like a cubist painting, examining the same quotidian subjects from a variety of perspectives.\n\nWell, quotidian if you happen to be a black woman living in Britain having to contend with a daily dose of casual racism and prejudice, which is the common dominator that unites the personal vignettes:\n\n\"Amma was shorter, with African hips and thighs\n\nperfect slave girl material one director told her when she walked into an audition for a play about Emancipation\n\nwhereupon she walked right back out again\"\n\nor this, from Bummi's story on migrating to Britain from Nigeria:\n\n\"Bummi complained that people viewed her through what she did (a cleaner) and not what she was (an educated woman)\n\nthey did not know that curled up inside her was a parchment certificate proclaiming her a graduate of the Department of Mathematics, University of Ibadan\n\njust as she did not know that when she strode on to the graduation podium in front of hundreds of people to receive her ribboned scroll, and shake hands with the Chancellor of the University, that her first- class degree from a Third World country would mean nothing in her new country\n\nespecially with her name and nationality attached to it\"\n\nHer characters have plenty to say, most of it worth listening to, some of it enlightening.\n\nFull stops are abandoned in preference for a poetic style of punctuation with line breaks used to control rhythm and beat. If that sounds horribly mannered, blame my shortcomings, not hers, because the technique works a treat with prose flowing and sparkling like the prosecco at Amma's after-party (final chapter).\n\nThe collage of well-composed individual stories the author has constructed into a single, albeit fragmented novel, succeeds in depicting a rich and textured account of life in Britain as seen and experienced by her cast of characters.\n\nIt is very nearly a great book, but not quite.\n\nThe cracks appear about two-thirds through the novel, when it becomes apparent that the sum is never going to be greater than the parts.\n\nThis was the point at which the narrative needed to develop and deepen - to flesh out what has gone before, to draw the reader into the world the characters inhabit.\n\nBut instead of building the story and developing the protagonists and their relationships, we are given yet another batch of brief biographies, all of which are fine in isolation - some excellent, actually - but they are too much in the context of the whole: three more passengers squeezing on to an already packed railway carriage.\n\nThe once effervescent Girl, Woman, Other becomes a bit monotonous, a tad formulaic; a little predictable.\n\nThe lively introductory profiles - the getting-to-know-yous - fail to evolve into complex character studies, the net effect of which is a growing sense of superficiality.\n\nEvaristo does attempt to add drama and three-dimensionality by way of chapter-connecting plot devices, but the set-ups are too obvious and the pay-offs routine.\n\nIt leaves you frustrated - too many delicious starters without a truly satisfying main course. In fact, it is doubly frustrating, because this is a book with so much going for it: compelling characters discussing important subjects with intelligence and verve. It is disappointing to be denied the chance to get to know some of them better.\n\nStill, it is still well worth reading.\n\nIt is a strikingly contemporary novel that has plenty to say (it very occasionally spills over into lecturing), and does so with some of the finest writing I've read in a long time.\n\nGirl, Woman, Other is Bernardine Evaristo's eighth novel. I have not read her previous seven.", "Simples is associated with the Compare the Market ads while Jedi is from Star Wars\n\nWhatevs, simples, chillax, sumfin and Jafaican have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.\n\nThey are among 203 new words which appear in the dictionary for the very first time.\n\nOther words which are part of the October 2019 update include Jedi, nomophobia and easy-breezy.\n\nThe letter 'O' has also been added and is defined as being \"used to symbolise a hug especially at the end of a letter or greetings card\".\n\nHere are just some of the words that have been added to the latest update:\n\nThe full list is available on the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) website.\n\nThe OED is updated four times a year with the next update due in January 2020.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nAn FA Cup tie was abandoned after Haringey Borough's manager took his team off the field amid accusations of racism, bottle throwing and spitting.\n\nHome keeper Valery Douglas Pajetat was reportedly spat at and hit by an object thrown from the Yeovil Town end.\n\nDefender Coby Rowe was then \"racially abused\", according to Haringey boss Tom Loizou, who said \"there was no way I could let him continue\".\n\n\"If we get punished and thrown out, I don't care,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nThe match, played at non-league side Haringey's home ground Coles Park Stadium, was in the fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup, with the winner set to progress to the first round proper.\n\n\"It's very distressing,\" said Loizou. \"The abuse a few of my players got was disgusting.\n\n\"Yeovil's players and manager were different class. Their team tried to calm their supporters down, they tried their best and they supported us - they said 'if you're walking off we're walking off with you'.\n\n\"I took the decision to take my team off and I don't want Yeovil Town to get punished for it. If we get thrown out of the FA Cup and they go through, there is no hard feelings there.\n\n\"I have not done it for any other reason than looking into my players' faces and seeing how distraught they were. They are not used to this.\"\n\nThe incident comes four days after England's Euro 2020 qualifier in Bulgaria was halted twice as fans were warned about racist behaviour, including Nazi salutes and monkey chanting.\n\nIn a statement issued on Saturday evening, the Football Association said it was \"deeply concerned about the allegation of discrimination\".\n\nIt added: \"There is no room for discrimination in our game and we are working with the match officials and the relevant authorities, as a matter of urgency, to fully establish the facts and take the appropriate steps.\"\n\nWhat actually happened at Haringey v Yeovil?\n\nVisitors Yeovil, of the National League, were leading 1-0 through a Rhys Murphy penalty when the game was halted in the 64th minute.\n\nThere was a long delay for that spot-kick to be taken, with Haringey goalkeeper Pajetat reportedly initially struck by an object from the stands.\n\nShortly after Murphy scored, play was suspended as the hosts left the field.\n\nAbout 35 minutes later, it was confirmed the match had officially been abandoned, with BT Sport reporting that Pajetat was both racially abused and spat at by visiting fans.\n\nIsthmian League Premier Division side Haringey said on Twitter: \"Sorry for the late update but wanted to make sure we gave correct information. Game has been abandoned following racial abuse. Horrendous afternoon.\n\n\"It must be said that 99.9% of [Yeovil] fans are also disgusted by what's happened as much as we are. One club, one community.\"\n\nIn a statement Yeovil said the club \"will not accept racism or discrimination in any form\" and that they will \"be cooperating with the authorities and our friends at Haringey\".\n\nYeovil Town manager Darren Sarll told BBC Somerset: \"On behalf of Yeovil Town, we fully support Haringey and we stand together.\n\n\"The players and I decided we'd support [Haringey] and make a stand together, and be stronger with togetherness.\n\n\"My head is in an absolute spin. I've gone through a situation I never hoped I'd go through.\n\n\"We, footballers and managers, get a lot of abuse but nobody should feel discriminated against when they come to play football.\n\n\"I'd do anything to win but there are certain levels and lines I'd never go over. There was no way I'd support racial discrimination.\n\n\"I feel we've done the right thing. I'm not going to feel anything other than proud for the way the players conducted themselves.\n\n\"Now the authorities will take care of what they need to take care of.\"\n\nEngland and Aston Villa defender Tyrone Mings, who was racially abused in Bulgaria on Tuesday, praised Haringey's response and said: \"Our country isn't perfect either.\"\n\nThe campaign group Kick It Out said in a statement on social media: \"These reports of alleged racist abuse aimed at goalkeeper Valery Douglas Pajetat yet again means players are continuing to receive discriminatory abuse while doing their job.\n\n\"The Haringey manager and players took swift and decisive action as a result of the abuse, similar to that taken by the England team out in Bulgaria.\n\n\"Kick It Out has informed the FA and will support the club in identifying the offender(s) to ensure appropriate action is taken and strong punishment issued.\n\n\"We would also like to offer our full support to Douglas and all at Haringey Borough FC.\"", "A man works to remove an oil spill on Muro Alto beach in Tamandaré, Pernambuco\n\nThousands of people have taken part in a huge clean-up operation to remove oil and tar from beaches along Brazil's north-eastern coast.\n\nVolunteers, as well as government workers, used wheelbarrows, spades and plastic gloves to remove the thick tar from the sand and water.\n\nThe source of the spill, which was first detected on 2 September, remains a mystery.\n\nExperts say this could be the worst disaster for the region's coral reefs.\n\nIt has affected wildlife and popular beaches including Praia do Futuro in Ceará, Maragogi in Alagoas, and Itacaré and Ilhéus in Bahia.\n\nAt least 15 sea turtles, two seabirds and one fish have been found dead, the environmental agency Ibama said.\n\nA net was placed under this bridge to try to block oil from reaching a river at the Imbassaí beach in Bahia\n\nA volunteer cleans oil from rocks at the Pedra do Sal beach in Salvador, the capital of Bahia state\n\nIt was not clear if the volume of oil was increasing or decreasing and how long the problem, which has affected 187 places in nine states, will last.\n\nOn Thursday, Ibama President Eduardo Bim said tests had proved the crude oil was produced in Venezuela but officials had not been able to identify the vessel responsible for the leak.\n\nThis did not mean that Venezuela was responsible for the leak, he added, describing the case as \"unprecedented\". Venezuela, however, has denied responsibility for the oil.\n\nOil blobs are seen on the sand of the Pituba beach also in Salvador\n\nA mangrove on the beach of Carneiros in Pernambuco, polluted by the spill\n\nThe incident is more challenging than a typical oil spill because the dense crude is not floating on the surface and only appears when it washes up on shore, Mr Bim was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying.\n\nFloating barriers usually employed to prevent oil from washing ashore have little effect, for example, so the work has been focused on cleaning up the crude as it comes to the coast.\n\nIn Pernambuco state, 30 tonnes of oil were removed from beaches on Saturday alone.\n\nMeanwhile, federal prosecutors have accused the federal government of failing to organise a response, saying the spill has caused environmental damage in an area spanning 2,100km (1,300 miles).\n\nOil sitting on the surface of the water near Maragogi in Alagoas\n\nThe oil seen from above near Maragogi", "The spacecraft has finished its test campaign and is now ready to go to Cape Canaveral in Florida\n\nThe European spacecraft that aims to take the closest ever pictures of the Sun is built and ready for launch.\n\nThe Solar Orbiter, or SolO, probe will put itself inside the orbit of Planet Mercury to train its telescopes on the surface of our star.\n\nOther instruments will sense the constant outflow of particles and their embedded magnetic fields.\n\nScientists hope the detailed observations can help them understand better what drives the Sun's activity.\n\nThis goes up and down on an 11-year cycle. It's sure to be a fascinating endeavour but it's one that has direct relevance to everyone on Earth.\n\nThe energetic outbursts from our star have the ability to damage satellites, harm astronauts, degrade radio communications, and even knock power grids offline.\n\n\"We're doing this not just for the sake of increasing our knowledge but also for being able to take precautions, for example by putting satellites in safe mode when we know big solar storms are coming or letting astronauts not leave the space station on these days,\" said Daniel Müller, the European Space Agency (Esa) project scientist on SolO.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Holly Gilbert: \"Knowledge even more important when we send astronauts to the Moon and Mars\"\n\nThe probe was assembled in Stevenage, UK, by Airbus (Britain has invested €220m in the €1.5bn project), with the past year spent here at the IABG facility in Ottobrunn, Germany, for testing.\n\nThe spacecraft has cleared its checks and will now ship out to Florida to be mated with the United Launch Alliance Atlas rocket that will hurl it towards the Sun in early February.\n\nSolO was first conceived in the late 1990s with the industrial contract to produce it awarded in 2012.\n\nA key challenge has been to mature technologies that can protect a probe that flies to within 43 million km of our star.\n\nTemperatures at this proximity will get up to 600 degrees.\n\nSolO's plan to survive these conditions involves hiding behind a large titanium shield, and cooling itself with a complex series of radiators.\n\nSophisticated fault-recovery systems will also ensure SolO stays out of trouble.\n\n\"If we de-point, we very quickly run into difficulty thermally,\" explained Airbus project manager Ian Walters.\n\n\"Our requirement is to make sure we recover under any failure scenario within 50 seconds and actually our spacecraft will go back to normal pointing in 22 seconds, all autonomously.\"\n\nThe heatshield has peepholes to allow the telescopes to see the Sun\n\nBut the probe still needs to observe the star and to do that it must use peepholes in the shield.\n\nThese will briefly open to allow the telescopes to grab their observations before closing shut again.\n\nThe pictures and movies that come back will be unprecedented in their fine resolution.\n\nFeatures as small as 70km across will be visible.\n\n\"It's amazing; every time we get better resolution we see more and more,\" said Holly Gilbert, the US space agency's deputy project scientist on the mission.\n\n\"The interactions between the Sun's plasma (energetic gas) and its magnetic field are incredibly dynamic, not just on the large scales but on the very, very small scales.\n\n\"When the magnetic fields interact in a very explosive process called reconnection - that's a very small region.\n\n\"And to see how that leads to eruptions, we need to see the small stuff that's happening.\"\n\nOne of the major differences between this mission and all previous such ventures is that SolO will get to take the first close-up images of our star's polar regions.\n\nThe high latitudes are known to be significant locations for magnetic behaviour and the generation of the fastest outflows of particles.\n\n\"We've never seen the solar poles directly because from Earth we just have a very grazing view,\" said Frédéric Auchère, a mission principal investigator from the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France.\n\n\"But these regions are very important because they are the source of the very fast solar wind and we also know that in the solar interior things are happening at the poles that may be the key to understanding solar activity and the solar cycle.\"\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSolO will be following the American Parker Solar Probe, which launched to space last year.\n\nThe pair share many of the same scientific goals and even the same kinds of instruments, although only SolO will look directly at the Sun.\n\nParker can't do that because it's venturing even closer to the star, a mere 6 million km at closest approach.\n\nIt uses just in-situ sensors, to sample for example the particles flowing over it. But scientists believe the duo when in the right position will make a powerful team in observing processes that initiate close in to the Sun but then propagate outwards.\n\n\"There are so many ways we can combine these spacecraft to get incredible science. The first serious opportunity will come in September next year,\" Tim Horbury, from Imperial College London, told BBC News.\n\nArtwork: Parker will work in tandem with SolO, but from much closer in\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe company that provides the Premier League's video assistant referee (VAR) technology has apologised to Tottenham and Watford fans after an incorrect graphic was sent to the big screen during Saturday's 1-1 draw.\n\nDele Alli rescued a point for Spurs after a VAR review for handball decided the goal had been correctly awarded.\n\nHowever, initially the big screen wrongly indicated a 'no goal' verdict.\n\nHawk-Eye Innovations said it will work with the league to avoid future issues.\n\nThe company said: \"Hawk-Eye apologises to Spurs and Watford fans for the confusion caused.\n\n\"We are working together with the Professional Game Match Officials Board [the body responsible for professional match officials in England] and the Premier League to understand the root cause of this problem and propose a series of measures to ensure it won't happen again.\"\n\nWatford, who had a strong claim for a penalty turned down by VAR in the first half, remain winless at the foot of the Premier League table.", "There was a time when streets across the UK would echo with the clang of bread-bins slamming shut of a weekend.\n\nAnd as children, there was no greater thrill than being walked - stale crust from your nan's house in hand - down to the local pond and feeding the ducks.\n\nBut that all changed when the public was told that feeding bread to ducks was bad for them.\n\nSo why, in 2019, is a photo like this being shared on social media, saying carbs are back on the duck menu?\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mildly Interesting This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRadio 1 Newsbeat got in touch with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to try and get to the bottom of this.\n\n\"Just like us, birds need a varied diet to stay healthy,\" a spokesperson for the RSPB tells us in a statement.\n\n\"Although ducks and swans can digest all types of bread, too much can leave them feeling full without giving them all of the important vitamins, minerals and nutrients they need.\"\n\nThe RSPB did not know where the poster shared online was put up, or which organisation was behind the campaign.\n\nBut like health-conscious humans, it's advised that if you must feed ducks with bread, then you use something other than leftovers from a cheap white loaf.\n\nRSPB England's Twitter account describes granary bread with seeds as \"marginally healthier\" than white bread, in advice it gave to a concerned wildfowl-feeder.\n\n\"Although bread isn't harmful, our advice is to only feed small amounts to birds. We encourage people to use things like sweetcorn, porridge oats and defrosted frozen peas as well as bird seed,\" adds the RSPB.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A Berkshire charity says that misinformation has confused the public.\n\nIn 2018, a swan charity told the BBC that many swans in the UK are underweight and \"starving\" due to lack of food in British ponds and lakes.\n\nIt was reported at the time that campaigns to stop people feeding breads to ducks and swans could be responsible for this, as people may have stopped feeding birds entirely, rather than use other foods from their homes.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Tesco's chief executive Dave Lewis is to leave next year after leading a turnaround plan for Britain's biggest supermarket chain.\n\nIn a move that surprised analysts, Mr Lewis - who took the helm in 2014 - said the decision was \"personal\".\n\nKen Murphy, who has held senior positions at the owner of chemist chain Boots, will replace him.\n\nThe departure was announced as Tesco reported a 6.7% rise in first-half profits to £494m.\n\nTesco chairman John Allan said he had accepted Mr Lewis' resignation with \"regret\" and said the chief executive intended to leave \"in the summer of 2020\".\n\nMr Lewis said: \"I believe the tenure of a chief executive should be a finite one and that now is the right time to pass the baton. The turnaround is complete, we have delivered all the metrics we set ourselves.\"\n\nThe 54-year-old added: \"I am going to take some proper time out, recharge the batteries and think about what comes next.\"\n\nAnalysts at Shore Capital said he was \"the bloke that saved Tesco\".\n\nHe took the helm at a tumultuous time for the supermarket group, announcing shortly after he took over in 2014 that the retailer had been overstating its profits.\n\nThe company subsequently revealed a loss of £6.4bn, the biggest-ever suffered by a UK retailer\n\nSince then Mr Lewis has set about reducing costs, with the latest of round job cuts announced in August when it said 4,500 staff in 153 Tesco Metro stores would lose their roles.\n\nHe also took on the discounters Aldi and Lidl by opening Jacks, Tesco's own discount chain.\n\nMr Lewis also orchestrated Tesco's 2017 takeover of Booker, the biggest food wholesaler, in a £3.7bn deal to create the \"UK's leading food business\".\n\nBernstein analyst Bruno Monteyne told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that there had been speculation about Mr Lewis' future after that deal as Booker's chief executive Charles Wilson had joined at the time.\n\n\"We're all trying to grapple exactly about the timing right now,\" said Mr Monteyne. His departure now was \"a total surprise\", he said.\n\nMr Lewis had joined five years ago \"at a very difficult moment\" for Tesco, Mr Monteyne said.\n\n\"Not only had it lost the trust of the customers, losing material market to the discounters, it ended up with an accounting fraud... internal morale broken. He really took over a broken company, and from being the most profitable retailer in Europe, suddenly had losses for the first time ever.\"\n\nAs with comedy, timing is everything in big business. Many chief executives overstay their welcome, failing to realise that the clock is always ticking; the average tenure of a FTSE 350 chief executive is 4.5 years, and coming down.\n\nDave Lewis, however, is clever enough to know that it's best to leave while the going is good.\n\nHe joined Tesco when it was in disarray and at a time of some drama. There had been a string of profits warnings, a boardroom bust-up leading to the departure of the chief executive and a nasty accounting scandal.\n\nMr Lewis moved quickly and the returns show in today's half-year results, which were rather overshadowed by Mr Lewis's departure. Sales were flat, but the operating margin hit 4%, a year before Mr Lewis said it would.\n\nThat is an achievement but Mr Lewis will know that running Tesco will not get any easier. Keeping Tesco at that level of operating margin is going to be a long, hard slog.\n\nThere will inevitably be speculation that he will return to Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant where he worked before joining Tesco.\n\nThe shares initially dipped but were trading nearly 2% higher at 243p as the results for the six months to 24 August were better than expected.\n\nLike-for-like sales, which strip out revenue from new stores opened during the six months, rose 0.1% in the UK and Ireland.\n\nAt a group level, including operations in central Europe, notably Poland, and Asia, same store sales fell 0.4%.\n\nWhen Mr Lewis joined Tesco from household goods company Unilever he was the first outsider to run the supermarket chain.\n\nSpeculation will turn to what he will do next, but Mr Lewis said: \"I'm going to step back and have a think about what I want to do next with my family. I'm 54 years old and I'm going to sit back and think where I can make the best contribution.\"\n\nHis successor, Mr Murphy, has also been hired from outside after a lengthy career with Boots, which is now part of Walgreens Boots Alliance.\n\nThe 52 year-old graduated from University College Cork and was educated at the Christian Brothers College.\n\nThe Irishman left Walgreens Boots Alliance in January 2019 when his last role was chief commercial officer, president of global brands. He remains as a consultant.\n\nBut he held a wide-range of roles, including a two year period as chief operating officer of Boots until October 2013.\n\nAt Tesco, his salary will be £1.35m salary before bonuses, and his joining date has not yet been confirmed.\n\n\"We would imagine that Mr Lewis may have been familiar with his replacement from his Unilever personal care days,\" said analysts at Shore Capital. \"Mr Murphy has big shoes to fill.\"\n\nThey expect continuity for now but when Mr Murphy does take the helm he will face a number of challenges:\n\nMr Allen described Mr Murphy as \"growth-orientated seasoned business leader\" and said he had been been looking for \"experience, proven leadership in international retail businesses, a strong strategic mind\"\n\nIn preparation for Brexit, Tesco said it was increasing its stock of long-life shelf products and noted that the UK imports about 50% of fresh food it needs.", "The RSC, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, said the decision had \"not been taken lightly\"\n\nThe Royal Shakespeare Company is to end its partnership with BP at the end of the year following criticism of its links to the international oil giant.\n\nThe RSC said it \"could not ignore\" the \"strength of feeling\" against the deal.\n\nLast week, school students threatened to boycott the theatre company if it did not sever links with the firm.\n\n\"Young people are now saying clearly to us that the BP sponsorship is putting a barrier between them and their wish to engage with the RSC,\" it said.\n\nBP has subsidised the Stratford-upon-Avon-based theatre company's £5 ticket scheme for 16 to 25-year-olds.\n\nGregory Doran and Catherine Mallyon, the theatre company's artistic and executive directors, said the \"difficult\" decision had not been taken \"lightly or swiftly\".\n\n\"We would like to thank BP for their generous support of the RSC since 2011,\" they said.\n\nSir Mark Rylance resigned as an RSC associate artist earlier this year\n\nIn a statement, BP said it was \"disappointed and dismayed\" its partnership had been brought to a \"premature\" end.\n\n\"Over the past eight years our sponsorship has enabled 80,000 young people to see RSC performances at reduced rates,\" it continued.\n\nThe company said it shared \"many of the concerns that apparently contributed to the decision\" and was committed to making energy \"cleaner and better\".\n\n\"The increasing polarisation of debate, and attempts to exclude companies committed to making real progress, is exactly what is not needed,\" it continued.\n\nPaapa Essiedu and Ewart James Walters starred in the RSC's Hamlet in 2016\n\nLast week, a group of students said they would boycott RSC productions if it continued to accept funding from a company they accused of \"actively destroying our futures\".\n\n\"BP's influence is nothing but a stain on the RSC,\" they wrote in a letter.\n\nEarlier this year, Sir Mark Rylance, a long-standing critic of the sponsorship agreement, resigned from his post as an RSC associate artist.\n\nIn his resignation letter, the Oscar-winning actor said he did not \"wish to be associated with BP any more than I would with an arms dealer [or] tobacco salesman\".\n\nGreenpeace UK said it was \"time other oil-sponsored institutions took note\".\n\nMorten Thaysen, climate campaigner at Greenpeace, said: \"Grassroots campaigns like BP Or Not BP and the youth strikers deserve this win... It's hard not to think the walls are closing in on BP.\"\n\nBP spends £7.5 million per year on arts and culture sponsorship, which includes deals with the British Museum, the Royal Opera House and the National Portrait Gallery.\n\nIt cut its sponsorship of the Tate art galleries in 2016, but said the decision was not a result of protests by climate activists.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nElusive artist Banksy has set up a shop in south London featuring the stab vest he designed for Stormzy's headline act at the Glastonbury Festival.\n\nA Tony the Tiger rug and a cradle surrounded by CCTV cameras are also on show as part of the venture, at a disused retail outlet in Croydon.\n\n\"I'm opening a shop today,\" the artist said on Instagram. \"Although the doors don't actually open.\"\n\nBanksy said he was going to sell products online and people could visit the shop for the next two weeks.\n\nItems that will be available to buy are on display in Croydon\n\nHe added he was being \"forced\" to launch the online shop - called Gross Domestic Product - because a greeting cards company was attempting to legally trade using his name.\n\nThe artist is being advised that opening a shop which sold his merchandise would help him protect the trademark on his art.\n\nIn a statement, Banksy said: \"A greetings cards company is contesting the trademark I hold to my art, and attempting to take custody of my name so they can sell their fake Banksy merchandise legally.\n\n\"I think they're banking on the idea I won't show up in court to defend myself.\"\n\nThe exhibition has been called Gross Domestic Product\n\nThe grime artist is from Croydon\n\nItems being sold in the shop include welcome mats made from life vests salvaged from the shores of the Mediterranean, which have been hand-stitched by women in detainment camps in Greece.\n\nThere are also disco balls made from police riot helmets and a toddler's counting toy where children are encouraged to load wooden migrant figures inside a haulage truck.\n\nBanksy said proceeds would go towards buying a new migrant rescue boat to replace one allegedly confiscated by Italian authorities.\n\nHe said despite trying to defend his artistic rights in this particular case, he had not changed his position on copyright.\n\n\"I still encourage anyone to copy, borrow, steal and amend my art for amusement, academic research or activism. I just don't want them to get sole custody of my name.\"\n\nRats often appear in Banksy's work\n\nTony the Tiger, a character used on a cereal box, is depicted as a rug\n\nIt comes as one of Banksy's paintings which shows the House of Commons packed with chimpanzees is set to be auctioned at Sotheby's on Thursday.\n\nKevin Zuchowski-Morrison, owner of street art gallery Rise, said: \"It's incredible that we have this work, very clearly the work of a very famous artist who we all kind of love. It couldn't be any more authentic.\"\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 banksy 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 Banksy collector who came to see the display, said: \"It's brilliant. So good that it's happening.\n\n\"I doubt he (Banksy) will turn up and go 'hello lads, how are ya?' But he's obviously around.\"\n\nJohn, another Banksy enthusiast, who is on holiday in the UK from the United States, said: \"It has all the earmarks of Banksy's work.\n\n\"It's graphic, it's cheeky, it's intelligent.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A replica of the HMS Endeavour, seen here landing in what is now Poverty Bay\n\nBritain has expressed regret to Maori for crimes committed against their ancestors when explorer James Cook arrived in New Zealand 250 years ago.\n\nIndigenous activists say less than two hours after Captain Cook and his crew on the HMS Endeavour landed, they had committed atrocities, including murder.\n\nCaptain Cook is acknowledged as one of the world's greatest explorers but his legacy has been questioned by many.\n\nNew Zealand's Maori people came into contact with Captain Cook and his crew in 1769 after the HMS Endeavour landed in what is now Poverty Bay.\n\nIn two separate ceremonies with Maori groups, High Commissioner Laura Clarke made expressions of regret to both the Ngati Oneone hapu and Rongowhakaata iwi for the killings of nine of their ancestors during the first encounters with Captain Cook's crew.\n\nIt took place in the city of Gisborne, where the British landed in 1769.\n\n\"It is impossible to know exactly what led to those deaths, but what is clear is that your ancestors were shot and killed by the crew of the Endeavour and others were wounded,\" Ms Clarke said.\n\n\"That was greatly regretted by the crew of the Endeavour at the time, as documented in the diary of Joseph Banks [the expedition's official botanist] and it is regretted here today.\n\n\"It is deeply sad that the first encounter happened in the way that it did. And, to you, as the descendants of those killed, I offer my every sympathy, for I understand the pain does not diminish with time.\"\n\nCampaigners say the damage inflicted by the British colonisation continues even now, with Maori communities suffering higher levels of deprivation.\n\nIn a statement on its Facebook page, the Rongowhakaata Iwi Trust welcomed the British expression of regret.\n\nBut it recalled that the crew had opened fire almost as soon as they landed, killing the local chief and others.\n\n\"After only being here for two hours, Cook and his crew had trespassed, terrorised, killed and stolen from us.\"\n\nOther Maori rights advocates have been critical of the low-key ceremony, which stopped short of an apology.\n\nMany have described as insensitive this weekend's anniversary events marking Captain Cook's arrival, which are expected to attract protests.\n\nThey see him as an invader whose explorations, which helped chart the Pacific Ocean, also led to colonialism and traditional communities being destroyed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK has offered expressions of regret for actions that happened during colonial times in only a few instances.\n\nIn May then Prime Minister Theresa May described the 1919 Amritsar massacre as a \"shameful scar\" on Britain's history in India. Hundreds of people were shot dead by troops.\n\nMany in India and elsewhere had pressed for a full apology, which was not forthcoming.", "After the travel agent Thomas Cook collapsed, hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers found themselves without return flights home.\n\nIn response, the Civil Aviation Authority launched the UK's largest peacetime repatriation operation, \"Operation Matterhorn\", to bring more than 150,000 people back to Britain.\n\nBBC transport correspondent Tom Burridge met some of the people flying from Mallorca to Manchester on an Airbus A380 leased from Malaysia Airlines.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents were trapped in their homes in the village of Laxey on the Isle of Man\n\nA clean-up operation is under way on the Isle of Man after severe flooding left people trapped in their homes.\n\nThe village of Laxey was cut off when the river burst its banks on Tuesday leaving several homes under 6ft (1.8m) of water.\n\nOne resident said the flooding was \"an unmitigated disaster that could have been prevented\".\n\nChief Minister Howard Quayle said an action plan was being drawn up to \"ensure it doesn't happen again\".\n\nInfrastructure minister Ray Harmer said the \"massive clear-up\" would continue in the village \"for the next day or so\".\n\nA major part of the works was removing trees and debris from the river to prevent more flooding in the immediate future.\n\nMany homes in Glen Road have been affected\n\nExtra sandbags were also delivered and skips provided for residents to dispose of flood-damaged flooring and furniture, he added.\n\nAlthough it was too early to say what long-term measures would be put in place, the government was taking \"a number of actions\", added Mr Harmer.\n\nHome affairs chief executive Dan Davies said debris was being removed from the river and roads and help was being offered to residents.\n\n\"It is really about supporting people to get back in their homes,\" he said.\n\n\"If they are vulnerable, health and social care will be on the scene helping people out.\"\n\nThe gap in the wall is being shored-up to prevent further flooding in the coming days\n\nCharlotte Morgan-Jones and her family were stranded in their home for several hours.\n\nThe mother-of-two said the moment water surged through the village was \"scary\".\n\n\"It was literally like something you see in movies,\" she said.\n\n\"My husband was outside putting out sandbags, the next thing all I heard was shouting and screaming and the water was coming in the front door.\"\n\nThe clear-up is set to continue for some time\n\nJohn Wood said staff \"had to work hard\" to clear the flood water at Laxey Woollen Mills\n\nDebbie Corlett said the situation was \"surreal\" for residents\n\nAt Laxey Woollen Mills, staff \"had to work hard to get it all cleared\", said master weaver John Wood.\n\n\"The flooring will need seeing to in a couple of weeks when it's all dried out a bit,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm sure there's going to be quite a lot of work, but it's nothing compared to what other people have.\"\n\nResident Debbie Corlett recalled the moment a second breach in the river wall was made to release the flood water back into the river,\n\nShe said it was \"like a plug being pulled\".\n\n\"I could hear a big cheer up the road. It abated very, very quickly because it could get back into the river, which is where should have been in the first place,\" she said.\n\n\"It was all very surreal.\"\n\nMark and Tracey Young are back in their home in Laxey assessing the damage caused by the flood.\n\n\"It started raining early… [there was] a little bit of rain and then the wall just collapsed and it was like a tidal wave,\" said Mr Young.\n\nMark Young (right) said the water was like a \"tidal wave\"\n\nRichard Kneen said he was \"lucky\" but added others had been \"devastated\"\n\nSome residents reacted angrily to the situation, including Richard Kneen who owns a property on Glen Road.\n\nHe said work being carried out on the river was a \"totally unnecessary project\" and management at Manx Utilities should be held accountable.\n\n\"The whole thing was an unmitigated disaster down here that could have been prevented,\" he said.\n\n\"Heads should roll for this, there's millions of pounds worth of damage.\"\n\nWhile he said he had been \"lucky\", Mr Kneen said others had been \"absolutely devastated\".\n\nMany properties suffered extensive damage to flooring and furniture\n\nManx Utilities chairman Alex Allinson (right) was told of residents concerns\n\nFlooding occurred on Tuesday when the swollen River Laxey burst through a gap in a parallel wall which had been opened to repair a weir.\n\nMore than 100mm (4in) of rain fell within a 20-hour period, with the heaviest downpour occurring in the early hours of Tuesday morning, said The Met Office.\n\nThis \"very localised\" rain fell mostly on the northern side of the Snaefell Mountain, which drains into the Laxey River, a spokesman said.\n\nManx Utilities chairman Alex Allinson apologised to those affected and said an \"urgent meeting\" had been called by Chief Minister Howard Quayle.\n\nHe said a \"combination of factors\" were responsible including debris causing a build-up of water which led to a \"surge\", he said.\n\nThe repair work had been due to be completed by the end of September but delays meant it had been extended for a week.\n\nHe said a \"full analysis\" was under way.\n\nChief Minister Howard Quayle (left) visited Laxey to speak to those affected\n\nChief Minister Quayle, who visited the village and spoke to some of the residents affected, said the government would be examining all possible factors.\n\n\"We need to get to the bottom of what had caused the problem, fix it, and ensure it doesn't happen again.\n\n\"We'll be putting in place an action plan to make sure that the chances of this happening again are as remote as possible.\"\n\nMeanwhile, members of a parliamentary scrutiny committee have written to the government asking for \"an urgent overview of events\" that unfolded in Laxey.\n\nRob Callister said: \"We want to establish the facts. There are a lot of angry residents that need answers quickly.\"\n\nDebris washed downstream is being removed from the river\n\nThe Mountain Road reopened overnight but is currently closed to allow safety work, the Department for Infrastructure said.\n\nLaxey and Dhoon primary schools which were closed during the flooding have reopened as normal, the Isle of Man government said.\n\nIt is the second time in four years the village of Laxey has been hit by flooding.\n\nIn December 2015, heavy rain led to part of a road bridge over the river being washed away.", "Only the most critical new patients are currently being admitted to the three hospitals in Alabama\n\nThree US hospitals have been forced to temporarily close their doors to \"all but the most critical new patients\" following a ransomware outbreak.\n\n\"A criminal is limiting our ability to use our computer systems in exchange for an as-yet unknown payment,\" said DCH Health System.\n\nDCH operates the three affected hospitals in Alabama.\n\nOne cyber-security expert said the groups using ransomware were becoming increasingly well organised.\n\nComputers at the DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, Fayette Medical Center and Northport Medical Center were infected with ransomware.\n\nThe incident was first reported on 1 October.\n\n\"We will continue to divert any new admissions, other than those that are critical, to other facilities,\" DCH said in its statement.\n\nLocal ambulances have been asked to take patients to other local hospitals instead, where possible.\n\nOutpatients with appointments at any of the three hospitals were advised to call before attending them.\n\nHowever, elective procedures and surgery already scheduled for 2 October were planned to go ahead.\n\nIt is not yet known what group or individual launched the ransomware.\n\nSeparately, seven hospitals in Australia have also reported disruptive ransomware infections.\n\n\"Some elective surgery and appointments have been cancelled,\" said Barwon Health, one hospital operator affected by the incident.\n\nThe Government of Victoria said the seven hospitals were located in Gippsland and south-west Victoria.\n\nMultiple computer systems have had to be disconnected as a result, which has meant some patient record, booking and management services have been shut down.\n\nThis could affect efforts to contact patients and schedule appointments, the Government of Victoria said: \"Where practical, hospitals are reverting to manual systems to maintain their services.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn cases where patient histories, charts, images and other information has been made unavailable, it may be necessary to reschedule some appointments, the authority added.\n\nDaniel Andrews, Premier of Victoria, told local media it could take \"weeks\" before the problems were fixed.\n\nThe Victorian Government Cyber Incident Response Service has dealt with more than 600 cyber-attacks since July 2018.\n\n\"Unfortunately the groups breaking into individual computers at organisations are becoming rapidly better at obtaining access across networks, and then causing chaos with a goal to being paid,\" said UK-based cyber-security expert Kevin Beaumont.\n\n\"This problem isn't going to go away,\" he added.\n\nHe said organisations needed to review their security procedures and ensure that backups were in place - and also that such backups had been recently tested - so that data and systems could be restored in the event of a ransomware infection.", "The Duchess of Sussex has spoken about the importance of supporting victims of gender-based violence.\n\nMeghan was speaking to girls and campaigners in Johannesburg on the penultimate day of her and Prince Harry's South Africa tour.\n\nThe duchess said the country was in a \"crisis state\" when it comes to gender-based violence, after a spate of attacks against women in the country.\n\nShe also emphasised the importance of mental health support in aftercare.\n\nThe Sussexes are on a 10-day tour in which Prince Harry has visited a minefield and Meghan and their baby son Archie met Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nAt a visit to ActionAid on Tuesday, Meghan said the age range of those experiencing violence was \"really staggering\" and agreed that men and boys should be held accountable for their actions.\n\nDuring her visit she also heard from charity workers how many girls feel unsafe at school.\n\n\"The trouble is as a young girl if you are not feeling safe at school and not feeling safe at home, where does that leave you? And that really is systemic. That is a huge issue,\" Meghan said. \"You will feel very displaced.\"\n\nThe duchess, who was taking part in a discussion, also said it was important victims feel supported when they report such violence.\n\n\"And when they tell somebody, someone does something. That's the other issue right? It's so key being able to feel that they can communicate what's happening when something goes wrong, whatever it is,\" she said.\n\nEarlier, Meghan spoke to students and academics during another discussion on gender issues at the University of Johannesburg.\n\nShe said support was needed for women in higher education in South Africa. \"When a women is empowered it changes absolutely everything in the community,\" she told the group.\n\nThe duchess announced three new \"gender grants\" for the University of Johannesburg, Stellenbosch University and the University of Western Cape at the beginning of Tuesday's discussion with the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU).\n\nIt is the penultimate day of the Sussexes' overseas tour\n\nWell-wishers cheered Meghan on at the University of Johannesburg\n\n\"The goal here is to be able to have gender equality, to be able to support women as they are working in research and higher education roles,\" she told the discussion group.\n\n\"True to what you said, when a women is empowered it changes absolutely everything in the community and starting an educational atmosphere is really a key point of that,\" she added.\n\nMeghan said she was only able to go to university herself because of financial help from a scholarship and \"families chipping in\".\n\n\"If you don't have the support that is necessary that you feel that you can keep taking the next step then you're stunted in growth,\" she said.\n\nMeghan attended a roundtable discussion about the challenges faced by young women in accessing higher education\n\nWell-wishers cheered as the duchess was greeted by the ACU's secretary general, Dr Joanna Newman, and Prof Tshilidzi Marwala, vice chancellor of the university.\n\nMeanwhile, the Duke of Sussex told a group of young people to \"hold on to your dreams\" as he visited a health centre in a remote village in Malawi.\n\nSitting outside the Mauwa Health Centre, they discussed sexual health but also touched on climate change and conservation.\n\nA health official said: \"They asked him what challenges he faced when growing up and he did have challenges but he said they were not similar as the context was different.\n\nThe official added that the prince also urged the youngsters to \"show kindness, empathy and work together.\"\n\nPrince Harry was speaking in a village in rural Malawi\n\nThe prince had travelled to the village near Blantyre to see the pharmacy-in-a-box project, funded by the UK and US governments.\n\nThe pharmacies are prefabricated, solar-powered and air-conditioned storage facilities for medicines, which keep drugs secure, held at the right temperature, and stocked up.\n\nAt the health centre, patients can access a range of services from malaria treatment to a maternity unit, as well as HIV testing and aftercare for those who have the virus.\n\nSpeaking about the drugs used to treat an HIV patient, Prince Harry said: \"You need to know your status and know there's medication, so you can have a happy and healthy life.\"", "The Duchess of Sussex has begun legal action against the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters.\n\nIn a statement, the Duke of Sussex said he and Meghan were forced to take action against \"relentless propaganda\".\n\nPrince Harry said: \"I lost my mother and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces.\"\n\nA Mail on Sunday spokesman said the paper stood by the story it published and would defend the case \"vigorously\".\n\nLaw firm Schillings, acting for the duchess, accused the paper of a campaign of false derogatory stories.\n\nThe firm has filed a High Court claim against the paper and its parent company over the alleged misuse of private information, infringement of copyright and breach of the Data Protection Act 2018.\n\nThe claim comes after the Mail on Sunday published a handwritten letter from Meghan to her father, Thomas Markle, sent shortly after she and Prince Harry got married in 2018.\n\nIn a lengthy personal statement on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's official website, Prince Harry said the \"painful\" impact of intrusive media coverage had driven the couple to take action.\n\nReferring to his late mother Diana, Princess of Wales, the prince said his \"deepest fear is history repeating itself\".\n\n\"I've seen what happens when someone I love is commoditised to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person,\" he said.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the statement was \"remarkably outspoken\" and \"nothing less than a stinging attack on the British tabloid media\".\n\nFormer Daily Mirror editor and Guardian columnist Roy Greenslade said the duchess could win the legal action, but added Prince Harry had taken a risk by attacking the press for the actions of one newspaper.\n\n\"The press - particularly the tabloid press - is far less powerful now than it was during his mother's era,\" he told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Is he taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut here? I think he may well find that this is counter-productive.\"\n\nThe language is clearly Harry's: an unrestrained expression of anger and pain aimed at the British tabloid media.\n\nDid any of his advisers urge restraint? We simply don't know. Judging by the length and intensity of the statement, Harry would have been in no mood to listen to any such cautionary advice.\n\nIs it fair to castigate the entire British tabloid media off the back of one dispute with one newspaper over one story, however painful? That is a matter of individual opinion and clearly Harry - supported one assumes by Meghan - believes that it is.\n\nThe timing certainly is curious. They are concluding a visit to Southern Africa which by wide consent (much of it expressed in the tabloid media) has been a considerable success. It has lifted their reputation after a series of mis-steps involving private jets and expensive property renovations.\n\nNow they have chosen to take one of the most powerful newspaper groups in Britain to court and launched this stinging assault on an entire section of the British media.\n\nBritish tabloids are not afraid of a fight. They may well feel provoked by the language in this statement. Was it wise? We shall see.\n\nIt is not the first time the royals have taken legal action against the press. In 2017, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were awarded £92,000 (100,000 euros) in damages after French magazine Closer printed topless pictures of the duchess in 2012.\n\nA French court ruled the images had been an invasion of the couple's privacy.\n\nThe new legal proceedings are being funded privately by the couple and any proceeds will be donated to an anti-bullying charity.\n\nIn his statement, Prince Harry said he and Meghan believed in \"media freedom and objective, truthful reporting\" as a \"cornerstone of democracy\".\n\nBut he said his wife had become \"one of the latest victims of a British tabloid press that wages campaigns against individuals with no thought to the consequences - a ruthless campaign that has escalated over the past year, throughout her pregnancy and while raising our newborn son\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earlier on in their tour of Africa, the couple introduced baby son Archie to Archbishop Desmond Tutu\n\nPrince Harry said: \"There is a human cost to this relentless propaganda, specifically when it is knowingly false and malicious, and though we have continued to put on a brave face - as so many of you can relate to - I cannot begin to describe how painful it has been.\"\n\nHe said \"positive\" coverage of the couple's current tour of Africa had exposed the \"double standards\" of \"this specific press pack that has vilified her almost daily for the past nine months\".\n\n\"They have been able to create lie after lie at her expense simply because she has not been visible while on maternity leave,\" he said.\n\n\"She is the same woman she was a year ago on our wedding day, just as she is the same woman you've seen on this Africa tour.\"\n\nThe duke said he had been a \"silent witness to her private suffering for too long\".\n\n\"To stand back and do nothing would be contrary to everything we believe in,\" he said.\n\nHe accused the paper of misleading readers when it published the private letter, by strategically omitting paragraphs, sentences and specific words \"to mask the lies they had perpetrated for over a year\".\n\n\"Put simply, it is bullying, which scares and silences people. We all know this isn't acceptable, at any level,\" he said.\n\n\"We won't and can't believe in a world where there is no accountability for this.\"\n\nThe Mail on Sunday spokesperson said: \"We categorically deny that the duchess's letter was edited in any way that changed its meaning.\"", "Fred Scappaticci strenuously denies he was an Army agent within the IRA\n\nFiles covering the activities of the army's top agent within the IRA, codenamed Stakeknife, have been prepared for the Public Prosecution Service of Northern Ireland (PPSNI).\n\nStakeknife is alleged to have been west Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci, 73, who was arrested for questioning in the course of the investigation.\n\nHe has denied being Stakeknife, who worked within the IRA in the Troubles.\n\nThe files - on which prosecution decisions will be made - cover a number of individuals, including those who were in the IRA, army and security services.\n\nOperation Kenova was headed by Jon Boutcher, who was, until recently, the chief constable of Bedfordshire.\n\nA statement said: \"Jon Boutcher, the head of Operation Kenova, and his team has prepared files containing evidence regarding a number of offences outlined in the investigation's terms of reference - including murder, kidnap, torture, malfeasance in a public office and perverting the course of justice.\n\n\"Those files are now in the process of being made available to the Public Prosecution Service for consideration.\n\n\"It would not be appropriate to go into further detail regarding that evidence, or the number of individuals involved, until that consideration has taken place.\n\n\"A full report of Operation Kenova's findings will be published at the conclusion of all legal proceedings.\"\n\nMr Scappaticci left Northern Ireland when identified by the media as Stakeknife in 2003\n\nMr Boucher's investigation was launched amid concerns the agent was involved in kidnap, torture and murder and looked at whether it was sanctioned by his army handlers and the security service MI5.\n\nUp to 50 killings were looked at, some as far back as the 1970s.\n\nMr Boutcher promised to go \"where the evidence takes us\" and gathered thousands of documents and interviewed more than 120 people, including the head of MI5 Sir Andrew Parker and former chief constables in Northern Ireland, Sir Hugh Annesley and Sir Ronnie Flanagan.\n\nHe was tasked to undertake the inquiry by the PSNI.\n\nFreddie Scappaticci was named by the media as Stakeknife in 2003, having been the head of the IRA's internal security unit, whose chief task was to root out informers.\n\nIt is believed the file submitted to the PPSNI deals with him and a number of other individuals.\n\nIt is likely to be some time before decisions are reached on whether anyone can be charged on the basis of the evidence gathered by Mr Boutcher and his team of investigators.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Hoskins was desperately ill because of her anorexia\n\nPeople with eating disorders are being told they are \"not ill enough\" for treatment, according to an expert.\n\nShe called for investment to ensure eating disorders were identified early to stop people becoming severely ill.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said he would make sure services were \"shaped by the recommendations\".\n\nDr Tan's review was completed in November but only published by the Welsh Government last week.\n\nIt said a \"major reconfiguration\" of services was needed.\n\nAnd it found there was \"patchy provision\" of treatment across Wales.\n\nDr Tan, a consultant psychiatrist with the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board told Wales Live: \"The message that most of the patients say that they hear is they are not ill enough to deserve treatment from an eating disorder clinician, and that is absolutely unacceptable, not least because we have more and more research that tells us that the longer patients go without good expert treatment, the harder it's going to be for them to get better.\"\n\nShe said there was a \"strong case for significant investment\" and called for:\n\nThe review did not recommend a specialist in-patient unit be established in Wales, but said that should be reviewed in five years.\n\nDr Tan estimated her recommendations would cost more than £9m and involve a significant staffing increase.\n\nMr Gething said he would ensure services were \"shaped by the recommendations\".\n\nHe has written to health boards asking them for their views on the recommendations.\n\nEmily Hoskins: \"I could have been days away from dying\"\n\nEmily Hoskins was diagnosed with anorexia at 13 and missed years of school.\n\nNow 22, she feels there needed to be better local access to eating disorder therapies and more support for families.\n\nShe said anorexia left her so unwell she was \"not seeing the outdoors.\"\n\nShe was either in hospital or resting at home.\n\nMs Hoskins, from Abertillery in Blaenau Gwent, said: \"I was completely drained, my skin was frail, my hair was falling out, I was just pale, gaunt, my nails were all a funny colour from where my body wasn't getting the nutrition it needed and then the mental side of it meant that I wasn't playing games, going out with my family.\"\n\nShe could not focus on anything but the disorder.\n\n\"I could have been days away from dying,\" Emily said.\n\nSpecialist units in Bridgend and Wiltshire looked after her.\n\nShe said she \"can't even describe\" how hard it was to be away from home.\n\n\"Wherever you live in Wales obviously there's differently-populated areas and different counties, but I think one thing I put to the review was that everyone should be treated equally, that we're all struggling with the same sort of illness and the support should be there for everyone.\n\n\"You shouldn't have to be offered one thing in one place, and then five minutes down the road, somebody else is offered something completely different\".\n\nIn his letter Mr Gething asked health boards to \"reconfigure services towards earlier intervention\" and to develop plans for meeting the four-week waiting time target.\n\nFormal national targets will not be imposed \"at this stage\".\n\nHealth boards have been given £700,000 to make improvements this year, and further annual funding of about £1m will be allocated from next year.\n\nLast month, several people with eating disorders, campaigners and politicians wrote to Mr Gething describing \"deep concern\" at the lack of action since the report's completion.\n\nDr Tan said the wait had been \"frustrating\" but described the government's response as \"positive\" and \"supportive\".\n\nBethan Sayed said the wait for the government's response had been \"unacceptably lengthy\"\n\nBethan Sayed, chair of the assembly's eating disorders group, said the wait for a government response had been \"unacceptably lengthy\" and called for \"more clarity on funding\".\n\n\"We have set out the actions we expect to be taken in the short term and will continue to work with health boards, clinicians and patients to ensure that services in Wales move towards the vision set out in the review.\"\n\nYou can see more on this story on Wales Live at 22:35 BST on Wednesday on BBC One Wales and on the BBC iPlayer\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has outlined his plan to the European Union (EU) to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said the plan \"removes the so-called backstop\".\n\nThe backstop is the insurance policy negotiated by Theresa May and the EU. It is designed to avoid any physical border infrastructure, which it is feared would bring back memories of the Troubles, after Brexit.\n\nIt would keep the UK in the same customs territory as the EU, and Northern Ireland closely tied to EU regulations - until the UK and the EU reach a trade deal.\n\nBut it would stop the UK striking its own trade deals, which is why so many Conservative MPs, including Mr Johnson, oppose the backstop.\n\nSo, what is his alternative?\n\nThe government wants the UK to leave the EU customs union. This would mean Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland ending up in two different customs territories.\n\nThis means lorries entering the Republic of Ireland from Northern Ireland will need to complete customs declarations. This is to ensure the correct tariffs (tax on imports) are paid when UK goods enter the EU customs union.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: From the beginning the EU has struggled to see how Ireland and Northern Ireland can exist in different customs territories while keeping the border as open as it is now under all circumstances. They will argue that - in the absence of a future free trade deal - this proposal means the UK is breaking commitments it has made about the border. The UK counters that the backstop has already been rejected in Parliament three times, and something needs to change.\n\nInstead of installing customs posts and other physical infrastructure at the Irish border, the UK says declarations should be done electronically.\n\nThe government says physical checks would still be needed \"on a very small proportion of movements\". Currently, about one in 100 consignments entering the EU customs union are inspected to check that the goods match the information on the declaration.\n\nThese inspections could be carried out at warehouses or \"designated locations, which could be located anywhere in Ireland or Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThe government's proposal does not spell out what these \"designated locations\" would look like, but it adds there should be \"a firm commitment (by both parties) never to conduct checks at the border in future\".\n\nIf adopted, a border solution relying on technology and remote checks would be a first. The EU does not currently share a single border with a non-EU country where checks have been completely eliminated.\n\nThat includes Norway (not in the EU) and Sweden (an EU member) - which share one of the most technologically advanced borders in the world. Their main crossing point processes about 1,300 lorries a day, with each waiting 20 minutes on average.\n\nThe EU has previously rejected a customs solution that relies on technology.\n\nBack in January, Sabine Weyand, the EU's director-general for trade, said: \"We looked at every border on this Earth, every border the EU has with a third country - there's simply no way you can do away with checks and controls.\"\n\nThe government says that some small traders should be exempt from paying duty. However, the document does not address smuggling head on. In other words, what will be done to detect and prevent traders, who should be paying duty, from crossing the border without completing custom declarations first?\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The EU will see much of this as a rehash of previous ideas that it doesn't think will work. And many people will worry that unspecified \"designated locations\" could become targets for anyone seeking to undermine the Northern Ireland peace process. The EU will push back hard against suggestions that it needs to revise its own customs rules to suit the UK.\n\nWhen it comes to the regulation of goods, Northern Ireland would keep to the rules of the EU's single market, rather than UK rules.\n\nThat removes the need for product standard and safety checks on goods at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, because both will be part of an \"all-island regulatory zone\".\n\nBut it creates the need for checks between the rest of the UK - which will not be sticking to EU single market rules - and Northern Ireland..\n\nAll agricultural, food or animal products entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK will have to go through a Border Inspection Post. That's a bit of infrastructure where goods can be physically examined and paperwork checked.\n\nManufactured goods in Northern Ireland would also have to keep to EU rules, and these goods would be checked \"at the boundary of the zone\" - presumably at crossings between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, on the Irish Sea.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: This is quite a big concession from the UK side - basically accepting that there would have to be quite intrusive checks between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK for a number of years, on things like product standards and food safety. The EU has always said there have to be checks carried out somewhere, and both sides will try to deny any suggestion that this amounts to a new border in the Irish Sea.\n\nHaving Northern Ireland following EU rules for the production of goods over which it has no say is, as the document says, \"a significant democratic problem\".\n\nAs a result, it is proposed that the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive will have to sign off on the plan before it takes effect.\n\nThe Northern Irish institutions will be asked to approve the plan again every four years, and if they do not then Northern Ireland would stop following EU rules one year later.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly has not met since early 2017.\n\nReality Check's Chris Morris: The issue of democratic legitimacy is a crucial one, but it cannot be applied unevenly. The EU is likely to have a problem with anything which suggests that only Northern Ireland could have - in effect - a veto on this plan. The point of the backstop was to provide a legal guarantee to keep an open border under all circumstances. Being subject to approval every four years simply isn't the same thing. If Northern Ireland voted to leave this arrangement things like checks on food safety would have to take place at the Irish border.", "Dame Moya Greene, Dame Minouche Shafik and Emma Walmsley are backing the campaign\n\nA group of 100 of the UK's most successful businesswomen have launched a campaign to close the gender pay gap.\n\nSome of corporate Britain's biggest names are behind the #MeTooPay initiative including Dame Minouche Shafik, potentially the Bank of England's next governor, and GSK boss Emma Walmsley.\n\nIt was sparked following a gender bias case involving BNP Paribas bank.\n\nThe campaign is spearheaded by former Royal Mail chief Dame Moya Greene.\n\n\"Pay discrimination is more widespread than we had thought, even though we have had laws on the books for 40 years,\" she told the BBC. \"We want to keep this issue alive.\n\n\"Most companies have very good policies, but in many cases they are not properly enacted, nor are they always leading to good outcomes.\"\n\n#MeTooPay has launched a website and social media campaign to keep the gender pay gap in the spotlight.\n\nThe group was shocked by the experiences of BNP Paribas bank employee Stacey Macken, who worked in the firm's prime brokerage division.\n\nAn employment tribunal revealed her basic salary was 25% less than that of her male colleague, and her first-year bonus payment was less than half of his.\n\nThat was despite equal grades for their workplace performance.\n\nDame Moya, pictured here with the Duchess of Cambridge, spent eight years at the helm of Royal Mail\n\nThree years after joining, the difference between Ms Macken's bonus and that of her male peer had widened to 85%.\n\nMs Macken won her claim for sexual discrimination against the investment bank.\n\n\"It is part of a series of high-profile discriminatory cases we have seen over the past 12 to 18 months,\" said Dame Moya, Royal Mail boss from 2010 to 2018, and currently a non-executive director at airline Easyjet.\n\n\"Pay discrimination is fundamentally a management issue, they decide who is going to be paid what,\" she adds.\n\nHowever, she said that in the majority of instances discrimination was not deliberate, but a case of \"unconscious bias\".\n\nThe campaign website will include the latest instances of pay discrimination, record details of important court cases and provide a place \"to share good and bad policies in action\".\n\nIt will ask for input from workplace professionals, including compensation experts who can help accurately assess gender pay differences, and negotiation experts who can help women achieve better salary deals.\n\nDame Moya says she tried to increase the number of women at Royal Mail\n\nDame Moya hit the headlines last year when her successor at Royal Mail, Rico Back, was paid £100,000 - or 17% - more in base salary than she received. The delivery firm said the discrepancy was to compensate for lower contributions to his pension scheme.\n\n\"I thought that was fair,\" she said. \"I received a pension reward that was appropriate for the time.\"\n\nCommenting on what she did at Royal Mail to improve diversity, she said: \"Logistics is and was a male-dominated industry. I think at Royal Mail we were able to increase the number of women in all roles. We also helped raise awareness that logistics had a long way to go.\"\n\nOther high profile backers of the campaign include broadcaster Clare Balding, Land Securities' chairwoman Dame Alison Carnwath, Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia, who was chief executive of Virgin Money from 2007 to 2018, and Baroness Dido Harding, chairman of NHS Improvement and former chief executive of TalkTalk.\n\nThe campaign is hoping to plug into the wider #MeToo movement\n\nSome might question the wisdom of harnessing the name of the pay campaign to the original and more famous anti-sexual abuse #MeToo movement.\n\n\"What we thought was that in the UK today, there is so much of importance going on that it is so hard to get 'cut through',\" says Dame Moya.\n\n\"This campaign allows us to morph from the sexual harassment aspects of discrimination and move it into another area.\"", "Jodie Chesney was stabbed in the back while sitting with friends in a park\n\nA man accused of murdering a 17-year-old girl told a friend he had \"done something real bad\", a court has heard.\n\nJodie Chesney was stabbed in the back while sitting with friends in an east London park on 1 March.\n\nSvenson Ong-a-Kwie, 19, who is one of four people accused of murdering Jodie, called a friend asking for money the next day, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nGiving evidence, Tom Giles-Wyatt said Mr Ong-a-Kwie told him he had \"done something real bad\".\n\nThe court heard the pair were friends and worked together.\n\nBank records showed £70 was transferred to Mr Ong-a-Kwie's account from serving prisoner Giles-Wyatt's girlfriend's account with the reference \"Tom\".\n\nManuel Petrovic (left) and Svenson Ong-a-Kwie (far right) deny murdering Jodie Chesney\n\nGiles-Wyatt, who is a convicted burglar, told jurors: \"Basically, he rang me and ask me to lend some money. His exact words were 'I've done something real bad'.\"\n\nProsecutor, Crispin Aylett QC asked: \"He didn't say at the time what it was. Did you ask him?\"\n\nThe witness replied: \"Basically, he could not tell me over the phone which I thought was strange.\"\n\nGiles-Wyatt said he also remembered asking Mr Ong-a-Kwie about the murder in a van before the transfer of the money.\n\nHe told jurors he would have taken his friend to the police station if he thought he had anything to do with it.\n\nMr Ong-a-Kwie, Manuel Petrovic, 20, both of Romford, and two boys aged 16 and 17, from east London, deny murdering Jodie.\n\nJodie was with a group of friends, drinking, smoking and listening to music when she was stabbed\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. Residents were trapped in their homes in the village of Laxey on the Isle of Man\n\nMore rain and winds are expected in parts of the country later this week as the remnants of ex-Hurricane Lorenzo arrive in the UK.\n\nThe storm - the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the far east Atlantic - will have lost most of its power by the time it arrives on Thursday.\n\nIt comes after torrential rain brought flash flooding and led to some places being evacuated on Tuesday.\n\nOn the Isle of Man a major incident was declared with people trapped indoors.\n\nElsewhere, some areas in the Midlands, Wales and southern England were hit by a week's rain in just an hour, as thunderstorms swept across the UK.\n\nRoads and railways were closed and some flights from London's Heathrow Airport were delayed on Tuesday evening due to the bad weather.\n\nDozens of flood warnings and alerts remain in place across England.\n\nLouise Lear, from BBC Weather, said temperatures would turn colder on Wednesday before an area of low pressure - carrying gale-force gusts and the remnants of former Hurricane Lorenzo - approached Northern Ireland on Thursday.\n\nThe low pressure would move eastwards and south during Thursday and into Friday, bringing \"a spell of wet and windy weather\", she said.\n\nThursday and Friday will see wind and rain hit western parts of the UK, BBC Weather said\n\nThe Met Office said Northern Ireland, western Scotland, Wales and south-west England will most likely be affected.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Met Office issued issued a yellow warning for heavy rain across large parts of central and southern England and Wales.\n\nOn the Isle of Man, the village of Laxey was cut off after its second major flood in four years.\n\nThe river that gave the village its name burst its banks, leaving people trapped in their homes and washing away cars.\n\nThe fire service helped to evacuate several houses, while a coastguard helicopter was flown in on standby.\n\nThe village was previously flooded in 2015, when a 200-year-old stone bridge was washed away. One villager told the BBC that this year's flooding was the worst he had seen.\n\nLocal residents make their way through floodwater in Cossington, Leicester\n\nAlso in Cossington, a clean-up operation is under way at a flooded home\n\nFlights from Heathrow were delayed on Tuesday evening because of \"poor weather conditions across London and the South East\", a spokeswoman for the airport said.\n\nAnd the Thames Barrier closed for the second time in a week to protect London from flooding.\n\nIn Cornwall, floods caused by a coastal surge meant people were told to leave caravans and seaside properties.\n\nThere were several flood warnings in Wales and one flood warning in Scotland, around Loch Ryan, which has since been lifted.\n\nCommuters shelter from the rain under umbrellas in Queen Square, Bristol\n\nUp to 50mm (2 ins) of rain fell in a couple of hours in some places.\n\nBy Tuesday afternoon, the highest hourly rainfall was 25.6mm, recorded at Pennerley in Shropshire. That part of the country normally receives just 96mm of rain in the whole of October.\n\nBut the localised nature of the downpours means the heaviest rainfall may not be recorded by a weather station, the Met Office said.\n\nWorcestershire was one place that experienced torrential rainfall, with the fire and rescue service issuing a warning to drivers after a car was submerged in floods.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by HWFireControl This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 north of England, heavy rain meant a number of roads were flooded in Cumbria and a landslide on the rail line between Carlisle and Newcastle disrupted train services.\n\nFlooding on the Cumbria Coast line between Carlisle and Maryport saw cancellations on Northern services from Carlisle to Barrow and onwards.\n\nHowever, fears of a coastal surge in Hunstanton, west Norfolk, proved unfounded.\n\nAbout 3,000 households were told to evacuate, but Environment Agency confirmed an all-clear had been given just before 10:00.\n\nThe sea at Hunstanton, west Norfolk, where thousands of homes were evacuated\n\nA cyclist braves the floodwaters near the river Soar in Leicestershire\n\nStormy seas batter the lighthouse at Seaham in Durham\n\nFlooding appeared to trap cars in the East Midlands, with two vehicles caught up in high waters at Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire.\n\nFire crews were called to three vehicles stranded in flood water in Birmingham in 20 minutes.\n\nAnd in North Yorkshire, firefighters rescued two people and a dog from a van which had driven into a fast-flowing river,\n\nTwo cars are trapped by water near a church in Colston Bassett\n\nMeanwhile, fire and rescue services across England attended a number of flooded homes to help pump out water.\n\nDo you live in an area affected by flooding? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have introduced their baby son Archie to renowned anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nIt is the first time the four-month-old has been seen in public on the couple's 10-day tour of Africa.\n\nArchie was seen smiling in his mother's arms and was held up on her lap.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan joked about their son's time in front of the cameras as they greeted the archbishop and his daughter Thandeka Tutu-Gxashe.\n\n\"He's an old soul,\" said Meghan, while Harry remarked: \"I think he is used to it already.\"\n\nThe duke, duchess and Archie met Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his daughter Thandeka\n\nA Nobel Peace Prize winner for his opposition to apartheid, the archbishop said he was \"thrilled\" by the \"rare privilege and honour\" of meeting the royals.\n\nHe spent half an hour with the couple and Archie at his Legacy Foundation in Cape Town, based in a centuries-old building which was constructed by enslaved people.\n\nThe archbishop told the couple: \"It's very heart-warming, let me tell you, very heart-warming to realise that you really, genuinely are caring people.\"\n\nThe couple also posted a video to their official SussexRoyal Instagram account of their arrival at the meeting with the archbishop in Cape Town, with the caption: \"Arch meets Archie!\"\n\nBiscuits decorated with \"Master Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor\" were offered by the archbishop\n\nJuggling royal duties with a four-month-old baby is \"a lot\", the duchess told female entrepreneurs in Cape Town\n\nLater, the Duchess of Sussex spoke about the excitement and pressures of being a working mother as she met female entrepreneurs in Cape Town.\n\nSpeaking to them at an event called Ladies Who Launch, she said looking after Archie as well as carrying out royal duties was \"a lot\" but added: \"It's all so exciting.\"\n\nShe described one non-profit group, which employs disadvantaged women to make bracelets for good causes, as \"fascinating\".\n\n\"By empowering these women from those backgrounds they are changing the focus of their communities and empowering the next generation,\" she said.\n\nMeghan also met mothers and young children at mothers2mothers, a non-profit organisation which provides support for pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV.\n\nShe played with toddlers on the floor and invited other mothers to join her.\n\nThe duchess met health workers and families at mothers2mothers, which works with women living with HIV\n\nThere was a warm welcome for the duchess outside the non-profit organisation\n\nSome of the children could end up wearing royal hand-me-downs after the duchess handed over two bags of \"loved but outgrown\" clothes as she left.\n\nShe told the women: \"It's so important we're able to share what's worked for our family and know that you're all in this together with each other. So we wanted to share something from our home to yours.\"\n\nOn their tour so far, the duke and duchess have also visited South Africa's oldest mosque and visited a charity which provides mental health support for young people.\n\nMeghan told teenage girls in a deprived part of South Africa she was visiting the country not only as a member of the Royal Family, but also \"as a woman of colour and as your sister\".", "Thousands of French police officers have joined a \"march of anger\" in Paris to protest against a range of issues, including rising suicides and poor working conditions.\n\nThe action marked the first mass police strike in France since 2001.\n\nParticipants also said there had been a rise in hostility towards police officers and decried French President Emmanuel Macron's controversial pension reform plan.\n\nCardboard coffins and a mannequin dressed in police uniform hanging from a post were used to highlight the issue of rising suicides. Unions say 52 police officers have taken their own lives so far this year.", "BBC journalist Hanna Yusuf, whose recent work included an investigation into working conditions at Costa Coffee stores, has died aged 27.\n\nThe BBC's Fran Unsworth, director of news, said Hanna was a \"talented young journalist who was widely admired\" and her death was \"terrible news\".\n\nHer family said they were \"deeply saddened and heartbroken\" and hoped her legacy \"would serve as an inspiration\".\n\nShe wrote for the BBC News website, and had also worked as a TV news producer.\n\nHanna spoke six languages, including Somali and Arabic, and worked with, among others, whistleblowers and victims of serious crime.\n\nIn 2018, she spoke to Zaynab Hussein, a mother of nine who moved to Leicester in 2003 after escaping violence and instability in Somalia. She told Hanna about the hate crime that left her with life-changing injuries after she was repeatedly run over by a 21-year-old stranger in the street.\n\nHanna's article about Costa Coffee working conditions revealed employees' complaints alleging managers' refusal to pay for sickness or annual leave, working outside of contracted hours and the retention of tips.\n\nA Costa Coffee spokeswoman said in August that an independent audit had been launched \"given the serious nature of the allegations\".\n\nLast year she also wrote about why some homeless people chose the streets over emergency shelter despite sub-zero temperatures.\n\nHanna also covered the story of Shamima Begum, who fled the UK as a 15-year-old schoolgirl to join the Islamic State group in Syria.\n\nWhile working for the BBC News Channel earlier this year, she broke the story that Ms Begum's family had told Sajid Javid, the home secretary at the time, that they were going to challenge his decision to revoke her UK citizenship.\n\nAnd later, she successfully secured an interview with Ms Begum's lawyer, who accused UK authorities of failing to protect her from being groomed by IS.\n\nHanna started at the BBC as a researcher on the News at Six and Ten in May 2017, before moving to the BBC News Channel and News at One and the website.\n\nBefore joining the BBC, Hanna wrote for publications including the Guardian, the Independent, the Times, the Muslim News, the Pool and Grazia Magazine.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lauren Laverne This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 2015, she created a video for the Guardian about her decision to wear the hijab at the time, saying \"it has nothing to do with oppression. It's a feminist statement\", which was picked up by other websites including Teen Vogue and Everyday Feminism.\n\nAppearing on Good Morning Britain after the European Court of Justice's 2017 ruling gave employers the power to ban all political, religious and philosophical symbols at work, Hanna told TV presenters Piers Morgan and Susannah Reid it would \"disproportionately affect Muslim women\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 ikran 🌱 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Somalia in 1992, she received a Scott Trust bursary to do an MA in newspaper journalism at City, University of London in 2017, following her degree at Queen Mary, University of London.\n\nIn a statement, Hanna's family said the death of their \"beloved daughter, sister and niece\" had come as a shock and asked for privacy.\n\n\"Many will know Hanna for her incredible contributions to journalism and for her work at the BBC.\n\n\"While we mourn her loss, we hope that Hanna's legacy will serve as an inspiration and beacon to her fellow colleagues and to her community and her meaningful memory and the people she has touched for many years lives on,\" they said.\n\nThey added that they would notify the community about funeral arrangements in due course.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Rianna Croxford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDirector of BBC News Fran Unsworth said: \"This is terrible news that has left us all deeply saddened... and our utmost sympathies go to her family and many friends. Hanna will be much missed.\"\n\nJohn Simpson, BBC world affairs editor, said Hanna was a \"brilliant young journalist\" who would have been a \"major force\" in UK 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 4 by John 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\nBBC News at Six presenter George Alagiah also paid his respects in a tweet, saying: \"Our newsroom has lost a young journalist of such talent and promise. Our thoughts are with her family and friends.\"\n\nKatharine Viner, editor-in-chief at the Guardian, tweeted it was \"absolutely terrible news that the talented journalist, and lovely person, Hanna has died\".\n\nHanna's fellow BBC journalist Sophia Smith Galer said her friend was \"invariably the kindest, smartest and most captivating person in the room\".\n\n\"We have lost a fierce friend and a force for truth and light which stretched far beyond her journalism to the many lives she touched here at the BBC and beyond,\" she said.\n\n\"We will make sure her legacy of compassionate storytelling rings loud and clear in the time to come and we are going to miss her so, so much.\"\n\nAnd BBC chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet tweeted: \"You left too soon a world where you shone such a bright light.\"\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 three-week-old Aberdeen Angus calf has been saved following a major operation to rescue it from an underground water pipe.\n\nFarmer Robert Osborne and stockman Iain Robertson said they struggled for two-and-a-half hours to get the calf free.\n\nThe alarm was raised on Tuesday after the Durisdeer farmer said he heard the animal making noises in the field.\n\nHe said they were eventually able to locate and free the calf, nick-named Trouble, with the help of a digger.\n\nMr Osborne said he had not initially believed it was possible for the calf to get into the pipe.\n\n\"When I did realise it was in, it sounded really close,\" he said.\n\n\"I thought it was not that far away but I got the torch and I couldn't see it.\"\n\nThe whole rescue operation was captured on film by his daughter Grace Tait Osborne.\n\nShe told BBC Radio Scotland's John Beattie programme how the incident had unfolded.\n\nMr Osborne said he had not initially thought it was possible for the calf to get stuck down the hole\n\nRobert Osborne, right, and Iain Robertson struggled for hours to get the calf free\n\n\"I don't know why it went into the water pipe, it was obviously just exploring and got itself a wee bit stuck,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a pretty big calf, it had obviously gone in and it was unable to turn itself back round to come out.\n\n\"So it had kept walking straight down hoping to get out of the other end but it ended up just getting itself stuck deeper in the water pipe.\"\n\nAfter hearing the animal's cries, Mr Osborne and Mr Robertson began digging holes to get better access to the distressed calf.\n\nEventually, they used a box attached to a rope to help them drag the calf to safety.\n\n\"Two-and-a-half hours it took us,\" said Mr Osborne.\n\n\"It's not really about the value,\" he added.\n\n\"Farmers get bad enough press for looking after their animals, but 99.9% of farmers do look after their animals.\n\nMiss Osborne said the animal appeared to be none the worse for its adventure.\n\n\"He is up in the shed with his mum now, they are both back together,\" she said.\n\n\"They have been taken out of the field and put in a shed for now just so they can keep a closer eye on the calf.\"", "Prince Harry sits beneath the Diana Tree, which marks the spot where Diana was pictured in the minefield\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has visited the former minefield in Angola where his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, walked 22 years ago, shortly before she died.\n\nPrince Harry visited the site in Huambo, which has become a \"bustling community\" since Diana's campaign.\n\nWearing body armour, he also visited a partially-cleared minefield nearby and set off a controlled explosion.\n\nDiana captured global attention when she walked through the live minefield in 1997.\n\nShe never lived to see the full impact of her visit - such as the signing of an international treaty to outlaw the weapons - as she died later that year.\n\nRetracing his mother's footsteps in central Angola, Prince Harry is being escorted by the British landmine clearance charity the Halo Trust, which also accompanied Diana on her visit.\n\nDiana visited the minefield Huambo in Angola in 1997\n\nThe site is now a bustling community, and Prince Harry retraced his mother's steps on Princess Diana Street\n\nAfter walking along the suburban street, which was once filled with the explosives, the duke said it was \"quite emotional\" to retrace Diana's steps \"and to see the transformation that has taken place, from an unsafe and desolate place into a vibrant community of local businesses and colleges\".\n\nHe added: \"Without question if she hadn't campaigned the way that she did, this arguably could still be a minefield.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud of what she's been able to do, and meet these kids here who were born on this street.\"\n\nThe area has become a \"completely different place\" since demining and now is a \"bustling community\" with houses and schools and shops, added Camille Wallen, director of strategy at the Halo Trust.\n\nEarlier, Prince Harry visited a minefield near the south-eastern town of Dirico, which is in the process of being cleared.\n\nThe site was mined by anti-government forces in 2000 when they retreated from their base.\n\nIn 2005, a 13-year-old girl lost a foot after stepping on one of the explosive devices in the area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry: \"Landmines are an unhealed scar of war\"\n\nHalo Trust staff have been working to make the minefield safe since August and hope to clear it by the end of October.\n\nPrince Harry was given a safety briefing and told not to stray off the cleared lanes, not to touch anything or run.\n\nIn a speech, the duke said the Halo Trust was helping the community \"find peace\".\n\n\"Landmines are an unhealed scar of war. By clearing the landmines we can help this community find peace, and with peace comes opportunity,\" he said.\n\n\"Additionally, we can protect the diverse and unique wildlife that relies on the beautiful Kuito river that I slept beside last night.\"\n\nThe prince called for an international effort to clear landmines from the Okavango watershed in the Angolan highlands, where the weapons remain 17 years after the end of a civil war.\n\nThe conflict - between 1975 and 2002 - has left Angola one of the most mined places in the world, with around 1,200 minefields, according to the Halo Trust.\n\nThe organisation says it has decommissioned almost 100,000 mines since 1994 but it is impossible to know exactly how many remain.\n\nThere are two main types of mine: anti-personnel landmines, aimed at killing or injuring people, and anti-tank mines, designed to destroy vehicles.\n\nThe random placement of the explosive devices became part of military strategy in the 1960s.\n\nAround 50 years later, about 60 countries and territories are still contaminated with anti-personnel mines.\n\nMore than 120,000 people were killed or injured by landmines between 1999-2017, according to research by Landmine Monitor.\n\nCivilians made up 87% of casualties, while nearly half of the victims were children.\n\nMs Wallen described Prince Harry's visit as a \"really significant moment\".\n\n\"As we saw in 1997, Princess Diana really helped raise awareness of the issue of landmines and the plight that people who live with landmines have every day,\" she told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"It effectively transformed what we do, and it transformed it for those people. They really felt they were being heard.\"\n\nPrincess Diana's involvement in the cause involved a call for a global ban on landmines.\n\nThree months after her death in 1997, 122 countries signed the Ottawa Treaty, which prohibits the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of anti-personnel mines.\n\nMs Wallen said Prince Harry's visit helped \"remind the world that landmines are not just a thing of the past\".\n\n\"Decades after conflict they continue to threaten people's lives,\" she added.\n\nAngolan minister Lucio Goncalves Amaral said Diana's anti-mine campaign left a \"humanistic heritage\" that motivated the country's authorities to push to remove all the devices from the country by 2025.\n\n\"We will never forget her priceless contribution to the campaign to ban the anti-personnel landmines,\" Angola's deputy minister for social integration said in a speech.\n\n\"The Angolan people will be eternally grateful for her performance in the demining process of our territory.\"\n\nPrince Harry, who is on a tour of southern Africa, visited Botswana on Thursday, where he helped plant trees.\n\nThe duke said there was a race against time to stop global warming, adding he was \"troubled\" by climate-change deniers.\n\nOn Wednesday, Prince Harry visited South Africa, where he and the Duchess of Sussex introduced their baby son to the veteran anti-apartheid campaigner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nThe couple also met faith leaders at South Africa's first and oldest mosque and visited a mental health charity.\n\nThe duchess told teenage girls in a deprived part of the country she was visiting South Africa not only as a member of the Royal Family, but also \"as a woman of colour and as your sister\".\n\nOn Friday, Buckingham Palace confirmed the duchess had paid a private visit to the memorial of a murdered South African student \"after closely following the tragic story\".\n\nMeghan made the \"personal gesture\" at the post office where 19-year-old University of Cape Town student Uyinene Mrwetyana was raped and murdered last month.\n\nA spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace said: \"Having closely followed the tragic story, it was a personal gesture she wanted to make.\"\n\nA 42-year-old male post office worker has been arrested over the killing.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool held off a stunning fightback by Red Bull Salzburg to get their Champions League defence up and running with victory in an incredible game at Anfield.\n\nThe visitors trailed 3-0 in the first half but battled back to 3-3 before Mohamed Salah grabbed the winner midway through the second half.\n\nLiverpool lost their Group E opener to Napoli last month but got off to the ideal start in this game when former Salzburg player Sadio Mane struck inside 10 minutes, sweeping home at the near post.\n\nAndrew Robertson turned in a cross from Trent Alexander-Arnold before Salah poked a third under keeper Cican Stanokovic.\n\nIt seemed as though the game was over as a contest 10 minutes before half-time.\n\nBut Salzburg, like Liverpool, have scored goals for fun this season - 40 in nine league games - and began their fightback when Hwang Hee-chan got the better of Virgil van Dijk before scoring with a powerful strike.\n\nThe visitors reduced the deficit further when Takumi Minamino volleyed in and the away fans erupted when substitute Erling Braut Haaland tapped in an equaliser - his 18th goal of the season.\n\nSalah finally got Liverpool over the line when he latched on to Roberto Firmino's header and scored with a fierce strike.\n\nLiverpool have not lost at Anfield in Europe since 2014, winning 16 and drawing seven of their games before Salzburg's visit.\n\nIt looked like win number 17 was going to be a formality with the Reds at their clinical best in a devastating first-half display, scoring from three of their four shots on target.\n\nWhile scoring is undoubtedly Liverpool's strength, this game once again raised concerns about their defence.\n\nThey have kept only three clean sheets this season - against Burnley and Sheffield United in the Premier League and against MK Dons in the Carabao Cup - and against an attack as prolific as Salzburg's they struggled to cope.\n\nVan Dijk has undoubtedly been a rock for Liverpool but this game perhaps underlined the importance of Joel Matip to their defence as well - the Cameroon international missed the match through injury.\n\nAll talk pre-match about Red Bull Salzburg had been focused on their in-form striker Haaland.\n\nThe Leeds-born 19-year-old, son of ex-Leeds United midfield Alf Inge Haaland, had scored 17 goals in 11 games before the game, including a hat-trick in Salzburg's 6-2 defeat of Genk in their group opener.\n\nIllness restricted Haaland to a place on the bench against Liverpool but, while he is undoubtedly a key player for the Austrian side, they have plenty of goals in the rest of the team.\n\nThe visitors were the first to threaten in the opening few minutes when Minamino flashed a shot just wide and there were other chances as well, with Patson Daka hesitating when in on goal, allowing Liverpool to recover.\n\nIn the end, they fell just short but the away fans were cheering and singing long after the final whistle. This performance against the Champions League holders will have felt like a victory.\n\nLiverpool return to Premier League action this weekend as they host in-form Leicester City on Saturday (15:00 BST).\n• None Liverpool have won their past 12 home matches in all competitions, their best since an 18-game streak between April and November 1985.\n• None Red Bull Salzburg became only the fourth visiting team to score three goals at Anfield in the Champions League (after Barcelona, Chelsea and Real Madrid), and the only one of those four to fail to win.\n• None Since the start of the 2017-18 season, there have been 47 goals scored in Champions League games at Anfield - more than at any other venue.\n• None Since the start of tha, Liverpool forward Roberto Firmino is the only player to have both scored (14) and assisted (10) at least 10 goals in the Champions League.\n• None Salzburg's two Champions League matches this season have featured 15 goals (9 scored, 6 conceded), more than any other team.\n• None Salzburg's Hwang Hee-chan has had a hand in five goals in only two Champions League games this season (2 goals, 3 assists).\n• None Liverpool forward Sadio Mane became the sixth African to score 15 Champions League goals, with only Didier Drogba reaching that tally in fewer games (25) than Mane (26).\n• None Fabinho (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. James Milner (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Attempt saved. Masaya Okugawa (FC Red Bull Salzburg) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Zlatko Junuzovic. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Hilary Simmons (right) collapsed less than half an hour after the confrontation\n\nA Tesco worker collapsed and died after an altercation with a shoplifter, an inquest has heard.\n\nHilary Simmons, 59, was taken ill at a Tesco Express store on Corporation Road in Middlesbrough on 30 April 2018.\n\nA pathologist concluded the stress of the confrontation \"directly contributed to her death\", but not to a criminal standard.\n\nA post-mortem exam found she was suffering from heart disease which could have caused death at any time.\n\nThe inquest, at Teesside Coroner's Court, heard shoplifter Michael James Love was later convicted of theft.\n\nGiving evidence, Mr Love said he had concealed a bottle of wine inside his jacket but was challenged by Mrs Simmons.\n\nIn his police interview, he claimed she shouted and swore at him and alleged that she pushed him, though this was denied by other witnesses.\n\nHe denied pushing her and claimed he had wanted to leave but Mrs Simmons stopped him, which was also disputed by other witnesses.\n\nHilary Simmons was taken ill soon after the incident at the Tesco Express store\n\nThe jury was played CCTV footage from the store's cameras which showed Mr Love and another man leaving the store ahead of Mrs Simmons.\n\nThe mother of two then appears to be speaking to them on the street outside.\n\nAfterwards, Mrs Simmons, from Ingleby Barwick, began to feel unwell and told colleagues: \"I feel like I'm having a heart attack.\"\n\nShe collapsed less than half an hour later and died that evening at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.\n\nMr Love was questioned by Cleveland Police on suspicion of manslaughter but this was not taken further, the inquest jury heard.\n\nSince Mrs Simmons death, Tesco has employed a security guard at the store and the court heard staff were told not to confront thieves.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Global stocks have fallen sharply with the UK's FTSE 100 suffering its worst day in over three-and-a-half years.\n\nThe blue-chip index lost over 3% in its worst day since January 2016. US and European stock markets also dropped.\n\nThe falls came after poor US jobs and manufacturing figures and a World Trade Organization decision paving the way for $7.5bn in US tariffs on EU goods.\n\nAnalysts said these factors had sparked fears over the strength of the global economy.\n\nIn Europe, Germany's main index, the Dax, closed 2.8% lower, while France's Cac 40 lost over 3%.\n\nIn the US, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended trading 1.9% lower, marking the second day in a row it has lost more than 1%.\n\nThe S&P 500 fell 1.8% while the Nasdaq, which is largely made up of technology firms, lost 1.6%.\n\nOn Tuesday, one of the most closely-watched US manufacturing figures, the Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) index of factory activity, dropped to its lowest level since June 2009.\n\nFresh figures on Wednesday showing a slowdown in jobs growth in the private sector in September accelerated concerns over the US economy.\n\n\"Given that most other areas in the world aren't covering themselves in economic glory, the fact that the US is having a volatile time makes people a little worried,\" said Ben Kumar, an analyst at Seven Investment Management.\n\nRobert Pavlik, chief investment strategist manager at SlateStone Wealth, said the slowdown in China was also driving investors to sell shares.\n\n\"It's all adding up to the same thing essentially: worries that the global economy is slowing and giving investors reason to pause and take profits,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Kumar said it was too early to be concerned.\n\n\"It's hard to tell anything from a one day perspective.\n\n\"People have overreacted which does tend to happen. We're in this world where everyone freaks out first and asks questions later.\n\n\"It's just one of those days where lots of things go wrong at the same time.\"\n• None US set to impose tariffs on $7.5bn of EU exports", "Ferguson Marine is to be nationalised after administrators rejected three commercial bids for the shipyard.\n\nThe Scottish government, which is operating the firm under a management agreement, is now set to take formal ownership of the yard.\n\nMinisters said the three commercial bids were rejected because nationalisation was a better outcome for the yard and creditors.\n\nNearly £50m of taxpayer loans to Ferguson Marine have been written off.\n\nA statement issued by the Scottish government said administrators had concluded that three indicative offers for Ferguson Marine were either \"not capable of being executed or do not represent a better outcome for creditors\".\n\nFerguson went into administration following a dispute with Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd - which buys and leases CalMac ships on behalf of the Scottish government - over the construction of two £97m ferries.\n\nAn order for CalMac ferries has been at the centre of a dispute\n\nEconomy Secretary Derek Mackay said: \"We have always been clear that we want to complete the vessels, secure jobs and give the yard a future.\n\n\"Administrators have concluded that despite other bids being submitted for the yard, the Scottish government's offer presents the best outcome for creditors.\n\n\"While there is still more to be done, our actions have ensured that there will be a future for Fergusons.\"\n\nAdministrators are now in discussion with Scottish ministers to agree final terms of a sale and expect this to be executed within the next four weeks.\n\nEngineering tycoon Jim McColl, the former owner of the Ferguson shipyard, had indicated he was ready to resume involvement in the yard.\n\nAnd earlier this month Ferguson shipyard was part of the consortium which won the £1.25bn contract to build five Type 31 frigates for the Royal Navy.\n\nHowever, it is unclear how much of this work will be carried out at the Port Glasgow facility.\n\nAbout 300 people work at the yard and they will be addressed by Mr Mackay on 7 October.", "Proposed laws on domestic abuse are a \"once-in-a-generation opportunity\" to help victims, Theresa May has said in her first speech since resigning as PM.\n\nMrs May's government introduced the Domestic Abuse Bill in July, but its progress was halted when Prime Minister Boris Johnson suspended Parliament.\n\nThe bill is now having its second reading after the Commons resumed business.\n\nCampaigners said the bill was missing key elements to protect victims.\n\nDuring the debate, Labour MP Rosie Duffield received a standing ovation after telling MPs about her own experience of domestic abuse.\n\nSpeaking from the backbenches for the first time since 1998, Mrs May described the bill as a \"landmark piece of legislation\".\n\n\"It's been described by government, and indeed by charities and others involved with working with the victims of domestic abuse, as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make sure we take a step change in the approach we take to supporting victims and to dealing with domestic abuse,\" she said.\n\nShe added that it was \"imperative\" the bill became law, arguing it would \"improve people's lives\".\n\nThe bill proposes the first government definition of domestic abuse, including financial abuse and controlling and manipulative non-physical behaviour.\n\nMs Duffield, the MP for Canterbury, urged others to come forward if it was safe to do so, after recounting her own experience of coercive control.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour MP Rosie Duffield: \"Sometimes there are no bruises\"\n\nShe said misleading depictions appeared on TV that perpetuated stereotypes.\n\n\"Housing estates, working-class families, drunk men coming home from the pub, women surrounded by children and a sequence of shouting followed by immediate physical violence or assault,\" she said.\n\n\"But the soap opera scenes only tend to focus on one or two aspects of a much bigger and more complex picture.\"\n\nShe said abuse was not only about physical actions, adding \"sometimes there are no bruises\".\n\nAlmost two million adults in England and Wales are thought to be victims of domestic abuse every year.\n\nLocal authority spending on refuges fell from £31m in 2010 to £23m in 2017.\n\nCharities say there is a severe lack of services in many places, leading to victims being turned away.\n\nSandra Horley, chief executive of the charity Refuge, said it was \"essential\" that the bill included statutory funding for refuges.\n\n\"Women must be able to flee their violent partners and find safety,\" she added.\n\nWomen's Aid said the bill would only be successful if it was supported by \"substantial funding\" for services.\n\n\"The law also leaves behind some of the most vulnerable women with insecure immigration status, who are often barred from accessing help and support,\" Lucy Hadley, the charity's campaigns and public affairs manager, said.", "Demonstrators gathered outside the Scottish Parliament in 2017 before MSPs debated fracking\n\nThe Scottish government will confirm a policy of \"no support\" for fracking on Thursday, according to information accidentally published online.\n\nEnergy minister Paul Wheelhouse is to make a statement at Holyrood which is expected to confirm an effective ban after years of consultations.\n\nBut some details have already been published on its website which appears to have been updated prematurely.\n\nThe wording suggests an indefinite extension to the existing moratorium.\n\nThe alternative would be a legislative ban.\n\nThe accidental leak, which has now been removed, was later put down to a \"clerical error\".\n\nIt was published alongside the results of a last minute consultation which was carried out over the summer.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Philip Sim This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt said: \"On 3 October 2019, the Scottish government confirmed its final policy position of no support for unconventional oil and gas (UOG). The responses to this consultation, along with the 2017 Talking \"Fracking\" consultation and 2019 addendum consultation, were considered in detail by Ministers prior to the finalisation of this policy.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat energy spokesman Liam McArthur said: \"The Scottish government appeared to have confirmed their position on fracking via documents published accidentally online, rather than by announcing it to Parliament more than three years ago when Liberal Democrats pressed them to introduce a ban.\n\n\"Across Central Scotland communities sat on or near sites potentially earmarked for fracking have been living in fear of what the Scottish government might decide. By dragging their feet, Ministers have imposed years of uncertainty on those people and their communities.\"\n\nIt is further embarrassment for ministers whose own lawyers told a court that a ban announced in 2017 had been \"PR gloss.\"\n\nLast year, during a legal challenge by the petrochemical giant Ineos, a judge ruled that there was \"no prohibition against fracking in force\" in Scotland.\n\nBut in October 2017 ministers had announced an \"effective\" ban by indefinitely extending the temporary ban which had been in force since 2015.\n\nThe ban uses planning laws to implement the government's policy.\n\nBut environmental groups say it risks being overturned by future administrations and have called for legislation to be introduced instead.\n\nMary Church, from Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: \"Ministers must live up their rhetoric and fulfil the promises of two years ago by committing to a full legal ban on fracking that will put this issue to bed once and for all.\n\n\"The effective ban announced two years ago has been exposed in court as having no legal force and was described by the Scottish government's own legal team as merely 'the language of a press release'.\n\n\"An expert legal opinion from earlier this year shows that not only is it well within the power of the Scottish government to ban fracking, but that legislating would be a far more effective way to stop the industry and defeat any further legal challenges from companies like Ineos who want to frack the central belt.\n\nIt has taken four years for the Scottish government to finally make the statement.\n\nMinisters said they would take an \"evidence based\" approach and ordered six reports into the impact of fracking.\n\nA subsequent consultation exercise showed \"overwhelming opposition\" to the practice which has caused ground tremors in Lancashire where the UK government has given its backing to the sector.\n\nLast month an earthquake with a magnitude of 2.9 on the Richter scale was recorded near the only active shale gas site in the UK.\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Due to a clerical error, a webpage briefly appeared on the Scottish government's website earlier today, which included partial details regarding tomorrow's ministerial statement on the development of Unconventional Oil and Gas in Scotland.\n\n\"The error was quickly spotted and the webpage removed.\"\n• None What is fracking and why is it controversial?", "A man and a woman have died in a house fire in a Suffolk village.\n\nFire crews were called to the semi-detached house in Chapel Close, Capel St Mary, just after 08:00 BST today.\n\nSuffolk Fire Service area commander Ian Bowell said crews had made attempts to enter the house, and the blaze had affected a neighbouring property.\n\n\"I'm sad to say two people have lost their lives this morning and we have a community in a state of shock,\" he said.\n\nMore than 60 firefighters tackled the fire and roads around the scene will be closed off for much of the day.\n\nMr Bowell said the fire service would \"leave no stone unturned\" in establishing the cause of the blaze.\n\n\"At this moment we have no indication that this was suspicious, it appears to be a tragic occurrence,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"It is a very serious incident for us to deal with.\n\n\"We got a call to a house fire and en route learned that there were people inside, so the first crew's efforts were to try and rescue those people.\n\n\"We were confronted with flames coming out of most of the windows and doors.\"\n\nWitness Karen Rodrigues described feeling \"helpless\" as flames tore through the building.\n\n\"I awoke to hear people shouting for help, I looked out and saw smoke coming from the property,\" she said.\n\n\"The flames were very intense, you could see it raging through the house.\"\n\nPolice have confirmed that no one else was injured in the fire and the deaths are being treated as \"unexplained\".\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. PM: Irish customs checks after Brexit can be \"absolutely minimal\"\n\nBoris Johnson says the government is offering the EU \"very constructive and far-reaching proposals\" to break the Brexit impasse.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, he confirmed the UK's plan would include some customs checks on the island of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nBut they would be \"absolutely minimal\" and \"won't involve new infrastructure\".\n\nThe EU says it has \"not received any proposals from the UK\" yet that could replace the backstop.\n\nThe UK is set to leave the EU on 31 October.\n\nMr Johnson has said the exit will go ahead with or without a deal - despite MPs passing a law last month forcing him to ask for an extension from the EU if Parliament hasn't voted in favour of a specific deal or leaving without one.\n\nThe border between Ireland and Northern Ireland has been a contentious part of the Brexit negotiations since day one.\n\nAt present there are no checks on goods moving across it and the backstop was agreed between former PM Theresa May and the EU as an insurance policy to make sure that does not change - and that no infrastructure like cameras or security posts can be installed in the future.\n\nIf used, the backstop would keep the UK in a very close relationship with the EU until a trade deal permanently avoiding the need for checks was agreed.\n\nHowever, the government says it is \"undemocratic\" and unacceptable.\n\nSpeaking on day three of the Conservative conference, Mr Johnson said he believed the UK was offering enough to win the EU round and more detail would be made public soon.\n\n\"Yes, I absolutely do,\" he insisted.\n\n\"So, with great respect to all those who are currently anxious about it - and particularly in Ireland - we do think that our proposals are good and creative.\n\n\"But I accept also... there may be hard yards ahead.\"\n\nHe added: \"That is going to be where the argument is going to be - and that's where the negotiations will be tough.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe PM said there would \"have to be a system for customs checks away from the border\".\n\n\"If the EU is going to insist on customs checks... then we will have to accept that reality,\" he added.\n\nWhen it was put to him that it was not the EU who were insisting on customs checks, the PM replied: \"Well, let's see where we get to. And as you know, we made some very constructive and far-reaching proposals.\"\n\nThe Irish Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, said in the event of a no-deal Brexit, there would need to be checks at ports, airports and perhaps at the border.\n\nBut he said that would only be the case if the UK left without an agreement, telling the Dail: \"We've never been in the position of signing up to checks as part of a deal.\"\n\nMr Johnson told Laura Kuenssberg he always knew \"things would get choppy\" in the lead up to the Brexit deadline.\n\nBut the PM believed \"fevers would cool\" and \"tempers would come down\" once that moment had passed.\n\n\"There's no way of getting Brexit done without... displeasing people who don't want Brexit to get done,\" he said.\n\n\"[There is] no way of delivering Brexit sort of 52% Brexit and 48% Remain - that's just logically impossible.\"\n\nMr Johnson added: \"I think once we get it done, and once we can begin building a new partnership with our new friends... we can start thinking about how we can do things differently.\"\n\nAt a reception hosted by the DUP at the Conservative party conference in Manchester on Tuesday night, Mr Johnson said the UK had made progress in the negotiations, adding: \"I hope very much in the next few days we are going to get there.\"\n\nThe prime minster said that Northern Ireland should remain part of the United Kingdom \"forever\".\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nThe government has made a number of policy announcements at the conference, from raising the National Living Wage over the next five years to toughening prison sentences for the worst offenders.\n\nBut the plans have been overshadowed by allegations that Mr Johnson squeezed the thigh of journalist Charlotte Edwardes under a table at a lunch in 1999.\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly denied the incident, telling the BBC: \"It's simply not true.\"\n\nHe would not answer whether he thought Ms Edwardes - who has stood by her claims - lied or whether he remembered the lunch.\n\nAnd while the PM said such allegations should be taken seriously, he did not agree to an investigation, saying he wanted to \"get on with delivering on... [the] important issue of our domestic agenda\".", "Christopher Nicol was found in the flat after reports of a disturbance\n\nA man who was murdered in a Greenock flat was \"violently\" stabbed in front of his children, police have said.\n\nChristopher Nicol, 27, was attacked inside the property on Maple Road at about 21:05 on Thursday.\n\nOfficers believe the killer had wrongly thought there was a large sum of cash in the flat, and had intended to rob Mr Nicol.\n\nPolice said the victim's children, who are aged five and six, were receiving professional support.\n\nOfficers have launched a murder inquiry, and believe the killer knew Mr Nicol.\n\nHe entered the property after barging past Mr Nicol's girlfriend when she answered the door.\n\nThe attacker has been described as being white, aged 20-30, about 5ft 9in tall, with a slim build. He had a local accent, and an unkempt, reddish, brown beard and moustache. Officers say he also had bad teeth, with some visibly missing.\n\nHe was wearing a black beanie hat with a logo, possibly Timberland, a black top and black jeans or bottoms.\n\nDet Ch Insp Martin Fergus described the killing as \"absolutely sickening\".\n\n\"At this time we believe that the motive for this was robbery, and that Christopher was targeted specifically because his attacker thought there was a large sum of money in the house - which was not the case.\n\n\"For whatever the reason, to carry out such a brutal attack in front of such young children is absolutely sickening. It shows an absolute disregard for their safety or suffering. This callous killer must be caught.\n\nDet Ch Insp Fergus said a public appeal for witnesses and information had been \"disappointing\".\n\n\"I believe that the answer to this murder lies in the local community and I am in no doubt that there are people out there who have vital information on this incident, who have not yet come forward,\" he said.\n\n\"I would urge them to look to their conscience and contact us. I would like to hear from local people in Greenock to give us details of anyone they know who was out and about in the Maple Road area on Thursday evening.\n\n\"The man responsible has quite a distinctive description, so if you have any idea of his identity, then please contact us as soon as possible.\"\n\nAnyone with information has been urged to contact Police Scotland via their non-emergency line.\n• None Police name man stabbed to death in flat\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Travellers are beginning to turn their backs on air travel over concern for the environment, according to a survey by Swiss bank UBS.\n\nThe Swedish concept of \"flygskam\" or \"flight shame\" appears to be spreading.\n\nOne in five of the people surveyed had cut the number of flights they took over the last year because of the impact on the climate.\n\nUBS said the expected growth in passenger numbers could be halved if these trends were borne out.\n\nGlobal air travel has grown by between 4% and 5% a year, UBS said, meaning the overall numbers are doubling every 15 years.\n\nIndustry forecasts from plane makers Airbus and Boeing predict growth will continue at that rate until 2035.\n\nBut the UBS survey suggests that high-profile campaigns - like the example set by Swedish school girl Greta Thunberg, which has helped push the climate crisis up the political agenda - could trigger a change in flying habits in wealthier parts of the world, particularly in the US and Europe.\n\nAfter surveying more than 6,000 people in the US, Germany, France and the UK, UBS found that 21% had reduced the number of flights they took over the last year.\n\nNathan Molyneaux is now looking to travel more by railway\n\nNathan Molyneaux, from Leeds, moved to Aarhus in Denmark for work, and since then the number of flights he has taken have increased.\n\n\"I moved out here two and a half years ago and flights have ballooned a bit as I have friends in the UK,\" says the 38-year-old senior sales planner.\n\n\"I am flying a lot more than usual and I need to reduce that for the good of the environment - the challenge is to try and not fly at all.\"\n\nAs an extreme example of his new regime, the keen runner plans an overland trip from his home on Denmark's east coast to Barcelona for a half-marathon next February.\n\n\"I will take a train from Aarhus to Cologne in Germany, and spend the night there. I will then take two TGV high-speed trains through France and Spain,\" he says.\n\n\"It will be a long journey but that is part of the fun - about 24 hours of travel but I should get to see some beautiful countryside.\"\n\nHe estimates that moving from aircraft to trains as his main mode of travel will be about 20% more expensive, but says his trip to Catalonia will only cost €40 (£36) more.\n\nMr Molyneaux says there has been a lack of investment in Danish railways in recent years, but that appears to now be changing. He is also disappointed about the reduction in ferry services between the north of England and mainland Europe, with a number of routes axed in recent years.\n\nOnly 16% of British respondents said they were cutting back on flying, but 24% of US travellers were worried enough to change their flying habits.\n\nThe survey was first conducted in May this year and UBS said there had been a marked change since then.\n\nThe bank now expects the number of flights in the EU will increase by just 1.5% per year, which is half the rate expected by plane maker Airbus. The bank forecasted that growth in US flights would fall from the 2.1% expected to just 1.3%.\n\nAnd that could have a big impact on aircraft manufacturers.\n\nUBS estimates it could reduce the number of smaller planes ordered from Airbus and rival Boeing by 110 each year.\n\nThe bank said that would reduce revenues at Airbus, which controls around 57% of the market, by around €2.8bn (£2.5bn) a year.\n\nAre you planning to fly less to help combat climate change? If you'd like to share your views on the issues raised here, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City's Bernardo Silva has been charged with misconduct by the Football Association over a tweet he sent to team-mate Benjamin Mendy.\n\nSilva compared Mendy to the character on a packet of Conguitos - a sweet brand available in Spain and Portugal.\n\nThe Portugal player, 25, is alleged to have committed an \"aggravated breach\" of FA rules as it included reference \"expressed or implied, to race and/or colour and/or ethnic origin\".\n\nSilva has until 9 October to respond.\n\nThe post was published at 12:44 BST on 22 September but was deleted at 13:30, although Silva later tweeted: \"Can't even joke with a friend these days.\"\n\nThe FA subsequently contacted City for their observations, while Silva has written to the governing body to say he regrets the fact his social media post may have unintentionally caused offence.\n\nAnti-discrimination charity Kick It Out criticised the post and urged the FA to act, adding that \"racist stereotypes are never acceptable as 'banter'\".\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the FA said Silva's activity is alleged to have been \"insulting and/or improper and/or brought the game into disrepute\".\n\nSilva has been repeatedly defended by Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, who said it would be a \"mistake\" to punish his playmaker for the tweet.\n\nEngland forward Raheem Sterling supported Silva against accusations of racism, saying it was \"a situation between two friends\".\n\nMendy has also written in support of Silva, saying he did not take offence at the tweet.\n\nFrance defender Mendy and Silva are close friends and played together at Monaco before both joined City in 2017.\n\nA previous video of Silva joking with Mendy has also been passed on to the FA.", "Fred Scappaticci strenuously denies he was an Army agent within the IRA\n\nStakeknife, the top British spy within the IRA, was a key factor in successful Army operations against the group in County Tyrone, a relative of one of those killed has told the BBC.\n\nTwenty-six IRA men based in the county were shot dead by the SAS during the Troubles.\n\nBBC Spotlight examines the role of agents in the latest part of its Secret History series.\n\nThe agent, who was working for the Army, headed up the internal IRA investigation into the Loughgall ambush in 1987.\n\nThe SAS, the elite Army unit, was lying in wait for an eight-man IRA team as it attacked a police station, and shot them dead.\n\nThe investigation did not find out who was responsible for compromising the operation.\n\nThe programme, quoting republican sources, states a local IRA man, Gerard Harte, fell out with Stakeknife over who may have been to blame.\n\nMr Harte was later killed in another SAS ambush near Drumnakilly in 1988.\n\nHis brother, Ignatius Harte, was asked by BBC Spotlight if he held Stakeknife responsible.\n\n\"If Freddie Scappaticci was dealing with internal (IRA) security in Tyrone, which we know he was, obviously that was a leading role in how so many operations were carried out in Tyrone.\n\n\"All wars are dirty wars, but this was an exceptionally dirty war.\"\n\nKieran Conway, a former IRA intelligence officer, told the programme: \"The attrition rate was just so appalling.\n\n\"British intelligence were obviously in a position to intercept most operations.\"\n\nMr Scappaticci left Northern Ireland when identified by the media as Stakeknife\n\nFred Scappaticci is alleged to have been the most high-ranking British agent within the Provisional IRA, who was given the codename Stakeknife.\n\nHe was the grandson of an Italian immigrant who came to Northern Ireland in search of work.\n\nHe has admitted to being a republican but denied claims he was an IRA informer.\n\nHe is believed to have led the IRA's internal security unit, known as 'the nutting squad', which was responsible for identifying and interrogating suspected informers.\n\nMr Scappaticci left Northern Ireland when identified by the media as Stakeknife in 2003.\n\nThe activities of Stakeknife - for decades the Army's \"golden egg\" within the IRA - are being investigated by the former chief constable of Bedfordshire, Jon Boutcher.\n\nHis inquiry, Operation Kenova, could involve about 50 killings.\n\nMr Boutcher has previously said he may be able to bring charges against former members of the IRA, the Army and MI5.\n\nYou can see the fourth episode of Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History on BBC iPlayer", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website and app; Listen live on BBC Radio 5 Live; Live streams, clips and text commentary online.\n\nDina Asher-Smith became the first British woman to win a major global short sprint title as she stormed to victory in 200m at the World Championships.\n\nThe 23-year-old, who won silver in the 100m, was the outstanding favourite and outclassed the field to take gold in a British record of 21.88 seconds.\n\n\"I'm lost for words. I dreamed of this and now it's real,\" she told BBC Sport. \"I don't think it's properly sunk in.\"\n\nAsher-Smith is also the first Briton to win a world or Olympic sprint title since Linford Christie at Stuttgart 1993.\n\n\"I woke up today thinking, 'This is it. This is the moment you did all your work for'. The tiredness disappeared,\" she added.\n\n\"[My coach] John [Blackie] and I knew I could do it, it means so much.\"\n• None Asher-Smith gold the beginning of a new era - sprint legend Johnson\n\nThere was no light show as seen in some other showpiece finals here in Doha, but instead a loud cheer greeted Asher-Smith as she smiled on her way to her starting blocks.\n\nThe race itself was a formality. Asher-Smith came off the bend with her nose in front before powering away from the rest of the pack in the final 60m.\n\nLike on the celebration lap following the women's 100m final there were rows of empty seats in the Khalifa Stadium but Asher-Smith, who paraded the flag after winning silver on Sunday, enjoyed her victory with a large British contingent. There were also tears as she embraced her mother Julie.\n\nMany had already placed the gold medal around the European champion's neck after the pre-event withdrawal of 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce followed by that of fellow Jamaican and Olympic champion Elaine Thompson. And before the championships Bahamas' Shaunae Miller-Uibo, unbeaten in the 200m this season, opted only to run in the 400m because of the tight scheduling.\n\nBut bar the Bahamian, Asher-Smith had got the better of her other rivals during the Diamond League season. The lack of competition simply made the task easier for the Kent athlete.\n\nAnother world medal to come? And what about the Olympics?\n\nIt has been a tremendous six-year period for the Briton between winning the European youth 200m title in 2013 to becoming the senior world champion in Doha.\n\nBy her side since the age of eight has been coach John Blackie, who had spotted her potential at the Blackheath and Bromley Athletics Club.\n\nTheir partnership has produced junior titles at European and world level before she stole the show at the 2018 European championships by winning three titles.\n\nAsher-Smith remains Britain's sole medallist in Doha with two, although that again might become three with the 4x100m relay team looking to add to the Euro title won in Berlin last year.\n\nHer success here, however, is a stepping stone to her ultimate aim, which is Olympic success at Tokyo 2020.\n\nFind out how to get into athletics with our special guide.\n\nSydney 2000 heptathlon champion Denise Lewis has been following Asher-Smith's progress for several years now.\n\nLewis said the sprinter will not have to work on too much during the off-season, although she did not want to speculate whether the Briton could replicate her feats in Doha.\n\n\"If I had a crystal ball I'd give you answer,\" she said.\n\n\"The Olympics aren't that far away. Athletes have a well-deserved break then it's game on again - they'll be thinking of training in December.\n\n\"How can she do? She can do very well. There's no reason to think she can't be top three again. We can't hang medals around athletes' necks.\n\n\"She still has to go there and do it - she has to maintain a healthy status and that's most important thing.\"\n• None How to follow live on BBC TV, radio and online\n\n'She has realised her full potential' - Reaction\n\nBBC Sport athletics commentator Steve Cram: \"She has dazzled everyone all year and she has done it again. She ran a superb race. She has planned it so well, her whole season gearing towards this moment.\"\n\nFour-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson on BBC TV: \"It's Dina's attitude [that has taken her to the next level]. She has taken every year to learn and to get better. Not just from a technical aspect, training or race standpoint. She is very careful how she handles her career and how she gets the most out of this potential.\n\n\"She makes it her responsibility. She has realised her full potential.\"\n\nOlympic heptathlon gold medallist Denise Lewis on BBC TV: \"She has managed to unlock the formula. Many have come and tried but not been able to do this, two global medals.\n\n\"She has broken the American dominance and the Jamaican stranglehold on this competition.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nTottenham Hotspur's troubles continued as they were humiliated in the most devastating fashion by Bayern Munich in the Champions League on one of the most embarrassing nights in their recent history as Serge Gnabry scored four goals.\n\nThe scale of this thrashing for manager Mauricio Pochettino and his players was made even more stark by the fact they took an early lead through Son Heung-min and were on level terms until just before half-time.\n\nBayern posed a huge threat throughout and were quickly on terms through Joshua Kimmich's superb 20-yard finish - but Spurs failed to heed the warning signs and ended up reduced to a rabble as they sunk without a fight in the second half.\n\nStrange as it may seem looking at the scoreline, this was an enthralling encounter that really turned on the stroke of half-time when, with matters in the balance, Robert Lewandowski produced a brilliant turn and right-foot finish past Hugo Lloris from 20 yards.\n• None 'Embarrassing, abject, pitiful - make no mistake, Spurs and Pochettino are in trouble'\n• None We must stick together - Pochettino\n• None Gnabry goes from West Brom fringe player to Champions League hero\n\nThe manner in which Spurs subsided once they went behind will be of huge concern to Pochettino and all those who have detected underlying problems with the manager and his team since they lost the Champions League final to Liverpool in June.\n\nBayern gathered momentum and put themselves out of sight when former Arsenal youngster Gnabry scored twice in as many minutes shortly after the interval, taking full advantage of more poor defending to beat Lloris emphatically.\n\nHarry Kane gave Spurs brief hope with a penalty after Kingsley Coman fouled Danny Rose but Bayern were in no mood to open the door, instead running riot as Gnabry added two more, with another smooth finish from Lewandowski sandwiched in between.\n\nIt is the first time in Tottenham's 137-year history that they have ever conceded seven goals at home in any competition.\n\nSpurs left the pitch to a chorus of jeers. They will cling to the fact they reached the final after losing their first two group games last season - but this is the sort of beating that will take a long time to recover from.\n\nTottenham's display had so much to commend it for the first 35 minutes as they closely resembled the side that reached the Champions League final so dramatically last season, playing with passion, urgency and pace to trade blows with this dangerous Bayern.\n\nEven when honours were even, however, danger lurked obviously as Spurs were being exposed on the flanks as the pace of Gnabry and the prowess of Lewandowski flagged up big trouble ahead.\n\nAnd so it proved as, from the moment Lewandowski swept a magnificent low finish past Lloris with virtually the last kick of the first half, Spurs were stretched and picked apart, with the defensive pairing of Toby Alderweireld and Jan Vertonghen looking slow and laboured. The sight of the latter plodding in the wake of Gnabry when he hit the back of the net once more was a particularly ominous sight.\n\nSpurs will also look at early chances squandered by Son but there is no escaping the brutal reality of what was done to them by Bayern.\n\nThis is regarded as a Bayern side in transition, remember they lost at home to Liverpool in the last 16 last season, but by the final whistle it was literally a question of how many they would score as Spurs waited for the whistle like a boxer waiting for the final bell.\n\nSpurs can still get out of this group but serious damage will have been inflicted by this loss and its inglorious manner.\n\nWhat now for Pochettino?\n\nSpurs' battling win against Southampton on Saturday looked to have lifted the siege mentality around manager Pochettino and answered the questions asked after an indifferent start to the season which saw a Carabao Cup exit to League Two Colchester United.\n\nInstead, after this, the questions will not only return but will be more probing. This result will not only stun Pochettino, his players and Spurs supporters, it will come as a jolt to chairman Daniel Levy.\n\nSpurs now see themselves as big players on this elite European stage but this scoreline paints them as the opposite. Levy will not appreciate that.\n\nPochettino must now rally himself and this bedraggled team, who looked lethargic and lacking the stomach for the fight once Bayern took control.\n\nThese are decisive days for Pochettino and Spurs.\n• None Tottenham are the first English side to concede seven goals in a European game since they lost 8-0 to Cologne in the 1995 Intertoto Cup\n• None This was Mauricio Pochettino's joint heaviest defeat as a manager, alongside a 5-0 loss to Real Madrid in March 2012 with Espanyol\n• None This was Bayern's joint second biggest away victory in European competition, behind only a 7-1 win against Roma in October 2014\n• None Spurs conceded seven goals in a competitive match for the first time since December 1996 - a 7-1 Premier League defeat by Newcastle United\n• None Serge Gnabry is the only the second German player to score four goals in a Champions League match after Mario Gomez versus Basel in March 2012 (also for Bayern, 7-0 win).\n• None Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski has scored in his last nine competitive appearances - his longest scoring streak in his German club career. He has scored 14 goals in 10 games for Bayern this season, more than any other player in the big five European leagues.\n• None Spurs' Harry Kane has scored more Champions League goals against German teams (five) than he has against sides from any other nation in the competition.\n\nTottenham visit struggling Brighton in Saturday's Premier League lunchtime kick-off. Bundesliga leaders Bayern are at home to Hoffenheim the same day.\n• None Attempt missed. Corentin Tolisso (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Ivan Perisic following a set piece situation.\n• None Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Serge Gnabry (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 2, FC Bayern München 7. Serge Gnabry (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Corentin Tolisso.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 2, FC Bayern München 6. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Philippe Coutinho following a fast break.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 2, FC Bayern München 5. Serge Gnabry (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Thiago Alcántara with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Son Heung-Min.\n• None Attempt missed. Philippe Coutinho (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Joshua Kimmich.\n• None Substitution, FC Bayern München. Javi Martínez replaces Jérôme Boateng because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Supermodel Gigi Hadid confronted an intruder on the catwalk at the Chanel show during Paris Fashion Week.\n\nComedian Marie S'Infiltre - real name Marie Benoliel - climbed onto the runway wearing a Chanel-style dog tooth-patterned outfit and a black hat.\n\nAfter getting most of the way round the runway, Gigi Hadid stepped in and led her away.\n\nIt seems to have been a publicity stunt rather than protest.\n\nA Chanel spokeswoman said: \"We are not going to make a drama out of it.\"\n\nMarie S'Infiltre just before Gigi Hadid marches her off stage\n\nLots of people watching the show captured the moment on camera and shared it on social media.\n\nYou can see a load of models walking in a row, when the comedian jumps up and joins in.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by @Booth This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJust as Marie was getting into it and posing with her hands on her hips, Gigi - who looked unimpressed - blocked her way.\n\nIt also looks like a tough gig for the security guards - who seem unsure of who they're meant to be looking for.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe supermodel hasn't commented on what happened but has shared other people's Instagram stories from the show.\n\nGigi Hadid and other models on the runway during the Chanel fashion show\n\nIn one post she's tagged in there's the caption \"superhero @gigihadid\".\n\nGigi shared it on her story and added a gif of a winking cat woman.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A plane wing is seen among the wreckage\n\nA rare World War Two-era plane has crashed at an airport in the US state of Connecticut, killing seven people.\n\nThirteen people were on board the vintage Boeing B-17 - dubbed the Flying Fortress - when it went down and burst into flames minutes after take-off outside Hartford on Wednesday.\n\nThe aircraft was civilian-registered and was not being flown by the US military, aviation officials say.\n\nExperts say only about 10 B-17 planes are still being flown around the US.\n\nState Police Commissioner James Rovella told reporters at a news conference, adding: \"Victims are very difficult to identify, we don't want to make a mistake.\"\n\nThe B-17 flight departed at 09:45 local time (14:45GMT). Five minutes later it reported having difficulties. The crash occurred near the Bradley International Airport at 09:54.\n\n\"We observed that the aircraft was not gaining altitude,\" said Connecticut Airport Authority Executive Director Kevin Dillon.\n\nThe B-17 was considered state-of-the-art when it was first introduced in 1936\n\nWitness Antonio Arreguin told NBC News that he felt the heat from the fire 250 yards (229m) from the crash site.\n\n\"In front of me, I see this big ball of orange fire, and I knew something happened,\" said Mr Arreguin.\n\nAngela Fletcher, who lives about a half-mile from the airport, told the Hartford Courant newspaper: \"It sounded like an 18-wheeler coming down the street and then it got louder.\n\n\"Like so loud, it was vibrating things in the house. I looked out the window, and I saw this giant old plane come over the house that was very close.\"\n\nAccording to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the plane crashed at the end of a runway during an attempted landing.\n\nThe Collings Foundation, a non-profit that owned the plane, said it was scheduled to participate in a \"Wings of Freedom Tour\" at the airport later this week.\n\nJeremy Kinney, the curator for World War Two aviation at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, says only about 10 B-17 planes are still considered \"airworthy\", while another 40 or so exist in museums and private collections.\n\nMr Kinney tells BBC News that the strategic bombers were famous for their \"ability to take the air war to the Nazis\".\n\nThey played a \"central role\" in the campaign over Europe, he says, adding that they became a \"stirring symbol\" for allied fighters.\n\nThe aircraft's nickname comes from a newspaper reporter who dubbed it a \"flying fortress due to all the machine guns that were protruding from the body\" as well as its reputation for delivering US airmen home safely after missions flown from England and Italy.\n\nIt could carry up to 13 50-calibre machines guns and 4-8,000lbs (1,800-3,600kg) of bombs.\n\nWhen it was first introduced in 1936 it was considered state-of-the-art, but by the end of World War Two it had largely been replaced by the B-29 \"Super Fortress\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"They are one of the most popular and one of the most important airplanes that people want to see,\" says Mr Kinney, adding that aviation fans also come to hear the \"lumbering sound\" of the plane's four engines.\n\n\"It's an iconic symbol of World War Two.\"", "Mr Pompeo was reportedly listening in on the Ukraine call that is at the centre of impeachment efforts by Democrats\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has accused Democrats of bullying his staff as a part of an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.\n\nHe said in a tweet that requests for five officials to appear before a committee were \"not feasible\".\n\nDemocrats are investigating whether President Trump improperly pressured Ukraine's leader for personal gain.\n\nThey have been issuing summonses as part of the inquiry, which centres on a phone call between the two.\n\nThe phone call sparked a formal complaint from a whistleblower which in turn led to formal impeachment proceedings beginning.\n\nA rough transcript emerged last week indicating Mr Trump urged the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate discredited allegations against former vice-president Joe Biden, a 2020 Democratic frontrunner, and Mr Biden's son.\n\nOn Monday, it emerged that Mr Pompeo was present during the Ukraine call.\n\nMr Pompeo said the request from the House Foreign Affairs chairman Eliot Engel could be \"understood only as an attempt to intimidate, bully and treat improperly the distinguished professionals of the Department of State\".\n\n\"I will not tolerate such tactics and I will use all means at my disposal to prevent and expose any attempts to intimidate the dedicated professionals whom I am proud to lead.\"\n\nThe secretary of state was served with a subpoena by House Democrats last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What we know about Biden-Ukraine corruption claims\n\nHouse Democrats have demanded that five department officials - including the former US ambassador to Ukraine and Mr Trump's special envoy to the country - appear for depositions in October as they \"have direct knowledge of the subject matters\".\n\nMr Pompeo said Mr Engel's request raised questions about the authority of his committee to \"compel an appearance for a deposition solely by virtue of these letters\" and without a subpoena.\n\nThe secretary of state also accused Mr Engel of not providing witnesses and the department with adequate time to prepare.\n\nHe said the committee appeared to be attempting to circumvent the White House's \"unquestionably legitimate constitutional interest in protecting potentially privileged information related to the conduct of diplomatic relations\".\n\nIn response to Mr Pompeo's letter, three Democratic committee leaders said failure to comply with their interview request was illegal and \"will constitute evidence of obstruction\".\n\n\"He should immediately cease intimidating Department witnesses in order to protect himself and the President,\" said the letter signed by Congressmen Eliot Engel, Adam Schiff, and Elijah Cummings.", "Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is in the top tier of 2020 candidates\n\nThe 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, 78, has cancelled campaign events after undergoing a heart procedure.\n\nMr Sanders was treated in hospital for an arterial blockage after having chest pain at an event in Nevada on Tuesday.\n\nThe Vermont senator tweeted that he was \"feeling good\". An aide said Mr Sanders would rest over the next few days.\n\nIf Mr Sanders were to win the US presidency, he would become the oldest person to hold the office.\n\nThe presidential hopeful tweeted that he was recovering, taking the opportunity to promote his healthcare policy inspired by Britain's National Health 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 by Bernie Sanders This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenior adviser Jeff Weaver said in a statement: \"Following medical evaluation and testing he was found to have a blockage in one artery and two stents were successfully inserted.\"\n\nMr Weaver said Mr Sanders is \"conversing and in good spirits\" and will be \"resting up over the next few days\". He is recovering at a hospital in Las Vegas.\n\nA stent is a small mesh tube used to help keep arteries open. Receiving stents is \"a minimally invasive procedure\", typically with a short recovery time, the US National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute says.\n\nMr Sanders' wife, Jane, released a statement on Thursday saying he was doing well.\n\n\"Yesterday, he spent much of the day talking with staff about policies, cracking jokes with the nurses and doctors, and speaking with his family on the phone,\" she said.\n\n\"His doctors are pleased with his progress, and there has been no need for any additional procedures. We expect Bernie will be discharged and on a plane back to Burlington before the end of the weekend.\"\n\nMrs Sanders also confirmed that he still plans to attend the 15 October Democratic debate.\n\nPolls show Mr Sanders is third in the Democratic race behind Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and former Vice-President Joe Biden.\n\nMr Sanders recently announced his campaign raised over $25.3m (£20.5m) from July through September, the largest of any Democratic candidate in a quarter so far.\n\nMs Warren and Mr Biden have not released their most recent fundraising totals. But in the previous quarter, April through June, they each raised $19.1m and $21.5m respectively.\n\nMr Sanders had been in Las Vegas to participate in a gun safety forum on Wednesday, along with some other 2020 candidates.\n\nMany of his presidential rivals wished him a \"speedy recovery\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Joe Biden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Elizabeth Warren This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Pete Buttigieg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Sanders on Tuesday announced a $1.3m television advertising purchase in Iowa, but US media report that on Wednesday, his campaign began cancelling the ads. It is unclear why. Iowa hosts the first voting contest in the US presidential race.\n\nThe senator's health made headlines last month as well, when he cancelled three events in South Carolina after losing his voice, taking two days to recover.\n\nMr Sanders labels himself a Democratic socialist, which he has defined as someone who seeks to \"create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy\".\n\nHe is the longest-serving independent in congressional history, but competes for the Democratic nomination as he says standing as a third-party candidate would diminish his chances of winning the presidency.\n\nWhen he ran for the Democratic nomination in 2016, he was Hillary Clinton's closest rival.\n\nHis 2020 platform has focused largely on his universal health coverage plan, Medicare for All. The policy has also become a key point of contention between Democrats during the last debates, with moderates like Mr Biden criticising it as unfeasible and too expensive.", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nLiverpool have been fined £200,000 - half of which has been suspended - by the EFL for fielding an ineligible player in their third-round Carabao Cup win against MK Dons last week.\n\nSpaniard Pedro Chirivella, 22, who came on as a substitute in the 2-0 victory, did not have international clearance.\n\nThe EFL said it \"wasn't appropriate\" to expel Liverpool from the competition because of \"mitigating factors\".\n\nLiverpool host Arsenal in the fourth round on 29 October.\n\nThe EFL said £100,000 of the fine will be suspended until the end of next season.\n\nLiverpool said they \"accept the judgement, outcome and punishment\", which they described as \"proportionate with the technical indiscretion committed\".\n\nMidfielder Chirivella needed the paperwork from the Football Association after a loan spell at Spanish side Extremadura last season.\n\nThe EFL said Liverpool had \"sought the assistance of the Football Association\" before the season, and had been allowed to include Chirivella on the team sheet for Premier League Two games, the under-23 competition.\n\nAn EFL statement read: \"The club's breach was in part due to the challenges it encountered with securing the correct international clearance, and its subsequent ability to include the player on team sheets despite the lack of clearance.\n\n\"As a result the board concluded the most appropriate sanction was a financial penalty.\"\n\nLiverpool said: \"Even though there were mitigating factors, which were beyond our control or jurisdiction, we believe it appropriate we apologise to the competition's governing body and also to Milton Keynes Dons.\"\n\nLiverpool must pay the of £100,000, plus an additional sanction, if they were to field another ineligible player in the competition before the end of next season.\n\nIn 2014, Sunderland were fined by the Premier League and the EFL after they fielded ineligible player Ji Dong-won in four league matches and a League Cup game.", "The proposals could mean customs sites created on both sides of the border\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar has said the Republic is \"not going to allow ourselves to be dragged out of the single market\".\n\nSpeaking in the Dáil, he also welcomed Prime Minister Boris Johnson's rejection of a proposal for custom sites near to the border.\n\nThe taoiseach said the UK government should not \"impose\" customs checks \"against the will of the people\".\n\nHe was echoing calls made by Irish deputy prime minister Simon Coveney.\n\nResponding to a question from People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett, Mr Varadkar said the Republic would not be left in the \"worst of all worlds\" but not introducing border checks in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe taoiseach has said the Republic will not be \"dragged out\" of the single market\n\nHe said not doing so could mean Irish businesses \"facing checks in Rotterdam, and in Zeebrugge, and in Calais\".\n\n\"We certainly can't allow ourselves out of belligerence to end up in a situation whereby we are surrounded by a border on all sides, and that is certainly not a situation we want to be in,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Monday night, Irish national broadcaster RTÉ said the UK suggested 'customs clearance zones' on both sides of the Irish border could replace the backstop.\n\nHowever, on Tuesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson denied tabling that proposal.\n\nBut, in a separate interview, he accepted that some kind of customs checks would be necessary.\n\nProposals for reaching a Brexit deal had been expected ahead of a crucial EU summit on 17 October.\n\nThe BBC understands that any further customs inspections would be very limited.\n\nPolitical correspondent Iain Watson said they could be conducted either at new locations or at existing business premises.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Would you notice if you crossed the Irish border? (Video from 2017)\n\nThe proposals would mean posts created on both sides of the border, potentially five to 10 miles back from the land frontier.\n\nRTÉ said consignments would be checked and cleared at the sites, with data being provided to the customs authorities on both sides of the border.\n\nGoods moving from a customs clearance site on the northern side of the border to a similar site on the southern side would be monitored in real time using GPS via mobile phone data or tracking devices placed on trucks or vans.\n\nIn the Lords on Tuesday, former Police Ombudsman Baroness Nuala O'Loan said the risk of attack on any physical infrastructure was very high.\n\nShe told the chamber dissident republicans are very active, while recent comments from the UVF indicate they could enter into violence if the situation deteriorates.\n\nThe ideas are believed to be contained in one of four so-called non-papers submitted by UK officials during recent technical discussions in Brussels.\n\nIn a tweet, Tánaiste (Ireland's deputy prime minister) Simon Coveney said the proposals were a \"non-starter\", adding Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland \"deserve better\".\n\nA spokesman for the Irish government said: \"The EU Task force has indicated that any non-papers it has received from the UK to date fall well short of the agreed aims and objectives of the backstop.\"\n\nBBC Europe editor Katya Adler said if the customs sites plan was to become the official UK position, it would be dismissed and rejected by the EU as insufficient.\n\nJulian Smith said customs facilities were \"not possible\" in many locations in Northern Ireland\n\nHowever, Northern Ireland Secretary of State Julian Smith said he had not seen reports about custom clearance centres and did not know where the claims had come from.\n\n\"The border in Northern Ireland is not just the border, it's the area around the border so I'm very clear on that,\" Mr Smith told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\nHe added that the prime minister was \"fully committed\" to the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe DUP's Emma Little-Pengelly said Monday night's reports had caused \"surprise and dismay\" to many in Northern Ireland.\n\nShe asked the minister to engage with Northern Ireland businesses in order to make it clear that creating facilities set back from the border is not government policy as this would constitute a hard border.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 31 October, and Mr Johnson has said this will happen whether or not there is a new deal with Brussels.\n\nCurrently, there are no border posts, physical barriers or checks on people or goods crossing the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe backstop is a measure in the withdrawal agreement, between Theresa May and the EU, which is designed to ensure that continues after the UK leaves the EU.\n\nIt comes into effect only if the deal deciding the future relationship between the UK and EU is not agreed by the end of the transition period.\n\nCurrently, there are no border posts, physical barriers or checks on people or goods crossing the border\n\nSinn Féin leader Mary-Lou McDonald told the BBC's Today programme the plan was \"essentially the re-imposition of a hard border on Ireland\".\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the proposals failed to meet the UK's obligations to avoid physical infrastructure.\n\n\"It doesn't matter if it's a mile, five miles or 10 miles away, the presence of physical checks will create economic and security challenges that are unacceptable,\" he said.\n\nAodhán Connolly, director of the Northern Ireland Retail Consortium, said if the proposals were true, they showed the government had not listened to business in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe also said the move \"ripped up\" the joint declaration of December 2017 between the EU and UK.\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\nSeamus Leheny, from the Freight Transport Association in NI, said the proposal contradicted \"every single piece of feedback and advice that we in the NI business community have given to the government\".\n\nHe said while it may work for ports, \"unfortunately it is not suited to a land border\".", "Protesters gathered outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta in May\n\nA US federal judge has temporarily blocked a strict new abortion law in the state of Georgia that would have banned terminations as early as six weeks into pregnancy.\n\nThe law, signed in May by Republican Governor Brian Kemp, was scheduled to come into effect on 1 January.\n\nA group of civil rights groups, doctors and clinics sued state officials in June in an attempt to block it.\n\nThe governor's office said it was reviewing the judge's decision.\n\nThe state's so-called \"heartbeat bill\" seeks to make abortion illegal as soon as a foetal heartbeat can be detected. In most cases that is around the six-week mark of a pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.\n\nThe law allows for exceptions in some circumstances, including pregnancies by rape or incest, a medical risk to the mother's life, or when the foetus is determined to have a serious medical condition.\n\nGeorgia was among a number of Republican-led states that passed stricter abortion legislation this year, but none of the new laws has yet taken effect amid legal challenges.\n\nThe American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights collectively filed a constitutional challenge to stop the legislation from going into effect, calling it an \"affront to the dignity and health of Georgians\".\n\nUS District Judge Steve Jones cited the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v Wade decision, which legalised abortion prior to viability. Judge Jones argues that Georgia's new law contravened the landmark Supreme Court decision because a foetal heartbeat can be detected months before the point of viability.\n\nThe Supreme Court, he wrote, had \"repeatedly and unequivocally held that a state may not ban abortion\" prior to that point. The challenge to the new law was likely to succeed, he said, adding that the current legislation should remain in effect for the time being.\n\nReacting to the decision, Sean Young, legal director of the ACLU of Georgia, said: \"This case has always been about one thing: letting her decide... Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but every woman is entitled to her own decision.\"\n\nCandice Broce, a spokeswoman for Governor Kemp, said the authorities \"remain[ed] confident\", adding: \"We will continue to fight for the unborn and work to ensure that all Georgians have the opportunity to live, grow, and prosper.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The abortion battle explained in three minutes\n\nA number of media giants had said they would reconsider filming in Georgia, a popular destination for Hollywood producers because of its generous tax breaks, if the new law was enacted. They included Disney, Netflix and WarnerMedia.\n\nMeanwhile, stars including Amy Schumer, Ben Stiller, Christina Applegate, Laverne Cox and Alec Baldwin wrote to the governor in March saying they would \"do everything in our power to move our industry to a safer state for women\".", "Jonty Bravery was 17 years old when he was charged\n\nA teenager accused of attempting to murder a boy by throwing him from a balcony at the Tate Modern can be named after reporting restrictions expired.\n\nJonty Bravery, from west London, was 17 when he was charged in August and could not be named until his 18th birthday.\n\nThe victim, a six-year-old French national who still cannot be named, suffered a \"deep\" bleed to the brain and fractured his spine.\n\nMr Bravery is due to appear at a plea hearing next month.\n\nDuring a hearing at the Old Bailey on Tuesday, Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC, Recorder of London, turned down an application for a court order that would have prevented him being named after he turned 18.\n\nNo further details from the hearing can be disclosed.\n\nJonty Bravery has appeared in court charged with attempted murder\n\nThe six-year-old, who was visiting London with his family, fell five floors from a 10th floor viewing platform on 4 August.\n\nIn a statement released this week, his family said he \"keeps on smiling and making progress bravely\", but struggled \"to speak, to eat or to move his body\".\n\n\"We see his efforts. We believe with all our heart that he will find the way, from his head, to do everything again,\" they said.\n\n\"He is very brave. He keeps on smiling and reacting to our jokes.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Seventy days into Boris Johnson's time in office we now know how he wants to change Theresa May's deal with the European Union.\n\nWhat we don't know, and he doesn't know, is whether his counterparts on the continent have the faintest intention of letting him do so.\n\nAt the highest levels of government there is a belief that senior figures in the EU, even in Dublin, were certainly willing to contemplate a set of plans like this.\n\nBut those polite promises to consider became less firm when MPs voted to make it much harder to leave without a deal.\n\nMr Johnson does now not have the option of forcing the EU and then Parliament to say a simple \"yes\" or \"no\" to these proposals.\n\nWith the option of a delay, they can say \"maybe\" instead.\n\nDespite widespread suspicion, Number 10 does genuinely want a deal.\n\nBut wanting is not the same as getting - and the next steps in this process will not be decided by them.\n\nRather than taking back control, Mr Johnson must wait for the judgement of others.\n\nHis party gave him a hero's welcome to the platform, but there is tonight huge doubt over whether he can live up to the Tories' hopes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peter Sissons announces the resignation of John Major as Tory leader in 1995\n\nPeter Sissons, the former BBC and ITN newsreader and Question Time host, has died at the age of 77.\n\nSissons joined ITN in the 1960s before moving to the BBC in 1989 to present Question Time and the Six O'Clock News.\n\nBBC director general Tony Hall described him as \"one of the great television figures of his time\".\n\nThe late broadcaster's old Liverpool school friend Sir Paul McCartney called Sissons \"a talented news presenter with a great sense of humour\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Paul 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 former Beatle wrote on his website: \"Dear Peter, my old school mate from the Liverpool Institute (now LIPA) has passed away. It's so sad to hear the news.\n\n\"We were in the same year and stayed in touch as time went by and we both followed our separate careers.\"\n\nHe added: \"He was a talented news presenter with a great sense of humour. I will miss him but always have fond memories of the time we spent together. My sympathies go out to his family and I send my love to them all.\"\n\nTributes also came from such figures as Piers Morgan and Tony Blair, who said he was \"a journalist of exceptional talent, commitment and integrity\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Blair Institute This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGood Morning Britain host Morgan hailed him as \"an excellent journalist and TV newsreader, and splendidly combative and amusing man\", while BBC presenter Simon McCoy said Sissons was \"a great journalist and a fine presenter\".\n\nBorn in Liverpool in 1942, Sissons went to school with John Lennon, George Harrison and Paul McCartney. He studied at Oxford University, but returned to Liverpool to work as a bus conductor in the summer holidays - and later said the experience of dealing with difficult customers prepared him for handling difficult interviewees.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"He was fantastic company... loved a good gossip\" - Huw Edwards pays tribute to Sissons\n\nHis journalistic career began when he joined ITN in 1964 as a writer, and he became a reporter three years later.\n\nAs a foreign correspondent, he was wounded by gunfire in Biafra in 1968. He was later promoted to ITN's news editor and then industrial editor before becoming a presenter of ITN's News at One in 1978.\n\nWhen Channel 4 was launched in 1982, he was chosen to present their nightly news programme, and during his time as anchor, Channel 4 News won three consecutive Bafta Awards.\n\nIn 1989, he interviewed the Iranian ambassador about the fatwa issued to author Salman Rushsdie, and admitted in his autobiography that he found it \"very hard\" to keep his anger from showing. That interview resulted in the fatwa being extended to him, meaning he and his family needed 24-hour protection.\n\nHe took over from Robin Day as presenter of Question Time\n\nAfter joining the BBC later that year, he took over from Sir Robin Day as host of Question Time, which he hosted for four years, and also went on to present the Nine O'Clock News and 10 O'Clock News.\n\n\"He was a gold standard broadcaster,\" said BBC News presenter Huw Edwards. \"For a decade or more, he was the face of Channel 4 News, and he really was an outstanding interviewer and presenter.\n\n\"He was very supportive when I started off as a presenter, he couldn't have been more generous, and I think that was a reflection of him as a man as well.\"\n\nThe Six O'Clock News line-up in 1989: Moira Stuart, Sissons and Anna Ford\n\nIn 2002, he faced criticism for wearing a burgundy-coloured tie rather than the customary black when breaking the news of the Queen Mother's death.\n\nWhen he was moved to BBC News 24 in 2003, he accused the corporation of ageism. \"Ageism is still the BBC's blind spot. Yet it is blindingly obvious that maturity goes with grey hairs,\" he said.\n\nSissons retired from broadcasting in 2009. Two years later, he published an autobiography in which he criticised the BBC for having what he saw as a left-wing bias.\n\nPaying tribute, Lord Hall said: \"Peter Sissons was one of the great television figures of his time - as an interviewer, presenter and world-class journalist. During his distinguished career he was one of the most recognisable and well-respected faces of television news.\n\n\"He was always a great person to be with and to work with. He will be missed by his many friends and colleagues and our thoughts are with his family.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Michael Crick This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReturning to his home city, he sat on the Hillsborough Independent Panel, which published a report into the 1989 football stadium disaster in 2012.\n\nThe chairman of the panel, the former Bishop of Liverpool, James Jones, said: \"Peter made a unique and outstanding contribution to the Hillsborough Independent Panel. His advice made a huge difference to our work. I know he felt both honoured and proud to serve the city.\"\n\nA statement from Sissons' management company said he \"died peacefully\" in Maidstone Hospital in Kent on Tuesday.\n\n\"His wife and three children were with him and wish to pass on their thanks to the hospital staff,\" it added.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Peter Sissons: The face of the news", "Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged people to stop using single-use plastic across the country.\n\nWhile many Indian cities are struggling to deal with plastic waste, one Himalayan village has shown the way in dealing with the problem.\n\nLachun, in the northeastern state of Sikkim, has successfully banned single-use plastic and showcases eco-friendly alternatives.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage was hit with a milkshake while campaigning in Newcastle\n\nA Burger King tweet alerting customers it was \"selling milkshakes all weekend\" has been banned for condoning and encouraging anti-social behaviour.\n\nThe fast food firm's post came after a number of European election candidates had milkshakes thrown at them.\n\nAnd a McDonald's in Edinburgh stopped selling the drinks before Nigel Farage addressed a rally in the city.\n\nBurger King defended the tweet, calling it a \"tongue-in-cheek reaction to recent events\".\n\nIt read: \"Dear people of Scotland. We're selling milkshakes all weekend. Have fun. Love BK. #justsaying\".\n\nThe Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) said it considered the tweet \"irresponsible\".\n\nThe post on Burger King's official Twitter account followed a number of dairy-based incidents involving campaigners on the European election trail.\n\nStephen Yaxley-Lennon, who is known as Tommy Robinson, and UKIP candidate Carl Benjamin were both hit with food and drink during the build-up to the poll.\n\nFormer English Defence League leader Mr Yaxley-Lennon was drenched with milkshakes twice in two days as he campaigned in the north-west of England.\n\nDays after his appearance at a Brexit Party rally in Edinburgh, Mr Farage was also later doused with milkshake during a campaign walkabout in Newcastle.\n\nThe ASA was critical of Burger King's tweet for condoning and encouraging anti-social behaviour.\n\nIt said 24 people complained that it was irresponsible and offensive because they believed it encouraged violence and anti-social behaviour.\n\nThe tweet was posted the day after a McDonald's outlet in Edinburgh put up a sign to say that it would not be selling milkshakes or ice cream by \"police request\".\n\nBurger King said it did not endorse violence, which it made clear with a follow-up tweet reading: \"We'd never endorse violence - or wasting our delicious milkshakes! So enjoy the weekend and please drink responsibly people.\"\n\nDairy items were temporarily withdrawn from sale at an Edinburgh McDonald's during Nigel Farage's visit\n\nThe ASA said: \"Although we acknowledged that the tweet may have been intended as a humorous response to the suspension of milkshake sales by the advertiser's competitor, in the context in which it appeared we considered it would be understood as suggesting that Burger King milkshakes could be used instead by people to 'milkshake' Nigel Farage.\n\n\"We considered the ad therefore condoned the previous anti-social behaviour and encouraged further instances. We therefore concluded that the ad was irresponsible.\"\n\nThe ASA added: \"We told Burger King to ensure that its future marketing communications did not condone or encourage anti-social behaviour.\"\n\nA Burger King spokesman said: \"Our tweet regarding the situation in Edinburgh was intended to be a tongue-in-cheek reaction to the situation. It appears some have misinterpreted this as an endorsement of violence, which we absolutely reject.\n\n\"At Burger King, we totally believe in individuals' right to freedom of expression and would never do anything that conflicts with this. We'd never endorse violence or wasting our delicious milkshakes.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cats, shoes, eggs and milkshakes - why people throw things at politicians", "Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown is MP for The Cotswolds\n\nA senior MP has been kicked out of the Conservative party conference after an altercation.\n\nSir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown was asked to leave the event after he clashed with staff as he tried to enter a room with a guest without the relevant pass.\n\nThe incident led to a lockdown of part of the Manchester Central Convention Centre for about 20 minutes. The MP apologised \"unreservedly\".\n\nA Conservative spokesman said: \"The incident was totally unacceptable.\"\n\n\"Geoffrey has been asked to leave Conference and we are establishing all of the facts to see if further action is necessary,\" he added.\n\n\"We will always adopt a zero tolerance approach to any inappropriate behaviour towards our hardworking staff.\"\n\nThe Cotswolds MP said in a statement: \"This was a minor verbal misunderstanding.\n\n\"The police have not contacted me at all. I am mortified that something so minor seems to have been blown out of all proportion and if anyone has been offended, I apologise unreservedly.\n\n\"I will co-operate with the party in any investigation.\"\n\nThe International Lounge at the venue was locked down for around 20 minutes\n\nA staff member guarding the door of the International Lounge said the incident was sparked by a disagreement.\n\n\"It was a small misunderstanding,\" the man said.\n\nBBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg said the incident happened just before home secretary Priti Patel stood up to make a speech \"trying to reclaim the Tories as the party of law and order\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Greater Manchester Police spokesman said an attendee \"attempted to enter the International Lounge area of the conference without the relevant pass\".\n\n\"Security staff intervened and resolved the situation without any breach of security occurring,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theo Treharne-Jones had been on holiday with his parents, siblings and extended family\n\nLocked doors in apartments where a five-year-old boy died on a family holiday in Greece could be opened easily by a child, a pre-inquest review has heard.\n\nTheo Treharne-Jones died after being found in a pool at Atlantica Holiday Village in Kos in June.\n\nThe coroner said his inquiry would focus on the \"care taken to keep very young children such as Theo safe\".\n\nTheo, from Merthyr Tydfil, died in hospital on 15 June.\n\nHe was on holiday with his parents Richard and Nina, siblings and extended family when he died.\n\nMrs Treharne told the hearing the family had stayed at the same hotel before, albeit in different apartments that had door chains inside the rooms to prevent children leaving.\n\n\"Half the hotel did have chain locks on the door. This part didn't,\" she said.\n\n\"You could turn them so that no-one could get in from the outside, but you could touch it with a finger and get out.\"\n\nMrs Treharne said a couple had posted a review on a travel site saying their two-year-old child had been able to get out of the room so they \"had to put a pram against the door for safety\".\n\nMona Bayoumi, representing travel firm TUI UK, told the inquest she understood the chains were being phased out by the hotel and that it used the \"same door mechanism you would find in any hotel around the world\".\n\nAssistant coroner Nadim Bashir said his inquiry would look at several issues including access to the pool from the bedrooms, the doors, \"what sort of locks there were to prevent very young children going through doors\", and what restrictions there were on access to the pool.\n\nSpeaking about the inquest, he told Theo's parents it was \"limited what we can do seeing as this tragic incident took place abroad, the hotel is subject to Greek health and safety, not ours, and we cannot impose our regulations on them\".\n\nThere will be a further pre-inquest hearing in November.", "The government has confirmed it plans to prorogue Parliament next Tuesday and hold a Queen's Speech on 14 October.\n\nBoris Johnson's last attempt to suspend Parliament in this way was ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court.\n\nBut the government needs to bring the current parliamentary session to an end, before it can hold a Queen's Speech setting out its agenda for the next session.\n\nIt means there will be no Prime Minister's Questions next week.\n\nThe only time Boris Johnson - who missed PMQs on Wednesday due to his Conservative conference speech - has taken part in the session since becoming PM was on 4 September.\n\nIn a statement, No 10 said the planned prorogation - which must be approved by the Queen - would be \"for the shortest time possible\" to enable logistical and security preparations for the State Opening of Parliament.\n\nThe current Parliamentary session was thought to have come to an end in the early hours of Tuesday, 10 September.\n\nBut the Supreme Court ruled the prorogation unlawful, meaning the session did not technically end at all.\n\nDowning Street said the Queen's Speech would set out the government's plans for the NHS, schools, tackling crime, investing in infrastructure and building a strong economy.\n\nBut without a Commons majority, it is thought unlikely MPs would back the PM's legislative agenda.\n\nNumber 10 had been studying the implications of the Supreme Court judgment - and will hope a shorter suspension of a few days rather than five weeks causes it less trouble.\n\nIt also avoids another potentially awkward conversation with the Palace about rescheduling the Queen's plans.\n\nAlready, however, opposition parties have raised concerns.\n\nA source told the BBC that Boris Johnson was trying to avoid Prime Minister's Questions and Parliamentary scrutiny.", "Boris Johnson and his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar have spoken over the phone this evening.\n\nMr Varadkar, whose support is crucial for any hope of a wider UK-EU agreement, has issued a short statement in response.\n\nHe suggested the UK's proposals \"do not fully meet the agreed objectives of the backstop\". In other words, they do not go far enough in upholding the integrity of the EU's single market and protecting the peace settlement in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut he reiterated that he wanted an agreement and he would consult with the European Commission and other member states in the coming days.\n\nHe said he expected to speak to Mr Johnson again early next week.", "A man who was gored by a bison in June took a date back to the same place - only for her also to be attacked.\n\nKyler Bourgeous brought Kayleigh Davis to the same trail at a state park in Utah with plans to watch the sunset.\n\nBut when Ms Davis ran a little ahead, she ended up alone with a bison who charged and flipped her into the air.\n\nShe sustained a broken ankle from the goring and a leg wound. In the earlier attack he had suffered a cracked rib and collapsed lung.\n\nMs Davis has a cast on her right ankle and received stitches for the wound in her left thigh. She was released from hospital on Monday.\n\nThe attack happened on an established trail in Antelope Island State Park.\n\nWitnesses reported seeing a bison strike Ms Davis with its head, \"lifting her off the ground\".\n\nThe 22-year-old was airlifted to hospital in Ogden, Utah.\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 antelopeislandstatepark 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\nMs Davis told the BBC she had run ahead of Mr Bourgeous on the trail when she saw the bison. She passed it once, before deciding to turn around and rejoin Mr Bourgeous.\n\n\"I wasn't comfortable standing at the mile marker waiting for him, and I didn't know how comfortable he would be seeing [the bison] too, so I turned back and passed the bison again, giving it as much space as possible.\"\n\nBut when she was on her way back, four cyclists happened to come down the trail and \"spooked\" it.\n\nThe bison charged her and she began running away.\n\n\"I looked over my shoulder, seeing it get closer - and I looked again and it was pretty much right behind me. Right as I saw it, I flew up in the air 15ft (4.5m),\" Ms Davis says.\n\nShe landed on her back and lay completely still - remembering what happened to Mr Bourgeous - as the bison sniffed at her.\n\nEventually, it wandered far enough away for Mr Bourgeous and the other witnesses on the trail to help her.\n\nIn hospital, she learned that that the bison's horn had gone through her ankle.\n\nKyler Bourgeous was gored by a bison in June\n\nMr Bourgeous, 30, faced a similar situation when he was gored, months earlier. He had reached the summit of the park's highest point - a familiar trail for him - when he saw two bison as he came over the ridge.\n\n\"I couldn't see them until I was too close to them,\" Mr Bourgeous told the BBC. \"I turned around immediately and only got a few steps away before one of them charged me.\"\n\nThe bison's horns gored his hip and armpit, fracturing a rib which then collapsed his lung. The animal then trampled him and kicked his head.\n\nMr Bourgeous had to use a drain in his hip for several weeks because the goring had left an internal hole. He says his ribs still hurt when he coughs, but he has mostly recovered.\n\nHe says there is \"something special\" about the beauty of Antelope Island park, where he has been hiking since his childhood, but that the sight of bison now makes him anxious.\n\n\"My fear level is high enough that I don't know when I'll end up on a trail out there,\" Mr Bourgeous says.\n\nMs Davis also says she has been having nightmares about the attack in the days since, but otherwise feels \"pretty happy and positive\" and wants to get outside again soon.\n\nShe adds that she has talked with a park ranger about possibly volunteering at the visitors centre, but \"it might take a minute\" before she's fully ready for that.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs for their next venture outdoors together?", "Communities will be able to request a free-to-use ATM for their area if they are finding it hard to access cash.\n\nLink, which oversees the UK's network of cash machines, has set up a £1m fund to pay for ATMs in so-called cash deserts, although this will only fund 40 to 50 machines.\n\nIt said more money could be added to the fund if the service proved popular.\n\nCriteria for successful bids include a lack of nearby ATMs, a safe location being found, and no Post Office access.\n\nA report published this week by banking trade body UK Finance said that there were 52,358 free-to-use machines operating in the UK at the end of 2018. Another 11,002 pay-to-use machines were also in place.\n\nA total of 2.4 billion withdrawals were made from these machines last year, with £193bn of cash being taken out.\n\nThe number of withdrawals from ATMs dwarf the alternative ways that consumers can access cash, such as debit card cashback (150 million withdrawals in 2018) and over the counter withdrawals (55 million in 2018).\n\nConsumer groups and campaigners have raised concerns about the falling number of cash machines in the UK.\n\nConsumer association Which? recently revealed that free-to-use cash machines were disappearing quicker in deprived areas than in affluent ones.\n\nThe organisation and Natalie Ceeney, who compiled an independent report on Access to Cash, are calling on Chancellor Sajid Javid to guarantee people can get hold of cash if they need it.\n\nIt called for an independent body, funded by the banks, to be set up that would step in if local communities were running short of access to cash in shops and ATMs.\n\nThe new scheme, set up by Link, does not go that far, but does allow communities - individually, or through their MP or council - to request help directly from Link to fund new cash machines. The Link fund is financed by its bank and building society members.\n\nApplications are being taken now, although 11 sites have already been identified for directly installed ATMs.\n\nThey are: Deal, Ebbw Vale, Margate, Middleton, Wilmslow and York, as well as pilot sites in Battle, Bungay, Nuneaton, Tywyn, and Durness.\n\nBattle, in East Sussex, was successful as tourists travelling to the area on a Sunday to visit the Battle of Hastings sites were unable to access cash, as the local Post Office is closed on that day each week.\n\nEach application for a similar ATM would need to satisfy criteria such as whether a retailer or council can find a safe location to host the machine. If there is another free-to-use ATM within 1km in the community and no particular geographical challenges to reaching it, applications may be unlikely to be successful.\n\nJohn Howells, chief executive of Link, said: \"[We are] looking forward to getting the first requests for ATMs so we can help solve access to cash issues across the whole UK.\"\n\nPeter McNamara, chief executive of independent ATM operator NoteMachine, said the Link fund was \"a tiny bandage on a massive wound\", saying that the new ATMs would not make much difference when thousands had been shut.\n\nHe said that Link had forced two cuts in the fees that banks pay the operators each time their customers use a non-bank machine.\n\nAs a result, he argued, many cash machines had become uneconomic and were being taken out or switched from free-to-use to charging consumers. Branch closures had also led to ATMs being lost, he said.\n\nBut the Federation for Small Businesses (FSB) described the new fund as a \"promising step in the right direction\".\n\n\"When an ATM is removed from a local area, we know it is especially difficult to get one reinstalled later on, and we hope this move can help,\" said FSB national chairman Mike Cherry.\n\nLink said it was also supporting a scheme, run by UK Finance and run across the UK banking and finance industry, aimed at finding ways that communities can access cash or be guided in the use other methods of paying for goods and services.", "The duchess says people have the power to change a \"dangerous\" world\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has told an event in Johannesburg that he and his wife will \"seek to challenge injustice\".\n\nHis comments come a day after it emerged that they were taking legal action against the Mail on Sunday for publishing a private letter sent by the Duchess of Sussex to her father.\n\nThe duke said the legal action was in response to \"relentless propaganda\".\n\nThe paper says it will defend itself vigorously and stood by the story it published.\n\nOn the final day of their 10-day overseas tour, Prince Harry set out what he believes his role in public life should be, saying he and the duchess would \"stand up for what we believe\".\n\nSpeaking to a group of young people and fledgling entrepreneurs in Tembisa township, near Johannesburg, the duke said: \"We are fortunate enough to have a position that gives us amazing opportunities and we will do everything that we can to play our part in building a better world.\n\n\"We will also seek to challenge injustice and to speak out for those who may feel unheard.\n\n\"So no matter your background, your nationality, your age or gender, your sexuality, your physical ability, no matter your circumstance, or colour of your skin - we believe in you.\n\n\"And we intend to spend our entire lives making sure that you have the opportunity to succeed and change the world.\"\n\nPrince Harry went on to reminisce about a visit to Africa in the months following the sudden death of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\n\"Ever since I came to this country as a young boy, trying to cope with something I could never possibly describe, Africa has held me in an embrace that I will never forget and feel incredibly fortunate for that,\" he said.\n\n\"Every time I come here I know that I'm not alone. I always feel wherever I am on this continent that the community around me provides a life that is enriching and is rooted in the simplest things - connection, connection with others and the natural environment.\"\n\nPrince Harry said he wanted to teach his baby son Archie the lessons he had learned from Africa, including those about \"community and friendship\".\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan met Nelson Mandela's widow, Graca Machel, at a reception in Johannesburg\n\nLater, in a speech at the Johannesburg residence of Britain's high commissioner, the duchess said people have the power to change a world that seems \"aggressive, confrontational and dangerous\".\n\nMeghan told designers, entrepreneurs and business people: \"Whether you're here in South Africa, at home in the UK or the US, or around the world, you actually have the power within you to change things, and that begins with how you connect to others.\"\n\nLater in the day, the duke and duchess met Nelson Mandela's widow, Graca Machel. She offered to work with the couple, who launch their Sussex Royal Foundation next year.\n\nCoverage of the tour had been positive, exposing the double standards of the press pack, says the duke\n\nThe law firm Schillings, acting for the duchess, has filed a High Court claim against the Mail on Sunday and its parent company - Associated Newspapers - over the alleged misuse of private information, infringement of copyright and breach of the Data Protection Act 2018.\n\nThe duchess's action comes after the newspaper published a handwritten letter she sent her father shortly after she and Prince Harry got married in 2018.\n\nThe paper is accused of an \"intrusive and unlawful publication of a private letter\" and of a campaign of publishing false and derogatory stories about the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nSometimes there are exceptions to copyright which can allow part of a letter or document to be published, for example for reporting current events.\n\nBut even if this is used, under what is known as the \"fair dealing\" defence, publications have to strike a balance between public interest and the interest of the copyright owner.\n\nReferring to his late mother Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Harry said his \"deepest fear is history repeating itself\".\n\nIn a lengthy personal statement on the couple's official website, he said the \"painful\" impact of intrusive media coverage had driven him and his wife to take action.\n\nPrince Harry said: \"I lost my mother, and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces.\n\n\"I've seen what happens when someone I love is commoditised to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person,\" he added.\n\nDiana was once described as the \"most hunted person of the modern age\".\n\nShe died in a car crash in 1997 after being pursued through Paris by a pack of paparazzi journalists.\n\nThe new legal proceedings are being funded privately by the couple and any proceeds will be donated to an anti-bullying charity.\n\nIn his statement Prince Harry said he and Meghan believed in \"media freedom and objective, truthful reporting\" as a \"cornerstone of democracy\".\n\nBut he said his wife had become \"one of the latest victims of a British tabloid press that wages campaigns against individuals with no thought to the consequences\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earlier on in their tour of Africa, the couple introduced baby son Archie to Archbishop Desmond Tutu\n\nThe duke accused the paper of misleading readers when it published the private letter, by strategically omitting paragraphs, sentences and specific words \"to mask the lies they had perpetrated for over a year\".\n\n\"Put simply, it is bullying, which scares and silences people. We all know this isn't acceptable, at any level,\" he said.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday spokesperson said: \"We categorically deny that the duchess's letter was edited in any way that changed its meaning.\"", "A worker had to intervene after a catering truck lost control at O'Hare International airport in Chicago. American Airlines is investigating the incident.", "The UK government has announced a ban on some drug exports to protect NHS patients' access to medicines.\n\nThe move comes after a survey of local pharmacists found shortages of every major type of medicine in the past six months.\n\nMinisters said the restrictions were not linked to Brexit and medicine shortages did occasionally occur.\n\nPharmaceutical industry leaders welcomed the move, saying stockpiles of medicines would now be better protected and available for NHS use only.\n\nThe government restrictions will stop wholesalers selling some medicines meant for UK patients for a higher price in another country, potentially causing or worsening supply problems.\n\nThe drugs on the export ban list include 19 HRT drugs and five other medicines, including all adrenaline pens for severe allergies, hepatitis B vaccines and a number of contraceptives.\n\nAbout 360,000 prescriptions of HRT, which relieve symptoms of the menopause, are dispensed every month,\n\nBut these drugs, along with contraceptives and anti-epileptic drugs, are in short supply, according to a UK-wide survey of 402 community pharmacies by the Chemist and Druggist.\n\nThe government has also introduced a \"serious shortage protocol\" for the antidepressant Fluoxetine, which allows pharmacists to give patients an alternative strength or form of the drug because of temporary shortages of some doses.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"I know how distressing medicine shortages can be for those who rely on drugs like HRT and it is absolutely crucial patients can always access safe and effective treatments through the NHS.\"\n\nThe new measures would help \"ensure patients get the medicines they need\", he added.\n\nDr Rick Greville, from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, said: \"It means that these stockpiles of medicines which companies have built over previous months are better protected and available for use only by the NHS patients for which they were intended.\n\n\"Companies can now work with the [health] department to identify any problem areas.\"\n\nThis is an unprecedented move for the UK.\n\nSome other EU countries have considered such action or implemented measures in the past to stop the flow of drugs out of their countries.\n\nThe Greek authorities, for example, banned exports during the financial crisis.\n\nBut it's the first time the government has decided the risk of shortages for NHS patients requires intervention to protect supplies.\n\nUK wholesalers with regulatory licences have the right to move stocks of drugs to sell in other European markets if they wish.\n\nThe incentive to do so in the eurozone increases as the pound weakens.\n\nNow, they have been told they will lose those licences if they shift products elsewhere.\n\nOfficials say the risk of the UK leaving the European Union without a withdrawal agreement in place is not the reason for the new policy, as shortages do occur from time to time in the medicine markets.\n\nBut that is certainly the backdrop to the new export ban, as ministers decide action is needed to protect existing supplies.\n\nDr Farah Jameel, from the British Medical Association, said there were lots of different reasons why drugs shortages happened.\n\n\"But they are gradually getting worse and can have a serious effect on how quickly patients receive appropriate treatment,\" she said.\n\n\"Practices often won't know that a drug is in short supply until patients return from the pharmacy and these extra GP appointments can dramatically add to their already burgeoning workload - as well as distressing patients.\"\n\nPatients should continue to order their repeat prescriptions and keep taking their medicines as normal - but not ask for more medicines than they need, the Department for Health and Social Care said.\n\nIt added it was working to ensure the supply of medicines and medical products \"remains uninterrupted after 31 October, [when the UK is set to leave the EU,] whatever the circumstances\".\n\nThe government has made arrangements to stockpile six weeks' supply of drugs for the NHS in case of a no-deal exit from the EU.\n\nBut a recent report said it was not clear exactly what level of stockpiling was in place.\n• None Medicines that cannot be parallel exported - gov.uk The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A major incident has been declared on the Isle of Man, after a river burst its banks trapping residents in their homes in the village of Laxey.\n\nHeavy rain and flooding have also affected parts of the UK, with cars submerged in Leicestershire and landslides and falling trees blocking railway lines in Cumbria.\n\nDozens of flood warnings were issued and some areas in the Midlands, Wales and southern England were hit by a week's rain in just an hour.", "A report says consumers switched to smaller bottle sizes or low-alcohol products, but a drop in demand was offset by increased prices\n\nThe introduction of minimum pricing for alcohol has had a modest economic impact on the drinks industry in Scotland, a report has found.\n\nThe study commissioned by NHS Health Scotland suggests a drop in demand for some products was offset by increased prices.\n\nResearchers said retailers adapted to cope with price changes.\n\nScotland was the world's first nation to require all licensed premises to set a minimum unit price (MUP) for alcohol.\n\nThe policy was designed to increase the cost of cheap, high-strength drinks such as ciders and some spirits seen to cause the most harm.\n\nIn an initial assessment of the effects of MUP, researchers at Frontier Economics evaluated its economic impact on producers and alcohol retailers in the nine months following the introduction of the policy in April 2018.\n\nMany reported a decrease in alcohol sales was offset by increased prices and consumers switching to existing premium brands.\n\nIt said no retailers or producers had reported reducing staff numbers or investment as a result of MUP.\n\nAndrew Leicester, manager at Frontier Economics, said: \"The respondents interviewed in this study suggested that demand changed in a number of ways in the first nine months following MUP coming into force, with sales of products that were previously retailing below the minimum unit price decreasing the most.\n\n\"Demand for smaller sizes, low-alcohol products or premium products less affected by price increases, has seen some producers and retailers adapt their strategy and product offering in response to MUP.\"\n\nHe emphasised the difficulties in evaluating the full impact of MUP when other factors had also affected the market, notably the 2018 football World Cup and the long, hot summer of that year.\n\nNHS Health Scotland commissioned the research as part of a wide-ranging evaluation of the Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act 2012 which established MUP\n\nIt has a sunset clause which requires the Scottish Parliament to vote before 1st May 2024 on whether or not the policy will continue.\n\nNeil Craig, head of evaluation at NHS Health Scotland, said: \"NHS Health Scotland are leading a robust and comprehensive evaluation of Minimum Unit Pricing, which will provide a full understanding of what difference the legislation is making and to whom.\n\n\"That of course includes the impact MUP could make to levels of alcohol-related health and social harm, but also requires us to assess the effect on the alcoholic drinks industry in Scotland.\"\n\nThe researchers interviewed retailers on both sides of the Scotland-England border to see if MUP had led to an increase in people from Scotland buying alcohol from stores in England.\n\nBut they said retailers noted cross-border purchasing was happening prior to the introduction of MUP, as many consumers who live near the border in Scotland work in Carlisle or Berwick-upon-Tweed, or conduct weekly grocery shopping in these towns.\n\nAlison 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