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\"dissatisfaction\" over Brexit is hitting the Conservative vote.", "Tory minister James Cleverly says the local council elections will be a \"tough night\" for his party.", "The bank's boss, John Flint, says the result is \"encouraging\" in a climate of global economic uncertainty.", "Former billionaire John Kapoor was found guilty of bribing doctors to prescribe addictive painkillers.", "Leader Vince Cable hails local election results as \"positive\" as he meets supporters in Essex.", "Police say one of the women found in a flat in east London is mother-of-three Mihrican Mustafa.", "The network accused InfoWars' Alex Jones and the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan of hate speech.", "The US flight required a specially-designed drone which was able to maintain and monitor the organ.", "Beyond the headlines of misery for the UK's two major parties, smaller plot twists have played out.", "More than 1,700 cash machines started charging a fee in the UK between January and March this year.", "Officials say hostility to medical staff is hindering efforts to tackle the deadly disease.", "Bangladesh's foreign minister says the 19-year-old IS bride has \"nothing to do\" with his country.", "The world's largest economy added 263,000 jobs in April, while the jobless rate fell to 3.6%.", "The party stalwart blames its poor leadership, Brexit \"duplicity\" and the anti-Semitism row for his decision.", "The foreign secretary attacks \"political correctness\" as report warns the religion could \"disappear\".", "Attempts are made to trace families of Sussex veterans who filmed messages in Asia.", "The coronation of Thailand's Vajiralongkorn is an elaborate mix of Buddhist and Brahmin rituals.", "An expert says Karanbir Cheema's fatal reaction to touching cheese was \"extraordinarily unusual\".", "Both parties will now look ahead nervously to the European elections.", "A Conservative council leader who lost his majority says she should \"consider her position\".", "Full coverage of the results of the NI local elections as counting took place across NI's 11 councils.", "Police \"will not tolerate disorder\" following trouble after Tommy Robinson's visit to Warrington.", "Conservative MP Vicky Ford is visibly upset during a BBC interview as the Tories lose a comfortable majority in Chelmsford.", "Find your result and follow the others as they come in using our interactive map.", "Séamus Lawless reached the peak on Thursday but lost contact in an area known as \"the balcony\".", "Transport Focus says tickets need to be easier to buy and recommends firms install onboard wi-fi.", "Eight of the 100 people stabbed to death in the UK have been in the West Midlands area.", "Boris Johnson reveals he will run when Theresa May quits, saying: \"Of course I'm going to go for it.\"", "Investors are pricing in a higher chance of the UK leaving the EU without a deal, say analysts.", "Israel Folau's contract is terminated by Rugby Australia after he said \"hell awaits\" gay people in a social media post.", "MPs in German parliament say the BDS movement uses methods reminiscent to those used by the Nazis.", "Actor Taron Egerton captures Sir Elton's humour but fails to bare his soul, Will Gompertz says.", "Knock Marriage Introductions claims to be behind 960 marriages, but demand has dropped in recent years.", "Sources tell the BBC the prime minister will step down if she loses the vote on the Brexit bill next month.", "The singer will perform Like A Virgin and a new track during Saturday's final in Tel Aviv, Israel.", "Fans and fellow wrestlers have been paying tribute, as Ashley died after being taken to hospital.", "Could fear of a no-deal Brexit give Theresa May one last shot at achieving her \"mission impossible\"?", "The force exerted on Ateeq Rafiq by the cinema seat was equivalent to three-quarters of a tonne.", "Writing the report was \"far more complex\" than originally anticipated, an inquiry solicitor says.", "The BBC has tracked the killings to uncover the stories of those who have lost their lives.", "Sarah McTernan is sent packing while favourites Russia, Sweden and the Netherlands progress.", "Shares in the travel firm plunge almost 30% after Citigroup says the company's shares have no value.", "Patients unable to have sex are calling for the NHS to stop prescribing acne drug Roaccutane.", "The prime minister will make plans with the party for choosing a successor, after the next big vote on the Brexit bill.", "The firm will seek certification from the US regulator which grounded the jet after two crashes.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Family of baby waiting for a heart transplant asks parents to consider registering their children as organ donors.", "Jack Renshaw, who gave a Nazi salute as he was sentenced, will serve at least 20 years in prison.", "Three Britons and a South African have been killed in the crash near Dubai airport, authorities say.", "Employers should be responsible from protecting staff from harassment, says the TUC.", "Doctors say the surgery could be the difference between some children learning to walk or not.", "The firm has borrowed money from its backers as it seeks a \"permanent solution\" to its financial woes.", "Helen Kennett asked the knifeman what was wrong with him before he stabbed her, an inquest hears.", "Ateeq Rafiq died a week after his head got stuck in a \"Gold Class\" cinema seat in Birmingham.", "Deliveroo says it is looking forward to working with \"customer obsessed\" Amazon.", "Carl Beech named only Jimmy Savile and his stepfather as abusers in his first police interview, a court hears.", "A victim of revenge porn changed her identity and moved cities to escape the shame but now she says enough is enough.", "The widow of a man killed in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings says the documents may help secure justice.", "Could Labour MPs and Tories with their eyes on a future leadership contest come to the PM's rescue?", "A dog that lost the use of one of its legs digs out a baby buried alive in a field in Thailand.", "I Don't Care goes straight to number one - but falls short of breaking sales records.", "Loughborough Town Hall has changed its signage following the abuse Zoe Young suffered.", "The Conservatives are accused of putting party over country on Question Time from Elgin, Scotland.", "Nick Cooke-Priest is removed following reports that he used an MoD car for personal trips.", "Australian election officials cross air, land and sea - sometimes to set up a single ballot box.", "The SNP leader says voting for her party in the European elections is a chance to \"make Scotland's voice heard\".", "A TV critic's comments about Keeping Faith star Eve Myles are criticised by her husband.", "British-Iranian nationals are advised against going to Iran because of an \"intolerable risk\" of mistreatment.", "Hers was the feline face that launched a thousand memes, but Grumpy Cat is no more.", "If the trend continues, age screening guidelines may need to be reconsidered, researchers say.", "An F-16 jet slams to the ground near a base outside Los Angeles after the pilot ejects.", "A committee cites evidence that more than 1,000 children in custody were sexually abused from 2009-2017.", "Tributes are paid to the man whose iconic buildings also include the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar.", "Passengers arriving in the UK will no longer have to fill in landing cards from Monday.", "The US president reportedly tells top officials he does not want a war with Iran as tensions mount.", "Hundreds of tiny tissue samples were found on the estate of German anatomist Hermann Stieve.", "Three people on board escape with minor injuries as the plane came down on the A40 in Monmouthshire.", "Lord Lovat is accused of blocking off car parking areas near his Beauly home and leaving \"unofficial\" parking tickets on cars.", "Veteran actress and singer Doris Day is honoured with a lifetime achievement award by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.", "The lorry driver was filmed by police as part of a crackdown on dangerous driving.", "A cardinal flips a switch to restore power to people in an occupied state-owned building in Rome.", "The president denies new tariffs on Chinese goods will hit consumers and says China should not respond.", "All the latest news about European elections 2019 from the BBC", "A petition signed by 350,000 people calls for \"netting\" of trees and hedges to be a criminal offence.", "The singer turned movie star enjoyed success in such films as Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk.", "A man and two women were shot with arrows in a Bavarian hotel, then more dead women were found.", "With one of the Premier League's most extraordinary title races now over, we look at the small margins that finally separated Manchester City and Liverpool.", "Bradley Welsh, 48, died after being shot on the steps of his basement apartment in Edinburgh last month.", "Prosecutors recommend prison time for the actress, who paid to have her daughter's exam corrected.", "An American explorer finds plastic waste on the seafloor while breaking the record for the deepest ever dive.", "Elizabeth Mannion-O'Keeffe's 93-year-old mother was too frail to attend the first wedding.", "Mental health experts say the issue is too often overlooked but is causing people real distress.", "The director tells how he was drawn to the \"amazing\" seaside towns of England's east coast.", "People who began work between 2008 and 2011 have had lower pay and worse job prospects, says a report.", "Manchester City have a squad filled with talent but it is their staying power that has got them over the line, says Phil McNulty.", "All the latest news about England local elections 2019 from the BBC", "Three people escape with minor injuries after the light aircraft they were in crashed on a road.", "The Duchess of Sussex shares a photo of her newborn son's feet to celebrate Mother's Day in the US.", "Police forces have missed several chances to make facial recognition fit for purpose, finds BBC probe.", "Manchester City are the champions after holding off Liverpool. It felt like a relentless title battle but do the stats back that up?", "Police said it was a miracle no-one died in the attacks, which took place in and around Glasgow.", "Doris Day becomes the oldest artist to score a UK Top 10 with an album of new material, according to the Official Charts Company.", "The award-winning actress and singer, who embodied the archetypal all-American girl next door, dies at 97.", "The threat of a $20 fine and the lure of \"democracy sausages\" mean almost all Australians vote in elections.", "From a rape allegation in Sweden to jail in the UK, the key dates in the Julian Assange case.", "Saulius Skvernelis fails to qualify for the second round in the country's presidential election.", "Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said extra spending could go towards providing new military capabilities.", "The copy of DH Lawrence's novel used in the 1960 obscenity trial sold for £56,000 at auction last year.", "Killing Eve's Jodie Comer is named best actress and Benedict Cumberbatch wins best actor.", "Councils in England will have a legal duty to provide secure homes for victims, the PM says.", "The deputy leader urges voters to reject \"nationalism\" and \"populism\" in the EU elections.", "Journalist and political adviser Mina Mangal was shot at close range in broad daylight in Kabul.", "James McMullan was helping Sara Zelenak to her feet when the pair were killed, an inquest hears.", "Three stories of what happens when false information is spread about you on social media sites.", "A profile of Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks.", "Baptist pastor Steven Anderson is the first person to be banned from Ireland under a 20-year-old law.", "An ex-paratrooper breaks down in tears at the inquest into the killing of 10 people in Belfast in 1971.", "The Irish fighter was facing criminal charges after allegedly smashing a fan's phone in Florida.", "Footage obtained by the BBC gives a rare insight into life in the conflict-hit city of Taiz.", "An unnamed Iranian woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran for spying for the UK.", "The upcoming elections are going to be difficult for the Conservatives, says the education secretary.", "On tax, China and treatment of women, Eric Schmidt tells BBC he will defend Google for a \"very long time\".", "All the latest news about Northern Ireland local elections 2019 from the BBC", "Daisy May Cooper explains why she took to the Bafta red carpet dressed as a rubbish bin.", "Brighton sack manager Chris Hughton after the Seagulls finished 17th in the Premier League.", "The former US president, 94, was on his way to go turkey hunting when he fell at his home.", "LGBT campaigner Melissa Ede won £4m on a scratchcard bought while filling up her taxi at a petrol station.", "Rescuers describe how they pulled three people from a burning plane that narrowly missed hitting their car.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Ex-Sheffield Wednesday club secretary Graham Mackrell was found guilty of a health and safety charge.", "The 12-man moped gang also stole BBC equipment filming the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.", "Manchester City are crowned Premier League champions after coming from behind to beat Brighton on a dramatic final day of the season.", "China says it will raise tariffs on some US imports from 1 June, extending a mutual trade war.", "All the latest news about The UK’s European elections 2019 from the BBC", "Would you crawl through hundreds of metres of mud for charity?", "Labour's deputy leader says the move would counter a challenge from Nigel Farage's new Brexit Party.", "Police are carrying out a forensic examination of Emma Fauld's car, a week after she was last seen in Ayrshire.", "Police say Hungarian national Henriett Szucs and Mihrican Mustafa \"suffered multiple injuries\".", "The online estate agency apologises for its \"disappointing\" performance over the past 12 months.", "The deadly inferno at Moscow's main airport came after a very rough landing.", "The runner only discovered that the Great Stirling Run prize had been \"slashed\" to £200 after it was over.", "The Duke of Cambridge jokingly welcomes his brother to the \"sleep deprivation society that is parenting\".", "A review calls for more accountability for what happens to young people excluded from school.", "They are called to incidents like road crashes, break-ins and drug seizures which do not require an armed response.", "Lance Corporal Chad Spalding says he doesn't want animals ending up as \"just pictures in a book\".", "The Prince of Wales says relations are \"in transition\" due to Brexit, as he begins a tour of Germany.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK prepares for a general election.", "Guinness World Record overturns an \"outdated\" decision after a row about a nurse's uniform.", "Natasha Abrahart was worried about being \"kicked off her course\", her mother tells an inquest.", "Areas with larger cuts to youth services were more likely to see a knife crime rise, a study suggests.", "A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murdering Year 12 student Ellie Gould in Calne.", "Pamela Anderson criticised the decision to jail Julian Assange, after visiting him at Belmarsh prison in London.", "A California university rescinds an honour because of the singer's 2016 domestic abuse arrest.", "It comes after the government signed £100m of Brexit consultant contracts in February.", "The King, his siblings, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.", "She announced the arrival of a \"royal baby\" just after the Duchess of Sussex delivered her own son.", "Twenty years after devolution, what do people think about the Welsh Assembly?", "The wildflower meadows are being planted in 22 parks in north London to boost declining numbers.", "Multi-billion offshore wind projects hint at a brighter future for the economy in Great Yarmouth.", null, "About 30 people at Teknival had to be treated after it snowed unexpectedly in France.", "The CIA blamed bad mapping but China has never believed that the strikes were an accident.", "The scale of the Tories' local election losses means the PM must go now, Iain Duncan Smith says.", "The fact the talks have gone on for so long hint there is serious merit in finding some kind of accord.", "The government has confirmed the elections will take place on 23 May.", "World record officials are reviewing a nurse's marathon record attempt \"as a priority\".", "It was a bad night for the Tories and for Labour, while the Lib Dems, Greens and independents prospered.", "Judd Trump wins his maiden World Championship title after beating John Higgins 18-9 in a supreme display at the Crucible.", "Liverpool produce one of the greatest Champions League comebacks by scoring four goals to beat Barcelona 4-3 on aggregate and reach the final.", "The protests come a day before the company lists its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.", "Man City are one win away from the Premier League title after Vincent Kompany's stunning goal secures victory against Leicester.", "Family, friends and school life all have a greater impact on life satisfaction, researchers say.", "Dillan Brown - who died on Saturday - is described as \"warm, cheerful and loving\".", "The bodies of Jasmine Lovett and her one-year-old daughter were found in woodland on Monday.", "Pixel 3a phones are about half the cost of earlier models, while firm's smart screen gets a camera.", "From free trade agreement to no deal, find out what the key terms mean.", "The teens were attacked within 10 minutes of one another in Islington, north London.", "Scott Morrison is targeted by a protester while campaigning ahead of the Australian election.", "Talks involving five main parties were announced after murder of journalist Lyra McKee last month.", "Mathew Talbot was killed during a counter-poaching operation and is survived by his family and girlfriend.", "Celebrities reveal their interpretations of this year's theme: 'camp'.", "Police drive home the message that passing too close to a cyclist can result in three penalty points.", "Joseph McCann is suspected of carrying out \"grotesque and horrifying attacks\" across the country.", "The tree disease will cost taxpayers a third more than the foot-and-mouth outbreak in cattle in 2001.", "The environment secretary said wildlife charities had advised him to \"be cautious\".", "No 10 is trying to get talks with Labour over the line by setting out a path for future decision making.", "Police carry out a forensic examination of a detached property in Ayrshire a week after Emma Faulds is last seen.", "Neighbours say the \"huge explosion\" rattled the windows of homes further along the road.", "Mandeep Singh has been reported in connection with conditions imposed on Saturday’s independence march.", "With Theresa May announcing her departure, both No Deal and No Brexit are more likely.", "Parents and campaigners outside Anderton Park Primary give their views on the ongoing protests.", "The South Korean director won the prestigious award for his dark comedy thriller, Parasite.", "Andrew Moffat started the \"No Outsiders\" lessons at Parkfield Community School in Birmingham.", "Cllr Rakhia Ismail, from Islington, London, is thought to be the first UK mayor to wear a hijab.", "The latest closures by his struggling Arcadia empire will include mostly Evans and Miss Selfridge shops.", "The Border Force was alerted to a small boat travelling across the Channel at about 06:20 BST.", "Merseyrail takes down posters for the singer's new album over concerns about his political views.", "Rory Stewart says he would not able to serve under Boris Johnson if his rival for the Conservative leadership becomes prime minister.", "Four more children are in hospital as a man and woman held on suspicion of murder are questioned.", "The club releases a statement after the conviction of ex-youth team coach Jim McCafferty on 14 May.", "Carl Beech wept as he told police how his friend \"Scott\" was killed after an MI5 boss's warning.", "The US president will join the Queen and a host of royals at a state banquet after a palace welcome.", "Jeddah Running Community is one of a growing number of mixed gender Saudi Arabian running groups.", "Station Café, which opened to customers in 1935, is closing for the last time on Saturday.", "A property group that borrowed millions has not paid some people back, a BBC investigation finds.", "The drones use lidar to create a 3D picture to assess the health of what lies beneath the forest canopy.", "It is believed that the area was once-fertile land and a township stretching for 20 miles.", "Amanda Eller, 35, had not been seen since 8 May but was discovered by rescuers on Friday.", "Education Secretary Damian Hinds rejects claims of universities going broke, ahead of tuition fee cut.", "Rules in England making it easier to build extensions of up to 8m are being made permanent.", "Ten workers are held over the alleged mistreatment of hospital patients following a BBC investigation.", "Celtic come from behind to secure a historic treble treble as Odsonne Edouard's double sinks Hearts in the Scottish Cup final.", "Jason Manford tweeted a photo of a fire engine outside the venue, saying \"on fire tonight\".", "The chances of Moscow complying with the UN tribunal's ruling are thought to be minimal.", "A special bench, paid for by the local community, was revealed in the \"children's corner\" area of the beach at Rothesay.", "Text reminders and after-work appointments are recommended in a report on improving cancer screening.", "South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa was inaugurated at an event which included a flypast and military parade.", "Deputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said the Met wants a prosecution of each protester.", "Theresa May became emotional as she announced she would step down as Conservative leader on 7 June.", "The 14-year-old is arrested and charged as police investigate the death of 35-year-old Daniel McGuigan in Glasgow's Castlemilk.", "Leo Latifi was with family members at an after-school swimming club when the accident happened.", "Six children were taken to hospital after Friday's incident but two boys, aged 13 and 14, died.", "No companies have been fined in the first year of tough new data laws, despite a sharp rise in breaches.", "Musician Ten Tonnes said he could not get to the Neighbourhood Weekender festival with the delays.", "\"Junk news\" has been far less prevalent on Twitter and Facebook than stories from reliable news sources.", "Cadent left some customers without supplies for more than five months and had no records for 775 tower blocks.", "The shoe was to be a tribute to Puerto Rico but featured a design from an indigenous group in Panama.", "Journalist Karen Martin told colleagues she was offered £12,000 less than a man doing the same role.", "Criticism comes from all sides after Theresa May attempts to win backing for her Brexit compromise.", "Kenneth Noye was jailed for life for the murder of Stephen Cameron on a slip road of the M25 in Kent.", "Robyn used to drink and smoke marijuana, but says her impending little girl changed her life.", "Steven Dymond was found dead days after failing a lie-detector test on the ITV show.", "Plans to expand the 2022 World Cup from 32 teams to 48 are abandoned by football's world governing body Fifa.", "UK voters electing 73 Members of the European Parliament from 12 constituencies.", "Some Tory MPs are renewing calls to oust the PM, as Labour calls her new offer \"too weak\".", "The union campaign comes as the yards look set to lose out on work for a huge EDF wind farm project off the Fife coast.", "The BBC is not allowed to report details of campaigning while the polls are open.", "Michael Green called 999 twice after his neck got wedged between a chair and table, relatives say.", "Resident James McConnell died a week after eating chlorine tablets at the Fife care home in 2015.", "Female-voiced AIs are portrayed as \"eager to please\", suggesting women are \"subservient\" says study.", "Sepsis survivor Tom Ray wants better awareness and faster diagnosis of the potentially deadly disease.", "Consumer inflation was 2.1% in April, boosted by energy price rises and air fares.", "Firm says that Huawei's 5G phones will not be available initially.", "Anxious workers in Scunthorpe are waiting to hear the fate of the UK's second-biggest steel maker.", "The prime minister has said she will stand down on 7 June.", "Almost £50,000 has been donated as a reward for information that results in finding the Disappeared.", "Vital food aid is being diverted by some corrupt officials in Houthi-held areas, a UN official says.", "Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown says she was forced to switch schools because of bullying.", "The PM says the backstop is staying but adds a legal commitment to find \"alternative arrangements\".", "The UK's social safety net has been \"deliberately removed\", says a UN-commissioned report on the UK.", "A 28-year-old man is arrested after a gun was fired near the Seven Kings Masjid in east London.", "Ian Clowes wanted to stop his ex-wife from owning their former marital home, a court heard.", "Nipsey Hussle was shot dead outside his Los Angeles clothes shop in March.", "Theresa May's attempt at offering compromise prompts anger from almost all quarters.", "Change UK has spent more than £60,000 in the past week on the platform, while UKIP spent under £100.", "One of the injured says the attackers looked like they were stalking someone when they entered a bar.", "Their battles on the track defined motor racing in the 1970s, and were immortalised in the film Rush.", "Chinese company is dealt an \"insurmountable\" blow as chip designer says it must comply with US trade ban.", "John Letts and Sally Lane deny funding terrorism after their son Jack Letts travelled to Syria.", "Andrea Leadsom's full resignation letter in which she says she doesn't believe Theresa May's Brexit approach will \"deliver on the referendum result\".", "The UK's second-biggest steel maker has been seeking £75m in government backing to help it stay afloat.", "David Davies, who wears a body camera, is called a liar and a traitor while giving an interview.", "Eight years after a similar scandal, the BBC went undercover to investigate complaints of patients being bullied and mistreated.", "The UK celebrity chef says he is \"devastated\" as his restaurant group goes into administration.", "It is not yet known if the two deaths within 24 hours are connected in any way.", "As half-term holidays loom, the pound fell below $1.27 for the first time since January.", "Some UK citizens living abroad have received their European election postal votes late - or not at all.", "Committee hears evidence local politicians will need to be \"very brave\" to introduce a workplace parking tax.", "A top lobby group says US firms in China are worried about Beijing's response to curbs on Huawei.", "The Italian fashion house will no longer use fur from next year, joining the list of fur-free brands.", "In a non-binding vote, the General Assembly demands the UK give the islands back to Mauritius.", "Undercover BBC filming shows staff swearing, mocking and taunting patients with learning disabilities.", "The retailer is launching a monthly subscription service for fashionistas who are happy to share.", "Blackpink say their \"hearts ached\" for victims as the group performed on the venue's stage.", "Theresa May says MPs will get a vote on whether to hold another referendum if they back her bill.", "A group of investors had sought to stop the firm providing its Rekognition system to police.", "Thirty-one years after he was left for dead, one of the taxi driver's victims has his day in court.", "A Tesco clubcard and national insurance card were among those posted to Becca Milsom.", "Personal details for 4,545 TalkTalk customers stolen during a 2015 data breach are accessible online.", "Birmingham MP Roger Godsiff waded into the LGBT lessons row saying they were not \"age appropriate\".", "The PM wants MPs them to vote on what she says is a \"new\" Brexit deal - but what exactly has changed?", "Businessman Eric Michels, who died last August, appeared in James Bond movie Skyfall.", "But there's a recognition in Downing Street of how difficult it will be to get Theresa May's Brexit plan to a vote.", "James McMullan was helping Sara Zelenak to her feet when the pair were killed, an inquest hears.", "Footage obtained by the BBC gives a rare insight into life in the conflict-hit city of Taiz.", "Police believe 15-year-old Leah Heyes collapsed and died after taking the drug MDMA.", "A botched attempt to hack the iPhone of a human rights lawyer has exposed a secretive hacking group.", "Mark Edwards can only eat 6g of protein a day due to a condition affecting one in 10,000 people.", "On tax, China and treatment of women, Eric Schmidt tells BBC he will defend Google for a \"very long time\".", "Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said extra spending could go towards providing new military capabilities.", "The Duke of Sussex met youngsters at Oxford Children's Hospital and was presented with the gift.", "Richard Livett was stabbed as Khuram Butt shouted \"Allahu Akbar\", the London Bridge inquest hears.", "ITV's decision to suspended the show over the death of a guest leaves more questions than answers.", "Keya Morgan faces five counts of abuse against Lee, prior to the comic book icon's death last year aged 95.", "Uefa investigators want Manchester City banned from the Champions League for a season if they are found guilty of breaking financial rules.", "The company says a baby food product - Cheesy Broccoli Bake - may contain fragments of rubber.", "The party lifts former leader David Steel's suspension after \"clarifying\" remarks he made about an MP accused of abuse.", "Aston Villa reach the Championship play-off final at Wembley with a penalty shootout victory over West Bromwich Albion.", "LGBT campaigner Melissa Ede won £4m on a scratchcard bought while filling up her taxi at a petrol station.", "The government's Brexit negotiator will hold talks on how the political declaration might be changed if there is a cross-party Brexit deal.", "The singer turned movie star enjoyed success in such films as Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk.", "Rescuers describe how they pulled three people from a burning plane that narrowly missed hitting their car.", "Still going strong at the age of 83, Larry Barilli has managed amateur football teams in Greenock since the 1950s.", "\"If we do not have a signed contract she cannot perform on our stage,\" say contest organisers.", "The T2 Trainspotting actor died after being shot on the steps of his basement flat in Edinburgh last month.", "The RSPCA says the frog, nicknamed Lloyd, turned up in a Nottingham supermarket.", "The unemployment rate north of the border hits a record low of 3.2% - well below the UK figure of 3.8%.", "High Court judges order a fresh case be brought against the former English Defence League leader.", "The latest figures show Northern Ireland still has the highest economic inactivity rate in the UK.", "The steelmaker says it is seeking another government loan amid reports it is close to administration.", "Omar Ashfaq left USB sticks containing terrorist propaganda in the shoes of Muslim worshippers.", "The UK's lunch-on-the-go habit is creating nearly 11bn items of waste a year, say campaigners.", "The two leaders will share the views of their cabinets, as weeks of talks show little sign of progress.", "Customers across the UK had struggled to make calls, send text messages and use mobile data.", "Bradley Welsh, 48, died after being shot on the steps of his basement apartment in Edinburgh last month.", "China says it will raise tariffs on some US imports from 1 June, extending a mutual trade war.", "The family of a Syrian boy who was attacked at his school in Huddersfield has moved after they received death threats.", "Prosecutors recommend prison time for the actress, who paid to have her daughter's exam corrected.", "Carl Beech is accused of lying about child murders and abuse by a group of powerful public figures.", "An American explorer finds plastic waste on the seafloor while breaking the record for the deepest ever dive.", "Aaron Campbell is given permission to appeal against his 27-year sentence for killing the six-year-old on Bute last July.", "Oritse Williams denies attacking the woman in his hotel room after a gig.", "A mum-of-three says she put her life at risk while sleepwalking.", "The prime minister sets a date for what's probably her last attempt to pass a Brexit deal.", "Olly Robbins heads to Brussels as cabinet ministers discuss the future of talks with Labour.", "The changes come as violence in India is blamed on rumours of child abductions, spread via WhatsApp.", "A former runner on the show gives us a glimpse of what happens behind the scenes.", "Six vulnerable young victims had to ask permission to use drug money to buy food.", "Inequalities are damaging health and trust in democracy, the IFS think tank says.", "The chat app will only allow users to forward messages five times to limit the spread of false news.", "The firm will offer its next-generation mobile network to businesses and the public in seven cities.", "Jim McCafferty, who worked with the Celtic youth team and Celtic Boys Club, abused teenage boys over 26 years.", "Mark Sewell is the third man to be charged with killing the 45-year-old in a Belfast street in January.", "The presenter issues a lengthy apology a day after the BBC sacked him for a royal baby chimp tweet.", "Police, fire and ambulance services in England should share control rooms to improve their response to 999 calls, a Home Office minister says.", "The officer did not properly investigate reports by Shana Grice who was later killed, a panel finds.", "Pupils in England are missing out on valuable time to exercise and make friends, researchers suggest.", "The US and China are trying to hammer out a trade deal. But will an agreement end their rivalry?", "The 10-year city centre transformation project would see the tram extend between Haymarket and University of Edinburgh.", "The former England captain admits using his mobile while driving through London's West End.", "Forestry expert tells of the devastating impact of disease and the drastic measures needed to stop it.", "Rubbish Party councillor Sally Cogley has hailed the East Ayrshire scheme as a UK first.", "MPs from various parties write to the US biotech firm behind Kuvan, a drug the NHS says is too expensive.", "A class of six and seven-year-olds will not sit the exams as \"they should be out playing\".", "Two men are charged with rioting in Londonderry on the night the journalist Lyra McKee was shot dead.", "A teacher battling breast cancer has to pay $200 a day for her own substitute under California law.", "The ride-hailing app is asking investors to pay $45 a share, at the lower end of the range expected.", "The head of the CBI calls for a lower minimum salary for immigrants because of Scotland's ageing workforce.", "But the ex-US intelligence analyst may be held again over her refusal to testify in a Wikileaks probe.", "The 62-year-old who is said to be worth $50b has bought over the world's oldest toy retailer.", "Detectives said Emma Faulds' family face a \"harrowing time\" after a man was charged with her murder.", "The \"witty and profound\" writer's work spans sharp observations about modern life and classical myths.", "Home secretary tells BBC he is criticised for being \"too brown\" or \"not brown enough\".", "Dentists say the products risk tooth decay and damage to the enamel from abrasive brushing.", "The government's official number-crunchers realise that we need new ways to measure living standards.", "William, Kate, Harry and Meghan are backing the Shout initiative with a £3m grant from their charity.", "The Home Office is criticised for failing to deliver a new radio network for emergency services.", "Orkambi has been licensed for use in the UK, but is still not available to all patients with the condition.", "The BBC says it is \"inappropriate\" to feature political party leaders in an election period.", "Eden Hazard scores the winning penalty as Chelsea edge past Eintracht Frankfurt 4-3 on penalties to set up an all-English Europa League final against Arsenal.", "Sharon Patterson and Lee Pollard ditched work and faked forms while carrying out investigations.", "The former Young Ones and Bottom star is moving to Albert Square.", "A Norwegian woman is thought to have been infected by a stray while on holiday in the Philippines.", "The 39-year-old man will appear in court later although the body of Kilmarnock woman Emma Faulds has not been found.", "Survivors say the boat left Libya on Thursday and ran into trouble during strong waves.", "Blue Origins claims that the lunar lander will be able to take humans to the Moon's south pole by 2024.", "Here's what Iran and world powers agreed on its nuclear programme, and why it is now in crisis.", "Changes to the handling of sex offence cases are possible within \"weeks and months\", says retired judge.", "Delays in introducing a new radio system for emergency services could cost £475m a year, MPs warn.", "The True Cancer Bodies campaign was set up after what campaigners said were \"misleading\" adverts.", "Anna Sorokin \"was blinded by the glitter and glamour of New York City\", a judge says.", "The wild cat is encouraged down by workers with a cherry picker truck.", "Claimants who fail to follow rules can now only have payments halted or reduced for up to six months.", "Nobody has faced the maximum penalty since new guidelines were introduced in 2014, analysis shows.", "A gunshot is heard shortly after a man was ushered out of Seven Kings Masjid in Ilford, east London.", "Online sports betting is worth billions of pounds – but it's being described as a \"curse\" for some young Kenyans.", "UK financial compensation scheme says investors could have grounds for a claim, reversing earlier stance.", "Joseph McCann, who faces 21 charges including eight rapes, has refused to appear in court.", "A \"childish action\" saw Karanbir Cheema die from a severe allergic reaction, a coroner says.", "Programme host Fiona Bruce intervenes as politicians on the panel clash over Brexit.", "An armed PC tells how he treated dying Chrissy Archibald, initially thinking there had been an accident.", "A court heard Natalie McGarry was in debt when she embezzled money from pro-independence groups.", "Researchers plan for new centre to explore refreezing the poles, sucking out CO2 and ocean greening.", "Joseph McCann, of Aylesbury, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.", "Chrissy Archibald's fiance tried to revive her despite knowing she had died, the London Bridge attack inquests hear.", "Maya Bay, a huge tourist draw, was closed last year amid concerns over environmental damage.", "A former archbishop's compassion for a paedophile bishop did not extend to victims, a report says.", "The High Street fashion chain, with 169 stores across the UK, falls into administration.", "The BBC sacks the presenter over his \"royal baby\" image of a chimp in a suit holding hands with a couple.", "Bobby Davro, Amanda Holden and Jim Davidson are among those remembering his comedic talents.", "Josh Beinn says he has made the highest recorded jump in Wales after leaping from 2,500ft up Snowdon.", "English clubs create European football history by taking all four final spots in the continent's two major competitions.", "Celtic secure an eight consecutive Scottish title with a convincing victory away to third-top Aberdeen.", "She helped the group sell more than £2.7m of cocaine with her son directing operations from prison.", "Josh Dey retrieves CCTV footage of the crash in Highgate in which he suffered a bleed on the brain.", "Beyond the headlines of misery for the UK's two major parties, smaller plot twists have played out.", "Head teachers demand better support for schools facing protests over lessons on same-sex marriage.", "Visitor numbers at Snowdon and Pen y Fan are going up - leading to overflowing car parks and bins.", "The two agreed there was \"no collusion\" between the Trump campaign and Russia, said the White House.", "King Vajiralongkorn begins three days of traditional rites to symbolically transform him into a living god", "Officials say hostility to medical staff is hindering efforts to tackle the deadly disease.", "A former Conservative councillor heckles the prime minister as she addresses the Welsh Tory conference in Llangollen.", "The new Sky/HBO mini-series doesn't just get you thinking, it stops you sleeping.", "Bangladesh's foreign minister says the 19-year-old IS bride has \"nothing to do\" with his country.", "The Labour Party suffers a net loss of council seats - starting from the low base of 2015.", "Nadia Sparkes, 13, was shown a knife and punched following taunts about her litter-picking.", "It was a bad night for the Tories and for Labour, while the Lib Dems, Greens and independents prospered.", "Final results show DUP and Sinn Féin remain the biggest parties but Alliance and others make gains.", "Police say the group known as ‘Saoradh’ are the political voice of the New IRA.", "Torrential rain and powerful winds of up to 200 km/h (125mph) cause widespread disruption.", "The man was killed after his motorbike collided with a lorry and a car on the A709 west of Lockerbie.", "There have also been some surprising successes for Alliance and the Greens.", "Alan Simpson was a pilot in a plane which crashed into a mountain during bad weather.", "Alliance and the Greens were not the only winners in an election full of surprises.", "Health Secretary says he will \"consider all options\" to boost child immunisation uptake in England.", "Former Alliance Party leader David Ford says the party have been polling strongly in the council election.", "The compensation and legal bill for newspapers that hacked phones has already reached nearly £500m.", "The party stalwart blames its poor leadership, Brexit \"duplicity\" and the anti-Semitism row for his decision.", "Caster Semenya wins the 800m at the first Diamond League meet of the season in Doha and vows to not quit the sport after IAAF ruling.", "Alliance's surge is the most striking development of the NI council election results so far.", "Fulham's Harvey Elliott becomes the youngest ever Premier League player at 16 years and 30 days.", "A 17-year-old boy was arrested in the Chippenham area on Friday afternoon.", "George Perrot, freed from a life sentence after his rape conviction was quashed, is accused of rape.", "The firings took place early on Saturday from the east of the country, says South Korea.", "Police investigate separate incidents where thieves forced their way into homes in Kilmarnock and Paisley to steal a safe.", "Israel carries out air strikes on the Gaza Strip, after militants fired more than 200 rockets into Israel", "Manchester City beat West Ham to win the Women's FA Cup for the second time in three years at Wembley.", "An Edinburgh scientist warns not enough is known about predicting major volcanic eruptions.", "Leonardo da Vinci may have suffered nerve damage in a fall, impeding his ability to paint in later life.", "Two of the youngest candidates in the local council elections are still studying for their A-levels.", "An expert says Karanbir Cheema's fatal reaction to touching cheese was \"extraordinarily unusual\".", "All the latest news about England local elections 2019 from the BBC", "Both parties will now look ahead nervously to the European elections.", "Direct links to climate change are difficult to prove but rising temperatures are increasing cyclone intensity, say scientists.", "The grime star breaks a rap streaming record to beat Taylor Swift to the UK chart top spot.", "The disqualified driver was recognised by a police officer who had dealt with him previously.", "Full coverage of the results of the NI local elections as counting took place across NI's 11 councils.", "Veteran socialist Eamonn McCann returns to politics, two years after losing his Northern Ireland Assembly seat.", "Keepers at Woodside Wildlife Park managed to move the eggs from a nest to an incubator.", "A Conservative council leader who lost his majority says she should \"consider her position\".", "Leader Vince Cable hails local election results as \"positive\" as he meets supporters in Essex.", "The jet carrying 143 people slid off a runway after landing in Jacksonville during a thunderstorm.", "The scale of the Tories' local election losses means the PM must go now, Iain Duncan Smith says.", "Labour also suffers losses in the local elections, as resurgent Lib Dems gain more than 700 seats.", "The All Under One Banner event in Glasgow city centre has been organised by supporters of Scottish independence.", "The moment Gerald Ramsden is elected after a dead heat in Hambleton.", "Liverpool ensure the Premier League title race will go to the final day of the season as Divock Origi's late winner sees them beat Newcastle in a thriller.", "Find your result and follow the others as they come in using our interactive map.", "Police say one of the women found in a flat in east London is mother-of-three Mihrican Mustafa.", "Scientists in the Antarctic are monitoring seal poo to keep track of what's happening in the environment.", "Ministers urge the Conservative party to unite - while Matt Hancock urges Tory MPs \"to compromise\".", "The Scottish Conservative leader warns the Tories will suffer the wrath of voters in the EU elections unless they \"get Brexit sorted\".", "US President Donald Trump awards the \"President's Cup\" at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo.", "The South Korean director won the prestigious award for his dark comedy thriller, Parasite.", "All the latest news about European elections 2019 from the BBC", "Losses for major centre-right and centre-left parties amid record high turnout across all 28 member states.", "Six children were taken to hospital after Friday's incident but two boys, aged 13 and 14, died.", "Andrew Moffat started the \"No Outsiders\" lessons at Parkfield Community School in Birmingham.", "A report on the hospital where patients were allegedly abused presented \"warning bells\", says the author.", "Aerial footage shows the aftermath of a tornado which caused at least two deaths in El Reno.", "Fire safety experts warn that 1,700 buildings in England are likely to fail new fire tests.", "Sonita Alleyne, who will take up the post in October, is a graduate of Cambridge herself.", "Michael Gove has said he will enter the race for Tory leader, challenging his former Vote Leave ally Boris Johnson.", "The Border Force was alerted to a small boat travelling across the Channel at about 06:20 BST.", "Rory Stewart says he would not able to serve under Boris Johnson if his rival for the Conservative leadership becomes prime minister.", "Two boys, aged 13 and 14, died, and four children were \"rescued\" from the property in Shiregreen.", "The highest turnout since 1994 creates a new, fragmented reality for the European Parliament.", "Dozens of stars take to the stage for the three-day event in Stewart Park in Middlesbrough.", "Jeddah Running Community is one of a growing number of mixed gender Saudi Arabian running groups.", "The Lib Dems also see a surge in support, while the Tories and Labour suffer heavy losses, as voters split along Leave and Remain lines.", "The Scottish government has pledged cash to help organisations work more closely with families affected by the issue.", "The Spitfire was doing aerobatics near Biggin Hill Airport, south-east London, a report finds.", "Jodie Chesney, 17, was stabbed to death in an east London park in March.", "Lewis Hamilton holds off Max Verstappen, and survives a late collision with the Red Bull driver, to win a nail-biting Monaco Grand Prix.", "The drones use lidar to create a 3D picture to assess the health of what lies beneath the forest canopy.", "A veterinarian in Thailand stepped in to help a woman give birth on the side of the road in Bangkok.", "Amanda Eller, 35, had not been seen since 8 May but was discovered by rescuers on Friday.", "Shops in Scotland's hospitals will not be allowed to sell high-energy drinks to anyone under 16.", "A 29-year-old man died when two yachts collided off the coast of Cannes, France.", "Rules in England making it easier to build extensions of up to 8m are being made permanent.", "The department of tourism said other factors such as weather conditions were involved.", "The chances of Moscow complying with the UN tribunal's ruling are thought to be minimal.", "Thousands of supporters spilled onto the roads as an open-top bus took players from Hampden after the Scottish Cup final.", "Dominic Raab wants to keep a no-deal Brexit on the table, but Chancellor Philip Hammond says ignoring MPs would be \"dangerous\".", "Seats in the European Parliament representing England, Scotland and Wales are distributed according to the D'Hondt system, a type of proportional representation.", "Find results for your area and follow the others as they come in.", "Brexit Party gains 29 seats, with the Lib Dems second, while Tories and Labour suffer losses.", "South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa was inaugurated at an event which included a flypast and military parade.", "All the latest news about The UK’s European elections 2019 from the BBC", "The twin blasts also injured seven others, police say, but the cause is not yet clear.", "Philip Hammond says Parliament voted \"very clearly\" to oppose a no-deal Brexit and a future PM must listen.", "Referendum voters overwhelmingly back changes to the constitution to make divorce easier.", "Eight of the 100 people stabbed to death in the UK have been in the West Midlands area.", "Actor Taron Egerton captures Sir Elton's humour but fails to bare his soul, Will Gompertz says.", "Labour MP Chris Bryant's constituency office in Tonypandy was targeted by vandals on Friday evening.", "MPs in German parliament say the BDS movement uses methods reminiscent to those used by the Nazis.", "The next Tory leader should not call a general election before Brexit is complete, the health secretary says.", "All the highs and lows from the contest in Tel Aviv, which saw the Netherlands win as the UK came last.", "Actor Taron Egerton captures Sir Elton's humour but fails to bare his soul, Will Gompertz says.", "Minute-by-minute coverage of Australia's election, with reporting and analysis from across the country.", "Racehorse owner plans legal action after request to appeal against the disqualification of Maximum Security as Kentucky Derby winner is rejected.", "Kevin Mallory, 62, is sentenced to 20 years in prison for disclosing military secrets.", "Tyler, The Creator was due to play in London after a ban on him entering the UK was overturned.", "Nicki Chapman will not host the Chelsea Flower Show following surgery to remove a brain tumour.", "Manchester City round off an outstanding season by dismantling Watford in the FA Cup final to clinch a historic domestic treble.", "The force exerted on Ateeq Rafiq by the cinema seat was equivalent to three-quarters of a tonne.", "Veterans gather across the UK to oppose the prosecution of former British soldiers who served in Northern Ireland.", "A farewell parade in Windsor draws large crowds along the route.", "The 3rd Century coin was minted by an ill-fated Roman emperor who reigned for just two months.", "Footage appears to show the official offering government contracts in exchange for political support.", "Sara Canning, partner of murdered journalist Lyra McKee, spoke at a rally demanding same-sex marriage.", "Heinz-Christian Strache resigned a day after secret video footage mired him in a corruption scandal.", "Baroness Grey-Thompson says her parents might have had an abortion had they known about her disability.", "Britain's Johanna Konta comes from behind to beat Kiki Bertens and reach the final of the Italian Open against Karolina Pliskova.", "The actor says he will not press charges after being attacked at a public event in South Africa.", "Provides an overview of Austria, including key dates and facts about this central European country.", "Victims should receive anonymity and laws need to include threats to share images, a victims group says.", "Chancellor Sebastian Kurz condemns reports that Martin Sellner put a swastika on a synagogue in 2006.", "The latest blaze comes a month after another significant fire on Ilkley Moor.", "The findings of an investigation by the university says the doctor abused athletes from 1979-1997.", "Manchester City bid to become the first men's team to win the domestic treble in England when they face Watford in the FA Cup final on Saturday.", "The voting age could be lowered - but a polling expert is sceptical about its advantages.", "I Don't Care goes straight to number one - but falls short of breaking sales records.", "Stephen Fry and Little Mix among the celebrities honoured for supporting the LGBT community.", "The flame shell reef at Loch Carron was \"devastated\" by intensive scallop dredging two years ago.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he felt \"pain like no other\" after the death of his mother, Princess Diana.", "Australian election officials cross air, land and sea - sometimes to set up a single ballot box.", "Scotland's chief medic says Zholia Alemi may have prescribed ECT and wrongly detained mental health patients.", "A school is leading the way to make the daily commute better for the environment and for health.", "Dominant Lyon win a fourth straight European title as Ballon d'Or winner Ada Hegerberg nets a hat-trick against Barcelona.", "Labour's Sir Keir Starmer says Mrs May should agree to another referendum to \"break the impasse\".", "Duncan Laurence wins the contest with his song Arcade, but the UK's Michael Rice comes bottom.", "An F-16 jet slams to the ground near a base outside Los Angeles after the pilot ejects.", "McDonald's staff in Edinburgh were told not to sell milkshakes or ice cream following a spate of throwing incidents.", "It is thought the wall collapsed inside a former factory in Birmingham where builders had been working.", "Police say Hungarian national Henriett Szucs and Mihrican Mustafa \"suffered multiple injuries\".", "The Duke of Cambridge jokingly welcomes his brother to the \"sleep deprivation society that is parenting\".", "The arrangement gives UK and Irish citizens certain reciprocal rights in each others' countries.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have chosen to keep news of their baby's birth secret - but why?", "The Prince of Wales says relations are \"in transition\" due to Brexit, as he begins a tour of Germany.", "The comedian said he struggles with anxiety and depression and social media can make it worse.", "The bodies of Jasmine Lovett and her one-year-old daughter were found in woodland on Monday.", "Video of a five-year-old Afghan amputee joyously dancing after being fitted with a new leg is widely shared.", "The storm swept over Mildura in Australia with wind gusts reaching up to 87km/h (54mph).", "The former Atomic Kitten singer sometimes had to take the child to work with her, a court hears.", "Police found parts that could have been made into more than 100 weapons, a court hears.", "The agreement guarantees free movement across the Irish border and access for study and health care.", "Natasha Abrahart was worried about being \"kicked off her course\", her mother tells an inquest.", "Pamela Anderson criticised the decision to jail Julian Assange, after visiting him at Belmarsh prison in London.", "Footballers past and present are among the mourners at the funeral of Celtic's 1967 European Cup-winning goal scorer.", "Khuram Butt was seen on CCTV cleaning his knife in a restaurant, shortly after eight people were killed.", "Lucas Moura scores a dramatic winner to cap an astonishing Tottenham fightback against Ajax and set up an all-English Champions League final against Liverpool.", "The King, his siblings, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.", "Steel structures have been appearing in Stonehaven over the past 10 years, but the artist responsible was a mystery - until now.", "A video shows a Free Presbyterian minister criticising the DUP for selecting an openly gay politician.", "'None of us saw either of these names coming,' says one royal expert as the baby's name is revealed.", "Families of Grenfell Tower victims say witnesses were allowed to answer \"I don't recall\" too often.", "Experts uncover a painting within a painting that had been covered over after the artist's death.", "Schoolchildren suggest names for Harry and Meghan's new son, amid speculation he might be named later.", "Women and ethnic minorities are being disproportionately targeted, the Met Commissioner says.", "England captain Steph Houghton will lead a 23-strong squad to the Women's World Cup in France this summer.", "Prince Harry and Meghan have presented their newborn son to the world.", "Council officers say they will not be reinstated to Rose Street as they are \"no longer fit to withstand current use\".", "The fact the talks have gone on for so long hint there is serious merit in finding some kind of accord.", "A former student donated the Demerara Bell to St Catharine's College in Cambridge in 1960.", "The government has confirmed the elections will take place on 23 May.", "Liverpool produce one of the greatest Champions League comebacks by scoring four goals to beat Barcelona 4-3 on aggregate and reach the final.", "The protests come a day before the company lists its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.", "A timeline of the Duchess of Sussex's pregnancy in photos.", "There are more doctors, but fewer are choosing to work full time, says the Royal College of GPs.", "The Las Vegas tech show organisers faced outrage in January after banning the vibrator.", "Johnny Mercer says he has withdrawn support for the PM over the historical prosecution of veterans.", "A reader complained after reading the paper's \"awful\" reporting of the suicide of a girl in 1912.", "Recent figures showed just under a fifth of patients waited longer than a fortnight.", "The number of GPs per head of population in Scotland is higher than rest of the UK, BBC research finds.", "Talks involving five main parties were announced after murder of journalist Lyra McKee last month.", "A coroner says there was not enough evidence to say singer Keith Flint had taken his own life.", "Samuel Thomas, from Hertfordshire, was halfway out of the taxi in Sydney when it drove off, an inquest hears.", "Mathew Talbot was killed during a counter-poaching operation and is survived by his family and girlfriend.", "Who is getting the most and what's the average amount? National survey results reveal all.", "MPs debated funding for replacing cladding on private tower blocks and treatment for acquired brain injuries.", "The procedure is becoming more successful, the UK's fertility regulator says.", "Diageo wants to restore whisky production at Port Ellen on Islay as part of a £35m investment programme.", "Joseph McCann, of Aylesbury, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.", "No-one knew where it was until an Englishman now living in Florida decided to return it 60 years on.", "Organisers of more than 60 festivals say calling them 'festival tents' just encourages people to leave them behind.", "At least nine people die in a bomb attack next to a major shrine in the Pakistani city of Lahore.", "British scientists undertake a new aerial survey of one of the most radioactive locations on Earth.", "Neighbours say the \"huge explosion\" rattled the windows of homes further along the road.", "A 17-year-old boy remains in custody on suspicion of murdering Year 12 student Ellie Gould.", "The Met is offering a £20,000 reward for information about the whereabouts of Joseph McCann.", "Head teachers demand better support for schools facing protests over lessons on same-sex marriage.", "Police say there is no evidence Joseph McCann, wanted over three attacks, has left the country.", "Belfast City Marathon organisers apologise after admitting Sunday's course was 0.3 miles longer than it should have been.", "King Vajiralongkorn begins three days of traditional rites to symbolically transform him into a living god", "World record officials are reviewing a nurse's marathon record attempt \"as a priority\".", "North Korean state media said Saturday's drill was to test long-range multiple rocket launchers.", "Final results show DUP and Sinn Féin remain the biggest parties but Alliance and others make gains.", "Arsenal's focus is now on the Europa League after their hopes of a top-four Premier League finish were effectively ended by a draw with Brighton, says Unai Emery.", "Kieran Benson is polishing bus stops and road signs in the town in a bid to keep it tidy.", "The Scottish Conservative leader warns the Tories will suffer the wrath of voters in the EU elections unless they \"get Brexit sorted\".", "Alan Simpson was a pilot in a plane which crashed into a mountain during bad weather.", "The grave where some of Joseph Merrick's remains were buried has been traced, an author claims.", "The shadow chancellor accuses Theresa May of an \"act of bad faith\" in cross-party Brexit talks.", "The call comes as investigations continue into the Easter Sunday attacks, which left 253 people dead.", "With the final results confirmed, here's our highlights reel of the 2019 council polls.", "Tom Lucking found a £145,000 pendant in Norfolk in 2014 - and has uncovered more hidden treasure.", "Fulham's Harvey Elliott becomes the youngest ever Premier League player at 16 years and 30 days.", "A 52-year-old man was killed after being hit by a car in Leytonstone, east London.", "He was airlifted to hospital after a 999 call reporting a person in the water off Llandudno.", "George Perrot, freed from a life sentence after his rape conviction was quashed, is accused of rape.", "A 17-year-old boy was arrested in the Chippenham area on Friday afternoon.", "Deputy leader Stephen Farry welcomes success, but says being fifth party is still \"not good enough\".", "Israel carries out air strikes on the Gaza Strip, after militants fired more than 200 rockets into Israel", "Joseph McCann - who police wanted in connection with three rapes and two abductions - is arrested.", "Calls grow for inquiry into accusations that families are inventing children's illnesses.", "More than £1m has been recovered from Scottish fraudsters selling puppies without paying tax.", "The feline fashionista dodged models on the runway of a Christian Dior event in Marrakesh.", "The disqualified driver was recognised by a police officer who had dealt with him previously.", "Full coverage of the results of the NI local elections as counting took place across NI's 11 councils.", "Veteran socialist Eamonn McCann returns to politics, two years after losing his Northern Ireland Assembly seat.", "Joseph McCann's case was not referred to parole officials before he was released from prison.", "The jet carrying 143 people slid off a runway after landing in Jacksonville during a thunderstorm.", "The scale of the Tories' local election losses means the PM must go now, Iain Duncan Smith says.", "Victims of crime - including rape complainants - have been asked to hand their phones to police.", "Liverpool ensure the Premier League title race will go to the final day of the season as Divock Origi's late winner sees them beat Newcastle in a thriller.", "More than £5m in lost taxes is recovered from hundreds of breeders selling dogs on the black market.", "Those who allege bullying or misconduct should not be silenced, universities minister says.", "Find your result and follow the others as they come in using our interactive map.", "Adam Sky, 42, was involved in a fatal accident while trying to help an injured friend in Bali.", "Ministers urge the Conservative party to unite - while Matt Hancock urges Tory MPs \"to compromise\".", "Forty-one people died after a Russian plane made an emergency landing and burst into flames in Moscow.", "A number of Edinburgh's city centre streets were closed to traffic in an attempt to reduce air pollution.", "Lyra McKee's sister offers to meet the unknown gunman who shot the 29-year-old during rioting in Derry.", "US President Donald Trump awards the \"President's Cup\" at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo.", "Max McDougall tripped and tumbled his way down Cooper's Hill to take the title.", "The count will resume later on Tuesday, with just three of 13 MEPs elected in the Republic of Ireland.", "The home secretary makes the announcement on Twitter, saying: \"First and foremost, we must deliver Brexit.\"", "All the latest news about European elections 2019 from the BBC", "Losses for major centre-right and centre-left parties amid record high turnout across all 28 member states.", "Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak says some of their rivals are envious of the Premier League champions' success.", "There has been a surge in support for the Green Party as counting continues in the Irish local elections.", "A report on the hospital where patients were allegedly abused presented \"warning bells\", says the author.", "Aerial footage shows the aftermath of a tornado which caused at least two deaths in El Reno.", "Stacey Porter, 20, didn't know she was pregnant until she realised she was about to give birth on her bathroom floor.", "President Trump meets Emperor Naruhito, who was crowned only weeks ago when his father stepped down.", "Sonita Alleyne, who will take up the post in October, is a graduate of Cambridge herself.", "Tory contender promises \"open and generous\" offer to EU nationals if he becomes prime minister.", "Two boys, aged 13 and 14, died, and four children were \"rescued\" from the property in Shiregreen.", "The highest turnout since 1994 creates a new, fragmented reality for the European Parliament.", "The deputy Labour leader says the lack of clarity on Brexit policy led to \"catastrophe\" in the EU elections.", "The Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage took to the stage after being elected an MEP in the South East.", "Dozens of stars take to the stage for the three-day event in Stewart Park in Middlesbrough.", "The Lib Dems also see a surge in support, while the Tories and Labour suffer heavy losses, as voters split along Leave and Remain lines.", "Voters shake up the old EU establishment, turning to nationalists and Greens in great numbers.", "The Tories and Labour tried to paint shades of grey when the referendum choice was between black and white.", "Leadership hopeful Boris Johnson says the EU election results are a \"crushing rebuke\" for the Tory party.", "Lewis Hamilton fulfils his own \"miracle\" by taking a win in Monaco on \"0% rubber\" tyres that would have made Niki Lauda proud.", "Lewis Hamilton holds off Max Verstappen, and survives a late collision with the Red Bull driver, to win a nail-biting Monaco Grand Prix.", "A veterinarian in Thailand stepped in to help a woman give birth on the side of the road in Bangkok.", "This year's contestants include the brothers of boxer Tyson Fury and Strictly star AJ Pritchard.", "Tristen and Blake Barrass, aged 13 and 14, were found dead at a house in Shiregreen, Sheffield, on Friday.", "British number one Johanna Konta earns her first victory in the French Open main draw with a straight-set win over Germany's Antonia Lottner.", "Romanians living abroad faced long queues at polling stations to cast votes in the European Parliament election and a national referendum.", "Police believe Julia Rawson, 42, from Dudley, is dead although her body has not been found.", "A 29-year-old man died when two yachts collided off the coast of Cannes, France.", "The department of tourism said other factors such as weather conditions were involved.", "A bereaved dad's fundraising bid went viral after a tweet by Jake Humphrey.", "Opposition parties backed the vote after the collapse of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's coalition.", "Dominic Raab wants to keep a no-deal Brexit on the table, but Chancellor Philip Hammond says ignoring MPs would be \"dangerous\".", "Philip Hammond says Parliament voted \"very clearly\" to oppose a no-deal Brexit and a future PM must listen.", "Nigel Farage's party sweeps to victory, taking two seats and winning in 19 of the 22 council areas.", "Anthony Albanese will lead the Labor party after its bruising defeat in Australia's general election.", "Seats in the European Parliament representing England, Scotland and Wales are distributed according to the D'Hondt system, a type of proportional representation.", "The newly formed party won 31.6% of the votes in the European elections.", "Brexit Party gains 29 seats, with the Lib Dems second, while Tories and Labour suffer losses.", "After the party's success in the European elections the SNP leader predicted victory in a second independence vote.", "Find results for your area and follow the others as they come in.", "All the latest news about The UK’s European elections 2019 from the BBC", "The twin blasts also injured seven others, police say, but the cause is not yet clear.", "Fiat said the proposed tie-up would create a \"world leader\" in the rapidly changing auto sector.", "The UK comedy about two male \"losers\" is set for a female reworking on US TV.", "Rules on temporary release are being eased in order to improve prisoners' job prospects.", "Aston Villa are promoted to the Premier League after beating Derby County 2-1 in the Championship play-off final at Wembley.", "The Trump administration must see its goal - the collapse of the accord - as now being in sight.", "Josh Beinn says he has made the highest recorded jump in Wales after leaping from 2,500ft up Snowdon.", "Archaeologists begin excavating the remains of an abandoned settlement where a massacre took place.", "Nobody has faced the maximum penalty since new guidelines were introduced in 2014, analysis shows.", "Survivors say the boat left Libya on Thursday and ran into trouble during strong waves.", "Mark Sewell is the third man to be charged with killing the 45-year-old in a Belfast street in January.", "The RSPCA is calling for tougher sentencing after BBC research found fewer than a tenth of convicts were jailed.", "The Russian president was in the midst of a victory lap when he tripped and fell.", "The Prison Service is investigating alongside Nottinghamshire Police.", "Alvin Sargent won two Oscars for Julia and Ordinary People before penning the Spider-Man films.", "One politician was carried out on a stretcher after a fight broke out in Hong Kong's legislature.", "Here's what Iran and world powers agreed on its nuclear programme, and why it is now in crisis.", "Police say the victim has suffered \"horrendous, life-changing injuries\".", "Jeremy Corbyn unveils plans for under-18s to be paid £10 an hour, rather than the current £4.35.", "UK financial compensation scheme says investors could have grounds for a claim, reversing earlier stance.", "They say they are no longer allowed to fish near Gwadar port because of a new road link to China.", "Senior Tory Sir Graham Brady says he expects to learn Theresa May's departure timetable within days.", "Police say Gerald Corrigan suffered \"horrendous\" injuries after the bolt went through his upper body.", "Police say 74-year-old Gerald Corrigan has been moved to another hospital due to his injuries.", "Detectives said Emma Faulds' family face a \"harrowing time\" after a man was charged with her murder.", "Countess of Chester Hospital had been refusing to accept patients from Wales in a payments dispute.", "Get to grips with the basics of Yemen's three-year civil war with our short explainer.", "The \"witty and profound\" writer's work spans sharp observations about modern life and classical myths.", "Former team captain Kevin Bennett tracked down 15 of his school friends using social media.", "Gerald Corrigan, 74, suffered \"horrendous\" injuries when he was shot outside his Holyhead home.", "Two years on from the start of the Saudi-led offensive, the BBC's Mai Noman returns to her home country.", "Householders putting wrong items in the bins get letters saying they can get them back in six months.", "The Cabinet Office minister has resigned amid accusations of bullying.", "Twenty pharmaceutical companies are accused of artificially inflating the cost of medicinal drugs.", "People are risking their lives to catch a glimpse of the world-famous locomotive, rail bosses say.", "The recently sacked defence secretary says negotiations with Labour over a Brexit deal will \"fail\".", "A founding member of hip-hop group The Fugees is alleged to have made illegal contributions in 2012.", "Witnesses posted images on social media showing the swirl near the Marina Bay Sands hotel.", "Orkambi has been licensed for use in the UK, but is still not available to all patients with the condition.", "Saracens come from behind to claim their third Champions Cup with a 20-10 victory over Leinster in the final at St James' Park.", "Signature Living's boss says investors will be paid after complaints over delays and unanswered calls.", "The BBC says it is \"inappropriate\" to feature political party leaders in an election period.", "Officials in north-east India guided an elephant calf to safety, after it became separated from its mother.", "Cameron Hoffman, who watches with his grandma, said it was important as \"she isn't getting any younger\".", "Josh Beinn says he has made the highest recorded jump in Wales after leaping from 2,500ft up Snowdon.", "MPs from various parties write to the US biotech firm behind Kuvan, a drug the NHS says is too expensive.", "The UK's leading child protection police officer says action is needed to force firms to act.", "\"No sane person needs this much art, but it's a hugely successful trade show-cum-visitor attraction.\"", "Pakistan needs to face unpleasant truths if it's to tackle extremism, writes Ahmed Rashid.", "Two men are charged with rioting in Londonderry on the night the journalist Lyra McKee was shot dead.", "The corporation's 50:50 project has seen a boost in female contributors both on-air and online.", "The Duke of Sussex met youngsters at Oxford Children's Hospital and was presented with the gift.", "Aston Villa reach the Championship play-off final at Wembley with a penalty shootout victory over West Bromwich Albion.", "From secret recipes to special boots, training for the tug-of-war at Balmoral is a serious business.", "The worst locations for \"stubbornly high\" levels of children in poverty are revealed.", "American Airlines pilots reportedly raised concerns months before the second deadly 737 Max crash.", "A judge rules there is insufficient evidence against the woman who had been accused of killing Annalise Johnstone,", "Carl Beech is accused of lying about child murders and abuse by a group of powerful public figures.", "Melissa Ede's fiancee says the lottery-winning rights campaigner died from a heart attack.", "Oritse Williams denies attacking the woman in his hotel room after a gig.", "The prime minister sets a date for what's probably her last attempt to pass a Brexit deal.", "The Chinese telecoms firm has drawn international scrutiny amid concerns it poses a security risk.", "Internet, pay-TV, and phone subscribers in the UK must be told when their lock-ins are about to end.", "The workers in Oklahoma City were trapped about 50-storeys up as the lift began to swing out of control.", "A new report claims extracting remaining North Sea oil and gas will result in the UK breaking its Paris agreement promise.", "Steven Dymond was found dead after appearing on the ITV programme and taking a lie detector test.", "The busy North Circular road in London was closed in both directions because of the fire.", "Damaging front-page headlines and fresh evidence around the death left ITV with little option but to end the show permanently.", "Carl Beech, who accused public figures of child sex abuse, is guilty of the crimes himself, it has emerged.", "Derby County come from 2-0 down in the tie to stun Leeds United and set up a Championship play-off final against Aston Villa.", "Laura suffers from hyperemesis gravidarum where women can be left vomiting up to 100 times a day.", "The remains of Mohamed Megherbi were found nearly two months after he vanished.", "The BBC’s Paul Adams looks at what's behind the rising tension between the US and Iran, including the Iran nuclear deal.", "The RSPCA says the frog, nicknamed Lloyd, turned up in a Nottingham supermarket.", "Karen Bradley says the government cannot take forward legislation to compensate historical abuse victims.", "The programme has been permanently cancelled after the death of a guest who took part in the show.", "Boots, Superdrug and Holland & Barrett allowed a 17-year-old to buy diet pills, a BBC investigation finds.", "Customers across the UK had struggled to make calls, send text messages and use mobile data.", "The family of a Syrian boy who was attacked at his school in Huddersfield has moved after they received death threats.", "Four children have been killed since 2014 by a parent given access to them by a court.", "Hannah is one of 5,000 UK women to share their experience of extreme pregnancy sickness with BBC News.", "Kate Miller-Heidke makes it through the first semi-final - but Finland get a Darude awakening.", "Mark Edwards can only eat 6g of protein a day due to a condition affecting one in 10,000 people.", "David Macdonald urges voters to back the Lib Dems instead of the party he was selected to stand for.", "The behaviour of some loan firms is deemed 'unacceptable' by the watchdog, the Financial Ombudsman Service.", "Analysis suggests more than half of children in 200 parliamentary constituencies live below poverty line.", "Historical abuse survivors are being used as leverage in the Stormont talks process, campaigners say.", "Walmart considers listing its Asda business after its merger deal with rival Sainsbury's was blocked.", "The All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims wants to define it to help tackle the \"social evil\".", "The city voted against the emerging technology amid fears of invasion of privacy and unreliability.", "It is not known how many people from Wales paid Scottish income tax rates in April after a code error.", "Festival jury president highlights immigration and climate change issues on political first day.", "The firm behind the UK's energy networks says the move would delay the switch to green energy.", "Lawyers for the five women had claimed families are left unable to afford necessities.", "After The Jeremy Kyle Show was axed, MPs and regulators will examine the support given to TV guests.", "The House of Commons held a debate on International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.", "Angling journalist David Lewis said a group drove 4x4 vehicles through the River Usk.", "Detectives say the movement of two black cars on the A714 is key to tracking down the body of the missing 39-year-old.", "Richard Livett was stabbed as Khuram Butt shouted \"Allahu Akbar\", the London Bridge inquest hears.", "Many of the children at the Amaranta school in Chile have dropped out of other schools after transitioning.", "App executives are questioned by MPs two days after the apparent suicide of a Malaysian teenager.", "Keya Morgan faces five counts of abuse against Lee, prior to the comic book icon's death last year aged 95.", "It's not what you earn, it's the way that you spend it, say statisticians, but health's what gets results.", "A 1985 Ferrari 288 GTO that once belonged to Eddie Irvine is driven off by a prospective buyer.", "Oritse Williams is accused of raping the woman at a Wolverhampton hotel in December 2016.", "A former runner on the show gives us a glimpse of what happens behind the scenes.", "Six vulnerable young victims had to ask permission to use drug money to buy food.", "Hormone treatment for mild underactive thyroid problems will not benefit most patients, experts say.", "Jamie Webb quit his life as a professional footballer after being abused by Bob Higgins.", "A top Chinese diplomat tells the BBC there could be \"substantial\" repercussions if the UK bars Huawei.", "Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush is awarded A$2.9m over allegations printed in an Australian newspaper.", "BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg explains why the PM is expected to step down - and why now.", "A video of Katelyn Ohashi performing a 'perfect 10' gymnastics routine went viral in January, but the joyfulness of the performance told nothing of the difficult journey she had been on.", "Research says late-night online access to credit means people borrow more than they can afford to repay.", "Interpol believes 100 more children have suffered abuse and is working to identify them.", "Carl Beech told police his dog was taken as a warning when he missed a meeting with his abusers.", "Cwm Taf health board's chief executive calls the experiences of some families \"heartbreaking\".", "The mental health hospital charity cares for those with mental health and learning difficulties.", "How Bob Higgins was able to groom and abuse young footballers over the course of two decades.", "A 102-year-old is thought to have battered and strangled her 92-year-old female neighbour.", "In a non-binding vote, the General Assembly demands the UK give the islands back to Mauritius.", "An NUS official says the students are turning to social media, as they feel universities are not listening.", "Undercover BBC filming shows staff swearing, mocking and taunting patients with learning disabilities.", "Kenneth Noye was jailed for life for the murder of Stephen Cameron on a slip road of the M25 in Kent.", "Inspectors, council staff and NHS officials went in twice week on average in the year before Panorama expose.", "The wreck of the Clotilda, which smuggled slaves to the US, is found after a year-long search.", "The skaters of Middlesbrough Roller Derby team want to encourage more women to get involved in sport.", "Students include some who have dropped out of mainstream education.", "UK Christian leaders are accused of failing to speak out as an ancient community faces annihilation.", "Some 60% do not choose their local secondary school as their first option, shows major study.", "Air traffic controllers took part in a 24-hour strike following a dispute over pay with their employer Hial.", "Mark Zuckerberg hits back at calls to break up Facebook, as it reveals it removed a record number of hateful posts.", "The new combined company will boast 3,200 stores worldwide with a presence in 100 countries.", "Plans to expand the 2022 World Cup from 32 teams to 48 are abandoned by football's world governing body Fifa.", "The competition regulator says that four drugs firms forced the price of an anti-nausea tablet up by 700%.", "It is claimed the officer in charge of warship HMS Queen Elizabeth misused an MoD car.", "UK voters electing 73 Members of the European Parliament from 12 constituencies.", "Richard Ashcroft says Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have relinquished their claim on the song.", "Four men are in the running to succeed George Hamilton as chief constable in a £207,000-a-year job.", "The Whorlton Hall abuse - uncovered by BBC Panorama - is \"appalling\", says Caroline Dinenage.", "A group of investors had sought to stop the firm providing its Rekognition system to police.", "Court sees image of the moment a police shot comes through pub window, striking another man in the head.", "Dean Radford was one of the former footballers who gave evidence at Bob Higgins' trial.", "A 28-year-old man is arrested after a gun was fired near the Seven Kings Masjid in east London.", "Stonewall says it is \"not a new rule\" but a campaigner says the policy is \"absolutely disgusting\".", "The BBC is not allowed to report details of campaigning while the polls are open.", "Tributes flood in for the hugely popular children's author, who has died at the age of 95.", "Seats in the European Parliament representing England, Scotland and Wales are distributed according to the D'Hondt system, a type of proportional representation.", "Check candidates standing in the UK in the 23 May European Election.", "Contest organisers revise the final scores after admitting they miscalculated the jury voting.", "The boy ran into a shop pleading for help saying he had been stabbed, an eyewitness says.", "Lionel Messi's second-half double, including a stunning free-kick, earns Barcelona a handsome advantage against Liverpool in their Champions League semi-final.", "BBC Arabic found videos of bodies being desecrated by fighters loyal to strongman Khalifa Haftar.", "Tottenham need to overturn a one-goal deficit to reach the Champions League final after losing at home to Ajax in the first leg of their semi-final.", "Researchers collected samples from rivers in Suffolk and found the drug when testing for chemicals.", "Several ministers deny being involved in leaking information from a National Security Council meeting.", "No 10 says Theresa May had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" in his role.", "Scientists find evidence an ancient human species called a Denisovan lived at high altitudes in Tibet.", "Alex Hepburn was involved in a \"pathetic sexist\" conquest game he helped set up on WhatsApp.", "Homes in the city of La Paz were destroyed, but no casualties were reported.", "A group of 87 MPs say the Home Office unlawfully discriminated against the Windrush generation.", "Mark Zuckerberg announced changes to Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook at a speech in San Francisco", "Martin was one of thousands of NHS patients infected with HIV or hepatitis in the 1970s and 80s.", "The show is renewed for a sixth season but it's unlikely the actor's character Jamal will come back.", "The UK's largest ATM network is increasing the fee it pays cash machine operators to keep remote machines free of charge.", "A year after a new law pushed up the price of cheap, high-strength alcohol, ministers are hopeful Scotland's drinking habits have changed.", "Zarhid Younis, 34, faces two counts of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a dead body.", "Football should introduce \"temporary concussion substitutions\" says a brain injury charity in the wake of Tottenham defender Jan Vertonghen's injury in the Champions League semi-final first leg.", "Theresa May's letter to Gavin Williamson outlining why he was being dismissed, and his reply to her.", "The steelmaker asked for help after the EU froze UK companies out of its carbon credits scheme.", "Theresa May says her aims are \"very similar\" to Labour's when it comes to customs talks.", "Investigative art, works that blur fact and fiction and pieces exploring oppression make the list.", "Mohamed Noor shot Justine Damond as she approached his patrol car to report a possible rape.", "Smartphone revenue falls at its steepest-ever rate, but the technology giant is upbeat on the future.", "A full public inquiry into the infected blood scandal finally starts hearing first-person testimony.", "Ben McDonald was \"really fit\" but died at the finish of the the Cardiff Half Marathon.", "A Labour MP says the Welsh Government should look at its part in the Cwm Taf maternity crisis.", "MPs call for more than £3bn for children's services in England to end a funding crisis.", "Police staff accused of domestic abuse are less likely than the general public to be convicted.", "Olympic champion Caster Semenya loses her appeal against new rules from athletics' governing body restricting testosterone levels in female runners.", "Gerard Batten attacks Nigel Farage's \"ego-driven\" Brexit Party as he launches UKIP's European campaign.", "The supermarket chain reveals the cost of its failed Asda merger as it reports a slip in sales.", "From a rape allegation in Sweden to jail in the UK, the key dates in the Julian Assange case.", "Defendant is in a critical condition in hospital after incident during fraud case sentencing.", "Caster Semenya unsuccessfully challenged a rule to restrict the level of testosterone permitted in female runners in a case about athletes with differences of sexual development.", "Police say the teenager has suffered serious injuries while on a footpath near a secondary school.", "Clashes broke out between police and protesters as 'yellow vests' and labour unions held a march.", "The Wikileaks co-founder deliberately put himself out of reach by hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy, a judge says.", "Shadow minister Rebecca Long Bailey said this is \"the first step towards taking more radical action\".", "The United Nations says plans to classify female athletes by their testosterone levels, put forward by athletics' governing body, \"contravene international human rights\".", "Pete Wishart said he would have a \"solid agenda of reform\" if he is chosen to replace John Bercow as Speaker.", "A mother who lost her baby after maternity unit failings says she has \"lost all confidence\".", "BabaBing says the supermarket chain copied a bag the firm worked on for two years.", "Simon Hayes was part of a plot to abandon the man in the UK so he could be treated on the NHS.", "Karanbir Cheema, 13, died two weeks after cheese was flicked at him at school, an inquest hears.", "Victims of the contaminated blood scandal have been giving testimonies about how it affected their lives.", "Two of the youngest candidates in the local council elections are still studying for their A-levels.", "A profile of Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks.", "Joseph McCann's case was not referred to parole officials before he was released from prison.", "Some see the man behind Wikileaks as a reckless 'hacktivist' – others think he's a campaigner for truth.", "A church warden and magician are accused of plotting to kill Peter Farquhar to inherit his home.", "Fiona Onasanya was jailed in January for lying about a speeding offence.", "John Worboys, now known as John Radford, is due to appear in court later this month.", "Mothers speaking to the Cwm Taf maternity review \"overwhelmingly\" had distressing experiences.", "More than 1,700 cash machines started charging a fee in the UK between January and March this year.", "Customers of Gill's Motorhomes say they lost large sums of money after the company ceased trading.", "Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Britain's richest man and owner of Ineos, says ministers should look at the science.", "The Welsh and Scottish governments have also declared an emergency - along with dozens of towns and cities.", "The group's leader quits but says the decision was not made for political or financial reasons.", "High Court judges rule in favour of the government's decision to approve airport expansion plans.", "The new legislation makes it illegal to kill beavers or destroy established dams without a licence.", "The girl, 2, is seriously injured in hospital after being hit at a house in Liverpool.", "The Cabinet Office minister has resigned amid accusations of bullying.", "Indian sprinter Dutee Chand has been cleared to run again but she is collateral damage in a scientific dispute, writes Matt Slater.", "As Indonesian orangutans come into closer contact with humans, they are at increasing risk of capture.", "Feuding rappers have been jailed for life for the gang-related murder of an Ipswich teenager.", "There was a lot of frustration with how Gavin Williamson - now sacked from his role of defence secretary - had sometimes behaved.", "Reaction after Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson is sacked following an investigation into a National Security Council leak.", "Stephen Coxen had been ordered to pay his victim £80,000 in damages after he was sued for rape in the civil courts.", "More than 250 free-to-use cash machines are closing every month as operators shut unprofitable ones.", "Many young adults have unrealistic expectations of buying a home with the money, a survey suggests.", "A shellfish consignment is carried across the busy North Sea by an Uncrewed Surface Vessel.", "Brexit talks are \"difficult\", says Jeremy Corbyn, as he launches his party's European election campaign.", "The former Atomic Kitten singer sometimes had to take the child to work with her, a court hears.", "The former England captain admits using his mobile while driving through London's West End.", "Lee Jackson thought he was \"invulnerable\" before he became plagued with night sweats and flashbacks.", "Giving progesterone could to some women with early bleeding could save babies' lives, research suggests.", "Christine Delcros says she had tried to deter her boyfriend from going to the Shard on the day he died.", "More than 400 buildings in England still have dangerous cladding in the wake of the Grenfell disaster.", "Climate advisors say coastal communities must \"get real\" about the possibility of 1m sea level rise.", "Khuram Butt was seen on CCTV cleaning his knife in a restaurant, shortly after eight people were killed.", "The fallout over the Mueller report into Russian interference is getting more poisonous by the day.", "Lucas Moura scores a dramatic winner to cap an astonishing Tottenham fightback against Ajax and set up an all-English Champions League final against Liverpool.", "Emma Faulds, from Kilmarnock, was last seen on Sunday 28 April in the Ayrshire village of Monkton.", "The ride-hailing app is asking investors to pay $45 a share, at the lower end of the range expected.", "'None of us saw either of these names coming,' says one royal expert as the baby's name is revealed.", "As many as 530 key infrastructure sites across England are vulnerable to flooding, according to a government review.", "The move comes as the number of inmates at Scottish jails approaches record levels.", "But critics say the plan for Northampton \"feels like deja vu\" with similar proposal in the past.", "Prince Harry was presented with a baby-gro for his newborn son Archie at an Invictus Games event.", "Prince Harry and Meghan have presented their newborn son to the world.", "Eden Hazard scores the winning penalty as Chelsea edge past Eintracht Frankfurt 4-3 on penalties to set up an all-English Europa League final against Arsenal.", "The former Young Ones and Bottom star is moving to Albert Square.", "The Environment Agency's boss asks whether it is cheaper and safer to relocate communities than defend them.", "At least £1bn a year needs to be spent on defences and some communities may have to move, a report warns.", "The group, including a 15-year-old boy, is detained over the violence on the night of Lyra McKee's murder.", "Online retailer Zavvi apologises for telling all its customers they had won a VIP football trip to Madrid.", "The ex-work and pensions secretary says she has enough support from MPs to launch a campaign.", "Changes to the handling of sex offence cases are possible within \"weeks and months\", says retired judge.", "Passengers are required to submit up to 24 pieces of information to make a claim, says Which?.", "Anna Sorokin \"was blinded by the glitter and glamour of New York City\", a judge says.", "Claimants who fail to follow rules can now only have payments halted or reduced for up to six months.", "The Las Vegas tech show organisers faced outrage in January after banning the vibrator.", "At 21, Ernie the duck has reached more than double the average age for his breed.", "A gunshot is heard shortly after a man was ushered out of Seven Kings Masjid in Ilford, east London.", "Johnny Mercer says he has withdrawn support for the PM over the historical prosecution of veterans.", "Child safety campaigners are worried about an app that lets Snapchat users post anonymous messages.", "Joseph McCann, who faces 21 charges including eight rapes, has refused to appear in court.", "\"He's going to tell the teacher, 'just call me Prince Archie,\" says the mother of one Archie Harrison.", "Samuel Thomas, from Hertfordshire, was halfway out of the taxi in Sydney when it drove off, an inquest hears.", "Artists including Stormzy and Adele back calls to remove dangerous cladding from buildings.", "Joy Worrall, 82, was found dead in a quarry near her home last November, an inquest hears.", "The procedure is becoming more successful, the UK's fertility regulator says.", "Ministers had previously said owners of private residential tower blocks in England should foot the bill.", "Joseph McCann, of Aylesbury, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.", "A study found some content for terror groups was being generated by Facebook's own systems.", "A former archbishop's compassion for a paedophile bishop did not extend to victims, a report says.", "It was told it would face a bill of up to £20m if sued over its no-deal Brexit ferry services last year.", "Australia's A$50 note has a blunder in the small print - and it took more than six months to spot.", "An independent review of allegations of bullying at NHS Highland says staff spoke of \"fear and intimidation\".", "The BBC sacks the presenter over his \"royal baby\" image of a chimp in a suit holding hands with a couple.", "Expert witnesses at an inquiry into the tower block blaze have detailed how the fire took hold, minute by minute, through the building one year ago.", "The large bomb was caught by a fishing vessel about one mile (1.6km) off the Needles", "Leah Heyes' mother says she is \"overwhelmed\" by the support shown by people.", "Dutee Chand says she was encouraged to speak out after India decriminalised gay sex in 2018.", "All the highs and lows from the contest in Tel Aviv, which saw the Netherlands win as the UK came last.", "Ireland's deputy prime minister says \"the personality might change\" but the Brexit deal will not.", "The 19-year-old responds to claims he tried to turn straight men gay.", "One girl tells how \"random men\" would pick her up from the home then think she \"owed them something\".", "England complete a 4-0 series victory over Pakistan with a 54-run victory at Headingley.", "The SNP leader believes her party has articulated a consistent and clear anti-Brexit message.", "Rail firms and regulators say there will be no repeat of the chaos which hit the network in 2018.", "After more than 40 years of service, the old InterCity 125 trains have made their last journey.", "Deontay Wilder retains his WBC world heavyweight title with an emphatic first-round knockout of Dominic Breazeale in New York.", "Tyler, The Creator was due to play in London after a ban on him entering the UK was overturned.", "Nicki Chapman will not host the Chelsea Flower Show following surgery to remove a brain tumour.", "Multi-millionaire make-up artist Pat McGrath says it is \"fantastic\" the beauty industry is more diverse.", "The Labour MP rejects the Cold War claims and says he did not have access to such sensitive material.", "Four youths are arrested and the club in Lincolnshire says a \"hurricane would have done less damage\".", "Officials believe they were dumped in a river in Nairobi after an illegal abortion was carried out.", "Captain Vincent Kompany leaves Manchester City to become player-manager at former club Anderlecht.", "The French film producer was murdered in Ireland in 1996 and a trial will soon begin in Paris.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Heinz-Christian Strache resigned a day after secret video footage mired him in a corruption scandal.", "Baroness Grey-Thompson says her parents might have had an abortion had they known about her disability.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex post new pictures on Instagram to mark their first anniversary.", "The Liberal Democrats leader Sir Vince Cable says his party believes in stopping Brexit in a \"proper and democratic way\".", "The actor says he will not press charges after being attacked at a public event in South Africa.", "Provides an overview of Austria, including key dates and facts about this central European country.", "The story of how a quarry in north Wales was used to store priceless works of art during World War Two.", "The international development secretary says Labour and the Conservative are not far apart on what they want from a Brexit deal.", "Activists and the film crew of Que Sea Ley documentary wore green and chanted \"solidarity\" in a pro-choice protest.", "Victims should receive anonymity and laws need to include threats to share images, a victims group says.", "Chancellor Sebastian Kurz condemns reports that Martin Sellner put a swastika on a synagogue in 2006.", "British racing driver Billy Monger claims his first victory since having both legs amputated after a crash two years ago.", "Could Labour MPs and Tories with their eyes on a future leadership contest come to the PM's rescue?", "Brexitcast, You, Me and the Big C and My Dad Wrote A Porno also won at the British Podcast Awards.", "The flame shell reef at Loch Carron was \"devastated\" by intensive scallop dredging two years ago.", "About 80 trains a day were significantly late and another 660 trains per day were cancelled.", "Austin Eubanks, who became an advocate for fighting addiction, died at his Colorado home aged 37.", "Nursing chiefs want to see safe staffing rules enshrined in law as 40,000 posts remain vacant.", "Jeremy Corbyn says the British media is obsessed with defining people on how they voted in the 2016 EU referendum.", "Singer Chrissy Chambers describes how her life changed when her ex posted an explicit video online.", "Labour's Sir Keir Starmer says Mrs May should agree to another referendum to \"break the impasse\".", "Duncan Laurence wins the contest with his song Arcade, but the UK's Michael Rice comes bottom.", "Extra protections for workers could get \"sensible\" Labour MPs on board with Brexit, a minister says.", "A 17-year-old boy remains in custody on suspicion of murdering Year 12 student Ellie Gould.", "Police say there is no evidence Joseph McCann, wanted over three attacks, has left the country.", "Belfast City Marathon organisers apologise after admitting Sunday's course was 0.3 miles longer than it should have been.", "It comes after the government signed £100m of Brexit consultant contracts in February.", "She announced the arrival of a \"royal baby\" just after the Duchess of Sussex delivered her own son.", "The King, his siblings, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.", "The 18-year-old was chased by a man wearing a blue or grey hoodie, murder detectives say.", "A firm in Coventry is trialling exoskeleton suits to support the health of its workforce.", "World record officials are reviewing a nurse's marathon record attempt \"as a priority\".", "The teens were attacked within 10 minutes of one another in Islington, north London.", "Judd Trump wins his maiden World Championship title after beating John Higgins 18-9 in a supreme display at the Crucible.", "Arsenal's focus is now on the Europa League after their hopes of a top-four Premier League finish were effectively ended by a draw with Brighton, says Unai Emery.", "Celebrities reveal their interpretations of this year's theme: 'camp'.", "The grave where some of Joseph Merrick's remains were buried has been traced, an author claims.", "Man City are one win away from the Premier League title after Vincent Kompany's stunning goal secures victory against Leicester.", "The firm says it uncovered a problem with its 737 Max jets a year before the first fatal crash.", "A timeline of the Duchess of Sussex's pregnancy in photos.", "The shadow chancellor accuses Theresa May of an \"act of bad faith\" in cross-party Brexit talks.", "The collapse of the firm responsible for collecting NHS clinical and human waste in Scotland has sent costs soaring.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have chosen to keep news of their baby's birth secret - but why?", "Joseph McCann is suspected of carrying out \"grotesque and horrifying attacks\" across the country.", "The Scottish Borders village features as the fictional New Asgard in the movie blockbuster Avengers: Endgame.", "A 52-year-old man was killed after being hit by a car in Leytonstone, east London.", "The tree disease will cost taxpayers a third more than the foot-and-mouth outbreak in cattle in 2001.", "People living nearby describe the fire as being like the \"set of a disaster film\".", "Prince Harry says he and Meghan are \"absolutely thrilled\" with the birth of their first child.", "Adam Sky, 42, was involved in a fatal accident while trying to help an injured friend in Bali.", "Joseph McCann - who police wanted in connection with three rapes and two abductions - is arrested.", "More than nine million tune into a final episode critics call \"breathtaking\" and \"deeply satisfying\".", "The incident happened on farm land between Falkirk and Linlithgow near the village of Whitecross.", "It's thought up to one million different species of animals and plants are facing extinction.", "They are accused of \"moral harassment\" following a spate of suicides among staff in the late 2000s.", "The Duchess of Sussex gives birth to her first child, Prince Harry announces.", "Police are appealing for information over the crash between the scooter and a Ford Fiesta.", "The Electoral Commission says online political adverts should clearly indicate who paid for them.", "University of Edinburgh research indicates heatwaves may become more severe, especially in the northern hemisphere.", "The new Royal Family member will take on its mother's US citizenship and need to file US tax returns.", "Joseph McCann's case was not referred to parole officials before he was released from prison.", "Aerial views of the \"disaster film\" blaze at the former Fisons warehouse near Ipswich.", "Backpacker Elisha Greer, 24, was repeatedly attacked during the 1,000-mile trip in Australia.", "Norwich City are forced to park the bus after their parade vehicle breaks down as they celebrate reaching the Premier League.", "A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murdering Year 12 student Ellie Gould in Calne.", "The Met is offering a £20,000 reward for information about the whereabouts of Joseph McCann.", "London Marathon winner Eliud Kipchoge will attempt to break the two-hour barrier in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge later this year.", "Key moments in the cases against the producer, who has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault.", "There were 795 cases of mumps in the first three months of 2019, versus 1,031 in the whole of 2018.", "The Home Office should have done more to protect people who did not cheat in their English tests, says watchdog.", "Four more children are in hospital as a man and woman held on suspicion of murder are questioned.", "Robyn used to drink and smoke marijuana, but says her impending little girl changed her life.", "The US president will join the Queen and a host of royals at a state banquet after a palace welcome.", "All the BBC's coverage of the 2017 UK General Election including news, analysis and results.", "The ONS said sales were flat in April, as clothing sales offset declines in other sectors.", "Breaking news, sport, travel and weather updates from across North, South, East and West Yorkshire.", "Ten workers are held over the alleged mistreatment of hospital patients following a BBC investigation.", "Theresa May became emotional as she announced she would step down as Conservative leader on 7 June.", "Look back at the reaction after Theresa May announced she would step down as party leader on 7 June", "Oxford University student Rebecca Henderson died in February from transplant complications.", "The gold sovereign from 1819, being offered via a ballot, is one of only 10 left in the world.", "BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg explains why the PM is expected to step down - and why now.", "A string of actresses have claimed he harassed or assaulted them in hotel rooms and offices.", "Libraries now put community hubs and computers alongside books but people are still at their heart.", "Merseyrail takes down posters for the singer's new album over concerns about his political views.", "The club releases a statement after the conviction of ex-youth team coach Jim McCafferty on 14 May.", "The prime minister has said she will stand down on 7 June.", "The UK PM's departure leaves EU leaders wondering how finishing the Brexit process will be affected.", "The baby goods retailer says it is on a \"sounder footing\", even though UK sales fell nearly 9%.", "The prime minister says she will leave office on 7 June, having failed to deliver the UK's exit from the EU.", "From Australia to Europe, school children are skipping classes to call for action on climate change.", "Mark Zuckerberg hits back at calls to break up Facebook, as it reveals it removed a record number of hateful posts.", "The hierarchical power dynamic of the casting couch.", "Six per minute are expected in one day, with a bank holiday and half-term contributing to the spike.", "Text reminders and after-work appointments are recommended in a report on improving cancer screening.", "Students include some who have dropped out of mainstream education.", "David Cameron tells reporters Theresa May is \"a dedicated public servant\" after she announced her resignation.", "Seriously ill children have the chance to swim with mermaids in Aberdeen, thanks to local business.", "Lance Armstrong says he \"wouldn't change a thing\" about the doping that helped him win and then saw him stripped of seven Tour de France titles.", "At least 20 people are dead after fire tore through a building in the city of Surat, Gujarat state.", "Stonewall says it is \"not a new rule\" but a campaigner says the policy is \"absolutely disgusting\".", "Leo Latifi was with family members at an after-school swimming club when the accident happened.", "Deputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said the Met wants a prosecution of each protester.", "With Theresa May announcing her departure, both No Deal and No Brexit are more likely.", "A top Chinese diplomat tells the BBC there could be \"substantial\" repercussions if the UK bars Huawei.", "A satellite spotted an oil slick trailing from a tanker mysteriously attacked off the UAE on 12 May.", "Police were attending a security alert close to a polling station in Londonderry when they were attacked.", "Irish PM Leo Varadkar says Theresa May's resignation could lead to a \"Eurosceptic\" prime minister.", "Carl Beech wept as he told police how his friend \"Scott\" was killed after an MI5 boss's warning.", "A woman whose home was raided by police on the night Lyra McKee was killed denies links with dissidents.", "A lawyer representing those abused by Bob Higgins says he hopes a civil trial can be avoided.", "Ibrahim says it is a place where he can find peace for himself.", "The 'life-changing' injection has been approved for use in Scotland, but not yet in England.", "A Cornwall dog owner had the skin torn off her middle finger by a lead wound tightly round her hand.", "Brexit came to define her time as prime minister, but Theresa May had a long and varied political career.", "Richard Ashcroft says Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have relinquished their claim on the song.", "Scots singer hopes to \"make some money finally\" after his debut record goes straight to number one.", "Court sees image of the moment a police shot comes through pub window, striking another man in the head.", "Sir Vince Cable confirms he will hand over to his successor on 23 July.", "The Nunthorpe & Marton Knitters are welcoming the stars of Radio 1's Big Weekend.", "Police start a murder inquiry after Gerald Corrigan, 74, dies three weeks after being shot.", "Police crackdown on gay rights demonstrators amid clashes at unauthorised pride march in Havana.", "People who began work between 2008 and 2011 have had lower pay and worse job prospects, says a report.", "The bank says plans to raise £350m are \"well advanced\" as it tries to quell rumours about its financial health.", "Killing Eve's Jodie Comer is named best actress and Benedict Cumberbatch wins best actor.", "The upcoming elections are going to be difficult for the Conservatives, says the education secretary.", "Rangers secure back-to-back home wins over Celtic for the first time in seven years with a determined display against the Scottish champions.", "Three people on board escape with minor injuries as the plane came down on the A40 in Monmouthshire.", "Daisy May Cooper explains why she took to the Bafta red carpet dressed as a rubbish bin.", "The Duchess of Sussex shares a photo of her newborn son's feet to celebrate Mother's Day in the US.", "A cardinal flips a switch to restore power to people in an occupied state-owned building in Rome.", "Senior Tory Sir Graham Brady says he expects to learn Theresa May's departure timetable within days.", "Manchester City are the champions after holding off Liverpool. It felt like a relentless title battle but do the stats back that up?", "The Sunday Times' list of the UK's 1,000 richest people includes its first ever black female entrepreneur.", "The vehicle was found wrecked at the bottom of 100ft cliffs, below Marine Drive, Brighton.", "The National Crime Agency says it needs \"significant new investment\" to fight the ever-changing threat.", "Hotel employees discovered the three bodies in the room alongside two crossbows.", "Former team captain Kevin Bennett tracked down 15 of his school friends using social media.", "Gerald Corrigan, 74, suffered \"horrendous\" injuries when he was shot outside his Holyhead home.", "Henry McLeish believes scrapping constituency seats would force parties to work together at Holyrood.", "Manchester City are crowned Premier League champions after coming from behind to beat Brighton on a dramatic final day of the season.", "With one of the Premier League's most extraordinary title races now over, we look at the small margins that finally separated Manchester City and Liverpool.", "Lucha Libre star Cesar Barron, known as Silver King, collapses mid-performance at the show in Camden.", "The Cabinet Office minister has resigned amid accusations of bullying.", "Twenty pharmaceutical companies are accused of artificially inflating the cost of medicinal drugs.", "People are risking their lives to catch a glimpse of the world-famous locomotive, rail bosses say.", "Would you crawl through hundreds of metres of mud for charity?", "The former Labour MP and political interviewer was known for his grilling of Margaret Thatcher.", "Theresa May's proposed Brexit deal is a \"new European treaty\", the Brexit Party leader says.", "There have been anti-government demonstrations in the country for the last three months.", "The recently sacked defence secretary says negotiations with Labour over a Brexit deal will \"fail\".", "Witnesses posted images on social media showing the swirl near the Marina Bay Sands hotel.", "Saracens come from behind to claim their third Champions Cup with a 20-10 victory over Leinster in the final at St James' Park.", "North Yorkshire police issue a warning after the teenager collapses in a Northallerton car park.", "Elizabeth Mannion-O'Keeffe's 93-year-old mother was too frail to attend the first wedding.", "Mental health experts say the issue is too often overlooked but is causing people real distress.", "The fact the talks have gone on for so long hint there is serious merit in finding some kind of accord.", "Officials in north-east India guided an elephant calf to safety, after it became separated from its mother.", "Maysie McLeod spent her 90th birthday in hospital after fracturing her hip in a fall.", "Two men are charged with rioting in Londonderry on the night the journalist Lyra McKee was shot dead.", "It comes after probation reforms in England and Wales which cost taxpayers almost £500m.", "Former family courts head Sir James Munby says they are \"shamefully\" behind in victim support.", "The console rivals have a struck a deal designed to fend off threats from Google, Amazon and others.", "Kering, the company behind Gucci and Alexander McQueen, said it was \"conscious of its influence\".", "The Guardians of the Galaxy director speaks for the first time since being fired and rehired over tweets.", "The firm will seek certification from the US regulator which grounded the jet after two crashes.", "The first treatments could be available within a decade, say scientists setting up a research centre.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK prepares for a general election.", "Family and friends of a teenage victim of 2017's Manchester Arena attack are to take part in the city's Great Run.", "Dame Glenys Stacey said 'much more needs to be done to protect the public'.", "HS2 does not offer value for money and could \"short change\" the North, warns Lords committee.", "The workers in Oklahoma City were trapped about 50-storeys up as the lift began to swing out of control.", "Tributes are paid to the man whose iconic buildings also include the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar.", "Ateeq Rafiq died a week after his head got stuck in a \"Gold Class\" cinema seat in Birmingham.", "The sandwich chain is reported to be in talks to buy rival Eat to turn its 94 stores into vegetarian outlets.", "Boris Johnson reveals he will run when Theresa May quits, saying: \"Of course I'm going to go for it.\"", "Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard highlights comments made by the niece of a man who took his life.", "Steven Dymond was found dead after appearing on the ITV programme and taking a lie detector test.", "His replacement on the BBC Radio 2 breakfast show Zoe Ball maintained a listenership of about 9m.", "The European Commission fines five banks a total of €1.07bn for forming cartels to rig currency trading.", "Damaging front-page headlines and fresh evidence around the death left ITV with little option but to end the show permanently.", "Carl Beech, who accused public figures of child sex abuse, is guilty of the crimes himself, it has emerged.", "Derby County come from 2-0 down in the tie to stun Leeds United and set up a Championship play-off final against Aston Villa.", "Splash news agency used a helicopter to take pictures of living areas and directly into a bedroom.", "Prosecutions are announced in four countries over the scam, which hit thousands of bank accounts.", "Employers should be responsible from protecting staff from harassment, says the TUC.", "The BBC’s Paul Adams looks at what's behind the rising tension between the US and Iran, including the Iran nuclear deal.", "Carl Beech named only Jimmy Savile and his stepfather as abusers in his first police interview, a court hears.", "Christopher Lowson says he is \"bewildered\" to have been suspended by the Archbishop of Canterbury.", "The presenter is 'devastated' following the death of a guest on his ITV show, which has now been cancelled.", "Italy's Matteo Salvini is gathering an array of right-wing leaders, but can such an awkward alliance work?", "Hannah is one of 5,000 UK women to share their experience of extreme pregnancy sickness with BBC News.", "The singer will perform Like A Virgin and a new track during Saturday's final in Tel Aviv, Israel.", "Sources tell the BBC the prime minister will step down if she loses the vote on the Brexit bill next month.", "The three-time Wimbledon champion's home was targeted by serial burglar Asdrit Kapaj in 2013.", "Viewers react to Nadiya Hussain's journey to get help for \"extreme anxiety\" in a BBC One documentary.", "Errors meant exams were delayed and pupils could not answer one of the questions, parents say.", "Giving the Chinese firm a role in the UK's 5G network could threaten national security, ex-MI6 chief says.", "Cambridge historians are digitising some unusual medical records from the 17th Century.", "Helen Kennett asked the knifeman what was wrong with him before he stabbed her, an inquest hears.", "Protests began at schools in Birmingham where the No Outsiders programme was being taught.", "Anders Holch Povlsen and his wife Anne lost three of their four children in the Sri Lanka bombings in April.", "The firm behind the UK's energy networks says the move would delay the switch to green energy.", "Poor communication contributed to the death of a newborn at a hospital, an inquest hears.", "Passengers arriving in the UK will no longer have to fill in landing cards from Monday.", "Fashion brand Oh Polly had created a separate account for larger models, but has since deleted it.", "After The Jeremy Kyle Show was axed, MPs and regulators will examine the support given to TV guests.", "The tennis star says he is \"very proud\" to receive the honour at Buckingham Palace.", "A record number of footballers are seeking mental health support, says the Professional Footballers' Association.", "The prime minister will make plans with the party for choosing a successor, after the next big vote on the Brexit bill.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Family of baby waiting for a heart transplant asks parents to consider registering their children as organ donors.", "The firm has borrowed money from its backers as it seeks a \"permanent solution\" to its financial woes.", "Darcy-May Elm was described as a \"fun ray of sunshine\" by her family.", "They ordered a £260 bottle but were accidentally served up the pricey 2001 Chateau le Pin Pomerol.", "Oritse Williams is accused of raping the woman at a Wolverhampton hotel in December 2016.", "Three Britons and a South African have been killed in the crash near Dubai airport, authorities say.", "The banking group says it is responding to a shift in customer behaviour towards digital services.", "Those inside the containers have enough food and water to last them for a week, it is claimed.", "Huawei is facing opposition to its 5G expansion from the US - but which other countries allow it to operate?", "Robert F Smith made the commitment to graduates at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.", "Children in a housing development had been banned from using chalk to draw grids on a path.", "Ireland's deputy prime minister says \"the personality might change\" but the Brexit deal will not.", "The SNP leader believes her party has articulated a consistent and clear anti-Brexit message.", "One girl tells how \"random men\" would pick her up from the home then think she \"owed them something\".", "Steve Clarke says he wants to \"emulate the success\" of the Scotland women's team after being named the country's new head coach.", "The Electoral Commission will visit the party's offices on Tuesday amid a row over donations.", "Schoolchildren join the Duchess of Cambridge at the Chelsea Flower Show, after her family visited.", "Vulnerabilities in Italy could have given the Chinese firm access to people's home networks.", "News, sport, travel and weather updates from across the North West of England on Friday 24 May.", "Streets around the famous Parisian landmark were closed as the man scaled the 1,000ft structure.", "A lack of support in schools and the community in England is contributing to the problem, says a report.", "Four youths are arrested and the club in Lincolnshire says a \"hurricane would have done less damage\".", "This video has been removed for right reasons.", "The judge said the subsequent fire caused £1.6m of damage and was an \"act of sheer stupidity\".", "Foreign spies could have to register their presence under a new bill, the home secretary says.", "China's tech giant leads the market for telecoms infrastructure, and is second only to Samsung in smartphone sales.", "More women are seeking surgery, possibly to get a body that looks good in trendy gym clothing, says surgeon.", "Researchers used detailed images of the heart to look for signs of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.", "Jess Phillips calls for an exclusion zone outside a primary school at the centre of the protests.", "Young people in Singapore say they would be wary of buying Huawei phones after Google's decision.", "One teenager describes being \"paralysed with fear\" when she was followed onto a bus by men.", "The BBC’s Paul Adams looks at what's behind the rising tension between the US and Iran, including the Iran nuclear deal.", "The Tory peer has been disciplined after saying he would back the Lib Dems in European elections.", "Europe's biggest discount airline says fares are \"artificially low\" after profits fall by a third.", "An off-duty medic begged staff to unlock the door so he could help victims of the London Bridge attack.", "The international development secretary says Labour and the Conservative are not far apart on what they want from a Brexit deal.", "A conflict is more likely today than at any time since President Donald Trump took office.", "Tory MPs to call for action amid reports No 10 has blocked move to limit scope for prosecutions.", "British racing driver Billy Monger claims his first victory since having both legs amputated after a crash two years ago.", "Thousands come out to celebrate and cheer on the Manchester City treble-winning team.", "A Belfast woman speaks ahead of the contaminated blood inquiry hearing evidence in Belfast.", "Brooks Koepka holds off Dustin Johnson's challenge to retain his US PGA Championship and win a fourth major after a dramatic day at Bethpage Black.", "A fan confronted Chris Smalling on the pitch during Arsenal's home game with Manchester United.", "Police are investigating the messages while an MP calls for a protest exclusion zone \"to protect children\".", "Troubled travel firm has been reassuring customers who flooded the firm with concerns about holiday trips.", "The activists had hoped to stay in the boxes which were blocking entrances to BP's head office for several days.", "About 80 trains a day were significantly late and another 660 trains per day were cancelled.", "Nursing chiefs want to see safe staffing rules enshrined in law as 40,000 posts remain vacant.", "Austin Eubanks, who became an advocate for fighting addiction, died at his Colorado home aged 37.", "Jeremy Corbyn says the British media is obsessed with defining people on how they voted in the 2016 EU referendum.", "The boss of Lloyds Banking Group in Scotland made the comments as he confirmed the creation of 500 new technology jobs.", "The health secretary says they should support it in June's vote and worry about the detail afterwards.", "The Wikileaks founder is facing extradition requests from Sweden and the US over separate accusations.", "Extra protections for workers could get \"sensible\" Labour MPs on board with Brexit, a minister says.", "Customers will be able to post parcels in the same way as letters, as long as postage is pre-paid.", "Jude Morrow has Asperger's syndrome and found becoming a dad for the first time very difficult.", "The world's biggest salmon farming company is under investigation for possible misreporting of chemical use.", "The boy ran into a shop pleading for help saying he had been stabbed, an eyewitness says.", "Voters have been deciding who should represent them on 11 councils across Northern Ireland.", "Prince Harry and Meghan send best wishes to their niece, who is seen in new photos taken by her mother.", "One of the official pacers at the London Marathon says runners were treated \"horrifically\".", "No 10 says Theresa May had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" in his role.", "Scientists find evidence an ancient human species called a Denisovan lived at high altitudes in Tibet.", "Male nurses suggest it is still seen as a feminine career and there are not enough role models.", "Pooches and hounds are at polling stations as people vote in local elections in England and Northern Ireland.", "All the latest news about England local elections 2019 from the BBC", "Police officers stop relatives of Henry Vincent from stapling tributes to garden fences in Hither Green.", "The London Gay Men's Chorus performed outside the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho to remember the victims of a deadly nail bomb attack on 30th April 1999.", "No-one has been allowed to leave the US ship, reportedly owned by the Church of Scientology.", "Leeds striker Patrick Bamford is banned for two matches after being found guilty of \"successful deception of a match official\".", "Zarhid Younis, 34, faces two counts of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a dead body.", "A fire chief says some people see nice weather \"as opportunities to burn\".", "Beyond Meat's stock market value hits $3.8bn as shares in the US firm start trading on Wall Street.", "Theresa May's letter to Gavin Williamson outlining why he was being dismissed, and his reply to her.", "The Wikileaks co-founder's extradition hearing relates to the leak of US government secrets.", "Peter Mayhew, who has died aged 74, was a \"kind and gentle man\", says Han Solo actor Harrison Ford.", "Fatiha is the grandmother of six children kept in a camp in Syria, but she hopes she'll be able to welcome them back to Belgium soon.", "Olympic champion Caster Semenya loses her appeal against new rules from athletics' governing body restricting testosterone levels in female runners.", "Euro elections can draw a line under \"grief\" over the lack of political leadership, says Plaid's leader.", "The rapper thanks his mum for her \"relentless effort\" as he picked up 12 awards at Wednesday's event.", "Nellie and Joe Graham, who are both in their 100s, share their secrets to a long marriage.", "Ella Kissi-Debrah, 9, suffered a fatal asthma attack thought to have been brought on by pollution.", "The BBC is not allowed to report details of campaigning while the polls are open.", "A coroner says a man acted lawfully when he stabbed a burglar to death at his home in London.", "The Treasury is seeking 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happened\".\n\nThe inquest is examining the shootings in Ballymurphy in August that year.\n\nMr Doyle and his brother have told the inquest that they found a wounded man in their garden and wanted to help but were arrested and beaten by soldiers.\n\nHe and his brother were teenagers at the time and were held at Girdwood Barracks for several days.\n\nIn its latest phase, the inquest is looking at the deaths of John Laverty, 20, and Joseph Corr, 43, on 11 August 1971.\n\nThe inquest is examining the deaths of 20-year-old John Laverty and 43-year-old Joseph Corr\n\nThe fatal shootings happened on the Upper Whiterock Road as soldiers of the Parachute Regiment moved into the area.\n\nThe family of Joseph Corr believe it was him the brothers had wanted to help, although the boys had not known him.\n\nAnswering the barrister's questions, Mr Doyle said: \"I got beat relentlessly for trying to help some fellow who'd been shot.\"\n\nMoD barrister Mr Rooney said he was not suggesting that the beatings had not taken place and added that they should never have happened.\n\nMr Doyle said he and his brother were initially put in an Army vehicle to be taken to the nearby Henry Taggart base on the Springfield Road.\n\nHe told the court he thought to himself: \"'I'm dead, I'll never see nobody ever again.'\n\nBernard Doyle says he and his brother were arrested and beaten\n\nHe added: \"See, when you go to Henry Taggart, the things they done in Henry Taggart were unreal and I thought: 'I'm dead, I'm dead.'\"\n\nThey were instead put into a lorry with other detainees and taken to Girdwood Barracks.\n\nHe later told the inquest that he went to hospital for treatment for his injuries after his release some days later.\n\nHe said the doctor looked at him and asked if he had been run over by a bus.\n\nThe sport-mad teenager had suffered a fracture to his lower back and says he still has back pain.\n\nAll charges against Mr Doyle were dropped and he was later awarded compensation for the months he was unable to work.\n\nLater at the inquest on Tuesday, a man who had watched the beatings also described seeing a wounded man lying face down in the road outside his home.\n\nEdward McCourt, who is aged 86, was a joiner and lived in Dermott Hill Park in 1971.\n\nHe said he woke early on 11 August and looked down to the junction of the Whiterock Road and Springfield Road.\n\nMr McCourt said he saw a group of about 20 men spread-eagled against a wall, being beaten by soldiers with batons.\n\nLooking up the road, he told the court, he watched the Doyle brothers being beaten.\n\nHe said that he then heard shots and went to the front of his home and saw a man lying on the road at the entrance to Dermott Hill Park.\n\nHe thought he was about 40 to 45 years old and was wearing a white singlet or shirt.\n\nHe believes the wounded man was Joseph Corr.\n\nMr McCourt saw a bloodstain the size of a dinner plate on the man's back and a smaller one on his front as two paratroopers turned the man over.\n\nHe told the court that the man was empty-handed and nothing was lying near him.\n\nTwo soldiers were crouched near him and took the man and moved him out of sight by dragging at his clothes.\n\nHe explained to the inquiry that the soldiers did not seem to offer the man any kind of medical attention.\n\nMr McCourt told the court he was upset by what he had seen and then noticed two paratroopers with black camouflaged faces in his garden.\n\nHe said he opened the window and angrily shouted to the soldiers to leave his garden and go back to their own country.\n\nHe recalled that they both smashed in his front door and ran up the stairs of his home.\n\nHe said one soldier told him: \"I'll blow your effing head off.\"\n\nWhen he confronted them and told them his children were in convulsions, he said, the soldiers turned and left.\n\nShortly afterwards he noticed a convoy of Army vehicles come down from Black Mountain, driving past the end of his street.\n\nLater the court heard from Joseph Marley, who also was a teenager at the time.\n\nHe said he had joined his father and many other men keeping a lookout for the possibility of loyalists attacking the area down the Upper Whiterock Road.\n\nHe said their family had lived in nearby New Barnsley Grove.\n\nHe said they heard activity early on the morning of 11 August and, thinking it was \"Orangemen\", they decided to chase them off.\n\nThere had been shouting and the rattling of bin lids and someone suggested: \"Let's charge them.\"\n\nAs the crowd ran up the pavement shouting, gunfire broke out down the road beside them.\n\nIt was then, Mr Marley said, that they realised it was, in fact, paratroopers coming down the road.\n\nHe said none of the crowd had a weapon of any kind, unless they picked up a stone to throw it.\n\nHe added that he did not see any of the soldiers actually firing at the crowd.\n\nHe described how one young man was shot in the arm.\n\nHe believed many more would have been shot if the pavement had not been raised up from the level of the road.\n\nAs they took cover at a nearby house, he said they used a cigarette lighter to help look at the young man's wound in the dawn light.\n\nThe young man was taken away by some of them for first aid he said, and the rest crawled back away down the road from the soldiers.\n\nHe later concluded that the two men who took him away were Joseph Corr and his son, also Joseph.\n\nJoseph Corr and his father took an injured man away, Mr Marley believes\n\nHe said the soldiers spread out into neighbouring streets sometimes using back gardens for cover.\n\nLater he said he had gone home to New Barnsley Grove, when his mother spoke to a soldier and was struck by him.\n\nWhen he complained, said Mr Marley, the soldier lifted his rifle and fired an un-aimed shot which missed.\n\nThe court also heard from a Ministry of Defence barrister that the headquarters logs of 1st Battalion the Parachute Regiment in cannot be located for the period.\n\nA barrister for the Corr family pointed out that the relevant logs had been available to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo groups of Tory MPs have launched campaign groups aimed at shaping the future direction of their party.\n\nFormer cabinet minister Esther McVey has launched Blue Collar Conservatism, aiming to target \"working people\".\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd is among those backing One Nation Conservative Caucus, a group opposing a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe contest to replace Theresa May has - unofficially - begun, with several figures already saying they will run.\n\nThe prime minister has promised to set a timetable for the election of her successor after the next vote on her Brexit plan.\n\nMPs are due to vote on the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - required to put the PM's deal into UK law - in the first week of June.\n\nMs McVey, who quit as work and pensions secretary last November in protest at Mrs May's deal, has already announced she will stand in the forthcoming leadership contest.\n\nLaunching the Blue Collar Conservatism group at an event in Westminster, she said the next leader of the party must be a \"Brexiteer who believes in Brexit\".\n\nShe added that the Tories' \"failure to deliver Brexit\" meant the party had failed to capitalise on winning over voters who abandoned Labour at this month's local elections.\n\n\"A majority of these voters voted to leave the EU, and on this we have broken their trust,\" she said.\n\nThe Leave-supporting MP added it was \"essential\" for the UK to leave the EU before the new deadline of 31 October, with or without a deal.\n\nShe also called for international aid spending to be lowered to 2010 levels, which she said would free up £7bn in extra funding for schools and the police.\n\nDoing so would allow the Conservatives to \"match people's needs and priorities\", she added.\n\nAccording to the Mail on Sunday, Ms McVey will embark on a \"pub tour\" campaign, where she will also call for the HS2 rail project to be scrapped.\n\nMeanwhile, the One Nation Conservative Caucus has said it expects to be involved in the debate over the party's future and have a say in whoever wins the Tory leadership race.\n\nThe group is reportedly aiming to block any candidate who backs a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe unofficial contest to replace Theresa May is already up and running, with candidates declaring their desire for the job and policy platforms being set out.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has not - yet - thrown her hat in the ring but spearheads a 60-strong block of Tories called the One Nation Caucus.\n\nOn Monday, it will launch a declaration of values that seeks to cement the post-Theresa May Tory Party in the centre ground.\n\nSources deny it's a \"stop Boris Johnson\" effort, but the group is emphatic there must be no future coalition between the Conservatives and The Brexit Party and is stressing the importance of issues like the environment.\n\nAmber Rudd, who spoke at an event to launch the group, has said it is \"entirely possible\" she will launch a bid for the leadership once Mrs May steps down.\n\nSpeaking at the launch she said: \"The Conservative Party is entering a new phase and we here in this room are determined to shape that phase.\"\n\nMs Rudd added: \"Sometimes our voices aren't heard quite as vocally as they should be.\"\n\n\"Part of the launch today is to say we are going to be stepping up, making ourselves heard because we are proud and honest and strong about what we believe in.\"\n\nThe group also includes MPs such as International Development Secretary Rory Stewart, who has confirmed he will put himself forward to be next Tory leader.\n\nFormer cabinet ministers Nicky Morgan and Damian Green, as well as backbencher Sir Nicholas Soames, also made speeches at the event.\n\nMr Green told the BBC the group would hold \"hustings\" to find out how leadership candidates would seek to find a way out of the current Brexit deadlock.\n\n\"One of the things that we all agree on is that it would be massively better for this country to have a deal, so we don't see no deal as a good option for this country\", he said.\n\nHe added that the group would promote internationalism, the environment, as well as protecting consumers from corporations and an \"over-mighty state\".\n\n\"Obviously at some stage over the next few months we will have a new leader as well, so we want to make sure that the leader ascribes to these values\", he added.\n\nFormer Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has also said he will run for the leadership, telling an event last week: \"I don't think that is any particular secret to anybody\".\n\nFormer Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab, Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss have also spoken also at a Daily Telegraph event on the future of the Conservative Party. All three have been tipped as contenders.\n\nMs Truss said her party needed to be bolder on issues such as housing while Mr Raab called for cuts to income tax.\n\nIn a Conservative leadership contest, MPs hold a series of ballots, with the candidate gaining Tory MPs launch rival campaign groups the fewest votes eliminated at each stage.\n\nOnce the field is reduced to two, the winner is chosen by a vote of party members.", "John Finucane received the chains of office on Tuesday evening\n\nBelfast's new Lord Mayor John Finucane has rejected claims he was fast-tracked to the top post to boost his chances in the next Westminster election.\n\nMr Finucane came close to defeating the DUP MP Nigel Dodds in the North Belfast constituency two years ago.\n\nNow the Sinn Féin councillor has become lord mayor, despite having only just been elected to the council.\n\nSome of his political opponents at City Hall have suggested it is a political ploy by Sinn Féin to raise his profile.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Finucane denied this and said: \"That's not something that's in my mind at all.\n\n\"I want to be a mayor for everybody.\n\n\"It's a city that I love and feel very strongly about and I'm looking forward to my time in office.\"\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 Finucane is the son of murdered Belfast solicitor, Pat Finucane, who was shot dead by loyalists during the Troubles.\n\nNow 39 years old, the new lord mayor is the same age his father was when he was killed in north Belfast 30 years ago.\n\nSpeaking of his family background, he said: \"It's no secret that I am the product of a middle-class Protestant mother from east Belfast and a working-class Catholic father from the Falls Road.\n\n\"I think diversity in my personal background has made me stronger.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's not just a sound bite from me to say I am here to represent everybody. I will be doing that.\"\n\nJohn Finucane said he would be a mayor for all of Belfast's citizens\n\nMr Finucane explained that he had relations on his mother's side who were members of the Orange Order, and he recently discovered that his grandfather served in the Royal Navy during World War Two.\n\n\"My office and my hand will always be extended, especially to the Orange Order,\" he said.\n\n\"Certainly I won't be found wanting should a request come in.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Finucane This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as 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 Finucane said he would have \"no difficulty\" meeting members of the Royal Family on one of their regular visits to Belfast.\n\nThe new lord mayor also said that his party's long-standing boycott of the Remembrance Sunday commemorations would be again reviewed ahead of November.\n\nHe said he was \"very cognisant of my own family history\" in World War Two and added that he would deal with such issues in a \"very sensitive\" manner.\n\nHe said that he would not allow his year as mayor to be \"dominated\" by his own past, but he added that he hoped his late father would be \"proud\".\n\nHe was aged eight when he witnessed the murder of his father in February 1989.\n\nLike his father, John Finucane is a lawyer.\n\nJohn Finucane was elected to Belfast City Council for the first time this month\n\nHis legal career will be put on hold for the next 12 months but he will stay involved in a small number of cases, including one in which he represents boxer Carl Frampton in a legal dispute with his former manager Barry McGuigan\n\nThe role of lord mayor in Belfast is largely ceremonial.\n\nBelfast City Council met on Tuesday night for the first time since the recent council election.\n\nNo party has overall control of the 60-seat council.\n\nThe four largest parties are:\n\nThe position of lord mayor will rotate annually, with the DUP expected to be given the role next year.\n\nMr Finucane will replace his Sinn Féin colleague Deirdre Hargey, who has held the post for the past 12 months.\n\nJohn Finucane is the son of murdered solicitor Pat Finucane who was shot dead in front of his wife and three children in 1989 by loyalist paramilitaries.\n\nLike his father, he trained as a solicitor and now works at a Belfast-based law firm.\n\nThe Finucane family has been campaigning for a public inquiry into claims of collusion in the murder.\n\nPat Finucane was a prominent solicitor in Belfast at the time of his death\n\nIn February the Supreme Court ruled that there had been no effective investigation to date into the circumstances.\n\nBut the judges stopped short of ordering an inquiry, saying it was a matter for the state.\n\nSinn Féin Belfast councillor Ciaran Beattie has described his party colleague as a \"fearless defender and promoter of human rights and social justice\".\n\nIt is not unprecedented for a newly-elected councillor to immediately become lord mayor.\n\nIt happened when Sinn Féin's Niall Ó Donnghaile gained the position in 2011.\n\nThe rotation of Belfast's lord mayor post will see the DUP take the spot in 2020, the Alliance Party in 2021 and Sinn Féin again in 2022.\n\nIt is thought that the SDLP will be granted the post of deputy lord mayor next year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How climate change is sinking an Indian island\n\nScientists believe that global sea levels could rise far more than predicted, due to accelerating melting in Greenland and Antarctica.\n\nThe long-held view has been that the world's seas would rise by a maximum of just under a metre by 2100.\n\nThis new study, based on expert opinions, projects that the real level may be around double that figure.\n\nThis could lead to the displacement of hundreds of millions of people, the authors say.\n\nThe question of sea-level rise was one of the most controversial issues raised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), when it published its fifth assessment report in 2013.\n\nIt said the continued warming of the planet, without major reductions in emissions, would see global waters rising by between 52cm and 98cm by 2100.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UN chief: Political will is fading even as the situation worsens, Antonio Guterres said\n\nMany experts believe this was a very conservative estimate.\n\nIce scientists are also concerned that the models currently used to predict the influence of huge ice sheets on sea levels don't capture all of the uncertainties about how these are now melting.\n\nTo try to get a clearer picture, some of the leading researchers in the field carried out what is termed a structured expert judgement study, where the scientists make predictions based on their knowledge and understanding of what is happening in Greenland, West and East Antarctica.\n\nIn the researchers' view, if emissions continue on the current trajectory then the world's seas would be very likely to rise by between 62cm and 238cm by 2100. This would be in a world that had warmed by around 5C - one of the worst-case scenarios for global warming.\n\n\"For 2100, the ice sheet contribution is very likely in the range of 7-178cm but once you add in glaciers and ice caps outside the ice sheets and thermal expansion of the seas, you tip well over two metres,\" said lead author Prof Jonathan Bamber from the University of Bristol.\n\nA small boat in the Illulissat Icefjord in western Greenland, dwarfed by icebergs that have calved from Greenland's largest glacier, Jacobshavn Isbrae\n\nThe IPCC report in 2013 only considered what is \"likely\" to happen, which in scientific terms means they looked at 17-83% of the range of possibilities.\n\nThis new study looks at a broader range of results, covering 5-95% of the estimates.\n\nFor expected temperature rises up to 2C, Greenland's ice sheet remains the single biggest contributor to sea-level rise. However, as temperatures go beyond this, the much larger Antarctic ice sheets start to come into play.\n\n\"When you start to look at these lower likelihood but still plausible values, then the experts believe that there is a small but statistically significant probability that West Antarctica will transition to a very unstable state and parts of East Antarctica will start contributing as well,\" said Prof Bamber.\n\n\"But it's only at these higher probabilities for 5C that we see those type of behaviours kicking in.\"\n\nAccording to the authors, this scenario would have huge implications for the planet.\n\nThey calculate that the world would lose an area of land equal to 1.79 million square kilometres - equivalent to the size of Libya.\n\nMuch of the land losses would be in important food growing areas such as the delta of the Nile. Large swathes of Bangladesh would be very difficult for people to continue to live in. Major global cities, including London, New York and Shanghai would be under threat.\n\n\"To put this into perspective, the Syrian refugee crisis resulted in about a million refugees coming into Europe,\" said Prof Bamber.\n\nA German supply ship moored at the edge of an ice shelf in West Antarctica\n\n\"That is about 200 times smaller than the number of people who would be displaced in a 2m sea-level rise.\"\n\nThe authors emphasise that there is still time to avoid these type of scenarios, if major cuts in emissions take place over the coming decades. They acknowledge that the chances of hitting the high end of this range are small, around 5%, but they should not be discounted, according to the lead author.\n\n\"If I said to you that there was a one in 20 chance that if you crossed the road you would be squashed you wouldn't go near it,\" said Prof Bamber.\n\n\"Even a 1% probability means that a one in a hundred year flood is something that could happen in your lifetime. I think that a 5% probability, crikey - I think that's a serious risk.\"\n\nOther experts in the field said that the findings of the expert group were significant.\n\n\"This kind of survey of experts is important, because computer models are not perfect at predicting the future,\" said Dr Tamsin Edwards from King's College London.\n\n\"Here they took the eight most accurate of 22 experts on Antarctica and Greenland and combined their judgements about the future. The ice sheets are losing ice at increasing rates, and we can't rule out high values of sea level rise, though it's also important to note they're unlikely - especially as we are starting to put policies in place to avoid such a high level of warming.\"\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.", "Patients with mental health problems, autism and learning disabilities are being let down by a \"broken\" care system, a report warns.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission (CQC) says it knows of at least 62 adults and children that have been living in segregation in mental health hospitals for long periods of time.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock, who commissioned the work, said he was appalled by the distressing stories.\n\nHe promised cases would be reviewed.\n\nThe report presents the CQC's initial findings on the use of long-term segregation on mental health wards for children and young people and wards for people with a learning disability or autism.\n\nThe CQC has so far visited and assessed the care of 39 people in segregation - most had a diagnosis of autism.\n\nThe most common reason given for segregating was to keep other patients safe or a belief the patient would be unable to cope around others.\n\nThe CQC found some of the wards were not suitable environments for people with autism and many staff lacked the necessary training and skills to work with patients with complex needs and challenging behaviour.\n\nSome of the hospitals visited had \"features of institutions that are at risk of developing a closed and even punitive culture\".\n\nIn the case of 26 of the 39 people, staff had stopped attempting to reintegrate them back in to the main ward environment, usually because of concerns about violence and aggression.\n\nOften, a suitable alternative place of care, such as a community placement, could not be found.\n\nDr Paul Lelliott, of the CQC, said: \"The people we have visited have had contact with health, care and education services for many years, pointing to missed opportunities that may have prevented admission to hospital in a crisis because there was nowhere else for them to go.\n\n\"These people have been failed by the current system of care and that system must be changed.\"\n\nMr Hancock said: \"At its best, the health and care system provides excellent support to people, backed by a dedicated workforce.\n\n\"But a small proportion of some of the most vulnerable in society are being failed by a broken system that doesn't work for them. They deserve better.\"\n\nHe said the government would fund specialist, independent advocates to work with families, join up services and try to move people to the least restrictive care and then out into the community.\n\nRebecca Hilsenrath, of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said: \"We welcome the CQC's call for urgent action and we are looking at what more we can do to ensure those in the most vulnerable situations get the care they need close to home.\n\n\"This must include people with learning disabilities and autism in mental health hospitals.\"\n• None 'Too many' young in mental health hospitals\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Like gigantic lawnmowers, more than a dozen twisters hit Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, including two at once.", "The peer insists the Conservative Party remains his \"natural home\"\n\nThe veteran Conservative politician Lord Heseltine has had the whip removed after saying he will vote for the Lib Dems in Thursday's European elections.\n\nThe former deputy prime minister said he would not back the Tories because of the party's pro-Brexit stance.\n\nA Tory Party spokesperson said the peer's views on European matters were \"longstanding and sincerely held\".\n\nBut he added that endorsing another party was \"not compatible with taking the Tory whip\".\n\n\"As a result, the Chief Whip in the House of Lords has informed Lord Heseltine that he will have the Conservative whip suspended. This will be reviewed if he is willing to support Conservative candidates at future elections,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nHaving the whip taken away means a parliamentarian is effectively expelled from their party and that they must sit in Parliament as an independent until the whip is restored.\n\nLord Heseltine revealed he would be voting for the Lib Dems in an article for the Sunday Times.\n\nHe told BBC 5 live that he was \"lending\" his support to the Lib Dem candidate in his area as he was \"not prepared to indulge in this act of national sacrifice by voting for Brexit\".\n\nThe 86-year old, who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major and was also an adviser to David Cameron, said he was following his conscience and the Conservative Party remained his \"natural home\".\n\nReacting to his sanction, he told Sky News: \"They can take away the whip but they cannot take away my integrity, my convictions or my experience. I am a Conservative.\"\n\nHis announcement angered Brexiteers in his party, with MPs suggesting he had broken internal rules by endorsing another party.\n\nSpeaking to Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 5 live, Andrew Bridgen suggested \"there really is no place for someone with his views in the Conservative Party\".\n\n\"I find Lord Heseltine's arrogance that he knows better than the majority of the electorate really quite breathtaking.\"\n\nHowever Conservative former minister Sir Nicholas Soames told Channel 4 News withdrawing the whip from Lord Heseltine was \"a really stupid, bovine thing to do\".\n\nHe said he would make his feelings about the matter known to chief whip Julian Smith.\n\nLord Heseltine has been a vocal opponent of Brexit and has spoken at a number of rallies in favour of another referendum.\n\nIt is not the first time he has been at odds with his party over Brexit. In March 2017 he was sacked as a government adviser after rebelling in a Brexit vote in the Lords.\n\nThe UK will take part in the elections for the European Parliament on 23 May after the government was unable to agree a Brexit deal.", "Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei has remained defiant towards US moves against his company, saying the US \"underestimates\" its abilities.\n\nSpeaking to Chinese state media, Mr Ren downplayed the impact of recent US curbs and said no-one could catch up to its 5G technology in the near future.\n\nLast week the US added Huawei to a list of companies that American firms cannot trade with unless they have a licence.\n\nThe move marked an escalation in US efforts to block the Chinese company.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Young people in Singapore say they are now wary of buying Huawei phones\n\n\"The current practice of US politicians underestimates our strength,\" Mr Ren said, according to transcripts from state media.\n\nHuawei faces a growing backlash from Western countries, led by the US, over possible risks posed by using its products in next-generation 5G mobile networks.\n\nThe potential fallout from the US decision to place Huawei on its \"entity list\" was drawn into focus on Monday after Google barred the Chinese tech giant from some updates to its Android operating system.\n\nLater on Monday, the US Commerce Department issued a temporary licence that enabled some companies to continue supporting existing Huawei networks and devices.\n\nThe US said it would issue the 90-day licence that \"will allow operations to continue for existing Huawei mobile phone users and rural broadband networks,\" said US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross.\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre has published advice for Huawei phone owners on its site.\n\nIt said the licence should mean that Huawei customers can \"update their handsets as normal\". It added that it was continuing to assess the situation and planned to provide advice in the future for users.\n\nThe Huawei founder is proud of the firm's lead in 5G technology\n\nStill, Mr Ren played down the significance of the move, saying that Huawei had already made preparations ahead of the US restrictions.\n\nHuawei has been at the epicentre of the US-China power struggle for months.\n\nConsumers are worried about what this all means for them, while the implications for Huawei are also likely to be significant.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kirk Ellis said he was 'absolutely devastated' to find he had infected blood\n\nWelsh victims of the contaminated blood scandal have said it is not fair they get less financial help than people affected in England and Scotland.\n\nKirk Ellis, 38, from Caerphilly, receives £18,500 a year after he contracted hepatitis C when he was given infected blood as a child.\n\nBut in April, Theresa May increased funding to patients in England, worth an extra £10,000 in Mr Ellis's case.\n\nThe UK government said it was liaising with Welsh ministers on greater parity.\n\nA public inquiry into the scandal is looking at why thousands of people with haemophilia were infected with hepatitis C or HIV in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nEach of the UK nations has its own financial support scheme for infected patients. In Wales, 175 people receive payments.\n\nMr Ellis said the UK government should increase the funding, not the Welsh Government, as \"we were under one government when infected\".\n\n\"How can it be fair? We were infected under the same system,\" he told BBC Wales.\n\n\"I've got the same medical condition, same damage done to my body, living with the same anxiety and depression as somebody living in those places.\"\n\nThe father of one, who was diagnosed with haemophilia as a toddler, believes he was infected by his first dose of the clotting agent Factor VIII.\n\nBut he did not find out until he was a teenager.\n\n\"I was devastated, absolutely devastated,\" he said.\n\nMr Ellis is classed as having hepatitis C at stage two because he has cirrhosis of the liver.\n\nSince April, patients in England in the same position as Mr Ellis have been entitled to £28,000 a year.\n\nIn Scotland it is £27,000 after it made changes to its payments in 2017, although Northern Ireland has the same payment scheme as Wales.\n\nCampaigners met ministers from the UK and devolved governments, including Cabinet Office minister David Lidington, in January.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the meeting agreed there would be a UK-wide approach to support for patients.\n\nBut in April, at the start of the public inquiry, the prime minister announced an extra £29m for English patients.\n\nAbout 50 people in Wales are in Mr Ellis's situation with stage 2 Hepatitis C.\n\nNorman Hutchinson, of Benllech, Anglesey, cares for his wife Jennifer who developed Hepatitis C as a result of the scandal - a diagnosis that \"devastated\" her health and \"turned both our lives upside down\", he said.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers: \"This is the problem of the Welsh Government. It's about time they stopped political bickering and took a hard look at the people who are suffering.\"\n\nBut Plaid Cymru AM Dai Lloyd, a GP, said Westminster governments had \"run away\" from their responsibility to patients.\n\nThe Scottish government had more money to spend than Wales, he told BBC Radio Cymru.\n\nLynne Kelly, chair of Haemophilia Wales, said there was a \"patchwork\" of support payments across the UK, but victims had not been compensated as no government has ever accepted it was at fault for the scandal.\n\nThe Infected Blood Inquiry is hearing evidence around the UK. It is in Belfast this week, and will come to Cardiff in July.\n\nThe Welsh Government said additional support was announced in March for infected patients.\n\nAs well as money, it provided \"extensive wrap around services, which include psychological support\" for victims, a spokesman said.\n\nHe added the government was \"committed to working across the UK to ensure parity of the schemes\", although there were no extra resources for Wales as a result of the English announcement.\n\nThe UK government said it was liaising with the Welsh Government about \"how greater parity can be achieved between infected blood support schemes across the UK\".", "Gourmet Burger Kitchen said it would shut 17 sites\n\nThe number of restaurant businesses becoming insolvent jumped by a quarter in 2018 as consumers shunned the High Street, new figures show.\n\nAccountancy firm Moore Stephens said there had been 1,219 insolvencies, ranging from standalone restaurants up to large investor-backed chains - up from 985 in 2017.\n\nIt blamed overcapacity at a time when Britons are eating out less.\n\nRestaurant critic Jay Rayner said more operators could struggle next year.\n\nIn 2018, a spate of big restaurant chains were forced to strike rescue deals - known as company voluntary arrangements (CVAs) - with their creditors as they faced unsustainable debts.\n\nGourmet Burger Kitchen earmarked 17 sites for closure while Carluccios is shutting 34 outlets. Prezzo said it would close 94 - about a third of the chain - including all 33 outlets of its Tex-Mex brand Chimichanga.\n\nMoore Stephens said that insolvencies were at their highest level since it began tracking the sector in 2010.\n\nIt blamed an influx of private equity investment that had led to some restaurant chains opening too many sites that were now failing to break even.\n\nIt also said interest rate rises and Brexit concerns had \"put a dent\" consumer spending growth, as operators faced rising overheads such as the minimum wage and ingredient costs.\n\nHead of restructuring and insolvency Jeremy Willmont said: \"Restaurants have always been prone to high failure rates but vacant restaurants used to be rapidly replaced by a new contender. For now, that process seemed to have stalled and many sites are empty.\n\n\"Under such tough trading conditions, restaurants should be cautious about building up debt. They can very quickly become overextended as costs continue to rise.\"\n\nRestaurant critic Jay Rayner told the BBC that many restaurants - and particularly mid-market chains - operated on \"extremely tight profit margins\".\n\n\"They might be worth a lot but their margins are so tight that they are subject to real pain if there are sudden changes in the market place.\"\n\nHe said that while an independent, standalone restaurant might be able cut its costs and struggle on, investor-backed businesses had to cut their losses fast.\n\n\"I don't believe in crystal-ball gazing, but I think the last few months of the year will be good for restaurants, but in January many are going to find themselves staring down the barrel of Brexit.\n\n\"I think we could see a lot more businesses go to the wall and a lot of jobs lost.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Join police officers as they raid an address in Hastings\n\nNearly 600 suspected members of county lines drugs gangs have been arrested across the UK in the past week, the National Crime Agency has said.\n\nPolice forces led by the National County Lines Coordination Centre also seized cocaine worth £176,780, £312,649 in cash and 46 weapons.\n\nThe NCA estimates there are about 2,000 city-based gangs exploiting young people to sell drugs in smaller towns.\n\nIt says tackling the gangs is a \"national law enforcement priority\".\n\nIn the operation between 13 and 20 May:\n\nCounty line drugs gangs - linked by a network of mobile phone lines and often coercing children and vulnerable adults - travel out of their usual urban territory and into rural areas to sell drugs.\n\nMost come out of London, Birmingham and Merseyside, said NCA County Lines lead Nikki Holland.\n\nSome raids were on so-called cuckooed houses, which is a home taken over by drugs gangs from a drug user or vulnerable person.\n\nMs Holland likened gangs' exploitation of children to grooming for sex, saying these children often did not see themselves as victims because they enjoyed the attention and the gifts of drugs.\n\nGangs then used coercion, intimidation and violence to control the children, to keep them involved in running the drugs and to act as a \"shield\" from arrest and violence by rival gangs, she added.\n\nMs Holland appealed to parents and the public to trust their instincts and look out for children travelling long distances with older people or children going missing and having new and older friends.\n\nThe NCA said it did not have details yet of the ages of the 364 children who were picked up in the raids.\n\nBut they could be dealt with in a number of ways, it said, including being returned home if missing, referred to local services, referred to the National Referral Mechanism - which identifies victims of human trafficking or placed under a protection order.\n\nThis is the third week that police forces across the UK have co-ordinated raids.\n\nThe latest police operation \"demonstrated the power of a whole-system response to a complex problem that we're seeing in every area of the UK\", said Ms Holland.\n\nMs Holland called on professionals working with people at risk of being involved in county line operations to assist, saying: \"It's the nurses, teachers, social workers, GPs, and anyone who works with young or vulnerable people, that can really help to make a difference.\"\n\nNathaniel Peat, founder of the Safety Box, an organisation which delivers programmes to young people to reduce violence, notes that many young people who serve prison sentences for drugs are exposed to more violence in prison.\n\n\"They can become even more vulnerable in prison, they're often under pressure to beat people up or will be beat up themselves. They go in for drugs and come out violent, and that's when the knife crime rises.\"\n\nLast week three drug dealers from London and Kent who used vulnerable teenagers to traffic crack cocaine and heroin to Portsmouth were jailed in a \"landmark case\".\n\nThey are believed to have been the first to have been charged with modern slavery offences.\n\nOther recent cases before the courts include two brothers from Birmingham who ran a network supplying heroin and crack cocaine in Hereford, while a police operation on 1 May resulted in 24 arrests and raids in Newcastle, Stevenage, Norwich, Glasgow and London.\n\nIryna Pona, policy manager at the Children's Society, said the charity had heard \"shocking stories of children being groomed with money and drugs before the life of glamour they have been promised quickly descends into a nightmare\".\n\nShe said while it was good to see police are stepping up their fight against the gangs \"too many children exploited through county lines are still... failing to get help from an independent advocate to ensure they are supported as victims\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rory Stewart: \"Part of the bold offer will be around workers' rights\"\n\nTheresa May has said a \"new and improved\" Brexit deal will be put to MPs when they vote on the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill in early June.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Times, Mrs May said the bill will be a \"bold offer\".\n\nCabinet minister Rory Stewart told the BBC he hoped extra guarantees on workers' rights would enable \"sensible\" Labour MPs to support the government.\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn said Labour would oppose the bill and it was \"very difficult\" to see it making progress.\n\nWhile he would consider new proposals \"very carefully\", he said what was being talked about did not appear \"fundamentally different\" from what was already on the table.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said support in Scotland for staying in the EU had strengthened since the 2016 referendum - when 62% of voters backed Remain - and voters should send a clear message about this in Thursday's European elections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"Every other party is ...defining everybody on 2016. We're not\"\n\nMrs May announced this week that MPs would vote on the bill - which would bring the withdrawal agreement into UK law - in the week beginning 3 June. If the bill is not passed, the default position is that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal.\n\nLabour has said it will vote against the bill after talks with the government on trying to agree a compromise acceptable to its MPs broke down.\n\nThe bill risks failing to clear its first parliamentary hurdle, with many Conservative Brexiteers, as well as the DUP, SNP and Liberal Democrats, also opposed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"The SNP has been clear and straight with people: We want to keep Scotland in the EU\"\n\nBut in her Sunday Times piece, Mrs May said she will \"not be simply asking MPs to think again\" on the same deal that they have repeatedly rejected - but on \"an improved packaged of measures that I believe can win new support\".\n\nThe PM said she wanted MPs to consider the new deal \"with fresh pairs of eyes - and to give it their support\".\n\nWith any sales pitch that sounds like it's too good to be true, it's important to check the small print.\n\nAnd so with Theresa May's promise of a \"new and improved\" Brexit deal - MPs will be wondering what exactly has changed.\n\nA promise of a further referendum would win plenty of support from Labour but Downing Street's ruled that out.\n\nChanges to the Withdrawal Agreement, including the Northern Ireland backstop, would sway the DUP and many of her own MPs, but the EU won't agree to that.\n\nAdditions on workers' rights and environmental protections might be enough to sway a few Labour votes.\n\nAnd there may be - after a series of votes in Parliament - some movement on the UK's future customs relationship with the EU, but that is as likely to turn off Tory MPs as it is to woo the opposition.\n\nNot for the first time there appear to be no good options for Theresa May.\n\nBut a \"bold offer\" is quite a promise to make, and if her deal has a hope of passing, she will somehow have to live up to it.\n\nRory Stewart, who is the international development secretary, suggested the two main parties were \"about half an inch apart\" on the three main issues under discussion - protecting employment rights and environmental standards and having a strong trading relationship with the EU and the rest of the world.\n\n\"None of us want to remain in the European Union, none of us want a no-deal Brexit which means logically there has to be a deal,\" he said.\n\n\"We're in the territory of a deal and where we need to focus is Parliament and particularly getting Labour votes across - maybe not Jeremy Corbyn's vote but there are many other moderate, sensible Labour MPs that we should be able to bring across.\"\n\nWhile Labour \"reserved the right\" to consider new proposals, Mr Corbyn said the official talks were at an end and he would not hand ministers a \"blank cheque\"\n\nAny agreement, he said, must include the scope for future governments to exceed the EU's employment and environmental standards not just keep pace with them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Vince Cable: \"It's absolutely clear that no Brexit is where we should be going\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chuka Umunna: \"Faced with no-deal or revocation, you've got to revoke\"\n\nOn the issue of another referendum, he said Labour had kept the option on the table but any vote would have to be on a \"credible\" deal - which he suggested did not exist right now.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said he would be prepared to support the bill if the government agreed to give the public the final say on the terms of exit in a referendum.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr his party had discussed the \"practicalities\" of holding another public vote and it was possible before the 31 October deadline.\n\n\"We need a proper referendum that will come to a resolution on the issue, with remain on the ballot paper.\"\n\nBut Change UK spokesman Chuka Umunna said there was \"simply not enough time\" to hold a referendum before 31 October.\n\nGiven it was \"almost certain\" the Withdrawal Agreement Bill would be defeated, he said the only option was for the the UK to stop Brexit by revoking Article 50.\n\n\"We are facing a national emergency,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\n\"What would be undemocratic would be imposing a no-deal Brexit on the British people that there is not a mandate for.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives jostling to be the next prime minister\n\nA cabinet meeting on Tuesday is to consider plans for another series of \"indicative votes\" by MPs to establish which proposals could command a majority.\n\nAsked if he would accept anything backed by Parliament, which has so far failed to unite behind an alternative, Mr Corbyn said it was \"very unlikely\" to resolve the impasse.\n\n\"The government has to come up with legislation, through negotiation with the EU,\" he said.\n\n\"The idea that they can produce a bill at the beginning of June and get it through all its stages by the end of July is very very unlikely.\"\n\nBrexit had been due to take place on 29 March. But the UK was given an extension until 31 October after MPs three times voted down the withdrawal agreement Mrs May had negotiated with the EU - by margins of 230, 149 and 58 votes.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "AI-powered voice assistants with female voices are perpetuating harmful gender biases, according to a UN study.\n\nThese female helpers are portrayed as \"obliging and eager to please\", reinforcing the idea that women are \"subservient\", it finds.\n\nParticularly worrying, it says, is how they often give \"deflecting, lacklustre or apologetic responses\" to insults.\n\nThe report calls for technology firms to stop making voice assistants female by default.\n\nThe study from Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is entitled, I'd blush if I could, which is borrowed from a response from Siri to being called a sexually provocative term.\n\n\"Companies like Apple and Amazon, staffed by overwhelmingly male engineering teams, have built AI systems that cause their feminised digital assistants to greet verbal abuse with catch-me-if-you-can flirtation,\" the report says.\n\n\"Because the speech of most voice assistants is female, it sends a signal that women are... docile helpers, available at the touch of a button or with a blunt voice command like 'hey' or 'OK'. The assistant holds no power of agency beyond what the commander asks of it. It honours commands and responds to queries regardless of their tone or hostility,\" the report says.\n\n\"In many communities, this reinforces commonly held gender biases that women are subservient and tolerant of poor treatment.\"\n\nPeople are increasingly asking voice assistants such as Alexa a whole range of questions\n\nResearch firm Canalys estimates that approximately 100 million smart speakers - the hardware that allows users to interact with voice assistants - were sold globally in 2018.\n\nAnd, according to research firm Gartner, by 2020 some people will have more conversations with voice assistants than with their spouses.\n\nVoice assistants now manage an estimated one billion tasks per month, according to the report, and the vast majority - including those designed by Chinese tech giants - have obviously female voices.\n\nMicrosoft's Cortana was named after a synthetic intelligence in the video game Halo that projects itself as a sensuous unclothed woman, while Apple's Siri means \"beautiful woman who leads you to victory\" in Norse. While Google Assistant has a gender-neutral name, its default voice is female.\n\nApple did make a male Siri voice available in 2013 and that is the default voice in languages including British, Arabic and French.\n\nThe report calls on developers to create a neutral machine gender for voice assistants, to programme them to discourage gender-based insults and to announce the technology as non-human at the outset of interactions with human users.\n\nA group of linguists, technologists and sound designers are experimenting with a genderless digital voice, made from real voices and called Q.\n\nThe report also highlights the digital skills gender gap, from lack of internet use among girls and women in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South Asia, to the decline of ICT studies being taken up by girls in Europe.\n\nAccording to the report, women make up just 12% of AI researchers.", "Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is closing six of his 42 UK Jamie's Italian restaurants.\n\nThe Aberdeen, Cheltenham, Exeter, Tunbridge Wells and in London, the Ludgate and Richmond outlets are all scheduled to close soon.\n\nThe move will affect 120 staff, whom the company said it would try to place in other parts of the chain.\n\nThe company said that the market was \"tough\" and the uncertainties caused by Brexit had intensified the pressures.\n\nThe price of ingredients bought in Italy has gone up because of the fall in the value of the pound against the euro since the vote to leave the EU.\n\nChief executive Simon Blagden said: \"As every restaurant owner knows, this is a tough market and, post-Brexit, the pressures and unknowns have made it even harder.\"\n\nHe said each restaurant in the chain needed to attract 3,000 diners a week to be profitable.\n\nJamie's Italian has 28 overseas outlets and the company also said it planned to open another 22 outside the UK.\n\nLast year, Jamie Oliver said he would buy back the Jamie's Italian restaurants business in Australia.\n\nHe moved after Keystone Group, which ran the operation, went into receivership and put the franchise up for sale.\n• None 'Your paella is an abomination'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage said his party was mostly funded via donations of £25\n\nThe Electoral Commission is visiting the offices of The Brexit Party to review how it receives funding.\n\nA spokesperson said Tuesday's visit was part of its \"active oversight and regulation\" of donations.\n\nEx-PM Gordon Brown accused the party - which is riding high in polls ahead of the European elections - of receiving a large amount of money via small \"undeclared, untraceable payments\".\n\nAn Electoral Commission spokesman said if there was \"evidence that the law may have been broken\", it would consider it \"in line with our enforcement policy\".\n\nThe watchdog said the visit was arranged on Monday, adding that it does meet regularly with parties both during and outside campaigns to verify their processes.\n\nUnder the rules governing donations to political parties, amounts below £500 do not have to be declared.\n\nAn official donation of £500 or more must be given by a \"permissible donor\", who should either be somebody listed on the UK electoral roll or a business registered at Companies House and operating in the UK.\n\nThe Brexit Party has updated its website to say that those making donations or becoming registered supporters must comply with those requirements.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gordon Brown wants the Electoral Commission to investigate Brexit Party funding\n\nAt an event in Glasgow on Monday, Mr Brown said there was no way of telling whether donations to The Brexit Party - which can be made through PayPal - come from British or foreign sources, and therefore the system was being abused.\n\nOther political parties - including the Conservatives and Labour - also use PayPal to collect donations on their websites.\n\n\"You can pay to this party in Russian roubles or American dollars,\" Mr Brown said.\n\n\"Democracy is ill served, and trust in democracy will continue to be undermined, if we have no answers as to where the money is coming from,\" he added.\n\nLabour MP Chris Bryant has also said the system is open to abuse.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Bryant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nResponding to the Mr Brown's comments, Mr Farage said: \"Most of our money has been raised by people giving £25 to become registered supporters.\"\n\n\"And over 110,000 of them now have done that. And frankly, this smacks of jealousy because the other parties simply can't do this.\"\n\nWhen asked if the party took donations in foreign currency, Mr Farage replied: \"Absolutely not, we only take sterling - end of conversation.\"\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell called for \"a full and open and transparent, independent inquiry into the funding of Mr Farage\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for right reasons.\n\nOn Monday, Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice told Radio 4's Today programme the party applied \"the appropriate Electoral Commission rules\" to amounts above £500.\n\nAsked if he could confirm whether the party takes cash from foreign citizens, Mr Tice said: \"I don't sit in front of the PayPal account all day so I don't know what currencies people are paying in, but, as I understand it, the PayPal takes it in sterling.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party said it required people to give their name and address before contributing £500 or more.\n\nChange UK said: \"We identify all donors, including those under the £500 threshold, so that we can conduct a permissibility check should the aggregate of donations per donor exceed the £500 threshold.\"\n\nIn 2013, the Electoral Commission issued guidance to parties that \"if a donor makes regular payments for an unspecified donation and towards an unspecified total amount, our view is that these payments should be treated as separate donations.\"\n\nAs you might expect, the world of party funding and finance is a complicated one. But an interesting element to pin-point is this issue of smaller donations.\n\nUnder UK law a donation to a political party that's under £500 does not have to be reported to the Electoral Commission. In fact, that kind of financial contribution doesn't even count as a donation. So, for example, the usual rules around the money having to come from a UK elector or UK-registered company don't apply.\n\nWhat wouldn't be allowed are repeated small donations, from the same source, in order to dodge the donation limits.\n\nSignificantly, these rules originate from legislation that's nearly 20 years old - the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. Back then, they probably didn't worry about the risk that parties might be able to crowdfund from foreign donors, and one academic's told me that the law is no longer \"fit for purpose\".\n\nMeanwhile, when it comes to the Electoral Commission's plan to visit The Brexit Party's offices - I understand that officials and the party have been in dialogue for several weeks and that's it's not necessarily unusual for the commission to meet parties to ensure that their systems are up to scratch. However, it appears that the commission hasn't yet visited any others during this particular campaign.\n\nDuring his speech, Gordon Brown also attacked Mr Farage for receiving £450,000 from Leave campaigner Arron Banks while still a member of the European Parliament.\n\nMr Brown said The Brexit Party leader should have declared the payments he was receiving \"to avoid a conflict of interest\".\n\nAsked about it following an investigation by Channel 4 News, Mr Farage said he did not declare it to the European Parliament because he was about to leave politics and had been seeking a new life in the US.\n\nLib Dem MEP Catherine Bearder has written to the President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani calling for an investigation into the matter. Green MEP Molly Scott Cato said she had also referred Mr Farage to the European Anti-Fraud Office.\n\nMeanwhile, a man has been charged with assaulting Nigel Farage by throwing a milkshake at him.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader had given a speech in Newcastle on Monday ahead of the European elections when the incident happened.", "Despite being known for its heavy industry, there is only one foundry left in Middlesbrough.\n\nWilliam Lane Foundry has been struggling for orders in recent years but 24-year-old Sam is hopeful that will change.\n\nHe is the foundry’s youngest team member and is determined to keep the skills alive and pass them on to future generations.\n\nThis video was created as part of We Are Middlesbrough - a BBC project with people of the town to tell the stories that matter to them.", "Prime Minister Theresa May has unveiled what she called her new Brexit deal\n\nThe backstop is perhaps the most controversial part of the prime minister's Brexit deal.\n\nIt is an insurance arrangement designed to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic under all circumstances.\n\nIt would keep the UK in a \"single customs territory\" with the EU, and leave Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nSome MPs fear it could trap the UK in a customs union with the EU while Northern Ireland unionists think it would diminish their place in the union.\n\nIn her speech on Tuesday, the prime minister said she had listened to unionist concerns.\n\nBut she was also clear that the backstop would be staying in the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nInstead, she promised to give legal force to commitments that she has already made and proposed an enhanced role for the Northern Ireland Assembly - should it ever be reconstituted.\n\nFirstly, Theresa May said there would now be a legal commitment to find \"alternative arrangements\" for the Irish border by December 2020.\n\nAlternative arrangements basically mean technological solutions for the Irish border which would allow trade to flow across it unimpeded, even if the UK is outside the EU's customs union and single market.\n\nThe Irish border has been one of the most contentious issues surrounding Brexit\n\nBrexit supporters see this as being key to avoiding the backstop.\n\nHowever, a government commitment to seek alternative arrangements by the end of 2020 is not new - it was laid out in a joint statement with the EU in March.\n\nThe prime minister also said that if the backstop was applied and Northern Ireland had to continue to follow EU rules, then the rest of the UK would voluntarily follow those same rules.\n\nThat is also not new - it was part of a package of commitments announced by the UK government almost six months ago.\n\nHowever, the government would claim that moving from political promises to legally binding commitments should be seen as significant.\n\nWhat was new in the prime minister's speech was the role that Stormont would play if the backstop was ever implemented.\n\nIn January, the UK government said that if any new areas of Northern Ireland-specific alignment were to be added to the backstop, then it would \"seek the agreement of the Northern Ireland Assembly\".\n\nNI's devolved government collapsed in January 2017 following a bitter dispute between Sinn Féin and the DUP\n\nThat stopped well short of a Stormont veto - Westminster was only required to seek agreement, not to get it.\n\nThis has now been toughened up.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"The Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive will have to give their consent on a cross-community basis for new regulations which are added to the backstop.\"\n\nThe words \"cross-community basis\" are important as it means that a simple majority vote of the assembly would not be enough.\n\nIt is possible that unionists, who dislike the very concept of the backstop, could use a blocking mechanism known as the petition of concern.\n\nWhat would happen if Stormont did veto any addition to the backstop is not entirely clear.\n\nAll we can say for sure is that there is a mechanism in the Withdrawal Agreement that ultimately allows the EU to take \"appropriate remedial measures\" if the UK does not update the backstop.\n\nThere is also the question of how to define a new regulation - under the Withdrawal Agreement a regulation is not new if it is replacing or amending an existing regulation.\n\nSo it is likely that Stormont would only, very rarely, get an opportunity to wield its veto.", "The exact figure was not given, but Amazon is the biggest investor in Deliveroo's latest round of fund raising, which in total raised $575m (£450m).\n\nDeliveroo said it would use the money for international expansion, improving its service and to grow its delivery-only kitchens business.\n\nSeveral existing US investors also contributed to the fund raising.\n\nThe amount of capital invested in Deliveroo since it was founded in 2013 now totals more than $1.5bn, and the firm is one of Europe's fastest growing technology companies.\n\nDeliveroo founder and chief executive Will Shu said he was looking forward to working with \"such a customer-obsessed organisation\" like Amazon.\n\nAmazon said it was attracted by Deliveroo's \"innovative technology service\".\n\nThe backing from Amazon gives Deliveroo a boost against rivals such as JustEat and Uber Eats.\n\nThe online retailer briefly had its own UK food delivery venture, Amazon Restaurants UK, which it started in 2016 but closed just two years later.\n\n\"They [Amazon] weren't able to compete within the market so they've gone for the buying option instead. They've got the money behind them to do that,\" Louise Dudley, fund manager at investment firm Hermes, told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"It [Deliveroo] is not just a food delivery company it's very much a tech company. They have this tech platform that is seen is very attractive. They are able to expand into new areas and think about how people's tastes are evolving and be able to predict what stores will be successful. That predictive growth is very attractive to Amazon\".\n\nAmazon had previously been reported to have made approaches to buy Deliveroo outright. Uber also reportedly had talks with Deliveroo over buying it.\n\nIt was already a fierce contest - now the battle to dominate the food delivery business in the UK just moved to a whole new level.\n\nIn a rare failure Amazon decided last year to pull its Restaurants food service out of a UK market where Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats were scrapping to be top dog. Now it's put its firepower behind Deliveroo, which was already confident that its technology platform gave it the edge.\n\nThe company will now use some of its extra cash to build more of its \"super kitchens\" expanding its offering beyond traditional restaurants and invest more in machine learning to speed up delivery times.\n\nWhether the market for food deliveries is quite as big as all the firms believe - and whether it stretches far beyond London twenty-somethings - remains to be seen but they all seem prepared to spend big money to win the lion's share.\n\nThe question is why did Amazon not just buy the whole business? Perhaps the ecommerce giant wanted to sample a starter before swallowing the whole three course meal.\n\nDeliveroo now operates in more than 100 towns and cities across the UK, but has a much smaller share of the market than rival Just Eat which dominates the food delivery sector.\n\nJust Eat's shares fell 8% in early trading, but analysts at Liberum said that despite the extra funding, Deliveroo was unlikely to become a serious competitor.\n\n\"Just Eat's market leading position will be incredibly difficult to overcome, especially given its strength in smaller towns.\n\n\"In the UK, it has an estimated 3-4 times greater share than Uber Eats and Deliveroo combined and, crucially, 60%+ of its customers are in small towns where it is effectively the only option for restaurants and where the Uber Eats/Deliveroo model just doesn't work because of the economics,\" Liberum said.\n\nMr Shu came up with the idea for the firm after he moved from New York to London as a banking analyst. He was working long hours and was frustrated by the fact so few restaurants delivered, a service he had used daily in the US.\n\nIn the firm's early days, Mr Shu delivered all the food himself on a motorbike, while Greg Orlowski, his co-founder who has since left the business, developed the booking technology from his home in the US. Mr Shu still claims to get on his bike once a week to deliver an order to customers in London, as a way of staying in touch with riders.\n\nAs well as the UK, Deliveroo now operates in Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, the United Arab Emirates and Taiwan.\n\nGlobal sales at the firm more than doubled in 2017, jumping to £277m, but its losses continued to increase, doubling to nearly £185m as it invested in global expansion.\n\nThe firm uses more than 60,000 couriers - mostly using bikes or moped - to deliver food from restaurants to customers.\n\nDeliveroo does not employ its riders directly, but pays them per delivery.\n\nLast year, a group of 50 UK Deliveroo couriers won a six-figure payout after claiming they had been unlawfully denied holiday and minimum wages.", "What's behind the rising tensions between the US and Iran?\n\nUS President Donald Trump has always hated the Iran nuclear deal. Now Iran is threatening to stop complying with some of its obligations under the agreement.\n\nHow did we get here? And is the deal crumbling?", "Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson described protests over lessons at her school as aggressive\n\nA head teacher at a primary school giving lessons on LGBT equality has received threatening emails and phone calls.\n\nPolice are investigating messages sent to Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson at Anderton Park Primary School in Birmingham.\n\nThere have been seven weeks of protests outside the site from which \"hundreds\" of pupils were kept away on Monday.\n\nBirmingham MP Jess Phillips has called for an exclusion zone at the school to limit where people can demonstrate.\n\nThe city council is looking into Ms Phillips' request, with the authority's leader saying some outside the school are \"peddling hatred\".\n\nThe complaints at Anderton Park, mainly from Muslim protesters, focus on lessons for which pupils have been given books featuring cross-dressing children and gay families.\n\nThe protests' leader says that amounts to \"social engineering\".\n\nSimilar teaching has been opposed in letters sent predominantly by conservative Muslims to schools across England, BBC Newsnight reported last week.\n\nRailings at Anderton Park Primary School have been adorned with heart-shaped messages of support\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson said of the protests: \"There's a whole variety of emotions: embarrassment for lots of our community and our parents who think this is just awful what's happening; frustration that it's going on so long; frustration that great British laws like 'you can protest peacefully' actually are causing us a problem.\n\n\"It's interesting what a normal person on the street would think peaceful means and what actually is peaceful outside here.\"\n\nShe described the scene in the Sparkhill area of the city as \"very loud, it's very aggressive, it's tiresome\".\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson said she was \"meeting lots of parents\", with a series of 12 meetings set up between now and the end of June.\n\nShe also denied a claim from some parents that she is Islamophobic, saying she believed in \"equality for everybody\".\n\nIn England, relationships education will be compulsory for all primary pupils from September 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents and campaigners have been protesting for seven weeks.\n\nShakeel Afsar is the leader of the Anderton Park protests, although he has no children at the school.\n\nHe said the school had pulled \"the shutters down\" on parental engagement and was promoting LGBT lifestyles to children.\n\nHe said 600 pupils were kept from school on Monday \"to make it crystal clear we will not have our children indoctrinated or participating in any social engineering programmes which undermine our family values by promoting child sexualisation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is in the books that parents are protesting about?\n\nAnderton Park said more than half of the 700-strong student body had attended school. The council has been contacted to confirm attendance figures.\n\nOvernight, counter-protesters adorned the site with heart-shaped messages featuring the words \"love is the answer\".\n\nWest Midlands Police, which is investigating the threats against Ms Hewitt-Clarkson, said officers were also looking into \"disorder\" outside the school in which eggs were thrown at the counter-protesters.\n\nThe force said it was investigating three reports of assault and two of criminal damage.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOutside the school earlier, Mr Afsar was involved in a stand-up disagreement with Ms Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley.\n\nShe said protesters could not \"pick and choose\" which equality they could and could not have.\n\nSaying the worst thing about the protests was damage \"to the reputation of a peaceful\" community, she called for an exclusion area \"to protect the 700 children in this school\".\n\nIan Ward, leader of Birmingham City Council, said he had asked authority officers to see whether they could use a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) to counter the protests.\n\nHe said: \"If a PSPO is not appropriate, then we will look at alternative options, because the children and staff at Anderton Park have a right to attend school without this daily disruption.\n\n\"It's one thing for parents to ask questions about elements of a school curriculum, it's quite another for others to pounce on the situation as an excuse to peddle hatred and misinformation.\"\n\nA council spokesperson said PSPO proposals would normally go out to public consultation and, based on response, a decision made by the authority and \"police leads\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May is setting out the details of a series of compromises designed to try and win the support of Labour MPs for her Brexit plan.\n\nThe cabinet earlier agreed the idea of a temporary customs relationship until the next general election, and measures on the environment and workers' rights.\n\nThese will be included in the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, to be put to a vote in the Commons in early June.\n\nThe SNP and some Tory Brexiteers have already said they will vote against.\n\nThe PM briefed MPs and ministers on the contents of the speech - entitled \"A new Brexit deal - seeking common ground in Parliament\" - beforehand.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Withdrawal Agreement Bill is legislation required to bring the withdrawal agreement negotiated with the EU into British law.\n\nMPs have rejected the withdrawal agreement three times, and talks with Labour on finding a compromise deal acceptable to their MPs broke down last week.\n\nDowning Street said there was a \"shared determination\" in cabinet to find a way of passing the legislation although it conceded \"strong opinions\" had been aired on how best to do this.\n\nAt the meeting, Mrs May told her ministers: \"The Withdrawal Agreement Bill is the vehicle which gets the UK out of the EU and it is vital to find a way to get it over the line.\"\n\nNo 10 said the bill, when it was published, would contain \"some significant new aspects\".\n\nInternational Development Secretary Rory Stewart suggested on Sunday that the government and Labour were \"half an inch apart\" on key issues and \"sensible\" Labour MPs could be won round.\n\nBut shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said she believed her colleagues would vote against the Withdrawal Agreement Bill as she had heard there was \"no radical difference\" in what was being offered.\n\nTheresa May is hoping to win over enough Labour MPs to counteract Tory rebellion\n\nFor Theresa May getting her cabinet behind her plan for another push towards a Brexit deal was the easy bit.\n\nMinisters agreed legislation to deliver Brexit should be the vehicle for compromises to bring enough Labour MPs on board to counteract the still strong rebellion by those on her own side.\n\nThe plan supersedes the idea of so-called indicative votes in the Commons on Brexit options.\n\nThe problem is that opposition on the Conservative side has probably hardened, not softened, since her last failed attempt.\n\nThe hope in Downing Street is that those wanting another referendum or a form of Brexit that keeps us closer to the EU may back this bill and try and get their way during later detailed debate.\n\nThe emphasis now is on hope and perhaps not very much of it.\n\nMs Thornberry told BBC Radio 4's Today that She said Labour was still pushing for a customs union with the EU and close alignment with the single market after Brexit.\n\nHowever, Commons leader and Brexiteer Andrea Leadsom said she would back the bill \"so long as it continues to be leaving the European Union\", which she defined as being outside both of those structures.\n\nShe also stressed the need to be prepared for a no-deal Brexit, telling Today: \"What I do think is that for any negotiation to succeed, you have to be prepared to walk away.\"\n\nRemaining within a customs union would avoid the need for tariffs (taxes) to be imposed on goods moving between the UK and the EU, but many Brexiteers feel it would also prevent Britain making the clean break from Brussels that they want.\n\nIf the bill passes its first parliamentary hurdle - known as second reading - in early June, MPs will then have an opportunity to propose changes as they examine it in detail.\n\nIt is thought some Labour MPs who oppose Brexit and want another referendum might be tempted to back the bill in the hope of inserting another public vote into it later on.\n\nHowever, several Tories - including former Brexit Secretary David Davis - have said they will vote against the bill at the first opportunity precisely to stop this happening.\n\nEx-minister Mark Francois, a vocal critic of the prime minister, said if the vote was held today the bill would be defeated by a huge margin.\n\nHe told the BBC that MPs who had backed the PM in the past would be \"more reluctant\" to do so if the party got a drubbing in the European elections and she would have to rely on Labour votes to get her way.\n\n\"Unless she is rescued by a Marxist, the Withdrawal Agreement Bill is dead on arrival,\" he told Radio 4's World at One.\n\nMr Francois dismissed comments to be made later by Philip Hammond, who will warn prospective Conservative leadership contenders against \"hijacking\" Brexit by \"knowingly inflicting\" a damaging no-deal exit on the economy.\n\nThe chancellor will tell business leaders that there is \"no mandate\" for such a no-deal exit and that even with \"all the preparation in the world\" it would be highly damaging.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is the UK in a crisis over leaving the EU?\n\nMr Francois said the chancellor was a \"Remain fanatic\" and he suggested the public increasingly backed leaving with a deal and trading with the EU using World Trade Organization rules.\n\nOn Sunday, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said that was now \"the only way the democratic will of the people can be delivered\".\n\nThe UK was originally due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back when MPs failed to approve Mrs May's deal.\n\nWhen the new deadline was announced, the government said it would \"continue to make all necessary preparations\" for a no-deal Brexit, after it was reported that departments had stood down their planning.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Facial recognition: 'Law has not caught up with technology'\n\nThe first major legal challenge to police use of automated facial recognition surveillance has begun in Cardiff today.\n\nEd Bridges, whose image was taken while he was shopping, says weak regulation means AFR breaches human rights.\n\nThe civil rights group Liberty says current use of the tool is equivalent to the unregulated taking of DNA or fingerprints without consent.\n\nSouth Wales Police defends the tool but has not commented on the case.\n\nIn December 2017, Mr Bridges was having a perfectly normal day.\n\n\"I popped out of the office to do a bit of Christmas shopping and on the main pedestrian shopping street in Cardiff, there was a police van,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"By the time I was close enough to see the words 'automatic facial recognition' on the van, I had already had my data captured by it.\n\n\"That struck me as quite a fundamental invasion of my privacy.\"\n\nThe case could provide crucial guidance on the lawful use of facial technology.\n\nIt is a far more powerful policing tool than traditional CCTV - as the cameras take a biometric map, creating a numerical code of the faces of each person who passes the camera.\n\nThese biometric maps are uniquely identifiable to the individual.\n\n\"It is just like taking people's DNA or fingerprints, without their knowledge or their consent,\" said Megan Goulding, a lawyer from the civil liberties group Liberty which is supporting Mr Bridges.\n\nHowever, unlike DNA or fingerprints, there is no specific regulation governing how police use facial recognition or manage the data gathered.\n\nLiberty argues that even if there were regulations, facial recognition breaches human rights and should not be used.\n\nSouth Wales Police is the biggest user of facial recognition technology\n\nThe tool allows the facial images of vast numbers of people to be scanned in public places such as streets, shopping centres, football crowds and music events.\n\nThe captured images are then compared with images on police \"watch lists\" to see if they match.\n\n\"If there are hundreds of people walking the streets who should be in prison because there are outstanding warrants for their arrest, or dangerous criminals bent on harming others in public places, the proper use of AFR has a vital policing role,\" said Chris Phillips, former head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office.\n\n\"The police need guidance to ensure this vital anti-crime tool is used lawfully.\"\n\nFacial recognition's usefulness for spotting, for example, terrorist suspects and preventing atrocities is clear but Liberty says the technology is being used for much more mundane policing, such as catching pickpockets.\n\nMr Bridges had his image captured by facial recognition for a second time at a peaceful protest against the arms trade.\n\nHis legal challenge argues the use of the tool breached his human right to privacy as well as data protection and equality laws.\n\nThree UK police forces have used facial recognition in public spaces since June 2015:\n\nLiberty believes South Wales Police has used facial recognition the most of the three forces, at about 50 deployments, including during the policing of the Champions League final in Cardiff in June 2017, where it emerged that, of the 2,470 potential matches made, 92% (2,297) were wrong.\n\nSouth Wales Police has gone to considerable lengths to explain its use of facial recognition and last year described it as \"lawful and proportionate\".\n\nWhen the technology was tested recently in London, one man was fined for a public order offence.\n\nBBC News also reported that at least three chances to assess how well the systems dealt with ethnicity had been missed by police over five years.\n\nCivil liberties groups say studies have shown facial recognition discriminates against women and those from ethnic minorities, because it disproportionately misidentifies those people.\n\n\"If you are a woman or from an ethnic minority and you walk past the camera, you are more likely to be identified as someone on a watch list, even if you are not,\" said Ms Goulding.\n\n\"That means you are more likely to be stopped and interrogated by the police.\n\n\"This is another tool by which social bias will be entrenched and communities who are already over-policed simply get over-policed further.\"\n\nLiberty says the risk of false-positive matches of women and ethnic minorities has the potential to change the nature of public spaces.\n\nLast week San Francisco became the first US city to ban the use of the technology, following fears about its reliability and infringement of people's liberty and privacy.\n\nThe information commissioner and the surveillance camera commissioner have both become involved in Mr Bridges's case, as has the Home Office, indicating the high level of interest and concern about the parameters within which facial recognition can lawfully operate.\n\nThe case is expected to last three days, with judgment reserved to a later time.", "Did the prime minister just make it worse? It hardly seems that would have been possible.\n\nHer agreement with the EU had been sharply kicked out several times by MPs. She'd promised that she would quit and get out of the way if that bought more support. Then she took the risk of talking to the political enemy to try to get a different deal.\n\nBut those measures failed - leaving her hope this time to dangle a bauble to each of Parliament's different Brexit tribes in the much more extensive plan of how she'd actually put our departure into law.\n\nBut even before she started talking, many MPs simply weren't listening.\n\nAfter she finished, public rejections from almost all quarters started to pour in.\n\nOf course, the vote itself on this bundle of measures won't be for at least a week - a lifetime in this hyper-speed world. A lot could change.\n\nBut the diplomatic way of describing the situation tonight? Compromising when no one else is interested in consensus is impossible.\n\nThe more brutal political interpretation - Theresa May's mishandling of this whole situation has, over many, many months, pulled her deeper and deeper down into a quagmire of her own creation.\n\nAn attempt at this stage to ask others for understanding to help her escape is just too late - far, far too late. Now some Conservative minds are turning to whether she can stay on to have this vote at all.", "Three-time Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda produced the \"most courageous act of any sportsman\" in returning to racing so soon after a horrific crash, says former team-mate John Watson.\n\nAustrian Lauda, who won the drivers championship in 1975, 1977 and 1984, died aged 70 on Monday.\n\nHe almost died following a crash in the 1976 German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring.\n\nDespite suffering severe burns and inhaling hot toxic fumes, he resumed racing 40 days later.\n\nWorld champion Lewis Hamilton said he was \"struggling to believe you are gone\". The Briton added on Twitter: \"I will miss our conversations, our laughs, the big hugs after winning races together. God rest your soul.\n\n\"Thank you for being a bright light in my life. I'll always be here for your family should they ever need me. Love you man.\"\n\nWatson was a team-mate of Lauda at Brabham and McLaren in the 1970s and 1980s and was one of the first people to attend to him after the crash.\n\n\"I came around shortly after the accident and the other drivers that were there managed to get him out of the cockpit and walked him away,\" Watson told the BBC.\n\n\"We lay him down and I put his head in my lap and he was able to communicate.\n\n\"Nobody realised the actual damage to Niki. The real danger he was in was not from the superficial injuries that we could see but from the deeper injury which was that to his lung.\n\n\"He'd suffered inhalation of toxic fumes from the burning fibreglass and we didn't appreciate the severity of the injury that he'd suffered.\n\n\"It was only after two or three days that the story came out that it was the lung damage that was the injury putting his life in danger.\n\n\"Racing 40 days after that accident was the most courageous act of any sportsman I've ever seen in my life.\"\n\nWatson, 73, added: \"What was really more remarkable was the speed of his recovery and what he was able to achieve.\n\n\"His courage, his commitment, focus, determination and bloody-mindedness. All the naysayers were saying that 'Lauda is finished' but his health and condition at Monza was just remarkable.\n\n\"He was winning the world title in 1976 by a country mile up to that accident and it was this year where there was this battle between Niki and James Hunt, so there was a lot of motivation to get back into the car.\"\n\nThree-time world champion Sir Jackie Stewart told BBC Radio Four's Today programme: \"During that accident he died twice and was resuscitated.\n\n\"Recovering from that accident, he came to Monza [for the Italian Grand Prix], which I was doing commentary for. He shouldn't have been there but wanted to get back to racing.\n\n\"I will never forget him putting his helmet on and he was suffering so much pain. When he came out from driving at the end I was there and the blood was running down out of his helmet.\n\n\"It's very sad news. I've known Niki for a long time and he was just entering grand prix racing when I was retiring. We had a season together. He always had great integrity and was one the smoothest, best drivers I've ever seen.\"\n\n'One of the greatest legends'\n\nAs non-executive chairman of Mercedes, Lauda helped them win both the drivers' and constructors' title in each of the past five seasons.\n\nTeam principal Toto Wolff said: \"First of all, on behalf of the team and all at Mercedes, I wish to send our deepest condolences to Birgit, Niki's children, his family and close friends.\n\n\"Niki will always remain one of the greatest legends of our sport - he combined heroism, humanity and honesty inside and outside the cockpit.\n\n\"His passing leaves a void in Formula 1. We haven't just lost a hero who staged the most remarkable comeback ever seen, but also a man who brought precious clarity and candour to modern Formula 1. He will be greatly missed as our voice of common sense.\n\n\"Our Mercedes team has also lost a guiding light.\n\n\"As a team-mate over the past six and a half years, Niki was always brutally honest - and utterly loyal. It was a privilege to count him among our team and moving to witness just how much it meant to him to be part of the team's success.\"\n\nNico Rosberg, who won the world title in 2016 with Mercedes, tweeted: \"Dear Niki. Thank you for everything that you did for me. I learned so much from you.\n\n\"Your passion, your fighting spirit, to never give up, you belief that you always meet twice in life, and even your patience with us youngsters.\n\n\"Myself and all of your 100 million fans around the world whom you also so strongly inspired to never give up in the hardest of times are thinking of you and your family and wish that you rest in peace.\"\n\nActor Daniel Bruhl played the role of Niki Lauda in the film 'Rush', which focused on the 1976 Formula 1 title battle between Lauda and Briton James Hunt.\n\nOn Tuesday, Bruhl paid tribute to Lauda and wrote on Instagram: \"The bravest man, I've ever met, not only because he was an F1 world champion in the crazy '70s and had the most incredible comeback in sport's history, but also because of how he treated people.\n\n\"Always honest, straight forward, blunt. Niki told you the truth in your face, no matter how uncomfortable. He was totally unpretentious and incredibly funny. I learned a lot from him and deeply admired him.\n\n\"I know how much you enjoyed flying. Race the sky in peace immortal champ, we'll miss you.\"\n\n'A sad day for the entire motorsport community' - reaction from the rest of F1\n\nFerrari: \"Everyone at Ferrari is deeply saddened at the news of the death of our dear friend Niki Lauda.\n\n\"He won two of his three world championships with us and will always be in our hearts and in those of all Ferrari fans.\n\n\"Our sincere condolences go to all his family and friends.\"\n\nFormer world champion Damon Hill: \"He was a remarkable individual in every way. I was certainly one person that looked at Niki and thought 'I'll never be half the man he was.\n\n\"His career was stylised and characterised by his intelligent approach. When he came up against Alain Prost, he knew he couldn't beat him on speed so he beat him on tactics.\n\n\"He was thoughtful, intelligent, pragmatic and just got the job done.\"\n\nFormer world champion Jenson Button: \"A legend has left us. Rest in peace Niki.\"\n\nRed Bull driver Max Verstappen: \"Shocked by the loss of Niki Lauda. He was a true legend in our sport and someone I had great respect for. May he rest in peace.\"\n\nRed Bull team principal Christian Horner: \"Rest in peace to an F1 legend that I was lucky enough to call a friend. A very sad day for the entire motorsport community.\n\n\"All at Red Bull Racing share their thoughts with Niki's family and friends at this time. Godspeed Niki.\"\n\nMcLaren: \"Niki will forever be in our hearts and enshrined in our history.\"\n\nFormer driver Johnny Herbert: \"A real loss to sport and a big hole in our hearts. Courageous, chatty, and extremely funny.\n\n\"I am going to miss you being around the F1 paddock but the legend of Niki Lauda will live on, because you were a very, very special man. Thanks for all the memories.\"", "Jamie Oliver's two flagship London restaurants have gone into administration, although the celebrity chef immediately bought one back.\n\nHis upmarket Barbecoa steak restaurant in London's Piccadilly will close a year after it was re-launched.\n\nThe other outlet, near St Paul's Cathedral, has been saved after the chef bought it for an undisclosed sum via a newly-created subsidiary.\n\nThe move comes as Mr Oliver makes cuts in other parts of his business.\n\nBarbecoa St Paul's was bought back under a so-called pre-pack arrangement, which allows the purchase of the best assets of a business before it actually goes into administration.\n\nThe Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group was already cutting costs in other areas, despite the chef putting £3m of his own money into the business in December.\n\nLast month it announced that it was shutting down 12 of its 37 Jamie's Italian restaurants - the mainstay of the group - as part of a rescue plan with creditors that would enable it to continue trading.\n\nThe closure of the 12 restaurants will affect at least 200 jobs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jamie Oliver's two flagship London restaurants have gone into administration.\n\nCourt documents revealed that Jamie's Italian had debts of £71.5m.\n\nHowever, £47m of the debts are covered by loans from HSBC Bank and Jamie Oliver's other companies.\n\nThe chain also closed down six Jamie's Italian restaurants in January 2017.\n\nAt the time, the company said that the closures were due to uncertainties caused by Brexit and a \"tough\" market.\n\nOther British restaurant chains have been struggling in recent months.\n\nIn January, burger chain Byron announced that it too had entered into a company voluntary arrangement, which would mean that up to 20 Byron burger restaurants would need to close.\n\nMr Oliver has seen several setbacks to his business in recent years.\n\nIn 2017, he closed the last of his Union Jacks restaurants and also shut his magazine Jamie, which had been running for almost 10 years.\n\nIn 2015, he admitted that about 40% of his business ventures had gone wrong and cost him money, but said those mistakes had taught him \"powerful\" lessons.\n\nOther parts of his business empire have been trading strongly.\n\nJamie Oliver Holdings, which controls his media businesses, including books, made profits of £5.4m in 2016 (the most recent year of accounts available).\n\nMeanwhile Jamie Oliver Licensing, which makes money from ranges of products carrying his name made £7.3m.", "Shetland has been named as one of the top 10 destinations in Europe.\n\nIt is the only UK place to feature - at number six - in the new Lonely Planet list for international travellers this summer, which is headed by the High Tatra mountains in Slovakia.\n\nThe guide praises Shetland's wildlife-spotting opportunities and its natural beauty.\n\nIt also highlights the annual Up Helly Aa fire festival as one of the reasons to visit Shetland.\n\nLonely Planet's vice president of experience Tom Hall said: \"Nature rules this stirring setting, which features towering cliffs, rolling hills, sky-blue lochs and spectacular birdlife.\n\n\"Travellers will be captivated by the island's rugged beauty and welcoming locals.\"\n\nIt said visitors to Shetland would be rewarded with \"awesome coastal trails, wicked wildlife watching, and fabled fish and chip shops\".\n\nThe entry adds: \"Spot otters and orcas from craggy headlands, then ease into the evening at one of Lerwick's local pubs. That is until the Viking-inspired Up Helly Aa festival bursts into fiery life each January.\"\n\nSteven Coutts, leader of Shetland Islands Council, said: \"Shetland has long been known as a welcoming destination for travellers, and it's great to have made Lonely Planet - and Europe's - top 10 this year.\n\n\"Those of us who live here know how fantastic the islands are, with stunning scenery and incredible wildlife on our doorstep.\"\n\nPreparations for the 2019 event have been under way since October last year\n\nVisitScotland chief executive Malcolm Roughead added: \"Shetland's appearance as the only UK destination in Lonely Planet's prestigious Best in Europe 2019 is testament to the islands' strong pull for visitors.\n\n\"It boasts breathtaking scenery, unparalleled opportunities to see amazing wildlife and birds, a stunning coastline, delicious local food and drink, unique culture and heritage and an incredible historical and archaeological story to tell.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Three-time Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda has died at the age of 70.\n\nThe Austrian will be remembered for his remarkable recovery and return to racing after being badly burned in a crash in the 1976 German Grand Prix.\n\nOne of the best-known figures in motor racing, his on the track rivalry with British driver James Hunt during the 1970s was immortalised in the film Rush.", "Dwytt Lewis is one of the 400 Morehouse College graduates whose entire student loan debt is being wiped by billionaire philanthropist Robert F Smith.\n\nMr Smith, 56, is the founder of the private equity firm Vista Equity Partners and one of the nation's most prominent African-American philanthropists.\n\nHis net worth is estimated to be around $5bn - making him the wealthiest black American, ahead of Oprah Winfrey.", "Fabrice Muamba collapsed while playing for Bolton Wanderers in 2012\n\nScientists say a new scan technique could identify people at risk of collapsing and dying suddenly from a hidden heart condition.\n\nNormally, in people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, signs of structural changes in the heart can only be picked up after death.\n\nBut University of Oxford researchers used microscopic imaging to spot the same patterns in living patients.\n\nThe condition is the top cause of sudden cardiac death in young people.\n\nIt is a common, inherited condition, affecting one in 500 people in the UK, which can be fatal in small numbers of people.\n\nYet many of those with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, have few or no warning symptoms - and some are able to lead perfectly normal lives.\n\nThe research team focused on detecting those at risk of sudden death, by looking for abnormal fibre patterns in the heart which could lead to potentially deadly heart rhythms.\n\nThis is thought to affect around 1% of people with the condition.\n\nThey can then have a small device implanted in their heart to kick-start it into beating again when an abnormal heart rhythm is detected.\n\nDr Rina Ariga, study author and cardiologist at University of Oxford, said: \"We're hopeful that this new scan will improve the way we identify high-risk patients, so that they can receive an implantable cardioverter defibrillator early to prevent sudden death.\"\n\nShe added: \"We now need to work on making this scan shorter and faster for patients so that we can test its utility in a large multi-centre study.\"\n\nAn almost complete ring of muscle fibres in a normal heart (yellow on the left) is broken or missing in a heart with HCM because of fibre disarray\n\nCurrently, calculating a patient's risk is based on the thickness of their heart wall, their family history, plus any unexplained collapses and abnormal heart rhythms.\n\nThe difference with the Oxford researchers' approach is that they used MRI scans to look at detailed images of the structure of the heart muscle to check for \"muscle fibre disarray\".\n\nThis suggests that heartbeats are not allowed to spread evenly across the heart's muscle fibres.\n\nThe study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, scanned 50 patients with HCM and 30 healthy volunteers and were able to see \"disarray\" in living patients with the heart condition that had previously only been found in patients after sudden cardiac death.\n\nThese patients were also more likely to have abnormal heart rhythms.\n\nThe technique, called diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging, is normally used on the brain - but advances mean it can now be used on the heart.\n\nDr Steven Cox, chief executive of charity Cardiac Risk in the Young, said: \"It is fantastic to think in the future these clinical findings could be identified in patients living with HCM and used to help in their routine diagnostic and treatments pathways.\"\n\nDr Cox said the key to identifying those at risk in the general population was through cardiac screening \"using the cost effective and non-invasive ECG [electrocardiogram] test\".\n\nThis is available to book for under 35s via the charity's Test My Heart website.\n\nProf Metin Avkiran, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation, which helped to fund the research, said: \"Although further work is needed to refine and test this scan, its potential benefit to patients with HCM is huge.\n\n\"This work is an excellent example of cutting-edge, research-led technology that could change the way we diagnose and treat heart and circulatory diseases.\"\n• None How it feels to have a faulty heart gene and how to find out if you have a problem - BBC Newsbeat\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. In Scunthorpe, residents fear the town will \"shut down\" if British Steel collapses\n\nLabour has urged the government to nationalise British Steel in order to protect jobs and the steel industry.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the collapse of British Steel would have a \"devastating impact\" on Scunthorpe.\n\nBritish Steel is on the verge of administration as it continues to lobby for government backing, sources say.\n\nThe UK's second-biggest steel maker had been trying to secure £75m in financial support to help it to address \"Brexit-related issues\".\n\nIf the firm does not get the cash it would put 5,000 jobs at risk and endanger 20,000 in the supply chain.\n\n\"If an agreement cannot be struck with British Steel, the government must act to take a public stake in the company to secure the long term future of the steelworks and protect peoples' livelihoods and communities,\" said Mr Corbyn.\n\nThe government said it would leave \"no stone unturned\" in its support for the steel industry.\n\nBritish Steel's main plant is at Scunthorpe, but it also has a site in Teesside.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Business Minister Andrew Stephenson said: \"I can reassure the House that, subject to strict legal bounds, the government will leave no stone unturned in its support for the steel industry.\"\n\nUK Steel's director general, Gareth Stace, said: \"The statement from the business minister today provided a glimmer of hope for the Scunthorpe site.\n\n\"This does provide some breathing space for the company, its employees, and the wider steel sector, providing a potential route towards a stable and sustainable future.\"\n\nThe request for emergency financial support from the government is understood to have been reduced from £75m to about £30m.\n\nIn April, British Steel borrowed £100m from the government to enable it to pay an EU carbon bill, so it could avoid a steep fine.\n\nReports have said that British Steel shareholder Greybull Capital and lenders have agreed to pump new money into the firm.\n\nHowever, unless a deal is reached by Tuesday afternoon, the firm could go into administration within 48 hours. EY would be expected to be appointed as administrators on Wednesday.\n\nIf a company goes into administration, then the insolvency practitioners appointed to run the business will try to rescue it by selling it, or parts of it, as a going concern.\n\nBut if that is not possible it will be liquidated, meaning that it will be closed down and its saleable assets will be sold.\n\nFor staff in Scunthorpe, it's a waiting game.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC's consumer affairs correspondent Colletta Smith spoke to a British Steel staff member who was too worried to be named. He said that two of his colleagues have just got mortgages and are petrified they won't be able to make payments.\n\nNews that the company is in trouble isn't a surprise though, as there are piles of finished steel on the factory floor, with no customers to send it to, he said.\n\n\"We're doing a bit at work, but it's mostly sitting around doing nothing as the orders just aren't there\".\n\nHe said staff feel let down by the owners.\n\n\"They've just stripped this company and now they're putting nothing back. Our only hope is a government bailout, but this time it feels different. I don't think they'll save us.\"\n\nSources close to Greybull Capital say its lenders have told them that unless they can secure a £30m lifeline they will pull the plug on British Steel tomorrow.\n\nThe timing of this could hardly be worse for the government coming as it does right before the European elections.\n\nCynics might suggest that Greybull is not unhappy with the timescale of the plea.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark has a very tough decision, as I've already written.\n\nThe question may be whether the government can put this down to Brexit mitigation and tap the same source of contingency funds Chris Grayling disastrously used to procure emergency ferry capacity.\n\nAt least there would be an immediate dividend - to stave off the collapse of a firm that employs 4,500 people directly and has 20,000 more at risk in the supply chain.\n\nHowever, having already lent £100m to cover a genuinely Brexit-related carbon emissions bill - further assistance to a private company struggling in a deeply challenged industry may be a precedent they would rather not set.\n\nLast Thursday, British Steel said it had the backing of shareholders and lenders and that operations were continuing as usual while it sought a \"permanent solution\" from the government to its financial troubles.\n\nIt is understood that along with administration, nationalisation or a management buyout are being discussed as fall-back options for the company.\n\nBritish Steel's troubles have been linked to a slump in orders from European customers ‎due to uncertainty over the Brexit process.\n\nThe firm has also been struggling with the weakness of the pound since the EU referendum in June 2016 and the escalating trade US-China trade war.\n\nOne of its biggest customers is Network Rail, 95% of whose rails are supplied by British Steel's Scunthorpe plant.\n\nIn 2007, India's Tata conglomerate entered the UK steel market after it bought the Anglo Dutch group, Corus. In 2010, the business was renamed Tata Steel Europe.\n\nAfter a difficult few years, Tata sold the Scunthorpe long products division to private equity firm Greybull Capital for a nominal £1.\n\nGreybull's rescue came during the depths of the steel crisis in 2016 and saved more than 4,000 jobs.\n\nIt then rebranded the company as British Steel and recently returned it to profit.\n\nOn Monday, the government, trade unions and employers signed a UK Steel Charter in Parliament. The charter calls on the government and large companies to buy British to boost UK industry.", "David Davies says he uses a body camera because of the abuse he gets.\n\nThe pro-Brexit MP for Monmouth has voted for Theresa May's deal.\n\nDuring an interview on the subject, a member of the public called him a liar and a traitor.", "The victims of the attack clockwise from top left - Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sébastien Bélanger, Ignacio Echeverría, Xavier Thomas, Sara Zelenak, Kirsty Boden\n\nAn off-duty doctor begged to be let out of a restaurant on lockdown during the London Bridge attacks so that he could help injured victims, an inquest heard.\n\nStaff at Lobos tapas bar locked the door to the restaurant as three men stabbed people on Borough High Street on 3 June 2017, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nBut junior doctor Jonathan Moses said he persuaded staff to let him out when he said: \"I can't watch them die.\"\n\nDr Moses said he then told one of the wounded: \"I'm going to save you.\"\n\nThe medic, who at the time had four months' experience as an accident and emergency medic, had been having dinner with a friend when he heard people \"shouting and screaming\" in the street outside.\n\n\"I could hear people saying 'Oh God, oh God, help, help, they've been stabbed, they've been stabbed',\" he told the inquest into the deaths of eight people killed in the attacks.\n\nDr Moses said he ran downstairs to the restaurant door after seeing two people lying on the pavement outside.\n\n\"The place was in a panic - people running away from the door, people screaming,\" he said.\n\nHe said he told a member of staff who was guarding the door to let him out because he was a doctor.\n\n\"He said 'There's people being attacked, I can't let you out',\" Dr Moses said.\n\n\"I said 'I can't watch them die. You have to let me out and just lock the door after me to keep people safe'.\"\n\nThe court saw footage of Ignacio Echeverría on a Santander bike moments before he was killed\n\nDr Moses looked visibly relieved as he finished giving his evidence. He had only been a junior doctor for about 18 months when he found himself at the centre of the horror unfolding at London Bridge.\n\nHe briefly became upset as he shakily recounted persuading the manager of Lobos to let him go and help.\n\nThe court heard him recall that he was calm and on \"autopilot\" when he rushed out of the restaurant.\n\nHe went on to treat other victims including Ignacio Echeverría. He helped to carry him across London Bridge and continued chest compressions while running.\n\nHe then remembered being told by an air ambulance doctor at the scene: \"You have to treat this like a warzone.\"\n\nThe court was shown a triage sheet from the scene, listing the victims and grading their priority for being taken to hospital.\n\nIt was a stark reminder of the decisions doctors had to take that night.\n\nOnce outside, Dr Moses approached a wounded woman, now known to have been Marie Bondeville.\n\n\"She kept saying she's going to die,\" he told the court.\n\n\"I held her hand. I told her 'You are not going to die. I'm going to save you',\" he said.\n\nMs Bondeville was one of 48 people hurt when Rachid Redouane, Youssef Zagbha and Khuram Butt drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing people at random.\n\nDr Moses said he spent about four or five minutes with Ms Bondeville before moving on to help perform CPR on Ignacio Echeverría.\n\nMr Echeverría, 39, had run towards the attackers and tried to beat them with his skateboard when he saw one of them stab Ms Bondeville, according to testimony from his friend Guillermo Sanchez-Montisi.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'My son did what he had to do'\n\nMr Echeverría, Mr Sanchez-Montisi and another friend were cycling along Borough High Street after a day's skateboarding on the South Bank when they saw an injured man running away from London Bridge.\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Spaniard Mr Echeverría getting off his bike and running to join PC Wayne Marques and off-duty PC Charles Guenigault who were trying to intervene as the attackers stabbed Ms Bondeville and Oliver Dowling.\n\nMr Echeverría, who worked for HSBC as part of a team fighting money laundering, could then be seen swinging his skateboard at Redouane.\n\nRedouane made a stabbing motion towards Mr Echeverría, who fell to the ground. The footage then showed Zagbha and Redouane attacking him.\n\nMr Sanchez-Montisi said in a statement read in court: \"From the way they were attacking people it was clear that their intentions were to kill everyone.\"\n\nHe said there was a woman, now known to be Ms Bondeville, on the floor being stabbed repeatedly.\n\nMr Echeverría's parents accepted their late son's George Medal from the Queen in October last year\n\nDescribing the moment Mr Echeverría grabbed his skateboard and approached the attackers, Mr Sanchez-Montisi said: \"It was like he didn't even think about it, but reacted immediately.\"\n\n\"One of the attackers was covering his head as Ignacio was hitting him with the skateboard... then suddenly Ignacio was on the floor,\" he added.\n\nMr Sanchez-Montisi said his friend then attempted to fend off the attackers' blows with his skateboard before one of them stabbed him.\n\nMr Echeverría was posthumously awarded the George Medal for his actions.\n\nHis father, Joaquín Echeverría, said the family has not attended the inquest as \"a gesture to show we have complete faith in the justice system in England\".\n\nContinuing his evidence, Mr Sanchez-Montisi said the knifemen looked \"prepared, professional\".\n\nHe said he had to run away because he felt he might become their next target after one attacker \"looked straight at me\".\n\n\"When he was looking at me, his face, he looked like the devil,\" he added. \"It was very painful to leave my friend but we were going to be next.\"\n\n\"I would not wish the feeling impotence, of not being able to do anything, on anyone, even my worst enemy\", he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Belfast woman has said her life was ruined after she was given infected blood in a transfusion.\n\nMarie Cromie found out she had hepatitis C in 2005 and has had to have two liver transplants.\n\nShe spoke ahead of the public inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal starting to hear evidence from people in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nThousands are believed to have been infected with HIV and hepatitis viruses through contaminated blood products.\n\nOthers who had blood transfusions after surgery in the 1970s and 1980s were also exposed to contaminated blood.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Ms Cromie described her shock and anger at being told she was infected and said it \"took away part of my life with my children, with my grandchildren\".\n\nThe public inquiry into contaminated blood arrives in Northern Ireland on Tuesday\n\nMeanwhile, a letter has been sent by party leaders and senior MPs to the prime minister, calling for compensation.\n\nAmong those who signed it are Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Nigel Dodds.\n\nThe public inquiry will hear evidence in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast over four days.\n\nSome of the Northern Ireland victims and their families will give evidence - among them will be Mrs Cromie's daughter Danielle Mullan.\n\nMrs Mullan said the family's world had been \"turned upside down\" by the diagnosis.\n\nShe said: \"It was really hard because I was no longer a daughter, I was more a carer to my mum.\"\n\nShe said that as the years went on it became harder as she saw the complications her mother was having to endure.\n\nMrs Cromie has traced the hepatitis back to a blood transfusion she had to have when her son was born in 1981.\n\nUntil she began to feel very unwell in 2005, she was unaware she had been infected.\n\nAfter testing, a consultant told her she had hepatitis C, that it had already begun to affect her liver and that she would eventually need a transplant.\n\nShe has since undergone two transplants, the second of which took place in 2015 at King's College Hospital in London.\n\nMrs Cromie described being at \"death's door\" waiting for a suitable liver and said it was \"horrible\" having to say goodbye to Mrs Mullan in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital.\n\nShe said: \"I just looked at her and thought: 'I mightn't see you again.'\"\n\nMarie Cromie has had two liver transplants\n\nThe problem dates back to the 1970s when blood-clotting products imported from the US caused some patients to be infected with HIV and hepatitis.\n\nThat is because some of the human blood plasma used to make the products came from donors such as prisoners and prostitutes, who sold their blood.\n\nThe blood products were made by pooling plasma from up to 40,000 donors and concentrating it.\n\nWarnings were raised as early as 1974.\n\nEight years later as the Aids crisis unfolded, the Department of Health in Westminster received expert advice that they should be withdrawn but that was not heeded until 1986.\n\nFamilies want to know why and who within the NHS and the government knew what and when.\n\nFor Mrs Mullan, the seriousness of her mother's condition became clear after a particularly frightening incident when she began to vomit up blood at home.\n\nShe said: \"I went into the bedroom and turned on the light and there was just gallons of blood. Blood after blood. It just kept coming up, wouldn't stop.\n\n\"We phoned for an ambulance, got her to the hospital.\n\n\"They told us it was touch and go for the night and that for me was when it really hit home.\"\n\nDanielle Mullan will give evidence to the inquiry\n\nShe said at that moment she realised her mother was battling something \"way beyond\" a normal infection.\n\nThe public inquiry into what's been called the \"biggest treatment scandal in NHS history\" was announced in 2017.\n\nThe first witness evidence began to be heard in London in April 2019.\n\nBoth women said they would like answers and for someone to take responsibility.\n\nMrs Cromie said: \"Why did somebody take the decision to buy infected blood? To take infected blood from America, from prisoners, drug addicts and give it to us innocent people who needed the blood?\"\n\nMrs Mullan said she would also like better understanding.\n\nShe said: \"I want to kill the stigma that comes with the disease, so many people over the years, you mention the word hepatitis and automatically people think - they must have been a drug user, they were an alcoholic.\n\n\"That's not the case, my mum and all the people who were involved in this inquiry were victims in this.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Derek Martindale's brother was also infected with HIV: \"He knew he was dying... I wasn't there for him\"\n\nFor Mrs Cromie, the public inquiry hearings in Belfast are another step on a long road.\n\nShe said: \"At the start when I got it I was told by a couple of nurses, hepatitis nurses, not to tell too many people.\n\n\"I just had to say: 'Oh I caught a virus.'\n\n\"That's what I said instead of being able to say: 'I got hepatitis C through infected blood.'\"\n\n\"But now, I will say to people when they say about, you know, your transplants and things, I say: 'Yeah I got it through contaminated blood.'\n\n\"And my husband says the same to people. Through no fault of my own, I got it.\"", "The activists were calling on BP to end exploration for oil and gas\n\nA climate change protest which blocked entrances to BP's head office in central London has now ended.\n\nThe Greenpeace activists had placed five large steel containers outside each of the entrances to the building in St James's Square.\n\nKitted out with food, a chemical toilet and internet access, each box contained two protesters who were expected to remain in place for several days.\n\nBut Met Police officers removed them in the early evening, making 10 arrests.\n\nEarlier, four people were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass after protesters abseiled down side of the building to block windows and display banners.\n\nThe aim of the protest was to keep BP's headquarters closed \"for at least the whole of this AGM week\", Greenpeace said.\n\nThe company's annual general meeting is set to take place in Aberdeen on Tuesday.\n\nActivists want BP to end exploration for oil and gas, and only invest in renewable energy.\n\nSome campaigners abseiled down the building in St James's Square\n\nIn a statement, BP said: \"We welcome discussion, debate, even peaceful protest on the important matter of how we must all work together to address the climate challenge, but impeding safe entry and exit from an office building in this way is dangerous and clearly a matter for the police to resolve as swiftly as possible.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency was based at Osprey House in Paisley\n\nPolice Scotland have requested that another force examine \"unprofessional\" conduct within the former Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency.\n\nChief Constable Iain Livingstone said he would ask the external force to peer review an internal Police Scotland investigation which has taken place.\n\nThe development was revealed in papers going before Wednesday's Scottish Police Authority board.\n\nThe misconduct relates to issues raised in a civil claim by a former officer.\n\nA judge agreed that the officer, referred to as Mrs K, had not been fairly treated by the force after raising concerns that a colleague had compromised covert operations.\n\nMrs K had been a detective sergeant working in the special operations unit (SOU) at the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA).\n\nThe agency no longer exists as it was incorporated into Police Scotland, which replaced the old eight-force model in April 2013.\n\nThe officer told the Court of Session in Edinburgh she was left \"extremely concerned\" after uncovering evidence which suggested that covert operations and individuals involved in them may be compromised.\n\nAn internal investigation was launched and, as part of it, Mrs K was questioned by detectives.\n\nThe case was heard at the Court of Session in Edinburgh\n\nDuring a further meeting with more senior officers, she was told she was being suspended from her role as an undercover operative.\n\nShe said she could not understand why this was happening as she was the innocent party.\n\nMrs K brought the court action because she was left feeling as if she had done wrong and maintained that she was a whistleblower.\n\nA 59-page judgement issued in January said further procedures may be required to assess the compensation Mrs K was due.\n\nIn a paper published on the SPA website, Chief Constable Iain Livingstone said the \"assertions... regarding unprofessional practice\" made during the court case had generated \"legitimate interest\" into what had gone on at the SCDEA.\n\nHe instructed Police Scotland's Anti-Corruption Unit to review the chronology, previous investigations and actions. This review is now complete.\n\nMr Livingstone has requested a review by an external force\n\nMr Livingstone added: \"It is clear that the events which took place... were wholly unsatisfactory and unprofessional.\n\n\"While I am entirely satisfied that the review [by Police Scotland's Anti-Corruption Unit] was a thorough, robust and appropriate response, I recognise the legitimate interest that exists about what took place in 2011, and the importance of public confidence in the vital area of covert policing.\n\n\"To that end, I have requested that an external force, which has significant knowledge and experience in the area of covert policing, carry out a peer review to provide independent assurance.\"\n\nHe added that the purpose of the \"independent peer review\" was to make sure that all lines of investigation had been pursued.\n\n\"On completion and receipt of the peer review, I will determine what steps, if any, are required to ensure the integrity of the Police Scotland response and provide further public reassurance over this episode\", he added.", "Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has said he is \"devastated\" after his restaurant group went into administration, with 1,000 jobs being lost.\n\nThe group, which includes the Jamie's Italian chain, Barbecoa and Fifteen, has appointed KPMG as administrators.\n\nTwenty two of the 25 restaurants in Jamie Oliver's restaurant group have now closed.\n\nMr Oliver, who put in £4m cash this year, said: \"I appreciate how difficult this is for everyone affected.\"\n\nTwo Jamie's Italian restaurants and Jamie Oliver's Diner at Gatwick Airport will continue to trade in the short term while the administrators explore options for the outlets.\n\n\"The group had recently undertaken a process to secure additional investment into the business and, since the beginning of this year, Jamie Oliver has made available additional funds of £4m to support the fundraising,\" said the administrators in a statement.\n\n\"However, with no suitable investment forthcoming and in light of the very difficult current trading environment, the directors resolved to appoint administrators.\"\n\nJamie Oliver's Fifteen Cornwall at Watergate Bay, which operates under a franchise, is unaffected. The international restaurants trading as Jamie's Italian, Jamie's Pizzeria and Jamie's Deli will also continue to trade as normal.\n\nMr Oliver tweeted that: \"I'm devastated that our much-loved UK restaurants have gone into administration.\"\n\nAnd in a statement he added: \"I would also like to thank all the customers who have enjoyed and supported us over the last decade, it's been a real pleasure serving you.\n\n\"We launched Jamie's Italian in 2008 with the intention of positively disrupting mid-market dining in the UK High Street, with great value and much higher quality ingredients, best-in-class animal welfare standards and an amazing team who shared my passion for great food and service. And we did exactly that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNotices have appeared in the windows of the 22 branches which have already closed.\n\nThe Unite union said the development was a \"devastating blow for the chain's hardworking and loyal workforce\".\n\n\"Restaurants are not being helped by the current economic uncertainty, although those businesses like Jamie Oliver's that dashed for expansion in recent years seem particularly precarious. As ever, it is the workers at the restaurant and in the supply chain who bear the heavy cost of boardroom decisions.\"\n\nThe union also asked for assurances that staff will be \"protected and paid all the money they're owed, including wages, holiday and redundancy\".\n\nOne Jamie's Italian worker in Birmingham, Valentine Balbinot, said: \"It was just so devastating, we were not expecting this... it is really brutal.\"\n\nMr Oliver is known for his Naked Chef books and TV shows, broadcast in dozens of countries, after first being shown in the UK 20 years ago.\n\nHe has also campaigned for healthier eating, including in school meals.\n\nHis chain is the latest victim of a tough trading environment on the UK High Street.\n\nEarlier this year, cafe chain Patisserie Valerie fell into administration, and 70 outlets closed, with the loss of 920 jobs, although 96 shops were saved.\n\nOther mid-market chains that have struggled in recent years have included Byron Burger, Prezzo and Carluccio's.\n\nMr Oliver's business has faced difficulties over the past two years, with a number of Jamie's Italian and Barbecoa restaurants shutting.\n\nClosed notices have been posted on a number of outlets, including Jamie's in Glasgow\n\nIn 2017, he closed the last of his Union Jacks restaurants and also shut his magazine Jamie, which had been running for almost 10 years.\n\nIn December of that year the chef also put £3m of his own money into his restaurant businesses.\n\nSimon Mydlowski, a partner at law firm Gordons and an expert in the hospitality industry, said Jamie's had failed to keep up with changing trends.\n\n\"To be successful in this sector you have to be constantly evolving - from the menus and the drinks choice, to the way you engage with customers.\"\n\n\"Faced with higher rent, rising food prices and increased competition, restaurants need a point of difference - it's no coincidence that smaller brands with the freedom and flexibility to keep things fresh are currently the ones performing well.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nThree-time Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda has died at the age of 70.\n\nLauda, who underwent a lung transplant in August, \"passed away peacefully\" on Monday, his family said.\n\nThe legendary Austrian, one of the best-known figures in motor racing, took the title for Ferrari in 1975 and 1977 and McLaren in 1984.\n\nFor many, he will be remembered for his remarkable recovery and return to racing after being badly burned in a crash in the 1976 German Grand Prix.\n\nA new generation of fans was introduced to Lauda in the acclaimed 2013 film Rush, which detailed his rivalry with British driver James Hunt, the 1976 world champion.\n\nLauda, who was born in Vienna in February 1949, was a motor racing legend who went on to be a successful businessman following his retirement from the sport.\n\nHowever, he was probably best-known for surviving a crash during the 1976 season which left him scarred for life.\n\nLauda (right) and his rival, British driver James Hunt, in 1974\n\nOn 1 August 1976, one year after winning his first title, he suffered third-degree burns to his head and face and inhaled toxic gases that damaged his lungs after his vehicle burst into flames at Nurburgring.\n\nHe was given the last rites in hospital but made an almost miraculous recovery and returned to racing, still bandaged, just 40 days later.\n\nThe aftermath of the 1976 crash\n\nAfter his career as a racing driver, he became an airline entrepreneur and, most recently, a non-executive chairman for the Formula 1 Mercedes team, instrumental in bringing in British driver Lewis Hamilton, who has won five world championships.\n\n\"His unique achievements as an athlete and entrepreneur are and will remain unforgettable, his tireless zest for action, his straightforwardness and his courage remain a role model and a benchmark for all of us,\" his family's statement said.\n\nHowever, ill health followed him into his later years and he underwent a lung transplant in August 2018.\n\nHe had previously had two kidney transplants, the second donated in 2005 by his then-girlfriend Birgit Wetzinger, a former flight attendant for his airline whom he married in 2008.\n\nIn January 2019, Lauda spent 10 days in hospital while suffering from influenza.\n\nLauda leaves behind his wife, their twins born in 2009, and three sons from previous relationships.\n\nNiki Lauda was perhaps the most heroic and simply remarkable figure in the history of Formula 1, and yet the striking thing about him was how down-to-earth he was.\n\nHere was a man who had cheated death, been given the last rites, and raced a Grand Prix car again a few weeks later with blood seeping into the bandages still covering the burns on his face.\n\nBut in person, Lauda was humble, practical, matter-of-fact and straightforward. There was no arrogance about him. He was warm, friendly, direct and wickedly funny, his humour often directed at himself, or at puncturing some of the pomposity that can sometimes infect Formula 1.\n\nLauda simply said it as it was, often in salty language. He was a man of integrity, and he was respected as much for his character as for his achievements. Which is really saying something.\n\nHe was a titan of the sport who lived a life beyond compare. A legend, in the truest, most absolute sense. He will be profoundly missed.\n\nMercedes said the passing of their \"irreplaceable\" chairman \"leaves a void in Formula 1\".\n\n\"We haven't just lost a hero who staged the most remarkable comeback ever seen, but also a man who brought precious clarity and candour to modern Formula 1,\" Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff said.\n\n\"It was our honour to call you our chairman - and my privilege to call you my friend,\" he added.\n\nMcLaren - the team behind his 1984 victory - said he would be \"enshrined in our history\" in a tweet.\n\nFerrari's Formula 1 team, with which Lauda won two world championships in 1975 and 1977, said he would \"remain forever in our hearts\".\n\nFellow drivers have also been adding their tributes throughout the morning.\n\nBritish former F1 champion Jenson Button has called him a \"legend\" while Nico Rosberg, another former F1 champion, paid tribute to Lauda's \"passion\", \"fighting spirit\" and \"your patience with us youngsters\".\n\n\"Myself and... 100 million fans around the world whom you also so strongly inspired to never give up in the hardest of times are thinking of you and your family. Rest in peace,\" he said in a statement.", "The pound has fallen to its lowest level for five months just as many UK holidaymakers get ready to head off for the late-May half-term break.\n\nAgainst the US dollar, the pound fell below $1.27 for the first time since January on Tuesday. It also fell early in the day against the euro.\n\nBut it picked up again later in the day in a sign of its current volatility.\n\nCabinet backing for Prime Minister Theresa May's latest Brexit plan led to the rebound.\n\nCurrency experts say Brexit uncertainty and the US-China trade war have both contributed to the pound's recent fall.\n\nSterling had gained some ground in recent months, but in recent days rates have fallen back to the kind of levels seen during the Christmas holidays.\n\nIt is a very different picture from March 2008, when the pound was briefly worth more than $2.\n\nHolidaymakers heading off for an early summer break in Europe or the US may be saving money by avoiding the even higher costs of travelling in July and August.\n\nHowever, they are finding that their money will not go as far as it did a few years ago.\n\nAnyone leaving it to the last minute and changing money at the airport will always get the worst rates. At some airports, they will find an exchange rate little better than parity between the pound and the euro.\n\nJames Hickman, chief commercial officer at currency traders FairFx, said that the best rates were given to those who ordered their holiday money ahead. He suggested that would also be a good plan for anyone thinking about their holiday money for later this summer.\n\nAt present, the best rates on pre-loaded currency cards sees a pound buy just over $1.27 and just over €1.13.\n\nFor those collecting from an exchange bureau, the best deals will see the pound get slightly less than $1.26 and just under €1.13.\n\nThe Post Office - the most popular bureau for UK holidaymakers - sees anyone changing more than £400 receiving slightly over $1.24 and just over €1.11 for their pound.\n\nThe recent drop in the value of the pound has come amid speculation over the future of Brexit.\n\n\"When sentiment moves towards a higher likelihood of a hard Brexit, then we see a fall in the pound,\" Mr Hickman said.\n\nThe reverse is also true, shown by the rebound after the cabinet gave its backing to Mrs May's plan for her Withdrawal Agreement Bill, including compromises intended to attract the support of Labour MPs.\n\nSterling is also affected indirectly by the continuing trade war between the US and China.\n\nHamish Muress, currency analyst at OFX, said the pound was \"suffering from the renewed uncertainty of Brexit, while investors flood to the relatively safer US dollar amidst the ongoing trade war\".\n\n\"Looking forward, headwinds look stronger than tailwinds for the pound, particularly with another Brexit vote not set to take place for a few weeks yet. But perhaps the only real hope would come from Donald Trump pressing the pause button with regards to the trade war,\" he added.\n\nAlana Parsons, from foreign exchange firm Caxton, said: \"Getting the most value for your travel money can be tricky, but not if we spend as much time planning our finances as we do researching our holiday destinations.\"", "Chef and author Jamie Oliver is teaming up with Tesco for the first time to promote the company's food products.\n\nHe has created a series of recipes and tips for Tesco, which will include \"healthier\" recipes from scratch.\n\nHis fee has not been disclosed. Mr Oliver earned more than £10m from a previous 11-year deal with rival store chain Sainsbury, which ended in 2011.\n\nHis restaurants, in common with many other High Street chains, have been closing branches to curb costs.\n\nIn an interview with the Financial Times newspaper last week, he revealed he had put £13m of his own money into his Jamie's Italian restaurant business.\n\nLast month, Mr Oliver said he was considering selling his Barbecoa steakhouses and he is in the process of shutting about a third of his Jamie's Italian outlets as part of a rescue plan with creditors that would enable it to continue trading.\n\nJamie Oliver in his first 1999 \"Naked Chef\" series\n\nTesco, the UK's biggest supermarket, said the campaign would see Mr Oliver promote \"helpful little swaps\" in stores, suggesting healthier alternatives with reduced levels of sugar, salt and fat.\n\nThe retailer said a basket of these swaps would cost about 12% less than a regular basket.\n\nIndependent retail adviser, Richard Hyman, said the tie-up was unlikely to bring in many new customers, but added that this was not necessarily the intention: \"It's a positive move but not a game changer.\n\n\"I'm not sure there's any single thing that is a game changer in what is a vastly rougher game than ever. What it does do is provide reassurance to customers, like celebrities do in fashion retailing. And he will help draw existing customers to a broader range of products.\"\n\nJamie Oliver left school with just two GCSEs but was \"discovered\" by a film crew while working at the River Cafe restaurant in west London.\n\nHis Naked Chef TV series in 1999 made him a household name and he has written more than 20 books.\n\nHe has campaigned on a number of health issues, including school meals and battery farmed chickens and eggs, and he was awarded an MBE in 2003.", "Students at an academy in London have been withdrawn from A-level exams after they did badly in mock exams.\n\nStudents at UCL Academy said they now feared having to defer their university applications, while others worry that they may have to pay about £450 to sit an exam elsewhere.\n\nThe Association of School and College Leaders described it as \"pretty unethical conduct\".\n\nThe school said it has \"robust plans in place\" to support students.\n\n\"In some cases this takes the form of an additional year in the sixth form to overcome whatever barriers there are,\" it added.\n\n\"Our very experienced careers adviser and our student wellbeing service is core to this support.\"\n\nZehra - whose surname we are not using - told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that she and other students had been emailed during the Easter holidays saying they had been withdrawn from their chemistry exams.\n\n\"I have health problems, but they didn't care. There was no consideration.\"\n\nShe said she had offers to go to university in September, but now she was facing rejecting these or deferring for another year.\n\n\"I already have anxiety and health problems and this made it a lot worse,\" she added.\n\nShe said there were \"genuine reasons\" why her February mock exam had not gone \"as well as it could have\", and that it was unfair to withdraw her.\n\nUCL Academy, which is based in Swiss Cottage, said \"any decision to withdraw a student from an exam is a difficult one for us to take and is one we make working with a student and their family\".\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said it was \"pretty disturbing and pretty unethical conduct\" by the academy.\n\n\"It seems discourteous being done through email,\" he added.\n\n\"All that preparation has suddenly come to nothing.\n\n\"Schools will always have entry requirements to attend to, and they will have continuation grades at the end of Year 12 to proceed to 13, but here [the students] have got to the 11th hour and been told this. This seems totally unacceptable.\"\n\nThe academy said \"any student at risk of not passing was identified early in the school year. This led to meetings with parents and teachers to flag the concern and agree a plan of support and action. Targets were agreed and action necessary to fulfil them were put in place\".\n\n\"If a student felt they were still in a position to achieve a pass we continued to support them to a final assessment in April.\n\n\"In special circumstances we agreed to extend this into the Easter holiday to give students the best chance possible.\n\n\"We continue to offer support and guidance to individual students.\"\n\nThe pupils affected said it had disrupted their revision at an important time of year\n\nA second student, Neville, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme he was being withdrawn from his maths exam as he was \"underperforming in the mocks\".\n\n\"Two weeks later they then did it for chemistry, too,\" he added.\n\nHe said he was having to pay to do the exams externally, at a cost of at least £450 per subject.\n\n\"It's messed up my revision. All of this has caused so much stress for me to try and just find somewhere to sit my exams, and I haven't been able to revise as much.\n\n\"The school didn't provide any support on what to do next. It's awful.\n\n\"It's really knocked my confidence. I've started doubting myself.\"\n\nUCL Academy said 97% of its A-level exams would be taken as planned.\n\n\"Only in individual circumstances would a decision be taken to withdraw a student from an examination, or recommend a switch to an AS exam.\n\n\"We make decisions based on the individual needs of students. If a student's assessments demonstrate over time that they are not passing the course, or if a student raises personal circumstances that mean a deferral is more appropriate, then withdrawal might be considered.\n\n\"Not to do so could potentially restrict future university applications.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "The restaurant sector is hardly sizzling at the moment.\n\nLast month burger chain Byron agreed a rescue plan with lenders and landlords which could lead to the closure of up to 20 restaurants.\n\nAlso in January, Jamie Oliver's restaurant group said 12 of its 37 outlets would shut their doors - the second wave of closures in the space of a year.\n\nAnd since the beginning of 2015, shares in the Restaurant Group, which owns Frankie and Bennys and Garfunkels, have lost two thirds of their value.\n\nSerial entrepreneur Luke Johnson, who helped expand Pizza Express in the 1990s, says the whole of the food sector in the UK is under pressure at the moment.\n\nBusinesses in the sector are having to pay the new living wage, the apprenticeship levy, and deal with \"upwards-only rent reviews\", he says.\n\nMr Johnson, who among his many business interests is the chairman of casual-dining chain 3Sixty Restaurants, adds that \"food and ingredients costs are affecting the whole eating-out market\".\n\nThat is certainly the case for Jamie's Italian, which said the rising price of ingredients was partly behind its troubles.\n\nIt buys many ingredients from Italy and they have become more expensive due to the slide in the value of the pound since Britain's vote to leave the European Union.\n\nRoger Tejwani, head of consumer sector at stockbrokers Finncap, says there are just too many restaurants.\n\n\"There is too much capacity in the market with consumers having a considerable amount of choice,\" he says.\n\nHe says there needs to be a big decrease in the number of outlets some chains have.\n\nCustomers have so much choice that there is little loyalty, and social media lets people be more aware of a wider range of food, Mr Tejwani says.\n\nFast-casual restaurant firms have to work hard to persuade people to spend - especially as people are already spending more on experiences.\n\n\"They are all competing against each other and other forms of entertainment,\" he says.\n\nSo to win customers restaurant chains have had to discount, making life even tougher.\n\nMr Tejwani argues that restaurants need to move with the times and start taking account of consumer technology.\n\nYounger customers expect to be able to document what they are doing and \"want to be seen in a cool place\", which means restaurants have to be \"Instagrammable\", he says.\n\nCreating that cool environment will require investment, and there's less of that to go around, says Mr Johnson.\n\n\"The banks are pulling in debt lines where they can,\" he says, while private equity is also getting harder to come by.\n\nUncertainties caused by the Brexit process are having an impact on the casual dining sector as a whole, according to consultancy firm Deloitte.\n\nConsumer confidence steadily fell throughout 2017, putting a squeeze on spending on non-essential items, says Deloitte.\n\n\"2018 is going to be a challenging year for restaurants, and they will need a tightly-run ship to survive,\" says Sarah Humphreys, lead partner for casual dining at Deloitte.\n\n\"Consumer tastes such as healthy eating, sustainable food sourcing and informal or experiential dining should not be ignored.\n\n\"Operators should consider how adaptable their models are to changing tastes, or else face the risk of missing out,\" she says.\n\nConsumer spending in general took a hit in 2017, having its worst year since 2012, according to payments processor Visa.\n\nThat's partly because wages have been rising at a slower pace than inflation, leaving consumers worse off.\n\nFood delivery firms such as Just Eat and Deliveroo are a double-edged sword for the sector. They can increase sales, and on balance, they increase profit, says Ms Humphreys.\n\nBut they can put pressure on restaurants if there's not enough staff to fill the takeaway orders and keep the customers in the restaurant happy, says Mr Tejwani.\n\nThere are other downsides. Food delivery firms charge a high commission for delivery, and also restaurants lose the opportunity to sell profitable extras like drinks.\n\nHowever, Luke Johnson says that while the market is \"tough\" at the moment, he remains hopeful for the sector.\n\n\"Generally speaking the industry remains in reasonable health … I'm sure it will remain profitable in five to ten years time.\"", "Rescue workers with the man, whose motivation was unclear\n\nA man who climbed the Eiffel Tower on Monday was taken into custody by police after reaching the top.\n\nThe tower and the esplanade at its base were closed after the man was spotted scaling the structure in the afternoon.\n\nVideo footage showed him close to the observation deck at the top of the tower. His motivation for climbing the 1,000ft (300m) tower was unclear.\n\nThe man, who has not yet been identified, clung to the Parisian landmark for more than six hours.\n\nAn Eiffel Tower spokeswoman told Reuters: \"The man entered the tower normally and started to climb once he was on the second floor.\"\n\nStreets surrounding the landmark were cleared and closed to the public.\n\nThe first two floors of the tower can be reached by lift or stairs, but to go higher than that visitors need to take a lift.\n\nThe tower will reopen to the public at 09:30 local time on Tuesday.", "The politician had just given a speech at the city's Monument when he was covered in milkshake\n\nA man has been charged with assaulting Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage by throwing a milkshake at him.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader had given a speech in Newcastle on Monday ahead of the European elections when a drink was thrown at him.\n\nPaul Crowther, 32, of Throckley, Newcastle, has been charged with common assault and criminal damage relating to Mr Farage's microphones.\n\nHe is due to appear at North Tyneside Magistrates' Court on 18 June.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.\n\nNew footage has emerged showing the moment Nigel Farage had milkshake thrown at him during a campaign walkabout.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader had just given a short speech in Newcastle as part of a tour of the country ahead of the European elections.\n\nA man was taken away by a police community support officer and later seen in handcuffs.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "The European Parliament's advisory committee will look at whether Mr Farage broke rules by accepting funding from Leave campaigner Arron Banks.\n\nNigel Farage said he did not declare the £450,000 sum to the European Parliament because he was about to leave politics and had been seeking a new life in the US.\n\nThe committee will examine the case before advising the European Parliament President Antonio Tajani.\n\nThe committee can meet on 4 June.\n\nMEPs found to have acted improperly can be reprimanded, their parliamentary allowance can be withheld or they can be banned from some activities.\n\nThe payments from Arron Banks to Nigel Farage were revealed by a Channel 4 News investigation.\n\nMr Farage confirmed that he was not talking to Channel 4 News, describing them as \"political activists\", and said he would not allow the broadcaster to attend Brexit Party events.\n\nThe editor of Channel 4 News, Ben de Pear, said on Twitter he hoped \"to resolve our access ban... ASAP\".\n\nSeparately, the Electoral Commission has defended visiting The Brexit Party's offices to review the party's online fundraising activities.\n\nParty leader Nigel Farage accused the watchdog of acting \"in bad faith\" and \"interfering in the electoral process\".\n\nBut the watchdog said there had been \"significant public concern\" about the way the party raises funds.\n\nResponding to Mr Farage's comments, an Electoral Commission spokesperson said there was no evidence of electoral offences, but added: \"We want to satisfy ourselves that the party's systems are robust.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage: Electoral Commission are part of the establishment\n\nThe Brexit Party said it was \"pleased, but not surprised\" by the commission's announcement that it had not seen evidence of electoral offences.\n\nOn Monday, former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown attacked The Brexit Party for receiving a large amount of money via what he called \"undeclared, untraceable payments\".\n\nHowever, Mr Farage dismissed that attack as a \"smear\" and suggested there might be collusion between the Electoral Commission and Mr Brown.\n\n\"I'm certain of it - I'm certain the establishment are working together,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe said the commission had declared itself \"absolutely happy with our system\" last week, but had changed position \"in an act of bad faith, beautifully timed to coincide with Gordon Brown's speech\".\n\nThe watchdog said in response: \"Our regulatory work during this campaign - for the European parliamentary elections - has not deviated from our usual approach.\n\n\"Our decision to visit is not related to comments made by the former prime minister.\"\n\nThe commission said it was \"independent and impartial\", and regulated \"proportionate to the issue, regardless of a party's politics\".\n\nUnder the rules governing donations to political parties, amounts below £500 do not have to be declared.\n\nAn official donation of £500 or more must be given by a \"permissible donor\", who should either be somebody listed on the UK electoral roll or a business registered at Companies House and operating in the UK.\n\nAt an event in Glasgow on Monday, Mr Brown said there was no way of telling whether donations to The Brexit Party - which can be made through PayPal - come from British or foreign sources, and therefore he suspected the system was being abused.\n\nDefending his party's practises, Mr Farage said: \"We make it very clear, we only want your money if you're on the UK electoral roll.\"\n\n\"We're looking for irregularities, if we see things that have come from overseas, we simply send it back,\" he said.\n\nThe Brexit Party has updated its website since Mr Brown's speech to say that those making donations or becoming registered supporters must comply with the permissible donor requirements.", "The sharing economy is now making its way into the fashion industry as Urban Outfitters looks to rent clothes to younger fashionistas.\n\nThe retailer is launching an online subscription service allowing people to borrow six items to wear for a month before swapping them.\n\nThe firm says that in terms of clothing, millennials in particular want variety and sustainability.\n\nThe womenswear service, called Nuuly, will launch in the US this summer.\n\nUrban Outfitters Inc declined to say if and when it will be offered in the UK, stating: \"The brand is looking forward to the opportunity to further evolve and expand both their offering and geographic footprint over time.\"\n\nThe nascent market for online clothing rental is set to grow to $2.5bn by 2023, according to research firm GlobalData.\n\nOne of the more well-known firms in this space is Rent the Runway, a New York company which began in 2009, where women can borrow designer clothes for a monthly payment.\n\nUrban Outfitters' chief digital officer David Hayne told the Wall Street Journal that he expects Nuuly to have 50,000 subscribers and generate $50m in sales in its first year.\n\nUrban Outfitters said: \"Interest in sharing-economy platforms and recurring subscription relationships has grown across industries.\n\nIn womenswear, typically only high-end fashion is on offer to rent\n\n\"In apparel, the millennial consumer, in particular, is seeking out platforms that provide novelty, variety and breadth, while also supporting sustainability.\"\n\nAs well as Urban Outfitters clothing, people can also pay a monthly fee to borrow womenswear from its other brands including Anthropologie, as well as labels such as Levi's, Gal Meets Glam, Anna Sui and Fila.\n\nSubscribers can choose to buy an item or return all the clothing they borrowed before they receive anything else. The returned garments are washed or dry cleaned and inspected before they are loaned out again.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May says failure to back her deal risks \"no Brexit at all\"\n\nTheresa May has said MPs have \"one last chance\" to deliver Brexit, urging them to back what she called a \"new deal\".\n\nMPs will get a vote on whether to hold another referendum if they back the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill, she said.\n\nThe bill also contains new guarantees on workers' rights, environmental protections and the Northern Irish border, as well a customs \"compromise\".\n\nLabour said it was a \"rehash\" of existing plans and Tory Brexiteers took to social media to vent their anger.\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg said what was on offer was \"worse than before\", while Boris Johnson said the proposals contravened the party's 2017 general election manifesto, which ruled out the UK remaining in a customs union with the EU.\n\nHe tweeted: \"We can and must do better and deliver what the people voted for.\"\n\nMPs have rejected the withdrawal agreement negotiated with the EU three times and attempts to find a formal compromise with Labour also failed.\n\nIn what is seen as a last roll of the dice, Mrs May is now bringing the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - legislation required to bring the agreement into UK law - to Parliament in early June.\n\nIn a speech in London, the PM implored MPs to come together, saying a negotiated exit from the EU would be \"dead in the water\" if they rejected the plan.\n\n\"I have compromised, now I ask you to compromise too,\" she said, adding that she had even \"offered to give up the job I love earlier than I would like\".\n\nMrs May said the deadlock over Brexit was having a \"corrosive\" impact on political debate in the country and was stopping progress in other areas.\n\n\"The majority of MPs say they want to deliver the result of the referendum... and I believe there is now one last chance to do that,\" she said.\n\nThe key points of the PM's revised plan are:\n\nWhile she personally opposed another referendum on the terms of Brexit, the PM said she recognised the \"genuine and sincere\" feelings on the issue in Parliament.\n\nShe urged MPs to back the Withdrawal Agreement Bill at its first parliamentary hurdle and then \"make the case\" for another public vote when the bill was examined in detail later.\n\nDid the prime minister just make it worse? It hardly seems that would have been possible.\n\nHer agreement with the EU had been sharply kicked out several times by MPs. She'd promised that she would quit and get out of the way if that bought more support. Then she took the risk of talking to the political enemy to try to get a different deal.\n\nBut those measures failed - leaving her hope this time to dangle a bauble to each of Parliament's different Brexit tribes in the much more extensive plan of how she'd actually put our departure into law.\n\nBut even before she started talking, many MPs simply weren't listening.\n\nMembers of the cabinet, which earlier backed the plan, said they hoped the fresh concessions would galvanise Parliament.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liam Fox said it was \"crunch time\" and by backing the bill, MPs would be able to shape \"what sort of Brexit they want\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: Bill is \"a rehash of what was discussed before\"\n\nBut there was an under-whelming reaction from Labour MPs whom the PM was hoping to win over.\n\nLisa Nandy, the Wigan MP who has said she could be persuaded to back a deal which maintained frictionless trade and employment rights, said the offer was \"very weak\".\n\n\"What she seems to be offering is for Parliament to go round the same track that we have been round before,\" she said.\n\nAnd Peter Kyle, who has made his support conditional on a referendum, said Mrs May's promises could easily be reversed by her successor.\n\nHe said what was being offered was a \"strange complex process\" rather than a \"clean, simple confirmatory ballot on her deal\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Corbyn questioned whether any of it could be delivered given Mrs May had a short time left in office.\n\n\"It's basically a rehash of what was discussed before and it doesn't make any fundamental moves on market alignment or the customs union or indeed protection of rights,\" he said.\n\nTory Brexiteers responded with dismay. Conor Burns, a former ministerial aide to Boris Johnson, said the bill should not now be tabled.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dominic Raab This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIain Duncan Smith said it left the EU \"firmly in control of our destiny\" while Anne-Marie Trevelyan accused Mrs May of \"trying to ram her botched deal through on Labour votes by keeping us in the customs union and allowing Brussels to dictate our future trade policy\".\n\nNorthern Ireland's Democratic Unionists, who keep Mrs May's government in power, said the plans were still \"fundamentally flawed\".\n\nThe SNP said they could not support any plan which took the UK out of the single market while the Lib Dems said Mrs May did not have the political authority to guarantee any of her proposals would ever happen.\n\nSpeaking at a Brexit Party European election rally in London, Nigel Farage said the PM had \"surrendered almost everything\".", "The US has deployed the aircraft carrier strike group to the Gulf\n\nThere are two competing narratives.\n\nThe first, which is favoured by US President Donald Trump's administration, is that Iran is up to no good. Preparations are said to have been seen for a potential attack on US targets, though few details have been revealed publicly.\n\nThe US has moved reinforcements to the region; it is reducing its non-essential diplomatic personnel in Iraq; and it is reportedly dusting off war plans.\n\nThe message to Tehran is clear: any attack on a US target from whatever source, be it Iran or one of its many proxies or allies in the region, will be met by a significant military response.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's behind the rising tensions between the US and Iran?\n\nThe second narrative lays the blame for this crisis squarely at Washington's door.\n\nIran - not surprisingly - holds to this view, but so too do many domestic critics of the Trump administration's approach.\n\nIndeed, to varying degrees many of Mr Trump's key European allies share some of these concerns.\n\nAccording to this narrative, the \"Iran hawks\" in the Trump administration - people like National Security Adviser John Bolton, or Secretary of State Mike Pompeo - sense an opportunity.\n\nTheir goal, this narrative argues, is regime change in Tehran. And if maximum economic pressure does not work then they believe, military action is not ruled out in the appropriate circumstances.\n\nReinstated US sanctions have pushed Iran's economy towards a deep recession\n\nThese two narratives reflect different interpretations of the reality and, as so often, they play up certain facts and ignore others to make their case.\n\nBut perceptions here matter just as much as reality. Indeed, in many ways they produce the reality.\n\nAnd that reality is that a conflict between the US and Iran - albeit by accident rather than design - is more likely today than at any time since Mr Trump took office.\n\nTensions in the Middle East are certainly mounting.\n\nIran, its economy suffering from the re-imposition of US sanctions that were lifted under a 2015 nuclear accord with world powers, is pushing back.\n\nIt has warned that it may no longer abide by the restrictions on its nuclear activities.\n\nIran's President, Hassan Rouhani, has said it does not want to pull out of the nuclear deal\n\nThe arrival of Mr Trump was a turning point.\n\nThe president pulled the US out of the nuclear deal a year ago and embarked upon a policy of maximum pressure against Tehran.\n\nIran has had enough. It is pushing the Europeans to do more to help its ailing economy and threatening if they do not - and it is hard to see what they can do - it will go ahead and breach the nuclear deal.\n\nThat would only give the Trump administration additional ammunition.\n\nJohn Bolton, the US national security adviser, has long pushed for regime change in Iran\n\nMuch now depends upon the dynamics inside the Trump administration and also on Tehran's assessment of what is going on there.\n\nThe president himself has sought to play down the idea that his officials are divided regarding Iran, and reports indicate that he has little enthusiasm for war.\n\nHis opposition to military entanglements abroad is well-known. However Mr Trump is unlikely to back down if US forces or facilities are attacked.\n\nHowever this is not necessarily the way things may be seen in Tehran.\n\nMight Iran think that it can play off Mr Bolton against his boss; raising tensions enough for the national security adviser's perceived designs to be revealed perhaps precipitating his downfall?\n\nIf that is Tehran's assessment, then it is a high-risk strategy.\n\nSpain withdrew a frigate from the US carrier strike group amid differences over Iran\n\nWhile Washington's key Middle Eastern allies - Israel and Saudi Arabia - may be applauding from the sidelines, Mr Trump's European partners are uneasy at the way things are heading.\n\nSpain, Germany and the Netherlands have all taken steps to suspend military activities in the region alongside the Americans, citing the rising tensions.\n\nThis is not the moment to rehearse what a conflict between Iran and the US would look like. But comparisons between such a conflict and the 2003 Iraq war are unhelpful.\n\nIran is a very different proposition to Saddam Hussein's Iraq.\n\nA full-scale invasion of Iran is not going to be on the cards.\n\nRather, this would be an air and maritime conflict with a huge dose of asymmetry in Iran's responses. It could set the whole region ablaze.\n\nThere were those who predicted a major foreign policy catastrophe when Mr Trump took office.\n\nInstead, there is an unfolding and multi-dimensional crisis that has many elements and the Iran situation illustrates them all: an antipathy to international agreements; an over-reliance on regional allies with their own agendas to pursue; rising tensions with long-standing Nato partners; and, above all, an inability to determine and to prioritise Washington's real strategic interests.\n\nWith the revival of great power competition, when the US is seeking to re-orientate its deployments and to bolster its armed forces to face a rising China and an emboldened Russia, where should Iran rate in Washington's strategic priorities?\n\nThe US sees the thousands of Iran-backed Shia Muslim paramilitary fighters in Iraq as a threat\n\nDoes the Iran threat really merit a major conflict? Many US strategic pundits would say no.\n\nMany accept that containing Tehran and, yes, threatening severe reprisals if US interests are attacked, may be necessary. But the steady drumbeat towards war is not.\n\nAnd one thing should be clear. There is no \"drift\" towards war. That suggests an involuntary process that people can do little about.\n\nIf there is a conflict then it will be down to conscious decision-making, to the calculations and miscalculations of the Iranians and the Americans themselves.", "George said in the note he hoped some cards would come in handy\n\nA woman who had her purse stolen 10 years ago has had the contents returned.\n\nBecca Milsom, from Cardiff, said she was \"gobsmacked\" after she was sent a letter signed by a man called George who had found the lost items.\n\nBecca, 28, said the purse was stolen from her car when she was walking up the Wenallt in Rhiwbina.\n\nGeorge's note joked: \"I think your Tesco Clubcard points may have expired, along with your uni discounts.\"\n\nBecca told BBC Wales: \"My dad said I had a letter through the post from my old home which had just been delivered - and in the letter was all my cards. I was gobsmacked.\"\n\nBecca says she hopes to track George down to thank him\n\nThe note reads: \"I hope this finds you well. I came across your wallet whilst supervising vegetation clearance on a site north of Llwyn Y Pia Road in Lisvane.\n\n\"I think your Tesco Clubcard points may have expired, along with your uni discounts, but hopefully the driver's licence and NI card come in handy again.\"\n\nBecca added: \"I haven't had a national insurance card since then. I've been okay because I had the number but I was always a bit wary about it.\n\n\"I want to thank the person who sent it - does he know any more detail and where was it where he found them? I'd just like to thank him.\"\n\nShe said on Facebook she hopes to track George down so she can thank him.", "Three handwritten wills have been found at the home of Aretha Franklin, months after the \"Queen of Soul's\" death.\n\nFranklin died from pancreatic cancer in August and family members said at the time that she had left no will.\n\nBut three documents were found earlier this month. Two from 2010 were recovered from a locked cabinet after a key was located.\n\nOne, dated March 2014, was hidden under living room cushions, a lawyer for Franklin's estate said.\n\nThe will, which was written inside a spiral notebook, appears to leave her assets to her family, said the lawyer, David Bennett.\n\nSome of the writing is very hard to decipher and the four pages have words scratched out and phrases written in the margins.\n\nBennett, who was Franklin's lawyer for more than 40 years, filed the wills on Monday. He told a judge that he's not sure if they are legal under Michigan law.\n\nHe added that the wills had been shared with Franklin's four sons or their lawyers, but they had not reached a deal on whether any of them should be considered valid.\n\nA statement from the Franklin estate said two sons object to the wills.\n\nIn a separate court filing, Franklin's son Kecalf Franklin said his mother wanted him to serve as representative of the estate in the 2014 will but the estate statement confirmed that Sabrina Owens, an administrator at the University of Michigan, will continue to serve as its representative.\n\nMr Franklin is currently objecting to plans to sell a piece of land next to his mother's Oakland County home for $325,000 (£255,960).\n\nAretha Franklin was one of the most celebrated soul vocalists of the 60s and 70s.\n\nShe was recently honoured with a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.; and a previously unseen 1972 movie of the star recording her gospel album Amazing Grace, has just hit cinemas.\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.", "Jude Morrow found it difficult to understand his son Ethan's facial expressions.\n\nBecoming a parent for the first time is a life-changing moment for anyone but it can pose extra challenges when you have autism.\n\nJude Morrow has Asperger's syndrome, a type of autism spectrum disorder, and he struggled with becoming a father when his son Ethan was born.\n\nThe Londonderry man has trouble interpreting and expressing feelings, as well as experiencing sensory issues and he dislikes disruption to his routine.\n\nThat posed a big challenge when he found out he was going to be a father.\n\n\"Adapting to and managing change isn't easy for me at the best of times,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I would always try to avoid any change but I couldn't avoid becoming a dad.\n\n\"I just wanted to know everything right away that was going to happen. I spent hours dwelling on it and thinking about what I could do to prepare for it.\n\n\"It was a drastic life change - it was a downward spiral and I had a very tough time.\"\n\nJude Morrow had just qualified as a social worker when his son was born\n\nAn unpredictable sleeping and eating pattern is expected with a newborn but some people with autism like Mr Morrow depend on a strict sense of order.\n\n\"The constant change with a new baby is something I really had difficulty with because it went against my routine and it really unsettled me.\n\n\"The worst thing is it was hard for me to tell how Ethan was feeling by looking at him because I don't pick up facial cues.\n\n\"I kept staring at him and wondering if he was OK.\"\n\nAlthough becoming a parent was one of the darkest times in his life, it helped the 28-year-old to accept his autism.\n\n\"At that time, my condition was so difficult to live with and I was so difficult to live with that Ethan could see it,\" he said.\n\n\"I kept thinking I would grow out of it but I had to come to terms with it and make peace with myself.\n\n\"I now see it as a difference to be celebrated - I'm proud of my autism now.\"\n\nHe has developed many coping mechanisms since becoming a dad but he still experiences daily challenges with parenting.\n\nJude Morrow hopes sharing his experiences can help new parents who have autism\n\n\"It's things most people don't even consider but I can't handle chaotic situations like children's play areas because of my sensory issues.\"\n\nHe said he still finds it difficult to explain how he is feeling.\n\n\"It can overwhelm me,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't always have an appropriate response to a situation.\"\n\nAlthough his family and friends have been very supportive, Mr Morrow found very few resources for autistic parents.\n\n\"There is a wealth of information for parents of children with autism but not much for parents with autism themselves.\n\n\"I couldn't find anyone who is on the spectrum using their voice to support other people like them so I decided to write a book about my story.\"\n\nMr Morrow has dedicated the book to his son and took the title from something Ethan asked his grandmother.\n\n\"My mum was looking after Ethan and he asked her: 'Why does daddy always look so sad?'\n\n\"I decided to use that as the title for the book.\n\n\"Even at the age of five, Ethan had picked up that I have trouble showing emotion and often have a blank face.\n\n\"Autism is something I never thought I would talk about but I am glad I did because I want it to be a beacon of hope for parents who have autism.\"\n• None 'I was diagnosed with autism at 32'", "Theresa May has urged MPs to back what she has described as a \"new\" Brexit deal - but what exactly is different in this updated withdrawal agreement?\n\nThe prime minister's \"new Brexit deal\" isn't all that new.\n\nFor a start, the withdrawal agreement itself - which includes the backstop plan for the Irish border - remains exactly the same.\n\nThat was always going to be the case. The EU has insisted that there will be no further negotiation on the text.\n\nInstead, the government will seek changes to the accompanying political declaration, which focuses on the future relationship after Brexit.\n\nBut, as we've said many times before, it is not a legally binding document.\n\nWhat Mrs May has offered for the first time is the prospect of a vote on holding a second referendum, and a vote on a temporary customs union.\n\nBut she says that will only be the case if MPs are willing to approve the withdrawal agreement bill in the House of Commons in the first week of June.\n\nThere are also promises on workers' rights and environmental protection - measures designed to appeal to Labour MPs. But similar promises, albeit in different form, have been made before.\n\nAs for Northern Ireland, the PM has said that the government would be under a legal obligation \"to seek to conclude alternative arrangements\" to the backstop by the end of 2020.\n\nBut note the word \"seek\" - it is an aspiration not a guarantee, and finding alternative arrangements, through the use of technology or other means, has so far proved very challenging.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May says failure to back her deal risks \"no Brexit at all\"\n\nMrs May also spoke of a commitment, should the backstop have to come into force, to ensure that Great Britain will stay aligned with Northern Ireland to prevent new checks at the border.\n\nAgain, this is something that has been said before.\n\nNevertheless, the government is portraying this speech as a genuine effort to find compromise.\n\nOthers see it as a last roll of the dice.\n\nThe trouble is that Brexit has become a binary issue, and almost no-one in politics - whether they voted to leave or remain - seems to want to give up on their vision of how all this should be resolved.\n\nThat's why much of the initial reaction to the PM's speech from MPs, from all sides of the House of Commons, including her own backbenches, has ranged from lukewarm to openly hostile.\n\nShe will continue to warn that anyone voting against her latest plan risks losing Brexit altogether.\n\nBut the biggest problem for Mrs May is that there doesn't appear to be a majority in the Commons for any Brexit option.\n\nThat has been clear for many months now.\n\nAnd nothing in this speech is likely to move the goalposts.", "Eric Michels, who made a brief appearance in the Bond film Skyfall, was found dead at his home in Chessington in August 2018\n\nA businessman who appeared in James Bond movie Skyfall was murdered with a GHB drug overdose after being targeted by a serial thief who used gay dating apps to find victims, a court heard.\n\nGerald Matovu, 25, denies murdering Eric Michels, 54, who was found dead at his Chessington home on 18 August.\n\nMr Matovu, of Southwark, is on trial at the Old Bailey with co-defendant Brandon Dunbar, 23, from Forest Gate.\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Rees QC, said the two defendants often worked together and took advantage of hook-ups arranged via apps like Grindr to steal property and take photos of bank cards for the purposes of fraud.\n\nHe said the case involves 26 charges relating to 12 gay men who met one or both of the defendants for the purposes of sex, but ended up as victims.\n\nJurors were told eight of the men were drugged in order to \"render them unconscious\" of whom five had their drinks \"spiked\" and one had drugs injected into his backside.\n\nMr Michels had three children with his ex-wife, from whom he divorced in 2010 after coming out as gay.\n\nOne son - Sam - lived with Mr Michels in Bolton Road, Chessington, and last saw him alive at 19:00 BST on 16 August.\n\nThe court heard he met Mr Matovu in central London after they found one another on Grindr and took a cab back to Chessington.\n\nGerald Matovu is on trial at the Old Bailey\n\nThe prosecution allege that during the course of the following morning, Mr Matovu took photos of Mr Michels' bank cards, driving licence, and various passwords, before leaving the property in a taxi carrying stolen items including a laptop and mobile phone.\n\nThat night Mr Michels' 14-year-old daughter was unable to get a response from her father when she sent him a text asking if he would like to meet, the court heard.\n\nShe sent him a further text on 18 August and received a response from her father's phone saying: \"Hello hun im a little busy talk soon\".\n\nMr Rees told the court Mr Michel's daughter felt the reply was \"totally uncharacteristic of her father\" and she decided to phone him.\n\nHowever, an unknown male answered and hung up when she said who was calling.\n\nAt the time of the call, Mr Michels' phone was in the general area of Mr Matovu's Southwark address, jurors were told.\n\nThe teen and her mother then went to Mr Michel's home, where his daughter was the first to venture inside and found him lying motionless in bed with the duvet pulled up over his nose.\n\n\"She attempted to rouse him by shouting his name, but to no avail,\" Mr Rees said.\n\nMr Rees said evidence points to use of the drug GHB to drug them, which is often used in context of \"chemsex\" in order to \"facilitate sexual activity.\"\n\nThe jury was told large doses \"can induce coma\" and \"in some cases death can arise\".\n\nAlong with the murder charge Mr Matovu denies six counts of administering a poison or noxious substance to endanger life, one count of assault by penetration and one count of causing actual bodily harm.\n\nHe is further charged with five counts of possession of articles for use in fraud, seven counts of theft and possession of a controlled drug of class C - all of which he pleaded not guilty to.\n\nMr Dunbar has pleaded not guilty to five counts of administering a poison with intent to endanger life, one count of assault by penetration, one count of ABH, seven counts of theft, five counts of possession of articles for use in fraud, two counts of fraud and one count of unlawfully retaining a wrongful credit.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Niki Lauda, who has died aged 70, was a three-time Formula 1 world champion, non-executive chairman of the world champion Mercedes team, and one of the biggest names in motorsport.\n\nHe was also a pilot and successful businessman, who set up two airlines and continued to occasionally captain their planes into his late 60s.\n\nBut he will be remembered most for the remarkable bravery and resilience he showed in recovering from a fiery crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix at the fearsome Nurburgring.\n\nLauda - leading the World Championship, having won his first title a year earlier - suffered third-degree burns to his head and face that left him scarred for life, inhaled toxic gases that damaged his lungs, and received the last rites in hospital.\n\nYet he returned to racing just 40 days later - finishing fourth in the Italian Grand Prix. By the end of the race, his unhealed wounds had soaked his fireproof balaclava in blood. When he tried to remove the balaclava, he found it was stuck to his bandages, and had to resort to ripping it off in one go.\n\nIt was one of the bravest acts in the history of sport.\n\nAt the time, Lauda played down his condition. Later, in his disarmingly frank autobiography, he admitted he had been so scared he could hardly drive.\n\n\"I said then and later that I had conquered my fear quickly and cleanly,\" Lauda wrote in To Hell And Back. \"That was a lie. But it would have been foolish to play into the hands of my rivals by confirming my weakness. At Monza, I was rigid with fear.\"\n\nLauda drove that weekend because he felt it was the \"best thing\" for his physical and mental wellbeing. \"Lying in bed ruminating about the 'Ring would have finished me,\" he said.\n• None 'The most courageous act of any sportsman' - tributes paid to 'legend' Lauda\n\nThe accident ended the notorious Nurburgring's time as a Formula 1 circuit.\n\nLauda had been warning for some time that the circuit was too dangerous for F1. Its 14 miles twisting through the Eifel mountains meant the emergency services were stretched too far, he said, and any driver who had a serious crash was therefore at a disproportionately high risk in an era that was already extremely dangerous.\n\nWhat happened on 1 August proved him right. For unknown reasons, Lauda lost control at a flat-out kink before a corner called Bergwerk, hit an embankment and his car burst into flames.\n\nTrapped in the wreckage, but conscious, he was dragged clear by four fellow drivers - but not before he had suffered severe injuries.\n\nLauda carried the scars, including a mostly missing right ear, for the rest of his life and always had a matter-of-fact approach to his disfigurement. It didn't bother him, he said, and if others felt differently, that was their problem.\n\nHis injuries, in fact, were often the butt of his merciless wit.\n\nOnce it was pointed out to him that, owing to the rule that says the original start of a race does not count if there is a restart, he had not officially taken part in the 1976 German Grand Prix. \"Oh yes,\" he said, in his clipped tones. \"So what happened to my ear?\"\n\nThe accident came at a time when Lauda appeared to be cruising to a second consecutive world title for Ferrari, and his determination to return was founded in his desire to shore up a lead that was rapidly diminishing in his absence from competition, under assault from British McLaren driver James Hunt.\n\nThe compelling narrative of that season was effectively the kick-start for F1's current global popularity. The storyline had something for everyone - the ascetic Austrian racing driver-cum-engineer, renowned for his clinical approach and lack of emotions, driving for Ferrari; the handsome, playboy Englishman bon vivant for McLaren. Lauda's crash and awe-inspiring recovery only added to the frisson.\n\nBy the final round in Japan, Lauda was only three points ahead, and when raceday brought torrential rain, he pulled out after two laps, saying it was too dangerous.\n\nLauda admitted he was \"panic-stricken\" - feelings rooted in his crash - but later said he regretted the decision. Ferrari remonstrated with him and tried to convince him to race, but he refused, and Hunt took the third place he needed to win the title by one point.\n\nTheir battle has been turned into a Hollywood film, but it misrepresented them as enemies - in fact, Lauda and Hunt were close friends. So much so they had next-door rooms that weekend in Japan and, on race morning, with Hunt in bed with a girlfriend, Lauda goose-stepped into the room and barked out: \"Today, I vin the Vorld Championship.\"\n\nIt was unarguably the most dramatic, inspiring and fascinating part of Lauda's career, but his life was one lived in Technicolor, and remarkable in its entirety.\n\nHe was a singular personality, brusque and matter of fact, but with a wicked sense of humour and independent mind.\n\nAfter success in the lower categories, Lauda bought his way into F1 in 1971, against the wishes of his well-heeled family, by way of a bank loan secured against his life insurance policy, and started his career with March. He needed a second loan to move to BRM two years later. It was the move that made his career.\n\nHe impressed team-mate Clay Regazzoni, and when the Swiss was signed by Ferrari for 1974, he recommended Lauda.\n\nThe legendary Italian team had been in the doldrums in 1973, but were about to start a strong recovery under the management of the brilliant Luca di Montezemolo. In 1974, Lauda lost out on the title to McLaren's Emerson Fittipaldi only through inexperience, but that was the precursor to dominating in 1975 in the now legendary Ferrari 312T.\n\nAfter narrowly missing out on the title in 1976, Lauda won again in 1977, despite falling out with Enzo Ferrari, whose lack of support following the Nurburgring crash fatally fractured their relationship.\n\nThe atmosphere chilly, amid Lauda's fall-out with the owner and distaste for his new team-mate Carlos Reutemann, Lauda stayed at Ferrari in 1977 only long enough to clinch the title, and pulled out of the final two races before a move to Bernie Ecclestone's Brabham team for 1978.\n\nThe Brabham was beautiful to look at, but its Alfa Romeo engine was uncompetitive, and Lauda began to lose interest in F1. At the Canadian Grand Prix, the penultimate race of the 1979 season, he got out of his car part-way through a practice session and told Ecclestone he was retiring, saying he was \"bored of driving around in circles\".\n\nHe returned to Austria to run his airline, Lauda Air, full-time. But just over two years later he was back in F1, tempted out of retirement by McLaren boss Ron Dennis, on a $3m salary - by far the largest in the sport at the time.\n\nLauda won his third race back - in Long Beach, California - and in 1984 the team were dominant with the new MP4/2, powered by a Porsche engine funded by McLaren's new backer TAG.\n\nLauda was out-paced by new team-mate Alain Prost but won five races to Prost's seven, most as a result of the Frenchman's bad luck or retirement, and clinched the title by half a point, the closest margin in history.\n\nHe stayed for one more year, 1985, when he was uncompetitive but still managed to win in the Netherlands - holding off a charge from Prost - before finally calling it a day for good, aged 36.\n\nThrough both his periods in F1, his driving was characterised by elegant stylishness, all economy of effort and fluidity, which matched his belief it was the driver's job to work as hard as possible on the technical aspects of the car, to make it work for him, and let it do the work. It was not spectacular, but it was certainly effective - as proved by Prost himself, and Jackie Stewart, who shared a similar approach and won a further seven titles between them.\n\nThe end of Lauda's driving career, though, did not mean the end of his links with F1.\n\nIn 1993, Montezemolo offered him a consulting role at Ferrari, though that did not last long into the management of the team's new boss that year - Jean Todt, who went on to mastermind the dominant Michael Schumacher era.\n\nIn 2001, Lauda took charge of the Ford-owned Jaguar team, only to be sacked at the end of 2002 along with 70 other key figures when the performance failed to improve.\n\nFrom then, he largely combined running his new airline Niki - founded in 2003, after the sale of Lauda Air to Austrian Airlines in 1999 - with an analyst's role on the German TV channel RTL's F1 coverage.\n\nBut then, in September 2012, he was appointed a non-executive director of the Mercedes F1 team, a decision made by the Mercedes board, who were unhappy at the team's lack of competitiveness under Ross Brawn, and wanted Lauda as an effective spy in the camp.\n\nAlong with Brawn, Lauda played a key role in the signing of Lewis Hamilton to replace Schumacher at the end of 2012. And in early 2013, he became a 10% shareholder in Mercedes, at the same time as Toto Wolff took on 30%.\n\nWolff, initially appointed executive director, replaced Brawn as team boss in 2014, and after that - as Mercedes dominated the sport in the era of turbo hybrid engines - Lauda had attended races and acted as an adviser to Wolff and the Mercedes board.\n\nIn July 2018, he was diagnosed with a severe lung infection and had a double lung transplant. In November, he and the team posted a message on social media with a video of Lauda saying he would be back at work \"soon\".\n\nBut in January he was diagnosed with pneumonia and taken back into hospital in Vienna.\n\nLauda leaves his second wife Birgit, their twins Max and Mia - born in 2009, two sons from his first wife Marlene Knaus - Mathias and Lukas, and a son - Christoph - born from a third relationship.", "A hit-and-run victim has released CCTV footage of the crash in a bid to track down a driver who left him lying in a road in north London with a head injury.\n\nMedical student Josh Dey was hit on Swain's Lane in Highgate on 21 April.\n\nA local restaurant gave him its CCTV video to help him with his public appeal to find the driver.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was investigating, but no one has been arrested.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A guide to voting in the local elections\n\nThe polls have closed in the elections for 462 new members of Northern Ireland's 11 district councils.\n\nEarlier the Electoral Office described voting as \"steady\". A total of 819 candidates were standing.\n\nPolling stations opened at 07:00 BST and closed at 22:00 BST in the proportional representation election.\n\nTurnout reports from polling stations at 17:00 BST ranged from a low of 15% in east Belfast to as high as 36% in one venue in the north of the city.\n\nThe final turnout in the last council elections five years ago was just over 51%.\n\nFull lists of the candidates standing in each council area can be found on the Electoral Office's website.\n\nA total of 1,305,553 people were eligible to vote.\n\nThe single transferable vote (STV) system is used in council elections, in which voters rank candidates by numerical preference.\n\nVoters marked their ballot with 1, 2, 3 and so on and could indicate as many or as few preferences as they wanted.\n\nVoters will decide who takes the 462 seats that are available across 11 councils\n\nCandidates are then elected according to the share of the vote they receive.\n\nIn advance of this election there had been some concern expressed that the turnout might be down, perhaps due to public disenchantment with politics, perhaps because for the first time in more than two decades these council elections were not happening in tandem with another contest.\n\nIn the event the good weather seems to have brought the voters out in force, with reports of people having to queue to get into some polling stations.\n\nSo it may be we will match the turnout in the last council election five years ago, which was 51%.\n\nCounting begins in the morning, and results will start to be declared during the afternoon. But the full makeup of our new councils won't be clear until Saturday.\n\nThe number of candidates was down from the 905 people who put their names forward for the previous council elections five years ago.\n\nCounting in the elections will begin on Friday morning.\n\nBBC News NI will cover the latest election results and analysis on its website, mobile app and on Facebook and Twitter on Friday and throughout the weekend.\n\nThere will also be special election programmes on BBC Radio Ulster from 16:00 on Friday and 10:00 on Saturday and on BBC Radio Foyle from 17:00 on Friday.\n\nTelevision coverage will be on BBC One Northern Ireland at 15:30 on Friday, BBC Two Northern Ireland at 19:30 on Friday and 10:00 on Saturday, with an hour-long Sunday Politics programme on the same channel at 11:00 on Sunday.", "India is the world's largest democracy and, according to UN estimates, its population is expected to overtake China's in 2028 to become the world's most populous nation.\n\nAs a rising economic powerhouse and nuclear-armed state, India has emerged as an important regional power. But it is also tackling huge, social, economic and environmental problems.\n\nHome to some of the world's most ancient surviving civilisations, the Indian subcontinent - from the mountainous Afghan frontier to the jungles of Burma and the coral reefs of the Indian Ocean - is both vast and varied in terms of people, language and cultural traditions.\n\nDroupadi Murmu was sworn in as president in July 2022. A teacher and former governor of Jharkhand State, she is the first person from a tribal community to serve as India's head of state. She is a member of the governing Bharatiya Janata Party. The presidency is largely ceremonial, but can play a significant role if, for example, no party wins an outright majority in elections.\n\nHindu nationalist Narendra Modi stormed to power on a surge of popular expectation and anger at corruption and weak growth.\n\nDespite Mr Modi's polarising image, his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) scored an unprecedented landslide victory in the May 2014 parliamentary elections.\n\nIt was the first time in 30 years that a single party had won a clear parliamentary majority.\n\nMr Modi fought on his record as chief minister of the economically successful state of Gujarat, promising to revitalise India's flagging economy.\n\nBut his time in Gujarat was overshadowed by accusations that he did too little to stop sectarian riots in 2001 that saw more than 1,000 people - mainly Muslims - killed.\n\nThe Himalayan region of Kashmir has been a flashpoint between India and Pakistan for over six decades.\n\nSince India's partition and the creation of Pakistan in 1947, the nuclear-armed neighbours have fought two wars over the Muslim-majority territory, which both claim in full but control in part.\n\nToday it remains one of the most militarised zones in the world. China administers parts of the territory.\n\nIndia has a burgeoning media industry, with broadcast, print and digital media experiencing tremendous growth.\n\nThere are around 197 million TV households, many of them using satellite or cable. FM radio stations are plentiful but only public All India Radio can produce news.\n\nThe press scene is lively with thousands of titles. India has the second largest number of internet users in the world, after China.\n\nIndian nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi with Viceroy of India Lord Mountbatten and his wife in 1947\n\n2500 BC - India is home to several ancient civilisations and empires.\n\n1600s - The British arrive and establish trading posts under The British East India Company - by the 1850s they control most of the subcontinent.\n\n1920 - Nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi heads a campaign of non-violent protest against British rule which eventually leads to independence.\n\n1947 - India is split into two nations at independence - Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.\n\n1971 - India and Pakistan go to war over East Pakistan, leading to the creation of Bangladesh.\n\n1990s - Government initiates a programme of economic liberalisation and reform, opening up the economy to global trade and investment.\n\n2014 - Hindu nationalist BJP party scores biggest election victory by any party in 30 years.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour has suffered a net loss of council seats - starting from the low base of 2015 in many cases.\n\nThe Conservatives have lost more than 10 times as many councillors, but what is remarkable is that the main party of opposition - around the mid-term of a not-very-popular government - has not made net gains.\n\nIt seems reasonable to assume that some votes have been lost by Labour in Leave areas because - as the leader of Sunderland City Council Graeme Miller has said - the party hasn't decisively ruled out another referendum.\n\n(It has retained it as an option, if the Conservatives are unwilling to change their deal).\n\nBut if you take a close look at the figures in Sunderland, the complexity of Labour's political problems are revealed.\n\nIts vote fell by nearly 17 points there - while UKIP's went up by 4.5.\n\nThe pro-Remain Lib Dems saw their vote rise by nearly 10 points and the Greens by 8.5.\n\nIndeed, the combined vote of the Lib Dems and Greens was 21.4%, not far off UKIP's 23.9%.\n\nThe swing from Labour to the Lib Dems was about 13% and to the Greens 10%.\n\nThose in Labour's ranks who wanted a stronger commitment to another referendum on any Brexit deal are arguing now that the party is losing support in some Leave areas by failing to appeal enough to those who voted Remain.\n\nDefections to the Lib Dems and the Greens suppressed the Labour vote, and further flatters UKIP's performance.\n\nIn leave-supporting Derby, where Jeremy Corbyn's party lost six seats and UKIP gained two, the swing from Labour to Lib Dems was 6%.\n\nBut those who support Labour's current policy - a heavily caveated commitment to a referendum on Brexit under certain circumstances rather than a public vote in all circumstances - say this is too simplistic an analysis.\n\nIn truth, we can't discern the underlying motives of Labour/Lib Dem switchers in every part of the country unless we ask them.\n\nThere are genuinely local factors at play in some areas - unsurprising, perhaps, as these are indeed local elections.\n\nAnd some on Labour's left have another theory. They say the party is vulnerable to a protest vote because some Labour councils have had to cut services due to constrained budgets.\n\nIn some cases the Lib Dems are the beneficiaries\n\nOthers on the left say the party can't get a hearing for its anti-austerity message as the Brexit debate muffles all else.\n\nThey are actually quite keen for their party leadership to reach a deal with the government soon to get Brexit over the line and - they believe - this will then neutralise the political toxicity of the issue.\n\nBut there is little doubt politicians will proclaim to know the will of the people, without necessarily exploring deeper motivations - and the results will be interpreted in a way which advances their own arguments.", "Stephen Dure, also known as Stevie Trap, was jailed in September\n\nA self-styled paedophile hunter has said his channel has been permanently banned by YouTube.\n\nStephen Dure, who is also known as Stevie Trap, previously posted videos of himself confronting alleged sexual offenders in Hampshire.\n\nHe said he has been prohibited from ever owning or using a YouTube account.\n\nThe website said the channel had been terminated because of \"multiple or severe violations\" of policies against bullying and harassment.\n\nPreviously, YouTube said it made a \"mistake\" when it deleted the account in April.\n\nMr Dure, from Southampton, said the channel had been deleted and reinstated three times in the past.\n\nHe said: \"I don't know what YouTube's problem is but I'm actually disgusted by the way they're treating me.\"\n\nThe campaigner said he was moving forward with plans to create his own website.\n\nIn a statement, YouTube said: \"We terminate the accounts of repeat offenders.\"\n\nMr Dure featured in a regional edition of a BBC Inside Out programme in 2017\n\nIn September, Mr Dure was jailed for 15 weeks for falsely accusing a man of grooming teenagers.\n\nHis wrongly-accused victim said he had been sacked and his home had been attacked as a result.\n\nMr Dure appeared in a BBC Inside Out programme in 2017, when he explained how he posed as children on the internet to \"trap\" sex offenders.\n\nHis YouTube and Facebook pages have shown videos of him making citizen's arrests after arranging meetings with suspects.\n\nThe TRAP Community Facebook page has more than 240,000 followers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCoverage: TV highlights on Saturday, 4 May, BBC One at 13:15 BST\n\nCaster Semenya said \"no human can stop me from running\" after winning the 800m at the Doha Diamond League meet amid speculation over her future.\n\nIt comes just two days after the South African, 28, lost a landmark case against athletics' governing body.\n\nSemenya challenged IAAF rules designed to limit testosterone levels in female runners but the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) rejected her appeal.\n\n\"When you are a great champion, you always deliver.\n\n\"It's up to God. God has decided my life, God will end my life; God has decided my career, God will end my career. No man, or any other human, can stop me from running.\"\n\nThe Doha meet was Semenya's final race before the IAAF's new rules come into force on 8 May.\n\nShe added: \"How am I going to retire when I'm 28? I still feel young, energetic. I still have 10 years or more in athletics.\n\n\"It doesn't matter how I'm going to do it, what matters is I'll still be here. I am never going anywhere.\n\n\"I'm going to keep on doing what I do best - which is running.\"\n• None Semenya Q&A: Why is her case pivotal?\n• None 'Nobody has truly won in Semenya case - one side has just lost less than the other'\n\nUnder the new IAAF rules Semenya - and other athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) - must either take medication in order to compete in track events from 400m to the mile, or change to another distance.\n\nOn Thursday, Semenya posted a cryptic tweet that suggested she could quit athletics, including a quote which referred to knowing when to walk away.\n\nAsked by reporters whether she would take medication to allow her to run in the 800m, she replied: \"Hell no.\"\n\nAnd she insisted she would be running in Doha again at the World Championships in September - though she did not know if that would be in the 800m or 5,000m races.\n\n\"With a situation like this you can never tell the future but the only thing you know is that you will be running,\" she said.\n\nVictory in the opening Diamond League event of the season was her 30th in a row at 800m.\n\nThe double Olympic champion showed no emotion as she crossed the finish line in the fastest time of the year and a meeting record of one minute 54.98 seconds, having dominated the race from the start.\n\nBurundi's Francine Niyonsaba finished second with the United States' Ajee Wilson third. Britain's Lynsey Sharp finished ninth.\n\nSharp, 28, told BBC Sport she had received death threats as a result of previous comments she had made about Semenya's \"advantage\".\n\n\"I've known Caster since 2008, it's something I've been familiar with over the past 11 years,\" she said.\n\n\"No-one benefits from this situation - of course she doesn't benefit, but it's not me versus her, it's not us versus them.\n\n\"I've had death threats. I've had threats against my family and that's not a position I want to be in. It's really unfortunate the way it's played out.\n\n\"By no means am I over the moon about this, it's just been a long 11 years for everyone.\"\n\nSemenya can appeal against the Cas ruling to the Swiss Tribunal Courts within 30 days of the ruling.", "Hundreds of people may have missed out on voting in this year's council elections because of pilot schemes requiring them to prove their identity.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said the trial project saw 2,083 voters refused a ballot paper because they weren't carrying the necessary ID, with up to 758 of them not returning to cast their vote.\n\nBroxtowe, Derby and North West Leicestershire were three of the 10 areas involved in the pilot.\n\nCraig Westwood, director of communications, policy and research for the Electoral Commission, said \"nearly everyone\" in the pilot areas was able to vote and showed the correct ID \"without difficulty\", but said government needs to \"consider carefully the available evidence about the impact of different approaches\".\n\nQuote Message: Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\" from Craig Westwood Electoral Commission director of communications, policy and research Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\"", "Unless a rich benefactor steps in, the role of human-induced climate change in Cyclone Idai is unlikely to be clearly determined.\n\nThe scientists with the expertise simply don't have the resources to do the large amount of computer modelling required.\n\nHowever, there are a number of conclusions about rising temperatures that researchers have gleaned from previous studies on tropical cyclones in the region.\n\nWhile Cyclone Idai is the seventh such major storm of the Indian Ocean season - more than double the average for this time of year - the long-term trend does not support the idea that these type of events are now more frequent.\n\n\"The interesting thing for the area is that the frequency of tropical cyclones has decreased ever so slightly over the last 70 years,\" said Dr Jennifer Fitchett from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa who has studied the question.\n\n\"Instead, we are getting a much higher frequency of high-intensity storms.\"\n\nClimate change is also changing a number of factors in the background that are contributing to making the impact of these storms worse.\n\n\"There is absolutely no doubt that when there is a tropical cyclone like this, then because of climate change the rainfall intensities are higher,\" said Dr Friederike Otto, from the University of Oxford, who has carried a number of studies looking at the influence of warming on specific events.\n\n\"And also because of sea-level rise, the resulting flooding is more intense than it would be without human-induced climate change.\"\n\nA poor country with a long coastline, Mozambique is especially vulnerable to storms sweeping in from the Indian Ocean.\n\nMore than 700 lives were lost during a devastating flood there nearly 20 years ago. I was one of many journalists reporting on the plight of communities submerged. One woman, stranded in a tree, was forced to give birth among the branches.\n\nA huge international response saw the Royal Air Force send six helicopters to rescue survivors. Back then, the priority was to save lives. Little thought was given to rebuilding homes and infrastructure with new designs to help them withstand future storms.\n\nDevelopment experts have long argued that reconstruction should enshrine the principle of resilience, with roads raised high enough to stay dry in floods and houses made robust enough to resist cyclone-strength winds.\n\nThere are plenty of examples of how this forward-thinking can help. In low-lying Bangladesh, there are schools built on high ground which can serve as refuges during storms. And as the potential effects of climate change become better understood, there's growing recognition of the need for communities to adapt to what could be tougher conditions ahead.\n\nOne critical factor in the Southern Indian Ocean that is having an impact on these storms is sea-surface temperatures. Warmer seas mean there is more energy available for cyclones, which only form when the water reaches 26 degrees C.\n\nThese storms also need help from the Earth's rotation to get them spinning. This rotating effect gets stronger the further you move away from the Equator and towards the poles.\n\nHowever, in previous decades, the further away you were from the Equator meant the cooler the seas became and so any tropical cyclones that formed didn't have the energy to keep going. Now climate change is impacting that relationship.\n\n\"Under increasing sea-surface temperatures, we are seeing the line of constant temperature required for these storms to form moving further and further towards the South Pole,\" said Dr Fitchett.\n\n\"So it is increasing the range in which these storms can form and that's then allowing them to intensify so quickly.\"\n\nBut it's not just a simple equation. Higher sea-surface temperatures can also work against the formation of cyclones.\n\n\"On the one hand, you have the higher ocean temperatures and that lends more energy for tropical cyclones to form,\" said Dr Otto. \"But you also have higher temperatures in the atmosphere which leads to more wind shear, which weakens hurricanes.\"\n\nAccording to researchers, about seven different ocean or atmospheric conditions are required for cyclone formation and normally only a couple of these occur. However, because of climate change, more and more of these conditions are coinciding with each other and that's why these big storms happen very quickly.\n\nWhatever arguments about the impacts of climate change on tropical cyclones, the damage caused in Mozambique has much more to do with the vulnerability of people on the ground than rising temperatures.\n\n\"If you look at North America, they are experiencing Category 5 cyclones quite regularly now, and they don't experience the level of damage that Mozambique is seeing,\" said Dr Fitchett.\n\n\"When a storm like this comes along, the potential for devastation is infinitely higher. A city like Beria is at much higher risk, because not only have you many more people there, it's also so much more difficult for them to get out.\"", "The deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Jo Swinson, said she is \"hopeful\" that the Liberal Democrats can make gains in the local council elections.\n\nShe said there is a \"Lib Dem fightback\", adding: \"People are absolutely disillusioned on the doorsteps with the job the government's making.\n\nMs Swinson said the \"only thing that unites the country\" is \"everybody's view\" that the government is dealing with Brexit badly.\n\n\"Doesn't matter if people were Leave or Remain, everyone can agree on that pretty much,\" she said.", "A hit-and-run victim has released CCTV footage of the crash in a bid to track down a driver after being disappointed by the police response to his case.\n\nMedical student Josh Dey suffered a bleed on the brain when he was knocked off his bike on Swain's Lane in Highgate, north London, on 21 April.\n\nA local restaurant gave him its CCTV video to help him with his public appeal to find the driver.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was investigating, but no one has been arrested.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Corbyn says he is \"very sorry\" the party has lost control of three heartland councils in the North despite a significant victory in Trafford.\n\nLabour took full control of the former Conservative flagship council, gaining six seats as the Tories lost nine.\n\nBut he said the party should have done better in Hartlepool, Wirral and Bolsover where they lost control.\n\nSo far Labour has lost 83 seats across the country.\n\nBut the victory in Trafford is the first time Labour has taken control there since 2003.\n\nSir Graham Brady, Conservative MP for Altrincham and Sale West, indicated the Brexit deadlock in Westminster had been a factor for the Tories.\n\n\"It has undoubtedly been harder for us to get our vote out because of dissatisfaction with the national scene,\" said Sir Graham, who is chairman of the 1922 Committee, which represents Conservative backbenchers.\n\nHe added: \"I think the overwhelming view on the doorsteps has been 'for heaven's sake, get on with it'.\n\n\"I think there is massive frustration that we have yet to see the whole thing through.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Phil McCann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking in Sale, Labour leader Mr Corbyn told the BBC: \"We have won Trafford to an overall majority.\n\n\"We have had swings to Labour across a number of councils across the whole of the country and that gives us a basis on which we can win marginal seats in places such as Swindon, Thurrock and other places.\"\n\nHe said the achievement in Trafford was \"amazing\" but added that he was \"very sorry\" about losing so many councillors across the country.\n\nMr Corbyn said: \"We will fight back and we will win them back.\"\n\n\"Of course we wanted to do better. We always want to do better. That's what we are in politics for.\"\n\nIn Trafford, Labour gained Ashton-upon-Mersey, which has always voted Conservative, while the Greens took a seat from the Tories in Altrincham and the Liberal Democrats also added two seats.\n\nSean Anstee, the former Tory leader of the council, told the BBC: \"We need to rethink who we are. The prime minister has to think about her position.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was a very painful night overall. Not just for the party as a whole, but for those dedicated and hardworking councillors who have served the community for a number of years, but lost out tonight.\"\n\nThe new Labour leader of Trafford Council Andrew Western said: \"It's a stunning set of results tonight. We've won a ward that we've never won before.\n\n\"I think this is an endorsement of our first year in office and I could not be happier with the result.\"\n\nThe new Labour leader of Trafford Council Andrew Western said it was a \"stunning\" night for his party\n\nThe story was not so positive for Labour in Bolton, where the party lost seven seats and its grip on the council which now has no overall control.\n\nIndependent groups Farnworth and Kearsley First and Horwich and Blackrod First Independents took four of those, promising to fight for their area.\n\nIn Wigan, Labour won 20 out of 25 available seats but saw their number in the council chamber reduce by three.\n\nIndependent candidates won seats in Bryn, Atherton and Hindley while the Conservatives took Orrell from Labour.\n\nLabour lost seats in Bolton to the Lib Dems, Conservatives and four independent candidates\n\nElsewhere in Greater Manchester, Labour held on to Tameside, Oldham, Bury, Salford and Rochdale.\n\nLabour maintained its tight grip on Manchester City Council, despite losing one of the 33 seats it was defending to the Lib Dems.\n\nIn Stockport, both Labour and the Lib Dems made small gains at the expense of the Conservatives but the council remains in No Overall Control.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ms Ardern and her partner Clarke Gayford are now engaged\n\nNew Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is engaged to her long-term partner, television presenter Clarke Gayford, a spokesman has confirmed.\n\nNews of the couple's engagement emerged after Ms Ardern was seen at a ceremony on Friday wearing a diamond ring on the middle finger of her left hand.\n\nA hawk-eyed journalism intern spied the new addition and asked the prime minister's office about it.\n\nHer spokesman then confirmed that the pair got engaged over Easter.\n\nLast year, Ms Ardern gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter named Neve Te Aroha.\n\nEarlier this January, Ms Ardern was asked by the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire if she would ever propose to Mr Gayford.\n\n\"No I would not ask, no. I want to put him through the pain and torture of having to agonise about that question himself,\" she said.\n\nMs Ardern was the second world leader to give birth while in office. The first was the late Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's two-time prime minister.\n\nThe couple have one child together, a baby girl named Neve Te Aroha\n\nShe said at the time that Mr Gayford would assume the role of a stay-at-home dad.\n\n\"I'm very, very lucky,\" she told Radio NZ.\n\n\"I have a partner who can be there alongside me, who's taking up a huge part of that joint responsibility because he's a parent too, he's not a babysitter.\"\n\nAccording to local media outlets, Ms Ardern and Mr Gayford first met at an awards event in 2012.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jacinda Ardern: 'It takes strength to be an empathetic leader'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Beyond Meat boss Ethan Brown is not worried about the competition\n\nShares of vegan burger maker Beyond Meat soared on their Wall Street debut as investors bet on the growing popularity of plant-based foods.\n\nThe stock closed up 163% on the first day of trading, valuing the California company at close to $3.8bn.\n\nBeyond Meat's shares were priced at $25 each at the start of trading, but touched $72 during the trading day before closing at $65.75.\n\nThe company has aggressive plans to expand sales outside the US.\n\nMoney raised from the listing will give Beyond Meat the firepower to compete with other rivals in the increasingly crowded fake meat market, which includes Silicon Valley start-up Impossible Foods.\n\nSpeaking at the stock market launch on the Nasdaq exchange, Beyond Meat founder and chief executive Ethan Brown called plant-based meat an \"enormous opportunity for economic growth in rural America and throughout the world\".\n\nHe said: \"We understand the composition of meat, we understand the architecture and year after year we collapse the gaps between our product and animal protein.\"\n\nBeyond Meat counts actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Microsoft founder Bill Gates among its investors.\n\nTyson Foods, the biggest US meat processor, owned a 6.5% stake in Beyond Meat, but last week said it sold its holding, as it looks to develop its own line of alternative protein products.\n\nBurger King and Impossible Foods last month started selling their vegan burger Impossible Whopper in 59 stores in and around St. Louis, Missouri, with nationwide sales expected by the end of the year.\n\nBeyond Meat creates substitutes for meat by using ingredients that mimic the composition of animal-based meat, like proteins from peas, fava beans and soy.\n\nAbout 70% of the company's revenues are generated by its flagship Beyond Burger patties, and it also sells imitation sausages and vegan ground beef.\n\nBeyond Meat, which has yet to make a profit, has started selling products in the UK as more supermarkets fill their shelves with meat alternatives. Beyond Burger was originally due to be introduced in the UK at 350 Tesco stores last August, but that was delayed by three months because of supply issues.\n\nWaitrose started a dedicated vegan section in more than 130 shops last year and Iceland reported sales of its plant-based foods rising by 10% in a year.\n\nResearch conducted by the Vegan Society in 2016 estimated there were around 540,000 vegans across the UK, compared with around 150,000 in 2006.\n\nIn 2018, some $50m of Beyond Meat's revenues came from retail sales, including at Amazon's Whole Foods Market and Kroger Co supermarkets, while some $37m was generated at restaurants.\n\nAccording to regulatory documents ahead of the stock market debut, Beyond Meat's net loss narrowed marginally to $29.9m in the year ended 31 December, from $30.4m a year earlier. Net revenue more than doubled to $87.9m in the same period.", "Cyclone Fani has slammed into India's eastern coastline. More than a million people have been evacuated from the state of Orissa, also known as Odisha.", "Police say the group known as ‘Saoradh’ are the political voice of the New IRA.\n\nThey’ve been the focus of a backlash in Northern Ireland following Lyra McKee’s death.\n\nThey say they played no role in her death.\n\nThe BBC's Emma Vardy tried to ask questions of Thomas Ashe Mellon, a prominent member of the group.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Bennington was congratulated by DUP colleagues after her election\n\nThe election of the DUP's first openly gay politician was welcomed by one of the party's senior politicians.\n\nAlison Bennington was elected to Antrim and Newtownabbey.\n\nBelfast East MP Gavin Robinson said it was a \"good news story\", despite assembly member Jim Wells claiming members were \"shocked by the decision\" to let her run.\n\nElsewhere there were some surprising gains for Alliance and some smaller parties.\n\nSinn Féin had a mixed set of results on the first day of counting, while the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) lost a number of seats.\n\nThere are 11 councils in Northern Ireland and a total of 462 seats up for grabs.\n\nAlison Bennington has been elected as a councillor for the party which has consistently opposed the legalisation of same-sex marriage. It remains against the law in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe DUP's founder and leader for almost 40 years, Ian Paisley, was also the founder of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, a fundamentalist and evangelical denomination which many DUP politicians are still associated with.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said Ms Bennington's election did not necessarily mean a shift in the party's policy.\n\nJim Wells, who has been one of the party's most vocal opponents of same-sex marriage, said: \"This marks a watershed change in DUP party policy and none of the members were consulted about it.\n\n\"Many thousands of people in Northern Ireland are depending on the DUP to hold the line on these moral issues.\n\n\"They feel very let down and very concerned about what has happened.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut DUP MP for East Belfast, Gavin Robinson, said: \"If you believe in our party's principles, if you stand for our values, if you are prepared to go forward and seek selection and you are selected and elected by the people - then get on and do the job.\n\n\"We're not a theocracy, we're a political party.\"\n\nFormer DUP special advisor Timothy Cairns said he felt he spoke for many in the party who were \"quite angry\" at Mr Well's comments.\n\nHe said: \"Most right-thinking people are disgusted at Jim Well's comments.\n\n\"It is time for the leadership to take action. It is beyond time.\n\n\"What Jim has said this evening about a fellow colleague is wrong\".\n\nThere were a number of gains for the Alliance Party and smaller parties including the Greens and People Before Profit.\n\nAlliance won three seats in the Ormiston district electoral area (DEA) in Belfast and took a seat from Sinn Féin in Titanic, securing a second councillor in that DEA.\n\nThe party also topped the poll in every DEA in Lisburn and Castlereagh - with all nine candidates being elected - and won seats outside its traditional greater Belfast heartlands with victories in Coleraine, Lurgan and Faughan.\n\nAlliance's Ross McMullan (centre) got almost 1,000 votes over the quota\n\nThe Green Party's Áine Groogan topped the poll in the Botanic DEA and has become her party's first councillor in that area.\n\nMs Groogan, who was a first-time candidate in the local government elections, told BBC News NI her party had made gains because voters were \"fed up with old-style politics\".\n\nElsewhere in Belfast another smaller party, People Before Profit took a seat from Sinn Féin in Collin and also gained a councillor in Oldpark.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Áine Groogan: 'People are fed up with old-style politics'\n\nHowever the Progressive Unionist Party lost a seat as Julie-Anne Corr-Johnston was defeated in Oldpark.\n\nAs well as losing out to People Before Profit in Collin and Alliance in Titanic, Sinn Féin's former Derry and Strabane mayor Maolíosa McHugh lost his seat.\n\nSinn Féin assembly member Raymond McCartney said his party was set to lose \"a couple of seats\" on that council.\n\nMr McCartney said the party fought a strong campaign but that the absence of devolved government at Stormont was an issue on the doorsteps.\n\nHe said it would inform Sinn Féin's position going into talks aimed at restoring devolution which are due to start on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Voters have shown that they want equality, says Mary Lou McDonald\n\nParty president Mary Lou McDonald added that the election had demonstrated to her that the political deadlock was \"unacceptable\".\n\nThe SDLP's Mary Durkan has been elected in the Foyleside District of Derry and Strabane Council after her first foray into politics. The barrister is the sister of assembly member Mark H Durkan.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said his party had done \"very, very well\" in Derry and Strabane and was pleased with the performance overall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SDLP's \"renewal project\" is working \"very well\", says Colum Eastwood\n\nHe said: \"We are very happy, we have had some difficult years but I think this is a positive day for the party.\n\n\"What we are seeing is that new candidates with good campaigns and hard work on the ground are actually winning and winning well.\"\n\nThe UUP lost a number of seats on Friday, including in Ormiston, where Peter Johnston lost out and in Botanic.\n\nSo far the party's first preference vote share is down by 2% compared to the last council election in 2014, but this could improve after more results are declared on Saturday.\n\nThe UUP enjoyed a better day in Lisburn and Castlereagh, where their first preference vote share rose by 1.9%.\n\nThey also had a narrow victory in Cusher DEA in Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon where Gordon Kennedy beat DUP candidate Quincey Dougan to the last seat by 1.84 votes.\n\nWhere else would you find such electoral excitement on a Friday night?\n\nThere have been gains for the smaller parties including Alliance, the Greens and People Before Profit at the expense of the DUP and Sinn Féin.\n\nThe two biggest parties say their vote has held up - and even improved - in some of their traditional stronghold areas.\n\nBut there's no denying both have taken gambles that haven't paid off, running more candidates in some areas in a bid to increase their presence only for it not to work out.\n\nThe SDLP are pleased with their performance in some areas, but across the board the UUP vote looks much poorer than the strong result they polled in 2014.\n\nAs ever, transfers are key for those final nail-biter seats in each area. As one candidate put it to me: \"Every transfer matters, it's like Game of Thrones!\"\n\nIn Mid-Ulster, Kyle Black, the son of prison officer David Black who was murdered by dissident republicans, was elected in Carntogher.\n\nHe said: \"Out of absolutely devastating circumstance that will impact out lives forever, I wanted to try and do something positive - to give back to the community.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kyle Black says he entered politics after his father's murder showed him the \"worst\" of Northern Ireland\n\nIt will be late on Saturday before the full results are confirmed.\n\nAs of Friday night, turnout was recorded as 52%, but this is not the final figure.\n\nThursday's good weather appears to have boosted voter numbers, but there is a wide variation across the different District Electoral Areas (DEAs).\n\nIn County Fermanagh, the turnout was almost 72% in the Erne East DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Darran Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, in east Belfast, just over 42% of eligible voters cast their ballot in the Titanic DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Belfast City Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt has been two decades since a council election was held on its own, and not in conjunction with another poll.\n\nThe official turnout in 2014's council election, which was held alongside the European election, was 51%, and the DUP secured the highest number of seats.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThe first results started to come in after 11:00 on Friday\n\nBBC News NI will cover the latest election results and analysis on our website, mobile app and on Facebook and Twitter throughout the weekend.\n\nA dedicated live page will keep you up to date as the results are announced.\n\nThere will also be special election programmes on BBC Radio Ulster from 10:00 on Saturday.\n\nTelevision coverage will be on BBC Two Northern Ireland at 10:00 on Saturday, with an hour-long Sunday Politics programme on the same channel at 11:00 on Sunday.", "Frankie MacRitchie's family said the \"wonderful\" nine-year-old boy \"will be so very missed\"\n\nA nine-year-old boy who was attacked by a dog died from a loss of blood caused by multiple bites to his head, an inquest opening has heard.\n\nFrankie MacRitchie from Plymouth, Devon, was attacked in a caravan at a holiday park in Looe, Cornwall, last month and died at the scene.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said the dog involved in the attack was put down this week.\n\nThe inquest in Truro has been adjourned to allow further inquiries.\n\nHis body was identified by his mother in the following days.\n\nThe inquest heard a post-mortem examination showed the preliminary cause of Frankie's death was severe loss of blood, caused by multiple dog bites to the head.\n\nFlowers and messages were left at Frankie's school in Plymouth after his death\n\nEmergency services were called to a caravan at Tencreek Holiday Park at 05:00 BST on 13 April after reports of a boy being \"unresponsive\".\n\nA woman described by police as a family friend was later arrested at a railway station near Plymouth.\n\nThe 28-year-old, who was initially held on suspicion of manslaughter and having a dog dangerously out of control, has since been released but remains under investigation.\n\nDet Insp Steve Hambly from Devon and Cornwall Police said: \"Officers are working closely with Frankie's parents at what is clearly a most distressing time.\n\n\"The dog involved in the incident was put down earlier this week with the full consent of his owner, having previously been housed by police since the day of the incident.\"\n\nActing Senior Coroner for Cornwall Andrew Cox told the hearing Frankie's body was identified by his mother Tawnee Willis at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital five days after his death.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of fans paid their last respects to the former Celtic captain and manager\n\nFans and football greats have paid their final respects to Celtic and Scotland legend Billy McNeill.\n\nA funeral mass for the first British man to lift the European Cup took place at St Aloysius' Church in Glasgow.\n\nAfterwards the cortege made its way to Celtic Park, where thousands of fans gathered to remember the club's former captain and manager.\n\nMcNeill, who had lived with dementia since 2010, died aged 79 on 22 April.\n\nThe funeral service was attended by many famous names from the world of football, including former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, Liverpool legend Sir Kenny Dalglish and the surviving members of the Lisbon Lions.\n\nCeltic manager Neil Lennon and club captain Scott Brown were joined by the first team squad and members of the board, including chief executive Peter Lawwell and largest shareholder Dermot Desmond.\n\nFormer Celtic managers Brendan Rodgers, Gordon Strachan and Martin O'Neill also turned out to pay their respects to the man known as Cesar.\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish and wife Marina arrive for the service\n\nAlex Ferguson was among those paying tribute\n\nPlayers from the current Celtic team also attended\n\nOld Firm rivals Rangers were represented by Ibrox legend John Greig, Gordon Smith, Willie Henderson and former boss Walter Smith.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by other figures from Scottish football, players who were managed by McNeill, and mourners from the world of politics.\n\nArchbishop Philip Tartaglia began his homily by offering \"heartfelt and prayerful sympathies\" to McNeill's wife of 56 years, Liz, and children Susan, Carol, Libby, Paula and Martyn.\n\nHe told the congregation the former defender, who had eight grandchildren, endured his ill health with \"dignity and courage\".\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia added: \"As Glasgow Celtic's most famous captain, Billy also belonged to another family, the Celtic family, who adored him as their hero and who mourn his passing.\"\n\nMcNeill's son Martyn described his parents as the \"the original Posh and Becks\" and shared anecdotes of a loving family life.\n\nHe concluded: \"We are not here to mourn the passing of a legend.\n\n\"We are here to say thank you for having so much more.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBroadcaster Archie Macpherson, who worked with McNeill for the BBC, recalled watching him lift the European Cup in Lisbon in May 1967.\n\nMacpherson told the congregation: \"When I saw him appearing he looked slightly dishevelled, a bit weary also, I think, wearing a puzzled look as if he had not really taken in what these local lads from around Glasgow had achieved in reaching the pinnacle of European football.\n\n\"It just did not seem real until he had his hands on the cup.\n\n\"And, believe you me, even the most talented Hollywood agency could not have cast a better man for that particular role of lifting the cup.\n\nThe mass took place at St Aloysius' Church in Glasgow\n\n\"Tall. Handsome. Now you can be plug ugly and still lift a cup. Nevertheless, he did have the looks.\n\n\"As soon as he got the cup in his hands he was enlivened. It was as if he had been transfixed.\"\n\nMacpherson said McNeill believed the Celtic story was \"part fairytale\".\n\nHe also described McNeill and manager Jock Stein as \"one of the most powerful duos in the history of the British game\".\n\nAnd he added: \"He was simply a decent human being.\"\n\nThe service was broadcast on a screen outside Celtic Park\n\nMacpherson said McNeill seemed to rise above the rivalry of the Old Firm and he could not recall anyone in the media having a bad word to say about him.\n\nThe congregation was also told McNeill's daughters used to use his medals as currency when they played a grocery game with the neighbours.\n\nMacpherson joked: \"I had visions of the European medal being changed for a couple of chocolate biscuits.\"\n\nThousands of fans gathered at Celtic Park on Friday\n\nAfter the service the cortege was greeted with a standing ovation as it passed through Glasgow city centre.\n\nBut the loudest reception of all was reserved for Celtic Park where fans had gathered to watch the service on a big screen.\n\nSupporters clapped and cheered as the coffin was driven past the front of the stadium and down Celtic Way to McNeill's bronze statute, which is surrounded by hundreds of floral tributes.\n\nThere was also a rousing chorus of In the Heat of Lisbon before the McNeill family stepped out of the funeral cars to applaud the crowd.\n\nThe Bellshill-born defender enjoyed a glittering career and led the Parkhead club to nine successive league titles, seven Scottish Cups and six League Cups.\n\nMcNeill lifted the European Cup as Celtic captain in 1967\n\nBut his finest hour came in Lisbon on 25 May 1967 when Celtic defeated Italian giants Inter Milan 2-1 to become the first British team to lift the European Cup.\n\nMcNeill went on to have two spells at the club as manager and led the club to eight honours.\n\nThese included a league and cup double in 1988, the club's centenary year.\n\nTributes have been paid at the statue outside Celtic Park\n\nHis nickname was a nod to actor Cesar Romero, who starred as the getaway driver in the original Ocean's Eleven, as McNeill had the same car at the time.\n\nThe former Scotland defender, who won 29 caps for his country, also managed Clyde, Aberdeen, Manchester City and Aston Villa in the 1970s and 80s.\n\nTens of thousands of fans have already paid their respects to McNeill at his bronze statue outside Celtic Park, which was unveiled in 2015.\n\nCeltic's players will wear McNeill's former number five on their shorts when they face Hearts in the Scottish Cup final at Hampden Park on Saturday 25 May.", "\"We normally tip around £2, but if someone does something really good, then they might get a fiver. It's a really tangible way of saying, 'You know what, I really liked that.'\"\n\nBecky Thornton is one of a growing number of UK workers whose bosses have introduced \"peer-to-peer micro-bonuses\" - or what some people might view as tips.\n\nThere's been a sharp increase in schemes where co-workers are given the power and a budget to tip each other small amounts of money for good work.\n\nTwo of the main providers of these schemes told BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake Up To Money that they had seen a big rise in the number of UK businesses signing up to give their staff the power to hand out small cash rewards.\n\nUS-based firm Bonusly says it has seen a 75% increase in UK customers in the last 12 months alone, meaning there are now 250 UK-based firms using its scheme to reward more than 10,000 employees.\n\nAnd Reward Gateway told Radio 5 live it had seen a 100% increase in the number of UK businesses using its services to allow staff to give small amounts of cash to their colleagues.\n\n\"It's quite a nice way of giving feedback, it feels like a positive way to show you appreciate someone's work. I save up my tips and withdraw them when I've got over £100, then I treat myself,\" says Becky.\n\nRaphael Crawford-Marks, one of Bonusly's co-founders, says the idea is \"ensuring that employees receive timely and meaningful recognition\".\n\nHe doesn't like to think of it as \"tipping\", which he says has a different connotation in the US, where tips form a sizable chunk of some workers' pay.\n\n\"The monetary aspect of it exists to help employees form good habits about giving recognition to each other,\" he says.\n\n\"When every employee has a pot of money and all they can do with it is give it out to their colleagues, then that works as a nudge to encourage them to give it out.\"\n\nBut not everyone who has experienced it is a fan. Victoria Davies used to work at a company that managed bonuses this way and found it hard.\n\n\"If you're the type of person who normally goes above and beyond, you don't want to be seen to be doing that just to get tips,\" she says.\n\n\"It's open to abuse, isn't it? As someone who went through popularity contests at school, it was quite weird to think, 'Oh, do I need to ingratiate myself with people to be part of this community of tip-giving?'\n\n\"It was one extra level of stress that I didn't need.\"\n\nThe amount of money and the way the rewards work varies from employer to employer. Some even display charts showing who has received the most from their colleagues.\n\nBecky's employer gives staff £15 a month to assign to their colleagues, which is taken back if it is not used in time. Victoria was given a pot of £100 a year to dish out as and when she chose.\n\nJurgen Appelo, founder of Agility Scales and author of several books on management, introduced the scheme for his employees who award one another points. The value of those points is determined by the profit the company has made each month.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a risk that this scheme becomes a popularity contest: \"You cannot prevent this becoming a bit of a contest, but we already have a contest in place with the traditional system and that is sucking up to the boss.\n\n\"It is a popularity contest of who is most popular with the boss and that has proven to be a very bad system.\n\n\"So I am just replacing that part with the crowd, so people see they are liked, appreciated, valued by [their] colleagues. We did the research on our own team, we know who the introverts and the extroverts are, we try to check if it correlates with the points they get and it doesn't.\"\n\nJulie Wacker, business psychologist at workplace wellness consultancy Robertson Cooper, says businesses must be careful of unintended consequences.\n\n\"I can see how this could have a huge impact and be fun. But if it's not set around a work culture with good values in place, it could end up being cliquey, it could be quite negative,\" he says.\n\n\"The intention is no doubt good, it's to motivate people and give instant feedback. It means you're not reliant on a manager for recognition, which could release people from the negative impact of bad managers. But there are risks it's just a popularity contest.\"\n\nWhatever the reasons behind it and whether you love it or hate it, the professional association for people in HR, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, has told the BBC it has seen an increase in members talking about these schemes.\n\nThere's a good chance this very American import could soon be coming to a workplace near you. Best start smiling at those colleagues.\n\nYou can hear more about this story on the Wake Up To Money podcast\n• None Who is worst hit by the decline in cash?", "Star Wars star Harrison Ford has paid an emotional tribute to Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew, who has died aged 74, saying: \"I loved him.\"\n\nFord, who played Han Solo, praised the \"kind and gentle man\" for his \"great dignity and noble character\".\n\nMayhew died at his home in Texas on 30 April with his family by his side, a statement said.\n\nThe British-US actor played the giant Wookiee warrior in several Star Wars films from 1977 until 2015.\n\n\"He put his heart and soul into the role of Chewbacca and it showed in every frame,\" his family said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLondon-born Mayhew played Chewbacca in the original Star Wars trilogy, episode three of the prequels, and shared the role in 2015's The Force Awakens.\n\nFord and Mayhew's characters were close friends and piloted the Millennium Falcon. \"We were partners in film and friends in life for over 30 years and I loved him,\" said Ford.\n\n\"He invested his soul in the character and brought great pleasure to the Star Wars audience.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, described Mayhew as \"the gentlest of giants\".\n\nHamill said: \"What was so remarkable about him was his spirit and his kindness and his gentleness was so close to what a Wookiee is.\n\n\"He just radiated happiness and warmth. He was always up for a laugh and we just hit it off immediately and stayed friends for over 40 years.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Hamill: Peter Mayhew was 'as kind and gentle as a Wookiee'\n\nStar Wars creator George Lucas had wanted a tall actor to play Chewbacca and initially considered 6ft 6in (1.98m) David Prowse for the role.\n\nHowever, Prowse wanted to play Darth Vader, so Lucas then turned to Mayhew, who at 7ft 2in (2.18m) was chosen purely for his height. His face was never seen.\n\n\"He fought his way back from being wheelchair-bound to stand tall and portray Chewbacca once more in Star Wars: The Force Awakens,\" his family said.\n\nMayhew also consulted on The Last Jedi, released in 2017, in an attempt to pass on the secrets of the role to his successor, Finland's Joonas Suotamo.\n\nMayhew's family said \"the Star Wars family meant so much more to him than a role in a film\".\n\nLucas said: \"Peter was a wonderful man. He was the closest any human being could be to a Wookiee: big heart, gentle nature - and I learned to always let him win. He was a good friend, and I'm saddened by his passing.\"\n\nLucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy added: \"Peter's iconic portrayal of the loyal, lovable Chewbacca has been absolutely integral to the character's success, and to the Star Wars saga itself.\n\n\"When I first met Peter during The Force Awakens, I was immediately impressed by his kind and gentle nature.\n\n\"Peter was brilliantly able to express his personality through his skilful use of gesture, posture, and eyes. We all love Chewie, and have Peter to thank for that enduring memory.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Joonas Suotamo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSuotamo played Chewbacca's body double in Force Awakens and went on to play the Wookiee in 2017's The Last Jedi and 2018's A Star Wars Story.\n\nHe added to the warm tributes, saying Mayhew was \"an absolutely one-of-a-kind gentleman and a legend of unrivalled class\".\n\nRobert Iger, head of The Walt Disney Company, tweeted that the \"beloved\" star was \"a gentle giant playing a gentle giant\".\n\nThe Force Awakens director JJ Abrams and The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson added their voices.\n\nIn a handwritten note posted on Twitter, Abrams said: \"Peter was the loveliest man... kind and patient, supportive and encouraging. A sweetheart to work with and already deeply missed.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Rian Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Elijah Wood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by KevinSmith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shared a photograph of himself with the star.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Justin Trudeau This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSan Diego Comic-Con said he was their \"beloved companion\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 7 by San Diego Comic-Con This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe family's statement also said the actor had been \"heavily involved\" with non-profit organisations and had launched his own foundation, which they said supported \"everything from individuals and families in crisis situations to food and supplies for children of Venezuela\".\n\nThey did not reveal the cause of death. A memorial service for friends and family will be held on 29 June, while a separate memorial for fans will take place in December, the statement said.\n\nThe actor is survived by his wife Angie and three children.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The artists shortlisted tackle issues such as oppression and marginalised communities\n\nThe Turner Prize has ended a sponsorship deal with Stagecoach South East - a day after it was announced.\n\nThe firm was to support an exhibition of the four shortlisted artists at the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate.\n\nBut there was criticism as the chairman of its parent company had backed a ban on teaching LGBT issues.\n\nThe local bus company said the decision had been \"mutually agreed\" and while it was committed to diversity did not want anything to distract from the artists.\n\nThe bus company says the decision to end its partnership was mutually agreed\n\nGay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell was among those against the prize's partnership with Stagecoach South East. He told the Daily Telegraph he was \"surprised and disappointed\" when he heard the announcement.\n\nSir Brian Souter, who backed a failed campaign 19 years ago to keep Section 28 - a law banning teachers discussing gay rights in schools - is the co-founder and chairman of the Stagecoach Group.\n\nIn a statement, Turner Contemporary and the Tate gallery - which organises the annual prize - said its priority was to \"show and celebrate\" artists and their work.\n\nIt said: \"The Turner Prize celebrates the creative freedoms of the visual arts community and our wider society.\n\n\"By mutual agreement, we will not proceed with Stagecoach South East's sponsorship of this year's prize.\"\n\nIn a later statement, Tate said it didn't know about Sir Brian's views on gay rights when it agreed the deal.\n\n\"The corporate agreement was between Turner Contemporary and Stagecoach,\" it said.\n\n\"The relevant legal and financial due diligence was observed. Neither Turner Contemporary nor Tate were aware of the wider issues.\"\n\nStagecoach South East said: \"We are absolutely committed to diversity in our company, however we do not want anything to distract from celebrating the Turner Prize artists and their work.\"\n\nThe winner of the £40,000 prize will be announced on 3 December.\n\nThis year's Turner Prize nominees are Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani.\n\nThe shortlist of artists was announced on Wednesday and their work tackles issues including oppression and marginalised communities.\n\nLast year's Turner Prize was won by artist Charlotte Prodger for her film on her experience of coming out as gay in rural Scotland.\n\nLife has never been easy for arts fundraisers. Typically sport takes the lion's share of corporate sponsorship, with arts organisations feeding off any scraps of company cash that might be left over.\n\nThere is not a history of companies queuing around the block to financially support exhibitions and gallery refurbishments. It is a small pool in which fundraisers have to fish, and it's now in danger of evaporating altogether.\n\nThe public scrutiny museums, theatres, orchestras and other arts bodies now find themselves under is unprecedented. The effect is two-fold.\n\nFirstly, corporate sponsorship deals nowadays must be able to withstand forensic examination by stakeholders and the media, which Turner Contemporary's deal with Stagecoach could not.\n\nSecondly, the negativity surrounding arts sponsorship - from the Sackler Trust controversy to BAE Systems withdrawal from supporting the Great Exhibition of the North - is extremely off-putting for companies that might be thinking of entering the arts arena.\n\nWhat has also become absolutely clear over the past 12 months is that arts organisations have to up their game when it comes to basic due diligence before accepting a sponsor's money.\n\nIt is no longer good enough to check the credentials of the sponsoring company. They now have to make sure the personal values of those who run and own it are compatible with their own charitable objectives.\n\nA quick Google search won't do. Twitter feeds, Instagram posts and other platforms for public comment all have to be rigorously checked.\n\nAll of which means more work for already hard-pressed fundraising departments operating in arts institutions that are still feeling the chill wind of austerity. Theirs is a difficult and thankless job that has now become much, much harder.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Stormzy has beaten Taylor Swift to the UK's number one spot - giving him his first chart-topping single.\n\nThe grime artist's comeback track Vossi Bop amassed 94,500 first-week combined sales to clinch victory over Swift's Me!, which ultimately entered third behind Lil Nas X's Old Town Road.\n\nStormzy also broke the UK's weekly streaming record for a rap song, with 12.7 million listens.\n\nThe star said he was \"speechless\" at the chart result.\n\nVossi Bop's sales are the second highest of the year so far, behind Ariana Grande's 7 Rings, which opened with 126,000 combined sales in January.\n\nStormzy, who is set to headline Glastonbury this summer, told the Official Charts Company: \"Words don't really do it justice. My supporters have had my back like crazy - this is all you guys, thank you so much.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Radio 1Xtra This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nVossi Bop was just 530 sales ahead of Taylor Swift's single in the chart update on Monday, but Stormzy held on to pole position and Swift slipped back to number three.\n\nMe!, featuring Panic! At The Disco's Brendon Urie, is her ninth UK top five hit.\n\nEarlier this week the video for the single broke the YouTube record for most views in the opening 24 hours of release.\n\nElsewhere in the chart, a track consisting only of birdsong - Let Nature Sing, released by the RSPB - is a new entry at number 18.\n\nPop star Pink saw her eighth studio album Hurts 2B Human enter at the top of the album chart, more than 22,000 sales ahead of its nearest rival, Catfish and the Bottlemen's The Balance.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Henry Vincent and another man broke into Richard Osborn-Brooks's home in Hither Green\n\nA 79-year-old man who killed an armed burglar with a kitchen knife acted lawfully, an inquest has decided.\n\nRichard Osborn-Brooks stabbed Henry Vincent with a knife in Hither Green, south-east London, in April last year.\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks told Southwark Coroner's Court the 37-year-old had threatened him with a screwdriver, then \"rushed forward\" and \"ran into the knife I was holding\".\n\nSpeaking by videolink, Mr Osborn-Brooks told the inquest he still believed the intruder was \"intending to do me harm\" during the break-in on 4 April 2018.\n\nHe said two men had knocked on his door, grabbed him and pushed him inside.\n\nBoth then demanded money as one then shoved him toward the kitchen and the other ran upstairs.\n\nHe told the hearing that when he grabbed the knife, Mr Vincent's accomplice fled out of the front door but the intruder came down the stairs holding the screwdriver and saying \"get out of my way or I'll stick you with this\".\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks said he had then warned Mr Vincent that his weapon was \"bigger than yours\".\n\n\"I thought he would look at my knife... and he would take the opportunity to run out the front door which was open.\n\n\"He definitely didn't try to get out of the front door, he came towards me,\" Mr Osborn-Brooks said.\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks said Mr Vincent threatened him with a screwdriver during the raid\n\nMr Vincent's cause of death was given as an incised wound to the chest.\n\nHis sister had told the hearing her brother was \"not a violent person\".\n\n\"He was a father, he was a son, he was a brother. No one deserves to die,\" Rosie Vincent said.\n\nIn a statement, the pathologist who carried out the post-mortem examination said a toxicology report indicated \"a recent use of both cocaine and heroin\".\n\nHe said Mr Vincent \"may have been experiencing the effects\" at the time of the raid.\n\nSenior coroner Andrew Harris said: \"The interaction that led to the stabbing was the simultaneous approach of the deceased with a small screwdriver and the forward movement of the householder with a kitchen knife, leading to moderate force being applied by the knife to Mr Vincent's chest, and its penetration.\n\n\"The householder was terrified and asserted he acted in self-defence after an assault by the other intruder. He was close to, but not obstructing, the exit by the intruder.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Candidates had to draw lots after a tie in the local elections in North Yorkshire.\n\nLabour candidate Gerald Ramsden was elected to the Northallerton South seat on Hambleton District Council after drawing with the Conservative candidate on 527 votes.\n\nThe returning officer then had to randomly choose between two blank envelopes with one candidate's name in each.\n\nMr Ramsden is the first Labour councillor in Hambleton in more than a decade.", "Ann Moore-Martin died of natural causes in 2017\n\nA church warden plotted for an 83-year-old woman to die during sex or by her choking on her dentures, a court heard.\n\nBenjamin Field began a sexual relationship with Ann Moore-Martin, 57 years his senior, as part of a plot a few months after murdering her neighbour Peter Farquhar, 69, prosecutors allege.\n\nA jury heard Mrs Moore-Martin acted if she was \"hypnotised\" by him.\n\nMr Field, 28, and Martyn Smith, 32, deny murder and conspiracy to murder.\n\nMr Farquhar, who died in October 2015 and Miss Moore-Martin, who died in May 2017, lived in the Buckinghamshire village of Maids Moreton.\n\nPeter Farquhar was a guest lecturer at the University of Buckingham\n\nOliver Saxby QC, prosecuting, told an Oxford Crown Court jury: \"Ann Moore-Martin was gushing about Benjamin Field.\n\nJurors were told Mr Field bought her a sex toy and took a picture of a sex act.\n\nMr Field, the son of a Baptist minister, is accused alongside Mr Smith of plotting to make the church-going pensioner's death look like an accident, such as dying during sex, falling down the stairs or choking on her dentures, the court heard.\n\nMr Saxby told the jury that Mr Field suffocated Mr Farquhar and tried to kill Miss Moore-Martin \"by a manner of means\".\n\nShe died of natural causes, the court was told.\n\nPeter Farquhar lived at the house circled on the left, and Ann Moore-Martin on the right\n\nMr Field, of Wellingborough Road, Olney, denies murder, conspiracy to murder, possessing an article for the use in fraud and an alternative charge of attempted murder. He has admitted four charges of fraud and two of burglary.\n\nHis brother Tom Field, 24, of Wellingborough Road, Olney, Buckinghamshire, denies a single charge of fraud.\n\nMr Smith, of Penhalvean, Redruth, Cornwall, denies murder, conspiracy to murder, two charges of fraud and one of burglary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The future of 1p and 2p coins may be in doubt - but it seems their use goes way beyond simply paying for things.\n\nTreasury officials are seeking views on the future mix of UK notes and coins as we increasingly move towards digital and mobile payments.\n\nIt conjures up the image of people throwing their smartphones, rather than coppers, into a fountain for good luck - although Downing Street has backed away from a plan to scrap copper coins.\n\nAccording to BBC News readers, viewers and listeners there are many other uses for these coins, from home improvements to baking. Here is a selection.\n\nMany flower sellers and lovers swear by the use of pennies in a vase to keep them from drooping.\n\nReader Chris Stone says: \"The question the government should really be asking is if they end copper coins, what will we put in our vases with tulips? Is this part of their strategy to restrict growth?\"\n\nThey say the copper is important, and it is unlikely they would want to dunk a fiver in the vase - even though the new polymer banknotes are waterproof.\n\nFrom pretty penny to penny-wise, there are dozens of phrases in the English language in which pennies play a part.\n\nA number of people have said this is part of British culture.\n\nIf they are replaced by digital payments, will the language become less elegant?\n\n\"A crypto-currency for your thoughts\" just isn't poetic.\n\nVarious uses have been found for pennies among DIY enthusiasts.\n\nSome have used thousands of pennies as flooring or to tile walls, although it takes quite a bit of patience and glue to achieve the desired effect.\n\nOthers have found more practical uses.\n\nOn Twitter, DogKick says they are \"great as a standby screwdriver for slot-headed screws\".\n\nTeachers swear by coins when it comes to helping youngsters learn to count and add up. It is best to start with ones and twos, and considerably more challenging if they could only use fives and tens.\n\nBBC News website readers have also expressed their worries over the future of games using pennies.\n\nPaul Watts says: \"I save 2p coins during the year and my family use them to play the card game Newmarket at Christmas.\n\n\"There is a lot of joy in everyone's faces when the kitty builds up. But when it is won it, only amounts to around £2.40, but then it hasn't cost anyone a lot of money if they lose!\n\n\"Imagine no 2p coins and having to play with 5p coins. That would then be potentially an expensive card game at Christmas -unless you won.\"\n\nOthers have spoken of switching coins to play the game variously known as penny up, or penny up the wall, or penny pitching - where players try to rebound their coins onto the coins of their opponents.\n\nThe leisure theme continues with an appeal from one reader over the future of a traditional game in the UK's amusement arcades.\n\n\"Snooker Bob\", from Aylesbury, writes: \"We love the 2p coin and save them up every year for our trip to the seaside. These would not be the same without a visit to the arcades with their 'penny falls'.\n\n\"A couple of pounds of these coins can give pleasure to adults and children alike. What is the alternative? Five pence pieces are too small and 10 pence coins too expensive. Please do not take this pleasure away and also jeopardise the jobs of those who work in them.\"\n\nJohn White, chief executive of the amusement industry trade body Bacta, agrees, saying that other coins would not work in these machines.\n\n\"Generations of British families know and love them. This will destroy the product and a number of seaside arcades in the UK,\" he says.\n\nThere is another geographical concern, expressed by Linda Wooldridge on Twitter.\n\n\"Cities can work with contactless cards, rural and village shops not so - they work on real money,\" she says.\n\nThe phrase \"unexpected item in the bagging area\" remains one of the most annoying in the English language.\n\nSo, to get their revenge, or simply for good money management, many shoppers use their stock of pennies to pay at a supermarket self-service checkout machine.\n\nMariama on Twitter says: \"I only ever use the self-service checkout.\"\n\nOthers worry about the effect on prices.\n\nBBC News website reader Denise Ellis says: \"I would be sorry to see the 1p and 2p go - it would be yet another sign of inflation if all prices were rounded up to the nearest 5p or 10p. Having said that though, the pricing of lots of things at £x.99 is annoying.\"\n\nDavid Barber, from St Neots, Cambridgeshire. says: \"We must not get rid of 1p and 2p coins. It would be another kick in teeth for those in our country who have very little income, be it pension or benefits. Price increases would need to be a minimum of 5p if there are no lower denomination coins.\"\n\nBut Gillian Crawley, from Kingswood in Surrey, says: \"Of course 1p and 2p coins should be discontinued - they are now pointless, weigh down purses and pockets, and their loss might discourage the ridiculous habit of pricing most things at, for example, £2.99 rather than £3. That fools no one and has been going on for far too long.\"\n\nMike Cherry, the national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, says: \"It is important for a proper impact assessment to be carried out before any actions which might restrict the availability of 1p and 2p coins.\n\n\"While growing numbers of transactions are paid for electronically, cash is still an essential part of the mix for many small businesses. A retailer wanting to charge 99p should still be able to hand a penny change to a customer who pays with a £1 coin.\"\n\nSarah Fox, on Twitter, says pennies are \"good for blind baking\".\n\nBBC Good Food explains that this is the process of pre-cooking a pastry base - a sure-fire way to avoid the dreaded soggy bottom.\n\nApparently, the unbaked pie crust is lined with scrunched-up parchment, which can then be weighed down with pennies.\n\nMany readers were concerned with the potential loss for charities, as many pop coins in a jar and donate when the jar is full.\n\nThomas says: \"How many other people also deposit this 'shrapnel' into charity tins and if we withdrew the coins, how much would income would they lose?\"\n\nAndy, from Marlow, says: \"I put all my 1p and 2p pieces in charity jars. It isn't much, but everyone doing it would surely make a difference.\"\n\nCharities do face the cost of processing coins, so would no doubt prefer donations by direct debit or in bigger denominations. The question is, whether this would make up for the money lost if there were no coppers to donate?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nThe Conservatives have lost 1,334 councillors, with Theresa May saying voters wanted the main parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nLabour also lost 82 seats in the English local elections, in which it had been expected to make gains.\n\nBut the strongly pro-EU Lib Dems gained 703 seats, with leader Sir Vince Cable calling every vote received \"a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThe Greens and independents also made gains, as UKIP lost seats.\n\nAll 248 English councils holding elections have now announced their full results.\n\nWhile the scale of the Conservative election losses is larger than expected, Labour had predicted it would gain seats, having suffered losses the last time these council seats were contested, in 2015.\n\nThe Green Party has added 194 councillors, while the number of independent councillors has risen by 612.\n\nResults from Northern Ireland's 11 councils are also being announced. No local elections are taking place in Scotland and Wales.\n\nAfter nine years in government it's not surprising that the Conservatives have lost a significant chunk of seats.\n\nBut the sheer number that have disappeared and the loss of control of authorities will hurt - especially with so many activists identifying Theresa May's handling of Brexit as a root of the problem, not just a general malaise.\n\nThe perceived personal nature of the failure is more of an indignity than an encounter with a heckler in tweeds.\n\nAnd for Jeremy Corbyn, it is surprising and disappointing that Labour has simply failed to make any significant capital from such a divided and chaotic government.\n\nHowever ardently his devotees swear loyalty, the party has fallen back - on this set of results at least - seeming further, rather than closer, from winning power in a general election he so often claims to crave.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nMPs have yet to agree on a deal for leaving the European Union, and, as a result, the deadline of Brexit has been pushed back from 29 March to 31 October.\n\nWhile local elections give voters the chance to choose the decision-makers who affect their communities, the national issue has loomed large on the doorstep.\n\nMrs May, appearing at the Welsh Conservative conference, said voters had sent the \"simple message\" that her party and Labour had to \"get on\" with delivering Brexit.\n\n\"These were always going to be difficult elections for us,\" the prime minister added, \"and there were some challenging results for us last night, but it was a bad night for Labour, too.\"\n\nA heckler shouted at the prime minister: \"Why don't you resign?\" He was then ushered out of the conference hall in Llangollen, North Wales, as the audience chanted: \"Out, out, out.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vince Cable: Lib Dems are \"success story of the night\"\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said that while the Conservatives had lost \"more than 10 times as many councillors\", it was \"remarkable\" that Labour, \"around the mid-term of a not-very-popular government - has not made net gains\".\n\nSpeaking in Greater Manchester, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he \"wanted to do better\" and conceded voters who disagreed with its backing for Brexit had deserted the party.\n\nBut Lib Dem leader Sir Vince, attending a rally in Chelmsford, Essex, where his party took control of the council, said it had been a \"brilliant\" result and that \"every vote for the Liberal Democrats was a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC projects that, if the local election results it analysed were replicated across Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would get 28% of the total vote.\n\nThe data, based on 650 wards in which detailed voting figures were collected, suggests the Lib Dems would get 19% and other parties and independents 25%.\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said the days of the Conservatives and Labour dominating the electoral landscape, as happened in the 2017 election when they won 80% of the vote between them, \"may be over\".\n\nHe said it was only the second time in history that the two main parties' projected national share of the vote had fallen below 30%.\n\nThe only other occasion was in 2013, when UKIP performed strongly in local elections.\n\nProf Curtice also said the Conservatives and Labour had both lost ground since last year's local elections when both were estimated to be on 35%.\n\nWhile the Lib Dem figure was the highest since 2010, when they agreed to join the coalition government with the Conservatives, he said it was still well below the 24% the party regularly achieved in the 1990s and 2000s.\n\nGreen Party co-leader Sian Berry told the BBC the Greens were not simply benefiting from a protest vote over Brexit - their gains reflected \"huge new concerns\" about climate change as well as the strength of their local campaigning on a range of issues.\n\nFor UKIP, Lawrence Webb, a former London mayoral candidate who is standing in this month's European elections, said the party's \"fortunes were on the up\", despite the fall in its number of councillors.\n\nThis is the biggest set of local elections in England's four-year electoral cycle, with more than 8,400 seats being contested. A further 462 seats are up for grabs in Northern Ireland.\n\nSix mayoral elections have also taken place, with Labour's Jamie Driscoll winning the contest to become the first ever North of Tyne mayor.\n\nLabour candidates also won in Leicester and Mansfield but the party out lost to independents in Middlesbrough and Copeland.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.", "Extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani is due to make landfall during Friday morning, local time, bringing heavy rain, strong winds and a powerful storm surge.\n\nFor more on this story click here", "Colin Wilcox said several of his great aunts and uncles were buried at Wellow Baptist Church between 1932 and 1964\n\nPlans to build homes on the graves of people buried as recently as 2012 have been branded \"appalling\" by their relatives.\n\nWellow Baptist Church on the Isle of Wight has not been used in two years and has been earmarked for development.\n\nTony Daniell, whose wife died seven years ago, said he had been assured he could be buried alongside her behind the chapel.\n\nSo far, 46 objections against the plans have been raised.\n\nMany residents who have relatives buried at Wellow are among the complainants, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nColin Wilcox, from Brighstone, discovered his great aunts and uncles were buried at Wellow when researching his family history.\n\n\"I think it's appalling really, that they want to build houses here. These are my relatives,\" he said.\n\nThe church said it was taking concerns seriously but was confident \"agreeable responses\" could be reached.\n\nThe church said Wellow Baptist Church was in need of urgent structural repair and renovation\n\nAccording to the plans, Wellow Baptist Church - which was built in 1815 - would be replaced by two semi-detached houses and a further disused property next to Colwell Baptist Church would be knocked down and three houses built in its place.\n\nThe profit from the sale of the new housing would go towards redeveloping the church at Colwell.\n\nSusan Aggio, from Newport, said: \"My nan, Sylvia Fitzgerald, was buried here in 2010 and my granddad has a letter giving him permission to be buried with her. This is already causing the family upset — my granddad especially.\n\n\"I feel very sad that this is even being considered due to the amount of pain it is causing, and will continue to cause.\"\n\nAccording the plans up to 50 graves could be built on if the plans are approved\n\nColwell Baptist minister Dave Burton said the chapel was in need of urgent structural repair and renovation.\n\nHe said: \"Understandably, there are many legal restrictions around what can and can't be built over, or near to, a private burial ground and the project would, obviously, have to comply with all these restrictions if it were to proceed.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Trans woman Stephanie Hayden claimed a Catholic journalist harassed her in a series of tweets\n\nA judge has told a transgender lawyer and a Catholic journalist involved in an \"out of control\" Twitter row not to mention each other online.\n\nTrans woman Stephanie Hayden has been granted an injunction against Caroline Farrow after a \"barrage\" of tweets.\n\nAt a High Court hearing in London, Mr Justice Bryan also asked Ms Hayden to not mention Mrs Farrow, and she agreed.\n\nThe judge said tweets sent by mother-of-five Mrs Farrow, whose husband is a priest, had \"crossed the line\".\n\nAn interim injunction bans Mrs Farrow from mentioning Ms Hayden, in particular from \"misgendering\" her, by referring to her as male when she is legally female.\n\nThe judge said: \"The tweeting… has got out of control. Each have said things in those tweets which, in the cold light of day in this court, I would anticipate they would rather wish they had not done.\"\n\nRepresenting herself, Ms Hayden told the judge the debate with Mrs Farrow had been going on since January.\n\nShe claimed Mrs Farrow harassed her in a series of tweets, suggesting she was violent, misgendering her and posting a photograph of her.\n\nMrs Farrow denied this and her lawyers argued she had been subjected to \"a positive avalanche of abuse over a number of months\" from Ms Hayden.\n\nThe two have previously been involved in Twitter rows over similar issues, the court heard.\n\nMrs Farrow was investigated by police after the founder of transgender support charity Mermaids, Susie Green, accused the commentator of misgendering her daughter on Twitter.\n\nMs Green later withdrew the complaint and Surrey Police announced in March they would take no further action.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The polls have just closed. A phrase we're perhaps quite accustomed to these days.\n\nAll day, voters in many parts of England and in Northern Ireland have been casting their ballots, expressing their views on the politicians who had put themselves up for scrutiny, stepping forward for the chance to be part of important decisions about our communities - on housing, the transport we use, the care provided to the youngest and oldest in our society.\n\nEach and every area will have its own many stories, each of us our own motivations for which box, or none, we tick. What happens in towns, villages and cities, and the decisions made by town halls and councillors has a huge bearing, of course, on these results.\n\nThese elections are not taking place everywhere, so the results can't and won't give us a complete geographical picture. Turnout tends to be low in council elections, so in that sense too, the results are not representative of the whole voting public in the same way as a general election, where many millions more of us take part.\n\nNot all of the parties are even standing. Neither of the two new arrivals, Change UK and the Brexit Party, are taking part.\n\nAnd quite fittingly in a country like ours, there are plenty of quirks. In one Surrey borough for example, the residents' association party has held control for years and years and anyone else can pretty much forget their chances of getting a look in. In Cheshire West and Chester, the kind of area where general elections are traditionally won and lost, the lines of the map have been redrawn this time round, so it's still a fight between Labour and the Tories, but in a different way.\n\nWhatever happens in the next 24 hours as the results emerge, bear in mind that the results of these local elections are not a beautifully clear, let alone reliable, crystal ball that will reveal the future. But these contests are an enormous set of elections, much bigger than the normal set of local ballots, and an important chance to test how the craziness of our national politics right now is going down with the public.\n\nPolling matters of course, and goodness knows, there is plenty of that about. Recent surveys are certainly not pretty reading for the government, nor do they suggest their main opponents, Labour, streaking ahead. They are a useful but only hypothetical guide to the currents of the public's thinking.\n\nReal votes in real elections are what count, and tonight's a real chance to get a flavour of what the Great British voting public really thinks.\n\nWe'll be on air as the results come in overnight, on BBC One and BBC News, with loads of coverage online too.\n• None What to look out for in the local elections", "Angela Collingbourne (top left) and seven other members of the drugs gang were jailed on Friday\n\nA grandmother has been jailed for six years after becoming \"second in command\" to a drugs gang headed by her two sons.\n\nAngela Collingbourne, 51, helped the group to sell more than £2.7m of cocaine in Newport, with her son directing operations from prison.\n\nSeven other members were also jailed for conspiracy to supply class A drugs on Friday at Newport Crown Court.\n\nAnother eight had already been jailed in March, bringing the total to 16.\n\nThe gang, from Newport, dealt the drug from a garage called NP19 Tyres, with video showing thousands of pounds passing through but only a handful of cars being repaired.\n\nThe court was told Collingbourne, who is a grandmother, racked up a \"number of convictions\" for shoplifting, driving and a public order offence before becoming responsible for managing the gang's funds and facilitating - and maintaining control of the mobile telephone trading line with 4,000 customers.\n\nProsecutor Andrew Jones said: \"She was a middle tier manager of the organisation.\"\n\nAnother eight members, including Angela Collingbourne's sons, were jailed in March\n\nShe denied being \"a trusted lieutenant of this organised crime group, the second-in-command\" - but was convicted by a jury.\n\nRichard Barton, defending, said Collingbourne was acting out of \"mother's love\" and trying to provide for her three sons - the youngest of which has now lost \"three fifths of his remaining family\" following the convictions.\n\nThe court was told Collingbourne became estranged from her \"racist\" parents after they did not approve of her relationship.\n\nJudge Daniel Williams told Collingbourne: \"During your trial you portrayed yourself as a victim, fighting bigotry and injustice - but the jury saw through you.\n\n\"You dismissed your crimes as evidence of your own victim-hood.\n\n\"You were counting and banking the vast profits from this operation.\n\nAngela Collingbourne was captured on CCTV counting cash from drugs sales\n\n\"You began to believe that you were unstoppable.\"\n\nThe gang was arrested following a year-long investigation, Operation Finch, which involved surveillance and secret recordings.\n\nCollingbourne's son Jerome Nunes, 28, and Blaine Nunes, 26, were jailed for 12 and 14 years.\n\nJudge Williams said it was \"depressing\" that Jerome Nunes was able to direct the operation from his prison cell using hidden mobile phones, while serving a sentence for possession of cocaine with intent to supply.\n\nThe gang sourced drugs from Merseyside, with Matthew Croft regularly visiting Liverpool to meet \"up-stream suppliers\", the court heard.\n\nShe would accompany her partner Thomas Allison to drug deals in her pyjamas and had ambitions of buying a £500,000 house with him. A raid recovered Versace, Prada, Bulgari and Louis Vuitton clothing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn's Death Becomes Her is among the films on the bill\n\nThe British Film Institute (BFI) is facing accusations of misogyny over a season dedicated to \"fierce females\".\n\nThe programme includes films featuring \"some of the most wickedly compelling female characters on screen\".\n\nIn December, more than 330 academics and critics signed a letter warning that it risked \"uncritically parroting\" the misogyny of Hollywood.\n\nThe Playing the Bitch season was programmed by Anna Bogutskaya, who said she hoped to \"start a conversation\".\n\nIn a blog explaining the project, Ms Bogutskaya said she realised the title had \"powerful connotations\" that made it \"offensive to many\".\n\nShe wrote: \"My intention is not to provoke but to pose a question I can't answer by myself: what makes a screen 'bitch'?\"\n\nFilms starring Rosamund Pike and Nicole Kidman will also be screened\n\nThe protest letter, led by Dr Erika Balsom and Dr Elena Gorfinkel, senior lecturers in film studies at King's College London, was sent after an outline of the season, then simply titled Bitches, was announced.\n\nThey said the characters in question \"do not subvert gender norms, they inhabit stereotypes\". In this context, they said the word was \"insulting, not empowering\".\n\nThe season also reinforced a \"woeful status quo\" by featuring \"male representations of crazy, damaged, spiteful women\", they wrote.\n\nDr Balsom and Dr Gorfinkel met the BFI in January to discuss their complaints, and the full line-up was announced on 1 May.\n\nOn Friday, the pair told BBC News: \"It appears the only change they made was altering the title slightly.\n\n\"The BFI has failed to listen to over 330 scholars, film-makers, curators, artists, critics, etc, who expressed doubts about their season with ample time for them to reflect on their choices.\"\n\nThe film screenings and panel discussions will take place in June.\n\nThe season is advertised as a \"thought provoking analysis\" of \"tough, difficult women\" that aims to celebrate \"self-determining, independent, defiant, but always charismatic anti-heroines\".\n\nAll the films featured were made by male directors, but the BFI said more than half of the work was taken from source material written by women, and that the point of the season is to celebrate female actors.\n\nA BFI statement said: \"We thought very hard about using the word 'bitch' for the programme and appreciate that it is a provocative term, infused with different meaning by people from different genders, generations, backgrounds and cultures.\n\n\"This is a really interesting and important conversation, and we are going to directly address the word and its meaning in this season through our events programme.\"\n\nA BFI spokeswoman also pointed to a wider programme of screenings, events and releases exploring the work of women in front of and behind the camera.\n\nThere's a meme that's recently been reblogged on Tumblr. It's of Glenn Close as Cruella De Vil in the 1996 film 101 Dalmatians.\n\nShe says: \"More good women have been lost to marriage than to war, famine, disease, and disaster. You have talent, darling. Don't squander it.\" A comment underneath says: \"Patriarchy is that they gave this line to a villain.\"\n\nIt's a conversation that film students have had for decades - does the male gaze result in one-dimensional women on the screen? Particularly the heartless, icy woman who assumes cartoonish traits that further perpetuate gender-based stereotypes?\n\nA prime example? An ambitious woman is a bitch. Critics of the BFI season take exception to this word and the connotations around it.\n\nThe BFI says the word is a vehicle to explore female characters. But in an age where social media users criticised Brie Larson's Captain Marvel role by telling her to \"smile more\" (to which she responded by Photoshopping smiles onto Superman, Iron Man and Captain America), we still aren't quite there with appreciating a female hero - or a \"bitch\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A former Conservative councillor heckled the prime minister when she addressed the Welsh Tory conference in Llangollen.\n\nStuart Davies shouted to Theresa May: \"We don't want you\", and called on her to resign, before he was escorted away.\n\nMrs May was speaking about Thursday's local election results and Brexit.", "Fans have paid their respects to McNeill at his statue outside Celtic Park\n\nThousands of people are set to line the streets of Glasgow for the funeral of Celtic and Scotland legend Billy McNeill.\n\nA mass for the former Celtic player and manager will be held at St Aloysius' Church in Glasgow city centre at 11:30.\n\nThe cortege will then make its way to Celtic Park, where fans will be gathered, before heading for a private family interment.\n\nMcNeill, who had lived with dementia since 2010, died aged 79 on 22 April.\n\nNcNeill lifted the European Cup as Celtic captain in 1967\n\nAhead of the funeral service, which will be broadcast live on a large screen outside Celtic Park, the McNeill family thanked everyone who had sent kind messages over the past week.\n\nA statement said: \"They have cheered us up tremendously at this difficult time.\n\n\"The love and affection shown towards our father is nothing short of amazing and is something we will never forget.\n\n\"Our father always made time for the fans and knew how important they are so we would like to send an open invite to help us pay our respects to him.\"\n\nThe former Hoops captain enjoyed a glittering career at the Parkhead club, where he became the first Briton to lift the European Cup after a 2-1 win over Inter Milan in Lisbon in 1967.\n\nHe led Celtic to nine successive league titles and won seven Scottish Cups and six League Cups, before having two spells as manager.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'Billy was the top man; he'll never be forgotten'\n\nThe former Scotland defender, who won 29 caps for his country, also managed Clyde, Aberdeen, Manchester City and Aston Villa in the 1970s and 80s.\n\nTens of thousands of fans have already paid their respects to McNeill at his statue outside Celtic Park.\n\nFootball clubs around the country also staged a minute's applause as a tribute before matches last weekend.\n\nCeltic's players will wear McNeill's former number five on their shorts when they face Hearts in the Scottish Cup final at Hampden Park on Saturday 25 May.", "With the results for Waverley and Mansfield now in, every council in England has declared.\n\nThe Conervatives have suffered huge defeats, losing more than 1,300 councillors and 44 councils.\n\nAnd Labour, who had been expected to make gains, instead lost 81 councillors and six councils.\n\nTheresa May has said the results show the public want both parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nBut the strongly pro-EU Lib Dems gained 700 seats, with leader Sir Vince Cable calling every vote received \"a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThe Green Party - who are also pro-EU - have picked up an additional 194 seats in comparison to 2015.\n\nYou can read a full breakdown of all the results here.", "New International Development Secretary Rory Stewart has said he intends to stand for the Conservative leadership after Theresa May steps down.\n\nHe told the BBC's Political Thinking With Nick Robinson podcast he could \"help bring the country together\".\n\nMr Stewart also said he wanted to move \"beyond my brief\", laying out his opinions on \"other issues\".\n\nMrs May has told Conservative MPs she will stand down if her Brexit deal is passed by Parliament.\n\nBoris Johnson, Michael Gove, Sajid Javid, Jeremy Hunt, Dominic Raab and Andrea Leadsom are among those who have been touted as possible replacements.\n\nIn March Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss told The Sunday Times if she were leader she would use money saved by Brexit to fund tax cuts for businesses and young people.\n\nJustine Greening told the same paper she would be tempted to enter the race to ensure the Conservatives bring a modern approach and equality of opportunity.\n\nAnd Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has said it is \"entirely possible\" she will launch a bid for the Tory leadership once Mrs May steps down.\n\nMr Stewart was promoted to international development secretary, his first cabinet role, on Wednesday, having previously served as prisons minister.\n\nThis followed the sacking of Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson, who was replaced by Penny Mordaunt, who moved from the international development job.\n\nSpeaking to Political Thinking, Mr Stewart said: \"I think it's important at this time when the prime minister's said she's going to step down to have a voice that's arguing for being radical - but radical in the centre of British politics, not radical on the extreme right of British politics.\n\n\"A voice that's prepared to say I do want to bring this country together.\"\n\nMr Stewart campaigned for the UK to remain in the EU during the 2016 referendum campaign. But he told Political Thinking that \"of course I accept Brexit; I'm a Brexiteer, but I want to reach out to Remain voters as well to bring this country together again.\n\n\"And the only way I can do that is by moving beyond my brief and beginning to lay out, whether it's on climate change or any of these other issues, what I think it would mean to be a country we can be proud of.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Stewart said he had \"to get the balance right because my primary job is to look after my department and that's what I really want to focus on day-in, day-out.\n\n\"But ultimately the prime minister is going to step down and if we're going to have a leadership contest we might as well be open about it and candidates might as well explain what they're about.\"\n\nMr Stewart also paid tribute to Mr Williamson, who was sacked by Mrs May after she said she had information that suggested he was responsible for leaking details of a National Security Council meeting.\n\nHe called Mr Williamson \"an extremely energetic secretary of state for defence\", adding that \"whatever happened in those last days and whatever he did wrong at the end, we owe him huge respect for what he did before that\".\n\nMr Williamson strenuously denies being the source of the leak.", "The local election results are disappointing for both the Conservatives and for Labour, while the Liberal Democrats, Greens and independents prospered, writes Prof Sir John Curtice and colleagues on the BBC's local elections team.\n\n\"A plague on both your houses.\" That seems to have been the key message to emerge from the ballot boxes.\n\nOn the basis of the detailed voting figures in 40 local authorities, we estimate that if the pattern of voting in the local council elections were to be replicated across the whole of Great Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would have won 28% of the vote. This is only the second time that this calculation has put both those parties below 30%.\n\nThe elections always looked set to be difficult for the Conservatives. The party was defending seats that were mostly last up for grabs four years ago, on the same day David Cameron won the 2015 general election. That, coupled with the party's recent freefall in the polls, clearly pointed to significant Conservative losses.\n\nAnd that proved to be the case. The party has suffered net losses of more than 1300 seats. On average the party's share of the vote was down by six points, both compared with 2015 and with last year's local election results.\n\nHowever, despite the government's difficulties, Labour also slipped back - on average, by no less than seven points compared with last year's local election results. As a result, the party has found itself suffering net losses of around 80 seats, when opposition parties are normally expected to post gains.\n\nThe party's performance would seem to confirm the message of a number of polls that Labour's support has been slipping in the wake of the Brexit impasse, a fall in Jeremy Corbyn's popularity, and a continuing row about anti-Semitism. Compared with last year, the party lost ground more heavily in Leave-voting areas than in Remain-voting ones, a pattern that it shared with the Conservatives (who in previous years have tended to perform better in such areas). This has been seized on by pro-Leave Labour MPs as evidence that the party should reach an agreement with the government which would pave the way for the UK to leave the EU.\n\nWhat the two parties also had in common was a tendency for their support to fall more heavily in their heartlands. Labour's vote fell back most heavily in the north, the Conservatives in the south. Equally, Labour's vote fell more heavily in wards where it was previously strong, while the Conservative vote fell most heavily where they were strongest.\n\nIt was as though voters vented their frustration with the Brexit process by punishing whichever party represented the political establishment locally.\n\nThis mood perhaps also helps account for the remarkable success of independent candidates. Those not standing on a party label were on average winning as much as a quarter of the vote where they stood. More than 900 independent councillors have been elected - a net gain of more than 500.\n\nMeanwhile the Liberal Democrats, who before they entered into coalition with the Conservatives in 2010 were often a vehicle for protest votes, also appear to have profited from voters' disenchantment with the two largest parties.\n\nThe party, which has made net gains of more than 600 seats, advanced particularly strongly in Conservative-held wards where it was previously in second place. Double digit swings from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats were common in such seats. The party seemed to be successful in reinvigorating some of the bastions of local strength where its support had been badly eroded in the wake of the coalition government. This pattern added significantly to the tally of Conservative losses.\n\nTheresa May insisted the local election results showed voters wanted the main parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nIn contrast, and despite the party's pro-Remain stance, there was only limited evidence that the Lib Dems' advance was stronger in areas that voted heavily for Remain in the 2016 referendum. For example, while support for the party rose on average by three points on last year in areas where more than half voted for Remain, it also increased by two points in areas where the Remain vote was less than 45%.\n\nThanks in part to the fact that in 2015 the Liberal Democrats had recorded its worst ever local election performance, the party was able to make so many gains, due to an increase in its vote since then, of eight points. More significant, perhaps, was the fact that its vote was also up by three points on last year's local elections.\n\nWhen the party's performance is projected into a national vote, it is estimated to be worth 19% of the vote. This represents its best local election performance since the party entered into coalition in 2010, but was still well below the party's performance in any round of local votes between 1993 and 2010. Overall, the party's performance is best seen as evidence of a partial recovery from the depths to which the party sank during the coalition years.\n\nAt the same time, the Greens had one of their best local election results ever. The party made net gains of more than 180 seats. The Greens posted an average of 12% of the vote in the wards they contested, up five points on their performance where they stood four years ago. That equals the party's previous highest average, 12% in 2009, when local elections were held on the same day as European Parliament elections. The party may have been helped by the recent protests about climate change.\n\nFighting just one in six wards, there was little opportunity for UKIP to make much impact on these elections. Where it did stand, the party's vote was down by four points on its relative high point of 2015, but up eight points on its poor position last year. However, the challenge from the Eurosceptic parties may be more formidable in the European elections in three weeks time, when Nigel Farage's Brexit Party is on the ballot paper.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.", "The Duke of Cambridge arrives at Westminster Abbey with John Hall, Dean of Westminster\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has been booed as he arrived at a service marking 50 years of the UK's nuclear deterrent.\n\nMembers of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) greeted Prince William with chants of \"shame on you\" as he arrived at Westminster Abbey.\n\nHe was joined at the service by Penny Mordaunt, in her first official engagement as defence secretary.\n\nEarlier, Ms Mordaunt praised the \"incredible crews\" who had manned the UK's nuclear submarines over the years.\n\nShe also announced the fourth of the new Dreadnought class submarines - which are replacing the existing Vanguard class submarines - would be called HMS King George VI.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has previously been criticised over its failure to dispose of nuclear submarines\n\nAnti-nuclear campaigners gathered outside the abbey and staged a \"die-in\" - lying on the ground pretending to be dead - to commemorate victims of nuclear war.\n\nOmar Ahmed, an activist from Nelson, Lancashire, said: \"I'm surprised that he would come and support something that could destroy our planet.\"\n\nCND's head Kate Hudson has described the commemoration as \"disappointing\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today Programme, she said: \"A thanksgiving for nuclear weapons is completely inappropriate, and we're not alone in thinking this.\"\n\nThe memorial service was organised under Gavin Williamson before he was sacked as defence secretary following an inquiry into a security leak.\n\nIn a packed Westminster Abbey, with the Duke of Cambridge and newly installed Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt seated close to the High Altar, the dean delivered a brief but pointed address.\n\nAcknowledging that he had received a large amount of personal correspondence and emails asking him to cancel the service, he said he was \"proud that it is taking place here in the abbey\".\n\nPenny Mordaunt replaced Gavin Williamson as defence secretary after he was sacked this week\n\nIt was not a celebration of nuclear power, he said, for \"we cannot celebrate weapons of mass destruction\". But he added: \"We do owe a debt of gratitude to those responsible for maintaining the peace.\"\n\nAcross the road from Westminster Abbey, a cluster of about 200 protesters stood quietly - holding banners which read \"Trust in God not in Nuclear Weapons\" and \"Blessed are the peacemakers\".\n\nMusician Brian Eno joined protesters and asked: \"Why are we wasting so much of our resources on weapons that we're never likely to use?\"\n\nThe Chaplain of the Fleet, the Venerable Martin Gough, who offered the Naval Prayer during the service, said: \"This was an opportunity to acknowledge the sheer sacrifice that naval personnel and their families have to make when they join the sea deterrent service.\"", "It's not over - it's far, far from over.\n\nMany hundreds of seats are yet to declare. Many individual political stories yet to be told. So be very aware - the final shape of wins and losses for the government and the main opposition is unclear.\n\nBut at this stage of the morning, there is one message to both of the main parties at Westminster from this enormous set of elections - it's not us, it's both of you.\n\nLocal elections are about different issues in our villages, towns and cities. But at count after count, Tory and Labour candidates have been paying the price for Westminster's failure so far to settle the Brexit question. Council leaders from both parties saying openly that voters can't trust them any more because of how they have dealt with the issue - whether that is a sentiment among Leave voters in Sunderland who don't trust that we'll ever leave, or Remain voters in Bath who are furious that we likely will.\n\nOr more simply maybe, now we are nearly three years on from the referendum itself, this is a verdict on the competence of Westminster's biggest parties, on the mess of handling Brexit.\n\nThe beneficiaries? A Lib Dem recovery of sorts, a marked pick-up for the Greens, and independent councillors gobbling up seats in different pockets of the country. By traditional measures at this early stage, Labour is far from making the strides of a party marching towards Number 10. The Tories have so far escaped the worst. But their divisions over Brexit have cost them both - and neither of them have an obvious way out.\n\nBut as I say, many more results are yet to come in, and you can keep up with them here throughout the day.", "Why Are The Police Putting Down Their Guns?\n\nHundreds of firearms officers hand in their permits to carry weapons.", "On Thursday, voters will go to the polls to elect 462 councillors to Northern Ireland's 11 councils.\n\nBut who are the young people who want your vote?\n\nBBC News NI met the youngest candidates from each of Northern Ireland's largest parties.\n\nTwo of them are canvassing while studying for their A-level exams and one is in her final week of university.\n\nThey spoke to the BBC's Erinn Kerr about moustaches, memes and making a difference.\n\nFull lists of the candidates standing in each council area can be found on the Electoral Office's website.", "Tory MP Graham Brady has said \"dissatisfaction\" over Brexit is hitting the party's vote, with voters on doorsteps having told him \"for heaven's sake, get on with it\".\n\nAsked whether Theresa May's name has come up much in canvassing, Mr Brady - chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee - said \"it does from time to time, but it's more an overwhelming frustration\" that Brexit is yet to happen.\n\nHe added he suspects there may be more spoiled ballot papers than usual.", "Brexit minister James Cleverly has tried to play down Conservative expectations for the local elections.\n\nAfter nine years in government you would expect the party to \"lose lots and lots of seats\", he told the BBC. \"That's the normal situation.\"\n\nMr Cleverly said Swindon was an area where Tory local councillors \"work hard and deliver good council services\".\n\n\"I hope they are judged on that delivery, but it would be unrealistic for me to pretend, that nine years in government, and with Brexit as a backdrop, this is going to be anything other than a really, really tough night for us.\"", "HSBC has reported a 31% jump in pre-tax profits for the first quarter as it cut costs and incomes from Asia grew.\n\nEurope's largest bank made $6.2bn (£4.8bn) before tax in the three months to March, up from $4.8bn in the same period a year earlier.\n\nIt beat the $5.58bn average of analysts' estimates compiled by HSBC.\n\nChief executive John Flint said the results were \"encouraging\" against a backdrop of global economic uncertainty.\n\nShares closed more than 2% higher in Hong Kong trading after the earnings release.\n\nIn London, the bank's shares added 2.7% in Friday morning trading.\n\nIn a statement, HSBC said growth in Asia was strong during the first quarter and reported a 7% rise in revenue for the period, compared with a year earlier.\n\nThe bank makes three-quarters of its profits in Asia.\n\nThe earnings release also showed HSBC had made progress in efforts to cut costs, with operating expenses down 12% during the first quarter. Earnings per share rose 40% to 21 cents.\n\nHSBC has moved to rein in spending while trying to boost investment in retail banking and wealth management.\n\n\"These are an encouraging set of results, particularly in the context of heightened economic uncertainty globally,\" said Mr Flint.\n\nThe bank's US business continued to disappoint, but saw a return to profit, bringing in $379m, compared with a pre-tax loss of $596m in the first three months of 2018.\n\nThe bank said its \"US turnaround\" was progressing, but remained its \"most challenging strategic priority\".\n\nEarlier this year, HSBC warned profits would be hit by a slowdown in China.\n\nIn 2018, the lender said it would invest up to $17bn over three years in areas including in China and technology, without affecting profitability.", "The founder of Insys Therapeutics John Kapoor has become the first pharmaceutical boss to be convicted in a case linked to the US opioid crisis.\n\nA Boston jury found Kapoor and four colleagues conspired to bribe doctors to prescribe addictive painkillers, often to patients who didn't need them.\n\nThe former billionaire was found guilty of racketeering conspiracy for his role in a scheme which also misled insurers.\n\nTens of thousands of deaths have been caused by opioid overdoses in the US.\n\nIndian-born Kapoor founded drugmaker Insys Therapeutics in 1990 and built it into a multi-billion dollar company.\n\nThe jury found Kapoor had also misled medical insurance companies about patients' need for the painkillers in order to boost sales of the firm's fentanyl spray, Subsys.\n\nThe court heard that Kapoor - who was arrested in 2017 on the same day President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a \"national emergency\" - ran a scheme that paid bribes to doctors to speak at fake marketing events to promote Subsys.\n\nDuring the 10-week trial, jurors were also shown a rap video made by Insys for its employees on ways to boost sales of Subsys.\n\nKapoor and his co-defendants - Michael Gurry, Richard Simon, Sunrise Lee and Joseph Rowan - face up to 20 years in prison.\n\nA statement from Kapoor's lawyer said he was \"disappointed\" with the verdict. The men had denied the charges and have indicated that they plan to appeal.\n\nForbes listed Kapoor's net worth as $1.8bn (£1.4bn) in 2018, before dropping off the publication's billionaire rankings this year.\n\nHis conviction marks a victory for US government efforts to target companies seen to have accelerated the opioid crisis.\n\nThe US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has said that opioids - a class of drug which includes everything from heroin to legal painkillers - were involved in almost 48,000 deaths in 2017.\n\nThe epidemic started with legally prescribed painkillers, including Percocet and OxyContin. It intensified as these were diverted to the black market.\n\nThere has also been a sharp rise in the use of illegal opioids including heroin, while many street drugs are laced with powerful opioids such as Fentanyl, increasing the risk of an overdose.", "Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has called his party's local election results the \"big success story of the night\".\n\nThe party saw gains across the country, taking seats from both Conservative and Labour-run councils.\n\nSpeaking in Chelmsford, where the Lib Dems took control of the local council from the Conservatives, Mr Cable said the result demonstrated \"we are now very much part of three-party politics\".", "Police say one of the women found in a flat in east London was mother-of-three Mihrican Mustafa\n\nA woman who was found in a freezer along with another female has been formally identified as mother-of-three Mihrican Mustafa.\n\nThe two bodies were found frozen, clothed and on top of each other at the flat in Vandome Close, Canning Town, east London, on 26 April.\n\nThe Met confirmed they had been able to identify the 38-year-old but have not yet identified the other woman.\n\nA man has been charged with two counts of preventing a lawful burial.\n\nZahid Younis, 34, of Vandome Close, is due to appear at Kingston Crown Court on 29 May.\n\nThe two bodies were found in Canning Town on 26 April\n\nMs Mustafa, who was also known as MJ, had been reported missing on 10 May last year, according to police.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said investigators did not yet know how she died, adding post-mortem tests were \"ongoing\".\n\nHe said the death had been \"devastating\" for the 38-year-old's family and urged anybody who knew what happened to her to come forward.\n\nHe added that since Ms Mustafa was a missing person, the Met had referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct \"in accordance with agreed protocols\".\n\nA 50-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released while inquiries continue.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Milo Yiannopoulous, Alex Jones and Louis Farrakhan have all been banned\n\nFacebook is banning several prominent figures it regards as \"dangerous individuals\".\n\nThe social network accused Alex Jones, host of right-wing conspiracy website InfoWars, its UK editor Paul Joseph Watson and ex-Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos of hate speech.\n\nLouis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who has expressed anti-Semitic views, will also be excluded.\n\nFacebook has already banned anti-Islamic UK groups like Britain First.\n\nThe latest ban also applies on Instagram, which Facebook owns.\n\n\"We’ve always banned individuals or organisations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology,” the company said in a statement.\n\n\"The process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and it is what led us to our decision to remove these accounts today.\"\n\nThe banned group also includes Paul Nehlen, a white supremacist, and Laura Loomer, an anti-Islamic activist with a large social media presence.\n\nIn November, Ms Loomer handcuffed herself to a Twitter building in New York in protest at being banned from that platform.\n\nLaura Loomer is among those banned from the platform\n\nWhite supremacist Paul Nehlen, right, has twice run in Republican primaries\n\nHowever, Facebook has been criticised for giving forewarning of the bans, giving those affected a chance to redirect their followers to other services.\n\nFor a brief time on Thursday, Alex Jones was broadcasting, on Facebook, about his impending ban.\n\n“I’m about to be banned,\" wrote Mr Yiannopoulos to his followers on Instagram. \"Please sign up for my mailing list before this account disappears.\"\n\nA spokesperson at Facebook said the ban will apply to all types of representation of the individuals on both Facebook and Instagram.\n\nThe firm said it would remove pages, groups and accounts set up to represent them, and would not allow the promotion of events when it knows the banned individual is participating.\n\nIn an email, Facebook explained its rationale for banning the users:\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The drone had to be custom-built\n\nA donor kidney has been delivered to surgeons at a US hospital via drone, in the first flight of its kind.\n\nMany see huge potential for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) delivering medical products, with some drones already doing so in Africa.\n\nThe US flight required a specially-designed drone which was able to maintain and monitor the organ.\n\nIt is hoped that it can pave the way for longer flights and address safety issue with current transport methods.\n\nThe recipient, a 44-year-old from Baltimore, had waited eight years for the transplant.\n\nShe said of the unusual delivery method: \"This whole thing is amazing. Years ago, this was not something that you would think about.\"\n\nAccording to the United Network for Organ Sharing, which manages organ transplants in the US, in 2018 there were nearly 114,000 people on waiting lists, with 1.5% of organs not making it to the destination and nearly 4% being delayed by two hours or more.\n\nThe drone took off at night\n\n\"Delivering an organ from a donor to a patient is a sacred duty with many moving parts. It is critical that we find ways of doing this better,\" said Joseph Scalea, assistant professor of surgery at University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), and one of the surgeons who performed the transplant.\n\n\"As a result of the outstanding collaboration among surgeons, engineers, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), organ procurement specialists, pilots, nurses, and, ultimately, the patient, we were able to make a pioneering breakthrough in transplantation.\"\n\nThe three-mile journey required a lot of new technology, including a custom-made drone capable of carrying the additional weight of an organ, which also needed on-board cameras and organ tracking, and communications and safety systems for a flight over an urban, densely-populated area.\n\nIt also had a parachute recovery system in case the aircraft failed.\n\nThe drone's mission was a success and the patient has now left hospital\n\n\"There's a tremendous amount of pressure knowing there's a person waiting for that organ, but it's also a special privilege to be a part of this critical mission,\" said Matthew Scassero, part of the engineering team based at the University of Maryland.\n\nCharlie Alexander, chief executive of The Living Legacy Foundation of Maryland, a charity working to increase organ donation, said: \"If we can prove that this works, then we can look at much greater distances of unmanned organ transport.\n\n\"This would minimise the need for multiple pilots and flight time and address safety issues we have in our field.\"", "Both Labour and the Conservatives have suffered losses in the local elections, with voters turning to smaller parties and independents in a backlash against the Brexit deadlock. But beyond the immediate headlines lie smaller storylines you may have missed - here are seven of them.\n\nA poll on Hambleton Council was decided by lot - and the result saw Labour take its first seat there in more than a decade.\n\nThe seat, Northallerton South, was tied on 527 votes for Labour and the Conservatives - so the seat was settled by the returning officer choosing between two blank envelopes, one candidate's name in each.\n\nLabour's Gerald Ramsden was the lucky winner of the draw.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gerald Ramsden was elected after a dead heat in Hambleton.\n\nThe Tories won the Tetbury Town ward by just one vote - after officials looked through the spoiled ballots and accepted one where the voter had put \"Brexit\" and an arrow to the Conservative Party candidate.\n\nStephen Hirst retained his seat in the Cotswolds town after defeating independent Kevin Painter by 232 votes to 231.\n\nThe Conservatives and the independents had been tied before the returning officer, who is in charge of overseeing elections, decided to settle the matter by using the rejected ballot paper.\n\nMr Painter has confirmed he contacted the Electoral Commission for advice and he will be taking legal action over the decision.\n\nCotswold District Council said it had consulted the guidelines in the Electoral Commission's booklet on doubtful papers and examples within election law books.\n\nLeading Brexiteer MP Jacob Rees-Mogg now has a Liberal Democrat councillor representing him in Somerset.\n\nLiberal Democrat candidate Dave Wood defeated Conservative Tim Warren, leader of Bath and North East Somerset Council, in the Mendip ward.\n\nWera Hobhouse, Lib Dem MP for Bath, tweeted: \"Congratulations to Cllr Dave Wood, who moments ago beat B&NES council leader Tim Warren. He's now @Jacob_Rees_Mogg's local councillor!\"\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party's first openly gay election candidate has been elected.\n\nAlison Bennington hugged supporters at a Belfast count centre for Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council.\n\nShe attracted 1,053 votes as part of her campaign for the pro-union and Christian party, and praised her supporters' \"good, hard work and good teamwork\".\n\nThe DUP's founder, the late Rev Ian Paisley, once led a campaign to, in his words, \"Save Ulster from Sodomy\" and prevent the decriminalisation of homosexuality.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHas Extinction Rebellion led to a Green surge in the polls?\n\nThe Green Party has been one of the elections' biggest winners, picking up 265 seats - an increase of 194 compared to 2015.\n\nWith the local elections coming just after weeks of protests by Extinction Rebellion, should the environmental group be seen as having had an impact on voters' decisions?\n\nJonathan Bartley, the Green Party's co-leader, certainly thinks so.\n\nHe told the BBC he had \"no doubt\" the Extinction Rebellion group had contributed towards the party's election success, adding it was a \"powerful force in building awareness of the urgency of climate change\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe little-known Yorkshire Party has won council seats for the first time in its history.\n\nThe party, which was set up in 2014 and campaigns for regional devolution (among other things), has previously had councillors defect to it - but had never actually won an election.\n\nNow, the party has won six - with successes in both the East Riding of Yorkshire and Selby councils.\n\n#Dogsatpollingstations proved such a hit on election day it has even emerged as a muse for professional poets.\n\nBrian Bilston's effort, posted on Twitter, proved almost as popular as the dogs themselves.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Brian Bilston This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Free-to-use cash machines have been disappearing at a rapid rate across the UK, according to a study by Which?\n\nNearly 1,700 machines started charging for withdrawals in the first three months of the year, with the majority starting to charge in March, according to the consumer lobby group.\n\nCardtronics, which runs most of those, and fellow provider NoteMachine are both likely to charge at more machines.\n\nThat could mean the country losing 13% of its free ATMs in only a few months.\n\nThe changes come after a reduction in the fee operators receive from banks each time an ATM is used.\n\nLink, which oversees ATMs, began to cut the fee, known as the interchange rate, last year. So far it has reduced the charge from 25p to 23p per withdrawal.\n\nLink said at the time that the move was aimed at protecting the ATM network. It left the fee for free-to-use ATMs - which are 1km or more from the next nearest cash machine - unchanged.\n\nAshleigh Cooper from Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire has seen the number of cash machines dwindle from six down to two.\n\nMr Cooper, aged 60, said: \"It causes real problems especially on bank holidays. There are no banks here anymore. We have a mobile bank that visits every few weeks but that's no good to me.\n\n\"Hebden Bridge is quite a touristy area and there's usually a problem with one of the cash machines going out of order because it's run out of cash.\n\n\"The local cinema here was always a cash business but they're now having to accept digital payments or lose punters.\n\n\"For me it's like going back to the dark ages, it's crazy.\"\n\nATM operators receive the interchange fee from banks each time one of their cash machines is used.\n\nNoteMachine, which operates 7,000 cash machines across the UK, said the cut in the interchange rate meant it was considering introducing fees at up to 4,000 of its machines.\n\n\"Unless urgent action is taken to reduce the pressure on ATM operators by reversing the interchange fee reductions, NoteMachine will be forced to begin converting ATMs to surcharging,\" said chief executive Peter McNamara.\n\nRival ATM machine operator Cardtronics has said it is likely to convert another 1,000 of its ATMs over the coming months. It said it \"had been forced into charging a fee for cash withdrawals on some of our machines where Link's cuts have left us with no choice\".\n\nThere were about 52,000 free cash machines in the country at the start of the year.\n\nGareth Shaw, head of money at Which?, said: \"Communities are being stripped of free access to cash at an alarming rate that could hit the most vulnerable in our society the hardest, while denying millions of people free withdrawals.\n\n\"A regulator is desperately needed to get a grip of these rapid changes across the cash landscape and ensure all those still reliant on this important payment method aren't suddenly shut out from accessing the cash they need in their daily lives.\"\n\nReported charges range from 50p to £1.99 and the situation angered some of the respondents to the Which? survey.\n\nAnita Brakewell, from Blackpool, said: \"Being disabled means I don't have the option of walking to the next free cash machine, so these charges shut me out of cash that's important to my daily life.\n\n\"My town has also suffered from bank branch closures, making it hard to access the cash and financial services I need.\"\n\nAnd Robin Farnsworth, from Kirkcaldy, said: \"I stopped using the local cashpoint when it started charging me just to access my cash. I'm on a very tight budget and can't afford to be spending out just to get the money I need for everyday life.\"\n\nBank of England figures show that 2.2 million people are almost entirely reliant on cash.\n\nAnd last year's Access to Cash study, published in December, found that more than eight million people would struggle to cope in a cashless society, which would present real challenges for 25 million UK residents.\n\nHowever, cash use has halved in the past 10 years and in 2017, debit cards overtook notes and coins as the UK's most popular payment method.\n\nThere is a fierce, three-way, struggle going on over the future of our network of free-to-use cash machines.\n\nThe upstarts are independent operators like Cardtronics and Note Machine which now have the most ATMs.\n\nThen there are the banks. They have to pay the operators each time their customers use a non-bank machine.\n\nFinally, we have Link which runs the network and has been trying to get the operators to accept lower payments from the banks.\n\nTwo cuts to the payments have been pushed through, prompting Cardtronics to say it is being \"forced\" to charge the customer instead.\n\nAnd the backdrop is that we are using less cash, which means fewer withdrawals and less chance that a cash machine will pay its way.\n\nSo it's not clear where this will end.\n\nBut more charging will cause anger and frustration amongst those who depend heavily on cash.", "The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is already the second deadliest in history\n\nThe death toll from the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed 1,000, the health ministry says.\n\nDRC's Ebola outbreak began in August and is the second deadliest in history.\n\nWorld Health Organization deputy director Dr Michael Ryan said mistrust and violence was harming efforts to tackle the disease as it spread through the east of the country.\n\nThere have been 119 documented attacks on medical centres and staff since January, Dr Ryan said.\n\nWHO staff anticipated \"continued intense transmission\", he added, in a briefing to reporters in Geneva.\n\nHealth workers have plenty of vaccines - more than 100,000 people have already been given the treatment. But continuing violence in the east of the country where militias are present, as well as mistrust of doctors, was hindering their programme, Dr Ryan said.\n\n\"We still face major issues of community acceptance and trust,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe DRC is also suffering from an outbreak of measles which has killed more than 1,000 people, with 50,000 cases reported. WHO staff have confirmed measles in 14 of the country's 26 provinces, in both rural and urban areas.\n\nEbola is still contained within two provinces in the DRC but it is becoming harder to monitor the spread of the virus because of violence. The WHO said the risk of a global spread is low, but it was very likely cases would spread into neighbouring countries.\n\nMost Ebola outbreaks are over quickly and affect small numbers of people. Only once before has an outbreak been still growing more than eight months after it began - that was the epidemic in West Africa between 2013 and 2016, which killed 11,310 people.", "Ms Begum left Bethnal Green, east London, in 2015 to join the Islamic State group in Syria\n\nIS bride Shamima Begum would \"face the death penalty\" for terrorism if she came to Bangladesh, the country's foreign minister has said.\n\nAbdul Momen told the BBC that Ms Begum has \"nothing to do\" with his country.\n\nThe 19-year-old, who left east London to join the Islamic State group in 2015, was stripped of her British citizenship in February.\n\nHer claim to Bangladeshi nationality through her mother is believed to have informed the Home Office's decision.\n\nUnder international law, it is illegal to deprive nationals of citizenship if to do so would leave them stateless.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Ms Begum's lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, told the BBC \"in no way is she Bangladesh's problem\".\n\nMs Begum is appealing against the Home Office's decision.\n\nMr Momen said there was \"no question\" of giving Ms Begum Bangladeshi citizenship or allowing her into the country, piling pressure on Home Secretary Sajid Javid to settle her status.\n\n\"She has never sought Bangladeshi citizenship and her parents are also British citizens,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"The British government is responsible for her. They'll have to deal with her.\"\n\nHe added that, if she did end up coming to Bangladesh, she would fall foul of the country's \"zero tolerance policy\" towards terrorism.\n\n\"Bangladeshi law is very clear. Terrorists will have to face the death penalty,\" he said.\n\nAlthough Ms Begum travelled to Syria to join the IS group, she has not admitted any terror offences.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tasnime Akunjee, the lawyer for the family of Shamima Begum, expects her to be \"damaged\" by her ordeal\n\nThe Home Office could reverse its decision \"at any time\" and doing so would \"save British taxpayers a lot of money\" in court costs and legal aid, Mr Akunjee said.\n\n\"What Sajid Javid did in stripping Shamima of her citizenship is human fly tipping - taking our problems and dumping them on other countries,\" he said.\n\nThe Home Office told the BBC it would not respond to Mr Momen's comments and had nothing further to add to its previous statement.\n\nMs Begum left the UK with two school friends at the age of 15 before being found by a journalist from the Times in a Syrian refugee camp in mid-February this year.\n\nHeavily pregnant with her third child, she pleaded to return to the UK, claiming she had been \"brainwashed\" by Islamic State and now \"regrets everything\".\n\nShe said she did not regret travelling to Syria but did not agree with everything the IS group had done.\n\nMr Javid did not acquiesce to her pleas, telling MPs he \"won't hesitate\" to revoke her citizenship in the interests of national security.\n\n\"If you back terror, there must be consequences,\" he said.\n\nMs Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nSoon afterwards, she gave birth to a boy called Jarrah. He died of pneumonia in March at less than three weeks of age. She had two other children who also died.\n\nIn the wake of the boy's death, Mr Javid was criticised over the decision to strip Ms Begum of her British citizenship.\n\nThree weeks prior to the death, Ms Begum's sister, Renu Begum, had written to Mr Javid asking him to help her bring the baby to the UK.\n\nUnder the 1981 British Nationality Act, a person can be deprived of their citizenship if the home secretary is satisfied it would be \"conducive to the public good\" and they would not become stateless as a result.", "The US unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level for more than 49 years in April, according to official figures.\n\nThe jobless rate fell from 3.8% to 3.6%, the US Labor Department said, the lowest since December 1969.\n\nHowever, the fall was due to a large number of people - 490,000 - leaving the labour force during April.\n\nThe data also showed that the world's largest economy added a stronger-than-expected 263,000 jobs during last month.\n\nWage data showed that average earnings grew at an annual rate of 3.2%.\n\nAnalysts said the figures indicated that the economy remained healthy, but was not running at a pace that might cause the US Federal Reserve to alter interest rates.\n\nHiring gains were seen in nearly all sectors of the economy during April.\n\nHowever, there was little change in the numbers of involuntary part-time workers. The number of people working part time because their hours had been reduced or because they were unable to find full-time jobs remained at 4.7 million.\n\nIan Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, called it a \"strong\" jobs report, \"but payroll gains can't continue at this pace\".\n\n\"What can continue, though, is the downshift in unemployment, and that means more power to scarce labour and faster wage gains in due course.\"\n\nHe added that while there were no immediate implications to monetary policy, it would be possible that similar data in future could \"prompt something of a rethink at the Fed\".\n\nIt's a strong jobs report and certainly undermines the concerns expressed in recent months that the US might be heading for a recession soon.\n\nThe unemployment rate puts the US close to, though not at, the top of the international league table. That is a little flattering however. It reflects not just job creation, but also the number of people not seeking to work. They are classified not as unemployed but as \"not in the labour force\".\n\nThe percentage who are either working or trying to get work (known as the participation rate) puts the US much closer to mid-table, as does the percentage who do have jobs.\n\nThe Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell, (speaking to CBS television) has referred to \"an unusually large number of people in their prime working years who are not in the labour force\". There are a number of factors behind that but one possible contributor is a major US public health problem; the misuse of opioid drugs.\n\nNancy Curtin, chief investment officer at Close Brothers Asset Management, said: \"Unemployment is at a multi-decade low, the trade talks with China are progressing well, and Chinese stimulus is in place, which should boost global demand. All of this bodes well for the US economy continuing to build momentum.\"\n\nDespite the strong jobs growth, US inflation remains below the Fed's target of 2%.\n\n\"Business spending is going towards digital transformation rather than investment in labour, which is proving deflationary,\" said Ms Curtin.\n\n\"What this means for expansion is unclear, but so long as [US Fed chairman] Powell remains pragmatic and flexible with his policy the US is in a good position for the second half of the year.\"\n\nThe US Federal Reserve indicated earlier this year that it would not change rates for the rest of 2019.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Fed voted to hold interest rates, keeping borrowing costs at between 2.25%-2.5%.\n\nA day earlier, US President Donald Trump had tweeted that the Fed should reduce rates by 1% to help the US economy \"go up like a rocket\".", "Actor Sir Tony Robinson, a former member of Labour's governing National Executive Committee, says he has quit the party over its current direction.\n\nHe said he was leaving after nearly 45 years because of Labour's stance on Brexit, its handling of anti-Semitism allegations and its poor leadership.\n\nSir Tony, 72, is best known for playing Baldrick in the comedy Blackadder.\n\nThe political activist has spoken at rallies for the People's Vote campaign, which is calling for a public vote on the final Brexit deal.\n\nHis decision comes as Labour lost seats in Thursday's local elections, with voters turning to smaller parties and independents.\n\nAnnouncing his move on Twitter, Sir Tony said it was partly down to the party's \"continued duplicity on Brexit\".\n\nHe has previously written a tweet to deputy leader Tom Watson, saying: \"Our party members are overwhelmingly in favour of a second referendum. To campaign on a platform of constructive ambiguity would be unprincipled, duplicitous and rather sinister.\"\n\nLabour has refused to fully endorse a further referendum on Brexit - as supported by many ordinary members - instead saying it would do so under certain circumstances.\n\nSir Tony, who has frequently criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Twitter, also raised the issue of anti-Semitism and swore when describing the leadership in his tweet.\n\nLabour has been dogged by criticism of how it has handled allegations of anti-Semitism since Mr Corbyn became leader.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tony Robinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Time Team presenter, who campaigned at several general elections, served on Labour's National Executive Committee between 2000-04.\n\nLabour did not want to comment on his departure.", "The report comes less than two weeks after bombings at three churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday\n\nThe persecution of Christians in parts of the world is at near \"genocide\" levels, according to a report ordered by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.\n\nThe review, led by the Bishop of Truro the Right Reverend Philip Mounstephen, estimated that one in three people suffer from religious persecution.\n\nChristians were the most persecuted religious group, it found.\n\nMr Hunt said he felt that \"political correctness\" had played a part in the issue not being confronted.\n\nThe interim report said the main impact of \"genocidal acts against Christians is exodus\" and that Christianity faced being \"wiped out\" from parts of the Middle East.\n\nIt warned the religion \"is at risk of disappearing\" in some parts of the world, pointing to figures which claimed Christians in Palestine represent less than 1.5% of the population, while in Iraq they had fallen from 1.5 million before 2003 to less than 120,000.\n\n\"Evidence shows not only the geographic spread of anti-Christian persecution, but also its increasing severity,\" the Bishop wrote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles: \"It is an indescribable tragedy that Christianity is now under such threat in the Middle East''\n\n\"In some regions, the level and nature of persecution is arguably coming close to meeting the international definition of genocide, according to that adopted by the UN.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary commissioned the review on Boxing Day 2018 amid an outcry over the treatment of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who faced death threats after being acquitted of blasphemy in Pakistan.\n\nIts findings come after more than 250 people were killed and more than 500 wounded in attacks at hotels and churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.\n\nAsia Bibi's husband pleaded for asylum from the UK, US or Canada\n\nMr Hunt, who is on a week-long tour of Africa, said he thought governments had been \"asleep\" over the persecution of Christians but that this report and the attacks in Sri Lanka had \"woken everyone up with an enormous shock\".\n\nHe added: \"I think there is a misplaced worry that it is somehow colonialist to talk about a religion that was associated with colonial powers rather than the countries that we marched into as colonisers.\n\n\"That has perhaps created an awkwardness in talking about this issue - the role of missionaries was always a controversial one and that has, I think, also led some people to shy away from this topic.\n\n\"What we have forgotten in that atmosphere of political correctness is actually the Christians that are being persecuted are some of the poorest people on the planet.\"\n\nIn response to the report, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Marie van der Zyl, said Jews had often been the targets of persecution and felt for Christians who were discriminated against on the basis of their faith.\n\n\"Whether it is in authoritarian regimes, or bigotry masked in the mistaken guise of religion, reports like the one launched today remind us that there are many places in which Christians face appalling levels of violence, abuse and harassment,\" she said.\n\nThe review is due to publish its final findings in the summer.", "In World War Two members of the Royal Sussex Regiment got the chance to film messages to their loved ones back home.\n\nThe film was screened at cinemas in Brighton and was eventually archived at the Imperial War Museum.\n\nNow North West Film Archive and Screen Archive South East are collaborating to try and trace the families of the veterans featured in the film.", "An elaborate three-day coronation is taking place for the king of Thailand, and sacred water plays a key role in the consecration rites.\n\nThe official ceremonies, a mix of Brahmin and Buddhist rituals, begin on 4 May in the capital, Bangkok.\n\nKing Maha Vajiralongkorn, 66, inherited the throne upon the death of his revered father King Bhumibol Adulyadej in 2016. But in Thai royal tradition only after a king is consecrated does he become a Devaraja, or God king, and the upholder of Buddhism.\n\nThis is the first coronation in living memory for most of the Thai population and big crowds are expected to attend.\n\n\"This is a significant occasion where Thai people can reassure ourselves that we have long history, rich culture and close ties between the monarchy and the people,\" says Prof Tongthong Chandransu from Chulalongkorn University - a researcher in Thai culture.\n\nVajiralongkorn (pictured) is the son of Bhumibol who reigned for almost 70 years\n\nHistorically, Thai society was established around the banks of its rivers which provided staples like rice and fish. So many of its ceremonies and traditions revolve around water.\n\nFor weeks leading up to the coronation, officials collected water from more than 100 sources across the country between 11:52 and 12:38 - deemed an auspicious time in Thai astrology.\n\nThe water was then blessed in Buddhist ceremonies at major temples before being combined in another consecration rite at Wat Suthat - one of Bangkok's oldest temples.\n\nThe sacred water has been kept in ornate ewers ahead of the coronation\n\nThe consecrated water is used in two rituals at the Grand Palace. The first is the bath to \"purify\" the king, where the water is poured over his body while he wears a white robe.\n\nThe second is to anoint the monarch. The king changes into his full regal vestments and is seated on an octagonal throne made of fig wood.\n\nEight people pour the water on his hands - this time that will include Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn - the king's younger sister - Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, as well as Brahmins and royal court pandits (scholars).\n\nThe use of water is based on a Brahmin tradition dating back centuries, experts say.\n\nAll the previous kings in the Chakri dynasty\n\nThe king then goes to the Bhadrapitha Throne and sits under the nine-tiered umbrella, where he is presented with the Royal Regalia.\n\nThe crown is a more recent addition to royal tradition in Thailand, a concept popularised by European courts.\n\nCreated in the reign of King Rama I in the 1782, it is made of gold and adorned with diamonds.\n\nIt weighs 7.3kg, symbolising the weight of the responsibilities the king carries, according the Prof Tongthong.\n\nThe Royal Sword of Victory represents wisdom in governing the country. According to legend, it was found at the bottom of the Tonle Sap lake in Siem Reap, Cambodia and given as a gift to King Rama I. It's said that when it arrived in Bangkok, seven lightning strikes hit the city simultaneously.\n\nAfter the crowning and investiture ceremonies King Vajiralongkorn - who holds the titles Rama X, or the 10th king of the Chakri dynasty - will present his first royal command.\n\nHis father had said at the time of his coronation in 1950: \"I will reign with righteousness, for the benefit and happiness of the Thai people\".\n\nAfter the coronation rites, the king takes up ceremonial residence at the Grand Palace - referred to in simple terms as a housewarming party.\n\nIn a private ceremony, at the Chakrapat Biman Royal Residence, he is escorted in by the women of the royal family.\n\nThey bring with them a cat and a white rooster, a grinding stone, a tray of green gourd, a tray of rice seeds, a tray of beans and a tray of sesame seeds. The grains represent abundance and fertility in Thai agriculture.\n\nThe significance of the cat is less straightforward. Some believe the owner of a new house should have a cat to chase away rats. Others believe the custom comes from a belief that cats expel demons and evil spirits, according to the Bangkok Post newspaper.\n\nHe's also given a golden key to signify his ownership of the palace.\n\nIn the days after the main ceremonies, the newly anointed king will take part in processions around Bangkok and make a public appearance on his balcony to give ordinary Thais an opportunity to pay their respects.\n\nImages courtesy of Ministry of Culture and Thailand PR department.", "Karanbir Cheema died almost two weeks after cheese was flicked at him at school, the inquest heard\n\nThe death of a schoolboy who collapsed after cheese was thrown at him was \"unprecedented\", an inquest has heard.\n\nKaranbir Cheema, 13, died after having a severe reaction at his school in west London on 28 June 2017.\n\nSpecialist Dr Adam Fox said severe reactions from skin contact were \"very, very uncommon\" and he was \"not aware of any fatal cases\".\n\nThe boy who threw the cheese previously told the inquest he had been \"playing around\".\n\nKaranbir, who had multiple allergies including to dairy products, was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition after falling ill at Perkin Church of England High School in Greenford.\n\nHe died almost two weeks later at Great Ormond Street Hospital of post-cardiac arrest syndrome.\n\nSt Pancras Coroner's Court heard Karanbir's Epipen, which was kept at the school, was 11 months out of date and was the only adrenaline administered before the teenager suffered cardiac arrest.\n\nHe displayed signs of anaphylaxis such as scratching for several minutes before receiving the adrenaline, the inquest heard.\n\nDr Fox, a paediatric allergy consultant at Evelina London Children's Hospital, told the court it is \"an important learning point\" that \"at the first sign of anaphylaxis it's 'get the adrenaline out and make sure they get it as soon as possible'.\"\n\nBut Dr Fox said the pen \"probably had less potency\" as it was past its expiry date.\n\nKaranbir's Epipen, kept in the school welfare room, was out of date\n\nDr Fox said the cause of the reaction was what made it \"extraordinarily unusual\".\n\n\"If it was skin contact alone that caused, in this case fatal, anaphylaxis, I believe that to be unprecedented,\" he said.\n\nThe inquest has heard Karanbir, who also suffered from eczema, had scratched at his neck so much that blood was visible.\n\nDr Fox said \"further scratching and degrading of the skin barrier\" could have added to the reaction.\n\nA paramedic admitted she had \"probably\" panicked when treating him, when asked by the coroner.\n\nAlexandra Ulrich said she thought Karanbir had suffered an asthma attack and gave him two grams of magnesium sulfate, a drug which is used to treat muscle spasms during severe asthma attacks but is not meant for children.\n\n\"If I had known about the specific details of the history about the allergens, I wouldn't have given it,\" she said.\n\nMs Ulrich added a pocketbook given to ambulance staff had since been updated to make explicit the substance was not meant for under 18s.\n\nAndrew Jones, paediatric intensive care consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital, said Karanbir's brain had been severely deprived of oxygen and over days it became apparent he \"had no chance of survival\".\n\nPathologist Liina Palm told the inquest the death was caused by anaphylactic shock and cited multiple food allergies as the underlying cause.\n\nDame Alice Hudson, executive head teacher of the Twyford Trust - which encompasses William Perkin school, said she believed there had been \"a very good general awareness\" of Karanbir's allergies among pupils.\n\nThe coroner is due to deliver her conclusion on 10 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May was heckled at the Welsh Conservative conference\n\nNeither the prime minister nor the Labour leader has anywhere to hide.\n\nAfter nine years in government it's not surprising that the Conservatives have lost a significant chunk of seats.\n\nBut the sheer number that have disappeared and the loss of control of authorities will hurt - especially with so many activists identifying Theresa May's handling of Brexit as a root of the problem, not just a general malaise.\n\nThe perceived personal nature of the failure is more of an indignity than an encounter with a heckler in tweeds.\n\nAnd for Jeremy Corbyn, it IS surprising and disappointing that Labour has simply failed to make any significant capital from such a divided and chaotic government.\n\nHowever ardently his devotees swear loyalty, the party has fallen back - on this set of results at least - seeming further rather than closer from winning power in a general election he so often claims to crave.\n\nTake a breath. Local ballots do not translate directly into the next general election. It bears repeating time and again that specific rows over green belt building, local party spats, even simple quirks of geography all apply too.\n\nBut such an enormous set of results does give a sense of the public's political taste at this moment. And it provides a bitter flavour for the two big UK parties - locked in an uncomfortable embrace with historically feeble levels of support.\n\nThe public will also have given both of them anxiety about the potential of the Lib Dems to creep back into their territory after a strong show. And the sour mood around Brexit adds more pressure to Labour and the Tories in their own ranks too.\n\nFor Mrs May it directly and overtly gives ammunition for convinced Tory Eurosceptics to demand a more rapid departure from the EU, whatever happens.\n\nThe delay, they believe has been toxic, so the solution is to speed on. And for Labour's many supporters of a second referendum, the significant advance of the Lib Dems and the Greens is evidence that a clear demand for another say is the only way to carve out a convincing identity.\n\nThat geographical pattern is very marked, although unwise maybe to assume it can last, or a howl for another referendum is what it overwhelmingly means.\n\nBecause while our departure from the EU has just shaped yet another chapter of our politics in an unconventional way, two of the old rules do still apply.\n\nAfter months of grisly pantomime, the rejection of both parties may well also be a simple judgement on both main parties' competence.\n\nVoters quite plainly like politicians who look like they know what they are doing. And the public does not like parties that spend vast amounts of time fighting amongst themselves.\n\nWhether government or opposition, we want them to care about us, rather than be expected to care about them.\n\nNo surprise for today at least, that the Labour and Tory leaderships are both outwardly trying to push harder for a joint deal that could find a way out for them both - damned or saved together.\n\nBut their local election anguish doesn't make a deal any easier to achieve.\n\nSo our two big political parties are both finding there's been a cost to conflict and messy internal compromise.\n\nAnd will look ahead nervously to the European elections when two new parties created specifically to advance clear ways out of the Brexit stalemate could divide the public more cleanly, and mete out a much more painful punishment to them.", "Conservative councillors tried to distance themselves from Theresa May and the government\n\nConservative councillors have criticised Theresa May after losing hundreds of seats in the local elections.\n\nA council leader who lost his majority said the prime minister should \"consider her position\" and others said they made gains \"despite\" the government.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour lost out to smaller parties and independents.\n\nThere are reports of spoilt ballots referring to Brexit in some areas.\n\nElections for more than 8,400 seats on 248 councils took place amid widespread criticism of MPs and the government over the handling of Brexit.\n\nThe Conservatives, who were defending council seats they won in 2015, alongside the party's general election victory, were at pains to stress the vote was about local services and council tax rather than what was happening at Westminster.\n\nHowever, by Friday morning they had lost out mainly to the Liberal Democrats and independents on councils such as Cotswold, Winchester and North Kesteven.\n\nThe Greens have also won dozens of seats including in Folkestone and Hythe, where they have six new councillors.\n\nLabour have also been losing seats, including in strongholds such as Bolsover, where they lost their majority amid a surge in support for independents.\n\nParty leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he is \"very sorry\" it lost three of its councils in the North West, despite winning control in Trafford.\n\nTony Berry wants Theresa May to consider her position after losing control of Cotswold District Council\n\nThe Tories lost Cotswold District Council after 16 years, with the Liberal Democrats now in charge.\n\nConservative group leader Tony Berry said it was a \"very unusual set of circumstances\".\n\nHe blamed Brexit and \"professional politicians who are basically working for themselves rather than necessarily what is best for the country\".\n\nAsked his message to Theresa May, he said: \"I would ask her to consider her position very carefully.\"\n\nA voter in Worcester posted a picture of his spoilt paper\n\nHundreds of ballot papers were spoiled in Rugby, according to the borough's returning officer.\n\nAdam Norburn said many had \"Brexit\" scrawled across them.\n\nAnd a voter in Worcester posted a picture of his spoilt paper on Twitter.\n\nJordan said he was a Conservative party member but that the major parties had been \"lying for three years straight about Brexit\".\n\nThere were also reports of a \"larger than normal\" number of spoilt ballots in Ipswich.\n\nAnd in one ward in Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, almost one in 20 ballots was spoilt.\n\nCandidates at the count told the Local Democracy Reporting Service many comments written on the papers related to Brexit.\n\nThere were 33 spoilt votes out of 673 in the Eastwood Hall ward.\n\nIt is not illegal to spoil a ballot paper, but filling it out incorrectly or covering it with graffiti will render it invalid.\n\nIn Bath and North East Somerset, where the Liberal Democrats won control, Tory casualties included the council leader Tim Warren.\n\nMr Warren said councillors had been \"given a kicking for something that wasn't our fault\".\n\nAsked whether there needed to be changes in leadership or policies at the top of the Conservative Party, Mr Warren replied: \"There needs to be a change in action.\"\n\nMike Bird said the Conservatives won control at Walsall \"despite\" the government\n\nIn Walsall, the Conservatives took control of the council after winning seats from Labour, having run the authority for a year without a majority.\n\nCouncil leader Mike Bird said the Tories won \"despite\" the Conservative government and Theresa May.\n\n\"She hasn't helped us make any gains at all - far from it - we made the gains despite the prime minister.\"\n\nIn North East Lincolnshire, another Tory gain, group leader Philip Jackson said the party \"managed to disengage national politics from what was happening locally\".\n\nLabour's leader in Leeds said councillors were bearing the brunt of \"anger and frustration\" about national politics.\n\nJudith Blake said the party had been \"punished locally\" after losing four seats on the city council, while retaining control.\n\nLabour also lost seats in Wakefield to the Liberal Democrats and independents. Councillor Graham Isherwood said the party was \"paying the price for that lot in Westminster\".\n\nIn Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, a group of independents won an overall majority, a month after taking control from Labour.\n\nJason Zadrozny, leader of the Ashfield Independents, said politics had been \"a bit of a mess\".\n\nIn North Devon, where the Lib Dems won control of the council from the Conservatives and independents, the group's leader David Worden said: \"It was a tremendous night for us and shows that the Lib Dem fight back is well and truly happening.\"\n\nThe Lib Dems also won a 20-seat majority in North Norfolk, something the party's leader in the district Sarah Butikofer said was beyond the party's \"wildest dreams\".\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "That's the end of our coverage on this live page. Thanks for sticking with us over the past two days.\n\nThe election has produced an intriguing set of results. Stay tuned to the BBC News NI website over the coming days for more reaction and analysis.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice have started an investigation into a number of assaults in Warrington following a visit by the founder of the English Defence League, Tommy Robinson.\n\nMr Robinson, who is standing as a candidate for the European Parliament, had a milkshake thrown over him in the town centre on Thursday.\n\nTwo people were taken to hospital in the hours that followed.\n\n\"We will not tolerate disorder... whatever the motivation,\" said Ch Insp Simon Meegan of Cheshire Constabulary.\n\n\"We are aware there has been a lot of talk, videos and speculation about what happened on social media but we need to hear from people who were there at the time and witnessed what happened.\n\n\"In particular, we want to hear from anyone who was in the area at the time and recorded any of the incidents on their mobile phone,\" he said.\n\nIt was the second time in two days Mr Robinson had a milkshake thrown over him on the campaign trail.\n\nHe is running as an independent to become an MEP for the north-west England, one of eleven candidates in the constituency.\n\nFootage posted on social media appeared to show Mr Robinson arguing with another man before a milkshake is thrown.\n\nThere is then an altercation.\n\nOther footage showed a further altercation between a number of people in central Warrington later that afternoon.\n\n\"This is a complex investigation, which involves a large number of people and we are treating this matter seriously and asking for the public's help in tracing those responsible,\" said Ch Insp Meegan.\n\nNo arrests have been made and inquiries are ongoing, police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Conservative MP Vicky Ford became visibly upset during a BBC interview as the Tories lost a comfortable majority in Chelmsford to the Liberal Democrats.\n\nAt the count in Essex, Ms Ford became emotional as she reflected on \"a very disappointing night\".\n\nShe said voters' frustration with Brexit was the cause of the Tory losses.\n\n\"I think it is really disappointing when you look at some of the individuals who have lost their seats tonight,\" she said.", "Voters have delivered a stinging rebuke to the two main parties at Westminster in the local elections in England, with ballots still being counted in Northern Ireland.\n\nSee the results below in our interactive map.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nBy-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nWith all the results declared in England the Conservatives have lost over 1,300 councillors while Labour has also seen dozens of losses. The Lib Dems and Greens have both made significant gains, with the Lib Dems gaining more than 700 councillors and the Greens nearly 200.\n\nIndependent candidates have also made unusually large gains, as shown by the rise of \"Others\" in the above chart.\n\nProfessor Sir John Curtice has calculated how Thursday's vote would translate across Britain. This projection of the national vote share puts Labour and the Conservatives both on 28%.\n\nThe Lib Dems were the big winners in terms of councils, taking over 10, seven of which were at the expense of the Conservatives. Their most impressive victory was in Chelmsford where they flipped a majority of 23.\n\nThe Conservatives saw big losses in the south west, particularly the new councils of Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole and Somerset West & Taunton. Labour suffered its biggest loss in Ashfield, where it lost 20 councillors and the control of the council passed to Independents.\n\nLabour won seats in many parts of the country, and the party's largest gain was 16 councillors in the former UKIP stronghold of Thanet. The Conservatives' largest gain was in North East Derbyshire.\n\nSupport for the major parties fell more heavily in their heartlands, according to Prof Curtice, with Tories losing most seats in the south of England and Labour in the north.\n\nThe Green Party were one of the beneficiaries of the main parties' misfortune, gaining nearly 200 new councillors across the country and only failing to defend seats in two areas.\n\nMeanwhile, UKIP lost councillors in many areas. The biggest loss came in their old heartland of Thanet, where former-leader Nigel Farage campaigned unsuccessfully to become an MP in 2015.\n\nSeveral mayoral elections have also taken place across England. Middlesbrough and Copeland returned independent mayors, while the North of Tyne returned a Labour mayor as did Leicester. Bedford re-elected its Liberal Democrat mayor.\n\nData journalism, development and design by Daniel Dunford, Joe Reed, Sean Willmott, John Walton, Wesley Stephenson, Mike Hills, Clara Guibourg, Ed Lowther, Alison Benjamin, Tom Francis-Winnington, Katia Artsenkova, Shilpa Saraf and Adam Allen.", "Séamus Lawless is an assistant professor at the School of Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin\n\nA County Wicklow man on a climbing expedition to Mount Everest has been reported missing.\n\nSéamus Lawless, 39, from Bray, was part of a team of climbers who reached the peak on Thursday.\n\nThe search for Mr Lawless has become a recovery operation, the company that organised the climb told Irish broadcaster RTÉ .\n\nMr Lawless is an assistant professor at the School of Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin.\n\nIt has been reported that he went missing at an altitude of 8,300 metres, in an area known as \"the balcony\", near the mountain's summit.\n\nMingma Sherpa, the owner of Seven Summits Treks which organised the trip, told RTÉ: \"It is a very difficult situation. We are searching for a body.\"\n\nHe said that conditions descending the mountain were \"very good\" but that Mr Lawless appears to have fallen accidentally.\n\nThe GPS worn by Mr Lawless has been found almost 500m from where he fell, but experts have said it is possible the device became detached.\n\nStaff at Trinity College issued a statement expressing concern for their colleague.\n\n\"Séamus and his family are in our thoughts during this extremely distressing time,\" said a statement from the university.\n\n\"This morning his family, friends and colleagues shared his joy on reaching the peak of Mount Everest.\n\n\"We hope that Seamus is found safely as soon as possible and until then we will be offering any support we can to his family.\"\n\nThe university had earlier tweeted congratulations to Mr Lawless after he reached the peak of Everest on Thursday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bus tickets need to be cheaper and easier to buy using contactless and smart phones to attract young people, according to the UK transport watchdog.\n\nDespite being the biggest users of buses 16-18 year-olds are also the least satisfied, Transport Focus found.\n\nThe watchdog also recommended companies should install wi-fi and USB charging points on board, to encourage younger people to travel on buses.\n\nBus companies said they were investing in services young people expect.\n\nGraham Vidler, chief executive of CPT UK, the trade association which represents bus and coach operators, said the industry recognised the importance of meeting the expectations of younger travellers.\n\nOnboard facilities including contactless and mobile ticketing, wi-fi, USB charging points and leather seating were now \"commonplace\" on many services, he added.\n\nTransport Focus director David Sidebottom agreed more bus operators and local authorities were pursuing initiatives that encouraged young people to catch the bus.\n\nBut he added that young people didn't feel services were designed for them.\n\n\"Young people want using the bus to be as simple and intuitive as ordering pizza. Bus operators and local authorities must seize the opportunity to cater for their customers of the future.\"\n\nIn its report Making Bus a Better Choice For Young People Transport Focus recommends bus companies should introduce:\n\nTransport Focus gave the example of a flat fare of £2.20 for unlimited travel in and around Liverpool, which it said had led to a significant rise in the number of under 18-year-olds using buses.\n\nCPT UK's Mr Vidler welcomed the report's recommendations and said the latest satisfaction statistics \"clearly demonstrate that the industry is moving in the right direction\".\n\nHowever, he added there was \"always room for improvement\".\n\nThe organisation looked forward to \"continuing to work closely with its members, central and local government to further improve the experience of all bus users\", he said.\n\nBuses minister Nusrat Ghani said the Transport Focus research was \"vital\" in showing how to encourage young people to continue to use buses in the future. \"Both councils and bus companies should follow this best practice,\" she said.\n\n\"We're also funding a new open data platform so companies can develop apps to help passengers find out where their bus is, how long it will take, and how much it will cost, giving them more confidence to take the bus,\" Ms Ghani added.\n• None What has been happening to bus travel?", "The three teenagers stabbed to death in 12 days: (l-r) Hazrat Umar, 18, Abdullah Muhammad and Sidali Mohamed, both 16\n\nOne hundred people have been stabbed to death across the UK since the beginning of 2019. Three of those were teenagers in the West Midlands, all killed within the space of 12 days. People are now asking whether austerity is to blame.\n\nOn the afternoon of Wednesday, 13 February, just outside the gates of a sixth form college in east Birmingham, an A-Level student is stabbed in the chest.\n\nParamedics and police rushed to the aid of Sidali Mohamed, an aspiring accountant who fled war-torn Somalia with his family as a toddler.\n\nTwo days later, surrounded by his family in hospital, the 16-year-old Joseph Chamberlain College student's life support machine was switched off and he died from his injuries.\n\nA week after Sidali was stabbed, West Midlands Police launched another murder investigation as a second teenager was knifed to death.\n\nYards away from a nearby primary school, in Small Heath, south-east Birmingham, Abdullah Muhammad was stabbed in the back and chest.\n\nAbdullah, also aged 16, died at the scene - a park close to where he lived.\n\nThe majority of those stabbed to death in the West Midlands in 2019 have been teenagers\n\nBy the end of the week detectives had begun a third murder investigation, the time into the death of an 18-year-old boy.\n\nElectrical engineering student Hazrat Umar was found injured on a road in Bordesley Green on 25 February.\n\nA relative of Nazir Afzal, a former chief prosecutor, Mr Umar became another victim to Birmingham's knife crime.\n\nEight of the 100 victims to have been stabbed to death in 2019 have been killed in the West Midlands - but Mr Afzal fears the knife crime problem is far bigger.\n\n\"The statistics show murders, but do not show the attempted murders and GBHs,\" Mr Afzal says.\n\n\"Hundreds of people have survived violence because of the skilled work of paramedics and medical staff. It masks a bigger problem.\"\n\nOne hundred people have been fatally stabbed in the UK so far this year. The motives and circumstances behind killings have varied - as have the age and gender of the victims.\n\nLast month, Jack Harley, a 14-year-old boy with learning difficulties from Halesowen, almost became another statistic.\n\nThe teenager was attacked with a knife and robbed while sitting on a bench in a park in Dudley.\n\nReceiving a deep gash to his right arm, Jack needed 14 staples and underwent a series of operations.\n\n\"He was very close to the artery being cut,\" says his mother, Diane. \"We've got to stop it.\"\n\nJack Harley was stabbed as he was robbed in Birmingham\n\nThe spate of killings has led the chief constable of West Midlands Police to describe knife crime as \"an emergency\" as pressure mounted for solutions to be found fast.\n\nBut for former police officer Kirk Dawes, the solution is obvious: he partly attributes the rise in knife crime locally to the axing of a mediation service he had run, which settled disputes between gangs.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\n\"Every time I hear a murder where some kind of conflict resolution service could have been utilised, it hurts in here,\" he says, pointing to his heart.\n\n\"Something that was working so well was literally thrown away.\"\n\nIn 2004, Mr Dawes - then a police detective - was tasked with setting up a unit that would mediate conflicts and stop them from becoming deadly.\n\nMr Dawes helped pioneer a new approach to combating serious violence in the wake of the killing of teenagers Charlene Ellis and Letisha Shakespeare, who were gunned down in a drive-by shooting as they left a party in Birmingham in the early hours of 2 January 2003.\n\nCharlene Ellis, 18, and Letisha Shakespeare, 17, were shot with a sub-machine gun in Aston, Birmingham, in 2003\n\nThey were the innocent victims of a dispute between two notorious gangs in the city.\n\nDrawing on conflict resolution tactics used to defuse disputes in Northern Ireland and among gangs in the US, Mr Dawes worked with trained mediators as part of a body called Birmingham Reducing Gang Violence (BRGV).\n\nThey shuttled between feuding groups, finding ways to settle conflict without violence.\n\nKirk Dawes ran The Centre for Conflict Transformation (TCFCT) between 2004 and 2012\n\nIt seemed to work: Mr Dawes says there were 27 gang-related murders in 2004. By 2010 there were three.\n\nThen the scheme was scrapped.\n\nBy the end, he says, the 35 trained mediators, who specialised in sitting face-to-face with possible killers, were being asked to work on a zero-hours contract.\n\n\"The catalyst for that was austerity,\" Mr Dawes says now. \"The draconian way in which money was taken away from community organisations has led to where we are now.\"\n\nSince the BRGV was axed, knife crime has steadily risen in the West Midlands, with the number of people being stabbed to death spiking in the last two years.\n\nThere is no agreement on what is driving the recent increase.\n\nSenior police officers blame drug dealing, robberies and young people feeling like they have to defend themselves. Elsewhere, social media is in the frame.\n\nThe current chief constable of West Midlands Police, Dave Thompson, was not in charge when the decision was made to axe Mr Dawes' mediation unit.\n\nDave Thompson has been the chief constable of West Midlands Police since January 2016\n\nHe says the force has faced \"some very tough choices\".\n\n\"You can't make the level of reductions by keeping everything the same,\" he says.\n\nHowever, he concedes that \"with hindsight\" it would have been better to retain the unit.\n\nLater this year a new mediation service will be introduced at a cost of £100,000 a year - seven years after BGRV was scrapped.\n\nResearch published last week found that councils with large cuts to youth services were more likely to have seen an increase in knife crime.\n\nThe all-party parliamentary group on knife crime said that the average council cuts to youth services was 40%, but for some services in the West Midlands it was closer to 90%.\n\nAusterity makes itself felt in another way too, according to Mr Thompson, serving to slow down some of the more detailed investigations which are often launched following a homicide.\n\n\"In some cases of violence, the investigation won't move at the same pace as it would have in the past.\n\n\"The leg work of detective work in some of these cases, the examination of phones, the digital media that takes time, effort of skilled resources.\"\n\nBirmingham is a young city. Almost half of its one million population is under 25, so the policing priority is to reduce street violence among that group.\n\n\"It has got the appearance that those people who are inclined to violence are actually becoming more violent,\" says West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson.\n\n\"If you'd asked me the question about the common themes in the violence four or five years ago a lot of it was around gangs.\n\n\"That is still true today. Some of it is around gangs but it's across all people now. We're seeing what used to be a small act of violence - perhaps a slap or a punch - turn into something far more serious.\"\n\nNationally, a lot of hope has been pinned on the so-called \"public health approach\" to tackling violence.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nAt Coundon Primary School, in Coventry, a class of lively Year 6 pupils learn about being \"mentors in violence prevention\", as part of a new scheme in the region.\n\nUsing scenarios they teach each other the resilience needed to stand up to the challenges they will face in life.\n\nThey learn about bullying, grooming and dealing with the pressures not to \"snitch\".\n\nIt is another demand heaped onto busy teachers.\n\nHead teacher Jayne Ellis says there was a stabbing just around the corner from the school the night before she spoke to the BBC.\n\n\"Some of these children we've had since they were three,\" she says.\n\n\"If we can give them those messages at least we've given them the skills to deal with whatever predicament they find themselves in.\n\n\"They trust us implicitly. They trust each other. We are like a family.\"\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 on Tory leadership bid: \"Of course I'm going to go for it\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said he will run for the Conservative Party leadership after Theresa May stands down.\n\nAsked at a business event in Manchester if he would be a candidate, the former foreign secretary replied: \"Of course I'm going to go for it.\"\n\nMrs May has said she will resign once MPs back her Brexit deal.\n\nA decision on her exit timetable will now take place after the House of Commons votes on her Brexit bill early next month.\n\nSir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative MPs, made the announcement following a meeting between the prime minister and his committee's executive on Thursday. He said it would bring \"greater clarity\" to Mrs May's intentions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Huw Edwards This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 senior Conservatives are expected to enter the contest for the leadership, with the winner also becoming prime minister.\n\nAsked at the British Insurance Brokers' Association conference in Manchester whether he wanted to be in charge of his party, former London mayor Mr Johnson said: \"I'm going to go for it. Of course I'm going to go for it. I don't think that is any particular secret to anybody. But you know there is no vacancy at present.\"\n\nMrs May's withdrawal agreement with the EU has been rejected three times by the Commons. And she has come under increasing pressure to go after the Conservatives lost more than 1,300 councillors in recent local elections.\n\nMany Conservative MPs are also unhappy that Mrs May is holding cross-party talks with Labour in an effort to get her withdrawal agreement through the Commons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives jostling to be the next prime minister\n\nMr Johnson, a leading Brexiteer who quit the cabinet last year over the terms of the agreement, said: \"I do think there's been a real lack of grip and dynamism in the way we approached these talks [with the EU].\"\n\nThe MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip added: \"We've failed over the last three years to put forward a convincing narrative about how we can make sense of Brexit and how to exploit the opportunities of Brexit.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a Conservative leadership contest, MPs hold a series of ballots, with the candidate gaining the fewest votes eliminated at each stage.\n\nOnce the field is reduced to two, the winner is chosen by a vote of party members. This wider vote did not occur in 2016, when Mrs May became leader, after the second-placed candidate among MPs - Mrs Leadsom - stood aside.\n\nInternational Development Secretary Rory Stewart and former work and pensions secretary Esther McVey have announced they will run and Commons leader Andrea Leadsom has said she is \"considering\" doing so.\n\nOther widely touted possible contenders include former and current members of the cabinet, including Michael Gove, Amber Rudd, Sajid Javid, Dominic Raab, Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss.\n\nPublisher William Collins has announced that the biography of David Cameron - whom Mrs May replaced at Conservative leader and prime minister following the EU referendum - will be released in September.", "The pound has sunk to a four-month low against the dollar after cross-party Brexit talks between the Conservatives and Labour collapsed.\n\nOn Friday evening, the pound was 0.52% lower against the dollar at $1.273, having had its worst week in a year.\n\nThe pound was 2% lower this week, its steepest decline since February last year when it fell by more than 2%.\n\nIts fall reflects investors pricing a higher chance of the UK leaving the EU without a deal, analysts said.\n\n\"While talks with Labour were ongoing, the market was slightly more reassured that an EU customs union or something similar to the status quo would be the outcome,\" said Eimear Daly, a foreign exchange strategist at Macquarie Bank.\n\n\"Now the focus turns to the Prime Minister's ability to retain leadership of the Conservatives, or perhaps a more eurosceptic Tory Party leader,\" she said.\n\nAgainst the euro, the pound fell 0.46% to €1.140.\n\nMrs May has promised to set a timetable for the election of her successor after the next Brexit vote in the first week of June.\n\nRBC Capital Markets chief currency strategist Adam Coles said there was growing uncertainty over whether the Brexit bill would pass, as well as doubts over who will replace Theresa May as Prime Minister.\n\n\"It looks increasingly likely she will be replaced by a pro-Brexit PM with no election, and that automatically increases the chances of a no-deal Brexit,\" said Mr Coles.\n\nSince the UK's departure from the EU was delayed in March, the pound has broadly traded above $1.29 against the dollar.\n\nMrs May will try once again to win the support of MPs for her Brexit deal in the week beginning 3 June, when the Commons votes for the first time on the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill - the legislation needed to implement her deal with the EU.\n\nBrexit had been due to take place on 29 March - but after MPs voted down on three occasions the deal Mrs May had negotiated with the bloc, the EU gave the UK an extension until 31 October.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nIsrael Folau's contract has been terminated by Rugby Australia after he said \"hell awaits\" gay people in a social media post.\n\nThe full-back, 30, was sacked in April but requested a hearing, which was heard by a three-person panel.\n\nThe panel found him guilty of a \"high level breach\" of RA's player code of conduct and upheld the dismissal.\n\nFolau, who had a RA deal until 2022, has 72 hours to appeal against the ruling and is considering his options.\n\nAn appeal would mean a second code of conduct hearing with the same evidence but a new panel, while he could also try to take his case to a regional Supreme Court, or even the High Court of Australia.\n\nThe fundamentalist Christian posted a banner on his Instagram account in April that read: \"Drunks, homosexuals, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists and idolators - Hell awaits you.\"\n\nNew South Wales Waratahs' Folau, who escaped punishment for similar comments last year, said he was \"deeply saddened\" by RA's decision.\n\n\"It has been a privilege and an honour to represent Australia and my home state of New South Wales, playing the game I love,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"As Australians, we are born with certain rights, including the right to freedom of religion and the right to freedom of expression.\n\n\"The Christian faith has always been a part of my life and I believe it is my duty as a Christian to share God's word.\n\n\"Upholding my religious beliefs should not prevent my ability to work or play for my club and country.\"\n\nFolau, RA chief executive Raelene Castle, Wallabies coach Michael Cheika and New South Wales Rugby Union (NSWRU) chief executive Andrew Hore all gave evidence at the three-day hearing earlier this month.\n\nThe panel then took written submissions before deciding on Folau's punishment.\n\n\"This outcome is a painful situation for the game,\" said Castle.\n\n\"Rugby Australia did not choose to be in the situation, but Rugby Australia's position remains that Israel, through his actions, left us with no choice but to pursue the course of action resulting in today's outcome.\"\n\nFolau was expected to play at this year's World Cup in Japan but Cheika has said he is unlikely to be selected for Australia again.\n\n\"This issue has created an unwanted distraction in an important year for the sport and for the Wallabies team,\" added Castle.\n\n\"But our clear message for all rugby fans is that we need to stand by our values and the qualities of inclusion, passion, integrity, discipline, respect and teamwork.\"\n\nNSWRU boss Hore said: \"While NSWRU is disappointed to lose a player of Israel's calibre, rugby has a code of conduct and values that we must adhere to ensure that our game remains a game for all, no matter people's background or beliefs.\"\n\nIn addition to his rugby union career, Folau has also played professional rugby league and Australian rules football.\n\nIn April, Australian rugby league's governing body ruled out Folau returning to the NRL.\n\nHe has recently lost sponsorship deals with Land Rover, who withdrew a car issued to him, and sportswear brand Asics.\n\nRugby Australia is a foundation member of Pride in Sport Index (PSI), which is a programme in Australia set up to help sporting organisations with the inclusion of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community.\n\n\"We commend Rugby Australia, as well as New South Wales Rugby Union, for their leadership and courage throughout this process,\" said PSI co-founder Andrew Purchas.\n\n\"Their swift and decisive actions shows that homophobic and transphobic discrimination is not acceptable in sport and individuals - irrespective of their social or professional stature - will be held accountable for their words and actions.\"", "Protesters call for a boycott of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv\n\nGermany's parliament has condemned as anti-Semitic a movement calling for a cultural boycott of Israel over its policies towards Palestinians.\n\nLawmakers in the Bundestag said the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) group uses anti-Semitic methods to promote its political goals.\n\nThe BDS movement described the decision as \"a betrayal of international law\".\n\nIt comes after the group called for artists to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest held in Tel Aviv this week.\n\nIn Friday's resolution vote, which took place on the eve of the show's final, Germany's lower house said the actions of the BDS were reminiscent of the \"terrifying\" Nazi campaign against Jewish people under Adolf Hitler.\n\n\"The 'don't buy' stickers of the BDS movement on Israeli products [could be associated] with the Nazi call 'don't buy from Jews', and other corresponding graffiti on facades and shop windows,\" the non-binding resolution said.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has previously said that the BDS movement opposes his nation's very existence, welcomed the \"important\" decision in a statement posted on Twitter.\n\n\"I hope that this decision will bring about concrete steps and I call upon other countries to adopt similar legislation,\" the statement said.\n\nThe motion, submitted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), and the Greens and Free Democrats, pledges to reject all financial support for the BDS movement.\n\nCondemning the move, the BDS group said the \"unconstitutional resolution\" was anti-Palestinian and unhelpful in the fight against \"real anti-Jewish racism\".\n\n\"BDS targets complicity not identity. The academic and cultural boycott of Israel is strictly institutional and does not target individual Israelis,\" the movement said in a statement posted online.\n\nAhead of this year's Eurovision Song Contest, the BDS movement called on artists and broadcasters to distance themselves from the event, which they said was being used to \"distract attention from [Israel's] war crimes\".\n\nMadonna was among those facing calls to boycott the contest, but she confirmed on Thursday that she would be performing.", "The team behind Rocketman have pulled off the most astonishing feat. Against all the odds, they have managed to produce a two-hour greatest hits musical that turns one of the most flamboyant, gifted and charismatic performing artists of the modern era into a bit of a bore.\n\nA lot of words have been written and spoken about Sir Elton John over his 50 years in showbiz, but \"dull\" is not usually among them.\n\nBut there's no alternative but to invoke it in this instance. It's as if the piano-playing showman's character was squeezed into a trouser press every time it looked like developing a third dimension.\n\nHe is played by Taron Egerton in this Hollywood retelling of the pop star's life story. Egerton succeeds in bringing out the singer's down-to-earth humour, but fails to bare his soul.\n\nIt doesn't help that he looks more like Phil Collins than Elton John when off stage, and not unlike 1980s children's TV personality Timmy Mallet when on it.\n\nThe film starts as it means to go on. And I mean, go on. Elton is in group therapy talking about his addictions: to alcohol, drugs, sex, bulimia, shopping. The other participants can't get a word in edgeways as the man from Pinner bangs on about himself.\n\nWe revisit this group throughout the film, with his outfits becoming more stripped back each time - from a winged Devil outfit (bad, fake Elton) to a dreary brown dressing gown (real Elton, stripped of artifice).\n\nThese are the layers being peeled back to reveal his true identity. Except it never is revealed.\n\nWe go from addiction story to back story for a while until the two become one and everything that was good about the film (warmth, self-deprecating humour, seamless segues between music, action and time) is lost in yet another scene of Elton Hercules John overindulging.\n\nIt's a rock 'n' roll cliché at the best of times, but is overplayed here to such an extent as to suggest (ridiculously) it is the only interesting thing to say or reveal about a sensitive, artistic man blessed with a special talent to touch the hearts and minds of millions of people across the globe.\n\nIt's a shame, because there's a potentially great movie buried under the empty vodka bottles. There are glimpses of what could have been in an early rendition of I Want Love sung as an ensemble piece by Elton when a boy, his distracted mother (Bryce Dallas Howard), detached father (Steven Mackintosh) and supportive granny (Gemma Jones) - all of whom are in need of a bit of love.\n\nTaron Egerton with Bryce Dallas Howard as his mum Sheila and Richard Madden, who plays Elton's manager John Reid\n\nThis is the untended soil from which a dumpy, shy young lad called Reginald Dwight grew into Elton John, superstar. It is fertile ground for a decent biopic, which Rocketman might have flowered into had it not been stifled by the addiction saga running though it like Japanese knotweed.\n\nThere are moments of genuine cinematic drama, most of which occur in the first half. A particular highlight takes place at Doug Weston's legendary Troubadour club in West Hollywood. It is August 1970 and Elton John and his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin (Jamie Bell) are giving America a first shot.\n\nBernie comes racing backstage from the bar to tell Elton that Neil Diamond and half of the Beach Boys are out front waiting to hear him play. The news gives the already nervous singer the yips. He hides in the loo before being coaxed out to triumphantly take the stage by storm with a blistering Crocodile Rock. You're enthralled. It's great. This is the moment Elton John takes off. And then…\n\nDirector Dexter Fletcher (who was brought in to complete last year's Oscar-winning Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody after Bryan Singer was fired) labours the point with unnecessary visual metaphors as our newly discovered star floats up in the sky, while his audience, who are swept off their feet, levitate.\n\nRocketman is far from a disaster - it couldn't be given Elton John's back catalogue - but it is a disappointment, a missed opportunity. Lee Hall's script is fine, the acting is fine, the directing is fine and the music is great - although Taron Egerton can't sell a song like Elton John, but then few can.\n\nSir Elton John with Taron Egerton at the premiere in Cannes\n\nThe problem is superficiality. We see a lot of Elton John but we never get to know him. All the sex 'n' drugs give an illusion of candour but it's really a mask to hide behind. The rags-to-riches element is told in a fairly perfunctory fashion, albeit lifted somewhat by the way in which the John/Taupin songbook is neatly weaved in for dramatic emphasis.\n\nBut then I suppose that's what you get when the subject of a biopic is also its authoriser and executive producer (his husband David Furnish has a producer credit). Critical distance is a difficult thing to achieve in such circumstances.\n\nMaybe he was hoping for a companion piece for Billy Elliot, a story that he has said mirrors his own. The presence of Lee Hall and Jamie Bell (both Billy Elliot alumni, as is Elton John, who provided songs for the stage musical) suggests that might have been the case.\n\nIf so, Rocketman doesn't miss by a mile. There's plenty to enjoy. But it does miss.", "In its heyday, the service was responsible for 30 marriages a year\n\nA matchmaking service for Catholic couples is closing after 50 years following a decline in demand.\n\nThe Knock Marriage Introductions in County Mayo claims to have been responsible for 960 marriages.\n\nThe service, based at the Knock Shrine, was set up by Fr Michael Keane in 1968.\n\nCurrent director, Fr Stephen Farragher, said online dating agencies and apps have now made it possible to meet someone \"at the touch of a button\".\n\n\"Back in 1968, Ireland was a different place than it was today,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"Fr Michael Keane saw the extent of loneliness and isolation, particularly as a result of emigration and also due to the fact that people didn't even have phones and landlines.\"\n\nSingles applying to take part in the service filled out two questionnaires answering questions about themselves.\n\nApplicants provided details on their hobbies and the kind of qualities you would look for in a partner.\n\nSingles were looking for love for a range of reasons, said Fr Farragher.\n\nToday's couples admit to Fr Farragher that they met through dating apps\n\n\"One woman applied saying she wasn't really interested in marriage as such, but that the heating bills were going up and she was living on her own, so she felt a little bit of company might help cut back on the bills,\" he said.\n\nPeople who took part were paid a yearly subscription, which entitled you to \"any number of introductions\".\n\nIn its heyday, the service was responsible for 30 marriages a year, said Fr Farragher.\n\nBut in recent years, there had been a noticeable decline in demand for the service which made it no longer viable, he added.\n\n\"Seven years ago, we had 10 marriages in the course of a particular year. In the last few years, it has varied from three to four marriages a year,\" he said.\n\nAs the money from annual client subscriptions decreased, the service had to be supplemented in recent years by donations from dioceses around Ireland.\n\nBut rather than indicating a turn away from Catholic society, Fr Farragher said that it is a symptom of advanced communication technologies.\n\n\"The vast majority are still church marriages,\" he said.\n\n\"In the last year or two, the couples had no problem admitting that they met through Tinder or a similar type of app or dating agency.\n\n\"If that need is being fulfilled elsewhere, we are quite happy for others to fulfil that need.\"", "Theresa May has promised to set a timetable for the election of her successor after the next Brexit vote in the first week of June.\n\nThe agreement follows a meeting between the prime minister and senior Tory MPs who are demanding a date for her departure from Downing Street.\n\nIf she loses the vote on her Brexit plan, already rejected three times, sources told the BBC she would resign.\n\nMeanwhile, Boris Johnson has said he will run for leader once Mrs May goes.\n\nThe prime minister survived a confidence vote by Conservative MPs at the end of last year and party rules mean she cannot formally be challenged again until December.\n\nBut Mrs May has come under increasing pressure to leave Downing Street this summer, amid the Brexit impasse and poor results for the Conservatives in the recent local elections in England.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said senior sources had told her it was \"inconceivable\" the prime minister could remain in office if MPs rejected her Brexit plans for a fourth time.\n\nBut the paragraph tucked into the short formal letter from Sir Graham Brady to Tory MPs all but marks the end of Theresa May's premiership and the beginning of the official hunt for the next leader of the country.\n\nAfter the lines in the short note restate the prime minister's determination to get Brexit done, it confirms in black and white that after the next big vote, in the first week of June, the prime minister will make plans with the party for choosing a successor.\n\nRight now, the expectation is that vote will be lost (although it is not impossible, of course, that Number 10 could turn it round).\n\nAnd the conversation that's been arranged won't just be a gentle chat about what to do next.\n\nSenior sources have told me that means, even though the letter doesn't spell it out, that if her Brexit plan is defeated again, Mrs May will announce she is going.\n\nThe chairman of the 1922 committee of Conservative MPs, Sir Graham Brady, said he had reached an agreement over the prime minister's future during \"very frank\" talks in Parliament.\n\nHe said the committee's executive and Mrs May would meet again to discuss her future following the first debate and vote on the Withdrawal Agreement Bill in the week beginning 3 June.\n\nSir Graham said there was now \"greater clarity\" about the situation.\n\nAsked if that meant the prime minister would quit immediately if MPs rejected her Brexit plans once more, he said that scenario went \"beyond\" what had been agreed.\n\nMPs have rejected the prime minister's Brexit agreement with the EU three times.\n\nBut she will have another go at gaining their support in the week beginning 3 June, when the Commons votes for the first time on the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill - legislation needed to implement her deal with the EU.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer foreign secretary Boris Johnson has joined the growing list of Conservatives who say they will stand for leader when Mrs May announces her departure.\n\nHe told a business conference in Manchester: \"Of course I am going to go for it.\"\n\nConservative MP Grant Shapps welcomed the announcement that a timetable would be set out for Mrs May's departure, suggesting it would inject greater ambition and dynamism into the Brexit process.\n\nThe former party chairman told BBC News the Brexit bill had no chance of passing in its current state but holding another vote would allow Mrs May to demonstrate she had \"tried everything\".\n\n\"It is right to bring this whole saga to a conclusion,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives jostling to be the next prime minister\n\nBut fellow Tory Phillip Lee, who backs another Brexit referendum, said replacing the prime minister would not \"solve the crisis\" the UK found itself in or build a parliamentary majority for the terms of the UK's departure.\n\n\"Forcing the PM's resignation and spending this summer locked in a leadership election where candidates trade ever more fantastic visions of unicorn Brexits…is neither in the interests of the Conservative Party nor of the United Kingdom,\" he said.\n\nLast month, the 1922 Committee executive narrowly decided against changing the party's leadership rules to allow an early challenge to Mrs May.\n\nLocal Tory associations have confirmed they will hold a vote of confidence in her leadership on 15 June, although its result will not be binding.\n\nMuch of the anger in the Conservative parliamentary party is focusing on the prime minister's talks with Labour, aimed at reaching a cross-party compromise to get her deal through the Commons.\n\nBBC Newsnight political editor Nick Watt said he understood the talks will \"soon be drawing to a close\" adding that Tory whips had \"given up on this phase of the negotiations and are looking to pack the legislation with goodies for Brexiteers\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party would not support the Withdrawal Agreement Bill unless it guaranteed membership of a customs union with the EU, and protected workers' rights, consumer rights and environmental rights.\n\nMeanwhile, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said his party would \"happily support\" the legislation, provided it was subject to a \"confirmatory public vote\".", "Madonna's latest album, Madame X, comes out in June\n\nMadonna will perform during the final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, it has finally been confirmed.\n\nThe singer will perform two songs: her 1989 hit Like A Prayer and new single Future, featuring US rapper Quavo.\n\nAn announcement was made ahead of the contest's second semi-final on Thursday, ending days of speculation over whether she would indeed appear.\n\nEarlier this week organisers said a contract had yet to be signed and that she could not perform without one.\n\nYet the singer was seen arriving in Israel on Tuesday and has reportedly been rehearsing at a secret location.\n\nEarlier on Thursday she posted a cryptic video on social media that appeared to be filmed on the stage of the Expo Tel Aviv.\n\n\"We are pleased to finally confirm that the incomparable music icon Madonna will join us at this year's Eurovision Song Contest,\" said Jon Ola Sand, the event's executive supervisor.\n\n\"We know that it will be an evening to remember and can't wait to share it with everyone watching.\"\n\nMadonna's appearance was announced by her US and UK publicists in April, but it has taken weeks for it to be announced officially.\n\nOrganisers said she would be accompanied by a 35-strong choir during Like A Prayer, which was released 30 years ago this spring.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On the hunt for Madonna at Eurovision\n\nEarlier this week, Madonna appeared to respond to those critical of Israel hosting the contest and her participation in it.\n\n\"I'll never stop playing music to suit someone's political agenda, nor will I stop speaking out against violations of human rights wherever in the world they may be,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"My heart breaks every time I hear about the innocent lives that are lost in this region and the violence that is so often perpetuated to suit the political goals of people who benefit from this ancient conflict.\n\n\"I hope and pray that we will soon break free from this terrible cycle of destruction and create a new path towards peace.\"\n\nThe decision to hold Eurovision in Israel is not popular with critics of the country's policies towards Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.\n\nThe Eurovision Song Contest final will air on BBC One on 18 May from 20:00 BST.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Madonna 'to play two songs' at Eurovision\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former WWE star Ashley Massaro has died at the age of 39 after being taken to hospital from her home in Long Island.\n\nThe wrestler and model, who competed in WWE between 2005 and 2008, died of \"non-criminal causes\", Suffolk County Police say.\n\nWWE says it's \"saddened to learn of the tragic death of former Superstar Ashley Massaro\" and offers its condolences to her family.\n\nAshley joined the WWE in 2005 after winning its Raw Diva Search.\n\nTwo years later she went on to compete in the most high-profile match of her career, against Melina at Wrestlemania 23 for the WWE Women's Championship.\n\nShe fought at Wrestlemania again the following year.\n\nWrestlers old and new paid tribute to Ashley and shared memories of their time with her in WWE.\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\nAshley, who has an 18-year-old daughter, also appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine during her career - as well as on the reality TV series Survivor.\n\nShe passed away ten days before her 40th birthday.\n\nHer cause of death is currently not known.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "For all the talk of the negotiations between Team May and Team Corbyn being \"constructive and serious\", Labour's leader always seemed somehow more likely to back away from a Brexit compromise with the prime minister than embrace one.\n\nSome of his Labour critics still suspect - though he and his close aides deny it - that he's a lifelong Eurosceptic who would be content with a Brexit that also taints the Conservatives and takes him closer to power.\n\nMrs May's options are, of course, all but exhausted. Another, final, round of voting to see if any solution gains traction is one of them.\n\nBut will Tory rebels suddenly change their minds after three defeats?\n\nOr will Labour MPs, feeling the pressure to deliver Brexit, break ranks and ride to Mrs May's rescue? Some maybe, but enough?\n\nThe prime minister has yet to name the date for her departure, but the Tory leadership contest is running at full tilt, as it has, in truth, for some time.\n\nThe next leader is more than likely to promise a harder Brexit - maybe with no deal at all. Parliament might oppose that but only the government could, at a single stroke, stop it happening.\n\nSo Mrs May's last remaining hope of achieving her \"mission impossible\" before leaving may just be that heightened fear of a no-deal Brexit changes Tory and Labour minds when the legislation to take the UK out is voted on in early June.\n\nStubbornness. Duty. A steady diet of faint hope. They'll all feature strongly in Theresa May's soon-to-be-written political epitaph. The chapter about the UK and its future place is the world is still being penned.", "Ateeq Rafiq died a week after becoming trapped at Birmingham's Star City on 16 March last year\n\nA cinema worker who tried to help a man trapped under a seat \"froze\" and \"didn't know what to do\", an inquest has heard.\n\nAteeq Rafiq, 24, died a week after becoming stuck while reaching for his belongings at the Vue multiplex at Star City in Birmingham in March last year.\n\nThe inquest in Birmingham earlier heard he was crushed by a force equivalent to three-quarters of a tonne.\n\nAdam Bharoochi told the hearing he could not release Mr Rafiq.\n\nThe cinema worker, who was on his first shift in one of the \"Gold Class\" screen lounges, said he \"froze-up for a second because I didn't know what to do\".\n\nMr Bharoochi said Mr Rafiq, who was from Aston in Birmingham, was \"making groaning noises\".\n\nHe added: \"I tried to lift the bar but it wouldn't lift at all.\n\n\"I'm sorry for what happened.\"\n\nCharles Simmons-Jacobs, from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), earlier said he found it \"impossible\" to lift eight of the footrests in the 52-seat theatre.\n\nHe said the seats only work when a customer was seated and after they vacated the control box waited four seconds before returning to a vertical position.\n\nMr Rafiq's seat had blown a fuse in its control box, Mr Simmons-Jacobs told the inquest.\n\nThe seats were controlled by a double \"push-pull\" actuator mechanism, which meant the footrest could not be lifted by hand.\n\nMr Simmons-Jacobs said had it been fitted with a single push mechanism, Mr Rafiq would have been able to use his hands to lift the footrest to get back out from under the seat.\n\nMr Bharoochi, who left the cinema the following month, said he called his colleagues for assistance, none of whom were able to release Mr Rafiq.\n\nThe cinema's duty manager, Elliot Stapley, said staff used a wrench to loosen the footrest from the chair, releasing Mr Rafiq.\n\nEmergency services performed CPR before taking him to hospital, where he died a week later.\n\nCoroner Emma Brown said Mr Rafiq, who had been with his wife at the cinema, died from catastrophic brain injuries after suffering a cardiac arrest.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An interim report into the fire was due to be released this spring\n\nThe first report following the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire has been delayed until October, an inquiry solicitor has said.\n\nSurvivors and those who lost loved ones in the blaze were told about the delay in a letter from Caroline Featherstone.\n\nShe said writing the first phase of the report proved to be \"far more complex and time-consuming\" than anticipated.\n\nGrenfell campaigners, who expected the report to be published this spring, said the delay was \"disgraceful\".\n\nThe report will follow the first phase of the inquiry, which looked at what happened on the night that 72 people were killed in the tower block fire on 14 June 2017.\n\nThe council, the tower's tenant management organisation, the police and the fire service were all quizzed during the inquiry's first phase.\n\nThe letter, written to participants of the inquiry, says: \"The chairman will be in a position to write to the prime minister with his final report after the parliamentary recess, for publication most likely in October.\"\n\nAccording to the letter, the second phase is still due to go ahead in January 2020.\n\nThe families of the 72 victims contributed to the report\n\nNatasha Elcock, chairwoman of Grenfell United, the group for survivors and bereaved families, said it was disgraceful that the inquiry had \"underestimated the complexity of the evidence\" that was produced in the first phase.\n\nShe said: \"That we are only finding this out now, when we were expecting the report to be published ahead of the two-year anniversary, shows how they continue to disregard survivors and bereaved through this process.\"\n\nElizabeth Campbell, leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council, said the news will be \"very disappointing\" to the families and the communities in the borough.\n\nShe said: \"We all want to get to the truth of what happened nearly two years ago, and we hope the inquiry can still move forward despite the delay to this report.\n\n\"I want to reiterate that our approach to the inquiry has been to provide the witnesses they have asked for and the documents they require. We are serious about our role in making sure a tragedy like this never happens again.\"\n\nThe news comes as some from the Grenfell community said they wanted an independent panel to be put in place before hearings resume next year.\n\nThey also called for a venue layout for the inquiry that puts families at the centre of proceedings, and for the government to help workers attend the inquiry without losing their annual leave.", "One hundred people have been fatally stabbed in the UK so far this year.\n\nThe first death was 33-year-old mother Charlotte Huggins, who died in London just a few hours after celebrating the start of the new year.\n\nThe 100th death was John Lewis, 32, who died in Middlesbrough on the evening of 14 May.\n\nThose killed in 2019 range in age from 14-year-old Jaden Moodie, who was stabbed in Leyton, east London in January - to 80-year-old Barbara Heywood, who was attacked at her home in Bolton in March.\n\nAlmost half of the victims were under 30 and were overwhelmingly male.\n\nThere has been one fatal stabbing every 1.45 days so far this year in England and Wales. If killings continued at that rate for the rest of the year, the total would be slightly lower than the 285 stabbing deaths recorded in 2017-18.\n\nThirty of the fatal stabbings were in London, 10 in Greater Manchester and eight in the West Midlands.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nThe police have made arrests in nearly all of the cases and have charged suspects in 86.\n\nBelow are the details and, where available, photos of those who have lost their lives so far this year.\n\nYou can filter the list using the categories below\n• Thirty-three-year-old mother Charlotte Huggins died just a few hours after celebrating the start of the new year. She was stabbed at a residential address in south London and died at the scene. In a message posted on Facebook shortly before being attacked, Ms Huggins had wished her friends and family a \"healthy, happy 2019\". Her boyfriend Michael Rolle is due to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 1 July after pleading not guilty to Ms Huggins’ murder.\n• Tudor Simionov, 33, had recently moved from Romania to east London with his girlfriend. On New Year’s Eve, he was working as a doorman at a private party in Mayfair. Mr Simionov was stabbed to death in the early hours of 1 January when a group of men tried to gatecrash the party. A woman and two of his male colleagues were also found with stab injuries. Haroon Akram, Adham Khalil, Adham Elshalakany, and Nor Aden Hamada will appear at the Old Bailey on 1 July to face charges of Mr Simionov’s murder, as well as two counts of attempted murder and two counts of GBH.\n• Computer programmer Lee Pomeroy, 51, died after being attacked on a South Western Railway train bound for London Waterloo. Described as a “devoted family man”, Mr Pomeroy had been heading to London from Guildford for a day out with his 14-year-old son when he was stabbed nine times on the train. Darren Pencille is due to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 24 June to face charges of murder.\n• Jaden Moodie became the first teenager to be stabbed to death in the UK in 2019 when he was knocked off a moped and attacked in Leyton, east London. The 14-year-old boy had moved to London from Nottingham with his mother for a \"new start\" six months before he died. His sister, Leah Moodie, said: \"No one should have to go through the traumatic experience my family are going through.\" Ayoub Majdouline, 18, and Yousuf Dubbad, 21, have been charged with Jaden’s murder.\n• Gavin Moon, 31, died from a stab wound he suffered at his flat in Washington, Tyne and Wear. His family paid tribute to the 31-year-old father, describing Mr Moon as \"a devoted dad to his children and a loving son\". Brian Goldsmith, 47, from Sunderland and Luc Barker, 28, from Washington, have been charged with Mr Moon’s murder and will face trial at Newcastle Crown Court on 18 June.\n• Przemyslaw Cierniak was found with stab wounds shortly after midday on 10 January in a street in the centre of Boston, Lincolnshire. The 41-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. Lincolnshire Police say the victim and two suspects were known to each other. Mariusz Skiba, 32, and Dariusz Kaczkowski, 33, have both been charged with murder and will face the charges at Lincoln Crown Court on 10 June.\n• Thirty-two-year-old Bashir Abdullah was found dead inside a block of flats in Bristol. A post-mortem revealed Mr Abdullah died after being stabbed. Avon and Somerset Police said the stabbing was being treated as an isolated incident. On 15 January, Jamal Sheik-Mohammed, 51, was charged with Mr Abdullah’s murder. He will stand trial at Bristol Crown Court on 8 July.\n• Asma Begum, 31, was found with a neck injury at an address in Tower Hamlets. Police were called to the address in Poplar, but Ms Begum was pronounced dead at the scene. Jalal Uddin, 46, has been charged with her murder.\n• Paul Dickson was stabbed at a house in Bolton, Lancashire, on 30 December. The 49-year-old died nearly two weeks later in hospital and a murder investigation was launched by Greater Manchester Police. No one has been charged with Mr Dickson’s murder, but a 34-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of assault at the time of the stabbing. She has been bailed pending further police enquiries.\n• Alison Hunt’s body was found at a property in Swinton, Greater Manchester, on 16 January. The 42-year-old had been stabbed to death, police confirmed. Described as a “wonderful mum”, Ms Hunt’s family and friends paid tribute to her in a statement, saying: “The light in our lives has been forever extinguished. The way she brightened up every day with her laughter and sense of humour will always be with us.\" Vernon Holmes, 48, from Irlam, was charged with Ms Hunt’s murder and will stand trial at Manchester Crown Court on 1 July.\n• Sixty-nine-year-old Mary Annie Sowerby, known as Annie, was a \"devoted wife\" who \"filled her life with joy and happiness\", her family said. Ms Sowerby, who was married with two children, was found stabbed at a property in Dearham. She was treated by paramedics but died of her injuries. Her son Lee Sowerby, 45, has been charged with her murder and will stand trial at Carlisle Crown Court on 24 June.\n• The 33-year-old was taken to Warrington General Hospital where he later died. Adrisse Gray, 23, admitted to Mr O’Donnell’s murder and will be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on 20 May. Gray is the first person to be convicted of a 2019 fatal stabbing.\n• Community worker Ian Ogle, 45, died after being stabbed 11 times and beaten in the street near his home in East Belfast on 27 January. The father-of-two had acted as a spokesman for the loyalist community in East Belfast. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said a gang of at least five men were involved in the attack. Jonathan Brown, 33, and Glenn Rainey, 32, have been charged with murder.\n• Kamil Malysz was found dead in a shared residential building in Acton on 27 January. The 34-year-old was a Polish national who had been living in west London. A post-mortem examination found he died as a result of haemorrhaging because of a stab injury. A 33-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder, but later released with no further action being taken. The Metropolitan Police are yet to charge anyone in connection with Mr Malysz’s death.\n• Teenager Nedim Bilgin died after being attacked on Caledonian Road in Islington on 29 January. Speaking at the scene after the stabbing, Islington Councillor Paul Convery said the area had been blighted by tensions between gang rivalries for years. An investigation was launched by police, but nobody has been charged with the 17-year-old’s murder.\n• Michael Liddell, 35, was found by paramedics suffering from a stab wound at a home in Longlevens, Gloucester, on 31 January. Mr Liddell died a short time later and his 65-year-old mother, Joy, was charged with his murder. Joy Liddell had been due to stand trial at Bristol Crown Court on 29 July, however, Avon and Somerset Police said she died in April. An inquest date for both deaths is yet to be set.\n• Reece Ottaway, 23, was found dead at a social housing complex in Northampton on 1 February, following a \"disturbance\". A post-mortem examination confirmed that Mr Ottaway, from Daventry, had died as a result of a stab wound. His family said his death \"will haunt us for the rest of our lives\". Five men have been charged with his murder and will face trial in September.\n• Kevin Byrne's body was discovered at an address in Alison Street, Kirkcaldy, on 5 February. The 45-year-old, who had had his left leg amputated and used crutches, was also known locally as Kevin Forrester. Leslie Fraser appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court charged with assault and murder.\n• Jurijs Paramonovs was stabbed inside his home in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, on 3 February. The 46-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene and a murder investigation was launched by Cambridgeshire police. Olegs Titovs, 49, pleaded not guilty at Cambridge Crown Court to murdering Mr Paramonovs and was told a trial would start on 8 July.\n• Lejean Richards became the third teenager to be stabbed to death in London in 2019 when he was attacked near his home in Battersea. In a tribute, Mr Richards' mother said her 19-year-old son was “turning his life around”. Roy Reyes-Nieves and Roger Reyes-Nieves have both been charged with Mr Richards' murder and will stand trial at the Old Bailey on 12 August.\n• Mum-of-four Aliny Mendes had been picking up her children from school when she was attacked and stabbed in a street in Ewell, Surrey, on 8 February. A JustGiving page raised more than £58,000 for her family and to repatriate the 39-year-old’s body back to her native Brazil. Her estranged husband, Ricardo Godinho, 41, has admitted manslaughter but denied murdering Ms Mendes. He will stand trial at Guildford Crown Court on 17 June.\n• Dennis Anderson was attacked in a street in Dulwich, south London, reportedly after a row about cigarettes in an off-licence. The 39-year-old, who was a painter and decorator, was stabbed in the neck outside the Food and Wine shop on Lordship Lane. Jahmal Michael Riley was charged with murder and possession of an offensive weapon. The 24-year-old will stand trial at the Old Bailey on 5 August.\n• Wesley Adyinka died after being stabbed in the heart near his home in Maidstone on 10 February. The 37-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. His partner Amanda Francis was also injured but survived the attack. Four people have been charged with murder and causing grievous bodily harm.\n• Carl Hopkins, 49, was stabbed in his lung near Colchester’s Castle Park on 11 February. A friend described in a newspaper interview how he and Mr Hopkins were both sleeping rough in Colchester at the time. Andrew Whitten reportedly said Mr Hopkins “was a loveable pain in the neck and we argued like cat and dog. But we were close and we had each other’s back. He was always there for me and I love him to bits”.\n• Paramedics were called to a shared property in Coventry and found 22-year-old Patrick Hill suffering from a stab wound. He was taken to hospital but died from his injuries three days later. Levi Whitmore-Wills, 18, was initially charged with wounding, but was later charged with murder after Mr Hill died. Mr Whitmore-Wills has pleaded not guilty and is due to stand trial at Warwick Crown Court on 24 June.\n• Dorothy Bowyer, 77, was found dead at a house in the Derbyshire village of Buxworth on Valentine’s Day. She had been stabbed in the chest. A dog was also found dead at the property. The mother-of-three had worked at a sweets factory and was “loved by the community”, according to friends and neighbours. William Blunsdon, 25, of Buxworth, who was arrested shortly afterwards, has been charged with her murder and criminal damage.\n• Sixteen-year-old Sidali Mohamed was attacked outside Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College in Highgate, Birmingham, on 13 February. He died two days later. The teenager had fled war-torn Somalia with his family when he was a toddler. Family members said Sidali had \"many ambitions and goals\" and wanted to be an accountant. His college principal described him as \"a wonderful young man\". A 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with murder.\n• Abdul Deghayes was found stabbed in a car in Brighton after a crash on 16 February. He died from his injuries the following day. He was the brother of two British teenagers killed while fighting for Islamist militants in Syria. Another brother, Amer, is believed to be still alive in Syria. His uncle, Omar Deghayes, was detained at Guantanamo Bay for almost six years. Daniel MacLeod, 36, will stand trial at Hove Crown Court on 24 June to face a charge of murdering Abdul Deghayes.\n• Bright Akinleye was stabbed in the leg during a row at a party near Euston railway station on 18 February. The 22-year-old staggered into a nearby luxury hotel and collapsed. He later died at the scene. Seven men and seven women were arrested on suspicion of murder. Only one person - Tashan Brewster - has been charged with Mr Akinleye’s murder. The 30-year-old is set to appear at the Old Bailey on 12 August for trial.\n• Sixteen-year-old Abdullah Muhammad was stabbed in the back and chest in a Birmingham park on 20 February. He was the second teenager to be stabbed to death in the city in a week. Abdullah had been studying to memorise the Koran at the Green Lane Mosque. His teachers said he was “a young man with ambition and potential\". Three people - Demille Innis, Amari Robinson, also known as Amari Tullock, and a 17-year-old boy - have all been charged with murder and will appear at Birmingham Crown Court for a trial on 27 August.\n• Alasdair Forsyth was discovered with serious injuries at an address in Clearburn Road, Prestonfield, Edinburgh, on 21 February. The 67-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene by the Scottish Ambulance Service. Three males - aged 15, 16 and 19 - have been charged in connection with the death and were remanded in custody following a court appearance in February.\n• Glendon Spence, 23, died after being attacked at the Marcus Lipton Youth Centre in Brixton on 21 February. The Metropolitan Police said a fight had started outside the youth centre and Mr Spence had run inside, where he was stabbed. A football training session for children was taking place in the centre at the time. Two 17-year-old boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, have been charged with Mr Spence’s murder and will stand trial at the Old Bailey on 12 August.\n• Courtney Valentine-Brown died after being stabbed in the leg in Southend just before midnight on 21 February. The 36-year-old was taken to hospital, but later died from his injuries. His family said he was \"ambitious, cheeky and extremely creative with his whole future ahead of him\". Three men and a woman have been charged with Mr Valentine-Brown's murder.\n• Kamali Gabbidon-Lynck died after he was stabbed by a gang riding bikes in Wood Green, north London. The 19-year-old was chased into a hair salon and attacked by men armed with a firearm, knives and a samurai sword. A second man was shot but survived. Detectives said the attack would have been witnessed by several people, including children. Tyrell Graham, 18, and Sheareem Cookhorn, 20, have been charged with murder, attempted murder and robbery.\n• Philip McMillan, 26, died in Wishaw General Hospital, in North Lanarkshire, after being stabbed during a fight in a street in Holytown on 22 February. Mr McMillan, who was a Rangers fan, had a son. Three men, in their 20s, have been charged in connection with the incident.\n• Father-of-two, Phillip Rooney, 32, was found dead at a house in Leigh, Greater Manchester, after being stabbed in the stomach. His family said he was \"witty, caring and had a heart of gold\". Stephen Brocklehurst, 48, will stand trial at Manchester Crown Court after being charged with Mr Rooney’s murder.\n• Gary Cunningham became the third person in ten days to die from a stabbing in Birmingham. The 29-year-old was attacked at a flat in Harborne on 23 February and died at the scene. Olivia Labinjo-Halcrow was arrested and charged with Mr Cunningham’s murder. The 26-year-old will appear at Birmingham Crown Court on 22 July for trial.\n• Teenager Connor Brown died in hospital after being attacked behind The Borough pub in Sunderland city centre in the early hours of 24 February. The 18-year-old was a student at the local Farringdon Community Sports College. England footballer and Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson, who went to the same school as Mr Brown, was among those who expressed their sympathy to his family. Ally Gordon, 19, and Leighton Barrass, 20, were charged with Mr Brown’s murder and remanded in custody to appear at Newcastle Crown Court for a trial on 1 July.\n• Spanish national David Lopez-Fernandez was found stabbed at an address in Stepney, east London. Police and paramedics treated the 38-year-old at the scene, however, he later died from his injuries. Jairo Sepulveda-Garcia, 36, was charged with Mr Lopez-Fernandez’s murder and will stand trial at Southwark Crown Court on 19 August.\n• Hazrat Umar became the third teenager within 12 days to be stabbed to death in Birmingham. The 18-year-old, who was a student at the South and City College in Birmingham, suffered fatal stab injuries in Bordesley Green. Mr Umar was studying electrical engineering. His family and friends said they could not understand why he was targeted. A 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is due to stand trial at Birmingham Crown Court on 10 June.\n• Jodi Miller was found suffering from serious injuries inside a home in Harehills, Leeds, on 25 February. The 21-year-old was taken to hospital but died a short time later. It is believed she had been stabbed. Karar Ali Karar, 29, has been charged with Ms Miller’s murder and is set to appear at Leeds Crown Court for a trial on 12 August.\n• Che Morrison was stabbed to death outside Ilford railway station in east London on 26 February. His family described the 20-year-old as \"very ambitious\" and said he \"had many aspirations for his future\". Mr Morrison had studied at Havering College of Further and Higher Education. Florent Okende, 20, is due to stand trial over Mr Morrison’s murder, at the Old Bailey on 15 July.\n• St John Lewis died after being attacked in Broadlea Terrace in Bramley, Leeds, on 26 February. Mr Lewis worked as a chef at a pizza restaurant in the city. His father, Alfie Lewis said he was a “gentleman who was very keen to help people. He wouldn’t hurt a fly\". Dean Dagless, 48, of Broadlea Terrace, is due to appear at Leeds Crown Court on 8 July to face charges of murder and possession of an offensive weapon.\n• Emergency services were called to an address in Paignton, Devon, on 27 February where 74-year-old Peter Flux was pronounced dead at the scene. A post-mortem revealed that Mr Flux - who was an artist - died from a stab wound to the neck. Faye Burford, 40, was charged with Mr Flux’s murder and remanded in custody to appear at Exeter Crown Court on 12 August for a trial.\n• Lance Martin, 24, was found with life-threatening injuries in Normanton on 28 February, and died in hospital. A friend paid tribute to him, saying he was a \"gentle giant at heart\" who \"loved his little boy\". Mr Martin's death had shaken everyone he knew, she added. Three people have been charged with murder and one with manslaughter. All four have pleaded not guilty.\n• Jodie Chesney was attacked while playing music in a park with friends in Harold Hill, Havering, on 1 March. The 17-year-old died after being stabbed in the back. Former classmates described her as a \"bundle of joy and such a good person\" and said she was \"so beautiful - inside and out\". Jodie, who was a girl scout – was said to be a “wonderful student “ by the Principal at Havering College. Manuel Petrovic, 20, Svenson Ong-a-kwie, 18, and a 16-year-old boy have all been charged with Jodie’s murder and are set to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 2 September.\n• Yousef Makki, from Burnage, died after being attacked in Gorse Bank Road, near Altrincham on 2 March. The Manchester Grammar School student had been stabbed in the street. Yousef's parents described him as a \"loving and caring son and brother\", and said he had phoned hours before his death to say he would be home for tea. Two 17-year-old boys - who cannot be named for legal reasons - were charged in connection with Yousef’s death. The pair are set to stand trial at Manchester Crown Court on 18 June.\n• Mother-of-three Elize Stevens was stabbed to death at a house in Hendon, north-west London on 2 March. The 50-year-old worked as a welfare officer for the S&P Sephardi Community. A spokesman said she had impressed everyone with her \"friendly nature, warmth and dedication to the job\". Ian Levy, 54, was charged with Ms Stevens’ murder and is set to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 5 August.\n• Spanish national David Martinez-Valencia,26, was stabbed in the chest, legs and back inside a flat in Leyton, east London, on 6 March. The police said his death \"is not believed to be gang-related\". Carlos Rueda Velez, 18, has been charged with Mr Martinez’s murder and is due to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 19 August.\n• Luciano Dos Santos was struck by a vehicle in Oxford and stabbed several times. The 22-year-old victim was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital, where he later died on 6 March. His mother, Carla Dos Santos, said he was \"a sweet, loving and strong-willed young man\". Four men have been charged in connection with Mr Dos Santos’ death and are set to appear at Oxford Crown Court on 2 September for trial.\n• Mohamed Elmi was one of two men stabbed in linked attacks in central London on Sunday 3 March. The 37-year-old was found with stab wounds early in the morning in Soho. Hours later, police were called to another incident in Camden, in which a 16-year-old boy had been stabbed. The teenager survived the attack but Mr Elmi died three days later. Joe Gynane, 32, will stand trial at the Old Bailey on 1 July to face charges of murder, attempted murder, possession of a bladed article and two counts of assaulting emergency service workers.\n• Ayub Hassan, 17, was stabbed three times in the chest in Lanfrey Place, West Kensington, on 7 March. The teenager, who was a student at Hammersmith College, had dreamed of becoming a barrister, a relative said. A 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with murder and will appear for a trial at the Old Bailey on 19 August.\n• Mother-of-five Rachel Evans, 46, was stabbed multiple times at a house in Hignett Avenue, St Helens, on 11 March. Carl Harrison, 46, has pleaded guilty to murder. He is due to be sentenced on 14 June.\n• Reece Leeman was stabbed following an argument at a house in Sydenham, East Belfast. The 21-year-old staggered into the street where he was found collapsed. He later died in hospital. A 28-year-old man has been charged with Mr Leeman’s murder.\n• Nathaniel Armstrong, 29, was stabbed to death in the early hours of the morning on 16 March in Fulham, west London. Mr Armstrong's cousin Alex Beresford, Good Morning Britain's weatherman, said the victim was a \"bright young man\". Lovel Bailey, 29, was arrested at Gatwick Airport on 2 April and charged with Mr Armstrong’s murder. He is due to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 18 November.\n• Kumarathas Rajasingam, 57, was stabbed to death at his home in Wymondham, Norfolk. His wife, Jeyamalar Kumarathas, 54, has been charged with his murder and is set to stand trial at Norwich Crown Court on 19 August. Norfolk Police say they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the murder.\n• Mother-of-three Debbie Twist was stabbed to death at her home in Leigh, Manchester, on 17 March. Greater Manchester Police said the stabbing of the 47-year-old was being treated as an “isolated” incident. A 39-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and bailed.\n• The body of Alison McKenzie, 55, was found inside a flat in the Berwick Hills area of Middlesbrough on 20 March. Her son, Ian McKenzie, 34, was charged with murder and has been remanded to appear at Teesside Crown Court.\n• On the evening of 22 March, teenager Abdirashid Mohamoud had been in Syon Park, Isleworth, when he was chased to a block of flats by a group of men. The 17-year-old from Brentford was stabbed several times and died at the scene. A relative said Abdirashid had dreamed of becoming an engineer. A 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and bailed. A 23-year-old was also arrested and released under investigation.\n• Jonathan Roper, from Glastonbury, was stabbed on the afternoon of 23 March. The 34-year-old died at the scene in Wells, Somerset. He was described as a \"devoted family man\", who would be much missed. Seven men and three women were arrested in connection with Mr Roper’s death.\n• Ravi Katharkamar, 54, was stabbed in the chest as he went to open his newsagents in Pinner, north-west London, on a Sunday morning. Alex Gunn, 31, of no fixed address, has been charged with murder, robbery, possession of a bladed article, and theft of a motor vehicle. Mr Gunn is due to appear at the Old Bailey on a date to be set.\n• Richard Astin, 42, died from his injuries after being stabbed on a road outside the nearby Highgate pub in Oakes, Huddersfield. Shaun Waterhouse, 39, has been charged with Mr Astin’s murder and is due to stand trial at Leeds Crown Court on 23 July.\n• The 80-year-old great-grandmother was fatally stabbed at her home in Bolton on 27 March. A family statement described Mrs Heywood as a “generous, kind-hearted lady who loved life\". An 88-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and later detained under the Mental Health Act.\n• Zahir Visiter, a Chechen refugee, was stabbed in St John’s Wood, London, on the evening of 28 March. The 25-year-old was taken to hospital, where he died a short time later. It is thought that those involved fled in the direction of the London Central Mosque, near Regent’s Park, which was put in lockdown while it was searched by armed police. Three people were arrested by police at an address in Whitechapel, east London. Subsequently, Kamal Hussain, 21, and Yosif Ahmed, 18, were both charged with murder.\n• Hassan Ahmed Mohamoud, from Toxteth, Liverpool, was stabbed in the neck in broad daylight on 28 March. The 29-year-old was taken to hospital where he later died from his injuries. A 28-year-old man, also from Toxteth, was arrested and has been detained under the Mental Health Act, Merseyside Police have said.\n• Father-of-three Gavin Garraway was attacked in his car while he was driving near Clapham Common tube station. The 40-year-old was stabbed and pronounced dead at the scene outside The Belle Vue pub. Zion Chiata,18, has been charged with Mr Garraway’s murder and is set to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 14 October.\n• Father-of-one Leneto Kellengbeck was stabbed near his home in Solihull, on 29 March. The 24-year-old’s mother Jasmine described her son as \"kind and thoughtful\". Mr Kellengbeck was a keen boxer. Demus Marcus, 24, was charged with murder and possession of an offensive weapon on 19 April.\n• Damian Banks was found unconscious and with stab wounds to his chest at a property in Durham on 30 March. The 34-year-old was taken to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary but died. His brother Vincent Bell, 35, was arrested and charged with Mr Banks’ murder and is due to appear at Teesside Crown Court.\n• Paul Taylor, 45, from Hebburn, South Tyneside, was pronounced dead by emergency services after he was found at a house in Jarrow. Nicola Lee, 44, was charged with his murder and has pleaded not guilty.\n• Calvin Bungisa was chased and repeatedly stabbed in Gospel Oak, Camden, in what was described by the Met as a “brutal and merciless attack”. The 22-year-old former Haverstock School pupil was pronounced dead at the scene, despite the efforts of paramedics. No one has been charged or arrested in connection with Mr Bungisa’s death.\n• Jordan O'Brien, 25, died in hospital after suffering serious injuries at a house in Gainsborough on 27 March. Doctors tried to save the father-of-two by amputating a leg but he later died of his injuries on 2 April. Kieron Walker, 22, was charged with Mr O’Brien’s murder and has pleaded not guilty.\n• John Carroll, 52, died on 2 April after being stabbed at a house in Selly Oak, Birmingham. His 53-year-old wife, Deborah Carroll, was arrested and subsequently charged with Mr Carroll’s murder. She has been remanded to appear at Birmingham Crown Court.\n• Tyrelle Burke died in hospital after being stabbed in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, on 5 April. In a statement paying tribute to the 20-year-old, his family said he was a “funny, caring son, who always had time for his family”. A 17-year-old boy was charged with Mr Burke’s murder and possession of an offensive weapon. He has been remanded to appear at Manchester Crown Court.\n• Alexandru Constantinescu died at a caravan park in Dunkirk near Canterbury after being stabbed in the heart. His family, who live in Romania, described him as a music lover and a “beautiful son\". Dumitru Palazu, 48, has been charged with the 30-year-old's murder and has pleaded not guilty.\n• Odessa Carey was found injured inside her home in Ashington, on 8 April. The 73-year-old's daughter, also called Odessa Carey, was arrested after being found a few miles away in the village of Guide Post. Ms Carey, 35, was charged with her mother’s murder and is due to stand trial at Newcastle Crown Court on 2 October.\n• Noore Bashir Salad was shot and stabbed in Newham, east London, on 8 April. Police believe the 22-year-old was attacked by three men. The post-mortem examination gave his cause of death as a stab wound to the leg.\n• Yet to be named Police Scotland launched a murder investigation on 13 April after a 25-year-old man was found dead in Dalry, Ayrshire. A 19-year-old man has been charged with murder.\n• Steven Brown, 47, was stabbed in the heart outside a builder’s merchants in north London. The father-of-five had recently been reunited with relatives from the United States, his family said. Eleven people have been arrested by the police but there have been no charges yet.\n• Anthony Ferns was stabbed in the neck in his car in Glasgow. Police believe he had been approached by a man who spoke to him through the driver’s window before the attack. The 33-year-old tiler managed to drive to his home where he collapsed and died in front of his mother and friends. His was the second killing in the city in the space of 24 hours.\n• Simon Jones died in hospital after being stabbed near Chaddesden Park, Derby, on the evening of 20 April. The 57-year-old, who lived in Belper, was described as a “true gentleman” by his family. A number of people have been arrested and charged in connection with Mr Jones’ death.\n• Barrister’s clerk Joe O’Brien, 24, was stabbed during a brawl outside a pub in Failsworth, Greater Manchester, at about 3am on Easter Sunday. “His friends, his family and Manchester United were his life,” said his mother Roz McDonald. She said her son loved his job at Deans Court Chambers in Manchester. A 21-year-old man was treated at hospital for stab wounds but has recovered. Momodou Jallow, 21, has been charged with murder.\n• Saima Riaz, who was a nurse, was found stabbed to death at her home in Rochdale. Her family said she was “an amazing mother to three wonderful children” and was “dedicated to helping others\". Mohammed Abid Choudhry, 36, has been charged with murder.\n• Twenty-five-year-old Katheeskaran Thavarasa – better known as Karan – was found seriously injured in a flat in Hitchin on 23 April. He was pronounced dead at the scene having “suffered knife wounds”, according to Hertfordshire Police. Eswaran Sinnathurai, 24, has been charged with Mr Thavarasa’s murder.\n• Sammy-Lee Lodwig was killed at a house in Swansea on 23 April. Following her death, the 22-year-old's sister Miakala paid tribute to her, saying she would \"always remain in my heart\". Jason Farrell, of Swansea, has been remanded in custody after being charged with Ms Lodwig’s murder. The 49-year-old will appear at Swansea Crown Court on 14 October for a trial.\n• Meshach Williams was fatally stabbed on High Street, Harlesden by a gang who used two cars to block traffic on 24 April. The 21-year-old was attacked and fled into a betting shop to seek help, but later died in hospital. Dominic Calder, 19, has been charged with murder, possession of an offensive weapon and possession of cannabis.\n• Teenager Jordan Moazami was stabbed to death in a street in Harborne, Birmingham, on 24 April. The 18-year-old, from Quinton, was described as \"an excellent young man\" and role model by his former youth football club. Moshood Giwa, 19, has been charged with Mr Moazami’s murder as well as a public order offence in connection with the teenager’s death. Hamed Hussein, 18, of no fixed address, is also charged with Mr Moazami’s murder.\n• A murder inquiry was launched by Bedfordshire Police after grandfather Meuric Roberts was found dead inside his flat on 24 April. His family said Mr Roberts, 51, will be \"missed every day\". Simon Lewis, 39, of Chapel Street, Luton, has been charged with Mr Roberts’ murder and remanded in custody.\n• Joshua White died from injuries after being stabbed in Homerton, Hackney, on 26 April. A 16-year-old boy and an 18-year-old man have been charged with Mr White's murder.\n• Niall Magee was stabbed at a house in the Cairn Walk area of Crumlin, County Antrim. The following day the 21-year-old died from his injuries in hospital and a murder investigation was launched by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). Michael McManus, of Cairn Walk, Crumlin, was charged with Mr Magee’s murder – a charge which he denied at Limavady Magistrates' Court on 1 May.\n• Teenager Tashaun Aird died in Hackney after being stabbed in the street on 1 May. The 15-year-old's death came on the day the Met Police announced a drop in homicides in the latest financial year compared to figures from 2017-18. Commissioner Cressida Dick said the teenager’s death was “truly, truly terrible”. Romaine Williams-Reid, 18, has been charged with murder. A 16-year-old boy has also been arrested.\n• Alex Davies, 18, was reported missing from his home in Skelmersdale on April 30. His body was found in woodland the next day in Parbold, Lancashire. He had been stabbed and suffocated. Mr Davies worked in a shop. His boss said he was “an energetic, kind and helpful lad, who loved working with customers\". A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder and will stand trial in October.\n• Michael Dale died from a stab wound to the chest. The 46-year-old was found inside a property on Charles Lane, Haslingden, on 2 May and died in the early hours of the morning. Mr Dale ran a tattoo shop in the town and was said by a niece to have prided himself on being “a punk for life”. Shahid Hussain, 37, of no fixed address, has been charged with murder.\n• Year 12 pupil Ellie Gould died after being stabbed at a house in Calne, Wiltshire, on 3 May. Hardenhuish School head teacher, Lisa Percy, paid tribute to the 17-year-old, saying “the students, staff and parents have found comfort in being together and paying their respects\". A 17-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with her murder and is due to stand trial in October.\n• Hamze Ibrahim Ismail, 21, died in hospital after being stabbed in the street. His father said the \"mindless act of violence\" had \"broken\" his family. Mohamed Khashkhush, 24, has been charged with murder.\n• McCaulay Junior Urugbezi-Edwards, 18, was stabbed to death after being chased down a street in south-east London. Paramedics treated him at the scene but he died just over an hour later in a south London hospital. A 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder. A 33-year-old woman was also arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n• Daniel Pitham, 33, was found dead by police officers after they forced their way into a house in Bedworth. His family paid tribute to him saying: \"Danny was a very out outgoing young man who loved to party with his friends, travel, and keep fit\". Scott Warner, 35, and John Allison, 33, have been charged with his murder.\n• Murdoch Brown, 31, was stabbed to death at an address in Colchester. In a statement his family said he was a \"much-loved partner, son, brother and uncle\" and a \"devoted father to his children\". A second man was hurt but not seriously injured.\n• Nadeem Uddin Hameed Mohammed, 24, was stabbed in the chest in a Tesco car park in Slough. A 21-year-old witness said he was in the car park when he \"heard shouting\" and saw \"lots of blood on the floor\". Mr Mohammed was rushed to hospital but later pronounced dead. Aqib Pervaiz, 26, has been charged with murder.\n• Thomas Abraham, 48, was found with stab wounds at an address in Gloucester, by police and paramedics who had been called to a disturbance. Despite strenuous efforts to save him, he died at the scene. Tobias Hayley, 51, has been charged with murder.\n• John Lewis, 32, was found stabbed at an address in Middlesbrough. He died later in hospital. A 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe number of people being taken to court for possessing a weapon has been rising.\n\nThere's a bit of a time lag when it comes to getting figures from the criminal justice system, so the latest ones we have, published on Thursday, only take us up to the end of last year.\n\nIn 2018, the Ministry of Justice recorded 21,587 cases of people in England Wales being prosecuted for possessing a weapon, of which 13,350 cases led to a conviction - compared with 17,669 cases in 2013 - with 10,026 leading to a conviction.\n\nThis was mostly driven by a rise in the offence of \"having possession of a bladed article in a public place\".\n\nFor adults, the maximum sentence for possessing a knife is four years.\n\nKnife possession is now making up a bigger share of all weapons offences - two-thirds compared with half 10 years ago.\n\nAnd a bigger proportion of knife and weapons possession offences now result in jail time - 36% compared with 20% in 2008.\n\nThese figures cover both adults and children aged 10-17. For adults only, 42% of weapons offences resulted in an immediate custodial sentence last year.\n\nWhile knife possession offences have been rising since 2013, they are still lower than a decade ago.\n\nInformation supplied by police forces in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nFigures are correct at time of publication but may change as investigations progress and charges are brought or dropped.", "Ireland was one of eight countries eliminated at the end of Thursday's semi-final\n\nSarah McTernan has become the fifth Irish act in six years not to get past the semi-final stage at Eurovision.\n\nThe 25-year-old singer from County Clare failed to impress with her retro pop tune 22, becoming one of eight acts to be sent packing.\n\nIn contrast, contest favourites Russia, Sweden and the Netherlands progressed to the final with ease.\n\nAzerbaijani representative Chingiz also went through, with a little help from two laser-pointing robot arms.\n\nThursday's second Eurovision semi-final followed official confirmation that Madonna will perform during Saturday's final in Israel.\n\nMcTernan gave a confident performance against a backdrop of colourful comic book imagery inspired by US artist Roy Lichtenstein.\n\nYet the singer, who has spoken openly about her struggles with post-natal depression, still did not make the final - unlike Ryan O'Shaughnessy, her country's 2018 representative.\n\nAustralia's Kate Miller-Heidke, who qualified for the final on Tuesday, has also spoken candidly about her battles with the condition.\n\nIreland has won Eurovision more times than any other country - seven in all - but has not notched up a victory since 1996.\n\nNo great milkshakes: McTernan on stage with her two backing dancers\n\nOther acts left disappointed included Croatian singer Roko Blazevic, who wore a pair of golden angel's wings during his performance.\n\nThis was despite his dramatic number The Dream being written by Jacques Houdek, Croatia's representative in 2017, and Charlie Mason, co-writer of Austria's 2014 winner Rise Like a Phoenix.\n\nThere was little love for this year's Austrian entry, a wispy, whispery ballad performed by a blue-haired singer dubbed Paenda - real name Gabriela Horn.\n\nAnd having acclaimed Ukrainian sand artist Kseniya Simonova create an artwork during her performance did not help Anna Odobescu from Moldova.\n\nAnna Odobescu of Moldova was accompanied by a sand artist\n\nBut there was better luck for Danish singer Leonora, who performed her song Love is Forever perched on a giant blue chair.\n\nNorth Macedonia also went forward, just a few months on from its new name being approved by the international community.\n\nAlbania, Norway and Switzerland also advanced thanks to a combination of jury and public votes.\n\nMaltese teenager Michela, meanwhile, was left crying tears of joy when the final spot available in the final went in her direction.\n\nThe 10 qualifying acts will join Miller-Heidke and nine others that went through on Tuesday in Saturday's final.\n\nThe line-up will be completed by the \"big five\" nations who bypass the semi-final stage - France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom - and host nation Israel.\n\nA pair of angel's wings didn't help Croatian singer Roko fly to the final\n\nThursday's show, broadcast live in the UK on BBC Four, featured a performance from The Shalva Band, a group of eight musicians who all have disabilities.\n\nThe band were favourites to represent host country Israel but pulled out when the dress rehearsal was scheduled for Friday - the Jewish holy day of rest.\n\nTheir performance of A Million Dreams, from hit musical Greatest Showman, was warmly received by the audience in Tel Aviv's International Convention Center.\n\nThe semi-final also featured a trick from \"world-famous mentalist\" Lior Suchard, who appeared to correctly predict a series of numbers apparently chosen at random by four of this year's hopefuls.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why did The Shalva Band, a group of disabled musicians from Israel, quit Eurovision?\n\nThe countries who made it through the second semi-final were:\n\nAustrian singer Paenda turned out to be an endangered species\n\nThe countries eliminated in the second semi-final were:\n\nMichael Rice, the UK's representative in Tel Aviv, made a brief appearance on Thursday alongside German duo S!sters and Italian rapper Mahmood.\n\nAustrian drag queen Conchita Wurst, winner of the 2014 contest, also appeared - with an impressive leather train - in advance of a special performance on Saturday with other previous participants.\n\nThe Eurovision Song Contest final will air on BBC One on 18 May from 20:00 BST.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shares in Thomas Cook have plunged 30% after analysts at a bank said the travel firm's shares were \"worthless\".\n\nThomas Cook's tour operations and airline are worth £738m, but its debt is around the same \"and implies zero equity value\", according to Citigroup.\n\nCitigroup's damning conclusion comes a day after Thomas Cook issued its third profit warning in less than a year and reported a £1.5bn half-year loss.\n\nIts outlook was \"significantly weaker than expected,\" Citigroup said.\n\nThe analysts also pointed to a warning from auditor EY on Thomas' Cook's results which warned of \"material uncertainties\" over the group's sale of its airline, on which a new £300m bank facility depends.\n\n\"Like the auditors we see material uncertainties around the airline sale and the new debt facilities,\" said Citigroup.\n\nIt also warned that the firm's recent poor performance could \"unsettle consumers and drive further weakness in bookings\".\n\nCitigroup's concerns were shared by analysts at Morgan Stanley, which said its worst-case (bear) forecast was also that the firm would be worth zero. However, it said if things went well (bull case), the firm's shares could rise from their current price of around 20p a share to 50p.\n\n\"With the share price at 20p, the valuation is discounting something towards in the middle, but we think the bear case is more likely than the bull case,\" it said.\n\nThomas Cook is in the process of seeking bidders for its fleet of 105 jets as it tries to raise funds for the business. The travel firm said on Thursday that it had received \"multiple bids\".\n\nThe company is seeking to cut costs. It has closed 21 of its High Street stores, its currency arm Thomas Cook Money is under review and more \"cost efficiencies\" are planned.\n\nIt has blamed a series of problems for its profit warnings, including political unrest in holiday destinations such as Turkey, last summer's prolonged heatwave and customers delaying booking holidays due to Brexit. But it has also suffered from competition from online travel agents and low-cost airlines.\n\nThomas Cook declined to comment on the analysts' notes.", "Ed Henthorn says the drug has \"turned my life upside down\"\n\nThe parents of young people who have killed themselves and patients unable to have sex are calling for the NHS to stop prescribing acne drug Roaccutane.\n\nEd Henthorn said it had caused him erectile dysfunction, psychosis and suicidal thoughts.\n\nAnd one man who believes his son killed himself after taking the drug said the risks \"are just too high\".\n\nManufacturer Roche said \"millions of patients worldwide have benefited from taking the drug\".\n\nThe majority of those who take the drug have a positive experience.\n\n\"I used to think about girls... but my feelings, thoughts, just faded away,\" Ed Henthorn told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\nHe was 19 when he took Roaccutane. He describes his acne as mild but bad enough to want to treat.\n\nAfter three weeks he started to experience side-effects, including reduced energy and sex drive.\n\n\"That was why I decided to stop taking it,\" he said.\n\nWhat does the NHS say about Roaccutane?\n\nIn its guidance about the options available for acne treatment, the NHS says Roaccutane (isotretinoin) is only recommended for severe cases of acne that haven't responded to other treatments.\n\nThe NHS acknowledges there have been reports of people experiencing mood changes while taking the drug. Its advice says, while there is no evidence these changes were caused by Roaccutane, patients should speak to their doctor immediately if they feel depressed or anxious, or if they have feelings of aggression or suicidal thoughts.\n\nRoaccutane, the brand name the drug isotretinoin is most commonly marketed under, is used by about 30,000 people in the UK each year.\n\nCampaigners want it banned from NHS prescriptions, arguing its continuing side-effects mean its risks outweigh the benefits.\n\nMr Henthorn said he still suffers five years after his last dose.\n\nHe said it had thwarted his hopes of completing university and pursuing a career.\n\n\"I had psychosis, psychotic symptoms, suicidal thoughts. It was pretty overwhelming,\" he added.\n\n\"My life now is not the best. I'm just kind of at home. The drug's just turned my life upside down.\"\n\nDerek Jones believes the drug is too dangerous to be prescribed on the NHS\n\nWarnings about depression and other psychiatric side-effects were added to the drug's patient information leaflet in 1998.\n\nTwo years ago, a new warning was added to say some people would be affected by problems getting or maintaining an erection and lower libido.\n\nBut Roche said while Roaccutane had side-effects - \"like most medications... millions of patients worldwide have benefited from taking the drug\".\n\nIt added: \"Isotretinoin was a prescription-only medicine and therefore can only be safely used under the care and supervision of suitably qualified healthcare professionals.\n\n\"This way, specialists with the most experience can advise patients about the important safety issues associated with isotretinoin.\"\n\nAnother version of the drug is marketed by Alliance.\n\nIt said it continually assessed the benefits and risks of its medicines.\n\nMany people say it has boosted their self esteem and mental health by treating the acne.\n\n\"I would go as far as to say it's a wonder drug,\" she says. \"I feel so much happier. I'm confident in my own skin.\"\n\nDermatologist Dr Juber Hafiji said it was a very effective treatment for acne.\n\n\"In experienced hands it's a very safe treatment, providing the patient is monitored closely, with regular supervision and blood tests at intervals,\" he said.\n\nDavid Healy, professor of psychology at Bangor University, said there were many other drugs that could affect someone's ability to have sex.\n\nBut the issue with Roaccutane, he added, was how serious the problem could be and how long it could last for.\n\n\"It's very, very, important the label makes it clear that these problems can be enduring and also makes it clear that they may only appear after you stop the drug,\" he said.\n\nThe safety of drugs is governed by the MHRA, and the NHS drug approval body NICE follows its advice.\n\nNICE is planning to publish guidance on all acne treatments by 2021 and said it always considered the safety of drugs in its guidelines.\n\nThe drug can be prescribed in Scotland, although the Scottish Medicines Consortium said it would not have assessed Roaccutane because it predates the creation of the SMC.\n\nDerek Jones's son Jesse had two courses of Roaccutane, and experienced side-effects in relation to his sex drive.\n\nIt led him to take Viagra, aged 24.\n\nThe coroner at Jesse's inquest recorded a narrative verdict. His use of Roaccutane was not considered as a contributing factor.\n\nBut Mr Jones believes his son took his own life.\n\nIn a draft email found by his parents, Jesse had written: \"Roaccutane seems to have changed the way my mind and body works in a big way.\n\n\"I can barely bring myself to type its name because I hate it so much.\"\n\nMr Jones, like other campaigners, believes the drug is too dangerous to be prescribed on the NHS.\n\n\"A minority get these terrible, terrible side-effects that affect them for the rest of their lives,\" he said.\n\n\"Should we just ignore this minority group? I think the risks are just too high.\"\n\nRoche said: \"Isotretinoin product information carries a clear warning that some patients may experience loss of libido and mood changes, including an increase in depression.\"\n\nIt added research by the British Medical Research in 2010 had not established \"an observed increased risk of suicide\" and that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency [MHRA] had concluded in 2014 it was not possible to identify a clear increase in risk of psychiatric disorders.\n\nIt also said continuing safety reviews in Europe had suggested a causal relationship between isotretinoin, sexual dysfunction and depression was still unclear.\n\nAn MHRA spokeswoman said it kept the safety of the drug under review, with only consultant dermatologists who had a full understanding of its risks and monitoring requirements able to prescribe it.\n\nThey added: \"As with all medicines, isotretinoin can cause side effects and these are detailed in the product information provided with the medicine. The possible side effects should be discussed with patients before they are prescribed it.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.\n• None Concern over rise in acne drug use", "But the paragraph tucked into the short formal letter from Sir Graham Brady to Tory MPs all but marks the end of Theresa May's premiership and the beginning of the official hunt for the next leader of the country.\n\nAfter the lines in the short note restate the prime minister's determination to get Brexit done, it confirms in black and white that after the next big vote, in the first week of June, the prime minister will make plans with the party for choosing a successor.\n\nRight now, the expectation is that vote will be lost (although it is not impossible, of course, that Number 10 could turn it round).\n\nAnd the conversation that's been arranged won't just be a gentle chat about what to do next.\n\nSenior sources have told me that means, even though the letter doesn't spell it out, that if her Brexit plan is defeated again, Mrs May will announce she is going.\n\nOne source said it was \"inconceivable\" to imagine that she could stay on in those circumstances.\n\nA cabinet minister told me it would be \"out of the question\".\n\nAnd one of her fiercest allies said: \"I don't want her to, but the pressure will be absolutely immense.\"\n\nOne insider close to Mrs May told me they hoped under this timetable that the prime minister could avoid the humiliation of the grassroots of her party meeting to express their lack of confidence in her at a huge meeting planned for the middle of June, which would be \"horrendous\".\n\nA minister said all they wanted now was to make sure \"they find a dignified exit for her\".\n\nGiven that politics moves at hyperspeed, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the prime minister will find some way of passing the Brexit bill.\n\nMrs May has survived through almost impossible circumstances, time and time again.\n\nAs you know, if you've been paying attention to what we've been discussing here in the last couple of weeks (!), some of her inner circle still believe that there is a chance, even if it's slim, of agreeing some kind of process with the Labour party that allows the bill to pass.\n\nAnd some ministers hope that terrible results for both the main parties in the European elections could spook MPs, somehow, into getting behind the bill in the end.\n\nBut, given that one of the main obstacles to Labour agreeing a deal with Mrs May was its fear that she wouldn't hang around for long, the fact that she has all but confirmed her departure before the summer makes an agreement even harder to see.\n\nWe are witnessing, therefore, the Tories' decades-old agonies over Europe ending the time in Number 10 of another prime minister.\n\nAnd like it or not, it's the issue that's likely over the next few months to shape how the party selects the next.", "Boeing has completed development of a software update for its 737 Max plane which was grounded following two fatal crashes within five months.\n\nThe US firm announced that it had flown the 737 Max with the updated software on 207 flights.\n\nIt added it would provide data to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on how pilots interact with controls and displays in different scenarios.\n\nThe FAA expects Boeing to submit the upgrade for certification next week.\n\nAn Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed in March, killing all 157 people on board.\n\nIt followed the Lion Air disaster in Indonesia in October, in which 189 people died.\n\nBoth crashes were linked to the Boeing 737 Max's Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System - a new feature on the aircraft which was designed to improve the handling of the plane and to stop it pitching up at too high an angle.\n\nBoeing said that once information on how pilots work with the upgraded system is submitted to the FAA, it will work with the regulator to schedule a certification test flight and submit final certification documentation.\n\nThe Ethiopian Airlines crash killed all 157 people on board\n\nThe company also said it had completed associated simulator testing on the upgraded system and had developed training and education materials that are now being reviewed by the FAA, global regulators and its airline customers.\n\nThe FAA said earlier this week that it would hold a meeting on 23 May with air regulators from around the world to provide an update on reviews of Boeing's software fix and new pilot training.\n\nAviation safety analyst Todd Curtis told the BBC that the US regulator was not the only one that Boeing had to satisfy.\n\n\"You also have other national authorities in Canada and the United Kingdom and in Europe who have said they would like to have their own tests and their own evaluation before certifying this aircraft for flight,\" he said.\n\n\"It's unclear whether or not there will be approval, let's say from Canada, to have this aircraft fly, which could directly affect US carriers, since many routes - even domestic US routes - overfly Canadian airspace.\n\n\"If the authorities there don't certify the 737 Max, they'll have to avoid that airspace.\"\n\nPilots are expected to undergo extra training on the new system once it receives certification. Mr Curtis said it would take a lot to convince them and other flight crew members that the aircraft was safe.\n\n\"They probably will have a fairly high bar to be satisfied before they'll give the seal of approval, as it were, that the aircraft is safe to fly,\" he said.", "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 family of a County Down baby waiting for a heart transplant are asking parents to consider registering their children as organ donors.\n\nSeven-month-old Ollie Grant has spent most of his life in hospital after being diagnosed with a heart condition.\n\nHis mother Riona Grant said they will do \"everything we can to get him a new heart and a new life\".\n\nSome 181 children in the UK are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant and 42 are waiting for a new heart.\n\nNHS Blood and Transplant said 17 children died in 2017/18 while waiting for an organ donor.\n\nOllie's father Damien said thinking about registering a child was something many parents would not think about.\n\n\"But from the point of view of a child needing a transplant, maybe people would consider it,\" he added.\n\nWhile not wishing such a tragedy on any family, Riona said she never thought they would be in this position.\n\n\"No one ever does, but we have to do everything we can for Ollie because he's just a baby and we have to speak for him,\" she added.\n\nPaediatric surgeon Tim Jones said more needs to be done to increase availability of organs\n\nAbout 57 donors were found last year leading to 200 transplant operations.\n\nTim Jones, a consultant paediatric surgeon at Birmingham Children's Hospital who has been treating Ollie, said more had to be done to increase the availability of organs.\n\n\"The biggest problem we have is that there are far fewer children donating organs,\" he explained.\n\n\"If we had more, then children like Ollie would have a better chance.\n\n\"The problem is we are asking families to do that at a time of great tragedy so we would appeal to people to have the conversation now.\n\n\"For most people it will never be an issue, but it would make a difference.\"\n\nOllie has already had two heart operations and suffered a stroke but his family said he has fought back.\n\n\"We have been on that tightrope so many times,\" said Mr Grant.\n\n\"He is a happy and smiling baby and such a character, but we know that it could go the other way.\n\n\"That's always in the back of your mind and it means you can never settle,\" he said.\n\nMrs Grant said the condition was diagnosed at her 20-week scan and they have been in shock since, experiencing the highs and lows of looking after a sick baby.\n\n\"It's the rollercoaster but the staff at the hospital and our families have been brilliant.\n\n\"It's Ollie who keeps us going,\" she explained.\n\nYou can find out more information about organ donation on 0300 123 23 23 or at nidirect.gov.uk.\n\nSee more of Ollie's story on BBC Newsline on BBC One NI at 18:30 BST on 16 May.", "Renshaw, pictured at a National Action rally, was also jailed for 16 months in 2018 for four counts of grooming adolescent boys\n\nA neo-Nazi who planned to murder Labour MP Rosie Cooper has been jailed for life.\n\nJack Renshaw, 23, from Skelmersdale, Lancashire, must serve at least 20 years in prison.\n\nA judge at the Old Bailey said Renshaw, who earlier admitted preparing an act of terrorism, wanted to \"replicate\" the murder of Jo Cox.\n\nRenshaw made a Nazi salute towards supporters as he was led to the cells from the dock.\n\nHe pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial to buying a machete to kill the West Lancashire MP and making threats to kill police officer Det Con Victoria Henderson.\n\nA jury twice failed to reach a verdict on charges relating to his membership of banned neo-Nazi group National Action.\n\nSentencing him, Judge Justice McGowan said Renshaw's \"perverted view of history and current politics\" led him to \"an attempt to damage our entire system of democracy\".\n\nShe said: \"You praised the murder of Jo Cox in tweets and posts in June 2017. In some bizarre way you saw this as a commendable act and set out to replicate that behaviour.\"\n\nThe judge added Renshaw had made \"detailed arrangements\" and studied Ms Cooper's itinerary.\n\nThe knife Renshaw bought was described by the online seller as offering \"19 inches of unprecedented piercing and slashing power at a bargain price\"\n\nGiving evidence during his first National Action trial last summer, he said he wanted to murder the MP \"to send the state a message\".\n\nHe got as far as buying a 19in (48cm) Gladius knife and told members of National Action about his plan during a meeting in a Warrington pub in July 2017.\n\nThe plot was foiled by whistleblower and former National Action member, Robbie Mullen, who was secretly passing information to anti-racism charity Hope not Hate, which informed police.\n\nPolice arrested Renshaw and found the machete hidden in an airing cupboard at his uncle's house.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Ms Cooper said it was \"like something out of a horror movie\".\n\nFriends and family had encouraged her to stand down from Parliament but she refused because \"that would allow tyranny to prevail\".\n\nAfter the sentencing, Ms Cooper said \"justice has been served\".\n\nJack Renshaw wearing a mask at a National Action rally in Liverpool in 2016\n\nRenshaw was also jailed for 16 months in June 2018 for four counts of grooming adolescent boys.\n\nDet Con Henderson, who was investigating the child sex offences, said she \"had sleepless nights\" until he was arrested.\n\n\"I am not prepared to let Jack Renshaw ruin my everyday life,\" she said.\n\nThe judge praised the two women and told Renshaw: \"You have not defeated them.\"\n\nShe said he had acted in a polite manner towards Det Con Henderson while planning to kill her in an act of revenge.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it presented evidence that persuaded Renshaw to plead guilty, including online research on cutting the jugular artery and how long it would take someone to die from the wound.\n\nJenny Hopkins, CPS head of counter terror, said: \"Jack Renshaw was prepared to act on his white supremacist world view and plotted to kill a Member of Parliament - a plan reminiscent of the abhorrent murder of Jo Cox MP.\"\n\nRenshaw was also jailed for three years in 2018 for stirring up racial hatred in two anti-Semitic speeches in 2016.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Four people have been killed after a small plane crashed three miles to the south of Dubai International Airport.\n\nThree Britons and a South African were aboard the UK-registered DA42 plane, UAE authorities said.\n\nThe four-seat plane was owned by Flight Calibration Services which is based at Shoreham Airport, in West Sussex.\n\nThe firm flies staff around the world to inspect and calibrate navigation aids - which include radars and landing systems for airports and airfields.\n\nThe General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) says an investigation is under way.\n\nAccording to local media reports, the plane came down at approximately 19:30 local time, killing a pilot, a co-pilot and two passengers.\n\nFlights were delayed and diverted as the airport - one of the world's busiest, based on international passenger traffic - was closed for 45 minutes.\n\nThe Foreign Office said in a statement: \"We are working closely with the Emirati authorities following reports of a small aircraft crash in Dubai.\"\n\nUS engineering and aerospace company Honeywell said it had hired Flight Calibration Services and the DA42 plane for work in Dubai.\n\nIn a statement, Honeywell said: \"We are deeply saddened by today's plane crash in Dubai, and our heartfelt condolences are with the victims' families.\"", "More than two-thirds of LGBT people in the UK have been sexually harassed at work, a survey suggests.\n\nOf 1,151 LGBT people polled by the Trades Union Congress, 68% said they had experienced harassment, with 42% saying colleagues had made unwanted comments about their sex life.\n\nMore than a quarter (27%) said they had received unwelcome sexual advances.\n\nThe government said it was planning to shortly consult on how to strengthen existing laws on harassment.\n\nThe survey - released on International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia - was conducted by the Trade Union Congress and is believed to be the first major study into LGBT sexual harassment at work in the UK.\n\nAccording to the survey, of the 68% who said they had experienced sexual harassment, 66% did not tell their employer, sometimes because they were afraid of being \"outed\" at work.\n\nThe figure of 68% for LGBT people in the TUC's survey compares with a figure of 37% for the wider population in a BBC survey carried out in 2017.\n\nOf the 2,031 British adults questioned for BBC Radio 5 Live 53% of women and 20% of men said they had experienced sexual harassment, ranging from inappropriate comments to actual sexual assaults, at work or a place of study.\n\nHelen describes herself as pansexual. She works as a psychologist and says she regularly experiences sexual harassment at work.\n\n\"Recently I was working out in the gym at work and two male colleagues were standing behind me. One said, 'She's such a waste of a woman,' referring to the fact I am in a relationship with a woman.\n\n\"When I was leaving the gym one of them asked me, 'Is it because you've never had a real man?' He laughed and then they both wolf-whistled at me. I haven't been back to the work gym since.\"\n\nHelen said the sexual harassment she has experienced hasn't only been verbal.\n\n\"I returned home early from my work Christmas party because a colleague asked to see a picture of my partner.\n\n\"When I showed him my Facebook profile picture, he said, 'I would pay £100 to watch you two.' I was really upset and he said, 'Don't be touchy,' and slapped my bum as I walked off.\"\n\nHelen also has concerns about what reporting sexual harassment would mean for her at work. She said: \"I worry what it might do for my reputation and my chances of career progression to report these incidents.\"\n\nFor some people who have suffered sexual harassment at work, reporting their experiences did not make things easier.\n\nPatrick, not his real name, works in the public sector. He says he has endured years of sexual harassment.\n\n\"After a colleague found out I was gay, he asked me how much I charge as a rent boy. I reported it but nothing came of it.\n\nAfter an investigation into his experiences, Patrick's work life impacted his personal life too.\n\n\"All of my team were preparing for an away day, which was going to involve different sports activities.\n\n\"A few weeks before the away day, I was pulled into an office and told that the others didn't want to do the activities with me as they'd be uncomfortable about taking showers with me there.\n\n\"I was told I wouldn't be going on the away day. I reported it and I was off work for over a year during the investigation. The investigation outed me to my family.\"\n\nPatrick says he went on to try to take his life twice.\n\nThe TUC survey also suggested LGBT women were more likely to experience unwanted touching and sexual assault at work than men.\n\nOver a third of the women (35%) surveyed had experienced unwanted touching, for example placing hands on their lower back or knee. One in eight (12%) had been seriously sexually assaulted or raped at work.\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said the research revealed a \"hidden epidemic\" of LGBT abuse.\n\nShe said: \"In 2019 LGBT people should be safe and supported at work. But instead they're experiencing shockingly high levels of sexual harassment and assault.\"\n\nShe said the government needed to \"change the law to put the responsibility for preventing harassment on employers, not victims\".\n\nLaura Russell, director of campaigns, policy and research at Stonewall, said the figures were \"shocking\", but added: \"We know from our own research and this report that LGBT people still face abuse and discrimination in Britain's workplaces.\"\n\nA Government Equalities Office spokesperson said: \"It is appalling LGBT people are suffering this harassment. Workplaces should be safe, supportive environments for everybody.\n\n\"The government will consult shortly on how we can strengthen and clarify existing laws on third-party harassment, as well as making sure employers fully understand their legal responsibility to protect their staff.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sherrie Sharp says her son Jaxson is a miracle\n\nIn a UK first, doctors have used keyhole surgery to successfully repair the spine of a baby with spina bifida while it was still inside the womb.\n\nSurgeons at King's College Hospital say the procedure is not a cure, but could be the difference between some children learning to walk or not.\n\nSherrie Sharp and her son Jaxson had the operation 27 weeks into the pregnancy.\n\nSpina bifida was diagnosed after the routine 20-week pregnancy scans.\n\nThey showed Jaxson's spine and spinal cord were not forming correctly.\n\nGaps in the developing spine meant the cord was bulging out of his back and was left exposed to the amniotic fluid in the womb.\n\nThis damages the crucial nerves in the spinal cord and could lead to paralysis, a loss of sensation in the legs and problems controlling the bladder and bowels.\n\nThe longer the spinal cord is left exposed, the greater the damage.\n\nSherrie, 29, and from West Sussex, said the news was a shock, but an abortion was a \"definite no\".\n\nBaby Jaxson arrived at 33 weeks and was cared for in neonatal intensive care at King's College Hospital.\n\nShe decided to have pioneering surgery to correct the defect, although there was the risk of the baby arriving prematurely.\n\nSherrie told the BBC: \"I wanted to do the best for my baby, I wanted him to have a better life and there's nothing wrong with that.\"\n\nDoctors sedated Sherrie, and the anaesthetic also crossed the placenta to prevent Jaxson, who was still a tiny foetus at this point, from wriggling.\n\nSurgeons made three small incisions in Sherrie's bump and then a thin camera and small surgical tools were inserted into her womb.\n\nThen, during a three-hour operation, surgeons put the exposed spinal cord back in place and used a patch to cover Jaxson's spinal cord.\n\nDr Marta Santorum-Perez, a consultant at the Fetal Medicine Unit at King's, told the BBC: \"We are operating on very delicate structures - the foetus's nerves.\n\n\"The foetus is very small and inside the womb, so obviously it's a very delicate operation.\"\n\nUntil recently, parents had to wait until a child was born for corrective surgery or find treatment abroad.\n\nBut the evidence suggests that operating during the second trimester reduces nerve damage and the long-term health consequences of spina bifida.\n\nAt the end of last year, the first in-womb surgery for spina bifida took place in the UK. It involved invasive surgery of opening the mother's abdomen and uterus to perform the operation.\n\nMr Bassel Zebian, a consultant neurosurgeon at King's, said the keyhole approach was better for the mother and reduced the risk of the uterus rupturing in subsequent pregnancies.\n\nHe said that operating in the womb also reduced the risk of complications later in life, but could not remove them entirely.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"It's quite important, because improving the function of the lower limbs may be the difference between someone walking and someone not walking later in life.\n\n\"So a significant improvement in a significant number of patients, but not a cure.\"\n\nBaby Jaxson arrived early, at 33 weeks, and was looked after in neonatal intensive care at King's.\n\nBut Sherrie hopes the operation has given Jaxson the best start in life.\n\nShe said: \"He's got movements in his legs, we were told he'd have minimal movements if we didn't have the surgery and he wouldn't be able to move at all.\n\n\"I've got high hopes for him, from day one he's done things, he's amazed us all.\n\n\"He makes me proud every day, he's just a miracle.\"", "Talks to avert the collapse of British Steel will resume later on Friday after the firm secured funds to stay afloat until the end of May.\n\nSources close to owners Greybull Capital say its future will be discussed at \"ministerial level\".\n\nBritish Steel has admitted it needs further financial support from the government to help it address \"Brexit-related issues\".\n\nOne possibility is a £75m government lifeline to the company.\n\nOtherwise, ministers can decide to nationalise the firm or see it fall into administration.\n\nOn Thursday, British Steel said it had the backing of shareholders and lenders and that operations continued as usual while it sought a \"permanent solution\" to its financial troubles.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"As the business navigates the significant uncertainties caused by Brexit, and explores options to strengthen the business for the long term, we are pleased to confirm that we have the required liquidity while we work towards a permanent solution.\"\n\nBritish Steel is the UK's second largest steel firm, employing 4,500 people and about 20,000‎ indirectly via its supply chain.\n\nIn April, the firm was forced to borrow £100m from the government to pay an EU carbon bill, so it could avoid a steep fine.\n\nHowever, concerns about its future were raised this week after Sky News reported that insolvency experts had been lined up in case the firm could not secure further government funding.\n\nIt is understood that along with administration, nationalisation or a management buyout are being discussed as fall-back options for the company.\n\nBritish Steel's troubles have been linked to a slump in orders from European customers ‎due to uncertainty over the Brexit process.\n\nThe firm has also been struggling with the weakness of the pound since the EU referendum in June 2016 and the escalating trade US-China trade war.\n\nGreybull Capital, a private equity firm, rescued Tata Steel's long products business during the depths of the steel crisis in 2016, saving more than 4,000 jobs.\n\nIt has since rebranded the company as British Steel and recently returned it to profit.\n\nThe concerns come days after Tata signalled its planned merger with German rival Thyssenkrupp was off, raising fresh doubts about its Port Talbot site.\n\nTata, which admitted it is facing tough operating conditions in the UK, promised to keep its UK plants running, but only if they could be profitable.", "Helen Kennett said she spoke to a knifeman with \"evil\" in his eyes after he stabbed a waiter\n\nAn off-duty nurse asked one of the London Bridge attackers what was wrong with him before he stabbed her in the neck, an inquest has heard.\n\nHelen Kennett told the Old Bailey she was trying to help Alexandre Pigeard, who was fatally wounded, when she was confronted by his \"evil-eyed\" attacker.\n\nWhen she spoke to him, he replied, \"no, what's wrong with you?\" before wounding her too.\n\nEight people were killed in the attacks on the night of 3 June 2017.\n\n\"I was convinced I was going to die but I didn't want to die there,\" Ms Kennett told the court.\n\n\"I wanted to die round the corner with my family.\"\n\nMs Kennett had been drinking prosecco to celebrate her birthday with her mother and sister in the courtyard of Boro Bistro, at the southern end of London Bridge.\n\nMinutes after she saw the attackers' van plough into railings above where they were sitting, she noticed a waiter, Mr Pigeard, was bleeding.\n\nShe told the court she then saw the man holding a knife behind Mr Pigeard, describing him as having an \"empty\", \"soulless\" and \"evil\" look in his eyes.\n\n\"Before I could process what I was seeing was happening... he stabbed me in the neck to the left side,\" she said.\n\nAlexandre Pigeard had been working as a waiter\n\nAlthough she escaped with her family, she did not get to an ambulance for two hours, the inquest heard.\n\nEight people, including Mr Pigeard, who were killed by three men who drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbed people in and around Borough Market.\n\nThe victims of the attack clockwise from top left - Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sébastien Bélanger, Ignacio Echeverria, Xavier Thomas, Sara Zelenak, Kirsty Boden\n\nAnother witness told the court he believed the man who killed Mr Pigeard was Rachid Redouane.\n\nGeoffrey Huet said he locked eyes with the attacker as he dealt what looked like the fatal blow to Mr Pigeard.\n\n\"He had this craziness in his eyes, this anger. He was furious,\" Mr Huet added.\n\nThe witness ran away and tried to get help, the court heard.\n\nRedouane, 30, was shot dead by police minutes later, alongside his accomplices Khuram Butt and Youssef Zaghba.\n\nAnother witness told the court she too saw Mr Pigeard being wounded as she celebrated a friend's birthday.\n\nAndzelika Abokaityte said in a statement read to the court that she watched as the \"evil and smiling\" attacker grabbed hold of Mr Pigeard before stabbing him from behind.\n\n\"As he was stabbed, the attacker was looking around as if to find the next person to stab.\"\n\n\"I remember thinking: 'I'm going to die'\", the court heard.", "Ateeq Rafiq died a week after becoming trapped at Birmingham's Star City on 16 March 2018\n\nA cinemagoer died after his neck got trapped in an electronic footrest as he searched for his phone and keys, an inquest heard.\n\nAteeq Rafiq, 24, had been in a \"Gold Class\" seat at the Vue multiplex at Star City, Birmingham, last March.\n\nHis wife and staff spent 15 minutes trying to free him from the mechanism, a jury heard.\n\nCoroner Emma Brown said Mr Rafiq died from \"catastrophic\" brain injuries after suffering a cardiac arrest.\n\nAyesha Sardar told the inquest her husband \"went fully under the seat with just his legs sticking out\" while reaching for his possessions at the end of the film.\n\nJurors heard the footrest was initially in a raised position but started to come down \"very quickly\".\n\nMrs Sardar noticed it descended and tried unsuccessfully to hold it up before running for help.\n\nCinema staff then attempted to release Mr Rafiq for 15 minutes while she was taken outside, she said.\n\nStaff eventually managed to free Mr Rafiq by removing a bolt from the seat, which had trapped either the back or right side of his neck, the inquest was told.\n\nMrs Sardar said she \"ran back in\" when she heard he was not breathing, and \"saw that he was blue\".\n\nMr Rafiq, from Aston, Birmingham, died in hospital a week later.\n\nHis cause of death was confirmed as a cardiac arrest following compression of the neck.\n\nCharles Simmons-Jacobs, from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), said he found it was \"impossible\" to lift eight of the footrests in the 52-seat theatre.\n\nThe seats only work when a customer was seated, he said, and after they vacated the control box waited four seconds before returning to a vertical position.\n\nMr Rafiq's seat had blown a fuse in its control box, he said, adding that the force that came down on him would have been the equivalent of three-quarters of a tonne.\n\nMrs Sardar said her husband was \"always happy and positive\".\n\n\"His smile was the kindest and his heart was the greatest,\" she said.\n\nThe inquest, due to last a week, continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The exact figure was not given, but Amazon is the biggest investor in Deliveroo's latest round of fund raising, which in total raised $575m (£450m).\n\nDeliveroo said it would use the money for international expansion, improving its service and to grow its delivery-only kitchens business.\n\nSeveral existing US investors also contributed to the fund raising.\n\nThe amount of capital invested in Deliveroo since it was founded in 2013 now totals more than $1.5bn, and the firm is one of Europe's fastest growing technology companies.\n\nDeliveroo founder and chief executive Will Shu said he was looking forward to working with \"such a customer-obsessed organisation\" like Amazon.\n\nAmazon said it was attracted by Deliveroo's \"innovative technology service\".\n\nThe backing from Amazon gives Deliveroo a boost against rivals such as JustEat and Uber Eats.\n\nThe online retailer briefly had its own UK food delivery venture, Amazon Restaurants UK, which it started in 2016 but closed just two years later.\n\n\"They [Amazon] weren't able to compete within the market so they've gone for the buying option instead. They've got the money behind them to do that,\" Louise Dudley, fund manager at investment firm Hermes, told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"It [Deliveroo] is not just a food delivery company it's very much a tech company. They have this tech platform that is seen is very attractive. They are able to expand into new areas and think about how people's tastes are evolving and be able to predict what stores will be successful. That predictive growth is very attractive to Amazon\".\n\nAmazon had previously been reported to have made approaches to buy Deliveroo outright. Uber also reportedly had talks with Deliveroo over buying it.\n\nIt was already a fierce contest - now the battle to dominate the food delivery business in the UK just moved to a whole new level.\n\nIn a rare failure Amazon decided last year to pull its Restaurants food service out of a UK market where Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats were scrapping to be top dog. Now it's put its firepower behind Deliveroo, which was already confident that its technology platform gave it the edge.\n\nThe company will now use some of its extra cash to build more of its \"super kitchens\" expanding its offering beyond traditional restaurants and invest more in machine learning to speed up delivery times.\n\nWhether the market for food deliveries is quite as big as all the firms believe - and whether it stretches far beyond London twenty-somethings - remains to be seen but they all seem prepared to spend big money to win the lion's share.\n\nThe question is why did Amazon not just buy the whole business? Perhaps the ecommerce giant wanted to sample a starter before swallowing the whole three course meal.\n\nDeliveroo now operates in more than 100 towns and cities across the UK, but has a much smaller share of the market than rival Just Eat which dominates the food delivery sector.\n\nJust Eat's shares fell 8% in early trading, but analysts at Liberum said that despite the extra funding, Deliveroo was unlikely to become a serious competitor.\n\n\"Just Eat's market leading position will be incredibly difficult to overcome, especially given its strength in smaller towns.\n\n\"In the UK, it has an estimated 3-4 times greater share than Uber Eats and Deliveroo combined and, crucially, 60%+ of its customers are in small towns where it is effectively the only option for restaurants and where the Uber Eats/Deliveroo model just doesn't work because of the economics,\" Liberum said.\n\nMr Shu came up with the idea for the firm after he moved from New York to London as a banking analyst. He was working long hours and was frustrated by the fact so few restaurants delivered, a service he had used daily in the US.\n\nIn the firm's early days, Mr Shu delivered all the food himself on a motorbike, while Greg Orlowski, his co-founder who has since left the business, developed the booking technology from his home in the US. Mr Shu still claims to get on his bike once a week to deliver an order to customers in London, as a way of staying in touch with riders.\n\nAs well as the UK, Deliveroo now operates in Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, the United Arab Emirates and Taiwan.\n\nGlobal sales at the firm more than doubled in 2017, jumping to £277m, but its losses continued to increase, doubling to nearly £185m as it invested in global expansion.\n\nThe firm uses more than 60,000 couriers - mostly using bikes or moped - to deliver food from restaurants to customers.\n\nDeliveroo does not employ its riders directly, but pays them per delivery.\n\nLast year, a group of 50 UK Deliveroo couriers won a six-figure payout after claiming they had been unlawfully denied holiday and minimum wages.", "A man accused of making false claims of abuse and murder against a string of public figures named just two people - his stepfather and Jimmy Savile - when he first told police, a court heard.\n\nCarl Beech, 51, said in a police interview in 2012 - which was shown to the jury at Newcastle Crown Court - that he had been abused by a \"group\".\n\nBut he did not name all those he later accused at that point.\n\nHe denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nBeech, who has been described in court as a \"committed and manipulative\" paedophile himself, claimed he witnessed three child murders and had been sexually abused by a dozen senior figures.\n\nThe allegations prompted a Metropolitan police investigation between 2014 and 2016 costing £2m that ended with no further action being taken.\n\nAmong those he accused were former Conservative prime minister Sir Edward Heath, ex-Tory home secretary Lord Brittan, one-time Conservative MP Harvey Proctor, and the former heads of MI5 and MI6.\n\nHe also named former head of the armed forces Lord Brammall and two other senior generals.\n\nThe court has heard that detectives from the Met Police, which investigated his account between 2014-2016, publicly described the claims as \"credible and true\".\n\nFootage of Beech's first police interview showed him telling a detective from Wiltshire police he had been abused by a group as a schoolboy and that Savile had joined in on occasion.\n\nOperation Yewtree - an investigation into the now-disgraced TV presenter who died in 2011 - was under way at the time and had referred Mr Beech to the Wiltshire force.\n\nDuring the interview, Beech said his alleged abuse started with his stepfather, Major Raymond Beech, who has since died.\n\nBeech said his stepfather introduced him to a \"Lieutenant Colonel\" in an army office, who later raped him on many occasions.\n\nAccording to the footage, when asked if he knew the identity of the Lt Col, Beech responded: \"I don't know names. I don't know how to describe him really.\"\n\nHe said the man was \"white, but not white, white but not suntanned. Just normal\".\n\nAsked how he knew Savile was one of those who allegedly abused him, Beech said: \"It was his voice\".\n\n\"He had a gold necklace. It's quite a long necklace,\" the defendant said.\n\nHe said there were about 20 people in the group, but when asked how many he could name, he replied: \"Definitive names? Two then I think. I don't know the others.\"\n\nWhen asked if there were any others he could describe, the defendant had replied: \"A lot of them just blur into one really. I don't know which goes with which.\"\n\nThe jury has previously heard that Beech told police an \"extraordinary tale\" when he made the accusations of abuse against a group of powerful figures.\n\nDuring his trial it has been revealed that Beech has convictions for voyeurism and making and possessing indecent images of children.", "A woman who changed her name and moved cities to escape the scourge of revenge porn has issued a warning.\n\nMikala Monsoon has waived her right to anonymity as a victim of crime after discovering her images on a website containing folders full of women \"from every city in the UK\".\n\nShe says enough is enough and she wants the crime taken seriously.\n\nPolice Scotland are now investigating the file sharing website containing explicit images of women.\n\nMega.nz is a file-sharing website where people can share large collections of images, files and videos.\n\nThe website says it does not tolerate any illegal activity and its standard procedure is to disable the link and close the user's account.\n\nMs Monsoon was sent a link to the site by a concerned former school friend.\n\nThe site featured folders named by UK towns and cities\n\nShe told BBC Scotland's The Nine: \"There were two links. The first was girls in Scotland and had 146 names - one of which was my old name.\n\n\"Some had more images than others.\n\n\"There was another folder and instead of 146 names it had every city in the UK as an individual folder with sub-folders inside there. So this could be hundreds or thousands of people.\"\n\nMs Monsoon did not give her consent for the photos to be shared and is concerned others may not have either.\n\nThe photographs were not explicit, and she says she was oddly relieved.\n\n\"I was relieved because it was my old name and the photos were old and quite unrecognisable,\" she said. \"But I was very angry for the other people involved. I felt the need to speak out about it because it has happened so many times and some attention should be brought to this.\n\n\"It is not being dealt with properly.\"\n\nThe shared content included selfies, but also intimate, nude content. Some of the folders give away full names and locations of the women.\n\nMs Monsoon decided to speak out because it was the latest in a number of incidents she has endured over the past six years.\n\nIntimate images taken of her when she was 17 were shared and the pictures kept reappearing in different places. She changed her name by deed poll and started a new life in a different city to escape them.\n\nShe said: \"I've been featured on many websites, including this new one called Mega. I have been featured on a porn site, and on a forum board on reddit.com, one of the biggest sites on the internet.\"\n\nShe said she has experienced anxiety and felt ashamed and degraded in the past but now she is angry that the issue is not being dealt with properly.\n\n\"This first happened when I was very young and I thought my life was over. I worried about my family and what other people would think because the victims are blamed rather than the people spreading it. Lives are being torn apart by this.\"\n\nMs Monsoon is trying to help other victims and has set up the website revengeonrevengeporn.com to highlight the issue.\n\nThis isn't just fun and games and leaking some saucy pictures. This is stuff that will make people lose their entire will to live. It's serious\n\nThrough this, women featured on the Mega site have contacted her.\n\n\"It does - for many people - follow them around for their entire lives,\" she said.\n\n\"It affects their relationships, their careers, their opportunities.\"\n\nShe revealed: \"I've had people message me who are lawyers, nursery school teachers, and they say their lives are going to be ruined by this. And I've had people message me to say their friends have taken their own lives because of things like this.\n\n\"This isn't just fun and games and leaking some saucy pictures. This is stuff that will make people lose their entire will to live. It's serious.\"\n\nAcross England, Wales and Scotland, revenge porn is a specific criminal offence. (Northern Ireland is preparing amendments to include it in its Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill.)\n\nIt's described as \"the sharing of private, sexual materials, either photos or videos, of another person without their consent and with the purpose of causing embarrassment or distress\".\n\nThe offence covers photos or videos showing people engaged in sexual activity which would not usually be done in public, or with their genitals, buttocks or breasts exposed or covered only with underwear.\n\nIt includes sharing the material as well as posting it online.\n\nIn England and Wales, the maximum punishment is two years in prison - in Scotland, it's five years.\n\nAnyone who discovers they have photos should report it to police.\n\nAnd Ms Monsoon believes those affected have to stop blaming themselves.\n\nShe said: \"It's not your fault. The shame should rest only with the culprits.\n\n\"A lot of the content is taken by someone else, completely unbeknownst to the victim in question. This ties in with all rape culture, and that should be highlighted - consent is being ignored more and more.\n\n\"We can't allow them to win.\"\n\nDet Supt Gordon McCreadie from Police Scotland said: \"Perpetrators often share, or threaten to share images as a way of trying to impose power and control over their victims in what can be an absolute betrayal of trust. There is under-reporting of non consensual sharing of intimate images, perhaps because people may feel embarrassed.\n\n\"What I would say to victims is don't be embarrassed - the police are not here to judge the way in which you conduct your personal life.\n\n\"Police Scotland remains committed to robustly investigating these matters. We encourage victims to come forward early which will better enable us to get evidence from any devices, or provide support to them, and advise how best to minimise impact.\"", "The aftermath of the Talbot Street bombing in Dublin\n\nThe widow of a man killed in one of the deadliest attacks of the Troubles has called on the taoiseach (Irish prime minister) to release \"secret\" files about the atrocity.\n\nEdward O'Neill was among 33 people killed in a series of loyalist bombs in Dublin and Monaghan in 1974.\n\nFriday marks the 45th anniversary of the attacks.\n\nMartha O'Neill said \"secret documents \" in Leo Varadkar's office could assist families in their search for justice.\n\nThe files were deposited with the taoiseach's office by the McEntee Commission, which investigated the Garda inquiry at the time.\n\n\"I personally ask the taoiseach to consider this reasonable and fair request,\" said Ms O'Neill.\n\nMs O'Neill's sons, Billy, then aged seven, and Eddie junior, aged five, were badly injured in the blast, but survived.\n\nThey had been with their father having a haircut before Billy's first communion the following day.\n\nThe families of those killed in the attacks are expected to mark the anniversary at a gathering in Dublin.\n\nIn the past, some of the relatives have used the anniversary to call on the British government to release classified security files on the attacks.\n\nThe Justice for the Forgotten lobby group has fought a long-running campaign for an open inquiry into allegations that British security agents colluded with the terrorists to plot the co-ordinated and sophisticated attacks.", "Bringing the Withdrawal Agreement Bill to Parliament is the last roll of the dice for the prime minister\n\nLabour has finally pulled the plug on the Brexit talks with the government, at the end of a week in which they appeared to be on life support.\n\nSo is it, as some suggest, time to read the last rites on Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement Bill?\n\nLet's be clear - it will be challenging, to say the least, for the legislation to get through the Commons.\n\nBut reports of its demise may well have been exaggerated. It may not go down to immediate defeat. And this is why.\n\nA leaked memo from the government side, not agreed by Labour or the cabinet, contained a wheeze that could have been attractive to both leaderships.\n\nEven before the Withdrawal Agreement Bill makes its appearance, the memo suggested there could be a \"free vote\" in Parliament on another referendum.\n\nThis is rather different from what the shadow Brexit secretary, Sir Keir Starmer, was suggesting - that there ought to be a \"confirmatory\" vote, as part of a package, on any agreed deal.\n\nThe leaders of both the main parties aren't keen on another public vote, to say the least. So a stand-alone Commons vote on the issue, divorced from the deal, would be more likely to go down to defeat - as it has on previous occasions.\n\nJeremy Corbyn could say to People's Vote supporters in his ranks: \"Oh, I did try for a referendum, but oops, it didn't work - so now let's just leave with the best possible deal.\"\n\nBut it would seem that this approach has been scuppered by Labour's wider negotiating team and, presumably, by the cabinet. I have had a strong steer that this proposal in the leaked government memo won't go ahead in this form.\n\nBut this might not be the setback it seems for the prime minister because supporters of another referendum may have no option but to vote initially for her bill.\n\nThere will be a vote at what's called, in parliamentary speak, second reading in the first week in June. If the prime minister is defeated at this point, it's basically the end of the road for her deal and her premiership.\n\nTheresa May's immediate fate could be in the hands of Labour MPs\n\nBut if MPs vote for the bill at second reading, they then get an opportunity to change it - and that would include an amendment on another referendum.\n\nSo it's not impossible that some people who hate Theresa May's deal give it their temporary backing so they can discuss improving it, or putting it to a public vote.\n\nTalks with Labour are over - but efforts to win over individual Labour MPs are not. Note the wording of Downing Street's statement that \"complete agreement\" hasn't been reached.\n\nSo expect to see some incentives in - or around - the Brexit bill for opposition MPs to back the government. For example, a commitment to stay in step with the EU on workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nAllies of Sir Keir have blamed the breakdown of the talks on the PM's inability to get a customs union compromise past her cabinet.\n\nBut if she keeps Conservative MPs on board in the legislation by eschewing a customs union but delivers a \"comprehensive\" (trust me, this word is important to some Labour MPs) temporary arrangement to last until the next election, some soft opposition to her deal may crumble.\n\nThen there is the argument put forward by the former Conservative minister Nick Boles, echoed off the record by some in Downing Street.\n\nIf the prime minister's bill gets shot down in flames there is no other readily available vehicle to prevent the default option of no deal. Indeed, No 10 insiders expect to see \"vociferous\" arguments for no deal if Theresa May's legislation falls.\n\nSome unions, such as the GMB and Unison, favour another referendum. But the leadership of Unite, which is closest to Mr Corbyn, essentially favours leaving with a deal - and Labour MPs will be made well aware of this.\n\nSo even if Labour formally opposes the bill at second reading, there could be a sizeable rebellion from those former Remainers representing Leave areas - safe in the knowledge that they wouldn't exactly be upsetting some powerful forces in the party.\n\nAnd the MPs who support what's called Common Market 2.0 could be crucial to the outcome. These are, broadly speaking, Labour MPs who are neither Corbynistas nor in favour of another referendum - such as Lucy Powell and Stephen Kinnock - and they are very keen to avoid no deal.\n\nHowever, if the Labour whip is to oppose, expect it to be rigorously enforced irrespective of the views of the party leader's office. So Mrs May's immediate fate may still be in the hands of opposition MPs\n\nThe forthcoming leadership contest may firm up opposition to Theresa May's bill on the Conservative benches\n\nBy putting the Withdrawal Agreement Bill out of its misery almost as soon as it appears, the prime minister's critics know she will vacate office sooner rather than later.\n\nBut some candidates will be keener for her to get Brexit over the line, even with a less than optimal deal, so they don't immediately get bogged down with difficult votes. It would also allow them to make their pitch based on the future relationship with the EU.\n\nSo could some of their supporters - irrespective of their public criticism of the deal - quietly vote to get it over the line?\n\nSet against all this, there is plenty of analysis in the public domain which will tell you how impossible it is for a deal to go through.\n\nBut right now, No 10 might well see \"highly improbable\" as grounds for optimism. Hope dies last, does it not?", "The dog helped raise the alarm after discovering the baby\n\nA dog in northern Thailand has rescued a newborn baby after it was buried alive, allegedly by its teenage mother.\n\nThe baby boy is said to have been abandoned by his mother, 15, to hide her pregnancy from her parents.\n\nPing Pong the dog was barking and digging in a field in Ban Nong Kham village. Its owner says he then noticed a baby's leg sticking out of the earth.\n\nLocals rushed the baby to hospital where doctors cleaned him up and declared he was healthy.\n\nPing Pong's owner, Usa Nisaikha, says it lost the use of one of its legs after being hit by a car.\n\nHe told Khaosod Newspaper: \"I kept him because he's so loyal and obedient, and always helps me out when I go to the fields to tend to my cattle. He's loved by the entire village. It's amazing.\"\n\nPing Pong is disabled since being hit by a car\n\nThe newborn's mother has been charged with child abandonment and attempted murder.\n\nPanuwat Puttakam, an officer at Chum Phuang police station, told the Bangkok Post she was now in the care of her parents and a psychologist.\n\nHe said that she regrets her actions.\n\nThe girl's parents have decided to raise the baby.", "Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran previously collaborated on the single Love Yourself\n\nEd Sheeran and Justin Bieber have scored a joint number one with their single I Don't Care.\n\nThe buoyant pop song amassed 123,825 combined sales, after being downloaded 22,000 times and streamed 13m times, said the Official Charts Company.\n\nIt takes Sheeran's tally of number ones to six, and Bieber's to seven, equalling acts like Kylie and U2.\n\nHowever, the duo didn't manage to topple Ariana Grande's record for the year's biggest-selling single.\n\nHer song 7 Rings notched up 126,240 combined sales when it was released in January.\n\nSheeran and Bieber could see a sales boost next week, though, after they released a new video in which Sheeran dances in his dressing gown and sings into a hair dryer; while Bieber dresses up as an ice cream cone.\n\nThe single marks their first duet - although Sheeran previously wrote Bieber's number one hit Love Yourself.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nElsewhere in the singles chart, Lil Nas X stays put at number two with the country-rap crossover Old Town Road, while Stormzy's Vossi Bop drops from number one to number three.\n\nOn the albums chart, Pink spends a third week at number one with Hurts 2B Human, claiming the highest physical sales and digital downloads of the last week.\n\nHowever, she was beaten on streaming services by noir-pop star Billie Eilish, whose debut When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? was the week's most-played record.\n\nNext week will see Lewis Capaldi mounting a challenge for the top spot, with his debut album Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent.\n\nHe faces competition from US pop star Carly Rae Jepsen, indie band The National and hip-hop producer DJ Khaled, who also release high-profile albums this week.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Love Yourself was for Sheeran's album\n• None Official Charts - Home of the Official UK Top 40 Charts The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Miss Young said it was her first night out with the stoma bag\n\nA theatre has changed its signage after a woman with Crohn's disease was berated by a group of women for using a disabled toilet.\n\nZoe Young was at Loughborough Town Hall when she was verbally abused.\n\nAfter raising the issue on Facebook, the 44-year-old received thousands of messages of support, including from the venue.\n\nIt has now placed signs on the doors of the accessible toilets reading \"Not Every Disability Is Visible\".\n\nMiss Young said: \"I was totally mortified by the reaction of these women and felt like breaking down in tears.\n\n\"People think if we're not in a wheelchair we shouldn't be using it.\"\n\nThe theatre has added extra signage after Miss Young was abused\n\nMiss Young has had Crohn's disease since she was a teenager and has a Radar key to use accessible toilets.\n\nLast month, she had an ileostomy, which is surgery to fit a stoma bag.\n\nIt was during the interval of a production of Rent that she was twice confronted for using the disabled toilet.\n\n\"This was my first evening out after having the surgery,\" she said.\n\n\"I was worried about whether anyone can see the bag, am I wearing the right clothes, worried about the bag leaking.\n\n\"I had all of those concerns and then to be faced with that was such a knockback.\"\n\nLoughborough Town Hall said it \"does not discriminate against anyone\" and \"recognises the need to make good quality facilities available to all of our guests\".\n\nA spokesman added Charnwood Borough Council was also considering similar action across its sites.\n\nMiss Young is hoping to get other venues and public places in Loughborough to follow suit.\n\n\"I know it's only a sign, but for people like me it means so much more,\" she added.\n\n\"This has got people thinking now.\"\n\nCrohn's & Colitis UK has also started a campaign to change people's perceptions of disabilities and end the stigma around using disabled toilets.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Conservatives have been accused of putting party over country as they look for a new leader with the Brexit deadline looming.\n\nViewers in the UK can watch the full programme on BBC iPlayer.", "The captain of the Royal Navy's warship, HMS Queen Elizabeth, has been removed from his command following reports that he misused an MoD car.\n\nThe Royal Navy confirmed Commodore Nick Cooke-Priest had been reassigned to a new role, without giving a reason.\n\nBut navy sources told the BBC that his removal was over his use of an official car for personal trips.\n\nA new commanding officer has been appointed to the £3bn aircraft carrier.\n\nThe BBC's defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said that \"while the offence may appear relatively minor, it was felt that his position had become untenable and that the commanding officer must be beyond reproach\".\n\n\"It is not the end of Cdre Cooke-Priest's naval career but it is a black mark and a humiliation to lose the command of Britain's largest and most expensive warship,\" our correspondent added.\n\nAnyone who has use of an MoD vehicle can only use it for official business, with each mile needing to be recorded.\n\nA Royal Navy spokesman said: \"We can confirm Captain Nick Cooke-Priest has been reassigned to a new role.\n\n\"We can only say that management action is ongoing and it would therefore be inappropriate to comment further.\"\n\nCdre Cooke-Priest, who joined the Royal Navy in 1990, had been in command of HMS Queen Elizabeth since October.", "Officials will visit more than 3,000 remote locations before Saturday's election\n\nIn a vast, sparsely populated land like Australia, overseeing an election is a massive logistical effort... particularly when you have compulsory voting.\n\nThe task is greater than ever ahead of Saturday's general election because a record 96.8% of eligible voters have enrolled to cast a ballot.\n\nMost Australians will vote in cities and regional centres, but many simply cannot get to those places. To ensure everyone gets a say, election officials are visiting more than 3,000 remote locations over 12 days.\n\nIt's a sprawling, ambitious undertaking that involves travel by air, sea and land - sometimes to set up a single ballot box.\n\nHere are four of the most challenging locations to reach.\n\n\"If we get a request and can fit it, we'll go out to them,\" says electoral officer Geoff Bloom.\n\nHis team charters boats, planes, 4x4s and helicopters to visit 200 remote communities in the Northern Territory.\n\nIn many indigenous communities, where English isn't the first (or second) spoken language, an interpreter accompanies the election officials. More than 200 languages are spoken, but his team speaks only the most widely used.\n\nTwo voters outside Gunbalanya, Northern Territory, in 2010\n\nLarger communities have 2,000-2,500 residents; the smallest his team visits are out-stations with four or five homes and just 10 electors on the roll. But they'll still visit - helicopters travel to up to three communities in a day.\n\nAlthough voting in suburban Australian towns typically involves a sausage sizzle, in the remote communities he visits, \"democracy sausages\" are less likely.\n\n\"Some [people] are off hunting and fishing when we arrive,\" he says.\n\nBut nonchalance is less common than engagement: \"Often, community members are waiting patiently for us. This is important to them because of the hard-fought right to vote.\"\n\nIndigenous Australians weren't granted the right to vote until 1962, and indigenous enrolment rate today is lower than the general population, at 76.4%.\n\nThe Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has been sending mobile voting teams out to remote indigenous communities since 1984.\n\nThe places visited, such as Arnhem Land, are often so remote, postal services are unreliable or not commonly used, which is why AEC representatives undertake remarkable journeys to reach them.\n\n\"One of my team recently travelled 100km [60 miles] on a dirt road to a small community,\" Mr Bloom says.\n\nVoters line up in Warruwi, Northern Territory, in 2013\n\n\"Torrential rain had washed the road out - rivers ran across it. They still got there - just 90 minutes late.\"\n\nYes, really. Forty-nine Australian expeditioners are registered \"Antarctic electors\" in 2019. They're a mix of technicians, tradespeople and scientists.\n\nMore than 500 Australians go south to Antarctica every year. Travel is possible only between October and March, via an icebreaker ship or a plane which lands on an ice runway.\n\nVoting in the Australian general election even takes place in Antarctica\n\nOutside of those months, numbers drop right down; there are currently 74 Australians there. They'll stay for 12-14 months.\n\nBallot boxes are already at the stations, which are recognised as official polling places under Australian legislation. At each station, an expeditioner is appointed Antarctic Returning Officer.\n\nMark Horstman from the Australian Antarctic Division tells the BBC: \"There's no way for ballot boxes to be transported between Antarctica and Australia. The voting procedure is completely paper-based. Once the poll closes, the returning officer reads each vote over the phone.\"\n\nThere are at least 274 Torres Strait islands off Australia's northern coast; 17 are inhabited.\n\nA total of 4,231 Torres Strait Islanders have registered to vote this year. That's 16 more than in the 2016 election.\n\nOfficially, the islands are part of Queensland - so AEC staff travel out to many of these islands, too. But before they do, they must write to the traditional owners of the land and ask permission to visit.\n\nMasig Island, one of an estimated 274 Torres Strait islands\n\nIt's granted with enthusiasm, says David Stuart, who runs the indigenous electoral participation programme, and says three teams will head out by boat and helicopter.\n\nAnd they face particular challenges when they're there.\n\n\"When you're flying around, they look picture postcard perfect. But on the ground they can be very tropical, windswept and absolutely torrential. We have to waterproof everything.\"\n\nTo give a sense of how far the islands are from metropolitan Australia, from some of the more northern ones, he says, you can actually see Papua New Guinea.\n\nIt isn't just indigenous communities that are remote in Australia - the AEC also sends out representatives to rural farms and mining sites such as Leinster - a remote mining village of 500 residents, 1,000km north-east of Perth. Only employees of mining company BHP live there.\n\nAccording to Mr Bloom, fewer miners attend polling booths than used to be the case: \"The postal vote tends to be their preference, so we're not mobile polling them as much these days.\"\n\nRemote mines and farms are visited by Australian election officials to make voting accessible to everyone\n\nThey could be missing out on election day fun, though.\n\n\"One of my team leaders was setting up in central Queensland and a dog was under the table,\" Mr Bloom says. \"They set up the booth around it, not wishing to wake it from relaxing in the sun.\n\n\"Then suddenly someone shouted, 'There's a dingo under the table!' The issuing officer jumped up and knocked the electronic tablet into the dirt!\n\n\"The dingo woke up, and ran off.\"\n\nDingoes, flooded roads, interpreters: nothing deters these teams from encouraging voting.\n\n\"As far as voting options go, we're one of the most open and accessible systems in the world,\" says the AEC's Evan Ekin-Smyth.", "Ms Sturgeon said the SNP has set out a \"positive, progressive\" vision in its manifesto\n\nNicola Sturgeon has insisted there is a \"real chance\" for Scotland to stay part of the EU as she launched the SNP's manifesto for the European elections.\n\nThe SNP leader said voting for her party in next Thursday's election would be an opportunity to \"make Scotland's voice heard\".\n\nShe claimed Westminster had \"ignored the overwhelming vote in Scotland\" to remain in the EU.\n\nAnd she described the prospect of Boris Johnson becoming PM as a \"nightmare\".\n\nMs Sturgeon, who is Scotland's first minister, has backed calls for another referendum on Brexit - a so-called People's Vote.\n\nShe has also said she wants another referendum on Scottish independence within the next two years if the UK leaves the EU.\n\nAmong the manifesto's key pledges are:\n\nSpeaking at the manifesto launch in Glasgow, Ms Sturgeon urged voters to back the SNP in order to \"send the powerful message that Scotland is for Europe\".\n\nShe added: \"We can stand up for Scotland's right to be heard, and we can proclaim our determination to remain a European nation.\n\n\"On 23 May people can send Theresa May - or whoever comes after her - a strong and resolute message: Stop Brexit and let's keep Scotland at the very heart of Europe.\"\n\nThe party's six election candidates joined Ms Sturgeon at the manifesto launch\n\nMs Sturgeon said her party was willing to work with others across the UK to give people a \"final say\" on whether the UK should leave the EU, and insisted that there is now \"a real chance to keep Scotland in the European Union.\"\n\nShe said: \"Any Brexit deal agreed by Westminster must be put to the people with Remain on the ballot paper. If no deal is the only alternative, Article 50 must be revoked.\n\n\"Scotland must have the choice of becoming an independent, European nation - and we can proclaim our determination to remain a European nation.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon went on to accuse the UK Government of having \"ignored the overwhelming vote in Scotland\" from the 2016 EU referendum, when 62% of Scottish voters backed the UK remaining in the EU.\n\nShe claimed the Conservative government at Westminster had \"dismissed all attempts at compromise from the Scottish government\" and had also \"disregarded, time and again, the views of the Scottish Parliament\".\n\nThe SNP leader added: \"Taking Scotland out of the EU against our will does not deliver on the result of the referendum.\n\n\"For people in Scotland, pressing ahead with Brexit doesn't deliver on the referendum, it overturns that referendum.\n\n\"And Brexit does something else: it gives the lie to the notion that Labour and the Tories see the United Kingdom as a partnership of equal nations.\"\n\nBoris Johnson is widely seen as the favourite to replace Theresa May as prime minister after she stands down\n\nWith Theresa May having outlined plans to leave Downing Street, Ms Sturgeon said the prospect of Boris Johnson becoming the next prime minister was now \"a deadly serious possibility and for Scotland it would be a nightmare\".\n\nThe first minister said: \"Faced with Brexit - and very possibly an extreme Farage-Johnson style Brexit - people in Scotland deserve the right to decide whether Scotland should become an independent member of the EU instead.\"\n\nAnd she said the SNP's \"positive, progressive\" manifesto for the vote \"makes clear our determination to stay in the EU\".\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"In this manifesto you will see strong and unequivocal support for free movement. It is good for Scotland and it is good for Europe.\n\n\"The SNP celebrates and values all those who choose to make Scotland their home, and SNP MEPs will take that welcoming message to the heart of Europe.\"\n\nThe SNP won two of Scotland's six seats in the European Parliament at the last EU election in 2014.", "Eve Myles stars in Keeping Faith, which had 17 million BBC iPlayer requests for the first series\n\nA TV critic's comments about Eve Myles's legs have been called \"bigoted\" and \"creepy\" by the actress's husband.\n\nBradley Freegard, who stars with Ms Myles in the drama Keeping Faith, criticised the comments of a columnist of Welsh language magazine Golwg.\n\nHuw Onllwyn reviewed the opening episode of the drama's second series, which aired on S4C in Welsh on Sunday.\n\nMr Onllwyn said he was questioning why producers had dressed Ms Myles in \"high heels and a short skirt\".\n\nIn this week's edition of Golwg, Mr Onllwyn wrote: \"There's no doubt that Eve Myles has lovely legs - which look even better in a pair of high heels.\"\n\nHe also said Ms Myles's legs were one of the only things in the first episode that would make him watch the second.\n\nThe English version of the drama's new series will be on BBC One in the summer.\n\nResponding to the criticism, Mr Onllwyn said he believed Ms Myles had been dressed specifically to boost ratings and had used an \"ironic and satirical approach\" to \"highlight the issue\".\n\nHe apologised that \"this element of satire was not conveyed clearly enough\".\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 Onllwyn's comments were criticised by some social media users, including Mr Freegard who plays Evan Howells in the TV series.\n\nMr Freegard tweeted: \"Such bigoted views are totally unacceptable and lets be honest down right creepy.\"\n\nMiriam Isaac said she felt \"upset\" and \"angry\" when she read the column\n\nMiriam Isaac tweeted after she read the article that it \"objectified women\".\n\nMs Isaac, 30, who lives in Cardiff said: \"Straight away I felt upset and I was angry, embarrassed because I thought - really?\n\n\"For too long women have accepted that this sort of behaviour is OK and I thought no, it is time to speak out.\"\n\nShe added the hundreds of likes and re-tweets to her post was \"amazing to see so many different people who didn't want to stand for it\".\n\nDylan Iorwerth, editorial director of Golwg, said: \"Columnists express personal opinions, but myself and Golwg's editor will discuss the content of this column and will seriously consider the comments that have been made.\"", "The case of Aras Amiri, who was this week jailed in Iran, is one trigger for the change in travel advice, says BBC diplomatic correspondent James Robbins\n\nThe Foreign Office has hardened its travel advice for Iran, advising British-Iranian dual nationals not to travel there.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said dual nationals face an \"intolerable risk of mistreatment\" and arbitrary detention.\n\nAnd Iranians with links to British institutions are also at risk of falling under suspicion in Iran, the advice adds.\n\nIt comes after British Council worker Aras Amiri was jailed for spying.\n\nThe Iranian national, who was arrested while on a visit to see her ill grandmother, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran on Monday.\n\nThe Foreign Office updated its advice on Friday.\n\nMr Hunt also warned that Iranian nationals living in the UK should exercise \"caution\" when returning to Iran to visit family and friends.\n\nMr Hunt also issued a message of caution to Iranians living in the UK\n\n\"Dual nationals face an intolerable risk of mistreatment if they visit Iran,\" Mr Hunt said.\n\n\"Despite the UK providing repeated opportunities to resolve this issue, the Iranian regime's conduct has worsened.\n\n\"Having exhausted all other options, I must now advise all British-Iranian dual nationals against travelling to Iran.\"\n\nMr Hunt added: \"The dangers they face include arbitrary detention and lack of access to basic legal rights, as we have seen in the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been separated from her family since 2016.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a dual British-Iranian national, is serving five years in prison for spying - a charge she denies.\n\nAccording to the BBC's diplomatic correspondent, James Robbins, the Foreign Office seems to have concluded that prospects for her release have worsened, and that people who live in Britain who have connections to the country are now at even greater risk of being arrested and then jailed for long periods.\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\nFor British nationals, the advice is to consider carefully the risks of travelling to Iran.\n\nThe Iranian government does not recognise dual nationality, considering dual British-Iranian nationals as Iranian citizens.\n\nThe new travel advice comes as tensions between Tehran and the West - in particular the US - have heightened in recent times.", "The owners of Tardar Sauce confirmed she died on Tuesday\n\nGrumpy Cat, the feline famous on the internet for her permanent scowl, has died aged seven, her owners say.\n\nA statement says she died on Tuesday following complications from a recent urinary tract infection.\n\nThe cat from Arizona had \"helped millions of people smile\".\n\nGrumpy, whose real name was Tardar Sauce, went viral in 2012 after photographs of her sour expression emerged online. Her image quickly spread as a meme.\n\nAccording to owner Tabitha Bundesen, her facial expression was caused by feline dwarfism and an underbite.\n\nGrumpy Cat travelled the world making television appearances and in 2014 even starred in her own Christmas film.\n\nMadame Tussauds in San Francisco unveiled a waxwork of her in 2015.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Grumpy Cat This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHer Instagram account has more than two million followers.\n\nGrumpy's face has starred in thousands of memes with many people choosing to share them again after hearing the news of her 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 2 by Cameron Grant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2018, the cat's owners won a $710,000 (£555,000) payout in a copyright lawsuit.\n\nGrumpy Cat Limited sued the owners of the US coffee company Grenade for exceeding an agreement over the cat's image.\n\nThe company only had rights to use the cat to sell its \"Grumppuccino\" iced drink, but was also selling other Grumpy products.\n\nMs Bundesen previously worked as a waitress before her beloved pet gained internet stardom. She told the Express newspaper that she quit her job \"within days\" of Grumpy's first appearance on social media.", "More young people under 50 are being diagnosed with bowel cancer, two studies of the disease in European and high-income countries have found.\n\nAlthough total numbers of cases in young people remain low, the studies highlighted a sharp rise in rates in 20 to 29-year-olds.\n\nResearchers are not clear why this is happening, but say obesity and poor diet could be factors.\n\nExperts urged doctors not to ignore symptoms in young people.\n\nIn most of Europe, bowel cancer screening programmes start at the age of 50 because cases of the disease are much higher among this older age group.\n\nAs a result, countries with established programmes, like the UK, have seen bowel cancer rates in the over-50s fall.\n\nBut recent research suggests rates are now rising more steeply among under-50s - and there have been calls for screening to start at 45 instead, in the US particularly.\n\nIn a study in the journal Gut, Dutch researchers analysed trends in 20 European countries, including the UK, Germany, Sweden and France, using data from more than 143 million people.\n\nThey found a rise in cases of bowel cancer between 1990 and 2016 in most countries - with the most significant increase among people in their 20s.\n\nFor them, bowel cancer incidence increased from 0.8 to 2.3 cases per 100,000 people over 26 years - with the sharpest rise in rates, of 7.9% per year, occurring between 2004 and 2016.\n\nBut there was no increase in deaths from bowel cancer for this age group, the study found.\n\nAmong people in their 30s, rates of bowel cancer also rose - but less steeply - and among 40-somethings rates fluctuated.\n\nThe researchers, from the Erasmus MC University Medical Center in Rotterdam, said if the trend continued, screening guidelines may need to be reconsidered.\n\nAnother study, in the Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, appeared to confirm the trend among young adults in high-income countries, including the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.\n\nIt found a 1.8% increase in colon cancer cases and 1.4% rise in rectal cancer cases in people under 50 in the UK between 1995 and 2014 .\n\nOver the same period, there were decreases in bowel cancer cases of 1.2% in the over-50s.\n\nThe findings were similar in many of the countries studied.\n\nDr Marzieh Araghi, lead study author from International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, said the findings highlighted the need for action.\n\n\"While population-based screening in people under 50 years old is not considered to be cost-effective due to relatively low incidence numbers, family history could help to identify younger people at high risk of genetic susceptibility to colorectal cancer, for further assessment,\" she said.\n\nDr Araghi added that more studies were needed \"to establish the root causes of this rising incidence to enable the development of effective preventive and early-detection strategies\".\n\nAndrew Beggs, consultant colorectal surgeon from the University of Birmingham, said rising rates of bowel cancer among young patients \"must be urgently investigated\".\n\n\"This means the age at which bowel cancer screening needs to start may have to change to screen people at a younger age, and people under the age of 50 with any 'red flag' symptoms (bleeding, a change in bowel habit, weight loss or tummy pain) should get it checked out as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nDr Marco Gerlinger, from the Institute of Cancer Research, London, said he had noticed increasing numbers of young patients with bowel cancer for some time.\n\n\"These large and high-quality studies provide solid data to support this trend,\" he said.\n\nAnd he added: \"These results are a call to action to raise awareness among staff in GP practices and hospitals to consider bowel cancer as a diagnosis when young people come to them with pain, changes in bowel habits or blood in their stool.\n\n\"The new studies show a clear need to dedicate more efforts to understanding the lifestyle factors that trigger bowel cancers in young people and to rethink how screening may need to be adjusted to prevent such devastating cancers.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An F-16 fighter jet has crashed into a warehouse near a base outside Los Angeles, leaving the pilot and workers on the ground with minor injuries.\n\nThe pilot ejected before impact, and the small fire that broke out was quickly suppressed by the building's sprinkler system.\n\nThe US Air Force says five people on the ground were injured. They have not confirmed if ammunition was onboard.\n\nOne warehouse worker captured the aftermath in a Facebook post.\n\n\"That's a military airplane in our building,\" Jeff Schoffstall said in his mobile phone video.\n\n\"So the turbines are spinning, there's no roof on the building so you're looking through the roof, the walls are gone,\" he continued.\n\nA hole in the warehouse roof was filmed by news helicopters\n\nThe crash happened at about 15:45 local time (23:45 GMT) outside the March Air Reserve Base in Perris.\n\n\"It just shook the whole building,\" employee Baldur Castro told CBS, adding that one worker had been knocked to the ground.\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 Jeff This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nRoads to the warehouse have been blocked off as hazardous materials crews examine the rubble.\n\nAccording to the Air Force Reserve, the jet was based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and was flying a training mission for the North American Aerospace Defense Command.\n\nThe pilot's parachute was located in a nearby field", "Grave concerns have been raised about the sexual abuse of children in detention in the UK by independent experts at the United Nations.\n\nReviewing the UK's record, the United Nations Committee Against Torture cited a report into the abuse of some 1,000 children in custody from 2009-2017.\n\nFew cases of such sexual abuse seem to have been investigated, the UN said.\n\nThe government said it would note the recommendations, adding that the UK had a tradition of protecting human rights.\n\nThe UN committee called on the UK to ensure all allegations of violence against children in detention were promptly and impartially investigated, adding that the information provided by the UK about the problem was insufficient.\n\nIt said historical claims of torture by security services in Northern Ireland must be addressed, too.\n\nThe committee also called for the age of criminal responsibility, currently 10 in England and Wales and 12 in Scotland, to be raised.\n\nIt added that the UK must report back on the abuse of children in custody and on Northern Ireland within a year.\n\nThe UN committee, which is meeting in Geneva, published its recommendations on Friday following the review.\n\nIn particular, it raised evidence from the UK's own Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) of the sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children in detention between 2009 to 2017.\n\nCommittee member and lead UN expert for the review of the UK Felice Gaer said the IICSA's report was \"stunning in detail and in the horror that it sets forth\".\n\nThe IICSA looked at young offender facilities, secure training centres and secure children's homes as part of a wider investigation into child abuse in England and Wales.\n\nMany of the incidents involved staff inappropriately touching detainees during body searches or instances of restraint.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said it was already conducting an urgent review into safeguarding in the youth estate following the IICSA.\n\nIn the last decade the number of children in youth custody has fallen by over 70%, it said.\n\nResponding to the committee recommendations, an MoJ spokesperson added: \"The UK has a longstanding tradition of ensuring rights and liberties are protected domestically and of fulfilling our international human rights obligations.\n\n\"We note the recommendations of the United Nations Committee Against Torture and will respond in due course.\"\n• None Children in custody 'not safe from abuse'", "I M Pei, the architect behind buildings including the glass pyramid outside the Louvre in Paris, has died aged 102.\n\nTributes have been pouring in, remembering him for a lifetime of designing iconic structures worldwide.\n\nPei's designs are renowned for their emphasis on precision geometry, plain surfaces and natural light.\n\nHe carried on working well into old age, creating one of his most famous masterpieces - the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar - in his 80s.\n\nIeoh Ming Pei was born in Guangzhou in 1917, and moved to the US at the age of 18 to study at Pennsylvania, MIT and Harvard.\n\nHe worked as a research scientist for the US government during World War Two, and went on to work as an architect, founding his own firm in 1955.\n\nOne of the 20th Century's most prolific architects, he has designed municipal buildings, hotels, schools and other structures across North America, Asia and Europe.\n\nQatar's Islamic Museum of Art is one of Pei's most famous designs\n\nThe architect also designed the Suzhou Museum in China, which was completed in 2006\n\nHis style was described as modernist with cubist themes, and was influenced by his love of Islamic architecture. His favoured building materials were glass and steel, with a combination of concrete.\n\nPei sparked controversy for his pyramid at the Louvre Museum. The glass structure, completed in 1989, is now one of Paris' most famous landmarks.\n\nHis other work includes Dallas City Hall and Japan's Miho Museum.\n\n\"I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity,\" he once said.\n\nHe was won a variety awards and prizes for his buildings, including the AIA Gold Medal, the Praemium Imperiale for Architecture.\n\nIn 1983 Pei was given the prestigious Pritzker Prize. The jury said he had he \"has given this century some of its most beautiful interior spaces and exterior forms\".\n\nHe used his $100,000 prize money to start a scholarship fund for Chinese students to study architecture in America.", "All landing cards for international passengers arriving in the UK will be scrapped from Monday.\n\nLanding cards are currently filled in by passengers arriving by air or sea from outside the European Economic Area.\n\nBorder Force director general Paul Lincoln, in a letter to staff, said it would \"help meet the challenge of growing passenger numbers\".\n\nAround 16 million landing cards are issued every year and they are used to record what is said to border staff on arrival, as well as the reasons for travel and conditions of entry.\n\nThe Home Office had agreed to scrap them for seven countries, including the US and Australia, from June, but has now decided to go further.\n\nA document from officials to Border Force staff, seen by the BBC, says much of the data collected by paper landing cards will soon be available digitally.\n\nIt adds that the withdrawal of the cards will enable staff to \"focus more on your interaction with passengers\".\n\nBut Immigration Service Union general secretary, Lucy Moreton, accused the Home Office of \"ignoring\" warnings from experienced staff as to the longer-term impact of getting rid of landing cards.\n\nShe said that the union had been assured that scrapping them would not happen until new technology was in place to record international arrivals.\n\n\"Although in most cases landing cards are retained for purely statistical reasons they do contain the only record of what was said to an officer on arrival,\" she said.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Lincoln said he recognised concerns about the scheme.\n\nBut he added: \"These changes will enable frontline officers to focus their skills and time on border security issues and on cohorts who present the greatest risk of immigration abuse.\"\n\nThe decision to scrap landing cards comes after the government announced it was extending the use of e-gates at UK borders to citizens of the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Singapore and South Korea.\n\nCurrently the gates, which scan e-passports, are reserved for European Economic Area citizens.", "Tensions have risen between Iran under President Hassan Rouhani and the US under President Donald Trump\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said he does not want a war with Iran amid rising tensions between the two countries, according to senior officials.\n\nIn a meeting on Wednesday the president told aides he did not want US pressure to turn into a conflict.\n\nThe US has deployed warships and planes to the Gulf and withdrawn diplomatic staff from Iraq in recent days.\n\nOfficials cited threats from Iran for the moves.\n\nThe latest frictions come after Iran suspended its commitments under the 2015 international nuclear deal, and threatened to resume production of enriched uranium.\n\nThe accord aimed to cut sanctions on Iran in exchange for an end to its nuclear programme, but the US unilaterally withdrew from the agreement last year and imposed new sanctions.\n\nTehran has allegedly placed missiles on boats in the Gulf, and US investigators reportedly believe the country damaged four tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates - claims Iran has denied.\n\nBut when asked by reporters on Thursday if the US was going to war with Iran, Mr Trump answered: \"I hope not.\"\n\nThe president's National Security Adviser John Bolton warned Iran there would be \"hell to pay\" if they harmed the US or its allies last September.\n\nIran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday called on China and Russia to protect the 2015 nuclear deal with \"concrete action\".\n\n\"So far the international community has mostly released statements rather than taking action,\" Mr Zarif said at a meeting in Beijing with China's Foreign Minister, Wang Yi.\n\nA Twitter account linked to Iranian MP Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh meanwhile reportedly called for a \"red desk\" in a third country to attempt to manage current tensions between Iran and the US.\n\nThe UN Security Council is meeting to discuss the tensions on Friday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's behind the rising tensions between the US and Iran?\n\nIn the US, the New York Times reports Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is reaching out to allies in Europe and elsewhere for help to lower tensions.\n\nA state department release says Mr Pompeo spoke with Oman's Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Al Said on Wednesday about \"Iranian threats to the Gulf region\".\n\nThe ruler has long served as an intermediary between Iran and the West, including during nuclear deal talks under President Barack Obama.\n\nThe call followed Mr Pompeo's trip to Russia, where he said his country \"fundamentally\" did not seek a conflict, but added that the US would \"certainly respond in an appropriate fashion\" if US interests were attacked.\n\nSupreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei earlier this week stressed there would be no conflict.\n\n\"We don't seek a war, nor do they,\" he said in remarks carried on state media.\n\nReports say two US destroyers passed through the Strait of Hormuz without incident on Thursday.\n\nThere are two competing narratives.\n\nThe first, which is favoured by US President Donald Trump's administration, is that Iran is up to no good. Preparations are said to have been seen for a potential attack on US targets, though few details have been revealed publicly.\n\nThe US has moved reinforcements to the region; it is reducing its non-essential diplomatic personnel in Iraq; and it is reportedly dusting off war plans.\n\nThe second narrative lays the blame for this crisis squarely at Washington's door.\n\nAccording to this narrative, the \"Iran hawks\" in the Trump administration - people like National Security Adviser John Bolton, or Secretary of State Mike Pompeo - sense an opportunity. Their goal, this narrative argues, is regime change in Tehran.\n\nThe reality is that a conflict between the US and Iran - albeit by accident rather than design - is more likely today than at any time since Mr Trump took office.\n\nAnd one thing should be clear. There is no \"drift\" towards war. That suggests an involuntary process that people can do little about.\n\nIf there is a conflict then it will be down to conscious decision-making, to the calculations and miscalculations of the Iranians and the Americans themselves.\n\nIn just a few days, the US has deployed the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier to the region and reportedly drawn up plans to send 120,000 troops to the Middle East.\n\nDiplomatic staff have been ordered to leave Iraq, and the US military have raised the threat level in the region because of alleged intelligence about Iran-backed forces - contradicting a British general who had said there was \"no increased threat\".\n\nDutch and German soldiers said they had suspended their military training programmes in the country.\n\nOn Friday, Saudi Arabia accused Tehran of a drone attack on a pipeline, alleging that Houthi rebels in Yemen conducted the strike on Iran's orders.\n\nA state-aligned Saudi newspaper called for the US to launch attacks on the country.", "The tissue slides were buried together in one small coffin\n\nMore than 300 tiny pieces of human tissue from prisoners executed by the Nazis have been buried in Berlin.\n\nThe samples were found in microscopic slides at a property that belonged to Hermann Stieve - an anatomy professor at the Charité university hospital.\n\nHeirs of the doctor, who died in 1952, discovered the collection in 2016.\n\nResearchers say Stieve systematically collaborated with the Nazis to receive the bodies of 184 people, mostly women, executed for political resistance.\n\nSome of the women whose bodies were used by Stieve (pic: GDW)\n\nThe tissue pieces - most less than a millimetre long - were discovered at Stieve's estate, stored in small black boxes, including some labelled with names.\n\nOnce found, they were handed to Berlin's Charité university hospital, who tasked staff at the German Resistance Memorial Center (GDW) to research their history.\n\nThe burial ceremony on Monday took place at Berlin's Dorotheenstadt Cemetery. The grave is near an existing memorial to victims of the Nazis.\n\nThe samples were interred in one small coffin measuring 30cm x 30cm x 40cm (12ins x 12ins x 16ins), GDW director Johannes Tuchel told the BBC.\n\nSome of the people dissected by Stieve were high-profile - including 13 women from the Red Orchestra anti-Nazi resistance group.\n\nResearch under Prof Tuchel shows that bodies were picked up by a driver and taken to Stieve, sometimes just minutes after they were killed at Berlin-Plötzensee prison.\n\nHe then dissected them for research, before discreetly cremating and interring their bodies anonymously.\n\nProf Tuchel told the BBC that Stieve's dissections took place in 1942-1943. He sent the bodies to Wilmersdorf for cremation and later sent the victims' ashes to Parkfriedhof Marzahn, a Berlin cemetery.\n\n\"He did not deal with concentration camp victims,\" Prof Tuchel said, adding that Stieve \"did not work with Nazi doctors\".\n\nAlmost 3,000 people were executed at Plötzensee by beheading or hanging while Hitler was in power.\n\nHermann Stieve used the bodies of executed prisoners\n\n\"We have discovered that (Stieve) systematically aided the (Nazi) Reich justice ministry in obliterating the traces of these criminal acts,\" Prof Tuchel told German newspaper Bild.\n\nStieve served as the director of the Berlin Institute of Anatomy from 1935 until he died following a stroke in 1952.\n\nThe anatomist's use of the prisoners' corpses had been kept almost in plain sight, because he kept meticulous records of his work.\n\nHe had a particular interest in reproductive anatomy.\n\nHis work was some of the first research to suggest that stress - in the form of being sentenced to death - could disrupt a woman's menstrual cycle.\n\nOne of the Charité researchers, Andreas Winkelmann of Brandenburg Medical School, told the AFP news agency that burial of such small specimens was highly unusual.\n\n\"But this is a special story, because they came from people who were actively denied graves, so that their relatives would not know where they are buried,\" he added.\n\nDr Sabine Hildebrandt is a German-born anatomist who published a book about ethical transgressions and anatomical science in the Nazi period.\n\nIn 2013 she explained to the BBC that Stieve exploited their policies, including the increased use of the death penalty as a punishment.\n\nTens of thousands of political opponents were murdered by the Nazis\n\n\"Before 1933, he was able to source the bodies of executed men, but no women; Germany was not executing women,\" she said.\n\n\"Then, suddenly, during the Third Reich, women were being executed too.\"\n\nBecause he was not a member of the Nazi party, Stieve was not prosecuted after World War Two.\n\nIn a statement, Dr Karl Max Einhäupl, CEO of the Charité, said the burial was part of an effort by the hospital to confront its - and German medicine's - difficult relationship with Nazism.\n\n\"By burying the microscopic specimens at the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery, we want to help restore to the victims some of their dignity,\" he said.", "Thick smoke was visible after the plane came down\n\nA light aircraft has crashed on to a main road but managed to avoid hitting any cars.\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the three people on board survived the incident on the A40 near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.\n\nThe service was called to the crash at about 11:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nIt said the three people were treated at the scene for minor injuries and taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nTwo motorists, Daniel Nicholson and Joel Snarr, a former army bomb disposal officer, helped to rescue those on board the aircraft.\n\nMr Nicholson, who was first on the scene, said the plane was upside down.\n\nHe said: \"We could only see two people at first - they were screaming as the plane was on fire.\"\n\nMr Nicholson added that he was \"worried we weren't going to be able to get them out\".\n\nHe went on to say that without Mr Snarr's help, he probably would not have been able to rescue those on board.\n\nMr Snarr explained he saw the plane appear \"out of nowhere\" and \"burst into smoke and some flames\".\n\n\"It was a miracle no one else was on the road,\" he said.\n\nIn total 19 firefighters attended the site and used foam to extinguish the aircraft.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video from Daniel Nicholson. The plane crashed on the A40 near Abergavenny\n\nThe fire service said three people were treated for minor injuries at the scene\n\nRhodri Jones, who lives about two miles from the scene at Llanover said: \"I was in the house and heard a loud explosion.\n\n\"Initially we thought it was rail crash because the line is nearby. There was thick smoke.\"\n\nBBC reporter Rhodri Tomos' train from Cardiff to Manchester had to make an emergency stop just before Abergavenny.\n\nHe said: \"The guard said that a light aircraft has crashed into some power cables and the cables have hit the train.\n\n\"We could smell some burning and we were at a stop for about 15 minutes.\"\n\nThe smoke could be seen by motorists on the A40\n\nGwent Police said in a statement: \"The aircraft was reported to have made an unscheduled landing in the area, colliding with overhead wiring.\n\n\"Three occupants of the light aircraft were treated by paramedics at the scene. Their injuries are not life-threatening.\"\n\nThe Air Accident Investigation Branch is aware of the incident and is making initial inquiries.\n\nIt is the second time in three years in which a light aircraft crashed on the same stretch of road.\n\nThree people sustained minor injuries when the four-seater Piper Warrior II came down in 2016.", "Traffic cones and rocks have been used to discourage parking\n\nA Scottish aristocrat has been accused of making \"strenuous efforts\" to stop people from using a popular riverside walk near his Highlands home.\n\nLord Lovat, Simon Fraser, has blocked off car parking areas at Lovat Bridge near Beauly, making the walking route inaccessible for many people.\n\n\"Unofficial\" parking tickets have also been left on cars parked in the area.\n\nA spokesman for Lovat estates said it welcomed walkers but asked that they used public parking.\n\nRocks and traffic cones have been used to block lay-bys and other areas used for parking, local residents have said.\n\nLord Lovat recently returned to live in his ancestral lands but has upset local people by the moves.\n\nWalkers say he has removed a well-used car park and blocked up other areas.\n\nA walking group for older people and families with young children are among those affected.\n\nLord Lovat's estate has asked that people use public parking and not park on a private road\n\nLiz Hoey, a local resident who has been walking in the area for the past 20 years, said she had enjoyed the previous ease access to her walk because of arthritis.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"They want you to park in Beauly but that would add on so much of a walk and it's a single track pavement with big lorries rushing past.\n\n\"This pavement is not good for either dog walkers or small children. A lot of people I know that used to walk there just can't now, including a friend who leads the Beauly Walking Group which is a walking group for older people who are trying to exercise to keep healthy and they can't park anywhere near.\n\n\"I'm very disappointed about the whole thing because it's a beautiful walk that people have used for years.\"\n\nA spokesman for Lovat Estates said: \"We are asking people not to park down a private road, they are very welcome to walk, as is their right.\"\n\nHe said this was because the estate had to pay for the maintenance and upkeep costs of the road which were \"considerable\".\n\nThe spokesman also said a number of verges were being ruined by cars parking on them and cars were blocking access for the estate's farm vehicles.\n\nLocal people say they previously had unrestricted access to the riverside walk\n\nHowever, he said the estate had made improvements to benefit walkers, including installing a fence alongside a core path to help walkers who were worried about walking through livestock and by replacing dead and dying trees.\n\nA Highland Council spokesperson said: \"The River Beauly - Lovat Circuit is not on the Catalogue of Rights of Way maintained by Scotways, no-one has provided the council with evidence that any of it is a public right of way and, as a circuit, it is unlikely to meet the requirements of a public right of way. The council has received several complaints about it.\n\n\"The complaints have been about the diversion of the path by the river; and the closure of a car park near the Dutch Barn at the junction of the A862 and A831 (notices being placed on cars and walkers being approached while out walking).\"\n\nDavie Black, access officer at Mountaineering Scotland, which represents the interests of outdoor pursuits enthusiasts including walkers, said Scotland had some of the best land access legislation.\n\nBut he said car parking was not protected under the Land Reform Act.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Scotland's John Beattie programme: \"Where you don't have a right of vehicular access this is where we come into a problematic area.\n\n\"Where do you put your cars when you want to take to the hills?\"\n\nHighland Council said the River Beauly was not on the Catalogue of Rights of Way", "Day starred in films with the likes of Rock Hudson and Clark Gable\n\nVeteran actress and singer Doris Day has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award by the LA Film Critics Association (LAFCA).\n\nThe organisation's president, Brent Simon, described Day as \"the biggest female star of the 1960s\".\n\n\"Doris Day is still arguably the template to which Hollywood turns when trying to quantify and capture 'girl next door' appeal,\" he added.\n\nLAFCA will vote for the winners of its 2011 awards on 11 December.\n\nDay left the world of showbusiness more than 30 years ago to found the Doris Day Animal Foundation.\n\nBut she has continued to be recognised, receiving a Golden Globe for lifetime achievement in 1989 and an honorary Grammy in 2008.\n\nIn September, Day became the oldest artist to score a UK top 10 hit with an album featuring new material.\n\nMy Heart entered the chart at number nine, 62 years after the 87-year-old's debut album was released in the US.\n\nDay had more than 20 Top 10 hits in the UK and US during her career, including Que Sera, Sera and Secret Love.\n\nShe scored her first hit record in 1945 with Sentimental Journey as vocalist for the Les Brown Big Band Orchestra.\n\nDay went on be one of the most popular actresses of the 1950s and 1960s, starring in 39 films opposite the likes of Clark Gable and Rock Hudson.\n\nShe also recorded more than 600 songs and fronted two US TV series during her career.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police footage shows the moment a lorry driver makes a card payment on his phone at the wheel.\n\nThe West Mercia force spotted the trucker on the M40 in Warwickshire.\n\nHe was among more than 3,000 drivers filmed from three unmarked lorries in the past year.\n\nFrom the high vantage point of the \"super cabs\", police can look into the windows of passing trucks and gauge how well they are being driven.\n\nThe measures form part of a crackdown on dangerous driving on fast roads.\n\nSome drivers have been spotted with their feet up on the dashboard and watching TV.", "Cardinal Konrad Krajewski said he felt the need to intervene\n\nA cardinal who conducts acts of charity for Pope Francis has restored power for hundreds of people in a building in Rome after climbing down a manhole and flipping a switch, local media report.\n\nCardinal Konrad Krajewski said he acted in \"desperation\" because the occupants of the state-owned property had spent a week without power and hot water.\n\nActivists have been using the building to provide shelter for the homeless.\n\nThe electricity supplier cut the power due to debts of €300,000 (£260,000).\n\nThe sum is believed to have accumulated in the years since the unused building was taken over in 2013. It now houses more than 400 people, including nearly 100 children.\n\nMatteo Salvini, Italy's populist deputy prime minister, has said he now expects the papal aide to pay the overdue utility bills, according to the Italian daily La Repubblica.\n\nOn Sunday, Cardinal Krajewski described how he had climbed down a manhole and removed seals covering a switch in order to turn the building's power supply back on.\n\n\"I intervened personally last night to reattach the meters. It was a desperate gesture. There were over 400 people without electricity, with families, children, without even the possibility of operating the refrigerators,\" he told Italy's Ansa news agency.\n\n\"I didn't do it because I was drunk,\" he reportedly added.\n\nThe building on Via di Santa Croce not only provides shelter, but today also houses workspaces, including a craft beer laboratory and a carpentry shop, Italian media report.", "US President Donald Trump has denied that US consumers will pay for higher tariffs on Chinese imports and has warned China not to follow suit.\n\nThe US more than doubled tariffs on $200bn (£153.7bn) of Chinese goods on Friday, in a sharp escalation of their trade war.\n\nBut in a series of tweets, Mr Trump said China had \"taken so advantage of the US for so many years\".\n\n\"Therefore, China should not retaliate - will only get worse!\" he added.\n\nMr Trump said US consumers could avoid the tariffs by buying the same products from other sources.\n\n\"Many tariffed companies will be leaving China for Vietnam and other such countries in Asia. That's why China wants to make a deal so badly!\" 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 Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier, Mr Trump's top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, said \"both sides will suffer\" from the trade dispute.\n\nBut Mr Trump downplayed the impact of the tariff hike on the US.\n\n\"We are right where we want to be with China. Remember, they broke the deal with us & tried to renegotiate,\" Mr Trump wrote in another post on Twitter.\n\n\"We will be taking in tens of billions of dollars in tariffs from China. Buyers of product can make it themselves in the USA (ideal), or buy it from non-tariffed countries.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an interview with Fox News on Sunday, Mr Kudlow admitted that it was American businesses that paid the tariffs on any goods brought in from China, and that US consumers would also foot the bill if firms passed on the cost increase.\n\nMr Kudlow said he thought the tariffs would also have an impact on China's economy, as the higher cost would reduce US demand for Chinese goods.\n\nOn Friday, the US increased a 10% tariff on $200bn worth of Chinese goods - including fish, handbags, clothing and footwear - to 25%.\n\nThe Office of the United States Trade Representative has also said it has been ordered to \"begin the process of raising tariffs on essentially all remaining imports from China, which are valued at approximately $300 billion\".\n\nChina has said it will retaliate but has not announced any details, including when it would take action.\n\nThe higher tariffs will be paid by American companies importing goods from China.\n\nEconomists have said a 25% tariff will be much harder for businesses to absorb than 10%, which means they are more likely to pass on some of the cost to consumers.\n\nAsked in an interview with Fox News Sunday whether it was correct to say that it was US businesses and US consumers who pay for the tariff, Mr Kudlow said: \"Yes, to some extent. I don't disagree with that.\"\n\n\"Both sides will suffer on this.\"\n\nMr Kudlow also said there was a \"strong possibility\" that Mr Trump would meet China's President Xi Jinping at a G20 summit in Japan in late June.\n\nChina said on Friday it \"deeply regrets\" the US decision to hike tariffs and that it will have to retaliate with the \"necessary countermeasures.\"\n\nIn the past, the Chinese have introduced retaliatory tariffs almost immediately after US tariffs have gone into force.\n\nChina has responded saying it will not swallow any \"bitter fruit\". The commentary is due for publication on Monday in the ruling Communist Party's People's Daily.\n\nThe US argues that China's trade surplus with the US is the result of unfair practices, including state support for domestic companies. It also accuses China of stealing intellectual property from US firms.", "Video caption: The man known as the \"doctor of migrants\" on Lampedusa, wins a seat in EU elections\n\nThe man known as the \"doctor of migrants\" on Lampedusa, wins a seat in EU elections", "The practice of putting nets over trees and hedgerows to prevent birds from nesting should stop or at least be regulated, MPs have said.\n\nLabour MP Diana Johnson said \"netting\" puts \"fragile life systems at risk\" and \"we must look very seriously at ending the practice.\"\n\nTory Bill Grant added: \"We cannot evict the birds, we have to embrace them.\"\n\nMPs are debating a petition, signed by 350,000 people, that called for \"netting\" to become a criminal offence.\n\nThe Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) says developers do it to make it easier for them to remove greenery when the time comes, because although it is an offence to destroy an active nest, there are no laws to prevent the installation of nets to stop birds nesting in the first place.\n\nThe petition, started by Margaret Moran, says netting \"facilitates the uprooting of hedgerows which aid biodiversity and provide the only remaining nesting sites for birds, whose numbers are in sharp decline\".\n\nIt \"threatens declining species of birds, presents a danger by entrapment to wildlife, and produces large amounts of plastic waste\", the petition adds.\n\nSNP MP John McNally told the Parliamentary Petitions Committee that netting should stop, or at the very least be subject to regulation.\n\n\"Even with some safeguards in place, my feeling is that this practice is in no way acceptable,\" he said.\n\n\"If we treasure our precious wildlife then netting simply has to stop.\"\n\nMr Grant said it was \"disappointing to learn of the practice\" that is used by developers during building work.\n\nHe said he understood some developers have banned the practice and he hoped others would follow suit.\n\n\"Birds and wildlife are part of our ecosystem and part of our planet,\" he said.\n\nLabour's Jenny Chapman, MP for Darlington, said netting was \"being used more and more as a safeguard\" and developers were \"far too relaxed\" in using the procedure.\n\nShe said there seemed to be \"little regulation\".\n\nConservative Dame Cheryl Gillan, MP for Chesham and Amersham, agreed the government \"needs to regulate\" to prevent the practice spreading further.\n\nThe RSPB has said \"careful consideration\" will be needed to develop rules around netting \"that really help birds, and allow legitimate activity to continue\".\n\nWhile it might be legal, the organisation said, \"we cannot stand by and let the current practices spread unchallenged.\"\n\nResponding to the petition, the government said \"developers must fulfil their obligation to safeguard local wildlife and habitats.\n\n\"Netting trees and hedgerows is only appropriate where genuinely needed to protect birds from harm during development.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things you might not know about Doris Day\n\nHollywood legend Doris Day, whose films made her one of the biggest stars of all time, has died aged 97.\n\nThe singer turned actress starred in films such as Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk and had a hit in 1956 with Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be).\n\nHer screen partnership with Rock Hudson is one of the best-known in the history of romantic movies.\n\nIn a statement, the Doris Day Animal Foundation said she died on Monday at her home in Carmel Valley, California.\n\nIt said she had been \"in excellent physical health for her age, until recently contracting a serious case of pneumonia\".\n\n\"She was surrounded by a few close friends as she passed,\" the statement continued.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by DDAF This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff in April 1922, Day originally wanted to be a dancer but had to abandon her dream after breaking her right leg in a car accident.\n\nInstead she began her singing career at the age of 15. Her first hit, Sentimental Journey, would become a signature tune.\n\nHer films, which included Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much and That Touch of Mink, made her known around the world.\n\nBut she never won an Oscar and was nominated only once, in 1960, for Pillow Talk, the first of her three romantic comedies with Hudson.\n\nHonours she did receive included the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004 and a lifetime achievement Grammy in 2008.\n\nHer last release, the compilation album My Heart, went to number one in the UK in 2011.\n\nDay's real life was not as upbeat as her on-screen persona\n\nDay's wholesome, girl-next-door image was a popular part of her myth that sometimes invited ridicule.\n\n\"I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin,\" the musician Oscar Levant once remarked.\n\nDay herself said her \"Miss Chastity Belt\" image was \"more make-believe than any film part [she] ever played.\"\n\nHer life was certainly not as sunny. She married four times, was divorced three times and was widowed once.\n\nShe also suffered a mental breakdown and had severe financial trouble after one husband squandered her money.\n\nIn the 1970s, she turned away from performing to focus her energies on her animal foundation.\n\nAccording to the organisation, she wished to have no funeral, memorial service or grave marker.\n\nIn later life she became an advocate for animal welfare\n\nDick Van Dyke, another Hollywood legend from the same era although he never worked with Day, said she had an \"energy about her\".\n\n\"She wasn't trying to act. It was just who Doris Day was, I think, a great energy and exhilaration, and she seemed to love life, at least that's the impression you got,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme. \"It was a great era.\"\n\nStar Trek actor William Shatner remembered Day on Twitter as \"the World's Sweetheart,\" saying she was \"beloved by all\".\n\nFellow Star Trek cast member George Takei said she was \"synonymous with Hollywood icon\", while Spanish actor Antonio Banderas wrote: \"Thank you for your talent.\"\n\nNovelist Paulo Coelho marked her passing by quoting lyrics from Secret Love, one of her numbers in Calamity Jane.\n\n\"We've lost another great Hollywood talent,\" tweeted Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, while actor Luke Evans said he had \"always loved\" her voice and \"beautiful\" songs.\n\nFormer Beatles member Paul McCartney paid tribute to Day on his website, describing her as \"very funny lady who I shared many laughs with\", adding: \"I will miss her but will always remember her twinkling smile and infectious laugh\".\n\nAnd his daughter, fashion designer Stella McCartney, shared a photo of her and Day alongside words which read: \"The one, the only, the woman who inspired so much of what I do.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Stella McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A property in Wittingen was sealed off by police after the latest gruesome discovery\n\nGerman police probing the deaths of three people shot with crossbow arrows in a rural Bavarian hotel near Passau have found two more female bodies in a flat 650km (400 miles) away.\n\nThe flat in Wittingen had been occupied by a 30-year-old woman who was one of the victims found in the hotel room.\n\nThe other two in the hotel room were a man and woman found in bed, hand-in-hand, impaled with several arrows.\n\nThere was no sign of a fight, nor of another participant, police said.\n\nAll five victims were resident in Germany.\n\nThe hotel is in a popular hiking location near Passau in Bavaria\n\nTwo crossbows were found lying in the hotel room and a third in a bag belonging to the group.\n\nThe couple found in bed were a man aged 53 and a woman aged 33, both from the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate.\n\nPublic prosecutor Walter Feiler told a news conference that the man had been shot twice in the head and three times in the chest, while the woman lying next to him had one wound in the head and another in the chest.\n\nThe third victim, the 30-year-old woman, \"was lying in front of the double bed and had one shot from a crossbow between the throat and the chin\", he added.\n\nThe German daily Merkur said that the 30-year-old woman was reportedly the sister of one of the women found in Wittingen. Merkur identified her only as \"C\" and said she had registered as an occupant of the flat in March.\n\nUndertakers removed the bodies from the flat in Wittingen\n\nThe Wittingen discovery came on Monday, as police investigated the hotel room deaths.\n\nMr Feiler said it was not yet clear how long the bodies had been in the flat.\n\n\"The corpses were found because one of the neighbours heard about the reports from Passau and told police that the letter box of the flat was overflowing and that a strange smell was coming from the flat,\" he said.\n\nThe relationship between the three victims in the hotel also remains unclear. They had booked a room with a double bed and single bed for three nights, checking in on Friday, without ordering breakfast.\n\nThe hotel is by the Ilz river near Passau, about 650km (400 miles) south of Wittingen.\n\nCrossbows can fire either bolts or short arrows. Hunting with bows or crossbows is banned in Germany.\n\nThree crossbows were found in the hotel room with the three bodies\n\nThe first results of an autopsy are expected on Tuesday.\n\nAnother hotel guest, who was staying in the hotel for a short break, told local newspaper Passauer Neue Presse that it had been a \"completely quiet night\".\n\nPolice have seized a white truck, parked outside, which has stickers reportedly linked to a hunting club. It was registered in Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate.\n\nGerman media say one sticker has the letters FMJ - believed to be a reference to Full Metal Jacket crossbow arrows made by a US firm, Easton Hunting.\n\nA hotel guest said the man had a long white beard and the women were dressed in black, and described them as \"strange\".\n\nOn arrival on Friday evening they simply wished other guests a \"good evening\", then went upstairs to their second-floor room with bottles of water and Coca-Cola, said the guest, quoted by Merkur.\n\nIn Wittingen a neighbour quoted by Merkur described the 30-year-old woman as \"always a bit odd - always dressed in black, sort of gothic\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nNever before have the Premier League top two amassed so many points, never before have they suffered so few defeats.\n\nThe battle for the title has gone to the final day seven times in the Premier League era but, the Aguerooooooo season aside, few have been as compelling as the one between Manchester City and Liverpool this year.\n\nLiverpool were even top for 21 minutes on a nervy final day. So just how close did the Reds come to winning their first title in 29 years?\n\nDepending on how you look at it, the fine margin between success and failure, becoming heroes or remaining nearly men, was just the width of a paracetamol...\n• None The best top two in history - the numbers behind remarkable title race\n• None Rejuvenated and reconnected - the silver lining amid the pain for Klopp and Liverpool\n• None The long wait to be champions: Tales of Liverpool's title near-misses\n\nNine grains of sand away from the title?\n\nAll credit to BBC Sport reader Dan Middlehurst, who tweeted back in January: \"I've got a sneaky suspicion that the John Stones clearance might be one of the defining moments of the season.\"\n\nHow right he was.\n\nLiverpool came to Etihad Stadium on 3 January with a seven-point cushion at the top of the Premier League. Jurgen Klopp's side were unbeaten and knew that a win would put the defending champions 10 points behind them and potentially out of sight.\n\nAfter 18 minutes, with the score locked at 0-0, Sadio Mane poked a shot past Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson that hit the post, only for Stones' attempted clearance to rebound off the keeper and come agonisingly close to crossing the line, before the defender hooked it away.\n\nIt was a moment Stones would describe as \"something special\" as he celebrated on the pitch at Brighton after the final-day victory that clinched the title by a single point.\n\nSo how close was it? Goalline technology showed the ball was 11.7mm away from crossing the line. Or about the width of a headache tablet. Or nine grains of sand...\n\nIfs, buts, and maybes. But had Liverpool taken the lead would they have gone on to win? Ten points is an awful lot to make up in the remaining 17 games of the season.\n\nAs it was, goals from Sergio Aguero and Leroy Sane gave City the win and inflicted Liverpool's only defeat of the whole campaign.\n\n11.7mm from the title, 11.7mm from an Invincibles season.\n\nFast forward a few months and Pep Guardiola's side were grateful for another bit of sharp work from the goalline technology cameras.\n\nWith Liverpool on top of the league again, City were being held to a frustrating draw at Burnley when Aguero squeezed off a shot in the 63rd minute.\n\nClarets defender Matthew Lowton blocked it on his chest and hoofed it away. But it was over the line. By 29.51mm this time. A comparative chasm. But still only half as long as a golf tee. We're talking 2% of Danny DeVito.\n\nWould an assistant referee have given it? Maybe not. But that's what technology is for, right?\n\nIn a title race so tight and so intense, the two head-to-head games were always going to be massively significant. City may have landed a crucial blow with that win in Manchester in January, but they missed a chance in October that would have helped them out even more.\n\nChampions City had not won a league game at Anfield in 15 years. They had a great chance to end that run but Riyad Mahrez fired an 85th-minute penalty high over the bar. The game ended 0-0.\n\nWhy was Mahrez taking it? The £60m summer signing had missed three of his previous five penalties and unsurprisingly hasn't taken one since.\n\nLiverpool had a few helping hands on the way, certainly from opposing goalkeepers.\n\nEverton and England number one Jordan Pickford served up a howler in the Merseyside derby back in December, inexplicably shelling a hopeful punt on goal by Virgil van Dijk and allowing Divock Origi to head in.\n\nA month later and Julian Speroni caught the bug, or rather failed to catch it, juggling a routine cross from James Milner back over his own head to gift Mohamed Salah a tap-in. A needed tap-in too, as Liverpool scraped a 4-3 win.\n\nFulham's Sergio Rico got in on the act in March, dropping a Salah effort at the feet of Sadio Mane and then hauling the Senegal striker over for a penalty just when it looked like a costly draw was on the cards. Milner converted from the spot to give the Reds another win.\n\nLose one game and lose the title?!\n\nLiverpool fans, players, and management have a right to feel cheesed off.\n\nNo team had finished as Premier League runners-up with more than 89 points before now. In the top five European leagues, the runners-up to finish with the most points were Real Madrid in the 2009-10 La Liga season (96 points), an unwanted record Liverpool can now claim as their own.\n\nWhen Arsenal's 'Invincibles' went unbeaten en route to the title in 2003-04 they picked up 90 points, while only one other side has gone through a whole season losing just once - Jose Mourinho's Chelsea team who were champions in 2004-05.\n\nPremier League sides to have lost three games or fewer in a season\n\nBernardo Silva's performance in the game between the title rivals in January was one of the standout individual displays of the season - former England winger Chris Waddle told BBC Radio 5 Live that night that he \"was everywhere and kept dragging the team forward\".\n\nSilva and fellow forward Raheem Sterling both made it on to the six-man shortlist for the Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year award, while along with Aguero and Sane they have formed a devastating attacking line-up.\n\nYet it could all have been very different.\n\nIn January 2018, Manchester City and Manchester United were involved in a transfer tug-of-war over Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez.\n\nThe Chile striker eventually moved to Old Trafford, after City pulled out of a deal over fears his wage demands might affect team spirit.\n\nSince then Sanchez has scored five goals in all competitions for United, while City's forwards have thrived. Eight City players have scored more this season than Sanchez has managed in 16 months at Old Trafford.\n\nGoals in 2018-19 in all competitions\n\nHow much less game time would they have got if Sanchez had moved to Etihad Stadium? We will never know - but perhaps that decision not to sign a player was just as important as the ones to sign the likes of Silva, Sterling and Sane in the first place.", "Writer Irvine Welsh was among those who paid tribute to Bradley Welsh after his death last last month\n\nA man has been charged in connection with the murder of T2 Trainspotting actor Bradley Welsh outside his Edinburgh home.\n\nMr Welsh, 48, died after being shot on the steps of his basement apartment on Chester Street on 17 April.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed the 28-year-old will appear before Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Tuesday.\n\nMr Welsh was returning home from his Holyrood Boxing gym when he was fatally injured.\n\nThe suspect has also been charged with the attempted murder of a 48-year-old man and the serious assault of a 22-year-old man in a house in Pitcairn Grove, Edinburgh, on 13 March.\n\nDuring this incident the older victim was left with serious arm and head injuries while the younger man suffered a cut to his hand.\n\nA car was later found set on fire in nearby Oxgangs.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"Members of the public are thanked for their assistance with both of these investigations.\"\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. Felicity Huffman was silent as she left court\n\nUS actress Felicity Huffman has pleaded guilty to fraudulently conspiring to win a college place for her daughter.\n\nIn a Boston court, the Desperate Housewives star admitted paying $15,000 (£11,500) to have her daughter's exam answers secretly corrected in 2017.\n\nIn a statement last month, she said she was in \"full acceptance\" of her guilt.\n\nProsecutors recommended a four-month prison term and a $20,000 fine. Huffman, 56, was among 50 charged in the college admissions scandal.\n\nThe wealthy parents charged in the investigation allegedly paid bribes, had exams altered, and even had their children edited into stock photos to fake sporting talents.\n\nThey managed to fraudulently secure spots for the teenagers at elite US universities including Yale, Georgetown and Stanford.\n\nParents and college athletics coaches were charged in the scheme, but none of the children were indicted.\n\nHuffman did not speak to reporters outside court as she arrived to Monday's hearing holding hands with her brother.\n\nShe admitted one count of mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.\n\nThe Emmy-winning actress cried while speaking to the judge, according to reporters in the courtroom.\n\nHer plea deal recommendation of four months in prison was at the lower end of sentencing guidelines, which could have carried a custodial term of up to 20 years.\n\nAccording to court documents, she was secretly recorded by the scam's confessed mastermind, William Singer, after he began co-operating with investigators.\n\nWhen Sophia's school initially wanted to invigilate as she sat her test, Huffman expressed concern to Singer.\n\nThe actress emailed to him, \"Ruh Ro!\" - the catchphrase of cartoon dog Scooby-Doo when he was in trouble.\n\nActress Lori Loughlin pleaded not guilty to her role in the scam\n\nSinger arranged so that Sophia could complete the SAT, which is the US college entrance test, elsewhere.\n\nSophia scored an SAT score of 1420 out of a possible 1600 on the doctored test, about 400 points higher than a preliminary SAT she had taken a year earlier.\n\nThe actress made arrangements to cheat a second time, for her younger daughter, before deciding not to do so, according to prosecutors.\n\nHer husband - actor William H Macy - also had contact with Singer, though Mr Macy was spared charges.\n\nHuffman said her daughter was unaware of the cheating, and that she felt \"regret and shame\" for having \"betrayed\" her.\n\nShe will be sentenced on 13 September.\n\nLast month, Netflix announced it would postpone the release of a movie, Otherhood, starring Huffman that was originally set for release on 26 April. It did not specify a new premiere date.\n\nThough Huffman was among the most high-profile figures indicted, the $15,000 she parted with was among the smallest sums allegedly paid by any of the other parents charged in the scandal, according to court documents.\n\nLori Loughlin, another Hollywood actress ensnared in the scandal along with her husband, has pleaded not guilty to paying $500,000 in bribes to have their daughters accepted to the University of Southern California as members of the rowing team.", "The latest dive reached 10,927m (35,849ft) beneath the waves - a new record\n\nAn American explorer has found plastic waste on the seafloor while breaking the record for the deepest ever dive.\n\nVictor Vescovo descended nearly 11km (seven miles) to the deepest place in the ocean - the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench.\n\nHe spent four hours exploring the bottom of the trench in his submersible, built to withstand the immense pressure of the deep.\n\nHe found sea creatures, but also found a plastic bag and sweet wrappers.\n\nIt is the third time humans have reached the ocean's extreme depths.\n\nThe explorers believe they have discovered four new species of prawn-like crustaceans called amphipods\n\nThe first dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench took place in 1960 by US Navy lieutenant Don Walsh and Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard in a vessel called the bathyscaphe Trieste.\n\nMovie director James Cameron then made a solo plunge half a century later in 2012 in his bright green sub.\n\nThe latest descent, which reached 10,927m (35,849ft) beneath the waves, is now the deepest by 11m - making Victor Vescovo the new record holder.\n\nDon Walsh (left), who dived to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960, congratulated Victor Vescovo (right)\n\nIn total, Mr Vescovo and his team made five dives to the bottom of the trench during the expedition. Robotic landers were also deployed to explore the remote terrain.\n\nMr Vescovo said: \"It is almost indescribable how excited all of us are about achieving what we just did.\n\n\"This submarine and its mother ship, along with its extraordinarily talented expedition team, took marine technology to a ridiculously higher new level by diving - rapidly and repeatedly - into the deepest, harshest, area of the ocean.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victor Vescovo descended almost 11km in a submersible to the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean\n\nWitnessing the dive from the Pacific was Don Walsh. He told BBC News: \"I salute Victor Vescovo and his outstanding team for the successful completion of their historic explorations into the Mariana Trench.\n\n\"Six decades ago, Jacques Piccard and I were the first to visit that deepest place in the world's oceans.\n\n\"Now in the winter of my life, it was a great honour to be invited on this expedition to a place of my youth.\"\n\nThe team believes it has discovered four new species of prawn-like crustaceans called amphipods, saw a creature called a spoon worm 7,000m-down and a pink snailfish at 8,000m.\n\nThey also discovered brightly coloured rocky outcrops, possibly created by microbes on the seabed, and collected samples of rock from the seafloor.\n\nHumanity's impact on the planet was also evident with the discovery of plastic pollution. It's something that other expeditions using landers have seen before.\n\nMillions of tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year, but little is known about where a lot of it ends up.\n\nVictor Vescovo spent four hours exploring the bottom of the trench\n\nThe scientists now plan to test the creatures they collected to see if they contain microplastics - a recent study found this was a widespread problem, even for animals living in the deep.\n\nThe dive forms part of the Five Deeps expedition - an attempt to explore the deepest points in each of the world's five oceans.\n\nIt has been funded by Mr Vescovo, a private equity investor, who before turning his attention to the ocean's extreme depths also climbed the highest peaks on the planet's seven continents.\n\nThe 4.6m-long, 3.7m-high DSV Limiting Factor submersible was built by the US-based company Triton Submarines\n\nAfter the record dive, the submersible was brought back on the expedition's main vessel - the DSSV Pressure Drop\n\nAs well as the Mariana Trench in the Pacific, in the last six months dives have also taken place in the Puerto Rico Trench in the Atlantic Ocean (8,376m/27,480ft down), the South Sandwich Trench in the Southern Ocean (7,433m/24,388ft) and the Java Trench in Indian Ocean (7,192m/23,596ft).\n\nThe final challenge will be to reach the bottom of the Molloy Deep in the Arctic Ocean, which is currently scheduled for August 2019.\n\nThe 4.6m-long, 3.7m-high submersible - called the DSV Limiting Factor - was built by the US-based company Triton Submarines, with the aim of having a vessel that could make repeated dives to any part of the ocean.\n\nAt its core is a 9cm-thick titanium pressure hull that can fit two people, so dives can be performed solo or as a pair.\n\nIt can withstand the crushing pressure found at the bottom of the ocean: 1,000 bars, which is the equivalent of 50 jumbo jets piled on top of a person.\n• None 2,146Higher than Mount Everest in metres, if inverted\n\nAs well as working under pressure, the sub has to operate in the pitch black and near freezing temperatures.\n\nThese conditions also made it challenging to capture footage - the Five Deeps expedition has been followed by Atlantic Productions for a documentary for the Discovery Channel.\n\nAnthony Geffen, creative director of Atlantic Productions, said it was the most complicated filming he'd ever been involved with.\n\n\"Our team had to pioneer new camera systems that could be mounted on the submersible, operate at up to 10,000m below sea level and work with robotic landers with camera systems that would allow us to film Victor's submersible on the bottom of the ocean.\n\n\"We also had to design new rigs that would go inside Victor's submersible and capture every moment of Victor's dives.\"\n\nAfter the Five Deeps expedition is complete later this year, the plan is to pass the submersible onto science institutions so researchers can continue to use it.\n\nThe challenges of exploring the deep ocean - even with robotic vehicles - has made the ocean trenches one of the last frontiers on the planet.\n\nOnce thought to be remote, desolate areas, the deep sea teems with life. There is also growing evidence that they are carbon sinks, playing a role in regulating the Earth's chemistry and climate.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A newly-wed couple re-ran their wedding two weeks after the original ceremony so the bride's 93-year-old mother, who lives in a care home, could attend.\n\nElizabeth Mannion-O'Keeffe was devastated that her mother Jean, who lives in Warrington, Cheshire, was unable to attend their Yorkshire wedding in April due to illness.\n\nShe re-staged the event with her mother's carers as bridesmaids.", "Concerns about body image are making large numbers of people depressed and even suicidal, a survey suggests.\n\nThe poll of 4,500 UK adults found a third had felt anxious about their bodies, with one in eight experiencing suicidal thoughts.\n\nThe Mental Health Foundation, which commissioned the survey, said the issue could affect anyone at any age.\n\nThe charity wants advertising and social media firms to take more care with the way bodies are portrayed.\n\nThe issue of body image is one of the main theme's of this year's Mental Health Awareness week.\n\nThe charity is promoting a number of personal stories as part of its push to raise awareness about the issue.\n\nThey include one from Justyn Bravescar, 25, from Croydon, south London.\n\nJustyn was left with scarring on his body after a childhood accident\n\nHe is a film-maker, blogger and mental health advocate, and has adopted Bravescar as his surname.\n\nAs a toddler he accidentally poured a pan of boiling water over his body, resulting in severe burns all over the upper half of his body, including his neck.\n\nHe was always very self-conscious about this and thought he would never find love or be at peace with himself.\n\nWhen he was older he started looking into reconstructive surgery, but says he had an epiphany when a skin camouflage tattoo artist told him that his scars were beautiful.\n\n\"As my scars were covered much of the time, it was very much an internal battle for me\" said Justyn.\n\n\"I worried about my scarring and what people would think. It has only been in the last few years that I have really accepted them. They are part of me.\"\n\nHe now has tattoos that highlight and celebrate his scarring.\n\nMental Health Foundation chief executive Mark Rowland said there needs to be greater awareness of the issue.\n\n\"Our survey indicates that millions of adults in the UK are struggling with concerns about their body image. For some people this is potentially very severe.\n\n\"Women, and particularly young women, are showing the highest rates of distress.\n\n\"Significant numbers have felt feelings of disgust and shame or changed their behaviour to avoid situations that make them reflect negatively about their bodies.\"\n\nBut he warned it was not just young people who were affected - one in five people aged over 55 and over said they had felt anxious because of body image.\n\nHe also said more needed to be done by social media companies and the advertising industry to promote a diversity of body types. He said there needed to be clear ways to report abuse and bullying online - something the government is looking into.\n\n\"Many people identified social media as an important factor causing them to worry about their body image - and the majority of respondents felt the government needed to take more action,\" he added.", "Danny Boyle (left) was taken along the east coast by Richard Curtis, who lives in Suffolk, in search of the right locations for their forthcoming film Yesterday\n\nDirector Danny Boyle has told of his desire to capture the \"forgotten\" side of England's east coast for his new film with writer Richard Curtis.\n\nYesterday premiered at New York's Tribeca Film Festival last weekend, before an audience including event co-founder Robert De Niro.\n\nThe Beatles-inspired film features scenes in Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex.\n\nBoyle said he was drawn to \"amazing\" seaside towns such as Lowestoft and Gorleston that were a \"bit forgotten\".\n\nHimesh Patel, as Jack Malik, was filmed on the rooftop of a Norfolk hotel\n\nThe film tells the story of Suffolk singer-songwriter Jack Malik, played by Himesh Patel, who claims The Beatles' hits as his own after an event in which the Fab Four are wiped from memory.\n\nIn Gorleston, Patel - who grew up in Cambridgeshire - was filmed on a hotel rooftop performing a punk-rock version of Help! to a crowd of 6,000 extras.\n\nSpeaking ahead of Yesterday's nationwide release in June, Boyle said of Gorleston: \"It was huge in Edwardian times, like Brighton - it was the place - yet it's fallen off the radar.\n\n\"This was all filmed at the Pier Hotel, working port behind, with ships coming and going, giving a fitting industrial landscape to that song.\n\n\"The lads did also come from a great industrial port, after all.\"\n\nMore than 6,000 extras gathered on Gorleston beach last year\n\nLowestoft is among the \"amazing\" seaside towns Boyle found himself drawn to\n\nYesterday was shot last summer along the coast from Gorleston down to Clacton, where the first two days of the shoot involved Patel busking on its streets.\n\nLocation supervisor Camilla Stephenson said Boyle \"didn't want chocolate box\" settings but was keen to authentically reflect the area's beauty.\n\n\"By choosing Gorleston, we've got an Edwardian seaside town that's charming but also has a real edge,\" she said.\n\n\"He wanted it real but didn't want it gritty.\n\n\"Danny wanted to see the beauty, but not the quaint, English-village prettiness.\"\n\nScreenwriter Richard Curtis, who has a house in Walberswick, Suffolk, showed Boyle around and said the extensive search for locations - such as The Reedcutter pub in Cantley, Norfolk, where Jack plays a gig - went beyond the rural scenes he had envisioned.\n\n\"It's a lovely little pub which has this extraordinary sugar-refining factory in the background,\" said Curtis.\n\n\"It becomes a more definitive version of what I originally intended.\"\n\nTribeca Film Festival co-founders Robert De Niro (left) and Jane Rosenthal (far right) greet Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle on stage at Tribeca Film Festival\n\nCurtis said the film was partly drawn on his friend Ed Sheeran's rise to global fame\n\nCurtis said the story was partly drawn from the unlikely rise to global fame of his friend and fellow Suffolk resident, Ed Sheeran, who appears in the film.\n\n\"I write in a little room facing out toward the creek at the beach and the sea,\" he said.\n\n\"This is very much where I wanted to set the film. It's a little part of England that you wouldn't expect a massive pop star like Ed to come from, had it not happened to him.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "When Carole Farish left school 11 years ago, she thought it would be quite easy to find a job in retail or hospitality.\n\nBut like many of her peer group, she found it was not so straightforward.\n\nCarole belongs to a generation that, according to a new report, has been \"left scarred\" by joining the workforce just as the financial crisis hit.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation says this \"crisis cohort\" has suffered from lower pay and worse job prospects for up to a decade since the downturn.\n\nCarole's early optimism over job seeking faded when it took her five months just to get an interview, only to find she was competing against candidates with business degrees.\n\n\"It was a bit disheartening,\" she says. \"It took a lot of perseverance to keep applying. I didn't expect it to be as tough.\"\n\nSince then, she has worked in a leisure centre, in catering and looking after children. Although she has in the meantime been to university, she is now working as a carer.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation says those who entered the world of work between 2008 and 2011 bore the brunt of the sharp economic decline, when compared to young people entering work before or after the downturn.\n\n\"Low-skilled workers faced a higher risk of unemployment, while graduates were more likely to trade down the types of jobs they did, with their pay and prospects stunted as a result,\" said Stephen Clarke, senior economic analyst at the Resolution Foundation.\n\n\"These scarring effects have stayed with the crisis cohort for up to a decade, reducing their living standards at a time when they may be facing the additional financial strains of buying a home, or bringing up kids,\" he said.\n\nPolicy makers should look at ways to mitigate the impact, he added.\n\nAlthough unemployment did not rise as sharply as in previous recessions, in 2012 it was still twice the rate for the population in general, the report says.\n\nThose who \"trade down\" to a low-paying occupation because they are struggling to find work rarely move into a higher-paying occupation, even after the economy has picked up, the report adds.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions highlighted new jobcentre programmes which it said were examining ways to support people to change jobs and improve their pay and career progression.\n\n\"Employment is at a record high, with youth unemployment having halved since 2010. And we believe every worker should be in a job which reflects their skills and offers opportunities to progress,\" the DWP said.\n\nIn 2018, analysis carried out for the BBC by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) showed that people in their 30s were earning £2,100 a year less than people in the same age group in 2008.", "Manchester City let Liverpool dream for 83 seconds before slamming the door shut on any possibility that the last day of the Premier League season would provide one final dramatic twist in the tale.\n\nThis was the time it took for Sergio Aguero to put Manchester City level after Glenn Murray had stunned the visiting fans basking in glorious Sussex sunshine in Brighton's Amex Stadium. And for the moment to arrive when this compelling battle for the title finally swung decisively in City's favour.\n\nManchester City had been sleepwalking into trouble. It had arrived. Liverpool's lead over Wolves at Anfield already had them on top of the time-honoured 'as it stands' table and now City had an added obstacle to overcome.\n\nThe team Pep Guardiola has built is too strong, mentally and when measured in talent, and had come too far to be denied so close to the finishing line - and so it proved. Murray's moment actually turned out to be the shock to the system they required - the push towards glory they needed.\n\nAnd yet, for those few seconds, Manchester City supporters were silent. Manchester City's players stood still, shocked. They feared the worst. They, rather like those who had travelled to watch them, were lethargic, lacking in urgency and suddenly left facing the nightmare.\n• None Balague on the unseen moments behind triumph\n• None City come from behind to beat Brighton and retain title\n\nHow those 83 seconds must have dragged for those thousands, for Manchester City's players and for manager Guardiola who instantly cast aside his trademark grey cardigan. Superstition? The soaring temperatures? Or simply the stress of the possibility that this thrilling story was to have the most painful of conclusions for the Catalan?\n\nBrighton's supporters, with Premier League status safely assured, revelled in City's brief suffering. It may have only been 83 seconds but that is time enough for the worst-case scenario to form even in minds now so accustomed to victory and success. It was the first time they had trailed in the Premier League since they lost at Newcastle United on 29 January, their last league defeat.\n\nAnd then, as he has done so famously before against Queen's Park Rangers in 2012 to win the title, Manchester City's greatest goalscorer Aguero made a defining final day contribution, pouncing with an angled finish to change the mood, the mindset and most significantly the destiny of the Premier League title.\n\nYes, Guardiola's side still needed to score again to secure the victory they required to finally keep Liverpool at bay - but there was a sense of the inevitable once Aguero proved once more he is Manchester City's man for all occasions.\n\nAymeric Laporte, Riyad Mahrez and Ilkay Gundogan delivered the final blows in a title battle with Liverpool that has turned into a season-long face-off between two teams - and two managers in Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp - of the highest calibre.\n\nIt was a tightrope walk for less than two minutes but City kept their balance and eventually strolled imperiously to the three points that continues their domestic supremacy.\n\nManchester City can now add the Premier League to the League Cup. The prospect of an unprecedented domestic treble is on the table when they face Watford in the FA Cup Final at Wembley on Saturday, 18 May.\n\nThe Premier League table tells the story and for all Liverpool's brilliance they came up against a team that proved to be one point better than them.\n\nIt was a suitably miniscule measure of victory after a campaign settled on the finest margins, from the 11.7mm separating John Stones from an own goal against Klopp's side in January to the 29.51mm that ensured Aguero scored the winning goal at Burnley to put City back on top with two games left.\n\nManchester City went into the history books by racking up 100 points to win the title last season, but when the celebrations died down and they made their way back north to Etihad Stadium for their title celebration on Sunday night this may have proved to be an even sweeter, more satisfying triumph.\n\nThe statistics build a monument to Manchester City's brilliance over these two stellar, title-winning seasons.\n\nIn the last two campaigns they have amassed 198 points, scoring 201 goals. This was their 14th straight victory and their 32nd this season, equalling their own record set last season.\n\nCity were the first since Manchester United a decade ago to retain their crown and they did it without the comfort blanket they made for themselves last season. This was a dogfight as Liverpool and Klopp tracked them every inch of the way only to end the smallest step behind.\n• None Rejuvenated and reconnected - the silver lining for Liverpool\n\nManchester City are decorated in compliments about their style, elegance and creation - and yet this title triumph was the result of players with abundant natural gifts mining every facet of their character and quality.\n\nLiverpool's relentless pursuit forced City into a sudden death quest to retain their title where they could not afford to blink in their last 14 games as they assembled a remarkable sequence of success to retain their crown. If City had slipped in just one of those games, the title would have gone to Anfield. It was a remarkable run to claim the prize.\n\nKlopp's Liverpool were on their shoulder or ahead of them in a call-and-response race to the tape, which finally came into view for Guardiola and his players here in the Sussex sunshine. When the challenge of Murray's goal was thrown down, City answered it in emphatic, ruthless fashion.\n\nWhen City went out of the Champions League quarter-final to Tottenham in agonising fashion, it was a shattering blow.\n\nThe questions were posed. How will they react? How will it hit Manchester City mentally and physically? Will it derail their title challenge?\n\nThe answer - they locked down even more.\n\nCity ground out 1-0 wins against Spurs, Burnley and Leicester City and brushed aside Manchester United. Not many marks for artistic merit but maximum for the fortitude of champions.\n\nIt says much about Liverpool that they assembled 97 points and lost only once in a season which, in every other year, would have ensured their first title since 1990.\n\nIt says even more about Manchester City that they demonstrated the concrete-clad mentality and quality to ensure Liverpool finished second.\n\nGuardiola's City have shown that artistry alone does not make champions. It must be bolted on to heart, character and a refusal to yield even in the face of opponents as outstanding and enduring as Liverpool.\n\nThe 3ft 5in Premier League trophy hoisted high by Vincent Kompany has been dwarfed by the scale and quality of this title pursuit as Guardiola and Klopp traded blows before City delivered the coup de grace at The Amex Stadium.\n\nManchester City have responded when the stakes and jeopardy were at their highest, particularly when they faced Liverpool at Etihad Stadium on 3 January.\n\nLiverpool knew victory would put them 10 points clear, a gap that would have surely been insurmountable.\n\nGuardiola knew defeat for City would be decisive and they secured a 2-1 victory that became their most important of the campaign. It kept them in a race they would eventually win.\n\nCity's title triumph is also of huge significance psychologically, both now and in the future.\n\nThey will surely feel as if a layer of invincibility has been added to their armoury. If they have survived this sustained season-long assault Liverpool have mounted on them and prevailed, City will feel they can come out winners in any domestic circumstances.\n\nAnd Liverpool, whose season has been almost flawless, could be forgiven for feeling that if 97 points cannot navigate them around Manchester City, what must they do to end that 29-year wait for the trophy they crave most of all?\n\nCity are built on the old reliables such as Kompany, Aguero and David Silva, but this season the full bloom of Raheem Sterling has provided an added dimension to a star-studded squad.\n\nBrazilian goalkeeper Ederson and the flawless Laporte have made key contributions and it is a title win brought back home without the services of arguably their finest player, the Belgian Kevin de Bruyne, for long periods when he suffered so many injury problems.\n\nThe gifted teenager Phil Foden, a key component of City's future, made his mark with the vital winner against Spurs at Etihad Stadium.\n\nLiverpool are not going away under Klopp but City may still feel they have just seen off as big a challenge to their supremacy on home soil that they will face.\n\nThis has been a golden season in the Premier League as the lead changed hands 32 times before the final day, but in the end continuity was the order of the day as the champions put back-to-back triumphs in the record books.\n\nThe Premier League has provided a special season. Manchester City have proved, by leaving Liverpool in second place, that they are a very special team.", "Hundreds of people may have missed out on voting in this year's council elections because of pilot schemes requiring them to prove their identity.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said the trial project saw 2,083 voters refused a ballot paper because they weren't carrying the necessary ID, with up to 758 of them not returning to cast their vote.\n\nBroxtowe, Derby and North West Leicestershire were three of the 10 areas involved in the pilot.\n\nCraig Westwood, director of communications, policy and research for the Electoral Commission, said \"nearly everyone\" in the pilot areas was able to vote and showed the correct ID \"without difficulty\", but said government needs to \"consider carefully the available evidence about the impact of different approaches\".\n\nQuote Message: Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\" from Craig Westwood Electoral Commission director of communications, policy and research Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'A few more seconds and it would have hit us'\n\nA man said it was \"absolutely unbelievable\" that he and his family walked away from a plane crash.\n\nThe light aircraft came down on the A40 near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, on Sunday morning.\n\nJack Moore, who was on board, thanked the passing motorists who helped pull them from the burning wreckage.\n\nDaniel Nicholson and Joel Snarr said they were just acting on instinct after dragging the pilot and two passengers out.\n\nStuart Moore (right) was the pilot and his nephew Jack Moore (left) and niece Billie Manley were on board\n\nAll three on board were treated for minor injuries and taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nThe plane was being piloted by Stuart Moore, with his nephew, Jack Moore, and niece Billie Manley on board.\n\n\"Absolutely unbelievable that me and my family have walked away from this,\" Mr Moore wrote on Facebook.\n\n\"Just want to say thank you to the passers by that helped us at the scene and also the emergency services.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are very lucky, lucky people.\"\n\nThe family said they were \"overwhelmed\" but \"grateful\" the three were unharmed, and wanted privacy \"to come to terms with what's happened\".\n\nRescuers Daniel Nicholson and Joel Snarr, on the right, ran to the crashed plane to help\n\nTheir rescue heroes described how they were driving separately along the dual carriageway when the crash unfolded.\n\n\"There was no build-up - I didn't hear it coming in - didn't see it come in - it just appeared - smoking and on fire,\" said former Army bomb disposal officer Mr Snarr.\n\nMr Nicholson said he was the first to get to the plane: \"I realised it was upside down - it was already on fire.\n\n\"I got under the wing and I could see they they were all still alive, and obviously in a lot of distress.\"\n\nHe managed to break a cracked rear window and drag the two passengers to safety, while the other rescuer focused on the pilot.\n\n\"The pilot reached out through the cracked window and I just managed to grab hold of both is hands and tear him through,\" added Mr Snarr.\n\nThe two men said the events happened \"so quickly - and it's your nature that takes over\".\n\n\"At the time, all I was thinking was to see if we could get them out - you can't walk away from a situation like that - I did what I did,\" added Mr Nicholson.\n\nThick smoke was visible after the plane came down\n\nThe six year-old Cirrus SR22 light aircraft, registered in Guernsey but owned by an Irish company, flew regularly between County Kerry and the UK.\n\nOn Sunday, Stuart Moore had flown from London and landed in Abergavenny to pick up his niece and nephew.\n\n\"I saw the crash happen,\" said Frank Cavaciuti, who owns the private airstrip where the plane had taken off from.\n\n\"But by the time I got there the fire was so intense I could have done nothing. The aircraft exploded as I approached it.\n\n\"I didn't realise at first that they had already been rescued.\"\n\nHe praised the bravery of the two rescuers - saying he thought Mr Snarr had saved lives.\n\n\"A million other people wouldn't have done what he did.\n\n\"There was such a narrow window of time to get them out. It's just brilliant that he was there.\"\n\nIn total 19 firefighters attended the site and used foam to extinguish the aircraft.\n\nGwent Police said: \"The aircraft was reported to have made an unscheduled landing in the area, colliding with overhead wiring.\"\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch is aware and is making inquiries.", "The Duchess of Sussex has celebrated her first US Mother's Day as a parent by posting a picture of her son Archie's feet.\n\nThe SussexRoyal Instagram account shared an image of Meghan, who is American, holding her son's heel.\n\nIn the caption, the account paid tribute to \"all mothers today, past, present, mothers-to-be, and those lost but forever remembered\".\n\nWhile Mother's Day is in March in the UK, it was marked in the US on Sunday.\n\nIt was also celebrated in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Kenya and Japan.\n\nThe photo was accompanied by the poem Lands, by writer Nayyirah Waheed.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex's first son is seventh in line to the throne, behind the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and his children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis - and Prince Harry.\n\nHe is the Queen's eighth great-grandchild.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police facial recognition systems have been shown to do poorly when analysing non-white faces\n\nBlack and minority ethnic people could be falsely identified and face questioning because police have failed to test how well their systems deal with non-white faces, say campaigners.\n\nAt least three chances to assess how well the systems deal with ethnicity were missed over the past five years, the BBC found.\n\nCampaigners said the tech had too many problems to be used widely.\n\n\"It must be dropped immediately,\" said privacy rights group Big Brother Watch.\n\nSeveral UK police forces have been trialling controversial new facial recognition technology, including automated systems which attempt to identify the faces of people in real time as they pass a camera.\n\nDocuments from the police, Home Office and university researchers show that police are aware that ethnicity can have an impact on such systems, but have failed on several occasions to test this.\n\nThe Home Office said facial recognition can be an \"invaluable tool\" in fighting crime.\n\n\"The technology continues to evolve, and the Home Office continues to keep its effectiveness under constant review,\" a spokesman told the BBC.\n\nThe ability of facial recognition software to cope with black and ethnic minority faces has proved a key concern for those worried about the technology, who claim the software is often trained on predominantly white faces.\n\nMinutes from a police working group reveal that the UK police's former head of facial recognition knew that skin colour was an issue. At an April 2014 meeting, Durham Police Chief Constable Mike Barton noted \"that ethnicity can have an impact on search accuracy\".\n\nHe asked CGI, the Canadian company managing the police's facial image database, to investigate the issue, but subsequent minutes from the working group do not mention a follow-up.\n\nMet police boss Cressida Dick said she use of facial recognition was \"lawful and appropriate\"\n\nFacial recognition was introduced on the Police National Database (PND), which includes around 13 million faces, in 2014.\n\nThe database has troubled privacy groups because it contains images of people subsequently cleared of any offence. A 2012 court decision ruled that holding such images was unlawful.\n\nThe \"unlawful\" images are still held on the PND. The government is currently investigating ways to purge them from the system.\n\nDespite this, the PND facial recognition system, provided by German company Cognitec, has proved very popular.\n\nThe number of face match searches done on the PND grew from 3,360 in 2014 to 12,504 in 2017, Freedom of Information requests to the Home Office have revealed.\n\nIn 2015, a team of assessors from the Home Office tested the PND facial search system, using about 200 sample images. They had identified ethnicity information about the sample photos but, once again, failed to use this opportunity to check how well the system worked with different skin colours.\n\nThe same Home Office report also estimated that, across the entire PND, about 40% of the images were duplicated.\n\nIt noted that this meant the UK government has overpaid hundreds of thousands of pounds to Cognitec, because the company charges more once the number of images (or \"templates\") on the database exceeds 10 million.\n\nThe Home Office assessment also found the facial recognition system was only half as good as the human eye. It said: \"Out of the initial 211 searches, the automated facial search of PND identified just 20 true matches, whereas visual examination by the tester identified a total of 56 matches.\"\n\nCognitec declined to comment on costs, but said its matching technology had improved since the Home Office report, and that facial recognition results always required review by a human.\n\nA spokesman for the National Police Chiefs Council said the technology had the potential to disrupt criminals, but said any roll-out must show its effectiveness within \"sufficient safeguards\". It added that work is being done to improve the system's accuracy and remove duplicates.\n\nAnother chance to check for racial bias was missed last year during trials by South Wales of real-time facial recognition software, which was used at sports events and concerts. Cardiff University carried out an assessment of the force's use of the technology,\n\nThat study stated that \"due to limited funds for this trial\", ethnicity was not tested.\n\nCardiff's report noted, however, that \"during the evaluation period, no overt racial discrimination effects were observed\", but said this may be due to the demographic make-up of the watch lists used by the force.\n\nIn addition, an interim report by a biometrics advisory group to the government considering ethical issues of facial recognition highlighted concerns about the lack of ethnic diversity in datasets.\n\nUnder-representation of certain types of faces, particularly those from ethnic minorities, could mean bias \"feeds forward\" into the use of the technology, it said.\n\nSilkie Carlo, director of campaign group Big Brother Watch, said: \"The police's failure to do basic accuracy testing for race speaks volumes.\n\n\"Their wilful blindness to the risk of racism, and the risk to Brits' rights as a whole, reflects the dangerously irresponsible way in which facial recognition has crept on to our streets.\"\n\nThe technology had too many problems to justify its used, she said.\n\n\"It must be dropped immediately,\" Ms Carlo added.\n\nBig Brother Watch is currently taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police over its use of automated facial recognition systems.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City have sealed the Premier League title, needing a 14-game winning run to keep themselves above Liverpool - the best second-placed team in English top-flight history.\n\nIt felt like an absolutely relentless battle between two great Premier League sides. But do the stats back that up?\n\nThe best top two ever\n\nIt has been a title race of unparalleled quality and the numbers bear that out.\n\nThis is the form guide for the second half of the season:\n\nThe top two have amassed 195 points - a top-flight record for the champions and runners-up. They actually passed the previous Premier League record in their 36th games of the season. They also recorded the most combined wins (62) for a top two.\n\nIn both those instances, the previous record was last season, although City had provided a much greater share of the combined figures than second-placed Manchester United.\n\nCity and Liverpool have also broken the record for the fewest combined defeats - five. The top two in 2004-05 (Chelsea and Arsenal) and 2008-09 (Manchester United and Liverpool) had six defeats between them.\n• None From the chief exec's Pep talk to Silva surprise - unseen moments that defined Man City's season\n• None The 11mm title? The tiny margins that decided an extraordinary battle\n\nAll season the title race has seemed too close to call, not least because the lead at the top has changed so many times.\n\nIn fact, it has never changed hands so many times in a season.\n\nBy the time the title was won, it had switched 32 times at the end of a day this season, although plenty of those came as a result of staggering City's and Liverpool's games.\n\nThe previous record had been 2001-02, when the lead changed 28 times. Arsenal won the title that season, but both Manchester United and Liverpool had led in the final 10 games - and Newcastle and Leeds were both top over the festive period.\n\nLiverpool have spent 141 days top of the Premier League - 16 more than Manchester City. Chelsea spent nine days top - and Manchester United were top for one day, beating Leicester 2-1 in the first game of the season.\n\nThe last time Liverpool spent more days on top in a season was 1990-91 (163 days), when they also finished second. They are far away from the Premier League record for a team spending the most time top without winning the league though - Newcastle United's 212 days in 1995-96 may never be surpassed.\n\nCity's points haul in itself was not record breaking - mostly because of their 100-point tally in 2017-18. But they have broken plenty of other records.\n\nOnly five top-flight title-winning teams have ever won 30 games in a season, including football before the Premier League and 42-game seasons. City's record 32 wins last season put them on the list, and this season's vintage are on it again with the same figure.\n\nAnd they are the first team in English Football League history to win 30 games in three different seasons (2001-02 First Division, 2017-18 and 2018-19 Premier League).\n\nCity have also scored more goals than any English top-flight team in a season. They have managed 163 in all competitions. They also had the previous record, 156 in 2013-14. In fact City have three of the top five scoring seasons, with 143 in 2017-18.\n\nSo near, yet so far for Liverpool.\n\nThe Reds have the highest points tally of any team to finish second in the English top flight. Their 97 beat the previous record of Leeds United in 1970-71 (91) - adjusted to three points for a win. The previous highest Premier League total which failed to secure the title came when Manchester United finished behind Manchester City on goal difference with 89 points in 2012.\n\nLiverpool's 97 points would have won them every single Premier League title apart from last season and this season.\n\nThey are one of only 10 teams in the Premier League era to pick up 90 or more points. Unfortunately for them City this season are one of the others.\n\nLiverpool have won 18 English titles, but only once have they ever picked up more points than they did this season - 98 in 1978-79, adjusted to three points for a win. And that was from 42 games, making this Liverpool's best-ever points per game return.\n\nIn fact, the Reds have the highest tally of a runner-up in any of Europe's top five leagues - eclipsing Real Madrid's 96 in 2009-10. The champions that season? Guardiola's Barcelona.\n\nFor two such attacking sides, it is only right that players from both teams recorded historic goalscoring feats this season.\n\nCity's Sergio Aguero, with 21 goals, became only the second player to score 20 or more Premier League goals in six different seasons. Alan Shearer managed it in seven - three for Blackburn and four times for Newcastle.\n\nAguero also becomes the second man to score 20 Premier League goals in five consecutive seasons, level with Arsenal legend Thierry Henry.\n\nLiverpool pair Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane have also hit at least 20 league goals. That is only the fourth time two players in the same team have reached that landmark in a Premier League season.\n\nThey shared this season's Golden Boot with Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on 22 goals.\n\nTeam-mates to score 20 goals or more in a Premier League season", "The guilty men included (clockwise, from top left) Peter Bain, Brian Ferguson, Andrew Gallacher and John Hardie\n\nSix men who tried to turn Glasgow into a \"war zone\" during a feud with a rival gang have been jailed for a total of 104 years.\n\nThe associates of the Lyons criminal family were found guilty of plotting attempts to kill five men linked to their rivals, the Daniel family.\n\nPolice said it was a \"miracle\" that no-one died in the violent attacks.\n\nThe judge, Lord Mulholland, said the \"sophisticated plot\" was foiled by \"good, old-fashioned detective work\".\n\nBrian Ferguson, 37, Andrew Gallacher, 40, Robert Pickett, 53, Andrew Sinclair, 32, John Hardie, 35, and Peter Bain, 45, were found guilty of conspiracy to murder last month.\n\nFerguson, Gallacher and Hardie were each jailed for 20 years; Picket was jailed for 16 years; Bain was jailed for 15 years; and Sinclair was jailed for 13 years and three months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Mulholland sentenced the men to 104 years in jail\n\nLord Mulholland told them: \"You sought to turn Glasgow into a war zone for your feud.\n\n\"This is a civilised city, which is based on the rule of law. There is no place for this type of conduct, retribution or the law of the jungle.\"\n\nThe men had targeted Robert Daniel, Thomas Bilsland, Gary Petty, Ryan Fitzsimmons and Steven Daniel between June 2016 and September 2017 at locations in Glasgow, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and Manchester.\n\nTheir attackers were tracked down during Operation Engagement, the latest investigation linked to the feud - which has been connected to dozens of tit-for-tat attacks, including a murder.\n\nThe trial heard that victim Steven Daniel knew Kevin \"Gerbil\" Carroll, who was shot dead in the car park of Asda, Robroyston, in January 2010.\n\nThe first murder trial, which later collapsed, heard that Carroll's killer, William Paterson, visited a member of the Lyons family in prison, two days after the supermarket murder.\n\nThe latest 14-week trial at the High Court in Glasgow, which was held amid tight security, focused on five attempted murders in five months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe murder bids included an attack on Steven Daniel on 18 May 2017.\n\nAfter a high-speed car chase which ended with a crash on an off-ramp of the M8, he was attacked with a cleaver and a hammer.\n\nHis nose was almost severed from his face, and his injuries were so severe that police initially thought he had been shot at close range.\n\nThe Audi S3 used in the attack was set on fire, but a bloodied machete was discovered in the back seat.\n\nMr Daniel was badly injured in the attack in May 2017\n\nThe first attack was on Robert Daniel, whose car was rammed by another vehicle before he was chased into a house in Robroyston on 8 December 2016.\n\nOnce inside the house he was struck twice on the back of the head with what he later told police was a hatchet or a machete.\n\nA month later, Thomas Bilsland suffered a fractured skull after he was set upon in Glasgow's Cranhill.\n\nGary Petty was targeted after he visited an Italian takeaway in Maryhill on 7 March 2017.\n\nA Landrover Discovery was found after the attack on Robert Daniel\n\nFormer soldier Ryan Fitzsimmons was left unconscious and brain-damaged after being ambushed in the street by a masked gang on 28 April 2017.\n\nThe 34-year-old was attacked with a sword and a hammer outside the home he shared with his mother in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire.\n\nHe told jurors: \"It felt like death was coming.\"\n\nHis mum Geraldine, 61, was so affected by what happened that she suffered a heart attack in the street.\n\nMr Fitzsimmons told jurors he had \"no enemies\" but jurors heard his older brother Martyn had once been charged with shooting Ross Monaghan, the man cleared of murdering Carroll outside Asda.\n\nLast year soldier turned gun-runner Martyn was jailed for 10-and-a-half years after admitting having a Glock and ammunition, and hiding £36,000 of crime cash.\n\nHe was part of a nine-man crime gang - described as Scotland's most dangerous - jailed for 87 years after Operation Escalade, a massive probe into violence, drugs and firearms offences.\n\nA machete was found in the back of the burnt-out car\n\nLord Mullholland described Ryan Fitzsimmons as \"a hard-working man living peacefully with his mother\".\n\nHe said: \"As a result of the extensive injuries sustained during the attack upon him he has had to give up work and is dependent on his mother for his care and support. The need for care and support will persist for the rest of his life.\"\n\nLord Mulholland said Steven Daniel had told the trial that he was not aware of a feud between the Lyons and Daniel families.\n\n\"I did not believe a word and, more importantly, neither did the jury,\" he said.\n\nThe judge said the \"sophisticated\" murder plot had involved high-tech tracker devices and encrypted mobile phones.\n\nBut he told the six men: \"You were caught by good, old-fashioned detective work, identifying DNA on a tracker - and everything followed from there.\"\n\nDet Insp Jim Bradley described the level of violence as \"horrific\"\n\nDet Inp Jim Bradley said it was a \"miracle\" that no one died.\n\n\"It's been documented in the trial that if it hadn't been for medical intervention and the expertise of medical staff that a couple of our victims would have died,\" he said.\n\n\"The level of violence in such a planned and premeditated manner was horrific.\n\n\"There's no other word for it - just totally horrific.\"\n\nHe added that there had been repeated attempts to \"calm things down\" and stop the violence.\n\n\"Hopefully this will be a deterrent to anybody that's going to involve themselves in this kind of activity,\" he said.\n\n\"There's no winners in this type of crime.\"", "Doris Day, pictured here in 1955, has not performed for more than 25 years\n\nDoris Day has become the oldest artist to score a UK Top 10 with an album featuring new material, according to the Official Charts Company.\n\nDay's My Heart has gone in at number nine, 62 years after the 87-year-old's debut album was released in the US.\n\nMy Heart is a selection of recordings produced by her son, Terry Melcher, before his death in 2004.\n\nPlaying In The Shadows, the third album by British pop artist Example, entered the chart at number one.\n\nMercury-winner PJ Harvey's Let England Shake is this week's number 24 in the album chart.\n\nThe critically-acclaimed record has leapt 151 places from last week.\n\nIn the singles chart, Pixie Lott has secured her third number one with All About Tonight.\n\nFormer X Factor-winner Leona Lewis and Swedish DJ Avicii's collaboration Collide has charted at number four.\n\nThe track found the pair at the centre of a copyright dispute after the producer claimed the singer had used a piano sample without his permission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a career spanning more than 50 years, Day - Hollywood's \"girl-next-door\" - has appeared in 39 films and recorded 28 other albums.\n\nBritish singer Vera Lynn topped the UK album chart in August 2009, at the age of 92, but that was with a greatest hits album, We'll Meet Again - The Very Best Of Vera Lynn.", "Doris Day was the fresh-faced, all-American girl who became one of the world's most bankable film stars.\n\nHer glittering singing career included timeless classics like Whip Crack Away, Qué Será Será and Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps.\n\nOn screen, the wholesome, girl-next-door never failed to find love. Off screen, she could not have had less luck: she married four times. One of them beat her and another one robbed her.\n\nLater in life, she suffered the agony of watching her beloved only child die of an untreatable tumour. She retreated to a house in California, surrounding herself with animals and campaigning for their welfare.\n\nDoris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff came into the world in Cincinnati, Ohio - the descendant of German immigrants - in April 1922.\n\nBut for decades, she would insist she was actually born in 1924. In 2018, her birth certificate was dug out of the state Office of Vital Statistics to settle the dispute.\n\nShe was wrong, but shrugged it off.\n\n\"I've always said that age is just a number,\" she said. \"I've never paid much attention to birthdays.\"\n\nHer father, who worked as a music teacher, left his wife for another woman when Doris was 12. The future star was brought up by her mother.\n\nShe attended dance classes from an early age and, by the time she entered her teens, was performing regularly with her dance partner, Jerry Doherty, winning prizes at local pageants.\n\nThe pair had dreams of trying their luck in Hollywood but, the night before they were due to depart, Day's car was hit by a train. One of her legs was badly broken; her dancing career in ruins.\n\nIt took months to recover. She passed the time singing along to the radio and, as she put it, \"discovered a talent I didn't know I had\". She was particularly enamoured with the sound of Ella Fitzgerald.\n\nHer mother arranged singing lessons for her which led to sessions on a local radio station, where she was heard by the bandleader Barney Rapp.\n\nAccording to Rapp, he auditioned about 200 singers before signing the young Doris Kappelhoff.\n\nThe song that bowled him over was Day by Day. Rapp suggested she took inspiration from the title and change her name. Kappelhoff was too long to display on the scrolling marquees outside concert venues.\n\nHer breakthrough came while she was working with the Les Brown Orchestra, with whom she had her first hit, Sentimental Journey, in 1945.\n\nBy this time she had met, married and quickly divorced her first husband, the musician Al Jorden, who sadly proved physically abusive. The couple had one child, her son Terry.\n\nHer second marriage, to actor George Weidler in 1946, lasted just eight months after he failed to come to terms with the success of her career.\n\nBy the time she left Les Brown in 1946 she had become one of the highest-paid female vocalists in the world with a string of chart hits.\n\nAfter singing at a party given by songwriter Sammy Cahn, Doris Day was given a Warner Brothers contract and the lead in the 1948 film, Romance on the High Seas.\n\nOver the next few years, she played in a series of musicals, including Tea for Two, On Moonlight Bay, By the Light of the Silvery Moon and I'll See You in My Dreams.\n\nHer roles were undemanding, but as Miss American Pie, the tomboy girl-next-door who morphed into the beautiful blonde, audiences found Doris Day irresistible and US soldiers serving in the Korean War voted her their favourite star.\n\nIn 1952 she formed her own production company, in partnership with third husband, Martin Melcher, and a year later starred in the film musical Calamity Jane, which contained a string of hit songs including the Oscar-winning Secret Love.\n\nShe surprised the critics with the strength of her performance in Love Me or Leave Me, a fictionalised account of the life of nightclub singer Ruth Etting, who suffered the violent attacks of her gangster husband, played by James Cagney.\n\nShe starred with Rock Hudson in 1959's Pillow Talk\n\nThere was also a performance in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much, which spawned one of her biggest hits - Qué Será Será.\n\nHer biggest cinema hit came in 1959, with Pillow Talk, where her on-screen partnership with Rock Hudson, earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.\n\nShe continued to make films in the 1960s, some of them such as Glass Bottom Boat and Where Were You When the Lights Went Out, did reasonably well at the box office.\n\nBut as the sexual revolution of the 1960s stormed Hollywood, Doris went out of fashion. Critics poked fun at the wholesome image: one declaring himself \"so old, I remember her before she became a virgin\". Audiences found it increasingly hard to connect.\n\nShe turned down the Sound of Music, declaring herself too American to play a nun from Salzburg. But nor was she ready to change her image and embrace the times: rejecting the role of Mrs Robinson in The Graduate. She said she found the script to be \"vulgar and offensive\".\n\nHer husband, who had been managing her career, died suddenly in 1968 and Day was horrified to discover he had squandered all her earnings, leaving her bankrupt.\n\nPrior to his death, and without her knowledge, he had also committed her to a television series; Day was exhausted but honoured the contract and The Doris Day Show ran successfully for five years until 1973.\n\nDoris Day and her only son, Terry Melcher, in the late 1980s\n\nDay fought a long battle in the courts against her husband's business partner, the lawyer Jerome Rosenthal. She was eventually awarded more than $22m, then the biggest civil settlement in Californian legal history - although she eventually settled for a quarter of that sum.\n\nIn 1976, she was married for the fourth time, to Barry Comden, who was a waiter at one of her favourite restaurants. The union ended in 1981.\n\nThere was a brief comeback when she released her 29th studio album, My Heart, which contained songs she had recorded but never released during the 1980s. It reached the UK Top 10 in September 2011.\n\nDoris Day had been a strong advocate for animal welfare since founding Actors and Others for Animals in 1971, which campaigned against the fur trade. She collected furry things wherever she found them, becoming known on set as the \"Dog Catcher of Beverley Hills\".\n\nFollowing her retirement she ran the Doris Day Animal League at her home in Carmel, California, her house filled with stray animals rescued from the streets.\n\nShe repeatedly turned down the offer of a lifetime achievement Oscar but, in 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W Bush for her work as an entertainer and her commitment to animal welfare.\n\nShe devoted the latter part of her life to animals\n\nHer fear of flying prevented her attending the ceremony in person. In the same year, her only child Terry, who had tasted success as a songwriter and producer, died of melanoma.\n\nShe remained active in choosing which films, adverts and TV shows got to play the Doris Day hits, but resisted all attempts to lure her out of retirement. She chose dogs and cats over fame and fortune, but had no regrets.\n\n\"I've always believed things work out exactly as they're supposed to,\" she told one interviewer.\n\nOr in the words of her song, Qué Será Será.", "More than 90% of eligible Australians are expected to vote in the election on 18 May - because it's one of the few countries to have compulsory voting.\n\nThe BBC's Australia correspondent Hywel Griffith explains how this works - and whether people like it.", "Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange is currently jailed in the UK, and is fighting extradition to the United States on espionage charges.\n\nThe 48-year-old Australian was arrested in April 2019 at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he had been staying since 2012.\n\nHe sought asylum at the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden on a rape allegation that he denied.\n\nAfter his arrest, he was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions and is currently being held at Belmarsh prison in London.\n\nAn investigation into the 2010 rape allegation has now been dropped by Swedish prosecutors.\n\nBelow is more information on how events have unfolded:\n\nJulian Assange arrives in Sweden on a speaking trip partly arranged by \"Miss A\", a member of the Christian Association of Social Democrats. He has not met \"Miss A\" before but reports suggest they have arranged in advance that he can stay at her apartment while she is out of town for a few days.\n\n\"Miss A\" and Mr Assange attend a seminar by the Social Democrats' Brotherhood Movement on \"War and the role of media\", at which the Wikileaks founder is the key speaker. The two reportedly have sex that night.\n\nMr Assange reportedly has sex with a woman he met at the seminar on 14 August, identified as \"Miss W\".\n\nSome time between 17 and 20 August, \"Miss W\" and \"Miss A\" are in contact and apparently share with a journalist the concerns they have about aspects of their sexual encounters with Mr Assange.\n\nMr Assange applies for a residence permit to live and work in Sweden. He hopes to create a base for Wikileaks there, because of the country's laws protecting whistleblowers.\n\nThe Swedish Prosecutor's Office issues an arrest warrant for Mr Assange based on allegations of rape and molestation.\n\nBoth women reportedly say that what started as consensual sex became non-consensual.\n\nWikileaks quotes Mr Assange as saying the accusations are \"without basis\" and that their appearance \"at this moment is deeply disturbing\".\n\nA later message on the Wikileaks Twitter feed says the group has been warned to expect \"dirty tricks\".\n\n\"I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape,\" says one of Stockholm's chief prosecutors, Eva Finne.\n\nProsecutors say the investigation into the molestation allegation will continue, but it is not a serious enough crime for an arrest warrant.\n\nThe lawyer for the two women, Claes Borgstrom, lodges an appeal against this decision to a special department in the public prosecutions office.\n\nMr Assange is questioned by police in Stockholm and formally told of the allegations against him, according to his lawyer at the time, Leif Silbersky. The activist denies the allegations.\n\nSweden's Director of Prosecution Marianne Ny says she is reopening the rape investigation against Mr Assange.\n\n\"Considering information available at present, my judgement is that the classification of the crime is rape,\" she says.\n\nThe Wikileaks founder (an Australian citizen) is denied residency in Sweden. No reason is given, although an official on Sweden's Migration Board tells the AFP news agency \"he did not fulfil the requirements\".\n\nStockholm District Court approves a request to detain Mr Assange for questioning on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. Ms Ny says he has not been available for questioning.\n\nBy this time Mr Assange has travelled to London. His British lawyer, Mark Stephens, says his client offered to be interviewed at the Swedish embassy in London or Scotland Yard or via videolink. He accuses Ms Ny of \"abusing her powers\" in insisting that Mr Assange return to Sweden.\n\nSwedish police issue an international arrest warrant for Mr Assange via Interpol.\n\nThe Wikileaks founder gives himself up to British police and is taken to an extradition hearing. He is remanded in custody pending another hearing.\n\nMr Assange is granted bail by the High Court and is freed after his supporters pay £240,000 in cash and sureties.\n\nMr Assange held up a court document to the media after he was released on bail\n\nA British court rules that Mr Assange should be extradited to Sweden.\n\nLawyers lodge papers at the High Court for an appeal against extradition.\n\nThe High Court upholds the decision to extradite Mr Assange.\n\nMr Assange wins the right to petition the UK Supreme Court directly after judges rule that his case raised \"a question of general public importance\".\n\nThe Supreme Court rules that he should be extradited to Sweden.\n\nEcuador's foreign minister says Mr Assange has applied for political asylum at Ecuador's embassy in London.\n\nEcuador's foreign minister claims the UK has issued a \"threat\" to enter the Ecuadorean embassy in London to arrest Mr Assange. The Foreign Office says it reminded Ecuador that it has the power to revoke the diplomatic immunity of an embassy on UK soil and says Britain has a legal obligation to extradite him.\n\nEcuador grants asylum to Mr Assange, saying there are fears his human rights might be violated if he is extradited. Mr Assange describes it as a \"significant victory\", but the UK government expresses its disappointment.\n\nMr Assange spoke to the media and his supporters from the Ecuadorean embassy in August 2012\n\nThe UK insists it will not grant Mr Assange \"safe passage\" to Ecuador as it seeks a diplomatic solution. Downing Street says the government is legally obliged to extradite him to Sweden.\n\nNine people who put up bail sureties for Mr Assange are ordered by a judge to pay thousands of pounds each after his failure to appear in court.\n\nEcuador's ambassador says Mr Assange has a chronic lung infection \"which could get worse at any moment\". The embassy says it has sought assurances Mr Assange will not be arrested if he is taken to hospital.\n\nMr Assange says he will leave London's Ecuadorean embassy \"soon\" after two years of refuge. He does not clarify when he will depart but says it is \"probably not\" for the reasons reported in the UK press. Stories had suggested he required medical treatment.\n\nSwedish prosecutors drop their investigation into one accusation of sexual molestation and one of unlawful coercion against Mr Assange because they have run out of time to question him. The more serious allegation of rape is not due to expire until 2020.\n\nScotland Yard announces it will no longer be sending officers to stand guard outside the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Officers had been there since 2012, at an estimated cost of more than £12m.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says the effort is \"no longer believed proportionate\" but it will be deploying \"a number of overt and covert tactics to arrest\" Mr Assange.\n\nA United Nations panel rules that Mr Assange should be allowed to walk free and be compensated for his \"deprivation of liberty\".\n\nThe UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention says the Wikileaks founder has been arbitrarily detained by UK and Swedish authorities since his arrest in 2010, and the detention violates his human, civil and political rights.\n\nMr Assange hails it a \"significant victory\" and calls the decision \"binding\" - but UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond brands the ruling \"ridiculous\".\n\nThe UK Foreign Office says the report \"changes nothing\" and it will \"formally contest the working group's opinion\".\n\nBefore the ruling, police said he would still be arrested if he left the embassy.\n\nSweden's chief prosecutor Ingrid Isgren travels to London to question Mr Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy.\n\nMs Isgren listened as the questions were put to him by an Ecuadorean prosecutor, under an agreement worked out with Ecuador.\n\nOutgoing US President Barack Obama commutes the prison sentence given to US army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks.\n\nMr Assange says he stands by his offer to agree to be extradited to the US if Mr Obama granted clemency to Manning.\n\nUS Attorney General Jeff Sessions says arresting Mr Assange is a priority. No charges have been filed against him in the US, but American media outlets report that federal prosecutors are considering charges.\n\nChelsea Manning is released from Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas.\n\nSweden's director of public prosecutions announces that the rape investigation into Mr Assange is being dropped.\n\nThe Ecuadorean government confirms Mr Assange was granted Ecuadorean citizenship in December and asks the UK to recognise him as a diplomatic agent - a move that would give him immunity. The UK refuses.\n\nLawyers for Mr Assange ask for a UK warrant for his arrest to be dropped.\n\nAn arrest warrant for Mr Assange is upheld by Westminster Magistrate's Court.\n\nEcuador says the country's latest efforts to negotiate the departure of Mr Assange from its London embassy have failed.\n\nEcuador removes extra security at its London embassy following claims that $5m (£3.7m) has been spent to protect Mr Assange.\n\nThe UK and Ecuador confirm they are holding talks over the fate of Mr Assange. Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno says he was never \"in favour\" of Mr Assange's activities.\n\nMr Assange is given a set of house rules at the Ecuadorean embassy - which include cleaning his bathroom and taking better care of his cat.\n\nThe cat could often be seen peering out of the embassy's windows\n\nHe is warned that his feline companion could be confiscated and is also told to look after its \"wellbeing, food and hygiene\".\n\nEcuador also says it will partially restore Mr Assange's internet connection.\n\nWikileaks lawyers say its co-founder is going to launch legal action against the government of Ecuador, accusing it of violating his \"fundamental rights and freedoms\".\n\nIt claims the government of Ecuador has refused Mr Assange a visit by Human Rights Watch general counsel Dinah PoKempner, and has not allowed several meetings with his lawyers.\n\nIn a statement, Wikileaks said: \"Ecuador's measures against Julian Assange have been widely condemned by the human rights community.\"\n\nMr Assange's lawyer, Barry Pollack, says his client will not be accepting a deal between the UK and Ecuador to allow him to be released.\n\nThe agreement was rejected over fears it could be used as a pretext to extradite him to the US.\n\n\"The suggestion that as long as the death penalty is off the table, Mr Assange need not fear persecution is obviously wrong,\" Mr Pollack says.\n\nThe passport would allow Mr Assange, who was born in Townsville, Australia, in 1971, to return to the country.\n\nThe Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) confirmed that the government had approved a passport application filed by Mr Assange in 2018.\n\nWikiLeaks tweets that a \"high level source within the Ecuadorean state\" has told them Mr Assange is to be expelled from the embassy within \"hours or days\".\n\nA senior Ecuadorean official says no decision has been made to remove him from the London building.\n\nMr Assange is arrested at London's Ecuadorean embassy by Metropolitan Police officers for \"failing to surrender to the court\".\n\nEcuador's President Lenin Moreno says Mr Assange's asylum was withdrawn after his repeated violations of international conventions.\n\nBut WikiLeaks tweets that Ecuador has acted illegally in terminating Mr Assange's political asylum \"in violation of international law\".\n\nMr Assange is sentenced to 50 weeks in jail after being found guilty of breaching the Bail Act.\n\nSweden reopens an investigation into a rape allegation made against Mr Assange in 2010, which he denies.\n\nThe case was dropped two years before as Swedish prosecutors said they could not progress the case while Mr Assange was still inside the embassy.\n\nEva-Marie Persson, Sweden's deputy director of public prosecutions, said it would reopen because there was still \"probable cause to suspect\" that Mr Assange had committed the alleged rape.\n\nThe US justice department files 17 new charges against Mr Assange, accusing him of violating the Espionage Act by publishing classified military and diplomatic documents.\n\nThe indictment said Mr Assange had \"repeatedly encouraged sources with access to classified information to steal and provide it to Wikileaks to disclose\".\n\nWikileaks tweets that the announcement is \"madness\" and the \"end of national security journalism and the first amendment\".\n\nA Swedish prosecutor says an investigation into an allegation of rape against Mr Assange in 2010 has been discontinued.\n\nDeputy chief prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson says that because so much time has passed since the allegation was made, the evidence has weakened considerably.\n\nMr Assange fled to the UK when the allegation of rape, which he denies, was made in 2010.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Skvernelis, seen here with his partner and children, said he would resign his post on 12 July\n\nLithuanian PM Saulius Skvernelis says he will step down after failing to qualify for the second round in the country's presidential election.\n\nMr Skvernelis, who was one of the expected frontrunners in the vote, said he planned to resign as PM in July.\n\nPartial results suggest that prominent economist Gitanas Nauseda topped the first round, followed by former Finance Minister Ingrida Simonyte.\n\nThe pair will face each other in a run-off at the end of the month.\n\nThe winner will succeed the popular President Dalia Grybauskaite after her second and final five-year term.\n\nMs Grybauskaite has been a strong critic of President Vladimir Putin of Russia, which borders Lithuania, and has focused on tackling corruption in her country.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Sunday, Mr Skvernelis admitted defeat but said he had \"really believed\" he would get through to the next stage.\n\n\"The failure to get into the second round is an assessment of me as a politician,\" he said.\n\nThe run-off is due to take place on 26 May.\n• None From Brexit with love: Lithuania sees its chance", "The UK should consider \"decisively\" increasing defence spending after Brexit, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.\n\nHe told the Lord Mayor's Banquet in London the threats facing the UK had changed \"markedly\" since the Cold War.\n\nHe said any extra money should be spent on \"new capabilities and not simply plugging gaps\".\n\nLabour said real-terms funding for defence had been cut by £9bn since 2010.\n\nThe government will decide its spending commitments up to 2021 and potentially beyond in the Comprehensive Spending Review this autumn.\n\nThere has not been a full-scale Strategic Defence and Security Review, looking at future defence challenges and capabilities since 2015 and one is expected in 2020.\n\nMr Hunt said it was \"not sustainable\" to expect the US to spend 4% of its GDP on defence while other Nato allies spent between 1% and 2%.\n\nThe UK already spends 2% of its economic output on defence but many European countries do not - although all Nato members have agreed to do this by 2024.\n\n\"So for these and other reasons I believe it is time for the next Strategic Defence and Security Review to ask whether, over the coming decade, we should decisively increase the proportion of GDP we devote to defence,\" he said.\n\n\"We simply do not know what the balance of power in the world will be in 25 years' time.\"\n\nMr Hunt said the UK currently accounted for almost 20% of total EU defence spending, and British forces contributed a \"hugely disproportionate share\" of some key capabilities.\n\nBut he added that the UK had entered a \"multipolar world\" without the \"assurance provided by unquestioned American dominance\".\n\n\"We face a more aggressive Russia and a more assertive China. We simply do not know what the balance of power in the world will be in 25 years time,\" he said.\n\nOn Brexit Mr Hunt said the UK must leave the EU \"cleanly and properly\", and to fail to do so \"would betray the promise of a democracy\".\n\nThe foreign secretary is among those expected to stand to succeed Theresa May as leader of the Conservative Party when she steps down.\n\nMrs May has already promised to go once the first stage of Brexit is over. Pressure has grown on the PM to set out a date for her departure following the Conservatives' drubbing at the local elections.\n\nShadow Defence Secretary Nia Griffith said Mr Hunt had sat in successive cabinets since 2010 which had cut defence spending.\n\nShe tweeted: \"If he was so bothered, you'd have thought he might have said something a bit sooner?\"", "The sale included the judge's damask bag and notes compiled by his wife\n\nThe government has temporarily blocked the export of a book used by the judge in one of Britain's most famous trials.\n\nDH Lawrence's controversial novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, was at the centre of an obscenity trial in 1960.\n\nThe paperback copy includes sexually explicit passages marked up by judge Sir Laurence Byrne's wife Lady Dorothy.\n\nThe new owner of the book, which sold for £56,250 last year, plans to take it abroad but UK buyers now have until October to match that sum.\n\nThose who want to export items of cultural significance from the UK must apply for a licence.\n\nThe government's new temporary block means potential purchasers, including collectors and museums, have until 9 August to declare their intention to buy it and then up to three months longer to find the funds.\n\nArts minister Michael Ellis said he hoped a buyer could be found in order to \"keep this important part of our nation's history in the UK\".\n\nSir Laurence Byrne who presided over R v Penguin Books Ltd in the 1960 case focusing on the novel, which was dramatised in a BBC series starring Holliday Grainger in 2015\n\nLady Chatterly's Lover was the last novel English author Lawrence wrote before his death in 1930.\n\nIt focuses on a passionate affair between an aristocratic woman and a gamekeeper.\n\nIt was first published in Italy in 1928 and in France the following year but was not published in the UK until 1960 for fear of prosecution over its explicit content.\n\nWhen it finally was the publishing house, Penguin Books, was put on trial for obscenity.\n\nBefore the trial, Lady Dorothy compiled a list of significant passages on the headed stationery of the Central Criminal Court, noting the page number and adding her own comments, such as \"love making\", \"coarse\" and so on.\n\nThe trial caused a sensation when the publisher was found not guilty.\n\nThe case, which was seen as a test for the 1959 Obscene Publications Act, came to encapsulate the clash between the old establishment and the new wave of liberalisation in the 1960s.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jodie Comer and Benedict Cumberbatch won the top two acting awards\n\nBBC thriller Killing Eve was the big winner at the Bafta TV Awards, scooping three trophies including best actress for Jodie Comer and best drama series.\n\nI'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here and Britain's Got Talent also picked up prizes, despite Ant McPartlin taking time out from both series last year.\n\nBGT won best entertainment show and I'm A Celebrity won the reality prize.\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch won best actor for his drama Patrick Melrose, which was also named best mini-series.\n\nThe Sherlock star, who received his first of seven previous Bafta nominations in 2005 but hasn't won until now, told the audience: \"Oh gosh, I think I'm going to fall over, I'm very used to being a bridesmaid not the bride.\"\n\nThe ceremony took place at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday.\n\nIn Killing Eve, Comer played offbeat assassin Villanelle, who was pursued by intelligence agent Eve, played by Sandra Oh. Both were nominated for best actress.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stars of the small screen chatted to BBC's Lizo Mzimba ahead of the ceremony\n\nAccepting the award, a tearful Comer - who dedicated her award to her late grandmother - said: \"Thank you so much. Sorry, I'm the only one who's turned on the waterworks.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sandra Oh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Sandra Oh\n\nPaying tribute to the show's writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge, she said: \"I feel so lucky to say I worked with you, also to call you a friend. You're the most talented person I know, also an inspiration.\"\n\nFiona Shaw was named best supporting actress for playing spy boss Carolyn Martens, a role she said had been \"probably the greatest pleasure of my life\".\n\nFiona Shaw won best supporting actress - the first Bafta of her career\n\nShe also expressed gratitude to Waller-Bridge and her \"glass-shattering genius and wayward imagination\".\n\nKilling Eve's inclusion this year was unusual, in that Bafta bent the rules to allow it to be nominated.\n\nIn the entertainment programme category, BGT triumphed despite the fact Declan Donnelly had to host the live shows solo after Ant McPartlin's drink-drive conviction.\n\nAnt and Dec were together on the Bafta red carpet\n\nAnt missed last year's I'm A Celebrity completely, with Dec joined by Holly Willoughby for hosting duties.\n\nSpeaking backstage, Dec said: \"It's been a tough year personally and professionally. I was just trying to do my best, and just keep the shows warm for him for when he was ready to come back.\n\n\"And they have both won Baftas, so how cool am I?\"\n\nBut the duo lost out on the best entertainment performance award to Lee Mack, who scooped the prize for his appearances on comedy panel show Would I Lie To You?\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch (left) and winners of the mini-series award for Patrick Melrose\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch won his first Bafta for Sky's Patrick Melrose, adapted from novels by Edward St Aubyn, 14 years after his first nomination.\n\nCumberbatch, who played a man grappling with the ghost of his abusive father, thanked his wife, writer and theatre director Sophie Hunter, saying: \"You're my rock, I had to go pretty weird for this one and it was nice to come home and feel stable again.\n\n\"It's all right, I've got one [award] and I'm going to bring it home.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier, Daisy May Cooper, who was nominated for the best female comedy performance award for This Country, turned up on the red carpet wearing a dress made from bin liners.\n\nIt cost \"about £5\", she said. \"The reason I'm wearing this is if I wore a normal dress, that would cost a lot of money and I thought I'd donate that money to a local food bank and wear bin bags instead.\"\n\nJournalist and broadcaster Baroness Joan Bakewell was honoured with the Bafta Fellowship.\n\nShe told the ceremony she had been inspired by Charlotte Bronte at the age of 12, and had been determined to make it in a male-dominated industry.\n\n\"It has been a long journey, and along the way I've had the encouragement and professional support of many, many women, making their own bid to [have] as much a chance as men. And possibly earn as much. That would be nice.\"\n\nHappy Valley and Queer As Folk producer Nicola Shindler was presented with a special award in recognition of her contribution to the television industry.\n\nThe Bafta Craft Awards - which recognise behind-the-scenes talent like writers and sound editors - took place last month, with A Very English Scandal going home with the most trophies.\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.", "At present, support for victims in England varies depending on the area\n\nCouncils in England will have a legal duty to provide secure homes for victims of domestic abuse under new plans announced by Theresa May.\n\nPeople seeking refuge from abuse and violence can receive varying levels of support depending on their location.\n\nBut Mrs May has vowed to end the \"postcode lottery\" for victims and their children, creating a legal duty for councils to provide refuge.\n\nOne victim described the move as \"absolutely momentous\" news.\n\nCharlotte Kneer, who stayed in a refuge herself and now runs one in Surrey, told the BBC she cried when she heard the news.\n\nHaving a refuge space can be \"life-saving\" - but some women cannot get one, because local authorities' budgets have been \"squeezed\", she said.\n\n\"This is something Women's Aid and lots of other campaigners have been asking for, for years and years,\" she added.\n\nThe prime minister said the \"abhorrent crime\" had \"no place\" in the UK.\n\nIn a message to victims, she added: \"Whoever you are, wherever you live and whatever the abuse you face, you will have access to the services you need to be safe.\"\n\nThe prime minister spoke to a case worker and domestic violence survivor at a London centre on Monday\n\nMrs May's new plans are backed by funding.\n\nThe prime minister visited a London charity that helps women and children who have survived domestic abuse on Monday and said she hoped the bill would be of \"real benefit\" to people.\n\nOne woman told her that her support for the issue \"makes a world of difference\".\n\nBut while charities and councils say the government's moves are positive, they want to know how much money will be provided in the face of cuts to local authority budgets.\n\nThe Domestic Abuse Bill will also introduce the first ever statutory government definition of domestic abuse to specifically include economic abuse and controlling and manipulative non-physical abuse.\n\nThe legislation will establish a new Domestic Abuse Commissioner and prohibit the cross-examination of victims by their abusers in family courts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlotte Kneer on why the plan is important\n\nMs Kneer, who runs Reigate and Banstead Women's Aid, said having a safe place to go is a human right, adding: \"For me and many other women, having a refuge is literally life-saving.\"\n\nShe added people fleeing domestic abuse had to seek refuge in a place outside their hometown, to avoid seeing their attacker or their acquaintances. Because they weren't services for local people, refuges had often been \"easy cuts\" for local authorities to make.\n\n\"Hopefully this is the start of securing the future for refuges,\" she said.\n\nDiana James is optimistic about the plans - but has concerns about how they will be implemented\n\nDiana James, a domestic abuse survivor who works with refuge services in south-west England, said she was \"optimistic\" about the plans but concerned about how it would be put into practice, particularly for LGBT people.\n\n\"Some refuges accept LGBT people, others say they do but filter them out, and some just don't,\" she said. \"This is a step forward, but it's about the implementation.\n\n\"I hope [the government's] heart is in the right place and that they want to make this work.\"\n\nNicki Norman, acting co-chief executive of Women's Aid, said many of her organisation's member services were providing support on a \"shoestring budget\", so a move to consistent, dedicated funding was \"desperately needed\".\n\n\"We look forward to working with the government to ensure that this important move to fund refuges is safe, sustainable and delivers the resources that services urgently require to support all women and children fleeing domestic abuse,\" she said.\n\nSandra Horley, chief executive of Refuge, also welcomed Mrs May's announcement, which she said could secure \"life-saving services\".\n\n\"This has the potential to end the postcode lottery for refuge places and could put these life-saving services on a secure financial footing for the first time,\" Ms Horley said.\n\nMinisters have launched a consultation to determine how much funding is needed and where it should go by talking to victims and survivors, as well as organisations supporting victims and their children every day.\n\nFunding totalling £22m has already been made available to local authorities to buy more than 2,000 beds in refuges and other safe accommodation - and to provide access to education and employment.\n\nLocal government secretary James Brokenshire said it was estimated an extra £90m a year would be needed for local authorities to provide accommodation for victims.\n\nThe details on funding would be settled through the Spending Review process, he added.\n\nCouncillor Simon Blackburn of the Local Government Association welcomed extra support but said councils could not tackle the issue alone.\n\n\"Our ambition must be to reduce the number of victims, with greater investment in early intervention and prevention schemes that helps stop domestic abuse occurring in the first place,\" he said.\n\nThe plans only apply to England and not councils in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, which do not currently have directly comparable systems in place.\n\nFor information and support related to domestic abuse, visit the BBC Action Line.", "The deputy leader of the Labour Party has urged voters to reject \"nationalism\" and \"populism\" in the EU elections.\n\nTom Watson told the Today programme that Labour is a \"remain and reform\" party.", "Afghan politicians and women's rights activists are demanding justice after a political adviser and former prominent TV presenter was murdered in broad daylight.\n\nMina Mangal, who worked as a television presenter before entering politics, was shot dead at close range in Kabul on Saturday.\n\nChief Executive Abdullah Abdullah vowed her killers would be caught.\n\nThe motive remains unclear but one line of inquiry is a family dispute.\n\nIn a statement released on Saturday, the interior ministry said that Ms Mangal, who was on her way to work as an adviser for the Afghan parliament's cultural affairs commission, was shot dead around 07:20 local time.\n\nAfghanistan's Supreme Court and civil society groups including the commission into violence against women have called for a serious investigation into her killing.\n\nMs Mangal had recently posted on Facebook that she had received threats and feared for her life, prominent women's rights activist Wazhma Frogh said on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Mangal separated from her husband two years ago, with her family filing a complaint alleging domestic violence at the time, Jamshid Rasooli, a spokesman for the attorney general's office, told the BBC.\n\nHe said the case had been referred to a family violence court and later dropped in a decision criticised by Ms Mangal's family.\n\nPolice are continuing their investigation into the murder and have not identified any suspects.\n\n\"I have lost an intelligent and active daughter because of a family dispute issue,\" Ms Mangal's father told the BBC. \"I am asking the government why they could not protect my working daughter and I have lost her. I urge them to protect my other daughters and other women like them who come out of home and serve our society.\"\n\nSince Ms Mangal's death, Afghan social media users have been vocal about the levels of violence against women in the country.\n\nSome pointed out that some of Afghanistan's most high-profile crimes against women have taken place in busy areas of the capital, Kabul, including the high-security Green Zone.\n\n\"A woman has been killed in daylight because a man thought she deserves to be killed,\" women's rights activist Wazhma Frogh wrote.\n\nThe killing of Mina Mangal has sent shockwaves through Kabul. She was killed in daylight in a busy area not far from police positions and it appears the attackers were able to flee the scene easily.\n\nWorking women inside and outside the government have called for special measures to protect those who are seen as at risk.\n\nAs a TV presenter, Mina Mangal hosted mostly cultural shows but also a programme about women's rights. In her last post on Facebook she expressed anger against those \"who threatened to suppress or kill women\".\n\nNow, as police continue their investigation, people are talking about safety and vulnerability. Breshna, a mother of five, said she feared for her daughters, who are studying and working in Kabul.\n\n\"Active and working women who leave home for work every day are not safe,\" she said.\n\nThe killing has focused attention once again on violence against women in Afghanistan. It comes at a time when many women fear that hard-won rights and freedoms could be jeopardised by any peace agreement with Taliban militants, who are currently in negotiations with the US.\n\nThe killing took place in broad daylight in the Afghan capital, Kabul\n\nRights groups have documented increasing cases of gender-based violence, particularly in areas dominated by the Taliban.\n\nReporters Without Borders also listed Afghanistan as the deadliest country for journalists in 2018.", "Sara Zelenak was stabbed during the attack at London Bridge and Borough Market\n\nAn Australian au pair was being helped up by a passer-by after slipping over in her high heels when they were both fatally stabbed, the inquest into the London Bridge attack has heard.\n\nSara Zelenak, 21, was on a night out with a friend when she was set upon by men armed with 12in (30cm) blades on the evening of 3 June 2017.\n\nBriton James McMullan, 32, was also targeted as he tried to help Ms Zelenak to her feet, a witness said.\n\nThe inquest is in its second week.\n\nMs Zelenak and Mr McMullan were among eight people killed when Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before jumping out and stabbing people.\n\nWitness Erick Siguenza told the Old Bailey Ms Zelenak jumped out of the way of the crashing van before being stabbed by the driver.\n\nGareth Patterson QC, representing the victims' families, said she was wearing high heels and the ground was \"quite wet\" on the night of the attack.\n\nWhen asked if Ms Zelenak had lost her balance, Mr Siguenza said: \"Yes. She was completely on the ground. He [Mr McMullan] just grabbed her left arm and gently tried to pick her up.\n\n\"But by then the attackers were in close proximity and that's when they started attacking.\"\n\n\"There was no time for him to be able to help her up because the driver and the other terrorists were already running towards them,\" he added.\n\nJames McMullan was stabbed to death as he tried to help Ms Zelenak up, the inquest heard\n\nMs Zelenak was stabbed in the neck while Mr McMullan was stabbed in the chest.\n\nThe court heard Ms Zelenak and her friend, Priscila Goncalves, had left the London Grind bar minutes before the attack to continue their night out and \"have fun\".\n\nMs Goncalves told the inquest they were crossing the bridge when they spotted another bar, with red lights and tables outside.\n\nThey had started down the steps towards it when they heard the van crash.\n\nThe friends went back up the steps to see what had happened but became separated in the chaos as people ran away.\n\nThe court was shown CCTV of Ms Zelenak before she was killed\n\n\"I had no idea what was going on,\" Ms Goncalves said.\n\n\"We were together. People said 'Run', I started to run. I thought she was with me and then I looked, she was not. Everybody was running,\" she added.\n\nCCTV shown to the court showed Ms Goncalves among a crowd of people who were running away.\n\nMr Siguenza filmed people fleeing the scene as Ms Zelenak and Mr McMullan were attacked.\n\nMr Siguenza described how the three attackers reached the area outside the bar below the bridge, where people threw glasses and a chair at them.\n\nThe attackers realised they were outnumbered and fled, he said.\n\nThey continued their attack elsewhere. Eight people were killed and 48 injured. The attackers were later shot dead by armed police.\n\nJulie and Mark Wallace, Ms Zelenak's mother and stepfather, also attended the inquest\n\nQuestions over why it took so long for paramedics to arrive became the focus for much of the fifth day of the inquest.\n\nMs Zelenak's mother and stepfather, Julie and Mark Wallace, watched from the courtroom as the details of her death were laid out.\n\nTheir expressions remained composed during a morning of gruelling evidence.\n\nTwo of the first police officers on the scene, PC Clint Wallis and PC Richard Norton, explained how they had performed CPR on Ms Zelenak CPR for about 10 minutes - but PC Norton agreed that they had been \"desperately in need of paramedics\".\n\nThey continued to provide treatment to victims despite the sound of gunfire.\n\nThe court heard that paramedic Gary Edwards was one of the first medics to arrive. As a tactical response paramedic, he had received specialist training for a situation such as this.\n\nHowever, reports of a gunman meant he couldn't enter the market as it had become a \"hot zone\" and wasn't \"safe enough\".\n\nThe court heard this refusal led to an angry exchange with a police officer demanding help - but Mr Edwards said that even with hindsight, he would still have responded in the same way.\n\nPC Richard Norton told the court he asked members of the public to try to flag down paramedics as he and PC Clint Wallis performed CPR on Ms Zelenak.\n\nPC Norton said he was trained to treat minor injuries but paramedics had more equipment and were better trained to deal with the kind of injuries Ms Zelenak had suffered.\n\nHe said he later heard medics were being held back until the scene was made safe.\n\nThis was part of standard protocol for dangerous areas or \"hot zones\", the court heard.\n\nThe inquest heard there were three paramedics on the scene at about 22:24 BST, some 15 minutes after the attack started.\n\nThe victims of the attack clockwise - Chrissy Archibald, Sebastien Belanger, Kirsty Boden, Ignacio Echeverria, Sara Zelenak, Xavier Thomas, Alexandre Pigeard, James McMullan\n\nLast week, Ms Zelenak's mother told the inquest her daughter was \"the happiest she had ever been\" in the lead-up to the attack.\n\nAnd Mr McMullan had been celebrating securing financial backing for his online education company on the night he was killed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ethan Lindenberger, Tun Khin and Jessikka Aro have all had false information spread about them on social media sites, which has led to harassment and even death threats.\n\nThey spoke about their stories as they came face-to-face with tech companies in Silicon Valley to try and tackle the problem.", "Julian Assange is fighting extradition to the US\n\nTo his supporters, Julian Assange is a valiant campaigner for truth. To his critics, he is a publicity seeker who has endangered lives by putting a mass of sensitive information into the public domain.\n\nAssange is described by those who have worked with him as intense, driven and highly intelligent, with an exceptional ability to crack computer codes.\n\nHe set up Wikileaks, which publishes confidential documents and images, in 2006, making headlines around the world in April 2010 when it released footage showing US soldiers shooting dead 18 civilians from a helicopter in Iraq.\n\nBut later that year he was detained in the UK - and later bailed - after Sweden issued an international arrest warrant over allegations of sexual assault.\n\nSwedish authorities wanted to question him over claims that he had raped one woman and sexually molested and coerced another in August 2010, while on a visit to Stockholm to give a lecture.\n\nHe says both encounters were entirely consensual, and a long legal battle ensued which saw him seek asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London to avoid extradition.\n\nAfter spending almost seven years inside the embassy, Assange was arrested by British police on 11 April 2019. It came after Ecuadorean President Lenín Moreno tweeted that his country had taken \"a sovereign decision\" to withdraw his asylum status.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London\n\nThe Wikileaks founder had always argued that he could not leave the embassy because he feared being extradited from Sweden to the US and put on trial for releasing secret US documents.\n\nOfficers removed him from the embassy's premises and took him into custody at a central London police station.\n\nOn 1 May 2019, Assange was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions.\n\nWeeks later, an investigation into the 2010 rape allegation against Assange was reopened by Swedish prosecutors.\n\nAssange gestures with a thumbs up after he was arrested by Met Police officers at Ecuador's embassy in London\n\nLater that month, the US filed 17 new charges against Assange for violating the Espionage Act, related to the publication of classified documents in 2010.\n\nWikileaks said the announcement was \"madness\" and \"the end of national security journalism\".\n\nAs Assange prepared to fight against extradition to the US, Swedish prosecutors announced that the investigation into the 2010 rape allegation had been dropped.\n\nProsecutors said the evidence against Assange was \"not strong enough to form the basis for filing an indictment\", ending a case that spanned a decade.\n\nIn April 2020 it emerged that Assange had fathered two children while living inside the Ecuadorean embassy.\n\nStella Morris, a South African-born lawyer, said she had been in a relationship with the Wikileaks founder since 2015 and was raising their two young sons on her own.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julian Assange’s fiancée says she dreaded going public with their relationship\n\nCurrently jailed in London's Belmarsh Prison, Assange's legal fight against extradition to the US continues.\n\nDuring one extradition hearing in September 2020, a psychiatrist said Assange complained of hearing imaginary voices and music.\n\nMichael Kopelman, who had interviewed Assange about 20 times, told the court he would be a \"very high\" suicide risk if he were extradited to the US.\n\nAssange has been generally reluctant to talk about his background, but media interest since the emergence of Wikileaks has thrown up some insight into his influences.\n\nHe was born in Townsville in the Australian state of Queensland in 1971, and led a rootless childhood while his parents ran a touring theatre. He became a father at 18 and custody battles soon followed.\n\nThe development of the internet gave him a chance to use his early promise at maths, though this too led to difficulties.\n\nAfter pleading guilty to \"hacking\", Assange escaped prison on the condition he did not reoffend\n\nIn 1995 Assange was accused, with a friend, of dozens of hacking activities. Though the group of hackers was skilled enough to track detectives tracking them, Assange was eventually caught and pleaded guilty.\n\nHe was fined several thousand Australian dollars - only escaping a prison term on the condition that he did not reoffend.\n\nHe then spent three years working with an academic, Suelette Dreyfus - who was researching the emerging, subversive side of the internet - writing a book with her, Underground, that became a bestseller in the computing fraternity.\n\nMs Dreyfus described Assange as a \"very skilled researcher\" who was \"quite interested in the concept of ethics, concepts of justice, what governments should and shouldn't do\".\n\nThis was followed by a course in physics and maths at Melbourne University, where he became a prominent member of a mathematics society, inventing an elaborate puzzle that contemporaries said he excelled at.\n\nHe began Wikileaks in 2006 with a group of like-minded people from across the web, creating a web-based \"dead-letterbox\" for would-be leakers.\n\n\"[To] keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions,\" Assange told the BBC in 2011.\n\n\"We've become good at it, and never lost a case, or a source, but we can't expect everyone to go through the extraordinary efforts that we do.\"\n\nHe could go for long stretches without eating and focus on work with very little sleep, according to Raffi Khatchadourian, a reporter for the New Yorker magazine who spent several weeks travelling with him.\n\n\"He creates this atmosphere around him where the people who are close to him want to care for him, to help keep him going. I would say that probably has something to do with his charisma.\"\n\nWikileaks and Assange came to prominence with the release of the footage of the US helicopter shooting civilians in Iraq.\n\nHe promoted and defended the video, as well as the massive release of classified US military documents on the Afghan and Iraq wars in July and October 2010.\n\nThe whistleblowing website went on to release new tranches of documents, including five million confidential emails from US-based intelligence company Stratfor.\n\nBut it also found itself fighting for survival in 2010, when a number of US financial institutions began to block donations.\n\nAssange told the BBC that in order to protect sources he would \"encrypt everything\"\n\nCoverage of Assange was then dominated by Sweden's efforts to question him over the 2010 sexual allegations. He said such efforts were politically motivated and part of a smear campaign.\n\nAssange turned to then Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa for help, the two men having expressed similar views on freedom in the past.\n\nHis stay at the Ecuadorean embassy was punctuated by occasional press statements and interviews. He made a submission to the UK's Leveson Inquiry into press standards, saying he had faced \"widespread inaccurate and negative media coverage\".\n\nConcerns over his health also surfaced but in August 2014, but Assange dismissed reports that he would be leaving the embassy to seek medical treatment.\n\nAssange later complained to the UN that he was being unlawfully detained as he could not leave the embassy without being arrested.\n\nIn February 2016, a UN panel ruled in his favour, stating that he had been \"arbitrarily detained\" and should be allowed to walk free and compensated for his \"deprivation of liberty\".\n\nAssange dismissed reports in 2014 that he would be leaving the embassy to seek medical treatment\n\nAssange hailed it a \"significant victory\" and called the decision \"binding\", leading his lawyers to call for the Swedish extradition request to be dropped immediately.\n\nThe ruling was not legally binding on the UK, however, and the UK Foreign Office responded by saying it \"changes nothing\".\n\nIn 2016, Sweden's chief prosecutor Ingrid Isgren travelled to the Ecuadorean embassy in London to question Assange over the 2010 rape allegation. Prosecutors had already dropped their investigation into the sexual assault allegations after running out of time to question him and bring charges.\n\nSince Sweden dropped its investigation into Assange, the European Arrest Warrant for him no longer stands.\n\nBut the Metropolitan Police said Assange still faced the lesser charge of failing to surrender to a court in June 2012, an offence punishable by up to a year in prison or a fine.\n\nAnd it was a warrant based on this charge which led to his arrest in 2019. Citing the warrant issued by Westminster Magistrates' Court on 29 June 2012, the Metropolitan Police said Assange had been \"taken into custody at a central London police station where he will remain, before being presented before Westminster Magistrates' Court as soon as possible\".\n\nMet Police officers dragged Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he had stayed since 2012\n\nThe police said they had been invited into the embassy by the Ecuadorean ambassador.\n\nEcuador's position vis-à-vis Assange changed after President Correa, a strong advocate of Wikileaks, was succeeded in office by Lenín Moreno.\n\nMr Moreno and his government had grown increasingly frustrated with Assange and his refusal to follow the rules they had imposed for his continued stay in the embassy.\n\nIn his video statement, President Moreno said he had \"inherited this situation\" and that Assange had ignored Ecuador's requests to \"respect and abide by these rules\".\n\nFrom the embassy's balcony in 2012, Assange urged the US to end its \"witchhunt\" against Wikileaks\n\nHis decision, Mr Moreno said, followed \"repeated violations to international conventions and daily-life protocols\" by Assange.\n\nHe said that in particular, Assange had \"violated the norm of not intervening in the internal affairs of other states\", most recently in January 2019 when Wikileaks had released documents from the Vatican.\n\nIn a video statement, President Moreno also said that he had requested that Great Britain guarantee that Assange would not be extradited to a country where he could face torture or the death penalty.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Steven Anderson has previously called for the death of Barack Obama and praised the gunman who killed 49 people in a gay night club attack in Florida\n\nA controversial US preacher has become the first person to be banned from Ireland under a 20-year-old power.\n\nSteven Anderson, a pastor from Arizona, runs the Faithful Word Baptist church and openly expresses anti-gay and anti-Semitic views.\n\nHis website claimed that he was due to preach in Dublin on 26 May.\n\nHowever, an online petition calling for Mr Anderson to be banned from Ireland was created in response, and gained 14,000 signatures.\n\nMr Anderson has previously called for the death of former US President Barack Obama and praised the gunman who killed 49 people in an attack on a gay night club in Florida in 2016.\n\nSteven Anderson is one of America's most controversial preachers.\n\nHe was born and raised in Sacramento, California, and started the Faithful Word Baptist Church in December 2005 from his Arizona living room.\n\nAccording to the church's website, he met his wife Zsuzsanna \"while soul-winning\" as an 18-year-old on the streets of Munich in Germany.\n\nThe couple have been married for more than 17 years and have 10 children.\n\nThe church's website says Mr Anderson has memorised \"well over 140 chapters of the Bible\".\n\nThe website describes the church as an \"old-fashioned, independent, fundamental, King James Bible only, soul-winning Baptist church\".\n\nMr Anderson claims to have his materials translated into more than 115 languages.\n\nIrish Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan signed an exclusion order for Mr Anderson with immediate effect on 10 May under the Immigration Act 1999.\n\nIt is the first time an exclusion order has been granted since the creation of the act 20 years ago.\n\nMr Anderson has been banned from a number of countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Flanagan said he had signed the order \"under my executive powers in the interests of public policy\".", "An inquest is examining the deaths of 10 people killed in shootings at Ballymurphy in August 1971\n\nA former paratrooper has broken down in tears at an inquest into the deaths of 10 people in west Belfast, saying that \"rogue soldiers\" were \"out of control\" and \"shot innocent people\".\n\nThe inquest is looking into shootings in August 1971, amid disturbances in Ballymurphy sparked by the introduction of internment without trial.\n\nRelatives of the 10 people fatally shot insist that none of them was armed or involved in any terrorist activity.\n\nHe said he was in the Henry Taggart Army base shortly after an incident in which four people were fatally shot.\n\nThe base was occupied by B Company but M597 said he knew many of the soldiers from their training in Aldershot in England.\n\nA Company is a military unit consisting of scores of soldiers.\n\nM597 told Belfast Coroners' Court on Monday that many of the paratroopers he knew were honest, professional soldiers who did the right thing.\n\nBut he added that some were \"psychopaths\" who were dangerous to be around.\n\nHe wept briefly as he described seeing three or four bodies in the hall and recalled what the soldiers there told him had happened.\n\nHe said the soldiers were on a high, excited, and had clearly enjoyed what they had done.\n\nHe said they told him that B Company officers had lost control and that the Army would give them cover for whatever they had done.\n\nM597 said they felt they could \"shoot anything that gets in the way\".\n\nSoldiers from the Parachute Regiment were based at Henry Taggart Army base\n\nHe said the soldiers made a joke about the bodies and seemed to show no respect for those they had killed.\n\n\"It was a joke to them,\" he told the court.\n\nThose killed in Ballymurphy included a mother of eight and a priest.\n\nM597 also said the B Company soldiers had told him that, in their view, \"any man or woman walking the street was in the IRA or associated with the IRA and for that reason alone could or would be shot\".\n\nHe said the soldiers he met \"revelled in what happened\".\n\nLast week, the inquest heard claims that paratroopers had used a man's skull as an ashtray and that soldiers held a sweepstake on who would kill a gunman first.\n\nThey had featured in the book Killing Zone, written by a former fellow soldier, the barrister Henry Gow.\n\nAs he was about to leave the court, M597 told the families of the Ballymurphy victims that the claims were false.\n\n\"I am truly sorry for any part I played in this and I would like you to leave here not believing what [Henry] Gow told you last week, because it's not true,\" he said.\n\n\"I'd hate for you guys to go through the rest of your life thinking that - it's just not true.\"\n\nM597 had earlier described being handed the book while working in the Middle East, reading it and saying to himself: \"This is absolute garbage.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, he explained that on 9 August 1971, he had shot and wounded a petrol bomber on the Falls Road in west Belfast and had accompanied him to hospital.\n\nHe said the incident was not properly investigated, but that the battalion adjutant had called him into his office some days later and given him \"literally a pat on the back\".\n\nHe said the officer had told him \"the only mistake you made was not killing the...\" and said that the officer then swore.\n\nM597 said he had no memory of making a proper statement.\n\nHe said that many months later in court he agreed to drop the charge of petrol bombing against the man because he had nothing against him.\n\nHe also described a separate occasion when he was given photographs of shooting victims by a medic or doctor but refused to keep them.\n\nHe said he thought: \"God, these are real people from here.\"\n\nOf those weeks in 1971 he said: \"It was sheer bravado - rogue soldiers were out of control, killing people in the street and knowing they would be protected.\"\n\nHe also rejected the suggestion from a Ministry of Defence barrister that he had not been at the Henry Taggart base at all, because he could not identify the name of anyone who had discussed the shootings with him.\n\nAsked why he had not raised what he had heard at the time, he said the Parachute Regiment was not much different now to 50 years ago.\n\n\"It's like the Ku Klux Klan, like a brotherhood - they are sticking together.\"\n\nHe later added: \"It wasn't an organisation where you go to an officer and say that kind of thing.\n\n\"You would've been in real, deep trouble.\"\n\nM597 said he was shocked by what he had found about the Parachute Regiment on social media.\n\nHe told the court it was not right that instructions had been posted online urging former soldiers not to cooperate with the inquest - instructions such as \"dementia, delay, death\".\n\nHe added that he did not \"want any part of that\".\n\nEarlier on Monday, a former Royal Military policeman told the court he had been at the Henry Taggart base a day after the deaths and had heard stories from the soldiers there about what had happened.\n\nSoldier M928 said that soldiers told him about the shooting of the priest Father Hugh Mullan and heard the rumour that he had been moving a weapon or weapons at the time.\n\nFr Mullan was shot near Springfield Park, some distance away from the base.\n\nThe soldier was asked why he had told investigators three years ago that he had witnessed that incident.\n\nM928 said he had mixed two separate incidents up in his head and when he realised his mistake he had corrected it at the time.\n\nHe also denied witnessing the abuse of prisoners at Girdwood Barracks in north Belfast where he often delivered prisoners arrested by the Army.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The incident was captured on CCTV\n\nFlorida prosecutors have dropped all charges against UFC star Conor McGregor after he was arrested for allegedly smashing a fan's phone.\n\nThe Irish fighter had been charged with strong-armed robbery and misdemeanour criminal mischief.\n\nBut on Monday state prosecutors said the alleged victim had gone abroad and stopped co-operating with police.\n\nThe incident took place on 11 March as McGregor, 30, left the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel.\n\nAccording to a police report filed at the time, the fan was trying to take pictures when the fighter knocked it out of his hand, before stamping on it, picking it up and leaving with it.\n\nThe phone was valued at $1,000 (£760).\n\n\"The victim of the crime does not wish to return to the United States and prosecute this case,\" Prosecutor Khalil Madani told the Miami court on Monday.\n\nMcGregor had already settled a civil lawsuit with the victim out of court.\n\nThe former two-weight UFC champion was arrested in Florida in March\n\nVideo of the incident captured by CCTV cameras appears to show the fighter getting into an altercation outside the luxury hotel.\n\nThe former two-weight champion had been in Florida preparing for his UFC comeback after losing his last fight to Khabib Nurmagomedov of Russia in 2018.\n\nThat came a year after McGregor lost a boxing match, thought to be the most lucrative in history, to multiple world champion Floyd Mayweather.\n\nAmerican Mayweather earned a reported $100m (£76m) from the bout, with McGregor thought to have pocketed $30m.\n\nLast year, McGregor was ordered by a court to have anger management training and perform five days of community service in return for the dropping of criminal charges for attacking a bus containing rival UFC fighters.", "Yemen, one of the Arab world's poorest countries, has been devastated by a civil war which has been going on since 2015.\n\nTaiz, the country’s third largest city, has seen some of the worst fighting. Snipers haunt the streets and open spaces, meaning civilians in the city are constantly at risk of being shot.\n\nTaiz is extremely dangerous for journalists to visit. The BBC recently obtained some exclusive footage showing the extent of the destruction and the level of fear that the residents live with.", "British diplomats in Tehran are seeking further information from Iranian authorities\n\nAn Iranian woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran for spying for the UK, officials say.\n\nJudiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said the woman had been \"in charge of the Iran desk\" of the British Council, a cultural organisation.\n\nShe confessed to \"co-operating\" with British intelligence, he alleged.\n\nMr Esmaili did not identify the woman. But a relative named her as Aras Amiri, a London-based British Council employee who was detained in Iran in March 2018.\n\nMs Amiri's cousin, Mohsen Omrani, said last May that she had been accused of \"acting against national security\".\n\nThis charge has been laid by Iranian authorities against a range of activists, journalists and a number of dual citizens and foreign nationals detained in recent years.\n\nMr Omrani said his cousin, a student at London's Kingston University, had made frequent trips to Iran in the past without any problems.\n\nThe UK is currently engaged in a protracted effort to free another woman, the dual British-Iranian national, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, from prison in Tehran. She is serving a five-year sentence for spying - a charge she denied.\n\nMr Omrani says her cousin is being held in the same section of the prison as Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nAt a news conference on Monday, Mr Esmaili said \"an Iranian female student\" who had been \"in charge of the Iran desk at the British Council\" had been sentenced for spying.\n\n\"The person travelled to the country [Iran] using a false name in order to implement design, plan and lead various projects regarding the implementation of the cultural objectives of the old colonialism [UK] inside Islamic Iran,\" he added.\n\n\"The person was involved in contacting theatre and art groups to implement that very issue of cultural infiltration or cultural ambush.\"\n\nMr Esmaili said such actions \"drew the attention of Iran's security and intelligence services\", which led to the woman's arrest last year.\n\nFiles presented at her trial showed she \"very quickly and clearly confessed\" to passing information to British intelligence agents, he added.\n\nThe British Council is the UK's international organisation working in arts and culture, English language, education and civil society. It is a charity governed by Royal Charter and receives a 15% core funding grant from the UK government.\n\nIt does not have offices or representatives in Iran and does not work in Iran.\n\nA spokeswoman told the BBC that Ms Amiri, whose \"UK-focused\" role involved connecting Iranian writers with translators, did not travel to Iran on British Council business.\n\nShe said the British Council had not had contact with Amiri since her arrest, which happened while she was visiting a family member.\n\nIts chief executive, Sir Ciarán Devane, earlier said: \"Our colleague's safety and wellbeing remain our first concern, as it has been throughout their detention.\"\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office is seeking further information from Iran.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Education Secretary Damian Hinds: 'This is not about the leader of the party'\n\nThe European Parliament elections will be seen as an opportunity for the ultimate protest vote, Education Secretary Damian Hinds has said.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme the elections would be difficult for the Conservatives and that \"for some people this is the second referendum\".\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage told the show there had been a breakdown in trust between people and politicians.\n\nElections for 73 MEPs to the European Parliament will take place on 23 May.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back to 31 October after Parliament was unable to agree a way forward.\n\nThe government is continuing to talk to the Labour party about progress in the Brexit process, and those cross-party talks are due to continue on Monday.\n\nMeanwhile, shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer has told the Guardian that he doubts a cross-party deal lacking a confirmatory referendum could pass Parliament.\n\nMr Hinds said: \"I don't think anyone is in any doubt these are going to be difficult elections for us - that much has been clear from the very start.\n\n\"For some people this is the ultimate protest vote opportunity. Actually, ironically this is, in a sense, for some people, this is the second referendum,\" he added.\n\nMr Hinds said he would have preferred the government \"didn't have to go into talks with Labour\" but asked: \"What's the alternative?\n\n\"I disagree with Labour on many things... but there is some commonality of interest here.\n\n\"This is about our democracy, about our system and to repay the trust that people put in us we need to get things done for our constituents.\"\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said Labour had put forward alternatives in its negotiations in the Brexit process.\n\n\"We're trying to negotiate that with the government, as I say it's not getting very far, but we are still engaging in those negotiations in good faith.\"\n\nIn a tense interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Farage said that if the Brexit Party was successful in the European Parliament elections, he would ask for the party's MEPs to become part of the government's EU negotiating team.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MEP Nigel Farage says immigration \"isn't the burning issue of the time\" now\n\n\"We've got a two-party system that now serves nothing but itself,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a complete breakdown of trust between the people in this country and our politicians and frankly they revealed themselves to be grossly incompetent.\"\n\nAhead of European elections, two separate polls - by ComRes and Opinium - give Mr Farage's Brexit Party the biggest share of the vote with the Conservatives in fourth place behind Labour and the Lib Dems.\n\nFormer prime minister Tony Blair expressed frustration with Labour's position on Brexit saying it was \"clear they are not Remain in an unequivocal sense\".\n\nOn Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday, the former Labour leader urged Labour supporters who can no longer vote for the party to endorse one which backs Remain.\n\nHe said it was \"important the anti-Brexit side is larger and stronger than the Farage side\" in the European elections.\n\n\"I do come across people who cannot vote for Labour, in which case I say 'don't stay at home - vote for any of the other parties',\" he said.", "Eric Schmidt is to leave Alphabet's board in June\n\nFormer Google boss Eric Schmidt has defended the company’s record on multiple controversies: its work in China, its treatment of women, and its tax affairs.\n\nThe 64-year-old executive, who sits on the board at Google’s parent company, Alphabet, said the tech giant was right to pursue opportunities in China, despite heavy criticism from senior US officials.\n\n\"The world is a very interconnected place,” Mr Schmidt told BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis.\n\n\"There are many, many benefits interacting, among other things, with China.”\n\nGeneral Joseph Dunford, who as chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff is the highest ranking American in uniform, said Google’s work \"indirectly benefits the Chinese military and creates a challenge for us in maintaining a competitive advantage\".\n\n\"That's like saying America makes pencils and pencils are used by the Chinese.”\n\nGoogle has had a tumultuous history in China. It left the country in 2010 over concerns it was being by censored and cyber-attacked by Beijing, and instead set up an operation in Hong Kong.\n\nMr Schmidt said he disagreed with that move.\n\n“I believed they would be better to stay in China, and help change China to be more open.”\n\nMore recently, the company has been building a presence in the country once again, with an estimated 700 employees now working on advertising and other development. In 2017, it established the Google AI China Center, in Shanghai.\n\nLast year, reporting from The Intercept and New York Times revealed Google had been working on a project named Dragonfly, a search engine that would reportedly fall in line with Beijing’s requirements.\n\nIt was highly controversial, and prompted high-profile resignations, and a letter of protest signed by 1,400 Google employees.\n\nThe company has since said it was no longer working on the project.\n\nWhen asked why most Google employees only learned of Dragonfly via media reports, Mr Schmidt said he had no direct involvement in the project, but that “I can tell you that certainly the people who were building all these products knew about it”.\n\nMr Schmidt ran Google as chief executive and chairman from 2001 to 2011, then executive chairman until 2015. He then became executive chairman of Alphabet, the company set up as Google’s parent.\n\nIn that time, the Google's motto transitioned from, famously, “Don’t be evil” into “do the right thing”. Over the past 12 months, employee discontent has challenged that notion both internally and externally. Last November, staff at Google offices globally staged a walk-out over issues surrounding gender equality at the firm.\n\nThe protest took place after a New York Times investigation discovered Google had quietly paid former executive Andy Rubin $90m in severance, despite there being a credible claim of sexual harassment made against him.\n\nMr Schmidt told Newsnight the firm’s employees protested because they felt empowered.\n\n\"And the fact of the matter is that if we had tried to suppress this stuff it would have come out anyway. It's much better to encourage people to express their opinions.\n\n\"We would argue that [the protests show] our culture at work. Google is famously empowering of its employees and we want to hear from them. These are cases where the employees collectively felt very strongly about the decisions that the company had made.”\n\nA follow-up protest took place last month after organisers of November’s walk-out claimed they were being punished for their activism.\n\n\"My manager started ignoring me,” wrote Clare Stapleton, a Google employee in New York, in an internal memo obtained by Wired magazine. “My work was given to other people, and I was told to go on medical leave, even though I’m not sick.”\n\nMr Schmidt stepped down as Alphabet’s chairman in 2017, but remained on the board. Last month, he said he would be leaving the firm altogether in June.\n\nThroughout his tenure, the tax affairs of Google - like other tech giants - have been under close scrutiny. The company has always maintained that it adheres to the tax laws in all of the countries that it operates in.\n\nDocuments filed in the Netherlands showed Google moved 19.9 billion euros (£17.9bn, $22.7bn) to a shell company in Bermuda, a tax haven. Mr Schmidt told the BBC he was happy the company’s tax affairs were ethical.\n\n“We are required to follow the tax rules, and the tax rules allow that,” he said.\n\n\"When those tax rules change of course we will adopt them. But there is a presumption that somehow we're doing something wrong here. We’re following the global tax regime.”\n\nHe added: “Would you like us to give more, voluntarily, to these governments?\n\n“I will defend the company and the way it works for a very long time.\"", "That's the end of our coverage on this live page. Thanks for sticking with us over the past two days.\n\nThe election has produced an intriguing set of results. Stay tuned to the BBC News NI website over the coming days for more reaction and analysis.", "This Country writer and actress Daisy May Cooper took to the Bafta TV Awards red carpet wearing a dress made from bin bags and rubbish, made by her mother.\n\nShe told BBC entertainment correspondent Lizo Mzimba she donated the money she would have spent on a proper dress to her local food bank.", "Brighton have sacked manager Chris Hughton after they finished 17th in the Premier League.\n\nThe Seagulls won just three of their last 23 league games and none of their final nine.\n\nChairman Tony Bloom said that run \"put our status at significant risk\".\n\nHughton, who joined Albion in December 2014, led the club to the Premier League for the first time in 2017, and they finished 15th in their first season back in the top flight.\n\nSwansea boss Graham Potter, 43, who joined the club from Swedish side Ostersunds in 2018, is the favourite with the bookmakers to replace Hughton.\n\nHughton, 60, who was contracted until 2021, also took the club to the FA Cup semi-final this season, where they lost 1-0 to Manchester City.\n\nBloom said: \"Our run of three wins from 23 Premier League matches put our status at significant risk. It is with that in mind, and the performances during that period, that I now feel it's the right time for a change.\n\n\"Undoubtedly, this has been one of the most difficult decisions I have had to make as chairman of Brighton, but ultimately one I have made due to how we struggled in the second half of the season.\"\n\nHughton won 40.93% of his 215 games in charge and was named the Premier League's manager of the month in March 2018.\n\nHe is the seventh Premier League manager to be sacked this season.\n\nBloom praised Hughton for an \"excellent job\" in stabilising the club, achieving promotion and retaining their Premier League status.\n\n\"Chris will always be very fondly remembered by Albion staff and fans as one of our club's finest and most respected managers,\" he added.\n\nFan website wearebrighton.com said most would \"feel pity for Hughton\" and that the sacking represented a \"huge gamble\" for Bloom in the \"cut-throat world of modern day football\".\n\n\"There are countless tales of woe of clubs getting rid of managers in favour of trying something new, only for it to end in tears,\" it added, citing departures such as that of Alan Curbishley from now-League One Charlton Athletic.\n\nBut it said Hughton's record in the second half of the season meant there could only be one outcome: \"There is no getting away from the fact that since Christmas, they have been nowhere near good enough - and not many clubs would stick with a manager who was delivering so little over the course of five months.\"\n\nFormer player Kerry Mayo, who made more than 400 appearances for the club, told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"I don't think it's a great surprise. He's a great manager and has done a fantastic job for Brighton with the resources he had, but results from Christmas tell a story.\n\n\"Football is a results game and he hasn't been able to keep Brighton mid-table where they should be with that squad. They're still a Premier League club, which they would have taken that at the start of the season, but in the second part of the season they've gone from playing positively to trying to pick up the odd point to get them over the line.\"\n\nIt is the third time the former Republic of Ireland defender has been sacked - he was dismissed by Newcastle in 2010 and Norwich in 2014.\n\nBrighton achieved Premier League safety with one game remaining when Cardiff, who finished two points behind them in 18th, were relegated on 4 May.\n\nThe Seagulls lost 4-1 at home to Manchester City on Sunday, as Pep Guardiola's side retained the Premier League title.\n\nBrighton appointed Football Association technical director Dan Ashworth in the same role earlier this year and in February he said his aim was to keep Hughton in a job for as long as possible.\n\nIt doesn't come as a total surprise. Do Brighton want to stay in this position next season? Tony Bloom has decided they've got to go down another route.\n\nThe frustration for the fans this season has been that they started so well and then tailed off and they may have learned a lesson from that, but clearly the chairman doesn't want to risk that again next season.\n\nThey are going through a change, with Dan Ashworth coming in to overhaul the recruitment and academy side of things, and now clearly they want to go in a different direction with the manager as well.\n\nI'm sure they will want someone in place as quickly as possible as the summer recruitment plans will have already started.", "Former US President Jimmy Carter has undergone surgery for a broken hip after falling at his home in Georgia, his office says.\n\nThe 94-year-old, the oldest living former US president, was on his way to go turkey hunting when he fell.\n\nMr Carter was recovering comfortably at a medical centre in Americus, near his home in Plains, with his wife, Rosalynn, a statement said.\n\nHis surgeon was quoted as saying that the operation was successful.\n\nA Democrat from Georgia, Mr Carter was a relative unknown in the US political world when he was elected president in 1976. He served from 1977 to 1981.\n\n\"President Carter said his main concern is that turkey season ends this week, and he has not reached his limit. He hopes the State of Georgia will allow him to rollover the unused limit to next year,\" the Carter Center said.\n\nSince leaving the White House, Mr Carter has remained active, carrying out humanitarian work with his Carter Center in recent years.\n\nIn 2015, Mr Carter - who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 - disclosed that cancer that had been found on his liver had also been discovered on his brain.\n\nAt the time, he said: \"I've had a wonderful life... I've got thousands of friends and I've had an exciting and adventurous and gratifying existence.\"", "A transgender LGBT rights campaigner and former taxi driver who won £4m on a lottery scratchcard has died.\n\nMelissa Ede bought the winning card when she stopped for petrol on her way to work in December 2017.\n\nBefore her win the 58-year-old, from Hull, was known for her online videos and TV appearances and had thousands of followers on social media.\n\nHumberside Police confirmed she died on Saturday night and said her death was not suspicious.\n\nEarlier this month, Ms Ede, posted a message on Facebook thanking paramedics and hospital staff \"for looking after me\" when she was suffering from chest pains.\n\nMs Ede once described her lottery win as a \"fairytale ending\"\n\nWhen she had her big win, Ms Ede explained how she went into a local garage for fuel and could not decide whether to also buy cigarettes or the £10 National Lottery Blue Scratchcard.\n\n\"What a fairytale ending,\" she said.\n\n\"It is all just like a dream.\"\n\nThe lottery millionaire said she wanted to concentrate on helping others experiencing gender challenges and to write her autobiography.\n\n\"The transgender fight to where I am now has been a very difficult path,\" she said.\n\nShe underwent surgery nearly nine years ago and said she was \"really proud of who I am today\".\n\nMs Ede is famous for posting online videos of herself, mostly featuring her singing and dancing in skimpy outfits.\n\nAmong her TV appearances include the ITV court show, Judge Rinder, and The Jeremy Kyle Show.\n\nShe described how she used to work up to 15 hours a day as a taxi driver and lived in one room in a shared house.\n\nIn a statement, Humberside Police said it was called to reports of \"concern for safety of a woman outside a property on Cleminson Gardens at 22:40 BST\" who was pronounced dead after receiving \"immediate medical attention\".", "Having narrowly missed being struck by a light aircraft that crashed on a dual carriageway, two motorists leapt into action to save those on board.\n\nDaniel Nicholson and Joel Snarr said they were just acting on instinct after dragging the pilot and two passengers out with just minor injuries.\n\nMr Nicholson said he was the first to get to the plane: \"I realised it was upside down - it was already on fire.\n\n\"I got under the wing and I could see they were all still alive, and obviously in a lot of distress.\"\n\nThe pair have been called heroes for their actions.\n\nThis video contains footage filmed by eye-witness Daniel Nicholson.", "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", "Former Sheffield Wednesday club secretary Graham Mackrell had responsibility for safety at Hillsborough stadium\n\nThe stadium safety officer in charge at the time of the Hillsborough disaster has been fined £6,500.\n\nFormer secretary of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club, Graham Mackrell, is the first person to be convicted of an offence relating to the tragedy.\n\nMackrell, 69, of Stocking Pelham, Hertfordshire, failed to ensure there were enough turnstiles to prevent large crowds building up.\n\nHe was also ordered to pay £5,000 towards the prosecution costs.\n\nNinety-six Liverpool fans died following the crush in the central pens of the Leppings Lane terrace at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989.\n\nThe people who lost their lives in the Hillsborough disaster\n\nMackrell sat in the well of the court rather than the dock for the sentencing hearing at Preston Crown Court.\n\nHe was found guilty last month after an 11-week trial of failing to discharge a duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act in respect of ensuring there were enough turnstiles to prevent unduly large crowds building up outside the ground.\n\nThe jury in the trial was unable to reach a verdict over match commander David Duckenfield, 74, who denied the gross negligence manslaughter of 95 Liverpool fans.\n\nThe court heard there were seven turnstiles available for the 10,100 Liverpool fans with standing tickets.\n\nJudge Sir Peter Openshaw said: \"He should have realised there was an obvious risk that so many spectators could not pass through seven turnstiles in time for kick-off.\"\n\nBut Judge Openshaw said Mackrell's offence did not directly cause the disaster inside the ground.\n\nHe said: \"The defendant's offence was at least one of the direct causes of the crush at the turnstiles outside the ground but it was not a direct cause of the crush on the terraces inside the ground that resulted in the deaths of 96 spectators and injury to many more, to which the crush outside the ground did no more than set the scene.\"\n\nThe jury heard 96 men, women and children died as a result of a fatal crush on the Leppings Lane terrace\n\nIn a statement, Mackrell said he was \"grateful\" the judge had recognised \"my conduct did not cause or contribute to the death of any person or cause any person to be injured on that tragic day\".\n\nHe added: \"Despite that, I do wish to take this opportunity to make clear my sympathy to all those impacted by this appalling tragedy.\n\n\"No-one should have to go through what the families have experienced.\"\n\nOutside court, Louise Brookes, whose brother Andrew died at Hillsborough, called the sentence \"shameful\" and said the fine amounted to £67.70 per life lost.\n\n\"Our 96 deserve better than this and us families deserve better than this. We are all getting on in age and enough is enough,\" she said.\n\n\"My weekly shopping costs more than £67.70.\"\n\nChristine Burke, whose father Henry died in the disaster, added: \"When Hillsborough happened he [Mackrell] was in charge of the safety certificate at the time and he should have been sacked straight away.\n\n\"He went on to bigger and better things, he was promoted. This is a man who has been paid very well and gone on to do other things. That should not have happened.\"\n\nThe court heard Mackrell made £700 a week in his job as administrator for the Football League Managers' Association and earned an additional £670 a week from pensions.\n\nA hearing to decide whether Mr Duckenfield will face a retrial is expected to be held next month.\n\nUnder the law at the time, there can be no prosecution for the 96th victim, Tony Bland, as he died more than a year and a day after the disaster.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The footage of the attempted robbery was caught on CCTV\n\nMembers of a moped gang who threatened to hurt a woman's three-year-old son in a \"shocking\" attempted robbery have been jailed.\n\nThe mother was grabbed in June in Richmond, London, by a man, saying \"give me your rings - I'm going to hurt your child and take him away\".\n\nShe dragged her child into the road before builders chased the gang away.\n\nThe gang of 12 were also involved in stealing BBC camera equipment from the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.\n\nThe men were all sentenced at Kingston Crown Court on Monday.\n\nThe gang attempted to steal cameras from Putney Bridge during the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race\n\nThe court heard how the woman had been walking hand-in-hand with her son in Sandpits Road on 21 June when gang member John McFadyen, 24, grabbed her arm.\n\nShe pulled away into the road and builders brandishing scaffolding poles then chased the gang away.\n\nFootage of the mother dragging her son into the road went viral after being tweeted by TV presenter Amanda Holden.\n\nJudge Georgina Kent said it was an \"exceptionally serious and shocking attempted robbery\" which had \"a degree of planning\".\n\nThe judge noted that \"fortunately there were no cars in the vicinity at that moment\" but added the mother was now \"afraid for her children's safety when she takes them to and from school\".\n\nThe defendants, all aged between 18 and 36, also used their mopeds to block traffic before taking an angle grinder to cameras rigged up to capture the 2018 Boat Race on 22 March.\n\nThe gang were pictured attempting to steal the BBC camera equipment\n\nAfter one attempt on Putney Bridge failed, a highly-specialised camera worth an estimated £170,000 was stolen from Lonsdale Road by Barnes Bridge.\n\nThe gang, whose leader was Terry Marsh, 32, had previously been involved in two thefts of the same high-end outdoor clothing shop in Kensington, violently assaulting a security guard during the second raid.\n\nOverall, it cost the business £43,000 in lost goods and a total of £80,000 including damage.\n\nSince then other offences have included stealing an officer's bag from an unmarked police car, spraying a police car with fire foam extinguishers as officers waited for a stolen moped to be collected and the theft of £83,000 worth of MacBooks and other Apple products from another Kensington business.\n\nThe gang were all linked to ringleader Terry Marsh, who was jailed for 13 years and two months\n\nFour defendants also travelled to Redditch, Worcestershire, in January 2018 where they stole three motorbikes worth a total of £30,000 after spotting the owner's address on an eBay advert.\n\nThree of the gang, Omar Tafat, 22, Josh Myers, 19, and Kian Taylor, 20, were caught following a high-speed police chase lasting more than 90 minutes. All three piled on to the same bike, which was driven the wrong way on the A40 on 7 May 2018.\n\nJudge Kent said many of the gang's offences used motorbikes or mopeds, often stolen with false number plates.\n\nShe added: \"The motorbike helmets and clothing, often all in black, were an effective disguise and created an intimidating appearance. The motorbikes provided a quick getaway.\n\n\"Many of these offences were committed in public view because you were confident you could get away with it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City retained their Premier League title and finally ended Liverpool's magnificent challenge after surviving a scare to come from behind and outclass Brighton at the Amex.\n\nPep Guardiola's side started the day knowing victory would ensure they would be the first team to retain the crown since Manchester United 10 years ago - but any slip-up could let in their relentless pursuers Liverpool, who were hosting Wolves at Anfield.\n\nAnd when Glenn Murray gave the Seagulls the lead with a glancing header from a corner after 27 minutes, anxiety rose in Sussex and hopes rose at Anfield that Liverpool might win their first title in 29 years.\n\nManchester City's response was instant, emphatic and ruthless as they swept Brighton aside to end the campaign with a record 14 successive league victories, making it 32 in all, which equals the record they set last season.\n\nSergio Aguero pounced in the area to equalise inside 83 seconds and Aymeric Laporte arrived unmarked on the end of a corner to put City ahead before half-time.\n\nBrighton had no way back and City completed the formalities in spectacular style as Riyad Mahrez fired high past Mat Ryan just after the hour and Ilkay Gundogan's spectacular 72nd minute free-kick sparked wild celebrations.\n\nCity may not have repeated the 100 points that won the title last season but this was arguably an even sweeter success given the season-long battle with Liverpool.\n\nThey will now aim to complete a unique domestic treble when they face Watford in the FA Cup final at Wembley on 18 May.\n• None From the chief exec's Pep talk to Silva surprise - unseen moments that defined Man City's season\n• None The best top two in history - the numbers behind remarkable title race\n• None The 11mm title? The tiny margins that decided an extraordinary battle\n\nCity knew their task at kick-off in Sussex - but whether it was a combination of nerves or unwitting complacency, it took the fright of going behind to kick them into action.\n\nCity were careless and lacking in urgency until Murray bundled in a near-post header.\n\nIt was the signal for the last assault on the title.\n\nAguero swiftly put the show back on the road and once Laporte escape the attentions of Murray to head home, this was job done.\n\nIt was a fitting decoration that the final two goals of City's season were thunderous efforts from Mahrez and Gundogan, demonstrating the quality that is spread so liberally through this squad.\n\nBrighton, to their credit, did not simply stand aside and allow the party to take place: Chris Hughton's side were organised and resilient but once they levelled matters up, City were irresistible.\n\nAnd even the home fans accepted the inevitable by the final whistle, rising to first give a standing ovation to City captain Vincent Kompany when he was substituted and then to Guardiola and his team once referee Michael Oliver had sounded the final whistle that confirmed they were were Premier League champions for the fourth time and for the sixth time in total.\n\nCity's achievement, completed with that astonishing 14-game win towards the winning post, is underscored by the fact they saw off a Liverpool side that lost just once this season - to City - and amassed 97 points.\n\nThis is a magnificent feat by Guardiola and Manchester City.\n\nThe best team always ends as Premier League champions - and no matter how superbly Liverpool have performed, they came up against a truly outstanding team that was just one point better.\n\nThis was a day of celebration for Manchester City - and also one of satisfaction for Brighton as they look forward to another season in the Premier League.\n\nIt was a particularly special day for their iconic 38-year-old Spanish defender Bruno, who was making his final appearance. He was cheered throughout and made an emotional farewell when he was taken off.\n\nBruno, clearly loved down here, was also acclaimed during a post-match speech.\n\nThe Brighton fans left for summer in good heart after surviving late worries they may be hauled into the relegation fight and now shrewd manager Hughton will start plotting again to ensure they are in position for another season of consolidation when it all starts again in August.\n• None Manchester City have won their fourth Premier League title - only Manchester United (13) and Chelsea (5) have ever won more in the competition.\n• None Overall, City have won their sixth English top-flight title. They're the first side to retain the title since Manchester United in 2008-09.\n• None This was the eighth time the Premier League title has been decided on the final day of the season, with Manchester City winning it on three of those occasions (2011-12, 2013-14 and 2018-19).\n• None City's haul of 98 points is the joint-second highest for any team in English top-flight history (converting to three points for a win) - only City themselves have ever earned more (100 in 2017-18).\n• None City conceded the first goal in a Premier League game for the first time since their 2-0 defeat at Chelsea in December - they were behind for just 83 seconds before Sergio Aguero's equaliser.\n• None City have won their last 14 Premier League games - only City themselves (18 in December 2017) have had a longer winning run in the competition.\n• None City have won 32 Premier League games this season - equalling their own record in the competition from last season for most wins in a single campaign in the competition.\n• None Sergio Aguero has scored 32 goals in all competitions for Man City this season - only in 2016-17 (33) has he scored more in a single campaign for City.\n• None City's David Silva has provided 18 assists for Sergio Aguero in the Premier League - only three players have ever assisted another for more goals in the competition (Frank Lampard to Didier Drogba, Darren Anderton to Teddy Sheringham and Steve McManaman to Robbie Fowler).\n• None Glenn Murray has scored 36% of Brighton's overall Premier League goals (25/69), the highest proportion of any team's goals in the competition's history.\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola, speaking to Sky Sports: \"We have to say congratulations to Liverpool and thank you so much, they pushed us to increase our standards.\n\n\"It's incredible, 98 points, to go back-to-back. We made the standard higher last season and Liverpool helped us. To win this title we had to win 14 (league games) in a row. We couldn't lose one point.\n\n\"It's the toughest title we have won in all my career, by far.\"\n\nManchester City forward Raheem Sterling, speaking to Sky Sports: \"I'm just delighted, this is exactly what I came to the club for, to win trophies and be in these moments.\n\n\"The manager here... his mentality is the best. It's always about winning. It's the way he sets us up. I'm happy to be here learning and winning.\n\n\"As a manager, he's got multiple players in each position challenging each other. No one is comfortable here but everyone is ready to take their chance - like Riyad today. He's not played much recently but I knew he was going to score today.\n\n\"It's been a lovely season after a difficult World Cup. Hopefully I can go one better next year.\"\n\nBrighton manager Chris Hughton, speaking to Sky Sports: \"The next step for us is to learn from the disappointment we had in periods this season.\n\n\"We need to score more goals, that's the biggest thing. There are really good parts of our game that we can hold on to, but goals are the most important thing.\"\n\nOn Bruno's retirement: \"Bruno's an exceptional individual. It's not just about him being a great captain. The way he looks after himself and gets in the shape he is, it's great dedication.\n\n\"He's a fantastic individual and a person. That's why he's held in such high esteem here.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "China has said it will raise tariffs on $60bn (£46bn) of US goods from 1 June, extending a bilateral trade war.\n\nThe move comes three days after the US more than doubled tariffs on $200bn of Chinese imports.\n\nThe escalation hit stock markets, with Asia markets falling on Tuesday after Wall Street closed with sharp losses.\n\nUS President Donald Trump had warned China not to raise levies but Beijing said it would not swallow any \"bitter fruit\" that harmed its interests.\n\nItems affected include beef, lamb and pork products, as well as various varieties of vegetables, fruit juice, cooking oil, tea and coffee.\n\nChinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a news briefing in Beijing that China would \"never surrender to external pressure\".\n\nThe move hit stock markets in the US on Monday, with the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 closing down 2.4%, while the Nasdaq index lost 3.4%.\n\nThe latest round of US-Chinese trade negotiations ended in Washington on Friday without a deal.\n\nThe US argues that China's trade surplus with the US is the result of unfair practices, including state support for domestic companies.\n\nIt also accuses China of stealing intellectual property from US firms.\n\nAs well as ordering a tariff increase on $200bn worth of Chinese imports, Mr Trump also directed the US trade department \"to begin the process of raising tariffs on essentially all remaining imports from China\", estimated to be valued at around $300bn.\n\nThough on Monday, Mr Trump said that he had \"not made a decision\" on whether to go ahead with those additional levies.\n\nDespite failing to reach a deal last week, Mr Trump said on Monday that the US has \"a very good relationship\" with China. He said the two sides would talk at the next G20 summit which takes place in Japan on 28-29 June.\n\n\"Maybe something will happen,\" he said. \"We're going to be meeting, as you know, at the G20 in Japan and that'll be, I think, probably a very fruitful meeting.\"\n\nEarlier, the president had warned China against a tit-for-tat response to the US's actions last week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"China should not retaliate - will only get worse!\" Mr Trump tweeted shortly before news of the Chinese decision came.\n\nMr Trump also said China had \"taken so advantage of the US for so many years\".\n\nHe added that US consumers could avoid the tariffs by buying the same products from other sources.\n\n\"Many tariffed companies will be leaving China for Vietnam and other such countries in Asia. That's why China wants to make a deal so badly!\" he said.\n\nMr Trump's approach in the dispute has put him at odds with his own top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, who has said \"both sides will suffer\".", "Video caption: Alistair Campbell: 'I'm still in the Labour Party as far as I'm concerned'\n\nAlistair Campbell: 'I'm still in the Labour Party as far as I'm concerned'", "Hundreds of hardy competitors have battled their way across a muddy riverbed to raise money for charity.\n\nThe Maldon Mud Race sees participants run, leap and crawl across a 400m (1,312ft) stretch of the River Blackwater in Essex at low tide as they look to be crowned the winner.\n\nThe annual springtime event attracts people from across Europe and regularly raises tens of thousands of pounds for good causes.\n\nRace chairman Brian Farrington said: \"We are hoping to raise even more money for the charities.\"", "Labour must promise another Brexit referendum to counter the electoral challenge posed by Nigel Farage, the party's deputy leader has said.\n\nWriting in the Observer, Tom Watson said his party could not \"sit on the fence\" about the biggest issue to face the UK for a generation.\n\nBut ex-UKIP leader Mr Farage said a new referendum would be \"a total insult\" to five million Labour Leave voters.\n\nThe UK has been given an extension to the Brexit process until 31 October.\n\nThis means the UK is likely to hold European Parliament elections on 23 May.\n\nMr Farage launched his new Brexit Party last week and said it had a list of 70 candidates to fight the May elections.\n\nMr Watson warned that Labour would not defeat Mr Farage \"by being mealy-mouthed and sounding as if we half agree with him\".\n\n\"We won't beat him unless we can inspire the millions crying out for a different direction,\" he added.\n\nHe said a \"confirmatory\" referendum and \"final say\" on any deal was \"the very least\" voters deserved, now they knew more about what Brexit would mean.\n\nHe added: \"They deserve a Labour Party that offers clarity on this issue, as well as the radical vision for a new political economy achieved by working with our socialist allies inside the EU.\n\n\"And, above all, they deserve better than Nigel Farage's promise of a far-right Brexit that would solve nothing.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Farage accused Mr Watson of breaking promises to the British people and said he intended to \"wholeheartedly target Labour lies and dishonesty in the weeks ahead\".\n\nTalks with the Conservatives aimed at breaking the Brexit deadlock have re-opened Labour's divisions over a possible further referendum.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry wrote to cabinet colleagues to warn that striking a deal with the prime minister that ditched the commitment to a public vote would breach party policy.\n\nA survey earlier this year found that 70% of Labour members support another referendum, but nine of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's top team are sceptical or opposed.\n\nNigel Farage described 23 May as the \"first step\" for his party\n\nMr Farage's Brexit Party also poses a threat to the Conservative Party, according to a survey for the Mail on Sunday.\n\nThe Survation poll of 781 Conservative councillors found that 40% were planning to back the Brexit Party at the May European elections.\n\nJust over half - 52% - said they would vote for their own party. If Brexiteer Boris Johnson was prime minister this figure would rise to 65%, the survey found.\n\nSome 15% said they believed Mr Farage would be the best leader of the Conservative Party - only Mr Johnson was ahead of him, on 19%.\n\nNigel Farage relishes the opportunity to put a cat among the pigeons - and once again the two biggest parties are questioning how to deal with his unambiguous pro-Brexit message.\n\nTom Watson's case is that Labour needs to be different. He's not impressed with the idea of \"sounding as if we half agree\" with Mr Farage, urging his party to strengthen its message on another referendum and provide a natural home to those on the other side of the Brexit debate.\n\nThe problem is that some in the Labour completely disagree. They think it would an historic mistake to ignore Labour voters who backed Leave in 2016 and believe it may actually encourage those voters to side with Mr Farage.\n\nThe Conservatives are grappling with how to fight the European elections too. Today's poll in the Mail on Sunday suggests some Conservative councillors are prepared to turn their back on the party - at least temporarily - and support Mr Farage.\n\nThat will only feed into fears in the Tory leadership that these elections could be a disaster for the party - and strengthen resolve to try to stop them happening by getting a deal through Parliament.\n\nThe picture isn't the same everywhere. In Scotland, for example, the pro-referendum SNP appear to be maintaining strong support.\n\nBut Mr Farage will continue to argue that the main parties have failed to honour the referendum result. And his allies suspect that message will prove a powerful one for Brexit supporters if the European Parliament elections go ahead.\n\nAlthough Theresa May has said she still wants the UK to leave the EU as soon as possible, she is yet to get her withdrawal deal - which has been rejected three times by MPs - approved by Parliament.\n\nCross-party talks between the government and the Labour Party are continuing, to find a way through the impasse.\n\nLabour wants a new permanent customs union with the EU, which would allow tariff-free trade in goods.\n\nThe government has repeatedly ruled out remaining in the EU's customs union, arguing it would prevent the UK from setting its own trade policy.\n\nThe EU has said the UK must hold elections to the European Parliament in May or leave on 1 June without a deal.\n\nMarch 2018 - Shadow Northern Ireland secretary Owen Smith sacked for supporting second referendum on final deal\n\nSeptember - Labour agrees if a general election cannot be achieved it \"must support all options… including a public vote\"\n\n18 November - Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says a new referendum is \"an option for the future\" but \"not an option for today\"\n\n28 November - Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell says Labour will \"inevitably\" back a second referendum if unable to secure general election\n\n6 February - Mr Corbyn writes a letter to Mrs May outlining five changes with no mention of a \"People's Vote\"\n\n28 February - Labour says it will back a public vote after its proposed Brexit deal is rejected\n\n14 March - Five Labour MPs quit party roles to oppose a further referendum\n\n27 March - The party backs a confirmatory public vote in Parliament's indicative votes on a way forward for Brexit", "Emma Faulds has been missing for more than a week\n\nPolice believe a woman missing from her home in Kilmarnock for over a week may have come to harm.\n\nEmma Faulds was last seen at about 21:10 on Sunday 28 April in the Monkton area of Ayrshire.\n\nPolice said it was \"alarming\" that the 39-year-old had not been in touch with friends and family, and that she had left behind her beloved pet dog.\n\nOfficers are carrying out a forensic examination of her car and searching properties in Monkton.\n\nThey said family and friends were \"distraught\" at not knowing where she is or what might have happened to her.\n\nAnd they appealed for help from anyone who saw Ms Faulds or her car in the lead-up to her disappearance.\n\nPolice said she normally drives a blue BMW 1 Series M Sport with the distinctive registration number F5 EMA.\n\nHer car has been removed by officers and is undergoing a full forensic examination.\n\nPolice are asking the public if they remember seeing Ms Faulds' car\n\nSpecialist officers have been searching areas and properties in the Monkton area, including two cars which are also being examined.\n\nMs Faulds is described as white, around 5ft 3in tall, with a slim, athletic build, long blonde hair, a pale complexion and blue eyes.\n\nDetectives are also searching CCTV footage for any sightings of the missing youth worker or her car.\n\nDet Ch Insp Martin Fergus from Police Scotland's major investigations team said: \"Emma is in constant contact with her family and friends and the fact that she has not been heard from is alarming.\n\n\"Emma also has a dog, a west highland terrier, and she would never leave it for any length of time without ensuring someone is able to look after it.\n\n\"We are liaising with Emma's family and we now believe that she may have come to harm.\"\n\nHe continued: \"Emma's car has been removed for examination and I am appealing to motorists, taxi drivers or members of the public who may have seen it being driven in the Monkton and Kilmarnock areas late Sunday night into Monday morning.\n\n\"I would ask people with dashcams to check their footage as they may have captured the car and not realise its significance. You may have noticed the registration number but thought nothing of it at the time, but now where and when you saw it could be vital.\"\n\nHe added: \"Emma is a sociable outgoing person who enjoys seeing her family and friends.\n\n\"They are distraught at not knowing where she is or what may have happened to her.\n\n\"I would appeal to anyone who may have information or knowledge as to her whereabouts to contact us.\n\n\"If you saw Emma a few days before she was reported missing, you may have information which could assist us so please do contact us, did you see her with anyone, did you speak her, any small piece of information could be highly significant.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Henriett Szucs was a Hungarian national who had lived in London for \"several years\", police said\n\nA woman who was found dead in a freezer along with another female has been named by police as Henriett Szucs.\n\nThe two bodies were found frozen, clothed and on top of each other at the flat in Vandome Close in Canning Town, east London, on 26 April.\n\nHungarian national Ms Szucs, 34, is the second woman to be identified after Mihrican Mustafa, 38, was confirmed as the first victim on Friday.\n\nA man has been charged with two counts of preventing a lawful burial.\n\nZahid Younis, 34, of Vandome Close, is due to appear at Kingston Crown Court on 29 May.\n\nThe Met Police said post mortems had been carried out and no formal cause of death had been established.\n\nBut the force said both women \"suffered multiple injuries\" and further tests were being carried out.\n\nMihrican Mustafa, also known as MJ, was a mother-of-three\n\nThe Met said Ms Szucs had been in the UK for several years but was of no fixed address.\n\nHer next of kin had been informed but formal identification has not yet taken place, a spokesperson added.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said Ms Szucs was last heard from in the summer of 2016 when she spoke to somebody she knew in Hungary on the phone.\n\nOfficers are trying to establish if this was the last known contact anyone had had with her.\n\nMs Mustafa, a mother-of-three who was also known as MJ, was reported missing on 10 April last year.\n\nAs she was a missing person, the Met has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nThe two bodies were found in Canning Town on 26 April\n\nOfficers were called to the flat after receiving concerns for the welfare of a male occupant.\n\nThe Met said the property was used by people who moved from address to address and that it was frequented by drug users.\n\n\"We need to build up a full picture of both of these women's lives, whether they knew each other, who they associated with and what they were doing in and around Vandome Close and the Canning Town area,\" Det Ch Insp Harding said.\n\n\"The way in which they died is truly shocking and our heart goes out to these women's friends and families.\"\n\nA 50-year-old man, who was arrested on suspicion of murder, has been released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Michael Bruce and his brother Kenny founded Purplebricks in 2012\n\nShares in online estate agent Purplebricks have dropped more than 5%, after founder and chief executive Michael Bruce left the company.\n\nVic Darvey, who had been the firm's chief operating officer, will succeed Mr Bruce as chief executive.\n\nPurplebricks also said it was pulling out of Australia and placing its US business under review.\n\nChairman Paul Pindar apologised to shareholders for its recent \"disappointing\" performance.\n\n\"With hindsight, our rate of geographic expansion was too rapid,\" he said.\n\nThe company has operated in Australia for two-and-a-half years, but said the prospective returns from the country were \"not sufficient to justify continued investment\".\n\nPurplebricks is also cutting back investment in the US, although its Canadian business continues to flourish.\n\nHowever, the firm is optimistic about its UK performance, saying in a statement: \"Whilst the UK property market remains challenging, the company continues to outperform the market and the board remains confident about the future of the business.\n\n\"Having established a market-leading position, there remain many opportunities for further profitable growth and this will be a key area of focus going forward.\"\n\nShares in the company fell in February after it cut its sales forecast. from between £165m and £175m to between £130m and £145m.\n\nIt confirmed these figures in Tuesday's trading update, adding that cash balances at 30 April 2019 would not be less than £62m.\n\nMr Bruce and his brother Kenny, who grew up on a council estate in Larne, County Antrim, founded the online estate agent in 2012.\n\nThe company charges a flat rate to market a property, with fees differing around the country. For example, homeowners in London and surrounding postcodes are charged £1,399 and elsewhere £899.\n\nViewings can be booked online at any time and people can arrange visits themselves, or pay the company extra to do it for them.\n\nSpeaking about Mr Bruce's departure, Mr Pindar said: \"Michael's vision in creating the UK's leading hybrid estate agent has been deeply impressive, as has his relentless energy in developing the business both in the UK and internationally.\"\n\nMr Darvey said: \"Going forward, we have a very clear understanding of the levers available to us to achieve growth.\"\n\nProperty expert Henry Pryor told the BBC that Mr Bruce's departure was unexpected.\n\n\"It's a shock to the industry, although I don't know if Michael was expecting it,\" he said.\n\n\"He and his brother have done an extraordinary job commercially driving the company forward and I hope that this is his decision, rather than it coming about as a result of shareholders' frustration.\"\n\nOnline companies' share of the estate agents' market is at about the 7% mark, according to data from analysts TwentyCi.\n\nAnd data from Zoopla's 2018 State of the Property Nation report indicated that 24% of consumers used an online agent in the previous year.\n\nPurplebricks and similar companies have definitely made their mark, Mr Pryor says.\n\n\"Their impact has been significant. The estate agents' sector is not prone to innovation, so when Purplebricks came along - although they were not the first online agent - they had a cleverer and more imaginative way of delivering the hybrid model.\"\n\nPaula Higgins, chief executive at pressure group HomeOwners Alliance, warned that consumers need to be careful that they choose the correct estate agent for them.\n\n\"It's so important for people to do their research,\" she told the BBC. \"Not all agents are the same and not all online agents are the same.\n\n\"Purplebricks have been a massive innovator in a market, where one-third of agents used to refuse to give ballpark figures for commission and issue non-transparent, dodgy contracts.\n\n\"They and others opened up the market and encouraged transparency.\n\n\"Purplebricks' fee is charged up front, but other online and High Street agents have up-front or pay-later options, so people do need to shop around to get the right agent.\n\n\"Local independent agents who are more professional in their area might be a good option for certain people.\"", "The plane wreckage: the blaze totally incinerated the rear half of the Superjet\n\nRussian investigators are considering pilot error as a possible cause of the crash which killed 41 people on board an Aeroflot airliner at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.\n\nCrew members and passengers say the Sukhoi Superjet-100 was struck by lightning in the air, which knocked out communications with ground control.\n\nBut the high-speed landing of a fuel-laden jet was not normal practice.\n\nMeanwhile a video reveals officials joking while watching the burning jet.\n\nIt is not clear who the unidentified Russian officials are, in the clip broadcast on Twitter.\n\nA statement from the Sheremetyevo airport management said the officials belonged neither to the airport company - called AO MASH - nor to Aeroflot.\n\nThe statement demands punishment for the officials in the clip, accusing them of breaching professional ethics.\n\nAmid laughter one of them is heard saying \"it landed all right, with a little flame\" while the TV monitor shows the jet engulfed in an inferno.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Телеканал \"Звезда\" This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 airliner made a hard landing 30 minutes after take-off on Sunday and burst into flames. It had taken off normally, bound for Murmansk in the far north.\n\nVideo showed a ball of flame engulfing the rear of the plane, but 37 people, including four crew members, managed to flee via escape chutes in the front section.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Passengers used emergency exit slides to escape and run away\n\nTwo black box flight recorders were recovered in reasonable condition, and are being examined. But the results will not be known for a few weeks.\n\nRussia's transport ministry has decided against grounding Superjet-100s, saying there is no obvious sign of a design fault.\n\nBut some aviation experts are asking why a lightning strike knocked out the plane's communications - something that should not normally happen, as modern jets are designed to withstand storms.\n\nThe crash jet was relatively new, it had not had a heavy flight schedule and had undergone a routine service in April.\n\nKommersant daily, quoting unnamed sources close to the investigation, says pilot error is seen as a strong possibility in the crash. Several factors are under scrutiny:\n\nPilot Denis Yevdokimov, quoted on the Russian Telegram channel Baza, said \"the fire (came) after landing, I understand... because of the landing; that was probably the reason\", and he noted that its fuel tanks were full.\n\nAeroflot owns at least 50 Superjets and has ordered 100 more. The planes first entered service in 2011.\n\nThere have been sporadic concerns over the reliability of Superjets. An Aeroflot internal document from February 2018 classed the type's safety level as \"average\", whereas all the airline's Airbus and Boeing jets had a \"high\" safety level.\n\nSunday's disaster was the first crash of a Superjet on a commercial flight. But in 2012 a Superjet on a demonstration flight slammed into a volcano in Indonesia, killing all 45 people on board. The crash was blamed on human error.\n\nThe jet returned to the airport within 30 minutes of departing", "Jennifer Wetton said she was \"disappointed\" that the prize money had been cut from £1,000 to £200\n\nThe women's winner of the Great Stirling Run marathon has criticised organisers after the event's £1,000 prize money was \"slashed\" to £200.\n\nJennifer Wetton said she only found out about the \"insulting\" award after completing last month's race.\n\nShe said the smaller prize would \"definitely have been a consideration\" in deciding whether to compete.\n\nOrganisers, Great Run, said it was an \"oversight\" that the information was not made available ahead of the race.\n\nMs Wetton, who lives in Stirling, told BBC Scotland's John Beattie Programme that she checked the Great Run website the day before the event for information on the prize money.\n\nShe said: \"It said there was prize money available for British athletes, but it was yet to be confirmed for 2019.\n\n\"It would have been nice if they had communicated things properly from the start, so we had all the information before we made the decision to take part.\"\n\nMs Wetton explained that she was not a professional athlete but she takes her running seriously and fits training around working full time and looking after her young son.\n\nHer decision to take part in the Stirling marathon - which had a winning cash prize of £1,000 last year - was made in January so she could establish a training schedule.\n\nShe said she opted for her \"home\" run rather than the London marathon which was on the same day.\n\nIt cost her £58 to enter the Stirling marathon while the half marathon event fee was £36.\n\nHowever, the winners of the two races were awarded the same £200 prize.\n\nMs Wetton believed a reasonable cash prize goes some way to reflect the time and effort needed to produce \"an under-three-hour marathon performance\".\n\nShe understood that £1,000 was \"the going rate\" for a marathon prize in Scotland.\n\nMs Wetton said the Loch Ness Marathon awards £1,500 to the winner, while the Edinburgh Marathon's prize is £1,000 plus a £500 donation to charity.\n\nShe said: \"While £200 is a reasonable prize if you're running a 10k race, it's lower than a lot of half-marathons.\n\n\"But for a marathon it was a little bit insulting to be honest.\"\n\nMs Wetton pointed out that on finishing second in a local half marathon earlier this year she was awarded £200.\n\nA Great Run Company spokeswoman said the Stirling prize money was brought in line with its other non-televised events this year.\n\nShe said that the website statement that the 2019 prize money was yet to be confirmed \"made it clear that we were changing the structure for this year\".\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"We apologise that this information was not publicly available sooner and it was an oversight on our part that it was not posted on the website before the event.\"\n\nA Stirling Council spokesman said the prize money was \"decided exclusively\" by the event organisers and was \"not a matter\" for the local authority.\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. Royal baby: Duke and Duchess of Cambridge congratulate the Sussexes on their first child\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has welcomed his brother to \"the sleep deprivation society that is parenting\" after the birth of the Duke of Sussex's son.\n\nPrince William said he was \"absolutely thrilled\" for Prince Harry and Meghan, whose child was born at 05:26 BST on Monday.\n\nThe father-of-three added he looked forward to seeing the new parents \"when things have quietened down\".\n\nThe Prince of Wales said he was also \"delighted\" by the birth.\n\nPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall were congratulated and given presents during a four-day trip to Germany.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex's son was born on Monday\n\nShortly after he arrived in Berlin, he said: \"We couldn't be more delighted at the news and we're looking forward to meeting the baby when we return.\"\n\nBefore a private meeting with the prince, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier presented him with a teddy bear wearing blue clothes.\n\nLater, when members of the public in Berlin offered their congratulations on his fourth grandchild, Prince Charles said: \"Thank you, I'm collecting a rather large number of them.\"\n\nPrince William was at an event at the Cutty Sark in Greenwich, London, with the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nHe said: \"I'm very pleased and glad to welcome my own brother into the sleep deprivation society that is parenting.\"\n\n\"I wish him all the best and I hope in the next few days they can settle down and enjoy having a newborn in their family and the joys that come with that,\" he added.\n\nIt has not yet been confirmed where the baby was born, but it is believed Meghan gave birth in hospital rather than at home.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge said: \"We're looking forward to meeting him and finding out what his name's going to be... these next few weeks are always a bit daunting the first time round so we wish them all the best.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's such a special time, obviously with Louis and Charlotte just having had their birthdays it's such a great time of year to have a baby, spring is in the air.\"\n\nHarry and Meghan's son, who has not been named yet, is seventh in line to the throne, behind the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and his children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis - and Prince Harry.\n\nHe is the Queen's eighth great-grandchild.\n\nCamilla was handed presents to take back to the UK from German wellwishers\n\nIn Berlin, the Duchess of Cornwall visited a clinic for victims of domestic violence, where staff members gave her a onesie with German art on it and a balloon for the baby boy.\n\nThe duchess said: \"As soon as we return I will deliver it to them, direct from Germany.\"\n\nThe royals' words followed messages of congratulations from around the globe.\n\nRoyal fans lined the streets near to Harry and Meghan's home on the Windsor Estate\n\nFormer US First Lady Michelle Obama said she and Barack Obama were \"thrilled\" at the news, while Meghan's former colleague Patrick J Adams sent love to the \"incredible parents\".\n\nSpeaker John Bercow opened the House of Commons on Tuesday by saying: \"I am sure the whole House would want to join me in sending their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Sussex our warmest congratulations on the birth of their son.\"\n\nA wellwisher and her dog dressed up for the occasion outside Windsor Castle\n\nMeanwhile celebrations were under way in the town near to Frogmore Cottage - the Sussexes' home on the Windsor Estate.\n\nLocal fans dressed up in their finery to mark the occasion while Windsor's shop window displays were crammed with royal merchandise.", "Schools in England will have to stay accountable for pupils they exclude, a government-backed review has said.\n\nIt could mean school league table rankings having to include the exam results of pupils who have been excluded and moved elsewhere.\n\nThe intention is to stop so-called \"off-rolling\", where schools remove difficult or low-achieving pupils.\n\n\"Exclusion from school should never mean exclusion from education,\" said review author Edward Timpson.\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds, endorsing the report, promised \"greater clarity\" for schools over the appropriate use of exclusions.\n\nMr Hinds said a consultation in the autumn would consider how accountability measures, such as league tables, could be used to keep schools responsible for the future outcome of excluded pupils.\n\nMr Timpson, a former education minister, said there was \"clear room for improvement\" in arrangements for pupils who have been excluded.\n\nThis includes concerns about the quality of some \"alternative provision\" places, where pupils are taught if they are removed from mainstream schools.\n\nMr Timpson warned there was \"too much variation in the use of exclusions and too many missed opportunities\".\n\nOn average about 2,000 pupils are excluded from school each day - with 40 being permanently excluded.\n\nBut the review says despite numbers rising since 2014, the current rates of exclusion are not unusually high, and are lower than a decade ago.\n\nThere were calls for more scrutiny of how exclusions tend to be concentrated in some \"vulnerable\" groups.\n\nMore than three-quarters of permanent exclusions are among pupils who either have special needs or are eligible for free school meals.\n\nBlack Caribbean pupils are more likely to be excluded than White British, but children from Indian and Bangladeshi backgrounds have lower rates of exclusion.\n\nWhile 43% of secondary schools had no permanent exclusions, in 0.2% of secondary schools there were more than 10 pupils permanently excluded per year.\n\nMr Timpson's review called for a more consistent approach to \"make sure no child slips through the net\".\n\nThere were warnings of a \"worse trajectory\" for excluded pupils, including an increased chance of becoming a young offender or being out of work.\n\nIn the recent wave of knife attacks, there have been questions about the links between such crimes and young people excluded from school.\n\nThe education secretary said it was important \"not to draw a simple causal link between exclusions and knife crime, as there is no clear evidence to back this up\".\n\nBut Mr Hinds said that education could provide a \"protective factor\", which made it a priority to improve the quality of alternative provision.\n\nThe government has promised to try to recruit more \"high-quality staff\" to work in alternative provision settings.\n\nIt will also ask the education watchdog Ofsted to tackle \"off-rolling\" where schools might try to remove pupils who cause problems or who might lower exam league table performance.\n\nThe education secretary also emphasised the need to back head teachers in maintaining \"safe and orderly\" environments in school.\n\nMr Hinds said the adviser on behaviour, Tom Bennett, will help to rewrite the guidance on behaviour and discipline in school.\n\nGeoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, welcomed that the review and government response supported the right of head teachers to exclude pupils, even though that would be a \"last resort\".\n\nBut in terms of schools remaining accountable in league tables for excluded pupils, he asked whether it would be \"reasonable\" if it was several years after the pupils had left the school.\n\n\"It is vital that any new accountability measure is trusted and supported by schools,\" said Mr Barton.\n\nThe National Education Union called for more attention to be paid to what was behind exclusions, which it said included funding cuts to special needs budgets.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers' leader Paul Whiteman said exclusions of troubled youngsters had to be seen in the context of a \"double whammy\" of funding pressures on schools and social services.\n\n\"More support for schools, rather than more sanctions, is what will make the difference for pupils at risk of exclusion,\" he said.", "Firearms officers are equipped with a handgun and a Taser\n\nFirearms police were sent to everyday incidents which did not require an armed response more than 5,000 times in the past year, BBC Scotland can reveal.\n\nPolice Scotland's firearms officers were banned from attending such routine calls until last May.\n\nSince then they have dealt with more than 5,250 routine incidents like car crashes and missing people.\n\nCritics say the figures are alarming but the force insists its officers are saving lives.\n\n\"Our armed response officers are extremely highly trained,\" said Chief Superintendent Matt Richards, the commander in charge of Police Scotland's Specialist Services Division.\n\n\"Overall they're providing a higher level of service - and more quickly - to the public.\"\n\nArmed officers pulled over a car with a broken rear light in Edinburgh\n\nFirearms officers are equipped with a handgun and a Taser, which they carry while attending routine incidents.\n\nThey also have access to a semi-automatic G36 carbine rifle, which can be deployed during firearms incidents, and a launcher for baton rounds - sometimes called \"rubber bullets\".\n\nFigures obtained by BBC Scotland's The Nine reveal that the specialist skills of armed officers have been required at 5,140 incidents since last May.\n\nOf these, 415 were \"armed operations\" like sieges.\n\nThe remainder were incidents where an armed response was not required but another specialism, such as deploying a stinger, may have been needed.\n\nMore controversial were the thousands of deployments to routine incidents where there was no need for an armed officer.\n\nGreen MSP John Finnie is a former police officer who served in the Northern Constabulary and Lothian and Borders forces for more than 30 years. His constituency was one of the first in Scotland where armed police were routinely deployed.\n\n\"I think it's very significant that 5,000 incidents which did not require an officer to be armed had nonetheless officers turning up fully equipped with firearms,\" he said.\n\n\"That's 5,000 members of the public who have been confronted - albeit they would welcome the police officer being at the scene - by somebody who was armed who didn't need to be armed.\n\n\"The people who are deployed with firearms are highly-trained individuals - the challenge is always going to be that if an officer has a Taser they're perhaps more likely to use it.\"\n\nHe added: \"For over 10 years I was a police dog handler and that's the argument - should you be dealing with routine road traffic offences?\n\n\"Every police officer has the same obligation - that's to protect life and property - and no one, least of all me, is going to suggest that an armed officer should drive past an incident.\n\n\"I don't doubt for one minute that Police Scotland are acting in good faith, but it's a very difficult situation to not argue that this is normalising the routine patrolling of armed police officers.\n\n\"The population want to see a community-based police service, not a routinely-armed police service.\"\n\nMr Richards said the use of firearms was always a \"last resort\", adding that in his experience even the presence of a Taser had \"caused a huge drop in violence and in particular injuries to the public\".\n\nThat runs counter to a recent study by criminologists at the University of Cambridge, who examined police officers in London and found those visibly armed with a Taser used force 48% more than those who were unarmed. They were also more likely to be assaulted.\n\nThe Police Federation of England and Wales has challenged the study's conclusions and Mr Richards insists they do not match the experience in Scotland.\n\n\"Certainly our findings are that where officers are deployed with that obvious a deterrent it is just that; a deterrent,\" he said.\n\nConcerns about armed policing in Scotland first hit the headlines in 2014 after officers were photographed carrying handguns on the street in Inverness.\n\nAmid mounting public and political pressure, then Chief Constable Sir Stephen House announced armed police would only be deployed to life-threatening incidents.\n\nThat decision was overturned in May 2018, with police chiefs claiming it was necessary to protect officers in the face of increasing violence.\n\nWhile violent crime in Scotland has halved over the last decade, Police Scotland claims assaults on officers have risen.\n\nThere is widespread support for armed policing among rank-and-file officers in Scotland.\n\nA 2017 survey by the Scottish Police Federation found two in three officers wanted to carry a gun. Nine in 10 said the same for Tasers, which were given to 500 frontline officers last year.\n\nHowever, Mr Richards insisted Police Scotland has \"no plans to expand armed policing\".\n\n\"We aren't a fully armed force - nor do we intend to be,\" he added.\n\n\"We understand that the appearance of a weapon on the street can cause some consternation and apprehension, but our officers are highly trained, extremely experienced and able to discharge their duties on a day to day basis without resorting to firearms in the vast majority of cases.\n\n\"It's simply another bit of equipment we can refer to if need be.\"", "The soldiers and rangers try to be as invisible as possible, on patrols that often last for days\n\nThe Majete Wildlife Reserve sits in a large basin in the south of Malawi, and the roads that lead there are busy at 6am.\n\nNot with vehicles, but with endless cyclists as Malawians make the most of the low light and cooler air to start their days.\n\nThe appearance of two British Army 4x4s turns heads as they leave the sights and smells of the villages, and head into the bush.\n\nLance Corporal Chad Spalding is one of those on board.\n\nThe 23-year-old is about to spend the next few days with local rangers Boston Phiri, who's pretty new to the job, and Retief Chomali, with ten years' experience.\n\n\"You don't really have time to think,\" explains Chad. \"Most of the time you're concentrating on the environment itself.\n\n\"You're constantly looking, watching dangerous game, anything that might sneak up on you.\"\n\nChad, who's originally from Zimbabwe, is one of 14 British soldiers in Malawi trying to help stop poaching. Ministers announced the British Army's involvement after a successful pilot last year.\n\nThe Liwonde National Park in southern Malawi. Much of the country's landscape is burnt as people illegally make charcoal to sell and use themselves\n\nChad says the wildlife and the environment are important to him and he feels a sense of responsibility to make sure that others get to experience them.\n\n\"If we start chopping down trees and killing animals what will be left for future generations? Just a bunch of pictures in a book,\" he reflects.\n\nChad remembers working with lions when he was growing up on a project in Gonarezhou, Zimbabwe.\n\n\"After I'd seen the wildlife and what it's actually like out in the bush, I just really really bit into it. As soon as this came across the table, I took it straight away.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Newsbeat This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMalawi's elephant population has halved from 4,000 in the 1980s to 2,000 in 2015, according to African Parks, which runs the Majete Reserve\n\nThe illegal wildlife trade is a big business, thought to be worth £17bn a year worldwide. A rhino horn is more expensive than cocaine, heroin or gold.\n\nIn the last 50 years global black rhino numbers have dropped from 70,000 to 5,500, African Parks says. The organisation runs the Majete Reserve and two others in Malawi.\n\n\"Most jobs out here don't pay well, whereas if they get a rhino horn it's a pretty big pay day,\" Chad says.\n\n\"I know in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania there's quite a lot of heavy poaching.\n\n\"Most of the poaching that goes on is organised by higher syndicates which are funding these operations and equipping the poachers with better weapons to be able to defeat the rangers.\n\n\"Which is making it a lot hard for the rangers to keep up with the funding they've got. For now the rangers seem to be winning, let's hope it stays that way.\"\n\nThe military-style approach, along with tougher sentences, seems to be working for now though.\n\nNo elephants or rhinos have been poached in Majete for 15 years.\n\nLance Corporal Chad Spalding says he doesn't want animals ending up as \"just a bunch of pictures in a book\"\n\nChad knows what he would say to a poacher if he met one though.\n\n\"I would ask his reasons for doing it, and what he thinks the consequences will be if he does get caught.\n\n\"It's not a matter of if he gets caught it's a matter of when he gets caught. If he does carry on he is going to get caught, and he will go to jail.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles: UK and Germany 'need each other'\n\nWhatever the outcome of the Brexit process, the bonds between the UK and Germany \"will, and must endure\", the Prince of Wales has said in a speech in Berlin.\n\nSpeaking at the British Ambassador's residence, the prince described Germany as the UK's \"natural partner\".\n\nHe said he recognised that with Brexit still at an impasse, relations between the two countries are \"in transition\".\n\nThe prince and the Duchess of Cornwall have begun a four-day tour of Germany.\n\nOn Tuesday, the couple met German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. They are also due to visit Leipzig and Munich later in the trip.\n\nSpeaking at an event marking the Queen's Birthday Party, Prince Charles praised the strength of the UK-German relationship.\n\n\"Today, we are so much more than simply neighbours: we are friends and natural partners, bound together by our common experience, mutual interests and shared values, and deeply invested in each other's futures,\" he said.\n\nThe prince and the Duchess of Cornwall met Chancellor Angela Merkel\n\n\"Whatever is negotiated and agreed between governments and institutions, it is more clear to me than it has ever been, that the bonds between us will, and must, endure.\"\n\nThe prince continued: \"Our countries and our people have been through so much together.\n\n\"As we look towards the future, I can only hope that we can also pledge to redouble our commitment to each other and to the ties between us.\n\n\"In so doing, we can ensure that our continent will never again see the division and conflict of the past; that together, we will continue to be an indispensable force for good in our world; and that the friendships and partnerships that bind us together will continue to create opportunity for us all.\"\n\nThe UK was due to leave the EU on 29 March, but as no deal was agreed by Parliament, the EU extended the deadline to 31 October.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK gears up for the general election on 12 December.\n\nBut where do the parties stand on Brexit?\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson wants the UK to leave the European Union (EU) with the revised deal he agreed.\n\nHe says that with a majority Conservative government, he would start the process to \"get Brexit done\" on day one of the new Parliament.\n\nHe previously said the UK would leave on 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson was forced to write a Brexit extension letter to the EU, after MPs failed to approve his revised deal.\n\nMr Johnson secured changes to the deal previously negotiated by Theresa May. It includes scrapping the controversial Irish backstop and replacing it with a new customs arrangement.\n\nBoris Johnson's revised Brexit deal has not yet been approved by the UK Parliament\n\nBrexit left the Conservative Party heavily divided, with 21 MPs expelled for failing to follow the government's line. Ten were later welcomed back.\n\nIf it wins the election, Labour wants to renegotiate Mr Johnson's Brexit deal and put it to another public vote. It says it will achieve this within six months.\n\nLabour says its referendum would be a choice between a \"sensible\" Leave option versus Remain.\n\nUnder its Leave option, Labour says it will negotiate for the UK to remain in an EU customs union, and retain a \"close\" single market relationship.\n\nThis would allow the UK to continue trading with the EU without checks, but it would prevent it from striking its own trade deals with other countries.\n\nIf a referendum was held, Mr Corbyn has said he would remain neutral if he was prime minister \"so I can credibly carry out the results\".\n\nJust like the Conservatives, Labour has had to deal with internal divisions over its Brexit policy. More than 25 Labour MPs wrote to Mr Corbyn in June, saying another public vote would be \"toxic to our bedrock Labour voters\".\n\nWhile Labour's election strategy early on was to emphasise that the vote was about more than Brexit, it is changing its focus.\n\nThe message now is that Labour's leadership is not opposing Brexit by opposing Mr Johnson's deal - it wants to find what it believes is a better one.\n\nThe SNP is pro-Remain and wants the UK to stay a member of the EU.\n\nIt has been campaigning for another referendum on Brexit. Alternatively, it wants Article 50 revoked if it is the only alternative to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nScotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is \"catastrophic\"\n\nThe SNP's ultimate objective is for an independent Scotland that is a full member of the EU.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have pledged to cancel Brexit if they win power at the general election.\n\nThe policy was endorsed in September by party members at the Lib Dem party conference.\n\nIf the Lib Dems do not win a majority, they would support another referendum.\n\nLeader Jo Swinson says that stopping Brexit would free up £50bn, over five years, to spend on public services.\n\nShe says that so-called \"Remain bonus\" would pay for 20,000 new teachers, extra money for schools and to help support low-paid workers.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had an agreement with the Conservatives whereby it lent it support in the Commons during the last Parliament.\n\nHowever, while the DUP wants the UK to leave the EU, it opposes elements of Mr Johnson's Brexit deal which relate to Northern Ireland,.\n\nThe DUP is unhappy with the revised Brexit deal\n\nAt its manifesto launch, the party said it will seek further changes to the deal if he is still prime minister after the election.\n\nThe deal includes special arrangements for Northern Ireland. One gives the Northern Ireland Assembly a majority vote on how customs arrangements would work after Brexit.\n\nThe DUP wants such a vote to be taken on a cross-community basis, rather than a straight majority.\n\nThis party is made up of MPs who left the Conservatives and Labour, in part because of their positions on Brexit.\n\nIt backs another referendum, or \"People's Vote\", and wants the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nThe party backs remaining in the EU, despite Wales voting Leave in the referendum. It wants a further referendum and to Remain.\n\nIn a bid to get as many pro-Remain MPs as possible into Parliament, Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats and Greens have agreed an electoral pact in 11 of the 40 seats in Wales.\n\nThe party's one MP, Caroline Lucas, has been a vocal campaigner for another referendum, and believes the UK should stay in the EU.\n\nThe Brexit Party wants the UK to leave the EU without a deal, in what it calls a \"clean-break Brexit\".\n\nIt says that is the way to \"start changing Britain for good from day one\" and that the transition period after leaving would not be extended.\n\nIt also says Mr Johnson's revised Brexit plan is a bad deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\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• None What are the PM's remaining election options?", "Jessica Anderson called the guidelines \"sexist\" and \"outdated\", leading to a review of the rules\n\nOfficials have backtracked over their refusal to award a world record to a woman running the fastest marathon in a nurse's uniform.\n\nJessica Anderson was originally told her attempt would not be considered because she wasn't wearing a dress.\n\nThe 22-year-old said the decision was \"sexist\".\n\nGuinness World Records reviewed its guidelines and found the rules \"reflected a stereotype we do not in any way wish to perpetuate.\"\n\nJess is a senior sister at the Royal London Hospital.\n\nHer work in an acute medical admissions ward is fast-paced and she wears scrubs to work every day.\n\nSo when she decided to challenge the title for the fastest woman to run a marathon in a nurse uniform, she sent Guinness World Records a photo.\n\nShe was told that her actual uniform did not meet its criteria for a nurse's uniform, which also involved a pinafore and cap, but tights were optional.\n\nJess ran the race anyway, completing the course in three hours, eight minutes and 54 seconds, which was fast enough to beat the record.\n\nThousands of people run in fancy dress every year\n\n\"I would be quite happy if they changed it [the rules] in the future or acknowledged that it's sexist and it's not really how we want the profession to be represented,\" Jess told Newsbeat after finishing the race.\n\nThat prompted a review from Guinness World Records, saying \"inclusiveness and respect\" were values it holds \"extremely dear\".\n\nThen on Tuesday, a statement confirming Jess would be given the new record.\n\n\"I want to take this opportunity to reassure everybody concerned that Guinness World Records is absolutely committed to ensuring we uphold the highest standards of equality and inclusiveness.\n\n\"Therefore, we unreservedly apologise and accept full responsibility for the mishandling of Jessica Anderson's application.\"\n\nBefore the decision was reversed, the story prompted nurses to tweet selfies of themselves, with very few dresses on show, using the hashtag #WhatNursesWear.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd male nurses argued that dresses aren't really their thing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Billy Hopkinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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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End of twitter post 4 by Ruth May\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Natasha Abrahart's GP said she felt the teenager had a \"high risk of ending her life\"\n\nA GP ignored clinical advice and did not follow up on a student who was \"at high risk of ending her life\" before she was found hanged, an inquest heard.\n\nNatasha Abrahart, 20, who was studying physics at the University of Bristol, died on 30 April last year.\n\nThe university's Dr Emma Webb prescribed anti-depressants and made a note to \"follow up in two weeks\".\n\nHowever, NHS advice states patients assessed as a suicide risk should be seen after one week.\n\nDr Webb told Avon Coroners' Court that she saw Ms Abrahart on 30 March, then again on 20 April when she prescribed her the anti-depressant Sertraline.\n\nShe described the student as \"extremely difficult to communicate with\" and added: \"My usual practice is to follow up two weeks after prescribing anti depressants.\"\n\nMargaret and Robert Abrahart gave evidence at the inquest\n\nIn the past three years, 12 University of Bristol students have died.\n\nEight of the deaths were recorded as suicide, two inquests - including Ms Abrahart's - are still to take place or be determined and two inquests returned narrative verdicts.\n\nThe student's parents Robert and Margaret, from West Bridgford in Nottinghamshire, told the inquest they miss their daughter \"every day\".\n\nMrs Abrahart told the hearing in Flax Bourton that her daughter was worried about being \"kicked off her course\" after receiving a lower than expected year-end mark and had begun self-harming.\n\nMs Abrahart's GP told the inquest when Ms Abrahart attended an emergency appointment in February last year she was in an \"acute state of distress\".\n\nDr Caroline St John Wright said she felt the student \"was at high risk of ending her life\" and referred her to the Avon Wiltshire Partnership (AWP) crisis team.\n\nThe doctor said the AWP tried to contact Ms Abrahart, but she did not answer her phone.\n\nNatasha's parents said they \"miss her every day\"\n\nMr Abrahart told the inquest his daughter had posted on a mental health support site aimed at students saying she felt \"distressed\" and had \"suicidal thoughts\".\n\nHe said the day before she died she had sent a text to her boyfriend saying \"answer now\", but he was asleep.\n\nAfter she died, her phone was examined and it was found she had searched the phrase \"I wish I was dead\" on the internet a week before she died.\n\nFor help and support on mental health visit the BBC Advice pages.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Councils with large cuts to youth services were more likely to also have seen an increase in knife crime in the area's police force, research suggests.\n\nThe All-Party Parliamentary Group on Knife Crime (APPG) studied budgets for youth services from 2014/15 to 2017/18. It also analysed knife crime data.\n\nIt said the four areas worst-hit by youth spending cuts also saw some of the biggest knife crime rises.\n\nBut comparison is not like for like as council and policing areas differ.\n\nThe government said there was a \"range of factors\" driving the increase in knife crime, which it called \"complex\". It said changes to the drugs market is one factor.\n\nMP Sarah Jones, who chairs the APPG which is made up of MPs and peers, said youth services cannot just be \"nice to have\".\n\nShe added: \"We cannot hope to turn around the knife crime epidemic if we don't invest in our young people.\n\n\"Every time I speak to young people they say the same thing: they need more positive activities, safe spaces to spend time with friends and programmes to help them grow and develop.\"\n\nThe APPG's research found the average council cut spending on youth services - such as youth clubs - from 1.9m in 2014/15 to 1.2m in 2017/18. In real terms, this marked a decrease of 40%, it said.\n\nThe City of Wolverhampton and the City of Westminster were the worst hit, with youth services cut by 91% since 2014/15, followed by Cambridgeshire County Council (88%) and Wokingham Borough Council (81%), according to the figures.\n\nAlthough it is not possible to directly compare the geographical areas covered by police forces and local authority boundaries, the APPG analysis suggests forces serving areas with the biggest cuts, such as West Midlands Police, the Metropolitan Police, Cambridgeshire Police, and Thames Valley Police, have also seen some of the highest increases in knife crime.\n\nWest Midlands Police has seen an 87% increase in knife crime offences since 2013/14, while there has been a 47% rise for the Metropolitan Police, a 95% increase for Cambridgeshire Police, and a 99% increase for Thames Valley.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Knife crime: What's it like to be stabbed?\n\nThe APPG obtained the figures on youth service budgets using freedom of information requests sent to 154 local authorities in England, which 106 replied to.\n\nChildren's charity Barnardo's, which supported the research, said the figures were \"alarming but sadly unsurprising\" and called for central government to \"work with local authorities to ensure they have enough funding to run vital services\".\n\nKnife crime reached a record level last year in England and Wales with 40,829 offences involving knives or sharp objects recorded by police in 2018.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said cases of murder and manslaughter, excluding terror attacks, increased by 12%. There were 732 killings, up from 655 in 2017 - the highest since 2007.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police recorded the most knife offences - 14,660 - representing a 1% yearly rise. The biggest increase of 54% was recorded by British Transport Police, while Merseyside saw a 35% rise and Dyfed-Powys 28%.\n\nThe figures show there were 252 killings involving a knife or sharp instrument in 2018. There were 18,950 assaults and 17,402 robberies where a knife or sharp instrument was used.", "Ellie Gould, 17, was a pupil at Hardenhuish School in Chippenham\n\nA teenage boy has been charged with the murder of 17-year-old Ellie Gould.\n\nWiltshire Police said the 17-year-old suspect was from the Calne area and known to her.\n\nHe has been remanded in custody ahead of an appearance at Salisbury Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.\n\nEllie, a Year 12 pupil at Hardenhuish School, was pronounced dead after being found at a house in Springfield Drive, Calne, on Friday. Police detained the suspect in Chippenham that afternoon.\n\nEllie's body was found at a house in Springfield Drive\n\nInsp Don Pocock said: \"I would like to again thank the communities of Calne and Chippenham for the support and patience they have shown so far to our officers as they have carried out inquiries as part of this murder investigation.\n\n\"A case like this takes time and will understandably have an impact on the local community - so thank you for your help and understanding.\n\n\"Over the past few days, people living in Calne and Chippenham would have seen an increased police presence which I appreciate can add more anxiety and upset to what is already a tragic situation.\"\n\nLisa Percy, head teacher of Hardenhuish School in Chippenham, said: \"The students, staff and parents have found comfort in being together and paying their respects to Ellie and our thoughts remain with her family and friends at this time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pamela Anderson has criticised the decision to jail Julian Assange, after visiting him at Belmarsh prison in London.\n\nThe Wikileaks co-founder was sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for breaching his bail conditions.\n\nThe 47-year-old was found guilty of breaching the Bail Act last month after his arrest at the Ecuadorian Embassy.\n\nHe took refuge in the London embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, which he has denied.", "Singer Don McLean has criticised a US university after a lifetime achievement award was rescinded because of his 2016 arrest for domestic abuse.\n\nThe American Pie star was due to be presented with the George and Ira Gershwin Award by the UCLA Student Alumni Association.\n\nBut it withdrew the honour, saying it \"rejects any behaviour - including violence and the threat of violence\".\n\nMcLean responded: \"This has been all over the internet for three years.\"\n\nAlthough he denied physically assaulting now-ex-wife Patrisha McLean, the singer pleaded guilty to domestic violence assault in 2016 as part of a plea agreement after police were called to a disturbance at his home.\n\nThe charges were dismissed in 2017 under the terms of the deal, which included staying out of trouble for a year.\n\nSince their divorce, Mrs McLean - who alleges a pattern of abuse going back three decades - has become an advocate speaking against domestic abuse.\n\n\"You... took [the award] back because you found out about my squabble with my ex wife,\" McLean wrote. \"This has been all over the internet for three years. Are you people morons? This is settled law.\"\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 Don McLean This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nThe decision to present the award to McLean was announced last week. The prize was created in 1988 in recognition of songwriting brothers George and Ira Gershwin, whose songs include I Got Rhythm and Summertime, and their financial contributions to UCLA.\n\nPrevious recipients include Linkin Park, The Who, Alanis Morissette and Dame Julie Andrews.\n\nIn a statement reported by the Portland Press Herald, the Student Alumni Association said: \"We extend our support to survivors of domestic violence.\"\n\nMcLean's publicist Jeremy Westby responded with a statement saying it was \"publicly disrespectful and grossly humiliating to Mr McLean to issue and then rescind an award based on the supposition of any violent criminal history\".", "The government has signed a round of new Brexit contracts with outside consultants worth almost £160m.\n\nMany of them are due to run until April 2020, six months after the UK's new scheduled departure date from the European Union.\n\nSince the EU referendum, Whitehall has hired companies to carry out consultancy work to prepare for Brexit.\n\nThe government said it would continue to \"draw on the expert advice\" of a range of specialists.\n\nIn February, an analysis for the BBC found the government had agreed contracts worth £104m for outside help on Brexit.\n\nAt the time, Dave Penman, the general secretary of the FDA, the professional association for civil servants, called the sum \"eye watering\".\n\nHe also said it was \"no surprise following almost a decade of austerity that has seen the civil service shrink by almost a quarter\".\n\nThe Cabinet Office has now published a new round of contracts with consultants.\n\nThese could be worth up to a further £159m, according to the data provider Tussell.\n\nNine companies that were awarded contracts last year - including Deloitte and Ernst & Young - have had those extended by a year.\n\nAnother 11 firms, including smaller suppliers, have been given brand new contracts.\n\nRedacted documents published by the government state they're being paid between £3m and £6m each for IT, accounting and auditing work and management services, all related to Brexit.\n\nTamzen Isacsson from the Management Consultancies Association says companies are supporting the government at a critical time.\n\n\"What they have brought to the government at this unprecedented period of huge workload is capacity, insight and skills.\n\n\"This has enabled the government to set up and plan new systems to cope with a whole range of changes from border control to trade, border policy, immigration and other areas.\"\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesman said: \"As a responsible government we have, and will continue to, draw on the expert advice of a range of specialists to deliver a successful and orderly exit from the EU.\"", "King Charles III and Queen Camilla have been crowned in Westminster Abbey.\n\nFind out more about the Royal Family and the line of succession below.\n\nCharles became King the moment his mother Queen Elizabeth II died.\n\nThe now former Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales, on 29 July 1981. The couple had two sons, William and Harry. They later separated and their marriage was dissolved in 1996. On 31 August 1997, the princess was killed in a car crash in Paris.\n\nHe married Camilla Parker Bowles on 9 April 2005. When Charles became King, she became Queen Consort, as per the wishes of Queen Elizabeth II. Following the coronation she is now known as Queen Camilla.\n\nPrince William is the elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is now first in line to the throne.\n\nHe was 15 when his mother died. He went on to study at St Andrews University, where he met his future wife, Kate Middleton. The couple were married in 2011.\n\nOn his 21st birthday he was appointed a Counsellor of State - standing in for the Queen on official occasions. He and his wife had their first child, George, in July 2013, their second, Charlotte, in 2015 and third, Louis, in 2018.\n\nThe prince trained with the Army, Royal Navy and RAF before spending three years as an RAF search-and-rescue pilot with RAF Valley on Anglesey, north Wales. He also worked part-time for two years as a co-pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance alongside his royal duties. He left the role in July 2017 to take on more royal duties on behalf of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nWilliam has inherited his father's Duchy of Cornwall and is now the Prince of Wales. Catherine is now the Princess of Wales.\n\nAs heir to the throne, his main duties are to support the King in his royal commitments.\n\nPrince George of Wales was born on 22 July 2013 at St Mary's Hospital in London. His father was present for the birth of his son, who weighed 8lb 6oz (3.8kg).\n\nPrince George is second in line to the throne, after his father.\n\nCatherine, Princess of Wales gave birth to her second child, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, on 2 May 2015, again at St Mary's Hospital. William was present for the birth of the 8lb 3oz (3.7kg) baby.\n\nShe is third in line to the throne, after her father and older brother, and is known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales.\n\nThe new Princess of Wales gave birth to her third child, a boy weighing 8lbs 7oz, on 23 April 2018, at St Mary's Hospital in London.\n\nWilliam was present for the birth of Louis Arthur Charles, who is fourth in line to the throne.\n\nPrince Harry trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and went on to become a lieutenant in the Army, serving as a helicopter pilot.\n\nDuring his 10 years in the armed forces, Capt Wales, as he became known, saw active service in Afghanistan twice, in 2012 to 2013 as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner. He left the Army in 2015 and now focuses on charitable work, including conservation in Africa and organising the Invictus Games for injured members of the armed forces.\n\nHe has been a Counsellor of State since his 21st birthday and stood in for the Queen on official duties.\n\nHe married US actress Meghan Markle on 19 May, 2018, at Windsor Castle. In January 2020, the royal couple said they would step back as \"senior\" royals and divide their time between the UK and North America. They said they intended to \"work to become financially independent\".\n\nJust over a year later, Buckingham Palace confirmed the couple would not be returning to royal duties, and would give up their honorary military appointments and royal patronages.\n\nThe Sussexes' first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on 6 May 2019, weighing 7lbs 3oz, with the duke present for his birth.\n\nArchie was not automatically a prince when he was born because he was not a grandson of the monarch. But he gained the right to that title when King Charles acceded to the throne. Harry and Meghan are understood to want their children to decide for themselves whether or not to use their titles when they are older.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex gave birth to her second child in Santa Barbara, California, on 4 June 2021. Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor - to be known as Lili - is named after the Royal Family's nickname for the Queen and is her 11th great-grandchild.\n\nShe was given the middle name Diana in honour of Prince Harry's mother, who died in a car crash in 1997 when he was 12 years old. Like her brother, she gained the right to use the royal title when her grandfather became king.\n\nPrince Andrew, eighth in line to the throne, was the third child of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh - but the first to be born to a reigning monarch for 103 years.\n\nHe was created the Duke of York on his marriage to Sarah Ferguson, who became Duchess of York, in 1986. They had two daughters - Beatrice, in 1988, and Eugenie, in 1990. In March 1992 it was announced the duke and duchess were to separate. They divorced in 1996.\n\nThe duke served for 22 years in the Royal Navy and saw active service in the Falklands War in 1982. In addition to royal engagements, he served as a special trade representative for the government until 2011.\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties in 2019 after an interview with the BBC about his relationship with US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nIn February, he agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle a civil sexual assault case brought against him in the US by one of Epstein's victims, although he made no admission of liability and had repeatedly denied the allegations.\n\nPrincess Beatrice is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York. She has no official surname, but uses the name York.\n\nShe married property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, in July 2020. The couple had been due to marry in May, but coronavirus delayed the plans.\n\nPrincess Beatrice had a baby girl, Sienna Elizabeth, in September 2021, who is 10th in line to the throne and is the Queen's 12th great-grandchild. Princess Beatrice is also stepmother to Mr Mapelli Mozzi's son Christopher Woolf, known as Wolfie, from his previous relationship with Dara Huang.\n\nPrincess Eugenie is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie of York and she is 11th in line to the throne.\n\nLike her sister Princess Beatrice, she has no official surname, but uses York. She married her long-term boyfriend Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on 12 October 2018.\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's son, August, born on 9 February 2021, was Queen Elizabeth's ninth great-grandchild.\n\nErnest Brooksbank was born on 30 May and weighed 7lb 1oz\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's second son was born on 30 May 2023. It is the first royal birth since the coronation of King Charles, Eugenie's uncle.\n\nErnest is 13th in line to the throne, moving the Duke of Edinburgh down to 14th place.\n\nEugenie said the baby's names were inspired by \"his great-great-great grandfather George, his grandpa George and my grandpa Ronald\".\n\nMajor Ronald Ferguson, who died in 2003 was the Duchess of York's father.\n\nPrince Edward was given the title Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday, almost two years after the death of his father Prince Philip, who previously held the title. It was understood that Philip had wanted Edward to take on the title, but the decision was left to King Charles.\n\nPrince Edward's wife Sophie becomes the Duchess of Edinburgh and the prince's former title, the Earl of Wessex, has now been given to his son James, Viscount Severn. The couple also have a daughter, Lady Louise, born in 2003.\n\nAfter a brief period with the Royal Marines, the prince formed his own TV production company. He subsequently supported the Queen in her official duties and carried out public engagements for charities. He is 14th in line to the throne.\n\nJames, Earl of Wessex is the younger child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. He was given the title after his father Prince Edward became the Duke of Edinburgh in March 2023. When James was born, he was given the title Viscount Severn - a \"courtesy\" title as son of an earl, rather than using prince. It is thought his parents made this decision to avoid some of the burdens of royal titles.\n\nBorn in 2003, Lady Louise Windsor is the elder child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. However, she is lower in the line of succession than her younger brother because she was born before a law came into force scrapping the system that meant a younger son could displace an older daughter.\n\nAnne, Princess Royal is the Queen's second child and only daughter. When she was born she was third in line to the throne, but is now 17th. She was given the title Princess Royal in June 1987.\n\nPrincess Anne has married twice; her first husband Captain Mark Phillips is the father of her two children, Peter and Zara, while her second is Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence.\n\nThe princess was the first royal to use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor in an official document, in the marriage register after her wedding to Capt Phillips. She competed in equestrian events for Great Britain in the 1976 Montreal Olympics and is involved with a number of charities, including Save the Children, of which she has been president since 1970.\n\nPeter Phillips is the eldest of the Queen's grandchildren. He married Canadian Autumn Kelly in 2008 and together they have two daughters, Savannah, born in 2010, and Isla, born in 2012.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not have royal titles, as they are descended from the female line. Mark Phillips refused the offer of an earldom when he married so their children do not have courtesy titles.\n\nPeter Phillips and his wife announced they were getting divorced in February 2020.\n\nSavannah, born in 2010, is the elder daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips and was the Queen's first great-grandchild.\n\nIsla, born in 2012, is the second daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips.\n\nZara Tindall followed her mother and father with a highly successful riding career - including winning a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics. She married former England rugby player Mike Tindall in 2011 and the couple had their first child, Mia Grace, in 2014.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not hold a royal title, as they are descended from the female line, but she remains 21st in line to the throne. Their father, Mark Phillips, turned down an earldom when he married Princess Anne, so they do not have courtesy titles.\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall gave birth to her first child, Mia Grace, in January 2014.\n\nThe couple's second child was born on 18 June 2018 at Stroud Maternity Unit, Gloucestershire, weighing 9lb 3oz.\n\nLena Elizabeth was named in honour of her great-grandmother.\n\nLike her sister, Lena Elizabeth does not have a royal title and so will also be known as Miss Tindall.\n\nZara and Mike Tindall's son Lucas Philip, their third child - the Queen's 10th great-grandchild - was born on 21 March 2021 weighing 8lbs 4oz.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amy Schumer and her husband Chris Fischer announced the birth on Instagram\n\nComedian Amy Schumer and husband Chris Fischer are celebrating the birth of their first child - a boy.\n\nSchumer posted about the birth with the caption: \"10:55pm last night [03:55 BST on Monday]. Our royal baby was born.\"\n\nTheir new arrival was announced on the same day the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's own baby boy was born.\n\nThe couple had also announced their pregnancy in October 2018 - by editing their faces onto a photo of Prince Harry and Meghan's bodies.\n\nSchumer posted a photo of herself, her husband and their baby at the hospital in New York, which appeared to have been taken soon after the birth.\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 amyschumer 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\nSchumer also combined the news of her pregnancy with a list of more than 20 Democratic candidates that she was endorsing in the US mid-term elections the following month.\n\nIn another post on Monday, the comedian said she had stopped off at the Metropolitan Museum in New York to pose for a photo on her way to the hospital.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by amyschumer This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe museum is the venue for Monday evening's Met Gala, one of the most highly anticipated events in the fashion calendar.\n\nGuests are only admitted with a personal invitation from Vogue editor Anna Wintour, and must wear a designer look along a specific theme.\n\nThe theme this year is \"camp\", to coincide with an upcoming exhibition inspired by photographer Susan Sontag's 1964 essay Notes on Camp, which will explore \"irony, humour, parody, pastiche, artifice, theatricality, and exaggeration\" in fashion.\n\nSchumer was wearing a pared-down cardigan-and-trainers combo, which she said was her \"Met look this year\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What has the Welsh Assembly done for you?\n\nShowing a class of AS level politics students some of the landmark moments of Welsh devolution is a sobering experience.\n\nIn the Welsh Assembly, which enters its 20th year this week, politicians voted to make Wales the first place in the UK to charge for carrier bags.\n\nIt was an important moment of leadership, years before concern over plastic pollution was the subject of prime time television.\n\nLater there was the reform of the organ donation system: presumed consent, a measure designed to save lives all over the UK.\n\nAs the students, from Cardiff and Vale College, have grown up, the Welsh Assembly has grown with them. It has gone from being an assembly with no ability to make laws without the permission of the UK Parliament, to a Parliament itself in all but name.\n\nIt can make laws, agree taxes (including income tax) and scrutinise the Welsh Government's running of every day services like health, schools and housing.\n\nBut one of the students we spoke to, Bill, said he did not think the assembly had \"much influence compared to Westminster\".\n\nRhyddian said: \"Because Parliament still has some jurisdiction over Wales, people just don't understand the difference between them.\n\n\"They probably just see it as less important.\"\n\nAnother said the difference between Parliament and the assembly is not understood, while one student said his friends understand the assembly \"but just don't care\".\n\nThey would not be alone in their reluctance to engage.\n\nAlun Michael led the government in the assembly when it opened in 1999 - much has changed since those early days\n\nAlthough there was a referendum in 2011 to give the assembly more powers, and successive opinion polls suggest it's become a settled feature of Welsh life, turnout in an assembly election has never been higher than 46%.\n\nAnd surveys indicate that many people don't realise that it is the Welsh Government, scrutinised by the assembly, not the government in London, which controls most of the day-to-day services we all use.\n\nIt's a far cry from Scotland where turnout at Scottish Parliament elections is usually more than 50%.\n\nMy colleague Brian Taylor, BBC Scotland's Political Editor, says much of the reason for that is historical.\n\n\"Scotland was a sovereign state, a sovereign nation for many centuries,\" Mr Taylor said.\n\nThere are other reasons too. Wales has a weaker media which hinders robust scrutiny and the communication of information about Welsh politics.\n\nOne party, Welsh Labour, has dominated the political landscape and governed continuously for the last 20 years.\n\nOpposition parties have failed to persuade voters to trust them with the reins of government.\n\nWales was the first part of the UK to charge for plastic bags\n\nYet one of the big arguments in favour of devolution is that it brings decision making closer to the people whose lives are affected by those decisions.\n\nThere's the feeling among many voters across Wales that the assembly is too Cardiff-centric - in other words not close enough.\n\nSo if most voters aren't connecting with the Welsh Assembly, that's a problem.\n\nSometimes, the roles of the assembly and the Welsh Government get confused as well.\n\nThe government makes decisions and proposes policies, while the assembly's role is to scrutinise that and decide whether to support them.\n\nLaura McAllister, professor of public policy at Cardiff University, said the assembly had a \"chequered past\"\n\nMany would argue the assembly has spent much of its life ill equipped to carry out that role properly.\n\nProf Laura McAllister says it has only recently come of age.\n\n\"If you look at the history of the last 20 years we know it had a pretty chequered past, with a ridiculous model of devolution at the outset,\" the Cardiff University academic said.\n\n\"Only now is it fit for purpose.\"\n\nCriticisms about the failure to address the poverty that plagues so much of Wales and the underlying problems of an under-performing economy are really about the performance of the Welsh Government, not the Welsh Assembly itself.\n\nSuccessive Welsh Governments would point out they have never had control over welfare or big economic levers.\n\nBut some would argue there has been a reluctance to wrestle with difficult issues.\n\nBig projects have been proposed, encountered controversy and been left to drift, like local government reorganisation or the M4 relief road.\n\nThe latter is a proposal older than the assembly itself. We are told there'll be a decision on that in June.\n\nIn the meantime the assembly is using this anniversary to reach out. In July it is planning a citizens' assembly where people can discuss some of the big issues facing Wales in the years ahead.\n\nIt's already running a youth parliament and there are proposals to reduce the voting age to 16.\n\nEngage them early, engage them for life - that's the hope anyway.\n• None The evolution of devolution in Wales", "Krupa Sheth says the \"bee corridor\" will be ready by the summer\n\nA seven-mile long \"bee corridor\" is being planted in a bid to boost the number of pollinating insects.\n\nThe wildflower meadows will be put in place in 22 of Brent Council's parks in north London.\n\nA recent study blamed the decline of wildflowers as a factor behind the drop in pollinating insect numbers in the UK since the 1980s.\n\nCouncillor Krupa Sheth said bees were \"so important for pollinating the crops that provide the food that we eat\".\n\nShe added: \"We must do all we can to help them to thrive.\"\n\nThe seeds will be sown across parks in the Brent Council area including Barham Park, Gladstone Park and Tiverton.\n\nProjects manager Kelly Eaton said: \"The team curated the mix of wildflowers with bees and other insects in mind, choosing varieties that would attract these pollinators.\"\n\nThe corridor being planted in Brent will stretch across 22 parks\n\nThe idea has been praised by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as \"a fantastic initiative\".\n\nIn March, a new study found a third of British wild bees and hoverflies were in decline.\n\nScientists warn that the loss of nature could create problems in years to come, including the ability to grow food crops.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Great Yarmouth's Golden Mile with Scroby Sands wind farm on the horizon\n\nIn the past decade the UK has emerged as a world leader in offshore wind energy. And some of the biggest winners from the multi-billion pound investment look set to be coastal towns searching for their industries of the future.\n\nOn a clear day, the tourists walking Great Yarmouth's beachfront Golden Mile can see the turbines of the Scroby Sands wind farm spinning in the distance.\n\nOnshore are the attractions and arcades that have sustained this Norfolk seaside resort for the past half-century; far offshore stand the huge structures on which rest its hopes for the next.\n\nTwice the height of Big Ben and with blades longer than a jumbo jet wingspan, the new turbines being built many miles into the North Sea will dwarf the 15-year-old wind farm visible from the beach.\n\nAt full capacity, the planned projects could power the equivalent of 4.5 million homes, but the multi-billion pound investments are already having an energising effect on the local economy.\n\nHaving seen the decline of its fishing industry and ridden the ups and downs of the oil and gas industry, Great Yarmouth and its neighbouring port Lowestoft find themselves at the centre of the UK's renewables boom.\n\nThe UK already has offshore wind turbine infrastructure that could provide a capacity of 7.5GW - more than any other country in the world - and more than half of it is off the coast of Norfolk and Suffolk.\n\nA combination of shallow waters, consistent wind and good access to the energy-hungry south-east England has already attracted projects costing £11bn, with projects worth £22bn - and more than 6,000 jobs - planned by developers into the next decade.\n\nNext-generation turbines can generate almost five times the power of the Scroby Sands wind farm\n\nIn March, the government laid out in an industry sector deal its ambition for 30% of electricity to come from offshore wind by 2030, and the falling cost of renewables has fuelled ambitions of the UK being carbon zero by 2050.\n\nIt all adds up to an unmissable opportunity, says Simon Gray of industry body the East of England Energy Group.\n\nThese stories are part of special coverage across BBC News looking at the challenges and opportunities in Britain's coastal towns.\n\n\"The great thing about this is that the wind farms are set to last 20, 30, 40 years. It means two generations of a workforce that will be operating and maintaining these turbines,\" he said.\n\n\"We are developing these skills and will be exporting them around the world,\" he says.\n\nTourism is one of Great Yarmouth's biggest industries, but work is seasonal\n\nWhile much of the manufacturing is done further up the east coast or abroad - which has drawn criticism - construction and maintenance is creating work for local companies.\n\nGreat Yarmouth's port is being used as the construction base for ScottishPower Renewables' £2.5bn East Anglia One wind farm, due for completion next year.\n\nBut an even bigger prize is the operations and maintenance deal it has secured for Swedish energy firm Vattenfall's two wind farms, which will be the biggest in the world.\n\nThey will bring up to 150 jobs for 25 years, and create hundreds more in the supply chain.\n\nWind turbine projects costing an estimated £22bn are planned off the east coast in the next decade\n\nYarmouth firm Subsea Protection Systems makes protection for undersea cables, and says it could double its 50-strong workforce if it wins a contract on the projects.\n\nAnd Peel Ports has invested £12m in Great Yarmouth port to attract bases for future wind farms. It has been working with local councils and the region's local enterprise partnership.\n\n\"This is our opportunity,\" says port director Richard Goffin. \"We've been saying this for two years but the government have now put their flag in the ground and said they want us to do it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The offshore wind turbines getting people off benefits\n\nFormer fabrication engineer Gwyn Evans has retrained as an offshore wind technician thanks to a course run by a local engineering firm.\n\nAccustomed to the peaks and troughs of seasonal work, he had been out of work for six months and saw the writing on the wall.\n\nThe opportunity to train for free with Great Yarmouth-based 3Sun was \"manna from heaven\", he says.\n\nThe company offers the training as a way to recruit new talent into its growing offshore wind work.\n\n\"Things are standing a lot better in my favour than they were,\" says Mr Evans, 38.\n\n\"Now I have the [qualification] tickets the world is my oyster. I can earn a decent wage and improve my lifestyle.\n\n\"Everybody wants a job that's going to last. If you are lucky enough to be in an industry that you are passionate about and love, that's even better.\"\n\nThe opening of a new £557m government subsidy round is likely to attract more private-sector investment.\n\nBut infrastructure projects on such a scale inevitably attract opposition.\n\nThe huge cables needed to transfer the power from the wind farm to the grid require vast swathes of the countryside to be dug up.\n\nFor example, Vattenfall's proposed wind farms require 37 miles (60km) of cabling to be laid underground to a substation at Necton in Norfolk, which residents say will blot the landscape and cause huge disruption.\n\nThe company insists it is working with residents to find the best solution and the project will bring significant environmental and economic benefits.\n\nCommunities affected by construction want better planning as more projects arise\n\nMid Norfolk MP George Freeman has raised the wider issue in Parliament, warning that community voices are not being heard in a planning \"free-for-all\".\n\nCritics also ask why infrastructure cannot be better planned and shared - a concern the government has pledged to investigate in its sector deal.\n\nThat launch has focused attention on the future. At 5,000-student East Coast College, where a new £11m energy training centre is being built, they can feel the change in the air.\n\nThe sector deal \"felt like firing a starting gun\" says chief executive Stuart Rimmer. He believes the prospect of well-paid, long-term jobs on their doorstep is creating real excitement among students.\n\n\"Aspiration follows opportunity,\" he says. \"We have to explain they are not just getting a qualification, they are getting a future.\"", "JavaScript seems to be disabled. Please enable JavaScript to take full advantage of iPlayer.", "About 30 people at a French rave had to be treated for hypothermia after it unexpectedly snowed.\n\nPeople at Teknival, a techno music festival in the central Creuse region, were exposed to the elements when temperatures dropped to -3C (27F).\n\nAbout 10,000 people were gathered on a military-owned hill top when it started snowing heavily.\n\nRescuers from the Red Cross treated most of those affected at the scene, but two had to be taken to hospital.\n\nThey also gave out 500 survival blankets while organisers set up a heated tent at the site, Agence France Presse news agency reported.\n\nBut by Sunday afternoon most of the ravers had left: according to local media, only 2,500 of the original 10,000 people remained.\n\nLe Parisien reports that the festival was unauthorised, and that the French military - which owns the site - lodged an official complaint afterwards.\n\nThis was Teknival's 26th year. Last year, organisers were accused by conservation groups of disturbing a nature zone and unsettling local birdlife in the area.", "It was close to midnight and Vlada, a Serbian engineer, was speeding towards his apartment in Belgrade. He had taken his 20-year-old son out that evening but bombs had started to fall across the Yugoslav capital. The power grid was down and he wanted to get home.\n\nNato, the world's most powerful military alliance, had been pummelling Yugoslavia from the skies since late March to try to bring a halt to atrocities committed by President Slobodan Milosevic's forces against ethnic Albanians in the province of Kosovo. It was now 7 May 1999 and the US-dominated air campaign was only growing more intense.\n\nVlada's family had spent many nights in recent weeks huddled with others in the basement of their apartment building as air raid sirens blared outside, praying that an errant missile wouldn't strike their homes.\n\nThey were lucky, some thought, to live just next to the Chinese embassy - an important diplomatic mission. Being there would surely protect them.\n\nBut as Vlada and his son approached the glass doors of their building in the dark, US B-2 stealth warplanes were in the skies above Belgrade. They were locked-on to the precise co-ordinates of a target selected and cleared by the CIA. All Vlada heard at first was the whoosh of an incoming missile. There was no time to move. The doors shattered, spraying glass at them.\n\n\"The force of the first bomb lifted us off the ground and we fell… Then one after the other [more bombs landed] - bam, bam, bam. All the shutters on the block were ripped off by the blast, it broke all the windows.\"\n\nThey were terrified but uninjured. All five bombs had hit the embassy, 100 metres away.\n\nThe US and Nato were already facing scrutiny over mounting civilian casualties in a bombing campaign conducted without UN authorisation and fiercely opposed by China and Russia. They had now attacked a symbol of Chinese sovereignty in the heart of the Balkans.\n\nEmbassy workers escaped through windows after the strikes\n\nAcross town, Shen Hong, a well-connected Chinese businessman, was getting word that the embassy had been hit. He refused to believe it. Just a few days earlier, his father had phoned from Shanghai and joked that his son should park his new Mercedes at the diplomatic compound to keep it safe.\n\n\"I called a policeman who I knew and he said, 'Yes, Shen, it's really hit'. He said come right away, so then I knew it was real, it was true.\"\n\nHe arrived to a scene of chaos. The embassy was burning; workers covered in blood and dust were climbing out of windows to escape. Politicians close to Milosevic - who had been charged two weeks earlier with crimes against humanity by an international tribunal - were already arriving to denounce the bombing as the latest example of Nato barbarity.\n\n\"We could not go inside. There was a lot of smoke, there wasn't any electricity and we couldn't see anything. It was horrible,\" said Shen.\n\nHe spotted the cultural attaché, a man he knew, who had knotted together curtains to get out of a first-floor window. \"We didn't see that he was injured and he didn't notice it either. It was only when I shook his hand that I realised my hands were covered in blood. I told him 'you're injured, you're injured!' - but when he saw this he passed out.\"\n\nThe next day Shen would learn that two close friends - newlywed journalists Xu Xinghu, 31, and Zhu Ying, 27 - had been killed by a bomb that hit the sleeping quarters of the embassy. Their bodies were found under a collapsed wall.\n\nThe pair had worked for the Guangming (Enlightenment) Daily - a communist party newspaper. Xu, a language graduate who spoke fluent Serbian, had chronicled life in Belgrade during the bombings in a series of special reports called \"Living Under Gunfire\".\n\nZhu Ying worked as an art editor in the paper's advertising department. Her mother collapsed with grief and was sent to hospital when she learned of her daughter's death so Zhu's father travelled alone to Belgrade to see the body.\n\nA third journalist, 48-year-old Shao Yunhuan, of the Xinhua news agency, also died. Her husband, Cao Rongfei, was blinded. The embassy's military attaché, who is believed to have run an intelligence cell from the building, was sent back to China in a coma. In total, three people were killed and at least 20 injured.\n\nFor Shen, this was an act of war. The next day he led a protest through the streets of Belgrade carrying a sign reading \"NATO: Nazi American Terrorist Organisation\"\n\nIt was a sign of what was to come.\n\nThree journalists were killed in the embassy\n\nWithin hours of the bombing, two competing narratives began to emerge. They would harden over the coming months and form the basis of how the incident - which continues to linger over the US-China relationship - remains debated today.\n\nThe bombing fuelled speculation, and there was no shortage of unanswered questions and missing pieces that were put together by some to imply a grand conspiracy. Intrigue continued to hang over the incident and, months afterwards, two respected European newspapers suggested the strikes were by design.\n\nBut, as former Nato officials point out, in 20 years no clear evidence has come to light proving what almost all of China believes and America strenuously denies: that it was deliberate.\n\nIn those first hours after the bombs fell, the US and Nato wasted no time to announce that it was an accident. China's representative at the UN, meanwhile, denounced a \"crime of war\" and a \"barbarian act\".\n\nIn Brussels, Jamie Shea - the British Nato spokesman who became the public face of the war - was woken up in the middle of the night and told he would have to face the world's press in the morning. The information available in those early hours was thin but he would give one of the first explanations of what had happened, along with an apology. The warplanes, he said from the briefing podium, had \"struck the wrong building\".\n\n\"It's like a train accident or a car crash - you know what has happened but what you don't know is why it has happened,\" he says 20 years later. \"That took a lot longer to establish… But it was clear right from the get-go, that targeting a foreign embassy was not part of the Nato plan.\"\n\nThe father of Zhu Ying weeps over her coffin in Belgrade\n\nIt would take more than a month for the US to give Beijing a full explanation: that a series of basic errors had led to five GPS-guided bombs striking China's embassy - including one that hurtled through the roof of the ambassador's residence next to the main building but didn't explode, likely sparing his life.\n\nThe real target, officials said, was the headquarters of the Yugoslav Federal Directorate for Supply and Procurement (FDSP) - a state agency that imported and exported defence equipment. The grey office building is still there today - hundreds of metres down the road from the embassy site.\n\nNato had initially hoped the bombing campaign would only last a few days until Milosevic gave up, pulled his forces out of Kosovo and allowed peacekeepers in. But by the time the embassy was hit it had stretched to more than six weeks. In the rush to find hundreds of new targets to sustain the aerial assault, the CIA, which was not normally involved in target-picking, had decided the FDSP should be struck.\n\nBut America's premier intelligence agency said it had used a bad map.\n\n\"In simple terms, one of our planes attacked the wrong target because the bombing instructions were based on an outdated map,\" US defence secretary William Cohen said two days after the bombing. He was referring to a US government map that apparently did not show the correct location of the Chinese embassy nor the FDSP.\n\nAll US intelligence officers had was an address for the FDSP - 2 Bulevar Umetnosti - and a basic military navigation technique was used to approximate its co-ordinates. The technique used was so imprecise, CIA chief George Tenet later said, that it should never have been used to pick out a target for aerial bombing.\n\nTo compound the initial error, Tenet said, intelligence and military databases used to cross-check targets did not have the embassy's new location listed, despite the fact that many US diplomats had actually been inside the building.\n\nHad anyone on the ground visited the site to be bombed they would have found a gated compound, a five-storey building with a green-tiled oriental sloped roof, a bronze plaque announcing the embassy's presence and a large, bright red Chinese flag fluttering more than 10 metres in the air.\n\nThe front of the embassy was largely undamaged\n\nThe crux of the CIA's explanation was hard for many to believe: the world's most advanced military had bombed a fellow UN Security Council member and one of the most vocal opponents of the Nato air campaign because of a mapping error. China was having none of it. The story, it said, was \"not convincing\".\n\n\"The Chinese government and people cannot accept the conclusion that the bombing was a mistake,\" the foreign minister told a US envoy sent to Beijing in June 1999 to explain what had happened.\n\nBut why would the US intentionally attack China?\n\nIt wasn't long after the Sun rose on the morning of Saturday, 8 May 1999, that David Rank, a US diplomat, got out of bed in Beijing.\n\nHe turned on the television and switched to CNN. The American news network was carrying live pictures of the smouldering Chinese embassy in pitch-dark Belgrade.\n\nBy that afternoon, thousands of irate Chinese protesters would be gathered outside. But Rank, at that stage, was fairly calm. He rang his boss, the head of the political section: \"I said, you know, Jim, this is the damndest thing.\"\n\nThe diplomat rushed from his residence to the embassy down the road, where US officials were trying to figure out what had happened. Something had clearly gone wrong but this must have been, had to have been, a tragic mistake.\n\n\"It was so patently obvious that it was a sort of fog of war accident… At that point I didn't think that down the road this was going to be a major problem. Obviously, it was a major problem, but not the sort of convulsive incident that it turned out to be,\" said Rank.\n\nBut in the next hours, the shape of how the Chinese government and people would respond started to become clear.\n\nRank began receiving calls from liberal Chinese friends who were outraged at the bombing. American journalists got similar calls from Chinese contacts with pro-US views, expressing shock and a sense of betrayal.\n\nChinese state media was already laying out a clear narrative - the US had breached international law by bombing a Chinese diplomatic outpost. \"The language that I heard from lots and lots of Chinese, it was identical. It was the same almost word-for-word lines of real anger,\" said Rank.\n\nBy that afternoon thousands of students were streaming onto the streets of Beijing. They gathered outside the embassy and things quickly turned violent.\n\n\"They were pulling up the paving stones. Beijing sidewalks aren't paved, they have big tiles and they were pulling those up and smashing them and throwing them over the walls.\"\n\nMany of those bits of concrete were crashing through the windows of a building where more than a dozen embassy staff, including US Ambassador James Sasser, had hunkered down. Embassy cars were being defaced and attacked.\n\nThe message was clear: the bombing was intentional and, as one slogan went, \"the blood of Chinese must be repaid\". The protests would continue the next day, with even more people - some reports said 100,000 - storming the diplomatic district, and pelting stones, paint, eggs and concrete at the British and American embassies.\n\n\"We feel like we're hostages,\" Bill Palmer, an embassy spokesman trapped in one of the buildings, said at the time.\n\nDemonstrations of this scale had not been seen in tightly-controlled China in the decade since students led a pro-democracy uprising in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989. This time the anger was directed away from the Communist Party but, with the 10th anniversary of the crackdown on students in Tiananmen approaching, the government had to strike a balance between giving vent to public anger and remaining in control.\n\nIn a rare TV address Vice-President Hu Jintao endorsed the protests but also warned they had to remain \"in accordance with the law\".\n\nUS Ambassador James Sasser was trapped in the embassy for four days as protests raged\n\nThe uproar was not isolated to Beijing. Crowds also took to the streets of Shanghai and other cities that weekend. In central Chengdu, the US consul's residence was set alight.\n\nWeiping Qin, a then 19-year-old student leader at the maritime college in southern Guangzhou city, said demonstrators were not informed that Nato had already apologised for what it said was an accident. \"The government was hiding this important message. They didn't tell us - so young people, everybody, felt angry. We just wanted to go in the streets and protest against the United States.\"\n\nHe said that initially students at his college were told they had to stay in their dormitories. But 24 hours after the bombing, the university leadership told him that they needed 30,000 students in the streets around the US consulate - 500 of whom would come from the maritime college.\n\nThe fired-up students drew lots to choose who could attend. They were loaded onto buses and given statements to read that echoed the stilted official language being broadcast by state media. \"They gave us long sentences. But in the street, to speak out in long sentences is very hard.\" He decided to yell slogans about the evils of Nato and the US instead.\n\nWeiping Qin (right) was a student leader at Guangzhou Maritime College in 1999\n\n\"We were just young people and we just felt angry. Our emotions came out like a wave,\" said Qin, who now lives in the US and criticises the Chinese government in YouTube videos.\n\nDavid Rank agreed that the anger was genuine. \"I think it would really sell the Chinese people short to say this was manufactured by the system,\" he said. \"There was real outrage.\"\n\nSince the early 1990s, China had embarked on a concerted campaign to instil nationalism and \"patriotic education\" in its people. The narrative pushed in school textbooks, university classrooms and the media was that China - home to a great and benevolent civilisation - had been subjugated and humiliated at the hands of Western powers. The Belgrade embassy bombing fit the story.\n\n\"The anger that ordinary Chinese felt I think can only be understood in that historical context, being socialised to resent the West,\" said Peter Gries, a professor of Chinese politics at Manchester University and an expert on Chinese nationalism.\n\nFor Liu Mingfu - a retired People's Liberation Army colonel known for his hardline views of the US - the embassy bombing was part of a series of events that proved the US was engaged in a \"new Cold War against China\".\n\n\"It was totally intentional. It was a purposeful, planned bombing, rather than an accident,\" he said.\n\nChina would receive $28m in compensation from the US for the bombing, but had to give back close to $3m for the damage to US diplomatic property in Beijing and elsewhere. The US paid another $4.5m to the families of the dead and injured.\n\nOn the day of the bombing, Dusan Janjic, an academic and advocate for ethnic reconciliation in Yugoslavia, was having lunch at an upscale restaurant in central Belgrade with a man he considered a good friend.\n\nRen Baokai was the military attaché at the Chinese embassy and Janjic said he was surprisingly open with him about the fact that China was spying on Nato and US operations and tracking warplanes from its Belgrade outpost. The attaché invited him to dinner at the embassy that night because he knew he liked Chinese food.\n\n\"And I started making jokes. 'Come on, you're going to be bombed! I'm not coming!',\" Janjic recalled. He was being facetious: he did not actually think the embassy would be hit.\n\nBut Janjic couldn't make it to dinner and that evening, when the missiles flew into the building, Ren was thrown to the ceiling by the blast and then fell through a crater left by a bomb. He was found in the basement in a coma only the next morning.\n\nFive bombs hit the embassy compound and one did not explode\n\nFive months after the strikes, in October 1999, two newspapers - Britain's Observer and Denmark's Politiken - suggested that activities overseen by the military attaché might have prompted an intentional US bombing.\n\nCiting Nato sources, they reported that the embassy was being used as a rebroadcast station for Yugoslav army communications and was as a result removed from a prohibited target list. US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright decried the story as \"balderdash\", while British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said there was \"not a single shred of evidence\" to support it.\n\nBut two decades later, Jens Holsoe, Politiken's correspondent in the Balkans from 1995 to 2004, and John Sweeney, formerly of the Observer and now with the BBC, said they stood by their reporting that the bombing was intentional.\n\nHolsoe said what made him investigate in the first place was CIA Chief George Tenet publicly saying that satellite images gave no indication the target was an embassy - \"no flags, no seals, no clear markings\" - when in fact all three were present.\n\nOne of his sources - a very senior Danish military figure - almost went on the record to confirm publicly that the bombing was intentional, he said. \"Then he suddenly backed out and said if he uttered another word to me about this story that not only did he risk being fired but also prosecuted.\"\n\nHolsoe said it was clear at the time that there was military co-operation between Serb forces and the Chinese - and that he personally saw military vehicles entering and exiting the Chinese embassy. American officials told the New York Times that after the bombing they learned the embassy was China's most significant intelligence collection platform in Europe.\n\n\"This was, and always will be, a murky story,\" said Sweeney.\n\nRen Baokai survived and was later given the rank of general. He declined an interview with the BBC, saying he was now retired.\n\nThe Chinese ambassador who narrowly survived the strike, Pan Zhanlin, denied in a book that the embassy had been used for re-broadcasting and that China, in exchange, had been given parts of the US F-117 stealth fighter jet that Serbian forces had shot down in the early stages of the Nato campaign.\n\nI think it's complete nonsense - it was a bad map-reading error and a bad mistake.\n\nIt's widely assumed that China did get hold of pieces of the plane to study its technology. It's also been speculated that China was using the Nato air campaign to test technology to track stealth bombers that are normally undetectable.\n\nBut even if all these stories are true - the question remains: would the US really take the risk of bombing a Chinese embassy on purpose?\n\nEven among ex-Yugoslav insiders there is no consensus. One former military intelligence officer told the BBC he believed the bombing was intentional and that the CIA's explanation was ludicrous; while another, a retired colonel, said he believed America's story.\n\n\"When something bad happens everybody thinks there has to be a secret reason - not a cock-up but a conspiracy,\" said the former Nato spokesman Jamie Shea. \"I think it's complete nonsense - it was a bad map-reading error and a bad mistake.\"\n\nOn a sunny day in late April, more than a dozen fresh bouquets were stacked up neatly against the memorial stone, but Shen Hong still felt compelled to re-arrange them. He comes to the site of the embassy bombing regularly, to remember his friends that died. But these days, it's rare that he is alone.\n\nBusloads of Chinese tourists arrive every day to gaze at the memorial and the statue of the Chinese sage and philosopher Confucius that now stands nearby.\n\nA young Chinese couple, Zhang and He, were in Belgrade for their honeymoon and decided to visit the memorial. They are around the same age that Xu Xinghu and Zhu Ying were when they were killed in 1999. \"Three of our countrymen died here. We knew about this since we were kids and we came to see it,\" said He.\n\nYang, a guide who was leading some 30 middle-aged Chinese tourists on a two-week bus tour through the Balkans, said the embassy site was a mandatory stop. \"Our embassy was destroyed by Americans. Every Chinese knows this.\"\n\nThe embassy site is being turned into one of the largest Chinese cultural centres in Europe\n\nIn 1999, China was not the economic, technological and military giant it is now. It was focused on getting wealthy and had a much less visible foreign policy. But 20 years later the country knows it sits at the top table with America and its ambitions around the world reflect that.\n\nThe Belgrade embassy site is being turned into a Chinese cultural centre that will be one of the biggest in Europe. The symbolism is hard to miss: a site of national humiliation and tragedy at the hands of the West re-born as a shiny edifice to China's glorious history.\n\nIt's a sign that Beijing has no plans to forget a bombing that allows it to paint the US as an imperialist superpower looking to hurt China. Diplomats who have served in Beijing say the incident is still brought up regularly in conversations.\n\nBut even those who called for immediate retaliation in 1999 now realise it was fortunate that China's reaction did not spiral out of control: no Americans were killed during the protests and the compensation agreement allowed Beijing to draw a line - if a thin one - under the incident.\n\n\"We were the fastest developing country, every year our economy grew by double-digits. And if we would have stopped that because of war back then, we would have lost a lot,\" said Shen, as another group of tourists arrived at the memorial.\n\n\"By nature, I'm a radical. I am always more for war than for a conversation. But when I look back, they did a good thing. Because now we can sit equally with the Americans.\"", "Theresa May must resign or the Conservatives should force her out, after the party's heavy local election losses, Iain Duncan Smith has said.\n\nThe former Tory leader called Mrs May a \"caretaker PM\" and described her attempts to reach a Brexit deal with Labour as \"absurd\".\n\nThe party suffered its worst local election result in England since 1995.\n\nOther senior Conservatives have urged Tory MPs to compromise with Labour to ensure Brexit is delivered.\n\nElections were held on Thursday for 248 English councils, six mayors, and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland. No elections took place in Scotland or Wales.\n\nThe Conservatives lost 1,334 councillors, while Labour failed to make expected gains, instead losing 82 seats.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats benefited from Tory losses, gaining 703 seats, with the Greens and independents also making gains.\n\nFollowing the results, Mrs May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn both insisted they would push ahead with talks seeking cross-party agreement on leaving the EU.\n\nMrs May said it was clear the public wanted \"to see the issue of Brexit resolved\".\n\nBut Mr Duncan Smith, a leading Brexiteer, said many Conservatives would refuse to back any deal reached between the two parties.\n\nMrs May must announce her departure \"very soon\", he said, and if she did not go, the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs would have to force her to do so.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said: \"As a result of the devastating election result, the PM has in effect become a caretaker.\n\n\"As such, she is not empowered to make any deal with the Labour Party which itself suffered a very similar result. Two discredited administrations making a discredited deal is not the answer to the electorate.\"\n\nIn December, Mrs May survived a vote of no-confidence in her leadership of the Conservative Party, but in March she pledged to stand down if and when Parliament ratified her Brexit withdrawal agreement with the EU.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back to 31 October after Parliament was unable to agree a way forward.\n\nRuth Davidson warned the parties would suffer the wrath of voters in the EU elections over Brexit\n\nIn the wake of the Conservatives' local election losses, senior Tories have called for the party to compromise in order to reach an agreement with Labour to end the Brexit deadlock.\n\nScottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson called for the negotiating teams of both parties - who are currently locked in talks - to \"get Brexit sorted, get a deal over the line and let Britain move on\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the Conservative Party needed to listen to the election results and be \"in the mood for compromise\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said the Conservatives might have to move towards Labour's proposal of a permanent customs union - a move many Brexiteers in the party oppose - in order to solve the impasse in Westminster.\n\nMrs May's government has previously ruled out remaining in a customs union after the UK leaves the EU, arguing it would prevent the UK from setting its own trade policy.\n\nLabour has said the EU may show flexibility over the issue and allow the UK \"a say\" in future trade deals.\n\nMr Hancock suggested \"coming up with something in-between\", and called for \"an open dialogue in which we can make an agreement\".\n\nBut Mr Duncan Smith said a customs union was \"the worst of all worlds because you lose your decision-making capacity\".\n\nMeanwhile, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said there was a \"glimmer of hope\" that a compromise between the Conservative and Labour \"core-voters\" could be reached.\n\nHe added that while he supported the withdrawal deal reached between the EU and Mrs May, there might be things that could be done to make it \"more acceptable\" to Labour without compromising on the \"things that we think are essential\".\n\nBut he also warned that a customs union would not be a \"long-term solution\".\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Hunt's remarks on a customs union provided \"yet more evidence\" that many in the cabinet believed the \"most important thing right now\" was the race to be Mrs May's successor.\n\nLabour's MP for Redcar, Anna Turley, also reacted to Mr Hunt's comments that a customs union was not a long-term solution, tweeting: \"This is why we can't trust the Tories by doing a deal stitched up in Number 10 which they will seek to unravel under their next leader.\"", "Labour's team including Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer have been negotiating with the government\n\n\"Constructive and detailed\" - that sounds quite positive - Number 10's description of the talks today.\n\n\"Robust\" - not quite so chirpy - Labour's use of political speak for what most of us might call a bit tricky.\n\n\"Disingenuous\" - oh dear - a different Labour source's description of ministers' claim that what they were putting on the table in the cross-party talks today was something genuinely new on the vexed question of customs arrangements after we leave the EU.\n\nAs we reported this morning there didn't really seem to be much from the government that was concrete beyond what's already possible under the agreement that's been hammered out with Brussels.\n\nThe divorce deal and indeed yes, you guessed it, the backstop, both have forms of temporary customs unions in them to make trade between the UK and the EU easier.\n\nOf course the precise language and mechanisms matter enormously.\n\nBut was there some big shiny new offer today? The short answer is: no.\n\nAnd after hours of talks this afternoon, Labour sources suggest ministers in the end more or less admitted that in pointed discussions.\n\nAs we've talked about here before, the cross-party talks process is real.\n\nPlenty of people in the Tory party hate it. Plenty of people in the Labour Party hate it.\n\nBut inside both leaders' camps, there is a genuine desire, more intense since they both had a bad night at the polls on Thursday, to see if they can sketch out a joint escape route from the mess of Brexit.\n\nBut the historically awful result for the prime minister does not seem to have shocked her into ditching her red lines - at least not yet.\n\nIt's important to understand this process is always unlikely to end up with some kind of joint defining pact - sources involved joke about the preposterous idea of some kind of May-Corbyn Rose Garden love-in - fond or awful memories of that summer's day when the Cameron-Clegg bromance was born in public (take your pick which).\n\nThe fact the talks have gone on for so long hint that there is serious merit in finding some kind of agreement on some kind of process.\n\nAt the very least senior figures in the government hope that the talks might mean Labour would allow the Brexit legislation to move on to its next phase.\n\nIn nerd terms, this is to allow the Withdrawal Bill to get through its so-called \"second reading\", knowing that at the next stage in Parliament where a committee of MPs would pore over every line, multiple layers of objections would be made, suggestions and changes put forward and then voted on, before finally, the bill would have its third reading, when MPs are able to give their final yes or no.\n\nIt is hard right now though to make a call on whether that is viable.\n\nOne former minister, experienced and not prone to make wild prediction, told me Number 10 was in \"la la land\" if they believed that could happen.\n\nAbout half an hour later, another former and experienced minister told me they believe, in fact, it will fly and perhaps by the end of this month.\n\nWhoever you ask, it is clear it is not straightforward.\n\nSo when the two teams sit down again on Wednesday afternoon, whether it is \"constructive\" or \"robust\", there's still an awful lot to do.", "It was hardly the best kept secret in British politics.\n\nThe European elections will, Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington has confirmed, take place on schedule, on 23 May.\n\nThe chances of the elections not being held in the UK were already vanishingly small.\n\nIt would have meant the UK Parliament agreeing a Brexit deal by 22 May - and there's no sign that is about to happen.\n\nThe prospects of a cross-party deal emerging between the Conservatives and Labour in the coming days look remote. It would take a dramatic turn of events to change that.\n\nEven if an unexpected deal were to emerge, it would be only a very tentative first step towards Brexit, with no guarantee that it would enjoy a parliamentary majority.\n\nAnd a first step isn't enough.\n\nThe conclusions of last month's EU summit, agreed by all EU leaders, including Theresa May, said that if the Brexit withdrawal agreement had not been ratified in Parliament by 22 May, the elections would have to take place in the UK.\n\nThe ratification process means Parliament would have to pass a meaningful vote on the withdrawal agreement (the deal negotiated between the government and the EU) and then turn it into UK law in the form of a withdrawal agreement bill.\n\nAnd, as Mr Lidington has now conceded formally, time to do all of that has run out.\n\n\"Given how little time there is,\" he said, \"it is regrettably not going to be possible to finish that process\" before the elections take place.\n\nThat meant, he said, that the UK was legally obliged to hold the elections.\n\nAs a new report from the think tank The UK in a Changing Europe pointed out before Mr Lidington made his announcement, \"a last minute cancellation could also leave some EU citizens (ie those resident in the UK) unable to cast a ballot and could leave the UK government subject to legal challenge\".\n\nIf the government had decided to cancel the elections anyway, without a deal going through Parliament, a \"no deal Brexit\" would have happened on 1 June.\n\nBut we already know there is a clear majority in the House of Commons against leaving the EU with no deal.\n\nSo, the elections are happening, and most parties are already campaigning for them. Election leaflets have started to get posted through the nation's front doors.\n\nThe last time European elections were held, in 2014, the UK spent £109m on them. This year, according to a government source, a rough estimate for the cost is £150m - higher than last time because they're not being held on the same day as local elections (and sharing polling stations).\n\nThe Conservatives are unlikely to be campaigning this time with much enthusiasm, but reality has had to bite.\n\nSo, if it is too late to stop the elections taking place, what is the next potential deadline?\n\nA slightly more realistic date may be 2 July - when the new European Parliament meets for the first time and MEPs are sworn in.\n\nThe government would like to leave the EU before then, meaning the newly elected UK MEPs would never take their seats.\n\nMr Lidington said that would be in the national interest.\n\nThe problem? None of the challenges the government faces in finding a majority for Brexit in this Parliament are going to go away.\n\nThe EU has obviously worked that out. That's one of the reasons it approved a longer extension to the Brexit process, until 31 October.\n\nEven now, though, thoughts are already turning in some quarters to what might happen after that - and whether an extension to the extension might be the only realistic way forward.", "Jessica Anderson knew that her record beating time would not be considered for the title\n\nGuinness World Records says its guidelines for the fastest marathon in a nurse's uniform are \"long overdue a review\".\n\nIt comes after it refused to consider a nurse's record attempt because she was wearing scrubs instead of a dress.\n\nOfficials told Jessica Anderson that its criteria for a nurse uniform also involved a pinafore and cap, but tights were optional.\n\nShe ran the London Marathon knowing that her time would not count.\n\nShe finished the race 22 seconds faster than the current record holder and described the rules as \"sexist\" and \"outdated\".\n\nJess is a senior sister at the Royal London Hospital.\n\nHer work in an acute medical admissions ward is fast-paced and she wears scrubs to work every day.\n\nSo when she decided to challenge the title for the fastest woman to run a marathon in a nurse uniform, she sent Guinness World Records a photo.\n\nShe was told that her actual uniform did not meet its criteria for a nurse's uniform.\n\nShe went ahead and ran anyway, completing the course in three hours, eight minutes and 54 seconds.\n\nThat was fast enough to beat the record.\n\nJess believes the rules about wearing a dress apply to anyone wanting to challenge the record title - including men.\n\n\"Some of the male nurses I work with are really hopeful that they do change the definition,\" she said.\n\nThe story prompted nurses to tweet selfies of themselves, with very few dresses on show.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 𝚂𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚊ᴿᴺ 🏳️‍🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome pointed out that certain roles don't require any kind of uniform.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Shal Henry-Treloar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 male nurses argued that dresses aren't really their thing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Billy Hopkinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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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End of twitter post 4 by Ruth May\n\nGuinness World Records has now responded, agreeing it is time for a review.\n\nIn a statement, it said that \"inclusiveness and respect\" were values it holds \"extremely dear\".\n\nIt continued: \"While we always need to ensure we can differentiate between categories, it is quite clear that this record title and associated guidelines is long overdue a review, which we will conduct as a priority in the coming days.\"\n\nIt is not yet clear if this could mean that Jess will be awarded the record, or if the criteria will only change for future attempts.\n\nShe says it would be \"perfect\" if Guinness World Records finds a way to give her the title.\n\nBut she said it was most important that officials modernise the guidelines.\n\n\"I would be quite happy if they changed it in the future or acknowledged that it's sexist and it's not really how we want the profession to be represented.\"\n\nIf she doesn't get the title though, she said she was very tempted to try again next year.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The local election results are disappointing for both the Conservatives and for Labour, while the Liberal Democrats, Greens and independents prospered, writes Prof Sir John Curtice and colleagues on the BBC's local elections team.\n\n\"A plague on both your houses.\" That seems to have been the key message to emerge from the ballot boxes.\n\nOn the basis of the detailed voting figures in 40 local authorities, we estimate that if the pattern of voting in the local council elections were to be replicated across the whole of Great Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would have won 28% of the vote. This is only the second time that this calculation has put both those parties below 30%.\n\nThe elections always looked set to be difficult for the Conservatives. The party was defending seats that were mostly last up for grabs four years ago, on the same day David Cameron won the 2015 general election. That, coupled with the party's recent freefall in the polls, clearly pointed to significant Conservative losses.\n\nAnd that proved to be the case. The party has suffered net losses of more than 1300 seats. On average the party's share of the vote was down by six points, both compared with 2015 and with last year's local election results.\n\nHowever, despite the government's difficulties, Labour also slipped back - on average, by no less than seven points compared with last year's local election results. As a result, the party has found itself suffering net losses of around 80 seats, when opposition parties are normally expected to post gains.\n\nThe party's performance would seem to confirm the message of a number of polls that Labour's support has been slipping in the wake of the Brexit impasse, a fall in Jeremy Corbyn's popularity, and a continuing row about anti-Semitism. Compared with last year, the party lost ground more heavily in Leave-voting areas than in Remain-voting ones, a pattern that it shared with the Conservatives (who in previous years have tended to perform better in such areas). This has been seized on by pro-Leave Labour MPs as evidence that the party should reach an agreement with the government which would pave the way for the UK to leave the EU.\n\nWhat the two parties also had in common was a tendency for their support to fall more heavily in their heartlands. Labour's vote fell back most heavily in the north, the Conservatives in the south. Equally, Labour's vote fell more heavily in wards where it was previously strong, while the Conservative vote fell most heavily where they were strongest.\n\nIt was as though voters vented their frustration with the Brexit process by punishing whichever party represented the political establishment locally.\n\nThis mood perhaps also helps account for the remarkable success of independent candidates. Those not standing on a party label were on average winning as much as a quarter of the vote where they stood. More than 900 independent councillors have been elected - a net gain of more than 500.\n\nMeanwhile the Liberal Democrats, who before they entered into coalition with the Conservatives in 2010 were often a vehicle for protest votes, also appear to have profited from voters' disenchantment with the two largest parties.\n\nThe party, which has made net gains of more than 600 seats, advanced particularly strongly in Conservative-held wards where it was previously in second place. Double digit swings from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats were common in such seats. The party seemed to be successful in reinvigorating some of the bastions of local strength where its support had been badly eroded in the wake of the coalition government. This pattern added significantly to the tally of Conservative losses.\n\nTheresa May insisted the local election results showed voters wanted the main parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nIn contrast, and despite the party's pro-Remain stance, there was only limited evidence that the Lib Dems' advance was stronger in areas that voted heavily for Remain in the 2016 referendum. For example, while support for the party rose on average by three points on last year in areas where more than half voted for Remain, it also increased by two points in areas where the Remain vote was less than 45%.\n\nThanks in part to the fact that in 2015 the Liberal Democrats had recorded its worst ever local election performance, the party was able to make so many gains, due to an increase in its vote since then, of eight points. More significant, perhaps, was the fact that its vote was also up by three points on last year's local elections.\n\nWhen the party's performance is projected into a national vote, it is estimated to be worth 19% of the vote. This represents its best local election performance since the party entered into coalition in 2010, but was still well below the party's performance in any round of local votes between 1993 and 2010. Overall, the party's performance is best seen as evidence of a partial recovery from the depths to which the party sank during the coalition years.\n\nAt the same time, the Greens had one of their best local election results ever. The party made net gains of more than 180 seats. The Greens posted an average of 12% of the vote in the wards they contested, up five points on their performance where they stood four years ago. That equals the party's previous highest average, 12% in 2009, when local elections were held on the same day as European Parliament elections. The party may have been helped by the recent protests about climate change.\n\nFighting just one in six wards, there was little opportunity for UKIP to make much impact on these elections. Where it did stand, the party's vote was down by four points on its relative high point of 2015, but up eight points on its poor position last year. However, the challenge from the Eurosceptic parties may be more formidable in the European elections in three weeks time, when Nigel Farage's Brexit Party is on the ballot paper.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nJudd Trump dismantled John Higgins 18-9 to claim his maiden World Championship title in one of the most breathtaking Crucible finals ever witnessed.\n\nIn a classic contest, the two shared a record 11 centuries and brought up the 100th ton of the tournament.\n\nTrump took total control at 12-5 after the first day in Sheffield, helped by a run of winning eight straight frames.\n\nBoth missed chances of maximum breaks as Trump went 16-9 up, a lead he did not relinquish in the final session.\n\nTrump collects £500,000 in prize money, making him the first player in history to amass more than £1m in a single season.\n• None Trump poised for 'new era of dominance'\n\nThe Englishman has long been touted as a world champion, previously regarded as one of the best players never to win in Sheffield, but now he has finally fulfilled his potential and moves up to second in the world rankings.\n\n\"It is incredible achievement for me from where I was,\" Trump, 29, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I have worked so hard for this. For the people around me this is so special. It was an amazing final, the standard was so high from the very first ball.\n\n\"That is probably the best I have ever played in a major final.\"\n\nIn a remarkable exhibition of potting from both players, they took the standard of snooker to another level, making frame-winning breaks of 50 or more in 23 of the 27 frames played.\n\nHere is how the numbers stack up:\n• Most centuries in a professional match: Trump and Higgins shared 11 tons, one more than the 10 seen in the 2016 semi-final between Ding Junhui and Alan McManus.\n• Most centuries in a Crucible final: The total of 11 was three more than the previous record of eight, set in 2002 (Stephen Hendry v Peter Ebdon) and 2013 (Ronnie O'Sullivan v Barry Hawkins)\n• Most centuries by a player in a single match: Trump made seven centuries in the final, equalling Ding's record against McManus from 2016\n• Most tournament centuries overall: There were 100 in the tournament, smashing the previous best of 86 from 2015 and 2016\n\nSix-time world champion Steve Davis said on BBC Two: \"It was amazing. The standard in that final may have been the greatest we have ever seen and Judd Trump was at the heart of it.\"\n\nFrom 'naughty snooker' to finally coming of age\n\nOne of the pre-tournament favourites, the Bristolian reached the final in part by capitalising on the shock exits of world number one Ronnie O'Sullivan and three-time winner Mark Selby from his half of the draw.\n\nThis has been by far the best season of Trump's career, winning three ranking titles, and he becomes the first player since Mark Williams in 2003 to claim the double of World Championship and Masters in the same campaign.\n\nHe has now also completed snooker's Triple Crown following his victory at the UK Championship in 2011.\n\nEarlier that year, he was beaten 18-15 in his first world final appearance by Higgins, going agonisingly close with his all-out attacking style of play which he labelled himself as \"naughty snooker\".\n\nSome of that was on display again in this final, playing a black with the cue behind his back, which brought a smile from Higgins, and another red down the cushion that was described as \"Alex Higgins-esque\".\n\nBut he is a complete player now, having won 11 ranking titles in total, turning on the style with heavy scoring and possessing a potent safety game.\n\nTrump took apart O'Sullivan at Alexandra Palace in January and this was another demolition job of one of snooker's greats - a run of eight frames in a row and four centuries on the first day setting the platform for a tremendous triumph.\n\n'I never thought he was that good' - what the pundits said\n\nSeven-time champion Stephen Hendry: \"I certainly have not seen anything like that standard in a final, it was incredible. The scoring was phenomenal, every time a player got an opportunity they cleared up in one visit. Judd's performance in the final has been one of the most dominant I have ever seen.\"\n\nSix-time world champion Steve Davis: \"Judd Trump has demolished one of the greatest players to have ever held a cue. It's an astonishing performance. The second session was arguably the most violent and shocking session I have ever seen. I'd have hated to have watched it from John Higgins' perspective.\n\nFormer champion John Parrott: \"What Judd Trump did has usurped his performance at the Masters. What he did was just sensational. I never thought he was that good. I had no idea he was that good.\"\n• None Overturned a 6-3 deficit to win a thrilling final-frame decider against Thepchaiya Un-Nooh in the first round\n• None Fought past Ding Junhui in the second round after going 9-7 down\n• None Eased through to the semi-finals with a comfortable 13-6 win over Stephen Maguire\n\nFour-time champion Higgins came up short once more having been beaten in 2017 by Selby and Williams last year.\n\nThe 43-year-old has now lost four finals in Sheffield - only Jimmy White with six has been beaten in more - but he played his part against Trump.\n\nReaching the final was an achievement in itself for Higgins, bringing to an end a poor season by his high standards in which he failed to win a ranking event and hinted at retirement in December.\n\nAlthough he made four centuries in the match, taking his overall tally in Sheffield to 150, he was outclassed by a relentless Trump and admitted he was \"lucky to get nine frames\".\n\n\"I was the lucky one to not have to pay for a ticket, he was just awesome,\" the Scot added.\n\n\"It will be the first of many I am sure, to produce a standard like that is incredible. He was unplayable.\n\n\"I never expected to get to the final, I came up against an unstoppable machine.\"\n\nThe final that had everything\n\nA dazzling opening day was described by 1997 champion Ken Doherty as \"one of the best ever\" as the two players shared the first eight frames with four centuries and three further breaks over 50.\n\nThough Higgins made 125 at the start of the second session, Trump took total control thereafter by winning eight straight frames including two further centuries and runs of 71, 58 and 70.\n\n'The Wizard of Wishaw' came out firing in the third session, sinking a superb double on the 15th red while on a maximum 147 break which was heartily applauded by Trump in his seat, but he missed the next black. Higgins followed it up with 59, but Trump showed his class with knocks of 101 and 71 to go 14-7.\n\nTrump, nicknamed 'The Juddernaut', needed to win all four of the following frames to win the match with a session to spare, but Higgins' 67 in the 23rd frame guaranteed an evening finish.\n\nHe made a further 70 but Trump's brilliant 104 with 13 reds and 13 blacks put him two from victory heading into the final session.\n\nTrump's 94 put him on the cusp of snooker's biggest prize, which he took with another cool break of 62.\n\nSign up to My Sport to follow snooker on the BBC app", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool are into their second successive Champions League final after overcoming Barcelona with a stunning second-leg fightback on an epic night at Anfield.\n\nRoared on relentlessly by their fans, the Reds produced an incredible all-action display to claw back and then ultimately overturn their 3-0 deficit from the Nou Camp with an unanswered four-goal salvo in thrilling style.\n\nIt is the first time since 1986 - when Barcelona knocked out Gothenburg in the old European Cup - that a team have recovered a three-goal first-leg deficit to win a semi-final in this competition.\n\nDivock Origi started the unlikely revival, tapping home from close range after seven minutes, but it was only when substitute Georginio Wijnaldum scored twice in the space of 122 seconds after the break that the tie truly swung in Liverpool's favour.\n\nBarcelona were rattled, and even Lionel Messi was unable to steady the ship before Origi struck again with the goal that would decide the tie on aggregate, after Trent Alexander-Arnold caught the visitors' defence napping from a corner.\n\nBy now Anfield was rocking and the home fans stayed on their feet to cheer their side home in the closing minutes, with a shell-shocked Barca side unable to fashion any serious response.\n\nThe final whistle brought delirious celebrations on the pitch and in the stands, where the Reds supporters had played their part in an unforgettable match.\n\nLiverpool have managed famous European fightbacks before, notably when they won this competition for the fifth time in Istanbul in 2005, but this was arguably the greatest in their glittering history.\n\nThey will go for a sixth triumph in Madrid on 1 June, where they will meet either Ajax or Tottenham in the final.\n• None I don't know how they did it, says Klopp\n• None 'The atmosphere took my breath away'\n• None 'Barca were scared - the best reaction'\n\nFew people gave Liverpool any hope after the size of their defeat in Spain last week, especially with Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino out injured.\n\nBut Reds boss Jurgen Klopp urged his players to keep believing, and masterminded an extraordinary performance and result.\n\nOrigi and Wijnaldum, who replaced the injured Andy Robertson at half-time, provided the goals but Liverpool had heroes all over the pitch.\n\nJust as Klopp promised before the game, Liverpool did not stop - maintaining an astonishing tempo to press, harry and hassle their illustrious visitors, and ultimately defeat them.\n\nThe Barca defence struggled to deal with Origi's physical presence throughout and it was the big Belgian who supplied the first goal, firing home after Marc-Andre ter Stegen failed to hold Jordan Henderson's shot.\n\nMore pressure followed but Barca held out until after half-time, when Wijnaldum burst into the box to meet Alexander-Arnold's low cross and hammer his shot home.\n\nMoments later, Liverpool were level on aggregate. This time it was Xherdan Shaqiri who provided the cross for Wijnaldum to rise and head home.\n\nBarca were buckling under the pressure and they could not hold out. Liverpool sealed a famous victory 11 minutes from time when Alexander-Arnold feigned to leave a corner before quickly sweeping it into the box for the alert Origi to convert.\n• None 'The inquest will be remorseless' - what next for Barcelona after Anfield humiliation?\n• None Football Daily: 'The greatest football comeback of all time'\n\nBarca have been here before, being beaten 3-0 by Roma in the quarter-finals last year to go out after winning the first leg 4-1, and their wait for a first final since 2015 continues.\n\nThey were comprehensively out-fought and out-thought here, and although they did have chances they cannot argue they deserved anything but a defeat.\n\nThere was only a brief spell in the first half when La Liga's champions threatened to find their rhythm but, in the space of five minutes, Alisson denied Messi and Philippe Coutinho, and Jordi Alba inexplicably chose to pass the ball with only the Liverpool keeper to beat.\n\nMessi, so electric a week ago, would go on to have a rare night to forget - especially in the second half when Wijnaldum's goals put the tie back in the balance.\n\nSuarez was also anonymous, with his only notable role coming as the pantomime villain as he was booed relentlessly by the fans who used to worship him.\n\nHe had his side's best opportunity of the second half, when Messi slid him clear with the score still 1-0 on the night, but Alisson was alert and that was pretty much the last time the visitors threatened.\n• None We looked like schoolboys - Suarez expects criticism to 'rain down' on Barca\n\nThe 122 seconds that turned the tie around\n• None Where does this rank with greatest Champions League comebacks?\n• None Liverpool have reached their ninth European Cup/Champions League final - only Real Madrid (16), Milan (11) and Bayern Munich (10) have reached more.\n• None They are the first English side to reach back-to-back Champions League finals since Manchester United (2008 and 2009).\n• None This was just the fourth time a team has overturned a three-or-more goal deficit from the first leg of a Champions League (not European Cup) knockout tie to progress. Barcelona were also on the receiving end the last time (against Roma last season).\n• None Barcelona have now been eliminated from three of their past four Champions League semi-final ties.\n• None La Liga's current champions suffered their heaviest-ever defeat against an English side in all European competitions.\n• None Full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold has provided 14 assists in all competitions this season, more than any other Liverpool player.\n• None Divock Origi scored his first Champions League goals, and in doing so became the 50th different player to score in the competition for Liverpool (excluding own goals).\n• None Georginio Wijnaldum is the first Liverpool player to score twice from the bench in a Champions League game since Ryan Babel against Besiktas in 2007. He is also the first substitute to score twice in a single game against Barcelona in the competition.\n• None Lionel Messi either attempted (five) or created (three) all eight of Barcelona's shots against Liverpool in this match.\n\nLiverpool will seek another success against the odds when they return to Premier League action on Sunday. They host Wolves in their final game of the season (15:00 BST) hoping results go their way to turn around a one-point deficit and take the title from Manchester City, who are at Brighton.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Jordan Henderson tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Xherdan Shaqiri (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by James Milner following a set piece situation.\n• None Substitution, Liverpool. Joseph Gomez replaces Divock Origi because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Divock Origi (Liverpool) because of an injury.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 4, Barcelona 0. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Hundreds of Uber drivers in London, Birmingham, Nottingham and Glasgow have staged a protest against the firm.\n\nThey will be joined by drivers in the US cities of New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, Philadelphia and Washington DC in striking over pay and work conditions.\n\nThe protests come days before the company lists its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.\n\nUber said drivers were \"at the heart of our service\".\n\nThe United Private Hire Drivers Branch of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) said the nine-hour boycott of the app would take place between 07:00 and 16:00.\n\nIn the US, members of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance will strike from 07:00 to 09:00 local time. There, Uber drivers will be joined by members working for Lyft and other taxi-booking apps.\n\n\"They're going public and their founders are going to make billions off the hard work of Uber drivers who make the app run,\" she told World Service radio. Drivers \"are demanding rights, a minimum wage, holiday pay and there's no reason they don't deserve that.\"\n\nUber drivers were also protesting in New York\n\nThe unions would like to cut the commission the taxi-hailing apps take. The IWGB in the UK said it would like Uber's commissions to be reduced from 25% to 15% and for fares to be increased to £2 a mile from about £1.25.\n\nThe NYTWA in New York said it wanted commissions of 15% to 20% and better job security.\n\n\"I'm striking for my kid's future. I have a five-year-old son, and I drive for Uber to support him,\" said Sonam Lama, a NYTWA member and Uber driver since 2015.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was working more than 60 hours a week'\n\nAn Uber spokeswoman said: \"Drivers are at the heart of our service - we can't succeed without them - and thousands of people come into work at Uber every day focused on how to make their experience better, on and off the road.\n\n\"Whether it's being able to track your earnings or stronger insurance protections, we'll continue working to improve the experience for and with drivers.\"\n\nThe company has argued previously that it is transparent when it comes to pay and that drivers have earned more than $78bn (£59.7bn) since 2015, as well as $1.2bn in tips since tipping was introduced on its software in July 2017.\n\nUber last month warned it \"may not achieve profitability\" when it released details of its share plan listing.\n\nUber said that its most recent annual sales rose to $11.2bn and losses narrowed to $3bn.\n\nTraffic grinds to a halt during a protest against Uber on 12 April in Buenos Aires\n\nBut it also said it expected operating expenses to \"increase significantly\".\n\nThe company did not disclose how it will price its shares on 9 May, but it is reportedly targeting a range of $48 to $55.\n\nThat would potentially give the 10-year old firm a value of up to $100bn, making it the biggest initial public offering this year.\n\nUber is also expected to raise about $10bn through the flotation.\n\nLast year, Uber lost an appeal against a ruling that its drivers should be treated as workers rather than self-employed.\n\nIn March, German cab drivers protested in Munich against the liberalisation of the Taxi market and Uber\n\nIn 2016 a tribunal ruled drivers Mr Farrar and Yaseen Aslam were Uber staff and entitled to holiday pay, paid rest breaks and the minimum wage and the ruling was upheld by the Court of Appeal.\n\nBut Uber pointed out that one of the three judges backed its case and said it would appeal to the Supreme Court.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City know they will retain their Premier League title if they win on the final day of the season after Vincent Kompany's wonder strike saw off a spirited Leicester side.\n\nWith 20 minutes remaining, the score goalless and nerves jangling at Etihad Stadium, the defending champions needed inspiration in a game where only victory would maintain their advantage at the top of the table.\n\nThey got it from an unlikely source in their long-serving captain, who strode forward and let fly from 25 yards with a strike that arrowed into the top corner of the net.\n\nThe hosts' victory means they move back above Liverpool and hold a one-point lead as they go into the last round of fixtures on Sunday, when Pep Guardiola's side travel to Brighton and the Reds host Wolves.\n\nAfter they had to fight so hard to gain victory here, it is unlikely Manchester City will take anything for granted as a pulsating title race reaches its climax.\n\nThe lead at the the top of the table has now changed hands 32 times this season, but for long spells on Monday night it seemed Liverpool would be staying in top spot until the weekend at least.\n• None 'No shoot Vinnie, no shoot!' - Guardiola glad Kompany ignored his calls\n• None Best of the reaction to Kompany's wonder goal\n\nManaged by former Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers, who came so close to bringing the title to Anfield in 2014, Leicester were resolute defensively and posed a significant threat at the other end.\n\nThey restricted Guardiola's famously free-scoring side to a handful of first-half chances, with Sergio Aguero's header against the bar the closest they came to breaking the deadlock.\n\nThe champions' frustration on the pitch and in the stands continued after the break until 33-year-old Kompany stepped up in spectacular fashion to score his first goal of the season, and his side's 159th.\n\nLeicester did threaten to ruin the party late on but former Manchester City striker Kelechi Iheanacho fired wide, and the final whistle triggered cascades of relief for the home players and fans as they moved to within one win of their sixth title.\n\nThere is never any shortage of entertainment for Manchester City's fans, who have now seen their side score 100 goals in 29 games at the Etihad Stadium in 2018-19.\n\nBut they are not used to tension of the sort that was served up on Monday night, with Leicester stopping them scoring for longer than any other visiting team has managed in the Premier League this season - West Ham, who held out for 59 minutes, were the previous best.\n\nManchester City were still creating chances, going close before the break when Aguero's header hit the woodwork before it was clawed to safety by Kasper Schmeichel, and after it when the Foxes goalkeeper denied the Argentina striker with an outstretched leg.\n\nTheir fans were urging them forward but Guardiola's side lacked their usual composure in the final third and a first home blank of the campaign in all competitions looked on the cards, and at the worst possible time.\n\nThat was until Kompany, who scored a vital header to beat Manchester United and help bring the title to the Etihad in 2012, provided another memorable moment to help his side take a giant step towards more silverware.\n\nA domestic treble remains in Manchester City's sights, and they can also become the first team since United in 2007-08 and 2008-09 to win back-to-back titles.\n\nLeicester's hopes of nicking seventh place and a spot in next season's Europa League are over after this defeat, but their performance underlined their improvement since Rodgers took charge at the end of February.\n\nAs well as being disciplined in defence and comfortable on the ball, the visitors sent men flying forward in numbers on the counter-attack.\n\nThe hosts were growing increasingly jittery as their wait for a first goal continued, but their nerves were not helped by the threat the Foxes posed on the break.\n\nHarry Maguire ran the length of the pitch to set up James Maddison, who fired wide with the score at 0-0, and Leicester continued to look dangerous even when they went behind.\n\nIf Iheanacho, 22, had showed more composure after being fed the ball in front of goal then Leicester and Liverpool fans could have had a late equaliser to celebrate - instead it was the home fans who were smiling as their players marked their final home game with three points and a parade around the pitch at the end.\n\n'It's in our hands' - what they said\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"One game left, and it will be so tough like today. We are away and we saw Brighton had a good game at Arsenal. But it is in our hands, don't forget but we could have been 10 points behind if we lost to Liverpool here.\n\n\"We were seven points behind, but we are in the last game and it is in our hands. We are going to prepare well.\n\n\"We'll see if Brighton defend deep or will be more offensive. It will be tough, but hopefully we will have the performance to be champions.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Our motivation was to come in for our own development and performance. We pushed City, arguably the best team in Europe, right to the very end.\n\n\"I thought defensively and tactically, the team played a good game. They are difficult to contain with their quality and some world-class players.\n\n\"We will learn from this and look to end the season strongly.\"\n• None Man City have now scored 100 goals in all competitions at the Etihad this season; extending their record for most home goals by an English top-flight team in a single campaign.\n• None Man City have won each of their last 13 Premier League games - it's the fourth run of a team winning 13+ games in a row in the competition's history, with City the only side to have done so twice.\n• None Man City have beaten every team they have faced in the league for the second consecutive season; the only other English top-flight team to achieve this were Preston between 1888-89 and 1889-90.\n• None Leicester have won just one of their past seven away games versus Man City in all competitions (W1 D1 L5).\n\nManchester City will wrap the title up with a win over Brighton at Amex Stadium on the final day of the season - Sunday, 12 May - while Leicester host Chelsea at King Power Stadium. Both matches kick off at 15:00 BST.\n• None Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Hamza Choudhury.\n• None Attempt missed. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The effects of social media use on teenage life satisfaction are limited and probably \"tiny\", a study of 12,000 UK adolescents suggests.\n\nFamily, friends and school life all had a greater impact on wellbeing, says the University of Oxford research team.\n\nIt claims its study is more in-depth and robust than previous ones.\n\nAnd it urged companies to release data on how people use social media in order to understand more about the impact of technology on young people's lives.\n\nThe study, published in the journal PNAS, attempts to answer the question of whether teenagers who use social media more than average have lower life satisfaction, or whether adolescents with lower life satisfaction use more social media.\n\nPast research on the relationship between screens, technology and children's mental health has often been contradictory.\n\nProf Andrew Przybylski and Amy Orben, from the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, say it is often based on limited evidence which does not give the full picture.\n\nTheir study concluded that most links between life satisfaction and social media use were \"trivial\", accounting for less than 1% of a teenager's wellbeing - and that the effect of social media was \"not a one-way street\".\n\nProf Przybylski, director of research at the institute, said: \"99.75% of a person's life satisfaction has nothing to do with their use of social media.\"\n\nThe study, which took place between 2009 and 2017, asked thousands of 10 to 15-year-olds to say how long they spent using social media on a normal school day and also rate how satisfied they were with different aspects of life.\n\nThey found more effects of time spent on social media in girls, but they were tiny and no larger than effects found in boys.\n\nLess than half of these effects were statistically significant, they said.\n\n\"Parents shouldn't worry about time on social media - thinking about it that way is wrong,\" Prof Przybylski said.\n\n\"We are fixated on time - but we need to retire this notion of screen time.\n\n\"The results are not showing evidence for great concern.\"\n\nThe researchers said it was now important to identify young people at greater risk from certain effects of social media, and find out other factors that were having an impact on their wellbeing.\n\nThey plan to meet social media companies soon to discuss how they can work together to learn more about how people use apps - not just the time spent on them.\n\nMs Orben, co-study author and psychology lecturer at University of Oxford, said the industry must release their usage data and support independent research.\n\n\"Access is key to understanding the many roles that social media plays in the lives of young people\" she said.\n\nDr Max Davie, officer for health improvement at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, backed the call for companies to collaborate with scientists and called the study \"the first small step\".\n\nHowever, he said there were other issues to explore, such as screen time's interference with other important activities like sleep, exercise and time with family or friends.\n\n\"We recommend that families follow our guidance published earlier this year and continue to avoid screen use for one hour before bed, since there are other reasons beside mental health for children to need a good night's sleep.\"\n• None Own It - A place to help you boss your life online - BBC", "Dillan Brown was pulled out of the water off the Great Orme\n\nA boy who died after falling into the sea off the north Wales coast was \"warm, cheerful and loving\".\n\nDillan Brown, 13, was pulled from the Irish Sea by the coastguard off the Great Orme near Llandudno in Conwy county on Saturday.\n\nThe \"much-loved\" pupil at Ysgol John Bright in Llandudno was airlifted to hospital in Bangor where he later died.\n\nHead teacher Ann Webb said \"all of the pupils and staff were devastated\" to learn of Dillan's death.\n\nEmergency services were called to Pigeon's Cove just before 21:00 BST - Dillan was pulled from the water about 30 minutes later and taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd where he was pronounced dead.\n\nNorth Wales Police said there were not thought to be any suspicious circumstances.\n\nPigeon's Cove is popular with both local residents and tourists\n\nMs Webb said: \"All of the pupils and staff were devastated to learn of Dillan's tragic death and our hearts go out to his immediate and extended family at this most difficult of times.\n\n\"Dillan was a much-loved member of the close-knit Ysgol John Bright community and had a very warm, cheerful and loving nature.\n\n\"He had a heart of gold and was a very caring and thoughtful son, brother and uncle.\n\n\"It was very evident how important his family was to Dillan and how much he loved them.\"\n\nMore than £2,000 has been raised on a social media fundraising page to pay for Dillan's funeral.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jasmine Lovett, 25, and her daughter Aliyah Sanderson were reported missing three weeks ago\n\nA British man has been rearrested after the bodies of a woman and her one-year-old daughter were found in Canada.\n\nRobert Leeming, 34, was first arrested days after Jasmine Lovett, 25, and her daughter Aliyah Sanderson were reported missing.\n\nHe was released by police but was later rearrested after their bodies were discovered in woodland near Calgary on Monday.\n\nMr Leeming, who has lived in Canada for six years, denied any involvement.\n\nFollowing his initial arrest, he told local media that he was \"traumatised\" by events.\n\nHe claimed to have been romantically involved with Ms Lovett, who was living with her daughter as a tenant at his home, in the Cranston district of Calgary.\n\nMs Lovett's family said their lives had been \"devastated and our hearts are heavy\" following the discovery of their bodies.\n\nThe mother and daughter were last seen alive in Cranston on the evening of Tuesday 16 April.\n\nMr Leeming, who is believed to be from Stoke-on-Trent, was arrested a week later, but was released by police after being questioned.\n\nA Calgary Police spokesman said on Monday: \"At approximately 4am today we located the bodies of a woman and child, believed to be that of Jasmine Lovett and Aliyah Sanderson, in Kananaskis.\n\n\"A suspect has been taken into custody and charges are pending.\n\n\"The suspect cannot be named by police until charges are officially laid by the Justice of the Peace.\n\nA police car is pictured outside a taped off property in Calgary\n\n\"However, police can confirm the suspect is the same man who was taken into custody two weeks ago.\"\n\nPost-mortem examinations are due to take place, although the cause of death is not expected to be released.\n\nMs Lovett's family said in a statement: \"Our lives have been devastated and our hearts are heavy.\n\n\"We are trying to understand how this tragedy could have happened to our loved ones.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Chris Fox takes a first look at Google's new Pixel 3a smartphones\n\nGoogle is to sell a range of lower-cost smartphones as part of an effort to jump-start sales of its Pixel brand.\n\nIn addition, the company has shown off its first voice-controlled smart screen for the home to feature a camera.\n\nThis allows it to offer more personalised features than a previous model, but also risks provoking a privacy backlash.\n\nOther announcements at its annual developers conference included enhancements to its search tool.\n\nThe Pixel 3a and larger Pixel 3a XL will cost £399 and £469 respectively, making them roughly half the price of the seven-month-old Pixel 3 originals.\n\nUntil now, Google had charged one of the highest entry-point prices for an Android handset, with its basic model costing £70 more than Samsung's Galaxy S10e and £40 more than Huawei's P30, and no option to buy a \"mid-range\" alternative.\n\nThe new versions share many of the features of the more expensive Pixels, including OLED (organic light-emitting diode) displays for rich colours and the firm's much-lauded Night Sight facility, which uses machine-learning based artificial intelligence to enhance images taken in low-light conditions.\n\nThe new phones only feature a single selfie camera and have a plastic body\n\nIn addition, they will also provide use of Google's new augmented reality maps, which superimpose arrow graphics over views of the scene ahead. This, the firm claims, will make it easier to judge which direction to set off in.\n\nBut to help cut costs the new handsets:\n\nThe new phones do, however, include a 3.5mm headphone socket unlike the premium versions.\n\n\"For us, what's important is for Pixel to get into the hands of more and more people,\" Mario Queiroz, chief of Google's product division, told the BBC.\n\n\"Most phones in this general price range are phones from last year or from two years ago, or they are phones that are 'specced' very differently and even have different brands.\n\n\"We wanted to bring a true Pixel experience to this price point.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Carolina Milanesi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGoogle shipped close to 20% more Pixel phones over the October-to-March period compared with the same six months the previous year, according to market research firm IDC.\n\nHowever, it still only accounted for a 0.3% share of the global smartphone market, making it the 26th bestselling brand.\n\n\"The Pixel 3's price-point in the ultra-high-end meant fierce competition from Apple, Huawei and Samsung,\" commented IDC's Marta Pinto.\n\nPixel sales should also benefit from the fact that in the US the range will no longer be exclusive to one mobile network's stores.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Geoff Blaber This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 one expert said the move to offer lower-cost models posed risks of its own.\n\n\"Many consumers are fed up with the spiralling cost of high-end smartphones,\" commented Ben Wood from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\n\"However, this takes Google into dangerous territory from the perspective of competing with existing Android phone-makers. Licensees such as Samsung, which recently refreshed its mid-tier Galaxy A range, won't welcome additional competition at a time when the smartphone market is already in decline.\"\n\nThe Nest Hub Max adds a camera and has a bigger screen than its predecessor\n\nAnother hardware launch at the IO event involved a larger version of Google's voice-controlled smart display for the home.\n\nThe device now features a 10in, rather than 7in touchscreen and introduces a camera, which can be used for video chats as well as to provide home security via motion-triggered recordings saved online.\n\nThe new machine is called the Nest Hub Max, and the existing smaller version is being renamed the Nest Home Hub, representing an extension to the brand.\n\nNest used to be run as an independent smart home business within parent company Alphabet, but was subsumed by the Google division last year.\n\nThe camera makes several features possible, including:\n\nThe demo showed a woman silencing a Google Nest by raising her hand\n\nHowever, it is likely to raise privacy concerns.\n\nGoogle explicitly said it had excluded a camera in the original model to help people feel comfortable placing it in their homes.\n\nHowever, it brings the company in line with Facebook and Amazon, which have released similar camera-enabled devices despite claims that they could pose privacy threats.\n\nThe Next Hub Max has a louder speaker than the earlier version\n\nFor its part, Google has said a small green light will always signal when the camera is streaming footage and that nothing will be streamed or recorded unless the function is explicitly enabled by owners.\n\nIt also told the BBC that captured footage would not be viewed by its staff in a similar fashion to how they sometimes listen to voice recordings to improve speech recognition.\n\n\"Footage from that Nest cam will not be used or reviewed,\" said product manager Edward Kenney.\n\nEarlier at IO, chief executive Sundar Pichai announced that Google's search results would soon start to include podcasts.\n\nSundar Pichai showed off Duplex's newest automated booking facilities at the start of the event\n\nUsers will be able to listen to the recordings directly from the results page, he said, or save them for later playback if they prefer.\n\nThey will also be searchable by content as well as title.\n\nThe firm's augmented reality chief Aparna Chennapragada was next on stage to demo how the technology - which mixes together computer graphics with real-world views - will also be used to enhance results.\n\nA shark took to the stage in Augmented Reality\n\nShe revealed that relevant searches would now yield 3D models that can be rotated and viewed on Google's own page or superimposed over a camera-captured image of the surrounding area.\n\nThis, she suggested, would help students explore new concepts or see how consumer goods would match with their current possessions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 George Jijiashvili This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nApple has also taken time to promote augmented reality at its recent developer conferences, but outside of gaming the tech has proved more of a gimmick than a compelling feature for many users across their day-to-day activities.\n\nIn a follow-up to last year's big announcement - a feature that allows Google to phone businesses and make computer-controlled voice bookings on a person's behalf - the company revealed plans to add fresh capabilities to its Duplex software.\n\nIn the future, it said it aimed to make it possible for users to ask its virtual assistant to book a movie ticket or a rental car for their next trip, for example.\n\nIt said its software would then automatically find a relevant rental car company and fill out all the forms including information about dates and vehicle preference by making reference to past choices and Gmail correspondence.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Geoff Blaber This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDuplex is available in most of the US but has yet to launch elsewhere.\n\nWhat's most impressive this year is the extent to which Google can now do a lot of work on-device, rather than sending information - and personal data - back and forth to a server.\n\nLive text-captioning of video with a smartphone in airplane mode is truly an impressive technological feat. This is Google's strategy to combat Apple's \"what happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone\" publicity push, and it's likely to be effective - not to mention an approach we can get behind.\n\nBut, as ever, this keynote was a bag of contradictions: A host of new features, and new products, that demand you look at a screen intently - followed by the company's flimsy \"commitment\" to helping us look at screens less often.\n\nIt's also worth noting how Google is slowly chipping away at our privacy boundaries.\n\nSeven months ago, when it launched the Home Hub, the device didn't have a camera. The firm said it was \"so that it was comfortable to us in the private spaces of your home like your bedroom\".\n\nNow the Home Hub has been rebranded the Nest Hub, and the next version will have a camera after all.\n\nOne feature is the ability to turn off its alarm by saying \"stop\" - no longer requiring the \"hey Google\" wake words.\n\nHow long, I wonder, until Google tries to do away with wake words altogether by incentivising users to turn them off in return for new features?\n\nGoogle rounded off its event with details about how it is applying machine learning technologies beyond consumer goods.\n\nThis included an effort to predict where floods are most likely to cause damage and work to spot cancer symptoms.\n\nGoogle says it will publish more details about its work to detect cancer in one of Nature's scientific journals\n\nGoogle AI's Dr Lily Peng gave the example of a lung cancer patient who had shown advanced symptoms of the disease one year after being given the all-clear.\n\nShe said that five out of six human experts shown a scan had missed the early signs of the disease's recurrence because they were so minute.\n\nThe Google model was trained on anonymised images obtained from the National Cancer Institute, Dr Peng added.\n\n\"By looking at many examples the model learns to detect malignancy with performance that meets or exceeds that of trained radiologists,\" she said.\n\nThe research is likely to face further scrutiny when it is published by Nature soon.", "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\".", "Two teenagers are recovering after being stabbed in north London in attacks which are being linked by the Met police.\n\nOfficers found a 17-year-old boy injured in Fairbridge Road in Upper Holloway, Islington, at about 17:35 BST on Monday.\n\nHe remains in a serious but stable condition.\n\nTen minutes later a man believed to be 18 years old was found stabbed less than half a mile away in Sussex Close.\n\nHis condition is said to be no longer life-threatening.\n\nNo arrests have been made. Police said there would be an increased number of officers in the area.\n\nA Section 60 order - which gives officers the right to stop and search anyone - was authorised for the borough of Islington until 07:00 BST on Tuesday.", "Scott Morrison has been campaigning ahead of Australia's election\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been egged by a protester while campaigning ahead of the nation's general election.\n\nThe egg grazed Mr Morrison's head but did not break, local media said. The incident also knocked an elderly woman to the ground.\n\nFootage showed a 25-year-old woman being restrained at the scene. Police later said she had been arrested.\n\nMr Morrison described the egg thrower as \"cowardly\".\n\nThe incident happened at a Country Women's Association event in Albury, about 330km (200 miles) south-east of Canberra. No-one was injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sky News Australia This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Morrison later praised his security staff for intervening quickly and expressed concern for the elderly woman, identified in media reports as Margaret Baxter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Scott Morrison This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFarmers in Australia have faced protests by vegan activists in recent times. Police did not immediately speculate on a motive for Tuesday's incident, nor whether it was suspected of being linked to other protests.\n\nMs Baxter told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that she had recently had stomach surgery, but did not feel pain after the fall.\n\n\"My main concern was holding my stomach to make sure it didn't get hit,\" she said.\n\nMr Morrison is not the first Australian politician to be targeted by an egg-wielding protester this year.\n\nIn March, far-right Senator Fraser Anning was egged after making heavily criticised comments about the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand.\n\nA 17-year-old boy was later cautioned by police over Mr Anning's egging.\n\nAustralians are due to vote in a general election on 18 May.", "Talks got under way at Stormont on Tuesday\n\nThe British and Irish governments have set out details of how they intend to proceed with talks to restore Northern Ireland power-sharing.\n\nIn a joint statement, they said a series of working groups would be set up to deal with key sticking points.\n\nStormont's five main party leaders will also hold weekly meetings with the NI Secretary and Tanaiste (Irish deputy PM) to \"take stock\" and set the agenda.\n\nThe talks involving the NI parties and governments got under way on Tuesday.\n\nIt is the first fully-fledged talks process since negotiations collapsed in February 2018.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a devolved power-sharing government for more than two and a half years, after the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row.\n\nThere have been several failed talks processes since January 2017.\n\nLast month, the British and Irish governments agreed to convene a new set of talks from 7 May, that they said should be short and focused.\n\nIn their statement issued after meeting the Stormont party leaders on Tuesday, they said the prime minister and taoiseach (Irish prime minister) would review progress at the end of May.\n\nThe working groups will be led by, (from left): David Sterling; Paul Sweeney; Sir Malcolm McKibbin; Hugh Widdis and Sue Gray\n\nThere will be a weekly round-table meeting involving party leaders and the working groups will deal with several key issues.\n\nThey will be made up of three representatives from each of the five parties in the talks, and representatives from the British and Irish governments will advise them.\n\nThe separate working groups will seek agreement on:\n\nSeveral parties at Stormont have called for the reform of the petition of concern mechanism - it is effectively a Stormont veto which the DUP used to block same-sex marriage.\n\nThe talks were announced by the British and Irish governments after the murder of journalist Lyra McKee.\n\nAt her funeral, politicians came under pressure to solve the Stormont impasse.\n\nThe talks are beginning just days after council elections which saw a surge of support for smaller parties not aligned to either unionism or nationalism.\n\nMost notably, Northern Ireland's fifth largest party, Alliance, saw its number of council seats rise from 32 to 53 - an increase of 65%.\n\nThe talks were announced after the murder of journalist Lyra McKee\n\nSpeaking ahead of Tuesday's talks, DUP leader Arlene Foster said her party would go into the talks process to try to find a solution.\n\nShe said she hoped all parties would engage with a \"willingness to look forward and not backwards\".\n\nSinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said her party was ready to get down to business.\n\n\"People know what the outstanding equality issues are and they need to be resolved and they can be,\" she said.\n\nAlliance leader Naomi Long said the new format provided a \"short window of opportunity\" for progress.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said: \"We've all committed to power sharing, we've all committed to working together and that'll take compromise, it'll take real effort.\"\n\nUlster Unionist leader Robin Swann said: \"If today is simply window dressing, we're wasting our time and we're insulting the people of Northern Ireland.\"\n\nIn the local government election, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin were again returned as the two largest parties in the council elections, but they had mixed fortunes.\n\nThe DUP lost eight of its 130 seats and, although Sinn Féin's seat count held steady at 105, there was a slight drop (0.8%) in the party's share of first preference votes.", "A British soldier has been killed by an elephant during a counter-poaching operation in Malawi.\n\nMathew Talbot, 22, of the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, was on patrol in Liwonde National Park on 5 May when he was charged by the animal.\n\nHis commanding officer, Lt Col Ed Launders, described Guardsman Talbot as \"determined and big-hearted\".\n\nDefence Secretary Penny Mordaunt said he served with \"great courage and professionalism\".\n\nShe added: \"This tragic incident is a reminder of the danger our military faces as they protect some of the world's most endangered species from those who seek to profit from the criminal slaughter of wildlife.\"\n\nKensington Palace said the Duke of Cambridge was writing to Gdsm Talbot's family to offer his condolences.\n\nGdsm Talbot, who was from the West Midlands, was serving in his first operational deployment, the Ministry of Defence said.\n\nThe patrol of armed British army soldiers and African Park Rangers was walking through tall grass - up to 7ft (2.1m) high - when they disturbed an unseen herd of elephants.\n\nOne of them charged at Gdsm Talbot. He died soon after from his injuries. No-one else on the patrol was hurt.\n\nHe leaves behind his father Steven, his mother Michelle, his sisters Aimee and Isabel, and his girlfriend, Olivia.\n\nIn a statement, the MoD said Gdsm Talbot \"was not unfamiliar\" with Africa and had volunteered to support counter-poaching in Malawi.\n\n\"With his keen interest in military history he was proud to have joined a regiment with such a rich and long lineage,\" it added.\n\nOperation Corded, the name given to the Army's counter-poaching deployment in Malawi, assists in the training of rangers in a bid to help them crack down on the illegal wildlife trade.\n\nPark rangers are taught skills such as tracking, partnered patrolling, communications, surveillance, and intelligence-sharing - with the first deployment taking place in August 2017.\n\nThe former defence secretary, Gavin Williamson, announced the expansion of the UK's counter-poaching training at two parks in Malawi - doubling the number of rangers mentored by soldiers to 120 - in 2018.\n\nGdsm Talbot's company commander, Maj Richard Wright, said that while he had only known the soldier for a short time, \"he never failed to make me smile\".\n\nLt Col Launders added: \"Mathew was loved by his brothers in arms in the Coldstream Guards. We will sorely miss his humour, selflessness and unbeatable spirit.\"\n\nShadow defence secretary Nia Griffith described the death as \"tragic news\".\n\nShe added: \"It underlines the dedication and selflessness of our armed forces personnel serving across the world.\n\n\"My thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.\"\n\nElephant poaching is a huge problem across Africa - some estimates say 30,000 are killed every year - and there are probably only around 450,000 left.\n\nIn many places it has become literally a war against poachers - that's why rangers are trained by British troops.\n\nBut there are different views over how to stop the illegal ivory trade.\n\nInternational campaigns - backed by countries like Kenya - want a complete end to all ivory trade to prevent criminals exploiting permit loopholes.\n\nBut some southern African countries which account for the majority of Africa's elephants, believe limited and well-regulated trade in ivory can raise money to pay for conservation.\n\nBotswana, which has been hosting an elephant summit over the past few days, has perhaps 130,000 of the animals - more than anywhere else - and has problems with human and elephant conflict.\n\nThe peculiar gift of elephant-foot stools to visiting leaders was a strong message in support of trade.\n\nUnder the management of a new president, it looks likely to re-introduce hunting -which is popular with rural voters - in an election year.", "The Met Gala, an annual benefit event for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is considered one of the world's biggest fashion events.\n\nIt is known for its exclusive guest list, its expensive tickets and - most of all - its extravagant outfits, based on a different theme each year.\n\nThis year, that theme was Camp: Notes on Fashion - to coincide with an upcoming exhibition at the Met, inspired by US writer and political activist Susan Sontag's 1964 essay, Notes on Camp.\n\nThe outfits this year were therefore, like the exhibition, based on \"irony, humour, parody, pastiche, artifice, theatricality and exaggeration\".\n\nAnd showing everyone how it was done at the very start of the night was singer Lady Gaga, who arrived in a billowing pink outfit which was not quite what it seemed at first glance.\n\nLady Gaga, one of the event's co-hosts, arrived in a billowing pink outfit...\n\nWhich opened up to reveal a black gown, her second outfit...\n\nWhich was then cast aside in favour of Lady Gaga's third outfit, a slim-fitting pink gown\n\n...Which she then took off, to reveal her final outfit\n\nSerena Williams, who is also co-hosting, arrived in a neon yellow gown - with matching Nike trainers\n\nActor Michael Urie has gone for two looks in one\n\nActor Ezra Miller shows off some very impressive (and unsettling) make-up art\n\nReality TV family the Kardashians were out in force for this year's event\n\nHere are newlyweds Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, who are said to have first met at the Met Gala in 2017\n\nThey were followed down the red carpet by Nick's older brother Joe and his even newer wife, Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner\n\nLaverne Cox went for a sleek black dress and bold make up\n\nThe third co-host is Harry Styles, who wore a sheer black top and high-waisted trousers\n\nAlessandro Michele, of Gucci fashion house, is the event's final co-host\n\nSinger Billy Porter made an entrance before flexing his wings in front of the crowds\n\nAnd theatre owner Jordan Roth has, very aptly, turned himself into a theatre hall\n\nCeline Dion, perhaps the original queen of 'camp', did not disappoint\n\nActor Jared Leto clearly believes that two heads are better than one\n\nUS drag queen Aquaria went for painted hair and diamante hand-pieces\n\nWhile actor Yara Shahidi has gone all out with the feathers...\n\n...Much like the Met Gala's main host, Vogue editor Anna Wintour", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cycle police will target risky drivers who get too close\n\nPolice officers are taking to their bikes to teach the dangers of driving too close to cyclists.\n\nPlain-clothes officers on cycles will use bike-mounted cameras to catch motorists who get too close for comfort.\n\nOffenders will then be pulled over further along the road and spoken to about their driving.\n\nIt comes as a survey found 73% of those asked were not aware the practice could result in three penalty points.\n\nCycling Scotland, which commissioned the YouGov research, is raising awareness of the risks to cyclists in a new nationwide campaign.\n\nThe poll of more than 1,000 Scots found most did not know the potential consequence of failing to leave at least a car's width when passing a bike.\n\nPolice will demonstrate the safe passing distance, widely considered to be at least 1.5m (5ft). A similar scheme was successful in West Midlands\n\nThe body has received the backing of Police Scotland, which stressed that driving too close is classed as careless driving and is punishable with a minimum penalty of three penalty points and £100 fine.\n\nCycling Scotland chief executive Keith Irving said: \"People who cycle regularly are likely to experience a 'very scary' close pass incident every couple of days and cycling casualties are increasing, in line with cycling's growing popularity.\n\n\"Every week in Scotland, at least three people cycling suffer serious, potentially life-changing injuries, usually from a collision with a vehicle.\n\n\"Our new TV ad campaign shows how it can feel to be close passed and increases awareness of the legal consequences for people driving too closely to someone cycling.\"\n\nCabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity Michael Matheson launched the campaign\n\nPolice Scotland has meanwhile launched Operation Close Pass to make roads safer for cyclists.\n\nThe initiative sees plain-clothes police officers cycling with a camera on their handlebars and another on the back of their bike.\n\nWhen they are passed too closely by a car, the police cyclist radios details to colleagues further up the road, who pull over the motorist and talk to them about their driving.\n\nThe chat takes place by the roadside on a giant mat showing the correct minimum passing distance, usually defined as 1.5 metres (5ft).\n\nIf someone is unreceptive to education then they will be cautioned for careless or dangerous driving and receive a court summons.\n\nInsp Andrew Thomson said: \"Keeping all road users safe is a key priority for us and this campaign highlights that cyclists are vulnerable when being passed by vehicles too closely.\n\n\"Officers from Police Scotland will be working hard to raise awareness of this offence and encourage all road users to use the roads with respect for others.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joseph McCann was wanted over attacks across the country\n\nA man arrested over the abduction and rape of three women in and around London is being investigated for other attacks involving nine further victims.\n\nJoseph McCann, 34, was arrested in Congleton, Cheshire, after two girls, aged 14, were abducted in the town.\n\nHe is being investigated over attacks in Cheshire, Manchester and Lancashire, on victims aged between 11 and 71.\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin, of the Metropolitan Police, said the attacks were \"grotesque and horrifying\".\n\nThe officer urged other victims to come forward and said police wanted to hear from anyone who had been approached by Mr McCann or in contact with him between February and May.\n\nSuspect Joseph McCann was seen in the back of a police car following his arrest\n\nMr McCann was found in a tree in Smithy Lane on Sunday evening and arrested after a stand-off with police negotiators.\n\nHe had been spotted in the town after two girls were forced into a car that afternoon.\n\nMet detectives are now investigating him in connection with a number of other attacks earlier that day.\n\nThese include the false imprisonment of a woman in Haslingden, Lancashire, in which a teenage girl and a boy, 11, were raped and the abduction and rape of a 71-year-old in Bury, Manchester.\n\nThe Met Police released a CCTV image of the suspect\n\nThe suspect is also being investigated over the abduction of two 13-year-old boys and the abduction and sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl in Heywood, Manchester, at about 15:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nDet Ch Insp Goodwin said the attacks were believed to have taken place between 21 April and 5 May.\n\n\"Detectives from the Met continue to lead on this investigation and are working very closely with policing counterparts where he is suspected to have carried out further offences,\" she said.\n\nMr McCann was also wanted for questioning over the abduction and rape of a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint in Watford, Hertfordshire, in the early hours of 21 April.\n\nThe Met Police launched an appeal to find Mr McCann after two women in their 20s were snatched off streets in London and raped in a car in London on 25 April.\n• None Man held after two more women abducted\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The issue of biosecurity is set to become increasingly important to prevent alien invasive pathogens entering the UK habitat\n\nThe outbreak of ash dieback disease is set to cost the UK in the region of £15bn, it has been estimated.\n\nScientists expressed shock at the \"staggering\" financial burden on taxpayers.\n\nThe authors warn that the cost of tackling the fallout from ash dieback far exceeds the income from importing nursery trees.\n\nIt was an imported nursery tree that initially brought the deadly disease to these shores.\n\nThey added that it was the first time the total cost of the outbreak had been estimated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We estimate that the total may be £15bn,\" explained lead author Dr Louise Hill, a researcher at Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford.\n\n\"That's a third more than the reported cost of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in 2001.\n\n\"The consequences of tree disease for people really haven't been fully appreciated before now.\"\n\nYoung and susceptible ash trees quickly succumb to the pathogen\n\nThe disease, also known as chalara dieback of ash, was first reported in the UK in a nursery in 2012, and was recorded in the wider environment for the first time in 2013.\n\nSince then it has spread to most parts of the UK.\n\nThe Forestry Commission says it has the \"potential to cause significant damage to the UK's ash population, with implications for woodland biodiversity and ecology, and for the hardwood industries\".\n\nIn Europe, the pathogen has caused widespread damage and has killed and infected millions of ash trees.\n\nAs well as estimating the loss from losing an economically important species, the £15bn figure takes in account the loss of \"ecosystem services\", such as water purification and carbon sequestration.\n\nReport co-author Dr Nick Atkinson, senior adviser at the Woodland Trust, said: \"What we were drawing attention to is that there is this huge financial and economic impact of a tree disease epidemic.\"\n\nThe authors, writing in the Current Biology journal, estimated that the total cost of ash dieback would be 50 times greater than the annual value of trade in live plants to and from Britain.\n\n\"What you have to look at is, essentially, the risk we are taking by trading across borders against the benefits, which is the financial gains coming from that market,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"The £15bn cost that we are now facing is the direct outcome of a trade that was worth a few million pounds.\"\n\nThe researchers said that the majority of the cost will be shouldered by local authorities.\n\n\"As we know, local authorities are not well funded and they are certainly not funded enough to deal with an epidemic of this magnitude,\" observed Dr Atkinson.\n\n\"There is this hole in the policy of responding to events like this.\"\n\nAnd it is something that is very likely to happen again in the near future, they warn, as there are 47 other known tree pests and diseases that could arrive in Britain and cause more than a billion pounds (or more) worth of damage.", "Cecil the lion was killed by a trophy hunter in 2015\n\nThe UK will not be banning imports from trophy hunting yet, Michael Gove has told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nThe Environment Secretary said it was a \"delicate political balancing act\".\n\nHe said he had been advised by wildlife charities to \"be cautious\" in following other countries in outlawing imports from the controversial sport.\n\nTrophy hunting is the shooting of carefully selected animals, including some endangered species, under strict government controls.\n\nMr Gove was interviewed by former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen as part of a new BBC Radio 5 Live podcast, Beast of Man, which looks into how the South African rhino can be saved from extinction.\n\nClients, mainly from Europe or the US, often pay thousands of pounds to take part in a hunt, and keep a \"trophy\" - usually the head or skin, or another body part.\n\nIt's a big business in some African countries.\n\nCritics describe it as a blood sport, but proponents say it helps raise vital money for conservation, especially for endangered species.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove tells 5 Live the UK will not be banning imports from trophy hunting yet.\n\nCurrently, if a trophy hunter wants to bring a body part from their hunt back into the UK, they can do so, with a special permit.\n\nOne trophy hunter told the podcast the sport was thrilling and helped conservation: \"To shoot an elephant is an awesome thing to do, it is a stunningly, stunningly awesome thing to do, which is why I did it.\n\n\"I want to try and preserve those wild places in Africa. But the only way they get preserved is if there's money. If it doesn't pay it doesn't stay. It's as simple as that.\"\n\nIn 2015, the death of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park sparked worldwide revulsion and resulted in a number of countries - including Australia, France and the Netherlands - implementing bans on the import of lion trophies.\n\nAt the time, the UK government pledged to do the same unless there were improvements to how hunting took place.\n\nKevin Pietersen, who was born in South Africa, visited Hwange National Park after Cecil the lion was killed\n\nWhen asked about why the UK had not yet enforced a ban, Mr Gove said he had been advised by conservationists and charities to proceed with caution.\n\nHe said they told him: \"Don't come in, you know, with your clod-hopping boots from the UK and necessarily tell people in each of these countries exactly how they should regulate their own wildlife.\"\n\n\"On an emotional level and on a personal level, I find it difficult to understand,\" Mr Gove said. \"But I also recognise that I've got to respect if there is expertise, which says that [trophy hunting] done in a managed way can help wildlife overall, then let's just test that.\"\n\nThe CEO of charity Save the Rhino, Cathy Dean, says that \"well-regulated trophy hunting has a role in overall rhino conservation strategies\".\n\nThere were between 50 and 100 Southern white rhinos at the start of the 1900s, but now there are about 18,000, she told the BBC in an emailed statement.\n\nThe increase is \"partly due to the conservation efforts and involvement of the private sector, who have dedicated land to breeding rhinos, some of which may be trophy hunted, rather than to livestock or agriculture\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why big game hunting is big business in South Africa\n\nIn 2018, more than 50 celebrities - including singers Ed Sheeran and Liam Gallagher - signed an open letter in support of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, urging the Government to ban trophy hunters from importing animal body parts into Britain.\n\nA cross-party Early Day Motion, signed by more than 159 MPs, has also called on the UK government to stop trophy hunting imports of endangered species.\n\n\"I think that there is growing momentum for the law to change. But what I don't want to do is to get ahead,\" said Mr Gove.\n\n\"I don't want to be in a position where am I running so far in advance of what other charities and other leaders want, that we risk the good relationship that's been built up over time.\n\n\"Like so many areas of campaigning, it's partly a process of education and it's partly a process of dialogue.\n\n\"If particular communities have got used to driving income from hunting, you don't want to seem as though you're basically saying, we're taking your livelihood away.\n\n\"We've got to make sure that there is a clear alternative, that they know that their livelihoods and their lifestyle are going to be respected and not patronised, before they will feel comfortable about moving.\"\n\nKevin Pietersen: Beast of Man can be downloaded from BBC Sounds.", "Will the cross-party talks get anywhere this week?\n\nNo 10 is trying to get Labour over the line by presenting the withdrawal agreement as a stepping stone - ie hold your nose for now and you can carve out your own deal if you win the next election.\n\nKey to that is the promise of a 'temporary customs union' - Labour sources warn if that's all it is, that's what's already in the withdrawal agreement anyway (plus a few months) and doesn't add up to anything substantially new.\n\nA senior government source says it IS possible though to see a way to a deal, but it is unlikely to be resolved this week - and their aim is not to create some kind of May-Corbyn Rose Garden moment (imagine!) but to set out a path to get the Withdrawal Bill to Commons with a fair wind.\n\nWhat then? Well, the hope is to get the bill to committee stage where MPs would make decisions day by day - it's important to understand that's where Number 10 hopes this might be heading - with maybe more of a process to get sustainable buy-in from the Labour front bench than carving a deal in stone.\n\nOf course, the clouds over Theresa May's leadership also make it harder by the day to get anything agreed. A Labour source says: \"We are not just worried about this being ripped up in 2021, we're worried about it being ripped up in October 2019.\"\n\nThere is added momentum to talks because the Tories are fresh from an absolute hammering in council elections on Friday. Labour had a terrible night too.\n\nBut that bit of fresh impetus doesn't magic away the real problems they have to overcome if there's to be a deal.", "A forensic tent has been erected in front of a detached property in Fairfield Park, Monkton\n\nPolice are searching a south Ayrshire property in connection with the disappearance of a 39-year-old woman.\n\nEmma Faulds went missing from her Kilmarnock home more than a week ago.\n\nA forensic search is currently being carried out at a detached house in Fairfield Park, Monkton, approximately 12 miles from Kilmarnock.\n\nDetectives fear Ms Faulds, who was last seen at about 21:10 on Sunday 28 April in the Monkton area, may have come to harm.\n\nEmma Faulds has been missing for more than a week\n\nPolice said family and friends were \"distraught\" at not knowing where she was or what might have happened to her.\n\nAnd they appealed for help from anyone who saw Ms Faulds or her car in the lead-up to her disappearance.\n\nPolice said she normally drives a blue BMW 1 Series M Sport with the distinctive registration number F5 EMA.\n\nMs Faulds' car, which was recovered outside her home, has been removed by officers and is undergoing a full forensic examination.\n\nTwo other cars are also being examined.\n\nSpecialist officers have also been searching properties in the Monkton area.\n\nMs Faulds is described as white, around 5ft 3in, of slim, athletic build, with long blonde hair, a pale complexion and blue eyes.\n\nPolice are asking the public if they remember seeing Ms Faulds' car\n\nDetectives are also searching CCTV footage for any sightings of the missing youth worker or her car.\n\nDet Ch Insp Martin Fergus from Police Scotland's major investigations team said: \"Emma is in constant contact with her family and friends and the fact that she has not been heard from is alarming.\n\n\"Emma also has a dog, a west highland terrier, and she would never leave it for any length of time without ensuring someone is able to look after it.\n\n\"We are liaising with Emma's family and we now believe that she may have come to harm.\"\n\nHe continued: \"Emma's car has been removed for examination and I am appealing to motorists, taxi drivers or members of the public who may have seen it being driven in the Monkton and Kilmarnock areas late Sunday night into Monday morning.\n\n\"I would ask people with dashcams to check their footage as they may have captured the car and not realise its significance. You may have noticed the registration number but thought nothing of it at the time, but now where and when you saw it could be vital.\"\n\nHe added: \"Emma is a sociable outgoing person who enjoys seeing her family and friends.\n\n\"They are distraught at not knowing where she is or what may have happened to her.\n\n\"I would appeal to anyone who may have information or knowledge as to her whereabouts to contact us.\n\n\"If you saw Emma a few days before she was reported missing, you may have information which could assist us so please do contact us, did you see her with anyone, did you speak to her, any small piece of information could be highly significant.\"\n• None Missing woman 'may have come to harm'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Aerial pictures show the extent of the damage at the house\n\nTwo people have died in a suspected gas explosion which destroyed a bungalow.\n\nThe rear of the home was blown out by a series of explosions at the property in The Street in Lidgate, near Newmarket in Suffolk.\n\nCrews began tackling the blaze at about midday and specialist dogs were later brought in after two people were \"unaccounted for\".\n\nThe cause of the explosion is unknown and a joint fire and police investigation is taking place.\n\nOfficers said the fire was believed to have been caused by a gas explosion.\n\nPolice said the road was likely to remain closed \"for quite some time\"\n\nOne neighbour said it rattled the windows of homes further along the road, and described it as a \"huge explosion\".\n\nSuffolk Fire and Rescue Service said it had sent four crews to deal with the blaze.\n\nFire officers had spent the afternoon trying to establish the whereabouts of the two missing people.\n\nIncident commander Darren Reeve said: \"We are working extremely hard to try and identify if we have anyone in or not.\"\n\nPolice said the road was likely to remain closed \"for quite some time\".\n\nIt is believed a gas explosion caused a fire at the bungalow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marchers made their way through Glasgow city centre\n\nOne of the organisers of a pro-independence march in Glasgow has been reported to the procurator fiscal.\n\nMandeep Singh, 39, who headed the All Under One Banner event on Saturday, said on social media he had been reported in connection with section 65 of the Civic Government Act 1982.\n\nIt is related to conditions imposed on the event by Glasgow City Council and police.\n\nThe All Under One Banner march left Kelvingrove Park at 13:30 BST and made its way through the city centre before ending with a rally at Glasgow Green.\n\nMinutes from the meeting of the Public Processions Committee on 24 April stated a condition that the march should gather at 10:00 and then set off at 11:00.\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"Police Scotland can confirm that a 39-year-old man will be the subject of a report to the procurator fiscal for failing to comply with conditions imposed on a procession.\"\n\nMarch organiser Mr Singh said he had worked closely with senior Police Scotland officers to make sure everyone who attended the march was \"safe and protected\".\n\nIn a statement on his Facebook page, he added: \"Now I always knew that the unionist Glasgow City Council could push for this.\n\n\"I evaluated the risks to myself and only myself what would happen. If I defied GGC and their ridiculous demands to keep numbers low. Worst case a heavy fine and 3 months custodial sentence.\"\n\nMr Singh later said he intended to contest any charges, adding: \"Freedom can never be won by bending the knee.\"\n\nA spokesman for the SNP-led Glasgow City Council said that it would not be appropriate to comment at this time due to ongoing proceedings.\n\nHowever, one SNP councillor, Rhiannon Spear, tweeted: \"I can assure you Glasgow City Council is anything but Unionist.\n\n\"Manny has been reported to the PF because he did not comply with the council order's start time. His comments here are bizarre + entirely unhelpful. I hope he works with the council from the start next time.\"", "The resignation of Theresa May has clear consequences for the Conservative Party - the starting gun on a leadership contest has been fired.\n\nBut what does it mean for Brexit?\n\nThe short answer is that both No Deal and No Brexit are now both more likely.\n\nWith Mrs May's \"bold new Brexit plan\" in tatters, there is no vehicle for leaving the EU with a deal, and the default is that the UK's membership will expire on Halloween.\n\nIf that is where things appear to be heading in the autumn, some MPs who previously opposed a second referendum might reconsider if it is the best option for avoiding no deal - putting Brexit at risk.\n\nAfter all, Jeremy Corbyn - who has been reluctant to weaponise Labour's \"option\" of a public vote - has said the Labour leadership would back a referendum to avoid either \"a bad Tory deal\" or \"no deal at all\".\n\nBut Mrs May called \"on all sides of the debate\" to find a compromise.\n\nThe question is whether, in the short term, the language of compromise is seen as an asset or liability by the Conservative leadership contenders.\n\nMPs will be able to choose from a wide range of options - from Rory Stewart and Matt Hancock, who have been emphasising the need to leave with a deal, through to Dominic Raab and Andrea Leadsom, who certainly don't fear no deal.\n\nBut polling evidence suggests many of the Conservative grassroots members don't just want Brexit to happen quickly, but they positively favour leaving without a Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nOnce MPs have whittled down the contenders to the final two in June, winning over the party faithful will require the remaining candidates to talk tough.\n\nThis will mean, at the very least, that \"no deal\" is back on the table.\n\nIf - for example - the eventual contest was between a former Remainer and a Brexiteer - say Jeremy Hunt or Sajid Javid versus Boris Johnson or Dominic Raab - then to attack their opponent on a wide range of issues, including fitness for high office, the former Remainer would have to dismantle any barrier to their support amongst the wider membership by stressing their willingness to leave with no deal.\n\nThe One Nation Group of Conservatives, who are largely former Remainers such as Nicky Morgan and Amber Rudd, haven't ruled out backing Boris Johnson - so long as he pivots to the position of at least arguing for a deal with the EU.\n\nSo, let's just assume for a moment that this is the position any successor to Mrs May adopts.\n\nThe only version of the exiting PM's deal which passed the Commons was at the end of January\n\nThis was the so-called Brady amendment (after the chairman of the Conservatives' 1922 committee Sir Graham Brady), which called for a deal and support for the Withdrawal Agreement, but minus the contentious Northern Irish backstop.\n\nThis backstop is despised by many Brexiteers as it would keep the UK close to EU regulations in the absence of a trade deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFollowing that vote, Mrs May said: \"There is a limited appetite for change in the EU, and negotiating it won't be easy.\"\n\nShe was right on both counts.\n\nWhile there were additional reassurances from Brussels around the backstop, there was no major rewrite, never mind replacing it with unspecified \"alternative arrangements\".\n\nNow, Mr Johnson believes that more robust negotiation is required and this could unlock a deal.\n\nMr Javid believes technical solutions to the problem of Irish border checks already exist - but that the EU would have to recognise this.\n\nThe trouble is, so far, the prospect of a change of leader hasn't led to a change of mind in Brussels.\n\nAnd the Irish Deputy Prime Minister, Simon Coveney, is already warning that the European Union would not offer the next prime minister a better Brexit deal.\n\nHe told an Irish radio station: \"This idea that a new prime minister will be a tougher negotiator and will put it up to the EU and get a much better deal for Britain? That's not how the EU works.\"\n\nWhat he said the EU would contemplate is a longer extension of Article 50, and a further delay to Brexit.\n\nA new Conservative leader committed to a deal may well have to ask for this.\n\nThey would begin their tenancy in No 10 at the height of the European holiday season, and time will be short for any renegotiation.\n\nHowever, unless the EU is willing to reopen the Withdrawal Agreement negotiated with Mrs May, there may be little point in long, drawn out discussions.\n\nMr Johnson confirmed he wouldn't ask for an extension in any case, declaring that the UK would leave on 31 October with or without a deal.\n\nIt's possible some of the legislative legwork for a future deal will be done during the dying days of Mrs May's premiership.\n\nFor example, uncontentious aspects of the Withdrawal Agreement, such as citizen's rights, could be incorporated into UK law.\n\nBut the contentious issues would remain.\n\nAssuming a substantially different deal isn't on offer by October, and the Conservatives are led by a Brexiteer who will come out of the EU no matter what, we could be faced with the following scenarios:\n\nMrs May warned of 'division and uncertainty' if MPs didn't pass her deal.\n\nIn that respect, at least, she was right.\n• None PM's exit 'may be dangerous' for Ireland", "Parents and protesters have gathered outside the school chanting \"let kids be kids\"\n\nProtesters have gathered outside a Birmingham school for eight weeks in a dispute over teaching children about LGBT relationships. As the row continues, the views of those at the gates of Anderton Park Primary are varied and passionate.\n\nAt the heart of a terraced street sits a striking, red-brick building with a spire. A sign on its fence reads \"relationships, aspirations, sparkle\", encapsulating the ethos of a school at the centre of the storm.\n\nIt feels like a normal day, except for the police car and three officers that have pulled up outside Anderton Park Primary to help manage the protests that have rumbled on outside the school since March.\n\nThe problems flared when parents and campaigners rallied against pupils being taught about same-sex relationships and transgender issues. In recent weeks, children have been removed from classes and teachers have been threatened.\n\nThe situation has divided the Anderton Park community in Balsall Heath, many of whom are from a Muslim background.\n\nWhen approached by the BBC to talk about their views, most parents did not want to talk about it. Of those that did, the overwhelming majority were reluctant to be named or photographed.\n\nA protest outside the school on Friday is thought to have been the biggest so far\n\nRawasia Bibi has two daughters at the school, aged eight and 11, who she said \"stand with me at the protest\".\n\nShe said the protesters are not homophobic - she \"lives in a neighbourhood where we've got transgender and gays and it doesn't matter\" - but that she disagreed with teaching young children about LGBT issues.\n\n\"We don't agree with what [head teacher Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson] is teaching our children,\" she added.\n\n\"It's nothing to do with LGBT, they can do what they want with their lives. We are saying teach this in secondary schools, not primary schools.\"\n\nAlthough Anderton Park does not teach the No Outsiders programme, demonstrators argue the lessons are \"the same\"\n\nFellow parent Safina Bibi agreed and said her daughter had been affected by the protests.\n\n\"Sometimes she gets upset - she asks why the teachers and parents are fighting.\n\n\"When it comes to sex and things, why are they teaching them that? Why can't they just teach them what they need to be taught?\"\n\nThe protests spread to Anderton Park from Parkfield Community School in Alum Rock, where parents raised a petition in January claiming some of the teaching contradicted Islam.\n\nThe \"No Outsiders\" scheme, created by one of its teachers Andrew Moffatt, had been running at the school since 2014.\n\nIt was formed to educate children about the Equality Act, British values, and diversity, using storybooks to teach children about LGBT relationships, race, religion, adoption and disability.\n\nAndrew Moffat pioneered the No Outsiders programme to educate about different relationships\n\nAnderton Park had not been teaching No Outsiders specifically, but did teach children about equality and relationships.\n\nThe demonstrations at its gates have been no less heated than those at Alum Rock and have even involved threats to teachers.\n\n\"I don't think anyone should be bullied about anything that's prevalent in our society,\" said mother of twins, Dionne Reid.\n\n\"My kids get really upset about it, they love Mrs Hewitt-Clarkson and they say everyone's got rights. They don't understand the protests.\n\n\"What I don't like is [the demonstrators] force it on to you.\"\n\nFaizal Kareem wants teachers and parents to \"sit down and talk about things\"\n\nDropping off his son, Faizal Kareem said he was \"neutral\" when it came to the protests, but did not agree with what was being taught.\n\n\"To be honest, this LGBT, I'm against it. When they grow up they will learn [these] things anyway.\n\n\"I think this isn't the time, we have plenty more issues to discuss with kids like robbery, crime, drugs; really important issues.\"\n\nHe wants parents and teachers to \"sit and talk about things\".\n\n\"They say in Alum Rock the protests were successful and now [No Outsiders] has stopped there, that's what they are hoping here.\"\n\nAnderton Park Primary had to close early for half-term ahead of planned demonstrations\n\nOne mother, who did not want to be named, said the content should be taught so children don't grow up to feel \"alien\" in the world.\n\n\"What they are teaching we don't believe, but I think there should be more [focus] on the children.\n\n\"In the world today they can see [different beliefs] in the media and if they have this information from school they will know what the world is like and won't feel so alien.\n\n\"Personally, [protests] are not the peaceful way of doing things.\"\n\nWithin half an hour, the school rush dies down. A police car circles the street intermittently.\n\nA few parents chat on the corner - it's barely worth them leaving; they will have to return at midday to pick up their children because the school is closing early due to concerns about a planned protest.\n\nJumshad Khan lives opposite the school. A former pupil himself, he now has three children at the school aged four, five and nine. He thinks children should \"be aware\" of LGBT issues but parents should talk about society and religion \"at home\".\n\n\"I went to this school and we were taught hymns. I'm Muslim, not Christian, [and] my parents didn't have a problem with me being taught that.\n\n\"It's a school that caters for the community, it's wrong that it's at the stage where the majority of the community are against the institution that's supposed to be educating our children.\n\n\"The issue here is the children, they are the ones that are getting disrupted.\"\n\nAs noon approaches, parents arrive to collect their children. The street briefly becomes busy again with families, a handful of protesters, and people carrying rainbow flags, before emptying again as the school shuts its doors.\n\nCounter-demonstrators also come to the school to show support for the lessons\n\nRukhsana Hussain is a parent governor at the school. Herself a former pupil, she is one of few voices to speak passionately against the protesters.\n\n\"I do not begrudge them for what they are saying,\" she said. \"However, look at what [they] are doing outside a primary school.\n\n\"Imagine going to school for eight weeks and having to see people shouting and chanting and humiliating the head teacher.\n\n\"How is this going to affect our children psychologically?\"\n\nAt 14:20, the road fills again - the largest protest outside Anderton Park Primary since the conflict began. About 200 people gather in the narrow street, some sitting on walls, others watching from front gardens.\n\nSome chant \"our children, our choice\", \"let kids be kids\" and \"head teacher, step down\". Parents wave banners, including one that reads \"don't class us as homophobic\".\n\nOrganiser Shakeel Afsar said the afternoon's protest was the \"final step\" before a petition would be handed in calling for Mrs Hewitt-Clarkson to step down as the school's head.\n\nHe said he hoped mediation could bring \"transparent, sensible talks\".\n\n\"Sit us down, sit the LGBT community down, and let's thrash this out like adults and stop being so intolerant to the community that have different views to yourself.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "South Korean director Bong Joon-ho has won the Cannes film festival's most prestigious award.\n\nThe Palme d'Or was awarded for his film Parasite, a dark comedy thriller exploring social class dynamics.\n\nThe festival came to a close this evening after 11 days of previews of new films and documentaries.\n\nIt saw French-Senagalese director Mati Diop become the first black female director to win an award in Cannes' 72-year history.\n\nDiop won the Grand Prix - the equivalent of a silver prize - for Atlantics, a Senegalese drama about young migrants and sexual politics.\n\nDiop had previously said she was \"a little sad\" that it had taken until 2019 for a film by a woman of African descent to even be screened at the festival.\n\nMeanwhile, US director Quentin Tarantino's latest film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - which received strong reviews - left the closing ceremony empty handed.\n\nMati Diop delivering a speech after she was awarded the Grand Prix for her film Atlantique\n\nBong is the first Korean to win Cannes' top prize. However, he has been at the festival previously, having made his name at Cannes with Okja in 2017, which - somewhat controversially - originally screened on Netflix.\n\nThis is the second year with no contenders produced by the streaming giant amid talks between the Netflix and Cannes.\n\nOther winners on the night included Emily Beecham - a dual British-American national - who took home the best actress award for her appearance in Little Joe, a psychological sci-fi about a woman whose scent induces euphoria.\n\nBest actor went to Antonio Banderas for his role in Pain and Glory, the story of a film director who is facing middle age and a creative crisis.\n\nBest screenplay went to Céline Sciamma for Portrait of a Lady on Fire, a period romance about a relationship between a young painter and her subject.\n\nAntonio Banderas accepting the prize from Zhang Ziyi for best actor\n\nBelgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne took home the award for best directors for their film Young Ahmed, which is about a boy who is radicalised into stabbing his teacher.\n\nBrazilian film Bacurau, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles won the Jury Prize. The story follows a filmmaker who travels to a remote village and discovers its dark secrets.", "Andrew Moffat led the parade with Saima Razzaq and Khakan Qureshi\n\nA teacher whose lesson programme covering LGBT relationships has been at the centre of protests is leading the Birmingham Pride parade.\n\nAndrew Moffat started the \"No Outsiders\" lessons at Parkfield Community School in the city, which has led to protests by some Muslim parents.\n\nPride organisers said there was \"no-one better\" to lead the parade, which started at midday.\n\nThousands have been expected to attend the annual event, now in its 22nd year.\n\nThis year's theme is Love Out Loud which organisers said was a \"celebration of our right to love, no matter our gender, sexuality, personal identity, colour, religion or race\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC News about the invitation to join the Pride parade, Mr Moffat said it was \"absolutely wonderful\".\n\nHe was joined at the front of the procession by Khakan Qureshi, founder of Birmingham South Asians LGBT and Saima Razzaq, from Supporting Education of Equality and Diversity in Schools (SEEDS).\n\nFestivalgoers chose colourful costumes and attire for the parade\n\n\"It's so important, isn't it, at this time that we are showing that's what Birmingham is like,\" Mr Moffat said.\n\n\"It's not about protests outside schools, that's not Birmingham. This is Birmingham.\n\n\"They're talking about 80,000 people turning up to support Pride.\n\nBirmingham Pride is now in its 22nd year\n\nThousands of people are expected to attend the annual event over the weekend\n\nIn 2015, Birmingham Pride awarded a grant of £5,000 to the \"No Outsiders\" programme, which organisers said was an \"incredible initiative\".\n\nThe \"No Outsiders\" scheme had been running at Parkfield school since 2014.\n\nIt was formed to educate children about the Equality Act, British values, and diversity, using storybooks to teach children about LGBT relationships, race, religion, adoption and disability.\n\nHowever, some parents with children at the school in Alum Rock raised a petition in January, claiming some of the teaching contradicted Islam.\n\nThe protests have since spread to Anderton Park Primary in Balsall Heath with a protest held on Friday afternoon outside the school thought to be the biggest so far.\n\nA protest outside the school on Friday is thought to have been the biggest so far\n\nThose against the inclusion of LGBT issues in classes have said the content contradicts their Islamic beliefs, and have accused the school of not listening to parents' concerns.\n\nBut head teacher Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson said she would \"never stop\" teaching pupils about equality.\n\nPeople gathered in Victoria Square ahead of the parade beginning at midday\n\nThere are events are taking place in and around the city's gay village on 25 and 26 May\n\nFestival director Lawrence Barton said Mr Moffat had been asked to lead the parade in light of the \"division which the controversy over 'No Outsiders' lessons has created\".\n\nEveryone seemed to be in good spirits for the festival\n\nBirmingham Pride events are taking place in and around the city's gay village on 25 and 26 May.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go \n\n\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This is Cllr Rakhia Ismail. She's the UK's first Somali-born female mayor and is thought to be the first mayor to wear a hijab.\n\nCllr Ismail was chosen as the new mayor for Islington, north London - a mostly ceremonial role - on 16 May.", "The latest closures will include mostly Evans stores as well as six Miss Selfridge shops\n\nSir Philip Green's retail empire Arcadia will close twice as many stores as it announced earlier this week.\n\nArcadia, with brands including Topshop, Burton and Dorothy Perkins, initially announced 23 stores would close as part of a plan to rescue the struggling business.\n\nNow it has emerged that a further 25 stores will shut, under separate insolvency proceedings.\n\nArcadia have been contacted for comment.\n\nThe latest round of closures will mainly fall on plus size clothing chain Evans, as well as six Miss Selfridge stores.\n\nArcadia currently has more than 560 stores across the UK and Ireland, and the latest closures add to the 200 UK stores shut over the past three years.\n\nUnder the proposed restructuring announced earlier this week, Arcadia will shut 23 stores and the company's contribution to the pension fund is to be reduced from £50m a year.\n\nThe measures are seen as a final effort by the company to stave off administration or breakup.\n\nUnder the rescue proposals, Arcadia will also cut rents at 194 stores.\n\nThat deal has yet to be approved by landlords, creditors and the company's pension trustees.\n\nThe company also plans to shut all its 11 Topshop and Topman stores in the US.\n\nHowever, the pensions regulator has said it has doubts that the plans will \"adequately protect\" the pensions of employees.\n\nAnd on Friday, MP Frank Field urged Sir Philip to use his own money to support the pension fund of his troubled group.\n\nSpeaking earlier this week, Ian Grabiner, chief executive of Arcadia Group, said the 23 store closures were \"tough but necessary\" to mend the business.\n\nLast year Sir Philip was embroiled in claims - strongly denied - of bullying and inappropriate behaviour.\n\nHe was also criticised over the demise of department store chain BHS, which, after he sold it for just £1, collapsed a year later.", "The Border Force was alerted at about 06:20 BST and a cutter was deployed\n\nThe number of migrants picked up trying to cross the Channel in May is now higher than the figure for December, when a \"major incident\" was declared.\n\nEight men were intercepted in a small boat at about 06:20 BST, bringing the total for May so far to 140.\n\nIn December, during mild weather, 138 migrants attempted the journey and Home Secretary Sajid Javid set out a plan for dealing with the problem.\n\nAt least 642 migrants have now crossed the Channel since 3 November.\n\nThe Home Office said: \"Those in need of protection should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach.\"\n\nIt added that since January \"more than 30 people who arrived illegally in the UK in small boats have been returned to Europe\".\n\nIn December 138 migrants were picked up by officials. So far this month, 140 have been intercepted.\n\nThe crossings are very dependent on the weather. The end of last year was unseasonably mild leading to a spike in attempts to get to the UK.\n\nThe start of this year saw numbers fall again, as the weather worsened.\n\nHowever, with summer approaching the sea is calm and the temperature is rising, so the Home Office is braced for more boats in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Friday, 18 migrants were picked up in a dinghy and brought to Dover.\n\nOf the eight men found in waters off the Kent coast earlier, seven presented themselves as Iranian and one was an Afghan national.\n\nThe men were transferred to a Border Force vessel and taken to Dover at about 06:20 BST, the Home Office said.\n\nThey were medically assessed before being transferred to immigration officials.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"With voice extended to breaking point, I call for the prosperity of free speech,\" said Morrissey on Friday\n\nPosters promoting Morrissey's latest album have been removed from railway stations after a commuter complained.\n\nAdverts for the new album by the former Smiths singer have been taken down on the Merseyrail network.\n\nMorrissey has previously expressed support for the far-right For Britain party and earlier this month wore a badge with its logo on during a TV show, but he denies he is a racist.\n\nMerseyrail apologised and said the posters did not reflect its \"values\".\n\nThe adverts, which contain no political message, were removed after a traveller on a Southport service to Moorfields contacted the company to ask if it agreed with Morrissey's opinions.\n\nThe man, who asked not to be named, told the BBC he was not \"offended\" by the posters and did not demand they were taken down.\n\nHe said he just questioned the company on whether they were appropriate.\n\nIn a statement, Merseyrail said: \"Any content used within advertising on the Merseyrail network does not reflect the organisation's values and we apologise for any offence the publication of these posters may have caused.\"\n\nThe company said advertising was managed by an external third party.\n\nMorrisey has not responded to the rail company's decision. But in a message on his website on Friday, he said: \"With voice extended to breaking point, I call for the prosperity of free speech; the eradication of totalitarian control; I call for diversity of opinion; I call for the total abolition of the abattoir; I call for peace, above all; I call for civil society.\"\n\nMorrissey expressed his support for For Britain in a 2018 interview\n\nEarlier this week, the world's oldest record shop, Spillers Records in Cardiff, took the decision to stop selling Morrissey albums.\n\nIt said on Twitter: \"Morrissey's views are not in synch with ours, in fact they are at complete odds and this is why (as an independent) we are not stocking / giving our shelf space to his music.\"\n\nMorrissey, 60, has denied on multiple occasions he holds racist views.\n\nEarlier this month, the Manchester-born singer appeared on The Tonight Show in the USA wearing a For Britain badge on his jacket.\n\nHe came out in support of the party in an interview in 2018 and in the past has criticised the production of halal meat and claimed London mayor Sadiq Khan \"cannot speak properly\".", "Rory Stewart says he would not able to serve under Boris Johnson if his rival for the Conservative leadership becomes prime minister.\n\nMr Stewart told the BBC that politicians must tell the truth about where they stand on Brexit and he believes Mr Johnson's backing for a no-deal exit is \"undeliverable\".", "Forensic officers have been at the scene around the home in Shiregreen, Sheffield\n\nTwo boys have died and four other children - including a seven-month-old baby - are in hospital after police swooped on a house in Sheffield.\n\nA man, 37, and a woman, 34, arrested on suspicion of murder remain in custody as officers attempt to establish how the pair, aged 13 and 14, died.\n\nThe other children - aged 12, 11, three and eight months - remain in hospital but are conscious, police said.\n\nA cordon remains in place outside the home in the Shiregreen area.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police received \"reports of concerns for safety\" of those inside the address at 07:30 BST on Friday.\n\nNeighbours reported seeing more than a dozen police cars in the street and an air ambulance landing in a nearby primary school.\n\nSupt Paul McCurry said officers were not looking for anybody else in relation to the deaths and said it was an \"isolated\" incident.\n\nThe surviving children would be in hospital for \"certainly the next few hours\", he said, while post-mortem tests on the deceased were due to take place later.\n\nPolice earlier said there was no wider risk to the community and urged people to be \"mindful\" of what they posted online.\n\nEmergency services were alerted to a serious incident here at a semi-detached house and police have been on the scene ever since.\n\nForensics officers are coming and going all the time.\n\nThere's been speculation about what has happened here - there was even a suggestion of a shooting at one point, prompting police to say no guns were involved.\n\nOfficers won't be drawn on the circumstances, so there's lots of unanswered questions as the inquiry goes on.\n\nA large area remains cordoned off as that investigation continues.\n\nAaron Brunskill, who lives locally, said residents came out into the street at 08:00 to find about 15 police cars and four ambulances.\n\nHe said: \"I know there's children there, I've just seen them walking back to the shops and that's all I know.\n\n\"Everyone speaking on the road said the first one out had to be resuscitated.\"\n\nLocal resident Aaron Brunskill said he went outside on Friday morning and saw the street busy with emergency vehicles\n\nYorkshire Air Ambulance confirmed it had landed in the grounds of Hartley Brook Primary Academy, which backs on to the road.\n\nThe school is not believed to have been involved in the incident.\n\nIn a statement, Gill Furniss, Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, said she was \"deeply saddened by the tragic incident\".\n\n\"My deepest sympathies are with the loved ones of the children who have lost their lives and also with those who are currently in the care of Sheffield Children's Hospital,\" she said.\n\n\"Shiregreen is a strong community but I know the whole area is deeply shaken by what has happened here.\n\n\"I would like to thank hardworking South Yorkshire Police and the NHS staff for their response in such a difficult situation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Celtic has expressed \"regret and sorrow\" 10 days after a former youth coach was jailed for a series of child sex abuse crimes.\n\nJim McCafferty, 73, was a coach and kit man for the club's youth team and also worked for Celtic Boys Club.\n\nLast week McCafferty admitted 12 charges related to child sex abuse against 10 teenage boys.\n\nDespite repeated requests by the BBC, Celtic only released a statement about the case on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe statement said: \"James McCafferty has pled guilty to offences he committed against young people between 1972 and 1996.\n\n\"Celtic Football Club wishes to express its regret and sorrow to those young people.\n\n\"McCafferty, who was employed by Celtic Football Club in the mid 1990s, committed these acts many years ago across a number of organisations, and all those who have come forward to report abuse and to give evidence deserve enormous praise for the courage they have shown.\n\n\"We offer our sincere sympathy to those young people, their families and all those involved.\"\n\nJim McCafferty was already serving a jail term after a trial in Northern Ireland\n\nBut solicitor Patrick McGuire, who represents several abuse survivors, criticised the club.\n\nHe said: \"It would be charitable to Celtic to describe this as too little, too late.\n\n\"There is no apology. There is no acknowledgement of Celtic's failures.\n\n\"There is no willingness to pay compensation and to follow the lead of Manchester City, particularly as we know some of the abuse took place when McCafferty was employed by Celtic and was in a position of considerable influence and power within the Celtic football club youth set-up.\"\n\nMcCafferty was sentenced to six years and nine months at the High Court in Edinburgh on 14 May.\n\nHe was already serving a jail term after he was found guilty of sexually abusing a teenage boy in Belfast last year.\n\nIn relation to the latest charges against McCafferty, which spanned from 1972 to 1996, most of his victims played for youth teams he ran in North Lanarkshire.\n\nFour played for Celtic Boys Club and Celtic youth team. They were aged between 14 and 17.\n\nThe incidents took place in several locations across Scotland - including team showers, hotel rooms and minibuses.\n\nThe court heard that among the complainers were former professional footballers.\n\nSome of McCafferty's victims developed alcohol and mental health problems as a consequence of the abuse he subjected them too.\n\nJudge Lord Beckett said he was \"physically intimidating\" and used his \"overpowering\" nature to achieve his \"depraved objectives\" of abusing young boys.\n\nHe added: \"You took advantage of your position of trust as a football coach to groom and then sexually abuse boys who played for your teams.\n\n\"You were adept at identifying the circumstances of different boys so that you could manipulate them and in some cases their parents in a variety of ways.\n\n\"All of this was done to facilitate your sexually abusing children.\"\n\nMcCafferty's lawyer told the court he wanted to apologise to his victims and their families.\n\nHe is the fourth man connected to either Celtic or Celtic Boys Club to be found guilty of historical child sex abuse in the past year.\n\nBoth Jim Torbett (left) and Frank Cairney (right) have been convicted of abusing children at Celtic Boys Club\n\nLast November Celtic Boys Club founder Jim Torbett was jailed for six years for sexually abusing three boys over eight years.\n\nAfter his conviction Celtic took two days to issue a statement, which expressed \"deep regret\".\n\nEarlier this year, the boys club's former chairman, Gerald King, was given a three-year probation order for sexually abusing four boys and a girl in the 1980s.\n\nAnd in February Frank Cairney, a former manager of the boys club, was jailed for four years after being convicted of nine charges of sexually abusing young footballers.\n\nOn Thursday he lost a bid to be released on bail while appealing his conviction.\n\nCeltic's statement on the latest case was published on the club's website at 16:10 on Friday.\n\nIt comes on the eve of the Scottish Cup Final which will see the club take on Hearts at Hampden.\n\nMr McGuire, of Glasgow-based law firm Thompsons, condemned the timing as \"cynical in the extreme\".\n\nPatrick McGuire said the timing of the statement was \"cynical in the extreme\"\n\nHe said: \"The conviction and sentencing of McCafferty was over a week ago.\n\n\"To put this statement out late on a Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend on the day the prime minister resigns and before a potential Treble Treble weekend for the club is appalling.\n\n\"It is insult to everyone who suffered abuse and to their families.\n\n\"It is the worst kind of PR low cunning and casts the club in an even worse light than before. Every member of the Celtic board should hang their heads in shame. \"\n\nThe Celtic statement acknowledged the crimes were \"very sensitive issues, particularly for those who suffered abuse.\"\n\nIt said: \"When the allegations were published in the media in 2016, Celtic Football Club encouraged any individuals involved to report all information to the police so that these matters could be investigated fully and the club continues to encourage any victim of abuse to report these matters to the police.\"\n\n\"Celtic Football Club takes all of its responsibilities seriously, stands by its responsibilities and will continue to do so.\"\n\nThe statement noted the abuse of children has affected many areas of society across the UK, including football clubs, sports clubs, youth organisations, educational institutions and religious bodies.\n\nIt concluded: \"Celtic Football Club strongly believes that children and young people involved in football have the right to protection from all forms of harm and abuse and is committed to ensuring this and to promoting their wellbeing through continued co-operation with our children and young people, parents and carers and the relevant authorities.\n\n\"Celtic Football Club was the first club in Scotland to appoint a safeguarding officer, responsible for developing our policies for the protection of young people, and monitoring and reviewing our procedures to ensure they continue to reflect best practice.\"", "The jury in the trial have been played a series of recordings from Carl Beech's police interview\n\nA man accused of lying about a VIP paedophile ring told police he witnessed three boys being murdered by his abusers, a court has heard.\n\nIn a police interview, Carl Beech, 51, from Gloucester, claimed that one boy was deliberately run over, another was strangled after being raped, and a third was beaten to death.\n\nProsecutors say that he lied to police about witnessing the killings.\n\nMr Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nHe named former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor as being responsible for the second alleged murder and involved in the third.\n\nThe claims were made by Mr Beech during an interview with police in November 2014, which was played to the jury at Newcastle Crown Court.\n\nIn the tape, a tearful Mr Beech described how a boy called Scott - a friend from primary school - was deliberately run over by a car in Kingston upon Thames, south-west London, in 1979.\n\nHe is heard claiming a powerful paedophile ring had \"warned me not to be friends with him and I didn't listen\". He said the warnings were given by former head of MI5 Sir Michael Hanley, who died in 2001.\n\nJurors have been told that Northumbria Police, which charged Mr Beech with lying to the Met, found no evidence that \"Scott\" ever existed or that a boy was ever deliberately run over in that location.\n\nMr Beech told police: \"We were walking and I heard the car, the engine, and as I turned round to see what the noise was it hit him and he was thrown up into the air and everything just stopped.\"\n\nHe added \"there was a lot of blood, I had blood on my hands and I was dragged away and put in the back of the car\".\n\nThe video shows him saying he felt a pain in his arm before he blacked out and that he could remember nothing more of the incident.\n\nDuring the same interview Mr Beech is seen claiming he saw another boy being stabbed and strangled to death by the Mr Proctor.\n\nHe claimed it happened in the \"back room\" of a house in London around 1980.\n\nThe jury was told Mr Proctor will give evidence during the trial.\n\nDescribing the third alleged incident, Mr Beech claimed that Mr Proctor and Sir Michael beat a boy to death in front of former Home Secretary Lord Brittan.\n\nMr Beech said he was one of four boys abused by the trio and another unidentified man, again in a London property.\n\nLater he said: \"I just went home as if nothing ever happened.\"\n\nProsecutors say Mr Beech later impersonated one of the boys, named as \"Fred\", using a fake email account to correspond with police while pretending to be a corroborative witness.\n\nMr Beech is accused of lying about rapes, kidnapping, false imprisonment and sexual abuse. His claims led to the £2m Operation Midland, which ended without any charges.\n\nThe trial will continue on Wednesday.", "US President Donald Trump will be welcomed by the Queen on his first official state visit to the UK next month, Buckingham Palace has announced.\n\nA ceremonial welcome will be held in the palace's garden on the first day of his three-day trip next month.\n\nMr Trump will also meet outgoing PM Theresa May and royals including the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex will not attend.\n\nIt follows the birth of her son Archie, who will be less than a month old at the time of the visit.\n\nThe Queen will be joined by the Prince of Wales and Camilla for the official welcome of Mr Trump and his wife Melania on 3 June.\n\nIt will take place in the private grounds of the palace instead of the more usual venue of Horse Guards Parade.\n\nAfter the welcome, the Duke of Sussex will join the group for a private lunch at the palace.\n\nIn the evening, a state banquet will be held in the palace's ballroom where Mr Trump, the Queen, Charles and Camilla will be joined by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, along with UK public figures and prominent Americans living in Britain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn the second day, Mr Trump and Mrs May will host a business breakfast meeting, attended by the Duke of York, at St James's Palace.\n\nMr Trump will then visit Downing Street for talks with Mrs May, with whom he will hold a joint press conference. It will come just days before she steps down as Conservative leader on 7 June.\n\nIn the evening, the Trumps will host a dinner at Winfield House, the residence of the US ambassador, which Charles and Camilla will attend on behalf of the Queen.\n\nThe trip is expected to culminate with Mr Trump, the Queen and Prince Charles attending the national commemorative event for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.\n\nWhen the state visit was announced last month, Mrs May hailed it as an opportunity for the UK and US \"to strengthen our already close relationship\".\n\nThe White House said it would \"reaffirm the steadfast and special relationship\" between the two nations.\n\nBut the trip was condemned by shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, who said the president had \"systematically assaulted all the shared values that unite our two countries\".", "Women have been taking to the streets of Saudi Arabia's cities in increasing numbers - to go running.\n\nJeddah Running Community was founded in 2013, challenging cultural norms under which it has long been widely considered inappropriate for women to participate in sport in public.\n\nIt was one of the first groups to hold mixed training sessions for women and men, though it also holds women-only meet-ups. The idea has gained traction more widely, with groups forming in other cities.\n\nIn recent years, the conservative Gulf kingdom has reversed a ban on sports for girls in public schools and allowed women to watch football matches in stadiums. It sent its first female athletes to the Olympics in 2012.\n\nBut although some rules for women have been relaxed - including the lifting of the ban on driving - women are still not free to travel, marry, divorce or even leave prison without the permission of a male relative.", "Station Cafe in Treorchy opened its doors to customers in 1935\n\nOne of the few remaining Italian cafes in the south Wales valleys is to close its doors after 84 years in business.\n\nStation Cafe in Treorchy, which opened to customers in 1935, will close for the last time on Saturday.\n\nDom Balestrazzi and his wife, whose parents came to Wales from northern Italy, are retiring - and their children do not want to take it on.\n\n\"It will be a sad occasion when I think of my parents and all that they put into the establishment,\" he said.\n\nHis parents Guiseppe and Maria decided to emigrate to Wales due to a lack of work in their hometown of Bardi, near Parma in the Emilia-Romagna region.\n\nDom Balestrazzi's parents Maria and Giuseppe, also known as Joe, came to Wales from Bardi, in Italy in 1935\n\nThe booming mining industry in south Wales at the time provided the allure, and he said the culture made his family feel at home.\n\n\"There was a camaraderie which was similar to the Italian way of life. It interacted well with the Welsh community,\" he explained.\n\nMr Balestrazzi, 78, started work in his father's business after leaving school in the 1950s, and has been at the Station Cafe ever since.\n\nWith original Rowntree glass jars full of sweets behind the counter, tobacco for sale, a glass case full of pasties and cakes and a steaming coffee machine, little has changed since the shop opened.\n\nDom Balestrazzi in the Station Cafe with his daughter Anna\n\nIn its heyday, the cafe was packed on a daily basis.\n\n\"My parents used to come here in the 1960s when they were courting and apparently at that time it was the place to be in Treorchy on a Friday night,\" said Nerys Bowen.\n\nThe cafe still has regulars - schoolchildren come in before and after lessons along with those who have always come here.\n\nIslwyn Kingsley said he was sad at the news.\n\nThe cafe has retained its classic look and feel\n\n\"He's a one off - old school - and the old school come here. So they'll have to change their ways now,\" he said.\n\nThe cafe is opposite the town's Park and Dare Theatre, and Mr Balestrazzi recalled a visit from one particular performer.\n\n\"There was one night, a very famous gentleman was there performing - Ken Dodd,\" he explained.\n\n\"He came in here for a tea or a coffee. I can remember that vividly. He had his poodle and his wife with him and then he went on his way.\"\n\nThe couple will continue living on the site. Since the announcement, he said they had been overwhelmed by the support.\n\n\"It has touched me very, very much the way that people have reacted,\" he said.\n\n\"There have been people I haven't seen for a while that have come in and wished me all the best.\"", "Samantha Hields invested her money for five years\n\nCharity worker Samantha Hields had saved up a pension of £16,000 and, after being made redundant, was given an offer she could not refuse.\n\nA salesman called her out of the blue and told her she could boost her savings by lending the money, securely, to a company redeveloping listed German buildings into luxury flats.\n\n\"He said it would double my money, and my money would be safe, as long as I was happy to invest it for five years,\" she says.\n\nShe was expecting the money to be paid back to her in September last year. So far, she says she has not seen a penny and has not been given any information about what has happened to it.\n\nRoy says he trusted the salesmen\n\nShe is not alone. Warehouse worker Roy, from Kent, transferred £35,000 from his pension, and expected to get his money back in March.\n\nHe works nights and cares for his wife, who is disabled after having three strokes.\n\n\"I trusted [the salesmen] implicitly,\" he says.\n\nNow a BBC investigation can reveal that the property group which borrowed an estimated £600m, mostly from the life savings of people like Samantha and Roy, is months late in paying some of them back.\n\nThe money was lent to Dolphin Trust, now known as German Property Group (GPG), in order for it to redevelop listed German buildings.\n\nPension holders in some cases were told by unregulated salesmen working for separate companies, and paid 20% commission at the time, that they would almost double their money if they lent their savings for five years to Dolphin Trust.\n\nRoy and Samantha's experience was with salesmen working for separate companies.\n\nIn its marketing, Dolphin Trust, as it was known until April 2019, claims to buy derelict buildings in prime locations, and then redevelops them into luxury apartments.\n\nAfter the Berlin Wall came down 30 years ago, many buildings were abandoned as people moved from East to West.\n\nSince then, the German government has offered generous tax incentives to Germans who wish to develop listed buildings.\n\nThe UK investors who lent Dolphin Trust their money were told their money would be safe because of the \"First Legal Charge\" they would get against the property.\n\nThis document is similar to a mortgage. If the borrower fails to repay, you can order the sale of the property to refund you.\n\nHowever none of the UK investors who have spoken to BBC Radio 4's You & Yours programme say they have received this document, or have even been given an address for the property they are invested in.\n\nThe only detail Dolphin Trust has given them is that the British investors are part of \"Dolphin Project 80\".\n\nA Bavarian monastery was purchased by Dolphin in 2017\n\nAn investor was sent a document which appeared to catalogue buildings secured within the project.\n\nVisits to those buildings by Anna Kluehspies, a reporter from the German public broadcaster BR, found that although one was finished, and another was near completion, no work had been started on the rest, despite them being owned by GPG for more than five years.\n\nSeparately, another property not on the list of those supposedly in Project 80, a Bavarian monastery, was purchased by Dolphin in 2017 for €1m is located in Schonthal, a rural village close to the border with the Czech Republic.\n\nMayor Ludwig Wallinger says there is no market in upmarket flats in his area\n\nThe mayor of the town, Ludwig Wallinger, told Radio 4 he was disappointed with the lack of engagement he has had from Dolphin since it took it on.\n\n\"Strangely, Dolphin never came to look at this building before they paid for it,\" he says.\n\n\"The last time I heard from anyone was in spring 2018, when they asked me what I thought they could do with it.\n\n\"They suggested perhaps luxury apartments, to which I laughed, because this area just does not have the market for upmarket flats.\"\n\nIn a letter to You & Yours, GPG says while it did discuss the possibility of building luxury flats at the property, that is not their present intention.\n\nIt said the document listing other properties in Project 80 was written by a third party, was three years old, and GPG would not comment on it.\n\nAnother document given by Dolphin Trust to investors in Singapore said that their money was secured against a Nazi-built military barracks in the city of Mannheim, in the south-west of Germany.\n\nHowever, the German government's Institute of Federal Real Estate says \"the German government owns the whole site and there is no private money there at all\".\n\nGPG responded to You & Yours' investigation saying that the investors' money is safe. Investors' capital is not at risk, because it is secured against property on the German Land Register, it says.\n\nIt says only 20% of its customers are affected by delays on projects, which have been caused by various issues with planning and construction work.\n\nAddresses are not always provided to investors, it adds, because that information is not always relevant. However it says it does plan to provide customers with addresses in the future.\n\nIt adds that there is no legal obligation to inform loan customers if funds are reallocated to new properties.\n\nDolphin says it is currently involved in real estate investments of 60 properties. There are currently delays in 10, they say for the other 50 everyone will get their money back on time.\n\nGPG also says introducers are now paid a lower rate of commission.\n\nHowever, experts say this case raises wider questions.\n\nIndividuals who have a self-invested personal pensions (Sipps) can choose freely where to invest the money, so may be able to put it into investments such as the one offered by GPG.\n\nBaroness Ros Altmann, the former pensions minister, says it is time that the companies that administer this type of pension took some responsibility for their customers.\n\n\"These regulated Sipp companies should not be allowed to accept these unregulated investments from individuals who have not had regulated financial advice,\" she says.\n\nAlthough only people who sought financial advice can claim compensation when investments fail to pay, the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) says it can also look at complaints against Sipp providers in these kinds of cases.\n\nDebbie Enever, head of policy at the FOS, says: \"We are increasingly seeing people complaining about Sipp providers, saying they shouldn't have put their money into something which was that risky.\n\n\"Pension-holders need to be really careful when investing their money. Always get financial advice, and find out as much as you can about what your money is being invested in before transferring it.\"", "Information from the drones can be used to see the vegetation beneath the forest canopy\n\nLaser-carrying drones that can see through the forest canopy are being used to protect native Scottish plants threatened by invasive species.\n\nThe drones use Lidar (light detection and ranging), which works like radar but uses light instead of radio waves.\n\nLaser pulses are fired at the trees below and the time it takes for wavelengths to bounce back is used to create a 3D picture of what lies beneath.\n\nThe data is combined with information from satellites to give an accurate \"fix\" of the drone's position.\n\nIt all builds up an accurate map of the health of the forest floor.\n\nThe drones use Lidar (light detection and ranging)\n\nThe programme is led by the Edinburgh-based company Ecometrica.\n\nIts funding partners are the Forestry Commission Scotland, Scottish Orienteering, Woodland Trust and Edinburgh University.\n\nSupport has also come from the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council.\n\nOnce it is in the air, the four-rotor drone is easier to hear than see. It is a speck in the sky but packed with sensors.\n\nIt has been surveying forests in the west of Scotland: Lochgilphead, Ardfern, Auchterawe, Arisaig, Achdalieu and Mandally.\n\nThe drone has been used to survey forests in the west of Scotland\n\nLidar has been used from the air before but typically this has been from larger aircraft with humans on board.\n\nAn unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), usually known as a drone, holds out the prospect of reduced cost.\n\nThe point of the project is to monitor and map how land use is changing and how climate change is affecting Scotland's forests.\n\nConventional photos taken in natural light will only show the tree canopy.\n\nAnd as much of the tree cover is evergreen and there all year round, there's no point waiting for autumn to have a look beneath it.\n\n\"It enables you to pick out features that a satellite doesn't allow you to do,\" he says.\n\nLarge-scale global deforestation is being monitored from the International Space Station by the GEDI Lidar system.\n\nDr Tipper says a Lidar drone covers a much smaller area with each sweep but the resolution is \"an order of magnitude better\".\n\nOne key emphasis is on protecting native species - and fighting one non-native threat in particular.\n\nRhododendron bushes like Scotland a bit too much\n\nBack in the 1700s it seemed like a good idea to introduce the flowering shrub rhododendron ponticum, a native of southern Europe and western Asia, to the British Isles.\n\nAfter all, their purple blooms look lovely in early summer.\n\nThe problem is, the rhododendron bushes like Scottish forests rather too much.\n\nThe acid soil means they have spread like a smothering evergreen carpet beneath the cover of the tree canopy.\n\nYou could say it is a case of having too much of a good thing except they're actually a bad thing.\n\nThey carry a fungal disease that harms trees and their leaf litter is toxic to native plants.\n\nWithout Lidar the bushes can spread undetected.\n\nThe drone data is analysed using a system called Ecometrica Platform\n\nThe drone data is analysed using a system called Ecometrica Platform. It creates the detailed maps that show changes to the ecosystem.\n\nEach partner in the project has a different use for the information.\n\nThe Forestry Commission is concerned with rhododendrons but The Woodland Trust wants to map the remains of native forests.\n\nEdinburgh University will feed it into new research, and Scottish Orienteering need digital models of the terrain as Scotland prepares to host the World Orienteering Championships in 2022.\n\nMat Williams, professor of global change ecology at Edinburgh University, says the system can play an important role in assessing the effects of climate change.\n\nHe says it can detect the effects of human land use, deforestation, soil degradation, forest fires and drought.\n\nAnd Scotland is a testbed for technology that could be used worldwide.\n\nEcometrica are also leading Forests 2020, a UK Space Agency-funded programme to map threats to tropical forests.\n\nProf Williams says his team are exploring the data gathered in Scotland to see how the techniques could be used there.\n\n\"For a long time we've only been able to look at the surface of tropical forests,\" he says.\n\n\"We're hoping Lidar can look in more depth.\"\n\nAmong the answers they are seeking is how many - or how few - Lidar pulses bouncing back from the forest can provide useful information.\n\nThey intend to begin flying Lidar drones in West Africa soon.\n\nAmong the threats there are illegal logging, charcoal burning and our apparently insatiable taste for chocolate.\n\nEcometrica's space programme manager Sarah Middlemiss says the project is working with the forestry authorities in Ghana to map the felling of trees in national parks to make way for cocoa.\n\nShe says cocoa plants can encroach on the forests even if they are not completely cut down.\n\n\"It's a shade-loving crop,\" she says. \"That's where Lidar is very useful.\"\n\nCocoa crops can grow beneath the forest canopy but the technology will be able to reveal them through the foliage.\n\n\"You can't map everything from satellites,\" Sarah says.\n\n\"We need other data sources and Lidar is about the richest you can get.\"", "The trees were buried under water more than 4,500 years ago\n\nA prehistoric forest which was buried under water and sand more than 4,500 years ago has been uncovered by Storm Hannah.\n\nThe petrified trees lie between Ynyslas and Borth in Ceredigion county.\n\nThe forest has become associated with a 17th Century myth of a sunken civilization known as 'Cantre'r Gwaelod', or the 'Sunken Hundred'.\n\nIt is believed the area was a once-fertile land and township protected by floodgates.\n\nThe remains of the forest's trees, preserved in the local peat, have been exposed by low tides and high winds.\n\nAccording to one of several myths, 'Cantre'r Gwaelod' extended some 20 miles west of the current shoreline into what is now Cardigan Bay.\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. Amanda Eller spoke to the press from her hospital bed\n\nA woman who was found alive two weeks after going missing in Hawaii has told of her \"life or death\" ordeal.\n\nAmanda Eller, 35, was last seen on 8 May. Family and friends had launched an intense search effort and offered a cash reward for her safe return.\n\nMs Eller was found on Friday when she waved down a rescue helicopter.\n\nReports say she got lost and injured while hiking on Maui. Photographs show her dirty and slightly injured, but smiling after being rescued.\n\nThe yoga instructor was found slightly injured, in a deep ravine, by volunteers\n\nIn an emotional video posted to Facebook on Saturday, the yoga instructor described how she endured \"the toughest days of my life\" while injured in the Hawaiian wilds.\n\nFilmed from a hospital bed next to her boyfriend, Benjamin Konkol, she said she \"chose life\" despite \"times of total fear and loss and wanting to give up\".\n\n\"I wasn't going to take the easy way out, even if that meant more suffering and pain for myself,\" she said in the video.\n\nIn another video, taken at a local hospital, Ms Eller's father said he was \"bawling like a baby\" when his daughter was found.\n\nHer mother described her as being in \"surprisingly good shape\" considering how long she had been missing.\n\nLocal reports suggest she has lost weight, but survived after foraging on berries and local water sources.\n\nFamily and friends raised money for the search, and offered cash rewards\n\nShe suffered a broken leg, a torn meniscus in her knee, sunburns and scrapes, The New York Times reported.\n\nAn online announcement about her rescue on the \"Find Amanda\" Facebook page has now been shared and liked thousands of times.\n\nWell-wishers have been flooding the page with messages of shock and relief about Ms Eller's safety.\n\nHer mother, Julia, told local news website Khon 2 that she had always \"felt in her heart\" that her daughter was alive.\n\n\"I never gave up hope for a minute,\" she said. \"Even though at times I would have those moments of despair, I stayed strong for her 'cause I knew we would find her if we just stayed with the program, stayed persistent and that we would eventually find her\".\n\nA search helicopter, paid for by GoFundMe donations, found her in this area\n\nIt is understood she was found with no socks or shoes on, and may have a fractured leg\n\nMs Eller's car and mobile phone had been found in the Makawao Forest Reserve car park - leading family and friends to suspect she had got lost while hiking.\n\nHer boyfriend had been the last person to see her, and said he \"strongly\" felt she was in the forest.\n\nShe reportedly got lost after leaving the trail to rest before plunging 20ft (six metres) from a cliff, breaking her leg.\n\nFifteen days after she was reported missing, three search team members reportedly spotted her on Friday in a deep ravine.\n\n\"We were freaking out. We were trying not to trip over ourselves trying to get to her too fast,\" rescuer Chris Berquest told local media.\n\nAnother member of the aerial search party, Javier Cantellops, shared images and video of the incredible rescue on social media.\n\nIn one post on his Facebook page he described finding her as the \"greatest day of my life\".", "Education Secretary Damian Hinds has told England's universities not to \"scaremonger\" over their finances, ahead of a review which is expected to call for a cut in tuition fees.\n\nThere have been warnings that lowering the fees to £7,500 per year could put some at risk of going bust.\n\nBut Mr Hinds accused universities of \"distorting the picture\" and said the sector was in good financial health.\n\nThe fees review is set to promise students better \"value for money\".\n\nThe review into student finance and university and college funding, chaired by Philip Augar, is due to report next week.\n\nCommissioned by the prime minister, the review is expected to be one of the last major announcements before Theresa May leaves No 10.\n\nIt was launched in the wake of the 2017 general election, countering Labour's promise to young voters that it would completely scrap tuition fees.\n\nThe review will seek to make university more affordable and give more support to students in vocational and further education.\n\nMr Hinds has highlighted the problem of \"low value\" degree courses, where there is likely to be little financial return for students.\n\nThe further education sector is expected to benefit from the review, with the suggestion that more students should consider getting technical skills and qualifications rather than going to university.\n\nThese will be proposals rather than final decisions - and the cost of any changes will have to be linked to the government's spending review later this year.\n\nUniversities will want to know whether any drop in fees will be compensated by direct funding.\n\nThere have been reports of universities being on the brink of bankruptcy - and one was revealed as having needed a bailout from the Office for Students.\n\nBut Mr Hinds said that while most sectors had to \"tighten their belts\" after the financial crash, universities have seen rising fee incomes.\n\n\"I do understand universities are facing some challenges, but reports of financial hardship across the entire sector is scaremongering,\" says Mr Hinds.\n\nBut Alistair Jarvis, chief executive of Universities UK, hit back, saying any cut in fees \"must be made up in full by a government teaching grant\".\n\nThe review, commissioned by the prime minister, is expected in the days before Theresa May leaves office\n\nOtherwise he said it would be a \"political choice which harms students, the economy and communities that benefit from universities\".\n\nVanessa Wilson, head of the University Alliance, representing universities with strong industry links, said \"cutting front-line university budgets\" would harm rather than help students.\n\nBut she said the \"political vacuum\" surrounding Mrs May's resignation could make the report \"dead on arrival\".\n\n\"We need to move quickly to end the uncertainty, confusion and damage to colleges and universities' finances,\" she said.\n\nFurther education colleges are expected to gain from the review and David Hughes, chief executive of the Association of Colleges, welcomed the shift in emphasis away from universities.\n\n\"The relentless focus on traditional higher education has been a major failing of successive governments, because it has been at the expense of other options,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\n\"Most people will never go to university but have been consistently overlooked. The post-18 review needs to urgently redress that situation,\" he said.", "Homeowners in England are being given the green light to build larger extensions without planning permission.\n\nTemporary rules, which allowed bigger single-storey rear extensions without a full planning application, are being made permanent.\n\nAdditions to terraced and semi-detached homes can be up to 6m, while detached houses will be able to add even larger structures, up to 8m long.\n\nNeighbours will still be consulted and can raise objections to extensions.\n\nSince 2013, 110,000 people have taken advantage of the temporary rules, which doubled the previous limits of extensions that didn't require planning permission from the local authority.\n\nInstead of waiting possibly months for approval, homeowners notify the council of the building work beforehand, and council officials inform the neighbours.\n\nIf they raise concerns, the council decides if the extension is likely to harm the character or enjoyment of the area, and may block the plans.\n\nIn Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, rear extensions more than 3m or 4m long will continue to require a full planning application, which places the design and impact of the building under more scrutiny.\n\nHousing minister Kit Malthouse said the change in England means \"families can grow without being forced to move\".\n\nHe said: \"These measures will help families extend their properties without battling through time-consuming red tape.\"\n\nBut Martin Tett, planning spokesman for the Local Government Association, which represents UK local councils, said: \"The planning process exists for a reason.\"\n\nHe acknowledged the relaxed rules were popular with homeowners, but said it meant councils had little opportunity to consider the impact of extensions on their local area.\n\n\"We do not believe this right should be made permanent until an independent review is carried out of its impact, both on neighbouring residents and businesses, and also the capacity of local planning departments,\" he said.\n\nThe Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government said it was also removing other planning rules to allow business owners to respond to changes in England's high streets.\n\nIt means shops can be converted into office space without a full planning application being made.\n\nShops, offices and betting shops will also be able to temporarily change to community uses such as libraries or public halls.", "Whorlton Hall, near Castle Barnard, looked after 17 adults with learning difficulties and autism\n\nTen workers have been arrested over the alleged abuse of patients with learning difficulties at a specialist hospital.\n\nSeven men and three women were arrested at addresses in Barnard Castle, Bishop Auckland, Darlington and Stockton.\n\nUndercover filming by BBC Panorama at Whorlton Hall in County Durham appeared to show patients being mocked, intimidated and restrained.\n\nThe site had at least 100 visits by official agencies in the year before the abuse was discovered.\n\nThose arrested were being questioned about offences relating to abuse and neglect at the privately-run NHS-funded unit, Durham Police said.\n\nA spokesman said investigations were expected to take some time but repeated the force's \"immediate priority has been to work with other agencies to safeguard the victims at the centre of the allegations and their families\".\n\nThose arrested would be released under investigation pending further inquiries, he added.\n\nThe force said it was seeking the co-operation of the Panorama team to gather further evidence.\n\nCygnet, the firm that runs the 17-bed hospital unit for adults with learning difficulties and autism, said it was \"shocked and deeply saddened\" by the allegations.\n\nThe company only took over the running of the centre at the turn of the year and said it was \"co-operating fully\" with the police investigation.\n\nAll the patients have been transferred to other services and the hospital closed down, Cygnet said.\n\nCare minister Caroline Dinenage told the House of Commons this week she was \"deeply sorry that this has happened\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Cup\n\nCeltic secured a historic treble of domestic trophies for the third consecutive season as Odsonne Edouard's two goals overcame Hearts in the Scottish Cup final.\n\nNeil Lennon has now led Celtic to a league and cup double after succeeding Brendan Rodgers mid-season and has been offered the manager's job permanently.\n\nHis side overcame the setback of Ryan Edwards' second-half strike.\n\nEdouard equalised from the penalty spot before coolly hitting the winner.\n\nThe Edinburgh side fought hard for an equaliser of their own in the closing stages, but Celtic stood firm to establish a new mark of triumph in the history of Scottish football.\n\nThe final whistle brought an emotional response from Lennon on the touchline for a victory that also means Aberdeen qualify for the Europa League instead of Hearts having come fourth in the Premiership.\n\nHis claim to the manager's role was based on his experience of leading the club to success during a previous spell, of being able to urge and cajole players to deliver the best of themselves during the uncertainty that followed Rodgers' departure for Leicester - and this cup victory was built on the resilience of his players.\n• None Who was your man of the match?\n\nCeltic were forced into a period of reflection during the interval at Hampden. It was clear enough what Lennon thought of their first-half performance, as he hollered for his players to raise the tempo of their game.\n\nMuch of the lethargy was caused by the organisation and determination of Hearts, who brought a level of assertiveness to their game that belied the pre-game assumptions that they would struggle to compete at Hampden.\n\nChristophe Berra and John Souttar were solid pillars of resistance at the back, the latter clearing from Edouard inside the penalty area then blocking a James Forrest shot.\n\nHearts were not at full strength - striker Uche Ikpeazu was on the bench while 16-year-old Aaron Hickey started only his second game for the club at left-back, having made his first start last week in the final Premiership game of the season against Celtic.\n\nCraig Levein's side fought valiantly, though, and took the lead when Arnaud Djoum's shot broke to Sean Clare, who back-heeled the ball to Edwards to shoot first-time beyond Scott Bain.\n\nAs Celtic responded, Souttar stood firm again, clearing after Scott Brown burst into the penalty area and then stepping in to clear from Tom Rogic.\n\nHearts could not maintain Souttar's flawless display. Zlamal hesitated as he left his line to close down Edouard inside the penalty area, then panicked and slid into the striker. Referee Willie Collum pointed to the spot and Edouard converted with confidence when Zlamal perhaps could have done better.\n\nThe striker remained unflustered when Berra was caught out of position and Mikael Lustig's header sent the ball through for Edouard to chase, and he coolly lifted the ball beyond the Hearts keeper's reach and into the net.\n\n\"No fouls, no fouls\" shouted Lennon as his side tried to close the game out, conscious of Hearts' threat at set-pieces. Celtic had the experience and the calmness to see themselves over the line.\n\nThe pressure on the Celtic players was evident from the start, as they looked nervous in the early stages and it was only after Hearts took the lead that an urgency entered their game.\n\nHearts were wonderfully well organised and ensured Celtic's key players were not allowed to dictate the pace while stifling their creativity.\n\nCraig Levein and his players may look back upon this as a missed opportunity but there are plenty of positives to take from the 90 minutes.\n\nNone more so than the performance of teenager Aaron Hickey at full back, who belied his youth and was more than a match for James Forrest.\n\nBoth squads will have major surgery in the summer, with many players leaving new faces arriving at both Tynecastle and Parkhead. Then the quest will begin once more for league and cup glory.\n• None Uche Ikpeazu (Heart of Midlothian) is shown the yellow card.\n• None Attempt missed. Christophe Berra (Heart of Midlothian) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Uche Ikpeazu (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Jake Mulraney (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Djoum (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Jason Manford tweeted a photo of a fire engine outside the venue, saying \"on fire tonight\"\n\nA theatre had to be evacuated when a audience member's phone overheated and burst into flames.\n\nThe Lyric Theatre at the Lowry in Salford had to be emptied and the fire service called during the interval of comedian Jason Manford's show.\n\nManford, currently touring across the UK, tweeted a photo of a fire engine outside the venue, saying \"on fire tonight\".\n\nThe theatre said the show was delayed by 20 minutes.\n\nDuring the disruption Manford tweeted a photo of the scorched phone.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jason Manford This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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In November 2018, Jonah Fisher talked to a commander of the Ukrainian Navy about the tensions in the Azov Sea\n\nAn international tribunal has ordered Russia to \"immediately\" release 24 Ukrainian sailors and three naval ships it seized off Crimea in November.\n\nMoscow says the sailors violated its maritime border near the peninsula which it seized from Ukraine in 2014.\n\nBut the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea sided with Ukraine in the dispute, which has stoked tensions between the nations.\n\nRussia, however, refuses to recognise the jurisdiction of the body.\n\nIt boycotted the hearings and analysts say the chances of it abiding by the Germany-based tribunal's provisional ruling appear minimal.\n\nThe Ukrainian vessels had tried to pass through the Kerch Strait, the only access to Ukrainian ports on the Sea of Azov.\n\nBut Russia has controlled the Strait since annexing Crimea, and its coastguard boats fired on the vessels before boarding them.\n\nRussia has held the sailors in Moscow ever since.\n\nBut, in a ruling, the tribunal's Judge Jin-Hyuan Paik said: \"The Russian Federation must proceed immediately to release the Ukrainian soldiers and allow them to return to the Ukraine.\"\n\nA tanker under the bridge shut all navigation from and into the Sea of Azov\n\nHowever, while the tribunal said both sides should refrain from any action which would aggravate the dispute, it did not uphold Ukraine's request for Russia to suspend the trial of its servicemen.\n\nThe sailors face up to six years in jail if found guilty.\n\nThe ruling is being seen as a victory in Ukraine, delivering most of what Kiev sought.\n\nUkraine's new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, called on Russia to comply with the tribunal's order, writing on Facebook that that by so doing, there \"could be the first signal from the Russian leadership about real readiness to end the conflict with Ukraine\".\n\nMr Zelensky said during his swearing-in on Monday that ending the conflict with Russian-backed rebels in the east will be his top priority as president.\n\nFighting in the region has claimed about 13,000 lives since 2014.", "Alesha MacPhail had been on a holiday on the Isle of Bute\n\nA tribute to a schoolgirl murdered while holidaying with her family on the Isle of Bute has been unveiled by her father.\n\nA memorial bench for Alesha MacPhail, organised by local people, has been revealed at the \"children's corner\" in Rothesay by Robert MacPhail and his partner Toni McLachlan.\n\nThe six-year-old was killed by teenager Aaron Campbell in July 2018.\n\nShe was just a few days into a summer holiday with her family in Rothesay.\n\nThe bench was organised by the Isle of Bute Resilience Team, a community group which assembles when the island is threatened by adverse conditions.\n\nThe bench is located in an area where children come to play\n\nFiona Gillespie was behind the idea. She told the BBC: \"Alesha means so much to the community. We helped to search for her. She won our teddy bear at the gala day last year. We just want to remember her.\"\n\nAlesha's family and local people wanted somewhere to go to think about Alesha.\n\nResilience team member Colin Gillespie added: \"It means a lot to have somewhere to sit and gather our thoughts. And Alesha loved riding her bike along here.\"\n\nThe volunteers raised almost £2,000 to have the bench specially made in Alesha's favourite pink colour with her name and featuring two unicorns.\n\nA blessing ceremony was held when the bench was handed over on the seafront on Saturday, featuring a piper, bubble machines and balloons to celebrate the six-year-old's life.\n\nAlesha's grandparents Calum MacPhail and Angela King watched as the bench was uncovered.\n\nA local minister, the Reverend Owen Jones, led a short service in which he said: \"We come to remember Alesha and to support and uphold her family, and all those who have been at the centre of the events, the pain and the loss in which she was taken from us.\"\n\nCampbell, who is now 17, was convicted of the schoolgirl's abduction, rape and murder and ordered to serve 27 years in prison.\n\nIn May he was granted permission to appeal against his sentence.\n\nDuring his trial, judge Lord Matthews, described him as a \"cold, callous, calculating, remorseless and dangerous individual\".\n\nPeople gather as the tribute is unveiled", "Online booking for cancer screening should be introduced, says the report\n\nMaking an appointment for breast and cervical cancer screening should be as simple as booking a plane ticket online, says the man behind an overhaul of the current system in England.\n\nProf Sir Mike Richards said text reminders and out-of-hours appointments were also a good idea.\n\nCervical screening or smear-test rates are at their lowest for a decade.\n\nHis interim report calls for technology to be used to stop the decline so more lives can be saved.\n\nThere are three national cancer screening programmes in England:\n\nThe screening programmes aim to detect cancer, or abnormal cells, early, often before symptoms develop, when treatment may be more effective.\n\nMore than 11 million invitations to screening were sent out last year.\n\nBut a recent report found that none of the programmes in England met its target last year, and many women experienced delays in getting results after cervical screening.\n\nSir Mike, formerly NHS cancer director and chief inspector of hospitals, said: \"Our screening programmes have led the world and save around 9,000 lives every year.\n\n\"However, people live increasingly busy lives and we need to make having a screening appointment as simple and convenient as booking a plane ticket online.\n\n\"The technology exists in many other walks of life and by adopting it across the NHS we can help identify even more cancers early when they are easier to treat and save more lives.\"\n\nIn his interim report, he also says IT systems need to be upgraded across the country and there should be more clarity over who is in charge of cancer screening.\n\nIn May 2018, a major failure in breast screening was announced by the health secretary in England, followed by a serious incident with cervical screening six months later.\n\nSir Mike's full report is published later this year.", "South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has been inaugurated at a stadium in the capital Pretoria.\n\nThe African National Congress (ANC) leader vowed to tackle corruption and rejuvenate the struggling economy.\n\nMore than 30,000 people gathered to witness the ceremony which included a flypast and military parade.\n\nMr Ramaphosa was elected earlier this month with a majority of 57.5%, the smallest since the party came to power 25 years ago.", "The Met will push for the prosecution of more than 1,100 people arrested over last month's Extinction Rebellion protests, a senior officer has said.\n\nSo far more than 70 activists have been charged in connection with the demonstrations that brought parts of central London to a standstill.\n\nTen days of protests in April saw 1,130 people arrested for various offences.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said the Met wanted to deter other groups employing similar tactics.\n\nThe group's tactics included asking volunteers to deliberately get arrested to cause maximum disruption at roadblocks on Waterloo Bridge, Oxford Circus and Marble Arch.\n\nOther protesters glued themselves to trains and buildings.\n\nMr Taylor said 70 people had so far been charged by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\n\"It is our anticipation that we are putting all of those to the CPS for decisions,\" he said.\n\nMr Taylor insisted the Met was equipped to deal with any upcoming actions and said officers from other forces would be called into action if needed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the force was in discussions with the Home Office to review the current Public Order legislation with fears Extinction Rebellion's tactics could be adopted by other groups.\n\nMr Taylor added: \"I'm not saying going to jail, but we would like to see consequences for any activity at these events that is unlawful.\n\n\"Protest is not illegal. There is nothing unlawful about protest.\"\n\nIn 2011, courts in London and Manchester had to open over the weekend to deal with more than 1,000 people charged with riot-related offences.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister said the failure to deliver Brexit was a matter of \"deep regret\"\n\nEver since I first stepped through the door behind me as prime minister, I have striven to make the United Kingdom a country that works not just for a privileged few, but for everyone.\n\nAnd to honour the result of the EU referendum.\n\nBack in 2016, we gave the British people a choice.\n\nAgainst all predictions, the British people voted to leave the European Union.\n\nI feel as certain today as I did three years ago that, in a democracy, if you give people a choice you have a duty to implement what they decide. I have done my best to do that.\n\nI negotiated the terms of our exit and a new relationship with our closest neighbours that protects jobs, our security and our Union.\n\nI have done everything I can to convince MPs to back that deal. Sadly, I have not been able to do so. I tried three times.\n\nI believe it was right to persevere, even when the odds against success seemed high.\n\nBut it is now clear to me that it is in the best interests of the country for a new prime minister to lead that effort.\n\nTheresa May got emotional as she announced she would resign as prime minister\n\nSo I am today announcing that I will resign as leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party on Friday 7 June so that a successor can be chosen.\n\nI have agreed with the party chairman and with the chairman of the 1922 Committee that the process for electing a new leader should begin in the following week.\n\nI have kept Her Majesty the Queen fully informed of my intentions, and I will continue to serve as her prime minister until the process has concluded.\n\nIt is, and will always remain, a matter of deep regret to me that I have not been able to deliver Brexit.\n\nIt will be for my successor to seek a way forward that honours the result of the referendum.\n\nTo succeed, he or she will have to find consensus in Parliament where I have not.\n\nSuch a consensus can only be reached if those on all sides of the debate are willing to compromise.\n\nFor many years the great humanitarian Sir Nicholas Winton - who saved the lives of hundreds of children by arranging their evacuation from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia through the Kindertransport - was my constituent in Maidenhead.\n\nAt another time of political controversy, a few years before his death, he took me to one side at a local event and gave me a piece of advice.\n\nHe said, 'Never forget that compromise is not a dirty word. Life depends on compromise.' He was right.\n\nAs we strive to find the compromises we need in our politics - whether to deliver Brexit, or to restore devolved government in Northern Ireland - we must remember what brought us here.\n\nBecause the referendum was not just a call to leave the EU but for profound change in our country.\n\nA call to make the United Kingdom a country that truly works for everyone. I am proud of the progress we have made over the last three years.\n\nWe have completed the work that David Cameron and George Osborne started: the deficit is almost eliminated, our national debt is falling and we are bringing an end to austerity.\n\nMy focus has been on ensuring that the good jobs of the future will be created in communities across the whole country, not just in London and the south east, through our modern industrial strategy.\n\nWe have helped more people than ever enjoy the security of a job.\n\nWe are building more homes and helping first-time buyers onto the housing ladder - so young people can enjoy the opportunities their parents did.\n\nAnd we are protecting the environment, eliminating plastic waste, tackling climate change and improving air quality.\n\nThis is what a decent, moderate and patriotic Conservative government, on the common ground of British politics, can achieve - even as we tackle the biggest peacetime challenge any government has faced.\n\nI know that the Conservative Party can renew itself in the years ahead.\n\nThat we can deliver Brexit and serve the British people with policies inspired by our values. Security; freedom; opportunity.\n\nThose values have guided me throughout my career.\n\nBut the unique privilege of this office is to use this platform to give a voice to the voiceless, to fight the burning injustices that still scar our society.\n\nThat is why I put proper funding for mental health at the heart of our NHS long-term plan.\n\nIt is why I am ending the postcode lottery for survivors of domestic abuse.\n\nIt is why the race disparity audit and gender pay reporting are shining a light on inequality, so it has nowhere to hide.\n\nAnd that is why I set up the independent public inquiry into the tragedy at Grenfell Tower - to search for the truth, so nothing like it can ever happen again, and so the people who lost their lives that night are never forgotten.\n\nBecause this country is a union. Not just a family of four nations. But a union of people - all of us.\n\nWhatever our background, the colour of our skin, or who we love. We stand together. And together we have a great future.\n\nOur politics may be under strain, but there is so much that is good about this country. So much to be proud of. So much to be optimistic about.\n\nI will shortly leave the job that it has been the honour of my life to hold - the second female prime minister but certainly not the last.\n\nI do so with no ill-will, but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country I love.", "Daniel McGuigan was pronounced dead at the scene\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been arrested and charged by police in connection with the death of a man in the Castlemilk area of Glasgow.\n\nOfficers had responded to reports of the man being attacked in front of his work colleagues in Stravanan Street at about 10:50 on Friday.\n\nHe was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nHe has now been identified as Daniel McGuigan, who was 35. Police have said inquiries into the death are continuing.\n\nThe 14-year-old is expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Tuesday.", "Leo Latifi's face \"lit up the classroom\", his head teacher has said\n\nA nine-year-old boy has died after becoming trapped underneath a locker at a school in Essex.\n\nIt happened at an after-school swimming club at Great Baddow High School in Chelmsford on Thursday evening.\n\nLeo Latifi, who was not a pupil at the school, was taken to hospital where he later died.\n\nThe head teacher of St Michael's Primary School paid tribute to her Year 4 pupil, who she said was a \"sparkle in our school\".\n\nEssex Police said Leo was with family members when he fell from a locker and got trapped.\n\nMaria Rumsey, head teacher at St Michael's, said staff, parents, governors and pupils were \"shocked and immensely saddened\" by Leo's death.\n\nShe said: \"He will be greatly missed by all. We wish to extend our thoughts and condolences to all of Leo's family and friends at this saddest of times.\n\n\"Leo was a sparkle in our school. His face lit up the classroom and his mischievous blue eyes made us all smile.\n\n\"He was an avid scientist, who only on Wednesday was in his element hunting for bugs on the school field.\n\n\"Leo was always keen to share his model-building and wowed the class when he brought in the finished masterpieces. He had a wide circle of friends in the year group, all of whom will miss him greatly.\"\n\nShe added the school would be supporting staff and pupils as they came to terms with the loss.\n\nGreat Baddow High School was closed on Friday other than for pupils sitting GCSE and A-Level exams.\n\nHead teacher Carrie Lynch said: \"The thoughts and prayers of everyone at Great Baddow High School are with the family and friends of the child who died yesterday evening, his school and swimming club.\"\n\nThe academy, which specialises in sport and science, has about 1,400 pupils and was rated \"good\" at its last Ofsted inspection\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive said it was investigating alongside Essex Police and had been on site.\n\nEssex Police and the Health and Safety Executive are investigating the death\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Floral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene in Shiregreen, Sheffield\n\nFour children \"rescued\" from a house in Sheffield in the same incident in which two boys died have been released from hospital, police said.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said they received \"reports of concerns for safety\" of people at an address in Shiregreen at 07:30 BST on Friday.\n\nSix children were taken to hospital but the boys, aged 13 and 14, died.\n\nA 37-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nFour more children, aged eight months, three, 11 and 12, received treatment at hospital. Police said they were now fit enough to be discharged.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SouthYorkshirePolice This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 children cannot be identified for legal reasons.\n\nFloral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police have put on extra patrols in the area\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said extra officers were patrolling the area to reassure people, although police stressed it was an \"isolated incident\" with no wider threat to the community.\n\nSupt Paul McCurry said officers were not looking for anybody else in relation to the deaths, and urged people to be \"mindful\" of speculating online.\n\nPost-mortem tests on the boys who died had been due to take place on Friday.\n\nForensic officers were around the home in Shiregreen, Sheffield on Friday\n\nNeighbours reported seeing more than a dozen police cars in the street on Friday morning, and Yorkshire Air Ambulance confirmed it had landed in the playground of a nearby school.\n\nGill Furniss, Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, has said she is \"deeply saddened by the tragic incident\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Two boys dead as police swoop on house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 14,000 data breaches have been logged since the introduction of tough new data laws last May, the UK's information commissioner's office has said.\n\nComplaints from the public have also doubled, from around 21,000 to 41,000.\n\nIt suggests that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has increased awareness about the importance of personal information.\n\nBut no fine has yet been issued under GDPR rules in the UK.\n\nThe legislation was designed to give people more control over the data being collected on them.\n\nIf companies lose data or share it without permission, they have to inform the regulator - the ICO in the UK - within 72 hours.\n\nWhere companies have broken the law, they can be fined 20 million euros (£17.6m) or 4% of their annual global turnover - whichever is larger.\n\nThe ICO said fines were \"coming soon\" but added that it wanted organisations \"to focus on how data protection law can help firms to get it right... rather than how they might be punished if they get it wrong\".\n\nIn January, Google was fined £44m in France for GDPR breaches.\n\nAcross all the EU countries which have implemented GDPR, there has been a total of 89,271 notifications of data breaches, and 144,376 complaints from the public.\n\nRichard Breavington, partner at law firm RPC, said: \"The ICO has already begun to ratchet up the value of fines, and it has barely scratched the surface of its powers.\n\n\"The first large-scale loss or misuse of individuals' data under GDPR will be an important 'test case' for the ICO, which will show us how far the regulator is prepared to go in using its new powers - this is a key area to watch. However, we don't expect to see blockbuster fines being levied in the near future.\"", "Traffic came to a standstill between junctions 15 and 16\n\nDrivers faced up to 13 miles (20km) of tailbacks after a crash shut the M6 in Staffordshire and Cheshire.\n\nAll four lanes were shut northbound between junctions 15 at Stoke-on-Trent and 16 for Crewe after the crash at about 13:00 BST.\n\nThree out of four lanes were also earlier closed on the southbound carriageway.\n\nHighways England said the motorway fully reopened at about 16:30 but warned motorists about long delays.\n\nBy 19:00 BST, traffic had returned to normal.\n\nThe Sentinel newspaper reported the crash involved a motorcyclist going into the central reservation.\n\nIt is not yet known if there were any injuries.\n\nMusician Ten Tonnes tweeted he would be unable to get to the Neighbourhood Weekender festival in Warrington where he had been due to perform.\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 standstill traffic led to people getting out of their cars on the northbound carriageway, before being asked by to return to their vehicles as the lanes began to reopen.\n\nThe A500 was also earlier closed southbound between the A519 Hanchurch interchange and junction 15 on the M6, meaning traffic coming from Stoke-on-Trent was unable to get on to the M6 in either direction.\n\nDebbie Young, Conservative councillor for Chalford in Gloucestershire, earlier tweeted she had been stuck in traffic for two hours.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Debbie 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\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Are Twitter bots controlled by Russia on the march across Europe? And is Facebook full of misinformation designed to influence voters?\n\nAs the EU elections approach, researchers have been looking at the role that social networks are playing, and their early cautious verdict is that the level of misuse is relatively low.\n\nResearch by the Oxford Internet Institute found that what ít called \"junk news\" was far less prevalent on Twitter and Facebook than stories from reliable news sources.\n\nHowever, the study of the kind of information social media users are sharing across seven languages ahead of the vote, did find that individual junk news stories were more likely to be shared on Facebook than the work of mainstream news organisations.\n\nSeparate research for the BBC by a University of Birmingham expert showed an uptick of apparent Twitter bot creation in early May, with some accounts tweeting on Brexit themes thousands of times.\n\nBut Prof Oleksandr Talavera says that Twitter has become much more effective at spotting and closing accounts which break its rules.\n\nSome suspicious accounts with high volumes of tweeting have been suspended.\n\nThe Oxford study found that under 4% of stories on Twitter came from junk news sources, defined as outlets publishing deliberately misleading, deceptive or incorrect information. That figure did, however, rise to 21% in Poland.\n\nBut on Facebook, while mainstream news was more visible, stories from junk news sources proved far more engaging. In English, for example, the average junk news story got four times as many likes and other Facebook interactions as a story from a professional news organisation.\n\nJunk news which proved popular included suggestions that a Dutch politician wanted a halal beach in The Hague, a story that a Muslim girl had been killed by her family and dumped in a river for being too \"Westernised\", and a report that Vladimir Putin had offered financial assistance to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral.\n\nBut the study does not point the finger at Russia for spreading misinformation.\n\n\"Almost none of the junk we found circulating online came from known Russian sources\", says Nahema Marchal, co-author of the report \"Instead, it is homegrown, hyper-partisan and alternative media that dominate.\"\n\nThere have been reports of an upswing of automated Twitter accounts - or bots - in the run-up to this week's European elections, so we asked Prof Talavera, who has examined the bot phenomenon, to take a look.\n\nHe found a spike in the creation of new Twitter accounts tweeting on Brexit and similar themes around 11 May. Many of the accounts consisted of a name followed by eight numbers and tweeted very frequently.\n\nOne account, @johnie76662158, followed nobody but had tweeted more than 1,300 times in the 10 days after it was created, almost exclusively retweets of Brexit-related material, support for Tommy Robinson and some comments on American politics.\n\nProf Talavera admits it is very hard to decide exactly which accounts are bots, especially as their creators are getting much smarter at understanding how Twitter detects them.\n\nBut he says \"based on very rough estimation about 20-25% of newly-created users who talk about political outcome are likely to be bots. However, these numbers seem to be very small compared to the existing Twitter universe\".\n\nBy Monday, the @johnie76662158 account had a message saying it was \"temporarily restricted\" because there had been some \"unusual activity.\" Other accounts with high volumes of tweeting have been suspended.\n\nBoth Twitter and Facebook have set up teams to monitor activity on their platforms in the run-up to the European elections. So far, it appears they have not detected the level of interference from Russian sources or the waves of automated spam tweets seen during the US presidential election and the EU referendum vote in 2016.\n\nBut both platforms have proved they have enormous power to intervene in the democratic process. That means that in every election from now on they will be under the spotlight.", "A company which left customers without gas for months has received the largest-ever enforcement action, of £44m, from the energy regulator.\n\nOfgem said Cadent also had no records of 775 high-rise blocks of flats.\n\nThat discovery was in part prompted by an information request from a council in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.\n\nThe company offered an \"unreserved apology\" to customers who were without supplies for 19 days on average.\n\n\"We aim to put customers' needs at the heart of everything we do, and we acknowledge that in the past, we have fallen short of customers expectations and the higher standards we have now set ourselves; for this, we are sorry,\" said Steve Hurrell, chief executive of Cadent.\n\nCadent, previously known as National Grid Gas Distribution, is involved in the final leg of piping gas into people's homes.\n\nIt owns four of England's eight regional distribution networks - north London, the West Midlands, the North West of England and eastern England. It did not supply Grenfell, but received an information request from a council following the tragedy.\n\nMany of the customers affected by the gas outage were in north London. Some had their gas cut off for more than five months\n\nJonathan Brearley of Ofgem told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"When they were making repairs, people had their gas cut off for far too long.\n\n\"So in London, people in tower blocks were off for an average of 19 days and some were off for several months. We think this is unacceptable.\n\n\"If they do not look after their customers in totality, then absolutely they will either lose their licence or indeed they will suffer further financial penalties.\"\n\nThe penalty takes two parts: £24m for improvements and compensation and £20m for a community fund, which will receive 1.25% of Cadent's after tax profits. The firm's operating profit last year was £724m.\n\nThe company admitted that its regulatory data supplied to Ofgem showed that it was leaving residents in blocks of flats without gas for longer than necessary.\n\nIt also reported to Ofgem that it failed, over a six-year period, to compensate up to 12,000 residents left without gas for more than 24 hours.\n\nIt also reported to the regulator that it did not have records of gas pipes - or risers - in many tower blocks in its London network.\n\nAs part of the penalty, Cadent - which supplies gas to 11 million properties and 3,347 blocks of at least six storeys - will double compensation payments to customers who experience an unplanned disruption of longer than 24 hours, at a cost of £6.7m.\n\nIt will also pay £300,000 - double the amount first envisaged - to 2,140 customers who faced delayed compensation in 2018 and 2019.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive is investigating the record-keeping issue and will publish its findings in due course.", "US sportswear giant Nike is withdrawing a new version of its classic Air Force 1 shoe after objections from an indigenous group in Panama.\n\nThe limited edition model was described as a tribute to Puerto Rico but the Guna community of Panama said it used their traditional \"mola\" pattern.\n\nNike has apologised for the \"inaccurate representation\" of the shoe and said it would not be made available.\n\nThe Air Force 1 Low \"Puerto Rico\" model was due to have been launched in June.\n\nThe Guna people, known as Kuna until 2011, live mainly in low-lying Caribbean islands that make up the Guna Yala autonomous region and are one of seven indigenous groups in Panama. Environmentalists say they are under threat from rising sea levels caused by global warming.\n\nTheir traditional mola patterns feature colourful, swirling designs and geometric or figurative drawings to represent the Guna people's world view.\n\nA lawyer for the group said on Tuesday they were not just seeking the shoe's withdrawal, but also compensation.\n\n\"There is already damage to our image, to our design, to our mola. We are not going to wait for it to be thrown away, we have to seek compensation,\" Aresio Valiente told a news conference in Panama City.\n\nTraditional Guna leader Belisario López said in a statement that they were not against the mola being commercialised but were angered that it was \"being done without consulting us first\".\n\n\"They must recognise that the mola that appears on the Nike shoes is from the Guna people,\" he said.\n\nSome supporters of the Guna also took to social media to criticise Nike's decision.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Isaac Larrier This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 statement from Nike said: \"We apologise for the inaccurate representation of the design origin for the Nike Air Force 1 'Puerto Rico' 2019. As a result, this product will no longer be available.\"\n\nIndustry sources said the launch of the shoe had been designed to coincide with the Puerto Rican Day Parade on 9 June.\n• None The island people with an escape plan", "A BBC manager has told colleagues she turned down a promotion after finding out she would be paid £12,000 less than a man in the same role.\n\nKaren Martin emailed fellow members of staff to explain the BBC were hiring two deputy editors for the BBC radio newsroom.\n\nShe said colleague Roger Sawyer would be earning more than her.\n\nThe BBC stood by its offers and said several factors, including working experience, had to be considered.\n\nIn her email to colleagues, Martin wrote: \"Despite being awarded the same job, on the same day, after the same board, during the same recruitment process, BBC News asked me to accept a considerably lower salary than my male counterpart.\n\n\"I've been assured our roles and responsibilities are the same. I've also been told my appointment was 'very well deserved'. It's just that I'm worth £12,000 less.\"\n\nShe added, after requesting the BBC to reconsider its offer, a new salary was offered on the grounds of historical under payments, bringing the gap closer to £7,000.\n\nBut, she said, the issue for her had \"never been about the actual salary... but about equal pay\".\n\nIn response, the BBC's head of news output Gavin Allen told staff: \"We took into account the fact that Roger has worked at or above this level for several years, whereas Karen was offered this role as a promotion, with a significant pay increase.\n\n\"We think most people would understand that these factors would result in some difference between their individual pay.\"\n\nAllen added he was confident proper processes for the appointment had been followed, as well as the BBC's principles on fair pay.\n\n\"We cannot give out individual salary figures but they are both considerable and entirely appropriate,\" he said.\n\n\"I accept that we have not always got things right in the past on pay but I believe this is not one of those cases.\"\n\nThe issue of equal pay at the BBC was brought into the public domain in 2017, the first year the corporation was forced by MPs to disclose how much it paid to its top talent.\n\nThe publication of salaries eventually led to the resignation of Carrie Gracie as China editor, who was being paid less than North America editor Jon Sopel.\n\nThe BBC apologised and said it \"has now put this right\" by giving Gracie back pay.", "After a tumultuous day in which her Commons leader resigned from the cabinet amid feverish speculation about her own future, Theresa May remains prime minister - for now.\n\nAs we bring the live page to a close, here is a summary of what happened today:\n• Commons leader Andrea Leadsom quit the cabinet, saying she no longer believes the government's approach will deliver Brexit\n• It followed a growing backlash against Theresa May's new Brexit plan from MPs within her own party\n• As the pressure grew over the course of the day, several cabinet ministers told the BBC that the PM cannot stay, with one saying it is \"the end of the line\"\n• But with speculation growing that Theresa May might resign, sources told the BBC that Chief Whip Julian Smith informed backbench Tory MPs that the PM was not standing down\n• Mrs May looks set to spend tomorrow campaigning for the European Parliament elections before meeting Sir Graham Brady - the chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee - on Friday.\n\nYou can read the full story of the PM's turbulent day here.\n\nYou can read analysis of her attempts to hang on to power here.", "Kenneth Noye fled to Spain after he murdered Stephen Cameron in 1996\n\nM25 road-rage killer Kenneth Noye is to be released from prison, the Parole Board has confirmed.\n\nNoye, 71, stabbed 21-year-old Stephen Cameron to death in an attack at the Swanley interchange of the M25 in Kent in 1996.\n\nNoye later claimed he killed Mr Cameron in self-defence during a road-rage fight. He was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 16 years in 2000.\n\nThe Parole Board said he no longer poses a risk to the public.\n\nNoye, who is currently at Standford Hill open prison in Kent, is expected to be released within weeks.\n\nWhen asked whether he had spoken to the Parole Board, he said: \"Yes, they're letting him out.\"\n\nStephen Cameron was 21 when he was stabbed to death by Noye\n\nThe electrician was stabbed in front of his fiancee Danielle Cable, who was given a new identity and has been living under a witness protection scheme ever since.\n\nNoye went on the run after the killing, and was tracked down in Spain in 1998 and extradited back to the UK.\n\nNoye's release case was considered at a hearing on 9 May after it was referred by the Justice Secretary.\n\nThe panel heard evidence from Noye's probation officer and Prison Service officials.\n\nNoye, who first became eligible to be considered for release on 21 April 2015, also gave evidence to the panel.\n\nThis was the third review of Noye's case by the Parole Board.\n\nThe panel heard how Noye was of \"good conduct and compliance\" in prison and had \"worked positively\" with officials dealing with his case.\n\nThe Parole Board said Noye \"had demonstrated an ability to deal appropriately with potentially violent situations in prison and was clearly well motivated to avoid further offending in the community\".\n\nThe Parole Board's decision is likely to spark huge controversy, not least because of Noye's offending history - which stretches back to the 1960s - and his past connections to organised crime.\n\nThere are also likely to be those who question whether Noye has truly changed.\n\nLess than four years ago, a parole panel rejected his bid for release citing a psychological assessment that his \"main characteristic trait was criminal versatility, and that superficial charm, grandiose sense of self, lack of remorse, manipulative behaviour, failure to accept responsibility and poor behaviour controls were partially present\".\n\nThe panel said he had a \"need to be in control\".\n\nHowever, should Stephen Cameron's family wish to challenge the release decision their only option is to go to court and start judicial review proceedings, which are expensive and offer no guarantee of success.\n\nA far simpler internal review system, which the Government promised last year, won't apply in this case because it doesn't come into effect until July.\n\nKenneth Noye in custody at Dartford Police Station in May 1999\n\nThe panel said it was satisfied that Noye met the test for release and was suitable for return to the community.\n\nHe will have to reside at a designated address, be of good behaviour, and report as required for supervision or other appointments.\n\nThere will be strict limitations on his contacts, movements and activities.\n\nRoy Ramm, a former commander in specialist operations at New Scotland Yard, said: \"Kenneth Noye is a career criminal. He's been involved in some of the biggest crimes in the UK.\n\n\"He has spent his life around criminal enterprises.\n\n\"He is a man who has been proven to be very violent in the past... there should be a great deal of supervision around him and about his conduct.\"\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"Clearly this will be a distressing decision for the family of Stephen Cameron and our thoughts remain with them.\n\n\"Like all life sentence prisoners released by the independent Parole Board, Kenneth Noye will be on licence for the remainder of his life, released subject to strict conditions and faces a return to prison should he fail to comply.\"\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. We Are Middlesbrough: Pregnant teenagers tell their story\n\nMiddlesbrough has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in England and Wales. But one 16-year-old from the town says getting pregnant saved her life.\n\nRobyn used to \"get mortal\" (drunk) and \"end up at random parties\". But when she was pregnant, she vowed to change.\n\nShe stopped drinking and smoking marijuana, saying: \"I used to be pretty crazy. Being pregnant has calmed me down.\"\n\nTeen births have been falling nationally but rising in Middlesbrough.\n\nRobyn's mother Shelly recalls one night when the police arrived at the house - yet again.\n\n\"It was around midnight and the police knocked on the door - they were bringing Robyn home from a party.\n\n\"She'd drunk an entire bottle of vodka at an unknown man's flat, passed out, got into the bath and was found sprawled naked on the living room floor. She was 15.\"\n\nRobyn added: \"When I met my boyfriend and got pregnant I realised that that couldn't happen any more.\n\n\"I'm so excited to meet my baby girl - we had a gender reveal party and even though I would have been happy with a boy, I really wanted my own little girl.\n\n\"When we popped the balloon and I saw the pink confetti, I cried with happiness.\"\n\nHer daughter is due at the end of June.\n\nRobyn says society has a double standard when it comes to boys and girls\n\nShelly said: \"Robyn is actually the fourth generation of teen mams in our family.\n\n\"I've told Robyn it's time to grow up now and she has - I'm proud of how she's changed for her baby.\n\n\"When Robyn was a bit older I went to Durham University and completed a degree in human science - I think of it as doing my life the other way around.\"\n\nIn Middlesbrough, there were 43.8 teen pregnancies per 1,000 girls in the year to December 2017, compared with an average of 17.9 in England and Wales.\n\nThe next highest rate was in St Helens in Merseyside with 37.1 pregnancies per 1,000 teenagers.\n\nTeenage pregnancy is linked to fewer life chances - a higher risk of the child and the parent living in poverty, an increased risk of infant mortality and a higher chance of the mother experiencing mental health problems.\n\nIt is more then 15 years since the government launched its Teenage Pregnancy Strategy in response to England having one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Western Europe.\n\nSince then, the under-18 conception rate has dropped by 60% and the proportion of teenage mothers in education and training has doubled.\n\nBut in Middlesbrough over the two years from 2015 to 2017 it jumped from 36.5 to 43.8 - a rise of 20%.\n\nMegan says she has to restrict herself in order to care for her baby\n\nMegan, who is also from Middlesbrough, was 17 when she learned she was 23 weeks pregnant with her baby boy.\n\nShe said: \"My baby will be loved and cared for.\n\n\"I've finished my college course in performing arts and after about a year out I plan to either go back to college or get a job.\n\n\"Being a teenage mam won't stop me. I'm lucky - my family are supportive.\"\n\nDurham University's professor of sociology Dr Kimberly Jamie said: \"We need to stop accepting the middle-class life trajectory as the 'right' way for young people, especially women, to live their lives.\n\n\"The school to university to career to house to marriage to children isn't possible or desirable for all young women, yet those who take a different route through life are positioned as irresponsible, or as having somehow failed.\n\n\"Teenage pregnancy is understood as a death knell for any kind of career success rather than acknowledging that post-16 education and careers are still available for women in their 30s or 40s when their children are grown up and they have time to start a new career.\"\n\nThis story was created as part of We Are Middlesbrough - a BBC project with people of the town to tell the stories that matter to them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The pre-recorded episode Mr Dymond took part in was based on the subject of infidelity\n\nA Jeremy Kyle guest was found dead after \"growing concerned about the repercussions of the show\", an inquest has heard.\n\nSteven Dymond, 63, was discovered at his home in Portsmouth about a week after taking a lie-detector test on the ITV daytime programme.\n\nA hearing at Portsmouth Coroner's Court was told empty morphine packets were found next to his body.\n\nThe programme was permanently axed after Mr Dymond's death.\n\nA policeman told the inquest Mr Dymond had split from his fiancée before the recording, which he attended in a bid to repair the couple's relationship.\n\nDet Sgt Marcus Mills said construction worker Mr Dymond was renting a room at the time of his death.\n\nHe told the owners he had been in a relationship, Det Sgt Mills said, and had been kicked out of his home amid claims he had cheated.\n\n\"Steven had also mentioned they were going to go on the Jeremy Kyle show for a lie detector test to get everything sorted.\" he said.\n\nAfter the recording, Mr Dymond told his landlady \"things didn't go well on the show\", Det Sgt Mills said.\n\n\"He became concerned about the repercussions of the show and the rumours that had started as a result,\" he said.\n\nThe Jeremy Kyle Show was axed last week following the death of Steve Dymond\n\nDays later the concerned landlady found Mr Dymond's body on his bed - nearby were empty packets of morphine and sleeping tablets, and letters to his son and estranged girlfriend.\n\nDet Sgt Mills said there were no signs of foul play and the death was a suspected suicide.\n\nResults of a post-mortem examination are still awaited.\n\nLie detectors were a regular fixture on the programme, which often featured disputes between partners and family members.\n\nMr Kyle has said he is \"utterly devastated by the recent events\".\n\nMPs have launched an inquiry into reality TV and watchdog Ofcom has said it will look at the use of lie-detector tests on TV shows.\n\nFollowing the death of Mr Dymond, Ofcom asked ITV to give it information within five working days.\n\nThe inquest was adjourned to a later date.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPlans to expand the 2022 World Cup to 48 teams have been abandoned by Fifa.\n\nFifa president Gianni Infantino said last year the expansion from 32 teams could be brought forward from 2026 to the 2022 tournament in Qatar.\n\nThe change would have required Qatar to share hosting duties with other countries in the region.\n\nWorld football's governing body said after a \"thorough and comprehensive consultation process\" the change \"could not be made now\".\n\nFifa also said it explored the possibility of Qatar hosting a 48-team tournament on its own but has decided not to pursue those plans as there was not enough time \"for a detailed assessment of the potential logistical impact\".\n\nIn a statement, Qatari World Cup organisers said: \"Qatar had always been open to the idea of an expanded tournament in 2022 had a viable operating model been found and had all parties concluded that an expanded 48-team edition was in the best interest of football and Qatar as the host nation.\n\n\"With just three and a half years to go until kick off, Qatar remains as committed as ever to ensuring the 32-team Fifa World Cup in 2022 is one of the best tournaments ever and one that makes the entire Arab world proud.\"\n\nIn November, Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin said adding 16 teams to Qatar 2022 could create \"many problems\" and described the idea as \"quite unrealistic\".\n• None US, Canada & Mexico win right to host 2026 World Cup\n\nThose close to the Qatar 2022 organisers say this is a mutual decision that realigns them and Fifa, and that they are now concentrating on delivering the best possible 32-team World Cup.\n\nBut it will also have come as a major relief to the hosts, who no longer have to worry about sharing football's showpiece event.\n\nPerhaps with the Nobel Peace Prize in mind, Fifa president Gianni Infantino had pushed for an expansion against Qatar's wishes, hoping it may help heal diplomatic tensions in the region by staging some games in other countries, but he has now had to admit defeat.\n\nWith Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain all maintaining a blockade of neighbouring Qatar, such an audacious move was never going to be straightforward.\n\nThe crisis left only Kuwait and Oman as potential co-hosts, but a Fifa study concluded that neither would meet all logistical requirements.\n\nInfantino has previously collaborated with Saudi Arabia when proposing a revamped Club World Cup, and many suspected this was linked to his suggestion that the country could be part of the solution for an expanded 2022 tournament.\n\nBut given the condemnation that followed the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the country's consulate in Istanbul last year, along with its role in Yemen's bloody civil war, such a step would have sparked a major backlash from human rights campaigners, as it would have done if the UAE had been awarded games.\n\nSo while some national football associations and Infantino will no doubt be disappointed at the news, many others will welcome it.\n\nWhy does Fifa want to expand the World Cup?\n\nIn January 2017, Fifa voted unanimously in favour of increasing the World Cup to 48 teams for the 2026 event - which will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico.\n\nIn October 2018 Infantino said \"we have to see if it is possible\" to bring the expansion forward to 2022.\n\nInfantino has been a strong advocate of the expansion and said the World Cup has to be \"more inclusive\".\n\n\"We are in the 21st century and we have to shape the World Cup of the 21st century,\" he said when announcing the change.\n\n\"It is the future. Football is more than just Europe and South America, football is global.\"\n\nThe expansion in 2026 will see an initial stage of 16 groups of three teams precede a knockout stage for the remaining 32.\n\nThe number of tournament matches will rise to 80, from 64, but the eventual winners will still play only seven games.\n\nThe tournament will be completed within 32 days - a measure to appease powerful European clubs, who objected to reform because of a crowded international schedule.", "The polls have closed in the UK for the European Parliament elections.\n\nSeventy-three members, known as MEPs, will be elected in nine constituencies in England, and one each in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEach region's number of representatives is based on its population - from three MEPs in north-east England and Northern Ireland to 10 in south-east England.\n\nThe results will be announced once all EU nations have voted, expected to be completed by 22:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe Netherlands also voted on Thursday while voting in other EU nations will take place at various times over the next three days.\n\nVoters had to be registered to vote, be 18 years old or over on 23 May, be a British, Irish or qualifying Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of an EU country.\n\nThey had to be resident at a UK address (or a British citizen living abroad who has been registered to vote in the UK in the last 15 years) and not be legally excluded from voting.\n\nMEPs are elected in the order listed by their party, based on the total share of the vote in each region.\n\nIn the nine English regions, Wales and Scotland, the number of MEPs is calculated using a form of proportional representation known as the D'Hondt formula, and each voter can choose one party or individual to back.\n\nThe process is slightly different in Northern Ireland, where the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system is used, allowing voters to rank the parties standing in order of preference.\n\nVoters could stop for a poll and a pint in the Cotswolds\n\nThe trend of dogs at polling stations continued with a vengeance\n\nThis caravan offered voters in Leicestershire the chance to have their say\n\nThese monks in East Lothian carried out their civic duty at the village hall\n\nThis supermarket car park in Bristol became a hub for democracy\n\nAnother multi-purpose polling station at this launderette in Oxfordshire\n\nAnd the West Blatchington Windmill in Hove offered another novel place to cast a vote\n• None EU citizens in UK turned away from polls", "Theresa May will make the case for her new Brexit plan in Parliament later, amid signs that Conservative opposition to her leadership is hardening.\n\nThe prime minister will outline changes to the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - including a promise to give MPs a vote on holding another referendum.\n\nBut shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said the offer was \"too weak\".\n\nSome senior Tories will today ask party bosses for a rule change to allow a no-confidence vote in her leadership.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove defended the PM's plan, urging MPs to \"take a little bit of time and step back\" to \"reflect\" on the detail of the bill - due to be published later today.\n\nFellow cabinet minister and prominent Brexiteer Andrea Leadsom said she was \"looking very carefully at the legislation\" and \"making sure that it delivers Brexit\".\n\nMPs have rejected the withdrawal agreement negotiated with the EU three times, and attempts to find a formal compromise with Labour have failed.\n\nOn Tuesday, the prime minister asked MPs to take \"one last chance\" to deliver a negotiated exit - or risk Brexit not happening at all.\n\nBut several Tory MPs have criticised her plan. Among them, Nigel Evans will today urge party bosses on the 1922 committee to change party rules to allow for an immediate vote of no-confidence in Mrs May.\n\nBecause the PM survived such a vote in December, the current rules say she cannot face another for 12 months.\n\nThe committee has said 'no' to such a change before.\n\nBut the Conservative Home website has urged people not to vote for the party in Thursday's European elections if Mrs May is still in post \"by the end of today\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove tells Today that MPs have the choice of a deal, no deal or no Brexit\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson says a small number of Labour MPs have gone to a briefing with the government's Brexit negotiator, Olly Robbins, to discuss the deal.\n\nBut a number of the party's MPs have spoken out against the PM's plan, with Sir Keir saying all she had offered was votes on customs arrangements and a further referendum that MPs would be able to get anyway as amendments to the bill.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"This is not a compromise of policy, it is just saying you can have votes on these things.\n\n\"In reality, the prime minister ought to now admit defeat. I think she would do well to just pull the vote and pause, as this is just going to nowhere.\"\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Vince Cable, echoed the point, telling Today: \"If [Mrs May] said 'we will put forward the Withdrawal Bill subject to a confirmatory referendum'… we would be obliged to support it on that basis, but she is barely saying Parliament can have a vote if it wants to have a referendum.\n\n\"[That] is not in her gift, Parliament will do that anyway. What appears to be a concession isn't.\"\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said if the government tries to delay bringing the bill forward - expected in the week of 3 June - it is \"extremely hard to see\" how the prime minister stays in post after the Bank Holiday weekend.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 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\nOther senior Tories have suggested Mrs May drops her Withdrawal Agreement Bill to avoid defeat and humiliation.\n\nConservative MP Boris Johnson - who wants to succeed Mrs May as prime minister - said on Twitter: \"We are being asked to vote for a customs union and a second referendum. The Bill is directly against our manifesto - and I will not vote for it.\n\n\"We can and must do better - and deliver what the people voted for.\"\n\nMeanwhile Dominic Raab, another leadership hopeful, said Mrs May's deal would \"break our clear manifesto promises\".\n\nTory MP Priti Patel accused the \"entire cabinet and especially the so-called Brexiteers in office\" of being \"responsible for the betrayal\" of Leave voters.\n\nIt's become a painful ritual of a tortuous process: the prime minister unveils a vision for Brexit, and MPs queue up to demolish it in the House of Commons. On Wednesday it looks like it is going to happen again.\n\nIf Theresa May's speech yesterday sought to attract switchers - and turn sceptics into endorsers - it failed.\n\nWorse than that for Downing Street, some Conservatives who backed the plan when it was last voted on, now say they'll reject it.\n\nAmong many Conservative MPs, there is a bleak, end of days mood. Some wonder if it's even worthwhile putting the bill to a vote.\n\nOthers ponder getting rid of the prime minister even sooner than she's promised. But those around Theresa May insist they are not willing to give up at least yet - they are determined her plan will be put to MPs in around a fortnight's time.\n\nMrs May is bringing the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - legislation required to bring her agreement into UK law - to Parliament in early June.\n\nIn an attempt to win over MPs across the House, she announced the following concessions:\n\nIn a letter to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, released on Wednesday, Mrs May said: \"I have shown today that I am willing to compromise to deliver Brexit for the British people...\n\n\"I ask you to compromise too so that we can deliver what both our parties promised in our manifestos and restore faith in our politics.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May says failure to back her deal risks \"no Brexit at all\"\n\nBut Labour has said it is not willing to back the bill at second reading, meaning it could fail at its first parliamentary hurdle.\n\nAnd some Conservative MPs who backed Theresa May the last time she tried to get her withdrawal agreement through Parliament in March said they could no longer support her.\n\nTory MP Nadine Dorries said all scenarios led to Mrs May resigning, telling the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire: \"I see no way out for the prime minister. I think we might be reaching the end game finally for [Mrs May].\"\n\nMeanwhile, Sammy Wilson, the Brexit spokesman for the DUP - whose support the government relies on to get its laws passed - said his party would \"not accept this flawed agreement\" that they believe would split Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK.\n\nHe told Today: \"We have been through all of this before with the prime minister in the negotiations to date. It has been accepted by the government that [there] are flaws they cannot give an answer to.\n\n\"We will not vote for our own destruction.\"", "A union campaign has been launched to save the BiFab construction yards in Fife - which look set to lose out on work for a huge EDF wind farm project.\n\nThe Methil and Burntisland yards were mothballed last year having been close to financial collapse.\n\nIt is feared a failure to secure contracts for EDF's £2bn project off the Fife coast could kill the yards.\n\nNow unions are calling for a U-turn on plans for the work to be carried out in Indonesia instead of Scotland.\n\nA spokesman for the GMB union said: \"EDF doesn't seem to know or care about the proud industrial history of Fife, forged by energy, from the coal mines to North Sea oil and gas.\n\n\"Fife is primed to help deliver the next generation of energy in the form of renewables manufacturing through its yards in Burntisland and Methil.\n\nWorkers staged a march in 2016 as part of a campaign to safeguard jobs\n\n\"So why is EDF sub-contracting the manufacture of the NnGturbine jackets to a yard half way around the world in Indonesia? That's a slap in the face for Fife and for Scotland.\n\n\"We have the yards, we have the skills and we have the communities ready to play their part in tackling the climate emergency. EDF must think again and do what's right for Fife, for Scotland and for the environment.\"\n\nThe Unite union, which is also leading the campaign, has said the the BiFab yards in Fife are \"ready and primed\" to work on EDF's new Neart naGoaithe (NnG) wind farm.\n\nSpokesman Pat Rafferty said: \"The NnG project could create jobs for over 1,000 people, unlocking much-needed investment and growth for our future.\n\n\"If the bulk of the wind turbine jackets are built in yards just 10 miles from the wind farm, it would mean less shipping and significantly less carbon emissions over the lifespan of the NnG project.\n\n\"We will fight for every job and fight to get people back to work because the skills base is here in Fife.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for EDF Renewables refused to comment on \"speculation\" about future contracts.\n\nShe added: \"We are currently going through a procurement process and once the contracts are ready to be announced we will do so.\"\n\nBut it is understood the French state-owned EDF plans to have massive steel jackets, on which turbines will sit, built in Indonesia before being shipped to Scotland.\n\nThey would then be installed at its new Neart naGoaithe wind farm, 10 miles off the Fife coast.\n\nThe project could generate enough electricity to power a city the size of Edinburgh.\n\nA spokesman for BiFab owners DF Barnes said: \"We are continuing our negotiations with EDF and remain hopeful of a positive outcome for BiFab.\"\n\nMissing out on the EDF work would be the latest in a series of blows to the BiFab yards.\n\nIn March, the contractor building a multi-billion pound offshore wind farm in the Moray Firth confirmed that BiFab's Fife yards had not won any of the work.\n\nA statement by Deme, the Belgian company in charge of procurement for Moray East, emphasised the role of a Belgian-owned yard near Newcastle in having \"a major portion\" of the work.\n\nThe announcement came a year after the remaining shop floor workers at the Fife yards were given redundancy notices.\n\nBiFab had previously been taken over by a Canadian engineering firm - in a deal brokered by the Scottish government.", "The BBC, like other broadcasters, isn't allowed to report details of campaigning or election issues while the polls are open.\n\nThe BBC is required by electoral law to adopt a code of practice, ensuring fairness between candidates, and that is particularly important on polling day.\n\nThe code of practice is contained in more detailed election guidelines which are written and published for each election. They include more guidance about polling day, and you can read them here.\n\nOn polling day specifically, the BBC doesn't report on any of the election campaigns from 00:30 GMT until polls close at 22:00 GMT, on TV, radio or bbc.co.uk or on social media and other channels.\n\nHowever, online sites do not have to remove archived reports, including, for instance, programmes on iPlayer.\n\nThe lists of candidates in each constituency and the guide to parties' policies remain available online during polling day.\n\nCoverage on the day is usually restricted to uncontroversial factual accounts, such as the appearance of politicians at polling stations, or the weather.\n\nIt tends to focus on giving information which will help voters with the process of going to polling stations.\n\nSubjects which have been directly at issue or part of the campaign must not be covered while polls in the UK are open.\n\nNo opinion poll on any issue relating to politics or the election can be published until after the polls have closed.\n\nWhilst the polls are open, it is a criminal offence to publish anything about the way in which people have voted in that election.\n\nFrom 22:00 GMT, normal reporting of the election resumes, with rolling coverage.", "Michael Green told an operator: \"I feel like I'm going numb\"\n\nA grandfather who got trapped between a table and chair died as he waited for an ambulance.\n\nMichael Green, 74, made two 999 calls after his neck became wedged against the furniture at his home in Leicester in September.\n\nDespite his distressed state, relatives said, it took crews nearly 90 minutes to respond, by which time he was dead.\n\nAmbulance bosses said the calls were correctly handled but Mr Green's family said they will go to the ombudsman.\n\nIn recordings released to his family by East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), Mr Green can be heard groaning with pain in the first call.\n\nWhen told an ambulance may take four hours, he responds: \"Oh dear, the trouble is me neck's going dead with being stuck on the chair, I think I need somebody quick.\"\n\nHe told the call handler he had already been stuck for about five hours.\n\nJulie Green (right) said her father was clearly stressed at the time of the call\n\nIn a second call, 40 minutes later, he tells a different operator during the course of the call: \"I feel like I'm going numb.\n\n\"I've changed now... I'm not right... I'm passing out.\"\n\nAn ambulance arrived nearly an hour-and-a-half after the first call. They found Mr Green unconscious and attempts at resuscitation were unsuccessful.\n\nHis call had been classified as category three - urgent but not an emergency or life-threatening.\n\nHis daughter Julie Green said: \"It's very distressing to hear those calls. He was a strong character, I didn't expect him to die and really I want answers.\n\n\"He was clearly stressed, he was trapped and the bottom line is I've lost my dad and it's hard to move on.\"\n\nA spokesman for EMAS said they were saddened by Mr Green's death but, with the information they had at the time, said the call was categorised correctly.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A care home where a man with Alzheimer's died after eating chlorine tablets has been fined £270,000.\n\nJames McConnell was a resident at Lomond Court in Glenrothes when he died in August 2015, a week after eating the disinfectant tablets.\n\nThe 72-year-old had found and opened a package which he thought contained strong mints.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive said the company failed to assess the risk posed by several chemical products.\n\nAn HSE investigation also found the care home's operators HC-ONE Limited failed to manage and review procedures for the delivery of the products for two years.\n\nDarlington-based HC-ONE pleaded guilty at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court to breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.\n\nA spokeswoman for the company said they \"wholeheartedly\" apologised to the McConnell family.\n\nMr McConnell thought the package he found at Lomond Court contained strong mints\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, HSE inspector Garry Miller said the case confirmed the need for staff to be \"extra vigilant\" in ensuring that vulnerable people did not come into contact with harmful substances.\n\nHe added: \"Suitable procedures need to be put in place and then regularly checked to ensure that they are being followed by everyone, not just for the use of such substances, but also for their delivery, storage and disposal.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for HC-ONE said they hoped that the court ruling provided \"some sense of closure\" for the McConnell family.\n\nThe company's chief operating officer Paula Keys said: \"We have always been clear that lessons must be learned from this tragic event, as the health and safety of our residents is our absolute priority.\n\n\"When it happened in August 2015, we immediately issued new delivery guidance to our colleagues and suppliers so that potentially harmful products are securely stored on arrival at our homes, as well as insisting on 'tamper proof' containers for any potentially harmful products.\n\n\"A comprehensive internal review was also completed and acted on, and the HSE has approved our new system for handling potentially harmful products.\"\n\nMr McConnell's widow Wilma previously told BBC Scotland how she still had \"flashbacks\" to when her husband was in hospital after eating the tablets.\n\nShe said: \"I was shocked when I saw him.\n\n\"He was a terrible colour and he couldn't eat the porridge I tried to give him as his mouth had started to ulcerate.\n\n\"His lips and tongue had turned brown.\"\n\nMrs McConnell said the care home had told her a delivery driver, who knew the security code for the main door, had left a package in the hall.\n\nHer husband, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2012, found and opened the package and ate two of the tablets thinking they were mints.\n\nLater he said to his wife: \"I'm sorry, I didn't think I had done anything wrong.\"", "AI-powered voice assistants with female voices are perpetuating harmful gender biases, according to a UN study.\n\nThese female helpers are portrayed as \"obliging and eager to please\", reinforcing the idea that women are \"subservient\", it finds.\n\nParticularly worrying, it says, is how they often give \"deflecting, lacklustre or apologetic responses\" to insults.\n\nThe report calls for technology firms to stop making voice assistants female by default.\n\nThe study from Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is entitled, I'd blush if I could, which is borrowed from a response from Siri to being called a sexually provocative term.\n\n\"Companies like Apple and Amazon, staffed by overwhelmingly male engineering teams, have built AI systems that cause their feminised digital assistants to greet verbal abuse with catch-me-if-you-can flirtation,\" the report says.\n\n\"Because the speech of most voice assistants is female, it sends a signal that women are... docile helpers, available at the touch of a button or with a blunt voice command like 'hey' or 'OK'. The assistant holds no power of agency beyond what the commander asks of it. It honours commands and responds to queries regardless of their tone or hostility,\" the report says.\n\n\"In many communities, this reinforces commonly held gender biases that women are subservient and tolerant of poor treatment.\"\n\nPeople are increasingly asking voice assistants such as Alexa a whole range of questions\n\nResearch firm Canalys estimates that approximately 100 million smart speakers - the hardware that allows users to interact with voice assistants - were sold globally in 2018.\n\nAnd, according to research firm Gartner, by 2020 some people will have more conversations with voice assistants than with their spouses.\n\nVoice assistants now manage an estimated one billion tasks per month, according to the report, and the vast majority - including those designed by Chinese tech giants - have obviously female voices.\n\nMicrosoft's Cortana was named after a synthetic intelligence in the video game Halo that projects itself as a sensuous unclothed woman, while Apple's Siri means \"beautiful woman who leads you to victory\" in Norse. While Google Assistant has a gender-neutral name, its default voice is female.\n\nApple did make a male Siri voice available in 2013 and that is the default voice in languages including British, Arabic and French.\n\nThe report calls on developers to create a neutral machine gender for voice assistants, to programme them to discourage gender-based insults and to announce the technology as non-human at the outset of interactions with human users.\n\nA group of linguists, technologists and sound designers are experimenting with a genderless digital voice, made from real voices and called Q.\n\nThe report also highlights the digital skills gender gap, from lack of internet use among girls and women in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South Asia, to the decline of ICT studies being taken up by girls in Europe.\n\nAccording to the report, women make up just 12% of AI researchers.", "Tom and his wife Nic - his story was made into a film in 2016 called Starfish, featuring Tom Riley and Joanne Froggatt\n\nA man who woke from a coma to discover both his arms and legs had been amputated and part of his face removed has called for mandatory training on sepsis for NHS staff.\n\nSepsis, or blood poisoning, is a serious complication of an infection, which can have devastating consequences if not treated quickly.\n\nThere were delays in spotting Tom Ray's sepsis.\n\nHe says more training is needed to avoid such tragedies.\n\nTom Ray was fit and healthy and living in Rutland in the East Midlands before he contracted sepsis at the age of 38 in 1999.\n\nHe had had a successful career in corporate banking and was in the process of setting up a business with his pregnant wife, Nic, when he fell ill.\n\nHis sepsis - thought to be caused by a cut to his gum during a trip to the dentist, combined with a chest infection - came on rapidly and led to vomiting and a high temperature.\n\nBut it took five hours at the hospital he was admitted to before the condition was diagnosed.\n\nHe spent months in a coma, during which time his wife Nic gave birth to their second child, Freddy.\n\nHis recovery has been a long and gruelling process, involving years of plastic surgery.\n\nHe has had to learn to walk, drive and live day-to-day life with prosthetic limbs.\n\nThe family lost their house and he has struggled to work.\n\n\"It is not the life I wanted to lead. It is not the life I wanted for my children. I have had some terrible lows, but I have learnt to battle on.\"\n\nHe puts that down to several factors. The \"amazing\" love and care provided by his wife and being mentally disciplined. \"I have learnt to control what goes into my mind. I only let positive thoughts go in.\n\n\"I also realised it is not all about me. I had to be there for my children - to help them with their school work and take them places. Terrible things can happen in life, but you can get through them.\"\n\nNow 57, Tom spends a lot of his time doing motivational speaking and campaigning to improve the way the NHS tackles sepsis.\n\nTogether with his wife and Pippa Bagnall, a former nurse and NHS chief executive, he has formed Resilience and Co to raise awareness of the problem.\n\nHe often removes his prosthetic limbs to show and shock the audience into the realities of sepsis.\n\n\"I would rather not do this - it is not good for your mental health constantly going over the most difficult experience of my life. But I want to make a difference. I want to speak for those who can't - the people who have died from sepsis.\"\n\nThe Rays and Ms Bagnall are due to address the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) annual conference in Liverpool on Wednesday.\n\nTop of their wish list is mandatory training on sepsis for all staff who work in the health service.\n\nMs Bagnall says: \"It should be so simple to spot. But the problem is staff still do not know enough about it - what to look out for. Hospitals have got better, but there are real gaps in the community.\n\n\"We want all staff, from GP receptionists to nurses and doctors, to have to do it. It could just be an hour online. It could make all the difference.\"\n\nThe call is being supported by the RCN.\n\nThe RCN also wants to see a national checklist introduced to help spot the signs of sepsis in children. Hospitals already have one for adults, but RCN professional lead for children Fiona Smith says there have been delays of more than a decade for one for children.\n\nIn the meantime it has been left to hospitals to develop their own approaches.\n\nMs Smith criticised the \"fragmented\" approach and \"very slow\" progress.\n\nEvery year more than 50,000 people die after contracting sepsis. Many thousands more are left with disabilities and life-changing consequences.\n\nWith early diagnosis and the correct treatment, normally antibiotics, most people make a full recovery.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Inflation reached its highest level so far this year in April, when higher energy bills pushed up prices.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said the Consumer Price Index was 2.1% in April, up from 1.9% in March.\n\nThat is above the 2% target set by the Bank of England but less than expected.\n\nComputer games and package holiday prices helped to offset the impact of the higher energy bills, sparked by the rise in Ofgem's price cap on gas and electricity.\n\nThe ONS said electricity and gas prices rose between March and April 2019 by 10.9% and 9.3%, respectively.\n\n\"The upward movement partially reflected the response from energy providers to Ofgem's six-month energy price cap, which came into effect from 1 April 2019,\" the ONS said.\n\nLast month, Ofgem raised the maximum prices that can be charged for gas and electricity to those who have not switched suppliers and are on default tariffs.\n\nAir fares also pushed up the index, the ONS, said pointing to the late timing of Easter, with prices rising 26.4% on the month.\n\nPrices fell in \"recreation and culture\" by 0.8% between March and April 2019, compared with a rise of 0.4% between the same two months of 2018. Prices of games, toys and hobbies fell, particularly computer games, the ONS said.\n\nThe 2.1% rise - to a high for the year - was less than the 2.2% increase that had been forecast by economists.\n\nThe measure of price rises had stood at 1.9% in both March and February, up from a two-year low of 1.8% in January.\n\nThe Bank of England said earlier this month that it was expecting growth and inflation to pick up over the next two years and that interest rate increases could be \"more frequent\" than expected.\n\nInterest rates have been at 0.75% since last August.\n\nSuren Thiru, head of economics at the British Chambers of Commerce, said there was little reason for the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to move rates soon.\n\n\"Rising inflation alongside slowing wage growth is a concern, as it squeezes real household incomes. If this trend continues, it could well choke off the recent improvement in consumer spending, a key driver of UK growth,\" he said.\n\n\"While consumer prices are likely to drift slightly higher in the near term, the outlook for inflation remains relatively subdued, with the current pressure on prices largely due to a number of temporary factors, such as rising energy costs.\"\n\nExcluding bonuses, average weekly earnings for employees rose by 3.3% in the first three months of the year, when the comparable rate of inflation was 1.9%.\n\nBut Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the MPC could not be complacent about price rises and that he expects a rate rise in November.", "London will be one of the first cities to benefit from faster services\n\nEE will switch on its 5G service in six UK cities on 30 May, the first mobile network in the UK to do so.\n\nPeople in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham and Manchester will be first to get faster services with plans for 10 more cities to be added this year.\n\nPrices for 5G - which will require new handsets - will start at £54 per month for 10 gigabytes of data.\n\nEE confirmed that its range of 5G phones would not include Huawei.\n\n\"We're pausing the launch of the new Huawei 5G smartphones coming to market,\" said a spokesman, adding that EE is working with both the Chinese firm and Google to \"make sure we can carry out the right level of testing and quality assurance\" for customers.\n\nIt follows a decision from Google to bar the smartphone maker from some updates to the Android operating system.\n\n\"This is the start of the UK's 5G journey and great news for our customers that want and need the best connections,\" said Marc Allera, chief executive of BT's consumer division, which owns EE.\n\nIt admits that this is just phase one of its roll-out, with \"full next-generation 5G\" not available until 2022.\n\nRival Vodafone plans to launch its 5G service in July. It has also withdrawn Huawei's 5G-enabled Mate 20X - from its line-up of phones.\n\nRetailer Carphone Warehouse has also said it will not allow customers to pre-order Huawei's 5G handsets.\n\nSeveral other countries have announced 5G services, including South Korea and the US.\n\nKester Mann, an analyst at research firm CCS Insight, said: \"In getting 5G as soon as next week, the UK will have completed a remarkable turnaround from laggard to leader.\"\n\n\"Being first-to-market with 5G matters little to consumers, but is clearly an important honour for BT.\"\n\nEE promised three major improvements for customers making the swap from 4G to 5G:\n\nThe mobile operator has also signed an exclusive deal with Niantic, the makers of Pokemon Go, to carry its augmented reality game Harry Potter: Wizards United game when it launches in the UK in the summer.\n\nMatthew Howett, a mobile analyst with research firm Assembly, said: \"To convince consumers to make the leap from 4G to 5G, it's important to communicate that it's more than just about speed.\n\n\"While peak download speeds will be faster, crucially there will be more capacity, which will allow for a whole host of new applications and services.\"\n\nThere have been concerns raised about the role played by Chinese firm Huawei, which supplies network equipment to the UK's mobile operators for their roll-out of 5G, following the US decision to curb its ability to do business in America.\n\nMr Allera told the BBC that EE does currently use Huawei's equipment, although it is in the process of removing it from the core of its 4G network.\n\nThe core is where the most sensitive functions occur, including device authentication, voice and data-routing and billing.\n\nHowever, EE does intend to use Huawei within its radio access network (Ran), which allows users to send data to and from the core.\n\n\"There is no current government guidance to suggest we should not use Huawei, but if the guidance changes we will reconsider. That will be disruptive but there are other people that provide equipment,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Howett thinks that a ban on Huawei could be problematic, not just for EE but for all the UK's operators, because it is in a significant part of their networks.\n\n\"There is little interoperability between vendors, which means it is difficult to deploy non-Huawei 5G equipment alongside existing Huawei 4G equipment.\n\n\"A ban would require operators to replace such equipment before they could deploy 5G technology,\" he said.\n\nEE is planning to add 100 new 5G sites each month.\n\nThat will gradually bring coverage to:\n\nTen more towns and cities will get services in 2020, including Aberdeen, Cambridge, Derby, Gloucester, Peterborough, Plymouth and Portsmouth.\n\nThe handsets available will include the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G, OnePlus's 7 Pro 5G and Oppo's Reno 5G phones.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In Scunthorpe, residents fear the town will \"shut down\" if British Steel collapses\n\nThe future of 5,000 British Steel workers remains uncertain as its owners continue to lobby for government backing.\n\nThe UK's second-biggest steel maker had been trying to secure £75m in financial support to help it to address \"Brexit-related issues\".\n\nIf the firm does not get the money it would put 5,000 jobs at risk and endanger 20,000 in the supply chain.\n\nLabour has urged the government to nationalise British Steel.\n\nBut Treasury sources say the only way nationalisation would be contemplated is if there were credible buyers waiting in the wings.\n\nAnd - says BBC business editor Simon Jack - \"there are no clear candidates to buy a weak company in a challenged sector\".\n\nThe company's request for emergency support from the government is understood to have been reduced from £75m to about £30m.\n\nIn April, British Steel borrowed £100m from the government to enable it to pay an EU carbon bill, so it could avoid a steep fine.\n\nThe government said it would leave \"no stone unturned\" in its support for the steel industry. British Steel's main plant is at Scunthorpe, but it also has a site in Teesside.\n\nAccording to think-tank IPPR, allowing British Steel to collapse would lead to £2.8bn in lost wages over a 10-year period and cost the government £1.1bn in lost revenue and extra benefit payments.\n\nSuch a decision would also reduce household spending by £1.2bn, which would have an impact on the economy.\n\nIPPR's chief economist Carys Roberts said: \"We need a UK-wide industrial strategy that supports strong supply chains, including the foundation industries such as steelmaking that manufacture core materials for use in other industries.\"\n\nLast Thursday, British Steel said it had the backing of shareholders and lenders and that operations were continuing as usual while it sought a \"permanent solution\" from the government to its financial troubles.\n\nIt is understood that along with administration, nationalisation or a management buyout are being discussed as fall-back options for the company.\n\nBritish Steel's troubles have been linked to a slump in orders from European customers ‎due to uncertainty over the Brexit process.\n\nThe firm has also been struggling with the weakness of the pound since the EU referendum in June 2016 and the escalating trade US-China trade war.\n\nOne of its biggest customers is Network Rail, 95% of whose rails are supplied by British Steel's Scunthorpe plant.\n\nIn 2007, India's Tata conglomerate entered the UK steel market when it bought the Anglo-Dutch group, Corus. In 2010, the business was renamed Tata Steel Europe.\n\nAfter a difficult few years, Tata sold the Scunthorpe long products division to private equity firm Greybull Capital for a nominal £1.\n\nGreybull's rescue came during the depths of the steel crisis in 2016 and saved more than 4,000 jobs.\n\nIt then rebranded the company as British Steel and recently returned it to profit.", "Prime Minister Theresa May has said she will stand down on 7 June, after pressure grew over her handling of Brexit negotiations.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We don't know the identity of the donor' - Geoff Knupfer, ICLVR lead investigator\n\nA reward of almost £50,000 is being offered for new information that results in finding the bodies of those murdered and secretly buried by the IRA during the Troubles.\n\nThe anonymous donation of $60,000 (£47,191) has been given to the independent UK charity Crimestoppers.\n\nIn spite of numerous searches, three of 16 victims - known as the Disappeared - have not been found.\n\nJoe Lynskey was a former Cistercian monk who later joined the IRA and was abducted and murdered in 1972\n\nMr McVeigh's brother Oliver said the donation was \"great news\".\n\n\"Anything that helps the recovery process is very welcome,\" he added.\n\nCrimestoppers takes calls anonymously by telephone or accepts information through an anonymous online form.\n\nIt says any information that it receives will be passed only to the Independent Commission for the Location of the Victims' Remains (ICLVR).\n\nColumba McVeigh, 19, from Donaghmore, County Tyrone, was kidnapped in November 1975\n\nThe ICLVR was set up to obtain information that may lead to where the bodies of the Disappeared are buried.\n\nInformation it receives is strictly confidential and is not passed to other agencies or used in prosecutions.\n\nFiona McCormack, the director of operations at Crimestoppers, said anonymity would be maintained for those who present new information.\n\n\"People giving information can be safe in the knowledge that no-one will ever know who they are - not even us,\" she said.\n\nCapt Robert Nairac was abducted by the IRA while on an undercover operation in south Armagh in 1977\n\n\"That is a promise we have kept since the charity began more than 30 years ago.\n\n\"The commission is doing an excellent job and to date the remains of 13 of the 16 Disappeared have been recovered.\"\n\nMs McCormack said the reward was \"not about finding out what happened to these people\" but rather to give victims' relatives the chance to \"hold a long-overdue funeral\".\n\n\"The reward was put up by an anonymous donor and is $20,000 (£15,730) for the recovery of each body,\" she added.\n\nExcavations have been carried out in searches for the men at numerous locations\n\n\"It can only be claimed for information that goes directly to the Crimestoppers charity.\"\n\nGeoff Knupfer, the lead investigator for the ICLVR, said his organisation was \"not really interested\" in who the anonymous donor was but he believed the money \"might prove to be a game-changer\".\n\n\"We do understand the payment of money for information is a contentious issue at the best of times,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster.\n\n\"But we have to make it clear that this is a humanitarian process.\n\n\"It's nothing to do with crime, it's simply about recovering the remains of the outstanding victims and returning them to their families - it's about closure.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The hidden victims of the Yemen war\n\nThe UN says food aid is being diverted by some corrupt and uncooperative officials in Houthi-held areas of Yemen, where millions of people are believed to be on the verge of famine.\n\nDavid Beasley, head of the World Food Programme (WFP), told the BBC the agency's efforts to reach people in need were being repeatedly blocked.\n\nHe said he hoped \"good Houthi leaders\" would prevail over the corrupt ones.\n\nOn Monday, the agency warned of a possible suspension of aid delivery.\n\nYemen is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world currently and some 12 million people - almost 40% of the population - are on the brink of starvation, according to Mr Beasley. Most of those most in need are in Houthi-controlled areas.\n\nMr Beasley said that his unusual public criticism could backfire, with Houthi leaders providing even less access to humanitarian workers, but that children were dying as a result of this \"desperate, desperate situation\".\n\n\"This violates the most fundamental international standards of humanitarian principles because innocent people are suffering from food diversion, theft, corruption,\" said Mr Beasley, who last year criticised the Saudi-led coalition for a blockade stopping vital assistance from reaching Yemen.\n\n\"I know all the Houthis and the Houthi leaders aren't like that. There are good Houthi leaders and I hope they can prevail.\"\n\nOn Monday, the WFP said its teams were being denied access to people in need, convoys had been blocked and local officials were interfering with food distribution, warning of a phased suspension of aid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Where the fighting in Yemen has stopped... but not the suffering\n\nEarlier this month, rebels pulled out of three key Red Sea ports - Hudaydah, Salif and Ras Issa - in partial implementation of a ceasefire deal agreed last December, according to the UN.\n\nThis could allow vital humanitarian aid into the country.\n\nThe UN says at least 7,070 civilians have been killed and 11,205 injured since the conflict in Yemen started in 2015, with 65% of the deaths attributed to Saudi-led coalition air strikes.\n\nThousands more civilians have died from preventable causes, including malnutrition, disease and poor health.", "Millie Bobby Brown has revealed that she was forced to move schools after being bullied.\n\nThe teenager has no shortage of achievements from her 15 years on the planet so far.\n\nBut she says what happened to her at school was 'soul-breaking.'\n\n\"I was bullied at school back in England,\" she said during an interview for the magazine Glamour UK. \"So it's extremely important for me to speak out against bullying.\"\n\nAs Eleven in the Netflix show Stranger Things, she's battled monsters in an alternative dimension.\n\nIn this dimension, she became the youngest person ever to make the list of Time magazine's 100 most influential people and she's also a UNICEF goodwill ambassador - their youngest ever, of course.\n\nBut she's now opened up about the struggles she's faced outside of the spotlight.\n\n\"I actually switched schools because of it, it created a lot of anxiety and issues that I still deal with today.\n\n\"I have dealt with situations both in real life and online that are soul-breaking and it genuinely hurts reading some of the things people have said.\"\n\nThe Stranger Things actress is an ambassador for UNICEF\n\nMillie quit Twitter last year after she was trolled, and she also addressed that during her chat for the magazine with guest interviewer Orlando Bloom.\n\n\"Young people's lives are increasingly under pressure. First of all, I want to make sure that children are protected from violence and exploitation.\n\n\"I also want to combat the negativity on social media - I have experienced it - it's like a disease. It's negative hate that is genuinely so horrifying to me.\"\n\nIn July she'll be back for the third season of Stranger Things, but unsurprisingly didn't reveal much.\n\n\"There's not much I can say,\" she told Glamour. \"But I can say it's one of the most important things in my life. I am so excited about it because I worked really hard on it. It's like my baby.\n\n\"I shaved my hair off for it, so ever since then it's become one of my favourite projects I have ever done.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Prime Minister Theresa May has unveiled what she called her new Brexit deal\n\nThe backstop is perhaps the most controversial part of the prime minister's Brexit deal.\n\nIt is an insurance arrangement designed to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic under all circumstances.\n\nIt would keep the UK in a \"single customs territory\" with the EU, and leave Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nSome MPs fear it could trap the UK in a customs union with the EU while Northern Ireland unionists think it would diminish their place in the union.\n\nIn her speech on Tuesday, the prime minister said she had listened to unionist concerns.\n\nBut she was also clear that the backstop would be staying in the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nInstead, she promised to give legal force to commitments that she has already made and proposed an enhanced role for the Northern Ireland Assembly - should it ever be reconstituted.\n\nFirstly, Theresa May said there would now be a legal commitment to find \"alternative arrangements\" for the Irish border by December 2020.\n\nAlternative arrangements basically mean technological solutions for the Irish border which would allow trade to flow across it unimpeded, even if the UK is outside the EU's customs union and single market.\n\nThe Irish border has been one of the most contentious issues surrounding Brexit\n\nBrexit supporters see this as being key to avoiding the backstop.\n\nHowever, a government commitment to seek alternative arrangements by the end of 2020 is not new - it was laid out in a joint statement with the EU in March.\n\nThe prime minister also said that if the backstop was applied and Northern Ireland had to continue to follow EU rules, then the rest of the UK would voluntarily follow those same rules.\n\nThat is also not new - it was part of a package of commitments announced by the UK government almost six months ago.\n\nHowever, the government would claim that moving from political promises to legally binding commitments should be seen as significant.\n\nWhat was new in the prime minister's speech was the role that Stormont would play if the backstop was ever implemented.\n\nIn January, the UK government said that if any new areas of Northern Ireland-specific alignment were to be added to the backstop, then it would \"seek the agreement of the Northern Ireland Assembly\".\n\nNI's devolved government collapsed in January 2017 following a bitter dispute between Sinn Féin and the DUP\n\nThat stopped well short of a Stormont veto - Westminster was only required to seek agreement, not to get it.\n\nThis has now been toughened up.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"The Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive will have to give their consent on a cross-community basis for new regulations which are added to the backstop.\"\n\nThe words \"cross-community basis\" are important as it means that a simple majority vote of the assembly would not be enough.\n\nIt is possible that unionists, who dislike the very concept of the backstop, could use a blocking mechanism known as the petition of concern.\n\nWhat would happen if Stormont did veto any addition to the backstop is not entirely clear.\n\nAll we can say for sure is that there is a mechanism in the Withdrawal Agreement that ultimately allows the EU to take \"appropriate remedial measures\" if the UK does not update the backstop.\n\nThere is also the question of how to define a new regulation - under the Withdrawal Agreement a regulation is not new if it is replacing or amending an existing regulation.\n\nSo it is likely that Stormont would only, very rarely, get an opportunity to wield its veto.", "Prof Alston met people across the UK, including these Belfast residents\n\nThe UK's social safety net has been \"deliberately removed and replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos\", a report commissioned by the UN has said.\n\nSpecial rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip Alston said \"ideological\" cuts to public services since 2010 have led to \"tragic consequences\".\n\nThe report comes after Prof Alston visited UK towns and cities and made preliminary findings last November.\n\nThe government said his final report was \"barely believable\".\n\nThe £95bn spent on welfare and the maintenance of the state pension showed the government took tackling poverty \"extremely seriously\", a spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said.\n\nProf Alston is an independent expert in human rights law and was appointed to the unpaid role by the UN Human Rights Council in June 2014. He spent nearly two weeks travelling in Britain and Northern Ireland and received more than 300 written submissions for his report.\n\nHe concluded: \"The bottom line is that much of the glue that has held British society together since the Second World War has been deliberately removed and replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos.\"\n\nThe Australian professor, who is based at New York University, said government policies had led to the \"systematic immiseration [economic impoverishment]\" of a significant part of the UK population, meaning they had continually put people further into poverty.\n\nSome observers might conclude that the DWP had been tasked with \"designing a digital and sanitised version of the 19th Century workhouse, made infamous by Charles Dickens\", he said.\n\nThe report cites independent experts saying that 14 million people in the UK - a fifth of the population - live in poverty, according to a new measure that takes into account costs such as housing and childcare.\n\nIn 2017, 1.5 million people experienced destitution, meaning they had less than £10 a day after housing costs, or they had to go without at least two essentials such as shelter, food, heat, light, clothing or toiletries during a one-month period.\n\nDespite official denials, Prof Alston said he had heard accounts of people choosing between heating their homes or eating, children turning up to school with empty stomachs, increased homelessness and food bank use, and \"story after story\" of people who had considered or attempted suicide.\n\nPeople in Clacton shared their concerns at a meeting with the UN special rapporteur\n\nHe said the cause was the government's \"ideological\" decision to dismantle the social safety net and focus on work as the solution to poverty.\n\n\"UK standards of well-being have descended precipitately in a remarkably short period of time, as a result of deliberate policy choices made when many other options were available,\" said Prof Alston.\n\nTo anyone familiar with the shifting landscape of Britain's poorest communities since 2010, there is nothing factually new in these findings.\n\nBy highlighting them in one short, 20-page report, however, Philip Alston raises a fundamental question - is the government, and the country, comfortable with the society that we've become?\n\nHe outlines the normalisation of food banks, rising levels of homelessness and child poverty, steep cuts to benefits and policing, and severe restrictions on legal aid.\n\nIn Professor Alston's view, these are the unequivocal consequences of deliberate, calculated political decisions.\n\nMinisters have long argued they had no choice but to cut public spending. Whatever the motivation, life has become a lot harder in recent years for millions of people in the UK.\n\nThe DWP said that the UN's own data put the UK 15th on the list of the happiest places to live.\n\n\"This is a barely believable documentation of Britain, based on a tiny period of time spent here. It paints a completely inaccurate picture of our approach to tackling poverty,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"All the evidence shows that full-time work is the best way to boost your income and quality of life,\" the spokesman added.\n\nProf Alston praised the \"resilience, strength and generosity\" of British people, as well as the compassion of local officials and volunteers.\n\nAnd he said there had been some positive developments, with increases in the Universal Credit work allowances expected to lift 200,000 people out of poverty, and plans to introduce a consistent measure of poverty.\n\nBut he said the \"massive disinvestment\" in the social safety net continued, making the changes seem like \"window dressing to minimise political fall-out\".\n\nDespite the government's focus on work and record levels of employment, about 60% of people in poverty are in families where someone works, Prof Alston said.\n\nHe said this, along with welfare cuts, created a \"highly combustible situation that will have dire consequences\" in an extended economic downturn.", "Scotland Yard said investigations suggested that a \"blank-firing handgun\" had been discharged\n\nA man has been arrested after a gun was fired outside a mosque in east London during Ramadan prayers.\n\nPolice were called to reports of a man with a firearm entering the Seven Kings Masjid in Ilford at 22:45 BST on 9 May.\n\nA 28-year-old man was arrested earlier on suspicion of possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, possession with intent to supply, and assaulting a police officer.\n\nEvidence suggested the weapon was a blank-firing handgun, police said.\n\nNobody was hurt in the incident. The arrested man remains in custody.\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 man who blew up his marital home while his ex-wife was downstairs has been jailed for five years and four months.\n\nIan and Elaine Clowes converted their home in Poole, Dorset, into two separate flats following their divorce.\n\nClowes, 68, ignited a gas cylinder in October 2018 to stop her from owning the whole building, Bournemouth Crown Court heard.\n\nHe admitted arson reckless as to whether life was endangered.\n\nIan Clowes was \"motivated by malice\", a judge said\n\nThe explosion on Sterte Road on 22 October caused more than £600,000 worth of damage, the court was told.\n\nMr Clowes, who was upstairs when the butane canister ignited, suffered severe burns in the blast and spent weeks in an induced coma.\n\nHis wife was rescued uninjured from the rubble-filled downstairs bedroom by firefighters, the court was told.\n\nStuart Ellacott, prosecuting, said a neighbouring house which sustained \"catastrophic\" damage was uninsured.\n\nThe explosion caused the building to partially collapse\n\nThe court heard firefighters found two canisters in Clowes' flat, with one \"still venting gas\" after the valve had been opened.\n\nClowes was heard to say, \"I don't want to be here any more - I just wanted to die\", as he was treated at the scene, Mr Ellacott said.\n\nHe said the defendant had originally owned the whole building, but a court ordered his wife could take possession of the house after paying him £65,000.\n\nThe explosion happened on the day the property was due to be transferred.\n\nRobert Grey, mitigating, said his client was remorseful and the act was \"out of character\".\n\nHe said Clowes did not remember anything around the time of the explosion but accepted he must have released the valve.\n\nPassing sentence, Judge Jonathan Fuller QC said Clowes must have known his wife was in the flat downstairs when he detonated the gas canister.\n\nHe added: \"This case was motivated by a degree of malice - you did not want your wife to get the house.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man accused of murdering Nipsey Hussle has been formally charged, according to prosecutors in the United States.\n\nNew details have been made public about the charges against 29-year-old Eric Holder Jr.\n\nHe's accused of murder and two counts of attempted murder, after two other men were injured when the rapper was shot dead in March.\n\nEric Holder is accused of killing of rapper Nipsey Hussle\n\nEric Holder Jr is also accused of assault with a firearm and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon - someone who's already been convicted of a serious crime.\n\nHe's denied all the charges against him and is due to appear in court for a pre-trial hearing on 18 June.\n\nNipsey Hussle was shot dead outside his own clothing business in South Los Angeles on 31 March.\n\nHe died because of gunshot wounds to the head and torso, with the Los Angeles County coroner ruling the death a homicide.\n\nTwo days later, Eric Holder Jr was arrested in Bellflower, which is around 20 miles south east of where the rapper was killed.\n\nBail has been set at $6.53m, roughly £5.1m, and if found guilty he could be sentenced to life in prison.\n\nNipsey performed at the Warner Music Pre-Grammy Party in LA the month before he died\n\nFollowing Nipsey's death, tributes were paid from across the music industry.\n\nBeyonce, Rihanna, Drake, Chance The Rapper, John Legend and Big Sean were among the artists that spoke about him.\n\nHe was nominated for best rap album at the Grammys earlier this year for his record Victory Lap.\n\nEarlier this month, the lawyer representing Eric Holder Jr announced he was quitting the case.\n\nChris Darden said it was because \"threats\" had been made to members of his family including his children.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Did the prime minister just make it worse? It hardly seems that would have been possible.\n\nHer agreement with the EU had been sharply kicked out several times by MPs. She'd promised that she would quit and get out of the way if that bought more support. Then she took the risk of talking to the political enemy to try to get a different deal.\n\nBut those measures failed - leaving her hope this time to dangle a bauble to each of Parliament's different Brexit tribes in the much more extensive plan of how she'd actually put our departure into law.\n\nBut even before she started talking, many MPs simply weren't listening.\n\nAfter she finished, public rejections from almost all quarters started to pour in.\n\nOf course, the vote itself on this bundle of measures won't be for at least a week - a lifetime in this hyper-speed world. A lot could change.\n\nBut the diplomatic way of describing the situation tonight? Compromising when no one else is interested in consensus is impossible.\n\nThe more brutal political interpretation - Theresa May's mishandling of this whole situation has, over many, many months, pulled her deeper and deeper down into a quagmire of her own creation.\n\nAn attempt at this stage to ask others for understanding to help her escape is just too late - far, far too late. Now some Conservative minds are turning to whether she can stay on to have this vote at all.", "Change UK has spent more than twice as much on Facebook ads in the last week as other parties standing in this week's European elections.\n\nThe newly-formed party spent £62,650 in the period from 13 to 19 May, more than half their total spend of £120,711 since February.\n\nLast week, The Brexit Party spent £27,359, Labour £19,513, the Lib Dems £20,681 and the Conservatives £8,470.\n\nIn the last 30 days, the Lib Dems and The Brexit Party have spent the most.\n\nThe Brexit Party spent nearly £100,000 in advertising on the platform during that longer period, which starts before the UK's participation in the European elections was confirmed on 7 May. The Liberal Democrats spent nearly £80,000.\n\nLast week, the Greens spent £14,432 and UKIP spent under £100.\n\nHowever, just because a party is spending more does not mean that the posts will be more widely viewed.\n\nIn the run up to the 2017 general election, Labour spent less on Facebook ads than the Conservatives, but had a higher engagement rate on the site.\n\nIn 2017, parties spent about £3m on Facebook ads between them, with the Conservatives spending twice as much as the other parties combined.\n\nDuring that general election, the Liberal Democrats spent almost as much money as Labour, but reached far fewer people.\n\nIn 2015, the Conservatives spent £1.2m on the network's advertising platform, about 10 times more than Labour.\n\nAll of this is small fry in comparison to American elections, however, where the Trump and Clinton campaigns spent $81m (£63.7m) between them on Facebook ads alone in the run up to the 2016 presidential election.\n\nThat figure does not even include advert spending by Political Action Committees (or PACs) which can run ads endorsing a particular figure or stance. It is possible for PACs to outspend the candidates running for office.", "Geoff Ho was in Black and Blue - next to Borough Market - when the attackers entered\n\nThe London Bridge attackers stalked people who were in a bar-restaurant like \"predators\", a man who was stabbed has told the inquest.\n\nGeoff Ho was in Black and Blue, on the edge of Borough Market, when the three attackers entered with \"slow, deliberate predatory movements\".\n\nHe was among 48 people injured on the evening of 3 June 2017.\n\nKhuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, killed eight people with their van and knife attack.\n\nSpeaking at the Old Bailey, Mr Ho told the inquest: \"It was like they were stalking someone.\"\n\nHe said he refused the attackers' demands to lie down on the floor, saying he knew \"if I lay down I'd be dead\".\n\nHe told the court they were wearing a series of \"metal canisters liked baked bean tins\" with wires connecting them, which he took to be suicide bombs.\n\nAfter being told by one of the men to lie on the floor, he told the court he said: \"No - you don't have to do this.\"\n\nHe said he thought: \"If I rush him he might detonate and kill us all. The only thing I can do is talk to him and hopefully he will go away.\"\n\nHe described the \"murderous rage\" in the man's eyes.\n\nMr Ho gave a graphic description of how he was repeatedly stabbed. Eventually he was able to get up and seek help, with his hand clasped around his throat to stop the bleeding.\n\nCCTV footage later showed that the time taken from the three men entering the bar until they lashed out was less than a minute.\n\nMr Ho told the court: \"It seemed longer.\"\n\nThe first 10 days of the inquests focused on the eight people killed in the first few minutes of the attack.\n\nThe hearing has now begun to look into the next phase - as Redouane, Butt and Zaghba continued stabbing people in bars, restaurants and on the street in the Borough Market area.\n\nCandice Hedge - a waitress at Elliot's Cafe, opposite Black and Blue - described how customers were \"scrambling to try to get a safe spot\" when the three attackers came in.\n\nShe said she remembered seeing \"some sort of wires\" on one of the men, which she thought looked like an explosive vest.\n\n\"They were shouting something along the lines of they were not happy with the way we were living our lives,\" Ms Hedge added.\n\nMr Ho and Candice Hedge both gave evidence to the inquest on Wednesday\n\nShe saw one of the men stab a customer twice in the back and then \"the one beside me turned around as if to leave and then he saw me\".\n\nMs Hedge put her hands up to protect her face, but was stabbed in the neck. She went to the bar and grabbed a napkin which she used to try and stem the bleeding.\n\nShe said she moved to the stairs and could not see what the attacker was doing, but could hear bar stools smashing.\n\nShe fled to a downstairs kitchen where she waited with colleagues until police arrived about 20-30 minutes later.\n\nMeanwhile, the last person injured in the attack - Antonio Filis - told the court he felt lucky to be alive after a knife wound narrowly missed his lung.\n\nThe inquest heard he had had martial arts training some years before and was initially able to use it to avoid the assailant's knife.\n\nBut the other two attackers joined the assault stabbing Mr Filis several times.\n\nAs he lay on the ground, Mr Filis said he thought: \"Whatever's going to happen, please make it quick.\"\n\nAlmost immediately, armed police arrived and the three attackers left him.\n\nThe trio moved towards the officers, who warned them to drop their knives before opening fire, hitting all three of the attackers.\n\nXavier Thomas, 45, Christine Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, were all killed in the attack.\n\nIt was brought to an end in less than 10 minutes when the attackers were shot dead.", "Three-time Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda has died at the age of 70.\n\nThe Austrian will be remembered for his remarkable recovery and return to racing after being badly burned in a crash in the 1976 German Grand Prix.\n\nOne of the best-known figures in motor racing, his on the track rivalry with British driver James Hunt during the 1970s was immortalised in the film Rush.", "Huawei unveiled new phones powered by ARM-based chips, on Tuesday\n\nUK-based chip designer ARM has told staff it must suspend business with Huawei, according to internal documents obtained by the BBC.\n\nARM instructed employees to halt \"all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements” with Huawei and its subsidiaries to comply with a recent US trade clampdown.\n\nARM's designs form the basis of most mobile device processors worldwide.\n\nIn a company memo, it said its designs contained “US origin technology”.\n\nAs a consequence, it believes it is affected by the Trump administration's ban.\n\nOne analyst described the move, if it became long-term, as an “insurmountable” blow to Huawei’s business.\n\nHe said it would greatly affect the firm's ability to develop its own chips, many of which are currently built with ARM’s underlying technology, for which it pays a licence.\n\nThese are used in the Chinese company's 5G base stations and computer servers in addition to its smartphones.\n\nCambridge-headquartered ARM had been described as the UK's largest tech firm until its takeover by a Japanese fund. It employs 6,000 workers and lists eight offices in the US.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday it said: \"ARM is complying with the latest restrictions set forth by the US government and is having ongoing conversations with the appropriate US government agencies to ensure we remain compliant.\n\n\"ARM values its relationship with our long-time partner HiSilicon and we are hopeful for a swift resolution on this matter.\"\n\nHuawei has issued a brief statement of its own.\n\n\"We value our close relationships with our partners, but recognise the pressure some of them are under, as a result of politically motivated decisions,\" it said.\n\n\"We are confident this regrettable situation can be resolved and our priority remains to continue to deliver world-class technology and products to our customers around the world.\"\n\nARM is a chip designer founded in 1990. In September 2016 it was acquired by Japanese telecoms giant Softbank, but remains based in Cambridge, UK.\n\nARM does not manufacture computer processors itself, but rather licenses its semiconductor technologies to others.\n\nIn some cases, manufacturers only license ARM's architecture, or \"instruction sets\", which determine how processors handle commands. This option gives chip-makers greater freedom to customise their own designs.\n\nIn other cases, manufacturers license ARM's processor core designs - which describes how the chips' transistors should be arranged. These blueprints still need to be combined with other elements - such as memory and radios - to create what is referred to as a system-on-chip.\n\nAs a result, when you hear talk of a device being powered by a Samsung Exynos, Qualcomm Snapdragon or Apple A11 chip - or one in a Huawei smartphone - it is still ARM's technology that is involved.\n\nARM's US headquarters are in San Jose, California, and the firm has offices in Washington, Arizona, Texas and Massachusetts.\n\nARM’s staff were informed of the decision on 16 May, following the US Commerce Department’s move to add Huawei to its “entity list” of companies with which American firms could no longer do business.\n\nThe BBC has also seen a company memo dated 18 May detailing the implications of the export ban.\n\nOn Monday 20 May, US government officials issued a 90-day reprieve on some of the restrictions in order to minimise immediate disruption. But ARM believes that the temporary licence involved does not apply to it.\n\nA spokesman for ARM declined to offer any additional clarity about the current status of its Huawei contracts.\n\nA break with ARM would make it difficult for Huawei to develop future generations of its Kirin processors\n\nAccording to one memo, ARM staff were instructed to suspend all interactions with Huawei and its subsidiaries.\n\nIt advised staff to send a note informing Huawei (or related) employees that due to an “unfortunate situation”, they were not allowed to “provide support, delivery technology (whether software, code, or other updates), engage in technical discussions, or otherwise discuss technical matters with Huawei, HiSilicon or any of the other named entities”.\n\nARM staff that come into contact with employees at industry events must “politely decline and stop” any conversations about the business, the guidance said - stressing that individuals could be held personally liable for breaking the trade rules.\n\nThe ban also appeared to apply to ARM China, the China-based company in which ARM Holdings owns a 49% stake. It was set up as a joint venture with a Chinese investment consortium last year in order to enable ARM to develop, sell and offer support for its products in the region.\n\nHuawei told reporters on Tuesday that its “plan B” for software would be to develop its own operating system, something it has already been working on for some time. However, it will be significantly more difficult for the firm to source home-grown components of sufficient quality.\n\nHuawei currently sources some of its chips from HiSilicon, which it owns. However, while produced in China, HiSilicon’s chips are built using underlying technology created by ARM.\n\nWhile HiSilicon and Huawei are free to carry on using and manufacturing existing chips, the ban would mean the company could no longer turn to ARM for assistance in developing components for devices in future.\n\nHiSilicon's upcoming processor, Kirin 985, is due be used in Huawei devices later this year. According to a source at ARM, it is not expected to be affected by the ban. However, the next iteration of the chip has not yet been completed - and is likely to need to be rebuilt from scratch, the source said.\n\nHuawei also uses ARM's designs for its recently unveiled Kunpeng chips. These are used to power its TaiShan-series computer servers, which are designed to provide cloud computing and storage to clients.\n\nIn addition, the company told analysts in January that the Tiangang chip at the heart of its 5G base stations is also ARM-based.\n\nHuawei's carrier division chief Ryan Ding showed off its 5G base station chip alongside an image saying it involved a \"high-performance ARM-based processor\"\n\n\"The problem of the whole telecoms industry is that so much of it is based on the exchange of technology between different companies - whether that's chip companies, software providers or the makers of other hardware,\" commented Alan Burkitt-Gray, editor-at-large of the telecoms news site Capacity Media.\n\nHe added that Huawei would likely face other problems licensing 5G-related tech from others, and in turn US-based companies would now be unable to licence the Chinese company's 5G inventions.\n\n\"This will carve out a chasm in the industry between Huawei-originated intellectual property and the rest of the world's,\" he said.\n\n\"It's just a total mess and it's happened at a critical time for the rollout of 5G.\"\n\nThe relationship between ARM and Huawei engineers is tight - earlier this month Huawei announced its intention to build a research centre only 15 minutes from ARM’s headquarters in Cambridge, UK.\n\nThe latest development follows news that Huawei will lose access to some of Google's Android services\n\n\"ARM is the foundation of Huawei’s smartphone chip designs, so this is an insurmountable obstacle for Huawei,” said Geoff Blaber, from CCS Insight.\n\n\"That said, with an abundance of companies in Huawei’s supply chain already having taken action to comply with the US order, Huawei’s ability to operate was already severely affected.”\n\nWhat is not yet clear is whether ARM is acting on its own interpretation of the US rules, or whether it has been advised by the Commerce Department.\n\n\"If that interpretation is correct, that’s going to affect every semiconductor company in the world,” remarked analyst Lee Ratliff, from IHS Markit.\n\n\"They’re not going to be able to easily replace these parts with new, in-house designs - the semiconductor industry in China is nascent.”\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "The parents of a man who joined the group calling itself Islamic State sent him money while he was in Syria, a jury at the Old Bailey has heard.\n\nJack Letts, who converted to Islam aged 16, travelled to the war zone in 2014.\n\nThe court heard John Letts, 58, and Sally Lane, 56, of Chilswell Road, Oxford, sent or tried to send more than £1,700 to their son despite warnings not to.\n\nThe couple deny three charges of funding terrorism.\n\nIt is alleged that between September 2015 and January 2016 the couple sent or tried to send three payments to Jack, now 23, after he contacted them from the war zone.\n\nProsecutor Alison Morgan QC told the jury there was no suggestion Jack's parents were themselves terrorists or supporters of the ideology or actions of the banned IS group.\n\nBut she added: \"They sent money to their son with knowledge or reasonable cause to suspect that it might be used by him or others to support terrorist activity, or that it might fall into the hands of others who would use it for that purpose.\n\n\"It is inevitable that you will have sympathy for them as parents of a man who took himself to Syria against their wishes, but you will also see from the evidence the way in which these defendants came to commit these offences, despite being warned by a wide variety of people.\"\n\nThe jury heard the evidence would show that the couple knew Jack was in Syria with the IS group and, when he began asking for cash, they suspected he was being manipulated.\n\nMs Morgan said Mr Letts and Ms Lane were repeatedly told by \"numerous police officers\" not to send any money.\n\nThey received further similar advice from a range of terrorism experts they consulted for help, the court heard.\n\n\"It was not open to these defendants to take the law into their own hands, whatever their own reasons and motives,\" Ms Morgan said.\n\n\"Sending money in such circumstances, where you may conclude that it was highly likely to fall into the wrong hands, is against the law.\"\n\nOxford-based Muslim friends of Jack Letts, who has obsessive compulsive disorder, feared he had been radicalised by extremists, the court was told.\n\nOne friend from the local mosque contacted his parents to warn them about that possibility of their son secretly leaving the UK to join the Syrian conflict, and urged them to confiscate his passport.\n\nDespite those concerns, they paid for Jack to fly to Jordan in May 2014, apparently for a study trip, the prosecution said.\n\nThe court heard the couple sought to maintain contact with Jack, with Mr Letts messaging his son to talk about his \"grand adventure\".\n\nBut both parents harboured growing suspicions about Jack's ultimate motives, Ms Morgan said, and by September 2014 they realised he must have entered Syria.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Commons leader Andrea Leadsom has resigned from the government amid a backlash against Theresa May's Brexit plan from Conservative MPs.\n\nHere is her resignation letter in full:\n\nI am proud to have served in your government since 2016, first as your environment secretary and for the last two years as leader of the House of Commons, and pay tribute to the excellent work of my civil servants in both roles. More recently, setting up the new complaints procedure, putting in train the restoration of the Palace of Westminster, introducing proxy voting for MPs, proposing a new strategy to support early years, and ensuring the timely delivery of our legislative programme, my role as leader of the Commons has been highly rewarding, and I am grateful to have had these opportunities.\n\nI stayed in cabinet to shape and fight for Brexit. There have been some uncomfortable compromises along the way, but you have had my determined support and loyalty in your efforts to deliver Brexit as our shared goal.\n\nI no longer believe that our approach will deliver on the referendum result, for the following reasons:\n\n1. I do not believe that we will be a truly sovereign United Kingdom through the deal that is now proposed;\n\n2. I have always maintained that a second referendum would be dangerously divisive, and I do not support the government willingly facilitating such a concession. It would also risk undermining our union which is something I passionately want to see strengthened;\n\n3. There has been such a breakdown of government processes that recent Brexit-related legislative proposals have not been properly scrutinised or approved by cabinet members;\n\n4. The tolerance to those in cabinet who have advocated policies contrary to the government's position has led to a complete breakdown of collective responsibility.\n\nI know there are important elections tomorrow, and many Conservatives have worked hard to support our excellent candidates. I considered carefully the timing of this decision, but I cannot fulfil my duty as Leader of the House tomorrow, to announce a bill with new elements that I fundamentally oppose.\n\nI fully respect the integrity, resolution and determination that you have shown during your time as prime minister. No-one has wanted you to succeed more than I have, but I do now urge you to make the right decisions In the interests of the country, this government and our party.\n\nIt is therefore with great regret and with a heavy heart that I resign from the government.\n• None May under pressure as Leadsom quits", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In Scunthorpe, residents fear the town will \"shut down\" if British Steel collapses\n\nLabour has urged the government to nationalise British Steel in order to protect jobs and the steel industry.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the collapse of British Steel would have a \"devastating impact\" on Scunthorpe.\n\nBritish Steel is on the verge of administration as it continues to lobby for government backing, sources say.\n\nThe UK's second-biggest steel maker had been trying to secure £75m in financial support to help it to address \"Brexit-related issues\".\n\nIf the firm does not get the cash it would put 5,000 jobs at risk and endanger 20,000 in the supply chain.\n\n\"If an agreement cannot be struck with British Steel, the government must act to take a public stake in the company to secure the long term future of the steelworks and protect peoples' livelihoods and communities,\" said Mr Corbyn.\n\nThe government said it would leave \"no stone unturned\" in its support for the steel industry.\n\nBritish Steel's main plant is at Scunthorpe, but it also has a site in Teesside.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Business Minister Andrew Stephenson said: \"I can reassure the House that, subject to strict legal bounds, the government will leave no stone unturned in its support for the steel industry.\"\n\nUK Steel's director general, Gareth Stace, said: \"The statement from the business minister today provided a glimmer of hope for the Scunthorpe site.\n\n\"This does provide some breathing space for the company, its employees, and the wider steel sector, providing a potential route towards a stable and sustainable future.\"\n\nThe request for emergency financial support from the government is understood to have been reduced from £75m to about £30m.\n\nIn April, British Steel borrowed £100m from the government to enable it to pay an EU carbon bill, so it could avoid a steep fine.\n\nReports have said that British Steel shareholder Greybull Capital and lenders have agreed to pump new money into the firm.\n\nHowever, unless a deal is reached by Tuesday afternoon, the firm could go into administration within 48 hours. EY would be expected to be appointed as administrators on Wednesday.\n\nIf a company goes into administration, then the insolvency practitioners appointed to run the business will try to rescue it by selling it, or parts of it, as a going concern.\n\nBut if that is not possible it will be liquidated, meaning that it will be closed down and its saleable assets will be sold.\n\nFor staff in Scunthorpe, it's a waiting game.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC's consumer affairs correspondent Colletta Smith spoke to a British Steel staff member who was too worried to be named. He said that two of his colleagues have just got mortgages and are petrified they won't be able to make payments.\n\nNews that the company is in trouble isn't a surprise though, as there are piles of finished steel on the factory floor, with no customers to send it to, he said.\n\n\"We're doing a bit at work, but it's mostly sitting around doing nothing as the orders just aren't there\".\n\nHe said staff feel let down by the owners.\n\n\"They've just stripped this company and now they're putting nothing back. Our only hope is a government bailout, but this time it feels different. I don't think they'll save us.\"\n\nSources close to Greybull Capital say its lenders have told them that unless they can secure a £30m lifeline they will pull the plug on British Steel tomorrow.\n\nThe timing of this could hardly be worse for the government coming as it does right before the European elections.\n\nCynics might suggest that Greybull is not unhappy with the timescale of the plea.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark has a very tough decision, as I've already written.\n\nThe question may be whether the government can put this down to Brexit mitigation and tap the same source of contingency funds Chris Grayling disastrously used to procure emergency ferry capacity.\n\nAt least there would be an immediate dividend - to stave off the collapse of a firm that employs 4,500 people directly and has 20,000 more at risk in the supply chain.\n\nHowever, having already lent £100m to cover a genuinely Brexit-related carbon emissions bill - further assistance to a private company struggling in a deeply challenged industry may be a precedent they would rather not set.\n\nLast Thursday, British Steel said it had the backing of shareholders and lenders and that operations were continuing as usual while it sought a \"permanent solution\" from the government to its financial troubles.\n\nIt is understood that along with administration, nationalisation or a management buyout are being discussed as fall-back options for the company.\n\nBritish Steel's troubles have been linked to a slump in orders from European customers ‎due to uncertainty over the Brexit process.\n\nThe firm has also been struggling with the weakness of the pound since the EU referendum in June 2016 and the escalating trade US-China trade war.\n\nOne of its biggest customers is Network Rail, 95% of whose rails are supplied by British Steel's Scunthorpe plant.\n\nIn 2007, India's Tata conglomerate entered the UK steel market after it bought the Anglo Dutch group, Corus. In 2010, the business was renamed Tata Steel Europe.\n\nAfter a difficult few years, Tata sold the Scunthorpe long products division to private equity firm Greybull Capital for a nominal £1.\n\nGreybull's rescue came during the depths of the steel crisis in 2016 and saved more than 4,000 jobs.\n\nIt then rebranded the company as British Steel and recently returned it to profit.\n\nOn Monday, the government, trade unions and employers signed a UK Steel Charter in Parliament. The charter calls on the government and large companies to buy British to boost UK industry.", "David Davies says he uses a body camera because of the abuse he gets.\n\nThe pro-Brexit MP for Monmouth has voted for Theresa May's deal.\n\nDuring an interview on the subject, a member of the public called him a liar and a traitor.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Undercover BBC filming shows staff swearing, mocking and taunting patients with autism and learning disabilities\n\nEight years ago I worked with a team at BBC One's Panorama programme to reveal terrible physical abuse at a hospital for vulnerable adults on the outskirts of Bristol, called Winterbourne View.\n\nPeople with learning disabilities or autism were filmed by our undercover reporter being kicked, punched, mocked and mistreated by people paid to care for them.\n\nAs the producer of that film, I worked with whistleblowers to gather evidence, hired the undercover reporter and oversaw his filming.\n\nNearly a dozen people who had worked at Winterbourne View were prosecuted afterwards as a result of our evidence. The abuse was terrible, as was the betrayal of trust.\n\nAfter our film was broadcast, the then Prime Minister David Cameron, the then minister for care, Norman Lamb, and the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats committed to shutting specialist hospitals and moving people closer to their families.\n\nThat should have been the moment that the lives of thousands of people with learning disabilities or autism, whose behaviour some services struggle with, changed forever.\n\nInstead, though, we have been told that the political promise has been first watered down and then broken.\n\nNearly 2,300 people with learning disabilities or autism are still in such hospitals, often far from home and for much longer than is appropriate.\n\nHospitals are not places where people should live - and yet today they still are.\n\nLast year, a series of new whistleblowers approached BBC Panorama, complaining about the culture, attitude and behaviour of a group of care workers at a different hospital for vulnerable adults, called Whorlton Hall in County Durham.\n\nThey told us that care workers were bullying and mistreating patients.\n\nThat sort of behaviour should never happen in any hospital, and certainly not after all the promises that were made after Winterbourne View.\n\nWorse, eight years ago Whorlton Hall, which is privately-run but NHS-funded, had been owned by the same company as Winterbourne View.\n\nOne of the families affected by Winterbourne View told us they were shocked a hospital which used to be part of the same group could also be abusive.\n\nOlivia Davies went undercover to investigate the allegations\n\nI contacted a talented young journalist named Olivia Davies who had already been undercover twice for the BBC.\n\nI asked if she would be prepared to work inside the hospital as a care worker while also, at the same time, gathering evidence for the BBC.\n\nOlivia agreed and worked 12-hour shifts, often back to back, over more than two months, wearing a camera hidden in her top.\n\nThe patients whose care - and too often neglect or cruelty - that Olivia documented are some of the most vulnerable but also challenging people in the country.\n\nOlivia loved spending time with the patients, but that made her unusual among the staff at Whorlton Hall, most of whom seemed to ignore the people they are paid to care for.\n\nToo many care workers actively aggravated, tormented and talked about patients in the most appalling ways.\n\nThe taunting and deliberate winding up of patients was almost unbearable to witness, as was the language and attitude.\n\nExperts who reviewed our footage said that in one case what Olivia had filmed was evidence of psychological torture. Another patient was frequently deliberately provoked by staff.\n\nSomething that should only be a last resort is used too often and NHS figures show that its use is increasing.\n\nThe practice of holding distressed people down, often on the floor and sometimes for long periods of time, is horrible to witness and even worse to endure.\n\nIt shouldn't have happened again. The government should have fixed these issues, eight years ago.\n\nWe asked Health Secretary Matt Hancock for an interview about the wider issues, but his press office told us: \"We treat any allegations of abuse with the utmost seriousness.\n\n\"Durham Constabulary are now leading a criminal investigation into the allegations and we cannot comment on the investigation while it is ongoing. Steps have been taken to ensure the safety of residents at Whorlton Hall.\n\n\"Autistic people and those with learning disabilities should receive the best possible care and be supported to live in their communities.\n\n\"We are working to ensure more people return home from hospital as soon as their treatment has finished and significant investment in community support has already led to a 22% reduction in these mental health inpatient numbers since 2015.\"\n\nCygnet, the company which now owns Whorlton Hall, said: \"We are shocked and deeply saddened by the allegations made against members of staff at Whorlton Hall, part of the Danshell Group, which Cygnet recently acquired.\n\n\"We take these allegations extremely seriously. We have suspended all the members of staff involved, simultaneously informed all relevant authorities, including the police, who have now instigated an inquiry and we are co-operating fully with their investigation.\n\n\"We have taken the initiative of transferring all the patients to other hospitals.\n\n\"The safety and care of our patients and residents is of paramount importance and we have zero tolerance of unprofessional conduct towards them.\n\n\"Those implicated in this programme have betrayed not only some of society's most vulnerable people but also the thousands of people at Cygnet who work daily with dedication and compassion to look after the people in their care.\n\n\"This appalling behaviour is entirely inconsistent with Cygnet Health Care's values and high standards and we remain absolutely committed to delivering the highest quality healthcare, which our patients and residents expect and deserve.\"", "Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has said he is \"devastated\" after his restaurant group went into administration, with 1,000 jobs being lost.\n\nThe group, which includes the Jamie's Italian chain, Barbecoa and Fifteen, has appointed KPMG as administrators.\n\nTwenty two of the 25 restaurants in Jamie Oliver's restaurant group have now closed.\n\nMr Oliver, who put in £4m cash this year, said: \"I appreciate how difficult this is for everyone affected.\"\n\nTwo Jamie's Italian restaurants and Jamie Oliver's Diner at Gatwick Airport will continue to trade in the short term while the administrators explore options for the outlets.\n\n\"The group had recently undertaken a process to secure additional investment into the business and, since the beginning of this year, Jamie Oliver has made available additional funds of £4m to support the fundraising,\" said the administrators in a statement.\n\n\"However, with no suitable investment forthcoming and in light of the very difficult current trading environment, the directors resolved to appoint administrators.\"\n\nJamie Oliver's Fifteen Cornwall at Watergate Bay, which operates under a franchise, is unaffected. The international restaurants trading as Jamie's Italian, Jamie's Pizzeria and Jamie's Deli will also continue to trade as normal.\n\nMr Oliver tweeted that: \"I'm devastated that our much-loved UK restaurants have gone into administration.\"\n\nAnd in a statement he added: \"I would also like to thank all the customers who have enjoyed and supported us over the last decade, it's been a real pleasure serving you.\n\n\"We launched Jamie's Italian in 2008 with the intention of positively disrupting mid-market dining in the UK High Street, with great value and much higher quality ingredients, best-in-class animal welfare standards and an amazing team who shared my passion for great food and service. And we did exactly that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNotices have appeared in the windows of the 22 branches which have already closed.\n\nThe Unite union said the development was a \"devastating blow for the chain's hardworking and loyal workforce\".\n\n\"Restaurants are not being helped by the current economic uncertainty, although those businesses like Jamie Oliver's that dashed for expansion in recent years seem particularly precarious. As ever, it is the workers at the restaurant and in the supply chain who bear the heavy cost of boardroom decisions.\"\n\nThe union also asked for assurances that staff will be \"protected and paid all the money they're owed, including wages, holiday and redundancy\".\n\nOne Jamie's Italian worker in Birmingham, Valentine Balbinot, said: \"It was just so devastating, we were not expecting this... it is really brutal.\"\n\nMr Oliver is known for his Naked Chef books and TV shows, broadcast in dozens of countries, after first being shown in the UK 20 years ago.\n\nHe has also campaigned for healthier eating, including in school meals.\n\nHis chain is the latest victim of a tough trading environment on the UK High Street.\n\nEarlier this year, cafe chain Patisserie Valerie fell into administration, and 70 outlets closed, with the loss of 920 jobs, although 96 shops were saved.\n\nOther mid-market chains that have struggled in recent years have included Byron Burger, Prezzo and Carluccio's.\n\nMr Oliver's business has faced difficulties over the past two years, with a number of Jamie's Italian and Barbecoa restaurants shutting.\n\nClosed notices have been posted on a number of outlets, including Jamie's in Glasgow\n\nIn 2017, he closed the last of his Union Jacks restaurants and also shut his magazine Jamie, which had been running for almost 10 years.\n\nIn December of that year the chef also put £3m of his own money into his restaurant businesses.\n\nSimon Mydlowski, a partner at law firm Gordons and an expert in the hospitality industry, said Jamie's had failed to keep up with changing trends.\n\n\"To be successful in this sector you have to be constantly evolving - from the menus and the drinks choice, to the way you engage with customers.\"\n\n\"Faced with higher rent, rising food prices and increased competition, restaurants need a point of difference - it's no coincidence that smaller brands with the freedom and flexibility to keep things fresh are currently the ones performing well.\"", "Two men have been shot dead in separate incidents in County Dublin in less than 24 hours.\n\nOn Tuesday night, a man was found dead beside a burning car at Rowans Little in Walshestown, near Balbriggan in north County Dublin.\n\nHe has been identified as as 22-year-old Seán Little from Coolock in Dublin.\n\nIt is understood he was known to gardaí (Irish police) because of his links with organised crime.\n\nAccording to Irish broadcaster RTÉ, he was an associate of the leader of a Finglas-based organised crime gang, involved in an ongoing feud with a Blanchardstown drugs gang.\n\nHe also had close links to the Kinahan crime gang., RTÉ reports.\n\nPolice vehicles and investigators at the scene of the first incident in Walshestown\n\nGardaí said he was shot a number of times before his body was discovered at about 23:20 local time.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, a second man was shot dead on the north side of Dublin.\n\nHe was killed on Marigold Road in the Darndale area at about 16:00 local time.\n\nThe scene of a fatal shooting in the Darndale area of Dublin\n\nInitial reports suggest the victim was known to gardaí and that the shooting could be drugs related.\n\nHowever, it is not known if the two deaths are connected.\n\nA burnt-out car was removed from the scene of the first incident following a forensic examination\n\nIn the first incident, the fact that the body was found beside a burnt-out car may suggest the victim was murdered somewhere else and taken to the scene, off the Belfast-to-Dublin motorway, before being dropped from the vehicle near the exit close to Balbriggan.\n\nAlthough it is early in the investigation, detectives are keenly aware of three ongoing gangland feuds: one in Drogheda, a few kilometres north, and another in Blanchardstown in west Dublin - both are over the drugs trade.\n\nAnd then there is the on-going Kinahan-Hutch feud that began in 2015 and is believed to have claimed 17 lives so far.", "The pound has fallen to its lowest level for five months just as many UK holidaymakers get ready to head off for the late-May half-term break.\n\nAgainst the US dollar, the pound fell below $1.27 for the first time since January on Tuesday. It also fell early in the day against the euro.\n\nBut it picked up again later in the day in a sign of its current volatility.\n\nCabinet backing for Prime Minister Theresa May's latest Brexit plan led to the rebound.\n\nCurrency experts say Brexit uncertainty and the US-China trade war have both contributed to the pound's recent fall.\n\nSterling had gained some ground in recent months, but in recent days rates have fallen back to the kind of levels seen during the Christmas holidays.\n\nIt is a very different picture from March 2008, when the pound was briefly worth more than $2.\n\nHolidaymakers heading off for an early summer break in Europe or the US may be saving money by avoiding the even higher costs of travelling in July and August.\n\nHowever, they are finding that their money will not go as far as it did a few years ago.\n\nAnyone leaving it to the last minute and changing money at the airport will always get the worst rates. At some airports, they will find an exchange rate little better than parity between the pound and the euro.\n\nJames Hickman, chief commercial officer at currency traders FairFx, said that the best rates were given to those who ordered their holiday money ahead. He suggested that would also be a good plan for anyone thinking about their holiday money for later this summer.\n\nAt present, the best rates on pre-loaded currency cards sees a pound buy just over $1.27 and just over €1.13.\n\nFor those collecting from an exchange bureau, the best deals will see the pound get slightly less than $1.26 and just under €1.13.\n\nThe Post Office - the most popular bureau for UK holidaymakers - sees anyone changing more than £400 receiving slightly over $1.24 and just over €1.11 for their pound.\n\nThe recent drop in the value of the pound has come amid speculation over the future of Brexit.\n\n\"When sentiment moves towards a higher likelihood of a hard Brexit, then we see a fall in the pound,\" Mr Hickman said.\n\nThe reverse is also true, shown by the rebound after the cabinet gave its backing to Mrs May's plan for her Withdrawal Agreement Bill, including compromises intended to attract the support of Labour MPs.\n\nSterling is also affected indirectly by the continuing trade war between the US and China.\n\nHamish Muress, currency analyst at OFX, said the pound was \"suffering from the renewed uncertainty of Brexit, while investors flood to the relatively safer US dollar amidst the ongoing trade war\".\n\n\"Looking forward, headwinds look stronger than tailwinds for the pound, particularly with another Brexit vote not set to take place for a few weeks yet. But perhaps the only real hope would come from Donald Trump pressing the pause button with regards to the trade war,\" he added.\n\nAlana Parsons, from foreign exchange firm Caxton, said: \"Getting the most value for your travel money can be tricky, but not if we spend as much time planning our finances as we do researching our holiday destinations.\"", "The postal mark on some envelopes shows they were sent to France via the Netherlands\n\nThe BBC has been contacted by British expats from across the world who say their postal voting forms have arrived late, or not at all.\n\nThe BBC found some local councils used a postal service called Adare SEC, rather than Royal Mail, to send them.\n\nEnvelopes seen by the BBC indicate they were sent via the Netherlands.\n\nVoters must have their papers back in the UK by election day. Adare SEC said all ballots were posted \"in line with the election and council timetables\".\n\nThe company insisted they had used \"reputable mail handlers\" whose job it was to \"assess the best route through other European countries before the mail arrives at the final destination\".\n\nThe UK will go to the polls on Thursday, between 07:00 BST and 22:00 BST.\n\nVoters from Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and United States have contacted the BBC to say their postal votes have either arrived too late or not arrived at all.\n\nExpat voters who want to participate in European elections can register in advance to have a postal vote in the British constituency where they or their parents were last registered to vote.\n\nBut they must have their completed ballot paper returned to the local electoral returning officer by the time polls close on election day.\n\nIt is believed, based on the number of eligible voters, that thousands of Britons living in France could be affected.\n\nAnn Bone, who lives in Maury in the Pyrenees Orientales, said her postal vote did not arrive until Friday - and when she went to return it to Calderdale Council she was informed by the French postal service that it had \"no chance\" of arriving in the UK in time.\n\nHer husband's ballot has still not arrived in France. She said: \"We've been denied a vote, basically.\"\n\nJoy Elise Allen was told by Barnsley Council her postal vote was sent to her at the end of April - 16 days later it arrived at her home in Saint-Pierre-d'Exideuil in France having being sent via the Netherlands.\n\n\"I know of someone who's flown back to the UK with his whole family's emergency proxy votes,\" said Ms Allen.\n\n\"We are all very upset, very angry and we want someone to be held accountable for this.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the council said it was \"investigating this and have asked for a response from our postal provider\".\n\nAdam Kaznowski who lives in Poland says his postal vote only arrived on Tuesday, meaning there is not enough time to return his vote to the UK.\n\n\"I'm not going to send in my postal vote,\" he said \"there is absolutely no point.\"\n\n\"This is an issue of my fundamental rights being breached - in theory I have the right to vote but in practice it is not possible.\"\n\n\"The postal vote system is not fit for purpose - it is dependant on third parties which the UK government has no control over.\"\n\nStuart Stone - a chef living in Malmo, Sweden - described the situation as \"a travesty\".\n\n\"It is my right to vote and it is really important,\" he said.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said it has had \"no involvement\" in the distribution of postal votes for the European election - adding that responsibility lay with local councils.\n\nA spokesman for the commission advised anyone overseas who has yet to receive their postal vote to contact the relevant council.\n\nEuropean elections: What are the rules for overseas voters?\n\nUK citizens living abroad are able to vote either by postal vote or by proxy, when a registered person votes in the UK on their behalf.\n\nOnly three other EU countries allow citizens living abroad to vote using a proxy - the Netherlands, France and Belgium.\n\nHowever, unlike 21 EU nations, the UK does not allow its nationals to vote in its overseas embassies and consulates.\n\nBulgaria, Greece and Italy only allow overseas citizens to vote if they are living in another EU country.\n\nThe Czech Republic, Ireland, Malta and Slovakia do not allow their citizens to vote in their home constituencies from abroad.\n\nEstonia allows overseas voters to vote online, the only EU country to do so.\n\nThe government had hoped a Brexit deal would be agreed prior to these elections, and Prime Minister Theresa May said the UK would not have to take part if MPs agreed a plan first.\n\nBut that has not come to pass and the UK will definitely take part in the elections, returning 73 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to Brussels and Strasbourg.\n\nWhile the UK and Netherlands vote on Thursday, voting in other EU nations will take place at varying times over the following three days, with the whole process completed by 22:00 BST on Sunday 26 May.", "That's all from Holyrood Live this week!\n\nLocal politicians will need to be \"very brave\" and have \"vision\" to introduce a workplace parking tax, MSPs have heard.\n\nThe Scottish government has pledged to support a Green proposal to give councils the power to levy a charge on parking spaces to reduce congestion.\n\nWitnesses from Nottingham, the only council in the UK with a scheme of this sort, spoke positively of its impact.\n\nBut they told MSPs that it was \"not easy\", saying that \"strong political leadership\" was \"absolutely essential\".\n\nHowever, one SNP committee member, Richard Lyle, spoke out repeatedly against the levy during the meeting, saying it was \"an unfair tax on myself and other people as a motorist\",", "A top business lobby group representing American firms in China said they have \"real concerns\" over how Beijing may respond to US action taken against Huawei.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, AmCham China chairman Tim Stratford said its members were worried about Beijing's response.\n\nThe US recently added Huawei to its \"entity list\" which puts curbs on its ability to do business in America.\n\nThe move has escalated existing trade tensions between the US and China.\n\nLast week the Trump administration added Huawei to the trade blacklist, which bans the Chinese telecoms giant from acquiring technology from US firms without government approval.\n\nChina has threatened to retaliate against US sanctions without giving details.\n\n\"Particularly in the wake of the decision to put Huawei on the... entity list, there are concerns that the government of China may decide to retaliate against American companies,\" Mr Stratford said.\n\n\"These are real concerns, and they increase the risk as people are considering how they should make adjustments to their business models,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came as the American Chambers of Commerce (AmCham) in China and Shanghai released a survey of its members that found that slightly more than 40% had relocated, or were considering moving production facilities, outside of China because of tariffs.\n\nThe group represents more than 900 US companies working in China.\n\nA recent escalation in the US-China trade conflict, including tariff hikes from both sides, has sparked reaction from industries hit by the higher levies.\n\nUS President Donald Trump increased tariffs on $200bn (£157.3bn) worth of Chinese imports into the US from 10% to 25% earlier this month, after Washington and Beijing failed to reach a deal on trade.\n\nChina retaliated by announcing plans to raise levies on $60bn of US imports from 1 June.\n\nOn Tuesday, some of the world's biggest footwear firms urged Mr Trump to end the US trade war with China, warning of a \"catastrophic\" effect on consumers.\n\nIn a letter signed by 173 companies, including Nike and Adidas, they said the president's decision to hike import tariffs to 25% will disproportionately impact the working class.\n\nThey also warned that higher levies threaten the future of some businesses.\n\n\"It is time to bring this trade war to an end,\" the firms urged.\n\nWhen he raised tariffs earlier this month, Mr Trump told companies that they could reduce costs by shifting production to the US.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe shoemakers and retailers say that they have been moving their sourcing away from China.\n\nBut they added: \"Footwear is a very capital-intensive industry, with years of planning required to make sourcing decisions, and companies cannot simply move factories to adjust to these changes.\"\n\nBeijing has signalled some willingness to work with Washington to solve their trade dispute.\n\nNo discussions have been scheduled since the last round of talks ended on 10 May.\n\n\"China remains ready to continue our talks with our American colleagues to reach a conclusion. Our door is still open,\" China's ambassador to the US Cui Tiankai said on Fox News.\n\nThe US and Chinese leaders are also set to meet again at the G20 summit in Japan next month.", "Fashion house Prada has announced it is to stop using fur from next year.\n\nJoh Vinding, chairman of the Fur Free Alliance (FFA), said: \"The Prada group with its brands now joins a growing list of fur-free brands that are responding to consumers' changing attitudes towards animals.\"\n\nThe FFA is a coalition of more than 50 animal protection organisations.\n\nAnimal fur will not be used in its designs or new products, but items already made will continue to be sold.\n\n\"Focusing on innovative materials will allow the company to explore new boundaries of creative design while meeting the demand for ethical products,\" said the head of the fashion chain, Miuccia Prada.\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 change will take effect in the spring-summer 2020 women's collection and also covers the brands Miu Miu, Church's and Car Shoe.\n\nLast year, British luxury goods maker Burberry announced it would stop using real fur in its products and would phase out existing fur items, while luxury fashion brand Gucci stopped using fur in its spring-summer 2018 collection.\n\nCampaigners stepped up their calls for Prada to stop using fur last year, when, according to the Humane Society, Prada was selling jackets made of fox fur and minx fur.\n\nThose items no longer appear to be available on Prada's website, which does list other items which apparently use fox fur as trim on coats.\n\nBrigit Oele, programme manager for Fur Free Alliance, said: \"Prada Group was one of the fastest companies to go fur-free once positive dialogue began a little more than a year ago.\"\n\nFur farming was banned in the UK in 2000, but it is legal to sell some types of real fur that have been imported, if they are accurately labelled.\n\nHowever, MPs have called for a ban on sale of real fur to be considered.", "One of the Chagos Islands - Diego Garcia - is home to a US military base\n\nThe UN has passed a resolution demanding the UK return control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.\n\nIn the non-binding vote in the General Assembly in New York, 116 states were in favour and only six against, a major diplomatic blow to the UK.\n\nMauritius says it was forced to give up the Indian Ocean group - now a British overseas territory - in 1965 in exchange for independence.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said Britain did not recognise Mauritius' claim to sovereignty, but would stand by an earlier commitment to hand over control of the islands to Mauritius when they were no longer needed for defence purposes.\n\nThe US, Hungary, Israel, Australia and the Maldives were the states voting with the UK against the resolution.\n\nIt comes months after the UN's high court advised that the UK should leave the islands \"as rapidly as possible\".\n\nThe fundamental question before the General Assembly was whether the decades-long dispute was at its heart a matter of decolonisation, or a bilateral sovereignty issue to be worked out between the UK and Mauritius alone.\n\nThe vote was decisive, with 115 countries standing with Mauritius.\n\nFormer colonies were also clear in their position. India said support for decolonisation was one of the most significant contributions that the UN had made towards the promotion of fundamental human rights.\n\nUK ambassador to the UN Karen Pierce, along with the United States, warned that the vote would set a precedent that should be of concern to all member states with their own sovereignty disputes.\n\nBritain purchased the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965 for £3m, creating a region known as the British Indian Ocean Territory.\n\nBetween 1967 and 1973, it evicted the islands' entire population to make way for a joint military base with the US, which is still in place on Diego Garcia.\n\nUS planes have been sent from the base to bomb Afghanistan and Iraq. The facility was also reportedly used as a \"black site\" by the CIA to interrogate terrorism suspects. In 2016, the lease for the base was extended until 2036.\n\n\"The joint UK-US defence facility on the British Indian Ocean Territory helps to keep people in Britain and around the world safe from terrorism, organised crime and piracy,\" the FCO said.\n\nBefore Wednesday's vote, Mauritian Prime Minister Pravid Kumar Jug-Nauth told the General Assembly the forcible eviction of Chagossians was akin to a crime against humanity.\n\nHowever, he said Mauritius would allow the military base to continue operating \"in accordance with international law\", if it were given control of the islands.\n\nMr Jug-Nauth said this would give the facility a \"higher degree of legal certainty\" for the future.\n\nThe UK has maintained that Mauritius gave up the territory freely in return for a range of benefits.\n\nAmbassador Pierce has insisted that the issue should be resolved only by the countries involved.", "The BBC's Panorama programme has uncovered shocking evidence of patients with autism and learning difficulties being mocked, taunted and intimidated by abusive hospital staff.\n\nWhorlton Hall, near Barnard Castle in County Durham is a specialist hospital that cares for people with complex needs.\n\nPanorama filmed vulnerable adults being deliberately provoked by staff who then physically restrained them.\n\nThe investigation comes eight years after the programme exposed the scandal of abuse at Winterbourne View, another specialist hospital.", "The sharing economy is now making its way into the fashion industry as Urban Outfitters looks to rent clothes to younger fashionistas.\n\nThe retailer is launching an online subscription service allowing people to borrow six items to wear for a month before swapping them.\n\nThe firm says that in terms of clothing, millennials in particular want variety and sustainability.\n\nThe womenswear service, called Nuuly, will launch in the US this summer.\n\nUrban Outfitters Inc declined to say if and when it will be offered in the UK, stating: \"The brand is looking forward to the opportunity to further evolve and expand both their offering and geographic footprint over time.\"\n\nThe nascent market for online clothing rental is set to grow to $2.5bn by 2023, according to research firm GlobalData.\n\nOne of the more well-known firms in this space is Rent the Runway, a New York company which began in 2009, where women can borrow designer clothes for a monthly payment.\n\nUrban Outfitters' chief digital officer David Hayne told the Wall Street Journal that he expects Nuuly to have 50,000 subscribers and generate $50m in sales in its first year.\n\nUrban Outfitters said: \"Interest in sharing-economy platforms and recurring subscription relationships has grown across industries.\n\nIn womenswear, typically only high-end fashion is on offer to rent\n\n\"In apparel, the millennial consumer, in particular, is seeking out platforms that provide novelty, variety and breadth, while also supporting sustainability.\"\n\nAs well as Urban Outfitters clothing, people can also pay a monthly fee to borrow womenswear from its other brands including Anthropologie, as well as labels such as Levi's, Gal Meets Glam, Anna Sui and Fila.\n\nSubscribers can choose to buy an item or return all the clothing they borrowed before they receive anything else. The returned garments are washed or dry cleaned and inspected before they are loaned out again.", "Hearts have been left at St Ann's Square for people to take with them on the anniversary of the Manchester Arena bombing\n\nPop stars paid tribute to the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing from the venue's stage, two years on.\n\nDedicating hit \"Stay\" to the victims and their families, South Korean pop band Blackpink said their \"hearts ache for those who lost their loved ones\".\n\nTwenty-two people died and hundreds were injured in the 2017 suicide bombing as Ariana Grande finished performing on the same stage.\n\nOn Twitter, #OneLoveManchester and #ManchesterRemembers were trending.\n\nAriana Grande posted a bee emoji in her Instagram stories, with no words.\n\nHer mother Joan Grande said Manchester is \"with me always, in my heart and in my mind\".\n\nK-Pop band Blackpink said their \"hearts ache for those who lost their loved ones\"\n\nAn invitation-only memorial service was held at St Ann's Church for families and emergency services.\n\nThe church is in St Ann's Square, which became a focal point for tributes immediately after the bombing.\n\nCanon Nigel Ashworth told the congregation: \"In the face of violence and hatred, we offer solidarity and compassion.\n\n\"None of us ever want to see anything like the arena attack ever again, but neither do we want to forget those who died and those who were injured.\"\n\nPhotographs of each of the 22 victims were shown, while music was played by members of Chetham's School of Music.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed in the suicide attack at Manchester Arena\n\nThere was a poignant performance of Fleetwood Mac's Songbird and Elaine Inglesby, chief nurse at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, read Siegfried Sassoon's poem Idyll.\n\nA minute's silence was held halfway through the service which was also observed by hundreds of people in St Ann's Square and others across the city.\n\nRepresentatives of the Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Methodist faiths also led prayers of intercession, saying: \"We are all one.\"\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\nOutside the church, Anya Dawson, who performs with the Manchester Survivors Choir, said the group had \"become my new family\".\n\nHandmade hearts have been left across the city centre for people to take with them on the anniversary and to \"make many people smile\".\n\nFloral tributes have also been left at St Ann's Square and Manchester Victoria station.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast year, a larger service was held at Manchester Cathedral, attended by Prince William and Prime Minister Theresa May, with crowds gathered outside to watch on large screens.\n\nA Manchester City Council spokesman said this year's anniversary would be marked with a \"more intimate\" commemoration.\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\nManchester Cathedral is also open throughout the day for people to \"spend some time in quiet reflection and prayer\".\n\nSuicide bomber Salman Abedi, 22, detonated a device at the end of the concert at the arena as children and adults began leaving the venue.\n\nOn Wednesday at the exact moment of the blast - 22:31 - bells will again peal across the city centre.\n\nFloral tributes were left on Wednesday at Manchester Victoria station to mark the anniversary\n\nLove filled the air in the heart of Manchester on an emotional day for the city.\n\nIn St Ann's Square, colourful, handmade hearts - many decorated with the iconic Manchester bee - adorned the buildings, trees and fences.\n\nThis kindhearted act is the latest united show of solidarity and strength in memory of the victims and the many more lives that were affected on that tragic day two years ago.\n\nThe hand-crafted hearts can be found across the city to help put a smile on a stranger's face. Passers-by are encouraged to pick a heart and take the tribute home\n\nAn incredibly heartwarming sight on a day Manchester will never forget.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFigen Murray, whose son Martyn Hett, 29, died in the atrocity, has been lobbying the government to make tougher security checks mandatory at large events.\n\nShe has also been visiting schools to speak to pupils about her experiences.\n\n\"I talk to them about kindness, tolerance and forgiveness and the dangers of radicalisation,\" she said.\n\nMartin Hett's brother Dan thanked people for their tributes on the anniversary.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Dan Hett This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe parents of victims Chloe Rutherford, 17, and Liam Curry, 19, from South Shields in Tyneside, said they would be marking the occasion privately.\n\nThey have raised £300,000 to help aspiring performers and sportsmen and women.\n\nLiam's mother Caroline said she was determined to \"make sure he hasn't left this world without making a mark\".\n\nAbout 14,000 people were at the arena on the night of the bombing.\n\nMore than 3,500 people have had psychological support in the wake of the attack.\n\nTara O'Neil, from Flixton, who was at the Ariana Grande concert that night, survived the attack and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, which has led her to leave her job.\n\nShe said: \"You feel guilty. That you ran and you didn't stop, but you would have got trampled.\"\n\nManchester's St Ann's Square became a focal point for tributes in the wake of the 2017 bombing\n\nJoyce Tewen, from Ardwick, said she was moved to see members of the public picking up handmade decorations earlier in St Ann's Square to \"help people smile\".\n\nThe 45-year-old, who has three children aged seven to 20, said it was a \"beautiful\" way to mark the anniversary.\n\n\"I've taken a photo of all the hearts so I can show my children as it's important that they understand what happened,\" she said.\n\nPC Pete Baldwin has clipped his heart decoration to his uniform as a tribute\n\nPC Pete Baldwin, from Greater Manchester Police, said he would be wearing his heart decoration with pride as he patrolled the city centre.\n\n\"I was working on the day and finished at 22:00 but like many of my colleagues we worked every day from then on in,\" he said.\n\n\"The way Manchester responded doesn't surprise me. Greater Manchester is a wonderful place full of wonderful people.\"\n\nAlexander McBurney, 48, travelled into the city centre from Heywood to pay tribute to those affected by the terror attack.\n\nHe said: \"I can't think of a community or city that has come together as much as Manchester. It's outstanding.\"\n\nA stone statue has been unveiled in Blackpool in memory of Jane Tweddle who died in the bombing\n\nIn Blackpool, a statue was unveiled in memory of Jane Tweddle who died in the bombing.\n\nBuildings in Liverpool will also light up in orange for 24 hours in tribute to Megan Hurley, the city's mayor Joe Anderson said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by All on the board This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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Theresa May says failure to back her deal risks \"no Brexit at all\"\n\nTheresa May has said MPs have \"one last chance\" to deliver Brexit, urging them to back what she called a \"new deal\".\n\nMPs will get a vote on whether to hold another referendum if they back the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill, she said.\n\nThe bill also contains new guarantees on workers' rights, environmental protections and the Northern Irish border, as well a customs \"compromise\".\n\nLabour said it was a \"rehash\" of existing plans and Tory Brexiteers took to social media to vent their anger.\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg said what was on offer was \"worse than before\", while Boris Johnson said the proposals contravened the party's 2017 general election manifesto, which ruled out the UK remaining in a customs union with the EU.\n\nHe tweeted: \"We can and must do better and deliver what the people voted for.\"\n\nMPs have rejected the withdrawal agreement negotiated with the EU three times and attempts to find a formal compromise with Labour also failed.\n\nIn what is seen as a last roll of the dice, Mrs May is now bringing the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - legislation required to bring the agreement into UK law - to Parliament in early June.\n\nIn a speech in London, the PM implored MPs to come together, saying a negotiated exit from the EU would be \"dead in the water\" if they rejected the plan.\n\n\"I have compromised, now I ask you to compromise too,\" she said, adding that she had even \"offered to give up the job I love earlier than I would like\".\n\nMrs May said the deadlock over Brexit was having a \"corrosive\" impact on political debate in the country and was stopping progress in other areas.\n\n\"The majority of MPs say they want to deliver the result of the referendum... and I believe there is now one last chance to do that,\" she said.\n\nThe key points of the PM's revised plan are:\n\nWhile she personally opposed another referendum on the terms of Brexit, the PM said she recognised the \"genuine and sincere\" feelings on the issue in Parliament.\n\nShe urged MPs to back the Withdrawal Agreement Bill at its first parliamentary hurdle and then \"make the case\" for another public vote when the bill was examined in detail later.\n\nDid the prime minister just make it worse? It hardly seems that would have been possible.\n\nHer agreement with the EU had been sharply kicked out several times by MPs. She'd promised that she would quit and get out of the way if that bought more support. Then she took the risk of talking to the political enemy to try to get a different deal.\n\nBut those measures failed - leaving her hope this time to dangle a bauble to each of Parliament's different Brexit tribes in the much more extensive plan of how she'd actually put our departure into law.\n\nBut even before she started talking, many MPs simply weren't listening.\n\nMembers of the cabinet, which earlier backed the plan, said they hoped the fresh concessions would galvanise Parliament.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liam Fox said it was \"crunch time\" and by backing the bill, MPs would be able to shape \"what sort of Brexit they want\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: Bill is \"a rehash of what was discussed before\"\n\nBut there was an under-whelming reaction from Labour MPs whom the PM was hoping to win over.\n\nLisa Nandy, the Wigan MP who has said she could be persuaded to back a deal which maintained frictionless trade and employment rights, said the offer was \"very weak\".\n\n\"What she seems to be offering is for Parliament to go round the same track that we have been round before,\" she said.\n\nAnd Peter Kyle, who has made his support conditional on a referendum, said Mrs May's promises could easily be reversed by her successor.\n\nHe said what was being offered was a \"strange complex process\" rather than a \"clean, simple confirmatory ballot on her deal\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Corbyn questioned whether any of it could be delivered given Mrs May had a short time left in office.\n\n\"It's basically a rehash of what was discussed before and it doesn't make any fundamental moves on market alignment or the customs union or indeed protection of rights,\" he said.\n\nTory Brexiteers responded with dismay. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIain Duncan Smith said it left the EU \"firmly in control of our destiny\" while Anne-Marie Trevelyan accused Mrs May of \"trying to ram her botched deal through on Labour votes by keeping us in the customs union and allowing Brussels to dictate our future trade policy\".\n\nNorthern Ireland's Democratic Unionists, who keep Mrs May's government in power, said the plans were still \"fundamentally flawed\".\n\nThe SNP said they could not support any plan which took the UK out of the single market while the Lib Dems said Mrs May did not have the political authority to guarantee any of her proposals would ever happen.\n\nSpeaking at a Brexit Party European election rally in London, Nigel Farage said the PM had \"surrendered almost everything\".", "Rekognition can match photos to databases holding millions of people's faces\n\nShareholders seeking to halt Amazon's sale of its facial recognition technology to US police forces have been defeated in two votes that sought to pressure the company into a rethink.\n\nCivil rights campaigners had said it was \"perhaps the most dangerous surveillance technology ever developed\".\n\nBut investors rejected the proposals at the company's annual general meeting.\n\nThat meant less than 50% voted for either of the measures.\n\nA breakdown of the results has yet to be disclosed.\n\nThe first vote had proposed that the company should stop offering its Rekognition system to government agencies.\n\nThe second had called on it to commission an independent study into whether the tech threatened people's civil rights.\n\nThe ballot in Seattle would have been non-binding, meaning executives would not have had to take specific action had either been passed.\n\nAmazon had tried to block the votes but was told by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it did not have the right to do so.\n\nRekognition gives a confidence score as to whether a person's face is a match\n\n\"We will see what the tally is, but one of our primary objectives was to bring this before shareholders and the board, and we succeeded in doing that,\" Mary Beth Gallagher from the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment told the BBC.\n\n\"This is just the beginning of this movement for us and this campaign will continue. We have built links to civil rights groups, employees and other stakeholders.\n\n\"And the most important thing is that regardless of the result, we still want the board to halt sales of Rekognition to governments, and it has the capacity to do that.\"\n\nThe American Civil Liberties Union added that the very fact there had been a vote was \"an embarrassment to Amazon\" and should serve as a \"wake-up call for the company to reckon with the real harms of face surveillance\".\n\nAmazon has yet to comment.\n\nBut ahead of the votes it said it had not received a single report of the system being used in a harmful manner.\n\n\"[Rekognition is] a powerful tool... for law enforcement and government agencies to catch criminals, prevent crime, and find missing people,\" its AGM notes state.\n\n\"New technology should not be banned or condemned because of its potential misuse.\"\n\nAmazon has promoted its tech as a tool to fight crime\n\nRekognition is an online tool that works with both video and still images and allows users to match faces to pre-scanned subjects in a database containing up to 20 million people provided by the client.\n\nIn doing so, it gives a confidence score as to whether the ID is accurate.\n\nIn addition, it can be used to:\n\nAmazon recommends that law enforcement agents should only use the facility if there is a 99% or higher confidence rating of a match and says they should be transparent about its usage.\n\nRekognition can be used to flag \"suggestive content\"\n\nBut one force that has used the tech - Washington County Sheriff's Office in Hillsboro, Oregon, - told the Washington Post that it had done so without enforcing a minimum confidence threshold, and had run black-and-white police sketches through the system in addition to photos.\n\nA second force in Orlando, Florida has also tested the system. But Amazon has not disclosed how many other public authorities have done so.\n\nPart of Rekognition's appeal is that it is cheaper to use than several rival facial recognition technologies.\n\nBut a study published in January by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Toronto suggested Amazon's algorithms suffered greater gender and racial bias than four competing products.\n\nIt said that Rekognition had a 0% error rate at classifying lighter-skinned males as such within a test, but a 31.4% error rate at categorising darker-skinned females.\n\nAmazon said that it ran tests against images of men and women from six ethnicities to check for signs of bias\n\nAmazon has disputed the findings saying that the researchers had used \"an outdated version\" of its tool and that its own checks had found \"no difference\" in gender-classification across ethnicities.\n\nEven so, opposition to Rekognition has also been voiced by civil liberties groups and hundreds of Amazon's own workers.\n\nMs Gallagher said that shareholders were concerned that continued sales of Rekognition to the police risked damaging Amazon's status as \"one of the most trusted institutions in the United States\".\n\n\"We don't want it used by law enforcement because of the impact that will have on society - it might limit people's willingness to go in public spaces where they think they might be tracked,\" she said.\n\nBut one of the directors from Amazon Web Services - the division responsible - had told the BBC that it should be up to politicians to decide if restrictions should be put in place.\n\nRekognition can give a confidence score for several different features\n\n\"The right organisations to handle the issue are policymakers in government,\" Ian Massingham explained.\n\n\"The one thing I would say about deep learning technology generally is that much of the technology is based on publicly available academic research, so you can't really put the genie back in the bottle.\n\n\"Once the research is published, it's kind of hard to 'uninvent' something.\n\n\"So, our focus is on making sure the right governance and legislative controls are in place.\"", "Yusuf Abdi Ali had to leave Canada after a CBC documentary exposed his past\n\nA US jury has found that a former Uber driver living in Virginia committed acts of torture during Somalia's civil war in the late 1980s.\n\nSomali citizen Farhan Tani Warfaa testified last week in the Washington DC suburbs that ex-Somali colonel Yusuf Abdi Ali shot and tortured him.\n\nAli was a commander in the national army and supporter of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, say court documents.\n\nUntil this month, Ali drove for Uber, with a high 4.89 rating.\n\nOn Tuesday, a jury at a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, found that Ali was responsible for the torture of Mr Warfaa more than three decades ago, awarding Mr Warfaa $500,000 (£395,000) in damages.\n\nMr Warfaa, tortured during the Somali civil war, is \"very happy\" with the verdict\n\nMr Warfaa, who first filed the case against Ali in 2004, told the BBC he was \"very happy\" with the verdict.\n\n\"I am very, very satisfied with the outcome,\" Mr Warfaa said through a translator from court.\n\nMr Warfaa said he was kidnapped from his home in northern Somalia by a group of Ali's soldiers in 1987.\n\nOver the next several months, Mr Warfaa said he was interrogated, tortured, beaten and shot at the direction of Ali, who was a battalion commander.\n\nLeft for dead, Mr Warfaa says he only managed to survive by bribing his gravediggers to spare him.\n\nAli was first identified in a 1992 documentary by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which detailed allegations that Ali had tortured, killed and maimed hundreds of people while working for the Barre regime.\n\nAt the time of the broadcast, Ali was living in Toronto working as a security guard.\n\nIn the documentary, multiple eyewitnesses in northern Somalia described brutal murders ordered by Ali, known then as Colonel Tukeh, meaning \"the crow\".\n\nShortly after it aired, Ali was deported from Canada for \"serious human rights abuses\", court documents say.\n\nThe US also began deportation proceedings against Ali, but he returned to the country in 1996. It is unclear how he was able to re-enter the US.\n\nThe Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n\nIn May, CNN reporters went undercover to take an Uber ride with Ali. He told CNN that he drives for rideshares Uber and Lyft full-time, preferring weekend shifts because \"that's where the money is\".\n\nAsked if the application process for drivers was difficult, Ali replied that it was simple: \"They just want your background check, that's it.\"\n\nAli drove for Uber for about 18 months, after passing a screening process for the rideshare company. The background check included a review of Ali's criminal history using state and national records, and a scan of government watchlists from the FBI and Interpol.\n\nHe has now been \"permanently removed\" from the app, an Uber spokesperson told the BBC.\n\nMr Warfaa (centre) and members of his legal team celebrate the verdict\n\nLyft spokeswoman Campbell Matthews said the company was \"horrified\" by the allegations against Ali.\n\n\"We have permanently banned this driver from our community and stand ready to assist law enforcement with any investigation,\" Ms Matthews said.\n\nBackground checks for both Uber and Lyft are conducted by Checkr, a consumer reporting agency.\n\nCheckr's scanning process varies according to client, but includes \"industry standard sources\" like the national Sex Offender database, FBI watchlist, Interpol watchlist, various US and international sanctions lists, and local and federal criminal court records.\n\n\"Under federal law, consumer reporting agencies that process background checks rely on criminal records that have been filed in a court of law rather than unverified sources like Google search results,\" said a Checkr spokesperson to the BBC.\n\n\"Most employers don't request background checks that include civil lawsuits between private parties because the information is too subjective to use for a hiring decision.\"\n\nBefore working for Uber and Lyft, Ali worked as a security guard at Dulles International Airport near Washington DC.\n\nTuesday's ruling, in favour of Mr Wafaa, demanded \"heroic amounts of effort,\" said his lawyer, Kathy Roberts.\n\nMs Roberts is part of the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), a San Francisco-based nonprofit organisation that seeks to bring alleged war criminals to justice.\n\nMuch of Mr Warfaa's case, thwarted by delays for over a decade, hinged upon whether Ali could be found guilty by a US court of a crime committed in Somalia.\n\nUS laws, namely the Torture Victim Protections Act (TVPA), prohibit torture whether it occurs on US soil or overseas, and allows both US citizens and non-citizens to bring claims for torture and extrajudicial killings committed in foreign countries.\n\nThe TVPA only allows for the finding of civil claims in the US, meaning that lawsuits result in monetary compensation, rather than jail time.\n\nWhen Ali moved to Virginia, he exposed himself to the lawsuit, said Benjamin Klein, another lawyer for Mr Wafaa.\n\nMr Warfaa's case included testimony from a former US ambassador, soldiers who served under Ali, and another victim of the former colonel, as he argued that Ali had directed acts of torture and attempted an extrajudicial killing.\n\nThe US jury issued a split ruling, finding Ali only guilty of torture.\n\nStill, Mr Warfaa is \"absolutely thrilled\", said Mr Klein.\n\n\"He's been waiting 31 years for this day.\"", "George said in the note he hoped some cards would come in handy\n\nA woman who had her purse stolen 10 years ago has had the contents returned.\n\nBecca Milsom, from Cardiff, said she was \"gobsmacked\" after she was sent a letter signed by a man called George who had found the lost items.\n\nBecca, 28, said the purse was stolen from her car when she was walking up the Wenallt in Rhiwbina.\n\nGeorge's note joked: \"I think your Tesco Clubcard points may have expired, along with your uni discounts.\"\n\nBecca told BBC Wales: \"My dad said I had a letter through the post from my old home which had just been delivered - and in the letter was all my cards. I was gobsmacked.\"\n\nBecca says she hopes to track George down to thank him\n\nThe note reads: \"I hope this finds you well. I came across your wallet whilst supervising vegetation clearance on a site north of Llwyn Y Pia Road in Lisvane.\n\n\"I think your Tesco Clubcard points may have expired, along with your uni discounts, but hopefully the driver's licence and NI card come in handy again.\"\n\nBecca added: \"I haven't had a national insurance card since then. I've been okay because I had the number but I was always a bit wary about it.\n\n\"I want to thank the person who sent it - does he know any more detail and where was it where he found them? I'd just like to thank him.\"\n\nShe said on Facebook she hopes to track George down so she can thank him.", "TalkTalk failed to inform 4,545 customers their personal information, including bank account details, were stolen as part of the 2015 data breach.\n\nViewers contacted BBC Watchdog Live about concerns that their details had been breached by TalkTalk.\n\nBut the company had told them that their details were not compromised.\n\n\"The customer data referred to by BBC Watchdog relates to the historical October 2015 data breach. It is not a new incident,\" the firm said.\n\nThe BBC consumer show investigated and found the personal details of approximately 4,500 customers available online after a Google search.\n\nThe details included full names, addresses, email addresses, dates of birth, TalkTalk customer numbers, mobile numbers and bank details for thousands of customers.\n\nThe information is likely to have been online since the breach, without the knowledge of the people affected.\n\nThe 2015 attack saw personal details of nearly 157,000 customers accessed, including bank account numbers and sort codes of over 15,000 customers.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) conducted an investigation into the breach, finding multiple failings in TalkTalk's security processes.\n\nAs a reflection of \"the seriousness of the event\", the ICO issued TalkTalk with a record fine of £400,000.\n\nWhen presented with the findings of the BBC investigation, TalkTalk said it was a genuine error and that it has since written to all impacted customers to apologise.\n\n\"The 2015 incident impacted 4% of TalkTalk customers and at the time, we wrote to all those impacted,\" the company said in a statement.\n\n\"In addition, we wrote to our entire base to inform them about the breach, advise them about the risk of scam calls and offer free credit monitoring to protect against fraud.\n\n\"A recent investigation has shown that 4,545 customers may have received the wrong notification regarding this incident. This was a genuine error and we have since written to all those impacted to apologise. 99.9% of customers received the correct notification in 2015.\n\n\"On their own, none of the details accessed in the 2015 incident could lead to any direct financial loss.\"\n\nFor the last two years Alan, not his real name, has had his phone, email and bank account bombarded with a series of fraudulent attacks.\n\nWhilst Alan will never know if the attacks were a direct result of the TalkTalk data breach, he feels the details leaked are enough to allow fraudsters to impersonate him.\n\nThe data breach announcement made to customers on the TalkTalk website in October 2015\n\nAlan said he felt \"extremely uncomfortable\" after Watchdog Live showed him that they were able to find his bank account number, sort code and other personal information online.\n\n\"I think they've failed their customers on a gigantic scale,\" he added.\n\nWatchdog Live also spoke to Maureen, not her real name, who was shocked to discover that her details were breached in 2015.\n\nAt the time, Maureen was told by TalkTalk that her details had not been stolen.\n\nMaureen has been in touch with TalkTalk on multiple occasions, most recently in May of this year, to raise concerns that her details had been compromised.\n\nBut TalkTalk continued to insist that they hadn't. Watchdog Live's investigation found Maureen's sensitive data through a simple online search.\n\nMaureen told the programme: \"I've been asking this question since 2015. I'm suffering now for something that I know nothing, absolutely nothing, about.\n\n\"I knew something was not right and I kept insisting and they avoided every single time I asked the question 'have my details been compromised?'\"\n\n\"If the data has come from TalkTalk then obviously we need to go and revisit all of these people who've been told that they weren't exposed and look at what they can do to rectify the harm,\" online security expert Scott Helme told the programme.\n\n\"We're never going to completely erase this data, but what we can do is try to reduce the impact of having lost the data.\"\n\nPersonal details can be used by criminals to commit identity theft and fraud\n\nWatchdog Live spoke to multiple people who were affected by the TalkTalk data breach.\n\nThey said they had been subject to frequent scam calls, and in some cases attempted fraud and identity theft, impacting their credit rating.\n\nThese people may never know if their experiences were a direct result of TalkTalk's data breach, or if their details could have been accessed some other way.\n\nUsing the information Watchdog found, a fraudster could sign up for services, set up direct debits and purchase goods on their victim's behalf, said Mr Helme.\n\nHe added that a scammer could also use this information to pretend to be the victim's bank, in order to gain other information about them.", "Roger Godsiff admitted he had not read the books he said were not \"age-appropriate\"\n\nA Labour MP who criticised LGBT lessons in primary schools as not \"age-appropriate\" admitted he has not read the teaching materials.\n\nParents have been protesting outside Anderton Park Primary school, which is in Roger Godsiff's Birmingham Hall Green constituency, for seven weeks.\n\nThey say the lessons contradict Islam.\n\nThe school's head teacher, Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson, tweeted a note from pupils saying the protests were making them \"unhappy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson said two pupils wrote the note which said protestors were being \"rude\" and disturbing their learning.\n\nShe said, on the whole, children were \"fed up\" with the protest.\n\n\"They are amazing, robust little human beings, they love coming to school and relish in knowledge and learning and books and everything school should be,\" she added.\n\n\"But some of them are scared because the protests have been happening at the end of every day, so if they walk past that way they have to listen to people screaming down a megaphone.\"\n\nAndrew Moffat pioneered the No Outsiders programme to educate about different relationships\n\nMr Godsiff said on Tuesday he did not feel four or five-year-olds \"could comfortably handle\" discussions about sexuality.\n\nOne of his constituents, comedian Joe Lycett, wrote to him to say LGBT people were being treated as \"second class citizens\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, the MP said \"a number of parents\" would agree primary school was \"too young\" to teach children about LGBT relationships.\n\n\"I have a three-year-old grandson and if he was hit with the nine characteristics [of the Equality Act] being put in front to him I think he would wonder what's going on,\" he said.\n\nHe then admitted that he had not read the books included in the teaching material.\n\nAlso appearing on the show, Amir Ahmed - who co-ordinated protests outside other schools in Birmingham - criticised Andrew Moffat, who created the No Outsiders teaching scheme, as \"disingenuous\" and \"focused on LGBT content\" rather than \"teaching equality\".\n\nWhen questioned, he told Victoria Derbyshire he believed it was \"morally not acceptable\" to be gay.\n\nShakeel Afsar got involved in protests when his nephew brought home a book about a boy wanting to dress as a girl\n\nLead protestor Shakeel Afsar, speaking on ITV's This Morning, said the \"religious, moral and family values\" of parents were being \"infringed\".\n\nMr Afsar, who does not have children at Anderton Park, said the school was \"over-promoting one narrative\" and criticised Ms Hewitt-Clarkson for a \"lack of responsibility\".\n\nHe said the issue arose from the head not \"consulting people who hold their religious faith very close to their hearts and to make them sensitively aware of what's going on\".\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson said the protests have been \"aggressive\" and that she has been repeatedly threatened.\n\nMr Afsar has planned a further demonstration outside the school on Friday.", "Theresa May has urged MPs to back what she has described as a \"new\" Brexit deal - but what exactly is different in this updated withdrawal agreement?\n\nThe prime minister's \"new Brexit deal\" isn't all that new.\n\nFor a start, the withdrawal agreement itself - which includes the backstop plan for the Irish border - remains exactly the same.\n\nThat was always going to be the case. The EU has insisted that there will be no further negotiation on the text.\n\nInstead, the government will seek changes to the accompanying political declaration, which focuses on the future relationship after Brexit.\n\nBut, as we've said many times before, it is not a legally binding document.\n\nWhat Mrs May has offered for the first time is the prospect of a vote on holding a second referendum, and a vote on a temporary customs union.\n\nBut she says that will only be the case if MPs are willing to approve the withdrawal agreement bill in the House of Commons in the first week of June.\n\nThere are also promises on workers' rights and environmental protection - measures designed to appeal to Labour MPs. But similar promises, albeit in different form, have been made before.\n\nAs for Northern Ireland, the PM has said that the government would be under a legal obligation \"to seek to conclude alternative arrangements\" to the backstop by the end of 2020.\n\nBut note the word \"seek\" - it is an aspiration not a guarantee, and finding alternative arrangements, through the use of technology or other means, has so far proved very challenging.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May says failure to back her deal risks \"no Brexit at all\"\n\nMrs May also spoke of a commitment, should the backstop have to come into force, to ensure that Great Britain will stay aligned with Northern Ireland to prevent new checks at the border.\n\nAgain, this is something that has been said before.\n\nNevertheless, the government is portraying this speech as a genuine effort to find compromise.\n\nOthers see it as a last roll of the dice.\n\nThe trouble is that Brexit has become a binary issue, and almost no-one in politics - whether they voted to leave or remain - seems to want to give up on their vision of how all this should be resolved.\n\nThat's why much of the initial reaction to the PM's speech from MPs, from all sides of the House of Commons, including her own backbenches, has ranged from lukewarm to openly hostile.\n\nShe will continue to warn that anyone voting against her latest plan risks losing Brexit altogether.\n\nBut the biggest problem for Mrs May is that there doesn't appear to be a majority in the Commons for any Brexit option.\n\nThat has been clear for many months now.\n\nAnd nothing in this speech is likely to move the goalposts.", "Eric Michels, who made a brief appearance in the Bond film Skyfall, was found dead at his home in Chessington in August 2018\n\nA businessman who appeared in James Bond movie Skyfall was murdered with a GHB drug overdose after being targeted by a serial thief who used gay dating apps to find victims, a court heard.\n\nGerald Matovu, 25, denies murdering Eric Michels, 54, who was found dead at his Chessington home on 18 August.\n\nMr Matovu, of Southwark, is on trial at the Old Bailey with co-defendant Brandon Dunbar, 23, from Forest Gate.\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Rees QC, said the two defendants often worked together and took advantage of hook-ups arranged via apps like Grindr to steal property and take photos of bank cards for the purposes of fraud.\n\nHe said the case involves 26 charges relating to 12 gay men who met one or both of the defendants for the purposes of sex, but ended up as victims.\n\nJurors were told eight of the men were drugged in order to \"render them unconscious\" of whom five had their drinks \"spiked\" and one had drugs injected into his backside.\n\nMr Michels had three children with his ex-wife, from whom he divorced in 2010 after coming out as gay.\n\nOne son - Sam - lived with Mr Michels in Bolton Road, Chessington, and last saw him alive at 19:00 BST on 16 August.\n\nThe court heard he met Mr Matovu in central London after they found one another on Grindr and took a cab back to Chessington.\n\nGerald Matovu is on trial at the Old Bailey\n\nThe prosecution allege that during the course of the following morning, Mr Matovu took photos of Mr Michels' bank cards, driving licence, and various passwords, before leaving the property in a taxi carrying stolen items including a laptop and mobile phone.\n\nThat night Mr Michels' 14-year-old daughter was unable to get a response from her father when she sent him a text asking if he would like to meet, the court heard.\n\nShe sent him a further text on 18 August and received a response from her father's phone saying: \"Hello hun im a little busy talk soon\".\n\nMr Rees told the court Mr Michel's daughter felt the reply was \"totally uncharacteristic of her father\" and she decided to phone him.\n\nHowever, an unknown male answered and hung up when she said who was calling.\n\nAt the time of the call, Mr Michels' phone was in the general area of Mr Matovu's Southwark address, jurors were told.\n\nThe teen and her mother then went to Mr Michel's home, where his daughter was the first to venture inside and found him lying motionless in bed with the duvet pulled up over his nose.\n\n\"She attempted to rouse him by shouting his name, but to no avail,\" Mr Rees said.\n\nMr Rees said evidence points to use of the drug GHB to drug them, which is often used in context of \"chemsex\" in order to \"facilitate sexual activity.\"\n\nThe jury was told large doses \"can induce coma\" and \"in some cases death can arise\".\n\nAlong with the murder charge Mr Matovu denies six counts of administering a poison or noxious substance to endanger life, one count of assault by penetration and one count of causing actual bodily harm.\n\nHe is further charged with five counts of possession of articles for use in fraud, seven counts of theft and possession of a controlled drug of class C - all of which he pleaded not guilty to.\n\nMr Dunbar has pleaded not guilty to five counts of administering a poison with intent to endanger life, one count of assault by penetration, one count of ABH, seven counts of theft, five counts of possession of articles for use in fraud, two counts of fraud and one count of unlawfully retaining a wrongful credit.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As the prime minister made her way to PMQs, some of her own cabinet ministers were meeting privately just around the corner from the Commons chamber - her deal and her future undoubtedly on the agenda.\n\nMeanwhile, Conservatives I spoke to commented on Theresa May's position with a mixture of sympathy and derision. One long-standing Brexiteer described PMQs as her leaving party.\n\nAnother Leaver simply muttered tersely that it was \"grim\", while a Remainer, who had been prepared to back her deal, mulled \"why is she putting herself through any more of this?\"\n\nA long-standing - but not usually a very public - critic likened me to a spectator at the guillotine as I stalked the commons corridors.\n\nI asked him when he felt the political blade would fall on Theresa May's premiership.\n\nWith a smile, he said: \"Soon - very soon.\"\n\nInside Downing Street there is a recognition that there will be an attempt to oust Theresa May before her Brexit deal gets as far as a vote.\n\nBut the intention is to stand firm and push on.\n\nThere is an understanding of how difficult it will be.\n\nWithout her mentioning a referendum yesterday, her legislation just would not have got a hearing from many Labour MPs - and opposition votes are required if the deal is to go through.\n\nBut it appears that supporters of a referendum believe there is more chance of a public vote if it is in stark contrast to no deal, close to the end of October deadline.\n\nIf a referendum vote is held now, alongside her deal, there is a risk it is lost - so there is no incentive to back the deal now.\n\nSo the hope in Downing Street is that the European elections are abysmally bad for Labour, too - and some of the opposition MPs come onside subsequently to at least get Brexit done and lance the populist boil.\n\nThe question, though, is whether the prime minister's own MPs will allow her to stay in office long enough to put this to the test.\n\nSome supporters of Boris Johnson are considering gathering 157 letters of no confidence to show that half her parliamentary party want her to go quickly, irrespective of the leadership rules.", "Sara Zelenak was stabbed during the attack at London Bridge and Borough Market\n\nAn Australian au pair was being helped up by a passer-by after slipping over in her high heels when they were both fatally stabbed, the inquest into the London Bridge attack has heard.\n\nSara Zelenak, 21, was on a night out with a friend when she was set upon by men armed with 12in (30cm) blades on the evening of 3 June 2017.\n\nBriton James McMullan, 32, was also targeted as he tried to help Ms Zelenak to her feet, a witness said.\n\nThe inquest is in its second week.\n\nMs Zelenak and Mr McMullan were among eight people killed when Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before jumping out and stabbing people.\n\nWitness Erick Siguenza told the Old Bailey Ms Zelenak jumped out of the way of the crashing van before being stabbed by the driver.\n\nGareth Patterson QC, representing the victims' families, said she was wearing high heels and the ground was \"quite wet\" on the night of the attack.\n\nWhen asked if Ms Zelenak had lost her balance, Mr Siguenza said: \"Yes. She was completely on the ground. He [Mr McMullan] just grabbed her left arm and gently tried to pick her up.\n\n\"But by then the attackers were in close proximity and that's when they started attacking.\"\n\n\"There was no time for him to be able to help her up because the driver and the other terrorists were already running towards them,\" he added.\n\nJames McMullan was stabbed to death as he tried to help Ms Zelenak up, the inquest heard\n\nMs Zelenak was stabbed in the neck while Mr McMullan was stabbed in the chest.\n\nThe court heard Ms Zelenak and her friend, Priscila Goncalves, had left the London Grind bar minutes before the attack to continue their night out and \"have fun\".\n\nMs Goncalves told the inquest they were crossing the bridge when they spotted another bar, with red lights and tables outside.\n\nThey had started down the steps towards it when they heard the van crash.\n\nThe friends went back up the steps to see what had happened but became separated in the chaos as people ran away.\n\nThe court was shown CCTV of Ms Zelenak before she was killed\n\n\"I had no idea what was going on,\" Ms Goncalves said.\n\n\"We were together. People said 'Run', I started to run. I thought she was with me and then I looked, she was not. Everybody was running,\" she added.\n\nCCTV shown to the court showed Ms Goncalves among a crowd of people who were running away.\n\nMr Siguenza filmed people fleeing the scene as Ms Zelenak and Mr McMullan were attacked.\n\nMr Siguenza described how the three attackers reached the area outside the bar below the bridge, where people threw glasses and a chair at them.\n\nThe attackers realised they were outnumbered and fled, he said.\n\nThey continued their attack elsewhere. Eight people were killed and 48 injured. The attackers were later shot dead by armed police.\n\nJulie and Mark Wallace, Ms Zelenak's mother and stepfather, also attended the inquest\n\nQuestions over why it took so long for paramedics to arrive became the focus for much of the fifth day of the inquest.\n\nMs Zelenak's mother and stepfather, Julie and Mark Wallace, watched from the courtroom as the details of her death were laid out.\n\nTheir expressions remained composed during a morning of gruelling evidence.\n\nTwo of the first police officers on the scene, PC Clint Wallis and PC Richard Norton, explained how they had performed CPR on Ms Zelenak CPR for about 10 minutes - but PC Norton agreed that they had been \"desperately in need of paramedics\".\n\nThey continued to provide treatment to victims despite the sound of gunfire.\n\nThe court heard that paramedic Gary Edwards was one of the first medics to arrive. As a tactical response paramedic, he had received specialist training for a situation such as this.\n\nHowever, reports of a gunman meant he couldn't enter the market as it had become a \"hot zone\" and wasn't \"safe enough\".\n\nThe court heard this refusal led to an angry exchange with a police officer demanding help - but Mr Edwards said that even with hindsight, he would still have responded in the same way.\n\nPC Richard Norton told the court he asked members of the public to try to flag down paramedics as he and PC Clint Wallis performed CPR on Ms Zelenak.\n\nPC Norton said he was trained to treat minor injuries but paramedics had more equipment and were better trained to deal with the kind of injuries Ms Zelenak had suffered.\n\nHe said he later heard medics were being held back until the scene was made safe.\n\nThis was part of standard protocol for dangerous areas or \"hot zones\", the court heard.\n\nThe inquest heard there were three paramedics on the scene at about 22:24 BST, some 15 minutes after the attack started.\n\nThe victims of the attack clockwise - Chrissy Archibald, Sebastien Belanger, Kirsty Boden, Ignacio Echeverria, Sara Zelenak, Xavier Thomas, Alexandre Pigeard, James McMullan\n\nLast week, Ms Zelenak's mother told the inquest her daughter was \"the happiest she had ever been\" in the lead-up to the attack.\n\nAnd Mr McMullan had been celebrating securing financial backing for his online education company on the night he was killed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Yemen, one of the Arab world's poorest countries, has been devastated by a civil war which has been going on since 2015.\n\nTaiz, the country’s third largest city, has seen some of the worst fighting. Snipers haunt the streets and open spaces, meaning civilians in the city are constantly at risk of being shot.\n\nTaiz is extremely dangerous for journalists to visit. The BBC recently obtained some exclusive footage showing the extent of the destruction and the level of fear that the residents live with.", "The mother of Leah Heyes, Kerry Roberts (right), paid tribute to a \"much loved and thoughtful girl\"\n\nThe mother of a teenager who died after apparently taking ecstasy in North Yorkshire says she has been left \"absolutely heartbroken\".\n\nLeah Heyes, 15, collapsed in a car park in Northallerton on Saturday night and died later in hospital.\n\nPolice believe she had taken MDMA. They arrested two teenagers on suspicion of supplying Class A drugs, but released them under investigation.\n\nLeah's mum, Kerry Roberts, paid tribute to a \"much loved and thoughtful girl\".\n\n\"Leah was my best friend,\" she said.\n\n\"She was a thoughtful, beautiful girl, who was much loved.\n\nMs Roberts described her daughter as \"fun, bubbly\" and said she had \"a great sense of humour\".\n\n\"I'm absolutely heartbroken to have lost my beautiful girl,\" she said.\n\n\"No words can describe how much she will be missed and the enormous gap she has left in our lives.\n\n\"She will be truly missed more than words can say. I love you always.\"\n\nEmergency services were called to Applegarth car park at 21:30 BST.\n\nLeah, who was from Northallerton, was taken to hospital in Middlesbrough where she later died.\n\nAn 18-year-old man was arrested on Monday, after officers detained a 17-year-old boy.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said it had \"not ruled out making more arrests\".\n\nThe force has appealed for anyone who has mobile phone footage taken on the night to come forward.\n\nIt said about 20 people were in the Applegarth area on Saturday night and officers needed to \"speak to all of them, and anyone else who was passing through\".\n\nDet Insp Eamonn Clarke said: \"Inquiries also reveal that there may be mobile phone video footage of the events of that tragic evening.\n\n\"This footage will be extremely helpful to our investigation.\"\n\nHe said the teenager's family were \"devastated and a community left in shock\".\n\n\"It is vital that people come forward and help us find the answers for Leah's family and friends,\" he added.\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 NSO Group boasted about being able to work without \"a trace\"\n\nWhat do we know about the curious, secretive NSO Group? Very little - but after this week, an awful lot more than we did before.\n\nThe group, an Israeli-based but American-owned company, specialises in creating what it calls tools against crime and terrorism. But the security researchers call them something else: a cyber arms dealer.\n\nOn Thursday, the NSO Group was thrust into international headlines after being credited with creating malicious software capable of \"jailbreaking\" any iPhone with just one tap of the screen, and then installing vicious spyware.\n\nSecurity-savvy human rights lawyer Ahmed Mansoor found himself targeted by the attack when his iPhone received a message promising \"secrets\" about torture happening in prisons in the United Arab Emirates.\n\nHad he tapped on the link, the phone would have been plundered. Huge amounts of private data: text messages, photos, emails, location data, even what’s being picked up by the device’s microphone and camera.\n\nThankfully, he didn't do that. Instead, he passed on the message to experts at Citizen Lab and Lookout, who peeled back the covers on what they described as one of the most sophisticated cyber weapons ever discovered. With it came evidence that it was the NSO Group’s expertise at the heart of it all.\n\nEarlier this year, UK-based watchdog Privacy International launched a database tracking the global trade of cyber arms. Its intention was to track deals between cyber arms companies and governments.\n\nAccording to the Surveillance Industry Index (SII), the NSO Group was founded in 2010 and is based in Herzliya, an attractive city north of Tel Aviv that is known as being a cluster of tech start-ups. The group was likely funded by the elite 8200 Intelligence Unit, an Israeli military-funded scheme for start-ups.\n\nAccording to Forbes, the 8200 Intelligence Unit was heavily involved in providing expertise and funding for Stuxnet, a cyber attack on Iran that was a joint operation between the US and Israel.\n\nThe texts had been sent to human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor\n\nListed in the SSI were multi-million dollar deals made between the NSO Group and government entities in Mexico and Panama. This is the tip of the iceberg - press reports of sales rely on leaks and anonymous sources, and so there are likely many more unknown to the general public.\n\nIn 2015, the NSO Group’s owners - US-based venture capital firm Francisco Partners - were looking to sell the company at a value of around $1bn. Neither firm has responded to the BBC’s requests for further comment.\n\nThat the NSO Group sells tools to governments is no secret - in a statement released in response to claims it was behind the attack on Mr Mansoor, NSO Group spokesman Zamir Dahbash said: \"The company sells only to authorized governmental agencies, and fully complies with strict export control laws and regulations.\"\n\nBut the company has gone no further than that in describing who its customers are, and what exactly they buy. It does say it has no control over how its tools are used and for what purpose.\n\nWhatever the origin of the NSO Group, what has been created is an extraordinarily talented team of cyber specialists.\n\nThe attack on Mr Mansoor, had it worked, would have utilised not one but three zero day attacks. A \"zero day\" is a term given to vulnerabilities that were previously unknown to the security industry, and are therefore wide open to attack. To discover one zero day is rare, to find three is outstanding.\n\nClues to the origin of the attack came when the experts looked at the messages Mr Mansoor received. A link was included to a web domain known to point to servers set up by the NSO Group for its customers.\n\nWhen the researchers analysed the spyware’s code, they noticed apparent references to \"Pegasus\", the name given, by the NSO Group, to one of its spying products.\n\nDetails about Pegasus were made public last year when another cyber arms firm, called the Hacking Team, was itself breached. Material used to market Pegasus was subsequently leaked.\n\nWhen Apple was made aware of the vulnerabilities in its iPhone, it acted quickly, patching the problem in 10 days and pushing out an update to all of its users. That has neutralised this specific attack, sure, but there'll likely be many more that remain hidden from view.\n\nIn a rare interview with Defense News, the NSO Group’s co-founder, Omri Lavie, said their attacks would \"leave no trace\".\n\nThanks to the quick thinking of Mr Mansoor, and the forensic efforts of researchers, the group has been temporarily dragged into the limelight - but it will only be for a brief moment. Soon the NSO Group will rejoin the rest of the money-spinning cyber arms trade back in the shadows.\n\nFollow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook\n• None iPhones could be hacked with one tap", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Edwards has lived with PKU since he was born\n\nA man with a rare inability to digest protein has said eating a normal diet would leave him brain damaged.\n\nMark Edwards, 35, has phenylketonuria (PKU), meaning he can only eat 6g (0.2oz) of protein per day - about one egg or two tablespoons of beans.\n\nEating more than his body could process could cause him to suffer depression, anxiety or even brain damage.\n\nA form of treatment, Kuvan, is not available on the NHS - which instead recommends a strict diet.\n\nA number of MPs are calling on drug company BioMarin to make the \"life-changing\" treatment affordable to UK patients.\n\nBioMarin said the NHS had not accepted its \"very competitive\" offer.\n\nThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which advises the NHS, said it had not begun its appraisal of Kuvan to treat PKU, but has made the \"exceptional decision\" to ask a panel to look at the issue.\n\nAfter this, a formal referral will be required from the UK government's health minister to determine the process under which Kuvan will be assessed, a spokeswoman said.\n\nMr Edwards, from Llanegryn in Gwynedd, was diagnosed with PKU at birth after it showed up in the standard blood tests given to babies - the condition affects one in 10,000 people in the UK.\n\nHe spends about £4,000 a year on Kuvan tablets, which allow him to eat more protein - and said they could change the lives of people with PKU.\n\nAmino acids are the building blocks of protein and are broken down by the body to make our own proteins.\n\nBut people with PKU cannot properly digest the amino acid phenylalanine, and the levels build up in the bloodstream and the brain - leading to a number of health problems.\n\nContainers showing how much protein Mark can eat in a day\n\n\"I can't have any meat, no egg, so nothing. Just what is available on prescription, really,\" said Mr Edwards\n\nWith Kuvan, Mr Edwards is able to eat up to 15g (0.5oz) a day, which he called \"a massive difference\".\n\n\"It's been available for 10 years but BioMarin, the company which makes it, they've put a price on it which is too expensive for the NHS,\" he said.\n\nMr Edwards has met Westminster politicians to discuss how sufferers of conditions such as PKU have been \"massively failed by the system\".\n\nHe is being supported by Plaid Cymru's Westminster spokeswoman, Liz Saville-Roberts, who said any drug with the potential to improve the lives of those with PKU should be easily and freely available.\n\nThe company which makes Kuvan says the only countries not funding it in Europe are the UK and Poland\n\nKuvan reduces the levels of phenylalanine in many with PKU.\n\nBioMarin said it had put the drug forward for commissioning five times in the past 10 years with no success.\n\n\"The burden and severity of PKU as a disease in the UK is not recognised by NICE or the NHS,\" it said.\n\n\"BioMarin has made an offer to the NHS which is very competitive compared to other markets but it has not been accepted.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eric Schmidt is to leave Alphabet's board in June\n\nFormer Google boss Eric Schmidt has defended the company’s record on multiple controversies: its work in China, its treatment of women, and its tax affairs.\n\nThe 64-year-old executive, who sits on the board at Google’s parent company, Alphabet, said the tech giant was right to pursue opportunities in China, despite heavy criticism from senior US officials.\n\n\"The world is a very interconnected place,” Mr Schmidt told BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis.\n\n\"There are many, many benefits interacting, among other things, with China.”\n\nGeneral Joseph Dunford, who as chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff is the highest ranking American in uniform, said Google’s work \"indirectly benefits the Chinese military and creates a challenge for us in maintaining a competitive advantage\".\n\n\"That's like saying America makes pencils and pencils are used by the Chinese.”\n\nGoogle has had a tumultuous history in China. It left the country in 2010 over concerns it was being by censored and cyber-attacked by Beijing, and instead set up an operation in Hong Kong.\n\nMr Schmidt said he disagreed with that move.\n\n“I believed they would be better to stay in China, and help change China to be more open.”\n\nMore recently, the company has been building a presence in the country once again, with an estimated 700 employees now working on advertising and other development. In 2017, it established the Google AI China Center, in Shanghai.\n\nLast year, reporting from The Intercept and New York Times revealed Google had been working on a project named Dragonfly, a search engine that would reportedly fall in line with Beijing’s requirements.\n\nIt was highly controversial, and prompted high-profile resignations, and a letter of protest signed by 1,400 Google employees.\n\nThe company has since said it was no longer working on the project.\n\nWhen asked why most Google employees only learned of Dragonfly via media reports, Mr Schmidt said he had no direct involvement in the project, but that “I can tell you that certainly the people who were building all these products knew about it”.\n\nMr Schmidt ran Google as chief executive and chairman from 2001 to 2011, then executive chairman until 2015. He then became executive chairman of Alphabet, the company set up as Google’s parent.\n\nIn that time, the Google's motto transitioned from, famously, “Don’t be evil” into “do the right thing”. Over the past 12 months, employee discontent has challenged that notion both internally and externally. Last November, staff at Google offices globally staged a walk-out over issues surrounding gender equality at the firm.\n\nThe protest took place after a New York Times investigation discovered Google had quietly paid former executive Andy Rubin $90m in severance, despite there being a credible claim of sexual harassment made against him.\n\nMr Schmidt told Newsnight the firm’s employees protested because they felt empowered.\n\n\"And the fact of the matter is that if we had tried to suppress this stuff it would have come out anyway. It's much better to encourage people to express their opinions.\n\n\"We would argue that [the protests show] our culture at work. Google is famously empowering of its employees and we want to hear from them. These are cases where the employees collectively felt very strongly about the decisions that the company had made.”\n\nA follow-up protest took place last month after organisers of November’s walk-out claimed they were being punished for their activism.\n\n\"My manager started ignoring me,” wrote Clare Stapleton, a Google employee in New York, in an internal memo obtained by Wired magazine. “My work was given to other people, and I was told to go on medical leave, even though I’m not sick.”\n\nMr Schmidt stepped down as Alphabet’s chairman in 2017, but remained on the board. Last month, he said he would be leaving the firm altogether in June.\n\nThroughout his tenure, the tax affairs of Google - like other tech giants - have been under close scrutiny. The company has always maintained that it adheres to the tax laws in all of the countries that it operates in.\n\nDocuments filed in the Netherlands showed Google moved 19.9 billion euros (£17.9bn, $22.7bn) to a shell company in Bermuda, a tax haven. Mr Schmidt told the BBC he was happy the company’s tax affairs were ethical.\n\n“We are required to follow the tax rules, and the tax rules allow that,” he said.\n\n\"When those tax rules change of course we will adopt them. But there is a presumption that somehow we're doing something wrong here. We’re following the global tax regime.”\n\nHe added: “Would you like us to give more, voluntarily, to these governments?\n\n“I will defend the company and the way it works for a very long time.\"", "The UK should consider \"decisively\" increasing defence spending after Brexit, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.\n\nHe told the Lord Mayor's Banquet in London the threats facing the UK had changed \"markedly\" since the Cold War.\n\nHe said any extra money should be spent on \"new capabilities and not simply plugging gaps\".\n\nLabour said real-terms funding for defence had been cut by £9bn since 2010.\n\nThe government will decide its spending commitments up to 2021 and potentially beyond in the Comprehensive Spending Review this autumn.\n\nThere has not been a full-scale Strategic Defence and Security Review, looking at future defence challenges and capabilities since 2015 and one is expected in 2020.\n\nMr Hunt said it was \"not sustainable\" to expect the US to spend 4% of its GDP on defence while other Nato allies spent between 1% and 2%.\n\nThe UK already spends 2% of its economic output on defence but many European countries do not - although all Nato members have agreed to do this by 2024.\n\n\"So for these and other reasons I believe it is time for the next Strategic Defence and Security Review to ask whether, over the coming decade, we should decisively increase the proportion of GDP we devote to defence,\" he said.\n\n\"We simply do not know what the balance of power in the world will be in 25 years' time.\"\n\nMr Hunt said the UK currently accounted for almost 20% of total EU defence spending, and British forces contributed a \"hugely disproportionate share\" of some key capabilities.\n\nBut he added that the UK had entered a \"multipolar world\" without the \"assurance provided by unquestioned American dominance\".\n\n\"We face a more aggressive Russia and a more assertive China. We simply do not know what the balance of power in the world will be in 25 years time,\" he said.\n\nOn Brexit Mr Hunt said the UK must leave the EU \"cleanly and properly\", and to fail to do so \"would betray the promise of a democracy\".\n\nThe foreign secretary is among those expected to stand to succeed Theresa May as leader of the Conservative Party when she steps down.\n\nMrs May has already promised to go once the first stage of Brexit is over. Pressure has grown on the PM to set out a date for her departure following the Conservatives' drubbing at the local elections.\n\nShadow Defence Secretary Nia Griffith said Mr Hunt had sat in successive cabinets since 2010 which had cut defence spending.\n\nShe tweeted: \"If he was so bothered, you'd have thought he might have said something a bit sooner?\"", "The Duke of Sussex was presented with a teddy bear for newborn Archie during a visit to a children's hospital.\n\nPrince Harry met youngsters at Oxford Children's Hospital and was presented with the gift by former patient Daisy Wingrove, 13.\n\nHe then met patients and their families who are currently having treatment at the hospital.", "Richard Livett described how he was rescued after coming face to face with one of the attackers\n\nThe first person stabbed in the London Bridge attack has described how he came \"nose to nose\" with Khuram Butt, who shouted \"Allahu Akbar\" in his face before stabbing him in the back.\n\nRichard Livett, who had been out watching football, first thought he had witnessed an accident when he saw a van crash into railings on June 3, 2017.\n\nHe told an inquest he went to check on the occupants.\n\nBut in a \"split second\", his attacker's face was \"an inch or so off\", he said.\n\n\"I felt what I thought initially was a punch in the back, which turned out to be him flailing his arm around the back of me and stabbing me,\" Mr Livett told the hearing at London's Old Bailey.\n\nHe said that after looking at photographs, he could identify the man as Khuram Butt, one of the three attackers.\n\nMr Livett said after he was attacked, he slumped on the ground for a few seconds before deciding to get up and move away.\n\n\"It was chaos all around. I was aware of screaming and shouting and people around me,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it was a personal mission to get help as quickly as I possibly could. I realised it was quite a serious blow I had taken.\"\n\nHe went on to describe how he felt weak before he collapsed and banged on the locked door of the nearby Globe Tavern.\n\nSome people, including a soldier and an off-duty doctor, came to his aid before he was helped back towards the bridge to receive medical attention, chief coroner Mark Lucraft QC was told.\n\nAnother witness, Jack Baxter, told how he saw French-born waiter Alexandre Pigeard, 26, running and holding his neck near Borough Market's Boro Bistro, where he worked.\n\n\"He had somebody else running to his right,\" he said.\n\n\"They were both running, looking at each other almost in shock at what happened and screaming to each other like 'what's going on?'\"\n\nFrench-born waiter Mr Pigeard, left, and chef Mr Belanger, also from France, were both killed in the attack\n\nHe told the Old Bailey that he then saw a man, now identified as 36-year-old chef Sebastien Belanger, who was cornered by three knifeman in an archway before being stabbed.\n\nAsked how the attackers were behaving, he said that they looked to be acting as a team and appeared to have been trained.\n\nThe inquest into the deaths of eight victims has also been hearing from Rasak Kalenikanse, the doorman at the Barrowboy and Banker pub next to where the van crashed.\n\nMr Kalenikanse broke down in tears as he described seeing the three attackers standing with knives, while dead and injured people lay around them.\n\nHe said he heard one of them say: \"We are doing these things in the cause of Allah, you unbelievers.\"\n\nMuch of the inquest today has focused on witnesses' desperate attempts to save those who were wounded.\n\nThis afternoon Philippe Pigeard listened as a waiter described the moment he found his son, Alexandre Pigeard, mortally wounded on a walkway in the Borough Market area.\n\nDervish Gashi, a waiter at the nearby Cafe Brood, became upset when an image was shown to the court of the bloodied path where he found Mr Pigeard.\n\nHe wiped a shaky hand across his forehead as he described frantically searching for a pulse.\n\nDuring some of his evidence, Mr Pigeard's father closed his eyes with a pained expression on his face.\n\nAs Mr Gashi stepped out of the witness box, the bereaved father jumped out of his seat and approached him.\n\nHe whispered something in his ear and extended his hand out. They shook hands before enveloping in a spontaneous embrace.\n\nThe gesture of goodwill and solidarity was a brief moment of respite from the graphic narratives that have dominated this inquest.\n\nThe inquest also heard how three members of the public spent more than half an hour trying to save Mr Belanger after he was stabbed.\n\nCraig Smith and his girlfriend, Emma Thompson, were joined by Lisa Deacon, who told how she had been given first aid training a few weeks before the attack.\n\nMr Smith said the chef was initially conscious but became unresponsive as he tried to stop him from bleeding.\n\nThey were later joined by two police officers who helped them give CPR to Mr Belanger while also keeping watch in case the attackers returned.\n\nAfter 22:45 BST they brought Mr Belanger out to paramedics in Borough High Street.", "The death of guest Steve Dymond has put The Jeremy Kyle Show under intense scrutiny\n\nThe basic question prompted by Steve Dymond's death is whether the very genre of which Jeremy Kyle is the personification has any place on our screens.\n\nNobody doubts it is a commercial success. In a highly competitive market, the show has delivered solid ratings for years; and the fact that it has been on air for 14 years is testament to ITV's support for it.\n\nBut is it right to allow private trauma to become public spectacle? And is the ultimate result nothing less than the exploitation - for commercial gain at ITV, and for voyeuristic viewers - of highly vulnerable people?\n\nHere, some important caveats are vital.\n\nGuests on the show have provided their consent. They are familiar with the programme, and generally know what they're getting into. And there is care provided for them by the production team.\n\nBut ultimately, is the show really there to help people - or to entertain an audience, both in the studio and at home?\n\nHe thinks any claim that the show is about helping people is little short of contemptible, and describes it as a \"theatre of cruelty\" in which people on the edge are exploited.\n\nThe tough questioning of host Jeremy Kyle has been a daytime TV staple since 2005\n\nWhat to do with the show is a question for ITV rather than Ofcom who, being a post-transmission regulator, don't want to be accused of censorship.\n\nThere is a massive disconnect here, between those who don't like what Jeremy Kyle does, and want him off the airwaves, and millions who tune in. Those who want it off air generally don't watch it.\n\nIf you're interested in issues such as these, you can follow me on Twitter or Facebook; and subscribe to The Media Show podcast from Radio 4.", "Stan Lee (left) became close to Mr Morgan (right) after his wife's death\n\nThe former manager of comic book co-creator Stan Lee has been charged with elder abuse against the late writer.\n\nKeya Morgan is facing five counts of abuse against Lee - including false imprisonment, fraud and forgery - all stemming from an incident last summer.\n\nThe Marvel superhero visionary died in November last year aged 95.\n\nA spokesperson for Los Angeles Superior Court confirmed an arrest warrant for Mr Morgan - who is yet to comment - had been issued.\n\nLee, who first helped dream up The Fantastic Four for Marvel Comics in 1961 and went on to co-create titles including Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk, endured faltering eyesight and memory loss towards the end of his life.\n\nHis final few months were marred by conflicting claims over who was running his affairs.\n\nNew York memorabilia dealer Mr Morgan, 42, became close to Lee after the death of his wife, Joan, who died in 2017, also aged 95.\n\nStan Lee with his wife Joan, who died in 2017, also aged 95\n\nThe charges follow previous filings against Mr Morgan in May and June last year, including falsely reporting an emergency and falsely reporting a crime, along with a probation violation.\n\nThis culminated in a judge granting a restraining order brought by Lee's family, after Mr Morgan was accused of moving the magnate out of his home at midnight to isolate him from his caregivers.\n\nSpeaking to Variety at the time, Mr Morgan denied the accusations.\n\nThe Marvel Avengers film franchise features many of Lee's comic book co-creations\n\nA previous attempt to obtain a restraining order had been rejected after the attorney pursuing the order, Tom Lallas, was accused of acting without Lee's consent.\n\nThe superhero creations Lee helped to inspire have since formed the foundation of Marvel's record-breaking cinematic universe.\n\nThe most recent release, Avengers: Endgame, broke box office world records and became the fastest film ever to break the $1 billion barrier, doing so in just five days.\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 Man City\n\nUefa investigators want Manchester City to be banned from the Champions League for a season if they are found guilty of breaking financial rules.\n\nHowever, according to one well-placed source, a final decision is yet to be made by chief investigator Yves Leterme.\n\nThe former Belgian prime minister, chairman of the investigatory panel of Uefa's independent financial control board, is set to make a recommendation this week.\n\nWith no vote in such cases, the final say lies with him but several of his colleagues are understood to have firmly expressed the view at a recent meeting that a season-long ban would be a suitable punishment if City are found guilty.\n• None This is my toughest title - Guardiola\n\nWhat are City alleged to have done?\n\nLeterme and his team have been looking at evidence first uncovered in a series of leaks published by the German newspaper Der Spiegel last year.\n\nThe reports alleged that Manchester City had broken Financial Fair Play regulations by inflating the value of a multimillion-pound sponsorship deal. City were fined £49m in 2014 for a previous breach of regulations.\n\nThe Premier League champions denied any wrongdoing, and Uefa said it could not comment on an ongoing investigation, but according to the New York Times, investigators now want rules upheld and City punished with a ban.\n\nUefa's adjudicatory chamber would have to decide whether it agreed with any recommendation from Leterme - expected in the next 48 hours - although it is unlikely to apply to next season's competition because City could appeal, and even take their case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\nBut it would still be a major blow for a club desperate to win Europe's most prestigious club competition for the first time, and who could also soon face a transfer ban, with the FA, Premier League and Fifa also currently investigating City over their signing of youth players.\n\nA statement from Manchester City said: \"Manchester City FC is fully cooperating in good faith with the CFCB IC's [Club Financial Control Body Investigatory Chamber] ongoing investigation.\n\n\"In doing so the club is reliant on both the CFCB IC's independence and commitment to due process; and on Uefa's commitment of the 7 March that it 'will make no further comment on the matter while the investigation is ongoing'.\n\n\"The New York Times report citing 'people familiar with the case' is therefore extremely concerning.\n\n\"The implications are that either Manchester City's good faith in the CFCB IC is misplaced or the CFCB IC process is being misrepresented by individuals intent on damaging the club's reputation and its commercial interests. Or both.\n\n\"Manchester City's published accounts are full and complete and a matter of legal and regulatory record. The accusation of financial irregularities are entirely false, and comprehensive proof of this fact has been provided to the CFCB IC.\"\n\nWhat are the FFP rules?\n• None FFP rules - all you need to know\n\nFinancial Fair Play was introduced by Uefa to prevent clubs in its competitions from spending beyond their means and stamp out what its then president Michel Platini called \"financial doping\" within football.\n\nUnder the rules, financial losses are limited and clubs are also obliged to meet all their transfer and employee payment commitments at all times.\n\nClubs need to balance football-related expenditure - transfers and wages - with television and ticket income, plus revenues raised by their commercial departments. Money spent on stadiums, training facilities, youth development or community projects is exempt.\n\nThe Club Financial Control Body, set up by Uefa, has the ultimate sanction of banning clubs from Uefa competitions, with other potential punishments including warnings, fines, withholding prize money, transfer bans, points deductions, a ban on registration of new players and a restriction on the number of players who can be registered for Uefa competitions.\n\nHas anyone been punished before?\n\nIn 2014, Qatar-owned Paris St-Germain received a similar financial punishment to the one City received.\n\nPSG were deemed to have breached FFP rules when the CFCB decided their back-dated £167m sponsorship contract with the Qatar Tourism Authority, which wiped out their losses, had an unfair value.\n\nThat meant the French side exceeded allowed financial losses by a wide margin when, under FFP rules, clubs were limited to losses of £37m over the previous two years.\n\nThey received a fine, a spending cap and were only allowed to register 21 players for the Champions League for a season.\n\nPSG also remain under investigation for their 2017-18 finances when they signed Neymar from Barcelona for a world record £222m euros (£200m) and Kylian Mbappe from Monaco, initially on loan, for 180m euros (£165.7m).", "Cow & Gate is urgently recalling a batch of baby food sold in major supermarkets as it may contain fragments of rubber.\n\nThe company said small pieces of a thin blue rubber glove had been found in some jars of its Cheesy Broccoli Bake.\n\nA recall notice was issued by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) which said the product may be \"unsafe to eat\".\n\nCow & Gate said the product \"does not pose a health risk\", but \"does not meet our usual high quality standards\".\n\n\"Nothing is more important to us than the safety and quality of our products. We are sorry this has happened and would like to reassure parents that this is an isolated incident,\" Cow & Gate said.\n\nCheesy Broccoli Bake 250g jars are sold in supermarkets including Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons.\n\nThe batch of baby food affected has the code 28122020 and a best before date of 28/12/2020.\n\nThe FSA said in a statement: \"If you have bought the above product do not feed it to your baby. Instead, return it to the store where it was bought, with or without a receipt, for a full refund.\"", "Lord Steel was leader of the Liberal Party and the Liberal Democrats and Holyrood's first presiding officer\n\nThe Lib Dems have reinstated former leader David Steel after a probe into what he knew about abuse claims against the late MP Cyril Smith.\n\nThe peer was suspended from the party after comments he made about Smith to an independent child abuse inquiry.\n\nHe said he had \"assumed\" allegations against the Rochdale MP were true, but that it was \"nothing to do with me\".\n\nThe party ruled there were \"no grounds for action\" against Lord Steel as Smith \"did not confess to any criminality\".\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said it had been important to seek \"clarification\", but said the issue had boiled down to \"a hearing difficulty and a lack of precision in providing some answers\" on the part of Lord Steel.\n\nLord Steel said that his \"open and honest answers\" had been \"erroneously reported and taken out of context\", which had caused him \"great personal distress\".\n\nHowever, a lawyer representing some people who allege they were abused by Smith said the decision was \"disappointing\" and that the issue should have been investigated in a \"thorough, open and transparent way rather than behind closed doors\".\n\nThe probe centred on a meeting Lord Steel - then leader of the Liberal Party - had with Smith in 1979 about claims he had abused boys at a Rochdale hostel in the 1960s.\n\nPolice had investigated allegations about the abuse of teenagers at the Cambridge House hostel a decade earlier, in 1969, although no-one was ever prosecuted.\n\nLord Steel said he had discussed the allegations with Smith - the MP for Rochdale between 1972 and 1992 - after an article appeared in Private Eye magazine.\n\nThe 81-year-old told the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse that \"the matter had been investigated by police, no further action was taken and that was the end of the story\".\n\nBut in exchanges with inquiry counsel Brian Altman QC, the peer appeared to agree that he had \"assumed\" the allegations were true.\n\nCyril Smith (left) and David Steel (right) discussed the allegations in 1979\n\nMr Altman asked: \"So you understood that he's actually committed these offences, from what he said to you?\"\n\nThe QC then asked: \"Wasn't that all the more reason to take matters further and hold some form of inquiry?\"\n\nThe peer answered: \"No, because it was, as I say, before he was an MP, before he was even a member of my party. It had nothing to do with me.\"\n\nThe Scottish Liberal Democrats subsequently suspended Lord Steel, saying that \"an investigation is needed\".\n\nThe party's executive group has now determined that there are \"no grounds for action\" against the former MSP and Holyrood presiding officer.\n\nMr Rennie said: \"We take the issue of vigilance and safeguarding incredibly seriously, so it was important to investigate following the evidence that David Steel gave to the independent public inquiry. In part because of a hearing difficulty and a lack of precision in providing some answers it was necessary to seek further information from him for clarification.\n\n\"The clarifications that David Steel has provided to us state clearly that Cyril Smith did not confess to any criminality which is why he took no further action at the time.\"\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said Lord Steel had \"a hearing difficulty\" during the inquiry session\n\nLord Steel said he was \"naturally pleased and relieved\" with the decision, which was made by the party executive on Sunday.\n\nHe said: \"I believe in the highest standards of safeguarding for young and vulnerable people. As such, I voluntarily attended the IICSA hearing and offered open and honest answers, some of which have been erroneously reported and taken out of context.\n\n\"These inaccurate elements led some to question my own such commitment. Opinions and assumptions are not facts, and those expressed in some quarters have caused me great personal distress.\"\n\nBut lawyer Richard Scorer, who represents some of those alleging abuse by Smith, said the party's decision was \"disappointing\".\n\nMr Scorer, of law firm Slater and Gordon, also claimed it was \"premature\" of the Liberal Democrats to conclude their investigation without waiting for the findings of the abuse inquiry.\n\nHe said: \"Lord Steel's evidence and the dismissive way in which he delivered it was truly shocking. The least my clients are owed is for the matter to be investigated in a thorough, open and transparent way rather than behind closed doors.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nAston Villa beat West Bromwich Albion in a penalty shootout to reach the Championship play-off final for the second successive season.\n\nTammy Abraham's winning spot-kick, after keeper Jed Steer had saved Albion's first two penalties, settled the shootout 4-3 in Villa's favour after a gripping two hours of tension-packed derby drama.\n\nTrailing 2-1 from Saturday's first leg, Albion levelled the tie when Craig Dawson flicked home a near-post header from a long throw.\n\nBut, just as much as Dwight Gayle's red card proved crucial at Villa Park, so did the 80th-minute sending-off of Albion captain Chris Brunt as they finished with 10 men for the second time in four days.\n\nThey held on for penalties and, although Albert Adomah's miss in the shootout briefly gave them hope after Steer had saved from Mason Holgate and Ahmed Hegazi, Abraham kept his nerve to book a play-off final meeting with either Leeds or Derby at Wembley on 27 May.\n\nThey meet in the second leg of their semi-final at Elland Road on Wednesday, with Leeds 1-0 up from the first leg.\n\nTwo red cards in four days hinder Albion\n\nThe main sub-plot of a tight two-legged play-off semi-final concerned Albion's two red cards, with top scorer Gayle sent off on Saturday and captain Brunt dismissed at The Hawthorns.\n\nIf the Baggies were a bit unlucky at Villa Park over the controversial Gayle incident, this time there was no doubt at all.\n\nBrunt stepped on John McGinn's arm in their first tangle before the break, but referee Chris Kavanagh either did not see the incident or deemed it accidental.\n\nBrunt was then booked early in the second half for a late challenge on McGinn, which could easily have been interpreted as a sending-off offence in its own right.\n\nWhen he brought McGinn down again on the edge of the box, Brunt's resulting red card was inevitable.\n\nIt might have been a different story if Albion had stayed with 11 men, given what a force they had been when roared on from even before kick-off by their raucous home support.\n\nThey had already looked a threat before they finally took the lead after 29 minutes, not surprisingly from an aerial set-piece.\n\nAlbion won a throw close to the corner flag and, when Holgate hurled in a long one to the near post, it did not immediately seem that dangerous, but Dawson got in first - as he has done so often in such set-piece situations during his career - and steered in a flicked header which crept in at the far post.\n\nAlbion had other chances too - Tyrone Mings blocked a Jacob Murphy shot on his own goal line, Jay Rodriguez sent a powerful effort straight at keeper Steer, Matt Phillips powered a close-range header just over and Brunt shot just wide from long range.\n\nBut, although it took a fierce low shot from Anwar El Ghazi to test Sam Johnstone properly for the first time after the break, Villa were already starting to turn the tide before Brunt's departure.\n\nAnd, once they had a man advantage, they were hard to hold back.\n\nAdomah had a left-footed shot from 12 yards superbly saved by former Villa keeper Johnstone, while Conor Hourihane had an effort deflected over and then Adomah fired just wide.\n\nTwo tired sides then got through extra time as Villa still failed to break down the door before the drama of spot-kicks.\n\nAnd in Steer, Villa's third-choice goalkeeper at the start of the season, Dean Smith's side had just the man for the occasion.\n\nSmith - who left Brentford to succeed Steve Bruce as Villa boss in October - has guided Villa back to Wembley for the second time in 12 months.\n\nHaving experienced the disappointment of play-off final defeat by Fulham in last season's play-off final, they will get another opportunity to return to the Premier League following relegation in 2016.\n\nAs for the Baggies, they have ultimately failed in their bid to bounce straight back to the top flight after one year in the Championship and are likely to start next season with a new boss.\n\nJimmy Shan spent the final two months in caretaker charge of Albion following Darren Moore's sacking in March.\n• None 0-0 - Holgate missed for West Brom - saved by Steer to goalkeeper's left\n• None 0-1 - Hourihane scored for Villa - drilled low and hard into corner\n• None 0-1 - Hegazi missed for West Brom - saved by Steer to goalkeeper's right\n• None 0-2 - Jedinak scored for Villa - sidefooted into corner, sending goalkeeper wrong way\n• None 1-3 - Grealish scored for Villa - sent goalkeeper wrong way\n• None 2-3 - Gibbs scored for West Brom - placed effort in bottom corner\n• None 2-3 - Adomah missed for Villa - blazed well over the crossbar\n• None 3-3 - Morrison scored for West Brom - fired into corner past Steer's right hand\n• None 3-4 - Abraham scored for Villa - Johnstone got foot to low penalty but could not keep it out and Villa's place at Wembley was confirmed\n\n\"I'd have taken this 15 games ago and we have cause to be very proud.\n\n\"We deserved it, but the disappointing for me was not winning. I couldn't believe we'd lost the game. That's our first defeat since losing at Brentford in February.\n\n\"They were always going to be threat from set-pieces but we had enough chances to have scored ourselves.\n\n\"We'd done our preparations though. We had prepared for penalties since the day we qualified for the play-offs. We had a lot of rehearsals and of course we had the inspired substitution of bringing on Mile Jedinak, who has never missed a penalty.\"\n\n\"We've been on the end of some unjust decisions over the course of the two ties but you just have to accept it.\n\n\"The momentum was with us. But for the lads to go down to 10 men again and perform they did was a credit to them.\n\n\"Their work ethic has been excellent since from the moment I took over and we can be proud of the effort that has been put in.\n\n\"The fans were magnificent too. They can be proud of the way they got behind their team. The atmosphere was electric.\"\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1(3), Aston Villa 0(4). Tammy Abraham (Aston Villa) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1(3), Aston Villa 0(3). James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Albert Adomah (Aston Villa) right footed shot is just a bit too high. Albert Adomah should be disappointed.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1(2), Aston Villa 0(3). Kieran Gibbs (West Bromwich Albion) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1(1), Aston Villa 0(3). Jack Grealish (Aston Villa) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1(1), Aston Villa 0(2). Tosin Adarabioyo (West Bromwich Albion) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1, Aston Villa 0(2). Mile Jedinak (Aston Villa) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Ahmed Hegazi (West Bromwich Albion) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1, Aston Villa 0(1). Conor Hourihane (Aston Villa) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Mason Holgate (West Bromwich Albion) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. John McGinn (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A transgender LGBT rights campaigner and former taxi driver who won £4m on a lottery scratchcard has died.\n\nMelissa Ede bought the winning card when she stopped for petrol on her way to work in December 2017.\n\nBefore her win the 58-year-old, from Hull, was known for her online videos and TV appearances and had thousands of followers on social media.\n\nHumberside Police confirmed she died on Saturday night and said her death was not suspicious.\n\nEarlier this month, Ms Ede, posted a message on Facebook thanking paramedics and hospital staff \"for looking after me\" when she was suffering from chest pains.\n\nMs Ede once described her lottery win as a \"fairytale ending\"\n\nWhen she had her big win, Ms Ede explained how she went into a local garage for fuel and could not decide whether to also buy cigarettes or the £10 National Lottery Blue Scratchcard.\n\n\"What a fairytale ending,\" she said.\n\n\"It is all just like a dream.\"\n\nThe lottery millionaire said she wanted to concentrate on helping others experiencing gender challenges and to write her autobiography.\n\n\"The transgender fight to where I am now has been a very difficult path,\" she said.\n\nShe underwent surgery nearly nine years ago and said she was \"really proud of who I am today\".\n\nMs Ede is famous for posting online videos of herself, mostly featuring her singing and dancing in skimpy outfits.\n\nAmong her TV appearances include the ITV court show, Judge Rinder, and The Jeremy Kyle Show.\n\nShe described how she used to work up to 15 hours a day as a taxi driver and lived in one room in a shared house.\n\nIn a statement, Humberside Police said it was called to reports of \"concern for safety of a woman outside a property on Cleminson Gardens at 22:40 BST\" who was pronounced dead after receiving \"immediate medical attention\".", "Are the talks between the government and the opposition dead? Not yet.\n\nOlly Robbins, (remember him?) the government's Brexit negotiator, is off to Brussels on Tuesday to talk about how long it might take, and how the broad outline of the future arrangement between the EU and the UK could be changed if there were to be some kind of deal.\n\nOn its own, that sounds rather promising. It's been a demand from Labour that there would be changes to the so-called political declaration so that any compromises can be trusted.\n\nAnd broadly, the actual policies of the two main Westminster parties aren't so far apart after all.\n\nIf you squint at the detail you can just about see where, with some understanding, and urgency, they could collide.\n\nRemember the political declaration, that guide to the future, is rather helpfully vague. One cabinet minister told me tonight \"we could sort the real policy differences out in an afternoon\".\n\nOf course there are disagreements on detail, tone, and ambition for the long term outcome. But if these talks fail it won't be because the two parties have an entirely different set of ideas about our actual departure when it comes at least to the first part of Brexit, the divorce deal withdrawal agreement.\n\nThis process though is not just about the policy, it's about the politics too.\n\nAnd with unease on the Tory side, expressed explicitly in a letter to Theresa May today from former ministers, about softening up their Brexit plan at all, and division on the Labour side about signing up to anything without a promise of another referendum, the reality of getting anything agreed threatens to choke it off.\n\nAnd as each day passes it becomes harder - Theresa May's hold on government becomes more slippery, undermining her chances of selling anything to her party, and eroding Labour's faith that they could sign up to anything that lasts.\n\nAnd actors on both sides do agree on something - that while they talk, rather than decide, it's leaving a vacuum that makes the divisions at Westminster and beyond worse.\n\nThe visible agonies of their attempts to compromise are making more space for those offering clear sounding solutions - whether that's leaving without a deal, changing the prime minister or holding another public vote.\n\nThe cabinet and shadow cabinet share the fears that their respective parties suffer in an increasingly brutal and binary Brexit debate.\n\nBut they seem unlikely to take bold moves suddenly to shift their attitude to doing a deal, when they meet separately and discuss the status of the talks on Tuesday morning.\n\nAnother Eurostar trip for Olly Robbins is unlikely to change that.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things you might not know about Doris Day\n\nHollywood legend Doris Day, whose films made her one of the biggest stars of all time, has died aged 97.\n\nThe singer turned actress starred in films such as Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk and had a hit in 1956 with Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be).\n\nHer screen partnership with Rock Hudson is one of the best-known in the history of romantic movies.\n\nIn a statement, the Doris Day Animal Foundation said she died on Monday at her home in Carmel Valley, California.\n\nIt said she had been \"in excellent physical health for her age, until recently contracting a serious case of pneumonia\".\n\n\"She was surrounded by a few close friends as she passed,\" the statement continued.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by DDAF This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff in April 1922, Day originally wanted to be a dancer but had to abandon her dream after breaking her right leg in a car accident.\n\nInstead she began her singing career at the age of 15. Her first hit, Sentimental Journey, would become a signature tune.\n\nHer films, which included Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much and That Touch of Mink, made her known around the world.\n\nBut she never won an Oscar and was nominated only once, in 1960, for Pillow Talk, the first of her three romantic comedies with Hudson.\n\nHonours she did receive included the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004 and a lifetime achievement Grammy in 2008.\n\nHer last release, the compilation album My Heart, went to number one in the UK in 2011.\n\nDay's real life was not as upbeat as her on-screen persona\n\nDay's wholesome, girl-next-door image was a popular part of her myth that sometimes invited ridicule.\n\n\"I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin,\" the musician Oscar Levant once remarked.\n\nDay herself said her \"Miss Chastity Belt\" image was \"more make-believe than any film part [she] ever played.\"\n\nHer life was certainly not as sunny. She married four times, was divorced three times and was widowed once.\n\nShe also suffered a mental breakdown and had severe financial trouble after one husband squandered her money.\n\nIn the 1970s, she turned away from performing to focus her energies on her animal foundation.\n\nAccording to the organisation, she wished to have no funeral, memorial service or grave marker.\n\nIn later life she became an advocate for animal welfare\n\nDick Van Dyke, another Hollywood legend from the same era although he never worked with Day, said she had an \"energy about her\".\n\n\"She wasn't trying to act. It was just who Doris Day was, I think, a great energy and exhilaration, and she seemed to love life, at least that's the impression you got,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme. \"It was a great era.\"\n\nStar Trek actor William Shatner remembered Day on Twitter as \"the World's Sweetheart,\" saying she was \"beloved by all\".\n\nFellow Star Trek cast member George Takei said she was \"synonymous with Hollywood icon\", while Spanish actor Antonio Banderas wrote: \"Thank you for your talent.\"\n\nNovelist Paulo Coelho marked her passing by quoting lyrics from Secret Love, one of her numbers in Calamity Jane.\n\n\"We've lost another great Hollywood talent,\" tweeted Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, while actor Luke Evans said he had \"always loved\" her voice and \"beautiful\" songs.\n\nFormer Beatles member Paul McCartney paid tribute to Day on his website, describing her as \"very funny lady who I shared many laughs with\", adding: \"I will miss her but will always remember her twinkling smile and infectious laugh\".\n\nAnd his daughter, fashion designer Stella McCartney, shared a photo of her and Day alongside words which read: \"The one, the only, the woman who inspired so much of what I do.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Having narrowly missed being struck by a light aircraft that crashed on a dual carriageway, two motorists leapt into action to save those on board.\n\nDaniel Nicholson and Joel Snarr said they were just acting on instinct after dragging the pilot and two passengers out with just minor injuries.\n\nMr Nicholson said he was the first to get to the plane: \"I realised it was upside down - it was already on fire.\n\n\"I got under the wing and I could see they were all still alive, and obviously in a lot of distress.\"\n\nThe pair have been called heroes for their actions.\n\nThis video contains footage filmed by eye-witness Daniel Nicholson.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earlier this year, BBC Scotland News made a film about Larry and his love of football.\n\nIt is Sunday lunchtime, and match day for Chaplins against Belleaire in the Greenock and District Welfare League.\n\nLarry Barilli is in the Chaplins dressing room, dishing out the strips to his players.\n\nHe is pretty angry - his only reserve for the match is the back-up goalkeeper.\n\nLarry's task of managing Chaplins to victory just got a little harder. At least he has his experience to fall back on - Larry is 83, and has been a football manager for almost 66 years.\n\nLarry Barilli started managing football teams in the year Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest\n\nOn one side of the pitch are Belleaire's management team and their subs, looking confident.\n\nA few fans are also here to support their friends. One young man defies the bitterly cold Greenock wind and watches the game in a T-shirt with a bottle of beer in hand.\n\nAfter a brief team talk, where Larry encourages his players to enjoy themselves and respect the referee, he takes his position on the opposite side of the pitch from Belleaire's coaches.\n\nHe is a lone figure, walking up and down the touchline wearing all black apart from his \"No Fear\" cap.\n\nThe game kicks off, and the great-grandfather doesn't hold back - he shouts encouragement and occasional abuse at his players, he gives the referee a piece of his mind on foul throws and he constantly demands that his players play the ball forward.\n\nAs you may expect from a Sunday league amateur game, the language is somewhat colourful.\n\nLarry was overjoyed when his team Chaplins won 8-2 against rivals Belleaire\n\nMaybe it was the presence of the BBC cameras, maybe it was Larry's lucky day, but Chaplins take the game to a lacklustre Belleaire and win the match 8-2.\n\nThe joy of victory is written across Larry's face. After punching his arms in the air, he gasps: \"I feel as if we have won the league with that result. I didn't expect it before the game.\"\n\nPaul Bryson, the captain of Chaplins, takes a moment away from the celebrations to speak about his manager.\n\n\"The guy is a legend. You know what they say - a leopard can't change its spots. Hats off to him, he is out here every week come rain or shine. He is great to have along.\"\n\nWilliam Collins, the Chairman of the Greenock and District Welfare League, was also there to watch Larry's team win.\n\n\"The amount of teams that he has had, the amount of players he has coached throughout the years, you can't count that.\n\n\"Everybody has got a respect for Larry. He is a character. You think nice, elderly gentleman - no. He is giving as good as he is getting out there.\"\n\nBarnhill Rovers, the team Larry started and the first he managed. Larry is seen here in the front row, second from the right\n\nLarry started managing in 1953 - the year the Queen was crowned, Joseph Stalin died, and Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.\n\nIn the world of football, Blackpool won the FA Cup and the Scotland national team was being managed by a \"selection committee\".\n\nAfter Larry turned 18 in late May of that year, he decided to become the player-manager of his own football team so he could lead them in the local amateur league.\n\n\"I just wanted to start my own team where I stayed in Barnhill Street,\" he recalls.\n\n\"We called the team Barnhill Rovers. We got a few tankings at the start.\n\nOne of Larry's favourite managers is Nottingham Forrest legend Brian Clough\n\n\"We've had a lot of great teams, and some poor teams as well,\" he says.\n\n\"We have had quite a lot of success - we have won 11 league titles in the different leagues we were in, and we won 23 out of 36 cup finals.\"\n\nLarry has managed seven teams in the Greenock area over the years and estimates to have missed only seven games since 1953 through illness.\n\nHis longevity in football is hard to match. It is thought only one man in Scottish football history has managed for a longer time, and Larry will match that record later this year.\n\nLarry is believed to have managed about 2,000 games, and the Scottish Amateur Football Association is not aware of a football manager in Scotland who is older than him.\n\nFor Larry's family, they understand - although don't necessarily always agree - with his football obsession.\n\n\"I felt embarrassed one time,\" said Larry. \"My oldest boy's granddaughter was getting christened on the Sunday. I went to the football.\n\n\"He was my goalkeeper for a long time. I think he knows how much football means to me. I felt rotten after it though.\"\n\nFor the past few years, Larry's senior players have taken training while he concentrates on leading Chaplins on match days.\n\nAs well as manager, Larry is Chaplins' kit man and washes all the strips after every game.\n\nLarry says he has missed only seven games since 1953\n\nWhen he is not loading his washing machine with muddy tops, or planning his team for the next match, Larry works as a taxi driver two days a week.\n\nHe is not a fan of the modern game.\n\n\"I think the football years ago was better,\" he says. \"In my time, you attacked to win games. Now they are passing the ball back an awful lot. It is kind of boring.\"\n\nLarry's living room is full of awards and trophies from his football successes. One award, however, is missing and he wants to have it - an honour from the Queen.\n\n\"A great footballer for me, who I thought was absolutely brilliant, got an OBE. Frank Lampard - for services to football. Football made him a multi-millionaire. I'm doing this for the true love of football.\"\n\nThe Greenock great-grandfather, who also works as a taxi driver, has no plans to stop managing football teams\n\nFor now, Larry savours his side's victory. He celebrates at home by watching some more football on TV with a glass of cola in his hand.\n\nAs any coach will tell you, including one who has been managing for almost 66 years, the most important game is the next one. For Larry, he hopes to have many more to come.\n• None End of the road for Marine boss", "Madonna's performance at the Eurovision Song Contest has been thrown into doubt by organisers, who say she has yet to sign a contract for the show.\n\nSpeaking on Monday, Eurovision's executive supervisor Jon Ola Sand said: \"The European Broadcasting Union has never confirmed Madonna as an act.\"\n\nHe continued: \"If we do not have a signed contract she cannot perform on our stage.\"\n\nThe contest takes place in Tel Aviv in Israel on 18 May.\n\nMadonna's appearance was announced by her US and UK publicists in April.\n\nThey said the star was due to play two songs during the interval - one from her new album Madame X and another from her back catalogue, rumoured to be 1989's Like A Prayer.\n\nEurovision organisers downplayed the story at the time, saying \"no final decisions\" had been made - although this appeared to be a formality.\n\nBut Sand, who has produced the contest since 2010, said on Monday that negotiations were still ongoing.\n\n\"We are in a situation now that is a bit strange,\" he said.\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 Dobry wieczór Europo! This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"We have an artist who would like to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest, and who we would love to welcome on that stage. But for that we need to have the framework secured.\n\n\"We are negotiating now, in the final stage of that - but if there is no signed contract this week, she will not be on the stage.\"\n\nAccording to the Jerusalem Post, Madonna will arrive in Tel Aviv to start rehearsals on Wednesday.\n\nIt is not clear how Eurovision would fill the half-time show if her appearance was cancelled.\n\nHowever, there is already a separate performance planned featuring four former contestants - Conchita Wurst, Måns Zelmerlöw, Eleni Foureira and Verka Serduchka - recreating some of Eurovision's most memorable moments.\n\nThis year's contest is being held in Israel after the country's entry - Netta's song Toy - won the 2018 edition.\n\nBut there have been calls for performers and broadcasters to boycott the competition over Israel's human rights record.\n\nIn January, British figures including Dame Vivienne Westwood, Peter Gabriel, Roger Waters, Mike Leigh, Maxine Peake and the band Wolf Alice signed a letter calling on the BBC to cancel coverage of the 2019 song contest.\n\nThe signatories criticised Israel over its occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. \"Eurovision may be light entertainment, but it is not exempt from human rights considerations - and we cannot ignore Israel's systematic violation of Palestinian human rights,\" they wrote.\n\nOthers denounced the proposed boycott, saying that Eurovision's \"spirit of togetherness\" was \"under attack\".\n\nNetta will perform at the first semi-final on Tuesday\n\nPublic figures including Stephen Fry, Sharon Osbourne, Marina Abramovic and pop mogul Scooter Braun signed a counter-statement, claiming \"the cultural boycott movement [was] an affront to both Palestinians and Israelis who are working to advance peace through compromise, exchange, and mutual recognition\".\n\nCommenting on the row, Madonna said she was a supporter of all human rights.\n\n\"I'll never stop playing music to suit someone's political agenda, nor will I stop speaking out against violations of human rights wherever in the world they may be,\" she said in a statement to Reuters.\n\n\"My heart breaks every time I hear about the innocent lives that are lost in this region and the violence that is so often perpetuated to suit the political goals of people who benefit from this ancient conflict.\n\n\"I hope and pray that we will soon break free from this terrible cycle of destruction and create a new path towards peace.\"\n\nNetta is due to perform during the first Eurovision semi-final, which takes place later on Tuesday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bradley Welsh had been returning home from his boxing gym when he was shot\n\nA 28-year old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of T2 Trainspotting actor Bradley Welsh.\n\nSean Orman made a brief appearance in private before Sheriff Derrick McIntyre. No plea was made.\n\nMr Welsh, 48, died after being shot on the steps of his basement flat on Chester Street, Edinburgh, on 17 April.\n\nMr Orman faces a series of other charges including the attempted murder of another man during an incident in Pitcairn Grove in March.\n\nHe is also accused of three firearms offences.\n\nA car was later found on fire in Harperigg Way after the Pitcairn Grove incident\n\nMr Welsh was returning home from his Holyrood Boxing gym when he was fatally injured.\n\nMr Orman, from Addiewell in West Lothian, was remanded in custody.\n\nThe case was continued for further inquiry.", "The RSPCA said Lloyd was found by workers at Lidl's Netherfield store as they unloaded fruit\n\nA tree frog from Costa Rica has been found in a box of bananas at a Lidl in Nottingham.\n\nIt was discovered more than 5,300 miles (8,500 km) away from its rainforest home by staff at the Netherfield branch on Sunday.\n\nWorkers, who named it Lloyd, told the RSPCA it was sitting on top of the bananas as they unloaded the fruit on to the shelves.\n\nLloyd is now in the care of a vet who specialises in exotic animals.\n\nLidl has been approached for comment.\n\nRSPCA officer Hayley Day said the supermarket staff \"seemed quite taken with him\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe added: \"He must have also had quite the shock when he emerged in a Nottinghamshire supermarket considering he's used to more tropical climates usually.\"\n\nReacting to the find on Facebook, Rob Loasby wrote: \"They have some amazing things in their specials aisle these days.\"\n\nSarah Conway said: \"It's not a Lidl frog, it's a big frog.\"\n\nWhile Lee Anne added: \"I'm never putting my hand in a box of bananas again... first spiders now this.\"\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.", "Scottish unemployment continued to fall in the three months to March, according to official figures.\n\nThe jobless total fell by 7,000 from the previous quarter to reach 89,000. The unemployment rate is now at 3.2%, compared with the UK figure of 3.8%.\n\nEmployment among Scots of working age fell by 3,000 to just under 2.6 million - an employment rate of 75.4%.\n\nUK employment jumped by 99,000 to 32.7 million - the third highest total since records began in 1971.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, unemployment in the UK as a whole fell by 65,000 during the latest quarter to 1.3 million, continuing a general trend which started in early 2012.\n\nThe UK's unemployment rate is now lower than at any time since late 1974.\n\nFor men the rate was 3.9% - it has not been lower since March to May 1975 - and for women it was 3.7%, the lowest since comparable records began in 1971.\n\nResponding to the figures, Scotland's Business Minister Jamie Hepburn said the Scottish economy and jobs market continued to strengthen.\n\nHe said: \"Labour market figures for women and young people in Scotland once again outperformed the UK.\n\n\"Scotland's employment rate for women rose to 72%, higher than the UK rate of 71.8%.\n\n\"The employment rate for young people in Scotland rose to 59.3%, higher than the UK rate of 54.6%.\n\n\"Scotland's unemployment rate for young people - 6.6% - is a record low and lower than the UK.\"\n\nThe UK government's Scottish Secretary David Mundell said it was \"good news\" that unemployment in Scotland was at a record low.‎\n\nHe added: \"The UK government is investing in Scotland's economy and creating jobs.\n\n\"Our £1.35bn city and growth deals programme is starting to reap rewards and will give Scotland a long-lasting economic boost.\"", "Tommy Robinson arrives at the Old Bailey\n\nFormer English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson is to face fresh contempt of court proceedings.\n\nHigh Court judges ordered a new case be brought against him over allegations he could have prejudiced a jury involved in a criminal trial last year.\n\nThe 36-year-old, from Luton, was jailed for 13 months in May 2018 for filming and broadcasting footage of people involved in the trial.\n\nBut that finding was quashed in August after he won an appeal.\n\nIn a brief ruling at the Old Bailey, the judges said that the full case would go ahead on 4 and 5 July.\n\nThe allegations concern a Facebook broadcast by Mr Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, which was watched by thousands of people.\n\nHe was jailed on the day by the trial judge at Leeds Crown Court - but that was quashed by the Court of Appeal after it ruled that his case had been unfairly handled.\n\nMr Robinson, who is standing for election as an MEP in the European elections later this month, was released after serving two months of his sentence.\n\nThe case was referred back to the Attorney General Geoffrey Cox, who announced in March that there were \"strong grounds\" to bring new proceedings against him.\n\nAfter more than six months of complex legal delays, Lady Justice Sharp said the trial for contempt - which carries a maximum sentence of two years - should go ahead.\n\nShe said reasons for the decision would be given at a later date.\n\nMr Robinson's supporters, who had gathered outside the Old Bailey, booed and chanted \"shame on you\" after it was announced.", "The Northern Ireland unemployment rate hit an historic low in the first quarter of 2019.\n\nThe rate fell by almost one percentage point over the quarter to reach 2.9%, which compares to a UK rate of 3.8%.\n\nMeanwhile, the Northern Ireland employment rate hit a record high of 71.3%.\n\nThe record breaking figure is a measurement of the percentage of working-age adults who are in employment.\n\nDuring the recession the employment rate fell as low as 64%.\n\nThe UK employment rate now stands at 76.1%, which is also the highest on record.\n\nNorthern Ireland continues to have a significantly higher rate of economic inactivity compared to the UK average.\n\nEconomic inactivity is a measurement of those people who are not in work and not looking for work - that includes students, retired people and sick or disabled people.\n\nNisra, the official statistics agency, said in a statement: \"The improvements in the NI labour market since 2017 are consistent with the UK experience.\n\n\"Unemployment is the lowest on record, employment is at a joint record high and inactivity is one of the lowest on record.\n\n\"However, it is worth noting, while NI has the joint second lowest unemployment rate of all the UK regions, it has the second lowest employment rate and highest inactivity rate.\"", "British Steel has said it is seeking further financial support from the government to help it address \"Brexit-related issues\".\n\nIt follows reports the company needs a loan of up to £75m to keep trading in the coming months.\n\nThe UK's second largest steel firm employs 4,500 people, and about 20,000‎ indirectly via its supply chain.\n\nThe company said \"uncertainties around Brexit are posing challenges for all businesses including British Steel\".\n\nIt added: \"We are holding constructive discussions with our stakeholders on how to navigate them.\n\n\"Discussions are continuing about a package of additional support to assist the company address broader Brexit-related issues, whilst continuing with [the company's] investment plans.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the the Department for Business, Energy and Industry Strategy said: \"As this is speculation, we won't be commenting.\"\n\nBritish Steel's main plant is at Scunthorpe, but it also has sites in Teesside, Cumbria and North Yorkshire.\n\nThe move comes just two weeks after British Steel secured a £100m loan from the government to pay its EU carbon bill.\n\nThe money meant the private equity-owned firm could avoid a steep EU fine.\n\nAccording to Sky News, in recent days the steel maker has met its lenders and the government to discuss another loan.\n\nBritish Steel has reportedly faced a slump in orders from European customers ‎due to uncertainty over the Brexit process.\n\nIt has also been struggling with the prolonged weakness of sterling since the EU referendum in June 2016 and the escalating trade US-China trade war.\n\nQuoting people close to the process, Sky said insolvency experts have been placed on standby in case British Steel cannot secure the funds it needs.\n\nThe BBC understands that nationalisation or a management buyout are also being discussed as fall-back options.\n\nThe GMB union called on the government to guarantee the future of the firm and safeguard thousands of jobs.\n\n\"This government has a track record of sitting on its hands while UK manufacturing collapse round its ears,\" said Ross Murdoch, GMB national officer.\n\n\"Now is the time to take action - ministers must come out and guarantee the loan required to safeguard British Steel.\"\n\nPrivate equity firm Greybull Capital rescued Tata Steel's long products business - which makes steel for the rail and construction sectors - during the depths of the steel crisis in 2016, saving more than 4,000 jobs.\n\nIt paid a nominal £1 fee for the assets, but pledged to plough up to £400m into the business, which it rebranded British Steel.\n\nWorkers had to take pay cuts and reductions in their pensions in return, and the company recently returned to profit.\n\nThe news comes days after Tata signalled its planned merger with German rival Thyssenkrupp was off, raising fresh doubts about its Port Talbot site.\n\nTata said its UK business would keep running, but admitted it was facing tough operating conditions in the UK.", "The Crown Prosecution Service said it had \"crucial evidence\" to encourage Omar Ashfaq to admit 11 terrorism offences\n\nA man who left USB sticks containing terrorist propaganda inside shoes at six mosques in England has been jailed.\n\nOmar Ashfaq, 24, of St Thomas Road, in Derby, left 17 of the sticks in footwear while Muslim worshipers were praying between May and June last year.\n\nDerbyshire Police said the sticks contained \"violent footage and propaganda encouraging terrorism\".\n\nAshfaq admitted 11 terrorism offences and was given four years and six months in prison at Birmingham Crown Court.\n\nHe was also sentenced to one year on licence.\n\nDuring last year's Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, he left the sticks at mosques in Derby, Loughborough, Coventry, Birmingham and Luton.\n\nAmong the material were two videos entitled 'ISIS children execute spies' and 'ISIS burn Turkish Apostate soldiers'.\n\nWorshippers who found the sticks informed mosque authorities who were able to identify Ashfaq from CCTV footage.\n\nOne USB stick was discovered by a nine-year-old boy, who had gone to the mosque with his father.\n\nA map labelled 'Target: 1 week' on which a route was drawn was found in Ashfaq's possession\n\nWhen Ashfaq was arrested at his home, police found a further 15 memory sticks inside bags marked 'Manchester' and 'Bradford' and notes outlining his plans.\n\nA map detailing a route between the mosques was also found.\n\nDet Insp Donna Sisson, head of Derbyshire Special Branch, said he would have continued to distribute up to 250 sticks.\n\n\"The USB sticks he managed to deposit contained footage of unspeakable brutality and promoted an extreme ideology,\" she said.\n\nOmar Ashfaq pleaded guilty to the eight charges on the first day of his trial at Birmingham Crown Court on Monday\n\nIn March, Ashfaq pleaded guilty to three counts of possession of a document containing information useful to terrorism.\n\nHe admitted being in possession of three Islamic State group propaganda magazines.\n\nHowever, he denied eight charges of dissemination of a terrorist publication.\n\nOn the first day of his trial on Monday, Ashfaq changed his plea.\n\nDeb Walsh, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"Omar Ashfaq found a novel way to spread violent propaganda in the hope of encouraging British Muslims to commit terrorist acts.\n\n\"Instead the mosques he targeted found him on their CCTV recordings and handed in the footage and the memory sticks to the police.\n\n\"I want to thank them for acting quickly so the CPS had the crucial evidence we needed to encourage him to plead guilty.\"\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.", "You might only be grabbing a sandwich, crisps and maybe a cake and coffee, but that unremarkable weekday lunch can produce four or more items of waste.\n\nThat adds up: the UK's lunch-on-the-go habit is creating nearly 11 billion pieces of packaging every year, says environmental campaign group Hubbub.\n\nBut if you do buy lunch, take your own container to the shop and ask them to fill it, the charity suggests.\n\nHubbub surveyed 1,200 UK office workers and more than half of them said they were buying takeaway lunches more than they used to five years ago, generating an estimated 276 items of waste per person per year.\n\n\"People are saying that they are buying food to take out because life has got busier,\" says Hubbub's Tessa Tricks. \"It's that sense that, 'I'm important and having this on the go will make me do things more efficiently,' but sometimes sitting with crockery and cutlery and enjoying it would be better.\"\n\nMs Tricks argues it is usually both healthier and cheaper to make a packed lunch, but the charity is also encouraging people to pop a plastic box in their bag alongside their reusable coffee cup, if they plan to buy takeaway food.\n\nHubbub says a trial in East Anglia showed that offering a 10% price reduction did persuade some customers to come prepared with their own lunch box.\n\nLyn McAlister who runs Cafe 7 in Norwich says the idea went down well with her customers and that she's continuing to offer the discount even now the trial's over.\n\n\"I think we need to keep spreading the word and hopefully other companies will come aboard too,\" she says.\n\nLarger takeaway food chains say customers bringing in containers could present a health and safety risk. But they say they are making other moves to reduce waste.\n\nSome, like Pret a Manger, offer water so customers can avoid buying it in bottles. Pret has also started moving its napkins and cutlery behind the counter, after a trial showed it reduced plastic cutlery usage by 30%.\n\nThe Japanese-inspired takeaway chain Itsu says it is experimenting with putting recycling bins in front of its restaurants, although it says it is proving difficult to ensure waste streams are kept uncontaminated. Anything soiled with food can't be sent for recycling.\n\n\"We are trialling moving to bowls for all eat-in orders,\" says Itsu's spokeswoman. \"These obviously will be washed and reused.\"\n\nLeon which markets itself as offering healthy fast-food says it would \"love\" to incentivise customers to bring in reusable containers, but there would have to be \"strict controls to minimise the risk of cross-contamination\".\n\nIt points out that it already serves its food in cardboard boxes which can be composted or recycled (a removable greaseproof paper lining prevents the box being soiled) and biodegradable cutlery.\n\nHowever, Hubbub's Ms Tricks points out schemes like this fall down if customers don't dispose of the packaging correctly.\n\nLunch-on-the-go \"is a recycling minefield\" she says, because by its nature it is often being taken away from the point of purchase. And out on the street or back in the office there isn't often the infrastructure to support recycling and composting.", "Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn are meeting to discuss ongoing Brexit talks between their two parties.\n\nA Labour source told the BBC it was about \"keeping in touch\" after meetings of both the PM's cabinet and the opposition leader's shadow cabinet.\n\nEarlier, Labour's John McDonnell said there had been no \"significant shift\" in the government position.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said a compromise was not impossible but talks could not continue \"indefinitely\".\n\nThe discussions have been going on for weeks with little sign of progress.\n\nFollowing a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, BBC political correspondent Nick Eardley said ministers had agreed they would continue.\n\nSpeaking at a Wall Street Journal event in London, the shadow chancellor, Mr McDonnell, criticised a letter from senior Tories to Mrs May urging her not to agree a deal with Labour that includes a customs union.\n\nThe letter has been signed by 13 former Tory cabinet ministers and Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee.\n\nMr McDonnell said Labour had not seen enough movement from ministers to reach a deal - especially on the issue of a customs union with the EU - and insisted Labour had \"compromised in some areas\", but \"we're not near what we want\".\n\nHe said the letter gave Labour \"no security\" that any deal done would be honoured in the long-term - especially once Mrs May is replaced as Tory leader.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We've gone into this in really good faith, we've tried to put party politics to one side,\" Mr McDonnell added.\n\n\"Our big problem now is if we're going to march our troops in Parliament to the top of the hill to vote for a deal and then that's overturned, literally, in weeks, I think that would be a cataclysmic act of bad faith.\"\n\nBut speaking at the same event, Mr Hunt said there was \"potential\" for a deal because it was in the interests of both main parties to resolve the Brexit impasse.\n\n\"Both of us would be crucified by our base if we went into a general election having promised that we would respect the referendum result and not having respected it,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Hunt says it is \"impressive\" how long cross-party talks have lasted\n\nAttempts to find a cross-party compromise began after Theresa May's Brexit deal was rejected three times by MPs.\n\nThe inability to agree on a way forward led the UK to miss its 29 March deadline for leaving the EU - the current date for departure is 31 October.\n\nSo far both sides have resisted calls to set a deadline on the negotiations.\n\nBut the prime minister's official spokesman said the government believed it was \"imperative\" that the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - the legislation required to leave the EU - was brought to Parliament in time for it pass all its stages by the summer recess.\n\nNo date has so far been set for the summer recess, but Parliament usually rises towards the end of July.\n\nThe cabinet discussions came as the PM's Brexit negotiator Olly Robbins travelled to Brussels to explore the scope for changes to the political declaration between the UK and the EU.\n\nThe document sets out the parameters for the future relationship, and Labour negotiators have insisted that any deal they strike with ministers must be reflected in changes to it.\n\nThey want a permanent and comprehensive customs union with the EU after Brexit, meaning there would be no internal tariffs (taxes) on goods sold between the UK and the rest of the bloc.\n\nBut it would mean the UK cannot negotiate its own trade deals on goods with other countries around the world, something many Brexit-supporting Tory MPs support.\n\nA Downing Street source told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg that a compromise was being sought with Labour on customs \"as an interim position or a stepping stone\".\n\n\"We will not sign up to a permanent customs union,\" the source said.\n\nThe big question at Westminster is how long can these talks go on for. The answer appears to be, a little while longer. But the odds are stacked against a Tory-Labour compromise.\n\nLabour doesn't think the government has moved far enough. They remain worried that Theresa May's replacement will come in and decide they don't like what has been agreed and try to rip it up.\n\nOn the other side, prominent Tories are seething at the idea a customs union could be the price of getting a Brexit deal through.\n\nNo 10 sources said this morning the PM won't agree to a permanent customs union - but the idea of a temporary solution is exactly what frightens many on the Labour side.\n\nIn this process, taking a step to keep one group happy appears to mean you make another more annoyed.\n\nCabinet agreed today it was \"imperative\" that legislation to allow the UK's withdrawal is brought back to Parliament in time to pass before the summer recess. That sets up the prospect of another set of big Brexit votes in the coming weeks.\n\nBut for now, there's more talk than action.\n\nMr McDonnell also said Labour had told ministers they \"may well have to concede that there is a public vote of some sort\" to get a deal through Parliament.\n\nAt the weekend, shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said a \"significant number, probably 120 if not 150\" of Labour MPs would not back deal without a \"confirmatory vote\".\n\nOn the prospect of another referendum, Mr McDonnell said: \"My view is that you'd put the deal to the people, but you'd have to also have the option of the status quo.\n\n\"Deep in my heart, I'm still a Remainer, but I've got to try and bring together effectively what is a British compromise.\"\n\nAsked if Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was also a Remainer in his heart, the shadow chancellor responded: \"Yes.\"\n\nBut Jeremy Hunt said another referendum or a general election were the \"least likely outcomes\" of the current Brexit stalemate.\n\n\"When approximately half your constituents have voted to leave the EU, just imagine their anger if you went on to support a second referendum where you're basically saying 'we think you got it wrong first time'.\"\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Virgin Mobile says it has restored services to customers across the UK who had been struggling to make calls, send text messages and use mobile data.\n\nVirgin Mobile said it would compensate customers for the problem which it said was due to a \"technical issue\".\n\nComplaints began coming in on Tuesday morning in London, the Midlands, the North West, Bristol and Scotland.\n\nCustomers vented their fury on Twitter, with some complaining they had been left in the dark.\n\nIn a statement Virgin Mobile said: \"We apologise for the disruption and inconvenience some of our Virgin Mobile customers have experienced today. This was due to a technical issue which we've now resolved.\n\n\"We will be compensating our customers for the loss of service and will let them know the details shortly.\"\n\nIt did not disclose the number of affected customers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dicky Moore This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to Downdetector, which tracks mentions of mobile outages on social media, complaints began en masse at around 11:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nIt said most comments had been about mobile phone services, followed by mobile internet. A minority mentioned issues with their Virgin cable internet services.\n\nOne customer tweeted: \"@virginmedia why are you posting trivial polls and ads on your site, but nothing about the mass outage on mobiles? Incredibly frustrating and very poor comms.\"\n\nAnother said: \"I'm a full-time carer for my disabled mother. We're both on Virgin Mobile. You've crippled my day with this outage.\"\n\nAccording to Ofcom, the level of satisfaction with mobile providers is generally high across the UK.\n\nHowever, according to its most recent customer satisfaction survey, Virgin Mobile is the most complained about of the major telecoms companies.", "Writer Irvine Welsh was among those who paid tribute to Bradley Welsh after his death last last month\n\nA man has been charged in connection with the murder of T2 Trainspotting actor Bradley Welsh outside his Edinburgh home.\n\nMr Welsh, 48, died after being shot on the steps of his basement apartment on Chester Street on 17 April.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed the 28-year-old will appear before Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Tuesday.\n\nMr Welsh was returning home from his Holyrood Boxing gym when he was fatally injured.\n\nThe suspect has also been charged with the attempted murder of a 48-year-old man and the serious assault of a 22-year-old man in a house in Pitcairn Grove, Edinburgh, on 13 March.\n\nDuring this incident the older victim was left with serious arm and head injuries while the younger man suffered a cut to his hand.\n\nA car was later found set on fire in nearby Oxgangs.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"Members of the public are thanked for their assistance with both of these investigations.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "China has said it will raise tariffs on $60bn (£46bn) of US goods from 1 June, extending a bilateral trade war.\n\nThe move comes three days after the US more than doubled tariffs on $200bn of Chinese imports.\n\nThe escalation hit stock markets, with Asia markets falling on Tuesday after Wall Street closed with sharp losses.\n\nUS President Donald Trump had warned China not to raise levies but Beijing said it would not swallow any \"bitter fruit\" that harmed its interests.\n\nItems affected include beef, lamb and pork products, as well as various varieties of vegetables, fruit juice, cooking oil, tea and coffee.\n\nChinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a news briefing in Beijing that China would \"never surrender to external pressure\".\n\nThe move hit stock markets in the US on Monday, with the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 closing down 2.4%, while the Nasdaq index lost 3.4%.\n\nThe latest round of US-Chinese trade negotiations ended in Washington on Friday without a deal.\n\nThe US argues that China's trade surplus with the US is the result of unfair practices, including state support for domestic companies.\n\nIt also accuses China of stealing intellectual property from US firms.\n\nAs well as ordering a tariff increase on $200bn worth of Chinese imports, Mr Trump also directed the US trade department \"to begin the process of raising tariffs on essentially all remaining imports from China\", estimated to be valued at around $300bn.\n\nThough on Monday, Mr Trump said that he had \"not made a decision\" on whether to go ahead with those additional levies.\n\nDespite failing to reach a deal last week, Mr Trump said on Monday that the US has \"a very good relationship\" with China. He said the two sides would talk at the next G20 summit which takes place in Japan on 28-29 June.\n\n\"Maybe something will happen,\" he said. \"We're going to be meeting, as you know, at the G20 in Japan and that'll be, I think, probably a very fruitful meeting.\"\n\nEarlier, the president had warned China against a tit-for-tat response to the US's actions last week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"China should not retaliate - will only get worse!\" Mr Trump tweeted shortly before news of the Chinese decision came.\n\nMr Trump also said China had \"taken so advantage of the US for so many years\".\n\nHe added that US consumers could avoid the tariffs by buying the same products from other sources.\n\n\"Many tariffed companies will be leaving China for Vietnam and other such countries in Asia. That's why China wants to make a deal so badly!\" he said.\n\nMr Trump's approach in the dispute has put him at odds with his own top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, who has said \"both sides will suffer\".", "A Syrian boy who was attacked at his school in Huddersfield has told the BBC he’s worried about being recognised and attacked again.\n\nHis family came to Britain from Syria to escape the ongoing war there but after receiving death threats they’ve had to move and now say they wish they’d never come to the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Felicity Huffman was silent as she left court\n\nUS actress Felicity Huffman has pleaded guilty to fraudulently conspiring to win a college place for her daughter.\n\nIn a Boston court, the Desperate Housewives star admitted paying $15,000 (£11,500) to have her daughter's exam answers secretly corrected in 2017.\n\nIn a statement last month, she said she was in \"full acceptance\" of her guilt.\n\nProsecutors recommended a four-month prison term and a $20,000 fine. Huffman, 56, was among 50 charged in the college admissions scandal.\n\nThe wealthy parents charged in the investigation allegedly paid bribes, had exams altered, and even had their children edited into stock photos to fake sporting talents.\n\nThey managed to fraudulently secure spots for the teenagers at elite US universities including Yale, Georgetown and Stanford.\n\nParents and college athletics coaches were charged in the scheme, but none of the children were indicted.\n\nHuffman did not speak to reporters outside court as she arrived to Monday's hearing holding hands with her brother.\n\nShe admitted one count of mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.\n\nThe Emmy-winning actress cried while speaking to the judge, according to reporters in the courtroom.\n\nHer plea deal recommendation of four months in prison was at the lower end of sentencing guidelines, which could have carried a custodial term of up to 20 years.\n\nAccording to court documents, she was secretly recorded by the scam's confessed mastermind, William Singer, after he began co-operating with investigators.\n\nWhen Sophia's school initially wanted to invigilate as she sat her test, Huffman expressed concern to Singer.\n\nThe actress emailed to him, \"Ruh Ro!\" - the catchphrase of cartoon dog Scooby-Doo when he was in trouble.\n\nActress Lori Loughlin pleaded not guilty to her role in the scam\n\nSinger arranged so that Sophia could complete the SAT, which is the US college entrance test, elsewhere.\n\nSophia scored an SAT score of 1420 out of a possible 1600 on the doctored test, about 400 points higher than a preliminary SAT she had taken a year earlier.\n\nThe actress made arrangements to cheat a second time, for her younger daughter, before deciding not to do so, according to prosecutors.\n\nHer husband - actor William H Macy - also had contact with Singer, though Mr Macy was spared charges.\n\nHuffman said her daughter was unaware of the cheating, and that she felt \"regret and shame\" for having \"betrayed\" her.\n\nShe will be sentenced on 13 September.\n\nLast month, Netflix announced it would postpone the release of a movie, Otherhood, starring Huffman that was originally set for release on 26 April. It did not specify a new premiere date.\n\nThough Huffman was among the most high-profile figures indicted, the $15,000 she parted with was among the smallest sums allegedly paid by any of the other parents charged in the scandal, according to court documents.\n\nLori Loughlin, another Hollywood actress ensnared in the scandal along with her husband, has pleaded not guilty to paying $500,000 in bribes to have their daughters accepted to the University of Southern California as members of the rowing team.", "Carl Beech, a divorced father of one, claimed he was first sexually abused as a child\n\nA man told police a false \"extraordinary tale\" about a group of powerful figures who sexually abused and murdered boys, a court has heard.\n\nCarl Beech, 51, is accused of lying about \"three child murders, multiple rapes, kidnapping, false imprisonment and widespread sexual abuse\".\n\nHis claims led to a £2m Metropolitan Police investigation, which ended with no further action being taken.\n\nMr Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nMr Beech, formerly from Gloucester and known as \"Nick\" when he first made the claims, was in Newcastle Crown Court on Tuesday for the start of his trial.\n\nHe claimed that he was first sexually abused by his stepfather, Major Ray Beech, when he was seven years old and went on to allege abuse by a group of public figures, including from politics and the military.\n\nAmong those he accused was former Conservative prime minister Sir Edward Heath, ex-Tory home secretary Lord Brittan, former head of the armed forces Lord Bramall and former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor.\n\nThe jury was told Mr Beech picked his \"targets\" after browsing the internet.\n\nIn 2016, when the investigation into Mr Beech's claims ended, the Met asked Northumbria Police to investigate the accuser himself\n\nDetectives investigated Mr Beech's claims until 2016 when they asked another police force - Northumbria - to investigate the accuser himself.\n\nNorthumbria Police found his story to be \"totally unfounded, hopelessly compromised and irredeemably contradicted\", the court heard.\n\nProsecutor Tony Badenoch QC told the jury: \"It is quite impossible to conceive of allegations of a worse kind to be made.\"\n\nHe said \"immeasurable distress\" had been caused to those accused and those close to them - and they had suffered \"obvious reputational damage\".\n\nMr Proctor has spoken freely in public to defend himself against the allegation that \"he is a sadistic child killer and that he committed other serious sexual offences\", the court heard.\n\nJurors were told that, as an entirely innocent man, Mr Proctor was \"still enraged\".\n\nCourt sketch of prosecutor Tony Badenoch QC, with defendant Mr Beech seen on screen during an interview he gave to police in 2014\n\nBoth Mr Proctor and Lord Bramall had their homes searched as a result of the allegations.\n\nLord Bramall's wife died during the police inquiry - codenamed Operation Midland - and Lord Brittan died while under investigation.\n\nMr Beech claimed the abuse happened after school, when he was picked up by a driver and taken to \"parties\" where there were 10 to 15 men and around seven or eight boys.\n\nMr Beech \"claimed that he was the victim of much of the abuse and he was a direct witness to the killing of three young boys\", the court was told.\n\nJurors heard how Mr Beech alleged that at an army location, the former head of MI5, Michael Hanley, and the former head of MI6, Maurice Oldfield, subjected him to torture.\n\nMr Beech claimed he had spiders tipped on him, electric shocks and darts thrown at him.\n\nThe prosecutor said Mr Beech had described to police \"the most horrific sexual and physical abuse\", but that his medical records did not substantiate the claims.\n\nThe jury was shown sketches of the alleged crime scenes, which Mr Beech drew for detectives\n\nThe court also heard that the defendant's ex-wife, whom he married in his early 20s, did not notice any marks on his body and saw nothing physical that supported his claims of electric shock treatment nor any savage abuse.\n\nThe court was played a video interview Mr Beech had given to the Met Police in November 2014, during which he cried as he described details of the first alleged murder.\n\nHe claimed a schoolmate called \"Scott\" was deliberately run over in Kingston-upon-Thames in 1979.\n\nThe court heard Northumbria Police concluded \"there is no supporting evidence whatsoever\" to support Mr Beech's account about Scott.\n\nProsecutor Mr Badenoch told jurors: \"There was no such homicide. No missing boy.\"\n\nJurors were shown photos of Carl Beech as a child\n\nMr Beech also claimed that one of the boys he witnessed being murdered was Martin Allen, a 15-year-old boy who went missing in London in 1979 and has not been seen since, jurors heard.\n\nMartin Allen's brother Kevin was contacted by Scotland Yard in 2014 and told his brother may have been linked to a VIP paedophile ring.\n\nMr Badenoch said: \"The source of that false hope to Kevin Allen, 35 years after his brother went missing, was ultimately the false allegations of this defendant, Carl Beech.\"\n\nAnd jurors were also told that Mr Beech had claimed he had a lifelong fear of water and could not swim, because aspects of the alleged abuse involved being held underwater and thrown in a pool.\n\nBut, the prosecutor said, police found photographs and videos of him swimming all over the world over several decades, ranging from with children at theme parks, to honeymoon snorkelling for shells, and at a pool with flippers, mask and snorkel.\n\nIt was \"an adult lifetime of swimming memories\", Mr Badenoch said.\n\nPhotographs of defendant Carl Beech in or near water were shown to the jury\n\nThe court heard how the Met Police spent £2m on their investigation into Mr Beech's claims and described them publicly as \"credible and true\".\n\nHe first contacted Wiltshire Police in 2012 with allegations of abuse by his stepfather as well as Jimmy Savile. Between 2014 and 2016 he made further allegations to the Met Police, with a list of alleged abusers.\n\nIn 2016, when that investigation ended with no further action, police began investigating Mr Beech himself.\n\nPolice searched Mr Beech's Gloucester home in November 2016 and seized several electronic devices.\n\nDuring their investigation, a number of Mr Beech's claims \"were found to be provably false\", the court heard.\n\n\"He had lied about the content of these allegations, taken active steps to embellish a false story, and then cover his tracks when challenged,\" Mr Badenoch said.\n\nWhen questioned by police about this, he \"fled the country and lived overseas as a fugitive\" before being located in Sweden.\n\nThe jury also heard that Mr Beech's former teachers had said he had good attendance - contrary to his claims of being taken out of lessons to be abused.", "The latest dive reached 10,927m (35,849ft) beneath the waves - a new record\n\nAn American explorer has found plastic waste on the seafloor while breaking the record for the deepest ever dive.\n\nVictor Vescovo descended nearly 11km (seven miles) to the deepest place in the ocean - the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench.\n\nHe spent four hours exploring the bottom of the trench in his submersible, built to withstand the immense pressure of the deep.\n\nHe found sea creatures, but also found a plastic bag and sweet wrappers.\n\nIt is the third time humans have reached the ocean's extreme depths.\n\nThe explorers believe they have discovered four new species of prawn-like crustaceans called amphipods\n\nThe first dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench took place in 1960 by US Navy lieutenant Don Walsh and Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard in a vessel called the bathyscaphe Trieste.\n\nMovie director James Cameron then made a solo plunge half a century later in 2012 in his bright green sub.\n\nThe latest descent, which reached 10,927m (35,849ft) beneath the waves, is now the deepest by 11m - making Victor Vescovo the new record holder.\n\nDon Walsh (left), who dived to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960, congratulated Victor Vescovo (right)\n\nIn total, Mr Vescovo and his team made five dives to the bottom of the trench during the expedition. Robotic landers were also deployed to explore the remote terrain.\n\nMr Vescovo said: \"It is almost indescribable how excited all of us are about achieving what we just did.\n\n\"This submarine and its mother ship, along with its extraordinarily talented expedition team, took marine technology to a ridiculously higher new level by diving - rapidly and repeatedly - into the deepest, harshest, area of the ocean.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victor Vescovo descended almost 11km in a submersible to the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean\n\nWitnessing the dive from the Pacific was Don Walsh. He told BBC News: \"I salute Victor Vescovo and his outstanding team for the successful completion of their historic explorations into the Mariana Trench.\n\n\"Six decades ago, Jacques Piccard and I were the first to visit that deepest place in the world's oceans.\n\n\"Now in the winter of my life, it was a great honour to be invited on this expedition to a place of my youth.\"\n\nThe team believes it has discovered four new species of prawn-like crustaceans called amphipods, saw a creature called a spoon worm 7,000m-down and a pink snailfish at 8,000m.\n\nThey also discovered brightly coloured rocky outcrops, possibly created by microbes on the seabed, and collected samples of rock from the seafloor.\n\nHumanity's impact on the planet was also evident with the discovery of plastic pollution. It's something that other expeditions using landers have seen before.\n\nMillions of tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year, but little is known about where a lot of it ends up.\n\nVictor Vescovo spent four hours exploring the bottom of the trench\n\nThe scientists now plan to test the creatures they collected to see if they contain microplastics - a recent study found this was a widespread problem, even for animals living in the deep.\n\nThe dive forms part of the Five Deeps expedition - an attempt to explore the deepest points in each of the world's five oceans.\n\nIt has been funded by Mr Vescovo, a private equity investor, who before turning his attention to the ocean's extreme depths also climbed the highest peaks on the planet's seven continents.\n\nThe 4.6m-long, 3.7m-high DSV Limiting Factor submersible was built by the US-based company Triton Submarines\n\nAfter the record dive, the submersible was brought back on the expedition's main vessel - the DSSV Pressure Drop\n\nAs well as the Mariana Trench in the Pacific, in the last six months dives have also taken place in the Puerto Rico Trench in the Atlantic Ocean (8,376m/27,480ft down), the South Sandwich Trench in the Southern Ocean (7,433m/24,388ft) and the Java Trench in Indian Ocean (7,192m/23,596ft).\n\nThe final challenge will be to reach the bottom of the Molloy Deep in the Arctic Ocean, which is currently scheduled for August 2019.\n\nThe 4.6m-long, 3.7m-high submersible - called the DSV Limiting Factor - was built by the US-based company Triton Submarines, with the aim of having a vessel that could make repeated dives to any part of the ocean.\n\nAt its core is a 9cm-thick titanium pressure hull that can fit two people, so dives can be performed solo or as a pair.\n\nIt can withstand the crushing pressure found at the bottom of the ocean: 1,000 bars, which is the equivalent of 50 jumbo jets piled on top of a person.\n• None 2,146Higher than Mount Everest in metres, if inverted\n\nAs well as working under pressure, the sub has to operate in the pitch black and near freezing temperatures.\n\nThese conditions also made it challenging to capture footage - the Five Deeps expedition has been followed by Atlantic Productions for a documentary for the Discovery Channel.\n\nAnthony Geffen, creative director of Atlantic Productions, said it was the most complicated filming he'd ever been involved with.\n\n\"Our team had to pioneer new camera systems that could be mounted on the submersible, operate at up to 10,000m below sea level and work with robotic landers with camera systems that would allow us to film Victor's submersible on the bottom of the ocean.\n\n\"We also had to design new rigs that would go inside Victor's submersible and capture every moment of Victor's dives.\"\n\nAfter the Five Deeps expedition is complete later this year, the plan is to pass the submersible onto science institutions so researchers can continue to use it.\n\nThe challenges of exploring the deep ocean - even with robotic vehicles - has made the ocean trenches one of the last frontiers on the planet.\n\nOnce thought to be remote, desolate areas, the deep sea teems with life. There is also growing evidence that they are carbon sinks, playing a role in regulating the Earth's chemistry and climate.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Campbell was arrested on 4 July last year, two days after the murder\n\nThe teenager who abducted, raped and murdered Alesha MacPhail has been given permission to appeal against his sentence.\n\nAaron Campbell was ordered to serve a minimum of 27 years of a life sentence for killing the six-year-old on the Isle of Bute on 2 July last year.\n\nDuring his trial, Campbell, who turned 17 last week, denied that he had ever met Alesha.\n\nHowever, before sentencing it emerged that he had confessed to the killing.\n\nThe appeal will be heard in Edinburgh on 7 August.\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service said three judges would preside over the appeal.\n\nAlesha MacPhail was killed on the Isle of Bute last July\n\nAlesha, from Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, was only a few days into her summer holiday when Campbell took her from her bed in the middle of the night.\n\nThe child's body was found in the grounds of a former hotel the following morning.\n\nA post-mortem examination later revealed she had suffered 117 injuries.\n\nDuring his nine-day trial in February, Campbell lodged a special defence naming the 18-year-old girlfriend of Alesha's father as the killer.\n\nHe also took the stand and told the jury his DNA must have been planted at the crime scene.\n\nBut the prosecution case, built on forensic evidence and CCTV provided by Campbell's mother, was overwhelming.\n\nThe jury at the High Court in Glasgow took three hours to unanimously convict the schoolboy.\n\nWhen he returned to the dock to be sentenced in March, the court heard Campbell had finally admitted the crime.", "Oritse Williams has denied raping the woman after a concert in December 2016\n\nA woman has told a court she lay \"like a dead body\" during an alleged rape by a former pop star because she wanted it to stop.\n\nEx-JLS singer Oritse Williams \"jumped on\" the woman after a concert in Wolverhampton in December 2016, a court heard.\n\nMr Williams, 32 from Croydon, south London, has pleaded not guilty to rape.\n\nProsecutors at Wolverhampton Crown Court said the woman and her two friends met the pair at a nightclub after the solo gig.\n\nOpening the crown's case, Miranda Moore QC said after one of the women \"blacked out\" and had to be put in a taxi home, the alleged rape victim and her other friend went back to the hotel with Mr Williams and his tour manager, Mr Nagadhana.\n\nDescribing how the woman had later returned without her friend to look for her mobile, Ms Moore said: \"Once she was back in the room - she had to knock on the door - Mr Williams effectively jumped on her.\n\n\"He picked her up and pushed her down on the double bed. She had already made it clear that she didn't want to have sex with him.\n\n\"All she thought was 'I don't want this to happen'.\"\n\nIn a police interview, Mr Williams said the woman, who cannot be identified, and her friend had wanted to go back to the hotel and had instigated sexual activity.\n\nThe jury heard he told police: \"I'm the artist. I think both of them, they both kind of wanted to be involved with me in some degree.\"\n\nThe woman claims Mr Nagadhana sexually assaulted her during the alleged rape.\n\nBut Ms Moore said Mr Williams had told police Mr Nagadhana was asleep and \"had nothing to do with it\".\n\nIn a video interview with police, which was played to the jury, the complainant said she had been swearing and telling Williams to stop during the alleged attack.\n\nAt one point, she said she had \"laid down like a dead body\" because she just wanted it to stop.\n\nShe said: \"I was quite scared. I felt more pathetic, if that makes sense. I felt just worthless.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A mother-of-three said she overdosed on medication while pregnant and spent £3,000 on internet shopping, all during her sleep.\n\nDoctors discovered Kelly Knipes, from Basildon in Essex, would repeatedly stop breathing through the night, forcing her brain to partially wake and cause her to sleepwalk.\n\nShe was diagnosed with a sleep condition called parasomnia and now wears an air mask at night to make sure she breathes correctly.\n\nShe said: \"I was so tired all the time but now I don't. I feel like a completely different person.\"", "Theresa May has set a date for what's probably her last attempt to pass a Brexit deal - and she's told Labour there's an urgent need to compromise.\n\nThe odds of her succeeding are faint - and her time's nearly up.\n\nThere's every risk Mrs May will fail, again, to deliver Brexit when she introduces her Brexit legislation in the first week of June.\n\nThis will come after what look like being tough European elections and, by the way, during the week of President Trump's official visit to the UK.\n\nTonight, she also told Jeremy Corbyn time was running out to reach any deal with Labour. But the reality is there has been no breakthrough in those talks, and no obvious reason to expect one.\n\nA cross-party agreement which involved Labour's minimum demand of a customs arrangement with the EU would cause a mutiny among Tory MPs, as Tuesday's letter to the Times newspaper warns vividly.\n\nIt would also mean a revolt among Labour MPs if there's no guarantee of a new referendum, and Mr Corbyn has shown very little enthusiasm for that.\n\nMeanwhile, Mrs May's under quite intense pressure. Her most senior MPs, the executive members of the 1922 committee, will press her this week for a timetable to step down.\n\nLocal Tory officials will gather in June and consider passing a humiliating vote of no confidence in her. And in the European elections, the polls are looking very promising for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party.\n\nSo promising that Mrs May's last, best, hope may be that the elections shocks both big parties into backing her.\n\nAnd if that sounds like clutching at straws, well, Mrs May's in a corner, all but out of time, and reaching and clutching at any hope she can find in what are now the dying days of her premiership.", "Chief negotiator Olly Robbins will explore how quickly changes could be made to the political declaration\n\nTheresa May's Brexit negotiator has gone to Brussels to explore the scope for changes to the agreement on the UK's future relations with the EU.\n\nOlly Robbins is looking to see whether a key demand being made by Labour in cross-party talks can be satisfied.\n\nBut as cabinet discussed the state of the talks, Theresa May faced calls from senior Conservative MPs not to agree a compromise with Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nEx-defence secretary Sir Michael Fallon said the process was a \"blind alley\".\n\nThe Labour leader is also facing demands from his MPs to abandon the talks, which have been going on for more than a month with little apparent progress.\n\nAttempts to find a cross-party compromise began after Theresa May's Brexit deal was rejected three times by MPs.\n\nThe inability to agree on a way forward led the UK to miss its 29 March deadline for leaving the EU - the current date for departure is 31 October.\n\nLabour negotiators want any deal they strike with minister to be reflected in changes to the political declaration made with Brussels.\n\nThis 27-page document was published alongside Mrs May's withdrawal agreement and sets out the parameters for the future relationship between the UK and the EU, but is not legally binding.\n\nIn Brussels, Mr Robbins will explore how quickly changes could be made to the declaration if the government and Labour can come to an agreement.\n\nEuropean Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas said officials were currently on a \"Brexit break\", but would come out of it \"if there is something happening in London\".\n\n\"We will listen to Olly Robbins tomorrow,\" she added.\n\nMeanwhile, in Westminster, the cabinet has been taking stock of progress so far in the talks, while Labour's shadow cabinet will meet later to discuss the state of play.\n\nCabinet are discussing the state of the Brexit talks\n\nSir Graham Brady, chairman of the Tory backbench 1922 Committee, and 13 former cabinet ministers have written to Mrs May to warn her not to agree a compromise with Labour that includes a customs union with the EU.\n\nInside a customs union there would be no internal tariffs (taxes) on goods transported between the UK and other EU nations - something that is seen as advantageous for business.\n\nBut it would mean the UK cannot negotiate its own trade deals on goods with other countries around the world, and for some, that fails to satisfy the desire for a clean break with Brussels after Brexit.\n\nAmong the former cabinet ministers are Brexiteers Boris Johnson, Dominic Raab and sacked defence secretary Gavin Williamson, as well as Maria Miller and Sir Michael Fallon, who supported Remain in the 2016 referendum.\n\nAccording to the Times, the letter said such a compromise would lose the support of Conservatives who previously backed the prime minister's deal, and would be unlikely to gain enough Labour votes to pass.\n\nIt said: \"More fundamentally, you would have lost the loyal middle of the Conservative Party, split our party and with likely nothing positive to show for it. No leader can [bind] his or her successor, so the deal would likely be at best temporary, at worst illusory.\"\n\nSir Michael said the government's focus should be on addressing Conservative and Democratic Unionist Party concerns over the Northern Irish border and finding alternative arrangements to the backstop, not doing a deal with Labour.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today: \"The talks are clearly not going anywhere.\n\n\"If they are going to include permanent membership of a customs union then frankly we would be better off staying in the EU then we would have a voice in the trade arrangements that are being negotiated.\n\n\"We can't say we are leaving the EU then half stay in it.\"\n\nA Downing Street source told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg that a compromise was being sought with Labour on customs \"as an interim position or a stepping stone\".\n\n\"We will not sign up to a permanent customs union,\" the source said.\n\n\"Both sides agree that no Parliament can bind a future government and most EU trade deals have a six to 12-month exit clause.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nNick Boles, who quit as a Tory MP over Brexit, suggested Jeremy Corbyn would not \"dig the PM out of a hole\" so close to the European elections on 23 May - but \"won't kill off the possibility of a deal either\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 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\nAt a meeting of Labour MPs on Monday night, Mr Corbyn faced repeated demands to abandon the talks with the prime minister. MPs fear that they are costing Labour support ahead of the elections.\n\nBut speaking after Monday's discussions with the government, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said they had been \"constructive as always\".\n\nEx-Tory MP Anna Soubry accused the opposition of being \"all over the place\", telling BBC Breakfast she feared Labour would \"bail out this Conservative government to deliver Brexit\".", "Many Indians are first exposed to the internet through low-cost smartphones\n\nWhatsApp has said it will limit how many times messages can be forwarded in India, to curb the spread of false information on its platform.\n\nThe announcement comes after a spate of mob lynchings were linked to messages that circulated on WhatsApp groups.\n\nThe government on Thursday reissued a warning to the company that it could face legal consequences if it remained a \"mute spectator\".\n\nWith more than 200 million users, India is WhatsApp's biggest market.\n\nWhatsApp said its users in India \"forward more messages, photos, and videos, than any other country in the world\".\n\nGroups on WhatsApp can have a maximum of 256 people. Many of the messages that are believed to have triggered violence were forwarded to multiple groups which had more than 100 members each.\n\nIn a blog published on its website, the company announced that it was \"launching a test to limit forwarding that will apply to everyone using WhatsApp\".\n\nFor Indian users, however, the forwarding option will be limited even further. A WhatsApp spokesperson told the BBC that this means a single person would be able to forward one message only five times.\n\nHowever, this does not stop other members from a group from forwarding the message to a further five chats of their own.\n\nWhatsApp added that they hoped this measure would curb the frequency of messages being forwarded.\n\nThe company also said it would be removing the \"quick forward button\" next to messages containing pictures or video.\n\nThese changes come in the wake of a series of mob lynchings that have seen at least 18 people killed across India since April 2018. Media reports put the number of dead higher.\n\nThe violence has been blamed on rumours of child kidnappings, spread over WhatsApp, which have led people to attack strangers.\n\nPolice say it is proving hard to get people to believe that the messages are false.\n\nIn a recent lynching in the north-eastern state of Tripura, the victim was a man employed by the local government to go around villages to dispel rumours being spread on social media.\n\nIndia's federal government had earlier warned WhatsApp, a Facebook-owned company, that it could not evade \"accountability and responsibility\" for the content its users were sharing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhatsApp had responded by saying it was \"horrified by these terrible acts of violence\", and that the situation was a \"challenge that requires government, civil society and technology companies to work together\".\n\nThe messaging app is the single largest internet-based service available to people in India. It has tremendous reach, allowing messages to spread exponentially and enabling mobs to gather quickly.\n\nEarlier this month, the company outlined steps it was taking to help address the problem, which included enabling users to leave groups and block people more easily.", "The Jeremy Kyle Show has been suspended after a guest was found dead following the recording of an episode.\n\nThe news has opened up a debate around the most popular show on ITV's daytime schedule.\n\nBelow is a glimpse of what it's like to work on the programme from a former employee, who wants to remain anonymous:\n\nI have a confession to make. I worked on The Jeremy Kyle Show.\n\nI was what the TV industry calls a runner - someone who, funnily enough, runs about the place fetching food for crew members, making tea and coffee and looking after guests coming onto the programme.\n\nI did it for a month about three years ago and had also been working on other programmes before I came to Kyle.\n\n\"Studio days\", when the live audience are there and the programme is recorded, were really long. There was no leaving the building unless it was to get the director a katsu curry, or to calm down a guest by taking them outside for a cig.\n\nI saw things that you would never imagine happening on any other TV programme - guests running around the place uncontrollably, screaming and swearing at production crew. Guests and producers would argue and you can guarantee a guest would tell you \"where to go\".\n\nTelevision runners are rarely seen without a headset (file picture)\n\nRunners were given a headset and clipboard that opened up - a useful place to store a pack of 20 cigarettes - and a lighter for guests who wanted a smoke before and after recordings.\n\nThe cigarettes were provided by ITV, because guests can't bring them in the studio. Guests were put up in a hotel close to the studio, sometimes with access to a mini bar so they could get wasted the night before.\n\nA friend who also worked on the show told me guests from the programme were banned from certain hotels because rooms were being trashed.\n\nRunners now have to ferry people to and from a hotel miles away from the studio in taxis.\n\nThe clothes you see the guests wear are sometimes not their own. The show might give them a basic jeans and T-shirt combo or sometimes a more stereotypical tracksuit and hoodie look - and those have to be given back afterwards.\n\nGuests had separate hotel rooms, dressing rooms, and green rooms - and their assigned runner on studio day would walk them around via selected coloured corridors to avoid contact.\n\nRunners would warn colleagues through the headset that they were taking their guest through the yellow corridor to make-up, for example. If you had the guest on the opposing side, you knew to use the blue corridor to avoid any conflict - producers wanted any arguments saved for the actual programme.\n\nProducers and researchers would be talking to guests for hours before the show began, passing information across. I heard them saying things like, \"You won't believe what I just heard your fella say to me just now\".\n\nOn one occasion I was in the dressing room and overheard a producer tell a guest that their girlfriend had called them a \"slag\". This was normal - you didn't even question it.\n\nJust before going on-air, the producer or researcher stood with guests just inches away from where they would meet Jezza for the first (and probably last) time, and say one final remark.\n\nI once heard a producer tell a guest: \"We don't want you to be violent - but you do whatever you need to do out there.\"\n\nSometimes, if guests don't like the way Jeremy has treated them or the show hasn't gone their way, they could get aggressive and even violent towards production staff.\n\nProducers suddenly changed their tune if that happened.\n\nJeremy once called a guest I was looking after a liar because he failed a lie-detector test.\n\nThe guest stormed off stage, pushed me over and the producer ran after them, screaming at them to come back.\n\nI remember them saying something along the lines of… \"You can't go. Have you forgotten what she said about you? Get back in there and tell her what you think!\"\n\nRadio 1 Newsbeat contacted ITV about the claims made in this article by the former employee. A spokesman says it does \"not recognise this characterisation\" of The Jeremy Kyle Show.\n\nIn a more general statement to the BBC, ITV said The Jeremy Kyle Show \"has significant and detailed duty of care processes in place for contributors pre, during and post show\".\n\nITV says its \"guest welfare team\" - made up of a consultant psychotherapist and three mental health nurses - looks after people coming onto the show.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Glodi Wabelua, left, Michael Karemera, centre, and Dean Alford were sentenced at Inner London Crown Court\n\nThree county lines drug dealers who used vulnerable teenagers as runners in a coastal city have been jailed in a \"landmark case\".\n\nGlodi Wabelua, Dean Alford and Michael Karemera, all 25, recruited six youths to traffic crack cocaine and heroin to Portsmouth in 2013 and 2014.\n\nThe victims were used to carry drugs to Hampshire and money back to London.\n\nIt is believed the three are the first to be charged under the Modern Slavery Act in relation to county lines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nInner London Crown Court was told the victims - three girls and three boys - would sometimes be forced to stash drug packages in their body cavities and would usually be housed in the homes of addicts, often with needles and drug paraphernalia lying around.\n\nThey had to ask permission to use the proceeds from selling drugs for buying food, and were not allowed to return to London until all the drugs were sold.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said that when one victim tried to leave the gang lifestyle, he was stripped naked by associates of Karemera and had a gun placed in his mouth.\n\nPolice said a gun was used when one of the victims tried to leave\n\nJudge Usha Karu said: \"One of the main reasons [the victims] were chosen was because of their youth, many were arrested for possession with intent to supply and thus they too became embroiled in the justice system.\n\n\"The level of psychological harm they may have suffered is hard to gauge.\n\n\"For children who are vulnerable it is quick and easy money - the fact that they consented is plainly no defence.\"\n\nThe Met called it a \"landmark case\" as the three were convicted under modern slavery legislation.\n\nWabelua, of Tottenham, was convicted of one count of trafficking under the Modern Slavery Act and jailed for three-and-a-half years\n\nAlford, of Canterbury, pleaded guilty to three counts of trafficking and was jailed for four years.\n\nKaremera, of Lewisham, also pleaded guilty to one like charge and was jailed for five years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Widening inequalities in pay, health and opportunities in the UK are undermining trust in democracy, says an Institute for Fiscal Studies report.\n\nThe think tank warns of runaway incomes for high earners but rises in \"deaths of despair\", such as from addiction and suicide, among the poorest.\n\nIt warns of risks to \"centre-ground\" politics from stagnating pay and divides in health and education.\n\nThe report says such widening gaps are \"making a mockery of democracy\".\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), one of the country's leading research institutes, is launching what it says is the UK's biggest analysis of inequality.\n\nThat will be chaired by Nobel Prize-winning economist Prof Sir Angus Deaton.\n\nHe said \"people were troubled by inequality\" more than at any time since the 1940s - and the impact was so serious that it suggested \"democratic capitalism is broken\".\n\nHe warned of the dangers of disillusionment if people did not feel fairly rewarded for their work - and that extreme wealth seemed to be gained by \"taking rather than making\".\n\nSir Angus said \"people getting rich is a good thing\" but not if it meant \"enriching the few at the expense of the many\".\n\nAt the outset of this review, the IFS has published indicators of inequality - such as the average chief executive of a FTSE 100 company now earning 145 times the average salary, up from 47 times in 1998.\n\nIt suggests pay inequality in the UK is high by international standards - with the share of household income going to the richest 1% having tripled in the past three decades.\n\nThe middle classes are also under pressure, particularly younger generations, with stagnant pay and unaffordable house prices.\n\nThe long-term decline in trade union membership is identified as another factor in wages not increasing.\n\nAs well as inequality in income, the think tank highlights divergence in health.\n\nIt says there is almost a 10-year gap in male life expectancy between the richest and poorest areas - and the IFS warns of \"deaths of despair\", with a rise in early deaths from drug and alcohol abuse and suicide being linked to factors such as poverty, social isolation and mental health problems.\n\nPatterns of relationship are also affected by inequality, the study suggests.\n\nOver recent decades, wealthier people have become more likely to be living in a couple, either married or co-habiting, the IFS says.\n\nBut among the poor, declining numbers are living with a partner, a pattern attributed to increasing job insecurity, a lack of financial independence and more \"chaotic lives\".\n\nThe big picture, says the IFS, is the UK is becoming more like the US, with a concentration of wealth at the top and pressure on working families lower down the pay scale.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Inequality of political voice is even worse', says Prof Sir Angus Deaton\n\nIt says that in the US, increases in life expectancy have stalled and that for non-graduate male workers, pay has not risen in real terms for five decades.\n\n\"The risk is that the UK may follow a similar path,\" says the IFS study.\n\nThe IFS warns of the social tensions that will come with an economic landscape built on widening inequality.\n\nAs economic think tank the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported recently, this is likely to put pressure on the middle classes as well as those on low incomes.\n\nJames Hutchinson says if people do not feel they are making progress, they become \"disconnected\"\n\nUniversity science researcher James Hutchinson, in his 30s, feels he has kept his side of the bargain - gaining a degree from Cambridge - and now working as an academic as well as raising a family with his partner.\n\nBut he feels a sense of \"powerlessness\" about the cost of housing and that his work has no job security, with a series of short-term contracts.\n\n\"It's not a sob story,\" says Dr Hutchinson, \"But if people feel they can't improve their lot, then they feel disconnected.\"\n\n\"We were sold the idea that academic success is the way to be better off,\" he says.\n\nHis partner Bethany has decided not to work because she can't afford childcare. She says \"for me as a parent, I didn't feel comfortable with us being separated... and then working all hours.\"\n\nBethany and her partner James Hutchinson have struggled to make ends meet for their family\n\nThey live in Bristol and struggled to get somewhere they could afford to live - currently the family all sleep in one room while they patch up their home.\n\nDr Hutchinson recognises that he's \"more privileged than many\" - earning the average for UK graduates of £35,000 per year - but he voices a frustration at a lack of progress and fears that things could get even worse for his children.\n\nThe \"disconnect\" comes, he says, from his generation becoming \"increasingly aware of your own expendability\" and a work culture haunted by a \"constant lack of security\".\n\nDr Hutchinson is sceptical that any of the political rhetoric will translate into real improvements.\n\n\"How do we build a functional society out of dysfunctional lives?\" he asks.\n\nThe consumer society is afraid of becoming the consumed.", "WhatsApp is limiting all its members to forwarding any single message up to five times in an effort to tackle the spread of false information on the platform.\n\nThe Facebook-owned business had already introduced the policy in India six months ago.\n\nThe move followed a number of mob lynchings that were blamed on fake reports spread via the service.\n\nUntil now, users elsewhere could forward messages up to 20 times.\n\nThe update to the app's rules was announced at an event in Jakarta, Indonesia. The country is holding its general election in April.\n\nThe firm told the BBC it had made its decision after \"carefully\" evaluating the results of its half-year-long test in the country.\n\n\"The forward limit significantly reduced forwarded messages around the world,\" a spokeswoman added.\n\n\"[This] will help keep WhatsApp focused on private messaging with close contacts. We'll continue to listen to user feedback about their experience, and over time, look for new ways of addressing viral content.\"\n\nUp to 256 users can be enrolled in a WhatsApp group.\n\nSo, theoretically, a single user can now only forward a message up to 1,280 other individuals rather than the 5,120 people figure that had been possible previously.\n\nThere is nothing, however, to stop those on the receiving end each forwarding the message up to five times themselves.\n\nThe restriction comes at a time WhatsApp and Facebook's other services are under scrutiny for their role in the spread of propaganda and other untruths online.\n\nLast week, Facebook announced it had removed 500 pages and accounts allegedly involved in peddling fake news in Central Europe, Ukraine and other Eastern European nations.\n\nIt also recently announced that it had employed a UK-fact-checking service to flag content on its main platform.\n\nHowever, the use of end-to-end encryption by WhatsApp means its messages can only be read by their senders and recipients, limiting the firm's ability to spot false reports.\n\nBut at the end of last year, the Indian press reported that the government was considering a change to the law that would force Facebook to police WhatsApp for \"unlawful\" content. This would challenge its use of the encryption technology.", "Vodafone has said that it will turn on its 5G service in the UK on 3 July.\n\nThe company will rely on equipment from the Chinese telecoms provider Huawei, among others, to deliver the service.\n\nIt is the first firm to confirm a UK switch-on date, and both business customers and consumers will be able to sign up.\n\nVodafone said the benefits of the next-generation mobile network would include faster and more reliable data speeds for customers in busy areas.\n\nThe UK government is still carrying out a review of the telecoms sector that has the potential to restrict or even block the use of Huawei's kit to address cyber-security concerns.\n\nHowever, a leak last month indicated that network providers will indeed be allowed to use Huawei's radio access network (Ran) gear, which allows smartphones and other devices to wirelessly connect to their systems.\n\nVodafone has said seven cities will be involved in the initial roll-out:\n\n\"Offering speeds over 5G up to 10 times faster than 4G, we've shown commuters at busy airports and railway stations that they can download TV box sets or movies in a matter of seconds before they embark on their journey,\" Vodafone added in a press release.\n\nUsers will need a 5G-compatible smartphone or router to take advantage of the technology.\n\n5G's other benefits over 4G include lower latencies - meaning less lag between sending a command and receiving a response - and the ability to support more devices simultaneously. That should help pave the way towards the wider use of data-gathering sensors, which in turn should help public authorities and businesses make better informed-decisions.\n\nBut it is likely to take years or even decades for the technology's full potential to be harnessed.\n\nVodafone has said it would reveal details of its 5G price plans next week. However, it has already said they would not be more expensive than its equivalent 4G deals.\n\nThe company has said it intends to extend the facility to a further dozen locations before the end of the year:\n\nBut this could be delayed were it to be forbidden to continue using Huawei's equipment.\n\nVodafone also uses 5G Ran kit purchased from Ericsson, so is not totally reliant on the Chinese company's products.\n\nBut a ban would involve it having to strip out existing Huawei equipment already used to deliver its 4G services, which Vodafone has said would be a major undertaking and take up much of its engineering resources.\n\nVodafone does not use Huawei's kit in its core - the \"brains\" of its network, where tasks including billing and deciding how to route voice and data take place.\n\nThe Samsung S10 5G handset will be one of the first to support the service\n\nThe US continues to press the UK to shun Huawei claiming the company could be forced to disrupt or spy on its clients' communications by the Chinese Communist Party.\n\nThe Shenzhen-based company denies this is the case and has said it is willing to sign \"no-spy\" agreements with the UK and other governments.\n\nThe announcement coincided with Vodafone's announcement that it had swung to a €7.6bn (£6.6bn) full-year loss, which has caused it to cut dividend payments to shareholders.", "A former youth coach involved in Scottish football has been given a further jail sentence after admitting a series of child sex abuse crimes.\n\nJim McCafferty, 73, was a coach and kit man for the Celtic youth team who also worked for Celtic Boys Club.\n\nIn court, he admitted 12 charges related to child sex abuse against 10 teenage boys between 1972 and 1996.\n\nHe was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison. He was already serving a jail term for abuse.\n\nLast year he was he was found guilty of sexually abusing a teenage boy in Belfast.\n\nIn relation to the latest charges, most of his victims played for youth teams he ran in North Lanarkshire.\n\nFour played for Celtic Boys Club and Celtic youth team. They were aged between 14 and 17.\n\nThe incidents took place in several locations across Scotland - including team showers, hotel rooms and minibuses.\n\nThe High Court in Edinburgh heard that among the complainers were former professional footballers.\n\nJim McCafferty was already serving a jail term after a trial in Northern Ireland\n\nSome of his victims developed alcohol and mental health problems as a consequence of the abuse he subjected them too.\n\nJudge Lord Beckett said McCafferty was \"physically intimidating\" and used his \"overpowering\" nature to achieve his \"depraved objectives\" of abusing young boys.\n\nHe added: \"You took advantage of your position of trust as a football coach to groom and then sexually abuse boys who played for your teams.\n\n\"You were adept at identifying the circumstances of different boys so that you could manipulate them and in some cases their parents in a variety of ways.\n\n\"All of this was done to facilitate your sexually abusing children.\"\n\nHe added: \"Careers did not reach their full potential, some were cut short and lives have been seriously blighted. Many of those that you abused have suffered from enduring anxiety and depression caused by what you did.\n\n\"Conduct of this kind has a wider effect which is corrupting and socially corrosive. It has the potential to undermine the trust which people place in youth football and sports clubs.\"\n\nMcCafferty's lawyer told the court he wanted to apologise to his victims and their families.\n\nHe is the fourth man connected to either Celtic or Celtic Boys Club to be found guilty of historical child sex abuse in the past year.\n\nBoth Jim Torbett (left) and Frank Cairney (right) have been convicted of abusing children at Celtic Boys Club\n\nLast November Celtic Boys Club founder Jim Tobett was jailed for six years for sexually abusing three boys over eight years.\n\nEarlier this year, the boys club's former chairman, Gerald King, was given a three-year probation order for sexually abusing four boys and a girl in the 1980s.\n\nAnd in February Frank Cairney, a former manager of the boys club, was jailed for four years after being convicted of nine charges of sexually abusing young footballers.\n\nOutside court, Det Ch Insp Sarah Taylor said McCafferty exploited his position to satisfy his own \"sexual depravity\".\n\nShe paid tribute to the victims who \"lived in fear as boys\", but found the courage and strength to speak out as adults.\n\n\"They were listened to and without their testimony we would not be here today witnessing McCafferty's long awaited admissions of guilt,\" she said.\n\n\"The scale of his abuse is unprecedented, and demonstrates the systematic and calculated methods he used to target his victims.\n\n\"Whether as a respected coach or an affable kit man, he used every opportunity available to perpetrate his callous abuse.\"\n\nPatrick McGuire, of Thompsons Solicitors, is representing some of McCafferty's victims in civil cases.\n\nHe called for action from Celtic Football Club.\n\n\"McCafferty's connection with Celtic is now utterly undeniable,\" he said.\n\n\"We now know that some of the abuse took place in Celtic premises. What he did was groom the boys but at the same time groom the parents, always with Celtic dangling on the end of a stick as a golden carrot. It's just utterly unforgivable.\n\n\"McCafferty's conviction is probably the last conviction that we'll see in a Celtic setting. But what's never happened is any form of financial justice for the survivors of abuse at Celtic Park and that's why now all eyes are on the board of Celtic Football Club to do the right thing.\"\n\nMcCafferty was placed on the sex offenders register for life.", "Ian Ogle had acted as a spokesman for the loyalist community\n\nA 40-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Ian Ogle in January.\n\nMark Sewell, from Aigburth Park, Belfast, is the third man to be charged with the murder.\n\nMr Ogle, 45, died after he was stabbed and beaten in the street near his home in Cluan Place off the Albertbridge Road in east Belfast.\n\nHis wife, son, and daughter, were in court on Friday as Mr Sewell appeared on a murder charge.\n\nThe hearing lasted only two minutes.\n\nMr Sewell was asked if he understood the charge and he responded by nodding his head.\n\nIn March, Glenn Rainey, 32, of McArthur Court, east Belfast was charged with murder.\n\nJonathan Brown, 33, of McArthur Court, has also appeared in court charged with murdering Mr Ogle.", "Danny Baker has expressed his deep regret at the Twitter storm that led to his sacking on Thursday, describing it as \"one of the worst days of my life\".\n\nThe former BBC Radio 5 Live presenter was sacked over his chimp tweet about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's baby.\n\nThe 61-year-old tweeted on Friday that \"it was a genuine, naive and catastrophic mistake\".\n\nHe admitted he was \"foolish\" to later try to make light of it.\n\nThe tweet, which was removed, showed an image of a couple holding hands with a chimpanzee dressed in clothes with the caption: \"Royal Baby leaves hospital\".\n\nBaker denies that there was racist intent behind the post but admits he is now \"paying the price... and rightly so\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Danny Baker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe wrote: \"Following one of the worst days of my life I just want to formally apologise for the outrage I caused and explain how I got myself into this mess.\n\n\"I chose the wrong photo to illustrate a joke. Disastrously so.\n\n\"In attempting to lampoon privilege and the news cycle I went to a file of goofy pictures and saw the chimp dressed as a Lord and thought, 'That's the one!' Had I kept searching I might have chosen General Tom Thumb or even a a baby in a crown. But I didn't. God knows I wish had.\n\n\"Minutes later I was alerted by followers that this royal baby was of course mixed race and waves of panic and revulsion washed over me... What had I done?\n\n\"I needed no lessons on the centuries slurs equating simians and people of colour. Racism at it's basest.\n\n\"But it was a genuine, naive and catastrophic mistake. There is of course little media/twitter traction in such a straight-forward explanation. The picture in context as presented was obviously shamefully racist. It was never intended so - seriously who on earth would 'go there'?\"\n\nHe added: \"Anyway I am now paying the price for this crass and regrettable blunder and rightly so. Probably even this final word from me will extend the mania. ('Dog whistle' anyone?) I would like to thank friends on here for their kinder words and once again - I am so, so sorry.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Baker joked with journalists on his doorstep that the tweet was a \"stupid gag\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC \"right\" to sack Danny Baker over tweet says broadcaster Scarlette Douglas\n\nBroadcaster Scarlette Douglas, who works on 5 Live podcast The Sista Collective and The One Show, told the BBC: \"I think somebody told him, 'What you've tweeted was incorrect, so you should maybe say something or take it down.'\n\n\"Yes, OK, he took it down, but his apology for me wasn't really an apology. I don't think it's right and I think subsequently what's happened is correct.\"\n\nAfter reflecting on his comments the day before, Baker added: \"I would like once and for all to apologise to every single person who, quite naturally, took the awful connection at face value.\n\n\"I understand that and all of the clamour and opprobrium I have faced since. I am not feeling sorry for myself. I [messed] up. Badly.\n\n\"I am aware black people do not need a white man to tell them this. Deleting it immediately and apologising for the awful gaffe I even foolishly tried to make light of it. (My situation that is, not the racism involved.) Too late and here I am.\"\n\nHowever, Dr Pragya Agarwal, a psychology academic and equality campaigner, told the BBC that Baker's latest apology, while lengthy and detailed, \"still feigns ignorance about the racist tropes, while continuing to play the victim\".\n\n\"I am really struggling to see how Danny Baker could not have realised what he was posting. The history of racial slurs and monkey chants in football are well-known and so he must be aware of the connotations,\" she said.\n\nDr Agarwal said Baker's tweet was \"particularly harmful because it came from someone who has a media profile\".\n\n\"People admire and follow him, so it gives a signal to others that it is perfectly acceptable,\" she added.\n\n\"As a result, it has reminded black people and those of mixed-heritage that they are still 'othered'.\n\n\"It is important that we give people an opportunity to address and acknowledge their implicit biases in a safe and non-judgemental space.\n\n\"When we do this, we can begin to address the inequalities. If only Danny Baker had done so,\" she added.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police, fire and ambulance services in England should share control rooms to improve their response to 999 calls, a Home Office minister has said.\n\nMike Penning said it did not \"make sense\" to have different premises.\n\nIt comes as new plans are published to get the services working more closely.\n\nThere are also proposals for police and crime commissioners (PCCs) to oversee fire brigades, which could include choosing an officer in charge of hiring and firing fire and police staff.\n\nThis top officer post would be open to senior officers from both the police and fire service. They would hold the rank of chief constable - and to allow this the government would remove the current rule that holders of the rank must have served as a constable.\n\nPCCs would get responsibility for fire services \"where a local case is made\", the Home Office said.\n\nIn most parts of England, police, fire and ambulance services have separate control centres and when someone rings 999, they have to tell an operator which service they need.\n\nEmergency services in some areas - including Northamptonshire and Hampshire - are already working on joint schemes, but the Home Office wants more and is introducing a \"statutory duty\" on the three services to collaborate.\n\nIn Northamptonshire, police, fire and ambulance services are sharing \"training, premises and a joint operations\", the Home Office said. In Hampshire, senior police officers now operate out of the Hampshire Fire and Rescue HQ.\n\nMr Penning, minister for policing and fire, said: \"It simply doesn't make sense for emergency services to have different premises, different back offices and different IT systems when their work is so closely related and they often share the same boundaries.\"\n\nHe said he would also like PCCs to take responsibility for their local ambulance service, but at this stage the Home Office is only planning to extend PCC powers to fire brigades.\n\nThe plan for PCCs to oversee fire services was called \"dangerous\" by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) when it was suggested last year.\n\nIt said the move would be a \"costly experiment with no guarantee for success\".\n\nSteve White, chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said: \"Officers from both emergency services already do pull together, working alongside week in, week out, as has been evidenced most recently by the appalling floods.\n\n\"So why the burning need to change the law? It's like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.\"\n\nPaul Hancock, Cheshire's Chief Fire Officer and president of the Chief Fire Officers Association, said combining control rooms was \"absolutely a good thing\".\n\nHe said there were \"fantastic examples\" of emergency services working together across the country, and he welcomed PCCs taking control of fire services when there was a \"local case\".\n\nBut he said there were \"some concerns\" within the fire service about losing its \"unique brand and reputation\" due to being associated with the police.\n\nThe government's plan also includes abolishing the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority and giving its responsibilities to the Greater London Authority.", "Shana Grice was murdered by her ex-boyfriend who stalked her\n\nA former police officer did not adequately investigate reports a woman was being stalked by an ex-boyfriend who went on to murder her.\n\nShana Grice, 19, complained five times to Sussex Police about Michael Lane before he slit her throat in 2016.\n\nThe failings of PC Mills, whose full identity can not be reported, amounted to gross misconduct, a force disciplinary panel ruled.\n\nPC Mills, who resigned last week, had denied the accusations.\n\nHad he not resigned, the panel said he would have been dismissed from the force.\n\nMs Grice, who was later fined for wasting police time, reported on 9 July 2016 that Lane had stolen her backdoor key, crept into her bedroom and watched her sleeping, the panel heard.\n\nHe was arrested but, despite there being a history of escalating reports of stalking and harassment, PC Mills, the investigating officer, did not review case notes before questioning him.\n\nLane was cautioned and warned to stay away from Ms Grice.\n\nPC Mills also failed to respond to reports made by Ms Grice on July 12, when she said Lane had been following her in his car, the panel was told.\n\nShe was not called back and a few days later received a letter stating the \"case was closed\".\n\nIt was the last time she contacted police before she was murdered by Lane at her Brighton flat in August.\n\nLane, who was jailed for a minimum of 25 years in 2017, had placed a tracker device on her car during a campaign of harassment.\n\nMichael Lane was convicted of murdering Miss Grice in 2017\n\nThe force's lawyer Louise Ravenscroft said Ms Grice had reported she was \"scared even to leave my house\".\n\nAccording to friends, Ms Grice had been angry and \"could not believe they [the force] had dropped it\", Ms Ravenscroft said.\n\n\"As a result, she never reported continuing complaints of stalking.\"\n\nDuring an interview with the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), PC Mills said he did not know why he failed to call her back.\n\nWhen questioned, Mills admitted he had been \"alarmed\" by some of Lane's behaviour and said his failure to properly question him had been an oversight.\n\nPanel chairman Chiew Yin Jones said PC Mills' failings may have \"ultimately contributed in the circumstances which contributed to the tragic death of Ms Grice\".\n\n\"In his dealings with Ms Grice, the officer failed to recognise her vulnerability,\" she said.\n\nThe family's lawyer Andy Petherbridge, of Hudgell Solicitors, said it was the \"right decision\" but was \"too little, too late\" for Ms Grice.\n\nThe panel ruled PC Mills' full name should be withheld to protect the \"feelings and the welfare\" of his young family.\n\nPC Trevor Godfrey, who retired from duty in December 2017, was due to face allegations of discreditable conduct on Tuesday, but the hearing was postponed until further notice.\n\nAn internal misconduct hearing for a serving, unnamed officer, will be held on 17 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"At school we can go outside, have fun and play in the sun\"\n\nSchool break times have been getting shorter over the past two decades, as teachers try to pack more lessons into the day, a long-term study suggests.\n\nInfants in England had 45 minutes less break time a week than in 1995, the University College London team found.\n\nSecondary pupils had lost 65 minutes over the same period, they said.\n\nThe government said it had given schools the \"autonomy\" to make decisions about the structure and duration of their school day.\n\nPupils complained of fun activities being banned, not having enough time to eat their lunch, and missing their breaks due to others' poor behaviour.\n\nChildren and young people's social lives seem to have been curtailed as well, with fewer students than in 2006 reporting they had visited a friend's house after school, according to the research.\n\nPlaying video games and watching television had overtaken spending time with friends as the most common after school activity, the study found.\n\nThe researchers said this finding highlighted how \"school is increasingly the main, and in some cases the only, context where young people get to socialise\".\n\nResearchers analysed questionnaires completed at 993 primaries and 199 secondaries in 2017 along with separate pupil surveys at 37 schools.\n\nThese were compared with surveys in similar schools in 2006 and 1995.\n\nThe team said their results gave the impression that breaks were being kept as \"tightly managed and as short as possible\" and this meant pupils could be missing out on social development.\n\nLead author Ed Baines, from UCL's Institute of Education, said: \"Despite the length of the school day remaining much the same, break times are being squeezed even further, with potential serious implications for children's wellbeing and development.\n\n\"Not only are break times an opportunity for children to get physical exercise - an issue of particular concern given the rise in obesity - but they provide valuable time to make friends and to develop important social skills, experiences that are not necessarily learned or taught in formal lessons.\"\n\nThe researchers found what they described as a \"virtual elimination\" of afternoon breaks, with only 15% of infant pupils and just over half of juniors having one.\n\nIn 1995, 13% of secondary schools reported an afternoon break period but in 2017 only 1% said they had one.\n\nLunch breaks had also been cut down, the team said, with 82% of schools setting aside less than 55 minutes in 2017, compared with 30% in 1995.\n\nNearly 60% of schools also withheld breaks from children when they or their classmates had been poorly behaved or needed to complete work.\n\nHead teachers' leader Geoff Barton said there was enormous value in unstructured free time for children to socialise and let off steam but schools had to balance this consideration against all the other demands expected of them.\n\nThe Association of School and College Leaders' general secretary said: \"The fact is that school timetables are bursting at the seams because of the pressure to deliver a huge amount of learning and to prepare children for high-stakes tests and exams.\n\n\"It is therefore no surprise that school break times are shorter than they were 20 years ago.\n\n\"This may be regrettable but it is the result of a conscious decision by successive governments to expect more of schools.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said the government recognised the importance of physical activity in schools \"to improve both physical and mental wellbeing\".\n\n\"We are clear that pupils should be given an appropriate break and we expect school leaders to make sure this happens,\" he added.\n• None Parents can 'worry less' about screen time\n• None Loneliness more likely in young\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Trade negotiators from China are in Washington to hammer out a deal between the world’s two largest economies.\n\nBoth sides are keen to resolve the trade dispute as their economies are coming under increasing pressure.\n\nBBC Asia business correspondent Karishma Vaswani explains how we got here, and whether a trade deal will end the rivalry.", "Plans to extend Edinburgh's tram network to include a hospital and university are being proposed as part of an overhaul of the way people will move around the city.\n\nThe 10-year city centre transformation project would see the tram extend over North Bridge to the BioQuarter and the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.\n\nA tram loop could also be built between Haymarket and University of Edinburgh.\n\nThe council hopes to reduce city centre traffic by up to 30%.\n\nThe council said it wanted to treat cars as \"guests\" in a \"pedestrian priority zone\".\n\nThe plans also include setting up a free city centre hopper bus.\n\nProminent parts of the Old Town would be completely closed to traffic, including Victoria Street, Cockburn Street and a longer stretch of the Royal Mile.\n\nWaverley Bridge could become a vehicle-free plaza and a \"centrepiece\" bridge could be built for pedestrians and cyclists, connecting the Old Town and the New Town.\n\nCar parking would be gradually reduced across the city centre, with George Street, Victoria Street and Cockburn Street losing parking space altogether.\n\nThere are also plans for remaining parking areas to be subject to a trial of a \"parking free day\" - where existing spaces are used for alternative uses one day per week.\n\nThe proposals will go out for a public consultation for approval, subject to the thumbs up by the council's transport and environment committee next week.\n\nLesley Macinnes, City of Edinburgh Council's transport and environment convener, said: \"This is a serious approach to how we equip the city for the future and how we meet the emerging challenges from the climate change emergency, population growth, changing expectations of our city centre and air quality.\n\n\"This is a clear statement of intent about what we want to achieve in the city centre. This is our strategy for a city centre that is truly fit for purpose.\"\n\nAs part of the blueprint, there are plans to construct four lifts, situated across the city centre, to help people access Edinburgh's two levels with more ease.\n\nThe lifts will be provided from Market Street to the top of The Mound, Waverley Station to North Bridge, Cowgate to George IV Bridge and Grassmarket to Edinburgh Castle and will be used by cyclists and those with wheelchairs.\n\nMrs Macinnes said: \"You will come out the back of Waverley Station and take that lift up to North Bridge.\n\n\"Instantly, you have got public transport with buses instantly connected with the train. It's about collapsing the city centre to be able to access both levels.\"\n\nImprovements will be made to make key routes more attractive to pedestrians and cyclists but key bus routes will remain across North Bridge and South Bridge and up and down The Mound.\n\nMrs Macinnes said: \"This is an exciting and ambitious strategy, one which will deliver transformative benefits across the city and for a whole range of people travelling to and within Edinburgh.\n\n\"We want everyone to share in Edinburgh's success and re-imagining our city centre and its purpose will help make this happen.\n\n\"Here we have a blueprint to move the city forward. The proposals are designed to prompt debate - they aren't finalised designs or ideas.\n\n\"They are examples of what we could do to deliver the city centre that residents are telling us they want.\"\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\nDavid Beckham has been given a six-month driving ban for using his mobile phone while behind the wheel.\n\nThe former England captain previously pleaded guilty to using the device while driving his Bentley in central London on 21 November last year.\n\nA court heard he was photographed by a member of the public holding a phone as he drove in \"slowly moving\" traffic.\n\nBeckham, 44, received six points on his licence to add to the six he already had for previous speeding matters.\n\nHe was also fined £750, ordered to pay £100 in prosecution costs and a £75 surcharge fee within seven days.\n\nDistrict Judge Catherine Moore said she acknowledged the slow pace of the traffic but told him there was \"no excuse\" under the law.\n\nBromley Magistrates' Court heard Beckham was seen \"operating a handheld device at knee level\" while driving along Great Portland Street in the West End.\n\nProsecutor Matthew Spratt said: \"Instead of looking straight forward, paying attention to the road he appeared to be looking at his lap.\"\n\nThe court heard Beckham was photographed driving in \"slowly moving\" traffic while holding a phone\n\nBeckham's defence barrister Gerrard Tyrrell said the former Manchester United midfielder had \"no recollection of the day in question or this particular incident\".\n\nHe added: \"There is no excuse for what took place but his view is that he cannot remember.\"\n\n\"He takes his children to school each day when he can and he picks them up when he can, and actually to deprive them of that is something that he will acknowledge,\" he said.\n\nIt's against the law in the UK to hold a phone while driving, although hands-free devices are allowed. It's punishable by six penalty points on your licence and a £200 fine - but, depending on the seriousness of the offence, you can also be taken court to face more severe penalties.\n\nIn England and Wales in 2017, there were 8,300 convictions for using a handheld mobile phone whilst driving. Almost all were dealt with through a fine, which averaged out at £180.\n\nConvictions have fallen a lot since their peak of 32,548 in 2010.\n\nLooking at who was convicted, 86% were men and 21% were under 25 years old.\n\nIn Scotland in 2017-18 there were 2,881 convictions for the category of \"other motor vehicle offences\", which covers using a mobile phone and not wearing a seatbelt. Again, almost all were dealt with through fines.\n\nIn September, Beckham was accused of \"shirking his responsibility\" as a role model when he avoided prosecution on a speeding charge because of a technicality.\n\nThe father-of-four accepted he drove a loaned Bentley at 59mph in a 40mph zone in west London in January last year.\n\nBut his lawyer Nick Freeman - known as Mr Loophole - successfully fought to prevent action being taken because a speeding notice arrived one day late.\n\nIn March 2017, the punishment for driving while on the phone was doubled to six penalty points - enough to ban those with less than two years' experience.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Dougan said the work of generations of foresters has been lost\n\n\"When I first saw the impact this disease was having, it really almost reduced me to tears.\"\n\nThe words of Scottish Forestry's John Dougan as he describes the battle to defeat the deadly tree disease Phytophthora Ramorum.\n\nIt has spread throughout Scotland in recent years, leaving thousands of dead and damaged trees in its wake.\n\nIf the ongoing fight is lost, it is feared it could be catastrophic for the forestry industry and also hit tourism.\n\nAs the busy summer holiday period approaches, members of the public are being urged to take some simple precautions which could help, such as cleaning their boots before leaving.\n\nPhytophthora Ramorum was first found in larch trees in the region in 2010.\n\nAt Ae Forest near Dumfries, its impact on the landscape is clear to see.\n\nSlowing the progression of the disease can only be achieved by cutting trees down.\n\nAt Ae, any vulnerable species found within 250m of an infected tree will be felled.\n\nThe change is significant - both in terms of the look of the forest and the increased activity.\n\nMr Dougan, Scottish Forestry's head of operational development, told BBC Scotland's Landward: \"It's a fungal-based disease, microscopic spores that get caught up in water droplets and vapour, and they get blown around in the atmosphere, they land on the tree and then they start to attack the tissue of the tree, and then they also reproduce themselves and the cycle continues on from there.\n\n\"It's really larch that is the engine that drives the disease progression.\"\n\nHe said of the felling approach: \"What we're trying to do by clear-felling is removing infected trees, and reducing the risk of them then allowing the disease to reproduce itself and move onto other sites.\n\n\"The wood will go into conventional timber usage that it would have done anyway\n\n\"It does need to be handled in a specific way because obviously it potentially has infected material associated with it.\"\n\nIn this particular case at Ae, trees are being felled more than 20 years before they would have normally come down.\n\nMembers of the public are being told they can help\n\nMr Dougan explained: \"From a personal point of view - I mean I'm from this part of the world - when I first saw the impact this disease was having, it really almost reduced me to tears.\n\n\"Not for the loss of the timber - that's something we can accept - but it's the loss of the work of really generations of foresters to make these areas attractive places to come and visit and enjoy.\"\n\nOf the message to the public, he said: \"Keep coming, because we want people to keep coming and to enjoy the forest.\n\n\"When you do come, when you leave think about not moving stuff from this forest to another forest or another part of the countryside.\n\n\"So if you've got mud on your equipment, your boots, your bikes, your dogs, these sorts of things, before you go somewhere else just make sure you wash that off so you're not moving the disease on to another location on another visit.\"\n\nYou can see this story on Landward on BBC One Scotland on Friday at 19:30.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The campaign is designed to reduce the amount of litter dropped by school pupils\n\nSchool pupils at all East Ayrshire high schools will face an £80 fine if they are caught throwing rubbish.\n\nBut the penalty will be withdrawn if the child attends a supervised litter pick.\n\nThe scheme was signed off by councillors following a recent trial programme at Loudoun Academy in Galston.\n\nThe campaign was spearheaded by Rubbish Party councillor Sally Cogley, who has hailed it as a UK first.\n\nMs Cogley said: \"East Ayrshire will be doing something that has never been done in the UK before. It has changed behaviour at Loudoun Academy.\n\n\"The litter in schools initiative is a no brainer and will make a difference. We have tried and tested it.\"\n\nMs Cogley was elected in May 2017, just two months after she founded the party to focus on the issues of waste and littering.\n\nThe Irvine Valley politician insisted it would not criminalise children after concerns were voiced at a council meeting.\n\nShe proposed a motion at full council for four politicians to set up a cross party and ward group to tackle the problems of dog fouling, litter and fly tipping.\n\nThey will be responsible for overseeing the roll-out of the fixed penalty litter scheme in all secondary schools.\n\nDropping litter is an offence in Scotland and anyone caught could receive a Fixed Penalty Notice of £80.\n\nMs Cogley said: \"The focus and approach will be on education and prevention coupled with effective enforcement.\"\n\n\"The aim is not to criminalise young people.\"\n\nShe pointed out that the fixed penalty notice would be cancelled if the child attended a litter pick.\n\nMs Cogley explained that if the pupil did not attend one, then the school would take other action.\n\nCouncillor Jacqui Todd said she was worried that children could be excluded if they did not comply.\n\nThe politicians who are to sit on the anti-litter group alongside Councillor Cogley are Annick councillor Ellen Freel, Kilmarnock North councillor Ian Grant and Kilmarnock East and Hurlford councillor Barry Douglas.\n\nCouncil leader Douglas Reid said: \"It is about improving the quality of our environment. We need to get behind this.\"\n\nThe motion said the aim of the cross-party group was to ensure \"East Ayrshire Council continues to maximise the benefits of a cleaner and safer environment,\" making it a \"more attractive place to live, learn, work and visit.\"", "A number of MPs are calling on a drug company to make a \"life-changing\" treatment affordable to UK patients.\n\nCiting a BBC Newsnight report, MPs across several parties have written to BioMarin, which markets Kuvan but did not initially discover it.\n\nThe drug, which helps people who have PKU - a rare inherited disorder - is currently not available to NHS patients, as it costs £70,000.\n\nBioMarin says the NHS has not accepted its \"very competitive\" offer.\n\nPeople with PKU (phenylketonuria) - which affects between one in 10,000 and one in 14,000 people in England - cannot properly digest the amino acid phenylalanine.\n\nAmino acids are the building blocks of protein and are broken down by the body to make our own proteins. But in people with PKU the levels build up, and can cause brain damage.\n\nKuvan reduces the levels of phenylalanine in many people who have PKU.\n\nThe MPs, who include Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and shadow chancellor John McDonnell, say that BioMarin did not even discover the drug itself but licensed it from a laboratory in Switzerland. It was then researched, using public money, as a treatment for PKU.\n\n\"It seems likely that development costs associated with licensing this treatment have been recouped,\" the MPs said in their letter, adding: \"It is matter of public record that BioMarin has generated substantial revenues from Kuvan.\"\n\nLouise Moorhouse, 35, knows at first-hand the difference Kuvan can make.\n\nIn her early 20s she took part in trials while it was being developed by the US biotech company.\n\n\"Kuvan allowed me to eat a completely normal diet. It was almost like someone had opened curtains on my life and I could see everything in Technicolor,\" she told Newsnight.\n\n\"It just freed me up so much.\"\n\nAfter the trial, Louise was denied further access to Kuvan, but since Newsnight's investigation, BioMarin has said all ex-trial patients will be treated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PKU and Kuvan - the campaign for an affordable drug\n\nHowever, in their letter, MPs say: \"BioMarin currently has no competition for pharmacological treatments for PKU. This monopoly position carries a particular obligation to have regard to your responsibility to patients.\n\n\"BioMarin needs to prioritise making this treatment available at an appropriate price across the UK as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe letter, signed by 17 MPs so far and originated from the office of MP Liz Twist, comes amid growing concern about the prices of drugs for rare illnesses across Europe.\n\nUnder a European incentive scheme to encourage companies to produce treatments for so-called orphan diseases, companies are granted up to 12 years market exclusivity. This is currently under review.\n\nThe Dutch government, for example, is looking at issuing compulsory licenses if a company does not make a drug affordable. This means another company will be allowed to make the drug at a cheaper price, even when it doesn't hold the patent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liz Twist 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\nBioMarin says the \"burden and severity of PKU as a disease in the UK is not recognised by NICE or the NHS\".\n\n\"Under current cost-effectiveness criteria, [the] NHS expects discount in the range of 80%, making it very difficult to reach a mutually acceptable agreement,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nAn NHS England spokesperson said: \"The NHS does not offer a blank cheque to pharmaceutical companies. Instead, the NHS works hard to strike deals which give people access to the most clinically effective and innovative medicines, and at a price which is fair and affordable, which is exactly what our patients and the country's taxpayers would expect us to do.\"", "Fifteen parents decided their children should not sit the tests being held this month\n\nA class of primary school pupils will not sit Sats tests after their parents chose to boycott the exams.\n\nAll 15 parents of children in Year 2 at Bealings School near Woodbridge, Suffolk, said \"over-testing was ruining the pupils' education\".\n\nHeather Chandler, one of the parents, said it was \"far too early\" for the children, aged six and seven, to be tested.\n\nThe school said it did not want to comment.\n\nChair of governors Rick Gillingham said they would not stand in the parents' way and \"over-testing is certainly something we wouldn't go along with\".\n\nMs Chandler said the Sats were unnecessary and a waste of time.\n\n\"At that age they should be out playing and investigating the world around them, not being taught to do a test,\" she said.\n\n\"It adds extra pressure they don't really need and takes a lot of teachers' time away from what they should be doing.\"\n\nLavinia Musolino has opted for her son Enzo, seven, not to take the Sats test\n\nLavinia Musolino, whose seven-year-old son Enzo is in Year 2, said: \"It's a really positive way to stand up to the current government and say we don't agree.\"\n\nThe Standards and Testing Agency tests are formal national curriculum exams in primary schools in England, taken by children twice - first in Year 2 and then in Year 6. Pupils are tested in maths and English.\n\nLast month, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn announced he would scrap Sats if his party came to power, saying the move would help improve teacher recruitment and retention.\n\nInstead, Labour would introduce alternative assessments which would be based on \"the clear principle of understanding the learning needs of every child,\" he said.\n\nBut Schools Minister Nick Gibb said abolishing Sats would be \"a retrograde step\".\n\nHe said it would \"keep parents in the dark\" by preventing them from knowing how good their child's school was at teaching maths, reading and writing.\n\nThe government has already said it wants to phase out Sats for seven-year-old pupils in favour of a new baseline assessment for reception classes.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two Londonderry men have appeared in court charged with rioting in the city on the night last month that writer Lyra McKee was murdered.\n\nChristopher Gillen, 38, of Balbane Pass and Paul McIntyre, 51, of Ballymagowan Park, were remanded in custody.\n\nThe city's magistrates' court was told evidence against them has been obtained from mobile phone footage and a documentary filmed by MTV.\n\nPolice believe the two men are members of the New IRA, the court heard.\n\nMr Gillen, who is unemployed, is charged with rioting, petrol bomb offences and the hijacking and arson of a tipper truck.\n\nMr McIntyre, who works as a taxi driver, is accused of rioting, petrol bomb offences and the arson of a hijacked vehicle.\n\nLyra McKee was observing rioting in Derry when she was shot dead\n\nA police officer told the court that officers had gone into Derry's Creggan estate on 18 April to conduct searches but that was followed by a \"sustained attack\" by people who were wearing masks.\n\nFour vehicles were hijacked, he added.\n\nPolice believe the two men can be connected to the rioting by clothing shown on various sources of video footage, including the MTV material, which was described by the officer as \"excellent\".\n\nThe prosecution lawyer said they believed that people in the area were using the filming of the MTV documentary, fronted by Reggie Yates, for their own purposes as \"a propaganda operation\".\n\nA solicitor representing Mr McIntyre described the case against him as \"extremely weak\".\n\nHe said his client was willing to live outside the city and accept a number of conditions if he was granted bail.\n\nThe police officer told Mr Gillen's solicitor that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) believes both men were members of the New IRA.\n\nWhen the solicitor said the police had \"no evidence\" to support that belief, the officer replied: \"That's correct.\"\n\nPolice were searching for weapons and ammunition when violence started on 18 April\n\nDuring his deliberations about bail applications for both men, the judge referred to what he described as \"disgraceful graffiti\" that appeared in the Creggan estate recently, warning people not to give information to the police.\n\nMs McKee, 29, was shot while observing rioting in the Creggan area on 18 April.\n\nThere was disorder throughout the evening leading up to her death.\n\nViolence broke out after raids were carried out by police, with detectives investigating dissident republican activity in the Mulroy Park and Galliagh areas.\n\nThe New IRA said its members carried out the murder.\n\nAn 18-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy, who were arrested last week by detectives investigating Ms McKee's death, were released without charge.", "Parents at the Glen Park school were outraged over the situation\n\nA San Francisco teacher on extended sick leave due to breast cancer has had to pay for her own substitute, sparking a nationwide outcry over the policy.\n\nThe average cost for a substitute in the city is $200 (£150) per day, which gets deducted from the sick teacher's salary, thanks to a 1976 state law.\n\nParents have responded by raising over $13,000 to help the teacher pay her medical bills, local media report.\n\nLawmakers and the city teacher's union are now considering changing the rule.\n\nThe Glen Park primary school teacher battling cancer has asked not to be named to protect her privacy.\n\nLocal parents were shocked to learn of the law when the well-loved teacher fell ill.\n\n\"Parents were outraged and incredulous - like, this can't be, there must be some mistake,\" Amanda Fried, whose children go to the Glen Park School, told the San Francisco Chronicle.\n\nMs Fried added that the school's other teachers were unsurprised by the situation.\n\n\"That makes it even more sad, because teachers expected to be treated poorly.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I have 29 textbooks for 87 pupils\": Why these teachers in Oklahoma are striking\n\nIn San Francisco, where the cost of living is notoriously high, teachers make around $82,000 annually, US media report.\n\nThey receive 10 days of paid medical leave from the school district. If they require extended medical leave, they are entitled to up to 100 days - but must foot the cost for their own substitute during that time as California teachers are not a part of the state's disability programme.\n\nThe city teacher's union may now raise this issue during 2020 negotiations.\n\nUnited Educators of San Francisco President Susan Solomon said in a statement that the group looked forward \"to making improvements in this and other parts of the contract\" between teachers and the school district.\n\nThe teacher's story has been covered by many national news outlets and sparked discussions across social media. In the wake of this nationwide scrutiny, state lawmakers have also been made aware of the controversial law.\n\nEarlier this year, teachers in Los Angeles went on strike to demand more support staff, smaller class sizes and better pay. Teachers in Colorado were also striking this year for better compensation.\n\nLast year, a wave of educator strikes swept the nation, with thousands of teachers protesting unfair pay. In West Virginia, teachers specifically highlighted issues around rising healthcare costs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'The resources have been dwindling, the staffing has been dwindling, students are suffering'\n\nOn the GoFundMe page parents started last month to pay for the San Francisco teacher's medical care, substitute and lost income, she was described as a \"true professional\" who loved her students, US media reported.\n\n\"Just a few days after her surgery, she took the time to write out 22 completely personalised notes to the students in the class thanking them for their support, telling them she missed them dearly and encouraging them to continue working hard,\" the fundraisers said.\n\nThe campaign closed after surpassing the initial goal of $10,000.\n\n\"My family and I are truly grateful for this gift,\" the teacher wrote. \"My heart is lifted and it gives me so much strength to know that so many people care about me and my family.\"", "Uber has been valued at $82bn (£63bn) ahead of its share listing in what is expected to be one of the biggest stock market flotations this year.\n\nThe ride-hailing app is asking investors to pay $45 a share, at the lower end of the price range expected.\n\nUber's conservative price is an attempt to avoid the fate of rival Lyft whose shares fell by up to a third after its recent listing, said analysts.\n\nUber is yet to make a profit and warned recently it may never do so.\n\nSince its foundation in 2009, the company has lost about $9bn.\n\nDaniel Ives, an analyst at investment company Wedbush Securities, said the lower-than-expected valuation was Uber's attempt to deflect scrutiny of its financial performance.\n\n\"They know that they are going to have a target on their back in terms of, not just investors, but regulators as well as drivers, so they need to tread carefully here in terms of how they price it.\n\n\"Their success is not going to be determined over the coming days or weeks or months, it's really over the coming years. But the last thing they want is for stock to drop through the IPO price like Lyft has,\" he said.\n\nUber had originally suggested a price range of between $44-$50 for its share price listing, valuing the company at up to $120bn.\n\nInvestors are betting on Uber's growth prospects as it diversifies into several other sectors. As well as the original \"ride-hailing\" business, Uber is developing driverless cars, and has a food delivery operation, Uber Eats.\n\nUnion organiser Lydia Hughes joined Uber drivers in their strike in London on Wednesday\n\nUber's chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, has emphasised that the firm's future is not as a ride-hailing company, but as a wide technology platform shaping logistics and transportation.\n\nBut Brian Hamilton, a tech entrepreneur and founder of data firm Sageworks, said its losses were hard to overlook.\n\n\"Uber is basically Lyft 2.0. Good model, growing sales. But, yet again, here comes California math once more. It is still losing a ton of money,\" he said.\n\nThe firm's revenue last year surged 42% to $11.3bn, but its adjusted loss - following a tax benefit - still hit $1.8bn. In the first three months of the year, it was a similar story with the firm reporting a loss of around $1bn.\n\nThe firm's flotation comes days after drivers in the US and UK went on strike over pay and working conditions.\n\nUnions are urging Uber to cut the rate of commission it takes, to increase the average fare rate and for better job security.", "Carolyn Fairbairn met First Minister Nicola Sturgeon ahead of the CBI's annual lunch in Edinburgh\n\nPlans for the immigration system after Brexit would cause particular problems for Scotland, the director general of the CBI has said.\n\nThe Home Office has said its plans would allow the UK to attract talented workers and deliver on the Brexit vote.\n\nBut Carolyn Fairbairn told BBC Scotland she believed skilled workers would have to be recruited at lower pay levels.\n\nScotland has a particular problem with an ageing workforce, she said.\n\nMs Fairbairn said: \"The trouble with the current immigration plan the government has put forward is it doesn't work for the whole country, and it certainly doesn't work for Scotland.\"\n\nIn 20 years' time, the CBI expects only one third of the Scottish population to be of working age, causing \"profound implications for Scotland, its tax base and public services\".\n\n\"We need the flexibility that allows Scotland to have the people it needs to grow,\" Ms Fairbairn said.\n\n\"Scotland has a particularly unusual problem in terms of a falling working age population.\n\n\"For many people wanting to come and work in Scotland the salaries are well below that, so we are looking for change and we are looking for a new immigration model that works for the whole country.\"\n\nThe Scottish median salary is less than £24,000.\n\nMs Fairbairn, who met First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Thursday ahead of the employers organisation's annual lunch in Edinburgh, has been working with the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) on plans to tackle automation and the future of work.\n\nThe two organisations have written to the Scottish government with proposals that they hope could increase \"both the number and quality of jobs\".\n\n\"If we get this right, automation and digitisation can be as important an economic leap forward as the industrial revolution,\" Ms Fairbairn said.\n\n\"We can build a society in Scotland that cherishes the fundamentally human skills, such as communication, empathy, innovation, and leadership.\"\n\nThe CBI has also called for politicians to set a clear timetable for resolving the \"paralysing\" Brexit deadlock.\n\n\"Three years on, the landing zone for a workable deal still feels worrying small, \" she said. \"And let me be crystal clear. Scottish firms, and firms across the UK, want a deal.\"\n\nShe added: \"Firms desperately need a timetable for these next few months. They need to have some idea of process, of timing, to enable them to plan, invest and prepare.\"", "Chelsea Manning: \"I will not comply with this, or any other grand jury.\"\n\nFormer US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been released from prison, despite refusing to testify before an investigation into Wikileaks.\n\nManning, 31, was held for 62 days after a Virginia judge ordered her taken into custody in March.\n\nHowever, she will have to appear again before a grand jury on 16 May.\n\nManning was found guilty in 2013 of charges including espionage for leaking secret military files to Wikileaks, but her sentence was later commuted.\n\nShe has refused to answer further questions about Wikileaks from investigators because she says she has already presented her testimony during her 2013 trial.\n\nHer release on Thursday comes after the period during which she could be held for failing to give evidence expired.\n\n\"Today marked the expiration of the term of the grand jury, and so, after 62 days of confinement, Chelsea was released from the Alexandria Detention Center earlier today,\" her lawyers said in a statement.\n\n\"Unfortunately, even prior to her release, Chelsea was served with another subpoena,\" the statement adds. \"It is therefore conceivable that she will once again be held in contempt of court, and be returned [to custody].\n\n\"Chelsea will continue to refuse to answer questions, and will use every available legal defence to prove... that she has just cause for her refusal to give testimony.\"\n\nWhen she refused to testify in March, her lawyers reportedly asked that she be confined at home due to medical issues, but the judge said US Marshals would address her care needs.\n\nUS prosecutors have been investigating Wikileaks for years, and in November prosecutors inadvertently revealed possible charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in court documents from a separate case.\n\nManning was arrested in Iraq in 2010 for disclosing more than 700,000 confidential documents, videos and diplomatic cables to the anti-secrecy website.\n\nWhile Manning said she only did so to spark debates about foreign policy, US officials said the leak put lives at risk.\n\nShe was sentenced to 35 years after being found guilty of 20 charges related to the leak, but then President Barack Obama commuted her sentence in 2017.\n\nHer sentence was the longest given for a leak in US history. President Obama said it was \"disproportionate\" to her crimes.", "India's richest man Mukesh Ambani has bought the iconic British toy retailer Hamleys for an undisclosed sum.\n\nReliance Brands Limited, which is owned by Mr Ambani, said it had signed an agreement to buy the company from China's C Banner International which had acquired it in 2015.\n\nHamleys, which was founded in 1760, is the world's oldest toy retailer and has 167 stores across 18 countries.\n\nAccording to Forbes, the 62-year-old Mr Ambani is worth $50.7bn.\n\n\"The worldwide acquisition of the iconic Hamleys brand.... is a long cherished dream come true,\" Darshan Mehta, the CEO of Reliance Brands Limited, said in a statement.\n\nHamleys had last year reported a £9.2m loss, blaming Brexit and the threat of terrorism for the downturn.\n\nIt had opened four stores in the UK but later closed two.\n\nHowever its flagship store in London's Regent Street, which opened in 1881, continues to be one of the city's major attractions.\n\nSet over seven floors, it has an estimated 50,000 lines of toys on sale.", "Emma Faulds was last seen on Sunday 28 April\n\nPolice have issued an appeal to trace the body of Emma Faulds after a man was charged with her murder.\n\nRoss Willox, 39, made no plea at Ayr Sheriff Court and is expected to return to court next week.\n\nMs Faulds, 39, from Kilmarnock, was last seen in Monkton on Sunday 28 April.\n\nDetectives have now confirmed they are conducting inquiries in the South Ayrshire/Dumfries and Galloway border area in an bid to locate her body.\n\nOfficers are keen to trace the movements of vehicles on the A714 Girvan to Newton Stewart road on Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 April, particularly Jaguar and Mercedes models.\n\nAnd police want to speak to anyone who spotted anything odd or out of place within that timeframe in the area of Barrhill, particularly along the A714.\n\nDet Chief Insp Martin Fergus said: \"This is a harrowing time for Emma's family.\n\n\"They are in shock and are in the process of dealing with the fact that Emma will not be coming home.\n\n\"I am therefore seeking the public's help in trying to find Emma's body.\"\n\nThe officer wants to speak to anyone who may have been travelling along the A714, either north or south between Girvan and Newton Stewart.\n\nHe added: \"Did you see something a little odd or out of place, perhaps you noticed a car in a lay-by, do you remember anything which struck you as odd at the time?\n\n\"I am also keen to speak to anyone who travels this route regularly, northbound or southbound.\n\n\"If any motorists have dashcams, please check the footage as it may have captured something which could prove vital to our ongoing inquiries to locate Emma.\"\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\nPoet Simon Armitage, whose \"witty and profound\" work spans sharp observations about modern life and classical myths, is to be the UK's next Poet Laureate.\n\nThe West Yorkshire writer will hold the historic post for the next decade, taking over from Dame Carol Ann Duffy.\n\nOver recent decades, the role has moved away from mainly chronicling royal occasions to promoting poetry and capturing a wider view of British life.\n\nArmitage has published 28 collections and is on the national curriculum.\n\nHis 2017 book The Unaccompanied was described by The Guardian as a document of \"a world in social and economic meltdown\".\n\nIt opens with a poem about climate change called The Last Snowman, and includes another titled Poundland, about \"the Disney design calendar and diary set, three cans of Vimto/cornucopia of potato-based snacks and balm for a sweet tooth\".\n\nThe announcement comes five months after Armitage, from Marsden, won the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2018, arguably the most prestigious accolade in poetry behind the laureateship.\n\nWhen that award was announced, Dame Carol Ann noted how he had \"touched the matter of our lives with characters and subject matter that lived among us: teachers and council tenants, chip shops and television shows, figures who drank in the local pub and shopped in the nearby supermarket\".\n\nHe has also translated medieval poems about King Arthur and Sir Gawain, retold The Odyssey as a radio play and written Last Days of Troy, a stage play for Shakespeare's Globe and the Manchester Royal Exchange.\n\nThe 55-year-old is currently professor of poetry at the University of Leeds and served as professor of poetry at the University of Oxford between 2015-2019.\n\nHe was made a CBE in 2010. His tenure as Poet Laureate will run for a decade.\n\nArmitage told BBC News that poetry was \"more valuable and more relevant than it's ever been\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to celebrate what's best in poetry and build on the work Andrew Motion and Carol Ann Duffy have done over the last two decades in terms of encouraging and identifying talent, particularly among young people, among whom poetry might be a way forward, an outlet.\"\n\nThe poet laureate is an honorary position that is officially appointed by the Queen, acting on advice from the government.\n\nHe joked that he had \"missed the boat\" to write a poem for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's baby.\n\n\"It's been made very clear to me that although the monarch is my line manager, for want of a better word, there are no expectations or obligations in that direction.\"\n\nHe said he planned to use the profile to establish some sort of project or award for writing about climate change, and that he had a dream - \"very possibly completely unrealistic\" - to set up a National Centre for Poetry.\n\nCulture Secretary Jeremy Wright praised Armitage for his \"witty and profound take on modern life [which] is known and respected across the world\".\n\nMr Wright added: \"He is a very worthy successor to Dame Carol Ann Duffy, who championed the importance of poetry over the past 10 years and made the position relatable to people across the country.\"\n\nI write in praise of air. I was six or five\n\nand I held in my palm the whole of the sky.\n\nI've carried it with me ever since.\n\nLet air be a major god, its being\n\nand touch, its breast-milk always tilted\n\nto the lips. Both dragonfly and Boeing\n\nAmong the jumbled bric-a-brac I keep\n\nand on days when thoughts are fuddled with smog\n\nwith a white handkerchief over its mouth\n\nand cars blow kisses to our lips from theirs\n\nMy first word, everyone's first word, was air.\n\nThere had been reports that Imtiaz Dharker would be offered the post\n\nThere had been reports that Imtiaz Dharker would be offered the post, but had decided to turn it down.\n\nArmitage said he believed there had been \"a lot of discussion behind the scenes\" about whether the job should go to a white man.\n\nHe stressed that he wanted part of his role to be about amplifying the voices of writers from \"diverse and disadvantaged\" backgrounds.\n\nHe added that he did not come from the establishment. \"When I grew up in a terraced house on the side of a hill in West Yorkshire, I did not feel like the chosen one,\" he said.\n\n\"When I was working as a probation officer in Greater Manchester, dragging junkies out of the gutter and sitting across the table from notorious criminals, it did not feel like a life of privilege.\n\n\"I suppose what I'm saying is, I understand to a lesser extent what it means to come from outside the establishment, even if I've arrived at certain established positions, and I need to keep those things in the back of my mind.\"\n\nThe role was established in 1668, and previous Poets Laureate include William Wordsworth, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, John Betjeman and Ted Hughes.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sajid Javid has said he gets abuse \"because of my colour\" from the \"far left\" and \"far right\" of UK politics.\n\nThe home secretary told the BBC's Political Thinking podcast he was criticised either for being \"too brown\" or \"not brown enough\".\n\nHe said he had \"sadly got used to\" it but had tried to fight it \"in every government role I have ever been in\".\n\nMr Javid is among several figures widely touted as contenders to replace Theresa May as Conservative leader.\n\nHe has not confirmed his intention to run.\n\nBuzzfeed recently reported that some Conservative Party members had posted messages on Facebook saying they wanted to prevent Mr Javid taking the top job, suggesting the UK was \"not ready for a Muslim PM\".\n\nThe home secretary, whose parents came to the UK from Pakistan, told Political Thinking presenter Nick Robinson he had come to expect social media abuse.\n\n\"I get it from the far left, including lots of Asians, who say: 'He's not brown enough.' I get it from the right, and the far right in particular, saying: 'He's too brown,'\" Mr Javid said.\n\n\"They believe, whether they are coming from the far left or far right, that someone's colour should define who they are - or their background, their faith, or something, that characteristic, rather than the content of their character.\"\n\nAsked about the posts reported by Buzzfeed, he said: \"I think in Britain, anyone who is capable, regardless of whether they are Muslim, or Hindu for that matter, or any religion - or no religion - can be prime minister.\"\n\n\"There are some forces that wouldn't like that but I think the forces against that are much, much stronger. And if you look around the world and you compare Britain to other leading industrial democratic countries, we are way ahead.\"\n\nHe said he had been to European Council meetings of ministers from different member states at which he had been the only non-white person present.\n\n\"It's not just me. There are representatives of our country that could say the same thing. That says something about our country, something really, really positive and it's something to celebrate.\"\n\nHe said, while he was happy to talk about faith and religion, \"it's not something I define myself by at all and I don't think you should in politics\".\n\nEsther McVey intends to run for the Conservative leadership\n\nHe added: \"It's not something that should be the determinant of what kind of politician they will or will not be.\"\n\nDespite winning a vote of confidence in her leadership last December, Mrs May has come under pressure to name an exit date, after the Commons repeatedly rejected her Brexit withdrawal agreement.\n\nIn March, she pledged to stand down if and when Parliament ratified her Brexit withdrawal agreement with the EU - but she has not made it clear how long she intends to stay if no deal is reached.\n\nInternational Development Secretary Rory Stewart and former Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey have said they will run to replace her.\n\nCommons leader Andrea Leadsom has said she is \"seriously considering\" doing the same.\n\nOther widely mentioned possible contenders include Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Amber Rudd, Dominic Raab, Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss.", "Charcoal-based toothpastes, which claim to whiten teeth, are a \"marketing gimmick\" which could increase the risk of tooth decay and staining, says a review in the British Dental Journal.\n\nThe charcoal products, which are increasingly popular, often contain no fluoride to help protect the teeth.\n\nAnd there is no scientific evidence to back up the claims they make, the authors say.\n\nExcessive brushing with them can do more harm than good, they add.\n\nThey advise people to go to their dentist for advice on bleaching, or whitening, their teeth.\n\nAnd they say it is better to stick to using a regular fluoride-based toothpaste.\n\nCharcoal was first used for oral hygiene purposes in ancient Greece, as a way of removing stains from teeth and disguising unpleasant odours from diseased gums.\n\nDr Joseph Greenwall-Cohen, co-author of the study from the University of Manchester Dental School, said \"more and more shops are selling charcoal-based toothpastes and powders\", including Superdrug, Boots and Tesco, after celebrities had started talking about using them.\n\nBut he said the claims they made had been found to be unproven by a 2017 US review of 50 products.\n\nSome said they were \"anti-bacterial\" or \"anti-fungal\", that they helped with \"tooth whitening\" and would \"reduce tooth decay\".\n\nThe review said people were brushing regularly with the charcoal-based products in the hope that they would offer \"a low cost, quick-fix, tooth-whitening option\".\n\nBut too much brushing could lead to tooth wear and more sensitive teeth and, with few of the products containing fluoride or making the ingredient inactive, any protection from tooth decay was limited, it said.\n\n\"When used too often in people with fillings, it can get into them and become difficult to get out,\" Dr Greenwall-Cohen said.\n\n\"Charcoal particles can also get caught up in the gums and irritate them.\"\n\nHe said charcoal toothpastes and powders were more abrasive than regular toothpastes, potentially posing a risk to the enamel and gums.\n\nThe charcoal contained in today's toothpastes is usually a fine powder form of treated charcoal, the review says.\n\nCharcoal can be made from materials including nutshells, coconut husks, bamboo and peat, and possibly wood and coal.\n\nProf Damien Walmsley, from the British Dental Association, said: \"Charcoal-based toothpastes offer no silver bullets for anyone seeking a perfect smile, and come with real risks attached.\n\n\"So don't believe the hype. Anyone concerned about staining or discoloured teeth that can't be shifted by a change in diet, or improvements to their oral hygiene, should see their dentist.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "How can the number-crunchers get a better idea of the nation's well-being?\n\nAnswering a simple \"How are you?\" with an honest detailed answer may lead to an awkward silence.\n\nAfter all, it's often just longhand for \"hello\". But the government's official number-crunchers at the Office for National Statistics genuinely care about the response.\n\nNext week, they'll publish their statistics into how people across the country are feeling about their lives.\n\nHave they gone soft? Not quite. They've realised that how we've traditionally measured living standards or economic well-being isn't up to scratch.\n\nWe typically turn to GDP - gross domestic product. That's the measure of how much companies, individuals and the government earn/spend/produce (in theory, each of those give the same answer), with an adjustment for exports less imports.\n\nIt measures the nation's net income, but may not tell the whole story.\n\nFirst, there are things which can skew the big picture. Take the first three months of this year, when the economy grew by 0.5%, according to the latest official figures.\n\nAt the time, many companies were busy stockpiling components and finished goods due to fears of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThat makes growth look stronger, but that buzz of activity reflects contingency planning rather than a response to strong demand.\n\nAnd it may mean less of that activity further down the line, making growth look weaker in subsequent quarters.\n\nEven without distortions, GDP may not reflect the individual situation. The fates of government businesses and households will differ hugely in any quarter.\n\nThe ONS provides a breakdown of some details. It has recently delved deeper into households' situations with a well-being dashboard, which looks at things such as incomes, debt and anxiety levels (Spoiler alert: the most recent version shows most things on the rise).\n\nAnd there'll be winners and losers across the country. The Bank of England has also doubled down on work to highlight the fate of different regions.\n\nBut then there's what is left out by GDP: basically, anything unpaid, from volunteering to housework. In other words, items that aren't termed \"market activity\".\n\nEconomist Paul Samuelson joked that if a man marries his maid, GDP falls. It's not so much a joke as a criticism (and not just of outdated gender stereotyping) that statisticians fail to value certain types of work.\n\nThe problem is that without payment, such work is hard to put a price tag on.\n\nFeeling a bit hard done-by aside, how much does that matter, given what policymakers actually use GDP for?\n\nThe Bank of England manages the economy by setting interest rates to influence spending and borrowing, while the government uses the figures to gauge how much tax might come in.\n\nAnd of course, there's a multitude of other factors - from crime to gender equality, biodiversity, access to clean energy and education levels - that hit our current and future living standards.\n\nThese are just a few of the Sustainable Development Goals that the US has spelled out. The ONS has embarked on a marathon task to identify and measure hundreds of indicators to reflect those.\n\nThey are about two-thirds of the way there - and even when they have finessed them, collecting the information on a regular basis may not be quick as gleaning GDP information.\n\nThe number-crunchers acknowledge the need for a more \"holistic\" gauge of our well-being.\n\nGDP is three little letters that represents more than a trillion pounds of crucial and relatively easy to collect information on the financial state of our economy. It isn't perfect, but it still has its uses.", "Prince William said the text messaging service could provide \"instant support\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have teamed up to launch a text messaging service for people experiencing a mental health crisis.\n\nWilliam, Kate, Meghan and Harry have backed the initiative, called Shout, with £3m from their Royal Foundation.\n\nPrince William appealed for more people to work as a volunteer for Shout.\n\nThe service hopes to have 4,000 volunteers by the end of the year.\n\nPrince William said Shout provides \"instant support,\" adding: \"You can have a conversation anywhere and anytime - at school, at home, on the bus, anywhere.\"\n\nDuring a 12-month pilot last year, 1,000 volunteers signed up to the initiative run by the charity Mental Health Innovations and 60,000 conversations took place.\n\nResearch by Shout suggests 85% of the texts received during the pilot were sent by people aged 25 or younger.\n\n\"That is 60,000 moments when people who were feeling scared, frightened and alone were able to use their phone to connect with someone who could support them,\" Prince William said at a launch event at Kensington Palace.\n\nShout aims to help people experiencing problems - from suicidal thoughts to bullying and relationship issues - move from \"crisis to calm\".\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan have also met the volunteers working for Shout\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge said: \"For the last few years, I've been focusing much of my work on the importance of prevention in the earliest years of life to help avoid problems in later life.\n\n\"But, sadly, for so many, they have already reached a crisis situation.\"\n\nKate added that Shout offered crucial support and \"the opportunity to turn lives around\".\n\nShout was researched and developed by the Royal Foundation, a charity the royal couples set up together.\n\nThe service operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week and is modelled on the US-based Crisis Text Line, which was launched in August 2013.\n\nThe volunteers are supported by clinically-trained supervisors. They need to be over 18, complete 25 hours of online training and commit to between two and four hours volunteering each week.\n\nThe Heads Together campaign launched in 2016 by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry aims to end the stigma around mental health\n\nLorraine Heggessey, the Royal Foundation's chief executive officer, said the \"innovative solution\" helps tackle \"one of today's biggest challenges - the increasing number of people needing mental health support\".\n\nThe Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI) at Imperial College London will work with the project to identify trends and develop insights into mental health to shape the provision of services.\n\nThe royals have already been campaigning around the issue and in 2016 launched their Heads Together campaign to end the stigma around mental health.\n\nThe charity running Shout also received a £1.5m grant from BBC Children in Need.\n\nThe BBC Action Line offers help and support information for people affected by mental health or emotional distress", "A replacement for how Britain's emergency services communicate is set to go over budget by at least £3.1bn, a spending watchdog has warned.\n\nThe Home Office has already delayed switching off the existing system by three years to 2022.\n\nBut the National Audit Office (NAO) has raised doubts about whether the project will be ready by then.\n\nMinisters say the new service would result in faster response times and better treatment.\n\nThe Emergency Services Network (ESN) would replace Airwave, a digital radio network introduced in 2000 and used by all 107 police, fire and ambulance services in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nAirwave links control rooms to response teams, as well as to 363 other bodies such as local authorities and train companies.\n\nThe Home Office says ESN will transform what is currently available.\n\nOfficials believe it would allow users access to high-speed mobile data and save money by sharing an existing commercial 4G network.\n\nBut the scathing NAO report suggests the Home Office has \"failed\" and that management of the programme has led to delays, increased costs and poor value for taxpayers.\n\nHome affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the report concludes that key technology is yet to be properly tested, with work not started on upgrading control rooms or providing coverage for police helicopters and air ambulances.\n\nOne NAO criticism is that work has not yet started on upgrading control rooms\n\nThe report also reveals that ministers are expected to approve a decision which will mean that the new system would not be \"as resilient to power cuts\" as the existing one.\n\nNAO head Sir Amyas Morse said success of the new network was \"critical to the day-to-day operations\" of emergency services.\n\nHe said the Home Office \"has already been through one costly reset and is in danger of needing another unless it gets its house in order\".\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said the ESN was \"on track to deliver an ambitious, world-leading, digital communications network\" by 2022, resulting in savings of £200m a year.\n\nBut the NAO's report said although ESN is expected to be cheaper than Airwave in the long run, savings will not outweigh costs until at least 2029.\n\nCriticisms come after ESN was due to be implemented in September 2017, with the transition being complete at the end of this year.\n\nBut the rollout was delayed and the department announced a \"reset\" of its approach, opting to phase in services - rather than launching the whole programme at once.\n\nThe watchdog said the reset had addressed some problems but that \"to date, the Home Office's management of this critical programme has represented poor value for money.\"", "It is a year on from the delivery of more than 1,000 letters to Downing Street, many of them from children, pleading for access to a cystic fibrosis drug, called Orkambi. But there is still no decision on whether it will be made available on the NHS.\n\nAt the time, in May 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May said there was an ongoing dialogue with the drug company Vertex and she hoped for a \"speedy resolution to the negotiations\".\n\nYet, despite months of talks, no agreement has yet been reached.\n\nMore than 10,000 people in the UK have the debilitating genetic lung condition cystic fibrosis.\n\nFor about half of them, a drug called Orkambi could make a big difference - but the NHS says it is too expensive to fund.\n\nSir Andrew Dillon is chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which last month celebrated its 20th anniversary as the body responsible for deciding which drugs offer value for money for the NHS.\n\nHe said in a recent BBC interview: \"In virtually all cases we have managed to find a way through. So I am hopeful that in continuing to talk to Vertex, we can persuade them of the need to think carefully and change their expectations of what the NHS should pay so we can get these new treatments available to patients.\"\n\nOrkambi has been licensed for use in the UK since 2015 - but is only available to a very small number of cystic fibrosis patients, on compassionate grounds, at the company's discretion.\n\nThe Cystic Fibrosis Trust says the drug has been shown to improve lung health by up to 42% and reduce hospitalisations by 61%.\n\nAnnabel's mum says it is \"heartbreaking\" her daughter cannot be treated with Orkambi\n\nThe official list price of the drug is around £105,000 per patient per year. Vertex says that, in practice, the price negotiated with healthcare systems is always lower than that.\n\nIt is available to patients in 10 countries, but NICE says the price quoted by Vertex is too high for the NHS in England.\n\nFour-year-old Annabel has cystic fibrosis. Like other patients, mucus can build up in her lungs and she is vulnerable to chest infections. Her mother Liz Brennan has to organise a complex combination of treatments for Annabel every day.\n\nShe cannot understand why her daughter is unable to get Orkambi on the NHS.\n\nShe said: \"It's heartbreaking. It feels like a clock ticking away - every opportunity that she could have this medication and stop the clock on her CF.\n\n\"It's scary as a parent to think what could happen. \"\n\nThe issue has now got to Westminster, with demonstrations by patients and the issue raised at Prime Minister's Questions. The Health Select Committee is investigating.\n\nThere have been high-level talks between the company, NICE and NHS England, with Health Secretary Matt Hancock involved as well.\n\nSo far no conclusion has been reached.\n\nThere are separate negotiations with the Scottish government and its regulator the Scottish Medicines Consortium. The administrations in Wales and Northern Ireland tend to follow decisions made by NICE.\n\nMike Boyle is one of the few cystic fibrosis patients who is given Orkambi by the manufacturer on compassionate grounds. That is because his condition has got a lot worse.\n\nHe still has to use an inflatable vest to free up his lungs, but he says the drug has transformed his life:\n\n\"I can see how it's made a difference to me. I was desperate to get it really.\n\n\"I'm always a positive person with cystic fibrosis. I always try and fight - my saying is 'I don't let CF win'.\n\n\"I control CF, not CF control me, as best as I can.\n\n\"That's been really hard over the last two-and-a-half years really.\n\n\"But now I feel that I've turned the corner and this drug has let me have my life back again.\"", "Friday night's episode of TV panel show Have I Got News For You was pulled by the BBC as it risked falling foul of its pre-European election rules.\n\nThe BBC said it was \"inappropriate to feature political party leaders\" in an election period as it did not allow for \"equal representation\" of views.\n\nHat Trick Productions, which makes the show, said it \"tried everything\" to get the BBC to broadcast the episode.\n\nIt added it was told of the decision \"late this [Friday] afternoon\".\n\nAn episode of Would I Lie to You was shown on BBC One instead. European Parliament elections are due to take place in the UK on 23 May.\n\nOn Thursday, Ms Allen - who left the Conservatives to join the recently-formed party - tweeted to say she was taking part in the programme, which regularly features politicians.\n\nBut less than half an hour before the episode was due to be broadcast, the HIGNFY Twitter account announced the cancellation.\n\nIt wrote: \"Sorry everyone. The BBC have pulled tonight's edition of #HIGNFY - no, we didn't book Danny Baker. We booked Heidi Allen, a member of a party no-one knows the name of (not even the people in it), because the Euro elections, which nobody wants, may or may not be happening. Sorry.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Heidi Allen MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe move prompted a strong reaction on social media, with some questioning why the show was cancelled but leader of the newly-established Brexit Party, Nigel Farage, recently appeared on the BBC's political debate programme, Question Time.\n\nIn a letter to the BBC, Change UK asked for a full explanation, claiming the broadcaster is giving Mr Farage more favourable coverage.\n\nThe BBC has been contacted for a response but earlier, the broadcaster's live political programmes editor, Rob Burley, commented in a tweet: \"A show can't, in an election period, only feature one party in a run of shows.\"\n\nUnder BBC editorial policy guidelines, programmes are expected to ensure parties are given proportionate coverage over an appropriate period of time.\n\nAn earlier statement from the BBC read: \"The BBC has specific editorial guidelines that apply during election periods.\n\n\"Because of this it would be inappropriate to feature political party leaders on entertainment programmes during this short election period, which does not allow for equal representation to be achieved.\"\n\nThe broadcaster said it would look to air the episode at a later date.", "Last updated on .From the section Europa League\n\nEden Hazard scored the winning penalty as Chelsea edged past Eintracht Frankfurt 4-3 on penalties to set up an all-English Europa League final against Arsenal.\n\nHazard, who could have played his final game for the Blues at Stamford Bridge, converted after Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga had saved from both Martin Hinteregger and Goncalo Paciencia.\n\nChelsea will now meet Arsenal in the final in Baku on 29 May and the result means both the Champions League and Europa League final will be played between English clubs this season - the first time all four finalists in Europe's top two competitions have come from one nation.\n\nWith the score 1-1 after the first leg, Chelsea took the lead in the second when Ruben Loftus-Cheek coolly stroked into the far corner in the 28th minute, but the night was far from straight-forward.\n\nFrankfurt levelled the tie four minutes after half-time when Luka Jovic slotted past Arrizabalaga after being played in by Mijat Gacinovic.\n\nJovic's goal punished Chelsea for a sloppy start to the second half and the Blues continued to be wasteful as Stamford Bridge became increasingly restless.\n\nIn extra time the Germans twice had efforts cleared off the line with David Luiz first denying Sebastian Haller and then Davide Zappacosta clearing Haller again at a corner.\n\nChelsea thought they had won it late in extra time but Cesar Azpilicueta, who later missed first in the penalty shootout, had a goal ruled out when the referee deemed he had bundled the ball out of Frankfurt keeper Kevin Trapp's hands.\n• None Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri unhappy about US trip before Europa League final\n\nThe shootout was Chelsea's first since they lost the Carabao Cup final to Manchester City on penalties in February.\n\nThat game was overshadowed by Arrizabalaga's refusal to be substituted - manager Maurizio Sarri wanted to bring on substitute goalkeeper Willy Caballero for the shootout - but at Stamford Bridge the Spaniard proved to be the hero.\n\nAfter Azpilicueta missed first, Arrizabalaga remarkably kept out Eintracht's fourth penalty by trapping the ball under his shin as he stood still when Hinteregger went for power and then dived low to his right to palm away the visitors' fifth.\n\nThat left Hazard with the opportunity to complete the win and the Belgian delivered - sending Trapp the wrong way, tucking the ball into the corner.\n• None Arsenal and Chelsea given 6,000 tickets each for final\n• None I don't know if final will be my last Chelsea game - Hazard\n\nHazard has been strongly linked with a move to Real Madrid this summer and if he does depart the game will be his final at Stamford Bridge after seven years at the club.\n\nThere were no waves to the crowd or clear indications he will leave in the summer and when asked whether the final would be his last game for the club he said \"in my mind I do not know yet\".\n\nIf he does leave in the summer it would be a fitting way for him to finish in west London.\n\nThe win also means Chelsea have a final chance to earn silverware in Sarri's first season in charge.\n\nLike the campaign as a whole, the night was far from smooth for the Italian and had difficult moments.\n\nHe become increasingly frantic on the touchline as his side lost control of the game in the second half and his decision to remove goal scorer Loftus-Cheek when bringing on Ross Barkley late on was loudly booed by the Chelsea fans.\n\nBut for all of the season's problems, including the Arrizabalaga affair and protests from fans against his style of play, Chelsea are quietly achieving their pre-season aims at the end of the season.\n\nLast weekend they secured a top four finish and Champions League qualification through their league position and are now into their first European final since winning the Europa League in 2013.\n\nHad either of their efforts cleared off the line in extra time gone in, it would have been hard to argue Eintracht Frankfurt were not worthy finalists.\n\nOver the two legs the German side, fancied by few at the start of the competition, had opportunities to seal a first European final since 1980.\n\nRather than sitting back after Jovic's equaliser - the highly sought after 21-year-old's 10th Europa League goal of the season - they continued to attack Chelsea in the second half and the tension around Stamford Bridge was clear.\n\nSubstitute Haller should have scored his first chance in extra time but failed to make proper contact with his volley, kicking the ball into the ground with his studs rather than side-footing into the net, and that allowed Luiz to clear.\n\nThe visitors were roared on by their vocal travelling support, some of whom were in tears at the end of the penalty shootout.\n\nDespite the disappointment those fans chanted in support of their team long after the final whistle as the players and backroom staff emotionally came together and linked arms in front of the away end.\n• None Chelsea have won each of their last four penalty shootouts at Stamford Bridge, with this their first in European competition at home.\n• None This is the first time that all four places in the Champions League/European Cup and Europa League/UEFA Cup finals will be filled by one country.\n• None Chelsea have reached their first major European final since the 2013 Europa League, when they beat Benfica 2-1 under manager Rafael Benitez.\n• None Chelsea have never lost a home game against German opponents in all competitions (W7 D3).\n• None Eintracht Frankfurt have only lost one of their last nine away Europa League games (W5 D3). The German side have scored in all seven of their games on the road in the competition this season.\n• None Luka Jovic has scored 10 goals in the Europa League this season; no player has netted more (level with Olivier Giroud).\n• None Chelsea forward Eden Hazard has had a hand in 24 goals in 26 appearances at Stamford Bridge in 2018-19 (13 goals, 11 assists).\n• None Ruben Loftus-Cheek has been directly involved in nine goals in his last 14 appearances for Chelsea (4 goals, 5 assists); as many as in his previous 45 games for the Blues.\n\n'We got into trouble' - Sarri reaction\n\nSpeaking to BT Sport, Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri said: \"I think we played a very good first half and then we got into trouble after the break. We conceded a goal in 10 minutes of panic.\n\n\"We were better in the last part of the match but we were tired in extra time and it was difficult.\n\n\"We started with three injuries and picked up two more during the match after we lost Andreas Christensen and Ruben Loftus-Cheek, so it wasn't easy but we are now in the final.\"\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(4), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(3). Eden Hazard (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Gonçalo Paciência (Eintracht Frankfurt) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(3), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(3). David Luiz (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Martin Hinteregger (Eintracht Frankfurt) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, left footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(2), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(3). Jorginho (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(1), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(3). Jonathan de Guzmán (Eintracht Frankfurt) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! César Azpilicueta (Chelsea) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(1), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(2). Luka Jovic (Eintracht Frankfurt) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(1), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(1). Ross Barkley (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1, Eintracht Frankfurt 1(1). Sébastien Haller (Eintracht Frankfurt) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Offside, Eintracht Frankfurt. Danny da Costa tries a through ball, but Sébastien Haller is caught offside.\n• None Sébastien Haller (Eintracht Frankfurt) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Pedro (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Eden Hazard. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Lee Pollard and Sharon Patterson were found guilty of misconduct in public office in March\n\nTwo detectives whose laziness scuppered child abuse investigations have been jailed.\n\nSharon Patterson, 49, and Lee Pollard, 47, forged documents and misled Essex Police supervisors about the progress of cases, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nThe detective constables, who were having an affair at the time, had both been found guilty of misconduct in public office.\n\nPatterson was sentenced to 18 months and Pollard was jailed for two years.\n\nJudge Nigel Lickley QC told the pair: \"You failed the victims.\"\n\nHe said they had committed \"multiple acts of dishonesty\" while others who had been wrongly blamed had had their reputations \"impugned\".\n\n\"You betrayed the public's faith and confidence in you,\" he said.\n\nPollard and Patterson's behaviour came to light in a performance review of the child abuse investigation unit where they worked.\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were told Patterson had ditched work to get a manicure and have a four-hour lunch at a Chinese restaurant with her married lover Pollard.\n\nHe had destroyed photographs found at the home of a suspect accused of sexually abusing a boy, the court heard.\n\nWhen Patterson forged a document to shut down one investigation, Pollard described her as his \"deceptive partner in crime\" in flirtatious emails, jurors heard.\n\nThe couple later moved in together and were living in Colchester.\n\nProsecutor Alexandra Healy QC said they appeared to be motivated by \"a combination of laziness, self-preservation and a cynical disdain for complainants\".\n\nThe couple denied wrongdoing between 2011 and 2014, saying administrative chaos at the unit was to blame.\n\nPatterson was sacked last month for gross misconduct, while Pollard was dismissed in 2015 for an unrelated matter.\n\nPatterson's lawyer Jacqueline Carey said the mother-of-three was now virtually penniless, with career prospects that were \"limited to say the least\".\n\nThe offences came to light following a four-year corruption investigation into the north Essex child abuse unit.\n\nThirty officers, some now retired, were investigated and 296 child abuse cases looked at, of which 55 were referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nPollard and Patterson were the only ones to face criminal charges, though a third officer was sacked for gross misconduct last year.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said the force would \"never lose sight of ... a number of victims that we let down\".\n\n\"We hope that they accept our apologies but more importantly we hope they and the public of Essex accept our reassurance that once these issues came to light, we acted immediately to tackle them.\"\n\nIOPC regional director Sarah Green said: \"It is inexcusable for any officer to deliberately fail in their duties, [but] it feels particularly reprehensible that officers with responsibility for investigating child abuse investigation allegations behaved in a manner that risked allowing child abusers to go unpunished.\n\n\"Survivors of child abuse must have confidence in their police force and feel secure that their allegations will be properly and thoroughly handled.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Adrian Edmondson, who is known for starring in anarchic TV comedies The Young Ones and Bottom, is joining the cast of EastEnders.\n\nThe comic actor will be seen in the BBC One soap as Daniel Cook, a new love interest for Jean Slater, played by Gillian Wright.\n\nThe BBC said Edmondson had already started filming, with his first appearance to air later this summer.\n\nHis character is described as \"charming and with a wicked sense of humour\".\n\nHe will be \"the perfect antidote for Jean as she continues her treatment for ovarian cancer\", producers added.\n\nThe 62-year-old actor said in a statement: \"There were only 15 boys on my drama course at Manchester Uni, and I'll be the third to appear in EastEnders - so I feel it's a kind of tradition! The other two being Tom Watt [Lofty Holloway] and Paul Bradley [Nigel Bates].\"\n\nLeft-right: Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson on the set of The Young Ones in 1982\n\nAfter breaking through as a stand-up comedian in the 1980s, Edmondson found wider fame playing Vyvyan in The Young Ones and later as the manic Eddie Hitler in Bottom, which he also wrote with co-star Rik Mayall.\n\nSince then, Edmondson has taken on more sedate roles in the likes of Holby City, Bancroft and War and Peace, as well as fronting a series about the Yorkshire Dales for ITV.\n\nHe is the latest comedian to move into the soap world, following in the footsteps of the likes of Bradley Walsh, Les Dennis and Vic Reeves.\n\nEastEnders executive producer Jon Sen said: \"Adrian's a phenomenal talent who will bring his unique blend of intelligence, warmth and humour to the role of Daniel.\n\n\"We're all over the moon he's coming to Walford and can't wait for this love story to hit screens later this year.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Birgitte Kallestad's family are calling on Norway to make rabies vaccinations compulsory for citizens travelling to the Philippines\n\nA Norwegian woman has died after contracting rabies from a stray puppy in the Philippines.\n\nBirgitte Kallestad, 24, was on holiday with friends when they found the puppy on a street, her family said in a statement.\n\nThe puppy is thought to have infected her when it bit her after they took it back to their resort.\n\nShe fell ill soon after returning to Norway, and died on Monday at the hospital where she worked.\n\nIt is the first rabies-related death in Norway for more than 200 years.\n\nHer family said Ms Kallestad had sterilised the \"small scrapes\" given by the puppy as she played with it, but sought no more medical attention.\n\n\"Our dear Birgitte loved animals,\" said her family. \"Our fear is that this will happen to others who have a warm heart like her\".\n\nRabies can cause a life-threatening infection of the brain and nervous system in humans.\n\nThe disease is nearly always fatal without vaccinations and kills thousands of people every year, mostly in Asia and Africa.\n\nPre-exposure vaccines are available to help with prevention. Post-exposure vaccinations are also recommended for anyone who may have come into contact with a rabid animal.\n\nRabies vaccines are not compulsory under Norwegian law, but Norway's Institute of Public Health recommends them for certain types of visits to affected countries, including the Philippines.\n\n\"We are very sympathetic with the family,\" said Siri Feruglio, a Senior Medical Officer at the Institute, in an interview with the BBC.\n\n\"It's really important to stress that even if you've been vaccinated before you travel, if you do have contact [with a potentially infected animal] you need to go to a local health clinic for a second vaccination.\n\n\"This is a disease that's endemic in 150 countries and it's a huge health problem.\"", "A man has been arrested and charged in connection with the death of Kilmarnock woman Emma Faulds.\n\nThe 39-year-old was last seen in Monkton in Ayrshire on Sunday 28 April and her disappearance had prompted a major police search.\n\nHer body has not been found.\n\nPolice have said a report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal. The man, who is also 39, is expected to appear at Ayr Sheriff Court later.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A UN report says six migrants died every day in 2018 trying to cross the Mediterranean (file image)\n\nAt least 65 migrants have died after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia, the UN refugee agency says.\n\nSixteen people were rescued, UNHCR said in a statement.\n\nSurvivors say the boat left Zuwara in Libya on Thursday and ran into trouble during strong waves.\n\nAbout 164 people died on the route between Libya and Europe in the first four months of 2019, UNHCR figures show.\n\nThe incident is thought to be one of the deadliest shipwrecks involving migrants since the start of the year.\n\nThe survivors were brought to the coast by the Tunisian Navy and are awaiting permission to disembark. One person has been transferred to hospital for medical treatment, the UNHCR says.\n\nThe navy dispatched a ship as soon as it heard about the incident and came across a fishing boat picking up survivors, a statement from the Tunisian defence ministry said.\n\nThe passengers are understood to have been from sub-Saharan Africa.\n\n\"This is a tragic and terrible reminder of the risks still faced by those who attempt to cross the Mediterranean,\" the UNHCR's Vincent Cochetel said in a statement.\n\nSome reports put the number on board higher so the toll could rise.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Women and children are being held in camps close to fierce fighting in Libya's capital Tripoli\n\nThousands of migrants attempt to cross the Mediterranean to Europe every year, and Libya is a key departure point.\n\nThose who make the journey often travel in poorly maintained and overcrowded ships, and many have died.\n\nBut since mid-2017, the number of migrant journeys has declined dramatically.\n\nThe decline is largely because Italy has engaged Libyan forces to stop migrants from setting off or to return them to Libya if found at sea - a policy condemned by human rights organisations.\n\nIn the first three months of 2019, some 15,900 refugees and migrants arrived in Europe via the three Mediterranean routes - a 17% decrease on the same period in 2018.\n\nIn January, a UN report said six migrants died crossing the Mediterranean every day in 2018.\n• None Who is responsible for migrants at sea?", "Amazon entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has unveiled a mock-up of a new lunar lander spacecraft that aims to take equipment and humans to the Moon by 2024.\n\nThe reusable Blue Moon vehicle will carry scientific instruments, satellites and rovers.\n\nIt will feature a new rocket engine called BE-7 that can blast 10,000lb (4,535kg) of thrust.\n\n\"It's time to go back to the Moon, this time to stay,\" said Mr Bezos.\n\nMr Bezos presented the Moon goals of his space exploration company Blue Origin at the Washington Convention Center in Washington DC, to an audience consisting of potential customers and officials from Nasa.\n\nThe Blue Moon lunar lander comes loaded with enough fuel to get from Earth to the Moon.\n\nIt can deliver payloads to the lunar surface, deploy up to four self-driving rovers, and launch satellites to orbit the Moon.\n\nA pressurised vehicle for humans is also envisaged.\n\nBlue Moon will weigh 33,000lb when loaded with fuel on lift-off from Earth, which will decrease to about 7,000lb when it is about to land on the Moon.\n\nThe aim is for Blue Moon to land on the south pole of the Moon, where ice deposits have been found in craters.\n\nThe water derived from that ice can be broken down to produce hydrogen, which could then fuel up the spacecraft for further missions across the solar system.\n\nIn March, the Trump administration announced that it intended to return US astronauts to the Moon by the end of 2024.\n\nA child from Blue Origin's \"Club for the Future\" helps Jeff Bezos unveil the BE-7 rocket engine\n\nIn his speech, Mr Bezos said that Blue Origin would be able to meet Trump's deadline, but \"only because\" the firm had begun designing the lunar lander in 2016.\n\nMr Bezos wanted to improve access to the Moon, because he has a wider vision of a future where people are able to live and work in space, which is not possible today.\n\n\"The price of admission to do interesting things in space right now is just too high because there's no infrastructure,\" he said.\n\nTo illustrate this, he showed pictures of self-sustaining space colonies that could support people, animals and greenery - somewhat similar to the concepts developed by Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill.", "In 2015, Iran agreed a long-term deal on its nuclear programme with a group of world powers known as the P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.\n\nIt came after years of tension over Iran's alleged efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. Iran insisted that its nuclear programme was entirely peaceful, but the international community did not believe that.\n\nUnder the accord, Iran agreed to limit its sensitive nuclear activities and allow in international inspectors in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.\n\nHere is what was meant to happen according to the plan, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).\n\nIran's uranium stockpile will be reduced by 98% to 300kg for 15 years\n\nUranium can have nuclear-related uses once it has been refined, or enriched. This is achieved by increasing the content of its most fissile isotopes, U-235, through the use of centrifuges - machines which spin at supersonic speeds.\n\nLow-enriched uranium, which typically has a 3-5% concentration of U-235, can be used to produce fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. Highly enriched uranium has a purity of 20% or more and is used in research reactors. Weapons-grade uranium is 90% enriched or more.\n\nIn July 2015, Iran had two uranium enrichment plants - Natanz and Fordo - and was operating almost 20,000 centrifuges.\n\nUnder the JCPOA, the country was limited to installing no more than 5,060 of the oldest and least efficient centrifuges at Natanz until 2026 - 10 years after the deal's \"implementation day\" in January 2016.\n\nIran's stockpile of enriched uranium was also reduced by 98% to 300kg (660lbs), a figure that must not be exceeded until 2031. It must also keep the stockpile's level of enrichment at 3.67%.\n\nIn addition, research and development must take place only at Natanz and be limited until 2024.\n\nNo enrichment is permitted at Fordo until 2031, and the underground facility must be converted into a nuclear, physics and technology centre. The 1,044 centrifuges left at the site are allowed to produce radioisotopes for use in medicine, agriculture, industry and science.\n\nIran is redesigning the Arak reactor so it cannot produce any weapons-grade plutonium\n\nIran had been building a heavy-water nuclear facility near the town of Arak. Spent fuel from a heavy-water reactor contains plutonium suitable for a nuclear bomb.\n\nWorld powers had originally wanted Arak dismantled because of the potential military use. Under an interim nuclear deal in 2013, Iran agreed not to commission or fuel the reactor.\n\nUnder the JCPOA, Iran said it would redesign the reactor so it could not produce any weapons-grade plutonium, and that all spent fuel would be sent out of the country as long as the modified reactor existed.\n\nIran must also not build additional heavy-water reactors or accumulate any excess heavy water until 2031.\n\nIran is required to allow IAEA inspectors to access any site they deem suspicious\n\nAt the time of the agreement, then-US President Barack Obama's administration expressed confidence that the JCPOA would prevent Iran from building a nuclear programme in secret. Iran, it said, had committed to \"extraordinary and robust monitoring, verification, and inspection\".\n\nInspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the global nuclear watchdog, were tasked with continuously monitoring Iran's declared nuclear sites and verifying that no fissile material is moved covertly to a secret location to build a bomb.\n\nIran also agreed to implement the Additional Protocol to their IAEA Safeguards Agreement, which allows inspectors to access any site anywhere in the country they deem suspicious.\n\nUntil 2031, Iran will have 24 days to comply with any IAEA access request. If it refuses, an eight-member Joint Commission - including Iran - will rule on the issue. It can decide on punitive steps, including the reimposition of sanctions. A majority vote by the commission suffices.\n\nA UN ban on the import of ballistic missile technology will remain in place for up to eight years\n\nBefore July 2015, Iran had enough enriched uranium and centrifuges to create eight to 10 bombs, according to the then Obama administration.\n\nUS experts estimated at the time that if Iran had decided to rush to make a bomb, it would take two to three months until it had enough 90%-enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon - the so-called \"break-out time\".\n\nThe Obama administration said the JCPOA would remove the key elements Iran would need to create a bomb and increase its break-out time to one year or more.\n\nIran also agreed not to engage in activities, including research and development, which could contribute to the development of a nuclear bomb.\n\nIn December 2015, the IAEA's board of governors voted to end its decade-long investigation into the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear programme.\n\nThe agency's then-director-general, Yukiya Amano, said the report concluded that until 2003 Iran had conducted \"a co-ordinated effort\" on \"a range of activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device\". Iran continued with some activities until 2009, but after that there were \"no credible indications\" of weapons development, he added.\n\nIran also agreed to the continuation of a UN ban on its imports and exports of conventional arms until 2020. Restrictions on its import of ballistic missile technology will remain in place until 2023.\n\nThe nuclear deal allowed Iran to sell crude oil again on the international market\n\nSanctions previously imposed by the UN, US and EU in an attempt to force Iran to halt uranium enrichment crippled its economy, costing the country more than $160bn (£119bn) in oil revenue from 2012 to 2016 alone.\n\nUnder the deal, all nuclear-related sanctions on Iran were lifted and the country was able to resume selling oil on international markets and using the global financial system for trade. It also gained access to more than $100bn in assets frozen overseas.\n\nHowever, in May 2018, then-US President Donald Trump abandoned the JCPOA, calling it \"defective at its core\". He reinstated all US sanctions on Iran that November as part of a \"maximum pressure\" campaign to compel the country to negotiate a replacement that would also curb its ballistic missile programme and its involvement in regional conflicts.\n\nBut Iran refused and saw its economy plunge into recession and the value of its currency fall to record lows, which in turn caused inflation to soar to the highest level in decades.\n\nWhen the sanctions were tightened in 2019, Iran began breaching the deal's restrictions, arguing that the JCPOA allowed one party to \"cease performing its commitments... in whole or in part\" in the event of \"significant non-performance\" by others.\n\nBy November 2021, Iran had amassed a stockpile of enriched uranium that was many times larger than permitted, including at least 17.7kg (39lb) of material enriched to 60% purity - just below the level needed for a bomb. It had also resumed enrichment activity at Fordo; installed more centrifuges, and of a more advanced type, than allowed; and taken steps in the production of enriched uranium metal, which is a key material in nuclear weapons.\n\nIran had also significantly curtailed access for international inspectors by ceasing implementation of the Additional Protocol of its IAEA Safeguards Agreement.\n\nTalks to save the JCPOA and bring Iran back into compliance began in May 2021, after Joe Biden succeeded Mr Trump as US president. He says the US will rejoin and lift the sanctions if Iran reverses its breaches. His Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, says the US must make the first move.\n\nIf the negotiations were to fail and Iran was confirmed to have violated the deal, all UN sanctions would automatically \"snap back\" in place for 10 years, with the possibility of a five-year extension.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir John Gillen has delivered his final report to the Department of Justice\n\nImprovements in how Northern Ireland deals with serious sex offence cases are possible within \"weeks and months\", according to a retired judge.\n\nSir John Gillen was speaking after delivering a final report to the Department of Justice.\n\nIt follows public consultation on recommendations he made last year, including controls on who attends rape trials, which will now be implemented.\n\nHe said 75% of the changes do not require legislation.\n\nHis review was launched last year, after former Ulster Rugby players Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding were found not guilty of rape at a high-profile trial.\n\nStuart Olding (left) and Paddy Jackson were cleared of rape charges after a nine-week trial in Belfast\n\nPublic access to trials involving serious sexual offences will be largely confined to close family members of the victim and the accused, although the media will still be allowed in.\n\nOther measures include preventing \"improper cross-examination about previous sexual history\" and new legislation \"to manage the dangers created by social media\".\n\nThe Department of Justice has now set up a special group to \"oversee the implementation of the Gillen Review\".\n\nIt said he had produced a \"groundbreaking report\".\n\n\"I am confident, given the level of public expectation, the department will carry out the thrust of my recommendations in a timely and efficient manner,\" Sir John said.\n\n\"The number of responses I had illustrates the genie is out of the bottle.\n\n\"The public are now aware of the flaws in the system. I do not think that the genie can be put back in the bottle.\"\n\nSir John has accepted that some of his recommendations will have to wait until there is an executive at Stormont\n\nGiven the absence of a devolved assembly, he accepted there would be a delay in delivering a quarter of what he proposed, but other things \"can be done fairly quickly in terms of weeks and months\".\n\nSir John and his review team had contact with more than 200 organisations and individuals to hear first-hand accounts of the criminal justice process.\n\nThey also examined systems and processes in 15 countries across Europe, the United States, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.", "Delays in introducing a new radio system for emergency services in England, Wales and Scotland may cost taxpayers £475m a year, MPs have said.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee said the new Emergency Services Network system could require more testing beyond its scheduled start date of December 2019.\n\nContracts for the old network may have to be extended, costing hundreds of millions of pounds, it said.\n\nMinisters said the technology would be the \"most advanced of its kind\".\n\nCurrently the 105 police, fire and ambulance services in England, Scotland and Wales communicate using the radio network Airwave - contracts for which expire in two years.\n\nBut the Public Accounts Committee said the system due as the replacement, ESN, was \"not yet proven\" and probably would not be ready on time.\n\nThe MPs said the Home Office had not budgeted for such a lengthy delay and that it must put detailed contingency plans in place.\n\nIt has also called on ministers to address what it says are \"real security concerns\" about how well ESN will work on underground systems in London, Glasgow and elsewhere.\n\nCommittee chairwoman Meg Hillier said: \"It is critical for public safety and achieving value for money that the government has a firm grasp of the implications of delays in its timetable and a costed plan to tackle them.\n\n\"We will expect it to demonstrate real progress in this area when it reports back to us later this year.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman said ESN was the most advanced communications system of its kind and would deliver \"significant savings for the taxpayer\".\n\nHe added: \"The timescales are ambitious because we want to get the most from technology that will help save lives, but we are clear that no risks will be taken with public safety and the existing Airwave system will continue until transition on to ESN is completed.\"", "A group of cancer patients have launched a hard-hitting photographic campaign in response to “pink and fluffy” adverts by some cancer charities which they say “don’t tell the truth” about the brutal reality of the disease.\n\nTrue Cancer Bodies was set up by Vicky Saynor after she saw a campaign video from the Breast Cancer Now charity, which she says used insensitive language and images.\n\nBreast Cancer Now has since apologised and has removed the video from its social media channels. But Vicky says more work needs to be done to show the reality of living with cancer.", "Fake German heiress Anna Sorokin is led away after being sentenced\n\nA German woman who posed as a billionaire heiress to swindle New York hotels and banks has been sentenced to at least four years in prison.\n\n\"I apologise for the mistakes I made,\" Anna Sorokin, 28, said shortly before she learned her fate.\n\nShe was found guilty in April of theft of services and grand larceny, having stolen more than $200,000 (£153,580).\n\nSorokin, who rejected a plea deal, may face deportation to Germany.\n\nShe was sentenced on Thursday at Manhattan Supreme Court to between four and 12 years in prison. The actual amount of time she will serve behind bars will depend on factors such as her behaviour.\n\nSorokin will receive credit for time already served, having been in custody at New York's notorious Rikers Island jail since October 2017.\n\nAnna Sorokin (right), then known as Anna Delvey, at a fashion event at a New York hotel in 2014\n\nShe was also fined $24,000 and ordered to pay restitution of about $199,000.\n\nAt the hearing, Judge Diane Kiesel rejected the defence lawyers' claim that Sorokin was merely trying to make it in New York, in the words of the Frank Sinatra song about the city.\n\nThe judge said the Sorokin case instead reminded her of the Bruce Springsteen song, Blinded by the Light.\n\n\"She was blinded by the glitter and glamour of New York City,\" said Judge Kiesel, according to Buzzfeed.\n\nThe judge reportedly also said she was \"stunned\" by the depths of Sorokin's deception.\n\nUnder her assumed name Anna Delvey, Sorokin falsely claimed she had a multi-million dollar trust fund at her disposal, as she hired a private jet, attended elite parties, and lived in a luxury New York hotel. She maintained the scam for almost four years.\n\nMeanwhile, prosecutors said, Sorokin had \"not a cent to her name\". Her father is reportedly a former trucker, who runs a heating-and-cooling business.\n\nIn court, her defence attorney, Todd Spodek, claimed that Sorokin had been \"buying time\" as she worked to pay back her debts. He maintained that Sorokin had no criminal intent but was instead an ambitious entrepreneur.\n\nAccording to court documents, Sorokin used her phony persona as a German heiress with $60m in assets to try to get a loan of $22m for a foundation in her name. She presented forged bank statements and would deposit bad cheques, then withdraw the money before they bounced.\n\nProsecutors say she went on a one-month shopping spree, spending $55,000 on a luxury hotel, high-end fashion purchases, personal trainer sessions, and Apple, among other personal expenses.\n\nAssistant District Attorney Catherine McCaw said Sorokin had shown \"almost no remorse\".\n\nFollowing a month-long trial, a jury convicted Sorokin on eight counts.\n\nBut she was found not guilty of attempted grand larceny and stealing more than $60,000 from a friend who paid for a luxury holiday in Morocco.\n\nSorokin was described as a con artist\n\nEven up to her sentencing, Sorokin appeared intent on carefully crafting her image.\n\nShe worked with a stylist, Anastasia Walker, to create her courtroom look during the trial.\n\nThe initial story about Sorokin's swindling by New York Magazine was swiftly optioned by Netflix.\n\nThe production has been linked with Shonda Rhimes, who created TV hit shows Grey's Anatomy and Scandal.", "A wild bobcat perched high on a post by a busy road in the US state of Florida was encouraged down by workers in a cherry picker truck who used an extendable tool to tap it continuously on the head.\n\nThe cat, which was sat atop the pole used to support power cables in Collier County, eventually climbed down before leaving the scene in a hurry.\n\nThe power had been switched off to prevent electrocution, local media reported.", "Critics warn that children risk becoming \"collateral damage\" if benefits are withdrawn\n\nThe maximum financial penalty for benefit claimants is to be cut, Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has announced.\n\nSanctions can be imposed on claimants who do not meet conditions such as attending job centre meetings.\n\nIn some \"high level\" cases, such as a failure to take up paid work, people can lose benefits for three years.\n\nMs Rudd said this maximum penalty will now be cut to six months, adding that she wanted a system which was \"fair\".\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions previously insisted its scheme was \"reasonable\".\n\nA report released by the Work and Pensions Committee in November 2018 found single parents, care leavers and people with disabilities and health conditions were \"disproportionately vulnerable\" to and affected by sanctions.\n\nAs well as missing appointments, sanctions can currently be imposed for failure to show efforts to find work, and can see claimants lose all of their jobseeker's allowance or universal credit standard allowance.\n\nLast year's report also warned that children risked becoming \"collateral damage\" as the withdrawal of parents' benefits harmed their welfare.\n\nSpeaking at the Recruitment and Employment Confederation in London, Ms Rudd said: \"In the future, the longest length of sanctions will be six months.\n\nAmber Rudd said policies should be compassionate and work for everybody\n\n\"I am undertaking an evaluation of the effectiveness of universal credit sanctions to see whether other improvements can be made.\n\n\"I feel very strongly about making sure that the policies of this department are fair, compassionate and that they work for everybody.\"\n\nShadow work and pensions secretary Margaret Greenwood said Labour had long been pressing for the government to scrap its \"punitive\" sanctions regime.\n\n\"Six months is still a very long time to leave someone without any income at all. It is not just the individual who is affected, but their family too,\" she said.\n\n\"There is clear evidence that sanctions and excessive conditionality do not help people into sustained employment.\n\n\"They also cause stress and anxiety for many and are one of the key reasons that people ask for help at food banks.\"", "Councils in England are calling for tougher sentences for fly-tippers - as new analysis shows nobody has faced the maximum penalty at magistrates' court since new guidelines were introduced five years ago.\n\nFly-tipping incidents in England have risen by nearly 40% in five years, to almost one million in 2017/18.\n\nThe LGA wants the government to review its guidance to courts on the issue.\n\nHe added that the practice is \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nMinisters introduced new sentencing guidelines in 2014, with a £50,000 fine or 12 months in prison the maximum punishment, if a case is dealt with at a magistrates' court.\n\nIf a case is passed to the crown court, they can issue an unlimited fine, as well as a two-year prison sentence, or five years if the waste is hazardous.\n\nThere were 997,553 recorded fly-tipping incidents in England in 2017/18 - a 39.6% rise from 714,637 in 2012/13, according to the the LGA analysis of statistics from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).\n\nCouncils can issue fixed penalty notices for more minor offences of fly-tipping, but they say they have less money available to enforce such powers because of pressure on their budgets.\n\nOverall, councils took action on 494,034 incidents in 2017/2018, up by just under 70,000 cases in five years.\n\nMartin Tett, chairman of the LGA's environment board, said: \"Fly-tipping is unsightly, unacceptable and inexcusable environmental vandalism. Councils are doing everything they can to try and deter fly-tippers.\n\n\"However, prosecuting them often requires time-consuming and laborious investigations, with a high threshold of proof, at a time when councils face significant budget pressures.\"\n\nHe argued that \"consistent and hard-hitting prosecutions are needed to deter rogue operators and fly-tippers\" and that \"councils also need adequate funding to investigate incidents and ensure fly-tippers do not go unpunished\".\n\nThe Defra spokesman said: \"We have strengthened local authorities' enforcement powers and made it easier for vehicles suspected of being used for fly-tipping to be stopped, searched and seized.\n\n\"Our actions are delivering results, with no increase in the number of incidents over 2017/18 for the first time in five years.\n\n\"The maximum penalty on indictment for fly-tipping is imprisonment of up to five years or a potentially unlimited fine.\"", "Scotland Yard said early investigations suggested that a \"blank firing handgun\" had been discharged\n\nA gun was fired outside a mosque in east London during Ramadan prayers.\n\nPolice were called to reports of a \"masked\" man with a firearm entering the Seven Kings Masjid in Ilford at 22:45 BST on Thursday.\n\nWorshippers ushered him out of the building and a gunshot - thought to have come from a \"blank-firing handgun\" - was then heard.\n\nNo injuries or damage were caused, the Met said, and it did not believe it was terrorism-related.\n\nScotland Yard said it believed it stemmed from an earlier incident in a street close to the mosque off High Road.\n\nWorshipper Ibraheem Hussain, 19, described hearing the gunshot about half an hour after prayers began.\n\n\"We were upstairs in the classrooms and about 30 minutes into the night prayer a large noise went off\", he said.\n\n\"It sounded like a firework or maybe something heavy had been dropped, so no-one really thought anything of it.\n\n\"But then someone said it was a gunshot and that someone had come into the mosque and he had a firearm on him.\n\n\"The managers had seen him. He was masked and acting suspicious.\"\n\nPolice were called to High Road in Ilford, east London\n\n\"At this early stage, ballistic evidence recovered from the scene suggests that the weapon was a blank-firing handgun\", the Met said.\n\n\"Officers will continue to work closely with representatives from the mosque and are providing reassurance to the local community.\"\n\nThere have been no arrests.\n\nIn a statement shared by a Muslim Council spokesman on Twitter, the mosque's imam Mufti Suhail said the suspect's motives had not been established.\n\nHe asked that people \"avoid speculating and circulating unconfirmed information\".\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said he was \"relieved nobody was injured in the incident\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere are heightened security concerns at places of worship around the world after recent attacks.\n\nA mass shooting at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March, left 50 people dead.\n\nIn April, churches in Sri Lanka were targeted on Easter Sunday in a terror attack which killed at least 253 people.\n\nA week later, a woman was killed when a gunman opened fire at a synagogue in California.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online sports betting in Africa is worth billions of pounds every year.\n\nThe boom is being fed by faster internet, cheaper phones and a love of the English Premier League.\n\nBut there is a fear that children are being sucked into a cycle of betting, debt and poverty.\n\nIn Kenya one government minister called this “a curse on youth”.\n\nThe BBC's Angus Crawford went to speak to young people there about the impact it's having on their lives.", "Thousands of small-scale investors who lost their savings by investing with London Capital & Finance (LCF) have been given fresh hope they may qualify for compensation.\n\nNearly 12,000 people put £236m into the firm which collapsed in January.\n\nThe Financial Services Compensation Scheme said it would \"explore whether there are grounds for compensation\"\n\nThe compensation body had earlier said investors wouldn't be able to lodge claims as the scheme was unregulated.\n\nThe FSCS was set up by the government to protect consumers if UK regulated firms went bust.\n\nBut its chief executive told the BBC in March that it was unlikely LCF customers would get compensation, explaining that the company was not regulated for the purposes of selling its products, which it marketed as low risk investments.\n\nHowever the FSCS has now said it is looking at whether any of the conversations LCF had with investors counted as providing financial advice or whether it conducted other activities which could trigger compensation.\n\nThe FSCS said LCF investors should register with the FSCS via its website for updates of its investigation.\n\n\"By registering with us they will get regular updates on our investigation and this will be the best way for them to hear whether we believe there are grounds for compensation.\n\n\"This is a highly intricate case though, so we expect our investigation may take some time,\" it said.\n\nLCF advertised itself as a low-risk ISA, and promised to spread funds from the sale of mini-bonds between hundreds of companies.\n\nIn reality, the fund did not qualify as an ISA, and the money was only invested in 12 companies - 10 of which were described as \"not independent\" from LCF, in a report by the fund's administrators.\n\nThe Serious Fraud Office is conducting a probe into individuals associated with LCF.\n\nThe company's administrators Smith & Williamson released a report which found that:", "Joseph McCann is due to appear at the Old Bailey on 23 May\n\nA man accused of 21 offences including eight rapes has been visited by a judge in prison after refusing to appear in court.\n\nJoseph McCann, of Aylesbury, is charged with the kidnap and rape of eight alleged victims aged between 11 and 71.\n\nThe offences are alleged to have been committed between 20 April and 5 May, in London, Watford, Cheshire, Manchester and Lancashire.\n\nMr McCann was arrested in Congleton in Cheshire following a police manhunt.\n\nThe 34-year-old is accused of eight rapes, four kidnappings, two charges of false imprisonment and one of actual bodily harm, as well as six other sexual offences.\n\nNine of the charges relate to offences allegedly committed on the same day.\n\nMr McCann had refused to leave his cell at Belmarsh prison in south London to attend Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nChief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot said a hearing would instead be held in the visitors' room at Belmarsh.\n\nJournalists at the jail were not allowed into the hearing but were given details afterwards.\n\nMs Arbuthnot said Mr McCann \"turned his back on the court to begin with\" and he did not sit or give his name.\n\nHe is said to have health issues which are being investigated.\n\nThe BBC's home affairs correspondent, June Kelly, said it was \"believed to be an unprecedented first appearance by a defendant in a criminal case\".\n\nEarlier, prosecutor Tetteh Turkson told Westminster Magistrates' Court Mr McCann was \"not being co-operative\".\n\nHe was also brought to court on Wednesday but refused to appear in the dock.\n\nIn one alleged incident, Mr McCann is said by police to have tied a woman up and committed sexual offences, including rape, against her 17-year-old daughter and son, 11.\n\nHe was arrested just over two weeks after he allegedly abducted a woman in her 20s in Watford before raping her.\n\nTwo other women in their 20s were also allegedly snatched off the street in Chingford and Edgware on 25 April and then raped.\n\nMr McCann is due to appear at the Old Bailey on 23 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Karanbir Cheema's mother Rina called him \"my best friend, my soulmate\"\n\nThe actions of a boy who flicked cheese at a teenage pupil, triggering a fatal allergic reaction, were \"childish and thoughtless\" but not calculated to cause serious harm, a coroner said.\n\nKaranbir Cheema, 13, died after having a severe reaction at his school in west London on 28 June 2017.\n\nA specialist doctor previously told an inquest the death was \"unprecedented\".\n\nCoroner Mary Hassell said the boy who flicked cheese taken from a friend's baguette was \"simply not thinking\".\n\nBut recording a narrative conclusion at St Pancras Coroner's Court, she said there was a \"missed opportunity\" at William Perkin School in Greenford to inform pupils of the severity of his \"grave allergies\".\n\nAsthmatic Karanbir, who had allergies to wheat, gluten, egg, milk and tree nuts, was immediately treated at the school when the cheese landed on his neck.\n\nHis condition quickly worsened and he began scratching vigorously at his skin, the inquest heard.\n\n\"He pulled his shirt off, screamed and flung himself around the room in panic. He could not breathe,\" the coroner said.\n\nKaranbir Cheema died almost two weeks after cheese was flicked at him at school, the inquest heard\n\nKaranbir was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition and died almost two weeks later at Great Ormond Street of post-cardiac arrest syndrome.\n\nMs Hassell called the school's healthcare provision for Karanbir \"inadequate\" and said a contributing factor in his death was the fact his allergy action plan was not included in the school's care plan or medical box.\n\nAfter a delay, Karanbir was administered with an EpiPen, which contained adrenaline that was a year out of date, at the school.\n\nIt was not possible to say whether having adrenaline that was in date would have changed the outcome, Ms Hassell said.\n\nShe said she now would prepare a report intended to prevent future deaths, which would be sent to Karan's school, emergency services, government departments and experts.\n\nSpeaking after the inquest, Karanbir's mother Rina Cheema said: \"I think it would help a lot of children out there, whatever happened to my son, if the schools, the institutions, hospital, paramedics, were to become aware how serious allergies are.\n\n\"My son was mature, he knew himself how fast to react. His words were at school: 'Please help me or I'm going to die'. That says it all.\"\n\nDame Alice Hudson, executive head teacher of the Twyford Trust which encompasses William Perkin School, said: \"It's my view that there was a very good general awareness of his allergies in relation to both bread and cheese.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "BBC Question Time panellists on Thursday included Amber Rudd MP (Conservative) Jonathan Reynolds MP (Labour) Anna Soubry MP (Change UK) and leader of the Brexit Party, Nigel Farage MEP.\n\nViewers in the UK can watch the full programme on BBC iPlayer.", "Chrissy Archibald was visiting London with her partner Tyler Ferguson when a van hit her\n\nOne of the first armed police officers at the London Bridge attack has told how the first thing he did was to treat a dying woman at the scene.\n\nPC Andrew Duggan said he went into \"medic mode\" and helped Chrissy Archibald, who died after the attackers' van hit her on the bridge.\n\nThe officer told an inquest he thought it was a road traffic accident.\n\nHe stayed with Ms Archibald until an ambulance arrived, the court heard.\n\nPC Duggan said he only then realised there was a further incident south of the bridge.\n\nFriday was the fourth day of an eight-week inquiry into the deaths of the victims of the attack.\n\nMs Archibald's fiance, Tyler Ferguson, earlier told the inquest he frantically tried to revive her, despite knowing she was dead.\n\nThe other victims were: James McMullan, 32, from Hackney in London, French trio Xavier Thomas, 45, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Sebastien Belanger, 36, Ignacio Echeverría, 39, from Madrid, and Australians Sara Zelenak, 21, and Kirsty Boden, 28.\n\nGareth Patterson, the barrister representing the families of some of the people stabbed in Borough Market, asked PC Duggan why he did not realise sooner there had been a terrorist attack.\n\nPolice shot dead the suspects, Khuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, around 10 minutes after they began the attack.\n\nFloral tributes lie at the south end of London Bridge following the attacks on 3 June 2017\n\nPC Duggan said he initially did not hear messages sent over the radio channel, used by armed officers, suggesting the incident was being treated as terrorism.\n\nMr Patterson asked: \"With the benefit of hindsight, as possibly the first, or certainly a very early armed officer on the scene, would it have been better to have proceeded and investigated and potentially stopped this marauding terrorist attack?\"\n\nPC Duggan said: \"With the benefit of hindsight, no. My colleague and I did the best we could.\"\n\nThe barrister then asked: \"Do you think an opportunity might have been missed that night to stop this stabbing attack earlier than it possibly was?\"\n\nPC Duggan replied: \"No, I believe we deployed and did the best we could with the information at the time.\"\n\nHe added that it seemed \"like all hell [was] breaking loose\" on London Bridge.\n\nAfter helping the injured people on the bridge, he said he became aware there was another incident in Borough Market.\n\nAs he rushed to the scene, he could hear gunshots \"echoing off the walls\", he told the court.\n\nPC Andrew Duggan spent almost an hour and a half in the witness box in what, at times, felt like a very heated exchange with Gareth Patterson QC.\n\nPC Duggan said he left his main gun locked in his armed response car and headed onto the bridge in ''medic mode'', thinking there had been a car crash.\n\nHe helped to perform CPR on Ms Archibald until paramedics arrived - before becoming aware he was needed elsewhere.\n\nMr Patterson asked why, despite the Manchester and Westminster Bridge attacks, it had not crossed PC Duggan's mind that the events could have been part of a terrorist attack in which his expertise as a firearms officer might be needed.\n\nSecondly, he asked him why he had not heard the request on police radio for armed officers to attend.\n\nPC Duggan looked exasperated as he repeatedly told the court the only things he heard on his radio were the initial call - a \"very, very loud shout\" of \"London Bridge\" - the belief there had been a road traffic collision, and the possibility there was more than one casualty.\n\nOther information - including that people had been stabbed - had been transmitted on British Transport Police and Met Police radio channels, the court heard.\n\nBut since PC Duggan had his earpiece radio set to the City Police channel he had not heard these other details, he said.\n\nMr Patterson and the chief coroner, Judge Mark Lucraft QC, also made a point of thanking passers-by and the emergency services who made \"extended efforts\" to save Ms Archibald's life.\n\nThe victims of the attack clockwise - Chrissy Archibald, Sebastien Belanger, Kirsty Boden, Ignacio Echeverría, Sara Zelenak, Xavier Thomas, Alexandre Pigeard, James McMullan\n\nCCTV footage played to the court earlier on Friday, which was described by counsel to the inquests Jonathan Hough as \"graphic and distressing\", showed the van ploughing into Ms Archibald after mounting the kerb.\n\nHer partner heard a \"loud thud\" and then \"Chrissie was no longer next to me\", he said.\n\nHe could see her arms and legs as she was \"pushed and pushed\" down the road under the van.\n\nWhen she was finally released, she had suffered \"devastating injuries\".\n\nHe watched as she \"convulsed and released the physical life from her body\", but he attempted to perform CPR anyway, he said.\n\nThe inquests were told on Wednesday that Ms Archibald might still be alive if barriers had been put up following the Westminster Bridge attack, which took place two months earlier.", "McGarry last month admitted two charges of embezzlement\n\nA former SNP MP owed thousands of pounds in rent when she embezzled money from pro-independence groups.\n\nA court heard Natalie McGarry spent more than £25,600 on rent, a holiday to Spain, transfers of money to her husband and other lifestyle spending.\n\nAt Glasgow Sheriff Court last month McGarry, 37, admitted two charges of embezzlement.\n\nBut her attempt to withdraw the guilty pleas at a later hearing was refused by Sheriff Paul Crozier.\n\nMcGarry's lawyer, Allan Macleod, had argued there were several \"factual inaccuracies\" in the narrative read to the court last week.\n\nThe former MP embezzled £21,000 from Women for Independence (WFI) in her role as treasurer of the organisation.\n\nShe transferred money raised through fundraising events into her personal bank accounts and failed to transfer charitable donations to Perth and Kinross food bank and to Positive Prison, Positive Future between 26 April, 2013 and 30 November, 2015.\n\nFiscal depute Gerard Drugan told the court that between 2012 and August 2013, McGarry was £3,750 behind in rent arrears and in September 2013 she was asked to pay £1,000 a month until the rent was repaid in full.\n\nMr Drugan said: \"Ms McGarry continued to have money problems and in February 2014 she met Humza Yousaf (now justice secretary) and told him she had been unable to pay her rent.\n\n\"He transferred £600 from his bank account to hers, which she later repaid.\"\n\nMcGarry was elected as an SNP member in 2015\n\nThe court heard McGarry gave her bank details for the Our Voice crowdfunding initiative which raised £10,472.\n\nThat money was deposited into her bank account in April 2014 and was spent by early June, some of it legitimately and some of it for rent and other lifestyle spending.\n\nThe court also heard £750 raised for Perth and Kinross food bank, which would have provided food for 30 families, never reached the organisation.\n\nMcGarry used some of the money she had embezzled to go on a week-long holiday to Spain with her husband which was paid for with his Barclaycard, on to which she had transferred some WFI money.\n\nThe former MP, who represented Glasgow East and did not seek re-election in 2017, also used cheques drawn on the Women for Independence bank account to deposit money into her own account.\n\nMcGarry also admitted embezzling £4,661.02 in the course of her role as treasurer, secretary and convener of the Glasgow Regional Association of the SNP between 9 April, 2014 and 10 August, 2015.\n\nHer WFI colleagues eventually became suspicious and had an emergency meeting about accounts in November 2015.\n\nMr Drugan said: \"They identified a possible shortfall of funds for which there was no explanation and they decided she should be reported to police.\"\n\nMr Macleod, representing McGarry, said: \"The accused's position is still, and remains, that she did not commit these crimes.\n\n\"There are substantial parts of the narrative that has been heard by your Lordship that the accused's position is that they are factually inaccurate.\"\n\nHe said he would address the issues at the next hearing, and Sheriff Crozier adjourned the hearing until next month pending reports.\n\nMcGarry was elected as an SNP member in 2015 but resigned the party whip following the emergence of fraud allegations , which she denied at the time. She continued in parliament as an independent.\n\nShe was charged by police in 2017 over alleged fraud relating to potential missing funds from Women for Independence, which was set up in the run-up to the 2014 Scottish referendum, and the SNP's Glasgow Regional Association.", "Just cutting carbon emissions will not be enough to prevent damaging climate change, scientists warn\n\nScientists in Cambridge plan to set up a research centre to develop new ways to repair the Earth's climate.\n\nIt will investigate radical approaches such as refreezing the Earth's poles and removing CO2 from the atmosphere.\n\nThe centre is being created because of fears that current approaches will not on their own stop dangerous and irreversible damage to the planet.\n\nThe initiative is the first of its kind in the world and could lead to dramatic reductions in carbon emissions.\n\nThe initiative is co-ordinated by the government's former chief scientific adviser, Prof Sir David King.\n\n\"What we do over the next 10 years will determine the future of humanity for the next 10,000 years. There is no major centre in the world that would be focused on this one big issue,\" he told BBC News.\n\nSome of the approaches described by Sir David are often known collectively as geoengineering.\n\nThe Centre for Climate Repair is part of Cambridge university's Carbon Neutral Futures Initiative, led by Dr Emily Shuckburgh.\n\nShe, said the initiative's mission would be to \"solve the climate problem\".\n\n\"It has to be. And we can't fail on it,\" she said.\n\nIt will bring together scientists and engineers with social scientists.\n\n\"This really is one of the most important challenges of our time, and we know we need to be responding to it with all our efforts,\" Dr Shuckburgh told BBC News.\n\nOne of the most promising ideas for refreezing the poles is to \"brighten\" the clouds above them.\n\nThe idea is to pump seawater up to tall masts on uncrewed ships through very fine nozzles.\n\nThis produces tiny particles of salt which are injected into the clouds, which makes them more widespread and reflective, and so cool the areas below them.\n\nAnother new approach is a variant of an idea called carbon capture and storage (CCS).\n\nCCS involves collecting carbon dioxide emissions from coal or gas fired power stations or steel plants and storing it underground.\n\nProf Peter Styring, of the University of Sheffield, is developing a carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) pilot scheme with Tata Steel in Port Talbot in South Wales which effectively recycles CO2.\n\nThe scheme involves setting up a plant on-site which converts the firm's carbon emissions into fuel using the plant's waste heat, according to Prof Styring.\n\n\"We have a source of hydrogen, we have a source of carbon dioxide, we have a source of heat and we have a source of renewable electricity from the plant,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"We're going to harness all those and we're going to make synthetic fuels.\"\n\nOther ideas the centre would explore include greening the oceans so they can take up more CO2.\n\nSuch schemes involve fertilising the sea with iron salts which promote the growth of plankton.\n\nPrevious experiments have shown that they don't take up sufficient CO2 to make the scheme worthwhile and might disrupt the ecosystem.\n\nBut according to Prof Callum Roberts of York University, approaches that are currently thought beyond the pale now have to be considered and, if possible, made to work.\n\nThis is because the alternative of damaging and potentially irreversible climate change is considered beyond the pale.\n\n\"Early in my career, people threw their hands up in horror at suggestions of more interventionist solutions to fix coral reefs,\" Prof Roberts said.\n\n\"Now they are looking in desperation at an ecosystem that will be gone at the end of the century and now all options are on the table\".\n\nThe options include genetically engineering heat-resistant coral or dumping chemicals into the sea to make the sea less acidic.\n\n\"At the moment, I happen to think that harnessing nature to mitigate climate change is a better way to go. But I do see the legitimacy of exploring [more radical] options as a means of steering us towards a better future,\" Prof Roberts said.\n\nSuch ideas have many potential downsides and may prove to be unfeasible.\n\nBut Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at Cambridge University, said that they should be properly assessed to see if the downsides can be overcome, because he believes that reduction of CO2 emissions on its own won't be enough.\n\n\"If we reduce our emissions all we are doing is making the global climate warmer a bit more slowly. That is no good because it's already too warm and we have already got too much CO2 in the atmosphere,\" Prof Wadhams said.\n\n\"So climate repair can actually take it out of the atmosphere. We can get the level down below what it is now and actually cool the climate bringing it back to what it was before global warming,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joseph McCann is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday\n\nA man has been charged with kidnapping and raping multiple women.\n\nJoseph McCann, of Aylesbury, is accused of the kidnap and rape of a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint in Watford in the early hours of 21 April.\n\nHe is also charged with two counts of kidnap, four counts of rape, one count of false imprisonment and three other sexual offence charges - all in London.\n\nThe 34-year-old has been remanded in custody to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nMr McCann has also been charged with two counts of causing a female to engage in sexual activity and one count of assaulting a female by penetration in London between 24 and 27 April.\n\nProsecutors are considering a file of evidence relating to further alleged offences, the Met Police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chrissy Archibald's partner told an inquest he frantically tried to revive her\n\nThe fiance of a woman killed in the London Bridge attack has described \"chaos and mayhem\" at the scene, saying it looked like a \"warzone\".\n\nChrissy Archibald, 30, from Canada, was killed by three men who drove into pedestrians before stabbing passers by.\n\nHer partner Tyler Ferguson told the Old Bailey inquests into the eight victims' deaths he frantically tried to revive her, despite knowing she had died.\n\nHe was \"devastated and inconsolable\" after her death, he said.\n\nAt the time of the attack, the couple had been visiting the UK from the Netherlands, where they lived.\n\nAn eight-week inquiry into the deaths of the victims of the terror attack is in its fourth day.\n\nIn a statement read to the court Mr Ferguson said he saw a man screaming as he ran down the road and heard the screeching of tyres as a \"large transit van\" approached from behind.\n\nIt was \"immediately clear this was a deliberate act\", he said, recalling the wing mirror brushing past his shoulder.\n\nHe heard a \"loud thud\" and then \"Chrissie was no longer next to me\", he said.\n\nHe could see her arms and legs as she was \"pushed and pushed\" down the road under the van.\n\nWhen she was finally released, she had suffered \"devastating injuries\", he said.\n\nChrissy Archibald was visiting the city with her partner Tyler Ferguson\n\nCCTV footage played to the court, which was described by counsel to the inquests Jonathan Hough QC as \"graphic and distressing\", showed Ms Archibald being struck by the van on the third time it mounted the curb.\n\nMr Ferguson watched as she \"convulsed and released the physical life from her body\", but he attempted to perform CPR anyway, he said.\n\nThe court heard Ms Archibald's death was almost instantaneous, although paramedics treated her for more than an hour.\n\nMr Ferguson tried to find her engagement ring on the road but it was an \"impossible task\", he said. It was recovered later.\n\nPrior to the attack, the couple had had an \"intense conversation\" where Ms Archibald told him to make up with his father because he \"could get hit by a bus tomorrow\", Mr Ferguson said.\n\nCourt One in the Old Bailey was eerily quiet as we were shown countless CCTV angles of Ms Archibald and Mr Ferguson before and during the attack on London Bridge.\n\nDet Con Alistair Hutchison calmly guided the court through each frame - everyone knowing what the footage was leading up to.\n\nMs Archibald could be seen chatting animatedly to her fiance as they walked together at about 22:05.\n\nWatching this footage in court, our attention was brought to one particular moment just before Ms Archibald was killed.\n\nThe pair switched sides of the pavement, meaning Mr Ferguson was closer to the balustrade and Ms Archibald was closer to the road.\n\nWhen the van careered on to the pavement, Ms Archibald was hit and pulled under the front of the chassis. Her dress was ripped off as she was dragged across the road.\n\nChristine Delcros, who we have already heard recount being hit by the van with her fiance Xavier Thomas, was visibly distressed by this part of the footage.\n\nShe held her head in her hands, her eyes fixed to the footage onscreen.\n\nA man on a double-decker bus near Ms Archibald's body attempted to film the aftermath of the attack, the vehicle's driver Anton Sobanski told the inquest. Someone told him to stop the recording, he added.\n\nMr Sobansk, who broke down in court when he was asked to describe Ms Archibald's condition, also said he \"always felt London Bridge was vulnerable to an attack\".\n\n\"I was shocked there were no barriers on London Bridge. I thought this was weird, no barriers. I always felt that maybe a vehicle could be used to kill 100, 200, people,\" he said.\n\nThe inquests were told on Wednesday Ms Archibald might still be alive if barriers had been put up following the Westminster Bridge attack, which took place two months earlier.\n\nThe victims of the attack clockwise - Chrissy Archibald, Sebastien Belanger, Kirsty Boden, Ignacio Echeverría, Sara Zelenak, Xavier Thomas, Alexandre Pigeard, James McMullan\n\nThe others who were killed in the attack were James McMullan, 32, from Hackney in London, French trio Xavier Thomas, 45, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Sebastien Belanger, 36, Ignacio Echeverría, 39, from Madrid, and Australians Sara Zelenak, 21, and Kirsty Boden, 28.\n\nThe attackers were shot dead by police, who arrived at the scene of the attack within eight minutes.\n\nA pre-inquest hearing at the Old Bailey in February 2018 was told all three men had steroids in their systems when they died.", "Maya Bay was crowded with tourists in April 2018 but its shores are now empty\n\nA Thai bay that was made famous by its appearance in the film The Beach is to remain closed until 2021.\n\nMaya Bay, on the island of Phi Phi Leh, was temporarily closed last year after officials said a sharp rise in visitors had severely damaged the environment.\n\nBefore it closed, up to 5,000 people were visiting the bay every day and most of its coral died as a result.\n\nAuthorities have now extended the ban on visitors by two years to give more time for Maya Bay's ecology to recover.\n\nBoats visiting the island now have to wait 300 metres away from its shores\n\nThe beach featured prominently in the 2000 film of that name, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.\n\nSince the bay closed last year, blacktip reef sharks have been sighted swimming in the waters of the bay.\n\nProf Thon Thamrongnawasawat, who advises the Thai department of national parks, told the BBC in January that when the park reopens the number of visitors will be restricted and boats will be banned from mooring within the bay's waters.\n\nLocal tourism operators have said they rely on the beach.\n\nThe head of the local tourism association, Wattana Rerngsamut, told AFP that there should be public hearings \"so that local people can earn a living\".\n• None Paradise? It's more like Times Square", "Prince Charles was photographed with the then Bishop of Gloucester Peter Ball in 1993\n\nThe Church of England's response to child sex abuse allegations was \"marked by secrecy\", a report has found.\n\nFormer Archbishop of Canterbury Lord George Carey has been criticised for supporting former Bishop Peter Ball.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) said Ball \"was able to sexually abuse vulnerable teenagers and young men for decades\".\n\nIts report said the support given by the Prince of Wales to the shamed clergyman was \"misguided\".\n\nIt said his actions \"could have been interpreted as expressions of support\" for Ball and \"had the potential to influence the actions of the church\".\n\nThe IICSA described the \"appalling sexual abuse against children\" in the Diocese of Chichester, with 18 members of the clergy convicted of offences during a 50-year period.\n\nBishop Peter Hancock, the Church of England's safeguarding lead, said: \"We are immensely grateful to survivors for their courage in coming forward. Their testimonies have made shocking and uncomfortable listening.\n\n\"The report states that the Church of England should have been a place which protected all children and supported victims and survivors and the inquiry's summary recognises that it failed to do this.\"\n\nBall, who was Bishop of Lewes in East Sussex between 1977 and 1992 and Bishop of Gloucester in 1992, was jailed in 2015 for 32 months for offences against 18 teenagers and men between the 1970s and the 1990s.\n\nThe report found the Crown Prosecution Service had missed an opportunity to charge Ball with a string of offences in 1992, and it was not until 22 years later he admitted his crimes.\n\nThe IICSA said Ball sought to use his relationship with the Prince of Wales to further his campaign to return to unrestricted ministry.\n\nPrince Charles' actions in speaking about Ball to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Duchy of Cornwall buying a property to rent to Ball and his brother were \"misguided\", the report added.\n\nA Clarence House spokesman said it remained \"a matter of deep regret\" that the prince \"along with many others was deceived by Peter Ball over so many years\".\n\n\"At no time did he bring any influence to bear on the actions of the church or any other relevant authority,\" he added.\n\nPeter Ball was jailed for sex offences against teenagers and young men\n\nThe report, based on four weeks of public hearings between March and July last year, said victims were \"disbelieved and dismissed\" by those in authority at the Diocese of Chichester.\n\nOne of Ball's victims, Neil Todd, killed himself after being \"seriously failed\" by the church, which had \"discounted Ball's conduct as trivial and insignificant\" while displaying \"callous indifference\" to Mr Todd's complaints.\n\nLord Carey resigned as honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford - his last formal role in the church - in June last year after a separate inquiry found he delayed a \"proper investigation\" into Ball's crimes for two decades.\n\nThe report said he \"failed to have sufficient regard for the wellbeing of complainants, victims and survivors affected by Peter Ball's behaviour\".\n\nIt also said the church's apology \"remains unconvincing\".\n\nEven during the inquiry's hearings, the report says senior clerics were squabbling about who was responsible.\n\nIn a church whose scriptures and creeds speak of \"loving one another as Christ has loved you\", there was no compassion for Neil Todd, who had been repeatedly abused by Bishop Peter Ball during the 1980s and early 90s.\n\nThe most senior cleric in the Church of England, then Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, spoke frequently with Ball and wrote several letters, saying: \"You are on my heart and constantly in my prayers.\"\n\nBut when Ball resigned, the church issued a press release which the report says \"inappropriately praised Peter Ball, presented his resignation as an act of self-sacrifice - but offered no such apology to Mr Todd and expressed no concern for his welfare\".\n\nThe preferential treatment of a popular priest, and the lack of compassion for his victim, are the disturbing keynotes of this comprehensive report.\n\nBall, now in his late 80s, accepted a caution for one count of gross indecency in 1992 and resigned due to ill-health.\n\nHe was released from prison in 2017 and deemed too ill to give evidence to the inquiry in person, but submitted a statement saying his relationship with Prince Charles \"was one of support and respect\".\n\nProf Alexis Jay, chair of the inquiry, said the Diocese of Chichester \"failed victims and survivors of child sexual abuse by prioritising its own reputation above their welfare\".\n\nShe said the church's response \"was marked by secrecy and a disregard for the seriousness of abuse allegations\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fashion chain Select has fallen into administration, putting 1,800 jobs at risk at its 169 stores across the UK.\n\nThe firm, which targets women aged 18-45, has been struggling despite having struck a deal in April last year that cut rents at its stores.\n\nSelect's administrators said stores would continue to trade while all options for the business were assessed.\n\nA host of High Street retailers have run into trouble recently as spending patterns change.\n\nSelect is owned by Turkish entrepreneur Cafer Mahiroğlu, who himself bought it out of administration in 2008.\n\nLast year, the retailer - which has annual sales of £77m - used a process called a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) to negotiate rent cuts of up to 75% from its landlords.\n\nHowever, business advisory firm Quantuma, which has been appointed as administrators to Select, said \"prevailing High Street conditions\" meant the turnaround plan the chain had tried had not succeeded.\n\n\"We will continue to trade Select whilst we assess all options available to the business, with the aim of achieving the optimum outcome for all stakeholders,\" said Andrew Andronikou, joint administrator at Quantuma.\n\n\"Options include a sale of the business, in addition to entering into discussions with those parties who have already expressed interest in acquiring the business.\"\n\nMaureen Hinton, global retail research director at market research firm GlobalData, said the chain was in \"a difficult place in the market, competing directly with very strong brands such as BooHoo and Primark, as well as the supermarkets\".\n\n\"It's not a big destination retailer and it's simply not selling enough. There's already over-supply in the market for the demand,\" she added.\n\n\"When you're competing on such low prices then the margins are very tight.\"\n\nSelect's administration is just the latest piece of bad news for the UK's High Streets, which have suffered as consumers increasingly do their shopping online.\n\nSeveral high-profile names have fallen into administration or used a CVA process, which can be used to close stores and allow for rents to be renegotiated at outlets that remain open.\n\nOn Thursday, creditors at struggling department store chain Debenhams backed a CVA plan that will see the closure of 50 stores and rent reductions at other outlets.\n\nLast year, House of Fraser fell into administration before being bought by Mike Ashley's Sports Direct.\n\nIn March, fashion chain LK Bennett called in administrators. The chain was bought last month, but 15 of its 36 stores were closed.\n\nSir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, which owns Topshop and Dorothy Perkins among others, is also reportedly seeking a CVA.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Danny Baker explains what happened when his 5 Live bosses called him\n\nThe BBC has sacked Danny Baker, saying he showed a \"serious error of judgement\" over his tweet about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's baby.\n\nThe tweet, which he later deleted but which has been circulated on social media, showed an image of a couple holding hands with a chimpanzee dressed in clothes with the caption: \"Royal Baby leaves hospital\".\n\nThe BBC 5 Live presenter was accused of mocking the duchess's racial heritage.\n\nThe 61-year-old presented a Saturday morning show on the network.\n\nThe corporation said Baker's tweet \"goes against the values we as a station aim to embody\".\n\nIt added: \"Danny's a brilliant broadcaster but will no longer be presenting a weekly show with 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 Danny Baker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis comment about red sauce references the Sausage Sandwich Game from his 5 Live show, in which listeners choose what type of sauce a celebrity would choose to eat.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Danny Baker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter tweeting an apology, in which he called the tweet a \"stupid unthinking gag pic\", Baker said the BBC's decision \"was a masterclass of pompous faux-gravity\".\n\n\"[It] took a tone that said I actually meant that ridiculous tweet and the BBC must uphold blah blah blah,\" he added. \"Literally threw me under the bus. Could hear the suits' knees knocking.\"\n\nHarry and Meghan, whose mother Doria Ragland is African American, revealed on Wednesday their new son was named Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.\n\nAfter the initial backlash on social media on Wednesday, Baker said: \"Sorry my gag pic of the little fella in the posh outfit has whipped some up. Never occurred to me because, well, mind not diseased.\n\n\"Soon as those good enough to point out its possible connotations got in touch, down it came. And that's it.\"\n\nIn a later tweet, he added: \"Would have used same stupid pic for any other Royal birth or Boris Johnson kid or even one of my own. It's a funny image. (Though not of course in that context.) Enormous mistake, for sure. Grotesque.\n\n\"Anyway, here's to ya Archie, Sorry mate.\"\n\nSpeaking to reporters outside his home, he said of the tweet: \"Ill advised, ill thought-out and stupid, but racist? No, I'm aware how delicate that imagery is.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC \"right\" to sack Danny Baker over tweet says broadcaster Scarlette Douglas\n\nBroadcaster Scarlette Douglas, who works on 5 Live podcast The Sista Collective and The One Show, told the BBC: \"I think somebody told him, 'What you've tweeted was incorrect, so you should maybe say something or take it down.'\n\n\"Yes, OK, he took it down, but his apology for me wasn't really an apology. I don't think it's right and I think subsequently what's happened is correct.\"\n\nAyesha Hazarika, a commentator and former adviser to the Labour Party, told 5 Live she was \"genuinely gobsmacked\" by the tweet.\n\n\"I couldn't believe it,\" she said. \"I thought it was a joke at first. I thought it was a spoof. It was so crass. What was going through his head?\n\n\"You can't just say sorry and then carry on like it's business as usual. When you have an incredibly important platform like he does, you do have to think about what you do and the signals that it sends out.\"\n\nBaker must have been aware of recent incidences of racism at football matches and the resulting outcry, Ms Hazarika added.\n\nLinda Bellos, former chairwoman of the Institute of Equality and Diversity Professionals, echoed those remarks. saying: \"A lot of black players are complaining about noises being made to them. He knows this stuff,\" she told Radio 4.\n\nHis tweet was \"foolish\", she said, adding: \"Never mind that it's royalty.\n\n\"The things that are happening to black children up and down the country are not enhanced by his words and I'm glad that prompt action has been taken, and let's hope we have come thoughtful dialogue and learning from this.\"\n\nBaker has won several awards for his radio shows\n\nBaker's Saturday Morning show on BBC Radio 5 Live won him a Sony Gold award for Speech Radio Personality of the Year in 2011, 2012 and 2014 and a Gold Award for entertainment show of the year in 2013.\n\nHis irrepressible style made him one of the most popular radio presenters of his generation and saw him described by one writer as the \"ultimate geezer\".\n\nBaker was also a successful magazine journalist, scriptwriter and TV documentary maker.\n\nHe wrote a number of TV shows including Pets Win Prizes and Win, Lose or Draw and, in 1990, The Game, a series about an amateur soccer team in east London.\n\nA stint at BBC London station GLR in the late '80s saw him strike up an enduring friendship with fellow broadcaster Chris Evans, and Baker would later write scripts for the Channel 4 show TFI Friday, which Evans hosted.\n\nIt's the second time Baker has been axed by 5 Live and is the third time he has left the BBC.\n\nIn 1997, he was fired for encouraging football fans to make a referee's life hell after the official had awarded a controversial penalty in an FA Cup tie.\n\nHe later claimed he had never incited fans to attack the referee, only that he would have understood if they had.\n\nIn 2012, two weeks before he was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame, he was was back in the news after an on-air rant in which he resigned and branded his bosses at BBC London \"pinheaded weasels\". The outburst came after Baker had been asked to move from a weekday programme to a weekend.\n\nIn 2016, Baker took part on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here but was the first person to be voted off in the series.\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.", "Tributes have been paid to comedian Freddie Starr who has died aged 76.\n\nThe Merseyside-born comic, singer, impressionist and actor was found dead in his home in the Costa Del Sol region of Spain, the Sun said.\n\nComedian Bobby Davro described him as \"the funniest man I have ever seen\", while presenter Amanda Holden said he should be \"remembered with a smile\".\n\nDavro tweeted: \"I'm so sad we have lost one of our greatest comedy talents.\"\n\nBritain's Got Talent judge Holden added: \"Sad to hear of Freddie Starr passing today. His style may have fallen out of comedy fashion and favour - but it's important to recognise his once huge popularity and fame.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe added: \"I hope his legacy is not smalled down and he's remembered with a smile.\"\n\nComedian Jim Davidson also tweeted: \"Just heard the news. Freddie Starr was the greatest.\"\n\nLord Sugar described Starr as a \"very funny man\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lord Sugar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFellow Liverpool comedian and TV personality Les Dennis tweeted that Starr was \"so exciting to watch live.\"\n\n\"A true clown who could also sing like Elvis,\" he added. \"A total one off. RIP.\"\n\nThe BBC has not been able to confirm the reports, however Euro Weekly News is reporting the coroner in Malaga has confirmed to them that Starr died of natural causes.\n\nStarr rose to prominence in the early 1970s after appearing on the TV talent show Opportunity Knocks. He starred in several other TV programmes in the 90s and famously featured in the Sun's \"Freddie Starr ate my hamster\" headline in 1986.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at Freddie Starr's life in the spotlight\n\nIn 2012, he was arrested by police investigating allegations of historical sexual abuse but he was never charged.\n\nHe later lost a defamation claim against an accuser in 2015 who said he groped her when she was 15.\n\nKarin Ward, 56, alleged that the assault took place in 1974 behind the scenes of Jimmy Savile's Clunk Click TV show.\n\nStarr denied the claims and sought damages for alleged slander and libel.\n\nJudge Mr Justice Nicol said the case failed because Ms Ward's testimony was found to be true, and because too much time had lapsed.\n\nStarr began his career as lead singer of the Merseybeat group the Midniters during the 1960s. His TV appearances included The Freddie Starr Show and An Audience with Freddie Starr in the 1990s.\n\nAlthough he became known for his unpredictable and eccentric comedy routines, he said in his autobiography that the infamous hamster-eating episode did not actually take place.\n\nFreddie Starr was a popular entertainer in the 1970s and 1980s\n\nThe story in The Sun had claimed Starr put a hamster in a sandwich and ate it at a friend's home after a performance.\n\nHe later took part in ITV's I'm a Celebrity but left the show after being taken to hospital following a suspected allergic reaction.\n\nHe suffered from ill health and in 2010 had bypass surgery after a heart attack.\n\nComic and actor Russ Abbot described Starr as both a \"natural funnyman\" and \"loose comedy cannon\".\n\n\"You never knew what he would do next. He helped launch my career of course, and for that I will always be grateful.\"\n\nTV presenter Anne Diamond recalled he was \"always difficult and awkward to interview but always worth it\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Anne Diamond This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJimmy Cricket called Starr one of the UK's \"best ever visual comedians and mimics\", while Former Allo Allo actress Vicki Michelle added he was a \"great comedian\".\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.", "Most people walk down the highest mountain in Wales, while many take the Snowdon Mountain Railway.\n\nBut for Base jumper Josh Beinn, there was only one way he was going to descend 2,500ft - by leaping from the side of the mountain.\n\nThis is the moment the daredevil made what he says is the highest Base jump in Wales.\n\n\"It was exhilarating,\" said the 29-year-old after he had touched down safe.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nEnglish clubs have created European football history by taking all four final spots in the continent's two major competitions.\n\nArsenal won in Valencia and Chelsea beat Eintracht Frankfurt on Thursday to reach the Europa League final.\n\nThat followed dramatic wins for Liverpool over Barcelona and Tottenham against Ajax in the Champions League.\n\nIt is the first time all four finalists in Europe's top two competitions have come from one nation.\n\nThere have only been two all-English finals before, with Tottenham beating Wolves in the 1971-72 Uefa Cup and Manchester United beating Chelsea in the 2007-08 Champions League.\n\nSpain had three teams in the finals of the two competitions in 2015-16, with Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid contesting the Champions League trophy and Unai Emery's Sevilla winning the Europa League.\n\n\"In England the level is very high and the Premier League is the best championship in Europe,\" said Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri.\n\nArsenal and Chelsea will meet in Baku, Azerbaijan - 2,468 miles from London - on 29 May, with a Champions League spot at stake for the Gunners, who could become the fifth English side to qualify for next season's competition. Chelsea are already assured of their place after cementing a top-four finish in the Premier League.\n• None What does English success do for next season's qualification?\n• None Arsenal & Chelsea fans given 6,000 tickets each for final\n\nBaku's Olympic Stadium has a capacity of 68,700 but Uefa has allocated only 6,000 tickets to each club, a decision Arsenal described as \"disappointing\", adding that it presents them with \"extreme difficulties\" in how to allocate tickets\".\n\nTottenham and Liverpool will meet in Madrid on 1 June, with fans of those clubs also facing travel issues of their own, with direct flights from the UK reaching £1,300 and some airlines being accused of \"profiteering\".\n\nThe Premier League clubs' achievements means there will also be an all-English Uefa Super Cup in August. That game will be played in Istanbul, Turkey.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Premiership\n\nCeltic secured an eighth consecutive title in style with a convincing win away to wasteful Aberdeen.\n\nNeil Lennon's side are now two-thirds of the way towards a third consecutive clean sweep of domestic trophies after already lifting the League Cup.\n\nThe Dons' James Wilson fired wastefully against a post before Mikael Lustig's diving header opened the scoring.\n\nJozo Simunovic rose to meet a Callum McGregor corner after half-time before Odsonne Edouard fired the third.\n\nFor Celtic not to have finished the weekend as champions for a 50th time, Aberdeen would have had to have ended the visitors' 11-game unbeaten run, combined with a win for second-placed Rangers at home to Hibernian on Sunday.\n\nBut the Glasgow side's sixth consecutive win at Pittodrie means they have now won eight domestic trophies in a row before their Scottish Cup final against Heart of Midlothian on 25 May.\n\nCeltic will now eye matching the nine titles in a row they last achieved in 1974 and which was matched by city rivals Rangers in 1997.\n\nAberdeen remain in a battle for fourth with Kilmarnock, the Ayrshire side later going above the Dons on goal difference with victory at Tynecastle.\n• None Who did you vote man of the match?\n• None Games, goals & eight in a row - How does Celtic's latest title stack up?\n\nAs a club, Celtic have experienced great sadness in recent weeks with the loss of two of their precious Lisbon Lions. The tributes have flooded in from all corners for Billy McNeill and Stevie Chalmers. The lives of two great footballers who helped lift the European Cup have been celebrated in word and song and that carried on at Pittodrie.\n\nAnother minute's applause but most importantly, given what these men represented, another victory and another league title secured. Eight in a row was never in doubt, but it was banked here.\n\nCeltic survived a few scares but cantered away to win handily. Indeed, that could be the story of their season. Some wobbles but easy enough in the end, a league won largely in third gear.\n\nThe Dons could have delayed the inevitability of the title party, but teams don't tend to beat Celtic in domestic competition while spurning big moments. How the Dons will rue the early chances they had. How Derek McInnes, sitting in the purgatory of the stand while serving his touchline ban, will have suffered angst at what might have been.\n\nThese weren't half chances or 50-50 affairs. These were borderline sitters, both of them falling to James Wilson, a striker who finished like strikers tend to do when they're not used to scoring goals. Wilson, big on reputation but low on end product, can only boast 13 goals in a career that spans almost 90 games.\n\nCeltic had the lion's share of possession, but it was the Dons who carved out the most interesting opportunities before Lustig got the Celtic party started. The first of them came when Scott Brown was hustled and harried and gave the ball away in the process.\n\nAberdeen swept left and, when Greg Stewart's cross came in it fell to Wilson, standing all alone and so close to Scott Bain that he could have heard him gulp. His volley was thumped into the ground and bounced up and over the Celtic goalkeeper's crossbar.\n\nEdouard wasted a decent chance soon after, but another huge moment followed. This was the second act of wastefulness from Wilson. Scott McKenna did wonderfully to win the ball before bombing down the left and curling a gorgeous ball across goal and into the path of Sam Cosgrove.\n\nThe striker's shot was beaten away by Bain, but when the loose ball broke to Wilson, it looked certain that the Dons were about to take the lead. Instead, Wilson struck his shot off the outside of Bain's right-hand post and wide.\n\nIt was a calamitous miss and, sure enough, Aberdeen were made to pay for it, just as Kilmarnock were made to pay for not executing at Celtic Park last week when the game was still goalless. Looking gift horses in the mouth is not the best plan against the champions.\n\nSeven minutes after Wilson's miss, Lustig got away from Stevie May and dived to head in McGregor's excellent delivery from the left. It was yet another assist for McGregor, a titan of this team - and there'd be a second one later on.\n\nLustig's terrific finish was the cue for the celebrations. Celtic only needed a point to lock down the title. They cruised on to take all three.\n\nCeltic doubled their lead eight minutes into the new half. An out-swinging McGregor corner was headed home by Simunovic, the centre-half who, over the last few weeks, has showed the centre-forwards how to do it.\n\nThe hosts had a chance or two to halve the deficit but couldn't produce Celtic's efficiency in front of goal. They worked hard and got frustrated at times.\n\nCosgrove was fortunate not to be sent off when he brought down Jonny Hayes, who had appeared for Kieran Tierney. The full-back, still slightly diminished by injury, will now surely be wrapped in cotton wool before the cup final and that tilt for the treble treble.\n\nCeltic's title day had a last flourish when they broke free and Edouard added a third, and a 21st for the season. That well and truly sent the visitors into raptures.\n\nCeltic interim manager Neil Lennon: \"It's a great way to get over the line and now we can enjoy it.\n\n\"I'm really delighted with my defence. Simunovic has come back in beside Ajer and has been outstanding, Lustig outstanding, Kieran already a Celtic great, and my goalkeeper has been unbelievable.\n\n\"He was unbelievable today when we got sloppy and put a bit of pressure on ourselves, but the second half was comprehensive.\"\n\nAberdeen manager Derek McInnes: \"I thought we were well in the game. Celtic started the game in charge, which is understandable as we had one or two playing out of position.\n\n\"But I thought that, once we got a foothold in the game, we had good opportunities and looked a threat on the counter-attack.\n\n\"The only thing we were guilty of is not putting the ball into the net. If you don't take your chances against a team like Celtic, it comes back to bite you and it certainly did.\"\n• None Substitution, Celtic. Scott Sinclair replaces Mikael Lustig because of an injury.\n• None Scott Brown (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. James Wilson (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Attempt blocked. James Forrest (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Aberdeen 0, Celtic 3. Odsonne Edouard (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Tomas Rogic.\n• None Attempt saved. Scott McKenna (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Substitution, Aberdeen. Ethan Ross replaces Greg Halford because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Greg Stewart (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Odsonne Edouard (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Angela Collingbourne (top left) and seven other members of the drugs gang were jailed on Friday\n\nA grandmother has been jailed for six years after becoming \"second in command\" to a drugs gang headed by her two sons.\n\nAngela Collingbourne, 51, helped the group to sell more than £2.7m of cocaine in Newport, with her son directing operations from prison.\n\nSeven other members were also jailed for conspiracy to supply class A drugs on Friday at Newport Crown Court.\n\nAnother eight had already been jailed in March, bringing the total to 16.\n\nThe gang, from Newport, dealt the drug from a garage called NP19 Tyres, with video showing thousands of pounds passing through but only a handful of cars being repaired.\n\nThe court was told Collingbourne, who is a grandmother, racked up a \"number of convictions\" for shoplifting, driving and a public order offence before becoming responsible for managing the gang's funds and facilitating - and maintaining control of the mobile telephone trading line with 4,000 customers.\n\nProsecutor Andrew Jones said: \"She was a middle tier manager of the organisation.\"\n\nAnother eight members, including Angela Collingbourne's sons, were jailed in March\n\nShe denied being \"a trusted lieutenant of this organised crime group, the second-in-command\" - but was convicted by a jury.\n\nRichard Barton, defending, said Collingbourne was acting out of \"mother's love\" and trying to provide for her three sons - the youngest of which has now lost \"three fifths of his remaining family\" following the convictions.\n\nThe court was told Collingbourne became estranged from her \"racist\" parents after they did not approve of her relationship.\n\nJudge Daniel Williams told Collingbourne: \"During your trial you portrayed yourself as a victim, fighting bigotry and injustice - but the jury saw through you.\n\n\"You dismissed your crimes as evidence of your own victim-hood.\n\n\"You were counting and banking the vast profits from this operation.\n\nAngela Collingbourne was captured on CCTV counting cash from drugs sales\n\n\"You began to believe that you were unstoppable.\"\n\nThe gang was arrested following a year-long investigation, Operation Finch, which involved surveillance and secret recordings.\n\nCollingbourne's son Jerome Nunes, 28, and Blaine Nunes, 26, were jailed for 12 and 14 years.\n\nJudge Williams said it was \"depressing\" that Jerome Nunes was able to direct the operation from his prison cell using hidden mobile phones, while serving a sentence for possession of cocaine with intent to supply.\n\nThe gang sourced drugs from Merseyside, with Matthew Croft regularly visiting Liverpool to meet \"up-stream suppliers\", the court heard.\n\nShe would accompany her partner Thomas Allison to drug deals in her pyjamas and had ambitions of buying a £500,000 house with him. A raid recovered Versace, Prada, Bulgari and Louis Vuitton clothing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A hit-and-run victim has released CCTV footage of the crash in a bid to track down a driver after being disappointed by the police response to his case.\n\nMedical student Josh Dey suffered a bleed on the brain when he was knocked off his bike on Swain's Lane in Highgate, north London, on 21 April.\n\nA local restaurant gave him its CCTV video to help him with his public appeal to find the driver.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was investigating, but no one has been arrested.", "Both Labour and the Conservatives have suffered losses in the local elections, with voters turning to smaller parties and independents in a backlash against the Brexit deadlock. But beyond the immediate headlines lie smaller storylines you may have missed - here are seven of them.\n\nA poll on Hambleton Council was decided by lot - and the result saw Labour take its first seat there in more than a decade.\n\nThe seat, Northallerton South, was tied on 527 votes for Labour and the Conservatives - so the seat was settled by the returning officer choosing between two blank envelopes, one candidate's name in each.\n\nLabour's Gerald Ramsden was the lucky winner of the draw.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gerald Ramsden was elected after a dead heat in Hambleton.\n\nThe Tories won the Tetbury Town ward by just one vote - after officials looked through the spoiled ballots and accepted one where the voter had put \"Brexit\" and an arrow to the Conservative Party candidate.\n\nStephen Hirst retained his seat in the Cotswolds town after defeating independent Kevin Painter by 232 votes to 231.\n\nThe Conservatives and the independents had been tied before the returning officer, who is in charge of overseeing elections, decided to settle the matter by using the rejected ballot paper.\n\nMr Painter has confirmed he contacted the Electoral Commission for advice and he will be taking legal action over the decision.\n\nCotswold District Council said it had consulted the guidelines in the Electoral Commission's booklet on doubtful papers and examples within election law books.\n\nLeading Brexiteer MP Jacob Rees-Mogg now has a Liberal Democrat councillor representing him in Somerset.\n\nLiberal Democrat candidate Dave Wood defeated Conservative Tim Warren, leader of Bath and North East Somerset Council, in the Mendip ward.\n\nWera Hobhouse, Lib Dem MP for Bath, tweeted: \"Congratulations to Cllr Dave Wood, who moments ago beat B&NES council leader Tim Warren. He's now @Jacob_Rees_Mogg's local councillor!\"\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party's first openly gay election candidate has been elected.\n\nAlison Bennington hugged supporters at a Belfast count centre for Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council.\n\nShe attracted 1,053 votes as part of her campaign for the pro-union and Christian party, and praised her supporters' \"good, hard work and good teamwork\".\n\nThe DUP's founder, the late Rev Ian Paisley, once led a campaign to, in his words, \"Save Ulster from Sodomy\" and prevent the decriminalisation of homosexuality.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHas Extinction Rebellion led to a Green surge in the polls?\n\nThe Green Party has been one of the elections' biggest winners, picking up 265 seats - an increase of 194 compared to 2015.\n\nWith the local elections coming just after weeks of protests by Extinction Rebellion, should the environmental group be seen as having had an impact on voters' decisions?\n\nJonathan Bartley, the Green Party's co-leader, certainly thinks so.\n\nHe told the BBC he had \"no doubt\" the Extinction Rebellion group had contributed towards the party's election success, adding it was a \"powerful force in building awareness of the urgency of climate change\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe little-known Yorkshire Party has won council seats for the first time in its history.\n\nThe party, which was set up in 2014 and campaigns for regional devolution (among other things), has previously had councillors defect to it - but had never actually won an election.\n\nNow, the party has won six - with successes in both the East Riding of Yorkshire and Selby councils.\n\n#Dogsatpollingstations proved such a hit on election day it has even emerged as a muse for professional poets.\n\nBrian Bilston's effort, posted on Twitter, proved almost as popular as the dogs themselves.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Brian Bilston This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Demonstrators outside Birmingham primary schools wanted an end to LGBT lessons\n\nHead teachers have challenged ministers to deliver better support for schools facing criticism from parents over lessons on same-sex relationships.\n\nThe move follows weeks of protests outside schools in Birmingham.\n\nHead Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson told the National Association of Head Teachers' conference that official teaching guidance on LGBT love was unclear.\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds has said no child should have to walk past demonstrations to go to school.\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson told the annual meeting there had been five weeks of protests over equality lessons outside her school, Anderton Park primary.\n\n\"The lead protestors have no children at my school,\" she said.\n\nShe highlighted photographs of some of the banners displayed outside the grounds, declaring slogans such as \"Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve\" and \"We have a say in what they learn\".\n\nAddressing the conference, Ms Hewitt-Clarkson asked: \"How have we got to this beyond awful state of affairs?\"\n\nShe said the government's new draft relationships education policy - due to come in next year - stated that primary school children should know that marriage, both to same-sex and opposite sex couples was a life-long commitment.\n\nIt also stated that families could be single parents, LGBT parents, grandparents and so on.\n\n\"This is excellent and clear,\" she said.\n\nBut she said she believed official guidance to heads did not make it sufficiently clear that the policy did not specifically seek to promote LGBT relationships or indeed heterosexual relationships, but rather \"love and care\" more generally.\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson said she also objected to suggestions in the guidance that it was up to primary schools to decide whether teaching about LGBT relationships specifically was age-appropriate for their pupils.\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson said this made \"a policy that is meant to be the same for all, different for all\", with individual head teachers like herself left having to sort out the confusion.\n\nShe called on Mr Hinds to work with her and the NAHT \"to sort out this unequal mess\".\n\nThe conference motion for \"a more robust and legally enforceable policy and support for schools as they carry out their public sector equality duty\", was carried unanimously.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said the guidance was clear that schools would have \"flexibility to deliver the content of relationships, sex and health education in a way that is age-appropriate and sensitive to the needs of their pupils.\n\n\"It is also unequivocal that these subjects do not promote anything, they educate.\n\n\"Ultimately it is for the school to decide what is taught in the curriculum and we trust them to make reasonable decisions based on the feedback they receive from parents,\" said the spokesperson.", "Snowdon is the busiest mountain in the UK\n\nCrowds queuing at the peaks of Snowdon and Pen y Fan highlight the need to invest in infrastructure around Wales' mountains, authorities say.\n\nMore people are visiting the peaks in north and south Wales, with pictures showing crowds at the summits over the Easter holiday.\n\nBut the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) said money must be spent on better facilities.\n\nThe Welsh Government said £2m was being spent on improvements.\n\nTrain tickets to the summit of Snowdon sold out in advance of last month's 10th anniversary of the Hafod Eryri visitor centre.\n\nPhotos on social media also showed crowds and queues of people waiting patiently to take photos at the best vantage spots - with similar scenes at Pen y Fan in the Brecon Beacons.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat has given rise to concerns that tourists are being affected by overflowing car parks, a lack of toilets and limited transport.\n\nAnd with visitor numbers expected to rise in the coming months, there are fears over the impact tourism will have on the local environment and community.\n\n\"We've got a problem with infrastructure here in Wales,\" said Elfyn Jones, of the BMC.\n\n\"It's great to see tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people enjoying the Welsh countryside - but how can we cope and deal with so many people?\n\n\"Footpaths are being eroded, car parks are overflowing and we don't have enough facilities for litter or toilets.\n\n\"We need to invest in our infrastructure if we are to maintain this growth in people coming here.\n\n\"It's also absolute chaos for the locals trying to live amongst it.\"\n\nElfyn Jones said it was great to see so many people out enjoying the countryside\n\nThe Snowdon Partnership Plan has been set up to improve and protect \"what makes the area truly unique and special\".\n\nLast year, volunteers removed 400 bags of litter from the mountain.\n\nHowever the Snowdonia National Park Authority said popular tourist spots were still in \"desperate need of major investment\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHelen Pye, head of engagement, said: \"Visitors bring an estimated £69m of economic benefit annually to the Snowdon area alone. But it is also having significant impacts on the local community, the mountain and the environment of the area.\n\n\"We're also increasingly concerned that the current standard of infrastructure is beginning to affect people's experience of Snowdonia and of Wales as a destination.\n\n\"We and other partners are doing our best with the limited resources we have. Snowdonia National Park Authority has half the resources it had 20 years ago [but] visitor numbers have at least doubled.\"\n\nIt has called for investment in visitor infrastructure at Pen Y Pass and Llanberis, in particular, and urged a \"major review and overhaul\" of car parks and transport in the area.\n\nAll revenue from car parks in Snowdonia is reinvested into managing footpaths and facilities\n\nPolice have previously warned visitors to Pen y Fan in the Brecon Beacons not to park illegally along the busy A470.\n\nHowever the Easter crowds were good news for Kay Jones, the owner of Kay's Kitchen at the bottom of the mountain, who said: \"It's been busier than it has been, ever.\"\n\nThe Brecon Beacons National Park Authority admitted \"more needs to be done\" but that they faced financial pressures.\n\n\"It's important that visitors have a positive experience and support the local economy,\" delivery director Steve Gray said.\n\n\"It's great to see people visiting the park and enjoying the health and well-being benefits on offer. However, high levels of visitor numbers can sometimes cause problems.\n\n\"The images we saw over the Easter weekend highlight the need for further investment in improving visitor infrastructure.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Earlier this year we announced £2.2m to improve our tourism infrastructure, including improvements to parking, cycle paths and toilets, and we'll continue to work with our national parks and local authorities to make access to our most popular destinations even better.\"", "Mr Trump and Mr Putin at their controversial meeting in Helsinki\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an hour-long call, covering issues including the \"Russian hoax\".\n\n\"Had a long and very good conversation with President Putin,\" the US president tweeted.\n\nMr Trump rebuked a reporter who asked whether he had warned Mr Putin against meddling in the 2020 elections.\n\nIt was the leaders' first conversation since the Mueller report cleared Mr Trump of colluding with Russia.\n\nThe Kremlin confirmed in a statement the two had spoken, saying the call had been initiated by the White House.\n\nMr Trump and Mr Putin last spoke informally at December's G20 Summit in Buenos Aires.\n\nThe US president tweeted on Friday about their latest conversation: \"As I have always said, long before the Witch Hunt started, getting along with Russia, China, and everyone is a good thing not a bad thing.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen asked in the White House on Friday whether he had warned Mr Putin that Moscow should not interfere in the next US presidential election, Mr Trump told the reporter she was \"very rude\".\n\n\"We didn't discuss that,\" he said.\n\n\"Getting along with countries is a good thing and we want to have good relations with everybody.\"\n\nBut the White House said the matter of alleged Russian meddling had been broached in the call.\n\nMr Trump has defended Russia in the past over claims of interference in the 2016 election\n\nPress secretary Sarah Sanders said: \"Very, very briefly it was discussed, essentially in the context of that it's over and there was no collusion, which I'm pretty sure both leaders were very well aware of long before this call took place.\"\n\nMrs Sanders also said Mr Trump and Mr Putin had briefly discussed the investigation by US Special Counsel Robert Mueller into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.\n\nThe White House press secretary described the call as an \"overall positive conversation\".\n\nA redacted version of the special counsel's report was made public last month. It concluded that Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election \"in sweeping and systematic fashion\".\n\nThe interference took the form of an extensive social media campaign and hacking into Democratic Party servers by Russian military intelligence, it said. The inquiry did not determine the Trump campaign had conspired with Russia.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Trump and Mr Putin also discussed thorny foreign policy issues:", "Thailand's new king has started three days of ceremonial rites, as the country crowns its first monarch in nearly seven decades.\n\nThe rituals he goes through are a mixture of Buddhist and Hindu Brahmin traditions and date back centuries.\n\nKing Vajiralongkorn's crown weighed 7.3kg (16lb), and symbolised Mount Meru, the home of the Hindu god Indra.", "The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is already the second deadliest in history\n\nThe death toll from the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed 1,000, the health ministry says.\n\nDRC's Ebola outbreak began in August and is the second deadliest in history.\n\nWorld Health Organization deputy director Dr Michael Ryan said mistrust and violence was harming efforts to tackle the disease as it spread through the east of the country.\n\nThere have been 119 documented attacks on medical centres and staff since January, Dr Ryan said.\n\nWHO staff anticipated \"continued intense transmission\", he added, in a briefing to reporters in Geneva.\n\nHealth workers have plenty of vaccines - more than 100,000 people have already been given the treatment. But continuing violence in the east of the country where militias are present, as well as mistrust of doctors, was hindering their programme, Dr Ryan said.\n\n\"We still face major issues of community acceptance and trust,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe DRC is also suffering from an outbreak of measles which has killed more than 1,000 people, with 50,000 cases reported. WHO staff have confirmed measles in 14 of the country's 26 provinces, in both rural and urban areas.\n\nEbola is still contained within two provinces in the DRC but it is becoming harder to monitor the spread of the virus because of violence. The WHO said the risk of a global spread is low, but it was very likely cases would spread into neighbouring countries.\n\nMost Ebola outbreaks are over quickly and affect small numbers of people. Only once before has an outbreak been still growing more than eight months after it began - that was the epidemic in West Africa between 2013 and 2016, which killed 11,310 people.", "A former Conservative councillor heckled the prime minister when she addressed the Welsh Tory conference in Llangollen.\n\nStuart Davies shouted to Theresa May: \"We don't want you\", and called on her to resign, before he was escorted away.\n\nMrs May was speaking about Thursday's local election results and Brexit.", "To say Sky/HBO's new mini-series Chernobyl is thought-provoking would be like describing Usain Bolt as quite a fast runner, or the water under the Antarctic sea ice as a bit chilly.\n\nThis is TV that doesn't just get you thinking, it stops you sleeping.\n\nThe catastrophic disaster that began with an explosion at around 01:15 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine on 26 April 1986, is graphically played out over the course of five one-hour episodes.\n\nBy the end of the third episode I was craving something a little lighter: re-watching the Towering Inferno maybe or a double helping of Luther.\n\nAnything actually, that wasn't real.\n\nBecause when the reality of the dangers that lurk in our nuclear age are played back in such forensic, chilling detail as they are here it is just too frightening to bear.\n\nIf the rumour is true that governments around the world played down the horror of what happened that night in the new town of Pripyat (now abandoned) in order to safeguard their own nuclear power plans, then this series makes you understand why.\n\nAt least 31 people were killed and many more were injured in what was the world's worst nuclear power accident\n\nThe action starts two years after the event in the small, tatty apartment of physicist Valery Legasov (Jared Harris).\n\nThe man who led the commission investigating the accident is sitting at his kitchen table in front of a microphone and cassette player listening back to a recording he has made detailing everything he knows about what happened before, during and after that cataclysmic night when Chernobyl's No 4 reactor exploded following a safety test.\n\nValery Legasov (Jared Harris) headed the commission that investigated the Chernobyl nuclear power accident\n\nThe mood is sombre and eerie.\n\nYou can sense the menacing threat from the KGB officers watching silently in a car across the street.\n\nThis is a world in which people have forgotten how to smile.\n\nAnd then it gets much worse…\n\nWe spool back 24 months and one hour to another modest apartment, this time in Pripyat. A young woman (Jessie Buckley) is walking back to bed having been sick.\n\nShe looks lovingly at her sleeping husband (Adam Nagaitis). He is oblivious. She walks towards the window. And then stops in her tracks when a huge bang shakes the building. It's enough to wake up her fella.\n\nHe jumps out of bed, walks to the window and sees a spire of phosphorescent light and flames rising from the centre of the concrete building. He turns to his wife, tells her there's nothing to worry about, puts on his firefighter's kit and leaves to join the rest of his crew at the scene.\n\nLyudmilla Ignatenko (Jessie Buckley) is worried about her husband, Vasily, who was one of the first firefighters at the scene\n\nVasily Ignatenko (Adam Nagaitis) was a newly married firefighter, who died a slow, painful death because of high radiation levels at the site\n\nWhat follows is an intensely told tale of bureaucratic cover-ups, skin-melting levels of toxic radiation, and a great tragedy that would have taken on apocalyptic proportions if it wasn't for the sacrificial courage of those who wittingly or unwittingly laid down their lives to limit the scale of the disaster.\n\nKnowing what happens makes it hard to watch sometimes.\n\nSeeing the whole town standing on a bridge with children still in their pyjamas watching the fire through a haze of radioactive ash is ghastly. It could become mawkish.\n\nBut the pressure-cooker atmosphere of the production, the pacing of the scene changes, and the excellent acting throughout (there are no fake Russian accents) gives us something different, special even: a truly exceptional, important piece of dramatised non-fiction.\n\nStellan Skarsgård plays Boris Shcherbina, a gruff career politician who starts off toeing a party line based on ignorance and complacency, until he arrives at the scene and sees for himself that Valery Legasov's grave appraisal of the situation is horrifyingly accurate.\n\nSoviet Deputy Chairman Boris Shcherbina (Stellan Skarsgård) was forced to choose between the state and the facts; here with Valery Legasov (Jared Harris)\n\nEnter Emily Watson, a Belarusian nuclear physicist called Ulyana Khomyuk who grasps the magnitude of what has happened from her office in Minsk before those on the ground have worked out what's going on.\n\nShe arrives (uninvited) and offers Legasov advice (unsolicited) on how to navigate the crisis. With him sorted she sets about trying to get to the truth of what caused the accident knowing it must never happen again.\n\nUlana Khomyuk (Emily Watson) tries to establish how the tragedy happened\n\nAll three actors turn in memorable performances, with emotions dialled all the way down to 1980s Soviet levels.\n\nThey portray a colourless world, mirrored in Johan Renck's superb direction, which rarely moves beyond a grim green-grey-brown palette.\n\nWhen I sat down to watch Chernobyl I thought I knew the story.\n\nNot the way Craig Mazin has described it in his taut and precise scripts. He takes you there, drags you inside, spares you nothing. Not to entertain or titillate, but to make you feel. And to make you think. Think what it must have been like. Think what it might be like if any one of the national governments currently running nuclear reactors start cutting costs and corners.\n\nAnd therein lies one small irony of this big series. If an equivalent amount of time, trouble, and money had been spent on maintaining and upgrading the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant as has been lavished on this series, it might never have been made.\n\nLast month the people of Chernobyl remembered those who lost their lives 33 years ago", "Ms Begum left Bethnal Green, east London, in 2015 to join the Islamic State group in Syria\n\nIS bride Shamima Begum would \"face the death penalty\" for terrorism if she came to Bangladesh, the country's foreign minister has said.\n\nAbdul Momen told the BBC that Ms Begum has \"nothing to do\" with his country.\n\nThe 19-year-old, who left east London to join the Islamic State group in 2015, was stripped of her British citizenship in February.\n\nHer claim to Bangladeshi nationality through her mother is believed to have informed the Home Office's decision.\n\nUnder international law, it is illegal to deprive nationals of citizenship if to do so would leave them stateless.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Ms Begum's lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, told the BBC \"in no way is she Bangladesh's problem\".\n\nMs Begum is appealing against the Home Office's decision.\n\nMr Momen said there was \"no question\" of giving Ms Begum Bangladeshi citizenship or allowing her into the country, piling pressure on Home Secretary Sajid Javid to settle her status.\n\n\"She has never sought Bangladeshi citizenship and her parents are also British citizens,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"The British government is responsible for her. They'll have to deal with her.\"\n\nHe added that, if she did end up coming to Bangladesh, she would fall foul of the country's \"zero tolerance policy\" towards terrorism.\n\n\"Bangladeshi law is very clear. Terrorists will have to face the death penalty,\" he said.\n\nAlthough Ms Begum travelled to Syria to join the IS group, she has not admitted any terror offences.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tasnime Akunjee, the lawyer for the family of Shamima Begum, expects her to be \"damaged\" by her ordeal\n\nThe Home Office could reverse its decision \"at any time\" and doing so would \"save British taxpayers a lot of money\" in court costs and legal aid, Mr Akunjee said.\n\n\"What Sajid Javid did in stripping Shamima of her citizenship is human fly tipping - taking our problems and dumping them on other countries,\" he said.\n\nThe Home Office told the BBC it would not respond to Mr Momen's comments and had nothing further to add to its previous statement.\n\nMs Begum left the UK with two school friends at the age of 15 before being found by a journalist from the Times in a Syrian refugee camp in mid-February this year.\n\nHeavily pregnant with her third child, she pleaded to return to the UK, claiming she had been \"brainwashed\" by Islamic State and now \"regrets everything\".\n\nShe said she did not regret travelling to Syria but did not agree with everything the IS group had done.\n\nMr Javid did not acquiesce to her pleas, telling MPs he \"won't hesitate\" to revoke her citizenship in the interests of national security.\n\n\"If you back terror, there must be consequences,\" he said.\n\nMs Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nSoon afterwards, she gave birth to a boy called Jarrah. He died of pneumonia in March at less than three weeks of age. She had two other children who also died.\n\nIn the wake of the boy's death, Mr Javid was criticised over the decision to strip Ms Begum of her British citizenship.\n\nThree weeks prior to the death, Ms Begum's sister, Renu Begum, had written to Mr Javid asking him to help her bring the baby to the UK.\n\nUnder the 1981 British Nationality Act, a person can be deprived of their citizenship if the home secretary is satisfied it would be \"conducive to the public good\" and they would not become stateless as a result.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour has suffered a net loss of council seats - starting from the low base of 2015 in many cases.\n\nThe Conservatives have lost more than 10 times as many councillors, but what is remarkable is that the main party of opposition - around the mid-term of a not-very-popular government - has not made net gains.\n\nIt seems reasonable to assume that some votes have been lost by Labour in Leave areas because - as the leader of Sunderland City Council Graeme Miller has said - the party hasn't decisively ruled out another referendum.\n\n(It has retained it as an option, if the Conservatives are unwilling to change their deal).\n\nBut if you take a close look at the figures in Sunderland, the complexity of Labour's political problems are revealed.\n\nIts vote fell by nearly 17 points there - while UKIP's went up by 4.5.\n\nThe pro-Remain Lib Dems saw their vote rise by nearly 10 points and the Greens by 8.5.\n\nIndeed, the combined vote of the Lib Dems and Greens was 21.4%, not far off UKIP's 23.9%.\n\nThe swing from Labour to the Lib Dems was about 13% and to the Greens 10%.\n\nThose in Labour's ranks who wanted a stronger commitment to another referendum on any Brexit deal are arguing now that the party is losing support in some Leave areas by failing to appeal enough to those who voted Remain.\n\nDefections to the Lib Dems and the Greens suppressed the Labour vote, and further flatters UKIP's performance.\n\nIn leave-supporting Derby, where Jeremy Corbyn's party lost six seats and UKIP gained two, the swing from Labour to Lib Dems was 6%.\n\nBut those who support Labour's current policy - a heavily caveated commitment to a referendum on Brexit under certain circumstances rather than a public vote in all circumstances - say this is too simplistic an analysis.\n\nIn truth, we can't discern the underlying motives of Labour/Lib Dem switchers in every part of the country unless we ask them.\n\nThere are genuinely local factors at play in some areas - unsurprising, perhaps, as these are indeed local elections.\n\nAnd some on Labour's left have another theory. They say the party is vulnerable to a protest vote because some Labour councils have had to cut services due to constrained budgets.\n\nIn some cases the Lib Dems are the beneficiaries\n\nOthers on the left say the party can't get a hearing for its anti-austerity message as the Brexit debate muffles all else.\n\nThey are actually quite keen for their party leadership to reach a deal with the government soon to get Brexit over the line and - they believe - this will then neutralise the political toxicity of the issue.\n\nBut there is little doubt politicians will proclaim to know the will of the people, without necessarily exploring deeper motivations - and the results will be interpreted in a way which advances their own arguments.", "Nadia Sparkes had a \"brilliant\" first day at Reepham High after being bullied at her previous school\n\nA 13-year-old nicknamed \"Trash Girl\" by bullies for picking litter has changed schools after pupils assaulted her.\n\nNadia Sparkes won international praise and awards for gathering litter on her journey to and from school, and refused to let the taunts deter her.\n\nPolice got involved last term when she was shown a knife and punched at school, her mother said.\n\nHer old school, Hellesdon High School near Norwich, said pupils' safety and welfare was of paramount importance.\n\nSince 2017, Nadia has set off for school an hour early each day to pick up litter and put it in her bicycle basket.\n\nShe turned the \"Trash Girl\" slur on its head and embraced the nickname because it made her feel \"like a superhero\" - attracting more than 4,000 followers on social media.\n\nNadia Sparkes said the \"Trash Girl\" nickname made her feel \"like a superhero\"\n\nBut Paula Sparkes said her daughter was not championed at her school.\n\n\"The staff were not on her side to help and support her and we felt it was not appropriate for her to be there any more,\" she said.\n\nShe said police became involved last term when Nadia was allegedly shown a knife and shortly afterwards chased and punched by a pupil.\n\nNorfolk Police confirmed it was called to an incident at the school and had referred a teenager to the Youth Offending Team, which was providing support.\n\n\"Officers also provided extra knife crime prevention presentations to all years groups,\" a spokeswoman added.\n\nNadia was depicted as a superhero in a cartoon by Creative Nation in January last year\n\nIn a separate incident, Nadia had to sit through a class covered in orange juice that had been thrown in her face, her mother said.\n\n\"Nadia picked up a [volunteering] award from the prime minister earlier this month - it's a shame when you think what the school could have achieved with this, and they haven't.\"\n\nShe met one of her new teachers, Reepham High School's Matt Willer, when the pair were both nominated for an eco hero award.\n\nMr Willer, who runs an allotment project, said: \"I'd heard of the amazing work she was doing collecting rubbish and how, very sadly, she was being bullied because she was doing something different.\n\n\"This hit a nerve with me and we discussed how Nadia might like to come and have a look at Reepham High.\"\n\nNadia had a \"brilliant\" start at Reepham after the Easter break and proudly wore her uniform made from recycled plastic bottles.\n\n\"She is literally wearing litter, it's like it's meant to be,\" said Mrs Sparkes.\n\nNadia's new school is about 11 miles from her home but she hopes to continue litter-picking en route to the bus stop.\n\nMr Willer said the teenager would be a \"huge asset\" to the allotment project.\n\n\"All the volunteers look forward to working with her as we all set a sound example about respecting the environment and living more sustainably.\"\n\nMatt Willer, pictured at the school allotment, said Nadia would be a huge asset to Reepham High\n\nHellesdon principal Tom Rolfe said the school did not tolerate bullying and would not actively discourage a pupil from pursuing their passion.\n\n\"We promote an ethos that reflects high moral standards, a culture of social responsibility and fosters a safe learning environment for all students,\" he added.\n\n\"All students are respected and their individuality is valued.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The local election results are disappointing for both the Conservatives and for Labour, while the Liberal Democrats, Greens and independents prospered, writes Prof Sir John Curtice and colleagues on the BBC's local elections team.\n\n\"A plague on both your houses.\" That seems to have been the key message to emerge from the ballot boxes.\n\nOn the basis of the detailed voting figures in 40 local authorities, we estimate that if the pattern of voting in the local council elections were to be replicated across the whole of Great Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would have won 28% of the vote. This is only the second time that this calculation has put both those parties below 30%.\n\nThe elections always looked set to be difficult for the Conservatives. The party was defending seats that were mostly last up for grabs four years ago, on the same day David Cameron won the 2015 general election. That, coupled with the party's recent freefall in the polls, clearly pointed to significant Conservative losses.\n\nAnd that proved to be the case. The party has suffered net losses of more than 1300 seats. On average the party's share of the vote was down by six points, both compared with 2015 and with last year's local election results.\n\nHowever, despite the government's difficulties, Labour also slipped back - on average, by no less than seven points compared with last year's local election results. As a result, the party has found itself suffering net losses of around 80 seats, when opposition parties are normally expected to post gains.\n\nThe party's performance would seem to confirm the message of a number of polls that Labour's support has been slipping in the wake of the Brexit impasse, a fall in Jeremy Corbyn's popularity, and a continuing row about anti-Semitism. Compared with last year, the party lost ground more heavily in Leave-voting areas than in Remain-voting ones, a pattern that it shared with the Conservatives (who in previous years have tended to perform better in such areas). This has been seized on by pro-Leave Labour MPs as evidence that the party should reach an agreement with the government which would pave the way for the UK to leave the EU.\n\nWhat the two parties also had in common was a tendency for their support to fall more heavily in their heartlands. Labour's vote fell back most heavily in the north, the Conservatives in the south. Equally, Labour's vote fell more heavily in wards where it was previously strong, while the Conservative vote fell most heavily where they were strongest.\n\nIt was as though voters vented their frustration with the Brexit process by punishing whichever party represented the political establishment locally.\n\nThis mood perhaps also helps account for the remarkable success of independent candidates. Those not standing on a party label were on average winning as much as a quarter of the vote where they stood. More than 900 independent councillors have been elected - a net gain of more than 500.\n\nMeanwhile the Liberal Democrats, who before they entered into coalition with the Conservatives in 2010 were often a vehicle for protest votes, also appear to have profited from voters' disenchantment with the two largest parties.\n\nThe party, which has made net gains of more than 600 seats, advanced particularly strongly in Conservative-held wards where it was previously in second place. Double digit swings from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats were common in such seats. The party seemed to be successful in reinvigorating some of the bastions of local strength where its support had been badly eroded in the wake of the coalition government. This pattern added significantly to the tally of Conservative losses.\n\nTheresa May insisted the local election results showed voters wanted the main parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nIn contrast, and despite the party's pro-Remain stance, there was only limited evidence that the Lib Dems' advance was stronger in areas that voted heavily for Remain in the 2016 referendum. For example, while support for the party rose on average by three points on last year in areas where more than half voted for Remain, it also increased by two points in areas where the Remain vote was less than 45%.\n\nThanks in part to the fact that in 2015 the Liberal Democrats had recorded its worst ever local election performance, the party was able to make so many gains, due to an increase in its vote since then, of eight points. More significant, perhaps, was the fact that its vote was also up by three points on last year's local elections.\n\nWhen the party's performance is projected into a national vote, it is estimated to be worth 19% of the vote. This represents its best local election performance since the party entered into coalition in 2010, but was still well below the party's performance in any round of local votes between 1993 and 2010. Overall, the party's performance is best seen as evidence of a partial recovery from the depths to which the party sank during the coalition years.\n\nAt the same time, the Greens had one of their best local election results ever. The party made net gains of more than 180 seats. The Greens posted an average of 12% of the vote in the wards they contested, up five points on their performance where they stood four years ago. That equals the party's previous highest average, 12% in 2009, when local elections were held on the same day as European Parliament elections. The party may have been helped by the recent protests about climate change.\n\nFighting just one in six wards, there was little opportunity for UKIP to make much impact on these elections. Where it did stand, the party's vote was down by four points on its relative high point of 2015, but up eight points on its poor position last year. However, the challenge from the Eurosceptic parties may be more formidable in the European elections in three weeks time, when Nigel Farage's Brexit Party is on the ballot paper.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.", "Alliance leader Naomi Long has hailed her party's \"incredible result\" in the council elections as a watershed moment for Northern Ireland politics.\n\nWith all 462 seats declared, Alliance saw a 65% rise in its representation. It had 32 councillors five years ago but now it has 53.\n\nOther smaller parties and independents also made significant gains.\n\nThe DUP and Sinn Féin were returned as the two biggest parties, but the DUP lost eight seats.\n\nIn terms of first preference votes the DUP saw a marginal increase to 24.1% but Sinn Féin's was 23.2%, a slight drop on its 2014 results.\n\nAlliance saw its share of the vote increase from 6.7% to 11.5%.\n\nA sister party of the Liberal Democrats in Great Britain, Alliance is Northern Ireland's main centrist cross-community party, seeking to attract support from both Protestants and Catholics.\n\nIt won 10 seats in Belfast and will continue to hold the balance of power between unionists and nationalists.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt also doubled its representation in Mid and East Antrim from three councillors to six, and for the first time in decades, it has representation in the north west with two seats on Derry and Strabane Council.\n\n\"Crucially, we've broken outside the Greater Belfast area for the first time in I would say 30 years,\" Alliance leader Naomi Long told the BBC.\n\nShe said it had been a breakthrough election for her party and other cross-community candidates, with many voters choosing to reject the \"tribal politics\" of unionism and nationalism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alliance leader Naomi Long explains why she thinks voters rewarded the party at the polls\n\nSinn Féin's results have been mixed - it won six out of seven seats in Blackmountain District Electoral Area (DEA) and for the first time, it has representation on Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council with two seats.\n\nHowever, the party lost five sitting councillors from Derry City and Strabane Council.\n\nFormer Sinn Féin MP Barry McElduff, who resigned his Westminster seat over a Twitter controversy, has been elected to Fermanagh and Omagh District Council.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Darran Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe quit as West Tyrone MP last year after he was accused of mocking victims of the Kingsmills massacre - 10 Protestant workmen were shot dead by the IRA.\n\nMr McElduff maintained that the video - published on the 42nd anniversary of the murders - was meant as a joke and the timing was coincidental.\n\nThe DUP has also carved out some new territory, gaining two new seats in Belfast, and electing its first ever openly gay candidate, Alison Bennington in Antrim and Newtownabbey.\n\nBut the party lost its leader on Belfast City Council, Lee Reynolds, after a low turnout in its east Belfast heartland.\n\nThe Green Party had some notable successes with four seats in Belfast, where Áine Groogan topped the poll in the Botanic DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Jayne McCormack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople Before Profit won three seats in Belfast while its former Stormont MLA Eamon McCann returns to frontline politics with a seat on Derry City and Strabane.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Veteran socialist Eamon McCann is \"looking forward\" to his new role as a councillor\n\nMatt Collins topped the poll in the Black Mountain DEA and takes a seat at Belfast City Hall alongside his brother Michael and newcomer Fiona Ferguson.\n\nBrothers Matt and Michael Collins will sit together on Belfast City Council\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) lost 13 seats including those of its Belfast councillors Jeff Dudgeon, a well-known campaigner for LGTB rights, and veteran David Browne, who was first elected 26 years ago.\n\nIndependents have also taken support from larger parties.\n\nIn Newry, Mourne and Down, independent candidate Gavin Malone, a former council worker himself, topped the poll in the Newry District Electoral Area (DEA).\n\nThe first-time candidate, who quit his 20-year career to run for election, got 2,296 first preferences, beating his nearest Sinn Féin rival by more than 900 votes.\n\nIn the same DEA, former SDLP turned independent Dr Josephine Deehan polled 728 first preference votes, more than both of her SDLP rivals put together.\n\nThe GP was elected in the eighth round.\n\nElsewhere in the Fermanagh and Omagh Council area, an anti-gold mining campaigner was the first person to be elected in the Mid-Tyrone DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Darran Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmmet McAleer, who stood as an independent, polled almost 900 first preferences and won a seat in the fifth round.\n\nBut not everyone can go it alone.\n\nIn Belfast, three independents who left the SDLP over a row about abortion policy, all lost their seats.\n\nPat Convery, Kate Mullan and Declan Boyle quit the party in 2017.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Mark Devenport This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin's John Finucane was elected on the first count.\n\nHe is the son of murdered solicitor Pat Finucane who was shot dead in front of his wife and three children in 1989.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Finucane says he wants to \"change Belfast for the positive\"\n\nThe DUP made some gains in Belfast with Nicola Verner taking a seat in Court, from former TUV candidate Jolene Bunting.\n\nMs Bunting, who had been involved in a number of controversies during her five-year tenure, ran as an independent this time but only polled 351 first preferences.\n\nIn Derry and Strabane District Council, independent Gary Donnelly topped the poll in the Moor electoral area - where journalist Lyra McKee was killed last month by dissident republicans.\n\nHe had refused to condemn violent dissident republicanism but in the wake of her murder he called on the New IRA to desist from further attacks.\n\nIt has been a similar theme to day one, which is that of Alliance victories, they have the most to be pleased about as the result of this election.\n\nClearly different voters vote for them for different reasons, but it may well reflect a disenchantment with the political paralysis up at Stormont.\n\nThe DUP will be pleased that they have held their own and actually increased their vote slightly at the expense of the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV), which had a good election five years ago but has not been able to replicate that performance.\n\nI think Sinn Féin will be disappointed, they missed a number of their targets and their vote has slid slightly.\n\nOne interesting development tonight is that it looks like Fermanagh and Omagh District Council might slip into no overall control, rather than being a nationalist majority council.\n\nThat is because there has been a wave of independents who won through there.\n\nThose independents may actually be nationalist in their outlooks but it is a sign of changing times both there and in Belfast where some of the smaller parties have also come through.\n\nMeanwhile, an independent candidate - who only stood for election after a Facebook post suggestion posted on 1 April garnered online support - has been elected to Antrim and Newtownabbey District council.\n\nMichael Stewart, who runs the Love Ballyclare Facebook page, said: \"I wasn't aware there would be this massive surge to independents, the Greens and Alliance. I didn't know I was part of anything.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am one of those people who voted for me, who've no interest in politics - they care about holes in their roads, no paper in their schools and that they can't get an appointment with their health centre.\"\n\nIt has been a long election for candidates, counters and commentators.\n\nIn Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon District Council, Brian Pope of Alliance was elected following a marathon count that went on until 06:00 on Saturday morning.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We don't exclude members of the gay community'\n\nUnsurprisingly, the story that made headlines on Friday was the success of Alison Bennington, the DUP's first openly gay representative.\n\nBelfast East MP Gavin Robinson said it was a \"good news story\", despite assembly member Jim Wells claiming members were \"shocked by the decision\" to let her run.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said she was delighted by Ms Bennington's electoral performance.\n\nShe said the party will consider comments made by Mr Wells post-election and said he should have raised any concerns \"through the normal routes\".\n\nThe first results started to come in after 11:00 on Friday\n\nBBC News NI is covering the latest election results and analysis on our website, mobile app and on Facebook and Twitter pages.\n\nA dedicated live page will keep you up to date as the results are announced.\n\nThere is an hour-long Sunday Politics programme on BBC One Northern Ireland at 11:00 on Sunday and a special Sunday News election special on BBC Radio Ulster on Sunday at 13:00.\n\nThe final results are not expected to be confirmed until Saturday night", "Police say the group known as ‘Saoradh’ are the political voice of the New IRA.\n\nThey’ve been the focus of a backlash in Northern Ireland following Lyra McKee’s death.\n\nThey say they played no role in her death.\n\nThe BBC's Emma Vardy tried to ask questions of Thomas Ashe Mellon, a prominent member of the group.", "Cyclone Fani has slammed into India's eastern coastline. More than a million people have been evacuated from the state of Orissa, also known as Odisha.", "The motorcyclist was travelling away from Lockerbie on the A709 when the crash happened\n\nA man has died after his motorbike collided with a lorry and a car in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nThe man was on a black motorbike travelling near Lockerbie on the A709 when the accident happened at about 10:45.\n\nEmergency services attended but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe road was closed for a time to allow accident investigations but has since reopened. Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward.\n\nSgt Leigh McCulloch, said: \"We have spoken to a number of drivers who stopped at the time of the incident, however we are appealing for anyone who has not spoken to us to get in touch.\n\n\"We would also ask anyone who may have dash-cam footage from the A709, or in that area, to get come forward. You may have information that can help us establish exactly what happened here.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Bennington was congratulated by DUP colleagues after her election\n\nThe election of the DUP's first openly gay politician was welcomed by one of the party's senior politicians.\n\nAlison Bennington was elected to Antrim and Newtownabbey.\n\nBelfast East MP Gavin Robinson said it was a \"good news story\", despite assembly member Jim Wells claiming members were \"shocked by the decision\" to let her run.\n\nElsewhere there were some surprising gains for Alliance and some smaller parties.\n\nSinn Féin had a mixed set of results on the first day of counting, while the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) lost a number of seats.\n\nThere are 11 councils in Northern Ireland and a total of 462 seats up for grabs.\n\nAlison Bennington has been elected as a councillor for the party which has consistently opposed the legalisation of same-sex marriage. It remains against the law in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe DUP's founder and leader for almost 40 years, Ian Paisley, was also the founder of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, a fundamentalist and evangelical denomination which many DUP politicians are still associated with.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said Ms Bennington's election did not necessarily mean a shift in the party's policy.\n\nJim Wells, who has been one of the party's most vocal opponents of same-sex marriage, said: \"This marks a watershed change in DUP party policy and none of the members were consulted about it.\n\n\"Many thousands of people in Northern Ireland are depending on the DUP to hold the line on these moral issues.\n\n\"They feel very let down and very concerned about what has happened.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut DUP MP for East Belfast, Gavin Robinson, said: \"If you believe in our party's principles, if you stand for our values, if you are prepared to go forward and seek selection and you are selected and elected by the people - then get on and do the job.\n\n\"We're not a theocracy, we're a political party.\"\n\nFormer DUP special advisor Timothy Cairns said he felt he spoke for many in the party who were \"quite angry\" at Mr Well's comments.\n\nHe said: \"Most right-thinking people are disgusted at Jim Well's comments.\n\n\"It is time for the leadership to take action. It is beyond time.\n\n\"What Jim has said this evening about a fellow colleague is wrong\".\n\nThere were a number of gains for the Alliance Party and smaller parties including the Greens and People Before Profit.\n\nAlliance won three seats in the Ormiston district electoral area (DEA) in Belfast and took a seat from Sinn Féin in Titanic, securing a second councillor in that DEA.\n\nThe party also topped the poll in every DEA in Lisburn and Castlereagh - with all nine candidates being elected - and won seats outside its traditional greater Belfast heartlands with victories in Coleraine, Lurgan and Faughan.\n\nAlliance's Ross McMullan (centre) got almost 1,000 votes over the quota\n\nThe Green Party's Áine Groogan topped the poll in the Botanic DEA and has become her party's first councillor in that area.\n\nMs Groogan, who was a first-time candidate in the local government elections, told BBC News NI her party had made gains because voters were \"fed up with old-style politics\".\n\nElsewhere in Belfast another smaller party, People Before Profit took a seat from Sinn Féin in Collin and also gained a councillor in Oldpark.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Áine Groogan: 'People are fed up with old-style politics'\n\nHowever the Progressive Unionist Party lost a seat as Julie-Anne Corr-Johnston was defeated in Oldpark.\n\nAs well as losing out to People Before Profit in Collin and Alliance in Titanic, Sinn Féin's former Derry and Strabane mayor Maolíosa McHugh lost his seat.\n\nSinn Féin assembly member Raymond McCartney said his party was set to lose \"a couple of seats\" on that council.\n\nMr McCartney said the party fought a strong campaign but that the absence of devolved government at Stormont was an issue on the doorsteps.\n\nHe said it would inform Sinn Féin's position going into talks aimed at restoring devolution which are due to start on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Voters have shown that they want equality, says Mary Lou McDonald\n\nParty president Mary Lou McDonald added that the election had demonstrated to her that the political deadlock was \"unacceptable\".\n\nThe SDLP's Mary Durkan has been elected in the Foyleside District of Derry and Strabane Council after her first foray into politics. The barrister is the sister of assembly member Mark H Durkan.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said his party had done \"very, very well\" in Derry and Strabane and was pleased with the performance overall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SDLP's \"renewal project\" is working \"very well\", says Colum Eastwood\n\nHe said: \"We are very happy, we have had some difficult years but I think this is a positive day for the party.\n\n\"What we are seeing is that new candidates with good campaigns and hard work on the ground are actually winning and winning well.\"\n\nThe UUP lost a number of seats on Friday, including in Ormiston, where Peter Johnston lost out and in Botanic.\n\nSo far the party's first preference vote share is down by 2% compared to the last council election in 2014, but this could improve after more results are declared on Saturday.\n\nThe UUP enjoyed a better day in Lisburn and Castlereagh, where their first preference vote share rose by 1.9%.\n\nThey also had a narrow victory in Cusher DEA in Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon where Gordon Kennedy beat DUP candidate Quincey Dougan to the last seat by 1.84 votes.\n\nWhere else would you find such electoral excitement on a Friday night?\n\nThere have been gains for the smaller parties including Alliance, the Greens and People Before Profit at the expense of the DUP and Sinn Féin.\n\nThe two biggest parties say their vote has held up - and even improved - in some of their traditional stronghold areas.\n\nBut there's no denying both have taken gambles that haven't paid off, running more candidates in some areas in a bid to increase their presence only for it not to work out.\n\nThe SDLP are pleased with their performance in some areas, but across the board the UUP vote looks much poorer than the strong result they polled in 2014.\n\nAs ever, transfers are key for those final nail-biter seats in each area. As one candidate put it to me: \"Every transfer matters, it's like Game of Thrones!\"\n\nIn Mid-Ulster, Kyle Black, the son of prison officer David Black who was murdered by dissident republicans, was elected in Carntogher.\n\nHe said: \"Out of absolutely devastating circumstance that will impact out lives forever, I wanted to try and do something positive - to give back to the community.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kyle Black says he entered politics after his father's murder showed him the \"worst\" of Northern Ireland\n\nIt will be late on Saturday before the full results are confirmed.\n\nAs of Friday night, turnout was recorded as 52%, but this is not the final figure.\n\nThursday's good weather appears to have boosted voter numbers, but there is a wide variation across the different District Electoral Areas (DEAs).\n\nIn County Fermanagh, the turnout was almost 72% in the Erne East DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Darran Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, in east Belfast, just over 42% of eligible voters cast their ballot in the Titanic DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Belfast City Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt has been two decades since a council election was held on its own, and not in conjunction with another poll.\n\nThe official turnout in 2014's council election, which was held alongside the European election, was 51%, and the DUP secured the highest number of seats.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThe first results started to come in after 11:00 on Friday\n\nBBC News NI will cover the latest election results and analysis on our website, mobile app and on Facebook and Twitter throughout the weekend.\n\nA dedicated live page will keep you up to date as the results are announced.\n\nThere will also be special election programmes on BBC Radio Ulster from 10:00 on Saturday.\n\nTelevision coverage will be on BBC Two Northern Ireland at 10:00 on Saturday, with an hour-long Sunday Politics programme on the same channel at 11:00 on Sunday.", "Alan Simpson was an experienced pilot, his family said\n\nA poultry farmer from Shropshire has died in a plane crash in Canada.\n\nAlan Simpson, 72, from Prees, was one of two pilots in the aircraft which crashed into a mountain in the Labrador region during \"poor weather\" on 1 May.\n\nThe other pilot, from Belgium, was injured and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said it was working with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada to determine the cause of the crash.\n\nMr Simpson's family said he would be \"deeply missed\".\n\nThey said he had been flying for over 35 years and had been travelling from the US to the UK with another experienced pilot at the time of the crash.\n\nThey added they were \"eternally grateful\" to the search and rescue teams that helped locate the plane.\n\n\"Alan was a vibrant character who lived life to the max and will be deeply missed by the extensive group of family and friends he has left behind,\" his family said.\n\nThe Royal Canadian Mounted Police said weather conditions were poor at the time of the crash\n\nMajor Mark Norris, from the Canadian Armed Forces Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax, and who was part of the search and rescue operation, said it was \"very complex and challenging\" as the plane crashed in an area \"beyond remote\".\n\nHe said they received an alert from the single-engine aircraft's emergency transmitting beacon at 09:30 local time (13:30 BST) and teams were deployed to a mountain near Makkovik.\n\nHe said one of the men was able to send text messages to rescue teams, and, despite the weather conditions, the pair were extracted several hours later. Mr Simpson was pronounced dead in a clinic in Makkovik.\n\nPolice added both men were pilots and an investigation was taking place to determine \"who was actively piloting\" at the time.\n\nOliver Cartwright, a spokesman for the National Farmers' Union, said the organisation was \"deeply saddened\" by Mr Simpson's death.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Bennington was congratulated by DUP colleagues after her election\n\nNorthern Ireland's council elections have seen the acreage occupied by the smaller parties grow.\n\nThe polls have ushered in some new faces... and bid farewell to some familiar ones.\n\nIn a weekend full of shocks and surprises, there were notable gains for the Greens, Alliance and People Before Profit.\n\nAs the dust settles on the count, BBC News NI looks at some of the winners and losers.\n\nIn a move some saw as the DUP testing the water on legalising gay marriage, the party's first openly gay politician contested the vote in Antrim and Newtownabbey.\n\nAlison Bennington's success was hailed by Belfast East MP Gavin Robinson as a \"good news story\",\n\nHowever, the fact assembly member Jim Wells claimed former party leader, the late Ian Paisley, would be \"aghast\" at the decision to run a gay candidate points to the internal divisions that remain over same-sex relationships.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor her part, Ms Bennington, who runs a consultancy firm, chose to say nothing following her success - preferring to let the dust settle.\n\nThat could take some time considering what a seismic shift her elevation represents for the Presbyterian wing of the DUP.\n\nSitting alongside the DUP groundbreaker on Antrim and Newtownabbey District Council will be an independent whose candidacy was sparked by an April Fool's Facebook post.\n\nA suggestion that Michael Stewart take on the big boys and girls at the ballot box garnered enough support to persuade the advertising agency owner to do just that.\n\nThe man behind the Love Ballyclare Facebook page, said: \"I wasn't aware there would be this massive surge to independents, the Greens and Alliance. I didn't know I was part of anything.\n\n\"I am one of those people who voted for me, who've no interest in politics - they care about holes in their roads, no paper in their schools and that they can't get an appointment with their health centre.\"\n\nNot all superheroes wear capes - just ask A&E doctor and new mum Vikki McAuley.\n\nWith a five-month-old tot to take care of, she could be forgiven for having other things on her mind than representing the good people of Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council.\n\nBut as Benjamin Franklin once said: \"If you want something done, ask a busy person.\"\n\n\"The other thing that I'm doing at the minute - I'm on maternity leave, but I'm also studying, doing a part-time law degree at Jordanstown,\" she said.\n\n\"It's fair to say I like to keep busy - very busy.\n\n\"I was aiming for a career change to the law, but now I've ended up in politics. I've an exam on Thursday as well.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's been a busy time in my family, we say we don't do anything by halves, we've always a lot going on.\n\n\"It's been a real family effort, all three children - they're aged nine, four and nearly six months - we've all been out at some stage canvassing.\"\n\nWhile there was plenty of new blood elected to local authorities across Northern Ireland, there were some famous and infamous names bidding adieu.\n\nAlan Graham was pictured in front of his barn, where a Bible verse was painted\n\nAs the singer filmed the promo for her 2011 hit We Found Love, it all got a bit too much for Mr Graham who shut down the shoot as things were heating up.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I thought it was inappropriate. I requested them to stop and they did,\" he explained at the time.\n\n\"I wish no ill will against Rihanna and her friends. Perhaps they could acquaint themselves with a greater God.\"\n\nFirst-time candidate Áine Groogan topped the poll in the Botanic DEA and has become the Greens' first councillor in that area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Áine Groogan: 'People are fed up with old-style politics'\n\nShe told BBC News NI her party had made gains because voters were \"fed up with old-style politics\".\n\nPeople Before Profit was raising a glass of Champagne or perhaps a well-priced cava, to some fine electoral successes - not least in Belfast where Michael Collins joins his brother Matthew in the chamber.\n\nMichael will represent Collin which takes in the Dunmurry, Ladybrook, Lagmore, Poleglass, Stewartstown and Twinbrook wards.\n\nMatt, meanwhile, is an old hand at the game, having been elected to Black Mountain in 2016.\n\nWhile the brothers Collins may be the youthful face of People Before Profit, Eamonn McCann is very much the veteran campaigner (despite the leather jacket).\n\nIn 1968, he earned the reputation of a fiery speaker at the forefront of the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland.\n\nAnd after standing unsuccessfully for more than five decades, he was eventually elected in March 2016, at the age of 73, to the Stormont Assembly as a People Before Profit politician.\n\nBy March 2017, he had lost his seat in a snap election, but with plenty of fire still in his belly the Derry City fan is back on the political terraces having secured a berth on Derry City and Strabane District Council.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nBBC News NI is covering the latest election results and analysis on our website, mobile app and on Facebook and Twitter until the last seat is filled.\n\nA dedicated live page will keep you up to date as the results are announced.", "Health secretary Matt Hancock has said he is willing to look at \"all options\" to boost England's vaccination levels, including compulsory immunisation.\n\nMr Hancock told the BBC he did not want to \"reach the point\" of imposing jabs, but would \"rule nothing out\".\n\nMore than half a million children in the UK were unvaccinated against measles from 2010 to 2017, Unicef says.\n\nIn March, the head of NHS England warned \"vaccination deniers\" were gaining traction on social media.\n\nThe health secretary was speaking after a report in The Times claimed almost 40,000 British parents had joined an online group calling for children to be left unimmunised against potentially fatal diseases such as tetanus.\n\nAnd in England, the proportion of children receiving both doses of the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) jab by their fifth birthday has fallen over the last four years to 87.2%.\n\nThis is below the 95% said by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to be the level necessary to protect a population from a disease.\n\nThe UK was declared free of the highly contagious measles disease for the first time by the WHO in 2017.\n\nBut in 2018, it experienced small outbreaks, and in March this year there was a sharp increase of cases across Greater Manchester.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC investigated in 2018 why there's been a measles outbreak in Europe\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Hancock said: \"Failure to vaccinate when there isn't a good reason is wrong.\n\n\"These people who campaign against vaccinations are campaigning against science - the science is settled.\n\n\"I don't want to have to reach the point of compulsory vaccination, and I don't think we are near there, but I will rule nothing out.\"\n\nHe said the failure to vaccinate children put at risk those who could not be vaccinated for medical reasons.\n\n\"Vaccination is good for you, good for your child, good for your neighbour and your community,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Alliance Party leader David Ford has hailed the party's performance so far in the council election.\n\nHe said the strong numbers was testament to the party's leader Naomi Long and deputy leader Stephen Farry.", "(L-R) Kevin Keegan, Patsy Kensit, Lord Archer, Michelle Collins, Joe Swash, and Denise Van Outen settled claims with the Mirror group in 2017\n\nThe publishers of the Sun and now-defunct News of the World, along with the publishers of the Mirror Group newspapers, could face a total bill for phone hacking of up to £1bn, says the group representing the victims.\n\nSettlements to victims, plus legal costs, already total nearly £500m.\n\nThere are hundreds more claims already under way and many thousands more victims who could potentially claim.\n\n\"More and more victims contact us each year,\" said Hacked Off's Nathan Sparks.\n\nHe told the BBC that this suggested there could be many hundreds or thousands more still to come.\n\n\"The apparent willingness of the Mirror Group Newspapers and Sun owners News UK to settle cases at seemingly any price indicates a desperation to avoid having these claims heard in open court - which would expose multiple allegations of corporate wrongdoing and criminality to the public gaze,\" he added.\n\n\"With the expenditure of all publishers taken into account, the total cost of the scandal could exceed £1bn - with virtually no accountability for the executives who have presided over it.\"\n\nA spokesperson for News UK simply said: \"We can't comment on active litigation.\" The Mirror Group also declined to comment.\n\nThe revelation that News of the World employee Glenn Mulcaire hacked the phone of murdered teenager Milly Dowler caused national outrage and led to a public inquiry into the behaviour of the press, the police and politicians, chaired by Lord Justice Sir Brian Leveson.\n\nThat inquiry was split into two parts, with part two deferred until after criminal prosecutions had been concluded - which they were in 2016.\n\nThe government then closed down the second part of the inquiry, meaning many of the claims of the victims were never heard in an open forum.\n\nPhone-hacking campaigners had hoped that a series of civil trials involving hundreds of victims would see fresh claims of wrongdoing by journalists, editors and owners at the Sun, the Mirror and the Sunday Mirror tested in reportable court proceedings.\n\nNews UK has always insisted that the illegality was confined to the News of the World.\n\nIt is true that the original Leveson inquiry led to criminal convictions mainly of people employed by the News of the World, with one journalist, Dan Evans, pleading guilty to hacking at both that paper and at the Sunday Mirror.\n\nThe convictions included that of Glenn Mulcaire, the man who hacked Milly Dowler's phone. He never testified in Leveson 1 because of his involvement in a criminal trial that resulted in him being sentenced to nine months in prison.\n\nHowever, the judge in a civil trial against the Mirror that subsequently DID make it all the way to court ruled that phone-hacking at the Mirror was \"widespread, institutionalised and long-standing\".\n\nA spokesperson for the publishers of the Mirror said: \"We don't believe there would be any merit in spending public money to hold a Leveson 2 inquiry today. The practices of the past which gave rise to the original Leveson inquiry have long since been banished from our newsrooms.\"\n\nSo far, News Group has paid out £400m and the Mirror's owners £75m.\n\nThese settlements are entered into voluntarily by the claimants, but even if they are satisfied with the money they received, many activists remain unsatisfied that the full extent of phone-hacking and other press intrusion was never explored in public.\n\nThe government has defended its decision to shut down Leveson 2, saying that because of significant changes in the media landscape since Leveson 1, proceeding further \"was no longer appropriate, proportionate, or in the public interest\".\n\nSir Brian Leveson himself strongly rejected that conclusion in a letter to the government.\n\nActor and phone-hacking victim Hugh Grant told the BBC the conclusion was deeply unsatisfactory.\n\nHe said: \"The vast majority of people who were running the press pre-Leveson are still in place to this day and they got away scot-free, precisely because the Leveson inquiry was always supposed to be split into 2 parts, because the second part - who did what to who - the precise gradual stuff had to be delayed until after the civil criminal trials.\n\n\"And once they did finish, Theresa May completely backed down.\"\n\nThe press, the police and the politicians tell the public Leveson 1 forced everyone to clean up their act. But many activists and victims feel that an awful lot of dirty linen remains unwashed.\n\nThe newspaper owners involved have paid hundreds of millions of pounds to keep it that way.\n\nThe Press, the Police, the Politicians and their Public airs on Radio 4 on Sunday 5 May at 13:30.", "Actor Sir Tony Robinson, a former member of Labour's governing National Executive Committee, says he has quit the party over its current direction.\n\nHe said he was leaving after nearly 45 years because of Labour's stance on Brexit, its handling of anti-Semitism allegations and its poor leadership.\n\nSir Tony, 72, is best known for playing Baldrick in the comedy Blackadder.\n\nThe political activist has spoken at rallies for the People's Vote campaign, which is calling for a public vote on the final Brexit deal.\n\nHis decision comes as Labour lost seats in Thursday's local elections, with voters turning to smaller parties and independents.\n\nAnnouncing his move on Twitter, Sir Tony said it was partly down to the party's \"continued duplicity on Brexit\".\n\nHe has previously written a tweet to deputy leader Tom Watson, saying: \"Our party members are overwhelmingly in favour of a second referendum. To campaign on a platform of constructive ambiguity would be unprincipled, duplicitous and rather sinister.\"\n\nLabour has refused to fully endorse a further referendum on Brexit - as supported by many ordinary members - instead saying it would do so under certain circumstances.\n\nSir Tony, who has frequently criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Twitter, also raised the issue of anti-Semitism and swore when describing the leadership in his tweet.\n\nLabour has been dogged by criticism of how it has handled allegations of anti-Semitism since Mr Corbyn became leader.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tony Robinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Time Team presenter, who campaigned at several general elections, served on Labour's National Executive Committee between 2000-04.\n\nLabour did not want to comment on his departure.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCoverage: TV highlights on Saturday, 4 May, BBC One at 13:15 BST\n\nCaster Semenya said \"no human can stop me from running\" after winning the 800m at the Doha Diamond League meet amid speculation over her future.\n\nIt comes just two days after the South African, 28, lost a landmark case against athletics' governing body.\n\nSemenya challenged IAAF rules designed to limit testosterone levels in female runners but the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) rejected her appeal.\n\n\"When you are a great champion, you always deliver.\n\n\"It's up to God. God has decided my life, God will end my life; God has decided my career, God will end my career. No man, or any other human, can stop me from running.\"\n\nThe Doha meet was Semenya's final race before the IAAF's new rules come into force on 8 May.\n\nShe added: \"How am I going to retire when I'm 28? I still feel young, energetic. I still have 10 years or more in athletics.\n\n\"It doesn't matter how I'm going to do it, what matters is I'll still be here. I am never going anywhere.\n\n\"I'm going to keep on doing what I do best - which is running.\"\n• None Semenya Q&A: Why is her case pivotal?\n• None 'Nobody has truly won in Semenya case - one side has just lost less than the other'\n\nUnder the new IAAF rules Semenya - and other athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) - must either take medication in order to compete in track events from 400m to the mile, or change to another distance.\n\nOn Thursday, Semenya posted a cryptic tweet that suggested she could quit athletics, including a quote which referred to knowing when to walk away.\n\nAsked by reporters whether she would take medication to allow her to run in the 800m, she replied: \"Hell no.\"\n\nAnd she insisted she would be running in Doha again at the World Championships in September - though she did not know if that would be in the 800m or 5,000m races.\n\n\"With a situation like this you can never tell the future but the only thing you know is that you will be running,\" she said.\n\nVictory in the opening Diamond League event of the season was her 30th in a row at 800m.\n\nThe double Olympic champion showed no emotion as she crossed the finish line in the fastest time of the year and a meeting record of one minute 54.98 seconds, having dominated the race from the start.\n\nBurundi's Francine Niyonsaba finished second with the United States' Ajee Wilson third. Britain's Lynsey Sharp finished ninth.\n\nSharp, 28, told BBC Sport she had received death threats as a result of previous comments she had made about Semenya's \"advantage\".\n\n\"I've known Caster since 2008, it's something I've been familiar with over the past 11 years,\" she said.\n\n\"No-one benefits from this situation - of course she doesn't benefit, but it's not me versus her, it's not us versus them.\n\n\"I've had death threats. I've had threats against my family and that's not a position I want to be in. It's really unfortunate the way it's played out.\n\n\"By no means am I over the moon about this, it's just been a long 11 years for everyone.\"\n\nSemenya can appeal against the Cas ruling to the Swiss Tribunal Courts within 30 days of the ruling.", "Alliance's Ross McMullan (centre) got almost 1,000 votes over the quota when he was elected to Belfast City Council\n\nPR elections in Northern Ireland are always more of a marathon than a sprint, so it's wise not to overanalyse the results at the halfway mark.\n\nThe protracted drama of single transferable voting means that both candidates and parties who looked like hares early on turn into tortoises as the white tape approaches.\n\nConversely some early stragglers eventually crawl on their hands and knees towards the finishing line.\n\nSo with that caveat, where are we after day one of the count?\n\nAlliance's surge is undeniably the most striking development.\n\nSo with inter-party talks due to get under way on Tuesday, what lessons might the party leaders be mulling over from the local council elections?\n\nAs day one of the count drew to a close the most striking development was the strong showing for Alliance.\n\nAt the halfway point their vote share was up by five percentage points, and they had broken out of their Greater Belfast heartlands by taking seats in places like the ABC council (Armagh, Banbridge & Craigavon) and Derry & Strabane where they previously had no representation.\n\nWhat has fuelled the Alliance success?\n\nWell since its inception in 1970 the party has stood for compromise between Orange and Green, so it seems plausible that the public's disenchantment with the paralysis at Stormont must have been an important factor.\n\nAlso on Brexit, Alliance reflects a widespread anxiety about the potential impact on the border and business.\n\nWith the parties due to resume talks next Tuesday, maybe the British and Irish governments could do worse than to re-read the Alliance blueprint \"Next Steps Forward\" which suggested a variety of ways to break the deadlock including the appointment of an independent talks facilitator.\n\nAlliance haven't been the only winners - the strong performances of Green and left wing People Before Profit candidates appear to indicate generational change.\n\nAnd the election of the DUP's first openly gay candidate shows that times are changing, even within the party which used to be regarded as the political wing of Ian Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church.\n\nBut the maverick South Down MLA Jim Wells isn't the only DUP traditionalist unnerved by the election of Alison Bennington.\n\nIn private, other DUP figures think the leadership is testing the water as part of a process of incremental change.\n\nAlison Bennington (centre, with thumbs up) celebrates her election to Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council\n\nThe draft deal which the DUP failed to sign off on in February of last year sidelined the issue of same sex marriage (something Sinn Féin took some criticism over).\n\nBut as the former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams made clear in a blog published on polling day it will be back near the top of the talks agenda in the coming weeks.\n\nThe DUP seem fairly relaxed about their performance, with their vote share up and the Traditional Unionist Voice well down.\n\nBut both big parties will no doubt be annoyed that they have failed to take overall control of a single council.\n\nOn a good day, Sinn Féin might have hoped to seize either Fermanagh & Omagh or Derry & Strabane, whilst the DUP could have had a similar aspiration in Lisburn & Castlereagh.\n\nIn the event, none of these targets were hit.\n\nSinn Féin did make a breakthrough in Lisburn & Castlereagh, where they got two councillors in a chamber in which they were previously unrepresented.\n\nBut some of the party's other gambits failed to pay off - notably moving Patrice Hardy into Ballymena in the hope of inheriting some SDLP votes.\n\nSo far the Ulster Unionists look like the losers with a fall of two percentage points.\n\nThat's partly because the former leader Mike Nesbitt had a successful council election five years ago, and under Robin Swann's leadership the party seems to lack firm direction, uncomfortably straddling a divide between its liberal and hardline unionists.\n\nThe SDLP has experienced problems, with breakaway councillors in some districts and arguments over its new link with Fianna Fáil.\n\nHowever, it has proved resilient, especially in its Derry & Strabane home turf, with impressive debuts from Cara Hunter and Mary Durkan, who is keeping the family political dynasty going.\n\nAnd last but not least we have a new kid on the block - the pro-life republican Aontú with its first councillor, recently retired GP Anne McCloskey, also in Derry & Strabane.\n\nDay two and the political marathon continues.\n\nThe day after the counting stops, the real runners will take to the streets of Belfast for a real marathon.\n\nIt's the first time the race has taken place in the city on a Sunday, another reminder of how much the times have changed for those who still remember the days when some Northern Ireland councils used to tie up the swings in their play parks in the name of observing the Lord's Day.", "Last updated on .From the section Fulham\n\nFulham's Harvey Elliott has become the youngest ever Premier League player at 16 years and 30 days.\n\nThe England under-17 midfielder made his debut in the 88th minute of Saturday's 1-0 defeat by Wolves.\n\nFormer Fulham left-back Matthew Briggs held the previous record, set on 13 May 2007 at 16 years and 68 days.\n\nElliott, born on 4 April 2003, became Fulham's youngest player with a substitute appearance in the Carabao Cup third round in September, aged 15.\n• None Quiz: Can you name the Premier League's youngest players?\n\n\"Harvey is on the bench and gets on the pitch because he deserves to,\" said Fulham's caretaker boss Scott Parker. \"He's been outstanding in training over the past three weeks. He's a special talent and we want to nurture him the best we can.\"\n\nThe youngster, who will be sitting his GCSEs in just a few weeks' time, was born in a year that saw Black Eyed Peas dominate the charts with Where Is the Love?\n\nThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Finding Nemo and The Matrix Reloaded ruled at the cinema box office.\n\nNumber one in the charts on the day Elliott was born was Gareth Gates and The Kumars' charity song Spirit in the Sky.\n\nElliott was born 10 months after Ronaldo and Ronaldinho inspired Brazil to World Cup glory and nine months after Manchester United broke the British transfer record with the £30m signing of Rio Ferdinand from Leeds in July 2002.\n\nHe was just three months old when Roman Abramovich took over at Chelsea, two months old when David Beckham joined Real Madrid from Manchester United for £24.5m and four months old when Cristiano Ronaldo made his debut for United.\n\nManchester United won their eighth Premier League title and 15th top-flight league title in the 2002-03 season, while AC Milan were the Champions League winners, beating Juventus on penalties at Old Trafford.\n\nLeon Osman, Wayne Rooney and James Milner were among those to make their debuts earlier that season, while Danish goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel, who won the Treble with Manchester United, retired from playing in May 2003.", "The body was found in a house in Springfield Drive\n\nA teenager has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a teenage girl was found in a house.\n\nWiltshire Police said officers were called to a residential address in Springfield Drive, Calne, Wiltshire, just before 15:15 BST on Friday.\n\n\"Despite attempts from the ambulance crew, she was sadly pronounced dead at the scene,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nA 17-year-old boy was arrested in the Chippenham area on Friday afternoon, and remains in police custody.\n\nPolice said he was known to the girl, and that a post-mortem examination to determine the cause of death would be held on Sunday.\n\nSupt Conway Duncan said there would be a \"significant police presence\" in the area over the weekend as inquiries continued.\n\n\"This investigation is still in its early stages but I would like to reassure the local community that a robust police response was launched yesterday and will continue in the days to come.\"\n\nHe added that the victim's family was receiving support from \"specially trained officers\".\n\nPolice have not disclosed the age of the girl.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "George Perrot, 50, was jailed for life for rape in 1987\n\nA man whose rape conviction was quashed after he had served 30 years in jail has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman this year, reports say.\n\nGeorge Perrot, 50, is due to appear in court accused of rape and other charges, the Republican newspaper reports.\n\nHe has pleaded not guilty to all charges in relation to an incident on 4 January in Lawrence, Massachusetts.\n\nMr Perrot is being held without bail until his case is heard on Monday.\n\nThe allegations against Mr Perrot come three years after he was freed from prison by a judge who ruled he was wrongly convicted of rape in 1987.\n\nGeorge Perrot was arrested in 1985, aged 17, accused of raping 78-year-old Mary Prekop at her home in Springfield, Massachusetts.\n\nHe was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison, but was freed in 2016 after the Supreme Court exonerated him because of flawed evidence.\n\nThe prosecution's case rested on faulty FBI analysis of a single hair found at the crime scene, the court ruled.\n\nMr Perrot's release, after a decades-long legal battle to clear his name, generated media attention worldwide.\n\nThe new charges against him allege rape, open and gross lewdness, resisting arrest, and assault and battery on a police officer, according to the Republican.\n\nThe newspaper reports that police found Mr Perrot lying unconscious on the ground, with his face between a partially naked and unconscious woman's legs.\n\nWhen interviewed by police, the woman claimed she did not consent to sex with Mr Perrot, it reports.\n\nThe last thing she remembered before losing consciousness, she reportedly told police, was snorting some powder she claims Mr Perrot gave her.", "Kim Jong-un held talks with the US president in February\n\nNorth Korea has tested several short-range missiles, according to reports from South Korea.\n\nThey were fired from the Hodo peninsula in the east of the country, said South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff.\n\nIf confirmed, it will be the first missile launch since Pyongyang tested an intercontinental ballistic missile in November 2017.\n\nLast month Pyongyang said it had tested what it described as a new \"tactical guided weapon\".\n\nThat was the first test since the Vietnam summit between the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, and US President Donald Trump, which ended without agreement.\n\nPresident Trump walked away from what he described as a bad deal offered by Kim Jong-un in Hanoi in February.\n\nOn Saturday, the US president tweeted that he believed the North Korean leader would not do anything that could jeopardise his country's path towards better relations and economic normalisation.\n\n\"He also knows that I am with him and does not want to break his promise to me,\" President Trump wrote in the social media post.\n\nThe second summit between President Trump and Mr Kim ended without agreement\n\nFiring a short range missile would not violate North Korea's promise not to test long range or nuclear missiles.\n\nBut Pyongyang appears to be growing impatient with Washington's insistence that full economic sanctions remain until Mr Kim takes serious steps to dismantle his nuclear weapons programme, says the BBC's Laura Bicker.\n\n\"We are aware of North Korea's actions tonight,\" said White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders. \"We will continue to monitor as necessary.\"\n\nNorth Korea \"fired a number of short-range missiles from its Hodo peninsula near the east coast town of Wonsan to the north-eastern direction from 09:06 (00:06 GMT) to 09:27,\" the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.\n\nThe missiles flew for between 70km and 200km (45-125 miles) before landing in the Sea of Japan, they added.\n\nHodo has been used in the past for launching cruise missiles and long-range artillery testing.\n\nAccording to the North Korea news agency (KCNA), April's test of a new \"tactical guided weapon\" was overseen by Mr Kim himself. It said the test was \"conducted in various modes of firing at different targets\", which analysts believe means the weapon could be launched from land, sea or air.\n\nIt is unclear if that weapon was a missile, but most observers agree that it was probably a short-range weapon.\n\nLast year, Mr Kim said he would stop nuclear testing and would no longer launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.\n\nNuclear activity appears to be continuing, however, and satellite images of North Korea's main nuclear site last month showed movement, suggesting the country could be reprocessing radioactive material into bomb fuel.\n\nThe country claims it has developed a nuclear bomb small enough to fit on a long-range missile, as well as ballistic missiles that could potentially reach the mainland US.", "A 66-year-old man has been robbed of a five-figure sum after a group of men burst into his home and stole a safe.\n\nPolice have described the attack, which took place on Friday at about 14:15 in Shields Road in Galston, near Kilmarnock, as \"incredible callous\".\n\nThey said they believed the raid was pre-planned by about four or five men.\n\nIt follows the theft of a safe from a family home in Paisley, in which two men forced their way into a house while a couple and a young child were inside.\n\nFollowing the theft in Kilmarnock, the men made off in a silver coloured Lexus GS300 car, which had a broken rear windscreen, heading towards the centre of Galston.\n\nDet Sgt Ewan Bell said: \"Although the man was not physically injured, this robbery was a terrifying experience for him to have to go through and he has been left shaken.\n\n\"Nobody should be afraid in their own home and it is vital that we find the men responsible for this incredibly callous and forceful crime.\"\n\nMr Bell said officers were going through CCTV and making door-to-door inquiries in an effort to find the men responsible.\n\nHe added: \"We believe that the man we have described may have been in the area in the days leading up to the robbery and that it was a pre-planned, targeted attack.\"\n\nOne of the men was wearing a grey balaclava while another is described as being 5ft 10in tall, of stocky build with pale skin. He is described as having short cropped hair that was either blond or red and stubble on his face.\n\nMeanwhile, police are investigating an armed robbery at a family home in Paisley in which a safe was also stolen.\n\nA 27-year-old woman answered her door to two men in the town's Dee Crescent, at about 11:50 on Friday, when they forced their way in.\n\nThe woman was in the house with her young child and 31-year-old partner. Police said the men managed to get into one of the rooms where they stole the safe.\n\nOne of the suspects dropped a \"bladed weapon\" after being chased away from the scene by the 31-year-old man.\n\nDet Con John Sharkey said the two suspects were dressed entirely in black and would have \"looked completely out of place\".\n\nHe added: \"Although thankfully not injured, this was very distressing for both the man and woman involved especially as their young child was also in the house at the time.\n\n\"The man gave chase after the suspects along Dee Crescent and managed to recover one of the weapons used, but the men got away.\n\n\"At this time we do not know why their house was targeted.\"\n\nThe suspects, who made off on foot towards Fulbar Road, are described as both white, between 30 and 40 years of age and wearing almost identical clothing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rockets were seen in the sky above Ashkelon in Israel\n\nMilitants in the Gaza Strip have fired more than 250 rockets into Israel, the army says, prompting air strikes and tank fire on the Palestinian territory.\n\nOne Israeli was killed by shrapnel, while Israeli fire killed four Palestinians, including a mother and her baby daughter, Gaza officials say.\n\nHowever, Israel said the mother and baby were killed by a Palestinian rocket that fell short of its target.\n\nThe flare-up over the weekend followed a truce agreed last month.\n\nFour Palestinians, including two Hamas militants, were killed on Friday after an attack injured two Israeli soldiers.\n\nThe latest violence marks yet another increase in hostilities despite attempts by Egypt and the United Nations to broker a longer-term ceasefire, says the BBC's Tom Bateman in Jerusalem.\n\nOne of the air strikes has hit the offices of Turkish news agency Anadolu, prompting condemnation from Istanbul.\n\nAn Israeli man died early on Sunday in Ashkelon, 10km (six miles) north of Gaza, after being wounded by shrapnel when a rocket hit his house.\n\nThe rocket barrage began at 10:00 (07:00 GMT) on Saturday, and 250 rockets have now been fired into Israel from Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) say.\n\nA number of homes in parts of Israel bordering the Gaza Strip have been hit. Many residents rushed to bomb shelters.\n\nAn 80-year-old woman was seriously injured by shrapnel in Kiryat Gat.\n\nThe country's Iron Dome missile defence system shot down dozens of the rockets, the IDF said.\n\nIn response the IDF said it had launched air and artillery strikes against 120 Gaza sites belonging to Hamas, a militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, and against groups including Islamic Jihad. It blamed both for the attacks.\n\nPalestinian officials say a 22-year-old man was killed. Reuters news agency quotes a small pro-Hamas militant group as saying he was one of their fighters.\n\nThe other deaths included those of a 37-year-old woman and her 14-month-old daughter who were killed in an air strike in the east of the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian officials.\n\nHowever, Israel questioned whether an air strike had killed the mother and baby.\n\n\"According to indications the baby and her mother died as a result of the terrorist activities of Palestinian saboteurs and not as a result of an Israeli strike,\" tweeted Avichay Adraee, without giving further details.\n\nIsrael's Consul General in New York, Dani Dayan, tweeted that the pair were killed by a Palestinian rocket which fell short.\n\nTurkey's Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, condemned the attacks against civilians as \"a crime against humanity\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also issued a condemnation of the Anadolu strike.\n\nThe Israeli military defended targeting the building in a statement, saying the structure was used by Hamas's West Bank task force and as an office for senior members of the Islamic Jihad.\n\nThe violence began during weekly Friday protests in Gaza against the tight blockade of the area. Israel says this is needed to stop weapons reaching Gaza.\n\nA Palestinian gunman shot and wounded two Israeli soldiers at the boundary fence. The IDF blamed Islamic Jihad for the shooting.\n\nRafah was one of the Gaza locations targeted by Israel\n\nThe Israeli air strike in response killed two Hamas militants. Another two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire at the fence.\n\nIslamic Jihad said it had launched the rocket attacks on Saturday in response to Friday's violence.\n\nIts statement also accused Israel of failing to implement last month's ceasefire deal, which was brokered by Egypt.\n\nSaturday's rocket attacks coincided with Palestinians burying the two militants.\n\n\"The resistance will continue to respond to the crimes by the occupation and it will not allow it to shed the blood of our people,\" Hamas spokesman Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua said in a statement on Saturday. He made no explicit claim for Hamas firing the rockets.\n\nAbout two million Palestinians live in Gaza, which has suffered economically from the Israeli and Egyptian blockade as well as recent foreign aid cuts.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nManchester City completed a domestic cup double as they eventually overpowered West Ham at Wembley to lift the Women's FA Cup for a second time in three years.\n\nEngland midfielder Keira Walsh's bouncing strike from outside the area put City ahead in the second period, after major final debutants West Ham had initially defied their underdog status with an impressive first-half display.\n\nLate goals from City youngsters Georgia Stanway and Lauren Hemp completed the win, securing the club's sixth major trophy.\n\nVictory also saw Nick Cushing's side move within one match of completing an entire domestic season unbeaten, as they added to February's League Cup success.\n\nThe Hammers, who reached the final in their first season as a professional side - less than a year after leaping up from the third division with a successful top-tier licence application last summer - had threatened to pull off a shock win, creating the best chance of the first half.\n\nBut City - who had not conceded a goal in the FA Cup this season - showed their class and experience after the break and could have added to their tally in the final moments.\n\nThe crowd of 43,264 at England's national stadium fell just short of last season's competition record of 45,423, but was nevertheless still one of the largest for a club-level women's game in Europe in the modern era.\n\nAll of City's six major trophies have come since 2014 under the management of Nick Cushing and they will finish the season without losing a single domestic game if they can avoid defeat away at Women's Super League winners Arsenal next Saturday.\n\nEngland and City goalkeeper Karen Bardsley had produced a superb save to keep out Scotland striker Jane Ross' bouncing header from Erin Simon's right-wing cross, in the best moment of the first half, after a cagey start.\n\nThe Hammers then wanted a penalty when midfielder Alisha Lehmann went down in the box under Jill Scott's challenge, but the officials felt the City midfielder had not made contact with Lehmann.\n\nBut City - who won the cup for the first time in 2017 - were more energetic after the break and Scotland's Caroline Weir blazed over from inside the area shortly before Walsh opened the scoring with only her second goal of the season.\n\nThe holding midfielder's swerving effort bounced just in front of goal and caught out West Ham keeper Anna Moorhouse, who later saved well from Tessa Wullaert and Nikita Parris.\n\nThe Hammers' best chance of the second half came on the counter attack, but Switzerland's Lehmann fired straight at Bardsley, as City began to dominate, and 20-year-old Stanway doubled the lead with a low, deflected strike.\n\nSubstitute Hemp - who turned 18 in August - then showed a calmness in front of goal that defied her youthfulness as she supplied a cool finish, and she almost added City's fourth but she struck the post late on.\n\nDespite the result, West Ham - who beat Reading on penalties in their semi-final - have impressed many during their maiden WSL campaign and appear to be building a growing fanbase, with their fans appearing to significantly outnumber City supporters at Wembley.\n\nThe East London club had asked the Premier League to move the kick-off time of their men's team's league match at home to Southampton earlier on Saturday, but the plea was denied, much to the Hammers' disappointment.\n\nOn the pitch, they initially surpassed the bookmakers' pre-match expectations, frustrating City early on, at odds with their 10-2 aggregate loss from this season's two league meetings, but Ross' first-half header was the best chance.\n\nUltimately, City's clean sheet saw Cushing's side - lead by talismanic England captain Steph Houghton at the back - finish their five-game cup run without conceding a goal.\n\n\"West Ham were excellent, but I expected them to be good, play on the counter-attack and cause us problems.\n\n\"I thought we were just a little bit emotional [in the first half]. The occasion affected our offensive play.\n\n\"We asked the players to just settle down, play logically and be controlled. In the second half they looked comfortable.\n\n\"I'm so proud of the players. I hope they will go now and spend so much time with their family. They've put in so much effort to make this team successful again, they deserve everything they get.\"\n\n\"It was a game of two halves, wasn't it? We created the better chances in the first half.\n\n\"The first goal changes the game. When you go behind against Manchester City, they're a very good team, and Man City deserved to win it on their second-half performance.\n\n\"But when we walked around at the end, with the fans, and you look at what we've created in such a short space of time as a club, this team is only going to get better and our fanbase is only going to grow. It's been really tough but, to be here, speaks volumes for what we're trying to do.\n\n\"We have a lot of young players who will learn from this and become better players because of it.\"\n• None Attempt saved. Stephanie Houghton (Manchester City Women) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Claire Emslie with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Claire Emslie (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Lauren Hemp.\n• None Attempt missed. Adriana Leon (West Ham United Women FC) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Cho So-Hyun.\n• None Attempt missed. Lauren Hemp (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Lauren Hemp (Manchester City Women) hits the right post with a left footed shot from the left side of the box. Assisted by Claire Emslie.\n• None Attempt missed. Brianna Visalli (West Ham United Women FC) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Rosie Kmita with a cross.\n• None Goal! Manchester City Women 3, West Ham United Women FC 0. Lauren Hemp (Manchester City Women) left footed shot from long range on the left to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jennifer Beattie.\n• None Attempt missed. Gilly Flaherty (West Ham United Women FC) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Adriana Leon with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Lauren Hemp (Manchester City Women) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Abbie McManus following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Georgia Stanway (Manchester City Women) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Keira Walsh with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Manchester City Women 2, West Ham United Women FC 0. Georgia Stanway (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Caroline Weir. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Dr Julia Crummy believes we still have much to learn about eruptions\n\nResearch at the British Geological Survey (BGS) in Edinburgh is warning that we still don't know enough when it comes to predicting and preparing for major volcanic eruptions.\n\nDr Julia Crummy has based her conclusion on years spent researching the Volcán de Colima in Mexico.\n\nStanding over 12,470ft (3,800m) high, it is one of the most active volcanoes in North America.\n\nColima has erupted every other year, on average, since 1900. Its last phase of eruptions lasted from 2013 to 2017.\n\nIn 2015 the fall of ash was so severe that hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes and the local airport was closed temporarily. There were more evacuations the following year.\n\nOne Colima eruption was mistaken for the sound of cavalry\n\nDr Crummy says the last really big explosion was in 1913.\n\n\"There was a civil war going on at the time and they actually thought it was cavalry,\" she says. \"It produced a really huge ash cloud that rose up to about 23km (14 miles).\n\n\"Pyroclastic flows travelled 15km (9 miles) from the volcano and ash fall was reported in Guadalajara. That's about 160km (99 miles) away.\"\n\nToday, more than 500,000 people live within 30km (17 miles) of Colima. Extensive plans are in place to safeguard them in the event of another big explosion.\n\nBut how big will that be?\n\nThe historical record of Colima's activity only begins after the Spanish conquistadors arrived in 1519.\n\nDr Crummy has been using geology to look back further by examining layers of ash left behind by prehistoric eruptions.\n\n\"Charcoal samples for dating have enabled us to identify that these span the past 30,000 years.\n\n\"By looking at the minerals in the samples we can look at how behaviour has changed over time.\"\n\nEyjafjallajökull in Iceland reminded the world of the potential disruption from volcanoes\n\nBy establishing the thickness of each layer Dr Crummy was able to build a numerical model of how large the eruptions had been.\n\nShe modelled the volume and magnitude of five prehistoric explosive events between 4,400 and 6,000 years ago.\n\nHer most surprising finding is that some were an order of magnitude bigger than previously thought.\n\nInstead of throwing a cubic kilometre of debris into the atmosphere it was 10 times as much.\n\nThat is 10 times larger than the explosions on which the current plans and hazard maps are based.\n\n\"That's not to say the hazard maps are wrong,\" Dr Crummy says.\n\n\"They're based on a worst case scenario using known historical data, which is absolutely fine.\n\n\"But what we're doing is highlighting the fact that actually, if you look at the geological record and extend beyond the historical over the last 10,000 years or so, we can see there have been much larger eruptions.\n\n\"So it's about awareness.\"\n\nAn eruption of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala last year is thought to have killed 190 people\n\nThis study of single volcano has far wider implications.\n\nAn estimated 800 million people live within 100km (62 miles) of a potentially active volcano.\n\nWriting in the Journal of Applied Volcanology, Dr Crummy says it means science's understanding of past volcanic eruptions is still limited.\n\nAnd in many places the geological record is less well preserved than at Colima.\n\nThe eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupted air traffic as recently as 2010 but much of the geological evidence has already been washed away.\n\nDr Crummy's research was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, the BGS and the Smithsonian Institute.\n\nColima's cone is closely monitored - you can do it yourself on a live webcam.\n\nThis week increasing seismic activity raised the alert state from green to yellow.\n\nThat means people are not being allowed within 8km (5 miles) of the volcano.\n\nSo, for the time being, tourists are prevented from taking snaps of Colima's vivid contrast between snow and fire.", "Leonardo da Vinci could have experienced nerve damage in a fall, impeding his ability to paint in later life, Italian doctors suggest.\n\nThey diagnosed ulnar palsy, or \"claw hand\", by analysing the depiction of his right hand in two artworks.\n\nIt had been suggested that Leonardo's hand impairment was caused by a stroke.\n\nBut in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, the doctors suggest it was nerve damage that meant he could no longer hold a palette and brush.\n\nLeonardo da Vinci, who lived from 1452-1519, was an artist and inventor whose talents included architecture, anatomy, engineering and sculpture, as well as painting.\n\nBut art historians have debated which hand he used to draw and paint with.\n\nAnalysis of his drawing shows shading sloping from the upper left to lower right, suggesting left-handedness. But all historical biographical documents suggest Leonardo used his right hand when he was creating other kinds of works.\n\nFor this research, two artworks - showing Leonardo da Vinci in the latter stages of his life - were analysed. One is a portrait of the artist, drawn with red chalk, attributed to the 16th-century Lombard artist Giovanni Ambrogio Figino.\n\nUnusually, it shows his right arm largely concealed in folds of clothing. His hand is visible, but in a \"stiff, contracted position\".\n\nDr Davide Lazzeri, a specialist in plastic reconstructive and aesthetic surgery at the Villa Salaria Clinic in Rome, who led the analysis, said: \"Rather than depicting the typical clenched hand seen in post-stroke muscular spasticity, the picture suggests an alternative diagnosis such as ulnar palsy, commonly known as 'claw hand'.\"\n\nThe ulnar nerve runs from the shoulder to the little finger, and manages almost all the intrinsic hand muscles that allow fine motor movements, so a fall could have caused trauma to his upper arm, leading to the palsy, or weakness.\n\nThere are no reports of any cognitive decline or other motor impairment, which offers further evidence that a stroke was an unlikely cause of Leonardo's impairment. Dr Lazzeri said.\n\nHe added: \"This may explain why he left numerous paintings incomplete, including the Mona Lisa, during the last five years of his career as a painter, while he continued teaching and drawing.\"\n\nA further image, an engraving of a man playing a lira da braccio - a Renaissance string instrument - was examined. The man in the engraving was recently identified as Leonardo da Vinci. Further evidence was obtained from a diary entry by a Cardinal's assistant about a visit to the artist's house in 1517.\n\nThe assistant, Antonio de Beatis wrote: \"One cannot indeed expect any more good work from him as a certain paralysis has crippled his right hand... And although Messer Leonardo can no longer paint with the sweetness which was peculiar to him, he can still design and instruct others.\"", "On Thursday, voters will go to the polls to elect 462 councillors to Northern Ireland's 11 councils.\n\nBut who are the young people who want your vote?\n\nBBC News NI met the youngest candidates from each of Northern Ireland's largest parties.\n\nTwo of them are canvassing while studying for their A-level exams and one is in her final week of university.\n\nThey spoke to the BBC's Erinn Kerr about moustaches, memes and making a difference.\n\nFull lists of the candidates standing in each council area can be found on the Electoral Office's website.", "Karanbir Cheema died almost two weeks after cheese was flicked at him at school, the inquest heard\n\nThe death of a schoolboy who collapsed after cheese was thrown at him was \"unprecedented\", an inquest has heard.\n\nKaranbir Cheema, 13, died after having a severe reaction at his school in west London on 28 June 2017.\n\nSpecialist Dr Adam Fox said severe reactions from skin contact were \"very, very uncommon\" and he was \"not aware of any fatal cases\".\n\nThe boy who threw the cheese previously told the inquest he had been \"playing around\".\n\nKaranbir, who had multiple allergies including to dairy products, was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition after falling ill at Perkin Church of England High School in Greenford.\n\nHe died almost two weeks later at Great Ormond Street Hospital of post-cardiac arrest syndrome.\n\nSt Pancras Coroner's Court heard Karanbir's Epipen, which was kept at the school, was 11 months out of date and was the only adrenaline administered before the teenager suffered cardiac arrest.\n\nHe displayed signs of anaphylaxis such as scratching for several minutes before receiving the adrenaline, the inquest heard.\n\nDr Fox, a paediatric allergy consultant at Evelina London Children's Hospital, told the court it is \"an important learning point\" that \"at the first sign of anaphylaxis it's 'get the adrenaline out and make sure they get it as soon as possible'.\"\n\nBut Dr Fox said the pen \"probably had less potency\" as it was past its expiry date.\n\nKaranbir's Epipen, kept in the school welfare room, was out of date\n\nDr Fox said the cause of the reaction was what made it \"extraordinarily unusual\".\n\n\"If it was skin contact alone that caused, in this case fatal, anaphylaxis, I believe that to be unprecedented,\" he said.\n\nThe inquest has heard Karanbir, who also suffered from eczema, had scratched at his neck so much that blood was visible.\n\nDr Fox said \"further scratching and degrading of the skin barrier\" could have added to the reaction.\n\nA paramedic admitted she had \"probably\" panicked when treating him, when asked by the coroner.\n\nAlexandra Ulrich said she thought Karanbir had suffered an asthma attack and gave him two grams of magnesium sulfate, a drug which is used to treat muscle spasms during severe asthma attacks but is not meant for children.\n\n\"If I had known about the specific details of the history about the allergens, I wouldn't have given it,\" she said.\n\nMs Ulrich added a pocketbook given to ambulance staff had since been updated to make explicit the substance was not meant for under 18s.\n\nAndrew Jones, paediatric intensive care consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital, said Karanbir's brain had been severely deprived of oxygen and over days it became apparent he \"had no chance of survival\".\n\nPathologist Liina Palm told the inquest the death was caused by anaphylactic shock and cited multiple food allergies as the underlying cause.\n\nDame Alice Hudson, executive head teacher of the Twyford Trust - which encompasses William Perkin school, said she believed there had been \"a very good general awareness\" of Karanbir's allergies among pupils.\n\nThe coroner is due to deliver her conclusion on 10 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of people may have missed out on voting in this year's council elections because of pilot schemes requiring them to prove their identity.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said the trial project saw 2,083 voters refused a ballot paper because they weren't carrying the necessary ID, with up to 758 of them not returning to cast their vote.\n\nBroxtowe, Derby and North West Leicestershire were three of the 10 areas involved in the pilot.\n\nCraig Westwood, director of communications, policy and research for the Electoral Commission, said \"nearly everyone\" in the pilot areas was able to vote and showed the correct ID \"without difficulty\", but said government needs to \"consider carefully the available evidence about the impact of different approaches\".\n\nQuote Message: Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\" from Craig Westwood Electoral Commission director of communications, policy and research Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\"", "Theresa May was heckled at the Welsh Conservative conference\n\nNeither the prime minister nor the Labour leader has anywhere to hide.\n\nAfter nine years in government it's not surprising that the Conservatives have lost a significant chunk of seats.\n\nBut the sheer number that have disappeared and the loss of control of authorities will hurt - especially with so many activists identifying Theresa May's handling of Brexit as a root of the problem, not just a general malaise.\n\nThe perceived personal nature of the failure is more of an indignity than an encounter with a heckler in tweeds.\n\nAnd for Jeremy Corbyn, it IS surprising and disappointing that Labour has simply failed to make any significant capital from such a divided and chaotic government.\n\nHowever ardently his devotees swear loyalty, the party has fallen back - on this set of results at least - seeming further rather than closer from winning power in a general election he so often claims to crave.\n\nTake a breath. Local ballots do not translate directly into the next general election. It bears repeating time and again that specific rows over green belt building, local party spats, even simple quirks of geography all apply too.\n\nBut such an enormous set of results does give a sense of the public's political taste at this moment. And it provides a bitter flavour for the two big UK parties - locked in an uncomfortable embrace with historically feeble levels of support.\n\nThe public will also have given both of them anxiety about the potential of the Lib Dems to creep back into their territory after a strong show. And the sour mood around Brexit adds more pressure to Labour and the Tories in their own ranks too.\n\nFor Mrs May it directly and overtly gives ammunition for convinced Tory Eurosceptics to demand a more rapid departure from the EU, whatever happens.\n\nThe delay, they believe has been toxic, so the solution is to speed on. And for Labour's many supporters of a second referendum, the significant advance of the Lib Dems and the Greens is evidence that a clear demand for another say is the only way to carve out a convincing identity.\n\nThat geographical pattern is very marked, although unwise maybe to assume it can last, or a howl for another referendum is what it overwhelmingly means.\n\nBecause while our departure from the EU has just shaped yet another chapter of our politics in an unconventional way, two of the old rules do still apply.\n\nAfter months of grisly pantomime, the rejection of both parties may well also be a simple judgement on both main parties' competence.\n\nVoters quite plainly like politicians who look like they know what they are doing. And the public does not like parties that spend vast amounts of time fighting amongst themselves.\n\nWhether government or opposition, we want them to care about us, rather than be expected to care about them.\n\nNo surprise for today at least, that the Labour and Tory leaderships are both outwardly trying to push harder for a joint deal that could find a way out for them both - damned or saved together.\n\nBut their local election anguish doesn't make a deal any easier to achieve.\n\nSo our two big political parties are both finding there's been a cost to conflict and messy internal compromise.\n\nAnd will look ahead nervously to the European elections when two new parties created specifically to advance clear ways out of the Brexit stalemate could divide the public more cleanly, and mete out a much more painful punishment to them.", "Unless a rich benefactor steps in, the role of human-induced climate change in Cyclone Idai is unlikely to be clearly determined.\n\nThe scientists with the expertise simply don't have the resources to do the large amount of computer modelling required.\n\nHowever, there are a number of conclusions about rising temperatures that researchers have gleaned from previous studies on tropical cyclones in the region.\n\nWhile Cyclone Idai is the seventh such major storm of the Indian Ocean season - more than double the average for this time of year - the long-term trend does not support the idea that these type of events are now more frequent.\n\n\"The interesting thing for the area is that the frequency of tropical cyclones has decreased ever so slightly over the last 70 years,\" said Dr Jennifer Fitchett from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa who has studied the question.\n\n\"Instead, we are getting a much higher frequency of high-intensity storms.\"\n\nClimate change is also changing a number of factors in the background that are contributing to making the impact of these storms worse.\n\n\"There is absolutely no doubt that when there is a tropical cyclone like this, then because of climate change the rainfall intensities are higher,\" said Dr Friederike Otto, from the University of Oxford, who has carried a number of studies looking at the influence of warming on specific events.\n\n\"And also because of sea-level rise, the resulting flooding is more intense than it would be without human-induced climate change.\"\n\nA poor country with a long coastline, Mozambique is especially vulnerable to storms sweeping in from the Indian Ocean.\n\nMore than 700 lives were lost during a devastating flood there nearly 20 years ago. I was one of many journalists reporting on the plight of communities submerged. One woman, stranded in a tree, was forced to give birth among the branches.\n\nA huge international response saw the Royal Air Force send six helicopters to rescue survivors. Back then, the priority was to save lives. Little thought was given to rebuilding homes and infrastructure with new designs to help them withstand future storms.\n\nDevelopment experts have long argued that reconstruction should enshrine the principle of resilience, with roads raised high enough to stay dry in floods and houses made robust enough to resist cyclone-strength winds.\n\nThere are plenty of examples of how this forward-thinking can help. In low-lying Bangladesh, there are schools built on high ground which can serve as refuges during storms. And as the potential effects of climate change become better understood, there's growing recognition of the need for communities to adapt to what could be tougher conditions ahead.\n\nOne critical factor in the Southern Indian Ocean that is having an impact on these storms is sea-surface temperatures. Warmer seas mean there is more energy available for cyclones, which only form when the water reaches 26 degrees C.\n\nThese storms also need help from the Earth's rotation to get them spinning. This rotating effect gets stronger the further you move away from the Equator and towards the poles.\n\nHowever, in previous decades, the further away you were from the Equator meant the cooler the seas became and so any tropical cyclones that formed didn't have the energy to keep going. Now climate change is impacting that relationship.\n\n\"Under increasing sea-surface temperatures, we are seeing the line of constant temperature required for these storms to form moving further and further towards the South Pole,\" said Dr Fitchett.\n\n\"So it is increasing the range in which these storms can form and that's then allowing them to intensify so quickly.\"\n\nBut it's not just a simple equation. Higher sea-surface temperatures can also work against the formation of cyclones.\n\n\"On the one hand, you have the higher ocean temperatures and that lends more energy for tropical cyclones to form,\" said Dr Otto. \"But you also have higher temperatures in the atmosphere which leads to more wind shear, which weakens hurricanes.\"\n\nAccording to researchers, about seven different ocean or atmospheric conditions are required for cyclone formation and normally only a couple of these occur. However, because of climate change, more and more of these conditions are coinciding with each other and that's why these big storms happen very quickly.\n\nWhatever arguments about the impacts of climate change on tropical cyclones, the damage caused in Mozambique has much more to do with the vulnerability of people on the ground than rising temperatures.\n\n\"If you look at North America, they are experiencing Category 5 cyclones quite regularly now, and they don't experience the level of damage that Mozambique is seeing,\" said Dr Fitchett.\n\n\"When a storm like this comes along, the potential for devastation is infinitely higher. A city like Beria is at much higher risk, because not only have you many more people there, it's also so much more difficult for them to get out.\"", "Stormzy has beaten Taylor Swift to the UK's number one spot - giving him his first chart-topping single.\n\nThe grime artist's comeback track Vossi Bop amassed 94,500 first-week combined sales to clinch victory over Swift's Me!, which ultimately entered third behind Lil Nas X's Old Town Road.\n\nStormzy also broke the UK's weekly streaming record for a rap song, with 12.7 million listens.\n\nThe star said he was \"speechless\" at the chart result.\n\nVossi Bop's sales are the second highest of the year so far, behind Ariana Grande's 7 Rings, which opened with 126,000 combined sales in January.\n\nStormzy, who is set to headline Glastonbury this summer, told the Official Charts Company: \"Words don't really do it justice. My supporters have had my back like crazy - this is all you guys, thank you so much.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Radio 1Xtra This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nVossi Bop was just 530 sales ahead of Taylor Swift's single in the chart update on Monday, but Stormzy held on to pole position and Swift slipped back to number three.\n\nMe!, featuring Panic! At The Disco's Brendon Urie, is her ninth UK top five hit.\n\nEarlier this week the video for the single broke the YouTube record for most views in the opening 24 hours of release.\n\nElsewhere in the chart, a track consisting only of birdsong - Let Nature Sing, released by the RSPB - is a new entry at number 18.\n\nPop star Pink saw her eighth studio album Hurts 2B Human enter at the top of the album chart, more than 22,000 sales ahead of its nearest rival, Catfish and the Bottlemen's The Balance.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police stopped the car when an officer recognised the driver\n\nA \"prolific road traffic offender\" pulled over by police was driving while disqualified and with 51 points on his licence.\n\nOfficers stopped a car in Lincoln Road, Peterborough, on Friday after they recognised the man behind the wheel as a banned driver.\n\nOn Twitter, Beds Cambs and Herts Road Policing said: \"He has 51 points on his licence. Yes, that is 51.\"\n\nThe driver was reported to court and his car seized, police said.\n\n\"He's clearly a prolific road traffic offender and has amassed a significant number of points in a relatively short period of time,\" a police spokesman said.\n\n\"He was recognised by one of the officers who had given him points previously and knew he was disqualified.\n\n\"If he continues to commit offences we will continue to put him in front of the courts and allow them to hand over whatever sentence they deem appropriate.\"\n\nA driver is usually banned after amassing 12 points.\n• None Driver with 62 points still on the road\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "That's the end of our coverage on this live page. Thanks for sticking with us over the past two days.\n\nThe election has produced an intriguing set of results. Stay tuned to the BBC News NI website over the coming days for more reaction and analysis.", "Veteran socialist Eamonn McCann has returned to politics, two years after losing his seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nThe People Before Profit man was elected to Derry City and Strabane District Council on Saturday.\n\nHe said his party's performance in the Northern Ireland council elections showed that there is an appetite for politicians who want to represent \"the interests of all the people at the bottom of society\".", "Scar and Hayley arrived to the wildlife park from the UK's only crocodile zoo in Oxford\n\nStaff at a wildlife park have managed to recover eggs laid by a pair of endangered Siamese crocodiles.\n\nWoodside Wildlife Park in Lincolnshire is part of an international breeding programme for the animals.\n\nKeeper Ben Pascoe said it was the second attempt at recovering the eggs after they were spotted on Thursday.\n\nCrocodiles Scar and Hayley were lured into a pool before it was drained, allowing keepers to move the eggs to an incubated and controlled environment.\n\nThey said it would give the eggs the best chance of hatching.\n\nMr Pascoe said: \"We got in and out and I still have both my arms and legs!\"\n\nStaff at Woodside Wildlife Park drained a pool leaving the crocodiles stranded in order to recover newly-laid eggs\n\nHe added that the Siamese crocodiles - native to parts of Asia - were very rare and it was vital to do everything possible to help the survival of the species.\n\nThe eggs were in a flower bed in the enclosure, and would now have a much better chance.\n\n\"It will be a massive thing for us if we get some baby crocodiles,\" he said.\n\nThere are thought to be less than 1,000 mature adults left in the wild.\n\nIf successful, any offspring will be allocated to other collections as the crocodiles are part of an international breeding programme.\n\nThe crocodiles are housed in a glasshouse built in honour of British explorer Sir Joseph Banks, which was moved from its original site in Lincoln in 2016.\n\nIt houses numerous exotic animals and plants associated with the travels of the explorer.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Conservative councillors tried to distance themselves from Theresa May and the government\n\nConservative councillors have criticised Theresa May after losing hundreds of seats in the local elections.\n\nA council leader who lost his majority said the prime minister should \"consider her position\" and others said they made gains \"despite\" the government.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour lost out to smaller parties and independents.\n\nThere are reports of spoilt ballots referring to Brexit in some areas.\n\nElections for more than 8,400 seats on 248 councils took place amid widespread criticism of MPs and the government over the handling of Brexit.\n\nThe Conservatives, who were defending council seats they won in 2015, alongside the party's general election victory, were at pains to stress the vote was about local services and council tax rather than what was happening at Westminster.\n\nHowever, by Friday morning they had lost out mainly to the Liberal Democrats and independents on councils such as Cotswold, Winchester and North Kesteven.\n\nThe Greens have also won dozens of seats including in Folkestone and Hythe, where they have six new councillors.\n\nLabour have also been losing seats, including in strongholds such as Bolsover, where they lost their majority amid a surge in support for independents.\n\nParty leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he is \"very sorry\" it lost three of its councils in the North West, despite winning control in Trafford.\n\nTony Berry wants Theresa May to consider her position after losing control of Cotswold District Council\n\nThe Tories lost Cotswold District Council after 16 years, with the Liberal Democrats now in charge.\n\nConservative group leader Tony Berry said it was a \"very unusual set of circumstances\".\n\nHe blamed Brexit and \"professional politicians who are basically working for themselves rather than necessarily what is best for the country\".\n\nAsked his message to Theresa May, he said: \"I would ask her to consider her position very carefully.\"\n\nA voter in Worcester posted a picture of his spoilt paper\n\nHundreds of ballot papers were spoiled in Rugby, according to the borough's returning officer.\n\nAdam Norburn said many had \"Brexit\" scrawled across them.\n\nAnd a voter in Worcester posted a picture of his spoilt paper on Twitter.\n\nJordan said he was a Conservative party member but that the major parties had been \"lying for three years straight about Brexit\".\n\nThere were also reports of a \"larger than normal\" number of spoilt ballots in Ipswich.\n\nAnd in one ward in Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, almost one in 20 ballots was spoilt.\n\nCandidates at the count told the Local Democracy Reporting Service many comments written on the papers related to Brexit.\n\nThere were 33 spoilt votes out of 673 in the Eastwood Hall ward.\n\nIt is not illegal to spoil a ballot paper, but filling it out incorrectly or covering it with graffiti will render it invalid.\n\nIn Bath and North East Somerset, where the Liberal Democrats won control, Tory casualties included the council leader Tim Warren.\n\nMr Warren said councillors had been \"given a kicking for something that wasn't our fault\".\n\nAsked whether there needed to be changes in leadership or policies at the top of the Conservative Party, Mr Warren replied: \"There needs to be a change in action.\"\n\nMike Bird said the Conservatives won control at Walsall \"despite\" the government\n\nIn Walsall, the Conservatives took control of the council after winning seats from Labour, having run the authority for a year without a majority.\n\nCouncil leader Mike Bird said the Tories won \"despite\" the Conservative government and Theresa May.\n\n\"She hasn't helped us make any gains at all - far from it - we made the gains despite the prime minister.\"\n\nIn North East Lincolnshire, another Tory gain, group leader Philip Jackson said the party \"managed to disengage national politics from what was happening locally\".\n\nLabour's leader in Leeds said councillors were bearing the brunt of \"anger and frustration\" about national politics.\n\nJudith Blake said the party had been \"punished locally\" after losing four seats on the city council, while retaining control.\n\nLabour also lost seats in Wakefield to the Liberal Democrats and independents. Councillor Graham Isherwood said the party was \"paying the price for that lot in Westminster\".\n\nIn Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, a group of independents won an overall majority, a month after taking control from Labour.\n\nJason Zadrozny, leader of the Ashfield Independents, said politics had been \"a bit of a mess\".\n\nIn North Devon, where the Lib Dems won control of the council from the Conservatives and independents, the group's leader David Worden said: \"It was a tremendous night for us and shows that the Lib Dem fight back is well and truly happening.\"\n\nThe Lib Dems also won a 20-seat majority in North Norfolk, something the party's leader in the district Sarah Butikofer said was beyond the party's \"wildest dreams\".\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has called his party's local election results the \"big success story of the night\".\n\nThe party saw gains across the country, taking seats from both Conservative and Labour-run councils.\n\nSpeaking in Chelmsford, where the Lib Dems took control of the local council from the Conservatives, Mr Cable said the result demonstrated \"we are now very much part of three-party politics\".", "None of the 21 people who were injured sustained serious injuries\n\nA passenger plane slid off a runway in the US state of Florida on Friday night, ending up in a river after landing during a thunderstorm.\n\nTwenty-one people were taken to hospital with minor injuries, officials said.\n\nThe chartered Boeing 737, operated by Miami Air International, had flown from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to a military base in the city of Jacksonville.\n\nPassengers say it landed heavily in the storm, skidding into St John's River.\n\nThe 136 passengers and seven crew members on board evacuated the Boeing 737-800 via its wings.\n\n\"No fatalities reported. We are all in this together,\" Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry wrote on Twitter after the incident.\n\nHe also said President Donald Trump had offered assistance as the situation was developing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jax Sheriff's Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Saturday a spokeswoman for the US Navy in Jacksonville said that at least four pets checked into the luggage area were presumed to have died due to flooding.\n\n\"There's water in the cargo hold,\" Kaylee LaRocque told USA Today.\n\n\"We are so sad about this situation, that there are animals that unfortunately passed away.\"\n\nOne passenger on the plane, Cheryl Bormann, described the \"terrifying\" moment it slid off the runway.\n\n\"The plane literally hit the ground and bounced - it was clear the pilot did not have total control of the plane, it bounced again,\" she told CNN.\n\nThe airliner is contracted by the US military to travel to Guantanamo Bay\n\nThe passengers and crew were evaluated in a nearby aircraft hangar\n\n\"We were in the water. We couldn't tell where we were, whether it was a river or an ocean,\" she said, adding that she could smell jet fuel leaking into the river.\n\nIn a news conference, Captain Michael Connor, commanding officer at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, said it was a \"miracle\" that there had been no serious injuries or fatalities.\n\nMiami Air International is contracted by the US military for its twice-weekly \"rotator\" service between the US mainland and Guantanamo Bay, Bill Dougherty, a base spokesman said.\n\nA National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator is seen with flight data recorder\n\nOfficials say the people on Friday's flight included civilian and military personnel.\n\nIt said it was providing technical assistance to the US National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the incident.\n\nThe aerospace giant has been under increased scrutiny following two fatal crashes involving its 737 Max 8 planes - a different model to the one involved in the incident on Friday.", "Theresa May must resign or the Conservatives should force her out, after the party's heavy local election losses, Iain Duncan Smith has said.\n\nThe former Tory leader called Mrs May a \"caretaker PM\" and described her attempts to reach a Brexit deal with Labour as \"absurd\".\n\nThe party suffered its worst local election result in England since 1995.\n\nOther senior Conservatives have urged Tory MPs to compromise with Labour to ensure Brexit is delivered.\n\nElections were held on Thursday for 248 English councils, six mayors, and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland. No elections took place in Scotland or Wales.\n\nThe Conservatives lost 1,334 councillors, while Labour failed to make expected gains, instead losing 82 seats.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats benefited from Tory losses, gaining 703 seats, with the Greens and independents also making gains.\n\nFollowing the results, Mrs May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn both insisted they would push ahead with talks seeking cross-party agreement on leaving the EU.\n\nMrs May said it was clear the public wanted \"to see the issue of Brexit resolved\".\n\nBut Mr Duncan Smith, a leading Brexiteer, said many Conservatives would refuse to back any deal reached between the two parties.\n\nMrs May must announce her departure \"very soon\", he said, and if she did not go, the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs would have to force her to do so.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said: \"As a result of the devastating election result, the PM has in effect become a caretaker.\n\n\"As such, she is not empowered to make any deal with the Labour Party which itself suffered a very similar result. Two discredited administrations making a discredited deal is not the answer to the electorate.\"\n\nIn December, Mrs May survived a vote of no-confidence in her leadership of the Conservative Party, but in March she pledged to stand down if and when Parliament ratified her Brexit withdrawal agreement with the EU.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back to 31 October after Parliament was unable to agree a way forward.\n\nRuth Davidson warned the parties would suffer the wrath of voters in the EU elections over Brexit\n\nIn the wake of the Conservatives' local election losses, senior Tories have called for the party to compromise in order to reach an agreement with Labour to end the Brexit deadlock.\n\nScottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson called for the negotiating teams of both parties - who are currently locked in talks - to \"get Brexit sorted, get a deal over the line and let Britain move on\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the Conservative Party needed to listen to the election results and be \"in the mood for compromise\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said the Conservatives might have to move towards Labour's proposal of a permanent customs union - a move many Brexiteers in the party oppose - in order to solve the impasse in Westminster.\n\nMrs May's government has previously ruled out remaining in a customs union after the UK leaves the EU, arguing it would prevent the UK from setting its own trade policy.\n\nLabour has said the EU may show flexibility over the issue and allow the UK \"a say\" in future trade deals.\n\nMr Hancock suggested \"coming up with something in-between\", and called for \"an open dialogue in which we can make an agreement\".\n\nBut Mr Duncan Smith said a customs union was \"the worst of all worlds because you lose your decision-making capacity\".\n\nMeanwhile, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said there was a \"glimmer of hope\" that a compromise between the Conservative and Labour \"core-voters\" could be reached.\n\nHe added that while he supported the withdrawal deal reached between the EU and Mrs May, there might be things that could be done to make it \"more acceptable\" to Labour without compromising on the \"things that we think are essential\".\n\nBut he also warned that a customs union would not be a \"long-term solution\".\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Hunt's remarks on a customs union provided \"yet more evidence\" that many in the cabinet believed the \"most important thing right now\" was the race to be Mrs May's successor.\n\nLabour's MP for Redcar, Anna Turley, also reacted to Mr Hunt's comments that a customs union was not a long-term solution, tweeting: \"This is why we can't trust the Tories by doing a deal stitched up in Number 10 which they will seek to unravel under their next leader.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nThe Conservatives have lost 1,334 councillors, with Theresa May saying voters wanted the main parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nLabour also lost 82 seats in the English local elections, in which it had been expected to make gains.\n\nBut the strongly pro-EU Lib Dems gained 703 seats, with leader Sir Vince Cable calling every vote received \"a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThe Greens and independents also made gains, as UKIP lost seats.\n\nAll 248 English councils holding elections have now announced their full results.\n\nWhile the scale of the Conservative election losses is larger than expected, Labour had predicted it would gain seats, having suffered losses the last time these council seats were contested, in 2015.\n\nThe Green Party has added 194 councillors, while the number of independent councillors has risen by 612.\n\nResults from Northern Ireland's 11 councils are also being announced. No local elections are taking place in Scotland and Wales.\n\nAfter nine years in government it's not surprising that the Conservatives have lost a significant chunk of seats.\n\nBut the sheer number that have disappeared and the loss of control of authorities will hurt - especially with so many activists identifying Theresa May's handling of Brexit as a root of the problem, not just a general malaise.\n\nThe perceived personal nature of the failure is more of an indignity than an encounter with a heckler in tweeds.\n\nAnd for Jeremy Corbyn, it is surprising and disappointing that Labour has simply failed to make any significant capital from such a divided and chaotic government.\n\nHowever ardently his devotees swear loyalty, the party has fallen back - on this set of results at least - seeming further, rather than closer, from winning power in a general election he so often claims to crave.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nMPs have yet to agree on a deal for leaving the European Union, and, as a result, the deadline of Brexit has been pushed back from 29 March to 31 October.\n\nWhile local elections give voters the chance to choose the decision-makers who affect their communities, the national issue has loomed large on the doorstep.\n\nMrs May, appearing at the Welsh Conservative conference, said voters had sent the \"simple message\" that her party and Labour had to \"get on\" with delivering Brexit.\n\n\"These were always going to be difficult elections for us,\" the prime minister added, \"and there were some challenging results for us last night, but it was a bad night for Labour, too.\"\n\nA heckler shouted at the prime minister: \"Why don't you resign?\" He was then ushered out of the conference hall in Llangollen, North Wales, as the audience chanted: \"Out, out, out.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vince Cable: Lib Dems are \"success story of the night\"\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said that while the Conservatives had lost \"more than 10 times as many councillors\", it was \"remarkable\" that Labour, \"around the mid-term of a not-very-popular government - has not made net gains\".\n\nSpeaking in Greater Manchester, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he \"wanted to do better\" and conceded voters who disagreed with its backing for Brexit had deserted the party.\n\nBut Lib Dem leader Sir Vince, attending a rally in Chelmsford, Essex, where his party took control of the council, said it had been a \"brilliant\" result and that \"every vote for the Liberal Democrats was a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC projects that, if the local election results it analysed were replicated across Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would get 28% of the total vote.\n\nThe data, based on 650 wards in which detailed voting figures were collected, suggests the Lib Dems would get 19% and other parties and independents 25%.\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said the days of the Conservatives and Labour dominating the electoral landscape, as happened in the 2017 election when they won 80% of the vote between them, \"may be over\".\n\nHe said it was only the second time in history that the two main parties' projected national share of the vote had fallen below 30%.\n\nThe only other occasion was in 2013, when UKIP performed strongly in local elections.\n\nProf Curtice also said the Conservatives and Labour had both lost ground since last year's local elections when both were estimated to be on 35%.\n\nWhile the Lib Dem figure was the highest since 2010, when they agreed to join the coalition government with the Conservatives, he said it was still well below the 24% the party regularly achieved in the 1990s and 2000s.\n\nGreen Party co-leader Sian Berry told the BBC the Greens were not simply benefiting from a protest vote over Brexit - their gains reflected \"huge new concerns\" about climate change as well as the strength of their local campaigning on a range of issues.\n\nFor UKIP, Lawrence Webb, a former London mayoral candidate who is standing in this month's European elections, said the party's \"fortunes were on the up\", despite the fall in its number of councillors.\n\nThis is the biggest set of local elections in England's four-year electoral cycle, with more than 8,400 seats being contested. A further 462 seats are up for grabs in Northern Ireland.\n\nSix mayoral elections have also taken place, with Labour's Jamie Driscoll winning the contest to become the first ever North of Tyne mayor.\n\nLabour candidates also won in Leicester and Mansfield but the party out lost to independents in Middlesbrough and Copeland.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.", "Marchers made their way through Glasgow city centre\n\nTens of thousands of people have taken part in a march through Glasgow in support of Scottish independence.\n\nThe All Under One Banner march left Kelvingrove Park at 13:30 BST and made its way through the city centre before ending with a rally at Glasgow Green.\n\nSome people joined in with the crowds of marchers waving Saltires as the event passed along the city streets.\n\nThe March For Independence is one of a series of events taking place across Scotland between May and October.\n\nPolice Scotland said that about 30,000-35,000 people had attended the rally at Glasgow Green.\n\nEvent organiser Neil Mackay said the march was not a \"political party march\".\n\nHe added: \"Obviously independence has got political ramifications, but it's a moral cause, that is not a political cause.\n\n\"This is a moral cause and so this movement, this march, is open to everybody who desires an independent Scotland, whether they are Scottish or they are not Scottish.\n\n\"There's people here from across the world who have travelled, and obviously from across the UK.\"\n\nMarchers prepare to set off from Kelvingorve Park in Glasgow\n\nThe All Under One Banner describes itself as a pro-independence organisation\n\nAll Under One Banner describes itself as a \"pro-independence organisation whose core aim is to march at regular intervals until Scotland is free\" and says it is open to \"everyone who desires to live in an independent nation\".\n\nA number of speakers and musical acts took part in the rally on a stage in the park, alongside a selection of pro-independence community stalls.\n\nThe event saw a series of traffic management measures put in place around the M8, with the closure of the westbound carriageway from the junction 15 on-slip at Townhead and a lane closure in place through to junction 18 off-slip at Charing Cross.", "Candidates had to draw lots after a tie in the local elections in North Yorkshire.\n\nLabour candidate Gerald Ramsden was elected to the Northallerton South seat on Hambleton District Council after drawing with the Conservative candidate on 527 votes.\n\nThe returning officer then had to randomly choose between two blank envelopes with one candidate's name in each.\n\nMr Ramsden is the first Labour councillor in Hambleton in more than a decade.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nDivock Origi's late winner sent Liverpool top of the Premier League with victory at Newcastle United to put the pressure back on Manchester City and ensure the title race will go to the final game.\n\nOrigi - on as substitute for Mohamed Salah after he was taken off on a stretcher with a head injury sustained in a collision with Newcastle keeper Martin Dubravka - headed in Xherdan Shaqiri's free-kick in the 86th minute.\n\nIt gave Liverpool three points after a topsy-turvy night on Tyneside.\n\nNow Manchester City must beat Leicester City at Etihad Stadium on Monday to ensure they retain the initiative going into the final round of games next Sunday.\n\nLiverpool went ahead after 13 minutes when Virgil van Dijk arrived unmarked on the end of Trent Alexander-Arnold's free-kick.\n\nNewcastle were quickly level when Christian Atsu scored from close range after Alexander-Arnold handled Salomon Rondon's shot on the line but Salah took advantage of more poor marking to volley home another fine delivery from the young defender.\n\nRondon, a handful all night, drew Newcastle level once more nine minutes after the break when Liverpool failed to clear a corner and Jurgen Klopp's side suffered another blow when Salah was taken off after a lengthy delay.\n\nOrigi was introduced and made the decisive contribution that keeps the title race alive - although Salah's injury is a worry with Liverpool attempting to claw back a 3-0 deficit against Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final second leg at Anfield on Tuesday.\n• None 'Liverpool survive night laced with danger – and now look to Rodgers for helping hand'\n• None We have qualified for our final - Klopp\n• None Salah could face Barca but Firmino out\n• None How the title race could still go to a 39th game play-off\n\nLiverpool refuse to go away\n\nLiverpool simply refuse to buckle in their pursuit of Manchester City - no matter how long they have to wait to get the victories they require.\n\nKlopp's side are showing remarkable drive and resilience, illustrated by the manner in which they have won so many games in the closing stages, especially when the pressure has been on.\n\nThere have been prime examples at home to Everton and Tottenham but in recent weeks they have stayed the course to outlast opponents such as Fulham, Southampton and now Newcastle away from home.\n\nAnd here, in this unforgiving Tyneside atmosphere, they overcame adversity and a Newcastle side who were in no mood to stand meekly aside despite Premier League safety being assured.\n\nLiverpool were vulnerable in defence but this is a side that carries a persistent threat and it was the introduction of the likes of Shaqiri and Origi that made the difference.\n\nLiverpool could have been forgiven for thinking the fates were against them when Salah took that sickening blow in an accidental aerial collision with Dubravka, the Egyptian lying on the floor for several minutes before being taken away on a stretcher to sympathetic applause from the entire stadium.\n\nAnd yet they responded once more, digging deep to secure three points with Origi's glancing header and this means Manchester City know the stakes are huge when they face Brendan Rodgers' in-form side on Monday.\n\nWhat next for Newcastle and Benitez?\n\nRafael Benitez spent the entire night taking the acclaim of the Toon Army, from before kick-off to a post-match lap of honour when the supporters chanted long and loud for the Spaniard to agree a new deal to stay at St James' Park.\n\nThe messages are still mixed but not here among Newcastle's fanbase. There is only one outcome these fans, who idolise Benitez, want.\n\nWhether Benitez gives them what they desire remains to be seen but once again he has kept a workmanlike squad in the Premier League with room to spare and now wants the investment to send them into the top 10.\n\nIronically, on this night, some of the Benitez trademarks were missing as wretched defensive organisation allowed Liverpool to cash in on each of their goals.\n\nBut, as he led the players around St James' Park to take the supporters' applause it was clear that those fans now want the final line of this season's story to be written with Benitez's name on a new deal.\n\nWhen asked about his future, Benitez said: \"We have been talking the last week and hopefully in one or two weeks will have more news.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I know what kind of boys I have - who doesn't know after the game today? If anyone thought Newcastle weren't playing for anything, wow, that was competitive - but we deserved to win.\n\n\"I only have to help the boys. I don't feel pressure. If we are champions then we are champions, you can't feel pressure when you do your best.\n\nOn Divock Origi's winning goal: \"That's nearly a fairytale. And now we are qualified for our final on Sunday against Wolves. Of course before that we play Barcelona but I'm not thinking of that yet and then we will see.\"\n\nNewcastle boss Rafael Benitez, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm really proud because it was a difficult game against a very good team but the players gave everything. The fans appreciate that and were behind the team, we couldn't ask for more.\n\n\"We made a few mistakes at set pieces but in terms of effort and desire we did quite well. We are trying to make sure we don't make so many mistakes. I don't know about the third goal but the first two we can do much better.\n\n\"We have been quite consistent, working really hard as a team and as a unit, staying very compact. It was a great performance from us.\"\n• None Liverpool have scored 18 headed goals in the Premier League this season and 12 goals via substitutes, more than any other team in both categories.\n• None The Reds have scored more goals against Newcastle in the Premier League than against any other team (98).\n• None Liverpool's Mohamed Salah scored his 100th league goal in European top-flight football, with 56 of those coming in the Premier League (also 35 in Italian Serie A and 9 in Swiss Super League).\n• None Liverpool are the first team in Premier League history to have at least two defenders provide 10+ assists each in a single campaign (Trent Alexander-Arnold 11, Andy Robertson 11).\n• None Newcastle's Salomon Rondon has hit double figures for goals in a Premier League season for the first time.\n• None Only Chelsea's Eden Hazard (48%) has had a hand in a higher proportion of his team's goals in the Premier League this season than Rondon (45% - scoring 10 goals and assisting 7 of 38).\n\nLiverpool host Wolves at Anfield on the final day of the season - Sunday, 12 May - while Newcastle are away at Fulham, with both matches kicking off at 15:00 BST.\n• None Offside, Newcastle United. Salomón Rondón tries a through ball, but Yoshinori Muto is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Salomón Rondón (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None James Milner (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Newcastle United 2, Liverpool 3. Divock Origi (Liverpool) header from very close range to the top left corner. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Fabinho (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Voters have delivered a stinging rebuke to the two main parties at Westminster in the local elections in England, with ballots still being counted in Northern Ireland.\n\nSee the results below in our interactive map.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nBy-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nWith all the results declared in England the Conservatives have lost over 1,300 councillors while Labour has also seen dozens of losses. The Lib Dems and Greens have both made significant gains, with the Lib Dems gaining more than 700 councillors and the Greens nearly 200.\n\nIndependent candidates have also made unusually large gains, as shown by the rise of \"Others\" in the above chart.\n\nProfessor Sir John Curtice has calculated how Thursday's vote would translate across Britain. This projection of the national vote share puts Labour and the Conservatives both on 28%.\n\nThe Lib Dems were the big winners in terms of councils, taking over 10, seven of which were at the expense of the Conservatives. Their most impressive victory was in Chelmsford where they flipped a majority of 23.\n\nThe Conservatives saw big losses in the south west, particularly the new councils of Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole and Somerset West & Taunton. Labour suffered its biggest loss in Ashfield, where it lost 20 councillors and the control of the council passed to Independents.\n\nLabour won seats in many parts of the country, and the party's largest gain was 16 councillors in the former UKIP stronghold of Thanet. The Conservatives' largest gain was in North East Derbyshire.\n\nSupport for the major parties fell more heavily in their heartlands, according to Prof Curtice, with Tories losing most seats in the south of England and Labour in the north.\n\nThe Green Party were one of the beneficiaries of the main parties' misfortune, gaining nearly 200 new councillors across the country and only failing to defend seats in two areas.\n\nMeanwhile, UKIP lost councillors in many areas. The biggest loss came in their old heartland of Thanet, where former-leader Nigel Farage campaigned unsuccessfully to become an MP in 2015.\n\nSeveral mayoral elections have also taken place across England. Middlesbrough and Copeland returned independent mayors, while the North of Tyne returned a Labour mayor as did Leicester. Bedford re-elected its Liberal Democrat mayor.\n\nData journalism, development and design by Daniel Dunford, Joe Reed, Sean Willmott, John Walton, Wesley Stephenson, Mike Hills, Clara Guibourg, Ed Lowther, Alison Benjamin, Tom Francis-Winnington, Katia Artsenkova, Shilpa Saraf and Adam Allen.", "Police say one of the women found in a flat in east London was mother-of-three Mihrican Mustafa\n\nA woman who was found in a freezer along with another female has been formally identified as mother-of-three Mihrican Mustafa.\n\nThe two bodies were found frozen, clothed and on top of each other at the flat in Vandome Close, Canning Town, east London, on 26 April.\n\nThe Met confirmed they had been able to identify the 38-year-old but have not yet identified the other woman.\n\nA man has been charged with two counts of preventing a lawful burial.\n\nZahid Younis, 34, of Vandome Close, is due to appear at Kingston Crown Court on 29 May.\n\nThe two bodies were found in Canning Town on 26 April\n\nMs Mustafa, who was also known as MJ, had been reported missing on 10 May last year, according to police.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said investigators did not yet know how she died, adding post-mortem tests were \"ongoing\".\n\nHe said the death had been \"devastating\" for the 38-year-old's family and urged anybody who knew what happened to her to come forward.\n\nHe added that since Ms Mustafa was a missing person, the Met had referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct \"in accordance with agreed protocols\".\n\nA 50-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released while inquiries continue.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The British Antarctic Survey are monitoring the droppings of some of the higher predators on the island of South Georgia in the Antarctic.\n\nThey say it helps them keep track of what's happening in the environment.", "Senior Conservatives have called for the party to pull together after it suffered its worst results in English local elections since 1995.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid admitted voters had \"issues of trust\" over Brexit, and said the European elections would \"be even more challenging\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the party needed to listen to the results and be \"in the mood for compromise\".\n\nBoth PM Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have insisted they will push ahead with seeking a cross-party agreement on Brexit, following the results.\n\nLabour had been expected to make gains but lost 82 seats in the elections, while the Liberal Democrats - who have campaigned for a further vote on leaving the EU - were the main beneficiary of Tory losses, gaining 703 seats.\n\nThe Greens and independents also made gains, as UKIP lost seats.\n\nElections were held for 248 English councils, six mayors, and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland - where a second day of counting is continuing. No elections took place in Scotland or Wales.\n\nVince Cable claimed Liberal success \"reflected the unpopularity of the government\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Hancock said \"the mood of the nation is, 'get on, deliver Brexit, and then move on'\".\n\nBut he said the Tories might have to move towards Labour's proposal of a permanent customs union - in order to solve the current impasse in Westminster over Brexit.\n\nThe EU customs union means that once goods have cleared customs in one country and the commonly agreed tariffs (charges on imports) have been paid, they can be shipped to others in the union without further charges.\n\nA country does not have to be a member of the EU to be part of the customs union, but members cannot negotiate their own independent trade deals with countries from the rest of the world.\n\nMrs May's government has previously ruled out remaining in a customs union after the UK leaves the EU, arguing it would prevent the UK from setting its own trade policy.\n\nLabour has suggested the EU may show flexibility over the issue and allow the UK \"a say\" in future trade deals.\n\nMr Hancock suggested \"coming up with something in-between\", and called for \"an open dialogue in which we can make an agreement\".\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt also said there was a \"glimmer of hope\" that a compromise between the Conservative and Labour \"core-voters\" could be reached.\n\n\"If we can find a solution that delivers the benefits of the customs union without signing up to the current arrangements, then I think there will be potential,\" he said.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke told BBC News that the local election results should be seen as a \"punishment\" to both the Conservatives and the Labour Party \"for failing to find a way through\" the Brexit conundrum.\n\nHe added: \"We have to persevere with the talks with the Labour Party. I think that is the best opportunity to find a way through here.\"\n\nThe MP for Hertfordshire South West also rejected calls to oust Mrs May, saying: \"We should back the prime minister... so that we can bring the country together again - we can unite the Conservative Party and find a practical way through.\"\n\nThe UK was due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline has been pushed back to 31 October.\n\nMr Javid said this was a big factor in the Conservative Party losing control of 45 councils on Thursday - in its worst performance since John Major's party lost 2,000 councillors in 1995.\n\nIn a rallying cry to Conservatives in Aberdeen, he said that \"a divided party cannot unite a divided nation\".\n\nThe home secretary said the party risked losing voters' trust after \"not delivering on a promise at the heart of our last manifesto\".\n\nAnd, speaking about the European elections, due to take place on 23 May, he said: \"We shouldn't be surprised if people tick the protest box on the ballot paper.\"\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nLisa Nandy, Labour MP for Wigan, also said the results reflected the public's frustration with the two main parties' \"perceived inability... to get our act together\".\n\nShe told the Today programme there was \"no single magic bullet\" to solving Brexit, but \"the fact that people are not clear on what our policy is, is harming us in both Remain and Leave areas alike\".\n\nMs Nandy said failing to leave the European Union would be a \"final breach of trust\" and her party must respect the referendum result.\n\nHowever, she said she believed the Brexit effect on the election results had been \"enormously overstated\" and many in towns like Wigan \"just didn't feel like Labour spoke for them\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nThe BBC projects that, if the local election results it analysed were replicated across Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would get 28% of the total vote.\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said the days of the Conservatives and Labour dominating - as happened in the 2017 election when they won 80% of the vote between them - \"may be over\".\n\nHe said it was only the second time in history that the two main parties' projected national share of the vote had fallen below 30%.\n\nThe only other occasion was in 2013, when UKIP performed strongly in local elections.", "Ruth Davidson has returned to politics after spending the past seven months on maternity leave\n\nRuth Davidson has warned that the two main Westminster parties will suffer the wrath of voters in the EU elections unless they \"get Brexit sorted\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservative leader admitted that the Tories and Labour had been given an \"almighty kicking\" in English local elections.\n\nBut she predicted that they will be given an even bigger \"wake-up call\" in the European election on 23 May.\n\nShe urged the two parties to find a compromise so the UK can \"move on\".\n\nHer speech to the conference was her first major public appearance since the birth of her son Finn in October.\n\nThe Conservatives lost more than 1,300 seats in the council election and Labour lost 82 as the Liberal Democrats, Greens and independents surged across England.\n\nThe two major UK parties have been locked in talks aimed at finding a way forward on Brexit for the past month, but it is not clear how much progress has been made.\n\nSpeaking at the Scottish Conservative conference in Aberdeen, Ms Davidson said the solution lay in finding a compromise that respects the result of the EU referendum.\n\nShe told delegates: \"The solution doesn't lie in the trenches of one extreme or another - of overturning the referendum, or of crashing out with no deal.\n\n\"It lies in those colleagues currently round the table, taking the difficult first steps towards each other.\n\n\"So I say to the negotiating teams of our party and the Labour Party, who are currently locked in talks - get Brexit sorted, get a deal over the line and let Britain move on.\"\n\nMs Davidson added: \"If we thought yesterday's results were a wake up call, just wait for the European elections on 23 May.\n\n\"A vote the public was promised would never take place, to elect people to a parliament they were told we would already have left. You don't have to be John Curtice to foresee what could happen.\"\n\nTheresa May made her keynote speech to the conference on Friday\n\nMs Davidson was a staunch Remainer ahead of the referendum, but argued it would be undemocratic hold another vote on EU membership.\n\nShe said that if a decision was so big that it had to be handed to the people to decide, then \"we have to listen to the answer they give\" and politicians \"don't get to pick and choose\" which votes are upheld and are ignored.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she wants to hold a second independence referendum in the next two years if the UK leaves the EU.\n\nBut Ms Davidson argued that the country is not being held back as part of the UK, and is already capable of \"taking on the world\".\n\nShe also accused the SNP of using the constitution as an excuse for inaction, and pledged to \"build a better Scotland now\" if her party wins the next Holyrood election.\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she wants another independence referendum within the next two years\n\nShe told delegates that the country has had enough of the SNP's \"agitating for independence\" as she accused the party of \"searching the horizon for a dark cloud and then blaming it on Westminster\".\n\nMs Davidson added: \"I have a more positive view of Scotland's future. I reject their mantra that says we have to have a break-up before we can possibly hope to prosper. I don't see Scotland as subjugated, put upon or as held back.\n\n\"Our message is that we can prosper now. That we can back our businesses, build up our institutions and give future generations the skills to take on all comers.\n\n\"That right here, right now, Scotland can take on the world. There's nothing stopping us.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon's SNP won 63 seats in the last Scottish Parliament election and the Conservatives won 31 - with opinion polls suggesting the SNP continues to hold a commanding lead ahead of the next vote in 2021.\n\nBut Ms Davidson insisted it is realistic for her party to win the election and form the next Scottish government.\n\nShe said: \"As first minister, I won't use every engagement with the UK government as a chance to sow division. I'll use it as a chance to deliver better government for the people who live here.\n\n\"And I'll make a firm guarantee now: If I am elected Scotland's next first minister, there will be no more constitutional games and no more referenda. We've had enough to last a lifetime.\n\n\"So we're not fighting each other - but fighting for each other.\"\n\nMs Davidson was overheard questioning whether she needed to mention the European elections as she rehearsed her speech in the conference hall on Friday evening.\n\nThe rehearsal was apparently caught on a live microphone without Ms Davidson realising, and has since appeared online.\n\nMs Davidson joked in her conference speech that the recording was made after she told her baby son that \"this is the button that broadcasts mummy's rehearsal to the whole press room\".\n\nThe conference heard from Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday, who told delegates that she remained determined to deliver a Brexit deal despite facing fresh calls to quit.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Donald Trump enjoyed a ringside seat at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo - and even awarded a special trophy.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.\n\nTrump in Japan: Sumo, barbecue and an imperial audience", "South Korean director Bong Joon-ho has won the Cannes film festival's most prestigious award.\n\nThe Palme d'Or was awarded for his film Parasite, a dark comedy thriller exploring social class dynamics.\n\nThe festival came to a close this evening after 11 days of previews of new films and documentaries.\n\nIt saw French-Senagalese director Mati Diop become the first black female director to win an award in Cannes' 72-year history.\n\nDiop won the Grand Prix - the equivalent of a silver prize - for Atlantics, a Senegalese drama about young migrants and sexual politics.\n\nDiop had previously said she was \"a little sad\" that it had taken until 2019 for a film by a woman of African descent to even be screened at the festival.\n\nMeanwhile, US director Quentin Tarantino's latest film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - which received strong reviews - left the closing ceremony empty handed.\n\nMati Diop delivering a speech after she was awarded the Grand Prix for her film Atlantique\n\nBong is the first Korean to win Cannes' top prize. However, he has been at the festival previously, having made his name at Cannes with Okja in 2017, which - somewhat controversially - originally screened on Netflix.\n\nThis is the second year with no contenders produced by the streaming giant amid talks between the Netflix and Cannes.\n\nOther winners on the night included Emily Beecham - a dual British-American national - who took home the best actress award for her appearance in Little Joe, a psychological sci-fi about a woman whose scent induces euphoria.\n\nBest actor went to Antonio Banderas for his role in Pain and Glory, the story of a film director who is facing middle age and a creative crisis.\n\nBest screenplay went to Céline Sciamma for Portrait of a Lady on Fire, a period romance about a relationship between a young painter and her subject.\n\nAntonio Banderas accepting the prize from Zhang Ziyi for best actor\n\nBelgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne took home the award for best directors for their film Young Ahmed, which is about a boy who is radicalised into stabbing his teacher.\n\nBrazilian film Bacurau, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles won the Jury Prize. The story follows a filmmaker who travels to a remote village and discovers its dark secrets.", "Video caption: The man known as the \"doctor of migrants\" on Lampedusa, wins a seat in EU elections\n\nThe man known as the \"doctor of migrants\" on Lampedusa, wins a seat in EU elections", "We are closing our international live coverage of the European elections for the night. You can continue to follow UK results and reaction here.\n\nHere are the the day's main developments:\n• The big power blocs of the centre-right and centre-left lost their combined majority in the European Parliament. \"The monopoly of power is broken,\" said Denmark's Margrethe Vestager, the liberal candidate for the top post in the European Commission\n• Europeans voted in their biggest numbers since 1994, bucking years of decline with a turnout just shy of 51%\n• The big winners of the night were the liberals and Greens. The liberals have were boosted by the decision of President Macron's ruling party to join them\n• The Greens saw strong votes in Finland, Germany, France and Portugal\n• The nationalist right had a patchy night, but enjoyed successes in Italy, where figurehead Matteo Salvini ran to victory, and in France, where Marine Le Pen defeated the Renaissance alliance of Mr Macron.\n• In the UK, the newly-formed Brexit Party soared to victory, gaining 28 seats amid massive losses for Conservatives and Labour\n• There are still results to be announced, alliances to forge, and perhaps some domestic political fallout for parties across the continent\n• BBC journalists will be covering the story from both UK and international angles - stay tuned for developments throughout the day\n• To catch up, take a look at what we know so far about the outlook across Europe\n\nThanks for following.", "Floral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene in Shiregreen, Sheffield\n\nFour children \"rescued\" from a house in Sheffield in the same incident in which two boys died have been released from hospital, police said.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said they received \"reports of concerns for safety\" of people at an address in Shiregreen at 07:30 BST on Friday.\n\nSix children were taken to hospital but the boys, aged 13 and 14, died.\n\nA 37-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nFour more children, aged eight months, three, 11 and 12, received treatment at hospital. Police said they were now fit enough to be discharged.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SouthYorkshirePolice This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 children cannot be identified for legal reasons.\n\nFloral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police have put on extra patrols in the area\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said extra officers were patrolling the area to reassure people, although police stressed it was an \"isolated incident\" with no wider threat to the community.\n\nSupt Paul McCurry said officers were not looking for anybody else in relation to the deaths, and urged people to be \"mindful\" of speculating online.\n\nPost-mortem tests on the boys who died had been due to take place on Friday.\n\nForensic officers were around the home in Shiregreen, Sheffield on Friday\n\nNeighbours reported seeing more than a dozen police cars in the street on Friday morning, and Yorkshire Air Ambulance confirmed it had landed in the playground of a nearby school.\n\nGill Furniss, Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, has said she is \"deeply saddened by the tragic incident\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Two boys dead as police swoop on house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andrew Moffat led the parade with Saima Razzaq and Khakan Qureshi\n\nA teacher whose lesson programme covering LGBT relationships has been at the centre of protests is leading the Birmingham Pride parade.\n\nAndrew Moffat started the \"No Outsiders\" lessons at Parkfield Community School in the city, which has led to protests by some Muslim parents.\n\nPride organisers said there was \"no-one better\" to lead the parade, which started at midday.\n\nThousands have been expected to attend the annual event, now in its 22nd year.\n\nThis year's theme is Love Out Loud which organisers said was a \"celebration of our right to love, no matter our gender, sexuality, personal identity, colour, religion or race\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC News about the invitation to join the Pride parade, Mr Moffat said it was \"absolutely wonderful\".\n\nHe was joined at the front of the procession by Khakan Qureshi, founder of Birmingham South Asians LGBT and Saima Razzaq, from Supporting Education of Equality and Diversity in Schools (SEEDS).\n\nFestivalgoers chose colourful costumes and attire for the parade\n\n\"It's so important, isn't it, at this time that we are showing that's what Birmingham is like,\" Mr Moffat said.\n\n\"It's not about protests outside schools, that's not Birmingham. This is Birmingham.\n\n\"They're talking about 80,000 people turning up to support Pride.\n\nBirmingham Pride is now in its 22nd year\n\nThousands of people are expected to attend the annual event over the weekend\n\nIn 2015, Birmingham Pride awarded a grant of £5,000 to the \"No Outsiders\" programme, which organisers said was an \"incredible initiative\".\n\nThe \"No Outsiders\" scheme had been running at Parkfield school since 2014.\n\nIt was formed to educate children about the Equality Act, British values, and diversity, using storybooks to teach children about LGBT relationships, race, religion, adoption and disability.\n\nHowever, some parents with children at the school in Alum Rock raised a petition in January, claiming some of the teaching contradicted Islam.\n\nThe protests have since spread to Anderton Park Primary in Balsall Heath with a protest held on Friday afternoon outside the school thought to be the biggest so far.\n\nA protest outside the school on Friday is thought to have been the biggest so far\n\nThose against the inclusion of LGBT issues in classes have said the content contradicts their Islamic beliefs, and have accused the school of not listening to parents' concerns.\n\nBut head teacher Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson said she would \"never stop\" teaching pupils about equality.\n\nPeople gathered in Victoria Square ahead of the parade beginning at midday\n\nThere are events are taking place in and around the city's gay village on 25 and 26 May\n\nFestival director Lawrence Barton said Mr Moffat had been asked to lead the parade in light of the \"division which the controversy over 'No Outsiders' lessons has created\".\n\nEveryone seemed to be in good spirits for the festival\n\nBirmingham Pride events are taking place in and around the city's gay village on 25 and 26 May.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go \n\n\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Whorlton Hall, near Castle Barnard, looked after 17 adults with learning difficulties and autism\n\nA former inspector at the Care Quality Commission says a 2015 report into Whorlton Hall hospital which presented \"warning bells\" went unpublished.\n\nBarry Stanley-Wilkinson says he wrote the report four years before BBC Panorama revealed the alleged abuse of patients with learning disabilities and autism.\n\nThe CQC said the draft report raised no concerns about abusive practices.\n\nThe claims come after 10 workers at the specialist hospital were arrested.\n\nSeven men and three women were arrested last week at addresses in Barnard Castle, Bishop Auckland, Darlington and Stockton over the alleged abuse of patients.\n\nAn undercover BBC Panorama investigation into the specialist hospital in County Durham - a 17-bed unit for adults with learning difficulties and autism - appeared to show patients being mocked, intimidated and restrained.\n\nCygnet, the firm that runs the 17-bed hospital unit for adults with learning difficulties and autism, said it was \"shocked and deeply saddened\" by the allegations.\n\nThe company only took over the running of the centre at the turn of the year and said it was \"co-operating fully\" with the police investigation.\n\nThe site had at least 100 visits by official agencies in the year before the alleged abuse was discovered.\n\nMr Stanley-Wilkinson says he noticed a \"very poor culture\" was evident when he led the 2015 inspection.\n\nHe told the BBC that he had raised concerns over the \"very poor culture\" in a report he wrote - four years prior to the BBC investigation.\n\nHe said: \"I strongly believe that anybody that can understand organisational culture reading that report would agree that there was definitely warning bells there.\n\n\"I was extremely upset. This should have been listened to back in 2015 and I said quite openly, when I left the organisation, that I felt it had neglected its promise to people with learning disabilities.\"\n\nHe said it was the only report he wrote in nearly a decade of working at the CQC which wasn't published.\n\nIn a statement, the CQC said the report went through a \"rigorous peer review process\".\n\nIt said the draft report \"did not raise any concerns about abusive practice\".\n\nThe CQC said a later inspection rated the hospital as \"good overall\".\n\nIn a statement it said: \"We are in the process of commissioning a review into what we could have done differently or better in our regulation of Whorlton Hall and these allegations will be fully investigated as part of this.\n\n\"We will update on the progress and findings of this review in our Public Board meetings.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At least two people have died after a tornado struck in El Reno, Oklahoma on Saturday night.\n\nThe incident on Saturday follows a week of tornadoes, severe rain and flooding in states in the Southern Plains and Midwest regions.\n\nThe recent spate of extreme weather has been blamed for at least nine deaths across the region, the Associated Press reports.\n\nThis video has no commentary", "Cladding has been widely used on high rises, including Grenfell Tower\n\nFire safety experts warn many of the 1,700 buildings identified as \"at risk\" in England are likely to fail new tests into cladding and building materials.\n\nHospitals, schools, nursing homes and tower blocks are among buildings which could be under threat, BBC 5 live Investigates has learned.\n\nThe government said it will monitor the test results this summer to decide if any immediate action needs to be taken.\n\nIt comes almost two years after 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nA public inquiry into the fire, which happened in west London in June 2017, heard evidence to support the theory that the highly combustible material in the cladding was the primary cause of the fire's spread.\n\nIt took minutes for the fire to race up the exterior of the building, and spread to all four sides.\n\nThe government has set up a fund to remove cladding from buildings identified with aluminium composite material (ACM) - the same type used on Grenfell Tower. The new tests, which began last month, are testing other types of cladding and building materials.\n\n72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017\n\nOne type of cladding, known as High Pressure Laminate (HPL) is believed to be of particular concern. The research group Building Research Establishment said that none of the cladding systems that had passed a standard BS 8414 safety test included an HPL.\n\nAnother study, released in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, found that HPL cladding materials released heat 25 times faster and released 115 times more heat than non-combustible products.\n\nThe government says that it recognises concerns about HPL and included them in the new fire safety tests.\n\nChartered engineer Dr Jonathan Evans was part of the team testing cladding for the government after the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nHe said some of the tests were almost certain to fail and is calling for transparency around the results of the tests when they are released.\n\nCladding has been removed from numerous high-rise buildings following the Grenfell Tower fire\n\nIn December, the government introduced new fire safety regulations in response to Dame Judith Hackitt's independent review following the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nThe regulations banned combustible materials from the external walls of new buildings over 59 feet tall.\n\nThere have since been calls from Clive Betts, the chairman of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee (HCLG), for these regulations to be applied to all new buildings, regardless of height.\n\nHe added that materials deemed too dangerous for new buildings should not be permitted for existing ones.\n\nA spokesperson for the government's Ministry of Housing, which ordered the tests, said: \"We issued an advice notice on non-ACM cladding systems, reiterating the clearest way to ensure fire safety is to remove unsafe materials.\"\n\nTo find out more listen to 5 Live Investigates on Sunday at 11:00 GMT or afterwards on BBC Sounds.", "Sonita Alleyne described it as an \"honour\" to be appointed new master of Jesus College\n\nThe first black woman has been appointed to lead an Oxbridge college.\n\nSonita Alleyne, 51, who has been elected as the next master of Jesus College, Cambridge, will also be its first female appointee and will take up the role from October.\n\nBusinesswoman and entrepreneur Ms Alleyne said it was \"an honour to be elected to lead Jesus College\".\n\n\"I left Cambridge 30 years ago, but it never left me. I am delighted to be returning,\" she said.\n\nBrought up in East London, Ms Alleyne studied for her undergraduate degree in philosophy at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.\n\nA career in radio followed, including founding production company Somethin' Else, which she led as chief executive from 1991 until 2009.\n\nShe is a former BBC trustee who championed diversity and inclusivity.\n\nProfessor Mary Laven, of the college's search committee, said they were \"thrilled\" by Ms Alleyne's appointment.\n\n\"She brings to the college a wealth of experience and an enduring commitment to helping young people fulfil their potential,\" she said.\n\nMs Alleyne was also previously appointed to the board of the London Legacy Development Corporation in 2012, as part of the drive to promote and deliver regeneration in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and surrounding areas.\n\nShe is also fellow of both the Royal Society of the Arts and the Radio Academy and was awarded an OBE for services to broadcasting in 2004.\n• None 'I'm mixed-race, is Cambridge right for me?'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Michael Gove has said he will enter the race to be Tory leader, challenging his former Vote Leave ally Boris Johnson.\n\nSpeaking outside his home, Environment Secretary Mr Gove said: \"I can confirm that I will be putting my name forward to be prime minister of this country.\n\n\"I believe that I'm ready to unite the Conservative and Unionist Party, ready to deliver Brexit, and ready to lead this great country.\"\n\nRead more: Who will be the next prime minister?", "The Border Force was alerted at about 06:20 BST and a cutter was deployed\n\nThe number of migrants picked up trying to cross the Channel in May is now higher than the figure for December, when a \"major incident\" was declared.\n\nEight men were intercepted in a small boat at about 06:20 BST, bringing the total for May so far to 140.\n\nIn December, during mild weather, 138 migrants attempted the journey and Home Secretary Sajid Javid set out a plan for dealing with the problem.\n\nAt least 642 migrants have now crossed the Channel since 3 November.\n\nThe Home Office said: \"Those in need of protection should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach.\"\n\nIt added that since January \"more than 30 people who arrived illegally in the UK in small boats have been returned to Europe\".\n\nIn December 138 migrants were picked up by officials. So far this month, 140 have been intercepted.\n\nThe crossings are very dependent on the weather. The end of last year was unseasonably mild leading to a spike in attempts to get to the UK.\n\nThe start of this year saw numbers fall again, as the weather worsened.\n\nHowever, with summer approaching the sea is calm and the temperature is rising, so the Home Office is braced for more boats in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Friday, 18 migrants were picked up in a dinghy and brought to Dover.\n\nOf the eight men found in waters off the Kent coast earlier, seven presented themselves as Iranian and one was an Afghan national.\n\nThe men were transferred to a Border Force vessel and taken to Dover at about 06:20 BST, the Home Office said.\n\nThey were medically assessed before being transferred to immigration officials.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rory Stewart says he would not able to serve under Boris Johnson if his rival for the Conservative leadership becomes prime minister.\n\nMr Stewart told the BBC that politicians must tell the truth about where they stand on Brexit and he believes Mr Johnson's backing for a no-deal exit is \"undeliverable\".", "Floral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene in Shiregreen, Sheffield\n\nA man and a woman have been charged with murder after two children died following an \"incident\" at a house in Sheffield.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, died, and four children were \"rescued\" from the property in Shiregreen at 07:30 BST on Friday.\n\nThe woman has also been charged with three counts of attempted murder.\n\nThey are due to appear before Sheffield Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nThe four surviving children, aged eight months, three, 11 and 12, received treatment at hospital and were discharged on Saturday.\n\nThe children cannot be identified for legal reasons.\n\nFloral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene.\n\nThe children cannot be identified for legal reasons\n\nPost-mortem tests on the boys who died had been due to take place on Friday.\n\nGill Furniss, Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, said she was \"deeply saddened by the tragic incident\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Germany's Green Party doubled its share of the vote\n\nThe major centre-right and centre-left groupings were always going to have a tough election, the question was - on what scale?\n\nWhen the results came, it was clear they had lost their combined majority in the European Parliament as voters shied away from the mainstream. But they still held more than 43% of the vote.\n\nThe mainstream blocs lost votes to the Liberals, Greens and nationalists, creating a new, fragmented reality for the European Parliament.\n\nTurnout was at its highest since 1994, with some observers suggesting this was due to more young people voting.\n\nThe centre-right European People's Party (EPP) and centre-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D) have long held more than half the seats in Parliament between them. That is set to change.\n\nThe sense of an end of an era was symbolised in Germany, where the centre-right Christian Democrats of Chancellor Angela Merkel polled just 29% of the vote - their worst-ever performance in European elections. The centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) came a poor third with 16%.\n\nOfficial projections, based on exit polls, now suggest the EPP and S&D will lose 83 seats, bringing their share down to around 44%, from a comfortable control of more than half the previous parliament.\n\nThe centrist Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), is heading for big gains, with its share rising from 67 seats to 107. That is largely because the newcomer-party of French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to join up and could play a kingmaker role.\n\nOutgoing ALDE group leader Guy Verhofstadt hailed a \"historical moment\" and a \"new balance of power\".\n\nMany member states, from the Nordic countries to Portugal, saw a rise in the Green vote.\n\nAnd while they may have come second in Germany, the Green party is being hailed as the big winner there, doubling its vote share to 21%, incomplete results showed.\n\nThe Greens captured the zeitgeist while the other parties struggled to put together a coherent environmental policy, said BBC Berlin correspondent Jenny Hill.\n\nAround one in three people under the age of 30 voted Green. In the run-up to the vote, 90 influential YouTubers urged followers to vote for parties that took climate issues seriously. They told voters to avoid the far-right AfD, which they said denied climate change was even happening.\n\nGerman YouTubers including Rezo, seen on a placard at this protest, had called for people to vote for parties that took climate change seriously\n\nIn France, green group Europe Écologie Les Verts (EELV) is on course to come third with 13%. Both Mrs Le Pen and Mr Macron have emphasised their green credentials. Mr Macron wants to shift to green technology and energy while Mrs Le Pen said her brand of localism was good for the environment.\n\nIn Portugal, the green PAN party (People-Animals-Nature) is on course to win its first ever seat in the European Parliament, possibly even two.\n\nThe Greens have won an historic second place in Finland but in Sweden, home to climate activist Greta Thunberg, they have gone into reverse. They are projected to poll 11%, down almost 8%.\n\nThis was to be the election that sparked a right-wing force to seize the agenda in Europe. It has not quite happened.\n\nThe two dominant nationalist figures in France and Italy won the national vote.\n\nMatteo Salvini, whose right-wing nationalist League party is predicted to win over 30% of the Italian vote, is hoping to found a new grouping, the European Alliance for People and Nations, with the support of a dozen other parties.\n\nIn France Marine Le Pen's National Rally party - formerly the National Front - is heading for first place with 23.5% of the vote, narrowly ahead of President Emmanuel Macron's centrist grouping, which got 22.4%.\n\nTurnout was reportedly high in areas where her party has previously done well and also in areas where support for the anti-government \"gilets jaunes\" (yellow-vest) movement is strong. Mrs Le Pen has changed her position on EU membership, saying she now wants to stay in the bloc.\n\nBut after that the nationalist surge appears to fall away.\n\nIn Germany the far-right AfD is predicted to get under 11%, up from 7.1% five years ago, but down on its general election showing in 2017.\n\nIn the Netherlands the Freedom Party of Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has lost all its seats in parliament. Much of his vote appears to have been taken over by another populist party, Forum for Democracy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nResults in Spain give new far-right Vox party getting only 6.2% of the vote, down from the 10.3% it achieved in Spain's national election only a month ago.\n\nFar-right and Eurosceptic parties are currently split between three groupings in the European Parliament: the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR); and the two far-right groupings, Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) and Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF).\n\nIn the UK a new anti-EU party, the Brexit Party, is heading for victory at the expense of the Conservative Party, while pro-EU Liberal Democrats are taking votes from the traditionally centre-left Labour party.\n\nIn the UK, which voted on Thursday, Nigel Farage's new Brexit Party is heading for victory", "Little Mix kicked off Sunday's event with songs including Shout Out To My Ex and Black Magic\n\nLittle Mix, Miley Cyrus, Mumford and Sons, Stormzy and Lewis Capaldi are just some of the stars who put on a show for the crowd at Radio 1's Big Weekend.\n\nThe artists used fireworks and booming speakers to bring the party to Stewart Park in Middlesbrough on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.\n\nLewis, who performed on Saturday, told Radio 1 Newsbeat: \"I think it might be the best gig I've ever played in my life.\n\n\"It's the first time I've played a lot of these songs in a festival set-up. It's incredible to see people come out.\n\n\"Hearing people singing back your songs is so weird... I don't think I'll ever get used to it.\"\n\nHere are some of the best pics from the weekend so far:\n\nMiley Cyrus put on a big performance to close the festival on Saturday\n\nMarcus Mumford got the crowd going when Mumford and Sons opened up the festival on Saturday\n\nLewis Capaldi performed a day after his debut album went to number one\n\nFoals had a dramatic backdrop for their set\n\nKhalid performed on the main stage on Saturday\n\nJax Jones (right) brought on Olly Alexander as a special guest\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Women have been taking to the streets of Saudi Arabia's cities in increasing numbers - to go running.\n\nJeddah Running Community was founded in 2013, challenging cultural norms under which it has long been widely considered inappropriate for women to participate in sport in public.\n\nIt was one of the first groups to hold mixed training sessions for women and men, though it also holds women-only meet-ups. The idea has gained traction more widely, with groups forming in other cities.\n\nIn recent years, the conservative Gulf kingdom has reversed a ban on sports for girls in public schools and allowed women to watch football matches in stadiums. It sent its first female athletes to the Olympics in 2012.\n\nBut although some rules for women have been relaxed - including the lifting of the ban on driving - women are still not free to travel, marry, divorce or even leave prison without the permission of a male relative.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The winners and losers of European election night\n\nThe Brexit Party was the clear winner in the UK's European elections, while the pro-EU Lib Dems came second.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour suffered heavy losses, with the former getting less than 10% of the vote.\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage said he was ready to \"take on\" the main parties in a general election.\n\nMr Farage's party won 29 seats, the Lib Dems 16, Labour 10, the Greens seven, the Tories four, the SNP three, and Plaid Cymru and the DUP one each.\n\nThe elections came after Prime Minister Theresa May tried three times to secure MPs' backing for her Brexit plan and announced her resignation after her fourth attempt prompted a backlash.\n\nMr Farage told the BBC: \"With a big, simple message - which is we've been badly let down by two parties who have broken their promises - we have topped the poll in a fairly dramatic style.\n\n\"The two-party system now serves nothing but itself. I think they are an obstruction to the modernising of politics... and we are going to take them on.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said he was \"pleasantly surprised\" by his party's \"very good result\".\n\nHe added that there was \"a majority of people in the country who don't want to leave the European Union now\".\n\nPolling expert Sir John Curtice said the results showed how polarised the country had become over Brexit.\n\nWere these results an overwhelming cry for us to leave the EU whatever the cost? Or a sign, with some slightly convoluted arithmetic, that the country now wants another referendum to stop Brexit all together?\n\nGuess what, the situation is not quite so black and white, whatever you will hear in the coming hours about the meaning of these numbers.\n\nThe Brexit Party's success was significant and Nigel Farage's new group is the biggest single winner.\n\nBut the Lib Dems, Greens, Plaid and SNP - all parties advocating the opposite - were victors too.\n\nMrs May, who is due to step down as Conservative leader on 7 June, tweeted her response to her party's performance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Theresa May This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Theresa May\n\nAcross Europe, the big centre-right and centre-left blocs lost ground, amid a surge in support for liberals, Greens and nationalists.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but after that deadline was put back to 31 October, participation in the election became mandatory.\n\nThe Brexit Party topped the polls in every region of England apart from London. It also dominated in Wales, with Plaid Cymru second.\n\nIt has now become the joint largest national party in the European Parliament, alongside Germany's CDU/CSU party.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Click here for full UK results Find out who was elected in your area The results for your area are not in yet * Votes counted as first preference. Vote share figures not included because of the STV electoral system Find out more about elections in Northern Ireland\n\nIn Scotland, the pro-Remain SNP won the biggest share of the vote, with just under 38%, giving it three MEPs.\n\nThe Brexit Party came in second place with a significantly lower percentage - 14.8% - followed by the Lib Dems with 13.9% and the Tories with 11.6% - meaning each party has one seat.\n\nBut Labour only received 9.3% of the vote - a loss in vote share of 16.6% - leaving it with no MEPs in Scotland for the first time.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the DUP (which supports leaving the EU), Sinn Fein (Remain), and the Alliance Party (Remain) all won a seat each.\n\nBrexiteer and Conservative MEP for the South East Daniel Hannan - one of only three Tory MEPs elected - said it was his party's \"worst ever result\".\n\n\"We voted to leave (the EU) and we haven't left - it's that simple,\" he told the BBC.\n\nTory leadership hopeful and former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said the public had delivered \"a crushing rebuke\" to both major parties for failing to deliver Brexit.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn is facing increasing pressure from senior members of his party to back another referendum on Brexit, with shadow chancellor John McDonnell saying it is the only way through the deadlock.\n\n\"If there can be a deal, great, but it needs to go back to the people,\" Mr McDonnell said.\n\n\"If it's a no-deal, we've got to block it and the one way of doing that is going back to the people and arguing the case against it because it could be catastrophic for our economy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. McDonnell: Brexit 'needs to go back to the people'\n\nBut the leader of the Unite Union, Len McCluskey, said Labour's attempt to \"unite the nation\" over Brexit was \"an honourable objective that must not be abandoned\".\n\nAnd Mr Corbyn wrote to his MPs that it was \"clear that the deadlock in Parliament can now only be broken by the issue going back to the people through a general election or a public vote. We are ready to support a public vote on any deal.\"\n\nGreen Party co-leader Sian Berry said the case for a further referendum was stronger than ever, adding that it was \"the way to draw a line under the Brexit chaos\".\n\nChange UK, which also opposes Brexit, failed to win any seats in the election, but leader Heidi Allen told the BBC her party - newly formed from former Labour and Tory MPs - was \"down, but we are not out\".\n\nMeanwhile, UKIP, which Mr Farage used to lead, lost all its MEPs, and saw a fall in its vote share of more than 20 points.\n\nThe party's former deputy leader, Mike Hookem - who lost his seat in Yorkshire and the Humber - blamed UKIP leader Gerard Batten for the result.\n\nHe highlighted Mr Batten's association with former EDL leader Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - who also failed to win a seat in the North West Region, where he ran as an independent.\n\nSearch using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results\n\nCorrection 20 August 2019: This article has been amended to remove a chart that attempted to show the performance of pro- and anti-Brexit parties, after a ruling from the BBC's Executive Complaints Unit.", "The Scottish government has given £70,000 to improve the help for families of missing people.\n\nThe cash will also support vulnerable people who are at risk of going missing.\n\nAbout 55 people - adults and children - are reported missing in Scotland every day. While missing, they are at a higher risk of coming to harm.\n\nA new independent working group will help authorities work together to help missing people and those close to them.\n\nAnne Foster, whose stepmother disappeared more than a decade ago, said it would be \"absolutely amazing\" to have a more structured form of support for the families left behind.\n\nMinister for Community Safety, Ash Denham, has launched a group of expert professionals to look at the gaps which exist in the provision of services.\n\nThe working group will support the delivery of Scotland's National Missing Persons Framework.\n\nThe funding will be used to establish a national development co-ordinator who will work closely with local authorities to improve how they and other organisations work together to support vulnerable people and help prevent individuals from going missing.\n\nAbout 23,000 missing persons investigations are undertaken by Police Scotland every year and this latest funding takes the Scottish government's total investment in support for missing people, their families and those at risk of going missing to more than £360,000 since 2016.\n\nMs Denham said: \"Families and friends of those who go missing face a huge trauma, particularly when their loved-one remains missing long term.\n\n\"The majority of missing people are returned safely within a couple of days but we must continue to improve how we safeguard and support the most vulnerable in Scotland.\n\n\"The work of our new national development co-ordinator and working group will build on recent progress and enhance multi-agency working to improve outcomes for missing people and their families.\"\n\nThe scheme has been welcomed by the family of a woman from Livingston who has been missing since 17 June 2008.\n\nMay Ferns, who was 88, was last seen on a shopping trip to Edinburgh's Princes Street. Her husband Bill has since died without knowing what happened to her.\n\nMay Ferns went missing on a shopping trip in 2008\n\nMrs Ferns' step-daughter Anne Foster said she was \"absolutely delighted\" that Scotland was \"leading the way\" with the new working group.\n\nShe said: \"For people left behind, it's incredibly traumatic.\n\n\"I got a lot of support from Missing People Scotland but a lot of people are not aware of the charity.\n\n\"They are not aware of the psychological and emotional help that they can get. To have a form of structured support for people who have gone missing or have been left behind is absolutely amazing.\"\n\nAnne Foster is grateful for the support she got after her step-mother went missing\n\nMrs Foster said there had been \"no signs\" that her step-mother would vanish.\n\nShe said: \"People have asked us if she had dementia, but she was sharp as a tack.\n\n\"Despite her age and frailty, there was was no indication that she could go missing.\n\n\"She loved her family - she loved being with her step-children and her grandchildren. She was very much a family member.\n\n\"Not knowing is absolute torture. It's not like a death where it's a natural progression in life. You know what's happened to that person and you can celebrate their life and have a finality.\n\n\"With May, it's constantly living in limbo.\"\n\nProf Hester Parr, who will chair the working group, said: \"This group is comprised of expert professionals with special insights into the complex social and spatial issue of missing persons.\n\n\"The working group will assess the national impact of the National Framework for Missing People in Scotland to identify best practice and the gaps which still exist in the provision of professional services to help missing people and their families.\n\n\"There is a pressing need to make the ambitions in the Framework a reality and act as more than a symbolic document. This will ensure Scotland remains an international leader in terms of support for missing people.\"\n\nSusannah Drury of the Missing People charity said: \"It is vital that every one of these people receives the response and support they need, wherever they live.\"", "The near-miss took place in the skies above Biggin Hill airport\n\nA Spitfire almost crashed into a light aircraft after doing a mid-air stunt near a London airport, a report has revealed.\n\nThe near miss happened near Biggin Hill Airport on 29 September last year, the UK Airprox Board (UKAB) report said.\n\nThe pilot of the Piper PA-28 said he narrowly avoided the Second World War fighter, which was close enough to \"fill the entire windscreen\".\n\nThe Spitfire pilot said his plane was not closer than about 400ft.\n\nHe told the UKAB investigation that he \"had had the PA28 continuously in sight and he had passed behind it\".\n\nHowever, the Piper pilot described the risk of collision as \"high\", telling investigators that he could see \"every rivet\" of the Spitfire as it flew past.\n\nIt was \"only by chance\" that one of the back seat passengers managed to see the Spitfire \"at the last second\", he told the UKAB.\n\nThe UKAB report, published on Sunday, conceded it was not possible to \"definitively decide whether the Spitfire pilot had flown in front or behind\".\n\nIt concluded that the Spitfire pilot's actions were \"ill advised\" to the extent that \"safety had been much reduced below the norm\".\n\nUKAB board members \"agreed that, despite the discrepancies between reported circumstances\", they were certain that the Spitfire pilot \"had flown into conflict with the PA28\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jodie Chesney was the fifth teenager to be stabbed to death in London this year\n\nA fourth person has been charged with murdering a 17-year-old girl who was stabbed to death in a park.\n\nJodie Chesney was attacked while playing music in a park with friends in Harold Hill in Romford, east London, on 1 March.\n\nPolice said the 17-year-old boy was also charged with possession of a stun gun and is due to appear at Barkingside Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nTwo men and a boy have already been charged with her murder.\n\nManuel Petrovic, 20, of Highfield Road in Romford, Svenson Ong-a-kwie, 19, of Hillfoot Road, in Romford, a 16-year-old boy and the 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named, are due to face trial at the Old Bailey in September.\n\nThe 17-year-old who was charged on Sunday had first been arrested on 10 March and initially released under investigation.\n\nAnother two people, a 50-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman, both from Dagenham, who were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, have been released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lewis Hamilton held off Max Verstappen, and survived a late collision with the Red Bull driver, to win a nail-biting Monaco Grand Prix.\n\nThe world champion was left struggling with the tyres on his Mercedes after fitting softer rubber than the Dutchman at pit stops during an early safety-car period.\n\nBritain's Hamilton repeatedly complained that he was not going to be able to make the tyres last to the end but by careful management held on to take his fourth win of 2019.\n\nVerstappen dropped from second on the road to fourth in the results because of a five-second penalty, promoting Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel to second and Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas to third.\n\nVerstappen's punishment was for an unsafe release in the pits when all the leaders pitted on lap 12 as a safety car was deployed to clear up debris laid by Charles Leclerc's Ferrari.\n\nAlthough Mercedes' run of consecutive victories at the start of this season continued, their sequence of one-twos is over as a result of Bottas' bad luck.\n\nAnd Hamilton now holds a 17-point lead over his team-mate in the championship.\n• None Hamilton holds on to win in Monaco - reaction\n\nThe defining moment of the race\n\nWearing a helmet painted in a design used by Niki Lauda, the Mercedes non-executive chairman who died on Monday, Hamilton was controlling the race, ahead of Bottas, Verstappen and Vettel, after converting his pole position into a lead a the first corner.\n\nBut the race came to life when Leclerc suffered a puncture when he spun trying to pass Nico Hulkenberg's Renault for 11th place on lap eight.\n\nLeclerc had been making up ground after Ferrari's farcical strategic error in qualifying on Saturday meant he failed to progress beyond the first session.\n\nThe Monegasque had passed Romain Grosjean's Haas for 12th place with a brave move at Rascasse on the previous lap. He tried the same on Hulkenberg but the German left him less room.\n\nThey rounded the corner together but Leclerc's rear wheel caught the inside barrier, pitching him into a spin and puncturing the tyre.\n\nHe got going again, losing only two places, but his tyre began to deconstruct around the next lap and tore chunks out of his rear bodywork as he returned to the pits.\n\nWhen the safety car was deployed, Hamilton led the leaders into the pits, as Bottas backed up Verstappen and Vettel to give Mercedes time to service both cars.\n\nRed Bull pulled off a super-quick stop and released Verstappen into Bottas' path, and the two cars touched as the Finn was forced into the pit wall on the outside.\n\nIt gave Verstappen second place on the road, and caused Bottas a puncture that meant he had to stop again the next time around, losing a place to German Vettel. But ultimately it cost him more than it gained him - and he was given two penalty points on his licence as well as the time penalty.\n\nWhy was Hamilton struggling so much?\n\nHamilton's problem was that Mercedes had fitted medium tyres to his car, while Verstappen and Vettel were given hards - which Bottas was also switched to when he pitted for the second time.\n\nIt meant Hamilton had to do 66 laps on a set of mediums, when they were only projected to last 50.\n\nIt is unclear why Mercedes chose the medium, and the decision gave Hamilton a tough afternoon, spent controlling his pace and fending off Verstappen.\n\nPassing is difficult at Monaco, but regardless it meant Hamilton could not afford to make a mistake despite fading grip, which was no easy task.\n\nHis concern was plain as he repeatedly complained over the radio that he was not going to make it and would not be able to hold Verstappen off.\n\nAt one point, he even said it was going to take a \"miracle\" to win it.\n\nIn the end, with about 10 laps to go, Mercedes' chief strategist James Vowles came on the radio and said: \"You can make it if you trust it.\"\n\nVerstappen went for it at the chicane with two laps to go, but he was too far back and locked a wheel, and they touched as Hamilton came across him.\n\nHamilton took to the escape road and carried on, as Verstappen complained: \"He just turned in. I was trying to overtake.\"\n\nThat was the last drama and Hamilton hung on for the remaining two laps.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nCanada in two weeks' time. Mercedes will start as favourites, but the long straights might give Ferrari their first chance to be competitive since Baku two races ago.\n\nWhat they said\n\nHamilton: \"That was definitely the hardest race I've had but nonetheless I really was fighting with the spirit of Niki - he's been such an influence in our team and I know he will be looking down and taking his hat off. I was trying to stay focused and make him proud that it's been the goal all week and we truly miss him.\"\n\nVettel: \"A tough race to manage, at Monaco something always happens, Max must have had an incredible stop, I saw them (Verstappen and Bottas) touching in the pit lane. I wanted to put some more pressure on, I just struggled with my tyres, not as badly as Lewis and Max's, but mine were just not getting hot.\"\n\nBottas: \"It's obviously disappointing for me, I think the speed was there and I was feeling good in the car. It was small margins yesterday and that made today difficult. Max got me in the pitlane and left me with no room and then I was stuck behind, it was like a Sunday drive.\"", "Information from the drones can be used to see the vegetation beneath the forest canopy\n\nLaser-carrying drones that can see through the forest canopy are being used to protect native Scottish plants threatened by invasive species.\n\nThe drones use Lidar (light detection and ranging), which works like radar but uses light instead of radio waves.\n\nLaser pulses are fired at the trees below and the time it takes for wavelengths to bounce back is used to create a 3D picture of what lies beneath.\n\nThe data is combined with information from satellites to give an accurate \"fix\" of the drone's position.\n\nIt all builds up an accurate map of the health of the forest floor.\n\nThe drones use Lidar (light detection and ranging)\n\nThe programme is led by the Edinburgh-based company Ecometrica.\n\nIts funding partners are the Forestry Commission Scotland, Scottish Orienteering, Woodland Trust and Edinburgh University.\n\nSupport has also come from the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council.\n\nOnce it is in the air, the four-rotor drone is easier to hear than see. It is a speck in the sky but packed with sensors.\n\nIt has been surveying forests in the west of Scotland: Lochgilphead, Ardfern, Auchterawe, Arisaig, Achdalieu and Mandally.\n\nThe drone has been used to survey forests in the west of Scotland\n\nLidar has been used from the air before but typically this has been from larger aircraft with humans on board.\n\nAn unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), usually known as a drone, holds out the prospect of reduced cost.\n\nThe point of the project is to monitor and map how land use is changing and how climate change is affecting Scotland's forests.\n\nConventional photos taken in natural light will only show the tree canopy.\n\nAnd as much of the tree cover is evergreen and there all year round, there's no point waiting for autumn to have a look beneath it.\n\n\"It enables you to pick out features that a satellite doesn't allow you to do,\" he says.\n\nLarge-scale global deforestation is being monitored from the International Space Station by the GEDI Lidar system.\n\nDr Tipper says a Lidar drone covers a much smaller area with each sweep but the resolution is \"an order of magnitude better\".\n\nOne key emphasis is on protecting native species - and fighting one non-native threat in particular.\n\nRhododendron bushes like Scotland a bit too much\n\nBack in the 1700s it seemed like a good idea to introduce the flowering shrub rhododendron ponticum, a native of southern Europe and western Asia, to the British Isles.\n\nAfter all, their purple blooms look lovely in early summer.\n\nThe problem is, the rhododendron bushes like Scottish forests rather too much.\n\nThe acid soil means they have spread like a smothering evergreen carpet beneath the cover of the tree canopy.\n\nYou could say it is a case of having too much of a good thing except they're actually a bad thing.\n\nThey carry a fungal disease that harms trees and their leaf litter is toxic to native plants.\n\nWithout Lidar the bushes can spread undetected.\n\nThe drone data is analysed using a system called Ecometrica Platform\n\nThe drone data is analysed using a system called Ecometrica Platform. It creates the detailed maps that show changes to the ecosystem.\n\nEach partner in the project has a different use for the information.\n\nThe Forestry Commission is concerned with rhododendrons but The Woodland Trust wants to map the remains of native forests.\n\nEdinburgh University will feed it into new research, and Scottish Orienteering need digital models of the terrain as Scotland prepares to host the World Orienteering Championships in 2022.\n\nMat Williams, professor of global change ecology at Edinburgh University, says the system can play an important role in assessing the effects of climate change.\n\nHe says it can detect the effects of human land use, deforestation, soil degradation, forest fires and drought.\n\nAnd Scotland is a testbed for technology that could be used worldwide.\n\nEcometrica are also leading Forests 2020, a UK Space Agency-funded programme to map threats to tropical forests.\n\nProf Williams says his team are exploring the data gathered in Scotland to see how the techniques could be used there.\n\n\"For a long time we've only been able to look at the surface of tropical forests,\" he says.\n\n\"We're hoping Lidar can look in more depth.\"\n\nAmong the answers they are seeking is how many - or how few - Lidar pulses bouncing back from the forest can provide useful information.\n\nThey intend to begin flying Lidar drones in West Africa soon.\n\nAmong the threats there are illegal logging, charcoal burning and our apparently insatiable taste for chocolate.\n\nEcometrica's space programme manager Sarah Middlemiss says the project is working with the forestry authorities in Ghana to map the felling of trees in national parks to make way for cocoa.\n\nShe says cocoa plants can encroach on the forests even if they are not completely cut down.\n\n\"It's a shade-loving crop,\" she says. \"That's where Lidar is very useful.\"\n\nCocoa crops can grow beneath the forest canopy but the technology will be able to reveal them through the foliage.\n\n\"You can't map everything from satellites,\" Sarah says.\n\n\"We need other data sources and Lidar is about the richest you can get.\"", "A veterinarian in Thailand stepped in to help a woman giving birth prematurely on the side of the road in Bangkok.\n\nThe BBC's Thai Service spoke to Waree Limrungsukho who said she had \"never done this for a human baby before\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amanda Eller spoke to the press from her hospital bed\n\nA woman who was found alive two weeks after going missing in Hawaii has told of her \"life or death\" ordeal.\n\nAmanda Eller, 35, was last seen on 8 May. Family and friends had launched an intense search effort and offered a cash reward for her safe return.\n\nMs Eller was found on Friday when she waved down a rescue helicopter.\n\nReports say she got lost and injured while hiking on Maui. Photographs show her dirty and slightly injured, but smiling after being rescued.\n\nThe yoga instructor was found slightly injured, in a deep ravine, by volunteers\n\nIn an emotional video posted to Facebook on Saturday, the yoga instructor described how she endured \"the toughest days of my life\" while injured in the Hawaiian wilds.\n\nFilmed from a hospital bed next to her boyfriend, Benjamin Konkol, she said she \"chose life\" despite \"times of total fear and loss and wanting to give up\".\n\n\"I wasn't going to take the easy way out, even if that meant more suffering and pain for myself,\" she said in the video.\n\nIn another video, taken at a local hospital, Ms Eller's father said he was \"bawling like a baby\" when his daughter was found.\n\nHer mother described her as being in \"surprisingly good shape\" considering how long she had been missing.\n\nLocal reports suggest she has lost weight, but survived after foraging on berries and local water sources.\n\nFamily and friends raised money for the search, and offered cash rewards\n\nShe suffered a broken leg, a torn meniscus in her knee, sunburns and scrapes, The New York Times reported.\n\nAn online announcement about her rescue on the \"Find Amanda\" Facebook page has now been shared and liked thousands of times.\n\nWell-wishers have been flooding the page with messages of shock and relief about Ms Eller's safety.\n\nHer mother, Julia, told local news website Khon 2 that she had always \"felt in her heart\" that her daughter was alive.\n\n\"I never gave up hope for a minute,\" she said. \"Even though at times I would have those moments of despair, I stayed strong for her 'cause I knew we would find her if we just stayed with the program, stayed persistent and that we would eventually find her\".\n\nA search helicopter, paid for by GoFundMe donations, found her in this area\n\nIt is understood she was found with no socks or shoes on, and may have a fractured leg\n\nMs Eller's car and mobile phone had been found in the Makawao Forest Reserve car park - leading family and friends to suspect she had got lost while hiking.\n\nHer boyfriend had been the last person to see her, and said he \"strongly\" felt she was in the forest.\n\nShe reportedly got lost after leaving the trail to rest before plunging 20ft (six metres) from a cliff, breaking her leg.\n\nFifteen days after she was reported missing, three search team members reportedly spotted her on Friday in a deep ravine.\n\n\"We were freaking out. We were trying not to trip over ourselves trying to get to her too fast,\" rescuer Chris Berquest told local media.\n\nAnother member of the aerial search party, Javier Cantellops, shared images and video of the incredible rescue on social media.\n\nIn one post on his Facebook page he described finding her as the \"greatest day of my life\".", "The NHS has banned the sale of high-energy drinks to children in Scottish hospitals.\n\nShops within hospitals will not be permitted to sell the stimulating drinks to anyone under the age of 16.\n\nThe ban applies to drinks with an added caffeine content of more than 150mg per litre in an effort to promote a healthy diet.\n\nBut doctors are calling for the ban to be extended to all under-16s, not just in NHS buildings.\n\nAll NHS catering sites will also adopt the policy.\n\nThe move is part of the latest update to the Healthcare Retail Standard, a set of rules all retailers operating in NHS sites in Scotland must adhere to.\n\nIt aims to increase the amount of healthier food and drinks in shops in NHS buildings, with tighter rules around what can be promoted.\n\nMost major supermarkets stopped selling the drinks to under-16s in March 2018, while a teaching union has warned they are having a detrimental effect on both the health and the attention span of pupils.\n\nNew restrictions on baby food are also being introduced to promote healthy eating as early as possible.\n\nProducts will have to contain no added sugar or salt and be unsweetened.\n\nPublic Health Minister Joe Fitzpatrick said: \"The Healthcare Retail Standard supports healthier eating across the NHS estate and it is right that our hospitals show a lead in providing food and drink which is health promoting.\n\n\"The HRS ensures that at least 50% of food and 70% of drinks on sale are healthier options.\n\n\"This supports the Scottish government's strategy of working to improve Scotland's diet and tackle health inequalities.\"", "The collision happened off the coast of the French Riviera resort\n\nA 29-year-old Briton died following a collision between two yachts in Cannes, in France on Saturday.\n\nThe region's maritime prefecture said the vessels, Vision and Minx, collided at around 21:00 local time (20:00 BST).\n\nAccording to the statement, the man was a Minx crew member and died following a heart attack.\n\nThe maritime prefecture added that the collision happened after one yacht, Vision, sought to manoeuvre past the Minx which was anchored.\n\nThe prefecture stated that \"in spite of all attempts to resuscitate\" him, the man had died. He had been hauling up the anchor when the collision occurred.\n\nThe prefecture also said the remaining 17 people aboard the two vessels, which are both around 27m long, had been safely returned to shore overnight.\n\nThe statement added that the maritime police were investigating the incident, which happened on the last night of the film festival in Cannes.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"Our staff are assisting the family of a British man following his death in France, and are in contact with the local authorities.\"", "Homeowners in England are being given the green light to build larger extensions without planning permission.\n\nTemporary rules, which allowed bigger single-storey rear extensions without a full planning application, are being made permanent.\n\nAdditions to terraced and semi-detached homes can be up to 6m, while detached houses will be able to add even larger structures, up to 8m long.\n\nNeighbours will still be consulted and can raise objections to extensions.\n\nSince 2013, 110,000 people have taken advantage of the temporary rules, which doubled the previous limits of extensions that didn't require planning permission from the local authority.\n\nInstead of waiting possibly months for approval, homeowners notify the council of the building work beforehand, and council officials inform the neighbours.\n\nIf they raise concerns, the council decides if the extension is likely to harm the character or enjoyment of the area, and may block the plans.\n\nIn Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, rear extensions more than 3m or 4m long will continue to require a full planning application, which places the design and impact of the building under more scrutiny.\n\nHousing minister Kit Malthouse said the change in England means \"families can grow without being forced to move\".\n\nHe said: \"These measures will help families extend their properties without battling through time-consuming red tape.\"\n\nBut Martin Tett, planning spokesman for the Local Government Association, which represents UK local councils, said: \"The planning process exists for a reason.\"\n\nHe acknowledged the relaxed rules were popular with homeowners, but said it meant councils had little opportunity to consider the impact of extensions on their local area.\n\n\"We do not believe this right should be made permanent until an independent review is carried out of its impact, both on neighbouring residents and businesses, and also the capacity of local planning departments,\" he said.\n\nThe Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government said it was also removing other planning rules to allow business owners to respond to changes in England's high streets.\n\nIt means shops can be converted into office space without a full planning application being made.\n\nShops, offices and betting shops will also be able to temporarily change to community uses such as libraries or public halls.", "This photo showing a long queue up to the summit of Everest has gone viral in recent days\n\nNepal's tourism authority has denied accusations that the rise in Mount Everest deaths is solely due to overcrowding.\n\nThe department's director general Dandu Raj Ghimire said other factors including adverse weather conditions had also contributed.\n\nTen climbers have been reported dead or missing this season.\n\nPhotos of long queues near the summit have been widely shared as record numbers ascended the mountain in May.\n\nMr Ghimire said 381 people had ascended Everest this spring but as periods of fine weather had been short, the number of people on the routes had been \"higher than expected\".\n\nIn his statement, Mr Ghimire put the current death toll at eight, although 10 people have been reported dead or missing so far.\n\nKevin Hynes, 56, from Ireland, died in his tent on Friday and Séamus Lawless, also Irish, is presumed dead after falling near the summit.\n\nOne Nepalese, four Indians, an Austrian and an American are also dead or missing.\n\nA local tour organiser told AFP that one of the Indian climbers, Nihal Ashpak Bhagwan, died of exhaustion after being \"stuck in traffic for more than 12 hours\".\n\nMr Ghimire offered \"heartfelt condolences to those who've passed away and prayers to those who are still missing\".\n\n\"Mountaineering in the Himalayas is in itself an adventurous, complex and sensitive issue requiring full awareness yet tragic accidents are unavoidable,\" he said.\n• None Three more die on Everest amid overcrowding", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In November 2018, Jonah Fisher talked to a commander of the Ukrainian Navy about the tensions in the Azov Sea\n\nAn international tribunal has ordered Russia to \"immediately\" release 24 Ukrainian sailors and three naval ships it seized off Crimea in November.\n\nMoscow says the sailors violated its maritime border near the peninsula which it seized from Ukraine in 2014.\n\nBut the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea sided with Ukraine in the dispute, which has stoked tensions between the nations.\n\nRussia, however, refuses to recognise the jurisdiction of the body.\n\nIt boycotted the hearings and analysts say the chances of it abiding by the Germany-based tribunal's provisional ruling appear minimal.\n\nThe Ukrainian vessels had tried to pass through the Kerch Strait, the only access to Ukrainian ports on the Sea of Azov.\n\nBut Russia has controlled the Strait since annexing Crimea, and its coastguard boats fired on the vessels before boarding them.\n\nRussia has held the sailors in Moscow ever since.\n\nBut, in a ruling, the tribunal's Judge Jin-Hyuan Paik said: \"The Russian Federation must proceed immediately to release the Ukrainian soldiers and allow them to return to the Ukraine.\"\n\nA tanker under the bridge shut all navigation from and into the Sea of Azov\n\nHowever, while the tribunal said both sides should refrain from any action which would aggravate the dispute, it did not uphold Ukraine's request for Russia to suspend the trial of its servicemen.\n\nThe sailors face up to six years in jail if found guilty.\n\nThe ruling is being seen as a victory in Ukraine, delivering most of what Kiev sought.\n\nUkraine's new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, called on Russia to comply with the tribunal's order, writing on Facebook that that by so doing, there \"could be the first signal from the Russian leadership about real readiness to end the conflict with Ukraine\".\n\nMr Zelensky said during his swearing-in on Monday that ending the conflict with Russian-backed rebels in the east will be his top priority as president.\n\nFighting in the region has claimed about 13,000 lives since 2014.", "The parade made its way to the east end of Glasgow before it was called to a halt\n\nA parade to celebrate Celtic's treble Treble victory had to be halted due to safety fears, police have said.\n\nThousands of supporters spilled onto the roads as an open-top bus carried players from Hampden Park after the Scottish Cup final.\n\nThe parade made its way to the east end of Glasgow before police took the decision to bring it to a halt.\n\nCeltic said they hoped to have another event to celebrate the victory ''in the near future''.\n\nThe club tweeted: ''Due to safety concerns, the bus parade, on the advice of @policescotland, had to be rerouted. There were numerous supporters on the road and the safety of our fans will always be our priority.\n\n\"While this is unfortunate, it is outwith our control and we hope to have another event in the near future to celebrate today's momentous occasion.''\n\nEarlier the club had tweeted a warning to fans gathering on Saltmarket and Gallowgate, urging them to \"get off the road otherwise the Parade will not be able to go ahead\".\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"We can confirm that Saturday's planned parade by the Celtic FC team bus was initially re-routed and subsequently cancelled by the event police commander in consultation with Celtic FC on the grounds of public safety.\"\n\nCeltic secured a historic treble of domestic trophies for the third consecutive season as Odsonne Edouard's two goals gave the Parkhead side a 2-1 win over Hearts.\n\nCeltic players including captain Scott Brown celebrated with fans after the cup final victory", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: \"Never speak ill of our fellow Conservative\"\n\nDominic Raab has been making his pitch to become Conservative leader, as Michael Gove becomes the eighth MP to join the race to succeed Theresa May.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC he would fight for a \"fairer\" Brexit deal with the EU - but if that were not possible, the UK would leave with no deal in October.\n\nMr Gove confirmed he would run to \"deliver Brexit\" and unite the party.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond said it would be a \"dangerous strategy\" to ignore Parliament, which has opposed no-deal.\n\nBoris Johnson, the favourite in the contest, outlined his approach to Brexit in his column in Monday's Daily Telegraph, saying: \"No one sensible would aim exclusively for a no-deal outcome. No one responsible would take no-deal off the table.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mrs May announced she would be standing down as Tory leader on 7 June, saying it was time for another prime minister to try to deliver Brexit.\n\nIt came after a backlash by her MPs against her plan to get the withdrawal deal she had negotiated with the EU through the Commons, which has already rejected it three times.\n\nThe UK is now set to leave the European Union on 31 October, after the original Brexit date of 29 March was delayed twice owing to the parliamentary deadlock.\n\nThe delay has meant the UK has had to take part in elections to the European Parliament, three years after it voted to leave the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gove becomes the eighth candidate to put himself forward\n\nMr Gove, the environment secretary, confirmed on Sunday that he would run for leader, saying: \"I believe that I'm ready to unite the Conservative and Unionist Party, ready to deliver Brexit, and ready to lead this great country.\"\n\nSpeaking to Nick Robinson for BBC Radio 4 podcast Political Thinking at Hay Festival, Mr Gove explained why he was running, saying: \"The particular mix of experience I have means I can make a contribution.\"\n\nMr Gove also said he had changed his mind from 2016 - when he described himself as being \"incapable\" of being Tory leader - adding he had \"evolved as a politician\".\n\nWhile he did not set out his leadership proposal, he did say that the future prime minister would need an eye for detail, as the \"process for taking us out of the European Union requires that\".\n\nFormer Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and former Commons leader Andrea Leadsom revealed their leadership bids in the Sunday newspapers.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that the UK's previous negotiations with the EU over the withdrawal agreement had not been \"resolute\" enough, and a no-deal Brexit had been taken \"off the table\".\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\n\"I would fight for a fairer deal in Brussels with negotiations to change the backstop arrangements, and if not I would be clear that we would leave on WTO [World Trade Organization] terms in October.\"\n\nHe added: \"I don't want a WTO Brexit but I think unless you are willing to keep our promises as politicians… we put ourselves in a much weaker position in terms of getting a deal.\"\n\nMrs May, who was at church on Sunday with her husband Philip, resigned on Friday\n\nHe said there was \"no case for a further extension\" past the current date the UK is due to leave the EU, 31 October.\n\nBut Chancellor Philip Hammond called for compromise, saying the suggestion that it was possible to renegotiate the withdrawal agreement was a \"fig leaf\" for \"what is actually a policy of leaving on no-deal terms\".\n\nThat policy was clearly opposed by Parliament, he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.\n\n\"This is a parliamentary democracy. A prime minister who ignores Parliament cannot expect to survive very long,\" he warned.\n\nFormer work and pensions secretary Esther McVey told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday: \"31 October is the key date and we are coming out then, and if that means without a deal then that's what it means.\n\n\"We won't be asking for any more extensions. If Europe wants to come back to us, the door is open if they want a better deal.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Leader of the House Andrea Leadsom confirms leadership bid\n\nAsked if she favoured a no-deal Brexit, Ms Leadsom said: \"Of course, in order to succeed in a negotiation you have to be prepared to leave without a deal, but I have a three-point plan for Brexit, for how we get out of the European Union.\n\n\"I'm very optimistic about it. My role as leader of the Commons means that I've had a very good insight into what needs to be done, and I look forward to setting that out once the campaign starts.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Hammond: \"A prime minister who ignores Parliament cannot expect to survive very long\"\n\nThey have joined Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, his predecessor Boris Johnson, International Development Secretary Rory Stewart, and Health Secretary Matt Hancock in the battle for the leadership.\n\nTory MPs have until the week beginning 10 June to put their name forward, and the party hopes a new leader will be in place by the end of July.\n\nMembers will have the final say on who wins, after the shortlist is whittled down to two by a series of votes by Tory MPs.\n\nIn the Sunday Telegraph, party chairman Brandon Lewis said the party membership had swelled by 36,000 in the last year - bringing the total to more than 160,000.\n\nMrs May will continue as prime minister while the leadership contest takes place.\n\nHow the UK leaves the EU has consumed British politics for three years and anyone who wants to be prime minister now has to explain how they can succeed where Theresa May failed.\n\nAll the contenders in this race face the same dilemma.\n\nThe first hurdle is to persuade a deeply divided parliamentary party that they have a solution that breaks the stalemate but keeps the party intact.\n\nNext they must appeal to the Tory membership - and many of them have no problem with a no-deal Brexit.\n\nFinally they will have to govern, and that means winning the confidence of the House of Commons.\n\nMPs have already voted overwhelmingly against leaving the EU without a deal and it would take only a handful of Conservative MPs to bring down a prime minister who tried to do so.\n\nSome candidates have stressed the need to get a Brexit deal through Parliament.\n\nMr Hunt told the Sunday Times he had the business experience to secure an agreement. \"Doing deals is my bread and butter,\" he said.\n\nAnd in a direct criticism of Boris Johnson, Mr Stewart said: \"I would not serve in the cabinet of someone explicitly pushing for a no-deal Brexit.\"\n\nMr Hancock said Mrs May's successor must be \"brutally honest\" about the \"trade-offs\" required to get a deal through Parliament.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Mr Gove said it would be better for the UK \"if we secure a deal and leave the EU in an orderly way\" but added that he had \"come to grips\" with preparing for a no-deal outcome.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson told the Observer that his party must fully commit to supporting another referendum.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5Live's Pienaar's Politics, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said the \"usual suspects\" would blame leader Jeremy Corbyn if Labour performed poorly in the European elections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shami Chakrabarti: \"What I just heard from Dominic Raab was terrifying to me\"\n\nHe said: \"Tom Watson's already out, surprise surprise, trying to take on the role of Prince Machiavelli, but I've got news for Tom. Machiavelli was effective. He's a poor imitation of that. If he's trying to turn Labour members against Corbyn and in his favour, then he's going to lose disastrously.\n\n\"Now is the time to hold your nerve, because a general election - which is the only thing that will resolve this situation - is closer now than anything.\"", "Seats in the European Parliament representing England, Scotland and Wales are distributed according to the D'Hondt system, a type of proportional representation.\n\nThe nations are divided into 11 electoral regions: nine in England, plus Scotland and Wales. For this election, Gibraltar votes as part of a combined constituency with the south-west of England.\n\nParties vying for election submit a list of candidates to voters in each region.\n\nA system devised by Victor D'Hondt, a Belgian lawyer and mathematician active in the 19th Century, dictates the results:\n\nBy way of example, here are the results for one region of England, the West Midlands, in 2014, which had a total of seven seats in the European Parliament up for grabs. For simplicity's sake, only the five largest parties by vote share are included:\n\nUKIP wins the largest number of votes and the candidate at the top of their list is elected.\n\nAs UKIP already has one candidate elected, its vote is divided by two (one, plus the number of MEPs it has). Now, Labour comes out on top and the candidate at the top of its list of candidates is elected.\n\nAfter Labour's vote is divided by two (one plus the number of MEPs it has), the Conservative Party wins and its top candidate for the region is also elected.\n\nAfter the Conservative vote has been divided by two, UKIP is back on top. The candidate in second place on its list is elected.\n\nSince two UKIP candidates have now been elected, their original vote tally is divided by three (one plus the number of MEPs elected) and Labour secures top spot and a second MEP for the region.\n\nThe original Labour vote is now divided by three (one plus the two MEPs from round five), leaving the Conservative Party to top this round and win a seat for the second person on its list.\n\nThe Conservative Party vote is now divided by three, leaving UKIP in first place to win the final seat for the third candidate on its list.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a different system is used to elect its three MEPs.\n\nVoters have a \"single transferable vote\", meaning that they are able to rank the candidates in order of preference.\n\nTo make the system work, officials first need to calculate a quota. They take the total number of valid votes cast, divide it by the number of seats available plus one, and then add one.\n\nIn the first round, if any candidate secures more first-preference votes than the quota, they are elected.\n\nSurplus votes, ie those received above the quota, are redistributed among the other candidates.\n\nIf not enough candidates have yet reached the quota, then the candidate with the lowest number of votes is eliminated, and the lower-preference votes of their supporters are again re-allocated.\n\nThis process is repeated until the three posts have been filled.", "It was a tough night for both Labour and the Conservatives.\n\nThe Brexit Party swept across Britain, and the Liberal Democrats and Green Party also made gains.\n\nThe Brexit Party topped polls in every country or region apart from London, which was won by the Liberal Democrats; Scotland, which was won by the SNP; and Northern Ireland, where they did not stand.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Click here for full UK results Find out who was elected in your area The results for your area are not in yet * Votes counted as first preference. Vote share figures not included because of the STV electoral system Find out more about elections in Northern Ireland\n\nOur map by council results shows that the Brexit Party topped polls almost everywhere in England and Wales.\n\nThe Conservatives did not come top in any council areas.\n\nSearch using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results\n\nAll results from the UK can be seen here.\n\nNigel Farage's Brexit Party secured more than half the vote in areas where more than 7 in 10 people backed Brexit in the 2016 referendum, while the trends for the Greens and Lib Dems were the opposite.\n\nAs for the two main parties, Labour particularly struggled to pick up votes in areas that voted strongly for Leave in 2016, averaging less than one in ten votes in those local authorities.\n\nThe Conservatives performed badly across the board, but worst in areas where voters heavily backed Remain in the referendum.\n\nVoters in local authority areas which backed Remain in the EU referendum showed a renewed enthusiasm for getting out to vote.\n\nFor example, turnout in Bristol, in which more than 60% of voters supported Remain, increased by eight percentage points with the Green Party winning the most votes, and in Edinburgh, where more than 75% of voters were Remainers, it was up by nine points with the SNP in the lead.\n\nOn average turnout was 36.7%, up a little less than two percentage points on the last EU election in 2014.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour combined received less than 25% of the votes, their worst result in any EU election.\n\nThe two main parties' vote share has been dropping consistently since the UK's first EU election in 1979.\n\nBy Daniel Dunford, John Walton, Clara Guibourg, Ed Lowther and Paul Sargeant. Design by Sean Willmott, Prina Shah and Irene de la Torre Arenas. Development by Joe Reed, Becky Rush and Shilpa Saraf.\n\nCorrection 20 August 2019: This article has been amended to remove a chart that attempted to show the performance of pro- and anti-Brexit parties, after a ruling from the BBC's Executive Complaints Unit.", "'Clear majority' who want to stop Brexit - Cable\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable says the party's \"next big task\" is to work with others to prevent the UK from \"crashing out of the European Union by accident\". He says it is \"very clear\" that there is a \"clear majority in the country who want to stop Brexit\". \"We've had a brilliant result, we've got a lot now to build on,\" he adds. He says he was \"pleasantly surprised\" at the results overnight, although it was \"clear that we had momentum\". \"The only way now to resolve the issue is to go back to the public,\" he says. Sir Vince adds that \"Jeremy Corbyn's position is now very weak\" and Labour's results were \"almost humiliating\". He says he would be surprised if both Labour and the Conservatives \"survive intact\" during the next general election. Turning to the upcoming Liberal Democrat leadership race, he says he does not have a preference for who takes over.", "South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has been inaugurated at a stadium in the capital Pretoria.\n\nThe African National Congress (ANC) leader vowed to tackle corruption and rejuvenate the struggling economy.\n\nMore than 30,000 people gathered to witness the ceremony which included a flypast and military parade.\n\nMr Ramaphosa was elected earlier this month with a majority of 57.5%, the smallest since the party came to power 25 years ago.", "Video caption: Alistair Campbell: 'I'm still in the Labour Party as far as I'm concerned'\n\nAlistair Campbell: 'I'm still in the Labour Party as far as I'm concerned'", "One of the blasts struck a shop\n\nAt least four people died and seven others were injured in three explosions in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, officials say.\n\nThe three blasts - one in the centre and two on the outskirts - took place on Sunday afternoon local time.\n\nImprovised or crude explosive devices are believed to have been used to set off the blasts, police said.\n\nOne official told reporters a Maoist splinter group was under suspicion after pamphlets were found nearby.\n\nThe same group is alleged to have carried out an explosion in February which killed one person in Kathmandu.\n\nHowever, no one has claimed responsibilities for the attacks.\n\nPolice official Shyam Lal Gyawali said three of those killed died \"on the spot\", while the fourth died in hospital.\n\nThe pamphlets were found at a home on the outskirts of the city, where the first blast took place, he added.\n\nStudent Govinda Bhandari, 17, told Reuters news agency: \"I heard a big noise and rushed to the spot to find the walls of a house had developed cracks due to the impact of the blast.\"\n\nJust one person died in the initial explosion, while three died in a second incident near a hairdressers in the city centre.\n\nThe third blast happened several hours later and is reported to have injured two members of the group transporting an explosive device.\n\nSecurity forces have sealed off the locations of the blasts and say investigations are under way.\n\nSince a decade-long civil war ended in 2006, Nepal has been relatively peaceful, with the main group of the former rebels joining the ruling government party the next year.\n\nHowever, some have now broken away, saying their leaders are betraying their original revolutionary ideals.", "Chancellor Philip Hammond has warned that it would be very difficult for any prime minister who backs a policy of leaving the EU with no deal, to retain the confidence of the House of Commons.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, he said: \"This is a parliamentary democracy. A prime minister who ignores Parliament cannot expect to survive very long.\"\n\nRead more: Who will be the next prime minister?", "Divorce was only made legal in Ireland in 1995 following a tight referendum vote\n\nPeople in the Republic of Ireland have voted overwhelmingly in favour of liberalising divorce laws, in a referendum held on Friday.\n\nThe proposal passed with 82.1% of voters backing a change to the law.\n\nThe constitution currently states that spouses must be separated for four of the previous five years to divorce.\n\nBut that clause will now be removed, allowing the Oireachtas (Irish parliament) to decide a new separation period before divorce is allowed.\n\nDivorce was legalised in Ireland in 1995, after a referendum that approved the measure by 50.28% to 49.72%.\n\nAny change to the Irish constitution must be supported by a majority of voters in a referendum.\n\nPrior to the vote on divorce laws on Friday, the government indicated that it believed a two-year separation was long enough.\n\nLocal and European elections were held on the same day as the referendum\n\nIreland has recently held constitutional referendums on other social issues - leading to the scrapping of the country's ban on abortion and the legalisation of same-sex marriage.\n\nThe main political parties in Ireland all supported the liberalisation of divorce laws. Opposition to the vote came from Catholic pressure groups such as the Iona Institute.\n\nThe Iona Institute's director, David Quinn, said he had no particular objection to the four-year waiting time for divorce being reduced to two years, but did not want to see divorce laws removed from the constitution completely.\n\nAccording to Eurostat, the crude divorce rate in the Republic of Ireland is 0.6% a year for every 1,000 people compared with 1.9% for the UK and 3.2% for the US.", "The three teenagers stabbed to death in 12 days: (l-r) Hazrat Umar, 18, Abdullah Muhammad and Sidali Mohamed, both 16\n\nOne hundred people have been stabbed to death across the UK since the beginning of 2019. Three of those were teenagers in the West Midlands, all killed within the space of 12 days. People are now asking whether austerity is to blame.\n\nOn the afternoon of Wednesday, 13 February, just outside the gates of a sixth form college in east Birmingham, an A-Level student is stabbed in the chest.\n\nParamedics and police rushed to the aid of Sidali Mohamed, an aspiring accountant who fled war-torn Somalia with his family as a toddler.\n\nTwo days later, surrounded by his family in hospital, the 16-year-old Joseph Chamberlain College student's life support machine was switched off and he died from his injuries.\n\nA week after Sidali was stabbed, West Midlands Police launched another murder investigation as a second teenager was knifed to death.\n\nYards away from a nearby primary school, in Small Heath, south-east Birmingham, Abdullah Muhammad was stabbed in the back and chest.\n\nAbdullah, also aged 16, died at the scene - a park close to where he lived.\n\nThe majority of those stabbed to death in the West Midlands in 2019 have been teenagers\n\nBy the end of the week detectives had begun a third murder investigation, the time into the death of an 18-year-old boy.\n\nElectrical engineering student Hazrat Umar was found injured on a road in Bordesley Green on 25 February.\n\nA relative of Nazir Afzal, a former chief prosecutor, Mr Umar became another victim to Birmingham's knife crime.\n\nEight of the 100 victims to have been stabbed to death in 2019 have been killed in the West Midlands - but Mr Afzal fears the knife crime problem is far bigger.\n\n\"The statistics show murders, but do not show the attempted murders and GBHs,\" Mr Afzal says.\n\n\"Hundreds of people have survived violence because of the skilled work of paramedics and medical staff. It masks a bigger problem.\"\n\nOne hundred people have been fatally stabbed in the UK so far this year. The motives and circumstances behind killings have varied - as have the age and gender of the victims.\n\nLast month, Jack Harley, a 14-year-old boy with learning difficulties from Halesowen, almost became another statistic.\n\nThe teenager was attacked with a knife and robbed while sitting on a bench in a park in Dudley.\n\nReceiving a deep gash to his right arm, Jack needed 14 staples and underwent a series of operations.\n\n\"He was very close to the artery being cut,\" says his mother, Diane. \"We've got to stop it.\"\n\nJack Harley was stabbed as he was robbed in Birmingham\n\nThe spate of killings has led the chief constable of West Midlands Police to describe knife crime as \"an emergency\" as pressure mounted for solutions to be found fast.\n\nBut for former police officer Kirk Dawes, the solution is obvious: he partly attributes the rise in knife crime locally to the axing of a mediation service he had run, which settled disputes between gangs.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\n\"Every time I hear a murder where some kind of conflict resolution service could have been utilised, it hurts in here,\" he says, pointing to his heart.\n\n\"Something that was working so well was literally thrown away.\"\n\nIn 2004, Mr Dawes - then a police detective - was tasked with setting up a unit that would mediate conflicts and stop them from becoming deadly.\n\nMr Dawes helped pioneer a new approach to combating serious violence in the wake of the killing of teenagers Charlene Ellis and Letisha Shakespeare, who were gunned down in a drive-by shooting as they left a party in Birmingham in the early hours of 2 January 2003.\n\nCharlene Ellis, 18, and Letisha Shakespeare, 17, were shot with a sub-machine gun in Aston, Birmingham, in 2003\n\nThey were the innocent victims of a dispute between two notorious gangs in the city.\n\nDrawing on conflict resolution tactics used to defuse disputes in Northern Ireland and among gangs in the US, Mr Dawes worked with trained mediators as part of a body called Birmingham Reducing Gang Violence (BRGV).\n\nThey shuttled between feuding groups, finding ways to settle conflict without violence.\n\nKirk Dawes ran The Centre for Conflict Transformation (TCFCT) between 2004 and 2012\n\nIt seemed to work: Mr Dawes says there were 27 gang-related murders in 2004. By 2010 there were three.\n\nThen the scheme was scrapped.\n\nBy the end, he says, the 35 trained mediators, who specialised in sitting face-to-face with possible killers, were being asked to work on a zero-hours contract.\n\n\"The catalyst for that was austerity,\" Mr Dawes says now. \"The draconian way in which money was taken away from community organisations has led to where we are now.\"\n\nSince the BRGV was axed, knife crime has steadily risen in the West Midlands, with the number of people being stabbed to death spiking in the last two years.\n\nThere is no agreement on what is driving the recent increase.\n\nSenior police officers blame drug dealing, robberies and young people feeling like they have to defend themselves. Elsewhere, social media is in the frame.\n\nThe current chief constable of West Midlands Police, Dave Thompson, was not in charge when the decision was made to axe Mr Dawes' mediation unit.\n\nDave Thompson has been the chief constable of West Midlands Police since January 2016\n\nHe says the force has faced \"some very tough choices\".\n\n\"You can't make the level of reductions by keeping everything the same,\" he says.\n\nHowever, he concedes that \"with hindsight\" it would have been better to retain the unit.\n\nLater this year a new mediation service will be introduced at a cost of £100,000 a year - seven years after BGRV was scrapped.\n\nResearch published last week found that councils with large cuts to youth services were more likely to have seen an increase in knife crime.\n\nThe all-party parliamentary group on knife crime said that the average council cuts to youth services was 40%, but for some services in the West Midlands it was closer to 90%.\n\nAusterity makes itself felt in another way too, according to Mr Thompson, serving to slow down some of the more detailed investigations which are often launched following a homicide.\n\n\"In some cases of violence, the investigation won't move at the same pace as it would have in the past.\n\n\"The leg work of detective work in some of these cases, the examination of phones, the digital media that takes time, effort of skilled resources.\"\n\nBirmingham is a young city. Almost half of its one million population is under 25, so the policing priority is to reduce street violence among that group.\n\n\"It has got the appearance that those people who are inclined to violence are actually becoming more violent,\" says West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson.\n\n\"If you'd asked me the question about the common themes in the violence four or five years ago a lot of it was around gangs.\n\n\"That is still true today. Some of it is around gangs but it's across all people now. We're seeing what used to be a small act of violence - perhaps a slap or a punch - turn into something far more serious.\"\n\nNationally, a lot of hope has been pinned on the so-called \"public health approach\" to tackling violence.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nAt Coundon Primary School, in Coventry, a class of lively Year 6 pupils learn about being \"mentors in violence prevention\", as part of a new scheme in the region.\n\nUsing scenarios they teach each other the resilience needed to stand up to the challenges they will face in life.\n\nThey learn about bullying, grooming and dealing with the pressures not to \"snitch\".\n\nIt is another demand heaped onto busy teachers.\n\nHead teacher Jayne Ellis says there was a stabbing just around the corner from the school the night before she spoke to the BBC.\n\n\"Some of these children we've had since they were three,\" she says.\n\n\"If we can give them those messages at least we've given them the skills to deal with whatever predicament they find themselves in.\n\n\"They trust us implicitly. They trust each other. We are like a family.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The team behind Rocketman have pulled off the most astonishing feat. Against all the odds, they have managed to produce a two-hour greatest hits musical that turns one of the most flamboyant, gifted and charismatic performing artists of the modern era into a bit of a bore.\n\nA lot of words have been written and spoken about Sir Elton John over his 50 years in showbiz, but \"dull\" is not usually among them.\n\nBut there's no alternative but to invoke it in this instance. It's as if the piano-playing showman's character was squeezed into a trouser press every time it looked like developing a third dimension.\n\nHe is played by Taron Egerton in this Hollywood retelling of the pop star's life story. Egerton succeeds in bringing out the singer's down-to-earth humour, but fails to bare his soul.\n\nIt doesn't help that he looks more like Phil Collins than Elton John when off stage, and not unlike 1980s children's TV personality Timmy Mallet when on it.\n\nThe film starts as it means to go on. And I mean, go on. Elton is in group therapy talking about his addictions: to alcohol, drugs, sex, bulimia, shopping. The other participants can't get a word in edgeways as the man from Pinner bangs on about himself.\n\nWe revisit this group throughout the film, with his outfits becoming more stripped back each time - from a winged Devil outfit (bad, fake Elton) to a dreary brown dressing gown (real Elton, stripped of artifice).\n\nThese are the layers being peeled back to reveal his true identity. Except it never is revealed.\n\nWe go from addiction story to back story for a while until the two become one and everything that was good about the film (warmth, self-deprecating humour, seamless segues between music, action and time) is lost in yet another scene of Elton Hercules John overindulging.\n\nIt's a rock 'n' roll cliché at the best of times, but is overplayed here to such an extent as to suggest (ridiculously) it is the only interesting thing to say or reveal about a sensitive, artistic man blessed with a special talent to touch the hearts and minds of millions of people across the globe.\n\nIt's a shame, because there's a potentially great movie buried under the empty vodka bottles. There are glimpses of what could have been in an early rendition of I Want Love sung as an ensemble piece by Elton when a boy, his distracted mother (Bryce Dallas Howard), detached father (Steven Mackintosh) and supportive granny (Gemma Jones) - all of whom are in need of a bit of love.\n\nTaron Egerton with Bryce Dallas Howard as his mum Sheila and Richard Madden, who plays Elton's manager John Reid\n\nThis is the untended soil from which a dumpy, shy young lad called Reginald Dwight grew into Elton John, superstar. It is fertile ground for a decent biopic, which Rocketman might have flowered into had it not been stifled by the addiction saga running though it like Japanese knotweed.\n\nThere are moments of genuine cinematic drama, most of which occur in the first half. A particular highlight takes place at Doug Weston's legendary Troubadour club in West Hollywood. It is August 1970 and Elton John and his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin (Jamie Bell) are giving America a first shot.\n\nBernie comes racing backstage from the bar to tell Elton that Neil Diamond and half of the Beach Boys are out front waiting to hear him play. The news gives the already nervous singer the yips. He hides in the loo before being coaxed out to triumphantly take the stage by storm with a blistering Crocodile Rock. You're enthralled. It's great. This is the moment Elton John takes off. And then…\n\nDirector Dexter Fletcher (who was brought in to complete last year's Oscar-winning Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody after Bryan Singer was fired) labours the point with unnecessary visual metaphors as our newly discovered star floats up in the sky, while his audience, who are swept off their feet, levitate.\n\nRocketman is far from a disaster - it couldn't be given Elton John's back catalogue - but it is a disappointment, a missed opportunity. Lee Hall's script is fine, the acting is fine, the directing is fine and the music is great - although Taron Egerton can't sell a song like Elton John, but then few can.\n\nSir Elton John with Taron Egerton at the premiere in Cannes\n\nThe problem is superficiality. We see a lot of Elton John but we never get to know him. All the sex 'n' drugs give an illusion of candour but it's really a mask to hide behind. The rags-to-riches element is told in a fairly perfunctory fashion, albeit lifted somewhat by the way in which the John/Taupin songbook is neatly weaved in for dramatic emphasis.\n\nBut then I suppose that's what you get when the subject of a biopic is also its authoriser and executive producer (his husband David Furnish has a producer credit). Critical distance is a difficult thing to achieve in such circumstances.\n\nMaybe he was hoping for a companion piece for Billy Elliot, a story that he has said mirrors his own. The presence of Lee Hall and Jamie Bell (both Billy Elliot alumni, as is Elton John, who provided songs for the stage musical) suggests that might have been the case.\n\nIf so, Rocketman doesn't miss by a mile. There's plenty to enjoy. But it does miss.", "Chris Bryant's offices were targeted because of his pro-EU position, he says\n\nVandals have painted the word \"traitor\" across the front of a pro-EU MP's constituency offices.\n\nLabour MP Chris Bryant, who wants the UK to remain in the EU, said the graffiti on his Tonypandy offices would not change his mind on Brexit.\n\nIn a defiant tweet on Saturday morning, the Rhondda MP said the people who painted the abuse \"underestimate\" him.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it was investigating and asked anyone with information to come forward.\n\nMr Bryant blamed \"anyone who has poured a bit more bile into the pot\" for contributing to a lack of respect.\n\nNone of his staff were in the building at the time, but he said it was unpleasant for his staff who had already faced abuse since the referendum in 2016.\n\nHe had already increased security at his Dunraven Street office, he added.\n\nMr Bryant warned he would not be cowed by the abuse\n\n\"I don't know why anybody would think spending 10 minutes spray-painting names on a shutter will change my mind,\" he said.\n\n\"We didn't used to be a democracy like this - we used to respect each other's opinions.\"\n\nHe told BBC Wales he expected the hostile political atmosphere to continue until Parliament comes to a decision on Brexit.\n\nMPs and campaigners have offered their support on social media.\n\nFormer Labour MP Chukka Ummuna tweeted: \"This vile intimidation and abuse is appalling. Good for you @RhonddaBryant for standing up to it and for defending our democracy\".", "Protesters call for a boycott of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv\n\nGermany's parliament has condemned as anti-Semitic a movement calling for a cultural boycott of Israel over its policies towards Palestinians.\n\nLawmakers in the Bundestag said the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) group uses anti-Semitic methods to promote its political goals.\n\nThe BDS movement described the decision as \"a betrayal of international law\".\n\nIt comes after the group called for artists to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest held in Tel Aviv this week.\n\nIn Friday's resolution vote, which took place on the eve of the show's final, Germany's lower house said the actions of the BDS were reminiscent of the \"terrifying\" Nazi campaign against Jewish people under Adolf Hitler.\n\n\"The 'don't buy' stickers of the BDS movement on Israeli products [could be associated] with the Nazi call 'don't buy from Jews', and other corresponding graffiti on facades and shop windows,\" the non-binding resolution said.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has previously said that the BDS movement opposes his nation's very existence, welcomed the \"important\" decision in a statement posted on Twitter.\n\n\"I hope that this decision will bring about concrete steps and I call upon other countries to adopt similar legislation,\" the statement said.\n\nThe motion, submitted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), and the Greens and Free Democrats, pledges to reject all financial support for the BDS movement.\n\nCondemning the move, the BDS group said the \"unconstitutional resolution\" was anti-Palestinian and unhelpful in the fight against \"real anti-Jewish racism\".\n\n\"BDS targets complicity not identity. The academic and cultural boycott of Israel is strictly institutional and does not target individual Israelis,\" the movement said in a statement posted online.\n\nAhead of this year's Eurovision Song Contest, the BDS movement called on artists and broadcasters to distance themselves from the event, which they said was being used to \"distract attention from [Israel's] war crimes\".\n\nMadonna was among those facing calls to boycott the contest, but she confirmed on Thursday that she would be performing.", "Mrs May has pledged to set a timetable for leaving Number 10 following another vote on her Brexit withdrawal agreement\n\nTheresa May's successor as prime minister should not call a general election until Brexit is completed, a cabinet minister has warned.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said an early election risked losing to Labour and \"killing Brexit altogether\".\n\nHis comments come after cross-party talks aimed at breaking the impasse collapsed on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, a poll of Tory members for The Times puts Boris Johnson as the favourite to succeed Mrs May.\n\nMr Hancock told the Daily Telegraph it would be a \"disaster\" to call a general election before the UK had left the EU as \"people don't want it\".\n\nHe added: \"We need to take responsibility for delivering on the referendum result.\"\n\n\"Who knows what the outcome of a general election would be under these circumstances? A general election before that not only risks Jeremy Corbyn, but it risks killing Brexit altogether.\"\n\nMrs May has promised to set a timetable for leaving Downing Street following a House of Commons vote on her EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill in the week beginning 3 June.\n\nBrexit had been due to take place on 29 March - but after MPs voted down the deal Mrs May had negotiated with the bloc three times, the EU gave the UK an extension until 31 October.\n\nThis prompted talks between the government and Labour to see if they could agree a way to break the impasse but those negotiations ended this week without an agreement.\n\nMr Hancock said the current circumstances would make it difficult to predict the result of any general election before Brexit.\n\nHe added: \"We've got to deliver Brexit in this parliament, then we can move forward.\"\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nA YouGov poll commissioned by The Times of Tory party members suggests that Boris Johnson is a favourite to succeed Theresa May as prime minister - he is the first choice to replace her for 39% of those polled.\n\nMr Johnson, who announced his intention to run earlier this week, was three times as popular as the next closest choice, ex-Brexit secretary Dominic Raab (13%).\n\nOf the others, Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Environment Secretary Michael Gove were both on 9%, with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on 8% and Mr Hancock on 1%.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is expected to declare that only Labour can halt the rise of the \"far right\" during a rally later.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the European parliamentary elections, he is expected to say that years of neglect had \"opened the door\" to the far right.\n\n\"Politics as usual won't defeat them,\" he will say.\n\n\"We need Labour's radical programme to transform our country and turn the tide of inequality by ending austerity and investing in our communities and people.\"", "Well, that's it for another year...\n\nThe bookies' favourite won out, the UK came last (again) and Graham Norton wasn't happy about it.\n\nYou win some, you lose some. But we're already looking forward to another big slice of cheese - make that Edam - in the Netherlands next year.\n\nSee you there!", "The team behind Rocketman have pulled off the most astonishing feat. Against all the odds, they have managed to produce a two-hour greatest hits musical that turns one of the most flamboyant, gifted and charismatic performing artists of the modern era into a bit of a bore.\n\nA lot of words have been written and spoken about Sir Elton John over his 50 years in showbiz, but \"dull\" is not usually among them.\n\nBut there's no alternative but to invoke it in this instance. It's as if the piano-playing showman's character was squeezed into a trouser press every time it looked like developing a third dimension.\n\nHe is played by Taron Egerton in this Hollywood retelling of the pop star's life story. Egerton succeeds in bringing out the singer's down-to-earth humour, but fails to bare his soul.\n\nIt doesn't help that he looks more like Phil Collins than Elton John when off stage, and not unlike 1980s children's TV personality Timmy Mallet when on it.\n\nThe film starts as it means to go on. And I mean, go on. Elton is in group therapy talking about his addictions: to alcohol, drugs, sex, bulimia, shopping. The other participants can't get a word in edgeways as the man from Pinner bangs on about himself.\n\nWe revisit this group throughout the film, with his outfits becoming more stripped back each time - from a winged Devil outfit (bad, fake Elton) to a dreary brown dressing gown (real Elton, stripped of artifice).\n\nThese are the layers being peeled back to reveal his true identity. Except it never is revealed.\n\nWe go from addiction story to back story for a while until the two become one and everything that was good about the film (warmth, self-deprecating humour, seamless segues between music, action and time) is lost in yet another scene of Elton Hercules John overindulging.\n\nIt's a rock 'n' roll cliché at the best of times, but is overplayed here to such an extent as to suggest (ridiculously) it is the only interesting thing to say or reveal about a sensitive, artistic man blessed with a special talent to touch the hearts and minds of millions of people across the globe.\n\nIt's a shame, because there's a potentially great movie buried under the empty vodka bottles. There are glimpses of what could have been in an early rendition of I Want Love sung as an ensemble piece by Elton when a boy, his distracted mother (Bryce Dallas Howard), detached father (Steven Mackintosh) and supportive granny (Gemma Jones) - all of whom are in need of a bit of love.\n\nTaron Egerton with Bryce Dallas Howard as his mum Sheila and Richard Madden, who plays Elton's manager John Reid\n\nThis is the untended soil from which a dumpy, shy young lad called Reginald Dwight grew into Elton John, superstar. It is fertile ground for a decent biopic, which Rocketman might have flowered into had it not been stifled by the addiction saga running though it like Japanese knotweed.\n\nThere are moments of genuine cinematic drama, most of which occur in the first half. A particular highlight takes place at Doug Weston's legendary Troubadour club in West Hollywood. It is August 1970 and Elton John and his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin (Jamie Bell) are giving America a first shot.\n\nBernie comes racing backstage from the bar to tell Elton that Neil Diamond and half of the Beach Boys are out front waiting to hear him play. The news gives the already nervous singer the yips. He hides in the loo before being coaxed out to triumphantly take the stage by storm with a blistering Crocodile Rock. You're enthralled. It's great. This is the moment Elton John takes off. And then…\n\nDirector Dexter Fletcher (who was brought in to complete last year's Oscar-winning Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody after Bryan Singer was fired) labours the point with unnecessary visual metaphors as our newly discovered star floats up in the sky, while his audience, who are swept off their feet, levitate.\n\nRocketman is far from a disaster - it couldn't be given Elton John's back catalogue - but it is a disappointment, a missed opportunity. Lee Hall's script is fine, the acting is fine, the directing is fine and the music is great - although Taron Egerton can't sell a song like Elton John, but then few can.\n\nSir Elton John with Taron Egerton at the premiere in Cannes\n\nThe problem is superficiality. We see a lot of Elton John but we never get to know him. All the sex 'n' drugs give an illusion of candour but it's really a mask to hide behind. The rags-to-riches element is told in a fairly perfunctory fashion, albeit lifted somewhat by the way in which the John/Taupin songbook is neatly weaved in for dramatic emphasis.\n\nBut then I suppose that's what you get when the subject of a biopic is also its authoriser and executive producer (his husband David Furnish has a producer credit). Critical distance is a difficult thing to achieve in such circumstances.\n\nMaybe he was hoping for a companion piece for Billy Elliot, a story that he has said mirrors his own. The presence of Lee Hall and Jamie Bell (both Billy Elliot alumni, as is Elton John, who provided songs for the stage musical) suggests that might have been the case.\n\nIf so, Rocketman doesn't miss by a mile. There's plenty to enjoy. But it does miss.", "Well, that's the end of our live coverage of Australia election 2019.\n\nNo-one predicted it, but the Liberal-National Coalition has won. PM Scott Morrison calls it \"a miracle\".\n\nWe don't yet know if they have the 76 seats required for a majority, but they will certainly be in government.\n\nLabor's Bill Shorten has conceded and said he will step down as leader.\n\nThe coalition has swept through Queensland, a state full of marginal seats.\n\nFormer PM Tony Abbott has lost his seat.\n\nThere are plenty of votes still to be counted - some may not be called for days. And the Senate can take weeks to settle.\n\nBut we're leaving it here. Thanks for following and remember you can get all the latest Australia news from BBC News Australia and by adding \"Australia\" to your topics in the BBC News app.", "The owner of disqualified Kentucky Derby 'winner' Maximum Security has issued an extraordinary $20m (£15.7m) challenge to his rivals.\n\nGary West is offering $5m (£3.9m) each to the owners of Country House, War of Will, Long Range Toddy and Bodexpress if any of those horses finish ahead of his colt the next time they race against him this year.\n\n\"Most experts agree that Maximum Security was the best horse in the Kentucky Derby,\" West said in issuing his challenge.\n\n\"I don't care to discuss the controversy surrounding the events of the race and the disqualification of my horse at this time, but I firmly believe I have the best three-year-old in the country and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is.\"\n\nMaximum Security veered out of line on the final turn and impeded War of Will and Long Range Toddy, prompting stewards to demote the initial victor to 17th place.\n\nCountry House, a 65-1 outsider, was promoted to winner of the $3m (£2.2m) race which was watched by by a crowd of 150,000.\n\nIf Maximum Security loses any rematch, West said he would pay out, but his rivals would have to stump up if his horse triumphs.\n\nWest said his offer had nothing to do with what happened to his horse in the Kentucky Derby, where Maximum Security was disqualified after stewards agreed he interfered with the path of other horses in the final turn before the home stretch.\n\nMaximum Security, the 4-1 favourite at Churchill Downs, was the first winner to be disqualified for an on-track incident in the event's 145-year history.\n\nAccording to West's statement, there are no restrictions as to the type of race, location, distance or track surface, and the offer is only valid for the next time Maximum Security races against any of the other horses.\n\nWest would donate any of Maximum Security's winnings from the challenge to the Permanently Disabled Jockeys' Fund. If no owners accept the challenge, he has pledged to give 10% of Maximum Security's future lifetime racing earnings to the organisation.\n\n\"I am doing this because I think it would be good for racing and a unique opportunity to bring more people into racing because of the elevated interest this would bring to the sport,\" he said.\n\nUnited States president Donald Trump was among those to criticise the disqualification.\n\n\"Only in these days of political correctness could such an overturn occur. The best horse did NOT win the Kentucky Derby - not even close,\" said Trump on Twitter :", "Kevin Mallory, 62, was convicted under the Espionage Act\n\nA former CIA officer has been jailed for 20 years for disclosing military secrets to a Chinese agent, the US justice department says.\n\nKevin Mallory, 62, was found guilty of several spying offences following a two-week trial last June.\n\nThe fluent Mandarin speaker from Leesburg, Virginia, held top-level security clearance and had access to sensitive documents.\n\nHe was convicted of selling secrets to China for $25,000 (£19,600).\n\nEvidence at his trial included a surveillance video which showed him scanning classified documents onto a digital memory card at a post office.\n\nHe also travelled to Shanghai to meet with a Chinese agent in March and April 2017, the justice department said.\n\n\"Mallory not only put our country at great risk, but he endangered the lives of [people] who put their own safety at risk for our national defence,\" US attorney Zachary Terwilliger said in a statement.\n\n\"This case should send a message to anyone considering violating the public's trust and compromising our national security,\" he added. \"We will remain steadfast and dogged in pursuit of these challenging but critical national security cases.\"\n\nThe Justice Department said Mallory held a number of sensitive jobs with government agencies.\n\nHe had worked as a covert case officer for the CIA and as an intelligence officer for the Defense intelligence Agency (DIA).\n\n\"This case is one in an alarming trend of former US intelligence officers being targeted by China and betraying their country and colleagues,\" Assistant Attorney General John Demers said following the sentencing.\n\nEarlier this month, ex-CIA agent Jerry Chun Shing Lee pleaded guilty to spying for China. Prosecutors said the naturalised US citizen was paid to divulge information on US covert assets.\n\nAnd last June, former US intelligence officer Ron Rockwell Hansen was also charged with attempting to spy for China.\n\nHe attempted to pass on information and received at least $800,000 (£600,000) for acting as a Chinese agent, the justice department said at the time.\n\nChinese police guard the US embassy in the capital, Beijing", "Tyler, The Creator was banned from entering the UK in 2015\n\nA US rapper said a \"rowdy\" crowd forced him to cancel his first UK show since a ban on entering the country was lifted.\n\nTyler, The Creator announced the gig in Peckham, south-east London, a few hours after surprising fans by tweeting a video outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nBut soon after it was due to begin he wrote the \"cops cancelled it\" in a tweet that has since been deleted.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the venue called it off because of \"overcrowding issues\".\n\nFans flocked to Peckham after Tyler, The Creator announced he was in the UK and playing a gig\n\nToby Stanton, 19, said fans were climbing over cars while people were still sat inside them during the rush to get to the venue.\n\n\"Every time they opened the gate a little bit to the venue, people charged towards the gate and then bounced back when they closed it,\" he said.\n\nThe rapper, real name Tyler Okonma, was stopped from the entering the UK in 2015 by then home secretary Theresa May after claims his lyrics encouraged \"violence and intolerance of homosexuality\".\n\nIt is believed the ban was lifted from 13 February and he arrived at Luton Airport in the early hours.\n\nThe Home Office said it did \"not routinely comment on individual cases\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Tyler, The Creator\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "TV and radio presenter Nicki Chapman has been praised for speaking out about her recent brain tumour diagnosis and subsequent recovery from surgery.\n\nThe 52-year-old, who was found to have a tumour \"the size of a golf ball\", told the Daily Mail she was \"petrified\" but tried to \"stay positive\".\n\nThe Brain Tumour Charity said sharing the experience would help \"end the isolation\" of fellow sufferers.\n\nChief executive Sarah Lindsell said she was \"grateful\" Chapman had spoken out.\n\n\"Nicki's decision to share her experience will make a real difference in helping to end the isolation felt by so many people who are diagnosed with a brain tumour,\" she said.\n\nThe charity tweeted its support on Saturday, following Chapman's interview in the Mail.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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End of twitter post by The Brain Tumour Charity\n\nChapman, who said she would not be co-presenting the BBC's coverage of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year, underwent surgery at a London hospital earlier this month following her diagnosis in March and is currently recuperating at home.\n\n\"I really hope other people who get a similar diagnosis have the excellent treatment I had, and find the same inner strength,\" she told the Mail's Frances Hardy.\n\nShe said the operation had gone well, that the tumour was benign and that most of it had been removed, but a \"little bit\" of the tumour which was growing close to one of the main cerebral veins had to be left because the risk from removing it was too great.\n\n\"I know it might come back, but if it does they'll deal with it before it gets too big.\n\n\"I don't know about the future but I'm as optimistic as I possibly can be.\"\n\nChapman, who rose to public prominence as a judge on the ITV talent show Pop Idol in 2001, said she first became aware something was amiss six weeks ago, when she noticed she was suffering from blurred vision and speech difficulties.\n\nShe said she assumed the symptoms were \"menopause-related\", but her doctor urged her to go to hospital.\n\nA scan discovered a tumour on the back, left-hand side of her head, \"the size of a golf ball, pressing on my brain\".\n\nChapman's colleagues from TV and radio have shown their support on social media, including tweets from fellow BBC Radio 2 DJ Ken Bruce, and presenters Suzi Perry, Carol Vorderman and Lucy Alexander.\n\nJames Wong, one of her co-hosts on the Chelsea Flower Show, recalled Chapman's generosity when he was a novice on live TV, and how she gave up a day to help him prepare.\n\n\"Would you guys send me some big love her way as she recovers from her op?\" he tweeted. \"What a lady!\"\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\nChapman said she was \"devastated\" not to be able to work on this year's Chelsea Flower Show - which she has co-hosted for 13 years - but was following doctor's orders.\n\n\"You have to give yourself the best possible chance to heal,\" she said. \"You don't get a second chance to recover.\"\n\nThe RHS Chelsea Flower Show runs from 21-25 May.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nManchester City rounded off an outstanding season by crushing Watford at Wembley to clinch a historic domestic treble.\n\nRaheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus both scored twice as Pep Guardiola's team became the first English men's side to achieve the feat of winning the Premier League, FA Cup and Carabao Cup in the same season.\n\nThey reaffirmed their status as this season's dominant force as Watford were utterly outclassed, City achieving the biggest FA Cup final win since Bury beat Derby 6-0 in 1903.\n\nWatford's best chance of over-turning the odds came early on when City keeper Ederson saved at the feel of Roberto Pereyra and they were furious when referee Kevin Friend waved away penalty claims after Vincent Kompany blocked Abdoulaye Doucoure's shot.\n\nThe contest was effectively over from the moment David Silva finished from close range after 26 minutes, Jesus doubling the advantage before half-time after Bernardo Silva's sublime pass.\n\nWatford rallied briefly after the break but were always wide open to the counter attack.\n\nThey were brutally punished by an imperious City side, as substitute Kevin de Bruyne scored from Jesus's pass just after the hour before the Brazilian raced clear for another goal shortly afterwards.\n\nSterling scored twice in the final 10 minutes - turning in Bernardo Silva's perfect cross before bundling in the final goal of a memorable display from Guardiola's side.\n• None Man City to auction off Guardiola's 'coatigan' for charity\n\nIt was City's sixth FA Cup triumph and their first under Guardiola, who has now won six trophies since taking over at Etihad Stadium in 2016.\n\nCity's win means Wolves, who finished seventh in the Premier League table, will play in the two-legged second qualifying round of the Europa League on 25 July and 1 August.\n\nCity claimed their first league and FA Cup double - the first time it has been achieved since Chelsea did it under Carlo Ancelotti in 2009-10.\n\nThis comprehensive triumph, however, was about even more than that.\n\nThe securing of three trophies underscores the scale of City's achievement - and emphasises the hunger and desire which has driven them this season, notably to finish ahead of Liverpool in a relentless Premier League title race.\n\nTheir ability to move to another level when required was on show here at they resisted Watford's early promise - and then brushed them aside.\n\nThey refused to ease up when Watford were down and out, pressing forward until the final whistle, with substitute John Stones only being denied by the bar in the final seconds as City almost became the first team in win an FA Cup final by seven goals.\n\nThe pedal was still pressed to the floor as the goals racked up.\n\nAnd it was all achieved without leading goalscorer Sergio Aguero, restricted to a place on the bench alongside De Bruyne, Stones and Leroy Sane.\n\nAfter securing the Premier League title at Brighton last weekend, Guardiola stated that he is addicted to winning. This was a performance of class and quality from a team that looks in shape to satisfy the Catalan's craving for years to come.\n\nThis is a special team led by a special manager.\n\nWatford arrived at Wembley hoping to overturn the odds and enjoy a happier day than they experienced in their previous FA Cup final appearance, when they lost 2-0 to Everton in 1984.\n\nIn the end, brief defiance ended in a fearful hammering as they were taken apart by this magnificent City side.\n\nYes, they will look back at Pereyra's early missed chance and that handball appeal.\n\nBut in reality the team that finished a mammoth 48 points behind City in the Premier League saw the chasm opening out in front of them on a day of pain at the national stadium.\n\nWatford's fans were magnificent, waving their flags in defiance as their team were thrashed, and they will still have memories of that remarkable comeback from two goals down to beat Wolves 3-2 in the semi-final.\n\nOn the pitch, however, they will wish to wipe a harrowing 90 minutes from the memory bank as soon as possible.\n\n'Incredible final, incredible season' - what they said\n\n\"It was an incredible final for us and we have finished an incredible year.\n\n\"To all the people at the club, a big congratulations, especially the players because they are the reason why we have won these titles.\"\n\nOn Ederson's early save from Roberto Pereyra: \"In the final, these kind of things make the difference.\n\n\"Ederson saved us at a key point at the beginning of the game, because 1-0 would have been really difficult for us.\"\n\nCan City get even better? \"We have to; always you can improve. There is no sense to stay still.\"\n\n\"It wasn't as easy as the score makes it look. But what a season, what a tremendous club.\n\n\"It started with the manager, he sets the standard at the start of the season. It's the best team in the world for me.\n\n\"To set such a high standard for so long - not just for one year but two years running now.\"\n\n\"In this moment, everyone is really sad but we knew before the game we had to play the perfect game.\n\n\"We started well and we created the best chance after 10 minutes with Roberto Pereyra but after that they dominated.\n\n\"It was very difficult for us to press which is what we were trying to do. They were better. Congratulations to them and we will try again next time.\n\n\"Maybe scoring that early chance [would have helped] - you need to take any opportunity - but after that, they are really good, they found the spaces.\n\n\"Sometimes you have to lose to win in the future and we will try to do it next time.\"\n• None Manchester City are the first English top-flight side to register 50 wins in all competitions in a single season.\n• None Watford have lost their past 11 matches against City in all competitions, conceding 38 goals.\n• None City are just the fourth team to win both major domestic cup competitions in the same season - after Arsenal in 1992-93, Liverpool in 2000-01 and Chelsea in 2006-07.\n• None Pep Guardiola's team are only the third to score six goals in an FA Cup final, after Blackburn against Sheffield Wednesday in 1890 (6-1) and Bury against Derby in 1903 (6-0).\n• None City have scored 26 goals in the 2018-19 FA Cup - the most by a team in a single season in the competition since Charlton hit 29 and Derby scored 37, both in 1945-46.\n• None Guardiola is the eighth manager to win the English top flight, EFL Cup and FA Cup, after Bill Nicholson, Don Revie, Joe Mercer, Kenny Dalglish, George Graham, Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho.\n• None David Silva has become just the second Manchester City player to score in both an FA Cup and League Cup final, after Yaya Toure.\n• None Attempt missed. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. John Stones (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Attempt blocked. Tom Cleverley (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by José Holebas.\n• None Attempt blocked. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 6, Watford 0. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt blocked. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 5, Watford 0. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Bernardo Silva with a cross.\n• None Kiko Femenía (Watford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Etienne Capoue (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Substitution, Manchester City. Leroy Sané replaces Ilkay Gündogan because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Abdoulaye Doucouré (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Will Hughes. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Ateeq Rafiq died a week after becoming trapped at Birmingham's Star City on 16 March last year\n\nA cinema worker who tried to help a man trapped under a seat \"froze\" and \"didn't know what to do\", an inquest has heard.\n\nAteeq Rafiq, 24, died a week after becoming stuck while reaching for his belongings at the Vue multiplex at Star City in Birmingham in March last year.\n\nThe inquest in Birmingham earlier heard he was crushed by a force equivalent to three-quarters of a tonne.\n\nAdam Bharoochi told the hearing he could not release Mr Rafiq.\n\nThe cinema worker, who was on his first shift in one of the \"Gold Class\" screen lounges, said he \"froze-up for a second because I didn't know what to do\".\n\nMr Bharoochi said Mr Rafiq, who was from Aston in Birmingham, was \"making groaning noises\".\n\nHe added: \"I tried to lift the bar but it wouldn't lift at all.\n\n\"I'm sorry for what happened.\"\n\nCharles Simmons-Jacobs, from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), earlier said he found it \"impossible\" to lift eight of the footrests in the 52-seat theatre.\n\nHe said the seats only work when a customer was seated and after they vacated the control box waited four seconds before returning to a vertical position.\n\nMr Rafiq's seat had blown a fuse in its control box, Mr Simmons-Jacobs told the inquest.\n\nThe seats were controlled by a double \"push-pull\" actuator mechanism, which meant the footrest could not be lifted by hand.\n\nMr Simmons-Jacobs said had it been fitted with a single push mechanism, Mr Rafiq would have been able to use his hands to lift the footrest to get back out from under the seat.\n\nMr Bharoochi, who left the cinema the following month, said he called his colleagues for assistance, none of whom were able to release Mr Rafiq.\n\nThe cinema's duty manager, Elliot Stapley, said staff used a wrench to loosen the footrest from the chair, releasing Mr Rafiq.\n\nEmergency services performed CPR before taking him to hospital, where he died a week later.\n\nCoroner Emma Brown said Mr Rafiq, who had been with his wife at the cinema, died from catastrophic brain injuries after suffering a cardiac arrest.\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. Some of the protesters marched in a line wearing the letters spelling out \"betrayed\"\n\nRallies against the prosecution of former British soldiers who served in Northern Ireland have been held across the UK.\n\nHundreds of people - many of them waving banners in support of an Army veteran being prosecuted for the murder of two men on Bloody Sunday - protested outside Broadcasting House in London.\n\nOne protester said soldiers were being \"persecuted\" for doing their job.\n\nRallies were also held in Glasgow, Cardiff, Bristol and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe protests, organised by Justice for Northern Ireland Veterans, follow the announcement by Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt earlier this week that British troops and veterans would be given stronger legal protections against prosecution - proposals that exclude alleged offences in Northern Ireland.\n\nSix former soldiers who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles are currently facing prosecution.\n\nThe cases relate to Daniel Hegarty; Bloody Sunday; John Pat Cunningham; Joe McCann (involving two ex-soldiers) and Aidan McAnespie. Not all the charges are murder.\n\nIn the case of Bloody Sunday, a former British soldier known as Soldier F faces prosecution for the murders of James Wray and William McKinney in Londonderry in 1972. They were shot dead at a civil rights march.\n\nThe decision to exclude soldiers who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles angered protesters with whom the BBC spoke.\n\nThey also expressed anger at what they say is a lack of media coverage of the issue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hundreds of bikers also protested through Bristol\n\nDawn Amey said many of the British soldiers serving in Northern Ireland had been \"very young\" and \"fighting for their lives\"\n\nDawn Amey, whose husband and father both served in Northern Ireland and who came to the rally from Colchester in Essex, said: \"Our soldiers, most of them were very young.\n\n\"They were fighting for their lives, protecting themselves, and these are the men who are now going to be suffering.\"\n\nFormer serviceman Wayne Stockwell, from Romford, east London, said it was \"just wrong\" that soldiers who served in Northern Ireland were being excluded from the new protections for soldiers against prosecution.\n\nWayne Stockwell said it was wrong that soldiers who served in Northern Ireland were not being given the new protections\n\nHe added: \"Ex service-personnel didn't ask to go to Northern Ireland, they were sent there, following orders. So if anything, the government was to blame, not the individual soldier.\"\n\nJacqueline Smith, who served in the Army in Derry, said it was unfair that British soldiers were now being prosecuted when some Irish republicans were previously told they were no longer wanted by the police.\n\nShe was referring to so-called \"comfort letters\" from the government that were given to republicans suspected of involvement in terrorist crimes but who had never been charged.\n\nJacqueline Smith said it was unfair that British soldiers were now being prosecuted when Irish republicans were previously given royal pardons\n\nA protest was also held in Glasgow\n\nThe Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland has said that of 26 so-called Troubles legacy cases it has taken decisions on since 2011, 13 related to republicans, eight to loyalists, and five were connected to the Army.\n\nThe rallies on Saturday were the latest in a series of protests over the last few months, including the Million Veterans March.", "Thousands of people lined the route to watch the parade\n\nMore than 250 soldiers from The Household Cavalry Regiment have taken part in a parade through Windsor to mark their departure from the town.\n\nThe regiment is moving home to Salisbury Plain as part of a major restructuring of the British Army.\n\nIt has been based at Combermere Barracks near Windsor Castle for more than 200 years.\n\nThe parade, which included marching and mounted troops, set off from the barracks at 14:30 BST.\n\nThe Band of the Household Cavalry also took part in the parade, which passed by the Guildhall for a salute.\n\nThe Princess Royal gave an address to the troops and hosted a reception for them and their families.\n\nThe Household Cavalry were part of the celebrations when Prince Harry married Meghan Markle\n\nRoads through the town centre, including the Long Walk, High Street and Castle Hill, were closed but have since reopened.\n\nThe Household Cavalry is made up of the Blues and Royals and the Life Guards.\n\nIt is divided into the armoured division and the mounted regiment, which is tasked with protecting the Queen.\n\nThe Welsh Guards will be moving into the Windsor barracks.\n\nThe Household Cavalry has been based near Windsor Castle for more than 200 years\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Only one other Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus coin has been discovered in England, archaeologists said\n\nAn \"incredibly rare\" Roman coin minted for an ill-fated emperor has been found during work to upgrade an A road.\n\nIt depicts Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus, who reigned for about two months in AD269 before he was killed.\n\nThe discovery was made during a dig as part of Highways England's £1.5bn scheme to improve the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon.\n\nArchaeologist Steve Sherlock said the \"significant' find was only the second of its kind to be unearthed in England.\n\nNumismatist Julian Bowsher said Roman emperors were \"very keen to mint coins\"\n\nThe coin shows Laelianus wearing a radiant crown and was found in a ditch at a small Roman farmstead by archaeologists.\n\nCoin expert Julian Bowsher, of MOLA Headland Infrastructure, said: \"Roman emperors were very keen to mint coins - Laelianus reigned for just two months which is barely enough time to do so.\n\n\"The fact that one of these coins ever reached the shores of Britain demonstrates remarkable efficiency and there's every chance that Laelianus had been killed by the time this coin arrived in Cambridgeshire.\"\n\nThe ill-fated emperor usurped the throne and ruled a breakaway empire in what is now Germany and France before being killed, probably by his own soldiers.\n\nDr Sherlock, who is the lead archaeologist for the A14 project, said \"discoveries of this kind are incredibly rare\".\n\nThis coin is believed to be minted by a French tribe to help British resistance to Julius Caesar\n\nAnother unusual coin discovered during the dig was a Gallic War Uniface coin, minted in 57BC by the Ambiani tribe in the Somme area of modern-day France.\n\nExperts believe it was exported to help fund the British Celtic resistance to Julius Caesar.\n\nIt has also unearthed prehistoric henges, Iron Age settlements, Roman kilns, three Anglo-Saxon villages and a medieval hamlet.\n\nThe work includes creating a new bypass to the south of Huntingdon and upgrading 21 miles of road.\n\nWork to improve the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon is ongoing\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Strache has acknowledged that the meeting took place, but said it had been \"purely private\"\n\nAustria's Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache has been filmed appearing to offer government contracts in exchange for political support.\n\nThe video, filmed secretly shortly before Austria's election in 2017, shows Mr Strache speaking to a woman who claims to be a Russian investor.\n\nMr Strache also appears to hint at a potentially illegal donation system for the far-right Freedom Party he leads.\n\nThe revelations come amid high tensions within Austria's coalition government.\n\nAustrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of the centre-right People's Party is due to make a statement at a press conference on Saturday morning.\n\nSenior figures in the coalition government held an emergency meeting on Friday evening.\n\nA coalition source told Reuters news agency that Mr Kurz is ruling out continuing to work with Mr Strache.\n\nThe video was published on Friday in a joint report by the German news magazine Der Spiegel and the daily Süddeutsche Zeitung.\n\nIt is unclear who set up the meeting and who filmed it.\n\nThe secretly-filmed video shows Mr Strache and Johann Gudenus - also a Freedom Party politician - talking to a woman who claims to be a wealthy Russian citizen looking to invest in Austria.\n\nThe meeting reportedly took place at a villa on the Spanish island of Ibiza, in a private room with both politicians relaxing on sofas, smoking and drinking.\n\nIn the footage, the woman says she is the niece of a powerful Russian oligarch. She offers to buy a 50% stake in Austria's Kronen-Zeitung newspaper and switch its editorial position to support the Freedom Party.\n\nIn exchange, Mr Strache said he could award her public contracts, explaining that he wanted to \"build a media landscape like Orbán\", a reference to Hungary's far-right prime minister.\n\nThe vice-chancellor also speculates that the Russian's takeover of Kronen-Zeitung could boost support for the party to as high as 34%.\n\n\"If you take over the Kronen Zeitung three weeks before the election and get us into first place, then we can talk about everything,\" Mr Strache said.\n\nAs part of the deal, he suggests the Russian woman \"set up a company like Strabag,\" the Austrian construction firm.\n\n\"All the government orders that Strabag gets now, [you] would get,\" he continues.\n\nMr Strache also names several journalists who would have to be \"pushed\" from the newspaper, and five other \"new people whom we will build up\".\n\nDuring the discussions, the vice chancellor says that wealthy donors have paid the Freedom Party through an \"association\" to keep their donations hidden.\n\n\"The association is charitable, it's got nothing to do with the party,\" Mr Strache said. \"That way no report goes to the Rechnungshof [Austria's court of auditors]\".\n\nThe alleged donors named by Mr Strache and Mr Gudenus in the video have denied sending money to the party, according to Der Spiegel and the Süddeutsche Zeitung.\n\nThe two men have acknowledged that the meeting took place, but said it had been \"purely private\". They added that they had repeatedly mentioned \"the relevant legal regulations and the necessity to observe Austrian law\" during the encounter.", "Same-sex marriage is legal in the rest of the UK and in the Republic of Ireland\n\nThe partner of murdered journalist Lyra McKee has demanded equal marriage rights for same-sex couples in Northern Ireland.\n\nSara Canning, who was addressing a rally of thousands in Belfast, said the current situation was \"not acceptable.\"\n\nShe told the crowds gathered outside City Hall that a law change would be a \"win\" for everyone in Northern Ireland.\n\nMs McKee, 29, was shot on 18 April while observing rioting in Londonderry.\n\nThe New IRA said its members carried out the killing.\n\nHer murder led to an outpouring of grief and calls for politicians in Northern Ireland to return to powersharing, two-and-a-half years after the government of the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin collapsed.\n\nA new talks process began at Stormont on Tuesday.\n\nLyra McKee was observing rioting in Londonderry's Creggan estate when she was shot dead last month by dissident republicans\n\nSaturday's rally was organised by the Love Equality campaign - an umbrella group made up of organisations that support a law change.\n\nMs Canning questioned why same-sex couple were treated differently in Northern Ireland - same-sex marriage is legal in the rest of the UK and in the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"We pay our taxes, we are governed by the same laws, we love deeply and we love dearly - why should we not be afforded the same rights in marriage?\" she asked.\n\n\"Equal marriage is not a green or orange issue, a demand of just one side or the other and it shouldn't be a political football.\"\n\nMs Canning said she had dreamed of marrying the woman she loved and had shared her dream with Lyra before it was \"snatched away\".\n\nSara Canning said equal marriage was not a \"green or orange issue\"\n\nMs Canning has already challenged the prime minister to legislate for same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland.\n\nShe said she spoke to Theresa May at Ms McKee's funeral, asking her to change the laws at Westminster if local politicians failed to act.\n\nOn Saturday, she reiterated this challenge and said Westminster must legislate on the issue in the continued absence of local government.\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 timeline of the same-sex marriage debate in Northern Ireland.\n\nEqual marriage is currently one of the main sticking points in Stormont's continuing political crisis.\n\nDuring a vote in November 2015, Northern Ireland's assembly members supported same-sex marriage by a slim majority of 53 votes to 52.\n\nHowever, the motion was blocked by the DUP using a measure known as a petition of concern.\n\nThe DUP remains firmly opposed to any redefinition of the law, insisting marriage should be between a man and a woman.\n\nIt has resisted Sinn Féin's calls for a change in the law.", "Heinz-Christian Strache has resigned as Austria's vice-chancellor a day after secret video footage mired him in a corruption scandal.\n\nHe said he resigned to avoid further damage to the government", "Baroness Grey-Thompson has said her parents would \"probably have terminated the pregnancy\" if they had known about her disability.\n\nHer comments follow the UK's first operation, at King's College Hospital, to repair a baby's spine in the womb.\n\nThe Cardiff-born Paralympian, who has spina bifida, said terminating a disabled baby is a \"complicated issue\".\n\nSpeaking to Gareth Lewis on BBC Radio Wales, she said she believes in a woman's and family's \"right to choose\".\n\nBaroness Grey-Thompson said: \"When I was born there weren't the diagnostics for spina bifida.\n\n\"My mum had a really open conversation with me even when I was quite young, and she said they probably would have terminated the pregnancy if they'd known.\"\n\nSpina bifida is when a baby's spine and spinal cord don't develop properly in the womb, causing a gap in the spine.\n\nIt's not known what causes the condition, but a lack of folic acid before and in the early stages of pregnancy is a significant risk factor.\n\nThere are several different types, the most common of which is spina bifida occulta.\n\nIn most cases of spina bifida, surgery can be used to close the opening in the spine.\n\nBut the nervous system will usually already have been damaged, which can lead to problems including weakness or total paralysis of the legs.\n\nWith the right treatment and support, many children with spina bifida survive well into adulthood.\n\nBaroness Grey-Thompson added that people were \"shocked\" by this but she values her parents' honesty.\n\nBut she said that operations like the one carried out to repair the spine of Sherrie Sharp's son Jaxson might not mean everything is \"done and dusted\", as people can become disabled later in life.\n\nSurgeons at King's College Hospital operated on Jaxson while he was still in the womb after a diagnosis at the 20-week stage of his mother's pregnancy\n\nShe said: \"Early termination, the diagnostics, it means that people are choosing to terminate children who are disabled, so it ends up being a really complicated issue.\n\n\"The reality is pregnancies are being terminated far more than before and disability is seen as a negative thing.\"\n\nShe added: \"The whole spectrum of spina bifida, let alone any other impairment, is huge so I think you have to respect the family's right to make that choice.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritish number one Johanna Konta came from a set down against Kiki Bertens to reach the final of the Italian Open.\n\nKonta - who will be seeded at the French Open later this month - beat Dutch sixth seed Bertens 5-7 7-5 6-2 in two hours 49 minutes in Rome.\n\nThe 28-year-old will play world number seven Karolina Pliskova, who beat Maria Sakkari of Greece 6-4 6-4.\n\nKonta is the first British woman to reach the Italian Open final since Virginia Wade in 1971.\n\nVictory over world number four Bertens marked her first over a top-five opponent since defeating Simona Halep at Wimbledon in 2017.\n\nBoth players lost serve twice in the first set before Bertens was able to take the early advantage, breaking world number 42 Konta at set point.\n\nThe first two games of the second set went against serve but Konta was able to capitalise on a break at 5-5 to level the match.\n\nKonta dominated the deciding set, breaking Bertens' serve twice, though she needed four match points to seal the win, having made three unforced errors at 40-0 in the final game.\n\nThe Briton lost her first clay-court final to Sakkari at the Morocco Open this month and will now play her maiden Premier WTA event final on the surface.\n\nSakkari had beaten Pliskova in last year's event but converted only one break point opportunity as she slipped to defeat in an hour and 28 minutes.\n\nPliskova, winner of 12 WTA titles to Konta's three, has won five of the pair's six completed matches, though the Briton won their most recent match, which came on the hard courts of Beijing in 2016.\n\nKonta's game has been on an upward curve all season.\n\nShe has excelled wearing British colours in the Fed Cup, but had not cashed in on tour - until the clay court season got underway.\n\nKonta has always believed she can be successful on the surface, but until this year results had not borne her out.\n\nHer movement looks much improved, as does her drop shot - which is such a handy trick to have up your sleeve on clay.\n\nNot only will Konta now be seeded for Roland Garros, but she has also put herself in a very good position to be a seed at Wimbledon, too.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "Schwarzenegger urged fans to focus on the athletes at the event instead of the attack\n\nHollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger has said he will not press charges after being attacked at an event in South Africa.\n\nThe 71-year-old was talking to fans at his Arnold Classic Africa sporting event on Saturday when a man drop-kicked him from behind.\n\nThe attacker was restrained following the incident in Johannesburg.\n\nHowever on Sunday, Schwarzenegger said he would not be taking the case further, adding: \"I'm moving on\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Arnold This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe video footage, shared widely on social media, showed Schwarzenegger posing for photos and filming at the event when the man attacks him with a flying kick.\n\nThe Terminator star stumbles forward after the kick, while the attacker falls to the ground, where he is immediately restrained by a security guard.\n\nThe unnamed man was later handed over to police officers, event officials said.\n\nSchwarzenegger tweeted to his more than four million followers: \"I thought I was just jostled by the crowd, which happens a lot. I only realised I was kicked when I saw the video like all of you.\"\n\nIn response to tweets from his fans, he said on Sunday he would not be pressing charges against the attacker.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Arnold This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 have 90 sports here in South Africa at the @ArnoldSports, and 24,000 athletes of all ages and abilities inspiring all of us to get off the couch. Let's put this spotlight on them,\" he wrote in a separate message.\n\nThe Arnold Classic Africa event takes place every May and features a range of events including bodybuilding and combat sports.", "Austria was a major imperial power in Central Europe for centuries in various state guises, until the fall of its Habsburg dynasty after World War One.\n\nBut its position at the geographical heart of Europe, and its neutral status during the Cold War between Nato and the Soviet bloc, maintained the much-reduced country's strategic significance.\n\nAustria is now a member of the European Union, though not Nato, and an enduring legacy of its decades of post-war neutrality can be seen in the large number of international organisations that call its capital Vienna their home.\n\nThese include the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Opec, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries.\n\nFor much of the post-war period, so-called \"grand coalition\" governments of left and right wing parties have ruled Austria, although the Social Democrats led by Bruno Kreisky ruled alone in the 1970s.\n\nMore recently, the centre-right People's Party ruled in coalition with the far-right Freedom Party, but this coalition collapsed in May 2019 after a scandal involving the leader of the Freedom Party.\n\nAlexander Van der Bellen was first elected as president in the December 2016 re-run of a highly polarised election earlier that year, defeating Norbert Hofer of the far-right Freedom Party.\n\nVan der Bellen - a Green Party politician running as an independent - had won a extremely narrow victory in the initial run-off vote against Hofer in May, but the result was annulled because of vote-counting irregularities.\n\nIn October 2022, Van der Bellen was re-elected president, taking 57% of the vote in the first round. Freedom Party candidate Walter Rosenkranz came second with 18% of the votes, far short of what Hofer received in 2016.\n\nInterior Minister Nehammer took over on as chancellor and leader of the conservative People's Party in December 2021, following months of turmoil after the resignation of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.\n\nMr Kurz's departure was a condition for the Green Party to remain in the governing coalition, pending a corruption investigation. Foreign Minister Alexander von Schallenberg was chancellor in the interim, but resigned to make way for Mr Nehammer when the later assumed the post of People's Party leader in December.\n\nAustria's public broadcaster, Oesterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), has long-dominated the airwaves. It faces competition from private TV and radio broadcasters.\n\nCable or satellite TV is available in most Austrian homes and is often used to watch German stations, some of which tailor their output for local viewers.\n\nA daily newspaper is a must for many Austrians. National and regional titles contest fiercely for readers.\n\nFor much of the post-war period, so-called \"grand coalition\" governments of left and right wing parties have ruled Austria\n\n1278 - The Habsburg Rudolf I of Germany acquires the duchies of Austria and Styria after defeating his rival, King Ottokar II of Bohemia, at the Battle on the Marchfeld.\n\n14th and 15th Centuries - Habsburgs acquire other provinces neighbouring the Duchy of Austria.\n\n1526 - After the Battle of Mohács, Bohemia and the part of Hungary not occupied by the Ottomans comesunder Austrian rule.\n\n16th and 17th Centuries - Ottoman expansion into Hungary sees frequent conflicts between the two empires.\n\n1529 - Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent launches the first siege of Vienna. The besieging Turkish army retreats amid the snowfalls of an early winter.\n\n1683 - Second siege of Vienna. The city is freed after two months when the forces of the Holy Roman Empire and those of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth under King John III Sobieski decisively defeat the Turkish army.\n\n1699 - The Treaty of Karlowitz, which ends the Great Turkish War (1683-1699) results in most of Hungary coming under Austrian control.\n\n1713 - The Pragmatic Sanction. Edict issued by Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI to ensure the Habsburg lands - the archduchy of Austria, kingdom of Hungary, kingdom of Croatia, kingdom of Bohemia, duchy of Milan, kingdom of Naples, kingdom of Sardinia and Austrian Netherlands - could be inherited undivided by his daughter, Maria Theresa.\n\n1792-1815 - Austria engages in war with revolutionary and them Napoleonic France.\n\n1804 - The Empire of Austria is proclaimed, replacing the Holy Roman Empire which is dissolved two years later.\n\n1815 - Austria emerges from the Congress of Vienna as one of Europe's great powers.\n\n1848-49 - Hungarian revolution. This is eventually defeated with the aid of Russian forces, but leads to a constitutional government being founded in Hungary, which is now in a personal union with the Austrian emperor.\n\n1867 - The defeat leads to the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, establishing the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, a military and diplomatic alliance of two sovereign states.\n\nIn the latter half of the 19th Century, ruling Austria-Hungary becomes increasingly difficult in an age of emerging nationalist movements in Europe.\n\n1908 - Following the Young Turk revolution in Turkey, Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina, nominally part of the Ottoman Empire. The move provokes strong resentment in Serbian pan-Slav circles.\n\n1914 - The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip triggers the outbreak of World War One.\n\n1914-18 - Over one million Austro-Hungarian soldiers die in the war, which leads to the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the end of Hapsburg rule.\n\n1933 - End of the republic, Chancellor Dollfuss suspends parliament and sets up autocratic regime\n\n1934 - Government crushes Socialist uprising, backed by the army. All political parties abolished except the Fatherland Front.\n\nImprisonment of Nazi conspirators leads to attempted Nazi coup. Dollfuss assassinated, succeeded by Kurt von Schuschnigg.\n\n1938 - The Anschluss (union): Austria incorporated into Germany by Hitler. Austria now called the Ostmark (Eastern March).\n\n1945 - Soviet troops liberate Vienna. Austria occupied and partitioned into four occupation zones by Soviet, British, US and French forces. Vienna is also divided between the four occupying powers.\n\n1955 - Treaty signed by Britain, France, US and Soviet Union establishes an independent but neutral Austria - a convenient buffer between the West and the Soviet bloc. The four powers withdraw their troops. Austria joins the United Nations.\n\n1986 - Ex-UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim elected president, despite controversy over his role in the German army in World War Two.\n\n1999 - Far-right Freedom Party led by Joerg Haider wins 27% of vote in national elections.\n\n2000 - International outcry as People's Party forms coalition government with Freedom Party. EU imposes diplomatic sanctions before ending it seven months later on grounds it is counter-productive.\n\n2011 - Otto von Habsburg - the last crown prince of Austria - is buried in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna amid much of the pomp associated with the days of the empire.\n\n2013 - Austrians vote to keep compulsory military service in a referendum.\n\n2017 - Government agrees to ban Islamic full-face veils in courts, schools and other public spaces.\n\nMozart's home town of Salzburg. Austria is seen by many as the birthplace of classical music\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Laws covering so-called revenge porn are not fit for purpose and police still need more training, experts say.\n\nVictims should receive anonymity and laws need to include threats to share images, according to Sophie Mortimer from the Revenge Porn helpline.\n\nFigures from 19 forces in England and Wales revealed police investigations have doubled in the last four years but the number of charges has fallen.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs Council said forces take the crime \"very seriously\".\n\nRevenge porn - the sharing of private or sexual images or videos of a person without their consent - became an offence in England and Wales in April 2015.\n\nSimilar laws were later introduced in Northern Ireland and Scotland.\n\nFigures from 19 of 43 police forces in England and Wales show the number of alleged cases being investigated by officers has more than doubled in the last four years - from 852 in 2015-16 to 1,853 in 2018-19.\n\nHowever, the figures also reveal that the number of charges dropped by 23% - from 207 to 158 - during the same period.\n\nRevenge porn is currently categorised as a \"communications crime\", meaning victims are not granted anonymity.\n\nIn the last year, more than a third of victims decided not to proceed with the case.\n\nSome say it is because they are not granted anonymity, while others cited a lack of police support.\n\nAlice Ruggles died after an ex-boyfriend broke into her home in Gateshead\n\nIn October 2016, Alice Ruggles, 24, was murdered by a former boyfriend who cut her throat after breaking into her home in Gateshead.\n\nAfter her death it emerged that her killer, Trimaan Dhillon, had threatened to share intimate images of her online as part of a campaign of stalking and harassment.\n\nAlice's mother, Dr Sue Hills, said threatening to share images should be made part of the law.\n\nShe said her daughter may have sought help sooner if Dhillon had not held the threat over her.\n\n\"It causes immensely serious psychological damage - it is a crime,\" she said.\n\nMs Mortimer, from the Revenge Porn helpline, backed her call.\n\nShe added: \"We'd also like to see it made a sexual offence because that would guarantee anonymity for victims.\"\n\nSophie Mortimer: 'Key that frontline services understand what the law means'\n\nShe also called for better training of police officers.\n\n\"It's all very well changing the law and making these things illegal, but if the frontline services don't understand what the law actually means then you've only done half the job.\"\n\nResearch by the University of Suffolk found 95% of police officers who took part in a survey in 2017 said they had not had any training on revenge porn legislation.\n\nA joint Ministry of Justice and Home Office statement said: \"When we engaged with victims and campaigners in designing the new law they accepted that the motive for this crime is almost always malicious, rather than sexual, which is why the law considers it a non-sexual offence.\n\n\"We launched and continue to support the Revenge Porn helpline, which helps victims to speak with the police and to social media companies about removing the content.\"\n\nChief Constable Simon Bailey from the National Police Chiefs' Council said forces \"pursue all lines of inquiry and prosecute people where appropriate\".\n\n\"The College of Policing has produced a briefing and training note, which all officers involved in these types of investigations can access.\"\n\nTo find out more listen to 5 Live Investigates on Sunday at 11:00 GMT or on BBC Sounds\n\nFor information and support, including sources of support for those affected by sexual violence and domestic abuse, visit the BBC's Action Line.", "Martin Sellner is a member of the Identitarian Movement Austria\n\nAustria's chancellor has described as \"disgusting\" revelations that a far-right activist linked to the New Zealand mosque attacks suspect put a swastika on a synagogue when he was 17.\n\nChancellor Sebastian Kurz said he would not tolerate \"neo-Nazi activities\".\n\nMartin Sellner of the Identitarian Movement Austria said the incident had been long ago and he had since changed.\n\nLast month investigators raided his home after he said he had been given money by the Christchurch suspect.\n\nBut Mr Sellner, 30, denied any involvement in the New Zealand attacks.\n\nFifty people died and dozens more wounded in the 15 March shootings. Australian Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old self-proclaimed white supremacist, has been charged over the attacks.\n\nChancellor Kurz has vowed to \"fight all forms of extremism\"\n\nMr Kurz - who campaigned on a harsh anti-immigrant message and is governing in coalition with the far-right Freedom Party - said that as chancellor it was his duty to \"fight all forms of extremism to preserve free and liberal law-based state\".\n\nIt follows a report in Austria's Kleine Zeitung that Mr Sellner had admitted to police in 2006 that he and a companion stuck a swastika poster on a synagogue in the town of Baden bei Wien, to the south-west of the capital Vienna.\n\nThe newspaper quoted Mr Sellner's companion as saying the pair had decided to carry out the act after British Holocaust denier David Irving was arrested in Austria in 2005 and jailed. Denying the Holocaust is illegal in Austria.\n\nMartin Sellner (centre) on a torch-lit march near Vienna in September 2017\n\nMr Sellner had also provided a badge saying \"aryan youth\" and an anti-Turkish poster, his companion said at the time.\n\nMr Sellner appeared regretful and was told to carry out 100 hours of community service in a Jewish cemetery, the newspaper report said.\n\nResponding to the report on Twitter, Mr Sellner said it was no secret that he had been active in the neo-Nazi scene when he was younger but had \"left that behind a long time ago\". He had never taken part in acts of violence, he added.\n\nMr Sellner has become one of the most prominent young activists of the far right in Europe.\n\nAustrian media say the far-right Freedom Party has come under pressure to distance itself from the Identitarian Movement Austria (IBÖ) following the revelations that Brenton Tarrant donated about €1,500 (£1,290; $1,700) to the IBÖ.\n\nIn March last year Mr Sellner and his girlfriend Brittany Pettibone - an alt-right vlogger and conspiracy theorist - were refused entry to the UK.\n\nThe authorities said their presence in the UK would not have been \"conducive to the public good\".", "Crews remained at the scene damping down late on Saturday morning\n\nA woman has been arrested after a fire broke out on Ilkley Moor - a month after a blaze caused significant damage in the area.\n\nAt its height, about 50 firefighters tackled the latest blaze.\n\nWest Yorkshire Fire & Rescue said its control room took over 65 emergency calls about the fire, which was \"largely out\" by 11:35 BST.\n\nThe suspect, 48, was arrested after members of the public reported a woman \"behaving suspiciously\" near the fire.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said the blaze was close to the cattle grid on Hangingstone Road, which had to be closed.\n\nIn a statement, the force said: \"Police were called to moorland at Ilkley near Hangingstone Road at about 9.55am this morning to a report of a fire and suspicious behaviour by a female at the location.\"\n\nOver Easter weekend, more than 70 firefighters were called to Ilkley Moor and a helicopter was deployed after a large area of moorland caught fire.\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.", "Students said the doctor's actions were an \"open secret\" on campus\n\nAn athletics team doctor sexually abused at least 177 male students from 1979 to 1997, an investigation by Ohio State University in the US says.\n\nDr Richard Strauss, who died in 2005, is accused of groping and performing \"unnecessary examinations\" on young men while treating athletes in 16 sports.\n\nThe report stated that university officials failed to prevent the abuse despite complaints from students.\n\nIt adds that \"inadequate efforts\" to investigate were \"unacceptable\".\n\nIn the report published on Friday, investigators said the abuse was carried out at various locations across the campus, including examination rooms, locker rooms, showers and saunas.\n\nVarious athletes reported unnecessary genital exams and some students said they believed Dr Strauss' actions were an \"open secret\" on campus.\n\n\"We are so sorry that this happened,\" Ohio State President Michael Drake said at a news conference, noting that there was a \"consistent institutional failure\" at the university.\n\nBut he also sought to distance Ohio State from the events of more than two decades ago.\n\n\"This is not the university of today\", he added.\n\nA number of former students are suing for unspecified damages and have called on the university to take responsibility for the harm they say was inflicted by the doctor.\n\n\"Dreams were broken, relationships with loved ones were damaged, and the harm now carries over to our children, as many of us have become so overprotective that it strains the relationship with our kids,\" Kent Kilgore, a former Ohio state swimmer, said in a statement.\n\nDr Strauss retired in 1998 and took his own life in 2005.\n\nIn May 2018, Michigan State University agreed to pay $500m (£371m) to 332 gymnasts who were abused by ex-team doctor Larry Nassar.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nLive coverage of Manchester City against Watford in the FA Cup final on BBC One, including highlights, across the BBC Sport website and app; live commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live and local radio; live text commentary on the BBC Sport website.\n\nManchester City can claim a historic domestic treble, while Watford will be looking to cause a major upset in Saturday's FA Cup final at Wembley.\n\nPep Guardiola's City have already won the Premier League and Carabao Cup.\n\nThey will be the first men's team to win the English domestic treble if they beat Watford (17:00 BST).\n\nIf the Hornets, who finished 11th in the Premier League table, win a first ever FA Cup, they will earn a place in next season's Europa League.\n• None How to follow the FA Cup final on BBC Sport\n\nIt would also be the biggest shock in a final since Wigan beat City 1-0 in 2013.\n\nThe final is live on BBC One and build-up starts with Football Focus at 13:00.\n\nMeanwhile, Liverpool won an FA Cup, League Cup and Uefa Cup treble in 2001 under Gerard Houllier.\n\nHowever, no men's team has won all three major domestic competitions in one season in England before (Arsenal Women have won the domestic treble in the past).\n\nCity clinched the league last week, finishing one point ahead of runners-up Liverpool, having beaten Chelsea on penalties in the Carabao Cup final in February.\n\nTheir last FA Cup triumph was in 2011 when they beat Stoke City at Wembley. In the eight years since then, City have gone on to be crowned champions of England four times and won four League Cups.\n\n\"It is a cup final, anything can happen like a red card,\" said Guardiola, who is seeking to win the FA Cup for the first time in his third season in charge at City.\n\n\"In one game, anything can happen. Normally the better team wins but a decision of the referee could make the difference.\n\n\"In the Premier League you have another chance and can be more relaxed, but this is completely different.\"\n\nThe last team to win the Premier League and the FA Cup in the same season were Chelsea in 2010.\n• None 'Winning is so addictive' - Guardiola on hunt for treble\n• None From ball boy to 'Pep's lad' - will Foden start?\n\nThe last team to win the FA Cup outside the 'big six' were Wigan Athletic in 2013. Roberto Martinez's side were relegated from the Premier League a few days after beating City 1-0 at Wembley.\n\nWatford would have to pull off a feat nearly as large to upset City, whose record signing Riyad Mahrez cost £60m - the Hornets' most expensive signing was Andre Gray for £18.5m.\n\nThe Hornets, whose only previous appearance in the final ended in a 2-0 defeat against Everton in 1984, started their FA Cup run with a 2-0 win at non-league Woking in the third round.\n\nWatford finished 48 points behind City in the table but boss Javi Gracia, who masterminded a famous win at Spanish giants Barcelona in 2015 when in charge at Malaga, said: \"All the experiences you have help you.\n\n\"We're going to create chances and if you score like we did when I was in Malaga playing against Barcelona, for example, we won 1-0.\n\n\"It was something nobody expected, but it happened and then always you have one chance to win and we have to work for it.\"\n\nFour years ago Watford were playing the likes of Blackpool and Rotherham in league games. Two years ago they were knocked out of the FA Cup at Championship Millwall.\n\nHaving achieved a club record Premier League points tally in their first season under Spaniard Gracia - the ninth managerial appointment in seven years under the Italian Pozzo family - these are good times for Hornets fans.\n\n\"The one thing I have been really keen to point out to everybody is that this season is not our day in the sun,\" chief executive and chairman Scott Duxbury told BBC Sport, before Watford's first FA Cup final appearance for 35 years.\n\n\"This is the start of what we want to do. This is where we should be and will be competing.\n\n\"We are not going to wait 35 years for another cup final.\"\n\nOscar Garcia - September 2014 (four games - left because of illness)\n\nWhy Wolves and Man Utd fans want a City win\n\nWolves fans will be cheering on Guardiola's side, and not just because Watford beat them in the semi-finals.\n\nIf City win at Wembley, having already qualified for the Champions League, then Wolves - as the team who finished seventh in the Premier League - will qualify for Europe for the first time since 1980.\n\nThey would go into the second qualifying round of the Europa League, which will be played before the start of the 2019-20 Premier League season.\n\nThat would see Manchester United, who finished sixth in the Premier League, qualify for the Europa League group stage, the first game to be played on 19 September.\n\nBut if Watford win the first major trophy in their history, that changes everything.\n\nThe Hornets, who played in Uefa Cup in 1983, would qualify for the Europa League group stages and Wolves would miss out.\n\nIn that scenario United would go into the second qualifying round, which starts on 25 July.\n\nThe problem with that?\n\nThey are due to face Tottenham at 12:30 BST in Shanghai that day in the International Champions Cup, a pre-season tournament.\n\nFor the second successive season, the video assistant referee (VAR) system will be used during the final.\n\nKevin Friend will referee the match, with Andre Marriner taking the role of video assistant referee.\n\nShould the game end in a draw after 90 minutes, 30 minutes of extra time will be played. If the teams still cannot be separated, a penalty shootout will decide the winners.\n\nIf the final goes to extra time, both teams will be allowed to use a fourth substitute.\n\nWembley holds 90,000 people, with both clubs allocated about 30,000 seats.\n\nThis season's FA Cup started with 736 teams - 368 competed at the extra preliminary round stage back in August.\n\nBarnet, the last surviving non-league club, received over £500,000 for reaching the fourth-round replay stage.\n\nThe BBC has broadcast FA Cup matches live on television from the first round, with Manchester United's fourth-round win over Arsenal attracting a peak audience of 7.6 million on BBC One on 25 January.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People give their thoughts on reducing the voting age to 16\n\nVotes for 16-year-olds in UK elections are all but inevitable, but there is no public demand or obvious advantage to it, a voting expert has said.\n\nA bill currently going through the Senedd would lower the voting age at the 2021 Welsh Assembly election.\n\nProf Philip Cowley said evidence suggested 16 and 17-year-olds were less likely to vote than older groups.\n\nBut the chair of the panel that backed votes at 16 in assembly polls said the move could revitalise democracy.\n\nSixteen and 17-year-olds voted for the first time in the Scottish independence referendum in 2014 and can now take part in Scottish parliament and local elections.\n\nThey can also vote in Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man.\n\nProf Cowley, from Queen Mary University of London, has written to the Welsh Assembly saying evidence from other countries with a lower minimum voting age suggests overall turnout would drop, because turnout for 16-and 17-year-olds tends to be lower than other groups.\n\nThis was unless, he said, money was spent to specifically target the age group, like in the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum when 16-year-olds voted for the first time in the UK.\n\n\"If young voters are ready to vote, then we should not need to allocate specific resources to mobilise them,\" he told BBC Sunday Politics Wales.\n\n\"That we do, indicates that they are not ready.\"\n\nTwo thirds of the 60 assembly members will need to endorse lowering the voting age in 2021\n\nHe added: \"Even some of the things you used to be able to do at the age of 16, say 10 or so years ago, you can no longer do, things like smoking, buying a firework for example, going into a tanning booth.\n\n\"All of these have changed recently and if they've changed at all, they've tend to change upwards towards 18.\n\n\"[Votes for 16] is coming. I think you can see with what's happening in Wales, what's already happening in Scotland. The pressure will then build up for elsewhere in the UK.\n\n\"When it happens, I don't think any of the advantages that are being claimed for it will manifest themselves but it is probably inevitable.\"\n\nProf Laura McAllister backs \"proper political education\" to inform pupils before they vote\n\nProf Laura McAllister was chair of the expert panel that, as part of its report on how the Senedd could be developed, recommended votes for 16 and 17-year-olds in Welsh Assembly elections.\n\nShe said lowering the vote would be a mechanism to revitalise democracy, \"particularly if you align that with a programme of proper political education through the curriculum, and in an extra-curricular environment\".\n\n\"We know that getting young people involved in the voting process, whilst they're still in a secure environment, generally living at home, is likely to be more successful than it is at 18 when they've either left home to go to university or entering a more turbulent phase of their life in terms of change.\"\n\nShe said, looking at the evidence from parliamentary and local elections in Scotland, 16 to 18-year-olds voted in larger numbers than 18 to 25-year-olds.\n\n\"So that tells you something at least about the potential that there is to engage young people in the political process,\" she added.\n\nBBC Sunday Politics Wales is broadcast on BBC One Wales at 11:00 BST on Sunday and is then available on BBC iPlayer.", "Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran previously collaborated on the single Love Yourself\n\nEd Sheeran and Justin Bieber have scored a joint number one with their single I Don't Care.\n\nThe buoyant pop song amassed 123,825 combined sales, after being downloaded 22,000 times and streamed 13m times, said the Official Charts Company.\n\nIt takes Sheeran's tally of number ones to six, and Bieber's to seven, equalling acts like Kylie and U2.\n\nHowever, the duo didn't manage to topple Ariana Grande's record for the year's biggest-selling single.\n\nHer song 7 Rings notched up 126,240 combined sales when it was released in January.\n\nSheeran and Bieber could see a sales boost next week, though, after they released a new video in which Sheeran dances in his dressing gown and sings into a hair dryer; while Bieber dresses up as an ice cream cone.\n\nThe single marks their first duet - although Sheeran previously wrote Bieber's number one hit Love Yourself.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nElsewhere in the singles chart, Lil Nas X stays put at number two with the country-rap crossover Old Town Road, while Stormzy's Vossi Bop drops from number one to number three.\n\nOn the albums chart, Pink spends a third week at number one with Hurts 2B Human, claiming the highest physical sales and digital downloads of the last week.\n\nHowever, she was beaten on streaming services by noir-pop star Billie Eilish, whose debut When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? was the week's most-played record.\n\nNext week will see Lewis Capaldi mounting a challenge for the top spot, with his debut album Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent.\n\nHe faces competition from US pop star Carly Rae Jepsen, indie band The National and hip-hop producer DJ Khaled, who also release high-profile albums this week.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Love Yourself was for Sheeran's album\n• None Official Charts - Home of the Official UK Top 40 Charts The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fry and Little Mix's Jade Thirlwall both attended the ceremony on Friday night\n\nStephen Fry and pop stars Little Mix were among those honoured at the 2019 British LGBT awards for defending the community and advancing LGBT rights.\n\nPresenter Fry was hailed as a \"hero of the people\" as he received the lifetime achievement award in London on Friday.\n\nTV host Paul O'Grady was given the Trailblazer accolade and boxer Nicola Adams was named Sports Personality.\n\nCampaigner Peter Tatchell was named Outstanding Contributor to LGBT+ life for his 52 years of activism.\n\n\"I do my bit, but so do millions of others. Together, we make the change,\" tweeted the 67-year-old, ahead of the ceremony which was hosted by Kelly Osbourne.\n\nMr Tatchell credited the US black civil rights movement for inspiring him in his activism, tweeting: \"We should learn from each other & support everyone fighting for freedom.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Tatchell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPicking up the Change Makers award on behalf of Little Mix, singer Jade Thirlwall urged those who were not LGBT \"to be an ally\".\n\n\"Educate yourself, support the LGBT community, especially when you see things that aren't right,\" she said.\n\n\"Don't be that person in the playground who watches somebody get kicked down or bullied and just stands there and thinks, 'it's not my business'. It is your business. Change will happen quicker with ally-ship.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Khakan Qureshi This 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\nOther winners at the annual awards included singer Ellie Goulding, who was honoured as an LGBT+ Celebrity Ally, Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon, who was named Celebrity of the Year, and Australia's Courtney Act - winner of last year's Celebrity Big Brother in the UK - who scooped the Media Moment gong.\n\nFormer Disney star-turned-pop singer, Hayley Kiyoko, was presented with the MTV-sponsored Music Artist prize.\n\nChannel 4's Naked Attraction host Anna Richardson shared the Broadcaster or Journalist of the Year award with Liv Little of gal-dem magazine, following a public vote.\n\nA full list of winners can be found on the British LGBT awards website.\n• None BBC Radio 4 - Political Thinking with Nick Robinson, The Peter Tatchell One", "Recreational divers exposed the damage in Loch Carron after the 2017 incident\n\nA fragile flame shell reef which was severely damaged by scallop dredging on Scotland's north west coast has been granted permanent protection.\n\nMinisters had issued a temporary order banning mobile fishing on Loch Carron in Wester Ross after the 2017 incident.\n\nDivers who visited the reef, which is a nursery ground for scallops, found the area had been \"intensively\" dredged.\n\nBut it now officially has Marine Protected Area (MPA) status which safeguards 23 sq km of the sea loch.\n\nPhil Taylor, head of policy at environmental group Open Seas, described the initial devastation as a \"wake-up call\".\n\nHe added: \"These divers are unsung heroes - by showing the damage that is being done to our seabed, they have raised huge political and public awareness of the problem.\n\n\"However, Loch Carron is just one small area, and over the past few decades the same degradation has happened elsewhere in our seas.\n\n\"We urgently need to regenerate all of our coastal seas - safeguarding seabed habitats will deliver a sustainable long term future for our rural economy and communities.\"\n\nLoch Carron is home to millions of flame shells\n\nImages of the damaged reef captured two years ago\n\nThe MPA for Loch Carron, which comes into force on Sunday, means fishermen operating trawlers or dredging boats will not be able to fish.\n\nIt will mirror the area covered by existing emergency closure, with the exception of Plockton harbour where there is no evidence of a reef.\n\nOpen Seas has been calling for dredging to be banned around Scotland's coast because of the damaging impact it can have on the sea bed.\n\nBut fishing organisations have argued the move is unnecessary and that existing protections are enough.\n\nLoch Carron is home to the world's largest-known flame shell bed with an estimate 250 million brightly-coloured molluscs.\n\nThe scallop dredger which caused the damage was not operating illegally since the area had no protected designation.\n\nBut it left the sea bed littered with broken shells and led to calls for dredging to be banned completely.\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 of Cambridge says he felt \"pain like no other pain\" after the loss of Princess Diana\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said he felt \"pain like no other pain\" after the death of his mother, Princess Diana.\n\nPrince William made the disclosure in a BBC TV documentary about mental health.\n\nHe said the \"British stiff upper lip thing\" had its place when times were hard, but people also needed \"to relax a little bit and be able to talk about our emotions because we're not robots\".\n\nWilliam also spoke of how working as an air ambulance pilot left him feeling that death was \"just around the door\".\n\nHe said dealing with the loss of his mother - who died in a 1997 car crash - meant he felt he could relate to others who had suffered a bereavement.\n\nHe said: \"I've thought about this a lot, and I'm trying to understand why I feel like I do, but I think when you are bereaved at a very young age, any time really, but particularly at a young age, I can resonate closely to that, you feel pain like no other pain.\n\n\"I felt that with a few jobs that I did, there were particular personal resonations with the families that I was dealing with,\" he said.\n\nHe described how the emotional aspect of being an East Anglian Air Ambulance pilot was \"difficult\", especially having come from the military where feelings tend to be put to one side.\n\nHe said the ambulance world was \"much more open\" and he spoke about experiencing \"very raw, emotional day-to-day stuff, where you're dealing with families who are having the worst news they could ever possibly have on a day-to-day basis.\"\n\n\"That raw emotion... I could feel it brewing up inside me and I could feel it was going to take its toll and be a real problem. I had to speak about it.\"\n\nIn the BBC One documentary to be screened on Sunday, William speaks to footballers Peter Crouch and Danny Rose, ex-players Thierry Henry and Jermaine Jenas, and England manager Gareth Southgate.\n\nThey all shared various mental health issues and pressures they have faced in their careers.\n\nA young Prince William with his mother Princess Diana in 1987\n\nWilliam and his brother, the Duke of Sussex, have previously spoken about the death of their mother - when they launched a mental health campaign called Heads Together, which encouraged people to talk more openly about their problems.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex also teamed up last month to launch a text messaging service for people experiencing a mental health crisis.\n\nWilliam, Kate, Meghan and Harry have backed the initiative, called Shout, with £3m from their Royal Foundation.\n\nThe charity running Shout also received a £1.5m grant from BBC Children in Need.\n\nA Royal Team Talk: Tackling Mental Health is broadcast on Sunday, 19 May, at 22:30 on BBC One.", "Officials will visit more than 3,000 remote locations before Saturday's election\n\nIn a vast, sparsely populated land like Australia, overseeing an election is a massive logistical effort... particularly when you have compulsory voting.\n\nThe task is greater than ever ahead of Saturday's general election because a record 96.8% of eligible voters have enrolled to cast a ballot.\n\nMost Australians will vote in cities and regional centres, but many simply cannot get to those places. To ensure everyone gets a say, election officials are visiting more than 3,000 remote locations over 12 days.\n\nIt's a sprawling, ambitious undertaking that involves travel by air, sea and land - sometimes to set up a single ballot box.\n\nHere are four of the most challenging locations to reach.\n\n\"If we get a request and can fit it, we'll go out to them,\" says electoral officer Geoff Bloom.\n\nHis team charters boats, planes, 4x4s and helicopters to visit 200 remote communities in the Northern Territory.\n\nIn many indigenous communities, where English isn't the first (or second) spoken language, an interpreter accompanies the election officials. More than 200 languages are spoken, but his team speaks only the most widely used.\n\nTwo voters outside Gunbalanya, Northern Territory, in 2010\n\nLarger communities have 2,000-2,500 residents; the smallest his team visits are out-stations with four or five homes and just 10 electors on the roll. But they'll still visit - helicopters travel to up to three communities in a day.\n\nAlthough voting in suburban Australian towns typically involves a sausage sizzle, in the remote communities he visits, \"democracy sausages\" are less likely.\n\n\"Some [people] are off hunting and fishing when we arrive,\" he says.\n\nBut nonchalance is less common than engagement: \"Often, community members are waiting patiently for us. This is important to them because of the hard-fought right to vote.\"\n\nIndigenous Australians weren't granted the right to vote until 1962, and indigenous enrolment rate today is lower than the general population, at 76.4%.\n\nThe Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has been sending mobile voting teams out to remote indigenous communities since 1984.\n\nThe places visited, such as Arnhem Land, are often so remote, postal services are unreliable or not commonly used, which is why AEC representatives undertake remarkable journeys to reach them.\n\n\"One of my team recently travelled 100km [60 miles] on a dirt road to a small community,\" Mr Bloom says.\n\nVoters line up in Warruwi, Northern Territory, in 2013\n\n\"Torrential rain had washed the road out - rivers ran across it. They still got there - just 90 minutes late.\"\n\nYes, really. Forty-nine Australian expeditioners are registered \"Antarctic electors\" in 2019. They're a mix of technicians, tradespeople and scientists.\n\nMore than 500 Australians go south to Antarctica every year. Travel is possible only between October and March, via an icebreaker ship or a plane which lands on an ice runway.\n\nVoting in the Australian general election even takes place in Antarctica\n\nOutside of those months, numbers drop right down; there are currently 74 Australians there. They'll stay for 12-14 months.\n\nBallot boxes are already at the stations, which are recognised as official polling places under Australian legislation. At each station, an expeditioner is appointed Antarctic Returning Officer.\n\nMark Horstman from the Australian Antarctic Division tells the BBC: \"There's no way for ballot boxes to be transported between Antarctica and Australia. The voting procedure is completely paper-based. Once the poll closes, the returning officer reads each vote over the phone.\"\n\nThere are at least 274 Torres Strait islands off Australia's northern coast; 17 are inhabited.\n\nA total of 4,231 Torres Strait Islanders have registered to vote this year. That's 16 more than in the 2016 election.\n\nOfficially, the islands are part of Queensland - so AEC staff travel out to many of these islands, too. But before they do, they must write to the traditional owners of the land and ask permission to visit.\n\nMasig Island, one of an estimated 274 Torres Strait islands\n\nIt's granted with enthusiasm, says David Stuart, who runs the indigenous electoral participation programme, and says three teams will head out by boat and helicopter.\n\nAnd they face particular challenges when they're there.\n\n\"When you're flying around, they look picture postcard perfect. But on the ground they can be very tropical, windswept and absolutely torrential. We have to waterproof everything.\"\n\nTo give a sense of how far the islands are from metropolitan Australia, from some of the more northern ones, he says, you can actually see Papua New Guinea.\n\nIt isn't just indigenous communities that are remote in Australia - the AEC also sends out representatives to rural farms and mining sites such as Leinster - a remote mining village of 500 residents, 1,000km north-east of Perth. Only employees of mining company BHP live there.\n\nAccording to Mr Bloom, fewer miners attend polling booths than used to be the case: \"The postal vote tends to be their preference, so we're not mobile polling them as much these days.\"\n\nRemote mines and farms are visited by Australian election officials to make voting accessible to everyone\n\nThey could be missing out on election day fun, though.\n\n\"One of my team leaders was setting up in central Queensland and a dog was under the table,\" Mr Bloom says. \"They set up the booth around it, not wishing to wake it from relaxing in the sun.\n\n\"Then suddenly someone shouted, 'There's a dingo under the table!' The issuing officer jumped up and knocked the electronic tablet into the dirt!\n\n\"The dingo woke up, and ran off.\"\n\nDingoes, flooded roads, interpreters: nothing deters these teams from encouraging voting.\n\n\"As far as voting options go, we're one of the most open and accessible systems in the world,\" says the AEC's Evan Ekin-Smyth.", "Zholia Alemi was found guilty of four theft and fraud charges after a week-long trial last year\n\nA bogus psychiatrist who treated hundreds of patients in Scotland may have referred some for needless electro-convulsive therapy, Scotland's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nDr Catherine Calderwood said others may have been detained under the Mental Health Act or \"groomed\" to gain access to their finances.\n\nZholia Alemi worked in the NHS for 22 years despite having no qualifications.\n\nOne health board confirmed 24 of her patients were detained or \"sectioned\".\n\nAlemi was jailed for five years last October for defrauding patients.\n\nA court in Carlisle heard she faked a patient's will in an attempt to inherit her £1.3m estate.\n\nAfter her conviction, it emerged that Alemi had dropped out of medical school in her first year in New Zealand but was employed by the NHS after moving to the UK in 1995.\n\nShe worked at a number of locations across the UK, including six Scottish health boards which have now been asked to check their records about patients she treated.\n\nDr Calderwood has now written to these boards, saying she expects the review to identify some patients who were significantly affected by Alemi's activity through \"prescription of drugs, electro-convulsive therapy, treatment or diagnosis, or in the use of the Mental Health Act\".\n\nIn the letter, obtained by the Herald newspaper, she also warns: \"She is known to have befriended and 'groomed' vulnerable people that she came into contact with through working as a psychiatrist, with the ultimate aim of accessing their financial affairs.\"\n\nAnother concern is that she may have played a role in determining outcomes for patients while sitting on mental health tribunals, she said.\n\nOne health board - NHS Ayrshire and Arran - has confirmed that Alemi treated 395 adults while working as a locum for 18 months from 2007.\n\nDuring this time 24 of these patients were detained by Alemi under the Mental Health Act.\n\nNHS Ayrshire and Arran medical director Dr Alison Graham said the health board would be contacting all those affected.\n\nShe added: \"We would like to apologise for any distress this situation may have caused. If patients were treated by this individual and have concerns, we would advise them to contact our mental health services team.\"\n\nNHS Tayside said Alemi was employed as a locum psychiatrist for a \"short period\" in 2009 while NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said she worked in the former NHS Argyll & Clyde area between May 2005 and July 2006.\n\nIt is understood that Alemi also worked in the NHS Borders, NHS Highland and NHS Grampian areas.\n\nThe General Medical Council (GMC) has said Alemi was allowed to join the UK's medical register under a section of the Medical Act which has not been in force since 2003.\n\nThis allowed medical graduates from certain Commonwealth countries to register on the basis of qualifications obtained at home, without sitting tests that most foreign doctors have to pass before working in the UK.\n\nThe GMC said the checks were now more \"rigorous\" and it is reviewing records of up to 3,000 doctors who were allowed to work under the same rules as Alemi.\n\nThe GMC has created a web page with advice for anyone who is concerned that they were treated by Alemi.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is this the future of school travel?\n\nA primary school is leading the way to make the daily commute better for the environment and for pupils' health.\n\nWhen Ysgol Hamadryad opened in Cardiff, those in charge were determined that pupils would walk further than from a car outside the front gate.\n\nAs well as cycling and scooter lessons, they made local roads unsuitable for parking and provide a walking bus for pupils to get to school.\n\nNow the school has been invited to advise ministers and other schools.\n\nThe drive to ensure every pupil travels to their lessons in a sustainable way means the air around the school has less traffic fumes and each child starts the day walking for around five to 10 minutes.\n\n\"I really hope ideas like the walking bus catches on and Ysgol Hamadryad can lead the way,\" said head teacher Rhian Carbis.\n\n\"If we can do it here with a small staff, then anyone can do it.\"\n\nWalking to school helps limit the impact of traffic and fumes close to the school\n\nThe new Welsh-language school, which opened in Butetown in January, has worked with parents and the local council to meet its ambitious target.\n\nLocation was a factor: on a headland with a park to the rear and just a few streets off a main road, the potential for congestion was high.\n\nSo they started personalised travel planning with the parents of their 100 pupils - an easier proposition now given they are not yet full.\n\nThey offered scooter and cycling lessons to pupils, and improved the local roads to make them safer and - crucially - unsuitable for parking in the area around the school.\n\nThey also established a \"park and stride\" walking bus where staff accompany children to school from a public car park nearby.\n\nParents pay just £2.50 per term for a permit to use the car park and drop off children on their way to work.\n\nNow the school could become a pioneer for others around the UK with their Chair of Governors, Dafydd Trystan, invited to speak to the Welsh Assembly as well as advise a new school in Reading about the lessons learned on sustainable travel.\n\nThe scheme especially helps working parents like Kelly Brooks\n\nThe move to sustainable travel is now an integral part of the school.\n\n\"It's inbuilt into the school so much that we're saying to prospective parents, is that something you can sign up to because if not, this might not be the school for you,\" said Mrs Carbis.\n\n\"The majority of our parents are extremely supportive and for those unable to walk to school, there is the walking bus option.\"\n\nKelly Brooks drops her four-year-old son Cole each day for the walking bus.\n\n\"It's a brilliant idea and Cole wakes up excited to go on the walking bus every day - even in the rain,\" she said.\n\n\"It helps me with getting to work, it's exercise for him and it definitely raises awareness of bigger issues with the environment.\"\n\nHead teacher Rhian Carbis hopes Ysgol Hamadryad could become a model for others to emulate\n\nMrs Carbis said they had seen some other, unexpected benefits from the walking bus.\n\n\"The children chat with friends on their way to school. Others with separation anxiety issues have benefitted - by the time they have got to the school site, they have forgotten mum and dad and are ready to learn straight away,\" she added.\n\nThe walking bus has become so successful that the school and parents are discussing extending it to pupils living in nearby Grangetown.\n\n\"We're hoping to develop our children as citizens who understand their impact on the climate,\" said Mrs Carbis.\n\n\"If we can play a small part in encouraging them to actively travel to school it can only benefit them in the long term.\"\n\nParents have described the scheme as a \"great idea\"\n\nAndrew Powell said his sons Osian, seven, and Morgan, five, were learning valuable skills.\n\n\"As well as the environment, all the children are learning about road safety and generally looking out for each other,\" he added.\n\nSustrans Cymru said the school was a \"fantastic example\" of how to make it easier for children to walk and cycle to school.\n\nDirector Steve Brooks said: \"Barriers to active travel are sometimes over exaggerated.\n\n\"Ysgol Hamadryad's pro-active approach to dealing with the barriers they faced is really inspiring and a great example for other schools to follow.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nLyon continued their remarkable European dominance as Ballon d'Or winner Ada Hegerberg's first-half hat-trick against Barcelona helped the French giants secure a fourth consecutive Women's Champions League title.\n\nVictory saw England's Lucy Bronze and Wales' most-capped player Jess Fishlock get their hands on club women's football's biggest continental prize.\n\nFirst-time finalists Barcelona almost led early on through Lionesses forward Toni Duggan, but after she fired narrowly wide, Lyon ruthlessly netted four times before the break.\n\nFormer Liverpool and Arsenal forward Asisat Oshoala netted a late consolation for the Catalan club in Hungary's capital Budapest but they could do nothing to stop Lyon claiming a sixth European crown in eight years.\n• None Relive Lyon's 4-1 win over Barcelona as it happened\n\nHaving secured a 13th consecutive French league title in April, the French club were playing in their eighth European final since 2010, after a 3-2 aggregate win over Chelsea in the semi-finals.\n\nThe best-funded side on the continent wrapped up the latest of their 23 major honours of this decade before half-time, largely thanks to Hegerberg's clinical treble.\n\nThe 23-year-old made history as she became the first player to net a hat-trick in a Women's Champions League final since the competition's rebranding in 2010.\n\nThe Netherlands winger Shanice Van de Sanden's pace down Lyon's right created the game's first two goals, as she crossed for Germany's Dzsenifer Marozsan for the opener and then similarly for Hegerberg.\n\nAmel Majri then squared the ball in the area for Hegerberg's second, before Bronze's whipped right-wing cross met the striker's run perfectly to complete her 16-minute treble inside the first half hour.\n\nThe result saw Bronze - who helped Lyon win last year's final - and Fishlock both earn the second European titles of their careers, although the Wales midfielder missed 2015's final with German club Frankfurt because her loan spell from Seattle had ended.\n\nEngland international Izzy Christiansen also collected a winner's medal but did not feature in the final, having broken her leg and damaged ankle ligaments in March.\n\nHegerberg rightly claimed the player-of-the-match plaudits in Budapest, but football fans will miss her talents at this summer's Women's World Cup in France, which begins on 7 June.\n\nThe inaugural women's Ballon d'Or winner has not been included in Norway's squad, having refused to play for the national side since 2017, as she takes a stand against what she describes as a lack of respect for female players in Norway.\n\nBut plenty of France-bound international stars impressed in the 10th final of the Women's Champions League era.\n\nThe Netherlands' Van de Sanden - who had made a devastating impact from the bench in 2018's final against Wolfsburg - provided two assists for the second European final in a row.\n\nHer Dutch team-mate Lieke Martens had a comparatively quiet first half, but did provide an exquisite through ball to set up Barcelona's late consolation.\n• None All you need to know about the Women's World Cup\n\nMartens fed Nigeria's Oshoala, who was lively after coming on as a late substitute and will be among the stars of the Super Falcons squad this summer.\n\nGermany's majestic midfielder Marozsan and France forward Eugenie Le Sommer also combined well for Lyon, while towering France defender Wendie Renard set a new competition record with her 82nd Women's Champions League appearance.\n\nFrench goalkeeper Sarah Bouhaddi and her team-mates Renard and Le Sommer are the only players to have won the competition six times, all with record-winners Lyon.\n\nEngland and Scotland get their World Cup campaigns under way when they meet in Group D on 9 June.\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "The government should add a public vote to the Brexit legislation which MPs will vote on next month, the shadow Brexit secretary has told the BBC.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said including another referendum in the Withdrawal Agreement Bill would \"break the impasse\".\n\nTalks between Labour and the government to find a compromise Brexit deal broke down on Friday without agreement.\n\nTheresa May has said she would consider putting different Brexit options to MPs to see which ones \"command a majority\".\n\nLabour's preferred plan is for changes to the government's Brexit deal or an election, but if neither of those are possible, it will support the option of a public vote.\n\nThere have been calls for giving the public another say on Brexit. One widely discussed option is for a \"confirmatory vote\" with the choice between accepting whatever deal the government agrees, or remaining in the EU.\n\nOthers argue any new referendum should include the option of leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Sir Keir suggested the government should seek \"further changes to the political declaration\", which sets out the UK's future relationship with the EU after Brexit.\n\nHe added: \"Or of course they could seek to break the impasse by putting a confirmatory vote on the face of a bill.\n\n\"But whatever happens they have to find a way of breaking the impasse. We've got five and a half months which seems like quite a long time but in reality, once we get to the summer recess, we've only got only two weeks in September and two weeks in October.\"\n\nMrs May has promised to set a timetable for leaving Number 10 following the Brexit bill vote\n\nBrexit had been due to take place on 29 March - but after MPs voted down the deal Mrs May had negotiated with the bloc three times, the EU gave the UK an extension until 31 October.\n\nMrs May announced this week that MPs will vote on her EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill in the week beginning 3 June.\n\nThis will be the second reading vote on the bill, which is the key piece of legislation to implement the withdrawal agreement - the legally binding part of the Brexit deal that covers exit terms - and take the UK out of the EU.\n\nThe second reading is the first opportunity for MPs to debate the bill. If it is not passed by Parliament, the default position is that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nSir Keir said Labour would vote against the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, accusing the government of attempting \"an experiment\" and bringing the UK to \"a cliff edge\".\n\n\"If that bill goes through second reading and then collapses at third reading we are then up against the cliff edge in October, which is why we've said we'll vote against that at second reading if there isn't an agreed deal before we start,\" he said.\n\nHe denied that would make a no-deal Brexit more likely. \"I don't accept that. What we can't do is keep on buying another week at a time which is what the prime minister has been doing for months.\"\n\nDiscussions between the Conservatives and Labour - to see if they could come to an agreement on Brexit despite differences over issues including membership of a customs union and a further referendum - lasted six weeks before ending on Friday.\n\nSir Keir blamed the collapse of talks with the government on the inability to \"future proof\" a deal against an \"incoming Tory leader\" and said although the two sides had conducted the talks \"in good faith\", they were \"a long way apart\" on substance.\n\nHe said: \"During the talks, almost literally as we were sitting in the room talking, cabinet members and wannabe Tory leaders were torpedoing the talks with remarks about not being willing to accept the customs union.\n\n\"In terms of the team that we were negotiating with, I'm not blaming them.\n\n\"Circling around those that were in the room trying to negotiate were others who didn't want the negotiation to succeed because they had their eye on what was coming next.\"\n\nMrs May has previously blamed the collapse on the lack of a \"common position\" within Labour.\n\nIt comes as a poll of Conservative members for The Times suggest former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is the favourite to succeed Mrs May.\n\nA YouGov poll commissioned by the Times suggests Mr Johnson is the first choice for 39% of those Tory party activists who responded.\n\nThe former London mayor, who announced his intention to run earlier this week, was three times as popular as the next closest choice, ex-Brexit secretary Dominic Raab (13%).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives jostling to be the next prime minister\n\nOf the others, Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Environment Secretary Michael Gove were both on 9%, with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on 8% and Health Secretary Matt Hancock on 1%.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock told the Daily Telegraph that Mrs May's successor as prime minister should not call a general election until Brexit is completed.\n\nHe said an early election risked losing to Labour and \"killing Brexit altogether\".\n\nHe added: \"We need to take responsibility for delivering on the referendum result.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The contest's highlights - from singing in the shower and bendy poles to the Netherlands' triumph.\n\nThe Netherlands' Duncan Laurence has won the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest with his song Arcade.\n\nHe had been the bookmakers' favourite to win, and came through to the top of the leaderboard with 492 points after the public vote.\n\nThe UK's Michael Rice came bottom, after getting just three points from the public vote, and a total of 16 points for Bigger Than Us.\n\nLaurence said: \"Here's to dreaming big, this is to music first, always.\"\n\nThe last time The Netherlands won was 1975. The audience joined in as Laurence performed the track again at the end of the show.\n\nItaly finished second with 465 and Russia third with 369 points.\n\nThe ceremony also saw last year's winner Netta perform, while singers from previous contests also sang each other's songs.\n\nConchita Wurst, Mans Zelmerlow, Gali Atari, Eleni Foureira and Vjerka Serdjucka sang each other's songs\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The star's backing dancers were seen wearing Israel and Palestine flags during the show\n\nMadonna also performed just before the voting results were announced. She kicked off her set with a version of Like A Prayer, with backing dancers dressed as monks.\n\nShe went on to sing Future, her new single featuring the rapper Quavo.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Boring' winner...? 'Incredible atmosphere'? Fans in the arena share their views\n\nHer performance was felt by some, to be a little, well, flat.\n\n\"A slightly muted response to Madonna there,\" said BBC One's commentator Graham Norton.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 m This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCapital Breakfast presenter Roman Kemp was also unimpressed, calling for autotune to come to the rescue.\n\nA section of her performance in which her backing dancers displayed Israeli and Palestinian flags was not an approved part of the act, organisers said.\n\nEurovision said: \"In the live broadcast of the Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final, two of Madonna's dancers briefly displayed the Israeli and Palestinian flags on the back of their outfits.\n\n\"This element of the performance was not part of the rehearsals which had been cleared with the EBU and the host broadcaster, KAN. The Eurovision Song Contest is a non-political event and Madonna had been made aware of this.\"\n\nIt wasn't just the Queen of Pop who was apparently breaking the rules either.\n\nThe organisers said Iceland's Eurovision act could face punishment after displaying Palestinian flags during the live broadcast.\n\nDuring the final, the band members held up Palestinian flags while their public vote was being announced.\n\nIn a statement, Eurovision said the \"consequences of this action\" will be discussed by the contest's executive board\".\n\nAlongside the contest, there were clashes in central Jerusalem as ultra-orthodox Jews protested against Eurovision.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ultra-orthodox Jews in Jerusalem are angry that the contest was scheduled on the Jewish Sabbath\n\nThey objected to the scheduling of the Eurovision Song Contest on the Jewish Sabbath, resulting in angry scenes as demonstrators clashed with police.\n\nAt one point, a small number of women held a counter protest, showing their bras.\n\nThere were other protests in Tel Aviv over Israel's occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.\n\nThere have also been campaigns online.\n\nThe Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has been using social media to oppose holding the contest in Israel because of its treatment of Palestinians.\n\nIt accuses Israel of trying to whitewash (\"artwash\") discrimination, which it likens to apartheid, the system of racial segregation once used in South Africa.\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", "An F-16 fighter jet has crashed into a warehouse near a base outside Los Angeles, leaving the pilot and workers on the ground with minor injuries.\n\nThe pilot ejected before impact, and the small fire that broke out was quickly suppressed by the building's sprinkler system.\n\nThe US Air Force says five people on the ground were injured. They have not confirmed if ammunition was onboard.\n\nOne warehouse worker captured the aftermath in a Facebook post.\n\n\"That's a military airplane in our building,\" Jeff Schoffstall said in his mobile phone video.\n\n\"So the turbines are spinning, there's no roof on the building so you're looking through the roof, the walls are gone,\" he continued.\n\nA hole in the warehouse roof was filmed by news helicopters\n\nThe crash happened at about 15:45 local time (23:45 GMT) outside the March Air Reserve Base in Perris.\n\n\"It just shook the whole building,\" employee Baldur Castro told CBS, adding that one worker had been knocked to the ground.\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 Jeff This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nRoads to the warehouse have been blocked off as hazardous materials crews examine the rubble.\n\nAccording to the Air Force Reserve, the jet was based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and was flying a training mission for the North American Aerospace Defense Command.\n\nThe pilot's parachute was located in a nearby field", "Dairy items were temporarily withdrawn from sale during Mr Farage's visit\n\nA McDonald's near a rally addressed by Nigel Farage in Edinburgh was asked by police not to sell milkshakes or ice cream, staff have said.\n\nThe former Ukip leader addressed supporters at a Brexit Party campaign rally on Friday evening at the city's Corn Exchange.\n\nA sign at the nearby restaurant announced milkshakes or ice cream would not be on sale.\n\nSome politicians have had milkshakes thrown at them during campaigning.\n\nEarlier this month a video of English Defence League founder Tommy Robison being struck by milkshake during a visit to Warrington, Cheshire, was widely shared online.\n\nUkip candidate Carl Benjamin was also targeted at a rally in Cornwall.\n\nAfter the police's intervention in Edinburgh, Burger King's UK Twitter account posted: \"Dear people of Scotland. We're selling milkshakes all weekend. Have fun. Love BK #justsaying\"\n\nIce cream supplies were not a problem for Mr Farage during campaigning in Essex on Saturday", "Vittoria Street has been closed for emergency services to investigate the site\n\nA wall has collapsed in a building in Birmingham, with one person seriously injured.\n\nThe wall in Vittoria Street in the Jewellery Quarter came down just before 18:00 BST.\n\nAnother person was taken to hospital with minor injuries and one person was discharged at the scene, West Midlands Ambulance Service said.\n\nIt is thought the wall collapsed inside a former factory where builders had been working.\n\nMembers of the public were asked to avoid the area\n\nWest Midlands Fire Service was also at the site following the collapse and the Health and Safety Executive has been informed.\n\nMembers of the public were asked to avoid the area.\n\nVittoria Street has been closed for the emergency services to investigate the site.\n\nBBC Midlands Today reporter Giles Latcham said the emergency response was being scaled back.\n\nHe said he had been told the collapse happened in an old factory called The Unity Works where a building project was under way.\n\nThe Grade II-listed building, built in 1866, was a former munitions factory that once supplied European and US troops during World War One and produced more than one million rifles, Birmingham Conservation Trust said.", "Henriett Szucs was a Hungarian national who had lived in London for \"several years\", police said\n\nA woman who was found dead in a freezer along with another female has been named by police as Henriett Szucs.\n\nThe two bodies were found frozen, clothed and on top of each other at the flat in Vandome Close in Canning Town, east London, on 26 April.\n\nHungarian national Ms Szucs, 34, is the second woman to be identified after Mihrican Mustafa, 38, was confirmed as the first victim on Friday.\n\nA man has been charged with two counts of preventing a lawful burial.\n\nZahid Younis, 34, of Vandome Close, is due to appear at Kingston Crown Court on 29 May.\n\nThe Met Police said post mortems had been carried out and no formal cause of death had been established.\n\nBut the force said both women \"suffered multiple injuries\" and further tests were being carried out.\n\nMihrican Mustafa, also known as MJ, was a mother-of-three\n\nThe Met said Ms Szucs had been in the UK for several years but was of no fixed address.\n\nHer next of kin had been informed but formal identification has not yet taken place, a spokesperson added.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said Ms Szucs was last heard from in the summer of 2016 when she spoke to somebody she knew in Hungary on the phone.\n\nOfficers are trying to establish if this was the last known contact anyone had had with her.\n\nMs Mustafa, a mother-of-three who was also known as MJ, was reported missing on 10 April last year.\n\nAs she was a missing person, the Met has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nThe two bodies were found in Canning Town on 26 April\n\nOfficers were called to the flat after receiving concerns for the welfare of a male occupant.\n\nThe Met said the property was used by people who moved from address to address and that it was frequented by drug users.\n\n\"We need to build up a full picture of both of these women's lives, whether they knew each other, who they associated with and what they were doing in and around Vandome Close and the Canning Town area,\" Det Ch Insp Harding said.\n\n\"The way in which they died is truly shocking and our heart goes out to these women's friends and families.\"\n\nA 50-year-old man, who was arrested on suspicion of murder, has been released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Royal baby: Duke and Duchess of Cambridge congratulate the Sussexes on their first child\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has welcomed his brother to \"the sleep deprivation society that is parenting\" after the birth of the Duke of Sussex's son.\n\nPrince William said he was \"absolutely thrilled\" for Prince Harry and Meghan, whose child was born at 05:26 BST on Monday.\n\nThe father-of-three added he looked forward to seeing the new parents \"when things have quietened down\".\n\nThe Prince of Wales said he was also \"delighted\" by the birth.\n\nPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall were congratulated and given presents during a four-day trip to Germany.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex's son was born on Monday\n\nShortly after he arrived in Berlin, he said: \"We couldn't be more delighted at the news and we're looking forward to meeting the baby when we return.\"\n\nBefore a private meeting with the prince, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier presented him with a teddy bear wearing blue clothes.\n\nLater, when members of the public in Berlin offered their congratulations on his fourth grandchild, Prince Charles said: \"Thank you, I'm collecting a rather large number of them.\"\n\nPrince William was at an event at the Cutty Sark in Greenwich, London, with the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nHe said: \"I'm very pleased and glad to welcome my own brother into the sleep deprivation society that is parenting.\"\n\n\"I wish him all the best and I hope in the next few days they can settle down and enjoy having a newborn in their family and the joys that come with that,\" he added.\n\nIt has not yet been confirmed where the baby was born, but it is believed Meghan gave birth in hospital rather than at home.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge said: \"We're looking forward to meeting him and finding out what his name's going to be... these next few weeks are always a bit daunting the first time round so we wish them all the best.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's such a special time, obviously with Louis and Charlotte just having had their birthdays it's such a great time of year to have a baby, spring is in the air.\"\n\nHarry and Meghan's son, who has not been named yet, is seventh in line to the throne, behind the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and his children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis - and Prince Harry.\n\nHe is the Queen's eighth great-grandchild.\n\nCamilla was handed presents to take back to the UK from German wellwishers\n\nIn Berlin, the Duchess of Cornwall visited a clinic for victims of domestic violence, where staff members gave her a onesie with German art on it and a balloon for the baby boy.\n\nThe duchess said: \"As soon as we return I will deliver it to them, direct from Germany.\"\n\nThe royals' words followed messages of congratulations from around the globe.\n\nRoyal fans lined the streets near to Harry and Meghan's home on the Windsor Estate\n\nFormer US First Lady Michelle Obama said she and Barack Obama were \"thrilled\" at the news, while Meghan's former colleague Patrick J Adams sent love to the \"incredible parents\".\n\nSpeaker John Bercow opened the House of Commons on Tuesday by saying: \"I am sure the whole House would want to join me in sending their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Sussex our warmest congratulations on the birth of their son.\"\n\nA wellwisher and her dog dressed up for the occasion outside Windsor Castle\n\nMeanwhile celebrations were under way in the town near to Frogmore Cottage - the Sussexes' home on the Windsor Estate.\n\nLocal fans dressed up in their finery to mark the occasion while Windsor's shop window displays were crammed with royal merchandise.", "The Common Travel Area pre-dates Britain and Ireland's membership of the EU\n\nThe Common Travel Area is \"written in sand\" and should get legal certainty in a new treaty between Ireland and the UK, a report has concluded.\n\nThe study, by four legal academics, was prepared for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission.\n\nThe Common Travel Area (CTA) gives UK and Irish citizens certain reciprocal rights in each others' countries.\n\nThe rights include largely unrestricted travel between each jurisdiction.\n\nIt is an arrangement between the UK and Ireland which pre-dates their membership of the European Union\n\nThe UK and EU have agreed that it can continue to operate after Brexit.\n\nHowever, the report said the terms of the CTA are \"much more limited than is often believed to be the case\" and some of those terms can be unilaterally changed.\n\nIt points out that there is no legally binding international agreement which comprehensively establishes the terms of CTA.\n\nIt states: \"It is a relationship built on trust. There is, however, no recourse to law if trust breaks down, or slowly erodes.\n\n\"The flexibility and informality of the CTA means that associated or dependent rights for individuals are vulnerable to modification through domestic legislation.\"\n\nThe current version of the CTA has been developed since 1952 and at its legal core are immigration rules that each part of the CTA operates and enforces.\n\nThose rules allow citizens of CTA countries to have open-ended residence in each others' countries.\n\nOther rights flow from that including healthcare, employment and social security.\n\nThe report said that while CTA-related, these arrangements are \"not based on a bilateral binding agreement between the UK and Ireland and are therefore based on varying amounts of legal certainty\".\n\nIt said the best way to give legal certainty would be a bilateral agreement that covered the core of the CTA and the related arrangements.\n\nIt also recommends a \"notification requirement\" for both governments and the devolved administrations to inform others should they introduce changes to domestic law or policy which could impact on the CTA.\n\nAlternatives to a new comprehensive treaty could include an agreement on just the core immigration rules or a joint memorandum of understanding setting out the terms of the CTA.", "Privacy or publicity - what will the couple choose for their baby?\n\n\"Seclusion\", wrote former British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury, \"is one of the few luxuries in which royal personages may not indulge\".\n\nSo what's going on with the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's first child?\n\nBuckingham Palace announced some weeks ago that there would be no information given out about the birth, beyond that it was happening.\n\nAnd so it was that shortly before 14:00 BST on Monday, a brief statement from Buckingham Palace announced that Meghan had gone in to labour, followed 40 minutes later by confirmation of the baby's arrival - a boy, weighing 7lbs 3oz.\n\nThat meant the strange British circus of journalists, photographers, royal superfans and bemused passers-by gawking at a hospital door for days on end would not happen.\n\nInstead, we have an arguably stranger British circus of the same group of people positioned at the end of Windsor's Long Walk, close to the Sussexes' new home.\n\nThe new family home is at Frogmore Cottage, Windsor\n\nThis is on the presumption that a birth is happening somewhere in the vicinity - but in the knowledge that nothing at all will be seen of mother, father, or indeed newborn child.\n\nThere is no great constitutional outrage here. The \"tradition\" of royal babies being paraded within hours of their birth goes back around four decades; not much more than the blink-of-an-eye in the history of the British monarchy.\n\nWhy the couple have chosen privacy over publicity is not too difficult to fathom. Harry still can't abide the media; he scowls at, or turns away from, cameras and casually throws insults at journalists covering his activities.\n\nMeghan has described social media as \"noise\"\n\nMeghan too has made it clear that she has little time for news coverage. She said a couple of months ago that she doesn't read the papers or look at social media, calling it \"noise\".\n\nWhy would either of them want to go through the arguably odd ritual of parading their newborn child in front of hundreds of cameras and journalists?\n\nWhat follows the birth is perhaps more important. They will have decisions to make about just how royal they want their child to be - in title, upbringing and public exposure.\n\nAnd the couple have a difficult line to tread between their public life and the life they would prefer to remain unseen.\n\nThat line, between the royals' public and private life, has shifted over the decades.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, here with newborn Prince Louis, have posed on the Lindo Wing steps after the birth of each of their three children\n\nFirst, the Queen, Prince Philip and their young children were presented as an example to the nation in the 1950s, a kind of \"first family\".\n\nThen in the late 60s, amid flagging interest in royalty, cameras were allowed into some of the family's more private moments - meals and barbecues and the like - in the BBC film The Royal Family.\n\nIt is difficult, if not impossible, to put that genie back in the bottle. Public exposure of what most people would think of as private life is part of royal duty.\n\nAnd that's the catch for Harry and Meghan going forward. They want to do good, to bring their star power to bear on causes that they care about.\n\nBut it is the lustre of royalty, not just plain old celebrity, that makes them different, giving them the power and platform to effect change.\n\nThey have sought to control the publicity around their lives, through insisting on privacy where they can, creating their own household, and establishing their own social media account.\n\nBut more fundamental choices loom, about how their child grows up, and whether they want the continued exposure that being royal brings.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles: UK and Germany 'need each other'\n\nWhatever the outcome of the Brexit process, the bonds between the UK and Germany \"will, and must endure\", the Prince of Wales has said in a speech in Berlin.\n\nSpeaking at the British Ambassador's residence, the prince described Germany as the UK's \"natural partner\".\n\nHe said he recognised that with Brexit still at an impasse, relations between the two countries are \"in transition\".\n\nThe prince and the Duchess of Cornwall have begun a four-day tour of Germany.\n\nOn Tuesday, the couple met German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. They are also due to visit Leipzig and Munich later in the trip.\n\nSpeaking at an event marking the Queen's Birthday Party, Prince Charles praised the strength of the UK-German relationship.\n\n\"Today, we are so much more than simply neighbours: we are friends and natural partners, bound together by our common experience, mutual interests and shared values, and deeply invested in each other's futures,\" he said.\n\nThe prince and the Duchess of Cornwall met Chancellor Angela Merkel\n\n\"Whatever is negotiated and agreed between governments and institutions, it is more clear to me than it has ever been, that the bonds between us will, and must, endure.\"\n\nThe prince continued: \"Our countries and our people have been through so much together.\n\n\"As we look towards the future, I can only hope that we can also pledge to redouble our commitment to each other and to the ties between us.\n\n\"In so doing, we can ensure that our continent will never again see the division and conflict of the past; that together, we will continue to be an indispensable force for good in our world; and that the friendships and partnerships that bind us together will continue to create opportunity for us all.\"\n\nThe UK was due to leave the EU on 29 March, but as no deal was agreed by Parliament, the EU extended the deadline to 31 October.", "Jason Manford said in a video on Facebook that he suffers from anxiety and depression\n\nComedian Jason Manford has opened up about his struggles with mental health.\n\nIn a video on Facebook, he said he wanted to let people know why he had been less active on social media.\n\n\"I wouldn't go as far as to say a breakdown, but I had a struggle mentally and I found it very difficult to deal with,\" Manford told his fans.\n\nDescribing his battle with anxiety and depression, he said social media can make things worse and encouraged people to talk about their problems.\n\nThe Mancunian comic said people - \"especially blokes\" - do not talk about mental health enough, even though male suicide is such a big issue.\n\n\"It's taken me this long to be brave enough to say it... I've been struggling, you know, finding things hard and I think sometimes social media can not help with that,\" he said.\n\nManford said it was not just trolls but also \"bad news and nastiness... even down to comparing your life\".\n\nThe father of five said he suffers from anxiety and depression and at his lowest, he \"felt like I'd let my kids down and I couldn't do my job any more\".\n\nManford said he wanted to pass on the advice he was given that \"still gets me through to this day\", which was \"just because you're struggling, doesn't mean you're failing\".\n\n\"The next time you're struggling, maybe say it to someone you love,\" he added.\n\nFor help and support on mental health visit the BBC Advice pages.", "Jasmine Lovett, 25, and her daughter Aliyah Sanderson were reported missing three weeks ago\n\nA British man has been charged with the murder of a woman and her one-year-old daughter in Canada.\n\nRobert Leeming, 34, faces two counts of second-degree murder over the deaths of Jasmine Lovett, 25, and her daughter Aliyah Sanderson.\n\nTheir bodies were discovered in woodland west of Calgary on Monday.\n\nThe pair were last seen alive in the Cranston area of the city on the evening of 16 April and were reported missing three weeks ago.\n\nLeeming appeared in court via videolink on Tuesday. He is due to appear in court again on 14 May, Calgary police said.\n\nInvestigations into how Ms Lovett and her daughter died are continuing, the force added.\n\nIn a statement released on Tuesday, Ms Lovett's family said their lives had been \"devastated and our hearts are heavy\".\n\nLeeming is believed to be from Stoke-on-Trent and has lived in Canada for six years.", "Video of a five-year-old Afghan amputee which shows him joyously dancing after being fitted with a new leg has been widely shared online.\n\nAhmad was caught in the crossfire between Taliban and Afghan government forces and lost his leg when he was just eight months old.\n\nHe has since been fitted with a series of prosthetic legs so he can walk independently.", "A huge dust cloud has swept across the city of Mildura in Australia.\n\nOn Tuesday, wind gusts reached speeds of up to 87km/h (54mph).", "Kerry Katona had previously told the court she would represent herself at her trial but a guilty plea was entered in her absence\n\nSinger Kerry Katona has been fined £500 for failing to send one of her children to school.\n\nThe former member of Atomic Kitten had previously denied the charge but her solicitor entered a guilty plea on her behalf at Brighton Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe prosecution said Katona, who lives in Crowborough, East Sussex, had \"failed to engage\" over the issue.\n\nBut Ed Fish, defending, said work commitments meant she sometimes had to take the child to work with her.\n\nKatona, 38, had previously been warned she could be jailed after failing to attend an earlier court hearing.\n\nShe did appear at the previous hearing on 6 March, when she pleaded not guilty.\n\nBut during the public part of Wednesday's hearing, when Mr Fish said she was pleading guilty, no reason was given for her absence.\n\nThe court was told Katona had failed to send the child - one of five, who cannot be named - to school for a \"significant\" number of days between April and November last year.\n\nGareth Jones, prosecuting on behalf of East Sussex County Council, said the child's attendance rate had dropped as low as 48%.\n\nKerry Katona failed to attend court, having appeared at the previous hearing, but her solicitor pleaded guilty on her behalf\n\nHe said: \"There's a failure to engage here. She's not attending meetings, letters are not being responded to. This is a problem that has gone on for some time.\"\n\nBut Mr Fish told the court some of the unauthorised absences were because Katona could not get childcare while working.\n\nHe said: \"She understands it fell below what was expected of her.\n\n\"On occasions [the child] missed school due to Kerry Katona's work commitments. She's not had childcare and has to take the children to work.\n\n\"She understands she should maintain better contact with the school.\"\n\nBut he added: \"The attendance has not been the worst [the court has seen].\"\n\nKatona was also ordered to pay £325 costs and a £100 surcharge and was given 14 days to pay.\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\nTwo men have been jailed for running what is thought to be the UK's first fully functioning gun factory on a Sussex industrial estate.\n\nGreg Akehurst, of no fixed address, and Kyle Wood, of Littlehampton, both pleaded guilty at Kingston Crown Court to conspiring to sell or supply guns.\n\nAkehurst was jailed for 18 years and Wood for 11 and a half years.\n\nDuring the trial, the court heard police found parts that could have been made into more than 100 weapons.\n\nJurors heard guns from the factory had been sold to London criminals and linked to eight crime scenes including two attempted murders.\n\nA third man - described by the judge as \"the principal of this extremely serious criminal enterprise\" - Mark Kinman, 63, pleaded guilty to the manufacture of the firearms, but died last year.\n\n(L-R) Akehurst and Wood have been jailed and Kinman, who admitted charges, has died\n\nThe men managed to produce lethal firearms from scratch\n\nSentencing, Judge Susan Tapping said the operation was \"of the gravest possible seriousness\".\n\nShe said: \"Creating firearms like this had only one objective and that was to be sold to criminal customers who wished to use them with live ammunition.\n\n\"That must have been obvious to anyone involved with Kinman.\"\n\nAfter the hearing, NCA deputy director for investigations Chris Farrimond said: \"It is the first time that a fully-functioning firearms factory creating firearms from scratch has been discovered, to our knowledge, in the UK.\n\n\"It was producing handguns, copies of a Browning pistol, from absolute scratch - from the nuts and bolts and producing fully functioning lethal firearms at the other end of it, with the bullets to go with it.\"\n\nThe unit made copies of a Browning pistol and bullets\n\nSmall parts were being delivered to the unit\n\nThe NCA raided the factory unit last August on the Diplocks estate where the business had been advertised as a gearbox repair firm.\n\nDuncan MacGregor, a civil engineer based in the neighbouring unit who knew Kinman, described his shock when he found out about the gun-manufacturing operation.\n\nHe said Kinman would show him items he had made he assumed were for a valve, but he later realised were gun components.\n\nWhen he discovered Kinman had been manufacturing guns, he said: \"First of all I was really stunned, but then when I thought back... I thought yes, the whole thing fits together.\"\n\nThe gun factory was discovered at a workshop on the Diplocks industrial estate\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British and Irish ministers have signed a deal to preserve the Common Travel Area after Brexit.\n\nIt guarantees free movement for citizens crossing the Irish border and cross-border access for study and health care.\n\nIt comes as NI's parties meet in an attempt to break the Stormont deadlock.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without devolved government for more than two-and-a-half years, after the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row.\n\nA memorandum of understanding, which is not legally binding, was signed at a meeting of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference on Wednesday.\n\nThe conference was scheduled by the two governments following last month's murder of Lyra McKee, and is part of efforts to restore power-sharing in Belfast.\n\nDavid Lidington, who is Theresa May's de facto deputy, stressed the importance of the latest memorandum.\n\n\"It guarantees that whatever the terms of the UK's exit from the EU, there will be no change to the rights of British and Irish citizens,\" he said.\n\nThe Tánaiste Simon Coveney gave an illustration of the kind of rights the governments want to protect.\n\n\"British and Irish people will be able to travel to each others' countries, to study, to work, access social welfare, access health care and vote in each other's elections,\" he said,\n\nSome politicians argue this memorandum is insufficient as it is not a binding treaty.\n\nHowever the Irish government said people should be assured by the fact that the deal has been copper fastened by legislation in both countries.\n\nOn Tuesday, the governments set out details for a fresh talks process to take place over the next few weeks.\n\nThey held talks with the five main parties, the first since substantive negotiations collapsed last year.\n\nTalks got under way at Stormont on Tuesday\n\nThe Common Travel Area (CTA) gives UK and Irish citizens certain reciprocal rights in each others' countries.\n\nThe rights include largely unrestricted travel between each jurisdiction.\n\nIt is an arrangement between the UK and Ireland which pre-dates their membership of the European Union.\n\nThe memorandum will be signed by Cabinet Minister David Liddington and Tanaiste (Deputy prime minister) Simon Coveney. Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley will also be in attendance.\n\nIt may have been in place for more than a century but in reality it was an agreement written in sand with no real legal weight.\n\nThe Common Travel Area and the rights which flowed from it for citizens crossing the border, survived because of an arrangement between London and Dublin built on trust.\n\nBrexit threatened that trust and exposed the legal shortcoming in the arrangement.\n\nOn Wednesday, ministers shored up the Common Travel Area in a Memorandum of Understanding which we are told will be Brexit-proof.\n\nBut, by definition, a Memorandum of Understanding is not a legally binding document but instead signals the intention of both sides to move forward with a contract.\n\nSo, what are the chances of the sands shifting?\n\nThe British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference was set up through the Good Friday peace agreement, signed in 1998.\n\nIt aims to promote bilateral co-operation between the British and Irish governments.\n\nUntil last summer, it had not met since 2007, but nationalist parties had urged the two governments to hold it, in the absence of a breakthrough at Stormont.\n\nThe conference is due to take place in Westminster\n\nMeanwhile, the first of five working groups set up to deal with outstanding issues at Stormont also met on Wednesday.\n\nThe rest will begin meeting over the course of this week.\n\nThe working groups are being chaired by current and former Stormont senior civil servants, with the political parties nominating three representatives to sit on each group.\n\nA source involved in the process said they were \"open-minded\" about the new talks format, and that the \"most crucial\" groups were those dealing with reform of the petition of concern, and language and culture.\n\nThe governments have also announced that there will be weekly meetings of the five main parties with Mrs Bradley and Mr Coveney, to \"take stock\".\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May and Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar will review progress at the end of May.", "Natasha Abrahart's GP said she felt the teenager had a \"high risk of ending her life\"\n\nA GP ignored clinical advice and did not follow up on a student who was \"at high risk of ending her life\" before she was found hanged, an inquest heard.\n\nNatasha Abrahart, 20, who was studying physics at the University of Bristol, died on 30 April last year.\n\nThe university's Dr Emma Webb prescribed anti-depressants and made a note to \"follow up in two weeks\".\n\nHowever, NHS advice states patients assessed as a suicide risk should be seen after one week.\n\nDr Webb told Avon Coroners' Court that she saw Ms Abrahart on 30 March, then again on 20 April when she prescribed her the anti-depressant Sertraline.\n\nShe described the student as \"extremely difficult to communicate with\" and added: \"My usual practice is to follow up two weeks after prescribing anti depressants.\"\n\nMargaret and Robert Abrahart gave evidence at the inquest\n\nIn the past three years, 12 University of Bristol students have died.\n\nEight of the deaths were recorded as suicide, two inquests - including Ms Abrahart's - are still to take place or be determined and two inquests returned narrative verdicts.\n\nThe student's parents Robert and Margaret, from West Bridgford in Nottinghamshire, told the inquest they miss their daughter \"every day\".\n\nMrs Abrahart told the hearing in Flax Bourton that her daughter was worried about being \"kicked off her course\" after receiving a lower than expected year-end mark and had begun self-harming.\n\nMs Abrahart's GP told the inquest when Ms Abrahart attended an emergency appointment in February last year she was in an \"acute state of distress\".\n\nDr Caroline St John Wright said she felt the student \"was at high risk of ending her life\" and referred her to the Avon Wiltshire Partnership (AWP) crisis team.\n\nThe doctor said the AWP tried to contact Ms Abrahart, but she did not answer her phone.\n\nNatasha's parents said they \"miss her every day\"\n\nMr Abrahart told the inquest his daughter had posted on a mental health support site aimed at students saying she felt \"distressed\" and had \"suicidal thoughts\".\n\nHe said the day before she died she had sent a text to her boyfriend saying \"answer now\", but he was asleep.\n\nAfter she died, her phone was examined and it was found she had searched the phrase \"I wish I was dead\" on the internet a week before she died.\n\nFor help and support on mental health visit the BBC Advice pages.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pamela Anderson has criticised the decision to jail Julian Assange, after visiting him at Belmarsh prison in London.\n\nThe Wikileaks co-founder was sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for breaching his bail conditions.\n\nThe 47-year-old was found guilty of breaching the Bail Act last month after his arrest at the Ecuadorian Embassy.\n\nHe took refuge in the London embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, which he has denied.", "Crowds gathered at Celtic Park as the funeral procession made its way past the stadium\n\nThe funeral of Stevie Chalmers, who scored Celtic's winning goal in the 1967 European Cup final, has been taking place in Glasgow.\n\nMembers of his family were joined by footballers past and present at St Mary's Church, Calton.\n\nThe funeral cortege then made its way to Celtic Park, where hundreds of fans gathered, before a private cremation.\n\nChalmers was in the Celtic team that beat Inter Milan to become the first British club to lift the European Cup.\n\nFans threw team scarves and strips as the hearse passed by\n\nHundreds of messages have been left at Celtic Park\n\nThe Scotland forward spent 12 seasons at Celtic, scoring 236 goals, and also played for Morton and Partick Thistle.\n\nFans paid their final respects at the stadium as the cortege made its way through\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia blessed the coffin as it left St Mary's Church\n\nStevie Chalmers with the European Cup in 2014\n\nChalmers' death at 83 came a week after Billy McNeill, who captained the Lisbon Lions, passed away aged 79.\n\nAmong those attending his funeral were fellow Lisbon Lions Bobby Lennox, Bertie Auld, Jim Craig and John Hughes, as well as current Celtic manager Neil Lennon.\n\nJim Craig said he was heartened by the large turnout for his friend.\n\nHe said: \"It has been a difficult week, losing another teammate. Stevie was a popular guy amongst fans and players alike. My thoughts are with the family and we hope the public in general will remember him greatly, as they will with that goal in Lisbon.\"\n\nCeltic manager Neil Lennon joined in the tributes to Stevie Chalmers\n\nFormer Rangers goalkeeper Peter McCloy was also among the mourners.\n\nChalmers, who scored three times and won five caps for Scotland, won four league titles, three Scottish Cups and four League Cups with Celtic.\n\nAfter he died last week, Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell said: \"Stevie was a much-loved husband, father and grandfather, and our thoughts and prayers are with the family at this desperately sad time.\"\n\nEx-Manchester United and Aberdeen manager Sir Alex Ferguson was a long-time friend of Stevie Chalmers\n\nCeltic manager Neil Lennon said Chalmers was \"always a quiet and unassuming man whenever I met him, and happiest spending time with his fellow Lions\".\n\nFormer Celtic player and manager David Hay, left, was joined by ex-captain Roy Aitken\n\nCeltic skipper Scott Brown, front centre, is flanked by Celtic team-mates Odsonne Edouard and Kieran Tierney", "The victims of the attack clockwise - Chrissy Archibald, Sebastien Belanger, Kirsty Boden, Ignacio Echeverria, Sara Zelenak, Xavier Thomas, Alexandre Pigeard, James McMullan\n\nOne of the London Bridge attackers was seen washing his knife and wiping it on his beard shortly after eight people were killed, an inquest has heard.\n\nKhuram Butt, 27, was caught on CCTV cleaning his 12in pink ceramic knife inside the Black and Blue restaurant.\n\nIn the same footage, an accomplice, Youssef Zaghba, 22, was seen having a drink from behind the bar.\n\nThe inquest also heard two victims might still be alive if barriers had been put up after a similar attack.\n\nKhuram Butt, Youssef Zaghba and Rachid Redouane were shot dead by police after they drove a van into pedestrians, stabbed others, and confronted unarmed police officers shouting \"Allahu Akbar\" on 3 June 2017.\n\nCounsel for the coroner Jonathan Hough QC had warned the families of the victims at the inquest at the Old Bailey that \"distressing images\" would be shown and that Butt's reaction was \"the most chilling\".\n\nThe inquest was also shown footage of diner Roy Larner, dubbed the Lion of London Bridge, being savagely stabbed in the stomach.\n\nMr Larner appeared not to react after he was stabbed twice in quick succession before he stood up and ran away.\n\nIn other footage, the third attacker, Rachid Redouane, 30, was shown on CCTV bending down to tie his shoelaces in the street during the attack through Borough Market.\n\nRedouane was also seen, in other images, talking to an unidentified man and then walking away without attacking him, for reasons that are not known.\n\nMr Hough said: \"There is clearly some form of discussion. We don't know what was said. Despite appeals for witnesses, he [the man in the footage] never came forward.\"\n\nIn the space of three minutes, the attackers had struck Xavier Thomas, 45, and Christine Archibald, 30, with a van on the bridge then fatally stabbed Alexandre Pigeard, 26, Sara Zelenak, 21, Kirsty Boden, 28, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, around Borough Market.\n\nWithin 10 minutes, the attackers, who injured 48 more people, had been shot dead by police marksmen.\n\nIn the CCTV, pedestrians were seen running for their lives as the attackers' van mounted the pavement on the bridge.\n\nAn image of the van used by the attackers\n\nThe inquest also heard that two victims of the attack, Christine Archibald, 30, and Xavier Thomas, 45, might still be alive if barriers had been put up following the Westminster Bridge attack, which took place two months earlier.\n\nThe pair were among 10 people struck by a 2.5-ton hire van driven by Zaghba.\n\nMr Thomas was knocked into the Thames and found dead three days later, while Ms Archibald died after being dragged under the wheels of the powerful vehicle.\n\nGareth Patterson, QC, representing some victims, questioned a senior officer about why no barriers were put in place on London Bridge following the earlier attack in Westminster.\n\nHe said: \"There were no barriers in place on that pavement protecting pedestrians from traffic on that road.\n\n\"If there had been barriers Christine Archibald and Xavier Thomas would now be with us today.\"\n\nSenior investigating officer Det Supt Rebecca Riggs agreed, saying: \"That may well be the case.\"\n\nThe court heard barriers were put up on London Bridge within two days of the attack.\n\nEarlier, the inquest heard armed officers kept shooting at the attackers even after gunning them down, fearing they were wearing explosive vests.\n\nDet Supt Rebecca Riggs said police withdrew but had to fire extra shots when they saw the men were \"still moving\".\n\n\"They believed they were going to activate the explosive devices they were wearing and they fired a number of shots,\" she said.\n\nNeil McLelland, who was looking out of the window of the nearby Wheatsheaf pub, was hit in the head by a bullet and fell to the ground, while five other people were injured by shrapnel from the shooting.\n\nThe court heard the officers then put \"themselves in harm's way\" to evacuate the pub, taking Mr McLelland and others to safety.\n\nThe armed officers who killed the knifemen have not been named at the inquest\n\nThe second day of the inquest was also told one victim was killed after he tried to beat the attackers with his skateboard.\n\nDet Supt Riggs said Spaniard Ignacio Echeverria, 39, had been cycling with friends when he came across PC Wayne Marques and PC Charlie Guenigault trying to tackle the knifemen.\n\nThe officers had stepped in to help Oliver Downing and Marie Bondeville, who had been hurt by the trio.\n\nMr Echeverria, an HSBC financial crime analyst, ran across to help and swung his board at one of the killers but was knocked to the ground by Redouane, the inquest was told.\n\nIgnacio Echeverria was the last of eight people to be killed in the attack\n\nDet Supt Riggs said: \"Ignacio got off his bike and ran across to where the two officers were to assist [them].\"\n\n\"He had taken his board from his rucksack and swung at the attackers and managed to hit them. [Rachid] Redouane retaliated, causing him to fall on the ground,\" she added.\n\n\"The attackers then set upon him on the ground.\"\n\nCounsel to the coroner Jonathan Hough QC added: \"It was a brief but furious assault.\"\n\nOver several hours, the inquest watched the horrific attack unfold from every angle, second by second, from cameras on buildings, in restaurants, in taxis and buses, on police body-cams and the public's mobile phones.\n\nThe hearing gasped as the attackers' van was shown careering over London Bridge, knocking over pedestrians like skittles.\n\nOne camera captured Tyler Ferguson running to the side of his fiancée, Chrissy Archibald, as she lay dying in the middle of the road.\n\nOther footage showed the attackers striding side-by-side through Borough Market, indiscriminately stabbing anyone in their path.\n\nTheir victims are filmed bleeding in the street, clutching their faces, heads and chests.\n\nIn the Black and Blue restaurant, the men stabbed customers with their knives before ducking behind the bar to swig some water from a tap.\n\nOn their way out, they picked up a couple of bottles, smashed them on the side of a table - another weapon.\n\nOn Thursday, the hearing is due to hear from an eyewitness, Christine Delcros, whose partner Xavier Thomas was knocked off the bridge and into the Thames by the attackers' van.\n\nEarlier, Ms Delcros wept in court as CCTV footage showed the French couple walking hand in hand towards the bridge, their final moments together.\n\nIn a touching moment, Julie Wallace, the bereaved mother of Sara Zelenak, crossed the courtroom to take a seat beside Ms Delcros to comfort her.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLucas Moura scored a dramatic 96th-minute winner to cap an astonishing Tottenham fightback against Ajax and set up an all-English Champions League final against Liverpool.\n\nTrailing 1-0 from the first leg, Spurs made the worst possible start in Amsterdam when a towering fifth-minute header by 19-year-old Ajax captain Matthijs de Ligt doubled the advantage for Erik ten Hag's exciting young side.\n\nTottenham hit the post through Son Heung-min before Hakim Ziyech doubled Ajax's lead on the night with a sweeping finish after an assist by former Southampton winger Dusan Tadic.\n\nThat left Spurs 3-0 behind on aggregate yet, in another pulsating semi-final, Mauricio Pochettino's side scored twice within five minutes in the second half.\n\nMoura reduced the deficit with a composed finish before the Brazilian's shot on the turn, after keeper Andre Onana had denied substitute Fernando Llorente, levelled the scores on the night and left Spurs requiring one goal to reach the final in Madrid on 1 June.\n\nIn a frantic finish, Vertonghen headed against the bar from four yards before Moura completed his hat-trick with a left-foot shot from 16 yards deep into stoppage time as Spurs won on away goals to reach their first Champions League final.\n\nIt will be the second all-English final in the competition after Manchester United beat Chelsea on penalties in Moscow in 2008.\n• None Tactics were replaced by heart and desire for Spurs - Fletcher\n• None Kane 'hopeful' of being fit for final\n• None 'There. Is. Nothing. Like. Football' - how social media reacted to another stunning comeback\n\nPochettino could not contain his emotions at the final whistle and shed tears of joy as he celebrated wildly with his players on the pitch.\n\nThe Argentine, who marks his fifth anniversary in charge of Spurs later this month, was on his knees after a night that rivalled the jaw-dropping drama of Liverpool's incredible semi-final victory over Barcelona on Tuesday.\n\nHarry Kane, who is still recovering from an ankle injury, also joined his team-mates on the pitch at the end after their extraordinary comeback.\n\nSpurs looked dead and buried when Ziyech's outstanding first-time finish after a cut back by Tadic made it 3-0 on aggregate before half-time but they somehow pulled themselves together.\n\nMoura was the inspiration, producing three clinical finishes, the third and decisive goal coming when he picked the ball up from Dele Alli's flick and shot across Onana.\n\nHe is only the fifth player to score a Champions League semi-final hat-trick, and first since Cristiano Ronaldo in May 2017 for Real Madrid against Atletico Madrid.\n\nThis was a significant hurdle for Spurs to clear.\n\nThey had lost their three previous semi-finals, including an agonising penalty shootout defeat by Chelsea in this season's Carabao Cup.\n\nHaving moved into a new £1bn stadium last month, these are exciting times for Spurs as they chase a first trophy in 11 years.\n\nWith another top-four Premier League finish all but sealed, they are one win away from being crowned champions of Europe.\n\nThis after they took only one point from their first three group stage games and required late goals to beat PSV Eindhoven and Inter Milan, before an 85th-minute goal from Moura against Barcelona in the Nou Camp took them through to the knockout stage.\n\nAjax have been a joy to watch throughout this incredible European campaign, which started all the way back on 25 July in the second qualifying round against Austrian side Sturm Graz.\n\nThey have won a legion of new fans during their march through the rounds, which has included impressive wins over holders Real Madrid and Juventus.\n\nYet the four-time champions of Europe will need some time to recover after being denied a first appearance in the final since 1996 in the dying moments.\n\nBoasting a three-goal aggregate advantage at half-time, their fans were in party mood before Tottenham's amazing comeback.\n\nDe Ligt's early header from a corner after Hugo Lloris had denied Tadic was followed by Ziyech's clever finish and left Spurs with a mountain to climb.\n\nLittle did they know what was to come as the visitors, inspired by the exceptional Moura, produced an epic turnaround.\n• None The 2019 Champions League final will be only the third major European final in history to feature two English teams, after the 1972 Uefa Cup final (Spurs v Wolves) and 2008 Champions League final (Man Utd v Chelsea).\n• None Spurs are only the second team in Champions League history to lose the first leg of the semi-final at home and progress to the final - the other was Ajax in 1995-96 against Panathinaikos.\n• None Ajax defender Matthijs de Ligt became the fourth teenager to score in a Champions League semi-final, after Nordin Wooter (1996, Ajax), Obafemi Martins (2003, Inter Milan) and Kylian Mbappe (2017, Monaco).\n• None Spurs will be the eighth different English team to feature in a European Cup/Champions League final, after Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Leeds United, Liverpool, Manchester United and Nottingham Forest. England have had more different teams in the final of the competition than any other nation.\n• None English teams have come from two or more goals behind to win on seven occasions in Champions League history - four more than clubs of any other nation. Indeed, four of the past five occasions have been English teams.\n• None Spurs were the first team to come two goals behind to win in a Champions League semi-final match since Manchester United in 1999 against Juventus.\n\nWhen the dust settles, Tottenham will look to confirm a top-four finish for the fourth successive season when they host Everton on the final day of the Premier League season on Sunday (15:00 BST).\n\nAnd then it's the small matter of the Champions League final against Liverpool in Madrid on 1 June (20:00 BST).\n• None Goal! Ajax 2, Tottenham Hotspur 3. Lucas Moura (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dele Alli.\n• None Attempt missed. Fernando Llorente (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucas Moura.\n• None Attempt missed. Dusan Tadic (Ajax) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Hakim Ziyech (Ajax) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Daley Sinkgraven.\n• None Attempt blocked. Frenkie de Jong (Ajax) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Dusan Tadic.\n• None Attempt missed. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is just a bit too high. Assisted by Erik Lamela.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from very close range is blocked.\n• None Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham Hotspur) hits the bar with a header from very close range. Assisted by Fernando Llorente following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "King Charles III and Queen Camilla have been crowned in Westminster Abbey.\n\nFind out more about the Royal Family and the line of succession below.\n\nCharles became King the moment his mother Queen Elizabeth II died.\n\nThe now former Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales, on 29 July 1981. The couple had two sons, William and Harry. They later separated and their marriage was dissolved in 1996. On 31 August 1997, the princess was killed in a car crash in Paris.\n\nHe married Camilla Parker Bowles on 9 April 2005. When Charles became King, she became Queen Consort, as per the wishes of Queen Elizabeth II. Following the coronation she is now known as Queen Camilla.\n\nPrince William is the elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is now first in line to the throne.\n\nHe was 15 when his mother died. He went on to study at St Andrews University, where he met his future wife, Kate Middleton. The couple were married in 2011.\n\nOn his 21st birthday he was appointed a Counsellor of State - standing in for the Queen on official occasions. He and his wife had their first child, George, in July 2013, their second, Charlotte, in 2015 and third, Louis, in 2018.\n\nThe prince trained with the Army, Royal Navy and RAF before spending three years as an RAF search-and-rescue pilot with RAF Valley on Anglesey, north Wales. He also worked part-time for two years as a co-pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance alongside his royal duties. He left the role in July 2017 to take on more royal duties on behalf of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nWilliam has inherited his father's Duchy of Cornwall and is now the Prince of Wales. Catherine is now the Princess of Wales.\n\nAs heir to the throne, his main duties are to support the King in his royal commitments.\n\nPrince George of Wales was born on 22 July 2013 at St Mary's Hospital in London. His father was present for the birth of his son, who weighed 8lb 6oz (3.8kg).\n\nPrince George is second in line to the throne, after his father.\n\nCatherine, Princess of Wales gave birth to her second child, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, on 2 May 2015, again at St Mary's Hospital. William was present for the birth of the 8lb 3oz (3.7kg) baby.\n\nShe is third in line to the throne, after her father and older brother, and is known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales.\n\nThe new Princess of Wales gave birth to her third child, a boy weighing 8lbs 7oz, on 23 April 2018, at St Mary's Hospital in London.\n\nWilliam was present for the birth of Louis Arthur Charles, who is fourth in line to the throne.\n\nPrince Harry trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and went on to become a lieutenant in the Army, serving as a helicopter pilot.\n\nDuring his 10 years in the armed forces, Capt Wales, as he became known, saw active service in Afghanistan twice, in 2012 to 2013 as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner. He left the Army in 2015 and now focuses on charitable work, including conservation in Africa and organising the Invictus Games for injured members of the armed forces.\n\nHe has been a Counsellor of State since his 21st birthday and stood in for the Queen on official duties.\n\nHe married US actress Meghan Markle on 19 May, 2018, at Windsor Castle. In January 2020, the royal couple said they would step back as \"senior\" royals and divide their time between the UK and North America. They said they intended to \"work to become financially independent\".\n\nJust over a year later, Buckingham Palace confirmed the couple would not be returning to royal duties, and would give up their honorary military appointments and royal patronages.\n\nThe Sussexes' first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on 6 May 2019, weighing 7lbs 3oz, with the duke present for his birth.\n\nArchie was not automatically a prince when he was born because he was not a grandson of the monarch. But he gained the right to that title when King Charles acceded to the throne. Harry and Meghan are understood to want their children to decide for themselves whether or not to use their titles when they are older.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex gave birth to her second child in Santa Barbara, California, on 4 June 2021. Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor - to be known as Lili - is named after the Royal Family's nickname for the Queen and is her 11th great-grandchild.\n\nShe was given the middle name Diana in honour of Prince Harry's mother, who died in a car crash in 1997 when he was 12 years old. Like her brother, she gained the right to use the royal title when her grandfather became king.\n\nPrince Andrew, eighth in line to the throne, was the third child of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh - but the first to be born to a reigning monarch for 103 years.\n\nHe was created the Duke of York on his marriage to Sarah Ferguson, who became Duchess of York, in 1986. They had two daughters - Beatrice, in 1988, and Eugenie, in 1990. In March 1992 it was announced the duke and duchess were to separate. They divorced in 1996.\n\nThe duke served for 22 years in the Royal Navy and saw active service in the Falklands War in 1982. In addition to royal engagements, he served as a special trade representative for the government until 2011.\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties in 2019 after an interview with the BBC about his relationship with US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nIn February, he agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle a civil sexual assault case brought against him in the US by one of Epstein's victims, although he made no admission of liability and had repeatedly denied the allegations.\n\nPrincess Beatrice is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York. She has no official surname, but uses the name York.\n\nShe married property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, in July 2020. The couple had been due to marry in May, but coronavirus delayed the plans.\n\nPrincess Beatrice had a baby girl, Sienna Elizabeth, in September 2021, who is 10th in line to the throne and is the Queen's 12th great-grandchild. Princess Beatrice is also stepmother to Mr Mapelli Mozzi's son Christopher Woolf, known as Wolfie, from his previous relationship with Dara Huang.\n\nPrincess Eugenie is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie of York and she is 11th in line to the throne.\n\nLike her sister Princess Beatrice, she has no official surname, but uses York. She married her long-term boyfriend Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on 12 October 2018.\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's son, August, born on 9 February 2021, was Queen Elizabeth's ninth great-grandchild.\n\nErnest Brooksbank was born on 30 May and weighed 7lb 1oz\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's second son was born on 30 May 2023. It is the first royal birth since the coronation of King Charles, Eugenie's uncle.\n\nErnest is 13th in line to the throne, moving the Duke of Edinburgh down to 14th place.\n\nEugenie said the baby's names were inspired by \"his great-great-great grandfather George, his grandpa George and my grandpa Ronald\".\n\nMajor Ronald Ferguson, who died in 2003 was the Duchess of York's father.\n\nPrince Edward was given the title Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday, almost two years after the death of his father Prince Philip, who previously held the title. It was understood that Philip had wanted Edward to take on the title, but the decision was left to King Charles.\n\nPrince Edward's wife Sophie becomes the Duchess of Edinburgh and the prince's former title, the Earl of Wessex, has now been given to his son James, Viscount Severn. The couple also have a daughter, Lady Louise, born in 2003.\n\nAfter a brief period with the Royal Marines, the prince formed his own TV production company. He subsequently supported the Queen in her official duties and carried out public engagements for charities. He is 14th in line to the throne.\n\nJames, Earl of Wessex is the younger child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. He was given the title after his father Prince Edward became the Duke of Edinburgh in March 2023. When James was born, he was given the title Viscount Severn - a \"courtesy\" title as son of an earl, rather than using prince. It is thought his parents made this decision to avoid some of the burdens of royal titles.\n\nBorn in 2003, Lady Louise Windsor is the elder child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. However, she is lower in the line of succession than her younger brother because she was born before a law came into force scrapping the system that meant a younger son could displace an older daughter.\n\nAnne, Princess Royal is the Queen's second child and only daughter. When she was born she was third in line to the throne, but is now 17th. She was given the title Princess Royal in June 1987.\n\nPrincess Anne has married twice; her first husband Captain Mark Phillips is the father of her two children, Peter and Zara, while her second is Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence.\n\nThe princess was the first royal to use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor in an official document, in the marriage register after her wedding to Capt Phillips. She competed in equestrian events for Great Britain in the 1976 Montreal Olympics and is involved with a number of charities, including Save the Children, of which she has been president since 1970.\n\nPeter Phillips is the eldest of the Queen's grandchildren. He married Canadian Autumn Kelly in 2008 and together they have two daughters, Savannah, born in 2010, and Isla, born in 2012.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not have royal titles, as they are descended from the female line. Mark Phillips refused the offer of an earldom when he married so their children do not have courtesy titles.\n\nPeter Phillips and his wife announced they were getting divorced in February 2020.\n\nSavannah, born in 2010, is the elder daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips and was the Queen's first great-grandchild.\n\nIsla, born in 2012, is the second daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips.\n\nZara Tindall followed her mother and father with a highly successful riding career - including winning a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics. She married former England rugby player Mike Tindall in 2011 and the couple had their first child, Mia Grace, in 2014.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not hold a royal title, as they are descended from the female line, but she remains 21st in line to the throne. Their father, Mark Phillips, turned down an earldom when he married Princess Anne, so they do not have courtesy titles.\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall gave birth to her first child, Mia Grace, in January 2014.\n\nThe couple's second child was born on 18 June 2018 at Stroud Maternity Unit, Gloucestershire, weighing 9lb 3oz.\n\nLena Elizabeth was named in honour of her great-grandmother.\n\nLike her sister, Lena Elizabeth does not have a royal title and so will also be known as Miss Tindall.\n\nZara and Mike Tindall's son Lucas Philip, their third child - the Queen's 10th great-grandchild - was born on 21 March 2021 weighing 8lbs 4oz.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up 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. The quirky metal sculptures have appeared around the town of Stonehaven for years.\n\nThe mystery artist dubbed the 'Stonehaven Banksy' after a series of sculptures appeared in the town over the years, has revealed his identity.\n\nOnly those closest to the sculptor knew who it was, and would leave scrap metal at his door for his creations.\n\nNow Jim Malcolm, 68, has spoken to BBC Scotland's arts programme Loop.\n\nHe said in an exclusive interview: \"People have been trying to find who I am for a while now. Personally I get a bit embarrassed about it.\"\n\nThe mystery surrounding the artist's identity made headlines earlier this year when the latest sculpture was spotted along the seafront of the Aberdeenshire town.\n\nJim Malcolm said it would be his \"first and last interview\"\n\nFishing boats are among the pieces\n\nMr Malcolm said his work \"just evolves\"\n\nThe various sculptures include a Viking boat, fishing boats and a lighthouse.\n\nMr Malcolm worked much of his adult life at sea, before latterly becoming a welder.\n\nHe explained: \"The sea to me means freedom.\"\n\nMr Malcolm said of his work: \"It just evolves when I'm doing it. I never know what I'm doing til I'm finished.\n\n\"I'm nae an artist, nah, I'm just a guy that sticks metal together.\n\n\"I make sculptures for the simple fact I enjoy doing it.\"\n\nOf revealing his identity, he said: \"What does it matter who did or didn't do it?\n\n\"This will be my first and last interview.\"\n\nYou can see the story on Loop on BBC Scotland at 23:00 on Thursday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA video has emerged that shows a Free Presbyterian minister criticising the DUP for selecting Alison Bennington to stand in the council elections.\n\nIn a sermon last month, Rev John Greer of the Free Presbyterian Church in Ballymena, referred to the party's decision to choose her.\n\nIn response, the DUP said its position remained \"unchanged\".\n\n\"We support the current definition of marriage,\" a party spokesperson said.\n\nSpeaking after her election last week, the DUP's Belfast East MP Gavin Robinson, said it was a \"good news story\", despite DUP assembly member Jim Wells claiming members were \"shocked by the decision\" to let her run.\n\nIn Rev Greer's sermon from 21 April, prior to the local government elections, he said that Christians were \"being conditioned into thinking that things that were once reprobated are now acceptable... such as sodomy.\"\n\nHe described that as an \"agenda\".\n\n\"Now we have the DUP putting up their candidate, who is an out-and-out lesbian, that's what I mean,\" he said.\n\n\"My friend that's what Paul (the Christian apostle) is talking about here, that's the kind of thing that's going on in our own little land, and there we have before our very eyes, what God has to say about the danger of an ungodly world - a corrupt world influencing even the thinking of people who should know better - and have them accept what God abhors.\"\n\nWhen asked for comment, Rev Greer told BBC News NI that the remark was part of a wider sermon, and that the message he was preaching was \"not specifically crafted to deal with that issue\", but rather, commentary on how Christians should be living.\n\nHe said it was not his place to dictate to the DUP about their choice of politicians.\n\nAlison Bennington was congratulated by DUP colleagues after her election\n\n\"If a party which once took a decision begins to move away from it, it's my duty as a Christian minister to highlight that,\" he said.\n\nRev Greer said the Bible was his \"final authority\" and said the Free Presbyterian Church had issued a statement ahead of the council elections criticising all political parties that attempted to \"normalise and promote marital and sexual relationships that are in contravention of the clear teaching of scripture\".\n\nAlthough the DUP and the Free Presbyterian Church were never formally linked, the Church was set up by the former DUP leader Ian Paisley and provided many of the party's first candidates.\n\nUnder Ian Paisley, the party opposed same-sex marriage - a position it insists it continues to hold, despite the selection of Ms Bennington as one of its candidates.\n\nMany DUP members also remain members of the Free Presbyterian Church.\n\nIt has also been reported that DUP councillor John Finlay wrote to party officers to say that Mr Paisley, \"must be turning in his grave\" about the DUP's selection of an openly gay politician.\n\nThe letter, obtained by a number of media outlets, said the DUP's choice of Alison Bennington to stand for election in Glengormley had been \"foolish\" and sent \"confusing signals to our support base which has consistently welcomed our strong stand on LGBT issues\".\n\nMr Finlay told BBC News NI that he would not be making further comment.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have named their baby son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.\n\nA surprise choice, Archie was not among the bookmakers' favourites of Alexander, Arthur and Albert.\n\n\"I don't think anyone of us saw either of these names coming,\" says Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty royal magazine.\n\nAs far as he is aware, Archie does not have any British royal connotations - and Harrison too is a totally new name for the Royal Family.\n\nArchie means \"genuine\", \"bold\" or \"brave\" - and is more popular in Britain than the US. It was originally a shortened form of Archibald but is now often used as a name on its own.\n\nIt was the 18th most-popular boy's name in England and Wales in 2017, with 2,803 baby boys called Archie that year, and has been in the top 50 consistently since 2003.\n\nHarrison is slightly more popular than Archie in the US - although it's still more common in the UK, where it was ranked the 34th most-popular boy's name in 2017.\n\nAnd, rather fittingly, Harrison - a name which was originally used as a surname - means \"son of Harry\".\n\nMr Little said: \"It may well be it's a name that Meghan is familiar with and again that's why they are using it,\" he said.\n\n\"Archie has a British feel to it, whereas Harrison is more of an American name. The first Harrison that springs to mind is Harrison Ford.\n\n\"They have wanted to do something a little bit different, and they have done.\"\n\nSome had wondered whether either of the new baby's grandfathers' or great-grandfathers' names might appear as a middle name - either Philip or Charles on the royal side, or Thomas on Meghan's.\n\n\"Again, it's down to the parents,\" said Mr Little. \"It's their choice.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHarry and Meghan have also chosen not to use a courtesy title for their new son.\n\nAs the first-born son of a duke, Archie could have assumed the title of Earl of Dumbarton but he will instead simply be known as Master Archie.\n\nRoyal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams said the individuality shown by Harry and Meghan in their choice of non-traditionally royal names was \"marvellous\" and would \"rejuvenate the monarchy\".\n\n\"It's a unique choice, by a unique couple who are doing things in a unique way,\" he said, adding: \"We are talking about brand Sussex, which is an international brand.\"\n\nIt is not the first time that a British royal baby has been given a name which is not traditionally royal. The name given to the Queen's first granddaughter - Zara Phillips - \"caused quite a sensation\" when it was unveiled, said Mr Little.\n\nFamous Archies include Archie Panjabi, who starred in The Good Wife; Archie Andrews in Archie comics in America and also the Netflix show Riverdale; and Archie Mitchell, a villain in the BBC soap EastEnders.\n\nFamily history website Ancestry said it expects the name Archie to become even more popular, having analysed the impact of other royal baby names. It said George and Charlotte both jumped up the rankings in the UK, as did William and Harry.\n\nMountbatten-Windsor is the surname which was created in 1960, combining the surnames of the Queen and Prince Philip when they married. The double-barrelled name was a concession to the Duke of Edinburgh, who was said to have complained that his children would not bear his name.\n\nThe three children of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge all have Cambridge on their birth certificates.\n\nRoyal author Penny Junor said she thinks the Duke of Edinburgh would be \"absolutely thrilled\" with his surname being used.\n\n\"Prince Philip was never allowed to call his children by his own surname,\" she said. \"I think that's a really nice tribute to Harry's grandfather.\"\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "The families of the 72 victims contributed to the report\n\nGrenfell Tower families have accused corporations of having \"amnesia\" during the public inquiry into the fire.\n\nBereaved families told a report private companies and public authorities had answered \"I don't recall\" a lot during the first phase of the inquiry.\n\nOne respondent to the report by charity Inquest said it was a \"disrespectful\" approach with a \"lack of candour\" to those who had been affected.\n\nSeventy two people were killed in the tower block fire on 14 June 2017.\n\nThe council, the tower's tenant management organisation, the police and the fire service were all quizzed during the inquiry's first phase.\n\nFifty five families contributed to the charity's report.\n\nOne respondent said: \"We all have lapses in memory. The bereaved and families from our side who went up to give evidence had an extraordinary level of recollection.\n\n\"In comparison the corporate entities had an amnesia fix. The chair should have been stronger to say, 'you have to try and recall'.\"\n\nAnother said: \"It feels like certain people are being let off the hook, not being asked important questions. Now the first phase is finished. We don't feel satisfied.\"\n\nThe families have criticised the informal way their lawyers could raise questions they wanted asked of witnesses with the inquiry counsel - by passing them post-it notes.\n\nAn interim report into the fire was due to be released this spring\n\nAn interim report was due to be released by the inquiry in spring but the Grenfell community has been given no firm date yet.\n\nThe families said they wanted an independent panel to be put in place before hearings resume next year, a venue layout that kept families at the centre of proceedings and the government to help workers attend the inquiry without losing their annual leave.\n\nInquest also identified \"outrage and exasperation\" that interim safety recommendations suggested by lawyers representing the families had so far failed to be implemented.\n\nThese included abandoning the \"stay-put\" policy for buildings of more than 10 storeys, and ensuring each London borough had an aerial ladder.\n\nIn its most recent update, the inquiry said chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick was \"considering the range of suggestions made by expert witnesses and legal representatives\".\n\nCouncillor Elizabeth Campbell, leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council, said: \"It is a tragedy that must never happen again, whatever it takes and whatever the consequences for all authorities.\n\n\"We will not be defensive, we are a public authority, and we want the clear and unvarnished truth for the victims and the bereaved.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Experts at a German art gallery say an internationally renowned painting, Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window by Johannes Vermeer, was significantly altered after his death.\n\nWhile restoring the masterpiece in Dresden, they uncovered a long lost Cupid which had been painted over.\n\nBBC Berlin correspondent Jenny Hill has been to see it.", "These school children told BBC Newsround what they think Harry and Meghan's new boy should be called.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex's son was born at on Monday 6 May 2019, weighing 7lbs 3oz (3.2kg).", "Cressida Dick referred to the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox in 2016\n\nThreats to MPs are at \"unprecedented\" levels, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has said.\n\nThe Met chief disclosed that the number of crimes reported by MPs more than doubled in 2018 from 151 to 342 and was on course to rise further this year.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Neil Basu told a parliamentary committee Brexit was a \"huge driver\" behind the increase.\n\nWomen and people from ethnic minorities were being disproportionately targeted, Ms Dick added.\n\nSo far this year MPs and staff have already reported 152 crimes and over 600 incidents while incidents involving MPs are now 126% higher than in 2015.\n\nAppearing before the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Ms Dick said the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox in 2016 had contributed to an \"extraordinary set of circumstances\" with a level of harassment and abuse not seen before.\n\n\"Polarised opinion\" on political and social issues was also having \"a big impact on the scale and impact of protest activity\", she added.\n\nAlso giving evidence to the committee's inquiry into democracy and free speech, Mr Basu said Brexit was a driving force behind many of the reports this year.\n\nHe said crimes reported to police were \"evenly split\", with 43% targeted against those in favour of leaving the EU and 47% aimed at people who want the UK to remain.\n\nAnna Soubry, the ex-Tory MP who now represents Change UK, was repeatedly heckled and called a Nazi by pro-Brexit protesters outside Parliament\n\nMinisters have said they intend to pass a law creating a specific new electoral offence of intimidating parliamentary candidates and party campaigners during the run-up to an election.\n\nThe government says the offence has been developed to crack down on intimidating or abusive behaviour, which is, in extreme cases, already punishable with a custodial sentence.\n\nHarriet Harman, the Labour MP who chairs the committee, expressed concerns that police officers were not doing enough to protect MPs going about their business.\n\nShe raised the example of Anna Soubry, the former Conservative MP who now represents Change UK, who was repeatedly heckled and called a Nazi by pro-Brexit protesters during a media interview outside Parliament in January.\n\nShe was then briefly prevented from entering the Palace of Westminster afterwards.\n\nMs Harman said she felt \"uncomfortable\" that there were police officers on duty nearby during the incident who did not step in to disperse the crowd.\n\nThe commissioner said the Met took its role of protecting MPs \"very seriously\", and accepted that the Met's presence outside Parliament during that period had been \"too passive\" but had since been \"stepped up\".\n\n\"It is absolutely not acceptable for parliamentarians - MPs and beyond - to feel intimidated in the work place - that's a given.\n\n\"We recognise the increasing concern about protests outside - we have a particular job to prevent crime and disorder, protect property and lives, uphold the law, and ensure people's rights are balanced.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nCoverage: All games live across the BBC\n\nEngland manager Phil Neville says he is taking a squad \"full of world-class players\" to the Women's World Cup in France this summer.\n\nSteph Houghton will captain a 23-strong squad which includes 11 World Cup debutantes, while Karen Carney and Jill Scott will head to a fourth tournament.\n\nIzzy Christiansen, who sustained an ankle injury in March, and veteran Fara Williams have been left out.\n\n\"I'm absolutely convinced we can have a successful tournament,\" said Neville.\n\nEngland begin their campaign against Scotland on Sunday, 9 June.\n\nThey will also face Argentina and 2011 champions Japan in the group stage.\n\n\"We've got a squad that is highly motivated, that now has the confidence and belief to go to a World Cup to be successful,\" added Neville.\n\n\"We keep saying it but the hard work starts now and we are going to give it everything we have to make the nation proud.\"\n\nChelsea playmaker Fran Kirby makes the final 23 despite missing recent friendlies against Canada and Spain because of a knee injury, while defender Millie Bright, who missed England's SheBelieves Cup win in March through injury, is also selected.\n\nWolfsburg's Mary Earps has been handed the third goalkeeper spot ahead of Manchester City's Ellie Roebuck, however there is no place for US-born Orlando Pride forward Chioma Ubogagu.\n\nEarps, Bright, Abbie McManus, Leah Williamson, Demi Stokes, Rachel Daly, Lucy Staniforth, Georgia Stanway, Keira Walsh, Nikita Parris and Beth Mead will all travel to their first World Cup.\n• None How the squad was revealed in unique fashion\n\nNeville says England, who finished third in 2015, are in a \"really difficult group\" with \"three dangerous teams\".\n\n\"We are the third-ranked team in the world and there is a lot of expectation but our performances have been really good and there is more to come from these players,\" he added.\n\nLyon midfielder Christiansen was injured playing for the Lionesses as they won the SheBelieves Cup for the first time.\n\nThe 27-year-old would have been fit in time for the World Cup, but was left out after other players stepped up and impressed the England boss.\n\n\"She was devastated, as you can imagine,\" Neville said. \"I don't think I've seen a player work as hard since SheBelieves trying to get fit for a World Cup.\n\n\"She's sacrificed everything in her life to get to this point and the selection is purely on the performance of the other players that have taken their opportunities in midfield.\"\n\nThe Lionesses revealed the squad earlier on Wednesday through a series of social media posts from high-profile supporters, including Prince William, former England men's captain David Beckham and actress Emma Watson.\n\n\"We wanted each player to have a special moment when their name was revealed, knowing they are going to a World Cup,\" boss Neville told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It is the biggest thing in their lives and something they've dreamed about.\n\n\"We have to make these players visible, we want everybody around the world to buy in to what will be the biggest Women's World Cup of all time.\"", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have presented their newborn son to the world.\n\nSpeaking in St George's Hall at Windsor Castle, Meghan said: \"It's magic, it's pretty amazing. I have the two best guys in the world so I'm really happy.\"", "Many of the rose mosaics in Rose Street have been damaged by lorries\n\nStone mosaics removed from an Edinburgh street undergoing a £1m resurfacing project will not be returned.\n\nEight rose motifs were installed along Rose Street, in the capital's centre, in the 1980s.\n\nBut two of the eye-catching artworks by artist Maggie Howarth were removed between 2010 and 2014.\n\nNow Edinburgh City Council has confirmed they will not be reinstated as they are \"no longer fit to withstand current use\".\n\nThe street, between Hanover and Frederick Street, is pedestrianised but used by HGVs to access shops on nearby Princes Street.\n\nWork is beginning this week on a \"renewal\" of the street, during which new setts will be laid in an \"attractive pattern\" and planters installed.\n\nThe stone mosaics were installed into Rose Street in the 1980s\n\nA crowdfunding campaign has been launched to buy one of the mosaics which is on sale for £1,800 on a reclamation website.\n\nIt was made by the artist as a spare and is intact as it was never laid in Rose Street. It was originally sold by the council in 2017.\n\nCommunity group Edinburgh Spotlight want to buy it back for local people.\n\nCement covers where the roses were removed\n\nLesley Macinnes, the council's transport and environment convener, said the mosaic has been in storage for many years.\n\nShe added: \"Separate to this, the rose being sold was one of a number of mosaics created in the 1980s, which had been in storage for many years.\n\n\"As there were no plans to reuse them, this was sold in 2017. It was agreed at the time, along with partners including Edinburgh World Heritage and the artist, that the spare roses should not be reinstated in the street, as they are no longer fit to withstand current use.\n\n\"The Rose Street site requires necessary repairs to be made safe.\"\n\nThe resurfacing work is due to take 48 weeks and will be paused during the summer and winter festivals.\n\nRose Street was designed as part of James Craig's New Town plan in 1767, and in 1873 became the first pedestrian street in the city.\n\nRose Street was named after the English Rose and nearby Thistle Street was named after the Scottish thistle.\n\nLorries have damaged the setts in Rose Street", "Labour's team including Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer have been negotiating with the government\n\n\"Constructive and detailed\" - that sounds quite positive - Number 10's description of the talks today.\n\n\"Robust\" - not quite so chirpy - Labour's use of political speak for what most of us might call a bit tricky.\n\n\"Disingenuous\" - oh dear - a different Labour source's description of ministers' claim that what they were putting on the table in the cross-party talks today was something genuinely new on the vexed question of customs arrangements after we leave the EU.\n\nAs we reported this morning there didn't really seem to be much from the government that was concrete beyond what's already possible under the agreement that's been hammered out with Brussels.\n\nThe divorce deal and indeed yes, you guessed it, the backstop, both have forms of temporary customs unions in them to make trade between the UK and the EU easier.\n\nOf course the precise language and mechanisms matter enormously.\n\nBut was there some big shiny new offer today? The short answer is: no.\n\nAnd after hours of talks this afternoon, Labour sources suggest ministers in the end more or less admitted that in pointed discussions.\n\nAs we've talked about here before, the cross-party talks process is real.\n\nPlenty of people in the Tory party hate it. Plenty of people in the Labour Party hate it.\n\nBut inside both leaders' camps, there is a genuine desire, more intense since they both had a bad night at the polls on Thursday, to see if they can sketch out a joint escape route from the mess of Brexit.\n\nBut the historically awful result for the prime minister does not seem to have shocked her into ditching her red lines - at least not yet.\n\nIt's important to understand this process is always unlikely to end up with some kind of joint defining pact - sources involved joke about the preposterous idea of some kind of May-Corbyn Rose Garden love-in - fond or awful memories of that summer's day when the Cameron-Clegg bromance was born in public (take your pick which).\n\nThe fact the talks have gone on for so long hint that there is serious merit in finding some kind of agreement on some kind of process.\n\nAt the very least senior figures in the government hope that the talks might mean Labour would allow the Brexit legislation to move on to its next phase.\n\nIn nerd terms, this is to allow the Withdrawal Bill to get through its so-called \"second reading\", knowing that at the next stage in Parliament where a committee of MPs would pore over every line, multiple layers of objections would be made, suggestions and changes put forward and then voted on, before finally, the bill would have its third reading, when MPs are able to give their final yes or no.\n\nIt is hard right now though to make a call on whether that is viable.\n\nOne former minister, experienced and not prone to make wild prediction, told me Number 10 was in \"la la land\" if they believed that could happen.\n\nAbout half an hour later, another former and experienced minister told me they believe, in fact, it will fly and perhaps by the end of this month.\n\nWhoever you ask, it is clear it is not straightforward.\n\nSo when the two teams sit down again on Wednesday afternoon, whether it is \"constructive\" or \"robust\", there's still an awful lot to do.", "The bell was donated to St Catharine's College by a former student in 1960\n\nA Cambridge University college has removed a historic bell from view amid fears it has links to the slave trade.\n\nThe Demerara Bell was donated to St Catharine's College by a former student who went on to work for a sugar company in British Guiana.\n\nIn April, the university announced a two-year investigation into its own historical links with slavery.\n\nA spokesperson for St Catharine's College said the bell \"most likely\" came from a slave plantation.\n\nAs reported in the Daily Telegraph, archived articles from the college magazine, St Catharine's College Society, state that the 18th Century bell was donated by industrialist Edward Goodland with the inscription \"De Catherina 1772\" two years after his arrival in British Guiana in 1958.\n\nIt was initially hung in a belfry outside the Porter's lodge but was moved in 1994 to an accommodation block.\n\nThe Demerara bell at St Catharine's College has been removed from view\n\nThe university has appointed an advisory group, chaired by Prof Martin Millett and based in the Centre of African Studies, which will examine the institution's archives to establish whether it benefitted financially from the slave trade.\n\n\"It is only right that Cambridge should look into its own exposure to the profits of coerced labour,\" said vice-chancellor Stephen Toope.\n\nA spokesperson for the college said: \"As part of the ongoing reflection taking place about the links between universities and slavery, we are aware that a bell currently located at the College most likely came from a slave plantation.\n\n\"A more detailed investigation is underway into the bell's provenance as part of a wider project researching the College's historical links to the slave trade.\"\n\nSenior tutor Dr Miranda Griffin said: \"It is important that the college, along with the rest of the collegiate university, acknowledges historical links to slavery and the slave trade.\n\n\"As an academic community, we will continue to conduct rigorous research into all aspects of our past and to reflect on our commitment to diversity, inclusion and asking challenging questions.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It was hardly the best kept secret in British politics.\n\nThe European elections will, Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington has confirmed, take place on schedule, on 23 May.\n\nThe chances of the elections not being held in the UK were already vanishingly small.\n\nIt would have meant the UK Parliament agreeing a Brexit deal by 22 May - and there's no sign that is about to happen.\n\nThe prospects of a cross-party deal emerging between the Conservatives and Labour in the coming days look remote. It would take a dramatic turn of events to change that.\n\nEven if an unexpected deal were to emerge, it would be only a very tentative first step towards Brexit, with no guarantee that it would enjoy a parliamentary majority.\n\nAnd a first step isn't enough.\n\nThe conclusions of last month's EU summit, agreed by all EU leaders, including Theresa May, said that if the Brexit withdrawal agreement had not been ratified in Parliament by 22 May, the elections would have to take place in the UK.\n\nThe ratification process means Parliament would have to pass a meaningful vote on the withdrawal agreement (the deal negotiated between the government and the EU) and then turn it into UK law in the form of a withdrawal agreement bill.\n\nAnd, as Mr Lidington has now conceded formally, time to do all of that has run out.\n\n\"Given how little time there is,\" he said, \"it is regrettably not going to be possible to finish that process\" before the elections take place.\n\nThat meant, he said, that the UK was legally obliged to hold the elections.\n\nAs a new report from the think tank The UK in a Changing Europe pointed out before Mr Lidington made his announcement, \"a last minute cancellation could also leave some EU citizens (ie those resident in the UK) unable to cast a ballot and could leave the UK government subject to legal challenge\".\n\nIf the government had decided to cancel the elections anyway, without a deal going through Parliament, a \"no deal Brexit\" would have happened on 1 June.\n\nBut we already know there is a clear majority in the House of Commons against leaving the EU with no deal.\n\nSo, the elections are happening, and most parties are already campaigning for them. Election leaflets have started to get posted through the nation's front doors.\n\nThe last time European elections were held, in 2014, the UK spent £109m on them. This year, according to a government source, a rough estimate for the cost is £150m - higher than last time because they're not being held on the same day as local elections (and sharing polling stations).\n\nThe Conservatives are unlikely to be campaigning this time with much enthusiasm, but reality has had to bite.\n\nSo, if it is too late to stop the elections taking place, what is the next potential deadline?\n\nA slightly more realistic date may be 2 July - when the new European Parliament meets for the first time and MEPs are sworn in.\n\nThe government would like to leave the EU before then, meaning the newly elected UK MEPs would never take their seats.\n\nMr Lidington said that would be in the national interest.\n\nThe problem? None of the challenges the government faces in finding a majority for Brexit in this Parliament are going to go away.\n\nThe EU has obviously worked that out. That's one of the reasons it approved a longer extension to the Brexit process, until 31 October.\n\nEven now, though, thoughts are already turning in some quarters to what might happen after that - and whether an extension to the extension might be the only realistic way forward.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool are into their second successive Champions League final after overcoming Barcelona with a stunning second-leg fightback on an epic night at Anfield.\n\nRoared on relentlessly by their fans, the Reds produced an incredible all-action display to claw back and then ultimately overturn their 3-0 deficit from the Nou Camp with an unanswered four-goal salvo in thrilling style.\n\nIt is the first time since 1986 - when Barcelona knocked out Gothenburg in the old European Cup - that a team have recovered a three-goal first-leg deficit to win a semi-final in this competition.\n\nDivock Origi started the unlikely revival, tapping home from close range after seven minutes, but it was only when substitute Georginio Wijnaldum scored twice in the space of 122 seconds after the break that the tie truly swung in Liverpool's favour.\n\nBarcelona were rattled, and even Lionel Messi was unable to steady the ship before Origi struck again with the goal that would decide the tie on aggregate, after Trent Alexander-Arnold caught the visitors' defence napping from a corner.\n\nBy now Anfield was rocking and the home fans stayed on their feet to cheer their side home in the closing minutes, with a shell-shocked Barca side unable to fashion any serious response.\n\nThe final whistle brought delirious celebrations on the pitch and in the stands, where the Reds supporters had played their part in an unforgettable match.\n\nLiverpool have managed famous European fightbacks before, notably when they won this competition for the fifth time in Istanbul in 2005, but this was arguably the greatest in their glittering history.\n\nThey will go for a sixth triumph in Madrid on 1 June, where they will meet either Ajax or Tottenham in the final.\n• None I don't know how they did it, says Klopp\n• None 'The atmosphere took my breath away'\n• None 'Barca were scared - the best reaction'\n\nFew people gave Liverpool any hope after the size of their defeat in Spain last week, especially with Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino out injured.\n\nBut Reds boss Jurgen Klopp urged his players to keep believing, and masterminded an extraordinary performance and result.\n\nOrigi and Wijnaldum, who replaced the injured Andy Robertson at half-time, provided the goals but Liverpool had heroes all over the pitch.\n\nJust as Klopp promised before the game, Liverpool did not stop - maintaining an astonishing tempo to press, harry and hassle their illustrious visitors, and ultimately defeat them.\n\nThe Barca defence struggled to deal with Origi's physical presence throughout and it was the big Belgian who supplied the first goal, firing home after Marc-Andre ter Stegen failed to hold Jordan Henderson's shot.\n\nMore pressure followed but Barca held out until after half-time, when Wijnaldum burst into the box to meet Alexander-Arnold's low cross and hammer his shot home.\n\nMoments later, Liverpool were level on aggregate. This time it was Xherdan Shaqiri who provided the cross for Wijnaldum to rise and head home.\n\nBarca were buckling under the pressure and they could not hold out. Liverpool sealed a famous victory 11 minutes from time when Alexander-Arnold feigned to leave a corner before quickly sweeping it into the box for the alert Origi to convert.\n• None 'The inquest will be remorseless' - what next for Barcelona after Anfield humiliation?\n• None Football Daily: 'The greatest football comeback of all time'\n\nBarca have been here before, being beaten 3-0 by Roma in the quarter-finals last year to go out after winning the first leg 4-1, and their wait for a first final since 2015 continues.\n\nThey were comprehensively out-fought and out-thought here, and although they did have chances they cannot argue they deserved anything but a defeat.\n\nThere was only a brief spell in the first half when La Liga's champions threatened to find their rhythm but, in the space of five minutes, Alisson denied Messi and Philippe Coutinho, and Jordi Alba inexplicably chose to pass the ball with only the Liverpool keeper to beat.\n\nMessi, so electric a week ago, would go on to have a rare night to forget - especially in the second half when Wijnaldum's goals put the tie back in the balance.\n\nSuarez was also anonymous, with his only notable role coming as the pantomime villain as he was booed relentlessly by the fans who used to worship him.\n\nHe had his side's best opportunity of the second half, when Messi slid him clear with the score still 1-0 on the night, but Alisson was alert and that was pretty much the last time the visitors threatened.\n• None We looked like schoolboys - Suarez expects criticism to 'rain down' on Barca\n\nThe 122 seconds that turned the tie around\n• None Where does this rank with greatest Champions League comebacks?\n• None Liverpool have reached their ninth European Cup/Champions League final - only Real Madrid (16), Milan (11) and Bayern Munich (10) have reached more.\n• None They are the first English side to reach back-to-back Champions League finals since Manchester United (2008 and 2009).\n• None This was just the fourth time a team has overturned a three-or-more goal deficit from the first leg of a Champions League (not European Cup) knockout tie to progress. Barcelona were also on the receiving end the last time (against Roma last season).\n• None Barcelona have now been eliminated from three of their past four Champions League semi-final ties.\n• None La Liga's current champions suffered their heaviest-ever defeat against an English side in all European competitions.\n• None Full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold has provided 14 assists in all competitions this season, more than any other Liverpool player.\n• None Divock Origi scored his first Champions League goals, and in doing so became the 50th different player to score in the competition for Liverpool (excluding own goals).\n• None Georginio Wijnaldum is the first Liverpool player to score twice from the bench in a Champions League game since Ryan Babel against Besiktas in 2007. He is also the first substitute to score twice in a single game against Barcelona in the competition.\n• None Lionel Messi either attempted (five) or created (three) all eight of Barcelona's shots against Liverpool in this match.\n\nLiverpool will seek another success against the odds when they return to Premier League action on Sunday. They host Wolves in their final game of the season (15:00 BST) hoping results go their way to turn around a one-point deficit and take the title from Manchester City, who are at Brighton.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Jordan Henderson tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Xherdan Shaqiri (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by James Milner following a set piece situation.\n• None Substitution, Liverpool. Joseph Gomez replaces Divock Origi because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Divock Origi (Liverpool) because of an injury.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 4, Barcelona 0. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Hundreds of Uber drivers in London, Birmingham, Nottingham and Glasgow have staged a protest against the firm.\n\nThey will be joined by drivers in the US cities of New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, Philadelphia and Washington DC in striking over pay and work conditions.\n\nThe protests come days before the company lists its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.\n\nUber said drivers were \"at the heart of our service\".\n\nThe United Private Hire Drivers Branch of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) said the nine-hour boycott of the app would take place between 07:00 and 16:00.\n\nIn the US, members of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance will strike from 07:00 to 09:00 local time. There, Uber drivers will be joined by members working for Lyft and other taxi-booking apps.\n\n\"They're going public and their founders are going to make billions off the hard work of Uber drivers who make the app run,\" she told World Service radio. Drivers \"are demanding rights, a minimum wage, holiday pay and there's no reason they don't deserve that.\"\n\nUber drivers were also protesting in New York\n\nThe unions would like to cut the commission the taxi-hailing apps take. The IWGB in the UK said it would like Uber's commissions to be reduced from 25% to 15% and for fares to be increased to £2 a mile from about £1.25.\n\nThe NYTWA in New York said it wanted commissions of 15% to 20% and better job security.\n\n\"I'm striking for my kid's future. I have a five-year-old son, and I drive for Uber to support him,\" said Sonam Lama, a NYTWA member and Uber driver since 2015.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was working more than 60 hours a week'\n\nAn Uber spokeswoman said: \"Drivers are at the heart of our service - we can't succeed without them - and thousands of people come into work at Uber every day focused on how to make their experience better, on and off the road.\n\n\"Whether it's being able to track your earnings or stronger insurance protections, we'll continue working to improve the experience for and with drivers.\"\n\nThe company has argued previously that it is transparent when it comes to pay and that drivers have earned more than $78bn (£59.7bn) since 2015, as well as $1.2bn in tips since tipping was introduced on its software in July 2017.\n\nUber last month warned it \"may not achieve profitability\" when it released details of its share plan listing.\n\nUber said that its most recent annual sales rose to $11.2bn and losses narrowed to $3bn.\n\nTraffic grinds to a halt during a protest against Uber on 12 April in Buenos Aires\n\nBut it also said it expected operating expenses to \"increase significantly\".\n\nThe company did not disclose how it will price its shares on 9 May, but it is reportedly targeting a range of $48 to $55.\n\nThat would potentially give the 10-year old firm a value of up to $100bn, making it the biggest initial public offering this year.\n\nUber is also expected to raise about $10bn through the flotation.\n\nLast year, Uber lost an appeal against a ruling that its drivers should be treated as workers rather than self-employed.\n\nIn March, German cab drivers protested in Munich against the liberalisation of the Taxi market and Uber\n\nIn 2016 a tribunal ruled drivers Mr Farrar and Yaseen Aslam were Uber staff and entitled to holiday pay, paid rest breaks and the minimum wage and the ruling was upheld by the Court of Appeal.\n\nBut Uber pointed out that one of the three judges backed its case and said it would appeal to the Supreme Court.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Buckingham Palace has confirmed the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's first child - a boy.\n\nTheir son will be behind Prince Harry in the order of succession, making him seventh in line to the throne.\n\nWe take a look at some of the most striking pictures from Meghan's pregnancy.\n\nPrince Harry, 34, and Meghan, 37 announced they were expecting their first child after arriving in Sydney, Australia, on 15 October 2018, for their first official tour together\n\nHowever, the Queen and other senior royals were told about the pregnancy at Princess Eugenie's wedding on 12 October 2018\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex made a surprise appearance at the 2018 British Fashion Awards in December, when she presented a prize to the designer of her wedding dress\n\nShe was then on hand to greet hundreds of well-wishers after attending the Christmas Day church service at Sandringham\n\nDuring a trip to Merseyside in January, the Duchess told well-wishers she was six months pregnant and did not know if it was a boy or a girl\n\nIn February, the royal couple went on their first official visit to Morocco, the couple's last overseas trip before the baby was due to arrive\n\nMeghan spoke at an event to mark International Women's Day, where she said she hoped her baby would be a feminist", "Northern Ireland is bucking the UK trend of falling GP numbers\n\nThe number of GPs per head of population in NI is rising despite falling elsewhere in the UK, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThe Nuffield Trust analysis looked at GPs working in the NHS, both full and part-time, per 100,000 people.\n\nWhile there are more doctors, fewer of them are choosing to work full time, said the Royal College of GPs.\n\nRecognising issues linked to an ageing population, the Department of Health said it needed to train more GPs.\n\nCurrently, there are 67 per 100,000 people in Northern Ireland, meaning there are almost six more doctors per 100,000 people than there were a decade ago - in England they are down by six.\n\nCounty Fermanagh, Omagh and Mid Ulster have the lowest number of doctors per head of population, with a number of practices being forced to merge in order to stay open.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Royal College of GPs said it required more doctors to work full time in general practice - particularly in rural areas - but acknowledged that years of lobbying for additional funding had paid off.\n\nGrainne Doran says more GPs are choosing not to work full time\n\n\"We have had an increase in the total number of GPs but unfortunately they are not all choosing to work full time in GP practices,\" said the college's chairwoman, Dr Grainne Doran.\n\n\"Instead, they are expanding their portfolios in other areas - which is great but doesn't mean we have enough GPs working in surgeries to meet the needs of a growing population.\n\n\"For instance, they are working in emergency departments perhaps one night a week, and they are also involved in hospice care, even involved in training.\"\n\nThe nature of general practice is changing. Gone are the days when a GP worked full time from one practice.\n\nDr Mark Cromie, who has been qualified for almost three years, works in both a rural practice in Lisnaskea, Enniskillen, and in the local hospital, as well as being involved in teaching.\n\n\"GPs want to work differently now,\" he said. \"We don't want to work on our own and isolated but instead as part of a wider team where we can bounce ideas off one another.\n\n\"We are involved in a team of physiotherapists, social workers, dermatologists, often under the one roof and that provides better care for patients.\"\n\nDr Mark Cromie enjoys the variety of work available to a rural GP\n\nNorthern Ireland is struggling to get more people like Dr Cromie. Despite lobbying for additional GP training places, and securing 111, only 86 were filled this year.\n\nThe Royal College of GPs admits it must now adopt a more positive tone about the profession.\n\nIt has called on the Department of Health to ensure the HSC (Health and Social Care) workforce strategy analyses workforce needs and trends in general practice to ensure Northern Ireland has enough GPs.\n\nThe department said Northern Ireland had the UK's most ambitious approach to delivering multi-disciplinary working in primary care.\n\n\"Every practice now has access to a practice-based pharmacist - the largest scheme of its kind in the UK, relative to population,\" said a spokesperson.\n\nElsewhere, the NHS is seeing the first sustained fall in GP numbers per head of population for nearly 50 years.\n\nIn England, the number of GPs per 100,000 people fell from 63.9 in 2014 to 58 last year.\n\nThe last time numbers fell like this was in the late 1960s.\n\nFrom 1970 to 2010, numbers were rising as the population aged.\n\nBut after 2010, the increases started tailing off, before falling in each of the last four years.\n\nThe fall in GPs means the average doctor now has 125 more patients to look after than they did in 2014.\n\nThe Nuffield Trust, an independent think tank, believes another 3,500 GPs would be needed to get the NHS back to where it was in 2014.\n\nThere are just over 42,000 working currently, down by nearly 1,500 in four years.\n\nPanorama's GPs, Why Can't I Get An Appointment, is on BBC One at 19:30 BST on 8 May", "Lora Haddock says she is thankful for the decision\n\nA sex toy that was banned from this year's CES tech show after winning an innovation award has been given the prize again, four months later.\n\nThe Ose robotic vibrator by Lora DiCarlo was originally given the prize by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) in January.\n\nHowever, the CTA quickly changed its mind and ousted the device, causing outrage.\n\nThe organisation has now offered a \"sincere apology\" to Lora DiCarlo.\n\nThe CTA was accused of \"gender bias\" at the time in a blog by Lora Haddock, the founder and chief executive of the Lora DiCarlo company.\n\nMs Haddock argued that the organisation had rejected a product focused on female sexuality, whereas shopping or childcare-related items aimed at women were allowed to remain in the same award category as the vibrator.\n\n\"We firmly believe that women, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and LGBTQI folks should be vocally claiming our space in pleasure and tech,\" she said.\n\n\"The CTA did not handle this award properly,\" said Jean Foster, a marketing executive at the organisation.\n\n\"This prompted some important conversations internally and with external advisers, and we look forward to taking these learnings to continue to improve the show.\"\n\nMs Haddock said she appreciated the \"gesture\" from the CTA, which would serve to \"remove the stigma and embarrassment around female sexuality\".\n\n\"The incredible support and attention we've received in the wake of our experience highlights the need for meaningful changes, and we are hopeful that our small company can continue to contribute meaningful progress toward making CES inclusive for all,\" she added.\n\nThe Ose robotic vibrator was banned from CES", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mercer: The communities I come from are seething\n\nTory MP Johnny Mercer says he has withdrawn his support for Theresa May and her government over the historical prosecution of servicemen and women.\n\nIn a letter to the PM, the Plymouth MP said he would only vote with the Conservatives on Brexit legislation.\n\nHe called on Mrs May to end the \"abhorrent process\" of \"elderly veterans being dragged back to Northern Ireland\" to face possible prosecution.\n\nHe has previously called for legislation to stop this happening.\n\nCommunities Secretary - and former Northern Ireland Secretary - James Brokenshire said he was \"very saddened\" by Mr Mercer's announcement and acknowledged that \"the system isn't working well in Northern Ireland\".\n\nHe said the government had been consulting on changing the existing system.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Mercer said the government had \"singularly failed to act for four years and I am simply not prepared to put up with it any more\".\n\n\"There is nothing loyal about watching the car go over the cliff and not doing anything about it,\" he added.\n\nIn his letter the former Army officer and member of the Commons Defence Committee, said: \"As you know, the historical prosecution of our servicemen and women is a matter that is personally offensive to me.\n\n\"Many are my friends; and I am from their tribe.\"\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the Conservative Party can \"ill afford to lose MPs from [the] rising generation who have been able to win marginal seats\" right now.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 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 Mercer told the PM he cannot \"support your legislative programme any further until your government make some clear and concrete steps to end this abhorrent process\".\n\n\"The macabre spectacle of elderly veterans being dragged back to Northern Ireland to face those who seek to re-fight that conflict through other means, without any protection from a government who sent them almost fifty years ago, is too much,\" he wrote.\n\n\"It appears that my values and ethos may be slowly, but very firmly, separating from a party I joined in 2015.\n\n\"I will not be voting for any of the government's legislative actions outside of Brexit until legislation is brought forward to protect veterans from being repeatedly prosecuted for historical allegations and will be updating my constituents of this decision accordingly.\"\n\nA total of six former soldiers are now facing prosecution over Troubles-era killings.\n\nThe cases relate to Daniel Hegarty; Bloody Sunday; John Pat Cunningham; Joe McCann (involving two ex-soldiers); and Aidan McAnespie.\n\nNot all the charges are murder.\n\nThe Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland said that of 26 so-called legacy cases it has taken decisions on since 2011, 13 related to republicans, eight to loyalists, and five are connected to the Army.", "The Barnard Castle-based Teesdale Mercury was founded in 1854\n\nA newspaper has addressed its \"awful\" reporting of a woman's suicide more than 100 years ago.\n\nA Teesdale Mercury reader complained to the paper after finding a report in a 1912 edition on the death of 16-year-old parlour maid Dorothy Balchin.\n\nThe old report called her suicide notes \"pathetic\", with an inquest jury finding her \"temporarily insane\".\n\nEditor Trevor Brookes said \"pathetic\" had a different meaning at the time, but it was good attitudes had changed.\n\n\"We agree that this is an awful way to report a tragic death of a young woman,\" Brookes said. But he said it would \"inappropriate\" to publish an apology so many years later, adding: \"We must be careful not to judge the past with today's morals but instead learn from what happened.\"\n\nThe report was published in the Teesdale Mercury in 1912\n\n\"We should be thankful attitudes have changed, and mental health, depression and suicide get the attention they so thoroughly deserve, and there are strict guidelines issued to modern media.\"\n\nSuicide-prevention charity Samaritans advises today's media not to include details of method of suicide in reports, but the 1912 press cutting includes such information.\n\nThe report detailed how Ms Balchin killed herself on her employer's tennis lawn at Albury near Guildford, Surrey.\n\nIt included details of suicide notes she had written which the report called \"pathetic\".\n\n\"Pathetic is the adjective of pathos meaning emotion and it was once used very differently to how it is used today,\" said Brookes.\n\nThe Teesdale Mercury is a weekly-newspaper based in Barnard Castle, County Durham.\n\nBrookes said the report was part of a \"syndicated section\" of the paper, meaning it would have appeared in similar titles across the country.\n\nFor information and support on mental health issues, the BBC has a list of relevant organisations.\n\nThe Samaritans helpline is available 24 hours a day for anyone in the UK struggling to cope. It provides a safe place to talk where calls are completely confidential.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "How long do you wait to see your GP?\n\nMembers of the BBC NHS Health Check Facebook group report waits of three weeks or more are common.\n\nLisa Johns said: \"Ours book five weeks ahead. For the last three weeks, I've been trying to book a standard appointment and can't get one, as they go in seconds.\"\n\nAnother member posted: \"I booked a non-urgent appointment with my GP last week.... for 22 January 2019.\"\n\nTheir experiences are backed up by statistics.\n\nEarlier this month, NHS Digital published figures showing that, while 40% of patients were seen on the day they booked, just under a fifth waited longer than a fortnight for a routine appointment with a GP or practice nurse.\n\nBut what's the story behind these figures?\n\nHave waits actually got longer?\n\nThe NHS Digital figures show of 307 million appointments booked at practices in England between November 2017 and October 2018:\n\nIt is the first time such figures has been published - so there aren't similar figures to compare them with. But plenty of previous research has found demand on GP services has grown. And experts say they do see waits increasing.\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, head of the Royal College of GPs, said: \"This is a real problem. It's something we predicted. Unfortunately, it's the inevitable consequence of a shortage of GPs.\"\n\nA 2016 Lancet paper said GPs' workload had risen by 16% in the seven years up to 2014, with more frequent and longer GP consultations.\n\nIs it because demands on GPs have increased?\n\nFactors including an ageing population and an increasing number of people with complex medical needs mean the standard appointment often isn't long enough.\n\nDr Kamal Mahtani, a GP and an associate professor in primary care at the University of Oxford, said: \"You've got 10 minutes to talk about their diabetes, their high blood pressure, their mood and look at the patient more holistically.\n\n\"So a GP might end up having to say, 'We've dealt with X and Y today but I'll need to see you again.' And that has a knock-on effect.\n\nPeople were directed to their GP for lots of different things, he said. \"If you're not feeling well, go and see the GP. If you need a flu jab, go and see a GP - as if we're a one-stop shop.\"\n\nBut the RCGP said a lack of GPs was also affecting availability.\n\n\"We're now 1,000 short of the number of GPs we had when they promised 5,000 more - so now we're looking for 6,000,\" an RCGP official said.\n\nIs it safe to wait weeks for an appointment?\n\nSome patients are happy to wait. They might want to see a particular GP whom they know or someone who is familiar with their long-term health problem - it might be something that isn't going to alter over a few weeks.\n\nBut there are fears that others might be at risk from waiting.\n\nCatherine Churcher, another member of the BBC NHS Health Check Facebook group, was concerned that the most vulnerable would be least able to negotiate the system and so be worst affected,\n\n\"There must be lots of people out there who are falling through the net and not being seen because they don't have the strength or fight in them to go up against the current system,\" she said.\n\nProf Stokes-Lampard said: \"There's no hard data that shows patients are coming to harm. But that's my profound concern - that there are things that will be missed.\"\n\nAnd Dr Mahtani said: \"How do you know if the patient's condition isn't getting worse if patients are waiting three weeks? I can't tell you that they're not suffering until I see them.\n\n\"And there's always that risk that the longer waits are causing harm.\"\n\nNo - but Prof Stokes-Lampard warned that even if your practice seemed OK, it was still vulnerable to events at neighbouring GPs.\n\n\"All you need is for the practice down the road to close and then patients would be moved and your practice would be under pressure,\" she said.\n\n\"There is a domino effect. And then it's phenomenally stressful for the doctors at that practice.\"\n\nIs there anything that will help?\n\nGPs say patients can help - by calling in if they can't make an appointment, so it can be freed up for someone else, and by thinking whether they could get the advice they need somewhere else, such as the chemist's or dentist.\n\nThere are various ideas being tried out across general practice too, experimenting with taking some of the administration away from GPs and bringing in other professions, physiotherapists and social workers, into primary care in addition to the specialist nurses that many people are already familiar with.\n\nTechnology can also help - some practices have online systems where patients can book directly.\n\nBut Dr Mahtani said there was no single solution - because each practice had a different mix of patients and different skills among its staff.\n\nBetter funding was key though. \"If you invest in primary care, you will reduce your costs in secondary care - 90% of first contacts are in primary care,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to embrace general practice.\"\n\nWhat's your experience of booking a routine appointment with your GP or practice nurse? Join our group and let us know.", "Scotland has the highest number of GPs per head of population in the UK, research commissioned by the BBC shows.\n\nAnalysis by the Nuffield Trust think tank shows there are 76 GPs per 100,000 people, compared to a national UK average of 60.\n\nBut Scotland's doctors have warned major challenges still exist with recruitment and retention.\n\nThe Scottish government has pledged to recruit a further 800 over the next decade to fill gaps.\n\nThe pressures on GPs across the UK are being examined by the BBC as part of a special day of coverage, including a Panorama investigation.\n\nThe UK-wide figures show there has been four consecutive years of falls with the biggest drops being seen in England.\n\nUnlike south of the border, Scottish GP numbers have stayed relatively static in recent years.\n\nThis comes against a backdrop of increased patient numbers, many elderly with complex medical needs, and a fall in the number of GP practices.\n\nLatest figures also show a 8% drop in the number of GP surgeries since 2008, from 1,025 in 2008 to 944 last year.\n\nOver the same period the number of registered patients has increased by 5% to 5.7m.\n\nThere are reasons why Scotland has a higher ratio of GPs to patients than other parts of the UK.\n\nOne is topography - in parts of the Highlands, one GP may cover a vast area with a small number of inhabitants - and we have one of the largest island populations in Europe.\n\nMost doctors say we still face a crisis in GP recruitment and retention, with high vacancy rates and almost a third of doctors nearing retirement age.\n\nA commitment to recruit 800 family doctors by 2027 has been welcomed but even then there are worries that many of those jobs will be part-time ones and will still leave significant gaps.\n\nThe move to bigger practices with advanced nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physiotherapists and even paramedics taking on new roles is part of the answer, but there are recruitment problems in these professions too.\n\nDoctors in Scotland are being offered incentives such as \"golden hello\" payments or relocation costs as part of a plan to recruit 800 GPs in a decade.\n\nThe move is part of the new GP contract agreed in 2018 but unions say there are still significant gaps in GP numbers.\n\nDr Alasdair Forbes, of the Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland, warned that the country faces a shortfall of 856 family doctors by 2021.\n\nHe said: \"Our members have told us that the current shortage of GPs is taking a toll on their wellbeing and reduces the likelihood that they will remain in general practice for the long-term.\n\n\"A commitment to increase the number of whole-time-equivalent GPs must be in tandem with the growth of the wider primary care team workforce such as nurses, pharmacists and physiotherapists.\n\n\"General practice is at the frontline of the NHS, carrying out the vast majority of patient contacts and holding clinical risk as gatekeepers to the other parts of the health service.\n\n\"By investing in general practice, the NHS will be enabled to be at its best where it is needed most, tackling many of the root causes of health inequalities and reducing the pressure on secondary care services.\"\n\nOlive Watson, 93, has lived in the village of Stoneyburn all her life and can't remember a time when it didn't have a GP practice.\n\nBut that changed last year when the doctors who ran the West Lothian village's health centre handed the keys back to NHS Lothian.\n\nThe health board was unable to find a replacement, despite an extensive recruitment drive.\n\nFor Olive, who is registered blind, and the rest of the village this means the closest practice is three miles away in Fauldhouse.\n\n\"It is just not convenient in anyway, when you get off the bus it is a hill and a bit of a walk to get there,\" said the pensioner, who now mostly relies on taxis to get to her new GPs.\n\n\"I would like to see a doctor, even part time, put in the village here, that would be handy for me and other people like me who are elderly but also young families.\n\n\"I met a lady with two kids who spent £12 going up and down to the doctor with one of them who was ill.\n\n\"You feel sorry for people like that, it is a lot of money in bus fares.\"\n\nOlive, who also has asthma, said the village's surgery closing down had sometimes put her off going to see a GP.\n\nShe added: \"If I am really very ill I phone for the paramedics and they are very good.\"\n\nThe Nuffield Trust analysis looked at the number of GPs working in the NHS per 100,000 people across the UK.\n\nIt shows that during the late 1960s the numbers were falling, before four decades of almost continuous growth.\n\nA peak of 66.5 was reached in 2009, before the increases tailed off.\n\nThere has now been four consecutive years of falls with the biggest drops being seen in England.\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"We have a record number of GPs working in Scotland, and are committed to increasing numbers by at least 800 in the next 10 years.\n\n\"We are committed to investing £250m more in direct support of general practice by the end of this parliamentary period.\n\n\"The new GP contract agreed with the BMA and GPs, ensures GPs are able to spend more time with patients and less on bureaucracy, making a career in general practice even more attractive to younger doctors.\"", "Talks got under way at Stormont on Tuesday\n\nThe British and Irish governments have set out details of how they intend to proceed with talks to restore Northern Ireland power-sharing.\n\nIn a joint statement, they said a series of working groups would be set up to deal with key sticking points.\n\nStormont's five main party leaders will also hold weekly meetings with the NI Secretary and Tanaiste (Irish deputy PM) to \"take stock\" and set the agenda.\n\nThe talks involving the NI parties and governments got under way on Tuesday.\n\nIt is the first fully-fledged talks process since negotiations collapsed in February 2018.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a devolved power-sharing government for more than two and a half years, after the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row.\n\nThere have been several failed talks processes since January 2017.\n\nLast month, the British and Irish governments agreed to convene a new set of talks from 7 May, that they said should be short and focused.\n\nIn their statement issued after meeting the Stormont party leaders on Tuesday, they said the prime minister and taoiseach (Irish prime minister) would review progress at the end of May.\n\nThe working groups will be led by, (from left): David Sterling; Paul Sweeney; Sir Malcolm McKibbin; Hugh Widdis and Sue Gray\n\nThere will be a weekly round-table meeting involving party leaders and the working groups will deal with several key issues.\n\nThey will be made up of three representatives from each of the five parties in the talks, and representatives from the British and Irish governments will advise them.\n\nThe separate working groups will seek agreement on:\n\nSeveral parties at Stormont have called for the reform of the petition of concern mechanism - it is effectively a Stormont veto which the DUP used to block same-sex marriage.\n\nThe talks were announced by the British and Irish governments after the murder of journalist Lyra McKee.\n\nAt her funeral, politicians came under pressure to solve the Stormont impasse.\n\nThe talks are beginning just days after council elections which saw a surge of support for smaller parties not aligned to either unionism or nationalism.\n\nMost notably, Northern Ireland's fifth largest party, Alliance, saw its number of council seats rise from 32 to 53 - an increase of 65%.\n\nThe talks were announced after the murder of journalist Lyra McKee\n\nSpeaking ahead of Tuesday's talks, DUP leader Arlene Foster said her party would go into the talks process to try to find a solution.\n\nShe said she hoped all parties would engage with a \"willingness to look forward and not backwards\".\n\nSinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said her party was ready to get down to business.\n\n\"People know what the outstanding equality issues are and they need to be resolved and they can be,\" she said.\n\nAlliance leader Naomi Long said the new format provided a \"short window of opportunity\" for progress.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said: \"We've all committed to power sharing, we've all committed to working together and that'll take compromise, it'll take real effort.\"\n\nUlster Unionist leader Robin Swann said: \"If today is simply window dressing, we're wasting our time and we're insulting the people of Northern Ireland.\"\n\nIn the local government election, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin were again returned as the two largest parties in the council elections, but they had mixed fortunes.\n\nThe DUP lost eight of its 130 seats and, although Sinn Féin's seat count held steady at 105, there was a slight drop (0.8%) in the party's share of first preference votes.", "Keith Flint was found dead at his home in Essex\n\nThe Prodigy singer Keith Flint had unspecified amounts of cocaine, alcohol and codeine in his system when he died, an inquest heard.\n\nThe musician was found dead at his home in North End, Essex, on 4 March.\n\nSenior Coroner for Essex Caroline Beasley-Murray recorded an open conclusion into his death, adding there was not enough evidence to say he had intended to take his own life.\n\nThe inquest heard the musician was found by a friend.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Prodigy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Prodigy\n\nMs Beasley-Murray said: \"We will never quite know what was going on in his mind on that date.\n\n\"I've considered suicide. To record that, I would have to have found that, on the balance of probabilities, Mr Flint formed the idea and took a deliberate action knowing it would result in his death.\n\n\"Having regard to all the circumstances I don't find that there's enough evidence for that.\"\n\nThe coroner also said there was insufficient evidence to record the singer's death as an accident where he may have been \"larking around and it all went horribly wrong\".\n\nShe told the court Mr Flint's family and band manager did not wish to attend the inquest.\n\nFlint co-founded The Prodigy in 1990 with Liam Howlett and Leeroy Thornhill\n\nOn Tuesday, The Prodigy's Twitter account posted a message about mental health and urged people to not \"suffer in silence\".\n\nMs Beasley-Murray asked for the court's sympathy to be passed to Mr Flint's family.\n\n\"He clearly was extremely popular, he was much-loved by so many fans,\" she said.\n\nThousands of music lovers lined the streets of Essex on 29 March for the funeral of the star, who had number one hits with Breathe and Firestarter.\n\nIf you are struggling to cope, contact the Samaritans on the free helpline 116 123, or please click on this link to access support services.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Samuel Thomas was living in Australia when he died in June 2017\n\nA bricklayer died when an Uber driver did not take \"reasonable care\" and drove off with the man halfway out of the car, a coroner has ruled.\n\nSamuel Thomas, 30, was living in Australia when he died on 17 June 2017.\n\nHe was travelling home with friends from a party in Sydney when the Uber driver stopped at traffic lights and Mr Thomas started to leave the car.\n\nCoroner Geoffrey Sullivan said Mr Thomas, from Harpenden, Hertfordshire, fell into the path of a bus.\n\nHe said the Uber driver Nazrul Islam had \"not exercised reasonable care\".\n\nMr Sullivan, the senior coroner for Hertfordshire, said: \"The driver accelerated off when Mr Thomas was half way out of the car.\n\n\"He fell into the path of a bus which collided with him and he was killed instantly.\"\n\nMr Sullivan recorded the cause of death as \"severe catastrophic head injuries\" and concluded Mr Thomas died as a result of a road traffic collision.\n\nThe coroner said the Uber driver Nazrul Islam had \"not exercised reasonable care\"\n\nIslam, 32, was found guilty of negligent driving causing death at a trial in Sydney, Australia, in November.\n\nIn February, Australian broadcaster 9News reported he was sentenced to 200 hours of community service as part of a sentence to be served under supervision in the community.\n\nThe driver had argued that he did not notice his passenger's attempts to exit, but a magistrate ruled that he had not kept \"a proper lookout\" as Mr Thomas exited.\n\nThe court heard Mr Thomas and his friends were about five minutes from their destination when Mr Thomas, who was in the back seat, opened a rear door and began to get out.\n\nSecurity footage showed the car's internal light was illuminated for six seconds before Islam began to accelerate, causing Mr Thomas to fall.\n\nMagistrate Mary Ryan noted that Mr Thomas had opened the door \"without a word of warning\", but said: \"Six seconds of light within the car is a significant warning.\n\n\"The only explanation is that Mr Islam was much more fatigued than he admitted.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A British soldier has been killed by an elephant during a counter-poaching operation in Malawi.\n\nMathew Talbot, 22, of the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, was on patrol in Liwonde National Park on 5 May when he was charged by the animal.\n\nHis commanding officer, Lt Col Ed Launders, described Guardsman Talbot as \"determined and big-hearted\".\n\nDefence Secretary Penny Mordaunt said he served with \"great courage and professionalism\".\n\nShe added: \"This tragic incident is a reminder of the danger our military faces as they protect some of the world's most endangered species from those who seek to profit from the criminal slaughter of wildlife.\"\n\nKensington Palace said the Duke of Cambridge was writing to Gdsm Talbot's family to offer his condolences.\n\nGdsm Talbot, who was from the West Midlands, was serving in his first operational deployment, the Ministry of Defence said.\n\nThe patrol of armed British army soldiers and African Park Rangers was walking through tall grass - up to 7ft (2.1m) high - when they disturbed an unseen herd of elephants.\n\nOne of them charged at Gdsm Talbot. He died soon after from his injuries. No-one else on the patrol was hurt.\n\nHe leaves behind his father Steven, his mother Michelle, his sisters Aimee and Isabel, and his girlfriend, Olivia.\n\nIn a statement, the MoD said Gdsm Talbot \"was not unfamiliar\" with Africa and had volunteered to support counter-poaching in Malawi.\n\n\"With his keen interest in military history he was proud to have joined a regiment with such a rich and long lineage,\" it added.\n\nOperation Corded, the name given to the Army's counter-poaching deployment in Malawi, assists in the training of rangers in a bid to help them crack down on the illegal wildlife trade.\n\nPark rangers are taught skills such as tracking, partnered patrolling, communications, surveillance, and intelligence-sharing - with the first deployment taking place in August 2017.\n\nThe former defence secretary, Gavin Williamson, announced the expansion of the UK's counter-poaching training at two parks in Malawi - doubling the number of rangers mentored by soldiers to 120 - in 2018.\n\nGdsm Talbot's company commander, Maj Richard Wright, said that while he had only known the soldier for a short time, \"he never failed to make me smile\".\n\nLt Col Launders added: \"Mathew was loved by his brothers in arms in the Coldstream Guards. We will sorely miss his humour, selflessness and unbeatable spirit.\"\n\nShadow defence secretary Nia Griffith described the death as \"tragic news\".\n\nShe added: \"It underlines the dedication and selflessness of our armed forces personnel serving across the world.\n\n\"My thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.\"\n\nElephant poaching is a huge problem across Africa - some estimates say 30,000 are killed every year - and there are probably only around 450,000 left.\n\nIn many places it has become literally a war against poachers - that's why rangers are trained by British troops.\n\nBut there are different views over how to stop the illegal ivory trade.\n\nInternational campaigns - backed by countries like Kenya - want a complete end to all ivory trade to prevent criminals exploiting permit loopholes.\n\nBut some southern African countries which account for the majority of Africa's elephants, believe limited and well-regulated trade in ivory can raise money to pay for conservation.\n\nBotswana, which has been hosting an elephant summit over the past few days, has perhaps 130,000 of the animals - more than anywhere else - and has problems with human and elephant conflict.\n\nThe peculiar gift of elephant-foot stools to visiting leaders was a strong message in support of trade.\n\nUnder the management of a new president, it looks likely to re-introduce hunting -which is popular with rural voters - in an election year.", "British people are having less sex now than in recent years, according to a large national survey.\n\nThe findings, published in the British Medical Journal, suggest nearly a third of men and women have not had sex in the past month.\n\nThat's up from around a quarter in 2001, according to the data from 34,000 people.\n\nLess than half of men and women aged 16 to 44 have sex at least once a week, responses show.\n\nOver-25s and couples who are married or living together account for the biggest falls in sexual activity across the 21-year period.\n\nThe data the researchers looked at came from three successive waves of the British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles carried out in 1991, 2001, and 2012.\n\nThey give a snapshot of sexual behaviour among Britons.\n\nAccording to the most recent survey:\n\nResearchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine say the decrease in sexual frequency has been seen among people who have previously been sexually active, rather than more people deciding to keep their virginity.\n\nAlthough people under 25 and those currently single were less likely to be sexually active, the steepest declines in sexual frequency were among older married or cohabiting couples.\n\nSo are people simply going off sex? Apparently not.\n\nHalf of women and nearly two-thirds of men in the latest survey said they would like to have more sex.\n\nThis desire was more often voiced by people who were married or living together as a couple, which the researchers say \"merits concern\".\n\nLead researcher Prof Kaye Wellings said the \"sheer pace of modern life\" may be a reason why many people are having less sex.\n\n\"It is interesting that those most affected are in their mid-life - the so-called 'sandwich' generation. These are men and women who are often juggling work, childcare and responsibilities to parents who are getting older.\"\n\nPerhaps social pressure to over-report sexual activity may have eased, while gender equality means that women may now be less inclined to meet their partner's sexual needs irrespective of their own, say the researchers.\n\nThe decline coincides with increasing use of social media and a global recession, which may be other contributing factors.\n\nHaving less sex is not always a bad thing, says Prof Wellings. She said the survey results may be a comfort to many.\n\n\"What is important to wellbeing is not how often people have sex but whether it matters to them.\n\n\"Most people believe that others have more regular sex than they do themselves.\n\n\"Many people are likely to find it reassuring that they are not out of line.\"\n\nRelate counsellor and sex therapist Peter Saddington said: \"The important thing is quality not quantity. If you enjoy the experience you are more likely to do it again. But you have to make time for sex. It doesn't always have to be spontaneous. Putting a date in the diary can help.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hello and welcome to our updates from today’s action in the House of Commons.\n\nLater this morning, there will be an urgent question on refugees in Sri Lanka, before Andrea Leadsom updates MPs on next week's Commons business.\n\nMPs will no doubt be waiting to see whether the government schedules a vote next week on the bill implementing the PM's Brexit deal.\n\nNumber 10's spokesman has said it is the government's \"hope and expectation\" to bring the withdrawal agreement bill in ahead of this month’s European elections.\n\nAfter this, there will be a ministerial statement on government funding for replacing Grenfell Tower-type cladding on about 150 private blocks in England with a safer alternative.\n\nThis afternoon, there will be backbencher-led debates on acquired brain injuries, and the 25th anniversary of the death of former Labour leader John Smith.\n\nBefore that though, Environment Secretary Michael Gove will take questions from MPs during a departmental scrutiny session.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Behind the scenes at a fertility clinic\n\nMore women in the UK are choosing to freeze their eggs than ever before, with treatment rates rising by 11% from 2016 to 2017, a report suggests.\n\nThe fertility regulator's figures show there were 1,463 egg freezing cycles in 2017 compared with 1,321 in 2016.\n\nThe Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) says the success rates of using frozen embryos has risen, with birth rates comparable to fresh ones.\n\nBut it cautions that egg freezing does not provide a guaranteed family.\n\nEgg freezing involves collecting a woman's eggs from her ovaries, storing them in a state of deep freeze and thawing them at a later stage.\n\nAt this point they are put together with sperm in the hope that an embryo forms and a pregnancy develops.\n\nThe procedure is still relatively new with only 581 egg thaw cycles (where eggs are defrosted) taking place in the UK in 2017 - a rise from 159 in 2012.\n\nDespite this, the HFEA says that advances in egg-freezing techniques, and more women freezing their eggs under the age of 35, are partly behind the rise in successful birth rates from 18% in 2016 to 23% in 2017.\n\nBut the regulator warns the age at which women freeze their eggs is one of the most important factors for success (with women under 35 having a better chance of a birth).\n\nThe HFEA's report gives a broad overview of other fertility trends in 2017.\n\nIt shows that IVF is becoming safer - with the rate of multiple births (which can be riskier than singleton pregnancies) declining sharply from 24% in 2008 to 10% in 2017.\n\nBut access to NHS-funded treatment continues to be patchy across the UK.\n\nCommenting on the trends, Prof Joyce Harper, at University College London, said: \"Fertility treatment is turning into a middle-class procedure, with the UK having some of the highest costs in Europe.\n\n\"It is time to address the commercialisation of IVF and how the NHS funds it.\"\n\nThe analysis shows that while 91% of IVE treatment cycles were undertaken by women with male partners, there has been a small rise in same-sex couples, single women and surrogates considering fertility procedures.\n\nSally Cheshire, chair of the HFEA, said: \"This reflects society's changing attitude towards family creation, lifestyles and relationships and highlights the need for the sector to continue to evolve and adapt.\"\n• None Egg freezing in your 40s 'not sensible'\n• None Welcome to the HFEA - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The planning application includes the creation of a new stillhouse at Port Ellen\n\nWhisky production could be revived at an iconic distillery on Islay for the first time in more than 35 years, under plans put forward by Diageo.\n\nThe drinks giant has submitted a planning application to overhaul the Port Ellen Distillery, which closed in 1983.\n\nThe proposals include restoring the distillery's original kiln building and traditional sea-front warehouses.\n\nThere are also plans for a new stillhouse.\n\nThe move is part of a £35m investment programme by Diageo to reopen Port Ellen Distillery and Brora Distillery in Sutherland, both of which closed in 1983.\n\nThe buildings at Port Ellen Distillery have undergone many changes since it first opened in 1824.\n\nIn the 1930s the distillery was closed and largely demolished, before being rebuilt in the 1960s.\n\nFollowing its most recent closure in 1983, only a handful of the original buildings remained.\n\nThe plan is for two pairs of copper pot stills and two separate distillation regimes.\n\nTwo will replicate the original Port Ellen copper pot stills. The smaller stills are to produce alternative spirit characters, and to experiment with new styles of whisky.\n\nGeorgie Crawford, master distiller leading the Port Ellen project, said: \"This is another hugely significant milestone on our journey to bring Port Ellen Distillery back to life.\n\n\"This is no ordinary distillery project - we are bringing a true whisky legend back to life and we believe our plans do justice to the iconic status of Port Ellen and will capture the imagination of whisky fans from all over the world.\"\n\nLast month, Diageo submitted plans to overhaul visitor facilities at two distilleries in the north of Scotland.\n\nIt said planning applications had been filed for Cardhu in Speyside and Clynelish in Sutherland, after public consultation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joseph McCann is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday\n\nA man has been charged with kidnapping and raping multiple women.\n\nJoseph McCann, of Aylesbury, is accused of the kidnap and rape of a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint in Watford in the early hours of 21 April.\n\nHe is also charged with two counts of kidnap, four counts of rape, one count of false imprisonment and three other sexual offence charges - all in London.\n\nThe 34-year-old has been remanded in custody to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nMr McCann has also been charged with two counts of causing a female to engage in sexual activity and one count of assaulting a female by penetration in London between 24 and 27 April.\n\nProsecutors are considering a file of evidence relating to further alleged offences, the Met Police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The stone samples were removed during archaeological work in 1958\n\nA missing piece of Stonehenge has been returned to the site 60 years after it was taken.\n\nA metre-long core from inside the prehistoric stone was removed during archaeological excavations in 1958.\n\nNo-one knew where it was until Robert Phillips, 89, who was involved in those works, decided to return part of it.\n\nEnglish Heritage, which looks after Stonehenge, hopes the sample might now help establish where the stones originally came from.\n\nIn 1958 archaeologists raised an entire fallen trilithon - a set of three large stones consisting of two that would have stood upright, with the third placed horizontally across the top.\n\nDuring the works, cracks were found in one of the vertical stones and in order to reinforce it, cores were drilled through the stone and metal rods inserted.\n\nThe repairs were masked by small plugs cut from sarsen fragments found during excavations.\n\nArchaeologists hope to analyse the composition of the core to pinpoint where the ancient Sarsen stones might have come from\n\nFor 60 years Mr Phillips, an Englishman who now lives in retirement in Florida, kept his piece of Stonehenge - first in a plastic tube at his office in Basingstoke and later on the wall at home in the US.\n\nIn the 1950s he had been employed by a diamond-cutting firm brought in to help reinforce the giant stones.\n\nRobert Phillips now lives in Aventura, to the north of Miami, Florida\n\nThe company, Van Moppes, bored three holes into one stone before stabilising metal rods were inserted.\n\nDuring the process workers extracted three 1m-long (3ft) cores of stone and Mr Phillips took one of them.\n\nBut on the eve of his 90th birthday, he decided to return it.\n\nMr Phillips's sons Lewis and Robin travelled to Stonehenge to hand the sample over\n\nArchaeologists hope to analyse the chemical composition of the core to try to pinpoint where the ancient Sarsen stones might have come from.\n\nAlthough the sample was handed back last May, English Heritage said it had not announced the find until now as it had to first understand its significance.\n\nHistoric England said the stone sample looks \"incongruously pristine\" alongside the \"weathered\" stones currently standing at the monument.\n\nThe smaller bluestones at Stonehenge were brought to the site from the Preseli Hills is south west Wales but the source of the larger Sarsen stones is unknown.\n\nThe discovery of part of the missing core now means a team will be able to analyse it in order to \"pinpoint their source\".\n\nResearchers have already used a spectrometer to look at the chemical composition of the stone.\n\nThe whereabouts of the other two Stonehenge cores remains a mystery and English Heritage is appealing for anyone with any information to contact them.\n\nHeather Sebire from English Heritage said \"the last thing we expected was to get a call from someone in America saying they had part of Stonehenge\".\n\n\"Studying the Stonehenge core's DNA could help tell us more about where those enormous Sarsen stones originated,\" she added.\n\nProf David Nash from Brighton University, which is leading the study into the stone core, said it was possible the Sarsen stones came from multiple locations.\n\n\"Conventional wisdom suggests they they all came from the relatively nearby Marlborough Downs,\" he said.\n\n\"But initial results from our analysis suggest that in fact the Sarsens may come from more than one location.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It's the moment many of us dread at the end of every festival - taking down your tent and packing it up.\n\nThis is perhaps one reason why more than 250,000 tents get left behind in UK fields from Glastonbury to Reading and Leeds.\n\nNow, more than 60 independent festivals are urging shops to stop marketing tents as single-use items.\n\nThe Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) says some places advertise them as 'festival tents,' which gives the impression that you only need to use them once.\n\nIt says the average tent is mostly made of plastic - which is equivalent to 8,750 straws or 250 pint cups.\n\nJordan says his tent is the last thing on his mind after a festival ends\n\nJordan Bellamy, 23, has gone to Reading Festival a couple of times and admits he always leaves his tent behind.\n\n\"After a whole weekend of dancing I'm so tired, and the thought of carrying the tent back was daunting as my legs were killing.\n\n\"It's quite a sad time to be honest at the end of the festival - you get the festival blues don't you?\n\n\"So at the end, we really only get our stuff together as in all our actual belongings and leave the tent.\"\n\n60 independent UK festivals have already committed to getting rid of single-use plastic at their events by 2021\n\nPaul Reed, AIF's chief executive, says a major problem is the huge misconception about what happens to your tent.\n\n\"I think many people believe they'll go to charities and the reality is that most won't - they will go to landfill with no other option.\"\n\nThis comes a year after the AIF's Drastic On Plastic campaign, which pledges for festival sites to get rid of single-use plastic by 2021.\n\nPaul says with the climate crisis more on people's minds, urgent action needs to be taken, with the help of retailers.\n\n\"The research out there narrows it down to this - a third of abandoned tents at festivals can be traced back to major retailers like Argos and Tesco.\n\n\"I think a lot of it is to do with the marketing of these items and the implication these are festival items and only for single-use.\"\n\nIn a statement Argos says: \"We offer a variety of tents at a range of prices. They are all sold with a bag to encourage re-use.\"\n\nTesco has yet to reply to our request for a statement.\n\nJenny Cawthorn (L) says she and her friends had assumed discarded tents were picked up by charities\n\nTwenty-year-old Jenny Cawthorn is a regular festival goer and says it's not always easy taking a tent home.\n\n\"If it just is in a mess or it's been battered by the rain or the weather then we will just end up leaving it in the field.\n\n\"I think for a lot of people the priority is just to get home as they're feeling rough and not fussed.\n\n\"But me and my friends are trying harder now because we're all trying to make changes to help the environment.\"\n\nPeople are being encouraged to pick up their rubbish and take their tents home\n\nFor those heading to Boomtown Festival in Winchester in August, be prepared for a near zero-tolerance policy when it comes to abandoning tents.\n\nEmily Ford, the festival's sustainability coordinator, says there will be a campsite patrol at the festival.\n\nThe Eco Camp plans to create a zero waste space with people on hand to help festival goers keep the site clean.\n\nEmily says: \"If people aren't living up to our ethos there'll be a warning system and if people breach it, we may ask them to leave the Eco Camp.\"\n\nMatt Wedge will be running a free shop at the festival, providing tents and other items like camping chairs for a £10 deposit.\n\n\"It's not illogical for someone who never goes camping to abandon their tent, you just need to convince them there is an alternative.\"\n\nMajor festivals like Reading already have a policy, where they advise people to buy a durable tent to use again each year.\n\nAs for Jordan, he says he's probably going to think twice when he's packing up at the next festival.\n\n\"After hearing that a tent is equivalent to hundreds of plastic cups, I feel bad for leaving the tent there now.\n\n\"At the time it honestly really didn't cross my mind but next time, I'm definitely not going to leave my tent there.\"", "The attack is thought to have targeted police\n\nAt least nine people have been killed in an explosion outside a major Sufi Muslim shrine in the Pakistani city of Lahore, officials said.\n\nFive police officers are reportedly among the dead. A police van was the prime target, authorities said.\n\nPolice have described the blast as a suicide attack.\n\nIt has been claimed by the Hizbul Ahrar, a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban.\n\nThe explosion occurred at 0844am local time (0344 GMT) near the Data Darbar Sufi shrine, one of the oldest Sufi shrines in South Asia.\n\nThe bloodshed comes as Pakistani Muslims mark the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.\n\nA security operation is still under way in the area, with a heavy police presence at the blast site.\n\nFootage from the scene shows a badly damaged police vehicle surrounded by debris near a security checkpoint at the shrine.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Imran Khan This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe shrine was packed with devotees when it was attacked in 2010\n\nLocated near the Bhati Gate inside the ancient Walled City of Lahore, Data Darbar is one of the largest Sufi shrines in South Asia.\n\nBuilt in the 11th Century, it is where Sufi saint Abul Hassan Ali Hajveri - also known as Data Ganj Baksh - was laid to rest.\n\nIt is considered to be one of the most sacred sites in Lahore.\n\nIt is visited by hundreds of thousands of people each year from both Sunni and Shia traditions of Islam.\n\nIn 2010, dozens died in two suicide blasts at Data Darbar.\n\nPolice said, although there was no specific threat against the shrine, worshippers should remain vigilant during the month of Ramadan.\n\nSufism is a form of Islamic mysticism that exists across the Islamic world, and includes both Sunnis and Shias.\n\nIts followers in Pakistan have been attacked by militants in the past.\n\nSome extremists view Sufis as heretics for not adhering to their fundamentalist form of Islam.\n\nPakistan has cracked down on a number of extremist groups - including Pakistani Taliban factions - in recent years.\n\nBut while security has improved the country still grapples with attacks by militants who are opposed to the government.\n\nIn 2016, at least 72 people were killed in Lahore in a bombing targeting Christians on Easter Sunday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Tom Scott: \"We want to understand the envelope of safety in the area\"\n\nChernobyl's \"Red Forest\" - one of the most radioactive locations on Earth - has just been surveyed by UK scientists using a suite of drones.\n\nThe robotic aircraft flew novel sensors that have given Ukrainian authorities more up-to-date information on the sites with the greatest contamination.\n\nThe Red Forest is just 500m from the Chernobyl nuclear complex.\n\nIt was hit by the immediate fallout from the 1986 explosion and fire in the plant's number-4 reactor.\n\nMany of the forest's trees died and turned orange. Some areas are still strictly out of bounds to humans.\n\nThe UK's National Centre for Nuclear Robotics (NCNR) has developed a drone-mapping system that allows scientists to investigate hazardous places from a safe distance.\n\nThe survey detected some unexpected hotspots to the south of the Red Forest\n\nFixed-wing craft are first used to make a general radiation map by flying at about 40mph (65km/h) just above the treetops, in a grid pattern.\n\nPlaces of interest are then followed up with rotary-wing drones.\n\nThese can hover and use their sensors to acquire high-resolution, 3D information.\n\nThe survey conducted in April essentially confirmed the current understanding of the radiation distribution in the forest, but in far greater detail than has previously been available.\n\nThe drones also identified a few unexpected hotspots.\n\nOne of these, a few km to the south of the forest, turned out to be an old soil separation unit used during the original clean-up efforts.\n\n\"They were trying to separate out the contamination and thereby reduce the volume of the waste,\" Prof Tom Scott, from Bristol University and co-director of the NCNR, told BBC News.\n\n\"The legacy left at that facility is essentially spent nuclear fuel scattered on the floor, which was giving a very high radiation dose. About 1.2 millisieverts an hour. That would mean I'd be able to hit my yearly dose within just a few hours.\"\n\nThe NCNR team plans to go back to Ukraine in the coming months to survey additional areas in Chernobyl's 2,600km² Exclusion Zone, which is permitting more and more people to enter over time.\n\nSome 70,000 tourists even visited the zone last year and there are plans to use large areas of land deemed now to be low risk for solar generation.\n\nThe British mapping exercise will help refine the protocols used to ensure the safety of all entrants to the exclusion zone.\n\nThe old Chernobyl plant now sits within a new containment building\n\nThe NCNR is a nationwide consortium of research experts tasked with developing the next generation of technologies that can be used to clean up Britain's 4.9-million tonnes of legacy nuclear waste.\n\nSpecialists in robotics, artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning, sensors, electronics and materials are working across eight institutes, centred on a hub at the University of Birmingham.\n\nOne key goal is to come up with autonomous robots that can efficiently and safely curate the waste.\n\nThese tools are far more advanced than the systems people will know from car assembly lines, said Prof Rustam Stolkin from the University of Birmingham.\n\n\"These robots are completely autonomous; they're driven by a hundred thousand lines of AI code,\" he explained.\n\n\"They use robotic vision systems; they see objects and understand their position, their size and their shape; and plan where to put fingers to achieve a stable grasp.\n\n\"They can clear a random, cluttered heap of objects with no prior knowledge of those objects. This is the frontier of international robotics and AI research.\"\n\nThe NCNR is developing a range of smart robots\n\nIt's hoped many of the NCNR's technologies will have export and spin-out potential. The drone system is already being tested for mineral prospecting.\n\n\"The drones fly at a height which means they're much more sensitive than if you fly in a helicopter or an aeroplane,\" said Prof Scott.\n\n\"Some of the minerals we'd be interested in are gold and rare earth elements and cobalt. These are some of the most valuable materials we can think of and as minerals, they all have characteristic radioactive anomalies.\"\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Aerial pictures show the extent of the damage at the house\n\nTwo people have died in a suspected gas explosion which destroyed a bungalow.\n\nThe rear of the home was blown out by a series of explosions at the property in The Street in Lidgate, near Newmarket in Suffolk.\n\nCrews began tackling the blaze at about midday and specialist dogs were later brought in after two people were \"unaccounted for\".\n\nThe cause of the explosion is unknown and a joint fire and police investigation is taking place.\n\nOfficers said the fire was believed to have been caused by a gas explosion.\n\nPolice said the road was likely to remain closed \"for quite some time\"\n\nOne neighbour said it rattled the windows of homes further along the road, and described it as a \"huge explosion\".\n\nSuffolk Fire and Rescue Service said it had sent four crews to deal with the blaze.\n\nFire officers had spent the afternoon trying to establish the whereabouts of the two missing people.\n\nIncident commander Darren Reeve said: \"We are working extremely hard to try and identify if we have anyone in or not.\"\n\nPolice said the road was likely to remain closed \"for quite some time\".\n\nIt is believed a gas explosion caused a fire at the bungalow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ellie Gould was a pupil at Hardenhuish School in Chippenham\n\nA teenage girl who was found dead at a house in Wiltshire has been formally identified as 17-year-old Ellie Gould.\n\nPolice said a 17-year-old boy who was arrested on suspicion of murder remains in custody.\n\nOn Friday afternoon officers were called to a house in Springfield Drive, Calne, where Ellie was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nA police spokesperson said she was a Year 12 pupil at Hardenhuish School in Chippenham.\n\nPolice said the arrested teenager was known to Ellie, and that a post-mortem examination to determine the cause of death would be held on Sunday.\n\nEllie's body was found at a house in Springfield Drive\n\nInquiries are continuing to ascertain the exact circumstances surrounding her death.\n\nSupt Conway Duncan said: \"Our thoughts remain with Ellie's family, her friends and schoolmates.\n\n\"Ellie's family will continue to receive support from specially trained officers and we are aware that her fellow pupils are being encouraged to seek support being organised by Hardenhuish School.\n\n\"We fully appreciate the level of shock, anxiety and upset in and around Calne and Chippenham and our officers are continuing to progress their inquiries as swiftly and diligently as possible.\"\n\nIn a statement, Hardenhuish School said: \"The Hardenhuish community is shocked and saddened by the tragic death of Ellie Gould.\n\n\"Ellie was a talented, popular and much-loved member of our school community who will be dearly missed.\n\n\"Our thoughts and condolences are with Ellie's family at this devastating time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joseph McCann, 33, is said to have links to Watford, Aylesbury and Ipswich\n\nA man wanted over the abduction and rape of two women in London has been linked to a third attack.\n\nJoseph McCann is wanted by detectives investigating the abduction of two women in Chingford and Edgware on 25 April.\n\nHertfordshire Constabulary said he was also linked to the rape of a 21-year-old in Watford on 21 April.\n\nOfficers believe McCann, who is also wanted on recall to prison, could be using disguises.\n\nA £20,000 reward has been offered by the Metropolitan Police for information about his whereabouts that leads to his arrest and prosecution.\n\nThe BBC has been told he was originally jailed in 2008 for aggravated burglary after admitting breaking into the home of an 85-year-old man on 27 December 2007.\n\nHe was released on licence by the Parole Board in 2017 but had been recalled for breaching his licence.\n\nJoseph McCann is known to use false names, most recently Joel, the Met said\n\nDuring the attack in Watford, the victim was approached by a man holding a knife in Hagden Lane at about 03:30 BST.\n\nShe was forced into a blue Ford Mondeo and driven around the town for six hours before being raped.\n\nThe Hertfordshire force said the suspect had been identified after the attack was reported to them on 22 April.\n\n\"A significant amount of work was done to try and locate and arrest him, which proved unsuccessful,\" it said.\n\nThe next victim was abducted the following Friday in Chingford, north London, at about 00:30, with the third targeted at 12:15 in Edgware.\n\nBoth women, aged in their 20s, were raped before being driven to a hotel in Watford, where the suspect attempted to book a room but left when one was unavailable.\n\nThey both then escaped following a struggle in Osborne Road at about 14:30.\n\nThe Met said 33-year-old McCann, who has connections in Watford, Aylesbury and Ipswich, is known to use false names.\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin said: \"We would ask anyone with any information about McCann's whereabouts to contact us immediately.\n\n\"McCann is considered extremely dangerous and a risk to the public and we ask people not to approach him, but instead call 999.\"\n\nMcCann is described as white, with a muscular build, a bald head or shaved blond hair and a light-coloured short beard.\n\nHe is said to have a distinctive tattoo of the name \"Bobbie\" on his stomach.\n\nA man, aged 33, has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to rape and released as inquiries continue.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Demonstrators outside Birmingham primary schools wanted an end to LGBT lessons\n\nHead teachers have challenged ministers to deliver better support for schools facing criticism from parents over lessons on same-sex relationships.\n\nThe move follows weeks of protests outside schools in Birmingham.\n\nHead Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson told the National Association of Head Teachers' conference that official teaching guidance on LGBT love was unclear.\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds has said no child should have to walk past demonstrations to go to school.\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson told the annual meeting there had been five weeks of protests over equality lessons outside her school, Anderton Park primary.\n\n\"The lead protestors have no children at my school,\" she said.\n\nShe highlighted photographs of some of the banners displayed outside the grounds, declaring slogans such as \"Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve\" and \"We have a say in what they learn\".\n\nAddressing the conference, Ms Hewitt-Clarkson asked: \"How have we got to this beyond awful state of affairs?\"\n\nShe said the government's new draft relationships education policy - due to come in next year - stated that primary school children should know that marriage, both to same-sex and opposite sex couples was a life-long commitment.\n\nIt also stated that families could be single parents, LGBT parents, grandparents and so on.\n\n\"This is excellent and clear,\" she said.\n\nBut she said she believed official guidance to heads did not make it sufficiently clear that the policy did not specifically seek to promote LGBT relationships or indeed heterosexual relationships, but rather \"love and care\" more generally.\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson said she also objected to suggestions in the guidance that it was up to primary schools to decide whether teaching about LGBT relationships specifically was age-appropriate for their pupils.\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson said this made \"a policy that is meant to be the same for all, different for all\", with individual head teachers like herself left having to sort out the confusion.\n\nShe called on Mr Hinds to work with her and the NAHT \"to sort out this unequal mess\".\n\nThe conference motion for \"a more robust and legally enforceable policy and support for schools as they carry out their public sector equality duty\", was carried unanimously.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said the guidance was clear that schools would have \"flexibility to deliver the content of relationships, sex and health education in a way that is age-appropriate and sensitive to the needs of their pupils.\n\n\"It is also unequivocal that these subjects do not promote anything, they educate.\n\n\"Ultimately it is for the school to decide what is taught in the curriculum and we trust them to make reasonable decisions based on the feedback they receive from parents,\" said the spokesperson.", "Joseph McCann is wanted over attacks in London and Watford\n\nA man suspected of abducting and raping three women is being hidden by a friend or family member, police believe.\n\nJoseph McCann, 34, is alleged to have attacked three women in north London and Watford last week.\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin said there was no evidence Mr McCann had left the country and urged anybody helping him to \"please call us\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice is carrying out a review into whether Mr McCann had been released from jail by mistake.\n\nSpeaking outside of New Scotland Yard, Det Ch Insp Goodwin said whoever is hiding the 34-year-old \"possibly isn't aware of the full nature of his crimes\".\n\nShe said it appeared the women had been \"selected randomly\", then abducted \"in an incredibly violent manner\".\n\n\"Please consider if your mother, sister, daughter, niece or friend had experienced such an awful attack and put yourselves in the shoes of their family,\" the detective said.\n\nThe Met has offered a £20,000 reward for information leading to Mr McCann's arrest and prosecution.\n\nJoseph McCann is said to have links to Watford, Aylesbury and Ipswich\n\nThe first attack took place in Watford on 21 April where a woman was approached by a man armed with a knife who drove her around in a car for six hours then raped her.\n\nOn 25 April, two women were abducted in Chingford and Edgware within the space of 12 hours.\n\nThey were both raped then driven to a hotel in Watford where their attacker was unable to book a room. Soon after they managed to escape during a struggle.\n\nThe force has described Mr McCann as a \"violent individual who is a risk to women and poses a threat to children\" and warned people against approaching him.\n\nA 63-year-old woman from Aylesbury was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of intimidation of witnesses in connection with one of the attacks. She has been released on bail.\n\nA 33-year-old man arrested on Sunday on suspicion of conspiracy to rape has been released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBelfast City Marathon organisers have apologised after admitting that Sunday's course was 0.3 miles longer than it should have been.\n\nBelfast Marathon chairman David Seaton blamed \"human error\", saying the lead car diverted from the route.\n\n\"Approximately 460 additional metres were added to the officially measured course of 26.2 miles,\" he said.\n\n\"This was due to human error, with the lead car diverting from the official route.\"\n\nEarlier, John Glover, the event's course measurer, said runners had twice been \"taken off the measured route\".\n\n\"The route run was 469 metres in excess of the route measured and approved by the Association of International Marathons,\" said Mr Glover.\n\nA distance of 469 metres equates to 0.293 of a mile.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Seaton said \"protocols will be put in place to ensure this never happens again\".\n\nHe added that race organisers were in the \"process of adjusting runners' times to reflect the correct distance\".\n\nFollowing Sunday's race, a number of questions were raised on social media about the new course's length.\n\nIn 2013, 2014 and 2015, the Greater Manchester Marathon course was 380m too short, as a result of a measuring error. UK Athletics subsequently declared the times of those races invalid.\n\nKenyans Joel Kositany and Caroline Jepchirchir took victory in the first Sunday running of the event.\n\nKositany secured his fourth Belfast men's triumph as he crossed the line in two hours 18 minutes 40 seconds.\n\nJepchirchir repeated her 2018 win as she set the fastest ever women's time in Belfast, clocking 2:36:38.\n\nThis 38th staging of the event took place on a new course which organisers hoped would ensure faster times.\n\nHowever, the discrepancy with the course distance is now likely to be the main talking point following the race.\n\nEvent chairman Seaton admitted that the mistake will upset a number of competitors.\n\nHe said: \"I can understand if you have been aiming for a sub three-hour marathon time and because of the mistake you have ended up being just outside three hours on the clock, that you are going to be annoyed.\n\n\"It's a hiccup that we obviously could have done without. But I don't think it should overshadow what was a very successful day with the numbers up significantly because of the new Sunday date.\n\n\"People have been coming up to us congratulating us on the day and saying it was a great event with the spectator number also well up on previous years.\"", "Thailand's new king has started three days of ceremonial rites, as the country crowns its first monarch in nearly seven decades.\n\nThe rituals he goes through are a mixture of Buddhist and Hindu Brahmin traditions and date back centuries.\n\nKing Vajiralongkorn's crown weighed 7.3kg (16lb), and symbolised Mount Meru, the home of the Hindu god Indra.", "Jessica Anderson knew that her record beating time would not be considered for the title\n\nGuinness World Records says its guidelines for the fastest marathon in a nurse's uniform are \"long overdue a review\".\n\nIt comes after it refused to consider a nurse's record attempt because she was wearing scrubs instead of a dress.\n\nOfficials told Jessica Anderson that its criteria for a nurse uniform also involved a pinafore and cap, but tights were optional.\n\nShe ran the London Marathon knowing that her time would not count.\n\nShe finished the race 22 seconds faster than the current record holder and described the rules as \"sexist\" and \"outdated\".\n\nJess is a senior sister at the Royal London Hospital.\n\nHer work in an acute medical admissions ward is fast-paced and she wears scrubs to work every day.\n\nSo when she decided to challenge the title for the fastest woman to run a marathon in a nurse uniform, she sent Guinness World Records a photo.\n\nShe was told that her actual uniform did not meet its criteria for a nurse's uniform.\n\nShe went ahead and ran anyway, completing the course in three hours, eight minutes and 54 seconds.\n\nThat was fast enough to beat the record.\n\nJess believes the rules about wearing a dress apply to anyone wanting to challenge the record title - including men.\n\n\"Some of the male nurses I work with are really hopeful that they do change the definition,\" she said.\n\nThe story prompted nurses to tweet selfies of themselves, with very few dresses on show.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 𝚂𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚊ᴿᴺ 🏳️‍🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome pointed out that certain roles don't require any kind of uniform.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Shal Henry-Treloar This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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End of twitter post 4 by Ruth May\n\nGuinness World Records has now responded, agreeing it is time for a review.\n\nIn a statement, it said that \"inclusiveness and respect\" were values it holds \"extremely dear\".\n\nIt continued: \"While we always need to ensure we can differentiate between categories, it is quite clear that this record title and associated guidelines is long overdue a review, which we will conduct as a priority in the coming days.\"\n\nIt is not yet clear if this could mean that Jess will be awarded the record, or if the criteria will only change for future attempts.\n\nShe says it would be \"perfect\" if Guinness World Records finds a way to give her the title.\n\nBut she said it was most important that officials modernise the guidelines.\n\n\"I would be quite happy if they changed it in the future or acknowledged that it's sexist and it's not really how we want the profession to be represented.\"\n\nIf she doesn't get the title though, she said she was very tempted to try again next year.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "North Korea has confirmed via state media that leader Kim Jong-un has overseen a \"strike drill\" testing various missile components.\n\n\"A number of short-range projectiles\" were also fired from the Hodo peninsula into the Sea of Japan on Saturday.\n\nNorth Korea's leader gave the order of firing to \"increase the combat ability\" of the country, the announcement said.\n\nUS President Donald Trump tweeted he believed Mr Kim would not jeopardise the path towards better relations.\n\nHe added that the North Korean leader \"knows that I am with him & does not want to break his promise to me. Deal will happen!\n\n\"I believe that Kim Jong-Un fully realises the great economic potential of North Korea and will do nothing to interfere or end it,\" Mr Trump posted on social media on Saturday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPresident Trump walked away from what he described as a bad deal offered by Kim Jong-un at a summit meeting in Hanoi in February.\n\nIn its report on Sunday, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Mr Kim had stressed the need to \"defend the political sovereignty and economic self-sustenance\" of the country in the face of threat and invasion.\n\nThe aim of the drill, which was testing \"large-calibre long-range multiple rocket launchers\", was to \"inspect the operating ability and the accuracy of striking duty performance,\" the report said.\n\nThe North Korean leader told troops to bear in mind \"the iron truth that genuine peace and security are ensured and guaranteed only by powerful strength\".\n\nIt is believed that Saturday's test is intended to increase pressure on Washington to move nuclear talks forward.\n\nLast month, North Korea said it had tested what it described as a new \"tactical guided weapon\".\n\nThat was the first test since the Hanoi summit.\n\nThe second summit between President Trump and Mr Kim in Hanoi, Vietnam\n\nAnalysts say a short-range solid fuel ballistic missile was fired on Saturday, making this the most serious test since North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile in November 2017.\n\nHowever, it does not violate North Korea's promise not to test long-range or nuclear missiles.\n\nBut Pyongyang appears to be growing impatient with Washington's insistence that full economic sanctions remain until Mr Kim takes serious steps to dismantle his nuclear weapons programme, says the BBC's Laura Bicker.\n\nSouth Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that North Korea \"fired a number of short-range missiles from its Hodo peninsula near the east coast town of Wonsan to the north-eastern direction from 09:06 (00:06 GMT) to 09:27\" on Saturday.\n\nThe missiles flew for between 70km and 200km (45-125 miles) before landing in the Sea of Japan, they added.\n\nSeoul has previously called on Pyongyang to \"stop acts that escalate military tension on the Korean peninsula\".\n\n\"North Korea's recent missile launches are a provocation at a time when the international community is awaiting concrete steps from North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons and missile programme,\" the German Foreign Ministry said, according to AFP.\n\n\"We welcome President Trump's declaration that he is ready to continue to support the negotiations process despite this provocation,\" the statement said.\n\nHodo has been used in the past for launching cruise missiles and long-range artillery testing.\n\nAccording to KCNA, April's test of a new \"tactical guided weapon\" was also overseen by Mr Kim himself. It was \"conducted in various modes of firing at different targets\", which analysts believe means the weapon could be launched from land, sea or air.\n\nIt is unclear if that weapon was a missile, but most observers agree that it was probably a short-range weapon.\n\nSaturday's launches did not violate North Korea's pledge not to test long-range missiles\n\nLast year, Mr Kim said he would stop nuclear testing and would no longer launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.\n\nNuclear activity appears to be continuing, however, and satellite images of North Korea's main nuclear site last month showed movement, suggesting the country could be reprocessing radioactive material into bomb fuel.\n\nThe country claims it has developed a nuclear bomb small enough to fit on a long-range missile, as well as ballistic missiles that could potentially reach the mainland US.", "Alliance leader Naomi Long has hailed her party's \"incredible result\" in the council elections as a watershed moment for Northern Ireland politics.\n\nWith all 462 seats declared, Alliance saw a 65% rise in its representation. It had 32 councillors five years ago but now it has 53.\n\nOther smaller parties and independents also made significant gains.\n\nThe DUP and Sinn Féin were returned as the two biggest parties, but the DUP lost eight seats.\n\nIn terms of first preference votes the DUP saw a marginal increase to 24.1% but Sinn Féin's was 23.2%, a slight drop on its 2014 results.\n\nAlliance saw its share of the vote increase from 6.7% to 11.5%.\n\nA sister party of the Liberal Democrats in Great Britain, Alliance is Northern Ireland's main centrist cross-community party, seeking to attract support from both Protestants and Catholics.\n\nIt won 10 seats in Belfast and will continue to hold the balance of power between unionists and nationalists.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt also doubled its representation in Mid and East Antrim from three councillors to six, and for the first time in decades, it has representation in the north west with two seats on Derry and Strabane Council.\n\n\"Crucially, we've broken outside the Greater Belfast area for the first time in I would say 30 years,\" Alliance leader Naomi Long told the BBC.\n\nShe said it had been a breakthrough election for her party and other cross-community candidates, with many voters choosing to reject the \"tribal politics\" of unionism and nationalism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alliance leader Naomi Long explains why she thinks voters rewarded the party at the polls\n\nSinn Féin's results have been mixed - it won six out of seven seats in Blackmountain District Electoral Area (DEA) and for the first time, it has representation on Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council with two seats.\n\nHowever, the party lost five sitting councillors from Derry City and Strabane Council.\n\nFormer Sinn Féin MP Barry McElduff, who resigned his Westminster seat over a Twitter controversy, has been elected to Fermanagh and Omagh District Council.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Darran Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe quit as West Tyrone MP last year after he was accused of mocking victims of the Kingsmills massacre - 10 Protestant workmen were shot dead by the IRA.\n\nMr McElduff maintained that the video - published on the 42nd anniversary of the murders - was meant as a joke and the timing was coincidental.\n\nThe DUP has also carved out some new territory, gaining two new seats in Belfast, and electing its first ever openly gay candidate, Alison Bennington in Antrim and Newtownabbey.\n\nBut the party lost its leader on Belfast City Council, Lee Reynolds, after a low turnout in its east Belfast heartland.\n\nThe Green Party had some notable successes with four seats in Belfast, where Áine Groogan topped the poll in the Botanic DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Jayne McCormack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople Before Profit won three seats in Belfast while its former Stormont MLA Eamon McCann returns to frontline politics with a seat on Derry City and Strabane.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Veteran socialist Eamon McCann is \"looking forward\" to his new role as a councillor\n\nMatt Collins topped the poll in the Black Mountain DEA and takes a seat at Belfast City Hall alongside his brother Michael and newcomer Fiona Ferguson.\n\nBrothers Matt and Michael Collins will sit together on Belfast City Council\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) lost 13 seats including those of its Belfast councillors Jeff Dudgeon, a well-known campaigner for LGTB rights, and veteran David Browne, who was first elected 26 years ago.\n\nIndependents have also taken support from larger parties.\n\nIn Newry, Mourne and Down, independent candidate Gavin Malone, a former council worker himself, topped the poll in the Newry District Electoral Area (DEA).\n\nThe first-time candidate, who quit his 20-year career to run for election, got 2,296 first preferences, beating his nearest Sinn Féin rival by more than 900 votes.\n\nIn the same DEA, former SDLP turned independent Dr Josephine Deehan polled 728 first preference votes, more than both of her SDLP rivals put together.\n\nThe GP was elected in the eighth round.\n\nElsewhere in the Fermanagh and Omagh Council area, an anti-gold mining campaigner was the first person to be elected in the Mid-Tyrone DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Darran Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmmet McAleer, who stood as an independent, polled almost 900 first preferences and won a seat in the fifth round.\n\nBut not everyone can go it alone.\n\nIn Belfast, three independents who left the SDLP over a row about abortion policy, all lost their seats.\n\nPat Convery, Kate Mullan and Declan Boyle quit the party in 2017.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Mark Devenport This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin's John Finucane was elected on the first count.\n\nHe is the son of murdered solicitor Pat Finucane who was shot dead in front of his wife and three children in 1989.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Finucane says he wants to \"change Belfast for the positive\"\n\nThe DUP made some gains in Belfast with Nicola Verner taking a seat in Court, from former TUV candidate Jolene Bunting.\n\nMs Bunting, who had been involved in a number of controversies during her five-year tenure, ran as an independent this time but only polled 351 first preferences.\n\nIn Derry and Strabane District Council, independent Gary Donnelly topped the poll in the Moor electoral area - where journalist Lyra McKee was killed last month by dissident republicans.\n\nHe had refused to condemn violent dissident republicanism but in the wake of her murder he called on the New IRA to desist from further attacks.\n\nIt has been a similar theme to day one, which is that of Alliance victories, they have the most to be pleased about as the result of this election.\n\nClearly different voters vote for them for different reasons, but it may well reflect a disenchantment with the political paralysis up at Stormont.\n\nThe DUP will be pleased that they have held their own and actually increased their vote slightly at the expense of the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV), which had a good election five years ago but has not been able to replicate that performance.\n\nI think Sinn Féin will be disappointed, they missed a number of their targets and their vote has slid slightly.\n\nOne interesting development tonight is that it looks like Fermanagh and Omagh District Council might slip into no overall control, rather than being a nationalist majority council.\n\nThat is because there has been a wave of independents who won through there.\n\nThose independents may actually be nationalist in their outlooks but it is a sign of changing times both there and in Belfast where some of the smaller parties have also come through.\n\nMeanwhile, an independent candidate - who only stood for election after a Facebook post suggestion posted on 1 April garnered online support - has been elected to Antrim and Newtownabbey District council.\n\nMichael Stewart, who runs the Love Ballyclare Facebook page, said: \"I wasn't aware there would be this massive surge to independents, the Greens and Alliance. I didn't know I was part of anything.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am one of those people who voted for me, who've no interest in politics - they care about holes in their roads, no paper in their schools and that they can't get an appointment with their health centre.\"\n\nIt has been a long election for candidates, counters and commentators.\n\nIn Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon District Council, Brian Pope of Alliance was elected following a marathon count that went on until 06:00 on Saturday morning.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We don't exclude members of the gay community'\n\nUnsurprisingly, the story that made headlines on Friday was the success of Alison Bennington, the DUP's first openly gay representative.\n\nBelfast East MP Gavin Robinson said it was a \"good news story\", despite assembly member Jim Wells claiming members were \"shocked by the decision\" to let her run.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said she was delighted by Ms Bennington's electoral performance.\n\nShe said the party will consider comments made by Mr Wells post-election and said he should have raised any concerns \"through the normal routes\".\n\nThe first results started to come in after 11:00 on Friday\n\nBBC News NI is covering the latest election results and analysis on our website, mobile app and on Facebook and Twitter pages.\n\nA dedicated live page will keep you up to date as the results are announced.\n\nThere is an hour-long Sunday Politics programme on BBC One Northern Ireland at 11:00 on Sunday and a special Sunday News election special on BBC Radio Ulster on Sunday at 13:00.\n\nThe final results are not expected to be confirmed until Saturday night", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal's focus is now on the Europa League, says boss Unai Emery, after his lacklustre side's hopes of a top-four Premier League finish were effectively ended by a draw with Brighton.\n\nThe Gunners are three points behind Tottenham in fourth with one game to play but would need an eight-goal swing, as well as results going their way, to overtake their rivals.\n\nBarring that highly improbable scenario, Arsenal will need to win the Europa League to play in the Champions League next season and take a 3-1 advantage into their semi-final second-leg in Valencia on Thursday.\n\n\"We knew it was going to be difficult but our focus is now the Europa League,\" Emery, who won the competition three times in a row with Sevilla, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"We have the opportunity in the Europa League to do something important and we will try and do that.\"\n\nPierre-Emerick Aubameyang put Arsenal in front at Emirates Stadium with a ninth-minute penalty after Alireza Jahanbakhsh was judged to have fouled Nacho Monreal despite appearing to get the ball.\n\nAside from occasional bursts, Emery's side were shaky and sloppy, with Granit Xhaka committing an absurd foul on Solly March to concede a penalty that Glenn Murray converted on 61 minutes.\n\nArsenal frantically searched for a winner but Aubameyang volleyed wide from seven yards out and Brighton keeper Mat Ryan made a series of fine saves.\n\nPascal Gross could have won the game for Brighton late on but skewed his effort out towards the sideline with the goal unmanned after Bernd Leno's superb save from March, while the visitors withstood another flurry from Arsenal in the final stages.\n\nLooking to avoid a fourth straight Premier League defeat, Arsenal made a bright start in attack, though were fortunate to be awarded a penalty, despite referee Anthony Taylor being well placed, with replays showing Jahanbakhsh got to the ball before Monreal fell.\n\nStill, an early lead through Aubameyang's 20th league goal of the season should have allowed the hosts to exert control over the game, but instead they became nervy and vulnerable.\n\nGoalkeeper Leno sent an abysmal clearance straight to March before recovering to save Murray's free header moments later, while Stephan Litchtsteiner, making his first appearance since late February, was frequently exposed.\n\nThere was another promising spell at the end of the first half, with Aubameyang, Shkodran Mustafi and Henrikh Mkhitaryan testing Ryan, but Arsenal's inability to create clear chances gave Brighton increasing confidence in finding an equaliser.\n\nEven then it took a staggeringly poor decision by Xhaka. Running behind the surging March inside the area, the Switzerland midfielder initially held up his hands to indicate he was not touching the Brighton forward only to then whack his shoulder and concede a penalty.\n\nAnd so a game Arsenal should perhaps have dictated against an opposition who were already guaranteed Premier League survival became a manic attempt to salvage a dispiriting end to the league season.\n\nThey came close to scraping a winner but could not do it, the lap of honour conducted with glum faces as the Gunners must now focus on winning the club's first European trophy since 1994.\n\nBrighton's Premier League status was confirmed on Saturday when Cardiff were relegated following defeat by Crystal Palace.\n\nBut Chris Hughton's side looked determined not to let their season drift away, encouraged by Arsenal's defensive frailty.\n\nMarch menaced Litchtsteiner, forced a save from Leno shortly after the break and made a fine run to win the penalty, perhaps going down easily but drawing contact from Xhaka, with Murray sending Leno the wrong way to score his 12th of the season.\n\nCentre-backs Lewis Dunk and Shane Duffy made timely interventions and blocks, while Ryan continues to impress in goal.\n\nWith a more clinical edge, Brighton could have even won and completely ended Arsenal's top-four chances. First, Gross miscued his first-time strike after Leno had clawed away March's diving header in the 86th minute.\n\nThen in added time, substitute Florin Andone oddly failed to look up and play in the onrushing March when Brighton had a two-on-one situation against the stretched Arsenal defence.\n\n'That is more like us' - reaction\n\nArsenal boss Unai Emery, speaking to BBC Sport: \"We knew it was going to be difficult, but at 1-0 we needed to get the second goal. In the 90 minutes we controlled the match and after the first goal we tried to get the second.\n\n\"After their goal we created more chances to score but they defended very well, they are very strong defensively and they showed us that today.\"\n\nBrighton boss Chris Hughton, speaking to BBC Sport: \"That's more like us. It was a good reaction and a response to going a goal behind early in the game, people would have expected them to turn it into two or three. We had to dig deep.\n\n\"I was unhappy with the penalty decision, my feeling was that it was soft and I couldn't understand how he gave it. I saw it again and I haven't changed my mind. It wasn't a penalty, and a very poor decision.\n\n\"But we bounced back and showed a lot of character. Our responsibility is to try and get a result in every game - we will want to do as well as we can against Manchester City next week.\"\n• None Arsenal are winless in their last four Premier League games (D1 L3), their longest run without a victory in the competition since February 2016 (also four games).\n• None Brighton avoided defeat away from home against 'big six' opposition for the first time in the Premier League - they had lost each of their last 11 games before today.\n• None Arsenal have conceded 50 or more goals in consecutive top-flight campaigns for the first time since 1982-83 and 1983-84.\n• None Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is the sixth different player to score 20+ goals in a Premier League season for the club, and the first since Alexis Sanchez in 2016-17.\n• None Since making his debut in the competition in February 2018, only Mohamed Salah (35) has scored more Premier League goals than Aubameyang (30).\n• None Glenn Murray has scored 35% of Brighton's Premier League goals since the start of last season (24/68) - only Leicester's Jamie Vardy has netted a higher percentage of his team's goals in the competition in this period (36% - 38/107).\n\nOn the final day of the Premier League on Sunday, 12 May, Arsenal are away at Burnley, while Brighton host Manchester City, with both matches at 15:00 BST.\n\nBefore that, Arsenal face Valencia in the Europa League semi-final second leg on Thursday, leading 3-1 from the first leg.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mesut Özil with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Shkodran Mustafi (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alex Iwobi.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Mat Ryan tries a through ball, but Anthony Knockaert is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Lucas Torreira (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Shkodran Mustafi.\n• None Attempt missed. Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang with a cross following a fast break.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Anthony Knockaert tries a through ball, but Yves Bissouma is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Pascal Groß (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Solly March (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Pascal Groß.\n• None Attempt missed. Yves Bissouma (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Shane Duffy.\n• None Matteo Guendouzi (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Bernardo (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Yves Bissouma.\n• None Offside, Arsenal. Matteo Guendouzi tries a through ball, but Sead Kolasinac is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIf, for some reason, you find yourself looking for dirty road signs in Glynneath, it might be more of a struggle than anticipated.\n\nThe Neath Port Talbot town's gleaming signs are being scrubbed by window cleaner Kieran Benson, who volunteers his free time.\n\nKieran, who started a competition looking for the filthiest one, has been tidying up the roads for two years.\n\nHe said the cleaning is \"all about loving where I live\".\n\n\"We really wanted to help improve it so we made an effort to try and clean one at the end of every day,\" the 35-year-old family business owner said.\n\nOther family members also help out with scrubbing the signs.\n\nAlthough he has been doing it for years, Kieran has been inspired by reports of other window cleaners doing the same job as him, as it reinforced that \"if you put the effort in it can make a big difference\".\n\nAlongside the signs, Kieran cleans local bus stops which he says is important for the elderly\n\nAlongside sprucing up the signs, Kieran can be found tidying the local bus stops too, which he said is important for older people.\n\nHe said: \"It's all about just making it a cleaner environment for our elderly who sit in those shelters.\"\n\nAlthough the work is done to improve the community, leaving a sign spotless is incredibly satisfying.\n\n\"We definitely enjoy making the signs cleaner, especially if you pick a really bad sign then it's definitely a relaxing venture,\" he added.\n\nRecently, Kieran started a hunt for the town's dirtiest sign, and for now he thinks they have cleaned it - but he is reopening the competition in May in a bid to find an even worse one.\n\n\"I wanted to give back to my community, make the area feel a bit nicer,\" he said.\n\n\"It's all about loving where I live, being proud of where I live and making it into a better environment for all.\"\n\nAnthony Taylor, deputy leader of Neath Port Talbot council, thanked Kieran for his \"pride and community spirit\".\n\nHe added: \"Many local authorities are now at the stage of fighting to protect and sustain essential services so it is tremendously heartening to see communities respond in such a way.\n\n\"We are very grateful for the contribution made by volunteers, community groups and the third sector across Neath Port Talbot.\"", "Ruth Davidson has returned to politics after spending the past seven months on maternity leave\n\nRuth Davidson has warned that the two main Westminster parties will suffer the wrath of voters in the EU elections unless they \"get Brexit sorted\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservative leader admitted that the Tories and Labour had been given an \"almighty kicking\" in English local elections.\n\nBut she predicted that they will be given an even bigger \"wake-up call\" in the European election on 23 May.\n\nShe urged the two parties to find a compromise so the UK can \"move on\".\n\nHer speech to the conference was her first major public appearance since the birth of her son Finn in October.\n\nThe Conservatives lost more than 1,300 seats in the council election and Labour lost 82 as the Liberal Democrats, Greens and independents surged across England.\n\nThe two major UK parties have been locked in talks aimed at finding a way forward on Brexit for the past month, but it is not clear how much progress has been made.\n\nSpeaking at the Scottish Conservative conference in Aberdeen, Ms Davidson said the solution lay in finding a compromise that respects the result of the EU referendum.\n\nShe told delegates: \"The solution doesn't lie in the trenches of one extreme or another - of overturning the referendum, or of crashing out with no deal.\n\n\"It lies in those colleagues currently round the table, taking the difficult first steps towards each other.\n\n\"So I say to the negotiating teams of our party and the Labour Party, who are currently locked in talks - get Brexit sorted, get a deal over the line and let Britain move on.\"\n\nMs Davidson added: \"If we thought yesterday's results were a wake up call, just wait for the European elections on 23 May.\n\n\"A vote the public was promised would never take place, to elect people to a parliament they were told we would already have left. You don't have to be John Curtice to foresee what could happen.\"\n\nTheresa May made her keynote speech to the conference on Friday\n\nMs Davidson was a staunch Remainer ahead of the referendum, but argued it would be undemocratic hold another vote on EU membership.\n\nShe said that if a decision was so big that it had to be handed to the people to decide, then \"we have to listen to the answer they give\" and politicians \"don't get to pick and choose\" which votes are upheld and are ignored.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she wants to hold a second independence referendum in the next two years if the UK leaves the EU.\n\nBut Ms Davidson argued that the country is not being held back as part of the UK, and is already capable of \"taking on the world\".\n\nShe also accused the SNP of using the constitution as an excuse for inaction, and pledged to \"build a better Scotland now\" if her party wins the next Holyrood election.\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she wants another independence referendum within the next two years\n\nShe told delegates that the country has had enough of the SNP's \"agitating for independence\" as she accused the party of \"searching the horizon for a dark cloud and then blaming it on Westminster\".\n\nMs Davidson added: \"I have a more positive view of Scotland's future. I reject their mantra that says we have to have a break-up before we can possibly hope to prosper. I don't see Scotland as subjugated, put upon or as held back.\n\n\"Our message is that we can prosper now. That we can back our businesses, build up our institutions and give future generations the skills to take on all comers.\n\n\"That right here, right now, Scotland can take on the world. There's nothing stopping us.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon's SNP won 63 seats in the last Scottish Parliament election and the Conservatives won 31 - with opinion polls suggesting the SNP continues to hold a commanding lead ahead of the next vote in 2021.\n\nBut Ms Davidson insisted it is realistic for her party to win the election and form the next Scottish government.\n\nShe said: \"As first minister, I won't use every engagement with the UK government as a chance to sow division. I'll use it as a chance to deliver better government for the people who live here.\n\n\"And I'll make a firm guarantee now: If I am elected Scotland's next first minister, there will be no more constitutional games and no more referenda. We've had enough to last a lifetime.\n\n\"So we're not fighting each other - but fighting for each other.\"\n\nMs Davidson was overheard questioning whether she needed to mention the European elections as she rehearsed her speech in the conference hall on Friday evening.\n\nThe rehearsal was apparently caught on a live microphone without Ms Davidson realising, and has since appeared online.\n\nMs Davidson joked in her conference speech that the recording was made after she told her baby son that \"this is the button that broadcasts mummy's rehearsal to the whole press room\".\n\nThe conference heard from Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday, who told delegates that she remained determined to deliver a Brexit deal despite facing fresh calls to quit.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alan Simpson was an experienced pilot, his family said\n\nA poultry farmer from Shropshire has died in a plane crash in Canada.\n\nAlan Simpson, 72, from Prees, was one of two pilots in the aircraft which crashed into a mountain in the Labrador region during \"poor weather\" on 1 May.\n\nThe other pilot, from Belgium, was injured and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said it was working with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada to determine the cause of the crash.\n\nMr Simpson's family said he would be \"deeply missed\".\n\nThey said he had been flying for over 35 years and had been travelling from the US to the UK with another experienced pilot at the time of the crash.\n\nThey added they were \"eternally grateful\" to the search and rescue teams that helped locate the plane.\n\n\"Alan was a vibrant character who lived life to the max and will be deeply missed by the extensive group of family and friends he has left behind,\" his family said.\n\nThe Royal Canadian Mounted Police said weather conditions were poor at the time of the crash\n\nMajor Mark Norris, from the Canadian Armed Forces Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax, and who was part of the search and rescue operation, said it was \"very complex and challenging\" as the plane crashed in an area \"beyond remote\".\n\nHe said they received an alert from the single-engine aircraft's emergency transmitting beacon at 09:30 local time (13:30 BST) and teams were deployed to a mountain near Makkovik.\n\nHe said one of the men was able to send text messages to rescue teams, and, despite the weather conditions, the pair were extracted several hours later. Mr Simpson was pronounced dead in a clinic in Makkovik.\n\nPolice added both men were pilots and an investigation was taking place to determine \"who was actively piloting\" at the time.\n\nOliver Cartwright, a spokesman for the National Farmers' Union, said the organisation was \"deeply saddened\" by Mr Simpson's death.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joseph Merrick surprised doctors with his intelligence and sensitive nature\n\nThe unmarked grave of Joseph Merrick - who is better known as the Elephant Man - has been traced after nearly 130 years, it has been claimed.\n\nMerrick had a skeletal and soft tissue deformity which saw him as a freak show attraction, then a medical curiosity.\n\nHis skeleton has been preserved at the Royal London Hospital since his death.\n\nBut author Jo Vigor-Mungovin says she has now discovered Merrick's soft tissue was buried in the City of London Cemetery after he died in 1890.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2016 calls were made to bury Joseph Merrick's bones in Leicester\n\nAfter a miserable adolescence and time as a travelling exhibit, Leicester-born Merrick ended up at what was then called the London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, where he surprised staff by proving to have an intelligent and sensitive personality.\n\nHe became a minor celebrity and in May 1887 was visited by Alexandra, Princess of Wales, who afterwards sent him Christmas cards.\n\nAfter his death, Merrick's body was dissected and his skeleton preserved as an anatomical specimen.\n\nMerrick's story was made into an acclaimed movie in 1980\n\nMrs Vigor-Mungovin, who has written a biography of Merrick, said a story about his soft tissue being buried had not been followed up due to the number of graveyards in use at the time.\n\n\"I was asked about this and off-hand I said 'It probably went to the same place as the [Jack the] Ripper victims', as they died in the same locality.\n\n\"Then I went home and really thought about it and started looking at the records of the City of London Cemetery and Crematorium near Epping Forest, where two Ripper victims are buried.\n\n\"I decided to search in an eight-week window around the time of his death and there, on page two, was Joseph Merrick.\"\n\nThe gates in this photograph are all that remains of the Leicester workhouse where Merrick stayed\n\nThe detailed Victorian records make it \"99% certain\" this is the Elephant Man, said Mrs Vigor-Mungovin.\n\n\"The burial is dated 24 April 1890, and Joseph died on 11 April.\n\n\"It gives his residence as London Hospital, his age as 28 - Joseph was actually 27 but his date of birth was often given wrong - and the coroner as Wynne Baxter, who we know conducted Joseph's inquest.\n\n\"Everything fits, it is too much to be a coincidence.\"\n\nDetailed examination of records have identified a specific plot where the remains were buried\n\nInitially, the area was narrowed down to a communal memorial garden, but Mrs Vigor-Mungovin said a specific plot had now been identified.\n\n\"The authorities said a small plaque could be made to mark the spot, which would be lovely.\n\n\"Hopefully, we can soon get a memorial in his hometown of Leicester.\"\n\nThe City of London Cemetery has been unavailable for comment.\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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John McDonnell: 'We're dealing with a very unstable government'\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor says he does not trust Theresa May after details from cross-party talks on Brexit were leaked to the press.\n\nThe PM has called on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to \"put their differences aside\" and agree a Brexit deal.\n\nBut John McDonnell said she had \"blown the confidentiality\" of the talks and \"jeopardised the negotiations\".\n\nThe UK was due to leave the EU on 29 March, but it was delayed to 31 October after MPs failed to agree a deal.\n\nMrs May put the plan she had negotiated with the EU to Parliament three times, but it did not have the support of the Commons.\n\nWriting in the Mail on Sunday, Mrs May said Mr Corbyn should \"listen to what voters said\" in Thursday's local elections - which saw the Conservatives lose 1,334 councillors and Labour fail to make expected gains, instead losing 82 seats.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats benefited from Tory losses, gaining 703 seats, with the Greens and independents also making gains.\n\nThe prime minister blamed the Brexit impasse for the losses - but said the elections gave \"fresh urgency\" to find a way to \"break the deadlock\".\n\nTheresa May appealed to the Labour Party to find a compromise over Brexit\n\nMrs May also said she hoped to find a \"unified, cross-party position\" with Labour - despite admitting that her colleagues \"find this decision uncomfortable\" and that \"frankly, it is not what I wanted either\".\n\nMr McDonnell agreed that the message from the polls was to \"get on with it\" and come to an agreement over Brexit quickly.\n\nBut while he said the talks between the two parties would continue on Tuesday, he said they had been undermined after an article in the Sunday Times detailed where Mrs May was willing to compromise - namely on customs, goods alignment and workers' rights.\n\nThe paper also said the PM could put forward plans for a comprehensive, but temporary, customs arrangement with the EU that would last until the next general election.\n\nMr McDonnell told the BBC's Andrew Marr show: \"We have maintained confidentiality as that is what we were asked to do. We haven't briefed the media.\n\n\"So it is disappointing the prime minister has broken that, and I think it is an act of bad faith.\n\n\"I fully understand now why she couldn't negotiate a decent deal with our European partners if she behaves in this way.\"\n\nAsked if he trusted the prime minister, the shadow chancellor said: \"No. Sorry. Not after this weekend when she has blown the confidentiality we had, and I actually think she has jeopardised the negotiation for her own personal protection.\"\n\nLabour's Rebecca Long-Bailey, John McDonnell and Sue Hayman have all been taking part in the cross-party talks\n\nClearly both sides think there is fresh impetus to get a deal after the local elections.\n\nThe government seems prepared to move towards Labour's position, but it's far from clear that it will be enough.\n\nThere's a real fear on the Labour side that if this isn't a permanent arrangement, a new Tory leader - perhaps Boris Johnson or Dominic Raab - could come along and try to change it.\n\nSo success isn't guaranteed when the two sides get back around the table on Tuesday, and both sides need to know they can take a big chunk of their parties with them.\n\nIf Theresa May faces losing dozens of Tories opposed to a customs union, or Jeremy Corbyn faces losing dozens of labour MPs who want another referendum, they might not have the numbers to get this through the Commons.\n\nAnd in that case, a compromise is useless.\n\nSir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers, told the Daily Telegraph that staying in a customs union could lead to a \"catastrophic split\" in the Conservative Party.\n\nAnd Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme that millions of people would give up on Labour and the Conservatives if they agreed a deal, adding it would be the \"final betrayal\".\n\nBut the new International Development Secretary Rory Stewart told BBC Radio 5 live's Pienaar's Politics the Tories might have to \"take some short-term pain\" to finish the job.\n\nThe leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, also said her party needed to \"start walking ourselves back\" from the extremes of the argument to find a compromise, telling the BBC's Andrew Marr \"there is a deal to be done\" with Labour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ruth Davidson MSP: \"The answer is somewhere in the middle\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson said it was \"absolutely right\" for the talks to continue, but told Pienaar's Politics: \"I don't think we should be in any doubt that the Labour Party membership and vast numbers of my colleagues in Parliament don't want us to just sign off on a Tory Brexit.\n\n\"They don't want us to bail the prime minister out of the problem of her own making and a very large number of our members think the people should decide on what that deal looks like.\"\n\nThe comments come after the People's Vote campaign - which wants a referendum on a final Brexit deal - published a letter signed by more than 100 opposition MPs saying any new, agreed deal should be put to the public for a vote.\n\nLabour MP Bridget Phillipson, who backs the campaign, told Sky's Sophy Ridge: \"I think we have reached a stage now that whatever deal is agreed... it has to go back to the British people.\n\n\"Something stitched up, cobbled together in Westminster will not be sustainable in the long run. I want to check it is what people want now.\"", "Hundreds of weapons have been seized in searches since the 21 April attacks\n\nSri Lankan authorities have called on the public to surrender swords and large knives amid heightened security concerns following the deadly Easter Sunday attacks.\n\nPolice said knives used for legal everyday activities should not be included in the handover this weekend.\n\nHundreds of weapons have been seized in searches since the 21 April attacks.\n\nMore than 250 people were killed in the co-ordinated suicide bombings, which targeted churches and luxury hotels.\n\nIn addition to weapons, police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara called on people in possession of \"police or camouflaged military uniforms\" to hand them in to their nearest police station on Saturday or Sunday.\n\nHe did not confirm whether police would give an amnesty to those who surrendered weapons during the two-day handover period.\n\nThe call came as investigations into the deadly bombings continue.\n\nSri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena told Reuters on Saturday that some 25 to 30 people linked to the bombings were still at large.\n\nThe country has tightened security since the attacks last month\n\n\"We have already identified all active members of the group and it's a case of now arresting them,\" he said.\n\nThe president added that there was \"no information yet to say these suspects are suicide bombers.\"\n\nMr Sirisena told the news agency that he believed the Islamic State group when they said they were behind the attacks.\n\n\"It's crystal clear because after the attacks the IS organisation made an announcement claiming responsibility for the bombings,\" he said.\n\nAuthorities in Sri Lanka have blamed the blasts on two previously little-known local Islamist groups - National Thowheed Jamath and Jamathei Millathu Ibraheem - whom they suspect had international links.\n\nMr Sirisena said intelligence services from eight countries were helping Sri Lanka with its investigations.\n\nCandlelight vigils have been held in tribute to the victims of the bombings\n\nMr Sirisena also added that he believed the country's security forces would \"eradicate terrorism\" and restore stability before presidential elections, which are due to take place by the end of the year.\n\n\"Elections cannot be postponed, therefore before the elections I will bring about stability and I will eradicate terrorism,\" he said.\n\nScores of suspects have been arrested since the Easter Sunday attacks. The bombings shattered the relative peace that has existed in the nation since the civil war ended a decade ago.\n\nThe majority of people killed in the attacks were Sri Lankans, but dozens of foreign nationals, including British and Indian citizens, were also among the victims.", "Voters went to the polls on Thursday to elect 462 people to sit on Northern Ireland's 11 councils.\n\nThe results have been confirmed after the votes were counted across Friday and Saturday.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin remain the biggest parties.\n\nBut it was the Alliance Party and other smaller parties and independents that made gains.\n\nWatch our round-up of all of the highlights from the elections.\n\nRead more here: Alliance breaks new ground in NI poll", "The brooch, which is about 800 years old, was found in a freshly ploughed field last year\n\nA man who unearthed a £145,000 Anglo-Saxon pendant has found more treasure dating back about 800 years.\n\nTom Lucking's latest find saw him dig up a brooch dating back to between 1200 and 1300 in Wymondham, Norfolk in September.\n\nIn 2014, the then student found a pendant in Winfarthing, Norfolk dating from circa AD630.\n\nMr Lucking, 27, said the brooch, which features two lions and is studded with two pink stones, was a \"special\" find.\n\n\"I dug a few inches and this thing popped out,\" he said.\n\n\"When I first broke it out of the mud, I just saw the back of it but I turned it over and saw the settings.\n\n\"I sat there and just admired it for a bit. It's that satisfaction that comes from finding something that special.\"\n\nMr Lucking now works as a full-time archaeologist but found the pendant and silver gilt brooch while metal detecting in his spare time.\n\nThe pendant found by Mr Lucking is made from a sheet of gold and attached with gold cells, set with garnets\n\nHe said his share of money from the sale of the Winfarthing Pendant had helped him buy a house in Diss, Norfolk in December.\n\nIt was voted the UK's favourite work of art in a poll last year.\n\nMr Lucking has been metal detecting since he was 11 and has discovered other items classified as treasure.\n\nTom Lucking (far right) graduated from the University of East Anglia\n\nNorfolk coroner Jacqueline Blake declared his latest find as treasure, saying that Norwich Castle Museum had expressed an interest in buying it.\n\nIf purchased, it would join the Winfarthing Pendant in the museum's collection.\n\nAnyone who finds gold or silver artefacts thought to be more than 300 years old is required by law to report them to the authorities.", "Last updated on .From the section Fulham\n\nFulham's Harvey Elliott has become the youngest ever Premier League player at 16 years and 30 days.\n\nThe England under-17 midfielder made his debut in the 88th minute of Saturday's 1-0 defeat by Wolves.\n\nFormer Fulham left-back Matthew Briggs held the previous record, set on 13 May 2007 at 16 years and 68 days.\n\nElliott, born on 4 April 2003, became Fulham's youngest player with a substitute appearance in the Carabao Cup third round in September, aged 15.\n• None Quiz: Can you name the Premier League's youngest players?\n\n\"Harvey is on the bench and gets on the pitch because he deserves to,\" said Fulham's caretaker boss Scott Parker. \"He's been outstanding in training over the past three weeks. He's a special talent and we want to nurture him the best we can.\"\n\nThe youngster, who will be sitting his GCSEs in just a few weeks' time, was born in a year that saw Black Eyed Peas dominate the charts with Where Is the Love?\n\nThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Finding Nemo and The Matrix Reloaded ruled at the cinema box office.\n\nNumber one in the charts on the day Elliott was born was Gareth Gates and The Kumars' charity song Spirit in the Sky.\n\nElliott was born 10 months after Ronaldo and Ronaldinho inspired Brazil to World Cup glory and nine months after Manchester United broke the British transfer record with the £30m signing of Rio Ferdinand from Leeds in July 2002.\n\nHe was just three months old when Roman Abramovich took over at Chelsea, two months old when David Beckham joined Real Madrid from Manchester United for £24.5m and four months old when Cristiano Ronaldo made his debut for United.\n\nManchester United won their eighth Premier League title and 15th top-flight league title in the 2002-03 season, while AC Milan were the Champions League winners, beating Juventus on penalties at Old Trafford.\n\nLeon Osman, Wayne Rooney and James Milner were among those to make their debuts earlier that season, while Danish goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel, who won the Treble with Manchester United, retired from playing in May 2003.", "Two men were hit by a car on High Road in Leytonstone\n\nA murder investigation has been launched after a 52-year-old man was hit by a car in Leytonstone, east London.\n\nThe collision appears to have been \"a deliberate act by the driver of the car\" after an earlier altercation, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nTwo men were hit in High Road in the early hours of Sunday, the force said.\n\nThe 52-year-old died in hospital at 17:18 BST. A man, 32, has serious but non life-threatening injuries.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark Wrigley, leading the investigation, said: \"At this early stage it appears that this was a deliberate act by the driver of the car.\n\n\"There had been an altercation in the street prior to this incident and I am appealing for any witnesses or anyone with information who has not yet come forward to contact police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The boy was pulled out of the water off the Great Orme\n\nA 13-year-old boy has died after being pulled out of the sea off the coast of Llandudno.\n\nThe coastguard pulled the child from the water at Pigeon's Cove, Great Orme, just after 21:20 BST on Saturday, following a 999 call at about 20:55.\n\nHe was airlifted to hospital in Bangor but has died.\n\nNorth Wales Police confirmed the boy was from the area and said there were not thought to be any suspicious circumstances.\n\nThe corner has been informed.\n\nSupt Nick Evans said: \"Our deepest condolences are with the family at this difficult time.\"\n\nPigeon's Cove is popular with both local residents and tourists\n\nLlandudno Coastguard, RNLI Llandudno, a search and rescue helicopter, North Wales Police and the Welsh Ambulance Service were all involved in the rescue.\n\nIt happened as the town was hosting thousands of visitors at its annual Victorian Extravaganza.\n\n\"It's an absolute tragedy and our thoughts are with his family,\" Councillor Greg Robbins said.\n\n\"It's an incredibly sad touch to what is one our biggest weekends in the town with hundreds of thousands of visitors. It's very upsetting for everyone.\n\n\"We're all sending our heartfelt condolences to the family and I hope they're getting all the support they need.\"\n\nCouncillor Greg Robbins thanked the emergency services for the efforts\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "George Perrot, 50, was jailed for life for rape in 1987\n\nA man whose rape conviction was quashed after he had served 30 years in jail has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman this year, reports say.\n\nGeorge Perrot, 50, is due to appear in court accused of rape and other charges, the Republican newspaper reports.\n\nHe has pleaded not guilty to all charges in relation to an incident on 4 January in Lawrence, Massachusetts.\n\nMr Perrot is being held without bail until his case is heard on Monday.\n\nThe allegations against Mr Perrot come three years after he was freed from prison by a judge who ruled he was wrongly convicted of rape in 1987.\n\nGeorge Perrot was arrested in 1985, aged 17, accused of raping 78-year-old Mary Prekop at her home in Springfield, Massachusetts.\n\nHe was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison, but was freed in 2016 after the Supreme Court exonerated him because of flawed evidence.\n\nThe prosecution's case rested on faulty FBI analysis of a single hair found at the crime scene, the court ruled.\n\nMr Perrot's release, after a decades-long legal battle to clear his name, generated media attention worldwide.\n\nThe new charges against him allege rape, open and gross lewdness, resisting arrest, and assault and battery on a police officer, according to the Republican.\n\nThe newspaper reports that police found Mr Perrot lying unconscious on the ground, with his face between a partially naked and unconscious woman's legs.\n\nWhen interviewed by police, the woman claimed she did not consent to sex with Mr Perrot, it reports.\n\nThe last thing she remembered before losing consciousness, she reportedly told police, was snorting some powder she claims Mr Perrot gave her.", "The body was found in a house in Springfield Drive\n\nA teenager has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a teenage girl was found in a house.\n\nWiltshire Police said officers were called to a residential address in Springfield Drive, Calne, Wiltshire, just before 15:15 BST on Friday.\n\n\"Despite attempts from the ambulance crew, she was sadly pronounced dead at the scene,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nA 17-year-old boy was arrested in the Chippenham area on Friday afternoon, and remains in police custody.\n\nPolice said he was known to the girl, and that a post-mortem examination to determine the cause of death would be held on Sunday.\n\nSupt Conway Duncan said there would be a \"significant police presence\" in the area over the weekend as inquiries continued.\n\n\"This investigation is still in its early stages but I would like to reassure the local community that a robust police response was launched yesterday and will continue in the days to come.\"\n\nHe added that the victim's family was receiving support from \"specially trained officers\".\n\nPolice have not disclosed the age of the girl.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "New voters have been credited for the Alliance Party's breakthrough in the Northern Ireland council elections.\n\nDeputy leader Stephen Farry said he believed \"the real growth across the centre ground\" was largely due to the emergence of a new vote.\n\nWith all seats declared, Alliance saw a 65% rise in representation. Its number of seats rose from 32 to 53.\n\nSpeaking to BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme, Mr Farry said the party would not \"sit back on our laurels\".\n\n\"Simply being at 11% and still the fifth party in size is not good enough. We have to really transform the landscape of Northern Ireland politics,\" he said.\n\nOther smaller parties and independents also made significant gains in the council election.\n\nThe DUP and Sinn Féin are still the two biggest parties but the DUP lost eight seats. Sinn Féin kept all its seats but its first preferences fell slightly.\n\nThe Ulster Unionists lost 13 councillors, the SDLP seven and the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) fell from 13 seats in the 2014 council elections to just six seats.\n\nThe Green Party is still among the smaller parties, but it was a big winner this time round, doubling its representation from four seats to eight.\n\nPeople Before Profit also had a good election, rising from a single councillor in 2014, to five seats with gains in Belfast, and Derry City and Strabane.\n\nIn terms of first preference votes, the DUP saw a marginal increase to 24.1%, but Sinn Féin's share was 23.2%, a slight drop on its 2014 results.\n\nAlliance saw its share of the vote increase from 6.7% to 11.5%.\n\nA sister party of the Liberal Democrats in Great Britain, Alliance is Northern Ireland's main centrist cross-community party, seeking to attract support from both Protestants and Catholics.\n\nIt won 10 seats in Belfast, an increase of two, where it will continue to hold the balance of power between unionists and nationalists.\n\nIt also doubled its representation in Mid and East Antrim from three councillors to six, and for the first time in decades, it has representation in the north west with two seats on Derry City and Strabane District Council.\n\n\"Crucially, we've broken outside the Greater Belfast area for the first time in, I would say, 30 years,\" Alliance leader Naomi Long told the BBC.\n\nShe said it had been a breakthrough election for her party and other cross-community candidates, with many voters choosing to reject the \"tribal politics\" of unionism and nationalism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alliance leader Naomi Long explains why she thinks voters rewarded the party at the polls\n\nSinn Féin's results have been mixed. It won six out of seven seats in Blackmountain District Electoral Area (DEA), and for the first time, it has representation on Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council with two seats.\n\nHowever, the party lost five sitting councillors from Derry City and Strabane Council.\n\nThe DUP also carved out some new territory, gaining two new seats in Belfast, and electing its first ever openly gay candidate, Alison Bennington, in Antrim and Newtownabbey.\n\nBut the party lost its leader on Belfast City Council, Lee Reynolds, after a low turnout in its east Belfast heartland.\n\nThe Green Party had some notable successes with four seats in Belfast, where Áine Groogan topped the poll in the Botanic DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jayne McCormack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople Before Profit won three seats in Belfast while its former Stormont MLA Eamon McCann returns to frontline politics with a seat on Derry City and Strabane.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Veteran socialist Eamon McCann is \"looking forward\" to his new role as a councillor\n\nMatt Collins topped the poll in the Black Mountain DEA and takes a seat at Belfast City Hall alongside his brother Michael and newcomer Fiona Ferguson.\n\nBrothers Matt and Michael Collins will sit together on Belfast City Council\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) lost a number of seats including its Belfast councillors Jeff Dudgeon, a well-known campaigner for LGBT rights, and veteran David Browne, who was first elected 26 years ago.\n\nIndependents have also taken support from larger parties.\n\nIn Newry, Mourne and Down, independent candidate Gavin Malone, a former council worker, topped the poll in the Newry District Electoral Area (DEA).\n\nThe first-time candidate, who quit his 20-year career to run for election, got 2,296 first preferences, beating his nearest Sinn Féin rival by more than 900 votes.\n\nFormer Sinn Féin MP Barry McElduff, who resigned his Westminster seat over a Twitter controversy, was elected to Fermanagh and Omagh District Council.\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 quit as West Tyrone MP last year after he was accused of mocking victims of the Kingsmills massacre - 10 Protestant workmen were shot dead by the IRA.\n\nMr McElduff maintained that the video - published on the 42nd anniversary of the murders - was meant as a joke and the timing was coincidental.\n\nIn the same DEA, former SDLP turned independent Dr Josephine Deehan polled 728 first preference votes, more than both of her SDLP rivals put together.\n\nThe GP was elected in the eighth round.\n\nElsewhere in the Fermanagh and Omagh Council area, an anti-gold mining campaigner was the first person to be elected in the Mid-Tyrone DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Darran Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmmet McAleer, who stood as an independent, polled almost 900 first preferences and won a seat in the fifth round.\n\nBut not everyone can go it alone.\n\nIn Belfast, three independents who left the SDLP over a row about abortion policy, all lost their seats.\n\nPat Convery, Kate Mullan and Declan Boyle quit the party in 2017.\n\nCounting will continue on Saturday night until all 462 seats are filled across 11 councils.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Mark Devenport This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin's John Finucane was elected on the first count.\n\nHe is the son of murdered solicitor Pat Finucane who was shot dead in front of his wife and three children in 1989.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Finucane says he wants to \"change Belfast for the positive\"\n\nThe DUP made some gains in Belfast with Nicola Verner taking a seat in Court, from former TUV candidate Jolene Bunting.\n\nMs Bunting, who had been involved in a number of controversies during her five-year tenure, ran as an independent this time but only polled 351 first preferences.\n\nIn Derry and Strabane District Council, independent Gary Donnelly topped the poll in the Moor electoral area - where journalist Lyra McKee was killed last month by dissident republicans.\n\nHe had refused to condemn violent dissident republicanism but in the wake of her murder he called on the New IRA to desist from further attacks.\n\nIt has been a similar theme to day one, which is that of Alliance victories, they have the most to be pleased about as the result of this election.\n\nClearly different voters vote for them for different reasons, but it may well reflect a disenchantment with the political paralysis up at Stormont.\n\nThe DUP will be pleased that they have held their own and actually increased their vote slightly at the expense of the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV), which had a good election five years ago but has not been able to replicate that performance.\n\nI think Sinn Féin will be disappointed, they missed a number of their targets and their vote has slid slightly.\n\nOne interesting development tonight is that it looks like Fermanagh and Omagh District Council might slip into no overall control, rather than being a nationalist majority council.\n\nThat is because there has been a wave of independents who won through there.\n\nThose independents may actually be nationalist in their outlooks but it is a sign of changing times both there and in Belfast where some of the smaller parties have also come through.\n\nMeanwhile, an independent candidate - who only stood for election after a Facebook post suggestion posted on 1 April garnered online support - has been elected to Antrim and Newtownabbey District council.\n\nMichael Stewart, who runs the Love Ballyclare Facebook page, said: \"I wasn't aware there would be this massive surge to independents, the Greens and Alliance. I didn't know I was part of anything.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am one of those people who voted for me, who've no interest in politics - they care about holes in their roads, no paper in their schools and that they can't get an appointment with their health centre.\"\n\nIt has been a long election for candidates, counters and commentators.\n\nIn Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon District Council, Brian Pope of Alliance was elected following a marathon count that went on until 06:00 on Saturday morning.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We don't exclude members of the gay community'\n\nUnsurprisingly, the story that made headlines on Friday was the success of Alison Bennington, the DUP's first openly gay representative.\n\nBelfast East MP Gavin Robinson said it was a \"good news story\", despite assembly member Jim Wells claiming members were \"shocked by the decision\" to let her run.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said she was delighted by Ms Bennington's electoral performance.\n\nShe said the party will consider comments made by Mr Wells post-election and said he should have raised any concerns \"through the normal routes\".\n\nThe first results started to come in after 11:00 on Friday", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rockets were seen in the sky above Ashkelon in Israel\n\nMilitants in the Gaza Strip have fired more than 250 rockets into Israel, the army says, prompting air strikes and tank fire on the Palestinian territory.\n\nOne Israeli was killed by shrapnel, while Israeli fire killed four Palestinians, including a mother and her baby daughter, Gaza officials say.\n\nHowever, Israel said the mother and baby were killed by a Palestinian rocket that fell short of its target.\n\nThe flare-up over the weekend followed a truce agreed last month.\n\nFour Palestinians, including two Hamas militants, were killed on Friday after an attack injured two Israeli soldiers.\n\nThe latest violence marks yet another increase in hostilities despite attempts by Egypt and the United Nations to broker a longer-term ceasefire, says the BBC's Tom Bateman in Jerusalem.\n\nOne of the air strikes has hit the offices of Turkish news agency Anadolu, prompting condemnation from Istanbul.\n\nAn Israeli man died early on Sunday in Ashkelon, 10km (six miles) north of Gaza, after being wounded by shrapnel when a rocket hit his house.\n\nThe rocket barrage began at 10:00 (07:00 GMT) on Saturday, and 250 rockets have now been fired into Israel from Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) say.\n\nA number of homes in parts of Israel bordering the Gaza Strip have been hit. Many residents rushed to bomb shelters.\n\nAn 80-year-old woman was seriously injured by shrapnel in Kiryat Gat.\n\nThe country's Iron Dome missile defence system shot down dozens of the rockets, the IDF said.\n\nIn response the IDF said it had launched air and artillery strikes against 120 Gaza sites belonging to Hamas, a militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, and against groups including Islamic Jihad. It blamed both for the attacks.\n\nPalestinian officials say a 22-year-old man was killed. Reuters news agency quotes a small pro-Hamas militant group as saying he was one of their fighters.\n\nThe other deaths included those of a 37-year-old woman and her 14-month-old daughter who were killed in an air strike in the east of the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian officials.\n\nHowever, Israel questioned whether an air strike had killed the mother and baby.\n\n\"According to indications the baby and her mother died as a result of the terrorist activities of Palestinian saboteurs and not as a result of an Israeli strike,\" tweeted Avichay Adraee, without giving further details.\n\nIsrael's Consul General in New York, Dani Dayan, tweeted that the pair were killed by a Palestinian rocket which fell short.\n\nTurkey's Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, condemned the attacks against civilians as \"a crime against humanity\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also issued a condemnation of the Anadolu strike.\n\nThe Israeli military defended targeting the building in a statement, saying the structure was used by Hamas's West Bank task force and as an office for senior members of the Islamic Jihad.\n\nThe violence began during weekly Friday protests in Gaza against the tight blockade of the area. Israel says this is needed to stop weapons reaching Gaza.\n\nA Palestinian gunman shot and wounded two Israeli soldiers at the boundary fence. The IDF blamed Islamic Jihad for the shooting.\n\nRafah was one of the Gaza locations targeted by Israel\n\nThe Israeli air strike in response killed two Hamas militants. Another two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire at the fence.\n\nIslamic Jihad said it had launched the rocket attacks on Saturday in response to Friday's violence.\n\nIts statement also accused Israel of failing to implement last month's ceasefire deal, which was brokered by Egypt.\n\nSaturday's rocket attacks coincided with Palestinians burying the two militants.\n\n\"The resistance will continue to respond to the crimes by the occupation and it will not allow it to shed the blood of our people,\" Hamas spokesman Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua said in a statement on Saturday. He made no explicit claim for Hamas firing the rockets.\n\nAbout two million Palestinians live in Gaza, which has suffered economically from the Israeli and Egyptian blockade as well as recent foreign aid cuts.", "Joseph McCann was wanted over attacks in London and Watford\n\nPolice hunting a fugitive over the abduction and rapes of three women in and around London have arrested a man after two others were abducted in Cheshire.\n\nIn the latest attack on Sunday, two women were forced into a black Fiat Punto in Congleton town centre.\n\nJoseph McCann was found in a tree on a rural lane following a car chase.\n\nThe 34-year-old was spoken to by police negotiators and arrested, Cheshire Constabulary confirmed.\n\nSuspect Joseph McCann was seen in the back of a police car following his arrest\n\nThe Punto was seen in Congleton on Sunday evening by officers. Following a short chase, the car stopped on Obelisk Way having been in a crash with another car.\n\nThe women were left behind as the driver ran off. They were uninjured but have been left \"extremely shaken\", the force said.\n\nOfficers revealed they had found a suspect shortly after 23:00 BST.\n\nAndrew Kidd, who has a farm on Smithy Lane, said he was earlier told by police to stay inside his property.\n\n\"There were three or four police officers in my yard and they were looking up and down, looking in the trees,\" he said.\n\n\"I saw police running along the fence in a neighbouring field and the lane was full of police cars.\n\n\"The helicopter was round and my cows were stampeding because they were upset by the noise of it.\"\n\nThe car carrying the two abducted women crashed with another vehicle near Obelisk Way\n\nResident Robert Burns, 45, said he spoke to police who checked his outbuildings and wheelie bins in search of the suspect.\n\n\"We watched it all from upstairs. It was a long time, it went on for about three hours,\" he said.\n\n\"It was significant police presence, there were a lot of cars, all of the roads were closed.\"\n\nMr McCann was also wanted for questioning over the abduction and rape of a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint in Watford, Hertfordshire, in the early hours of 21 April.\n\nDuring that attack, the victim was approached by a man holding a knife in Hagden Lane at about 03:30 BST.\n\nShe was forced into a Ford Mondeo and driven around the town for six hours before being raped.\n\nThe Met Police released a CCTV image of the suspect\n\nThe Met Police launched an appeal to find Mr McCann after two women in their 20s were snatched off streets in London on 25 April.\n\nA woman was abducted in Chingford at about 00:30, and another at 12:15 in Edgware.\n\nBoth women, aged in their 20s, were raped before being driven to a hotel in Watford, where the attacker attempted to book a room but left when one was unavailable.\n\nThe women escaped following a struggle in Osborne Road at about 14:30.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) is a rare form of abuse\n\nCampaigners are calling for an inquiry into concerns that families have been wrongly accused of inventing or causing illnesses in their children.\n\nFabricated or Induced Illness (FII) is a rare form of abuse where parents exaggerate or cause their child's medical condition.\n\nFamilies and charities claim there is a \"wave of false allegations\".\n\nThe Department of Health says that young people will always have symptoms checked by fully-trained staff.\n\nThe call is being led by Fiightback - a support group helping families across the UK who have been accused of FII.\n\nParents like Amy - not her real name - who was forced to live apart from her two-year-old daughter Lauren for almost a year, after she was accused of both inventing her child's illnesses and then poisoning her.\n\n\"I felt like my character was assassinated, my family was ripped apart and my child was stolen,\" she told 5 Live Investigates.\n\nAmy's nightmare began after her daughter Lauren - not her real name - was rushed into hospital after becoming very ill with a suspected infection in February 2018.\n\nIt was not the first time Amy had taken her daughter to hospital.\n\nWhen Lauren was just three months old, she started having spasms. Doctors prescribed anti-epilepsy medication.\n\nShe subsequently developed a number of other conditions - the most significant of which was reflux, which meant she had to be fed through a tube.\n\nFast forward to February 2018, and as Lauren recovered from her illness, doctors took her off the medications she was taking for her pre-existing conditions.\n\nAmy says all Lauren's symptoms disappeared. Within a week she was a normal, healthy child, and was able to eat food.\n\nAmy says the family concluded that side effects from the medication must have been causing her symptoms.\n\nBut doctors at the hospital took a different view.\n\nThey decided that the only possible explanation was that the symptoms had never existed in the first place - and Amy had invented them.\n\nThe hospital's child protection consultant said the illness which had led to Lauren being rushed into hospital had been caused by Amy administering a substance such as a laxative through her feeding tube.\n\n\"The consultant was telling me my daughter had never had any infection or illness - the only explanation was I had poisoned my daughter and nearly killed her,\" Amy says.\n\nThe hospital made a child protection referral stating they believed Lauren would be at risk if she was allowed home.\n\nA court decided she should be placed in foster care.\n\nAfter three months, Lauren was allowed to live with her father in separate accommodation to Amy and her other children. She could only see her daughter under supervision.\n\n\"Lauren was really confused about where her brothers and sisters were, where her home was. It's very difficult for a child to keep having to say goodbye when you push them into the arms of a stranger,\" says Amy.\n\nSupport group Fiightback are helping families who have been accused of FII\n\nThe family launched a legal bid to get Lauren home.\n\nExperts uncovered medical records which showed hospital staff and others had witnessed Lauren's spasms and vomiting - despite claims Amy had been making them up.\n\nOne expert said it was likely that Lauren had suffered from both reflux and adverse behavioural effects as a result of the anti-seizure medication.\n\nBut it was an independent report for the court which would prove crucial. It stated Lauren's illness must have been caused by an infection - and the chances of it being caused by a substance being put through her tube was remote.\n\nThe case against Amy was abandoned. Lauren came home - almost a year to the day after she had been rushed into hospital.\n\nFiightback told 5 Live Investigates it now wants a review into the number of FII child protection investigations like Amy's, as well as the FII guidelines for medical and social work staff.\n\nIt also wants national and local policy on responses to accusations of FII to be looked at, and new standards set.\n\nCarol Monaghan MP - who has led calls in Parliament to raise awareness of FII - said she would support an inquiry.\n\nShe added: \"Disturbingly, diagnoses can be made by health professionals who have not met or examined the child, and child protection procedures can then be instigated as a result of a remote diagnosis.\"\n\nFiightback is also calling for a cross-party inquiry into what it describes as a \"wave of false allegations.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Lauren is now a bright happy energetic little person.\n\n\"It was surreal. I spent all this time having people continually telling me you're guilty, you're guilty and then in a few minutes it can all just be turned around,\" Amy says.\n\n\"We are just trying to focus on healing.\"\n\nThe family has made a complaint to the hospital and to the General Medical Council.\n\nThe hospital said it was unable to discuss individual cases because of patient confidentiality.\n\nBut a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"Any child or young person visiting an NHS service will have their symptoms assessed by clinicians who are fully trained to correctly diagnose rare conditions or spot any signs of this type of child abuse.\n\n\"We are leading the way in diagnosing rare diseases and personalising treatments through genomics.\n\n\"As part of our Long Term Plan, every seriously ill child who is likely to have a rare genetic disorder and cancer will be offered whole genome sequencing to help get them support sooner.\"\n\n5 Live Investigates is on BBC Radio 5 Live, Sunday, May 5 at 11:00 GMT - catch up on BBC Sounds", "Research shows that only 24% of Scots buy from approved breeders\n\nMore than £1m of tax has been recovered in Scotland as part of a crackdown on fraudsters selling puppies on the black market.\n\nA taskforce was set up by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in 2015 to flush out the undeclared income of rogue puppy breeders.\n\nThe puppy trade in Scotland is reportedly worth £13m a year - with a large proportion illegally bred.\n\nThe tax haul includes a £425,000 bill for a breeder in the west of Scotland.\n\nMost illegally bred puppies are sold online through social media or small ad sites, with research showing only 24% of Scots buy from approved breeders.\n\nThere has been a push to drive out the illegal trade due to welfare concerns as one in four puppies bought online die before their fifth birthday, and one in three get sick or die in the first year.\n\nUsing a full range of civil and criminal enforcement powers, HMRC recovered a total of £5,393,035 in lost taxes across the UK from 257 separate cases since the formation of the taskforce four years ago, including more than £1m in Scotland.\n\nThe Scottish SPCA said the illegal puppy trade was big business\n\nSeveral arrests have also been made as part of the taskforce's work across the UK.\n\nThe head of the Scottish SPCA's special investigations unit, who cannot be named due to the undercover operations they take part in, said: \"Unfortunately, the puppy trade is big business, with thousands of dogs being brought into the country each year, particularly from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"It is a multi-million pound industry and many of these poor dogs are bred on large scale puppy farms with little to no regard for their welfare.\n\n\"It's a barbaric trade which commands huge profit from selling puppies. Often these puppies are kept in appalling conditions and this leads to injuries, health issues and behavioural problems.\"\n\nIllegally traded puppies are often kept in appalling conditions\n\nHMRC officials uncovered fraudsters selling puppies on a mass scale for huge profit, and then failing to declare the sales.\n\nThe agency said that in the west of Scotland, two unconnected puppy breeders were handed tax bills of £425,000 and £337,000 respectively, while a puppy dealer in the east of the country was forced to pay a tax demand in excess of £400,000 as part of the probe.\n\nFinancial Secretary to the Treasury Mel Stride said: \"It is utterly appalling that anyone would want to treat puppies in such an inhumane way and on such a scale.\n\n\"It's also deeply unfair to all of the legitimate businesses who do pay the right tax and the total recovered by the taskforce is equivalent to the annual salaries for more than 200 newly-qualified teachers.\n\n\"We continue to work hard with other government agencies and our partners to tackle these traders.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An unlikely model made an appearance at a fashion event in Marrakesh this week.\n\nPurr-rading on the runway, the grey and white cat stole the show as it dodged models heading the other way.", "Police stopped the car when an officer recognised the driver\n\nA \"prolific road traffic offender\" pulled over by police was driving while disqualified and with 51 points on his licence.\n\nOfficers stopped a car in Lincoln Road, Peterborough, on Friday after they recognised the man behind the wheel as a banned driver.\n\nOn Twitter, Beds Cambs and Herts Road Policing said: \"He has 51 points on his licence. Yes, that is 51.\"\n\nThe driver was reported to court and his car seized, police said.\n\n\"He's clearly a prolific road traffic offender and has amassed a significant number of points in a relatively short period of time,\" a police spokesman said.\n\n\"He was recognised by one of the officers who had given him points previously and knew he was disqualified.\n\n\"If he continues to commit offences we will continue to put him in front of the courts and allow them to hand over whatever sentence they deem appropriate.\"\n\nA driver is usually banned after amassing 12 points.\n• None Driver with 62 points still on the road\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "That's the end of our coverage on this live page. Thanks for sticking with us over the past two days.\n\nThe election has produced an intriguing set of results. Stay tuned to the BBC News NI website over the coming days for more reaction and analysis.", "Veteran socialist Eamonn McCann has returned to politics, two years after losing his seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nThe People Before Profit man was elected to Derry City and Strabane District Council on Saturday.\n\nHe said his party's performance in the Northern Ireland council elections showed that there is an appetite for politicians who want to represent \"the interests of all the people at the bottom of society\".", "Joseph McCann, 34, is said to have links to Watford, Aylesbury and Ipswich\n\nA suspected triple rapist being hunted by police may have been mistakenly released from prison, it has emerged.\n\nJoseph McCann, 34, is alleged to have abducted and raped three women in north London and Watford last week.\n\nHe was not - but should have been - referred to the Parole Board before he was released from prison in February, while halfway through serving a sentence for burglary.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said an \"urgent review\" of the case was under way.\n\nMcCann was jailed in 2008 for aggravated burglary after admitting breaking into the home of an 85-year-old man.\n\nJoseph McCann is known to use false names, most recently Joel, the Met said\n\nHe was given an Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection (IPP) with a minimum term, or tariff, of two-and-a-half years.\n\nThis meant the Parole Board had to decide if it was safe to release him once his tariff expired in 2010.\n\nIn 2017 he was released on licence, which meant he could be sent back to jail if he reoffended or breached his parole conditions.\n\nLater that year, while on licence, McCann was arrested and charged with a further burglary.\n\nHe was given a three-year jail sentence.\n\nMcCann's case should have been referred to the board before he was released but in February this year he was dealt with as a \"determinate sentence\" prisoner.\n\nThis meant he was automatically released 18 months into his sentence.\n\nA £20,000 reward has been offered by the Metropolitan Police for information about McCann's whereabouts that leads to his arrest and prosecution.\n\nDetectives described McCann as \"extremely dangerous\" and said people should call 999 if they saw him.\n\nHe is described as white, with a muscular build, a bald head or shaved blond hair, a light-coloured short beard, and the name \"Bobbie\" tattooed on his stomach.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "None of the 21 people who were injured sustained serious injuries\n\nA passenger plane slid off a runway in the US state of Florida on Friday night, ending up in a river after landing during a thunderstorm.\n\nTwenty-one people were taken to hospital with minor injuries, officials said.\n\nThe chartered Boeing 737, operated by Miami Air International, had flown from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to a military base in the city of Jacksonville.\n\nPassengers say it landed heavily in the storm, skidding into St John's River.\n\nThe 136 passengers and seven crew members on board evacuated the Boeing 737-800 via its wings.\n\n\"No fatalities reported. We are all in this together,\" Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry wrote on Twitter after the incident.\n\nHe also said President Donald Trump had offered assistance as the situation was developing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jax Sheriff's Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Saturday a spokeswoman for the US Navy in Jacksonville said that at least four pets checked into the luggage area were presumed to have died due to flooding.\n\n\"There's water in the cargo hold,\" Kaylee LaRocque told USA Today.\n\n\"We are so sad about this situation, that there are animals that unfortunately passed away.\"\n\nOne passenger on the plane, Cheryl Bormann, described the \"terrifying\" moment it slid off the runway.\n\n\"The plane literally hit the ground and bounced - it was clear the pilot did not have total control of the plane, it bounced again,\" she told CNN.\n\nThe airliner is contracted by the US military to travel to Guantanamo Bay\n\nThe passengers and crew were evaluated in a nearby aircraft hangar\n\n\"We were in the water. We couldn't tell where we were, whether it was a river or an ocean,\" she said, adding that she could smell jet fuel leaking into the river.\n\nIn a news conference, Captain Michael Connor, commanding officer at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, said it was a \"miracle\" that there had been no serious injuries or fatalities.\n\nMiami Air International is contracted by the US military for its twice-weekly \"rotator\" service between the US mainland and Guantanamo Bay, Bill Dougherty, a base spokesman said.\n\nA National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator is seen with flight data recorder\n\nOfficials say the people on Friday's flight included civilian and military personnel.\n\nIt said it was providing technical assistance to the US National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the incident.\n\nThe aerospace giant has been under increased scrutiny following two fatal crashes involving its 737 Max 8 planes - a different model to the one involved in the incident on Friday.", "Theresa May must resign or the Conservatives should force her out, after the party's heavy local election losses, Iain Duncan Smith has said.\n\nThe former Tory leader called Mrs May a \"caretaker PM\" and described her attempts to reach a Brexit deal with Labour as \"absurd\".\n\nThe party suffered its worst local election result in England since 1995.\n\nOther senior Conservatives have urged Tory MPs to compromise with Labour to ensure Brexit is delivered.\n\nElections were held on Thursday for 248 English councils, six mayors, and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland. No elections took place in Scotland or Wales.\n\nThe Conservatives lost 1,334 councillors, while Labour failed to make expected gains, instead losing 82 seats.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats benefited from Tory losses, gaining 703 seats, with the Greens and independents also making gains.\n\nFollowing the results, Mrs May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn both insisted they would push ahead with talks seeking cross-party agreement on leaving the EU.\n\nMrs May said it was clear the public wanted \"to see the issue of Brexit resolved\".\n\nBut Mr Duncan Smith, a leading Brexiteer, said many Conservatives would refuse to back any deal reached between the two parties.\n\nMrs May must announce her departure \"very soon\", he said, and if she did not go, the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs would have to force her to do so.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said: \"As a result of the devastating election result, the PM has in effect become a caretaker.\n\n\"As such, she is not empowered to make any deal with the Labour Party which itself suffered a very similar result. Two discredited administrations making a discredited deal is not the answer to the electorate.\"\n\nIn December, Mrs May survived a vote of no-confidence in her leadership of the Conservative Party, but in March she pledged to stand down if and when Parliament ratified her Brexit withdrawal agreement with the EU.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back to 31 October after Parliament was unable to agree a way forward.\n\nRuth Davidson warned the parties would suffer the wrath of voters in the EU elections over Brexit\n\nIn the wake of the Conservatives' local election losses, senior Tories have called for the party to compromise in order to reach an agreement with Labour to end the Brexit deadlock.\n\nScottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson called for the negotiating teams of both parties - who are currently locked in talks - to \"get Brexit sorted, get a deal over the line and let Britain move on\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the Conservative Party needed to listen to the election results and be \"in the mood for compromise\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said the Conservatives might have to move towards Labour's proposal of a permanent customs union - a move many Brexiteers in the party oppose - in order to solve the impasse in Westminster.\n\nMrs May's government has previously ruled out remaining in a customs union after the UK leaves the EU, arguing it would prevent the UK from setting its own trade policy.\n\nLabour has said the EU may show flexibility over the issue and allow the UK \"a say\" in future trade deals.\n\nMr Hancock suggested \"coming up with something in-between\", and called for \"an open dialogue in which we can make an agreement\".\n\nBut Mr Duncan Smith said a customs union was \"the worst of all worlds because you lose your decision-making capacity\".\n\nMeanwhile, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said there was a \"glimmer of hope\" that a compromise between the Conservative and Labour \"core-voters\" could be reached.\n\nHe added that while he supported the withdrawal deal reached between the EU and Mrs May, there might be things that could be done to make it \"more acceptable\" to Labour without compromising on the \"things that we think are essential\".\n\nBut he also warned that a customs union would not be a \"long-term solution\".\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Hunt's remarks on a customs union provided \"yet more evidence\" that many in the cabinet believed the \"most important thing right now\" was the race to be Mrs May's successor.\n\nLabour's MP for Redcar, Anna Turley, also reacted to Mr Hunt's comments that a customs union was not a long-term solution, tweeting: \"This is why we can't trust the Tories by doing a deal stitched up in Number 10 which they will seek to unravel under their next leader.\"", "Police bosses are urging the Crown Prosecution Service to scrap a policy of asking crime victims in England and Wales to hand over their phones.\n\nThe digital consent forms ask victims of crime - including rape complainants - to hand over their phones so officers can look for evidence.\n\nIf victims do not comply, prosecutions may not go ahead.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says sexual assault victims are not being \"singled out\".\n\nBut the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners say the forms should be withdrawn.\n\nThe forms - which have been introduced in all 43 police forces in England and Wales - ask for permission to view data including messages, photographs, emails and social media accounts.\n\nVictims' groups say they amount to a \"digital strip search\" - and now, police commissioners say they could lead to a loss of confidence in the criminal justice system.\n\nThe APCC's Dame Vera Baird told the Observer - which first reported the story - that material unconnected to the case was being used to discredit complainants.\n\nAnd the group's Julia Mulligan added that it was \"truly awful\" that victims needed to \"expose oneself to this in return for an investigation\".\n\nPolice and crime commissioners are elected officials who hold their chief constables to account.\n\nThe BBC's Simon Jones said such \"stark criticism of the police\" was unusual from them, but \"reflects unease about what some have labelled a choice between privacy and justice\".\n\nThe forms were introduced in response to the disclosure scandal, when several court cases collapsed after crucial evidence emerged at the last minute.\n\nThe police and the CPS say the forms will only be used when relevant, and they have invited victims' groups to help improve the form.\n\n\"It is not true that sexual assault victims are being singled out and forced to hand over their phones,\" they said in a joint statement.\n\n\"They are potentially relevant to all case types and the need to pursue relevant lines of enquiry in digital devices is not new.\n\n\"We are very clear that devices should only be looked at when relevant and private information not connected to the case must not be shared with the defence or shown in court.\"\n\nThey added that the forms made it clear that consent was \"only being requested when pursuing a reasonable line of enquiry\".\n\n\"The dreadful stories from victims this week demonstrate exactly why we have been so keen to introduce a clearer, more consistent approach to gaining consent for accessing data,\" they added.\n\nA screenshot of part of a consent form for 'digital device extraction', provided by the National Police Chiefs Council", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nDivock Origi's late winner sent Liverpool top of the Premier League with victory at Newcastle United to put the pressure back on Manchester City and ensure the title race will go to the final game.\n\nOrigi - on as substitute for Mohamed Salah after he was taken off on a stretcher with a head injury sustained in a collision with Newcastle keeper Martin Dubravka - headed in Xherdan Shaqiri's free-kick in the 86th minute.\n\nIt gave Liverpool three points after a topsy-turvy night on Tyneside.\n\nNow Manchester City must beat Leicester City at Etihad Stadium on Monday to ensure they retain the initiative going into the final round of games next Sunday.\n\nLiverpool went ahead after 13 minutes when Virgil van Dijk arrived unmarked on the end of Trent Alexander-Arnold's free-kick.\n\nNewcastle were quickly level when Christian Atsu scored from close range after Alexander-Arnold handled Salomon Rondon's shot on the line but Salah took advantage of more poor marking to volley home another fine delivery from the young defender.\n\nRondon, a handful all night, drew Newcastle level once more nine minutes after the break when Liverpool failed to clear a corner and Jurgen Klopp's side suffered another blow when Salah was taken off after a lengthy delay.\n\nOrigi was introduced and made the decisive contribution that keeps the title race alive - although Salah's injury is a worry with Liverpool attempting to claw back a 3-0 deficit against Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final second leg at Anfield on Tuesday.\n• None 'Liverpool survive night laced with danger – and now look to Rodgers for helping hand'\n• None We have qualified for our final - Klopp\n• None Salah could face Barca but Firmino out\n• None How the title race could still go to a 39th game play-off\n\nLiverpool refuse to go away\n\nLiverpool simply refuse to buckle in their pursuit of Manchester City - no matter how long they have to wait to get the victories they require.\n\nKlopp's side are showing remarkable drive and resilience, illustrated by the manner in which they have won so many games in the closing stages, especially when the pressure has been on.\n\nThere have been prime examples at home to Everton and Tottenham but in recent weeks they have stayed the course to outlast opponents such as Fulham, Southampton and now Newcastle away from home.\n\nAnd here, in this unforgiving Tyneside atmosphere, they overcame adversity and a Newcastle side who were in no mood to stand meekly aside despite Premier League safety being assured.\n\nLiverpool were vulnerable in defence but this is a side that carries a persistent threat and it was the introduction of the likes of Shaqiri and Origi that made the difference.\n\nLiverpool could have been forgiven for thinking the fates were against them when Salah took that sickening blow in an accidental aerial collision with Dubravka, the Egyptian lying on the floor for several minutes before being taken away on a stretcher to sympathetic applause from the entire stadium.\n\nAnd yet they responded once more, digging deep to secure three points with Origi's glancing header and this means Manchester City know the stakes are huge when they face Brendan Rodgers' in-form side on Monday.\n\nWhat next for Newcastle and Benitez?\n\nRafael Benitez spent the entire night taking the acclaim of the Toon Army, from before kick-off to a post-match lap of honour when the supporters chanted long and loud for the Spaniard to agree a new deal to stay at St James' Park.\n\nThe messages are still mixed but not here among Newcastle's fanbase. There is only one outcome these fans, who idolise Benitez, want.\n\nWhether Benitez gives them what they desire remains to be seen but once again he has kept a workmanlike squad in the Premier League with room to spare and now wants the investment to send them into the top 10.\n\nIronically, on this night, some of the Benitez trademarks were missing as wretched defensive organisation allowed Liverpool to cash in on each of their goals.\n\nBut, as he led the players around St James' Park to take the supporters' applause it was clear that those fans now want the final line of this season's story to be written with Benitez's name on a new deal.\n\nWhen asked about his future, Benitez said: \"We have been talking the last week and hopefully in one or two weeks will have more news.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I know what kind of boys I have - who doesn't know after the game today? If anyone thought Newcastle weren't playing for anything, wow, that was competitive - but we deserved to win.\n\n\"I only have to help the boys. I don't feel pressure. If we are champions then we are champions, you can't feel pressure when you do your best.\n\nOn Divock Origi's winning goal: \"That's nearly a fairytale. And now we are qualified for our final on Sunday against Wolves. Of course before that we play Barcelona but I'm not thinking of that yet and then we will see.\"\n\nNewcastle boss Rafael Benitez, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm really proud because it was a difficult game against a very good team but the players gave everything. The fans appreciate that and were behind the team, we couldn't ask for more.\n\n\"We made a few mistakes at set pieces but in terms of effort and desire we did quite well. We are trying to make sure we don't make so many mistakes. I don't know about the third goal but the first two we can do much better.\n\n\"We have been quite consistent, working really hard as a team and as a unit, staying very compact. It was a great performance from us.\"\n• None Liverpool have scored 18 headed goals in the Premier League this season and 12 goals via substitutes, more than any other team in both categories.\n• None The Reds have scored more goals against Newcastle in the Premier League than against any other team (98).\n• None Liverpool's Mohamed Salah scored his 100th league goal in European top-flight football, with 56 of those coming in the Premier League (also 35 in Italian Serie A and 9 in Swiss Super League).\n• None Liverpool are the first team in Premier League history to have at least two defenders provide 10+ assists each in a single campaign (Trent Alexander-Arnold 11, Andy Robertson 11).\n• None Newcastle's Salomon Rondon has hit double figures for goals in a Premier League season for the first time.\n• None Only Chelsea's Eden Hazard (48%) has had a hand in a higher proportion of his team's goals in the Premier League this season than Rondon (45% - scoring 10 goals and assisting 7 of 38).\n\nLiverpool host Wolves at Anfield on the final day of the season - Sunday, 12 May - while Newcastle are away at Fulham, with both matches kicking off at 15:00 BST.\n• None Offside, Newcastle United. Salomón Rondón tries a through ball, but Yoshinori Muto is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Salomón Rondón (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None James Milner (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Newcastle United 2, Liverpool 3. Divock Origi (Liverpool) header from very close range to the top left corner. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Fabinho (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "More than £5m in unpaid tax has been recovered from hundreds of dog breeders and traders selling puppies on the black market.\n\nHM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) launched an investigation in 2015 after animal welfare groups expressed concerns puppies were being reared on a mass scale and sold illicitly in the UK.\n\nIt has recovered a total of £5,393,035 in lost taxes from 257 separate cases.\n\nSeveral arrests have also been made during the four-year investigation.\n\nAmong those HMRC said were targeted by its special taskforce were two unconnected puppy breeders in the West of Scotland who were handed tax bills of £425,000 and £337,000.\n\nA former Crufts judge breeding puppies in the Midlands was found to owe £185,000 in unpaid taxes, according to the government agency.\n\nA dealer in Northern Ireland was told to pay £185,000 in tax while a Somerset breeder was given a £114,000 bill, and a puppy breeder in Swansea was handed a £110,000 tax bill, it said.\n\nFinancial Secretary to the Treasury, Mel Stride, said: \"It is utterly appalling that anyone would want to treat puppies in such an inhumane way and on such a scale.\n\n\"It's also deeply unfair to all of the legitimate businesses who do pay the right tax, and the total recovered by the taskforce is equivalent to the annual salaries for more than 200 newly qualified teachers.\n\n\"We continue to work hard with other government agencies and our partners to tackle these traders.\"\n\nHMRC is also involved in a multi-agency collaboration across the UK and Ireland called Operation Delphin, which is designed to tackle illegal puppy smuggling and its consequences.\n\nIt is led by the Scottish SPCA and includes partners such as the RSPCA, Ulster SPCA, Dublin SPCA, Irish SPCA, HMRC, Border Force, and the police.\n\nAs part of Operation Delphin's activities, the SSPCA said it had seized 27 puppies smuggled from Ireland at Cairnryan Port in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nThe RSPCA said it had intercepted 96 puppies being smuggled into the UK overnight through Holyhead Port in Wales, in a shipment it said was likely to have been worth \"many tens of thousands in murky profits\".\n\nClaire Lawson, from the RSCPA, said: \"Sadly, people are readily prepared to act illegally and compromise the welfare of defenceless animals to make profit.\n\n\"That's why the work of the HMRC taskforce in tackling dishonest dog breeding practices is so important.\n\n\"Puppy breeding can be big business, and those seeking to sacrifice their welfare to make more money need to know that this behaviour will not be tolerated, and they will punished.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Universities using \"gagging orders\" to stop staff going public with claims of bullying or sexual misconduct is an \"outrage\", according to a minister.\n\nChris Skidmore said using non-disclosure agreements in this way risks the reputation of UK higher education.\n\nIt comes after BBC figures showed universities spent about £87m on pay-offs with NDAs since 2017.\n\nNDAs are contracts between employers and companies which can stop staff or ex-staff making information public.\n\nIn a speech at the London School of Economics this week, universities minister Mr Skidmore is expected to say universities are considered the \"bastions of free speech\" - but that there are reports that some of them have suppressed allegations of harassment, discrimination and sexual assault.\n\nKnown as \"confidentiality clauses\" in the legal profession, NDAs can be signed when staff are hired to protect trade secrets like inventions or ideas.\n\nBut they can also be signed when employees and organisations resolve a dispute, and have been used to stop workers discussing allegations of misbehaviour in the workplace.\n\nLast month, dozens of academics told BBC News they were \"harassed\" out of their jobs and made to sign NDAs after making complaints.\n\nMr Skidmore will say collective action is needed to stop the misuse of NDAs\n\n\"Non-disclosure agreements exist for many purposes - such as protecting valuable research findings should a staff member change jobs,\" Mr Skidmore will say on Tuesday.\n\n\"But in no circumstances should they be used by universities to 'gag' staff after experiencing poor behaviour in the workplace, including bullying, discrimination or sexual misconduct.\n\n\"Let me be clear that any use of this sort of agreement to silence people or hide details of unfair practices is an outrage and risks bringing the reputation of our world-leading higher education system into disrepute.\n\n\"Universities need to wake up to this fact and the very real threat it poses to the reputation of the sector.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anahid Kassabian felt bullied out of her job after she was diagnosed with cancer\n\nMr Skidmore is expected to express his support for Universities UK - which represents universities. It has said using NDAs to stop victims speaking out will not be tolerated.\n\nBBC analysis last month showed 96 universities in the UK had spent £87m on around 4,000 settlements since 2017.\n\nMany universities said they were unable to disclose why the agreements were signed, so it is unclear how many relate to allegations of bullying, harassment or sexual misconduct.\n\nClaims of the misuse of NDAs by universities follow high-profile cases in the film and business worlds.", "Voters have delivered a stinging rebuke to the two main parties at Westminster in the local elections in England, with ballots still being counted in Northern Ireland.\n\nSee the results below in our interactive map.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nBy-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nWith all the results declared in England the Conservatives have lost over 1,300 councillors while Labour has also seen dozens of losses. The Lib Dems and Greens have both made significant gains, with the Lib Dems gaining more than 700 councillors and the Greens nearly 200.\n\nIndependent candidates have also made unusually large gains, as shown by the rise of \"Others\" in the above chart.\n\nProfessor Sir John Curtice has calculated how Thursday's vote would translate across Britain. This projection of the national vote share puts Labour and the Conservatives both on 28%.\n\nThe Lib Dems were the big winners in terms of councils, taking over 10, seven of which were at the expense of the Conservatives. Their most impressive victory was in Chelmsford where they flipped a majority of 23.\n\nThe Conservatives saw big losses in the south west, particularly the new councils of Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole and Somerset West & Taunton. Labour suffered its biggest loss in Ashfield, where it lost 20 councillors and the control of the council passed to Independents.\n\nLabour won seats in many parts of the country, and the party's largest gain was 16 councillors in the former UKIP stronghold of Thanet. The Conservatives' largest gain was in North East Derbyshire.\n\nSupport for the major parties fell more heavily in their heartlands, according to Prof Curtice, with Tories losing most seats in the south of England and Labour in the north.\n\nThe Green Party were one of the beneficiaries of the main parties' misfortune, gaining nearly 200 new councillors across the country and only failing to defend seats in two areas.\n\nMeanwhile, UKIP lost councillors in many areas. The biggest loss came in their old heartland of Thanet, where former-leader Nigel Farage campaigned unsuccessfully to become an MP in 2015.\n\nSeveral mayoral elections have also taken place across England. Middlesbrough and Copeland returned independent mayors, while the North of Tyne returned a Labour mayor as did Leicester. Bedford re-elected its Liberal Democrat mayor.\n\nData journalism, development and design by Daniel Dunford, Joe Reed, Sean Willmott, John Walton, Wesley Stephenson, Mike Hills, Clara Guibourg, Ed Lowther, Alison Benjamin, Tom Francis-Winnington, Katia Artsenkova, Shilpa Saraf and Adam Allen.", "Australian DJ Adam Sky has died in an accident while on holiday on the Indonesian island of Bali.\n\nThe 42-year-old is said to have been badly hurt trying to help a friend who had suffered multiple injuries.\n\nWhile rushing to aid her, he smashed through a glass door, causing him to suffer severe cuts and blood loss, Nine News reported.\n\nAccording to the site the female friend had fallen several metres from their private terrace.\n\nThe woman survived and was taken to hospital, Indonesian media report.\n\nA statement confirming the Singapore-based DJ's death has been posted to his official Facebook page.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nTributes on the DJ's social media accounts praised him as a \"legend,\" and a great friend and colleague.\n\n\"You always burned so brightly,\" one read, while another described him as an \"amazing guy with a heart of gold\".\n\nThe BBC has contacted his management for comment.\n\nSky - real name Adam Neat - was ranked as the third most popular DJ in Asia last year, according to his website.\n\nThe site quotes JUICE Magazine Asia describing him as a \"rising Aussie superstar DJ\" and says he worked with well-known artists such as Fat Boy Slim, David Guetta and The Scissor Sisters.", "Senior Conservatives have called for the party to pull together after it suffered its worst results in English local elections since 1995.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid admitted voters had \"issues of trust\" over Brexit, and said the European elections would \"be even more challenging\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the party needed to listen to the results and be \"in the mood for compromise\".\n\nBoth PM Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have insisted they will push ahead with seeking a cross-party agreement on Brexit, following the results.\n\nLabour had been expected to make gains but lost 82 seats in the elections, while the Liberal Democrats - who have campaigned for a further vote on leaving the EU - were the main beneficiary of Tory losses, gaining 703 seats.\n\nThe Greens and independents also made gains, as UKIP lost seats.\n\nElections were held for 248 English councils, six mayors, and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland - where a second day of counting is continuing. No elections took place in Scotland or Wales.\n\nVince Cable claimed Liberal success \"reflected the unpopularity of the government\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Hancock said \"the mood of the nation is, 'get on, deliver Brexit, and then move on'\".\n\nBut he said the Tories might have to move towards Labour's proposal of a permanent customs union - in order to solve the current impasse in Westminster over Brexit.\n\nThe EU customs union means that once goods have cleared customs in one country and the commonly agreed tariffs (charges on imports) have been paid, they can be shipped to others in the union without further charges.\n\nA country does not have to be a member of the EU to be part of the customs union, but members cannot negotiate their own independent trade deals with countries from the rest of the world.\n\nMrs May's government has previously ruled out remaining in a customs union after the UK leaves the EU, arguing it would prevent the UK from setting its own trade policy.\n\nLabour has suggested the EU may show flexibility over the issue and allow the UK \"a say\" in future trade deals.\n\nMr Hancock suggested \"coming up with something in-between\", and called for \"an open dialogue in which we can make an agreement\".\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt also said there was a \"glimmer of hope\" that a compromise between the Conservative and Labour \"core-voters\" could be reached.\n\n\"If we can find a solution that delivers the benefits of the customs union without signing up to the current arrangements, then I think there will be potential,\" he said.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke told BBC News that the local election results should be seen as a \"punishment\" to both the Conservatives and the Labour Party \"for failing to find a way through\" the Brexit conundrum.\n\nHe added: \"We have to persevere with the talks with the Labour Party. I think that is the best opportunity to find a way through here.\"\n\nThe MP for Hertfordshire South West also rejected calls to oust Mrs May, saying: \"We should back the prime minister... so that we can bring the country together again - we can unite the Conservative Party and find a practical way through.\"\n\nThe UK was due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline has been pushed back to 31 October.\n\nMr Javid said this was a big factor in the Conservative Party losing control of 45 councils on Thursday - in its worst performance since John Major's party lost 2,000 councillors in 1995.\n\nIn a rallying cry to Conservatives in Aberdeen, he said that \"a divided party cannot unite a divided nation\".\n\nThe home secretary said the party risked losing voters' trust after \"not delivering on a promise at the heart of our last manifesto\".\n\nAnd, speaking about the European elections, due to take place on 23 May, he said: \"We shouldn't be surprised if people tick the protest box on the ballot paper.\"\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nLisa Nandy, Labour MP for Wigan, also said the results reflected the public's frustration with the two main parties' \"perceived inability... to get our act together\".\n\nShe told the Today programme there was \"no single magic bullet\" to solving Brexit, but \"the fact that people are not clear on what our policy is, is harming us in both Remain and Leave areas alike\".\n\nMs Nandy said failing to leave the European Union would be a \"final breach of trust\" and her party must respect the referendum result.\n\nHowever, she said she believed the Brexit effect on the election results had been \"enormously overstated\" and many in towns like Wigan \"just didn't feel like Labour spoke for them\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nThe BBC projects that, if the local election results it analysed were replicated across Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would get 28% of the total vote.\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said the days of the Conservatives and Labour dominating - as happened in the 2017 election when they won 80% of the vote between them - \"may be over\".\n\nHe said it was only the second time in history that the two main parties' projected national share of the vote had fallen below 30%.\n\nThe only other occasion was in 2013, when UKIP performed strongly in local elections.", "Forty-one people died after a Russian plane made an emergency landing and burst into flames just after takeoff from Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.\n\nVideos on social media showed passengers using emergency exit slides to escape and run away from the burning Aeroflot aircraft.", "City of Edinburgh Council tweeted a picture of one iconic street devoid of cars\n\nA number of Edinburgh's city centre streets have been closed to traffic under plans to reduce air pollution.\n\nThe city has become the first in the UK to join the Open Streets movement.\n\nStreets in the Old Town, including the Canongate, Cockburn Street and Victoria Street, were closed between midday and 17:00.\n\nThe initiative will take place on the first Sunday of every month as part of an 18-month trial.\n\nEdinburgh's cycle hire scheme will also be free all week to encourage people to ditch their vehicles.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The City of Edinburgh Council\n\nThe movement has seen cities around the world temporarily close some streets to all but pedestrians and non-motorised vehicles on a regular basis.\n\nA series of events took place to celebrate the launch in Edinburgh, including jazz performances in Dunbar Close Garden, Tai Chi on the High Street and electric bike trials on Victoria Street.\n\nA mini-badminton net was put up in the middle of the Canongate for people to make the most of the deserted road\n\nEdinburgh's High Street was also part of the closure, which will take place on the first Sunday of every month as part of an 18-month trial\n\nLesley Macinnes, City of Edinburgh Councils's transport and environment convener, said: \"We've seen how successful similar schemes internationally have proved by encouraging active travel, improving air quality and creating a safer, more relaxed atmosphere so I can't wait to see this take shape in the capital.\n\n\"Climate change is a real threat to society, it's clear that we have to act, and Open Streets is undoubtedly a step in the right direction.\"\n\nThe roads in green will be closed to vehicles on the first Sunday of the month as part of the trial by the City of Edinburgh Council\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nicola Corner said she would meet the unidentified gunman at \"any police station on the island of Ireland\"\n\nLyra McKee's sister has offered to meet the 29-year-old journalist's killer and support him in \"accepting responsibility for your actions\".\n\nNicola Corner said the unknown gunman's guilt must be as difficult to live with as her family's grief.\n\n\"It is my hope that you need relief from your guilt,\" she said.\n\nMs McKee was shot dead while observing rioting in Londonderry's Creggan estate on 18 April. The New IRA said its members were responsible.\n\nMrs Corner was speaking at a peace rally in the city to mark the end of a three-day walk from Belfast to Derry in memory of Ms McKee.\n\nMore than 160 walkers took part in the 70-mile (110km) walk, setting off from Belfast on Saturday and arrived in Derry city centre earlier on Monday evening.\n\nLyra McKee was observing rioting in Londonderry's Creggan estate when she was shot\n\nSnow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody, singer Katie Richardson and Lyra's Choir, who came together from across Northern Ireland, earlier performed in Guildhall Square.\n\nLightbody was among 200 people who had joined the walk on the final leg from Drumahoe into Derry.\n\nMrs Corner told the crowd in Guildhall Square she wanted to speak directly to the person who killed her sister.\n\nSnow Patrol singer Gary Lightbody and Lyra McKee's partner Sara Canning were among 300 walkers on the final leg of Lyra's Walk into Derry\n\n\"It is my belief that when you went out on the night of the 18 April, you did not intend to turn yourself into a killer,\" she said.\n\n\"Yet the events as they developed led to that becoming your reality. You are now a killer, now the person who killed Lyra McKee, my baby sister, and you cannot take that back.\"\n\nShe said she would meet the gunman because \"Lyra needs justice and this country demands true peace\".\n\n\"I am prepared to be there as you hand yourself in,\" added Mrs Corner.\n\nI promise you here and now that I will meet you at any police station anywhere on this island to support you in taking the brave step to hand yourself in and allowing my sister the justice she deserves.\n\n\"I know it will not be easy - that's why I am reaching out to you, because sometimes the right thing is the most difficult.\"\n\nShe added: \"Together we can end this nightmare, because failure is not an option.\"\n\nLyra's Walk left Belfast on Saturday, arriving in Derry on Bank Holiday Monday\n\nMrs Corner paid tribute to the community in the Creggan area of Derry where her sister was killed and thanked the 160 people who had given the police information about the night of her murder.\n\nShe said her sister's death could not be in vain. The rally closed with Ms Corner holding up a copy of the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement and urging politicians to end the current impasse at Stormont.\n\nEarlier this month, the detective leading the investigation into Ms McKee's murder called on the gunman to hand himself in.\n\nTwo men have been charged with rioting in the city on the night that Ms McKee was murdered.", "US President Donald Trump enjoyed a ringside seat at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo - and even awarded a special trophy.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.\n\nTrump in Japan: Sumo, barbecue and an imperial audience", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The cheese is chased 200 yards down the 1:2 gradient Cooper's Hill at Brockworth\n\nA new champion has been crowned at the death-defying annual cheese rolling race.\n\nMax McDougall, 22, won the first men's downhill race after tripping and tumbling down Cooper's Hill.\n\nVeteran cheese chaser Chris Anderson, 31, who holds a record 22 wins over the past 15 years, did not compete as he was on holiday.\n\nRecent dry weather made the ground hard and fast for competitors who were cheered on by thousands of people.\n\nMr McDougall, from Brockworth, said: \"It was better than last year when I knocked myself out.\n\n\"I normally come second to Chris (Anderson). I just went for it, pick a line and stick to it.\"\n\nMax McDougall said the race was \"better than last year when I knocked myself out\"\n\nRebel cheese rollers have been staging their own unofficial event after health and safety fears caused the official competition to be cancelled in 2010.\n\nThe cheese is chased 200 yards down the 1:2 gradient hill.\n\nAfter a year's hiatus, when police warned against the use of a real cheese, an imitation lightweight foam cheese was replaced with the genuine article.\n\nThe unusual event has been celebrated for centuries and is thought to have its roots in a heathen festival to celebrate the return of spring.\n\nA second men's race was won by Ryan Fairley, 29, from Brockworth, who took home a Double Gloucester for the ninth time.\n\nOne competitor was stretchered off the course with a suspected fractured ankle after falling during the second race\n\nThe women's race was won by 28-year-old Flo Early, who picked up a Double Gloucester for the fourth time, after victories in 2008, 2016 and 2018, but also managed to sprain her ankle in the process.\n\n\"If you go fast from the beginning the hill will do the rest,\" she said.\n\nThe final men's downhill race was won by Canadian Mark Kit, 21, from Toronto, who had been inspired to take part after seeing videos of cheese rolling as a child.\n\nOne competitor was stretchered off the course with a suspected fractured ankle after falling during the second race.", "Just two of the Republic of Ireland's 13 seats have so far been filled\n\nEuropean election counting has been suspended in one of Republic of Ireland's constituencies following a dispute over vote transfers.\n\nThe count in Dublin will resume at 11:00 local time on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe dispute comes over the potential distribution of votes for the two remaining seats in the Dublin constituency.\n\nThree of the Republic of Ireland's 13 European Parliament seats have been filled so far.\n\nCounting in the Republic began on Sunday night, but progress has been slow.\n\nFine Gael's Mairead McGuinness was re-elected in the Midlands-North-West constituency with 134,630 votes.\n\nShe will be joined in the European Parliament by the Green Party's Ciaran Cuffe and Fine Gael's Frances Fitzgerald, who were elected in Dublin on the 13th and 14th count respectively.\n\nThe two remaining Dublin seats will be taken by Fianna Fáil's Barry Andrews and Clare Daly of Independents 4 Change.\n\nHowever, a dispute over whether votes will be distributed between the pair has brought the count to a halt.\n\nThe potential transfers will decide which one finishes third and fourth in the poll. The fourth and final seat will only become active if and when Britain leaves the EU, as it one of the UK's parliament seats that has been redistributed by the EU.\n\nEarlier, Ms McGuinness said she was \"delighted, relieved and a bit tired\" to retain her seat.\n\n\"I am deeply honoured and humbled by the size of the mandate I have received,\" she said.\n\nTurnout in the election was 49.7%, with the governing Fine Gael party topping the poll with 29.6% of first preferences.\n\nFianna Fáil had 16.5%, Sinn Féin had 11.7% just ahead of the Green Party with 11.4%, while independents took 15.7% of the vote.\n\nThe former SDLP leader, Mark Durkan, who stood in Dublin, has been eliminated.\n\nHe said that voters cared less about Brexit than domestic issues.\n\nHe added that he did not regret standing for Fine Gael even though the party he once led in Northern Ireland has a working relationship with Fianna Fáil - Fine Gael's traditional rival.\n\nAs in the Republic's local elections, Sinn Féin's vote is down.\n\nThe party's Dublin MEP, Lynn Boylan, will struggle to hold her seat against the challenge from the independent left-wing Clare Daly, with anxious waits also for Liadh Ní Riada in Ireland South and Matt Carthy in Ireland Midlands-North-West.\n\nFianna Fáil, the main opposition party, which is in a confidence-and-supply arrangement with Fine Gael, performed the best of all the parties in the local elections.\n\nMark Durkan - who stood for Fine Gael - accepted that other issues eclipsed his anti-Brexit message\n\nBut Fine Gael is expected to do much better in the European elections.\n\nWith a number of members of the Dáil (Irish parliament) certain to be returned as MEPs, there will have to be by-elections, which could destabilise the already fragile relationship between the two biggest parties.\n\nAnd while both have agreed to continue their confidence-and-supply arrangement for another October budget because of Brexit uncertainty in the UK, there has been a lot of parsing of comments made by the Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar about another return to the polls.\n\nCounting in the Republic began on Sunday\n\nIn two separate interviews with Irish national broadcaster RTÉ, he said he could not rule out a general election this year, but he would not call one in the coming days or weeks.\n\nThat has led some to speculate about the possibility of a late-June poll given that the UK will not be leaving the EU before the end of October.\n\nIt is the taoiseach's prerogative to call an election - voters will have to wait and see what he decides.", "Home Secretary Sajid Javid has become the latest MP to join the race for the Conservative Party leadership.\n\nAnnouncing his candidacy on Twitter, Mr Javid said that \"first and foremost, we must deliver Brexit\".\n\nHe is the ninth member of the Tory Party to confirm he is running, and whoever wins will become the next UK prime minister.\n\nIt follows the announcement by Theresa May on Friday that she would stand down as leader on 7 June.\n\nShe confirmed she would stay on as PM until a new leader is chosen - which senior Conservative figures said should be by the end of July.\n\nIn a video, Mr Javid said he wanted to \"rebuild trust, to find unity and create new opportunities for our country\".\n\nHe said the results of the European elections - which saw his party score less than 10% of the total vote, compared to nearly 25% in 2014 - made it \"all too clear\" that the government \"must get on and deliver Brexit to ensure there is renewed trust in our democracy\".\n\nHe added: \"We must bridge divides to heal communities, reminding us of our shared values as a United Kingdom, and we must strengthen our society and economy so that everyone can benefit from the opportunities which a prosperous nation provides.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sajid Javid This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe other candidates who have entered the contest so far are:\n\nA number of the candidates expressed their dismay at the election results, which was dominated by the Brexit Party and left the Tories with just four MEPs returning to the European Parliament.\n\nMr Johnson wrote in the Daily Telegraph that voters had issued a \"crushing rebuke\" to the Conservatives, and the party could be \"fired from running the country\" if it does not deliver Brexit.\n\nMr Gove said \"one message is clear\" from the figures and that was the next Tory leader \"absolutely needs to deliver Brexit\".\n\nAnd Mrs Leadsom called the results \"truly terrible\", saying they \"demonstrate the damage that has been done to the Conservative Party\".\n\nAttitudes toward a no-deal Brexit are sharply divided, with several candidates saying they are prepared to let the UK leave the EU on the new deadline on 31 October without a deal if necessary, including Mr Johnson and Mr Raab.\n\nOther candidates have stressed the need to get a Brexit deal passed in Parliament.\n\nWriting in the Times, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Conservatives had to deliver Brexit through Parliament, \"whether we like it or not\".\n\nNominations for the leadership will close in the week commencing 10 June, and MPs will then whittle down the candidates to a final two, which the wider membership of the party can then vote for.", "Video caption: The man known as the \"doctor of migrants\" on Lampedusa, wins a seat in EU elections\n\nThe man known as the \"doctor of migrants\" on Lampedusa, wins a seat in EU elections", "We are closing our international live coverage of the European elections for the night. You can continue to follow UK results and reaction here.\n\nHere are the the day's main developments:\n• The big power blocs of the centre-right and centre-left lost their combined majority in the European Parliament. \"The monopoly of power is broken,\" said Denmark's Margrethe Vestager, the liberal candidate for the top post in the European Commission\n• Europeans voted in their biggest numbers since 1994, bucking years of decline with a turnout just shy of 51%\n• The big winners of the night were the liberals and Greens. The liberals have were boosted by the decision of President Macron's ruling party to join them\n• The Greens saw strong votes in Finland, Germany, France and Portugal\n• The nationalist right had a patchy night, but enjoyed successes in Italy, where figurehead Matteo Salvini ran to victory, and in France, where Marine Le Pen defeated the Renaissance alliance of Mr Macron.\n• In the UK, the newly-formed Brexit Party soared to victory, gaining 28 seats amid massive losses for Conservatives and Labour\n• There are still results to be announced, alliances to forge, and perhaps some domestic political fallout for parties across the continent\n• BBC journalists will be covering the story from both UK and international angles - stay tuned for developments throughout the day\n• To catch up, take a look at what we know so far about the outlook across Europe\n\nThanks for following.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak says some of their rivals are jealous of the club's success.\n\nCity became the first English side to win a domestic treble when they beat Watford 6-0 in the FA Cup final, yet the achievement has been accompanied by criticism of the amount it has cost to put Pep Guardiola's squad together.\n\nHowever, in his annual assessment of the campaign on City's internal media, Mubarak said he will not accept his club \"being used as a diversionary tactic on poor investment decisions\".\n\nPremier League champions City do not have a player in the top 10 most expensive signings. English rivals Manchester United have two - £89m Paul Pogba and Romelu Lukaku, bought for an initial £75m - and Liverpool one in £75m Virgil van Dijk.\n\nCity's record signing is Riyad Mahrez, who they bought from Leicester for £60m in July 2018, while their other biggest transfers include Aymeric Laporte for £57m, Kevin de Bruyne for £55m and Benjamin Mendy for £52m.\n\n\"With success, there is a certain level of jealousy, envy, whatever you call it. That's part of the game,\" said Mubarak.\n\n\"It's not easy for our competition, we know that. But the reality is, we didn't buy the most expensive player in the Premier League [Pogba], we didn't buy the most expensive goalkeeper [Kepa Arrizabalaga], we didn't buy the most expensive midfielder, we didn't buy the most expensive striker [Lukaku].\n\n\"People make decisions, they've got to live by them. This is a well-run club.\"\n\nCriticism of City has intensified since it was confirmed they had been referred to Uefa's financial body amid allegations of financial fair play (FFP) rule breaches something the club strenuously denies.\n\nMubarak is particularly upset at comments from La Liga president Javier Tebas, who said recently that City, backed by the Abu Dhabi United Group, and Paris St-Germain, owned by Qatar Sports Investments, were the \"playthings of a state\" who should be kicked out of the Champions League over their methods and spending powers.\n\n\"I think there's something deeply wrong in bringing ethnicity into the conversation,\" Mubarak said of the comments.\n\n\"This is just ugly, the way he is combining teams because of ethnicity. I find that very disturbing, to be honest.\"\n\nCity feel Tebas' comments do not bear scrutiny when it is considered how much Spanish giants Real Madrid spent during their 'galactico' era, when they signed Portugal forward Luis Figo, France midfielder Zinedine Zidane, Brazil striker Ronaldo and England captain David Beckham in successive summers from 2000.\n\n\"He [Tebas] talks about how we distorted the market,\" Mubarak added.\n\n\"There is a hypocrisy in this statement that is ironic. These huge jumps in these transfers - Figo, Zidane - where did they happen?\n\n\"I have no time for innuendo. Mr Tebas should look back at the history of La Liga, a league dominated by two clubs, and how distortion has happened. Manchester City has not a single player in the top 10 transfers.\n\n\"I don't think this is just an attack on Manchester City, it's against this league. I hope people start seeing that. I know people don't want to defend Manchester City - but for God's sake start defending this league.\n\n\"There are four Premier League teams in the two European finals. We have the best league in the world, the most commercial league and the most successful clubs in terms of global presence. That bothers a lot of people in many places.\"\n\nOn 14 May, City said they were \"concerned\" at an article published in the New York Times claiming Uefa investigators wanted the club banned from the Champions League, saying they feared people with vested interests were intent on \"damaging the club's reputation or commercial interests\".\n\nOn Sunday, Mubarak restated his belief City will \"unquestionably\" be cleared \"if the process is going to be judged on the facts\".\n\nHowever, he added: \"If it's not about facts, then it is a different conversation.\"\n• None Man City & FPP: What could happen next?\n• None FFP rules - all you need to know", "Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald (right) arriving at the count centre in the RDS in Dublin with party candidate for the European election Lynn Boylan (left)\n\nSinn Féin has said it is disappointed in its party's performance in the Republic of Ireland's local elections as counting continues.\n\nMore than three quarters of council seats have been filled across the Republic.\n\nResults so far have seen a surge in support for the Green Party.\n\nOn Monday morning, the Greens had secured 5.6% of the first preference vote, up from 1.6% five years ago.\n\nThe results so far still put the Greens behind the governing party Fine Gael, and main opposition parties Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin.\n\nThey show Fianna Fáil receiving 26.9% first preference votes with Fine Gael on 25.2%, Sinn Féin on 9.5% and Labour on 5.7%.\n\nMore than 870 of the 949 seats have been filled.\n\nEarly election results in the European elections were announced on Sunday night.\n\nGreen Party candidate Ciarán Cuffe topped the poll in Dublin, receiving 63,849 first preference votes.\n\nFormer SDLP leader Mark Durkan, who stood as a Fine Gael candidate in the same constituency, received 16,473 first round votes.\n\nMark Durkan fell well short of the quota after the counting of first preference votes\n\nThe Sinn Féin vote is down in both the local elections and the European elections.\n\nThe party five years ago came in with over 100 extra seats (in the local elections), riding the crest of a wave of popular discontent about austerity, about water charges, but clearly it's a very different Republic now.\n\nFor example, there is statistical full employment, people are more content, the economy is doing well.\n\nIt may be regarded that perhaps the Sinn Féin message didn't reflect the new reality.\n\nThe party accepts it is in a struggle to retain seats, particularly in Dublin in the European elections.\n\nFianna Fáil, the main opposition party, is set to remain the biggest party on a local government level.\n\nSinn Féin TD (member of the Irish parliament) Pearse Doherty said it was clear the party were \"going to lose some very valuable councillors\".\n\nHe added that \"the wind is against us\" and that the party would have to look at why certain areas did not come out to vote for Sinn Féin.\n\nTánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Simon Coveney said his Fine Gael party would have liked to have made bigger gains but that he did not think \"anyone anticipated the scale of the growth in support for the Green Party\".\n\nIn a referendum also held on Friday, people in the Republic of Ireland voted to liberalise divorce laws.\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins and wife Sabina were among thousands of Irish voters who cast ballots on Friday\n\nMeanwhile, Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar said he was open to the possibility of an early general election.\n\nHe told Irish state broadcaster RTÉ \"there were a number of factors in play\" on whether or not this would happen.\n\n\"Obviously the instability across the water in relation to Brexit, we have to bear that in mind, and also whether we can get the votes to get a budget through.\"", "Whorlton Hall, near Castle Barnard, looked after 17 adults with learning difficulties and autism\n\nA former inspector at the Care Quality Commission says a 2015 report into Whorlton Hall hospital which presented \"warning bells\" went unpublished.\n\nBarry Stanley-Wilkinson says he wrote the report four years before BBC Panorama revealed the alleged abuse of patients with learning disabilities and autism.\n\nThe CQC said the draft report raised no concerns about abusive practices.\n\nThe claims come after 10 workers at the specialist hospital were arrested.\n\nSeven men and three women were arrested last week at addresses in Barnard Castle, Bishop Auckland, Darlington and Stockton over the alleged abuse of patients.\n\nAn undercover BBC Panorama investigation into the specialist hospital in County Durham - a 17-bed unit for adults with learning difficulties and autism - appeared to show patients being mocked, intimidated and restrained.\n\nCygnet, the firm that runs the 17-bed hospital unit for adults with learning difficulties and autism, said it was \"shocked and deeply saddened\" by the allegations.\n\nThe company only took over the running of the centre at the turn of the year and said it was \"co-operating fully\" with the police investigation.\n\nThe site had at least 100 visits by official agencies in the year before the alleged abuse was discovered.\n\nMr Stanley-Wilkinson says he noticed a \"very poor culture\" was evident when he led the 2015 inspection.\n\nHe told the BBC that he had raised concerns over the \"very poor culture\" in a report he wrote - four years prior to the BBC investigation.\n\nHe said: \"I strongly believe that anybody that can understand organisational culture reading that report would agree that there was definitely warning bells there.\n\n\"I was extremely upset. This should have been listened to back in 2015 and I said quite openly, when I left the organisation, that I felt it had neglected its promise to people with learning disabilities.\"\n\nHe said it was the only report he wrote in nearly a decade of working at the CQC which wasn't published.\n\nIn a statement, the CQC said the report went through a \"rigorous peer review process\".\n\nIt said the draft report \"did not raise any concerns about abusive practice\".\n\nThe CQC said a later inspection rated the hospital as \"good overall\".\n\nIn a statement it said: \"We are in the process of commissioning a review into what we could have done differently or better in our regulation of Whorlton Hall and these allegations will be fully investigated as part of this.\n\n\"We will update on the progress and findings of this review in our Public Board meetings.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At least two people have died after a tornado struck in El Reno, Oklahoma on Saturday night.\n\nThe incident on Saturday follows a week of tornadoes, severe rain and flooding in states in the Southern Plains and Midwest regions.\n\nThe recent spate of extreme weather has been blamed for at least nine deaths across the region, the Associated Press reports.\n\nThis video has no commentary", "Stacey Porter and David Johnston had no idea they were expecting a baby\n\nA woman who didn't know she was pregnant has told of how she delivered her baby alone on her bathroom floor.\n\nStacey Porter, 20, thought she had a stomach ache. It wasn't until she felt the baby's head coming she realised she was about to give birth.\n\nShe phoned her partner David Johnston, 26, to wake him, but - despite 60 missed calls - he didn't stir.\n\nSo she gave birth alone in their bathroom and David woke to the news that the pair had a daughter, Sophia.\n\nDavid told Radio Scotland that neither had any inkling that Stacey was expecting. Even the night before Stacey gave birth, he'd picked her up from work after she complained of feeling unwell.\n\nHe took her back to his family home in Grangemouth - where they were house-sitting while his parents were on holiday - but Stacey was up all night.\n\nShe didn't want to go to hospital, so David decided to sleep on the couch to get some rest before work.\n\nStacey said she had \"no idea at all\" that she was pregnant. She added: \"I didn't have any of the typical symptoms\".\n\nShe was still getting regular periods and even taking birth control pills.\n\nIt was just after 04:00 on 10 May when the \"agonising pain\" in her stomach became too much that she had to sit down on the bathroom floor.\n\nThen she realised what was happening: \"As soon as I knew her head was coming I knew I had to push - and it was a baby.\"\n\nStacey had been trying to wake her partner David, who was downstairs - phoning him 60 times.\n\n\"It was just ringing out, ringing out, so I kept hanging up and phoning again.\"\n\n\"When I knew her head was coming and I had to push, I stopped [trying to phone].\"\n\nOnce baby Sophia arrived, the first thing Stacey did was take some pictures - having given up on trying to wake her partner.\n\nIt was shortly after Sophia had been delivered that David woke up and called the pair an ambulance.\n\nHe said: \"I just stood there, staring at Stacey and Sophia. I put my head in my hands and I was just like 'Stacey, that's a baby'.\"\n\n\"At the meantime I'm shouting: 'Just phone an ambulance!'\", added Stacey.\n\nThe paramedics were \"a bit shocked\", but took the mother and baby to Forth Valley Royal Hospital for checks.\n\nThe family said their lives have \"turned around straight away\", and they are \"still trying to take it all in\".\n\nThey said they were still running on \"shock and adrenaline\", but that it was the \"most incredible feeling - there's so much love there that you never knew was possible\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US President Donald Trump spoke to reporters after a bilateral meeting with Japan PM Shinzo Abe.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has become the first foreign leader to meet Japan's Emperor Naruhito.\n\nMr Trump, who is currently on a four-day state visit to Japan, was greeted by the emperor and Empress Masako at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.\n\nThe US leader said ahead of the meeting that it was a \"great honour\".\n\nEmperor Naruhito ascended the throne earlier in May after his father Akihito stepped down - the first abdication by a Japanese emperor in centuries.\n\n\"It's over 200 years since something like this has happened,\" Mr Trump said of the abdication on Sunday. \"So it's a great honour to be representing the United States.\"\n\nMr Trump and First Lady Melania Trump were greeted by a Japanese honour guard and crowds waving US and Japanese flags as part of a formal welcoming ceremony on Monday.\n\nThe US president is said to have given a slight bow to the emperor and empress before entering the palace, according to news wire Reuters.\n\nMr Trump and Mrs Trump will return to the Imperial Palace later in the evening for a dinner banquet.\n\nMr Trump met Emperor Naruhito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo\n\nMr Trump reviewed the honour guard during a welcome ceremony\n\nMr Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met on Monday at the Akasaka Palace - a state guest house - where they discussed trade and relations with North Korea.\n\nTies with the US are of great strategic importance to Japan, and the countries are currently working on a bilateral trade agreement.\n\nMr Trump had earlier met with the families of Japanese citizens who were abducted by North Korea decades ago, to train North Korean spies in Japanese language and customs.\n\nThe decades-old issue is a painful chapter in relations between Pyongyang and Tokyo.\n\nNorth Korea has admitted kidnapping 13 Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 80s, and returned five to Japan in 2002. It maintains the rest are dead - something Japan does not believe.\n\nMr Abe said at a press conference following the meeting that the abduction issue remained the \"most important thing\" for his government, adding that the families were \"appreciative\" of Mr Trump's visit.\n\n\"Irrespective of my term in office I have to do everything I can for the resolution of this issue,\" he said.\n\nMr Trump also spoke about relations with North Korea, reiterating that the country had \"tremendous economic potential\".\n\nHe called its leader Kim Jong-un a \"smart man\" and said he was \"very happy\" with the way North Korea was going.\n\nHis remarks come hours after North Korea called US National Security Advisor John Bolton a \"war maniac\".\n\n\"Such human defect must go away as soon as possible,\" said a spokesman for the North's ministry.\n\nWhen asked if he shared Mr Trump's optimism on North Korea, Mr Abe said that the US leader had \"cracked open the shell of distrust\".\n\nMr Trump and Mr Abe held talks at the Akasaka Palace on Monday\n\nMr Trump also spoke about US relations with Iran noting that Mr Abe was close to the leader of Iran.\n\n\"I do believe that Iran would like to talk and if they'd like to talk, we'd like to talk also,\" newswire AFP reported him as saying. \"Nobody wants to see terrible things happen, especially me.\"\n\nMr Trump recently announced that the US would be sending 1,500 troops to the Middle East as tensions rise between the US and Iran.\n\nHe appeared to express support for Mr Abe to help facilitate talks with Iran, amid local media reports the Japanese leader is considering a trip to Iran next month.\n\nThe bilateral meeting comes after the two leaders met on Sunday to play golf and watch a sumo tournament together.\n\nMr Abe tweeted a selfie they took at the Mobara Country Club golf course, south of Tokyo.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 安倍晋三 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 pair are regular golf partners, and Mr Trump has noted their \"very, very good chemistry\".", "Sonita Alleyne described it as an \"honour\" to be appointed new master of Jesus College\n\nThe first black woman has been appointed to lead an Oxbridge college.\n\nSonita Alleyne, 51, who has been elected as the next master of Jesus College, Cambridge, will also be its first female appointee and will take up the role from October.\n\nBusinesswoman and entrepreneur Ms Alleyne said it was \"an honour to be elected to lead Jesus College\".\n\n\"I left Cambridge 30 years ago, but it never left me. I am delighted to be returning,\" she said.\n\nBrought up in East London, Ms Alleyne studied for her undergraduate degree in philosophy at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.\n\nA career in radio followed, including founding production company Somethin' Else, which she led as chief executive from 1991 until 2009.\n\nShe is a former BBC trustee who championed diversity and inclusivity.\n\nProfessor Mary Laven, of the college's search committee, said they were \"thrilled\" by Ms Alleyne's appointment.\n\n\"She brings to the college a wealth of experience and an enduring commitment to helping young people fulfil their potential,\" she said.\n\nMs Alleyne was also previously appointed to the board of the London Legacy Development Corporation in 2012, as part of the drive to promote and deliver regeneration in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and surrounding areas.\n\nShe is also fellow of both the Royal Society of the Arts and the Radio Academy and was awarded an OBE for services to broadcasting in 2004.\n• None 'I'm mixed-race, is Cambridge right for me?'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Michael Gove will allow EU nationals living in the UK at the time of the referendum to apply free of charge for citizenship if he becomes PM.\n\nThe Brexit-supporting environment secretary, who is running to replace Theresa May, will make an \"open and generous\" offer, sources said.\n\nSo far, 10 Conservative MPs have said they will contest the party leadership.\n\nThe official race gets under way in early June, after Theresa May stands down - but jostling between candidates has begun. The winner, expected to be named by late July, will also become prime minister.\n\nSources close to Mr Gove, one of the leaders of the Leave campaign during the 2016 Brexit referendum, have told the BBC he is ready to accept proposals put forward by the Conservative MP Alberto Costa, who quit his government post over ministers' attitude to EU nationals living in the UK.\n\nIf chosen as the next Tory leader, it is said he would remove the requirement of EU citizens to provide proof of their right to be in the UK, getting rid of the \"settled status\" scheme.\n\nThose living in the country would require documentation only for specific purposes, rather than being required to register.\n\nMr Costa welcomed Mr Gove's proposal, calling it \"the morally right thing to do\"\n\nA source close to the environment secretary said: \"This is simply the right thing to do - honouring the promise of Vote Leave that EU nationals studying, working and living in the UK were welcome to stay.\"\n\nThe leadership contest comes after Mrs May tried and failed three times to get her Brexit withdrawal agreement through the House of Commons.\n\nShe announced her resignation last week following an outcry within her party when she proposed a fourth vote by MPs.\n\nMr Stewart said: \"I would like thousands of conversations up and down the country, co-ordinated on social media with all the results being brought together digitally.\n\n\"And then we come back into Parliament and we move very quickly to ban conversation about no deal, ban conversation about second referendum and focus on getting a deal done.\"\n\nMeanwhile, housing minister Kit Malthouse has become the latest Conservative MP to join the race to become party leader.\n\nWriting in the Sun newspaper on Tuesday, Mr Malthouse said the campaign \"cannot be about the same old faces\" and described himself as \"the new face, with fresh new ideas\".\n\nThe other declared candidates to replace Mrs May are:", "Floral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene in Shiregreen, Sheffield\n\nA man and a woman have been charged with murder after two children died following an \"incident\" at a house in Sheffield.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, died, and four children were \"rescued\" from the property in Shiregreen at 07:30 BST on Friday.\n\nThe woman has also been charged with three counts of attempted murder.\n\nThey are due to appear before Sheffield Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nThe four surviving children, aged eight months, three, 11 and 12, received treatment at hospital and were discharged on Saturday.\n\nThe children cannot be identified for legal reasons.\n\nFloral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene.\n\nThe children cannot be identified for legal reasons\n\nPost-mortem tests on the boys who died had been due to take place on Friday.\n\nGill Furniss, Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, said she was \"deeply saddened by the tragic incident\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Germany's Green Party doubled its share of the vote\n\nThe major centre-right and centre-left groupings were always going to have a tough election, the question was - on what scale?\n\nWhen the results came, it was clear they had lost their combined majority in the European Parliament as voters shied away from the mainstream. But they still held more than 43% of the vote.\n\nThe mainstream blocs lost votes to the Liberals, Greens and nationalists, creating a new, fragmented reality for the European Parliament.\n\nTurnout was at its highest since 1994, with some observers suggesting this was due to more young people voting.\n\nThe centre-right European People's Party (EPP) and centre-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D) have long held more than half the seats in Parliament between them. That is set to change.\n\nThe sense of an end of an era was symbolised in Germany, where the centre-right Christian Democrats of Chancellor Angela Merkel polled just 29% of the vote - their worst-ever performance in European elections. The centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) came a poor third with 16%.\n\nOfficial projections, based on exit polls, now suggest the EPP and S&D will lose 83 seats, bringing their share down to around 44%, from a comfortable control of more than half the previous parliament.\n\nThe centrist Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), is heading for big gains, with its share rising from 67 seats to 107. That is largely because the newcomer-party of French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to join up and could play a kingmaker role.\n\nOutgoing ALDE group leader Guy Verhofstadt hailed a \"historical moment\" and a \"new balance of power\".\n\nMany member states, from the Nordic countries to Portugal, saw a rise in the Green vote.\n\nAnd while they may have come second in Germany, the Green party is being hailed as the big winner there, doubling its vote share to 21%, incomplete results showed.\n\nThe Greens captured the zeitgeist while the other parties struggled to put together a coherent environmental policy, said BBC Berlin correspondent Jenny Hill.\n\nAround one in three people under the age of 30 voted Green. In the run-up to the vote, 90 influential YouTubers urged followers to vote for parties that took climate issues seriously. They told voters to avoid the far-right AfD, which they said denied climate change was even happening.\n\nGerman YouTubers including Rezo, seen on a placard at this protest, had called for people to vote for parties that took climate change seriously\n\nIn France, green group Europe Écologie Les Verts (EELV) is on course to come third with 13%. Both Mrs Le Pen and Mr Macron have emphasised their green credentials. Mr Macron wants to shift to green technology and energy while Mrs Le Pen said her brand of localism was good for the environment.\n\nIn Portugal, the green PAN party (People-Animals-Nature) is on course to win its first ever seat in the European Parliament, possibly even two.\n\nThe Greens have won an historic second place in Finland but in Sweden, home to climate activist Greta Thunberg, they have gone into reverse. They are projected to poll 11%, down almost 8%.\n\nThis was to be the election that sparked a right-wing force to seize the agenda in Europe. It has not quite happened.\n\nThe two dominant nationalist figures in France and Italy won the national vote.\n\nMatteo Salvini, whose right-wing nationalist League party is predicted to win over 30% of the Italian vote, is hoping to found a new grouping, the European Alliance for People and Nations, with the support of a dozen other parties.\n\nIn France Marine Le Pen's National Rally party - formerly the National Front - is heading for first place with 23.5% of the vote, narrowly ahead of President Emmanuel Macron's centrist grouping, which got 22.4%.\n\nTurnout was reportedly high in areas where her party has previously done well and also in areas where support for the anti-government \"gilets jaunes\" (yellow-vest) movement is strong. Mrs Le Pen has changed her position on EU membership, saying she now wants to stay in the bloc.\n\nBut after that the nationalist surge appears to fall away.\n\nIn Germany the far-right AfD is predicted to get under 11%, up from 7.1% five years ago, but down on its general election showing in 2017.\n\nIn the Netherlands the Freedom Party of Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has lost all its seats in parliament. Much of his vote appears to have been taken over by another populist party, Forum for Democracy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nResults in Spain give new far-right Vox party getting only 6.2% of the vote, down from the 10.3% it achieved in Spain's national election only a month ago.\n\nFar-right and Eurosceptic parties are currently split between three groupings in the European Parliament: the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR); and the two far-right groupings, Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) and Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF).\n\nIn the UK a new anti-EU party, the Brexit Party, is heading for victory at the expense of the Conservative Party, while pro-EU Liberal Democrats are taking votes from the traditionally centre-left Labour party.\n\nIn the UK, which voted on Thursday, Nigel Farage's new Brexit Party is heading for victory", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour deputy leader Tom Watson has said his party lost \"many hundreds of thousands\" of potential votes in the EU elections because of its Brexit stance.\n\nHe argued that confusion over holding a referendum on any deal had led to \"electoral catastrophe\", after Labour's share of the vote fell to 14%.\n\nBut he welcomed leader Jeremy Corbyn saying the party was \"ready to support a public vote on any deal\".\n\nMr Corbyn has attempted to appeal to both Remain and Leave voters in framing Brexit policy, but has come under increasing pressure from senior figures in the party to back a further referendum.\n\nIn the European Parliament elections, the Brexit Party, which supports a no-deal Brexit, won the most UK votes. Meanwhile, parties supporting a further referendum, including the Liberal Democrats and the Greens, picked up support.\n\nBacking for Labour and the Conservatives, whose members tend to have a broader range of views on the subject, slumped.\n\nAs the results came in, shadow chancellor John McDonnell, one of Mr Corbyn's closest political allies, told the BBC another referendum may be the only way to break the Brexit deadlock in Parliament.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. McDonnell: Brexit 'needs to go back to the people'\n\nFaced with the prospect of a \"Brexiteer extremist\" running the Conservative Party after the contest to replace Theresa May as leader, Mr McDonnell said Labour must back a fresh public vote to prevent a \"catastrophic\" no-deal scenario.\n\n\"Of course we want a general election, but realistically, after [the European election results] last night there aren't many Tory MPs who're going to vote for a general election,\" he said.\n\n\"It would be like turkeys voting for Christmas, so our best way of doing that is going back to the people in a referendum.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn spells out his party's \"very clear policy\"\n\nThe House of Commons has rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's withdrawal agreement with the EU three times, and cross-party talks between Labour and the Conservatives, aimed at ending the impasse, ended recently without agreement.\n\nMr Corbyn said Labour's policy had been \"very clear\" all along.\n\nHe also sent a letter to his MPs, saying it was \"clear that the deadlock in Parliament can now only be broken by the issue going back to the people through a general election or a public vote. We are ready to support a public vote on any deal.\"\n\nMr Watson, who has called for \"a confirmatory ballot\" on any agreement, said he was \"really pleased\" that Mr Corbyn had now \"signalled\" a change in policy.\n\nHowever, there was \"very little time\" before the 31 October deadline for Brexit, Mr Watson said, arguing that Labour must \"urgently\" consult its members either through a special conference or a ballot of members to change its Brexit policy.\n\nHe said Labour's Brexit policy had been agreed by \"a very small number of people\" on Labour's ruling National Executive Committee, which had caused an \"electoral catastrophe\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour's 14% vote share in the European elections is worse than its previous low in 2009. Across Britain, it was in third place, behind the Liberal Democrats and the Brexit Party.\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard and Welsh Labour leader and First Minister Mark Drakeford have also spoken out in support of another referendum following the EU election results.\n\nFormer Labour communications director Alastair Campbell told the BBC he had voted for the Liberal Democrats \"for the first time in my life\".\n\n\"I felt on this issue the Labour Party has let its own supporters down, its members down and the country down in the way that it has failed properly to develop a policy that the party and country could unite around.\"\n\nLabour's MPs are divided on Brexit. David Lammy, who represents Tottenham, in north London, called for the party to \"get its act together\" and come out fully in support of another referendum.\n\nBut other Labour MPs in Leave-voting areas - like Don Valley MP Caroline Flint - said it would be a \"mistake\" for the party to appeal only to Remain voters.", "The Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage took to the stage after being elected an MEP in South East England.", "Little Mix kicked off Sunday's event with songs including Shout Out To My Ex and Black Magic\n\nLittle Mix, Miley Cyrus, Mumford and Sons, Stormzy and Lewis Capaldi are just some of the stars who put on a show for the crowd at Radio 1's Big Weekend.\n\nThe artists used fireworks and booming speakers to bring the party to Stewart Park in Middlesbrough on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.\n\nLewis, who performed on Saturday, told Radio 1 Newsbeat: \"I think it might be the best gig I've ever played in my life.\n\n\"It's the first time I've played a lot of these songs in a festival set-up. It's incredible to see people come out.\n\n\"Hearing people singing back your songs is so weird... I don't think I'll ever get used to it.\"\n\nHere are some of the best pics from the weekend so far:\n\nMiley Cyrus put on a big performance to close the festival on Saturday\n\nMarcus Mumford got the crowd going when Mumford and Sons opened up the festival on Saturday\n\nLewis Capaldi performed a day after his debut album went to number one\n\nFoals had a dramatic backdrop for their set\n\nKhalid performed on the main stage on Saturday\n\nJax Jones (right) brought on Olly Alexander as a special guest\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. The winners and losers of European election night\n\nThe Brexit Party was the clear winner in the UK's European elections, while the pro-EU Lib Dems came second.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour suffered heavy losses, with the former getting less than 10% of the vote.\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage said he was ready to \"take on\" the main parties in a general election.\n\nMr Farage's party won 29 seats, the Lib Dems 16, Labour 10, the Greens seven, the Tories four, the SNP three, and Plaid Cymru and the DUP one each.\n\nThe elections came after Prime Minister Theresa May tried three times to secure MPs' backing for her Brexit plan and announced her resignation after her fourth attempt prompted a backlash.\n\nMr Farage told the BBC: \"With a big, simple message - which is we've been badly let down by two parties who have broken their promises - we have topped the poll in a fairly dramatic style.\n\n\"The two-party system now serves nothing but itself. I think they are an obstruction to the modernising of politics... and we are going to take them on.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said he was \"pleasantly surprised\" by his party's \"very good result\".\n\nHe added that there was \"a majority of people in the country who don't want to leave the European Union now\".\n\nPolling expert Sir John Curtice said the results showed how polarised the country had become over Brexit.\n\nWere these results an overwhelming cry for us to leave the EU whatever the cost? Or a sign, with some slightly convoluted arithmetic, that the country now wants another referendum to stop Brexit all together?\n\nGuess what, the situation is not quite so black and white, whatever you will hear in the coming hours about the meaning of these numbers.\n\nThe Brexit Party's success was significant and Nigel Farage's new group is the biggest single winner.\n\nBut the Lib Dems, Greens, Plaid and SNP - all parties advocating the opposite - were victors too.\n\nMrs May, who is due to step down as Conservative leader on 7 June, tweeted her response to her party's performance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Theresa May This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Theresa May\n\nAcross Europe, the big centre-right and centre-left blocs lost ground, amid a surge in support for liberals, Greens and nationalists.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but after that deadline was put back to 31 October, participation in the election became mandatory.\n\nThe Brexit Party topped the polls in every region of England apart from London. It also dominated in Wales, with Plaid Cymru second.\n\nIt has now become the joint largest national party in the European Parliament, alongside Germany's CDU/CSU party.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Click here for full UK results Find out who was elected in your area The results for your area are not in yet * Votes counted as first preference. Vote share figures not included because of the STV electoral system Find out more about elections in Northern Ireland\n\nIn Scotland, the pro-Remain SNP won the biggest share of the vote, with just under 38%, giving it three MEPs.\n\nThe Brexit Party came in second place with a significantly lower percentage - 14.8% - followed by the Lib Dems with 13.9% and the Tories with 11.6% - meaning each party has one seat.\n\nBut Labour only received 9.3% of the vote - a loss in vote share of 16.6% - leaving it with no MEPs in Scotland for the first time.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the DUP (which supports leaving the EU), Sinn Fein (Remain), and the Alliance Party (Remain) all won a seat each.\n\nBrexiteer and Conservative MEP for the South East Daniel Hannan - one of only three Tory MEPs elected - said it was his party's \"worst ever result\".\n\n\"We voted to leave (the EU) and we haven't left - it's that simple,\" he told the BBC.\n\nTory leadership hopeful and former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said the public had delivered \"a crushing rebuke\" to both major parties for failing to deliver Brexit.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn is facing increasing pressure from senior members of his party to back another referendum on Brexit, with shadow chancellor John McDonnell saying it is the only way through the deadlock.\n\n\"If there can be a deal, great, but it needs to go back to the people,\" Mr McDonnell said.\n\n\"If it's a no-deal, we've got to block it and the one way of doing that is going back to the people and arguing the case against it because it could be catastrophic for our economy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. McDonnell: Brexit 'needs to go back to the people'\n\nBut the leader of the Unite Union, Len McCluskey, said Labour's attempt to \"unite the nation\" over Brexit was \"an honourable objective that must not be abandoned\".\n\nAnd Mr Corbyn wrote to his MPs that it was \"clear that the deadlock in Parliament can now only be broken by the issue going back to the people through a general election or a public vote. We are ready to support a public vote on any deal.\"\n\nGreen Party co-leader Sian Berry said the case for a further referendum was stronger than ever, adding that it was \"the way to draw a line under the Brexit chaos\".\n\nChange UK, which also opposes Brexit, failed to win any seats in the election, but leader Heidi Allen told the BBC her party - newly formed from former Labour and Tory MPs - was \"down, but we are not out\".\n\nMeanwhile, UKIP, which Mr Farage used to lead, lost all its MEPs, and saw a fall in its vote share of more than 20 points.\n\nThe party's former deputy leader, Mike Hookem - who lost his seat in Yorkshire and the Humber - blamed UKIP leader Gerard Batten for the result.\n\nHe highlighted Mr Batten's association with former EDL leader Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - who also failed to win a seat in the North West Region, where he ran as an independent.\n\nSearch using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results\n\nCorrection 20 August 2019: This article has been amended to remove a chart that attempted to show the performance of pro- and anti-Brexit parties, after a ruling from the BBC's Executive Complaints Unit.", "If you're scratching your head right now, confused by conflicting interpretations of the European parliamentary election, fear not, just read on.\n\nContrary to some stark political predictions ahead of the vote, the actual results seem nuanced.\n\nIn France, for example, far-right candidate Marine Le Pen beat President Emmanuel Macron at the polls. A huge victory for her, right? And for the nationalist Eurosceptic cause, while Mr Macron clearly failed to persuade voters with his reform agenda for France and the EU.\n\nBut the margin of difference was so small between the two politicians, you could argue the opposite: that Marine Le Pen failed to truly capitalise on the weakness of an unpopular president, allowing him to emerge post-election with feathers ruffled, but not plucked. If you forgive my unglamorous analogy.\n\nThe European election results 2019 can be read in different ways.\n\nThe nationalist right didn't sweep the board. Traditional governing parties were not all decimated, as some commentators had breathlessly predicted.\n\nBut there were clear trends.\n\nThe traditional centre-left and centre-right parties, which have dominated the EU as long as anyone can remember, appear to have lost their majority for the first time in the European Parliament.\n\nThis reflects a tendency already apparent in national elections all over Europe: rejection of the status quo. Look at the beating meted out to France's centre-right and centre-left; to Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Social Democrat coalition partners; plus the slap in the face delivered to the UK's Conservative and Labour parties.\n\nEurope's voters are looking elsewhere for answers. They're drawn to parties and political personalities they feel better represent their values and priorities.\n\nSome are attracted by the nationalist right, promising a crackdown on immigration and more power for national parliaments, rather than for Brussels. Italy's firebrand Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini is a successful example, as is Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.\n\nOther voters prefer a pro-European alternative, like the Green Party and liberal groups, which also performed well in these elections.\n\nGermany's Green Party doubled its share of the vote\n\nThe new European Parliament will be broadly pro-EU but also fractured, making law-making and change difficult. Just when Europe's voters are screaming for change.\n\nVoter engagement is clear, looking at the higher-than-usual turnout figures.\n\nAnd they used these elections to send a strong message to their national governments. It's not certain that Angela Merkel's coalition will survive this latest humiliation, after months of losses in significant regional elections.\n\nGreek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is dissolving his government to hold snap elections, after a disastrous showing at the European level for his left-wing Syriza party.\n\nAnd Matteo Salvini, who dreams of being Italy's prime minister, will likely push for an early general election, after emerging triumphant from these elections.\n\nAll of this could have an effect on Brexit too.\n\nTied up with their own national political dramas, EU leaders are even less likely to be open to renegotiating the Brexit divorce deal, if asked to do so by the next UK prime minister.\n\nAnd how willing are they to implement the changes in EU priorities and focus that Europe's voters seem to clamour for?\n\nThe political \"flavour\" of the next president of the European Commission (chosen by the European Parliament and EU leaders) will be a good indicator.\n\nEU leaders come to Brussels on Tuesday to discuss that post and a host of other influential EU jobs about to become vacant, like that of European Council President (the person who represents all EU member countries in Brussels, replacing Donald Tusk) and the presidency of the European Central Bank.\n\nThe horse-trading has only just begun.\n• None European elections: What we know", "Were these results an overwhelming cry for us to leave the EU whatever the cost? Or a sign, with some slightly convoluted arithmetic, that the country now wants another referendum to stop Brexit all together?\n\nGuess what, the situation is not quite so black and white, whatever you will hear in the coming hours about the meaning of these numbers.\n\nThe Brexit Party's success was significant - topping the poll, successfully building on Nigel Farage's inheritance from UKIP. As a one-issue party, his new group is the biggest single winner.\n\nBut the Lib Dems, Greens, Plaid and SNP - all parties advocating the opposite - were victors too.\n\nThose who have been clearly pushing the case for another referendum in order to slam the brakes on Brexit have, this morning, a new confidence, a vigour with which they will keep making their case.\n\nWhile those two sides fight over this election's true meaning, what is clear is that the two biggest parties have been damaged by their various contortions over Brexit, punished by the fiasco at Westminster, and beaten by rivals who have offered clarity while they have tried to find nuanced ways through.\n\nThe Tories' performance is historically dreadful. This is not just a little embarrassment or hiccup. In these elections the governing party has been completely smashed.\n\nAnd for the main opposition to have failed to make any mileage out of the Tories' political distress is poor too - with historic humiliations in Scotland and Wales for Labour as well.\n\nThere is immediate pressure, of course, on Labour to argue more clearly for another referendum, to try to back Remain, to shore up that part of their coalition. The dilemmas over doing so still apply even though more and more senior figures in the party are making the case.\n\nAnd with the success of The Brexit Party, there is a push for the Tories to be willing to leave the EU without a deal whatever the potentially grave economic costs.\n\nThe Tory leadership contest in the wake of these results runs the risk of turning into bragging rights over who can take a harder line on Brexit.\n\nIn these elections it seems both of our main Westminster parties have been punished for trying to paint shades of grey when the referendum choice was between black and white. And there is a chance that encourages both of them to give up fighting for the middle.\n\nBut that could set our politics on a course where, whatever happens, half of the country will be unhappy. Nothing about these dramatic results sketches out a straightforward route.", "Boris Johnson, the front-runner in the Tory leadership race, has said the party could be \"fired from running the country\" if it does not deliver Brexit.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, he said voters in the EU election issued a \"crushing rebuke\" to the Conservatives.\n\nFellow candidate, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, said the party faces an \"existential risk\" over Brexit.\n\nEight candidates have declared they are standing for leader, after Theresa May said she would resign.\n\nMr Johnson said voters had issued the party with a \"final warning\" as the Tories came fourth in Hillingdon, where he is an MP, and the Brexit Party emerged with the largest number of MEPs overall.\n\nHe said: \"If we go on like this, we will be fired: dismissed from the job of running the country.\"\n\nMr Hunt said on Twitter that the \"painful result\" meant there was an \"existential risk to our party unless we now come together and get Brexit done\".\n\nWith some results still to declare, the overnight count has seen Conservative voters deserting the party, with the party scoring less than 10% of the total vote - compared to nearly 25% in the last EU election.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said it was the worst performance for the Conservatives as a party since 1832.\n\nEducation Minister Nadhim Zahawi said the results were a \"wake-up call\" for MPs to deliver Brexit and the Conservatives would be \"in trouble\" if they failed to do so.\n\nMr Johnson said the message from the results was clear for the Conservatives and the party risked a \"permanent haemorrhage\" of support.\n\nThe only way to avoid that outcome, he said, was to \"come out of the EU; and that means doing it properly\".\n\nThe leadership race began when Mrs May announced she would stand down as Tory leader on 7 June, saying it was time for another prime minister to try to deliver Brexit.\n\nSo far eight candidates have said they want to run for the Tory leadership.\n\nEnvironment secretary Michael Gove and former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab declared on Sunday, joining Matt Hancock, Jeremy Hunt, Boris Johnson, Esther McVey, Andrea Leadsom and Rory Stewart.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nAttitudes toward a no-deal Brexit are sharply divided, with several candidates saying they are prepared to let the UK leave the EU on the new deadline on 31 October without a deal if necessary.\n\nIn his Telegraph column, Mr Johnson said that \"no one sensible\" would aim exclusively for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut he added that \"no one responsible would take no-deal off the table\".\n\nMr Raab told the BBC he would fight for a \"fairer\" Brexit deal with the EU - but if that were not possible, the UK would leave with no deal in October.\n\nAnd Mr Gove confirmed he would run to \"deliver Brexit\" and unite the party.\n\nOther candidates have stressed the need to get a Brexit deal passed in Parliament.\n\nWriting in the Times, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Conservatives had to deliver Brexit through Parliament, \"whether we like it or not\".\n\nHe added: \"The brutal truth is that plans that cannot command the confidence of Parliament would risk a general election.\n\n\"We would be punished for our failure to deliver Brexit and under any leader this would risk Corbyn by Christmas.\"", "Lewis Hamilton really had to work for this one.\n\nA glance at the results of the Monaco Grand Prix - Mercedes' sixth straight win this year, Hamilton's fourth victory in six races, leading lights to flag - makes it look easy. But it was anything but.\n\nMercedes - pretty much flawless all season so far - made their first big mistake of the year. They put Hamilton on the wrong tyres at his pit stop, and that left him facing a rear-guard battle with rapidly deteriorating grip, and the most aggressive driver in Formula 1 right behind him.\n\nOvertaking is close to impossible in Monaco, but that should take nothing away from the quality of Hamilton's drive.\n\n\"He saved us,\" Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said afterwards. \"His driving saved us.\"\n\nHamilton said afterwards: \"I think it was the hardest race I've had. I've had a lot of races but globally, in the car and with the tyres, the strategy, with Max (Verstappen) behind, it was the biggest challenge I think I've had and I'm really grateful I was able to pull it off.\"\n\nIt was a drive reminiscent of Ayrton Senna holding off Nigel Mansell's Williams in the closing laps of Monaco in 1992, after the Briton had closed at five seconds a lap after a late tyre change. Or Daniel Ricciardo holding off Sebastian Vettel to win for Red Bull last year despite a power loss of more than 160bhp.\n\nWhat did Mercedes do wrong?\n\nThe incident that changed the race - and turned Hamilton's afternoon from what would have been a relatively easy cruise to the flag into a nerve-fraying fight that tested him to the limit - was the safety car being deployed so officials could clean up the debris strewn around the circuit as a flailing tyre on Charles Leclerc's Ferrari smashed his car's floor to pieces.\n\nThe race was only 11 laps old. There were still 67 laps to go. All the leaders pitted, but while Red Bull and Ferrari put Max Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel on to the 'hard' compound tyre, Mercedes chose the 'medium' for Hamilton and team-mate Valtteri Bottas.\n\n\"It was obviously the wrong call,\" Wolff admitted. Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto said he was \"surprised\", given how much further there was to go. Mercedes were about to find out why.\n\nThe thinking was straightforward enough. Mercedes' projections said that if they pitted at any time from lap 15 or 16 onwards, the tyre would make it to the end as long as the drivers were careful with it.\n\n\"It didn't even seem like a huge stretch,\" Wolff said. \"But we realised 20 laps into the race (stint) that on the left front some graining appeared and he started to complain about the understeer from the graining and it would get very difficult to make it to the end.\"\n\nGraining is where the surface tears and reduces grip. Hamilton began to come on to the radio to express his doubts that the tyres would last. And his messages became increasingly frantic, until ultimately he said it would take a \"miracle\" to make it.\n\n\"We had quite some discussions about the tyre lasting another 40 laps and I was reminded it was only 20 laps on a normal circuit so calm down a bit,\" Wolff said.\n\n\"But everybody knew it would be a huge stretch and I believe 20 laps from the end he had 0% rubber with massive understeer. You could see around Loews (hairpin), the car wouldn't turn any more.\"\n\nIn the car, Hamilton was thinking about how much the win would mean - to him, to the team, especially just six days after they had lost non-executive director Niki Lauda, who died on Monday.\n\n\"So much came into my mind,\" he said. \"I had 38 laps to go and with these tyres [I was thinking] I'm not going to make it. But I wasn't going to stop. I was leading by 20 seconds here a few years ago and pitted and came out third, and your heart just sinks. So I was like: 'I'm not coming in, whatever the case. I'm just going to drive around with no tyres until they blow up.'\n\n\"With sheer will I just kept pushing. I really, really tried my best to stay focused and not crack under pressure.\"\n\nThe longer the race went on, the harder it became for Hamilton. Verstappen, behind, was biding his time, waiting for an opportune moment. Into the last 10 laps, he began to pile on the pressure, climbing all over the back of Hamilton's car, nearly running into him more than once. He finally tried a move at the chicane with three laps to go.\n\nIt nearly worked. He got his front wheels inside Hamilton's rears, they touched as the Mercedes turned in. Hamilton survived by going straight on to ensure the incident didn't take both of them out, and that was effectively that.\n\n\"I just really wanted to do the job, and deliver for Niki,\" Hamilton said. \"I also wanted to pull it through for the team because so many guys back at the factory deserved it. Proud of today.\"\n\nWhy did they make the call?\n\nIn the context of the weekend, Mercedes felt their tyre call would be the right one - as they made it.\n\nThey wanted to avoid the hard for three reasons: It had been an awkward tyre to use when teams tried it in practice on Thursday; they were worried they would be vulnerable at the restart if the drivers behind them chose the mediums; and rain was in the air, and the medium, as a softer tyre, would be better in damp conditions.\n\nBut the tyre simply did not have the durability to last at a normal pace. They held their hands up afterwards, and they were left relying on Hamilton to ensure that that winning run continued - even if the sequence of one-twos was lost to an unsafe release from Red Bull that led to Bottas getting a puncture as he and Verstappen left the pits side by side.\n\nHamilton usually demurs when he's asked how to rank a race, says it is difficult to remember them all, is reluctant to call anything his best or toughest, usually adds the qualifier \"one of\". So it means something when he talks as close as he is ever likely to in absolutes.\n\n\"I believe it is in the top five (wins) and I think it is the hardest I have ever had,\" he said. \"I still can't believe I managed to get it to the end. (There were) so many opportunities to make a mistake, to give up, to make an excuse.\"\n\nHamilton barely drinks, but he would he admitted \"definitely have a glass of wine. Or a few.\"\n\nIn a year that Mercedes have dominated so far, Monaco demonstrated how fine can be the line between victory and defeat.\n\nAfter their fifth consecutive one-two in Spain last time, the talk was all about whether they can become the first time to go through the season undefeated. Wolff seized on the opportunity Monaco provided to issue a reality check.\n\n\"We were close to losing today,\" he said.\n\nWho would take responsibility for failing to secure the one-two, a journalist asked with his tongue in his cheek?\n\nWolff laughed. \"I take full responsibility,\" he said. \"We need to keep both feet on the ground. We are laughing about it but what you can see is teams have stopped winning once they had a sense of entitlement and believed it was normal.\n\n\"It is not normal. One-twos and one-threes are not normal for the highest competition in motor racing so we are constantly expecting to hit road bumps and we take it and continue to push flat out for the next one.\"\n\nIn reality, all things being equal, Mercedes are likely to remain extremely hard to beat. Their car has proved ultra-competitive on all types of tracks, and it's becoming clear a perfect storm of unintended consequences has led to this situation.\n\nTwo technical changes for 2019 have played right into Mercedes' hands.\n\nThe introduction of new front wing rules aimed at making overtaking easier has fundamentally changed the way air flows over the cars, and made a car in Mercedes' style the perfect one for the new regulations. The Ferrari and Red Bull follow a different philosophy, and work in a different way, and it has cost them performance.\n\nSecondly, tyres with a thinner tread, introduced to give more durability and allow drivers to push harder in races, have made it more difficult for teams to get the rubber up to the right operating temperature.\n\nThis, too, has inadvertently helped Mercedes, whose problem for the last few years has been keeping their tyres from overheating, and hindered Ferrari, who previously have been much better able to control tyre temperature, but are now struggling to generate enough.\n\nTo that, as Binotto said \"there are no magic solutions\". But at least Mercedes have shown at last that they have some human fallibility about them this year.", "Lewis Hamilton held off Max Verstappen, and survived a late collision with the Red Bull driver, to win a nail-biting Monaco Grand Prix.\n\nThe world champion was left struggling with the tyres on his Mercedes after fitting softer rubber than the Dutchman at pit stops during an early safety-car period.\n\nBritain's Hamilton repeatedly complained that he was not going to be able to make the tyres last to the end but by careful management held on to take his fourth win of 2019.\n\nVerstappen dropped from second on the road to fourth in the results because of a five-second penalty, promoting Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel to second and Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas to third.\n\nVerstappen's punishment was for an unsafe release in the pits when all the leaders pitted on lap 12 as a safety car was deployed to clear up debris laid by Charles Leclerc's Ferrari.\n\nAlthough Mercedes' run of consecutive victories at the start of this season continued, their sequence of one-twos is over as a result of Bottas' bad luck.\n\nAnd Hamilton now holds a 17-point lead over his team-mate in the championship.\n• None Hamilton holds on to win in Monaco - reaction\n\nThe defining moment of the race\n\nWearing a helmet painted in a design used by Niki Lauda, the Mercedes non-executive chairman who died on Monday, Hamilton was controlling the race, ahead of Bottas, Verstappen and Vettel, after converting his pole position into a lead a the first corner.\n\nBut the race came to life when Leclerc suffered a puncture when he spun trying to pass Nico Hulkenberg's Renault for 11th place on lap eight.\n\nLeclerc had been making up ground after Ferrari's farcical strategic error in qualifying on Saturday meant he failed to progress beyond the first session.\n\nThe Monegasque had passed Romain Grosjean's Haas for 12th place with a brave move at Rascasse on the previous lap. He tried the same on Hulkenberg but the German left him less room.\n\nThey rounded the corner together but Leclerc's rear wheel caught the inside barrier, pitching him into a spin and puncturing the tyre.\n\nHe got going again, losing only two places, but his tyre began to deconstruct around the next lap and tore chunks out of his rear bodywork as he returned to the pits.\n\nWhen the safety car was deployed, Hamilton led the leaders into the pits, as Bottas backed up Verstappen and Vettel to give Mercedes time to service both cars.\n\nRed Bull pulled off a super-quick stop and released Verstappen into Bottas' path, and the two cars touched as the Finn was forced into the pit wall on the outside.\n\nIt gave Verstappen second place on the road, and caused Bottas a puncture that meant he had to stop again the next time around, losing a place to German Vettel. But ultimately it cost him more than it gained him - and he was given two penalty points on his licence as well as the time penalty.\n\nWhy was Hamilton struggling so much?\n\nHamilton's problem was that Mercedes had fitted medium tyres to his car, while Verstappen and Vettel were given hards - which Bottas was also switched to when he pitted for the second time.\n\nIt meant Hamilton had to do 66 laps on a set of mediums, when they were only projected to last 50.\n\nIt is unclear why Mercedes chose the medium, and the decision gave Hamilton a tough afternoon, spent controlling his pace and fending off Verstappen.\n\nPassing is difficult at Monaco, but regardless it meant Hamilton could not afford to make a mistake despite fading grip, which was no easy task.\n\nHis concern was plain as he repeatedly complained over the radio that he was not going to make it and would not be able to hold Verstappen off.\n\nAt one point, he even said it was going to take a \"miracle\" to win it.\n\nIn the end, with about 10 laps to go, Mercedes' chief strategist James Vowles came on the radio and said: \"You can make it if you trust it.\"\n\nVerstappen went for it at the chicane with two laps to go, but he was too far back and locked a wheel, and they touched as Hamilton came across him.\n\nHamilton took to the escape road and carried on, as Verstappen complained: \"He just turned in. I was trying to overtake.\"\n\nThat was the last drama and Hamilton hung on for the remaining two laps.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nCanada in two weeks' time. Mercedes will start as favourites, but the long straights might give Ferrari their first chance to be competitive since Baku two races ago.\n\nWhat they said\n\nHamilton: \"That was definitely the hardest race I've had but nonetheless I really was fighting with the spirit of Niki - he's been such an influence in our team and I know he will be looking down and taking his hat off. I was trying to stay focused and make him proud that it's been the goal all week and we truly miss him.\"\n\nVettel: \"A tough race to manage, at Monaco something always happens, Max must have had an incredible stop, I saw them (Verstappen and Bottas) touching in the pit lane. I wanted to put some more pressure on, I just struggled with my tyres, not as badly as Lewis and Max's, but mine were just not getting hot.\"\n\nBottas: \"It's obviously disappointing for me, I think the speed was there and I was feeling good in the car. It was small margins yesterday and that made today difficult. Max got me in the pitlane and left me with no room and then I was stuck behind, it was like a Sunday drive.\"", "A veterinarian in Thailand stepped in to help a woman giving birth prematurely on the side of the road in Bangkok.\n\nThe BBC's Thai Service spoke to Waree Limrungsukho who said she had \"never done this for a human baby before\".", "A firefighter, a ballroom dancer and a scientist are among the contestants on this year's Love Island.\n\nBoxer Tyson Fury's brother and Strictly star AJ Pritchard's brother will also hope to find love on the ITV2 show.\n\nNow in its fifth series, Love Island returns to our screens on 3 June.\n\n\"The secret behind Love Island's success is that it's a really simple show about a really complicated subject,\" says the show's presenter Caroline Flack.\n\n\"It's relatable and that is the thing that is never going to change.\"\n\nCaroline Flack is back to present Love Island's fifth series\n\nThe show sees 12 islanders couple-up to be in with a chance of winning - but with just five women and seven men, the competition will be tough from the start.\n\nThose who stay single are at risk of being dumped from the island.\n\n\"Who doesn't want their own firefighter? Their own local hero.\"\n\nThe 27-year-old from Liverpool describes himself as straight-talking, open and energetic.\n\nBut will islanders agree? \"People don't always like the truth,\" Michael admits.\n\nMichael certainly thinks he's easy to get along with\n\nBeauty therapist Amber says she's already got a head start when it comes to appearing on Love Island.\n\nThe 21-year-old Geordie is acquainted with former islanders Adam Collard and Ellie Brown because \"everyone knows everyone in Newcastle!\"\n\nShe describes herself as funny - but hot-headed.\n\nAmber Gill says people think she's funny and is good on dates\n\nAnton reckons he's the first Scottish guy to be on Love Island.\n\nThe 24-year-old says he definitely wants to get further than former Scottish contestants Laura Anderson and Camilla Thurlow.\n\nThe gym owner from Airdrie thinks he's good at motivating people but can be moody and \"a bit selfish\".\n\nAnton Danyluk says his ideal girl has to be into the gym\n\nAir hostess Amy says she's looking for someone to travel the world with.\n\nThe 26-year-old, who's from Worthing in West Sussex, has already caused a storm on Instagram after a post of her with 1D's Liam Payne went viral.\n\nAmy says she's the Bridget Jones of her friendship group\n\nAircraft engineer Callum likes a bit of Michael Buble and says he's looking for a fairytale when it comes to meeting \"the one\".\n\nCould that happen on a reality TV show?\n\nCallum, who's 28, thinks \"time is ticking\" and says he \"doesn't want to be left on the shelf\".\n\nYewande says people are surprised when they find out she's a scientist but says there are loads of \"intelligent people\" on reality TV.\n\nShe points to Dr Alex who was on last year's series.\n\nWhen it comes to finding love, the 23-year-old she says she doesn't think there is a science to finding love.\n\n\"If there is then I have clearly been reading the wrong books.\"\n\nYewande says she's easy to get along with but tends \"to talk too much\"\n\nJoe admits he's always \"having jokes\" and doesn't take life too seriously - making him the \"perfect islander\".\n\nThe 22-year-old owns a catering company and describes himself as \"laid-back and chilled out\".\n\nJoe says sometimes he 'jokes around too much'\n\nAnna, who's 28, reckons she's different to other contestants because she \"studied hard\" and got a masters degree.\n\nThe pharmacist already has thousands of followers after going away to Qatar with two Iranian footballers.\n\n\"Suddenly my followers went up by 20,000 and I started being tagged in fan pages!\"\n\nAnna says she's got the glam look but there's \"more to her than that\"\n\nBoxer Tommy says Love Island is a good place to showcase his personality.\n\nA boxer called Fury? Yep that's right, Tommy is the brother of heavyweight boxer Tyson Fury.\n\nThe 20-year-old from Manchester says he can be \"a bit too confident\" but that he's \"honest, charismatic and charming\".\n\nSurfer Lucie reckons she stands out from other girls on the show because she's \"more into sports as well as being glam\".\n\nThe 21-year-old says she's more of a \"guys' girl\" than a \"girls' girl\" - she says there's \"less drama\" hanging out with guys.\n\nLucie says she's never had a boyfriend more than six months because she gets \"bored\"\n\nSherif, who's a chef and semi-pro rugby player, thinks it's his job to bring the mood up on the island.\n\n\"I feel like if you're down and around me, you'll end up being a bit more upbeat,\" the 20-year-old says.\n\nCurtis' brother AJ may have stolen the limelight on Strictly Come Dancing, but now it's his chance to shine on reality TV.\n\nCurtis may not make it far after the show because he admits he doesn't like using social media or phones.\n\nThe ballroom dancer says he's lived quite a \"sheltered life\" so hasn't dated much, apart from his dance partner.\n\nCurtis likes meeting girls in person rather than on apps or social media\n\nLove Island has been under pressure to act following the deaths of former contestants Mike Thalassitis and Sophie Gradon.\n\nAnd the show has become part of a broader debate around reality TV following the death of a guest who appeared on The Jeremy Kyle Show.\n\nEarlier this month that show was cancelled.\n\nSince then Love Island has introduced new duty of care rules - including a psychological consultant who will look after Islanders from pre-filming to after their time on the show.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Floral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene in Shiregreen, Sheffield\n\nA mother has appeared in court charged with the murder of her two teenage sons at a house in Sheffield.\n\nSarah Barrass, 34, is accused of murdering 14-year-old Blake Barrass and Tristen Barrass, 13, in the Shiregreen area on Friday.\n\nShe appeared at Sheffield Magistrates' Court alongside Brandon Machin, 37, who also faces two counts of murder.\n\nThe defendants were remanded in custody and are due to appear at Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday.\n\nMs Barrass has also been charged with three counts of attempted murder against two other children.\n\nNo pleas were entered to any of the charges.\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.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentary on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nBritish number one Johanna Konta says she stopped herself \"overthinking\" in the win that sent her into round two of the French Open for the first time.\n\nShe had lost her four previous first-round matches at Roland Garros.\n\n\"Obviously, it's nice to have won a main-draw match here,\" the 28-year-old said. \"But I have never doubted my ability on the surface.\"\n\nKonta took her first match point when Lottner could not return a thumping backhand, setting up a second-round match against American wildcard Lauren Davis.\n\nThe former Wimbledon semi-finalist is the first Briton through at Roland Garros, with men's number one Kyle Edmund meeting France's Jeremy Chardy later on Monday.\n\nCompatriots Cameron Norrie and Dan Evans play their opening matches on Tuesday.\n• None French Open: Caroline Wozniacki knocked out in first round\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nKonta, who won qualifying matches at Roland Garros in 2013 and 2014, said her barren main-draw run had not been playing on her mind.\n\nYet the importance of finally getting over the line against Lottner - ranked 121 places below and making her Roland Garros debut - was abundantly clear.\n\n\"It is in human nature to have doubts and negative thoughts. There are plenty of stats on that, that we have more negative thoughts than positive ones,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"But I think it was more about me trusting my habits, giving me the space to miss and the space to just play.\"\n\nOn paper, it should have been a formality given the 28-year-old's superb clay-court season leading up to the second Grand Slam of the year.\n\nKonta reached WTA finals at the Morocco Open and the more prestigious Rome Masters, racking up wins against Grand Slam champions Sloane Stephens and Venus Williams, plus world number four Kiki Bertens, on the way.\n\nRediscovering a potent first serve has been key to her recent success, although it deserted the Briton in a strange opening set where there were seven breaks of serve.\n\nA first-serve percentage down at 62% was hampered further by only winning 56% of these points, although it proved to matter little because of equally erratic serving from the other end.\n\nThe second set was completely contrasting.\n\nApart from Konta being unable to convert two break points for a 3-1 lead, chances were rarely offered as both players regained composure in their service games.\n\nOut of nowhere, Lottner rustled up a pair of break points for a 5-4 lead, only for former world number four Konta to save them with a big first serve followed by a backhand winner.\n\nLottner saw another chance disappear with an unforced error and that proved vital as Konta - backed by a typically strong British support in Paris - held before breaking for victory in what proved to be the final game.\n\n\"I had to trust myself in giving me some opportunities, my opponent was tricky because she didn't give much rhythm,\" Konta added.\n\n\"There was a lot of time to think, or overthink, but I did a good job of not doing that.\"\n\nHowever well Johanna Konta has been playing on clay this year, four previous Roland Garros first-round defeats were bound to play on her mind.\n\nShe was not at her most fluent on serve, and was broken three times in the opening set.\n\nBut when the chips were down, and Konta was facing two break points at 4-4 all in the second set, her resolve strengthened - and she was soon back in the locker room.\n\nA second-round match lies ahead with Lauren Davis, who is currently outside the world's top 100. But the 25-year-old is in the draw because of recent performances on clay, which earned her the wildcard reserved for an American player.\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "West Midlands Police said they were called to a polling station in Birmingham, England due to the size of the crowd.\n\nRomanian voters received three voting slips - one for the EU parliamentary vote, two for a national referendum.\n\nThe country’s state broadcaster said there was a request for polling hours to be extended abroad, which was turned down by the authorities.\n\nEuropean elections 2019: What we know so far", "Julia Rawson has not been seen since 12 May\n\nTwo men have been charged with the murder of a woman who disappeared more than two weeks ago.\n\nJulia Rawson, 42, from Dudley, was last seen on 12 May, with inquiries leading detectives to believe she is dead despite her body not being found.\n\nNathan Maynard-Ellis, 28, from Tipton, and David Leesley, 23, of Russells Hall, have been charged with her murder.\n\nBoth are due before Walsall Magistrates' Court later.\n\nOfficers are continuing to search a property in Mission Drive, Tipton and a nearby canal as part of the investigation.\n\nPolice said Ms Rawson's family have been kept informed of the latest developments.\n\nDet Insp Jim Colclough, leading the investigation, said: \"Extensive enquiries have led us to the strong belief that Julia has died.\n\n\"We are still working to establish the full circumstances around her disappearance, and our thoughts are with her family at what is a very traumatic time for them.\"\n\nJulia is described as 6ft tall with short tousled hair. She was last seen wearing a grey T-shirt, grey zip-fronted hooded top, with dark grey jeans and a black and white shoulder bag.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The collision happened off the coast of the French Riviera resort\n\nA 29-year-old Briton died following a collision between two yachts in Cannes, in France on Saturday.\n\nThe region's maritime prefecture said the vessels, Vision and Minx, collided at around 21:00 local time (20:00 BST).\n\nAccording to the statement, the man was a Minx crew member and died following a heart attack.\n\nThe maritime prefecture added that the collision happened after one yacht, Vision, sought to manoeuvre past the Minx which was anchored.\n\nThe prefecture stated that \"in spite of all attempts to resuscitate\" him, the man had died. He had been hauling up the anchor when the collision occurred.\n\nThe prefecture also said the remaining 17 people aboard the two vessels, which are both around 27m long, had been safely returned to shore overnight.\n\nThe statement added that the maritime police were investigating the incident, which happened on the last night of the film festival in Cannes.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"Our staff are assisting the family of a British man following his death in France, and are in contact with the local authorities.\"", "This photo showing a long queue up to the summit of Everest has gone viral in recent days\n\nNepal's tourism authority has denied accusations that the rise in Mount Everest deaths is solely due to overcrowding.\n\nThe department's director general Dandu Raj Ghimire said other factors including adverse weather conditions had also contributed.\n\nTen climbers have been reported dead or missing this season.\n\nPhotos of long queues near the summit have been widely shared as record numbers ascended the mountain in May.\n\nMr Ghimire said 381 people had ascended Everest this spring but as periods of fine weather had been short, the number of people on the routes had been \"higher than expected\".\n\nIn his statement, Mr Ghimire put the current death toll at eight, although 10 people have been reported dead or missing so far.\n\nKevin Hynes, 56, from Ireland, died in his tent on Friday and Séamus Lawless, also Irish, is presumed dead after falling near the summit.\n\nOne Nepalese, four Indians, an Austrian and an American are also dead or missing.\n\nA local tour organiser told AFP that one of the Indian climbers, Nihal Ashpak Bhagwan, died of exhaustion after being \"stuck in traffic for more than 12 hours\".\n\nMr Ghimire offered \"heartfelt condolences to those who've passed away and prayers to those who are still missing\".\n\n\"Mountaineering in the Himalayas is in itself an adventurous, complex and sensitive issue requiring full awareness yet tragic accidents are unavoidable,\" he said.\n• None Three more die on Everest amid overcrowding", "Jake Humphrey said people were moved by the Nine4Norah appeal and \"dipped their hands in the pockets\" as well as sharing his tweet\n\nSports presenter Jake Humphrey said a viral tweet about a bereaved father's appeal has been \"the absolute highlight\" of his time on social media.\n\nWatford fan Ross Coniam is attempting nine challenges in 2019 in memory of daughter Norah, who lived for just a few hours.\n\nA chance sighting of the appeal at an FA Cup game led to a tweet by Humphrey and donations topping £41,000.\n\n\"People told me 'I saw that and had to donate',\" said the BT Sports presenter.\n\nMr Coniam said it was a \"minor miracle\" Humphrey spotted his #NineForNorah hoodie in the Wembley crowd at the FA Cup semi-final, and looked up the phrase on Google.\n\n\"I found myself nipping off to the bathroom in the middle of the game to have a little cry, because I saw the pictures of little Norah,\" said Humphrey.\n\n\"Since becoming a father I can no longer see these stories and not imagine what it would be like if that was me, so this needed to be shared.\"\n\nRoss and Naomi Coniam's daughter Norah was born on 29 May, but died nine hours and 56 minutes later despite doctors' efforts to save her.\n\nShe would have been one on Wednesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ross Coniam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ross and Naomi Coniam thank Jake Humphrey at Wembley\n\nHer father said he hopes Norah will \"give him the strength\" to complete his challenges - including the London Marathon last month - for stillbirth and neonatal charities.\n\nBefore Humphrey's tweet, he had raised £3,058 of his £6,000 target.\n\n\"It shows you how amazing it is, what he is doing, that the tweet went viral, it went crazy - £40,000 was raised in a few days,\" said Humphrey.\n\n\"I ordered a pizza on Sunday night and the man came to my door and said 'I just gave a tenner to that #NineForNorah appeal'.\n\n\"I've had messages from people saying: 'I don't have much money, I don't have a job, but I've still given what I can.'\"\n\nRoss and Naomi Coniam's daughter Norah died hours after she was born\n\nHumphrey said it was incredible people were not simply sharing the tweet but \"dipping their hands in their pockets\".\n\n\"To use Twitter and see the positivity is so nice and reminds you we are mainly good people and we do just want to help people out when we can.\n\n\"It's without doubt the absolute highlight of my time on social media.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The so-called \"Ibiza-gate\" video led to the collapse of Mr Kurz's coalition\n\nAustria's parliament has removed Chancellor Sebastian Kurz from office in a special parliamentary session.\n\nHis previous coalition ally, the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), and the opposition Social Democrats (SPÖ) on Monday backed the no-confidence motion.\n\nThe FPÖ had become embroiled in a political scandal caused by a secret video, which ended the coalition.\n\nOn Tuesday, Austria's president appointed an interim government led by Vice-Chancellor Hartwig Löger.\n\nPresident Alexander Van der Bellen earlier said the constitution mandated all offices must be filled \"even in a transitional period\" and asked for some ministers to stay in office. General elections are expected in September.\n\nMr Löger is a member of Mr Kurz's centre-right People's Party (ÖVP) and the country's finance minister.\n\nHe was appointed vice-chancellor days ago after the previous holder of the office, FPÖ leader Heinz-Christian Strache, was sacked over the video sting.\n\nMr Kurz is the first chancellor in post-war Austrian history to lose a confidence vote.\n\nWhen he was elected in 2017, he was at 31 the world's youngest state leader.\n\nOpposition parties brought forward two no-confidence votes - one against Mr Kurz and the other against the government.\n\nWhile the SPÖ control only 52 of the 183-seat lower house, the FPÖ - which holds 51 seats - also backed the motions, which needed only a simple majority to pass.\n\nThe left-wing environmentalist JETZT party voted to oust the chancellor and his government, although the liberal NEOS party reportedly backed Mr Kurz in a bid to avoid instability.\n\nMr Kurz did well in Sunday's EU elections but it was not enough to save him\n\nMr Kurz's surprise strong showing in Sunday's European Union elections - winning a record 35% of the vote - was not enough to save him.\n\nSpeaking after the confidence vote, Mr Kurz pledged to support an interim government and insisted he and the ÖVP had \"guaranteed stability\" in Austria.\n\nThe parties ranged against Mr Kurz appeared to believe he should shoulder some of the blame for the fall of the coalition.\n\nThe Social Democrats said he should never have allied himself with the FPÖ in the first place. The FPÖ was still smarting from having had Mr Kurz replace all of its ministers with technocrats.\n\nThe video sting has widely been labelled \"Ibiza-gate\", after the Spanish island where the footage was recorded.\n\nIt was secretly filmed in July 2017 - just weeks before the election which saw both the FPÖ and Chancellor Kurz's party perform well.\n\nLast week, a Vienna lawyer said he had been involved in the sting, describing it as a \"civil society-driven project in which investigative-journalistic approaches were taken\".\n\nHowever, the lawyer did not reveal who was ultimately behind the operation, or who paid for it.\n\nIn the footage, released by German media this month, Mr Strache can be seen relaxing and drinking for hours at a villa with FPÖ parliament group leader Johann Gudenus, while they meet a woman, who says she is Alyona Makarova, the niece of Russian oligarch Igor Makarov.\n\nMr Strache appears to propose offering her public contracts if she buys a large stake in the Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung - and compels it to support the FPÖ.\n\nHe is heard suggesting that a number of journalists would have to be \"pushed\" from the newspaper, and that he wants to \"build a media landscape like [Viktor] Orban\" - referring to Hungary's nationalist prime minister.\n\nIt later emerged that Mr Makarov does not have a niece, and the whole evening back in 2017 was an elaborate trap.\n\nMr Strache stood down hours after the video emerged.\n\nPresident Van der Bellen then fired FPÖ Interior Minister Herbert Kickl at the request of Mr Kurz.\n\nThe move prompted the FPÖ's other ministers to resign in solidarity.\n\nDespite the scandal, Austrian news agency APA reports that Mr Strache could possibly take a seat in the European parliament.\n\nThe former vice-chancellor had remained at the bottom of his party's election list for the European elections after his resignation. But under Austrian law he could take one of FPÖ's predicted three seats if enough people supported him as a candidate.\n\nIt is unclear whether Mr Strache will take a seat.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: \"Never speak ill of our fellow Conservative\"\n\nDominic Raab has been making his pitch to become Conservative leader, as Michael Gove becomes the eighth MP to join the race to succeed Theresa May.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC he would fight for a \"fairer\" Brexit deal with the EU - but if that were not possible, the UK would leave with no deal in October.\n\nMr Gove confirmed he would run to \"deliver Brexit\" and unite the party.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond said it would be a \"dangerous strategy\" to ignore Parliament, which has opposed no-deal.\n\nBoris Johnson, the favourite in the contest, outlined his approach to Brexit in his column in Monday's Daily Telegraph, saying: \"No one sensible would aim exclusively for a no-deal outcome. No one responsible would take no-deal off the table.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mrs May announced she would be standing down as Tory leader on 7 June, saying it was time for another prime minister to try to deliver Brexit.\n\nIt came after a backlash by her MPs against her plan to get the withdrawal deal she had negotiated with the EU through the Commons, which has already rejected it three times.\n\nThe UK is now set to leave the European Union on 31 October, after the original Brexit date of 29 March was delayed twice owing to the parliamentary deadlock.\n\nThe delay has meant the UK has had to take part in elections to the European Parliament, three years after it voted to leave the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gove becomes the eighth candidate to put himself forward\n\nMr Gove, the environment secretary, confirmed on Sunday that he would run for leader, saying: \"I believe that I'm ready to unite the Conservative and Unionist Party, ready to deliver Brexit, and ready to lead this great country.\"\n\nSpeaking to Nick Robinson for BBC Radio 4 podcast Political Thinking at Hay Festival, Mr Gove explained why he was running, saying: \"The particular mix of experience I have means I can make a contribution.\"\n\nMr Gove also said he had changed his mind from 2016 - when he described himself as being \"incapable\" of being Tory leader - adding he had \"evolved as a politician\".\n\nWhile he did not set out his leadership proposal, he did say that the future prime minister would need an eye for detail, as the \"process for taking us out of the European Union requires that\".\n\nFormer Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and former Commons leader Andrea Leadsom revealed their leadership bids in the Sunday newspapers.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that the UK's previous negotiations with the EU over the withdrawal agreement had not been \"resolute\" enough, and a no-deal Brexit had been taken \"off the table\".\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\n\"I would fight for a fairer deal in Brussels with negotiations to change the backstop arrangements, and if not I would be clear that we would leave on WTO [World Trade Organization] terms in October.\"\n\nHe added: \"I don't want a WTO Brexit but I think unless you are willing to keep our promises as politicians… we put ourselves in a much weaker position in terms of getting a deal.\"\n\nMrs May, who was at church on Sunday with her husband Philip, resigned on Friday\n\nHe said there was \"no case for a further extension\" past the current date the UK is due to leave the EU, 31 October.\n\nBut Chancellor Philip Hammond called for compromise, saying the suggestion that it was possible to renegotiate the withdrawal agreement was a \"fig leaf\" for \"what is actually a policy of leaving on no-deal terms\".\n\nThat policy was clearly opposed by Parliament, he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.\n\n\"This is a parliamentary democracy. A prime minister who ignores Parliament cannot expect to survive very long,\" he warned.\n\nFormer work and pensions secretary Esther McVey told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday: \"31 October is the key date and we are coming out then, and if that means without a deal then that's what it means.\n\n\"We won't be asking for any more extensions. If Europe wants to come back to us, the door is open if they want a better deal.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Leader of the House Andrea Leadsom confirms leadership bid\n\nAsked if she favoured a no-deal Brexit, Ms Leadsom said: \"Of course, in order to succeed in a negotiation you have to be prepared to leave without a deal, but I have a three-point plan for Brexit, for how we get out of the European Union.\n\n\"I'm very optimistic about it. My role as leader of the Commons means that I've had a very good insight into what needs to be done, and I look forward to setting that out once the campaign starts.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Hammond: \"A prime minister who ignores Parliament cannot expect to survive very long\"\n\nThey have joined Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, his predecessor Boris Johnson, International Development Secretary Rory Stewart, and Health Secretary Matt Hancock in the battle for the leadership.\n\nTory MPs have until the week beginning 10 June to put their name forward, and the party hopes a new leader will be in place by the end of July.\n\nMembers will have the final say on who wins, after the shortlist is whittled down to two by a series of votes by Tory MPs.\n\nIn the Sunday Telegraph, party chairman Brandon Lewis said the party membership had swelled by 36,000 in the last year - bringing the total to more than 160,000.\n\nMrs May will continue as prime minister while the leadership contest takes place.\n\nHow the UK leaves the EU has consumed British politics for three years and anyone who wants to be prime minister now has to explain how they can succeed where Theresa May failed.\n\nAll the contenders in this race face the same dilemma.\n\nThe first hurdle is to persuade a deeply divided parliamentary party that they have a solution that breaks the stalemate but keeps the party intact.\n\nNext they must appeal to the Tory membership - and many of them have no problem with a no-deal Brexit.\n\nFinally they will have to govern, and that means winning the confidence of the House of Commons.\n\nMPs have already voted overwhelmingly against leaving the EU without a deal and it would take only a handful of Conservative MPs to bring down a prime minister who tried to do so.\n\nSome candidates have stressed the need to get a Brexit deal through Parliament.\n\nMr Hunt told the Sunday Times he had the business experience to secure an agreement. \"Doing deals is my bread and butter,\" he said.\n\nAnd in a direct criticism of Boris Johnson, Mr Stewart said: \"I would not serve in the cabinet of someone explicitly pushing for a no-deal Brexit.\"\n\nMr Hancock said Mrs May's successor must be \"brutally honest\" about the \"trade-offs\" required to get a deal through Parliament.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Mr Gove said it would be better for the UK \"if we secure a deal and leave the EU in an orderly way\" but added that he had \"come to grips\" with preparing for a no-deal outcome.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson told the Observer that his party must fully commit to supporting another referendum.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5Live's Pienaar's Politics, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said the \"usual suspects\" would blame leader Jeremy Corbyn if Labour performed poorly in the European elections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shami Chakrabarti: \"What I just heard from Dominic Raab was terrifying to me\"\n\nHe said: \"Tom Watson's already out, surprise surprise, trying to take on the role of Prince Machiavelli, but I've got news for Tom. Machiavelli was effective. He's a poor imitation of that. If he's trying to turn Labour members against Corbyn and in his favour, then he's going to lose disastrously.\n\n\"Now is the time to hold your nerve, because a general election - which is the only thing that will resolve this situation - is closer now than anything.\"", "Chancellor Philip Hammond has warned that it would be very difficult for any prime minister who backs a policy of leaving the EU with no deal, to retain the confidence of the House of Commons.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, he said: \"This is a parliamentary democracy. A prime minister who ignores Parliament cannot expect to survive very long.\"\n\nRead more: Who will be the next prime minister?", "Wales MEPs are Nathan Gill (front, centre) James Wells (second right) Jill Evans (left) and Jackie Jones (right)\n\nNigel Farage's Brexit Party gained two Welsh MEPs after a sweeping victory in the European elections in Wales, winning in 19 of the 22 council areas.\n\nPlaid Cymru kept its MEP, coming second, with third-placed Labour taking the fourth seat, ahead of the Lib Dems.\n\nThe Tories lost their seat and dropped to fifth in the vote, just ahead of the Green Party, UKIP and Change UK.\n\nWelsh Labour leader and First Minister Mark Drakeford said the party would now back a Remain vote in a new referendum.\n\nBrexit Party MEP Nathan Gill said the election result was a \"very strong message from Wales - we want our Brexit and we want it now\".\n\n󠁿It means Mr Gill, first elected in 2014 under the UKIP banner, retains his seat in Brussels as a Brexit Party MEP, alongside his new party colleague James Wells.\n\nMr Gill said only his party was \"committed to respecting the vote of the people of Wales\" to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum.\n\nAll 28 EU member states have been electing MEPs to the European Parliament.\n\nThe Brexit Party, launched by Nigel Farage six weeks ago, has won 28 out of the 64 declared UK seats, with a total of 73 up for grabs.\n\n\"It's going to be a pain in the backside for the EU I should imagine,\" Mr Gill said.\n\n\"We're not going there to make it work, are we? I mean, we told them, let Britain leave the EU with a decent trade deal and you won't have any problems with Nigel Farage ever coming back.\n\n\"They didn't do that, did they?\"\n\nJill Evans stays as Plaid Cymru's MEP and Jackie Jones replaces Derek Vaughan and retains Labour's Welsh seat in the European Parliament.\n\nIt is the first time Plaid has beaten the Labour Party in a Wales-wide election, and only the second time Labour has lost such a poll in a century.\n\nPlaid leader Adam Price said the result was \"incredible\" and it \"shows that the tectonic plates of Welsh politics are shifting\".\n\n\"Support for the Westminster establishment parties is crumbling and Plaid Cymru is preparing to form the next government of Wales in 2021,\" he added.\n\nMs Evans said: \"Plaid's manifesto set out a vision for a thriving future for Wales at the heart of Europe. I'm looking forward to throwing all my energy into delivering it.\"\n\nThe turnout was 37.1%, up 5.6% on the previous EU election in 2014.\n\nHe warned that the election of a new Conservative leader would increase the chances of a \"catastrophic no-deal exit from the EU\".\n\n\"Faced with the damage of a hard-line, Tory Brexit, Welsh Labour believes that the final decision must be made by the public in a referendum.\n\n\"And, for the avoidance of any doubt, a Welsh Labour government would campaign, in such a vote, for Wales to remain in the EU,\" he said.\n\nEx-Welsh Government minister Alun Davies blamed the huge drop Labour in Labour support on both Mr Drakeford and the party's UK leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\n\"This is the reality we face. Poor leadership from London and no leadership from Wales,\" he said on Twitter.\n\nTweeting ahead of the results, former Welsh Labour First Minister Carwyn Jones said a key message of the night was the failure of pro-EU forces to present a united front.\n\n\"Remain parties will comfortably out-poll the Brexit Party in Wales tonight, but the Brexit Party will come first in the vote tallies,\" he said.\n\n\"This is why I said we should have put forward a united slate, just like the Brexit Party.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Davies AM/AC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Price agreed, telling BBC Radio Wales' Breakfast with Claire Summers: \"I would like to explore the possibility of a fully-fledged electoral pact between Remain parties.\n\n\"If there is a snap general election, it will almost certainly be fought, particularly on this Brexit issue, and we should get our acts together.\"\n\nWelsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds seized on her party's fourth place as evidence that its \"fightback is in full effect\".\n\n\"Voters are listening to us again, supporting us again and believing in us again,\" she said.\n\n\"These results show we're on course to return a strong and effective Welsh Liberal Democrat assembly group in 2021.\"\n\nCadan ap Tomos, chairman of the Welsh Liberal Democrats National Executive Committee, told BBC Radio Wales that he was feeling \"absolutely fantastic\" about the result.\n\nReacting to coming in fifth place - down from third in the previous European election in 2014 - Conservative Welsh Assembly group leader Paul Davies called the results \"extremely disappointing for our hard-working candidates\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post 2 by Vaughan Gething AM\n\nThe party \"must now reflect long and hard on them\", he added.\n\nLead Tory candidate Dan Boucher emphasised the \"very challenging circumstances\" of the poll, which took place because the prime minister had failed to secure the UK's departure from the EU on 29 March, as she had promised.\n\n\"People were very frustrated that Brexit hasn't been delivered and I'm personally frustrated that Brexit hasn't been delivered as someone who campaigned for it,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a very strong signal to the government.\"\n\nBrexiteer David Davies, MP for Monmouth, said the results were \"an unmitigated disaster for the Conservative Party\".\n\nHe added that ministers should stop \"whinging\" about Brexiteers like Boris Johnson and \"take some responsibility for the shambles they have helped create by failing to deliver Brexit\".\n\nThe Green Party took 6.3% of the Welsh vote and its leader in Wales, Anthony Slaughter, said the election was not just about Brexit.\n\n\"Public concern for climate change has never been greater,\" he said. \"The people demand action, and the Green Party is the only party that promises to do that based on a record of real delivery.\"\n\nThis is an extraordinarily bad night for Welsh Labour, a party that has topped every Wales wide poll (except one) for a century.\n\nIt may be the victim of a UK-wide issue and the ambivalence of Jeremy Corbyn's position on another EU referendum.\n\nBut the Welsh party has defied the UK trend many times before. And for their new leader, Mark Drakeford, presiding over a result like this is damaging.\n\nSources say the party in Wales had no control over the conduct of the campaign or party policy on Brexit.\n\nWhat we do know is that Mr Drakeford has, for months, resisted pressure from within his own Welsh party to come out more strongly for a further EU poll.\n\nIt was loyal to the UK party position, but was it the right call?\n\nSearch using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results", "Labor has elected Anthony Albanese to lead the party\n\nAustralia's Labor opposition has chosen Anthony Albanese as its new leader after the party suffered an upset in the nation's general election.\n\nPrevious leader Bill Shorten resigned on 18 May, immediately after conceding the election to incumbent Prime Minister Scott Morrison.\n\nMr Albanese, a veteran politician, was elected unopposed as his successor.\n\nHe vowed to rebuild Labor's vote, saying on Monday: \"I am up for a hard job. I am up for hard work.\"\n\n\"I intend to do my best to work with the Australian people to ensure that we elect a Labor government next time.\"\n\nLabor is reeling from the election which delivered Mr Morrison's conservative coalition a majority. The Liberal-Nationals had previously been in minority government.\n\nLast week, Mr Albanese described the election loss as \"devastating\", after months of opinion polls had indicated that Labor was expected to win.\n\nThe 56-year-old MP, from Sydney, has held senior positions in past Labor governments.\n\nHe previously lost the last ballot for the Labor leadership to Mr Shorten in 2013.\n\nMr Albanese has promised a \"reset\" of Labor's policy agenda but said he would not be rushed.\n\nThe party had campaigned on a comprehensive set of reforms, including climate and tax policy changes.\n\nHowever, that ultimately failed to appeal to voters, with Labor suffering a 1.08% swing away from it nationally.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nIt suffered its deepest losses in Queensland, where the party's vote was reduced to six seats of a possible 30.\n\nMuch of the post-election analysis has focused on Labor's reduced vote from its traditional working-class base.\n\nIn his first speech as leader-elect on Monday, Mr Albanese said he intended to build relationships with \"those people who wanted to vote for us, who were open to vote for us, but who felt like they couldn't\".\n\nHe emphasised his economic credentials, and said he was open to working with the government to achieve progress on climate change and indigenous issues.\n\n\"Some reforms require bipartisan support,\" he said.\n\nThe party's former deputy Tanya Plibersek, shadow treasurer Chris Bowen, and rising frontbencher Jim Chalmers were also eyed as potential leaders, but all withdrew from the race last week.\n\nMs Plibersek said she would not run for the role because of family reasons.", "Seats in the European Parliament representing England, Scotland and Wales are distributed according to the D'Hondt system, a type of proportional representation.\n\nThe nations are divided into 11 electoral regions: nine in England, plus Scotland and Wales. For this election, Gibraltar votes as part of a combined constituency with the south-west of England.\n\nParties vying for election submit a list of candidates to voters in each region.\n\nA system devised by Victor D'Hondt, a Belgian lawyer and mathematician active in the 19th Century, dictates the results:\n\nBy way of example, here are the results for one region of England, the West Midlands, in 2014, which had a total of seven seats in the European Parliament up for grabs. For simplicity's sake, only the five largest parties by vote share are included:\n\nUKIP wins the largest number of votes and the candidate at the top of their list is elected.\n\nAs UKIP already has one candidate elected, its vote is divided by two (one, plus the number of MEPs it has). Now, Labour comes out on top and the candidate at the top of its list of candidates is elected.\n\nAfter Labour's vote is divided by two (one plus the number of MEPs it has), the Conservative Party wins and its top candidate for the region is also elected.\n\nAfter the Conservative vote has been divided by two, UKIP is back on top. The candidate in second place on its list is elected.\n\nSince two UKIP candidates have now been elected, their original vote tally is divided by three (one plus the number of MEPs elected) and Labour secures top spot and a second MEP for the region.\n\nThe original Labour vote is now divided by three (one plus the two MEPs from round five), leaving the Conservative Party to top this round and win a seat for the second person on its list.\n\nThe Conservative Party vote is now divided by three, leaving UKIP in first place to win the final seat for the third candidate on its list.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a different system is used to elect its three MEPs.\n\nVoters have a \"single transferable vote\", meaning that they are able to rank the candidates in order of preference.\n\nTo make the system work, officials first need to calculate a quota. They take the total number of valid votes cast, divide it by the number of seats available plus one, and then add one.\n\nIn the first round, if any candidate secures more first-preference votes than the quota, they are elected.\n\nSurplus votes, ie those received above the quota, are redistributed among the other candidates.\n\nIf not enough candidates have yet reached the quota, then the candidate with the lowest number of votes is eliminated, and the lower-preference votes of their supporters are again re-allocated.\n\nThis process is repeated until the three posts have been filled.", "The Brexit Party has won the largest share of the vote and the most seats in the UK's European elections.\n\nMany of its policies are unknown, it produced no manifesto, and it has avoided answering detailed questions on immigration or economic policy.\n\nOne thing we do know very clearly is that it wants to leave the European Union as soon as possible.\n\nSo what would a Brexit Party Brexit actually look like?\n\nThe Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage says he wants a \"clean-break\" Brexit, abandoning the withdrawal agreement that Theresa May's government negotiated with the EU.\n\nIt is notable that Mr Farage tended to avoid the term \"no-deal\" Brexit during the election campaign.\n\nA party spokesman argued that it is a misleading term that gives a false impression.\n\nWithout a withdrawal agreement, though, most of the vast network of rules and regulations that have governed the UK's relationship with the rest of Europe for more than 40 years, whether in trade or security or other issues, would disappear overnight.\n\nThat's what a clean break would mean.\n\nWhile arguing for a swift exit, the Brexit Party has also called for its newly elected MEPs to play a \"major role\" in the Brexit negotiations.\n\nBut as the Brexit Party is not in government and has no MPs in the House of Commons that is highly unlikely. The only direct role Brexit Party MEPs might have is if the withdrawal agreement was ever to pass in the House of Commons - there would then be a vote in the European Parliament to ratify it.\n\nA clean break also means - and this was a promise that appeared on a pledge card the Brexit Party produced during the campaign - that it would refuse to pay the £39bn financial settlement, or \"divorce bill\", that the government has agreed in order to settle past debts and future obligations to the EU.\n\nAnd it means the party wants to leave the EU on - as it puts it - World Trade Organization (WTO) terms.\n\nIt sounds very simple, and it is a phrase that is also used by several contenders for the Conservative Party leadership.\n\nBut what does it mean in practice? Not a lot.\n\nThe basic rules of the WTO are really just the baseline of international trade, which don't offer more than the most rudimentary of benefits.\n\nA lot of Brexit supporters - including the Brexit Party - argue that the UK can use something called Article 24 (of GATT - the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) to ensure that the UK can still enjoy free or frictionless trade with the EU.\n\nIt would mean no tariffs or taxes would be imposed on goods crossing borders between the UK and its largest trading partner, the European Union.\n\nThe trouble with that argument is that you can only use Article 24 if two parties are willing to make an agreement - in this case, the UK and the EU. Neither can impose it on the other.\n\nIn other words, you have to agree a deal first and the Brexit Party, along with several would-be Conservative leaders, are prepared to leave without a deal.\n\nMr Farage argues that there will in fact be a deal of some kind because the EU needs one.\n\nHe has been fond of saying that when push comes to shove the EU would \"come running\" to do a quick trade deal with the UK.\n\nIt is certainly true that any significant disruption to trade would hurt both sides, but the EU has said consistently that it values the integrity of its single market more than free trade with the UK, and that that will be its priority.\n\nOf course no deal or a \"clean break\" is not an end in itself. Eventually - and sooner rather than later - the two sides would have to start talking again about a future agreement.\n\nThe 27 other EU countries have already agreed that if there is no deal then the first thing they would want to talk to the UK about after Brexit would not be a trade deal.\n\nIt would be the financial settlement, citizens' rights and the Irish border - exactly those issues that are dealt with in detail in the withdrawal agreement that has been rejected three times in the House of Commons.\n\nThe Brexit Party is offering simple solutions. But the Brexit process is full of complex problems.", "'Clear majority' who want to stop Brexit - Cable\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable says the party's \"next big task\" is to work with others to prevent the UK from \"crashing out of the European Union by accident\". He says it is \"very clear\" that there is a \"clear majority in the country who want to stop Brexit\". \"We've had a brilliant result, we've got a lot now to build on,\" he adds. He says he was \"pleasantly surprised\" at the results overnight, although it was \"clear that we had momentum\". \"The only way now to resolve the issue is to go back to the public,\" he says. Sir Vince adds that \"Jeremy Corbyn's position is now very weak\" and Labour's results were \"almost humiliating\". He says he would be surprised if both Labour and the Conservatives \"survive intact\" during the next general election. Turning to the upcoming Liberal Democrat leadership race, he says he does not have a preference for who takes over.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Sturgeon said a bill paving the way for indyref2 would be published at Holyrood\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has called for a new Scottish independence referendum in the second half of 2020.\n\nSpeaking in Dublin Ms Sturgeon said the \"latter half\" of next year would be the \"right time\" for a new poll.\n\nThe SNP leader predicted victory in a second vote, with Scotland becoming \"an independent country just like Ireland\".\n\nMs Sturgeon also confirmed legislation setting out the rules for another independence referendum will be published at Holyrood on Wednesday.\n\nThe first minister, who met Taoiseach Leo Varadkar during her Irish trip, had previously said she wanted to hold a second vote on Scottish independence by May 2021 if the country was taken out of the EU.\n\nSpeaking after her party secured 37.7% of the Scottish vote in the European elections she gave a clearer indication of her preferred timeframe.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"There will be another Scottish independence referendum and I will make a prediction today that Scotland will vote for independence and we will become an independent country just like Ireland, and the strong relationship between our two countries now will become even stronger soon.\n\n\"I want to see Scotland having the choice of independence within this term of the Scottish Parliament, which ends in May 2021, so towards the latter half of next year would be when I think is the right time for that choice.\"\n\nIn a separate BBC interview, Ms Sturgeon said she would bring forward legislation later this week at Holyrood paving the way for a second independence vote.\n\nShe said: \"This week we will bring forward legislation to put in place the rules for giving people the choice in an independence referendum over a Brexit future or a future as an independent European nation.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has previously said that in order to put a future Yes vote beyond doubt or challenge, she would want the UK government to give Holyrood the power to hold a new referendum through a \"Section 30 order\" or similar mechanism.\n\nThe UK government has insisted it would not support such a vote at the present time, arguing that the matter was supposed to be \"settled for a generation\" by the independence referendum in 2014.\n\nThe Scottish Conservative chief whip Maurice Golden criticised the first minister's comments on independence, accusing her of \"hypocritical deceit\".\n\nHe said: \"The SNP went into this election pretending to voters that it was nothing to do with independence.\n\n\"Yet within hours of it being announced, Nicola Sturgeon is specifically using it to argue for separation.\n\n\"That's fraudulent behaviour from an SNP government that's meant to be running the country, not trying to break it up.\"", "It was a tough night for both Labour and the Conservatives.\n\nThe Brexit Party swept across Britain, and the Liberal Democrats and Green Party also made gains.\n\nThe Brexit Party topped polls in every country or region apart from London, which was won by the Liberal Democrats; Scotland, which was won by the SNP; and Northern Ireland, where they did not stand.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Click here for full UK results Find out who was elected in your area The results for your area are not in yet * Votes counted as first preference. Vote share figures not included because of the STV electoral system Find out more about elections in Northern Ireland\n\nOur map by council results shows that the Brexit Party topped polls almost everywhere in England and Wales.\n\nThe Conservatives did not come top in any council areas.\n\nSearch using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results\n\nAll results from the UK can be seen here.\n\nNigel Farage's Brexit Party secured more than half the vote in areas where more than 7 in 10 people backed Brexit in the 2016 referendum, while the trends for the Greens and Lib Dems were the opposite.\n\nAs for the two main parties, Labour particularly struggled to pick up votes in areas that voted strongly for Leave in 2016, averaging less than one in ten votes in those local authorities.\n\nThe Conservatives performed badly across the board, but worst in areas where voters heavily backed Remain in the referendum.\n\nVoters in local authority areas which backed Remain in the EU referendum showed a renewed enthusiasm for getting out to vote.\n\nFor example, turnout in Bristol, in which more than 60% of voters supported Remain, increased by eight percentage points with the Green Party winning the most votes, and in Edinburgh, where more than 75% of voters were Remainers, it was up by nine points with the SNP in the lead.\n\nOn average turnout was 36.7%, up a little less than two percentage points on the last EU election in 2014.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour combined received less than 25% of the votes, their worst result in any EU election.\n\nThe two main parties' vote share has been dropping consistently since the UK's first EU election in 1979.\n\nBy Daniel Dunford, John Walton, Clara Guibourg, Ed Lowther and Paul Sargeant. Design by Sean Willmott, Prina Shah and Irene de la Torre Arenas. Development by Joe Reed, Becky Rush and Shilpa Saraf.\n\nCorrection 20 August 2019: This article has been amended to remove a chart that attempted to show the performance of pro- and anti-Brexit parties, after a ruling from the BBC's Executive Complaints Unit.", "Video caption: Alistair Campbell: 'I'm still in the Labour Party as far as I'm concerned'\n\nAlistair Campbell: 'I'm still in the Labour Party as far as I'm concerned'", "One of the blasts struck a shop\n\nAt least four people died and seven others were injured in three explosions in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, officials say.\n\nThe three blasts - one in the centre and two on the outskirts - took place on Sunday afternoon local time.\n\nImprovised or crude explosive devices are believed to have been used to set off the blasts, police said.\n\nOne official told reporters a Maoist splinter group was under suspicion after pamphlets were found nearby.\n\nThe same group is alleged to have carried out an explosion in February which killed one person in Kathmandu.\n\nHowever, no one has claimed responsibilities for the attacks.\n\nPolice official Shyam Lal Gyawali said three of those killed died \"on the spot\", while the fourth died in hospital.\n\nThe pamphlets were found at a home on the outskirts of the city, where the first blast took place, he added.\n\nStudent Govinda Bhandari, 17, told Reuters news agency: \"I heard a big noise and rushed to the spot to find the walls of a house had developed cracks due to the impact of the blast.\"\n\nJust one person died in the initial explosion, while three died in a second incident near a hairdressers in the city centre.\n\nThe third blast happened several hours later and is reported to have injured two members of the group transporting an explosive device.\n\nSecurity forces have sealed off the locations of the blasts and say investigations are under way.\n\nSince a decade-long civil war ended in 2006, Nepal has been relatively peaceful, with the main group of the former rebels joining the ruling government party the next year.\n\nHowever, some have now broken away, saying their leaders are betraying their original revolutionary ideals.", "Fiat Chrysler has made a \"transformative\" merger proposal for French carmaker Renault, the Italian firm said on Monday.\n\nThe combined business would be 50% owned by Fiat shareholders and 50% by Renault stockholders.\n\nThe carmaker said the merger would create a global automotive leader, with 8.7 million vehicle sales.\n\nCarmakers have faced pressure to consolidate amid major industry shifts, including towards electric vehicles.\n\nShares in both companies rose strongly following the announcement.\n\nIn a statement, Fiat Chrysler (FCA) said the planned merger would create a \"world leader in the rapidly changing automotive industry with a strong position in transforming technologies, including electrification and autonomous driving\".\n\nFiat said that if the firms' 2018 financial results were totted up, the combined company's annual revenues would be nearly €170bn (£149.6bn; $190.5bn), with operating profit of more than €10bn and net profit of more than €8bn.\n\nNo plant closures would be caused as a result of the tie-up, the carmaker said.\n\nIt will aim to save €5bn a year by sharing development costs on technology such as electric vehicles and self-driving cars.\n\nIt is thought some managerial positions may be lost, but the companies will be keen to show that production-line jobs are being preserved.\n\nThe new company will be based in the Netherlands and will be listed on the Milan, Paris and New York stock exchanges.\n\nTo make the merger one of equals, the slightly-wealthier FCA will pay a special dividend of €2.5bn and sell its Comau robotics business.\n\nThe proposal will be considered by the Renault board. Who will lead the new entity and what it might be called are not yet decided.\n\nIf the plan goes ahead, Nissan and the French government will own about 7.5% apiece of the new, merged company.\n\nThe French government favours the merger but wants more details before giving its final approval, a spokeswoman said.\n\nThe Italian government may want to acquire a share of the new firm to balance France's stake, said a politician from the Northern League, the country's largest party, according to Reuters.\n\nBy sales, the new company will be number four in North America, number two in the region which covers Europe, the Middle East and Africa and the biggest in Latin America.\n\nCarlos Ghosn is awaiting trial following his fourth arrest\n\nIndustry shifts toward electric models, along with stricter emissions standards and the development of new technologies for autonomous vehicles, have put increasing pressure on carmakers to consolidate.\n\nRenault already has an alliance with Japan's Nissan, in which research costs and parts are shared. The companies own shares in each other, too. Renault owns 43.4% of Nissan's shares and Nissan owns 15% of Renault.\n\nThe former chief executive of both Nissan and Renault, Carlos Ghosn, is awaiting trial following his fourth arrest amid allegations of financial misconduct.\n\nThe allegations have put a strain on the 20-year-old alliance, which also includes Japan's Mitsubishi Motors.\n\nNew entrants in the motoring sector such as Tesla, as well as cash-rich companies developing driverless technology such as Amazon and Google-owned Waymo, are putting pressure on older and often heavily indebted carmakers to keep up.", "Robert Webb (l) and David Mitchell starred in Peep Show from 2003-2015\n\nBafta-winning British sitcom Peep Show is to be reworked for US TV from the point of view of female characters.\n\nThe show, which centres around the plight of a \"a pair of losers\", Jeremy and Mark, will now head across the Atlantic with a gender difference.\n\nCo-creator Sam Bain confirmed to The Guardian he's working with Portlandia and Arrested Development producer Karey Dornetto on the new FX programme.\n\n\"People sometimes ask if I look at my earlier work differently now,\" he said.\n\n\"Whether my shows would have been better if they had been more diverse.\n\n\"What would Peep Show have been like with women as the two leads? It's a great question - and it's one I'll shortly have the answer to, because there is a script in development for a US Peep Show with two female leads.\"\n\nBain, who wrote Peep Show with Jesse Armstrong, went on to describe Dornetto as a \"top comedy brain\" in the article about diversity in comedy.\n\nHe added: \"Ultimately, the best way of building gender inclusivity into scripts is to get women to write them.\n\n\"I can't wait to find out what sick and twisted [stuff] goes on inside the minds of a pair of female losers.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sam Bain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 2010 the show - starring Robert Webb and David Mitchell - became Channel 4's longest-ever running comedy in terms of on air time, and went on to complete its ninth series in 2015.\n\nThe fourth series won the 2008 Bafta for best situation comedy and stateside it was nominated for an Emmy in 2010.\n\nA US version of the show has been developed several times, without ever getting past the pilot stage.\n\nAnd while The Office made the transition seamlessly, there have also been failed attempts to launch American versions of other UK comedies including Spaced and The IT Crowd. Adaptations of Men Behaving Badly and Sirens only lasted two seasons on US TV too before being cancelled.\n\nGoing the other way, Coupling failed to live up to its billing as the UK version of Friends, while Jack Dee's Lead Balloon never quite reached the heights of its direct inspiration; Curb Your Enthusiasm.\n\nSome hope that the new US female-driven version of Peep Show will buck the trend.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Alan Denton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers meanwhile would prefer it if it was left well alone, preferring to see some entirely new female characters written instead.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jessica Blankenship This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The stigma of flat-sharing in your 40s", "More inmates in England and Wales will be able to leave prison for a day or overnight in order to take jobs.\n\nThe relaxing of the rules - six years after they were tightened - is intended to boost prisoners' job prospects.\n\nThe government also revealed that 230 new businesses, including Pret A Manger and Greene King, have joined its offender work placement scheme.\n\nSome 300 business were already part of the scheme, which builds partnerships between prisons and employers.\n\nThe decision to ease the rules on day and overnight release is part of a government effort to reduce re-offending, which is estimated to cost society £15bn a year.\n\nRelease on temporary licence (ROTL) allows prisoners to spend time in the community for short periods, normally towards the end of their sentence.\n\nLast year, 7,700 inmates were able to work outside prison or stay out overnight; under the new measures, it's expected that number will increase by several hundred.\n\nUnder the new rules, inmates in open or women's prisons are eligible to undertake paid work immediately after they have passed a \"rigorous\" risk assessment - previously this was only allowed if the prisoner was within 12 months of release.\n\nAdditionally, a restriction on ROTL in the first three months after transferring to open conditions will be lifted and overnight leave can now be considered at an earlier stage.\n\nThe application process is also being made more efficient, according to officials.\n\nROTL numbers fell after a 2013 review by former Justice Secretary Chris Grayling.\n\nThat followed convicted killer Ian McLoughlin, who had been allowed out of prison for the day, stabbing a man to death.\n\nOverall, the temporary release of prisoners fell by almost one third in five years.\n\nAllowing prisoners who may be nearing the end of their sentence to spend time in the community is a vital element of their reintegration into society.\n\nIt may help them secure valuable work experience, gain qualifications or learn new skills. For some inmates it is about re-building family ties.\n\nAnd for those serving life or indeterminate sentences it is a way for the authorities to gauge whether offenders can be trusted on the outside.\n\nBut after the appalling case in 2013 of Ian McLoughlin, the temporary release scheme rules were tightened and the number let out dropped sharply.\n\nThat led to complaints from prison reform campaigners that the restrictions, imposed by the former justice secretary Chris Grayling, were too onerous.\n\nMinisters have therefore sought a compromise which they hope will further prisoner rehabilitation - and keep the public safe.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The evidence and common sense suggests that prisoners who go into work after they leave prison are less likely to re-offend.\"\n\nHe added: \"If we just dump them out of prison having not done anything to get them ready for work then I'm afraid the risk of re-offending is that much greater.\"\n\nHe said many organisations already recognised the value of giving offenders a second chance and he urged more businesses to join the movement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two daughters open up to their mums about what life has been like on the outside\n\nThe Prison Reform Trust welcomed the rule change, calling it a \"step in the right direction\" but added that \"there is much further to go\".\n\nThe charity's director, Peter Dawson, said \"prisoners are serving longer sentences than ever before\" and that \"these changes will mainly benefit only the minority who have managed to get to an open prison towards the very end of their time inside\".", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nAston Villa won promotion to the Premier League and secured an estimated £170m windfall as they held off a late Derby County fightback to win the Championship play-off final at Wembley.\n\nVilla, beaten by Fulham in last season's final, seemed to be cruising to victory when John McGinn added to Anwar El Ghazi's first-half strike to put them 2-0 up with 30 minutes to go.\n\nHowever, Rams boss Frank Lampard threw caution to the wind and his side set up a frantic finale when substitute Jack Marriott's effort from eight yards took a deflection off Martyn Waghorn on its way in.\n\nDespite seven minutes of injury time they could not force an equaliser and now face another season in the second tier, while Villa return to the Premier League for the first time since relegation in 2016.\n\nPromotion at Wembley caps off a remarkable three months for Villa who had looked out of the promotion race before a club-record 10-match winning run saw them finish fifth.\n\nPerhaps unsurprisingly given the value of the game, the first half was a cagey affair.\n\nRams midfielder Mason Mount was the first player to register a shot on target when he fired straight at Villa keeper Jed Steer from 20 yards late in the half.\n• None Lampard expects to stay at Derby despite Wembley loss\n• None How did you rate the players?\n\nWith the game drifting towards the break goalless, Dean Smith's side launched a quick attack that El Ghazi finished off by coming in on the blindside of the static Jayden Bogle and diverting it into the net with his back.\n\nThey doubled their advantage when Rams goalkeeper Kelle Roos misjudged the flight of a deflected El Ghazi shot and McGinn beat him to it to head into an empty net.\n\nThat sparked Derby into life and they grew into the game before the combination of forwards Marriott and Waghorn got them back in it.\n\nBut it was not enough and they now face a 12th successive season in the Championship.\n\nVictory at the national stadium brings a successful end to what has been at times a tumultuous year for Villa.\n\nDays after defeat by Fulham in last season's Championship showpiece it was revealed the club had missed a deadline to pay HM Revenue & Customs £4m and it seemed likely that star player Jack Grealish would have to be sold.\n\nWith administration a serious concern, Chinese owner Tony Xia eventually sold the club to billionaire businessmen Wes Edens and Nassef Sawiris in July.\n\nThey decided to stick with boss Steve Bruce until October, but after an indifferent start to the season, sacked the 58-year-old after a 3-3 draw with Preston, which had seen an irate fan throw a cabbage at him.\n\nBruce was replaced in the dugout by Brentford manager and Villa fan Smith, with former Chelsea and Villa defender John Terry as assistant, and results initially improved.\n\nHowever, following an injury to midfielder Grealish at the start of December the team went on a torrid run of form and by the end of February they were eight points off the play-offs, having played two games more than some teams around them.\n\nGrealish returned to the side and was made captain for the home game against Derby on 1 March. The 23-year-old scored the fourth goal in a 4-0 win over the Rams which sparked a run of 10 successive victories and Villa qualified for the play-offs with two games to spare.\n\nThey squeezed past local rivals West Brom on penalties to set up a meeting with Derby, who they had beaten by an aggregate of 7-0 in their two league meetings this season.\n\nThis game threatened to go the way of the past two games between the sides when the superb McGinn bundled in with Roos flapping.\n\nIt proved to be a much closer finish but Villa managed to hang on to claim a promotion that boss Smith said felt \"surreal\".\n\nHe said: \"Reality sets in now. Last time I was sat in a news conference after a Wembley final, I had lost 2-0 to Bristol City in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final with Walsall (in 2015).\n\n\"It's no more that we deserve because the players have made history (with the winning run).\n\n\"The potential here is massive. It feels right we are a Premier League club because of the history and the fan base that we have.\"\n\nWhat next for Rams… and Lampard?\n\nDerby reached the play-offs in dramatic fashion, with two goals in the final 30 minutes of their final league game of the season against West Brom giving them the win they needed to guarantee sixth position.\n\nMore drama was to follow in their semi-final against Leeds United, when the Rams became the first team in second-tier history to recover from losing the first leg at home to go on to reach the final, as they fought back to win an incredible match 4-2 at Elland Road.\n\nTheir build-up to the Wembley showpiece was in danger of being disrupted as rumours grew about boss Lampard leaving to replace Maurizio Sarri as Chelsea manager.\n\nThe former England international said before the game he would discuss his future with Rams owner Mel Morris after Monday regardless of the result, but suggested he expects to be at Pride Park next season.\n\n\"I haven't had any discussions with any other clubs,\" said Lampard. \"I'll be having talks with Mel on how we can compete next year.\n\n\"The talks are important in terms of where we go. I want to move forward.\"\n\nHe added that the Chelsea \"noise was irrelevant\" and that he had \"loved working here and I want to continue that and continue progressing with the club\".\n\nDerby, who also lost out in the 2014 Championship play-off final to QPR, failed to threaten the Villa defence until they had gone 2-0 down.\n\nThey will surely be left to wonder 'what if?' after a spirited last 10 minutes nearly saw them grab a leveller to send the game to extra-time.\n• None Offside, Aston Villa. Anwar El Ghazi tries a through ball, but Jack Grealish is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Derby County. Harry Wilson tries a through ball, but Florian Jozefzoon is caught offside.\n• None John McGinn (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Substitution, Aston Villa. Kortney Hause replaces Tyrone Mings because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Tyrone Mings (Aston Villa).\n• None Goal! Aston Villa 2, Derby County 1. Martyn Waghorn (Derby County) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Marriott.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jack Marriott (Derby County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jayden Bogle with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Iran's President, Hassan Rouhani, stressed that it was not pulling out of the nuclear deal\n\nThe real battle for the fate of the Iran nuclear deal has begun.\n\nFor a year now since the Trump administration unilaterally withdrew from the agreement, a kind of \"phoney diplomatic war\" has been under way.\n\nIran and all the other parties to the accord have carried on regardless of Washington's actions.\n\nIndeed, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the global nuclear watchdog, has repeatedly given Tehran a clean bill of health. Iran has been living up to its part of the bargain.\n\nIran's crude oil exports have more than halved since the start of 2018\n\nBut Iranian compliance was not the issue for the Trump administration.\n\nIt just believes that this is a very bad deal. Its main European allies, along with Russia and China, disagree.\n\nSo the Trump administration has been ratcheting up the pressure on Tehran.\n\nIt has re-imposed many sanctions; it has designated the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation; and, most recently, it has not renewed sanctions waivers that allowed several countries to continue purchasing Iranian oil.\n\nThe pressure on Iran's economy has been severe.\n\nBoth in terms of responding to popular pressure at home and in an effort to relieve its worsening situation, the Iranian government has now decided to act.\n\nIt has taken the first anniversary of the US withdrawal from the agreement - known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - to start setting conditions of its own.\n\nIran is pursuing what it sees as a deliberate and measured course.\n\nFirst, it says it is no longer going to respect restrictions on storing enriched uranium and heavy water.\n\nAnd it has given a 60-day deadline to the remaining countries involved in the JCPOA to implement what Iran calls \"their commitments\", particularly in the banking and oil sectors.\n\nIf this deadline passes, then Iran will suspend restrictions on the level of enrichment it is allowed to conduct and halt the modernisation of the Arak heavy-water reactor.\n\nIranians have remained defiant in the face of the sanctions and vowed to overcome them\n\nIran is presenting itself very much as the wronged party, forced to act by unrelenting US pressure. And, if you ignore wider concerns about Iran's regional behaviour or its missile programmes - which, to be fair were never part of the JCPOA - it has a point.\n\nIt has broadly stuck to the letter of the agreement. US sanctions that were supposed to be lifted have been reimposed. Its economy is suffering badly. Tehran is saying \"enough is enough\".\n\nThe pressure now is squarely upon the Europeans - in particular the French, the British and German governments which helped to negotiate the deal.\n\nIran is charging them with not having lived up to their promises.\n\nThey have to do something to relieve the economic pressure on Tehran or, after 60 days, it will move to stage two of its planned suspensions.\n\nAnd there is an explicit warning to the Europeans too.\n\nIran's President, Hassan Rouhani, has underlined his country's role in fighting the smuggling of drugs and in constraining the flow of refugees into Europe. US economic pressure, he insists, means that Iran could no longer afford such activities.\n\nIran wants the other signatories to the nuclear deal to shield it from the effects of US sanctions\n\nSo what can the Europeans do?\n\nThey have created an elaborate mechanism to facilitate trade with Iran. But it is unclear how effective this has been.\n\nMany companies with an international profile would prefer to avoid the risks and choose trade with the US over Iran.\n\nRelations with Washington have already been soured by this issue. The US wants the JCPOA gone and it is hard to see how the Europeans can do enough by themselves to satisfy Iran to save it.\n\nBut equally the Europeans, in wanting the nuclear deal to survive, cannot allow Iran to remain in breach of its terms.\n\nSo a difficult couple of months of diplomacy lie ahead.\n\nThe US secretary of state arrived in the UK hours after the Iranian nuclear announcement\n\nUnless there is a fudge, it is hard to see the JCPOA surviving.\n\nThe Europeans need to craft some modest understanding that gives Tehran the opportunity to back down and return to full compliance. It cannot be only partly in the JCPOA deal. Washington's unilateral rejection of it at least had the benefit of clarity.\n\nRussia and China were also key backers of the JCPOA.\n\nThey too have a diplomatic part to play, but Washington's position is inevitably causing additional tensions with Moscow and Beijing. Both governments have laid the blame for the JCPOA's problems squarely at Washington's door.\n\nThe Trump administration must see its ultimate goal - the collapse of the JCPOA - as now being in sight.\n\nIt will also be applying huge pressure on its European partners who are caught between a rock and a hard place.\n\nThe Europeans are to some extent ambivalent because they too are concerned about Iran's foreign policy, its support for terrorism, and its missile and missile-export programmes.\n\nThe US is sending the USS Abraham Lincoln to the Gulf following \"troubling\" Iranian actions\n\nThis is the context in which tensions are rising.\n\nUS military warnings are intended to send an unequivocal message that any anti-US actions by Iran or its proxies will have only one return address - Tehran.\n\nIs Washington gearing up for a war? Not yet.\n\nBut the logic of the Trump administration's policy is unforgiving - either Iran radically changes its behaviour, or the US will do as much as it can to bring the Iranian regime down.\n\nThe danger of conflict - albeit by accident rather than design - is growing.\n\nAnd the collapse of the JCPOA will be another step on the escalatory ladder.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn adventure sports enthusiast has found an extreme way of descending Wales' highest mountain.\n\nJosh Beinn, 29, is one of the leading base jumpers in the UK.\n\nHaving jumped from the highest points in Scotland, off Ben Nevis, and England, Scafell Pike, he completed the \"hat-trick\" by leaping 2,500ft (760m) off the side of Snowdon.\n\n\"It was exhilarating as I knew it was the highest yet (in Wales) and the epic cliffs added to the drama,\" he said.\n\nMr Beinn, from Cumbria, says it is the highest base jump recorded in Wales.\n\nHe took up Base jumping when skydiving no longer gave him the same 'buzz'.\n\n\"The epic cliffs added to the drama\" says Beinn\n\n\"I wanted to explore new territory and adventure and was planning to move abroad, but then I discovered base jumping,\" he said.\n\n\"Since starting to explore new cliffs in the UK, I've realised there is so much more adventure on offer right here on our front door step.\n\n\"Snowdonia particularly has some incredible mountain and coastal cliffs. \"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Archaeology and history enthusiasts are being encouraged to dig deep into the massacre of Glencoe.\n\nThe slaughter happened in February 1692, when troops billeted with Clan MacDonald of Glencoe turned on their hosts.\n\nIt was punishment for their clan chief having been late in pledging allegiance to the new monarchs William and Mary.\n\nDozens of MacDonalds died. Exactly how many is still disputed.\n\nSo is almost everything else surrounding it: the motivation, the machinations behind it, its lasting consequences.\n\nGenerations of Scottish children - MacDonald children especially - have been told the tale with its many variations.\n\nOf how troops swept up the glen from the west, killing and burning.\n\nBut, perhaps surprisingly, down the intervening centuries there has been no large-scale attempt by archaeologists to uncover the physical evidence.\n\nNow, the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) is taking the initiative.\n\nThe NTS head of archaeology Derek Alexander, his colleagues and volunteers, have begun excavating the remains of the abandoned clachan (settlement) of Achtriachtan.\n\nIn 1692 it was home to perhaps 40 to 50 men, women and children, their cattle and crops.\n\nNow it is a few bumps of turf on the hillside.\n\nEvery year millions of cars speed past on the A82 below, most of their occupants unaware of their significance.\n\nAchtriachtan was the clachan highest up the glen to the east.\n\nThe troops sent to block their escape were late coming over the Devil's Staircase.\n\nA warning was sent from the clachans lower down. This allowed many people to get away, but not all of them.\n\nA contemporary account states one old man in his 80s was shot while trying to flee. He died down by the River Coe.\n\nHe may have been a bard. Achtriachtan had a reputation for producing verse makers and storytellers.\n\nNow archaeology could be about to cut through myth and legend.\n\n\"It's the first time we've done any excavation work here,\" Derek says.\n\n\"We did a little work last year but this is a major open area excavation to recover the full plan of one of the houses that was here.\"\n\nA survey has revealed that Achtriachtan was a small but not insignificant clachan.\n\n\"We've found three houses and maybe a couple of barns,\" he says.\n\n\"Each of them has a little enclosure, a kailyard or something at the back.\n\n\"We've also found a grain-drying kiln so it's quite a little settlement.\"\n\nNow the first structure is giving up its secrets.\n\nHome or barn? Probably a bit of both.\n\nCattle appear to have been kept at the western end with people living on the eastward side of a central hearth.\n\nThis was design, not chance. The western gable end would have put its shoulder into the wind coming up the glen.\n\nThe heat from the fire and the cattle would have been driven towards the home's human inhabitants.\n\nThe archaeologists have been helped by volunteers on a working holiday, part of the NTS Thistle Camp scheme.\n\nSmall white tags dot the trenches, showing where finds have already been made: shards of pottery, beads of glass a vibrant shade of blue.\n\nWhat excites the diggers is the possibility of finding an artefact such as a coin that could be positively dated from the time of the massacre.\n\nThe fact that some of the finds appear to date from the 18th Century highlights something which has been lost from the popular story of the massacre: some MacDonalds came back.\n\nAchtriachtan is shown as standing once again on maps from the 1750s, some 60 years after the massacre.\n\nIt remained a poor, hard life: a few cattle, crops of oats, barley and kale.\n\nThen it was extinguished again during the Highland Clearances, as humans were expelled to make way for sheep.\n\nEven if no physical evidence of the massacre is found, Derek says the research will still be worthwhile.\n\n\"A lot of it is just about giving people a picture of what the settlements were like at the time,\" he says.\n\n\"There's not a lot of tangible remains that people can interact with.\"\n\nAs the layout of the building is uncovered, a full plan will be drawn up.\n\nHe hopes that could lead to a full-scale replica being built at the NTS Glencoe visitor centre towards the foot of the glen.\n\n\"I think that would be a really good result,\" he says.\n\nSo Achtriachtan, lost for centuries, may rise again.\n• None Ruin could be linked to massacre\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Councils in England are calling for tougher sentences for fly-tippers - as new analysis shows nobody has faced the maximum penalty at magistrates' court since new guidelines were introduced five years ago.\n\nFly-tipping incidents in England have risen by nearly 40% in five years, to almost one million in 2017/18.\n\nThe LGA wants the government to review its guidance to courts on the issue.\n\nHe added that the practice is \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nMinisters introduced new sentencing guidelines in 2014, with a £50,000 fine or 12 months in prison the maximum punishment, if a case is dealt with at a magistrates' court.\n\nIf a case is passed to the crown court, they can issue an unlimited fine, as well as a two-year prison sentence, or five years if the waste is hazardous.\n\nThere were 997,553 recorded fly-tipping incidents in England in 2017/18 - a 39.6% rise from 714,637 in 2012/13, according to the the LGA analysis of statistics from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).\n\nCouncils can issue fixed penalty notices for more minor offences of fly-tipping, but they say they have less money available to enforce such powers because of pressure on their budgets.\n\nOverall, councils took action on 494,034 incidents in 2017/2018, up by just under 70,000 cases in five years.\n\nMartin Tett, chairman of the LGA's environment board, said: \"Fly-tipping is unsightly, unacceptable and inexcusable environmental vandalism. Councils are doing everything they can to try and deter fly-tippers.\n\n\"However, prosecuting them often requires time-consuming and laborious investigations, with a high threshold of proof, at a time when councils face significant budget pressures.\"\n\nHe argued that \"consistent and hard-hitting prosecutions are needed to deter rogue operators and fly-tippers\" and that \"councils also need adequate funding to investigate incidents and ensure fly-tippers do not go unpunished\".\n\nThe Defra spokesman said: \"We have strengthened local authorities' enforcement powers and made it easier for vehicles suspected of being used for fly-tipping to be stopped, searched and seized.\n\n\"Our actions are delivering results, with no increase in the number of incidents over 2017/18 for the first time in five years.\n\n\"The maximum penalty on indictment for fly-tipping is imprisonment of up to five years or a potentially unlimited fine.\"", "A UN report says six migrants died every day in 2018 trying to cross the Mediterranean (file image)\n\nAt least 65 migrants have died after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia, the UN refugee agency says.\n\nSixteen people were rescued, UNHCR said in a statement.\n\nSurvivors say the boat left Zuwara in Libya on Thursday and ran into trouble during strong waves.\n\nAbout 164 people died on the route between Libya and Europe in the first four months of 2019, UNHCR figures show.\n\nThe incident is thought to be one of the deadliest shipwrecks involving migrants since the start of the year.\n\nThe survivors were brought to the coast by the Tunisian Navy and are awaiting permission to disembark. One person has been transferred to hospital for medical treatment, the UNHCR says.\n\nThe navy dispatched a ship as soon as it heard about the incident and came across a fishing boat picking up survivors, a statement from the Tunisian defence ministry said.\n\nThe passengers are understood to have been from sub-Saharan Africa.\n\n\"This is a tragic and terrible reminder of the risks still faced by those who attempt to cross the Mediterranean,\" the UNHCR's Vincent Cochetel said in a statement.\n\nSome reports put the number on board higher so the toll could rise.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Women and children are being held in camps close to fierce fighting in Libya's capital Tripoli\n\nThousands of migrants attempt to cross the Mediterranean to Europe every year, and Libya is a key departure point.\n\nThose who make the journey often travel in poorly maintained and overcrowded ships, and many have died.\n\nBut since mid-2017, the number of migrant journeys has declined dramatically.\n\nThe decline is largely because Italy has engaged Libyan forces to stop migrants from setting off or to return them to Libya if found at sea - a policy condemned by human rights organisations.\n\nIn the first three months of 2019, some 15,900 refugees and migrants arrived in Europe via the three Mediterranean routes - a 17% decrease on the same period in 2018.\n\nIn January, a UN report said six migrants died crossing the Mediterranean every day in 2018.\n• None Who is responsible for migrants at sea?", "Ian Ogle had acted as a spokesman for the loyalist community\n\nA 40-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Ian Ogle in January.\n\nMark Sewell, from Aigburth Park, Belfast, is the third man to be charged with the murder.\n\nMr Ogle, 45, died after he was stabbed and beaten in the street near his home in Cluan Place off the Albertbridge Road in east Belfast.\n\nHis wife, son, and daughter, were in court on Friday as Mr Sewell appeared on a murder charge.\n\nThe hearing lasted only two minutes.\n\nMr Sewell was asked if he understood the charge and he responded by nodding his head.\n\nIn March, Glenn Rainey, 32, of McArthur Court, east Belfast was charged with murder.\n\nJonathan Brown, 33, of McArthur Court, has also appeared in court charged with murdering Mr Ogle.", "The maximum custodial sentence for animal cruelty in England and Wales - six months - is the lowest in Europe\n\nFewer than one in 10 people convicted of animal cruelty offences in Wales in the last decade have been jailed, research by BBC Wales shows.\n\nLast year, a man from Caerphilly avoided jail after he was convicted of having sex with his two dogs.\n\nThe maximum custodial sentence for animal cruelty in England and Wales - six months - is the lowest in Europe.\n\nMagistrates \"treat each individual case on its merits\", the chairman of the Magistrates' Association said.\n\nJust 102 of the 1,268 convictions for animal cruelty offences in courts in Wales - 8% - resulted in a custodial sentence between 2007 and 2017, an analysis of Ministry of Justice figures reveals.\n\nAnd there has been a significant decline in the number of custodial sentences issued by courts in Wales - from a peak of 17 in 2011, to just six in 2017 - despite animal cruelty cases being at a five-year high.\n\nResponding to the figures, the RSPCA has called for tougher sentencing. But the BBC has found that only two maximum six-month sentences were issued by Welsh courts in the past decade.\n\nA Caerphilly man who was caught having sex with his two dogs avoided prison and was banned from keeping animals for 10 years.\n\nRobert Gwynn, 60, received a three-month suspended sentence last May after his neighbours witnessed the him committing the \"disgusting and horrific\" acts against his own dogs, Taff and Ben.\n\nTaff and Ben were rehomed by the RSPCA after their owner was banned for keeping animals for 10 years\n\nIn another case prosecuted by the RSPCA, a Merthyr Tydfil cat owner spoke of his horror when he discovered CCTV footage of his cat being intentionally set upon and mauled to death by a dog.\n\nTwo boys, aged 15 and 17, were sentenced to a 12-month referral order to the youth offending team and were banned from keeping animals for 10 years after admitting causing unnecessary suffering.\n\nSully the cat was thrown in bushes after he was killed by a dog which had been intentionally set on him by two boys\n\nCases such as these have led the RSPCA to call for tougher sentencing powers for magistrates to act as a stronger deterrent.\n\n\"Though custodial sentences are comparatively rare for animal-related offences, it is vital magistrates have at their disposal stronger sentences to send a clear statement to those thinking of harming animals that this behaviour will not be tolerated,\" said Michael Flower, the RSPCA's deputy head of prosecutions.\n\nThe majority of custodial sentences (44%) were one month or less in length. Almost a third were more than three months but less than the maximum six months.\n\nIn Scotland, the maximum sentence is 12 months but the Scottish Government is consulting on whether to increase this to five years. The maximum sentence in Northern Ireland is five years.\n\nA 2017 survey by Battersea Dogs and Cats Home found 65% of the public agreed with increasing the maximum custodial sentencing powers of courts dealing with animal cruelty cases.\n\nThe UK government, which has previously committed to increase the maximum sentence from six months to five years, said it will do so \"as soon as parliamentary time allows\" to make the UK \"a world leader in the care and protection of animals\".\n\nThe BBC has found that only two maximum six-month jail sentences were handed down by courts in Wales between 2007 and 2017, raising the question whether tougher sentencing would make a difference.\n\nThe body which represents magistrates in the UK claims it would.\n\n\"Magistrates always treat each individual case on its merits and sentence in line with the law and appropriate sentencing guidelines,\" said John Bache, chairman of the Magistrates' Association.\n\n\"Maximum sentences are set by parliament, not the judiciary, but if they are increased this will change the range of sentences available and therefore affect sentencing guidelines and sentencing practice.\"\n\nAnimal welfare is a devolved matter, but justice is not - meaning there has been some confusion over whether the Welsh Government has the power to introduce tougher sentencing.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it supports the UK government legislating to increase the maximum sentence to five years in England and Wales.\n\n\"We have decided maintaining a comparative sentencing regime was important to ensure clarity for enforcement agencies, the courts and the public alike,\" a spokesperson added.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin was in the midst of a victory lap after a hockey match when he tripped and fell.", "Picture showing three damaged vehicles in the car park of the prison\n\nFire has destroyed a number of cars belonging to prison staff within the grounds of HMP Nottingham.\n\nThe fire service was called to the jail in Perry Road, Sherwood, Nottingham, in the early hours of Saturday morning.\n\nA Prison Service spokesperson said no one was hurt and that the safety and security of staff was the priority.\n\nThe service is working with Nottinghamshire Police to investigate what happened.\n\nHMP Nottingham is a category B male prison, which expanded in 2010 to hold 1,060 prisoners.\n\nIn April, a man was charged after a prison officer had his throat cut.\n\nLast year the government was ordered to make immediate improvements at the jail after a report warned it was in a \"dangerous state\".\n\nThe prison needed to do \"much more\" to tackle the problem of drugs which was \"inextricably linked\" to violence, chief inspector of prisons Peter Clarke said in his report.\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.", "Alvin Sargent, the American screenwriter who won two Oscars and penned scripts for the Spider-Man film trilogy, has died at the age of 92.\n\nSargent died of natural causes at his home in Seattle on Thursday.\n\nHe won Oscars for Julia, a 1977 Holocaust drama based on the personal writings of Lillian Hellman, and Ordinary People, a 1980 film about a family facing bereavement.\n\nHowever, he will be equally remembered for his later work on Spider-Man.\n\nSargent wrote the screenplays for Spider-Man 2 in 2004 and Spider-Man 3 in 2007. He also did a rewrite for the 2012 The Amazing Spider-Man.\n\nStarting as a writer for television, Sargent made it on to the big screen in 1966 with \"Gambit,\" a comedy thriller starring Michael Caine.\n\nAlong with his two Oscar wins, he was also nominated in 1974 for \"Paper Moon\" - an American comedy-drama film set in Kansas and Missouri during the Great Depression.\n\nSargent and his life partner, producer Laura Ziskin, married in 2010 after more than 25 years together. She died of breast cancer a year later.\n• None Stan Lee on how he created Spider-Man", "Several lawmakers were injured after a fight broke out in Hong Kong's legislature over planned changes to extradition laws.", "In 2015, Iran agreed a long-term deal on its nuclear programme with a group of world powers known as the P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.\n\nIt came after years of tension over Iran's alleged efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. Iran insisted that its nuclear programme was entirely peaceful, but the international community did not believe that.\n\nUnder the accord, Iran agreed to limit its sensitive nuclear activities and allow in international inspectors in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.\n\nHere is what was meant to happen according to the plan, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).\n\nIran's uranium stockpile will be reduced by 98% to 300kg for 15 years\n\nUranium can have nuclear-related uses once it has been refined, or enriched. This is achieved by increasing the content of its most fissile isotopes, U-235, through the use of centrifuges - machines which spin at supersonic speeds.\n\nLow-enriched uranium, which typically has a 3-5% concentration of U-235, can be used to produce fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. Highly enriched uranium has a purity of 20% or more and is used in research reactors. Weapons-grade uranium is 90% enriched or more.\n\nIn July 2015, Iran had two uranium enrichment plants - Natanz and Fordo - and was operating almost 20,000 centrifuges.\n\nUnder the JCPOA, the country was limited to installing no more than 5,060 of the oldest and least efficient centrifuges at Natanz until 2026 - 10 years after the deal's \"implementation day\" in January 2016.\n\nIran's stockpile of enriched uranium was also reduced by 98% to 300kg (660lbs), a figure that must not be exceeded until 2031. It must also keep the stockpile's level of enrichment at 3.67%.\n\nIn addition, research and development must take place only at Natanz and be limited until 2024.\n\nNo enrichment is permitted at Fordo until 2031, and the underground facility must be converted into a nuclear, physics and technology centre. The 1,044 centrifuges left at the site are allowed to produce radioisotopes for use in medicine, agriculture, industry and science.\n\nIran is redesigning the Arak reactor so it cannot produce any weapons-grade plutonium\n\nIran had been building a heavy-water nuclear facility near the town of Arak. Spent fuel from a heavy-water reactor contains plutonium suitable for a nuclear bomb.\n\nWorld powers had originally wanted Arak dismantled because of the potential military use. Under an interim nuclear deal in 2013, Iran agreed not to commission or fuel the reactor.\n\nUnder the JCPOA, Iran said it would redesign the reactor so it could not produce any weapons-grade plutonium, and that all spent fuel would be sent out of the country as long as the modified reactor existed.\n\nIran must also not build additional heavy-water reactors or accumulate any excess heavy water until 2031.\n\nIran is required to allow IAEA inspectors to access any site they deem suspicious\n\nAt the time of the agreement, then-US President Barack Obama's administration expressed confidence that the JCPOA would prevent Iran from building a nuclear programme in secret. Iran, it said, had committed to \"extraordinary and robust monitoring, verification, and inspection\".\n\nInspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the global nuclear watchdog, were tasked with continuously monitoring Iran's declared nuclear sites and verifying that no fissile material is moved covertly to a secret location to build a bomb.\n\nIran also agreed to implement the Additional Protocol to their IAEA Safeguards Agreement, which allows inspectors to access any site anywhere in the country they deem suspicious.\n\nUntil 2031, Iran will have 24 days to comply with any IAEA access request. If it refuses, an eight-member Joint Commission - including Iran - will rule on the issue. It can decide on punitive steps, including the reimposition of sanctions. A majority vote by the commission suffices.\n\nA UN ban on the import of ballistic missile technology will remain in place for up to eight years\n\nBefore July 2015, Iran had enough enriched uranium and centrifuges to create eight to 10 bombs, according to the then Obama administration.\n\nUS experts estimated at the time that if Iran had decided to rush to make a bomb, it would take two to three months until it had enough 90%-enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon - the so-called \"break-out time\".\n\nThe Obama administration said the JCPOA would remove the key elements Iran would need to create a bomb and increase its break-out time to one year or more.\n\nIran also agreed not to engage in activities, including research and development, which could contribute to the development of a nuclear bomb.\n\nIn December 2015, the IAEA's board of governors voted to end its decade-long investigation into the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear programme.\n\nThe agency's then-director-general, Yukiya Amano, said the report concluded that until 2003 Iran had conducted \"a co-ordinated effort\" on \"a range of activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device\". Iran continued with some activities until 2009, but after that there were \"no credible indications\" of weapons development, he added.\n\nIran also agreed to the continuation of a UN ban on its imports and exports of conventional arms until 2020. Restrictions on its import of ballistic missile technology will remain in place until 2023.\n\nThe nuclear deal allowed Iran to sell crude oil again on the international market\n\nSanctions previously imposed by the UN, US and EU in an attempt to force Iran to halt uranium enrichment crippled its economy, costing the country more than $160bn (£119bn) in oil revenue from 2012 to 2016 alone.\n\nUnder the deal, all nuclear-related sanctions on Iran were lifted and the country was able to resume selling oil on international markets and using the global financial system for trade. It also gained access to more than $100bn in assets frozen overseas.\n\nHowever, in May 2018, then-US President Donald Trump abandoned the JCPOA, calling it \"defective at its core\". He reinstated all US sanctions on Iran that November as part of a \"maximum pressure\" campaign to compel the country to negotiate a replacement that would also curb its ballistic missile programme and its involvement in regional conflicts.\n\nBut Iran refused and saw its economy plunge into recession and the value of its currency fall to record lows, which in turn caused inflation to soar to the highest level in decades.\n\nWhen the sanctions were tightened in 2019, Iran began breaching the deal's restrictions, arguing that the JCPOA allowed one party to \"cease performing its commitments... in whole or in part\" in the event of \"significant non-performance\" by others.\n\nBy November 2021, Iran had amassed a stockpile of enriched uranium that was many times larger than permitted, including at least 17.7kg (39lb) of material enriched to 60% purity - just below the level needed for a bomb. It had also resumed enrichment activity at Fordo; installed more centrifuges, and of a more advanced type, than allowed; and taken steps in the production of enriched uranium metal, which is a key material in nuclear weapons.\n\nIran had also significantly curtailed access for international inspectors by ceasing implementation of the Additional Protocol of its IAEA Safeguards Agreement.\n\nTalks to save the JCPOA and bring Iran back into compliance began in May 2021, after Joe Biden succeeded Mr Trump as US president. He says the US will rejoin and lift the sanctions if Iran reverses its breaches. His Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, says the US must make the first move.\n\nIf the negotiations were to fail and Iran was confirmed to have violated the deal, all UN sanctions would automatically \"snap back\" in place for 10 years, with the possibility of a five-year extension.", "The man was hit with the crossbow bolt outside his home\n\nA 74-year-old man has suffered \"horrendous, life-changing injuries\" after being shot with a crossbow.\n\nIt happened outside his home in a remote area near South Stack Road in Holyhead, Anglesey, in the early hours.\n\nNorth Wales Police said the victim was trying to fix a satellite dish on his home when he was hit with the bolt.\n\nHe managed to get back inside and raised the alarm at about 00:30 BST on Friday. He remains in a critical condition at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor.\n\nHospital staff alerted police at 02:45 after a medical examination showed the man had suffered injuries consistent with being shot with a crossbow, police said.\n\nThe victim's house is near South Stack Road\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Kearney said: \"The elderly member of our community has received horrendous, life-changing injuries as a result of this incident, the motive of which remains totally unknown.\n\n\"We are in the early stages of our investigation and are working hard to establish the circumstances behind this incident.\n\n\"A number of inquiries are under way involving detectives from CID, the local policing teams and crime scene investigation.\n\n\"North-west Wales and Anglesey remains one of the safest parts of the UK. Incidents of this nature are extremely rare and we and determined to find out who has done this.\"\n\nHolyhead town councillor Jennifer Saboor said: \"This is a horrendous incident with a 74-year-old man fighting for his life in hospital. It's frightening that this can happen and our immediate thoughts are for the gentleman to pull through.\"\n\nPolice are trying to find anyone who saw anything suspicious near the junction of Porthdafarch Road and Plas Road between 18:00 on Thursday and 04:00 on Friday.\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. Jeremy Corbyn: \"We will abolish the youth rate of the minimum wage\"\n\nLabour will extend its plans for a higher £10-an-hour minimum wage to include workers under the age of 18, party leader Jeremy Corbyn has said.\n\nCurrently, under-18s are entitled to a minimum wage of £4.35 per hour, compared with £8.21 for over-25s.\n\nBut under a Labour government this \"youth rate\" for the minimum wage would be ended in 2020, Mr Corbyn said.\n\nOne business group said there was value in having the minimum wage set by an independent group, as it is now.\n\nMr Corbyn had already pledged to raise the National Living Wage - a legally binding hourly rate for workers aged 25 and over - to £10 an hour next year, if Labour gained power.\n\nHe said Labour's proposal would see workers aged 16 and 17 paid about £2,500 more a year.\n\nMr Corbyn said that young people's work \"should be properly valued\"\n\nIt is not clear how the proposed changes would impact those on apprenticeship schemes.\n\nAll UK pupils can leave school at the age of 16.\n\nBut in England, under-18s must then stay in full-time education, start an apprenticeship or traineeship or spend 20 hours or more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training.\n\nSpeaking at a party gathering in Birmingham on Saturday, Mr Corbyn said: \"Equal pay for equal work is hardly a controversial idea, so why are we discriminating against young people?\n\n\"You don't get a discount at the shops for being under 18.\n\n\"But if the person serving you on the other side of the counter is young, they could be on half the wage of their colleagues.\n\n\"It's time to end this discrimination. Young people's work should be properly valued, not exploited by employers to cut their wage bill. If they're doing the job, pay them the wage - the real living wage.\"\n\nThe rates are reviewed each year by the government which is advised by the independent Low Pay Commission.\n\nThe commission, made up of trade unionists, businesspeople and academics, has previously said different minimum wages have been set for different age groups due to \"evidence that younger workers are more at risk of being priced out of jobs than older workers, with worse consequences if they end up unemployed.\"\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said the proposals were \"dramatic\" and that they could risk reducing the number of 16 and 17-year-olds in work.\n\nThat age group would not have much experience and were probably not going to be as productive as more experienced workers, he told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHe added that a lot would be working part time - at the weekends or in the holidays - and that experience would be valuable to them and could include training.\n\nLabour said it would use fiscal savings from a reduction in the amount that the Treasury pays out in in-work benefits to provide support for small and medium-sized businesses.\n\nPeter Dowd, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said the plans aimed to create fairness, claiming that spending on tax credits to top up low wages had \"ballooned\" from £1bn to £30bn - a sign wages had to rise.\n\n\"We've got to have a system that reflects the needs of small businesses, but also has to reflect the needs of the people they employ, whether they are 16 or 60,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson added that any compensation scheme would \"need to be very clear, transparent and easy.\"\n\nResponding to Labour's proposals, the Institute of Directors said there was value in having an independent, evidence-based approach from the Low Pay Commission.\n\n\"Politicians directly setting rates will always risk not taking full account of the implications for employers and jobs,\" the business lobby group said.\n\nStudent Neha Gohil began her first job as a tutor in Ealing, west London, aged 16.\n\nShe says that it \"didn't seem fair\" when she learned she was paid less than her older colleagues.\n\nNow 20 and a student at the University of Warwick, she says younger workers can be \"more flexible with their time and can offer a different dynamic\".\n\n\"They can offer something different in the workplace: be more creative, more innovative. They might know how to do things with technology that someone who's older might not.\n\n\"They can go into a company and offer fresh ideas.\"\n\nBusinessman Jack Palmer, 27, who owns and runs three hairdressing salons in Hertfordshire said he \"can't see it being affordable\".\n\nHe employs between 12 to 15 people aged 18 to 25. But, he says, if the £10 minimum wage was brought in for all, he might only be able to afford to employ half of them.\n\n\"If you've got someone coming straight out of school their skill set is pretty minimal to begin with.\n\n\"Of course, they learn on the job and through external training - and it gives us a lot of pleasure nurturing that talent.\n\n\"They'll get the opportunity to earn a high wage but to begin with, they're not worth that amount,\" he added.\n\nMatthew Percival, head of employment at the Confederation of British Industry, said: \"The minimum wage is an important part of the UK labour market and must not be used as a political football.\n\n\"Youth rates play an important role in helping to reduce youth unemployment and should be retained.\"\n\nChris Philp MP, Conservative vice-chairman for policy, said: \"Under the Conservatives, we have seen youth unemployment fall by half, the biggest increase in the minimum wage for under-25s in a decade and the economy continue to grow, giving young people the security of a better future.\"", "Thousands of small-scale investors who lost their savings by investing with London Capital & Finance (LCF) have been given fresh hope they may qualify for compensation.\n\nNearly 12,000 people put £236m into the firm which collapsed in January.\n\nThe Financial Services Compensation Scheme said it would \"explore whether there are grounds for compensation\"\n\nThe compensation body had earlier said investors wouldn't be able to lodge claims as the scheme was unregulated.\n\nThe FSCS was set up by the government to protect consumers if UK regulated firms went bust.\n\nBut its chief executive told the BBC in March that it was unlikely LCF customers would get compensation, explaining that the company was not regulated for the purposes of selling its products, which it marketed as low risk investments.\n\nHowever the FSCS has now said it is looking at whether any of the conversations LCF had with investors counted as providing financial advice or whether it conducted other activities which could trigger compensation.\n\nThe FSCS said LCF investors should register with the FSCS via its website for updates of its investigation.\n\n\"By registering with us they will get regular updates on our investigation and this will be the best way for them to hear whether we believe there are grounds for compensation.\n\n\"This is a highly intricate case though, so we expect our investigation may take some time,\" it said.\n\nLCF advertised itself as a low-risk ISA, and promised to spread funds from the sale of mini-bonds between hundreds of companies.\n\nIn reality, the fund did not qualify as an ISA, and the money was only invested in 12 companies - 10 of which were described as \"not independent\" from LCF, in a report by the fund's administrators.\n\nThe Serious Fraud Office is conducting a probe into individuals associated with LCF.\n\nThe company's administrators Smith & Williamson released a report which found that:", "Fishing communities in Gwadar say they are concerned that a new road linking Chinese territory to Gwadar port may prevent them from earning a living.\n\nGwadar is at the centre of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).\n\nThe fishermen told the BBC they were no longer allowed to fish near the port and say the authorities are not taking their needs into account.", "Theresa May has rejected calls to resign\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May could set a date for her resignation in the coming days, the chairman of the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee has said.\n\nThe PM said she will step down when her Brexit deal is ratified by Parliament - but some MPs want a fixed date.\n\nSir Graham Brady said he expected a \"clear understanding\" of that timetable once she has met the committee, which she would do on Wednesday.\n\nHe also said he expected Brexit talks with Labour to \"peter out\" within days.\n\nAnd Sir Graham also refused to rule out running himself to replace Mrs May.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's The Week in Westminster, he said the 1922 Committee had asked her to give \"clarity\" about her plans for the future, and she had \"offered to come and meet with the executive\".\n\n\"It would be strange for that not to result in a clear understanding [of when she will leave] at the end of the meeting,\" he added.\n\nThe 1922 Committee represents backbench Tory MPs and oversees the party's leadership contests.\n\nOn why the PM had so far been unwilling to set a date to step down, Sir Graham said: \"I do understand the reticence about doing it.\n\n\"I don't think it's about an intention for staying indefinitely as prime minister or leader of the Conservative Party.\n\n\"I think the reticence is the concern that by promising to go on a certain timetable, it might make it less likely she would secure Parliamentary approval for the withdrawal agreement, rather than more likely.\"\n\nSir Graham Brady did not rule out running as Mrs May's successor\n\nHe was also asked about the cross-party talks between the government and Labour over Mrs May's Brexit deal, which has been rejected three times.\n\nSir Graham said: \"I find it very hard to see how that route can lead to any sensible resolution.\n\n\"If the customs union is agreed without a second referendum then half the Labour Party won't vote for whatever comes through regardless, and if a customs union is agreed then most of the Conservative Party isn't going to support it.\n\n\"So, I can't see that is a very productive route to follow, and I may be wrong, but I suspect it will peter out in the next few days without having come to any significant conclusion.\"\n\nWhen quizzed about running for the party leadership, Sir Graham said: \"It would take an awful lot of people to persuade me.\n\n\"I'm not sure many people are straining at the leash at the moment to take on what is an extraordinarily difficult situation.\"\n\nIn March, Mrs May pledged to stand down if and when Parliament ratified her Brexit withdrawal agreement, but did not make it clear how long she intends to stay if no deal was reached.\n\nPressure has grown on her since the Tories' local election drubbing, and there have been warnings the party faces a meltdown in elections to the European Parliament as well.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back to 31 October after Parliament was unable to agree a way forward.", "Gerald Corrigan was struck outside his home\n\nThe person who shot a 74-year-old man with a crossbow, causing him to suffer \"horrendous injuries\", has been urged to come forward.\n\nGerald Corrigan was struck outside his home in a remote area near South Stack Road in Holyhead, Anglesey, at about 00:30 BST on Friday.\n\nHe is critically ill at Royal Stoke University Hospital after the bolt went through his upper body and right arm.\n\nNorth Wales Police said the person should \"do the decent thing\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Kearney, said: \"I am appealing to the person who discharged this weapon to come forward.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is an impartial search for the truth and I have no doubt that any person who discharged such a weapon accidentally at a human being would be significantly traumatised.\n\n\"You will be treated professionally by myself and my team of officers.\"\n\nA major incident team with more than 30 staff is dealing with the incident.\n\nInvestigators were at the house on Saturday\n\nDet Ch Insp Kearney also appealed to the public to inform the force of anyone they know who owns a crossbow and was on the island on 18 and 19 April, including visitors.\n\n\"We are asking our retail community if they sell crossbows, bolts or accessories in north west Wales, namely Anglesey or north Gwynedd, to also come forward so that we can conduct enquiries in that regard,\" he said.\n\n\"I have lived in Anglesey for 22 years. It is a safe area. I have never come across anything like this.\"\n\nOn Saturday, the family of Mr Corrigan, a former photography and video lecturer who has lived on Anglesey for more than 20 years, made an appeal.\n\nThey said: \"We cannot think of anybody who may have wanted to hurt our father and dear partner. We are trying to come to terms with this shocking incident.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gerald Corrigan was struck outside his home\n\nThe family of a 74-year-old man who suffered \"horrendous, life-changing injuries\" after being shot with a crossbow has made an appeal to catch those responsible.\n\nGerald Corrigan was struck outside his home in a remote area near South Stack Road in Holyhead, Anglesey.\n\nNorth Wales Police want to hear from anyone involved in lamping, hunting, game or pest control in the area.\n\nThe shooting happened at about 00:30 BST on Friday.\n\nThe force said due to his injuries, Mr Corrigan has now been transferred to a hospital in Stoke-on-Trent.\n\nInvestigators were at the house on Saturday\n\nMr Corrigan's family said: \"This is a horrific incident that has happened to our family. We cannot think of anybody who may have wanted to hurt our father and dear partner. We are trying to come to terms with this shocking incident.\n\n\"If anybody has any information at all about what has happened, however small, please come forward to the police.\n\n\"We would like to pay tribute to the ambulance service and medical staff for the incredible work they have done. We remain hopeful and request privacy at this difficult time.\"\n\nCouncillor Trefor Lloyd Hughes said: \"People are absolutely shocked by it.\n\n\"Who would be carrying a crossbow after midnight?\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emma Faulds was last seen on Sunday 28 April\n\nPolice have issued an appeal to trace the body of Emma Faulds after a man was charged with her murder.\n\nRoss Willox, 39, made no plea at Ayr Sheriff Court and is expected to return to court next week.\n\nMs Faulds, 39, from Kilmarnock, was last seen in Monkton on Sunday 28 April.\n\nDetectives have now confirmed they are conducting inquiries in the South Ayrshire/Dumfries and Galloway border area in an bid to locate her body.\n\nOfficers are keen to trace the movements of vehicles on the A714 Girvan to Newton Stewart road on Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 April, particularly Jaguar and Mercedes models.\n\nAnd police want to speak to anyone who spotted anything odd or out of place within that timeframe in the area of Barrhill, particularly along the A714.\n\nDet Chief Insp Martin Fergus said: \"This is a harrowing time for Emma's family.\n\n\"They are in shock and are in the process of dealing with the fact that Emma will not be coming home.\n\n\"I am therefore seeking the public's help in trying to find Emma's body.\"\n\nThe officer wants to speak to anyone who may have been travelling along the A714, either north or south between Girvan and Newton Stewart.\n\nHe added: \"Did you see something a little odd or out of place, perhaps you noticed a car in a lay-by, do you remember anything which struck you as odd at the time?\n\n\"I am also keen to speak to anyone who travels this route regularly, northbound or southbound.\n\n\"If any motorists have dashcams, please check the footage as it may have captured something which could prove vital to our ongoing inquiries to locate Emma.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "About a fifth of Countess of Chester Hospital's patients are from north east Wales\n\nA funding dispute in which an English hospital refused to take patients from Wales, apart from emergency and maternity cases, has been resolved.\n\nThousands of people in Flintshire had routinely been using the Countess of Chester Hospital before the row.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said a new cross-border funding deal had now been agreed with UK ministers.\n\nWhitehall said it would pay for normal service to resume, with a rise in Welsh Government payments in future.\n\nThe hospital announced last month it would take fewer patients from Wales, but that it hoped to reverse the decision once a \"national agreement\" had been reached.\n\nIn a written statement on Friday, Mr Gething said he expected the hospital to \"honour the agreement reached and reverse the decision not to accept new elective referrals for Welsh patients\".\n\nHe said he remained \"disappointed\" with the action the hospital taken \"whilst negotiations were ongoing\".\n\n\"This was wholly avoidable and a transparent breach of the agreed protocol on cross border healthcare,\" he said.\n\nVaughan Gething said he hoped patients would be reassured by his statement\n\nMr Gething said changes to \"tariff costs in England since 2017\" had created a \"complex set of issues in relation to cross border arrangements\" but Wales would now be represented on the body advising on those charges.\n\n\"We need to fully track policy developments in England that will potentially impact on the tariff in future to aid planning in the Welsh context,\" he added.\n\nUK Health Minister Nicola Blackwood said: \"We will provide the necessary funding for this year so that normal services can resume for local residents with the Welsh Government committing to cover the costs in future years.\n\n\"We sympathise with anyone who was inconvenienced or adversely affected and I'm pleased this is now resolved.\"\n\nActing Welsh Tory health spokesman Darren Millar said his assembly group would be \"keeping a close eye on how the Welsh Government moves forward with this situation, holding it to account and ensuring patients are not left to suffer again thanks to its disastrous inability to plan ahead with our healthcare system\".\n\nSusan Gilby, chief executive officer for the Countess of Chester NHS trust, said she was \"grateful\" to the two governments and NHS England for \"working hard together to resolve this issue\".\n\n\"We now look forward to agreeing a contract with Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board in the knowledge that all patients will benefit from the planned safety investments enabled by appropriate resources,\" she added.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board chief executive Gary Doherty said: \"We will continue to work closely with the Countess of Chester Hospital to reinstate referrals and ensure that east Flintshire patients can access the services they need at the most appropriate hospital for them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man carries a wounded child after a Saudi-led airstrike that killed eight members of her family in Sanaa, August 2017\n\nFor a little more than three years, Yemen has been locked in a seemingly intractable civil war that has killed nearly 10,000 people and pushed millions to the brink of starvation.\n\nThe conflict has its roots in the Arab Spring of 2011, when an uprising forced the country's long-time authoritarian president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to hand over power to his deputy, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.\n\nThe political transition was supposed to bring stability to Yemen, one of the Middle East's poorest nations, but President Hadi struggled to deal with various problems including militant attacks, corruption, food insecurity, and continuing loyalty of many military officers to Saleh.\n\nFighting began in 2014 when the Houthi Shia Muslim rebel movement took advantage of the new president's weakness and seized control of northern Saada province and neighbouring areas. The Houthis went on to take the capital Sanaa, forcing Mr Hadi into exile abroad.\n\nThe conflict escalated dramatically in March 2015, when Saudi Arabia and eight other mostly Sunni Arab states - backed by the US, UK, and France - began air strikes against the Houthis, with the declared aim of restoring Mr Hadi's government.\n\nThe Saudi-led coalition feared that continued success of the Houthis would give their rival regional power and Shia-majority state, Iran, a foothold in Yemen, Saudi Arabia's southern neighbour. Saudi Arabia says Iran is backing the Houthis with weapons and logistical support - a charge Iran denies.\n\nBoth sides have since been beset by infighting. The Houthis broke with Saleh and he was killed by Houthi fighters in December 2017. On the anti-Houthi side, militias include separatists seeking independence for south Yemen and factions who oppose the idea.\n\nThe stalemate has produced an unrelenting humanitarian crisis, with at least 8.4 million people at risk of starvation and 22.2 million people - 75% of the population - in need of humanitarian assistance, according to the UN. Severe acute malnutrition is threatening the lives of almost 400,000 children under the age of five.\n\nYemen's health system has all but collapsed, while the world's largest cholera outbreak has killed thousands.\n\nIn June 2018, Saudi-backed government forces began an assault on the key rebel-held port of Hudaydah, the entry point for the vast majority of aid going into Yemen and a lifeline for the starving. Aid agencies warned the offensive could make Yemen's humanitarian catastrophe much worse.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPoet Simon Armitage, whose \"witty and profound\" work spans sharp observations about modern life and classical myths, is to be the UK's next Poet Laureate.\n\nThe West Yorkshire writer will hold the historic post for the next decade, taking over from Dame Carol Ann Duffy.\n\nOver recent decades, the role has moved away from mainly chronicling royal occasions to promoting poetry and capturing a wider view of British life.\n\nArmitage has published 28 collections and is on the national curriculum.\n\nHis 2017 book The Unaccompanied was described by The Guardian as a document of \"a world in social and economic meltdown\".\n\nIt opens with a poem about climate change called The Last Snowman, and includes another titled Poundland, about \"the Disney design calendar and diary set, three cans of Vimto/cornucopia of potato-based snacks and balm for a sweet tooth\".\n\nThe announcement comes five months after Armitage, from Marsden, won the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2018, arguably the most prestigious accolade in poetry behind the laureateship.\n\nWhen that award was announced, Dame Carol Ann noted how he had \"touched the matter of our lives with characters and subject matter that lived among us: teachers and council tenants, chip shops and television shows, figures who drank in the local pub and shopped in the nearby supermarket\".\n\nHe has also translated medieval poems about King Arthur and Sir Gawain, retold The Odyssey as a radio play and written Last Days of Troy, a stage play for Shakespeare's Globe and the Manchester Royal Exchange.\n\nThe 55-year-old is currently professor of poetry at the University of Leeds and served as professor of poetry at the University of Oxford between 2015-2019.\n\nHe was made a CBE in 2010. His tenure as Poet Laureate will run for a decade.\n\nArmitage told BBC News that poetry was \"more valuable and more relevant than it's ever been\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to celebrate what's best in poetry and build on the work Andrew Motion and Carol Ann Duffy have done over the last two decades in terms of encouraging and identifying talent, particularly among young people, among whom poetry might be a way forward, an outlet.\"\n\nThe poet laureate is an honorary position that is officially appointed by the Queen, acting on advice from the government.\n\nHe joked that he had \"missed the boat\" to write a poem for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's baby.\n\n\"It's been made very clear to me that although the monarch is my line manager, for want of a better word, there are no expectations or obligations in that direction.\"\n\nHe said he planned to use the profile to establish some sort of project or award for writing about climate change, and that he had a dream - \"very possibly completely unrealistic\" - to set up a National Centre for Poetry.\n\nCulture Secretary Jeremy Wright praised Armitage for his \"witty and profound take on modern life [which] is known and respected across the world\".\n\nMr Wright added: \"He is a very worthy successor to Dame Carol Ann Duffy, who championed the importance of poetry over the past 10 years and made the position relatable to people across the country.\"\n\nI write in praise of air. I was six or five\n\nand I held in my palm the whole of the sky.\n\nI've carried it with me ever since.\n\nLet air be a major god, its being\n\nand touch, its breast-milk always tilted\n\nto the lips. Both dragonfly and Boeing\n\nAmong the jumbled bric-a-brac I keep\n\nand on days when thoughts are fuddled with smog\n\nwith a white handkerchief over its mouth\n\nand cars blow kisses to our lips from theirs\n\nMy first word, everyone's first word, was air.\n\nThere had been reports that Imtiaz Dharker would be offered the post\n\nThere had been reports that Imtiaz Dharker would be offered the post, but had decided to turn it down.\n\nArmitage said he believed there had been \"a lot of discussion behind the scenes\" about whether the job should go to a white man.\n\nHe stressed that he wanted part of his role to be about amplifying the voices of writers from \"diverse and disadvantaged\" backgrounds.\n\nHe added that he did not come from the establishment. \"When I grew up in a terraced house on the side of a hill in West Yorkshire, I did not feel like the chosen one,\" he said.\n\n\"When I was working as a probation officer in Greater Manchester, dragging junkies out of the gutter and sitting across the table from notorious criminals, it did not feel like a life of privilege.\n\n\"I suppose what I'm saying is, I understand to a lesser extent what it means to come from outside the establishment, even if I've arrived at certain established positions, and I need to keep those things in the back of my mind.\"\n\nThe role was established in 1668, and previous Poets Laureate include William Wordsworth, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, John Betjeman and Ted Hughes.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Captain Kevin Bennett (pictured with ball) and other players took up the same position in the photo as they did 40 years ago\n\nMembers of a primary school football team have met up to recreate a 40-year-old photo.\n\nKevin Bennett said he and three friends were inspired to track down all 15 players, after sharing the picture at a 50th birthday party.\n\nHe searched through Facebook, finding friends across the UK - and in Panama, and brought them together back in their home town of Alsager, Cheshire.\n\nMr Bennett said reuniting the team was \"quite emotional\" but \"brilliant\".\n\nMany of the boys went on to the same senior school but lost touch later\n\nThe sales manager, 50, now of Westbury Park, Newcastle under Lyme, said the picture was taken in their final year at Excalibur Primary School, in Alsager.\n\nMr Bennett, who was the team's captain, said he had happy memories of the time.\n\n\"Football was my life. We played all the time, even with a rolled up sock,\" he said.\n\nAlthough many of them went on to Alsager Comprehensive School, most later lost touch.\n\nThe idea to reunite the gang began when he and fellow team mates Richard Nixon, Tim Stubbs and Dave Moorhouse, were invited to a 50th birthday party for classmate Ian Beresford, where Mr Bennett took along the picture.\n\n\"After a few beers, we said why don't we get all the football team back together,\" he said.\n\n\"I was quite nervous in case some of them didn't turn up, but when we got there it was brilliant,\" Mr Bennett said.\n\nThey now hope to make the gathering a more regular occurrence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gerald Corrigan was struck outside his home\n\nA man who suffered \"horrendous injuries\" when he was shot with a crossbow has died in hospital.\n\nGerald Corrigan, 74, was struck outside his home on South Stack Road, Holyhead, on 19 April at 00:30 BST.\n\nNorth Wales Police have now confirmed Mr Corrigan died, nearly a month after he was injured.\n\nThe force previously urged the crossbow shooter to come forward and said its investigation into the attack was continuing.\n\nMr Corrigan had been trying to fix a satellite dish on his home when he was hit with the bolt through his upper body and right arm, police said.\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Kearney said: \"This is a truly shocking case and our thoughts are with Gerald's family and friends at this very sad time.\"\n\nMr Corrigan, a former photography and video lecturer had lived on Anglesey for more than 20 years.\n\nHe had been taken to Royal Stoke University Hospital, the major trauma centre serving north Wales.\n\nLocal councillor Trefor Lloyd Hughes said it would be a \"very sad day for the family\".\n\nHe added: \"He must have put up a good fight to stay alive.\n\n\"There's no doubt it has shocked the community. It's a picturesque area, people will be in a big, big shock.\n\n\"In an area that's so quiet, after midnight, it makes you wonder what the heck is going on.\"\n\nMr Corrigan's family previously said: \"This is a horrific incident that has happened to our family.\n\n\"We cannot think of anybody who may have wanted to hurt our father and dear partner.\n\n\"We are trying to come to terms with this shocking incident.\n\n\"If anybody has any information at all about what has happened, however small, please come forward to the police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Before the war: Mai (left) and her sister look out across the Sanaa skyline in 2009\n\nIt is two years since the start of the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen in support of the government ousted by Houthi rebels. In that time, thousands of civilians have been killed, parts of the country devastated and Yemen left teetering on the brink of famine.\n\nHere the BBC's Yemen-born Mai Noman, who has returned to her homeland to film short documentaries, reflects on what has become of her country.\n\nIt's been over two years since I was last here. The only place I call home.\n\nA lot has happened and much has changed. It's hard to keep my feelings in check.\n\nBeside the physical destruction, memories of what once was are buried under the heavy weight of emotional rubble.\n\nMai and her brother grew up in Taiz\n\nAs a Yemeni journalist working in international news, I have had to monitor every twist and turn of the civil war in my country, even when I wanted to look away.\n\nTruthfully, the thought of coming face-to-face with the new reality shaped by the furious conflict in Yemen has terrified me.\n\nBut living through the war from outside Yemen was isolating.\n\nAs we make our way to the capital, Sanaa, on a rugged 10-hour car journey from Aden, I think back to the number of times I quietly broke down after hearing news coming out of Yemen. Working in a newsroom, this happened often.\n\nThis trip takes me from the south to the north - two parts of a country divided by more than mere miles.\n\nIn simple terms, the south is under government control, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, and the north is controlled by the Houthi rebels. But the reality is more complicated.\n\nI've imagined arriving back home hundreds of times in the last few years. But on the day I was totally unprepared for what I found.\n\nUnlike the southern city of Aden, where life seems to be at a standstill, waiting in fearful anticipation of more fighting, Sanaa - apart from the obvious damage - appears the same as ever.\n\nSome beautiful buildings in Sanaa have escaped unscathed\n\nI can feel the rain approaching. After London that should make me shudder, but it somehow feels welcoming.\n\nThe jagged mountains which encompass the city slowly fill with clouds transforming the sky into a splendid portrait of misted rocky peaks. All at once telling me I'm home.\n\nThe Yemeni capital has suffered like other parts of the country, but life there goes on\n\nThere are more restaurants in town than I recall, and many are over-flowing with people.\n\nFor a moment I forget there's a war raging across the country. But then Sanaa can be deceptive.\n\nI feel exhausted by the time we arrive at my cousin Mona's house.\n\nI knock on the door in a typical Yemeni manner - very determinedly. Mona's youngest child, Abdullah, opens the door to greet me.\n\nMai's aunt's car sits where it was hit by a falling missile in the garden of her home\n\nIt's quite quiet here. A minute later I hear Mona making her way down the narrow stairs at the back of the house.\n\nWe embrace with joy. She holds my face to see what's changed.\n\n\"You're still you,\" she says. A lot kinder than comments I receive later about how my hair is too short or the few extra pounds I've gained.\n\nMona is just as beautiful but her voice has changed, she's gone through a lot in the last few years.\n\nThree years ago she lost her father suddenly. She had been very close to him and facing life without him, amid ongoing uncertainty, is hard.\n\n\"He was the biggest support I had,\" she tells me, breaking down in tears.\n\nLife hasn't been kind to her and the war has now brought with it seemingly endless questions.\n\nWould her family be able to leave if it had to? Is it better to be stuck inside surrounded by conflict, or outside separated from relatives and friends? Are Mona's children safe at school or sleeping in their beds? How many more funerals will she have to attend?\n\nEven with the most difficult issues I face in my own life, the choices are never so bleak.\n\nOur lives have become more different than ever.\n\nOver the course of three weeks in Yemen, I reconnect with old acquaintances and hear stories of separation, loss and incredible examples of the tight bonds that keep a community together.\n\nBut something else weighs heavily on my heart. There is one place I wasn't able to visit.\n\nIt's the place where I was born and where a more utopian notion of Yemen was engraved in my mind.\n\nBut sadly my grandmother is no longer with us and Taiz today is unrecognisable, sitting as it does on the frontline of the conflict. I wonder if I'd even know the house.\n\nThe fighting on the ground is brutal, the bombardment by the Saudi-led coalition is relentless and the siege on the city by the Houthis continues.\n\nIt's painful trying to accept the way things have become, one where precious memories have no place among the hardship of this grinding conflict.\n\nTo me, Taiz is where the heart of home is, and there's nothing harder than losing one's home.\n\nWhen I set off for Yemen it was with a mixture of dread and trepidation at what I might find after years of bombardment and fighting.\n\nOn arriving I fell into a false sense of relief that the people were still here; home was, in some form, still here.\n\nIn the days which followed though, it became clear that war damage isn't just the craters and the bombed out buildings.\n\nIt is the suffering of a population watching helplessly as their lives are being torn apart.\n\nThinking of the time I spent fearing what I'd find when I returned home, I know that regardless of the pain of seeing my country at war, the sense of longing to be part of Yemen, for good or bad, will always draw me back.", "The council posted letter explaining why the bins had been taken\n\nHouseholders are getting green bins confiscated for putting non-recyclable items in them, it has emerged.\n\nKirklees Council is seizing the bin for six months, telling its owner they will then have to apply to get it back, a letter seen by the BBC shows.\n\nThe West Yorkshire authority is using \"advisors\" to snoop on the contents of recycling bins, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) said.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Kirklees Council for a response.\n\nTony Swiffen, 32, from New Mill, said his bin was removed without warning.\n\nMr Swiffen said he returned home from taking his son to school to find his bin had vanished and a letter from the council had been posted through his door.\n\n\"They have snooped through the bags in my bin. But there's nothing I put in there apart from cans and paper. I take all my cardboard to the tip,\" he said.\n\nMr Swiffen says he believes he was targeted because previously he has bagged up his green rubbish in black bin liners.\n\nIn response to a previous warning he hand-sorted his rubbish to double check he was not breaking the rules.\n\n\"[But now] someone has come up the driveway and just taken my green bin from the house,\" he explained.\n\n\"It wasn't even green bin day. It was black bin day.\n\n\"For the next six months I'm going to have to put my green stuff in my black bin. How are they winning by doing that? It's ridiculous.\"\n\nThe letter from from the council said his bin had been taken as it had \"contained the wrong items on 2 separate occasions\".\n\n\"It is essential for us to only collect recyclable materials. If incorrect items are collected they mix with good recycling and spoil all of the recycling,\" the letter states.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Gavin Williamson is in the spotlight again, after he resigned from the government amid accusations of bullying and harassment.\n\nFormer chief whip Wendy Morton has handed over a series of expletive-laden text messages from Sir Gavin to Parliament's bullying watchdog and made a complaint to Tory HQ about his conduct.\n\nFollowing a report in the Guardian that Sir Gavin told a senior civil servant to \"slit your throat\" and \"jump out of the window\" when he was defence secretary, No 10 said it would be conducting its own informal investigation.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Sir Gavin said allegations about his \"past conduct\" were becoming a distraction for the government - even though he \"refutes the characterisation of these claims\" and has apologised to the recipient of some text messages.\n\nThis is the third time Sir Gavin has had to leave government, having already been sacked from cabinet twice previously - as education secretary and defence secretary.\n\nHis rise through the Conservative ranks has been blown off course by a number of separate scandals.\n\nHowever, he has been widely seen as a political survivor, serving under four different prime ministers.\n\nThe 46-year-old was raised near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, by Labour-supporting parents.\n\nEducated at state schools, he became involved in Tory politics while studying at Bradford University and later went on to become a county councillor in North Yorkshire.\n\nA former fireplace salesman, he also ran a pottery firm, making and selling ceramic tableware, before being elected as MP for South Staffordshire in 2010.\n\nSir Gavin began his parliamentary career as a ministerial aide to David Cameron, acting as the then-prime minister's bag carrier and eyes and ears at Westminster.\n\nHe remained in this important role until Mr Cameron left office in June 2016.\n\nAfter Theresa May became prime minister, he was made chief whip, responsible for keeping MPs in line and enforcing party discipline.\n\nIn the aftermath of the disastrous 2017 election, he played a crucial role in paving the way for the Conservatives' agreement with the Democratic Unionists to prop up Mrs May's minority government.\n\nSir Gavin Williamson (right) shakes hands with the DUP's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, after the party signed a deal to prop up Theresa May's government\n\nIn his role as chief whip he was known for keeping a tarantula called Cronus on his desk.\n\nDescribing his methods in the whips office, he told the Conservative Party conference in 2017: \"We take a carrot and stick approach... Personally I don't much like the stick, but it is amazing what can be achieved with a sharpened carrot.\"\n\nNick Timothy - a senior adviser to Mrs May - described Mr Williamson as an \"excellent\" chief whip, who was \"a shrewd tactician\" and \"a judge of character\".\n\n\"Even MPs who don't like him admit that he was the best chief whip the party has had in decades - and he did it through some of the hardest years,\" he said in a tweet.\n\nSir Gavin's promotion to defence secretary in November 2017 came as a surprise to some within the Tory Party and the armed forces. He had no military background and little opportunity to build up a public profile because his role in the whips office meant he did not speak in Parliament.\n\nWhile at the Ministry of Defence he lobbied successfully for more funding for the military, often to the irritation of the Treasury.\n\nBut he was derided in the press for telling Russia to \"shut up and go away\", and for suggestions the UK should respond in kind to \"acts of warfare\" by the Kremlin.\n\nHis downfall came after an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting about whether to allow Chinese firm Huawei to help build the UK's 5G network.\n\nSir Gavin denied leaking information from the meeting, but Mrs May said she had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" and sacked him in May 2019.\n\nSir Gavin faced protests from pupils in the summer of 2020 after their A-level results were downgraded\n\nHe was not on the backbenches for long and returned to cabinet as education secretary in July the same year, when Boris Johnson became prime minister.\n\nWhen the Covid pandemic broke out in 2020, the role became even more high profile, with Sir Gavin responsible for tricky areas including home-learning and managing the return to classrooms and exams when schools fully reopened.\n\nHe was widely criticised for U-turning over getting all primary school pupils back in school after lockdown and there were also clashes with footballer Marcus Rashford over his campaign to provide children with free meals during holidays.\n\nPerhaps the biggest debacle was the chaos of the 2020 school exam period, with multiple U-turns over how to grade pupils after examinations were cancelled because of the pandemic.\n\nThis resulted in his department's most senior civil servant and the head of the exams watchdog both leaving their roles.\n\nSir Gavin stayed put until September 2021, when he was replaced by Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nSome argued he had been made a political fall guy - used as a lightning rod for the criticism of how the government had dealt with the challenges Covid posed to education and taking the blame for decisions that were never down to an individual minister.\n\nBut in March, the news he would receive a knighthood for his political and public service prompted anger from some teachers and parents, who blamed him - at least in part - for the mistakes on schools policy during the pandemic.\n\nSir Gavin returned to cabinet as a minister without portfolio under Mr Sunak in October. But it took less than two weeks for concerns to be raised about his appointment following claims he had bullied a fellow Conservative MP.\n\nIn texts sent to then-Chief Whip Ms Morton in the run-up to the Queen's funeral in September he appeared to complain that MPs who were not favoured by Prime Minister Liz Truss were being excluded from the ceremony at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIn the messages, published by the Sunday Times, Sir Gavin reportedly warned Ms Morton \"not to push him about\" and that \"there is a price for everything\".\n\nHe was quoted by the paper as saying he regretted \"getting frustrated\" and was happy to \"work positively with [Ms Morton] in the future as I have in the past\".\n\nNo 10 described the messages as \"unacceptable\" but the prime minister's official spokesman insisted Mr Sunak had full confidence in Sir Gavin.\n\nWhen he resigned, the prime minister said he accepted his resignation with \"great sadness\" but understood his decision to step back.\n\nSeparately an unnamed official at the Minister of Defence said Sir Gavin \"deliberately demeaned and intimidated\" them.\n\nThe official said they raised concerns to the Ministry of Defence's human resources department, but did not make a formal complaint at the time.\n\nSir Gavin did not deny using the language attributed to him but said he \"strongly\" rejected allegations of bullying.\n\nHowever, the pressure of multiple accusations and inquiries became too great, and Sir Gavin was forced to step down.\n\nWriting in his resignation letter, he said he would \"clear my name of wrongdoing\" but it remains to be seen if this consummate Westminster operator can, once again, bounce back.", "A lawsuit alleges that more than 100 generic drugs were included in a price-fixing scheme\n\nMore than 40 US states have filed a lawsuit accusing pharmaceutical firms of conspiring to artificially inflate the cost of common medicinal drugs.\n\nThe lawsuit alleges that as many as 20 companies have been involved in fixing prices for over 100 drugs, including treatments for diabetes and cancer.\n\nOne of the firms accused is Teva Pharmaceuticals, the world's largest producer of generic medicine.\n\nTeva, which has denied any wrongdoing, says it will defend its actions.\n\nThe legal action, which follows a five-year investigation, accuses drugs companies of involvement in a scheme to boost prices - in some cases by more than 1,000% - and was filed on Friday by Connecticut Attorney General William Tong.\n\n\"We have hard evidence that shows the generic drug industry perpetrated a multi-billion dollar fraud on the American people,\" Mr Tong said.\n\n\"We have emails, text messages, telephone records and former company insiders that we believe will prove a multi-year conspiracy to fix prices and divide market share for huge numbers of generic drugs.\"\n\nA representative of Teva in the US said that the Israeli company \"has not engaged in any conduct that would lead to civil or criminal liability\", Reuters news agency reports.\n\nThe other 19 firms implicated in the lawsuit have yet to comment on the allegations.\n\nFifteen individuals were also named as defendants accused of overseeing the price-fixing scheme on a day-to-day basis.\n\nAccording to the lawsuit, the drugs companies allegedly conspired to manipulate prices on dozens of medicines between July 2013 and January 2015.\n\nIt accuses Teva and others of \"embarking on one of the most egregious and damaging price-fixing conspiracies in the history of the United States\".\n\nMr Tong said the investigation had exposed why the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs was so high in the US.\n\nAmerica's healthcare system has been at the forefront of US politics for years.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has frequently promised to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, which was designed to make medical cover affordable for the many Americans who had been priced out of the market.\n\nStates have argued that eliminating Obamacare would harm millions of Americans who would struggle to meet the costs of medical care.", "A driver said he faced groups of trespassers \"every 200 yards\" along part of the route\n\nThe Flying Scotsman could be banned from main line tracks after people trespassed to catch a glimpse of it.\n\nThere was chaos between Derby and Birmingham last Sunday as fans vied to spot the legendary loco on its UK tour.\n\nThe situation was blamed for a string of delays to normal services, with reports of people refusing to move when challenged by drivers.\n\nNetwork Rail said a ban would be a \"move of last resort\" but could not be ruled out if lives were being risked.\n\nIt would not let \"a few thoughtless lawbreakers\" cause dangers and delays, it said.\n\nNearly 60 services were delayed for a total of 1,000 minutes as Flying Scotsman complete its tour of the Midlands last weekend, British Transport Police (BTP) said.\n\nThe force has issued an image of two photographers it wants to trace, saying it was \"extremely disappointing that a small minority of rail enthusiasts put their lives in grave danger\".\n\nAn image of two people just metres away from the line as a train was due to pass was released by police\n\nOne passenger service driver, who asked to remain anonymous, said he saw trainspotting trespassers every 200 yards.\n\nDescribing it as \"probably the most stressful experience I have ever had\", he said it was \"only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured or killed\" trying to get a photo.\n\nNick Brodrick, editor of Steam Railway magazine, said the problem was \"deeply troubling\".\n\n\"When you have drivers having to stop, get out and tell trespassers to move and even then be ignored, the situation is simply unacceptable,\" he said.\n\nHe said it would be hard to argue with a ban if someone was injured or killed.\n\nA Flying Scotsman spokesman said a ban \"would not be a surprise\" but every effort, such as CCTV and extra police on the train, was being taken to avoid the situation.\n\nThe tour ends in Scotland on Friday.\n\nNetwork Rail said it did not want to stop people seeing an \"iconic piece of British engineering\"\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.", "Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit talks with the Labour Party are a \"grave mistake\", according to former defence secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nMrs May is hoping to reach a cross-party consensus on her withdrawal agreement after failing to get it through Parliament three times.\n\nBut Mr Williamson - sacked over the Huawei leak - told the Mail on Sunday the talks were \"destined to fail\".\n\nHe added Jeremy Corbyn's only real interest was a general election.\n\nBBC political correspondent Jonathan Blake said a Downing Street source had indicated Mr Williamson had been \"supportive of the process while he was in the cabinet\" and that he had \"not been involved in the talks himself\".\n\nThe Conservative MP for South Staffordshire said doing a deal with Labour on Brexit \"sounds so simple and so reasonable\" - but would not work.\n\n\"Even if Labour do a deal, break bread with the prime minister and announce that both parties have reached an agreement, it can only ever end in tears,\" he said.\n\n\"The Labour Party does not exist to help the Conservative Party.\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn will do all he can to divide, disrupt and frustrate the Conservatives in the hope of bringing down the government.\n\n\"His goal, and he has made no secret of it, is to bring about a general election.\"\n\nMr Williamson said the prime minister seemed oblivious to the fact many Tories believe she is \"negotiating with the enemy\".\n\nHe continued: \"Even if we get to a point where Jeremy Corbyn agrees a deal with the prime minister, when it comes to detailed scrutiny of the votes, Labour will revert to form.\n\n\"Even if it passes the first few votes, it will fail later.\"\n\nMr Williamson's comments come after Conservative MP Sir Graham Brady said that he expected the government's Brexit talks with Labour to \"peter out\" within days.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, the chairman of the 1922 Committee, said he found it \"very hard\" to see the talks leading to a \"sensible resolution.\"\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth said that Labour was acting \"in good faith\" in the negotiations but was \"not getting very far\".\n\nHowever, Education Secretary Damian Hinds told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that no other person in Mrs May's position could change the \"parliamentary reality\" of needing to find a majority in the Commons.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back to 31 October after Parliament was unable to agree a way forward.\n\nAhead of European elections later this month, two separate polls, by ComRes and Opinium, give the Brexit Party the biggest share of the vote with the Conservatives in fourth place behind Labour and the Lib Dems.\n\nGavin Williamson was sacked by the PM earlier this month\n\nMr Williamson was sacked as defence secretary following an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting.\n\nDowning Street said the PM had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" and announced Penny Mordaunt as his successor.\n\nThe inquiry came after details of a discussion by the NSC over a plan to allow Chinese tech firm Huawei limited access to help build the UK's new 5G network was leaked to a newspaper.\n\nMr Williamson, who was defence secretary between 2017 and 2019, \"strenuously\" denied leaking the information.", "Prakazrel Michel has been charged with making contributions to a presidential campaign\n\nA founding member of hip-hop group The Fugees and a Malaysian businessman have been charged with making illegal contributions in the 2012 US presidential election campaign.\n\nLow Taek Jho, known as Jho Low, allegedly transferred more than $21m (£16m) to musician Prakazrel Michel to make the payments.\n\nMr Michel has appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to the charges.\n\nMr Low, whose whereabouts are unknown, also denies any involvement.\n\nBoth men have been charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the US government. Mr Michel has been charged with one count of a scheme to conceal material facts and two counts of making a false entry in a record.\n\nMr Low's payments were allegedly made during June and November 2012.\n\nMr Michel reportedly paid $865,000 to around 20 people so that they could make donations in their names to a presidential joint fundraising committee.\n\nHe also allegedly made more than $1m in donations to a political committee in his name.\n\nCourt documents claim that they aimed to \"gain access\" to one of the presidential candidates, named as \"Candidate A\".\n\nMr Michel was known to be a strong supporter of Barack Obama, who was re-elected president in that year.\n\nMr Michel's attorney Barry Pollack said: \"Mr. Michel is extremely disappointed that so many years after the fact the government would bring charges related to the 2012 campaign contributions. Mr Michel is innocent of these charges and looks forward to having the case heard by a jury.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Low said: \"The allegations against Mr Low have no basis in fact. Mr Low has never made any campaign contributions directly or indirectly in the US and he unequivocally denies any involvement in or knowledge of the alleged activities.\"\n\nMr Low is facing separate criminal charges in the US in connection with a financial scandal in Malaysia. He is accused of being involved in the alleged theft of around $4.5bn from Malaysia's investment fund 1MDB.", "A massive waterspout has been filmed near the southern shore of Singapore.\n\nWitnesses who filmed the natural phenomenon said the waterspout was seen for around 20 minutes.\n\nA waterspout is a rapidly rotating column of air over water, under a shower cloud.", "It is a year on from the delivery of more than 1,000 letters to Downing Street, many of them from children, pleading for access to a cystic fibrosis drug, called Orkambi. But there is still no decision on whether it will be made available on the NHS.\n\nAt the time, in May 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May said there was an ongoing dialogue with the drug company Vertex and she hoped for a \"speedy resolution to the negotiations\".\n\nYet, despite months of talks, no agreement has yet been reached.\n\nMore than 10,000 people in the UK have the debilitating genetic lung condition cystic fibrosis.\n\nFor about half of them, a drug called Orkambi could make a big difference - but the NHS says it is too expensive to fund.\n\nSir Andrew Dillon is chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which last month celebrated its 20th anniversary as the body responsible for deciding which drugs offer value for money for the NHS.\n\nHe said in a recent BBC interview: \"In virtually all cases we have managed to find a way through. So I am hopeful that in continuing to talk to Vertex, we can persuade them of the need to think carefully and change their expectations of what the NHS should pay so we can get these new treatments available to patients.\"\n\nOrkambi has been licensed for use in the UK since 2015 - but is only available to a very small number of cystic fibrosis patients, on compassionate grounds, at the company's discretion.\n\nThe Cystic Fibrosis Trust says the drug has been shown to improve lung health by up to 42% and reduce hospitalisations by 61%.\n\nAnnabel's mum says it is \"heartbreaking\" her daughter cannot be treated with Orkambi\n\nThe official list price of the drug is around £105,000 per patient per year. Vertex says that, in practice, the price negotiated with healthcare systems is always lower than that.\n\nIt is available to patients in 10 countries, but NICE says the price quoted by Vertex is too high for the NHS in England.\n\nFour-year-old Annabel has cystic fibrosis. Like other patients, mucus can build up in her lungs and she is vulnerable to chest infections. Her mother Liz Brennan has to organise a complex combination of treatments for Annabel every day.\n\nShe cannot understand why her daughter is unable to get Orkambi on the NHS.\n\nShe said: \"It's heartbreaking. It feels like a clock ticking away - every opportunity that she could have this medication and stop the clock on her CF.\n\n\"It's scary as a parent to think what could happen. \"\n\nThe issue has now got to Westminster, with demonstrations by patients and the issue raised at Prime Minister's Questions. The Health Select Committee is investigating.\n\nThere have been high-level talks between the company, NICE and NHS England, with Health Secretary Matt Hancock involved as well.\n\nSo far no conclusion has been reached.\n\nThere are separate negotiations with the Scottish government and its regulator the Scottish Medicines Consortium. The administrations in Wales and Northern Ireland tend to follow decisions made by NICE.\n\nMike Boyle is one of the few cystic fibrosis patients who is given Orkambi by the manufacturer on compassionate grounds. That is because his condition has got a lot worse.\n\nHe still has to use an inflatable vest to free up his lungs, but he says the drug has transformed his life:\n\n\"I can see how it's made a difference to me. I was desperate to get it really.\n\n\"I'm always a positive person with cystic fibrosis. I always try and fight - my saying is 'I don't let CF win'.\n\n\"I control CF, not CF control me, as best as I can.\n\n\"That's been really hard over the last two-and-a-half years really.\n\n\"But now I feel that I've turned the corner and this drug has let me have my life back again.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nSaracens came from behind to win their third European title in four years with a 20-10 victory over Leinster in the Champions Cup final at St James' Park.\n\nThe Irish side held a 10-point lead until the 39th minute but Sarries drew level when Sean Maitland's try cancelled out Tadhg Furlong's opener.\n\nBoth defences stood firm after the interval but Owen Farrell kicked Saracens in front just before the hour.\n\nVictory was sealed when Billy Vunipola crashed over from the back of a scrum.\n\nFarrell kicked the conversion as the Londoners scored 20 unanswered points and put in a dominant second-half performance, despite losing both their starting props to injury in the first half.\n\nSaracens - who become the first English side to win three Champions Cups after ending their European campaign unbeaten - will play a Premiership semi-final later this month as they continue to pursue the double, while Leinster remain on course to defend their Pro14 title.\n• None European victory 'not about me' - Vunipola\n\nFarrell wins the battles of the 10s\n\nThe 2019 Champions Cup final was dubbed as the battle of the fly-halves as international heavyweights Owen Farrell and Johnny Sexton renewed their rivalry, in front of nearly 52,000 spectators at Newcastle United's home ground.\n\nBoth players were 100% successful off the tee but it was Englishman Farrell who was the more influential as Saracens avenged last year's quarter-final defeat.\n\nThe England captain produced moments of excellence to draw his side level at half-time, having only conceded seven points with Maro Itoje in the sin-bin after waves of relentless Leinster running.\n\nFarrell kicked the penalty to get Sarries on the scoreboard before his deft pass allowed Maitland an easy run-in to score their opening try, in a move BBC Radio 5 Live pundit Matt Dawson believed was \"straight off the training ground\".\n\nSexton ran more metres and made more passes than his opposite number after opening the scoring with an early penalty, but Farrell's game management in the critical moments allowed his side to gain an advantage.\n\nThe trophy's journey back to England was all-but confirmed when Vunipola dived over with 13 minutes remaining as the England forward continues to impress after a controversial few weeks.\n\nVunipola was booed again, this time by the vociferous Leinster support, for his controversial social media post defending the now-sacked Australian international Israel Folau's assertion that \"hell awaits\" gay people.\n\nSaracens will be hoping Vunipola's late injury to his left shoulder is not too serious as they return to domestic rugby looking to claim more silverware.\n\nWith just a minute remaining of the first half, the plan for defending champions Leinster had been effective.\n\nThe Irish province were more mobile at the breakdown and they looked to bully Saracens into submission up front, as the north London side lost props Mako Vunipola and Titi Lamositele to injury as early as the 29th minute.\n\nItoje was sent to the bin for his part in an accumulation of penalties close to the Sarries line just a minute later, before Furlong powered over from close range for the game's first try.\n\nBut when Saracens - with captain Brad Barritt leading from the front - regained their composure, Leinster found it difficult to contain their fast and fluid game.\n\nSaracens made 12 offloads compared to Leinster's four as they looked to keep the ball alive and stretch the game with strike runners Liam Williams and Maitland.\n\nThe English side were more clinical in the right areas, and while Leinster had 56% possession, they struggled for creativity and were unable to penetrate Saracens' defence - scoring only three points while Sarries had 15 players on the pitch.\n\nThat was a magnificent turnaround by Saracens. Who says they can't win it again and again and again over the next few years?\n\nMost of the team will be around for several years yet. It's a ridiculously talented squad with great coaches and infrastructure. They have been absolutely brilliant today.\n\nAt 10-0 up Leinster looked in control, but in a week of sporting comebacks, Sarries dug deep, scoring a brilliant try through Sean Maitland. In the final quarter Sarries were astonishingly relentless and Billy Vunipola's powerful try was the killer blow as Leinster ran out of steam.\n\nIt's three Champions Cups in four years for Saracens and, given the hunger and age of this squad, this legacy will only grow.\n\n'It's a game of small margins' - what they said\n\nSaracens fly-half Owen Farrell said: \"It's a massive occasion for the whole club. It's not just about the lads on this pitch, everybody that's behind the scenes makes this club what it is.\n\n\"We were playing against a really good team who've got to back-to-back finals and they tested us. But this is a tight-knit group and that's what makes us good.\n\n\"Billy's played well and that's what he does on a regular basis. It's not just off-field stuff, it's other things as well and we've allowed it to make us tighter. You saw that today.\"\n\nLeinster fly-half Johnny Sexton said: \"It's a game of small margins. We were 10-3 up and had the ball in their half and decided to go for an attacking play.\n\n\"I thought we could have won it and scored ourselves which would have put the foot on their throat, but they are a champion side and they scored instead.\n\n\"At the start of the second half we started really well but we didn't take our chances close to their line. They made their pressure tell and we didn't.\n\n\"There were a few decisions that didn't go our way and we felt there was a knock-on before that second try.\"\n\nReplacements: Tracy for Cronin (51), J McGrath, Bent for Furlong (70), Ruddock, Deegan for Toner (74), O'Sullivan, R Byrne, O'Loughlin.\n\nReplacements: Gray, Barrington for Lamositele (29), Koch for M Vunipola (29), Isiekwe for Skelton (62), Burger for B Vunipola (75), Wigglesworth for Spencer (56), Tompkins, Strettle.", "Signature Living has been developing luxury hotels across the UK, including in Liverpool, Cardiff and Belfast\n\nInvestors in a multi-million pound luxury hotel group said they have been through \"a nightmare\" trying to get money from the company.\n\nThey described months of delays and unanswered calls or emails to the Liverpool company, Signature Living.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to six investors, from the UK, Ireland, Singapore and Taiwan, who said they were owed money.\n\nCompany boss Lawrence Kenwright, who is considering running for mayor of Liverpool, said everyone would be paid.\n\n\"We are chasing them, begging for our money. I had many sleepless nights,\" said one of the investors, who all asked not to be named.\n\nThe company \"is giving Liverpool and the UK a bad name,\" he said.\n\nThree other investors told the BBC they had received money they were owed in recent weeks, after payments were delayed by months.\n\nWith several now demanding their investments be returned, Mr Kenwright said this would happen when the group's remaining hotels were sold or refinanced.\n\nSignature Living made £5.9m in annual profit, according to the most recent set of financial accounts.\n\nInvestors in Signature Living hotels were told to expect annual returns of about 8%\n\nMr Kenwright, who built his business up after being bankrupted in 2010, said he had made relatively little money from the company, although records show he shared in £610,000 of dividends in 2017.\n\n\"I never saw it, I don't know where it went,\" he said when asked about this money.\n\n\"The £610,000 you're talking about, I have never had a cheque. I have never had a bank account. I drive a five year-old car and wear an old watch,\" he said.\n\nInvestors in Signature bought individual rooms in luxury hotels being redeveloped by the company, with many paying hundreds of thousands of pounds and some investing their retirement savings.\n\nThe hotels included the Titanic-themed 30 James Street in Liverpool; Belfast's George Best Hotel, which has yet to open but it is said will be decorated with floor-to-ceiling portraits of the late footballer; and The Exchange Hotel in Cardiff, where rooms come with an en-suite hot tub.\n\nThese rooms were then leased back to Signature, which typically promised an annual return of about 8% and that it would buy the room back at a profit after a certain number of years.\n\n\"It started out fantastically,\" said one investor, who bought a room in The George Best Hotel. The company was offering higher returns than any bank.\n\nThen his payments were delayed, he said.\n\n\"The first came a little bit late, the second one came a little bit later and the third took a lot of phone calls, emails and shouting before it came.\"\n\nThe opening date for the George Best Hotel in Belfast has yet to be confirmed\n\nAs the delays continued, staff at Signature \"started getting more and more elusive. No-one would talk to me, everyone was in meetings and no one would return calls,\" said this investor.\n\nHe said he was finally paid the money owed in the past fortnight.\n\nAnother investor, whose family invested hundreds of thousands in two hotels in Merseyside, said she was still owed money after years of delayed payments.\n\n\"We have to email them and they say 'Yes, we will pay you today,' and then the money doesn't come and they stop responding,\" she said.\n\nA third investor said he had spent eight months trying to get money from the company with no result.\n\n\"This whole experience has been a nightmare and we just don't know when we will get this resolved,\" he said.\n\nSignature Living recently announced the sale of the Titanic-themed 30 James Street hotel\n\nIn a letter to investors in March, Mr Kenwright said there had been delays in developing one hotel and \"we have obviously run into a timing problem whereby several bedroom investors are requesting their money back\".\n\nIn another letter, sent in April, Mr Kenwright told investors \"all rental payments have been suspended and no further monthly or quarterly returns will be paid\", pending the sale or refinancing of five hotels, in Liverpool, Belfast or Cardiff.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to two investors who have taken legal action against the company.\n\nExtract from a letter sent to investors in April 2019\n\nMr Kenwright, who is well-known for his charitable work in Liverpool, including establishing homeless shelters, confirmed recent reports that he has considered running for mayor of the city.\n\nHe said he regretted the delays faced by his \"amazing\" investors and that investors in two of the group's hotels had now been paid in full.\n\nEvery other hotel investor would be paid what they were owed and bought out of their original investment by the end of the month, he said.\n\n\"I want them to get their money and be happy,\" Mr Kenwright said.", "Friday night's episode of TV panel show Have I Got News For You was pulled by the BBC as it risked falling foul of its pre-European election rules.\n\nThe BBC said it was \"inappropriate to feature political party leaders\" in an election period as it did not allow for \"equal representation\" of views.\n\nHat Trick Productions, which makes the show, said it \"tried everything\" to get the BBC to broadcast the episode.\n\nIt added it was told of the decision \"late this [Friday] afternoon\".\n\nAn episode of Would I Lie to You was shown on BBC One instead. European Parliament elections are due to take place in the UK on 23 May.\n\nOn Thursday, Ms Allen - who left the Conservatives to join the recently-formed party - tweeted to say she was taking part in the programme, which regularly features politicians.\n\nBut less than half an hour before the episode was due to be broadcast, the HIGNFY Twitter account announced the cancellation.\n\nIt wrote: \"Sorry everyone. The BBC have pulled tonight's edition of #HIGNFY - no, we didn't book Danny Baker. We booked Heidi Allen, a member of a party no-one knows the name of (not even the people in it), because the Euro elections, which nobody wants, may or may not be happening. Sorry.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Heidi Allen MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe move prompted a strong reaction on social media, with some questioning why the show was cancelled but leader of the newly-established Brexit Party, Nigel Farage, recently appeared on the BBC's political debate programme, Question Time.\n\nIn a letter to the BBC, Change UK asked for a full explanation, claiming the broadcaster is giving Mr Farage more favourable coverage.\n\nThe BBC has been contacted for a response but earlier, the broadcaster's live political programmes editor, Rob Burley, commented in a tweet: \"A show can't, in an election period, only feature one party in a run of shows.\"\n\nUnder BBC editorial policy guidelines, programmes are expected to ensure parties are given proportionate coverage over an appropriate period of time.\n\nAn earlier statement from the BBC read: \"The BBC has specific editorial guidelines that apply during election periods.\n\n\"Because of this it would be inappropriate to feature political party leaders on entertainment programmes during this short election period, which does not allow for equal representation to be achieved.\"\n\nThe broadcaster said it would look to air the episode at a later date.", "An elephant calf has been rescued from a lake in north-east India, after it became separated from its mother.\n\nThe baby elephant became stranded in the Deepor Beel lake in Kamrup district, and was guided out by forest officials and locals.", "A young football fan was asked to be his team's mascot after the club saw his letter to teachers pleading for time off to watch them play.\n\nCameron Hoffman wanted to skip lessons at Dinglewell Primary so he could watch Forest Green Rovers in the play-offs.\n\nThe 11-year-old, who goes to games with his grandmother, told the school it was \"important\" he spent time with her as \"she isn't getting any younger\".\n\nHe was allowed to miss school and asked to be Forest Green Rovers' mascot.\n\nThe schoolboy, from Abbeymead, has been supporting Rovers for the last 18 months with his 66-year-old grandmother, Chris Adams.\n\nIn his handwritten letter, he asked his school if he could leave early so he and his grandma could watch his team \"battle for promotion\" in the first leg of the League Two play-off semi-final.\n\n\"If they get promoted it will be history for Gloucestershire,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I also need to take good care of her (his grandmother) at the football.\"\n\nTo sweeten the deal he also promised his teachers he would take his revision books and \"revise on the bus ready for the SATs\".\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\nHis mother, Kay Hoffman, put his letter up online and said within minutes it went \"absolutely crazy\".\n\n\"I was really, really chuffed with what he wrote,\" she said.\n\nCameron's letter was also \"loved\" by \"all the boys\" at Rovers, and he was asked to walk out with the team on to the pitch as their mascot.\n\nBut despite the schoolboy's prediction of a 2-0 win for his team on Friday evening it finished 1-0 to Tranmere Rovers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Dan & Cam Hoffman This 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.", "Most people walk down the highest mountain in Wales, while many take the Snowdon Mountain Railway.\n\nBut for Base jumper Josh Beinn, there was only one way he was going to descend 2,500ft - by leaping from the side of the mountain.\n\nThis is the moment the daredevil made what he says is the highest Base jump in Wales.\n\n\"It was exhilarating,\" said the 29-year-old after he had touched down safe.", "A number of MPs are calling on a drug company to make a \"life-changing\" treatment affordable to UK patients.\n\nCiting a BBC Newsnight report, MPs across several parties have written to BioMarin, which markets Kuvan but did not initially discover it.\n\nThe drug, which helps people who have PKU - a rare inherited disorder - is currently not available to NHS patients, as it costs £70,000.\n\nBioMarin says the NHS has not accepted its \"very competitive\" offer.\n\nPeople with PKU (phenylketonuria) - which affects between one in 10,000 and one in 14,000 people in England - cannot properly digest the amino acid phenylalanine.\n\nAmino acids are the building blocks of protein and are broken down by the body to make our own proteins. But in people with PKU the levels build up, and can cause brain damage.\n\nKuvan reduces the levels of phenylalanine in many people who have PKU.\n\nThe MPs, who include Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and shadow chancellor John McDonnell, say that BioMarin did not even discover the drug itself but licensed it from a laboratory in Switzerland. It was then researched, using public money, as a treatment for PKU.\n\n\"It seems likely that development costs associated with licensing this treatment have been recouped,\" the MPs said in their letter, adding: \"It is matter of public record that BioMarin has generated substantial revenues from Kuvan.\"\n\nLouise Moorhouse, 35, knows at first-hand the difference Kuvan can make.\n\nIn her early 20s she took part in trials while it was being developed by the US biotech company.\n\n\"Kuvan allowed me to eat a completely normal diet. It was almost like someone had opened curtains on my life and I could see everything in Technicolor,\" she told Newsnight.\n\n\"It just freed me up so much.\"\n\nAfter the trial, Louise was denied further access to Kuvan, but since Newsnight's investigation, BioMarin has said all ex-trial patients will be treated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PKU and Kuvan - the campaign for an affordable drug\n\nHowever, in their letter, MPs say: \"BioMarin currently has no competition for pharmacological treatments for PKU. This monopoly position carries a particular obligation to have regard to your responsibility to patients.\n\n\"BioMarin needs to prioritise making this treatment available at an appropriate price across the UK as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe letter, signed by 17 MPs so far and originated from the office of MP Liz Twist, comes amid growing concern about the prices of drugs for rare illnesses across Europe.\n\nUnder a European incentive scheme to encourage companies to produce treatments for so-called orphan diseases, companies are granted up to 12 years market exclusivity. This is currently under review.\n\nThe Dutch government, for example, is looking at issuing compulsory licenses if a company does not make a drug affordable. This means another company will be allowed to make the drug at a cheaper price, even when it doesn't hold the patent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liz Twist 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\nBioMarin says the \"burden and severity of PKU as a disease in the UK is not recognised by NICE or the NHS\".\n\n\"Under current cost-effectiveness criteria, [the] NHS expects discount in the range of 80%, making it very difficult to reach a mutually acceptable agreement,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nAn NHS England spokesperson said: \"The NHS does not offer a blank cheque to pharmaceutical companies. Instead, the NHS works hard to strike deals which give people access to the most clinically effective and innovative medicines, and at a price which is fair and affordable, which is exactly what our patients and the country's taxpayers would expect us to do.\"", "A boycott of social media sites could force firms to take action to safeguard children, a senior police officer says.\n\nChief Constable Simon Bailey said the companies were able to \"eradicate\" indecent imagery on their platforms.\n\nMr Bailey, the UK's lead officer for child protection, said websites would take notice of \"reputational damage\".\n\nThe Internet Association, which represents tech firms including Twitter and Facebook, said the industry spent millions removing abusive content.\n\nThe number of images on the police's child abuse image database has ballooned from less than 10,000 in the 1990s to 13.4 million currently.\n\nStarting on Monday, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse will hold two weeks of hearings focusing on internet companies' responses to the problem, during which Mr Bailey - and executives from Facebook, Google, Apple, BT and Microsoft - will give evidence.\n\nMr Bailey is the chief constable of Norfolk and also leads on child protection for policing body the National Police Chiefs' Council.\n\nHe told the Press Association that the government's online harms White Paper could be a \"game changer\", but only if it leads to effective punitive measures.\n\nPublished last month, the White Paper sets out plans for online safety measures and is currently open for consultation.\n\nThe White Paper suggests, among other things, that internet sites could be fined or blocked if they fail to tackle issues such as terrorist propaganda and child abuse images.\n\nMr Bailey believes the really big platforms have the technology and funds to \"pretty much eradicate\" indecent imagery - but did not think they were \"taking their responsibilities seriously enough\".\n\n\"Ultimately, the financial penalties for some of the giants of this world are going to be an absolute drop in the ocean,\" he said.\n\n\"But if the brand starts to become tainted... maybe the damage to that brand will be so significant that they will feel compelled to do something in response.\n\n\"We have got to look at how we drive a conversation within our society that says 'do you know what? We are not going to use that any more, that system or that brand or that site because of what they are permitting to be hosted or what they are allowing to take place'.\"\n\nIn response to the calls, the Internet Association said online companies had invested in content moderators and developing technology to remove abusive content.\n\nA spokesperson said the companies also work with organisations around the world, including Internet Watch Foundation, a UK-based child abuse watchdog, to remove these images from the internet.\n\n\"Internet companies are working hard to get this right and continue to engage with the government's recent online harms White Paper, but we must ensure that any new measures are proportionate and do not damage the significant benefits that the internet brings to the UK.\"\n\nFacebook says it has removed 8.7 million \"pieces of content\" that violated its policy around child nudity or sexual exploitation of children between July and September last year.\n\nIts global head of safety, Antigone Davis, said: \"Like Chief Constable Bailey, we think the safety of young people on the internet is of the utmost importance.\n\n\"We have strong policies, we are using the most advanced technologies to prevent abuse, we work with experts and the police, and we educate families and young people on the precautions they should take.\n\n\"Families and young people find social media valuable and we want to make sure we are doing our utmost to ensure their safety.\"", "This week's invite only \"Private View\" of the Venice Biennale (which opens today) was one weird affair. It was like being dropped into the middle of a Wes Anderson movie.\n\nThe place was heaving with characters. Artists, posers, dealers, curators, billionaires, bureaucrats, fakes, freeloaders, snobs, journalists, pseuds, hustlers, and narcissists all cramming themselves into tiny spaces and noisy halls to get a glimpse of some box-fresh contemporary art.\n\nThey are not a hip crowd like you might find at Coachella or XJAZZ in Berlin. They are more clamorous than glamorous. Art is a shared interest but not the thing that truly binds them. Money and status are the currencies that count. You don't need both, but you sure as hell need one or the other.\n\nThis is a once every-other-year event that was established in 1895 to promote Italian art before morphing into an international exhibition with countries competing to be Best in Show.\n\nMussolini latched onto it in the 1930s as a way of promoting his fascist agenda, leaving a faintly uncomfortable air of nationalism around what is now a global contemporary art event based around nation states.\n\nNobody has time for anything more than a quickie.\n\nTake a look, take a picture, post to Instagram, move on.\n\nVisitors experiencing the Japanese Pavilion, where recorders suspended from the ceiling are played by an algorithm\n\nThe spaces serving free alcohol always seem to be most popular. Or those that have suddenly become \"hot\" as word of some \"amazing work!!!!!\" spreads like a virus through the Giardini Gardens, which serve as the Biennale's picturesque base camp.\n\nAnxiety levels are at fever pitch, fuelled by double espressos and a FOMO so profound that you can see the terror lurking in the eyes behind every pair of Tom Ford sunglasses.\n\nThe scale of the event is staggering.\n\nThere are 90 national pavilions, each with its own bespoke exhibition featuring the work of an artist, or artists, commissioned to represent the host country.\n\nWith artists Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys, the Belgian Pavilion say it's offering an \"anthropological experience, reminiscent of an old Europe\"\n\nAdded to this is a colossal one-off exhibition spanning two massive buildings, which this year has been put together by a curator called Ralph Rugoff whose day job is running the Hayward Gallery on London's Southbank.\n\nAs if the aforementioned wasn't enough to satisfy even the most insatiable art lover, there are myriad other off-site shows by those not invited to take part in the main event: a sort of Venice Biennale Fringe, I suppose.\n\nNo sane person needs this much art, it is totally overwhelming while, paradoxically, also frequently being totally underwhelming. If the Venice Biennale was a climbing rose it would have been hacked back to manageable proportions long ago.\n\nIt is a hugely successful trade show-cum-visitor attraction, to which hundreds of thousands of tourists will venture over the long hot summer looking for meaning, guidance and some intellectual sustenance in our increasingly secular, divided, complicated world.\n\nWill they find what they are looking for in the 2019 edition? You'd hope so. I did.\n\nNot in the German Pavilion, which contains an austere post-industrial installation so earnest it is unintentionally funny.\n\nThe German Pavilion says it is exploring possibilities of survival, resistance and solidarity\n\nQuite unlike the French Pavilion opposite, which is hilarious on purpose.\n\nThe Turner Prize-winning artist Laure Prouvost has created a surreal grotto full of love, humour and ebullient eccentricity. If the Venice Biennale is a theme park of sorts, then Prouvost's invitation to climb into the belly of an octopus is its star attraction.\n\nYou enter through a narrow back door and step into an excavated basement the artist and her bunch of merry pranksters dug in order to enter the locked Pavilion in January having tunnelled from the bed of Venice's Grand Canal. That's their story anyway. And by way of corroboration, they have laid out their evidence in the room above in the grubby form of dredged detritus such as old plastic bottles, rusted cans and stinking seaweed.\n\nThe floor is light blue with a translucent, gummy surface that tricks you into thinking you're tiptoeing through dirty canal water. Go with the flow and it eventually leads you into the guts of the artist's eight-limbed cephalopod, which is very dark place.\n\nLaure Prouvost's Deep See Blue Surrounding You at the French Pavilion is tipped to win the Golden Lion\n\nAn elegiac film plays amid scattered stone-effect chairs placed on a spongy carpet that genuinely feels as though it could be the lining of an octopus's stomach.\n\nIt's disconcerting. And nuts: an eccentric but sincere celebration of the wonderful gift that is the human imagination.\n\nIt might well win the top prize.\n\nBut there is some strong competition. The Lithuanians have built an off-site beach complete with sunbathers whom you peer down upon as they break out into operatic song.\n\nThe Lithuanian Pavilion has been transformed into a Sun and Sea Marina, where participants give a contemporary opera performance\n\nAnd there was a lot of chatter about the Philippine Pavilion, which features an archipelago of glass topped platforms on which you walk and look down at household objects arranged beneath your feet. It was fine, but rather like the glass walkway, hardly shattering.\n\nThe Ghanaian Pavilion, on the other hand, is excellent and will give Prouvost's watery world a run for its money when it comes to the award of the coveted Golden Lion for Best National Pavilion.\n\nIt has been designed by the architect David Adjaye who has created a series of galleries of roughly-finished curved walls, on which hangs some first-class art. A group of El Anatsui's famous bottle-top wall hangings fill one space; behind them is a tear-inducing three-screen film by John Akomfrah that tackles climate change, imperialism, and the mistreatment of animals. And best of all, in the circular centre, are nine portrait paintings of imagined subjects by the talented Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (who was a Turner Prize runner up in 2013 the year Laure Prouvost won).\n\nOne of the series of imagined portraits, Just Amongst Ourselves (2019) painted by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, and shown at the Ghana Pavilion\n\nOther highlights include Michael Armitage's paintings (and sketches), which are in the main exhibition, as are those by rising star Njideka Akunyili Crosby.\n\nBoth are well worth seeking out, as is Arthur Jafa: three to see among a plethora of half-baked mechanical contraptions and dreary installations made by various artists who could be collectively known as Phil Hall.\n\nMichael Armitage, who weaves multiple narratives into his works, is one of the 79 artists included in curator Ralph Rugoff's exhibition\n\nThe Nigerian-born artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby draws on political and personal references, to create densely layered figurative compositions\n\nAnother tip should you decide to take on the Venice Biennale challenge: Carve out some time to see Edmund de Waal's installation at the Jewish Museum (about 30 minutes from the Giardini Gardens by Vaporetto) in the Campo Ghetto Novo.\n\nThe potter and author of the best-selling memoire Hare with the Amber Eyes has made a delicate and thoughtful group of new work and placed it with sensitivity around the sixteenth-century synagogue, Canton Scuola.\n\nThe author and ceramicist Edmund de Waal created works of porcelain, marble and gold to reflect the literary and musical heritage of the Jewish Ghetto\n\nBy the end of your marathon art trek you'll be ready to finish yourself off with a couple of large Bellinis. The drink that is, not the painter.\n\nUPDATE, Saturday 11 May: Winners announced! The Golden Lion winners of 2019 are Lithuania for national pavilion, and Arthur Jafa for individual artist. Congratulations to both worthy winners.", "The army school attack in 2014 led to a comprehensive counter-terror plan, but impetus was lost\n\nAs Pakistan detains an alleged mastermind of the Mumbai attacks, Ahmed Rashid argues that Pakistan needs a broader, better co-ordinated strategy from state institutions and a willingness to face up to unpleasant truths if it really wants to curb resurgent extremism.\n\nPakistan faces a renewed threat of rising Islamic extremism, vigilantism, attacks on minorities and a reluctance to face up to how these threats are internally rather than externally inspired.\n\nAlso missing is the lack of a comprehensive narrative against extremism, articulated unanimously by all bodies of the state and civil society.\n\nThe result of the failure to push forward a clear counter-terrorism and counter-extremism narrative that embraces the entire public domain is that some extremist groups continue to be tolerated by elements of the state.\n\nJust over two years ago, on 16 December 2014, an attack on an army-run school in Peshawar which killed 150 people - the majority of them children - galvanised the civilian government, opposition parties and the military to articulate the need for a comprehensive counter-terrorism plan.\n\nFor the first time there emerged a 20-point National Action Plan - a list of pointers of what needed to be done, endorsed by the military and all political parties.\n\nHowever the 20 points were never turned into a comprehensive winning strategy or a common narrative and the fight against extremism has diminished ever since.\n\nThe army's Operation Zarb-e-Azb, launched six months earlier, had cleared out North Waziristan, a key staging area for dozens of militant groups - many of them foreigners.\n\nOther military operations also took place, dramatically reducing terrorist bombings nationwide. But they were always going to be tactical operations, which still needed to be backed by a strategic plan carried through by the government.\n\nPakistanis want the government to tackle the extremist threat\n\nA faction of the Pakistani Taliban said they were behind a recent bomb attack in a mainly Shia area in Parachinar, Peshawar\n\nIt was the task of the civilian government to carry out educational reforms, job creation, co-ordination among intelligence agencies, galvanising the legal system, a ban on hate speech and a clear strategy of de-radicalisation of the nation's youth.\n\nAll these aspects of a strategy to be carried out by the government, as opposed to tactical military operations, have been missing, as the government has slipped into inertia and paralysis.\n\nAt the same time the state gave a pass to those extremist groups who were supportive of Islamabad's foreign policy towards India and Afghanistan.\n\nThe lack of a strategy and the state support offered to some groups has led to a growing mood of defiance among extremist organisations.\n\nIn the past few weeks five bloggers have disappeared (three, including liberal activist Salman Haider, have now returned home), some threatened journalists and civil society activists have fled abroad, non-governmental organisations have been accused of being unpatriotic, the Ahmedi community has been ferociously attacked and minority Shia Muslims have been massacred.\n\nHate speech has become a growing phenomenon in some media outlets, especially television, while increasingly journalists and others are threatened with being charged with blasphemy, against which there is little legal defence. Innocent lives are at risk as public incitement and witch hunts continue.\n\nEarlier this week, Hafiz Saeed, the cleric blamed by the US and India for masterminding the Mumbai attacks, was placed under house arrest. The move is being seen as a response to suggestions by US officials that the Trump administration may ban his Jamaat-ud-Dawa charity, seen by the US as a front for terrorists. However a military official said it was \"a policy decision\" and had nothing to do with any foreign pressure.\n\nPakistani blogger Salman Haider went missing for more than 20 days - he has not yet disclosed where he was\n\nPakistan's media regulator has just banned Aamir Liaquat Hussain, a high-profile TV host, accusing him of hate speech that could put lives at risk.\n\nHafiz Saeed is accused by the US and India of masterminding terror attacks\n\nA key aspect of the growing defiance of extremists is the insistence that Pakistan's neighbours are to blame for acts of terrorism rather than recognising that it is a home-grown problem.\n\nWhen former army chief Gen Raheel Sharif took over the army three years ago, he repeatedly said that the country must look into itself to counter extremism and not blame foreign powers.\n\nThat was music to the ears of most Pakistanis, who hoped that the state would tackle the very real threats at home rather than blame outsiders.\n\nYet over the past year the state has been insisting that all major acts of terrorism have been perpetrated by India or Afghanistan, rather than domestic terrorists.\n\nMeanwhile, the civilian government has been indecisive and hesitant as to who to blame, while in its home base of Punjab it has clearly been allowing extremist groups to flourish.\n\nThe conflict between civil and military agencies has left the public bewildered, giving further space for extremist ideas to flourish. This confusion has clouded out the need for a common and united narrative as to how to deal with extremism.\n\nCanadian-trained Gen Bajwa has not set out where he perceives the terror threat exists\n\nSo far, the new army chief Gen Qamar Bajwa has not categorically restated that terrorism is a domestic rather than a foreign creation.\n\nMeanwhile, relations with India and Afghanistan have worsened and other neighbours have distanced themselves from Pakistan, leading to what many experts have claimed is the country's growing isolation in the region.\n\nIf Pakistan is to defeat extremism, a comprehensive strategy and common narrative, jointly agreed upon by the military and the politicians, needs to be implemented. Both need to ensure that all parts of the state are fully carrying out their responsibilities.\n\nMost importantly, the narrative that government agencies build up must be consistent and carry forward badly-needed social reforms that will promote de-radicalisation of young people.\n\nPakistan needs a single, inspired, pragmatic and inclusive narrative that is strictly adhered to and can raise the public's morale instead of adding to their confusion.", "Two Londonderry men have appeared in court charged with rioting in the city on the night last month that writer Lyra McKee was murdered.\n\nChristopher Gillen, 38, of Balbane Pass and Paul McIntyre, 51, of Ballymagowan Park, were remanded in custody.\n\nThe city's magistrates' court was told evidence against them has been obtained from mobile phone footage and a documentary filmed by MTV.\n\nPolice believe the two men are members of the New IRA, the court heard.\n\nMr Gillen, who is unemployed, is charged with rioting, petrol bomb offences and the hijacking and arson of a tipper truck.\n\nMr McIntyre, who works as a taxi driver, is accused of rioting, petrol bomb offences and the arson of a hijacked vehicle.\n\nLyra McKee was observing rioting in Derry when she was shot dead\n\nA police officer told the court that officers had gone into Derry's Creggan estate on 18 April to conduct searches but that was followed by a \"sustained attack\" by people who were wearing masks.\n\nFour vehicles were hijacked, he added.\n\nPolice believe the two men can be connected to the rioting by clothing shown on various sources of video footage, including the MTV material, which was described by the officer as \"excellent\".\n\nThe prosecution lawyer said they believed that people in the area were using the filming of the MTV documentary, fronted by Reggie Yates, for their own purposes as \"a propaganda operation\".\n\nA solicitor representing Mr McIntyre described the case against him as \"extremely weak\".\n\nHe said his client was willing to live outside the city and accept a number of conditions if he was granted bail.\n\nThe police officer told Mr Gillen's solicitor that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) believes both men were members of the New IRA.\n\nWhen the solicitor said the police had \"no evidence\" to support that belief, the officer replied: \"That's correct.\"\n\nPolice were searching for weapons and ammunition when violence started on 18 April\n\nDuring his deliberations about bail applications for both men, the judge referred to what he described as \"disgraceful graffiti\" that appeared in the Creggan estate recently, warning people not to give information to the police.\n\nMs McKee, 29, was shot while observing rioting in the Creggan area on 18 April.\n\nThere was disorder throughout the evening leading up to her death.\n\nViolence broke out after raids were carried out by police, with detectives investigating dissident republican activity in the Mulroy Park and Galliagh areas.\n\nThe New IRA said its members carried out the murder.\n\nAn 18-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy, who were arrested last week by detectives investigating Ms McKee's death, were released without charge.", "In April last year, the BBC launched its 50:50 challenge, aiming for an equal number of male and female expert contributors on-air and online.\n\nA year on, the results of last month's data have been revealed and show a big boost in female representation.\n\nNearly three-quarters of BBC news and current affairs/topical programmes had an equal number of male and female expert contributors.\n\nOnly 27% of 74 English language outlets involved had hit the target initially.\n\nSince then, the number of teams signed up to the project across the BBC has topped 500 and 57% of those groups, including recent joiners, have reached the 50:50 mark.\n\nBBC director general Tony Hall said: \"It's amazing to see such a remarkable change in just a year - you can see and hear it right across our programming.\n\n\"I want the BBC to lead the way on equality and fairness, and this project demonstrates what can be achieved.\"\n\nThe One Show reached its 50:50 target last month\n\nMore than 20 external media companies have also signed up to replicate the challenge, including the Financial Times and ABC News.\n\nSome of the BBC programmes that hit the 50:50 target last month included the Andrew Marr Show, BBC Breakfast, The One Show, Politics Live and Radio 4's Saturday Live.\n\nThere has also been progress from teams such as Sportsday, shown on the BBC News Channel.\n\nIt started with 20% female voices and in April reached 43%, more than doubling its female representation.\n\nContributors refers to all BBC reporters, commentators, spokespeople, analysts, academics and case studies featured across BBC content.\n\nThe BBC's 50:50 Project contributes towards the BBC's commitment to reach 50% women on-screen, on-air and in lead roles across all departments by 2020.\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 Duke of Sussex was presented with a teddy bear for newborn Archie during a visit to a children's hospital.\n\nPrince Harry met youngsters at Oxford Children's Hospital and was presented with the gift by former patient Daisy Wingrove, 13.\n\nHe then met patients and their families who are currently having treatment at the hospital.", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nAston Villa beat West Bromwich Albion in a penalty shootout to reach the Championship play-off final for the second successive season.\n\nTammy Abraham's winning spot-kick, after keeper Jed Steer had saved Albion's first two penalties, settled the shootout 4-3 in Villa's favour after a gripping two hours of tension-packed derby drama.\n\nTrailing 2-1 from Saturday's first leg, Albion levelled the tie when Craig Dawson flicked home a near-post header from a long throw.\n\nBut, just as much as Dwight Gayle's red card proved crucial at Villa Park, so did the 80th-minute sending-off of Albion captain Chris Brunt as they finished with 10 men for the second time in four days.\n\nThey held on for penalties and, although Albert Adomah's miss in the shootout briefly gave them hope after Steer had saved from Mason Holgate and Ahmed Hegazi, Abraham kept his nerve to book a play-off final meeting with either Leeds or Derby at Wembley on 27 May.\n\nThey meet in the second leg of their semi-final at Elland Road on Wednesday, with Leeds 1-0 up from the first leg.\n\nTwo red cards in four days hinder Albion\n\nThe main sub-plot of a tight two-legged play-off semi-final concerned Albion's two red cards, with top scorer Gayle sent off on Saturday and captain Brunt dismissed at The Hawthorns.\n\nIf the Baggies were a bit unlucky at Villa Park over the controversial Gayle incident, this time there was no doubt at all.\n\nBrunt stepped on John McGinn's arm in their first tangle before the break, but referee Chris Kavanagh either did not see the incident or deemed it accidental.\n\nBrunt was then booked early in the second half for a late challenge on McGinn, which could easily have been interpreted as a sending-off offence in its own right.\n\nWhen he brought McGinn down again on the edge of the box, Brunt's resulting red card was inevitable.\n\nIt might have been a different story if Albion had stayed with 11 men, given what a force they had been when roared on from even before kick-off by their raucous home support.\n\nThey had already looked a threat before they finally took the lead after 29 minutes, not surprisingly from an aerial set-piece.\n\nAlbion won a throw close to the corner flag and, when Holgate hurled in a long one to the near post, it did not immediately seem that dangerous, but Dawson got in first - as he has done so often in such set-piece situations during his career - and steered in a flicked header which crept in at the far post.\n\nAlbion had other chances too - Tyrone Mings blocked a Jacob Murphy shot on his own goal line, Jay Rodriguez sent a powerful effort straight at keeper Steer, Matt Phillips powered a close-range header just over and Brunt shot just wide from long range.\n\nBut, although it took a fierce low shot from Anwar El Ghazi to test Sam Johnstone properly for the first time after the break, Villa were already starting to turn the tide before Brunt's departure.\n\nAnd, once they had a man advantage, they were hard to hold back.\n\nAdomah had a left-footed shot from 12 yards superbly saved by former Villa keeper Johnstone, while Conor Hourihane had an effort deflected over and then Adomah fired just wide.\n\nTwo tired sides then got through extra time as Villa still failed to break down the door before the drama of spot-kicks.\n\nAnd in Steer, Villa's third-choice goalkeeper at the start of the season, Dean Smith's side had just the man for the occasion.\n\nSmith - who left Brentford to succeed Steve Bruce as Villa boss in October - has guided Villa back to Wembley for the second time in 12 months.\n\nHaving experienced the disappointment of play-off final defeat by Fulham in last season's play-off final, they will get another opportunity to return to the Premier League following relegation in 2016.\n\nAs for the Baggies, they have ultimately failed in their bid to bounce straight back to the top flight after one year in the Championship and are likely to start next season with a new boss.\n\nJimmy Shan spent the final two months in caretaker charge of Albion following Darren Moore's sacking in March.\n• None 0-0 - Holgate missed for West Brom - saved by Steer to goalkeeper's left\n• None 0-1 - Hourihane scored for Villa - drilled low and hard into corner\n• None 0-1 - Hegazi missed for West Brom - saved by Steer to goalkeeper's right\n• None 0-2 - Jedinak scored for Villa - sidefooted into corner, sending goalkeeper wrong way\n• None 1-3 - Grealish scored for Villa - sent goalkeeper wrong way\n• None 2-3 - Gibbs scored for West Brom - placed effort in bottom corner\n• None 2-3 - Adomah missed for Villa - blazed well over the crossbar\n• None 3-3 - Morrison scored for West Brom - fired into corner past Steer's right hand\n• None 3-4 - Abraham scored for Villa - Johnstone got foot to low penalty but could not keep it out and Villa's place at Wembley was confirmed\n\n\"I'd have taken this 15 games ago and we have cause to be very proud.\n\n\"We deserved it, but the disappointing for me was not winning. I couldn't believe we'd lost the game. That's our first defeat since losing at Brentford in February.\n\n\"They were always going to be threat from set-pieces but we had enough chances to have scored ourselves.\n\n\"We'd done our preparations though. We had prepared for penalties since the day we qualified for the play-offs. We had a lot of rehearsals and of course we had the inspired substitution of bringing on Mile Jedinak, who has never missed a penalty.\"\n\n\"We've been on the end of some unjust decisions over the course of the two ties but you just have to accept it.\n\n\"The momentum was with us. But for the lads to go down to 10 men again and perform they did was a credit to them.\n\n\"Their work ethic has been excellent since from the moment I took over and we can be proud of the effort that has been put in.\n\n\"The fans were magnificent too. They can be proud of the way they got behind their team. The atmosphere was electric.\"\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1(3), Aston Villa 0(4). Tammy Abraham (Aston Villa) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1(3), Aston Villa 0(3). James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Albert Adomah (Aston Villa) right footed shot is just a bit too high. Albert Adomah should be disappointed.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1(2), Aston Villa 0(3). Kieran Gibbs (West Bromwich Albion) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1(1), Aston Villa 0(3). Jack Grealish (Aston Villa) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1(1), Aston Villa 0(2). Tosin Adarabioyo (West Bromwich Albion) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1, Aston Villa 0(2). Mile Jedinak (Aston Villa) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Ahmed Hegazi (West Bromwich Albion) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1, Aston Villa 0(1). Conor Hourihane (Aston Villa) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Mason Holgate (West Bromwich Albion) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. John McGinn (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPadded jumpers, sturdy boots and long training sessions - things that might help in a bid to become a tug-of-war champion at the Balmoral Show.\n\nBut there is one more special ingredient that could make or break your chance of winning.\n\nResin is used by most, if not all, competitors in tug-of-war competitions - apparently it improves your grip.\n\nAnd for the teams that make their own, the recipe is a closely-guarded secret.\n\nJames Bell holding a jar of resin he made ahead of the tug-of-war competition at Balmoral Show\n\nJames Bell makes the resin for Lisnamurrican Young Farmers' Club and is sworn to secrecy.\n\n\"It's mostly about grip,\" he explains.\n\n\"One of the older members of the club showed me how to make it. He said he would show me as long as I didn't tell anybody.\n\n\"I don't know many other clubs that make it themselves... but you just put it in your hands and it makes the rope stick to your hand.\"\n\nLisnamurrican Young Farmers train in the shadow of Slemish Mountain\n\nLisnamurrican Young Farmers' Club has been in training for the competition since January.\n\nIts training ground is a field at the foot of Slemish Mountain - a picturesque scene with dry stone walls and newborn lambs with their mothers.\n\nTraining isn't taken lightly; for these competitors this is the tug-of-war equivalent to the World Cup.\n\n\"I live for tug-of-war,\" says David Johnston, who is competing in the novice category.\n\nLisnamurrican Young Farmer's women's team hoisting a bag of weights in the air while training for the Balmoral show\n\nAlthough a cash prize and shield are up for grabs, it's all about the honour of winning.\n\n\"There's a lot of rivalry,\" says John Allen, who will be competing in Lisnamurrican's advanced team this year.\n\n\"It's basically great getting one over [on] your friends in other clubs,\" he laughs.\n\n\"We go to the same social events, so it's good to have the upper hand on people.\"\n\nJohn Allen, who will be competing in the advanced competition this year\n\nLisnamurrican is entering three teams into this year's event - two male teams and a women's team.\n\nClaire Adams, a member of Lisnamurrican's women's team, is keen for more girls to take part.\n\n\"There's not as many girls involved, which makes it quite difficult for us to prepare for Balmoral,\" she says.\n\n\"We don't have anyone to pull against or practice with.\n\n\"It'd be such a good thing for more girls to get involved with, it's just really good to be part of a team.\"\n\nClaire Adams is keen for more girls to take up the rope\n\nSo, are they feeling confident?\n\nClaire is out for the shield.\n\n\"We made it to the semi-finals last year. I'd really like to do better this year,\" she says.\n\n\"I hope we can get to the final and hopefully win.\"\n\nThe Young Farmers' tug-of-war competition will take place at Balmoral on Thursday.\n• None Balmoral Show 2019: All you need to know", "Ministers had previously aimed to end child poverty in Wales by 2020\n\nWales was the only UK nation to see a rise in child poverty last year, according to research by charities.\n\nIt suggested 29.3% of children were in poverty in 2017-18, a rise of 1%.\n\nSean O'Neill, of Children in Wales, said parents had to make \"impossible choices\" between feeding themselves or their children.\n\nThe Welsh Government blamed policies set by the UK government, which said it was helping families improve their lives through work.\n\nThe research by Loughborough University was commissioned for the End Child Poverty Network, a coalition of organisations which includes Children in Wales, Oxfam Cymru, Barnardo's Cymru and Save The Children.\n\nIt suggested more than 206,000 Welsh children were living in poverty in 2017-18.\n\nAlmost half of children living in Penrhiwceiber are said to be in poverty\n\nA child is considered to be growing up in poverty if they are living in a household where the income is below 60% of the median income.\n\nIt found the Cardiff South and Penarth, Cynon Valley and Rhondda constituencies had the highest proportion in Wales - all at 35% - after housing costs are taken into account.\n\nAround a third of children living in valleys council areas like Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf were also in poverty.\n\nBut the figures also break down child poverty into much smaller areas of deprivation, ward-by-ward across Wales.\n\nPenrhiwceiber near Mountain Ash in the Cynon Valley has nearly half of its children in poverty, according to the research.\n\nThree wards in Wrexham are proportionately the next worst, followed by two inner city areas of Cardiff - Butetown and Grangetown.\n\nA snapshot of child poverty during the year suggests seven out of the 10 wards in Wales with the highest numbers of children in child poverty are in Cardiff. It estimates there are 2,342 living in Grangetown, followed by 2,183 in Ely.\n\nYsgol Glan Morfa is a Welsh-medium primary school in Splott, Cardiff, an area with an estimated 35% of children living in poverty.\n\nYsgol Glan Morfa in Cardiff recycles uniforms to help parents cut costs\n\nHead teacher Meilir Tomos said: \"We realise that there are children in our school whose families are struggling in different ways.\n\n\"We believe it's vitally important for children to have the best start in life possible and there are many ways in which our school supports families.\"\n\nAs well as a breakfast club, there is a scheme to donate school uniforms which pupils have outgrown so other parents can buy them for a nominal amount.\n\nMr O'Neill said: \"In far too many parts of Wales, growing up in poverty is no longer the exception, with more children expected to get swept up in poverty in the coming years.\n\n\"What this means on a day-to-day basis is that parents are having to make really impossible choices.\n\n\"They have to make a choice about whether they feed their children, go without food themselves, and things that many people take for granted - like heating and leisure facilities.\n\n\"Parents are really struggling just to get by.\"\n\nAs well as calling for a new strategy to tackle poverty, the group of charities want Wales' political parties to commit themselves to \"ambitious\" child poverty reduction pledges in the run-up to the 2021 Assembly elections.\n\nIt also wants a \"credible\" child poverty reduction strategy from the UK government, including restoring the link between benefits and inflation and investing in children's services.\n\nRachel Cable from Oxfam Cymru agreed UK welfare policy had had a large impact, but said the Welsh Government needed to take responsibility as well.\n\n\"We had a minister with specific responsibility for tackling poverty. That role has now been scrapped and the tackling poverty role is across all cabinet portfolios.\n\n\"While I welcome that breadth of responsibility there needs to be some coordination from the centre… there needs to be some leadership and we need a strategy and ambitious targets.\"\n\nThe UK government's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said it recognised some families needed more support and it continued to spend £95bn a year on working-age benefits.\n\nIt said the study was based on estimates rather than actual measurements.\n\n\"Children growing up in working households are five times less likely to be in relative poverty, which is why we are supporting families to improve their lives through work,\" said a UK government spokeswoman.\n\n\"Statistics show employment is at a joint record high, wages are outstripping inflation and income inequality and absolute poverty are lower than in 2010.\n\nThe Welsh Government said the report was not surprising and believed initiatives to help people pay council tax and free school meals would help tackle the problem.\n\n\"Analysis by a range of respected organisations has predicted a significant rise in levels of poverty, including child poverty, in the coming years as a direct result of the UK government's tax and welfare reforms,\" said a spokeswoman.\n\nShe added that the first minister had appointed Lesley Griffiths as lead minister \"to ensure that Welsh Government's budget planning process has maximum effect in tackling poverty\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "American Airlines pilots confronted Boeing about potential safety issues in its 737 Max planes in a meeting last November, US media are reporting.\n\nThey urged swift action after the first deadly 737 Max crash off Indonesia in October, according to audio obtained by CBS and the New York Times.\n\nBut this had not been rolled out when an Ethiopian Airlines' 737 Max crashed four months later, killing 157 people.\n\nCurrently 737 Max planes are grounded worldwide amid concerns that an anti-stall system may have contributed to both crashes.\n\nBoeing is in the process of updating the system, known as MCAS, but denies it was solely to blame for the disasters.\n\nIn a closed door meeting with Boeing executives last November, which was secretly recorded, American Airlines' pilots can be heard expressing concerns about the safety of MCAS.\n\nBoeing vice-president Mike Sinnett told the pilots: \"No one has yet to conclude that the sole cause of this was this function on the airplane.\"\n\nLater in the meeting, he added: \"The worst thing that can ever happen is a tragedy like this, and the even worse thing would be another one.\"\n\nThe pilots also complained they had not been told about MCAS, which was new to the 737 Max, until after the Lion Air crash off Indonesia, which killed 189.\n\n\"These guys didn't even know the damn system was on the airplane, nor did anybody else,\" said Mike Michaelis, head of safety for the pilots' union.\n\nBoeing declined to comment on the November meeting, saying: \"We are focused on working with pilots, airlines and global regulators to certify the updates on the Max and provide additional training and education to safely return the planes to flight.\"\n\nAmerican Airlines said it was \"confident that the impending software updates, along with the new training elements Boeing is developing for the Max, will lead to recertification of the aircraft soon.\"\n\nFollowing the Lion Air crash, Boeing issued additional instructions to pilots in case they faced a malfunction of the MCAS.\n\nBut in a letter obtained by the AFP news agency, Mr Michaelis said the instructions weren't sufficient to help pilots in the event of malfunction.\n\nMr Michaelis also reportedly asked Boeing executives at the meeting to consider a software upgrade for the 737 MAX 8 - which probably would have required the planes be grounded for some time.\n\nThe executives said they didn't want to rush out a fix, and said they expected pilots to be able to handle problems, according to the New York Times.\n\nInvestigators believe in both deadly crashes a faulty sensor triggered the plane's MCAS anti-stall system, which repeatedly pushed the nose of the plane down.\n\nThe Ethiopian Airlines crash killed all 157 on board\n\nEarlier this month Boeing admitted that it knew about another problem with its 737 Max jets a year before the fatal accidents, but took no action.\n\nThe firm said it had inadvertently made an alarm feature optional instead of standard, but insisted that this did not jeopardise flight safety.\n\nThe feature - an Angle of Attack (AOA) Disagree alert - was designed to let pilots know when two different sensors were reporting conflicting data.\n\nThe US Federal Aviation Administration said the issue was \"low risk\", but said Boeing could have helped to \"eliminate possible confusion\" by letting it know earlier.\n\nBoeing has been working on a software fix for its flight system and is hoping for quick approval from regulators.\n\nBut it is unclear if the planes will be back in the air before the end of the critical summer travel season.", "Annalise Johnstone's body was discovered in woodland in May 2018\n\nA woman has been acquitted of murdering her friend's sister in Perthshire.\n\nAngela Newlands was accused of killing Annalise Johnstone, 22, along with co-accused Jordan Johnstone, at the Maggie's Wall Memorial near Dunning.\n\nMiss Newlands was acquitted of the murder charge at the conclusion of the prosecution's case against the couple.\n\nThe 19-year-old still faces a charge of attempting to defeat the ends of justice, and the murder charge against Mr Johnstone remains.\n\nMs Newlands broke down in tears as judge Lady Scott told the jury there was insufficient evidence to convict her of murder.\n\nThe judge said: \"I have heard legal submissions made in respect of the second accused in terms of the charge of murder.\n\n\"I have made a ruling that there is insufficient evidence which would entitle you to consider the evidence and convict on that charge.\n\n\"Accordingly I have acquitted the second accused on charge four. She remains on charge five on the indictment, that's the attempt to defeat the ends of justice.\"\n\nShe added: \"I know this is a bit frustrating for jurors because you haven't heard the legal arguments and the decision's been made in your absence.\"\n\nBoth accused deny falsely reporting Annalise Johnstone missing last May, cleaning their car, disposing of a knife and burning items of clothing.\n\nDuring the final day of prosecution evidence, the jury heard Ms Newlands told police her relationship with Jordan Johnstone was not sexual, although they shared a bed when they stayed at her home in Auchterarder and at her parents' house in Inchture, also in Perthshire.\n\nMark Stewart QC, defending Ms Newlands, put it to witness Det Con Rachel Webster: \"Angela Newlands makes it clear they haven't had a sexual relationship. Beyond that statement (she) gave you some explanation why that might be so - because she believes him to be gay?\"\n\nMr Stewart also asked about clothing Mr Johnstone had been wearing.\n\nHe put it to Det Con Webster that Ms Newlands had stated that Jordan Johnstone had taken Annalise away, and later returned wearing entirely different clothes.\n\nMr Stewart added: \"The clothing wasn't his clothing, it was Angela Newland's father's clothing. She wasn't very happy about it.\n\n\"It was Jordan Johnstone alone who took Annalise away from Inchture late on the 9 May into the early hours of the 10th?\"\n\nMr Stewart then asked: \"Throughout this entire interview she's crystal clear Jordan Johnstone left Inchture with Annalise Johnstone in the Ford Galaxy and they left together and alone?\" The officer agreed.\n\nFollowing the cross examination, Lady Scott warned the jury that any allegations made by one accused against another were not evidence.\n\nEarlier in the trial, the jury heard agreed evidence that the cause of Miss Johnstone's death was a deep puncture wound to her neck which severed vital veins and arteries and caused death within a few minutes.\n\nThe prosecution and defence also confirmed that Mr Johnstone's car was near the Maggie's Wall Memorial at the time Miss Johnstone was attacked.\n\nThe trial at the High Court in Livingston continues.", "Carl Beech, a divorced father of one, claimed he was first sexually abused as a child\n\nA man told police a false \"extraordinary tale\" about a group of powerful figures who sexually abused and murdered boys, a court has heard.\n\nCarl Beech, 51, is accused of lying about \"three child murders, multiple rapes, kidnapping, false imprisonment and widespread sexual abuse\".\n\nHis claims led to a £2m Metropolitan Police investigation, which ended with no further action being taken.\n\nMr Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nMr Beech, formerly from Gloucester and known as \"Nick\" when he first made the claims, was in Newcastle Crown Court on Tuesday for the start of his trial.\n\nHe claimed that he was first sexually abused by his stepfather, Major Ray Beech, when he was seven years old and went on to allege abuse by a group of public figures, including from politics and the military.\n\nAmong those he accused was former Conservative prime minister Sir Edward Heath, ex-Tory home secretary Lord Brittan, former head of the armed forces Lord Bramall and former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor.\n\nThe jury was told Mr Beech picked his \"targets\" after browsing the internet.\n\nIn 2016, when the investigation into Mr Beech's claims ended, the Met asked Northumbria Police to investigate the accuser himself\n\nDetectives investigated Mr Beech's claims until 2016 when they asked another police force - Northumbria - to investigate the accuser himself.\n\nNorthumbria Police found his story to be \"totally unfounded, hopelessly compromised and irredeemably contradicted\", the court heard.\n\nProsecutor Tony Badenoch QC told the jury: \"It is quite impossible to conceive of allegations of a worse kind to be made.\"\n\nHe said \"immeasurable distress\" had been caused to those accused and those close to them - and they had suffered \"obvious reputational damage\".\n\nMr Proctor has spoken freely in public to defend himself against the allegation that \"he is a sadistic child killer and that he committed other serious sexual offences\", the court heard.\n\nJurors were told that, as an entirely innocent man, Mr Proctor was \"still enraged\".\n\nCourt sketch of prosecutor Tony Badenoch QC, with defendant Mr Beech seen on screen during an interview he gave to police in 2014\n\nBoth Mr Proctor and Lord Bramall had their homes searched as a result of the allegations.\n\nLord Bramall's wife died during the police inquiry - codenamed Operation Midland - and Lord Brittan died while under investigation.\n\nMr Beech claimed the abuse happened after school, when he was picked up by a driver and taken to \"parties\" where there were 10 to 15 men and around seven or eight boys.\n\nMr Beech \"claimed that he was the victim of much of the abuse and he was a direct witness to the killing of three young boys\", the court was told.\n\nJurors heard how Mr Beech alleged that at an army location, the former head of MI5, Michael Hanley, and the former head of MI6, Maurice Oldfield, subjected him to torture.\n\nMr Beech claimed he had spiders tipped on him, electric shocks and darts thrown at him.\n\nThe prosecutor said Mr Beech had described to police \"the most horrific sexual and physical abuse\", but that his medical records did not substantiate the claims.\n\nThe jury was shown sketches of the alleged crime scenes, which Mr Beech drew for detectives\n\nThe court also heard that the defendant's ex-wife, whom he married in his early 20s, did not notice any marks on his body and saw nothing physical that supported his claims of electric shock treatment nor any savage abuse.\n\nThe court was played a video interview Mr Beech had given to the Met Police in November 2014, during which he cried as he described details of the first alleged murder.\n\nHe claimed a schoolmate called \"Scott\" was deliberately run over in Kingston-upon-Thames in 1979.\n\nThe court heard Northumbria Police concluded \"there is no supporting evidence whatsoever\" to support Mr Beech's account about Scott.\n\nProsecutor Mr Badenoch told jurors: \"There was no such homicide. No missing boy.\"\n\nJurors were shown photos of Carl Beech as a child\n\nMr Beech also claimed that one of the boys he witnessed being murdered was Martin Allen, a 15-year-old boy who went missing in London in 1979 and has not been seen since, jurors heard.\n\nMartin Allen's brother Kevin was contacted by Scotland Yard in 2014 and told his brother may have been linked to a VIP paedophile ring.\n\nMr Badenoch said: \"The source of that false hope to Kevin Allen, 35 years after his brother went missing, was ultimately the false allegations of this defendant, Carl Beech.\"\n\nAnd jurors were also told that Mr Beech had claimed he had a lifelong fear of water and could not swim, because aspects of the alleged abuse involved being held underwater and thrown in a pool.\n\nBut, the prosecutor said, police found photographs and videos of him swimming all over the world over several decades, ranging from with children at theme parks, to honeymoon snorkelling for shells, and at a pool with flippers, mask and snorkel.\n\nIt was \"an adult lifetime of swimming memories\", Mr Badenoch said.\n\nPhotographs of defendant Carl Beech in or near water were shown to the jury\n\nThe court heard how the Met Police spent £2m on their investigation into Mr Beech's claims and described them publicly as \"credible and true\".\n\nHe first contacted Wiltshire Police in 2012 with allegations of abuse by his stepfather as well as Jimmy Savile. Between 2014 and 2016 he made further allegations to the Met Police, with a list of alleged abusers.\n\nIn 2016, when that investigation ended with no further action, police began investigating Mr Beech himself.\n\nPolice searched Mr Beech's Gloucester home in November 2016 and seized several electronic devices.\n\nDuring their investigation, a number of Mr Beech's claims \"were found to be provably false\", the court heard.\n\n\"He had lied about the content of these allegations, taken active steps to embellish a false story, and then cover his tracks when challenged,\" Mr Badenoch said.\n\nWhen questioned by police about this, he \"fled the country and lived overseas as a fugitive\" before being located in Sweden.\n\nThe jury also heard that Mr Beech's former teachers had said he had good attendance - contrary to his claims of being taken out of lessons to be abused.", "Melissa Ede (left) died of \"a sudden heart attack\", her fiancee Rachel Nason (right) said\n\nThe fiancee of lottery winner and transgender LGBT rights campaigner Melissa Ede says she has been \"completely devastated\" by her death.\n\nThe 58-year-old, who won £4m on a lottery scratch card in 2017, died on Saturday night, police said.\n\nHer partner, Rachel Nason, said she found her slumped in a car at their home, near Hull, after a heart attack.\n\nMs Nason described her fiancee as \"clever\", \"funny\" and an inspiration to others.\n\nPosting on Facebook, Ms Nason said a post-mortem examination showed her partner had ischemic heart disease, which led to \"a sudden heart attack\".\n\nThe former taxi driver went out to get cigarettes but shortly afterwards Ms Nason noticed her car engine revving.\n\nMelissa Ede had been a taxi driver and was a transgender LGBT rights campaigner\n\nDescribing her rescue attempt, Ms Nason said: \"I ran to it and started shouting 'Mel, wake up' but she didn't even flinch.\n\n\"I put my hand on her chest and ear near her mouth but could feel no heartbeat or hear no breath.\"\n\nShe said she dialled 999 and started performing CPR, before paramedics arrived.\n\nMs Nason said the lottery winner suffered from minor symptoms all week \"like arm ache, fatigue and lots of burping\", since going into hospital on 5 May when she received \"the all clear\" from medics.\n\nBut she \"didn't feel ill enough to visit a GP\", she said.\n\nMs Ede bought the winning scratch card when she stopped for fuel in December 2017\n\n\"Mel obviously didn't know she had this otherwise she would of sought medical advice.\n\n\"It's completely devastated so many of us and to be taken so suddenly and unexpectedly is heartbreaking.\"\n\nMs Ede's funeral is due to take place on 30 May in Hull.\n\nBefore scooping the jackpot, she was known for her TV appearances and posting videos of herself online, attracting thousands of social media followers.", "Oritse Williams has denied raping the woman after a concert in December 2016\n\nA woman has told a court she lay \"like a dead body\" during an alleged rape by a former pop star because she wanted it to stop.\n\nEx-JLS singer Oritse Williams \"jumped on\" the woman after a concert in Wolverhampton in December 2016, a court heard.\n\nMr Williams, 32 from Croydon, south London, has pleaded not guilty to rape.\n\nProsecutors at Wolverhampton Crown Court said the woman and her two friends met the pair at a nightclub after the solo gig.\n\nOpening the crown's case, Miranda Moore QC said after one of the women \"blacked out\" and had to be put in a taxi home, the alleged rape victim and her other friend went back to the hotel with Mr Williams and his tour manager, Mr Nagadhana.\n\nDescribing how the woman had later returned without her friend to look for her mobile, Ms Moore said: \"Once she was back in the room - she had to knock on the door - Mr Williams effectively jumped on her.\n\n\"He picked her up and pushed her down on the double bed. She had already made it clear that she didn't want to have sex with him.\n\n\"All she thought was 'I don't want this to happen'.\"\n\nIn a police interview, Mr Williams said the woman, who cannot be identified, and her friend had wanted to go back to the hotel and had instigated sexual activity.\n\nThe jury heard he told police: \"I'm the artist. I think both of them, they both kind of wanted to be involved with me in some degree.\"\n\nThe woman claims Mr Nagadhana sexually assaulted her during the alleged rape.\n\nBut Ms Moore said Mr Williams had told police Mr Nagadhana was asleep and \"had nothing to do with it\".\n\nIn a video interview with police, which was played to the jury, the complainant said she had been swearing and telling Williams to stop during the alleged attack.\n\nAt one point, she said she had \"laid down like a dead body\" because she just wanted it to stop.\n\nShe said: \"I was quite scared. I felt more pathetic, if that makes sense. I felt just worthless.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May has set a date for what's probably her last attempt to pass a Brexit deal - and she's told Labour there's an urgent need to compromise.\n\nThe odds of her succeeding are faint - and her time's nearly up.\n\nThere's every risk Mrs May will fail, again, to deliver Brexit when she introduces her Brexit legislation in the first week of June.\n\nThis will come after what look like being tough European elections and, by the way, during the week of President Trump's official visit to the UK.\n\nTonight, she also told Jeremy Corbyn time was running out to reach any deal with Labour. But the reality is there has been no breakthrough in those talks, and no obvious reason to expect one.\n\nA cross-party agreement which involved Labour's minimum demand of a customs arrangement with the EU would cause a mutiny among Tory MPs, as Tuesday's letter to the Times newspaper warns vividly.\n\nIt would also mean a revolt among Labour MPs if there's no guarantee of a new referendum, and Mr Corbyn has shown very little enthusiasm for that.\n\nMeanwhile, Mrs May's under quite intense pressure. Her most senior MPs, the executive members of the 1922 committee, will press her this week for a timetable to step down.\n\nLocal Tory officials will gather in June and consider passing a humiliating vote of no confidence in her. And in the European elections, the polls are looking very promising for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party.\n\nSo promising that Mrs May's last, best, hope may be that the elections shocks both big parties into backing her.\n\nAnd if that sounds like clutching at straws, well, Mrs May's in a corner, all but out of time, and reaching and clutching at any hope she can find in what are now the dying days of her premiership.", "Huawei is \"willing to sign no-spy agreements with governments\" including the UK, its chairman Liang Hua said.\n\nIt follows concerns from some countries that China could use products made by the telecoms firm for surveillance.\n\nThe Chinese company has denied that its work poses any risks of espionage or sabotage.\n\nHuawei has also said it is independent from the Chinese government, but some countries have blocked it from their 5G networks on national security grounds.\n\nA recent report suggested the UK could allow Huawei's telecoms equipment to be part of the country's 5G networks, with some limitations.\n\n\"We are willing to sign no-spy agreements with governments, including the UK government, to commit ourselves to making our equipment meet the no-spy, no-backdoors standard,\" Liang Hua said via an interpreter at a business conference in London on Tuesday.\n\nHuawei is the world's largest maker of telecoms equipment. It faces a growing backlash from Western countries on concerns over the security of its products used in next-generation 5G mobile networks.\n\nAustralia and New Zealand have both blocked the use of Huawei gear in their 5G mobile networks.\n\nThe US has restricted federal agencies from using Huawei products and has put pressure on allies to shun them.\n\nOn Wednesday, Reuters reported the US was likely to tighten restrictions on Huawei with President Donald Trump expected to sign an executive order this week barring US companies from using telecoms equipment made by firms that pose a national security risk.\n\nThe move would come at a time when US-China tensions are already on the rise.\n\nThe US more than doubled tariffs on $200bn (£154.9bn) of Chinese goods on Friday and China retaliated with its own tariff hikes on US products.\n\nThis escalated a damaging trade war which only recently seemed to be nearing a conclusion.\n• None The US cannot crush us, says Huawei boss", "Mobile phone subscribers will get a reminder ahead of their contract lock-ins coming to an end\n\nBroadband, pay-TV, mobile phone and landline customers must be told when their contracts are about to end and be informed of their providers' best alternative deals, under new rules.\n\nThe UK's communications watchdog Ofcom aims to help users avoid overpaying.\n\nIt said more than 20 million people have stuck with subscriptions beyond their lock-in, often without realising.\n\nAnd those that opt not to move to another package need to be reminded they can still do so on a yearly basis.\n\nThe watchdog first announced its plan to help people secure end-of-contract deals in July 2018.\n\nRelevant companies have nine months to update their systems and must start sending out the notifications from 15 February 2020.\n\nService providers will need to text, email or send a letter to their consumers between 10 to 40 days before their contracts come to an end saying:\n\nUsers will be able to choose how they should be contacted\n\n\"This will put power in the hands of millions of people who're paying more than necessary when they're no longer tied to a contract,\" said Lindsey Fussell, Ofcom's consumer group director.\n\nAbout 14% of customers do not know whether or not they are still tied to their current contracts, according to research commissioned by the regulator.\n\nIt added that customers can typically cut the cost of a bundle of the services involved by about 20% if they sign up to a new deal rather than remain on a contract beyond its minimum period,\n\nHowever, some consumer rights organisations still have concerns the measures do not go far enough.\n\nDuring the consultation, Citizens Advice had told Ofcom that it believed providers should be made to send out more than one notification to each customer and that the companies should also be made to disclose how many of their subscribers are out-of-contract and how much extra on average they are paying compared to in-contract users.\n\n\"Almost nine in 10 people think that charging loyal customers more is unfair, and we agree,\" commented Gillian Guy, Citizens Advice's chief executive.\n\n\"We look forward to hearing about the concrete actions Ofcom will take to end this systematic scam.\"\n\nA trade group has also raised concern that small internet providers that specialise in serving business customers might struggle with the cost and complexity of adapting their systems to meet the rules.\n\n\"[The Internet Services Providers' Association] is concerned at the lack of clarity around small business customers... as it does not seem to take into account the scale and nature of this market,\" said a spokesman for the organisation.\n\n\"We hope that Ofcom will address this going forward.\"", "Two window cleaners have been rescued from a metal basket which was swinging out of control near the top of a 50-storey building in Oklahoma.\n\nReports said the crane at the Devon Tower was unstable and the incident took place in high winds.\n\nThe basket smashed several windows before emergency responders stabilised the crane and lowered it down.\n\nOklahoma City Fire Deparment said the two workers were being checked for injuries.", "Much of Scotland's oil industry operates out of Aberdeen Harbour\n\nExtracting all remaining oil and gas reserves would see the UK miss its climate change commitments, Friends of the Earth Scotland (FoES) has claimed.\n\nThe group says the target of limiting global warming to 1.5C would not be met if the 5.7 billion barrels in current oil and gas fields is burned.\n\nThe industry expects to produce another 20 billion barrels and wants the focus to be on its use rather than volume.\n\nThey insist the sector is central to developing cleaner technologies.\n\nFoES has instead called for an urgent phasing-out of fossil fuels.\n\nThe environmental campaign group wants governments to stop issuing licences for new oil fields and revoke permits for undeveloped ones.\n\nIn a report, called Sea Change, it also calls for a rapid phase-out of subsidies and tax breaks for exploration, and suggests that jobs created in clean energy industries could be three times the number lost in oil and gas.\n\nThe Paris deal on climate change was hailed as a landmark\n\nMary Church, FoES's head of campaigns, told BBC Scotland: \"Climate science is clear that we urgently need to phase out fossil fuels, yet the government and big oil companies are doing everything they can to squeeze every last drop out of the North Sea.\n\n\"To tackle the climate emergency head-on we must ban oil and gas exploration now, and redirect the vast subsidies propping up fossil fuel extraction towards creating decent jobs in a clean energy economy.\n\n\"Real climate leadership means making tough decisions now that put us on a path to a climate safe future. A just transition for workers and communities currently dependent on high carbon industries is an essential part of that.\"\n\nThe report was written for FoES by Oil Change International, an organisation which advocates a move away from fossil fuels.\n\nIt found that opening new fields would nearly quadruple the emissions from UK oil and gas.\n\nIndustry body Oil and Gas UK estimates that there are 10-20 billion barrels of oil still to be recovered from UK waters, about three quarters of which have not be drilled or even discovered.\n\nChief executive Deirdre Michie said: \"The UK's offshore oil and gas industry is part of the solution. The facts show that we need a managed and comprehensive transition towards a lower carbon future.\n\n\"Our industry can play a key role in the transition, reducing emissions from offshore production and helping the UK to lead on carbon reduction technologies, including the switch to hydrogen and long-term storage of CO2.\n\n\"This will ensure the UK continues to enjoy secure and affordable energy alongside an accelerating transition to a low carbon future.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has committed to making Scotland \"net-zero\" by 2045 in line with recommendations from the Committee on Climate Change.\n\nThat will be the point where we're emitting the same volume of greenhouse gases as we're offsetting.\n\nAn amendment to the Climate Change Bill, which sets out the new target, has been put forward by ministers.\n\nWith a further pledge to reach net-zero only through domestic measures, it would make it the most ambitious target in the world.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"There is no bigger priority than tackling climate change, and Scotland is already well recognised as a world leader in doing so.\n\n\"The first minister has accepted the recommendations from the Committee on Climate Change to increase targets on tackling and reducing emissions. We have therefore committed to reaching net zero emissions by 2045, and are looking at a range of policies to make sure that they align with that increased scale of ambition.\n\n\"The domestic oil and gas industry and its supply chain can play a positive role in supporting the low carbon transition. We are committed to achieving a carbon-neutral economy and to managing that transition in a way that is fair for all.\"\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said in a statement: \"The UK is proud to be a global leader in tackling climate change.\n\n\"We were the first country to raise the issue on the international stage, and to introduce long-term legally-binding carbon reduction targets, and we have gone further than any other G7 nation by cutting our emissions by 40% since 1990.\n\n\"The best way to meet our climate targets in a sustainable way is to manage oil and gas production from our relatively small domestic basin while reducing our use of fossil fuels - which is exactly what we are doing.\"", "Babette Lucas-Marriott was in The Jeremy Kyle Show audience when Steven Dymond's story was filmed.\n\nThe 63-year-old man, from Portsmouth, was found dead after appearing on the programme, in which he took a lie detector test.\n\nMs Lucas-Marriot said the show was \"uncomfortable\" viewing and that Mr Dymond and his fiancee were \"completely and utterly devastated\".\n\nITV has announced that The Jeremy Kyle Show will no longer be produced. A review of the episode in question is under way and it will not be screened.\n\nHave you appeared on the Jeremy Kyle show? Email us with your experience at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nRead more on this story.", "About 70 firefighters were tackling the blaze in the early hours of Wednesday morning\n\nA large warehouse fire blocked major roads in north London, causing delays during the morning rush-hour.\n\nThe North Circular in Neasden was closed both ways as firefighters tackled the blaze at a derelict building, but has now reopened.\n\nIt is open westbound with one lane operating eastbound, Transport for London (TfL) said.\n\nSeventeen people were evacuated from nearby buildings during the blaze which broke out at about 02:00 BST.\n\nIt was brought under control by about 06:20, the London Fire Brigade 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 BBC London Travel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 its height, the blaze was tackled by 70 firefighters. Some remain at the scene dealing with \"pockets of fire inside the warehouse\".\n\nThe whole of the building has been damaged by fire.\n\nStation manager Robbie Robertson said: \"Firefighters have worked extremely hard overnight to prevent the fire spreading to an adjacent building.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 London Fire Brigade This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTfL said traffic on the A41, A406 and Edgeware Road was still moving slowly in the aftermath of the blaze.\n\nAll buses, which had been diverted, are now running on their normal routes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by TfL Traffic News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The precise circumstances of Steve Dymond's death are not known. But what is clear, from multiple sources, is that he was troubled and vulnerable before he participated in the show - even though he did so willingly - and that failing the lie detector test was a devastating blow.\n\nThat much was clear on Tuesday morning, when ITV said that they were minded to launch an inquiry and wait for the coroner's verdict. Yet this morning the show was taken off the air permanently.\n\nWhat happened that should cause the sudden change of mind?\n\nThe Jeremy Kyle show has been part of ITV's daytime schedule since it started in 2005\n\nTwo things at least. First, growing evidence of links between that failed lie detector test and Mr Dymond's death. ITV learned significant new information in the past 24 hours. And second, another morning of damaging front page headlines, especially in the tabloids that are still influential and widely read among ITV's heartland audience.\n\nThat is explicitly not to say that the decision to take the show off air permanently was primarily a commercial one. The driver may have been moral repugnance, at ITV board level, at what has happened. Certainly, if as part of their internal process board members saw footage of Mr Dymond's response to failing the lie detector test on the episode that was never aired, it must have prompted a visceral reaction.\n\nBut even if you accept that Carolyn McCall and the ITV board made this decision because of revulsion at what one of their shows did, that doesn't discount the commercial and editorial context in which the decision was made.\n\nAs an advertiser-funded broadcaster, albeit with multiple linear channels and a digital offering, ITV is under pressure. Kevin Lygo, its creative chief, has tried to reinvent the schedule, and with some success. But the feeling at the top of ITV is that Jeremy Kyle's show was a distinct anomaly within the new offering - and therefore not necessarily a good fit as part of its future. It is hard to imagine that the show would have been permanently scrapped if Lygo and other bosses were deeply admiring of it.\n\nIn reaching millions of people every weekday, many of them of the view that the mainstream media doesn't generally reflect their lives very well, ITV had a solid, regular offer to a big and loyal audience. In today's exceptionally competitive media environment, when the claims on our attention are multiplying by the minute, that isn't something you give up lightly. Especially when you know that whatever replaces Kyle will struggle to achieve its ratings, at least at first.\n\nThere is, as I mentioned on last night's bulletins, a massive disconnect here: between those who wanted the show off air, who generally don't watch it; and those who do watch it, and feel they can relate to it.\n\nThese fans, like ITV bosses, might proffer a liberal argument: people who go on the show are consenting, fully informed, capacitous adults who know what they're doing. In the show's 14-year history, thousands of contributors have been on-stage. And this is not a show that has traditionally led to Ofcom being inundated with complaints.\n\nSeveral people have said to me that, given two people who appeared on Love Island have taken their own lives, it is inconsistent to leave that show on air, and ITV's decision on Wednesday is partly about protecting that highly lucrative show.\n\nITV resist the latter point strongly, and it is important not to generalise from the specific circumstances of any death - particularly suicide. Moreover, Love Island and The Jeremy Kyle Show occupied very different parts of the schedule, and don't belong in the same category of programme.\n\nSteve Dymond, who was 63, was found dead a week after he was filmed on the Jeremy Kyle show taking a lie detector test to prove if he'd been faithful to his fiancee\n\nI wonder, however, if rising concerns about the mental health of participants in all TV programmes may prompt greater investment in after-care, or an expansion of Ofcom's remit to go much further on the duty of care programme makers have toward their contributors.\n\nCelebrity culture is as old as culture itself; but the advent of, first, mass media, and now social media, has rapidly expanded the circle of those who can be famous. But displaying, or even parading, private anguish and trauma in a public way can obviously have a disastrous impact on mental health.\n\nWhether it be Strictly Come Dancing, Come Dine With Me, or The Jeremy Kyle Show and Love Island, contributors and contestants give up something of themselves, some degree of autonomy, when they become characters in productions whose goal is commercially motivated entertainment. The journey they go on, and which viewers are encouraged to go on with them, can be life-affirming, cultural gold-dust. That is television at its best.\n\nBut the spectacle can also lead contributors to a dark place. Even if that is not television at its worst, it is television that - for now - ITV believes should not be aired. No matter the ratings.\n\nIf you're interested in issues such as these, you can follow me on Twitter or Facebook; and subscribe to The Media Show podcast from BBC Radio 4.", "A man who accused multiple public figures of child sexual abuse is a \"committed and manipulative paedophile\", a court has heard.\n\nCarl Beech has convictions for voyeurism and making and possessing indecent images of children.\n\nPolice discovered the offences after seizing devices from his home while investigating him for alleging abuse by public figures, jurors heard.\n\nBeech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nThe 51-year-old's allegations, which included a claim that three young boys were murdered by members of a group, led to a £2m Metropolitan Police investigation between 2014-2016 that ended with no further action being taken.\n\nAmong those accused were former Conservative prime minister Sir Edward Heath, ex-Tory home secretary Lord Brittan, former head of the armed forces Lord Bramall and former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor.\n\nLord Bramall's wife died during the police inquiry and Lord Brittan died while under investigation.\n\nThe court was shown a 2014 police interview with Carl Beech\n\nDuring the police probe, Beech set up a fake email account to help corroborate his story, the court heard on Wednesday.\n\nProsecutor Tony Badenoch QC told the jury that in email correspondence with police officers, Beech pretended to be a man known by the pseudonym \"Fred\".\n\nThe defendant claimed Fred was abused alongside him as a child and had witnessed one of the alleged murders, the prosecutor said.\n\nBut when detectives from Northumbria investigated the email account, they found \"the person behind the encrypted email account was Carl Beech\", Mr Badenoch said.\n\nMr Badenoch said officers found \"indecent images of young boys, covert images of school boys taken by him, and recordings\" on Beech's devices.\n\n\"These child sex offences were committed whilst he was speaking to investigating officers,\" he continued.\n\n\"At the same time as he perpetuated these lies about Harvey Proctor and so many others, he was also viewing indecent images of the gravest kind and spying on small boys.\"\n\nJurors heard he installed a secret app on his iPad that appeared to be a calculator, but contained indecent images of children of the \"most serious kind\" and a covert recording of a boy in a toilet.\n\nNewcastle Crown Court heard he was prosecuted and initially pleaded not guilty, and in a police interview, sought to blame his teenage son.\n\nHe changed his plea to guilty after a jury had been sworn in.\n\nThe prosecutor said the defendant's convictions demonstrate \"Carl Beech is a committed and manipulative paedophile, capable of deceit to investigators and limitless manipulation when required, including if necessary, framing his own child\".\n\nHe said Beech was \"the sort of individual concerned only for himself, unconcerned with the impact on others\".\n\nThe court also heard that Beech craved attention, had written 150 pages of a memoir and planned to become an international speaker on \"survivors\".\n\nHe received £22,000 in compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority for the abuse he alleged, which funded a £10,000 cash deposit for a white Ford Mustang, jurors were told.\n\nThe court heard on Tuesday that when investigators later began looking into Beech himself, he fled to Sweden.\n\nThe trial for perverting the course of justice and fraud continues.", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nSubstitute Jack Marriott was the hero as Derby stunned Leeds to set up a Championship play-off final against Aston Villa after a wild night at Elland Road.\n\nThe hosts took the lead on the night to go 2-0 up on aggregate when Stuart Dallas tapped in after Liam Cooper's header had hit the post.\n\nMarriott levelled with his first touch before half-time after a horrendous mix-up at the back between Cooper and keeper Kiko Casilla.\n\nFrank Lampard's side turned the tie on its head after the break through Mason Mount and a Harry Wilson penalty, only for Dallas to drift in and fire Leeds back level on aggregate.\n\nLeeds defender Gaetano Berardi was then sent off for a poor challenge on Bradley Johnson before Marriott won it late on with a composed finish.\n\nThere was still time for Derby defender Scott Malone to join Berardi in being dismissed after collecting a second booking in time added on.\n\nFor Leeds, who finished third in the table, defeat means their spell outside the top flight will stretch to a 16th year.\n\nDerby, meanwhile, become the first team to lose the first leg of a Championship play-off semi-final at home and go on to reach the final meaning Lampard's first season in management will end at Wembley.\n• None Bielsa will 'listen to proposal' from Leeds about staying\n• None Why Leeds have been left crying their heart out\n\nThere had been no indication of what would transpire on this crazy night in West Yorkshire when Dallas put Leeds in front.\n\nThey had won all three of the previous meetings between the two sides this season by an aggregate of 7-1 and Derby looked short of ideas when they did manage to launch any attacks.\n\nHowever, with half-time approaching, Lampard brought Marriott on for midfielder Duane Holmes and the former Peterborough man had an instant impact, tapping in after Cooper and Casilla ran in to one another to leave him with an open goal.\n\nA brilliant improvised finish from Chelsea loanee Mount put them in front on the night just moments into the second half and Harry Wilson, on loan from Liverpool, kept his composure to fire home from the spot after Cooper pulled Mason Bennett's shirt in the area to put Derby ahead in the tie for the first time and spark wild scenes amongst the travelling Rams supporters.\n\nLeeds responded well and Dallas deservedly pulled one back to draw them level at 3-3 on aggregate with a wonderful finish, but Berardi's red card shifted the momentum once more and defender Richard Keogh sprinted out of defence to play a measured pass for Marriott to poke in and book the Rams a trip to Wembley on Monday, 27 May.\n\nWith four games of the regular season to go, Leeds had been in the driving seat to win automatic promotion after a hugely impressive season under veteran Argentine head coach Marcelo Bielsa.\n\nHowever, they suffered a shock home defeat by strugglers Wigan on Good Friday before losing at Brentford three days later as their three-point lead over Sheffield United turned into a three-point deficit that they were unable to overturn.\n\nWith many fans fearing their moment had passed, they put in an assured performance at Pride Park in the first leg to come into this game with a one goal advantage but, once more, they could not finish the job.\n\nBielsa reflected that the defeat by Wigan that took their momentum away had been \"the decision of God\".\n\nBut that was only part of a hugely emotional campaign that saw him personally pay a £200,000 fine after the club were reprimanded for sending a member of staff to watch Derby train before the league game between the teams at Elland Road in January.\n\nThat 'Spygate' saga, which Derby boss Lampard described at the time as \"not right\", remained a key talking point before and during the play-off meetings.\n\nAnd after beating Leeds for the first time this season, it was clearly at the forefront of the minds of Derby's players as they celebrated by pretending to hold binoculars over their eyes.\n\nWill Bielsa stay or go?\n\nAfter failing to take Leeds up, Bielsa now faces a huge decision of his own whether to carry on as boss and try to mount another promotion challenge next season.\n\nPrior to joining Leeds on a two-year deal last June, the 63-year-old last completed a full season as a manager when he guided Marseille to fourth in Ligue 1 in 2014-15.\n\nHe was questioned about whether he would stay with Leeds in the immediate aftermath of his side's play-off disappointment but would not be drawn on where his future lay.\n\n\"If the club offers me the opportunity to carry on then I will consider the proposal,\" he said.\n\n\"I'd be naive to say I totally believed we could come back but I had belief in the players.\n\n\"As a manager, the pressure is more intense than as a player. I wanted this so badly, you worry you want it too badly. I'm very proud.\n\n\"I told Jack Marriott I thought he could have an impact in the game because he was disappointed not to be starting.\n\n\"We'll be underdogs in the final and tomorrow we start again.\"\n\n\"We should have had one or two more in the first half and then the second half broke immediately.\n\n\"We lost control. We had 20 minutes without control and I couldn't find a solution.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Isaiah Brown (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Second yellow card to Scott Malone (Derby County) for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Jack Clarke (Leeds United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Stuart Dallas (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Isaiah Brown.\n• None Attempt saved. Liam Cooper (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Pablo Hernández with a cross.\n• None Luke Ayling (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Leeds United 2, Derby County 4. Jack Marriott (Derby County) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Richard Keogh.\n• None Harry Wilson (Derby County) hits the left post with a left footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Mason Mount with a through ball. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Laura, who is halfway through her pregnancy, suffers from hyperemesis gravidarum, a condition of prolonged and severe nausea and vomiting.\n\nKnown by most as a condition suffered by the Duchess of Cambridge during her pregnancies, women can be left vomiting up to 100 times a day.\n\nLaura lost over a stone in weight in just eight weeks, and decided to film an intimate video diary to educate people about the condition.", "Kane Burns changed his plea during a murder trial to manslaughter\n\nA man who killed his friend with a sword for insulting his mother before burning his body and burying it has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years.\n\nKane Burns admitted he \"went too far in self defence\" against Mohamed Megherbi.\n\nThe \"skeletonised\" remains of the 24-year victim were found in a shallow grave on 30 November last year.\n\nBurns, 26, from Cardiff, denied murder but on the second day of his trial, pleaded guilty to manslaughter at the city's crown court.\n\nMr Justice Clive Lewis said: \"An argument broke out between you and a struggle ensued lasting three minutes before you killed him.\n\n\"You struck Mr Megherbi a single blow to the skull with a weapon - a sword. It was described as a ninja sword.\n\n\"After the killing you sought to conceal the body.\n\n\"The remains of Mr Megherbi were found buried in a shallow grave about a metre deep - there had been attempts to burn the body.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Burns tried to cover up his crime\n\nMr Megherbi's remains were found in woodland by police, almost two months after being reported missing after he was last seen in the Roath area of Cardiff on 9 October.\n\nSearch teams found spades and what \"looked like the lower bones of a human leg\" when combing an area near Pentwyn leisure centre.\n\nBurns' murder trial heard Mr Megherbi, who was originally from Algeria, \"had received catastrophic and fatal head injuries at the hand of this defendant\".\n\nJurors were told neighbours described hearing \"loud banging\" and arguing between two men at Burns' flat in Llanedeyrn.\n\nMohamed Megherbi's body was discovered last November in woodland\n\nAfter the commotion, Burns bought lighter fluid and matches at a nearby petrol station, returning twice to buy bleach, paper towels and more lighter fluid.\n\nIn an unrelated raid on his flat, police spotted blood on the furniture and blinds, samples of which matched Mr Megherbi.\n\nA 2ft (61cm) sword was found in the wooded area near Mr Megherbi's body and police also found an axe, \"large rusty machete\" and Taser at Burns' home.\n\nJurors heard during the trial that Burns told a friend: \"I stabbed him up because he was saying stuff about my mother.\"\n\nBurns bought the shovel (similar to that on the right) which was found with the help of a bus driver stuck in traffic\n\nSouth Wales Police senior investigating officer Det Insp Andy Miles said: \"We cannot underestimate the role of the public in this case.\n\n\"From the beginning there was a willingness to support the investigation for which we are very grateful.\"\n\n\"Despite Kane Burns not choosing to assist the investigation at any stage, which included not revealing where he had put the body of Mohamed Megherbi, we are pleased that he has been sentenced here today.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "What's behind the rising tensions between the US and Iran?\n\nUS President Donald Trump has always hated the Iran nuclear deal. Now Iran is threatening to stop complying with some of its obligations under the agreement.\n\nHow did we get here? And is the deal crumbling?", "The RSPCA said Lloyd was found by workers at Lidl's Netherfield store as they unloaded fruit\n\nA tree frog from Costa Rica has been found in a box of bananas at a Lidl in Nottingham.\n\nIt was discovered more than 5,300 miles (8,500 km) away from its rainforest home by staff at the Netherfield branch on Sunday.\n\nWorkers, who named it Lloyd, told the RSPCA it was sitting on top of the bananas as they unloaded the fruit on to the shelves.\n\nLloyd is now in the care of a vet who specialises in exotic animals.\n\nLidl has been approached for comment.\n\nRSPCA officer Hayley Day said the supermarket staff \"seemed quite taken with him\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RSPCA Nottingham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe added: \"He must have also had quite the shock when he emerged in a Nottinghamshire supermarket considering he's used to more tropical climates usually.\"\n\nReacting to the find on Facebook, Rob Loasby wrote: \"They have some amazing things in their specials aisle these days.\"\n\nSarah Conway said: \"It's not a Lidl frog, it's a big frog.\"\n\nWhile Lee Anne added: \"I'm never putting my hand in a box of bananas again... first spiders now this.\"\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.", "Mrs Bradley sent a letter to victims' groups on Tuesday\n\nNI Secretary Karen Bradley has pushed back the prospect of taking legislation through Westminster to give compensation to victims of historical institutional abuse.\n\nPayments to victims were recommended by the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry in 2017.\n\nBut power sharing at Stormont collapsed days later and it stalled.\n\nDavid Sterling, the head of the NI Civil Service, had asked her to take control of the issue.\n\nBBC News NI has seen a letter from Mrs Bradley, which was sent to victims' groups on Tuesday.\n\nIt comes a day after the Executive Office published responses to a public consultation on HIA redress.\n\nIn the letter, Mrs Bradley suggested putting HIA payments as an item in the Stormont talks process was the \"quickest possible way to bring this issue to a resolution\".\n\n\"Unfortunately we cannot simply take forward legislation without addressing the consultation feedback,\" Mrs Bradley said in her letter.\n\nThe HIA heard evidence from hundreds of people who spent their childhood in residential homes and institutions\n\n\"Urgent consideration needs to be given to the views expressed during the consultation.\"\n\nThe consultation received 562 responses - however the Executive Office said it has completed its analysis of them.\n\nMrs Bradley added that she has also written to Mr Sterling to ask him to include HIA matters in the current round of Stormont talks.\n\nHe is chairing the working group looking at the Programme for Government.\n\nLast week, the Head of the Civil Service David Sterling said the historical institutional abuse issue \"transcends politics\"\n\nShe added: \"The current talks are the best opportunity for these complex issues - such as the total redress payment - to be discussed by local politicians.\"\n\nMrs Bradley also said it is \"vital\" progress is made by the end of May, in line with the overall talks process being reviewed, so that \"draft legislation can be finalised\".\n\nThe Northern Ireland Office (NIO) said the secretary of state believes \"the quickest and best route to deliver for victims and survivors is to include this issue as a priority in the talks process\".\n\n\"This has a timeframe to make progress by the end of May,\" it added.\n\nThe HIA inquiry was set up by Stormont leaders to investigate allegations of abuse in children's residential homes run by religious, charitable and state organisations.\n\nIt was chaired by Sir Anthony Hart and its remit covered a 73-year period from the foundation of Northern Ireland in 1922 through to 1995.\n\nThe inquiry made a number of recommendations including compensation, a memorial and a public apology to abuse survivors.\n\nSince the inquiry ended two years ago, 30 survivors of historical institutional abuse have died.\n\nMrs Bradley said she will also meet the chair of the HIA inquiry, Sir Anthony Hart, in the coming days, as well as a number of victims' and survivors' groups next week.\n\nAmnesty International has described the latest development as a \"shameful betrayal of abuse victims, who have been let down time after time\".\n\nLast week, Stormont's political parties echoed calls from David Sterling and victims' groups for the secretary of state to take immediate action on HIA compensation.", "About one million people watched The Jeremy Kyle Show every day\n\nITV has axed The Jeremy Kyle Show after 14 years following the death of a guest who took part in the programme.\n\nSteve Dymond was found dead on 9 May a week after filming the show, during which he took a lie detector test.\n\nITV's chief executive Carolyn McCall said the decision was a result of the \"gravity of recent events\".\n\nFollowing the announcement, a committee of MPs launched an inquiry into whether enough support is offered to guests on TV shows during and after filming.\n\n\"Given the gravity of recent events we have decided to end production of The Jeremy Kyle Show.\n\n\"The Jeremy Kyle Show has had a loyal audience and has been made by a dedicated production team for 14 years, but now is the right time for the show to end.\n\n\"Everyone at ITV's thoughts and sympathies are with the family and friends of Steve Dymond. The previously announced review of the episode of the show is under way and will continue.\n\n\"ITV will continue to work with Jeremy Kyle on other projects.\"\n\nDamian Collins MP, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee, said the broadcaster had made the right decision.\n\n\"However, that should not be the end of the matter,\" he said. \"There needs to be an independent review of the duty of care TV companies have to participants in reality TV shows.\"\n\nProgrammes like The Jeremy Kyle Show risked \"putting people who might be vulnerable on to a public stage at a point in their lives when they are unable to foresee the consequences\", he said.\n\nThe committee will question broadcasting executives and regulators. Love Island, another ITV show, has also come under scrutiny after the deaths of two former contestants.\n\nThe Jeremy Kyle Show was the most popular programme in ITV's daytime schedule, with an average of one million viewers and a 22% audience share.\n\nMore than 3,000 episodes have been broadcast since its debut in 2005. Following Mr Dymond's death, ITV initially took the show off air and suspended filming.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe pre-recorded episode Mr Dymond took part in was based on the subject of infidelity.\n\nA member of the audience who was at the recording told BBC News that Mr Dymond \"collapsed to the ground\" and was \"sobbing\" when he failed the lie detector test.\n\nLie detectors were a regular fixture on the programme, which often featured disputes between partners and family members.\n\nBroadcasting regulator Ofcom has told ITV to report back its initial findings on Mr Dymond's participation in the programme by Monday.\n\n\"While ITV has decided to cancel the programme, its investigation into what happened is continuing and we will review the findings carefully,\" an Ofcom spokesperson said.\n\nThe watchdog is now examining whether to update its code of conduct to protect people taking part in reality and factual shows.\n\n\"We're examining whether more can be done to safeguard the welfare of those people, similar to the duty of care we have in the broadcasting code to protect under-18s,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nYesterday morning, ITV were minded to wait for the coroner's verdict before deciding what to do with the show. In the past 24 hours, the evidence has grown that his appearance on the show had a devastating impact on Steve Dymond.\n\nThat evidence, and the fact that ITV is plastered across front pages once again, will have weighed heavily on the board's mind.\n\nThe company's director of television Kevin Lygo has tried to reinvent the broadcaster, and this programme was an anomaly within his offering: different in tone and editorial approach.\n\nNevertheless, it was a ratings hit, and much of its loyal audience will be despondent about it being pulled.\n\nFor all that, it's vital to remember that this is ultimately an exceptionally sad story of a troubled individual who was found dead in his flat.\n\nOwen Jones, author of Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, was among those who welcomed the decision to pull the show, which he said \"consisted of putting vulnerable people from disadvantaged backgrounds in stocks to have eggs thrown at them\".\n\nPiers Morgan, who hosts Good Morning Britain - a show Jeremy Kyle has previously guest presented - defended the host on Twitter, saying there was \"so much snobbery an hypocrisy being spewed by his critics\".\n\nFormer EastEnders actress Danniella Westbrook, who has appeared on The Jeremy Kyle Show, praised the care she was given.\n\nAppearing on Channel 5's Jeremy Vine Show, she said: \"If it wasn't for Jeremy Kyle I probably wouldn't be alive myself.\"\n\nShe added: \"They really have looked after me and you know, since I've been in rehab I've spoken to Jeremy all the time and [psychotherapist] Graham [Stanier] and the team, and went I went back on the show, reassessed and [I was] really looked after.\"\n\nTV critic Emma Bullimore told BBC Radio 5 Live she was surprised by the speed of ITV's decision to cancel the show.\n\n\"Usually these things take a review, and it's ages, but with this one the public opinion and the pressure they were under was so strong that they didn't really have another option,\" she said.\n\nITV has said it will still work with the host, who also fronts The Kyle Files.\n\n\"I don't think this is the end of this kind of television,\" Bullimore added. \"There's no getting away from the fact that whether you like it or you find it reprehensible, there is a loyal audience for this show.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's World At One programme, former ITV chief executive Stuart Prebble said the cancellation was \"a good decision\", but that producers \"do take seriously their duty of care\".\n\nHe said: \"The producers of these programmes walk a very thin line and and they know they do. If you are always tip-toeing close to the edge as I think this show did, perhaps it is not surprising that something like this will eventually happen.\n\n\"They [ITV] have done the right thing - a speedy and effective review, and the faster these things are dealt with the better.\"\n\nAll previous episodes of The Jeremy Kyle Show have been taken down from the channel's catch-up service, ITV Hub. Episodes will not air on ITV2 either, and the show's YouTube channel has been deleted.\n\nA spokeswoman for Portsmouth coroner's office said an inquest into Mr Dymond's death would be likely to be opened within the next few days, following the result of the post-mortem investigation.\n\nThe lie detectors used on The Jeremy Kyle show are supplied by a company called UK Lie Tests, which declined to comment to the BBC.\n\nA lie detector test, or polygraph test, involves an examiner using various instruments to measure the subject's reaction to a series of questions - and determine whether or not they are giving truthful answers.\n\nAccording to the British Polygraph Association (BPA), two convoluted rubber pneumograph tubes are placed around the subject's chest and abdomen to record breathing and movement.\n\nSensors attached to the subject's fingers or hand monitor changes to skin resistance during the test, while a cardiosphygmograph traces changes to the subject's blood pressure and pulse.\n\nVarious charts are then generated, which the examiner reviews to establish the test results.\n\nThe BPA says the tests are \"the most reliable technique to test if someone is being deceptive to a specific issue\".\n\nHowever the results of lie detector tests are considered too unreliable for use in UK criminal trials.\n\nIf you are feeling emotionally distressed and would like details of organisations in the UK which offer advice and support, go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.\n\nHave you appeared on the Jeremy Kyle show? Email us with your story 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:\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.", "Boots, Superdrug and Holland & Barrett have broken their own policies by selling diet pills to a 17-year-old without checking for ID, the BBC has found.\n\nThe teenage actress, sent by BBC Watchdog, was able to buy diet pills in 17 out of 18 stores visited.\n\nA single branch of Boots was the only store to deny the undercover actress the sale because she didn't have ID.\n\nWhen presented with the findings all the retailers promised to take action.\n\nIn all, the teenager visited six different branches of Boots, Superdrug and Holland & Barrett.\n\nIn both Holland & Barrett and Superdrug every store sold the actress the pills.\n\nSeveral of the Superdrug and Holland & Barrett stores attempted to sign her up to their loyalty card scheme.\n\nAnna Colton said the programme's findings were \"absolutely terrifying\"\n\nIt is not illegal to sell diet pills to young people - but Holland & Barrett, Superdrug and Boots all have policies in place which are supposed to make sure that they are not sold to anyone underage.\n\nIn addition, most of the products are clearly labelled with recommended age restrictions.\n\nShe added: \"You are better off having no recommendation than having a recommendation everyone ignores because it gives such a false sense of safety.\n\n\"I think staff should be trained that if someone comes in as they are with an energy drink or with alcohol, if someone comes in who looks underage, you ask for ID and then you say, 'I'm really sorry, no.'\"\n\nIn response to Watchdog's findings, Boots said it had a number of products and services to help customers lose weight in a \"responsible way\". It also said it had pharmacists and trained staff who were able to give advice on using diet aids safely.\n\n\"These products are regulated by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and Boots follows all the relevant guidance for their sale.\n\n\"On our website and on the product boxes it clearly states the recommended age guidance for the products in question.\n\n\"In addition to following the correct guidance as to how these products are currently sold in store, we are looking at how our colleagues communicate with customers to best meet their needs when buying these products.\"\n\nHolland & Barrett said ensuring its products were sold responsibly was of the \"upmost importance\" to it.\n\nIt said it was \"very disappointed\" that the investigation had highlighted cases where it had \"fallen short of the standards we expect in our stores, and are taking immediate actions to ensure this is addressed\".\n\n\"We are ensuring information around age restrictions is strengthened in our stores and online, and are reviewing our training to ensure all colleagues are clear on our policies relating to these products.\n\n\"Importantly, our colleagues will now be prompted to request ID for customers who look under 25 when purchasing all age-restricted weight management products, and we will decline the sale of these products to customers who cannot demonstrate they are above 18.\"\n\nSuperdrug said it wanted to reassure its customers that \"immediate action\" had been taken as a result of Watchdog's investigation.\n\n\"Our actions consist of checking that all appetite suppressant products have a till restriction. When scanned through the till, it activates a 'prompt' to flash up and remind cashiers that the product is not to be sold to those under the age of 18 years and to ask for photographic ID.\n\n\"We have also issued out specific training on age restricted diet products to all staff.\n\n\"In addition, only registered customers, who've confirmed their date of birth, can buy age-restricted products online. Furthermore, we want to help educate customers about these age restrictions and have plans to implement shelf signs in all stores that sell these diet products informing customers of our policy.\"\n\nKatie, now 21, said she was able to buy diet pills when she was 14 without getting ID'd\n\nPresenter Nikki Fox met Katie who is now 21 - she told the programme that at the age of 14 she was able to go into stores in her school uniform and buy diet pills without getting ID'd. Katie told the programme \"no-one questioned me, no one ID'd me\".\n\nStephen Powis said retailers should ensure they were not selling products to vulnerable people\n\nStephen Powis, the National Medical Director of NHS England, said: \"We know that these diet pills can cause physical problems on occasions such as abdominal pain or diarrhoea. But we're particularly concerned about potential effects on mental health.\n\n\"That there is a lot of pressure on young people today and many of them are particularly concerned by body image, about how they look and that potentially leading to an epidemic of mental health.\n\n\"We need retailers to ensure that they are not selling products to those that are vulnerable, particularly young people who are under the age of 18.\"\n\nYou can watch the full investigation on Wednesday 15 May at 20:00 BST on BBC One or on iPlayer afterwards.", "Virgin Mobile says it has restored services to customers across the UK who had been struggling to make calls, send text messages and use mobile data.\n\nVirgin Mobile said it would compensate customers for the problem which it said was due to a \"technical issue\".\n\nComplaints began coming in on Tuesday morning in London, the Midlands, the North West, Bristol and Scotland.\n\nCustomers vented their fury on Twitter, with some complaining they had been left in the dark.\n\nIn a statement Virgin Mobile said: \"We apologise for the disruption and inconvenience some of our Virgin Mobile customers have experienced today. This was due to a technical issue which we've now resolved.\n\n\"We will be compensating our customers for the loss of service and will let them know the details shortly.\"\n\nIt did not disclose the number of affected customers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dicky Moore This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to Downdetector, which tracks mentions of mobile outages on social media, complaints began en masse at around 11:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nIt said most comments had been about mobile phone services, followed by mobile internet. A minority mentioned issues with their Virgin cable internet services.\n\nOne customer tweeted: \"@virginmedia why are you posting trivial polls and ads on your site, but nothing about the mass outage on mobiles? Incredibly frustrating and very poor comms.\"\n\nAnother said: \"I'm a full-time carer for my disabled mother. We're both on Virgin Mobile. You've crippled my day with this outage.\"\n\nAccording to Ofcom, the level of satisfaction with mobile providers is generally high across the UK.\n\nHowever, according to its most recent customer satisfaction survey, Virgin Mobile is the most complained about of the major telecoms companies.", "A Syrian boy who was attacked at his school in Huddersfield has told the BBC he’s worried about being recognised and attacked again.\n\nHis family came to Britain from Syria to escape the ongoing war there but after receiving death threats they’ve had to move and now say they wish they’d never come to the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One mother describes how her abusive ex-partner was granted unsupervised access to their children\n\nMore than 120 MPs have written to the government asking for an inquiry into how family courts in England and Wales treat victims of domestic violence.\n\nAt least four children have been killed by a parent in the past five years after a family court granted access.\n\nDozens of parents have told the Victoria Derbyshire programme their abusive ex-partners were granted unsupervised contact with their child.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said a child's welfare was always the priority.\n\n\"Where there is evidence of domestic abuse, the courts are bound by law to consider potential harm to the child and this overrides any presumption of parental involvement,\" an MoJ spokesman said.\n\nWhen parents separate and cannot agree arrangements for their children, a family court judge can make a legally-binding decision on contact - including whether visits to a mother or father should be supervised.\n\nThe fundamental presumption in law is that it is in the best interests of the child to have contact with both parents.\n\nBut it has led to the courts ordering children to have contact with an alleged or known violent ex-partner - including some convicted of rape, assault and drug offences, the BBC has learned from dozens of affected parents.\n\nDue to legal restrictions the BBC cannot always view family court documents to substantiate the claims made by parents.\n\nHowever, analysis of serious case reviews for England since 2014, shows four children have been killed during access granted by the family courts.\n\nIt indicates that four further children had been sexually abused or seriously injured, or both.\n\nIn all of the cases, social services had been aware of a history of domestic abuse allegations against the partner. The youngest victim was five months old.\n\nIn one incident, a father who went on to kill both of his children was granted unsupervised contact with them in an interim order. The case review found that numerous professionals - including a social worker, a teacher and an official from court support service Cafcass - had been too scared to be left alone with him because of his aggressive behaviour.\n\nOther cases refer to a parent having what is known as a \"toxic trio\" of addiction, mental illness and a history of violence.\n\nThe number of children injured by a parent during court-ordered contact may in reality be much higher, as serious case reviews are generally conducted only in cases of serious harm or death.\n\nThey are carried out in order to find ways that local agencies can improve their safeguarding practices.\n\nThey do not investigate the family courts, so it is not possible to establish whether the courts' decisions led directly to the deaths.\n\n\"I was completely naive about the family courts,\" says Mary - not her real name.\n\nShe has spent £130,000 in legal fees to try to protect her children.\n\nHer ex-partner has been awarded regular, unsupervised overnight contact with them.\n\nShe says they have since come home with injuries - and she has taken them to A&E.\n\nMary says her ex had previously been abusive towards her - which began when she was pregnant, \"pushing, slapping, throwing me across the room\".\n\nAfter they separated, she called police when he turned up at her home uninvited and was aggressive towards her.\n\nMary says she has taken her children to hospital after they came home with injuries\n\nHe later applied to the family court for unsupervised contact with the children, which was granted.\n\nHe had numerous criminal convictions for violent and drug offences.\n\n\"I assumed they'd see that to enable a violent man to have a relationship with his children, contact needed to be supervised,\" she says, of the family courts.\n\n\"But that's not how they see it at all.\n\n\"My solicitor told me, 'Unless he's beaten you black and blue, he'll be deemed a good enough father. Don't even bother trying.'\"\n\nMary says her children now \"wake up sobbing, and I just reassure them that no-one is expecting them to stand up to their dad\".\n\nShe adds: \"Nobody is saying that a child shouldn't have a relationship with their father. It just it needs to be healthy and safe.\"\n\nThe BBC has learned that 123 MPs from seven different parties have now come together to sign a letter to Justice Secretary David Gauke calling for an independent inquiry into the family courts \"to establish the extent of the problem and if more fundamental reform is required\".\n\nThe letter continues: \"The lack of transparency in the family courts, while essential in maintaining the privacy of families and children, does not allow scrutiny and masks decisions that are made contrary to the interests of victims of domestic abuse, rape and violence - or their children\".\n\nLouise Haigh says it is \"horrifying\" that men are being granted access to their child after being convicted of a violent crime\n\nLabour's shadow policing minister, Louise Haigh MP, said it was \"horrifying that even in proven cases of sexual assault, severe domestic abuse, rape, murder in some cases, men are still being encouraged and granted access to their child\".\n\nShe added: \"If they're a known risk to mother or child, then we need to assume that contact probably isn't best for the child and grant it only in certain circumstances.\"\n\nWhen there is a court-ordered contact, a parent can be at risk of being fined or going to prison if they fail to send their child on the unsupervised visit.\n\nBarrister Charlotte Proudman, who specialises in cases involving violence against women, told the BBC she had witnessed a perception that mothers were preventing contact with fathers without good reason.\n\n\"I've heard judges say, 'Oh, it's just a little bit of domestic violence.' It's minimised rather than seeing the significance of that,\" she added.\n\nCharlotte Proudman says she has heard judges \"minimise\" domestic violence\n\nThe Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) said in a statement: \"One of our most challenging professional tasks is to assess what level of parental involvement is safe and in the child's best interests, in cases where a parent has a history of domestic abuse.\n\n\"We must continue to reduce [the risk of parents harming children] by understanding these cases better and looking wider than the court process.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the UK judiciary said judges were \"required to consider all the evidence put forward and to reconcile any conflicting interests at a time that they know is exceptionally stressful for all those involved.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said: \"The welfare of the child is the paramount consideration of the family courts when making decisions about their upbringing\".\n\nIt added that it would \"continue to explore\" ways to improve how the justice system deals with domestic abuse.\n\nFor information and support, including sources of support for those affected by sexual violence and domestic abuse, visit the BBC's Action Line.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Essex mum 'bedbound for six months of pregnancy'\n\nFor Hannah Dalton, pregnancy meant not being able to drink fluids for eight months without throwing up, going into hospital 27 times for intravenous drips and living off ice lollies and anti-sickness medication.\n\nHannah, 30, from Thundersley, Essex, had hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), the severe pregnancy sickness the Duchess of Cambridge experienced during her three pregnancies.\n\nShe was bedridden for six months, ended up in a wheelchair and, at her worst, her body started to shut down.\n\n\"I seriously questioned was this still worth doing,\" Hannah says.\n\n\"We wanted a bigger family but was there a chance that we would lose me. I thought I was dying.\"\n\nWith support from her family, Hannah continued with her pregnancy and, in April, gave birth to a girl.\n\nThe moment she went into labour, the sickness stopped.\n\nMore than 5,000 women from across the UK have shared their experience of HG with BBC News:\n\nLast year, UK hospitals saw more than 36,000 admissions for pregnant women needing urgent care because of extreme sickness and dehydration.\n\nThe causes of HG are unknown. There is some evidence it runs in families. And if a woman had HG in a previous pregnancy, she is more likely to have it in the next.\n\nNow, scientists at King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital are launching a four-year study - the world's largest - in the hope of finding some answers.\n\nBlood samples and medical histories will be taken from at least 1,000 women admitted to hospital with the most severe HG symptoms and others recruited via the charity Pregnancy Sickness Support.\n\nThe study will be looking for genetic links and hormonal changes, in particular a protein, GDF15, produced by the placenta, which affects the part of the brain controlling vomiting and nausea.\n\nConsultant obstetrician Prof Catherine Williamson says: \"The problem we have is that the treatments aren't good enough.\n\n\"Our ambition is to identify genetic causes of this condition so we can tell why women have it and identify those at risk.\n\n\"We can then develop new treatments that are much more effective so hopefully there won't be any more women with severe hyperemesis, because we can control it.\"\n\nEver since the thalidomide scandal 50 years ago, there has been concern about taking anti-sickness drugs during pregnancy.\n\nThe sedative, which was found to ease nausea and vomiting in expectant mothers, left thousands of babies with severe birth defects.\n\nBut most women with HG do end up taking some sort of medication to control the vomiting.\n\nOnly one, Xonvea, is permitted in Britain for use in pregnancy - but alternatives, such as cyclizine, prochlorperazine and ondansetron, are also regularly prescribed and considered safe by doctors who treat the condition.\n\nWomen may also be given vitamin B6 and B12 or steroids. If these don't work, women may need to be admitted to hospital for treatment including intravenous fluids.\n\nHere are the words of one woman who terminated three pregnancies because of HG. She now has a young child.\n\n\"It's your own personal hell that you can't escape from. It's devastating. It completely takes over your life, your family's life, so it would be easier either to just miscarry or die.\n\n\"The vomiting and retching was so violent and so intense, I couldn't breathe.\n\n\"I couldn't take a breath while I was retching, so I passed out and woke up on the bathroom floor and I thought, 'Oh my God, I can't do this.'\n\n\"I did have some dark moments.\n\n\"I wanted this baby so badly but I felt like it was killing me and ultimately, out of pure desperation, led me to have three terminations.\n\n\"I developed PTSD. I had insomnia and nightmares when I could sleep.\n\n\"The senior consultant came round and said, 'Have you tried ginger biscuits and salty crackers?' and I was like, 'Oh my God.'\n\n\"It's like saying to somebody with a broken leg, 'Have you tried rubbing lavender oil on it?'... because if the senior consultant didn't understand, what hope did I have?\"\n\nCaitlin Dean, from Pregnancy Sickness Support, says not treating HG has serious risks.\n\n\"Increasingly evidence suggests that, while the actual nausea and vomiting is unlikely to harm the offspring, the complications of HG, such as malnutrition, dehydration and mental ill health, can cause lifelong consequences for both mother and baby,\" she says.\n\n\"There are many wonderful, compassionate doctors out there providing excellent evidence-based care for people with HG but unfortunately there are also doctors who do not recognise the condition, are reluctant to prescribe appropriate treatment or are unaware of the evidence base.\n\n\"This leads to a vast amount of unnecessary suffering, costly hospital admissions and, all too often, terminations of otherwise wanted pregnancies.\n\n\"In 2019, there is very little excuse not to provide this basic level of care for pregnant women.\"\n\nFelicity Collins, from Northamptonshire, was desperate for doctors to prescribe her stronger drugs to help her cope with HG.\n\nShe was already in hospital, and 24 hours away from terminating her twin pregnancy, when she was finally given steroids to ease the constant vomiting.\n\n\"It was such a dark time,\" she says.\n\n\"It was a decision we made because I knew without those drugs, I couldn't carry on.\n\n\"I couldn't eat or drink. Everything made me sick. It was so bad. That's how close it came.\"\n\nFor the next six months, she injected herself daily with steroids, finally giving birth to twin boys, Arthur and Harry, who are now three years old.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn eight weeks of pregnancy, Laura Anderson lost one stone (6.3kg).\n\n\"I dream about eating again and drinking again,\" she says.\n\n\"This illness makes you a shadow of who you were… it's nine months of living hell.\"\n\nLaura faces about 20 more weeks of HG before she gives birth.\n\nShe says: \"I fully intend on getting to the end of this pregnancy with a baby, no matter what it does to my health.\n\n\"And when this baby girl is born and the HG has gone, I will spend the rest of my life trying to raise awareness about this awful illness.\n\n\"I'm doing it for my daughter, in case she gets it, and God forbid that she does.\"\n• None Bedridden for six months of pregnancy. Video, 00:01:34Bedridden for six months of pregnancy\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Miller-Heidke (centre) wrote Zero Gravity with her husband Keir Nuttall\n\nAustralia will take part in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest for the fifth year running after making it through this year's first semi-final.\n\nSinger Kate Miller-Heidke qualified with Zero Gravity, a pop-opera combo she performed in Tel Aviv while suspended in mid-air on a bendy pole.\n\nLeather-clad punk band Hatari also went through for Iceland with their dark techno track Hate Will Prevail.\n\nBut there was no happy ending for the Finnish representative, DJ Darude.\n\nThe Sandstorm hit-maker was sent packing along with fellow countryman Sebastian Rejman and entrants from six other nations.\n\nA further 18 countries will take part in the second semi-final on Thursday.\n\nOther countries to be eliminated on Tuesday included Hungary, who failed to qualify for the first time this decade.\n\nSinger/rapper Joci Papai finished eighth when he represented his nation in 2017, but his heartfelt ballad My Father failed to find favour this time around.\n\nBelgium and Poland did not advance for the second year running, while there was disappointment again for habitual underachievers Montenegro.\n\nYet it was very much the opposite for San Marino's Serhat, who became only the second Sammarinese representative to ever make it past the semi-final stage.\n\nViewers in the UK missed some of the 54-year-old singer's celebrations when BBC Four's coverage of the event cut out shortly after his place in the final was confirmed.\n\nAn on-screen message apologised for the break in transmission.\n\nTuesday's show began with Israeli singer Netta Barzilai emerging from a giant lucky cat sculpture to perform a souped-up version of her song Toy.\n\nNetta won last year's contest with the clucking infectious dance number, earning Israel the right to host this year's edition.\n\nTransgender diva Dana International, who won Eurovision for Israel in 1998, was another local star to make a warmly received comeback.\n\nHer cover of Bruno Mars' Just the Way You Are was accompanied by \"kiss-cam\" shots showing couples of all genders expressing affection for one another in the auditorium.\n\n\"We all deserve to be loved,\" Dana International told the audience in Tel Aviv\n\nFrance, Spain and Israel's representatives also made brief appearances during Tuesday's live telecast.\n\nAll three automatically qualify for Saturday's final, along with acts from Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.\n\nThe countries making it through the first semi-final were:\n\nSerhat failed to qualify when he sang for San Marino in 2016\n\nThe countries eliminated in the first semi-final were:\n\nA fake beard and a bare-chested dancer was not enough to see Portugal progress\n\nThe fates of the semi-finalists were decided by a combination of votes from national juries and TV viewers.\n\nThe UK's hopes in Saturday's final will rest on Hartlepool-born singer Michael Rice and his power ballad Bigger Than Us.\n\nThe 21-year-old winner of talent show All Together Now was chosen as the UK's representative earlier this year on Eurovision: You Decide.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Edwards has lived with PKU since he was born\n\nA man with a rare inability to digest protein has said eating a normal diet would leave him brain damaged.\n\nMark Edwards, 35, has phenylketonuria (PKU), meaning he can only eat 6g (0.2oz) of protein per day - about one egg or two tablespoons of beans.\n\nEating more than his body could process could cause him to suffer depression, anxiety or even brain damage.\n\nA form of treatment, Kuvan, is not available on the NHS - which instead recommends a strict diet.\n\nA number of MPs are calling on drug company BioMarin to make the \"life-changing\" treatment affordable to UK patients.\n\nBioMarin said the NHS had not accepted its \"very competitive\" offer.\n\nThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which advises the NHS, said it had not begun its appraisal of Kuvan to treat PKU, but has made the \"exceptional decision\" to ask a panel to look at the issue.\n\nAfter this, a formal referral will be required from the UK government's health minister to determine the process under which Kuvan will be assessed, a spokeswoman said.\n\nMr Edwards, from Llanegryn in Gwynedd, was diagnosed with PKU at birth after it showed up in the standard blood tests given to babies - the condition affects one in 10,000 people in the UK.\n\nHe spends about £4,000 a year on Kuvan tablets, which allow him to eat more protein - and said they could change the lives of people with PKU.\n\nAmino acids are the building blocks of protein and are broken down by the body to make our own proteins.\n\nBut people with PKU cannot properly digest the amino acid phenylalanine, and the levels build up in the bloodstream and the brain - leading to a number of health problems.\n\nContainers showing how much protein Mark can eat in a day\n\n\"I can't have any meat, no egg, so nothing. Just what is available on prescription, really,\" said Mr Edwards\n\nWith Kuvan, Mr Edwards is able to eat up to 15g (0.5oz) a day, which he called \"a massive difference\".\n\n\"It's been available for 10 years but BioMarin, the company which makes it, they've put a price on it which is too expensive for the NHS,\" he said.\n\nMr Edwards has met Westminster politicians to discuss how sufferers of conditions such as PKU have been \"massively failed by the system\".\n\nHe is being supported by Plaid Cymru's Westminster spokeswoman, Liz Saville-Roberts, who said any drug with the potential to improve the lives of those with PKU should be easily and freely available.\n\nThe company which makes Kuvan says the only countries not funding it in Europe are the UK and Poland\n\nKuvan reduces the levels of phenylalanine in many with PKU.\n\nBioMarin said it had put the drug forward for commissioning five times in the past 10 years with no success.\n\n\"The burden and severity of PKU as a disease in the UK is not recognised by NICE or the NHS,\" it said.\n\n\"BioMarin has made an offer to the NHS which is very competitive compared to other markets but it has not been accepted.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Macdonald said he would not now be standing as a candidate for Change UK\n\nChange UK's lead candidate for the EU elections in Scotland has quit the race and is now endorsing the Lib Dems.\n\nDavid Macdonald is top of the Change UK list in Scotland, but said the party \"don't stand much of a chance\" of winning a seat in the 23 May poll.\n\nHe urged pro-Remain voters to back the Lib Dems to avoid \"splitting the vote\" and benefiting pro-Brexit parties.\n\nChange UK MP Chuka Umunna said it was \"disappointing\" that Mr Macdonald had \"let down his fellow candidates\".\n\nMr Macdonald is the second lead candidate to quit the Change UK list in Scotland, after David Russo withdrew one day into the race.\n\nBecause the deadline for registrations has passed he will still appear on the ballot paper for the party, but has written to MP Anna Soubry to announce his resignation and underline his backing for the Lib Dems.\n\nShould Change UK win a seat in the Scotland constituency, it would now pass to the next candidate on the list, Peter Griffiths.\n\nSpeaking alongside Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie outside Holyrood, Mr Macdonald - an independent councillor in East Renfrewshire - said it had been \"an honour\" to be Change UK's lead candidate in Scotland.\n\nHe said the new party was \"genuinely a force for good\", but that \"if things continue as they are, the Remain vote will split in Scotland and put at risk the representation that supporters of remaining in the EU collectively desire\".\n\nHe added that \"the numbers don't look good\" for Change UK in Scotland, and that voters should instead back the \"fundamentally similar\" pro-EU and pro-UK platform of the Lib Dems.\n\nMr Macdonald said: \"They share many of the values of Change UK and are now the most likely party in favour of both remaining in the EU and of Scotland remaining in the UK to have a chance of being elected.\"\n\nIn response, Mr Umunna said Mr Macdonald had \"let down his fellow candidates and activists\".\n\nHe said: \"We are focusing all our efforts on adding to the Remain vote in the UK and challenging the pro-Brexit Tory, Brexit and Labour parties.\n\n\"Winning voters over from the main parties and growing the Remain vote across the UK will continue to be our focus.\"", "Complaints against payday lenders have soared to a five-year high, the industry watchdog has said.\n\nThere were nearly 40,000 new complaints brought last year, up a \"startling\" 130% on the 17,000 the previous year, the Financial Ombudsman Service said.\n\nIn too many cases people have been left to struggle with debt, it said.\n\nShort-term lender industry body the Consumer Finance Association (CFA) said most of the complaints dated back a number of years.\n\nMost of the complaints were made about affordability. Some customers took out 20 to 30 loans in a short space of time, either to pay off other outstanding loans or for household bills.\n\nMany of the complaints came through claims management companies, the CFA said.\n\nA CFA spokeswoman said: \"These figures show a deeply disappointing increase, driven by a flood from claims management companies and we continue to see many a complaint that has no foundation.\n\n\"Now nearly nine in 10 of complaints to firms are generated by these companies. The complaints are often of poor quality.\"\n\nShe added that the lender has to pay the case fee regardless of who submits the complaint, and said some members had questioned the ombudsman's complaint figures.\n\nLast calendar year the highest volume of complaints were made against QuikQuid owner Casheuronet.\n\nJohn from Stockton on Tees says he has had payday loans with \"virtually every company out there\", including ones that have gone into administration.\n\n\"I am in contact with the administrators by email who tell me I am owed thousands but if I receive anything it will be next year and a small percentage of what I am owed,\" he says.\n\n\"I have also come to an agreement with one lender who has agreed to refund me £350 without involving the financial ombudsman.\n\n\"The problem with all this though is that I was paying back these debts with all the inflated interest and charges for months.\n\n\"Now these loans no longer exist will I get these payments back?\"\n\nOverall, complaints about financial services shot up to a five-year high, with more than 388,000 new complaints made in the last financial year, a 14% increase on the previous year.\n\nCaroline Wayman, chief ombudsman and chief executive of the Financial Ombudsman Service, said: \"Too often we see that the interests of consumers are not hard-wired into financial services.\n\n\"This marks a five-year high in the number of complaints that consumers have brought to us, and the behaviour we've seen from some businesses is simply not good enough.\"\n\nThe Financial Ombudsman Service added that complaints about fraud and scams increased by more than 40% in 2018-2019, with more than 12,000 received.\n\nGareth Shaw of consumer group Which? said: \"Bank transfer fraud is spiralling out of control, with people losing life-changing sums every day and then facing a gruelling battle to get their money back from the very banks that should be preventing them from falling victim in the first place.\"\n\nPayday lenders say that they have faced a flood of spurious compensation claims, driven by commission-hungry claims management companies.\n\nThe lenders are furious that if the borrower appeals to the Financial Ombudsman Service they have to pay £550 per case whatever the outcome.\n\nAnd since the collapse of Wonga, which fell into administration in August last year, the rush to complain has become even more urgent because of the fear that more firms will fail and the compensation will dry up.\n\nBut while the ombudsman agrees that the numbers of complaints are \"startling\", it has little sympathy for payday lenders which it says have left too many people struggling with debt.", "Child poverty is tightening its grip on Britain's poorest families, research suggests.\n\nAbout two-thirds of children are living in poverty-hit families in pockets of some large cities, the study for End Child Poverty Coalition estimates.\n\nMore than half of children in over 200 wards are below the poverty line, statistical analysis of official indices of poverty shows.\n\nThe coalition of poverty charities says whole areas are abandoned to poverty.\n\nThe research, carried out by Prof Donald Hirsh at the University of Loughborough, found the situation was getting worse in places where child poverty was already at the highest level.\n\nThese areas are in large cities like London, Greater Manchester and Birmingham, with the rankings changing around a little, depending on whether housing costs are taken into account.\n\nStreets like these in Bastwell, Blackburn, hide child poverty\n\nBut the ward with the highest level of child poverty in Britain is Bastwell in Blackburn. Here, 69% of children are living in poverty.\n\nA community worker in the area, Abdul Muller, said he was surprised Bastwell came top of the table for child poverty in wards.\n\nMr Muller, who runs the Healthy Living charity at the Bangor Community Centre in the area, said high poverty rates were down to low pay, zero-hours contracts and cuts to support services.\n\nThe top four hardest-hit areas, if housing costs are included, are the London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham, Hackney and Islington.\n\nIn Greater Manchester, the child poverty rate (before housing costs) is 40% - nearly double the UK average of 22%.\n\nCoalition chairwoman Anna Feuchtwang said: \"In many areas growing up in poverty is not the exception, it's the rule - and with more children expected to get swept up in child poverty in the coming years, with serious consequences for their life chances.\n\n\"Policymakers can no longer deny the depth of the problem or abandon entire areas to rising poverty.\n\n\"The government must respond with a credible child poverty policy.\"\n\nThe results were calculated by combining official data on poverty indicators in local areas, such as unemployment, benefit take-up and the number of lone parents, to calculate the relative child poverty rates in local authorities, constituencies and by individual electoral wards.\n\nFamilies are in relative poverty if they live on less than 60% of the middle household.\n\nThe cost of housing for each local area is factored in as well, to calculate real rates paid after housing costs are paid.\n\nThe method is used by the Office of National Statistics and the World Bank.\n\nIt shows that it was 2010 when child poverty began to rise again, after a long period in which it fell.\n\nProf Hirsch said: \"What's shocking rather than surprising is that over the previous 12 to 15 years, we had a period when it was going down.\n\n\"We are now getting close to the time when we will have lost the gains we have made - half of those gains in reductions of child poverty have already been lost.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions said children growing up in working households were five times less likely to be in relative poverty, which was why it was supporting families to improve their lives through work.\n\n\"Statistics show employment is at a joint record high, wages are outstripping inflation and income inequality and absolute poverty are lower than in 2010.\n\n\"But we recognise some families need more support.\n\n\"That is why we continue to spend £95 billion a year on working-age benefits and provide free school meals to more than one million of the country's most disadvantaged children, to ensure every child has the best start in life.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jon McCourt (centre) said some victims feel they are being used as a leverage tool in talks to restore devolution\n\nHistorical abuse survivors feel like they are being used as \"a blackmail tool\" in NI's political talks process, a campaigner has said.\n\nNI Secretary Karen Bradley has pushed back the prospect of taking legislation through Westminster to give compensation to abuse victims.\n\nPayments were recommended by the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry in 2017.\n\nJon McCourt, of the Survivors North West group, said some victims feel they are being used as a leverage tool in talks to restore devolution.\n\n\"Victims and survivors are seeing this as being used for leverage to drag a coalition of the unwilling around the table,\" Mr McCourt said\n\nHe added: \"In other words we are a blackmail tool for the secretary of state to use to force a government around a table at Stormont and we are not going to be used for it.\"\n\nMr McCourt said he was \"ashamed that Karen Bradley has the brass neck to call herself secretary of state.\"\n\nMrs Bradley sent a letter to victims' groups on Tuesday\n\nDavid Sterling, the head of the NI Civil Service, had asked Mrs Bradley to take control of the issue.\n\nBBC News NI has seen a letter from the secretary of state, which was sent to victims' groups on Tuesday.\n\nIn the letter, Mrs Bradley suggested putting HIA payments as an item in the Stormont talks process was the \"quickest possible way to bring this issue to a resolution\".\n\n\"Unfortunately we cannot simply take forward legislation without addressing the consultation feedback,\" Mrs Bradley said in her letter.\n\n\"Urgent consideration needs to be given to the views expressed during the consultation.\"\n\nWe are a blackmail tool for the secretary of state to use to force a government around a table at Stormont, and we are not going to be used for it.\"\n\nMr McCourt's views were shared by others representing survivors.\n\n\"It is utterly appalling that, yet again, the survivors are being used as leverage to pressure the political parties into an agreement,\" Claire McKeegan, a solicitor who represents some of the victims, told BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"The reality here is that this is yet another political decision where the government will cherry pick issues which it will deal with... and yet when it comes to the survivors of institutional abuse ... the government just will not take steps.\"\n\nIt comes a day after the Executive Office published responses to a public consultation on HIA redress.\n\nThe consultation received 562 responses. However, the Executive Office said it has completed its analysis of them.\n\nMrs Bradley added that she has also written to Mr Sterling to ask him to include HIA matters in the current round of Stormont talks.\n\nHe is chairing the working group looking at the programme for government.\n\nLast week, the Head of the Civil Service David Sterling said the historical institutional abuse issue \"transcends politics\"\n\n\"The current talks are the best opportunity for these complex issues - such as the total redress payment - to be discussed by local politicians,\" she added.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Office (NIO) said the secretary of state believes \"the quickest and best route to deliver for victims and survivors is to include this issue as a priority in the talks process\".\n\n\"This has a timeframe to make progress by the end of May,\" it added.\n\nThe HIA inquiry was set up by Stormont leaders to investigate allegations of abuse in children's residential homes run by religious, charitable and state organisations.\n\nIt was chaired by Sir Anthony Hart and its remit covered a 73-year period from the foundation of Northern Ireland in 1922 through to 1995.\n\nThe inquiry made a number of recommendations including compensation, a memorial and a public apology to abuse survivors.\n\nSince the inquiry ended two years ago, 30 survivors of historical institutional abuse have died.\n\nMike Nesbitt, a former victims' commissioner and Ulster Unionist Party leader, said Mrs Bradley was pushing him to \"breaking point\".\n\n\"There is not on penny in this year's budget for redress of historical institutional abuse victims,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's The Nolan Show.\n\n\"[UUP leader] Robin Swann will contact the secretary of state and 'say get on with it in Westminster', and he will contact the other four main party leaders and say, 'contact the secretary of state'.\n\n\"I have dealt in one way or another with the last 13 secretaries of state and she is the worst by a country mile.\"\n\nMrs Bradley said she will also meet the chair of the HIA inquiry, Sir Anthony Hart, in the coming days, as well as a number of victims' and survivors' groups next week.\n\nAmnesty International has described the latest development as a \"shameful betrayal of abuse victims, who have been let down time after time\".\n\nLast week, Stormont's political parties echoed calls from David Sterling and victims' groups for the secretary of state to take immediate action on HIA compensation.", "Asda could be listed on the stock market after its merger with supermarket rival Sainsbury's was blocked by the competition authorities.\n\nJudith McKenna, chief executive of Asda's owner Walmart, has told staff such a listing is being considered.\n\nBut, she told managers at an event in Leeds - where Asda is based - any listing could \"take years\".\n\nIt comes after the Competition and Markets Authority blocked its merger with rival Sainsbury's.\n\nThe CMA was concerned the tie-up would raise prices for consumers, raise prices at the supermarkets' petrol stations and lead to longer checkout queues.\n\nIt has left the giant US retailer Walmart looking at options for the supermarket chain it bought 20 years ago.\n\n\"While we are not rushing into anything, I want you to know that we are seriously considering a path to an IPO - a public listing - to strengthen your long-term success,\" Ms McKenna said.\n\nWalmart would have kept a 42% stake in the enlarged Sainbury's-Asda business if the £15bn tie-up had gone ahead.\n\nThe remarks by Ms McKenna are the first time that Walmart has spoken about the future of its UK operations since the CMA blocked the deal.\n\nManagers at the meeting were also told to prepare staff for the need for \"ongoing change\" amid proposals to make changes to contracts that increase the basic pay of staff and require more flexible working. There have been warnings that this could leave staff worse off.\n\nAsda is traditionally a value supermarket but had come under pressure from discounters Aldi and Lidl, which have rapidly expanded their market share in recent years. T\n\nWalmart, often described as the world's largest retailer, has already listed its Mexico operations and has been buying smaller companies, such as online shopping Jet.com, as well as brands such as Bonobos and Bare Necessities, to expand into new areas.\n\nThe GMB union said it had called for an urgent meeting with Walmart bosses to discuss the flotation plans.\n\nGMB national officer Gary Carter said there was \"uproar among the workforce\" over plans to change Asda employees' contracts.\n\nHe called on the supermarket to address that \"debacle\" before any stock market listing took place.\n\nMs McKenna told the 1,200 managers at the meeting: \"Walmart does not have a one-size-fits-all approach to operating its international markets, but a consistent focus on strong local businesses powered by Walmart.\"\n\nEven before the CMA formally blocked the deal, there had been reports that private equity house KKR could consider an offer for Asda and install former Asda chief executive Tony De Nunzio to run the operation.\n\nThe current Asda chief executive, Roger Burnley, also spoke to the managers at the meeting, which took place on Tuesday, and told them that there would be no change in strategy.\n\nAsda, which calls its staff \"colleagues\", intends to make £80m of price cuts during the rest of this year and trial new technology.\n\nA \"scan and go\" initiative was launched in 25 stores last week and more \"click and collect\" towers will be installed in stores.", "The government has rejected a definition of Islamophobia created by a cross-party group of MPs.\n\nThe All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims wanted to define it to tackle what it called a \"social evil\".\n\nBut a government spokesman said the wording needed \"further careful consideration\" and had \"not been broadly accepted\".\n\nThe secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, Harun Khan, called the decision \"truly extraordinary\".\n\nMPs will debate the definition in Parliament on Thursday. It says: \"Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.\"\n\nThe wording has the support of a number of political parties - including Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish Conservatives - and several Muslim groups.\n\nBut concerns have been raised that the definition is too vague and could undermine efforts to tackle extremism.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May - seen by the Times - Martin Hewitt, who chairs the National Police Chiefs' Council, said it could cause confusion among officers and hamper the fight against terrorism.\n\nFormer Conservative chair Baroness Warsi - who became the first Muslim woman to attend cabinet, in 2010 - said the letter was \"irresponsible scaremongering\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that \"a non-legally binding working definition\" would not affect the work of the police and urged the government to back it.\n\nBaroness Warsi was the first Muslim woman to attend cabinet, in 2010\n\nThe APPG announced its definition in December, saying the fact Islamophobia had \"surpassed the dinner table test\" - a term used by Baroness Warsi in 2011 to describe how being Islamophobic had become socially acceptable - still needed addressing.\n\nIn its report, the group said: \"More than 20 years since the term Islamophobia entered our political and policy lexicon, and almost a decade since its 'passing the dinner table test' was raised, this is a good time to stop and survey the progress that has been made in challenging this social evil.\n\n\"It is with this intent, and to deter a further 20 years before substantive progress is made in tackling its blight on our British Muslim citizens, that the APPG on British Muslims opened its inquiry into a working definition of Islamophobia.\n\n\"No amount of documentation of the evidence of discriminatory outcomes faced by Muslims... can satisfy our desire to reverse these results if we cannot begin from the point of an agreed definition.\"\n\nCritics have questioned whether the definition could lead to issues with freedom of speech.\n\nAn open letter signed by over 40 academics, writers and campaigners said it was \"unfit for purpose\", warning its \"uncritical and hasty adoption\" would \"aggravate community tensions\" and \"inhibit free speech about matters of fundamental importance\".\n\nBut the MCB's Mr Khan said the conclusion was \"deeply disingenuous\" and the government appeared to be \"wilfully misreading of the definition and aligned to a number of bad faith actors whose views - rather than those of Muslim communities - appear to be influencing this decision\".\n\n\"Being critical of Islam or any religion does not make you an Islamophobe,\" he added. \"You are only an Islamophobe if you use the language of racism targeting expressions of Muslimness.\"\n\nMs Shah, Labour's shadow minister for Women and Equalities, backs the definition and accused the government of being \"in denial\".\n\nShe said: \"The Conservative Party is in denial about Islamophobia and other forms of racism in its ranks and that denial flows from the very top.\n\n\"If Theresa May refuses to adopt the definition of Islamophobia, the message she sends to the Muslim community will be heard loud and clear.\"\n\nA government spokesman said: \"Any hatred directed against British Muslims and others because of their faith or heritage is utterly unacceptable.\n\n\"We are conscious that the APPG's proposed definition has not been broadly accepted - unlike the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism before it was adopted by the UK government and other international organisations and governments.\n\n\"This is a matter that needs further careful consideration.\"\n• None 'No place' for Islamophobia in Tory party", "High-definition cameras \"map\" faces in a crowd and compare them to existing images\n\nLegislators in San Francisco have voted to ban the use of facial recognition, the first US city to do so.\n\nThe emerging technology will not be allowed to be used by local agencies, such as the city’s transport authority, or law enforcement.\n\nAdditionally, any plans to buy any kind of new surveillance technology must now be approved by city administrators.\n\nOpponents of the measure said it will put people’s safety at risk and hinder efforts to fight crime.\n\nThose in favour of the move said the technology as it exists today is unreliable, and represented an unnecessary infringement on people’s privacy and liberty.\n\nIn particular, opponents argued the systems are error prone, particularly when dealing with women or people with darker skin.\n\n\"With this vote, San Francisco has declared that face surveillance technology is incompatible with a healthy democracy and that residents deserve a voice in decisions about high-tech surveillance,\" said Matt Cagle from the American Civil Liberties Union in Northern California.\n\n\"We applaud the city for listening to the community, and leading the way forward with this crucial legislation. Other cities should take note and set up similar safeguards to protect people's safety and civil rights.\"\n\nThe vote was passed by San Francisco’s supervisors 8-1, with two absentees. The measure is expected to be officially passed into city law after a second vote next week.\n\nThe move angered campaigners who said the tech would help fight crime\n\n\"Instead of an outright ban, we believe a moratorium would have been more appropriate,\" said Joel Engardio, vice-president of Stop Crime SF.\n\n\"We agree there are problems with facial recognition ID technology and it should not be used today. But the technology will improve and it could be a useful tool for public safety when used responsibly. We should keep the door open for that possibility.\"\n\nThe new rules will not apply to security measures at San Francisco’s airport or sea port, as they are run by federal, not local, agencies.\n\nSome campaigners unsuccessfully urged for the measures not to apply to local police. While San Francisco’s officers do not currently use facial recognition technology, a number of other police forces across the US do.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "A number of workers in Wales have paid the wrong amount of income tax after Scottish rates were applied instead.\n\nHMRC have not said how many workers were affected by a mix-up over the tax codes used to show where people live.\n\nIn April, the Welsh Rates of Income Tax were introduced and the tax code which should be used is C.\n\nHMRC said the error was down to some employers entering an S code for Scotland, which meant some paid too much tax and others not enough.\n\n\"We have been made aware of an error in the application of new income tax codes for Welsh taxpayers by some employers which has meant some taxpayers paid the incorrect amount of tax in April,\" an HMRC statement said.\n\nIt said any errors would be resolved through PAYE and the taxpayers affected did not need to take any action.\n\n\"It is the responsibility of the employer to apply the tax codes provided by HMRC and we are working closely with the employers affected and providing support as they investigate and correct the problem.\n\nBut the Welsh Assembly's finance committee chairman Llyr Gruffydd said HMRC was aware there could have been issues.\n\n\"HMRC's admission is deeply disappointing as this committee was repeatedly given assurances that mistakes like this would not happen,\" he said.\n\n\"We raised concerns about the flagging process for identifying Welsh taxpayers during our inquiries into fiscal devolution and the Welsh Government's draft budget.\n\n\"On each occasion we were told the matter was in hand and the lessons from the devolution of income tax powers to Scotland, where there were similar issues, had been soundly learned and would be put into effect.\"", "Alejandro González Iñárritu and jury member Elle Fanning took part in the opening ceremony\n\nThe Cannes Film Festival has got off to a hard-hitting start with its jury president accusing world leaders of ruling with \"rage and anger and lies\".\n\nMexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu said prevailing rhetoric around immigration - including the notion of a US-Mexico border wall - could lead to another world war.\n\n\"The problem is what is happening is ignorance,\" he added.\n\nHe spoke ahead of the opening premiere of Jim Jarmusch's The Dead Don't Die.\n\n\"I'm absolutely against what is happening all around and expect there will be something that will stop this dangerous thing that can return to us to 1939. We know how this story ends if we keep with that rhetoric,\" said the Birdman, Babel and Revenant director.\n\nReferring to climate change he said: \"The world is melting and these guys are basically ruling with rage and anger and lies and they are basically writing fiction and making people believe those are real thing and facts.\"\n\nThe 55-year-old, who was joined on the jury press conference panel by judges including Babel actor Elle Fanning and Oscar-nominated director Yorgos Lanthimos, added: \"I'm not a politician but as an artist I can express through my job with a heart open what I think and be truthful to what I leave through the work that I did.\"\n\nThe Dead Don’t Die star Bill Murray and director Jim Jarmusch attended the opening screening\n\nA few hours later, the festival's opening film - Jarmusch's dark zombie comedy - provided a slightly more satirical swipe on the leading world authorities, regarding current climate change and immigration policies.\n\nThe film, starring Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Tilda Swinton, concerns a zombie apocalypse brought about by \"polar fracking\" that sends the Earth off its axis.\n\n\"Maybe it'll all just go away like a bad dream,\" declares Murray.\n\n\"I doubt it,\" replies Driver, \"This is all gonna end badly\".\n\nThe topical movie comes just weeks after the Extinction Rebellion protests brought parts of London to a standstill.\n\nThe Dead Don't Die, which also features Selena Gomez, Chloe Sevigny and a brilliant cameo by the undead coffee-addicted Iggy Pop, earlier saw Steve Buscemi lampoon US President Donald Trump's signature Make America Great Again cap.\n\nHis character donned a similar one bearing the slogan 'Keep America White Again'.\n\nChloe Sevigny and Selena Gomez walked up the famous red steps\n\nThere were fits of laughter across the press screening throughout, though, and none more so than when Murray appeared to briefly nod off during a meandering pre-screening speech by French comedian Edouard Baer.\n\nThe opening ceremony was simultaneously beamed into 600 cinemas across France.\n\nStars of The Dead Don't Die headed off into the lively Cannes night, but are set to appear before the press again to answer questions on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe film festival is expected to get even more political as the week goes on, thanks to new works by socially-conscious Cannes veterans Ken Loach and Terrence Malick, as well as the first ever competition-listed film by a black woman - in the form of Mati Diop's Atlantics.\n\nWhen Leonardo DiCaprio arrives at the festival next week for the premiere of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, he'll also be promoting Ice on Fire; a climate change documentary, produced and narrated by the actor.\n\nIñárritu and the eight-strong panel will watch and then discuss the merits of all 21 films in competition over the next fortnight.\n\nThe winner will be awarded the esteemed Palme d'Or prize at the festival finale and the boss declared on Tuesday that the panel would make a decision based on \"the art\" and not \"the name or fame\" of each director's offering.", "The Labour Party is unveiling plans to take the National Grid into public ownership.\n\nIt wants to create a National Energy Agency to own and maintain transmission infrastructure.\n\nLabour said its nationalisation pledge would \"usher in a Green Industrial Revolution\" and tackle climate change.\n\nBut National Grid - the largest transmitter of electricity and gas in Britain - said the proposal was the \"last thing\" that was needed.\n\nThe firm, which does not operate in Northern Ireland, said the Labour plan would hinder the shift to green energy.\n\nLabour also set out plans to put solar panels on nearly two million homes.\n\nIts proposals are contained in a document entitled Bringing Energy Home, due to be presented on Thursday by leader Jeremy Corbyn and Rebecca Long Bailey, shadow energy secretary.\n\nInstalling solar panels on social homes and those with low-incomes is part of Labour's plan to \"usher in a Green Industrial Revolution in housing, transport and industry - creating over 400,000 jobs and tackling climate change\".\n\nLabour said the solar panels would reduce fuel bills, and that it would also offer interest-free loans, grants and make changes to regulations to help an additional 750,000 properties install solar panels.\n\nUnused electricity would be used by the National Grid, which would be nationalised.\n\n\"Energy networks that are owned by the public and responsive to the public interest will be able to prioritise tackling climate change, fuel poverty and security of supply over profit extraction, while working with energy unions to support energy workers through the transition,\" Labour said.\n\nBut National Grid said the plan would \"delay the huge amount of progress and investment that is already helping to make this country a leader in the move to green energy\".\n\n\"At a time when there is increased urgency to meet the challenges of climate change, the last thing that is needed is the enormous distraction, cost and complexity contained in these plans,\" it added.\n\nNational Grid chief executive John Pettigrew told the BBC's Today programme: \"We do not believe the Labour proposals are in the interests of customers.\"\n\nHe defended National Grid's record, saying it was \"in the middle of a huge transformation\" and \"investing hugely in the network\".\n\nHe said Labour had to consider what problem it was looking to solve.\n\nLabour is committed to generating at least 60% of the UK's electricity and heat from renewable and low-carbon sources by 2030.\n\nIt would take the four licensed and regulated electricity and gas transmission companies, including National Grid Electricity and National Grid Gas, back into public ownership and \"replace existing private monopolies with publicly owned and locally run institutions\".\n\nMr Corbyn said: \"Our Green Industrial Revolution will benefit working-class people with cheaper energy bills, more rewarding well-paid jobs, and new industries to revive the parts of our country that have been held back for far too long.\"\n\nHowever, Dan Neidle, a partner at law firm Clifford Chance, told the BBC that Labour's nationalisation plans could contravene international law, because of suggestions that it would not necessarily pay stock market value to buy back the assets.\n\nHe said that in every UK privatisation so far, the state paid market value, so it was not up to Labour to decide what was a fair price.\n\n\"That's not what the UK precedent is and that's not what international law says,\" he says.\n\n\"The courts have never said that's acceptable,\" he added. With the rare exception of Venezuela, \"you have to look quite hard for governments that have done that\".\n\nIf the UK did this, it might struggle to raise money in the bond market, he suggested.\n\nThe Conservative's vice-chairman for policy, Chris Philp, said Labour's \"ideological plan for the state to seize these companies would cost an eye-watering £100bn and saddle taxpayers with their debts\".\n\n\"It would leave politicians in Westminster in charge of keeping the lights on and leave customers with nowhere else to turn,\" he added.\n\n\"With no credible plan for how Labour would pay for this, more borrowing and tax hikes would be inevitable.\"", "Single parents and their children have lost challenges against the government's controversial benefits cap at the UK's highest court.\n\nThey said it was discriminatory to cap state benefits at £20,000 a year, or £23,000 for those in London.\n\nLawyers for the group of five women said the cap had left many families unable to afford basic necessities.\n\nBut Supreme Court justices rejected their appeals on Wednesday, saying it did not breach their human rights.\n\nParents can escape the cap by going out for work - a lone parent must do so for 16 hours a week.\n\nBut lawyers representing the lone parents said housing benefits had been \"drastically\" reduced by the cap.\n\nThey argued they should be exempted because of the difficulty for a single parent to find work and arrange childcare.\n\nLord Wilson, announcing the appeal had been rejected by a 5-2 majority, described the legislation which introduced the revised cap as \"tough\", and said the court had been faced with a \"difficult\" decision on the appeals.\n\nLady Hale ruled in favour of the women, saying it seemed to be \"a clear case where the weight of evidence shows that a fair balance has not been struck between the interests of the community and the interests of the children concerned and their parents\".\n\nAll seven justices agreed the cap has had a \"major impact on lone parents with children under school age\" because it \"is particularly difficult for them to go out to work\".\n\nBut Lord Wilson said \"we cannot go so far as to say that this application of the cap is manifestly without foundation\".\n\nCampaigners said the decision was very disappointing.\n\nShelter chief executive Polly Neate described it as \"a blow to the many lone parents who are struggling to keep a roof over their children's heads due to the benefit cap\".\n\nShe added: \"Some families we work with are left with 50p a week towards their rent.\n\n\"The court heard extensive evidence that the cap is not meeting the government's intended aims and is, in fact, causing severe hardship and destitution for families.\"\n\nAnd Carla Clarke, head of strategic litigation for the Child Poverty Action Group, said the benefits cap was \"increasing poverty while failing to deliver on its principal aim of work incentivisation\".\n\n\"There are very real and practical reasons, recognised by the court, as to why such a lone parent struggles to find sufficient work to escape the cap,\" she said.\n\n\"Yet, while failing to achieve its aim of getting such lone parents into work because of those wider obstacles they face, the cap, in the words of the court, 'push(es) a family well below the poverty line'.\n\n\"We continue to believe that the cap is structurally flawed and that pushing families who can't work deeper into poverty is totally unacceptable.\"", "Jeremy Kyle at MediaCityUK in Salford, where his show was filmed\n\nThe welfare of guests on TV shows is to be scrutinised by MPs and regulators in the wake of the death of a man who appeared on The Jeremy Kyle Show.\n\nITV has cancelled the daytime programme following the death of Steve Dymond.\n\nThe Commons media select committee is to investigate whether TV companies give guests enough support and media regulator Ofcom is examining whether to update its code of conduct.\n\nMr Kyle told the Sun he was \"utterly devastated by the recent events\".\n\nIn a statement he said: \"Myself and the production team I have worked with for the last 14 years are all utterly devastated by the recent events.\n\n\"Our thoughts and sympathies are with Steve's family and friends at this incredibly sad time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ex-Jeremy Kyle guest Danny Fuller: \"You've been used and abused and that's it\"\n\nMr Dymond was found dead on 9 May, a week after filming the show, during which he took a lie detector test.\n\nOfcom has told ITV to report back the initial findings from its investigation into Mr Dymond's participation in programme by Monday.\n\n\"While ITV has decided to cancel the programme, its investigation into what happened is continuing and we will review the findings carefully,\" the Ofcom spokesperson said.\n\nITV announced on Wednesday that The Jeremy Kyle Show had been axed permanently. Chief executive Carolyn McCall said the decision was a result of the \"gravity of recent events\".\n\nShe said: \"The Jeremy Kyle Show has had a loyal audience and has been made by a dedicated production team for 14 years, but now is the right time for the show to end.\"\n\nThere are now questions about how participants are looked after across the TV industry. Love Island, another ITV show, has also come under scrutiny after the deaths of two former contestants.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Love Island contestant Zara Holland on what it's like inside the villa\n\nDamian Collins MP, chair of the digital, culture, media and sport select committee, said: \"There needs to be an independent review of the duty of care TV companies have to participants in reality TV shows.\n\n\"Programmes like The Jeremy Kyle Show risk putting people who might be vulnerable on to a public stage at a point in their lives when they are unable to foresee the consequences, either for themselves or their families.\n\n\"With an increasing demand for this type of programming, we'll be examining broadcasting regulation in this area - is it fit for purpose?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe committee will scrutinise the psychological support provided to participants and ask who should be responsible for monitoring whether duty of care policies are being effectively applied.\n\nIt will also look at whether shows put pressure on participants to exhibit \"more extreme behaviour\".\n\nOfcom said it was \"vital\" that people taking part in reality and factual shows were properly looked after, and its broadcasting code of conduct could include new protections for them.\n\n\"We're examining whether more can be done to safeguard the welfare of those people, similar to the duty of care we have in the broadcasting code to protect under-18s,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nIf you are feeling emotionally distressed and would like details of organisations in the UK which offer advice and support, go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.", "The day in the Commons begins with questions to the Department for Exiting the European Union.\n\nStephen Barclay and his ministers will be at the dispatch box, responding to backbench MPs.\n\nOne minister took to Twitter to show he was ready...\n\nAfter that, Leader of the Commons Andrea Leadsom will outline what's coming up in Parliament in the forthcoming weeks.\n\nThere are two debates on subjects proposed by individual MPs and given the nod by the Backbench Business Committee.\n\nOne is on the definition of Islamophobia, and the other on the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.", "Anglers claims the 4x4 vehicles were driven \"back and forth\" through bird nests\n\nA group of people damaged wildlife and disturbed protected species after driving 4x4 vehicles through a river, it has been claimed.\n\nDavid Lewis said he called Natural Resources Wales (NRW) when he saw the vehicles enter the River Usk in Monmouthshire, on Sunday.\n\nLandowner Bev Baker said he was not present at the event and will prevent it from happening in the future.\n\nNRW said its officers were not required to attend but is investigating.\n\nAngling journalist Mr Lewis often fishes on the stretch of the river, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Special Area of Conservation (SAC).\n\nThe landowner said he was \"gutted\" to hear about what had happened\n\nHe said sandpiper birds return to the area every May to nest on a small beach.\n\n\"Where are they going to nest now? The vehicles were driving back and forth over their nest site,\" he said.\n\nMr Lewis said anglers are also concerned because the shad - a protected species of fish - spawns in the river at this time of year.\n\nThe BBC has learned the group were taking part in a regular, marshalled event in woodland running alongside the river, but had no permission to enter the water.\n\n\"I was gutted to hear this, we have warned the club that this can't go on and we won't let this happen again,\" said landowner Mr Baker.\n\nMr Lewis said he reported the incident to NRW but was told no officers were available to attend.\n\nResponding to Mr Lewis' claims, NRW said it is investigating the incident, adding it did not require \"immediate attendance\" because it did not believe any fish were killed and there was no pollution.\n\nGwent Police was informed of the incident.", "Detectives searching for the body of Emma Faulds have said the movements of two black cars are central to their investigation.\n\nThey have appealed for mobile phone and dashcam video of a black Mercedes and a black Jaguar car.\n\nThe vehicles are known to have been on the A714 Girvan to Newton Stewart road - the Mercedes on Monday 29 April and the Jaguar on Tuesday 30 April.\n\nA man has been charged with Ms Faulds' murder.\n\nRoss Willox, 39, made no plea at Ayr Sheriff Court and was remanded in custody.\n\nWhat Emma's family is going through is unimaginable and our priority is to find her\n\nMs Faulds, who was 39 and from Kilmarnock, was last seen in Monkton in Ayrshire on Sunday 28 April.\n\nPolice have said their operation includes specialist search advisors and forensic officers.\n\nThe Police Scotland force helicopter is also being used to assist with mapping the area.\n\nMs Faulds was last seen in Monkton on 28 April\n\nDet Ch Insp Martin Fergus, who is leading the inquiry, said: \"What Emma's family is going through is unimaginable and our priority is to find her.\n\n\"I am thankful to members of the public who have been in touch and have provided us with valuable information which has led us to explore this area.\n\n\"I believe the A714 route is key to helping us find Emma and I am appealing again to those who use this route regularly, please take time to think back and consider if you saw a Mercedes or Jaguar car on this road or parked up somewhere, or even off road.\n\n\"If you have dash cam footage, please take the time to go through and check it.\"\n\nHe added: \"You may not realise it but you could have captured footage of the vehicles in these locations which could provide us with vital information and assist us in finding Emma.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Richard Livett described how he was rescued after coming face to face with one of the attackers\n\nThe first person stabbed in the London Bridge attack has described how he came \"nose to nose\" with Khuram Butt, who shouted \"Allahu Akbar\" in his face before stabbing him in the back.\n\nRichard Livett, who had been out watching football, first thought he had witnessed an accident when he saw a van crash into railings on June 3, 2017.\n\nHe told an inquest he went to check on the occupants.\n\nBut in a \"split second\", his attacker's face was \"an inch or so off\", he said.\n\n\"I felt what I thought initially was a punch in the back, which turned out to be him flailing his arm around the back of me and stabbing me,\" Mr Livett told the hearing at London's Old Bailey.\n\nHe said that after looking at photographs, he could identify the man as Khuram Butt, one of the three attackers.\n\nMr Livett said after he was attacked, he slumped on the ground for a few seconds before deciding to get up and move away.\n\n\"It was chaos all around. I was aware of screaming and shouting and people around me,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it was a personal mission to get help as quickly as I possibly could. I realised it was quite a serious blow I had taken.\"\n\nHe went on to describe how he felt weak before he collapsed and banged on the locked door of the nearby Globe Tavern.\n\nSome people, including a soldier and an off-duty doctor, came to his aid before he was helped back towards the bridge to receive medical attention, chief coroner Mark Lucraft QC was told.\n\nAnother witness, Jack Baxter, told how he saw French-born waiter Alexandre Pigeard, 26, running and holding his neck near Borough Market's Boro Bistro, where he worked.\n\n\"He had somebody else running to his right,\" he said.\n\n\"They were both running, looking at each other almost in shock at what happened and screaming to each other like 'what's going on?'\"\n\nFrench-born waiter Mr Pigeard, left, and chef Mr Belanger, also from France, were both killed in the attack\n\nHe told the Old Bailey that he then saw a man, now identified as 36-year-old chef Sebastien Belanger, who was cornered by three knifeman in an archway before being stabbed.\n\nAsked how the attackers were behaving, he said that they looked to be acting as a team and appeared to have been trained.\n\nThe inquest into the deaths of eight victims has also been hearing from Rasak Kalenikanse, the doorman at the Barrowboy and Banker pub next to where the van crashed.\n\nMr Kalenikanse broke down in tears as he described seeing the three attackers standing with knives, while dead and injured people lay around them.\n\nHe said he heard one of them say: \"We are doing these things in the cause of Allah, you unbelievers.\"\n\nMuch of the inquest today has focused on witnesses' desperate attempts to save those who were wounded.\n\nThis afternoon Philippe Pigeard listened as a waiter described the moment he found his son, Alexandre Pigeard, mortally wounded on a walkway in the Borough Market area.\n\nDervish Gashi, a waiter at the nearby Cafe Brood, became upset when an image was shown to the court of the bloodied path where he found Mr Pigeard.\n\nHe wiped a shaky hand across his forehead as he described frantically searching for a pulse.\n\nDuring some of his evidence, Mr Pigeard's father closed his eyes with a pained expression on his face.\n\nAs Mr Gashi stepped out of the witness box, the bereaved father jumped out of his seat and approached him.\n\nHe whispered something in his ear and extended his hand out. They shook hands before enveloping in a spontaneous embrace.\n\nThe gesture of goodwill and solidarity was a brief moment of respite from the graphic narratives that have dominated this inquest.\n\nThe inquest also heard how three members of the public spent more than half an hour trying to save Mr Belanger after he was stabbed.\n\nCraig Smith and his girlfriend, Emma Thompson, were joined by Lisa Deacon, who told how she had been given first aid training a few weeks before the attack.\n\nMr Smith said the chef was initially conscious but became unresponsive as he tried to stop him from bleeding.\n\nThey were later joined by two police officers who helped them give CPR to Mr Belanger while also keeping watch in case the attackers returned.\n\nAfter 22:45 BST they brought Mr Belanger out to paramedics in Borough High Street.", "A school believed to be the first in the world predominantly for transgender children and their siblings opened in Chile last year.\n\nIt is named after the Mexican transgender politician Amaranta Gómez Regalado, and caters for children aged between 6 and 17.\n\nMany of the students dropped out of their previous schools once they began to transition.\n\nThey learn traditional subjects like maths, science, history, English and art and take part in state exams.", "Police are investigating the apparent suicide of a teenage Instagram user in Malaysia\n\nInstagram executives have said they are \"heartbroken\" over the reported suicide of a teenager in Malaysia who had posted a poll to its app.\n\nThe 16-year-old is thought to have killed herself hours after asking other users whether she should die.\n\nBut the technology company's leaders said it was too soon to say if they would take any action against account holders who took part in the vote.\n\nThe Instagram chiefs were questioned about the matter in Westminster.\n\nThey were appearing as part of an inquiry by the UK Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee into immersive and addictive technologies.\n\nReports indicate the unnamed teenager killed herself on Monday, in the eastern state of Sarawak.\n\nThe local police have said that she had run a poll on the photo-centric platform asking: \"Really important, help me choose D/L.\" The letters D and L are said to have represented \"die\" and \"live\" respectively.\n\nThis took advantage of a feature introduced in 2017 that allows users to pose a question via a \"sticker\" placed over one of their photos, with viewers asked to tap on one of two possible responses. The app then tallies the votes.\n\nAt one point, more than two-thirds of respondents had been in favour of the 16-year-old dying, said district police chief Aidil Bolhassan.\n\n\"The news is certainly very shocking and deeply saddening,\" Vishal Shah, head of product at Instagram, told MPs.\n\n\"There are cases... where our responsibility around keeping our community safe and supportive is tested and we are constantly looking at our policies.\n\n\"We are deeply looking at whether the products, on balance, are matching the expectations that we created them with.\n\n\"And if, in cases like the polling sticker, we are finding more evidence where it is not matching the expectations... we are looking to see whether we need to make some of those policy changes.\"\n\nThe two Instagram executives are normally based in Instagram's California offices\n\nHis colleague Karina Newton, Instagram's head of public policy, told the MPs the poll would have violated the company's guidelines.\n\nThe platform has measures in place to detect \"self-harm thoughts\" and seeks to remove certain posts while offering support where appropriate.\n\nFor example, if a user searches for the word \"suicide\", a pop-up appears offering to put them in touch with organisations that can help.\n\nBut Mr Shah said that the way people expressed mental-health issues was constantly evolving, posing a challenge.\n\nDamian Green, who chairs the committee, asked the two if the Facebook-owned service could adapt some of the tools it had developed to target advertising to proactively identify people at risk of self-harm and reach out to them.\n\nInstagram already features a pop-up that appears if a user searches for \"suicide\"\n\n\"Would it not be possible, where there are cases of people known to have been engaged in harmful content and [who] may have been at risk, that analysis could be done to see what other users share similar characteristics?\" the MP asked.\n\nMs Newton replied that there were privacy issues to consider but that the company was seeking to do more to address the problem.\n\nMr Green also asked if Instagram might consider suspending or cancelling the accounts of those who had encouraged the girl to take her life.\n\nBut the executives declined to speculate on what steps would be taken.\n\n\"I hope you can understand that it is just so soon. Our team is looking into what the content violations are,\" said Ms Newton.\n\nUnder Malaysian law, anyone found guilty of encouraging or assisting the suicide of a minor can be sentenced to death or up to 20 years in jail.\n\nIt follows the earlier case of Molly Russell, a 14-year-old British girl who killed herself, in 2017, after viewing distressing material about depression and suicide that had been posted to Instagram.\n\nThe social network vowed to remove all graphic images of self-harm from its platform after her father accused the app of having \"helped kill\" his child.\n\nIf you've been affected by self-harm, eating disorders or emotional distress, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.", "Stan Lee (left) became close to Mr Morgan (right) after his wife's death\n\nThe former manager of comic book co-creator Stan Lee has been charged with elder abuse against the late writer.\n\nKeya Morgan is facing five counts of abuse against Lee - including false imprisonment, fraud and forgery - all stemming from an incident last summer.\n\nThe Marvel superhero visionary died in November last year aged 95.\n\nA spokesperson for Los Angeles Superior Court confirmed an arrest warrant for Mr Morgan - who is yet to comment - had been issued.\n\nLee, who first helped dream up The Fantastic Four for Marvel Comics in 1961 and went on to co-create titles including Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk, endured faltering eyesight and memory loss towards the end of his life.\n\nHis final few months were marred by conflicting claims over who was running his affairs.\n\nNew York memorabilia dealer Mr Morgan, 42, became close to Lee after the death of his wife, Joan, who died in 2017, also aged 95.\n\nStan Lee with his wife Joan, who died in 2017, also aged 95\n\nThe charges follow previous filings against Mr Morgan in May and June last year, including falsely reporting an emergency and falsely reporting a crime, along with a probation violation.\n\nThis culminated in a judge granting a restraining order brought by Lee's family, after Mr Morgan was accused of moving the magnate out of his home at midnight to isolate him from his caregivers.\n\nSpeaking to Variety at the time, Mr Morgan denied the accusations.\n\nThe Marvel Avengers film franchise features many of Lee's comic book co-creations\n\nA previous attempt to obtain a restraining order had been rejected after the attorney pursuing the order, Tom Lallas, was accused of acting without Lee's consent.\n\nThe superhero creations Lee helped to inspire have since formed the foundation of Marvel's record-breaking cinematic universe.\n\nThe most recent release, Avengers: Endgame, broke box office world records and became the fastest film ever to break the $1 billion barrier, doing so in just five days.\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 young have higher life satisfaction than those in their 40s\n\nWhat you spend rather than what you earn helps to determine how satisfied you are with life, a new study says.\n\nResearch from the Office for National Statistics found spending on hotels, restaurants and household furnishings was associated with life satisfaction.\n\nUnsurprisingly, spending on insurance and mobile phones was not.\n\nBut the ONS said that overall spending and income mattered less than personal circumstances when measuring life satisfaction.\n\nGood health, marital status and economic activity had the strongest associations with how positively life satisfaction is rated.\n\nIts analysis found that age also mattered: the young have higher life satisfaction than those in their 40s but life satisfaction rises again in later years, before falling again for those in their 80s.\n\nLiving circumstances were also important. Those who own their homes or have mortgages rate their life satisfaction more highly than those in private and social rented housing. Households with dependent children were also more likely to be satisfied than those without, the ONS found.\n\nBut while spending is more important than income, households with an income of between £24,000 and £44,000 would feel more satisfied if their income increased, the ONS found.\n\nThe ONS, which is looking beyond the official GDP gauge to try to form a broader picture of the economy, said: \"There is no evidence of a statistically significant association between household disposable income and life satisfaction overall after accounting for other characteristics [such as age, marriage and employment status]\".\n\n\"You are more likely to report higher life satisfaction if you have higher household spending and spending appears to matter more than household income to people's life satisfaction,\" the ONS said.\n\nBeing retired, among other factors, also had a positive impact on life satisfaction.\n\nWhereas being unemployed or economically inactive due to sickness or disability had a significant negative impact, the ONS said.\n\nHealth had a larger effect on reported life satisfaction than any other other characteristic or circumstance in the analysis.\n\nThe odds of reporting higher life satisfaction are three times greater for someone reporting very good health than for someone reporting fair health, the ONS said.\n\nThe odds of reporting higher life satisfaction are 5.7 times lower for someone reporting very bad health than for someone reporting fair health.\n\nHealth was also important the last time the ONS looked at this subject in 2013. The impact of someone's marital status also appears to matter more for people's life satisfaction than it did six years ago.\n\nThe ONS' findings are based on two separate surveys; its annual population survey and a separate survey on the effects of taxes and benefits.\n• None Does GDP tell the whole economic story?\n• None Getting creative really does boost mood", "The car - seen here in a police-supplied photo - is likely worth more than €2m (£1.7m)\n\nAn opportunistic car \"collector\" used a test drive to make off with a Ferrari worth €2m (£1.7m; $2.2m).\n\nThe suspect had expressed interest in buying a 1985 Ferrari 288 GTO, police in the German city of Düsseldorf say.\n\nHe turned up by taxi to the dealership and two hours later, on a test drive, it was time to swap drivers.\n\nBut when the seller stepped out of the car, the would-be buyer quickly hit the accelerator and vanished. The car was later found in a garage.\n\nPolice say the \"historic vehicle\" with 43,000km (27,000 miles) on the clock should be valued at more than €2m.\n\nA listing for the car on the dealer's website says it once belonged to former Northern Ireland Formula 1 driver Eddie Irvine – who raced for Ferrari between 1996 and 1999.\n\nSimilar vehicles are frequently listed with prices around £1.5–2m, or above $3m in the US. They are often sold through specialist auctions at the likes of Sotheby's.\n\nLuckily for investigators, the distinctive car - in bright Italian \"Rosso Corsa\" red - attracted so much attention that it was quickly found on Tuesday evening after police appealed for witnesses.\n\nIt was discovered hidden in a garage in the town of Grevenbroich, not far from Düsseldorf city centre.\n\nThe suspect, however, remains at large. Police have released a photograph of the man inspecting the Ferrari before the theft.\n\nPolice are seeking this man in connection with the speedy theft\n\nThe managing director of the dealership told Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper the man had exchanged calls and emails over the course of a number of weeks.\n\nBernhard Kerklo told the newspaper the car could never be sold on the market as it was \"too flashy\".\n\nInsiders - the only real buyers for such a rare collector's item - would instantly know it was the stolen vehicle, he said, as all the models of this type ever sold are well-known.\n\nOnly 272 of the Ferrari 288 GTO were ever built.", "Oritse Williams has denied raping the woman after a concert in December 2016\n\nA woman who claims she was raped by ex-JLS star Oritse Williams has denied going to his hotel room and asking him to have sex.\n\nThe singer, 32, denies raping the woman after a concert in Wolverhampton in December 2016.\n\nGiving evidence, the victim said she had \"bits and pieces\" memory of the night after drinking.\n\nThe former boy band member is standing trial alongside his tour manager Jamien Nagadhana, 32.\n\nNagadhana, of Hounslow, west London, denies charges of sexual assault and assault by penetration.\n\nProsecutors allege Williams, of Croydon, south London, \"jumped on the woman\" when she went to look for her phone.\n\nAt Wolverhampton Crown Court, Mark Cotter QC, representing Williams, asked the woman whether she could order her memories from the night.\n\nThe woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: \"It's not impossible, I could give it a good guess. The memories I do have, I know took place.\"\n\nShe said she remembered kissing a female friend in the nightclub and her friend \"grinding\" on Williams' lap, but had no memory of sitting on his lap herself before they travelled in a taxi to his hotel.\n\nThe complainant told jurors she returned to the singer's room to find her phone and not because she wanted to have sex with him.\n\nShe also rejected claims from Mr Cotter that it was a consensual encounter that ended when he was \"unable to perform\" sexually.\n\nThe court heard her friend asked somebody to get help, leading to police attending the hotel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Jeremy Kyle Show has been suspended after a guest was found dead following the recording of an episode.\n\nThe news has opened up a debate around the most popular show on ITV's daytime schedule.\n\nBelow is a glimpse of what it's like to work on the programme from a former employee, who wants to remain anonymous:\n\nI have a confession to make. I worked on The Jeremy Kyle Show.\n\nI was what the TV industry calls a runner - someone who, funnily enough, runs about the place fetching food for crew members, making tea and coffee and looking after guests coming onto the programme.\n\nI did it for a month about three years ago and had also been working on other programmes before I came to Kyle.\n\n\"Studio days\", when the live audience are there and the programme is recorded, were really long. There was no leaving the building unless it was to get the director a katsu curry, or to calm down a guest by taking them outside for a cig.\n\nI saw things that you would never imagine happening on any other TV programme - guests running around the place uncontrollably, screaming and swearing at production crew. Guests and producers would argue and you can guarantee a guest would tell you \"where to go\".\n\nTelevision runners are rarely seen without a headset (file picture)\n\nRunners were given a headset and clipboard that opened up - a useful place to store a pack of 20 cigarettes - and a lighter for guests who wanted a smoke before and after recordings.\n\nThe cigarettes were provided by ITV, because guests can't bring them in the studio. Guests were put up in a hotel close to the studio, sometimes with access to a mini bar so they could get wasted the night before.\n\nA friend who also worked on the show told me guests from the programme were banned from certain hotels because rooms were being trashed.\n\nRunners now have to ferry people to and from a hotel miles away from the studio in taxis.\n\nThe clothes you see the guests wear are sometimes not their own. The show might give them a basic jeans and T-shirt combo or sometimes a more stereotypical tracksuit and hoodie look - and those have to be given back afterwards.\n\nGuests had separate hotel rooms, dressing rooms, and green rooms - and their assigned runner on studio day would walk them around via selected coloured corridors to avoid contact.\n\nRunners would warn colleagues through the headset that they were taking their guest through the yellow corridor to make-up, for example. If you had the guest on the opposing side, you knew to use the blue corridor to avoid any conflict - producers wanted any arguments saved for the actual programme.\n\nProducers and researchers would be talking to guests for hours before the show began, passing information across. I heard them saying things like, \"You won't believe what I just heard your fella say to me just now\".\n\nOn one occasion I was in the dressing room and overheard a producer tell a guest that their girlfriend had called them a \"slag\". This was normal - you didn't even question it.\n\nJust before going on-air, the producer or researcher stood with guests just inches away from where they would meet Jezza for the first (and probably last) time, and say one final remark.\n\nI once heard a producer tell a guest: \"We don't want you to be violent - but you do whatever you need to do out there.\"\n\nSometimes, if guests don't like the way Jeremy has treated them or the show hasn't gone their way, they could get aggressive and even violent towards production staff.\n\nProducers suddenly changed their tune if that happened.\n\nJeremy once called a guest I was looking after a liar because he failed a lie-detector test.\n\nThe guest stormed off stage, pushed me over and the producer ran after them, screaming at them to come back.\n\nI remember them saying something along the lines of… \"You can't go. Have you forgotten what she said about you? Get back in there and tell her what you think!\"\n\nRadio 1 Newsbeat contacted ITV about the claims made in this article by the former employee. A spokesman says it does \"not recognise this characterisation\" of The Jeremy Kyle Show.\n\nIn a more general statement to the BBC, ITV said The Jeremy Kyle Show \"has significant and detailed duty of care processes in place for contributors pre, during and post show\".\n\nITV says its \"guest welfare team\" - made up of a consultant psychotherapist and three mental health nurses - looks after people coming onto the show.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Glodi Wabelua, left, Michael Karemera, centre, and Dean Alford were sentenced at Inner London Crown Court\n\nThree county lines drug dealers who used vulnerable teenagers as runners in a coastal city have been jailed in a \"landmark case\".\n\nGlodi Wabelua, Dean Alford and Michael Karemera, all 25, recruited six youths to traffic crack cocaine and heroin to Portsmouth in 2013 and 2014.\n\nThe victims were used to carry drugs to Hampshire and money back to London.\n\nIt is believed the three are the first to be charged under the Modern Slavery Act in relation to county lines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nInner London Crown Court was told the victims - three girls and three boys - would sometimes be forced to stash drug packages in their body cavities and would usually be housed in the homes of addicts, often with needles and drug paraphernalia lying around.\n\nThey had to ask permission to use the proceeds from selling drugs for buying food, and were not allowed to return to London until all the drugs were sold.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said that when one victim tried to leave the gang lifestyle, he was stripped naked by associates of Karemera and had a gun placed in his mouth.\n\nPolice said a gun was used when one of the victims tried to leave\n\nJudge Usha Karu said: \"One of the main reasons [the victims] were chosen was because of their youth, many were arrested for possession with intent to supply and thus they too became embroiled in the justice system.\n\n\"The level of psychological harm they may have suffered is hard to gauge.\n\n\"For children who are vulnerable it is quick and easy money - the fact that they consented is plainly no defence.\"\n\nThe Met called it a \"landmark case\" as the three were convicted under modern slavery legislation.\n\nWabelua, of Tottenham, was convicted of one count of trafficking under the Modern Slavery Act and jailed for three-and-a-half years\n\nAlford, of Canterbury, pleaded guilty to three counts of trafficking and was jailed for four years.\n\nKaremera, of Lewisham, also pleaded guilty to one like charge and was jailed for five years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of thousands of people in the UK are being prescribed thyroid drugs unnecessarily, according to international researchers.\n\nThey advise against lifelong hormone treatment for mild underactive thyroid problems (hypothyroidism), saying there is not enough proof it helps.\n\nThe daily tablets do not appear to ease symptoms such as tiredness, low mood and weight gain, they claim in the BMJ.\n\nExperts stressed that patients should not stop taking their medication.\n\nIf they have questions, they should discuss them with their GP at their next routine medication review.\n\nHypothyroidism affects about one in 20 people but is more common in older age and among women.\n\nThe thyroid is a gland in the neck that makes hormones to help control energy levels and growth.\n\nPatients with hypothyroidism are often prescribed lifelong daily pills - levothyroxine (T4) or a more expensive drug, liothyronine (T3) - to replace the missing thyroid hormone.\n\nMore than 32 million prescriptions for levothyroxine were issued in England in 2018, NHS figures show.\n\nThe advice in the BMJ aims to give guidance based on new and best evidence.\n\nThe researchers looked at data from 21 trials, involving more than 2,000 patients (many over the age of 65) to reach their conclusions.\n\nThey say almost all adults with mild or \"subclinical\" hypothyroidism will not benefit from hormone treatment.\n\nTaking a pill and attending lifelong check-ups is burdensome and there is \"uncertainty\" over potential harms, they add.\n\nCurrent UK guidelines acknowledge that many patients will not need treatment but add that for some trying daily pills may be worthwhile.\n\nDr Mark Vanderpump, from the Society for Endocrinology, said: \"It can be reasonable to try the tablets for a few months and see how the patient feels.\n\n\"You do not have to commit someone to lifelong treatment.\"\n\nProf Simon Pearce, from Newcastle University, said: \"Thyroid disease is being overtreated currently but it's premature to make a recommendation not to treat young people on the basis of the available evidence. Some will feel better on treatment.\"\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, who chairs the Royal College of GPs, said: \"Thyroid hormones are powerful drugs and GPs will only ever prescribe them if we think they are of genuine benefit to the person sitting in front of us, particularly as it usually means taking the tablets and being monitored in the long term.\n\n\"If evidence shows that they are not going to be of benefit to our patients, it is important that we know this and that it is reflected in the clinical guidelines that inform our decision-making.\n\n\"The authors make a powerful case based on emerging evidence and it is important that this new research is taken on board as clinical guidelines are updated and developed, in the best interests of our patients.\"\n• None Do you have an underactive thyroid?\n• None Thyroid drug to stay on the NHS\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A former footballer has spoken about how being abused by youth coach Bob Higgins may have cost him his career.\n\nJamie Webb, who has waived his right to anonymity to speak to the BBC, was abused by Higgins when he was at Southampton FC.\n\nHiggins, 66, was found guilty of 45 counts of indent assault earlier at Bournemouth Crown Court, including one against Mr Webb.", "A top Chinese diplomat has warned that there could be \"substantial\" repercussions for her country's investment in the UK, if Huawei were to be banned from Britain's 5G network.\n\nChen Wen also told the BBC that Beijing had already \"witnessed some conscious moves\" in that direction.\n\nLast week, the US put Huawei on a list that curbs the ability of US firms to trade with it.\n\nThe UK is still reviewing its 5G telecoms policy and may allow Huawei to supply \"non-core\" 5G components, such as antenna masts.\n\nHuawei is considered a world-leading provider of next-generation 5G technology, which will provide superfast mobile internet connections.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's World at One programme, Ms Chen, who is the Chinese chargé d'affaires in London, said the UK economy would be damaged by the message any ban on Huawei sent out to international and Chinese companies.\n\n\"The message is not going to be very positive,\" she said.\n\n\"Is UK still open? Is UK still extending a welcoming arm to other Chinese investors?\"\n\nWhen asked how large the repercussions would be, the embassy official said: \"It's hard to predict at the moment, but I think it's going to be quite substantial.\"\n\nMs Chen insisted that her government would never force a Chinese firm operating abroad to provide information to its intelligence agencies.\n\nShe went on to claim that there was a bit of \"hysteria\" in the United States about the rise of Chinese influence and the UK should make decisions based on its own national interest.\n\nShe called Huawei's investment in the UK \"a vote of confidence in the UK economy\".\n\nEarlier this week, Cambridge-based chip designer ARM told its staff they must halt \"all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements” with Huawei to comply with a recent US trade clampdown.\n\nARM's designs form the basis of most mobile device processors worldwide.\n\nOn the same day, EE confirmed that its range of 5G phones would not include Huawei models.\n\nIt followed a decision from Google to bar the smartphone maker from some updates to the Android operating system.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nActor Geoffrey Rush has been awarded the largest ever defamation payout to a single person in Australia.\n\nThe Oscar-winner was last month awarded A$2.9m (£1.57m; US$1.99m) after winning the case against Nationwide News, which publishes Australia's Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe Sydney newspaper had published stories accusing him of behaving inappropriately towards former co-star Eryn Jean Norvill.\n\nJudge Michael Wigney found that Ms Norvill was \"prone to exaggeration\".\n\nMr Rush has sought an injunction to prevent the Telegraph re-publishing accusations at the heart of the case.\n\nNationwide News has appealed against an initial ruling in the case.\n\nThe accusations detailed in the Telegraph article \"King Leer\" date back to a 2015 theatre production of King Lear in which Mr Rush acted alongside Ms Norvill.\n\nMr Rush was awarded $850,000 in general and aggravated damages plus more than $1m for past economic loss, $919,678 in future economic loss and $42,000 in interest, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports.\n\nHe was originally seeking more than $25m in damages.\n\nThe judge called the reporting a \"recklessly irresponsible piece of sensationalist journalism of ... the very worst kind\", The Sydney Morning Herald reports.\n\nMr Rush's barrister, Sue Chrysanthou, said the Telegraph had shown a \"complete lack of impartiality and lack of commercial sense\".\n\nTom Blackburn, barrister for the newspaper, said Mr Rush was \"trying to shut down any criticism of the judgment\" and that the injunction on re-publishing allegations could have a chilling effect on coverage of the #MeToo movement.\n\nActress Yael Stone also accused Mr Rush of behaving inappropriately towards her, an allegation he denies.\n\nThe Telegraph had pushed to have Ms Stone's allegations admitted as evidence, however the judge blocked the move on the grounds it could have led to prejudice against Mr Rush.\n\nActress Rebel Wilson was awarded a A$4.7m payout last year, but that sum was reduced to $600,000 on appeal.\n\nShe sued magazine publisher Bauer Media over articles that she said had wrongly portrayed her as a serial liar, but an appeals court later found that \"there was no basis in the evidence for making any award of damages for economic loss.\"", "Unless something extremely strange happens in the next couple of days, it is now, really, nearly over.\n\nSeveral cabinet ministers have told me they expect Theresa May to announce her departure from Downing Street on Friday.\n\nA senior minister said: \"She's going to go - if it's to be done, it's best to be done quickly.\"\n\nAnother said it would be \"unforgivable\" for her to try to stay on now.\n\nOne of those who has been most loyal to her said: \"It might be tomorrow or Saturday, but it can't be past Sunday.\"\n\nMultiple sources have said they expect the prime minister to give the timetable for her successor to be chosen on Friday, with 10 June likely to be the start of the official leadership contest.\n\nThat would be after the visit from President Trump and the Peterborough by-election the previous week.\n\nMost ministers I've talked to today say they hope the campaign for the next prime minister can be compressed, so it's finished by the end of July but there is not yet much clarity about that.\n\nWhy now though? It's not as if Theresa May's been having an easy time of it for months.\n\nYou guessed it, it's Brexit, and what's accelerated her departure was trying - again - to put her Brexit plans to Parliament.\n\nIt's only two days since she outlined the details of her planned offer. It made things worse in her own party, and had nothing like the impact on the Labour Party that Number 10 had hoped for.\n\nBut critically, as one member of her cabinet said, \"it crossed a line for them\".\n\nSo her party won't accept the plan and now her cabinet won't either, there is almost zero chance of it ever making it to Parliament.\n\nAnd with no hope for the deal she stayed on to try to pass, there is almost no hope for her.\n\nDowning Street was still tight-lipped on Thursday night, although senior figures have made it clear they \"get the mood\" of the party, and are no longer trying to look for a way out.\n\nTheresa May, meanwhile, was understood to be at home in her constituency with her husband - the only two people in the country who know exactly what will happen next.\n\nOne of Theresa May's cabinet colleagues was adamant to me earlier that instead she \"will stay and fight on - there's no way she'll be taken out by the men in grey suits\".\n\nBut she is already scheduled to meet Sir Graham Brady, the chair of the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers in the morning, who is thought to be planning to give her until Monday to name a date.\n\nIt is possible that an early statement outlining her plans to leave office, could come before that.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\n\"I was told I didn't look like a gymnast. I was told I looked like I'd swallowed an elephant, or looked like a pig.\"\n\nAfter a video of American gymnast Katelyn Ohashi performing a 'perfect 10' routine went viral in January, many on social media focused on her \"infectious passion\" and the fact she looked \"so fun\".\n\nBut the joyfulness of the performance told nothing of the difficult journey she had been on.\n\nOhashi was tipped for global success when she beat compatriot Simone Biles - now a four-time Olympic champion - in the 2013 American Cup.\n\nBut a back injury ended her elite career - and when she returned to the gym after taking a break, she began to struggle with body image.\n\n\"I was trying to work through the pain and crying literally every turn I took,\" said the 22-year-old. \"A coach was upset I had put on weight - he said it was why it was hurting.\n\n\"As gymnasts, our bodies are constantly being seen in these minimal clothing leotards. I felt so uncomfortable looking in the mirror.\n\n\"I felt uncomfortable walking back into the gym, like there were eyes just targeted at me. I hated taking pictures. I hated everything about myself.\n\n\"Even being home was hard. My mom's super skinny and super healthy and she'd be like, 'let's go swimming' and I'd be like, 'I'm not getting in a swimsuit in front of you'.\"\n• None Why eating disorders are more common in sport - Don't Tell Me The Score podcast\n\nBody image is described by the Mental Health Foundation as \"a term that can be used to describe how we think and feel about our bodies\".\n\nAnd a recent survey of 4,500 UK adults found a third had felt anxious about their bodies.\n\nOhashi, who started gymnastics at the age of three, says comments from others made her feel self-conscious as a teenager.\n\n\"You start normalising things because that's what you know and you grow up surrounded by people that are going through the same thing as you, so it becomes what you expect almost,\" she said.\n\n\"But when you look back on it, I do think it's a form of abuse. It was common, especially in the elite world.\"\n\nLooking back, Ohashi describes her 16-year-old self as \"abnormally skinny\".\n\n\"Me and my friends would create sick jokes, not jokes but games like we wouldn't eat because we didn't understand what we were doing to our bodies and how dangerous that is,\" she added.\n\nGymnastics coaches run a higher risk of provoking body-image issues in their athletes because of the focus placed on appearance in the sport, according to Dr Jill Owens, a chartered sport and exercise psychologist.\n\n\"It can be a lot more complicated when there's an aesthetic element to the sport - like gymnastics,\" she said.\n\n\"Coaches in those kinds of fields have to tread even more carefully because in the past those sports have been associated with leanness and there's an element of being judged on how the sport appears.\n\n\"Because the body is such an obviously integral part of sport, it's vital that it is regarded positively.\n\n\"Subconsciously, if we're thinking negatively about it, we're much less likely to look after it properly. In sport, that's disastrous.\n\n\"It might go a stage further than that and we might be looking after it in an unhealthy way by not eating enough or by overtraining.\"\n\nWhile gymnasts can feel pressure to be lean, athletes in other sports generally need a larger frame - and in some cases a body shape that some would consider unfeminine.\n\nOne such sport is rowing, in which competitors are usually tall and powerful with broad shoulders.\n\nOlympic silver medallist Vicky Thornley was initially uncomfortable with that, but her rowing career has transformed her relationship with her body.\n\n\"Before I started rowing, I wanted to be a model,\" she said. \"I wanted to be really thin and not have any muscle.\n\n\"I speak to some junior rowers and they say: 'I don't want to get really muscly.'\n\n\"I'm horrified now that I even thought about those kinds of things. I never thought the person back then would want to be more muscular. I'm constantly trying to put more muscle mass on.\n\n\"I love it when my arms look big and I've got a vein coming out or whatever. I'm aware some people might not think that's attractive but it makes me feel stronger and more empowered when my body feels strong.\"\n\nOhashi experienced a turning point with her body image too. It came when she began studying at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), from where she recently graduated with a degree in gender studies.\n\nShe initially told her coach at the university that she \"didn't want to be great again\" because she \"correlated greatness with misery\", but says she was given the support she needed to succeed.\n\n\"Coming to UCLA and being pushed to go to the psychological services, being surrounded by a coaching staff which really puts athletes as people before the sport itself, has definitely been crucial in my growing as a person and my mental health,\" she said.\n\n\"Now I've been wanting to do this whole women thing. I go for women empowerment.\n\n\"Everybody's bodies are different and there's not a single body that is the perfect body because there are constant trends.\n\n\"Being comfortable with the only person that matters, yourself, is something that you can forever work towards. You're the only person that has your back and you're the only person that has your skin 100% of the time.\"\n\nReporting by Becky Grey, interviews by Jo Currie, Emma Cook, Kate McKenna and Melissa Sharman.\n\nFor details of organisations which offer mental health advice and support, visit bbc.co.uk/actionline\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "Late-night online access to credit is leading people to borrow more money than they can afford to repay, according to academics.\n\nNewcastle University researchers said a ban on online borrowing - primarily through payday loans - between 11pm and 7am could protect consumers.\n\nMoney is often borrowed to fund late-night, impulse buying, they said.\n\nThe option for people to block spending on gambling sites is already available on various apps.\n\nThe research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), warned that people were being encouraged to borrow more than they could pay back because sites were designed to give a false sense of control. It also found that people's mental health could be affected.\n\n\"Urgent reforms are needed to protect consumers from financial and psychological risks,\" said lead researcher Dr James Ash.\n\n\"The shift online has increased availability of payday loans to people previously excluded by mainstream lenders.\n\n\"But our research shows that digital access to credit only offers quick fixes - it does not address borrowing's root cause.\"\n\nThey found that some borrowers welcomed not having to explain themselves or face being judged, or rejected, by a real person when applying for loans online.\n\nHowever, the result was that they were targeted by loan providers with messages about extra credit through mobile devices.\n\nThe Consumer Finance Association, which represents a number of short-term lenders, said: \"The modern economy, and changing nature of the UK workforce, mean that financial needs are no longer restricted to regular business hours.\n\n\"The [researchers] clearly want to ignore the benefits of these loans, but for hundreds of thousands of customers this is an important financial service and something that they can now access when convenient for them.\"\n• None Can't save money? Is this the answer?\n• None Half of twenty-somethings have no savings", "Fifty children have been rescued and nine people arrested after an Interpol investigation into an international paedophile ring.\n\nThe arrests were made in Thailand, Australia and the US and more are expected, Interpol said.\n\nThe investigation began in 2017 and focused on a hidden \"dark web\" site with 63,000 users worldwide.\n\nPolice believe 100 more children have suffered abuse and are working to identify them.\n\nOperation Blackwrist was launched by Interpol after it detected images showing 11 boys aged under 13 being abused on a site where people can use encrypted software to maintain secrecy.\n\nThe dark net is an internet area beyond the reach of mainstream search engines.\n\nThe US Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) department traced the IP address of the website, which was hosting photos and videos of abuse.\n\nPolice say the abusers uploaded new images on a weekly basis and often masked the children's faces to make it harder for investigators to identify them.\n\nThe first arrests came last year, when the site's main administrator, Montri Salangam, was detained in Thailand, and another administrator, Ruecha Tokputza, was caught in Australia.\n\nInvestigators at an operational meeting prior to the January 2018 arrests\n\nSalangam, who abused one of his nephews, was sentenced to 146 years in prison in Thailand, while an accomplice, a pre-school teacher, got 36 years.\n\nTokputza was sentenced to 40 years on Friday after pleading guilty to 51 charges against 11 babies and boys, the heaviest sentence ever handed down in Australia for child sex offences.\n\nPolice found thousands of images taken in both Thailand and Australia on his devices. In some of them Tokputza was the main abuser. The youngest victim to be identified was 15 months old.\n\n\"You are a child's worst nightmare, you are every parent's horror, you are a menace to the community,\" Judge Liesl Chapman said in Adelaide.\n\nThe identities of the others arrested are yet to be released, but some are residing in the US and held public positions of trust, said Eric McLoughlin, the HSI's regional attache in Bangkok.", "The court was shown a 2014 police interview with Carl Beech\n\nA man accused of making false claims of child abuse against public figures told police his dog was abducted \"as a warning\" from a paedophile gang which included the former head of MI5.\n\nIn a video interview shown in court Carl Beech claimed ex-spy chief Michael Hanley told him it was \"punishment\" for missing a meeting with his abusers.\n\nHis claims led to the £2m Operation Midland, which resulted in no arrests.\n\nMr Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nIn the video interview with police, recorded in October 2014, he also accused former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor of being part of the gang.\n\nMr Proctor will give evidence during the trial, the jury at Newcastle Crown Court was told.\n\nThe jury was shown a sketch that Mr Beech gave to police, saying it was meant to represent Mr Proctor.\n\nIn the interviews, Mr Beech - who was previously known by the pseudonym \"Nick\" - told police that his dog was taken while she was being walked by his aunt because he \"forgot\" to meet his abusers.\n\n\"The punishment was they took my dog,\" the 51-year-old former nurse from Gloucester said.\n\nHe described how Mr Hanley, who died in 2001, visited him outside his school in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, after his dog had gone missing.\n\n\"He didn't have her in the car, but they had taken Heron, my dog, and they had taken her as a warning. They kept her for five days and then they let her go.\"\n\nHe said he collected his dog from Surbiton police station and she was unharmed.\n\nIn the tapes, Mr Beech - who jurors have been told has himself since been convicted of paedophile offences - also alleged he was made to perform a sex act on Mr Proctor while former Tory Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath was present.\n\nMr Beech added that Sir Edward, who he said reminded him of his grandfather, stepped in to prevent him from being beaten by the former MP.\n\n\"The next thing, he just started laying into me and hitting,\" he said.\n\n\"Edward stopped him and he didn't like it. He didn't like it though he didn't question it.\"\n\nMr Beech claimed that Mr Proctor had wanted to cut him with a penknife but was stopped by another member of the alleged group of abusers.\n\nHe told police that Mr Proctor had issued the warning \"next time...\", and put the penknife in the then schoolboy's trousers.\n\nThe police tapes showed Mr Beech produce a penknife, which he claimed was the one given to him by Mr Proctor.\n\nHe also described having to attend annual \"Remembrance Day\" sexual abuse parties where, he claimed, generals and spies stuck poppies into his skin.\n\n\"I had poppies pinned to my chest whilst they did whatever they wanted to do,\" he said. \"As a mark of respect.\"\n\nHe claimed that attendees had included Sir Michael, ex-military chief Lord Bramall, now 95, and former head of the Army Field Marshall Sir Roland Gibbs, who died in 2004.\n\nMr Beech said the alleged abusers would \"just get a bit of skin and put a pin through it\".\n\n\"I don't like this time of year, with all the poppies around\", he said during the interview.\n\nPreviously, the court had heard that Mr Beech had convictions for voyeurism and making and possessing indecent images of children.\n\nHe has been described in court by the prosecution as a \"committed and manipulative paedophile\".\n\nYesterday, the court heard that Mr Beech told the detective that he was part of a \"little group\" with Labour MP Tom Watson, a Exaro News journalist called Mark Conrad, and a retired social worker, who were trying to \"put my information out there to encourage other people to come forward\".\n\nMr Beech said he met Mr Watson in his office, where they spoke \"at some length\".", "Allison Williams and Prof Marcus Longley were questioned by AMs\n\nSenior managers at a health board with \"dysfunctional\" maternity services admitted the experiences of patients came as a \"complete shock\" to them.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board chief executive Allison Williams said mothers had not been listened to.\n\nA review last month found women at two hospitals had \"distressing experiences and poor care\".\n\nBut the assembly's health committee was told leadership changes could lead to \"hesitation and delay\" in improvements.\n\nMs Williams said some of the accounts of the families were \"nothing short of heartbreaking\".\n\n\"We can't make any excuses for that, their experiences were unacceptable on a whole range of levels,\" she added.\n\n\"The failings go right the way through the organisation.\"\n\nChairman Prof Marcus Longley said when they heard verbally from the royal colleges review team after a visit in January they were \"shocked\" at what was revealed and \"had not appreciated the full extent of the issues\".\n\nQuestioned by Merthyr and Rhymney AM Dawn Bowden, Ms Williams said when the health board made the problems public in October , they knew they had a problem around staffing and clinical practices but did not know the extent of the challenges.\n\n\"To be absolute frank, the extent of the feedback from families was a complete shock, even to me.\"\n\nShe said the numbers of complaints they were receiving did not reflect the scale of the problems experienced by mothers which have since emerged.\n\nProf Longley added: \"There's a need to review how we handle people who raise issues with us - we haven't done that in any way appropriately\".\n• None 8still births among those serious incidents\n• None 17reviews - not serious or care appropriate\n\nMs Williams - who has been chief executive since 2011 - denied a suggestion by Plaid Cymru health spokeswoman Helen Mary Jones that she was more concerned with reputational damage to the health board.\n\nMs Jones said some families did not understand how change in culture could take place when those who preside over it remain in place and there has been no disciplinary action.\n\nProf Longley said: \"It's very important, I think, that the team who understands these problems and knew intimately now what needs to be done about them are charged with responsibility of getting on with it now.\n\n\"To have a change of leadership at this point will only result in hesitation and delay and that I'm sure is something nobody wants.\"\n\nJessica Western, with her eldest daughter, is pregnant again but will not use Cwm Taf maternity services\n\n'I don't think anything is going to change'\n\nJessica Western, from Rhoose, in the Vale of Glamorgan, said she was not listened to when she could not feel her baby move in the month before the birth.\n\nHer daughter Macie died in March 2018, 19 days after she was born. Ms Western said issues at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital included being ignored, staffing shortages and having to see different consultants. She had a much better experience when Macie was transferred to Cardiff.\n\nShe was then frustrated with the complaints procedure - and unhappy with the internal report she received, which she felt had inaccuracies and was about \"getting me off their back\".\n\n\"I tried contacting the Glam numerous times and no-one wanted to help me, so I went to a solicitor,\" she said.\n\n\"I know numerous families who complained who've not had a response. I don't think anything is going to improve and if it is does it's going to take years.\n\n\"The people right at the top [of the health board] need to change.\n\n\"Any one of them losing their jobs is not going to make me feel better, it's not going to bring Macie back but I think it will bring a lot of reassurance to people having babies now.\"\n\nMs Western is now pregnant again but will not go the Cwm Taf hospitals and will use maternity services in Cardiff.\n\nMaternity services are now in special measures and an independent panel will oversee the changes.\n\nProf Longley added: \"The oversight regime has changed completely - the independent panel is starting its work and will scrutinise very closely our response to all the challenges and I hope that will give some reassurance that there can be no slipping on the changes which need to take place.\n\n\"There is also the need for us as a health board to get on effectively, quickly and determinedly - to make the changes happen. It would be unfortunate if we dithered and didn't take action now, that would let down people who had raised issues with us.\"\n\nSome frontline managers were no longer running wards and new people were in post.\n\nBut Prof Longley admitted cultural issues were embedded and would take a \"long time\" to resolve.\n\nSenior managers were asked if they would be happy that the service was safe enough for someone they care to use it.\n\nMs Williams said the head of midwifery was asked the same question in a recent board meeting and that yes she would be willing. \"That's a very powerful reassurance. We recognise that the cultural issues will take time. But there are checks and balances in the system now that were not in the system before.\"\n\nCommittee chairman Dai Lloyd told Gareth Lewis on BBC Radio Wales that the health board saying the extent of the problems came as a shock was \"bewildering\" and \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said committee members could now meet families and staff - possibly confidentially.\n\n\"We're absolutely determined to get to the bottom of this,\" he added.", "St Andrew's Healthcare chief executive Katie Fisher said the causes of delays were complex\n\nUp to 50 patients, some with learning disabilities and autism who should be released, are stuck in secure units run by a mental health hospital charity.\n\nSt Andrew's Healthcare, which treats up to 900 patients, told the BBC there was a lack of suitable community places.\n\nFootage of a teenager locked in seclusion, able to touch their parent only through a door hatch at one of its units, has been shown to the BBC.\n\nThe hospital said seclusion was used as an emergency response only.\n\nSt Andrew's Healthcare runs four private hospitals that specialise in caring for patients with severe mental health and learning difficulties - 90% of referrals are from the NHS.\n\nPatients are supposed to be admitted to these assessment and treatment units (ATUs) for nine to 18 months but the average stay nationally is five years.\n\nChief executive Katie Fisher told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme one patient had been detained for an extra 524 days after they should have been released.\n\n\"It varies over time and of course the reasons for delays are complex,\" she said.\n\n\"This isn't someone sitting on something, who isn't doing their job properly.\n\n\"Maybe several attempts have been made to create a discharge and for several reasons that has fallen through.\"\n\nLast month, the programme reported that one St Andrew's Healthcare patient, Ayla Haines 26, had tried to kill herself after spending seven years in an ATU.\n\nFollowing this, Labour's shadow care minister, Barbara Keeley, announced an all-party parliamentary group to investigate mental health hospitals.\n\nOn Monday, research by the children's commissioner for England found too many children were being admitted to mental health hospitals unnecessarily - despite a government pledge to move up to 50% of such patients into community settings by March 2019.\n\nMs Fisher said continuing to detain patients who no longer needed to be in ATUs was unacceptable,\n\n\"But actually, people's mental health and wellbeing can fluctuate over time, so it's not as simple as just saying someone needs to be here and someone doesn't need to be here.\"\n\nOne patient could have contact with their parent only through a hatch in a door\n\nHospitals use a seclusion room as a last resort if a patient is in extreme distress or is a risk to themselves or a member of staff.\n\nIn a damning report published this week, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) called for a review of every patient in long-term seclusion or segregation in mental health hospitals across the UK.\n\nThe Victoria Derbyshire programme was given footage of a teenager reaching their arm through a door hatch to enable contact with their parents during a visit to a St Andrew's hospital.\n\nThe parent told the programme the patient had been held in seclusion for months.\n\nA recent CQC inspection of St Andrew's Hospital in Northampton found one patient had had repeated and prolonged periods of seclusion over 18 months.\n\nThe hospital said it would not comment on individual cases.\n\nBut Ms Fisher said: \"In some seclusion rooms for certain types of patients, there is the opportunity to for food and other things that patient might need to be given to them through an opening of the door, which means the door itself doesn't have to be opened.\n\n\"The use of seclusion rooms is only ever used as an emergency response and if all other efforts of de-escalation, both verbal and low-stimulation rooms, have failed.\"\n\nPsychiatrist Paul Wallang says prone restraint should not be used\n\nAnother CQC inspection report, published in 2016, found a technique called prone - or face-down - restraint was being used widely across wards at the St Andrew's hospitals.\n\nIts use has reduced - but there were still more than 1,000 recorded incidents last year.\n\nBetween 2016 and 2018, prone restraint was used by staff on patients 5,597 times.\n\nThis is despite a consultant psychiatrist at St Andrews telling the Victoria Derbyshire programme prone restraint should not be used.\n\n\"It is something that is associated with death in some circumstances - certainly within the charity, we have reduced the amount of prone restraint that we use drastically over many years,\" said Paul Wallang.\n\nBut he added: \"Sometimes when somebody is restrained they will move into the restraint position in a prone.\n\n\"If that happens, we immediately move them to supine, which is face-up, a much safer way to restrain - and all of our staff are trained in that technique.\"\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"The NHS is committed to reducing numbers of people with a learning disability and autistic people who are inpatients in mental health hospitals by 35% by the end of March 2020.\n\n\"And through the [NHS] Long Term Plan, we will reduce numbers even further by investing in specialist services and community crisis care and giving local areas greater control of their budgets to reduce avoidable admissions and enable shorter lengths of stay.\n\n\"The CQC is also undertaking an in-depth review into the use of seclusion, segregation and restraint - which should only be used as a last resort - in order to improve standards across the system.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Bob Higgins was youth development officer at Southampton until 1989\n\nSuch was the influence of Bob Higgins as a youth coach at Southampton, he was known as the \"star-maker\".\n\nHe was seen as instrumental in the development of several players who would go on to become household names; during his time at Southampton, players of the calibre of future England stars Alan Shearer and Matt Le Tissier broke into the football club's first team.\n\nBut Bob Higgins was also a ruthless, predatory paedophile, who used his position of power to groom and then abuse boys whose dreams of a playing career he could make or break.\n\nNearly 30 years after he was first accused - and cleared - of sexual abuse, the crimes of 66-year-old Higgins have finally caught up with him, with his conviction at Bournemouth Crown Court of 45 counts of indecent assault.\n\nHis unmasking as a serial sex offender was the consequence of scores of former players coming forward in 2016, when the extent of historical abuse in the game began to become clear.\n\nWhen, at the time of the scandal, the NSPCC set up a dedicated phone line to offer support to victims, 87 people called the charity and a further 32 contacted police directly with allegations of abuse relating to Southampton.\n\nOne name - and only one name - was mentioned time and again in connection with abuse at Southampton: Bob Higgins.\n\nHiggins abused youth players in his care over several decades\n\nThe eight-week retrial - held after a previous jury at Winchester Crown Court could not reach verdicts on 48 counts of indecent assault - was told Higgins kept an open house at his homes in Camberley, Surrey, and later Southampton.\n\nHe would let boys stay there while they attended training sessions at weekends or during school holidays.\n\nThis allowed him to groom his victims. He would give players lifts to and from training, playing songs by Whitney Houston and Lionel Richie in an effort to create a romantic mood.\n\nSitting on the sofa at his home, he would demand cuddles from the boys and go on to touch them inappropriately.\n\nHe would also use the pretext of treating injuries or performing soap-water massages to abuse youngsters at the club.\n\nThere is no suggestion that any of the club's biggest names who were coached by Higgins - including the likes of Danny Wallace and Steve Williams, as well as Shearer and Le Tissier - were abused by him.\n\nBut many of those youth players who were sexually assaulted were left so distressed that they gave up football entirely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Billy Seymour, a charity ambassador campaigning against abuse in football, waived his right to anonymity\n\nBilly Seymour, a trainee at Southampton from 1983 until 1986, was one of them.\n\nHe died before he could see his abuser face justice - although Higgins was found guilty of a single count of indecent assault at the earlier trial in 2018.\n\nThe 47-year-old died in a crash in Oxfordshire in January, shortly before the retrial was due to begin.\n\nIn an unusual step, audio of his appearance in the witness box from the first trial was played to the jury in the retrial, as well as a video of his police interview.\n\nMr Seymour said his life \"unravelled\" after the abuse; he struggled with anger issues and served time in prison.\n\nThe court heard how he \"nearly killed\" a taxi driver he had threatened to attack with a plasterer's knife, as he reminded him of Higgins.\n\nShortly before being sentenced, he told his mother that his victim \"looked like Bob, smelt like Bob\", adding: \"He's inside me.\"\n\nEngland internationals Alan Shearer and Matt Le Tissier were coached by Higgins\n\nRumours about Higgins's activities had circulated for years.\n\nNonetheless, the court heard how the coach was trusted by parents and idolised by youngsters, providing him with the cover he needed.\n\nThere was an implicit trade-off: boys knew they needed to keep quiet or risk losing their shot at a career as a footballer.\n\nMany said nothing, even to close family members, for up to 30 years.\n\nHiggins left Southampton in 1989 after being confronted by a colleague who had overheard youth players sharing stories about him.\n\nHe went on trial in the early 1990s but was acquitted. This allowed him to remain in football for many more years - and to continue offending.\n\nIt was only in 2016, when victims of child abuse in football aired their experiences on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, that a stream of complainants, including Mr Seymour, came forward.\n\nThe police reopened their investigation and began to build a new case against Higgins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Le Tissier said he was given a \"very, very wrong\" massage by Higgins\n\nDescribed in court as a \"rubbish\" player, he had nevertheless been a respected scout and youth coach.\n\nHiggins joined Southampton in the early 1970s and over the next two decades played a key role in bringing through some of the club's best players.\n\nIn the 1980s, Wallace and Williams, both acknowledged as his discoveries, were part of one of Southampton's most successful teams.\n\nHiggins also helped develop the skills of Shearer and Le Tissier.\n\nWhen the football abuse scandal broke in 2016, Shearer said he had \"huge respect and admiration\" for former team-mates who had come forward.\n\n\"Whilst I am lucky and have no personal experience of the terrible stories that have been described, I know from my work as an NSPCC ambassador the pain and lasting damage abuse can cause.\"\n\nLe Tissier told the BBC in 2016 he had been given a \"naked massage\" by Higgins. In the interview, Le Tissier said he was not abused but the incident was \"very, very wrong\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Les Cleevely was abused while watching Match of the Day at Higgins's home\n\nLes Cleevely, who went on to become a successful goalkeeping coach, recalled how, as a 12-year-old schoolboy scouted by Higgins, he was \"mesmerised\" by the \"young, trendy and charismatic\" coach.\n\nLike many others, he was invited to stay at Higgins's house. He described his night there as a \"horror story\".\n\n\"The whole thing [the abuse] went on in pitch black while we were watching Match of the Day,\" he said. \"So for the entire length of Match of the Day it was horrendous.\n\n\"And then the rest of the night spent at the house was with your eyes wide open wondering what was going to happen next.\n\n\"He had power over our careers. It was everything we wanted in life as kids he held the key to. Some people thought, 'is it going to put my situation in jeopardy?'\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jamie Webb eventually tore up his contract with Southampton\n\nJamie Webb still recalls the \"magical moment\" he joined the club and met Higgins at Southampton's then home, The Dell.\n\n\"I was really in awe. I couldn't believe, walking down the old Dell steps,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Webb says his memories of his time at the club are tainted by the abuse he was subjected to by Higgins while he stayed at his house.\n\n\"We were all vying for affection in a way and the banter would be more like, 'Oh Bob loves you and you're one of Bob's favourites',\" he said.\n\n\"It was almost what you wanted to hear. I'd get given kit. Sometimes I'd buy some kit and I'd get an extra top thrown in and shorts.\"\n\nAt the time he was pleased with the attention, but now he sees the behaviour for what it was.\n\n\"For me, it's just grooming.\"\n\nBoys would be invited to stay with Higgins and his wife Shirley during weekend and school holiday training camps\n\nJurors were told Higgins would play pop songs on the car stereo as he touched boys inappropriately while driving to and from training sessions.\n\nMr Seymour recalled Whitney Houston's Greatest Love of All playing and Higgins telling him: \"It reminds me of you.\"\n\n\"Whenever it comes on, it takes me back,\" he told the court last year.\n\n\"Looking back, I tried to normalise it, but it wasn't normal to be in that situation.\"\n\nSuch was his emotional hold over them that many boys wrote Higgins letters, expressing love and gratitude, calling him a \"second father\" or a \"brother\".\n\nOne victim said it made him physically sick when he was recently shown a letter he had written to Higgins.\n\n\"I was only 13 and I was just a kid and I didn't know any different,\" he said.\n\n\"Bob would put you under a lot of pressure to write those letters.\n\n\"He'd basically show you letters of famous players. You wanted to be that player and I wanted my career, and whatever it took, I'd do that.\"\n\nLawrie McMenemy said Higgins would have been \"out of the door\" if the club's management had known about his abuse\n\nLawrie McMenemy, Southampton's manager between 1973 and 1985, said he had not been in any way aware of Higgins's offending during his time in charge of the club.\n\n\"I didn't know he was taking kids home,\" he said. \"None of my staff knew that.\n\n\"It's horrific what he's done. If we'd have known, he wouldn't have lasted two minutes. He'd have been out the door.\"\n\nRumours about Higgins's activities were certainly circulating by the late 1980s, though.\n\nDave Merrington, who was youth team manager and would later manage the first team, recalled being \"troubled and disturbed\" when he heard banter among players in a minibus.\n\nDave Merrington said he challenged Higgins, who threatened to sue anyone who made claims about him\n\n\"I realised they were talking about Bob,\" he said. \"Unfortunately, the comments were of a sexual nature that I wasn't happy about.\"\n\nHe raised the matter at a staff meeting and was told it would be brought to the attention of the board.\n\nLater, he was told he should be the one to raise the issue with Higgins, which he did at a meeting in the players' lounge at The Dell.\n\n\"He jumped up, got extremely annoyed and said: 'I'll sue anyone who says anything about me,'\" Mr Merrington said.\n\n\"I tried to cool him down but he got extremely annoyed. He stormed out. Within a week or a fortnight he had resigned, as I understand it, and left the club.\"\n\nA police investigation followed and Higgins was accused of abusing six boys, but he was acquitted of one charge in 1991 and the other charges were discontinued.\n\nMr Merrington had given evidence along with complainant Dean Radford, who was 18 when he came forward in 1989.\n\n\"For a boy to open up at that particular stage of his career - he was a very, very brave young man,\" Mr Merrington said.\n\n\"No-one from the club spoke to us about [the court case]. That disappoints and hurts me.\n\n\"I felt the system let him down very badly.\"\n\nGuy Askham, who was Southampton chairman at the time, said the club's board had been part-timers who tried their best to deal with the issue.\n\n\"We believed the board had taken the right decision in reporting the allegations to the police,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Southampton player Dean Radford talking in 2016 about the abuse he suffered\n\nMr Radford recalled being \"scared to death\" giving evidence and being cross-examined.\n\n\"I was just told on the telephone he'd been found not guilty,\" he said. \"They let it go. That was it, he was a free man.\"\n\nFollowing Higgins's acquittal, the Crown Prosecution Service decided there was insufficient evidence to secure a conviction on the remaining charges.\n\nHiggins gave an interview to the Southampton Daily Echo newspaper, headlined: \"My two years of hell\", and continued working in football, taking up a coaching job with the Malta Football Association.\n\nHe stayed there until 1994 when he began working with youth players at Peterborough United. The court heard how Higgins, who had recently claimed to have become a Christian, baptised boys in his bath at home.\n\nTwo charges in the retrial related to cases at Peterborough. One witness told the trial he was assaulted 10 to 20 times in Higgins's home.\n\nHampshire and Southampton social services warned parents about Higgins in 1997\n\nAllegations against Higgins were aired again in January 1997 in a Channel 4 documentary.\n\nAfter the Dispatches programme, both Hampshire and Southampton social services consulted police and wrote to local youth organisations expressing concern about him coaching boys.\n\nA joint letter from the departments, unearthed by the BBC through a Freedom of Information request, urged parents to \"make an informed choice about his contact with your child/ren\".\n\nDr John Beer, the head of Southampton Social Services at the time, said he received several replies from parents criticising him for impugning Higgins's good character.\n\n\"That is the standard way that we learn that paedophiles operated,\" he said.\n\n\"The safest way for them is to groom parents and figures who have status in the community, so if the young person made any allegations they were likely to be disbelieved.\"\n\nHiggins continued in the game in Hampshire, with coaching roles at Bashley, Winchester City and Fleet Town, until the football abuse scandal broke in 2016 and his career in football was finally brought to an end.\n\nDet Ch Insp David Brown, of Hampshire Constabulary, said the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme had been the \"catalyst\" that prompted many more victims to come forward.\n\nBut with allegations dating back decades, there was no forensic evidence or any paperwork that could provide a \"smoking gun\" to convict Higgins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bob Higgins \"did not speak a single word\" during 15 hours of interviews, police said\n\nMoreover, the media coverage, which encouraged more victims to come forward, proved a doubled-edged sword for the investigation team.\n\nIt meant they had to interview all of the complainants quickly to ensure they did not communicate with one other ahead of a trial and potentially jeopardise the criminal case.\n\nTheir testimony confirmed a pattern of predatory behaviour from Higgins.\n\n\"We had a large number of people and it was repeated similar factual evidence - the same songs played in the car, the same activities, the same bedtime routines - that helped build a compelling case,\" Det Ch Insp Brown said.\n\nYoung players would train in the gym at The Dell\n\nDetectives were unable to trace all the paperwork from the legal proceedings in the 1990s. However, they found trial documents from an unlikely source - Higgins himself.\n\nWhen they searched Higgins's house they discovered detailed accounts of the trial, statements boys had made to police, as well as memorabilia, letters and photos from the 1980s.\n\n\"Much of the material he retained was used as evidence of controlling, coercive behaviour,\" Det Insp Brown said.\n\nSeveral victims and witnesses at the recent trial explained how they had not felt able to talk of the abuse when interviewed by police in the early 1990s.\n\n\"I was not ready - mentally, physically or emotionally - to divulge the horrific things that had happened to me,\" Mr Seymour told the court.\n\n\"I knew something was seriously, seriously wrong. I was just not ready to deal with it at that precise moment.\"\n\nHiggins's wife Shirley stood by him in court. She claimed Mr Merrington had a \"vendetta\" against her husband and boys had been cajoled into making allegations against him.\n\nShe said she had acted as a \"second mother\" to the youngsters staying at their house.\n\nWhen asked if she had ever seen her husband act inappropriately with any boys, Mrs Higgins replied: \"No. Never. I wouldn't be married to him for 45 years if he had.\"\n\nMrs Higgins said it was she who had kept cards and photos from young footballers, which she said gave her \"happy memories\".\n\nHiggins covered his face while entering and leaving court throughout the retrial at Bournemouth Crown Court\n\nHowever, after more than a week of deliberation, the jury found Higgins guilty of dozens of offences.\n\nFor his victims, it meant a long wait for justice was over. Police believe more abuse survivors could come forward following his conviction.\n\nDouble jeopardy rules meant Mr Radford, whom Higgins was cleared of abusing nearly 30 years ago, was unable to be a complainant in the recent trials. However, he did give evidence as a witness.\n\n\"I'd like him to sit behind bars and know that he's there partly because of me,\" he said.\n\nVictims have spoken about how they remain haunted by the abuse. Many are also left wondering about what might have been.\n\nMr Webb eventually tore up his contract with Southampton.\n\nNow in his 40s, he cannot know how far he could have gone in football.\n\n\"A lot of people said I was good and everything, but it's hard looking back on that period.\n\n\"I just used to say to people that I wasn't mentally focused. I'll never know what might have been.\"", "A 102-year-old woman is suspected of having murdered her 92-year-old neighbour in a French retirement home.\n\nThe suspected killer is now in a psychiatric hospital. Earlier she told one of the carers that she had \"killed someone\", a prosecutor said.\n\nA carer at the home in Chézy-sur-Marne, northern France, found the victim dead in bed, her face severely bruised.\n\nThe cause of death was \"strangulation and blows to the head\", a post-mortem examination concluded.\n\nThe death was discovered just after midnight on Saturday by a carer, who found the victim lying in bed unconscious, AFP news agency reports.\n\nThe 102-year-old was \"in a very agitated state, confused, and told the carer that she had killed someone\", AFP news agency reported, quoting the prosecutor.\n\nPsychiatric tests are being done on the suspect, to determine whether or not she was criminally responsible for her actions at the time.", "One of the Chagos Islands - Diego Garcia - is home to a US military base\n\nThe UN has passed a resolution demanding the UK return control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.\n\nIn the non-binding vote in the General Assembly in New York, 116 states were in favour and only six against, a major diplomatic blow to the UK.\n\nMauritius says it was forced to give up the Indian Ocean group - now a British overseas territory - in 1965 in exchange for independence.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said Britain did not recognise Mauritius' claim to sovereignty, but would stand by an earlier commitment to hand over control of the islands to Mauritius when they were no longer needed for defence purposes.\n\nThe US, Hungary, Israel, Australia and the Maldives were the states voting with the UK against the resolution.\n\nIt comes months after the UN's high court advised that the UK should leave the islands \"as rapidly as possible\".\n\nThe fundamental question before the General Assembly was whether the decades-long dispute was at its heart a matter of decolonisation, or a bilateral sovereignty issue to be worked out between the UK and Mauritius alone.\n\nThe vote was decisive, with 115 countries standing with Mauritius.\n\nFormer colonies were also clear in their position. India said support for decolonisation was one of the most significant contributions that the UN had made towards the promotion of fundamental human rights.\n\nUK ambassador to the UN Karen Pierce, along with the United States, warned that the vote would set a precedent that should be of concern to all member states with their own sovereignty disputes.\n\nBritain purchased the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965 for £3m, creating a region known as the British Indian Ocean Territory.\n\nBetween 1967 and 1973, it evicted the islands' entire population to make way for a joint military base with the US, which is still in place on Diego Garcia.\n\nUS planes have been sent from the base to bomb Afghanistan and Iraq. The facility was also reportedly used as a \"black site\" by the CIA to interrogate terrorism suspects. In 2016, the lease for the base was extended until 2036.\n\n\"The joint UK-US defence facility on the British Indian Ocean Territory helps to keep people in Britain and around the world safe from terrorism, organised crime and piracy,\" the FCO said.\n\nBefore Wednesday's vote, Mauritian Prime Minister Pravid Kumar Jug-Nauth told the General Assembly the forcible eviction of Chagossians was akin to a crime against humanity.\n\nHowever, he said Mauritius would allow the military base to continue operating \"in accordance with international law\", if it were given control of the islands.\n\nMr Jug-Nauth said this would give the facility a \"higher degree of legal certainty\" for the future.\n\nThe UK has maintained that Mauritius gave up the territory freely in return for a range of benefits.\n\nAmbassador Pierce has insisted that the issue should be resolved only by the countries involved.", "University students are posting allegations of sexual abuse online, as they do not feel their universities are listening, a National Union of Students (NUS) official has said.\n\nNUS women's officer Sarah Lasoye said sexual assault was the \"biggest issue facing female students at university\".\n\nDuring the past month, there have been more than 15,000 retweets of claims from students at seven UK universities.\n\nUniversities UK said: \"Every case of sexual violence is one too many.\"\n\nThe group, together with the Office for Students, has been tasked by the government with tackling sexual abuse at universities.\n\nBoth organisations say they are making progress but more needs to be done.\n\nThe Next Episode, a new podcast available on BBC Sounds, has spoken to alleged victims of sexual assault, some of whom have posted about their experiences on Twitter.\n\nSome details have been changed to protect the identity of the women.\n\nStephanie, 20, said: \"I knew him from back home but we went to different universities.\n\n\"One night he tried to kiss me - he was drunk and he wouldn't take no for an answer.\n\n\"Then, later that night, he raped me. I went to the police and my university straight away but I didn't get support until I developed medical problems because of the stress that night caused.\n\n\"[Posting online] made me feel empowered - seeing others talking about it online gave me back my voice.\"\n\nAmelia, 21, said: \"He was a close friend and I trusted him before all of this.\n\n\"He stayed over at my house and I said he could sleep in my bedroom as long as he kept on his side of the bed.\n\n\"When I woke up, my top had been taken off and he was touching my breasts. I told him, 'No.'\n\n\"Unis love to say they care for students. But they're a business. You are a number to them. You are £9,000 a year. I don't believe they provide support. They didn't care for me.\"\n\nSasha, 21, said: \"He was a very close friend. One day, at a party, we ended up alone in a bedroom.\n\n\"He started kissing me. But then I stopped and said I wanted to go downstairs. He was persistent - he wouldn't let me go downstairs and he kept trying to sweet-talk me. I pleaded for him to leave.\n\n\"I spoke to my university but that made it even worse. The actual assault was traumatic, obviously, but the lack of support from the authorities just added to the stress. I tweeted about my experience because I wanted to let women know they need to be careful.\"\n\nSpeaking before this week's NUS women's conference in Bristol, which started on Wednesday, Ms Lasoye said that universities around the country were currently not doing enough to support students like Amelia, Sasha and Stephanie.\n\nShe added: \"Students are turning to social media because they don't see a place where their experiences will be listened to, validated or dealt with effectively.\"\n\nSarah Lasoye said sexual assault was the \"biggest issue facing female students at university\"\n\nIn 2016, a report by a Universities UK taskforce made a series of recommendations to help tackle sexual abuse.\n\nResponding to Ms Lasoye's comments, a Universities UK representative said: \"All students and staff are entitled to a safe and positive experience and all universities have a duty of care to provide that outcome.\n\n\"This includes ensuring we create an environment where students feel able to come forward with the confidence that an incident will be addressed.\"\n\nNicola Dandridge, chief executive of the Office for Students, said: \"Tackling the issue will require action and collaboration from a range of parties.\n\n\"The Office for Students has invested £2.4m in projects based in universities and colleges across England, to devise better ways of tackling sexual assault and harassment.\"\n\nIn February, a survey of more than 5,649 students by the Brook health charity found:\n\nThe universities themselves are taking different approaches to this issue. Some have set up help-lines for students, others offer counselling sessions to victims.\n\nNazir Afzal, a former solicitor who has worked on many cases that involve violence against women, said the best option was to go straight to the police.\n\n\"The earlier you involve the authorities, the more likely it is that the police can collect evidence that can be used in a trial,\" he said.\n\n\"I also suggest you seek help from all the various women's help groups that are out there.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, information about help and support is available here.\n\nYou can listen to The Next Episode podcast via BBC Sounds.", "The BBC's Panorama programme has uncovered shocking evidence of patients with autism and learning difficulties being mocked, taunted and intimidated by abusive hospital staff.\n\nWhorlton Hall, near Barnard Castle in County Durham is a specialist hospital that cares for people with complex needs.\n\nPanorama filmed vulnerable adults being deliberately provoked by staff who then physically restrained them.\n\nThe investigation comes eight years after the programme exposed the scandal of abuse at Winterbourne View, another specialist hospital.", "Kenneth Noye fled to Spain after he murdered Stephen Cameron in 1996\n\nM25 road-rage killer Kenneth Noye is to be released from prison, the Parole Board has confirmed.\n\nNoye, 71, stabbed 21-year-old Stephen Cameron to death in an attack at the Swanley interchange of the M25 in Kent in 1996.\n\nNoye later claimed he killed Mr Cameron in self-defence during a road-rage fight. He was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 16 years in 2000.\n\nThe Parole Board said he no longer poses a risk to the public.\n\nNoye, who is currently at Standford Hill open prison in Kent, is expected to be released within weeks.\n\nWhen asked whether he had spoken to the Parole Board, he said: \"Yes, they're letting him out.\"\n\nStephen Cameron was 21 when he was stabbed to death by Noye\n\nThe electrician was stabbed in front of his fiancee Danielle Cable, who was given a new identity and has been living under a witness protection scheme ever since.\n\nNoye went on the run after the killing, and was tracked down in Spain in 1998 and extradited back to the UK.\n\nNoye's release case was considered at a hearing on 9 May after it was referred by the Justice Secretary.\n\nThe panel heard evidence from Noye's probation officer and Prison Service officials.\n\nNoye, who first became eligible to be considered for release on 21 April 2015, also gave evidence to the panel.\n\nThis was the third review of Noye's case by the Parole Board.\n\nThe panel heard how Noye was of \"good conduct and compliance\" in prison and had \"worked positively\" with officials dealing with his case.\n\nThe Parole Board said Noye \"had demonstrated an ability to deal appropriately with potentially violent situations in prison and was clearly well motivated to avoid further offending in the community\".\n\nThe Parole Board's decision is likely to spark huge controversy, not least because of Noye's offending history - which stretches back to the 1960s - and his past connections to organised crime.\n\nThere are also likely to be those who question whether Noye has truly changed.\n\nLess than four years ago, a parole panel rejected his bid for release citing a psychological assessment that his \"main characteristic trait was criminal versatility, and that superficial charm, grandiose sense of self, lack of remorse, manipulative behaviour, failure to accept responsibility and poor behaviour controls were partially present\".\n\nThe panel said he had a \"need to be in control\".\n\nHowever, should Stephen Cameron's family wish to challenge the release decision their only option is to go to court and start judicial review proceedings, which are expensive and offer no guarantee of success.\n\nA far simpler internal review system, which the Government promised last year, won't apply in this case because it doesn't come into effect until July.\n\nKenneth Noye in custody at Dartford Police Station in May 1999\n\nThe panel said it was satisfied that Noye met the test for release and was suitable for return to the community.\n\nHe will have to reside at a designated address, be of good behaviour, and report as required for supervision or other appointments.\n\nThere will be strict limitations on his contacts, movements and activities.\n\nRoy Ramm, a former commander in specialist operations at New Scotland Yard, said: \"Kenneth Noye is a career criminal. He's been involved in some of the biggest crimes in the UK.\n\n\"He has spent his life around criminal enterprises.\n\n\"He is a man who has been proven to be very violent in the past... there should be a great deal of supervision around him and about his conduct.\"\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"Clearly this will be a distressing decision for the family of Stephen Cameron and our thoughts remain with them.\n\n\"Like all life sentence prisoners released by the independent Parole Board, Kenneth Noye will be on licence for the remainder of his life, released subject to strict conditions and faces a return to prison should he fail to comply.\"\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. Undercover BBC filming shows staff swearing, mocking and taunting patients with autism and learning disabilities\n\nWhorlton Hall hospital had at least 100 visits by official agencies in the year before abuse of inpatients there was discovered, the BBC has learned.\n\nInspectors, council officials and NHS staff all visited the County Durham unit - sometimes in teams of two or three over the course of several days.\n\nBut the scale of mistreatment of people there with learning disabilities and autism was not spotted.\n\nCampaigners said the authorities had failed in their jobs.\n\nUndercover filming by the BBC's Panorama programme - aired on Wednesday - showed patients at the 17-bed unit being mocked, taunted, intimidated and repeatedly restrained.\n\nThe footage also included shocking scenes where some staff can be heard using offensive language to describe patients, while another calls the hospital a \"house of mongs\".\n\nA police investigation has been launched and 16 staff suspended.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission (CQC), which regulates the sector, went in three times - in March, April and July of last year. One of the visits lasted two days and involved a team of three after concerns were raised by a whistle-blower.\n\nThe inspection found breaches of regulations in relation to staffing and good governance, but the hospital kept its good rating.\n\nCQC deputy chief inspector Dr Paul Lelliott said it was \"now clear we missed what was going on\".\n\nHe said the regulator was sorry. He said inspectors spoke to staff and patients as well as independent people familiar with the hospital. But no concerns were raised.\n\n\"This illustrates how difficult it is to get under the skin of this type of 'closed culture',\" he added.\n\nIn one case, a patient at Whorlton Hall was told by her care worker that her family are \"poison\"\n\nOn top of the CQC visit, there were multiple visits by 10 different councils and local NHS bodies.\n\nDurham Council visited the hospital 33 times over the past year - 12 because of safeguarding concerns - with the rest largely related to the placement of new patients at the 17-bed unit.\n\nThe council's corporate director of adult and health service, Jane Robinson, said: \"We found no evidence suggesting issues of the nature shown in the programme.\"\n\nRichard Kramer, chief executive of disability charity Sense, criticised the approach taken by authorities.\n\nHe said agencies were maybe too likely to take the word of staff at \"face value\", rather than insist on observations and on seeing the person.\n\n\"This appears to be a case of professionals not investing time and resources to fully review the care and support,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Care Minister Caroline Dinenage told the House of Commons she was \"deeply sorry that this has happened\".\n\nMs Dinenage said that after the government and the Care Quality Commission were told of the allegations of abuse at Whorlton Hall, \"immediate steps\" were taken to ensure the safety of the patients there.\n\nAnd she questions needed to be asked over whether the activity at Whorlton Hall was criminal, if the regulatory and inspection framework is working and also over the commissioning of care services.\n\nThe unit has now been closed and all the patients moved to other services.", "A mural of the Clotilda in the city of Mobile, Alabama\n\nThe last ship known to have smuggled slaves from Africa to the US is said to have been discovered after a year-long investigation.\n\nThe remains of the Clotilda were found at the bottom of the Mobile river in Alabama.\n\nThe ship was used to smuggle men, women and children into America from Africa.\n\nIt operated in secret, decades after Congress banned the importation of slaves, and was intentionally sunk in 1860 to hide evidence of its use.\n\n\"The discovery of the Clotilda is an extraordinary archaeological find,\" Lisa Demetropoulos Jones, executive director of the Alabama Historical Commission (AHC), told the Associated Press (AP) news agency.\n\nThe ship's journey \"represented one of the darkest eras of modern history\" and the wreck provides \"tangible evidence of slavery\", she said.\n\nThe Clotilda was discovered by archaeology firm company Search Inc, which was called in to help by the Alabama Historical Commission to investigate the hulk, says the National Geographic Society, which reported the find.\n\nResearchers discovered a ship with its identifying features under water in a section of the Mobile river, says National Geographic.\n\nA statue of Cudjoe Lewis, who was brought to the US on the Clotilda\n\nThe dimensions and construction of the wreck matched those of the Clotilda, as did building materials, the commission said.\n\n\"We are cautious about placing names on shipwrecks that no longer bear a name or something like a bell with the ship's name on it,\" maritime archaeologist James Delgado said in a statement.\n\n\"But the physical and forensic evidence powerfully suggests that this is Clotilda.\"\n\nThe US banned the importation of slaves in 1808, but the slave trade carried on beyond this date as there was still demand for workers from southern plantation owners.\n\nA wealthy landowner and shipbuilder from Mobile is said to have made a bet with northern businessmen that he could smuggle a cargo of African slaves into Mobile Bay under the nose of federal officials, National Geographic says.\n\nThe Clotilda carried 110 men, women and children from Benin to Alabama in 1860, according to historians.\n\n\"It's the best documented story of a slave voyage in the western hemisphere,\" historian Sylviane Anna Diouf - who relied on testimony from the slave traders and their captives, some of whom lived in the 20th Century - told National Geographic.\n\nSome descendants of those carried on the ship still live nearby in an area that came to be known as Africatown.\n\nThey have welcomed the discovery.\n\n\"I think about the people who came before us who laboured and fought and worked so hard,\" Joycelyn Davis, a sixth-generation granddaughter of one of the slaves, told AP. \"I'm sure people had given up on finding it. It's a wow factor.\"", "The skaters of Middlesbrough Roller Derby team are proud of the work they have done to encourage more women to take part in sport.\n\nA 2016 survey found the town to be the worst place to be a girl growing up.\n\nBut the team says such reports do not take into account the town's \"tenacity\" and \"spirit to keep going\" and they \"know how brilliant Middlesbrough is\".\n\nThis video was created as part of We Are Middlesbrough - a BBC project with people of the town to tell the stories that matter to them.", "A Middlesbrough training academy has been helping women get into beauty industry jobs.\n\nOwner Lisa Fallow says her goal is to help change people's lives.\n\nThis story was created as part of We Are Middlesbrough - a BBC project with people of the town to tell the stories that matter to them.", "Iraq's Christian community is one of the oldest in the world\n\nThe Archbishop of Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, has accused Britain's Christian leaders of failing to do enough in defence of the vanishing Christian community in Iraq.\n\nIn an impassioned address in London, the Rt Rev Bashar Warda said Iraq's Christians now faced extinction after 1,400 years of persecution.\n\nSince the US-led invasion toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003, he said, the Christian community had dwindled by 83%, from around 1.5 million to just 250,000.\n\n\"Christianity in Iraq,\" he said, \"one of the oldest Churches, if not the oldest Church in the world, is perilously close to extinction. Those of us who remain must be ready to face martyrdom.\"\n\nHe referred to the current, pressing threat from Islamic State (IS) jihadists as a \"final, existential struggle\", following the group's initial assault in 2014 that displaced more than 125,000 Christians from their historic homelands.\n\n\"Our tormentors confiscated our present,\" he said, \"while seeking to wipe out our history and destroy our future. In Iraq there is no redress for those who have lost properties, homes and businesses. Tens of thousands of Christians have nothing to show for their life's work, for generations of work, in places where their families have lived, maybe, for thousands of years.\"\n\nIS, known in the Arab world as Daesh, was driven from its last stronghold at Baghuz in Syria in March after a massive multinational military campaign, effectively spelling the end of its self-declared \"caliphate\".\n\nBefore that, it had already been expelled from Iraq's second city of Mosul in July 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut churches, monasteries and homes belonging to Christian families have been decimated and thousands of families have not returned.\n\nThis week the archbishop warned of what he said were a growing number of extremist groups that asserted that the killing of Christians and Yazidis helped to spread Islam.\n\nThe archbishop went on to accuse Britain's Christian leaders of \"political correctness\" over the issue - he called the failure to condemn extremism \"a cancer\", saying they were not speaking out loudly enough for fear of being accused of Islamophobia.\n\n\"Will you continue to condone this never-ending, organised persecution against us?\" he said. \"When the next wave of violence begins to hit us, will anyone on your campuses hold demonstrations and carry signs that say 'We are all Christians'?\"\n\nIraqi Christians have been targeted by Islamist militants, including IS\n\nHis views on political correctness are shared in part by the Bishop of Truro, the Rt Rev Philip Mounstephen, who chairs the Independent Review into the Foreign Office's response to the persecution of Christians worldwide.\n\n\"I think the archbishop is right that a culture of 'political correctness' has prevented Western voices from speaking out about the persecution of Christians,\" he says. \"I think though this is mainly to do with a reluctance borne of post-colonial guilt.\"\n\nBishop Mounstephen maintains that Christian persecution needs to be viewed from a global perspective and has multiple causes.\n\n\"If we only consider it in the light of Islamic militancy,\" he says, \"we let a lot of other people off the hook who should otherwise be held to account.\"\n\nTaking a historical perspective, the Archbishop of Irbil lamented the fact that in centuries past there was a happy period of fruitful cooperation between Christians and Muslims in Iraq, a time that historians have referred to as the Islamic Golden Age.\n\n\"Our Christian ancestors shared with Muslim Arabs a deep tradition of thought and philosophy,\" says Archbishop Warda. \"They engaged with them in respectful dialogue from the 8th Century.\n\n\"A style of scholastic dialogue had developed, and which could only occur because a succession of caliphs [Islamic political and religious leaders] tolerated minorities. As toleration ended, so did the culture and wealth which flowed from it.\"\n\nElsewhere in the Middle East it is a mixed picture for Christians in 2019.\n\nEgypt's Copts, who constitute at least 10% of the country's 100 million-plus population, have come under sustained attack from jihadists who have bombed their churches and attempted to drive them out of northern Sinai.\n\nBut in February Pope Francis made a historic three-day visit to the UAE - the first ever by a pontiff to the Arabian Peninsula - in which he held a mass attended by an estimated 135,000 mostly migrant Catholics.\n\nThe archbishop warned the West not to be complicit through inaction\n\nAnd in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam and a country that has enforced a narrow, austere interpretation of Islam for the last 40 years, the first Coptic Christian mass was allowed in December.\n\nIn Syria, the Christian minority felt deeply threatened by the largely Islamist element amongst the rebel groups. With President Assad's forces now in the ascendant, as a result of some often brutal tactics, Syria's Christians may be breathing a small sigh of relief.\n\nIn Iraq though, the outlook for Christians remains bleak. Sectarian tensions between Sunni and Shia Muslims persist and there are still unknown numbers of IS fighters hiding out in the north and west of the country.\n\nArchbishop Warda has reached a bitter conclusion about what the future holds.\n\n\"Friends, we may be facing our end in the land of our ancestors. We acknowledge this. In our end, the entire world faces a moment of truth.\n\n\"Will a peaceful and innocent people be allowed to be persecuted and eliminated because of their faith? And, for the sake of not wanting to speak the truth to the persecutors, will the world be complicit in our elimination?\"", "Most families do not choose to send their children to their nearest school, shows the biggest ever study of state secondary school choices in England.\n\nMore than 60% opt for a school that is further away - usually because it is higher achieving.\n\n\"Contrary to a widely-held belief, only a minority of parents choose their local school as their first option,\" say researchers.\n\nIt also debunks the idea that richer families are more engaged with choices.\n\nThe study, from researchers at the universities of Cambridge and Bristol, is the most detailed examination of choices of secondary school places in England, using more than 520,000 applications from 2014 to 2015.\n\nIt found that parents were actively using the system of preferences - and were not passively accepting their nearest option.\n\n\"On average we found parents and pupils usually attempt to try to study at the highest-attaining school, rather than the one which is closest,\" said Prof Anna Vignoles, from the University of Cambridge.\n\nDespite any assumptions about the \"sharp elbows\" of middle-class families, there was no significant difference in behaviour between wealthier and more disadvantaged parents.\n\nBoth were similarly engaged in using choices to seek more desirable school places.\n\nParents in poorer areas were more likely to opt for schools further away - with researchers suggesting this was because richer families were more likely to live closer to high-performing schools.\n\nOn average across the country, about 39% make their nearest school their first preference.\n\nDifferent parts of the country allow different numbers of preferences - usually three or six options - and the study found that where more options were offered, parents made twice as many choices.\n\nThe researchers said parents wanted to express more preferences, and having three rather than six choices could push parents into making pragmatic choices, rather than what they might really want.\n\nParents of black and Asian children were likely to make more choices than parents of white children - and were more likely to seek places further from where they lived, usually for a higher-achieving school.\n\nThe study suggests that this could be because black and Asian families were less likely to live near the most sought-after school.\n\nThe research shows parents are actively using the choice system to get places in higher-achieving schools\n\nBut they were also less likely than white families to get into their first preference, says the study being published in the Oxford Review of Education.\n\nThis could be because black and Asian families were making more \"ambitious\" first choices, which were less likely to be available.\n\nWhile families were ready to look further afield for a better school, the admissions system can often prioritise places for those living closest to the school.\n\nThe study examines the big national patterns of choices in the state sector - it does not look at individual motivations or different types of school, such as parents applying to faith schools or grammars.\n\nIn a rural area there might also only be one realistic option - and in cities, some popular schools might be so oversubscribed that parents might not want to \"waste\" a choice on applying.\n\nProf Vignoles said choices were often made with a \"degree of caution\", particularly in places where there were only three preferences.\n\n\"Due to the limit in the number of options allowed, first choice schools may be 'safe' rather than 'ambitious',\" she said.\n\nAllowing parents more preferences would increase the \"quality\" of their choices, said Prof Vignoles.\n\nProf Simon Burgess, from the University of Bristol, said 85% of people getting their first choice could show people were making \"pragmatic choices based on the probability of admission\".\n\nA more successful system, he argues, could have a lower proportion getting their first pick, as it would show more people trying to get into the \"best schools\".\n\nAt present, because most entry is based on how close people live to schools, he says families often \"do not bother applying\" to the highest-achieving schools because they have no realistic prospect of getting a place.", "Six regional airports have come to the end of a 24-hour strike by air traffic controllers.\n\nThe affected airports were Benbecula, Dundee, Inverness, Kirkwall, Stornoway and Sumburgh.\n\nThe union Prospect has called for a staff pay rise of at least 10%, arguing that air traffic controllers in the private sector earn much more.\n\nHial, which is owned by the Scottish government, said it had to follow government pay policy.\n\nThe company said the travel plans of 6,000 people had been disrupted by the strike.\n\nWick John O'Groats Airport had also expected to be affected by the strike, but Hial said it had made arrangements to keep the site open.\n\nBarra, Campbeltown, Islay and Tiree airports also remained open on Thursday.\n\nSumburgh was one of six regional airports shut because of the strike\n\nThe controllers have been working to rule since the beginning of April.\n\nProspect agreed to suspend a strike planned for 26 April to allow for talks.\n\nBut the discussions, facilitated by the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, broke down earlier this month and a strike date was set for Thursday.\n\nHial has said the controllers' wage demand \"greatly exceeds\" the policy, adding that the comparison with the private sector was \"misleading and unrealistic\" due to the different volume of air traffic movements.\n\nInglis Lyon, Hial managing director, told BBC Scotland: \"I think Prospect is being unreasonable. Prospect has dug in and maintained their requirement for the 10% wage award against no justification.\n\n\"It's an impossible ask for any employer, Scottish government-sponsored or otherwise.\"\n\nHowever, Prospect said the airports company should stop \"antagonising\" staff and focus on persuading the Scottish government to help resolve the dispute.\n\nDundee Airport was closed from midnight to midnight due to the industrial action\n\nDavid Avery, of the union, said Hial had made one pay offer - a 2% increase - to its member and they had rejected it three times.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland that he did not know how long the dispute could \"drag on\" but that the current industrial action was scheduled to continue through to August.\n\nMr Avery said: \"We wouldn't want to take action if we don't need to and we would still like ministers and Hial to come forward with a proposal to resolve this.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has urged both Prospect and Hial to return to talks.\n\nUisdean Robertson, chairman of the Western Isles Transport Committee, has called on the Scottish government to intervene in the dispute.\n\nHe said with high demand on the islands' ferry services the \"last thing that was needed\" was cancelled flights.\n\nMr Robertson said: \"I think we have reached the stage now where the government needs to get involved.\n\n\"The sooner the whole issue is resolved the better.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mark Zuckerberg spent time in France last week, discussing regulation with President Emmanuel Macron\n\nFacebook has published its latest \"enforcement report\", which details how many posts and accounts it took action on between October 2018 and March 2019.\n\nDuring that six-month period, Facebook removed more than three billion fake accounts - more than ever before.\n\nMore than seven million \"hate speech\" posts were removed, also a record high.\n\nFor the first time, Facebook also reported how many deleted posts were appealed, and how many were put back online after review.\n\nIn a call with reporters on Thursday, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg hit back against numerous calls to break up Facebook, arguing its size made it possible to defend against the network's problems.\n\n\"I don't think that the remedy of breaking up the company is going to address [the problem],\" he said.\n\n\"The success of the company has allowed us to fund these efforts at a massive level. I think the amount of our budget that goes toward our safety systems... I believe is greater than Twitter's whole revenue this year.\"\n\nFacebook said the rise in the number of deleted fake accounts was because \"bad actors\" were using automated methods to create large numbers of them.\n\nBut it said it spotted and deleted a majority of them within minutes, before they had any opportunity to \"cause harm\".\n\nThe social network will now also report how many posts were removed for selling \"regulated goods\" such as drugs and guns.\n\nIt said it took action on more than one million posts selling guns in the six-month period covered by the report.\n\nFor some types of content, such as child sex abuse imagery, violence and terrorist propaganda, the report estimates how often such content was actually seen by people on Facebook.\n\nThe report said that out of every 10,000 pieces of content viewed on Facebook:\n\nOverall, about 5% of the monthly active users on Facebook were fake accounts.\n\nFor the first time, the report reveals that between January and March 2019 more than one million appeals were made after posts were deleted for \"hate speech\".\n\nAbout 150,000 posts that were found not to have broken the hate speech policy were restored during that period.\n\nFacebook said the report highlighted \"areas where we could be more open in order to build more accountability and responsiveness to the people who use our platform\".", "Brazilian cosmetics group Natura has announced that it is buying UK-based direct-selling cosmetics business Avon.\n\nNatura, which already owns The Body Shop and Aesop, is Brazil's top business in cosmetics, perfumes and toiletries.\n\nIts all-stock offer of about $2bn (£1.6bn) means Natura shareholders will hold 76% of the combined company, which will have annual revenue of over $10bn.\n\nThe deal will create the world's fourth-largest cosmetics company.\n\nThe new combined company will boast 3,200 stores worldwide with a presence in 100 countries.\n\nAvon has been struggling to modernise its global business over the last few years, as its door-to-door sales model has become less popular in the internet age.\n\nIn 2016, the company said it was moving its headquarters from New York to the UK \"over time\" while cutting 2,500 jobs worldwide as part of a turnaround plan.\n\nAt the same time, Avon sold its US operations to investment fund Cerberus.\n\nIn April, LG Household & Health Care agreed to acquire both Avon and Cerberus' stakes in the US business.\n\nAccording to analysts at Brasil Plural, Natura is \"pursuing the goal of becoming a global brand\", but warned it would need to significantly invest in Avon's operations in Brazil.\n\nAvon already has 2.2 million direct marketing consultants in Brazil.\n\nNatura has a similar business model and many Avon representatives in Brazil also sell Natura products too.\n\nThe Brazilian cosmetics maker purchased The Body Shop in a deal believed to be worth 1bn euros ($1.1bn; £880m) from French beauty group L'Oreal in 2017.\n\nSince then, Natura has been trying to turn The Body Shop around, which has suffered from increased competition and a difficult retail environment.\n\nL'Oreal bought the business for around €940m in 2006 at the height of its success but it has failed to thrive since.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPlans to expand the 2022 World Cup to 48 teams have been abandoned by Fifa.\n\nFifa president Gianni Infantino said last year the expansion from 32 teams could be brought forward from 2026 to the 2022 tournament in Qatar.\n\nThe change would have required Qatar to share hosting duties with other countries in the region.\n\nWorld football's governing body said after a \"thorough and comprehensive consultation process\" the change \"could not be made now\".\n\nFifa also said it explored the possibility of Qatar hosting a 48-team tournament on its own but has decided not to pursue those plans as there was not enough time \"for a detailed assessment of the potential logistical impact\".\n\nIn a statement, Qatari World Cup organisers said: \"Qatar had always been open to the idea of an expanded tournament in 2022 had a viable operating model been found and had all parties concluded that an expanded 48-team edition was in the best interest of football and Qatar as the host nation.\n\n\"With just three and a half years to go until kick off, Qatar remains as committed as ever to ensuring the 32-team Fifa World Cup in 2022 is one of the best tournaments ever and one that makes the entire Arab world proud.\"\n\nIn November, Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin said adding 16 teams to Qatar 2022 could create \"many problems\" and described the idea as \"quite unrealistic\".\n• None US, Canada & Mexico win right to host 2026 World Cup\n\nThose close to the Qatar 2022 organisers say this is a mutual decision that realigns them and Fifa, and that they are now concentrating on delivering the best possible 32-team World Cup.\n\nBut it will also have come as a major relief to the hosts, who no longer have to worry about sharing football's showpiece event.\n\nPerhaps with the Nobel Peace Prize in mind, Fifa president Gianni Infantino had pushed for an expansion against Qatar's wishes, hoping it may help heal diplomatic tensions in the region by staging some games in other countries, but he has now had to admit defeat.\n\nWith Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain all maintaining a blockade of neighbouring Qatar, such an audacious move was never going to be straightforward.\n\nThe crisis left only Kuwait and Oman as potential co-hosts, but a Fifa study concluded that neither would meet all logistical requirements.\n\nInfantino has previously collaborated with Saudi Arabia when proposing a revamped Club World Cup, and many suspected this was linked to his suggestion that the country could be part of the solution for an expanded 2022 tournament.\n\nBut given the condemnation that followed the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the country's consulate in Istanbul last year, along with its role in Yemen's bloody civil war, such a step would have sparked a major backlash from human rights campaigners, as it would have done if the UAE had been awarded games.\n\nSo while some national football associations and Infantino will no doubt be disappointed at the news, many others will welcome it.\n\nWhy does Fifa want to expand the World Cup?\n\nIn January 2017, Fifa voted unanimously in favour of increasing the World Cup to 48 teams for the 2026 event - which will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico.\n\nIn October 2018 Infantino said \"we have to see if it is possible\" to bring the expansion forward to 2022.\n\nInfantino has been a strong advocate of the expansion and said the World Cup has to be \"more inclusive\".\n\n\"We are in the 21st century and we have to shape the World Cup of the 21st century,\" he said when announcing the change.\n\n\"It is the future. Football is more than just Europe and South America, football is global.\"\n\nThe expansion in 2026 will see an initial stage of 16 groups of three teams precede a knockout stage for the remaining 32.\n\nThe number of tournament matches will rise to 80, from 64, but the eventual winners will still play only seven games.\n\nThe tournament will be completed within 32 days - a measure to appease powerful European clubs, who objected to reform because of a crowded international schedule.", "Prochlorperazine is prescribed for nausea and dizziness\n\nFour pharmaceutical firms have been accused of illegally colluding to restrict the supply of an anti-nausea tablet, driving the price paid for it by the NHS up by 700%.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the cost of prochlorperazine rose from £6.49 per pack to £51.68, after suppliers agreed not to compete.\n\nThe drug is often prescribed to cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.\n\nOne of the firms named, Alliance Pharma, denied the allegations.\n\nIn a statement of objections, the CMA says that between 2013 and 2018, the annual cost of 3mg dissolvable prochlorperazine tablets increased from approximately £2.7m to £7.5m, even though the NHS dispensed fewer packs during that period.\n\nIt claimed that sharp increase was the result of four companies - Alliance Pharma, Focus, Lexon and Medreich - agreeing not to compete against each other for the supply of the prescription-only pills.\n\nAlliance supplied prochlorperazine exclusively to Focus, which the CMA says then paid Lexon a share of its profits from the sales.\n\nLexon, the competition regulator alleges, then shared these payments with Medreich.\n\nChemotherapy patients are often prescribed prochlorperazine to help with dizziness\n\nThe CMA alleges that, before entering into this arrangement, Lexon and Medreich had been planning to launch their own jointly-developed prochlorperazine.\n\nIn a statement, Alliance said it had \"no involvement in the pricing or distribution of prochlorperazine since 2013, when it was out-licensed by the company to Focus Pharmaceuticals Limited on an exclusive basis as is normal market practice\".\n\nThe firm added: \"Alliance has not had control of or influence on, and nor has it benefited from, any price increases.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Focus, Lexon and Medreich for comment.\n\nThe CMA's Ann Pope said: \"Agreements where a company pays a rival not to enter the market can lead to higher prices and deprive the NHS of huge savings that often result from competition between drug suppliers.\n\n\"The NHS should not be denied the opportunity of benefitting from an increased choice of suppliers, or lower prices, for important medicine.\"\n\nThe companies concerned will now have the opportunity to respond to the CMA's provisional findings.\n\nIf it eventually determines that competition law has been broken, the CMA can impose a financial penalty of up to 10% of each company's worldwide turnover.", "Cdre Cooke-Priest has been in command of HMS Queen Elizabeth since October last year\n\nThe captain of the Royal Navy's HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier has been removed from the ship amid claims he misused an MoD car.\n\nCommodore Nick Cooke-Priest was flown off the ship as it was anchored in the Firth of Forth.\n\nThe navy said it was a \"precautionary measure\" in an \"ongoing investigation\".\n\nIt earlier said Cdre Cooke-Priest was being \"reassigned\" duties, but would sail from Rosyth on the Firth of Forth to Portsmouth as planned.\n\nDespite being removed from the ship, it is understood he remains officially in charge and will formally hand over to a new commanding officer of the £3bn carrier later this month.\n\nCdre Cooke-Priest, who joined the Royal Navy in 1990, has been in command of HMS Queen Elizabeth since October last year.\n\nLast week it was revealed the navy was investigating reports he had used his Ministry of Defence car - a Ford Galaxy - for his own personal trips.\n\nHMS Queen Elizabeth sits in the Firth of Forth on 22 May\n\nAnyone who has use of an MoD vehicle can only use it for official business, with each mile needing to be recorded.\n\nBut the BBC has been told that thousands of miles on the clock of Cdre Cooke-Priest's vehicle have not been accounted for.\n\nA Royal Navy spokesman said: \"In light of the ongoing investigation, as a precautionary measure, to protect the individual and the ship's company, the Royal Navy has decided that Capt Cooke-Priest will not be at sea with HMS Queen Elizabeth.\"\n\nThe Royal Navy has already been accused of handling this affair badly, and its latest actions may make matters worse.\n\nRemoving a commanding officer from his ship while still at sea is nothing short of brutal, particularly when many have already spoken out in his support.\n\nBut it's a sign that Cdre Cooke-Priest had already lost the trust of his superiors - and at least some of his crew.\n\nNot a mutiny, but certainly a question of confidence.\n\nThe offence of using a work car for personal trips may appear to be relatively minor. But to the top brass it was more serious.\n\nNavy sources have told the BBC he had repeatedly ignored warnings.\n\nIt wasn't just about breaking rules. It was seen as a sign of \"arrogance and sense of entitlement\".\n\nFriends of Cdre Cooke-Priest still plead that he was ignorant of the rules. But it is hard to see how his career will recover.\n\nWhat was at first described as \"administrative\" action might now turn into more serious disciplinary proceedings.", "The polls have closed in the UK for the European Parliament elections.\n\nSeventy-three members, known as MEPs, will be elected in nine constituencies in England, and one each in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEach region's number of representatives is based on its population - from three MEPs in north-east England and Northern Ireland to 10 in south-east England.\n\nThe results will be announced once all EU nations have voted, expected to be completed by 22:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe Netherlands also voted on Thursday while voting in other EU nations will take place at various times over the next three days.\n\nVoters had to be registered to vote, be 18 years old or over on 23 May, be a British, Irish or qualifying Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of an EU country.\n\nThey had to be resident at a UK address (or a British citizen living abroad who has been registered to vote in the UK in the last 15 years) and not be legally excluded from voting.\n\nMEPs are elected in the order listed by their party, based on the total share of the vote in each region.\n\nIn the nine English regions, Wales and Scotland, the number of MEPs is calculated using a form of proportional representation known as the D'Hondt formula, and each voter can choose one party or individual to back.\n\nThe process is slightly different in Northern Ireland, where the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system is used, allowing voters to rank the parties standing in order of preference.\n\nVoters could stop for a poll and a pint in the Cotswolds\n\nThe trend of dogs at polling stations continued with a vengeance\n\nThis caravan offered voters in Leicestershire the chance to have their say\n\nThese monks in East Lothian carried out their civic duty at the village hall\n\nThis supermarket car park in Bristol became a hub for democracy\n\nAnother multi-purpose polling station at this launderette in Oxfordshire\n\nAnd the West Blatchington Windmill in Hove offered another novel place to cast a vote\n• None EU citizens in UK turned away from polls", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Verve's Richard Ashcroft on the end of Bitter Sweet Symphony dispute\n\nOne of rock music's most famous injustices has finally been resolved.\n\nFor the last 22 years, The Verve haven't made a penny from Bitter Sweet Symphony, after forfeiting the royalties to The Rolling Stones.\n\nThe song was embroiled in a legal battle shortly after its release, as it samples an orchestral version of The Stones' song The Last Time.\n\nAs a result, writer Richard Ashcroft had to sign over his rights to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards - until now.\n\nSpeaking as he received a lifetime achievement prize at the Ivor Novello Awards, Ashcroft announced: \"As of last month, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards signed over all their publishing for Bitter Sweet Symphony, which was a truly kind and magnanimous thing for them to do.\"\n\nAs a result, all future royalties for the song will now go to Ashcroft.\n\nThe singer acknowledged that it was the Rolling Stones' late manager, Allen Klein, who had been responsible for the situation, rather than the musicians themselves.\n\n\"I never had a personal beef with the Stones,\" he told the BBC. \"They've always have been the greatest rock and roll band in the world.\"\n\nHe went on to thank Jagger and Richards for acknowledging he was responsible \"for this [expletive] masterpiece\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAccording to Rolling Stone magazine, the royalty dispute arose in 1997 when The Verve sought permission to sample a short, staccato string sequence from the symphonic version of The Last Time, recorded in 1965 by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra.\n\nThe Stones agreed to license a five-note segment in exchange for 50 percent of the royalties, but Klein claimed the Verve voided the agreement by using a larger portion of the song.\n\nABKCO Records, Klein's holding company, filed a plagiarism case, after which The Verve relinquished all their royalties and publishing rights to ABKCO, and the song credit reverted to Jagger and Richards.\n\nThe situation rankled The Verve for years.\n\n\"We were told it was going to be a 50/50 split,\" recalled bassist Simon Jones.\n\n\"Then they saw how well the record was doing they rung up and said, 'We want 100 percent or take it out of the shops, you don't have much choice.'\"\n\nThe bitterest pill came when the song was nominated for a best song Grammy - with Jagger and Richards' names on the ballot.\n\nAsked in 1999 if he believed The Verve had been treated fairly, the Stones' guitarist replied: \"I'm out of whack here, this is serious lawyer [stuff].\"\n\nHowever, he added: \"If the Verve can write a better song, they can keep the money.\"\n\nAshcroft told the BBC that the dispute came to an end following negotiations with Klein's son, and the Rolling Stones new manager Joyce Smyth.\n\n\"It's been a fantastic development,\" he said. \"It's life-affirming in a way.\"\n\nOne unexpected benefit is that the singer can once again enjoy international football.\n\n\"They play it [Bitter Sweet Symphony] before England play. So I can sit back and watch England... and finally just enjoy the moment.\"\n\nIn a statement, The Rolling Stones acknowledged that Ashcroft had been denied the rights to \"one of his most iconic songs, including the lyrical content\" for more than two decades.\n\n\"Of course there was a huge financial cost but any songwriter will know that there is a huge emotional price greater than the money in having to surrender the composition of one of your own songs. Richard has endured that loss for many years.\"\n\nBitter Sweet Symphony has sold 1,276,209 copies in the UK, according to the Official Charts Company, including 70,593 this year.\n\nAshcroft picked up the outstanding contribution prize at Thursday's Ivor Novello Awards, which recognise achievement in songwriting.\n\nOther winners included Deep Purple, Dido and Mariah Carey, who won the special international award.\n\n\"I rarely get acknowledged for my songwriting, which is the core of who I am,\" said the diva in a video message - due to the fact she's performing at an AIDS gala in Cannes on Thursday evening.\n\n\"It's a beautiful thing to feel appreciated for the music I've been making for my entire career.\"\n\nMariah Carey has had 18 number one singles in the US\n\nCarey has written or co-written 17 US number one singles, including Vision of Love, Hero, We Belong Together and Fantasy (her 18th number one, I'll Be There, is a cover of a Jackson 5 song).\n\nHer festive hit All I Want For Christmas Is You has become a modern-day standard, and was streamed a staggering 38 million times in the UK last year alone.\n\nGrime pioneer Wiley received the \"inspiration\" prize and instantly handed it over to his father, the reggae musician Richard Cowie.\n\n\"It's because of him that I do it,\" said the star. \"I want to big up my dad.\"\n\nSocially-conscious punk band Idles won album of the year, while The 1975 took home two prizes - songwriters of the year and best contemporary song for the state-of-the-nation pop anthem Love It If We Made It.\n\nOrganisers hailed the \"brilliantly diverse\" range of songwriting talent in the UK, noting that 70% of this year's nominees were being recognised for the first time.\n\nSongwriters of the year - The 1975\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 The 1975 bag top awards at the Brits", "PSNI officers Mark Hamilton (below left) and Steve Martin (below right) are up against GB policemen Jon Boutcher (top left) and Simon Byrne (top right)\n\nThe new chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is expected to be named later.\n\nInterviews were held on Thursday and Friday, with four men in the running for the £207,000-a-year job.\n\nTwo PSNI officers - Steve Martin and Mark Hamilton - are up against GB policemen Jon Boutcher and Simon Byrne.\n\nThe new chief constable will take up his position after George Hamilton retires next month.\n\nMr Hamilton's successor is being chosen by a panel of seven Policing Board members, but only four of the five main parties are represented.\n\nA special meeting of the board has been called for 17:00 BST on Friday.\n\nAn announcement is due on Friday evening after Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley approves the appointment in the absence of a justice minister at Stormont.\n\nIndependent recruitment specialists have been hired to oversee the process.\n\nA senior occupational psychologist will \"dip sample\" notes taken by selection panel members and ask them to justify the marks they allocate to shortlisted candidates.\n\nMr Martin and Mr Hamilton hold the posts of deputy chief constable and assistant chief constable respectively.\n\nUntil last year, Mr Byrne was chief constable of Cheshire Police, while Mr Boutcher is the head of Bedfordshire Police.\n\nFor the past three years, Mr Boutcher has also been running a major inquiry into the historical activities of the Army agent within the IRA known as Stakeknife.\n\nNew oversight arrangements have been built into the recruitment process after claims that Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald had compromised the competition.\n\nIn February, she voiced opposition to the chief constable being replaced from within the PSNI.\n\nThe board took legal advice on keeping MLAs on the interview panel and its solution was to hire a firm of external advisors to monitor scoring.\n\nIt is understood that Mrs Kelly withdrew from the process at an earlier stage.\n\nAs the only SDLP MLA on the board, she could not be replaced by anyone else from the party.\n\nA Policing Board spokesperson said: \"The withdrawal has no impact as the panel remains representative.\n\n\"It will now comprise the following members: Anne Connolly, John Blair, Alan Chambers, Linda Dillon, Colm McKenna, Wendy Osborne and Mervyn Storey.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Undercover BBC filming shows staff swearing, mocking and taunting patients with autism and learning disabilities\n\nThe abuse uncovered by the BBC at specialist hospital Whorlton Hall has been condemned as \"appalling\" by a government minister.\n\nCare minister Caroline Dinenage told the House of Commons she was \"deeply sorry that this has happened\".\n\nUndercover BBC Panorama filming showed adults with learning disabilities and autism being mocked, intimidated and restrained.\n\nA police investigation has been launched and 16 staff suspended.\n\nBBC Panorama aired the footage of its investigation into the privately-run, NHS-funded hospital in County Durham on Wednesday.\n\nIt was the result of two months of secret filming by undercover reporter Olivia Davies. Her footage included shocking scenes where some staff can be heard using offensive language to describe patients, while another calls the hospital a \"house of mongs\".\n\nPart of the abuse was described as \"psychological torture\" by experts.\n\nOn Thursday, Ms Dinenage - a minister at the Department of Health and Social Care - made a statement to MPs and called the footage \"disturbing\".\n\n\"The actions revealed by this programme are quite simply appalling, there is no other word to describe it,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I absolutely condemn any abuse of this kind, completely and utterly.\"\n\nShe added: \"On behalf of the health and care system, I am deeply sorry that this has happened.\n\n\"One thing we can all agree on... what was shown last night was not care, nor was it in anyway caring.\"\n\nMs Dinenage said after the government and the Care Quality Commission were told of the allegations of abuse at Whorlton Hall, \"immediate steps\" were taken to ensure the safety of the patients there.\n\nAnd she listed three questions that needed to be asked: whether the activity at Whorlton Hall was criminal; whether the regulatory and inspection framework is working; and also over the commissioning of care services.\n\nBBC health correspondent Nick Triggle said one of the questions being asked today is why it took a BBC Panorama programme to expose this, and why the authorities did not spot what was happening.\n\n\"The Care Quality Commission had been in three times in the 12 months prior to Panorama going in and they didn't spot the serious problems that were happening,\" he said.\n\nDr Paul Lelliott, from the CQC, previously told Panorama: \"On this occasion it is quite clear that we did not pick up the abuse that was happening at Whorlton Hall. All I can do is apologise deeply to the people concerned.\"\n\nSpeaking to MPs, Ms Dinenage added: \"There are also a range of questions more broadly about whether these types of institutions and these type of inpatient settings are ever an appropriate place to keep the vulnerable for any extended length of time.\n\n\"Where it is essential that somebody has to be supported at distance from their home, we will make sure that those arrangements are supervised.\n\n\"We won't tolerate having people out of sight and out of mind. Where someone with a learning disability or an autistic person has to be an inpatient out of area, they will be now visited every six weeks if they are a child or every eight weeks if they are an adult.\"\n\nIn one case, a patient at Whorlton Hall was told by her care worker that her family are \"poison\".\n\nBBC Panorama's investigation comes eight years after the programme exposed the scandal of abuse at Winterbourne View, another specialist hospital, near Bristol.\n\nWinterbourne View was shut down and the government committed to closing other specialist hospitals too, saying care should be provided in the community.\n\nBed numbers have been reduced - from 3,400 to below 2,300 since 2012 in England - but that falls short of the government's target to get the figure down to below 1,700 by March this year.\n\nCygnet, the firm which runs the unit, said it was \"shocked and deeply saddened\".\n\nThe company only took over the running of the centre at the turn of the year and said it was \"co-operating fully\" with the police investigation.\n\nAll the patients have been transferred to other services and the hospital closed down, Cygnet said.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it treated allegations of abuse with the \"utmost seriousness\", but could not comment any further because of the police investigation.\n• None How we uncovered abuse at specialist hospital", "Rekognition can match photos to databases holding millions of people's faces\n\nShareholders seeking to halt Amazon's sale of its facial recognition technology to US police forces have been defeated in two votes that sought to pressure the company into a rethink.\n\nCivil rights campaigners had said it was \"perhaps the most dangerous surveillance technology ever developed\".\n\nBut investors rejected the proposals at the company's annual general meeting.\n\nThat meant less than 50% voted for either of the measures.\n\nA breakdown of the results has yet to be disclosed.\n\nThe first vote had proposed that the company should stop offering its Rekognition system to government agencies.\n\nThe second had called on it to commission an independent study into whether the tech threatened people's civil rights.\n\nThe ballot in Seattle would have been non-binding, meaning executives would not have had to take specific action had either been passed.\n\nAmazon had tried to block the votes but was told by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it did not have the right to do so.\n\nRekognition gives a confidence score as to whether a person's face is a match\n\n\"We will see what the tally is, but one of our primary objectives was to bring this before shareholders and the board, and we succeeded in doing that,\" Mary Beth Gallagher from the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment told the BBC.\n\n\"This is just the beginning of this movement for us and this campaign will continue. We have built links to civil rights groups, employees and other stakeholders.\n\n\"And the most important thing is that regardless of the result, we still want the board to halt sales of Rekognition to governments, and it has the capacity to do that.\"\n\nThe American Civil Liberties Union added that the very fact there had been a vote was \"an embarrassment to Amazon\" and should serve as a \"wake-up call for the company to reckon with the real harms of face surveillance\".\n\nAmazon has yet to comment.\n\nBut ahead of the votes it said it had not received a single report of the system being used in a harmful manner.\n\n\"[Rekognition is] a powerful tool... for law enforcement and government agencies to catch criminals, prevent crime, and find missing people,\" its AGM notes state.\n\n\"New technology should not be banned or condemned because of its potential misuse.\"\n\nAmazon has promoted its tech as a tool to fight crime\n\nRekognition is an online tool that works with both video and still images and allows users to match faces to pre-scanned subjects in a database containing up to 20 million people provided by the client.\n\nIn doing so, it gives a confidence score as to whether the ID is accurate.\n\nIn addition, it can be used to:\n\nAmazon recommends that law enforcement agents should only use the facility if there is a 99% or higher confidence rating of a match and says they should be transparent about its usage.\n\nRekognition can be used to flag \"suggestive content\"\n\nBut one force that has used the tech - Washington County Sheriff's Office in Hillsboro, Oregon, - told the Washington Post that it had done so without enforcing a minimum confidence threshold, and had run black-and-white police sketches through the system in addition to photos.\n\nA second force in Orlando, Florida has also tested the system. But Amazon has not disclosed how many other public authorities have done so.\n\nPart of Rekognition's appeal is that it is cheaper to use than several rival facial recognition technologies.\n\nBut a study published in January by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Toronto suggested Amazon's algorithms suffered greater gender and racial bias than four competing products.\n\nIt said that Rekognition had a 0% error rate at classifying lighter-skinned males as such within a test, but a 31.4% error rate at categorising darker-skinned females.\n\nAmazon said that it ran tests against images of men and women from six ethnicities to check for signs of bias\n\nAmazon has disputed the findings saying that the researchers had used \"an outdated version\" of its tool and that its own checks had found \"no difference\" in gender-classification across ethnicities.\n\nEven so, opposition to Rekognition has also been voiced by civil liberties groups and hundreds of Amazon's own workers.\n\nMs Gallagher said that shareholders were concerned that continued sales of Rekognition to the police risked damaging Amazon's status as \"one of the most trusted institutions in the United States\".\n\n\"We don't want it used by law enforcement because of the impact that will have on society - it might limit people's willingness to go in public spaces where they think they might be tracked,\" she said.\n\nBut one of the directors from Amazon Web Services - the division responsible - had told the BBC that it should be up to politicians to decide if restrictions should be put in place.\n\nRekognition can give a confidence score for several different features\n\n\"The right organisations to handle the issue are policymakers in government,\" Ian Massingham explained.\n\n\"The one thing I would say about deep learning technology generally is that much of the technology is based on publicly available academic research, so you can't really put the genie back in the bottle.\n\n\"Once the research is published, it's kind of hard to 'uninvent' something.\n\n\"So, our focus is on making sure the right governance and legislative controls are in place.\"", "A bullet missed a man by centimetres as police fired on the London Bridge attackers, an inquest has heard.\n\nSimon Edwards was in the Wheatsheaf pub in Borough Market when police shot dead the three knife-wielding assailants outside, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nThe inquest into the deaths of their eight victims was shown a CCTV image of the moment a stray shot came through the pub window close to Mr Edwards.\n\nThe bullet hit a man behind Mr Edwards in the head, seriously injuring him.\n\nGiving evidence to the inquest, Mr Edwards said a friend of his rushed to give first aid to that man, Neil McLellan, and he survived.\n\nKhuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, killed eight people in the van and knife attack on the evening of 3 June 2017.\n\nPolice shot and killed the attackers less than 10 minutes after the violence began.\n\nKhuram Butt tried to enter the Wheatsheaf pub in Borough Maket\n\nMr Edwards had actually just left the Wheatsheaf pub when he saw three armed men walking towards him, he told the court.\n\nHe said people were screaming and his wife Nicole dragged him back into the pub, where a member of staff locked the door.\n\nButt tried to enter the pub by forcing the door open.\n\nHe seemed \"calm\" and \"determined\", Mr Edwards told the Old Bailey.\n\nHe said Butt had \"canisters\" strapped to him, which later turned out to be part of a fake suicide vest.\n\nby Harriet Agerholm, BBC News reporter, at the inquests\n\nSimon Edwards had been out for a meal and then drinks with his wife and friends when the London Bridge attackers went on their murderous rampage.\n\nSuspense grew in the courtroom as Mr Edwards described how Butt repeatedly tried to kick down the door of the Wheatsheaf pub as scared people hid inside.\n\nAll that secured the door was a single bolt at the top, and the bottom of it flexed with the force of his kicks, he said.\n\nAfter failing to kick his way in, Butt began smashing the window panes surrounding the door with the handle of his knife, Mr Edwards said.\n\nHis voice shook as he told the Old Bailey that Butt only stopped when he saw Redouane and Zaghba set upon a man outside the pub\n\nAll three descended on the victim \"like a pack of wolves\", Mr Edwards said in a statement.\n\nMaking a stabbing movement with his arm, Mr Edwards demonstrated how they knifed the man repeatedly, \"trying to inflict as much injury as they could\".\n\nWhile the attackers were stabbing the man in the street, the pub \"filled with blue lights\" as armed police arrived outside, Mr Edwards said.\n\nHe told the court there were several volleys of bullets and he dropped to his knees to take cover.\n\nAfter noticing there was \"quite a lot of blood\" coming from Mr McLellan's head, he opened the door to shout to police for medical help.\n\nHe discovered later that he too had been cut by shrapnel from the bullet.\n\nXavier Thomas, 45, Christine Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, were all killed in the attack.", "A former footballer has told the BBC he was abused by Bob Higgins and described how young trainees would be desperate to impress the coach.\n\nDean Radford, who has waived his right to anonymity, gave evidence as a character witness because Mr Higgins was found not guilty of abusing him at a separate trial in the early 1990s.\n\nA jury at Bournemouth Crown Court earlier found Higgins guilty of 45 counts of indecent assault.", "Scotland Yard said investigations suggested that a \"blank-firing handgun\" had been discharged\n\nA man has been arrested after a gun was fired outside a mosque in east London during Ramadan prayers.\n\nPolice were called to reports of a man with a firearm entering the Seven Kings Masjid in Ilford at 22:45 BST on 9 May.\n\nA 28-year-old man was arrested earlier on suspicion of possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, possession with intent to supply, and assaulting a police officer.\n\nEvidence suggested the weapon was a blank-firing handgun, police said.\n\nNobody was hurt in the incident. The arrested man remains in custody.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Swimmers will be able to use ponds \"aligning with their gender identity\"\n\nThe rights of transgender women to use a women-only pond in north London have been acknowledged in a new policy.\n\nSwimmers on Hampstead Heath will be able to use ponds \"aligning with their gender identity\", the City of London Corporation's (CoLC) has said.\n\nAdmission will be granted on a case-by-case basis under the policy.\n\nHowever, Stonewall said the 2010 Equality Act already protected trans people from being discriminated against when accessing services.\n\nStonewall director Laura Russell said it was \"not a new rule\".\n\nShe added: \"Trans people's right to use single-sex spaces, regardless of whether they have legal gender recognition, has been the law for nearly a decade.\"\n\nBut feminist campaigner Amy Desir, who uses Kenwood Ladies' Pond at Hampstead, called the policy \"absolutely disgusting\".\n\nMs Desir, from campaign group ReSisters UK, said the policy \"disproportionately discriminates against young women\" and was \"open to abuse\".\n\nShe added: \"Under the policy any man can self-identify and declare themselves a woman.\n\n\"The CoLC is deliberately misusing the Equalities Act and basing the policy on a biased survey.\"\n\nStonewall said transgender men and women had been legally accessing the ponds for \"many years\"\n\nWriter and trans-commentator Jane Fae said she was \"entirely unsurprised\" by the CoLC policy.\n\nShe said: \"All they have done is endorse the law as it stands. If they had done the opposite they would have been taken to court.\"\n\nJoanne Conaghan, a Professor of Law at Bristol University, said: \"Legislation governing the rights of trans people is complicated because the law relating to gender recognition and the rules governing discrimination on grounds of gender reassignment do not neatly align.\n\n\"In particular, the protections accorded to trans people under the Equality Act 2010 is wider than the right to gender recognition conferred by the Gender Recognition Act 2004.\n\n\"There are limited situations in which transgender people may be denied access to sex-specific services under the Equalities Act 2010, but the City of London's policy is correct to allow trans people a presumption of inclusivity to use ponds that align with their gender identity.\"\n\nA consultation on attitudes to gender identity held last year received nearly 40,000 responses.\n\nCoLC said 65% of the valid respondents to last year's survey favoured ensuring trans people did not suffer discrimination.\n\nBut 46% of the total responses to the consultation were disregarded as invalid on the basis that those respondents did not answer any questions, other than to identify themselves and declare the reason for their interest in the survey.\n\nHampstead Heath has three bathing ponds, including a male only, female only and mixed sex pond\n\nLast year, female activists demonstrated against the right of trans women to use the women's pond by using the men's pond.\n\nThe Kenwood Ladies' Pond Association said it welcomed the decision.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The Ladies' Pond is a single sex space and the KLPA is committed to helping to create there an inclusive environment for all women, including transgender women, which is free from discrimination, harassment or victimisation.\"\n\nEdward Lord, chair of the CoLC establishment committee, said: \"This policy will ensure our public services do not discriminate against trans people.\n\n\"All communities should be fully respected, and equality and basic human rights upheld.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC, like other broadcasters, isn't allowed to report details of campaigning or election issues while the polls are open.\n\nThe BBC is required by electoral law to adopt a code of practice, ensuring fairness between candidates, and that is particularly important on polling day.\n\nThe code of practice is contained in more detailed election guidelines which are written and published for each election. They include more guidance about polling day, and you can read them here.\n\nOn polling day specifically, the BBC doesn't report on any of the election campaigns from 00:30 GMT until polls close at 22:00 GMT, on TV, radio or bbc.co.uk or on social media and other channels.\n\nHowever, online sites do not have to remove archived reports, including, for instance, programmes on iPlayer.\n\nThe lists of candidates in each constituency and the guide to parties' policies remain available online during polling day.\n\nCoverage on the day is usually restricted to uncontroversial factual accounts, such as the appearance of politicians at polling stations, or the weather.\n\nIt tends to focus on giving information which will help voters with the process of going to polling stations.\n\nSubjects which have been directly at issue or part of the campaign must not be covered while polls in the UK are open.\n\nNo opinion poll on any issue relating to politics or the election can be published until after the polls have closed.\n\nWhilst the polls are open, it is a criminal offence to publish anything about the way in which people have voted in that election.\n\nFrom 22:00 GMT, normal reporting of the election resumes, with rolling coverage.", "The Tiger Who Came To Tea author Judith Kerr has died at the age of 95, her publisher HarperCollins says.\n\nCharlie Redmayne, head of her publisher HarperCollins, said she was \"a wonderful and inspiring person who was much loved by everyone\".\n\nKerr, who published more than 30 books over a 50-year career, dreamed up the tiger to amuse her two children.\n\nCharlie and Lola author Lauren Child said she was a \"huge admirer of her work, as a writer and an illustrator\".\n\nRedmayne added: \"She was a brilliantly talented artist and storyteller who has left us an extraordinary body of work.\n\n\"Always understated and very, very funny, she loved life and loved people - and particularly she loved a party.\"\n\nKerr's most popular picture books also included the Mog series, which began with Mog the Forgetful Cat in 1970.\n\nAs a child of the pre-war German intelligentsia, Kerr had to leave her home country with her Jewish parents when Adolf Hitler came to power.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Judith Kerr created a tiger story which charmed the world\n\nThe family came to London, via Paris, in 1936 when Judith was 13. She learned perfect English and went on to marry television scriptwriter Nigel Kneale and have two children of their own.\n\nHer books also included a trilogy of books about her childhood and her status as a refugee, the first of which was When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, which became a set text in German schools.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Judith Kerr: 'Drawing plays an important role in my life'\n\nChildren's author and TV personality David Walliams said he was \"so sad\" at the news of her death.\n\n\"She was a legendary author and illustrator, whose stories and illustrations gave pleasure to millions around the world, not least me and my son. Judith is gone but her books will live on forever.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Judith Kerr revisits the childhood home in Berlin she was forced to flee with her family\n\nFrancesca Simon, author of the Horrid Henry children's books, told BBC Radio 5 Live she was \"feeling so sad about this\".\n\n\"The fact that she was in her 90s and still so engaged with children's books, and the fact that she came to this country as a refugee and the life that she led.\"\n\nThe Tiger Who Came to Tea still entertains children today\n\nShe said of Kerr's famous Tiger tale: \"It is a perfect book, because it is a mysterious book.\n\n\"On the surface it's a very simple story. It's a tiger who comes in, and is this guest who you're not sure about. But her stories also have this undertone of emotion, which is I think why we keep going back to them, to kind of delve into their mysteries.\n\n\"As well as the most beautiful and glorious illustrations. Her artwork is fantastic.\n\n\"And I love, as a writer myself, that she was writing and illustrating up to the end. In fact I was just trying to get tickets to see her at Hay-on-Wye next week. So I love her continuous engagement with her profession. To me that's unbelievably inspiring.\"\n\nBBC Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis once asked Kerr if there was any layered meaning beneath The Tiger Who Came to Tea, but was set straight by the author.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 m This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking in 2014, Kerr told Newsnight: \"I've been ridiculously lucky. I'm always conscious of the fact that a million people would give anything.\n\n\"Just to have a tiny bit of what I've had. I've been very, very happy.\"\n\nTV talk show host Jonathan Ross described her most famous work as being \"a huge part of my children's life and I loved reading it for them.\"\n\n\"I doubt there is a more perfect children's book then The Tiger who came to Tea,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Tony Parsons This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKerr's publisher at HarperCollins, Ann-Janine Murtagh, said it had been \"the greatest honour and privilege to know and publish Judith Kerr for over a decade\", describing her as a person who \"embraced life as one great big adventure and lived every day to the full\".\n\nThe late author was also the patron of the Judith Kerr Primary School; the UK's only German and English bilingual state school, named in her honour.\n\nThe school tweeted to say how \"devastated\" they were to hear the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Judith Kerr Primary This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Seats in the European Parliament representing England, Scotland and Wales are distributed according to the D'Hondt system, a type of proportional representation.\n\nThe nations are divided into 11 electoral regions: nine in England, plus Scotland and Wales. For this election, Gibraltar votes as part of a combined constituency with the south-west of England.\n\nParties vying for election submit a list of candidates to voters in each region.\n\nA system devised by Victor D'Hondt, a Belgian lawyer and mathematician active in the 19th Century, dictates the results:\n\nBy way of example, here are the results for one region of England, the West Midlands, in 2014, which had a total of seven seats in the European Parliament up for grabs. For simplicity's sake, only the five largest parties by vote share are included:\n\nUKIP wins the largest number of votes and the candidate at the top of their list is elected.\n\nAs UKIP already has one candidate elected, its vote is divided by two (one, plus the number of MEPs it has). Now, Labour comes out on top and the candidate at the top of its list of candidates is elected.\n\nAfter Labour's vote is divided by two (one plus the number of MEPs it has), the Conservative Party wins and its top candidate for the region is also elected.\n\nAfter the Conservative vote has been divided by two, UKIP is back on top. The candidate in second place on its list is elected.\n\nSince two UKIP candidates have now been elected, their original vote tally is divided by three (one plus the number of MEPs elected) and Labour secures top spot and a second MEP for the region.\n\nThe original Labour vote is now divided by three (one plus the two MEPs from round five), leaving the Conservative Party to top this round and win a seat for the second person on its list.\n\nThe Conservative Party vote is now divided by three, leaving UKIP in first place to win the final seat for the third candidate on its list.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a different system is used to elect its three MEPs.\n\nVoters have a \"single transferable vote\", meaning that they are able to rank the candidates in order of preference.\n\nTo make the system work, officials first need to calculate a quota. They take the total number of valid votes cast, divide it by the number of seats available plus one, and then add one.\n\nIn the first round, if any candidate secures more first-preference votes than the quota, they are elected.\n\nSurplus votes, ie those received above the quota, are redistributed among the other candidates.\n\nIf not enough candidates have yet reached the quota, then the candidate with the lowest number of votes is eliminated, and the lower-preference votes of their supporters are again re-allocated.\n\nThis process is repeated until the three posts have been filled.", "Elections for the European Parliament are being held on 23 May 2019. Voters will choose 73 MEPs in 12 multi-member regional constituencies.\n\nEach region has a different number of MEPs based on its population. Search your postcode or click the links below to see lists of candidates for your area.\n\nMEPs are elected by proportional representation, in order as listed by their party.\n\nThe number of MEPs each party gets is calculated using a formula called d'Hondt, except in Northern Ireland, where the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system is used.\n\nResults are expected from 21:00 GMT on Sunday 26 May.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's last-placed Eurovision Song Contest entry has had its score lowered by five points, organisers say.\n\nA revision of scores means Michael Rice's song Bigger Than Us picked up only 11 points from Saturday's final.\n\nThe contest said an incorrect calculation had been used to create a \"substitute\" set of points after the Belarusian jury was dismissed.\n\nThe contest top four is unchanged - and Duncan Laurence from the Netherlands stays the winner with his song Arcade.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The contest's highlights - from singing in the shower and bendy poles to the Netherlands' triumph.\n\nRice originally secured 16 points at the event in Tel Aviv, Israel - including three from the public vote - ending up in 26th place.\n\nAfter the revision of scores, the 13 points he was awarded by the juries from the other participating countries dropped to eight points.\n\nThe Belarusian jury had been dismissed after their votes from the first semi-final were revealed, against the contest rules.\n\nThe European Broadcasting Union said it then created a \"substitute aggregated result\" based on the results of other countries with similar voting records to determine the Belarusian jury scores for the final.\n\nHowever, \"due to a human error an incorrect aggregated result was used\".\n\nIt added: \"The EBU and its partners... deeply regret that this error was not identified earlier and will review the processes and controls in place to prevent this from happening again.\"\n\nRice told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme he was \"really proud of [his] performance\".\n\n\"I enjoyed the whole experience, I was living the dream and I wouldn't change a thing,\" he added.\n\n\"It's just made me stronger. It built my confidence up - I'm back in the studio making my album, so there are things that came from this experience regardless of the result.\"\n\nAsked if he thought it was time for Eurovision's use of judging panels to end, he said it was not his decision to make.\n\nBut he added that the UK team \"walked away with our head held high\".\n\n\"It was an honour to represent the country.\"\n\nThe revision of scores did not impact on Duncan Laurence's victory\n\nUnder the corrected vote, the winning song from the Netherlands secured an additional six points - finishing up on 498 points.\n\nItaly, Russia and Switzerland made up the top four, all gaining extra points.\n\nNorway was among the other countries to have been deducted points, and fell from fifth to sixth place.\n\nDespite the UK result, Rice said he had enjoyed taking part, adding: \"I'm so thankful to the fans... as well as my whole team who have supported me throughout this whole amazing journey.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The boy was found injured in the Somerford Grove area of Hackney\n\nA teenage boy has been stabbed to death in an attack in Hackney, east London.\n\nThe 15-year-old victim was found injured in Somerford Grove at about 21:00 BST on Wednesday and died shortly after, police said.\n\nA shopkeeper said a boy ran into his store pleading for help, saying he had been stabbed in the back.\n\nA second boy, aged 16, found nearby Shacklewell Road, was also stabbed but did not sustain life-threatening injuries.\n\nA man from Elif Food Centre, who did not want to be named, told BBC London he tried to help one of the victims.\n\nHe said: \"One boy came running into the shop last night saying 'I have been stabbed in the back. Help me. Help me.'\n\n\"We called an ambulance and now police have seized our CCTV.\"\n\nTwo friends of the victim spoke of their shock after visiting the crime scene.\n\nOne said: \"It came as a surprise to us because he was a good guy.\n\n\"We did music together. He didn't only produce afrobeats, he made drill music as well. He also sold some beats to some big artists.\n\n\"I never thought that any of my friends would be murdered. I'm shocked.\"\n\nThe other friend added: \"I saw him the day before yesterday. He was a good friend, a nice lad.\n\n\"I'm so done. It doesn't feel safe any more.\"\n\nThe 15-year-old boy is one of the youngest victims to be stabbed to death in London so far this year\n\nPolice said a Section 60 stop-and-search order had been put in place for the whole of Hackney. No arrests have been made in connection with the killing.\n\nMet Commissioner Cressida Dick described it as a \"terrible, terrible thing\" as the force revealed statistics showing a drop in homicides compared to the previous financial year.\n• None 311Fewer knife crime victims under the age of 25\n\nSpeaking about the latest stabbing in Hackney, Ms Dick said the two boys were with a group of other boys and a girl, adding there was \"some sort of confrontation with another group\".\n\nAnother boy, aged 16, was found stabbed near the crime scene\n\nJust off a busy main road there is a huge cordon surrounding the Somerford Grove estate.\n\nElif Food Centre, a 24-hour off-licence, is also taped off as police officers stand guard.\n\nRight in the middle of the cordon a big blue tent can be seen - the spot where the victim died.\n\nResidents have been telling me they are shocked and scared as only six days ago another person was stabbed to death in Hackney.\n\nHours later, officers were called to another, unrelated, stabbing near Camden Town Tube station.\n\nA man suffered \"life-threatening\" injuries in the attack on Camden Road shortly after midnight.\n\nSo far this year, more than 40 murder investigations have been launched in the capital by the Metropolitan Police and British Transport Police.\n\nTwenty-nine of those cases are stabbing investigations.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said he was \"deeply saddened\" by the latest killing.\n\n\"This horrific violence has absolutely no place on our streets,\" he said.\n\nMotives and circumstances behind killings have varied - as have the age and gender of the victims.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLionel Messi's two second-half goals - including a stunning free-kick - earned Barcelona a handsome advantage and left Liverpool with an almighty task in their Champions League semi-final.\n\nThe Reds were in the ascendancy despite going behind to Luis Suarez's first-half strike - but they were then hit by a double sucker-punch from the Barcelona number 10.\n\nThe Argentine forward's first was instinctive, as he followed up Suarez's shot that came off the bar, but the second was majestic as he found Alisson's top-right corner from around 25 yards out. That was his 600th goal for the Spanish giants.\n\nLiverpool came agonisingly close to a potentially crucial away goal when Roberto Firmino's strike was cleared off the line, before Salah somehow struck the post rather than scoring with the follow-up.\n\nBarcelona's Ousmane Dembele should have put the tie out of the Premier League side's reach in the closing seconds, but he scuffed it straight at Alisson from a few yards out.\n• None 'I don't know how he does it' - Messi marks 600th Barca goal in style\n• None I don't know if we can play much better - Klopp on Reds' 3-0 defeat\n\nReds out of luck at Nou Camp\n\nWhat more could Klopp ask of his men in the second leg on Tuesday (20:00 BST kick-off at Anfield) after a display where they constantly probed and pressured the competition favourites?\n\nMaybe some luck could have gone their way. Sadio Mane, with 15 goals in his past 18 games, shot well over from eight yards out after he was found by Jordan Henderson's ball from the right in the first half.\n\nAnd in their period of domination after the interval, Ter Stegen was at full stretch to push away Milner's shot before the German dived low to his right to make a one-handed stop from Salah's drive.\n\nLiverpool refused to let their heads drop after Messi's mini-show. However, they must have thought the gods are not shining on them this year after both Firmino and Salah missed clear-cut chances you would have put money on them to score.\n\nThe Reds have been known to produce miracles with a 3-0 deficit. They will need to produce another next week.\n\nThis was the La Liga champions at their most fluid - a supreme example of unpredictable, attacking football with the frontline of Messi, Suarez and Philippe Coutinho all on the same wavelength.\n\nPerhaps more importantly for coach Ernesto Valverde, his defence - disjointed at times against Manchester United in the last eight - was far more resolute against a more fearsome attack.\n\nAfter a period of pressure, they took the lead in the 26th minute when Suarez ran in behind Joel Matip and steered in Jordi Alba's excellent diagonal through-ball.\n\nThe Catalan side conceded possession after the break but, bar those two efforts from Milner and Salah, looked comfortable - before Messi relieved the pressure on his backline with two goals in a seven-minute spell.\n\nHis opener came slightly fortuitously to him after Suarez tried to capitalise on Matip's unintended through-ball.\n\nThat was goal number 599 for the club, so it was only fitting that the next one was something special - a free-kick that looked to be heading for the top corner as soon as it left his boot.\n\nSubstitute Dembele should have put the tie completely beyond the Reds but, like Mane, lacked accuracy with the goal in front of him.\n\nAnother bad away day for Reds - the stats\n• None Messi scored his 600th Barcelona goal, 14 years to the day since he scored his first against Albacete in May 2005.\n• None Barcelona extended their record Champions League run of 32 home matches without defeat (W29 D3 L0), with this their first home win over Liverpool in European competition at the fifth attempt.\n• None Liverpool suffered their joint-heaviest Champions League defeat, also losing 0-3 to Real Madrid in October 2014.\n• None The Reds have lost the away leg of their past six major European semi-finals, four of which have been in the Champions League (previously 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2017-18).\n• None Barcelona (502) became the second team to score 500 Champions League goals, after Real Madrid (551).\n• None Only former Real striker Raul (33) has scored against more different Champions League opponents than Messi (32), scoring his first goal in his third appearance against Liverpool.\n• None Messi has scored eight free-kicks this season - twice as many as any other player in the top five European leagues (England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain).\n• None Attempt saved. Ousmane Dembélé (Barcelona) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lionel Messi.\n• None Attempt missed. Ousmane Dembélé (Barcelona) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Ivan Rakitic.\n• None Attempt missed. Jordan Henderson (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Jordan Henderson (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Roberto Firmino with a cross.\n• None Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "An investigation by BBC Arabic has found evidence of alleged war crimes in Libya being widely shared on Facebook and YouTube.\n\nThe BBC found images and videos on social media of the bodies of fighters and civilians being desecrated by fighters from the self-styled Libyan National Army.\n\nThe force, led by strongman General Khalifa Haftar, controls a swathe of territory in the east of Libya and is trying to seize the capital, Tripoli.\n\nUnder international law the desecration of bodies and posting the images online for propaganda is a war crime.\n\nThe Foreign Office says it takes the allegations extremely seriously and is concerned about the impact the recent violence is having on the civilian population.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nTottenham face a daunting task to keep their Champions League hopes alive after Ajax secured a crucial advantage in the semi-final first leg.\n\nDonny van de Beek's 15th-minute goal, steered cleverly past Hugo Lloris from close range, put Erik ten Hag's exciting young side firmly in the driving seat going into the second leg in Amsterdam next Wednesday.\n\nSpurs struggled to overcome the absence of forwards Harry Kane and Son Heung-min - injured and suspended respectively - and their job was made even harder by the loss of defender Jan Vertonghen after he suffered a facial injury in the first half.\n\nVertonghen's problem raised questions about player welfare after he was allowed to continue, albeit for only a few seconds, when he was clearly badly shaken up after an aerial collision involving team-mate Toby Alderweireld and Ajax goalkeeper Andre Onana. He eventually had to be supported by two members of the Spurs staff as he went off.\n\nTottenham tried to force the pace after the break with plenty of possession, but it was Ajax who came close to adding a second when David Neres struck the inside of the post with Lloris beaten.\n\nAjax held on to their lead in relative comfort and it will need a stirring Spurs comeback to prevent the Dutch side facing either Barcelona or Liverpool in the final on 1 June.\n• None 'Don't rule out Spurs - but brilliant Ajax deal in brutal reality'\n• None 'We're still alive' - Pochettino says Spurs must 'believe' in second leg\n• None Analysis and reaction from the Tottenham v Ajax match\n\nTottenham were not lacking in effort on what many regarded as the biggest night in their history, a first Champions League semi-final staged in their magnificent new stadium.\n\nIt was quality and threat that was missing, with Spurs unable to compensate for the damaging suspension of Son and the injury to top goalscorer Kane.\n\nThe burden fell on to Christian Eriksen and Dele Alli, along with Lucas Moura, but they were simply unable to trouble Ajax on a night of pure frustration for manager Mauricio Pochettino, his players and the supporters who packed this arena and backed their team superbly.\n\nSpurs also missed the midfield industry of the injured Harry Winks and were hit further by the loss of defender Vertonghen, who was surprisingly allowed to carry on briefly despite a heavy blow to the head and apparent questioning by referee Mateu Lahoz.\n\nThe Premier League side are still not out of this tie, and if their Champions League run to the last four has proved anything, it is that they must never be discounted.\n\nHowever, they were second best and lacking in punch here. They will need to produce much better if their dream of advancing to the Champions League final in Madrid is to be realised.\n• None Tottenham v Ajax - how you rated the players\n• None Football Daily: Spurs toppled by Ajax & the handling of head injuries in football\n\nAjax's advance to the Champions League semi-finals has made them the talk of European football after the manner in which they eliminated holders Real Madrid and Italian champions Juventus.\n\nAnd it was easy to see what all the fuss is about as the visitors demonstrated maturity, composure and class in such a high-pressure environment to overcome Spurs.\n\nAjax took the game by the scruff of the neck early on, secured the goal their superiority deserved, then took the sting out of matters when required to close out the win.\n\nCaptain Matthijs de Ligt, just 19, showed leadership qualities beyond his years in defence, organising and ordering more experienced team-mates with expertise.\n\nAnd in Barcelona-bound Frenkie de Jong, 21, and fellow midfielder Van de Beek, who is just a year older, this is an Ajax team with the class and youthful appearance that plays to this club's greatest traditions.\n\nAjax have almost come from nowhere after the group stages - but this is a team that looks like they have the quality and confidence to go all the way.\n• None 'It's in our DNA': How Ajax build success, and prepare for break-up\n• None English sides have lost just three of their past 30 home matches against Dutch opposition in European competition, with Spurs accounting for two of those defeats (also in March 2008 against PSV).\n• None Only one of the 17 previous teams to lose the first leg at home in a European Cup/Champions League semi-final has progressed into the final (Ajax in 1996).\n• None Ajax have scored in nine consecutive Champions League away games for the first time.\n• None Ajax have won their past four away games in the Champions League, having failed to win any of their previous 12.\n• None Tottenham had scored in their previous 20 Champions League games before Tuesday, with Ajax the first side to stop them scoring since Bayer Leverkusen in November 2016.\n• None Ajax have scored 161 goals this season, 63 more than Spurs (98).\n• None Ajax's Dusan Tadic has created 32 chances in the Champions League this season, the most by any player.\n• None The Dutch side's Nicolas Tagliafico has been shown twice as many yellow cards than any other player in the Champions League this season (six). Indeed, only Alessio Tacchinardi (nine, Juventus 2002-03) has been shown more yellows in a single campaign.\n\n'A bit of a let down' - analysis\n\nThe control and calmness to finish the way Donny van de Beek did summed up the first half. He turned inside the area and there was no pressure on him at all. Spurs were just running around like they were in a practice match.\n\nThey never really got into their stride and they were being dominated by a young side. It was a bit of a let down.\n\nSpurs have got quality players but, as a team, there was a gulf in class. Ajax played together and took their training on to the pitch, whereas Spurs played like individuals in the final third.\n\n'We are still alive' - what they said\n\nTottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino on BT Sport: \"In the first half we did not start in a good way. Ajax showed more energy, it was difficult for us to play. It was our lack of energy.\n\n\"After we conceded the goal - 25 to 30 minutes in - we started to be in the game. Moussa Sissoko provided good energy.\n\n\"Second half we pushed them and tried to create chances. It was an even game in the second half.\n\n\"We are alive. It's only 1-0 down. We need to believe we can go there and win the game.\n\nOn playing with a five-man defence: \"I can accept it was a mistake the shape we used - but there were not too many options. I am not happy - you cannot guess what happens if we play in a different way.\n\n\"It was the not the shape that conceded the goal. Our approach to the game was not good. I am the manager so I have responsibility.\"\n\nOn Vertonghen's head injury: \"We will assess him in the next few days and we will see.\"\n\nAjax boss Erik ten Hag said: \"Winning 1-0 at Tottenham is an amazing result. We have to learn lessons from tonight, and next week we have to finish it.\n\n\"It's an excellent result. We won, we are satisfied - but we are only halfway through. If you want to get to the final, you have to improve - everyday we want to get better.\n\n\"We're good at defence too. We can play football in different styles, defend really well. I am satisfied.\"\n\nEpic comebacks, record-breaking all-English classics, the world's biggest superstars... is the Champions League your favourite football tournament?\n\nDo you prefer it to the World Cup, the Premier League with this season's incredible title race, La Liga or even the unpredictable EFL?\n\nTell us why. Get involved and contact us here.\n• None Attempt missed. Lucas Moura (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Dele Alli with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Christian Eriksen following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Scientists found cocaine in freshwater shrimps when testing rivers for chemicals, a study said.\n\nResearchers at King's College London, in collaboration with the University of Suffolk, tested 15 different locations across Suffolk.\n\nTheir report said cocaine was found in all samples tested. Other illicit drugs, such as ketamine, were also widespread in the shrimp.\n\nThe researchers said it was a \"surprising\" finding.\n\nProfessor Nic Bury, from the University of Suffolk, said: \"Whether the presence of cocaine in aquatic animals is an issue for Suffolk, or more widespread an occurrence in the UK and abroad, awaits further research.\n\n\"Environmental health has attracted much attention from the public due to challenges associated with climate change and microplastic pollution.\n\n\"However, the impact of 'invisible' chemical pollution (such as drugs) on wildlife health needs more focus in the UK.\"\n\nProfessor Nic Bury from the University of Suffolk was one of the researchers\n\nThe study, published in Environment International, looked at the exposure of wildlife, such as the freshwater shrimp Gammarus pulex, to different micropollutants.\n\nResearchers collected the samples from the rivers Alde, Box, Deben, Gipping and Waveney.\n\nThey said in addition to the drugs, banned pesticides and pharmaceuticals were also widespread in the shrimp that were collected.\n\nThe potential for any effect on the creatures was \"likely to be low\", they said.\n\nDr Leon Barron, from King's College London, said: \"Such regular occurrence of illicit drugs in wildlife was surprising.\n\n\"We might expect to see these in urban areas such as London, but not in smaller and more rural catchments.\n\n\"The presence of pesticides which have long been banned in the UK also poses a particular challenge as the sources of these remain unclear.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A formal inquiry is to be held into the leaking of discussions about Huawei at the National Security Council, the BBC has learned.\n\nThis follows the Daily Telegraph publishing details of a meeting about using the Chinese telecoms firm to help build the UK's 5G network.\n\nSeveral cabinet ministers have denied they were involved in the leak.\n\nCabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill is to lead the inquiry, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said.\n\nThe National Security Council (NSC) is made up of senior cabinet ministers and its weekly meetings are chaired by the prime minister, with other ministers, officials and senior figures from the armed forces and intelligence agencies invited when needed.\n\nIt is a forum where secret intelligence can be shared by GCHQ, MI6 and MI5 with ministers, all of whom have signed the Official Secrets Act.\n\nBut following Tuesday's meeting, the Daily Telegraph reported that the NSC had agreed to allow Huawei limited access to help build Britain's new 5G network, amid warnings about possible risks to national security.\n\nIt also reported that various ministers had raised concerns about the plan.\n\nCulture Secretary Jeremy Wright told MPs: \"We cannot exclude the possibility of a criminal investigation here and everyone will want to take seriously that suggestion.\"\n\nAmid speculation about who was behind the leak, several ministers have denied any involvement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Huawei leak: Minister says he cannot rule out a criminal investigation\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said divulging sensitive information was \"completely unacceptable\", adding: \"If it happens it should absolutely be looked at.\"\n\nDefence Secretary Gavin Williamson and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt denied the leak had come from them, with Mr Hunt calling it \"utterly appalling\".\n\nSources close to International Trade Secretary Liam Fox also categorically denied that he had been involved.\n\nAccording to the Daily Telegraph, Huawei would be allowed to help build the \"non-core\" parts of the UK's 5G network, such as antennas.\n\nThere has been no formal confirmation of Huawei's role in the 5G network and No 10 said a final decision would be made at the end of spring.\n\nHuawei has denied there is any risk of spying or sabotage, or that it is controlled by the Chinese government.\n\nEarlier, former Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon told the BBC: \"All those involved should be investigated now to find out who this leaker is.\n\n\"Ministers are subject to the Official Secrets Act just like anybody else. It is an offence to divulge secret information from the most secret of all government bodies, which is the National Security Council. It has got to be stopped.\"\n\nWhen questioned, Prime Minister Theresa May replied: \"We don't comment on leaks and on those matters.\n\n\"On the overall matter of security and our telecoms network, we are very clear that we give that high priority. We want to ensure we see greater resilience in our telecoms network and that we are able to provide high levels of cyber security, but we also see diversity of suppliers.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Tuesday, before he was sacked by Theresa May, Gavin Williamson said in a BBC interview that he had never leaked anything from the NSC\n\nGavin Williamson has been sacked as defence secretary following an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting.\n\nDowning Street said the PM had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" and Penny Mordaunt will take on the role.\n\nThe inquiry followed reports over a plan to allow Huawei limited access to help build the UK's new 5G network.\n\nMr Williamson, who has been defence secretary since 2017, \"strenuously\" denies leaking the information.\n\nIn a meeting with Mr Williamson on Wednesday evening, Theresa May told him she had information that provided \"compelling evidence\" that he was responsible for the unauthorised disclosure.\n\nIn a letter confirming his dismissal, she said: \"No other, credible version of events to explain this leak has been identified.\"\n\nResponding in a letter to the PM, Mr Williamson said he was \"confident\" that a \"thorough and formal inquiry\" would have \"vindicated\" his position.\n\n\"I appreciate you offering me the option to resign, but to resign would have been to accept that I, my civil servants, my military advisers or my staff were responsible: this was not the case,\" he said.\n\nThe inquiry into the National Security Council leak began after the Daily Telegraph reported on the Huawei decision and subsequent warnings within cabinet about possible risks to national security over a deal with Huawei.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said sources close to the former defence secretary had told her Mr Williamson did meet the Daily Telegraph's deputy political editor, Steven Swinford, but, she pointed out \"that absolutely does not prove\" he leaked the story to him.\n\nAccording to Sky News defence and security correspondent Alistair Bunkall, Mr Williamson swore on his children's lives that he was not responsible for the leak.\n\nSecurity correspondent Frank Gardner said the BBC had been told \"more than one concerning issue\" had been uncovered regarding Mr Williamson during the leak inquiry and not just the Huawei conversation.\n\nDowning Street has made a very serious accusation and is sure enough to carry out this sacking.\n\nFor the prime minister's allies, it will show that she is, despite the political turmoil, still strong enough to move some of her ministers around - to hire and fire.\n\nMr Williamson is strenuously still denying that the leak was anything to do with him at all.\n\nThere is nothing fond, or anything conciliatory, in either the letter from the prime minister to him, or his reply back to her.\n\nThe National Security Council (NSC) is made up of senior cabinet ministers and its weekly meetings are chaired by the prime minister, with other ministers, officials and senior figures from the armed forces and intelligence agencies invited when needed.\n\nIt is a forum where secret intelligence can be shared by GCHQ, MI6 and MI5 with ministers, all of whom have signed the Official Secrets Act.\n\nThere has been no formal confirmation of Huawei's role in the 5G network and No 10 said a final decision would be made at the end of spring.\n\nHuawei has denied there is any risk of spying or sabotage, or that it is controlled by the Chinese government.\n\nMrs May said the leak from the meeting on 23 April was \"an extremely serious matter and a deeply disappointing one\".\n\nIt is vital for the operation of good government and for the UK's national interest in some of the most sensitive and important areas that the members of the NSC - from our armed forces, our security and intelligence agencies, and the most senior level of government - are able to have frank and detailed discussions in full confidence that the advice and analysis provided is not discussed or divulged beyond that trusted environment.\n\n\"That is why I commissioned the cabinet secretary to establish an investigation into the unprecedented leak from the NSC meeting last week, and why I expected everyone connected to it - ministers and officials alike - to comply with it fully. You undertook to do so.\n\n\"I am therefore concerned by the manner in which you have engaged with this investigation.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the prime minister had no alternative but to sack Mr Williamson, but he said on a personal level he was \"very sorry about what happened\".\n\nWhen asked whether there should be a criminal inquiry into the NSC leak, new defence secretary Ms Mordaunt said: \"The prime minister has made her decision.\n\n\"What I'm focused on is getting on with the job.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson has called for a police inquiry to investigate whether or not Mr Williamson breached the Official Secrets Act.\n\nThat sentiment was echoed by former national security adviser Lord Ricketts. He told BBC Newsnight that on the face of it, the leak was a breach of the official secrets act and therefore the police ought to be considering an inquiry.\n\nLib Dems leader Vince Cable said Mr Williamson's sacking was \"absolutely extraordinary\" and the PM did it in \"such a forthright way\".\n\nHe added that he believed it was \"clearly a police matter\". His deputy, Jo Swinson, has asked the police to open an investigation.\n\nBut Scotland Yard said in a statement that it was a matter for the National Security Council and the Cabinet Office, and it was not carrying out an investigation.\n\nDefence Committee chairman Julian Lewis told the BBC that Mr Williamson's sacking was a \"loss\" when looked at \"purely\" from the point of view of defence.\n\nHe said he thought \"very highly\" of Ms Mordaunt - the first woman to take the role of defence secretary.\n\nRory Stewart has been confirmed as the new international development secretary, taking over from Ms Mordaunt.\n\nMr Stewart said he believed the prime minister and national security adviser had \"made the right decision\" in sacking Mr Williamson.\n• None Inquiry to be held into Huawei leak", "The Xiahe mandible was found in 1980 in Baishiya Karst Cave\n\nScientists have found evidence that an ancient species of human called Denisovans lived at high altitudes in Tibet.\n\nThe ability to survive in such extreme environments had previously been associated only with our species - Homo sapiens.\n\nThe ancient ancestor seems to have passed on a gene that helps modern people cope at high elevations.\n\nDetails of the study are published in the journal Nature.\n\nThe Denisovans were a mysterious human species living in Asia before modern humans like us expanded across the world tens of thousands of years ago.\n\nUntil recently, the only fossils came from a few fragments of bone and teeth from a single site in Siberia - Denisova Cave.\n\nBut DNA had shown that they were a distinct branch of the human family.\n\nNow, scientists have identified the first Denisovan fossil from another site. It's a mandible (lower jawbone) discovered in 1980 at Baishiya Karst Cave, 3,280m up on the Tibetan Plateau.\n\nA technique called uranium-series dating was used on carbonate deposits on the bone. This yielded a date of 160,000 years ago for the mandible.\n\nCo-author Jean Jacques Hublin, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, said finding evidence of an ancient - or archaic - species of human living at such high elevations was a surprise.\n\n\"When we deal with 'archaic hominins' - Neanderthals, Denisovans, early forms of Homo sapiens - it's clear that these hominins were limited in their capabilities to dwell in extreme environments.\n\n\"If you look at the situation in Europe, we have a lot of Neanderthal sites and people have been studying these sites for a century-and-a-half now.\n\n\"The highest sites we have are at 2,000m altitude. There are not many, and they are clearly sites where these Neanderthals used to go in summer, probably for special hunts. But otherwise, we don't have these types of sites.\"\n\nAn autumn view of Jiangla River Valley, where Baishiya Karst Cave is located\n\nOf the Denisovans on the Tibetan Plateau, he said: \"It's a plateau... and there are obviously enough resources for people to live there and not just come occasionally.\"\n\nWhile the researchers could not find any traces of DNA preserved in this fossil, they managed to extract proteins from one of the molars, which they then analysed applying something called ancient protein analysis.\n\n\"Our protein analysis shows that the Xiahe mandible belonged to a hominin population that was closely related to the Denisovans from Denisova Cave,\" said co-author Frido Welker, from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.\n\nThe discovery may explain why individuals studied at Denisova Cave had a gene variant known to protect against hypoxia (oxygen deficiency) at high altitudes. This had been a puzzle because the Siberian cave is located just 700m above sea level.\n\nPresent-day Sherpas, Tibetans and neighbouring populations have the same gene variant, which was probably acquired when Homo sapiens mixed with the Denisovans thousands of years ago.\n\nIn fact, the gene variant appears to have undergone positive natural selection (which can result in mutations reaching high frequencies in populations because they confer an advantage).\n\n\"We can only speculate that living in this kind of environment, any mutation that was favourable to breathing an atmosphere impoverished in oxygen would be retained by natural selection,\" said Prof Hublin.\n\n\"And it's a rather likely scenario to explain how this mutation made its way to present-day Tibetans.\"", "Alex Hepburn was found guilty earlier this month of rape following a retrial\n\nA \"foul sexist\" cricketer has been jailed for raping a sleeping woman.\n\nEx-Worcestershire player Alex Hepburn assaulted the victim at his Worcester flat after she had consensual sex with his then teammate Joe Clarke in 2017.\n\nThe 23-year-old was found guilty of rape earlier this month and sentenced to five years at Hereford Crown Court.\n\nJudge Jim Tindal told him the sexual conquest \"game\" he had set up on a WhatsApp group was \"laddish\" behaviour that \"demeaned women\".\n\nHe told Hepburn he had \"arrogantly\" believed his victim would consent, during the attack.\n\n\"You thought you were God's gift to women,\" he said.\n\n\"You did see her at that moment as a piece of meat, not a woman entitled to respect.\"\n\nHepburn was found guilty of one count of oral rape and cleared of one rape charge following a retrial at Worcester Crown Court.\n\nThe woman woke up after a night out on 1 April and wrongly believed she was having sex with Mr Clarke before realising it was actually Hepburn, the trial was told.\n\nHepburn posted rules of the \"stat chat\" game about many women he and Mr Clarke could have sex with on a WhatsApp group a week before the rape.\n\nHis bid to collect \"as many sexual encounters as possible\" as part of the game was \"foul sexism\", Judge Tindal said.\n\n\"It demeaned women and trivialised rape - a word you personally threw around lightly,\" the judge said.\n\n\"Only now do you realise how serious rape is.\"\n\nIn a victim impact statement, read to the court by prosecutor Miranda Moore QC, the woman said she suffered recurring nightmares in the form of \"a repeat of the rape\", which had also led to the collapse of her relationship with her then boyfriend.\n\nDescribing her ordeal as evil and a \"heinous crime\", she added: \"I take off my hat to anyone who can hold down a healthy happy relationship, after being raped.\n\n\"I am flooded with guilt that I can't ever seem to escape.\"\n\nThe trial was told the woman met Mr Clarke in a nightclub before returning to his flat where they had sex.\n\nHe left his bedroom during the night to be sick and remained passed out in his bathroom.\n\nHepburn found the woman asleep on a mattress after arriving back at the flat \"alone, drunk and frustrated\" and he \"saw a chance\" and attacked her, the court heard,\n\nThe woman only realised it wasn't Mr Clarke when Hepburn spoke in an Australian accent.\n\nHepburn's barrister, Michelle Heeley QC, said her client had expressed \"true remorse\", adding: \"He has lost everything: his career, his good character and ultimately his liberty.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A landslide destroyed more than a dozen homes in the Bolivian city of La Paz on Tuesday.\n\nLocal media reported that 17 houses were lost, but no deaths were reported as authorities had evacuated the area.", "The Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks, Essex, on 22 June 1948\n\nMPs have reported the Home Office to the equalities watchdog over the Windrush scandal, accusing it of unlawful discrimination.\n\nThe group of 87 says the Home Office discriminated as a \"direct result\" of so-called hostile environment policies.\n\nThe letter to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission claims the government broke, and is breaking, equalities law.\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"committed to righting the wrongs experienced by the Windrush generation\".\n\nThe Windrush scandal involved the wrongful detentions and deportations of some members of the Windrush generation - the thousands of people who travelled to the UK from the Caribbean in the years after World War Two.\n\nIn the letter, David Lammy - chair of the all party parliamentary group on race - says the Home Office is acting in breach of equalities legislation by \"routinely\" discriminating on the basis of Britons' race.\n\nIt adds: \"Clearly, the Windrush scandal represents one of the gravest breaches of equality law and the rights of British citizens in recent memory.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn estimated 500,000 people now living in the UK, who arrived between 1948 and 1971 from Caribbean countries, have been called the Windrush generation, in reference to a ship which brought workers to the UK in 1948.\n\nThey were granted indefinite leave to remain in 1971 but thousands were children travelling on their parents' passports, without their own documents.\n\nChanges to immigration law in 2012 meant those without documents were asked for evidence to continue working, access services or even to remain in the UK.\n\nSome were held in detention or removed, despite living in the country for decades.\n\nA review by a Home Office taskforce of 11,800 Caribbean cases identified 164 who were deported or detained who might have been resident in the UK before 1973.\n\nThe taskforce has traced 137 of those people, of whom 19 are known to have died.\n\nAt least 18 would receive a formal apology, the government said last year. This month, the government said there was \"no cap\" on possible compensation for those affected.\n\nMany of the new arrivals were children\n\nIn the letter, the MPs call on the commission to look into how the Home Office contributed to the government's \"hostile environment\" policy and its impact on the Windrush generation.\n\nThey also argue the Home Office breached the public sector equality duty, which means public bodies have to have \"due regard\" to eliminate discrimination and advance equality.\n\nThe signatories are from six different parties, with most from Labour and none from the Conservatives.\n\nThey include shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, Luciana Berger from The Independent Group, the SNP's Alison Thewliss and Liberal Democrat Alistair Carmichael.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Glenda Caesar wants compensation for loss of earnings, stress, and lost pension\n\nMr Lammy said: \"The gross mishandling and abuse of the Windrush generation by the Home Office raises serious questions over whether British citizens were discriminated against on the basis of their race and ethnicity, in breach of equalities legislation.\n\n\"More than a year after I first raised this in Parliament, nothing has changed. Justice must mean not only due compensation and reparation, but changes to the institution and immigration laws that created this crisis.\"\n\nThe \"hostile environment\" approach to curbing illegal immigration has been blamed for members of the Windrush generation, who were in the UK legally, being wrongly threatened with deportation.\n\nThe letter said the policy was \"deeply discriminatory\", arguing that black Britons are being discriminated against, while white Britons are not.\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said: \"The home secretary and the immigration minister are committed to righting the wrongs experienced by the Windrush generation and the recently launched compensation scheme is a crucial step in delivering on that commitment.\n\n\"The Windrush generation have given so much to this country and we will ensure nothing like this ever happens again, that is why the home secretary commissioned a lessons learned review with independent oversight by Wendy Williams.\"\n\nThe commission said it would consider the issues raised.", "Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has revealed a series of changes to the firm's portfolio of social platforms, including Instagram and Whatsapp.\n\nThe new designs and features for its apps are a direct response to widespread criticism of how the firm protects user data.\n\nMr Zuckerberg said the company plans to put privacy first.\n\nHe acknowledged that there was much to do to rebuild trust.\n\nIn a speech to developers, Mr Zuckerberg described the firm's new focus on privacy as \"a major shift\" in how the company is run.\n\nSome of the more visible changes to those who use the firm's products will include:\n\n\"The future is private,\" Mr Zuckerberg said - adding, in a nod to the tech giant's stream of privacy scandals: \"I know we don't have the strongest reputation on privacy right now, to put it lightly\".\n\nHe said Facebook was focused on looking at ways to encode privacy across the firm's entire infrastructure.\n\n\"It's not going to happen overnight and to be clear we don't have all the answers,\" he said.\n\nHe has previously said that he believes that people will want to talk privately in small groups and communities in the future.\n\nHowever he will have to convince the public that Facebook is the place to do this, some commentators noted.\n\n\"The big question is how it will perform in a regulated social media world in 2019 and beyond,\" said social media consultant Matt Navarra.\n\n\"My verdict: it will go the distance and bounce back, but its reputation will remain in tatters for years to come.\"\n\nPrivate private private - that's the future of Facebook, as Mark Zuckerberg has said before, but he offered more details today.\n\nThe design changes are the biggest refresh in around five years. It puts greater emphasis on groups and private interactions, encrypted messages that Facebook itself won't be able to access.\n\nAnd, here's the big news... it will no longer be blue. The desktop apps show Zuckerberg has things like Apple's iMessage in his sights.\n\nBut Facebook needs to prove this is more than just a paint job if it's to get out of its current troubles.\n\nMark Zuckerberg made a brief mention about the company not having a good reputation on privacy right now - almost smirking as he said it. The company is working to regain trust, he insists.\n\nAt the same time it must show it continues to innovate even with all its bigger distractions. That's perhaps the bigger risk to Facebook here: while it's fixing its problems, competitors are working hard to gain ground.\n\nOther announcements included a new feature called Secret Crush, part of Facebook Dating, which will let Facebook members in some countries tag up to nine of their friends to whom they are attracted.\n\nIf the recipient of the crush is also using the feature and nominates them as well, then both parties will receive a message to say they have matched.\n\nFacebook Dating will roll out in 14 new countries including the Philippines, Vietnam and Singapore. It is not currently available in Europe or the US.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Dave Lee tries out the new Oculus Quest\n\nThe firm also revealed the launch date for its new stand-alone, wireless VR headset, Oculus Quest - which does not require a connection to a PC, smartphone or games console.\n\nMark Zuckerberg announced that everyone attending the conference would be given one as a gift.\n\nIt will go on general sale on 21 May.\n\n\"Facebook remains deeply committed to its vision for VR as the next computing platform despite a slow start,\" commented analyst Geoff Blaber from CCS Insight.\n\n\"New Oculus products will further refine the VR experience but there remains a disconnect between Facebook's vision and the reality which is dominated by gaming rather than social interaction.\"", "Public hearings begin on Tuesday in the public inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal in the UK.\n\nThousands of NHS patients with haemophilia and other bleeding disorders are believed to have been infected with HIV and hepatitis viruses through contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 80s.\n\nMartin Beard found out he was HIV positive at the age of 17, and was told at the time he had only two years to live. He describes living through \"a very difficult, dark time\" at the height of the stigma surrounding HIV.\n\nThe inquiry opened in September 2018 and is expected to hear evidence from many people who have been affected.", "There are \"no plans\" for Jussie Smollett to return to the sixth season of Empire, TV network Fox says.\n\nThe actor, who plays Jamal, was accused of staging a racist and homophobic attack on himself in January - which he's always denied.\n\nHe was charged with allegedly lying to police, but Chicago prosecutors later dropped the case.\n\nThe decision was criticised by Chicago authorities, with Mayor Rahm Emanuel calling it a \"whitewash of justice\".\n\nSmollett's character was removed from the final two episodes of season five and now it looks unlikely he will return for the new season.\n\nIn a statement, Fox said: \"By mutual agreement, the studio has negotiated an extension to Jussie Smollett's option for season six, but at this time there are no plans for the character of Jamal to return to Empire.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe Jussie Smollett case has been a complicated one to keep up with:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 27 March: The two sides in the Jussie Smollett case\n\nPolice claimed the attack was planned by the actor as a publicity stunt but Smollett has always maintained his innocence.\n\nPresident Trump called the case an \"embarrassment\" for the country while Chicago's mayor said the actor took \"no sense of ownership of what he's done\".\n\nThe city of Chicago has started legal action against Smollett to try to recover the cost of its investigation into the alleged attack.\n\nHis legal team is also being sued for defamation by the Osundairo brothers who say they continue to be accused of carrying out the assault.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Link is increasing the fee it pays cash machine operators to keep remote free-to-use machines available.\n\nOperators will be offered up to £2.75 per withdrawal to persuade them to keep at-risk machines free.\n\n\"It is vital we continue to provide free access to cash to those who need it,\" said Link chief John Howells.\n\nBut Jenni Allen of Which? said: \"Boosting premiums for remote machines has so far not been enough to stop cashpoints closing around the country.\"\n\nMany of the machines are in deprived areas where cash use is higher, which means locals are hit if ATMs are withdrawn or a charge is introduced.\n\nLast year Which? claimed that 300 ATMs were closing a month, although the consumer group's analysis was disputed by Link.\n\nLink, the UK largest ATM network, said last summer that machines in remote locations could receive an extra subsidy, particularly if they are threatened with closure.\n\nToday it has announced a new super premium which will be introduced in April.\n\nIt will be offered to around 3,500 free-to-use ATMs that are currently 1km or more away from the nearest free-to use ATM, with between 50 and 100 eligible for the full £2.75 subsidy.\n\nCurrently, operators of eligible ATMs receive a top-up subsidy of up to 30p through Link's financial inclusion programme.\n\n\"These premiums will further safeguard ATMs in remote and less well-off areas,\" said Mr Howells.\n\nKaris Burns works at one of Britain's remotest cash machine locations\n\nOne of Britain's remotest cash machines is on Britain's most northerly island, Unst.\n\nIt's part of the Shetland Islands, north of Scotland and has an estimated population of 632.\n\nKaris Burns, pictured above, who works at P&T Coaches which houses the only cash machine on Unst, says: \"It's quite important to have a cash machine here, the only other place to get cash is at the local post office about half a mile away.\"\n\nShe said the machine is used \"about six or seven times a day, although in the summertime it's used a bit more\".\n\nThe summer usage is boosted by tourists who visit Unst, although Karis admits: \"We're quite remote.\"\n\nThe cost of taking out cash at the machine is £1.99.\n\nAccording to Link, Britain's remotest free-to-use machine is at Lloyds Bank branch in St Mary's on the Isle of Scilly (pictured).\n\nIt's 50km away from the next nearest ATM, at Penzance on the mainland, a ferry ride away.\n\nThere's just one ferry operator which sails up to seven times a week, with the journey taking a minimum of 2 hours and 45 minutes.\n\nLink's move follows a row over plans for a phased reduction in interchange rates, the fee operators receive from banks.\n\nThe fee is being cut from 25p to 20p over the next three years but the move which led to accusations that \"cash deserts\" could be created as operators shut less lucrative machines.\n\nThere are more than 50,000 free-to-use ATMs across the UK - and the vast majority will not be eligible for the new super premiums.\n\nCurrently, around 3,500 ATMs are protected - because they are more than 1km away from the next nearest free machine or are located in particularly deprived parts of the country where access to cash is vital.\n\nAround £100bn is spent in shops using coins and notes every year, according to the Federation of Small Businesses.\n\nIts national chairman Mike Cherry said the launch of the super-premiums \"highlight the fundamental failures of our ATM market\".\n\nHe said: \"The Payment Systems Regulator must now intervene and help the industry formulate a long-term strategy for maintaining free access to cash right across the UK.\"\n\nMs Allen of Which? Money agreed, saying: \"What is urgently needed is for a regulator to be given a duty to protect access to cash, so that the millions of people who rely on it in their lives are protected from rapid changes through ATM and bank branch closures.\"\n• None Thousands of cash machines may be axed", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Have drinking habits changed? The Nine spoke to a variety of people one year on from the introduction of minimum pricing\n\nMinisters are hopeful that new statistics will show Scotland's drinking habits have changed after a new law pushed up the price of cheap, high-strength alcohol.\n\nIt is a year since the introduction of a minimum price for drinks depending on how many alcohol units they contained.\n\nPublic Health Minister Joe Fitzpatrick said he was proud that the government had implemented the measure.\n\nHe was hopeful figures would show there had been a \"positive impact\".\n\nThere were 1,235 alcohol-related deaths in Scotland in 2017 and almost 35,500 hospital admissions.\n\nThe Scottish government introduced minimum unit pricing in May last year in a bid to cut consumption and save lives.\n\nMr Fitzpatrick said: \"I'm really proud to be part of the government that introduced minimum unit pricing - the first in the world.\"\n\nHe told BBC Scotland that new data on the effect of the policy was due to be published in mid-June.\n\n\"I'm very hopeful that this will show that there has been a positive impact,\" he said.\n\n\"Anecdotally I'm hearing from a number of people who have changed their drinking habits and there's some anecdotal evidence to suggest that when the evidence comes out in June, it will be positive.\"\n\nBBC Scotland's The Nine has spoken to people around the country about how they have been affected by the new drinking laws.\n\nConor, Rebecca and James are studying in Dundee\n\nFirst-year anatomy student Conor, 18, reckons he drinks about 20 units a week - mostly lager.\n\nHe supports minimum unit pricing but it has had little effect on his drinking habits. In fact, he drinks more than he did last year as he has embraced his new university life.\n\n\"You're young, you drink and I don't think that will ever change, no matter what law you put in place,\" he said.\n\nRebecca, 21, is in her third year of an international business degree.\n\nShe \"pre-drinks\" gin with friends before going to bars and clubs, as she finds it more affordable.\n\n\"I don't think it's affected me too much,\" she said. \"It's affected more own brands and I wouldn't tend to buy them anyway.\"\n\nMeanwhile, engineering student James, 21, said he had seen his friends switch from drinking cheap cider to \"better quality\" drinks.\n\n\"It's cut out the really cheap and unhealthy stuff, it's made that less of an option,\" he said.\n\n\"Obviously it's there if you really want to drink it but why would you when you can pay the same amount for better-quality alcohol?\"\n\nSachin Patel has seen an increase in profits at his shop in Muirkirk\n\nSachin Patel no longer sells Frosty Jacks cider in his shop in Muirkirk, Ayrshire, after its price rose from about £3.50 to about £11.50.\n\nCustomers refused to pay the increased price, instead opting for fruit ciders or even spirits.\n\nMr Patel said he could now match the prices offered by supermarkets, which used to sell spirits as \"loss leaders\" to entice customers into the store.\n\nA bottle of Glens vodka used to be £9.99 - now he sells it at minimum unit price of £13.13.\n\n\"Because of that our profit margin is increased,\" he said. \"That works better for us as retailers even if the volume we sell is less, the margin is greater.\"\n\nHe has concerns that the new law has led to an increase in violence against retailers.\n\n\"If someone wants alcohol, they're going to beg, borrow or steal,\" he said. \"The retailers are taking the brunt.\"\n\nBut he is generally in favour of the policy.\n\n\"For us, it protects the retailers. It's helped people limit the amount of alcohol they consume because they're on a budget. On the whole I think it's a good idea.\"\n\nDanny is an alcoholic and has to beg for money for drink\n\nDanny, 45, is an alcoholic who says he \"drinks as much as possible\" every day.\n\nHe said he has seen an increase in shoplifting since the new law pushed up the price of cheap drink. He can get a bottle of stolen vodka for £5 on the black market.\n\nAnd he says he has to beg on the streets to feed his addiction.\n\n\"I don't want to say it's for a can of beer,\" he said. \"You say it's for something to eat, some place for the night.\n\n\"Because they'll not give you the money because they'll say you'll spend it on drink, you'll spend it on drugs.\n\n\"And I'm not a bad person, I'm an alcoholic. I've got serious problems, issues inside and I consume the drink to help with the problems.\n\n\"But the price of the drink is ridiculous.\"", "Police found the women's remains at a flat in Vandome Close\n\nA man has been charged with preventing the lawful burial of two women whose bodies were found in a freezer.\n\nThe pair's remains were found clothed and on top of each other at a flat in Vandome Close, Canning Town, east London, on Friday.\n\nDetectives have said it may take a week before the women are formally identified.\n\nZahid Younis, 34, of Vandome Close, is due to appear at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Thursday, Scotland Yard said.\n\nHe faces two counts of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a dead body.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Det Ch Insp Simon Harding said a chest freezer, measuring a few feet wide, had been removed from the crime scene.\n\nWork to identify the women was ongoing, he said, and post-mortem examinations would be carried out on Friday.\n\nThere are fears for Mary-Jane Mustafa, 37, who went missing last May.\n\nThe Met has appealed for anyone who has visited the flat in the last year to contact them.\n\nA 50-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Football should introduce \"temporary concussion substitutions\" says a brain injury charity in the wake of a head injury suffered by Jan Vertonghen.\n\nThe Tottenham defender was treated for five minutes on the pitch and tried to play on but was led off after appearing unwell during a 1-0 Champions League semi-final first-leg defeat by Ajax.\n\nHeadway says a \"reliable diagnosis\" cannot be made on the pitch because the \"pressure is enormous and unfair, particularly in high-stake games such as Champions League semi-finals\".\n\nSpokesman Luke Griggs told BBC Sport: \"It is hugely disappointing that we are once again talking about concussion rather than the game itself.\n\n\"Concussion is notoriously difficult to diagnose. The symptoms may be hidden and require the individual to be honest about how they're feeling, while they can also be delayed in their presentation.\n\n\"Assessing a player for three minutes - or even five, as was the case with Jan Vertonghen - does not allow for medical staff to make a reliable diagnosis, particularly when this is conducted on the pitch under the gaze of tens of thousands of fans eager for the game to resume.\"\n\nHeadway has also called for an \"urgent review\" into concussion protocols.\n\n\"We believe the time has come for football to introduce temporary concussion substitutions that would allow for longer off-pitch assessments to be conducted,\" added Griggs.\n\n\"In addition, independent doctors with expertise in concussion and head injuries should make the ultimate decision as to whether or not a player is fit to continue.\n\n\"Not every head injury will result in a concussion. But allowing players to continue while showing clear signs of discomfort following a head injury is contrary to the 'if in doubt, sit it out' principle at the heart of all effective concussion protocols.\"\n\nSpurs boss Mauricio Pochettino said he believed medical staff followed the correct protocols before allowing 32-year-old Belgian international Vertonghen back on the pitch.\n\nNo ambulances were called to the stadium and Vertonghen was later seen walking freely through the media zone after the match.\n\n\"I wasn't involved. It was the doctor's decision,\" said Pochettino immediately after the game. \"The rules and the protocols are there. Our medical staff followed the protocol.\n\n\"He's OK. We hope it is not a big issue. He walked away from the stadium. We know we have to keep watching and monitoring him because it was a big knock.\"", "Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has been sacked by the prime minister after information from a National Security Council meeting was leaked to a newspaper. Here is Theresa May's full letter dismissing him.\n\nThank you for your time this evening. We discussed the investigation into the unauthorised disclosure of information from the National Security Council meeting on 23 April.\n\nThis is an extremely serious matter, and a deeply disappointing one.\n\nIt is vital for the operation of good government and for the UK's national interest in some of the most sensitive and important areas that the members of the NSC - from our Armed Forces, our Security and Intelligence Agencies, and the most senior level of government - are able to have frank and detailed discussions in full confidence that the advice and analysis provided is not discussed or divulged beyond that trusted environment.\n\nThat is why I commissioned the cabinet secretary to establish an investigation into the unprecedented leak from the NSC meeting last week, and why I expected everyone connected to it - ministers and officials alike - to comply with it fully. You undertook to do so.\n\nI am therefore concerned by the manner in which you have engaged with this investigation.\n\nIt has been conducted fairly, with the full co-operation of other NSC attendees.\n\nThey have all answered questions, engaged properly, provided as much information as possible to assist with the investigation, and encouraged their staff to do the same. Your conduct has not been of the same standard as others.\n\nIn our meeting this evening, I put to you the latest information from the investigation, which provides compelling evidence suggesting your responsibility for the unauthorised disclosure.\n\nNo other credible version of events to explain this leak has been identified.\n\nIt is vital that I have full confidence in the members of my cabinet and of the National Security Council. The gravity of this issue alone, and its ramifications for the operation of the NSC and the UK's national interest, warrants the serious steps we have taken, and an equally serious response.\n\nIt is therefore with great sadness that I have concluded that I can no longer have full confidence in you as secretary of state for defence and a minister in my cabinet and asked you to leave Her Majesty's government.\n\nAs you do so, I would like to thank you for the wider contribution you have made to it over the last three years, and for your unquestionable personal commitment to the men and women of our Armed Forces.\"\n\nIt has been a great privilege to serve as Defence Secretary and Chief Whip in your government. Every day I have seen the extraordinary work of the men and women of our armed forces, who go to incredible lengths to defend our country.\n\nI am sorry that you feel recent leaks from the National Security Council originated in my department. I emphatically believe this was not the case. I strenuously deny that I was in any way involved in this leak and I am confident that a thorough and formal inquiry would have vindicated my position.\n\nI have always trusted my civil servants, military advisers and staff. I believe the assurances they have given me.\n\nI appreciate you offering me the option to resign, but to resign would have been to accept that I, my civil servants, my military advisers or my staff were responsible: this was not the case.\n\nRestoring public confidence in the NSC is an ambition we both share. With that in mind I hope that your decision achieves this aim rather than being seen as a temporary distraction.\n\nAs I said there has been no greater privilege than working with our armed forces and I will continue to stand up for our service personnel and the superb work they do.\"\n• None Inquiry to be held into Huawei leak", "British Steel has secured a £100m loan from the government to pay its EU carbon bill, a source close to the company has said.\n\nThe money means the private equity-owned firm will avoid a steep EU fine.\n\nThe firm said earlier this month it needed the funds to settle its 2018 pollution bill due at the end of April.\n\nSky News said the government money was used to pay for the company's carbon credits - and that British Steel would repay the money on commercial terms.\n\nThe firm has been hit by a European Union decision to suspend UK firms' access to free carbon permits until a Brexit withdrawal deal is ratified.\n\nThe EU's emissions trading system's rules allow industrial polluters to use carbon credits to pay for the previous year's emissions, or trade them to raise money.\n\nEach free permit gives a firm the right to emit a ton (1,000kg) of carbon dioxide (CO2).\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Beis) declined to comment on British Steel specifically, but said it was in \"regular conversation with a wide range of companies\".\n\nBeis is expected to make a formal announcement on Wednesday.\n\nBritish Steel has previously said ministers and officials from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy had \"been responsive and supportive\".\n\nPrivate equity firm Greybull Capital rescued Tata Steel's long products business - which makes steel for the rail and construction sectors - during the depths of the steel crisis in 2016, saving more than 4,000 jobs.\n\nIt paid a nominal £1 fee for the assets, but pledged to plough up to £400m into the business which it rebranded British Steel.\n\nWorkers had to take pay cuts and reductions in their pensions in return, but the company has since returned to profit.\n\nThe company employs 4,000 people at its Scunthorpe plant and has sites in Teesside, Cumbria and North Yorkshire.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"I have voted consistently in Parliament for us to leave the European Union.\"\n\nTheresa May has said she hopes the UK will leave the EU well before the new 31 October Brexit deadline.\n\nShe told MPs there was no reason the UK could not leave in a matter of weeks once MPs backed an agreement, which they have so far rejected three times.\n\nShe signalled she hoped to get Labour backing for any new customs proposal before putting it to Parliament again.\n\nShe said their aims were \"very similar\" and \"sometimes people use different terms to mean the same thing\".\n\nLabour wants the PM to sign up to the idea of a customs union with the EU, something she has adamantly opposed up to now, and some have suggested she is moving in their direction.\n\nMost Conservative MPs have said they would not support the move, saying it would mean the UK would not have an independent trade policy.\n\nMrs May chose to open talks with Jeremy Corbyn after Parliament rejected the withdrawal agreement she has negotiated with the EU a third time late last month.\n\nAfter this defeat, the EU extended the deadline for the UK's departure - originally set for 29 March - until 31 October.\n\nMrs May told MPs she hoped the extension would be \"terminable\" well before this date and the UK would find itself outside the EU \"as soon as possible\".\n\nAppearing before the Liaison Committee of senior MPs, she said the choice facing Parliament was the same as when it last rejected her agreement.\n\nMPs could opt to agree a deal and leave in an orderly fashion, to leave without a deal, hold another referendum, or to stay in the EU by revoking Article 50 - only the first of which she found \"acceptable\".\n\nShe said she was \"convinced\" that reaching out to Labour to try and build a majority for any deal was the right thing to do.\n\nIf no agreement was reached, she said the government would stand by its commitment to give MPs the chance to vote on a series of options, with ministers abiding by the outcome.\n\nPressed by Labour MP Hilary Benn on whether this would include a customs union, Mrs May pointed out that Parliament had already rejected the idea on more than one occasion.\n\nBut she added: \"Various terms are used in relation to customs. Sometimes people use different terms to mean the same thing, sometimes it is meaning different approaches.\n\n\"But what I think is important when we comes to that process is that anything we put before the House, I hope would would be able to get agreement with the opposition so there is a process that everyone can stand behind.\"\n\nAsked whether she was prepared to soften her opposition to a customs union, she said both sides needs to \"identify\" what they were trying to achieve.\n\nOn the issue of post-Brexit trade, she said the government and Labour had \"very similar\" objectives, which were to protect jobs and to ensure as frictionless as trade as possible.\n\nBut Labour MP Yvette Cooper said MPs felt \"they were going around in circles and paralysed like nothing is changing\".\n\nConservative MP Bernard Jenkin, who voted against the deal three times, said the PM had been under no obligation to agree the terms of the extension offered by the EU.\n\nIn response, she told him that if all Conservatives had voted to leave the EU the UK would no longer be a member.\n\nWhile the UK's policy was to leave with a deal, she insisted this was \"not entirely in the hands of the UK government\" as it would be up to the EU to decide on any further extension.", "The four artists competing for this year's Turner Prize have been announced with investigative art, works blurring fact and fiction and explorations of oppression dominating the shortlist.\n\nThe nominees are Lawrence Abu Hamdan, who is British but based in Beirut, London-based Helen Cammock and Tai Shani and Colombian Oscar Murillo.\n\nTheir works will go on show at the Turner Contemporary in Margate from 28 September until January 2020.\n\nThe winner is announced on 3 December.\n\nArts editor Will Gompertz has been looking at the artists and their work.\n\nBeirut-based Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an artist more interested in the ear than the eye. He thinks of himself as an \"audio investigator\" who makes films, installations, and gives performative lectures based on earwitness (not eyewitness) accounts from oppressed individuals, or, in another project, from racially-profiled individuals who are being judged on the basis of how they pronounce certain words or syllables.\n\nHelen Cammock is also interested in sound and history. She too makes films and gives spoken word performances.\n\nBut her area of investigation is past events and their histories; not a single, definitive written account but a variety of views and texts, which can be perceived differently when spoken by other people.\n\nFellow London-based artist Tai Shani shares Cammock's interest in the written word and associated assumptions, depending on the gender and perceived status of the author.\n\nShe also organises performances, makes films, and creates installations.\n\nThe difference with Shani is she's not that interested in multiple viewpoints of history, more in creating alternative, almost gothic worlds that blur fact and fiction, or truth and myth, with the intention of disrupting a real world dominated by, and centred around, a white, western, male point of view.\n\nOscar Murillo is a Colombian-British artist and the most established name on the shortlist.\n\nHe became an instant art world hit when he first emerged on the scene six years ago. His work made huge sums for a relatively unknown 20-something artist.\n\nThings cooled for a bit - but now he's back, with his semi-abstract paintings on unstretched canvasses hanging limply like curtains in a bedsit with too few hooks.\n\nThey are, in a way, more like objects in an installation than pictures to put on a wall. He, like his fellow nominees, is exploring the politics of identity, oppression, and marginalised people.\n\nThe winner will be announced on 3 December 2019 at an award ceremony broadcast live on the BBC.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mohamed Noor was taken into custody upon his conviction\n\nA former policeman in the US state of Minnesota has been found guilty of murdering an unarmed Australian woman.\n\nMohamed Noor shot Justine Ruszczyk Damond as she approached his patrol car to report a possible rape behind her Minneapolis home on 15 July 2017.\n\nNoor, 33, testified last week that he opened fire because he feared he and his partner were being ambushed.\n\nMs Damond, 40, a yoga instructor from Sydney, was engaged and was due to marry a month after the shooting.\n\nThe death drew international criticism and Australia's prime minister at the time, Malcolm Turnbull, said it was \"inexplicable\".\n\nNoor was handcuffed and taken into custody immediately upon being convicted by a jury on Tuesday of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.\n\nHe was acquitted of the most serious charge of second-degree murder with intent to kill.\n\nThe trial heard the victim, a dual US-Australian citizen, lay dying from a gunshot wound just over a minute after ending a phone conversation with her fiance.\n\nShe had told Don Damond that police had just arrived after she called them to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind their home. No such attack was ever found to have occurred.\n\nNoor took the stand last week to say he recalled seeing a blonde female in a pink T-shirt approach his squad car on the night of the shooting.\n\nHe said he believed there was an imminent threat after he heard a loud bang and saw Ms Damond with her right arm raised.\n\nNoor said his partner, Officer Matthew Harrity, shouted \"Oh Jesus!\" and fumbled with his gun in its holster before \"he turned to me with fear in his eyes\".\n\nThe defendant said he \"had to make a split-second decision\" and shot Ms Damond across his partner through the car window.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Justine Damond's family hold a silent vigil at a beach in Sydney last year\n\nNoor told the court that upon realising he had shot an unarmed woman he \"felt like my whole world came crashing down\".\n\nProsecutors questioned whether the loud bang was real, pointing out that neither Noor nor his partner initially mentioned anything at the scene about hearing such a noise.\n\nMs Damond's fingerprints were not found on the squad car, the court heard.\n\nShe had moved to the Midwestern city to marry her boyfriend, Don Damond, and had adopted his surname ahead of their nuptials.\n\nMr Damond was in Las Vegas, Nevada, when investigators called him to say she was dead.\n\nHe told the court he learned from a second phone call that she had been shot by a police officer.\n\nMr Damond said contacting her family in Australia to tell them the news was the \"worst phone call\" he ever had to make.\n\nNoor is a former Somalian refugee whose family moved to the US and settled in Minneapolis.\n\nHe joined the police force in 2015, but was sacked after being charged in the shooting.\n\nThe fallout also cost Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau her job and was a factor in the election defeat of the city's mayor a few months later.\n\nThe Damond family have filed a civil lawsuit against the city and several police officers seeking $50m (£38m) in damages.\n\nMinneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo apologised to Damond's friends and family in a statement released after Tuesday's verdict was read.\n\n\"This was indeed a sad and tragic incident that has affected family, friends, neighbours, the City of Minneapolis and people around the world, most significantly in her home country of Australia,\" he said.", "Sales of Apple's iPhones fell at their steepest-ever rate, according to data for the three months to the end of March.\n\nThe firm said revenue from the iPhone dropped by 17%, compared with the same period a year earlier, to $31bn.\n\nHowever, Apple chief executive Tim Cook said sales were stronger towards the end of March, including in China where it cut iPhone prices to boost demand.\n\nApple lifted its outlook for the three months to June.\n\nThat sent shares more than 5% higher in after-hours trading.\n\nThe company had warned of slowing iPhone sales earlier this year, especially in China, where Apple competes with cheaper rivals such as Huawei Technologies and Xiaomi.\n\nBut Mr Cook said price adjustments in China, lower Chinese taxes on the iPhone and new trade-in and financing deals helped sales start to recover toward the end of the quarter.\n\nHe also credited improving demand for products such as the Apple Watch, along with progress in US-China trade talks.\n\nApple chief executive Tim Cook and Oprah Winfrey at the launch of Apple TV+ in March\n\n\"The trade relationship, versus the previous quarter, is better. The tone is better,\" Mr Cook told Reuters. \"The sum of all of this together, it helped us.\"\n\nApple has lifted its guidance for its third quarter revenue to between $52.5bn and $54.5bn.\n\nFor the three months to March, total sales hit $58bn compared to analysts' estimates of $57.3bn.\n\nHowever, that is below total sales of $61.1bn in the second quarter last year. And while demand improved in China, sales in the region were still down by 20%.\n\nProfits for the second quarter fell to $11.5bn compared to $13.8bn in the same period a year ago.\n\nApple is attempting to shift its reliance on the iPhone towards services and last month unveiled its new TV streaming platform, Apple TV+, to take on the likes of more established companies such as Netflix.\n\nServices revenue rose to $11.4bn from $9.8bn in the same quarter last year.\n\nBut Yoram Wurmser, principal analyst at eMarketer, said long-term growth in services and, to a less extent, other devices \"depend on having as many users as possible in the Apple ecosystem, and that's still primarily about the iPhone\".\n\n\"The long-term growth of the company still depends directly and indirectly on iPhone sales,\" he added.", "Derek Martindale was given a year to live\n\nIt has been a long time coming - more than three decades to be precise.\n\nAt long last a full public inquiry into the infected blood scandal has started a process which will attempt to give victims and their families some answers.\n\nPreliminary hearings last September set out the wide-ranging scope of the inquiry.\n\nNow witnesses, including those infected and affected, have begun giving evidence.\n\nIn other countries where haemophiliacs and others became infected with HIV and hepatitis C through treatment by their health systems, politicians have been held to account and full compensation has been paid.\n\nThe UK has not moved in the same way to try to establish who was responsible and why the biggest treatment disaster in the history of the NHS was allowed to unfold.\n\nA clotting agent, Factor VIII, was made from donated blood, some of which was infected and had come from paid foreign donors including prisoners. The big question is who at high levels of the NHS and government knew what and when.\n\nHere in the UK there has been one privately funded inquiry with no powers to compel witnesses to attend.\n\nNow, under Sir Brian Langstaff, the new statutory UK-wide inquiry is under way which in his own words will be \"independent of government, and frightened of no-one in the conclusions it may draw\".\n\nHe is well aware of allegations of a cover-up in Whitehall with documents destroyed.\n\nThe opening day of evidence has served as a reminder of what was inflicted on patients who went to the NHS for treatment in good faith.\n\nDerek Martindale, comforted by his son John sitting beside him, described being treated with blood products for his haemophilia in the mid-1980s but with no warning about the risks of contracting HIV and hepatitis C.\n\nHe asked for an HIV test and was told he was positive but was instructed not to tell anyone including his family and parents.\n\nHis brother, also a haemophiliac, later died with Aids and he spoke of the devastating impact on his parents.\n\nAt the end of Mr Martindale's evidence, people in the room stood and clapped.\n\nDr Hill didn't find out for 20 years that she had hepatitis C\n\nDr Carole Hill had a blood transfusion in 1987 but it wasn't until 2017 that she was told she had hepatitis C.\n\nIt transpired clinicians had carried out a test a few months earlier after she went in for another appointment.\n\nDr Hill said she was angry at the way she had been dealt with by the NHS in recent years.\n\nShe said better communication was required and more effort should be made to contact others who had blood transfusions and might have been infected with hepatitis C.\n\nPerry Evans told the inquiry of his sadness at the impact on friends and family when he revealed his health condition.\n\nHe was told he was HIV positive in 1985 following treatment for his haemophilia but it transpired doctors had known several months before and not told him.\n\nHe spoke movingly about living with HIV at a time of scare stories and stigma.\n\nVictims and their campaigning groups, supported by the judge, have called for more generous financial support.\n\nThe Scottish government increased payouts after the Penrose inquiry but England, Wales and Northern Ireland have lagged behind.\n\nHours before the first inquiry, it was announced at Westminster that total annual funding would be increased from £46m to £75m for recipients in England.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Beard was told he was HIV positive at the age of 17\n\nThe authorities in Wales and Northern Ireland are likely to follow but this is subject to further discussions.\n\nComing late in the day and without much detail, the government's financial announcement did not seem to impress many of the key participants.\n\nThere has been no change to unpopular means-testing and no solid demonstration that there can be parity of payments across the UK.\n\nCompensation is another matter and could involve large sums of money.\n\nClaims could hinge on the findings of this infected blood inquiry and the extent to which it finds fault at the heart of government.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ben McDonald's death was \"out of the blue\"\n\n\"He was really fit, really healthy, there was no indication that was going to happen.\"\n\nBen McDonald, 25, died after going into cardiac arrest at the finish line of the Cardiff Half Marathon in October 2018.\n\nA defibrillator was used and although it did not save him, his family want more of them in public places.\n\n\"He was very special,\" said Ben's mother Ruth McDonald, from the Vale of Glamorgan.\n\n\"He was just gorgeous, funny, happy, always smiling, he just wanted every moment to be special.\n\n\"One of his favourite mottos is 'happiness is only real when shared' and he just loved being with people.\"\n\nBen McDonald loved snowboarding and spent two seasons in the Alps\n\nBen's brother Andrew said he loved being active.\n\n\"He was just extremely sporty, extremely active, he loved being outdoors, he loved playing, everything you can hurt yourself doing,\" Andrew said.\n\nThe youngest of four children, Ben had worked at the Cardiff White Water Centre since the age of 16 and was also a qualified teacher.\n\nRuth McDonald said her son was \"always smiling\"\n\nThe 25-year-old was part of a group of seven who took part in the annually-held half marathon race, along with his girlfriend, his brother Steve and his wife, Andrew and his wife and his sister's husband. They had been \"planning it for months\" and were \"getting quite competitive\".\n\n\"It all started so happy, it was a beautiful sunny day, he ran the race, he exceeded the time he set for himself, he beat one of his brothers and then he collapsed as he crossed the finish line,\" Ruth said.\n\n\"He died more or less straight away.\"\n\nRuth said medics used CPR and a defibrillator, but he could not be saved.\n\n\"He was really fit, really healthy, there was no indication that was going to happen,\" she said.\n\n\"I think what we've learnt is life is unpredictable, we don't know what lies around the corner.\n\nBen McDonald (third in from the left) ran the Cardiff Half Marathon with family members\n\n\"Screening might have saved Ben, it might not have done. A defibrillator could have saved Ben, but it didn't.\n\n\"But we really endorse the fact that we need defibrillators everywhere, so that people can get instant or as instant help as possible and screening might show things up.\n\n\"So it's important young people getting involved in sports activities have their hearts checked over.\"\n\nShe added: \"We didn't think this would happen to us... Ben was going to be fine and we'd see him get married and have children and get old and that didn't happen.\n\n\"Enjoy every moment with your children because you never know which moment is the last moment and family life is precious, tell those you love, you love them.\"\n\nA second man, Dean Fletcher, 32, from Exeter, also died at the event after crossing the finishing line within minutes of Ben on 7 October.\n\nIn the wake of Ben's death, his charity page, in aid of Maternity Africa in north Tanzania, received hundreds of donations, raising almost £21,000 for the charity.\n\nThe family have since all had heart screening and want to help raise awareness of the importance of defibrillators in public places.\n\nAndrew said: \"It's so stereotypical to be like 'he was a great guy, he was lovely, everyone loved him', but he was. He was above and beyond that.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was just so out of the blue, it could happen to anybody, our motto was live for that moment.\n\nThe family all have a tattoo, similar to one Ben also had, showing the things he loved\n\n\"You can't live your life scared, but there are things you can do, wear a helmet if you're out snowboarding, if you can get your heart checked out, get it checked out.\n\n\"If it saves one person's life [heart screening] that's good, because it's not just the person who dies that suffers, everybody suffers and that's the hardest part.\"\n\nVicki Edwards, Ben's sister said they are trying to do \"things that he loved\".\n\nAmong the plans is a festival style event, BenJam, which will be held on Thursday evening as a \"way to remember his birthday\".\n\nMoney raised from ticket sales will go to the Welsh Hearts charity.\n\nVicki said over 200 people have bought tickets and they hope to make it an annual event.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it has provided funding totalling £586,000 for a project called Save a Life Cymru, which aims to improve access to CPR training and increase the awareness and use of defibrillators.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Labour MP has accused Welsh ministers of being partly to blame for failings in Cwm Taf maternity services.\n\nAn independent review said units at Royal Glamorgan and Prince Charles hospitals were \"dysfunctional\" and mothers' worries were often ignored.\n\nPontypridd MP Owen Smith said issues seem to have been \"compounded\" by big service changes.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething has said he was \"determined\" to see improvements delivered.\n\nMr Smith said Welsh Government needs \"to look at itself about the way that decision was driven through\".\n\nMr Gething put Cwm Taf maternity services into special measures on Tuesday, meaning it will face increased scrutiny.\n\nBoth Welsh Conservatives and Plaid Cymru called on him to resign over the issue.\n\nPlaid has also laid a motion of no confidence in Mr Gething, which will be debated next week, saying the \"distressing\" report into Cwm Taf was \"part of a wider pattern of failing\".\n\nParty health spokeswoman Helen Mary Jones kept up the pressure on Mr Gething in the assembly.\n\n\"I'm just really concerned that this is suggesting that we have a minister who doesn't really have a grip on the system,\" she said.\n\n\"Eight reports over six years and nothing was done, until you called for a report years ago.\n\n\"During those years, children died. Mothers were traumatised and families were traumatised.\"\n\nPrince Charles Hospital now has an expanded special care baby unit and six en-suite delivery rooms\n\nMr Smith told BBC Wales said: \"I don't think we can forget the fact that part of the issue here is that there was a massive reorganisation of services.\n\n\"I and many other local politicians opposed it at the time, saying that amongst other things it wasn't necessarily going to solve the problem that it was meant to solve, i.e. difficulty in recruiting midwives.\n\n\"That seems to have been compounded by the reorganisation.\n\n\"The Welsh Government needs to look at itself about the way that decision was driven through in the light of significant local opposition and the way in which once the decision had been taken it was left to the health board to, sort of, clean up the mess.\"\n\nWhen asked about calls for Mr Gething to resign, Mr Smith said he had spoken to him earlier in the week and was reassured he was on top of the situation.\n\nEarlier, Paul Davies, leader of the Welsh Conservatives, called for Mr Gething and health board leaders to quit.\n\nMr Gething said: \"I am far from complacent about my responsibilities, not only in the sense of the whole performance of the service, not just the challenges but the good that the service does, but my responsibility to see through the improvement that I recognise is plainly required and [I'm] determined to see delivered.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We picked the wrong day to be ill'\n\nThe chairman of the health board blamed a \"toxic\" culture for problems highlighted in the review.\n\nProf Marcus Longley told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme that the review's findings had \"sent a shock through the entire organisation\".\n\n\"Apologies are empty words if they aren't faced by action,\" he said.\n\n\"We have got some complex issues here that have built up over time. Clearly we have failed in our task.\"\n\nHe highlighted one issue raised in the report that \"doctors and midwives do not work as a unified team all of the time\".\n\n\"That is a really serious issue,\" he said. \"That has built up over many years. It has become custom and practice to work in the wrong way.\n\n\"It's not because we have got wicked or incompetent doctors or midwives at all.\n\n\"It's because those cultures, those working practices are developed which are toxic and we now need to unpack that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Western says she is still fighting to find out why her daughter Macie died\n\nDes Kitto, chief officer of the board of Community Health Councils (CHC) in Wales and former chief officer for patient watchdog Cwm Taf CHC, said the review was \"sickening to the stomach\".\n\nHe said the CHC raised concerns about the number of stillbirths and undertook unannounced visits but \"didn't seem to get any results\", so their concerns were escalated to regulators Health Inspectorate Wales which led to the Welsh Government involvement.\n\n\"Trust has been lost. It has got to be action now from the health board, and not words.\"\n\nHe also said he was unhappy the CHC was not made aware of an internal report by a consultant midwife, produced in September. The independent review criticised Cwm Taf for sitting on it.\n\n\"I don't think we had the full story,\" said Mr Kitto.\n\n\"I don't think there was an attempt to mislead, but patients have been let down and the responsibility goes back to the whole board - we should be looking at how they can rebuild the necessary trust.\"\n\nWhat does special measures mean for Cwm Taf maternity services?\n\nHealth organisations are rated regularly by Welsh Government, Wales Audit Office and Healthcare Inspectorate Wales, who decide if they need extra support.\n\nThere are four levels of intervention - and the most serious is special measures. Cwm Taf Morgannwg's maternity units are now at that scale, while the whole health board has also been upgraded to a targeted intervention status.\n\nMr Longley said there was now an \"enormous amount going on\" internally to deal with the 70 recommendations in the review and this was now the health board's \"top priority\".\n\nHe has not put a deadline on the work ahead and believes a number of root causes will take a long time to put right.\n\nMeanwhile, an independent panel will oversee an existing review into 43 cases involving mothers and babies and it has been recommended that this review will also stretch back to examine many more cases stretching back to 2010.\n\nWith its maternity services in special measures, Cwm Taf Morgannwg will not be left to its own devices and will be monitored at every stage.\n\nSome improvements are already in place, but the issues are so varied and deep-rooted it could take months or even years before maternity services are up to scratch and sticking plaster solutions certainly won't be enough.\n\nWhen I spoke to Marcus Longley, its chairman, he said there was a \"chill\" when the full scale of the problems emerged, but the issues stretched back a number of years and there was no easy fix.\n\nWhat's clear, although the health board insist they are safe, maternity services face a long road to recovery and it could take even longer to rebuild public trust.\n\nThe tremors of the independent review will be felt for some time.\n\nLooking further afield, the Welsh Government insist there is no evidence of similar problems elsewhere, yet we know the watchdog Health Inspectorate Wales will be shortly undertaking a review of care for mothers and babies across the country.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Children's services in England are at breaking point and need a £3.1bn minimum funding boost by 2025, MPs say.\n\nThe Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee said current funding levels were unsustainable.\n\nIts report said as services tried to respond to growing demand, amid severe funding pressures, many were reliant on the goodwill of staff.\n\nThe government said £494m of funding would help children and social work improvements would reduce demand.\n\nThe MPs said overall, England's local authorities had been grappling with budget cuts of 29% since 2010.\n\nThe committee follows a long line of organisations, including councils, children's charities and economists, to raise the alarm over funding levels.\n\nIn children's services, this has led managers to divert funds from the early-intervention non-statutory preventative services that can catch problems before they become crises, to statutory services, which they are obliged to provide by law, at the more severe end of need.\n\nSpending data from the National Audit Office (NAO) shows England's local authorities spent 59% of their children's services budget on statutory services in 2010-11.\n\nBut by 2017-18, councils were spending 75% on statutory services.\n\nAnd despite this, budgets for statutory services in many areas were overspent.\n\nEarlier this year, the NAO found that 91% of councils had overspent the budgets they had set for children's services at the start of the year.\n\nThis amounted to a national overspend of £872m.\n\n\"In recent months, a growing number of local authorities have suggested that they may only be able to provide core services in the future,\" the County Councils Network said.\n\nClive Betts, who chairs the committee, said: \"Over the last decade we have seen a steady increase in the number of children needing support, whilst at the same time funding has failed to keep up.\n\n\"It is clear that this approach cannot be sustained and the government must make serious financial and systemic changes to support local authorities in helping vulnerable children.\n\n\"They must understand why demand is increasing and whether it can be reduced.\n\n\"They must ensure that the funding formula actually allows local authorities to meet the obligations for supporting children that the government places on them.\"\n\nEngland's Children's Commissioner, Anne Longfield, said this situation was letting down many vulnerable children who were not receiving the help they needed.\n\n\"We cannot just continue to cross our fingers and hope that vulnerable children will be all right - and this report must be a final wake-up call to the government,\" she said.\n\n\"This year's Spending Review is the moment to act. Ministers must accept that children's services are in desperate need of funding to improve what they offer children rather than just stand still or go backwards.\"\n\nThe government said it aimed to help parents \"who face difficulties, to strengthen their family relationships so they can properly support their children\".\n\nA spokesperson said the government was putting an extra £410m into social care this year, including children's, alongside £84m over the next five years to keep more children at home with their families to reduce the demand on services.\n\nThey said the number of children's services rated outstanding was growing, adding: \"To help continue this trend we are raising the bar in our social work profession, by focusing on improved training and recruitment.\"\n\nBut Kathy Evans, chief executive of Children England, said one very clear and urgent message emerged from the report.\n\n\"There is simply no getting away from the fact that austerity policies are leaving thousands of children and families and many essential local services at absolute breaking point.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Suzanne' says she believes her ex-husband was \"protected because of his job\"\n\nPolice officers and staff accused of domestic abuse are a third less likely to be convicted than the general public, figures from 37 forces suggest.\n\nThey show 3.9% of claims against police led to a conviction from 2015-18 in England and Wales, compared with 6.2% among the population as a whole.\n\nPolice domestic abuse lead Dame Vera Baird said the issue does not \"appear to be taken as seriously\" as it should.\n\nThe Home Office said it was bringing in reforms \"to improve police integrity\".\n\nFigures from the Freedom of Information request, conducted by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), also found that more than four allegations of domestic abuse against police staff were recorded each week.\n\nFewer than a quarter of those allegations led to disciplinary action.\n\nThere are 200,000 members of the police workforce in England and Wales according to latest figures, of whom 122,000 are police officers.\n\nSuzanne - not her real name - told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme her ex-husband, a police officer, was violent towards her for years.\n\nShe said she eventually called police when he threatened her with a knife, but they did very little.\n\n\"The police turned up and the only advice they gave him was he should leave the house and go for a walk to calm down.\n\n\"I don't remember them talking to me at all,\" she added.\n\nSuzanne said the violence escalated and her ex-husband hit their six-year-old son.\n\nWhen she filed for divorce, she said he raped her.\n\nShe moved out with her children and reported him to his boss.\n\nSuzanne believes her ex-husband was \"protected because of his job\"\n\nA domestic abuse officer came to investigate, but Suzanne says they did not take a statement and no record was made on file.\n\nA few months later, her son was seen by a teacher being pushed into a car by his father.\n\nIn a police interview - which Suzanne says she only saw four years later - her son said his father \"tried to strangle him and had his hands on his throat\", she said.\n\nNo charges were brought against her ex-husband.\n\nShe believes he was \"protected because of his job\".\n\nAfter years of suffering post-traumatic stress, she decided to go back to the police and obtain access to her police file, but she found nothing on record.\n\nThe force said it would investigate her complaint but because there was nothing on file it closed the case.\n\nThe police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), asked the force to reinvestigate Suzanne's case last year. And now 16 months later, the force has said it cannot uphold her complaint.\n\nHer husband has since retired but Suzanne now plans to sue the force - which cannot be named for legal reasons.\n\nThe national domestic abuse charity SafeLives said the figures showed just \"the tip of the iceberg\".\n\nChief executive Suzanne Jacob said it \"would urge every police force to pay close attention to what these stories and statistics show us - that women are being silenced and abused by people in positions of trust and power.\"\n\nDame Vera Baird QC said she was \"not surprised that these issues don't appear to be taken as seriously as they should be by the police\".\n\nDame Vera Baird said some officers were \"quite resistant to hearing about wrongdoing in colleagues\"\n\nThere was a \"defensive, mutually supportive culture\" among police officers, she said, which can make \"forces and probably some individual officers quite resistant to hearing about wrongdoing in colleagues.\"\n\nIn Northumbria, where she serves as police and crime commissioner, she said she would look into creating a system where any criminal investigations against police staff would be handed over to a neighbouring force to carry out.\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"essential that every allegation of domestic abuse is taken seriously.\n\n\"Where allegations are made against those working for the police, their status and powers mean it is even more important that these are thoroughly investigated to maintain public confidence.\"\n\nIt added: \"Where officers commit a serious breach of the standards expected of them, disciplinary and, if required, criminal proceedings should follow.\n\n\"We are also implementing a wide-ranging programme of reforms to improve police integrity, including improving the transparency of the disciplinary system and strengthening the powers of the IOPC.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.\n• None 'Domestic abuse happens to men too'", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCaster Semenya has lost a landmark case against athletics' governing body meaning it will be allowed to restrict testosterone levels in female runners.\n\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) rejected the South African's challenge against the IAAF's new rules.\n\nBut Cas said it had \"serious concerns as to the future practical application\" of the regulations.\n\nOlympic 800m champion Semenya, 28, said in response to the ruling that the IAAF \"have always targeted me specifically\".\n\nNow she - and other athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) - must either take medication in order to compete in track events from 400m to the mile, or change to another distance.\n\n\"For a decade the IAAF has tried to slow me down, but this has actually made me stronger. The decision of Cas will not hold me back,\" said Semenya in a statement.\n\n\"I will once again rise above and continue to inspire young women and athletes in South Africa and around the world.\"\n\nPreviously, she had said that she wanted to \"run naturally, the way I was born\".\n\nCas found that the rules for athletes with DSD were discriminatory - but that the discrimination was \"necessary, reasonable and proportionate\" to protect \"the integrity of female athletics\".\n\nHowever, Cas set out serious concerns about the application of the rules, including:\n• None Worries that athletes might unintentionally break the strict testosterone levels set by the IAAF;\n• None Questions about the advantage higher testosterone gives athletes over 1500m and the mile;\n• None The practicalities for athletes of complying with the new rules.\n\nCas has asked the IAAF to consider delaying the application of the rules to the 1500m and one mile events until more evidence is available.\n\nSemenya is still eligible to compete at the Diamond League meet in Doha on Friday and can make an appeal against the Cas ruling to the Swiss Tribunal Courts within the next 30 days.\n• None 'Nobody has truly won - one side has just lost less than the other'\n\nWhat are disorders/differences of sex development (DSD)?\n\nPeople with a DSD do not develop along typical gender lines.\n\nTheir hormones, genes, reproductive organs may be a mix of male and female characteristics, which can lead to higher levels of testosterone - a hormone that increases muscle mass, strength and haemoglobin, which affects endurance.\n\nThe term \"disorders\" is controversial with some of those affected preferring the term \"intersex\" and referring to \"differences in sex development\".\n\nThe new rules come into effect on 8 May, which means athletes who want to compete at September's World Championships - also in Doha - will have to start taking medication within one week.\n\nThose affected by the rules will have to have a blood test on 8 May to test their eligibility. A statement from the IAAF said that no athlete \"will be forced to undergo any assessment\" and that any treatment was up to the individual athlete.\n\nAthletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) have higher levels of natural testosterone, which the IAAF believes gives them a competitive advantage - findings that were disputed by Semenya and her legal team.\n\nHer lawyers had previously said her \"genetic gift\" should be celebrated, adding: \"Women with differences in sexual development have genetic variations that are no different than other genetic variations in sport.\"\n\nThey have also suggested that Semenya \"does not wish to undergo medical intervention to change who she is and how she was born\".\n• None Semenya Q&A - why is this case so pivotal?\n• None What Semenya ruling means for women and sport\n\nWhat are the proposed changes?\n\nThe rules, applying to women in track events from 400m up to the mile, require athletes to keep their testosterone levels below a prescribed amount \"for at least six months prior to competing\".\n\nHowever, 100m, 200m and 100m hurdles are exempt, as are races longer than one mile and field events.\n\nFemale athletes affected must take medication for six months before they can compete, and then maintain a lower testosterone level.\n\nThe rules were intended to be brought in on 1 November 2018, but the legal challenge from Semenya and Athletics South Africa caused that to be delayed until 26 March.\n\nThe United Nations Human Rights Council has called the plans \"unnecessary, harmful and humiliating\" and South Africa's sports minister called them a \"human rights violation\".\n\nWhat next for Semenya?\n\nOn Friday, Semenya won 5,000m gold at the South African Athletics Championships - a new distance for her, and one outside the scope of the IAAF rule change.\n\nIt was only the second time Semenya had run the distance and she finished more than 100m ahead of defending national champion Dominque Scott.\n\nHowever, Scott said she was unsure whether Semenya could be a serious Olympic contender over the longer distance.\n\nSemenya is national and Commonwealth champion at 1500m, and also broke the African 400m record in August.\n\nWhat is the difference between transgender and intersex?\n\nWe have heard a lot about transgender over the past year. Obviously that's a natural discussion that's going to take place, but Semenya is not transgender.\n\nIntersex is a term used to refer to differences of sexual development in individuals. It can relate to men and women and can manifest itself externally, with varied external genitalia or characteristics, or internally in relation to chromosomes and testosterone.\n\nIt can have health repercussions on athletes. Individuals can live their life not knowing they have any DSD.\n\nTransgender describes a person whose gender is not the same as, or does not sit comfortably with, the sex they were assigned at birth.\n\nThey may have reassignment to make that transition or they may wish to identify themselves as male or female without making any physiological transitions.\n\nEighteen-time Grand Slam champion Martina Navratilova: \"The verdict against Semenya is dreadfully unfair to her and wrong in principle. She has done nothing wrong and it is awful that she will now have to take drugs to be able to compete. General rules should not be made from exceptional cases and the question of transgender athletes remains unresolved.\"\n\nMarathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe: \"I understand how hard a decision this was for Cas and respect them for ruling that women's sport needs rules to protect it.\"\n\nMegha Mohan, BBC Gender and Identity reporter: \"The spectrum of identity stretches far beyond the binary, say human rights activists, so shouldn't Semenya's physical abilities be celebrated the same way as Usain Bolt's height and Michael Phelps's wingspan are? Either way this verdict does not signal the end of the debate.\"\n• 31 July 2009: 18-year-old Semenya runs fastest 800m time of the year to win gold at the Africa Junior Championships.\n• August 2009: Semenya undertakes a gender test before the World Championships in Berlin. She is unaware of the purpose of the test, with Athletics South Africa president Leonard Chuene telling her it is a random doping test.\n• 19 August 2009: Semenya wins 800m world gold, breaking the world-leading mark she set in July. After her victory, the news of Semenya's gender test is leaked to the press.\n• November 2009: There are reports that Semenya's test has revealed male and female characteristics. The results are not made public.\n• 6 July 2010: Semenya is cleared by the IAAF to compete again.\n• 22 August 2010: Semenya wins the 800m at an IAAF event in Berlin.\n• 11 August 2012: Semenya wins 800m silver at the 2012 London Olympics. This is later upgraded to gold after Russian winner Mariya Savinov is given a lifetime ban for doping violations. Semenya is also upgraded to 2011 world gold.\n• July 2014: India sprinter Dutee Chand, 18, is banned from competing after a hormone test shows natural natural levels of testosterone normally only found in men.\n• 27 July 2015: Chand is cleared to compete; the Court of Arbitration for Sport suspends, for two years, the introduction of an earlier version of IAAF rules requiring female athletes to take testosterone-suppressing medication.\n• 20 August 2016: Semenya wins 800m gold at the Rio Olympics, but the decision to allow her to compete is\n• 4 July 2017: Research commissioned by the IAAF finds female athletes with high testosterone levels have a \"competitive advantage\".\n• 26 April 2018: The IAAF introduces new rules for female runners with naturally high testosterone.\n• 19 June 2018: Semenya says she will challenge the \"unfair\" IAAF rules.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGerard Batten has dismissed Nigel Farage's Brexit Party as a \"Tory-lite\" ego trip as he insisted only UKIP has a \"clear policy\" for leaving the EU.\n\nLaunching its European election campaign in Middlesbrough, the UKIP leader said democracy was under threat if the Brexit vote was not honoured.\n\nUKIP was a \"real political party\" with members and a rule book, he said.\n\nIts rival, he said, was a \"wholly owned subsidiary of one man's ego\" and a \"safety valve for disaffected Tories\".\n\nMr Farage, UKIP's figurehead for two decades, quit the party after a bitter fallout with Mr Batten last year.\n\nThe two parties are now competing against each other in elections to the European Parliament on 23 May.\n\nUKIP won the most votes and seats of any UK party when the polls were last held in 2014 but has been consumed by internal rows since then.\n\nMr Batten told activists EU membership had been a \"cancer at the heart\" of British life for more than 40 years, with the transfer of law-making powers \"rotting the soul\" of the country.\n\nHe said Theresa May \"never had any intention\" of delivering on the 2016 Brexit vote and had made the UK a \"laughing stock\".\n\nHe promised to campaign across England and Wales to get UKIP candidates elected on a policy of \"unconditional and unilateral\" withdrawal from the EU.\n\nThe UK should leave without a deal and offer to trade with the EU on a tariff-free basis, or under World Trade Organisation rules, with reciprocal rights for each other's citizens.\n\nLaunching a strong personal attack on Mr Farage, he suggested the Brexit Party was a \"safety valve for disaffected Conservatives\".\n\n\"UKIP is a real political party, that has a constitution, a governing body and a rule book,\" he said. \"It has members with rights who elect a leader.\n\n\"The Brexit Party has no members or structure. It is an autocracy. UKIP has policies and a manifesto. The Brexit Party does not.\n\n\"UKIP is a party of ordinary people from all social classes and backgrounds. The Brexit Party is an alternative Tory Party. It is Tory-lite.\n\n\"Their light blue colours tell you everything you need to know about it.\"\n\nOnly three of the 24 UKIP MEPs elected in 2014 have been selected to represent the party again, with the majority having since left the party.\n\nMr Batten has been criticised for selecting and then defending Carl Benjamin, a candidate in the South West of England who posted a message on Twitter in 2016 saying he \"would not even rape\" the Labour MP Jess Phillips.\n\nHe has described the comments as \"satire\" and said they should be seen in the context of Mr Benjamin's self-appointed stance as a freedom of speech campaigner.", "The failed bid to merge with rival Asda cost Sainsbury's £46m, the supermarket giant has said.\n\nIn April, a proposed merger between Sainsbury's and Asda was blocked by the UK's competition watchdog over fears it would raise prices for consumers.\n\nSainsbury's said that like-for-like sales growth slowed in the fourth quarter, especially over the Christmas period.\n\nIt added it would accelerate investment in its stores and technology.\n\nIn the year ending 9 March, profit before tax fell to £239m, from £409m the previous year.\n\nCosts for the year included the failed Asda bid, restructuring costs of £81m and defined benefit pension expenses of £118m.\n\nRetail analyst Steve Dresser said in a tweet that the second half of the year was \"poor for Sainsbury's really\", taking into consideration \"Halloween, Christmas, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, Comic Relief\" and a \"hot summer in first half too\".\n\nSainsbury's chief executive Mike Coupe was not his usual Tiggerish self when presenting this set of results.\n\nHe gave the impression of someone trying to make the best of a less-than-ideal outcome - which, of course, he was.\n\nIn his ideal world, he would have been talking about the final preparations for the merger with Asda, but that was blown out of the water by the Competition and Markets Authority last week.\n\nInstead, he was left to describe a fairly mundane set of annual results in glowing terms.\n\nThey show a company that is fighting hard on all fronts - trying to compete against aggressive low-price rivals and a resurgent Tesco, while at the same time finding the money to improve its stores, reduce debt and maintain dividend payments to shareholders.\n\nOnce you include restructuring costs and a £46m hit on the failed deal with Asda, statutory profits were down one-third to £219m - a tiny number for a company that has annual sales of £32bn.\n\nSainsbury insiders had warned against expecting a big strategic relaunch, a Plan B after the Asda failure.\n\nShareholders will still be disappointed that there wasn't one, and will no doubt be pressing hard on whether - or rather when - it will emerge.\n\nChief executive Mike Coupe told the BBC's Today programme: \"Well, we draw a line under the past... The authorities blocked the [Asda] deal, but we think our business is adapting to the changing world of retail, and we will will carry on investing in our business.\"\n\nMr Coupe said Sainsbury's would invest in 400 supermarkets over the next year and would continue to put money into online sales.\n\nThe investment will include refurbishment of some big stores, including Hedge End near Southampton.\n\nHe added that he would be \"sticking to the company\" when questioned about whether he had been asked to step down after the failed merger.\n\nOn a media call, he said \"I'm planning to stay,\" adding that shareholders and the board had been supportive.\n\nSainsbury's shares took a big tumble in February after a preliminary decision against the merger by the competition watchdog, falling from 287.9p per share to 234.5p over the course of a day.\n\nThe share price dipped as low as 216p in the last week of April.\n\nLaith Khalaf, a senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"The market's been worried about Sainsbury's ever since the tie-up with Asda fell through, and while underlying performance hasn't been stellar, the supermarket's beaten expectations, and that's provided the share price with a much-needed fillip.\n\n\"However, it's a bit premature to pop any champagne corks just yet.\"\n\nHe said one-off costs had led to a \"steep decline\" in reported profits, adding that \"the supermarket's debt pile also looks pretty high, though the good news is the pension scheme has moved into surplus\".\n\nMr Khalaf added: \"Perhaps most concerning is that sales growth is flatlining at best. In some bits of the business, notably clothing and general merchandise, sales are in retreat. Of course, this all contrasts with a resurgent Tesco, which makes Sainsbury's sales performance look pallid by comparison.\"", "Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange is currently jailed in the UK, and is fighting extradition to the United States on espionage charges.\n\nThe 48-year-old Australian was arrested in April 2019 at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he had been staying since 2012.\n\nHe sought asylum at the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden on a rape allegation that he denied.\n\nAfter his arrest, he was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions and is currently being held at Belmarsh prison in London.\n\nAn investigation into the 2010 rape allegation has now been dropped by Swedish prosecutors.\n\nBelow is more information on how events have unfolded:\n\nJulian Assange arrives in Sweden on a speaking trip partly arranged by \"Miss A\", a member of the Christian Association of Social Democrats. He has not met \"Miss A\" before but reports suggest they have arranged in advance that he can stay at her apartment while she is out of town for a few days.\n\n\"Miss A\" and Mr Assange attend a seminar by the Social Democrats' Brotherhood Movement on \"War and the role of media\", at which the Wikileaks founder is the key speaker. The two reportedly have sex that night.\n\nMr Assange reportedly has sex with a woman he met at the seminar on 14 August, identified as \"Miss W\".\n\nSome time between 17 and 20 August, \"Miss W\" and \"Miss A\" are in contact and apparently share with a journalist the concerns they have about aspects of their sexual encounters with Mr Assange.\n\nMr Assange applies for a residence permit to live and work in Sweden. He hopes to create a base for Wikileaks there, because of the country's laws protecting whistleblowers.\n\nThe Swedish Prosecutor's Office issues an arrest warrant for Mr Assange based on allegations of rape and molestation.\n\nBoth women reportedly say that what started as consensual sex became non-consensual.\n\nWikileaks quotes Mr Assange as saying the accusations are \"without basis\" and that their appearance \"at this moment is deeply disturbing\".\n\nA later message on the Wikileaks Twitter feed says the group has been warned to expect \"dirty tricks\".\n\n\"I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape,\" says one of Stockholm's chief prosecutors, Eva Finne.\n\nProsecutors say the investigation into the molestation allegation will continue, but it is not a serious enough crime for an arrest warrant.\n\nThe lawyer for the two women, Claes Borgstrom, lodges an appeal against this decision to a special department in the public prosecutions office.\n\nMr Assange is questioned by police in Stockholm and formally told of the allegations against him, according to his lawyer at the time, Leif Silbersky. The activist denies the allegations.\n\nSweden's Director of Prosecution Marianne Ny says she is reopening the rape investigation against Mr Assange.\n\n\"Considering information available at present, my judgement is that the classification of the crime is rape,\" she says.\n\nThe Wikileaks founder (an Australian citizen) is denied residency in Sweden. No reason is given, although an official on Sweden's Migration Board tells the AFP news agency \"he did not fulfil the requirements\".\n\nStockholm District Court approves a request to detain Mr Assange for questioning on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. Ms Ny says he has not been available for questioning.\n\nBy this time Mr Assange has travelled to London. His British lawyer, Mark Stephens, says his client offered to be interviewed at the Swedish embassy in London or Scotland Yard or via videolink. He accuses Ms Ny of \"abusing her powers\" in insisting that Mr Assange return to Sweden.\n\nSwedish police issue an international arrest warrant for Mr Assange via Interpol.\n\nThe Wikileaks founder gives himself up to British police and is taken to an extradition hearing. He is remanded in custody pending another hearing.\n\nMr Assange is granted bail by the High Court and is freed after his supporters pay £240,000 in cash and sureties.\n\nMr Assange held up a court document to the media after he was released on bail\n\nA British court rules that Mr Assange should be extradited to Sweden.\n\nLawyers lodge papers at the High Court for an appeal against extradition.\n\nThe High Court upholds the decision to extradite Mr Assange.\n\nMr Assange wins the right to petition the UK Supreme Court directly after judges rule that his case raised \"a question of general public importance\".\n\nThe Supreme Court rules that he should be extradited to Sweden.\n\nEcuador's foreign minister says Mr Assange has applied for political asylum at Ecuador's embassy in London.\n\nEcuador's foreign minister claims the UK has issued a \"threat\" to enter the Ecuadorean embassy in London to arrest Mr Assange. The Foreign Office says it reminded Ecuador that it has the power to revoke the diplomatic immunity of an embassy on UK soil and says Britain has a legal obligation to extradite him.\n\nEcuador grants asylum to Mr Assange, saying there are fears his human rights might be violated if he is extradited. Mr Assange describes it as a \"significant victory\", but the UK government expresses its disappointment.\n\nMr Assange spoke to the media and his supporters from the Ecuadorean embassy in August 2012\n\nThe UK insists it will not grant Mr Assange \"safe passage\" to Ecuador as it seeks a diplomatic solution. Downing Street says the government is legally obliged to extradite him to Sweden.\n\nNine people who put up bail sureties for Mr Assange are ordered by a judge to pay thousands of pounds each after his failure to appear in court.\n\nEcuador's ambassador says Mr Assange has a chronic lung infection \"which could get worse at any moment\". The embassy says it has sought assurances Mr Assange will not be arrested if he is taken to hospital.\n\nMr Assange says he will leave London's Ecuadorean embassy \"soon\" after two years of refuge. He does not clarify when he will depart but says it is \"probably not\" for the reasons reported in the UK press. Stories had suggested he required medical treatment.\n\nSwedish prosecutors drop their investigation into one accusation of sexual molestation and one of unlawful coercion against Mr Assange because they have run out of time to question him. The more serious allegation of rape is not due to expire until 2020.\n\nScotland Yard announces it will no longer be sending officers to stand guard outside the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Officers had been there since 2012, at an estimated cost of more than £12m.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says the effort is \"no longer believed proportionate\" but it will be deploying \"a number of overt and covert tactics to arrest\" Mr Assange.\n\nA United Nations panel rules that Mr Assange should be allowed to walk free and be compensated for his \"deprivation of liberty\".\n\nThe UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention says the Wikileaks founder has been arbitrarily detained by UK and Swedish authorities since his arrest in 2010, and the detention violates his human, civil and political rights.\n\nMr Assange hails it a \"significant victory\" and calls the decision \"binding\" - but UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond brands the ruling \"ridiculous\".\n\nThe UK Foreign Office says the report \"changes nothing\" and it will \"formally contest the working group's opinion\".\n\nBefore the ruling, police said he would still be arrested if he left the embassy.\n\nSweden's chief prosecutor Ingrid Isgren travels to London to question Mr Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy.\n\nMs Isgren listened as the questions were put to him by an Ecuadorean prosecutor, under an agreement worked out with Ecuador.\n\nOutgoing US President Barack Obama commutes the prison sentence given to US army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks.\n\nMr Assange says he stands by his offer to agree to be extradited to the US if Mr Obama granted clemency to Manning.\n\nUS Attorney General Jeff Sessions says arresting Mr Assange is a priority. No charges have been filed against him in the US, but American media outlets report that federal prosecutors are considering charges.\n\nChelsea Manning is released from Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas.\n\nSweden's director of public prosecutions announces that the rape investigation into Mr Assange is being dropped.\n\nThe Ecuadorean government confirms Mr Assange was granted Ecuadorean citizenship in December and asks the UK to recognise him as a diplomatic agent - a move that would give him immunity. The UK refuses.\n\nLawyers for Mr Assange ask for a UK warrant for his arrest to be dropped.\n\nAn arrest warrant for Mr Assange is upheld by Westminster Magistrate's Court.\n\nEcuador says the country's latest efforts to negotiate the departure of Mr Assange from its London embassy have failed.\n\nEcuador removes extra security at its London embassy following claims that $5m (£3.7m) has been spent to protect Mr Assange.\n\nThe UK and Ecuador confirm they are holding talks over the fate of Mr Assange. Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno says he was never \"in favour\" of Mr Assange's activities.\n\nMr Assange is given a set of house rules at the Ecuadorean embassy - which include cleaning his bathroom and taking better care of his cat.\n\nThe cat could often be seen peering out of the embassy's windows\n\nHe is warned that his feline companion could be confiscated and is also told to look after its \"wellbeing, food and hygiene\".\n\nEcuador also says it will partially restore Mr Assange's internet connection.\n\nWikileaks lawyers say its co-founder is going to launch legal action against the government of Ecuador, accusing it of violating his \"fundamental rights and freedoms\".\n\nIt claims the government of Ecuador has refused Mr Assange a visit by Human Rights Watch general counsel Dinah PoKempner, and has not allowed several meetings with his lawyers.\n\nIn a statement, Wikileaks said: \"Ecuador's measures against Julian Assange have been widely condemned by the human rights community.\"\n\nMr Assange's lawyer, Barry Pollack, says his client will not be accepting a deal between the UK and Ecuador to allow him to be released.\n\nThe agreement was rejected over fears it could be used as a pretext to extradite him to the US.\n\n\"The suggestion that as long as the death penalty is off the table, Mr Assange need not fear persecution is obviously wrong,\" Mr Pollack says.\n\nThe passport would allow Mr Assange, who was born in Townsville, Australia, in 1971, to return to the country.\n\nThe Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) confirmed that the government had approved a passport application filed by Mr Assange in 2018.\n\nWikiLeaks tweets that a \"high level source within the Ecuadorean state\" has told them Mr Assange is to be expelled from the embassy within \"hours or days\".\n\nA senior Ecuadorean official says no decision has been made to remove him from the London building.\n\nMr Assange is arrested at London's Ecuadorean embassy by Metropolitan Police officers for \"failing to surrender to the court\".\n\nEcuador's President Lenin Moreno says Mr Assange's asylum was withdrawn after his repeated violations of international conventions.\n\nBut WikiLeaks tweets that Ecuador has acted illegally in terminating Mr Assange's political asylum \"in violation of international law\".\n\nMr Assange is sentenced to 50 weeks in jail after being found guilty of breaching the Bail Act.\n\nSweden reopens an investigation into a rape allegation made against Mr Assange in 2010, which he denies.\n\nThe case was dropped two years before as Swedish prosecutors said they could not progress the case while Mr Assange was still inside the embassy.\n\nEva-Marie Persson, Sweden's deputy director of public prosecutions, said it would reopen because there was still \"probable cause to suspect\" that Mr Assange had committed the alleged rape.\n\nThe US justice department files 17 new charges against Mr Assange, accusing him of violating the Espionage Act by publishing classified military and diplomatic documents.\n\nThe indictment said Mr Assange had \"repeatedly encouraged sources with access to classified information to steal and provide it to Wikileaks to disclose\".\n\nWikileaks tweets that the announcement is \"madness\" and the \"end of national security journalism and the first amendment\".\n\nA Swedish prosecutor says an investigation into an allegation of rape against Mr Assange in 2010 has been discontinued.\n\nDeputy chief prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson says that because so much time has passed since the allegation was made, the evidence has weakened considerably.\n\nMr Assange fled to the UK when the allegation of rape, which he denies, was made in 2010.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An investigation has begun after a defendant doused himself with acid as he was being sentenced in court.\n\nMarc Marshall, 54, was in the dock of Inner London Crown Court after being jailed for fraud when he poured a noxious substance onto his face.\n\nHe is in a critical condition in hospital and a female custody officer who was guarding him in the dock was also treated.\n\nThe Courts Service said it was \"deeply concerned\" about Monday's incident.\n\nThe case is likely to raise searching questions about security in court buildings and how the liquid, which has not yet been identified, was apparently taken into the dock.\n\nMarshall had been carrying a metal water bottle - although CCTV footage is believed to have shown that he had sipped from it as he passed through security.\n\nThe incident occurred at the south London court after Marshall had pleaded guilty to a series of cheque fraud offences involving £135,000.\n\nWhen the judge imposed a sentence of two years and four months imprisonment, Marshall was heard to wail and scream.\n\nAccording to one person who was present at the time, the defendant's face went white and there was a smell of acid.\n\n\"It looked like he had glue on his skin,\" the witness said.\n\nCourt officials ferried water jugs to the dock to dilute the substance on Marshall's face.\n\nIt is thought he had also drunk some of the liquid.\n\nHe was treated at the scene by a paramedic - who is said to have described his injuries as \"life-threatening\" - and taken by ambulance to St Thomas' Hospital.\n\nThe case had already been delayed because Marshall, who has changed his name a number of times, suffered serious medical problems after stabbing himself in the neck when he was arrested by police in 2016.\n\nA HM Courts and Tribunals Service spokesperson said: \"The safety and security of all court users is our priority and we're deeply concerned about the incident.\n\n\"Police are urgently investigating what happened and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said they were called to Court 10, Inner London Crown Court at 12:01 BST on Monday after reports of a serious assault.\n\n\"Officers, London Ambulance Service and London Air Ambulance attended and found a male aged in his fifties was found to have doused himself with a noxious substance.\n\n\"He has been taken to hospital for treatment of his injuries. His condition is critical.\n\n\"A female dock officer was also injured by some of the substance. Her injuries are not believed to be serious and she did not require hospital treatment.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nPotentially one of the most pivotal moments in modern sport occurred not on a track, pitch or court, but in a plush office building in the Swiss city of Lausanne on Wednesday.\n\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) rejected Caster Semenya's challenge of rules meaning athletics' world governing body can restrict testosterone levels in female runners.\n\nIn short, one of the most dominant stars of modern athletics.\n\nA double Olympic gold medallist and three-time world champion over 800m, the 28-year-old South African has won her past 29 races over the distance.\n\nHowever, since her rise from unknown teenager to world champion in 2009, her gender, and possible advantages in her biology, have come under scrutiny.\n\nThe results of gender testing carried out 10 years ago have not been made public, although media reports claimed it showed both male and female characteristics including a higher-than-normal level of testosterone.\n\nThe International Association of Athletics Federations, which runs the sport, proposed a rule to restrict the level of testosterone permitted in female runners in events between 400m and a mile.\n\nWhat are disorders/differences of sex development (DSD)?\n\nPeople with a DSD do not develop along typical gender lines.\n\nTheir hormones, genes, reproductive organs may be a mix of male and female characteristics.\n\nThe term \"disorders\" is controversial with some of those affected preferring the term \"intersex\" and referring to \"differences in sex development\".\n\nWhat next after diagnosis?\n\nMost people with a DSD stay with the gender they were assigned as a baby. However others, who feel their assigned gender doesn't represent who they are, may choose to change their gender.\n\nPeople with a DSD may be infertile and need hormone therapy and psychological support to help them come to terms with their condition.\n\nWhat about elite athletes like Semenya?\n\nResearch commissioned by the IAAF showed in 2017 that female athletes with elevated testosterone had \"a competitive advantage\", claiming that high testosterone was responsible for as much as 3% improvement in runners.\n\nHowever those findings were contested by Semenya and her team.\n\nThey claim it is not clear how much DSD athletes benefit from their naturally higher levels of testosterone.\n\nDuring the early 1990s, Spanish hurdler Maria Jose Martinez-Patino successfully fought against a ban imposed after she was discovered to have XY chromosomes typically seen in men.\n\nShe demonstrated that her condition made her insensitive to the 'excess' testosterone in her blood.\n\nWhy is Semenya's case so important?\n\nSport has traditionally been divided into male and female categories, but Semenya's case and the science it has brought to the fore shows it may be an artificially binary distinction.\n\nIt had been suggested that, had the verdict gone against the IAAF, athletics might have introduced an 'open' category that men and women could, in theory, compete in side by side, and a 'protected' category based on hormone levels, rather than gender.\n\nAnd what about the future for Semenya now she has lost the case?\n\nA leading sport scientist has suggested she would be five to seven seconds slower over 800m if she reduces her testosterone in line with the proposed limits.\n\nShe could change to a longer distance. She has run the 5,000m twice this season, winning on both occasions.", "Police and health and safety officials are investigating the incident\n\nA teenage boy has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after being hit by a falling tree branch while on his way to school.\n\nThe incident happened on a footpath near Ysgol Bryn Elian in Old Colwyn, Conwy county, at about 08:55 BST.\n\nAn air ambulance took the boy to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool at 10:25.\n\nAn investigation by the Health and Safety Executive has been launched.\n\nNorth Wales Police has cordoned off an area of Llanelian Road while the investigation is ongoing.\n\nCh Insp Owain Llewelyn said: \"Although the boy sustained a number of serious injuries, they are not now thought to be life-changing or threatening.\n\n\"The boy is receiving the hospital treatment he needs and we wish him all the best with his recovery.\n\n\"I would also like to again thank everyone who assisted this morning, their quick response was greatly appreciated.\"\n\nPolice, firefighters and paramedics were called to the scene shortly before 09:00\n\nYsgol Bryn Elian tweeted: \"We can confirm that an incident has taken place this morning at Ysgol Bryn Elian involving one pupil.\n\n\"The fire service, police, ambulance and air ambulance were all in attendance. The school remain in contact with the family.\"\n\nConwy council said it has been informed and was offering support to the school.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Clashes have broken out between police and protesters as \"yellow vest\" demonstrators and labour unions held a traditional May Day rally.\n\nDozens of people were injured and more than 300 arrested, as so-called \"black block\" protesters in dark clothes and face masks also took to the streets.\n\nSome protesters smashed shop windows and threw projectiles at the police, who responded with tear gas and water cannon.\n\nIt follows months of demonstrations by the \"yellow vests\" or \"gilets jaunes\", whose original protests about fuel prices have expanded to wider complaints about economic inequality.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has made a series of concessions to the movement - most recently with a wave of tax cuts.", "Julian Assange pumped his fist at photographers as he arrived at Southwark Crown Court ahead of the hearing\n\nWikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions.\n\nThe 47-year-old was found guilty of breaching the Bail Act last month after his arrest at the Ecuadorian Embassy.\n\nHe took refuge in the London embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, which he has denied.\n\nIn a letter read to the court, Assange said he had found himself \"struggling with difficult circumstances\".\n\nHe apologised to those who \"consider I've disrespected them\", a packed Southwark Crown Court heard.\n\n\"I did what I thought at the time was the best or perhaps the only thing that I could have done,\" he said.\n\nIn mitigation, Mark Summers QC said his client was \"gripped\" by fears of rendition to the US over the years because of his work with whistle-blowing website Wikileaks.\n\n\"As threats rained down on him from America, they overshadowed everything,\" he said.\n\nSentencing him, Judge Deborah Taylor told Assange it was difficult to envisage a more serious example of the offence.\n\n\"By hiding in the embassy you deliberately put yourself out of reach, while remaining in the UK,\" she said.\n\nShe said this had \"undoubtedly\" affected the progress of the Swedish proceedings.\n\nHis continued residence at the embassy and bringing him to justice had cost taxpayers £16m, she added.\n\n\"Whilst you may have had fears as to what may happen to you, nonetheless you had a choice, and the course of action you chose was to commit this offence,\" she concluded.\n\nAs Assange was taken down to the cells, he raised a fist in defiance to his supporters in the public gallery behind him.\n\nThey raised their fists in solidarity and directed shouts of \"shame on you\" towards the court.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Wikileaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson said the sentence was an \"outrage\".\n\nThe extradition process was now the \"big fight\" and would be \"a question of life and death\" for Assange, he said.\n\n\"It's also a question of life and death for a major journalist principle,\" he told reporters.\n\nI apologise unreservedly to those who consider that I have disrespected them by the way I have pursued my case.\n\nThis is not what I wanted or intended.\n\nI found myself struggling with terrifying circumstances for which neither I nor those from whom I sought advice could work out any remedy.\n\nI did what I thought at the time was the best and perhaps the only thing that could be done - which I hoped might lead to a legal resolution being reached between Ecuador and Sweden that would protect me from the worst of my fears.\n\nI regret the course that this took; the difficulties were instead compounded and impacted upon very many others.\n\nWhilst the difficulties I now face may have become even greater, nevertheless it is right for me to say this now.\n\nAssange now faces US federal conspiracy charges related to one of the largest leaks of government secrets.\n\nThe UK will decide whether to extradite Assange to the US in response to allegations that he conspired with former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to download classified databases.\n\nHe faces up to five years in a US prison if convicted.\n\nWikileaks has published thousands of classified documents covering everything from the film industry to national security and war.\n\nAs Julian Assange arrived at court from Belmarsh High Security prison, photographers got a picture of him defiantly pumping his fist.\n\nHe's still got a beard but it's been trimmed - it's not the white, bushy beard he was wearing when he was hauled out of the Ecuadorean Embassy last month.\n\nThere's big international interest, and more than a dozen TV cameras outside.\n\nJournalists had to queue for two hours before the case opened to get a ticket to Court Number One, or to an overflow court where there was a videolink to the live proceedings.\n\nSupporters of Assange are outside court making their voices heard - one has been reading from her notes saying Assange is a political prisoner.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video footage shows Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorian embassy\n\nAustralian-born Assange was dramatically arrested by UK police on 11 April after Ecuador abruptly withdrew its asylum.\n\nAt a court hearing that same day, he was remanded in custody and called a \"narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interest\" by district judge Michael Snow.\n\nDays later, Swedish prosecutors said they were considering reopening the investigation into rape and sexual assault allegations against him.\n\nAt the time, Assange said he had had entirely consensual sex with two women while on a trip to Stockholm to give a lecture.\n\nProsecutors dropped the rape investigation in 2017 because they were unable to formally notify him of allegations while he was staying in the embassy.\n\nTwo other charges of molestation and unlawful coercion had to be dropped in 2015 because time had run out.\n\nMore than 70 UK MPs and peers have signed a letter urging Home Secretary Sajid Javid to ensure Assange faces authorities in Sweden if they want his extradition.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has opened a parliamentary debate, calling on MPs to declare a national climate emergency on climate change.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey said this is \"the first step towards taking more radical action\".\n\nLabour is also calling on the government to commit to achieving net zero emissions before 2050.\n\nThe UK is currently committed to reducing carbon emissions by 80% compared to 1990 levels by 2050.\n\nThe debate in Parliament comes after a series of protests by the environmental activists Extinction Rebellion.\n\nThe group described a meeting with Environment Secretary Michael Gove on Tuesday as \"very disappointing\" because he refused to declare a climate emergency.\n\nMr Gove said he \"shared their high ideals\" to tackle climate change but added that \"we should show that we're making a difference rather than simply telling everyone how important it is to change\".\n\nThe Welsh and Scottish governments have both declared a climate emergency, along with dozens of towns and cities, including Manchester and London.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme Ms Long Bailey said Labour wanted the government to establish a target for net zero emissions \"well before\" 2050.\n\nShe also called for \"a green industrial revolution\" to \"harness the huge economic potential that low carbon and renewable technology will bring\" such as onshore and offshore wind and tidal technology.\n\n\"This isn't just about tackling climate change it is a huge economic opportunity to rebuild Britain,\" she said.\n\nThousands of Scottish school pupils took part in climate protests last month\n\nDozens of towns and cities across the UK have already declared \"a climate emergency\".\n\nThere is no single definition of what that means but many local areas say they want to be carbon-neutral by 2030.\n\nSome councils have promised to introduce electric car hubs or build sustainable homes to try to achieve that goal.\n\nIt's a much more ambitious target than the UK government's, which is to reduce carbon emissions by 80% (compared to 1990 levels) by 2050.\n\nWhat would it mean to acknowledge a climate emergency or climate crisis? Well, it would put the climate at centre stage of government policy.\n\nFor years politicians have devised fine policies on the environment, only to see them fail as other issues jostled to the political fore.\n\nThe UK for instance is legally committed to long-term climate change targets - but it's already slipping away from its medium-term goals.\n\nTransport and agriculture are especially culpable.\n\nEnvironmentalists say it's inconceivable that any government caring about the climate thinks expanding Heathrow is compatible with cutting emissions.\n\nIn terms of how the government is run under an emergency scenario - it would have to move towards the equivalent of a war footing.\n\nThis sounds melodramatic, but it would mean that cutting greenhouse gas emissions becomes a central goal of the UK's economic policy, with all governments taking responsibility - not just the Business Department and Defra.\n\nThis, according to Professor Jim Watson from the UK Energy Research Centre, means a central role for the Treasury.\n\nIt would monitoring emissions as closely as we monitor GDP growth and employment, and ensure that all government decisions are compatible with a net zero pathway.\n\nDeclaring an emergency or a climate crisis could have psychological advantages too: If we keep repeating a phrase it tends to become reality in our minds. That would help keep the climate at the forefront of decision-making.\n\nThere are problem with the emergency definition, though.\n\nFirst, is the slow relentless nature of climate change itself. Can we see climate change as an emergency in the way we accept that, say a flu pandemic is an emergency?\n\nThen there's the timescale.\n\nFrom 1939-1945, a state of emergency won the war. But that was six years of toil and sweat… not 32 years as we struggle towards our 2050 date for eliminating emissions.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nPlans to classify female athletes by their testosterone levels \"contravene international human rights\" says the United Nations Human Rights Council.\n\nOlympic 800m champion Caster Semenya, 28, is challenging the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) over its bid to restrict levels of testosterone in female runners.\n\nThe UN called the plans \"unnecessary, humiliating and harmful\".\n\nThe IAAF said the motion given to the UN contained \"inaccurate statements\".\n\nUnder the IAAF rules, female athletes with naturally high testosterone levels would have to race against men or change events unless they took medication to reduce those levels.\n\nThe regulations will apply to women in track events from 400m up to one mile and require that athletes have to keep their testosterone levels below a prescribed amount \"for at least six months prior to competing\".\n\nThe issue was discussed at the UN Human Rights Council's 40th session in March, at which delegates asked for a detailed report to be put together for a future meeting.\n\nIn the meantime, the body put on record its \"concerns\" with the IAAF proposals.\n\nThe council said it wanted governing bodies \"to refrain from developing and enforcing policies and practices that force, coerce or otherwise pressure women and girl athletes into undergoing unnecessary, humiliating and harmful medical procedures in order to participate in women's events in competitive sports\".\n\nWriting in the British Medical Journal, experts recently claimed the IAAF's regulations risked \"setting an unscientific precedent for other cases of genetic advantage\".\n• None Semenya could miss most of 2019 season\n\nSpeaking in June, two-time Olympic champion and three-time world champion Semenya called the rule \"unfair\", adding: \"I just want to run naturally, the way I was born.\"\n\nThe IAAF intended to bring in new rules on 1 November 2018 but the subsequent legal challenge prompted that to be delayed until the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) had ruled on the matter.\n\nThat ruling was due on 26 March but Cas has postponed it until next month.\n\nA win for Semenya would see her free to continue competing the way she has always done, but a loss means the South African athlete could end up not competing altogether, competing against men or having to take medicine to lower her hormone levels.\n\nSemenya has previously been asked to undertake gender testing by athletics chiefs, but no results have officially been made public.\n\nTestosterone is a hormone that increases muscle mass, strength and haemoglobin, which affects endurance.\n\nHow has the IAAF responded to the UN's motion?\n\nIn a statement provided to BBC Sport, the IAAF said \"It is clear that the author is not across the details of the IAAF regulations nor the facts presented recently at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\n\"There are many generic and inaccurate statements contained in the motion presented to the UN Human Rights Council so it is difficult to work out where to start.\n\n\"The common ground is that we both believe it is important to preserve fair competition in female sport so women are free to compete in national and international sport.\n\n\"To do this it is necessary to ensure the female category in sport is a protected category, which requires rules and regulations to protect it, otherwise we risk losing the next generation of female athletes, since they will see no path to success in female sport.\"", "Pete Wishart said he would release a \"substantial and far-reaching\" manifesto\n\nSNP MP Pete Wishart has announced his candidacy to replace John Bercow as the Speaker of the House of Commons.\n\nThere is speculation Mr Bercow will announce his retirement this summer, although he has not yet confirmed this.\n\nConservative MP Sir Edward Leigh and Labour's Chris Bryant have both voiced an interest in the job.\n\nMr Wishart wrote on Twitter that he would release a manifesto on Wednesday to become \"the first post-war Speaker from beyond the two main parties\".\n\nThe Speaker of the House of Commons is in charge of selecting MPs to speak and keeping order during debates. The position is filled via a secret ballot of members.\n\nThe position is traditionally seen as an impartial role, and the Speaker is expected to resign from their party.\n\nMr Bercow has been in the job since June 2009, and was re-elected unopposed after the 2015 and 2017 elections.\n\nThere is speculation that he will announce his retirement this summer - although he has not spoken about his plans publicly, always insisting he would tell MPs first.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Pete Wishart This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour MP Chris Bryant was one of the first to declare an interest in the job, saying the next Speaker should focus on \"tending to the wounds\" caused by Brexit rows and harassment scandals.\n\nSir Edward - who has represented Gainsborough since 1983 - said he would be a \"traditional speaker\" who did not speak very much.\n\nMr Wishart - who chairs the Scottish affairs select committee - meanwhile said his candidacy would be \"based on a solid agenda of reform seeking to secure equality of all MPs\", saying his manifesto would be \"substantial and far-reaching\".\n\nHis announcement prompted criticism from some independence supporters online, who told Mr Wishart that SNP members should be at Westminster to \"settle up, not settle down\".\n\nBut his party leader, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, defended the move, saying: \"For as long as the SNP is in the House of Commons, we should be trying to make it work as well as we can, and undo some of the barriers that are in the way - we've seen all too powerfully in the Brexit debate how Scotland's voice is not being heard.\"\n\nThere have also been calls for the next speaker to be a woman, with Labour's Gloria de Piero and Tory Nicky Morgan saying in a joint article in the Times that electing another man to the post would be a \"setback\" and a \"missed opportunity\".\n\nDame Eleanor Laing, currently a deputy Speaker under Mr Bercow, has announced her interest in taking up the top job.", "Sarah Handy was discharged from hospital with painkillers then baby daughter Jennifer died after she was born suddenly at home\n\nA mother whose baby died after failures at a hospital at the centre of a damning report has said she still has no faith in its maternity services.\n\nSarah Handy was sent home with painkillers and laxatives before giving birth to Jennifer, who died a short time later.\n\nA highly-critical report said maternity services at Royal Glamorgan and Prince Charles hospitals were \"dysfunctional\".\n\nThe independent review found services for expectant and new mothers were \"under extreme pressure\" with patients' worries often ignored.\n\nIt was prompted by concerns over the deaths of a number of babies.\n\nAfter the report uncovered numerous failings, Health Minister Vaughan Gething put Cwm Taf maternity services into special measures.\n\nMrs Handy said: \"I've lost all confidence and trust in the service. I would be very, very scared to use the services again. There are a lot of questions that need to be answered.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We picked the wrong day to be ill'\n\nMs Handy's case was one of those highlighted in the accompanying report, which carried concerns expressed by women and families over the quality of care they received.\n\nThe review team said her case included at least five failings in how the maternity service responded and dealt with her in April 2017.\n\nMs Handy, from Merthyr Tydfil, wants to see more staff and more safeguards in place: \"Doctors, midwives, across the board really, listening to patients and patients feeling much more valued.\"\n\nSamantha Gadsden said, despite improvements, there were still staffing issues\n\nMeanwhile, doula Samantha Gadsden - a birth companion to pregnant women - said she saw some \"pretty horrible things\" while working in Cwm Taf.\n\n\"Coerced vaginal examinations, lack of informed consent, free-birthing women - choosing to give birth without a midwife - being reported to social services and I witnessed a midwife lose her temper and walk out of a house with a baby without telling the parents,\" said Ms Gadsen.\n\n\"One of my clients was criticised for her choice to free birth while her baby was there fitting in the hospital and she was there still being told off by the consultant.\"\n\nMs Gadsden told BBC Wales she was \"shocked\" the problems have only just come to light, but insists there have been improvements.\n\n\"There was a time when I would literally put my head in my hands knowing I was going to be working in that health board but that is no longer the case.\n\n\"There are new consultant midwives, there's the new birth centre there, so things are changing.\"\n\nUnison Cymru's head of health Paul Summers said there was a problem with staffing levels and a blame culture meant staff had been too scared to speak out - and those that did, did not feel they were listened to.\n\n\"There's a big job to do in rebuilding the trust and confidence of staff,\" he added.\n\nDr Clea Harmer, chief executive at Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, said: \"It is incredibly sad that for so many parents the first time they truly feel their voice has been heard, since suffering the devastation of the death of their baby, is a report into failings at a maternity unit that may have led to that bereavement.\"\n\nShe highlighted the testimony of one mother, who recalled a woman coming in and saying \"'Just to let you know the baby's died.' She didn't break it gently. Then she just walked away.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Western says she is still fighting to find out why her daughter Macie died\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board had already been planning changes and since March, specialist neonatal care is now only provided on one site - Prince Charles Hospital. The Royal Glamorgan still has a midwife-led unit for less complicated births.\n\nChief executive Allison Williams said: \"We completely understand the anxiety people may be feeling and we would encourage people to talk to their community midwife to ensure that they have their questions answered.\"\n\nShe offered a public apology saying she was \"deeply sorry for the failings\" identified.\n\nShe said the health board fully accepted the findings and putting things right was now the organisation's utmost priority.\n\n\"Some of the feedback we have received from patients is extremely distressing,\" she added.\n\n\"I would also like to say sorry to our staff who have felt that their concerns have not been listened to.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bag sold in Aldi in January, left, with the BabaBing bag launched in March 2018\n\nSupermarket chain Aldi has stopped selling a baby changing bag after being accused of copying another company's design.\n\nBabaBing, a Keighley-based child and baby products firm, claims a bag sold by Aldi in January has similarities to one it started selling in 2018.\n\nThe BabaBing bag retails at £49.99, with Aldi's selling for £17.99.\n\nThe retailer said it always listens to feedback and would be happy to meet the firm to discuss its concerns.\n\nBabaBing contacted the supermarket in early January to say its 'Mani' product was \"identical or at least very similar\" to a bag on sale in Aldi during a week-long baby-themed promotion.\n\nThe company said the Aldi bag and its internal items were the \"same size and shape\" as its bag, with similar design features across the two products.\n\nIn response Aldi told the company its research suggested that \"similar bags have been on the market for some time\".\n\nHowever, it said it would not be selling the product again in a future 'Specialbuys' promotion as planned, \"without any admission of liability\".\n\nThe BabaBing (left) and the Aldi bag (right) come with changing mats and bottle holders\n\nNick Robinson, managing technical director at BabaBing, said: \"It's no coincidence, the number of features that are identical to ours - it's not them designing a bag.\n\n\"In my view they've taken our bag and blatantly copied it.\"\n\nWhen asked about the price difference, the company said: \"They're not overpriced, they're very competitively priced and the quality is far better than Aldi.\"\n\nAn Aldi spokesperson said: \"We aim to provide our customers with products of a similar high quality to the leading brands, but at a fraction of the price.\n\n\"We sell a wide range of baby products that are hugely popular with parents and we will consider Mr Robinson's views when planning future ranges.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A BBC Panorama investigation revealed Mr Curry's identity and that his home was in Los Angeles\n\nA man who plotted to dump a vulnerable American pensioner in England so he could be treated on the NHS has been jailed.\n\nRoger Curry, who had dementia, was discovered in a Hereford bus station car park on 5 November 2015.\n\nWorcester Crown Court was told Simon Hayes was part of the plot to \"abandon [Mr Curry] so he could receive care from local health care providers\".\n\nHayes, 53, claimed he had found Mr Curry \"face down\" in a country lane.\n\nMr Curry, who is in his 70s, was found without any identification, but later traced to Los Angeles after an international campaign for information.\n\nSimon Davis QC, prosecuting, said Hayes, of Henlade, Somerset, had told police a \"pack of lies\" which led them on a \"wild goose chase\".\n\nHowever, his motivations for getting involved in the plot remain unclear.\n\nThe court heard Mr Curry was cared for in a residential home for eight months - at a cost to the NHS of up to £20,000 - before being flown back to the United States in July 2016.\n\nMr Davis said Hayes had exchanged a series of texts and calls with \"best mate\" Kevin Curry, the victim's son.\n\nKevin Curry flew with his mother and father to London Gatwick in November 2015, but later left without his father.\n\nMr Davis said it had \"clearly\" been planned to \"dump\" Mr Curry so he could receive care from local health care providers.\n\nHayes, in a fake military uniform and putting on an American accent, took Mr Curry to Hereford bus station, close to the city's hospital, the court heard.\n\nHe told a nurse and paramedics he had found Mr Curry but could not give any contact details because he was \"working with the SAS\" at their nearby camp.\n\nWhile appealing for information, police suspected Mr Curry had been deliberately abandoned.\n\nAfter he was able to provide his name, they tracked down Kevin Curry in California, but he claimed nobody called Roger lived at his address.\n\nSimon Hayes admitted perverting the course of justice in March\n\nHowever, for reasons unknown, Hayes subsequently called West Mercia Police, identifying himself as the man who handed in Mr Curry.\n\nBut he again lied, claiming he and a \"Canadian Army serviceman\" had found Mr Curry, that he lived in Los Angeles, and at the time had been \"attending a course\" at the base, the court heard.\n\nPolice spoke to his father Ken, who Hayes claimed he had been visiting in Taunton. Mr Hayes confirmed his son knew Roger and Kevin Curry.\n\nHayes was arrested and in March admitted perverting the course of justice and a separate case of fraud, in relation to a false character reference.\n\nHe was jailed for two-and-a-half years on Tuesday.\n\nMr Davis said Mr Curry's son was under investigation in the US for elder abuse, fraud and kidnapping.\n\nKevin Curry previously told BBC's Panorama his father had become unwell on a trip to the UK and he had left him with a friend to take him to hospital.\n\nJudge Daniel Pearce-Higgins QC said Hayes' false information caused \"an enormous waste of police and public resources\".\n\n\"I cannot find any case remotely similar to the facts of this case, curiously because there appears to be no apparent benefit to the defendant,\" he said.\n• None The abandoned man with no memory\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The boy told the inquest he did not know how serious allergies could be\n\nA boy who flicked a piece of cheese at a teenager with a dairy allergy who later died did not mean to harm him, an inquest has heard.\n\nKaranbir Cheema, 13, who also had other allergies and asthma, suffered from a severe reaction at his school in west London on 28 June 2017.\n\nHe was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition and died two weeks later.\n\nAn inquest into Karanbir's death heard a piece of cheese landed on his neck.\n\nA boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told Poplar Coroner's Court he did not know why he threw the cheese, describing it as \"immature behaviour.\"\n\nThe court heard he was given it by a friend during break time at William Perkin Church of England High School in Ealing.\n\nHe then threw the piece of cheese at Karanbir - but said he was not specifically his target.\n\n\"After that he just said 'I am allergic to cheese',\" the boy said.\n\n\"I apologised and went to class after.\"\n\nThe boy admitted he did not know how serious allergies could be and thought they could simply cause a rash or fever.\n\n\"I didn't mean to hurt him and obviously I feel bad now\", the boy said.\n\nIn a statement, Karanbir's mother Rina said her son was \"extremely diligent\" at managing his allergies.\n\nInformed that cheese had been put down his neck, she said a consultant at the hospital questioned this because contact through the skin would not cause such a bad reaction.\n\nGiving evidence, Rajvnder Saini who worked at the school, said an Epipen kept in the school for Karanbir had expired in July 2016.\n\nAn email was sent to the boy's mother in February 2017 to inform her, the court heard.", "A public inquiry has been hearing from victims of the contaminated blood scandal.\n\nThroughout the 80s and 90s thousands of people developed hepatitis C and HIV as a result of 'the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS'.\n\nStephen Nicholls and Carolyn Challis are just two of hundreds that are expected to give evidence.", "On Thursday, voters will go to the polls to elect 462 councillors to Northern Ireland's 11 councils.\n\nBut who are the young people who want your vote?\n\nBBC News NI met the youngest candidates from each of Northern Ireland's largest parties.\n\nTwo of them are canvassing while studying for their A-level exams and one is in her final week of university.\n\nThey spoke to the BBC's Erinn Kerr about moustaches, memes and making a difference.\n\nFull lists of the candidates standing in each council area can be found on the Electoral Office's website.", "Julian Assange is fighting extradition to the US\n\nTo his supporters, Julian Assange is a valiant campaigner for truth. To his critics, he is a publicity seeker who has endangered lives by putting a mass of sensitive information into the public domain.\n\nAssange is described by those who have worked with him as intense, driven and highly intelligent, with an exceptional ability to crack computer codes.\n\nHe set up Wikileaks, which publishes confidential documents and images, in 2006, making headlines around the world in April 2010 when it released footage showing US soldiers shooting dead 18 civilians from a helicopter in Iraq.\n\nBut later that year he was detained in the UK - and later bailed - after Sweden issued an international arrest warrant over allegations of sexual assault.\n\nSwedish authorities wanted to question him over claims that he had raped one woman and sexually molested and coerced another in August 2010, while on a visit to Stockholm to give a lecture.\n\nHe says both encounters were entirely consensual, and a long legal battle ensued which saw him seek asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London to avoid extradition.\n\nAfter spending almost seven years inside the embassy, Assange was arrested by British police on 11 April 2019. It came after Ecuadorean President Lenín Moreno tweeted that his country had taken \"a sovereign decision\" to withdraw his asylum status.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London\n\nThe Wikileaks founder had always argued that he could not leave the embassy because he feared being extradited from Sweden to the US and put on trial for releasing secret US documents.\n\nOfficers removed him from the embassy's premises and took him into custody at a central London police station.\n\nOn 1 May 2019, Assange was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions.\n\nWeeks later, an investigation into the 2010 rape allegation against Assange was reopened by Swedish prosecutors.\n\nAssange gestures with a thumbs up after he was arrested by Met Police officers at Ecuador's embassy in London\n\nLater that month, the US filed 17 new charges against Assange for violating the Espionage Act, related to the publication of classified documents in 2010.\n\nWikileaks said the announcement was \"madness\" and \"the end of national security journalism\".\n\nAs Assange prepared to fight against extradition to the US, Swedish prosecutors announced that the investigation into the 2010 rape allegation had been dropped.\n\nProsecutors said the evidence against Assange was \"not strong enough to form the basis for filing an indictment\", ending a case that spanned a decade.\n\nIn April 2020 it emerged that Assange had fathered two children while living inside the Ecuadorean embassy.\n\nStella Morris, a South African-born lawyer, said she had been in a relationship with the Wikileaks founder since 2015 and was raising their two young sons on her own.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julian Assange’s fiancée says she dreaded going public with their relationship\n\nCurrently jailed in London's Belmarsh Prison, Assange's legal fight against extradition to the US continues.\n\nDuring one extradition hearing in September 2020, a psychiatrist said Assange complained of hearing imaginary voices and music.\n\nMichael Kopelman, who had interviewed Assange about 20 times, told the court he would be a \"very high\" suicide risk if he were extradited to the US.\n\nAssange has been generally reluctant to talk about his background, but media interest since the emergence of Wikileaks has thrown up some insight into his influences.\n\nHe was born in Townsville in the Australian state of Queensland in 1971, and led a rootless childhood while his parents ran a touring theatre. He became a father at 18 and custody battles soon followed.\n\nThe development of the internet gave him a chance to use his early promise at maths, though this too led to difficulties.\n\nAfter pleading guilty to \"hacking\", Assange escaped prison on the condition he did not reoffend\n\nIn 1995 Assange was accused, with a friend, of dozens of hacking activities. Though the group of hackers was skilled enough to track detectives tracking them, Assange was eventually caught and pleaded guilty.\n\nHe was fined several thousand Australian dollars - only escaping a prison term on the condition that he did not reoffend.\n\nHe then spent three years working with an academic, Suelette Dreyfus - who was researching the emerging, subversive side of the internet - writing a book with her, Underground, that became a bestseller in the computing fraternity.\n\nMs Dreyfus described Assange as a \"very skilled researcher\" who was \"quite interested in the concept of ethics, concepts of justice, what governments should and shouldn't do\".\n\nThis was followed by a course in physics and maths at Melbourne University, where he became a prominent member of a mathematics society, inventing an elaborate puzzle that contemporaries said he excelled at.\n\nHe began Wikileaks in 2006 with a group of like-minded people from across the web, creating a web-based \"dead-letterbox\" for would-be leakers.\n\n\"[To] keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions,\" Assange told the BBC in 2011.\n\n\"We've become good at it, and never lost a case, or a source, but we can't expect everyone to go through the extraordinary efforts that we do.\"\n\nHe could go for long stretches without eating and focus on work with very little sleep, according to Raffi Khatchadourian, a reporter for the New Yorker magazine who spent several weeks travelling with him.\n\n\"He creates this atmosphere around him where the people who are close to him want to care for him, to help keep him going. I would say that probably has something to do with his charisma.\"\n\nWikileaks and Assange came to prominence with the release of the footage of the US helicopter shooting civilians in Iraq.\n\nHe promoted and defended the video, as well as the massive release of classified US military documents on the Afghan and Iraq wars in July and October 2010.\n\nThe whistleblowing website went on to release new tranches of documents, including five million confidential emails from US-based intelligence company Stratfor.\n\nBut it also found itself fighting for survival in 2010, when a number of US financial institutions began to block donations.\n\nAssange told the BBC that in order to protect sources he would \"encrypt everything\"\n\nCoverage of Assange was then dominated by Sweden's efforts to question him over the 2010 sexual allegations. He said such efforts were politically motivated and part of a smear campaign.\n\nAssange turned to then Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa for help, the two men having expressed similar views on freedom in the past.\n\nHis stay at the Ecuadorean embassy was punctuated by occasional press statements and interviews. He made a submission to the UK's Leveson Inquiry into press standards, saying he had faced \"widespread inaccurate and negative media coverage\".\n\nConcerns over his health also surfaced but in August 2014, but Assange dismissed reports that he would be leaving the embassy to seek medical treatment.\n\nAssange later complained to the UN that he was being unlawfully detained as he could not leave the embassy without being arrested.\n\nIn February 2016, a UN panel ruled in his favour, stating that he had been \"arbitrarily detained\" and should be allowed to walk free and compensated for his \"deprivation of liberty\".\n\nAssange dismissed reports in 2014 that he would be leaving the embassy to seek medical treatment\n\nAssange hailed it a \"significant victory\" and called the decision \"binding\", leading his lawyers to call for the Swedish extradition request to be dropped immediately.\n\nThe ruling was not legally binding on the UK, however, and the UK Foreign Office responded by saying it \"changes nothing\".\n\nIn 2016, Sweden's chief prosecutor Ingrid Isgren travelled to the Ecuadorean embassy in London to question Assange over the 2010 rape allegation. Prosecutors had already dropped their investigation into the sexual assault allegations after running out of time to question him and bring charges.\n\nSince Sweden dropped its investigation into Assange, the European Arrest Warrant for him no longer stands.\n\nBut the Metropolitan Police said Assange still faced the lesser charge of failing to surrender to a court in June 2012, an offence punishable by up to a year in prison or a fine.\n\nAnd it was a warrant based on this charge which led to his arrest in 2019. Citing the warrant issued by Westminster Magistrates' Court on 29 June 2012, the Metropolitan Police said Assange had been \"taken into custody at a central London police station where he will remain, before being presented before Westminster Magistrates' Court as soon as possible\".\n\nMet Police officers dragged Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he had stayed since 2012\n\nThe police said they had been invited into the embassy by the Ecuadorean ambassador.\n\nEcuador's position vis-à-vis Assange changed after President Correa, a strong advocate of Wikileaks, was succeeded in office by Lenín Moreno.\n\nMr Moreno and his government had grown increasingly frustrated with Assange and his refusal to follow the rules they had imposed for his continued stay in the embassy.\n\nIn his video statement, President Moreno said he had \"inherited this situation\" and that Assange had ignored Ecuador's requests to \"respect and abide by these rules\".\n\nFrom the embassy's balcony in 2012, Assange urged the US to end its \"witchhunt\" against Wikileaks\n\nHis decision, Mr Moreno said, followed \"repeated violations to international conventions and daily-life protocols\" by Assange.\n\nHe said that in particular, Assange had \"violated the norm of not intervening in the internal affairs of other states\", most recently in January 2019 when Wikileaks had released documents from the Vatican.\n\nIn a video statement, President Moreno also said that he had requested that Great Britain guarantee that Assange would not be extradited to a country where he could face torture or the death penalty.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joseph McCann, 34, is said to have links to Watford, Aylesbury and Ipswich\n\nA suspected triple rapist being hunted by police may have been mistakenly released from prison, it has emerged.\n\nJoseph McCann, 34, is alleged to have abducted and raped three women in north London and Watford last week.\n\nHe was not - but should have been - referred to the Parole Board before he was released from prison in February, while halfway through serving a sentence for burglary.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said an \"urgent review\" of the case was under way.\n\nMcCann was jailed in 2008 for aggravated burglary after admitting breaking into the home of an 85-year-old man.\n\nJoseph McCann is known to use false names, most recently Joel, the Met said\n\nHe was given an Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection (IPP) with a minimum term, or tariff, of two-and-a-half years.\n\nThis meant the Parole Board had to decide if it was safe to release him once his tariff expired in 2010.\n\nIn 2017 he was released on licence, which meant he could be sent back to jail if he reoffended or breached his parole conditions.\n\nLater that year, while on licence, McCann was arrested and charged with a further burglary.\n\nHe was given a three-year jail sentence.\n\nMcCann's case should have been referred to the board before he was released but in February this year he was dealt with as a \"determinate sentence\" prisoner.\n\nThis meant he was automatically released 18 months into his sentence.\n\nA £20,000 reward has been offered by the Metropolitan Police for information about McCann's whereabouts that leads to his arrest and prosecution.\n\nDetectives described McCann as \"extremely dangerous\" and said people should call 999 if they saw him.\n\nHe is described as white, with a muscular build, a bald head or shaved blond hair, a light-coloured short beard, and the name \"Bobbie\" tattooed on his stomach.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some see him as a reckless 'hacktivist' – others, a campaigner for truth.\n\nJulian Assange lived in the Ecuadorian embassy for seven years and is the man behind whistleblowing site Wikileaks.\n\nAfter being removed from the embassy and arrested, Assange is serving a jail sentence in the UK for jumping bail.\n\nBut why was he there in the first place?", "A church warden murdered a university lecturer and attempted to kill a former headmistress to benefit from their wills, a court has heard.\n\nBenjamin Field, 28, and Martyn Smith, 32, are accused of plotting the deaths of Peter Farquhar, 69, and Ann Moore-Martin, 83, in Buckinghamshire.\n\nOxford Crown Court heard Mr Field and Mr Smith persuaded the Maids Moreton residents to change their wills.\n\nThe pair deny murder and conspiracy to murder.\n\nPeter Farquhar lived at the house circled on the left, and Ann Moore-Martin on the right\n\nProsecuting, Oliver Saxby QC said Mr Field's \"project\" was to befriend a vulnerable person, get them to change their will and then \"make sure they died\".\n\nHe told the court Mr Field and Mr Smith murdered Mr Farquhar, who died in October 2015, and conspired to murder Miss Moore-Martin - who later died from natural causes in May 2017.\n\nMr Farquhar and Miss Moore-Martin lived three doors away from each other.\n\nMr Saxby said: \"The motive was financial gain - laced, as far as Benjamin Field is concerned, with a profound fascination in controlling and manipulating and humiliating and killing.\"\n\nHe said the church warden devised what he called \"exit strategies\" to use drugs and alcohol to make deaths look accidental.\n\n\"If he was to inherit their houses, they had to die. And if he was to enjoy his inheritance, he had to get away with it,\" he said.\n\nPeter Farquhar was a guest lecturer at the University of Buckingham and had written a number of books\n\nThe court heard the church warden \"relished\" his \"project\" and documented various stages in notes and diaries.\n\nMr Saxby told the jury Mr Field killed Mr Farquhar \"almost certainly by suffocating him\".\n\nHe said Mr Field \"tried to kill\" Miss Moore-Martin but his plan \"was cut short\" when her niece became involved.\n\nMr Saxby said Mr Smith, a magician, assisted Mr Field in his plan because \"he was greedy\".\n\nPeter Farquhar changed his will so Benjamin Field would inherit his home, pictured\n\nMr Field also burgled the homes of elderly people and planned to deceive a 101-year-old woman, the jury heard.\n\nThe court heard Mr Field's brother, Tom, defrauded Miss Moore-Martin by \"deceiving her\" into giving Benjamin Field £27,000 which she believed was for a dialysis machine he needed to survive.\n\nMr Saxby said Tom Field \"pretended to be extremely ill\" when he met Miss Moore-Martin.\n\nBenjamin Field, of Wellingborough Road, Olney, Buckinghamshire, denies murder, conspiracy to murder, possessing an article for the use in fraud and an alternative charge of attempted murder. He has admitted four charges of fraud and two of burglary.\n\nMr Smith, of Penhalvean, Redruth, Cornwall, denies murder, conspiracy to murder, two charges of fraud and one of burglary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fiona Onasanya was expelled by the Labour Party after her conviction\n\nDisgraced Fiona Onasanya has become the first MP to be removed by a recall petition.\n\nMs Onasanya, 35, was jailed in January for lying about a speeding offence.\n\nShe was expelled by Labour after her conviction and had been representing Peterborough as an independent.\n\nPeterborough City Council said 19,261 constituents had signed the petition. Ms Onasanya will be allowed to stand for re-election.\n\nThe council said the signatures represented 27.6% of eligible residents. The threshold required to remove Ms Onasanya was 10%.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow confirmed the recall petition had been successful.\n\nHe told MPs: \"Fiona Onasanya is no longer the member for Peterborough and the seat is accordingly vacant.\n\n\"She can therefore no longer participate in any parliamentary proceedings as a member of parliament.\"\n\nMs Onasanya, who was jailed for perverting the course of justice, has become the first MP to be removed by the recall process, introduced by David Cameron in 2015.\n\nShe was first elected to Parliament as a Labour MP with a slender majority of 607 in 2017.\n\nThe process by which the electorate can remove an MP before the end of their term was introduced in the UK in 2015 in response to the 2010 MPs' expenses scandal.\n\nThe recall procedure can only be triggered under certain circumstances, including if an MP is convicted in the UK of an offence and sentenced or ordered to be imprisoned or detained - and all appeals have been exhausted.\n\nFor a recall petition to be successful, 10% of eligible registered voters need to sign the petition. It remains open for six weeks.\n\nIf successful, a by-election is called and the recalled MP is allowed to stand as a candidate.\n\nThe first recall petition against an MP was triggered in July 2018 against North Antrim MP Ian Paisley after he failed to declare two holidays paid for by the Sri Lankan government.\n\nThe petition was unsuccessful, as it was short of 444 signatures, and Mr Paisley remained an MP.\n\nThe petition against Ms Onasanya is the first time a recall petition has been held in England.\n\nA third MP, Chris Davies, Conservative member for Brecon and Radnorshire, is facing a recall petition in Wales after he was convicted for a false expenses claim.\n\nLabour Party chairman Ian Lavery said: \"Labour campaigned hard for a victory in this recall petition.\n\n\"Labour will vigorously fight the by-election here in Peterborough.\"\n\nNigel Farage said his new Brexit Party would contest the by-election, but a spokesman said no decision had yet been taken on whether Mr Farage would be the candidate.\n\nThe by-election in a city which voted 61% Leave in the 2016 EU referendum potentially offers the former UKIP leader a route to a seat in Parliament after seven unsuccessful attempts.\n\nMeanwhile, the former MP George Galloway - a Brexiteer - also declared on Twitter his intention to stand in the by-election.\n\nConservative parliamentary candidate for Peterborough Paul Bristow said: \"The people of Peterborough deserve a better MP who will vote in Parliament to deliver Brexit.\"\n\nFiona Onasanya made her first and last speech in the Commons last week following her release from prison\n\nThe by-election in Peterborough will come in the middle of one of the most tumultuous times in modern political history.\n\nBrexit has shaken up political alliances like never before, but we don't know what impact that will have, and who it will favour.\n\nThe by-election could be an opportunity for the new parties to test the popularity of what they're offering, but the question is what party will they be taking voters from?\n\nAnother possibility is that Brexit has made everyone so fed up with politics that people in Peterborough will just decide not to vote at all, and we will see a very low turnout.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Radford, formerly known as John Worboys, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 23 May\n\nJohn Worboys has been charged with four sexual offences, the Metropolitan Police has said.\n\nThe 62-year-old, who has changed his name to John Radford, was charged on 1 May with two counts of administering a substance with intent.\n\nHe was also charged with two counts of administering a stupefying or overpowering drug with intent.\n\nEach of the four charges relate to four separate individuals between 2000 and 2008 in London, the Met said.\n\nThe force added that the allegations were made in early 2018.\n\nRadford is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 23 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Western says she is still fighting to find out why her daughter Macie died\n\nThe full extent of the problems with maternity services at two hospitals in the south Wales valleys rings out when the voices of women and families are listened to.\n\nAs one said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nWomen repeatedly stated they were not listened to and their concerns were not taken seriously or valued.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised while being cared for at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nOften, their suspicions and concerns were found to have reflected a genuine problem that emerged later, but at the time they were dismissed when they tried to voice their concerns.\n\nA major independent review has found Cwm Taf health board's maternity services were \"under extreme pressure\" and the health minister has ordered them be put into special measures.\n\nIt was prompted by 25 serious incidents, including eight stillbirths and four neonatal deaths, between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThe independent review team has released a separate, damning 78-page report, which shares the views of 140 family members, including mothers about their experiences at the hospitals.\n\nNearly two thirds of women questioned felt they had not had good quality care during their pregnancy.\n\nThe review said: \"Many women had felt something was wrong with their baby or tried to convey the level of pain they were experiencing but they were ignored or patronised, and no action was taken, with tragic outcomes including stillbirth and neonatal death of their babies.\"\n\nOne woman said she felt worthless, adding: \"I'm broken from the whole experience, the lack of care and compassion.\"\n\nOn the care itself, repeatedly the review team heard from mothers who did not always believe the right level of skills and expertise were available at the right time.\n\nThere was a failure to seek a second, more senior opinion, and to escalate concerns, especially with women with complex pregnancies.\n\nOne mother said: \"He told me there was no point calling the consultant on a Sunday as no one would come.\"\n\nAnother said: \"I never saw the same consultant. They didn't know me, and they didn't want to know me. I was pushed in and out of rooms with all sorts of people.\"\n\nMothers faced too many variables in the service offered - from the time of day they used it, to staffing levels and the communication skills of the staff they met.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We picked the wrong day to be ill'\n\nSarah Handy's experience is highlighted in the report as illustrating a number of serious issues.\n\nIn pain, she was begging to see a doctor when she arrived in hospital in April 2017 and was left for nearly three hours without examination before being told it was constipation.\n\nMs Handy, 33, was sent back home to Merthyr Tydfil with laxatives and pain relief and that evening her baby Jennifer was delivered prematurely by her husband and mother-in-law.\n\nDespite their efforts to give CPR to save her life, Jennifer died.\n\nThe review said it showed:\n\nMs Handy said after the report came out: \"Today it's been proven in black and white that we were right to highlight our concerns and push for further investigation into our Jennifer's death.\n\n\"We just wish that this report will now do what it promised and improve the quality of care so that no other family has to go the traumatic experience we went through.\"\n\nOn communication, although individual staff were spoken of as excellent, many women felt during their care this aspect was extremely poor.\n\nWhen concerns were raised, there was a \"significant dissatisfaction\" with how they were dealt with, with dismissive attitudes.\n\nMany women were not listened to or taken seriously, one saying she was \"laughed at\" when she expressed concern.\n\nOther responses included: \"I was never asked, never believed.\n\n\"If only they had asked the right questions.\n\n\"Most importantly, we were not listened to. By the time we were it was too late.\"\n\nThe review said women reported an \"almost callous and brutal use of language\" and disregard for feelings.\n\nWhen one mother was concerned that she may be losing her baby she was told to \"prepare for the worst - it could be a miscarriage\" and then told to go home as \"there wasn't a lot she could do.\"\n\nYounger mothers in particular often felt their concerns were dismissed, which became an \"emerging theme\" for the review team.\n\nThere were failures to apologise, lack of access to notes and comprehensive investigations over concerns.\n\nWith high risk pregnancies, one woman interviewed believed that there was a lack of expertise and that \"anything different from the norm, they didn't seem set up to deal with it\".\n\nAnother described the antenatal clinic as being \"like a cattle-market\".\n\nWhen babies were lost, \"many women and families received no bereavement counselling or support and continue to experience emotional distress\".\n\nOne mother talking about the demand on midwives and doctors in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, said it was \"no way a reflection on them\".\n\n\"They would always spend as much time as possible with me but unfortunately when needs must I was left with some questions but again this was due to staff shortages,\" she said.\n\nAnother said: \"There were so many jobs for one midwife to do and then people wonder why mistakes get made. They are human and are exhausted\".\n\nThe review published two parallel reports into Cwm Taf maternity services and the experiences of mothers\n\nThe review team said it was disappointing that lessons had not been learnt from a review of Furness General Hospital services four years ago.\n\nProf Jean White, chief nursing officer, said: \"It should be a joyous occasion giving birth to a child. Many of the women who shared their stories had care well below the standards we expect and that's not right.\n\n\"I think over time there appears to be a culture that has developed rather than an open culture where people are encouraged to say what's gone wrong, there is a blame culture.\"\n\nIn the words of another parent: \"Listen to women and families and believe what they tell you when they are in pain.\"\n\nThe review team concludes: \"The strong message heard from women and families in Cwm Taf is that they don't want their experiences to happen to anyone else and the importance to them that the organisation learns from these experiences to ensure that improvement and change occurs.\"\n\nCwm Taf chief executive Allison Williams said she was deeply sorry, is taking the findings very seriously but recognised \"significant work\" was still needed.\n\n\"Some of the feedback we have received from patients is extremely distressing and their experience in our maternity service has been totally unacceptable,\" she added.\n\nIf you have been affected by stillbirth, the following organisations might be able to help:", "Free-to-use cash machines have been disappearing at a rapid rate across the UK, according to a study by Which?\n\nNearly 1,700 machines started charging for withdrawals in the first three months of the year, with the majority starting to charge in March, according to the consumer lobby group.\n\nCardtronics, which runs most of those, and fellow provider NoteMachine are both likely to charge at more machines.\n\nThat could mean the country losing 13% of its free ATMs in only a few months.\n\nThe changes come after a reduction in the fee operators receive from banks each time an ATM is used.\n\nLink, which oversees ATMs, began to cut the fee, known as the interchange rate, last year. So far it has reduced the charge from 25p to 23p per withdrawal.\n\nLink said at the time that the move was aimed at protecting the ATM network. It left the fee for free-to-use ATMs - which are 1km or more from the next nearest cash machine - unchanged.\n\nAshleigh Cooper from Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire has seen the number of cash machines dwindle from six down to two.\n\nMr Cooper, aged 60, said: \"It causes real problems especially on bank holidays. There are no banks here anymore. We have a mobile bank that visits every few weeks but that's no good to me.\n\n\"Hebden Bridge is quite a touristy area and there's usually a problem with one of the cash machines going out of order because it's run out of cash.\n\n\"The local cinema here was always a cash business but they're now having to accept digital payments or lose punters.\n\n\"For me it's like going back to the dark ages, it's crazy.\"\n\nATM operators receive the interchange fee from banks each time one of their cash machines is used.\n\nNoteMachine, which operates 7,000 cash machines across the UK, said the cut in the interchange rate meant it was considering introducing fees at up to 4,000 of its machines.\n\n\"Unless urgent action is taken to reduce the pressure on ATM operators by reversing the interchange fee reductions, NoteMachine will be forced to begin converting ATMs to surcharging,\" said chief executive Peter McNamara.\n\nRival ATM machine operator Cardtronics has said it is likely to convert another 1,000 of its ATMs over the coming months. It said it \"had been forced into charging a fee for cash withdrawals on some of our machines where Link's cuts have left us with no choice\".\n\nThere were about 52,000 free cash machines in the country at the start of the year.\n\nGareth Shaw, head of money at Which?, said: \"Communities are being stripped of free access to cash at an alarming rate that could hit the most vulnerable in our society the hardest, while denying millions of people free withdrawals.\n\n\"A regulator is desperately needed to get a grip of these rapid changes across the cash landscape and ensure all those still reliant on this important payment method aren't suddenly shut out from accessing the cash they need in their daily lives.\"\n\nReported charges range from 50p to £1.99 and the situation angered some of the respondents to the Which? survey.\n\nAnita Brakewell, from Blackpool, said: \"Being disabled means I don't have the option of walking to the next free cash machine, so these charges shut me out of cash that's important to my daily life.\n\n\"My town has also suffered from bank branch closures, making it hard to access the cash and financial services I need.\"\n\nAnd Robin Farnsworth, from Kirkcaldy, said: \"I stopped using the local cashpoint when it started charging me just to access my cash. I'm on a very tight budget and can't afford to be spending out just to get the money I need for everyday life.\"\n\nBank of England figures show that 2.2 million people are almost entirely reliant on cash.\n\nAnd last year's Access to Cash study, published in December, found that more than eight million people would struggle to cope in a cashless society, which would present real challenges for 25 million UK residents.\n\nHowever, cash use has halved in the past 10 years and in 2017, debit cards overtook notes and coins as the UK's most popular payment method.\n\nThere is a fierce, three-way, struggle going on over the future of our network of free-to-use cash machines.\n\nThe upstarts are independent operators like Cardtronics and Note Machine which now have the most ATMs.\n\nThen there are the banks. They have to pay the operators each time their customers use a non-bank machine.\n\nFinally, we have Link which runs the network and has been trying to get the operators to accept lower payments from the banks.\n\nTwo cuts to the payments have been pushed through, prompting Cardtronics to say it is being \"forced\" to charge the customer instead.\n\nAnd the backdrop is that we are using less cash, which means fewer withdrawals and less chance that a cash machine will pay its way.\n\nSo it's not clear where this will end.\n\nBut more charging will cause anger and frustration amongst those who depend heavily on cash.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Motorhome owner Alan Nicoll recalls the \"terrible time\" he had during a finance dispute\n\nPolice are investigating claims that a West Lothian motorhome firm duped customers and business associates out of hundreds of thousands of pounds.\n\nBBC Scotland has learned that dozens of Gill's Motorhomes clients are owed substantial sums for vehicle hire bookings that never materialised.\n\nSeveral customers also claim they lost thousands after buying used vehicles that were still owned by finance firms.\n\nAnd two men claim to have lost tens of thousands over a failed franchise plan.\n\nGill's Motorhomes, which has now ceased trading, told BBC Scotland that all of its customers who prepaid to hire a vehicle would receive a full refund.\n\nThe Dechmont-based company, whose sole director is David Gill, also said it aimed to \"recompense\" two businessmen who each invested close to £100,000 in planned Gill's-branded franchise operations in England \"as and when we are able\".\n\nIn a statement, police said they were \"investigating reports of a fraudulent scheme linked to a business in Dechmont, West Lothian\".\n\nAlan Nicoll says he had to pay a finance company £10,000 or lose his motorhome\n\nBBC Scotland traced a number of Gill's customers, all of whom claimed to have lost thousands of pounds.\n\nAlan Nicoll, from East Kilbride, and Fort William-based Ingrid Anderson both bought ex-hire motorhomes from Gill's - only to discover later that the vehicles were still subject to leasing agreements.\n\nIn October Mr Nicoll, 55, paid Gill's a £5,000 deposit for a motorhome before finding out a few days later that there was outstanding finance on the vehicle.\n\nHe said he agreed to pay Gill's the outstanding balance of £32,000 after receiving assurances from the firm that it would clear the debt with the finance company as soon as it received his money.\n\nIn emails seen by BBC Scotland, Mr Nicoll was repeatedly told by Gill's that the issue was being addressed.\n\nBut the finance company did not receive the money.\n\nIn March, it informed Mr Nicoll that Gill's had ceased trading and that it wanted to recover the vehicle.\n\nMr Nicoll said: \"I decided to reach a settlement and paid the finance company £10,000.\n\n\"Between my partner and myself, it was a terrible time.\n\n\"You can understand a business going underneath, but for them to do what they did was just lowlife.\"\n\nMrs Anderson shows the receipt for her purchase of a used motorhome\n\nIngrid Anderson, who is in her 60s, told BBC Scotland that she paid Gill's company Motorhome Hire Scotland £35,000 for a second-hand Bailey Advance 655 in late 2017.\n\nBut when she tried to sell it a few months ago, a dealer informed her that there was still a lease agreement on the vehicle.\n\nMrs Anderson claimed she was later told by the finance company involved that she would have to pay an outstanding balance of £20,500 or it would repossess the vehicle.\n\nShe said she tried to resolve the matter with Gill's but the company went silent at the end of February.\n\n\"I was devastated when I discovered there was a lease agreement on the motorhome and I could lose it,\" she said.\n\n\"My lawyer is currently reviewing the legal position and I have informed the police about my case.\"\n\nIngrid Anderson faces a bill of more than £20,000 in order to keep her motorhome\n\nA statement emailed to the BBC by Gill's Motorhomes read: \"Historically every year since inception we have sold off our ex-hire motorhomes and in the majority of cases we paid off the finance owed on them.\n\n\"Regrettably due to a variety of unforeseen circumstances the business was unable to continue trading and as a direct result of those circumstances it rendered it impossible for us to make the final finance payments on three vehicles.\"\n\nA number of people also came forward to the BBC to say they had lost substantial sums trying to rent motorhomes from Gill's.\n\nDerek Burke paid Gill's £1,472 upfront after being offered an \"early bird\" rental discount on 23 February.\n\nDerek Burke set up an online group for people who lost money after dealing with Gill's Motorhomes\n\nMr Burke, from Burntisland, said he only found out that there might be a problem when he tried to alter the rental dates several weeks later.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"We tried to contact them (Gill's) several times by phone to rearrange the dates, to see if that was possible but there was no answer on the phone.\n\n\"So I emailed them and again there was no answer.\"\n\nMr Burke set up an online group and found others with similar accounts of dealings with Gill's. So far more than a dozen have come forward.\n\nHe said: \"There were several people posting who had booked with Gill's Motorhome Hire Scotland and they couldn't get hold of anyone - the same situation I was in. And they had paid upfront as well.\n\n\"There's an awful lot of anger, as you can imagine.\"\n\nMr Burke has also approached the police over his case.\n\nThis page from Gill's Motorhomes was removed several weeks ago\n\nTwo Spaniards have also claimed to have lost substantial amounts of money in their dealings with Gill's.\n\nXavi Pena, from Barcelona, said that in January he hired a motorhome from Gill's to travel around Scotland with his wife, two-year-old son and parents-in-law.\n\nHe explained: \"We were asked to pay the full amount of £1,800 in order to lock the motorhome.\n\n\"That was clearly a mistake from our side, but we were keen to secure it given that my parents-in-law were travelling all the way from Australia, where they live.\n\n\"About 10 days before our trip I tried to contact the company again in order to agree on the pick-up location and time but they had vanished completely.\n\n\"Their website was not operative, they didn't answer emails or calls. In the end we had to rent another motorhome.\"\n\nSanti Miralda says the company failed to respond after he tried to amend his booking\n\nSanti Miralda, 49, also from Barcelona, said he paid Gill's more than £1,500 upfront in February to rent a vehicle.\n\nMr Miralda, who runs a language school in the Spanish city, said alarm bells started ringing when he tried to alter his booking a few weeks later.\n\n\"I tried to contact them (Motorhome Hire Scotland) to ask for a change and that was when I realised that I had been ripped off.\n\n\"The web page has disappeared and they do not answer any mail or phone calls.\"\n\nBBC Scotland has established that the Gill's Motorhomes' website went offline in early March, with the message: \"Our site is currently unavailable.\"\n\nIn mid-April, a new message appeared, stating that Gill's Motorhome Hire Ltd had ceased trading.\n\nIn a statement, Gill's Motorhomes said it took bookings in advance \"like any other motorhome hire company\".\n\nIt continued: \"All of our customers who prepaid will receive a full refund, indeed most have already.\n\n\"Like any other business associated with travel we provided an 'early bird' discount for customers who paid in advance. We have offered this facility since inception in 2015.\n\n\"We notified our customers via email as soon as it became clear that we were unfortunately unable to continue trading.\n\n\"We provided clear and concise instructions on how our customers could get their money back. Most, if not all, have now successfully followed those instructions.\"\n\nChris Nowell, 56, from Stafford, claims he is about £90,000 out of pocket after signing a franchise agreement with Gill's Motorhomes last year.\n\nHe said the fee of £75,000, plus VAT, included marketing and website costs involved in renting out Gills-branded vehicles in Birmingham from 1 April.\n\nChris Nowell says he has lost about £90,000 over the franchise agreement with Gill's\n\nMr Nowell, who is a former director of JCB, told the BBC that he had concerns back in February about how the franchise was proceeding and began a legal process of withdrawing from the agreement.\n\nHowever, on 1 March he received an email from Gill's saying that it had ceased trading.\n\nHe says he has not received a penny of his money back.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"I feel that essentially I have been duped into taking on the franchise.\n\n\"I feel it was never a properly established franchise, and they weren't in a position to deliver what they promised when they started.\n\n\"I have lost so far a great deal of money but I also feel awful for the other people, particularly the people who were booking through the Gill's website for Birmingham where I was due to open a franchise.\n\n\"They've lost their holidays and they've lost, in some cases, their bookings.\"\n\nAnother \"franchisee\", Alan Amos, says he paid out about £100,000 late last year to take on a Gill's Motorhome hire franchise in Swindon.\n\nHe also claims to have received nothing back from Gill's.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"I have to pay off a £50,000 loan and will have to sell off my house and downsize. I've also got to find a job.\n\n\"I can't figure out where all the money has gone. I have been stressed out in a way I have never been before.\"\n\nIn a statement, Gill's said: \"Two people progressed their intentions to proceed with our franchise model and they had invested funds in that regard.\n\n\"We had a very strong and sustainable franchise model which had been scrutinised by many industry professionals including representatives for both individuals concerned.\n\n\"A substantial investment was made by ourselves in our franchise model but very regrettably we were unable to sustain the costs associated with this business due to unforeseen circumstances.\n\n\"We are deeply disappointed with what has happened and we aim to recompense these people as and when we are able.\"\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"We are investigating reports of a fraudulent scheme linked to a business in Dechmont, West Lothian.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ineos chief Jim Ratcliffe was speaking to the BBC's sports editor Dan Roan\n\nBritain's richest man has called the government's attitude to fracking for gas \"pathetic\", accusing ministers of listening to a vocal minority rather than looking at the science.\n\nSir Jim Ratcliffe, whose firm Ineos is conducting exploratory fracking tests, said the north of England was sitting on potential huge energy resources.\n\nBut restrictions were making it unviable for firms, he told the BBC.\n\nOn Monday, the UK's shale gas tsar resigned after just six months.\n\nNatascha Engel, a former Labour MP, said fracking was being throttled by rules preventing mini earthquakes.\n\nCurrent government rules mean fracking must be suspended every time a 0.5 magnitude tremor is detected. But Ms Engel said the cautious approach to tremors had created a de facto ban on fracking.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said he agreed with Ms Engel's criticism. \"I think the government has been pathetic on the subject, frankly - honestly, I do,\" Mr Ratcliffe said.\n\nThe government was listening to \"a very vocal, but a minuscule, minority of people, and I think there's a high degree of ignorance\".\n\nMr Ratcliffe, whose company is carrying out tests in Nottinghamshire and has exploration rights in Yorkshire and Cheshire, believes the UK could emulate the shale gas boom in the US.\n\n\"America today is self sufficient in oil and gas... and it is because of this new technology, which is extremely safe and well proven,\" he said. With the demise of huge swathes of manufacturing in the north of England, expansion of the fracking industry would be a big creator of jobs, he added.\n\nHe told the BBC's sports editor Dan Roan: \"I feel really strongly that the northern economy is really important to the UK, and fracking has been so successful in America - it's transformed places like Pittsburgh.\n\n\"We've got towns in England which are not the happiest of places at the moment, so it makes me cross when people don't look at the science.\"\n\nIneos and Cuadrilla - which is already fracking for shale gas - have faced major protests from campaigners who say the process is environmentally unfriendly and causes earth tremors.\n\nFracking, or hydraulic fracturing, involves pumping water, sand and chemicals into the ground at high pressure in order to split rock formations and release gas. A number of countries have banned the process, including France and Germany.\n\nThe UK government defended its record on fracking against Mr Ratcliffe's criticism. A spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said the government supports the shale industry \"because we believe it could have the potential to be a new domestic energy source, and create thousands of well paid, quality jobs\".\n\n\"We've worked to develop world-leading regulations based on the advice of scientists and in consultation with industry. We are confident these strike the right balance in ensuring the industry can develop, while ensuring any operations are carried out safely and responsibly,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nMr Ratcliffe has taken over cycling's Team Sky, and the renamed Team Ineos will compete in the Tour de Yorkshire on Thursday. There have been reports that environmental campaigners could protest along the route.\n\nThe billionaire rejected criticism that his move into cycling was an attempt to \"greenwash\" Ineos. \"It's nothing to do with it at all,\" he said. \"The sport is totally different.\"\n\nBut Simon Bowers, of Friends of the Earth, said Ineos's \"highjacking\" of cycling was \"shameless\", adding: \"Ineos's plans for fracking are completely incompatible with fighting climate change. Fossil fuels have no place in sports sponsorship.\"\n\nThe pro-Brexit businessman also dismissed reports about him allegedly leaving the UK to live in Monaco. \"I don't live in Monaco, I can tell you that,\" he said.\n\nBut is he thinking about a move? \"I don't really want to talk about where I live because that's my own private affair. But we have invested £2.5bn in the UK in the last 20 years... and I have never made a penny of profit in the UK. I'm many hundreds of millions short of getting that back.\n\n\"I have made lots of money in the US, Germany and Belgium, but am I supposed to go and live there? It's my private affair,\" he said.", "MPs have approved a motion to declare an environment and climate emergency.\n\nThis proposal, which demonstrates the will of the Commons on the issue but does not legally compel the government to act, was approved without a vote.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who tabled the motion, said it was \"a huge step forward\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove acknowledged there was a climate \"emergency\" but did not back Labour's demands to declare one.\n\nThe declaration of an emergency was one of the key demands put to the government by environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion, in a series of protests over recent weeks.\n\nAddressing climate protesters from the top of a fire engine in Parliament Square earlier, Mr Corbyn said: \"This can set off a wave of action from parliaments and governments around the globe.\n\n\"We pledge to work as closely as possible with countries that are serious about ending the climate catastrophe and make clear to US President Donald Trump that he cannot ignore international agreements and action on the climate crisis.\"\n\nThousands of Scottish school pupils took part in climate protests last month\n\nDozens of towns and cities across the UK have already declared \"a climate emergency\".\n\nThere is no single definition of what that means but many local areas say they want to be carbon-neutral by 2030.\n\nSome councils have promised to introduce electric car hubs or build sustainable homes to try to achieve that goal.\n\nIt's a much more ambitious target than the UK government's, which is to reduce carbon emissions by 80% (compared to 1990 levels) by 2050.\n\nLabour's motion also calls on the government to aim to achieve net-zero emissions before 2050 and for ministers to outline urgent proposals to restore the UK's natural environment and deliver a \"zero waste economy\" within the next six months.\n\nThe Welsh and Scottish governments have both already declared a climate emergency, along with dozens of towns and cities, including Manchester and London.", "The leaflets contained information on Conservative candidates Daniel McNally and Paul Rickett for the East Lindsey District Council elections\n\nA scout leader has resigned after getting children in his troop to deliver election leaflets on behalf of two Tory council candidates.\n\nThe group leader and other volunteers in Lincolnshire, quit after a complaint was made, the Scout Association said.\n\nAccording to the Grimsby Telegraph, the scouts were used by Daniel McNally and Paul Rickett in return for a year's use of allotment space to grow vegetables.\n\nMr Rickett said it was \"nothing more than an innocent decision on my part\".\n\nThe newspaper reported Matt Whall, leader of the Marshchapel scout group, near Grimsby, had apologised in a message posted on the village's Facebook page, saying he had not done it for financial gain but had \"hoped to run a soup kitchen for the community using veg grown in the village\".\n\n\"I did not ask the scouts to distribute leaflets for political gain or promotion but did something purely with the motive to provide an enriching opportunity for the young people in the group,\" he added.\n\nMr Rickett, a candidate in the East Lindsey District Council election, said: \"It is regrettable that, what was, in reality, local community minded people trying to help each other out, has taken on a political dimension.\n\n\"This was never my intention. Asking the scouts to help me leaflet around Marshchapel for me was nothing more that an innocent decision on my part.\"\n\nThe Scout Association said it was \"clear this was a genuine error\" and the leader's resignation prompted other group leaders to quit, but did not disclose how many had left.\n\n\"Members of the movement in uniform, or individuals when acting as representatives of the movement, must not take part in any party political meetings or activities that endorse any particular political party or candidate,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe Marshchapel scout group would continue to operate and volunteers were working to \"minimise the impact to the young people\" in the club, the spokesman added.\n\nMr McNally and the Conservative Party have been approached for a comment.", "Campaigners have lost a High Court challenge against the government's decision to approve plans for a third runway at London's Heathrow airport.\n\nFive councils, residents, environmental charities and London Mayor Sadiq Khan brought the action after MPs backed the plans in June.\n\nThe campaigners said the runway would effectively create a \"new airport\", having a \"severe\" impact on Londoners.\n\nBut judges rejected the arguments, ruling the plans were lawful.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said: \"The expansion of Heathrow is vital and will provide a massive economic boost to businesses and communities across the length and breadth of Britain, all at no cost to the taxpayer and within our environmental obligations.\n\n\"I now call on all public bodies not to waste any more taxpayers' money or seek to further delay this vital project.\"\n\nBut John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, said: \"This verdict will not reduce the impact on local communities from increased noise and air pollution, nor will it resolve Heathrow Ltd's financial difficulties or the economic weakness in their expansion plans.\"\n\nShirley Rodrigues, deputy London mayor for environment and energy, said: \"In challenging the decision to expand Heathrow, Sadiq has stood up for Londoners who have serious concerns about the damaging impact it will have.\n\n\"We will now consider the judgement and consult with our co-claimants before deciding our next steps.\"\n\nCampaigners said a third runway would effectively create a \"new airport\"\n\nThe case was brought against the transport secretary by five local authorities in London affected by the expansion - Hillingdon, Wandsworth, Richmond, Hammersmith & Fulham and Windsor and Maidenhead.\n\nResidents and charities including Greenpeace, Friends Of The Earth and Plan B also joined the action.\n\nThey argued that the government's National Policy Statement (NPS), setting out its support for the project, failed to account fully for the impact on air quality, climate change, noise and congestion.\n\nOutlining the case on behalf of campaigners, Nigel Pleming QC had said the plans could see the number of passengers using the airport rise to an estimated 132 million - an increase of 60%.\n\nBut lawyers representing Mr Grayling said the claimants' case was \"premature\", as they would have the opportunity to make representations at a later stage in the planning process.\n\nLord Justice Hickinbottom, sitting with Mr Justice Holgate, said in the ruling on Wednesday: \"We understand that these claims involve underlying issues upon which the parties - and indeed many members of the public - hold strong and sincere views.\n\n\"There was a tendency for the substance of the parties' positions to take more of a centre stage than perhaps it should have done, in a hearing that was only concerned with the legality, and not the merits, of the Airports National Policy Statement.\"\n\nThe ruling means the government will not have to devise a new NPS and put it to another vote in Parliament.\n\nIt won its first vote by a comfortable majority of 296 after Labour MPs were granted a free vote.\n\nThe decision to expand Heathrow follows almost half a century of indecision on how and where to add new airport capacity in south-east England.\n\nUnder the current £14bn plan, construction could begin in 2021, with the third runway operational by 2026.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWildlife organisations have welcomed new legislation making beavers a protected species in Scotland.\n\nIt is now illegal to kill beavers or destroy established dams and lodges without a licence.\n\nThe Scottish Wildlife Trust said legal protection for beavers was \"an important step\" to enable the species to \"expand its range.\"\n\nFarming leaders have raised concerns about the damage caused to agricultural land from beavers' dam-building.\n\nThe animals were reintroduced to Scotland's waterways a decade ago.\n\nThere are currently about 450 beavers in Scotland, in Tayside and mid-Argyll.\n\nScottish Wildlife Trust chief executive Jo Pike said beavers were \"unrivalled as ecosystem engineers.\"\n\nShe said: \"Granting beavers protected status is an important milestone for the return of the species to Scotland's lochs and rivers.\n\n\"It follows decades of work by countless organisations and individuals to demonstrate the positive impacts that beavers can have.\n\nMs Pike said the trust accepted that land managers must have the ability to deal with \"localised negative impacts\" caused by beavers.\n\nShe said: \"However, it is equally important to ensure lethal control is only used as a last resort, and this does not threaten the successful spread of beavers into other areas of Scotland.\"\n\nFarmer Adrian Ivory said beaver dams cost his business thousands of pounds every year\n\nAdrian Ivory is farm manager at Strathisla Farms in Perthshire. Last year beavers set up home close to his wheat field.\n\nHe told the BBC that the beavers damming on a nearby burn resulted in his crop being destroyed.\n\nHe said: \"The big problem for us with the dams is that it costs me as a business £4,000-£5,000 a year, pulling dams out of watercourses, trying to sort banks out.\n\n\"These are problems that we shouldn't really be having to deal with.\n\n\"We are trying to produce quality food for the population to eat and this is just causing real problems and a cost to my business.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Merseyside Police said the girl remains in hospital with a serious head injury\n\nA two year-old girl has been shot in the head with a crossbow bolt at a house in Liverpool.\n\nThe child was hurt at a home on Oakhouse Park in the Walton area of the city on Tuesday afternoon when a \"crossbow was discharged\", police said.\n\nThe weapon involved has been seized and was being forensically examined, but no arrests have been made.\n\nThe girl remains in hospital with a serious head injury, Merseyside Police added.\n\nDet Insp Sabi Kaur said: \"I am sure the community in Walton will share our shock and distress at the fact a child could have been hurt in this way.\n\n\"Our inquiries are at a very early stage and we are still trying to establish the full facts, but we know it was an isolated incident.\"\n\n\"This incident shows the obvious dangers posed by [weapons] stored in Merseyside.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Gavin Williamson is in the spotlight again, after he resigned from the government amid accusations of bullying and harassment.\n\nFormer chief whip Wendy Morton has handed over a series of expletive-laden text messages from Sir Gavin to Parliament's bullying watchdog and made a complaint to Tory HQ about his conduct.\n\nFollowing a report in the Guardian that Sir Gavin told a senior civil servant to \"slit your throat\" and \"jump out of the window\" when he was defence secretary, No 10 said it would be conducting its own informal investigation.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Sir Gavin said allegations about his \"past conduct\" were becoming a distraction for the government - even though he \"refutes the characterisation of these claims\" and has apologised to the recipient of some text messages.\n\nThis is the third time Sir Gavin has had to leave government, having already been sacked from cabinet twice previously - as education secretary and defence secretary.\n\nHis rise through the Conservative ranks has been blown off course by a number of separate scandals.\n\nHowever, he has been widely seen as a political survivor, serving under four different prime ministers.\n\nThe 46-year-old was raised near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, by Labour-supporting parents.\n\nEducated at state schools, he became involved in Tory politics while studying at Bradford University and later went on to become a county councillor in North Yorkshire.\n\nA former fireplace salesman, he also ran a pottery firm, making and selling ceramic tableware, before being elected as MP for South Staffordshire in 2010.\n\nSir Gavin began his parliamentary career as a ministerial aide to David Cameron, acting as the then-prime minister's bag carrier and eyes and ears at Westminster.\n\nHe remained in this important role until Mr Cameron left office in June 2016.\n\nAfter Theresa May became prime minister, he was made chief whip, responsible for keeping MPs in line and enforcing party discipline.\n\nIn the aftermath of the disastrous 2017 election, he played a crucial role in paving the way for the Conservatives' agreement with the Democratic Unionists to prop up Mrs May's minority government.\n\nSir Gavin Williamson (right) shakes hands with the DUP's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, after the party signed a deal to prop up Theresa May's government\n\nIn his role as chief whip he was known for keeping a tarantula called Cronus on his desk.\n\nDescribing his methods in the whips office, he told the Conservative Party conference in 2017: \"We take a carrot and stick approach... Personally I don't much like the stick, but it is amazing what can be achieved with a sharpened carrot.\"\n\nNick Timothy - a senior adviser to Mrs May - described Mr Williamson as an \"excellent\" chief whip, who was \"a shrewd tactician\" and \"a judge of character\".\n\n\"Even MPs who don't like him admit that he was the best chief whip the party has had in decades - and he did it through some of the hardest years,\" he said in a tweet.\n\nSir Gavin's promotion to defence secretary in November 2017 came as a surprise to some within the Tory Party and the armed forces. He had no military background and little opportunity to build up a public profile because his role in the whips office meant he did not speak in Parliament.\n\nWhile at the Ministry of Defence he lobbied successfully for more funding for the military, often to the irritation of the Treasury.\n\nBut he was derided in the press for telling Russia to \"shut up and go away\", and for suggestions the UK should respond in kind to \"acts of warfare\" by the Kremlin.\n\nHis downfall came after an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting about whether to allow Chinese firm Huawei to help build the UK's 5G network.\n\nSir Gavin denied leaking information from the meeting, but Mrs May said she had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" and sacked him in May 2019.\n\nSir Gavin faced protests from pupils in the summer of 2020 after their A-level results were downgraded\n\nHe was not on the backbenches for long and returned to cabinet as education secretary in July the same year, when Boris Johnson became prime minister.\n\nWhen the Covid pandemic broke out in 2020, the role became even more high profile, with Sir Gavin responsible for tricky areas including home-learning and managing the return to classrooms and exams when schools fully reopened.\n\nHe was widely criticised for U-turning over getting all primary school pupils back in school after lockdown and there were also clashes with footballer Marcus Rashford over his campaign to provide children with free meals during holidays.\n\nPerhaps the biggest debacle was the chaos of the 2020 school exam period, with multiple U-turns over how to grade pupils after examinations were cancelled because of the pandemic.\n\nThis resulted in his department's most senior civil servant and the head of the exams watchdog both leaving their roles.\n\nSir Gavin stayed put until September 2021, when he was replaced by Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nSome argued he had been made a political fall guy - used as a lightning rod for the criticism of how the government had dealt with the challenges Covid posed to education and taking the blame for decisions that were never down to an individual minister.\n\nBut in March, the news he would receive a knighthood for his political and public service prompted anger from some teachers and parents, who blamed him - at least in part - for the mistakes on schools policy during the pandemic.\n\nSir Gavin returned to cabinet as a minister without portfolio under Mr Sunak in October. But it took less than two weeks for concerns to be raised about his appointment following claims he had bullied a fellow Conservative MP.\n\nIn texts sent to then-Chief Whip Ms Morton in the run-up to the Queen's funeral in September he appeared to complain that MPs who were not favoured by Prime Minister Liz Truss were being excluded from the ceremony at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIn the messages, published by the Sunday Times, Sir Gavin reportedly warned Ms Morton \"not to push him about\" and that \"there is a price for everything\".\n\nHe was quoted by the paper as saying he regretted \"getting frustrated\" and was happy to \"work positively with [Ms Morton] in the future as I have in the past\".\n\nNo 10 described the messages as \"unacceptable\" but the prime minister's official spokesman insisted Mr Sunak had full confidence in Sir Gavin.\n\nWhen he resigned, the prime minister said he accepted his resignation with \"great sadness\" but understood his decision to step back.\n\nSeparately an unnamed official at the Minister of Defence said Sir Gavin \"deliberately demeaned and intimidated\" them.\n\nThe official said they raised concerns to the Ministry of Defence's human resources department, but did not make a formal complaint at the time.\n\nSir Gavin did not deny using the language attributed to him but said he \"strongly\" rejected allegations of bullying.\n\nHowever, the pressure of multiple accusations and inquiries became too great, and Sir Gavin was forced to step down.\n\nWriting in his resignation letter, he said he would \"clear my name of wrongdoing\" but it remains to be seen if this consummate Westminster operator can, once again, bounce back.", "Having become the first Indian sprinter to reach a final at a global athletics event in 2013, the 18-year-old was already the national champion at 100m and 200m, and an Asian Games bronze medallist.\n\nSuch was the excitement about her potential that the Sports Authority of India's director general Jiji Thomson described her as a \"sure shot Olympic medallist\" of the future, and a place in a final on her Commonwealth Games debut looked within her reach.\n\nBut then, less than a fortnight before the opening ceremony in Glasgow, she \"failed\" a test that had nothing to do with fitness, form or even doping, and was dramatically withdrawn from the national team.\n\nLike South African 800m sensation Caster Semenya before her, Chand discovered - in bold newsprint - that her natural levels of the hormone testosterone were normally only found in men. It did not take long before reporters were outside her parents' humble home asking them and her six siblings if she was a boy or a girl.\n\nThe third of seven children to a weaver couple from the state of Odisha, Dutee is born on 3 February 1996 Becomes Indian national under-18 champion for 100m when she clocks 11.8 seconds in 2012 Wins a 200m bronze at 2013 Asian Games and is first Indian to reach a global sprint final at the World Youths, coming sixth in 11.62 seconds 100/200m double at Asian Junior Athletics Championships, prompting the Athletics Federation of India to ask for a gender test in July Wins a case in July 2015 overturning her ban on competing\n\nShe has now been cleared to race by a landmark ruling questioning the validity of so-called gender tests around naturally high testosterone levels in female athletes.\n\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) has suspended the International Association of Athletics Federations' \"hyperandrogenism\" rules for two years. The rules will be scrapped if the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) cannot provide new evidence supporting them.\n\nHowever, Chand's career has been on hold for a year, leading to her missing both the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games after she refused to subject herself to the \"corrective\" treatment (hormone suppression therapy and sometimes even genital surgery) prescribed by the IAAF, International Olympic Committee (IOC) and other leading sports bodies.\n\n\"I am who I am,\" said Chand with a mixture of defiance and dismay at the time.\n\nInstead of the sprinter she has spent years training to be, she became the focus of a challenge to sport's rules on gender, a cause celebre and evidence in a scientific debate about testosterone.\n\nConcerns about men masquerading as women to win medals have been around for almost as long as women have been allowed to play sport, which is surprising given how rare it is. In fact, the last case most people can agree on is German high jumper Dora/Heinrich Ratjen. He nearly won a bronze medal at the 1936 Olympics.\n\nUndeterred by the unlikelihood of a man successfully passing himself off as a woman, the IOC started comprehensive \"gender verification\" testing in 1968.\n\nInitially, this was done by asking female athletes to drop their underwear, but eventually a less humiliating method was found: checking swabs of cheek tissue for chromosomes, women being XX, men XY.\n\nUnfortunately, Mother Nature is not as black-and-white as your typical blazer would like his competitions to be, and it turns out there are a dozen different conditions that would once have been lumped under \"hermaphrodite\", but are now referred to by the less pejorative term of intersex, or disorders of sexual development.\n\nSport first cottoned on to this when Spanish hurdler Maria Jose Martinez-Patino was told in 1985 that she was an XY \"man\", but refused to quit or feign injury (as it is widely believed many had before) and spent the next three years fighting ignorance and ridicule to line up alongside women again.\n\nShe got there in the end, proving her Y chromosomes were the product of a rare genetic syndrome. She was also able to show that her condition meant she was insensitive to testosterone: it was in her blood, but it was no good to her.\n\nSadly, Martinez-Patino's most competitive years were behind her. It is not known what happened to the 13 women who \"failed\" gender tests at Olympics between 1972 and 1984.\n\nBut sport seemed to have learned something, though, mainly that it did not know enough about these complicated issues, and by the end of the 1990s gender verification was shelved, apart from in cases of extreme suspicion.\n\nAnd then Semenya burst onto the scene.\n\nA junior champion in 2008, the muscular teenager took seven seconds off her personal best for 800m over the next nine months, breaking the South African record and setting a world-leading time in the process. The IAAF felt \"obliged to investigate\", if only to rule out doping.\n\nHours before the start of the 800m final at the 2009 World Athletics Championships, a race Semenya would win by a huge margin, it was leaked that the sport's governing body had also asked for a gender test.\n\nAfter Semenya's crushing win at the 2009 Worlds, a Russian rival sniped, \"just look at her\".\n\nA young girl with a rare condition, and an even rarer talent, was subjected to a medical examination by media.\n\nSemenya, now 24, returned to racing in 2010, and won silver medals at the 2011 Worlds and 2012 Olympics. But she has never run as fast as she did as an 18-year-old.\n\nBruce Kidd, the 1962 Commonwealth champion in the imperial version of the 10,000m, the six miles, has spent the last half century as a leading academic in the field of physical and health education. The Canadian is also a self-confessed Olympian \"of the old school\", a champion of sport's ability to unite.\n\n\"What a remarkable story Semenya should have been,\" said Kidd.\n\n\"Wouldn't it have been better if the authorities had raised her hand as a great new champion? Instead they hit the moral panic button.\n\n\"There has been a long current in modern sport that there must be something wrong with strong women. In the last 20 years it has become a kind of biological racism.\"\n\nAshamed at the leaks and lack of scientific rigour, but stung by the reaction to Semenya's physique from some quarters, the IAAF asked an expert working group to come up with a plan for women with \"excessive androgenic hormones\", or hyperandrogenism.\n\nAndrogenic hormones are any natural or synthetic substance that control the development of male characteristics - everything from the formation of testes, to male pattern baldness - with the best known being testosterone.\n\nThere is some disagreement over the normal spectrum of testosterone levels for men and women in general, but everybody agrees that typically there is a gap that emerges between the sexes during puberty.\n\nAs we have seen, though, there are some women with conditions that give them masculine amounts of testosterone, which the IAAF's working group, in conjunction with the IOC's Medical Commission, decided was anything above the bottom of the male range, 10 nanomoles per litre (nmol/L) of blood.\n\nIn April 2011, the new rules came into force. From this moment on, a confidential investigation could be made into any athlete where there were \"reasonable grounds\". This could be a complaint from a rival, or as a result of an anomaly in a drugs test.\n\nThe process would be handled by experts, and \"an effective therapeutic strategy\" would be offered to any athlete found to have elevated levels of androgen.\n\nPart of this investigation would include finding out if the athlete is benefiting from the testosterone. As was seen in the Martinez-Patino case, androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) means those elevated levels of the hormone can give a false picture of what is actually happening.\n\nBut while all this is being established, the athletes are ineligible to compete. Sounds reasonable… doesn't it?\n\nPeter Sonksen is a professor of endocrinology (the study of hormones) at St Thomas' Hospital in London. It was his research for the IOC that eventually led to the development of an anti-doping test for Human Growth Hormone, but he is far from impressed with its work on testosterone.\n\n\"They have got it completely wrong with this idiotic rule,\" Sonksen told me.\n\n\"This rule is unfair, gross and unscientific. It is clear discrimination.\"\n\nSonksen's main objection to the 10 nmol/L threshold is that the research he did for his HGH study found 16% of his male athletes had lower than expected testosterone, whereas 13% of his female athletes had high levels of testosterone \"with complete overlap between the sexes\".\n\nIn other words, the gap that exists for testosterone between men and women in the general population does not exist among elite athletes.\n\nThis research has been leapt upon by a growing body of campaigners who question the premise that testosterone is a significant factor in any discussions about differences between the sexes' athletic performances.\n\nFor them, men's greater height, leaner body mass, narrower hips and higher counts of oxygen-carrying red blood cells are all more persuasive than testosterone.\n\nBut this is where we enter disputed territory, and a number of experts reacted angrily to what they saw as the misuse of Sonksen's HGH data. For them, there is little doubt of testosterone's impact, although most admit it is part of the mix, as opposed to being the only ingredient.\n\nDavid Epstein is an award-winning writer for the US magazine Sports Illustrated, but he is perhaps better known as the author of \"The Sports Gene\", a myth-debunking look at \"nature versus nurture\".\n\nThe book details the many physical differences between men and women, including testosterone, which, when you add them all up, explain why unisex sport is a non-starter for most athletic pursuits. As he explains, elite men's running times are about 11% faster than women's, with even bigger differences in jumping and throwing.\n\n\"For lots of good reasons, we have decided to have a class of athletes who aren't men,\" Epstein explained.\n\n\"But biological sex is not binary. That means whichever line you draw between men and women it is going to be arbitrary.\"\n\nFor now, Epstein agrees with the IAAF's experts that testosterone is probably \"the best line we can draw\", although he would prefer it if those experts at least admitted they were making an educated guess.\n\nJoanna Harper is a medical physicist based in Oregon who could run two-hour-23-minute marathons as \"a young man\", but is now an age-group national champion as \"an old lady\".\n\nAs part of her sex change in 2004, she had therapy to suppress her testosterone levels. For her, there is no real argument about testosterone's effect.\n\n\"Women's sport is like a testosterone-handicap event,\" Harper told me.\n\n\"But you cannot have women's equality without women's sport, so you have a dilemma with no perfect solution.\"\n\nThere are two things that everybody does agree on: the women in question deserve to be treated with sensitivity and in confidence, and any consent they give to treatment must be informed.\n\nA 2013 report revealed that four female athletes from \"developing countries\" had recently come to France for hormone therapy and extensive genital surgery. These cases were dealt with anonymously, and as far as anybody knows they are still competing.\n\nBut confirmation that young women are being operated on to comply with sport's rules on what \"normal\" female genitalia should look like has provoked outrage. Are male athletes subjected to the same scrutiny?\n\nThe details of Chand's condition have not been published or leaked, thankfully, but it is believed she was offered hormone therapy and \"feminising\" surgery.\n\nIt is ironic then that her failure to tick the \"anonymity box\" on her test form saved Chand from being rushed into medical procedures a probably traumatised teenager cannot be expected to understand. The media attention she has received has been intrusive at times, but it also alerted intersex campaigners to her fate.\n\nThe first person to come to Chand's aid was Dr Payoshni Mitra, a researcher on gender issues, and she helped galvanise opinion behind taking Chand's case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\n\"We were able to convince (the Sports Authority of India) that these rules are unethical and need to be abolished,\" said Mitra. \"Institutionalised genital mutilation is just scary.\"\n\nChand's challenge was filed at CAS last October, with the SAI paying the bill. Her supporters hoped to get her reinstated immediately and the IAAF rules ripped up within six months. An online \"Let Dutee Run\" campaign got 5,646 signatures and the Indian media massed behind her.\n\nIn the end it was late July 2015 when Chand won her case and was allowed to run once more, with the IAAF \"hyperandrogenism\" rules suspended for two years pending further investigation.\n\nIt is impossible to research Chand's story without developing huge sympathy for the position she found herself in. Her life was turned upside down.\n\nIt is also clear that elite sport has always been about unfair advantages, be they Usain Bolt's long legs, Michael Phelps's out-of-proportion wingspan, or Sir Bradley Wiggins's cardiovascular system. Sport is not fair.\n\nBut if women's sport is to have meaning there must be some boundaries. And if testosterone is so irrelevant, how do we explain the fact that many of the best performances ever achieved by women came during an era when they were pumped full of it as part of an ideological struggle between East and West?\n\nThere are no easy answers here.\n\nAs Harper, with her special insight into testosterone's effect, puts it: \"A level playing field is probably impossible to ever achieve, but a more level playing field is worth striving for.\"\n\nThis feature was first published in October 2014 and updated in the wake of Dutee Chand being cleared to race on 27 July 2015.", "Baby orangutans on the island of Sumatra are being captured and sold as pets, but charities are working to rescue the animals and confront the owners.\n\nThis is a series about the animals of Indonesia's Leuser rainforest and the people trying to save them. Leuser is one of the most biodiverse places on earth.\n\nPart one of a five part series.\n\nAdditional camerawork and production support by Shinta Retnani, Haryo Wirawan and Irendra Radjawali.\n\nFind out more about why palm oil is so controversial.", "Three gang rappers, along with two other men, have been jailed for killing a teenager in Ipswich.\n\nA rivalry between two gangs, played out in music videos posted on YouTube, resulted in the murder of 17-year-old Tavis Spencer-Aitkens.\n\nHe was stabbed 15 times on 2 June in retaliation for a clash between the Neno and J-Block gangs earlier that day.\n\nPassing sentence at Ipswich Crown Court, judge Martyn Levett said: \"When they identified their target, they chased him, hunted him down as a pack and set upon him in a pitiless attack.\"\n\nYou can hear a special documentary about this story on BBC Sounds.", "As a relatively new defence secretary, Gavin Williamson once said that Russia should \"go away and shut up\".\n\nWell, the prime minister has told him to go away because in her view, he did not shut up.\n\nIn a leak investigation, that has broken the precedent of most leak investigations that end up with precisely no result at all, a rapid hunt of just a few days has resulted in the sacking of one of the most senior ministers in government, and one of the few ministers frankly, that the prime minister could more or less rely on.\n\nMr Williamson was for a while chief whip too, the keeper of the government's secrets.\n\nAnd, crucially, one of the few ministers who had good relations with the DUP. Indeed, brokering a deal on Theresa May's behalf in the wreckage of the 2017 general election.\n\nBut there was also a lot of resentment and frustration in government circles at how he sometimes behaved, suspicion often that he was too quick to seek his own political advantage, too interested in his own future, too entertained by the dark arts of Westminster.\n\nThat meant that as soon as the Huawei story broke, fingers were being privately pointed to him as the source of the leak. \"Operation get Gav\", as one of his allies described it.\n\nMinisters were quick to write to Number 10 demanding a full inquiry, some of them privately fuming that \"it must have been Williamson\".\n\nNumber 10 now says there was \"compelling evidence\" to prove that it was him.\n\nOfficials carrying out the inquiry did look at his phone.\n\nHe did, by his own admission, have a conversation on the particular day with the journalist who broke the story.\n\nDowning Street has made a very serious accusation and is sure enough to carry out this sacking.\n\nFor the prime minister's allies, it will show that she is, despite the political turmoil, still strong enough to move some of her ministers around - to hire and fire.\n\nMr Williamson is strenuously still denying that the leak was anything to do with him at all.\n\nThere is nothing fond, or anything conciliatory, in either the letter from the prime minister to him, or his reply back to her.\n\nAnd having had a fractious relationship with the National Security Adviser and Cabinet Secretary, Sir Mark Sedwill, some of Mr Williamson's friends believe that those looking into the affair were simply too quick to conclude the former defence secretary was responsible, treating him differently in this short investigation, compared to others who were on the list.\n\nOne senior Conservative also points out a rich irony here, saying: \"A government that governs by open leaking then sacks someone for not being open about their leaking. We have surely moved from the incompetent to the theatre of the absurd!\"\n\nThese are strange times indeed.", "Thanks for joining us for reaction to the sacking of Gavin Williamson as defence secretary - that's where we will leave our live updates for this evening.\n\nHis departure follows an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting, over a plan to allow Huawei limited access to help build the UK's new 5G network.\n\nHe has been replaced by Penny Mordaunt, who will become the UK's first female defence secretary.\n\nMr Williamson has \"strenuously\" denied leaking information from the meeting, but the PM said \"no other credible version of events\" has been found to explain the leak.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson and Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable have both said they think the police should get involved in the matter.\n\nBut Scotland Yard said in a statement that it was a matter for the National Security Council and the Cabinet Office, and it was not carrying out an investigation.", "Stephen Coxen had denied the rape charges against him and the case was found not proven in a criminal court\n\nA woman who successfully sued a man for raping her has said she is \"shocked\" but \"not surprised\" that he has declared himself bankrupt.\n\nLast October a sheriff ruled that Stephen Coxen had raped the woman after a night out in Fife in 2013 and ordered him to pay her £80,000.\n\nThe case was unusual because Mr Coxen had previously faced a criminal trial but the case was found not proven.\n\nThe woman, a former St Andrews University student who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she was raped after a night out in the town by Mr Coxen, whom she had met earlier in the evening.\n\nThe victim was a student at the University of St Andrews\n\nMr Coxen, from Bury in Greater Manchester, had denied the charges, claiming the sex was consensual.\n\nThe case was found not proven, which means in legal terms that he was cleared, after a criminal trial in November 2015.\n\nThe woman, known as Miss M, later took out a civil action against Stephen Coxen, which was heard at the Personal Injury Court in Edinburgh.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, the woman said her main focus had been gaining justice in the case and not money.\n\nShe said: \"Initially, the day I found out I was very shocked. I wasn't surprised.\n\n\"I think a little part of me always thought he might do this. He was the man that raped me, he is the man I've spent five years fighting against and I think it's just highlighting the type of person that he is.\n\n\"But I don't think people should just think about this as terrible that he's made himself bankrupt, because really, I've never wanted to go after him for money.\n\n\"The whole point of my whole process - my whole fight over the years is really just for a sheriff to say 'you know he did rape you - this did happen'.\"\n\nDamages were awarded at the Personal Injury Court in Edinburgh\n\nCivil cases require a lower standard of proof than criminal cases, with judgements made on the balance of probabilities rather than beyond reasonable doubt.\n\nIn this case - understood to be the first of its kind in Scotland - the sheriff in the civil court ruled Mr Coxen raped the woman despite the not proven verdict in the criminal court, and demanded he pay damages.\n\nSheriff Robert Weir said the evidence from Miss M had been \"cogent, compelling and persuasive\".\n\nHe said that Mr Coxen took advantage of the 18-year-old student when she was incapable of giving meaningful consent because of the effects of alcohol.\n\nDavid Robertson (left) and David Goodwillie faced a civil action after a decision not to prosecute them\n\nThe sheriff said Miss M had been distressed and had resisted, but Mr Coxen had continued to rape her.\n\nMr Coxen, who was also aged 18 at the time, denied rape and said they had consensual sex.\n\nIn 2017, another woman, Denise Clair, won a civil case against footballers David Goodwillie and David Robertson.\n\nBut the case was different as Ms Clair, who waived her right to anonymity, brought the civil action after the Crown had decided against prosecuting the pair in the criminal courts.\n\nThe judge in the civil court found the rapes had happened and awarded Ms Clair £100,000 damages from the men.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 250 free-to-use cash machines are disappearing a month as operators shut unprofitable ones, the network co-ordinator Link has said.\n\nThere are 53,000 free machines in the UK - but the number is shrinking at a record rate as people use less cash.\n\nNow the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) is cracking down on the closures and asking for more network protection.\n\n\"Free-to-use ATMs continue to play a vital role in helping people access their money,\" the regulator said.\n\nHannah Nixon, the PSR's managing director, said: \"The requirements we intend to place on Link will help ensure that Link achieves their commitment to protecting the geographic spread of free-to-use ATMs across the UK.\"\n\nLink's ATM Footprint Report found that between the end of January and the start of July 2018, the number of free-to-use ATMs fell from 54,500 to 53,200.\n\nThat is partly because people are using cash less, Link said, thanks to the rise in popularity of new payment methods such as contactless transactions.\n\nBut it is also because cash machine operators such as Cardtronics and Note Machine, who get a fee from our banks each time we use one, are finding that fewer of their machines are economic to run.\n\nUnder pressure from banks, Link is cutting the fee it pays to operators while trying to restrict the resulting closures in city centres,\n\nLink said it had set up \"specific arrangements to protect free-to-use ATMs more than 1km away from their next nearest free-to-use ATM\".\n\nThe organisation has earmarked some 2,365 free machines in remote and rural areas that it wants to remain open.\n\nBut 76 of these protected cash machines closed between January and July, 21 of them without even a Post Office nearby to get cash over the counter.\n\nThe PSR says it is concerned and is taking action to ensure Link meets its commitments.\n\nIt is also seeking renewed commitments from banks that consumers will continue to be offered services, allowing them to access their cash.\n\nBut the regulator's intervention on ATM closures may be \"too little, too late\", warned Nicky Morgan, Chair of the Treasury Committee.\n\nShe said: \"The PSR is rightly concerned by the closures, but I fear its regulatory intervention may be too little, too late. It must ensure that Link is held to its commitment to maintain the broad geographic spread of free-to-use ATMs.\n\n\"The Committee has been clear that this is a major test of what is a relatively new regulator, but the banks, the ATM deployers, and Link itself also have a duty to ensure consumers don't lose out.\"\n\nJenni Allen, managing director of Which? Money, said: \"Link is failing on its commitment to protect access to cash for people in remote and rural areas who need it most.\n\n\"The PSR must now urgently intervene to stop further closures and ensure that no more consumers are suddenly stripped of their access to cash.\"\n\nThere are plenty of cash machines in King's Lynn town centre, you'll find most major banks here on the High Street.\n\nBut some of the surrounding villages have been listed as the worst places in the country when it comes to accessing cash.\n\nLauren, who lives in Narborough in Norfolk, told me she has to travel 10 minutes in her car to get to her closest ATM. She says she always has to be organised and often gets cash back at supermarkets.\n\nLily lives in King's Lynn and told me her closest cash machine is at a Tesco Express which is 15 minutes away. She says she avoids using cash when she can, but does need it for nights out and getting a taxi home.", "Some millennials have unrealistic expectations of inheritance and how it may unlock the door to buying a first home, a survey suggests.\n\nOne in seven young adults expect to inherit money before they are 35, although in reality the typical inheritance age is between 55 and 64.\n\nThe survey, by wealth manager Charles Stanley, suggested that young people expected to receive nearly £130,000.\n\nHowever, the median average amount handed down was only £11,000.\n\nAdvisers said that relying on an inheritance to pay a deposit for a first home was often misguided, even if older family members intended to pass on money when they died.\n\n\"People are living longer than ever, so relying on an inheritance to get on the housing ladder is a risky strategy as you may get less, and much later than planned,\" said John Porteous, from Charles Stanley.\n\n\"In reality, most people save and invest to get on the housing ladder. Starting early and planning ahead is essential to achieving the deposit you need.\"\n\nThe research suggested that 22% of millennials expected to receive inheritance to use as a deposit, although official statistics suggest only 7% actually did so.\n\nThe average expectation of when that inheritance would be received was the age of 50, yet figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that they would have to wait for at least another five years.\n\nEven when that money arrived, ONS data showed that inheritance was much less lucrative than many asked in the survey expected.\n\nOthers in the industry have argued that the UK public is \"largely ignoring\" financial planning for death.\n\nDan Garrett, founder of will writing service Farewill, said that 30 million people in the UK had not written a will, partly because it had dropped down the household \"to do\" list.\n\nHe also called on the government to clarify its plans for probate fees.\n\nThe government is planning to substantially increase the cost to bereaved families of settling the estates of deceased relatives.\n\nThe changes were expected to start last month but have been delayed.\n• None Which town pays the most inheritance tax?", "The boat arrived at the Belgian port early on Tuesday\n\nIn a sign of things to come, an autonomous boat has just made a cargo run from the UK to Belgium.\n\nThe 12m-long Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) SEA-KIT Maxlimer crossed from West Mersea to Oostende on Monday night, carrying a box of oysters.\n\nIt relied on a range of technologies to safely navigate what is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.\n\nThe boat's owner says the trip was the first commercial crossing of the North Sea to be made by an autonomous vessel.\n\n\"This voyage has been months in the making, and to see it all come together is amazing,\" said Ben Simpson of SEA-KIT International Ltd.\n\n“[The USV's] potential lies in its ability to be adapted to a range of tasks, whether it be transit, hydrographic surveys, environmental missions, or marine safety and security. We’re tremendously excited to push the technology to its limits and see what we can achieve.\"\n\nOn Thursday, the boat was making the return journey, again uncrewed but with a consignment of Belgian beer.\n\nOysters in Oostende: The USV has a maximum payload capacity of 2.5 tonnes\n\nThe SEA-KIT USV Maxlimer makes use of a communications and control system known as Global Situational Awareness via Internet.\n\nThis allows an operator to remotely access CCTV footage, thermal imaging and radar through the boat, as well as listen live to the USV’s surroundings and even communicate with others in the vicinity.\n\nThe Monday into Tuesday crossing took 22 hours in total; the vessel moves slowly at only a few knots.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boat was originally developed to launch and recover an AUV\n\nThe 5kg shellfish consignment is well below the maximum payload capacity of 2.5 tonnes, but it was the demonstration of capability that was the point of the exercise.\n\nSeveral agencies supported the crossing, including the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, the Department for Transport, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the European Space Agency, as well as partners in Belgium.\n\nThe boat was returning on Thursday with some Belgian beer\n\nDesigned by Hushcraft Ltd in Tollesbury, Essex, SEA-KIT Maxlimer was originally developed for the GEBCO-Nippon Foundation Alumni Team and its entry in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE.\n\nThis XPRIZE competition is seeking novel methods to map the seafloor, and the USV is able to deploy and recover a sonar-equipped autonomous underwater vehicle that will acquire bathymetric data.\n\n\"We can do the same work as traditional vessels but using a fraction of the fuel, just 5%,\" Mr Simpson told BBC News. \"We're passionate about reducing carbon emissions and we look forward to doing more demonstrations and making this commercially viable.\"\n\nFuture concepts: Many different applications are being considered for the boat", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn says cross-party talks have been \"difficult\" and that Labour \"backs option of a public vote\"\n\nLabour can \"unite our country\" and heal the divisions caused by Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn said, as he launched his European elections campaign.\n\nMr Corbyn said the party backed \"the option of a public vote\" if a \"sensible\" Brexit deal cannot be agreed and there is not a general election.\n\nHe said cross-party talks on Brexit were \"difficult\" as the government's \"red lines remain in place\".\n\nThe European elections take place in the UK on 23 May.\n\nThe UK was due to leave the EU on 29 March, but as no deal was agreed by Parliament, the EU extended the deadline to 31 October.\n\nIt can leave the bloc earlier, but if the UK has not left by 23 May, it is legally obliged to take part in the EU-wide poll and send MEPs to Brussels.\n\nCross-party talks between the government and Labour have been taking place to try to solve the Brexit impasse.\n\nHowever Mr Corbyn said the talks had been difficult and that \"so far there have been no big offers\".\n\n\"It is quite difficult to negotiate with a disintegrating government with cabinet ministers jockeying for the succession, rather than working for an agreement,\" he said.\n\nMr Corbyn launched Labour's campaign in Gillingham, Kent, where he issued an appeal to both sides of the Brexit debate.\n\nHe said: \"To transform our country, and tackle injustice, inequality and the climate crisis, we need to unite the overwhelming majority of people and take on the privileged and powerful.\n\n\"That's why we insist the real divide in our country is not how people voted in the EU referendum.\n\n\"The real divide is between the many and the few.\"\n\nThe party has selected 70 candidates across the 12 regions. They include the former cabinet minister and passionate Brexit critic Lord Adonis, who is second on the South West England list.\n\nOther stand-out names include Laura Parker, a leading figure in the Momentum campaign group, and Eloise Todd, chief executive of the Best for Britain group.\n\nEloise Todd, chief executive of the Best for Britain group, is a Labour MEP candidate\n\nMr Corbyn said Labour was \"the only party with a plan to unite our country\".\n\n\"Other parties appeal to just one side of the Brexit debate because they aren't really committed to taking on the tax dodgers, the big polluters, or the financial gamblers who crashed our economy a decade ago,\" he said.\n\nHe promised Labour's alternative plan for Brexit \"would end the chaos caused by the Conservatives and let us focus on the other big issues facing our country\".\n\n\"But we can never accept the government's bad deal or a disastrous no deal,\" he added.\n\n\"So if we can't get a sensible deal, along the lines of our alternative plan, or a general election, Labour backs the option of a public vote.\"\n\nThe issue of a further referendum has proved divisive in the party - with many MPs and frontbenchers opposed to the idea.\n\nBut Labour's governing body agreed last month to support a further referendum on Brexit under certain circumstances.\n\nBBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said Labour's \"great balancing act\" on Brexit continued, with Mr Corbyn \"trying to keep Labour Leave supporters on board while not alienating Labour Remain supporters\".\n\nResponding to the speech, Labour MP Mary Creagh, a Remain supporter, said that \"standing in the middle of the road means you get run over from both sides\".\n\nCross-party talks on Brexit between the government and Labour will continue next week.\n\nSir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs, said on Wednesday that he believed the PM would ask the Commons to vote again on the terms of the UK's exit before elections to the European Parliament take place.\n\nThe withdrawal agreement has effectively been rejected by MPs three times already.", "Kerry Katona had previously told the court she would represent herself at her trial but a guilty plea was entered in her absence\n\nSinger Kerry Katona has been fined £500 for failing to send one of her children to school.\n\nThe former member of Atomic Kitten had previously denied the charge but her solicitor entered a guilty plea on her behalf at Brighton Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe prosecution said Katona, who lives in Crowborough, East Sussex, had \"failed to engage\" over the issue.\n\nBut Ed Fish, defending, said work commitments meant she sometimes had to take the child to work with her.\n\nKatona, 38, had previously been warned she could be jailed after failing to attend an earlier court hearing.\n\nShe did appear at the previous hearing on 6 March, when she pleaded not guilty.\n\nBut during the public part of Wednesday's hearing, when Mr Fish said she was pleading guilty, no reason was given for her absence.\n\nThe court was told Katona had failed to send the child - one of five, who cannot be named - to school for a \"significant\" number of days between April and November last year.\n\nGareth Jones, prosecuting on behalf of East Sussex County Council, said the child's attendance rate had dropped as low as 48%.\n\nKerry Katona failed to attend court, having appeared at the previous hearing, but her solicitor pleaded guilty on her behalf\n\nHe said: \"There's a failure to engage here. She's not attending meetings, letters are not being responded to. This is a problem that has gone on for some time.\"\n\nBut Mr Fish told the court some of the unauthorised absences were because Katona could not get childcare while working.\n\nHe said: \"She understands it fell below what was expected of her.\n\n\"On occasions [the child] missed school due to Kerry Katona's work commitments. She's not had childcare and has to take the children to work.\n\n\"She understands she should maintain better contact with the school.\"\n\nBut he added: \"The attendance has not been the worst [the court has seen].\"\n\nKatona was also ordered to pay £325 costs and a £100 surcharge and was given 14 days to pay.\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\nDavid Beckham has been given a six-month driving ban for using his mobile phone while behind the wheel.\n\nThe former England captain previously pleaded guilty to using the device while driving his Bentley in central London on 21 November last year.\n\nA court heard he was photographed by a member of the public holding a phone as he drove in \"slowly moving\" traffic.\n\nBeckham, 44, received six points on his licence to add to the six he already had for previous speeding matters.\n\nHe was also fined £750, ordered to pay £100 in prosecution costs and a £75 surcharge fee within seven days.\n\nDistrict Judge Catherine Moore said she acknowledged the slow pace of the traffic but told him there was \"no excuse\" under the law.\n\nBromley Magistrates' Court heard Beckham was seen \"operating a handheld device at knee level\" while driving along Great Portland Street in the West End.\n\nProsecutor Matthew Spratt said: \"Instead of looking straight forward, paying attention to the road he appeared to be looking at his lap.\"\n\nThe court heard Beckham was photographed driving in \"slowly moving\" traffic while holding a phone\n\nBeckham's defence barrister Gerrard Tyrrell said the former Manchester United midfielder had \"no recollection of the day in question or this particular incident\".\n\nHe added: \"There is no excuse for what took place but his view is that he cannot remember.\"\n\n\"He takes his children to school each day when he can and he picks them up when he can, and actually to deprive them of that is something that he will acknowledge,\" he said.\n\nIt's against the law in the UK to hold a phone while driving, although hands-free devices are allowed. It's punishable by six penalty points on your licence and a £200 fine - but, depending on the seriousness of the offence, you can also be taken court to face more severe penalties.\n\nIn England and Wales in 2017, there were 8,300 convictions for using a handheld mobile phone whilst driving. Almost all were dealt with through a fine, which averaged out at £180.\n\nConvictions have fallen a lot since their peak of 32,548 in 2010.\n\nLooking at who was convicted, 86% were men and 21% were under 25 years old.\n\nIn Scotland in 2017-18 there were 2,881 convictions for the category of \"other motor vehicle offences\", which covers using a mobile phone and not wearing a seatbelt. Again, almost all were dealt with through fines.\n\nIn September, Beckham was accused of \"shirking his responsibility\" as a role model when he avoided prosecution on a speeding charge because of a technicality.\n\nThe father-of-four accepted he drove a loaned Bentley at 59mph in a 40mph zone in west London in January last year.\n\nBut his lawyer Nick Freeman - known as Mr Loophole - successfully fought to prevent action being taken because a speeding notice arrived one day late.\n\nIn March 2017, the punishment for driving while on the phone was doubled to six penalty points - enough to ban those with less than two years' experience.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "PC Lee Jackson is one of thousands of officers to have been diagnosed with the condition\n\nPost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among police officers in the UK is far more common than was ever thought, a new survey suggests. One PC describes his battle with the medical condition.\n\nLee Jackson is the kind of police officer who runs towards danger, the sort who is not afraid to break down doors or break up fights.\n\nA Taser-trained response officer at Durham Police with over 19 years' service, he's dealt with almost every crime imaginable and was once three minutes from death after becoming impaled on a broken car aerial while investigating a car crash.\n\nBut PC Jackson was floored by a medical condition that affects thousands of officers without them even realising - PTSD, which causes acute anxiety, sleep problems and recurring memories of disturbing events.\n\n\"I thought I was pretty much invulnerable,\" says the 47-year-old constable. \"I didn't see things building up or the problems that were going to affect us.\"\n\nPC Jackson said he let traumatic memories build up \"in a box in my brain\"\n\nIt all came to a head in 2015 when he was called to a violent domestic dispute.\n\n\"It was a Friday night on my own,\" he said. \"I pulled up to stop some people arguing because it was starting to get a little bit more physical\".\n\n\"I ended up being attacked - someone tried to gouge my eye out.\"\n\nHis eye became infected, leaving him temporarily blinded. He took a week off work but after returning began to have flashbacks at night.\n\n\"I would wake up sort of in a sweat and physically feel like I'd been back living that moment again,\" says PC Jackson.\n\nHis work suffered - he had doubts about whether he could do his job properly and felt everyone was out to get him - and he became a \"nightmare\" to live with at home.\n\nFinally, he sought help and PTSD was diagnosed - it had been caused by the dozens of traumatic incidents he had handled and witnessed.\n\n\"What I'd done is just to put them away in a box in my brain, left them, and never had a chance to go back,\" he explains.\n\nA major new survey suggests the health problems affecting PC Jackson are far more common in the police than was ever thought.\n\nThe study of almost 17,000 police across the UK found that 95% of officers and 67% of operational police staff had been exposed to traumatic events, almost all of which were work-related.\n\nOf those who had experienced trauma, 20% reported symptoms in the preceding four weeks that were consistent with PTSD or the more chronic condition, Complex PTSD, which is associated with emotional numbness and disconnection.\n\nTwo-thirds of those with PTSD were unaware they were suffering from it, according to the research.\n\n\"For the first time in the UK we can see behind the cultural trope of the 'burnt-out copper' who has seen too much,\" says lead researcher Dr Jess Miller from the University of Cambridge, which conducted the study.\n\n\"This is a clinical and public sector crisis,\" she says, pointing out that the rates of PTSD in the police are almost five times higher than in the general population.\n\nAmong the most concerning findings, Dr Miller says, is that more than half of those surveyed said they had insufficient time to process incidents before being sent back out on the next call.\n\n\"A stiff upper lip attitude will not work in contemporary policing,\" she says.\n\nOne officer told the survey he had developed night terrors after attending a series of murder scenes; another said he had a nervous breakdown and suicidal thoughts after reliving a death in custody during the formal inquiry; some spoke about the stress of spending months viewing \"horrific\" terrorism material or paedophile chatlogs online.\n\nGill Scott-Moore, chief executive of Police Care UK, the charity which funded the research, says: \"The service has real challenges around recognising and responding to the signs and symptoms of trauma exposure and is heavily reliant upon generic NHS provision that isn't equipped for the specialist treatment needed.\"\n\nIn April, a national police wellbeing service was launched to provide expertise on occupational health provision to forces across England and Wales.\n\nThe service, developed with £7.5m investment from the Home Office, has been overseen by the College of Policing alongside Lancashire Chief Constable Andy Rhodes, who leads on the issue nationally.\n\n\"The study does not surprise me and it provides evidence to support investment in prevention as well as acute services,'' says Chief Constable Rhodes.\n\n\"With stigma around mental health slowly reducing we are seeing hidden issues emerging such as high levels of stress and trauma impact, which can contribute to escalation if they aren't addressed,\" he adds.\n\nThe Police Federation of England and Wales says some officers \"are at breaking point\"\n\nPC Lee Jackson managed to address his problems - after six months of one-to-one counselling.\n\nBut he says much more needs to be done to give officers and staff information about how to spot the signs of PTSD and where to go for support.\n\nHe says: \"We've got a tactic for everything in the police [but] we haven't for when you are dealing with traumatic incidents or trauma in yourself and we maybe need that.\"\n\nChe Donald, national vice-chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, called for more government funding to help officers who \"are at breaking point\".\n\n\"If officers are breaking, then how can we expect them to adequately serve and protect the public?\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Samantha's son Noah was born after she took part in a large trial\n\nGiving the hormone progesterone to women who have had a miscarriage and experience early bleeding in pregnancy could improve their chances of having baby, a study suggests.\n\nA small number of women could potentially be helped, a trial found.\n\nSamantha Allen, 31, experienced spotting when she lost her first baby and then again during her second pregnancy.\n\nAfter taking the hormone for eight weeks, she gave birth to her son Noah.\n\nProgesterone is a hormone essential in pregnancy - for maintaining the lining of the womb where the embryo is implanted and for supporting the immune system.\n\nSamantha was prescribed progesterone pessaries for the Birmingham trial, which she took twice a day until she was 16 weeks' pregnant.\n\nShe said the bleeding stopped within a week of starting the trial and the pregnancy progressed very smoothly.\n\nShe now hopes that more women who have had a miscarriage could benefit.\n\n\"I just hope they don't have to go through the same heartache - it does take its toll on you,\" she said.\n\nMiscarriage affects one in five women, and vaginal bleeding in early pregnancy is linked to an increased risk of it happening.\n\nWith progesterone already used in IVF treatment, Samantha said that she had no qualms about taking part in the trial.\n\n\"I feel happy that I did participate. It didn't feel like a risk because it wasn't an early stage trial.\"\n\nSamantha Allen with her husband and baby Noah\n\nThe University of Birmingham study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, involved one group of around 2,000 pregnant women given progesterone, while another group of the same number were given a placebo, or dummy pill.\n\nAll the women had experienced bleeding in early pregnancy.\n\nAlthough the study showed that not all women with early bleeding could be helped by taking the hormone, the benefits were greatest among women with a history of recurrent miscarriages (three or more).\n\nAmong those women, there was a 15% increase in the live birth rate - with 98 out of 137 women going on to have a baby, compared with 85 out of 148 in the placebo group.\n\nArri Coomarasamy, study leader and consultant gynaecologist at Birmingham Women and Children's Hospital, said the treatment could save thousands of babies' lives.\n\n\"We hope that this evidence will be considered by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and that it will be used to update national guidelines for women at risk of miscarriage,\" he said.\n\nAt present, when women are potentially miscarrying, \"there is nothing we can offer them\", he says.\n\nBut he said that the treatment would not work for all women who miscarry, because there were many complex reasons why miscarriage occurs.\n\nOnly those women with a progesterone-related problem could benefit, he added.\n\nJane Brewin, chief executive of miscarriage charity Tommy's, said: \"The results from this study are important for parents who have experienced miscarriage; they now have a robust and effective treatment option which will save many lives and prevent much heartache.\n\n\"It gives us confidence to believe that further research will yield more treatments and ultimately make many more miscarriages preventable.\"\n• None 'I felt like miscarriage was my fault'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Christine Delcros was seriously injured in the attack and her fiance Xavier Thomas was killed\n\nThe fiancee of the first victim of the London Bridge attack in 2017 has told an inquest she had \"premonitions about terror attacks\" the day he died.\n\nThe body of Xavier Thomas was found in the River Thames after he was struck by a van driven by three attackers.\n\nMr Thomas's girlfriend Christine Delcros, who was also badly hurt, wept as she gave evidence at the Old Bailey inquest into the eight victims' deaths.\n\nShe told the court she was still \"madly in love\" with Mr Thomas.\n\nThe couple had arrived in London from Paris on the morning of 3 June for a weekend of sightseeing, the court heard.\n\nMs Delcros said Mr Thomas, 45, had arranged for them to have a cocktail in the Shard that evening.\n\nMs Delcros gave evidence at the inquest into the deaths of eight victims\n\n\"I had so many premonitions about terror attacks from the day before and I could feel it,\" she said.\n\nBut Mr Thomas had persuaded his girlfriend to stick to the plan.\n\n\"Not to disappoint him I said OK,\" Ms Delcros told the court.\n\nAt about 21:30 BST they decided to walk across London Bridge from their hotel, the Four Seasons, Ms Delcros said.\n\nXavier Thomas was the first fatality of the London Bridge attacks\n\nMs Delcros said she remembered feeling something was \"not normal\" as they walked on the bridge.\n\n\"Suddenly I was under the impression there was a lot of light and a van that mounted the pavement in the exact fashion to make sure they were not going to miss us,\" she said.\n\n\"I just heard myself say to myself, 'That's how one dies, that's it.'\"\n\nMs Delcros broke down in tears as she recounted lying on the ground thinking \"the curtain had fallen\" and she had died.\n\nAs she came in and out of consciousness, she asked where Mr Thomas was, the court heard.\n\nThe father-of-two had been thrown into the River Thames when the van hit him.\n\nThe court heard Mr Thomas's body was found by police more than a mile and a half from London Bridge, near Shadwell Basin, on 6 June.\n\nHis cause of death was given as immersion.\n\nSpeaking in French, Ms Delcros said she was still \"madly in love\" with Mr Thomas and \"nothing would destroy that\" connection.\n\nAs he gave the court her comments in English, the translator had tears streaming down his cheeks.\n\nMr Thomas and Ms Delcros were seen crossing the bridge on CCTV footage\n\nA police officer in charge of a patrol boat at the scene said his team had been \"desperate\" to find anyone who might have fallen from the bridge.\n\nPC Nicholas Bultitude said his team did not use an infrared camera on their boat because it was \"more practical\" to search visually.\n\nHe told the court his team covered \"every inch of that portion of the river\" and that if Mr Thomas had been on the surface he would have been seen.\n\nDominic Adamson, representing Mr Thomas' family, questioned PC Bultitude's decision to abandon the river search after gunshots were heard so he could warn crowds on the South Bank of the danger.\n\nBut PC Bultitude replied: \"When I made the decision, so far as I was concerned, if someone has gone in then tragically they are lost.\"\n\nKhuram Butt hired a van to use in the attack, the inquest heard previously\n\nWitness Holly Jones said she remembered seeing the French couple looking \"very happy together\" seconds before the attack.\n\nMs Jones said she was \"frozen in fear\" when she saw the \"demented\" driver, Youssef Zaghba, heading towards her.\n\n\"It was a feeling I described as like being punched into the chest,\" the BBC journalist told the court.\n\n\"Something in the back of my mind told me to get out of the way. I jumped to the right towards the railings,\" she said.\n\nThe witness said she felt the \"wind of the van\" as it sped past her.\n\nMs Jones said she then went to help Ms Delcros and told police to check the water for Mr Thomas.\n\nZaghba, 22, and his accomplices Khuram Butt, 27, and Rachid Redouane, 30, were shot dead by police after killing eight people and injuring 48 others around Borough Market.\n\nOn Wednesday the inquest was told Mr Thomas and a second victim, Christine Archibald, 30, might still be alive if barriers had been put up following the Westminster Bridge attack, which took place two months earlier.\n\nThe other victims were Alexandre Pigeard, 26, Sara Zelenak, 21, Kirsty Boden, 28, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, and Ignacio Echeverría, 39.\n\nThe hearing ended for the day as it had started - with emotions running high.\n\nWith eyes closed and the tips of her fingers to her temples, she listened to analysis of how Mr Thomas had gasped for air upon entering the cold Thames and drowned as a result.\n\nSitting next to Ms Delcros was Christiane Pesez, Mr Thomas's mother.\n\nShe had her head lowered and tears streamed down her face as she heard of her son's last moments alive.\n\nHer husband and Mr Thomas's stepfather, Philippe Pesez, stared into space - a display of grief in one of its various forms.\n\nAs the hearing drew to a close, the final witness of the day, Tanya Lunt, struggled to contain her emotions the moment she started speaking - remembering back to that day in June 2017 when she realised that a deliberate attack was happening.\n\nMark Roberts was among a group of people who had set up tripods on London Bridge to take photographs of Tower Bridge.\n\nHe told the court on Thursday he saw the van moving at about 30mph or 40mph as it hit a group of people.\n\nThe victims of the attack clockwise - Chrissy Archibald, Sebastien Belanger, Kirsty Boden, Ignacio Echeverría, Sara Zelenak, Xavier Thomas, Alexandre Pigeard, James McMullan\n\nHe said: \"It looked to me it was deliberately steering and aiming at the people. At that point it started driving along the pavement towards me.\"\n\nMr Roberts said he thought he was \"next in line\", but suddenly the van veered towards a group of people running away.\n\nHe told the court one woman was thrown into the air \"like a rag doll\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nick Dugdale spoke about the stress of living with dangerous cladding\n\nThousands of people in England are still living in tower blocks with unsafe cladding more than a year after the Grenfell disaster.\n\nMore than 400 high-rise residential buildings still have the same type of external covering blamed for the rapid spread of the deadly blaze, official figures show.\n\nBBC News found other buildings with different cladding also deemed unsafe.\n\nThe government said building owners should make their properties safe.\n\nIt ordered a review into cladding on high-rise blocks after the deaths of 72 people at Grenfell Tower in June 2017.\n\nOne of the tower blocks identified as still having Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) present in their structure is the 128-flat Skyline Apartments complex in Leeds city centre.\n\n\"We had a fire here in February 2018 and it was discovered that the building had cladding that is similar to Grenfell,\" said resident Nick Dugdale.\n\n\"We've known about this for months and it just feels like we're in a dark tunnel. I live on the 13th storey and I'm anxious about living here and I'm angry that this dangerous cladding hasn't been removed yet.\"\n\nLiv Group, which manages Skyline, said it had since taken measures such as the introduction of fire wardens to make the building safer.\n\nA spokesperson said resident safety was \"of paramount importance and work has already started to remove the cladding\".\n\nIn total, 419 residential buildings in 78 local authority areas across England have ACM cladding. This includes 61 student accommodation blocks.\n\nACM cladding is composed of a foam core between two aluminium sheets and is typically used to alter a building's external appearance.\n\nSome types have been found to be highly flammable.\n\nThe total number of buildings in England with unsafe cladding is likely to be higher, as the government's figures only include blocks with defective ACM cladding.\n\nBBC News has seen an assessment report of an award-winning tower block in Leeds called Saxton Parade.\n\nThe report states that the \"structural insulated panels and high-pressure laminate cladding are all combustible\" and, therefore, not compliant with previous or existing building regulations.\n\nThe 235-bed apartment block was redeveloped by Urban Splash, which said the building received all the necessary certificates upon its completion in 2011.\n\nSafety tests carried out on Saxton Parade in Leeds have found that the cladding system on the building is \"high risk\"\n\nWarren Smart, who bought a property in Saxton Parade in 2016, said he now felt \"trapped\".\n\n\"When I found out that something was wrong with the cladding I thought is Grenfell going to happen here? It's really scary, you could be asleep and the whole place could go up.\"\n\nLeaseholders at Saxton Parade have been told they might have to pay thousands of pounds for remedial work to be carried out to make the buildings safe.\n\n\"I haven't got the money to help pay for replacing the cladding. It's outrageous and ridiculous that they are even thinking about asking us to pay for cladding we knew nothing about,\" said Mr Smart.\n\nWarren Smart said he didn't know how he would find the money to pay for repairs at Saxton Parade\n\nA spokesman for Residential Management Group (RMG), the managing agent for Saxton Parade, said:\n\n\"The costs of the repair work will be met by the National House Building Council build warranty policy or from funds collected from the individual leaseholders. Our primary concern has been the continued safety of residents.\"\n\nA recent legal judgement ruled that freeholders can charge leaseholders to pay for dangerous cladding to be removed from buildings.\n\nLeeds Central MP Hilary Benn has now called on the government to change the law to protect leaseholders.\n\n\"It's unacceptable that people are still living in tower blocks that are unsafe, and now leaseholders are being asked for money they don't have, for a problem they're not responsible for\" said Mr Benn.\n\nJames Brokenshire MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, said leaseholders should not have to pay for any cladding to be removed, but he would not commit to changing the law.\n\n\"It should be for those owning the buildings, and the developers that will actually have the responsibility of removing the cladding to pay for the changes, and it is important that they make sure that people are safe in their homes.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More UK homes will be at flood risk in the future\n\nEngland’s coastal communities haven’t faced up to the reality of rising seas through climate change, a report says.\n\nAn increase of at least 1m is almost certain at some point in the future, the government’s advisors predict.\n\nThe Committee on Climate Change (CCC) warns this huge rise may happen over the next 80 years - within the lifetimes of today's children.\n\nA government spokesman said the public would be protected from the impacts of climate change.\n\nBut the CCC says current shoreline management plans are unfunded and hopelessly optimistic.\n\nIt estimates that by the 2080s, up to 1.2 million homes may be at increased risk from coastal floods.\n\nWill more people have to abandon their homes in future?\n\nThe CCC’s chief executive, Chris Stark, told BBC News: “People know sea level is going to rise – but they haven’t grasped how bad this could be for them.”\n\nHis colleague Professor Julia King added: “We’ve got to wake up to the fact that we’ve got some very difficult challenges ahead.\n\n“We need local councils to have some honest discussions with people to help them prepare for the difficult choices they’ll face.”\n\nThe report says many coastal communities are particularly vulnerable because populations in coastal areas are often poorer and older than the UK average.\n\nIt highlights the issue of land-slips on the coast. It says 100,000 cliff-top properties could be at risk from coastal landsliding, but the public don’t have clear and accurate information about the issues and there’s no insurance or compensation for people who lose their homes.\n\nIs it just homes that are under threat?\n\nNo, it’s much wider than that. Transport, energy and waste infrastructure are also exposed to coastal flooding and erosion.\n\nApproximately 7,500km of road, 520km of railway line, 205,000 hectares of good farm land, and 3,400ha of potentially toxic historic landfill sites are currently at 0.1% or greater risk of coastal flooding in any given year.\n\nPower plants, ports, gas terminals and other significant assets are also at risk. The report says the government needs to focus on protecting these assets, as well as saving people’s homes.\n\nWhat’s more, coastal defences are likely to be at risk of failure as sea levels rise. A rise of 0.5m is projected to make a further 20% of England's coastal defences vulnerable to failure. The risk will be even higher if the current rates of deterioration of saltmarshes, shingle beaches and sand dunes continue.\n\nIn England, 520,000 properties (including 370,000 homes) are in areas with a 0.5% or greater annual risk from coastal flooding.\n\nBy the 2080s, that figure could rise to 1.5 million properties (including 1.2 million homes). In addition, approximately 1,600km of major roads, 650km of railway line, 92 railway stations and 55 historic landfill sites are at risk of coastal flooding or erosion by the end of the century.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The government has already committed £1.2bn of investment in coastal erosion and sea flooding projects over the next six years to better protect 170,000 homes.\n\n\"We welcome the committee's report which will inform our work to tackle increasing flood and coastal erosion risks, ahead of the publication of our Government Policy Statement on flooding and coastal erosion next year.\"", "The victims of the attack clockwise - Chrissy Archibald, Sebastien Belanger, Kirsty Boden, Ignacio Echeverria, Sara Zelenak, Xavier Thomas, Alexandre Pigeard, James McMullan\n\nOne of the London Bridge attackers was seen washing his knife and wiping it on his beard shortly after eight people were killed, an inquest has heard.\n\nKhuram Butt, 27, was caught on CCTV cleaning his 12in pink ceramic knife inside the Black and Blue restaurant.\n\nIn the same footage, an accomplice, Youssef Zaghba, 22, was seen having a drink from behind the bar.\n\nThe inquest also heard two victims might still be alive if barriers had been put up after a similar attack.\n\nKhuram Butt, Youssef Zaghba and Rachid Redouane were shot dead by police after they drove a van into pedestrians, stabbed others, and confronted unarmed police officers shouting \"Allahu Akbar\" on 3 June 2017.\n\nCounsel for the coroner Jonathan Hough QC had warned the families of the victims at the inquest at the Old Bailey that \"distressing images\" would be shown and that Butt's reaction was \"the most chilling\".\n\nThe inquest was also shown footage of diner Roy Larner, dubbed the Lion of London Bridge, being savagely stabbed in the stomach.\n\nMr Larner appeared not to react after he was stabbed twice in quick succession before he stood up and ran away.\n\nIn other footage, the third attacker, Rachid Redouane, 30, was shown on CCTV bending down to tie his shoelaces in the street during the attack through Borough Market.\n\nRedouane was also seen, in other images, talking to an unidentified man and then walking away without attacking him, for reasons that are not known.\n\nMr Hough said: \"There is clearly some form of discussion. We don't know what was said. Despite appeals for witnesses, he [the man in the footage] never came forward.\"\n\nIn the space of three minutes, the attackers had struck Xavier Thomas, 45, and Christine Archibald, 30, with a van on the bridge then fatally stabbed Alexandre Pigeard, 26, Sara Zelenak, 21, Kirsty Boden, 28, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, around Borough Market.\n\nWithin 10 minutes, the attackers, who injured 48 more people, had been shot dead by police marksmen.\n\nIn the CCTV, pedestrians were seen running for their lives as the attackers' van mounted the pavement on the bridge.\n\nAn image of the van used by the attackers\n\nThe inquest also heard that two victims of the attack, Christine Archibald, 30, and Xavier Thomas, 45, might still be alive if barriers had been put up following the Westminster Bridge attack, which took place two months earlier.\n\nThe pair were among 10 people struck by a 2.5-ton hire van driven by Zaghba.\n\nMr Thomas was knocked into the Thames and found dead three days later, while Ms Archibald died after being dragged under the wheels of the powerful vehicle.\n\nGareth Patterson, QC, representing some victims, questioned a senior officer about why no barriers were put in place on London Bridge following the earlier attack in Westminster.\n\nHe said: \"There were no barriers in place on that pavement protecting pedestrians from traffic on that road.\n\n\"If there had been barriers Christine Archibald and Xavier Thomas would now be with us today.\"\n\nSenior investigating officer Det Supt Rebecca Riggs agreed, saying: \"That may well be the case.\"\n\nThe court heard barriers were put up on London Bridge within two days of the attack.\n\nEarlier, the inquest heard armed officers kept shooting at the attackers even after gunning them down, fearing they were wearing explosive vests.\n\nDet Supt Rebecca Riggs said police withdrew but had to fire extra shots when they saw the men were \"still moving\".\n\n\"They believed they were going to activate the explosive devices they were wearing and they fired a number of shots,\" she said.\n\nNeil McLelland, who was looking out of the window of the nearby Wheatsheaf pub, was hit in the head by a bullet and fell to the ground, while five other people were injured by shrapnel from the shooting.\n\nThe court heard the officers then put \"themselves in harm's way\" to evacuate the pub, taking Mr McLelland and others to safety.\n\nThe armed officers who killed the knifemen have not been named at the inquest\n\nThe second day of the inquest was also told one victim was killed after he tried to beat the attackers with his skateboard.\n\nDet Supt Riggs said Spaniard Ignacio Echeverria, 39, had been cycling with friends when he came across PC Wayne Marques and PC Charlie Guenigault trying to tackle the knifemen.\n\nThe officers had stepped in to help Oliver Downing and Marie Bondeville, who had been hurt by the trio.\n\nMr Echeverria, an HSBC financial crime analyst, ran across to help and swung his board at one of the killers but was knocked to the ground by Redouane, the inquest was told.\n\nIgnacio Echeverria was the last of eight people to be killed in the attack\n\nDet Supt Riggs said: \"Ignacio got off his bike and ran across to where the two officers were to assist [them].\"\n\n\"He had taken his board from his rucksack and swung at the attackers and managed to hit them. [Rachid] Redouane retaliated, causing him to fall on the ground,\" she added.\n\n\"The attackers then set upon him on the ground.\"\n\nCounsel to the coroner Jonathan Hough QC added: \"It was a brief but furious assault.\"\n\nOver several hours, the inquest watched the horrific attack unfold from every angle, second by second, from cameras on buildings, in restaurants, in taxis and buses, on police body-cams and the public's mobile phones.\n\nThe hearing gasped as the attackers' van was shown careering over London Bridge, knocking over pedestrians like skittles.\n\nOne camera captured Tyler Ferguson running to the side of his fiancée, Chrissy Archibald, as she lay dying in the middle of the road.\n\nOther footage showed the attackers striding side-by-side through Borough Market, indiscriminately stabbing anyone in their path.\n\nTheir victims are filmed bleeding in the street, clutching their faces, heads and chests.\n\nIn the Black and Blue restaurant, the men stabbed customers with their knives before ducking behind the bar to swig some water from a tap.\n\nOn their way out, they picked up a couple of bottles, smashed them on the side of a table - another weapon.\n\nOn Thursday, the hearing is due to hear from an eyewitness, Christine Delcros, whose partner Xavier Thomas was knocked off the bridge and into the Thames by the attackers' van.\n\nEarlier, Ms Delcros wept in court as CCTV footage showed the French couple walking hand in hand towards the bridge, their final moments together.\n\nIn a touching moment, Julie Wallace, the bereaved mother of Sara Zelenak, crossed the courtroom to take a seat beside Ms Delcros to comfort her.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why no charge of obstruction of justice? A law professor breaks down the legal questions\n\nOn 1 May the US attorney general spent five acrimonious hours in front of a congressional committee explaining his handling of the Mueller report. The intensity of some of the exchanges suggests multiple legal and political battles lie ahead between the Democrats in Congress and President Donald Trump.\n\nA day after Attorney General William Barr traded blows with senators, the stakes ramped up considerably as he refused to testify to another committee and the Democratic leadership accused him of lying under oath.\n\nHere's a look at five areas where the fighting could be the most heated - and where they could be headed.\n\nMr Barr's Senate testimony may have prompted as many questions as it answered, raising to a fevered pitch Democratic calls to hear from Robert Mueller himself.\n\nThey want to ask him why he failed to reach a conclusion on whether the president obstructed justice, and what he thinks about the attorney general's handling of his report.\n\nThey'll also want to question him about the contacts between the Trump campaign team and Russians - and how close they may have come to being a criminal conspiracy.\n\nAlthough Republican Senate Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham says he has no interest in calling Mr Mueller before his committee - insisting that the matter is closed - House Democrats have other ideas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jerrold Nadler, said negotiations are continuing over finding a date, perhaps in May, when the special counsel can testify before his committee.\n\nMr Barr has said he has no objection to Mr Mueller making such an appearance and Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway also said that Mr Mueller - who is still, technically, a Justice Department employee - can testify.\n\nThe president, on the other hand, may have different ideas. He has tweeted that Mr Mueller \"should not\" testify and that Democratic in Congress are looking for a \"redo\" after being dissatisfied with the conclusions presented in the special counsel report.\n\nOutlook: Mueller spent most of his time as special counsel shrouded in secrecy and silence. It seems unlikely, however, that he will be able to quietly disappear from the national stage.\n\nIn a press conference on Thursday morning, Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi straight-up accused William Barr of committing a crime.\n\nShe was specifically referring to the attorney general's claims, during congressional testimony in early April, that he was unaware of reports of dissatisfaction with his handling of the Mueller report expressed by members of the special counsel's office.\n\nDemocrats now believe this was a lie - based on a recent revealed letter from Mr Mueller to Mr Barr complaining that the attorney general's four-page summary did not \"fully capture the context, nature and substance\" of his work.\n\nAttorney General Barr wrote a summary of the Russia report before the full version was released\n\nMr Barr countered that his communications were with Mr Muller himself, not his team, and the dissatisfaction had to do with the media coverage of his letter, not how he relayed Mr Mueller's findings.\n\nNeedless to say, Democrats aren't buying it.\n\nThen there are other reasons Democrats are angry at Mr Barr - such as his refusal to testify before the House Judiciary Committee and his decision to ignore congressional document subpoenas.\n\nWhat are Democrats going to do about it? Mrs Pelosi only made vague references to a \"process\", but they have several options if they want to punish the attorney general.\n\nThe House Judiciary Committee, by a straight party-line margin, has already voted to hold Mr Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over the unredacted Mueller report and supporting evidence.\n\nThe measure will now move to the full House of Representatives, where if a majority approves, Mr Barr would become only the second attorney general to receive such a sanction (Eric Holder, of the Obama Administration, was the first).\n\nCongress may ask the Justice Department, which Mr Barr runs, to enforce the contempt citation, which would be an unlikely prospect.\n\nThere has also been talk among Democrats of exercising the seldom-used power of \"inherent contempt\", which could empower the House sergeant-at-arms to arrest the attorney general - setting off an even greater crisis.\n\nSpeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says Mr Barr committed a crime\n\nThe House of Representatives could also vote to formally censure the attorney general, putting a black mark on his record but not much more.\n\nFinally, they could try to impeach the attorney general and have him removed from office. The process would be similar to that for removing a US president - a majority vote in the House of Representatives followed by a trial in the US Senate requiring a two-thirds vote to \"convict\".\n\nOnly one White House cabinet official has ever been impeached - Ulysses S Grant's Secretary of War William Belknap in 1876 - and he was ultimately acquitted of corruption charges by the Senate.\n\nOutlook: A court fight appears inevitable, but of uncertain outcome. Censorship appears pointless. Impeachment would be an uphill fight, but it could also serve as proxy battle for the impeaching Mr Trump himself, venting frustration for Democrats who are itching for a fight but wary of taking on the president directly.\n\nWhile Mr Mueller's appearance before the US Congress would be a blockbuster occasion, he's not the only individual Democrats want to question in open testimony. The special counsel's report detailed how former White House Counsel Don McGahn felt the president pressured him to fire Mr Mueller and, later, write a memo saying that Mr Trump issued no such directive.\n\nWhen Mr Barr was questioned about the matter by Senate Democrats, he said the president only suggested Mr Mueller be \"replaced\" because of a perceived conflict of interest - and then instructed Mr McGahn to write a memo to correct inaccurate media reports.\n\nDemocrats, needless to say, aren't buying this, viewing the episode as one of the most obvious instances of possible obstruction of justice. Mr Nadler has issued a subpoena calling on Mr McGahn to testify before his committee on 21 May so his committee can get the former Trump aide's account directly.\n\nDon McGahn left the White House, but Democrats still want to hear from him\n\nThe White House has responded by asserting \"executive privilege\" - a legal concept that presidents are entitled to candid and confidential advice from their aides - to block Mr McGahn from providing requested documents to Congress. Mr Trump has said he plans to fight all the congressional subpoenas, and in an interview on Fox News, he said: \"I don't think I can let him [testify].\"\n\nIf both sides dig in, Mr McGahn's freedom to talk to Congress could end up a matter for the courts to decide. Executive privilege is a controversial legal principle, but there are plenty of judges - and Supreme Court justices - who could be eager to see these presidential protections strengthened.\n\nMeanwhile, the Senate Intelligence Committee - chaired by Republican Richard Burr - has subpoenaed the president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr for a second round of questioning, after his first appearance in 2017. The committee could be interested in further questioning Trump Jr on his involvement in 2016 negotiations for a Trump construction project in Moscow\n\nIn a statement released to the press, an unnamed source \"close to Trump Jr\" called the subpoena an \"obvious PR stunt\" and called Mr Burr a \"so-called 'Republican'\". Trump Jr could ignore the request, risking a contempt of Congress citation, or refuse to testify by invoking his constitutional protection against self-incrimination.\n\nOutlook: Mr McGahn would be a blockbuster witness, but with a legal fight brewing the Mueller report may end up being his only public account. Public testimony by Trump Jr would be equally riveting, but he seems uncooperative and even less likely to appear beneath the congressional lights.\n\nWhile most of the Mueller report was made public in mid-April, there are still roughly 36 pages that the Justice Department has redacted - because of sensitive intelligence data, grand jury information, material relevant to ongoing investigations or matters concerning \"peripheral third parties\".\n\nDemocrats in Congress want to see the entire report and have issued a subpoena - again courtesy of House Judiciary Chair Nadler - to force the Justice Department to hand it over.\n\nCongressman Nadler is leading the Democratic charge in Congress\n\nThe White House has said the report was produced by the special counsel for the attorney general, and Congress has no right to see it in its entirety.\n\nIt has subsequently claimed \"executive privilege\" over the report in its entirety, pending further to determine if any of the currently redacted portions of the report or its supporting documents also contain protected communications between the president and his aides.\n\nThere's also an unstated concern that if the report receives wider distribution, its sensitive contests will leak to the public.\n\nAttorney General Barr said in his Senate testimony, however, that there were no significant areas of disagreement between Mr Mueller and himself over what to redact. There's no guarantee that the blacked-out portions of the report contain any new, explosive information.\n\nWith contempt of Congress proceedings advancing against Mr Barr for refusing to turn over the full report, this is shaping up to be another battle between two branches of government, the executive and legislative, that will have to be decided by the third, the judiciary.\n\nOutlook: This could end up being a fierce battle over a hill that doesn't matter in the larger war.\n\nThere are two separate legal battles brewing over congressional requests for Donald Trump's business records and - that holy grail for many on the left - his tax returns.\n\nA month ago, Richard Neal, the Democrat in charge of the House Ways and Means Committee, formally requested that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provide him with copies of the president's tax returns for six years, citing a seldom-used 1924 law as authority.\n\nSo far Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, whose department oversees the IRS, has only said he's reviewing the matter.\n\nSteven Mnuchin says the treasury department is reviewing the tax request\n\nThe president and his lawyers, on the other hand, have called the request improper and insisted that the IRS not comply.\n\n\"The Democrats are demanding that the IRS turn over the documents, and that is not going to happen and they know it,\" acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said a few days after the first committee request was filed.\n\nIf the Treasury Department continues to drag its feet, the Democrats could start court proceedings that eventually determine the constitutionality of that old federal law and the legality of the Democratic action.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Trump's personal lawyers have filed a flurry of lawsuits to prevent an accounting firm and two banks used by Mr Trump's businesses - Deutsche Bank and Capital One - from complying with requests by several Democratic-controlled House committees for Trump organisation financial records.\n\nCourts have previously given Congress broad subpoena powers as part of their legislative and investigatory responsibilities, but Mr Trump's lawyers are painting the move as a partisan fishing expedition that intrudes on the privacy of the president and his family.\n\nDemocrats counter that a thorough inspection of Trump businesses is the only way to ensure that he doesn't have financial involvements that are illegal or make him susceptible to foreign influence.\n\nOutlook: This appears set for another long, drawn-out legal battle. Democrats could find a way to circumvent the federal government, however, if New York state - which possesses the president's state tax returns and oversees many big financial institutions - hands over what they have to Congress.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLucas Moura scored a dramatic 96th-minute winner to cap an astonishing Tottenham fightback against Ajax and set up an all-English Champions League final against Liverpool.\n\nTrailing 1-0 from the first leg, Spurs made the worst possible start in Amsterdam when a towering fifth-minute header by 19-year-old Ajax captain Matthijs de Ligt doubled the advantage for Erik ten Hag's exciting young side.\n\nTottenham hit the post through Son Heung-min before Hakim Ziyech doubled Ajax's lead on the night with a sweeping finish after an assist by former Southampton winger Dusan Tadic.\n\nThat left Spurs 3-0 behind on aggregate yet, in another pulsating semi-final, Mauricio Pochettino's side scored twice within five minutes in the second half.\n\nMoura reduced the deficit with a composed finish before the Brazilian's shot on the turn, after keeper Andre Onana had denied substitute Fernando Llorente, levelled the scores on the night and left Spurs requiring one goal to reach the final in Madrid on 1 June.\n\nIn a frantic finish, Vertonghen headed against the bar from four yards before Moura completed his hat-trick with a left-foot shot from 16 yards deep into stoppage time as Spurs won on away goals to reach their first Champions League final.\n\nIt will be the second all-English final in the competition after Manchester United beat Chelsea on penalties in Moscow in 2008.\n• None Tactics were replaced by heart and desire for Spurs - Fletcher\n• None Kane 'hopeful' of being fit for final\n• None 'There. Is. Nothing. Like. Football' - how social media reacted to another stunning comeback\n\nPochettino could not contain his emotions at the final whistle and shed tears of joy as he celebrated wildly with his players on the pitch.\n\nThe Argentine, who marks his fifth anniversary in charge of Spurs later this month, was on his knees after a night that rivalled the jaw-dropping drama of Liverpool's incredible semi-final victory over Barcelona on Tuesday.\n\nHarry Kane, who is still recovering from an ankle injury, also joined his team-mates on the pitch at the end after their extraordinary comeback.\n\nSpurs looked dead and buried when Ziyech's outstanding first-time finish after a cut back by Tadic made it 3-0 on aggregate before half-time but they somehow pulled themselves together.\n\nMoura was the inspiration, producing three clinical finishes, the third and decisive goal coming when he picked the ball up from Dele Alli's flick and shot across Onana.\n\nHe is only the fifth player to score a Champions League semi-final hat-trick, and first since Cristiano Ronaldo in May 2017 for Real Madrid against Atletico Madrid.\n\nThis was a significant hurdle for Spurs to clear.\n\nThey had lost their three previous semi-finals, including an agonising penalty shootout defeat by Chelsea in this season's Carabao Cup.\n\nHaving moved into a new £1bn stadium last month, these are exciting times for Spurs as they chase a first trophy in 11 years.\n\nWith another top-four Premier League finish all but sealed, they are one win away from being crowned champions of Europe.\n\nThis after they took only one point from their first three group stage games and required late goals to beat PSV Eindhoven and Inter Milan, before an 85th-minute goal from Moura against Barcelona in the Nou Camp took them through to the knockout stage.\n\nAjax have been a joy to watch throughout this incredible European campaign, which started all the way back on 25 July in the second qualifying round against Austrian side Sturm Graz.\n\nThey have won a legion of new fans during their march through the rounds, which has included impressive wins over holders Real Madrid and Juventus.\n\nYet the four-time champions of Europe will need some time to recover after being denied a first appearance in the final since 1996 in the dying moments.\n\nBoasting a three-goal aggregate advantage at half-time, their fans were in party mood before Tottenham's amazing comeback.\n\nDe Ligt's early header from a corner after Hugo Lloris had denied Tadic was followed by Ziyech's clever finish and left Spurs with a mountain to climb.\n\nLittle did they know what was to come as the visitors, inspired by the exceptional Moura, produced an epic turnaround.\n• None The 2019 Champions League final will be only the third major European final in history to feature two English teams, after the 1972 Uefa Cup final (Spurs v Wolves) and 2008 Champions League final (Man Utd v Chelsea).\n• None Spurs are only the second team in Champions League history to lose the first leg of the semi-final at home and progress to the final - the other was Ajax in 1995-96 against Panathinaikos.\n• None Ajax defender Matthijs de Ligt became the fourth teenager to score in a Champions League semi-final, after Nordin Wooter (1996, Ajax), Obafemi Martins (2003, Inter Milan) and Kylian Mbappe (2017, Monaco).\n• None Spurs will be the eighth different English team to feature in a European Cup/Champions League final, after Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Leeds United, Liverpool, Manchester United and Nottingham Forest. England have had more different teams in the final of the competition than any other nation.\n• None English teams have come from two or more goals behind to win on seven occasions in Champions League history - four more than clubs of any other nation. Indeed, four of the past five occasions have been English teams.\n• None Spurs were the first team to come two goals behind to win in a Champions League semi-final match since Manchester United in 1999 against Juventus.\n\nWhen the dust settles, Tottenham will look to confirm a top-four finish for the fourth successive season when they host Everton on the final day of the Premier League season on Sunday (15:00 BST).\n\nAnd then it's the small matter of the Champions League final against Liverpool in Madrid on 1 June (20:00 BST).\n• None Goal! Ajax 2, Tottenham Hotspur 3. Lucas Moura (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dele Alli.\n• None Attempt missed. Fernando Llorente (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucas Moura.\n• None Attempt missed. Dusan Tadic (Ajax) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Hakim Ziyech (Ajax) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Daley Sinkgraven.\n• None Attempt blocked. Frenkie de Jong (Ajax) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Dusan Tadic.\n• None Attempt missed. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is just a bit too high. Assisted by Erik Lamela.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from very close range is blocked.\n• None Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham Hotspur) hits the bar with a header from very close range. Assisted by Fernando Llorente following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Missing posters have been distributed in the Ayrshire towns\n\nA 39-year-old man has been arrested in connection with missing Kilmarnock woman Emma Faulds.\n\nPolice said inquiries into her disappearance are continuing.\n\nMs Faulds, a 39-year-old care worker, was last seen at about 21:10 on Sunday 28 April in Fairfield Park, Monkton.\n\nSpecialist officers have been searching properties in the Monkton area and detectives have reviewed CCTV for any images of Ms Faulds in an effort to piece together her movements.\n\nThey have also been carrying out a forensic examination of her car.\n\nMs Faulds was reported missing to police after failing to get in touch with family or friends, which was said to be \"completely out of character\".\n\nPolice said she was a \"sociable, outgoing person\", and said those who knew her were \"distraught\" at not knowing where she was or what might have happened to her.\n\nThey also said it was \"alarming\" that Ms Faulds had left behind her beloved west highland terrier who she would never leave for any length of time without ensuring someone was able to look after it.\n\nPolice said it was alarming that Ms Faulds had left behind her dog\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Uber has been valued at $82bn (£63bn) ahead of its share listing in what is expected to be one of the biggest stock market flotations this year.\n\nThe ride-hailing app is asking investors to pay $45 a share, at the lower end of the price range expected.\n\nUber's conservative price is an attempt to avoid the fate of rival Lyft whose shares fell by up to a third after its recent listing, said analysts.\n\nUber is yet to make a profit and warned recently it may never do so.\n\nSince its foundation in 2009, the company has lost about $9bn.\n\nDaniel Ives, an analyst at investment company Wedbush Securities, said the lower-than-expected valuation was Uber's attempt to deflect scrutiny of its financial performance.\n\n\"They know that they are going to have a target on their back in terms of, not just investors, but regulators as well as drivers, so they need to tread carefully here in terms of how they price it.\n\n\"Their success is not going to be determined over the coming days or weeks or months, it's really over the coming years. But the last thing they want is for stock to drop through the IPO price like Lyft has,\" he said.\n\nUber had originally suggested a price range of between $44-$50 for its share price listing, valuing the company at up to $120bn.\n\nInvestors are betting on Uber's growth prospects as it diversifies into several other sectors. As well as the original \"ride-hailing\" business, Uber is developing driverless cars, and has a food delivery operation, Uber Eats.\n\nUnion organiser Lydia Hughes joined Uber drivers in their strike in London on Wednesday\n\nUber's chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, has emphasised that the firm's future is not as a ride-hailing company, but as a wide technology platform shaping logistics and transportation.\n\nBut Brian Hamilton, a tech entrepreneur and founder of data firm Sageworks, said its losses were hard to overlook.\n\n\"Uber is basically Lyft 2.0. Good model, growing sales. But, yet again, here comes California math once more. It is still losing a ton of money,\" he said.\n\nThe firm's revenue last year surged 42% to $11.3bn, but its adjusted loss - following a tax benefit - still hit $1.8bn. In the first three months of the year, it was a similar story with the firm reporting a loss of around $1bn.\n\nThe firm's flotation comes days after drivers in the US and UK went on strike over pay and working conditions.\n\nUnions are urging Uber to cut the rate of commission it takes, to increase the average fare rate and for better job security.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have named their baby son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.\n\nA surprise choice, Archie was not among the bookmakers' favourites of Alexander, Arthur and Albert.\n\n\"I don't think anyone of us saw either of these names coming,\" says Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty royal magazine.\n\nAs far as he is aware, Archie does not have any British royal connotations - and Harrison too is a totally new name for the Royal Family.\n\nArchie means \"genuine\", \"bold\" or \"brave\" - and is more popular in Britain than the US. It was originally a shortened form of Archibald but is now often used as a name on its own.\n\nIt was the 18th most-popular boy's name in England and Wales in 2017, with 2,803 baby boys called Archie that year, and has been in the top 50 consistently since 2003.\n\nHarrison is slightly more popular than Archie in the US - although it's still more common in the UK, where it was ranked the 34th most-popular boy's name in 2017.\n\nAnd, rather fittingly, Harrison - a name which was originally used as a surname - means \"son of Harry\".\n\nMr Little said: \"It may well be it's a name that Meghan is familiar with and again that's why they are using it,\" he said.\n\n\"Archie has a British feel to it, whereas Harrison is more of an American name. The first Harrison that springs to mind is Harrison Ford.\n\n\"They have wanted to do something a little bit different, and they have done.\"\n\nSome had wondered whether either of the new baby's grandfathers' or great-grandfathers' names might appear as a middle name - either Philip or Charles on the royal side, or Thomas on Meghan's.\n\n\"Again, it's down to the parents,\" said Mr Little. \"It's their choice.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHarry and Meghan have also chosen not to use a courtesy title for their new son.\n\nAs the first-born son of a duke, Archie could have assumed the title of Earl of Dumbarton but he will instead simply be known as Master Archie.\n\nRoyal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams said the individuality shown by Harry and Meghan in their choice of non-traditionally royal names was \"marvellous\" and would \"rejuvenate the monarchy\".\n\n\"It's a unique choice, by a unique couple who are doing things in a unique way,\" he said, adding: \"We are talking about brand Sussex, which is an international brand.\"\n\nIt is not the first time that a British royal baby has been given a name which is not traditionally royal. The name given to the Queen's first granddaughter - Zara Phillips - \"caused quite a sensation\" when it was unveiled, said Mr Little.\n\nFamous Archies include Archie Panjabi, who starred in The Good Wife; Archie Andrews in Archie comics in America and also the Netflix show Riverdale; and Archie Mitchell, a villain in the BBC soap EastEnders.\n\nFamily history website Ancestry said it expects the name Archie to become even more popular, having analysed the impact of other royal baby names. It said George and Charlotte both jumped up the rankings in the UK, as did William and Harry.\n\nMountbatten-Windsor is the surname which was created in 1960, combining the surnames of the Queen and Prince Philip when they married. The double-barrelled name was a concession to the Duke of Edinburgh, who was said to have complained that his children would not bear his name.\n\nThe three children of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge all have Cambridge on their birth certificates.\n\nRoyal author Penny Junor said she thinks the Duke of Edinburgh would be \"absolutely thrilled\" with his surname being used.\n\n\"Prince Philip was never allowed to call his children by his own surname,\" she said. \"I think that's a really nice tribute to Harry's grandfather.\"\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "The Army was called in to help protect homes against floods last year\n\nAs many as 530 key infrastructure sites across England are still vulnerable to flooding, according to a government review.\n\nThe report commits a total of £12.5m to new temporary flood defences in England.\n\nThe review was commissioned after 16,000 houses across northern England were flooded during the wettest December in a century last year.\n\nCritics at the time said defences were not up to the job.\n\nThe £12.5m means the Environment Agency would have four times as many temporary flood barriers than in 2015.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Andrea Leadsom said the review set out \"clear actions so we are better prepared to respond quickly in the event of future flooding and can strengthen the nation's flood defences\".\n\nShe added: \"Work is already underway towards £12.5 million of new temporary defences stationed around England, better protection for our infrastructure and new flood modelling that makes better use of data and technology.\"\n\nShe also said the government was investing £2.5bn by 2021 to protect families, homes and businesses from flooding.\n\nOther recommendations from the review include:\n\nMinisters offer communities the prospect of better protection from flooding but the report lays bare the scale of the work needed to achieve that. What does not appear in the press release accompanying the report is what many would judge to be the key finding: that as many as 530 important infrastructure sites across England - water supplies, telecommunications systems and electricity networks - are still vulnerable.\n\nAnd a fair question is what happens in the immediate future. The Met Office concludes that even without the effects of climate change, storms like those last winter could bring even greater volumes of rainfall - nearly one-third more in some cases. So I asked the Environment Agency if a city like Carlisle, inundated badly last December, would be any safer this winter. Not really, came the answer, reluctantly.\n\nThe new temporary barriers would not hold back the 2m of floodwater seen last winter. The hope for the moment is that vulnerable homes have been fitted with the latest protection systems. The uncomfortable truth is that it's impossible to defend everyone all the time. But no one in authority particularly likes to say so.\n\nThe National Flood Resilience Review was set up after devastating floods last winter across parts of northern England.\n\nIts aim was to assess how the country could be better protected from future flooding and increasing extreme weather.\n\nDuring storms last December in parts of northern England, flood defences did not work in some places, forcing thousands of people from their homes over Christmas.\n\nDr Stephen Gibbs, chairman of the Carlisle Flood Action Group, who lives in the Cumbrian city and has been flooded twice, was critical of the Government's approach.\n\n\"The issue is Government statutory powers to say 'we will defeat flooding',\" he explained.\n\n\"The Environment Agency [EA] have a pattern - they have a flood, they have a review, then they get out the [sticking plaster] and hope for the best until the next flood.\n\n\"Temporary flood defences are part of the filibustering that the EA are having to do. The Dutch defeated flooding because their senior politicians sat down and said 'How can we defeat this?' And they defeated flooding.\"\n\nThe report itself notes that just 30-40% of locally important infrastructure sites might be suitable for protection with appropriate temporary defences.\n\nLeeds City Council leader Judith Blake said: \"Leeds is barely mentioned in this report, which really does smack of the Government not taking the risk here seriously.\n\n\"Storm Eva caused absolute devastation for residents and businesses in Leeds, with many still recovering.\n\nAfter the floods, Ms Blake argued that there was a North-South divide in the response.\n\n\"As we know to our cost, there has been a severe lack of long-term planning when it comes to funding for flood defences and there is nothing in this report to offer comfort on that level,\" she said.\n\nCllr Martin Tett, environment spokesman for the Local Government Association (LGA) said the £12.5m was a step \"in the right direction\".\n\nHe added: \"Future funding for flood defences must also be devolved by the government to local areas. This will enable councils, working with communities and businesses, to ensure money is directed towards projects that best reflect local needs.\"", "In some prisons, inmates are being forced to double up in cells designed for one\n\nThe prison officers' union is to call for strike action as the number of inmates in Scotland's jails approaches record levels, BBC Scotland understands.\n\nThere are now about 700 more prisoners than a year ago.\n\nSome inmates have been forced to sleep on mattresses on the floor due to a lack of beds.\n\nThe union has also said violence inside prisons is increasing, along with the number of sick days taken by staff.\n\nPrison officers at a special delegate conference in Perth on Friday are likely to vote for a ballot on industrial action to highlight the problem. It would be their first strike for seven years.\n\nPhil Fairley, chairman of the Prison Officers' Association in Scotland, said that prisoner numbers ought to be decreasing as a result of current government policy and falling crime figures - but that other factors were putting pressure on the system.\n\n\"One of the factors we can point to is that we've got life sentence prisoners who are doing twice as long as they did for a life sentence 20 years ago,\" he told BBC Scotland. \"But it doesn't explain the whole growth in numbers.\n\n\"Today we've got nine out of 15 prisons (including two private prisons) that are overcrowded.\"\n\nPhil Fairley said the prison service was not far away from reaching record numbers\n\nThe BBC understands that prisoners at Perth - Scotland's oldest prison - have been sleeping on mattresses on the floor.\n\nAnd at Low Moss in East Dunbartonshire, the governor has been asked to take in another 100 prisoners, despite being at capacity.\n\n\"They have been asked to consider bunk beds for 100 prisoners in cells that are not designed for two to be in them,\" Mr Fairley said. \"We can't just sit back and watch it go in the direction it's going.\n\n\"We are not far away from reaching record high numbers.\"\n\nHe said the increase in prisoner numbers had an impact on staff being able to go about their daily jobs.\n\n\"The bit that matters to the public, to society, is the work that transforms individuals - challenging and tackling offending behaviour,\" he said.\n\n\"That will become the first sacrifice in terms of the time that's available to prison officers to do their jobs.\"\n\nHe said this would start to affect the mood in the prisons.\n\n\"There is always the potential for violence,\" he said. \"Violence is on the increase - both prisoner on prisoner and prisoner on staff is increasing.\"\n\nMr Fairley said the prison service last year lost 17,000 days to sick leave, involving stress and mental health issues.\n\n\"This isn't just a problem for prisoner officers, it's a problem for the whole of society,\" he said, adding that it made a \"huge difference\" to the rehabilitation of prisoners.\n\n\"The fact that we're in behind closed doors and high walls shouldn't let the public get complacent or turn a blind eye to what's going on inside our prisons. It matters to them as much as it matters to us.\"\n\nWendy Sinclair-Gieben said she was worried about the pressures of overcrowding\n\nChief Inspector of Prisons Wendy Sinclair-Gieben said the reasons for the rising prison population were complex, but included the length of life sentences.\n\nShe said: \"About 12-15 years ago the average was about 10-12 years - it's now about 19-23 years.\"\n\nShe also said there had been considerable success in tracking down and convicting legacy sex offenders who were also given long sentences.\n\nAnother factor was a review of home detention curfews which had led to reduction in such curfews being used, she added.\n\nMs Sinclair-Gieben said the removal of automatic release at the half way point of sentences had also added to the numbers in prison.\n\nShe said there were now about 700 more prisoners than a year ago - the equivalent of a large prison.\n\n\"It's quite pressured at the moment which is really concerning,\" she said, adding that inmates being forced to share cells led to increased tensions and the extra numbers put a strain on resources.\n\n\"One of the things that worries me about the pressure of overcrowding is that inevitably the whole thing degrades slightly,\" she said.\n\nTom Fox said high prison numbers had an impact on the prison regime\n\nTom Fox, of the Scottish Prison Service, said: \"Numbers have risen fairly steeply over the past 12 months and that does have an impact on the entirety of the prison regime.\n\n\"The more people we have, the more pressure it places on the system, and I think it's fair to say the staff are doing a remarkably good job of coping with the pressure brought about by these numbers.\n\n\"But the more people we have, the less time we have to devote to working closely with individuals to make sure they receive appropriate support in rehabilitation before re-entering society.\"\n\nHe added: \"We're not complacent about violence but we haven't seen high levels of violence in our prisons for many years and I think that's a tribute to the way in which staff work with prisoners and the relationships they develop.\n\n\"I would hope that we could maintain that stability and that environment going forward.\"", "The \"Love Northampton\" campaign was a recent attempt to promote the town\n\nA plan to save a town centre described as \"decaying\" has been unveiled.\n\nNorthampton Borough Council said it hoped that £25m from the government's Future High Streets Fund could be used to redevelop the town centre.\n\nThe authority has put together a new board called Northampton Forward to tackle some of the town's long-standing issues.\n\nCouncil leader Jonathan Nunn said it \"promised action\" and wanted \"something better for the town\".\n\nBut university lecturer Kardi Somerfield, who lives in the town centre, said the plan \"feels like deja vu\" with similar proposal in the past.\n\nShe said the town would have to get government money \"otherwise who's going to pay for it\", adding: \"Businesses would only invest in a viable town.\"\n\nThe Market Square is one of Britain's largest and dates back to 1235\n\nThe council said footfall into Northampton had fallen by 15%, while problems such as vacant shops and homelessness are on the rise.\n\nIt has produced a vision for five sectors within the town, with ideas including an indoor food hall and new parks.\n\nThe plan said it would \"allow the retail core to shrink\" and increase the amount of flats and homes in the town centre\n\nRecently, retailers such as BHS and Marks and Spencer have left the town, leaving large empty units on the main shopping street.\n\nThat led local celebrity and broadcaster the Reverend Richard Coles to describe the town centre as \"decaying\".\n\nBut Conservative councillor Mr Nunn warned against quickly filling empty shops and selling off land, saying he did not want \"a mediocre thing that does not actually achieve anything for the town\".\n\nHe said if the council does not receive money from the fund it would attempt to secure other funding, but he admitted the plan needed \"serious public money\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of Sussex is in The Hague for an event to mark a year until the 2020 Invictus Games for armed services personnel and veterans.\n\nHis newborn son, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was introduced to the world yesterday.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have presented their newborn son to the world.\n\nSpeaking in St George's Hall at Windsor Castle, Meghan said: \"It's magic, it's pretty amazing. I have the two best guys in the world so I'm really happy.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Europa League\n\nEden Hazard scored the winning penalty as Chelsea edged past Eintracht Frankfurt 4-3 on penalties to set up an all-English Europa League final against Arsenal.\n\nHazard, who could have played his final game for the Blues at Stamford Bridge, converted after Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga had saved from both Martin Hinteregger and Goncalo Paciencia.\n\nChelsea will now meet Arsenal in the final in Baku on 29 May and the result means both the Champions League and Europa League final will be played between English clubs this season - the first time all four finalists in Europe's top two competitions have come from one nation.\n\nWith the score 1-1 after the first leg, Chelsea took the lead in the second when Ruben Loftus-Cheek coolly stroked into the far corner in the 28th minute, but the night was far from straight-forward.\n\nFrankfurt levelled the tie four minutes after half-time when Luka Jovic slotted past Arrizabalaga after being played in by Mijat Gacinovic.\n\nJovic's goal punished Chelsea for a sloppy start to the second half and the Blues continued to be wasteful as Stamford Bridge became increasingly restless.\n\nIn extra time the Germans twice had efforts cleared off the line with David Luiz first denying Sebastian Haller and then Davide Zappacosta clearing Haller again at a corner.\n\nChelsea thought they had won it late in extra time but Cesar Azpilicueta, who later missed first in the penalty shootout, had a goal ruled out when the referee deemed he had bundled the ball out of Frankfurt keeper Kevin Trapp's hands.\n• None Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri unhappy about US trip before Europa League final\n\nThe shootout was Chelsea's first since they lost the Carabao Cup final to Manchester City on penalties in February.\n\nThat game was overshadowed by Arrizabalaga's refusal to be substituted - manager Maurizio Sarri wanted to bring on substitute goalkeeper Willy Caballero for the shootout - but at Stamford Bridge the Spaniard proved to be the hero.\n\nAfter Azpilicueta missed first, Arrizabalaga remarkably kept out Eintracht's fourth penalty by trapping the ball under his shin as he stood still when Hinteregger went for power and then dived low to his right to palm away the visitors' fifth.\n\nThat left Hazard with the opportunity to complete the win and the Belgian delivered - sending Trapp the wrong way, tucking the ball into the corner.\n• None Arsenal and Chelsea given 6,000 tickets each for final\n• None I don't know if final will be my last Chelsea game - Hazard\n\nHazard has been strongly linked with a move to Real Madrid this summer and if he does depart the game will be his final at Stamford Bridge after seven years at the club.\n\nThere were no waves to the crowd or clear indications he will leave in the summer and when asked whether the final would be his last game for the club he said \"in my mind I do not know yet\".\n\nIf he does leave in the summer it would be a fitting way for him to finish in west London.\n\nThe win also means Chelsea have a final chance to earn silverware in Sarri's first season in charge.\n\nLike the campaign as a whole, the night was far from smooth for the Italian and had difficult moments.\n\nHe become increasingly frantic on the touchline as his side lost control of the game in the second half and his decision to remove goal scorer Loftus-Cheek when bringing on Ross Barkley late on was loudly booed by the Chelsea fans.\n\nBut for all of the season's problems, including the Arrizabalaga affair and protests from fans against his style of play, Chelsea are quietly achieving their pre-season aims at the end of the season.\n\nLast weekend they secured a top four finish and Champions League qualification through their league position and are now into their first European final since winning the Europa League in 2013.\n\nHad either of their efforts cleared off the line in extra time gone in, it would have been hard to argue Eintracht Frankfurt were not worthy finalists.\n\nOver the two legs the German side, fancied by few at the start of the competition, had opportunities to seal a first European final since 1980.\n\nRather than sitting back after Jovic's equaliser - the highly sought after 21-year-old's 10th Europa League goal of the season - they continued to attack Chelsea in the second half and the tension around Stamford Bridge was clear.\n\nSubstitute Haller should have scored his first chance in extra time but failed to make proper contact with his volley, kicking the ball into the ground with his studs rather than side-footing into the net, and that allowed Luiz to clear.\n\nThe visitors were roared on by their vocal travelling support, some of whom were in tears at the end of the penalty shootout.\n\nDespite the disappointment those fans chanted in support of their team long after the final whistle as the players and backroom staff emotionally came together and linked arms in front of the away end.\n• None Chelsea have won each of their last four penalty shootouts at Stamford Bridge, with this their first in European competition at home.\n• None This is the first time that all four places in the Champions League/European Cup and Europa League/UEFA Cup finals will be filled by one country.\n• None Chelsea have reached their first major European final since the 2013 Europa League, when they beat Benfica 2-1 under manager Rafael Benitez.\n• None Chelsea have never lost a home game against German opponents in all competitions (W7 D3).\n• None Eintracht Frankfurt have only lost one of their last nine away Europa League games (W5 D3). The German side have scored in all seven of their games on the road in the competition this season.\n• None Luka Jovic has scored 10 goals in the Europa League this season; no player has netted more (level with Olivier Giroud).\n• None Chelsea forward Eden Hazard has had a hand in 24 goals in 26 appearances at Stamford Bridge in 2018-19 (13 goals, 11 assists).\n• None Ruben Loftus-Cheek has been directly involved in nine goals in his last 14 appearances for Chelsea (4 goals, 5 assists); as many as in his previous 45 games for the Blues.\n\n'We got into trouble' - Sarri reaction\n\nSpeaking to BT Sport, Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri said: \"I think we played a very good first half and then we got into trouble after the break. We conceded a goal in 10 minutes of panic.\n\n\"We were better in the last part of the match but we were tired in extra time and it was difficult.\n\n\"We started with three injuries and picked up two more during the match after we lost Andreas Christensen and Ruben Loftus-Cheek, so it wasn't easy but we are now in the final.\"\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(4), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(3). Eden Hazard (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Gonçalo Paciência (Eintracht Frankfurt) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(3), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(3). David Luiz (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Martin Hinteregger (Eintracht Frankfurt) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, left footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(2), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(3). Jorginho (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(1), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(3). Jonathan de Guzmán (Eintracht Frankfurt) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! César Azpilicueta (Chelsea) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(1), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(2). Luka Jovic (Eintracht Frankfurt) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(1), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(1). Ross Barkley (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1, Eintracht Frankfurt 1(1). Sébastien Haller (Eintracht Frankfurt) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Offside, Eintracht Frankfurt. Danny da Costa tries a through ball, but Sébastien Haller is caught offside.\n• None Sébastien Haller (Eintracht Frankfurt) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Pedro (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Eden Hazard. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Adrian Edmondson, who is known for starring in anarchic TV comedies The Young Ones and Bottom, is joining the cast of EastEnders.\n\nThe comic actor will be seen in the BBC One soap as Daniel Cook, a new love interest for Jean Slater, played by Gillian Wright.\n\nThe BBC said Edmondson had already started filming, with his first appearance to air later this summer.\n\nHis character is described as \"charming and with a wicked sense of humour\".\n\nHe will be \"the perfect antidote for Jean as she continues her treatment for ovarian cancer\", producers added.\n\nThe 62-year-old actor said in a statement: \"There were only 15 boys on my drama course at Manchester Uni, and I'll be the third to appear in EastEnders - so I feel it's a kind of tradition! The other two being Tom Watt [Lofty Holloway] and Paul Bradley [Nigel Bates].\"\n\nLeft-right: Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson on the set of The Young Ones in 1982\n\nAfter breaking through as a stand-up comedian in the 1980s, Edmondson found wider fame playing Vyvyan in The Young Ones and later as the manic Eddie Hitler in Bottom, which he also wrote with co-star Rik Mayall.\n\nSince then, Edmondson has taken on more sedate roles in the likes of Holby City, Bancroft and War and Peace, as well as fronting a series about the Yorkshire Dales for ITV.\n\nHe is the latest comedian to move into the soap world, following in the footsteps of the likes of Bradley Walsh, Les Dennis and Vic Reeves.\n\nEastEnders executive producer Jon Sen said: \"Adrian's a phenomenal talent who will bring his unique blend of intelligence, warmth and humour to the role of Daniel.\n\n\"We're all over the moon he's coming to Walford and can't wait for this love story to hit screens later this year.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The man in charge of England's flood defences has called for a debate on whether communities at the highest risk should be abandoned and their residents permanently relocated.\n\nSir James Bevan, the Environment Agency chief executive, said England could not continue to build taller, stronger and costlier concrete defences for ever.\n\nIn a speech in Telford, he asked if it would be safer for people to move.\n\nThe UK \"owed it to future generations\" to think the unthinkable, he suggested.\n\nAddressing the Flood and Coast Conference, he also called for homeowners to be more aware of the risks they faced and for businesses, councils and other organisations to share more of the cost of funding flood defences.\n\nCentral government accounts for about 90% of all English funding on flood risk management and defence.\n\nAccording to a 2016 government review, 12% of England's land mass, 8% of the population and 2.4 million homes and other premises are vulnerable to coastal and river flooding.\n\nIn the wake of the devastating 2013-14 winter floods across southern England, the then prime minister David Cameron pledged to spend whatever it took to rebuild communities and ensure they weren't swamped again.\n\nSir James said the UK had strengthened its capacity to deal with flooding since then and the equally devastating floods in the north of England in the winter of 2015-6.\n\nBut, in the longer term, he said government would have to rethink its approach \"from first principles\", suggesting what had worked so well in the past and continued to do so \"may not be enough in the future\".\n\nSir James Bevan said traditional lines of defence may not work in the future\n\nWhile vital infrastructure such as the Thames Barrier would likely have to be upgraded in the years to come, he said there was a limit to the protection \"hard\" structures could offer and \"more concrete was not the answer\".\n\n\"In the face of the rising risks and costs, it won't make sense to go on building ever taller, stronger and more expensive concrete defences as the default solution to flood risk,\" he said.\n\n\"The engineering won't work and the humans won't put up with it. You can only build a wall so high before people stop wanting to live behind it.\"\n\nWhile he made clear he was not calling for high-risk communities to be uprooted, he said the argument that it would be safer and cheaper to do so than to continue to defend them had to be confronted.\n\n\"There are places on the coast and on some of our major rivers which are already costing millions of pounds a year to defend and those costs will only rise over time,\" he said.\n\n\"Do we want to defend every inhabited location or should we consider moving some communities?\n\n\"I am not saying we should do that. I know how important place and community are to people. I am saying we should be prepared to have the debate.\"\n\nIn its 2016 flood resilience review, UK ministers acknowledged alternatives to \"hard solutions\" were needed, with more emphasis on natural flood management and water planning, both down river and upstream.", "More coastal erosion is expected in England\n\nEngland’s flood planners must prepare for the worst on climate change, the Environment Agency has warned.\n\nIts chairwoman, Emma Howard Boyd, said on current trends, global temperature could rise between 2C and 4C by 2100 and £1bn a year would need to be spent on flood management.\n\nShe said some communities may even need to move because of the risk of floods.\n\nThe government said it would be seeking evidence for its own flood policy in the autumn.\n\nMs Howard Boyd, launching the consultation on the agency’s flood strategy, said government policy should ensure that all publicly-funded infrastructure is resilient to flooding and coastal change by 2050.\n\n“We can’t win a war against water by building away climate change with infinitely high flood defences,” she said.\n\nShe called for more to be done to encourage property owners to rebuild homes after flooding in better locations, and with improvements such as raised electrics, hard flooring and flood doors, rather than just \"recreating what was there before\".\n\nHowever, she warned that in some places \"the scale of the threat may be so significant that recovery will not always be the best long term solution\" and communities would need help to \"move out of harm's way\".\n\nThe agency expects more intense bursts of rain and continuing coastal erosion.\n\nIt calculates that, for every person who suffers flooding, about 16 more are affected by loss of services such as power, transport and telecommunications.\n\nThe Army has been called in to help protect homes against floods in recent years\n\nMs Howard Boyd warned that climate change and population growth in England meant that properties built in the floodplain will double over the next 50 years.\n\nThe agency points towards research from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership which suggests that losses on UK mortgages could also double if global temperatures increase by 2C and triple if warming hits 4C.\n\nThese would be insurance-related losses related to outcomes of climate change such as more extreme weather.\n\nMs Howard-Boyd said the government’s six-year flood programme had given flood and coastal protection “a shot in the arm”, but she warned that more will be needed.\n\nEnvironment Minister Therese Coffey said: “Flooding and coastal erosion can have terrible consequences for people, businesses and the environment.\n\n\"That’s why we are already providing £2.6bn over six years, delivering more than 1,500 projects to better protect 300,000 homes.”\n\nBut she added that \"the threat of climate change will mean an increasing risk and preparing the country is a priority for the government, and the nation as a whole\".\n\nIn a statement, Friends of the Earth said: “Smarter adaptation and resilience building - including natural flood management measures like tree-planting - is undeniably important.\n\n“But the focus must be first and foremost on slashing emissions so that we can avoid the worst consequences of climate chaos in the first place.\n\n“With its relentless pursuit of fracking, airport expansion, and road building, and barely tepid support for renewable energy, our government is failing with this regard.\"\n• None BBC iWonder - Why are UK floods on the rise-", "Lyra McKee was observing rioting in Creggan when she was shot dead last month\n\nThree men and a teenage boy remain in police custody after being arrested in connection with the violence that took place on the night Lyra McKee was murdered.\n\nThe 15-year-old youth, and three men aged 18, 38 and 51, were detained under terrorism legislation on Thursday.\n\nMs McKee, 29, was shot while observing rioting in Londonderry on 18 April.\n\nViolence broke out in Creggan after raids were carried out by police.\n\nDetectives were investigating dissident republican activity in the Mulroy Park and Galliagh areas.\n\nThe four have been taken to Musgrave Station in Belfast where they are currently being questioned.\n\nPolice were searching for weapons and ammunition in Derry when the violence started\n\nThe senior detective leading the investigation, Det Supt Jason Murphy, said: \"Detectives carried out searches at four houses in the city and arrested four people in connection with the violence which was orchestrated on the streets of Creggan on the evening of Lyra McKee's murder.\n\n\"I want to thank the public for the widespread support we have received to date, including more than 140 people who have provided images, footage and other details via our dedicated major incident public portal. I still want to hear from anyone who can tell us anything they know.\"", "Not everyone is as happy as Spurs' goal-scoring hero Lucas Moura\n\nOnline retailer Zavvi has apologised after telling customers they had won a VIP trip to the Champions League football final in Madrid.\n\nJoyous winners took to social media to announce their news - and dismay on learning of the error.\n\nWhat Zavvi called \"technical issues\" meant its entire subscriber list may have been told they were winners.\n\nZavvi, which emerged out of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, sell music, DVDs, clothing and homeware.\n\nA competition, in partnership with Mastercard, was offering two adults an all-expenses two-night trip to the much-anticipated Champions League final between Liverpool and Spurs.\n\nSupposed winners received an email addressed to them personally using their first name. It read: \"We here at Zavvi would like to wish you a huge congratulations as you have been chosen as the winner of our Mastercard competition, winning a VIP trip for two adults to attend the UEFA Champions League Final Madrid 2019.\"\n\nThe sister of one recipient tweeted: \"Oh my God, my brother has just won this amazing prize!! We're going to the Champions League final!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH @zavvi!!!!!\".\n\nIt is unclear how many people were emailed. The Liverpool Echo newspaper reported that among people getting the Zavvi emails were hundreds of Liverpool fans.\n\nBut after news seeped out on social media of multiple winners, Zavvi tweeted: \"Apologies, we're aware of the problem regarding the recent Mastercard Competition. We seem to have had some technical issues and we're currently looking into this.\"\n\nHowever, it appears that this tweet has now been taken down from Zavvi's twitter feed.\n\nNews of the \"winners\" came soon after Spurs reached the final on Wednesday after one of football's most amazing semi-final comebacks, against Ajax. That followed Liverpool's equally sensational comeback against Barcelona the night before.\n\nThe two remarkable games and an all-English club final has sparked soaring demand for tickets.\n\nSocial media lit up with people expressing their immediate delight, followed by disappointment.\n\nRob Kirkpatrick told the BBC that he was on his way to work on Thursday morning at 10:34 BST when he received the email from Zavvi.\n\nMr Kirkpatrick contacted Zavvi via the website to ask if the email was fake, and he was told that while the email wasn't fake, it had been sent to everyone who entered the competition.\n\nZavvi said it would not be able to confirm whether he had won until it had conducted further investigation.\n\n\"I feel angry and frustrated. I could have cried when I got the email, as I was just looking at flights last night just to go over for the experience and be with other Liverpool fans because I knew I couldn't get a ticket to the game itself because I'd missed the ballot,\" Mr Kirkpatrick told the BBC.\n\nAt about 17:00 BST, Mr Kirkpatrick received an email from Zavvi apologising and offering customers a 15% discount code to use on the website.\n\n\"I just think they should have handled it a little bit better,\" he said. \"It's just very disappointing, I know it's a mistake and mistakes happen, but it's a huge mistake.\"\n\nOne tweet said: \"I received this email from the actual @zavvi email address and lost my mind shaking buzzing... Devastated isn't the word I'm actually distraught.\"\n\nAnother said: \"This is horrible. Me and my brother have already sent in our holiday requests to work and I've cancelled a weekend in Edinburgh when this arrived. I thought at first it would be a scam but checked the email address was genuine.\"", "Former cabinet minister Esther McVey has announced she will stand for leader of the Conservative Party.\n\nShe told Talk Radio she had \"enough support\" from fellow MPs to \"go forward\" once Theresa May stands down.\n\nInternational Development Secretary Rory Stewart has announced he will run and Commons leader Andrea Leadsom has said she is \"considering\" doing so.\n\nOther senior Tories are expected to join them, with Mrs May promising to go once the first stage of Brexit is over.\n\nThe widely touted possible contenders include former and current members of the Cabinet, including Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Amber Rudd, Sajid Javid, Dominic Raab, Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss.\n\nMs McVey, a Brexit supporter and former TV presenter, quit as Work and Pensions Secretary last November in protest at Mrs May's withdrawal agreement with the EU.\n\nAsked on Talk Radio whether she would run for leader, the MP for Tatton, in Cheshire, said: \"I've always said quite clearly that if I got enough support from colleagues then, yes, I would, and now people have come forward and I have that support.\"\n\nIn a Conservative leadership contest, MPs hold a series of ballots, with the candidate gaining the fewest votes eliminated at each stage.\n\nOnce the field is reduced to two, the winner is chosen by a vote of party members. This wider vote did not occur in 2016, when Mrs May became leader, after the second-placed candidate among MPs - Mrs Leadsom - stood aside.\n\nMrs May won a Tory MPs' vote of confidence in her leadership last December, and party rules mean that another such vote cannot be triggered until next December.\n\nBut the prime minister has come under pressure to name an exit date, after the Commons effectively rejected her agreement with the EU three times.\n\nThe Conservatives also lost more than 1,300 seats in last week's English council elections, increasing concerns over possible heavy losses to Nigel Farage's Brexit Party in European Parliament elections on 23 May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs May has agreed to address a meeting of the 1922 Committee - an elected body of Tory MPs which represents backbenchers and oversees leadership contests - next week.\n\nThe committee's chairman, Sir Graham Brady, said he believed she would ask the Commons to vote again on the terms of the UK's exit before the European Parliament elections.\n\nMuch of the anger in the Conservative parliamentary party is focusing on Mrs May's efforts to find a Brexit compromise with Labour.\n\nAnd local Conservative Association chairmen are to hold a non-binding no-confidence vote on the prime minister's leadership.\n\nIn the Commons on Wednesday, Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns urged Mrs May to resign, saying she had \"failed to deliver on her promises\" on Brexit.\n\nBut Mrs May replied that this was \"not an issue about me\" and that, if it was up to her, the UK would have already left the EU.\n\nFormer Chancellor George Osborne has suggested the cabinet should move against the prime minister, so the Conservative Party can change leader and \"win over supporters who have disappeared\".\n\nBut Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd said this would be \"a mistake\".\n\n\"We need to hold our nerve,\" she added. \"[The prime minister] has said that she's going to leave after the first stage of Brexit is done.\n\n\"We are full tilt at trying to do the first stage and I think a leadership election now would be disruptive of a process that is taking so much of our energy right now.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mrs May has carried out a reshuffle of junior and middle-ranking ministerial roles.\n\nRobert Buckland moves from being solicitor general to a minister of state at the Ministry of Justice.\n\nLucy Frazer is now solicitor general. having previously been a parliamentary under secretary of state at the Ministry of Justice.\n\nPaul Maynard goes from being a government whip to replace Ms Frazer in the Ministry of Justice job.\n\nAnd Andrew Murrison becomes a minister of state at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir John Gillen has delivered his final report to the Department of Justice\n\nImprovements in how Northern Ireland deals with serious sex offence cases are possible within \"weeks and months\", according to a retired judge.\n\nSir John Gillen was speaking after delivering a final report to the Department of Justice.\n\nIt follows public consultation on recommendations he made last year, including controls on who attends rape trials, which will now be implemented.\n\nHe said 75% of the changes do not require legislation.\n\nHis review was launched last year, after former Ulster Rugby players Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding were found not guilty of rape at a high-profile trial.\n\nStuart Olding (left) and Paddy Jackson were cleared of rape charges after a nine-week trial in Belfast\n\nPublic access to trials involving serious sexual offences will be largely confined to close family members of the victim and the accused, although the media will still be allowed in.\n\nOther measures include preventing \"improper cross-examination about previous sexual history\" and new legislation \"to manage the dangers created by social media\".\n\nThe Department of Justice has now set up a special group to \"oversee the implementation of the Gillen Review\".\n\nIt said he had produced a \"groundbreaking report\".\n\n\"I am confident, given the level of public expectation, the department will carry out the thrust of my recommendations in a timely and efficient manner,\" Sir John said.\n\n\"The number of responses I had illustrates the genie is out of the bottle.\n\n\"The public are now aware of the flaws in the system. I do not think that the genie can be put back in the bottle.\"\n\nSir John has accepted that some of his recommendations will have to wait until there is an executive at Stormont\n\nGiven the absence of a devolved assembly, he accepted there would be a delay in delivering a quarter of what he proposed, but other things \"can be done fairly quickly in terms of weeks and months\".\n\nSir John and his review team had contact with more than 200 organisations and individuals to hear first-hand accounts of the criminal justice process.\n\nThey also examined systems and processes in 15 countries across Europe, the United States, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.", "Rail passengers seeking compensation for delayed journeys are required to submit up to 24 pieces of information to make a claim.\n\nConsumer group Which? is calling for the system to be simplified after it found companies were asking for between 10 and 24 separate details.\n\nGreater Anglia, London Northwestern, ScotRail, Transport for Wales, and West Midlands Trains asked for the most.\n\nRail bosses said the requirements guarded against fraudulent claims.\n\nThe amount of compensation which can be claimed following disruption varies between train companies and depends on the length of delay and the type of ticket.\n\nRecent research from independent transport watchdog Transport Focus found that just 35% of passengers who are eligible for compensation submit a claim.\n\nWhich?, which has previously filed a super-complaint about delays to compensation, argued that the system was \"fragmented and confusing\".\n\n\"This leads to people losing out on a lot of money when they have already suffered enough from unacceptable levels of delays and cancellations,\" said Alex Hayman, from Which?.\n\nThe consumer group found that some of the most complex claims forms requested 13 different pieces of information about the ticket.\n\nYet, it argued that most of this information was clearly displayed on a photo of the paper ticket - which all but one company required to be uploaded as proof of purchase.\n\nGreater Anglia argued that by registering online, the system remembered personal details so there was no need to resubmit information into a lengthy form on subsequent occasions.\n\nAnthony Smith, chief executive of Transport Focus, said: \"It is now important that train operators actively encourage passengers to claim, making it quick, easy and automated as soon as possible.\n\n\"[We] will be campaigning to ensure more passengers affected by delays or cancellations claim. There is no better way for passengers to ensure the rail industry listens to them.\"\n\nJacqueline Starr, chief operating officer from the Rail Delivery Group, which represents the rail industry, said that the questions were asked to ensure passengers \"receive what they are entitled to as quickly as possible while also guarding against fraudulent claims\".\n\n\"We are doing more to encourage claims, including sending reminders to people who booked online, making announcements on trains and handing out claim forms, which has led to an 80% increase in compensation over the last two years to £81m a year,\" she said.\n\nThe government said it wanted to see a \"one click\" system of online financial redress for passengers by the end of current franchises, some of which are completed in 2025.\n\nWhich?'s research found that Chiltern Railways and Heathrow Express asked for the fewest details, requiring 10 pieces of information. Several rail companies offer automatic compensation to customers with certain tickets.\n• None Rail delays: How to get your money back", "Fake German heiress Anna Sorokin is led away after being sentenced\n\nA German woman who posed as a billionaire heiress to swindle New York hotels and banks has been sentenced to at least four years in prison.\n\n\"I apologise for the mistakes I made,\" Anna Sorokin, 28, said shortly before she learned her fate.\n\nShe was found guilty in April of theft of services and grand larceny, having stolen more than $200,000 (£153,580).\n\nSorokin, who rejected a plea deal, may face deportation to Germany.\n\nShe was sentenced on Thursday at Manhattan Supreme Court to between four and 12 years in prison. The actual amount of time she will serve behind bars will depend on factors such as her behaviour.\n\nSorokin will receive credit for time already served, having been in custody at New York's notorious Rikers Island jail since October 2017.\n\nAnna Sorokin (right), then known as Anna Delvey, at a fashion event at a New York hotel in 2014\n\nShe was also fined $24,000 and ordered to pay restitution of about $199,000.\n\nAt the hearing, Judge Diane Kiesel rejected the defence lawyers' claim that Sorokin was merely trying to make it in New York, in the words of the Frank Sinatra song about the city.\n\nThe judge said the Sorokin case instead reminded her of the Bruce Springsteen song, Blinded by the Light.\n\n\"She was blinded by the glitter and glamour of New York City,\" said Judge Kiesel, according to Buzzfeed.\n\nThe judge reportedly also said she was \"stunned\" by the depths of Sorokin's deception.\n\nUnder her assumed name Anna Delvey, Sorokin falsely claimed she had a multi-million dollar trust fund at her disposal, as she hired a private jet, attended elite parties, and lived in a luxury New York hotel. She maintained the scam for almost four years.\n\nMeanwhile, prosecutors said, Sorokin had \"not a cent to her name\". Her father is reportedly a former trucker, who runs a heating-and-cooling business.\n\nIn court, her defence attorney, Todd Spodek, claimed that Sorokin had been \"buying time\" as she worked to pay back her debts. He maintained that Sorokin had no criminal intent but was instead an ambitious entrepreneur.\n\nAccording to court documents, Sorokin used her phony persona as a German heiress with $60m in assets to try to get a loan of $22m for a foundation in her name. She presented forged bank statements and would deposit bad cheques, then withdraw the money before they bounced.\n\nProsecutors say she went on a one-month shopping spree, spending $55,000 on a luxury hotel, high-end fashion purchases, personal trainer sessions, and Apple, among other personal expenses.\n\nAssistant District Attorney Catherine McCaw said Sorokin had shown \"almost no remorse\".\n\nFollowing a month-long trial, a jury convicted Sorokin on eight counts.\n\nBut she was found not guilty of attempted grand larceny and stealing more than $60,000 from a friend who paid for a luxury holiday in Morocco.\n\nSorokin was described as a con artist\n\nEven up to her sentencing, Sorokin appeared intent on carefully crafting her image.\n\nShe worked with a stylist, Anastasia Walker, to create her courtroom look during the trial.\n\nThe initial story about Sorokin's swindling by New York Magazine was swiftly optioned by Netflix.\n\nThe production has been linked with Shonda Rhimes, who created TV hit shows Grey's Anatomy and Scandal.", "Critics warn that children risk becoming \"collateral damage\" if benefits are withdrawn\n\nThe maximum financial penalty for benefit claimants is to be cut, Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has announced.\n\nSanctions can be imposed on claimants who do not meet conditions such as attending job centre meetings.\n\nIn some \"high level\" cases, such as a failure to take up paid work, people can lose benefits for three years.\n\nMs Rudd said this maximum penalty will now be cut to six months, adding that she wanted a system which was \"fair\".\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions previously insisted its scheme was \"reasonable\".\n\nA report released by the Work and Pensions Committee in November 2018 found single parents, care leavers and people with disabilities and health conditions were \"disproportionately vulnerable\" to and affected by sanctions.\n\nAs well as missing appointments, sanctions can currently be imposed for failure to show efforts to find work, and can see claimants lose all of their jobseeker's allowance or universal credit standard allowance.\n\nLast year's report also warned that children risked becoming \"collateral damage\" as the withdrawal of parents' benefits harmed their welfare.\n\nSpeaking at the Recruitment and Employment Confederation in London, Ms Rudd said: \"In the future, the longest length of sanctions will be six months.\n\nAmber Rudd said policies should be compassionate and work for everybody\n\n\"I am undertaking an evaluation of the effectiveness of universal credit sanctions to see whether other improvements can be made.\n\n\"I feel very strongly about making sure that the policies of this department are fair, compassionate and that they work for everybody.\"\n\nShadow work and pensions secretary Margaret Greenwood said Labour had long been pressing for the government to scrap its \"punitive\" sanctions regime.\n\n\"Six months is still a very long time to leave someone without any income at all. It is not just the individual who is affected, but their family too,\" she said.\n\n\"There is clear evidence that sanctions and excessive conditionality do not help people into sustained employment.\n\n\"They also cause stress and anxiety for many and are one of the key reasons that people ask for help at food banks.\"", "Lora Haddock says she is thankful for the decision\n\nA sex toy that was banned from this year's CES tech show after winning an innovation award has been given the prize again, four months later.\n\nThe Ose robotic vibrator by Lora DiCarlo was originally given the prize by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) in January.\n\nHowever, the CTA quickly changed its mind and ousted the device, causing outrage.\n\nThe organisation has now offered a \"sincere apology\" to Lora DiCarlo.\n\nThe CTA was accused of \"gender bias\" at the time in a blog by Lora Haddock, the founder and chief executive of the Lora DiCarlo company.\n\nMs Haddock argued that the organisation had rejected a product focused on female sexuality, whereas shopping or childcare-related items aimed at women were allowed to remain in the same award category as the vibrator.\n\n\"We firmly believe that women, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and LGBTQI folks should be vocally claiming our space in pleasure and tech,\" she said.\n\n\"The CTA did not handle this award properly,\" said Jean Foster, a marketing executive at the organisation.\n\n\"This prompted some important conversations internally and with external advisers, and we look forward to taking these learnings to continue to improve the show.\"\n\nMs Haddock said she appreciated the \"gesture\" from the CTA, which would serve to \"remove the stigma and embarrassment around female sexuality\".\n\n\"The incredible support and attention we've received in the wake of our experience highlights the need for meaningful changes, and we are hopeful that our small company can continue to contribute meaningful progress toward making CES inclusive for all,\" she added.\n\nThe Ose robotic vibrator was banned from CES", "As a day-old duckling, Ernie was given to Chloe as a present on her 10th birthday.\n\nTwenty-one years on he's still going strong, despite losing his sight and needing the help of his friend Elmo, at his home near Thame in Oxfordshire.\n\nSo far he's lived more than twice as long as the average for his breed, the Call duck, and he's still living life to the full.", "Scotland Yard said early investigations suggested that a \"blank firing handgun\" had been discharged\n\nA gun was fired outside a mosque in east London during Ramadan prayers.\n\nPolice were called to reports of a \"masked\" man with a firearm entering the Seven Kings Masjid in Ilford at 22:45 BST on Thursday.\n\nWorshippers ushered him out of the building and a gunshot - thought to have come from a \"blank-firing handgun\" - was then heard.\n\nNo injuries or damage were caused, the Met said, and it did not believe it was terrorism-related.\n\nScotland Yard said it believed it stemmed from an earlier incident in a street close to the mosque off High Road.\n\nWorshipper Ibraheem Hussain, 19, described hearing the gunshot about half an hour after prayers began.\n\n\"We were upstairs in the classrooms and about 30 minutes into the night prayer a large noise went off\", he said.\n\n\"It sounded like a firework or maybe something heavy had been dropped, so no-one really thought anything of it.\n\n\"But then someone said it was a gunshot and that someone had come into the mosque and he had a firearm on him.\n\n\"The managers had seen him. He was masked and acting suspicious.\"\n\nPolice were called to High Road in Ilford, east London\n\n\"At this early stage, ballistic evidence recovered from the scene suggests that the weapon was a blank-firing handgun\", the Met said.\n\n\"Officers will continue to work closely with representatives from the mosque and are providing reassurance to the local community.\"\n\nThere have been no arrests.\n\nIn a statement shared by a Muslim Council spokesman on Twitter, the mosque's imam Mufti Suhail said the suspect's motives had not been established.\n\nHe asked that people \"avoid speculating and circulating unconfirmed information\".\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said he was \"relieved nobody was injured in the incident\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 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 are heightened security concerns at places of worship around the world after recent attacks.\n\nA mass shooting at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March, left 50 people dead.\n\nIn April, churches in Sri Lanka were targeted on Easter Sunday in a terror attack which killed at least 253 people.\n\nA week later, a woman was killed when a gunman opened fire at a synagogue in California.\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. Mercer: The communities I come from are seething\n\nTory MP Johnny Mercer says he has withdrawn his support for Theresa May and her government over the historical prosecution of servicemen and women.\n\nIn a letter to the PM, the Plymouth MP said he would only vote with the Conservatives on Brexit legislation.\n\nHe called on Mrs May to end the \"abhorrent process\" of \"elderly veterans being dragged back to Northern Ireland\" to face possible prosecution.\n\nHe has previously called for legislation to stop this happening.\n\nCommunities Secretary - and former Northern Ireland Secretary - James Brokenshire said he was \"very saddened\" by Mr Mercer's announcement and acknowledged that \"the system isn't working well in Northern Ireland\".\n\nHe said the government had been consulting on changing the existing system.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Mercer said the government had \"singularly failed to act for four years and I am simply not prepared to put up with it any more\".\n\n\"There is nothing loyal about watching the car go over the cliff and not doing anything about it,\" he added.\n\nIn his letter the former Army officer and member of the Commons Defence Committee, said: \"As you know, the historical prosecution of our servicemen and women is a matter that is personally offensive to me.\n\n\"Many are my friends; and I am from their tribe.\"\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the Conservative Party can \"ill afford to lose MPs from [the] rising generation who have been able to win marginal seats\" right now.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 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 Mercer told the PM he cannot \"support your legislative programme any further until your government make some clear and concrete steps to end this abhorrent process\".\n\n\"The macabre spectacle of elderly veterans being dragged back to Northern Ireland to face those who seek to re-fight that conflict through other means, without any protection from a government who sent them almost fifty years ago, is too much,\" he wrote.\n\n\"It appears that my values and ethos may be slowly, but very firmly, separating from a party I joined in 2015.\n\n\"I will not be voting for any of the government's legislative actions outside of Brexit until legislation is brought forward to protect veterans from being repeatedly prosecuted for historical allegations and will be updating my constituents of this decision accordingly.\"\n\nA total of six former soldiers are now facing prosecution over Troubles-era killings.\n\nThe cases relate to Daniel Hegarty; Bloody Sunday; John Pat Cunningham; Joe McCann (involving two ex-soldiers); and Aidan McAnespie.\n\nNot all the charges are murder.\n\nThe Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland said that of 26 so-called legacy cases it has taken decisions on since 2011, 13 related to republicans, eight to loyalists, and five are connected to the Army.", "Yolo lets Snapchat users request anonymous messages from specific friends or the wider public\n\nYolo - an app that lets anonymous questions be posed to Snapchat users - has become the most-downloaded iPhone app in the UK and US just a week after its release.\n\nIt is highly unusual for an app to top Apple's chart so soon after its launch without a major marketing campaign.\n\nHowever, the viral success of the product has raised concerns.\n\nPrevious anonymous online Q&A services have been blighted by abuse and bullying.\n\nAnd one UK-based children's charity has said that Snapchat itself might have to intervene.\n\n\"Apps such as Yolo that allow anonymous comments could be easily misused to send abusive or upsetting messages,\" the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)'s Andy Burrows told the BBC.\n\n\"Snapchat should justify how this app meets their duty of care to children.\"\n\nA US-based child safety campaign group has also suggested that Yolo's age rating is too low.\n\n\"Anonymity... has always created a breeding ground for hate and very poor teen decision-making,\" said Protect Young Eyes.\n\n\"The rating is too low at 12+.\"\n\nYolo is one of the first apps to have been built using Snap Kit - a software creation platform launched last year by Snapchat. The kit lets third-party developers integrate their products with the social network.\n\nIts name is an acronym for \"you only live once\".\n\nThe app works by letting people post a graphic inviting others to \"send me anonymous messages\", which is superimposed over a photo.\n\nThe post can be sent to a specific set of Snapchat contacts or attached to a Snapchat Story and shared more widely.\n\nThose who see the request can then send an anonymous message via Yolo itself. If the original poster decides to respond, their reply is in turn posted back to Snapchat.\n\nAnother app called Piksa offers similar features and is also in the top 50 of Apple's app store chart.\n\nYolo was created by Popshow Inc, a French start-up previously responsible for an app that let people post their reactions to funny videos.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to reach the team involved.\n\nBut one of the founders told Techcrunch that the team had not expected Yolo to be so popular.\n\n\"It was not supposed to be a success. It was just for us to learn,\" Gregoire Henrion told the news site.\n\n\"We just literally put it in the store, people typed Yolo into search, and the loop was so effective that the product caught on.\"\n\nPopshow appears to have been mindful about the risks involved.\n\nWhen first opened, the app shows a warning that states: \"Yolo has no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. You'll be banned for any inappropriate usage.\"\n\nYolo users are told not to be abusive before they connect the service to their Snapchat accounts\n\nThe software has mostly received positive feedback within Apple's App Store, but some users have flagged concerns about whether steps are in place to tackle problems that arise.\n\nOne reviewer suggested that the app had been used to send messages wishing others dead, while another said they had been called a \"weirdo\".\n\n\"People will get bullied in this - it's not a good idea,\" wrote a third.\n\nPrevious anonymous Q&A apps that have faced complaints about bullying include Ask.fm, Whisper, Yik Yak and Lipsi.\n\nThe creator of Polly - another Snap Kit-based app with anonymity features - tweeted that his team had decided to avoid letting users send incognito posts, because the associated issues were difficult to manage.\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 spokeswoman for Snapchat's owner Snap was unable to provide comment.", "Joseph McCann is due to appear at the Old Bailey on 23 May\n\nA man accused of 21 offences including eight rapes has been visited by a judge in prison after refusing to appear in court.\n\nJoseph McCann, of Aylesbury, is charged with the kidnap and rape of eight alleged victims aged between 11 and 71.\n\nThe offences are alleged to have been committed between 20 April and 5 May, in London, Watford, Cheshire, Manchester and Lancashire.\n\nMr McCann was arrested in Congleton in Cheshire following a police manhunt.\n\nThe 34-year-old is accused of eight rapes, four kidnappings, two charges of false imprisonment and one of actual bodily harm, as well as six other sexual offences.\n\nNine of the charges relate to offences allegedly committed on the same day.\n\nMr McCann had refused to leave his cell at Belmarsh prison in south London to attend Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nChief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot said a hearing would instead be held in the visitors' room at Belmarsh.\n\nJournalists at the jail were not allowed into the hearing but were given details afterwards.\n\nMs Arbuthnot said Mr McCann \"turned his back on the court to begin with\" and he did not sit or give his name.\n\nHe is said to have health issues which are being investigated.\n\nThe BBC's home affairs correspondent, June Kelly, said it was \"believed to be an unprecedented first appearance by a defendant in a criminal case\".\n\nEarlier, prosecutor Tetteh Turkson told Westminster Magistrates' Court Mr McCann was \"not being co-operative\".\n\nHe was also brought to court on Wednesday but refused to appear in the dock.\n\nIn one alleged incident, Mr McCann is said by police to have tied a woman up and committed sexual offences, including rape, against her 17-year-old daughter and son, 11.\n\nHe was arrested just over two weeks after he allegedly abducted a woman in her 20s in Watford before raping her.\n\nTwo other women in their 20s were also allegedly snatched off the street in Chingford and Edgware on 25 April and then raped.\n\nMr McCann is due to appear at the Old Bailey on 23 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex named their newborn son Archie Harrison, many people were surprised. None more so than the Archie Harrisons in the UK.\n\nEngineering geologist Archie Harrison, 20, said he was at work when a news alert about the royal baby's name popped up on his phone.\n\n\"I thought it was sort of a joke,\" he said. \"Then I must have got 50 phone calls and WhatsApps. My mum was the first person to message me.\"\n\nArchie Harrison, left, said the name Archie is \"not too common, a bit out there\"\n\nHe added: \"It's quite weird we share exactly the same name, no hyphen. It doesn't happen to everyone.\n\n\"Archie isn't a common name. I have always been quite fond of the name so it's nice to get some recognition.\"\n\nMr Harrison said he has found the whole thing \"quite funny\", adding that, thanks to the royal baby news, he has now also learnt the meaning of his name - \"genuine\", \"bold\" or \"brave\".\n\n\"And then I heard people on the Tube talking about it saying they didn't like the name. I was sitting there thinking should I say something,\" he joked.\n\nMeanwhile Jody Harrison, from Worcester, had just come home after picking her children up from school when she heard that Prince Harry and Meghan had picked the same name as her six-year-old son.\n\n\"I came in, put the telly on and it said the royal baby was called Archie Harrison,\" she said.\n\n\"My little boy said, 'have they just said my name?'\"\n\nJody said her son Archie enjoyed finding out he has the same name as a royal\n\nMs Harrison, 51, said she loves Prince Harry and thinks the matching name is \"amazing\", adding: \"I think it's a great name, obviously.\n\n\"He's going to go into school tomorrow and tell the teacher, 'just call me Prince Archie, miss'.\"\n\nShe said the name was still quite unusual when she chose it, but it has since risen in popularity and she expects it to become even more popular.\n\nAnother Archie Harrison, 19, from Southam in the Midlands, said his friends and colleagues have been making jokes.\n\n\"They have been calling me your royal highness and leaving the room they do a little bow.\"\n\n\"I think there's going to be a lot of people named Archie now,\" added Mr Harrison\n\nMr Harrison, who works as a carer, said: \"I've never had anything like this happen to me before, it's quite nice actually.\"\n\nHe also found out while he was at work, and was bombarded with lots of messages from his family and friends.\n\n\"It's like my full name, what are the chances of that,\" he said. \"I've never been too keen on my name myself, I always thought it was a bit random.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the namesakes don't end at people. One man from London tweeted a picture of his mini labradoodle.\n\n\"Our dog is literally called Archie Harrison,\" he tweeted. \"That's what they call out at the vet.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tom This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Samuel Thomas was living in Australia when he died in June 2017\n\nA bricklayer died when an Uber driver did not take \"reasonable care\" and drove off with the man halfway out of the car, a coroner has ruled.\n\nSamuel Thomas, 30, was living in Australia when he died on 17 June 2017.\n\nHe was travelling home with friends from a party in Sydney when the Uber driver stopped at traffic lights and Mr Thomas started to leave the car.\n\nCoroner Geoffrey Sullivan said Mr Thomas, from Harpenden, Hertfordshire, fell into the path of a bus.\n\nHe said the Uber driver Nazrul Islam had \"not exercised reasonable care\".\n\nMr Sullivan, the senior coroner for Hertfordshire, said: \"The driver accelerated off when Mr Thomas was half way out of the car.\n\n\"He fell into the path of a bus which collided with him and he was killed instantly.\"\n\nMr Sullivan recorded the cause of death as \"severe catastrophic head injuries\" and concluded Mr Thomas died as a result of a road traffic collision.\n\nThe coroner said the Uber driver Nazrul Islam had \"not exercised reasonable care\"\n\nIslam, 32, was found guilty of negligent driving causing death at a trial in Sydney, Australia, in November.\n\nIn February, Australian broadcaster 9News reported he was sentenced to 200 hours of community service as part of a sentence to be served under supervision in the community.\n\nThe driver had argued that he did not notice his passenger's attempts to exit, but a magistrate ruled that he had not kept \"a proper lookout\" as Mr Thomas exited.\n\nThe court heard Mr Thomas and his friends were about five minutes from their destination when Mr Thomas, who was in the back seat, opened a rear door and began to get out.\n\nSecurity footage showed the car's internal light was illuminated for six seconds before Islam began to accelerate, causing Mr Thomas to fall.\n\nMagistrate Mary Ryan noted that Mr Thomas had opened the door \"without a word of warning\", but said: \"Six seconds of light within the car is a significant warning.\n\n\"The only explanation is that Mr Islam was much more fatigued than he admitted.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stormzy and Adele are among artists who've joined Grenfell survivors to call on the Government to remove \"dangerous cladding\" from buildings.\n\nThe group released a video on Thursday which shows them appealing for \"national change\".\n\nIt's 18 months since the tower fire in west London which killed 72 people.\n\nSince then, the government announced a ban on combustible cladding for all new schools, hospitals and residential buildings in England above 18m.\n\nHowever, it will not be applied to those where the materials have already been fitted.\n\nBut the group, Grenfell United, says since then, little has changed and official figures show there are more than 400 buildings that still have \"Grenfell-style cladding\" on them.\n\nThe group is calling for a new regulator for social housing to reform the system and remove dangerous coverings from buildings.\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 emotional, black and white film, which also features Marcus Mumford and Akala, involved more than 50 survivors and bereaved relatives along with community supporters.\n\nIn it, Stormzy says: \"This is not a charity film, this is a clarity film\".\n\nIt's not the first time the rapper has spoken out about Grenfell.\n\nHe use his appearance at this year's Brit Awards to take a swipe at the prime minister.\n\nStormzy said he wanted to use a voice to say something \"bigger than me\"\n\nHe closed the show after winning two awards and rapped, \"Yo, Theresa May where's that money for Grenfell? What you thought we just forgot about Grenfell?\"\n\nAdele has also been supportive, in June last year she attended a vigil for the victims.\n\nIn the new video families and supporters affected by what happened at Grenfell talk about the impact of the fire.\n\n\"We are not asking for money, we are not asking for sympathy, we are demanding change,\" they say.\n\n\"Change so families up and down country are safe in their homes. Change so that people, no matter where they live, are treated with dignity and respect.\"\n\nGrenfell United believes that 18 months after the devastating fire, little has changed.\n\nLong term plans for the site of Grenfell Tower have yet to be finalised\n\n\"We are approaching the second Christmas since our loved ones died at Grenfell,\" says Karim Mussilhy, vice-chair of Grenfell United.\n\n\"But we've seen little change on the ground and people around the country are still living in buildings with dangerous cladding.\"\n\n\"Too often, people in social housing are treated with indifference by people who have a duty to care for them.\n\n\"Dangerous cladding needs to be taken off buildings and we need a new regulator for social housing to reform the system so people are listened to and treated with respect.\n\n\"We lost our loved ones, but it's not too late for others. We can't sit back while there is a risk another tragedy like Grenfell could happen again - that's why we're fighting for national change.\"\n\nCladding has been removed from numerous high-rise buildings following the Grenfell Tower fire\n\nThe appeal comes at the end of the last week of phase one of the Grenfell Inquiry.\n\nIt was set up to examine the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the fire.\n\nIt recently heard that residents were given the wrong advice to stay put in the block by 999 staff.\n\nMr Mussilhy said the inquiry had already shown \"beyond doubt\" that the 72 people were unlawfully killed.\n\n\"The Grenfell Inquiry has already shown... that our families were neglected, ignored and given cheap materials that turned theirs homes into a death trap.\"\n\n\"People across the country are still living in unsafe buildings, change cannot wait.\"\n\nThe government insists it's committed £58m to those affected by the tragedy.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Joy Worrall had said she would \"throw herself off the quarry\" if she was ever in ill health or financial difficulty, the hearing was told\n\nAn 82-year-old woman killed herself after an \"administrative error\" by the Department for Work and Pensions led to her pension being frozen, an inquest heard.\n\nJoy Worrall, from Rhes-y-Cae, Flintshire, was found dead in a quarry near her home in November last year.\n\nHer son Ben told the Ruthin court the family had discovered after her death her pension had been stopped.\n\nThe DWP apologised \"unreservedly\" to Mrs Worrall's family for the error.\n\nMr Worrall told the inquest his mother was reluctant to talk about her problems, but had previously stated if she was ever in ill health or in financial difficulty she would \"throw herself off the quarry\".\n\n\"My mother felt she couldn't discuss her finances with anyone,\" he said.\n\nThe inquest heard that in 2014 she received an inheritance, but the DWP told her it would not affect her pension.\n\nShe received a state pension, as well as a pension credit top-up.\n\nHowever, in 2017, \"action was taken to suspend her pension credit\".\n\nRather than her state pension continuing while the credits were reviewed, all payments were stopped \"due to an administrative error\".\n\nThe inquest heard there was no record of any correspondence from Mrs Worrall to the DWP about the matter.\n\nHer cause of death was given as multiple major traumatic injuries due to a fall from height.\n\nCoroner John Gittins recorded a conclusion of suicide and said it was \"indeed a deliberate act\".\n\nHe told Mr Worrall if it was not for the information he supplied about the DWP, he may have struggled to determine if his mother had decided to take her own life.\n\nFollowing the hearing, Mr Worrall said: \"I feel as though there was a duty of care that was not fully carried out as it should've been, causing her to be in a situation where the only course of action was to end her life, which is a disgrace really.\"\n\nHe said he had taken up the case with his MP, David Hanson.\n\nA DWP spokesman said: \"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Mrs Worrall. We apologise unreservedly to Mrs Worrall's family for the error that led to her pension payments being stopped and pledge to learn the lessons.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know is struggling with issues raised by this story, find support through BBC Action Line.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Behind the scenes at a fertility clinic\n\nMore women in the UK are choosing to freeze their eggs than ever before, with treatment rates rising by 11% from 2016 to 2017, a report suggests.\n\nThe fertility regulator's figures show there were 1,463 egg freezing cycles in 2017 compared with 1,321 in 2016.\n\nThe Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) says the success rates of using frozen embryos has risen, with birth rates comparable to fresh ones.\n\nBut it cautions that egg freezing does not provide a guaranteed family.\n\nEgg freezing involves collecting a woman's eggs from her ovaries, storing them in a state of deep freeze and thawing them at a later stage.\n\nAt this point they are put together with sperm in the hope that an embryo forms and a pregnancy develops.\n\nThe procedure is still relatively new with only 581 egg thaw cycles (where eggs are defrosted) taking place in the UK in 2017 - a rise from 159 in 2012.\n\nDespite this, the HFEA says that advances in egg-freezing techniques, and more women freezing their eggs under the age of 35, are partly behind the rise in successful birth rates from 18% in 2016 to 23% in 2017.\n\nBut the regulator warns the age at which women freeze their eggs is one of the most important factors for success (with women under 35 having a better chance of a birth).\n\nThe HFEA's report gives a broad overview of other fertility trends in 2017.\n\nIt shows that IVF is becoming safer - with the rate of multiple births (which can be riskier than singleton pregnancies) declining sharply from 24% in 2008 to 10% in 2017.\n\nBut access to NHS-funded treatment continues to be patchy across the UK.\n\nCommenting on the trends, Prof Joyce Harper, at University College London, said: \"Fertility treatment is turning into a middle-class procedure, with the UK having some of the highest costs in Europe.\n\n\"It is time to address the commercialisation of IVF and how the NHS funds it.\"\n\nThe analysis shows that while 91% of IVE treatment cycles were undertaken by women with male partners, there has been a small rise in same-sex couples, single women and surrogates considering fertility procedures.\n\nSally Cheshire, chair of the HFEA, said: \"This reflects society's changing attitude towards family creation, lifestyles and relationships and highlights the need for the sector to continue to evolve and adapt.\"\n• None Egg freezing in your 40s 'not sensible'\n• None Welcome to the HFEA - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "ACM cladding has been widely used on high rises, including Grenfell Tower\n\nThe £200m bill to replace Grenfell Tower-type cladding on about 150 private high-rise blocks in England is to be met by the government.\n\nHousing Secretary James Brokenshire had previously said the bill should be footed by the owners, not the taxpayer.\n\nBut he said owners had been trying to offload the costs on to leaseholders and that the long wait for remedial work had caused anxiety for residents.\n\nLeaseholder groups said the news would be a \"relief\" but more was needed.\n\nSeventy-two people died when a fire destroyed Grenfell Tower, in west London, in June 2017, in one of the UK's worst modern disasters.\n\nIt took minutes for the fire to race up the exterior of the building, and spread to all four sides.\n\nA public inquiry into the fire heard evidence to support the theory that the highly combustible material in the cladding was the primary cause of the fire's spread.\n\nLatest government figures show that 166 private residential buildings out of the 176 identified with aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding - the same type used on Grenfell Tower - are yet to start work on removing and replacing it.\n\nMr Brokenshire admitted he had changed his mind on demanding that freeholders pay up for safety work.\n\nHe said some building owners had tried to pass on the costs to residents by threatening them with bills running to thousands of pounds.\n\n\"What has been striking to me over recent weeks is just the time it is taking and my concern over the leaseholders themselves - that anxiety, that stress, that strain, and seeing that we are getting on and making these buildings safe.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Di Giuseppe: \"We're living in an unsafe building\"\n\nAlex Di Giuseppe, a leaseholder in a block with unsafe cladding in Manchester, said he has been dealing with the developer, freeholder and management agent but had got nowhere.\n\n\"It's taken its toll. We've been living in an unsafe building and we've had these huge costs placed upon our heads. The stress is insurmountable.\n\n\"If this was a car with an airbag issue, it would be recalled.\"\n\nMr Brokenshire said some building owners and developers were doing \"the right thing\".\n\nPemberstone, Aberdeen Asset Management, Barratt Developments, Fraser Properties, Legal & General and Mace and Peabody were named as having fully borne the costs for their buildings.\n\n72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017\n\nGrenfell United, a group of survivors and the bereaved, said the news offered hope to people feeling at risk at home.\n\n\"This result is a testament to residents themselves. The truth is we should never have had to fight for it,\" the group said.\n\nIt asked the government to consider financial support for residents as they continue night watches and wait for the remediation work to begin.\n\nRachel Loudain, from the UK Cladding Action Group, said leaseholders had exhausted all other options before the government stepped in to pay for the work.\n\n\"No developer was taking responsibility, no freeholder, we didn't have any option legally or any option with insurance,\" she said.\n\nThe group welcomed the news but pointed out that \"many, many\" leaseholders and social housing tenants living in blocks with other forms of unsafe cladding would be excluded from this help.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachel Loudain from the UK Cladding Action Group: \"Nothing we could do to ensure building owners would pay\"\n\n\"Fire does not distinguish between the different types of failed cladding out there. This inadequate response will be looked back on in shame when the next Grenfell tragedy occurs,\" the group said.\n\nLabour accused the government of being \"frozen like a rabbit in the headlights\" in its response to the Grenfell disaster.\n\n\"Too weak and too slow to act at every stage and on every front,\" the shadow housing secretary John Healey said.\n\nThe government has already committed to funding replacement cladding in the social sector. There are currently 23 blocks still covered in it.\n\nOwners of private buildings will have three months to claim the funds, with one condition being that they take \"reasonable steps\" to recover the costs from those responsible for the cladding.", "Joseph McCann is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday\n\nA man has been charged with kidnapping and raping multiple women.\n\nJoseph McCann, of Aylesbury, is accused of the kidnap and rape of a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint in Watford in the early hours of 21 April.\n\nHe is also charged with two counts of kidnap, four counts of rape, one count of false imprisonment and three other sexual offence charges - all in London.\n\nThe 34-year-old has been remanded in custody to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nMr McCann has also been charged with two counts of causing a female to engage in sexual activity and one count of assaulting a female by penetration in London between 24 and 27 April.\n\nProsecutors are considering a file of evidence relating to further alleged offences, the Met Police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some content on pages for extremist groups was allegedly created by Facebook\n\nFacebook has been accused of \"auto-generating\" extremist content, including a celebratory jihadist video and a business page for al-Qaeda.\n\nThe material was uncovered by an anonymous whistleblower who filed an official complaint to US regulators.\n\nSimilar content for self-identified Nazis and white supremacist groups was also found online.\n\nFacebook said it had got better at deleting extreme content but its systems were not perfect.\n\nThe whistleblower's study lasted five months and monitored pages of 3,000 people who liked or connected to organisations listed as terrorist groups by the US government.\n\nThe study found that groups such as the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda were \"openly\" active on the social network.\n\nIn addition, it found that Facebook's own tools were automatically creating fresh content for the proscribed groups by producing \"celebration\" and \"memories\" videos when pages racked up enough views or \"likes\", or had been active for a certain number of months.\n\nThe local business page for al-Qaeda generated by Facebook's tools had 7,410 \"likes\" and gave the group \"valuable data\" it could use when recruiting people or seeking out supporters, the complaint said.\n\nOn the local business page, Facebook's algorithms populated the page with job descriptions that users put in their profiles. It also copied images, branding and flags used by the group.\n\nSimilar content was automatically produced for white supremacist and Nazi groups active on Facebook.\n\nThe complaint has been filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging Facebook has misled shareholders by claiming to remove extremist content while letting it persist on the site.\n\nJohn Kostyack, director of the National Whistleblower Centre, which released the study on behalf of the whistleblower, said he was \"grateful\" that the \"disturbing information\" had been released.\n\n\"We hope that SEC takes prompt action to impose meaningful sanctions on Facebook,\" he said in a statement.\n\nIn a statement, Facebook said: \"After making heavy investments, we are detecting and removing terrorism content at a far higher success rate than even two years ago.\n\n\"We don't claim to find everything and we remain vigilant in our efforts against terrorist groups around the world.\"\n\nThe study is the latest in a series of mis-steps for Facebook, which has faced repeated criticism over the way it handles hate speech and extremist content.\n\nThis week, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes said it was time to break up Facebook, in an editorial published in the New York Times.\n\n\"The government must hold Mark [Zuckerberg] accountable,\" he wrote.", "Prince Charles was photographed with the then Bishop of Gloucester Peter Ball in 1993\n\nThe Church of England's response to child sex abuse allegations was \"marked by secrecy\", a report has found.\n\nFormer Archbishop of Canterbury Lord George Carey has been criticised for supporting former Bishop Peter Ball.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) said Ball \"was able to sexually abuse vulnerable teenagers and young men for decades\".\n\nIts report said the support given by the Prince of Wales to the shamed clergyman was \"misguided\".\n\nIt said his actions \"could have been interpreted as expressions of support\" for Ball and \"had the potential to influence the actions of the church\".\n\nThe IICSA described the \"appalling sexual abuse against children\" in the Diocese of Chichester, with 18 members of the clergy convicted of offences during a 50-year period.\n\nBishop Peter Hancock, the Church of England's safeguarding lead, said: \"We are immensely grateful to survivors for their courage in coming forward. Their testimonies have made shocking and uncomfortable listening.\n\n\"The report states that the Church of England should have been a place which protected all children and supported victims and survivors and the inquiry's summary recognises that it failed to do this.\"\n\nBall, who was Bishop of Lewes in East Sussex between 1977 and 1992 and Bishop of Gloucester in 1992, was jailed in 2015 for 32 months for offences against 18 teenagers and men between the 1970s and the 1990s.\n\nThe report found the Crown Prosecution Service had missed an opportunity to charge Ball with a string of offences in 1992, and it was not until 22 years later he admitted his crimes.\n\nThe IICSA said Ball sought to use his relationship with the Prince of Wales to further his campaign to return to unrestricted ministry.\n\nPrince Charles' actions in speaking about Ball to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Duchy of Cornwall buying a property to rent to Ball and his brother were \"misguided\", the report added.\n\nA Clarence House spokesman said it remained \"a matter of deep regret\" that the prince \"along with many others was deceived by Peter Ball over so many years\".\n\n\"At no time did he bring any influence to bear on the actions of the church or any other relevant authority,\" he added.\n\nPeter Ball was jailed for sex offences against teenagers and young men\n\nThe report, based on four weeks of public hearings between March and July last year, said victims were \"disbelieved and dismissed\" by those in authority at the Diocese of Chichester.\n\nOne of Ball's victims, Neil Todd, killed himself after being \"seriously failed\" by the church, which had \"discounted Ball's conduct as trivial and insignificant\" while displaying \"callous indifference\" to Mr Todd's complaints.\n\nLord Carey resigned as honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford - his last formal role in the church - in June last year after a separate inquiry found he delayed a \"proper investigation\" into Ball's crimes for two decades.\n\nThe report said he \"failed to have sufficient regard for the wellbeing of complainants, victims and survivors affected by Peter Ball's behaviour\".\n\nIt also said the church's apology \"remains unconvincing\".\n\nEven during the inquiry's hearings, the report says senior clerics were squabbling about who was responsible.\n\nIn a church whose scriptures and creeds speak of \"loving one another as Christ has loved you\", there was no compassion for Neil Todd, who had been repeatedly abused by Bishop Peter Ball during the 1980s and early 90s.\n\nThe most senior cleric in the Church of England, then Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, spoke frequently with Ball and wrote several letters, saying: \"You are on my heart and constantly in my prayers.\"\n\nBut when Ball resigned, the church issued a press release which the report says \"inappropriately praised Peter Ball, presented his resignation as an act of self-sacrifice - but offered no such apology to Mr Todd and expressed no concern for his welfare\".\n\nThe preferential treatment of a popular priest, and the lack of compassion for his victim, are the disturbing keynotes of this comprehensive report.\n\nBall, now in his late 80s, accepted a caution for one count of gross indecency in 1992 and resigned due to ill-health.\n\nHe was released from prison in 2017 and deemed too ill to give evidence to the inquiry in person, but submitted a statement saying his relationship with Prince Charles \"was one of support and respect\".\n\nProf Alexis Jay, chair of the inquiry, said the Diocese of Chichester \"failed victims and survivors of child sexual abuse by prioritising its own reputation above their welfare\".\n\nShe said the church's response \"was marked by secrecy and a disregard for the seriousness of abuse allegations\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government was warned last year that it would face a bill of up to £20m if sued over the procurement of no-deal Brexit ferry services, the National Audit Office has revealed.\n\nIt said the Department for Transport's (DfT) accounting officer thought there was a \"high likelihood\" of a challenge over the contracts with Brittany Ferries, DFDS and Seaborne Freight.\n\nShe also warned Eurotunnel could sue.\n\nIn March, the DfT agreed to a £33m settlement with the firm.\n\nIn response to the National Audit Office's (NAO) report, the government said it had \"carefully considered the legal risk at all stages of the procurement\".\n\nThe Eurotunnel case was brought after the government handed out three contracts worth more than £100m in total to Brittany Ferries, DFDS, and Seaborne Freight in December.\n\nThese were to provide additional freight capacity on ferry services between Britain and mainland Europe in the event that a no-deal Brexit led to disruption at UK ports.\n\nThe awards were not subject to a full public procurement process, which the DfT said was justified by \"reasons of extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseen by the contracting authority\".\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling has faced criticism over the payouts\n\nHowever, Eurotunnel challenged the government's handling of the spend, and began legal proceedings in January, seeking up to £80m in damages.\n\nIt claimed it had never been approached as a potential provider, despite having previously run a ferry service.\n\nThe Transport Secretary Chris Grayling previously called the company's decision to take legal action \"disappointing\".\n\nThe NAO report reveals that Mr Grayling's department was advised that while a procurement challenge was probable and \"likely to be successful\", any trial was unlikely to occur before the 29 March, the day Britain was scheduled to leave the EU.\n\nIt was also advised any disputes over the contracts would probably end in a payout of up to £20m.\n\nIn the event, Eurotunnel's case was expedited, forcing the DfT to pay out to protect its contracts for the delivery critical supplies in the event of a no-deal.\n\nAll three ferry contracts have since been terminated.\n\nSeaborne Freight's £13.8m award was axed in February, after its backers pulled out, while DFDS and Brittany Ferries' deals were cancelled earlier this month, in a move that could cost the taxpayer up to £50m.\n\nThe government is also facing a challenge from P&O Ferries to its settlement with Eurotunnel. P&O is arguing that the £33m deal amounts to state-aid and is a breach of procurement law.", "A reminder always to check the small print\n\nAustralia's latest A$50 note comes with a big blunder hidden in the small print - a somewhat embarrassing typo.\n\nThe Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) spelled \"responsibility\" as \"responsibilty\" on millions of the new yellow notes.\n\nThe RBA confirmed the typo on Thursday and said the error would be fixed in future print runs.\n\nBut for now, around 46 million of the new notes are in use across the country.\n\nThe bills were released late last year and feature Edith Cowan, the first female member of an Australian parliament.\n\nWhat looks like a lawn in the background of Mrs Cowan's portrait is in fact rows of text - a quotation from her first speech to parliament.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It is a great responsibility to be the only woman here, and I want to emphasise the necessity which exists for other women being here,\" is repeated several times over in microscopic print.\n\nAlas, it's printed each time as \"responsibilty\" - with a missing i.\n\nIt took more than six months for someone with a good magnifying glass to spot the typo.\n\nThe typo lurks just above Edith Cowan's shoulder\n\nThe A$50 note is the most widely circulated in Australia, and the most commonly given out by cash machines. The other side of the note features distinguished Indigenous author David Unaipon.\n\nWhen the latest batch emerged in October, new security features were embedded in the design to improve accessibility and prevent counterfeiting.\n\nAnd for anyone wondering - yes, the \"typo note\" is still totally valid as currency.\n\nPhew. Now let's just hope we didn't make any typos in this artilce.", "Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said the good values at NHS Highland had not always been reflected\n\nHundreds of health workers have potentially experienced inappropriate behaviour at NHS Highland, an independent review has suggested.\n\nThe review led by John Sturrock QC said staff had described suffering \"fear, intimidation and inappropriate behaviour at work\".\n\nConcerns raised by a group of clinicians prompted the review.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman apologised and said other health boards should learn lessons.\n\nAt Holyrood, Ms Freeman said the culture at the health board had been unacceptable, and she supported the review's recommendations.\n\nThese include educating all staff on the effects of bullying and providing a \"properly functioning, clear, safe and respected wholly independent and confidential whistleblowing\" mechanism.\n\nNHS Highland runs services in Argyll and Bute, and another recommendation was that a separate review be done of the \"functioning of management\" in this area, partly because of its geography.\n\nClinicians, including Dr Lorien Cameron-Ross and Dr Iain Kennedy, have been considering the contents of Mr Sturrock QC's report. They have thanked Ms Freeman for having the \"courage and honesty\" to commission the review.\n\nNHS Highland said it would not tolerate unacceptable behaviour under any circumstances and was committed to ensuring that lessons were learned.\n\nAmid the claims of bullying, the review said there were \"thousands of well-motivated, caring and supportive people providing excellent caring services to thousands of patients in the area served by NHS Highland, often sacrificially and well beyond the call of duty\".\n\nA group of senior clinicians called for an inquiry of their claims\n\nThe review was contacted by 340 people from most departments, services and occupations at NHS Highland. More than 280 took part in face to face meetings or made written submissions.\n\nThe majority - 66% - reported experiences of what they described as bullying.\n\nStaff said they had not felt valued, respected or supported in carrying out \"very stressful work\".\n\nOthers told of not being listened to when raising matters regarding patient safety concerns and decisions being made \"behind closed doors\".\n\nThe review also said that \"many described a culture of fear and of protecting the organisation when issues are raised\".\n\nNHS Highland's sites include Raigmore Hospital and its area includes Argyll and Bute\n\nMs Freeman said: \"NHS Highland has very many very caring, supportive, diligent, highly skilled staff.\n\n\"But this extensive review has identified a number of significant cultural issues that have contributed to both actual and perceived behaviours in NHS Highland that have not always reflected those values.\"\n\nShe said the review had implications for health boards across Scotland.\n\nThe health secretary said: \"I am well aware that concerns about bullying and a desire to secure a positive culture is shared across our health service.\"\n\nNHS Highland's chief executive Iain Stewart said an action plan would be drawn up following careful consideration of the review's report.\n\nHe said: \"I can assure you all that the response will itself be comprehensive and, over the coming weeks and months, NHS Highland will take whatever actions are required to ensure that its people are valued, respected and that their voices are heard.\n\n\"Already, it seems clear that the treatment of some staff within NHS Highland in the past has not always lived up to the high standards expected and, for that,\n\n\"I apologise on behalf of the board.\"\n\nJohn Sturrock QC led the review of allegations of bullying at NHS Highland\n\nLewis Morrison, chairman of BMA Scotland, said bullying was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nHe praised the doctors who raised concerns as \"brave\" and said staff had to feel able to speak out about bullying without fear about consequences for their careers, but said there was still some way to go.\n\n\"This report absolutely has to be a catalyst for change,\" he said. \"Clearly there are also lessons for the whole of Scotland.\n\n\"While there are aspects that are specific to NHS Highland, we are pleased that the Scottish government recognise this is not an isolated situation.\n\nLast year, a group of senior clinicians claimed there had been a culture of \"fear and intimidation\" at the board for at least a decade.\n\nNHS Highland covers large area, that includes Skye, Caithness and Badenoch and Strathspey. Its main hospitals include Lorn and Islands Rural General Hospital in Oban, Belford Hospital in Fort William and Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.\n\nMr Sturrock QC was appointed by the Scottish government to lead the review.\n\nHis report had been expected to be published in February, but was delayed.\n\nDr Iain Kennedy is among the senior clinicans who raised their concerns last year\n\nIn April, Mr Stewart said it was right that time was taken on producing the report.\n\nIn the time since the allegations were made in September last year, there have been changes to the management of the health board.\n\nElaine Mead left the role of chief executive in December and David Alston resigned as chairman in February.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Danny Baker explains what happened when his 5 Live bosses called him\n\nThe BBC has sacked Danny Baker, saying he showed a \"serious error of judgement\" over his tweet about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's baby.\n\nThe tweet, which he later deleted but which has been circulated on social media, showed an image of a couple holding hands with a chimpanzee dressed in clothes with the caption: \"Royal Baby leaves hospital\".\n\nThe BBC 5 Live presenter was accused of mocking the duchess's racial heritage.\n\nThe 61-year-old presented a Saturday morning show on the network.\n\nThe corporation said Baker's tweet \"goes against the values we as a station aim to embody\".\n\nIt added: \"Danny's a brilliant broadcaster but will no longer be presenting a weekly show with 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. 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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\nAfter tweeting an apology, in which he called the tweet a \"stupid unthinking gag pic\", Baker said the BBC's decision \"was a masterclass of pompous faux-gravity\".\n\n\"[It] took a tone that said I actually meant that ridiculous tweet and the BBC must uphold blah blah blah,\" he added. \"Literally threw me under the bus. Could hear the suits' knees knocking.\"\n\nHarry and Meghan, whose mother Doria Ragland is African American, revealed on Wednesday their new son was named Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.\n\nAfter the initial backlash on social media on Wednesday, Baker said: \"Sorry my gag pic of the little fella in the posh outfit has whipped some up. Never occurred to me because, well, mind not diseased.\n\n\"Soon as those good enough to point out its possible connotations got in touch, down it came. And that's it.\"\n\nIn a later tweet, he added: \"Would have used same stupid pic for any other Royal birth or Boris Johnson kid or even one of my own. It's a funny image. (Though not of course in that context.) Enormous mistake, for sure. Grotesque.\n\n\"Anyway, here's to ya Archie, Sorry mate.\"\n\nSpeaking to reporters outside his home, he said of the tweet: \"Ill advised, ill thought-out and stupid, but racist? No, I'm aware how delicate that imagery is.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC \"right\" to sack Danny Baker over tweet says broadcaster Scarlette Douglas\n\nBroadcaster Scarlette Douglas, who works on 5 Live podcast The Sista Collective and The One Show, told the BBC: \"I think somebody told him, 'What you've tweeted was incorrect, so you should maybe say something or take it down.'\n\n\"Yes, OK, he took it down, but his apology for me wasn't really an apology. I don't think it's right and I think subsequently what's happened is correct.\"\n\nAyesha Hazarika, a commentator and former adviser to the Labour Party, told 5 Live she was \"genuinely gobsmacked\" by the tweet.\n\n\"I couldn't believe it,\" she said. \"I thought it was a joke at first. I thought it was a spoof. It was so crass. What was going through his head?\n\n\"You can't just say sorry and then carry on like it's business as usual. When you have an incredibly important platform like he does, you do have to think about what you do and the signals that it sends out.\"\n\nBaker must have been aware of recent incidences of racism at football matches and the resulting outcry, Ms Hazarika added.\n\nLinda Bellos, former chairwoman of the Institute of Equality and Diversity Professionals, echoed those remarks. saying: \"A lot of black players are complaining about noises being made to them. He knows this stuff,\" she told Radio 4.\n\nHis tweet was \"foolish\", she said, adding: \"Never mind that it's royalty.\n\n\"The things that are happening to black children up and down the country are not enhanced by his words and I'm glad that prompt action has been taken, and let's hope we have come thoughtful dialogue and learning from this.\"\n\nBaker has won several awards for his radio shows\n\nBaker's Saturday Morning show on BBC Radio 5 Live won him a Sony Gold award for Speech Radio Personality of the Year in 2011, 2012 and 2014 and a Gold Award for entertainment show of the year in 2013.\n\nHis irrepressible style made him one of the most popular radio presenters of his generation and saw him described by one writer as the \"ultimate geezer\".\n\nBaker was also a successful magazine journalist, scriptwriter and TV documentary maker.\n\nHe wrote a number of TV shows including Pets Win Prizes and Win, Lose or Draw and, in 1990, The Game, a series about an amateur soccer team in east London.\n\nA stint at BBC London station GLR in the late '80s saw him strike up an enduring friendship with fellow broadcaster Chris Evans, and Baker would later write scripts for the Channel 4 show TFI Friday, which Evans hosted.\n\nIt's the second time Baker has been axed by 5 Live and is the third time he has left the BBC.\n\nIn 1997, he was fired for encouraging football fans to make a referee's life hell after the official had awarded a controversial penalty in an FA Cup tie.\n\nHe later claimed he had never incited fans to attack the referee, only that he would have understood if they had.\n\nIn 2012, two weeks before he was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame, he was was back in the news after an on-air rant in which he resigned and branded his bosses at BBC London \"pinheaded weasels\". The outburst came after Baker had been asked to move from a weekday programme to a weekend.\n\nIn 2016, Baker took part on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here but was the first person to be voted off in the series.\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.", "Seventy-two people died as a result of a huge fire that engulfed Grenfell Tower - a 24-storey West London residential tower block. This week expert witnesses at an inquiry into the blaze detailed how the fire ripped through the building, minute by minute, one year ago.\n\nThe first call was made to emergency services to report a fire on floor four of Grenfell Tower just before 01:00 on 14 June 2017.\n\nThe man who lived in flat 16, Behailu Kebede, told the operator: \"Quick, quick, quick. It's burning.\"\n\nHe described how he was woken by a smoke alarm and had seen smoke in his kitchen.\n\nFour fire engines were sent to the scene, the first arriving at 00:59.\n\nA few minutes later, the fire could be seen in the flat from outside the building. It had spread from the kitchen window to the exterior and witnesses began seeing burning material falling to the ground.\n\nAround this time, Tiago Alves, then aged 20, ran down the stairs from the 13th floor with his younger sister Ines.\n\nCCTV showed their father, Miguel, leaving the building a few minutes later along with other residents - possibly fellow occupants of the 13th floor.\n\nThe first fire crew entered the flat, reaching the kitchen by 01:14.\n\nFirefighter Daniel Brown described seeing an \"isolated curtain of flame from about 2-3ft in the air to the ceiling\".\n\nThermal images captured by the fire crew appeared to show \"hot fire gases and flames had spread across the window space\".\n\nBarefoot and clutching his phone, the flat's tenant, Mr Kebede, left the building and watched in horror as the fire spread up the tower.\n\nHis mobile phone images show an orange glow of flames around the kitchen window, and later a fire burning more intensely in the area of the window filler panel and extractor fan.\n\nThe blaze was moving up the building's east side by this time and the fire service made its first request for a high-reach aerial appliance.\n\nOne minute later, the fire had spread to the 5th floor above. Fire crews began using external hoses to try to extinguish the flames.\n\nFurther burning debris could be seen dropping from the building.\n\nWithin a further six minutes, the fire had reached the 11th floor. One minute later, the fire had reached floor 13.\n\nA resident of flat 195 on the 22nd floor called emergency services to describe smelling smoke, but was advised to \"stay inside and keep your door and windows shut\".\n\nCCTV showed a number of people leaving from the 7th floor.\n\nA few minutes later, someone on the 14th floor said people could no longer exit via the lobby because it was filled with smoke.\n\nMobile phone videos show the blaze reaching the top floor on the east side of Grenfell Tower by about 01:26, less than 30 minutes after firefighters had arrived.\n\nIn approximately 12 minutes, it had spread up 19 storeys on the outside of the building.\n\nA resident of flat 95 on the 12th floor called 999 to report that the fire had reached her neighbour's flat. The flames were \"coming through the floor\", she said.\n\nThe fire service was still telling residents to \"stay put\" at this point - advice that lasted nearly two hours.\n\nSuch \"stay put\" safety advice is often given to people living in purpose-built blocks of flats. It is designed to stop residents unaffected by fire from unnecessarily evacuating the building and blocking the stairways.\n\nHowever, it assumes a building's design will contain a fire in a single flat for as long as it takes fire crews to bring it under control.\n\nDr Barbara Lane's report found that this policy had \"effectively failed\" barely half an hour after the fire started, given the unique circumstances at the tower block.\n\nThere was an \"early need for total evacuation of Grenfell Tower\", she said.\n\nThe number of 999 calls to emergency services increased as the fire reached the top of the building.\n\nIn desperation, some residents had headed upwards and were seeking refuge in flats of friends and neighbours on the upper floors. Smoke was coming from \"everywhere\", one said.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade increased their request for vehicles with pumps to 20 at this point. Two minutes later, crews asked for 25 pumps.\n\nPeople on the 3rd, 11th, 20th, 22nd, 23rd went on to make emergency calls to describe flames or smoke reaching their flats.\n\nThe fire continued to advance on two fronts - along the eastern side of the building and to the north. A total of 144 people had evacuated the building by this point, but 149 remained inside.\n\nThe fire service received a call from flat 205 on the 23rd floor, where flames \"just blew\" into the kitchen.\n\nThe occupants of flat 95 on the 12th floor also described a fire in the neighbouring flat, on the landing and near the lift, as well as below and around the flat's windows. They were advised to leave.\n\nPeople on the 10th, 12th, 14th and 22nd floors also called 999 around this time and described being trapped in smoke-filled flats. Some said they were going to try and escape.\n\nAs well as 26 flats ablaze externally, at least four flats were on fire inside by this time, according to the report by Dr Barbara Lane.\n\nThe number of people escaping the building slowed, however. There was a period, between about 01:50 and 02:06 when no-one left, according to the report by Professor José L. Torero.\n\nThis was the point when communal lobbies and stairwells in the middle and top of the building became, or appeared to have become, impassable.\n\n\"Thick smoke with low to zero visibility is described as filling the stair,\" said Dr Barbara Lane.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade declared a \"major incident\" just after 02:00. They had requested 40 pumps by this point.\n\nPeople started leaving the building again, but at a reduced rate. The reason for this is not clear, Prof Jose Torero said in his report, however, it corresponded with the point when the fire reached the centre of the building's east side and the north side, creating \"untenable\" conditions.\n\nThe fire spread across the north side of the building a few minutes later and fires were raging inside a number of flats.\n\nThe number of interior fires increased as the fire spread across the exterior of the building and by 02:25, the fire had spread to the south side of the building. Five minutes after that, at 02:30, the whole of the east of the building was on fire, Met Police records show.\n\nThe incident commander changed the policy recommending residents stay in the building at this point and people were advised to leave. By this time, the east, north and south sides of the building were in flames.\n\nBefore the stay-put advice was changed, 187 occupants had left the building - independently or with firefighter assistance. There were still 107 people in the building, of which 36 eventually got out.\n\nPeople inside the building described lobbies as \"incredibly hot\" or \"boiling hot\" as well as thick with smoke at this time, Dr Barbara Lane said.\n\n\"This smoke effectively created a barrier to residents on any level and so impacted on their ability and/or willingness to move from their flats down the stair to a place of safety,\" she added.\n\nSome 73 flats were ablaze externally by 03:21 and two minutes later, the northern side of the building was fully alight.\n\nBy 03:39, London Fire Brigade had stopped sending crews above the 4th floor.\n\nThe fire continued to spread towards the south-west corner of the building, reaching it by 03:56. No-one escaped from above the 12th floor after 03:55.\n\nJust before 04:00, 81 people were left in the building.\n\nThe fire spread laterally around the building to the north and south, and just after 04:00 it had reached all sides.\n\nThe flames had spread in different directions and converged on level 23 near the south-west corner of the building, fully enveloping the building's perimeter.\n\nFire could be seen spreading down the building on the west side and it was fully engulfed just before 05:00. Internal fires continued to rage.\n\nSome 70 people had not evacuated the building at this stage.\n\nThe incident commander concluded that there was \"no longer any saveable life in the building\" just before 20:00. Internal fires could still be seen on the north and west sides of the building at 21:50.\n\nThe blaze did not burn itself out until 01:14 BST on Thursday 15 June - 24 hours later - having destroyed 151 homes, both in the tower and surrounding areas.\n\nThey include six members of the Choucair Family and five members of the Hashim Family, who lived on the 22nd floor. Five members of the El-Wahabi family died on the 21st floor.\n\nSix-month old baby Leena Belkadi died in her mother's arms as she tried to escape and baby Logan Gomes was stillborn in hospital the morning after the fire.\n\nMaria Del Pilar Burton, who suffered from serious long-term health issues, died in hospital in January 2018.\n\nA total of 65 people were rescued from the building by firefighters.\n\nIn a statement to the inquiry, London Fire Brigade said Grenfell Tower was the largest single rescue operation in England since World War II.\n\nIt was \"by far the most challenging incident\" the service had experienced \"in living memory\", it said.\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union has asked the inquiry to consider whether firefighters were put in an \"impossible situation\" when battling the blaze.\n\nNote: All timings as reported to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.\n\nWritten and produced by Lucy Rodgers. Designed by Gerry Fletcher, Zoe Bartholomew, Mark Bryson and Sumi Senthinathan.\n• None Why are people told to 'stay put'?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA sea mine has been detonated after being picked up in a fishing net off the coast of the Isle of Wight.\n\nThe 7ft (2.1m) device, dating back to World War Two, was caught by a vessel about one mile (1.6km) off the Needles at 08:00 BST on Saturday, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said.\n\nThe Royal Navy's Explosive Ordnance Disposal team, based in Portsmouth, destroyed it at 10:51 on Sunday.\n\nWarning broadcasts were issued to nearby vessels during the operation.\n\nThe Needles Coastguard Rescue Team also attended to ensure public safety, while divers placed the mine back on the sea bed and then blew it up.\n\nAccording to the Ministry of Defence, it contained about 2000lb of explosives.\n\nDuty controller Piers Stanbury said: \"This is most likely an old German wartime sea mine.\"\n\nThe sea mine contained about 2000lb of explosives\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The mother of Leah Heyes, Kerry Roberts (right), thanked people for the support she had been given\n\nAn emotional vigil has been held for a teenage girl who died after apparently taking ecstasy.\n\nAbout 150 friends and family gathered to remember Leah Heyes, who collapsed in a Northallerton car park on 11 May.\n\nPolice believe the 15-year-old had taken MDMA. Two teenagers arrested on suspicion of supplying Class A drugs have been released under investigation.\n\nLeah's mother Kerry Roberts said she was \"overwhelmed\" by the support people had shown.\n\n\"I would like to thank everyone for all of the kind messages and tributes following the death of my beautiful daughter Leah.\n\n\"Thank you for coming together to remember Leah, it's such a fitting tribute to her as she loved to be around people and to spend time with her friends.\n\n\"She would be really happy to know that you all cared so much about her.\"\n\nLeah, who was from Northallerton, died in hospital after collapsing in the Applegarth car park at 21:30 BST that night.\n\nAn 18-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy were arrested and North Yorkshire Police said it had \"not ruled out making more arrests\".\n\nThe force has appealed for anyone who has mobile phone footage taken on the night to come forward.\n\nChairman of the town's Street Angels Steve Cowey said drugs being brought to the town by \"county lines\" criminals were a real problem.\n\nHe said: \"We've got people who are young and vulnerable and are experimenting with [drugs].\"\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.", "Dutee Chand says she was encouraged to speak out after India decriminalised gay sex in 2018\n\nIndian sprinter Dutee Chand has revealed she is in a same-sex relationship, the first sportsperson in India to openly acknowledge being gay.\n\nThe 23-year-old athlete says she has been seeing her partner, who comes from her village, for five years.\n\nChand says the Indian Supreme Court's historic decision to decriminalise gay sex in 2018 encouraged her to speak publicly about her sexuality.\n\nBut some members of her family have not accepted her relationship, she says.\n\n\"I am having a relationship with a 19-year-old woman from my village [Chaka Gopalpur] for the past five years\", she told reporters from Hyderabad where she is training.\n\n\"I have found someone who is my soulmate. I have always believed that everyone should have the freedom to love. There is no greater emotion than love and it should not be denied.\"\n\nDespite attitudes slowly changing in India, Chand told PTI news agency that some members of her family do not accept her decision, and her sister has threatened to expel her from the family.\n\n\"My eldest sister feels that my partner is interested in my property. She has told me that she will send me to jail for having this relationship,\" she added.\n\nChand was the first Indian sprinter to reach a final at a global athletics event, the World Youth Championships in 2013.\n\nIn 2014, she was banned from competing by the Athletics Federation of India after failing a hormone test which found she had unusually high testosterone levels, a condition known as \"hyperandrogenism.\"\n\nHer legal team successfully argued the ruling was discriminatory and flawed at a hearing in March 2015.\n\nThe following year she qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics and in 2018 she won two silver medals at the Asian Games.", "Well, that's it for another year...\n\nThe bookies' favourite won out, the UK came last (again) and Graham Norton wasn't happy about it.\n\nYou win some, you lose some. But we're already looking forward to another big slice of cheese - make that Edam - in the Netherlands next year.\n\nSee you there!", "Mr Coveney suggested many British politicians do not understand the complexity of NI politics\n\nIreland's deputy prime minister has ruled out any renegotiation of the Brexit withdrawal deal if Theresa May is replaced as UK prime minister.\n\nSpeaking on RTÉ, Tánaiste Simon Coveney said \"the personality might change but the facts don't\".\n\nHe described Mrs May as a \"decent person\" and strongly criticised Conservative MPs at Westminster.\n\nMrs May has promised to set a timetable for the election of her successor after the next Brexit vote.\n\nMr Coveney described political events at Westminster as \"extraordinary\", as he questioned the logic of politicians who believed a change of leader would deliver changes to the agreement struck by Mrs May.\n\nHe said Conservative MPs were \"impossible\" on the issue of Brexit.\n\n\"The EU has said very clearly that the Withdrawal Agreement has been negotiated over two-and-a-half years, it was agreed with the British government and the British cabinet and it's not up for renegotiation, even if there is a new British prime minister,\" he said.\n\nHe told RTÉ's This Week programme that many British politicians \"don't, quite frankly, understand the complexity of politics in Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"They have tried to dumb this debate down into a simplistic argument whereby it's Britain versus the EU, as opposed to two friends tying to navigate through the complexity of a very, very difficult agreement,\" he added.\n\nMr Coveney also said the Irish government would continue to focus significant efforts and financial resources towards planning for a no-deal Brexit scenario, following Friday's collapse of Brexit talks in the UK.\n\nHe said time was of the essence for the UK to get a deal through Parliament, adding that he was concerned Britain would not \"get its act together over summer\" and leave without a deal.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mrs May announced that MPs would vote on the bill that would pave the way for Brexit in the week beginning 3 June.\n\nIf the bill is not passed, the default position is that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal.\n\nBrexit had been due to take place on 29 March.\n\nBut the UK was given an extension until 31 October after MPs three times voted down the withdrawal agreement Mrs May had negotiated with the EU - by margins of 230, 149 and 58 votes.", "James Charles has called the last week the \"darkest time in my life.\"\n\nIt's after fellow YouTube star Tati Westbrook accused him of manipulating someone's sexuality and promoting a rival product to hers.\n\nJames Charles, who is 19, has since lost millions of subscribers and received lots of hate on social media.\n\nOn Thursday she posted a second video lasting 18 minutes asking for the \"hate to stop\".\n\nDespite James Charles' denials Tati Westbrook says she \"stands by her videos\"\n\nBoth of them have amassed enormous social media followings through make-up tutorials and beauty product reviews.\n\nIn a new 41-minute video posted on Saturday James Charles, visibly upset and wearing no make-up says: \"The past week on the internet has been the darkest we've all ever seen and it's also been the darkest time I've had to go through in my life and my thoughts got to a really scary place.\"\n\nHe doesn't deny signing a contract with Tati Westbrook's competitor, saying he did it in a moment of stress as they had better passes, access and security at Coachella.\n\nUpon finding out she publicly said she was cutting all ties with him.\n\nHe says he tried to contact her but didn't hear anything back and put out this apology.\n\nJames Charles posted an apology to Tati Westbrook on Instagram\n\nIn the new video titled No More Lies, James Charles heavily denies her accusations of \"tricking a straight man to think he's gay\".\n\n\"I would never, have never and will never use my fame, money or power to manipulate or get any sexual actions from a guy.\"\n\nThis stems from his exchanges with a waiter who James Charles says told him he was bisexual, then said he was fully gay and then reverted to saying he was bisexual again.\n\nIn Tati Westbrook's video on Thursday she weeps and tells viewers she didn't expect the level of hate that James Charles received after she accused him of being disloyal and sexually harassing straight men.\n\nShe said: \"I do really want the hate to stop. I want the picking sides and abusive memes and the language and all of that, I really hope on both sides it can stop.\"\n\n\"This was really a wake up call and me trying to reach someone who I found completely unreachable and I'd been trying to deliver the same message so many times.\"\n\n\"I'm a 19-year-old virgin, I don't get a lot of action,\" says James Charles\n\nJames Charles ended his video on a positive note, explaining that he's planning to spend time with family to celebrate his birthday. He also added that he'll be taking a break from YouTube and will be working on his mental health.\n\nTati Westbrook has also responded saying she had seen the last post from him.\n\n\"I stand by my videos,\" she added, \"I do not twist my words into what they are not, hear the message.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tati Westbrook This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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.", "Thousands of teenagers are living in supported or semi-supported accommodation, which can often be a house on a residential street\n\nThousands of teenagers in care are being \"dumped\" in unregulated homes and \"abandoned to organised crime gangs\", the BBC has been told.\n\nThe number of looked-after children aged 16 and over living in unregistered accommodation in England has increased 70% in a decade, Newsnight has found.\n\nPolice forces have raised concerns, saying criminals see the premises as an easy target for recruitment.\n\nThe government said children in care \"deserve good quality accommodation\".\n\nThe Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) said local authorities do \"many things\" - including unannounced checks and DBS checks - to monitor provision.\n\nAs part of a special series of reports, Britain's Hidden Children's Homes, Newsnight has learned that - according to figures from the Department for Education - around 5,000 looked after children in England are living in so-called 16+ supported or semi-supported accommodation - up from 2,900 10 years ago.\n\nThis type of accommodation is not inspected or registered by Ofsted, even though residents are in the care of the state.\n\nBut because they are deemed to be receiving support, rather than care, the accommodation is not subject to the same checks and inspections as registered children's homes.\n\nLocal authorities can pay to place children in unregistered accommodation if they deem it is in a child's best interests. This can often be simply a house on a residential street, with staff on site or visiting for as little as a few hours a week.\n\nAmy - now 19 - was moved to one of these homes in Bedfordshire, when she was 16 years old.\n\n\"There was a mattress but no bed sheets, it was freezing cold and I had to use my coat and blanket as a duvet. It made me feel sort of desperate and very alone.\"\n\nAmy - not her real name - said there were times she was frightened living in the home.\n\n\"I was hit in the face by one of the staff members,\" she said.\n\nJackie Sebire, assistant chief constable at Bedfordshire Police and the National Police Chiefs' Council lead on serious violence, said that more than half of the 60 homes for looked-after children in Bedfordshire are unregulated.\n\n\"They are the ones that we have the majority of the children going missing from because the care is so inconsistent,\" she said.\n\nJackie Sebire, assistant chief constable at Bedfordshire Police, said care is 'inconsistent'\n\nAmy was among these missing children, taking the train to \"meet random men in London, as anywhere is better than this\".\n\n\"We'd just get random men off the internet and then sometimes they would come and pick us up at the home and they'd take us places. A lot of them were just strange men who just wanted younger girls and they were very, very dangerous,\" she said.\n\n\"They wanted sex and they wanted drugs and because they would buy you alcohol they would think you owed them something.\"\n\nAmy says she was not sexually assaulted.\n\nThe home Amy lived in told Newsnight it investigates complaints thoroughly and operates with high standards. It said it would support the 16+ sector being regulated.\n\nA Bedford Borough Council spokesperson said: \"We are aware of the concerns raised which were fully investigated at the time.\n\n\"Semi-independent living accommodation for young people over 16 is not regulated by an inspection regime and this is an issue across the country. Many local authorities share our concerns and this has been discussed in parliament.\"\n\nThe All-Party Parliamentary Group for Missing Children and Adults has been looking into the issue, and wrote to 43 police forces in England and Wales.\n\nThirty-four responded, with at least three-quarters expressing concern.\n\nNewsnight has been given exclusive access to this research, which the group's chairwoman, Ann Coffey, described as painting an overall picture \"of dumping children in a twilight world and leaving them to fend for themselves and take their chances\".\n\nCambridgeshire Police said premises are often \"well known to local criminals\" and seen as \"an easy target location for recruitment of new children\".\n\nThis was echoed by Hertfordshire Police. The force said it had seen examples where young adults had been targeted and \"girls have been groomed and trafficked to other areas\".\n\nMs Coffey said \"we should be very concerned\" about this growing sector.\n\n\"It is absolutely essential that that market is regulated in a way that meets the needs of children,\" she said. \"If you don't have regulation then what will happen is it will meet the needs of the providers - the people who are basically making a profit out of this kind of accommodation.\"\n\n\"I wouldn't place my 16 or 17-year-old in this accommodation,\" she added.\n\n\"Why should we be placing other 16 and 17-year-olds in this twilight world where, at a very vulnerable age where they need the greatest level of support, we are abandoning them to paedophiles and organised crime gangs?\"\n\nAndrew Neilson, from the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: \"Exposing children to greater risks of criminalisation and exploitation isn't just wrong: it makes a mockery of joined-up government.\"\n\nThe Department for Education \"should be reviewing the situation urgently\", he added.\n\nJackie Sebire and the NPCC also want action from government.\n\n\"If you think about all the places we regulate the fact that we don't regulate those 16+ settings - it's just wrong and it really needs to change now… because the care is so inconsistent,\" she said.\n\n\"Ofsted could have a duty to regulate if the legislation and their remit changed and that is one solution we have proposed.\"\n\nBut ADCS said it would not advocate for total regulation, as it \"would limit flexibility\".\n\nThey added: \"We are keen to see providers of accommodation take their responsibilities to provide suitable accommodation seriously and to have open and transparent ways in which this can be assured.\"\n\nChildren and families minister Nadhim Zahawi said: \"Semi-independent living can act as a stepping-stone for young people about to come out of care...\n\n\"Local authorities are required to make sure that children in care and care leavers are given suitable accommodation to meet their needs, including that they are safe and secure which is why I recently wrote to all Directors of Children's Services to remind them of this obligation.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two weekdays at 22:30 or on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland comfortably defeated Pakistan in their final one-day international before the World Cup to complete a 4-0 series victory.\n\nJoe Root's 84 and 76 from captain Eoin Morgan helped lift the home side to 351-9, a total that looked like being much higher after a rapid start at Headingley.\n\nPakistan seemed all but beaten after Chris Woakes' new-ball burst reduced them to 6-3, only for Babar Azam (80) and Sarfaraz Ahmed (97) to share a partnership of 146.\n\nBut Babar was run out by a clever flick from Adil Rashid and Sarfaraz was brilliantly run out by Jos Buttler, either side of Rashid's flying catch to dismiss Shoaib Malik off his bowling.\n\nWith Woakes going on to claim 5-54, the tourists were dismissed for 297 to lose by 54 runs.\n\nEngland will name their World Cup squad on Tuesday, then play two warm-up games that do not have ODI status, against Australia next Saturday and Afghanistan the following Monday.\n\nThey open the tournament against South Africa at The Oval on 30 May.\n• None TMS podcast: Woakes in the wickets as England prepare for World Cup in style\n• None How England beat Pakistan - clips and analysis as it happened\n\nThis series has seen England demonstrate their awesome batting power and attempt to identify the pace bowlers that will be included in their final squad.\n\nOn a day when captain Morgan chose to bat in order to replicate losing the toss and being made to post a total in the World Cup, it was a last chance for fast bowlers David Willey and Tom Curran to push their claims.\n\nWilley offers a left-arm option, Curran yorkers and slower balls. Both can bat and made useful lower-order contributions, but neither bowled a telling spell.\n\nIn may be that Curran, Willey and Liam Plunkett are fighting for two spots to join Woakes, Mark Wood and Jofra Archer.\n\nJoe Denly, in England's provisional squad to bat and bowl some leg-spin, was not afforded another opportunity. If England want a stronger bowler, he could make way for Liam Dawson.\n\nAs for Pakistan, experts at peaking in tournaments and winners of the Champions Trophy here in 2017, they have shown glimpses of their potential at various times throughout the series.\n\nIn Leeds, their pace bowlers showed signs of improvement, while Babar and Sarfaraz were defiant.\n\nThey will be benefit from the return of leg-spinner Shadhab Khan, who can play in the World Cup after recovering from hepatitis.\n\nEngland's batsmen at it again\n\nAided by poor Pakistan bowling and worse fielding, the rate England began their innings hinted towards an absolutely massive total.\n\nThat it did not materialise was down to the control gained by Pakistan's spinners and the recovery of their pace bowlers, none more so than Shaheen Afridi, who picked up 4-82.\n\nBut that is to take nothing away from England's batsmen. Openers Jonny Bairstow (32) and James Vince (33) punished anything loose before Root and Morgan added 117 for the third wicket.\n\nRoot played drives off the pacemen, then flicked and swept the spinners. Morgan heaved two sixes into the leg side and lofted two more inside-out over extra cover.\n\nWhen Morgan became one of four England batsmen to fall to the short ball, it began a period where every home surge was halted by a wicket.\n\nJos Buttler (34) and Ben Stokes (21) made contributions, but there may be a slight concern over Moeen Ali, who registered a second successive duck.\n\nWoakes, Willey and Curran played cameos, the latter's 29 from 15 balls full of entertaining swipes and scoops.\n\nFor all the talk of the extra pace of Archer and Wood, it is Woakes who is likely to lead England's World Cup attack and his first two overs proved why.\n\nOn a surface offering just a hint of movement, his full length had Fakhar Zaman held at second slip, then both Abid Ali and Mohammad Hafeez lbw.\n\nThe classy Babar and doughty Sarfaraz rebuilt with deflections, guides and good running. They were comfortable before England's first flash of inspiration.\n\nSarfaraz sent Babar back, Buttler's throw was wide but Rashid, with his back turned, backhanded the ball on to the stumps to leave Babar short.\n\nIn response, Sarfaraz repeatedly sent Rashid to the leg-side boundary, only for the England man to leap to his left to take an excellent one-handed catch off Malik.\n\nThe captain presented England's last realistic obstacle until he was removed by Buttler's luck, anticipation and quick-thinking.\n\nAs Sarfaraz tried to run Moeen to third man, Buttler stuck out his right boot. The ball rebounded into his left foot and, with Sarfaraz trying to get back after setting off for a run, Buttler removed the bails.\n\n'I'm proud of the guys' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan on Test Match Special: \"I am very proud of the guys and the way they have performed throughout the series. The nature of how we have chopped changed our team - the performance of the side has remained consistent.\n\n\"That shows a lot of hunger in the squad and no-one can be faulted. Everyone has performed and today was same.\"\n\nChris Woakes, who was named man of the match: \"It's been a great series for us and a great few weeks for us against a strong Pakistan team. The confidence is high and keeps everyone on their toes. We are always trying to improve and it is a great place to be.\n\n\"We are wishing each other the best and enjoying our success. Thankfully it was my turn to take the wickets today but we like to share it around.\"\n\nFormer England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent, TMS analyst: \"Clinical is what comes to mind about England throughout the series. Everyone stepped up.\n\n\"The key questions have been answered - Archer stepped up and the players who were injured held up nicely.\n\n\"There are selection issues but England have a luxury of players to turn to.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"The SNP has been clear and straight with people: We want to keep Scotland in the EU\"\n\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has said her party has been the most consistent anti-Brexit voice during the European election campaign.\n\nLabour's Scottish deputy leader Lesley Laird said a new vote on Brexit was becoming more likely.\n\nConservative MP Colin Clark said next month's Brexit bill will be \"different\" from what has gone before.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Vince Cable said his party could support it, if the public were given the final say.\n\nUK voters take part in elections to the European parliament on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Andrew Marr show on BBC One that putting the Brexit issue back to people in a second vote would be the right way forward.\n\nShe added: \"There is nobody I think in Scotland or across the UK that could doubt that the SNP is unequivocally and unambiguously anti-Brexit.\n\n\"Scotland's not for Brexit. Scotland is for Europe and people in Scotland have an opportunity by voting SNP on Thursday to send that message very loudly and very clearly.\"\n\nLesley Laird told Gordon Brewer that a new referendum is possible\n\nSpeaking later on Sunday Politics Scotland, Ms Laird said a new referendum on Brexit was becoming more likely, but not certain.\n\n\"That is absolutely now the direction that we see this ending up,\" she said. \"You cannot yet say.\"\n\n\"We're going to have these indicative votes. We don't know what Theresa May will bring forward and we don't know therefore what that final deal will look like.\"\n\nColin Clark believes the prime minister will bring new ideas on Brexit before MPs\n\nMr Clark told the programme that the Brexit proposition being brought to the Commons was not simply a re-run of the measure which had previously been rejected by MPs.\n\nHe said: \"The bill will be different when it comes back. It has to be different when it comes back and has to bring more of the party together.\n\n\"And I believe if Labour were given a free vote, the bill would pass.\"\n\nVince Cable believes the voters should have the final say\n\nMr Cable said the Liberal Democrats could back the prime minister, but only if the public were given the final say on the terms of exit in a referendum.\n\nHe said his party had discussed the \"practicalities\" of holding another public vote and it was possible before the 31 October deadline.\n\n\"We need a proper referendum that will come to a resolution on the issue, with remain on the ballot paper.\"\n\nPatrick Harvie thinks the European vote should be about more than Brexit\n\nPatrick Harvie of the Scottish Greens said voters on Thursday should not simply look at a party's stance on Brexit.\n\n\"Electing a Green MEP for Scotland will electing someone who'll stand up not just for Scotland's place in Europe,\" he said, \"but also for the issues like the climate emergency and tackling the refugee crisis in a humane and decent manner.\"\n\nThe Brexit Party the issue of making Brexit happen comes before everything else.\n\nTheir representative Louis Stedman-Bryce added: \"The message really is that we have to focus on democracy before we can focus on anything else.\n\n\"We have to make Brexit happen.\"\n\nLouis Stedman-Bryce of the Brexit Party wants leaving the EU to be an overriding priority", "The network was hit by widespread delays and cancellations a year ago\n\nThe new National Rail summer timetable has come into effect, with 1,000 new train services being introduced across Great Britain.\n\nThe operators and infrastructure firm Network Rail say they have learned the lessons of last summer's disruption.\n\nThen, a more extensive shake-up led to weeks of chaos on the Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) and Northern networks.\n\nTrain operators say they will monitor the latest changes carefully and respond quickly to any problems.\n\n\"The railway has a long way to go to win back passenger confidence,\" said Darren Shirley, chief executive of pressure group Campaign for Better Transport.\n\n\"But we hope that the lessons of last year have been learnt and the introduction of the new timetable... will improve people's perceptions of the railways, rather than further damaging them.\n\n\"In the event that things do go wrong, we would expect the rail industry to have a robust contingency plan so that passengers aren't left stranded again.\"\n\nAnd Anthony Smith, boss of independent watchdog Transport Focus, said Monday morning's commute would provide a major test.\n\nRail passenger groups are hoping for a smooth timetable change this year\n\n\"Passengers waiting on platforms just want the trains to run on time... they have paid for a service, and want the service to be reliable,\" he said.\n\nThe timetable changes in May 2018 led to weeks of disruption to large parts of the network,\n\nThe number of trains cancelled each day by GTR and Northern hit up to 470 and 310 respectively.\n\nGTR says passengers should be confident about the new services\n\nGTR was fined £5m by the rail regulator over its poor communication during an eight-week period of upheaval.\n\nThe Office of Rail and Road (ORR) found that the company \"failed to provide appropriate, accurate and timely information\" to passengers.\n\nAmong operators adding extra services are South Western Railway, GTR, Northern, Scotrail and Transport for Wales.\n\nIndustry body the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) said train companies and Network Rail have only made changes where there is a \"high confidence\" infrastructure, rolling stock and staffing plans are ready.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling was criticised for his role in the rail chaos\n\nRDG chief executive Paul Plummer said: \"Introducing 1,000 more services a week to meet demand on a congested network poses a significant challenge but we are working together to ensure improvements are introduced with the absolute minimum of disruption.\"\n\nFollowing the chaos of a year ago, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling was criticised after an ORR investigation found there was a \"lack of clarity about roles and responsibilities\", and that \"nobody took charge\".", "Railway fans visited Paddington Station to mark the last high speed train journey from London to Exeter.\n\nThe InterCity 125 trains have been replaced by newer models after more than 40 years of service.\n\nThe trip sold out days ahead of its run.", "Deontay Wilder produced a sensational first-round knockout of Dominic Breazeale to retain his WBC world heavyweight title in New York.\n\nWilder, 33, flattened his fellow American with 43 seconds of the opening round left - taking his record to 41 wins and a draw from 42 bouts.\n\nBreazeale was on the ropes early on before finding a solid shot to respond to the champion.\n\nBut Wilder finished the fight moments later with a huge right hand.\n• None Fury or Joshua? Wilder's next fight 'probably next year'\n\nAfter his victory, Wilder was approached by Cuba's Luis Ortiz in the ring - a man he beat in 2018 - but when asked about potential contests with British heavyweights Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, said \"no doors are closed\" and that such fights \"are in discussion\".\n\n\"All parties involved are talking,\" Wilder told Showtime. \"There's too many people and opinions involved. It will take our teams to sit down, handle things, squash everything and get it done for the fans.\n\n\"The big fights will happen the way we all benefit. We risk our lives in here, so let us get our time to iron out our differences and you guys will know when it happens.\"\n\nBreazeale, 33, left the ring without talking to the media, fresh from a punch that left him sprawled on the canvas and unable to answer the count.\n\nHis counter-punch when cornered had briefly seen Wilder engage in a couple of grapples but - after a pause for breath - the champion followed a left-hand jab with a right to the jaw which was as accurate as it was destructive.\n\nIt was a 40th victory by knockout for Wilder and just a second career loss for Breazeale, following his 2016 defeat by Anthony Joshua.\n\n'I told him I love him' - Wilder swaps trash talk for compliments\n\nWilder will face a World Boxing Council hearing for pre-fight comments where he again raised the prospect of an opponent dying in the ring.\n\n\"This is the only sport where you can kill a man and get paid for it at the same time,\" Wilder had said in the build-up. \"It's legal.\"\n\nBut afterwards Wilder spoke warmly about his beaten rival.\n\n\"Everything came out of me tonight,\" Wilder told Showtime. \"I know it's been a big build-up, a lot of animosity, chaos and hatred to one another, a lot of words said. It just came out tonight.\n\n\"This is what makes boxing great. When you have stuff to overcome.\n\n\"I've told him I love him and I want to see him go home to his family. I know we say things we mean sometimes but when you get into a fight and settle your differences, if you can then hug him and kiss him, I wish the world was like that, handle things with our hands and then live to see another day.\"\n\nWilder's power a threat to the best\n\nWith this win, Wilder successfully defended his title for the ninth time, becoming only the 10th man to achieve that milestone in consecutive fights in the heavyweight division.\n\nThe Alabama fighter's ring craft has at times been ridiculed because of his unorthodox nature, and a controversial draw with Fury in December led some to say he had been exposed when coming up against a skilled fighter.\n\nWhat is undeniable is his vicious power, and a right hand that means he only needs to land sporadically to turn fights his way.\n\nFury, knocked down twice in their Los Angeles thriller, knows all about it - but will he face the threat in a rematch? And will we ever see Wilder and Joshua fight for the four world titles they possess?\n\nWilder said a rematch and the big fights will come but, with the three men signed to different broadcasters, each with their own financial goals, the biggest battles of all will need to take place at the negotiating table.\n\nThe American's manager Shelly Finkel told BBC Sport that fights of such magnitude are more likely in 2020 so, for now at least, heavyweight focus turns to Joshua's defence against American Andy Ruiz Jr on 1 June and Fury's contest with German fighter Tom Schwarz two weeks later.\n\nWilder has done his part and can bask in the glory of a highlight reel knockout. His rivals cannot slip up in the coming four weeks.", "Tyler, The Creator was banned from entering the UK in 2015\n\nA US rapper said a \"rowdy\" crowd forced him to cancel his first UK show since a ban on entering the country was lifted.\n\nTyler, The Creator announced the gig in Peckham, south-east London, a few hours after surprising fans by tweeting a video outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nBut soon after it was due to begin he wrote the \"cops cancelled it\" in a tweet that has since been deleted.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the venue called it off because of \"overcrowding issues\".\n\nFans flocked to Peckham after Tyler, The Creator announced he was in the UK and playing a gig\n\nToby Stanton, 19, said fans were climbing over cars while people were still sat inside them during the rush to get to the venue.\n\n\"Every time they opened the gate a little bit to the venue, people charged towards the gate and then bounced back when they closed it,\" he said.\n\nThe rapper, real name Tyler Okonma, was stopped from the entering the UK in 2015 by then home secretary Theresa May after claims his lyrics encouraged \"violence and intolerance of homosexuality\".\n\nIt is believed the ban was lifted from 13 February and he arrived at Luton Airport in the early hours.\n\nThe Home Office said it did \"not routinely comment on individual cases\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Tyler, The Creator\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "TV and radio presenter Nicki Chapman has been praised for speaking out about her recent brain tumour diagnosis and subsequent recovery from surgery.\n\nThe 52-year-old, who was found to have a tumour \"the size of a golf ball\", told the Daily Mail she was \"petrified\" but tried to \"stay positive\".\n\nThe Brain Tumour Charity said sharing the experience would help \"end the isolation\" of fellow sufferers.\n\nChief executive Sarah Lindsell said she was \"grateful\" Chapman had spoken out.\n\n\"Nicki's decision to share her experience will make a real difference in helping to end the isolation felt by so many people who are diagnosed with a brain tumour,\" she said.\n\nThe charity tweeted its support on Saturday, following Chapman's interview in the Mail.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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End of twitter post by The Brain Tumour Charity\n\nChapman, who said she would not be co-presenting the BBC's coverage of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year, underwent surgery at a London hospital earlier this month following her diagnosis in March and is currently recuperating at home.\n\n\"I really hope other people who get a similar diagnosis have the excellent treatment I had, and find the same inner strength,\" she told the Mail's Frances Hardy.\n\nShe said the operation had gone well, that the tumour was benign and that most of it had been removed, but a \"little bit\" of the tumour which was growing close to one of the main cerebral veins had to be left because the risk from removing it was too great.\n\n\"I know it might come back, but if it does they'll deal with it before it gets too big.\n\n\"I don't know about the future but I'm as optimistic as I possibly can be.\"\n\nChapman, who rose to public prominence as a judge on the ITV talent show Pop Idol in 2001, said she first became aware something was amiss six weeks ago, when she noticed she was suffering from blurred vision and speech difficulties.\n\nShe said she assumed the symptoms were \"menopause-related\", but her doctor urged her to go to hospital.\n\nA scan discovered a tumour on the back, left-hand side of her head, \"the size of a golf ball, pressing on my brain\".\n\nChapman's colleagues from TV and radio have shown their support on social media, including tweets from fellow BBC Radio 2 DJ Ken Bruce, and presenters Suzi Perry, Carol Vorderman and Lucy Alexander.\n\nJames Wong, one of her co-hosts on the Chelsea Flower Show, recalled Chapman's generosity when he was a novice on live TV, and how she gave up a day to help him prepare.\n\n\"Would you guys send me some big love her way as she recovers from her op?\" he tweeted. \"What a lady!\"\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\nChapman said she was \"devastated\" not to be able to work on this year's Chelsea Flower Show - which she has co-hosted for 13 years - but was following doctor's orders.\n\n\"You have to give yourself the best possible chance to heal,\" she said. \"You don't get a second chance to recover.\"\n\nThe RHS Chelsea Flower Show runs from 21-25 May.", "McGrath has worked on fashion runways as well as for editorial shoots, and now has her own product range\n\nMulti-millionaire make-up artist Pat McGrath says she used to use cocoa powder on her face because of the lack of beauty products for black skin.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, the self-taught beauty expert said she learnt from her mother that if \"you can't buy it, make it\".\n\nMcGrath has worked with fashion designers including Alexander McQueen and Givenchy.\n\nShe added it was \"fantastic\" to see the fashion industry becoming more diverse.\n\nMcGrath, from Northampton, told presenter Lauren Laverne that growing up she used to borrow her mother's skincare products and lipsticks - which she used to experiment with.\n\n\"She even used cocoa powder, she came in from the kitchen with cocoa powder all over her face, and she was like, 'This is the right tone of powder.'\n\n\"And she had dusted it on her face and she looked amazing.\n\n\"So that's what I ended up doing as well, was making products that I needed backstage.\n\n\"That stems from my mother, if you can't find it, you can't buy it, make it.\"\n\nShe recalled making her own moisturiser for her dolls and herself, adding: \"I mixed oil and water together, whipped it and put it in the fridge and it looked like a cream... I was shining like a Belisha beacon for months.\"\n\nMcGrath working at a Christian Dior show at Paris Fashion Week in 2008\n\nMcGrath - who worked as a runway make-up artist as well as for magazine shoots and covers - said she was \"so happy\" to see the changes in the fashion industry.\n\n\"We have models from all different social backgrounds, different weight, body types, different religious backgrounds, shows that are over 50% women of colour and it just wasn't there for such a long time. And now, it's just so fantastic to see. Beautiful.\"\n\nShe was also asked about whether she experienced much racism growing up in the 1970s, but said she had a \"solid base\" around her, adding: \"I was very lucky, having the mother I had, who was like, 'Oh look at that person, they're racist, poor things, let's go shopping.'\"", "Geoffrey Robinson, Labour MP for Coventry, said the allegations \"are a lie\"\n\nLabour MP Geoffrey Robinson has denied claims that he was a Cold War spy who passed confidential government files to communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday says the allegations are contained in files archived by the current Czech government.\n\nThey centre on information about Britain's nuclear deterrent, including its Polaris missile programme, and details about Nato.\n\nMr Robinson said the allegations are a \"complete fabrication\".\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Robinson told the BBC in a statement: \"The allegations allegedly made by the Czech authorities are a lie.\n\n\"At no time did Mr Robinson ever pass confidential government documents or information to any foreign agent and he did not have access to such material.\"\n\nThe Mail on Sunday says the claims are contained in 390 pages of files compiled by the StB security service in Cold War Czechoslovakia and now administered by the Czech Republic's state security archives.\n\nThe files allege scores of meetings with a Czech \"handler\" between 1966 and 1969.\n\nThe BBC has not independently verified the claims.\n\nIn a further statement given to the BBC, Mr Robinson's spokesperson said: \"The Mail on Sunday have sent Mr Robinson a one page document written by the Czech authorities but every key fact in this document about Mr Robinson is wrong.\n\n\"It is wrong about his then job (he was never secretary to Mr Denis Healey) and about his date of birth - and when it refers to the activities of Mr Robinson the document itself states 'these moments were neither proven nor clarified'.\"\n\nLast year in a separate development, the Labour Party denied claims that Jeremy Corbyn had either been a collaborator or an agent of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia in the 1980s.\n\nThe party said the claims had come from a single source and were \"absurd and hallucinogenic\".\n\nMr Robinson, a former chairman of Jaguar Cars, was paymaster general in the late 1990s\n\nMr Robinson has been the MP for Coventry North West since 1976, and was paymaster general in 1997-1998 when Tony Blair was prime minister. He is also ex-chairman of Jaguar and Coventry City FC.\n\nCommunist rule lasted in Czechoslovakia from 1948 until the \"Velvet Revolution\" in 1989.\n\nLess than four years later, the \"Velvet Divorce\" saw the country divide into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.", "The vandals ransacked the hall, smashing years of work\n\nThousands of pounds worth of model railway exhibits have been destroyed in an act of \"total wanton destruction\".\n\nMarket Deeping Model Railway Club lost years of work in the raid at Welland Academy in Stamford on Saturday.\n\nIts chairman Peter Davies, 70, said exhibits were smashed, thrown around and stamped on, including a locomotive unit worth about £8,500.\n\nFour youths have been arrested on suspicion of burglary and criminal damage.\n\nA funding page set up to raise £500 for the club has made more than £32,000 in a matter of hours.\n\nOne contributor, Barry Cave, posted on the page: \"Horrendous act of vandalism, hope my donation helps a little.\"\n\nClub members had worked on their projects for many years - but found this damage\n\nSome of the exhibits were worth thousands of pounds\n\nThe club had set up the exhibition in the school for viewing on Sunday.\n\nMr Davies, who trained as a teacher and youth worker, said he was in \"total confusion\" over the vandalism.\n\n\"Models that were made over years were trodden on and thrown around. It's a total wanton destruction of the highest order.\n\n\"I've never experienced anything like it. A hurricane would have done less damage.\"\n\nThe club had set up an exhibition in the school for viewing on Sunday\n\nMr Davies said club members were \"devastated and distraught\".\n\n\"Can you imagine your life's work wrecked?\" he said.\n\n\"One guy spent 25 years on his work and it's wrecked, it's just horrendous.\n\n\"We will never have the time to build the sort of layouts again, that's where the anger comes from.\"\n\nHe said the club had received support from \"all over the world - as far away as New Zealand\".\n\nHe added: \"We will rise from this, no question, we will be bigger and better. But we'll never get the years back it took to build those exhibits.\"\n\nThe vandals did \"more damage than a hurricane\"\n\nThe models and buildings were stamped on and thrown around the hall during the attack\n\nLincolnshire Police said: \"On arrival at the school we arrested four youths, who were on the premises, for burglary and criminal damage.\n\n\"We are continuing our investigation and confirm damage was done to model railway exhibits which had been set up in the school for a display today [Sunday].\"\n\nThe youths were released on Saturday evening on conditional bail pending further inquiries.\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 bodies were buried near where they were discovered\n\nKenya's authorities say the bodies of two babies, thought to be twins, have been found during a clean-up of a river in the capital, Nairobi.\n\nThis is the eighth such discovery in recent months.\n\nOfficials believe the bodies are being dumped in the city's rivers as a result of abortions, which are illegal in most cases in Kenya.\n\nNairobi Governor Mike Sonko has called for an investigation into what he called a \"worrying trend\".\n\nSeveral workers were cleaning up the badly polluted Nairobi River that flows through Korogocho, one of the city's biggest slums, when they made the grim discovery.\n\nThey found the babies' bodies in a plastic bag. One was still breathing but could not be saved.\n\nThe babies were buried near where they were discovered after the police said the parents could not be identified, governor's spokesperson Elkana Jacob told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.\n\nGovernor Sonko believes that hospitals and clinics are dumping the bodies after performing abortions.\n\nHe has given his officials a week to investigate the issue.\n\nAs well as eight babies, four dead adults have also been found during the exercise to clean up the city's rivers.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nVincent Kompany says joining Anderlecht as player-manager is the \"most passionate yet rational\" decision he has made after announcing he has left Manchester City.\n\nThe 33-year-old has signed a three-year deal with the Belgian club after 11 years at Etihad Stadium, eight of which he spent as club captain.\n\nSaturday's 6-0 FA Cup final win over Watford was Kompany's final game for City, after winning four Premier League titles, two FA Cups and four League Cups.\n\nIn an open letter on Facebook, Belgium defender Kompany said leaving City \"doesn't feel real\".\n\nHe defines the essence of the club. For a decade he has been the lifeblood, the soul, and beating heart\n\n\"Countless of times have I imagined this day,\" he said. \"After all, the end has felt nearby for so many years.\n\n\"Man City has given me everything. I've tried to give back as much as I possibly could.\"\n\nIn a second letter released hours later, Kompany announced his move to Anderlecht, who said his arrival marked the \"return of the prince\".\n\n\"I want to share my knowledge with the next purple generations,\" said Kompany, who first joined Anderlecht at the age of six.\n\n\"With that, I will also put a bit of Manchester in the heart of Belgium.\"\n\n'The time has come to go'\n\nCentre-back Kompany joined City from Hamburg as a defensive midfielder in 2008 and was named club captain three years later.\n\nHe scored his final goal against Leicester on 6 May, a brilliant strike from 25 yards that was voted goal of the season on BBC Match of the Day.\n\nThat victory took City to within one win of the Premier League title, which they sealed on the final day of the season with victory at Brighton.\n• None 'Kompany enhances his legend with wonder goal'\n\n\"The time has come for me to go now,\" Kompany said.\n\n\"As overwhelming as it is, I feel nothing but gratefulness. I am grateful to all those who supported me on a special journey, at a very special club.\n\n\"I remember the first day, as clear as I see the last. I remember the boundless kindness I received from the people of Manchester.\n\n\"I will never forget how all Man City supporters remained loyal to me in good times and especially bad times. Against the odds, you have always backed me and inspired me to never give up.\"\n\nCity chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak said: \"There have been many important contributors to Manchester City's renaissance, but arguably none are more important than Vincent Kompany.\n\n\"He defines the essence of the club. For a decade he has been the lifeblood, the soul, and beating heart of a supremely talented squad.\n\n\"A booming voice in the dressing room yet a quiet and measured ambassador off it, Vincent can be as proud of himself as we are of him.\"\n\nAfter the 1-0 win over Leicester - City's final home game of the season - Kompany was in tears as the team enjoyed a lap of honour.\n\nBy beating Watford 6-0 at Wembley, City became the first men's side to complete the domestic treble in England.\n\nIn September, the club will hold Kompany's testimonial match, from which he will donate all profits to Manchester's homeless.\n\nHe said: \"Sheikh Mansour changed my life and that of all the City fans around the world, for that I am forever grateful. A blue nation has arisen and challenged the established order of things, I find that awesome.\n\n\"I cherish the counsel and leadership of a good human being, Khaldoon Al Mubarak. Man City could not be in better hands.\"\n\nAl Mubarak said: \"He will always be part of the City family.\n\n\"I am not sure he expected to lift the Premier League trophy on four occasions during his captaincy but he will be remembered and revered whenever this period of unprecedented City success is spoken about by future generations.\n\n\"His leadership, intelligence and determination have seen him adapt brilliantly to playing under four different managers and overcome some debilitating injuries.\n\n\"He is a special character who has answered every demand the club has made of him.\"\n\nSince Kompany's first season with the club, City have won more domestic trophies (10) than any other English side Only David Silva (282) and Joe Hart (266) have made more Premier League games for City than Kompany (265) Kompany has played more Premier League games than any other Belgian player in the league's history Among defenders, only former Chelsea captain John Terry has kept more Premier League clean sheets (101) than Kompany (94) since his debut\n\n'I stopped at Anderlecht just to say hello'\n\nKompany scored five goals in 73 games for Anderlecht from 2003 to 2006.\n\nThe club are the most successful team in Belgian history but are currently sixth in the Belgian First Division A. They have won 34 league titles, the most recent in 2016-17.\n\n\"I stopped at their training grounds on my way to international duty last year. Just to say hello,\" Kompany said.\n\n\"[Marc] Coucke, the chairman, and sports director Michael Verschueren asked my opinion regarding the difficult situation the club was in.\n\n\"I shared my thoughts and listened to their vision for the future: ambitious, courageous and determined to get back to number one.\"\n\nKompany offered his help with \"no strings attached\", and said it was \"unexpected\" when they offered him the position of player-manager \"not so long ago\".\n\n\"I was left not only impressed, but also intrigued by this sign of confidence in me,\" he said.\n\nInjuries have taken their toll on Kompany in recent years, and he featured in only 17 of City's 38 league games this season because of muscle injuries.\n\nHowever, he will be remembered for his influence and contribution on the pitch, where he led City to a first top-flight title since 1968 in 2012.\n\nAlong with Sergio Aguero and David Silva, Kompany is one of only three survivors from that triumph, and they repeated the achievement in 2014 and 2018.\n\nCity retained their title this month, finishing one point ahead of Liverpool after one of the most thrilling seasons in Premier League history.\n\n\"How often does someone get the chance to end such an important chapter, representing a club with such great history and tradition, in such a great fashion?\" Kompany said.\n\n'We will miss you captain' - reaction\n\nManchester City midfielder Kevin de Bruyne: Playing for about 10 years with this man for club and country. And what a privilege it's been. Big player, big personality and big leader. Learned a lot from you. Wishing you all the best for the future.\n\nCity midfielder Phil Foden: Looked after me from day one. Led by example, showed everyone what it means to be a leader, wear their heart on the sleeve, and give everything for this club. We will miss you captain.\n\nCity defender Kyle Walker: From skip to gaffer, the man has it all!! Since I walked through the door Vinny has been amazing to me. He helped me settle in and I've learned a lot from the big man. Good luck with everything skip, you'll be missed\n\nCity centre-back Aymeric Laporte: Thank you for this years close to you. Thank you for all the moments, all the words to me and to be the best leader which need this big family. You are a legend and we wish you the best in your next stage\n\nCity midfielder Bernardo Silva: THANK YOU CAPTAIN! What a pleasure to share the dressing room and learn from you over the last two seasons. We'll miss you\n\nFormer City midfielder Yaya Toure: My brother Vinny!! It was an honour to share the pitch with you at City! Memories I will cherish. Trophies! Titles!! Making a plan a reality! You are a special man!! A leader. My friend.\n\nFormer City striker Paul Dickov: City loves you more than you will know.\n\nEx-England striker and Match of the Day host Gary Lineker: Good luck to you, Vincent Kompany with your new challenge. One of the greatest players, leaders and role models to have played on the green carpets of this country. And what a way to bow out from Man City.\n\nEx-England and Manchester United defender Gary Neville: I didn't expect that. There are some players you wish played for your club. Vincent Kompany was one of them. A great centre-back whose influence on and off the pitch was huge.\n\nFormer England and Newcastle captain Alan Shearer: What a captain and player.\n\nEx-England and Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher: One of the best centre-backs the Premier League has ever seen & one of Man City's greatest ever players!\n\nFormer Oasis frontman and City fan Liam Gallagher: Thankyou Vincent Kompany for everything good luck see ya soon.", "Ms Toscan du Plantier's son Pierre-Louis Baudey-Vignaud (l) and her brother Bertrand Bouniol in Cork this weekend\n\nThe son of a murdered French film producer has appealed for witnesses to come forward and give evidence in the trial of a British man accused of killing her.\n\nSophie Toscan du Plantier was found beaten to death near her cottage in Schull, County Cork, in December 1996.\n\nIan Bailey, a neighbour of the victim, was arrested in Ireland over her killing but was never charged.\n\nIn 2016, a magistrate in France decided he should stand trial there.\n\nThat trial is due to begin in Paris on 27 May. There will be no jury because the trial will be taking place in Mr Bailey's absence.\n\nMr Bailey, a journalist who is originally from Manchester, has consistently denied involvement in the death of Ms Toscan du Plantier.\n\nA lawyer representing Mr Bailey, pictured above, dismissed the proceedings as a show trial\n\nOn Sunday, Pierre-Louis Baudey-Vignaud attended a memorial Mass near his mother's holiday home in west Cork.\n\nHe appealed to anyone who had received requests from the magistrates in France to come forward.\n\nAsked what the upcoming trial meant to him and his family, he said he simply wanted justice to be done and that the trial was necessary.\n\nIn a statement addressing the Cork community, Mr Baudey-Vignaud said: \"In France, in two week's time, our history is at stake.\n\n\"It's the story of my mother's death and the story of a woman who needed you so much to recharge her batteries.\n\n\"I still come back here every year because it is the only way for me to defy this violence and destroy it.\n\n\"For 20 years, I've trusted you. Don't betray me. Don't betray yourself.\"\n\nA lawyer representing Mr Bailey has dismissed the proceedings as a show trial and claims they are invalid.\n\nFrank Buttimer said Mr Bailey would not be presenting himself for trial in Paris and would not be mounting a defence. Neither will he be legally represented.\n\nEvidence will be presented to three professional judges and the family's legal representative will be entitled to question witnesses.\n\nSophie Toscan du Plantier was found beaten to death near her cottage County Cork in 1996\n\nMr Buttimer, who has represented Mr Bailey for most of the past 23 years since the murder, said Mr Bailey was being \"subjected to a living nightmare, from which he cannot escape\".\n\n\"He has been entirely exonerated in this country,\" he said.\n\n\"The Director of Public Prosecutions has long since decided that there is no evidence upon which he can be put on trial.\n\n\"The French have decided that the exact same evidence is sufficient to put him on trial.\"", "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", "Heinz-Christian Strache has resigned as Austria's vice-chancellor a day after secret video footage mired him in a corruption scandal.\n\nHe said he resigned to avoid further damage to the government", "Baroness Grey-Thompson has said her parents would \"probably have terminated the pregnancy\" if they had known about her disability.\n\nHer comments follow the UK's first operation, at King's College Hospital, to repair a baby's spine in the womb.\n\nThe Cardiff-born Paralympian, who has spina bifida, said terminating a disabled baby is a \"complicated issue\".\n\nSpeaking to Gareth Lewis on BBC Radio Wales, she said she believes in a woman's and family's \"right to choose\".\n\nBaroness Grey-Thompson said: \"When I was born there weren't the diagnostics for spina bifida.\n\n\"My mum had a really open conversation with me even when I was quite young, and she said they probably would have terminated the pregnancy if they'd known.\"\n\nSpina bifida is when a baby's spine and spinal cord don't develop properly in the womb, causing a gap in the spine.\n\nIt's not known what causes the condition, but a lack of folic acid before and in the early stages of pregnancy is a significant risk factor.\n\nThere are several different types, the most common of which is spina bifida occulta.\n\nIn most cases of spina bifida, surgery can be used to close the opening in the spine.\n\nBut the nervous system will usually already have been damaged, which can lead to problems including weakness or total paralysis of the legs.\n\nWith the right treatment and support, many children with spina bifida survive well into adulthood.\n\nBaroness Grey-Thompson added that people were \"shocked\" by this but she values her parents' honesty.\n\nBut she said that operations like the one carried out to repair the spine of Sherrie Sharp's son Jaxson might not mean everything is \"done and dusted\", as people can become disabled later in life.\n\nSurgeons at King's College Hospital operated on Jaxson while he was still in the womb after a diagnosis at the 20-week stage of his mother's pregnancy\n\nShe said: \"Early termination, the diagnostics, it means that people are choosing to terminate children who are disabled, so it ends up being a really complicated issue.\n\n\"The reality is pregnancies are being terminated far more than before and disability is seen as a negative thing.\"\n\nShe added: \"The whole spectrum of spina bifida, let alone any other impairment, is huge so I think you have to respect the family's right to make that choice.\"", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have released new photos from their wedding to mark their first anniversary.\n\nHarry and Meghan posted a compilation of 14 images, including some unseen pictures, on Instagram.\n\nThe photo montage is accompanied by the song This Little Light Of Mine, which played as they left St George's Chapel, Windsor, on their wedding day.\n\nIn the post, the couple thanked their followers for \"all of the love and support from so many\".\n\nThey added: \"Each of you made this day even more meaningful.\"\n\nMeghan is pictured in an unguarded moment with her mother Doria Ragland\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe pictures include a number of black and white images taken by photographers Chris Allerton and Joe Short, including one in which Meghan is holding hands with her mother Doria Ragland.\n\nA picture of the couple sharing a kiss on the steps as they left St George's Chapel - taken by Press Association photographer Danny Lawson - is also among the images shared.\n\nIn one black and white shot, Prince Harry appears to be thumbing a lift while another snap seems to have captured him in a pensive moment.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex wore a white boat-neck dress by British designer Clare Waight Keller for French fashion house Givenchy on the day.\n\nShe was walked down the aisle by Prince Charles after her father was unable to attend for health reasons.\n\nThe birth of Harry and Meghan's son came less than a year after the royal nuptials in the grounds of Windsor Castle, a wedding attended by celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Serena Williams and Priyanka Chopra.\n\nThe Sussexes have used their Instagram account to share images of private moments in their first year of marriage, including pictures of their baby son Archie's feet.\n\nThe birth of the couple's baby earlier this month was also announced on Instagram.\n\nShortly after a photocall to introduce Archie to the public, Harry and Meghan shared a more personal image on social media, showing the Queen and Prince Philip meeting their newest great-grandchild.\n\nThe moment was once again captured by photographer Chris Allerton.", "Sir Vince Cable says that his party believes in stopping Brexit in a \"proper and democratic way\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, the Liberal Democrats leader said that it would be \"unsatisfactory\" for parliament to simply revoke Article 50.", "Schwarzenegger urged fans to focus on the athletes at the event instead of the attack\n\nHollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger has said he will not press charges after being attacked at an event in South Africa.\n\nThe 71-year-old was talking to fans at his Arnold Classic Africa sporting event on Saturday when a man drop-kicked him from behind.\n\nThe attacker was restrained following the incident in Johannesburg.\n\nHowever on Sunday, Schwarzenegger said he would not be taking the case further, adding: \"I'm moving on\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe video footage, shared widely on social media, showed Schwarzenegger posing for photos and filming at the event when the man attacks him with a flying kick.\n\nThe Terminator star stumbles forward after the kick, while the attacker falls to the ground, where he is immediately restrained by a security guard.\n\nThe unnamed man was later handed over to police officers, event officials said.\n\nSchwarzenegger tweeted to his more than four million followers: \"I thought I was just jostled by the crowd, which happens a lot. I only realised I was kicked when I saw the video like all of you.\"\n\nIn response to tweets from his fans, he said on Sunday he would not be pressing charges against the attacker.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Arnold This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 have 90 sports here in South Africa at the @ArnoldSports, and 24,000 athletes of all ages and abilities inspiring all of us to get off the couch. Let's put this spotlight on them,\" he wrote in a separate message.\n\nThe Arnold Classic Africa event takes place every May and features a range of events including bodybuilding and combat sports.", "Austria was a major imperial power in Central Europe for centuries in various state guises, until the fall of its Habsburg dynasty after World War One.\n\nBut its position at the geographical heart of Europe, and its neutral status during the Cold War between Nato and the Soviet bloc, maintained the much-reduced country's strategic significance.\n\nAustria is now a member of the European Union, though not Nato, and an enduring legacy of its decades of post-war neutrality can be seen in the large number of international organisations that call its capital Vienna their home.\n\nThese include the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Opec, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries.\n\nFor much of the post-war period, so-called \"grand coalition\" governments of left and right wing parties have ruled Austria, although the Social Democrats led by Bruno Kreisky ruled alone in the 1970s.\n\nMore recently, the centre-right People's Party ruled in coalition with the far-right Freedom Party, but this coalition collapsed in May 2019 after a scandal involving the leader of the Freedom Party.\n\nAlexander Van der Bellen was first elected as president in the December 2016 re-run of a highly polarised election earlier that year, defeating Norbert Hofer of the far-right Freedom Party.\n\nVan der Bellen - a Green Party politician running as an independent - had won a extremely narrow victory in the initial run-off vote against Hofer in May, but the result was annulled because of vote-counting irregularities.\n\nIn October 2022, Van der Bellen was re-elected president, taking 57% of the vote in the first round. Freedom Party candidate Walter Rosenkranz came second with 18% of the votes, far short of what Hofer received in 2016.\n\nInterior Minister Nehammer took over on as chancellor and leader of the conservative People's Party in December 2021, following months of turmoil after the resignation of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.\n\nMr Kurz's departure was a condition for the Green Party to remain in the governing coalition, pending a corruption investigation. Foreign Minister Alexander von Schallenberg was chancellor in the interim, but resigned to make way for Mr Nehammer when the later assumed the post of People's Party leader in December.\n\nAustria's public broadcaster, Oesterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), has long-dominated the airwaves. It faces competition from private TV and radio broadcasters.\n\nCable or satellite TV is available in most Austrian homes and is often used to watch German stations, some of which tailor their output for local viewers.\n\nA daily newspaper is a must for many Austrians. National and regional titles contest fiercely for readers.\n\nFor much of the post-war period, so-called \"grand coalition\" governments of left and right wing parties have ruled Austria\n\n1278 - The Habsburg Rudolf I of Germany acquires the duchies of Austria and Styria after defeating his rival, King Ottokar II of Bohemia, at the Battle on the Marchfeld.\n\n14th and 15th Centuries - Habsburgs acquire other provinces neighbouring the Duchy of Austria.\n\n1526 - After the Battle of Mohács, Bohemia and the part of Hungary not occupied by the Ottomans comesunder Austrian rule.\n\n16th and 17th Centuries - Ottoman expansion into Hungary sees frequent conflicts between the two empires.\n\n1529 - Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent launches the first siege of Vienna. The besieging Turkish army retreats amid the snowfalls of an early winter.\n\n1683 - Second siege of Vienna. The city is freed after two months when the forces of the Holy Roman Empire and those of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth under King John III Sobieski decisively defeat the Turkish army.\n\n1699 - The Treaty of Karlowitz, which ends the Great Turkish War (1683-1699) results in most of Hungary coming under Austrian control.\n\n1713 - The Pragmatic Sanction. Edict issued by Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI to ensure the Habsburg lands - the archduchy of Austria, kingdom of Hungary, kingdom of Croatia, kingdom of Bohemia, duchy of Milan, kingdom of Naples, kingdom of Sardinia and Austrian Netherlands - could be inherited undivided by his daughter, Maria Theresa.\n\n1792-1815 - Austria engages in war with revolutionary and them Napoleonic France.\n\n1804 - The Empire of Austria is proclaimed, replacing the Holy Roman Empire which is dissolved two years later.\n\n1815 - Austria emerges from the Congress of Vienna as one of Europe's great powers.\n\n1848-49 - Hungarian revolution. This is eventually defeated with the aid of Russian forces, but leads to a constitutional government being founded in Hungary, which is now in a personal union with the Austrian emperor.\n\n1867 - The defeat leads to the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, establishing the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, a military and diplomatic alliance of two sovereign states.\n\nIn the latter half of the 19th Century, ruling Austria-Hungary becomes increasingly difficult in an age of emerging nationalist movements in Europe.\n\n1908 - Following the Young Turk revolution in Turkey, Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina, nominally part of the Ottoman Empire. The move provokes strong resentment in Serbian pan-Slav circles.\n\n1914 - The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip triggers the outbreak of World War One.\n\n1914-18 - Over one million Austro-Hungarian soldiers die in the war, which leads to the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the end of Hapsburg rule.\n\n1933 - End of the republic, Chancellor Dollfuss suspends parliament and sets up autocratic regime\n\n1934 - Government crushes Socialist uprising, backed by the army. All political parties abolished except the Fatherland Front.\n\nImprisonment of Nazi conspirators leads to attempted Nazi coup. Dollfuss assassinated, succeeded by Kurt von Schuschnigg.\n\n1938 - The Anschluss (union): Austria incorporated into Germany by Hitler. Austria now called the Ostmark (Eastern March).\n\n1945 - Soviet troops liberate Vienna. Austria occupied and partitioned into four occupation zones by Soviet, British, US and French forces. Vienna is also divided between the four occupying powers.\n\n1955 - Treaty signed by Britain, France, US and Soviet Union establishes an independent but neutral Austria - a convenient buffer between the West and the Soviet bloc. The four powers withdraw their troops. Austria joins the United Nations.\n\n1986 - Ex-UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim elected president, despite controversy over his role in the German army in World War Two.\n\n1999 - Far-right Freedom Party led by Joerg Haider wins 27% of vote in national elections.\n\n2000 - International outcry as People's Party forms coalition government with Freedom Party. EU imposes diplomatic sanctions before ending it seven months later on grounds it is counter-productive.\n\n2011 - Otto von Habsburg - the last crown prince of Austria - is buried in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna amid much of the pomp associated with the days of the empire.\n\n2013 - Austrians vote to keep compulsory military service in a referendum.\n\n2017 - Government agrees to ban Islamic full-face veils in courts, schools and other public spaces.\n\nMozart's home town of Salzburg. Austria is seen by many as the birthplace of classical music\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. How art treasures were hidden from Hitler\n\nAlmost 80 years ago Snowdonia prepared to keep a welcome in the hillside for some of the world's most treasured paintings.\n\nAcross Europe the advancing Nazis had already looted or destroyed millions of pounds worth of art.\n\nAs Allied troops fled Dunkirk, bombs fell on London and a German invasion seemed inevitable, attention turned to how to protect the National Gallery's collection.\n\nSince the beginning of World War Two, the paintings had been stored in various temporary Welsh locations but they were not entirely suitable for long-term use.\n\nIn 1940, Winston Churchill famously said of the nation's art treasures: \"Hide them in caves and cellars, but not one picture shall leave this island.\"\n\nA huge painting of Cardinal Richelieu by Philippe de Champaigne is brought out for inspection at Manod Quarry in 1942\n\nExperts scoured the UK for a hiding place - until they found Manod Quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd.\n\nManod Mountain had been a working quarry for over a century.\n\nIts excavations created a cavernous space at the heart of the mountain, and covered with hundreds of feet of slate and granite it was virtually impregnable to bombing.\n\nAlso, its very remoteness made it easier to keep the mission top secret.\n\nStoring the art in the quarry during World War Two improved the National Gallery's understanding of preserving art\n\nSuzanne Bosman, the National Gallery's senior picture researcher and author of The National Gallery in Wartime, explains that moving almost 2,000 works by Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Turner and Constable proved to be quite an undertaking.\n\n\"Cold, damp quarries aren't really good places for priceless works of art, so before they were moved in, six air-tight climate controlled brick huts were built inside the mountain,\" she explained.\n\n\"In fact the conditions in which they were stored at Manod were considerably better than those in which they were exhibited at the National Gallery before the war, and the evacuation taught staff a lot about preservation, even after the war.\"\n\nThe largest paintings were packed in specially designed \"elephant cases\" and transported by road.\n\nThe smaller paintings were transported in Post Office vans and Cadbury delivery trucks in order to avoid attracting attention.\n\nVan Dyck's \"monster\" Equestrian Portrait of Charles I, measuring 12ft by 9.5ft, posed a particular challenge\n\nFrom there, they were loaded on to a purpose-built narrow gauge railway which carried them through an airlock in sealed wagons right up to the doors of the huts, only unloaded once they were inside in the strictly-controlled air-conditioned space.\n\nHowever, Ms Bosman said it did not always run that smoothly.\n\n\"Van Dyck's Equestrian Portrait of Charles I is a monster, at 12ft by 9.5ft, and in its case, loaded on the back of the truck, it was considerably taller,\" she said.\n\n\"On the approach to the quarry there is a tight S-bend, just where the road passes under the arch of a railway bridge.\n\n\"I liken it to trying to get a sofa around a corner on the stairs; there was enough height, but only if you could hit precisely the right angle.\n\n\"In the end they had to dig up the road surface to lower it by a few inches, and to this day you can see how the kerb in that section is noticeably higher than on the rest of the road; it's a measure of just how important the evacuation was.\"\n\nEngineer JR Jones takes a reading of the humidity in a subterranean chamber at Manod Quarry\n\nThe government retained its lease on Manod until the 1950s, and it was to have performed the same role in the event of a third world war.\n\nHowever, the quarry and the huts within are in a poor state of repair and access is strictly controlled.\n\nMs Bosman became one of the few people who have been inside in a quarter of a century, when she joined writer and explorer Will Millard as part of his BBC Wales series, Hidden Wales.\n\nMr Millard described it as one of the most moving experiences of his professional life.\n\nBotticelli's 'Mother and Child' is brought out for inspection\n\n\"I was in absolute awe of what had been achieved there in just six months, it is truly a testament to the ingenuity and determination Britain showed during the War,\" he said.\n\n\"Inside you can still see the marks on the wall where the paintings hung, and the floor is littered with the hygrometers and thermometers which would have controlled every aspect of the conditions.\n\n\"It's such a shame that very few people will get to see it in the future. We've let a piece of our national heritage slip away.\"\n\nThis piece was inspired by a question from reader Doug Cormack who got in touch to ask how the National Gallery's collection came to be evacuated to Wales during the war, and whether the paintings would ever come back to Wales for a commemorative exhibition.\n\nA spokesman for the National Gallery said it currently has no plans beyond the shows advertised on their website, however they regularly loan art to other organisations, and consider all requests.\n\nIf you have any questions we can turn into stories, use this form to send them in:\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.\n\nWe may get in touch if we decide to follow up on your suggestion.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "International Development Secretary Rory Stewart says Labour and the Conservative are not far apart on what they want from a Brexit deal.", "Campaigners and a film crew have appeared on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival chanting \"solidarity\" and wearing green in protest against Argentina's abortion laws.\n\nThey were showcasing the documentary Que Sea Ley, which translates as \"Let It Be Law\" and follows the intense battle over a bill which would have legalised abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.\n\nThe country's senate rejected the bill in August 2018, meaning abortion is still allowed in Argentina only in cases of rape, or if the mother's health is in danger.\n\nAt the time. there were large-scale protests on both sides of the debate, in the country where the population is overwhelmingly Roman Catholic.", "Laws covering so-called revenge porn are not fit for purpose and police still need more training, experts say.\n\nVictims should receive anonymity and laws need to include threats to share images, according to Sophie Mortimer from the Revenge Porn helpline.\n\nFigures from 19 forces in England and Wales revealed police investigations have doubled in the last four years but the number of charges has fallen.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs Council said forces take the crime \"very seriously\".\n\nRevenge porn - the sharing of private or sexual images or videos of a person without their consent - became an offence in England and Wales in April 2015.\n\nSimilar laws were later introduced in Northern Ireland and Scotland.\n\nFigures from 19 of 43 police forces in England and Wales show the number of alleged cases being investigated by officers has more than doubled in the last four years - from 852 in 2015-16 to 1,853 in 2018-19.\n\nHowever, the figures also reveal that the number of charges dropped by 23% - from 207 to 158 - during the same period.\n\nRevenge porn is currently categorised as a \"communications crime\", meaning victims are not granted anonymity.\n\nIn the last year, more than a third of victims decided not to proceed with the case.\n\nSome say it is because they are not granted anonymity, while others cited a lack of police support.\n\nAlice Ruggles died after an ex-boyfriend broke into her home in Gateshead\n\nIn October 2016, Alice Ruggles, 24, was murdered by a former boyfriend who cut her throat after breaking into her home in Gateshead.\n\nAfter her death it emerged that her killer, Trimaan Dhillon, had threatened to share intimate images of her online as part of a campaign of stalking and harassment.\n\nAlice's mother, Dr Sue Hills, said threatening to share images should be made part of the law.\n\nShe said her daughter may have sought help sooner if Dhillon had not held the threat over her.\n\n\"It causes immensely serious psychological damage - it is a crime,\" she said.\n\nMs Mortimer, from the Revenge Porn helpline, backed her call.\n\nShe added: \"We'd also like to see it made a sexual offence because that would guarantee anonymity for victims.\"\n\nSophie Mortimer: 'Key that frontline services understand what the law means'\n\nShe also called for better training of police officers.\n\n\"It's all very well changing the law and making these things illegal, but if the frontline services don't understand what the law actually means then you've only done half the job.\"\n\nResearch by the University of Suffolk found 95% of police officers who took part in a survey in 2017 said they had not had any training on revenge porn legislation.\n\nA joint Ministry of Justice and Home Office statement said: \"When we engaged with victims and campaigners in designing the new law they accepted that the motive for this crime is almost always malicious, rather than sexual, which is why the law considers it a non-sexual offence.\n\n\"We launched and continue to support the Revenge Porn helpline, which helps victims to speak with the police and to social media companies about removing the content.\"\n\nChief Constable Simon Bailey from the National Police Chiefs' Council said forces \"pursue all lines of inquiry and prosecute people where appropriate\".\n\n\"The College of Policing has produced a briefing and training note, which all officers involved in these types of investigations can access.\"\n\nTo find out more listen to 5 Live Investigates on Sunday at 11:00 GMT or on BBC Sounds\n\nFor information and support, including sources of support for those affected by sexual violence and domestic abuse, visit the BBC's Action Line.", "Martin Sellner is a member of the Identitarian Movement Austria\n\nAustria's chancellor has described as \"disgusting\" revelations that a far-right activist linked to the New Zealand mosque attacks suspect put a swastika on a synagogue when he was 17.\n\nChancellor Sebastian Kurz said he would not tolerate \"neo-Nazi activities\".\n\nMartin Sellner of the Identitarian Movement Austria said the incident had been long ago and he had since changed.\n\nLast month investigators raided his home after he said he had been given money by the Christchurch suspect.\n\nBut Mr Sellner, 30, denied any involvement in the New Zealand attacks.\n\nFifty people died and dozens more wounded in the 15 March shootings. Australian Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old self-proclaimed white supremacist, has been charged over the attacks.\n\nChancellor Kurz has vowed to \"fight all forms of extremism\"\n\nMr Kurz - who campaigned on a harsh anti-immigrant message and is governing in coalition with the far-right Freedom Party - said that as chancellor it was his duty to \"fight all forms of extremism to preserve free and liberal law-based state\".\n\nIt follows a report in Austria's Kleine Zeitung that Mr Sellner had admitted to police in 2006 that he and a companion stuck a swastika poster on a synagogue in the town of Baden bei Wien, to the south-west of the capital Vienna.\n\nThe newspaper quoted Mr Sellner's companion as saying the pair had decided to carry out the act after British Holocaust denier David Irving was arrested in Austria in 2005 and jailed. Denying the Holocaust is illegal in Austria.\n\nMartin Sellner (centre) on a torch-lit march near Vienna in September 2017\n\nMr Sellner had also provided a badge saying \"aryan youth\" and an anti-Turkish poster, his companion said at the time.\n\nMr Sellner appeared regretful and was told to carry out 100 hours of community service in a Jewish cemetery, the newspaper report said.\n\nResponding to the report on Twitter, Mr Sellner said it was no secret that he had been active in the neo-Nazi scene when he was younger but had \"left that behind a long time ago\". He had never taken part in acts of violence, he added.\n\nMr Sellner has become one of the most prominent young activists of the far right in Europe.\n\nAustrian media say the far-right Freedom Party has come under pressure to distance itself from the Identitarian Movement Austria (IBÖ) following the revelations that Brenton Tarrant donated about €1,500 (£1,290; $1,700) to the IBÖ.\n\nIn March last year Mr Sellner and his girlfriend Brittany Pettibone - an alt-right vlogger and conspiracy theorist - were refused entry to the UK.\n\nThe authorities said their presence in the UK would not have been \"conducive to the public good\".", "Last updated on .From the section Motorsport\n\nBilly Monger has claimed his first victory since having both his legs amputated after a crash two years ago.\n\nMonger, who is competing in Euroformula Open races, won the Pau Grand Prix.\n\n\"Can't believe it, I didn't think two years on I'd be winning races,\" said the 20-year-old Briton.\n\nThe Carlin driver - in a specially adapted car - dropped to last after switching to wet-weather tyres, a strategy which paid off as he surged past other drivers in France.\n\nWhen Motopark duo Julian Hanses and Liam Lawson collided and took each other out, Monger - who had qualified 11th - inherited the lead and held on for victory.\n• None 'I lost my legs but not my daredevil spirit'\n\nHe was seriously injured during a Formula 4 race at Donington Park in April 2017 but returned to racing less than a year after the accident at the British Formula 3 Championship.\n\nMonger and his family had successfully appealed to the sport's international governing body, the FIA, to change its regulations restricting disabled drivers.\n\n'Billy Whizz' became the first disabled driver to race a single-seater car and claimed his maiden British F3 pole position on his return to Donington Park in September 2018.\n\nHe finished sixth overall in the 2018 British F3 Championship, taking two pole positions and three podiums.\n\nMonger's remarkable fortitude saw him recognised with the Helen Rollason Award for courage in the face of adversity at the BBC Sports Personality show in December.\n\nBackstage, the lifetime achievement award winner Billie-Jean King - a tennis icon and equality campaigner - sought out the young racing driver and asked him for a selfie.\n\n\"I'm in awe of his tenacity. It was an honour to meet him,\" she said.", "Bringing the Withdrawal Agreement Bill to Parliament is the last roll of the dice for the prime minister\n\nLabour has finally pulled the plug on the Brexit talks with the government, at the end of a week in which they appeared to be on life support.\n\nSo is it, as some suggest, time to read the last rites on Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement Bill?\n\nLet's be clear - it will be challenging, to say the least, for the legislation to get through the Commons.\n\nBut reports of its demise may well have been exaggerated. It may not go down to immediate defeat. And this is why.\n\nA leaked memo from the government side, not agreed by Labour or the cabinet, contained a wheeze that could have been attractive to both leaderships.\n\nEven before the Withdrawal Agreement Bill makes its appearance, the memo suggested there could be a \"free vote\" in Parliament on another referendum.\n\nThis is rather different from what the shadow Brexit secretary, Sir Keir Starmer, was suggesting - that there ought to be a \"confirmatory\" vote, as part of a package, on any agreed deal.\n\nThe leaders of both the main parties aren't keen on another public vote, to say the least. So a stand-alone Commons vote on the issue, divorced from the deal, would be more likely to go down to defeat - as it has on previous occasions.\n\nJeremy Corbyn could say to People's Vote supporters in his ranks: \"Oh, I did try for a referendum, but oops, it didn't work - so now let's just leave with the best possible deal.\"\n\nBut it would seem that this approach has been scuppered by Labour's wider negotiating team and, presumably, by the cabinet. I have had a strong steer that this proposal in the leaked government memo won't go ahead in this form.\n\nBut this might not be the setback it seems for the prime minister because supporters of another referendum may have no option but to vote initially for her bill.\n\nThere will be a vote at what's called, in parliamentary speak, second reading in the first week in June. If the prime minister is defeated at this point, it's basically the end of the road for her deal and her premiership.\n\nTheresa May's immediate fate could be in the hands of Labour MPs\n\nBut if MPs vote for the bill at second reading, they then get an opportunity to change it - and that would include an amendment on another referendum.\n\nSo it's not impossible that some people who hate Theresa May's deal give it their temporary backing so they can discuss improving it, or putting it to a public vote.\n\nTalks with Labour are over - but efforts to win over individual Labour MPs are not. Note the wording of Downing Street's statement that \"complete agreement\" hasn't been reached.\n\nSo expect to see some incentives in - or around - the Brexit bill for opposition MPs to back the government. For example, a commitment to stay in step with the EU on workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nAllies of Sir Keir have blamed the breakdown of the talks on the PM's inability to get a customs union compromise past her cabinet.\n\nBut if she keeps Conservative MPs on board in the legislation by eschewing a customs union but delivers a \"comprehensive\" (trust me, this word is important to some Labour MPs) temporary arrangement to last until the next election, some soft opposition to her deal may crumble.\n\nThen there is the argument put forward by the former Conservative minister Nick Boles, echoed off the record by some in Downing Street.\n\nIf the prime minister's bill gets shot down in flames there is no other readily available vehicle to prevent the default option of no deal. Indeed, No 10 insiders expect to see \"vociferous\" arguments for no deal if Theresa May's legislation falls.\n\nSome unions, such as the GMB and Unison, favour another referendum. But the leadership of Unite, which is closest to Mr Corbyn, essentially favours leaving with a deal - and Labour MPs will be made well aware of this.\n\nSo even if Labour formally opposes the bill at second reading, there could be a sizeable rebellion from those former Remainers representing Leave areas - safe in the knowledge that they wouldn't exactly be upsetting some powerful forces in the party.\n\nAnd the MPs who support what's called Common Market 2.0 could be crucial to the outcome. These are, broadly speaking, Labour MPs who are neither Corbynistas nor in favour of another referendum - such as Lucy Powell and Stephen Kinnock - and they are very keen to avoid no deal.\n\nHowever, if the Labour whip is to oppose, expect it to be rigorously enforced irrespective of the views of the party leader's office. So Mrs May's immediate fate may still be in the hands of opposition MPs\n\nThe forthcoming leadership contest may firm up opposition to Theresa May's bill on the Conservative benches\n\nBy putting the Withdrawal Agreement Bill out of its misery almost as soon as it appears, the prime minister's critics know she will vacate office sooner rather than later.\n\nBut some candidates will be keener for her to get Brexit over the line, even with a less than optimal deal, so they don't immediately get bogged down with difficult votes. It would also allow them to make their pitch based on the future relationship with the EU.\n\nSo could some of their supporters - irrespective of their public criticism of the deal - quietly vote to get it over the line?\n\nSet against all this, there is plenty of analysis in the public domain which will tell you how impossible it is for a deal to go through.\n\nBut right now, No 10 might well see \"highly improbable\" as grounds for optimism. Hope dies last, does it not?", "Winners included My Dad Wrote A Porno, George The Poet and You Me and the Big C whose co-presenter, Rachael Bland, is pictured\n\nSpoken word performer George The Poet and the BBC's Brexitcast were among the winners at the British Podcast Awards.\n\nThe awards - which were launched in 2017 - also honoured BBC Radio 5 Live's You, Me and the Big C, a podcast about cancer whose co-presenter Rachael Bland died last year.\n\nHer husband, Steve Bland, collected the award along with the podcast's co-hosts who said: \"This one's for Rachael.\"\n\nThe main prize at the podcast awards, the Audioboom Podcast Of The Year, was scooped by George the Poet, for Have You Heard George's Podcast? - a series discussing topics such as the Grenfell Tower fire, poverty and music.\n\nHe also won four other awards including Best Arts and Culture and Smartest Podcast.\n\nGeorge the Poet is also known for singles like Follow the Leader, which he made with Maverick Sabre\n\nSpeaking afterwards, the London-born rapper and poet - whose real name is George Mpanga - said he first set up the podcast because he \"wanted to give young people a way to rethink their situation, especially if they're in the inner city like I was\".\n\nThe BBC's Brexitcast, featuring political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Europe editor Katya Adler and co-hosts Chris Mason and Adam Fleming, won the Listeners' Choice award.\n\nAccepting the award, Fleming joked: \"I've got no phone signal down here, has Brexit happened while we've been in here?\"\n\nMy Dad Wrote A Porno, hosted by Jamie Morton, James Cooper and Radio 1's Alice Levine, won the Podcast Champion award, presented by Welsh actor Michael Sheen.\n\n\"It started with an unpublished ebook written by Jamie's dad and handed to his son without telling him that the content was a little risque,\" said Sheen, to the audience in London's Kings Place on Saturday night.\n\n\"And when later, Jamie showed it to friends Alice and Jamie in the pub, podcasting was about to change forever.\"\n\nHe said the show - which has sparked multiple sold-out tours and three series - \"has done more than any other British podcast to show off the exciting future of podcasting\".\n\nAn HBO comedy special based on My Dad Wrote A Porno aired this month\n\nYou, Me And The Big C was awarded Acast Moment of the Year.\n\nNewsreader and presenter Bland, who died aged 40 last September nearly two years after being diagnosed with breast cancer, was a host on the podcast along with Deborah James and Lauren Mahon.\n\nFollowing her death, the BBC announced a podcast award in her honour, and the first ever winners were announced on Saturday - three women whose upcoming series will launch in September and look at addiction and mental health.\n\nThe BBC's Grenfell Tower Inquiry With Eddie Mair was also among the winners, scooping Best Current Affairs podcast.\n\nThe podcast analyses and explains evidence heard at the inquiry into the tower block blaze on 14 June 2017 which killed 72 people.", "Recreational divers exposed the damage in Loch Carron after the 2017 incident\n\nA fragile flame shell reef which was severely damaged by scallop dredging on Scotland's north west coast has been granted permanent protection.\n\nMinisters had issued a temporary order banning mobile fishing on Loch Carron in Wester Ross after the 2017 incident.\n\nDivers who visited the reef, which is a nursery ground for scallops, found the area had been \"intensively\" dredged.\n\nBut it now officially has Marine Protected Area (MPA) status which safeguards 23 sq km of the sea loch.\n\nPhil Taylor, head of policy at environmental group Open Seas, described the initial devastation as a \"wake-up call\".\n\nHe added: \"These divers are unsung heroes - by showing the damage that is being done to our seabed, they have raised huge political and public awareness of the problem.\n\n\"However, Loch Carron is just one small area, and over the past few decades the same degradation has happened elsewhere in our seas.\n\n\"We urgently need to regenerate all of our coastal seas - safeguarding seabed habitats will deliver a sustainable long term future for our rural economy and communities.\"\n\nLoch Carron is home to millions of flame shells\n\nImages of the damaged reef captured two years ago\n\nThe MPA for Loch Carron, which comes into force on Sunday, means fishermen operating trawlers or dredging boats will not be able to fish.\n\nIt will mirror the area covered by existing emergency closure, with the exception of Plockton harbour where there is no evidence of a reef.\n\nOpen Seas has been calling for dredging to be banned around Scotland's coast because of the damaging impact it can have on the sea bed.\n\nBut fishing organisations have argued the move is unnecessary and that existing protections are enough.\n\nLoch Carron is home to the world's largest-known flame shell bed with an estimate 250 million brightly-coloured molluscs.\n\nThe scallop dredger which caused the damage was not operating illegally since the area had no protected designation.\n\nBut it left the sea bed littered with broken shells and led to calls for dredging to be banned completely.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK rail passengers lost an estimated 3.9 million hours to delays in 2018, according to consumer group Which?\n\nThe data covers trains which arrived at their destination 30 minutes or more late, and is based on 8.1 million such journeys in the year.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group, which represents operators, said \"rail companies are working together to improve punctuality\".\n\nAnother 660 trains per day were cancelled.\n\nIt was the highest figure for cancellations since comparable records began in 2011, according to Which?, which used Office of Rail and Road data to compile its results.\n\nPassenger groups are keen to avoid last year's chaos, when thousands of trains were cancelled amid a change of timetables.\n\nWeather, strikes and signalling failures last year also brought down train reliability.\n\n\"Passengers have faced a torrid time on the trains since the beginning of last year where the rail industry has fundamentally failed on punctuality and reliability,\" the group's head of campaigns Neena Bhati said.\n\n\"People then face a messy and complex compensation system which puts them off claiming when things go wrong.\"\n\nMuch of the information needed for a claim is on a standard rail ticket.\n\n1. Class of seat | 2. Peak or non-peak | 3. Single, return, or monthly | 4. Date the ticket is valid | 5. Ticket number, and adjacent reference number | 6. Where ticket is from and to | 7. End date | 8. Price | Other details can include the fact it is a paper ticket, any connections, proof of purchase, and how it was paid for\n\nWhich? said that 36% of passengers do not claim delay compensations they are owed, and suggested that the payments should be automatic.\n\n\"We know that services on some routes weren't good enough last year and rail companies are working together to improve punctuality and tackle delays across the country,\" said Robert Nisbet, regional director of industry body the Rail Delivery Group.\n\n\"Train companies want to make it simple and easy for customers to claim compensation if they've experienced a delay.\"\n\n\"Half of the franchises managed by the Department for Transport pay compensation after 15 minutes and some operators have introduced automatic refunds, helping claims to increase by 80% over the last two years.\"\n\nA review of the rail industry was commissioned last year, following criticism of the way the franchising model is run.\n\nIt is being led by former chief executive of British Airways, Keith Williams, who said it will consider all options, including renationalisation.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said the Rail Review is \"focused on reforms to put passengers at the heart of the railway and will consider all submissions closely\",\n\nPassenger satisfaction with rail services fell to a 10-year low, according to a report published in January by the independent transport watchdog, Transport Focus.\n\nA survey of 25,000 people found 79% were satisfied overall with services, the lowest since 2008, with more than one in five passengers not satisfied.", "A survivor of the Columbine High School shooting who later became a prominent advocate for fighting addiction has been found dead at his Colorado home.\n\nAustin Eubanks, 37, was shot in the hand and knee in the 1999 Columbine attack, in which 12 of his classmates and a teacher were killed.\n\nHe became addicted to drugs after taking pain medication while recovering from his injuries.\n\nOfficials say there were no signs of foul play in his death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Columbine changed my life: Samantha Haviland was a student at when the 1999 shooting happened\n\nEubanks's body was discovered on Saturday at his home in Steamboats Springs, Colorado, Routt County Coroner Robert Ryg said.\n\nA post-mortem examination to establish the cause of death was planned for Monday.\n\nHis family said he had \"lost the battle with the very disease he fought so hard to help others face\".\n\n\"As you can imagine, we are beyond shocked and saddened and request that our privacy is respected at this time,\" they added in a statement reported by local TV station KMGH.\n\nEubanks told the BBC in 2017 of how the attack, which killed his best friend, led him to addiction.\n\n\"I was medicated on a variety of substances that were intended to sedate and to relieve pain,\" he said.\n\n\"I became addicted before I even knew what was happening.\"\n\nEubanks later worked at an addiction treatment centre and travelled the US telling his story and working to improve addiction recovery and prevention.\n\nThe Columbine High School shooting took place on 20 April, 1999 when two students killed 12 fellow pupils and a teacher. They then killed themselves.\n\nIt was, at the time, the deadliest school shooting in US history.", "The good will of nurses in England is being abused by politicians who have failed to get to grips with a desperate shortage of staff, nurse leaders say.\n\nRoyal College of Nursing general secretary Dame Donna Kinnair will call for safe staffing levels to be enshrined in law in a speech on Monday.\n\nThere are currently nearly 40,000 nurse vacancies - one in nine posts.\n\nHowever, the government says it is committed to increasing the number of nurses in training.\n\nBut Dame Donna, in an address to the RCN's annual conference in Liverpool, will say this is not enough.\n\nA report earlier this year by three leading think tanks warned vacancies could rise to 70,000 within five years and 100,000 in 10 if action was not taken.\n\nDame Donna will say the situation has been made worse by the removal of a student bursary for trainees and the introduction of tuition fees in 2016.\n\nShe will also say the good will of nurses is being abused - and that ministers need to consider the financial and human cost of leaving jobs unfilled.\n\nShe will demand tougher rules on safe staffing be introducing, criticising the \"vague metric\" currently used which does not distinguish between care provided by registered nurses or healthcare assistants.\n\nDame Donna will point to the new staffing law in Scotland, which cleared its final parliamentary hurdle earlier this month, as evidence of how legislation can be introduced.\n\nScotland is now the second country in the UK to set staffing accountability in law after Wales became the first in Europe to legislate in 2016.\n\nShe will say: \"We will not stop until people are held to account for the desperate shortages each and every one of us has witnessed. Politicians must stop short-changing the public.\n\n\"They must stop the rot and put an end to the workforce crisis in nursing.\n\n\"Rather than only looking at the cost of educating and employing nurses, the government must think about the true cost - financial and human - of not doing it.\n\n'Employers, decision-makers and ministers with the power to change things should not let individual nurses take the blame for systemic failings.\n\n\"The goodwill of nursing staff is being abused and politicians must know it is running out. I will not stand by while this profession is denigrated.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care has already announced plans to increase training places by 25% - and the NHS in England is now working on a long-term plan for the workforce.\n\nA spokeswoman praised the \"commitment\" of nurses and said the government would \"secure\" the staff the service needed.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says Labour is not defining voters on how they voted in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, he rejected claims that his party does not have a clear position on Brexit.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"There's not an area of my life it hasn't touched,\" says Chrissy Chambers, reflecting on the secret sex tape her ex-boyfriend posted online.\n\n\"It has affected my life in every way imaginable and I'm sure it will continue to for the rest of my life.\"\n\nDuring her four-year legal battle against the man - who cannot be named for legal reasons - Ms Chambers went from YouTube musician to \"revenge porn\" campaigner.\n\nHere, she tells her story to the BBC's Jane Wakefield.\n\nJW: How did you first find out the video had been uploaded?\n\nCC: I initially found out through a friend and a fan who wrote to us and said: \"I just want to alert you that someone is spreading these links.\"\n\nSomeone was distributing links all over our YouTube channel, saying: \"You think Chrissy Chambers is a role model? She's actually a whore, look at these videos.\"\n\nI clicked the link and then realised for the first time what had happened. I literally fell down on the ground and it felt just like I was getting hit with a baseball bat.\n\nTo find out that the video existed and to find out that this had happened at all, it was like my world came crashing down.\n\nHow has it affected your life?\n\nIn every way imaginable. I have PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder], I became an alcoholic at 23. I almost died. I had depression, anxiety, night terrors. It affected my relationship.\n\nWe [Chrissy and partner Bria Kam] had a successful YouTube channel at that point and had about 50,000 young women who were following us and looking up to us.\n\nSome of them said: \"I looked up to you so much, I can't support someone who would choose to do this.\"\n\nIt was heartbreaking for me - but knowing that I had all these other people who loved us and supported us, I felt a huge responsibility to stand up for myself and seek justice.\n\nI wanted to set an example in case this ever happened to them.\n\nYou live in the United States but the videos were uploaded in the UK, so your case was fought here. What happened?\n\nMy ex uploaded the videos before the [revenge porn] law was passed here in the UK.\n\nI was here in the UK the day the law passed and we went to the police to try and get criminal charges. They said the statute of limitations on my case had long passed and I was not going to be able to pursue criminal charges\n\nThen you had a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for a civil case.\n\nWe raised the money in a month. The public reaction to the situation was an outpouring of love and support - and also horror at the situation.\n\nI won monetary damages from my ex, as well as being assigned copyright to the videos. That was the most important piece of the puzzle, because if these videos are ever shared again I can now go to the websites directly and submit takedown notices or pursue legal action.\n\nWe have spent four-and-a-half years fighting to get the rights to get the videos taken down. It just means everything.\n\nThe money is important too. Since he got anonymity, there needed to be some reparation for the suffering and all of the therapy and things we had to go through.\n\nThe real victory for me was getting justice and setting a precedent for others.\n\nDid you contact websites previously to have the videos taken down? What did they say?\n\nIf websites actually responded, that would be great. When I reached out in the past I got no response.\n\nIt wasn't until we sent a letter from a lawyer that some of the videos started to come down.\n\nI would like to see these websites require some proof of consent for videos uploaded, and a much better system for takedown notices. If somebody says a video was not consensual, it should come down quickly to protect the victim.\n\nYou have become a figurehead for fighting revenge porn. What would you say to other victims?\n\nI would say to other victims who maybe don't have the confidence and don't know what to do about pursuing it, that I know exactly how you feel.\n\nI've been there. There are many days where I don't feel confident to keep fighting.\n\nJustice can be served. I finally learned that there was a light at the end of my tunnel. Don't give up hope.\n\nEven if it takes years you can get justice and you didn't deserve to have this happen to you.", "The government should add a public vote to the Brexit legislation which MPs will vote on next month, the shadow Brexit secretary has told the BBC.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said including another referendum in the Withdrawal Agreement Bill would \"break the impasse\".\n\nTalks between Labour and the government to find a compromise Brexit deal broke down on Friday without agreement.\n\nTheresa May has said she would consider putting different Brexit options to MPs to see which ones \"command a majority\".\n\nLabour's preferred plan is for changes to the government's Brexit deal or an election, but if neither of those are possible, it will support the option of a public vote.\n\nThere have been calls for giving the public another say on Brexit. One widely discussed option is for a \"confirmatory vote\" with the choice between accepting whatever deal the government agrees, or remaining in the EU.\n\nOthers argue any new referendum should include the option of leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Sir Keir suggested the government should seek \"further changes to the political declaration\", which sets out the UK's future relationship with the EU after Brexit.\n\nHe added: \"Or of course they could seek to break the impasse by putting a confirmatory vote on the face of a bill.\n\n\"But whatever happens they have to find a way of breaking the impasse. We've got five and a half months which seems like quite a long time but in reality, once we get to the summer recess, we've only got only two weeks in September and two weeks in October.\"\n\nMrs May has promised to set a timetable for leaving Number 10 following the Brexit bill vote\n\nBrexit had been due to take place on 29 March - but after MPs voted down the deal Mrs May had negotiated with the bloc three times, the EU gave the UK an extension until 31 October.\n\nMrs May announced this week that MPs will vote on her EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill in the week beginning 3 June.\n\nThis will be the second reading vote on the bill, which is the key piece of legislation to implement the withdrawal agreement - the legally binding part of the Brexit deal that covers exit terms - and take the UK out of the EU.\n\nThe second reading is the first opportunity for MPs to debate the bill. If it is not passed by Parliament, the default position is that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nSir Keir said Labour would vote against the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, accusing the government of attempting \"an experiment\" and bringing the UK to \"a cliff edge\".\n\n\"If that bill goes through second reading and then collapses at third reading we are then up against the cliff edge in October, which is why we've said we'll vote against that at second reading if there isn't an agreed deal before we start,\" he said.\n\nHe denied that would make a no-deal Brexit more likely. \"I don't accept that. What we can't do is keep on buying another week at a time which is what the prime minister has been doing for months.\"\n\nDiscussions between the Conservatives and Labour - to see if they could come to an agreement on Brexit despite differences over issues including membership of a customs union and a further referendum - lasted six weeks before ending on Friday.\n\nSir Keir blamed the collapse of talks with the government on the inability to \"future proof\" a deal against an \"incoming Tory leader\" and said although the two sides had conducted the talks \"in good faith\", they were \"a long way apart\" on substance.\n\nHe said: \"During the talks, almost literally as we were sitting in the room talking, cabinet members and wannabe Tory leaders were torpedoing the talks with remarks about not being willing to accept the customs union.\n\n\"In terms of the team that we were negotiating with, I'm not blaming them.\n\n\"Circling around those that were in the room trying to negotiate were others who didn't want the negotiation to succeed because they had their eye on what was coming next.\"\n\nMrs May has previously blamed the collapse on the lack of a \"common position\" within Labour.\n\nIt comes as a poll of Conservative members for The Times suggest former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is the favourite to succeed Mrs May.\n\nA YouGov poll commissioned by the Times suggests Mr Johnson is the first choice for 39% of those Tory party activists who responded.\n\nThe former London mayor, who announced his intention to run earlier this week, was three times as popular as the next closest choice, ex-Brexit secretary Dominic Raab (13%).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives jostling to be the next prime minister\n\nOf the others, Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Environment Secretary Michael Gove were both on 9%, with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on 8% and Health Secretary Matt Hancock on 1%.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock told the Daily Telegraph that Mrs May's successor as prime minister should not call a general election until Brexit is completed.\n\nHe said an early election risked losing to Labour and \"killing Brexit altogether\".\n\nHe added: \"We need to take responsibility for delivering on the referendum result.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The contest's highlights - from singing in the shower and bendy poles to the Netherlands' triumph.\n\nThe Netherlands' Duncan Laurence has won the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest with his song Arcade.\n\nHe had been the bookmakers' favourite to win, and came through to the top of the leaderboard with 492 points after the public vote.\n\nThe UK's Michael Rice came bottom, after getting just three points from the public vote, and a total of 16 points for Bigger Than Us.\n\nLaurence said: \"Here's to dreaming big, this is to music first, always.\"\n\nThe last time The Netherlands won was 1975. The audience joined in as Laurence performed the track again at the end of the show.\n\nItaly finished second with 465 and Russia third with 369 points.\n\nThe ceremony also saw last year's winner Netta perform, while singers from previous contests also sang each other's songs.\n\nConchita Wurst, Mans Zelmerlow, Gali Atari, Eleni Foureira and Vjerka Serdjucka sang each other's songs\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The star's backing dancers were seen wearing Israel and Palestine flags during the show\n\nMadonna also performed just before the voting results were announced. She kicked off her set with a version of Like A Prayer, with backing dancers dressed as monks.\n\nShe went on to sing Future, her new single featuring the rapper Quavo.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Boring' winner...? 'Incredible atmosphere'? Fans in the arena share their views\n\nHer performance was felt by some, to be a little, well, flat.\n\n\"A slightly muted response to Madonna there,\" said BBC One's commentator Graham Norton.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 m This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCapital Breakfast presenter Roman Kemp was also unimpressed, calling for autotune to come to the rescue.\n\nA section of her performance in which her backing dancers displayed Israeli and Palestinian flags was not an approved part of the act, organisers said.\n\nEurovision said: \"In the live broadcast of the Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final, two of Madonna's dancers briefly displayed the Israeli and Palestinian flags on the back of their outfits.\n\n\"This element of the performance was not part of the rehearsals which had been cleared with the EBU and the host broadcaster, KAN. The Eurovision Song Contest is a non-political event and Madonna had been made aware of this.\"\n\nIt wasn't just the Queen of Pop who was apparently breaking the rules either.\n\nThe organisers said Iceland's Eurovision act could face punishment after displaying Palestinian flags during the live broadcast.\n\nDuring the final, the band members held up Palestinian flags while their public vote was being announced.\n\nIn a statement, Eurovision said the \"consequences of this action\" will be discussed by the contest's executive board\".\n\nAlongside the contest, there were clashes in central Jerusalem as ultra-orthodox Jews protested against Eurovision.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ultra-orthodox Jews in Jerusalem are angry that the contest was scheduled on the Jewish Sabbath\n\nThey objected to the scheduling of the Eurovision Song Contest on the Jewish Sabbath, resulting in angry scenes as demonstrators clashed with police.\n\nAt one point, a small number of women held a counter protest, showing their bras.\n\nThere were other protests in Tel Aviv over Israel's occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.\n\nThere have also been campaigns online.\n\nThe Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has been using social media to oppose holding the contest in Israel because of its treatment of Palestinians.\n\nIt accuses Israel of trying to whitewash (\"artwash\") discrimination, which it likens to apartheid, the system of racial segregation once used in South Africa.\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. Rory Stewart: \"Part of the bold offer will be around workers' rights\"\n\nTheresa May has said a \"new and improved\" Brexit deal will be put to MPs when they vote on the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill in early June.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Times, Mrs May said the bill will be a \"bold offer\".\n\nCabinet minister Rory Stewart told the BBC he hoped extra guarantees on workers' rights would enable \"sensible\" Labour MPs to support the government.\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn said Labour would oppose the bill and it was \"very difficult\" to see it making progress.\n\nWhile he would consider new proposals \"very carefully\", he said what was being talked about did not appear \"fundamentally different\" from what was already on the table.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said support in Scotland for staying in the EU had strengthened since the 2016 referendum - when 62% of voters backed Remain - and voters should send a clear message about this in Thursday's European elections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"Every other party is ...defining everybody on 2016. We're not\"\n\nMrs May announced this week that MPs would vote on the bill - which would bring the withdrawal agreement into UK law - in the week beginning 3 June. If the bill is not passed, the default position is that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal.\n\nLabour has said it will vote against the bill after talks with the government on trying to agree a compromise acceptable to its MPs broke down.\n\nThe bill risks failing to clear its first parliamentary hurdle, with many Conservative Brexiteers, as well as the DUP, SNP and Liberal Democrats, also opposed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"The SNP has been clear and straight with people: We want to keep Scotland in the EU\"\n\nBut in her Sunday Times piece, Mrs May said she will \"not be simply asking MPs to think again\" on the same deal that they have repeatedly rejected - but on \"an improved packaged of measures that I believe can win new support\".\n\nThe PM said she wanted MPs to consider the new deal \"with fresh pairs of eyes - and to give it their support\".\n\nWith any sales pitch that sounds like it's too good to be true, it's important to check the small print.\n\nAnd so with Theresa May's promise of a \"new and improved\" Brexit deal - MPs will be wondering what exactly has changed.\n\nA promise of a further referendum would win plenty of support from Labour but Downing Street's ruled that out.\n\nChanges to the Withdrawal Agreement, including the Northern Ireland backstop, would sway the DUP and many of her own MPs, but the EU won't agree to that.\n\nAdditions on workers' rights and environmental protections might be enough to sway a few Labour votes.\n\nAnd there may be - after a series of votes in Parliament - some movement on the UK's future customs relationship with the EU, but that is as likely to turn off Tory MPs as it is to woo the opposition.\n\nNot for the first time there appear to be no good options for Theresa May.\n\nBut a \"bold offer\" is quite a promise to make, and if her deal has a hope of passing, she will somehow have to live up to it.\n\nRory Stewart, who is the international development secretary, suggested the two main parties were \"about half an inch apart\" on the three main issues under discussion - protecting employment rights and environmental standards and having a strong trading relationship with the EU and the rest of the world.\n\n\"None of us want to remain in the European Union, none of us want a no-deal Brexit which means logically there has to be a deal,\" he said.\n\n\"We're in the territory of a deal and where we need to focus is Parliament and particularly getting Labour votes across - maybe not Jeremy Corbyn's vote but there are many other moderate, sensible Labour MPs that we should be able to bring across.\"\n\nWhile Labour \"reserved the right\" to consider new proposals, Mr Corbyn said the official talks were at an end and he would not hand ministers a \"blank cheque\"\n\nAny agreement, he said, must include the scope for future governments to exceed the EU's employment and environmental standards not just keep pace with them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Vince Cable: \"It's absolutely clear that no Brexit is where we should be going\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chuka Umunna: \"Faced with no-deal or revocation, you've got to revoke\"\n\nOn the issue of another referendum, he said Labour had kept the option on the table but any vote would have to be on a \"credible\" deal - which he suggested did not exist right now.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said he would be prepared to support the bill if the government agreed to give the public the final say on the terms of exit in a referendum.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr his party had discussed the \"practicalities\" of holding another public vote and it was possible before the 31 October deadline.\n\n\"We need a proper referendum that will come to a resolution on the issue, with remain on the ballot paper.\"\n\nBut Change UK spokesman Chuka Umunna said there was \"simply not enough time\" to hold a referendum before 31 October.\n\nGiven it was \"almost certain\" the Withdrawal Agreement Bill would be defeated, he said the only option was for the the UK to stop Brexit by revoking Article 50.\n\n\"We are facing a national emergency,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\n\"What would be undemocratic would be imposing a no-deal Brexit on the British people that there is not a mandate for.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives jostling to be the next prime minister\n\nA cabinet meeting on Tuesday is to consider plans for another series of \"indicative votes\" by MPs to establish which proposals could command a majority.\n\nAsked if he would accept anything backed by Parliament, which has so far failed to unite behind an alternative, Mr Corbyn said it was \"very unlikely\" to resolve the impasse.\n\n\"The government has to come up with legislation, through negotiation with the EU,\" he said.\n\n\"The idea that they can produce a bill at the beginning of June and get it through all its stages by the end of July is very very unlikely.\"\n\nBrexit had been due to take place on 29 March. But the UK was given an extension until 31 October after MPs three times voted down the withdrawal agreement Mrs May had negotiated with the EU - by margins of 230, 149 and 58 votes.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Ellie Gould was a pupil at Hardenhuish School in Chippenham\n\nA teenage girl who was found dead at a house in Wiltshire has been formally identified as 17-year-old Ellie Gould.\n\nPolice said a 17-year-old boy who was arrested on suspicion of murder remains in custody.\n\nOn Friday afternoon officers were called to a house in Springfield Drive, Calne, where Ellie was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nA police spokesperson said she was a Year 12 pupil at Hardenhuish School in Chippenham.\n\nPolice said the arrested teenager was known to Ellie, and that a post-mortem examination to determine the cause of death would be held on Sunday.\n\nEllie's body was found at a house in Springfield Drive\n\nInquiries are continuing to ascertain the exact circumstances surrounding her death.\n\nSupt Conway Duncan said: \"Our thoughts remain with Ellie's family, her friends and schoolmates.\n\n\"Ellie's family will continue to receive support from specially trained officers and we are aware that her fellow pupils are being encouraged to seek support being organised by Hardenhuish School.\n\n\"We fully appreciate the level of shock, anxiety and upset in and around Calne and Chippenham and our officers are continuing to progress their inquiries as swiftly and diligently as possible.\"\n\nIn a statement, Hardenhuish School said: \"The Hardenhuish community is shocked and saddened by the tragic death of Ellie Gould.\n\n\"Ellie was a talented, popular and much-loved member of our school community who will be dearly missed.\n\n\"Our thoughts and condolences are with Ellie's family at this devastating time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joseph McCann is wanted over attacks in London and Watford\n\nA man suspected of abducting and raping three women is being hidden by a friend or family member, police believe.\n\nJoseph McCann, 34, is alleged to have attacked three women in north London and Watford last week.\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin said there was no evidence Mr McCann had left the country and urged anybody helping him to \"please call us\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice is carrying out a review into whether Mr McCann had been released from jail by mistake.\n\nSpeaking outside of New Scotland Yard, Det Ch Insp Goodwin said whoever is hiding the 34-year-old \"possibly isn't aware of the full nature of his crimes\".\n\nShe said it appeared the women had been \"selected randomly\", then abducted \"in an incredibly violent manner\".\n\n\"Please consider if your mother, sister, daughter, niece or friend had experienced such an awful attack and put yourselves in the shoes of their family,\" the detective said.\n\nThe Met has offered a £20,000 reward for information leading to Mr McCann's arrest and prosecution.\n\nJoseph McCann is said to have links to Watford, Aylesbury and Ipswich\n\nThe first attack took place in Watford on 21 April where a woman was approached by a man armed with a knife who drove her around in a car for six hours then raped her.\n\nOn 25 April, two women were abducted in Chingford and Edgware within the space of 12 hours.\n\nThey were both raped then driven to a hotel in Watford where their attacker was unable to book a room. Soon after they managed to escape during a struggle.\n\nThe force has described Mr McCann as a \"violent individual who is a risk to women and poses a threat to children\" and warned people against approaching him.\n\nA 63-year-old woman from Aylesbury was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of intimidation of witnesses in connection with one of the attacks. She has been released on bail.\n\nA 33-year-old man arrested on Sunday on suspicion of conspiracy to rape has been released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBelfast City Marathon organisers have apologised after admitting that Sunday's course was 0.3 miles longer than it should have been.\n\nBelfast Marathon chairman David Seaton blamed \"human error\", saying the lead car diverted from the route.\n\n\"Approximately 460 additional metres were added to the officially measured course of 26.2 miles,\" he said.\n\n\"This was due to human error, with the lead car diverting from the official route.\"\n\nEarlier, John Glover, the event's course measurer, said runners had twice been \"taken off the measured route\".\n\n\"The route run was 469 metres in excess of the route measured and approved by the Association of International Marathons,\" said Mr Glover.\n\nA distance of 469 metres equates to 0.293 of a mile.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Seaton said \"protocols will be put in place to ensure this never happens again\".\n\nHe added that race organisers were in the \"process of adjusting runners' times to reflect the correct distance\".\n\nFollowing Sunday's race, a number of questions were raised on social media about the new course's length.\n\nIn 2013, 2014 and 2015, the Greater Manchester Marathon course was 380m too short, as a result of a measuring error. UK Athletics subsequently declared the times of those races invalid.\n\nKenyans Joel Kositany and Caroline Jepchirchir took victory in the first Sunday running of the event.\n\nKositany secured his fourth Belfast men's triumph as he crossed the line in two hours 18 minutes 40 seconds.\n\nJepchirchir repeated her 2018 win as she set the fastest ever women's time in Belfast, clocking 2:36:38.\n\nThis 38th staging of the event took place on a new course which organisers hoped would ensure faster times.\n\nHowever, the discrepancy with the course distance is now likely to be the main talking point following the race.\n\nEvent chairman Seaton admitted that the mistake will upset a number of competitors.\n\nHe said: \"I can understand if you have been aiming for a sub three-hour marathon time and because of the mistake you have ended up being just outside three hours on the clock, that you are going to be annoyed.\n\n\"It's a hiccup that we obviously could have done without. But I don't think it should overshadow what was a very successful day with the numbers up significantly because of the new Sunday date.\n\n\"People have been coming up to us congratulating us on the day and saying it was a great event with the spectator number also well up on previous years.\"", "The government has signed a round of new Brexit contracts with outside consultants worth almost £160m.\n\nMany of them are due to run until April 2020, six months after the UK's new scheduled departure date from the European Union.\n\nSince the EU referendum, Whitehall has hired companies to carry out consultancy work to prepare for Brexit.\n\nThe government said it would continue to \"draw on the expert advice\" of a range of specialists.\n\nIn February, an analysis for the BBC found the government had agreed contracts worth £104m for outside help on Brexit.\n\nAt the time, Dave Penman, the general secretary of the FDA, the professional association for civil servants, called the sum \"eye watering\".\n\nHe also said it was \"no surprise following almost a decade of austerity that has seen the civil service shrink by almost a quarter\".\n\nThe Cabinet Office has now published a new round of contracts with consultants.\n\nThese could be worth up to a further £159m, according to the data provider Tussell.\n\nNine companies that were awarded contracts last year - including Deloitte and Ernst & Young - have had those extended by a year.\n\nAnother 11 firms, including smaller suppliers, have been given brand new contracts.\n\nRedacted documents published by the government state they're being paid between £3m and £6m each for IT, accounting and auditing work and management services, all related to Brexit.\n\nTamzen Isacsson from the Management Consultancies Association says companies are supporting the government at a critical time.\n\n\"What they have brought to the government at this unprecedented period of huge workload is capacity, insight and skills.\n\n\"This has enabled the government to set up and plan new systems to cope with a whole range of changes from border control to trade, border policy, immigration and other areas.\"\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesman said: \"As a responsible government we have, and will continue to, draw on the expert advice of a range of specialists to deliver a successful and orderly exit from the EU.\"", "Amy Schumer and her husband Chris Fischer announced the birth on Instagram\n\nComedian Amy Schumer and husband Chris Fischer are celebrating the birth of their first child - a boy.\n\nSchumer posted about the birth with the caption: \"10:55pm last night [03:55 BST on Monday]. Our royal baby was born.\"\n\nTheir new arrival was announced on the same day the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's own baby boy was born.\n\nThe couple had also announced their pregnancy in October 2018 - by editing their faces onto a photo of Prince Harry and Meghan's bodies.\n\nSchumer posted a photo of herself, her husband and their baby at the hospital in New York, which appeared to have been taken soon after the birth.\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 amyschumer 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\nSchumer also combined the news of her pregnancy with a list of more than 20 Democratic candidates that she was endorsing in the US mid-term elections the following month.\n\nIn another post on Monday, the comedian said she had stopped off at the Metropolitan Museum in New York to pose for a photo on her way to the hospital.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by amyschumer This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe museum is the venue for Monday evening's Met Gala, one of the most highly anticipated events in the fashion calendar.\n\nGuests are only admitted with a personal invitation from Vogue editor Anna Wintour, and must wear a designer look along a specific theme.\n\nThe theme this year is \"camp\", to coincide with an upcoming exhibition inspired by photographer Susan Sontag's 1964 essay Notes on Camp, which will explore \"irony, humour, parody, pastiche, artifice, theatricality, and exaggeration\" in fashion.\n\nSchumer was wearing a pared-down cardigan-and-trainers combo, which she said was her \"Met look this year\".", "King Charles III and Queen Camilla have been crowned in Westminster Abbey.\n\nFind out more about the Royal Family and the line of succession below.\n\nCharles became King the moment his mother Queen Elizabeth II died.\n\nThe now former Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales, on 29 July 1981. The couple had two sons, William and Harry. They later separated and their marriage was dissolved in 1996. On 31 August 1997, the princess was killed in a car crash in Paris.\n\nHe married Camilla Parker Bowles on 9 April 2005. When Charles became King, she became Queen Consort, as per the wishes of Queen Elizabeth II. Following the coronation she is now known as Queen Camilla.\n\nPrince William is the elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is now first in line to the throne.\n\nHe was 15 when his mother died. He went on to study at St Andrews University, where he met his future wife, Kate Middleton. The couple were married in 2011.\n\nOn his 21st birthday he was appointed a Counsellor of State - standing in for the Queen on official occasions. He and his wife had their first child, George, in July 2013, their second, Charlotte, in 2015 and third, Louis, in 2018.\n\nThe prince trained with the Army, Royal Navy and RAF before spending three years as an RAF search-and-rescue pilot with RAF Valley on Anglesey, north Wales. He also worked part-time for two years as a co-pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance alongside his royal duties. He left the role in July 2017 to take on more royal duties on behalf of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nWilliam has inherited his father's Duchy of Cornwall and is now the Prince of Wales. Catherine is now the Princess of Wales.\n\nAs heir to the throne, his main duties are to support the King in his royal commitments.\n\nPrince George of Wales was born on 22 July 2013 at St Mary's Hospital in London. His father was present for the birth of his son, who weighed 8lb 6oz (3.8kg).\n\nPrince George is second in line to the throne, after his father.\n\nCatherine, Princess of Wales gave birth to her second child, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, on 2 May 2015, again at St Mary's Hospital. William was present for the birth of the 8lb 3oz (3.7kg) baby.\n\nShe is third in line to the throne, after her father and older brother, and is known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales.\n\nThe new Princess of Wales gave birth to her third child, a boy weighing 8lbs 7oz, on 23 April 2018, at St Mary's Hospital in London.\n\nWilliam was present for the birth of Louis Arthur Charles, who is fourth in line to the throne.\n\nPrince Harry trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and went on to become a lieutenant in the Army, serving as a helicopter pilot.\n\nDuring his 10 years in the armed forces, Capt Wales, as he became known, saw active service in Afghanistan twice, in 2012 to 2013 as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner. He left the Army in 2015 and now focuses on charitable work, including conservation in Africa and organising the Invictus Games for injured members of the armed forces.\n\nHe has been a Counsellor of State since his 21st birthday and stood in for the Queen on official duties.\n\nHe married US actress Meghan Markle on 19 May, 2018, at Windsor Castle. In January 2020, the royal couple said they would step back as \"senior\" royals and divide their time between the UK and North America. They said they intended to \"work to become financially independent\".\n\nJust over a year later, Buckingham Palace confirmed the couple would not be returning to royal duties, and would give up their honorary military appointments and royal patronages.\n\nThe Sussexes' first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on 6 May 2019, weighing 7lbs 3oz, with the duke present for his birth.\n\nArchie was not automatically a prince when he was born because he was not a grandson of the monarch. But he gained the right to that title when King Charles acceded to the throne. Harry and Meghan are understood to want their children to decide for themselves whether or not to use their titles when they are older.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex gave birth to her second child in Santa Barbara, California, on 4 June 2021. Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor - to be known as Lili - is named after the Royal Family's nickname for the Queen and is her 11th great-grandchild.\n\nShe was given the middle name Diana in honour of Prince Harry's mother, who died in a car crash in 1997 when he was 12 years old. Like her brother, she gained the right to use the royal title when her grandfather became king.\n\nPrince Andrew, eighth in line to the throne, was the third child of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh - but the first to be born to a reigning monarch for 103 years.\n\nHe was created the Duke of York on his marriage to Sarah Ferguson, who became Duchess of York, in 1986. They had two daughters - Beatrice, in 1988, and Eugenie, in 1990. In March 1992 it was announced the duke and duchess were to separate. They divorced in 1996.\n\nThe duke served for 22 years in the Royal Navy and saw active service in the Falklands War in 1982. In addition to royal engagements, he served as a special trade representative for the government until 2011.\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties in 2019 after an interview with the BBC about his relationship with US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nIn February, he agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle a civil sexual assault case brought against him in the US by one of Epstein's victims, although he made no admission of liability and had repeatedly denied the allegations.\n\nPrincess Beatrice is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York. She has no official surname, but uses the name York.\n\nShe married property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, in July 2020. The couple had been due to marry in May, but coronavirus delayed the plans.\n\nPrincess Beatrice had a baby girl, Sienna Elizabeth, in September 2021, who is 10th in line to the throne and is the Queen's 12th great-grandchild. Princess Beatrice is also stepmother to Mr Mapelli Mozzi's son Christopher Woolf, known as Wolfie, from his previous relationship with Dara Huang.\n\nPrincess Eugenie is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie of York and she is 11th in line to the throne.\n\nLike her sister Princess Beatrice, she has no official surname, but uses York. She married her long-term boyfriend Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on 12 October 2018.\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's son, August, born on 9 February 2021, was Queen Elizabeth's ninth great-grandchild.\n\nErnest Brooksbank was born on 30 May and weighed 7lb 1oz\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's second son was born on 30 May 2023. It is the first royal birth since the coronation of King Charles, Eugenie's uncle.\n\nErnest is 13th in line to the throne, moving the Duke of Edinburgh down to 14th place.\n\nEugenie said the baby's names were inspired by \"his great-great-great grandfather George, his grandpa George and my grandpa Ronald\".\n\nMajor Ronald Ferguson, who died in 2003 was the Duchess of York's father.\n\nPrince Edward was given the title Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday, almost two years after the death of his father Prince Philip, who previously held the title. It was understood that Philip had wanted Edward to take on the title, but the decision was left to King Charles.\n\nPrince Edward's wife Sophie becomes the Duchess of Edinburgh and the prince's former title, the Earl of Wessex, has now been given to his son James, Viscount Severn. The couple also have a daughter, Lady Louise, born in 2003.\n\nAfter a brief period with the Royal Marines, the prince formed his own TV production company. He subsequently supported the Queen in her official duties and carried out public engagements for charities. He is 14th in line to the throne.\n\nJames, Earl of Wessex is the younger child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. He was given the title after his father Prince Edward became the Duke of Edinburgh in March 2023. When James was born, he was given the title Viscount Severn - a \"courtesy\" title as son of an earl, rather than using prince. It is thought his parents made this decision to avoid some of the burdens of royal titles.\n\nBorn in 2003, Lady Louise Windsor is the elder child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. However, she is lower in the line of succession than her younger brother because she was born before a law came into force scrapping the system that meant a younger son could displace an older daughter.\n\nAnne, Princess Royal is the Queen's second child and only daughter. When she was born she was third in line to the throne, but is now 17th. She was given the title Princess Royal in June 1987.\n\nPrincess Anne has married twice; her first husband Captain Mark Phillips is the father of her two children, Peter and Zara, while her second is Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence.\n\nThe princess was the first royal to use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor in an official document, in the marriage register after her wedding to Capt Phillips. She competed in equestrian events for Great Britain in the 1976 Montreal Olympics and is involved with a number of charities, including Save the Children, of which she has been president since 1970.\n\nPeter Phillips is the eldest of the Queen's grandchildren. He married Canadian Autumn Kelly in 2008 and together they have two daughters, Savannah, born in 2010, and Isla, born in 2012.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not have royal titles, as they are descended from the female line. Mark Phillips refused the offer of an earldom when he married so their children do not have courtesy titles.\n\nPeter Phillips and his wife announced they were getting divorced in February 2020.\n\nSavannah, born in 2010, is the elder daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips and was the Queen's first great-grandchild.\n\nIsla, born in 2012, is the second daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips.\n\nZara Tindall followed her mother and father with a highly successful riding career - including winning a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics. She married former England rugby player Mike Tindall in 2011 and the couple had their first child, Mia Grace, in 2014.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not hold a royal title, as they are descended from the female line, but she remains 21st in line to the throne. Their father, Mark Phillips, turned down an earldom when he married Princess Anne, so they do not have courtesy titles.\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall gave birth to her first child, Mia Grace, in January 2014.\n\nThe couple's second child was born on 18 June 2018 at Stroud Maternity Unit, Gloucestershire, weighing 9lb 3oz.\n\nLena Elizabeth was named in honour of her great-grandmother.\n\nLike her sister, Lena Elizabeth does not have a royal title and so will also be known as Miss Tindall.\n\nZara and Mike Tindall's son Lucas Philip, their third child - the Queen's 10th great-grandchild - was born on 21 March 2021 weighing 8lbs 4oz.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The death was the 29th fatal stabbing in London this year\n\nA teenager was stabbed to death after being chased down a street in south-east London.\n\nThe 18-year-old was chased by a man from Newington Gardens into Tiverton Street in Southwark, where he was stabbed, at 21:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nHe was taken by air ambulance to hospital but he died just before 23:00. Next of kin have been told and a post-mortem test is due to take place.\n\nThe Met Police said the attacker was wearing a grey or blue hoodie.\n\nNo arrests have been made and a murder investigation has been launched.\n\nThe teenager ran to Tiverton Street where he was stabbed\n\nDet Ch Insp Richard Leonard said: \"We need those who have information about the culprit(s) for this murder to get in touch with police immediately.\"\n\nThe killing is the 29th fatal stabbing in London so far this year.\n\nTheresa Lola, the Young People's Laureate for London, tweeted she was speechless and asked when the lives of young people would be valued.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Theresa Lola 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.", "A warehouse firm has become one of the first in Europe to introduce special \"exoskeleton\" suits that minimise the physical stress on manual workers as they carry heavy items.\n\nRS Components is trialling the suits at its at its main distribution centre in Nuneaton, where some of the lifting tasks involve awkward and heavy items.\n\nThe mechanical suit helps the wearer lift objects more easily, reducing compression at the base of the spine.", "Jessica Anderson knew that her record beating time would not be considered for the title\n\nGuinness World Records says its guidelines for the fastest marathon in a nurse's uniform are \"long overdue a review\".\n\nIt comes after it refused to consider a nurse's record attempt because she was wearing scrubs instead of a dress.\n\nOfficials told Jessica Anderson that its criteria for a nurse uniform also involved a pinafore and cap, but tights were optional.\n\nShe ran the London Marathon knowing that her time would not count.\n\nShe finished the race 22 seconds faster than the current record holder and described the rules as \"sexist\" and \"outdated\".\n\nJess is a senior sister at the Royal London Hospital.\n\nHer work in an acute medical admissions ward is fast-paced and she wears scrubs to work every day.\n\nSo when she decided to challenge the title for the fastest woman to run a marathon in a nurse uniform, she sent Guinness World Records a photo.\n\nShe was told that her actual uniform did not meet its criteria for a nurse's uniform.\n\nShe went ahead and ran anyway, completing the course in three hours, eight minutes and 54 seconds.\n\nThat was fast enough to beat the record.\n\nJess believes the rules about wearing a dress apply to anyone wanting to challenge the record title - including men.\n\n\"Some of the male nurses I work with are really hopeful that they do change the definition,\" she said.\n\nThe story prompted nurses to tweet selfies of themselves, with very few dresses on show.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 𝚂𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚊ᴿᴺ 🏳️‍🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome pointed out that certain roles don't require any kind of uniform.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Shal Henry-Treloar This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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End of twitter post 4 by Ruth May\n\nGuinness World Records has now responded, agreeing it is time for a review.\n\nIn a statement, it said that \"inclusiveness and respect\" were values it holds \"extremely dear\".\n\nIt continued: \"While we always need to ensure we can differentiate between categories, it is quite clear that this record title and associated guidelines is long overdue a review, which we will conduct as a priority in the coming days.\"\n\nIt is not yet clear if this could mean that Jess will be awarded the record, or if the criteria will only change for future attempts.\n\nShe says it would be \"perfect\" if Guinness World Records finds a way to give her the title.\n\nBut she said it was most important that officials modernise the guidelines.\n\n\"I would be quite happy if they changed it in the future or acknowledged that it's sexist and it's not really how we want the profession to be represented.\"\n\nIf she doesn't get the title though, she said she was very tempted to try again next year.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Two teenagers are recovering after being stabbed in north London in attacks which are being linked by the Met police.\n\nOfficers found a 17-year-old boy injured in Fairbridge Road in Upper Holloway, Islington, at about 17:35 BST on Monday.\n\nHe remains in a serious but stable condition.\n\nTen minutes later a man believed to be 18 years old was found stabbed less than half a mile away in Sussex Close.\n\nHis condition is said to be no longer life-threatening.\n\nNo arrests have been made. Police said there would be an increased number of officers in the area.\n\nA Section 60 order - which gives officers the right to stop and search anyone - was authorised for the borough of Islington until 07:00 BST on Tuesday.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nJudd Trump dismantled John Higgins 18-9 to claim his maiden World Championship title in one of the most breathtaking Crucible finals ever witnessed.\n\nIn a classic contest, the two shared a record 11 centuries and brought up the 100th ton of the tournament.\n\nTrump took total control at 12-5 after the first day in Sheffield, helped by a run of winning eight straight frames.\n\nBoth missed chances of maximum breaks as Trump went 16-9 up, a lead he did not relinquish in the final session.\n\nTrump collects £500,000 in prize money, making him the first player in history to amass more than £1m in a single season.\n• None Trump poised for 'new era of dominance'\n\nThe Englishman has long been touted as a world champion, previously regarded as one of the best players never to win in Sheffield, but now he has finally fulfilled his potential and moves up to second in the world rankings.\n\n\"It is incredible achievement for me from where I was,\" Trump, 29, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I have worked so hard for this. For the people around me this is so special. It was an amazing final, the standard was so high from the very first ball.\n\n\"That is probably the best I have ever played in a major final.\"\n\nIn a remarkable exhibition of potting from both players, they took the standard of snooker to another level, making frame-winning breaks of 50 or more in 23 of the 27 frames played.\n\nHere is how the numbers stack up:\n• Most centuries in a professional match: Trump and Higgins shared 11 tons, one more than the 10 seen in the 2016 semi-final between Ding Junhui and Alan McManus.\n• Most centuries in a Crucible final: The total of 11 was three more than the previous record of eight, set in 2002 (Stephen Hendry v Peter Ebdon) and 2013 (Ronnie O'Sullivan v Barry Hawkins)\n• Most centuries by a player in a single match: Trump made seven centuries in the final, equalling Ding's record against McManus from 2016\n• Most tournament centuries overall: There were 100 in the tournament, smashing the previous best of 86 from 2015 and 2016\n\nSix-time world champion Steve Davis said on BBC Two: \"It was amazing. The standard in that final may have been the greatest we have ever seen and Judd Trump was at the heart of it.\"\n\nFrom 'naughty snooker' to finally coming of age\n\nOne of the pre-tournament favourites, the Bristolian reached the final in part by capitalising on the shock exits of world number one Ronnie O'Sullivan and three-time winner Mark Selby from his half of the draw.\n\nThis has been by far the best season of Trump's career, winning three ranking titles, and he becomes the first player since Mark Williams in 2003 to claim the double of World Championship and Masters in the same campaign.\n\nHe has now also completed snooker's Triple Crown following his victory at the UK Championship in 2011.\n\nEarlier that year, he was beaten 18-15 in his first world final appearance by Higgins, going agonisingly close with his all-out attacking style of play which he labelled himself as \"naughty snooker\".\n\nSome of that was on display again in this final, playing a black with the cue behind his back, which brought a smile from Higgins, and another red down the cushion that was described as \"Alex Higgins-esque\".\n\nBut he is a complete player now, having won 11 ranking titles in total, turning on the style with heavy scoring and possessing a potent safety game.\n\nTrump took apart O'Sullivan at Alexandra Palace in January and this was another demolition job of one of snooker's greats - a run of eight frames in a row and four centuries on the first day setting the platform for a tremendous triumph.\n\n'I never thought he was that good' - what the pundits said\n\nSeven-time champion Stephen Hendry: \"I certainly have not seen anything like that standard in a final, it was incredible. The scoring was phenomenal, every time a player got an opportunity they cleared up in one visit. Judd's performance in the final has been one of the most dominant I have ever seen.\"\n\nSix-time world champion Steve Davis: \"Judd Trump has demolished one of the greatest players to have ever held a cue. It's an astonishing performance. The second session was arguably the most violent and shocking session I have ever seen. I'd have hated to have watched it from John Higgins' perspective.\n\nFormer champion John Parrott: \"What Judd Trump did has usurped his performance at the Masters. What he did was just sensational. I never thought he was that good. I had no idea he was that good.\"\n• None Overturned a 6-3 deficit to win a thrilling final-frame decider against Thepchaiya Un-Nooh in the first round\n• None Fought past Ding Junhui in the second round after going 9-7 down\n• None Eased through to the semi-finals with a comfortable 13-6 win over Stephen Maguire\n\nFour-time champion Higgins came up short once more having been beaten in 2017 by Selby and Williams last year.\n\nThe 43-year-old has now lost four finals in Sheffield - only Jimmy White with six has been beaten in more - but he played his part against Trump.\n\nReaching the final was an achievement in itself for Higgins, bringing to an end a poor season by his high standards in which he failed to win a ranking event and hinted at retirement in December.\n\nAlthough he made four centuries in the match, taking his overall tally in Sheffield to 150, he was outclassed by a relentless Trump and admitted he was \"lucky to get nine frames\".\n\n\"I was the lucky one to not have to pay for a ticket, he was just awesome,\" the Scot added.\n\n\"It will be the first of many I am sure, to produce a standard like that is incredible. He was unplayable.\n\n\"I never expected to get to the final, I came up against an unstoppable machine.\"\n\nThe final that had everything\n\nA dazzling opening day was described by 1997 champion Ken Doherty as \"one of the best ever\" as the two players shared the first eight frames with four centuries and three further breaks over 50.\n\nThough Higgins made 125 at the start of the second session, Trump took total control thereafter by winning eight straight frames including two further centuries and runs of 71, 58 and 70.\n\n'The Wizard of Wishaw' came out firing in the third session, sinking a superb double on the 15th red while on a maximum 147 break which was heartily applauded by Trump in his seat, but he missed the next black. Higgins followed it up with 59, but Trump showed his class with knocks of 101 and 71 to go 14-7.\n\nTrump, nicknamed 'The Juddernaut', needed to win all four of the following frames to win the match with a session to spare, but Higgins' 67 in the 23rd frame guaranteed an evening finish.\n\nHe made a further 70 but Trump's brilliant 104 with 13 reds and 13 blacks put him two from victory heading into the final session.\n\nTrump's 94 put him on the cusp of snooker's biggest prize, which he took with another cool break of 62.\n\nSign up to My Sport to follow snooker on the BBC app", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal's focus is now on the Europa League, says boss Unai Emery, after his lacklustre side's hopes of a top-four Premier League finish were effectively ended by a draw with Brighton.\n\nThe Gunners are three points behind Tottenham in fourth with one game to play but would need an eight-goal swing, as well as results going their way, to overtake their rivals.\n\nBarring that highly improbable scenario, Arsenal will need to win the Europa League to play in the Champions League next season and take a 3-1 advantage into their semi-final second-leg in Valencia on Thursday.\n\n\"We knew it was going to be difficult but our focus is now the Europa League,\" Emery, who won the competition three times in a row with Sevilla, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"We have the opportunity in the Europa League to do something important and we will try and do that.\"\n\nPierre-Emerick Aubameyang put Arsenal in front at Emirates Stadium with a ninth-minute penalty after Alireza Jahanbakhsh was judged to have fouled Nacho Monreal despite appearing to get the ball.\n\nAside from occasional bursts, Emery's side were shaky and sloppy, with Granit Xhaka committing an absurd foul on Solly March to concede a penalty that Glenn Murray converted on 61 minutes.\n\nArsenal frantically searched for a winner but Aubameyang volleyed wide from seven yards out and Brighton keeper Mat Ryan made a series of fine saves.\n\nPascal Gross could have won the game for Brighton late on but skewed his effort out towards the sideline with the goal unmanned after Bernd Leno's superb save from March, while the visitors withstood another flurry from Arsenal in the final stages.\n\nLooking to avoid a fourth straight Premier League defeat, Arsenal made a bright start in attack, though were fortunate to be awarded a penalty, despite referee Anthony Taylor being well placed, with replays showing Jahanbakhsh got to the ball before Monreal fell.\n\nStill, an early lead through Aubameyang's 20th league goal of the season should have allowed the hosts to exert control over the game, but instead they became nervy and vulnerable.\n\nGoalkeeper Leno sent an abysmal clearance straight to March before recovering to save Murray's free header moments later, while Stephan Litchtsteiner, making his first appearance since late February, was frequently exposed.\n\nThere was another promising spell at the end of the first half, with Aubameyang, Shkodran Mustafi and Henrikh Mkhitaryan testing Ryan, but Arsenal's inability to create clear chances gave Brighton increasing confidence in finding an equaliser.\n\nEven then it took a staggeringly poor decision by Xhaka. Running behind the surging March inside the area, the Switzerland midfielder initially held up his hands to indicate he was not touching the Brighton forward only to then whack his shoulder and concede a penalty.\n\nAnd so a game Arsenal should perhaps have dictated against an opposition who were already guaranteed Premier League survival became a manic attempt to salvage a dispiriting end to the league season.\n\nThey came close to scraping a winner but could not do it, the lap of honour conducted with glum faces as the Gunners must now focus on winning the club's first European trophy since 1994.\n\nBrighton's Premier League status was confirmed on Saturday when Cardiff were relegated following defeat by Crystal Palace.\n\nBut Chris Hughton's side looked determined not to let their season drift away, encouraged by Arsenal's defensive frailty.\n\nMarch menaced Litchtsteiner, forced a save from Leno shortly after the break and made a fine run to win the penalty, perhaps going down easily but drawing contact from Xhaka, with Murray sending Leno the wrong way to score his 12th of the season.\n\nCentre-backs Lewis Dunk and Shane Duffy made timely interventions and blocks, while Ryan continues to impress in goal.\n\nWith a more clinical edge, Brighton could have even won and completely ended Arsenal's top-four chances. First, Gross miscued his first-time strike after Leno had clawed away March's diving header in the 86th minute.\n\nThen in added time, substitute Florin Andone oddly failed to look up and play in the onrushing March when Brighton had a two-on-one situation against the stretched Arsenal defence.\n\n'That is more like us' - reaction\n\nArsenal boss Unai Emery, speaking to BBC Sport: \"We knew it was going to be difficult, but at 1-0 we needed to get the second goal. In the 90 minutes we controlled the match and after the first goal we tried to get the second.\n\n\"After their goal we created more chances to score but they defended very well, they are very strong defensively and they showed us that today.\"\n\nBrighton boss Chris Hughton, speaking to BBC Sport: \"That's more like us. It was a good reaction and a response to going a goal behind early in the game, people would have expected them to turn it into two or three. We had to dig deep.\n\n\"I was unhappy with the penalty decision, my feeling was that it was soft and I couldn't understand how he gave it. I saw it again and I haven't changed my mind. It wasn't a penalty, and a very poor decision.\n\n\"But we bounced back and showed a lot of character. Our responsibility is to try and get a result in every game - we will want to do as well as we can against Manchester City next week.\"\n• None Arsenal are winless in their last four Premier League games (D1 L3), their longest run without a victory in the competition since February 2016 (also four games).\n• None Brighton avoided defeat away from home against 'big six' opposition for the first time in the Premier League - they had lost each of their last 11 games before today.\n• None Arsenal have conceded 50 or more goals in consecutive top-flight campaigns for the first time since 1982-83 and 1983-84.\n• None Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is the sixth different player to score 20+ goals in a Premier League season for the club, and the first since Alexis Sanchez in 2016-17.\n• None Since making his debut in the competition in February 2018, only Mohamed Salah (35) has scored more Premier League goals than Aubameyang (30).\n• None Glenn Murray has scored 35% of Brighton's Premier League goals since the start of last season (24/68) - only Leicester's Jamie Vardy has netted a higher percentage of his team's goals in the competition in this period (36% - 38/107).\n\nOn the final day of the Premier League on Sunday, 12 May, Arsenal are away at Burnley, while Brighton host Manchester City, with both matches at 15:00 BST.\n\nBefore that, Arsenal face Valencia in the Europa League semi-final second leg on Thursday, leading 3-1 from the first leg.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mesut Özil with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Shkodran Mustafi (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alex Iwobi.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Mat Ryan tries a through ball, but Anthony Knockaert is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Lucas Torreira (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Shkodran Mustafi.\n• None Attempt missed. Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang with a cross following a fast break.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Anthony Knockaert tries a through ball, but Yves Bissouma is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Pascal Groß (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Solly March (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Pascal Groß.\n• None Attempt missed. Yves Bissouma (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Shane Duffy.\n• None Matteo Guendouzi (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Bernardo (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Yves Bissouma.\n• None Offside, Arsenal. Matteo Guendouzi tries a through ball, but Sead Kolasinac is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Met Gala, an annual benefit event for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is considered one of the world's biggest fashion events.\n\nIt is known for its exclusive guest list, its expensive tickets and - most of all - its extravagant outfits, based on a different theme each year.\n\nThis year, that theme was Camp: Notes on Fashion - to coincide with an upcoming exhibition at the Met, inspired by US writer and political activist Susan Sontag's 1964 essay, Notes on Camp.\n\nThe outfits this year were therefore, like the exhibition, based on \"irony, humour, parody, pastiche, artifice, theatricality and exaggeration\".\n\nAnd showing everyone how it was done at the very start of the night was singer Lady Gaga, who arrived in a billowing pink outfit which was not quite what it seemed at first glance.\n\nLady Gaga, one of the event's co-hosts, arrived in a billowing pink outfit...\n\nWhich opened up to reveal a black gown, her second outfit...\n\nWhich was then cast aside in favour of Lady Gaga's third outfit, a slim-fitting pink gown\n\n...Which she then took off, to reveal her final outfit\n\nSerena Williams, who is also co-hosting, arrived in a neon yellow gown - with matching Nike trainers\n\nActor Michael Urie has gone for two looks in one\n\nActor Ezra Miller shows off some very impressive (and unsettling) make-up art\n\nReality TV family the Kardashians were out in force for this year's event\n\nHere are newlyweds Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, who are said to have first met at the Met Gala in 2017\n\nThey were followed down the red carpet by Nick's older brother Joe and his even newer wife, Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner\n\nLaverne Cox went for a sleek black dress and bold make up\n\nThe third co-host is Harry Styles, who wore a sheer black top and high-waisted trousers\n\nAlessandro Michele, of Gucci fashion house, is the event's final co-host\n\nSinger Billy Porter made an entrance before flexing his wings in front of the crowds\n\nAnd theatre owner Jordan Roth has, very aptly, turned himself into a theatre hall\n\nCeline Dion, perhaps the original queen of 'camp', did not disappoint\n\nActor Jared Leto clearly believes that two heads are better than one\n\nUS drag queen Aquaria went for painted hair and diamante hand-pieces\n\nWhile actor Yara Shahidi has gone all out with the feathers...\n\n...Much like the Met Gala's main host, Vogue editor Anna Wintour", "Joseph Merrick surprised doctors with his intelligence and sensitive nature\n\nThe unmarked grave of Joseph Merrick - who is better known as the Elephant Man - has been traced after nearly 130 years, it has been claimed.\n\nMerrick had a skeletal and soft tissue deformity which saw him as a freak show attraction, then a medical curiosity.\n\nHis skeleton has been preserved at the Royal London Hospital since his death.\n\nBut author Jo Vigor-Mungovin says she has now discovered Merrick's soft tissue was buried in the City of London Cemetery after he died in 1890.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2016 calls were made to bury Joseph Merrick's bones in Leicester\n\nAfter a miserable adolescence and time as a travelling exhibit, Leicester-born Merrick ended up at what was then called the London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, where he surprised staff by proving to have an intelligent and sensitive personality.\n\nHe became a minor celebrity and in May 1887 was visited by Alexandra, Princess of Wales, who afterwards sent him Christmas cards.\n\nAfter his death, Merrick's body was dissected and his skeleton preserved as an anatomical specimen.\n\nMerrick's story was made into an acclaimed movie in 1980\n\nMrs Vigor-Mungovin, who has written a biography of Merrick, said a story about his soft tissue being buried had not been followed up due to the number of graveyards in use at the time.\n\n\"I was asked about this and off-hand I said 'It probably went to the same place as the [Jack the] Ripper victims', as they died in the same locality.\n\n\"Then I went home and really thought about it and started looking at the records of the City of London Cemetery and Crematorium near Epping Forest, where two Ripper victims are buried.\n\n\"I decided to search in an eight-week window around the time of his death and there, on page two, was Joseph Merrick.\"\n\nThe gates in this photograph are all that remains of the Leicester workhouse where Merrick stayed\n\nThe detailed Victorian records make it \"99% certain\" this is the Elephant Man, said Mrs Vigor-Mungovin.\n\n\"The burial is dated 24 April 1890, and Joseph died on 11 April.\n\n\"It gives his residence as London Hospital, his age as 28 - Joseph was actually 27 but his date of birth was often given wrong - and the coroner as Wynne Baxter, who we know conducted Joseph's inquest.\n\n\"Everything fits, it is too much to be a coincidence.\"\n\nDetailed examination of records have identified a specific plot where the remains were buried\n\nInitially, the area was narrowed down to a communal memorial garden, but Mrs Vigor-Mungovin said a specific plot had now been identified.\n\n\"The authorities said a small plaque could be made to mark the spot, which would be lovely.\n\n\"Hopefully, we can soon get a memorial in his hometown of Leicester.\"\n\nThe City of London Cemetery has been unavailable for comment.\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.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City know they will retain their Premier League title if they win on the final day of the season after Vincent Kompany's wonder strike saw off a spirited Leicester side.\n\nWith 20 minutes remaining, the score goalless and nerves jangling at Etihad Stadium, the defending champions needed inspiration in a game where only victory would maintain their advantage at the top of the table.\n\nThey got it from an unlikely source in their long-serving captain, who strode forward and let fly from 25 yards with a strike that arrowed into the top corner of the net.\n\nThe hosts' victory means they move back above Liverpool and hold a one-point lead as they go into the last round of fixtures on Sunday, when Pep Guardiola's side travel to Brighton and the Reds host Wolves.\n\nAfter they had to fight so hard to gain victory here, it is unlikely Manchester City will take anything for granted as a pulsating title race reaches its climax.\n\nThe lead at the the top of the table has now changed hands 32 times this season, but for long spells on Monday night it seemed Liverpool would be staying in top spot until the weekend at least.\n• None 'No shoot Vinnie, no shoot!' - Guardiola glad Kompany ignored his calls\n• None Best of the reaction to Kompany's wonder goal\n\nManaged by former Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers, who came so close to bringing the title to Anfield in 2014, Leicester were resolute defensively and posed a significant threat at the other end.\n\nThey restricted Guardiola's famously free-scoring side to a handful of first-half chances, with Sergio Aguero's header against the bar the closest they came to breaking the deadlock.\n\nThe champions' frustration on the pitch and in the stands continued after the break until 33-year-old Kompany stepped up in spectacular fashion to score his first goal of the season, and his side's 159th.\n\nLeicester did threaten to ruin the party late on but former Manchester City striker Kelechi Iheanacho fired wide, and the final whistle triggered cascades of relief for the home players and fans as they moved to within one win of their sixth title.\n\nThere is never any shortage of entertainment for Manchester City's fans, who have now seen their side score 100 goals in 29 games at the Etihad Stadium in 2018-19.\n\nBut they are not used to tension of the sort that was served up on Monday night, with Leicester stopping them scoring for longer than any other visiting team has managed in the Premier League this season - West Ham, who held out for 59 minutes, were the previous best.\n\nManchester City were still creating chances, going close before the break when Aguero's header hit the woodwork before it was clawed to safety by Kasper Schmeichel, and after it when the Foxes goalkeeper denied the Argentina striker with an outstretched leg.\n\nTheir fans were urging them forward but Guardiola's side lacked their usual composure in the final third and a first home blank of the campaign in all competitions looked on the cards, and at the worst possible time.\n\nThat was until Kompany, who scored a vital header to beat Manchester United and help bring the title to the Etihad in 2012, provided another memorable moment to help his side take a giant step towards more silverware.\n\nA domestic treble remains in Manchester City's sights, and they can also become the first team since United in 2007-08 and 2008-09 to win back-to-back titles.\n\nLeicester's hopes of nicking seventh place and a spot in next season's Europa League are over after this defeat, but their performance underlined their improvement since Rodgers took charge at the end of February.\n\nAs well as being disciplined in defence and comfortable on the ball, the visitors sent men flying forward in numbers on the counter-attack.\n\nThe hosts were growing increasingly jittery as their wait for a first goal continued, but their nerves were not helped by the threat the Foxes posed on the break.\n\nHarry Maguire ran the length of the pitch to set up James Maddison, who fired wide with the score at 0-0, and Leicester continued to look dangerous even when they went behind.\n\nIf Iheanacho, 22, had showed more composure after being fed the ball in front of goal then Leicester and Liverpool fans could have had a late equaliser to celebrate - instead it was the home fans who were smiling as their players marked their final home game with three points and a parade around the pitch at the end.\n\n'It's in our hands' - what they said\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"One game left, and it will be so tough like today. We are away and we saw Brighton had a good game at Arsenal. But it is in our hands, don't forget but we could have been 10 points behind if we lost to Liverpool here.\n\n\"We were seven points behind, but we are in the last game and it is in our hands. We are going to prepare well.\n\n\"We'll see if Brighton defend deep or will be more offensive. It will be tough, but hopefully we will have the performance to be champions.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Our motivation was to come in for our own development and performance. We pushed City, arguably the best team in Europe, right to the very end.\n\n\"I thought defensively and tactically, the team played a good game. They are difficult to contain with their quality and some world-class players.\n\n\"We will learn from this and look to end the season strongly.\"\n• None Man City have now scored 100 goals in all competitions at the Etihad this season; extending their record for most home goals by an English top-flight team in a single campaign.\n• None Man City have won each of their last 13 Premier League games - it's the fourth run of a team winning 13+ games in a row in the competition's history, with City the only side to have done so twice.\n• None Man City have beaten every team they have faced in the league for the second consecutive season; the only other English top-flight team to achieve this were Preston between 1888-89 and 1889-90.\n• None Leicester have won just one of their past seven away games versus Man City in all competitions (W1 D1 L5).\n\nManchester City will wrap the title up with a win over Brighton at Amex Stadium on the final day of the season - Sunday, 12 May - while Leicester host Chelsea at King Power Stadium. Both matches kick off at 15:00 BST.\n• None Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Hamza Choudhury.\n• None Attempt missed. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Boeing has admitted that it knew about a problem with its 737 Max jets a year before the aircraft was involved in two fatal accidents, but took no action.\n\nThe firm said it had inadvertently made an alarm feature optional instead of standard, but insisted that this did not jeopardise flight safety.\n\nAll 737 Max planes were grounded in March after an Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed, killing 157 people.\n\nFive months earlier, 189 people were killed in a Lion Air crash.\n\nThe worldwide fleet of 737 Max planes totalled 387 aircraft at the time of the grounding.\n\nThe feature at issue is known as the Angle of Attack (AOA) Disagree alert and was designed to let pilots know when two different sensors were reporting conflicting data.\n\nThe planemaker said it had intended to provide the feature as standard, but did not realise until deliveries had begun that it was only available if airlines purchased an optional indicator.\n\nIt said it had intended to deal with the problem in a later software update.\n\nBoeing maintained that the software problem \"did not adversely impact airplane safety or operation\".\n\nThe US Federal Aviation Administration told Reuters news agency that Boeing had not informed it of the software issue until November 2018, a month after the Lion Air crash.\n\nThe FAA said the issue was \"low risk\", but said Boeing could have helped to \"eliminate possible confusion\" by letting it know earlier.\n\nThe flight angle of the plane has been identified as a factor in the disasters. Boeing has said that in both fatal crashes, erroneous AOA data was fed to the jet's Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), an anti-stall system which has come under scrutiny since the crashes.\n\nBoeing is developing new software for MCAS.\n\nBoeing has admitted it was aware of a flaw on board the 737 Max months before the first accident, involving a Lion Air jet off the coast of Indonesia.\n\nBut was that flaw a factor in that accident? Would a working \"AOA Disagree\" alert actually have made any difference?\n\nAll it would have told the pilots was that the two angle-of-attack sensors aboard the plane were giving very different readings.\n\nThis mattered, because the MCAS system, which has been implicated in the crash, relied on data from a single sensor. A fault in that sensor may well have been the trigger for the crash.\n\nBut the pilots did not even know MCAS existed. It was a system designed to improve the handling of the aircraft and to operate in the background.\n\nIn the second accident, the pilots should at least have been aware of MCAS - and the sensor information could possibly have been of some use to them.\n\nBut given that they did in any case apparently follow procedures set out by Boeing to deal with an MCAS failure, but were still unable to maintain control, it is unlikely to have been a decisive factor.\n\nNevertheless, this will add to the pressure on Boeing - because despite being aware of an issue with the 737 Max, it initially chose not to inform airlines.\n\nYet as one 737 pilot told me: every warning system is there for a reason, so if you know there's a problem, why would you not fix it?\n\nBoeing insists the AOA Disagree alert was not necessary for safe flight.\n\nBut critics will be asking whether the company was complacent - and whether there is anything else which the company has chosen not to pass on to its customers, affecting this type of aircraft or its other models.", "Buckingham Palace has confirmed the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's first child - a boy.\n\nTheir son will be behind Prince Harry in the order of succession, making him seventh in line to the throne.\n\nWe take a look at some of the most striking pictures from Meghan's pregnancy.\n\nPrince Harry, 34, and Meghan, 37 announced they were expecting their first child after arriving in Sydney, Australia, on 15 October 2018, for their first official tour together\n\nHowever, the Queen and other senior royals were told about the pregnancy at Princess Eugenie's wedding on 12 October 2018\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex made a surprise appearance at the 2018 British Fashion Awards in December, when she presented a prize to the designer of her wedding dress\n\nShe was then on hand to greet hundreds of well-wishers after attending the Christmas Day church service at Sandringham\n\nDuring a trip to Merseyside in January, the Duchess told well-wishers she was six months pregnant and did not know if it was a boy or a girl\n\nIn February, the royal couple went on their first official visit to Morocco, the couple's last overseas trip before the baby was due to arrive\n\nMeghan spoke at an event to mark International Women's Day, where she said she hoped her baby would be a feminist", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John McDonnell: 'We're dealing with a very unstable government'\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor says he does not trust Theresa May after details from cross-party talks on Brexit were leaked to the press.\n\nThe PM has called on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to \"put their differences aside\" and agree a Brexit deal.\n\nBut John McDonnell said she had \"blown the confidentiality\" of the talks and \"jeopardised the negotiations\".\n\nThe UK was due to leave the EU on 29 March, but it was delayed to 31 October after MPs failed to agree a deal.\n\nMrs May put the plan she had negotiated with the EU to Parliament three times, but it did not have the support of the Commons.\n\nWriting in the Mail on Sunday, Mrs May said Mr Corbyn should \"listen to what voters said\" in Thursday's local elections - which saw the Conservatives lose 1,334 councillors and Labour fail to make expected gains, instead losing 82 seats.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats benefited from Tory losses, gaining 703 seats, with the Greens and independents also making gains.\n\nThe prime minister blamed the Brexit impasse for the losses - but said the elections gave \"fresh urgency\" to find a way to \"break the deadlock\".\n\nTheresa May appealed to the Labour Party to find a compromise over Brexit\n\nMrs May also said she hoped to find a \"unified, cross-party position\" with Labour - despite admitting that her colleagues \"find this decision uncomfortable\" and that \"frankly, it is not what I wanted either\".\n\nMr McDonnell agreed that the message from the polls was to \"get on with it\" and come to an agreement over Brexit quickly.\n\nBut while he said the talks between the two parties would continue on Tuesday, he said they had been undermined after an article in the Sunday Times detailed where Mrs May was willing to compromise - namely on customs, goods alignment and workers' rights.\n\nThe paper also said the PM could put forward plans for a comprehensive, but temporary, customs arrangement with the EU that would last until the next general election.\n\nMr McDonnell told the BBC's Andrew Marr show: \"We have maintained confidentiality as that is what we were asked to do. We haven't briefed the media.\n\n\"So it is disappointing the prime minister has broken that, and I think it is an act of bad faith.\n\n\"I fully understand now why she couldn't negotiate a decent deal with our European partners if she behaves in this way.\"\n\nAsked if he trusted the prime minister, the shadow chancellor said: \"No. Sorry. Not after this weekend when she has blown the confidentiality we had, and I actually think she has jeopardised the negotiation for her own personal protection.\"\n\nLabour's Rebecca Long-Bailey, John McDonnell and Sue Hayman have all been taking part in the cross-party talks\n\nClearly both sides think there is fresh impetus to get a deal after the local elections.\n\nThe government seems prepared to move towards Labour's position, but it's far from clear that it will be enough.\n\nThere's a real fear on the Labour side that if this isn't a permanent arrangement, a new Tory leader - perhaps Boris Johnson or Dominic Raab - could come along and try to change it.\n\nSo success isn't guaranteed when the two sides get back around the table on Tuesday, and both sides need to know they can take a big chunk of their parties with them.\n\nIf Theresa May faces losing dozens of Tories opposed to a customs union, or Jeremy Corbyn faces losing dozens of labour MPs who want another referendum, they might not have the numbers to get this through the Commons.\n\nAnd in that case, a compromise is useless.\n\nSir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers, told the Daily Telegraph that staying in a customs union could lead to a \"catastrophic split\" in the Conservative Party.\n\nAnd Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme that millions of people would give up on Labour and the Conservatives if they agreed a deal, adding it would be the \"final betrayal\".\n\nBut the new International Development Secretary Rory Stewart told BBC Radio 5 live's Pienaar's Politics the Tories might have to \"take some short-term pain\" to finish the job.\n\nThe leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, also said her party needed to \"start walking ourselves back\" from the extremes of the argument to find a compromise, telling the BBC's Andrew Marr \"there is a deal to be done\" with Labour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ruth Davidson MSP: \"The answer is somewhere in the middle\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson said it was \"absolutely right\" for the talks to continue, but told Pienaar's Politics: \"I don't think we should be in any doubt that the Labour Party membership and vast numbers of my colleagues in Parliament don't want us to just sign off on a Tory Brexit.\n\n\"They don't want us to bail the prime minister out of the problem of her own making and a very large number of our members think the people should decide on what that deal looks like.\"\n\nThe comments come after the People's Vote campaign - which wants a referendum on a final Brexit deal - published a letter signed by more than 100 opposition MPs saying any new, agreed deal should be put to the public for a vote.\n\nLabour MP Bridget Phillipson, who backs the campaign, told Sky's Sophy Ridge: \"I think we have reached a stage now that whatever deal is agreed... it has to go back to the British people.\n\n\"Something stitched up, cobbled together in Westminster will not be sustainable in the long run. I want to check it is what people want now.\"", "The cost of collecting hospital medical waste in Scotland has more than doubled since the collapse of Healthcare Environmental Services, figures show.\n\nThe Lanarkshire-based company went to the wall after becoming embroiled in a waste stockpiling scandal.\n\nContingency measures to remove waste from every hospital, GP surgery, dental practice and pharmacy in Scotland were put in place.\n\nBut this has resulted in a \"significant increased cost\".\n\nContractors are receiving more than £460,000 per week to dispose of the hazardous materials following the collapse of Healthcare Environmental Services (HES), according to a Freedom of Information request made by the Press Association.\n\nBut Garry Pettigrew, the ex-boss of HES, which went into liquidation four months after all of its staff were made redundant, has claimed his firm charged a maximum of £11m per year - about £211,500 per week - for the collections.\n\nLawyers acting for the former HES workers believe they could be owed more than £1m in lost wages and overtime\n\nThe Scottish government said the contingency measures in place were robust and \"ensure that the environment and human health are appropriately protected\".\n\nHowever, leading bacteriologist Prof Hugh Pennington, of Aberdeen University, expressed concerns about both the safety risks and the value for money under the contingency plans and called for an inquiry into the situation.\n\nHe said: \"On the face of it it does sound as if there wasn't a contingency plan that was going to deliver value for money and there was a contingency plan that certainly wasn't as safe, from what I've heard, as the work that was being done before.\n\n\"If it's costing twice as much then the public is being put at a disadvantage.\n\n\"Waste is being generated 24/7 and has to be got rid of, safely as well.\n\n\"If what I've been told is true people are being put, unnecessarily, at a greater risk than they should be.\"\n\nScottish Labour health spokeswoman Health Monica Lennon added: \"Professor Pennington is right to raise concerns and the SNP government would be foolish to dismiss these. HES treated their staff appallingly and tax payers are having to clean up the financial and environmental mess left behind.\"\n\nThe FoI response from NHS Scotland shows that about £7m was spent on contingency waste measures in just 15 weeks - equivalent to about £465,000 per week.\n\nThe bulk of this went on \"operational and logistics\" measures for collecting the waste, while £2.2m went on disposal costs.\n\nEmails between NHS officials discussing waste contingency plans, which were also released under FoI, make reference to the \"significant increased cost compared to previously\".\n\nCorrespondence also shows some GP practices did not have any collections for nearly a month between December last year and January, resulting in \"lots of bags of smelly waste lying in corridors or stored in cupboards etc which is unacceptable and also a hazard\".\n\nWaste was piled on top of containers at health centres in Coatbridge, Kilsyth and Cumbernauld in January but has since been collected\n\nBBC Scotland published pictures in January showing bags of clinical waste piled high at three health centres in North Lanarkshire and at the time estimates suggested up to 300 tonnes of clinical waste and 10 tonnes of anatomical waste were also piled up at the HES plants in Dundee and Shotts, North Lanarkshire.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham told MSPs in January the majority of the human waste was at the HES Shotts headquarters and any clearance operation was likely to cost about £250,000.\n\nThe new waste disposal contract for Scotland has been awarded to the Spanish-owned firm Tradebe Healthcare National and is due to commence in August.\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"The Scottish government provided £1.4m towards initial planning and once the contingency period ends the exact cost of these arrangements can be finalised.\n\n\"Procedures followed for clinical waste collection in hospitals are unchanged since HES ceased operating.\n\n\"All agreed contingency measures ensure that the environment and human health are appropriately protected.\n\n\"Scottish Environment Protection Agency is continuing to monitor the operation of these arrangements and to date their inspections have not identified any risk to human health or the environment.\"", "Privacy or publicity - what will the couple choose for their baby?\n\n\"Seclusion\", wrote former British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury, \"is one of the few luxuries in which royal personages may not indulge\".\n\nSo what's going on with the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's first child?\n\nBuckingham Palace announced some weeks ago that there would be no information given out about the birth, beyond that it was happening.\n\nAnd so it was that shortly before 14:00 BST on Monday, a brief statement from Buckingham Palace announced that Meghan had gone in to labour, followed 40 minutes later by confirmation of the baby's arrival - a boy, weighing 7lbs 3oz.\n\nThat meant the strange British circus of journalists, photographers, royal superfans and bemused passers-by gawking at a hospital door for days on end would not happen.\n\nInstead, we have an arguably stranger British circus of the same group of people positioned at the end of Windsor's Long Walk, close to the Sussexes' new home.\n\nThe new family home is at Frogmore Cottage, Windsor\n\nThis is on the presumption that a birth is happening somewhere in the vicinity - but in the knowledge that nothing at all will be seen of mother, father, or indeed newborn child.\n\nThere is no great constitutional outrage here. The \"tradition\" of royal babies being paraded within hours of their birth goes back around four decades; not much more than the blink-of-an-eye in the history of the British monarchy.\n\nWhy the couple have chosen privacy over publicity is not too difficult to fathom. Harry still can't abide the media; he scowls at, or turns away from, cameras and casually throws insults at journalists covering his activities.\n\nMeghan has described social media as \"noise\"\n\nMeghan too has made it clear that she has little time for news coverage. She said a couple of months ago that she doesn't read the papers or look at social media, calling it \"noise\".\n\nWhy would either of them want to go through the arguably odd ritual of parading their newborn child in front of hundreds of cameras and journalists?\n\nWhat follows the birth is perhaps more important. They will have decisions to make about just how royal they want their child to be - in title, upbringing and public exposure.\n\nAnd the couple have a difficult line to tread between their public life and the life they would prefer to remain unseen.\n\nThat line, between the royals' public and private life, has shifted over the decades.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, here with newborn Prince Louis, have posed on the Lindo Wing steps after the birth of each of their three children\n\nFirst, the Queen, Prince Philip and their young children were presented as an example to the nation in the 1950s, a kind of \"first family\".\n\nThen in the late 60s, amid flagging interest in royalty, cameras were allowed into some of the family's more private moments - meals and barbecues and the like - in the BBC film The Royal Family.\n\nIt is difficult, if not impossible, to put that genie back in the bottle. Public exposure of what most people would think of as private life is part of royal duty.\n\nAnd that's the catch for Harry and Meghan going forward. They want to do good, to bring their star power to bear on causes that they care about.\n\nBut it is the lustre of royalty, not just plain old celebrity, that makes them different, giving them the power and platform to effect change.\n\nThey have sought to control the publicity around their lives, through insisting on privacy where they can, creating their own household, and establishing their own social media account.\n\nBut more fundamental choices loom, about how their child grows up, and whether they want the continued exposure that being royal brings.", "Joseph McCann was wanted over attacks across the country\n\nA man arrested over the abduction and rape of three women in and around London is being investigated for other attacks involving nine further victims.\n\nJoseph McCann, 34, was arrested in Congleton, Cheshire, after two girls, aged 14, were abducted in the town.\n\nHe is being investigated over attacks in Cheshire, Manchester and Lancashire, on victims aged between 11 and 71.\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin, of the Metropolitan Police, said the attacks were \"grotesque and horrifying\".\n\nThe officer urged other victims to come forward and said police wanted to hear from anyone who had been approached by Mr McCann or in contact with him between February and May.\n\nSuspect Joseph McCann was seen in the back of a police car following his arrest\n\nMr McCann was found in a tree in Smithy Lane on Sunday evening and arrested after a stand-off with police negotiators.\n\nHe had been spotted in the town after two girls were forced into a car that afternoon.\n\nMet detectives are now investigating him in connection with a number of other attacks earlier that day.\n\nThese include the false imprisonment of a woman in Haslingden, Lancashire, in which a teenage girl and a boy, 11, were raped and the abduction and rape of a 71-year-old in Bury, Manchester.\n\nThe Met Police released a CCTV image of the suspect\n\nThe suspect is also being investigated over the abduction of two 13-year-old boys and the abduction and sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl in Heywood, Manchester, at about 15:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nDet Ch Insp Goodwin said the attacks were believed to have taken place between 21 April and 5 May.\n\n\"Detectives from the Met continue to lead on this investigation and are working very closely with policing counterparts where he is suspected to have carried out further offences,\" she said.\n\nMr McCann was also wanted for questioning over the abduction and rape of a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint in Watford, Hertfordshire, in the early hours of 21 April.\n\nThe Met Police launched an appeal to find Mr McCann after two women in their 20s were snatched off streets in London and raped in a car in London on 25 April.\n• None Man held after two more women abducted\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Signs have been created proclaiming that the Borders village of St Abbs is twinned with the fictional movie village New Asgard.\n\nThe film Avengers: Endgame features New Asgard, and location filming took place at St Abbs.\n\nThe lifeboat station was branded New Asgard Lifeboat Station during filming.\n\nScottish Borders Council made up the signs and the lifeboat crew have been posing with them at locations featured in the film.\n\nAccording to the lifeboat's Facebook page, filmmakers Marvel made a \"generous\" donation to the lifeboat.\n\nAvengers: Endgame is one of the most successful films of all time, having already earned in excess of $2bn (£1.5bn).\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two men were hit by a car on High Road in Leytonstone\n\nA murder investigation has been launched after a 52-year-old man was hit by a car in Leytonstone, east London.\n\nThe collision appears to have been \"a deliberate act by the driver of the car\" after an earlier altercation, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nTwo men were hit in High Road in the early hours of Sunday, the force said.\n\nThe 52-year-old died in hospital at 17:18 BST. A man, 32, has serious but non life-threatening injuries.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark Wrigley, leading the investigation, said: \"At this early stage it appears that this was a deliberate act by the driver of the car.\n\n\"There had been an altercation in the street prior to this incident and I am appealing for any witnesses or anyone with information who has not yet come forward to contact police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The issue of biosecurity is set to become increasingly important to prevent alien invasive pathogens entering the UK habitat\n\nThe outbreak of ash dieback disease is set to cost the UK in the region of £15bn, it has been estimated.\n\nScientists expressed shock at the \"staggering\" financial burden on taxpayers.\n\nThe authors warn that the cost of tackling the fallout from ash dieback far exceeds the income from importing nursery trees.\n\nIt was an imported nursery tree that initially brought the deadly disease to these shores.\n\nThey added that it was the first time the total cost of the outbreak had been estimated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We estimate that the total may be £15bn,\" explained lead author Dr Louise Hill, a researcher at Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford.\n\n\"That's a third more than the reported cost of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in 2001.\n\n\"The consequences of tree disease for people really haven't been fully appreciated before now.\"\n\nYoung and susceptible ash trees quickly succumb to the pathogen\n\nThe disease, also known as chalara dieback of ash, was first reported in the UK in a nursery in 2012, and was recorded in the wider environment for the first time in 2013.\n\nSince then it has spread to most parts of the UK.\n\nThe Forestry Commission says it has the \"potential to cause significant damage to the UK's ash population, with implications for woodland biodiversity and ecology, and for the hardwood industries\".\n\nIn Europe, the pathogen has caused widespread damage and has killed and infected millions of ash trees.\n\nAs well as estimating the loss from losing an economically important species, the £15bn figure takes in account the loss of \"ecosystem services\", such as water purification and carbon sequestration.\n\nReport co-author Dr Nick Atkinson, senior adviser at the Woodland Trust, said: \"What we were drawing attention to is that there is this huge financial and economic impact of a tree disease epidemic.\"\n\nThe authors, writing in the Current Biology journal, estimated that the total cost of ash dieback would be 50 times greater than the annual value of trade in live plants to and from Britain.\n\n\"What you have to look at is, essentially, the risk we are taking by trading across borders against the benefits, which is the financial gains coming from that market,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"The £15bn cost that we are now facing is the direct outcome of a trade that was worth a few million pounds.\"\n\nThe researchers said that the majority of the cost will be shouldered by local authorities.\n\n\"As we know, local authorities are not well funded and they are certainly not funded enough to deal with an epidemic of this magnitude,\" observed Dr Atkinson.\n\n\"There is this hole in the policy of responding to events like this.\"\n\nAnd it is something that is very likely to happen again in the near future, they warn, as there are 47 other known tree pests and diseases that could arrive in Britain and cause more than a billion pounds (or more) worth of damage.", "The building, which dates back to 1858, has been gutted by Monday's fire\n\nA suspected arson attack at a derelict Victorian fertiliser factory was likened to \"a disaster film\" scene.\n\nFire crews were called to the Grade II-listed former Fisons warehouse on Paper Mill Lane, in Bramford, near Ipswich, at about 05:00 BST.\n\nNo one is thought to have been hurt, but the building, dating back to 1858, was destroyed by the blaze.\n\nIan Bowell, from Suffolk Fire and Rescue, said there was \"no obvious natural cause\" for the fire.\n\n\"I have to say quite confidently that we are treating this as arson,\" he said.\n\nAbout 60 firefighters from both Suffolk and Essex fire services were called to the blaze, which is thought to have started in a smaller building before spreading to the wooden main factory building.\n\nEfforts to fully extinguish the fire are expected to go on for most of Monday and people living nearby have been told to close their windows and doors.\n\nSamantha Pemberton, who lives opposite the scene, said she and her family were \"met by a wall of fire\" when they looked outside.\n\n\"There were embers bigger than the size of your hand falling,\" she said.\n\n\"It was like walking onto the set of a disaster film.\"\n\nPaper Mill Lane was closed between Bramford and Claydon.\n\nFisons, a now defunct fertiliser company, operated at the site until 2003.\n\nIn 2014, a plan to turn the site into a £20m housing and business park was approved by councillors, but work had not begun.\n\nFisons operated at the site on Paper Mill Lane until 2003\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of Sussex said he was \"absolutely thrilled\" with the birth of his first child – but is yet to announce a name.\n\nHe said the Duchess of Sussex is also doing well.", "Australian DJ Adam Sky has died in an accident while on holiday on the Indonesian island of Bali.\n\nThe 42-year-old is said to have been badly hurt trying to help a friend who had suffered multiple injuries.\n\nWhile rushing to aid her, he smashed through a glass door, causing him to suffer severe cuts and blood loss, Nine News reported.\n\nAccording to the site the female friend had fallen several metres from their private terrace.\n\nThe woman survived and was taken to hospital, Indonesian media report.\n\nA statement confirming the Singapore-based DJ's death has been posted to his official Facebook page.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nTributes on the DJ's social media accounts praised him as a \"legend,\" and a great friend and colleague.\n\n\"You always burned so brightly,\" one read, while another described him as an \"amazing guy with a heart of gold\".\n\nThe BBC has contacted his management for comment.\n\nSky - real name Adam Neat - was ranked as the third most popular DJ in Asia last year, according to his website.\n\nThe site quotes JUICE Magazine Asia describing him as a \"rising Aussie superstar DJ\" and says he worked with well-known artists such as Fat Boy Slim, David Guetta and The Scissor Sisters.", "Joseph McCann was wanted over attacks in London and Watford\n\nPolice hunting a fugitive over the abduction and rapes of three women in and around London have arrested a man after two others were abducted in Cheshire.\n\nIn the latest attack on Sunday, two women were forced into a black Fiat Punto in Congleton town centre.\n\nJoseph McCann was found in a tree on a rural lane following a car chase.\n\nThe 34-year-old was spoken to by police negotiators and arrested, Cheshire Constabulary confirmed.\n\nSuspect Joseph McCann was seen in the back of a police car following his arrest\n\nThe Punto was seen in Congleton on Sunday evening by officers. Following a short chase, the car stopped on Obelisk Way having been in a crash with another car.\n\nThe women were left behind as the driver ran off. They were uninjured but have been left \"extremely shaken\", the force said.\n\nOfficers revealed they had found a suspect shortly after 23:00 BST.\n\nAndrew Kidd, who has a farm on Smithy Lane, said he was earlier told by police to stay inside his property.\n\n\"There were three or four police officers in my yard and they were looking up and down, looking in the trees,\" he said.\n\n\"I saw police running along the fence in a neighbouring field and the lane was full of police cars.\n\n\"The helicopter was round and my cows were stampeding because they were upset by the noise of it.\"\n\nThe car carrying the two abducted women crashed with another vehicle near Obelisk Way\n\nResident Robert Burns, 45, said he spoke to police who checked his outbuildings and wheelie bins in search of the suspect.\n\n\"We watched it all from upstairs. It was a long time, it went on for about three hours,\" he said.\n\n\"It was significant police presence, there were a lot of cars, all of the roads were closed.\"\n\nMr McCann was also wanted for questioning over the abduction and rape of a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint in Watford, Hertfordshire, in the early hours of 21 April.\n\nDuring that attack, the victim was approached by a man holding a knife in Hagden Lane at about 03:30 BST.\n\nShe was forced into a Ford Mondeo and driven around the town for six hours before being raped.\n\nThe Met Police released a CCTV image of the suspect\n\nThe Met Police launched an appeal to find Mr McCann after two women in their 20s were snatched off streets in London on 25 April.\n\nA woman was abducted in Chingford at about 00:30, and another at 12:15 in Edgware.\n\nBoth women, aged in their 20s, were raped before being driven to a hotel in Watford, where the attacker attempted to book a room but left when one was unavailable.\n\nThe women escaped following a struggle in Osborne Road at about 14:30.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "L to R: Line of Duty stars Vicky McClure, Adrian Dunbar and Martin Compston\n\nMore than nine million viewers tuned into the final episode of Line of Duty on Sunday, giving it the biggest overnight audience of 2019 so far.\n\nThe tense conclusion to the BBC One drama's fifth series attracted an average audience of 9.1 million, according to overnight figures.\n\nCharlotte Moore, the BBC's director of content, said it was \"fantastic to see such a big audience\" for the show.\n\nCritics said the episode was \"breathtaking\" and \"deeply satisfying\".\n\nYet some expressed reservations about the series as a whole, saying it has been \"lacklustre\" and the \"weakest\" to date.\n\nThe BBC has already commissioned a sixth series from writer Jed Mercurio, who also wrote Bodyguard.\n\nLine of Duty's figures are the highest for a drama since last year's Bodyguard finale, which drew an overnight audience of 10.4 million last September.\n\nITV's royal drama Victoria, which went out at the same time as Line of Duty on Sunday, attracted an average audience of 2.5 million.\n\nDo not read on if you do not want to know anything else about Line of Duty's final episode.\n\nViewers on Sunday saw Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar), head of anti-corruption unit AC-12, interrogated at length by his superior Patricia Carmichael (Anna Maxwell Martin).\n\nThe result, said the Telegraph's Allison Pearson, was \"an extraordinarily tense scene, a remarkable piece of theatre and one of the best things anyone will see this year on a TV screen.\"\n\nThe Times' Carol Midgley said the scene was \"forensically written and beautifully executed\", while Jan Moir from the Daily Mail called it \"beautifully scripted\".\n\nMoir also praised a \"killer twist\" at the conclusion of a \"nerve-shredding\" episode that kept audiences \"guessing right until almost the end.\"\n\n\"The latest twist was a classic Line of Duty curveball,\" wrote the Mirror's Ian Hyland - albeit one that \"stretched credibility to breaking point.\"\n\nThe Guardian's Lucy Mangan said it was \"as deeply satisfying as any in AC-12's history\" but said the series as a whole had \"felt like a placeholder season\".\n\n\"The twists are getting dafter but Line of Duty remains crazily compelling,\" wrote Mike Ward in the Express.\n\nThe Independent's Ed Power, meanwhile, said the \"exceedingly talky\" episode \"wrap[ped] up most of its loose ends... with excessive leisureliness.\"\n\nTwitter users have also had much to say about the episode, with praise being shared between the writing and its actors.\n\n\"The writing talent and sheer ballsy confidence of Jed Mercurio is breathtaking,\" wrote broadcaster Muriel Gray, going on to salute the \"outstanding\" cast.\n\nThe BBC's Dan Walker was particularly impressed by one scene featuring actors Vicky McClure and Martin Compston.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Walker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 British Transport Police also got in on the action, insisting its recruitment processes were \"much better\" than the ones depicted in the show.\n\nIn her own Twitter post, McClure gave \"a huge thank you to the LOD family for making this such a special series.\"\n\n\"Behind every good cast there's a phenomenal crew,\" wrote Compston. \"To make this show really is a team effort.\"\n\nThe credits for the 85-minute episode ended with a tribute to Graeme Livingstone, a crew member who died in a motorcycle accident in 2017.\n\nThe first episode of this series of Line of Duty drew an overnight audience of 7.8 million viewers when it aired at the end of March.\n\nThat figure rose to almost 11 million once the number of people who watched the show on devices was taken into account.\n\nFigures for the Line of Duty finale are also expected to grow once consolidated numbers are tabulated.\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. Forensics officers are working at the scene\n\nTwo men have died and two others were injured after a wall collapsed at a farm between Linlithgow and Falkirk.\n\nThe incident happened at Myrehead Farm in Whitecross at about 10:10.\n\nLocal road closures have been put in place while emergency services remain at the scene.\n\nOne of the injured men has been flown by air ambulance to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, while the other has been taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.\n\nNeither of the men in hospital is thought to have life-threatening injuries.\n\nThe incident happened on land at Whitecross\n\nCh Insp Damian Armstrong of Police Scotland said: \"My thoughts and sympathies are with the families of those affected by this incident and a multi-agency inquiry at the farm is ongoing.\n\n\"If anyone believes they have any relevant information that may be of use to this investigation then please come forward.\"\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive have been informed of the incident.\n\nA fire service spokeswoman said: \"The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service responded at 10.11am on Monday, May 6 with emergency service partners to a farm in the Falkirk area following reports of a collapsed wall.\n\n\"Operations Control mobilised a number of fire appliances to the Whitecross area and firefighters currently remain in attendance.\"", "Hundreds of thousands of different species of animals and plants are facing extinction because of human activity, according to the United Nations.\n\nA report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) found this biodiversity crisis is on a par with - and maybe exceeds - climate change.\n\nBut what is biodiversity and why is it important?\n\nBBC Health, Science and Environment correspondent, Laura Foster explains why biodiversity is important for the planet and how it affects humans too.", "Didier Lombard denies his reforms led staff to take their own lives\n\nThe ex-boss of France Telecom and six other former executives have gone on trial in Paris, accused of moral harassment linked to a spate of suicides among employees.\n\nDidier Lombard and his fellow defendants deny their tough restructuring measures were to blame for the subsequent loss of life.\n\nThe company, since renamed Orange, is also on trial for the same offence.\n\nThirty-five staff took their lives between 2008 and 2009.\n\nSome of them left messages blaming France Telecom and its managers.\n\nAt the time, the newly privatised company was in the throes of a major reorganisation. Mr Lombard was trying to cut 22,000 jobs and retrain at least 10,000 workers.\n\nSome employees were transferred away from their families or left behind when offices were moved, or assigned demeaning jobs.\n\n\"I'll get them out one way or another, through the window or through the door,\" Mr Lombard was quoted as telling senior managers in 2007.\n\nMr Lombard has accepted that the restructuring upset employees, but rejected the idea that it led to people taking their own lives.\n\nIf found guilty, the defendants could each face a year in prison and €15,000 (£12,800) in fines.\n\nOrange itself could face sanctions of €75,000.\n\nFor help and support on mental health visit the BBC Advice pages.", "Prince Harry said he and Meghan are still thinking about names for the child and he planned to make another announcement in two days' time \"so everyone can see the baby\".\n\nAnd that brings to a close our live coverage of today's announcement, but you can still keep up to date by reading our main news story.Thanks for following.", "The man died after the crash on Wide Lane, Eastleigh\n\nA 97-year-old man died after a crash involving his mobility scooter and a car.\n\nThe man was on Wide Lane, Eastleigh, when his scooter and a Ford Fiesta crashed on 1 May.\n\nPolice said the man was taken to Southampton General Hospital, where he died in the early hours of Saturday.\n\nHampshire Constabulary is appealing for the driver of a black Nissan Qashqai, who was behind the Ford, to come forward.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Are the UK's election laws fit for the era of digital campaigning? The Electoral Commission certainly does not think so.\n\nThe watchdog has called for a change in the law to make online political adverts show clearly who paid for them.\n\nIt wants online adverts to carry the same information as printed election material, which has to say who has produced it.\n\nThe director of regulation at the Electoral Commission Louise Edwards told me a new law was needed to make sure that it was clear who had paid for online advertising and make spending on digital campaigning far more transparent.\n\n\"What we need and what we're calling for, is a very clear change in the law to make parties and campaigners say on the face of their advert, who they are, who's paid for that advert and who is promoted,\" she said.\n\nShe says the Electoral Commission first recommended these changes in 2003 and is waiting for the outcome of a government consultation on the issue.\n\nWhen I asked whether the regulator's patience was running out, she paused: \"Impatient? These are things we think are important and we'd like to see them in place.\"\n\nThe government said it has committed to putting in place a digital imprint regime and technical proposals will be published later this year.\n\nThat will come too late for the European elections, in which the UK now looks certain to participate.\n\nThe regulator says online campaigning is becoming ever more significant in the UK, with spending doubling between the 2015 and 2017 General Elections.\n\nFacebook has recently started an online archive of political adverts on its site, with information about who is behind them and how they are targeted. Louise Edwards says that is a start but more information is needed on the adverts themselves.\n\nThe social media giant has opened an operations centre in Dublin to oversee its impact on the European Parliament elections.\n\nIt has faced criticism for its role in spreading misinformation and enabling foreign intervention in elections. The company says the poll in 28 countries is the most complex challenge its election monitoring team has yet faced.\n\n\"What we've learned over the last few years is that there are various threats to the democratic process,\" says Facebook's vice president for global security Richard Allan. \"And we're absolutely determined to try and minimize the risk of those threats as far as we can.\"\n\nAmongst the threats that Facebook has identified are voter suppression, where voters are deliberately given false information about where and when an election is taking place, and networks of fake accounts created by those trying to interfere in the democratic process.\n\nBetween October 2017 and September 2018 Facebook shut down 2.8 billion fake accounts. The company says people trying to abuse its systems often set up a computer which creates a new account every 10 seconds and it is engaged in a \"constant war\" to remove them.\n\nAfter the 2016 US Presidential election, Mark Zuckerberg said it was \"a pretty crazy idea\" to think fake news on Facebook had played any role in Donald Trump's victory.\n\nLater, he admitted he had been wrong to underplay the threat after it emerged that a Russian organisation had spent heavily on Facebook adverts promoting division during the election.\n\nNow Mark Zuckerberg's company is trying to show that it can be a positive force in the democratic process. I put it to Richard Allan that, given the catalogue of harms we have seen coming from Facebook, we might be better off if it just removed itself from elections.\n\nHe disagreed, admitting that bad actors had exploited the openness of the network but stressing that millions used it to engage with political issues in positive way: \"We believe that we can actually have the healthy democratic debate while minimizing these unhealthy attempts to interfere with it.\"\n\nFacebook has set about trying to regulate political activity on its hugely powerful platform. But the Electoral Commission thinks it is high time the government realised that its job is to bring what it calls our archaic and complex electoral laws into the digital era.", "Heatwaves could be made more severe by measures to reduce air pollution, according to research at the University of Edinburgh.\n\nScientists used a computerised model to mimic the impact of tiny man-made particles in the atmosphere.\n\nThey concluded that cutting pollution could disrupt the formation of clouds which reflect heat from the sun back into space.\n\nProf David Stevenson said it underlined the need for \"smart\" pollution control.\n\nThe research, published in Geophysical Research Letters, suggests peak daytime temperatures could increase.\n\nIt predicts the northern hemisphere could be more likely to be affected because of widespread efforts to improve poor air quality.\n\nProf Stevenson, a specialist in atmospheric chemistry modelling, said: \"We desperately need to improve air quality.\n\n\"However, our results suggest that in doing so, we may inadvertently worsen heatwaves.\n\n\"Air pollution and climate change are inextricably linked and we need to develop smart pollution control policies that take these links into account.\"", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expecting their first child in April\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have had their first child and along with the excitement and nerves of being new parents could come an unwanted tax bill.\n\nAs US citizens, Meghan - and her baby son - are liable to pay US taxes.\n\nThe US is one of only a few countries to charge tax based on citizenship and not residency. Other countries that tax non-resident citizens include Eritrea and Myanmar.\n\nThis means that even though the duke and duchess will be living at Frogmore Cottage in Windsor, the US government still expects Meghan to file tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) - the US tax authority.\n\nUS-born Meghan will pass her US citizenship on to her child\n\nThat goes for Prince Harry and Meghan's baby too. Any American who has lived in the US in the last five years automatically passes on their citizenship to their offspring.\n\nMeghan is expected to apply for UK citizenship, but that process takes time. Ahead of their wedding in 2018, Harry's communication's secretary, Jason Knauf, said Megan would be \"compliant with immigration requirements at all times\". That means she needs to live in the UK for at least five years.\n\nOnce she is a UK citizen, the duchess could renounce her US citizenship and her tax liability.\n\nThat process isn't simple either and it requires paying - you guessed it - more taxes. The US government charges an exit tax on all assets owned by anyone above the age of 18-and-a-half years renouncing their citizenship.\n\nWhile the Duchess of Sussex will be able to renounce her US citizenship in a few years when she becomes a UK citizen, her son will have to wait until he is at least 16.\n\nUnder US law minors under the age of 16 are \"presumed not to have the requisite maturity\" to relinquish citizenship.\n\nThe US and the UK have an agreement that gives US citizens a tax credit based on the amount of tax paid in the UK, but that's unlikely to erase either Meghan's or her son's US tax bill.\n\nUS citizens living abroad are obliged to file taxes each year reflecting their income, gifts over $15,797 (£12,080) assets over $200,000 (£152,930) and disclosing any foreign bank accounts and must pay applicable US taxes.\n\nMeghan and her baby will have to report any gift they received over the past year if the total value is over $15,797 (£12,080)\n\nFor Meghan, this will include baby shower gifts. Her son's birthdays could become an accounting exercise.\n\nAny future income from investments or trusts put in the child's name will also be taxable.\n\n\"All the royals are probably beneficiaries of various trusts and they will need to be careful,\" says Sam Ashley, US tax director at The Tax Advisory Partnership.\n\nMr Ashley does not advise any members of the Royal Family but says it's likely the advisers they do have started planning for this a long time ago, possibly even before the wedding.\n\nThe US requires all citizens - regardless of where they live - to pay taxes\n\nAs an actress, Meghan was reportedly paid $50,000 per episode of the show Suits. While she is no longer a working actress she will receive some payments whenever the show is rebroadcast.\n\nThe duke and duchess's expenses - such as living costs, travel, clothing - are covered by Harry's father for their role as working royals, representing the Queen. The Prince of Wales funds his sons and their families with income from the Duchy of Cornwall.\n\nIt's likely that when Harry accepts any money from his father he keeps his accounts separate from Meghan's to avoid giving the US tax authorities any insight into the Duchy or any other family trusts.\n\nAny money given by Prince Charles directly to Meghan or his grandson will have to be declared to the US authorities and will be taxable.\n\nThe potential exposure of the Royal Family's complicated finances is a bigger risk than a large tax bill.\n\n\"The Royal Family likely have some quite complicated trust structures to pass down family wealth and it's unlikely they would want the US to look into that,\" says Mr Ashley.\n\nAdvisers have probably been planning for Meghan's US tax return since her engagement was announced\n\nMost married couples in the US file their taxes jointly, but the duchess will probably file as an individual to avoid revealing her husband's finances.\n\nChildren who earn under $2,000 can file their taxes with their parents', but a royal baby will possibly have gifts and inherited assets that will have to be declared to the IRS.\n\nNo matter what insight the US government gains into the Royal Family's finances - and experts stress that is likely to be limited - the public won't get that same view. US tax returns are confidential.\n\nBut if both royals do give up their status as Americans they won't be alone. Many wealthy and well-known figures have given up their US citizenship and ditched US tax liability.", "Joseph McCann, 34, is said to have links to Watford, Aylesbury and Ipswich\n\nA suspected triple rapist being hunted by police may have been mistakenly released from prison, it has emerged.\n\nJoseph McCann, 34, is alleged to have abducted and raped three women in north London and Watford last week.\n\nHe was not - but should have been - referred to the Parole Board before he was released from prison in February, while halfway through serving a sentence for burglary.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said an \"urgent review\" of the case was under way.\n\nMcCann was jailed in 2008 for aggravated burglary after admitting breaking into the home of an 85-year-old man.\n\nJoseph McCann is known to use false names, most recently Joel, the Met said\n\nHe was given an Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection (IPP) with a minimum term, or tariff, of two-and-a-half years.\n\nThis meant the Parole Board had to decide if it was safe to release him once his tariff expired in 2010.\n\nIn 2017 he was released on licence, which meant he could be sent back to jail if he reoffended or breached his parole conditions.\n\nLater that year, while on licence, McCann was arrested and charged with a further burglary.\n\nHe was given a three-year jail sentence.\n\nMcCann's case should have been referred to the board before he was released but in February this year he was dealt with as a \"determinate sentence\" prisoner.\n\nThis meant he was automatically released 18 months into his sentence.\n\nA £20,000 reward has been offered by the Metropolitan Police for information about McCann's whereabouts that leads to his arrest and prosecution.\n\nDetectives described McCann as \"extremely dangerous\" and said people should call 999 if they saw him.\n\nHe is described as white, with a muscular build, a bald head or shaved blond hair, a light-coloured short beard, and the name \"Bobbie\" tattooed on his stomach.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A major fire, likened to scenes from a \"disaster film\" by eyewitnesses, broke out at a Grade II-listed building in Suffolk.\n\nFire crews were called to the former Fisons warehouse on Paper Mill Lane, in Bramford, near Ipswich, at about 05:00 BST.\n\nNo one is thought to have been hurt, but the building, dating back to the 1850s, was destroyed by the blaze.\n\nIt is being treated as suspected arson.", "A British backpacker has spoken for the first time about being kidnapped and raped by a man in Australia.\n\nElisha Greer, 24, was held captive by Marcus Martin during a 1,000 mile road trip in 2017 - during which she was beaten and had a gun held to her head.\n\nMs Greer, originally from Liverpool, told Australia's Channel 7 he \"seemed like a nice guy\" when they had met at a party in Queensland two months earlier.\n\nMartin, 24, pleaded guilty to rape and deprivation of liberty in October.\n\nHe is due to be sentenced on 28 May.\n\nMs Greer moved to Australia in 2015, aged 21. She told the Sunday Night programme she met Martin in Cairns in January 2017, and after swapping numbers, Martin moved into her hotel room.\n\nHe began asking her for money, and, according to Ms Greer, it was not long before he became abusive.\n\nShe said he bought a gun for \"protection\" and she was \"forced to drive the car with the gun to my head\" while he robbed a drug dealer.\n\nAfter he had taken drugs, Martin hit, raped and choked Ms Greer until she passed out.\n\n\"He turned around and he just started to hit me, hit me, hit me,\" she said of one attack.\n\nMs Greer said Martin would \"cuddle her\" and be apologetic after the assaults - but his violent and controlling behaviour continued.\n\nShe said he threw her contraceptive away because \"maybe he thought that he could control me more if I was with his child\".\n\nEventually, Ms Greer said Martin was receiving threatening text messages and he became \"determined to leave town before someone else found him\".\n\nMs Greer went on to describe the 1,000-mile road trip, where Martin's abusive behaviour intensified.\n\nIn one incident she said her face turned purple after he shoved her onto the floor, between the car door and seats - breaking her nose.\n\n\"I think he scared himself sometimes because of how much damage he was doing, but then I think he also felt power,\" said Ms Greer.\n\nShe said she contemplated killing Martin so she could escape, but feared it would make matters worse, if her attempt failed.\n\nDuring a stop she left a plea for help in a visitor's book - which was unanswered. Finally, after five days of driving the pair stopped for petrol at a service station.\n\nMs Greer, who was being forced to drive, said she left without paying - in the hope staff would call the police.\n\nAn attendant called the authorities and Ms Greer was rescued by police in Queensland after they stopped the 4x4 she was driving\n\nDescribing the injuries she suffered, Ms Greer said: \"He broke my nose, split my eyebrow open, I had various amounts of bite marks all up and down my arms.\n\n\"I had bite marks on my face, he had stabbed me in the neck with the key, I had two black eyes, hand prints all over my body from bruises. So many bruises.\"\n\nShe was taken to hospital but said she only felt safe days later, when she saw her mum.\n\nMartin, 24, of Cairns, pleaded guilty to three counts of rape and one count of deprivation of liberty in October 2018, and will be sentenced on May 28.", "Last updated on .From the section Norwich\n\nAnyone who has seen Norwich City this season will know they never park the bus - but they were left with no choice after their promotion parade vehicle broke down as they celebrated reaching the Premier League.\n\nThe Canaries, who sealed the Championship title on Sunday, were forced to ditch their specially-decorated yellow bus for a city sightseeing model as they paraded the trophy on an open-top tour.\n\nIt was reminiscent of a scene from the film Mike Bassett: England Manager, in which the Norwich parade bus takes a wrong turn onto a dual carriageway as they marked winning the fictional Mr Clutch Cup.\n\nIt is also a tale one of the city's most famous 'sons', Alan Partridge, would likely be proud of - especially with the city centre being pedestrianised for Monday's event.\n\nBroadcaster and fan Jake Humphrey opened the celebrations on the balcony at City Hall with players and officials speaking to the crowd before stepping aboard their ill-fated bus.\n\n\"It's really outstanding what this club and these supporters and this place has achieved during this season,\" said head coach Daniel Farke.\n\n\"All words are right. So world class, special, unique, extraordinary. We are all unbelievably proud.\"\n\nThe festivities continued later with a charity match at Carrow Road between two teams featuring current and former Norwich players, watched by nearly 20,000.\n\nA side led by Wes Hoolahan won 7-4 against an XI captained by Russell Martin.", "Ellie Gould, 17, was a pupil at Hardenhuish School in Chippenham\n\nA teenage boy has been charged with the murder of 17-year-old Ellie Gould.\n\nWiltshire Police said the 17-year-old suspect was from the Calne area and known to her.\n\nHe has been remanded in custody ahead of an appearance at Salisbury Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.\n\nEllie, a Year 12 pupil at Hardenhuish School, was pronounced dead after being found at a house in Springfield Drive, Calne, on Friday. Police detained the suspect in Chippenham that afternoon.\n\nEllie's body was found at a house in Springfield Drive\n\nInsp Don Pocock said: \"I would like to again thank the communities of Calne and Chippenham for the support and patience they have shown so far to our officers as they have carried out inquiries as part of this murder investigation.\n\n\"A case like this takes time and will understandably have an impact on the local community - so thank you for your help and understanding.\n\n\"Over the past few days, people living in Calne and Chippenham would have seen an increased police presence which I appreciate can add more anxiety and upset to what is already a tragic situation.\"\n\nLisa Percy, head teacher of Hardenhuish School in Chippenham, said: \"The students, staff and parents have found comfort in being together and paying their respects to Ellie and our thoughts remain with her family and friends at this time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joseph McCann, 33, is said to have links to Watford, Aylesbury and Ipswich\n\nA man wanted over the abduction and rape of two women in London has been linked to a third attack.\n\nJoseph McCann is wanted by detectives investigating the abduction of two women in Chingford and Edgware on 25 April.\n\nHertfordshire Constabulary said he was also linked to the rape of a 21-year-old in Watford on 21 April.\n\nOfficers believe McCann, who is also wanted on recall to prison, could be using disguises.\n\nA £20,000 reward has been offered by the Metropolitan Police for information about his whereabouts that leads to his arrest and prosecution.\n\nThe BBC has been told he was originally jailed in 2008 for aggravated burglary after admitting breaking into the home of an 85-year-old man on 27 December 2007.\n\nHe was released on licence by the Parole Board in 2017 but had been recalled for breaching his licence.\n\nJoseph McCann is known to use false names, most recently Joel, the Met said\n\nDuring the attack in Watford, the victim was approached by a man holding a knife in Hagden Lane at about 03:30 BST.\n\nShe was forced into a blue Ford Mondeo and driven around the town for six hours before being raped.\n\nThe Hertfordshire force said the suspect had been identified after the attack was reported to them on 22 April.\n\n\"A significant amount of work was done to try and locate and arrest him, which proved unsuccessful,\" it said.\n\nThe next victim was abducted the following Friday in Chingford, north London, at about 00:30, with the third targeted at 12:15 in Edgware.\n\nBoth women, aged in their 20s, were raped before being driven to a hotel in Watford, where the suspect attempted to book a room but left when one was unavailable.\n\nThey both then escaped following a struggle in Osborne Road at about 14:30.\n\nThe Met said 33-year-old McCann, who has connections in Watford, Aylesbury and Ipswich, is known to use false names.\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin said: \"We would ask anyone with any information about McCann's whereabouts to contact us immediately.\n\n\"McCann is considered extremely dangerous and a risk to the public and we ask people not to approach him, but instead call 999.\"\n\nMcCann is described as white, with a muscular build, a bald head or shaved blond hair and a light-coloured short beard.\n\nHe is said to have a distinctive tattoo of the name \"Bobbie\" on his stomach.\n\nA man, aged 33, has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to rape and released as inquiries continue.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nEliud Kipchoge will attempt to break the two-hour marathon barrier in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge later this year.\n\nThe Kenyan, 34, holds the world record of two hours one minute 39 seconds but this attempt would not be an official record as he will be assisted by in-out pacemakers.\n\nHe clocked 2:00:25 in a similar unofficial event in Italy in 2017.\n\nThe location and date for the challenge is yet to be confirmed, but it will take place in September or October.\n\n\"I always say that no human is limited,\" said Kipchoge, who won the London Marathon for the fourth time on 28 April.\n\n\"I know that it is possible for me to break this barrier.\"\n\nHe added: \"Running the fastest-ever marathon time of 2:00:25 was the proudest moment of my career.\n\n\"To get another chance to break the magical two-hour mark is incredibly exciting.\"\n• None Eliud Kipchoge on freedom, simplicity & power of the mind\n\nThe announcement comes on the 65th anniversary of Sir Roger Bannister's sub-four-minute mile, an achievement which many had previously believed to be impossible.\n\nKipchoge's latest London Marathon victory - in 2:02:38 - was the second fastest official time in history, and the Olympic champion believes he has what it takes to hit 1:59.\n\n\"I learnt a lot from my previous attempt and I truly believe that I can go 26 seconds faster than I did in Monza two years ago,\" he said.\n\n\"I am very excited about the months of good preparation to come and to show the world that when you focus on your goal, when you work hard and when you believe in yourself, anything is possible.\"\n\nWhen Kipchoge ran 2:00:25 at Monza - the home of the Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix - on 6 May 2017, small groups of pacemakers ran pre-defined segments of the circuit before handing over to another group, and the Kenyan did not have to slow down for feed stations as drinks were delivered by scooter.\n\nThis meant the time was not recognised as a world record.\n\nHis official world record was set in Berlin in September.\n\nLondon could host the 2019 challenge, which is being sponsored by Ineos, who formally took over cycling's Team Sky last week.\n\nThe chemicals firm is owned by Britain's richest man, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who said Kipchoge is the only athlete who has \"any chance\" of beating the two-hour mark.\n\n\"We are going to give him every support and hopefully witness sporting history,\" he said.", "The disgraced film producer was sentenced to 23 years in jail after his trial in New York\n\nHollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault by courts in New York and Los Angeles.\n\nHere is a summary of the key events that led him to court:\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mumps leads to painful swellings under the ears\n\nA significant increase in mumps cases and continuing outbreaks of measles in England have led to calls for people to ensure they are immunised.\n\nPublic Health England said even one person missing their vaccinations was \"too many\".\n\nThere were 795 cases of mumps in the first three months of 2019, compared with 1,031 in the whole of 2018.\n\nMost mumps cases are linked to teenagers mixing when they go to university.\n\nA large outbreak was centred on Nottingham Trent University and the University of Nottingham at the beginning of the year and similar increases in cases have been reported in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe disease is caused by a virus that infects and causes painful swellings in the parotid glands under the ears.\n\nIn rarer cases, it can lead to viral meningitis and swollen ovaries or testicles.\n\nMumps is one of the infections the MMR vaccine protects against or at least lessens the symptoms of.\n\nHowever, many of the students now at university were born at the peak of the MMR-autism scare around the turn of the century, when vaccination rates dropped.\n\nThe autism link, made by disgraced doctor Andrew Wakefield, has since been completely disproved.\n\n\"If you're going to university, now's the time to catch up if you missed out as a child,\" said Mary Ramsay, the head of immunisation at Public Health England.\n\nPublic Health England has also reported outbreaks of measles in London, the North West and the East of England.\n\nIn the first quarter of 2019, there were 231 confirmed cases.\n\nThe World Health Organization says we are in the middle of a global measles crisis.\n\nCases in the UK are largely within communities with low-vaccination rates and are linked to travel to other countries with outbreaks.\n\nDr Ramsay added: \"Measles can kill and it is incredibly easy to catch, especially if you are not vaccinated.\n\n\"Even one child missing their vaccine is one too many - if you are in any doubt about your child's vaccination status, ask your GP as it's never too late to get protected.\"\n\nHelen Bedford, professor of child public health at UCL, said: \"Measles is a highly infectious, potentially serious disease and England has not escaped the recent increase in cases we have seen globally.\n\n\"If you are unvaccinated or in doubt about whether you are protected, contact your GP practice.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nForeign students may have been unfairly deported from the UK after being falsely accused of cheating in English language tests, a report has warned.\n\nThe government withdrew 30,000 visas from non-EU citizens after it emerged students were having other people sit their tests for them.\n\nThe National Audit Office concluded cheating had been \"large scale\", but innocent people may have been deported.\n\nThousands accused of cheating had since won leave to remain, it also said.\n\nThe Home Office said the NAO's report highlighted \"the scale and organised nature of the abuse\", adding that 25 people had received criminal convictions for their role in the scandal.\n\nIn 2014, BBC Panorama broadcast footage showing organised cheating in two English language test centres run by third parties for the non-profit organisation Educational Testing Service (ETS).\n\nThe service used voice recognition technology to try to find out who had cheated by having someone else sit their test.\n\nETS classified 97% of UK tests taken between 2011 and 2014 as suspicious, 58% as invalid, and 39% as questionable.\n\nIn the wake of the findings, the Home Office shut down colleges, excluded students and cancelled visas.\n\nThe head of the NAO, Sir Amyas Morse, said the Home Office \"should have taken an equally vigorous approach to protecting those who did not cheat but who were still caught up in the process, however small a proportion they might be\".\n\n\"This did not happen,\" he added.\n\nThe watchdog said it could not estimate accurately how many innocent people may have been wrongly identified as cheats.\n\nAs of March, 11,000 people who had taken the English tests had left the country after an accusation was made against them, the NAO said.\n\nOne student accused in 2014, who did not want to use his real name, told the BBC's Today programme the Home Office tried to deport him in 2017 and kept him in a detention centre for seven days.\n\n\"All this actually made my life really miserable, I cannot even finish my studies,\" he said.\n\nAt the beginning of May he launched an appeal to clear his name. He is waiting to hear the result.\n\nLast month, a woman who came to the UK from Bangladesh in 2010 told the Victoria Derbyshire programme she also had at one stage been detained after being accused of cheating.\n\nFatema Chowdhury, who finished her law degree at the University of London in 2014, denied the allegation and said no evidence of her alleged cheating had been presented to her.\n\nShe is not currently being threatened with removal from the UK, but while remaining in the country cannot work or use the NHS for free.\n\nShe said her \"dreams and hopes\" had disappeared, and she was \"desperate\" to speak to someone at the Home Office to \"prove my innocence\".", "Forensic officers have been at the scene around the home in Shiregreen, Sheffield\n\nTwo boys have died and four other children - including a seven-month-old baby - are in hospital after police swooped on a house in Sheffield.\n\nA man, 37, and a woman, 34, arrested on suspicion of murder remain in custody as officers attempt to establish how the pair, aged 13 and 14, died.\n\nThe other children - aged 12, 11, three and eight months - remain in hospital but are conscious, police said.\n\nA cordon remains in place outside the home in the Shiregreen area.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police received \"reports of concerns for safety\" of those inside the address at 07:30 BST on Friday.\n\nNeighbours reported seeing more than a dozen police cars in the street and an air ambulance landing in a nearby primary school.\n\nSupt Paul McCurry said officers were not looking for anybody else in relation to the deaths and said it was an \"isolated\" incident.\n\nThe surviving children would be in hospital for \"certainly the next few hours\", he said, while post-mortem tests on the deceased were due to take place later.\n\nPolice earlier said there was no wider risk to the community and urged people to be \"mindful\" of what they posted online.\n\nEmergency services were alerted to a serious incident here at a semi-detached house and police have been on the scene ever since.\n\nForensics officers are coming and going all the time.\n\nThere's been speculation about what has happened here - there was even a suggestion of a shooting at one point, prompting police to say no guns were involved.\n\nOfficers won't be drawn on the circumstances, so there's lots of unanswered questions as the inquiry goes on.\n\nA large area remains cordoned off as that investigation continues.\n\nAaron Brunskill, who lives locally, said residents came out into the street at 08:00 to find about 15 police cars and four ambulances.\n\nHe said: \"I know there's children there, I've just seen them walking back to the shops and that's all I know.\n\n\"Everyone speaking on the road said the first one out had to be resuscitated.\"\n\nLocal resident Aaron Brunskill said he went outside on Friday morning and saw the street busy with emergency vehicles\n\nYorkshire Air Ambulance confirmed it had landed in the grounds of Hartley Brook Primary Academy, which backs on to the road.\n\nThe school is not believed to have been involved in the incident.\n\nIn a statement, Gill Furniss, Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, said she was \"deeply saddened by the tragic incident\".\n\n\"My deepest sympathies are with the loved ones of the children who have lost their lives and also with those who are currently in the care of Sheffield Children's Hospital,\" she said.\n\n\"Shiregreen is a strong community but I know the whole area is deeply shaken by what has happened here.\n\n\"I would like to thank hardworking South Yorkshire Police and the NHS staff for their response in such a difficult situation.\"\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. We Are Middlesbrough: Pregnant teenagers tell their story\n\nMiddlesbrough has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in England and Wales. But one 16-year-old from the town says getting pregnant saved her life.\n\nRobyn used to \"get mortal\" (drunk) and \"end up at random parties\". But when she was pregnant, she vowed to change.\n\nShe stopped drinking and smoking marijuana, saying: \"I used to be pretty crazy. Being pregnant has calmed me down.\"\n\nTeen births have been falling nationally but rising in Middlesbrough.\n\nRobyn's mother Shelly recalls one night when the police arrived at the house - yet again.\n\n\"It was around midnight and the police knocked on the door - they were bringing Robyn home from a party.\n\n\"She'd drunk an entire bottle of vodka at an unknown man's flat, passed out, got into the bath and was found sprawled naked on the living room floor. She was 15.\"\n\nRobyn added: \"When I met my boyfriend and got pregnant I realised that that couldn't happen any more.\n\n\"I'm so excited to meet my baby girl - we had a gender reveal party and even though I would have been happy with a boy, I really wanted my own little girl.\n\n\"When we popped the balloon and I saw the pink confetti, I cried with happiness.\"\n\nHer daughter is due at the end of June.\n\nRobyn says society has a double standard when it comes to boys and girls\n\nShelly said: \"Robyn is actually the fourth generation of teen mams in our family.\n\n\"I've told Robyn it's time to grow up now and she has - I'm proud of how she's changed for her baby.\n\n\"When Robyn was a bit older I went to Durham University and completed a degree in human science - I think of it as doing my life the other way around.\"\n\nIn Middlesbrough, there were 43.8 teen pregnancies per 1,000 girls in the year to December 2017, compared with an average of 17.9 in England and Wales.\n\nThe next highest rate was in St Helens in Merseyside with 37.1 pregnancies per 1,000 teenagers.\n\nTeenage pregnancy is linked to fewer life chances - a higher risk of the child and the parent living in poverty, an increased risk of infant mortality and a higher chance of the mother experiencing mental health problems.\n\nIt is more then 15 years since the government launched its Teenage Pregnancy Strategy in response to England having one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Western Europe.\n\nSince then, the under-18 conception rate has dropped by 60% and the proportion of teenage mothers in education and training has doubled.\n\nBut in Middlesbrough over the two years from 2015 to 2017 it jumped from 36.5 to 43.8 - a rise of 20%.\n\nMegan says she has to restrict herself in order to care for her baby\n\nMegan, who is also from Middlesbrough, was 17 when she learned she was 23 weeks pregnant with her baby boy.\n\nShe said: \"My baby will be loved and cared for.\n\n\"I've finished my college course in performing arts and after about a year out I plan to either go back to college or get a job.\n\n\"Being a teenage mam won't stop me. I'm lucky - my family are supportive.\"\n\nDurham University's professor of sociology Dr Kimberly Jamie said: \"We need to stop accepting the middle-class life trajectory as the 'right' way for young people, especially women, to live their lives.\n\n\"The school to university to career to house to marriage to children isn't possible or desirable for all young women, yet those who take a different route through life are positioned as irresponsible, or as having somehow failed.\n\n\"Teenage pregnancy is understood as a death knell for any kind of career success rather than acknowledging that post-16 education and careers are still available for women in their 30s or 40s when their children are grown up and they have time to start a new career.\"\n\nThis story was created as part of We Are Middlesbrough - a BBC project with people of the town to tell the stories that matter to them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Donald Trump will be welcomed by the Queen on his first official state visit to the UK next month, Buckingham Palace has announced.\n\nA ceremonial welcome will be held in the palace's garden on the first day of his three-day trip next month.\n\nMr Trump will also meet outgoing PM Theresa May and royals including the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex will not attend.\n\nIt follows the birth of her son Archie, who will be less than a month old at the time of the visit.\n\nThe Queen will be joined by the Prince of Wales and Camilla for the official welcome of Mr Trump and his wife Melania on 3 June.\n\nIt will take place in the private grounds of the palace instead of the more usual venue of Horse Guards Parade.\n\nAfter the welcome, the Duke of Sussex will join the group for a private lunch at the palace.\n\nIn the evening, a state banquet will be held in the palace's ballroom where Mr Trump, the Queen, Charles and Camilla will be joined by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, along with UK public figures and prominent Americans living in Britain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn the second day, Mr Trump and Mrs May will host a business breakfast meeting, attended by the Duke of York, at St James's Palace.\n\nMr Trump will then visit Downing Street for talks with Mrs May, with whom he will hold a joint press conference. It will come just days before she steps down as Conservative leader on 7 June.\n\nIn the evening, the Trumps will host a dinner at Winfield House, the residence of the US ambassador, which Charles and Camilla will attend on behalf of the Queen.\n\nThe trip is expected to culminate with Mr Trump, the Queen and Prince Charles attending the national commemorative event for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.\n\nWhen the state visit was announced last month, Mrs May hailed it as an opportunity for the UK and US \"to strengthen our already close relationship\".\n\nThe White House said it would \"reaffirm the steadfast and special relationship\" between the two nations.\n\nBut the trip was condemned by shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, who said the president had \"systematically assaulted all the shared values that unite our two countries\".", "May to form government with DUP backing\n\nTheresa May says she will govern with her Democratic Unionist \"friends\" and \"get on\" with Brexit after losing her majority, but rivals say she has caused chaos.", "Scottish shops are outperforming the rest of the UK\n\nRetail sales stalled in April, but warmer weather boosted sales of clothing, which offset falls in other areas of spending.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said sales in April were flat on March, and higher than the 0.3% fall expected.\n\nIn the three months to April, sales increased by 1.8%, with a record quarter for the online sector.\n\nONS statistician Rhian Murphy said three-month growth was strong, with warmer weather boosting sales.\n\nThe data illustrated the changes taking place on the High Street.\n\nSales from online-only retailers rose 9.4% over the three-month period - the highest three-month-on-three-month growth rate since records began, the ONS said, boosted by promotions and sales.\n\n\"Elsewhere, department stores continued to see their sales fall,\" Ms Murphy said.\n\nDepartment store sales fell by 0.5% and those in household goods stores declined by 2.9%.\n\nCompared with a year earlier, sales were up by 5.2% after a 6.7% annual rise in March.\n\nThe ONS said anecdotal evidence from retailers suggested warm weather in April boosted sales over the period, which included Easter, while economists said the figures showed Brexit was not having an impact on spending.\n\n\"April's retail sales figures are a timely reminder that political uncertainty is having no discernible impact on households' overall spending. The stability of volumes in April is a good result, following recent strong gain,\" said Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.\n\n\"Admittedly, warmer-than-usual weather - average temperatures were 1.1C above their 1970-to-2018 April average - probably temporarily stimulated clothing sales,\" he added.\n\nDuncan Brewer, retail partner at management consultants Oliver Wyman, said sales were boosted \"as consumers went out and spent money over the sunny holiday period\".\n\nBut, he said, that contrasted to \"continued bad news from our ailing High Streets, which continue to be challenged by the shift to online. Retail used to be simple: consumers went to stores, browsed products, then bought what they wanted\".\n\nConsumer spending helped drive the economy in the first quarter of the year and economists look to the retail sales figures as one potential gauge for the impact on economic growth.\n\nRuth Gregory, senior UK economist at Capital Economics, said sales volumes might have been weaker if retailers had not discounted over the Easter period and that growth could slow in the second quarter as household spending eased.\n\n\"And with other parts of the economy in no position to compensate, this supports our view that growth will moderate a little in [the second quarter] and remain sluggish for the rest of the year,\" she said.", "Sheffield's flamboyant former Lord Mayor Magid Magid has been elected an MEP by the Yorkshire and the Humber electorate.\n\nA former refugee, Mr Magid was Sheffield City Council's first Green Party mayor and its youngest at 29.\n\nHe took to Twitter to thank voters after the result was announced:", "Whorlton Hall, near Castle Barnard, looked after 17 adults with learning difficulties and autism\n\nTen workers have been arrested over the alleged abuse of patients with learning difficulties at a specialist hospital.\n\nSeven men and three women were arrested at addresses in Barnard Castle, Bishop Auckland, Darlington and Stockton.\n\nUndercover filming by BBC Panorama at Whorlton Hall in County Durham appeared to show patients being mocked, intimidated and restrained.\n\nThe site had at least 100 visits by official agencies in the year before the abuse was discovered.\n\nThose arrested were being questioned about offences relating to abuse and neglect at the privately-run NHS-funded unit, Durham Police said.\n\nA spokesman said investigations were expected to take some time but repeated the force's \"immediate priority has been to work with other agencies to safeguard the victims at the centre of the allegations and their families\".\n\nThose arrested would be released under investigation pending further inquiries, he added.\n\nThe force said it was seeking the co-operation of the Panorama team to gather further evidence.\n\nCygnet, the firm that runs the 17-bed hospital unit for adults with learning difficulties and autism, said it was \"shocked and deeply saddened\" by the allegations.\n\nThe company only took over the running of the centre at the turn of the year and said it was \"co-operating fully\" with the police investigation.\n\nAll the patients have been transferred to other services and the hospital closed down, Cygnet said.\n\nCare minister Caroline Dinenage told the House of Commons this week she was \"deeply sorry that this has happened\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister said the failure to deliver Brexit was a matter of \"deep regret\"\n\nEver since I first stepped through the door behind me as prime minister, I have striven to make the United Kingdom a country that works not just for a privileged few, but for everyone.\n\nAnd to honour the result of the EU referendum.\n\nBack in 2016, we gave the British people a choice.\n\nAgainst all predictions, the British people voted to leave the European Union.\n\nI feel as certain today as I did three years ago that, in a democracy, if you give people a choice you have a duty to implement what they decide. I have done my best to do that.\n\nI negotiated the terms of our exit and a new relationship with our closest neighbours that protects jobs, our security and our Union.\n\nI have done everything I can to convince MPs to back that deal. Sadly, I have not been able to do so. I tried three times.\n\nI believe it was right to persevere, even when the odds against success seemed high.\n\nBut it is now clear to me that it is in the best interests of the country for a new prime minister to lead that effort.\n\nTheresa May got emotional as she announced she would resign as prime minister\n\nSo I am today announcing that I will resign as leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party on Friday 7 June so that a successor can be chosen.\n\nI have agreed with the party chairman and with the chairman of the 1922 Committee that the process for electing a new leader should begin in the following week.\n\nI have kept Her Majesty the Queen fully informed of my intentions, and I will continue to serve as her prime minister until the process has concluded.\n\nIt is, and will always remain, a matter of deep regret to me that I have not been able to deliver Brexit.\n\nIt will be for my successor to seek a way forward that honours the result of the referendum.\n\nTo succeed, he or she will have to find consensus in Parliament where I have not.\n\nSuch a consensus can only be reached if those on all sides of the debate are willing to compromise.\n\nFor many years the great humanitarian Sir Nicholas Winton - who saved the lives of hundreds of children by arranging their evacuation from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia through the Kindertransport - was my constituent in Maidenhead.\n\nAt another time of political controversy, a few years before his death, he took me to one side at a local event and gave me a piece of advice.\n\nHe said, 'Never forget that compromise is not a dirty word. Life depends on compromise.' He was right.\n\nAs we strive to find the compromises we need in our politics - whether to deliver Brexit, or to restore devolved government in Northern Ireland - we must remember what brought us here.\n\nBecause the referendum was not just a call to leave the EU but for profound change in our country.\n\nA call to make the United Kingdom a country that truly works for everyone. I am proud of the progress we have made over the last three years.\n\nWe have completed the work that David Cameron and George Osborne started: the deficit is almost eliminated, our national debt is falling and we are bringing an end to austerity.\n\nMy focus has been on ensuring that the good jobs of the future will be created in communities across the whole country, not just in London and the south east, through our modern industrial strategy.\n\nWe have helped more people than ever enjoy the security of a job.\n\nWe are building more homes and helping first-time buyers onto the housing ladder - so young people can enjoy the opportunities their parents did.\n\nAnd we are protecting the environment, eliminating plastic waste, tackling climate change and improving air quality.\n\nThis is what a decent, moderate and patriotic Conservative government, on the common ground of British politics, can achieve - even as we tackle the biggest peacetime challenge any government has faced.\n\nI know that the Conservative Party can renew itself in the years ahead.\n\nThat we can deliver Brexit and serve the British people with policies inspired by our values. Security; freedom; opportunity.\n\nThose values have guided me throughout my career.\n\nBut the unique privilege of this office is to use this platform to give a voice to the voiceless, to fight the burning injustices that still scar our society.\n\nThat is why I put proper funding for mental health at the heart of our NHS long-term plan.\n\nIt is why I am ending the postcode lottery for survivors of domestic abuse.\n\nIt is why the race disparity audit and gender pay reporting are shining a light on inequality, so it has nowhere to hide.\n\nAnd that is why I set up the independent public inquiry into the tragedy at Grenfell Tower - to search for the truth, so nothing like it can ever happen again, and so the people who lost their lives that night are never forgotten.\n\nBecause this country is a union. Not just a family of four nations. But a union of people - all of us.\n\nWhatever our background, the colour of our skin, or who we love. We stand together. And together we have a great future.\n\nOur politics may be under strain, but there is so much that is good about this country. So much to be proud of. So much to be optimistic about.\n\nI will shortly leave the job that it has been the honour of my life to hold - the second female prime minister but certainly not the last.\n\nI do so with no ill-will, but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country I love.", "That's where we'll leave our live coverage for this evening, on a dramatic day when Theresa May announced she will stand down as Tory leader on 7 June.\n\nMaking an emotional statement in Downing Street, Mrs May became tearful as she said serving as PM had been \"the honour of my life\".\n\nAttention has now turned to who will replace her, with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt today becoming the latest MP to indicate he would stand.\n\nHe joins declared candidates Boris Johnson, Esther McVey and Rory Stewart, with more than a dozen others also believed to be considering throwing their hats into the ring.\n\nThe Conservative party says it hopes a new leader can be in place by the end of July - which is also when Sir Vince Cable wants to step down as Lib Dem leader.\n\nSir Vince said he would be handing over the reins to his successor on 23 July.\n\nIt looks like a couple of busy months ahead...", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn Oxford University student who had to carry an artificial heart in a rucksack after her own was removed has been awarded her master's degree posthumously.\n\nRebecca Henderson, 24, from Bicester, Oxfordshire, died in February from transplant complications.\n\nShe was one of only two people in the UK with an artificial heart.\n\nMum Linda Henderson said she cried when she heard Rebecca had been awarded the degree.\n\nRebecca Henderson had her heart removed due to cancer in 2017\n\nMs Henderson said she was \"really happy\" as Rebecca was \"so brilliant academically and I saw all of the hard work she put in\".\n\nShe said: \"It depends how much work a student has completed as to whether or not [the university] will award a degree, and sometimes it's only a certificate.\n\n\"Rebecca had got about two thirds of the way through and it had to go all the way to the education committee where they were able to waive some of the criteria that she needed to fill.\n\n\"Becca had actually booked her graduation slot before she went into hospital, so we're still going on the same day and we will pick up her masters degree on her behalf.\"\n\nShe added the family were \"going to plant a shrub or a tree in the quad at St Anne's next to the library and scatter some of Becca's ashes there\".\n\nRebecca relied on this artificial heart to pump blood around her body\n\nOxford University said it made the decision based on her progress towards successfully completing a master's degree in English.\n\nHer tutors added: \"Becca was a person of extraordinary courage, humour and intellectual achievement.\"\n\nRebecca had her heart removed due to cancer in 2017. In October, she returned to study at St Anne's College and brought the 7kg artificial heart with her.\n\nAt the time she said: \"At no point did it ever occur to me to give up.\n\n\"No matter how hard it is for me, even if it is hard for me, it will then be easier for the next person.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An \"extremely rare\" 200-year-old gold sovereign is being sold by the Royal Mint for £100,000 - but collectors will hope their luck is in.\n\nThe Royal Mint says the George III sovereign was one of 3,574 to be struck in 1819 and there are around only 10 left in the world,\n\nIt says the coin is being offered via a ballot on 12 July at the fixed price, reflecting its rarity and high quality.\n\nPotential purchasers will need to apply online before 28 June.\n\nThey will also need to have their application approved before the winner is selected at random.\n\nThe Royal Mint said the sovereign - minted in the year Queen Victoria was born - has been sourced and verified by its historic coin experts.\n\nNicola Howell, director of consumer business at the Royal Mint, said the coin was an \"incredible opportunity for those who want to own a piece of history\".\n\nShe said: \"We know there are people in the UK and beyond who value such treasures.\"\n\nThe Royal Mint, based in Llantrisant, South Wales, is a company owned by the Treasury.\n\nIt produces coins for circulation in the UK and overseas countries, as well as commemorative editions and investment products.\n\nBefore it is sold, the 1819 sovereign will be on display at the Royal Mint Experience visitor centre in Llantrisant from 10 June.", "Unless something extremely strange happens in the next couple of days, it is now, really, nearly over.\n\nSeveral cabinet ministers have told me they expect Theresa May to announce her departure from Downing Street on Friday.\n\nA senior minister said: \"She's going to go - if it's to be done, it's best to be done quickly.\"\n\nAnother said it would be \"unforgivable\" for her to try to stay on now.\n\nOne of those who has been most loyal to her said: \"It might be tomorrow or Saturday, but it can't be past Sunday.\"\n\nMultiple sources have said they expect the prime minister to give the timetable for her successor to be chosen on Friday, with 10 June likely to be the start of the official leadership contest.\n\nThat would be after the visit from President Trump and the Peterborough by-election the previous week.\n\nMost ministers I've talked to today say they hope the campaign for the next prime minister can be compressed, so it's finished by the end of July but there is not yet much clarity about that.\n\nWhy now though? It's not as if Theresa May's been having an easy time of it for months.\n\nYou guessed it, it's Brexit, and what's accelerated her departure was trying - again - to put her Brexit plans to Parliament.\n\nIt's only two days since she outlined the details of her planned offer. It made things worse in her own party, and had nothing like the impact on the Labour Party that Number 10 had hoped for.\n\nBut critically, as one member of her cabinet said, \"it crossed a line for them\".\n\nSo her party won't accept the plan and now her cabinet won't either, there is almost zero chance of it ever making it to Parliament.\n\nAnd with no hope for the deal she stayed on to try to pass, there is almost no hope for her.\n\nDowning Street was still tight-lipped on Thursday night, although senior figures have made it clear they \"get the mood\" of the party, and are no longer trying to look for a way out.\n\nTheresa May, meanwhile, was understood to be at home in her constituency with her husband - the only two people in the country who know exactly what will happen next.\n\nOne of Theresa May's cabinet colleagues was adamant to me earlier that instead she \"will stay and fight on - there's no way she'll be taken out by the men in grey suits\".\n\nBut she is already scheduled to meet Sir Graham Brady, the chair of the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers in the morning, who is thought to be planning to give her until Monday to name a date.\n\nIt is possible that an early statement outlining her plans to leave office, could come before that.", "Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cara Delevingne have all spoken out\n\nSalma Hayek, Rose McGowan and Gwyneth Paltrow are among dozens of women who have come forward with allegations ranging from rape to sexual harassment by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.\n\nHe is currently facing five charges relating to two women in New York.\n\nHe has previously admitted his behaviour has \"caused a lot of pain\" but has described many of the allegations against him as \"patently false\".\n\nHis spokesperson has said \"any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied\" and there were \"never any acts of retaliation\" against women who turned him down.\n\nHere are some of those who have made allegations against him.\n\nThe actress has accused Weinstein of raping her by performing oral sex in a hotel at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997, when she was 23 and had just appeared in Scream.\n\nShe later reached a $100,000 settlement with him - and says he offered her $1m for a further non-disclosure deal to stay silent. She declined and has been one of his most vocal accusers.\n\nThe Emmy-nominated former Sopranos actress has alleged that Weinstein forced himself into her apartment in New York in 1992 and raped her.\n\n\"I was so ashamed of what happened,\" Sciorra told the New Yorker. \"And I fought. I fought. But still I was like, Why did I open that door?\"\n\nThe actress says Weinstein asked her to go to his hotel room under the guise of a business meeting, but appeared in a bathrobe and asked if he could give her a massage or if she could watch him shower.\n\nShe refused, and says he got revenge by seeking to damage her career. Director Peter Jackson has come forward to say he removed her from a casting list \"as a direct result\" of what he now thinks was \"false information\" provided by Weinstein.\n\nIn May 2018 Judd sued Weinstein claiming he damaged her career in retaliation for her rejecting his sexual advances but a Los Angeles court later dismissed her sexual harassment suit.\n\nHer defamation claim may still proceed, the judge said.\n\nMira Sorvino was photographed at a Weinstein Company party in January 2017\n\nThe Mighty Aphrodite star says he harassed her in a hotel room in 1995. \"He started massaging my shoulders, which made me very uncomfortable, and then tried to get more physical, sort of chasing me around,\" she said.\n\nLike with Ashley Judd, Peter Jackson said Weinstein warned him off casting her.\n\nHayek said Weinstein threatened to kill her\n\nThe Frida actress says she turned down repeated sexual advances from Weinstein while making the 2002 film Frida.\n\nAnd she says his persuasion tactics included threats. Hayek said Weinstein once told her: \"I will kill you, don't think I can't.\"\n\nThe Italian actress and director Asia Argento says she reluctantly agreed to give him a massage in a hotel room on the French Riviera, but he then raped her.\n\nWeinstein \"terrified me, and he was so big\", she said. \"It wouldn't stop. It was a nightmare.\"\n\nLucia Evans - nee Stoller - encountered Weinstein in 2004 in a New York club when she was an aspiring actress. She says she was forced to perform oral sex by the producer after going to his office for what she thought was a casting meeting.\n\n\"The type of control he exerted, it was very real,\" she told The New Yorker. \"Even just his presence was intimidating.\"\n\nThe Boardwalk Empire star has accused Weinstein of raping her twice in New York in 2010.\n\nThe first time was after he offered her a ride home, and the second was when he turned up uninvited at her apartment. \"I did say no, and when he was on top of me I said, 'I don't want to do this',\" she said.\n\nPaltrow says Weinstein asked her to give him a massage in his hotel suite after casting her in the leading role of 1996's Emma when she was 22.\n\nShe refused. \"He screamed at me for a long time. It was brutal,\" she said. She told then boyfriend Brad Pitt - who threatened to kill the producer if he did anything like that to Paltrow again.\n\nFormer production worker Mimi Haleyi alleges that she was raped by Weinstein when he forcibly performed oral sex on her in 2006 in his New York apartment.\n\n\"I told him 'no, no, no'. But he insisted,\" Ms Haleyi told a press conference in New York.\n\nThe actress also alleges she was raped by Weinstein when he performed oral sex on her without her consent. She says he lured her to a hotel room in 2010 under the guise of helping her procure future TV and film roles.\n\n\"I didn't know how to say no to someone like him at the time, which I regret,\" she said.\n\nThe Norwegian actress accuses Weinstein of raping her in a London hotel after the 2008 Bafta Awards ceremony.\n\nShe also alleges that he then asked her to engage in a threesome with him and another woman when back in Los Angeles following the Baftas.\n\nBritish actress Lysette Anthony says he carried out a \"pathetic, revolting\" attack at her London home in the late 1980s, which left her \"disgusted and embarrassed\".\n\nLysette Anthony told The Sunday Times she had reported an attack by Weinstein to the Metropolitan Police in London.\n\nIn an Instagram post, Delevingne writes how uncomfortable she felt during an encounter with Weinstein in a hotel room and describes what allegedly happened when she told him she wanted to leave.\n\n\"He walked me to the door and stood in front of it and tried to kiss me on the lips. I stopped him and managed to get out of the room,\" she says.\n\nThe French actress has written about how he invited her to come to his hotel room for a drink.\n\n\"We were talking on the sofa when he suddenly jumped on me and tried to kiss me,\" she wrote in The Guardian. \"I had to defend myself. He's big and fat, so I had to be forceful to resist him.\"\n\nAngelina Jolie with Gillian Anderson at the premiere of Playing by Heart in 1998\n\nJolie says she was propositioned by Weinstein in a hotel room in 1998.\n\n\"I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did,\" she said.\n\nThe Pulp Fiction actress says Weinstein pushed her down and \"tried to expose himself\" at the producer's hotel room in London during the 1990s.\n\n\"He tried to shove himself on me... He did all kinds of unpleasant things,\" Thurman said. \"But he didn't actually put his back into it and force me. You're like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard.\"\n\nHarvey Weinstein and Heather Graham at a film party in 1999\n\nThe Boogie Nights actress told Variety she was once propositioned by Weinstein in the early 2000s when she met him to discuss being cast in one of his movies.\n\nShe alleges he implied she had to sleep with him to get a film role, telling her that his wife would have been fine with it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Model Zoe Brock tells Radio 4's Today that she was one of Harvey Weinstein's victims\n\nThe model and actress says he asked for a massage in the south of France in 1997. She said: \"I didn't know what to do and I felt that letting him maybe touch me a little bit might placate him enough to get me out of there somehow.\"\n\nBefore long, she \"bolted\" into the bathroom. He banged on the door with his fists before eventually retreating, putting on a dressing gown and starting to cry.\n\nThe actress and producer says she was attacked by Weinstein when he invited her to his office in a hotel for a meeting about a script she had written at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008.\n\nHe insisted on listening to her pitch in his hot tub, then asked her to watch him masturbate, she says - and told her he could green-light her script if she did so. She left.\n\nThe Splash actress says she repeatedly turned down Weinstein's advances during promotion for Kill Bill and its sequel. He tried, she says, to get into her hotel room on multiple occasions, once getting a key and \"burst[ing] in like a raging bull.\"\n\nHe asked to grope her breasts and then asked her to expose herself to him, she alleges. She suffered physical repercussions as her flights were cancelled and she was left stranded after she turned him down on one occasion, she adds.\n\nThe actress says she rejected Weinstein's advances and that she believes her acting career suffered as a result.\n\nShe told the New York Times in the early 1990s she was directed to his hotel room, where he was in a bathrobe and asked her for a massage. When she refused she says he grabbed her hand and pulled it toward his crotch.\n\nModel Ambra Battilana Gutierrez has said she was groped by Weinstein and later went to New York police in 2015, saying the producer assaulted her. She then met Weinstein wearing a hidden microphone. But prosecutors took no action.\n\nOther stars to have detailed how he made advances in his home or hotel rooms include Brit Marling, Lupita Nyong'O, Lena Headey and Kate Beckinsale.\n\nOther women who have come forward since then with their stories include French actresses Florence Darel, Judith Godreche and Emma de Caunes.\n\nBritish model Kadian Noble, US actresses Jessica Barth, Katherine Kendall and aspiring actresses Dawn Denning, who is now a costume designer, Tomi-Ann Roberts, who is now a psychology professor, have also gone on the record.\n\nTV anchor Lauren Sivan alleges Weinstein cornered her in an empty basement area of a New York restaurant in 2007 and masturbated in front of her.\n\nAnd other workers at the Weinstein film company told the New Yorker about their experiences, including Emily Nestor, who was a temporary front desk assistant who said she had had to refuse his advances \"at least a dozen times\".\n\nActress Claire Forlani has said \"nothing happened\" between her and Weinstein - but only because she \"escaped five times\".\n\nIn an interview with Canadian TV, actress Lauren Holly said the producer approached her naked and requested a massage, at which point she \"pushed him and ran\".\n\nZelda Perkins, a British former assistant of Harvey Weinstein, says she resigned after a colleague accused him of trying to rape her.\n\nWeinstein's spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister issued a statement on 10 October in response to the allegations of sexual harassment and assault.\n\n\"Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein,\" she said. \"Mr Weinstein has further confirmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances.\n\n\"Mr Weinstein obviously can't speak to anonymous allegations, but with respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual. Mr Weinstein has begun counselling, has listened to the community and is pursuing a better path.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Libraries are more than buildings with books in. They are free gateways to infinite worlds and providers of help, advice and unexpected acts of kindness. As part of We Are Middlesbrough, the BBC has been finding out how the town's central library cares for its people.\n\nOccasionally, when librarian Jennifer O'Donnell was somewhere in Middlesbrough's Central Library, maybe putting books away, she was called back to the lending desk.\n\nShe was needed for something almost definitely outside her job description.\n\n\"An old lady used to ask for a hug when she came in to collect her books,\" she says.\n\n\"She lived alone and I think she just wanted a little contact.\"\n\nLibrarians regularly have stories like this.\n\nWhen first built, the library's boys' and girls' sections were separated by a screen and there was a reading room just for ladies\n\nMiddlesbrough has 11 libraries, some prettier than others. But the town's central library is a Victorian treat with a reference section that doesn't look like it's changed since the building opened in 1912.\n\nScottish-American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie had a soft spot for libraries and donated the £15,000 cost of building it.\n\nOn a warm afternoon in May the book shelves have a few people browsing the thrillers and romances but every computer is in use.\n\nRobert Kaczkowski is sitting reading Islam for Dummies, part of a series of reference books that takes in subjects as diverse as parenting, carpentry and Shakespeare.\n\n\"My friend is a Muslim and I'm just trying to understand,\" he says.\n\nRobert Kaczkowski came to learn about another religion\n\nHe likes the central library because it's quiet.\n\n\"It's quite enclosed, it means you get a bit of privacy,\" he says.\n\n\"I don't like those libraries where it's open plan and everyone's watching you.\"\n\nHe lives up the road in Chester-le-Street but pushed Middlesbrough on to the fiction bookshelves with his novel Ironopolis, set on a council estate amid the town's industrial decline.\n\nLike many authors, he's not sure he would have become a writer had he not spent so much time in his local library as a child.\n\n\"I loved stories and I loved reading because of libraries,\" he says\n\n\"I still remember the thrill of going down there on a Saturday and the smell of the place.\n\n\"It's an access for anybody, from any walk of life. I mean, books cost money to buy. Not everybody has a lot of money.\"\n\nAuthor Glen James Brown believes libraries are for everyone, regardless of wealth or background\n\nBrown accepts the importance of creches and community hubs in today's libraries but he mourns that the \"books come second\".\n\n\"It's kind of this weird multi-use space now,\" he says.\n\nThey are still safe havens, but books \"aren't top of the list now\", he thinks.\n\nBut they still provide help, advice and information.\n\nThe men who call Ms O'Donnell from noisy pubs asking her to settle a bet still get what they need.\n\nLibrarian Jennifer O'Donnell paid off fines for a borrower who had been in hospital\n\nSome come for other reasons.\n\nShe once woke up someone \"with the imprint of the keyboard still on their face, swearing blind that they were not asleep\".\n\nThey are a big part of the library now, sitting rather incongruously in the Victorian building among its old card-filing cabinets and wooden desks.\n\nPeople use them for submitting job applications, honing their CVs, practising their driving test theory, applying for benefits.\n\nFor some, it's the first time they've gone near a computer and it is a bit of a shock.\n\n\"As well as being newly unemployed they're also being forced onto a PC,\" Mr Harrington says.\n\nThey need help - emotionally as well as practically - and \"sometimes you find yourself being a social worker\", he says.\n\nBut computers can only do so much.\n\nHe quotes author Neil Gaiman: \"Google can bring you back 100,000 answers - a librarian can bring you back the right one.\"\n\nThe number of books you are allowed to take out seems to have increased dramatically\n\nRichard Bailey has brought his daughters Isabel and Imogen.\n\nThey're allowed something like 13 books now, he thinks. Far more than the four it once was.\n\nIn the end, it comes down to what they can carry.\n\nDespite their proliferating computers, libraries are a useful tool against the assault of the internet, he thinks.\n\n\"It's drilling it into my daughters that you can pick anything,\" he says.\n\n\"Get them out of the mindset of head stuck in phone.\"\n\nCentral Library knows its audience, too, it seems. Young readers are offered a holiday reading challenge, with rewards and - highly rated by Isabel and Imogen - a magician.\n\nIsabel, collecting a stash of books about gymnastics, likes the relative silence, compared to home.\n\n\"I really like it because it's quiet and peaceful,\" she says, pointing out peace is not something her little sister will let her have normally.\n\nImogen, sitting nearby, is oblivious, quietly absorbed in her book.\n\nThis article was created as part of We Are Middlesbrough - a BBC project with the people of the town to tell the stories which matter to them.\n\nFor more information about We Are Middlesbrough follow #BBCWeAreMiddlesbrough on social media. You can also email us wearemiddlesbrough@bbc.co.uk\n\nWhat are you proud of about the town and what are the stories you think we should tell more people about?\n\nHave you got a question about Middlesbrough you would like us to answer? You can use the tool below to submit your suggestions.\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.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"With voice extended to breaking point, I call for the prosperity of free speech,\" said Morrissey on Friday\n\nPosters promoting Morrissey's latest album have been removed from railway stations after a commuter complained.\n\nAdverts for the new album by the former Smiths singer have been taken down on the Merseyrail network.\n\nMorrissey has previously expressed support for the far-right For Britain party and earlier this month wore a badge with its logo on during a TV show, but he denies he is a racist.\n\nMerseyrail apologised and said the posters did not reflect its \"values\".\n\nThe adverts, which contain no political message, were removed after a traveller on a Southport service to Moorfields contacted the company to ask if it agreed with Morrissey's opinions.\n\nThe man, who asked not to be named, told the BBC he was not \"offended\" by the posters and did not demand they were taken down.\n\nHe said he just questioned the company on whether they were appropriate.\n\nIn a statement, Merseyrail said: \"Any content used within advertising on the Merseyrail network does not reflect the organisation's values and we apologise for any offence the publication of these posters may have caused.\"\n\nThe company said advertising was managed by an external third party.\n\nMorrisey has not responded to the rail company's decision. But in a message on his website on Friday, he said: \"With voice extended to breaking point, I call for the prosperity of free speech; the eradication of totalitarian control; I call for diversity of opinion; I call for the total abolition of the abattoir; I call for peace, above all; I call for civil society.\"\n\nMorrissey expressed his support for For Britain in a 2018 interview\n\nEarlier this week, the world's oldest record shop, Spillers Records in Cardiff, took the decision to stop selling Morrissey albums.\n\nIt said on Twitter: \"Morrissey's views are not in synch with ours, in fact they are at complete odds and this is why (as an independent) we are not stocking / giving our shelf space to his music.\"\n\nMorrissey, 60, has denied on multiple occasions he holds racist views.\n\nEarlier this month, the Manchester-born singer appeared on The Tonight Show in the USA wearing a For Britain badge on his jacket.\n\nHe came out in support of the party in an interview in 2018 and in the past has criticised the production of halal meat and claimed London mayor Sadiq Khan \"cannot speak properly\".", "Celtic has expressed \"regret and sorrow\" 10 days after a former youth coach was jailed for a series of child sex abuse crimes.\n\nJim McCafferty, 73, was a coach and kit man for the club's youth team and also worked for Celtic Boys Club.\n\nLast week McCafferty admitted 12 charges related to child sex abuse against 10 teenage boys.\n\nDespite repeated requests by the BBC, Celtic only released a statement about the case on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe statement said: \"James McCafferty has pled guilty to offences he committed against young people between 1972 and 1996.\n\n\"Celtic Football Club wishes to express its regret and sorrow to those young people.\n\n\"McCafferty, who was employed by Celtic Football Club in the mid 1990s, committed these acts many years ago across a number of organisations, and all those who have come forward to report abuse and to give evidence deserve enormous praise for the courage they have shown.\n\n\"We offer our sincere sympathy to those young people, their families and all those involved.\"\n\nJim McCafferty was already serving a jail term after a trial in Northern Ireland\n\nBut solicitor Patrick McGuire, who represents several abuse survivors, criticised the club.\n\nHe said: \"It would be charitable to Celtic to describe this as too little, too late.\n\n\"There is no apology. There is no acknowledgement of Celtic's failures.\n\n\"There is no willingness to pay compensation and to follow the lead of Manchester City, particularly as we know some of the abuse took place when McCafferty was employed by Celtic and was in a position of considerable influence and power within the Celtic football club youth set-up.\"\n\nMcCafferty was sentenced to six years and nine months at the High Court in Edinburgh on 14 May.\n\nHe was already serving a jail term after he was found guilty of sexually abusing a teenage boy in Belfast last year.\n\nIn relation to the latest charges against McCafferty, which spanned from 1972 to 1996, most of his victims played for youth teams he ran in North Lanarkshire.\n\nFour played for Celtic Boys Club and Celtic youth team. They were aged between 14 and 17.\n\nThe incidents took place in several locations across Scotland - including team showers, hotel rooms and minibuses.\n\nThe court heard that among the complainers were former professional footballers.\n\nSome of McCafferty's victims developed alcohol and mental health problems as a consequence of the abuse he subjected them too.\n\nJudge Lord Beckett said he was \"physically intimidating\" and used his \"overpowering\" nature to achieve his \"depraved objectives\" of abusing young boys.\n\nHe added: \"You took advantage of your position of trust as a football coach to groom and then sexually abuse boys who played for your teams.\n\n\"You were adept at identifying the circumstances of different boys so that you could manipulate them and in some cases their parents in a variety of ways.\n\n\"All of this was done to facilitate your sexually abusing children.\"\n\nMcCafferty's lawyer told the court he wanted to apologise to his victims and their families.\n\nHe is the fourth man connected to either Celtic or Celtic Boys Club to be found guilty of historical child sex abuse in the past year.\n\nBoth Jim Torbett (left) and Frank Cairney (right) have been convicted of abusing children at Celtic Boys Club\n\nLast November Celtic Boys Club founder Jim Torbett was jailed for six years for sexually abusing three boys over eight years.\n\nAfter his conviction Celtic took two days to issue a statement, which expressed \"deep regret\".\n\nEarlier this year, the boys club's former chairman, Gerald King, was given a three-year probation order for sexually abusing four boys and a girl in the 1980s.\n\nAnd in February Frank Cairney, a former manager of the boys club, was jailed for four years after being convicted of nine charges of sexually abusing young footballers.\n\nOn Thursday he lost a bid to be released on bail while appealing his conviction.\n\nCeltic's statement on the latest case was published on the club's website at 16:10 on Friday.\n\nIt comes on the eve of the Scottish Cup Final which will see the club take on Hearts at Hampden.\n\nMr McGuire, of Glasgow-based law firm Thompsons, condemned the timing as \"cynical in the extreme\".\n\nPatrick McGuire said the timing of the statement was \"cynical in the extreme\"\n\nHe said: \"The conviction and sentencing of McCafferty was over a week ago.\n\n\"To put this statement out late on a Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend on the day the prime minister resigns and before a potential Treble Treble weekend for the club is appalling.\n\n\"It is insult to everyone who suffered abuse and to their families.\n\n\"It is the worst kind of PR low cunning and casts the club in an even worse light than before. Every member of the Celtic board should hang their heads in shame. \"\n\nThe Celtic statement acknowledged the crimes were \"very sensitive issues, particularly for those who suffered abuse.\"\n\nIt said: \"When the allegations were published in the media in 2016, Celtic Football Club encouraged any individuals involved to report all information to the police so that these matters could be investigated fully and the club continues to encourage any victim of abuse to report these matters to the police.\"\n\n\"Celtic Football Club takes all of its responsibilities seriously, stands by its responsibilities and will continue to do so.\"\n\nThe statement noted the abuse of children has affected many areas of society across the UK, including football clubs, sports clubs, youth organisations, educational institutions and religious bodies.\n\nIt concluded: \"Celtic Football Club strongly believes that children and young people involved in football have the right to protection from all forms of harm and abuse and is committed to ensuring this and to promoting their wellbeing through continued co-operation with our children and young people, parents and carers and the relevant authorities.\n\n\"Celtic Football Club was the first club in Scotland to appoint a safeguarding officer, responsible for developing our policies for the protection of young people, and monitoring and reviewing our procedures to ensure they continue to reflect best practice.\"", "Prime Minister Theresa May has said she will stand down on 7 June, after pressure grew over her handling of Brexit negotiations.", "Mr Juncker said he would \"equally respect and establish working relations with any new Prime Minister.\"\n\nThe EU response to Theresa May's resignation speech was immediate.\n\nFrom across Europe came expressions of respect - though notably, not regret.\n\nThe Brexit process is a painful one for the EU - a constant reminder that the bloc is failing to keep a key member state, a constant shadow over other EU business and an economic drain - provoked by all the uncertainty - on European companies and outside investment.\n\nAs UK prime minister, Theresa May became associated with all that negativity.\n\nIt was a source of continuous frustration in Brussels that she - in EU leaders' opinion - repeatedly pandered to the extreme Brexiteers in her party, rather than face the inevitability of compromise and the necessity of cross-party co-operation (which Brussels believes finally came too late) to get an exit deal agreed.\n\nEuropean politicians and diplomats have always said to me: \"What we (the EU) need, is a British prime minister strong enough to be able to do a deal in Brussels and to sell it back home in Westminster, whoever they may be.\"\n\nTheresa May never was that prime minister.\n\nToday the president of the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, described her as \"a woman of courage for whom he has great respect\" but he also made clear, as did other European leaders, that finishing the Brexit process was the EU's primary concern.\n\nMr Juncker declared he would \"equally respect and establish working relations with any new prime minister whoever they may be\".\n\nAdding those last four words \"whoever they may be\", alludes to the EU fear that Boris Johnson or another arch Brexiteer is most likely to become Mrs May's successor.\n\nThe EU has prepared for the prospect of \"Prime Minister Boris\" for months now. Theresa May's demise doesn't exactly come as a surprise.\n\nAs was the case when Donald Trump became US president, many Europeans have wondered whether \"populist Boris, the arch Brexiteer\" might be tamed by office into becoming calmer and (from the European perspective) more reasonable.\n\nThe worry here is that Mr Johnson, or another Brexiteer, keen to prove their mettle, will want to play to the gallery at home: obstructing EU business where they can, as long as the UK remains a reluctant member.\n\nThe EU has already taken legal advice on how to get around that potential problem.\n\nThey have concluded, for example, that if the new UK prime minister held up the next EU budget, which needs to be decided in the coming months, the 27 EU leaders minus the UK could informally sign the budget off. Their decision would then become legally binding once the UK officially left the EU.\n\nAll the speculation about post-May Britain has also got EU leaders thinking about whether to grant the UK a new Brexit extension. The current one runs out on 31 October.\n\nThe EU assumption is that the new UK prime minister will want more time to hold a general election or to try to renegotiate the current Brexit deal, particularly the controversial backstop guarantee for the Irish border. Good luck with that one, says Brussels, though Dublin will worry that the resolve of some EU leaders may falter if faced with the real prospect (this time) of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nWith all this in mind, a number of EU countries, notably France, think it probably best to close the door sooner rather than later, to a country that is leaving anyway. President Macron worries that the longer the UK stays reluctantly, the more it might poison the general EU atmosphere.\n\nGermany, however, would prefer to give the UK more time, if not to change its mind about Brexit, then at least to ensure an \"orderly exit\" - ie Brexit with a deal - to avoid the economic and political fallout of no deal at all.\n\nBut 31 October is still a long way away in political terms.\n\nRight now, EU leaders are far more preoccupied with this week's elections for the European parliament. The result promises to have a profound impact on the national governments of a fair few countries, including the EU's Big Two, Germany and France.", "Sales in the UK arm of baby goods retailer Mothercare plunged almost 9% last year as its losses widened to £87.3m.\n\nThe firm said its sales had fallen following reduced consumer confidence after last year's restructuring.\n\nThat led to it closing almost a third of its stores. It is now left with 79 and will develop its online sales.\n\nBut boss Mark Newton-Jones said the firm was on a \"sounder footing\" after the sale of the Early Learning Centre.\n\nThe results for the year to 30 March - delayed from Thursday - detail the attempt by the retailer to rebound from what it describes as last year's \"acute financial distress\".\n\nIt underwent a company voluntary arrangement (CVA), which allowed it to shut 55 shops in the space of a year, rather than the four it would have taken without the CVA.\n\nIt also sold the ELC to the Entertainer for £11.5m and its Watford head office for £14.5m.\n\nThere was also a \"fracture in the relationship\" with the non-executive directors and directors, the company said.\n\n\"We remain determined to differentiate Mothercare as a textbook recovery case, in parallel demonstrating that boards can and should foster a greater alignment between their debt and equity providers,\" said chairman Clive Whiley.\n\nEven so, the results detail a worst-case scenario - of further falls in sales and margins - under which it could renegotiate its debt, which has been cut from £44m to £7m,\n\nMr Newton-Jones - who left last year, only to be rehired a little over a month later - said: \"Whilst this major restructuring activity has resulted in significant headline losses for the year, the business is now on a sounder financial footing.\"\n\nThe £87.3m of losses include £47.3m of costs associated with the restructuring, including store closures and 800 job losses, and the discontinued operations of the ELC. Losses in the previous financial year were £72.8m.\n\nIts shares rose 19% to 24p, although they traded at 245p in 2015.\n\nLike-for-like sales - stripping out the impact of store changes - fell 8.9% in the UK. Online sales were down 8% and store sales down 15.8% because of what Mothercare described as declining footfall and nervousness from suppliers during the restructuring.\n\nInternational sales, largely in China, India, Indonesia, the Middle East and Russia, fell 4.7% - less than the 5.9% a year earlier.\n\nOperations are also being expanded in Vietnam, where there are six stores, with three more to open.\n\n\"The next phase of our strategic transformation plan is to develop Mothercare as a global brand, maximising the opportunities we see across many international markets,\" said Mr Newton-Jones.\n\nMaureen Hinton, retail research director at GlobalData, said that sales would have fallen because of the store closures, but added that Mothercare was a \"me-too\" type of business, with similar products to rivals.\n\n\"There are so many better competitors for baby care and children's clothes. Supermarkets are so strong, Next has got very strong children's range and on the nursery side, there is JoJo Maman Bebe and John Lewis,\" she said.\n\nAdded to that are the second-hand sales through online forums such as eBay, she said.", "The prime minister has announced that she will stand down on 7 June.\n\nSpeaking outside Downing Street, Theresa May said that it was \"matter of deep regret\" that she had failed to deliver Brexit.\n\nShe said she left office with \"no ill will, but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have served the country that I love\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Belgium students among one million expected in more than 100 countries\n\nSchool students around the world have gone on strike to demand action on climate change.\n\nOrganisers said more than a million people were expected to join the action in at least 110 countries on Friday.\n\nThey are calling on politicians and businesses to take urgent action to slow global warming.\n\nThe strikes are inspired by student Greta Thunberg, who has become a global figurehead since protesting outside Sweden's parliament in 2018.\n\nCarrying a \"school strike for climate change\" sign, the then 15-year-old said she was refusing to attend classes until Swedish politicians took action.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Swedish teen behind the climate strikes\n\nThe solo protest led to various movements across Europe, the US and Australia, known as Fridays for Future or School Strike for Climate.\n\nThe last co-ordinated international protest took place on 15 March, with an estimated 1.6 million students from 125 countries walking out of school.\n\nThe action on Friday began in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nIn Melbourne, 13-year-old Nina Pasqualini said she was joining the strike because she was worried about \"weather disasters\".\n\n\"Every time we have huge a bushfire here another animal might go extinct,\" she told Reuters news agency.\n\nOrganisers are expecting more than a million students around the world to walk out\n\nAustralia just had its hottest summer on record and climate change is seen as the cause of the increasing frequency and severity of droughts, heat waves, floods and the melting of glaciers around the world.\n\nIn 2018, global carbon emissions hit a record high and UN-backed panel on climate change last October warned that to stabilise the climate, emissions will have to be slashed over the next 12 years.\n\nEarlier this month, a UN report warned that one million animal and plant species were now threatened with extinction.\n\nSophie Hanford, a national organiser in New Zealand, said Friday's strike was \"only the beginning\".\n\nThe protesting students have vowed to continue boycotting classes on Fridays until their countries adhere to the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which aims to prevent global temperatures from rising 1.5C (2.7F) above pre-industrial levels.\n\nAs countries around the world woke up, the action spread.\n\nStrikes were held in Asian nations including India, Afghanistan Thailand and Japan.\n\nIn Europe - where the movement first gained traction - images of mass strikes were shared on social media.\n\n\"Inaction equals extinction\" and \"save the world not your money\" read some of the placards on display.\n\nProtesters in Brussels warned that time is running out to take action\n\nStudents in Frankfurt were among those calling for policies to save the planet\n\nClimate protesters blocked the entrance to Norway's central bank, demanding that it stop investing in companies that burn coal\n\nDemonstrators in the Austrian capital said governments needed to act to \"stop climate change now\"\n\nIn London, scores of protesters congregated outside parliament, chanting \"climate change has got to go\".\n\n\"Act now or burn later\" and \"change the system not the government\" read some of the signs held up by participants, as they called for urgent action.\n\nStudent protesters want the government to reform the national curriculum to include more material on climate change.\n\nOrganisers said strikes had been organised in about 125 towns and cities across the UK.\n\nStudent protesters joined the global movement outside parliament in London\n\nYoung people are calling on their governments to \"act now\" on climate change\n\nIn an open letter published in Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung on the eve of Friday's strike, Ms Thunberg and prominent German climate activist Luisa Neubauer, 22, called on older generations to join the action in September.\n\n\"This is a task for all humanity. We young people can contribute to a bigger fight, and that can make a big difference. But that only works if our action is understood as a call,\" they wrote.\n\n\"This is our invitation. On Friday, 20 September, we will start an action week for the climate with a worldwide strike. We ask you to join us... Join in the day with your neighbours, colleagues, friends and families to hear our voices and make this a turning point in history.\"", "Mark Zuckerberg spent time in France last week, discussing regulation with President Emmanuel Macron\n\nFacebook has published its latest \"enforcement report\", which details how many posts and accounts it took action on between October 2018 and March 2019.\n\nDuring that six-month period, Facebook removed more than three billion fake accounts - more than ever before.\n\nMore than seven million \"hate speech\" posts were removed, also a record high.\n\nFor the first time, Facebook also reported how many deleted posts were appealed, and how many were put back online after review.\n\nIn a call with reporters on Thursday, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg hit back against numerous calls to break up Facebook, arguing its size made it possible to defend against the network's problems.\n\n\"I don't think that the remedy of breaking up the company is going to address [the problem],\" he said.\n\n\"The success of the company has allowed us to fund these efforts at a massive level. I think the amount of our budget that goes toward our safety systems... I believe is greater than Twitter's whole revenue this year.\"\n\nFacebook said the rise in the number of deleted fake accounts was because \"bad actors\" were using automated methods to create large numbers of them.\n\nBut it said it spotted and deleted a majority of them within minutes, before they had any opportunity to \"cause harm\".\n\nThe social network will now also report how many posts were removed for selling \"regulated goods\" such as drugs and guns.\n\nIt said it took action on more than one million posts selling guns in the six-month period covered by the report.\n\nFor some types of content, such as child sex abuse imagery, violence and terrorist propaganda, the report estimates how often such content was actually seen by people on Facebook.\n\nThe report said that out of every 10,000 pieces of content viewed on Facebook:\n\nOverall, about 5% of the monthly active users on Facebook were fake accounts.\n\nFor the first time, the report reveals that between January and March 2019 more than one million appeals were made after posts were deleted for \"hate speech\".\n\nAbout 150,000 posts that were found not to have broken the hate speech policy were restored during that period.\n\nFacebook said the report highlighted \"areas where we could be more open in order to build more accountability and responsiveness to the people who use our platform\".", "Harvey Weinstein is believed to be in Europe to seek therapy\n\nThe scandal surrounding Harvey Weinstein shows it is impossible to understand the history of film and television without recognising the central role, and potential horror, of the so-called casting couch.\n\nThis colloquialism refers to the capacity for auditions to turn into mechanisms for sexual exploitation. The casting couch is a kind of erotic theatre in itself: one in which would-be performers exhibit their suitability for a particular role and provide sexual favours.\n\nIt is a place with a very hierarchical power dynamic: ambitious, not to say desperate, talent; and producer, director or whoever with the capacity to make dreams come true.\n\nAs both the cliche and the grim reality have it, the talent is often a young woman, and the dream-maker an older man. This is the situation in which a 22-year-old Gwyneth Paltrow found herself when, she alleges, Weinstein made unwanted advances towards her.\n\nIn the revolting revelations emerging about sexual bullying by Weinstein - who denies the bulk of allegations against him - the power dynamic of the casting couch is shown to be a forum for sickening exploitation and potentially criminal abuse.\n\nThe most striking thing about the New York Times and New Yorker's reports is the elaborate lengths to which Weinstein and those around him allegedly went to facilitate casting couch sessions, usually in hotels.\n\nAccording to several actresses quoted in recent stories, assistants would deliver on-screen talent before leaving them to their private rendezvous with Weinstein; and afterward, if they were upset, would help smooth things over by hushing things up or speaking to relatives.\n\nIt may be lazy or dangerous to extrapolate from the individual case of Weinstein to a broader problem in the media and film industries - though as I said in an earlier blog post, it is impossible not to see these awful allegations alongside those levelled at Bill O'Reilly, the late Roger Ailes, Bill Cosby and even Donald Trump.\n\nI also said perhaps some good could come of this awful story.\n\nIf the casting couch ceases to be a forum for sexual exploitation of vulnerable, desperate performers by perverts; and if other women who have experienced the sordid worst of the casting couch feel they can come forward, the media and film industries may yet benefit from the depredations of this Hollywood thug.", "The number of flights using British skies on one day is set to reach an all-time high of 9,000 on Friday.\n\nMore than than six per minute are expected, exceeding the previous record of 8,854 set on 25 May 2018.\n\nA bank holiday, school half-term, the Monaco Grand Prix, and Cannes Film Festival have added to the spike, air traffic controller Nats said.\n\nThe record may soon be broken again, with flights to the Champions League final in Madrid on 1 June contributing.\n\nPrices for flights from the UK to the Spanish capital have soared to more than £1,300 return since Liverpool and Tottenham both qualified for the final.\n\nThe UK's busiest airspace is over south-east England, where four of the country's five main airports are.\n\nNats' head of service performance, Wendy Howard-Allen, said demand for air travel was \"increasing all the time\".\n\n\"We've been planning for this busy summer period for a number of months - preparing for the worst and hoping for the best,\" she said.\n\n\"With many events coinciding at the end of May and in early June, it's important to realise the impact this will have on air traffic.\"", "Online booking for cancer screening should be introduced, says the report\n\nMaking an appointment for breast and cervical cancer screening should be as simple as booking a plane ticket online, says the man behind an overhaul of the current system in England.\n\nProf Sir Mike Richards said text reminders and out-of-hours appointments were also a good idea.\n\nCervical screening or smear-test rates are at their lowest for a decade.\n\nHis interim report calls for technology to be used to stop the decline so more lives can be saved.\n\nThere are three national cancer screening programmes in England:\n\nThe screening programmes aim to detect cancer, or abnormal cells, early, often before symptoms develop, when treatment may be more effective.\n\nMore than 11 million invitations to screening were sent out last year.\n\nBut a recent report found that none of the programmes in England met its target last year, and many women experienced delays in getting results after cervical screening.\n\nSir Mike, formerly NHS cancer director and chief inspector of hospitals, said: \"Our screening programmes have led the world and save around 9,000 lives every year.\n\n\"However, people live increasingly busy lives and we need to make having a screening appointment as simple and convenient as booking a plane ticket online.\n\n\"The technology exists in many other walks of life and by adopting it across the NHS we can help identify even more cancers early when they are easier to treat and save more lives.\"\n\nIn his interim report, he also says IT systems need to be upgraded across the country and there should be more clarity over who is in charge of cancer screening.\n\nIn May 2018, a major failure in breast screening was announced by the health secretary in England, followed by a serious incident with cervical screening six months later.\n\nSir Mike's full report is published later this year.", "A Middlesbrough training academy has been helping women get into beauty industry jobs.\n\nOwner Lisa Fallow says her goal is to help change people's lives.\n\nThis story was created as part of We Are Middlesbrough - a BBC project with people of the town to tell the stories that matter to them.", "David Cameron has told reporters that Theresa May is \"a dedicated public servant\" after she announced that she would leave office on 7 June.\n\n\"I feel desperately sorry for Theresa\" the former prime minister said, after his successor's emotional statement in Downing Street.", "Swimming is said to be Alannah's best option for exercise\n\nTwo-year-old Alannah has a rare lung condition that means she cannot use public pools - but thanks to the work of one woman, she has been able to swim with mermaids.\n\nAlannah's condition means she has to have a 24/7 supply of oxygen and needs to be fed through a tube. She is unable to walk distances, and has to use a wheelchair.\n\nEach week, Alannah and her family make the 30-mile journey from their home in Boddam, Aberdeenshire, to Aberdeen to take part in special swimming sessions run by Love Rara.\n\nThe experience with the mermaids and the swimming lessons that follow are free.\n\nZara Grant, the company's managing director, and her mermaids donate their own time to children who are unwell.\n\nStaff who work on the mermaid swim donate their own time, and there is no cost for the families of seriously ill or disabled children\n\n\"It was a part of a lot of children's bucket lists to swim with the mermaids,\" Zara told BBC Scotland's The Nine.\n\n\"That's why I first started it, so I could create these magical memories that parents can have forever.\n\n\"It allows children to come in and have memories or even just a day out at the pool with their family to have that normality while they're going through their treatment.\"\n\nZara undertook training as a swimming instructor so she would be able to safely work with the children in the water.\n\nAlannah is only able to get into a special area of the pool. Due to the oxygen supply that she needs constantly, she would be at risk if people pulled on her tube, so the area is closed to the public while Alannah is in the water.\n\nWatching Alannah swim, her mother Lauren Norris says: \"It's amazing to see, considering a couple of years ago we didn't think we'd ever get her in the water. It helps her a lot, she's getting exercise for her hyper-mobility.\n\n\"She can't go running or do gymnastics or dancing or other things kids her age can do, so I think swimming is the definitely the best option for Alannah.\"\n\nThe business has a number of donated dry suits that allow children like Eileidh to be able to swim safely\n\nThe first sessions took place in 2017, after a child with cancer, Eileidh Paterson, made a bucket list when her illness became terminal. Swimming with mermaids was on it.\n\n\"It's obviously upsetting for Eileidh's family because she's passed but at least they have this memory now that they can keep forever,\" says Zara.\n\n\"It's really hard, because I do get close to the families. I used to see Eileidh a lot so you do get a really good connection with the children, but I look at the positives - the fact I got to give them those memories.\"\n\nAlannah's family is grateful to Zara for the time they can now spend in the pool.\n\n\"The bond between Zara and Alannah is amazing. Zara goes above and beyond to make sure everything's safe for Alannah,\" says mum Lauren.\n\n\"It's amazing to see how far Alannah's come over the last two years. She's proved everyone wrong so far. I don't even think about half the things we do now. But when you look back a year ago, we struggled.\n\n\"We don't know what the future holds - if she's going to be on oxygen for the rest of her life, if she's going to be tube-fed for the rest of her life, if she's going to need a wheelchair for the rest of her life - we just don't know.\n\n\"We're just taking each day as it comes.\"\n\nAlannah's mum Lauren blogs about her daughter's illness using a Facebook page, Alannah's Diary", "Lance Armstrong says he \"wouldn't change a thing\" about the doping that helped him win and then subsequently saw him stripped of seven Tour de France titles between 1999-2005.\n\nThe American was banned from cycling for life in 2012 before admitting to using performance-enhancing drugs.\n\nBut the 47-year-old told NBC Sports he had \"learned a lot\" from his \"mistakes\".\n\n\"I don't learn all the lessons if I don't act that way,\" he added.\n\n\"We did what we had to do to win,\" Armstrong continued. \"It wasn't legal, but I wouldn't change a thing - whether it's losing a bunch of money, or going from hero to zero.\"\n\nArmstrong repeatedly denied doping allegations following his return from cancer until finally confessing during a television interview with Oprah Winfrey in January 2013.\n\nIn 2018, he agreed to pay $5m (£3.5m) to the US government to settle a long-running lawsuit that could have cost him $100m (£71m) in damages.\n\nHe was accused of fraud by cheating while riding for the publicly funded US Postal Service team.\n\n\"It was a mistake, it led to a lot of other mistakes. It led to the most colossal meltdown in the history of sport. But I learned a lot,\" he said in a 30-minute interview with the American network NBCSN that will be broadcast next Wednesday.\n\n\"I wouldn't change the way I acted. I mean I would, but this is a longer answer.\n\n\"Primarily, I wouldn't change the lessons that I've learned. I don't learn all the lessons if I don't act that way.\n\n\"I don't get investigated and sanctioned if I don't act the way I acted. If I just doped and didn't say a thing, none of that would have happened. None of it. I was begging for, I was asking for them to come after me. It was an easy target.\"\n\nArmstrong reiterated that he knew doping was widespread in cycling at that time.\n\nHe added: \"I knew there were going to be knives at this fight. Not just fists. I knew there would be knives.\n\n\"I had knives, and then one day, people start showing up with guns. That's when you say, do I either fly back to Plano, Texas, and not know what you're going to do? Or do you walk to the gun store? I walked to the gun store. I didn't want to go home.\n\n\"I don't want to make excuses for myself that everybody did it or we never could have won without it. Those are all true, but the buck stops with me. I'm the one who made the decision to do what I did. I didn't want to go home, man. I was going to stay.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Flames and smoke poured from the building\n\nAt least 20 people, most of them students attending private tuition classes, have died in a fire in India, officials said.\n\nStudents were seen jumping and falling from the commercial building in the western city of Surat as black smoke billowed from windows.\n\nThe fire is believed to have been started by an electrical fault in the air conditioning, officials said.\n\nPolice said one of the owners of the tuition centre had been arrested.\n\nSurat police chief Satish Sharma told reporters that three people in total had been charged with culpable homicide and that the two others would be arrested soon. As anger mounted in the local community, he appealed to people to remain calm and not take the law into their own hands.\n\nAt least 20 other people suffered serious injuries in the fire and were being treated in hospital in Gujarat.\n\nMore than 50 students were said to have been in classes on the top floor of the building when fire broke out. Five had been due to receive exam results for university places on Saturday, officials said.\n\nThese students in Amritsar held a candle-light vigil for the victims\n\nLocal resident Ketan Chodvadiya, 22, has been hailed as a hero after he was caught on film trying to rescue students.\n\nHe described being unable to help one girl, who died, but said he managed to help at least eight others escape.\n\nAll of the dead were younger than 20, and many were trapped because the fire began near a staircase, Reuters reported.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Narendra Modi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn inquiry into the incident has been ordered and a report is expected within three days, said the spokesman for the office of Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani.\n\nThe fire is the latest in a long line of deadly blazes in India. In February at least 17 people died in a Delhi hotel fire.", "Swimmers will be able to use ponds \"aligning with their gender identity\"\n\nThe rights of transgender women to use a women-only pond in north London have been acknowledged in a new policy.\n\nSwimmers on Hampstead Heath will be able to use ponds \"aligning with their gender identity\", the City of London Corporation's (CoLC) has said.\n\nAdmission will be granted on a case-by-case basis under the policy.\n\nHowever, Stonewall said the 2010 Equality Act already protected trans people from being discriminated against when accessing services.\n\nStonewall director Laura Russell said it was \"not a new rule\".\n\nShe added: \"Trans people's right to use single-sex spaces, regardless of whether they have legal gender recognition, has been the law for nearly a decade.\"\n\nBut feminist campaigner Amy Desir, who uses Kenwood Ladies' Pond at Hampstead, called the policy \"absolutely disgusting\".\n\nMs Desir, from campaign group ReSisters UK, said the policy \"disproportionately discriminates against young women\" and was \"open to abuse\".\n\nShe added: \"Under the policy any man can self-identify and declare themselves a woman.\n\n\"The CoLC is deliberately misusing the Equalities Act and basing the policy on a biased survey.\"\n\nStonewall said transgender men and women had been legally accessing the ponds for \"many years\"\n\nWriter and trans-commentator Jane Fae said she was \"entirely unsurprised\" by the CoLC policy.\n\nShe said: \"All they have done is endorse the law as it stands. If they had done the opposite they would have been taken to court.\"\n\nJoanne Conaghan, a Professor of Law at Bristol University, said: \"Legislation governing the rights of trans people is complicated because the law relating to gender recognition and the rules governing discrimination on grounds of gender reassignment do not neatly align.\n\n\"In particular, the protections accorded to trans people under the Equality Act 2010 is wider than the right to gender recognition conferred by the Gender Recognition Act 2004.\n\n\"There are limited situations in which transgender people may be denied access to sex-specific services under the Equalities Act 2010, but the City of London's policy is correct to allow trans people a presumption of inclusivity to use ponds that align with their gender identity.\"\n\nA consultation on attitudes to gender identity held last year received nearly 40,000 responses.\n\nCoLC said 65% of the valid respondents to last year's survey favoured ensuring trans people did not suffer discrimination.\n\nBut 46% of the total responses to the consultation were disregarded as invalid on the basis that those respondents did not answer any questions, other than to identify themselves and declare the reason for their interest in the survey.\n\nHampstead Heath has three bathing ponds, including a male only, female only and mixed sex pond\n\nLast year, female activists demonstrated against the right of trans women to use the women's pond by using the men's pond.\n\nThe Kenwood Ladies' Pond Association said it welcomed the decision.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The Ladies' Pond is a single sex space and the KLPA is committed to helping to create there an inclusive environment for all women, including transgender women, which is free from discrimination, harassment or victimisation.\"\n\nEdward Lord, chair of the CoLC establishment committee, said: \"This policy will ensure our public services do not discriminate against trans people.\n\n\"All communities should be fully respected, and equality and basic human rights upheld.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Leo Latifi's face \"lit up the classroom\", his head teacher has said\n\nA nine-year-old boy has died after becoming trapped underneath a locker at a school in Essex.\n\nIt happened at an after-school swimming club at Great Baddow High School in Chelmsford on Thursday evening.\n\nLeo Latifi, who was not a pupil at the school, was taken to hospital where he later died.\n\nThe head teacher of St Michael's Primary School paid tribute to her Year 4 pupil, who she said was a \"sparkle in our school\".\n\nEssex Police said Leo was with family members when he fell from a locker and got trapped.\n\nMaria Rumsey, head teacher at St Michael's, said staff, parents, governors and pupils were \"shocked and immensely saddened\" by Leo's death.\n\nShe said: \"He will be greatly missed by all. We wish to extend our thoughts and condolences to all of Leo's family and friends at this saddest of times.\n\n\"Leo was a sparkle in our school. His face lit up the classroom and his mischievous blue eyes made us all smile.\n\n\"He was an avid scientist, who only on Wednesday was in his element hunting for bugs on the school field.\n\n\"Leo was always keen to share his model-building and wowed the class when he brought in the finished masterpieces. He had a wide circle of friends in the year group, all of whom will miss him greatly.\"\n\nShe added the school would be supporting staff and pupils as they came to terms with the loss.\n\nGreat Baddow High School was closed on Friday other than for pupils sitting GCSE and A-Level exams.\n\nHead teacher Carrie Lynch said: \"The thoughts and prayers of everyone at Great Baddow High School are with the family and friends of the child who died yesterday evening, his school and swimming club.\"\n\nThe academy, which specialises in sport and science, has about 1,400 pupils and was rated \"good\" at its last Ofsted inspection\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive said it was investigating alongside Essex Police and had been on site.\n\nEssex Police and the Health and Safety Executive are investigating the death\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Met will push for the prosecution of more than 1,100 people arrested over last month's Extinction Rebellion protests, a senior officer has said.\n\nSo far more than 70 activists have been charged in connection with the demonstrations that brought parts of central London to a standstill.\n\nTen days of protests in April saw 1,130 people arrested for various offences.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said the Met wanted to deter other groups employing similar tactics.\n\nThe group's tactics included asking volunteers to deliberately get arrested to cause maximum disruption at roadblocks on Waterloo Bridge, Oxford Circus and Marble Arch.\n\nOther protesters glued themselves to trains and buildings.\n\nMr Taylor said 70 people had so far been charged by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\n\"It is our anticipation that we are putting all of those to the CPS for decisions,\" he said.\n\nMr Taylor insisted the Met was equipped to deal with any upcoming actions and said officers from other forces would be called into action if needed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the force was in discussions with the Home Office to review the current Public Order legislation with fears Extinction Rebellion's tactics could be adopted by other groups.\n\nMr Taylor added: \"I'm not saying going to jail, but we would like to see consequences for any activity at these events that is unlawful.\n\n\"Protest is not illegal. There is nothing unlawful about protest.\"\n\nIn 2011, courts in London and Manchester had to open over the weekend to deal with more than 1,000 people charged with riot-related offences.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The resignation of Theresa May has clear consequences for the Conservative Party - the starting gun on a leadership contest has been fired.\n\nBut what does it mean for Brexit?\n\nThe short answer is that both No Deal and No Brexit are now both more likely.\n\nWith Mrs May's \"bold new Brexit plan\" in tatters, there is no vehicle for leaving the EU with a deal, and the default is that the UK's membership will expire on Halloween.\n\nIf that is where things appear to be heading in the autumn, some MPs who previously opposed a second referendum might reconsider if it is the best option for avoiding no deal - putting Brexit at risk.\n\nAfter all, Jeremy Corbyn - who has been reluctant to weaponise Labour's \"option\" of a public vote - has said the Labour leadership would back a referendum to avoid either \"a bad Tory deal\" or \"no deal at all\".\n\nBut Mrs May called \"on all sides of the debate\" to find a compromise.\n\nThe question is whether, in the short term, the language of compromise is seen as an asset or liability by the Conservative leadership contenders.\n\nMPs will be able to choose from a wide range of options - from Rory Stewart and Matt Hancock, who have been emphasising the need to leave with a deal, through to Dominic Raab and Andrea Leadsom, who certainly don't fear no deal.\n\nBut polling evidence suggests many of the Conservative grassroots members don't just want Brexit to happen quickly, but they positively favour leaving without a Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nOnce MPs have whittled down the contenders to the final two in June, winning over the party faithful will require the remaining candidates to talk tough.\n\nThis will mean, at the very least, that \"no deal\" is back on the table.\n\nIf - for example - the eventual contest was between a former Remainer and a Brexiteer - say Jeremy Hunt or Sajid Javid versus Boris Johnson or Dominic Raab - then to attack their opponent on a wide range of issues, including fitness for high office, the former Remainer would have to dismantle any barrier to their support amongst the wider membership by stressing their willingness to leave with no deal.\n\nThe One Nation Group of Conservatives, who are largely former Remainers such as Nicky Morgan and Amber Rudd, haven't ruled out backing Boris Johnson - so long as he pivots to the position of at least arguing for a deal with the EU.\n\nSo, let's just assume for a moment that this is the position any successor to Mrs May adopts.\n\nThe only version of the exiting PM's deal which passed the Commons was at the end of January\n\nThis was the so-called Brady amendment (after the chairman of the Conservatives' 1922 committee Sir Graham Brady), which called for a deal and support for the Withdrawal Agreement, but minus the contentious Northern Irish backstop.\n\nThis backstop is despised by many Brexiteers as it would keep the UK close to EU regulations in the absence of a trade deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFollowing that vote, Mrs May said: \"There is a limited appetite for change in the EU, and negotiating it won't be easy.\"\n\nShe was right on both counts.\n\nWhile there were additional reassurances from Brussels around the backstop, there was no major rewrite, never mind replacing it with unspecified \"alternative arrangements\".\n\nNow, Mr Johnson believes that more robust negotiation is required and this could unlock a deal.\n\nMr Javid believes technical solutions to the problem of Irish border checks already exist - but that the EU would have to recognise this.\n\nThe trouble is, so far, the prospect of a change of leader hasn't led to a change of mind in Brussels.\n\nAnd the Irish Deputy Prime Minister, Simon Coveney, is already warning that the European Union would not offer the next prime minister a better Brexit deal.\n\nHe told an Irish radio station: \"This idea that a new prime minister will be a tougher negotiator and will put it up to the EU and get a much better deal for Britain? That's not how the EU works.\"\n\nWhat he said the EU would contemplate is a longer extension of Article 50, and a further delay to Brexit.\n\nA new Conservative leader committed to a deal may well have to ask for this.\n\nThey would begin their tenancy in No 10 at the height of the European holiday season, and time will be short for any renegotiation.\n\nHowever, unless the EU is willing to reopen the Withdrawal Agreement negotiated with Mrs May, there may be little point in long, drawn out discussions.\n\nMr Johnson confirmed he wouldn't ask for an extension in any case, declaring that the UK would leave on 31 October with or without a deal.\n\nIt's possible some of the legislative legwork for a future deal will be done during the dying days of Mrs May's premiership.\n\nFor example, uncontentious aspects of the Withdrawal Agreement, such as citizen's rights, could be incorporated into UK law.\n\nBut the contentious issues would remain.\n\nAssuming a substantially different deal isn't on offer by October, and the Conservatives are led by a Brexiteer who will come out of the EU no matter what, we could be faced with the following scenarios:\n\nMrs May warned of 'division and uncertainty' if MPs didn't pass her deal.\n\nIn that respect, at least, she was right.\n• None PM's exit 'may be dangerous' for Ireland", "A top Chinese diplomat has warned that there could be \"substantial\" repercussions for her country's investment in the UK, if Huawei were to be banned from Britain's 5G network.\n\nChen Wen also told the BBC that Beijing had already \"witnessed some conscious moves\" in that direction.\n\nLast week, the US put Huawei on a list that curbs the ability of US firms to trade with it.\n\nThe UK is still reviewing its 5G telecoms policy and may allow Huawei to supply \"non-core\" 5G components, such as antenna masts.\n\nHuawei is considered a world-leading provider of next-generation 5G technology, which will provide superfast mobile internet connections.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's World at One programme, Ms Chen, who is the Chinese chargé d'affaires in London, said the UK economy would be damaged by the message any ban on Huawei sent out to international and Chinese companies.\n\n\"The message is not going to be very positive,\" she said.\n\n\"Is UK still open? Is UK still extending a welcoming arm to other Chinese investors?\"\n\nWhen asked how large the repercussions would be, the embassy official said: \"It's hard to predict at the moment, but I think it's going to be quite substantial.\"\n\nMs Chen insisted that her government would never force a Chinese firm operating abroad to provide information to its intelligence agencies.\n\nShe went on to claim that there was a bit of \"hysteria\" in the United States about the rise of Chinese influence and the UK should make decisions based on its own national interest.\n\nShe called Huawei's investment in the UK \"a vote of confidence in the UK economy\".\n\nEarlier this week, Cambridge-based chip designer ARM told its staff they must halt \"all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements” with Huawei to comply with a recent US trade clampdown.\n\nARM's designs form the basis of most mobile device processors worldwide.\n\nOn the same day, EE confirmed that its range of 5G phones would not include Huawei models.\n\nIt followed a decision from Google to bar the smartphone maker from some updates to the Android operating system.", "Oil flattens the sea surface, reflecting radar energy away from the satellite. Oil therefore appears dark\n\nA sizeable oil slick developed in waters where tankers were damaged off the United Arab Emirates on 12 May.\n\nFinnish company Iceye says one of its radar satellites detected a long trail leading from the Saudi-flagged vessel Amjad two days later.\n\nThe crude oil tanker and three other ships suffered damage while anchored outside the port of Fujairah.\n\nNo-one has yet said they were behind the incidents. Nor is it clear precisely what happened.\n\nUS investigators reportedly believe Iran or groups it supports used explosives to damage the ships - but no evidence has emerged to show that Iran was involved.\n\nThe radar image on this page was captured by Iceye's X2 spacecraft on 14 May.\n\nThe Amjad is still anchored off Fujairah\n\nThe analysis cannot state how much oil was present on the water, but the interpretation has been validated by Kongsberg Satellite Services, a Norwegian company with expertise in oil slick detection.\n\n\"Oil on top of seawater is visible on radar satellite imaging because it changes the way the water surface reflects radio waves,\" explained Iceye CEO Rafal Modrzewski.\n\n\"Oil forms a layer on top of the seawater. This changes the water's viscosity, flattening and making the surface smoother. As a result, oil on water appears on the image as a dark patch,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe Amjad was reported to be empty of crude so the leak could well be engine fuel.\n\nFor comparison: The EU's Sentinel 2 satellite senses light at wavelengths similar to our eyes\n\nUAE and Saudi authorities have released few details about what happened on 12 May and an inquiry is under way.\n\nThe Reuters news agency reported that damage was inflicted on the Amjad; another Saudi tanker, Al Marzoqah; a UAE-flagged bunker vessel, A Michel; and a Norwegian tanker, Andrea Victory.\n\nThe event occurred amid rising tensions in the region.\n\nFujairah port is located on the east coast of the UAE in the Gulf of Oman and is at the funnel point into the Strait of Hormuz - the main shipping route linking Middle East oil producers with the rest of the world.\n\nAt any one time, many tens of ships will be anchored a few nautical miles from the port, either waiting to enter the Strait or stopping off before departing to destinations in Asia, Europe, the Americas and beyond.\n\nMany tens of ships will anchor off Fujairah at any one time\n\nIceye released the X2 image on Thursday as a demonstration of its spacecraft's capability. The start-up's satellite design is significantly smaller and cheaper to produce than traditional radar spacecraft.\n\nIceye already has two suitcase-sized satellites in orbit and plans a large constellation to obtain rapid, repeat imagery of the Earth.\n\nRadar's great advantage is that it sees the surface of the planet under all circumstances, during the day or night and in all weathers. Radar satellites can therefore see and sense things that will often be invisible to other Earth observers, such as imagers that view the planet at wavelengths of light similar to our eyes.\n\n\"Iceye is launching (another) five satellites in 2019. Naturally, the exact timelines can always change depending on launch providers. New satellites are planned to be up in orbit already within a few months,\" Mr Modrzewski said.\n\nBoth the Fujairah emirate government and the ship owner have been asked for comment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police were at the scene of a security alert when they were attacked\n\nPolice in Londonderry are continuing to question a 12-year-old boy and two 16-year-olds after officers were attacked with petrol bombs during a security alert.\n\nFive petrol bombs were thrown after a suspicious device was found near a polling station in the Galliagh area.\n\nThe device close to St Paul's Primary School was later declared an elaborate hoax.\n\nPolice have described the attack as \"orchestrated disorder\".\n\nPolice recovered six other petrol bombs, two crates of empty bottles and 20 containers of paint.\n\nThe three boys were arrested on Thursday evening.\n\nSupt Gordon McCalmont said there was no doubt officers were lured into the area and that those involved in the \"orchestrated disorder had one aim in mind - to attack police\".\n\nHe added: \"This was all the more reckless by the fact that one of the petrol bombs hurled at police landed in close proximity to young children who could have been left seriously injured, or worse.\n\n\"This security alert is the second this month in this area, impacting the same community that was disrupted on May 2 during local council elections.\n\nArmy bomb experts carried out a controlled explosion on the device.\n\n\"It cannot be lost on anyone the disruption this has caused in the local community, let alone the potential for serious harm that could have been caused.\"\n\nVoting continued at the polling station during the alert.\n\n\"The police had cordoned off the area, there is a shop nearby, the young people were standing at the side of the shop, throwing blindly, not looking were they were going,\" she said.\n\n\"There were young people, people with children parking up and going into the shop, someone could have very easily been hurt last night.\"\n\nShe said there had been a number of incidents in recent months in the area in which young people had set bins alight to \"attract the police in so that they can have conflict with the police.\"\n\nBut DUP MLA Gary Middleton said he believed more sinister \"dissident republican elements\" were responsible for orchestrating the violence.\n\nHe said they are \"encouraging these young people to do this, and it's part of a wider game in targeting the PSNI\".\n\nSupt McCalmont said the blame for the inconvenience \"lies squarely with those individuals who left this close to a local school, which was being used as a polling station this evening.\n\n\"Those responsible have absolutely nothing to offer local people or society in general.\"", "Mrs May became emotional as she announced her intention to quit\n\nTheresa May's resignation puts Brexit in a new phase that may be \"very dangerous for Ireland\", Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar has said.\n\nMr Varadkar said the PM's departure could lead to the election of a \"Eurosceptic\" prime minister.\n\nMrs May said she would quit as Conservative leader on 7 June, paving the way for a leadership contest.\n\nThe taoiseach said her successor may scrap the Brexit withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"We may see the election of a Eurosceptic prime minister who wants to repudiate the withdrawal agreement and go for no-deal, or we may even see a new British government that wants a closer relationship with the EU and goes for a second referendum,\" said Mr Varadkar.\n\nBut the taoiseach said that whatever happens, the Irish government will \"hold its nerve\".\n\n\"We are going to build and strengthen our alliances across the European Union and we will make sure that we see Ireland through this,\" he added.\n\nMr Varadkar said Mrs May was \"principled, honourable, and deeply passionate about doing her best for her country\".\n\n\"Politicians throughout the EU have admired her tenacity, her courage, and her determination during what has been a difficult and challenging time,\" he said.\n\nLeo Varadkar's deputy Simon Coveney (right), warned the UK would not get a better Brexit deal than that negotiated with Theresa May\n\nHowever, Tanáiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Simon Coveney warned the European Union would not offer Mrs May's successor a better Brexit deal.\n\n\"This idea that a new prime minister will be a tougher negotiator and will put it up to the EU and get a much better deal for Britain? That's not how the EU works,\" Mr Coveney told Ireland's Newstalk radio station.\n\nHe said a further Article 50 extension, delaying Brexit, was \"possible and may be likely\".\n\nPolitical leaders from across the island have been giving their reaction to Mrs May's resignation announcement.\n\nKaren Bradley said she was \"deeply saddened to see the prime minister step down from the job she loved\".\n\nShe said Mrs May was an \"extremely courageous and dedicated public servant\" who \"always does what she believes is in the best interest\" of the whole of the UK.\n\nMrs Bradley added that Mrs May \"worked tirelessly to deliver Brexit that works for all parts of the UK\" and \"passionately believed in working with all parties and parts of the community in NI \"to restore devolution and build a stronger, shared society for all\".\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster, whose 10 MPs prop up the Conservative government in Westminster, paid tribute to Mrs May's \"selfless service in the interests of the United Kingdom\".\n\nShe also thanked the prime minister for \"her willingness to recognise Northern Ireland's need for additional resources through confidence-and-supply arrangements\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme Theresa May had discovered that \"when you try to bounce the DUP it simply doesn't work\".\n\nMrs Foster said Mrs May had fundamentally misjudged the DUP's position on Brexit throughout the negotiations.\n\nThe DUP leader said she hopes the next Conservative leader has \"an understanding of what makes the DUP tick\".\n\nSinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said the \"chaos at Westminster\" cannot be allowed to distract from \"the very real threat that Brexit poses to Ireland\".\n\nShe also said the talks process should not be pushed off course.\n\nMs McDonald accused Mrs May of having prioritised a deal with the DUP at Westminster over re-establishing the power-sharing institutions.\n\n\"An agreement can be reached and a deal can be done. But the process must not be derailed nor responsibility abdicated in respect of people's rights and agreements.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the prime minister's resignation showed that Brexit was \"fundamentally undeliverable\".\n\n\"A new prime minister should recognise the mistakes made by Theresa May, revoke Article 50 and put an end to this political, diplomatic and economic car crash,\" he said.\n\nAlliance deputy leader Stephen Farry said that while Mrs May had been a dignified prime minister, she had \"left the UK in a worse place than when she took up the role\".\n\n\"While she attempted several times to get her withdrawal agreement through Parliament, she had her hands tied through mutually contradictory red lines over Brexit,\" he said.\n\nHe said Mrs May had also squandered a chance to build a consensus around a softer version of Brexit with a special deal for Northern Ireland.\n\n\"No matter who now replaces her, the same problems will still persist . They will face stark choices regarding Brexit and its consequences, and they need to approach them with honesty and realism.\"\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Robin Swann said Mrs May's successor \"should have an absolute commitment to the maintenance of the union and the prosperity of all its people\".\n\nMr Swann said \"the bind\" in which the prime minister's government found itself \"was of its own making\".\n\n\"A change of Conservative Party leader will not necessarily solve the problem unless there is a change in approach.\n\n\"The backstop is the problem that needs dealt with and it ultimately broke Theresa May's premiership,\" he added.", "The jury in the trial have been played a series of recordings from Carl Beech's police interview\n\nA man accused of lying about a VIP paedophile ring told police he witnessed three boys being murdered by his abusers, a court has heard.\n\nIn a police interview, Carl Beech, 51, from Gloucester, claimed that one boy was deliberately run over, another was strangled after being raped, and a third was beaten to death.\n\nProsecutors say that he lied to police about witnessing the killings.\n\nMr Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nHe named former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor as being responsible for the second alleged murder and involved in the third.\n\nThe claims were made by Mr Beech during an interview with police in November 2014, which was played to the jury at Newcastle Crown Court.\n\nIn the tape, a tearful Mr Beech described how a boy called Scott - a friend from primary school - was deliberately run over by a car in Kingston upon Thames, south-west London, in 1979.\n\nHe is heard claiming a powerful paedophile ring had \"warned me not to be friends with him and I didn't listen\". He said the warnings were given by former head of MI5 Sir Michael Hanley, who died in 2001.\n\nJurors have been told that Northumbria Police, which charged Mr Beech with lying to the Met, found no evidence that \"Scott\" ever existed or that a boy was ever deliberately run over in that location.\n\nMr Beech told police: \"We were walking and I heard the car, the engine, and as I turned round to see what the noise was it hit him and he was thrown up into the air and everything just stopped.\"\n\nHe added \"there was a lot of blood, I had blood on my hands and I was dragged away and put in the back of the car\".\n\nThe video shows him saying he felt a pain in his arm before he blacked out and that he could remember nothing more of the incident.\n\nDuring the same interview Mr Beech is seen claiming he saw another boy being stabbed and strangled to death by the Mr Proctor.\n\nHe claimed it happened in the \"back room\" of a house in London around 1980.\n\nThe jury was told Mr Proctor will give evidence during the trial.\n\nDescribing the third alleged incident, Mr Beech claimed that Mr Proctor and Sir Michael beat a boy to death in front of former Home Secretary Lord Brittan.\n\nMr Beech said he was one of four boys abused by the trio and another unidentified man, again in a London property.\n\nLater he said: \"I just went home as if nothing ever happened.\"\n\nProsecutors say Mr Beech later impersonated one of the boys, named as \"Fred\", using a fake email account to correspond with police while pretending to be a corroborative witness.\n\nMr Beech is accused of lying about rapes, kidnapping, false imprisonment and sexual abuse. His claims led to the £2m Operation Midland, which ended without any charges.\n\nThe trial will continue on Wednesday.", "The scene of rioting in Londonderry on the night Lyra McKee was killed\n\nA woman whose home was searched during rioting on the night Lyra McKee was murdered in Londonderry said she was wrongly targeted by police.\n\nCreggan woman, Anne McGowan, 57, said she has no ties to dissident republicans.\n\nLocals blame the search on the riot, during which journalist Ms McKee was shot dead in Derry on 18 April.\n\nThe PSNI defended the search, saying it always assesses the impact of searches on \"wider community safety\".\n\nA police raid on Ms McGowan's home lasted from 21:00 BST until just before midnight on Easter Thursday.\n\nMs McGowan has questioned why her home was raided.\n\nNothing was found, and she said police actions have cast a cloud over her reputation.\n\nDuring the search, rioting broke out, during which a dissident New IRA gunman shot Ms McKee as he fired at police lines.\n\nLyra McKee was observing rioting in Londonderry's Creggan estate when she was shot\n\nMs McGowan said she has no idea why more than a dozen officers entered her home to search it.\n\n\"I honestly don't know. I have been asked that so many times,\" she said.\n\n\"It is not worth going out the door at times, because people are asking you and looking at you, like you are telling lies, that you know something and are not saying it.\n\n\"And it's not like that at all.\"\n\nMs McGowan said that, through no fault of her own, her reputation has been tarnished after the PSNI raided her house looking for materials belonging to dissident republicans.\n\n\"I am not involved in anything. I don't go anywhere. I keep myself to myself,\" she said.\n\n\"It is shameful to be accused of something you did not do.\"\n\nPolice were searching for weapons and ammunition when violence started on 18 April\n\nA dissident republican parade had been planned by the political party Saoradh, which has the support of the New IRA, for the Creggan area on Easter Monday.\n\nPolice said they carried out the raid on the previous Thursday night because they feared attacks by dissident republicans over that weekend.\n\nThe warrant used for the search said \"it was necessary to seize\" CCTV, media storage devices, mobile phones, sim cards and \"articles likely to be of use to terrorists\", but nothing was removed from the house.\n\n\"They looked through different things. They pulled out everything, searched everything,\" she said.\n\n\"My daughter's laptop, and her old laptop. They did not take that. They did not take my phone.\n\n\"They did not even look at my phone. They did not take a thing,\" Ms McGowan said.\n\nShe believes police may have raided the wrong house, or false information was given to them in a bid to lure the PSNI into the area.\n\nWomen smear red handprints on slogans outside the office of Saoradh, a political group linked to the New IRA\n\nThe police declined a BBC request for an interview or to answer specific questions about the search, but defended their actions.\n\n\"Before we carry out searches, we will carefully assess information available to us and apply for a search warrant to be granted,\" Crime Operations Assistant Chief Constable, Barbara Gray said.\n\n\"The impact that police presence has in an area will always be balanced against the purpose of the search and wider community safety.\"\n\nA friend of Ms McGowan's, Paul McDaid, accused the police of heightening tensions in the run up to the planned dissident republican Easter commemoration:\n\n\"To be honest with you, I think the police set it up. They came in here to cause trouble on Easter Thursday,\" he said.\n\n\"Why come into the Creggan at 9 o'clock on a Thursday night, knowing that they were going to draw attention?\n\nThe spot where Lyra McKee was shot in the Creggan area of Derry is still marked with flowers\n\n\"That is the only reason I can come up with.\"\n\nPeople Before Profit Councillor Eamonn McCann also raised questions about the raid.\n\n\"We have to underline that no matter what the PSNI did, no matter what anybody did, it does not excuse what Saoradh and their associates did to Lyra McKee,\" he said.\n\n\"But the question has been asked a thousand times in Derry since, and I ask it now: why were the police raiding a house in the Creggan at that time of the night?\n\n\"Why not at six o'clock in the morning?\n\n\"It is common sense that there is going to be some kind of a riot... when the police went in. They must have known that.\n\n\"I think the PSNI should answer, so that we have a full picture of what happened on the night that Lyra McKee was so cruelly killed.\"\n\nACC Gray added: \"The PSNI priority will always be to protect communities and keep people safe from harm.\"", "Bob Higgins was convicted of dozens of counts of indecent assault\n\nFormer trainee footballers abused by paedophile Bob Higgins are to seek compensation from the clubs concerned.\n\nThe football coach was found guilty of indecently assaulting 24 boys, most of whom were youth players at Southampton and Peterborough United.\n\nA solicitor representing some of the 66-year-old's victims said the clubs had a duty of care and should \"accept responsibility\".\n\nPeterborough United said it dealt with all allegations \"appropriately\".\n\nSouthampton declined to comment on the compensation bid but said it had worked closely with police to uncover the truth.\n\nYoung players would train in the gym at The Dell in Southampton\n\nHiggins was convicted at his retrial on Thursday of 45 counts of indecent assault between 1971 and 1996. He was found guilty of another count last year.\n\nDino Nocivelli, who is representing some of the victims, said parents trusted the clubs with their children.\n\n\"Even after the convictions yesterday we're still waiting for an actual apology,\" he said.\n\n\"We are still waiting for answers as to what they knew about this man.\"\n\nDino Nocivelli confirmed former trainees would sue Southampton and Peterborough\n\nMr Nocivelli said he hoped the clubs would \"do the right thing\".\n\n\"There is no need to put these men through further litigation and a potential civil trial - the ball is in [the clubs'] court.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the clubs would follow the example of Crewe Alexandra. The club agreed a financial settlement with a victim of former coach Barry Bennell - a paedophile jailed for 31 years for abusing young footballers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bob Higgins \"did not speak a single word\" during 15 hours of interviews, police said\n\nBournemouth Crown Court heard Higgins groped and sexually touched boys during soapy massages, and in his car and at his home.\n\nA statement from Peterborough United said: \"We are greatly saddened that anyone in our care in the past has been subjected to any form of abuse, but do wish to stress that everything reported to the football club was dealt with in the correct and appropriate manner and in full compliance with the club's obligations.\"\n\nSouthampton previously offered \"sympathy and support to any player who suffered any kind of abuse or harm while under our care\".\n\nHiggins is due to be sentenced at a later date.", "A garden in a former disused corner of a Middlesbrough park is providing a lifeline for some asylum seekers living in the town.\n\nThe Community Growing project is based at Albert Park and aims to support the mental health of people, including those who are not allowed to work or study while their asylum claims are processed.\n\nThis video was created as part of We Are Middlesbrough - a BBC project with people of the town to tell the stories that matter to them.", "People who suffer from chronic migraines are calling for a new drug to be offered on the NHS in England.\n\nThe monthly injection of Aimovig has been described as \"life-changing\" by those who have tried it.\n\nIf it gets approved, it will be for people who have tried other preventative treatments unsuccessfully.\n\nNICE - which gives advice on healthcare - rejected the drug for England on cost grounds in January, but the NHS in Scotland approved it recently.\n\nMigraines affect around 1 in 7 people, according to the National Migraine Centre.\n\nMore women get them than men, and they usually start to affect people when they're teenagers.\n\nRadio 1 Newsbeat spoke to sufferers for our latest documentary, which you can watch below. They told us whatever you do, don't ever refer to the condition as \"just a bad headache\".\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 Newsbeat This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"When I have a migraine I can't see, any noise gives me excruciating pain, foreign smells hurt, light is a definite no-go, I get really dizzy and I can't stand up,\" 28-year-old Nathan Gayle tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\nThe Londoner gets around 20 headache days a month.\n\n\"I have tried so many types of medications - I've not found anything that can stop it or prevent it. If Aimovig worked, it would change my life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is what happens when you have a migraine\n\nNathan was a classroom assistant but had to give up teaching because he was having so much time off.\n\n\"I was getting migraines so frequently and the intensity was so high that it wasn't fair on the school, the children I was working with or myself.\"\n\n\"Depression is definitely something I feel during an episode,\" Nathan says. He says he hates feeling isolated while stuck in a darkened room.\n\nDr Jess Briscoe admits it's hard to find a treatment that genuinely works\n\nThere is no known cure for migraines. People normally treat them with over-the-counter painkillers, but often the symptoms are too severe for those drugs to work.\n\nSome patients have reported botox and transcranial magnetic stimulation working, but everybody reacts in a different way.\n\n\"We tend to borrow things from other areas of medicine,\" explains Dr Jess Briscoe from the National Migraine Centre.\n\nShe hopes Aimovig - which is also known as Erenumab - will be able to help many people.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the US, where it is available widely, there is evidence it can reduce the frequency of migraine attacks significantly. It works by blocking the protein thought to play a major role in starting an attack.\n\nThe National Migraine Centre recently did a survey of just under 2,000 migraine and headache sufferers.\n\nMost of them - 84% - said their migraines or headaches have impacted their mental health, and 65% linked their condition with experiencing depression.\n\nDr Giorgio Lumbru from Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is already prescribing Aimovig at its Chronic Pain Management and Neuromodulation Centre.\n\n\"For the first time we have a specific treatment designed for migraine that works really well,\" he says.\n\n\"Being able to improve the quality of life of patients for whom there was nothing else to try has been a great satisfaction.\n\n\"The drug is injected under the skin once a month and it acts as a preventative treatment.\n\n\"If you look at data you see patients that fail all the other treatments can have their life back when they use Aimovig.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Jillian Tisdale needed surgery to her fingers after a 'degloving' injury\n\nSurgeons are warning dog owners not to wrap leads around their fingers or wrist because of the dangers of serious hand injury.\n\nThey say thousands of people could be at risk from lacerations, friction burns, fractures and ligament injuries.\n\nThere were 30 serious hand injuries caused by dog leads last year in Cornwall alone, the British Society for Surgery of the Hand said.\n\nOne of those was to Jillian Tisdale, 65, who has two retrievers.\n\nWARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE OF FINGER INJURY FOLLOWS BELOW\n\nShe had just finished walking one of her dogs when it became distracted by another dog and ran off excitedly on the lead.\n\nThe lead ended up wrapped tightly around Jillian's middle fingers on her right hand, causing severe damage, including the \"degloving\" of her finger - when the skin and some of the soft tissue are ripped off.\n\nShe said the retractable lead she used acted like a \"filleting knife\", causing \"terrible pain\".\n\nShe also suffered severe cuts and dislocated her index finger, after the incident several months ago.\n\nJillian needed surgery to remove the top part of her middle finger and a skin graft. She has been left with a shorter middle finger, as a result.\n\n\"I still can't form a proper fist yet and I'm continuing to do exercises to strengthen my hand,\" she says.\n\nBut she said she was planning to return to her hobbies of diving, mountain climbing, and even dog-walking, soon.\n\nJillian was treated by consultant surgeon Rebecca Dunlop, from Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, who also collected the data on hand injuries from dog leads.\n\nShe said she had noticed an increase in this type of \"devastating\" injury in recent years, which can need long-term treatment and means the fingers often do not return to normal.\n\nMrs Dunlop said: \"Having seen many serious injuries caused by dog leads and collars, I want dog lovers to be aware of the simple steps they can take to avoid severe damage to their hand.\"\n\nShe said hand injuries could also be very costly \"through time off work and medical costs\".\n\nJillian now has full use of her hand, but a slightly shorter middle finger - this is the index finger pictured\n• None The British Society for Surgery of the Hand The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brexit came to define her time as prime minister, but Theresa May had a long and varied political career.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Verve's Richard Ashcroft on the end of Bitter Sweet Symphony dispute\n\nOne of rock music's most famous injustices has finally been resolved.\n\nFor the last 22 years, The Verve haven't made a penny from Bitter Sweet Symphony, after forfeiting the royalties to The Rolling Stones.\n\nThe song was embroiled in a legal battle shortly after its release, as it samples an orchestral version of The Stones' song The Last Time.\n\nAs a result, writer Richard Ashcroft had to sign over his rights to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards - until now.\n\nSpeaking as he received a lifetime achievement prize at the Ivor Novello Awards, Ashcroft announced: \"As of last month, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards signed over all their publishing for Bitter Sweet Symphony, which was a truly kind and magnanimous thing for them to do.\"\n\nAs a result, all future royalties for the song will now go to Ashcroft.\n\nThe singer acknowledged that it was the Rolling Stones' late manager, Allen Klein, who had been responsible for the situation, rather than the musicians themselves.\n\n\"I never had a personal beef with the Stones,\" he told the BBC. \"They've always have been the greatest rock and roll band in the world.\"\n\nHe went on to thank Jagger and Richards for acknowledging he was responsible \"for this [expletive] masterpiece\".\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 TheVerveVEVO 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\nAccording to Rolling Stone magazine, the royalty dispute arose in 1997 when The Verve sought permission to sample a short, staccato string sequence from the symphonic version of The Last Time, recorded in 1965 by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra.\n\nThe Stones agreed to license a five-note segment in exchange for 50 percent of the royalties, but Klein claimed the Verve voided the agreement by using a larger portion of the song.\n\nABKCO Records, Klein's holding company, filed a plagiarism case, after which The Verve relinquished all their royalties and publishing rights to ABKCO, and the song credit reverted to Jagger and Richards.\n\nThe situation rankled The Verve for years.\n\n\"We were told it was going to be a 50/50 split,\" recalled bassist Simon Jones.\n\n\"Then they saw how well the record was doing they rung up and said, 'We want 100 percent or take it out of the shops, you don't have much choice.'\"\n\nThe bitterest pill came when the song was nominated for a best song Grammy - with Jagger and Richards' names on the ballot.\n\nAsked in 1999 if he believed The Verve had been treated fairly, the Stones' guitarist replied: \"I'm out of whack here, this is serious lawyer [stuff].\"\n\nHowever, he added: \"If the Verve can write a better song, they can keep the money.\"\n\nAshcroft told the BBC that the dispute came to an end following negotiations with Klein's son, and the Rolling Stones new manager Joyce Smyth.\n\n\"It's been a fantastic development,\" he said. \"It's life-affirming in a way.\"\n\nOne unexpected benefit is that the singer can once again enjoy international football.\n\n\"They play it [Bitter Sweet Symphony] before England play. So I can sit back and watch England... and finally just enjoy the moment.\"\n\nIn a statement, The Rolling Stones acknowledged that Ashcroft had been denied the rights to \"one of his most iconic songs, including the lyrical content\" for more than two decades.\n\n\"Of course there was a huge financial cost but any songwriter will know that there is a huge emotional price greater than the money in having to surrender the composition of one of your own songs. Richard has endured that loss for many years.\"\n\nBitter Sweet Symphony has sold 1,276,209 copies in the UK, according to the Official Charts Company, including 70,593 this year.\n\nAshcroft picked up the outstanding contribution prize at Thursday's Ivor Novello Awards, which recognise achievement in songwriting.\n\nOther winners included Deep Purple, Dido and Mariah Carey, who won the special international award.\n\n\"I rarely get acknowledged for my songwriting, which is the core of who I am,\" said the diva in a video message - due to the fact she's performing at an AIDS gala in Cannes on Thursday evening.\n\n\"It's a beautiful thing to feel appreciated for the music I've been making for my entire career.\"\n\nMariah Carey has had 18 number one singles in the US\n\nCarey has written or co-written 17 US number one singles, including Vision of Love, Hero, We Belong Together and Fantasy (her 18th number one, I'll Be There, is a cover of a Jackson 5 song).\n\nHer festive hit All I Want For Christmas Is You has become a modern-day standard, and was streamed a staggering 38 million times in the UK last year alone.\n\nGrime pioneer Wiley received the \"inspiration\" prize and instantly handed it over to his father, the reggae musician Richard Cowie.\n\n\"It's because of him that I do it,\" said the star. \"I want to big up my dad.\"\n\nSocially-conscious punk band Idles won album of the year, while The 1975 took home two prizes - songwriters of the year and best contemporary song for the state-of-the-nation pop anthem Love It If We Made It.\n\nOrganisers hailed the \"brilliantly diverse\" range of songwriting talent in the UK, noting that 70% of this year's nominees were being recognised for the first time.\n\nSongwriters of the year - The 1975\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 The 1975 bag top awards at the Brits", "Lewis Capaldi says it \"feels good\" to see his debut album race to the top of the UK charts in 2019 record time.\n\nHis LP Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent sold the equivalent of 89,506 records in week one and outperformed the rest of the top 10 combined.\n\nThe Scotsman beats Ariana Grande's record of 65,214 first week sales for Thank U, Next in February.\n\nHe told the Official Charts: \"It feels like I'm going to make some money finally, after years of slogging.\"\n\nMore than half of the sales came from streaming or downloads, with the album racking up 40.5 million plays across audio and video streaming platforms.\n\n\"It makes me so proud to have made this album,\" added the 22-year-old singer. \"Thank you for everyone who went out and bought it.\"\n\nCapaldi captured the imagination of the nation earlier this year through his power ballad Someone You Loved, one of the album's lead tracks, which topped the UK singles chart for seven weeks.\n\nThe song, which is back up to number three following the album release, also enjoyed its biggest week to date, and two others - Hold Me While You Wait (number five), and Grace (number nine) - also make the top 10.\n\nSpeaking just ahead of the album release, the singer - who performs at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Middlesbrough on Saturday - told the BBC: \"I don't think I'm a pop star necessarily. I don't think I have the poise or grace or air about me for that.\"\n\n\"I'm a singer,\" he went on, \"I've definitely done that a lot!\"\n\nAfter selling out an arena tour for later this year, social media phenomenon Capaldi has already done the same for a stadium tour in 2020, where he revealed his plans to help fellow sufferers of anxiety by setting up an escape room and gig buddy system.\n\n\"This is my attempt at helping make these shows enjoyable for as many of those people who have been supporting this journey for me,\" he told Newsbeat.\n\nJust below Capaldi in the album chart are US alternative indie outfit The National with their eighth album, I Am Easy To Find - their fourth UK top 5 album.\n\nMeanwhile the self-titled seventh full-length effort from German heavy metal band Rammstein gives them their first top 10 album.\n\nBBC Sound of 2019 star Slowthai's debut record, Nothing Great About Britain, arrives in at an admirable number nine.\n\nAt the start of the year, he told the BBC his music was about \"telling the story of the people for the people\".\n\nIt's sheer joy for Sheeran and Bieber\n\nIn the singles charts it's sheer joy for the new duet of Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber, who enjoy a second week at the summit with I Don't Care.\n\nThe single, which will appear on Sheeran's upcoming collaborations album, had an impressive second week, notching up 98,000 combined sales.\n\nLil Nas X remains at number two with Old Town Road after his biggest week of sales so far following the release of the song's music video.\n\nAnd finally, another rapper, Tyler, The Creator, has the week's highest new chart entry with his track, Earfquake, going in at 17. It's taken from his fourth-placed new album Igor.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A bullet missed a man by centimetres as police fired on the London Bridge attackers, an inquest has heard.\n\nSimon Edwards was in the Wheatsheaf pub in Borough Market when police shot dead the three knife-wielding assailants outside, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nThe inquest into the deaths of their eight victims was shown a CCTV image of the moment a stray shot came through the pub window close to Mr Edwards.\n\nThe bullet hit a man behind Mr Edwards in the head, seriously injuring him.\n\nGiving evidence to the inquest, Mr Edwards said a friend of his rushed to give first aid to that man, Neil McLellan, and he survived.\n\nKhuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, killed eight people in the van and knife attack on the evening of 3 June 2017.\n\nPolice shot and killed the attackers less than 10 minutes after the violence began.\n\nKhuram Butt tried to enter the Wheatsheaf pub in Borough Maket\n\nMr Edwards had actually just left the Wheatsheaf pub when he saw three armed men walking towards him, he told the court.\n\nHe said people were screaming and his wife Nicole dragged him back into the pub, where a member of staff locked the door.\n\nButt tried to enter the pub by forcing the door open.\n\nHe seemed \"calm\" and \"determined\", Mr Edwards told the Old Bailey.\n\nHe said Butt had \"canisters\" strapped to him, which later turned out to be part of a fake suicide vest.\n\nby Harriet Agerholm, BBC News reporter, at the inquests\n\nSimon Edwards had been out for a meal and then drinks with his wife and friends when the London Bridge attackers went on their murderous rampage.\n\nSuspense grew in the courtroom as Mr Edwards described how Butt repeatedly tried to kick down the door of the Wheatsheaf pub as scared people hid inside.\n\nAll that secured the door was a single bolt at the top, and the bottom of it flexed with the force of his kicks, he said.\n\nAfter failing to kick his way in, Butt began smashing the window panes surrounding the door with the handle of his knife, Mr Edwards said.\n\nHis voice shook as he told the Old Bailey that Butt only stopped when he saw Redouane and Zaghba set upon a man outside the pub\n\nAll three descended on the victim \"like a pack of wolves\", Mr Edwards said in a statement.\n\nMaking a stabbing movement with his arm, Mr Edwards demonstrated how they knifed the man repeatedly, \"trying to inflict as much injury as they could\".\n\nWhile the attackers were stabbing the man in the street, the pub \"filled with blue lights\" as armed police arrived outside, Mr Edwards said.\n\nHe told the court there were several volleys of bullets and he dropped to his knees to take cover.\n\nAfter noticing there was \"quite a lot of blood\" coming from Mr McLellan's head, he opened the door to shout to police for medical help.\n\nHe discovered later that he too had been cut by shrapnel from the bullet.\n\nXavier Thomas, 45, Christine Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, were all killed in the attack.", "Vince Cable will be replaced with a new leader on 23 July\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have begun the process of choosing their next leader.\n\nThe party's current leader, Sir Vince Cable, announced in March that he would step down after the local elections.\n\nBut in a statement on Friday - following the PM's announcement of her departure date - Sir Vince confirmed he would be handing over the reins to his successor on 23 July.\n\nHe said: \"We have rebuilt the Liberal Democrats. I will be proud to hand over a bigger, stronger party.\"\n\nSir Vince took over as leader in July 2017 after his predecessor Tim Farron stepped down, saying he could no longer reconcile his strong Christian faith with his responsibilities as leader of a liberal party.\n\nNominations are now open for the leadership and will close on 7 June.\n\nMembers will then have the final say on who gets the job.\n\nThe Lib Dems celebrated good results in the local elections earlier this month, with the party seeing gains across the country and taking seats from both Conservative and Labour-run councils.\n\nSir Vince said the new leader needed to continue \"the battle to stop Brexit\", and to seize \"the opportunity created by the conflict and decay within the two main parties to build a powerful, liberal, green, and social democratic force in the centre ground of British politics\".\n\n\"As we do so, I am confident that we will regain ground at Westminster, with a big group of MPs and more influence on the national stage\".", "Thousands of visitors descending on Middlesbrough are being greeted by the stars of Radio 1's Big Weekend - in wool.\n\nCreated by Nunthorpe & Marton Knitters, acts including Miley Cyrus, Little Mix, The 1975, Stormzy and James Arthur have been displayed at Nunthorpe train station.\n\nThe community group wanted to welcome everyone and show how much they care about their town.\n\nThis video was created as part of We Are Middlesbrough - a BBC project with people of the town to tell the stories that matter to them.", "Gerald Corrigan was struck outside his home on 19 April\n\nPolice have launched a murder inquiry following the death of a 74-year-old man three weeks after being shot with a crossbow.\n\nGerald Corrigan was being treated in hospital after being hit with the bolt through his upper body and right arm.\n\nHe was shot while fixing a satellite dish at his home at Holyhead, Anglesey, in the early hours.\n\nNorth Wales Police confirmed on Sunday, a murder probe was under way following Mr Corrigan's death on Saturday.\n\n\"However, we continue to keep an open mind in relation to the sequence of events that led to Gerald's death,\" said Det Ch Insp Brian Kearney.\n\nTributes were paid to Mr Corrigan following news of of his death.\n\nMr Corrigan was fixing a satellite dish at his home when he was fatally injured\n\nMr Kearney said he wanted to express his \"sincere condolences to Marie, Gerald Corrigan's partner, Neale and Fiona, his two children and the wider Corrigan family\".\n\nHe said Mr Corrigan's death was \"truly devastating news and the thoughts of the entire investigation team are with the Corrigan family\".\n\nMr Corrigan, a former photography and video lecturer, had lived on Anglesey for more than 20 years.\n\nHe had been taken to Royal Stoke University Hospital, the major trauma centre serving north Wales, following the incident on 19 April at 00:30 BST.\n\nMr Kearney said, while the force was pursuing a number of leads, he wanted to renew an appeal for people to come forward with any information.\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 number of gay rights activists have been arrested after clashing with police at an unauthorised pride march in Cuba's capital, Havana.\n\nSaturday's event followed the unexpected cancellation by the communist authorities of the country's 12th annual march against homophobia.\n\nActivists condemned the move and then organised their own demonstration, largely through social media.\n\nMarching in Cuba without permission can be met with a strong police response.\n\nOn Saturday, more than 100 demonstrators took to the streets of the capital. Some said they were subjected to violence after they were stopped by plainclothes security officers.\n\nAfter setting out on Havana's Paseo del Prado, one of the city's main boulevards, the marchers came up against a large number of police and state security forces.\n\nA number of people marching without permits were arrested in the capital\n\nAt least three activists participating in the gay parade in Havana were detained.\n\nHavana's annual gay pride march is an important event for the island's gay and lesbian community, which spent decades in the shadows and under persecution, says the BBC's Cuba correspondent Will Grant.\n\nAs such, our correspondent adds, the decision by the government to cancel this year's event was met with disbelief by many of those who had intended to participate.\n\nThe annual gay pride march is an important event for Cuba's LGBT community\n\nLast week, the state-run National Centre for Sex Education (CENESEX) said the official Cuban Conga against Homophobia and Transphobia march was cancelled because of \"new tensions in the international and regional context\".\n\nIn response, activists set up Facebook groups calling for a gathering in the capital on Saturday afternoon.\n\nCuba holds events around this time every year ahead of the International Day Against Homophobia on 17 May.\n\nOther official events celebrating LGBT rights in the country will reportedly be going ahead as planned.\n\nDiscrimination due to someone's sex or gender is illegal in Cuba.", "When Carole Farish left school 11 years ago, she thought it would be quite easy to find a job in retail or hospitality.\n\nBut like many of her peer group, she found it was not so straightforward.\n\nCarole belongs to a generation that, according to a new report, has been \"left scarred\" by joining the workforce just as the financial crisis hit.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation says this \"crisis cohort\" has suffered from lower pay and worse job prospects for up to a decade since the downturn.\n\nCarole's early optimism over job seeking faded when it took her five months just to get an interview, only to find she was competing against candidates with business degrees.\n\n\"It was a bit disheartening,\" she says. \"It took a lot of perseverance to keep applying. I didn't expect it to be as tough.\"\n\nSince then, she has worked in a leisure centre, in catering and looking after children. Although she has in the meantime been to university, she is now working as a carer.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation says those who entered the world of work between 2008 and 2011 bore the brunt of the sharp economic decline, when compared to young people entering work before or after the downturn.\n\n\"Low-skilled workers faced a higher risk of unemployment, while graduates were more likely to trade down the types of jobs they did, with their pay and prospects stunted as a result,\" said Stephen Clarke, senior economic analyst at the Resolution Foundation.\n\n\"These scarring effects have stayed with the crisis cohort for up to a decade, reducing their living standards at a time when they may be facing the additional financial strains of buying a home, or bringing up kids,\" he said.\n\nPolicy makers should look at ways to mitigate the impact, he added.\n\nAlthough unemployment did not rise as sharply as in previous recessions, in 2012 it was still twice the rate for the population in general, the report says.\n\nThose who \"trade down\" to a low-paying occupation because they are struggling to find work rarely move into a higher-paying occupation, even after the economy has picked up, the report adds.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions highlighted new jobcentre programmes which it said were examining ways to support people to change jobs and improve their pay and career progression.\n\n\"Employment is at a record high, with youth unemployment having halved since 2010. And we believe every worker should be in a job which reflects their skills and offers opportunities to progress,\" the DWP said.\n\nIn 2018, analysis carried out for the BBC by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) showed that people in their 30s were earning £2,100 a year less than people in the same age group in 2008.", "Metro Bank chair Vernon Hill, pictured with dog Duffy, founded the bank in 2010\n\nMetro Bank has said its plans to raise £350m to strengthen its finances are \"well advanced\" as it tries to quell questions over its financial health.\n\nThe bank's shares have plummeted around 75% since January when it announced it needed the money to boost its capital after an accounting error.\n\nReports have suggested the bank was struggling to raise the cash.\n\nBut Metro Bank said it was now in \"final discussions\" with shareholders and new investors over its plans.\n\n\"Feedback continues to be positive,\" it added.\n\nThe bank - which has 67 branches in London and the South East - said it expected to raise the cash by the end of June.\n\nIt said it would raise the money via a share placing, with additional shares created and offered to new and existing investors.\n\nThe bank revealed in January that it had underestimated the risk level of some of its commercial loans, meaning it didn't have the required shock-absorbing capital it needed to support a number of its business loans.\n\nThe funds it raises via its new share placing are aimed at making up for the shortfall.\n\nThe bank said the share sale had been underwritten by the banks arranging the sale.\n\nIn a separate move, Metro Bank is also considering selling the commercial loans affected by the accounting error.\n\nChief executive Craig Donaldson told the Financial Times it was an option, but stressed the bank had not made a final decision.\n\nMetro Bank has been under close supervision by regulator the Prudential Regulation Authority after the capital miscalculation.\n\nThe issue has also weighed heavily on its performance, with its recent results for the first three months of the year showing a sharp drop in pre-tax profit to £6.9m from £10m for the same period a year ago.\n\nChief executive Craig Donaldson said \"adverse sentiment\" has also impacted deposit growth, but said that 2019 would be \"a year of transition\" for the bank.\n\nThe bank was founded in 2010 by American Vernon Hill, becoming Britain's first new High Street bank for over 100 years.\n\nIts unusual focus, in a world where most banks are drastically cutting back on branches, has been on building physical branches, which open earlier and longer than any of their rivals.", "Jodie Comer and Benedict Cumberbatch won the top two acting awards\n\nBBC thriller Killing Eve was the big winner at the Bafta TV Awards, scooping three trophies including best actress for Jodie Comer and best drama series.\n\nI'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here and Britain's Got Talent also picked up prizes, despite Ant McPartlin taking time out from both series last year.\n\nBGT won best entertainment show and I'm A Celebrity won the reality prize.\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch won best actor for his drama Patrick Melrose, which was also named best mini-series.\n\nThe Sherlock star, who received his first of seven previous Bafta nominations in 2005 but hasn't won until now, told the audience: \"Oh gosh, I think I'm going to fall over, I'm very used to being a bridesmaid not the bride.\"\n\nThe ceremony took place at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday.\n\nIn Killing Eve, Comer played offbeat assassin Villanelle, who was pursued by intelligence agent Eve, played by Sandra Oh. Both were nominated for best actress.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stars of the small screen chatted to BBC's Lizo Mzimba ahead of the ceremony\n\nAccepting the award, a tearful Comer - who dedicated her award to her late grandmother - said: \"Thank you so much. Sorry, I'm the only one who's turned on the waterworks.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sandra Oh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Sandra Oh\n\nPaying tribute to the show's writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge, she said: \"I feel so lucky to say I worked with you, also to call you a friend. You're the most talented person I know, also an inspiration.\"\n\nFiona Shaw was named best supporting actress for playing spy boss Carolyn Martens, a role she said had been \"probably the greatest pleasure of my life\".\n\nFiona Shaw won best supporting actress - the first Bafta of her career\n\nShe also expressed gratitude to Waller-Bridge and her \"glass-shattering genius and wayward imagination\".\n\nKilling Eve's inclusion this year was unusual, in that Bafta bent the rules to allow it to be nominated.\n\nIn the entertainment programme category, BGT triumphed despite the fact Declan Donnelly had to host the live shows solo after Ant McPartlin's drink-drive conviction.\n\nAnt and Dec were together on the Bafta red carpet\n\nAnt missed last year's I'm A Celebrity completely, with Dec joined by Holly Willoughby for hosting duties.\n\nSpeaking backstage, Dec said: \"It's been a tough year personally and professionally. I was just trying to do my best, and just keep the shows warm for him for when he was ready to come back.\n\n\"And they have both won Baftas, so how cool am I?\"\n\nBut the duo lost out on the best entertainment performance award to Lee Mack, who scooped the prize for his appearances on comedy panel show Would I Lie To You?\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch (left) and winners of the mini-series award for Patrick Melrose\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch won his first Bafta for Sky's Patrick Melrose, adapted from novels by Edward St Aubyn, 14 years after his first nomination.\n\nCumberbatch, who played a man grappling with the ghost of his abusive father, thanked his wife, writer and theatre director Sophie Hunter, saying: \"You're my rock, I had to go pretty weird for this one and it was nice to come home and feel stable again.\n\n\"It's all right, I've got one [award] and I'm going to bring it home.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier, Daisy May Cooper, who was nominated for the best female comedy performance award for This Country, turned up on the red carpet wearing a dress made from bin liners.\n\nIt cost \"about £5\", she said. \"The reason I'm wearing this is if I wore a normal dress, that would cost a lot of money and I thought I'd donate that money to a local food bank and wear bin bags instead.\"\n\nJournalist and broadcaster Baroness Joan Bakewell was honoured with the Bafta Fellowship.\n\nShe told the ceremony she had been inspired by Charlotte Bronte at the age of 12, and had been determined to make it in a male-dominated industry.\n\n\"It has been a long journey, and along the way I've had the encouragement and professional support of many, many women, making their own bid to [have] as much a chance as men. And possibly earn as much. That would be nice.\"\n\nHappy Valley and Queer As Folk producer Nicola Shindler was presented with a special award in recognition of her contribution to the television industry.\n\nThe Bafta Craft Awards - which recognise behind-the-scenes talent like writers and sound editors - took place last month, with A Very English Scandal going home with the most trophies.\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. Education Secretary Damian Hinds: 'This is not about the leader of the party'\n\nThe European Parliament elections will be seen as an opportunity for the ultimate protest vote, Education Secretary Damian Hinds has said.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme the elections would be difficult for the Conservatives and that \"for some people this is the second referendum\".\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage told the show there had been a breakdown in trust between people and politicians.\n\nElections for 73 MEPs to the European Parliament will take place on 23 May.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back to 31 October after Parliament was unable to agree a way forward.\n\nThe government is continuing to talk to the Labour party about progress in the Brexit process, and those cross-party talks are due to continue on Monday.\n\nMeanwhile, shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer has told the Guardian that he doubts a cross-party deal lacking a confirmatory referendum could pass Parliament.\n\nMr Hinds said: \"I don't think anyone is in any doubt these are going to be difficult elections for us - that much has been clear from the very start.\n\n\"For some people this is the ultimate protest vote opportunity. Actually, ironically this is, in a sense, for some people, this is the second referendum,\" he added.\n\nMr Hinds said he would have preferred the government \"didn't have to go into talks with Labour\" but asked: \"What's the alternative?\n\n\"I disagree with Labour on many things... but there is some commonality of interest here.\n\n\"This is about our democracy, about our system and to repay the trust that people put in us we need to get things done for our constituents.\"\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said Labour had put forward alternatives in its negotiations in the Brexit process.\n\n\"We're trying to negotiate that with the government, as I say it's not getting very far, but we are still engaging in those negotiations in good faith.\"\n\nIn a tense interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Farage said that if the Brexit Party was successful in the European Parliament elections, he would ask for the party's MEPs to become part of the government's EU negotiating team.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MEP Nigel Farage says immigration \"isn't the burning issue of the time\" now\n\n\"We've got a two-party system that now serves nothing but itself,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a complete breakdown of trust between the people in this country and our politicians and frankly they revealed themselves to be grossly incompetent.\"\n\nAhead of European elections, two separate polls - by ComRes and Opinium - give Mr Farage's Brexit Party the biggest share of the vote with the Conservatives in fourth place behind Labour and the Lib Dems.\n\nFormer prime minister Tony Blair expressed frustration with Labour's position on Brexit saying it was \"clear they are not Remain in an unequivocal sense\".\n\nOn Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday, the former Labour leader urged Labour supporters who can no longer vote for the party to endorse one which backs Remain.\n\nHe said it was \"important the anti-Brexit side is larger and stronger than the Farage side\" in the European elections.\n\n\"I do come across people who cannot vote for Labour, in which case I say 'don't stay at home - vote for any of the other parties',\" he said.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Premiership\n\nRangers secured back-to-back home wins over Celtic for the first time in seven years with a dominant and determined display against the Scottish champions.\n\nSteven Gerrard's side got the ideal start as James Tavernier's free-kick deceived goalkeeper Scott Bain with only two minutes gone at Ibrox.\n\nCeltic were left angry as Jon Flanagan escaped with a yellow card for an elbow in the face of Scott Brown.\n\nRangers took advantage as Scott Arfield finished off a fine, flowing move.\n\nThe derby win takes the hosts to within six points of their city rivals, but with the title already returning to Celtic Park, it more importantly was a signal of intent ahead of next season as Rangers secured a sixth consecutive win.\n\nIt also ends Celtic's 12-game unbeaten run since Valencia ended their Europa League hopes - and a run of 16 without loss in the league since their December defeat at Ibrox.\n\nWhile the title was long won by the visitors, there is no such thing as a meaningless Old Firm derby and there was still plenty more on the line as the players emerged into a sun-kissed Ibrox.\n\nNeil Lennon is still trying to win a permanent contract with Celtic after taking over as interim manager following Brendan Rodgers' departure to Leicester City.\n\nCounterpart Gerrard is out to prove both his worth in his first managerial job - and that the December win over their city rivals was no flash in the pan. It didn't take long for the former England captain's side to take an early lead and help his case.\n\nTavernier had already found the net 16 times this season - 14 from the penalty spot - before the right-back's in-swinging free-kick whipped past Bain as it skimmed clear of a sea of heads and nestled in the far corner of the net.\n\nCeltic were rattled. Shorn of the injured James Forrest and Kieran Tierney, rested ahead of the Scottish Cup final, and adopting a back three, Lennon's side lacked the width to trouble a blue tide feverishly chasing down anything resembling a Celtic shadow.\n\nGerrard had decided against restoring top scorer Alfredo Morelos to the starting line-up on the Colombian's return from a suspension resulting from his red card in the last Old Firm derby.\n\nIn his absence, Jermain Defoe, the veteran on loan from Bournemouth, has formed a fruitful partnership with Arfield and the pair responded by giving the Celtic backline a torrid afternoon.\n\nDefoe's dummy after Glen Kamara cleverly shrugged off Brown to thread a ball towards the Celtic penalty box set up the former Burnley midfielder to slot home the second goal.\n\nOliver Burke should have reduced the arrears late on when goalkeeper Wes Foderingham was able to beat away the on-loan West Bromwich Albion winger's close-range drive, which was Celtic's first shot on target after 83 minutes.\n\nHowever, it seemed like the only thing that was going to prevent a Rangers win was a return to the indiscipline that led to three players being sent off for clashes involving Brown in that March defeat at Celtic Park.\n\nIndeed, referee Kevin Clancy, taking charge of his first Old Firm derby, could have changed the course of the game had he decided on a harsher punishment for Flanagan after the defender's forearm smash in the Celtic captain's face as they awaited a corner with just a goal in the game.\n\nThe talk before kick-off was about Rangers' decision not to give Celtic a guard of honour in their first game since retaining an eighth consecutive title.\n\nLennon's side certainly not did deserve one in the wake of a disjointed performance as Rangers enjoyed a deserved ovation from home support encouraged by what may lie ahead next season.\n\nRangers totally dominated. I expected a response from Celtic and it didn't materialise. They were well beaten.\n\nRangers overran the Celtic midfield. They couldn't handle Davis, Arfield, Kamara and Jack.\n\nThe only talking point that might have changed the game was at 1-0 and then Flanagan throws his left arm into Brown and maybe a red card might have changed it - because Celtic certainly weren't going to change it.\n\nThat's the best I've seen Rangers play in years. They nullified Celtic's threat brilliantly. There was an energy, a wit and confidence about them that Celtic couldn't live with. It was a very complete Rangers performance.\n\nThere will be changes this summer, but on that performance, you wouldn't be changing much about that Rangers team. If they can get Ryan Kent on another season-long loan from Liverpool, what a difference that can make.\n\nThis is a big black mark against Neil Lennon and his chances of getting the job permanently because his team were beaten in every department.\n• None Attempt missed. Jozo Simunovic (Celtic) header from the centre of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt missed. Ryan Kent (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Oliver Burke (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Jermain Defoe (Rangers) hits the bar with a left footed shot from the centre of the box.\n• None Attempt saved. Jermain Defoe (Rangers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Thick smoke was visible after the plane came down\n\nA light aircraft has crashed on to a main road but managed to avoid hitting any cars.\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the three people on board survived the incident on the A40 near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.\n\nThe service was called to the crash at about 11:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nIt said the three people were treated at the scene for minor injuries and taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nTwo motorists, Daniel Nicholson and Joel Snarr, a former army bomb disposal officer, helped to rescue those on board the aircraft.\n\nMr Nicholson, who was first on the scene, said the plane was upside down.\n\nHe said: \"We could only see two people at first - they were screaming as the plane was on fire.\"\n\nMr Nicholson added that he was \"worried we weren't going to be able to get them out\".\n\nHe went on to say that without Mr Snarr's help, he probably would not have been able to rescue those on board.\n\nMr Snarr explained he saw the plane appear \"out of nowhere\" and \"burst into smoke and some flames\".\n\n\"It was a miracle no one else was on the road,\" he said.\n\nIn total 19 firefighters attended the site and used foam to extinguish the aircraft.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video from Daniel Nicholson. The plane crashed on the A40 near Abergavenny\n\nThe fire service said three people were treated for minor injuries at the scene\n\nRhodri Jones, who lives about two miles from the scene at Llanover said: \"I was in the house and heard a loud explosion.\n\n\"Initially we thought it was rail crash because the line is nearby. There was thick smoke.\"\n\nBBC reporter Rhodri Tomos' train from Cardiff to Manchester had to make an emergency stop just before Abergavenny.\n\nHe said: \"The guard said that a light aircraft has crashed into some power cables and the cables have hit the train.\n\n\"We could smell some burning and we were at a stop for about 15 minutes.\"\n\nThe smoke could be seen by motorists on the A40\n\nGwent Police said in a statement: \"The aircraft was reported to have made an unscheduled landing in the area, colliding with overhead wiring.\n\n\"Three occupants of the light aircraft were treated by paramedics at the scene. Their injuries are not life-threatening.\"\n\nThe Air Accident Investigation Branch is aware of the incident and is making initial inquiries.\n\nIt is the second time in three years in which a light aircraft crashed on the same stretch of road.\n\nThree people sustained minor injuries when the four-seater Piper Warrior II came down in 2016.", "This Country writer and actress Daisy May Cooper took to the Bafta TV Awards red carpet wearing a dress made from bin bags and rubbish, made by her mother.\n\nShe told BBC entertainment correspondent Lizo Mzimba she donated the money she would have spent on a proper dress to her local food bank.", "The Duchess of Sussex has celebrated her first US Mother's Day as a parent by posting a picture of her son Archie's feet.\n\nThe SussexRoyal Instagram account shared an image of Meghan, who is American, holding her son's heel.\n\nIn the caption, the account paid tribute to \"all mothers today, past, present, mothers-to-be, and those lost but forever remembered\".\n\nWhile Mother's Day is in March in the UK, it was marked in the US on Sunday.\n\nIt was also celebrated in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Kenya and Japan.\n\nThe photo was accompanied by the poem Lands, by writer Nayyirah Waheed.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex's first son is seventh in line to the throne, behind the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and his children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis - and Prince Harry.\n\nHe is the Queen's eighth great-grandchild.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cardinal Konrad Krajewski said he felt the need to intervene\n\nA cardinal who conducts acts of charity for Pope Francis has restored power for hundreds of people in a building in Rome after climbing down a manhole and flipping a switch, local media report.\n\nCardinal Konrad Krajewski said he acted in \"desperation\" because the occupants of the state-owned property had spent a week without power and hot water.\n\nActivists have been using the building to provide shelter for the homeless.\n\nThe electricity supplier cut the power due to debts of €300,000 (£260,000).\n\nThe sum is believed to have accumulated in the years since the unused building was taken over in 2013. It now houses more than 400 people, including nearly 100 children.\n\nMatteo Salvini, Italy's populist deputy prime minister, has said he now expects the papal aide to pay the overdue utility bills, according to the Italian daily La Repubblica.\n\nOn Sunday, Cardinal Krajewski described how he had climbed down a manhole and removed seals covering a switch in order to turn the building's power supply back on.\n\n\"I intervened personally last night to reattach the meters. It was a desperate gesture. There were over 400 people without electricity, with families, children, without even the possibility of operating the refrigerators,\" he told Italy's Ansa news agency.\n\n\"I didn't do it because I was drunk,\" he reportedly added.\n\nThe building on Via di Santa Croce not only provides shelter, but today also houses workspaces, including a craft beer laboratory and a carpentry shop, Italian media report.", "Theresa May has rejected calls to resign\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May could set a date for her resignation in the coming days, the chairman of the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee has said.\n\nThe PM said she will step down when her Brexit deal is ratified by Parliament - but some MPs want a fixed date.\n\nSir Graham Brady said he expected a \"clear understanding\" of that timetable once she has met the committee, which she would do on Wednesday.\n\nHe also said he expected Brexit talks with Labour to \"peter out\" within days.\n\nAnd Sir Graham also refused to rule out running himself to replace Mrs May.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's The Week in Westminster, he said the 1922 Committee had asked her to give \"clarity\" about her plans for the future, and she had \"offered to come and meet with the executive\".\n\n\"It would be strange for that not to result in a clear understanding [of when she will leave] at the end of the meeting,\" he added.\n\nThe 1922 Committee represents backbench Tory MPs and oversees the party's leadership contests.\n\nOn why the PM had so far been unwilling to set a date to step down, Sir Graham said: \"I do understand the reticence about doing it.\n\n\"I don't think it's about an intention for staying indefinitely as prime minister or leader of the Conservative Party.\n\n\"I think the reticence is the concern that by promising to go on a certain timetable, it might make it less likely she would secure Parliamentary approval for the withdrawal agreement, rather than more likely.\"\n\nSir Graham Brady did not rule out running as Mrs May's successor\n\nHe was also asked about the cross-party talks between the government and Labour over Mrs May's Brexit deal, which has been rejected three times.\n\nSir Graham said: \"I find it very hard to see how that route can lead to any sensible resolution.\n\n\"If the customs union is agreed without a second referendum then half the Labour Party won't vote for whatever comes through regardless, and if a customs union is agreed then most of the Conservative Party isn't going to support it.\n\n\"So, I can't see that is a very productive route to follow, and I may be wrong, but I suspect it will peter out in the next few days without having come to any significant conclusion.\"\n\nWhen quizzed about running for the party leadership, Sir Graham said: \"It would take an awful lot of people to persuade me.\n\n\"I'm not sure many people are straining at the leash at the moment to take on what is an extraordinarily difficult situation.\"\n\nIn March, Mrs May pledged to stand down if and when Parliament ratified her Brexit withdrawal agreement, but did not make it clear how long she intends to stay if no deal was reached.\n\nPressure has grown on her since the Tories' local election drubbing, and there have been warnings the party faces a meltdown in elections to the European Parliament as well.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back to 31 October after Parliament was unable to agree a way forward.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City have sealed the Premier League title, needing a 14-game winning run to keep themselves above Liverpool - the best second-placed team in English top-flight history.\n\nIt felt like an absolutely relentless battle between two great Premier League sides. But do the stats back that up?\n\nThe best top two ever\n\nIt has been a title race of unparalleled quality and the numbers bear that out.\n\nThis is the form guide for the second half of the season:\n\nThe top two have amassed 195 points - a top-flight record for the champions and runners-up. They actually passed the previous Premier League record in their 36th games of the season. They also recorded the most combined wins (62) for a top two.\n\nIn both those instances, the previous record was last season, although City had provided a much greater share of the combined figures than second-placed Manchester United.\n\nCity and Liverpool have also broken the record for the fewest combined defeats - five. The top two in 2004-05 (Chelsea and Arsenal) and 2008-09 (Manchester United and Liverpool) had six defeats between them.\n• None From the chief exec's Pep talk to Silva surprise - unseen moments that defined Man City's season\n• None The 11mm title? The tiny margins that decided an extraordinary battle\n\nAll season the title race has seemed too close to call, not least because the lead at the top has changed so many times.\n\nIn fact, it has never changed hands so many times in a season.\n\nBy the time the title was won, it had switched 32 times at the end of a day this season, although plenty of those came as a result of staggering City's and Liverpool's games.\n\nThe previous record had been 2001-02, when the lead changed 28 times. Arsenal won the title that season, but both Manchester United and Liverpool had led in the final 10 games - and Newcastle and Leeds were both top over the festive period.\n\nLiverpool have spent 141 days top of the Premier League - 16 more than Manchester City. Chelsea spent nine days top - and Manchester United were top for one day, beating Leicester 2-1 in the first game of the season.\n\nThe last time Liverpool spent more days on top in a season was 1990-91 (163 days), when they also finished second. They are far away from the Premier League record for a team spending the most time top without winning the league though - Newcastle United's 212 days in 1995-96 may never be surpassed.\n\nCity's points haul in itself was not record breaking - mostly because of their 100-point tally in 2017-18. But they have broken plenty of other records.\n\nOnly five top-flight title-winning teams have ever won 30 games in a season, including football before the Premier League and 42-game seasons. City's record 32 wins last season put them on the list, and this season's vintage are on it again with the same figure.\n\nAnd they are the first team in English Football League history to win 30 games in three different seasons (2001-02 First Division, 2017-18 and 2018-19 Premier League).\n\nCity have also scored more goals than any English top-flight team in a season. They have managed 163 in all competitions. They also had the previous record, 156 in 2013-14. In fact City have three of the top five scoring seasons, with 143 in 2017-18.\n\nSo near, yet so far for Liverpool.\n\nThe Reds have the highest points tally of any team to finish second in the English top flight. Their 97 beat the previous record of Leeds United in 1970-71 (91) - adjusted to three points for a win. The previous highest Premier League total which failed to secure the title came when Manchester United finished behind Manchester City on goal difference with 89 points in 2012.\n\nLiverpool's 97 points would have won them every single Premier League title apart from last season and this season.\n\nThey are one of only 10 teams in the Premier League era to pick up 90 or more points. Unfortunately for them City this season are one of the others.\n\nLiverpool have won 18 English titles, but only once have they ever picked up more points than they did this season - 98 in 1978-79, adjusted to three points for a win. And that was from 42 games, making this Liverpool's best-ever points per game return.\n\nIn fact, the Reds have the highest tally of a runner-up in any of Europe's top five leagues - eclipsing Real Madrid's 96 in 2009-10. The champions that season? Guardiola's Barcelona.\n\nFor two such attacking sides, it is only right that players from both teams recorded historic goalscoring feats this season.\n\nCity's Sergio Aguero, with 21 goals, became only the second player to score 20 or more Premier League goals in six different seasons. Alan Shearer managed it in seven - three for Blackburn and four times for Newcastle.\n\nAguero also becomes the second man to score 20 Premier League goals in five consecutive seasons, level with Arsenal legend Thierry Henry.\n\nLiverpool pair Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane have also hit at least 20 league goals. That is only the fourth time two players in the same team have reached that landmark in a Premier League season.\n\nThey shared this season's Golden Boot with Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on 22 goals.\n\nTeam-mates to score 20 goals or more in a Premier League season", "Brothers Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja have a combined net worth of £22bn, the Sunday Times estimates\n\nThe billionaire Hinduja brothers have been named as the wealthiest people in the UK for a third time, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nSri and Gopi Hinduja saw their fortune increase by £1.356bn in the last year to £22bn, the paper estimates.\n\nMeanwhile, chemicals firm founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who topped last year's list, has slipped to third place.\n\nAnd Valerie Moran becomes the first black female entrepreneur ever to make the paper's Rich List.\n\nFamily business the Hinduja Group was founded in Mumbai in 1914, and now has interests around the world including in oil and gas, banking, IT and property.\n\nBritish citizens Sri, 83, and Gopi, 79, who are based in London, are two of the four brothers controlling the empire.\n\nAmong the properties they own is the Old War Office in Whitehall, which they hope to reopen as a luxury hotel.\n\nThe two brothers topped the newspaper list in 2014 and in 2017.\n\nThe list, which estimates the 1,000 richest people in the UK, is based on identifiable wealth including land, property, other assets such as art, and shares in companies, the Sunday Times says. It does not include the amount contained in people's bank accounts.\n\nBrothers David and Simon Reuben - who made their fortune in property, carpets and scrap metal - are in second place on the list, with a combined wealth of £18.664bn.\n\nMeanwhile, the richest person on last year's list, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who founded the Ineos chemicals firm, saw his net worth drop by £2.9bn since last year, the paper says.\n\nSir Jim Ratcliffe once lived in a council house near Manchester and now has an estimated net worth of £18.15bn\n\nInventor Sir James Dyson - who campaigned for Brexit and has announced he would be relocating his company headquarters to Singapore - comes in at fifth on the list, up from 12th last year.\n\nZimbabwe-born Ms Moran is the first black female entrepreneur on the Rich List, ranking joint 970th alongside her husband, Noel. The couple, whose combined fortune is estimated at £122m, have a 81.5% stake in financial technology company Prepaid Financial Services.\n\nKirsten Rausing, part of the Rausing family which was behind the Tetra Pak drinks carton empire, is the highest ranked woman on the list. She appears alongside her brother Jorn Rausing in sixth place, with a combined estimated wealth of £12.256bn.\n\nKirsten Rausing and her brother Jorn's wealth was reported to have increased £1.408bn in the last year\n\nMeanwhile, Sir Philip Green and his wife Tina are placed at 156th on the list, down from 66th last year.\n\nHis fortune has been estimated at £950m - the first time in 17 years that Sir Philip has not been listed as a billionaire.\n\nSir Philip's company, The Arcadia Group, has been coping with a pensions deficit.\n\nSir Philip Green's Arcadia Group - which includes Topshop, Burton and Dorothy Perkins - was valued at worthless in this year's list\n\nRobert Watts, who compiled this year's list, said: \"On the face of it this looks like a bumper year for the super-rich, with record wealth, more billionaires and the entry level rising to £120m.\n\n\"But many of the rich are nursing big losses after a year of turbulence on the stock market and political deadlock in Westminster.\n\n\"Technology is making and breaking fortunes. We are finding young entrepreneurs making vast sums of money from online fashion retail, dating apps and creating YouTube videos.\"\n\nHe added that online shopping \"continues to have a profound effect\" on UK high streets, adding that well known retailers \"are seeing their fortunes smashed by this seismic change\".\n\nMexican-born film star Salma Hayek is married to French billionaire François-Henri Pinault, the chairman and CEO of the Kering group that owns the Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent fashion brands\n\nFor the sixth year in a row, Scotland's richest person was named as Glenn Gordon and his family, the Jersey-based tycoon behind distillers William Grant & Sons. The group produces whisky including Grant's, Glenfiddich and The Balvenie, as well as Hendrick's gin.\n\nThe richest sports star aged 30 or under was named as Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy.\n\nRich List debutant Stormzy celebrated his first UK number one single, Vossi Bop, earlier this month\n\nMeanwhile, top of the Music Rich List in the UK - which includes writers and performers - is Andrew Lloyd Webber with a fortune of £820m.\n\nMusician Ed Sheeran doubled his wealth last year, while grime artist Stormzy made his debut on the rich list of young musicians with £16m.", "The van crashed down the cliff on to Undercliff Walk\n\nA driver was killed when his van plummeted nearly 100ft (30m) off a cliff in Brighton.\n\nSussex Police received calls just after 06:30 BST on Sunday telling them a van had \"gone over the cliff\" from Marine Drive.\n\nThe silver Vauxhall was found badly damaged on Undercliff Walk. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe force said it was investigating and has appealed to drivers with dash-cam footage to come forward.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The threat of organised crime is \"chronic and corrosive\" to the UK and more money is needed to tackle it, according to the National Crime Agency.\n\nHead of the agency Lynne Owens said organised criminals were killing more citizens per year than terrorism, war and natural disasters combined.\n\nShe said offenders took advantage of the ever-changing face of technology to dominate local communities.\n\nThe government said it invested in the right tools to fight organised crime.\n\nBut the NCA is calling for \"significant new investment\" to combat it.\n\nOn Tuesday, the agency will launch its annual national strategic assessment (NSA), which exposes how organised criminals are exploiting advances in technology.\n\nAdopting new methods, and using these alongside old-style violence, organised criminals commit a multitude of crimes, dominate communities and chase profits, the NSA will show.\n\nNCA director-general Lynne Owens says more investment is needed to fight organised crime\n\n\"Against a backdrop of globalisation, extremism and technological advances, serious and organised crime is changing fast and law enforcement needs significant new investment to help combat it,\" Ms Owens said.\n\n\"This is the most comprehensive assessment we have ever produced and describes in detail the growing and ever-changing nature of the threat posed by serious and organised crime - to individuals, to communities and to wider society.\"\n\nThe NSA draws on information and intelligence from sources across law enforcement, as well as many public and private sector organisations, the NCA said.\n\nThe NCA is the agency charged with apprehending those who pose the most serious risk to the UK.\n\nIn response to the calls, the government said it would \"mobilise the full force of the state\" to tackle serious and organised crime, as it set out in its strategy published in November last year.\n\nSecurity minister Ben Wallace said serious and organised crime was \"a fast-evolving and highly complex threat to our national security\", impacting on people, communities and businesses.\n\n\"As criminals' use of technology evolves so must our response. We continue to invest in the right capabilities and tools in law enforcement, across government and in partnership with the private sector,\" he added.\n\nThe government estimates serious and organised crime costs the UK economy around £37bn a year.", "The traditional German hotel is in a popular hiking location in Bavaria\n\nGerman police are investigating the deaths of five people, three of which were found in a rural Bavarian hotel impaled by crossbow bolts.\n\nA room maid discovered the bodies in a room alongside two crossbows.\n\nThe relationship between the three victims - a man aged 53 and two women aged 30 and 33 - remains unclear.\n\nPolice found the bodies of two more women when searching the home of the 30-year-old in northern Germany, officials said on Monday.\n\nPolice said they are investigating \"possible connections\" between the hotel deaths and the two bodies found at the home in the town of Gifhorn.\n\nThe hotel stands by the Ilz river near Passau, about 650km (400 miles) to the south.\n\nAn autopsy on the three bodies is scheduled to begin on Monday.\n\nAnother hotel guest, who was staying in the hotel for a short break, told local newspaper Passauer Neue Presse that it had been a \"completely quiet night\".\n\nThe hotel manager said the three dead, who were all German, had planned to stay for three nights but had not ordered breakfast.\n\nIt has been established that the man and 33-year-old woman were resident in Rhineland-Palatinate state, western Germany.\n\nTheir room had a double bed and a single bed. According to the daily Bild, the man and 33-year-old woman were found lying hand-in-hand on the bed, shot with bolts to the head and chest; the other woman was lying in a pool of blood on the floor, with a bolt through the chest.\n\nPolice have seized a white pickup truck, parked outside, which has stickers reportedly linked to a hunting club. It was registered in Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate.\n\nA hotel guest said the man had a long white beard and the women were dressed in black, and described them as \"strange\".\n\nOn arrival on Friday evening they simply wished other guests a \"good evening\", then went upstairs to their second-floor room with bottles of water and Coca-Cola, said the guest, quoted by the Merkur news website.", "Captain Kevin Bennett (pictured with ball) and other players took up the same position in the photo as they did 40 years ago\n\nMembers of a primary school football team have met up to recreate a 40-year-old photo.\n\nKevin Bennett said he and three friends were inspired to track down all 15 players, after sharing the picture at a 50th birthday party.\n\nHe searched through Facebook, finding friends across the UK - and in Panama, and brought them together back in their home town of Alsager, Cheshire.\n\nMr Bennett said reuniting the team was \"quite emotional\" but \"brilliant\".\n\nMany of the boys went on to the same senior school but lost touch later\n\nThe sales manager, 50, now of Westbury Park, Newcastle under Lyme, said the picture was taken in their final year at Excalibur Primary School, in Alsager.\n\nMr Bennett, who was the team's captain, said he had happy memories of the time.\n\n\"Football was my life. We played all the time, even with a rolled up sock,\" he said.\n\nAlthough many of them went on to Alsager Comprehensive School, most later lost touch.\n\nThe idea to reunite the gang began when he and fellow team mates Richard Nixon, Tim Stubbs and Dave Moorhouse, were invited to a 50th birthday party for classmate Ian Beresford, where Mr Bennett took along the picture.\n\n\"After a few beers, we said why don't we get all the football team back together,\" he said.\n\n\"I was quite nervous in case some of them didn't turn up, but when we got there it was brilliant,\" Mr Bennett said.\n\nThey now hope to make the gathering a more regular occurrence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gerald Corrigan was struck outside his home\n\nA man who suffered \"horrendous injuries\" when he was shot with a crossbow has died in hospital.\n\nGerald Corrigan, 74, was struck outside his home on South Stack Road, Holyhead, on 19 April at 00:30 BST.\n\nNorth Wales Police have now confirmed Mr Corrigan died, nearly a month after he was injured.\n\nThe force previously urged the crossbow shooter to come forward and said its investigation into the attack was continuing.\n\nMr Corrigan had been trying to fix a satellite dish on his home when he was hit with the bolt through his upper body and right arm, police said.\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Kearney said: \"This is a truly shocking case and our thoughts are with Gerald's family and friends at this very sad time.\"\n\nMr Corrigan, a former photography and video lecturer had lived on Anglesey for more than 20 years.\n\nHe had been taken to Royal Stoke University Hospital, the major trauma centre serving north Wales.\n\nLocal councillor Trefor Lloyd Hughes said it would be a \"very sad day for the family\".\n\nHe added: \"He must have put up a good fight to stay alive.\n\n\"There's no doubt it has shocked the community. It's a picturesque area, people will be in a big, big shock.\n\n\"In an area that's so quiet, after midnight, it makes you wonder what the heck is going on.\"\n\nMr Corrigan's family previously said: \"This is a horrific incident that has happened to our family.\n\n\"We cannot think of anybody who may have wanted to hurt our father and dear partner.\n\n\"We are trying to come to terms with this shocking incident.\n\n\"If anybody has any information at all about what has happened, however small, please come forward to the police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Henry McLeish is calling for first past the post voting system used to elect most MSPs to be replaced\n\nA former first minister is calling for first past the post voting system used to elect most MSPs to be replaced with proportional representation (PR).\n\nHenry McLeish, who was first minister between 2000 and 2001, told Good Morning Scotland he believes PR would force parties to work together.\n\nThe interview coincides with the 20th anniversary of the reconvening of the Scottish Parliament on 12 May 1999.\n\nIt was the parliament's first meeting in 292 years.\n\nHe said said the first past the post element of the election should be scrapped and replaced, adding: \"You could have a PR system that could retain the constituencies, but possibly have two members but elected on a different basis what that would do in my view is give you a parliament that would never have an overall majority.\n\n\"That would be one box that I would gratefully tick.\n\n\"Secondly, it would mean that people would have to speak to each other.\"\n\nHe also said it was still to early to say whether the parliament had been a success.\n\nMr McLeish, who led a Labour-Lib Dem executive in the parliament's first session, said that Holyrood has barely come of age.\n\nHe added: \"It's in its infancy... In the stock of things, Westminster has been on that site in some form for nearly 1,000 years - we're just on the foothills of building a new Scotland, a new parliament, so in that sense I think there is a great opportunity to reflect seriously and then look forward.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City retained their Premier League title and finally ended Liverpool's magnificent challenge after surviving a scare to come from behind and outclass Brighton at the Amex.\n\nPep Guardiola's side started the day knowing victory would ensure they would be the first team to retain the crown since Manchester United 10 years ago - but any slip-up could let in their relentless pursuers Liverpool, who were hosting Wolves at Anfield.\n\nAnd when Glenn Murray gave the Seagulls the lead with a glancing header from a corner after 27 minutes, anxiety rose in Sussex and hopes rose at Anfield that Liverpool might win their first title in 29 years.\n\nManchester City's response was instant, emphatic and ruthless as they swept Brighton aside to end the campaign with a record 14 successive league victories, making it 32 in all, which equals the record they set last season.\n\nSergio Aguero pounced in the area to equalise inside 83 seconds and Aymeric Laporte arrived unmarked on the end of a corner to put City ahead before half-time.\n\nBrighton had no way back and City completed the formalities in spectacular style as Riyad Mahrez fired high past Mat Ryan just after the hour and Ilkay Gundogan's spectacular 72nd minute free-kick sparked wild celebrations.\n\nCity may not have repeated the 100 points that won the title last season but this was arguably an even sweeter success given the season-long battle with Liverpool.\n\nThey will now aim to complete a unique domestic treble when they face Watford in the FA Cup final at Wembley on 18 May.\n• None From the chief exec's Pep talk to Silva surprise - unseen moments that defined Man City's season\n• None The best top two in history - the numbers behind remarkable title race\n• None The 11mm title? The tiny margins that decided an extraordinary battle\n\nCity knew their task at kick-off in Sussex - but whether it was a combination of nerves or unwitting complacency, it took the fright of going behind to kick them into action.\n\nCity were careless and lacking in urgency until Murray bundled in a near-post header.\n\nIt was the signal for the last assault on the title.\n\nAguero swiftly put the show back on the road and once Laporte escape the attentions of Murray to head home, this was job done.\n\nIt was a fitting decoration that the final two goals of City's season were thunderous efforts from Mahrez and Gundogan, demonstrating the quality that is spread so liberally through this squad.\n\nBrighton, to their credit, did not simply stand aside and allow the party to take place: Chris Hughton's side were organised and resilient but once they levelled matters up, City were irresistible.\n\nAnd even the home fans accepted the inevitable by the final whistle, rising to first give a standing ovation to City captain Vincent Kompany when he was substituted and then to Guardiola and his team once referee Michael Oliver had sounded the final whistle that confirmed they were were Premier League champions for the fourth time and for the sixth time in total.\n\nCity's achievement, completed with that astonishing 14-game win towards the winning post, is underscored by the fact they saw off a Liverpool side that lost just once this season - to City - and amassed 97 points.\n\nThis is a magnificent feat by Guardiola and Manchester City.\n\nThe best team always ends as Premier League champions - and no matter how superbly Liverpool have performed, they came up against a truly outstanding team that was just one point better.\n\nThis was a day of celebration for Manchester City - and also one of satisfaction for Brighton as they look forward to another season in the Premier League.\n\nIt was a particularly special day for their iconic 38-year-old Spanish defender Bruno, who was making his final appearance. He was cheered throughout and made an emotional farewell when he was taken off.\n\nBruno, clearly loved down here, was also acclaimed during a post-match speech.\n\nThe Brighton fans left for summer in good heart after surviving late worries they may be hauled into the relegation fight and now shrewd manager Hughton will start plotting again to ensure they are in position for another season of consolidation when it all starts again in August.\n• None Manchester City have won their fourth Premier League title - only Manchester United (13) and Chelsea (5) have ever won more in the competition.\n• None Overall, City have won their sixth English top-flight title. They're the first side to retain the title since Manchester United in 2008-09.\n• None This was the eighth time the Premier League title has been decided on the final day of the season, with Manchester City winning it on three of those occasions (2011-12, 2013-14 and 2018-19).\n• None City's haul of 98 points is the joint-second highest for any team in English top-flight history (converting to three points for a win) - only City themselves have ever earned more (100 in 2017-18).\n• None City conceded the first goal in a Premier League game for the first time since their 2-0 defeat at Chelsea in December - they were behind for just 83 seconds before Sergio Aguero's equaliser.\n• None City have won their last 14 Premier League games - only City themselves (18 in December 2017) have had a longer winning run in the competition.\n• None City have won 32 Premier League games this season - equalling their own record in the competition from last season for most wins in a single campaign in the competition.\n• None Sergio Aguero has scored 32 goals in all competitions for Man City this season - only in 2016-17 (33) has he scored more in a single campaign for City.\n• None City's David Silva has provided 18 assists for Sergio Aguero in the Premier League - only three players have ever assisted another for more goals in the competition (Frank Lampard to Didier Drogba, Darren Anderton to Teddy Sheringham and Steve McManaman to Robbie Fowler).\n• None Glenn Murray has scored 36% of Brighton's overall Premier League goals (25/69), the highest proportion of any team's goals in the competition's history.\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola, speaking to Sky Sports: \"We have to say congratulations to Liverpool and thank you so much, they pushed us to increase our standards.\n\n\"It's incredible, 98 points, to go back-to-back. We made the standard higher last season and Liverpool helped us. To win this title we had to win 14 (league games) in a row. We couldn't lose one point.\n\n\"It's the toughest title we have won in all my career, by far.\"\n\nManchester City forward Raheem Sterling, speaking to Sky Sports: \"I'm just delighted, this is exactly what I came to the club for, to win trophies and be in these moments.\n\n\"The manager here... his mentality is the best. It's always about winning. It's the way he sets us up. I'm happy to be here learning and winning.\n\n\"As a manager, he's got multiple players in each position challenging each other. No one is comfortable here but everyone is ready to take their chance - like Riyad today. He's not played much recently but I knew he was going to score today.\n\n\"It's been a lovely season after a difficult World Cup. Hopefully I can go one better next year.\"\n\nBrighton manager Chris Hughton, speaking to Sky Sports: \"The next step for us is to learn from the disappointment we had in periods this season.\n\n\"We need to score more goals, that's the biggest thing. There are really good parts of our game that we can hold on to, but goals are the most important thing.\"\n\nOn Bruno's retirement: \"Bruno's an exceptional individual. It's not just about him being a great captain. The way he looks after himself and gets in the shape he is, it's great dedication.\n\n\"He's a fantastic individual and a person. That's why he's held in such high esteem here.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nNever before have the Premier League top two amassed so many points, never before have they suffered so few defeats.\n\nThe battle for the title has gone to the final day seven times in the Premier League era but, the Aguerooooooo season aside, few have been as compelling as the one between Manchester City and Liverpool this year.\n\nLiverpool were even top for 21 minutes on a nervy final day. So just how close did the Reds come to winning their first title in 29 years?\n\nDepending on how you look at it, the fine margin between success and failure, becoming heroes or remaining nearly men, was just the width of a paracetamol...\n• None The best top two in history - the numbers behind remarkable title race\n• None Rejuvenated and reconnected - the silver lining amid the pain for Klopp and Liverpool\n• None The long wait to be champions: Tales of Liverpool's title near-misses\n\nNine grains of sand away from the title?\n\nAll credit to BBC Sport reader Dan Middlehurst, who tweeted back in January: \"I've got a sneaky suspicion that the John Stones clearance might be one of the defining moments of the season.\"\n\nHow right he was.\n\nLiverpool came to Etihad Stadium on 3 January with a seven-point cushion at the top of the Premier League. Jurgen Klopp's side were unbeaten and knew that a win would put the defending champions 10 points behind them and potentially out of sight.\n\nAfter 18 minutes, with the score locked at 0-0, Sadio Mane poked a shot past Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson that hit the post, only for Stones' attempted clearance to rebound off the keeper and come agonisingly close to crossing the line, before the defender hooked it away.\n\nIt was a moment Stones would describe as \"something special\" as he celebrated on the pitch at Brighton after the final-day victory that clinched the title by a single point.\n\nSo how close was it? Goalline technology showed the ball was 11.7mm away from crossing the line. Or about the width of a headache tablet. Or nine grains of sand...\n\nIfs, buts, and maybes. But had Liverpool taken the lead would they have gone on to win? Ten points is an awful lot to make up in the remaining 17 games of the season.\n\nAs it was, goals from Sergio Aguero and Leroy Sane gave City the win and inflicted Liverpool's only defeat of the whole campaign.\n\n11.7mm from the title, 11.7mm from an Invincibles season.\n\nFast forward a few months and Pep Guardiola's side were grateful for another bit of sharp work from the goalline technology cameras.\n\nWith Liverpool on top of the league again, City were being held to a frustrating draw at Burnley when Aguero squeezed off a shot in the 63rd minute.\n\nClarets defender Matthew Lowton blocked it on his chest and hoofed it away. But it was over the line. By 29.51mm this time. A comparative chasm. But still only half as long as a golf tee. We're talking 2% of Danny DeVito.\n\nWould an assistant referee have given it? Maybe not. But that's what technology is for, right?\n\nIn a title race so tight and so intense, the two head-to-head games were always going to be massively significant. City may have landed a crucial blow with that win in Manchester in January, but they missed a chance in October that would have helped them out even more.\n\nChampions City had not won a league game at Anfield in 15 years. They had a great chance to end that run but Riyad Mahrez fired an 85th-minute penalty high over the bar. The game ended 0-0.\n\nWhy was Mahrez taking it? The £60m summer signing had missed three of his previous five penalties and unsurprisingly hasn't taken one since.\n\nLiverpool had a few helping hands on the way, certainly from opposing goalkeepers.\n\nEverton and England number one Jordan Pickford served up a howler in the Merseyside derby back in December, inexplicably shelling a hopeful punt on goal by Virgil van Dijk and allowing Divock Origi to head in.\n\nA month later and Julian Speroni caught the bug, or rather failed to catch it, juggling a routine cross from James Milner back over his own head to gift Mohamed Salah a tap-in. A needed tap-in too, as Liverpool scraped a 4-3 win.\n\nFulham's Sergio Rico got in on the act in March, dropping a Salah effort at the feet of Sadio Mane and then hauling the Senegal striker over for a penalty just when it looked like a costly draw was on the cards. Milner converted from the spot to give the Reds another win.\n\nLose one game and lose the title?!\n\nLiverpool fans, players, and management have a right to feel cheesed off.\n\nNo team had finished as Premier League runners-up with more than 89 points before now. In the top five European leagues, the runners-up to finish with the most points were Real Madrid in the 2009-10 La Liga season (96 points), an unwanted record Liverpool can now claim as their own.\n\nWhen Arsenal's 'Invincibles' went unbeaten en route to the title in 2003-04 they picked up 90 points, while only one other side has gone through a whole season losing just once - Jose Mourinho's Chelsea team who were champions in 2004-05.\n\nPremier League sides to have lost three games or fewer in a season\n\nBernardo Silva's performance in the game between the title rivals in January was one of the standout individual displays of the season - former England winger Chris Waddle told BBC Radio 5 Live that night that he \"was everywhere and kept dragging the team forward\".\n\nSilva and fellow forward Raheem Sterling both made it on to the six-man shortlist for the Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year award, while along with Aguero and Sane they have formed a devastating attacking line-up.\n\nYet it could all have been very different.\n\nIn January 2018, Manchester City and Manchester United were involved in a transfer tug-of-war over Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez.\n\nThe Chile striker eventually moved to Old Trafford, after City pulled out of a deal over fears his wage demands might affect team spirit.\n\nSince then Sanchez has scored five goals in all competitions for United, while City's forwards have thrived. Eight City players have scored more this season than Sanchez has managed in 16 months at Old Trafford.\n\nGoals in 2018-19 in all competitions\n\nHow much less game time would they have got if Sanchez had moved to Etihad Stadium? We will never know - but perhaps that decision not to sign a player was just as important as the ones to sign the likes of Silva, Sterling and Sane in the first place.", "Cesar Barron, known as Silver King, was performing in the Greatest Show of Lucha Libre at Camden's Roundhouse\n\nA professional wrestler and actor has died after collapsing during a bout in London.\n\nCesar Barron, known as Silver King, was a star in his native Mexico and appeared alongside the comic actor Jack Black in the 2005 film Nacho Libre.\n\nThe 51-year-old was performing at the Roundhouse in Camden when he fell to the canvas.\n\nA fellow Mexican wrestler paid tribute to his \"great rival\", saying: \"He went as he wanted: fighting!\"\n\nEl Hijo del Santo, aka Jorge Rodriguez, tweeted his \"deep regret\" at the death of his \"partner in so many battles\".\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 stuartdhughes 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\nBarron had been in the middle of a match at the Greatest Show of Lucha Libre event on Saturday. Reports in Mexican media suggest he may have suffered a heart attack.\n\nRoberto Carrera Maldonado, who attended the fight, said it initially looked like his collapse was part of the show.\n\n\"It felt like it was staged,\" he told the BBC. \"Obviously it was quite normal in the fight.\"\n\nBut the wrestler stayed on the floor despite the referee's efforts to revive him. Footage posted online shows the referee and several other men coming to his aid after he collapsed.\n\n\"All of us were really shocked - it wasn't clear what was happening,\" Mr Carrera said. \"I had the impression they didn't know what to do.\"\n\nMr Carrera said another fighter was pressing Barron's chest, and added that it seemed to be a long time after the wrestler collapsed before paramedics arrived.\n\nThe show was initially paused, but a loudspeaker announcement later asked the audience to leave.\n\nAmbulance medics arrived five minutes after being called at 22:21 BST, London Ambulance Service said, adding: \"Sadly a person died at the scene.\"\n\nThe Roundhouse confirmed there had been an \"incident\" during the show but said it was unable to comment further.\n\nIt later tweeted its condolences, saying: \"Last night Silver King sadly lost his life during an event at the Roundhouse.\n\n\"At this stage the details are still being investigated so we don't have more information we can share.\"\n\nCesar Barron appeared without his mask at the premier of the 2005 comedy Nacho Libre\n\nLucha Libre features masked competitors, or Luchadors, facing each other in acrobatic, choreographed battles.\n\nBarron grew up in a Mexican wrestling family and his father was a popular lucha libre fighter.\n\nAs Silver King, Barron found worldwide success, appearing in the USA's World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1997 to 2000.\n\nIn 2005, he starred as the villain Ramses in Hollywood comedy Nacho Libre alongside Jack Black.\n\nHe reprised his role as the \"evil Ramses\" during Saturday night's performance.\n\nTributes have flooded in from the wrestling world, with US company WWE among those mourning the star.\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 World Championship Wrestling (WCW) president Eric Bischoff said he was \"saddened to hear about the passing of Silver King\".\n\n\"Like so many of the great Luchadores that helped Americans appreciate Lucha Libre and make Nitro [a WCW flagship show] the success it was, he will be missed,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Gavin Williamson is in the spotlight again, after he resigned from the government amid accusations of bullying and harassment.\n\nFormer chief whip Wendy Morton has handed over a series of expletive-laden text messages from Sir Gavin to Parliament's bullying watchdog and made a complaint to Tory HQ about his conduct.\n\nFollowing a report in the Guardian that Sir Gavin told a senior civil servant to \"slit your throat\" and \"jump out of the window\" when he was defence secretary, No 10 said it would be conducting its own informal investigation.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Sir Gavin said allegations about his \"past conduct\" were becoming a distraction for the government - even though he \"refutes the characterisation of these claims\" and has apologised to the recipient of some text messages.\n\nThis is the third time Sir Gavin has had to leave government, having already been sacked from cabinet twice previously - as education secretary and defence secretary.\n\nHis rise through the Conservative ranks has been blown off course by a number of separate scandals.\n\nHowever, he has been widely seen as a political survivor, serving under four different prime ministers.\n\nThe 46-year-old was raised near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, by Labour-supporting parents.\n\nEducated at state schools, he became involved in Tory politics while studying at Bradford University and later went on to become a county councillor in North Yorkshire.\n\nA former fireplace salesman, he also ran a pottery firm, making and selling ceramic tableware, before being elected as MP for South Staffordshire in 2010.\n\nSir Gavin began his parliamentary career as a ministerial aide to David Cameron, acting as the then-prime minister's bag carrier and eyes and ears at Westminster.\n\nHe remained in this important role until Mr Cameron left office in June 2016.\n\nAfter Theresa May became prime minister, he was made chief whip, responsible for keeping MPs in line and enforcing party discipline.\n\nIn the aftermath of the disastrous 2017 election, he played a crucial role in paving the way for the Conservatives' agreement with the Democratic Unionists to prop up Mrs May's minority government.\n\nSir Gavin Williamson (right) shakes hands with the DUP's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, after the party signed a deal to prop up Theresa May's government\n\nIn his role as chief whip he was known for keeping a tarantula called Cronus on his desk.\n\nDescribing his methods in the whips office, he told the Conservative Party conference in 2017: \"We take a carrot and stick approach... Personally I don't much like the stick, but it is amazing what can be achieved with a sharpened carrot.\"\n\nNick Timothy - a senior adviser to Mrs May - described Mr Williamson as an \"excellent\" chief whip, who was \"a shrewd tactician\" and \"a judge of character\".\n\n\"Even MPs who don't like him admit that he was the best chief whip the party has had in decades - and he did it through some of the hardest years,\" he said in a tweet.\n\nSir Gavin's promotion to defence secretary in November 2017 came as a surprise to some within the Tory Party and the armed forces. He had no military background and little opportunity to build up a public profile because his role in the whips office meant he did not speak in Parliament.\n\nWhile at the Ministry of Defence he lobbied successfully for more funding for the military, often to the irritation of the Treasury.\n\nBut he was derided in the press for telling Russia to \"shut up and go away\", and for suggestions the UK should respond in kind to \"acts of warfare\" by the Kremlin.\n\nHis downfall came after an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting about whether to allow Chinese firm Huawei to help build the UK's 5G network.\n\nSir Gavin denied leaking information from the meeting, but Mrs May said she had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" and sacked him in May 2019.\n\nSir Gavin faced protests from pupils in the summer of 2020 after their A-level results were downgraded\n\nHe was not on the backbenches for long and returned to cabinet as education secretary in July the same year, when Boris Johnson became prime minister.\n\nWhen the Covid pandemic broke out in 2020, the role became even more high profile, with Sir Gavin responsible for tricky areas including home-learning and managing the return to classrooms and exams when schools fully reopened.\n\nHe was widely criticised for U-turning over getting all primary school pupils back in school after lockdown and there were also clashes with footballer Marcus Rashford over his campaign to provide children with free meals during holidays.\n\nPerhaps the biggest debacle was the chaos of the 2020 school exam period, with multiple U-turns over how to grade pupils after examinations were cancelled because of the pandemic.\n\nThis resulted in his department's most senior civil servant and the head of the exams watchdog both leaving their roles.\n\nSir Gavin stayed put until September 2021, when he was replaced by Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nSome argued he had been made a political fall guy - used as a lightning rod for the criticism of how the government had dealt with the challenges Covid posed to education and taking the blame for decisions that were never down to an individual minister.\n\nBut in March, the news he would receive a knighthood for his political and public service prompted anger from some teachers and parents, who blamed him - at least in part - for the mistakes on schools policy during the pandemic.\n\nSir Gavin returned to cabinet as a minister without portfolio under Mr Sunak in October. But it took less than two weeks for concerns to be raised about his appointment following claims he had bullied a fellow Conservative MP.\n\nIn texts sent to then-Chief Whip Ms Morton in the run-up to the Queen's funeral in September he appeared to complain that MPs who were not favoured by Prime Minister Liz Truss were being excluded from the ceremony at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIn the messages, published by the Sunday Times, Sir Gavin reportedly warned Ms Morton \"not to push him about\" and that \"there is a price for everything\".\n\nHe was quoted by the paper as saying he regretted \"getting frustrated\" and was happy to \"work positively with [Ms Morton] in the future as I have in the past\".\n\nNo 10 described the messages as \"unacceptable\" but the prime minister's official spokesman insisted Mr Sunak had full confidence in Sir Gavin.\n\nWhen he resigned, the prime minister said he accepted his resignation with \"great sadness\" but understood his decision to step back.\n\nSeparately an unnamed official at the Minister of Defence said Sir Gavin \"deliberately demeaned and intimidated\" them.\n\nThe official said they raised concerns to the Ministry of Defence's human resources department, but did not make a formal complaint at the time.\n\nSir Gavin did not deny using the language attributed to him but said he \"strongly\" rejected allegations of bullying.\n\nHowever, the pressure of multiple accusations and inquiries became too great, and Sir Gavin was forced to step down.\n\nWriting in his resignation letter, he said he would \"clear my name of wrongdoing\" but it remains to be seen if this consummate Westminster operator can, once again, bounce back.", "A lawsuit alleges that more than 100 generic drugs were included in a price-fixing scheme\n\nMore than 40 US states have filed a lawsuit accusing pharmaceutical firms of conspiring to artificially inflate the cost of common medicinal drugs.\n\nThe lawsuit alleges that as many as 20 companies have been involved in fixing prices for over 100 drugs, including treatments for diabetes and cancer.\n\nOne of the firms accused is Teva Pharmaceuticals, the world's largest producer of generic medicine.\n\nTeva, which has denied any wrongdoing, says it will defend its actions.\n\nThe legal action, which follows a five-year investigation, accuses drugs companies of involvement in a scheme to boost prices - in some cases by more than 1,000% - and was filed on Friday by Connecticut Attorney General William Tong.\n\n\"We have hard evidence that shows the generic drug industry perpetrated a multi-billion dollar fraud on the American people,\" Mr Tong said.\n\n\"We have emails, text messages, telephone records and former company insiders that we believe will prove a multi-year conspiracy to fix prices and divide market share for huge numbers of generic drugs.\"\n\nA representative of Teva in the US said that the Israeli company \"has not engaged in any conduct that would lead to civil or criminal liability\", Reuters news agency reports.\n\nThe other 19 firms implicated in the lawsuit have yet to comment on the allegations.\n\nFifteen individuals were also named as defendants accused of overseeing the price-fixing scheme on a day-to-day basis.\n\nAccording to the lawsuit, the drugs companies allegedly conspired to manipulate prices on dozens of medicines between July 2013 and January 2015.\n\nIt accuses Teva and others of \"embarking on one of the most egregious and damaging price-fixing conspiracies in the history of the United States\".\n\nMr Tong said the investigation had exposed why the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs was so high in the US.\n\nAmerica's healthcare system has been at the forefront of US politics for years.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has frequently promised to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, which was designed to make medical cover affordable for the many Americans who had been priced out of the market.\n\nStates have argued that eliminating Obamacare would harm millions of Americans who would struggle to meet the costs of medical care.", "A driver said he faced groups of trespassers \"every 200 yards\" along part of the route\n\nThe Flying Scotsman could be banned from main line tracks after people trespassed to catch a glimpse of it.\n\nThere was chaos between Derby and Birmingham last Sunday as fans vied to spot the legendary loco on its UK tour.\n\nThe situation was blamed for a string of delays to normal services, with reports of people refusing to move when challenged by drivers.\n\nNetwork Rail said a ban would be a \"move of last resort\" but could not be ruled out if lives were being risked.\n\nIt would not let \"a few thoughtless lawbreakers\" cause dangers and delays, it said.\n\nNearly 60 services were delayed for a total of 1,000 minutes as Flying Scotsman complete its tour of the Midlands last weekend, British Transport Police (BTP) said.\n\nThe force has issued an image of two photographers it wants to trace, saying it was \"extremely disappointing that a small minority of rail enthusiasts put their lives in grave danger\".\n\nAn image of two people just metres away from the line as a train was due to pass was released by police\n\nOne passenger service driver, who asked to remain anonymous, said he saw trainspotting trespassers every 200 yards.\n\nDescribing it as \"probably the most stressful experience I have ever had\", he said it was \"only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured or killed\" trying to get a photo.\n\nNick Brodrick, editor of Steam Railway magazine, said the problem was \"deeply troubling\".\n\n\"When you have drivers having to stop, get out and tell trespassers to move and even then be ignored, the situation is simply unacceptable,\" he said.\n\nHe said it would be hard to argue with a ban if someone was injured or killed.\n\nA Flying Scotsman spokesman said a ban \"would not be a surprise\" but every effort, such as CCTV and extra police on the train, was being taken to avoid the situation.\n\nThe tour ends in Scotland on Friday.\n\nNetwork Rail said it did not want to stop people seeing an \"iconic piece of British engineering\"\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.", "Hundreds of hardy competitors have battled their way across a muddy riverbed to raise money for charity.\n\nThe Maldon Mud Race sees participants run, leap and crawl across a 400m (1,312ft) stretch of the River Blackwater in Essex at low tide as they look to be crowned the winner.\n\nThe annual springtime event attracts people from across Europe and regularly raises tens of thousands of pounds for good causes.\n\nRace chairman Brian Farrington said: \"We are hoping to raise even more money for the charities.\"", "Brian Walden, the TV interviewer and former Labour MP, has died at the age of 86.\n\nThe broadcaster was known for his tough political interviews, including with Margaret Thatcher in 1989 which helped speed up the then-prime minister's downfall.\n\nMr Walden died following complications from emphysema at his home in St Peter Port, Guernsey, on Thursday.\n\nHis widow, Hazel, said he was \"always happy and got on well with people\".\n\nMr Walden served as Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood from 1964 until 1977.\n\nHe was best known politically for an impassioned speech calling for the abolition of capital punishment.\n\nMrs Walden, who says she was \"happily married\" to him for 43 years, said her husband was a passionate Brexiteer and that his biggest regret would be that he had not lived to see Brexit.\n\nShe said: \"He agreed with Nigel Farage that the only way is out, unless we wish to give up our British rights and tradition to be held in a superstate.\"\n\nAfter being elected as a Labour MP in four elections, he resigned from Parliament to become a journalist and broadcaster.\n\nHe presented the ITV political programme Weekend World as well as other TV shows including The Walden Interview and Walden.\n\nHe became known for his tenacious interviewing style, and often grilled the then-prime minister Mrs Thatcher. According to the Press Association, Mrs Thatcher enjoyed being interviewed by him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of Brian Walden's broadcasting highlights, including his 1989 interview with Margaret Thatcher\n\nDuring his most famous interview with Mrs Thatcher in October 1989 - when her own party was turning against her - he asked her: \"You come over as being someone who one of your backbenchers said is slightly off her trolley, authoritarian, domineering, refusing to listen to anybody else - why? Why can't you publicly project what you have just told me is your private character?\"\n\nThe then-PM replied: \"Brian, if anyone's coming over as domineering in this interview, it's you. It's you.\"\n\nMr Walden's own political views shifted away from Labour and towards the Thatcherite right wing. He maintained his libertarian beliefs and opposed the fox hunting ban.\n\nHis friend John Wakefield, who he worked with at ITV, said: \"Initially he was on the Gaitskell wing of Labour but found it all rather tawdry under Wilson.\"\n\nMr Walden won several awards for his broadcasting, and was named ITV personality of the year in 1991.\n\nMr Wakefield said he and Mr Walden had a \"terrific time\" together.\n\n\"Brian was an immensely lively and entertaining person to work with,\" he said.\n\n\"He was very much a team guy who loved what everybody had to say, including the most lowly, recent researcher, and was hugely gregarious and fun.\n\n\"He was brilliant because he was such a fantastic public speaker and, as a former politician, he knew how they operated - he was able to read their minds.\"\n\nMr Walden later presented BBC Radio 4's A Point of View programme, as well as documentaries for the BBC including Walden on Heroes and a series of profiles on former Labour Party leaders.\n\nBBC political presenter Andrew Neil paid tribute to his friend on Twitter, saying Mr Walden was \"always wise and witty\" and praised him for his role in inventing the British political interview style.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andrew Neil This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 LBC radio presenter Iain Dale called his interviews \"the stuff of legends\".", "Nigel Farage has accused Theresa May of \"wilfully deceiving\" people over her negotiated EU deal.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader told the BBC's Andrew Marr the PM's proposed Brexit deal was a \"new European treaty\".\n\nIn a tense interview, Mr Farage said he would demand his party became part of the government negotiating team if it was successful in the forthcoming European elections.\n\nElections to the European Parliament take place on 23 May.\n\nAsked why he did not advocate a no-deal Brexit at the time of the EU referendum in 2016, Mr Farage said: \"Because it was obvious that we could do a free trade deal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"The problem is the prime minister never asked for it, so we finished up in the mess that we're in,\" he said.\n\n\"She chose to go for this close and special partnership. Basically right from the start she was happy for us to be kept very close to the customs union.\n\n\"So where we are now, the only way the democratic will of the people can be delivered is to leave on a WTO (World Trade Organization) deal.\"\n\nThe interview on the BBC programme also saw Mr Farage asked about past comments on NHS privatisation, climate change, gun control, immigration and Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nResponding angrily to the line of questioning, he said: \"This is absolutely ludicrous, I've never in my life seen a more ridiculous interview than this.\n\n\"You're in denial, the BBC is in denial, the Tory and Labour parties are in denial.\n\n\"I think you're all in for a bigger surprise on Thursday week [the EU elections] than you can even imagine.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by BBC Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Farage's fellow guests on the Marr programme included Education Secretary Damian Hinds, who said the European Parliament elections would be seen by some people as a protest vote.\n\n\"For some people this is the ultimate protest vote opportunity. Actually, ironically this is, in a sense, for some people, this is the second referendum,\" he said.\n\nMr Farage said he believed that if there was a second referendum, the campaign to leave the EU would win by a bigger margin.\n\nHe said he was \"mentally preparing myself for one\", adding: \"I'm thinking we may well have it forced upon us.\"\n\nLib Dem deputy leader and People's Vote supporter Jo Swinson said Mr Farage had refused to \"own up to well-documented and abhorrent views on NHS privatisation, his admiration for Vladimir Putin and his denial of the facts about climate change\".\n\nShe said: \"Despite his claims to the contrary, everyone remembers that he promised in 2016 that there would be an amazing cost-free Brexit deal available to Britain if we voted to leave the EU.\n\n\"To say today that he always advocated 'no deal' is a mark of just how shameless he is, and how little he cares for the jobs and livelihoods of the people of this country.\"\n• None European elections: What you need to know", "Thousands of Albanians have been protesting against Prime Minister Edi Rama, with some throwing petrol bombs at his office.\n\nFor the last three months, there have been anti-government demonstrations in Albania. Mr Rama faces allegations of electoral fraud and corruption.\n\nOpposition leader Lulzim Basha urged crowds to continue protests until Mr Rama steps down from power.", "Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit talks with the Labour Party are a \"grave mistake\", according to former defence secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nMrs May is hoping to reach a cross-party consensus on her withdrawal agreement after failing to get it through Parliament three times.\n\nBut Mr Williamson - sacked over the Huawei leak - told the Mail on Sunday the talks were \"destined to fail\".\n\nHe added Jeremy Corbyn's only real interest was a general election.\n\nBBC political correspondent Jonathan Blake said a Downing Street source had indicated Mr Williamson had been \"supportive of the process while he was in the cabinet\" and that he had \"not been involved in the talks himself\".\n\nThe Conservative MP for South Staffordshire said doing a deal with Labour on Brexit \"sounds so simple and so reasonable\" - but would not work.\n\n\"Even if Labour do a deal, break bread with the prime minister and announce that both parties have reached an agreement, it can only ever end in tears,\" he said.\n\n\"The Labour Party does not exist to help the Conservative Party.\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn will do all he can to divide, disrupt and frustrate the Conservatives in the hope of bringing down the government.\n\n\"His goal, and he has made no secret of it, is to bring about a general election.\"\n\nMr Williamson said the prime minister seemed oblivious to the fact many Tories believe she is \"negotiating with the enemy\".\n\nHe continued: \"Even if we get to a point where Jeremy Corbyn agrees a deal with the prime minister, when it comes to detailed scrutiny of the votes, Labour will revert to form.\n\n\"Even if it passes the first few votes, it will fail later.\"\n\nMr Williamson's comments come after Conservative MP Sir Graham Brady said that he expected the government's Brexit talks with Labour to \"peter out\" within days.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, the chairman of the 1922 Committee, said he found it \"very hard\" to see the talks leading to a \"sensible resolution.\"\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth said that Labour was acting \"in good faith\" in the negotiations but was \"not getting very far\".\n\nHowever, Education Secretary Damian Hinds told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that no other person in Mrs May's position could change the \"parliamentary reality\" of needing to find a majority in the Commons.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back to 31 October after Parliament was unable to agree a way forward.\n\nAhead of European elections later this month, two separate polls, by ComRes and Opinium, give the Brexit Party the biggest share of the vote with the Conservatives in fourth place behind Labour and the Lib Dems.\n\nGavin Williamson was sacked by the PM earlier this month\n\nMr Williamson was sacked as defence secretary following an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting.\n\nDowning Street said the PM had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" and announced Penny Mordaunt as his successor.\n\nThe inquiry came after details of a discussion by the NSC over a plan to allow Chinese tech firm Huawei limited access to help build the UK's new 5G network was leaked to a newspaper.\n\nMr Williamson, who was defence secretary between 2017 and 2019, \"strenuously\" denied leaking the information.", "A massive waterspout has been filmed near the southern shore of Singapore.\n\nWitnesses who filmed the natural phenomenon said the waterspout was seen for around 20 minutes.\n\nA waterspout is a rapidly rotating column of air over water, under a shower cloud.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nSaracens came from behind to win their third European title in four years with a 20-10 victory over Leinster in the Champions Cup final at St James' Park.\n\nThe Irish side held a 10-point lead until the 39th minute but Sarries drew level when Sean Maitland's try cancelled out Tadhg Furlong's opener.\n\nBoth defences stood firm after the interval but Owen Farrell kicked Saracens in front just before the hour.\n\nVictory was sealed when Billy Vunipola crashed over from the back of a scrum.\n\nFarrell kicked the conversion as the Londoners scored 20 unanswered points and put in a dominant second-half performance, despite losing both their starting props to injury in the first half.\n\nSaracens - who become the first English side to win three Champions Cups after ending their European campaign unbeaten - will play a Premiership semi-final later this month as they continue to pursue the double, while Leinster remain on course to defend their Pro14 title.\n• None European victory 'not about me' - Vunipola\n\nFarrell wins the battles of the 10s\n\nThe 2019 Champions Cup final was dubbed as the battle of the fly-halves as international heavyweights Owen Farrell and Johnny Sexton renewed their rivalry, in front of nearly 52,000 spectators at Newcastle United's home ground.\n\nBoth players were 100% successful off the tee but it was Englishman Farrell who was the more influential as Saracens avenged last year's quarter-final defeat.\n\nThe England captain produced moments of excellence to draw his side level at half-time, having only conceded seven points with Maro Itoje in the sin-bin after waves of relentless Leinster running.\n\nFarrell kicked the penalty to get Sarries on the scoreboard before his deft pass allowed Maitland an easy run-in to score their opening try, in a move BBC Radio 5 Live pundit Matt Dawson believed was \"straight off the training ground\".\n\nSexton ran more metres and made more passes than his opposite number after opening the scoring with an early penalty, but Farrell's game management in the critical moments allowed his side to gain an advantage.\n\nThe trophy's journey back to England was all-but confirmed when Vunipola dived over with 13 minutes remaining as the England forward continues to impress after a controversial few weeks.\n\nVunipola was booed again, this time by the vociferous Leinster support, for his controversial social media post defending the now-sacked Australian international Israel Folau's assertion that \"hell awaits\" gay people.\n\nSaracens will be hoping Vunipola's late injury to his left shoulder is not too serious as they return to domestic rugby looking to claim more silverware.\n\nWith just a minute remaining of the first half, the plan for defending champions Leinster had been effective.\n\nThe Irish province were more mobile at the breakdown and they looked to bully Saracens into submission up front, as the north London side lost props Mako Vunipola and Titi Lamositele to injury as early as the 29th minute.\n\nItoje was sent to the bin for his part in an accumulation of penalties close to the Sarries line just a minute later, before Furlong powered over from close range for the game's first try.\n\nBut when Saracens - with captain Brad Barritt leading from the front - regained their composure, Leinster found it difficult to contain their fast and fluid game.\n\nSaracens made 12 offloads compared to Leinster's four as they looked to keep the ball alive and stretch the game with strike runners Liam Williams and Maitland.\n\nThe English side were more clinical in the right areas, and while Leinster had 56% possession, they struggled for creativity and were unable to penetrate Saracens' defence - scoring only three points while Sarries had 15 players on the pitch.\n\nThat was a magnificent turnaround by Saracens. Who says they can't win it again and again and again over the next few years?\n\nMost of the team will be around for several years yet. It's a ridiculously talented squad with great coaches and infrastructure. They have been absolutely brilliant today.\n\nAt 10-0 up Leinster looked in control, but in a week of sporting comebacks, Sarries dug deep, scoring a brilliant try through Sean Maitland. In the final quarter Sarries were astonishingly relentless and Billy Vunipola's powerful try was the killer blow as Leinster ran out of steam.\n\nIt's three Champions Cups in four years for Saracens and, given the hunger and age of this squad, this legacy will only grow.\n\n'It's a game of small margins' - what they said\n\nSaracens fly-half Owen Farrell said: \"It's a massive occasion for the whole club. It's not just about the lads on this pitch, everybody that's behind the scenes makes this club what it is.\n\n\"We were playing against a really good team who've got to back-to-back finals and they tested us. But this is a tight-knit group and that's what makes us good.\n\n\"Billy's played well and that's what he does on a regular basis. It's not just off-field stuff, it's other things as well and we've allowed it to make us tighter. You saw that today.\"\n\nLeinster fly-half Johnny Sexton said: \"It's a game of small margins. We were 10-3 up and had the ball in their half and decided to go for an attacking play.\n\n\"I thought we could have won it and scored ourselves which would have put the foot on their throat, but they are a champion side and they scored instead.\n\n\"At the start of the second half we started really well but we didn't take our chances close to their line. They made their pressure tell and we didn't.\n\n\"There were a few decisions that didn't go our way and we felt there was a knock-on before that second try.\"\n\nReplacements: Tracy for Cronin (51), J McGrath, Bent for Furlong (70), Ruddock, Deegan for Toner (74), O'Sullivan, R Byrne, O'Loughlin.\n\nReplacements: Gray, Barrington for Lamositele (29), Koch for M Vunipola (29), Isiekwe for Skelton (62), Burger for B Vunipola (75), Wigglesworth for Spencer (56), Tompkins, Strettle.", "Police were called to the Applegarth Car Park in Northallerton at 21:30 BST on Saturday\n\nA 15-year-old girl has died after apparently taking ecstasy in North Yorkshire.\n\nPolice were called after the teenager collapsed in Applegarth Car Park, Northallerton, at 21:30 BST on Saturday.\n\nShe was taken to hospital in Middlesbrough where she later died.\n\nDet Insp Jon Sygrove warned other people \"to be cautious and aware of the potential consequences of taking the drug\".\n\n\"This is an incredibly sad and tragic event and police inquiries are ongoing to determine the events around the girl's death,\" he said.\n\n\"Our thoughts and condolences are with her family and friends.\"\n\nMr Sygrove appealed for any witnesses to contact the force.\n\nHe said a police cordon was in place at the car park to allow officers to conduct a search.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A newly-wed couple re-ran their wedding two weeks after the original ceremony so the bride's 93-year-old mother, who lives in a care home, could attend.\n\nElizabeth Mannion-O'Keeffe was devastated that her mother Jean, who lives in Warrington, Cheshire, was unable to attend their Yorkshire wedding in April due to illness.\n\nShe re-staged the event with her mother's carers as bridesmaids.", "Concerns about body image are making large numbers of people depressed and even suicidal, a survey suggests.\n\nThe poll of 4,500 UK adults found a third had felt anxious about their bodies, with one in eight experiencing suicidal thoughts.\n\nThe Mental Health Foundation, which commissioned the survey, said the issue could affect anyone at any age.\n\nThe charity wants advertising and social media firms to take more care with the way bodies are portrayed.\n\nThe issue of body image is one of the main theme's of this year's Mental Health Awareness week.\n\nThe charity is promoting a number of personal stories as part of its push to raise awareness about the issue.\n\nThey include one from Justyn Bravescar, 25, from Croydon, south London.\n\nJustyn was left with scarring on his body after a childhood accident\n\nHe is a film-maker, blogger and mental health advocate, and has adopted Bravescar as his surname.\n\nAs a toddler he accidentally poured a pan of boiling water over his body, resulting in severe burns all over the upper half of his body, including his neck.\n\nHe was always very self-conscious about this and thought he would never find love or be at peace with himself.\n\nWhen he was older he started looking into reconstructive surgery, but says he had an epiphany when a skin camouflage tattoo artist told him that his scars were beautiful.\n\n\"As my scars were covered much of the time, it was very much an internal battle for me\" said Justyn.\n\n\"I worried about my scarring and what people would think. It has only been in the last few years that I have really accepted them. They are part of me.\"\n\nHe now has tattoos that highlight and celebrate his scarring.\n\nMental Health Foundation chief executive Mark Rowland said there needs to be greater awareness of the issue.\n\n\"Our survey indicates that millions of adults in the UK are struggling with concerns about their body image. For some people this is potentially very severe.\n\n\"Women, and particularly young women, are showing the highest rates of distress.\n\n\"Significant numbers have felt feelings of disgust and shame or changed their behaviour to avoid situations that make them reflect negatively about their bodies.\"\n\nBut he warned it was not just young people who were affected - one in five people aged over 55 and over said they had felt anxious because of body image.\n\nHe also said more needed to be done by social media companies and the advertising industry to promote a diversity of body types. He said there needed to be clear ways to report abuse and bullying online - something the government is looking into.\n\n\"Many people identified social media as an important factor causing them to worry about their body image - and the majority of respondents felt the government needed to take more action,\" he added.", "Labour's team including Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer have been negotiating with the government\n\n\"Constructive and detailed\" - that sounds quite positive - Number 10's description of the talks today.\n\n\"Robust\" - not quite so chirpy - Labour's use of political speak for what most of us might call a bit tricky.\n\n\"Disingenuous\" - oh dear - a different Labour source's description of ministers' claim that what they were putting on the table in the cross-party talks today was something genuinely new on the vexed question of customs arrangements after we leave the EU.\n\nAs we reported this morning there didn't really seem to be much from the government that was concrete beyond what's already possible under the agreement that's been hammered out with Brussels.\n\nThe divorce deal and indeed yes, you guessed it, the backstop, both have forms of temporary customs unions in them to make trade between the UK and the EU easier.\n\nOf course the precise language and mechanisms matter enormously.\n\nBut was there some big shiny new offer today? The short answer is: no.\n\nAnd after hours of talks this afternoon, Labour sources suggest ministers in the end more or less admitted that in pointed discussions.\n\nAs we've talked about here before, the cross-party talks process is real.\n\nPlenty of people in the Tory party hate it. Plenty of people in the Labour Party hate it.\n\nBut inside both leaders' camps, there is a genuine desire, more intense since they both had a bad night at the polls on Thursday, to see if they can sketch out a joint escape route from the mess of Brexit.\n\nBut the historically awful result for the prime minister does not seem to have shocked her into ditching her red lines - at least not yet.\n\nIt's important to understand this process is always unlikely to end up with some kind of joint defining pact - sources involved joke about the preposterous idea of some kind of May-Corbyn Rose Garden love-in - fond or awful memories of that summer's day when the Cameron-Clegg bromance was born in public (take your pick which).\n\nThe fact the talks have gone on for so long hint that there is serious merit in finding some kind of agreement on some kind of process.\n\nAt the very least senior figures in the government hope that the talks might mean Labour would allow the Brexit legislation to move on to its next phase.\n\nIn nerd terms, this is to allow the Withdrawal Bill to get through its so-called \"second reading\", knowing that at the next stage in Parliament where a committee of MPs would pore over every line, multiple layers of objections would be made, suggestions and changes put forward and then voted on, before finally, the bill would have its third reading, when MPs are able to give their final yes or no.\n\nIt is hard right now though to make a call on whether that is viable.\n\nOne former minister, experienced and not prone to make wild prediction, told me Number 10 was in \"la la land\" if they believed that could happen.\n\nAbout half an hour later, another former and experienced minister told me they believe, in fact, it will fly and perhaps by the end of this month.\n\nWhoever you ask, it is clear it is not straightforward.\n\nSo when the two teams sit down again on Wednesday afternoon, whether it is \"constructive\" or \"robust\", there's still an awful lot to do.", "An elephant calf has been rescued from a lake in north-east India, after it became separated from its mother.\n\nThe baby elephant became stranded in the Deepor Beel lake in Kamrup district, and was guided out by forest officials and locals.", "A woman who went to Greece for her 90th birthday has spent weeks in hospital unable to come home after a fall.\n\nMaysie McLeod was staying at her family holiday home on the Greek island of Lesbos when she broke her hip.\n\nShe has now been in hospital for more than two weeks, and her upset family are trying to get her insurance company to bring her home to Aberdeenshire.\n\nThe insurers said they would get Ms McLeod home as soon as possible, once it was safe for her to travel.\n\nThe claim is being handled by Emergency Assistance Facilities for Free Spirit, which caters for those who have been refused by other providers due to their health, disability or age.\n\nMs McLeod paid more than £200 for the comprehensive policy with £10m coverage.\n\nEmergency Assistance Facilities said the travel in a pressurised aircraft after a hip fracture was not recommended until 10 to 14 days after surgery, meaning the earliest Mrs McLeod could be considered able to travel was Tuesday 14 May.\n\nHer daughter Lesley McLeod has remained at her mother's bedside and has been trying to arrange for the insurers to provide transport either by air ambulance or private jet.\n\nThe pensioner is not well enough to travel home on the multiple commercial flights it would take for her to reach her Bridge of Don home from Lesbos, according to her doctors in Greece.\n\nMs McLeod Jnr arranged the holiday to celebrate her mum's 90th birthday on 4 May, but Ms McLeod Snr \"lost her footing\" and broke her hip on 27 April.\n\nShe spent her big day distressed and confused in hospital.\n\nAfter emergency surgery to have pins inserted, her family hoped to arrange transport back to the UK.\n\nTwo weeks since being admitted to hospital, the pensioner - who is registered blind - had developed bed sores and was suffering persistent hallucinations due to medication, shock and pain, and could not sit for more than 100 minutes.\n\nHowever, her doctors in Lesbos said she was fit to be discharged.\n\nHer family said the insurance company were \"dragging their feet\" to avoid paying out for the expensive trip home because she must be transported by stretcher.\n\nMs McLeod Jnr has taken special leave from work to remain by her mother's bedside in Greece until arrangements can be made to bring her mother home.\n\nShe told the BBC Scotland news website: \"They seem to be trying to find the cheapest way to get us home despite saying that money is not the object.\n\n\"As far as we can tell they don't do anything about mum's case unless we constantly chase them up. All I can do is sit and watch my mother suffer - it's heartbreaking.\n\n\"She is confused unhappy and in pain at the moment. She needs to get home, but will have to travel by stretcher.\n\n\"Unless the insurance company send an air ambulance then the only way they get home would be a charter flight.\n\n\"Otherwise we'd have to take several [commercial] flights to get back to Scotland, which she is not well enough to do.\n\n\"Her health is deteriorating - she is anxious and needs home. It's horrible; it's heartbreaking to watch your mother crying and not knowing where she is.\"\n\n\"This was meant to be something special for her and it's turned into an unimaginable nightmare.\"\n\nMrs McLeod Jnr has been in touch with her mother's GP, who has advised that Mrs McLeod Snr would require a short hospital stay in Scotland and support from her local authority when she is discharged.\n\nShe plans to have her mother stay with her in Edinburgh until she is well enough to return to her own home.\n\nA spokesperson for Emergency Assistance Facilities said: \"We are sorry that the family is unhappy with our service. We are doing everything we can to get Ms McLeod home as quickly and more importantly, safely as possible.\n\n\"When people fall ill or suffer accidents abroad it's understandable that they want to get home as soon as they can and we want this too, but this has to be balanced with achieving optimal recovery.\n\n\"It is grossly unfair to claim that we are trying to save money. Far from it. We are simply trying to find the safest way to get Ms McLeod home in order to achieve an optimal clinical outcome following her terrible accident.\"\n\nHe said hip fractures were particularly challenging for repatriation by air.\n\n\"The pressurised environment of a plane can put dangerous stresses on the body, and it's not recommended to repatriate someone with this kind of injury earlier than 10 to 14 days after surgery,\" the spokesman said. \"In Ms McLeod's case, this is no earlier than 14th May.\n\n\"We are still looking at all the options available for repatriation and will continue to discuss this with the family. Nothing has been decided for definite and the family can be assured we are doing everything to get her home as quickly and safely as possible.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are still talking to the family who gave us the clear impression that they understand the reasons for the delay in getting Maysie home.\"", "Two Londonderry men have appeared in court charged with rioting in the city on the night last month that writer Lyra McKee was murdered.\n\nChristopher Gillen, 38, of Balbane Pass and Paul McIntyre, 51, of Ballymagowan Park, were remanded in custody.\n\nThe city's magistrates' court was told evidence against them has been obtained from mobile phone footage and a documentary filmed by MTV.\n\nPolice believe the two men are members of the New IRA, the court heard.\n\nMr Gillen, who is unemployed, is charged with rioting, petrol bomb offences and the hijacking and arson of a tipper truck.\n\nMr McIntyre, who works as a taxi driver, is accused of rioting, petrol bomb offences and the arson of a hijacked vehicle.\n\nLyra McKee was observing rioting in Derry when she was shot dead\n\nA police officer told the court that officers had gone into Derry's Creggan estate on 18 April to conduct searches but that was followed by a \"sustained attack\" by people who were wearing masks.\n\nFour vehicles were hijacked, he added.\n\nPolice believe the two men can be connected to the rioting by clothing shown on various sources of video footage, including the MTV material, which was described by the officer as \"excellent\".\n\nThe prosecution lawyer said they believed that people in the area were using the filming of the MTV documentary, fronted by Reggie Yates, for their own purposes as \"a propaganda operation\".\n\nA solicitor representing Mr McIntyre described the case against him as \"extremely weak\".\n\nHe said his client was willing to live outside the city and accept a number of conditions if he was granted bail.\n\nThe police officer told Mr Gillen's solicitor that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) believes both men were members of the New IRA.\n\nWhen the solicitor said the police had \"no evidence\" to support that belief, the officer replied: \"That's correct.\"\n\nPolice were searching for weapons and ammunition when violence started on 18 April\n\nDuring his deliberations about bail applications for both men, the judge referred to what he described as \"disgraceful graffiti\" that appeared in the Creggan estate recently, warning people not to give information to the police.\n\nMs McKee, 29, was shot while observing rioting in the Creggan area on 18 April.\n\nThere was disorder throughout the evening leading up to her death.\n\nViolence broke out after raids were carried out by police, with detectives investigating dissident republican activity in the Mulroy Park and Galliagh areas.\n\nThe New IRA said its members carried out the murder.\n\nAn 18-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy, who were arrested last week by detectives investigating Ms McKee's death, were released without charge.", "Problems with the partial privatisation of the probation system in England and Wales have cost taxpayers almost £500m, the government spending watchdog says.\n\nUnder the changes, which began in 2013, firms were given contracts to supervise low and medium-risk offenders.\n\nThe National Audit Office said reforms were \"rushed\" and the numbers returning to prison for breaching their licence conditions had since \"skyrocketed\".\n\nThe government said this was because more offenders were being monitored.\n\nPrior to the reforms, which were designed to drive down re-offending rates, convicts who had served less than one year did not have to be supervised by probation services.\n\nBut from 2015 every criminal given a custodial sentence became subject to statutory supervision and rehabilitation upon release into the community.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said this meant an extra 40,000 offenders were being supported each year.\n\nThe NAO report said that between January 2015 and September 2018, the number of offenders recalled to prison for breaching their licence condition increased by almost half, from 4,240 to 6,240.\n\nOver the same period, the percentage of offenders recalled to custody who had received sentences of less than 12 months increased from 3% to 36%.\n\nThe NAO said the MoJ had \"set itself up to fail\" after it used a payment-by-results model which was \"inappropriate\" for probation services.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the \"scathing\" report raised \"serious questions about decision-making at the Ministry of Justice\".\n\nIn 2013 the MoJ began a major reform of probation services, partially privatising it in England and Wales.\n\nIt involved 21 companies - known as community rehabilitation companies (CRCs) - monitoring people who had been released from jail after serving short sentences.\n\nBut the report says the MoJ designed and implemented its reforms too quickly.\n\nBy March 2018, the CRCs were facing losses of £294m over the lifetime of their contracts - compared with the profits of £269m they had been expecting to start with.\n\nFour months later, the government acknowledged that the quality of probation services being delivered was not good enough and announced the MoJ would end the contracts with the CRCs in 2020 - 14 months early.\n\nThe report estimates that additional payments to CRCs beyond the original terms of the contracts will cost the department £296m, and terminating the contracts early will cost at least £171m.\n\nThe full cost to the taxpayer will not be known until at least December 2020, the report says.\n\nIt concludes that the MoJ's contracts were \"ineffective\" and hampered its ability to hold providers to account for poor services.\n\nOverall, it noted \"little progress\" had been made on transforming probation services.\n\nRory Stewart, prisons and probation minister, said the performance of CRCs was \"too often deeply disappointing\".\n\n\"That is why we have stepped in to end contracts early and invested an extra £22m a year in services for offenders on release,\" he said.\n\nMeg Hillier, who chairs the Commons Public Accounts Committee which scrutinises the value for money of public spending, said the MoJ's \"botched contracting\" had left this \"essential service\" underfunded.\n\n\"The ministry now needs to reflect and ensure that its new proposals can deliver the much-needed improvements to probation services,\" she added.\n\nKatie Lomas, chair of the probation officers union Napo, said bringing in providers with no experience in probation and splitting the service into two separate organisations was always going to bring additional costs.\n\nShe told the BBC that the government should \"pause and reflect\" before enacting further reforms to ensure the same mistakes were not repeated.\n\nThe chief inspector of probation, Dame Glenys Stacey, welcomed the NAO report, for bringing \"greater transparency\" to probation funding and contracts.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One mother describes how her abusive ex-partner was granted unsupervised access to their children by the family courts\n\nFamily courts in England and Wales are not properly accommodating children's voices and needs because the government has suggested \"it would all cost too much\", their former head has said.\n\nSir James Munby added the courts are \"shamefully\" behind in victim support.\n\nAt least four children have been killed in the last five years by a parent with a known history of violence, after a family court granted access.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said a child's welfare was always the priority.\n\nSir James's comments come as more than 120 MPs wrote to the government asking for an inquiry into how family courts in England and Wales treat victims of domestic violence.\n\nAnd dozens of parents have told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that their abusive ex-partners were granted unsupervised contact with their child.\n\nSir James, who was president of the Family Division of the High Court from 2013 to 2018, said it would be \"very foolish\" to ignore such findings.\n\n\"The only way we are going to get to the bottom of this once and for all is if there is a detailed independent analysis by reputable academic researchers,\" he said.\n\n\"It would be vital that the research be published, whatever the conclusions.\"\n\nAsked if the courts - which can place restrictions on what information is published to protect the identities of children - needed to be more transparent, he said: \"Many more judgements are now being published than previously but... nothing like as many as I would think appropriate\".\n\nSir James Munby said that because of legal aid cuts the family courts had effectively become a \"lawyer-free zone\"\n\nHe also raised concerns over how those attending courts were treated.\n\nHe said the system was failing to accommodate the voices of children \"well enough\" - including in cases where they wished \"to see the court, give evidence or meet the judge\".\n\nSir James added that \"detailed proposals\" to improve this had been worked up, \"but nothing can come into effect without the approval of the minister\".\n\nHe said he was told approval had not been given because, \"in plain English, it would all cost too much\".\n\nSir James also revealed that cuts to legal aid - and the increased number of people representing themselves in court - had effectively led to the family courts becoming a \"lawyer-free zone\", risking the \"quality of decisions and prejudicing cases\".\n\nAnd he said it was \"scandalous\" that in the family courts - unlike in other areas of the justice system - alleged perpetrators could still cross-examine alleged, potentially vulnerable victims.\n\nThe Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service said that its social workers \"help the courts to understand the impact of domestic abuse on the child by listening to their wishes and feelings and using our resources to understand their individual experience of the abuse\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it continued to look to improve how the justice system dealt with domestic abuse.\n\nIt said this included making it easier \"to access legal aid for victims, separate waiting areas for vulnerable court users, and action to ban abusers from cross-examining their victims\".\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.\n• None Call for inquiry into abusive parents' access to children", "Microsoft and Sony have formed a partnership on video games streaming, despite being fierce competitors.\n\nIt is expected Sony will use Microsoft’s Azure cloud service to host its upcoming PlayStation streaming service.\n\nMicrosoft has been trialling a streaming offer of its own, under its Xbox brand.\n\nThe firms said they would also work together on semiconductors and artificial intelligence applications.\n\n\"For many years, Microsoft has been a key business partner for us, though of course the two companies have also been competing in some areas,” said Kenichio Yoshida, Sony’s chief executive.\n\n“I believe that our joint development of future cloud solutions will contribute greatly to the advancement of interactive content.”\n\nMicrosoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, said: \"Sony has always been a leader in both entertainment and technology, and the collaboration we announced today builds on this history of innovation.”\n\nThe two companies have been bitter rivals in gaming since the launch of the first Xbox console in 2001.\n\nBut in its pursuit to compete with Amazon Web Services, hosting PlayStation’s streaming service would be a major coup for Azure, the fastest growing part of Microsoft’s business.\n\nFor Sony, if its PlayStation is to remain competitive, it too is likely to need to move heavily into streaming full, high-quality games over the internet.\n\nIndustry analysts say Sony might have struggled to do it alone.\n\n\"Everybody else has a head start on them,” said Rebekah Valentine, from GamesIndustry.biz.\n\n“There was a lot of discussion that Sony seemed to going the traditional route of making a normal console and continuing with what they had been doing in the past. This partnership with Microsoft shows they are fully exploring streaming technology.”\n\nSony already has a significant footing in games streaming - its PS Now service, which offers streaming access to the PlayStation back catalogue, accounts for 36% share of the $387m global games streaming market, said analyst Piers Harding-Rolls, from IHS Markit.\n\nHowever, with the streaming market expected to expand rapidly over the next five years, Sony’s comparative lack of expertise and infrastructure left it exposed.\n\n\"It is clear that Microsoft is the best choice for Sony even with the competitive dynamic between Xbox and PlayStation,” Mr Harding-Rolls said.\n\n\"Working together they have a better chance to head off competition from the likes of Google, which has gone on to dominate the last wave of technology disruption in the mobile space alongside Apple.\"\n\nWhile precise details of the partnership are still vague, the companies also said they would be working together on new semiconductors, image sensors and artificial intelligence.\n\nFor Microsoft, that opens the door to getting its cloud technology integrated into more consumer products, such as cameras and televisions, rather than working mostly on business applications as it does today.", "Gucci, pictured at Milan Fashion Week in February, is one of the brands owned by Kering\n\nFashion company Kering has announced that it will no longer use models who are under the age of 18.\n\nThe French luxury group owns several major fashion houses, including Gucci, Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen.\n\nThe policy will come into effect in time for the 2020-2021 Autumn/Winter collections, Kering said.\n\nChief executive François Henri-Pinault said in a statement that the company was \"conscious of the influence exerted on younger generations\" by its images.\n\n\"We believe that we have a responsibility to put forward the best possible practices in the luxury sector, and we hope to create a movement that will encourage others to follow suit,\" he said.\n\nMarie-Claire Daveu, Kering's chief sustainability officer, added: \"The physiological and psychological maturity of models aged over 18 seems more appropriate to the rhythm and demands that are involved in this profession.\"\n\nSara Ziff, founder of the campaign group Model Alliance, told BBC News the announcement was \"a positive step towards eliminating the intense pressure models currently face to maintain an adolescent physique and to go to extremes to lose weight\".\n\nBut she added that it lacks a \"mechanism for actual enforcement\" - and that she fears the pledge could \"amount to little more than lip service to critical issues that have plagued the industry for far too long\".\n\nKering's decision comes as fashion brands are increasingly trying to become more ethical, both in their designs and in their working practices.\n\nIn August last year Condé Nast, which publishes Vogue magazine, announced that it would not use models under the age of 18 in editorial shoots, unless they were the subject of an article.\n\n\"This is partly the result of an internal reckoning,\" an editorial in Vogue said at the time. \"Vogue, along with a number of other publications, has played a role in making it routine for children - since that's what they are - to be dressed and marketed as glamorous adults.\"\n\nIt continued: \"No more: it's not right for us, it's not right for our readers, and it's not right for the young models competing to appear in these pages. While we can't rewrite the past, we can commit to a better future.\"\n\nKaia Gerber, a rising star in the industry, is just 17 years old\n\nThe Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) made a similar declaration last year. Its CEO Steven Kolb said: \"Young models are still developing. There can be a lack of the confidence, strength, experience, and maturity it takes to deal with the pressures of this work.\"\n\nIn 2017, both Kering and a rival fashion group LVMH signed a charter agreeing to - among other things - stop hiring models who were under the age of 16.\n\nIt has long been common across the industry to cast models who were under 18 - and indeed, many supermodels got their start in the fashion industry at a young age.\n\nNaomi Campbell, now 48, was just shy of 16 when she launched her career. Kate Moss, 45, was discovered at the age of 14. Brooke Shields was just 14 when she appeared on the front cover of Vogue in February 1980.\n\nCurrently, 17-year-old Kaia Gerber is a rising star, while the late Karl Lagerfeld's godson Hudson Kroenig, 11, was regularly seen on the catwalk.\n\nBut a spotlight was shone on the treatment of young models in October 2017, when 14-year-old Russian model Vlada Dzyuba collapsed backstage at Shanghai Fashion Week and later died in hospital.\n\nVogue, in making its decision, also cited a number of allegations of sexual harassment in the fashion industry, which were publicised as part of the #MeToo movement.\n\nIt added that in the mid-1980s, when Campbell launched her career, there were so few fashion shows a year that \"a model could stay in school if she wished\" - but nowadays the work is much more demanding.", "Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn says Disney \"totally had the right\" to fire him over decade-old tweets that joked about rape and abuse.\n\nHe was rehired to direct the third instalment of the Marvel franchise in March, after the film's stars signed an open letter asking for his return.\n\nGunn says he \"feels bad\" about some of the ways he's spoken in public in the past and \"some of the jokes I made\".\n\n\"I feel bad for that and take full responsibility,\" he told Deadline.\n\nGunn was fired in July over tweets that Disney described as \"indefensible\".\n\nHe apologised at the time and said he took full responsibility.\n\nBut 10 days after he was fired, Bradley Cooper, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Karen Gillan, Vin Diesel and Dave Bautista - who all star in Guardians - signed an open letter saying they supported the director.\n\n\"In casting each of us to help him tell the story of misfits who find redemption, he changed our lives forever. We believe the theme of redemption has never been more relevant than now,\" they wrote.\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 prattprattpratt 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\nSpeaking in his first interview since being fired and then rehired, Gunn called the day he was kicked off Guardians the \"most intense\" of his life.\n\n\"There have been other difficult days in my life, from the time I got sober when I was younger, to the death of friends who committed suicide.\n\n\"But this was incredibly intense. It happened, and suddenly it seemed like everything was gone. I just knew, in a moment that happened incredibly quickly, I had been fired.\n\n\"It felt as if my career was over.\"\n\nBut the director, who already had a script ready for the third Guardians, says being sacked by Disney also made him feel love \"for the first time\".\n\n\"From my girlfriend Jen, my producer and my agents, Chris Pratt calling me and freaking out, Zoe Saldana and Karen Gillan, all calling and crying.\n\n\"That amount of love that I felt from my friends, my family, and the people in the community was absolutely overwhelming.\n\n\"So a part of that day was the worst of my life, and a part of it was the greatest day of my life.\"\n\nHe says that \"people have to be able to learn from mistakes\".\n\n\"If we take away the possibility for someone to learn and become a better person, I'm not sure what we are left with.\"\n\nGunn says he was \"set to really finish\" Rocket's story arc in Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3\n\nThe Guardians of the Galaxy films grossed more than £1.2bn, according to Box Office Mojo, and Gunn says he got \"a little bit teary-eyed\" when he was asked to return for Volume 3.\n\nHe says Disney co-chairman Alan Horn asked him to come back because \"he thought that was the right thing to do\".\n\n\"I was touched by his compassion.\"\n\nGunn says not being able to complete the story of Rocket, played by Bradley Cooper, was one of the things he felt saddest about when he thought he wouldn't get to direct the third Guardians.\n\nThe lovable raccoon's character has developed significantly since the first film, with him taking on a much larger role in the latest Avenger's movie, and Gunn says that arc is set to be finished in the next movie.\n\nBefore that though is DC's next Suicide Squad film, which he was hired to write after leaving Guardians.\n\n\"I don't think I've had as much fun writing a script since maybe Dawn of the Dead. That's what this whole movie has been like.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Boeing has completed development of a software update for its 737 Max plane which was grounded following two fatal crashes within five months.\n\nThe US firm announced that it had flown the 737 Max with the updated software on 207 flights.\n\nIt added it would provide data to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on how pilots interact with controls and displays in different scenarios.\n\nThe FAA expects Boeing to submit the upgrade for certification next week.\n\nAn Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed in March, killing all 157 people on board.\n\nIt followed the Lion Air disaster in Indonesia in October, in which 189 people died.\n\nBoth crashes were linked to the Boeing 737 Max's Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System - a new feature on the aircraft which was designed to improve the handling of the plane and to stop it pitching up at too high an angle.\n\nBoeing said that once information on how pilots work with the upgraded system is submitted to the FAA, it will work with the regulator to schedule a certification test flight and submit final certification documentation.\n\nThe Ethiopian Airlines crash killed all 157 people on board\n\nThe company also said it had completed associated simulator testing on the upgraded system and had developed training and education materials that are now being reviewed by the FAA, global regulators and its airline customers.\n\nThe FAA said earlier this week that it would hold a meeting on 23 May with air regulators from around the world to provide an update on reviews of Boeing's software fix and new pilot training.\n\nAviation safety analyst Todd Curtis told the BBC that the US regulator was not the only one that Boeing had to satisfy.\n\n\"You also have other national authorities in Canada and the United Kingdom and in Europe who have said they would like to have their own tests and their own evaluation before certifying this aircraft for flight,\" he said.\n\n\"It's unclear whether or not there will be approval, let's say from Canada, to have this aircraft fly, which could directly affect US carriers, since many routes - even domestic US routes - overfly Canadian airspace.\n\n\"If the authorities there don't certify the 737 Max, they'll have to avoid that airspace.\"\n\nPilots are expected to undergo extra training on the new system once it receives certification. Mr Curtis said it would take a lot to convince them and other flight crew members that the aircraft was safe.\n\n\"They probably will have a fairly high bar to be satisfied before they'll give the seal of approval, as it were, that the aircraft is safe to fly,\" he said.", "The world's first drugs designed to stop cancer cells becoming resistant to treatment could be available within the next decade, scientists have said.\n\nA £75m investment to develop the drugs has been announced by the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR).\n\nChief executive Prof Paul Workman said cancer's ability to adapt to drugs is the biggest challenge in treatment.\n\nThe new drugs could make cancer a \"manageable\" disease in the long term and \"more often curable\", he said.\n\nResearchers say existing treatments such as chemotherapy sometimes fail because the deadliest cancer cells adapt and survive, causing the patient to relapse.\n\nProf Workman said: \"Cancer's ability to adapt, evolve and become drug resistant was the cause of the vast majority of deaths from the disease and the biggest challenge we face in overcoming it.\"\n\nHe said the institute was \"changing the entire way we think about cancer\" to focus on anticipating the way cancer cells will evolve to prevent them from becoming resistant to drugs.\n\nThe ICR aims to attract a further £15m of funding for its new Centre for Drug Discovery at its campus in Sutton, south London, which is intended to bring together almost 300 scientists from different fields.\n\nAll cancers are constantly evolving and that is a major problem because patients relapse if their cancer develops resistance to therapy.\n\nThe approach by the Institute of Cancer Research is to harness the process of evolution, to turn to the theories of Charles Darwin in the hunt for new therapies.\n\nOne idea is to develop drugs that limit a cancer's ability to evolve.\n\nAnother is \"evolutionary herding\" that guides a cancer's development into a state that makes it more vulnerable to drugs.\n\nOr combinations of therapies could present an impossible hurdle for cancer to overcome.\n\nEarly-stage experiments using these ideas have had promising results, but any changes to the way patients are treated are at least a decade away.\n\nScientists aim to use new approaches including multidrug combination treatments and artificial intelligence to predict and influence the evolution of cancer cells, creating weaknesses that treatments can exploit.\n\nDr Andrea Sottoriva, deputy director of cancer evolution in the new centre, said: \"Artificial intelligence and mathematical predictive methods have huge potential to get inside cancer's head and predict what it is going to do next and how it will respond to new treatments.\"\n\nResearchers are already working on new drugs designed to stop a type of protein molecule called Apobec, which is part of the immune system hijacked by more than half of cancer types to speed up the evolution of drug resistance.\n\nProf Workman said laboratory testing and clinical trials for the new drugs would take around 10 years before they could potentially become available for patients.\n\nHe added: \"We firmly believe that, with further research, we can find ways to make cancer a manageable disease in the long term and one that is more often curable, so patients can live longer and with a better quality of life.\"", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK gears up for the general election on 12 December.\n\nBut where do the parties stand on Brexit?\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson wants the UK to leave the European Union (EU) with the revised deal he agreed.\n\nHe says that with a majority Conservative government, he would start the process to \"get Brexit done\" on day one of the new Parliament.\n\nHe previously said the UK would leave on 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson was forced to write a Brexit extension letter to the EU, after MPs failed to approve his revised deal.\n\nMr Johnson secured changes to the deal previously negotiated by Theresa May. It includes scrapping the controversial Irish backstop and replacing it with a new customs arrangement.\n\nBoris Johnson's revised Brexit deal has not yet been approved by the UK Parliament\n\nBrexit left the Conservative Party heavily divided, with 21 MPs expelled for failing to follow the government's line. Ten were later welcomed back.\n\nIf it wins the election, Labour wants to renegotiate Mr Johnson's Brexit deal and put it to another public vote. It says it will achieve this within six months.\n\nLabour says its referendum would be a choice between a \"sensible\" Leave option versus Remain.\n\nUnder its Leave option, Labour says it will negotiate for the UK to remain in an EU customs union, and retain a \"close\" single market relationship.\n\nThis would allow the UK to continue trading with the EU without checks, but it would prevent it from striking its own trade deals with other countries.\n\nIf a referendum was held, Mr Corbyn has said he would remain neutral if he was prime minister \"so I can credibly carry out the results\".\n\nJust like the Conservatives, Labour has had to deal with internal divisions over its Brexit policy. More than 25 Labour MPs wrote to Mr Corbyn in June, saying another public vote would be \"toxic to our bedrock Labour voters\".\n\nWhile Labour's election strategy early on was to emphasise that the vote was about more than Brexit, it is changing its focus.\n\nThe message now is that Labour's leadership is not opposing Brexit by opposing Mr Johnson's deal - it wants to find what it believes is a better one.\n\nThe SNP is pro-Remain and wants the UK to stay a member of the EU.\n\nIt has been campaigning for another referendum on Brexit. Alternatively, it wants Article 50 revoked if it is the only alternative to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nScotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is \"catastrophic\"\n\nThe SNP's ultimate objective is for an independent Scotland that is a full member of the EU.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have pledged to cancel Brexit if they win power at the general election.\n\nThe policy was endorsed in September by party members at the Lib Dem party conference.\n\nIf the Lib Dems do not win a majority, they would support another referendum.\n\nLeader Jo Swinson says that stopping Brexit would free up £50bn, over five years, to spend on public services.\n\nShe says that so-called \"Remain bonus\" would pay for 20,000 new teachers, extra money for schools and to help support low-paid workers.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had an agreement with the Conservatives whereby it lent it support in the Commons during the last Parliament.\n\nHowever, while the DUP wants the UK to leave the EU, it opposes elements of Mr Johnson's Brexit deal which relate to Northern Ireland,.\n\nThe DUP is unhappy with the revised Brexit deal\n\nAt its manifesto launch, the party said it will seek further changes to the deal if he is still prime minister after the election.\n\nThe deal includes special arrangements for Northern Ireland. One gives the Northern Ireland Assembly a majority vote on how customs arrangements would work after Brexit.\n\nThe DUP wants such a vote to be taken on a cross-community basis, rather than a straight majority.\n\nThis party is made up of MPs who left the Conservatives and Labour, in part because of their positions on Brexit.\n\nIt backs another referendum, or \"People's Vote\", and wants the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nThe party backs remaining in the EU, despite Wales voting Leave in the referendum. It wants a further referendum and to Remain.\n\nIn a bid to get as many pro-Remain MPs as possible into Parliament, Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats and Greens have agreed an electoral pact in 11 of the 40 seats in Wales.\n\nThe party's one MP, Caroline Lucas, has been a vocal campaigner for another referendum, and believes the UK should stay in the EU.\n\nThe Brexit Party wants the UK to leave the EU without a deal, in what it calls a \"clean-break Brexit\".\n\nIt says that is the way to \"start changing Britain for good from day one\" and that the transition period after leaving would not be extended.\n\nIt also says Mr Johnson's revised Brexit plan is a bad deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\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• None What are the PM's remaining election options?", "Eilidh MacLeod was among the 22 people killed in a bombing two years ago\n\nA major fundraising effort has begun for a charity set up in memory of a victim of the Manchester Arena attack in 2017.\n\nEilidh MacLeod, 14, was one of the 22 people killed by a bomb on 22 May.\n\nThe fundraising drive includes volunteers taking part in Sunday's Great Manchester Run and next weekend's Edinburgh Marathon.\n\nThe Eilidh Macleod Memorial Trust will use donations to fund music tuition for young people and a memorial to Eilidh.\n\nThe teenager played bagpipes with Sgoil Lionacleit Pipe Band and was passionate about music.\n\nEilidh's cousin Alex White will be running at the Great Manchester Run\n\nThe attack at the arena came as fans were leaving an Ariana Grande pop concert.\n\nEilidh's friend Laura MacIntyre, also from Barra, survived but was badly injured.\n\nAlex White, a 15-year-old cousin of Eilidh's living in Cheshire, will be among those taking part in the Great Manchester Run.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"I feel that I want to give something back to her for everything she's given to me. I miss her every single day.\n\n\"I feel that this is one time in the year I get to give something back to her and I get to be there with her.\"\n\nSuzanne White says the fundraising effort will recognise all those affected by the events of 22 May 2017\n\nAlex's mother, Suzanne White, who will also be running, said: \"Physically it is going to be a challenge. It is also going to be quite an emotional challenge as well.\n\n\"This will be the first fundraising event that we have really done since we started the charity up.\n\n\"It's not just for Eilidh, it's for each one of the victims and all the people who were impacted.\"\n\nIagan Macneil, of the Eilidh Macleod Memorial Trust, said the runners' involvement in the Great Manchester Run would help to recognise the link Eilidh's family now had with the city.\n\nHe said: \"It is really important to take to the streets of Manchester in solidarity with the city, but also to remember Eilidh.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Playing the bagpipes gave Eilidh Macleod the \"confidence that no other pastime could\"\n\n\"Eilidh went to Manchester very innocently, but sadly never came home and we want to make sure that legacy of Eilidh's continues, and that link with Manchester continues.\"\n\nMr Macneil, who is from Barra and lives in Edinburgh, added: \"One thing we are determined to do is change the future and make a positive difference for other young people through music education.\n\n\"We cannot change the past, but we can certainly do our very best to change the future.\"\n\nAndy Burnham ran the Boston Marathon in aid of charities set up following the Manchester Arena attack\n\nAndy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, ran the Boston Marathon in April in aid of Eilidh's trust and others set up in memory of victims of 2017's attack.\n\nHe said: \"To be running for a charity set up by families, including Eilidh's, was just an enormous privilege. I felt humbled doing it.\n\n\"It is about turning what happened into a positive in whatever way that we can.\"\n\nEilidh was passionate about music and played in her local pipe band", "The system which sees private firms monitor criminals serving community sentences is \"fundamentally flawed\", the chief inspector of probation has said.\n\nDame Glenys Stacey told Today: \"Much more needs to be done to protect the public... but even if that is done it will not be enough, the system is not able to deliver as well as it could.\"", "HS2 bosses say the project will transform the UK economy\n\nHS2 will not offer value for money and risks \"short changing\" the North of England, a group of peers has warned.\n\nA report from the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee also said it was \"far from convinced\" the new high-speed railway will be built within the £55.7bn budget.\n\nIt said the project should not go ahead without a new assessment of its costs and benefits.\n\nThe government said it \"fundamentally disagreed\" with the report.\n\nThe committee, which includes former chancellors Lord Darling and Lord Lamont, said that more than £4bn had already been spent on the first phase of HS2, which will run between London and Birmingham.\n\nBut it said the scheme had put too much emphasis on cutting journey times and not enough on the economic impact on regions.\n\nIt said the first phase of the project offered \"little benefit\" to northern cities, despite them being in most need of better rail infrastructure.\n\nAnd it said the second phase, which would improve journey times between Leeds and Sheffield, risked never going ahead because of spending overruns.\n\n\"The northern sections of High Speed 2 must not be sacrificed to make up for overspending on the railway's southern sections,\" said Lord Forsyth, who chairs the committee.\n\nThe report called for the Northern Powerhouse Rail scheme - a separate scheme connecting towns and cities in the region - to be completed alongside HS2.\n\nCurrently work on that scheme does not begin until the mid 2020s.\n\nIt also urged the government to control the costs of HS2, amid warnings that \"nobody knows\" what the final cost will be.\n\nIt suggested lowering the speed of HS2 or placing its terminal in west London rather than Euston would save money.\n\nThe report is the latest in a series of warnings about the railway, amid concern over its finances and environmental impact.\n\nHS2 is planned to run up to 18 trains per hour at a top speed of 225mph, with phase one set to open in 2026.\n\nA Department for Transport spokeswoman said: \"By 2020, the government will have invested a record £13bn in transport across the North, and we have a clear plan for linking the Midlands and the North through HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail - the full benefits of which can only be delivered on the back of HS2.\n\n\"This is not either/or, we are clear we want both.\n\n\"HS2 will deliver additional rail capacity, significantly improve connections and provide opportunities for economic growth - with around £92bn in benefits - for people and businesses across the North.\"", "Two window cleaners have been rescued from a metal basket which was swinging out of control near the top of a 50-storey building in Oklahoma.\n\nReports said the crane at the Devon Tower was unstable and the incident took place in high winds.\n\nThe basket smashed several windows before emergency responders stabilised the crane and lowered it down.\n\nOklahoma City Fire Deparment said the two workers were being checked for injuries.", "I M Pei, the architect behind buildings including the glass pyramid outside the Louvre in Paris, has died aged 102.\n\nTributes have been pouring in, remembering him for a lifetime of designing iconic structures worldwide.\n\nPei's designs are renowned for their emphasis on precision geometry, plain surfaces and natural light.\n\nHe carried on working well into old age, creating one of his most famous masterpieces - the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar - in his 80s.\n\nIeoh Ming Pei was born in Guangzhou in 1917, and moved to the US at the age of 18 to study at Pennsylvania, MIT and Harvard.\n\nHe worked as a research scientist for the US government during World War Two, and went on to work as an architect, founding his own firm in 1955.\n\nOne of the 20th Century's most prolific architects, he has designed municipal buildings, hotels, schools and other structures across North America, Asia and Europe.\n\nQatar's Islamic Museum of Art is one of Pei's most famous designs\n\nThe architect also designed the Suzhou Museum in China, which was completed in 2006\n\nHis style was described as modernist with cubist themes, and was influenced by his love of Islamic architecture. His favoured building materials were glass and steel, with a combination of concrete.\n\nPei sparked controversy for his pyramid at the Louvre Museum. The glass structure, completed in 1989, is now one of Paris' most famous landmarks.\n\nHis other work includes Dallas City Hall and Japan's Miho Museum.\n\n\"I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity,\" he once said.\n\nHe was won a variety awards and prizes for his buildings, including the AIA Gold Medal, the Praemium Imperiale for Architecture.\n\nIn 1983 Pei was given the prestigious Pritzker Prize. The jury said he had he \"has given this century some of its most beautiful interior spaces and exterior forms\".\n\nHe used his $100,000 prize money to start a scholarship fund for Chinese students to study architecture in America.", "Ateeq Rafiq died a week after becoming trapped at Birmingham's Star City on 16 March 2018\n\nA cinemagoer died after his neck got trapped in an electronic footrest as he searched for his phone and keys, an inquest heard.\n\nAteeq Rafiq, 24, had been in a \"Gold Class\" seat at the Vue multiplex at Star City, Birmingham, last March.\n\nHis wife and staff spent 15 minutes trying to free him from the mechanism, a jury heard.\n\nCoroner Emma Brown said Mr Rafiq died from \"catastrophic\" brain injuries after suffering a cardiac arrest.\n\nAyesha Sardar told the inquest her husband \"went fully under the seat with just his legs sticking out\" while reaching for his possessions at the end of the film.\n\nJurors heard the footrest was initially in a raised position but started to come down \"very quickly\".\n\nMrs Sardar noticed it descended and tried unsuccessfully to hold it up before running for help.\n\nCinema staff then attempted to release Mr Rafiq for 15 minutes while she was taken outside, she said.\n\nStaff eventually managed to free Mr Rafiq by removing a bolt from the seat, which had trapped either the back or right side of his neck, the inquest was told.\n\nMrs Sardar said she \"ran back in\" when she heard he was not breathing, and \"saw that he was blue\".\n\nMr Rafiq, from Aston, Birmingham, died in hospital a week later.\n\nHis cause of death was confirmed as a cardiac arrest following compression of the neck.\n\nCharles Simmons-Jacobs, from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), said he found it was \"impossible\" to lift eight of the footrests in the 52-seat theatre.\n\nThe seats only work when a customer was seated, he said, and after they vacated the control box waited four seconds before returning to a vertical position.\n\nMr Rafiq's seat had blown a fuse in its control box, he said, adding that the force that came down on him would have been the equivalent of three-quarters of a tonne.\n\nMrs Sardar said her husband was \"always happy and positive\".\n\n\"His smile was the kindest and his heart was the greatest,\" she said.\n\nThe inquest, due to last a week, continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pret a Manger is reportedly planning to buy rival Eat and turn the chain's 94 stores into vegetarian outlets.\n\nPret, which has 400 stores in the UK, has four branded as \"Veggie Pret\" and is aiming to jump on the trend for vegetarian and vegan foods.\n\nIt comes as plant-based foods are increasing in popularity, with shares in US company Beyond Meat soaring at this month's stock market debut.\n\nBoth Pret a Manger and Eat declined to comment.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported that talks between the two chains were understood to be at an advanced stage, with Pret in line to buy the majority of Eat's 94 shops or the whole business.\n\nThe paper reported that in February Eat's private-equity owner Horizon Capital appointed Spayne Lindsay, a corporate advisory firm, to offload the business.\n\nBoth food chains are owned by private equity companies.\n\nPret a Manger was sold by Bridgepoint to Luxembourg-based JAB Holdings last year and as result all 12,000 staff employed at Pret received a £1,000 bonus. It has 500 stores globally.\n\nThe Financial Times reported that \"nothing had been signed\" but that the \"details were being ironed out\" on a deal. It also added that there were potential other bidders for Eat.\n\nIn April, Eat reported a pre-tax loss of £17.2m in the year to end of June 2018, but said that it had since experienced 11 consecutive months of like-for-like sales growth.\n\nVeganism is becoming more popular in Great Britain.\n\nResearch by the Vegan Society in 2016 estimated there were about 540,000 vegans in the country, compared with about 150,000 in 2006.\n\nShares of vegan burger maker Beyond Meat soared on their Wall Street debut earlier this month as investors bet on the growing popularity of plant-based foods.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson on Tory leadership bid: \"Of course I'm going to go for it\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said he will run for the Conservative Party leadership after Theresa May stands down.\n\nAsked at a business event in Manchester if he would be a candidate, the former foreign secretary replied: \"Of course I'm going to go for it.\"\n\nMrs May has said she will resign once MPs back her Brexit deal.\n\nA decision on her exit timetable will now take place after the House of Commons votes on her Brexit bill early next month.\n\nSir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative MPs, made the announcement following a meeting between the prime minister and his committee's executive on Thursday. He said it would bring \"greater clarity\" to Mrs May's intentions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Huw Edwards This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 senior Conservatives are expected to enter the contest for the leadership, with the winner also becoming prime minister.\n\nAsked at the British Insurance Brokers' Association conference in Manchester whether he wanted to be in charge of his party, former London mayor Mr Johnson said: \"I'm going to go for it. Of course I'm going to go for it. I don't think that is any particular secret to anybody. But you know there is no vacancy at present.\"\n\nMrs May's withdrawal agreement with the EU has been rejected three times by the Commons. And she has come under increasing pressure to go after the Conservatives lost more than 1,300 councillors in recent local elections.\n\nMany Conservative MPs are also unhappy that Mrs May is holding cross-party talks with Labour in an effort to get her withdrawal agreement through the Commons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives jostling to be the next prime minister\n\nMr Johnson, a leading Brexiteer who quit the cabinet last year over the terms of the agreement, said: \"I do think there's been a real lack of grip and dynamism in the way we approached these talks [with the EU].\"\n\nThe MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip added: \"We've failed over the last three years to put forward a convincing narrative about how we can make sense of Brexit and how to exploit the opportunities of Brexit.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a Conservative leadership contest, MPs hold a series of ballots, with the candidate gaining the fewest votes eliminated at each stage.\n\nOnce the field is reduced to two, the winner is chosen by a vote of party members. This wider vote did not occur in 2016, when Mrs May became leader, after the second-placed candidate among MPs - Mrs Leadsom - stood aside.\n\nInternational Development Secretary Rory Stewart and former work and pensions secretary Esther McVey have announced they will run and Commons leader Andrea Leadsom has said she is \"considering\" doing so.\n\nOther widely touted possible contenders include former and current members of the cabinet, including Michael Gove, Amber Rudd, Sajid Javid, Dominic Raab, Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss.\n\nPublisher William Collins has announced that the biography of David Cameron - whom Mrs May replaced at Conservative leader and prime minister following the EU referendum - will be released in September.", "That's it from Holyrood Live on Thursday 16 May 2019.\n\nA woman whose uncle took his own life after being sent home by health workers despite three suicide attempts in four days has criticised an inquiry into the services provided, the Scottish Labour leader said.\n\nRichard Leonard quoted Gillian Murray at FMQs as saying: \"Nothing seems to have happened. We're not kept involved. It's definitely not been transparent.\"\n\nThe Scottish government commissioned an independent inquiry into mental health services in NHS Tayside after concerns were raised by Ms Murray after the death of her uncle David Ramsay.\n\nNicola Sturgeon stressed the inquiry was independent from government and that its report was expected imminently.", "Babette Lucas-Marriott was in The Jeremy Kyle Show audience when Steven Dymond's story was filmed.\n\nThe 63-year-old man, from Portsmouth, was found dead after appearing on the programme, in which he took a lie detector test.\n\nMs Lucas-Marriot said the show was \"uncomfortable\" viewing and that Mr Dymond and his fiancee were \"completely and utterly devastated\".\n\nITV has announced that The Jeremy Kyle Show will no longer be produced. A review of the episode in question is under way and it will not be screened.\n\nHave you appeared on the Jeremy Kyle show? Email us with your experience at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nRead more on this story.", "Chris Evans took over the Virgin breakfast show in January\n\nChris Evans has helped Virgin Radio break the one million listener barrier, the latest Rajar ratings show.\n\nHis new breakfast show attracted an average weekly audience of 1.05 million in the first three months of 2019.\n\nVirgin Radio as a whole was averaging about 480,000 listeners per week before he joined.\n\nEvans moved to Virgin in January after leaving BBC Radio 2, where he attracted around nine million listeners during his decade on the breakfast show.\n\nThe DJ said he moved to Virgin because he \"wanted a new mountain to climb\", adding: \"I'm back in my spiritual home and loving every minute of it.\"\n\nThe new host of the Radio 2 breakfast show, Zoe Ball, kept the audience there relatively steady in her first three months in the job.\n\nShe recorded 9.05 million listeners in the first quarter of this year - just 18,000 down on Evans's last set of figures.\n\nBall said she was \"supersized giddy\" over the figures and thanked listeners \"for giving us a chance and for getting so involved in the show's antics\".\n\nLauren Laverne, who took over 6 Music's breakfast show in January, delivered record figures for the timeslot, with 1.28m listeners tuning in every week.\n\nThere was a considerable increase in listeners for news programmes and stations in the three months running up to UK's intended departure date from the European Union at the end of March.\n\nAbout 364,000 extra listeners tuned in to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, taking its average weekly audience to 7.16 million.\n\nJustin Webb and Mishal Husain are among the Today programme's presenters\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live's breakfast show also went up by 214,000 listeners to 2.14 million.\n\nSimilarly, commercial news station LBC celebrated the highest reach of its 47-year history, with 2.25 million weekly listeners on average.\n\nElsewhere, Radio 1's breakfast host Greg James dropped slightly, by 67,000 listeners, to 5.04 million.\n\nThe Kiss breakfast show also saw a dip of around 50,000 listeners, to 1.7 million nationally, after the departure of Rickie, Melvin and Charlie, who spent a decade with the station.\n\nZoe Ball took over the Radio 2 breakfast show from Evans in January\n\nGiven how many schedule changes have recently taken place in radio, this is the most significant Rajar quarter for some time.\n\nBut, as always, the raw numbers don't give us the full picture.\n\nFirstly, Zoe Ball and Chris Evans haven't yet technically completed what's known as a \"full book\" (the quarter begins on New Year's Day and Ball didn't start her show until 14 January, while Evans's began on 22 January).\n\nIt's also worth noting that many station bosses care more about total hours than reach, particularly in commercial radio, where more advertising can be sold depending on how long listeners are tuning in for.\n\nSome of the other big radio beasts are missing from this quarter's figures entirely. For example, Simon Mayo's new show is absent from the latest Rajar data.\n\nThat's partly because the former Radio 2 drivetime presenter has joined a brand new station, Scala, which only launched in March and won't report any results at all until later this year.\n\nBut even if we did have data for Scala, we wouldn't have figures for Mayo's show specifically because he hosts the mid-morning slot, and Rajar only publicly releases data for breakfast programmes and stations overall.", "Five banks have been fined €1.07bn (£935m) by the European Commission after traders clubbed together to rig the foreign exchange market.\n\nFour banks in the \"Banana Split\" cartel - Barclays, RBS, Citigroup and JP Morgan - were fined €811m in all.\n\nThree banks in the \"Essex Express\" cartel - Barclays and RBS again, plus MUFG - were fined €258m.\n\nA sixth bank, UBS, was excused financial penalties for revealing the cartels' existence.\n\nThe European Commission said the market-rigging took place from 2007 to 2013.\n\nThe Commission's investigation, which began in September 2013, revealed that some individual foreign exchange traders, using online chatrooms, exchanged trading plans and occasionally co-ordinated their trading strategies.\n\nCompetition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said the banks' behaviour \"undermined the integrity of the sector at the expense of the European economy and consumers\".\n\nRBS said its €249m share of the fines was \"fully covered by existing provisions\". Barclays also said it had set aside money to cover the fine.\n\nSimilar fines for manipulating the currency markets were imposed in 2014 by UK, US and Swiss regulators.\n\nMargrethe Vestager was critical of the banks' behaviour\n\nUBS, which escaped the latest fines, said: \"This is a legacy matter where UBS was the first bank to disclose potential misconduct. We've made significant investments to further strengthen our control framework since then and are pleased this matter is resolved.\"\n\nBut the matter may not end there. Lambros Kilaniotis, a partner at City-based law firm RPC, said the Commission's announcement was \"an open invitation for parties who may have been impacted by these cartels to sue these banks\".\n\n\"If they haven't already, any party involved in forex trading, such as institutional investors, pension funds and large corporates, should now be reviewing what losses they have incurred,\" he added.\n\n\"Most of the traders participating in the chatrooms knew each other on a personal basis,\" said the Commission.\n\n\"For example, one chatroom was called Essex Express 'n the Jimmy because all the traders but 'James' lived in Essex and met on a train to London.\n\n\"Some of the traders created the chatrooms and then invited one another to join, based on their trading activities and personal affinities, creating closed circles of trust.\"\n\nOther chatrooms used included Semi Grumpy Old Men, Two and a Half Men and Only Marge.\n\nInformation that the traders exchanged related to:\n\nTheir chats \"enabled them to make informed market decisions on whether to sell or buy the currencies they had in their portfolios and when\", the Commission said.", "The precise circumstances of Steve Dymond's death are not known. But what is clear, from multiple sources, is that he was troubled and vulnerable before he participated in the show - even though he did so willingly - and that failing the lie detector test was a devastating blow.\n\nThat much was clear on Tuesday morning, when ITV said that they were minded to launch an inquiry and wait for the coroner's verdict. Yet this morning the show was taken off the air permanently.\n\nWhat happened that should cause the sudden change of mind?\n\nThe Jeremy Kyle show has been part of ITV's daytime schedule since it started in 2005\n\nTwo things at least. First, growing evidence of links between that failed lie detector test and Mr Dymond's death. ITV learned significant new information in the past 24 hours. And second, another morning of damaging front page headlines, especially in the tabloids that are still influential and widely read among ITV's heartland audience.\n\nThat is explicitly not to say that the decision to take the show off air permanently was primarily a commercial one. The driver may have been moral repugnance, at ITV board level, at what has happened. Certainly, if as part of their internal process board members saw footage of Mr Dymond's response to failing the lie detector test on the episode that was never aired, it must have prompted a visceral reaction.\n\nBut even if you accept that Carolyn McCall and the ITV board made this decision because of revulsion at what one of their shows did, that doesn't discount the commercial and editorial context in which the decision was made.\n\nAs an advertiser-funded broadcaster, albeit with multiple linear channels and a digital offering, ITV is under pressure. Kevin Lygo, its creative chief, has tried to reinvent the schedule, and with some success. But the feeling at the top of ITV is that Jeremy Kyle's show was a distinct anomaly within the new offering - and therefore not necessarily a good fit as part of its future. It is hard to imagine that the show would have been permanently scrapped if Lygo and other bosses were deeply admiring of it.\n\nIn reaching millions of people every weekday, many of them of the view that the mainstream media doesn't generally reflect their lives very well, ITV had a solid, regular offer to a big and loyal audience. In today's exceptionally competitive media environment, when the claims on our attention are multiplying by the minute, that isn't something you give up lightly. Especially when you know that whatever replaces Kyle will struggle to achieve its ratings, at least at first.\n\nThere is, as I mentioned on last night's bulletins, a massive disconnect here: between those who wanted the show off air, who generally don't watch it; and those who do watch it, and feel they can relate to it.\n\nThese fans, like ITV bosses, might proffer a liberal argument: people who go on the show are consenting, fully informed, capacitous adults who know what they're doing. In the show's 14-year history, thousands of contributors have been on-stage. And this is not a show that has traditionally led to Ofcom being inundated with complaints.\n\nSeveral people have said to me that, given two people who appeared on Love Island have taken their own lives, it is inconsistent to leave that show on air, and ITV's decision on Wednesday is partly about protecting that highly lucrative show.\n\nITV resist the latter point strongly, and it is important not to generalise from the specific circumstances of any death - particularly suicide. Moreover, Love Island and The Jeremy Kyle Show occupied very different parts of the schedule, and don't belong in the same category of programme.\n\nSteve Dymond, who was 63, was found dead a week after he was filmed on the Jeremy Kyle show taking a lie detector test to prove if he'd been faithful to his fiancee\n\nI wonder, however, if rising concerns about the mental health of participants in all TV programmes may prompt greater investment in after-care, or an expansion of Ofcom's remit to go much further on the duty of care programme makers have toward their contributors.\n\nCelebrity culture is as old as culture itself; but the advent of, first, mass media, and now social media, has rapidly expanded the circle of those who can be famous. But displaying, or even parading, private anguish and trauma in a public way can obviously have a disastrous impact on mental health.\n\nWhether it be Strictly Come Dancing, Come Dine With Me, or The Jeremy Kyle Show and Love Island, contributors and contestants give up something of themselves, some degree of autonomy, when they become characters in productions whose goal is commercially motivated entertainment. The journey they go on, and which viewers are encouraged to go on with them, can be life-affirming, cultural gold-dust. That is television at its best.\n\nBut the spectacle can also lead contributors to a dark place. Even if that is not television at its worst, it is television that - for now - ITV believes should not be aired. No matter the ratings.\n\nIf you're interested in issues such as these, you can follow me on Twitter or Facebook; and subscribe to The Media Show podcast from BBC Radio 4.", "A man who accused multiple public figures of child sexual abuse is a \"committed and manipulative paedophile\", a court has heard.\n\nCarl Beech has convictions for voyeurism and making and possessing indecent images of children.\n\nPolice discovered the offences after seizing devices from his home while investigating him for alleging abuse by public figures, jurors heard.\n\nBeech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nThe 51-year-old's allegations, which included a claim that three young boys were murdered by members of a group, led to a £2m Metropolitan Police investigation between 2014-2016 that ended with no further action being taken.\n\nAmong those accused were former Conservative prime minister Sir Edward Heath, ex-Tory home secretary Lord Brittan, former head of the armed forces Lord Bramall and former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor.\n\nLord Bramall's wife died during the police inquiry and Lord Brittan died while under investigation.\n\nThe court was shown a 2014 police interview with Carl Beech\n\nDuring the police probe, Beech set up a fake email account to help corroborate his story, the court heard on Wednesday.\n\nProsecutor Tony Badenoch QC told the jury that in email correspondence with police officers, Beech pretended to be a man known by the pseudonym \"Fred\".\n\nThe defendant claimed Fred was abused alongside him as a child and had witnessed one of the alleged murders, the prosecutor said.\n\nBut when detectives from Northumbria investigated the email account, they found \"the person behind the encrypted email account was Carl Beech\", Mr Badenoch said.\n\nMr Badenoch said officers found \"indecent images of young boys, covert images of school boys taken by him, and recordings\" on Beech's devices.\n\n\"These child sex offences were committed whilst he was speaking to investigating officers,\" he continued.\n\n\"At the same time as he perpetuated these lies about Harvey Proctor and so many others, he was also viewing indecent images of the gravest kind and spying on small boys.\"\n\nJurors heard he installed a secret app on his iPad that appeared to be a calculator, but contained indecent images of children of the \"most serious kind\" and a covert recording of a boy in a toilet.\n\nNewcastle Crown Court heard he was prosecuted and initially pleaded not guilty, and in a police interview, sought to blame his teenage son.\n\nHe changed his plea to guilty after a jury had been sworn in.\n\nThe prosecutor said the defendant's convictions demonstrate \"Carl Beech is a committed and manipulative paedophile, capable of deceit to investigators and limitless manipulation when required, including if necessary, framing his own child\".\n\nHe said Beech was \"the sort of individual concerned only for himself, unconcerned with the impact on others\".\n\nThe court also heard that Beech craved attention, had written 150 pages of a memoir and planned to become an international speaker on \"survivors\".\n\nHe received £22,000 in compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority for the abuse he alleged, which funded a £10,000 cash deposit for a white Ford Mustang, jurors were told.\n\nThe court heard on Tuesday that when investigators later began looking into Beech himself, he fled to Sweden.\n\nThe trial for perverting the course of justice and fraud continues.", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nSubstitute Jack Marriott was the hero as Derby stunned Leeds to set up a Championship play-off final against Aston Villa after a wild night at Elland Road.\n\nThe hosts took the lead on the night to go 2-0 up on aggregate when Stuart Dallas tapped in after Liam Cooper's header had hit the post.\n\nMarriott levelled with his first touch before half-time after a horrendous mix-up at the back between Cooper and keeper Kiko Casilla.\n\nFrank Lampard's side turned the tie on its head after the break through Mason Mount and a Harry Wilson penalty, only for Dallas to drift in and fire Leeds back level on aggregate.\n\nLeeds defender Gaetano Berardi was then sent off for a poor challenge on Bradley Johnson before Marriott won it late on with a composed finish.\n\nThere was still time for Derby defender Scott Malone to join Berardi in being dismissed after collecting a second booking in time added on.\n\nFor Leeds, who finished third in the table, defeat means their spell outside the top flight will stretch to a 16th year.\n\nDerby, meanwhile, become the first team to lose the first leg of a Championship play-off semi-final at home and go on to reach the final meaning Lampard's first season in management will end at Wembley.\n• None Bielsa will 'listen to proposal' from Leeds about staying\n• None Why Leeds have been left crying their heart out\n\nThere had been no indication of what would transpire on this crazy night in West Yorkshire when Dallas put Leeds in front.\n\nThey had won all three of the previous meetings between the two sides this season by an aggregate of 7-1 and Derby looked short of ideas when they did manage to launch any attacks.\n\nHowever, with half-time approaching, Lampard brought Marriott on for midfielder Duane Holmes and the former Peterborough man had an instant impact, tapping in after Cooper and Casilla ran in to one another to leave him with an open goal.\n\nA brilliant improvised finish from Chelsea loanee Mount put them in front on the night just moments into the second half and Harry Wilson, on loan from Liverpool, kept his composure to fire home from the spot after Cooper pulled Mason Bennett's shirt in the area to put Derby ahead in the tie for the first time and spark wild scenes amongst the travelling Rams supporters.\n\nLeeds responded well and Dallas deservedly pulled one back to draw them level at 3-3 on aggregate with a wonderful finish, but Berardi's red card shifted the momentum once more and defender Richard Keogh sprinted out of defence to play a measured pass for Marriott to poke in and book the Rams a trip to Wembley on Monday, 27 May.\n\nWith four games of the regular season to go, Leeds had been in the driving seat to win automatic promotion after a hugely impressive season under veteran Argentine head coach Marcelo Bielsa.\n\nHowever, they suffered a shock home defeat by strugglers Wigan on Good Friday before losing at Brentford three days later as their three-point lead over Sheffield United turned into a three-point deficit that they were unable to overturn.\n\nWith many fans fearing their moment had passed, they put in an assured performance at Pride Park in the first leg to come into this game with a one goal advantage but, once more, they could not finish the job.\n\nBielsa reflected that the defeat by Wigan that took their momentum away had been \"the decision of God\".\n\nBut that was only part of a hugely emotional campaign that saw him personally pay a £200,000 fine after the club were reprimanded for sending a member of staff to watch Derby train before the league game between the teams at Elland Road in January.\n\nThat 'Spygate' saga, which Derby boss Lampard described at the time as \"not right\", remained a key talking point before and during the play-off meetings.\n\nAnd after beating Leeds for the first time this season, it was clearly at the forefront of the minds of Derby's players as they celebrated by pretending to hold binoculars over their eyes.\n\nWill Bielsa stay or go?\n\nAfter failing to take Leeds up, Bielsa now faces a huge decision of his own whether to carry on as boss and try to mount another promotion challenge next season.\n\nPrior to joining Leeds on a two-year deal last June, the 63-year-old last completed a full season as a manager when he guided Marseille to fourth in Ligue 1 in 2014-15.\n\nHe was questioned about whether he would stay with Leeds in the immediate aftermath of his side's play-off disappointment but would not be drawn on where his future lay.\n\n\"If the club offers me the opportunity to carry on then I will consider the proposal,\" he said.\n\n\"I'd be naive to say I totally believed we could come back but I had belief in the players.\n\n\"As a manager, the pressure is more intense than as a player. I wanted this so badly, you worry you want it too badly. I'm very proud.\n\n\"I told Jack Marriott I thought he could have an impact in the game because he was disappointed not to be starting.\n\n\"We'll be underdogs in the final and tomorrow we start again.\"\n\n\"We should have had one or two more in the first half and then the second half broke immediately.\n\n\"We lost control. We had 20 minutes without control and I couldn't find a solution.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Isaiah Brown (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Second yellow card to Scott Malone (Derby County) for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Jack Clarke (Leeds United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Stuart Dallas (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Isaiah Brown.\n• None Attempt saved. Liam Cooper (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Pablo Hernández with a cross.\n• None Luke Ayling (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Leeds United 2, Derby County 4. Jack Marriott (Derby County) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Richard Keogh.\n• None Harry Wilson (Derby County) hits the left post with a left footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Mason Mount with a through ball. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The agency, Splash, apologised to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex for \"distress\" caused by the images\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has accepted damages and an apology from a news agency which used a helicopter to take photographs of his home in the Cotswolds.\n\nPrince Harry's lawyers told a High Court hearing the pictures taken by Splash News and Picture Agency included one of the inside of a bedroom at the privately-rented Oxfordshire property.\n\nThe court heard the pictures had \"seriously undermined\" Harry's safety.\n\nSplash said it had made an \"error of judgement\" which would not be repeated.\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"We apologise to the Duke and Duchess (of Sussex) for the distress we have caused.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace said the duke \"acknowledges and welcomes the formal apology\" from Splash.\n\nThe court heard the photos, which were \"published by the Times newspaper and elsewhere online\", were of living and dining areas, and included a shot taken \"directly into the bedroom\".\n\nThe duke's lawyers told Mr Justice Warby that Harry and his wife Meghan had chosen to make the Oxfordshire property their home because of its \"high level of privacy\".\n\nBut Gerrard Tyrrell, who read a statement in court on the duke's behalf, said the couple had subsequently felt unable to live there.\n\nThe duke and duchess now live at Frogmore Cottage in Windsor\n\nWhen the photos were published in mid-January, the couple's official residence was Kensington Palace.\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the Sussexes said they had spent a lot of time at their country retreat in the Cotswolds, which had been privately rented by Harry.\n\nThe duke and duchess moved from Kensington Palace to Frogmore Cottage, Windsor, in April - shortly before Meghan gave birth to their son Archie.\n\nMr Tyrrell said Splash had agreed to pay a \"substantial\" sum of damages and legal costs to settle the privacy and data claims faced by the agency.\n\nHe added Splash would \"not repeat its conduct by using any aerial means to take photographs or film footage of the duke's private home, which would infringe privacy or data rights or otherwise be unlawful activity\".\n\nSplash News and Picture Agency sells news, photos and videos across the world, including paparazzi images of celebrities.\n\nIt boasts of taking more than 150,000 photos a day across the globe.\n\nIn its code of conduct, Splash says it is \"committed to the fair and ethical treatment of our subjects, our contributors and our customers\".\n\nBut the case brought by Prince Harry is not the first time Splash has been accused of taking intrusive photos.\n\nIn 2014, Corbis Images UK Limited - which was trading under Splash's name - made photos of Adele's two-year-old son available for publishing in the English press.\n\nThe singer's lawyers accepted a five-figure sum to settle the case.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An international crime gang which used malware to steal $100m (£77m) from more than 40,000 victims has been dismantled.\n\nA complex police operation conducted investigations in the US, Bulgaria, Germany, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.\n\nThe gang infected computers with GozNym malware, which captured online banking details to access bank accounts.\n\nThe gang was put together from criminals who advertised their skills on online forums.\n\nThe details of the operation were revealed at the headquarters of the European police agency Europol in The Hague.\n\nIt said that the investigation was unprecedented, especially in terms of cross-border co-operation.\n\nTen members of the network have been charged in Pittsburgh, US on a range of offences, including stealing money and laundering those funds using US and foreign bank accounts.\n\nFive Russian nationals remain on the run, including one who developed the GozNym malware and oversaw its development and management, including leasing it to other cyber-criminals.\n\nVarious other gang members now face prosecution in other countries, including:\n\nAmong the victims were small businesses, law firms, international corporations and non-profit organisations.\n\nEuropol said it was a great example of cross-border co-operation\n\nOne of the things that the operation has highlighted is how common the selling of nefarious cyber-skills has become, says Prof Alan Woodward, a computer scientist from University of Surrey.\n\n\"The developers of this malware advertised their 'product' so that other criminals could use their service to conduct banking fraud.\n\n\"What is known as 'crime as a service' has been a growing feature in recent years, allowing organised crime gangs to switch from their traditional haunts of drugs to much more lucrative cyber-crime.\"\n\nIt is a hybrid of two other pieces of malware, Nymaim and Gozi.\n\nThe first of these is what is known as a \"dropper\", software that is designed to sneak other malware on to a device and install it. Up until 2015, Nymaim was used primarily to get ransomware on to devices.\n\nGozi has been around since 2007. Over the years it has resurfaced with new techniques, all aimed at stealing financial information. It was used in concerted attacks on US banks.\n\nCombining the two created what one expert called a \"double-headed monster\".\n\nScott Brady said the case represented a \"milestone\" in the fight against international cybercrime\n\nUnsuspecting citizens thought they were clicking a simple link - instead they gave hackers access to their most intimate details.\n\nUS attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Scott Brady stood alongside prosecutors and cyber-crime fighters from five other nations inside Europol's high security headquarters, to announce the takedown of what he described as a \"global conspiracy\".\n\nThe suspected ringleader used GozNym malware and contracted different cyber-crime services - hard to detect bulletproof hosting platforms, money mules and spammers - to control more than 41,000 computers and enable cyber-thieves to steal and whitewash an estimated $100m from victims' bank accounts.\n\nGang members in four countries have been charged - a coup for cyber-crime fighters who say the discovery of this sophisticated scam demonstrates the borderless nature of cyber-crime and need for cross border co-operation to detect and disrupt these networks.", "More than two-thirds of LGBT people in the UK have been sexually harassed at work, a survey suggests.\n\nOf 1,151 LGBT people polled by the Trades Union Congress, 68% said they had experienced harassment, with 42% saying colleagues had made unwanted comments about their sex life.\n\nMore than a quarter (27%) said they had received unwelcome sexual advances.\n\nThe government said it was planning to shortly consult on how to strengthen existing laws on harassment.\n\nThe survey - released on International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia - was conducted by the Trade Union Congress and is believed to be the first major study into LGBT sexual harassment at work in the UK.\n\nAccording to the survey, of the 68% who said they had experienced sexual harassment, 66% did not tell their employer, sometimes because they were afraid of being \"outed\" at work.\n\nThe figure of 68% for LGBT people in the TUC's survey compares with a figure of 37% for the wider population in a BBC survey carried out in 2017.\n\nOf the 2,031 British adults questioned for BBC Radio 5 Live 53% of women and 20% of men said they had experienced sexual harassment, ranging from inappropriate comments to actual sexual assaults, at work or a place of study.\n\nHelen describes herself as pansexual. She works as a psychologist and says she regularly experiences sexual harassment at work.\n\n\"Recently I was working out in the gym at work and two male colleagues were standing behind me. One said, 'She's such a waste of a woman,' referring to the fact I am in a relationship with a woman.\n\n\"When I was leaving the gym one of them asked me, 'Is it because you've never had a real man?' He laughed and then they both wolf-whistled at me. I haven't been back to the work gym since.\"\n\nHelen said the sexual harassment she has experienced hasn't only been verbal.\n\n\"I returned home early from my work Christmas party because a colleague asked to see a picture of my partner.\n\n\"When I showed him my Facebook profile picture, he said, 'I would pay £100 to watch you two.' I was really upset and he said, 'Don't be touchy,' and slapped my bum as I walked off.\"\n\nHelen also has concerns about what reporting sexual harassment would mean for her at work. She said: \"I worry what it might do for my reputation and my chances of career progression to report these incidents.\"\n\nFor some people who have suffered sexual harassment at work, reporting their experiences did not make things easier.\n\nPatrick, not his real name, works in the public sector. He says he has endured years of sexual harassment.\n\n\"After a colleague found out I was gay, he asked me how much I charge as a rent boy. I reported it but nothing came of it.\n\nAfter an investigation into his experiences, Patrick's work life impacted his personal life too.\n\n\"All of my team were preparing for an away day, which was going to involve different sports activities.\n\n\"A few weeks before the away day, I was pulled into an office and told that the others didn't want to do the activities with me as they'd be uncomfortable about taking showers with me there.\n\n\"I was told I wouldn't be going on the away day. I reported it and I was off work for over a year during the investigation. The investigation outed me to my family.\"\n\nPatrick says he went on to try to take his life twice.\n\nThe TUC survey also suggested LGBT women were more likely to experience unwanted touching and sexual assault at work than men.\n\nOver a third of the women (35%) surveyed had experienced unwanted touching, for example placing hands on their lower back or knee. One in eight (12%) had been seriously sexually assaulted or raped at work.\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said the research revealed a \"hidden epidemic\" of LGBT abuse.\n\nShe said: \"In 2019 LGBT people should be safe and supported at work. But instead they're experiencing shockingly high levels of sexual harassment and assault.\"\n\nShe said the government needed to \"change the law to put the responsibility for preventing harassment on employers, not victims\".\n\nLaura Russell, director of campaigns, policy and research at Stonewall, said the figures were \"shocking\", but added: \"We know from our own research and this report that LGBT people still face abuse and discrimination in Britain's workplaces.\"\n\nA Government Equalities Office spokesperson said: \"It is appalling LGBT people are suffering this harassment. Workplaces should be safe, supportive environments for everybody.\n\n\"The government will consult shortly on how we can strengthen and clarify existing laws on third-party harassment, as well as making sure employers fully understand their legal responsibility to protect their staff.\"", "What's behind the rising tensions between the US and Iran?\n\nUS President Donald Trump has always hated the Iran nuclear deal. Now Iran is threatening to stop complying with some of its obligations under the agreement.\n\nHow did we get here? And is the deal crumbling?", "A man accused of making false claims of abuse and murder against a string of public figures named just two people - his stepfather and Jimmy Savile - when he first told police, a court heard.\n\nCarl Beech, 51, said in a police interview in 2012 - which was shown to the jury at Newcastle Crown Court - that he had been abused by a \"group\".\n\nBut he did not name all those he later accused at that point.\n\nHe denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nBeech, who has been described in court as a \"committed and manipulative\" paedophile himself, claimed he witnessed three child murders and had been sexually abused by a dozen senior figures.\n\nThe allegations prompted a Metropolitan police investigation between 2014 and 2016 costing £2m that ended with no further action being taken.\n\nAmong those he accused were former Conservative prime minister Sir Edward Heath, ex-Tory home secretary Lord Brittan, one-time Conservative MP Harvey Proctor, and the former heads of MI5 and MI6.\n\nHe also named former head of the armed forces Lord Brammall and two other senior generals.\n\nThe court has heard that detectives from the Met Police, which investigated his account between 2014-2016, publicly described the claims as \"credible and true\".\n\nFootage of Beech's first police interview showed him telling a detective from Wiltshire police he had been abused by a group as a schoolboy and that Savile had joined in on occasion.\n\nOperation Yewtree - an investigation into the now-disgraced TV presenter who died in 2011 - was under way at the time and had referred Mr Beech to the Wiltshire force.\n\nDuring the interview, Beech said his alleged abuse started with his stepfather, Major Raymond Beech, who has since died.\n\nBeech said his stepfather introduced him to a \"Lieutenant Colonel\" in an army office, who later raped him on many occasions.\n\nAccording to the footage, when asked if he knew the identity of the Lt Col, Beech responded: \"I don't know names. I don't know how to describe him really.\"\n\nHe said the man was \"white, but not white, white but not suntanned. Just normal\".\n\nAsked how he knew Savile was one of those who allegedly abused him, Beech said: \"It was his voice\".\n\n\"He had a gold necklace. It's quite a long necklace,\" the defendant said.\n\nHe said there were about 20 people in the group, but when asked how many he could name, he replied: \"Definitive names? Two then I think. I don't know the others.\"\n\nWhen asked if there were any others he could describe, the defendant had replied: \"A lot of them just blur into one really. I don't know which goes with which.\"\n\nThe jury has previously heard that Beech told police an \"extraordinary tale\" when he made the accusations of abuse against a group of powerful figures.\n\nDuring his trial it has been revealed that Beech has convictions for voyeurism and making and possessing indecent images of children.", "Christopher Lowson said he was \"bewildered by the suspension\"\n\nThe Bishop of Lincoln, Christopher Lowson, has been suspended.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury acted saying it was in relation to a safeguarding children inquiry.\n\nJustin Welby added that \"if proven\" he would consider the bishop \"would present a significant risk of harm by not adequately safeguarding children and vulnerable people\".\n\nBishop Lowson said he was \"bewildered\" by the suspension and would co-operate fully.\n\nIn a statement, the archbishop continued: \"I would like to make it absolutely clear that there has been no allegation that Bishop Christopher has committed abuse of a child or vulnerable adult.\"\n\nBishop Lowson said: \"I am bewildered by the suspension and will fully co-operate in this matter.\n\n\"For the sake of the diocese and the wider Church I would like this to be investigated as quickly as possible to bring the matter to a swift conclusion.\"\n\nThe Bishop of Grimsby, David Court, will take on the leadership of the diocese.\n\n\"It should be noted that suspension is a neutral act and nothing further can be said at this stage while matters are investigated,\" the archbishop added.\n\nThe Diocese of Lincoln is the largest in England by area\n\nAs part of Operation Redstone, Lincolnshire Police has been investigating historical sex abuse cases.\n\nA spokesperson for the force said: \"The investigation is continuing into wider safeguarding issues and management decisions within the diocese.\"\n\nIn April, a BBC Panorama investigation found clergy and staff from the diocese were referred to police in 2015 over allegations church leaders \"turned a blind eye\" to claims of child abuse.\n\nLincolnshire Police and the Lincoln Diocese investigated 25 people over alleged abuse from a list of 53 names passed to officers, with three cases leading to convictions.\n\nThe programme claimed some of the names could have been referred years earlier as part of the Church of England's national Past Cases Review, which examined tens of thousands of Church records in 2008 and 2009 to discover whether abuse cases had slipped through the net.\n\nPaul Handley, editor of the Church Times, said the suspension had \"cast a cloud\" over the bishop and his colleagues.\n\nHowever, he said: \"I think what people need to take from this is the Church is taking safeguarding seriously, and nobody is beyond reproach if something is discovered that needs investigation.\"\n\nThe Diocese of Lincoln covers Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and North-East Lincolnshire, making it the largest diocese in England by area.\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.", "Jeremy Kyle at MediaCityUK in Salford, where his show was filmed\n\nJeremy Kyle has said he is \"devastated\" following the death of a guest and cancellation of his TV show.\n\nThe controversial long-running chat show was axed by ITV bosses after the death of Steve Dymond last week.\n\nMPs and broadcasting regulators are now looking into the care of participants in reality and factual TV shows.\n\n\"Myself and the production team I have worked with for the last 14 years are all utterly devastated by the recent events,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Our thoughts and sympathies are with Steve's family and friends at this incredibly sad time,\" he added.\n\nOn Wednesday, MPs announced the welfare of guests on TV shows is to be scrutinised in the wake of the death of Mr Dymond.\n\nThe Commons media select committee is to investigate whether TV companies give guests enough support and media regulator Ofcom is examining whether to update its code of conduct.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ex-Jeremy Kyle guest Danny Fuller: \"You've been used and abused and that's it\"\n\nMr Dymond was found dead on 9 May, a week after filming the show, during which he took a lie detector test.\n\nOfcom has told ITV to report back the initial findings from its investigation into Mr Dymond's participation in the programme by Monday.\n\n\"While ITV has decided to cancel the programme, its investigation into what happened is continuing and we will review the findings carefully,\" the Ofcom spokesperson said.\n\nITV announced on Wednesday that The Jeremy Kyle Show had been axed permanently. Chief executive Carolyn McCall said the decision was a result of the \"gravity of recent events\".\n\nShe said: \"The Jeremy Kyle Show has had a loyal audience and has been made by a dedicated production team for 14 years, but now is the right time for the show to end.\"\n\nThere are now questions about how participants are looked after across the TV industry. Love Island, another ITV show, has also come under scrutiny after the deaths of two former contestants.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Love Island contestant Zara Holland on what it's like inside the villa\n\nDamian Collins MP, chair of the digital, culture, media and sport select committee, said: \"There needs to be an independent review of the duty of care TV companies have to participants in reality TV shows.\n\n\"Programmes like The Jeremy Kyle Show risk putting people who might be vulnerable on to a public stage at a point in their lives when they are unable to foresee the consequences, either for themselves or their families.\n\n\"With an increasing demand for this type of programming, we'll be examining broadcasting regulation in this area - is it fit for purpose?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe committee will scrutinise the psychological support provided to participants and ask who should be responsible for monitoring whether duty of care policies are being effectively applied.\n\nIt will also look at whether shows put pressure on participants to exhibit \"more extreme behaviour\".\n\nOfcom said it was \"vital\" that people taking part in reality and factual shows were properly looked after, and its broadcasting code of conduct could include new protections for them.\n\n\"We're examining whether more can be done to safeguard the welfare of those people, similar to the duty of care we have in the broadcasting code to protect under-18s,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nIf you are feeling emotionally distressed and would like details of organisations in the UK which offer advice and support, go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.", "Marine Le Pen was one of 11 leaders from Europe's populist far right who joined Matteo Salvini for a rally in Milan on 18 May\n\nThe populist far right are looking to this week's EU parliamentary elections to kick-start a pan-European nationalist alliance.\n\nFor years, they have tried to form a cohesive group, and now they have a figurehead in Italy's most powerful politician - Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, previously the leader of a half-forgotten regional party.\n\nBut the challenges are clear. Days before the vote, one of the very few far-right parties in power in Europe was forced out of government in Austria amid a secret video scandal.\n\nBBC correspondents report on the would-be alliance from around Europe.\n\nMatteo Salvini does not like to be interrupted. A few minutes into his campaign rally in this northern Italian town, a small group of hecklers caught his attention.\n\nHe raised his finger. \"If you touch any of the good people in the crowd,\" Matteo Salvini shouted at the hecklers, \"I will get angry like a beast. OK? OK?\"\n\nMr Salvini has travelled across Europe in an attempt to drum up support for a nationalist alliance\n\n\"Salvini is the future of Europe,\" one woman told me.\n\nItaly's League party leader aims to bring together Europe's disparate far right into a cohesive movement.\n\nThe far-right, populist movements are united by their condemnation of EU bureaucracy, migration, and Islam. They aim to take enough seats in the EU parliamentary election to be able to disrupt the institution from within.\n\nTheir election campaign culminated in Milan on 18 May, when far-right, populist politicians from 11 EU countries joined Mr Salvini at a rally. Anti-fascist campaigners in Milan held their own counter-protests, and called on the populists to leave.\n\nIt would have been 12 countries, but Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache could not attend as he was caught up in the secret video scandal and had to resign.\n\nIf they do succeed in winning more seats in the European Parliament, they may also end up revealing the divisions within their ad hoc alliance - particularly over economic policy.\n\nThe Freedom Party is arguably Europe's most well-established far-right movement, but has become embroiled in a full-blown corruption scandal.\n\nWith its anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim messages, the FPÖ has been a source of inspiration for many of Europe's populist parties, notably Germany's main opposition AfD, the Finns Party and the Danish People's Party.\n\nIn a matter of days, it has gone from influential coalition partner to national disgrace, its leader caught in a video sting apparently promising public contracts in return for political and financial support to a woman posing as a Russian oligarch's niece.\n\nThe scandal could hit the party at the polls.\n\nLeader Heinz-Christian Strache has enjoyed cordial relations with Matteo Salvini and signed up to his European alliance, taking part before the scandal broke in a series of what appear to have been carefully choreographed meetings.\n\nMr Strache resigned hours after the video emerged of him and a party colleague caught in a sting in the Spanish resort island of Ibiza\n\nBut analysts believe they have competing nationalisms. They have clashed over Freedom Party proposals to give dual citizenship to the German-speaking minority in South Tyrol in northern Italy.\n\nIn the same way, parties in the far-right alliance may agree on what they oppose in Europe, but they may find it harder to agree on a common course of action.\n\nNorthern and southern parties have very different views on the EU's budget.\n\nMr Salvini, Mr Strache and French far-right leader Marine Le Pen are interested in closer relations with Russia, but that goes down very badly with parties in Eastern Europe, notably Poland.\n\nThere's been a certain stiffness in the air around Marine Le Pen's new political courtship. Perhaps it's not surprising; company is not something her party is used to.\n\nIt's not that France's populist leader is unenthusiastic about her Italian partner's rise to power.\n\nAn early campaign poster for the European elections featured a large portrait of Ms Le Pen alongside Matteo Salvini: \"All over Europe, our ideas are coming to power,\" the caption said.\n\nMarine Le Pen's embrace of Matteo Salvini's European alliance has not come naturally\n\nAnd the growing strength of populists across Europe has led her National Rally (Rassemblement National in French) party to change its policy on EU membership. There's no more talk of \"Frexit\", or even a referendum on the subject; the party now talks of changing Europe \"from within\".\n\nThere's no doubt Europe's grand, old, populist party lends weight to Mr Salvini's new alliance, but both the politics and the diplomacy of its role are tricky.\n\n\"Lega is the Italian Rassemblement National,\" one senior RN adviser told a French newspaper. \"Salvini created his party on our model. Even as a young man, he was asking Marine for selfies.\"\n\n\"We have no ego contest,\" Marine Le Pen said recently. But there's no doubt who is now leading Europe's nationalist parties - and it's not clear how well her party fits in.\n\nThe RN is not popular among Europe's other populists. Its warmth towards Russia, its historic image of anti-Semitism, and alleged fraud in its handling of European parliament funds have all contributed to tensions.\n\nHungarian PM Viktor Orban recently said he wanted nothing to do with Ms Le Pen.\n\nIt shows the challenge of uniting Europe's populist parties, all of whom pride themselves on putting national interests first.\n\nAnd even if they get the seats they're hoping for, the new group won't amount to more than a quarter of the EU chamber; what Le Monde newspaper this week described as a \"blocking minority that will let them carry on undermining things\".\n\nAs the poster boy of the far right in Europe, any new nationalist alliance would look pale without Viktor Orban.\n\nHungary's leader has invited both Matteo Salvini and Heinz-Christian Strache to Budapest in recent weeks, but he has been reticent about joining a new \"nationalist bloc\" after the EU elections.\n\nHis ruling Fidesz party still belongs to the EU's biggest political grouping - the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) - even though the EPP suspended its membership because of its right-wing policies.\n\nMr Orban met President Trump on Monday - his first visit to the White House\n\nHis hope until now was that he could drag the EPP to the right, then weld it into a tight alliance with a new, Salvini-led grouping, without quite merging with them. But his relationship with the centre right is getting no better, and he identifies with the nationalist right so much more.\n\nA long-awaited recent audience with President Donald Trump in the White House has put further wind in Mr Orban's sails.\n\nHis slogan in this election is: Support Viktor Orban's Programme, Let's Stop Immigration.\n\nIt is a populist, popular, but peculiar message in a country where there are very few immigrants, in an EU in which more than 600,000 Hungarians are regarded as immigrants themselves.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Essex mum 'bedbound for six months of pregnancy'\n\nFor Hannah Dalton, pregnancy meant not being able to drink fluids for eight months without throwing up, going into hospital 27 times for intravenous drips and living off ice lollies and anti-sickness medication.\n\nHannah, 30, from Thundersley, Essex, had hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), the severe pregnancy sickness the Duchess of Cambridge experienced during her three pregnancies.\n\nShe was bedridden for six months, ended up in a wheelchair and, at her worst, her body started to shut down.\n\n\"I seriously questioned was this still worth doing,\" Hannah says.\n\n\"We wanted a bigger family but was there a chance that we would lose me. I thought I was dying.\"\n\nWith support from her family, Hannah continued with her pregnancy and, in April, gave birth to a girl.\n\nThe moment she went into labour, the sickness stopped.\n\nMore than 5,000 women from across the UK have shared their experience of HG with BBC News:\n\nLast year, UK hospitals saw more than 36,000 admissions for pregnant women needing urgent care because of extreme sickness and dehydration.\n\nThe causes of HG are unknown. There is some evidence it runs in families. And if a woman had HG in a previous pregnancy, she is more likely to have it in the next.\n\nNow, scientists at King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital are launching a four-year study - the world's largest - in the hope of finding some answers.\n\nBlood samples and medical histories will be taken from at least 1,000 women admitted to hospital with the most severe HG symptoms and others recruited via the charity Pregnancy Sickness Support.\n\nThe study will be looking for genetic links and hormonal changes, in particular a protein, GDF15, produced by the placenta, which affects the part of the brain controlling vomiting and nausea.\n\nConsultant obstetrician Prof Catherine Williamson says: \"The problem we have is that the treatments aren't good enough.\n\n\"Our ambition is to identify genetic causes of this condition so we can tell why women have it and identify those at risk.\n\n\"We can then develop new treatments that are much more effective so hopefully there won't be any more women with severe hyperemesis, because we can control it.\"\n\nEver since the thalidomide scandal 50 years ago, there has been concern about taking anti-sickness drugs during pregnancy.\n\nThe sedative, which was found to ease nausea and vomiting in expectant mothers, left thousands of babies with severe birth defects.\n\nBut most women with HG do end up taking some sort of medication to control the vomiting.\n\nOnly one, Xonvea, is permitted in Britain for use in pregnancy - but alternatives, such as cyclizine, prochlorperazine and ondansetron, are also regularly prescribed and considered safe by doctors who treat the condition.\n\nWomen may also be given vitamin B6 and B12 or steroids. If these don't work, women may need to be admitted to hospital for treatment including intravenous fluids.\n\nHere are the words of one woman who terminated three pregnancies because of HG. She now has a young child.\n\n\"It's your own personal hell that you can't escape from. It's devastating. It completely takes over your life, your family's life, so it would be easier either to just miscarry or die.\n\n\"The vomiting and retching was so violent and so intense, I couldn't breathe.\n\n\"I couldn't take a breath while I was retching, so I passed out and woke up on the bathroom floor and I thought, 'Oh my God, I can't do this.'\n\n\"I did have some dark moments.\n\n\"I wanted this baby so badly but I felt like it was killing me and ultimately, out of pure desperation, led me to have three terminations.\n\n\"I developed PTSD. I had insomnia and nightmares when I could sleep.\n\n\"The senior consultant came round and said, 'Have you tried ginger biscuits and salty crackers?' and I was like, 'Oh my God.'\n\n\"It's like saying to somebody with a broken leg, 'Have you tried rubbing lavender oil on it?'... because if the senior consultant didn't understand, what hope did I have?\"\n\nCaitlin Dean, from Pregnancy Sickness Support, says not treating HG has serious risks.\n\n\"Increasingly evidence suggests that, while the actual nausea and vomiting is unlikely to harm the offspring, the complications of HG, such as malnutrition, dehydration and mental ill health, can cause lifelong consequences for both mother and baby,\" she says.\n\n\"There are many wonderful, compassionate doctors out there providing excellent evidence-based care for people with HG but unfortunately there are also doctors who do not recognise the condition, are reluctant to prescribe appropriate treatment or are unaware of the evidence base.\n\n\"This leads to a vast amount of unnecessary suffering, costly hospital admissions and, all too often, terminations of otherwise wanted pregnancies.\n\n\"In 2019, there is very little excuse not to provide this basic level of care for pregnant women.\"\n\nFelicity Collins, from Northamptonshire, was desperate for doctors to prescribe her stronger drugs to help her cope with HG.\n\nShe was already in hospital, and 24 hours away from terminating her twin pregnancy, when she was finally given steroids to ease the constant vomiting.\n\n\"It was such a dark time,\" she says.\n\n\"It was a decision we made because I knew without those drugs, I couldn't carry on.\n\n\"I couldn't eat or drink. Everything made me sick. It was so bad. That's how close it came.\"\n\nFor the next six months, she injected herself daily with steroids, finally giving birth to twin boys, Arthur and Harry, who are now three years old.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn eight weeks of pregnancy, Laura Anderson lost one stone (6.3kg).\n\n\"I dream about eating again and drinking again,\" she says.\n\n\"This illness makes you a shadow of who you were… it's nine months of living hell.\"\n\nLaura faces about 20 more weeks of HG before she gives birth.\n\nShe says: \"I fully intend on getting to the end of this pregnancy with a baby, no matter what it does to my health.\n\n\"And when this baby girl is born and the HG has gone, I will spend the rest of my life trying to raise awareness about this awful illness.\n\n\"I'm doing it for my daughter, in case she gets it, and God forbid that she does.\"\n• None Bedridden for six months of pregnancy. Video, 00:01:34Bedridden for six months of pregnancy\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Madonna's latest album, Madame X, comes out in June\n\nMadonna will perform during the final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, it has finally been confirmed.\n\nThe singer will perform two songs: her 1989 hit Like A Prayer and new single Future, featuring US rapper Quavo.\n\nAn announcement was made ahead of the contest's second semi-final on Thursday, ending days of speculation over whether she would indeed appear.\n\nEarlier this week organisers said a contract had yet to be signed and that she could not perform without one.\n\nYet the singer was seen arriving in Israel on Tuesday and has reportedly been rehearsing at a secret location.\n\nEarlier on Thursday she posted a cryptic video on social media that appeared to be filmed on the stage of the Expo Tel Aviv.\n\n\"We are pleased to finally confirm that the incomparable music icon Madonna will join us at this year's Eurovision Song Contest,\" said Jon Ola Sand, the event's executive supervisor.\n\n\"We know that it will be an evening to remember and can't wait to share it with everyone watching.\"\n\nMadonna's appearance was announced by her US and UK publicists in April, but it has taken weeks for it to be announced officially.\n\nOrganisers said she would be accompanied by a 35-strong choir during Like A Prayer, which was released 30 years ago this spring.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On the hunt for Madonna at Eurovision\n\nEarlier this week, Madonna appeared to respond to those critical of Israel hosting the contest and her participation in it.\n\n\"I'll never stop playing music to suit someone's political agenda, nor will I stop speaking out against violations of human rights wherever in the world they may be,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"My heart breaks every time I hear about the innocent lives that are lost in this region and the violence that is so often perpetuated to suit the political goals of people who benefit from this ancient conflict.\n\n\"I hope and pray that we will soon break free from this terrible cycle of destruction and create a new path towards peace.\"\n\nThe decision to hold Eurovision in Israel is not popular with critics of the country's policies towards Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.\n\nThe Eurovision Song Contest final will air on BBC One on 18 May from 20:00 BST.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Madonna 'to play two songs' at Eurovision\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May has promised to set a timetable for the election of her successor after the next Brexit vote in the first week of June.\n\nThe agreement follows a meeting between the prime minister and senior Tory MPs who are demanding a date for her departure from Downing Street.\n\nIf she loses the vote on her Brexit plan, already rejected three times, sources told the BBC she would resign.\n\nMeanwhile, Boris Johnson has said he will run for leader once Mrs May goes.\n\nThe prime minister survived a confidence vote by Conservative MPs at the end of last year and party rules mean she cannot formally be challenged again until December.\n\nBut Mrs May has come under increasing pressure to leave Downing Street this summer, amid the Brexit impasse and poor results for the Conservatives in the recent local elections in England.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said senior sources had told her it was \"inconceivable\" the prime minister could remain in office if MPs rejected her Brexit plans for a fourth time.\n\nBut the paragraph tucked into the short formal letter from Sir Graham Brady to Tory MPs all but marks the end of Theresa May's premiership and the beginning of the official hunt for the next leader of the country.\n\nAfter the lines in the short note restate the prime minister's determination to get Brexit done, it confirms in black and white that after the next big vote, in the first week of June, the prime minister will make plans with the party for choosing a successor.\n\nRight now, the expectation is that vote will be lost (although it is not impossible, of course, that Number 10 could turn it round).\n\nAnd the conversation that's been arranged won't just be a gentle chat about what to do next.\n\nSenior sources have told me that means, even though the letter doesn't spell it out, that if her Brexit plan is defeated again, Mrs May will announce she is going.\n\nThe chairman of the 1922 committee of Conservative MPs, Sir Graham Brady, said he had reached an agreement over the prime minister's future during \"very frank\" talks in Parliament.\n\nHe said the committee's executive and Mrs May would meet again to discuss her future following the first debate and vote on the Withdrawal Agreement Bill in the week beginning 3 June.\n\nSir Graham said there was now \"greater clarity\" about the situation.\n\nAsked if that meant the prime minister would quit immediately if MPs rejected her Brexit plans once more, he said that scenario went \"beyond\" what had been agreed.\n\nMPs have rejected the prime minister's Brexit agreement with the EU three times.\n\nBut she will have another go at gaining their support in the week beginning 3 June, when the Commons votes for the first time on the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill - legislation needed to implement her deal with the EU.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer foreign secretary Boris Johnson has joined the growing list of Conservatives who say they will stand for leader when Mrs May announces her departure.\n\nHe told a business conference in Manchester: \"Of course I am going to go for it.\"\n\nConservative MP Grant Shapps welcomed the announcement that a timetable would be set out for Mrs May's departure, suggesting it would inject greater ambition and dynamism into the Brexit process.\n\nThe former party chairman told BBC News the Brexit bill had no chance of passing in its current state but holding another vote would allow Mrs May to demonstrate she had \"tried everything\".\n\n\"It is right to bring this whole saga to a conclusion,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives jostling to be the next prime minister\n\nBut fellow Tory Phillip Lee, who backs another Brexit referendum, said replacing the prime minister would not \"solve the crisis\" the UK found itself in or build a parliamentary majority for the terms of the UK's departure.\n\n\"Forcing the PM's resignation and spending this summer locked in a leadership election where candidates trade ever more fantastic visions of unicorn Brexits…is neither in the interests of the Conservative Party nor of the United Kingdom,\" he said.\n\nLast month, the 1922 Committee executive narrowly decided against changing the party's leadership rules to allow an early challenge to Mrs May.\n\nLocal Tory associations have confirmed they will hold a vote of confidence in her leadership on 15 June, although its result will not be binding.\n\nMuch of the anger in the Conservative parliamentary party is focusing on the prime minister's talks with Labour, aimed at reaching a cross-party compromise to get her deal through the Commons.\n\nBBC Newsnight political editor Nick Watt said he understood the talks will \"soon be drawing to a close\" adding that Tory whips had \"given up on this phase of the negotiations and are looking to pack the legislation with goodies for Brexiteers\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party would not support the Withdrawal Agreement Bill unless it guaranteed membership of a customs union with the EU, and protected workers' rights, consumer rights and environmental rights.\n\nMeanwhile, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said his party would \"happily support\" the legislation, provided it was subject to a \"confirmatory public vote\".", "Boris Becker won the first of his three Wimbledon titles at the age of 17\n\nA serial burglar dubbed the \"Wimbledon prowler\" has admitted trying to raid the home of tennis star Boris Becker.\n\nAsdrit Kapaj, 42, burgled a string of residences in the London suburb, home to the All England Lawn Tennis Club.\n\nHis \"sustained campaign\" spanned more than a decade, netting him high-end items and thousands in cash.\n\nAfter pleading guilty to 21 burglaries last month, he returned to court on Monday to admit an attempted burglary at Mr Becker's home.\n\nKingston Crown Court heard Kapaj travelled from Altrincham, Greater Manchester, to target homes in south-west London from 2008 until his arrest in February.\n\nHe attempted to raid Becker's house on 31 October 2013.\n\nThe 51-year-old German, who won six Grand Slam singles events during his career - including Wimbledon three times - lived in the area with his then wife Lilly at the time.\n\nBecker said: \"He didn't actually get into the house,\" before adding \"I'm pleased he's been caught.\"\n\nHis estranged wife Lilly said: \"He had no choice but to admit what he'd done.\"\n\nScotland Yard had linked the \"prowler\", who wore a distinctive fisherman's hat, to 200 burglaries in total.\n\nHe was accused of meticulously destroying security equipment and police said he may have used a device to pick locks.\n\nAsdrit Kapaj travelled from his home in Greater Manchester to carry out the burglaries\n\nOver the years, Kapaj's haul included a diamond ring, a gold necklace and a gold watch.\n\nAs well as the attempted raid on Becker's home, Kapaj admitted another burglary in the area on 25 January 2014.\n\nJudge Peter Lodder QC described the married father of two as having \"identified a particular area and conducted a sustained campaign\".\n\nA large group of residents went to court last month to celebrate Kapaj's guilty pleas.\n\nOne, Laurie Porter, said homeowners were now \"sleeping more easily\" after he admitted the burglaries.\n\nKapaj will next appear in court on 7 June.\n\nHe was already due to be sentenced for his other offences, which also included two counts of attempted burglary, on 21 June.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Viewers have praised Nadiya Hussain for opening up about her lifelong struggle with \"extreme anxiety\", and her journey to get help, in a BBC One documentary.\n\nThe 2015 Great British Bake Off winner allowed cameras to follow her as she sought a diagnosis and treatment.\n\nShe was seen having therapy, speaking about how her anxiety and panic attacks stemmed from childhood bullying and serious health problems in her family.\n\nIt was an \"incredibly open, honest and moving account\", one viewer wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Nadiya: Anxiety and Me, which was shown on Wednesday, she spoke about her regular panic attacks and voices in her head telling her she's not good enough.\n\nAnxiety was \"often an overwhelming feeling I can't control\" and \"a monster\" that stops her functioning, she said.\n\n\"Having anxiety is probably one of the most lonely, most isolating things to have because you are your own worst enemy and you live inside your head,\" 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 4 by Nadiya Jamir Hussain This 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\nDuring her cognitive behavioural therapy, she traced her problems back to when her brother and sisters both had life-threatening illnesses as young children, and the severe bullying she suffered at primary school.\n\nRacist bullies would pull her hair out, slam her fingers in doors until all her fingernails fell out, and flush her head down the toilet.\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\nAfter that, she hid under a sink and had her first panic attack.\n\n\"If I could erase my memory, then I would take that one memory out of my head, because that memory is always there,\" she said.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph's TV critic Isabel Mohan wrote: \"By opening up about the severity of her condition and tackling it head-on, Hussein should now become an inspiration to her fellow anxiety sufferers.\"\n\nThe programme also followed Hussain speaking to other sufferers, and doing something that would have been unthinkable before - taking an unplanned train trip to London.\n\nMohan wrote: \"It feels bizarre that this familiar, friendly face, regarded as Bake Off's biggest success story and a huge role model for many British Muslims, would ever be so scared of a simple trip, and is an important reminder that we shouldn't assume that our friends and family are doing OK just because they're all smiles when we see them.\"\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\nWriting in The Huffington Post, Rachel Moss said: \"In a world where nearly nine in 10 people with mental health problems say stigma and discrimination have a negative effect on their lives, honesty like Nadiya's feels like something we all need.\"\n\nNadiya added during the programme: \"I'm also aware I'm incredibly lucky because there are lots of sufferers who are undiagnosed or who are not getting professional treatment.\"\n\nThe documentary was part of a string of special programmes made for Mental Health Awareness Week.\n\nIn David Harewood: Psychosis and Me, on BBC Two at 21:00 on Thursday, the Homeland actor will speak about being sectioned after a psychotic breakdown at the age of 23.\n\n\"As Nadiya said last night, we need to talk about these things,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nAlastair Campbell: Depression and Me, fronted by the former Labour spin doctor, will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 21 May.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The WJEC has said no pupil will be disadvantaged by the issue\n\nAn apology has been made to GCSE pupils after a \"technical issue\" affected their computer science exam.\n\nParents complained problems meant the start was delayed while pupils could not answer one of the questions.\n\nIt is unclear how many schools were affected, but people in Vale of Glamorgan, Cardiff, Pembrokeshire and Rhondda Cynon Taff highlighted issues.\n\nThe WJEC exam board said it is investigating the matter and no pupils would be disadvantaged.\n\nA parent of a pupil at St Cyres school, Penarth, said teachers were unable to log on to the online resource for the exam at the scheduled start time of 13:30 BST on Thursday.\n\nIt was then delayed for half an hour.\n\nWhen it did get under way, she added students could not answer the final question, worth 16 marks, on a programme called Greenfoot.\n\nThis was because the exam question was on version 3 while school computers had version 2.5 installed, the parent claimed.\n\n\"He had already sat chemistry and ICT exams, so after this was a bit miserable coming home,\" she said.\n\n\"We don't know what will happen but will raise it with the school.\"\n\nParents and pupils are unsure what the implications of the problem will be\n\nThe mother of a pupil at a Rhondda Cynon Taff school reported similar problems, saying her son had to wait in a room for more than an hour for his exam to start.\n\nShe added: \"For those who want to do software development and gaming development, it's really important.\n\n\"It's a stressful enough time anyway and they have messed it up.\"\n\nProblems were also reported in other areas, including at Ysgol Penrhyn Dewi in St Davids, Ysgol Gyfun Llangefni on Anglesey and Bishop of Llandaff school, Cardiff.\n\nThe WJEC did not give a figure of schools affected.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We are aware of a technical issue with today's GCSE computer science paper, and are currently investigating the matter further.\n\n\"We would like to apologise to those who experienced difficulties, and would like to reassure those affected that no student will be disadvantaged.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Giving the Chinese telecoms firm Huawei a role in building the UK's 5G network poses an unnecessary risk to national security, a former MI6 chief has said.\n\nSir Richard Dearlove said such a move could give the Chinese government a \"potentially advantageous exploitative position\" in the UK's telecoms network.\n\nIt follows reports last month that the PM is ready to let the firm supply some parts of the UK's 5G infrastructure.\n\nA Huawei spokesman said Sir Richard's warnings were \"short on fact\".\n\nSir Richard's intervention comes as US President Donald Trump signed an executive order effectively banning American firms from using foreign telecoms deemed to pose a threat to national security.\n\nAlthough it does not name Huawei, it is widely considered to be aimed at the firm following repeated warnings by US officials that it could be used by the Chinese state to spy on or sabotage foreign networks.\n\nThe company has vehemently denied the allegations and insists it is independent from state control.\n\nIn a foreword to a new report by the Henry Jackson Society think tank, Sir Richard said: \"The fact that the British government now appears to have decided to place the development of some of its most sensitive critical infrastructure in the hands of a company from the People's Republic of China (PRC) is deeply worrying.\n\n\"The PRC uses its sophisticated technical capabilities not only to control its own population (to an extreme and growing degree), but it also conducts remotely aggressive intelligence gathering operations on a global scale.\n\n\"No part of the communist Chinese state is ultimately able to operate free of the control exercised by its Communist Party leadership.\n\n\"To place the PRC in a potentially advantageous exploitative position in the UK's future telecommunications systems therefore is a risk, however remote it may seem at the moment, we simply do not need to take.\"\n\nFormer defence secretary Gavin Williamson was sacked after details concerning Huawei from a National Security Council meeting were leaked\n\nLast month, former defence secretary Gavin Williamson was sacked after details about Huawei's potential involvement in the UK's 5G network - discussed at the National Security Council - were leaked to the Daily Telegraph.\n\nIn the paper's report, Mrs May was said to have overridden ministers who had expressed concerns about the plans.\n\nThe government has insisted no final decision has been taken on Huawei's involvement in the UK network, although the issue remains highly sensitive in Whitehall.\n\nSir Richard said the government - which has been seeking to build economic links with China - should not be influenced by fears of economic reprisals by Beijing if Huawei is excluded.\n\n\"If Australia can blackball Huawei as its 5G provider, the UK can certainly do the same without undue concern about the consequences,\" he said.\n\nA Huawei spokesman said: \"This report is long on politically motivated insinuation but short on fact.\n\n\"It fundamentally misunderstands the nature of modern China, global technology markets and of 5G.\n\n\"The isolationist approach they recommend may support an America-first trade agenda but it's hard to see how it's in UK's national interest.\"\n\nA government spokesman said individual countries were taking \"a range of different approaches\" to the issue of 5G security.\n\n\"There are no universal solutions,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"Whatever final decision the UK government takes about 5G network infrastructure, the UK is not considering any options that would put our national security communications at risk, within the UK and with our closest allies.\"", "Simon Forman courted public attention with his mix of medicine, magic and astrology\n\nWhat would you do if you thought your children had turned into \"rats and mice\"? Or if you had the \"French disease\"? Or had trouble with witches?\n\nIn 16th Century England, you might have visited two celebrity \"doctors\", Simon Forman and Richard Napier.\n\nAfter 10 years of research, Cambridge historians are digitising some of their patient records, showing how they prescribed magic as well as medicine.\n\nThe records also show patients being told to wear dead pigeons as slippers.\n\nThere are 80,000 separate case notes, from the 1590s to the 1630s, in what is described as one of the biggest such historical medical collections in existence.\n\nBut they have been notoriously difficult to decipher and a team of Cambridge University researchers spent years transcribing their contents, with 500 being digitised, put into accessible English and made available online.\n\nThese give an insight into the physical and mental anxieties of Shakespearean England - whether being \"thrust with a rapier in his privy parts\" or suffering from being \"mopish\" or \"melancholy\".\n\nA patient with venereal disease in 1601 is described as having \"morbum gallicum\" or the \"French disease\"\n\nProf Lauren Kassell, who headed the research, describes the illnesses and cures as a \"wormhole into the grubby and enigmatic world of 17th Century medicine, magic and the occult\".\n\nWitchcraft seemed to be a significant worry - blamed by patients for a whole range of ailments and with the notes making reference to a number of witches who had been executed as a result.\n\nProf Kassell says both doctors and patients moved seamlessly between the physical world, astrology, magic and religion, all of which were mixed together to come up with remedies.\n\nThat witches or evil spirits had caused an illness would have been \"entirely credible at the time\", she says, with counter-curses available.\n\nThe case notes show astrological calculations as part of offering a remedy\n\nIn one of the cases, evil spirits had overtaken a patient so that he kept offending people by shouting: \"Kisse myne arse.\"\n\nEven by the standards of 17th Century medicine, some of their approaches were seen as eccentric.\n\nProf Kassell says Richard Napier would often get extra help by consulting angels.\n\nBut it wasn't always good news. One patient was given the rather gloomy outlook from an angel adviser: \"He will die shortly.\"\n\nSimon Forman, an astrologer and healer, provoked a different type of suspicion, with his energetic courting of famous patients drawing the distrust of \"real\" physicians.\n\nWhether any of the cures \"worked\", Prof Kassell says, is a complex question.\n\nIn the context of the time, these were efforts by people to overcome problems, she says. If they followed the recommendation to use leeches from Beaconsfield rather than Dorchester, did it make them feel better?\n\n\"People always want to do something about an illness,\" she says. Even if the \"cures\" seem improbable, it is difficult to assess the benefit of going to get help and talking about problems.\n\nMental-health problems are often raised - whether people bringing depressive symptoms, under the label of \"melancholy\", or other repeated references to \"lunatics\".\n\nThere were often harsh treatments, with people being tied and restrained, and one man who claimed to be falsely accused of madness worried he would be \"bagged as a lunatic\".\n\nVenereal diseases also seemed to be widespread, with many cases talking about what was called the \"French disease\".\n\nA patient suffering from the \"pox, with boils and itch\" was prescribed a combination including roses, violets, boiled crabs and deer dung.\n\nProf Kassell says many of cases might seem unlikely.\n\n\"But even the odd things might turn out to be rooted in reality,\" she says.\n\nIn one case, a woman was described as suckling puppies.\n\nProf Kassell says this would have been seen as a broad hint about witchcraft - but it was also the case that if women had problems breastfeeding, there was a folk belief in using puppies to encourage the flow of milk.\n\nThat still might not explain the cure of \"pigeon slippers\", which rather literally involved opening up pigeons to attach to a patient's feet.\n\nThe light cast on 17th Century society by the casebooks is both uplifting and disturbing, Prof Kassell says.\n\n\"In one way, it's a really horrible view - but on another, there is this nice pastoral society,\" she says.\n\nIt also shows a very different worldview, living close to the natural environment and suffused deeply in religion and mystical beliefs.\n\nThere was no gap between the \"spiritual and the natural\", Prof Kassell says, and people moved between the two realms.\n\nThe transcriptions so far are the \"tip of the iceberg\", she adds. There are \"thousands of pages of cryptic scrawl full of astral symbols\" and transcribing the whole collection would take another 20 years.", "Helen Kennett said she spoke to a knifeman with \"evil\" in his eyes after he stabbed a waiter\n\nAn off-duty nurse asked one of the London Bridge attackers what was wrong with him before he stabbed her in the neck, an inquest has heard.\n\nHelen Kennett told the Old Bailey she was trying to help Alexandre Pigeard, who was fatally wounded, when she was confronted by his \"evil-eyed\" attacker.\n\nWhen she spoke to him, he replied, \"no, what's wrong with you?\" before wounding her too.\n\nEight people were killed in the attacks on the night of 3 June 2017.\n\n\"I was convinced I was going to die but I didn't want to die there,\" Ms Kennett told the court.\n\n\"I wanted to die round the corner with my family.\"\n\nMs Kennett had been drinking prosecco to celebrate her birthday with her mother and sister in the courtyard of Boro Bistro, at the southern end of London Bridge.\n\nMinutes after she saw the attackers' van plough into railings above where they were sitting, she noticed a waiter, Mr Pigeard, was bleeding.\n\nShe told the court she then saw the man holding a knife behind Mr Pigeard, describing him as having an \"empty\", \"soulless\" and \"evil\" look in his eyes.\n\n\"Before I could process what I was seeing was happening... he stabbed me in the neck to the left side,\" she said.\n\nAlexandre Pigeard had been working as a waiter\n\nAlthough she escaped with her family, she did not get to an ambulance for two hours, the inquest heard.\n\nEight people, including Mr Pigeard, who were killed by three men who drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbed people in and around Borough Market.\n\nThe victims of the attack clockwise from top left - Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sébastien Bélanger, Ignacio Echeverria, Xavier Thomas, Sara Zelenak, Kirsty Boden\n\nAnother witness told the court he believed the man who killed Mr Pigeard was Rachid Redouane.\n\nGeoffrey Huet said he locked eyes with the attacker as he dealt what looked like the fatal blow to Mr Pigeard.\n\n\"He had this craziness in his eyes, this anger. He was furious,\" Mr Huet added.\n\nThe witness ran away and tried to get help, the court heard.\n\nRedouane, 30, was shot dead by police minutes later, alongside his accomplices Khuram Butt and Youssef Zaghba.\n\nAnother witness told the court she too saw Mr Pigeard being wounded as she celebrated a friend's birthday.\n\nAndzelika Abokaityte said in a statement read to the court that she watched as the \"evil and smiling\" attacker grabbed hold of Mr Pigeard before stabbing him from behind.\n\n\"As he was stabbed, the attacker was looking around as if to find the next person to stab.\"\n\n\"I remember thinking: 'I'm going to die'\", the court heard.", "Protesters are opposed to the teaching of LGBT equality in schools\n\nSchools across England have received letters opposing the teaching of relationships and sex education (RSE) and LGBT equality, the BBC has learned.\n\nProtests started in Birmingham and letters, predominantly from conservative Muslims, have been sent to a number of schools elsewhere.\n\nOne campaigner said relationship lessons due to start in schools in 2020 \"proselytise a homosexual way of life\".\n\nSupporters of the lessons said there was a \"lot of misinformation\".\n\nLetters opposing the lessons have been sent to schools in Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Croydon, Ealing, Manchester, Northampton and Nottingham, BBC Newsnight has discovered.\n\nSome have also been sent from Christian parents in Kent.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lead campaigner Amir Ahmed says morally, homosexuality is not \"a valid sexual relationship\"\n\nMainly Muslim families have been protesting outside Anderton Park Primary School in Birmingham after pupils were given books featuring transgender children and gay families.\n\nProtest leader Shakeel Afsar: \"All we are concerned [about] is we are having our children come home with material that contradicts our moral values.\"\n\nAnother protester, Amir Ahmed, said: \"It's not about gay lesbian rights and equality. This is purely about proselytising a homosexual way of life to children.\"\n\nWhen asked if he believed children could be \"recruited to be gay\", Mr Ahmed said: \"You can condition them to accept this as being a normal way of life and it makes the children more promiscuous as they grow older.\"\n\nHe added: \"Whether they become gay or not, they can still enter into gay relationships.\n\n\"They want to convert you, they want to convert your morality and that's just wrong.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is in the books that some parents are protesting about?\n\nAnderton Park headteacher Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson said she had spoken with parents, but days later leaflets circulated accusing the school of \"lying\" and having a \"gay ethos\".\n\nProtesters have insisted they are not homophobic, but the BBC has seen Whatsapp groups with large numbers of contributors in which some people use homophobic language.\n\nLabour MP Wes Streeting, who is openly gay and co-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims, said: \"When you are standing alongside people talking about the proselytising of children, a homosexual agenda, promiscuity, I'm afraid you're homophobic.\"\n\nShaykh Ibrahim Mogra said there had been a lot of misinformation about the lessons\n\nShaykh Ibrahim Mogra, an imam from Leicester, said he was \"disappointed\" with the reaction of the protesters.\n\nHe said: \"We really need to calm down and think very carefully, it is a very very sensitive topic.\"\n\nShaykh Mogra said Mr Ahmed's use of the word \"proselytising\" was very unfortunate, adding: \"I don't believe there is an active effort on the part of LGBT communities to try and convert me and others to become gay people. It's something you don't choose into or opt out of.\n\n\"There is a lot of misinformation. It is not about promoting [homosexuality], it's about making our children aware.\n\n\"The whole driver for this is not the promotion of the LGBT agenda, it's about inclusivity and to ensure the bullying of such communities is ended.\"\n\nAaliyah Hussain said there is not a fight between religion and equality\n\nAaliyah Hussain, of Women Empowered against Racism, Injustice, Sexism and Extremism, said she had come across concerns in Bristol from parents and schools.\n\nShe said some children have been withdrawn from school and there are threats to remove others.\n\nMs Hussain said the \"anxiety\" is caused by the spread of information on social media, but it was \"absolutely not the case\" that this was division between religion and equality.\n\nShe said: \"It's very dangerous to go down that road.\n\n\"This idea that it is religion versus equality is a misnomer because Muslims believe in equality and freedom as well.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The woman in charge of the trust running Parkfield school defends its LGBT rights teaching\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"Pupils should be taught about the society in which they are growing up.\n\n\"These subjects are designed to foster respect for others and for difference, and educate pupils about healthy relationships.\"\n\nCompulsory relationship and sex education lessons are due to start in all secondary schools in England from September 2020.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Anne and Anders Holch Povlsen wrote an open letter to express their gratitude\n\nDanish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen and his wife Anne have thanked the people of Scotland for their \"words of comfort\" after three of their four children died in the Sri Lanka attacks.\n\nThe couple are thought to be Scotland's largest landowners.\n\nTheir children Alfred, five, Agnes, 12 and Alma, 15, were among more than 250 people killed in the bombing attacks on churches and hotels in April.\n\nThe couple said the messages they had received had touched their hearts.\n\nTheir children died when Islamist extremists targeted the hotel they were staying in, the Shangri La in Colombo, during the attacks on Easter Sunday. Churches and other hotels were also targeted.\n\nIn full page adverts, taken out in The Scotsman and Press and Journal newspapers, Mr and Mrs Povlsen said: \"We extend our heartfelt gratitude for the condolences, sympathy and many warming thoughts we have received following the tragic loss of our three beloved and beautiful children, Alfred, Agnes and Alma.\n\n\"The Scottish Highlands has granted us abiding, special memories for our family.\n\n\"It is for this reason that many of the words of comfort have fortified us and touched our hearts.\"\n\nCitizens gathered in Stavtrup, near Aarhus in Denmark, to remember the victims\n\nTributes were left in front of the office of clothing chain Bestseller\n\nThe couple said that their thoughts and condolences also went to the many other innocent families who lost loved ones in the tragedy in Sri Lanka.\n\nThey added: \"In the immense sadness, we are genuinely grateful that we remain united with our daughter, Astrid.\n\n\"The loving memory of our three children, their wonderful spirit and souls will always be in our hearts.\"\n\nMr Holch Povlsen, who is the biggest single shareholder in the clothing giant Asos and also owns the international clothing chain Bestseller, is said to own more than 220,000 acres across the Highlands, including Aldourie Castle.", "The Labour Party is unveiling plans to take the National Grid into public ownership.\n\nIt wants to create a National Energy Agency to own and maintain transmission infrastructure.\n\nLabour said its nationalisation pledge would \"usher in a Green Industrial Revolution\" and tackle climate change.\n\nBut National Grid - the largest transmitter of electricity and gas in Britain - said the proposal was the \"last thing\" that was needed.\n\nThe firm, which does not operate in Northern Ireland, said the Labour plan would hinder the shift to green energy.\n\nLabour also set out plans to put solar panels on nearly two million homes.\n\nIts proposals are contained in a document entitled Bringing Energy Home, due to be presented on Thursday by leader Jeremy Corbyn and Rebecca Long Bailey, shadow energy secretary.\n\nInstalling solar panels on social homes and those with low-incomes is part of Labour's plan to \"usher in a Green Industrial Revolution in housing, transport and industry - creating over 400,000 jobs and tackling climate change\".\n\nLabour said the solar panels would reduce fuel bills, and that it would also offer interest-free loans, grants and make changes to regulations to help an additional 750,000 properties install solar panels.\n\nUnused electricity would be used by the National Grid, which would be nationalised.\n\n\"Energy networks that are owned by the public and responsive to the public interest will be able to prioritise tackling climate change, fuel poverty and security of supply over profit extraction, while working with energy unions to support energy workers through the transition,\" Labour said.\n\nBut National Grid said the plan would \"delay the huge amount of progress and investment that is already helping to make this country a leader in the move to green energy\".\n\n\"At a time when there is increased urgency to meet the challenges of climate change, the last thing that is needed is the enormous distraction, cost and complexity contained in these plans,\" it added.\n\nNational Grid chief executive John Pettigrew told the BBC's Today programme: \"We do not believe the Labour proposals are in the interests of customers.\"\n\nHe defended National Grid's record, saying it was \"in the middle of a huge transformation\" and \"investing hugely in the network\".\n\nHe said Labour had to consider what problem it was looking to solve.\n\nLabour is committed to generating at least 60% of the UK's electricity and heat from renewable and low-carbon sources by 2030.\n\nIt would take the four licensed and regulated electricity and gas transmission companies, including National Grid Electricity and National Grid Gas, back into public ownership and \"replace existing private monopolies with publicly owned and locally run institutions\".\n\nMr Corbyn said: \"Our Green Industrial Revolution will benefit working-class people with cheaper energy bills, more rewarding well-paid jobs, and new industries to revive the parts of our country that have been held back for far too long.\"\n\nHowever, Dan Neidle, a partner at law firm Clifford Chance, told the BBC that Labour's nationalisation plans could contravene international law, because of suggestions that it would not necessarily pay stock market value to buy back the assets.\n\nHe said that in every UK privatisation so far, the state paid market value, so it was not up to Labour to decide what was a fair price.\n\n\"That's not what the UK precedent is and that's not what international law says,\" he says.\n\n\"The courts have never said that's acceptable,\" he added. With the rare exception of Venezuela, \"you have to look quite hard for governments that have done that\".\n\nIf the UK did this, it might struggle to raise money in the bond market, he suggested.\n\nThe Conservative's vice-chairman for policy, Chris Philp, said Labour's \"ideological plan for the state to seize these companies would cost an eye-watering £100bn and saddle taxpayers with their debts\".\n\n\"It would leave politicians in Westminster in charge of keeping the lights on and leave customers with nowhere else to turn,\" he added.\n\n\"With no credible plan for how Labour would pay for this, more borrowing and tax hikes would be inevitable.\"", "Tiffany Gillard and James Francis' son Jenson died 40 minutes after he was born in June last year\n\nA newborn baby died due to a number of \"systemic failures\" in his care at a Welsh hospital, a coroner has said.\n\nReturning a narrative verdict, coroner David Regan found Jenson James Francis died 40 minutes after he was born.\n\nHis mother Tiffany Gillard gave birth to him at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on 21 June 2018.\n\nThe head of midwifery at Cwm Taf health board said a number of changes had since been implemented. Its maternity services are in special measures.\n\nMs Gillard told the inquest that when she was told what had happened, she was left \"shocked and numb\".\n\nMr Regan found Jenson died of cardiopulmonary failure due to \"a failure to deliver him in good time, exposing him to the effects of developing maternal sepsis\".\n\nPontypridd Coroner's Court heard evidence from Dr Pina Amin, the obstetric lead at the University Hospital of Wales (UHW) in Cardiff, who was asked to look at the case.\n\nReferring to the cardiotocography (CTG) reading - a recording of the foetal heartbeat and uterine contractions - Dr Amin indicated a caesarean section delivery should have been offered to the mother about six hours before the baby was actually delivered at 05:20 BST.\n\nThe CTG was \"abnormal\" from 22:21 on 20 June which Dr Amin said \"would tell me this baby is not happy\".\n\nThe Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil has been at the centre of a damning report about maternity services\n\nShe suggested CTG training in Cwm Taf health board \"needs to be such that it's actually fit for purpose\".\n\nShe told the hearing \"ineffective communication\" resulted in \"a dysfunctional team without a clear leader\".\n\nDr Amin interviewed staff on the maternity unit ahead of the inquest and said they appeared to have a reluctance to ask for help because \"maybe they might be seen as not being able to cope\".\n\nAnother independent expert who was asked to review the case said there were \"systemic issues\" which led to baby Jenson's death.\n\nDr Helen Claire Francis, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at UHW, said \"incorrect interpretation\" of the CTG readings \"played a big role\".\n\nDr Francis said when a second opinion on the CTG readings was sought, \"it wasn't always correct\".\n\nShe also raised concerns that there was \"no thought\" to escalate to senior members of the clinical team.\n\nAlthough she acknowledged a midwife might not have been as skilled as senior member of the team, Dr Francis said the CTG \"should have been picked up\" over the course of the evening.\n\nThe inquest also heard from Cwm Taf health board's head of midwifery, Kerri Eilertsen-Feeney.\n\nShe told the inquest that training for her staff \"is the same as what is offered across Wales\", adding that a number of changes had been implemented prior to the publication of the critical report.\n\nMs Eilertsen-Feeney said work was under way to change the culture within the health board so junior staff would feel able to \"jump call or query senior staff\".\n\n\"But cultural changes can't happen over night,\" she added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "All landing cards for international passengers arriving in the UK will be scrapped from Monday.\n\nLanding cards are currently filled in by passengers arriving by air or sea from outside the European Economic Area.\n\nBorder Force director general Paul Lincoln, in a letter to staff, said it would \"help meet the challenge of growing passenger numbers\".\n\nAround 16 million landing cards are issued every year and they are used to record what is said to border staff on arrival, as well as the reasons for travel and conditions of entry.\n\nThe Home Office had agreed to scrap them for seven countries, including the US and Australia, from June, but has now decided to go further.\n\nA document from officials to Border Force staff, seen by the BBC, says much of the data collected by paper landing cards will soon be available digitally.\n\nIt adds that the withdrawal of the cards will enable staff to \"focus more on your interaction with passengers\".\n\nBut Immigration Service Union general secretary, Lucy Moreton, accused the Home Office of \"ignoring\" warnings from experienced staff as to the longer-term impact of getting rid of landing cards.\n\nShe said that the union had been assured that scrapping them would not happen until new technology was in place to record international arrivals.\n\n\"Although in most cases landing cards are retained for purely statistical reasons they do contain the only record of what was said to an officer on arrival,\" she said.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Lincoln said he recognised concerns about the scheme.\n\nBut he added: \"These changes will enable frontline officers to focus their skills and time on border security issues and on cohorts who present the greatest risk of immigration abuse.\"\n\nThe decision to scrap landing cards comes after the government announced it was extending the use of e-gates at UK borders to citizens of the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Singapore and South Korea.\n\nCurrently the gates, which scan e-passports, are reserved for European Economic Area citizens.", "Online fashion brand Oh Polly has said sorry for making a separate Instagram account for plus-sized models.\n\n\"Oh Polly Inclusive\" was spotted by people including YouTuber Alissa Ashley, who called it \"segregation\".\n\nThe company initially defended the decision in a tweet, saying it was \"celebrating a wider range of people in our community\".\n\nBut the new account has now been taken down and the brand has apologised for \"a serious error of judgement\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alissa Ashley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlissa, who has almost two million subscribers on YouTube, tweeted: \"What makes these women not suitable for your main page @ohpolly? Ohpollyinclusive?? Who approved this?\n\n\"Like imagine calling yourselves inclusive and not wanting to post women that don't fit your 'aesthetic' on your brand page lmao,\" she wrote.\n\nAnother Twitter user commented: \"If you wanted to be 'inclusive' wouldn't you put these beautiful women on your main page? Just a question.\"\n\nAnother felt that the brand had missed the point of diversity entirely.\n\n\"This is soo bizarre!! @ohpolly @ohpollyhelp you could have just done without the page? If you truly wanted to be inclusive you would feature them on your main page?? It's disgusting. People are so focused on appearing to be inclusive that they miss the point.\"\n\nOh Polly have dressed celebrities like Jordyn Woods\n\nThe Oh Polly Inclusive account also featured the phrase \"Zero % Tolerance, 100% inclusive\", which left some confused.\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\nFellow beauty guru Jackie Aina simply tweeted the phrase \"Zero% tolerance\" - and in a different post said: \"I see what they're trying to do but I'm not a fan of this... strategy.\"\n\nIn a statement to Radio 1 Newsbeat, a spokesperson for Oh Polly said: \"We established a new page with the specific aim of allowing our customers to discuss a wider range of issues.\n\n\"Improving diversity remains an absolute priority for us across all of our channels.\n\n\"We promise to continue listening to everyone in the Oh Polly community and, most importantly, learn from this mistake.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Jeremy Kyle at MediaCityUK in Salford, where his show was filmed\n\nThe welfare of guests on TV shows is to be scrutinised by MPs and regulators in the wake of the death of a man who appeared on The Jeremy Kyle Show.\n\nITV has cancelled the daytime programme following the death of Steve Dymond.\n\nThe Commons media select committee is to investigate whether TV companies give guests enough support and media regulator Ofcom is examining whether to update its code of conduct.\n\nMr Kyle told the Sun he was \"utterly devastated by the recent events\".\n\nIn a statement he said: \"Myself and the production team I have worked with for the last 14 years are all utterly devastated by the recent events.\n\n\"Our thoughts and sympathies are with Steve's family and friends at this incredibly sad time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ex-Jeremy Kyle guest Danny Fuller: \"You've been used and abused and that's it\"\n\nMr Dymond was found dead on 9 May, a week after filming the show, during which he took a lie detector test.\n\nOfcom has told ITV to report back the initial findings from its investigation into Mr Dymond's participation in programme by Monday.\n\n\"While ITV has decided to cancel the programme, its investigation into what happened is continuing and we will review the findings carefully,\" the Ofcom spokesperson said.\n\nITV announced on Wednesday that The Jeremy Kyle Show had been axed permanently. Chief executive Carolyn McCall said the decision was a result of the \"gravity of recent events\".\n\nShe said: \"The Jeremy Kyle Show has had a loyal audience and has been made by a dedicated production team for 14 years, but now is the right time for the show to end.\"\n\nThere are now questions about how participants are looked after across the TV industry. Love Island, another ITV show, has also come under scrutiny after the deaths of two former contestants.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Love Island contestant Zara Holland on what it's like inside the villa\n\nDamian Collins MP, chair of the digital, culture, media and sport select committee, said: \"There needs to be an independent review of the duty of care TV companies have to participants in reality TV shows.\n\n\"Programmes like The Jeremy Kyle Show risk putting people who might be vulnerable on to a public stage at a point in their lives when they are unable to foresee the consequences, either for themselves or their families.\n\n\"With an increasing demand for this type of programming, we'll be examining broadcasting regulation in this area - is it fit for purpose?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe committee will scrutinise the psychological support provided to participants and ask who should be responsible for monitoring whether duty of care policies are being effectively applied.\n\nIt will also look at whether shows put pressure on participants to exhibit \"more extreme behaviour\".\n\nOfcom said it was \"vital\" that people taking part in reality and factual shows were properly looked after, and its broadcasting code of conduct could include new protections for them.\n\n\"We're examining whether more can be done to safeguard the welfare of those people, similar to the duty of care we have in the broadcasting code to protect under-18s,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nIf you are feeling emotionally distressed and would like details of organisations in the UK which offer advice and support, go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Andy Murray receives his knighthood from Prince Charles at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace\n\nSir Andy Murray has received his knighthood at Buckingham Palace - more than two years after he was awarded the honour.\n\nThe three-time Grand Slam champion was named in the Queen's New Years Honours in 2016, following his second Wimbledon win and second Olympic gold.\n\nSir Andy said he was \"very proud\" to receive the honour.\n\nThe 32-year-old added: \"It's a nice day to spend with my family - my wife and parents are here.\"\n\nHe said he would like to have brought his children to the ceremony, but felt that three-year-old Sophia Olivia and 18-month-old Edie were too young.\n\n\"I'll show them the medal when I get home,\" he said.\n\nSir Andy plans to retire after this year's Wimbledon because of injury.\n\nHowever, it is still unclear if the former world number one will compete in the tournament in London as he continues his rehabilitation following a successful hip surgery.\n\nSir Andy has said he feels no pressure to return to the game while his mother Judy said her son was \"cautiously optimistic\" about returning to action.\n\nThe Dunblane tennis star collected the award at an investiture ceremony conducted by the Prince of Wales.\n\nMurray has twice won Wimbledon as well as Olympic gold in London and Rio\n\nSir Andy, who is a Unicef UK ambassador, received the knighthood for services to tennis and charity.\n\nThursday's ceremony also featured novelist Sir Philip Pullman, who was knighted for his services to literature.\n\nBroadcaster Chris Packham was awarded a CBE for services to nature conservation.\n\nThe BBC Springwatch presenter said the honour was a \"silent thanks\" from the animals he has defended, after he was named on the New Years Honours list in 2018.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nA record number of footballers are seeking mental health support, according to the Professional Footballers' Association.\n\nPFA director of player welfare Michael Bennett expects the organisation to help \"double or treble\" the number of players in 2019 than it did in 2018.\n\nSince January, 355 professionals have accessed therapy - the highest number ever recorded by the end of a season.\n\nThe figure for the whole of 2018 was 438, having risen from 160 in 2016.\n\nBennett says the increase is \"a good thing\" - as it shows increased trust in the PFA - rather than a growing problem.\n\nHe expects to see a spike in the number of players seeking help in the coming weeks as clubs decide who will not be retained for next season.\n\n\"When players go back to pre-season, that's when those who haven't got contracts realise they're struggling mentally, emotionally and financially,\" Bennett, who played professionally for several clubs, including Charlton Athletic and Brighton & Hove Albion, told The Next Episode podcast.\n\nSo what's it like to get released? And what support is out there when you do?\n• None Listen to The Next Episode on BBC Sounds\n\n'I think they thought I was going to kill myself'\n\nOlu Maintain was released by a Premier League side at 18. He'd been with the club since he was seven.\n\n\"I went crazy, because I thought it was a done thing,\" he says. \"I was training with the first team. I wasn't even playing with a youth team.\n\n\"I'd spent my whole life at one place. How the hell do you expect me to mentally prepare?\"\n\nMaintain was told after a training session that he was not going to be kept on.\n\n\"It was a blur. I just remember walking out, I didn't even shower, just walked out,\" he says.\n\n\"I got my clothes on, got in my car and drove off. Then the head of the academy rang me because I think he thought I was going to kill myself or do something crazy.\n\n\"I spent my whole life there. They'd watched me grow up. I just couldn't accept it.\"\n\nMaintain says he did get support from the club's coaches, but still found it tough.\n\n\"Mentally I wasn't in the space to hear anything from anyone,\" he says.\n\n\"That was the root of why my life spiralled out of control. A lot of my depression, a lot of mental health and all that stuff was me not dealing with rejection then.\"\n\nAlthough Maintain went on to sign for Norwich and Falkirk, he feels the impact of that early rejection stayed with him.\n\n\"You're rubbish - that's how I took it. Point blank, you're not good enough for anything. Relationships, friendships, jobs,\" he adds.\n\n\"I'll start something now and never finish it. I can never see stuff through because I'm thinking it's just too good to be true.\n\n\"I'm worried about what people think. Worried about how people perceive me.\"\n\nSince leaving the professional game, Maintain has begun writing a comedy series.\n\nHe still plays semi-professional football for Woking - who have just been promoted to the National League - but says the game still has a long way to go in tackling the mental health problems of some of its players.\n\n\"No-one wants to talk about emotions, and if you do you're soft,\" he says.\n\n'I've seen players my age go to jail'\n\nAndy Ali has been at the academies of four different clubs.\n\n\"I never actually had a contract,\" says the 21-year-old. \"I was one of those players who was in for maybe two or three months.\"\n\nAt 16, Ali was at the academy of a Championship club and thought he had finally done enough to earn a pro contract.\n\n\"I thought this was finally the one that was going to pay off, so when they eventually told me [he was being released], I honestly I couldn't see a way forward,\" he says.\n\n\"I was thinking, 'how am I going to tell people what's happened?'\n\n\"No-one's your friend. One or two people might take a liking to you, but the system isn't there for you.\"\n\nAbout 12,000 boys are in academies at any one time, and mental health provisions are being stepped up.\n\nAny 16-year-old at a club has to carry on with some kind of education, and the PFA visits all 92 English league clubs to give workshops on mental health and emotional well-being.\n\nThe English Football League is halfway through a two-year partnership with mental health charity Mind, and on Wednesday the Football Association launched a new campaign using football to \"generate the biggest ever conversation around mental health\".\n\nAli is all too aware of the impact rejection can have on young players' lives.\n\n\"I've seen friends who were probably the best at football in my area go to jail,\" he says.\n\n\"I know one guy who made it as a pro at 18 and now he's in jail because he got released. He just couldn't accept that.\"\n\n'You have to be strong mentally to play the game'\n\nMaz Bettache manages Rising Ballers, a Sunday league team in west London including several players released by professional clubs.\n\n\"I was lucky enough to be part of a Premier League club from the age of nine up to 18 but unfortunately I didn't get a professional contract,\" he says.\n\n\"It didn't work out, but I bounced back and it's only made me a better person on and off the pitch.\"\n\nThe players at Rising Ballers say it feels a lot different to the professional academies they were at, in terms of the support network.\n\n\"When players get released, their life changes very, very quickly and it's hard to take,\" Bettache says.\n\n\"I'm just trying to create an environment for players to enjoy their football, showcase their talent and put it out there for the whole world to see.\"\n\nRising Ballers film all their games and upload them to YouTube. Their social media following is growing, and more and more scouts from professional clubs are watching the team, who are on a 21-game unbeaten run.\n\n\"That time when players have been told that they're not getting a professional contract is very crucial,\" says Bettache.\n\n\"It's about getting them opportunities with other clubs, opportunities away from football, different career paths and helping them, really helping them build up as a person again.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by mental health issue, help and support is available at bbc.co.uk/actionline", "But the paragraph tucked into the short formal letter from Sir Graham Brady to Tory MPs all but marks the end of Theresa May's premiership and the beginning of the official hunt for the next leader of the country.\n\nAfter the lines in the short note restate the prime minister's determination to get Brexit done, it confirms in black and white that after the next big vote, in the first week of June, the prime minister will make plans with the party for choosing a successor.\n\nRight now, the expectation is that vote will be lost (although it is not impossible, of course, that Number 10 could turn it round).\n\nAnd the conversation that's been arranged won't just be a gentle chat about what to do next.\n\nSenior sources have told me that means, even though the letter doesn't spell it out, that if her Brexit plan is defeated again, Mrs May will announce she is going.\n\nOne source said it was \"inconceivable\" to imagine that she could stay on in those circumstances.\n\nA cabinet minister told me it would be \"out of the question\".\n\nAnd one of her fiercest allies said: \"I don't want her to, but the pressure will be absolutely immense.\"\n\nOne insider close to Mrs May told me they hoped under this timetable that the prime minister could avoid the humiliation of the grassroots of her party meeting to express their lack of confidence in her at a huge meeting planned for the middle of June, which would be \"horrendous\".\n\nA minister said all they wanted now was to make sure \"they find a dignified exit for her\".\n\nGiven that politics moves at hyperspeed, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the prime minister will find some way of passing the Brexit bill.\n\nMrs May has survived through almost impossible circumstances, time and time again.\n\nAs you know, if you've been paying attention to what we've been discussing here in the last couple of weeks (!), some of her inner circle still believe that there is a chance, even if it's slim, of agreeing some kind of process with the Labour party that allows the bill to pass.\n\nAnd some ministers hope that terrible results for both the main parties in the European elections could spook MPs, somehow, into getting behind the bill in the end.\n\nBut, given that one of the main obstacles to Labour agreeing a deal with Mrs May was its fear that she wouldn't hang around for long, the fact that she has all but confirmed her departure before the summer makes an agreement even harder to see.\n\nWe are witnessing, therefore, the Tories' decades-old agonies over Europe ending the time in Number 10 of another prime minister.\n\nAnd like it or not, it's the issue that's likely over the next few months to shape how the party selects the next.", "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 family of a County Down baby waiting for a heart transplant are asking parents to consider registering their children as organ donors.\n\nSeven-month-old Ollie Grant has spent most of his life in hospital after being diagnosed with a heart condition.\n\nHis mother Riona Grant said they will do \"everything we can to get him a new heart and a new life\".\n\nSome 181 children in the UK are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant and 42 are waiting for a new heart.\n\nNHS Blood and Transplant said 17 children died in 2017/18 while waiting for an organ donor.\n\nOllie's father Damien said thinking about registering a child was something many parents would not think about.\n\n\"But from the point of view of a child needing a transplant, maybe people would consider it,\" he added.\n\nWhile not wishing such a tragedy on any family, Riona said she never thought they would be in this position.\n\n\"No one ever does, but we have to do everything we can for Ollie because he's just a baby and we have to speak for him,\" she added.\n\nPaediatric surgeon Tim Jones said more needs to be done to increase availability of organs\n\nAbout 57 donors were found last year leading to 200 transplant operations.\n\nTim Jones, a consultant paediatric surgeon at Birmingham Children's Hospital who has been treating Ollie, said more had to be done to increase the availability of organs.\n\n\"The biggest problem we have is that there are far fewer children donating organs,\" he explained.\n\n\"If we had more, then children like Ollie would have a better chance.\n\n\"The problem is we are asking families to do that at a time of great tragedy so we would appeal to people to have the conversation now.\n\n\"For most people it will never be an issue, but it would make a difference.\"\n\nOllie has already had two heart operations and suffered a stroke but his family said he has fought back.\n\n\"We have been on that tightrope so many times,\" said Mr Grant.\n\n\"He is a happy and smiling baby and such a character, but we know that it could go the other way.\n\n\"That's always in the back of your mind and it means you can never settle,\" he said.\n\nMrs Grant said the condition was diagnosed at her 20-week scan and they have been in shock since, experiencing the highs and lows of looking after a sick baby.\n\n\"It's the rollercoaster but the staff at the hospital and our families have been brilliant.\n\n\"It's Ollie who keeps us going,\" she explained.\n\nYou can find out more information about organ donation on 0300 123 23 23 or at nidirect.gov.uk.\n\nSee more of Ollie's story on BBC Newsline on BBC One NI at 18:30 BST on 16 May.", "Talks to avert the collapse of British Steel will resume later on Friday after the firm secured funds to stay afloat until the end of May.\n\nSources close to owners Greybull Capital say its future will be discussed at \"ministerial level\".\n\nBritish Steel has admitted it needs further financial support from the government to help it address \"Brexit-related issues\".\n\nOne possibility is a £75m government lifeline to the company.\n\nOtherwise, ministers can decide to nationalise the firm or see it fall into administration.\n\nOn Thursday, British Steel said it had the backing of shareholders and lenders and that operations continued as usual while it sought a \"permanent solution\" to its financial troubles.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"As the business navigates the significant uncertainties caused by Brexit, and explores options to strengthen the business for the long term, we are pleased to confirm that we have the required liquidity while we work towards a permanent solution.\"\n\nBritish Steel is the UK's second largest steel firm, employing 4,500 people and about 20,000‎ indirectly via its supply chain.\n\nIn April, the firm was forced to borrow £100m from the government to pay an EU carbon bill, so it could avoid a steep fine.\n\nHowever, concerns about its future were raised this week after Sky News reported that insolvency experts had been lined up in case the firm could not secure further government funding.\n\nIt is understood that along with administration, nationalisation or a management buyout are being discussed as fall-back options for the company.\n\nBritish Steel's troubles have been linked to a slump in orders from European customers ‎due to uncertainty over the Brexit process.\n\nThe firm has also been struggling with the weakness of the pound since the EU referendum in June 2016 and the escalating trade US-China trade war.\n\nGreybull Capital, a private equity firm, rescued Tata Steel's long products business during the depths of the steel crisis in 2016, saving more than 4,000 jobs.\n\nIt has since rebranded the company as British Steel and recently returned it to profit.\n\nThe concerns come days after Tata signalled its planned merger with German rival Thyssenkrupp was off, raising fresh doubts about its Port Talbot site.\n\nTata, which admitted it is facing tough operating conditions in the UK, promised to keep its UK plants running, but only if they could be profitable.", "Darcy-May Elm has been described as an \"fun ray of sunshine\"\n\nA four-year-old girl was killed when her father crashed the family car while trying to cross a dual carriageway.\n\nDarcy-May Elm from Dorset died in the two-car crash on the A40 between Carmarthen and St Clears in October.\n\nThe inquest was told the primary cause of the accident was driver error by her father, Daniel Elm.\n\nHe had crossed over from the westbound carriageway to an unclassified road next to the eastbound carriageway.\n\nHe then performed a U-turn and attempted to rejoin the westbound carriageway by crossing the eastbound road, but was struck by a Skoda car before reaching the central reservation.\n\nThe court in Milford Haven heard evidence from Aled Thomas, a forensic collision investigator, who said the other driver had \"very little time to react\" before the crash.\n\nMr Elm subsequently told police he had not spotted the Skoda travelling down the eastbound carriageway.\n\nThe weather and road conditions were good on the day of the crash, the inquest heard.\n\nDarcy-May died from a blunt injury to her neck and chest, which caused a fracture dislocation of her neck.\n\nShe was sitting the rear offside passenger seat of the Micra and her mother was in the front passenger seat.\n\nCoroner Mark Layton described her death as a \"dreadful tragedy\" and concluded she had died as a result of a road traffic collision.\n\nHe said that the collision occurred from a \"misjudged manoeuvre\".\n\nDarcy-May was taken to Glangwili Hospital but later passed away.\n\nThe coroner's officer, Hayley Rogers, told the court that Daniel Elm suffered life-changing injuries in the \"high impact collision\" and his wife, Danielle, had suffered \"life-threatening injuries\" for which she is still in hospital.\n\nIn a family tribute read to the court, Darcy-May was described as a \"beautiful, loving, caring girl who was much loved, adored by her grandparents.\n\n\"She is, and will be, missed. She was our fun ray of sunshine.\"\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\nLucky diners were accidentally served a £4,500 bottle of red wine at a restaurant.\n\nHawksmoor Manchester said on Twitter it hoped the customers had enjoyed their evening after being given the pricey 2001 bottle of Chateau le Pin Pomerol.\n\nThe diners ordered a £260 Bordeaux but received the bottle \"of the same vintage\" which was 17 times the price.\n\nA \"mortified\" staff member who made the error has been urged to keep their \"chin up\" as \"one-off mistakes happen\".\n\nIt was only afterwards that the restaurant's manager realised the mistake, a spokesman said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe customers ordered a bottle of the 2001 Chateau Pichon Longueville Contesse de Lalande, which costs £260.\n\nHawksmoor founder Will Beckett said a manager from another branch had been helping out and offered to find the wine for a waitress, but picked up the wrong bottle.\n\nThe restaurant has subsequently posted a picture on Twitter of the two offending bottles side by side, with the caption \"they look pretty similar 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 5 by Hawksmoor Manchester This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe diners, who were eating at the bar, were lucky enough to be served \"something spectacular\" and ordered a second bottle so clearly enjoyed it, according to Mr Beckett.\n\n\"At that kind of level you're into a rarity, a flavour profile you won't find anywhere else,\" he said.\n\nThey did not realise they had quaffed a £4,500 bottle, while the second bottle they asked for was unavailable.\n\nMr Beckett said the staff member involved was \"brilliant, and we know she is brilliant\" so there was no point criticising her for a one-off mistake.\n\n\"I am going to tease her for this when she stops being so mortified,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Cult Wines online tasting guide, only 500 cases of the 2001 Chateau le Pin Pomerol were made.\n\nIt describes the vintage as a \"tremendous effort\", adding: \"Its deep ruby/plum/purple colour is accompanied by an extraordinary perfume of creme de cassis, cherry liqueur, plums, liquorice, caramel, and sweet toast.\"\n\nReviews on the vivino.com website say the wine is \"legendary\" and \"mythical\".\n• None How can wine be worth £4,500?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Oritse Williams has denied raping the woman after a concert in December 2016\n\nA woman who claims she was raped by ex-JLS star Oritse Williams has denied going to his hotel room and asking him to have sex.\n\nThe singer, 32, denies raping the woman after a concert in Wolverhampton in December 2016.\n\nGiving evidence, the victim said she had \"bits and pieces\" memory of the night after drinking.\n\nThe former boy band member is standing trial alongside his tour manager Jamien Nagadhana, 32.\n\nNagadhana, of Hounslow, west London, denies charges of sexual assault and assault by penetration.\n\nProsecutors allege Williams, of Croydon, south London, \"jumped on the woman\" when she went to look for her phone.\n\nAt Wolverhampton Crown Court, Mark Cotter QC, representing Williams, asked the woman whether she could order her memories from the night.\n\nThe woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: \"It's not impossible, I could give it a good guess. The memories I do have, I know took place.\"\n\nShe said she remembered kissing a female friend in the nightclub and her friend \"grinding\" on Williams' lap, but had no memory of sitting on his lap herself before they travelled in a taxi to his hotel.\n\nThe complainant told jurors she returned to the singer's room to find her phone and not because she wanted to have sex with him.\n\nShe also rejected claims from Mr Cotter that it was a consensual encounter that ended when he was \"unable to perform\" sexually.\n\nThe court heard her friend asked somebody to get help, leading to police attending the hotel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Four people have been killed after a small plane crashed three miles to the south of Dubai International Airport.\n\nThree Britons and a South African were aboard the UK-registered DA42 plane, UAE authorities said.\n\nThe four-seat plane was owned by Flight Calibration Services which is based at Shoreham Airport, in West Sussex.\n\nThe firm flies staff around the world to inspect and calibrate navigation aids - which include radars and landing systems for airports and airfields.\n\nThe General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) says an investigation is under way.\n\nAccording to local media reports, the plane came down at approximately 19:30 local time, killing a pilot, a co-pilot and two passengers.\n\nFlights were delayed and diverted as the airport - one of the world's busiest, based on international passenger traffic - was closed for 45 minutes.\n\nThe Foreign Office said in a statement: \"We are working closely with the Emirati authorities following reports of a small aircraft crash in Dubai.\"\n\nUS engineering and aerospace company Honeywell said it had hired Flight Calibration Services and the DA42 plane for work in Dubai.\n\nIn a statement, Honeywell said: \"We are deeply saddened by today's plane crash in Dubai, and our heartfelt condolences are with the victims' families.\"", "Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) has announced plans to create 500 high-skilled jobs at a new digital tech hub in Edinburgh.\n\nThe bank has started recruiting software engineers and data scientists for the hub, which will be based at its Scottish Widows' headquarters.\n\nThe new roles will be phased in over the next 18 months.\n\nLBG said it was responding to a shift in customer behaviour towards digital services.\n\nThe hub will be used to develop new technology for Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Scottish Widows customers.\n\nThe move is part of a £3bn investment announced by Lloyds last year to overhaul its digital services.\n\nPhilip Grant said the group's tech labs were \"designing what customers will need in the future\"\n\nMost high street banks, including Lloyds, have been shutting branches in recent years as more customers conduct their banking through apps or on the internet.\n\nLast year, the group earmarked more than 60 branches for closure, while in 2017 it closed dozens of Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and Halifax branches.\n\nLloyds said some of the roles at its new hub would be taken up by existing staff looking to upskill.\n\nPhilip Grant, chairman of LBG's Scottish executive committee, said the group was working to \"strengthen our tech-based talent pool in Scotland\".\n\nHe said: \"People's expectations are rising rapidly as they want the same experience they're used to with established digital brands.\n\n\"In our tech labs, we are designing what customers will need in the future, making products and services that can adapt to their lives and making it easier for them to connect with their finances.\"\n\nHe said: \"Edinburgh is fast becoming one of the UK's most competitive tech hubs, with growth in agile start-ups, offerings from its world-leading universities and new digital academies providing greater scale and choice for careers in the industry.\n\n\"Lloyds' investment will be a major boost towards growing the workforce of the future in Scotland, helping create a more dynamic and innovative side to its thriving financial sector.\"\n\nLloyds is already actively involved in the Edinburgh tech scene, regularly hosting digital academies and meet-ups including CodeClan and CodeBar, as well as partnerships with Fintech Scotland and HackerX.", "The activists are calling on BP to end exploration for oil and gas\n\nClimate activists inside five large containers have blocked the entrances to BP's head office in central London.\n\nThe Greenpeace protesters used cranes to transport the heavy boxes into place at St James's Square in the early hours of the morning.\n\nOther campaigners abseiled down the side of the building to block windows and display banners.\n\nGreenpeace says those inside the containers have enough food and water to last them for several days.\n\nThe aim is to keep BP's headquarters closed \"for at least the whole of this AGM week\", Greenpeace said. BP's annual general meeting is set to take place in Aberdeen on Tuesday.\n\nThe five containers were put in place during the early hours of the morning\n\nGreenpeace said it was carrying out the action to call on BP to end exploration for oil and gas, and only invest in renewable energy.\n\nOne campaigner, Morton Thaysen, told the BBC the group was planning a \"long-term occupation of BP's headquarters\".\n\nFour people have been arrested for aggravated trespass after some protesters scaled the building.\n\nOfficers from the Met Police are in St James's Square and said there had been no reported injuries.\n\nSome campaigners abseiled down the building in St James's Square\n\nAs far as protests go, this doesn't have the energy of the recent Extinction Rebellion demonstrations that closed off main arteries in central London. Then, it was very difficult to avoid the sound systems and banners.\n\nThis time it's a very quiet protest tucked down a side street just off a main road leading to Piccadilly Circus. This has meant little disruption to businesses, shoppers and tourists.\n\nHowever it has disrupted the protesters' intended target, BP, as staff are unable to enter the building and have been told to work from home.\n\nThe boxes have been custom made to fit perfectly in the space in front of every entrance to BP's offices, other than the fire exit.\n\nInside each box are two Greenpeace protesters with more sitting on top, looking around.\n\nBut as the police have cordoned off the entire road, it is very difficult for people to see what's going on so you wonder how long the protest will have an impact.\n\nIn a statement, BP said: \"We welcome discussion, debate, even peaceful protest on the important matter of how we must all work together to address the climate challenge, but impeding safe entry and exit from an office building in this way is dangerous and clearly a matter for the police to resolve as swiftly as possible.\"\n\nA company employee said staff had not been told what was happening.\n\n\"I'm thinking to go home because it will take the police a while to get the protesters abseiling off the building,\" the staff member said.\n\nThe boxes were put in place using cranes\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US decision to ban its companies from using foreign telecoms providers regarded as a security risk is the latest salvo apparently directed against Chinese tech giant Huawei.\n\nThe US has been at the forefront of an effort to restrict the use of Huawei equipment in 5G mobile networks, citing serious security issues.\n\nHuawei is now facing resistance from other governments over the risk that its technology could be used for espionage.\n\nSo which other countries are blocking Huawei's 5G technology, and which are allowing it to operate?\n\nThis is new technology, in its very early stages of implementation, and many countries are still deciding what role - if any - Huawei should play.\n\nBut Huawei says it has now signed more than 40 commercial 5G contracts around the world, including in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.\n\nAustralia effectively banned Huawei and another Chinese telecom firm, ZTE, last year when it applied national security rules to companies supplying equipment to telecoms firms.\n\nNew Zealand has blocked Huawei from supplying one mobile network with 5G equipment, but has not yet ruled out all Huawei 5G contracts completely.\n\nThese two countries, along with the UK and Canada, make up the so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network with the US.\n\nThe UK is still reviewing its 5G telecoms policy and may allow Huawei to supply \"non-core\" 5G components, such as antenna masts.\n\nCanada is still weighing up its decision over Huawei.\n\nThe United States has effectively blocked all Huawei involvement in its 5G networks.\n\nSo far, no European country has formally blocked Huawei, and the majority of the company's current global 5G contracts are with companies operating within Europe.\n\nThe EU in March issued recommendations about 5G security, asking member states to review their networks by the end of June and report their findings to the EU Commission.\n\nDespite pressure from the United States, Germany has resisted a ban, and France has not indicated it plans to follow a tough line against the Chinese company.\n\nThe Netherlands' largest telecom firm, KPN, has already made clear that it would not allow Huawei to build its \"core\" 5G infrastructure, but it could supply other equipment considered less sensitive.\n\nThe Dutch government is expected to make a decision on using Huawei equipment by the end of June.\n\nA telecoms firm in Russia signed a deal with Huawei on 5G technology during a visit to the country in June by the Chinese president.\n\nSouth Korea launched commercial 5G services last month, and one of its three carriers has used 5G equipment supplied by Huawei.\n\n5G trials are due to be carried out in India later this year with Huawei one of the companies invited to take part.\n\nHowever, there are reports that India may limit Huawei's involvement in developing its 5G infrastructure.\n\nMalaysia has already made clear that Huawei can be involved in developing its 5G networks, with the prime minister visiting the company's office in Beijing in April.\n\nIn Indonesia, the country's telecoms minister said earlier this year that it could not afford to be \"paranoid\" over using Huawei technology.\n\nIn Thailand, Huawei has already launched a 5G test project.\n\nVietnam, which is developing a 5G network, has not officially banned Huawei, although one of the largest largest telecoms carriers is currently using Ericsson technology.\n\nJapan has blocked the use of Huawei equipment for 5G over security fears, although as in other countries, Huawei kit is part of the existing 4G network.\n\nThe growth of 5G is likely to lead to other opportunities for Huawei around the world.\n\nThe company says it already has 10 confirmed 5G contracts in the Middle East.\n\nThe African continent has not been in the forefront of early 5G adoption, but its more advanced economies provide potentially fertile markets.\n\nIn South Africa, for example, Huawei has already announced its involvement in a commercial 5G network in Johannesburg with the mobile data provider, Rain.\n\nAccording to one industry-wide body, there were more than 200 operators in 85 countries investing in 5G networks in some form or another by March this year.", "Robert F Smith, a technology investor and one of America's most prominent black philanthropists, was giving an address at Morehouse College, a historically all-male black college when he made the life-changing announcement.", "Children in Bishopbriggs are no longer banned from playing hopscotch\n\nResidents are claiming a victory for common sense after a ban on children drawing hopscotch grids was reversed.\n\nPeople living at a housing development in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire, were stunned by a letter sent on Friday from factor Speirs Gumley.\n\nIt was from a local inspector who had noticed chalk drawings on the ground.\n\nThey were told \"if these children belong to your family they (should) refrain from this practice immediately.\"\n\nIt said the markings detracted from the overall appearance of the property.\n\nParents were angry that their children were being discouraged from playing outside and that such a harsh stance was being taken over a seemingly harmless game.\n\nDonald Macdonald, chairman of the local Woodhill Residents Group, told the BBC Scotland news website: \"It seemed to be a bit mean-spirited.\n\n\"We want children to be outdoors not stuck in front of a screen. This would have just been another reason not to be outdoors.\"\n\nSpeirs Gumley is a sponsor of Glasgow-based charity Peek (Play for Each and Every Kid) whose mission it is to improve the lives of children and young people by unlocking their potential through play and by being creative.\n\nOn Monday, following a meeting at the Glasgow HQ of the property firm, an apology was issued.\n\nAn inspector had seen children draw in chalk on a tarmac path between properties\n\nThe company's director, Tom McKie, said; \"I have to say I am disappointed that such a letter was issued by Speirs Gumley, and it was a poor judgment call on our part to do so.\n\n\"Admittedly, we do get these type of complaints from time to time in housing developments that we manage and, of course, we recognise that clients in the same development can hold differing views on how to resolve things.\n\n\"My view is that common sense should have prevailed, and it should have been dealt with more sensitively by us.\n\n\"We will of course be apologising to our clients for the handling of this.\"\n\nMr Macdonald was pleased with the U-turn.\n\nHe added: \"We are delighted Speirs Gumley have realised the value of children having outdoor fun.\"\n\nLocal MP Jo Swinson said: \"Parents of Bishopbriggs are absolutely right to be outraged. If anything, children playing outdoors enhances the local community and they should be encouraged to have active, healthy fun as much as possible.\n\n\"I'm pleased Speirs Gumley have come to their senses and issued an apology, and hope they will take this opportunity to continue to support initiatives that get children out and about.\"\n• None The school activities on the banned list", "Mr Coveney suggested many British politicians do not understand the complexity of NI politics\n\nIreland's deputy prime minister has ruled out any renegotiation of the Brexit withdrawal deal if Theresa May is replaced as UK prime minister.\n\nSpeaking on RTÉ, Tánaiste Simon Coveney said \"the personality might change but the facts don't\".\n\nHe described Mrs May as a \"decent person\" and strongly criticised Conservative MPs at Westminster.\n\nMrs May has promised to set a timetable for the election of her successor after the next Brexit vote.\n\nMr Coveney described political events at Westminster as \"extraordinary\", as he questioned the logic of politicians who believed a change of leader would deliver changes to the agreement struck by Mrs May.\n\nHe said Conservative MPs were \"impossible\" on the issue of Brexit.\n\n\"The EU has said very clearly that the Withdrawal Agreement has been negotiated over two-and-a-half years, it was agreed with the British government and the British cabinet and it's not up for renegotiation, even if there is a new British prime minister,\" he said.\n\nHe told RTÉ's This Week programme that many British politicians \"don't, quite frankly, understand the complexity of politics in Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"They have tried to dumb this debate down into a simplistic argument whereby it's Britain versus the EU, as opposed to two friends tying to navigate through the complexity of a very, very difficult agreement,\" he added.\n\nMr Coveney also said the Irish government would continue to focus significant efforts and financial resources towards planning for a no-deal Brexit scenario, following Friday's collapse of Brexit talks in the UK.\n\nHe said time was of the essence for the UK to get a deal through Parliament, adding that he was concerned Britain would not \"get its act together over summer\" and leave without a deal.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mrs May announced that MPs would vote on the bill that would pave the way for Brexit in the week beginning 3 June.\n\nIf the bill is not passed, the default position is that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal.\n\nBrexit had been due to take place on 29 March.\n\nBut the UK was given an extension until 31 October after MPs three times voted down the withdrawal agreement Mrs May had negotiated with the EU - by margins of 230, 149 and 58 votes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"The SNP has been clear and straight with people: We want to keep Scotland in the EU\"\n\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has said her party has been the most consistent anti-Brexit voice during the European election campaign.\n\nLabour's Scottish deputy leader Lesley Laird said a new vote on Brexit was becoming more likely.\n\nConservative MP Colin Clark said next month's Brexit bill will be \"different\" from what has gone before.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Vince Cable said his party could support it, if the public were given the final say.\n\nUK voters take part in elections to the European parliament on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Andrew Marr show on BBC One that putting the Brexit issue back to people in a second vote would be the right way forward.\n\nShe added: \"There is nobody I think in Scotland or across the UK that could doubt that the SNP is unequivocally and unambiguously anti-Brexit.\n\n\"Scotland's not for Brexit. Scotland is for Europe and people in Scotland have an opportunity by voting SNP on Thursday to send that message very loudly and very clearly.\"\n\nLesley Laird told Gordon Brewer that a new referendum is possible\n\nSpeaking later on Sunday Politics Scotland, Ms Laird said a new referendum on Brexit was becoming more likely, but not certain.\n\n\"That is absolutely now the direction that we see this ending up,\" she said. \"You cannot yet say.\"\n\n\"We're going to have these indicative votes. We don't know what Theresa May will bring forward and we don't know therefore what that final deal will look like.\"\n\nColin Clark believes the prime minister will bring new ideas on Brexit before MPs\n\nMr Clark told the programme that the Brexit proposition being brought to the Commons was not simply a re-run of the measure which had previously been rejected by MPs.\n\nHe said: \"The bill will be different when it comes back. It has to be different when it comes back and has to bring more of the party together.\n\n\"And I believe if Labour were given a free vote, the bill would pass.\"\n\nVince Cable believes the voters should have the final say\n\nMr Cable said the Liberal Democrats could back the prime minister, but only if the public were given the final say on the terms of exit in a referendum.\n\nHe said his party had discussed the \"practicalities\" of holding another public vote and it was possible before the 31 October deadline.\n\n\"We need a proper referendum that will come to a resolution on the issue, with remain on the ballot paper.\"\n\nPatrick Harvie thinks the European vote should be about more than Brexit\n\nPatrick Harvie of the Scottish Greens said voters on Thursday should not simply look at a party's stance on Brexit.\n\n\"Electing a Green MEP for Scotland will electing someone who'll stand up not just for Scotland's place in Europe,\" he said, \"but also for the issues like the climate emergency and tackling the refugee crisis in a humane and decent manner.\"\n\nThe Brexit Party the issue of making Brexit happen comes before everything else.\n\nTheir representative Louis Stedman-Bryce added: \"The message really is that we have to focus on democracy before we can focus on anything else.\n\n\"We have to make Brexit happen.\"\n\nLouis Stedman-Bryce of the Brexit Party wants leaving the EU to be an overriding priority", "Thousands of teenagers are living in supported or semi-supported accommodation, which can often be a house on a residential street\n\nThousands of teenagers in care are being \"dumped\" in unregulated homes and \"abandoned to organised crime gangs\", the BBC has been told.\n\nThe number of looked-after children aged 16 and over living in unregistered accommodation in England has increased 70% in a decade, Newsnight has found.\n\nPolice forces have raised concerns, saying criminals see the premises as an easy target for recruitment.\n\nThe government said children in care \"deserve good quality accommodation\".\n\nThe Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) said local authorities do \"many things\" - including unannounced checks and DBS checks - to monitor provision.\n\nAs part of a special series of reports, Britain's Hidden Children's Homes, Newsnight has learned that - according to figures from the Department for Education - around 5,000 looked after children in England are living in so-called 16+ supported or semi-supported accommodation - up from 2,900 10 years ago.\n\nThis type of accommodation is not inspected or registered by Ofsted, even though residents are in the care of the state.\n\nBut because they are deemed to be receiving support, rather than care, the accommodation is not subject to the same checks and inspections as registered children's homes.\n\nLocal authorities can pay to place children in unregistered accommodation if they deem it is in a child's best interests. This can often be simply a house on a residential street, with staff on site or visiting for as little as a few hours a week.\n\nAmy - now 19 - was moved to one of these homes in Bedfordshire, when she was 16 years old.\n\n\"There was a mattress but no bed sheets, it was freezing cold and I had to use my coat and blanket as a duvet. It made me feel sort of desperate and very alone.\"\n\nAmy - not her real name - said there were times she was frightened living in the home.\n\n\"I was hit in the face by one of the staff members,\" she said.\n\nJackie Sebire, assistant chief constable at Bedfordshire Police and the National Police Chiefs' Council lead on serious violence, said that more than half of the 60 homes for looked-after children in Bedfordshire are unregulated.\n\n\"They are the ones that we have the majority of the children going missing from because the care is so inconsistent,\" she said.\n\nJackie Sebire, assistant chief constable at Bedfordshire Police, said care is 'inconsistent'\n\nAmy was among these missing children, taking the train to \"meet random men in London, as anywhere is better than this\".\n\n\"We'd just get random men off the internet and then sometimes they would come and pick us up at the home and they'd take us places. A lot of them were just strange men who just wanted younger girls and they were very, very dangerous,\" she said.\n\n\"They wanted sex and they wanted drugs and because they would buy you alcohol they would think you owed them something.\"\n\nAmy says she was not sexually assaulted.\n\nThe home Amy lived in told Newsnight it investigates complaints thoroughly and operates with high standards. It said it would support the 16+ sector being regulated.\n\nA Bedford Borough Council spokesperson said: \"We are aware of the concerns raised which were fully investigated at the time.\n\n\"Semi-independent living accommodation for young people over 16 is not regulated by an inspection regime and this is an issue across the country. Many local authorities share our concerns and this has been discussed in parliament.\"\n\nThe All-Party Parliamentary Group for Missing Children and Adults has been looking into the issue, and wrote to 43 police forces in England and Wales.\n\nThirty-four responded, with at least three-quarters expressing concern.\n\nNewsnight has been given exclusive access to this research, which the group's chairwoman, Ann Coffey, described as painting an overall picture \"of dumping children in a twilight world and leaving them to fend for themselves and take their chances\".\n\nCambridgeshire Police said premises are often \"well known to local criminals\" and seen as \"an easy target location for recruitment of new children\".\n\nThis was echoed by Hertfordshire Police. The force said it had seen examples where young adults had been targeted and \"girls have been groomed and trafficked to other areas\".\n\nMs Coffey said \"we should be very concerned\" about this growing sector.\n\n\"It is absolutely essential that that market is regulated in a way that meets the needs of children,\" she said. \"If you don't have regulation then what will happen is it will meet the needs of the providers - the people who are basically making a profit out of this kind of accommodation.\"\n\n\"I wouldn't place my 16 or 17-year-old in this accommodation,\" she added.\n\n\"Why should we be placing other 16 and 17-year-olds in this twilight world where, at a very vulnerable age where they need the greatest level of support, we are abandoning them to paedophiles and organised crime gangs?\"\n\nAndrew Neilson, from the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: \"Exposing children to greater risks of criminalisation and exploitation isn't just wrong: it makes a mockery of joined-up government.\"\n\nThe Department for Education \"should be reviewing the situation urgently\", he added.\n\nJackie Sebire and the NPCC also want action from government.\n\n\"If you think about all the places we regulate the fact that we don't regulate those 16+ settings - it's just wrong and it really needs to change now… because the care is so inconsistent,\" she said.\n\n\"Ofsted could have a duty to regulate if the legislation and their remit changed and that is one solution we have proposed.\"\n\nBut ADCS said it would not advocate for total regulation, as it \"would limit flexibility\".\n\nThey added: \"We are keen to see providers of accommodation take their responsibilities to provide suitable accommodation seriously and to have open and transparent ways in which this can be assured.\"\n\nChildren and families minister Nadhim Zahawi said: \"Semi-independent living can act as a stepping-stone for young people about to come out of care...\n\n\"Local authorities are required to make sure that children in care and care leavers are given suitable accommodation to meet their needs, including that they are safe and secure which is why I recently wrote to all Directors of Children's Services to remind them of this obligation.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two weekdays at 22:30 or on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Scotland\n\nSteve Clarke says he wants to \"emulate the success\" of the Scotland women's team after being named the country's new head coach.\n\nThe 55-year-old replaces Alex McLeish on a three-year deal a day on from guiding Kilmarnock to third in the Scottish Premiership.\n\nScotland sit fifth in their Euro 2020 qualifying group after two games while Shelley Kerr's side are set for next month's Women's World Cup.\n\n\"It is an honour,\" he said.\n\n\"I firmly believe we have a talented group of players who can achieve success on the international stage. I look forward to working with them and helping them to fulfil those ambitions.\n\n\"I appreciate the Scotland supporters have waited a long time for the national team to qualify for a major tournament. Now we have a Women's World Cup to look forward to in France this summer and it's my motivation to emulate the success of Shelley Kerr and her squad by leading us to Euro 2020.\n\n\"I believe we can qualify and look forward to that journey with the players and the fans, starting against Cyprus and Belgium next month.\"\n• None Reaction as Steve Clarke is unveiled as Scotland boss\n• None Clarke would bring 'buzz' and 'aura' to Scotland job\n• None Clarke 'sorry for not winning trophy' at Kilmarnock\n• None Quiz: How well do you know the new Scotland boss?\n\nClarke, given a two-match ban by the Scottish FA on Thursday for criticising referee Steven McLean, starts with a home European qualifier against Cyprus on 8 June, with a visit to Group I leaders Belgium three days later.\n\nCapped six times as a player, the former West Bromwich Albion and Reading manager had a year to go on his Rugby Park contract. His assistant Alex Dyer is staying at Killie.\n\nArriving in October 2017, Clarke steered Kilmarnock from second bottom of the Premiership to fifth place with a record points tally.\n\nThe Ayrshire side surpassed that total this year on their way to third in the top flight. He was this season's PFA Scotland and Scottish Football Writers' Association manager of the year.\n\n\"I am delighted that we now have the country's deserved manager of the year to lead the Scotland national team and his experience over the past two decades will be integral to rejuvenating our Euro 2020 qualifying campaign,\" said Scottish FA chief executive Ian Maxwell.\n\n\"It was important that we undertook the recruitment process diligently and respectfully, especially given the importance of the final games of the domestic season for Kilmarnock, Steve and his players.\"\n\nMcLeish was sacked in April two weeks after opening the Euro 2020 qualifying campaign with a 3-0 defeat in Kazakhstan, followed by an unconvincing win in San Marino.\n\nScotland topped their Nations League section during the 14-month tenure of McLeish, which guarantees a play-off semi-final place if a top-two spot cannot be secured in qualifying.\n\nKilmarnock have confirmed their search for a new manager will start straight away, with director Billy Bowie paying tribute to Clarke and his legacy.\n\n\"While we're naturally disappointed to lose such a talented manager, I understand the lure of managing Scotland is a powerful one,\" he said.\n\n\"Steve leaves an incredible legacy, delivering our best campaign in over half a century and providing European football for the first time since 2001. His place in this club's illustrious history is assured and he will always be welcomed back to Rugby Park with open arms.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage said his party was mostly funded via donations of £25\n\nThe Electoral Commission is visiting the offices of The Brexit Party to review how it receives funding.\n\nA spokesperson said Tuesday's visit was part of its \"active oversight and regulation\" of donations.\n\nEx-PM Gordon Brown accused the party - which is riding high in polls ahead of the European elections - of receiving a large amount of money via small \"undeclared, untraceable payments\".\n\nAn Electoral Commission spokesman said if there was \"evidence that the law may have been broken\", it would consider it \"in line with our enforcement policy\".\n\nThe watchdog said the visit was arranged on Monday, adding that it does meet regularly with parties both during and outside campaigns to verify their processes.\n\nUnder the rules governing donations to political parties, amounts below £500 do not have to be declared.\n\nAn official donation of £500 or more must be given by a \"permissible donor\", who should either be somebody listed on the UK electoral roll or a business registered at Companies House and operating in the UK.\n\nThe Brexit Party has updated its website to say that those making donations or becoming registered supporters must comply with those requirements.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gordon Brown wants the Electoral Commission to investigate Brexit Party funding\n\nAt an event in Glasgow on Monday, Mr Brown said there was no way of telling whether donations to The Brexit Party - which can be made through PayPal - come from British or foreign sources, and therefore the system was being abused.\n\nOther political parties - including the Conservatives and Labour - also use PayPal to collect donations on their websites.\n\n\"You can pay to this party in Russian roubles or American dollars,\" Mr Brown said.\n\n\"Democracy is ill served, and trust in democracy will continue to be undermined, if we have no answers as to where the money is coming from,\" he added.\n\nLabour MP Chris Bryant has also said the system is open to abuse.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Bryant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nResponding to the Mr Brown's comments, Mr Farage said: \"Most of our money has been raised by people giving £25 to become registered supporters.\"\n\n\"And over 110,000 of them now have done that. And frankly, this smacks of jealousy because the other parties simply can't do this.\"\n\nWhen asked if the party took donations in foreign currency, Mr Farage replied: \"Absolutely not, we only take sterling - end of conversation.\"\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell called for \"a full and open and transparent, independent inquiry into the funding of Mr Farage\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for right reasons.\n\nOn Monday, Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice told Radio 4's Today programme the party applied \"the appropriate Electoral Commission rules\" to amounts above £500.\n\nAsked if he could confirm whether the party takes cash from foreign citizens, Mr Tice said: \"I don't sit in front of the PayPal account all day so I don't know what currencies people are paying in, but, as I understand it, the PayPal takes it in sterling.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party said it required people to give their name and address before contributing £500 or more.\n\nChange UK said: \"We identify all donors, including those under the £500 threshold, so that we can conduct a permissibility check should the aggregate of donations per donor exceed the £500 threshold.\"\n\nIn 2013, the Electoral Commission issued guidance to parties that \"if a donor makes regular payments for an unspecified donation and towards an unspecified total amount, our view is that these payments should be treated as separate donations.\"\n\nAs you might expect, the world of party funding and finance is a complicated one. But an interesting element to pin-point is this issue of smaller donations.\n\nUnder UK law a donation to a political party that's under £500 does not have to be reported to the Electoral Commission. In fact, that kind of financial contribution doesn't even count as a donation. So, for example, the usual rules around the money having to come from a UK elector or UK-registered company don't apply.\n\nWhat wouldn't be allowed are repeated small donations, from the same source, in order to dodge the donation limits.\n\nSignificantly, these rules originate from legislation that's nearly 20 years old - the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. Back then, they probably didn't worry about the risk that parties might be able to crowdfund from foreign donors, and one academic's told me that the law is no longer \"fit for purpose\".\n\nMeanwhile, when it comes to the Electoral Commission's plan to visit The Brexit Party's offices - I understand that officials and the party have been in dialogue for several weeks and that's it's not necessarily unusual for the commission to meet parties to ensure that their systems are up to scratch. However, it appears that the commission hasn't yet visited any others during this particular campaign.\n\nDuring his speech, Gordon Brown also attacked Mr Farage for receiving £450,000 from Leave campaigner Arron Banks while still a member of the European Parliament.\n\nMr Brown said The Brexit Party leader should have declared the payments he was receiving \"to avoid a conflict of interest\".\n\nAsked about it following an investigation by Channel 4 News, Mr Farage said he did not declare it to the European Parliament because he was about to leave politics and had been seeking a new life in the US.\n\nLib Dem MEP Catherine Bearder has written to the President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani calling for an investigation into the matter. Green MEP Molly Scott Cato said she had also referred Mr Farage to the European Anti-Fraud Office.\n\nMeanwhile, a man has been charged with assaulting Nigel Farage by throwing a milkshake at him.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader had given a speech in Newcastle on Monday ahead of the European elections when the incident happened.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Princess Charlotte and her brothers explore the garden their mother designed\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has unveiled her garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.\n\nShe visited the woodland wilderness garden with schoolchildren a day after Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis also enjoyed it.\n\nThe royal children spent an hour on Sunday playing in the Back to Nature Garden, which has a tree house, stream and swing.\n\nThe site was co-created with landscape architects Andree Davies, Adam White and the Royal Horticultural Society.\n\nCharlotte was pictured on a swing, while a barefoot George paddled in a stream and Louis ran about with a stick.\n\nOne-year-old Louis enjoys the plot the Duchess of Cambridge co-created for the Chelsea Flower Show\n\nOver the past months, George, Charlotte and Louis helped their mother collect leaves, moss and twigs, which were then incorporated into the garden.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge was seen playing with his family in pictures released by Kensington Palace and taken by photographer Matt Porteous.\n\nHazel sticks collected by the royals were used to make the garden's den\n\nCatherine has been closely involved in the project and been at the site ahead of the event, which opens to the public on Tuesday.\n\nThe garden includes a tree house, waterfall, rustic den and a campfire as well as tree stumps, stepping stones and a hollow log for children to play on.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge was joined by local schoolchildren at her garden\n\nIt also features Princess Diana's favourite flowers, forget-me-nots, among the geraniums, blue periwinkle, astrantias, ferns, strawberry plants and rhubarb.\n\nReclaimed timber from Southend Pier was used to create the decking.\n\nThe duchess was keen to show her children the project she had been working on\n\nWilliam and Louis enjoy the multi-sensory garden designed by Kate\n\nThe duchess's woodland wilderness plot forms part of her work on early childhood development.\n\nThe garden is intended to highlight the benefits the natural world brings to mental and physical well-being.\n\nOne of the people she chatted with while touring the garden on Monday was fellow mother Alison Shockledge.\n\nMs Shockledge said: \"She was talking about it from a mum's perspective: put your devices down, let's go out. Be relaxed with your children, let them get muddy.\"\n\nKate hopes to pass on her passion for the outdoors to her children\n\nThe duchess also chatted to Colette Morris and Rebecca Beale.\n\nMs Morris said: \"She said children played very differently. In a way she didn't anticipate.\"\n\nMs Beale added: \"Children are often sat still looking at screens. She said it was important to be multi-sensory.\"\n\nThe duchess told the BBC: \"I really feel that nature and being interactive outdoors has huge benefits on our physical and mental well-being, particularly for young children.\n\n\"I really hope this woodland that we have created inspires families, kids and communities to get outside, enjoy nature and the outdoors, and spend quality time together.\"\n\nHer interview will air on Monday 20 May at 19.30 BST on BBC One.", "Vodafone has denied a report saying issues found in equipment supplied to it by Huawei in Italy in 2011 and 2012 could have allowed unauthorised access to its fixed-line network there.\n\nA Bloomberg report said that Vodafone spotted security flaws in software that could have given Huawei unauthorised access to Italian homes and businesses.\n\nThe US refuses to use Huawei equipment for security reasons.\n\nHowever, reports suggest the UK may let the firm help build its 5G network.\n\nThis is despite the US wanting the UK and its other allies in the \"Five Eyes\" intelligence grouping - Canada, Australia and New Zealand - to exclude the company.\n\nAustralia and New Zealand have already blocked telecoms companies from using Huawei equipment in 5G networks, while Canada is reviewing its relationship with the Chinese telecoms firm.\n\nIn a statement, Vodafone said: \"The issues in Italy identified in the Bloomberg story were all resolved and date back to 2011 and 2012.\n\n\"The 'backdoor' that Bloomberg refers to is Telnet, which is a protocol that is commonly used by many vendors in the industry for performing diagnostic functions. It would not have been accessible from the internet.\n\n\"Bloomberg is incorrect in saying that this 'could have given Huawei unauthorised access to the carrier's fixed-line network in Italy'.\n\n\"In addition, we have no evidence of any unauthorised access. This was nothing more than a failure to remove a diagnostic function after development.\n\n\"The issues were identified by independent security testing, initiated by Vodafone as part of our routine security measures, and fixed at the time by Huawei.\"\n\nA Huawei spokesperson said: 'We were made aware of historical vulnerabilities in 2011 and 2012 and they were addressed at the time.\n\n\"Software vulnerabilities are an industry-wide challenge. Like every ICT [information and communications technology] vendor, we have a well-established public notification and patching process, and when a vulnerability is identified, we work closely with our partners to take the appropriate corrective action.\"\n\nSeveral European telecoms operators are considering removing Huawei's equipment from their networks.\n\nBut the firm's cyber-security chief, John Suffolk, has described the firm as \"the most open [and] transparent company in the world\".\n\nIn January, Vodafone \"paused\" the deployment of Huawei equipment in its core networks in Europe until Western governments resolved their security concerns about the company.\n\nHuawei has been accused of being a potential security risk and of being controlled by the Chinese government - allegations it has always firmly denied.\n\nWith the introduction of the 5G network in the UK approaching, telecoms operators say the way it would work, in a highly integrated system alongside 4G, means that excluding Huawei is not realistic without significant cost and delay,\n\nThat would include potentially removing existing hardware, leading to the UK falling behind other countries.\n\nThe company is the world's third-largest supplier of mobile phones, behind Samsung and Apple.", "A Nottinghamshire man has been handed a three-year football ban after he shouted racial abuse at a Manchester City fan at a match in 2019.\n\nChelsea fan Antony Crump, 28, was found guilty of intentional racially aggravated harassment, alarm and distress at Tameside Magistrates' Court on 9 June, after his trial was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nCrump, of Hereford Close, Worksop, was banned from attending games for three years and fined £1,700.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said the offence related to a match at the Etihad stadium between Manchester City and Chelsea on 23 November 2019.\n\nThe force said the incident was reported to a steward but the exchange continued, and the racial slur was repeated again, this time witnessed by another steward and another Manchester City supporter.\n\nSupt Suk Verma, strategic lead for hate crime at Nottinghamshire Police, said the force was determined to stamp out racial abuse and treat all reports seriously.\n\n\"No member of society should face such abuse wherever they are, especially when at their place of work - and this applies for anyone, whether they are a professional sports player or otherwise,\" he said.\n\n\"With fans hopefully continuing to return to stadiums in the coming weeks and months, this conviction is a reminder to anyone who thinks of engaging in such intolerable abuse that we will work robustly to prosecute perpetrators of hate crime and bring them to some justice.\"", "Rescue workers with the man, whose motivation was unclear\n\nA man who climbed the Eiffel Tower on Monday was taken into custody by police after reaching the top.\n\nThe tower and the esplanade at its base were closed after the man was spotted scaling the structure in the afternoon.\n\nVideo footage showed him close to the observation deck at the top of the tower. His motivation for climbing the 1,000ft (300m) tower was unclear.\n\nThe man, who has not yet been identified, clung to the Parisian landmark for more than six hours.\n\nAn Eiffel Tower spokeswoman told Reuters: \"The man entered the tower normally and started to climb once he was on the second floor.\"\n\nStreets surrounding the landmark were cleared and closed to the public.\n\nThe first two floors of the tower can be reached by lift or stairs, but to go higher than that visitors need to take a lift.\n\nThe tower will reopen to the public at 09:30 local time on Tuesday.", "Too many children in England are being admitted to mental health hospitals unnecessarily, according to a report.\n\nResearch for the Children's Commissioner for England found children were often unable to get appropriate support at school and in the community.\n\nThis was contributing to children ending up in institutions, sometimes for months or years, the report found.\n\nChildren with learning disabilities or autism were being particularly let down by the system, it added.\n\nChildren's Commissioner Anne Longfield's report says successive governments have tried to tackle the problem, but the number of children in mental health hospitals remains \"unacceptably high\".\n\nResearch shows a clear need to \"focus on children's journeys before they are admitted into inpatient care\", the report says, but often this is not happening.\n\n\"Children, families and staff working in this area spoke again and again about how the failure to provide appropriate support to children when they are in school and living in the community, and particularly when they reach a crisis point, has contributed to inappropriate hospital admissions and delayed discharges,\" it says.\n\nThe review says there were 250 children identified as having a learning disability or autism in mental health hospitals in England in February 2019, compared with 110 in March 2015.\n\nAccording to the report, NHS England said the figure of 110 was due to under-identification of these children in the past.\n\nBut even using adjusted figures from NHS England, the number has still not come down in the last four years, the report says.\n\nIt says it is \"particularly concerning\" that these findings come after NHS England's Transforming Care programme, which sought to improve the quality of care for people with a learning disability or autism.\n\nMs Longfield said: \"They are some of the most vulnerable children of all, with very complex needs, growing up in institutions usually far away from their family home.\n\n\"For many of them this is a frightening and overwhelming experience. For many of their families it is a nightmare.\"\n\nMs Longfield said she had spoken to parents whose children had been \"locked away in a series of rooms for months\".\n\n\"Others have to listen as they are told by institutions that their child has had to be restrained or forcibly injected with sedatives,\" she said.\n\n\"They feel powerless and, frankly, at their wits' end as to what to do.\"\n\nMs Longfield is calling for a national strategy to \"address the values and culture of the wider system across the NHS, education and local government so that a failure to provide earlier help is unacceptable, and admission to hospital or a residential special school is no longer seen as almost inevitable for some children\".\n\nA spokesman for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) said some of the most vulnerable children were being \"horribly failed\".\n\nHe said: \"No child should be left to languish alone and it's important that the government takes urgent action to provide high quality, community-based care that can prevent the need for children to be placed in secure hospitals.\"\n\nTim Nicholls, head of policy at the National Autistic Society, said autistic children and adults were \"being failed by a broken system\".\n\nWherever possible, autistic people should get the mental health support they need in their own community, he added.\n\nThe government said it was determined to reduce the number of people with autism or learning disabilities who are in mental health hospitals.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The NHS is committed to reducing numbers of people with a learning disability and autistic people who are inpatients in mental health hospitals by 35% by the end of March 2020, and through the Long Term Plan we will reduce numbers even further by investing in specialist services and community crisis care and giving local areas greater control of their budgets to reduce avoidable admissions and enable shorter lengths of stay.\n\n\"The CQC [Care Quality Commission] is also undertaking an in-depth review into the use of seclusion, segregation and restraint - which should only be used as a last resort - in order to improve standards across the system.\"", "The vandals ransacked the hall, smashing years of work\n\nThousands of pounds worth of model railway exhibits have been destroyed in an act of \"total wanton destruction\".\n\nMarket Deeping Model Railway Club lost years of work in the raid at Welland Academy in Stamford on Saturday.\n\nIts chairman Peter Davies, 70, said exhibits were smashed, thrown around and stamped on, including a locomotive unit worth about £8,500.\n\nFour youths have been arrested on suspicion of burglary and criminal damage.\n\nA funding page set up to raise £500 for the club has made more than £32,000 in a matter of hours.\n\nOne contributor, Barry Cave, posted on the page: \"Horrendous act of vandalism, hope my donation helps a little.\"\n\nClub members had worked on their projects for many years - but found this damage\n\nSome of the exhibits were worth thousands of pounds\n\nThe club had set up the exhibition in the school for viewing on Sunday.\n\nMr Davies, who trained as a teacher and youth worker, said he was in \"total confusion\" over the vandalism.\n\n\"Models that were made over years were trodden on and thrown around. It's a total wanton destruction of the highest order.\n\n\"I've never experienced anything like it. A hurricane would have done less damage.\"\n\nThe club had set up an exhibition in the school for viewing on Sunday\n\nMr Davies said club members were \"devastated and distraught\".\n\n\"Can you imagine your life's work wrecked?\" he said.\n\n\"One guy spent 25 years on his work and it's wrecked, it's just horrendous.\n\n\"We will never have the time to build the sort of layouts again, that's where the anger comes from.\"\n\nHe said the club had received support from \"all over the world - as far away as New Zealand\".\n\nHe added: \"We will rise from this, no question, we will be bigger and better. But we'll never get the years back it took to build those exhibits.\"\n\nThe vandals did \"more damage than a hurricane\"\n\nThe models and buildings were stamped on and thrown around the hall during the attack\n\nLincolnshire Police said: \"On arrival at the school we arrested four youths, who were on the premises, for burglary and criminal damage.\n\n\"We are continuing our investigation and confirm damage was done to model railway exhibits which had been set up in the school for a display today [Sunday].\"\n\nThe youths were released on Saturday evening on conditional bail pending further inquiries.\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.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.\n\nNew footage has emerged showing the moment Nigel Farage had milkshake thrown at him during a campaign walkabout.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader had just given a short speech in Newcastle as part of a tour of the country ahead of the European elections.\n\nA man was taken away by a police community support officer and later seen in handcuffs.", "Fire crews were called to Bury St Edmunds town centre at 17:00 on 29 September 2017\n\nTwo \"stupid\" and \"bored\" workers set fire to a mouse that led to a blaze in a cycle shop.\n\nThe fire at Cycle King Shop in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, caused £1.6m of damage, Ipswich Crown Court heard.\n\nAshley Finley, 25, of Elmswell, and Dysney Sibbons, 23, of Stowmarket, admitted arson by reckless behaviour on the first day of their trial.\n\nTwo neighbouring buildings were also damaged in the fire on Angel Hill. The pair will be sentenced next month.\n\nJudge David Pugh said the fire was an \"act of sheer stupidity\" by the two defendants, who had tried to \"alleviate what they appeared to have found a boring day by cremating a mouse\".\n\nThe court heard some form of accelerant was used in the deliberate act on 29 September 2017.\n\nFinley, of Borley Crescent, and Sibbons, of Elmsett Close, have been released on bail pending sentencing.\n\nA number of onlookers gathered on Angel Hill while firefighters tackled the blaze\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Foreign spies in the UK might have to add their names to a register under a new espionage bill, Home Secretary Sajid Javid has said.\n\nIt would aim to tackle threats from hostile states, he said in a speech at New Scotland Yard in London.\n\nHe also said Syria and parts of west Africa could be designated as banned countries, with Britons who travelled there breaking the law.\n\nThe new bill would update the Official Secrets Act and the laws on treason.\n\nHe has also appointed Jonathan Hall QC as a watchdog to monitor the new terror laws.\n\nA register would act as a deterrent to spying and make it easier to take action against those involved, Mr Javid said.\n\nThe home secretary said the tempo of terrorist activity was increasing, with 19 plots foiled in the UK in two years.\n\nNo, the proposed Foreign Agents Register isn't an attempt to get spies to cough up - that would be ridiculous.\n\nThe purpose, it appears, is to regulate legitimate political and government lobbying by people acting on behalf of overseas states and interests and ensure it's carried out in a more transparent way.\n\nSuspicion would inevitably fall on those who don't register; they'd face prosecution. Equally, those who have made a declaration but don't comply with the rules could also face sanctions.\n\nThe US has had similar legislation for more than 80 years and in December 2018 Australia introduced a \"Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme\" with a register available to see at the click of a button.\n\nAlthough the home secretary's plans are at an early stage, it's hoped they could help the authorities identify and take action against those intent on undermining the country's way of life through tactics of subversion and disinformation.\n\nThe changes come after Britons in Syria asked to return to the UK.\n\nShamima Begum - who had her UK citizenship revoked by Mr Javid in February - was found in a Syrian refugee camp after leaving London to join the Islamic State group when she was 15.\n\nMr Javid said people travelling to, or remaining in, certain areas of Syria without good reason could face up to 10 years in prison.\n\nSpeaking to senior security figures in central London, Mr Javid set out for the first time how he expects to use the new Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act.\n\nHe said there were \"real gaps\" in legislation concerning so-called 'hostile states'.\n\nHe said: \"I've asked my officials to work closely with the police and intelligence agencies to urgently review the case for exercising this power in relation to Syria, with a particular focus on Idlib and the north east.\n\n\"Anyone who is in these areas without a legitimate reason should be on notice.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum: \"I got tricked and I was hoping someone would have sympathy with me\"\n\nThe north-western Syrian province of Idlib is the last remaining stronghold controlled by forces opposed to President Bashar al-Assad.\n\nMr Javid said police and security services \"have worked tirelessly\" to identify people intending to join the Islamic State group overseas and prevent them from leaving the country.\n\nHe told the House of Commons in February that 900 people people from the UK were estimated to have joined the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.\n\nOf those, 40% were estimated to still be somewhere in the region, 40% to have returned, and 20% to have been killed in battle.\n\nMr Javid also emphasised the importance of international co-operation in combating terrorism.\n\n\"As these threats become more global we all rely on an international system of defence, policing, security and intelligence - a safety net based upon co-operation and unity,\" he said.\n\n\"These structures rely upon free, democratic nations to pool information, co-ordinate law enforcement action and surrender suspected criminals across borders.\"\n\nSir Peter Fahy, former counter-terrorism lead for the Association of Chief Police Officers said the changes had been \"a long time coming\" but there would be complications over who it covered.\n\nSir Peter agreed there was a \"tremendous need\" to reassure allies, adding: \"The world is a very uncertain place at the moment... the whole issue about Brexit, this issue about Huawei and the situation with Iran is creating tension with the United States.\n\n\"People involved in counter-terrorism will be looking to see if that does affect the level of co-operation.\"", "Huawei is the poster child for China's dynamic tech sector. It has grown phenomenally in recent years, from a small manufacturer of telephone exchange switches, to become a global leader in the tech industry.\n\nWhile the brand is familiar to many from its mobile phone handsets, Huawei has its finger in many other pies - from cloud services to artificial intelligence.\n\nAnd despite increasing controversy around whether using Huawei telecoms equipment poses a security risk, the block on its business deals in some countries, and the arrest in Canada of one of its executives, the company itself has continued on its steady path of global growth.\n\nThat growth has come against the backdrop of China's continued rise, on its way to becoming the world's second largest economy, providing the firm with a huge base upon which to build its initial market as a springboard to international expansion.\n\nMost noticeably for consumers, Huawei has swept into the market for consumer electronics, in particular with smartphones.\n\nEarlier this year it overtook Apple in the number of handsets it was shipping worldwide.\n\nShipments don't always translate into phones reaching consumers, but the uptick in production and distribution still reflects a rise in Huawei's popularity, including for both premium models and its lower-priced Honor brand.\n\nExpanding sales of smartphones comes despite political hostility towards the brand in some parts of the world, especially the US. There, no carriers support Huawei, so while consumers can buy a Huawei phone, they aren't widely marketed.\n\nBut it's in telecoms network equipment, which forms the largest part of Huawei's business, that is having its greatest impact on the company.\n\nThe US has banned the use of Huawei equipment in communications networks, warning of security risks and has called for other governments to follow suit. Nevertheless, in all parts of the world, even in the Americas, the market for Huawei products has grown over the past three years.\n\nWashington's decision to block the use of Huawei equipment in telecommunications infrastructure on security grounds has been emulated in New Zealand, Australia and Japan.\n\nWith the US pressing for other governments to follow suit, that raises questions over whether the firm's global expansion is set to be curtailed in some regions in the near future.\n\nCurrently though, Huawei is holding its own in one of the largest parts of its business, the sale of mobile telecommunications infrastructure equipment, such as that needed to support the roll-out of faster 5G networks.\n\nBut how much Huawei continues to grow, won't depend only on political attitudes in Western capitals.\n\nIt will depend on how well the Chinese tech giant's products compare with its competitors. In the past, the firm has been accused - like many Chinese companies - of copying technology developed in the West and then undercutting rivals on prices.\n\nBut Huawei is currently outspending many other global players in research and development in a bid to gain a future edge.\n\nProspects may not be as bright for Huawei now as they used to be, given the political squeeze from the West.\n\nBut, the firm went through the financial crisis largely unaffected thanks to a powerful domestic market in China, IHS Markit industry analyst Stephane Teral points out.\n\nThe same could happen again if it loses more contracts in the West.\n\n\"Huawei went through this unfazed with no problems, because they were able to diversify at a time when China was just taking off, including telecoms restructuring, that really helped Huawei,\" he said.", "More women are seeking liposuction, possibly to get a body that looks good in trendy gym clothing, according to a leading cosmetic surgeon.\n\nRajiv Grover, from the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, says latest UK data shows procedures have gone up 12% in a year, from 2,039 in 2017 to 2,286 in 2018.\n\nHe warned that there was no quick fix to fighting flab.\n\nSurgery has risks as well as benefits and should be a \"last resort\", he said.\n\nAccording to the new figures, more than 28,000 plastic surgery procedures took place in 2018, a small increase of 0.1% on 2017.\n\nAs in 2017, the three most popular procedures for women were breast augmentation, breast reduction and blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery).\n\nThe biggest increases for women were for liposuction, which rose 12%, and facelifts, which rose 9%.\n\nMr Grover, who runs the audit, said: \"The rise comes at a time where a fashion trend for women is athleisure clothing, showing what kind of physique you have rather than covering up.\"\n\nAthleisure includes figure-hugging clothing, such as leggings and bra tops, suitable for exercise and everyday wear.\n\nHe said that the rise in liposuction could also be more women seeking fat loss surgery over less invasive fat freezing methods (although the audit data does not include non-surgical procedures).\n\n\"People should know that liposuction is not risk-free,\" he said.\n\n\"An operation is not something that can simply be returned to the shop if you have second thoughts.\"\n\nHe gave the example of footballer's wife Denise Hendry, who died in 2009 during one of several operations carried out to correct complications caused by botched liposuction.\n\n\"People need to be aware that liposuction is an invasive procedure that carries risks. And it is not a cure for being overweight. There is no shortcut, although it can help with stubborn areas of fat.\n\n\"My advice? Eat a healthy diet and exercise if you want to get that gym body.\"\n\nKate Dale, from Sport England's This Girl Can campaign said: \"We understand the pressures women feel under - our research shows that a fear of being judged is the number one reason stopping many women from getting active.\n\n\"It doesn't matter what you look like or how good you are, what matters is that you're getting active for you.\"\n\nOverall, male cosmetic surgery dropped by 4.7% in 2018.\n\nThe top surgical procedures in 2018 (for both men and women, in order of popularity):\n• None What's the best way to get rid of belly fat?", "Fabrice Muamba collapsed while playing for Bolton Wanderers in 2012\n\nScientists say a new scan technique could identify people at risk of collapsing and dying suddenly from a hidden heart condition.\n\nNormally, in people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, signs of structural changes in the heart can only be picked up after death.\n\nBut University of Oxford researchers used microscopic imaging to spot the same patterns in living patients.\n\nThe condition is the top cause of sudden cardiac death in young people.\n\nIt is a common, inherited condition, affecting one in 500 people in the UK, which can be fatal in small numbers of people.\n\nYet many of those with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, have few or no warning symptoms - and some are able to lead perfectly normal lives.\n\nThe research team focused on detecting those at risk of sudden death, by looking for abnormal fibre patterns in the heart which could lead to potentially deadly heart rhythms.\n\nThis is thought to affect around 1% of people with the condition.\n\nThey can then have a small device implanted in their heart to kick-start it into beating again when an abnormal heart rhythm is detected.\n\nDr Rina Ariga, study author and cardiologist at University of Oxford, said: \"We're hopeful that this new scan will improve the way we identify high-risk patients, so that they can receive an implantable cardioverter defibrillator early to prevent sudden death.\"\n\nShe added: \"We now need to work on making this scan shorter and faster for patients so that we can test its utility in a large multi-centre study.\"\n\nAn almost complete ring of muscle fibres in a normal heart (yellow on the left) is broken or missing in a heart with HCM because of fibre disarray\n\nCurrently, calculating a patient's risk is based on the thickness of their heart wall, their family history, plus any unexplained collapses and abnormal heart rhythms.\n\nThe difference with the Oxford researchers' approach is that they used MRI scans to look at detailed images of the structure of the heart muscle to check for \"muscle fibre disarray\".\n\nThis suggests that heartbeats are not allowed to spread evenly across the heart's muscle fibres.\n\nThe study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, scanned 50 patients with HCM and 30 healthy volunteers and were able to see \"disarray\" in living patients with the heart condition that had previously only been found in patients after sudden cardiac death.\n\nThese patients were also more likely to have abnormal heart rhythms.\n\nThe technique, called diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging, is normally used on the brain - but advances mean it can now be used on the heart.\n\nDr Steven Cox, chief executive of charity Cardiac Risk in the Young, said: \"It is fantastic to think in the future these clinical findings could be identified in patients living with HCM and used to help in their routine diagnostic and treatments pathways.\"\n\nDr Cox said the key to identifying those at risk in the general population was through cardiac screening \"using the cost effective and non-invasive ECG [electrocardiogram] test\".\n\nThis is available to book for under 35s via the charity's Test My Heart website.\n\nProf Metin Avkiran, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation, which helped to fund the research, said: \"Although further work is needed to refine and test this scan, its potential benefit to patients with HCM is huge.\n\n\"This work is an excellent example of cutting-edge, research-led technology that could change the way we diagnose and treat heart and circulatory diseases.\"\n• None How it feels to have a faulty heart gene and how to find out if you have a problem - BBC Newsbeat\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MP Jess Phillips has called for an exclusion zone around a primary school at the centre of protests over LGBT rights teaching.\n\nIn a feisty exchange with a protester, the Labour MP for Yardley said she wanted to protect the children attending Anderton Park, in Birmingham, which has seen demonstrations outside its gates for seven weeks.\n\nSome parents and other protesters without a connection to the school are calling on the head to end its teaching about same sex relationships.", "Young people in Singapore say they would be wary of buying Huawei phones after Google barred the firm from some updates to the Android operating system.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nExperiencing street harassment is \"part of puberty\" for some girls, according to an 18-year-old from Cardiff.\n\nTrin said she has been followed by men \"several times\", once by one who appeared drunk and got on to a bus with her, making comments about her looks.\n\nShe described being \"paralysed with fear\" with no passengers helping.\n\nCharity Plan International UK has accused the Welsh Government of taking \"no clear action\" on tackling the issue.\n\nA government spokeswoman responded by saying its strategy was \"aiming to tackle all forms of abuse\".\n\nRecalling her experience on the bus, Trin - not her real name - said: \"I didn't want to make him angry or tell him to go away.\n\n\"I just wanted to make sure that I kept him happy in that moment because if he wasn't then I didn't know what else would happen and it's so easy for things to escalate and I didn't want that to happen to me.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has been accused of not doing enough to tackle the issue\n\nShe said her friends have had similar experiences of being harassed in public, adding she was \"disappointed it's 2019 and people don't know how to respect people and young girls\".\n\nTrin added: \"If this happens to my friends and me then this definitely happens to people and girls nationally, so this isn't just isolated.\n\n\"It's really horrifying to think that you grow up and it's kind of a quintessential part of puberty now. It leaves a sour taste in my mouth.\"\n\nHalf of the 98 teenagers aged 14 to 21 who the charity interviewed in Wales reported being sexually harassed in public.\n\nSome 17% said they experienced sexual or physical contact like grabbing and groping at least once a month and 37% said they had been followed.\n\nStreet harassment is intimidating and unwanted behaviour faced by girls and women in public places and can include unwanted whistling, staring, comments, shouts, sexual name-calling, persistently talking to someone, or asking for their name and phone number, even when they have said no.\n\nIt can include being photographed, filming, upskirting, being followed, flashing, public masturbation, groping, sexual assault and rape.\n\nThe average age girls experienced sexual harassment in public in Wales was 14, according to the survey.\n\nPlan International UK has launched a petition, asking the Welsh Government to include street harassment in its violence against women strategy.\n\nGwendolyn Sterk, the charity's programme manager in Wales, wants the government to work with local authorities and police to address the issue, as well as better education on the issue.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it felt street harassment was already covered in its violence against women strategy, which includes sexual harassment.\n\nIt added that while it did not deal with street harassment specifically, it was \"aiming to tackle all forms of abuse\".\n\nHalf of the 98 girls and young women interviewed admitted being harassed in public\n\nChief whip Jane Hutt said it was \"shocking\" that young women were experiencing \"this absolutely unacceptable level of violence in public\".\n\nShe added the government wanted to make sure street harassment was \"clearly recognised\" as being part of its strategy.\n\nHowever, Plan International UK said the current approach had a \"heavy focus on tackling domestic abuse rather than all forms of violence against women\".\n\nIt said: \"There is no clear action in either the strategy or the subsequently published delivery framework on tackling street harassment, specifically the harassment we know girls and young women experience.\"\n\nPlan International UK's petition has received more than 1,000 signatures.", "What's behind the rising tensions between the US and Iran?\n\nUS President Donald Trump has always hated the Iran nuclear deal. Now Iran is threatening to stop complying with some of its obligations under the agreement.\n\nHow did we get here? And is the deal crumbling?", "The peer insists the Conservative Party remains his \"natural home\"\n\nThe veteran Conservative politician Lord Heseltine has had the whip removed after saying he will vote for the Lib Dems in Thursday's European elections.\n\nThe former deputy prime minister said he would not back the Tories because of the party's pro-Brexit stance.\n\nA Tory Party spokesperson said the peer's views on European matters were \"longstanding and sincerely held\".\n\nBut he added that endorsing another party was \"not compatible with taking the Tory whip\".\n\n\"As a result, the Chief Whip in the House of Lords has informed Lord Heseltine that he will have the Conservative whip suspended. This will be reviewed if he is willing to support Conservative candidates at future elections,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nHaving the whip taken away means a parliamentarian is effectively expelled from their party and that they must sit in Parliament as an independent until the whip is restored.\n\nLord Heseltine revealed he would be voting for the Lib Dems in an article for the Sunday Times.\n\nHe told BBC 5 live that he was \"lending\" his support to the Lib Dem candidate in his area as he was \"not prepared to indulge in this act of national sacrifice by voting for Brexit\".\n\nThe 86-year old, who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major and was also an adviser to David Cameron, said he was following his conscience and the Conservative Party remained his \"natural home\".\n\nReacting to his sanction, he told Sky News: \"They can take away the whip but they cannot take away my integrity, my convictions or my experience. I am a Conservative.\"\n\nHis announcement angered Brexiteers in his party, with MPs suggesting he had broken internal rules by endorsing another party.\n\nSpeaking to Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 5 live, Andrew Bridgen suggested \"there really is no place for someone with his views in the Conservative Party\".\n\n\"I find Lord Heseltine's arrogance that he knows better than the majority of the electorate really quite breathtaking.\"\n\nHowever Conservative former minister Sir Nicholas Soames told Channel 4 News withdrawing the whip from Lord Heseltine was \"a really stupid, bovine thing to do\".\n\nHe said he would make his feelings about the matter known to chief whip Julian Smith.\n\nLord Heseltine has been a vocal opponent of Brexit and has spoken at a number of rallies in favour of another referendum.\n\nIt is not the first time he has been at odds with his party over Brexit. In March 2017 he was sacked as a government adviser after rebelling in a Brexit vote in the Lords.\n\nThe UK will take part in the elections for the European Parliament on 23 May after the government was unable to agree a Brexit deal.", "Michael O'Leary says profits could suffer for the next couple of years\n\nRyanair chief Michael O'Leary has said he expects the airline to benefit from any price war in the industry.\n\nMr O'Leary said \"artificially low prices\" and \"attritional fare wars\" could dent profits for a year or two.\n\nHe was speaking after the airline reported that profits fell by nearly a third last year to €1bn (£880m) because fuel costs rose and fares fell.\n\nProfits at Europe's biggest discount airline might also be lower this year, as fares could fall by up to 2%.\n\nFor last year, Ryanair's average one-way fare was €37, down 6%, although this was offset by spending on services such as hotels and car hire.\n\nFor the current financial year, the carrier said it was \"cautious\" on pricing and had \"zero\" visibility for the second half of the year.\n\nIt said that while bookings in the first half of this year were slightly ahead of last year, \"fares are lower and we expect this trend will continue through 2019\".\n\nMr O'Leary said: \"Frankly, if we are in a period where there's going to be attritional fare wars for a year or two that's good for Ryanair... as... we have the lowest cost base... profits will suffer for a year or two and I think that is what our shareholders should expect.\n\n\"However it is clear in my mind that within the next four to five years you are seeing the emergence of four or five large European airline groups,\" he said.\n\nHe referred to Ryanair, Lufthansa, IAG (owner of British Airways), Air France-KLM and, probably, Easyjet.\n\nMergers of other airlines would lead to \"some upward pressure on pricing,\" he said.\n\n\"[Fares] will begin to rise again because they are artificially low at the moment,\" Mr O'Leary said.\n\nDespite a 7% increase in passenger numbers, earlier this year Ryanair was named the UK's least-liked short-haul airline for the sixth year running in a survey by consumer body Which?.\n\nNeil Sorahan, Ryanair's chief financial officer, told the BBC that the airline did not spend too much time worrying about surveys and that the most important thing was being on time.\n\n\"Our customers enjoyed an average fare of €37 which was down 6% on last year. At the same time, however, they continue to spend money on our ancillary products [car hire etc] which helps offset that,\" he said.\n\nMr Sorahan said there was too much capacity in the market, and pointed to a wave of airline failures - such as Primera, Flybmi and WOW - caused by higher oil prices and lower fares.\n\nLast week, EasyJet reported a loss of £275m in the six months to the end of March, compared with a £68m loss a year earlier, while troubled travel operator Thomas Cook is attempting to sell its airline to plug a gap in financing after reported a £1.5bn half-year loss.\n\nFuel prices are also an important factor to airline profitability and Ryanair said its bill for this year is expected to rise by €460m.\n\nThe airline said its forecasts will also depend on last-minute fares and any impact from Brexit, but it estimated that profits could range between €750m and €950m.\n\nRyanair is delaying deliveries of five of the Boeing 737 Max planes, which have been grounded because of two fatal crashes, but said it had the \"utmost confidence\" in the aircraft.\n\nThe delay to deliveries from the spring will lead it to cut capacity by one million passengers this year, but it ultimately expects the planes to drive down costs and, Ryanair said, lead to lower prices for passengers.\n\nThe airline expect the 737 Max planes to return to the air in July or August in the US, and September or October in the EU.\n\nRyanair also announced it was buying back €700m of its shares, which analysts at Liberum said would support the share price in the short-term despite the \"disappointing\" guidance on profits for this year.\n\n\"Ryanair remains the long-term winner in the European airline industry, based on its leading market position, extensive network, low unit costs and strong balance sheet,\" Liberum said.\n\n\"We see tougher market conditions in the short term as positive for the stronger airlines in the long term, since this clears out weaker competitors and aids consolidation in the market.\"\n\nShares in Ryanair fell 6% in early trading, before recovering to stand 1% lower.\n\nRyanair's profit figure excludes the loss of €139m from the Austrian airline Lauda it took over last year.", "The victims of the attack clockwise from top left - Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sébastien Bélanger, Ignacio Echeverría, Xavier Thomas, Sara Zelenak, Kirsty Boden\n\nAn off-duty doctor begged to be let out of a restaurant on lockdown during the London Bridge attacks so that he could help injured victims, an inquest heard.\n\nStaff at Lobos tapas bar locked the door to the restaurant as three men stabbed people on Borough High Street on 3 June 2017, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nBut junior doctor Jonathan Moses said he persuaded staff to let him out when he said: \"I can't watch them die.\"\n\nDr Moses said he then told one of the wounded: \"I'm going to save you.\"\n\nThe medic, who at the time had four months' experience as an accident and emergency medic, had been having dinner with a friend when he heard people \"shouting and screaming\" in the street outside.\n\n\"I could hear people saying 'Oh God, oh God, help, help, they've been stabbed, they've been stabbed',\" he told the inquest into the deaths of eight people killed in the attacks.\n\nDr Moses said he ran downstairs to the restaurant door after seeing two people lying on the pavement outside.\n\n\"The place was in a panic - people running away from the door, people screaming,\" he said.\n\nHe said he told a member of staff who was guarding the door to let him out because he was a doctor.\n\n\"He said 'There's people being attacked, I can't let you out',\" Dr Moses said.\n\n\"I said 'I can't watch them die. You have to let me out and just lock the door after me to keep people safe'.\"\n\nThe court saw footage of Ignacio Echeverría on a Santander bike moments before he was killed\n\nDr Moses looked visibly relieved as he finished giving his evidence. He had only been a junior doctor for about 18 months when he found himself at the centre of the horror unfolding at London Bridge.\n\nHe briefly became upset as he shakily recounted persuading the manager of Lobos to let him go and help.\n\nThe court heard him recall that he was calm and on \"autopilot\" when he rushed out of the restaurant.\n\nHe went on to treat other victims including Ignacio Echeverría. He helped to carry him across London Bridge and continued chest compressions while running.\n\nHe then remembered being told by an air ambulance doctor at the scene: \"You have to treat this like a warzone.\"\n\nThe court was shown a triage sheet from the scene, listing the victims and grading their priority for being taken to hospital.\n\nIt was a stark reminder of the decisions doctors had to take that night.\n\nOnce outside, Dr Moses approached a wounded woman, now known to have been Marie Bondeville.\n\n\"She kept saying she's going to die,\" he told the court.\n\n\"I held her hand. I told her 'You are not going to die. I'm going to save you',\" he said.\n\nMs Bondeville was one of 48 people hurt when Rachid Redouane, Youssef Zagbha and Khuram Butt drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing people at random.\n\nDr Moses said he spent about four or five minutes with Ms Bondeville before moving on to help perform CPR on Ignacio Echeverría.\n\nMr Echeverría, 39, had run towards the attackers and tried to beat them with his skateboard when he saw one of them stab Ms Bondeville, according to testimony from his friend Guillermo Sanchez-Montisi.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'My son did what he had to do'\n\nMr Echeverría, Mr Sanchez-Montisi and another friend were cycling along Borough High Street after a day's skateboarding on the South Bank when they saw an injured man running away from London Bridge.\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Spaniard Mr Echeverría getting off his bike and running to join PC Wayne Marques and off-duty PC Charles Guenigault who were trying to intervene as the attackers stabbed Ms Bondeville and Oliver Dowling.\n\nMr Echeverría, who worked for HSBC as part of a team fighting money laundering, could then be seen swinging his skateboard at Redouane.\n\nRedouane made a stabbing motion towards Mr Echeverría, who fell to the ground. The footage then showed Zagbha and Redouane attacking him.\n\nMr Sanchez-Montisi said in a statement read in court: \"From the way they were attacking people it was clear that their intentions were to kill everyone.\"\n\nHe said there was a woman, now known to be Ms Bondeville, on the floor being stabbed repeatedly.\n\nMr Echeverría's parents accepted their late son's George Medal from the Queen in October last year\n\nDescribing the moment Mr Echeverría grabbed his skateboard and approached the attackers, Mr Sanchez-Montisi said: \"It was like he didn't even think about it, but reacted immediately.\"\n\n\"One of the attackers was covering his head as Ignacio was hitting him with the skateboard... then suddenly Ignacio was on the floor,\" he added.\n\nMr Sanchez-Montisi said his friend then attempted to fend off the attackers' blows with his skateboard before one of them stabbed him.\n\nMr Echeverría was posthumously awarded the George Medal for his actions.\n\nHis father, Joaquín Echeverría, said the family has not attended the inquest as \"a gesture to show we have complete faith in the justice system in England\".\n\nContinuing his evidence, Mr Sanchez-Montisi said the knifemen looked \"prepared, professional\".\n\nHe said he had to run away because he felt he might become their next target after one attacker \"looked straight at me\".\n\n\"When he was looking at me, his face, he looked like the devil,\" he added. \"It was very painful to leave my friend but we were going to be next.\"\n\n\"I would not wish the feeling impotence, of not being able to do anything, on anyone, even my worst enemy\", he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "International Development Secretary Rory Stewart says Labour and the Conservative are not far apart on what they want from a Brexit deal.", "The US has deployed the aircraft carrier strike group to the Gulf\n\nThere are two competing narratives.\n\nThe first, which is favoured by US President Donald Trump's administration, is that Iran is up to no good. Preparations are said to have been seen for a potential attack on US targets, though few details have been revealed publicly.\n\nThe US has moved reinforcements to the region; it is reducing its non-essential diplomatic personnel in Iraq; and it is reportedly dusting off war plans.\n\nThe message to Tehran is clear: any attack on a US target from whatever source, be it Iran or one of its many proxies or allies in the region, will be met by a significant military response.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's behind the rising tensions between the US and Iran?\n\nThe second narrative lays the blame for this crisis squarely at Washington's door.\n\nIran - not surprisingly - holds to this view, but so too do many domestic critics of the Trump administration's approach.\n\nIndeed, to varying degrees many of Mr Trump's key European allies share some of these concerns.\n\nAccording to this narrative, the \"Iran hawks\" in the Trump administration - people like National Security Adviser John Bolton, or Secretary of State Mike Pompeo - sense an opportunity.\n\nTheir goal, this narrative argues, is regime change in Tehran. And if maximum economic pressure does not work then they believe, military action is not ruled out in the appropriate circumstances.\n\nReinstated US sanctions have pushed Iran's economy towards a deep recession\n\nThese two narratives reflect different interpretations of the reality and, as so often, they play up certain facts and ignore others to make their case.\n\nBut perceptions here matter just as much as reality. Indeed, in many ways they produce the reality.\n\nAnd that reality is that a conflict between the US and Iran - albeit by accident rather than design - is more likely today than at any time since Mr Trump took office.\n\nTensions in the Middle East are certainly mounting.\n\nIran, its economy suffering from the re-imposition of US sanctions that were lifted under a 2015 nuclear accord with world powers, is pushing back.\n\nIt has warned that it may no longer abide by the restrictions on its nuclear activities.\n\nIran's President, Hassan Rouhani, has said it does not want to pull out of the nuclear deal\n\nThe arrival of Mr Trump was a turning point.\n\nThe president pulled the US out of the nuclear deal a year ago and embarked upon a policy of maximum pressure against Tehran.\n\nIran has had enough. It is pushing the Europeans to do more to help its ailing economy and threatening if they do not - and it is hard to see what they can do - it will go ahead and breach the nuclear deal.\n\nThat would only give the Trump administration additional ammunition.\n\nJohn Bolton, the US national security adviser, has long pushed for regime change in Iran\n\nMuch now depends upon the dynamics inside the Trump administration and also on Tehran's assessment of what is going on there.\n\nThe president himself has sought to play down the idea that his officials are divided regarding Iran, and reports indicate that he has little enthusiasm for war.\n\nHis opposition to military entanglements abroad is well-known. However Mr Trump is unlikely to back down if US forces or facilities are attacked.\n\nHowever this is not necessarily the way things may be seen in Tehran.\n\nMight Iran think that it can play off Mr Bolton against his boss; raising tensions enough for the national security adviser's perceived designs to be revealed perhaps precipitating his downfall?\n\nIf that is Tehran's assessment, then it is a high-risk strategy.\n\nSpain withdrew a frigate from the US carrier strike group amid differences over Iran\n\nWhile Washington's key Middle Eastern allies - Israel and Saudi Arabia - may be applauding from the sidelines, Mr Trump's European partners are uneasy at the way things are heading.\n\nSpain, Germany and the Netherlands have all taken steps to suspend military activities in the region alongside the Americans, citing the rising tensions.\n\nThis is not the moment to rehearse what a conflict between Iran and the US would look like. But comparisons between such a conflict and the 2003 Iraq war are unhelpful.\n\nIran is a very different proposition to Saddam Hussein's Iraq.\n\nA full-scale invasion of Iran is not going to be on the cards.\n\nRather, this would be an air and maritime conflict with a huge dose of asymmetry in Iran's responses. It could set the whole region ablaze.\n\nThere were those who predicted a major foreign policy catastrophe when Mr Trump took office.\n\nInstead, there is an unfolding and multi-dimensional crisis that has many elements and the Iran situation illustrates them all: an antipathy to international agreements; an over-reliance on regional allies with their own agendas to pursue; rising tensions with long-standing Nato partners; and, above all, an inability to determine and to prioritise Washington's real strategic interests.\n\nWith the revival of great power competition, when the US is seeking to re-orientate its deployments and to bolster its armed forces to face a rising China and an emboldened Russia, where should Iran rate in Washington's strategic priorities?\n\nThe US sees the thousands of Iran-backed Shia Muslim paramilitary fighters in Iraq as a threat\n\nDoes the Iran threat really merit a major conflict? Many US strategic pundits would say no.\n\nMany accept that containing Tehran and, yes, threatening severe reprisals if US interests are attacked, may be necessary. But the steady drumbeat towards war is not.\n\nAnd one thing should be clear. There is no \"drift\" towards war. That suggests an involuntary process that people can do little about.\n\nIf there is a conflict then it will be down to conscious decision-making, to the calculations and miscalculations of the Iranians and the Americans themselves.", "A petition calling for soldiers who served in Northern Ireland to be immune from prosecution will be debated by MPs amid reports No 10 has vetoed calls for legislation to protect veterans.\n\nSeveral Tory MPs are expected to urge an end to what they say are \"abhorrent\" proceedings against elderly veterans.\n\nThe petition says criminal probes into historical incidents should be outlawed \"after a certain period of time\".\n\nMinisters are consulting on how to deal with \"legacy\" cases fairly.\n\nSome victims' groups and politicians in Northern Ireland believe that no-one should be above the law.\n\nSix former soldiers are currently facing prosecution over Troubles-era killings, although not all the charges are murder.\n\nThey include Soldier F, who is facing murder charges over the killing of two people - James Wray and William McKinney - on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.\n\nThere has been increasing political controversy over the extent to which soldiers accused of crimes in the line of duty in Northern Ireland should be investigated.\n\nVeterans protested against historical prosecutions in several UK cities on Saturday\n\nTory MP and ex-soldier Johnny Mercer, who served in Northern Ireland, has withdrawn his support from the government over the issue and called for legislation to limit the scope for further prosecutions.\n\nThe petition being debated on Monday, launched by Karen Webb-James, urges the authorities not to \"prosecute the military for its work in Northern Ireland\".\n\nThe document, which has obtained more than 146,000 signatures, calls for a statute of limitations on prosecutions although it does not specify at what point this should apply.\n\nAny petition with more than 100,000 signatories has to be considered for debate in Westminster Hall - the secondary debating chamber in the Commons.\n\nMr Mercer told Sky News that due legal process had to be followed but the \"endless chase of people to their graves\" did not represent justice.\n\nHe suggested unconfirmed reports in the Sunday Telegraph that the Theresa May had personally blocked legislation giving greater protection to veterans was \"devastating\".\n\nWhile he did not support a blanket amnesty or statute of limitations, he said a presumption against prosecution after 10 years, with a higher evidential threshold, was reasonable.\n\nDefence Secretary Penny Mordaunt said service personnel should not be \"victims of unfounded allegations\"\n\nThe government announced last week that soldiers and veterans will be given stronger legal protections against prosecution for alleged offences committed in action abroad.\n\nThis would not apply to alleged offences in Northern Ireland although Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt said she wanted to end the \"chilling effect\" of repeated prosecutions.\n\nDefence minister Tobias Ellwood said legacy cases had not been handled in the best way but the government had to act within the law.\n\n\"You can't give an amnesty just to armed forces personnel, you'd have to share that with terrorists as well,\" he told Sky News. \"[Mrs May] was unwilling to do that. That's international law. That's what we have to abide by.\"\n\nThe Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland said that of 26 so-called legacy cases it has taken decisions on since 2011, 13 related to republicans, eight to loyalists, and five are connected to the Army.\n\nSinn Féin has insisted said there could be \"no immunity or impunity\" for British forces \"guilty of crime, collusion and murder in Ireland\".\n\nIn its formal response to the petition last month, the Northern Ireland Office said no-one could be immune from prosecution, however long ago the alleged offences took place.\n\n\"Where there is evidence of wrongdoing it is right that this should be investigated and, where the evidence exists, for prosecutions to follow,\" it said.\n\nIn response to the Sunday Telegraph story, it said the outcome of the consultation into the current system would be announced as soon as possible.", "Last updated on .From the section Motorsport\n\nBilly Monger has claimed his first victory since having both his legs amputated after a crash two years ago.\n\nMonger, who is competing in Euroformula Open races, won the Pau Grand Prix.\n\n\"Can't believe it, I didn't think two years on I'd be winning races,\" said the 20-year-old Briton.\n\nThe Carlin driver - in a specially adapted car - dropped to last after switching to wet-weather tyres, a strategy which paid off as he surged past other drivers in France.\n\nWhen Motopark duo Julian Hanses and Liam Lawson collided and took each other out, Monger - who had qualified 11th - inherited the lead and held on for victory.\n• None 'I lost my legs but not my daredevil spirit'\n\nHe was seriously injured during a Formula 4 race at Donington Park in April 2017 but returned to racing less than a year after the accident at the British Formula 3 Championship.\n\nMonger and his family had successfully appealed to the sport's international governing body, the FIA, to change its regulations restricting disabled drivers.\n\n'Billy Whizz' became the first disabled driver to race a single-seater car and claimed his maiden British F3 pole position on his return to Donington Park in September 2018.\n\nHe finished sixth overall in the 2018 British F3 Championship, taking two pole positions and three podiums.\n\nMonger's remarkable fortitude saw him recognised with the Helen Rollason Award for courage in the face of adversity at the BBC Sports Personality show in December.\n\nBackstage, the lifetime achievement award winner Billie-Jean King - a tennis icon and equality campaigner - sought out the young racing driver and asked him for a selfie.\n\n\"I'm in awe of his tenacity. It was an honour to meet him,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of fans gathered to cheer on the team\n\nThousands of Manchester City fans lined the city's streets to celebrate their club's historic domestic treble.\n\nAn open-top bus parade left the Town Hall at about 18:15 BST before making its way down Peter Street and along Deansgate.\n\nThe parade finished at the cathedral where the players appeared in front of the huge crowds.\n\nA 6-0 win over Watford in Saturday's FA Cup final followed Premier League and Carabao Cup triumphs this season.\n\nPep Guardiola's side became the first English men's team to complete the domestic treble.\n\nHe told the crowd at the victory parade it was time for \"good dinners and wine\" and \"to enjoy what we have done\" this season.\n\nThe bus was cheered on both sides as it travelled in the city centre\n\nSupporters waved flags in the crowds on a sunny evening in Manchester\n\nPep Guardiola's team secured the Premier League title on the final day of the season\n\nFour generations of the Conlan family, from Cheshire, went to Peter Street for a glimpse of their treble-winning heroes.\n\n\"After 40 years of disappointment this is just fantastic,\" said 76-year-old Mike Conlan.\n\nThe Conlan family from Cheshire brought four generations to celebrate the triumph\n\nFans young and old watched the parade\n\nAdding the Community Shield to the treble, the club have banners and T-shirts calling themselves \"The Fourmidables\".\n\nFans cheered on Vincent Kompany during the celebration parade, a day after he announced he was to become player-manager of Anderlecht.\n\nHe thanked fans and said he had \"given everything\" during 11 years at the club and was proud of that\".\n\nKompany said when he scored from 25 yards against Leicester earlier this month he knew \"I couldn't do anything better\".\n\n\"We were always a great club, with silverware or not, but now we've got it. I'm so proud that we've been able to give you something that was long coming.\"\n\nIn the heart of Manchester, thousands of proud City fans, both young and old, lined the streets to celebrate a historic moment - a day they will never forget.\n\nThe city was painted blue and the excitement was palpable as supporters celebrated the treble triumph.\n\nBlue and white flags adorned the buildings with pride and the deafening chanting, cheering and trumpet playing grew louder as each minute ticked by.\n\nIn a fitting tribute, the blue sky even made an appearance - a rare sight in a typically rainy Manchester - for a celebration City fans will hope they will witness again next season.\n\nThe Gartside family said it was a season to remember\n\nRoy Gartside was joined by his brothers and 12-year-old nephew to watch his beloved team during the city centre parade.\n\nThe 55-year-old said: \"I'm just over the blue moon. It's just fantastic. It tops everything.\"\n\nJames Swindells has followed Manchester City since 1965. The 58-year-old, who was accompanied by his wife and children to the parade, said: \"It's our time now.\"\n\nManchester City women's team, who won the FA Cup and League Cup double this year, showed off their silverware too.\n\nJill Scott and Steph Houghton of Manchester City lift the SSE Women's FA Cup trophy\n\nCaptain Steph Houghton said it was \"incredible\" to be part of the parade.\n\n\"Wow. It's unbelievable,\" she said.\n\n\"We have never been a part of something like this. Some of the girls are only 18, 19, so it pushes us to do well next season.\"\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 Belfast woman has said her life was ruined after she was given infected blood in a transfusion.\n\nMarie Cromie found out she had hepatitis C in 2005 and has had to have two liver transplants.\n\nShe spoke ahead of the public inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal starting to hear evidence from people in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nThousands are believed to have been infected with HIV and hepatitis viruses through contaminated blood products.\n\nOthers who had blood transfusions after surgery in the 1970s and 1980s were also exposed to contaminated blood.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Ms Cromie described her shock and anger at being told she was infected and said it \"took away part of my life with my children, with my grandchildren\".\n\nThe public inquiry into contaminated blood arrives in Northern Ireland on Tuesday\n\nMeanwhile, a letter has been sent by party leaders and senior MPs to the prime minister, calling for compensation.\n\nAmong those who signed it are Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Nigel Dodds.\n\nThe public inquiry will hear evidence in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast over four days.\n\nSome of the Northern Ireland victims and their families will give evidence - among them will be Mrs Cromie's daughter Danielle Mullan.\n\nMrs Mullan said the family's world had been \"turned upside down\" by the diagnosis.\n\nShe said: \"It was really hard because I was no longer a daughter, I was more a carer to my mum.\"\n\nShe said that as the years went on it became harder as she saw the complications her mother was having to endure.\n\nMrs Cromie has traced the hepatitis back to a blood transfusion she had to have when her son was born in 1981.\n\nUntil she began to feel very unwell in 2005, she was unaware she had been infected.\n\nAfter testing, a consultant told her she had hepatitis C, that it had already begun to affect her liver and that she would eventually need a transplant.\n\nShe has since undergone two transplants, the second of which took place in 2015 at King's College Hospital in London.\n\nMrs Cromie described being at \"death's door\" waiting for a suitable liver and said it was \"horrible\" having to say goodbye to Mrs Mullan in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital.\n\nShe said: \"I just looked at her and thought: 'I mightn't see you again.'\"\n\nMarie Cromie has had two liver transplants\n\nThe problem dates back to the 1970s when blood-clotting products imported from the US caused some patients to be infected with HIV and hepatitis.\n\nThat is because some of the human blood plasma used to make the products came from donors such as prisoners and prostitutes, who sold their blood.\n\nThe blood products were made by pooling plasma from up to 40,000 donors and concentrating it.\n\nWarnings were raised as early as 1974.\n\nEight years later as the Aids crisis unfolded, the Department of Health in Westminster received expert advice that they should be withdrawn but that was not heeded until 1986.\n\nFamilies want to know why and who within the NHS and the government knew what and when.\n\nFor Mrs Mullan, the seriousness of her mother's condition became clear after a particularly frightening incident when she began to vomit up blood at home.\n\nShe said: \"I went into the bedroom and turned on the light and there was just gallons of blood. Blood after blood. It just kept coming up, wouldn't stop.\n\n\"We phoned for an ambulance, got her to the hospital.\n\n\"They told us it was touch and go for the night and that for me was when it really hit home.\"\n\nDanielle Mullan will give evidence to the inquiry\n\nShe said at that moment she realised her mother was battling something \"way beyond\" a normal infection.\n\nThe public inquiry into what's been called the \"biggest treatment scandal in NHS history\" was announced in 2017.\n\nThe first witness evidence began to be heard in London in April 2019.\n\nBoth women said they would like answers and for someone to take responsibility.\n\nMrs Cromie said: \"Why did somebody take the decision to buy infected blood? To take infected blood from America, from prisoners, drug addicts and give it to us innocent people who needed the blood?\"\n\nMrs Mullan said she would also like better understanding.\n\nShe said: \"I want to kill the stigma that comes with the disease, so many people over the years, you mention the word hepatitis and automatically people think - they must have been a drug user, they were an alcoholic.\n\n\"That's not the case, my mum and all the people who were involved in this inquiry were victims in this.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Derek Martindale's brother was also infected with HIV: \"He knew he was dying... I wasn't there for him\"\n\nFor Mrs Cromie, the public inquiry hearings in Belfast are another step on a long road.\n\nShe said: \"At the start when I got it I was told by a couple of nurses, hepatitis nurses, not to tell too many people.\n\n\"I just had to say: 'Oh I caught a virus.'\n\n\"That's what I said instead of being able to say: 'I got hepatitis C through infected blood.'\"\n\n\"But now, I will say to people when they say about, you know, your transplants and things, I say: 'Yeah I got it through contaminated blood.'\n\n\"And my husband says the same to people. Through no fault of my own, I got it.\"", "Brooks Koepka held off world number one Dustin Johnson to retain his US PGA Championship title and win a fourth major on a dramatic day at Bethpage.\n\nThe 2017 and 2018 US Open champion, who had a seven-shot lead at the start of the final round, saw that cut to one after four bogeys from the 11th.\n\nBut Johnson dropped shots on the 16th and 17th as Koepka, who carded a four-over 74, won by two on eight under.\n\nEngland's Matt Wallace tied for third, earning his best finish at a major.\n\nThe 29-year-old signed for a two-over 72 to finish on two under, alongside Americans Jordan Spieth (71) and Patrick Cantley (71).\n\nThe top six were the only golfers to finish the tournament under par at the brutal Black Course, which was made even harder on the final day with the wind gusting up to 35mph.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Rory McIlroy and Ireland's Shane Lowry were among those to finish joint eighth on one over after both ended with 69s.\n\nWorld number three Koepka, who earned a winner's cheque of $1.98m (£1.56m) and became the first person to successfully defend the US PGA Championship and the US Open, said: \"I'm just glad we didn't have to play any more holes. That was a stressful round of golf.\n\n\"I'm glad to have this trophy back in my hands. With the 'DJ' chants, I was aware of what was going on. He did an unbelievable job of putting pressure on me.\n\n\"When they started chanting for DJ on the 14th, it actually helped. It helped me focus. I think it was the best thing that could've happened.\"\n\nWhen asked if it surprised him, Koepka replied: \"It's New York. What do you expect when you're half-choking it away?\"\n\nFinal round comes to life at Bethpage\n\nAfter an almost processional opening three rounds at the Long Island course in New York state where Koepka dominated, the tournament came to life during the final round as the wind stiffened and Johnson, playing a couple of groups ahead, finally applied pressure.\n\nKoepka's stern demeanour looked unshakeable as he set the lowest 36-hole score in majors to take a seven-shot lead, a margin which remained after the third round when he shot a level-par 70 because his rivals were unable to mount a serious challenge.\n\nBut on Sunday's back nine his driving was erratic and his approach play and putting withered.\n\nJohnson, who holed three birdies on the front nine, closed within one with another birdie on the 15th. However, the 2016 US Open champion then handed the advantage back to Koepka with bogeys on the 16th and 17th holes and he has now finished runner-up at each of golf's four men's majors.\n\nIt was still a nervy finish for Koepka, who also bogeyed the 17th to hold a two-shot lead with one to play.\n\nHe then hit his tee shot into a fairway bunker down the last.\n\nHowever, a good recovery to the middle of the fairway and a chip on to the green helped him finish with a par to win the Wanamaker Trophy.\n\nKoepka, who led from start to finish, has now won four majors in his previous eight starts - only legends Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods can match or better that record.\n\nQuestions will remain about 34-year-old Johnson's ability to add to his solitary major, given the back nine collapse from Koepka.\n\nOnce the leader chalked up a fourth straight bogey on the 14th, Johnson almost immediately faltered on the 16th, failing to hole a seven-foot par putt as he also dropped a shot.\n\nHe then missed the green on the par-three 17th, which resulted in another bogey and that was the end of his challenge.\n\nKoepka found his range from the tee to par the 15th and 16th holes, and although another dropped shot followed on the 17th, by then Johnson was in the scorer's hut checking his card.\n\n\"With this golf course and this amount of wind, it's definitely one of the tougher days we've played,\" said Johnson.\n\n\"I'm happy with the way I played, I knew it was going to be a big feat to catch Brooks but I definitely gave him a run so I'm happy with that.\"\n\nThe tournament was also a return to form for Spieth, who needs to win the US PGA Championship to complete a career Grand Slam.\n\nThe 25-year-old was the last player to win a major from start to finish, at the 2015 Masters, but has failed to post a top-10 finish on the PGA Tour since finishing tied ninth at the 2018 Open Championship.\n\n\"This is the best I've felt in quite a while,\" he said. \"I put in more hours over the last five months than I ever have, just trying to get to where I can be out here on a major championship Sunday and contending.\"\n\nAlthough McIlroy and Lowry shone over the course of the weekend with successive under-par rounds, Wallace was the only genuine European contender down the final nine holes.\n\nHaving almost won at the British Masters in Southport last weekend, where he apologised for showing his frustration after a missed putt on the last, the three-time European Tour winner proved that he can compete with the world's best.\n\nDespite being a player who likes to chase a score, rather than stay patient as many advised at Bethpage's Black Course, he reached the turn at five under and looked set to improve on that after negotiating the tough 10th and 11th holes in par.\n\nBut a double bogey on the 12th was a round-spoiler and a further bogey on 17 denied him a possible third-place finish on his own.\n\nFellow Englishmen Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, and Danny Willett all started the day on level par, but Rose's 75, Fleetwood's 78 and Willett's 77 meant they all finished way down the leaderboard.\n\nWillett, who had been two under after eight holes, then triple bogeyed the ninth before a double bogey on 11.\n\n\"That was hard,\" Wallace told Sky Sports. \"I had a little wobble on 12 mentally and had to knuckle down. It was tough at the end, I don't think I hit a green in regulation but it was satisfying for sure.\n\n\"I'm buzzing for the next major. I've shown that I can compete. I'm a little bit far away from the leaders but that's a few putts here and there. I feel I'm right there mentally. The approach is going right and hopefully I can do that at the next tournament.\"\n\nMcIlroy added: \"I'm proud of myself, I didn't let my head drop and I tried to the very end.\n\n\"Today was a nice way to finish. It was a really hard day to putt because of the wind, so there was a little less expectation. I just sort of let it go.\"", "Chris Smalling was approached about 70 minutes into the match at the Emirates Stadium\n\nA man has admitted assaulting Manchester United defender Chris Smalling during a Premier League match at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium.\n\nGary Cooper, 30, ran onto the pitch about 70 minutes into the 10 March match, which Arsenal won 2-0.\n\nCooper, of Styventon Place, Chertsey, Surrey, changed his plea to guilty to an assault charge on Thursday.\n\nMagistrates fined him £235, ordered him to pay £100 compensation and he was given 120 hours unpaid work.\n\nHe had previously admitted invading the pitch and also received a football banning order for four years at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court.", "Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson described protests over lessons at her school as aggressive\n\nA head teacher at a primary school giving lessons on LGBT equality has received threatening emails and phone calls.\n\nPolice are investigating messages sent to Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson at Anderton Park Primary School in Birmingham.\n\nThere have been seven weeks of protests outside the site from which \"hundreds\" of pupils were kept away on Monday.\n\nBirmingham MP Jess Phillips has called for an exclusion zone at the school to limit where people can demonstrate.\n\nThe city council is looking into Ms Phillips' request, with the authority's leader saying some outside the school are \"peddling hatred\".\n\nThe complaints at Anderton Park, mainly from Muslim protesters, focus on lessons for which pupils have been given books featuring cross-dressing children and gay families.\n\nThe protests' leader says that amounts to \"social engineering\".\n\nSimilar teaching has been opposed in letters sent predominantly by conservative Muslims to schools across England, BBC Newsnight reported last week.\n\nRailings at Anderton Park Primary School have been adorned with heart-shaped messages of support\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson said of the protests: \"There's a whole variety of emotions: embarrassment for lots of our community and our parents who think this is just awful what's happening; frustration that it's going on so long; frustration that great British laws like 'you can protest peacefully' actually are causing us a problem.\n\n\"It's interesting what a normal person on the street would think peaceful means and what actually is peaceful outside here.\"\n\nShe described the scene in the Sparkhill area of the city as \"very loud, it's very aggressive, it's tiresome\".\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson said she was \"meeting lots of parents\", with a series of 12 meetings set up between now and the end of June.\n\nShe also denied a claim from some parents that she is Islamophobic, saying she believed in \"equality for everybody\".\n\nIn England, relationships education will be compulsory for all primary pupils from September 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents and campaigners have been protesting for seven weeks.\n\nShakeel Afsar is the leader of the Anderton Park protests, although he has no children at the school.\n\nHe said the school had pulled \"the shutters down\" on parental engagement and was promoting LGBT lifestyles to children.\n\nHe said 600 pupils were kept from school on Monday \"to make it crystal clear we will not have our children indoctrinated or participating in any social engineering programmes which undermine our family values by promoting child sexualisation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is in the books that parents are protesting about?\n\nAnderton Park said more than half of the 700-strong student body had attended school. The council has been contacted to confirm attendance figures.\n\nOvernight, counter-protesters adorned the site with heart-shaped messages featuring the words \"love is the answer\".\n\nWest Midlands Police, which is investigating the threats against Ms Hewitt-Clarkson, said officers were also looking into \"disorder\" outside the school in which eggs were thrown at the counter-protesters.\n\nThe force said it was investigating three reports of assault and two of criminal damage.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOutside the school earlier, Mr Afsar was involved in a stand-up disagreement with Ms Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley.\n\nShe said protesters could not \"pick and choose\" which equality they could and could not have.\n\nSaying the worst thing about the protests was damage \"to the reputation of a peaceful\" community, she called for an exclusion area \"to protect the 700 children in this school\".\n\nIan Ward, leader of Birmingham City Council, said he had asked authority officers to see whether they could use a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) to counter the protests.\n\nHe said: \"If a PSPO is not appropriate, then we will look at alternative options, because the children and staff at Anderton Park have a right to attend school without this daily disruption.\n\n\"It's one thing for parents to ask questions about elements of a school curriculum, it's quite another for others to pounce on the situation as an excuse to peddle hatred and misinformation.\"\n\nA council spokesperson said PSPO proposals would normally go out to public consultation and, based on response, a decision made by the authority and \"police leads\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thomas Cook is trying to sell its fleet of planes\n\nTroubled travel firm Thomas Cook has been reassuring customers who contacted the firm with concerns about holiday trips, after its share price crashed.\n\nIts share price fell sharply at the end of last week, and it dropped a further 14% on Monday to just 10p.\n\nThomas Cook has been reassuring people on social media, and in a statement at the weekend, telling customers that it is \"business as usual\".\n\nThe firm also said it was looking to strengthen its financial position.\n\nOn Sunday, Thomas Cook said: \"We have the support of our lending banks and major shareholders, and just this week we agreed additional funding for our coming winter cash low period.\n\n\"We have ample resources to operate our business and at the same time, as usual, our liquidity position continues to strengthen into the summer period.\"\n\nThomas Cook also said: \"We're responsible for taking over 20 million people abroad on holiday every year and we take that responsibility very seriously. As an ATOL-protected business, our customers can have complete confidence in booking their holiday with us.\"\n\nProtection under the ATOL - or Air Travel Organiser's Licence - scheme means UK travellers on an air package holiday do not lose their money or become stranded abroad if a holiday firm collapses.\n\nIt also covers many charter flights and means that, if the operator collapses while people are away, they can finish their holiday and be flown home at no extra cost.\n\nIf the business collapses before they go away, the scheme will provide a replacement holiday of equal value, or a refund.\n\nWhen flights are booked on their own, or when people book flights and accommodation separately, the ATOL scheme does not usually come into effect. However, the ATOL scheme does now cover more custom-built holidays than it used to.\n\nIf a holiday is ATOL-protected it will be clearly marked with a certificate on holiday documents. The scheme is run by the UK Civil Aviation Authority and is backed by the UK government.\n\nThomas Cook released its statement after concerned customers asked the firm on social media if it was \"about to go under\" or \"going into administration\".\n\nOthers had queried if the firm was \"in danger of collapsing\", and if their holiday flights and packages were safe.\n\nBut on Twitter, Thomas Cook said: \"We have been taking customers on their holidays with us for 175 years and we plan to do so for a very long time.\"\n\nIt also said: \"We are very much trading as normal and we aren't going into administration\".\n\nOn Friday, analysts at Citigroup said the travel firm's shares were \"worthless\".\n\nThe bank's damning conclusion came a day after Thomas Cook issued its third profit warning in less than a year and reported a £1.5bn half-year loss.\n\nCitigroup analysts also pointed to a warning from auditor EY in Thomas' Cook's results which warned of \"material uncertainties\" over the group's sale of its airline, on which a new £300m bank facility depends.\n\nThomas Cook is in the process of seeking bidders for its fleet of 105 jets as it tries to raise funds for the business. It says it has received \"multiple bids\" for the fleet.\n\nThe company is also seeking to cut costs. It has closed 21 of its High Street stores, its currency arm Thomas Cook Money is under review and more \"cost efficiencies\" are planned.\n\nIt has blamed a series of problems for its profit warnings, including political unrest in holiday destinations such as Turkey, last summer's prolonged heatwave and customers delaying booking holidays due to Brexit. But it has also suffered from competition from online travel agents and low-cost airlines.", "The activists were calling on BP to end exploration for oil and gas\n\nA climate change protest which blocked entrances to BP's head office in central London has now ended.\n\nThe Greenpeace activists had placed five large steel containers outside each of the entrances to the building in St James's Square.\n\nKitted out with food, a chemical toilet and internet access, each box contained two protesters who were expected to remain in place for several days.\n\nBut Met Police officers removed them in the early evening, making 10 arrests.\n\nEarlier, four people were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass after protesters abseiled down side of the building to block windows and display banners.\n\nThe aim of the protest was to keep BP's headquarters closed \"for at least the whole of this AGM week\", Greenpeace said.\n\nThe company's annual general meeting is set to take place in Aberdeen on Tuesday.\n\nActivists want BP to end exploration for oil and gas, and only invest in renewable energy.\n\nSome campaigners abseiled down the building in St James's Square\n\nIn a statement, BP said: \"We welcome discussion, debate, even peaceful protest on the important matter of how we must all work together to address the climate challenge, but impeding safe entry and exit from an office building in this way is dangerous and clearly a matter for the police to resolve as swiftly as possible.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK rail passengers lost an estimated 3.9 million hours to delays in 2018, according to consumer group Which?\n\nThe data covers trains which arrived at their destination 30 minutes or more late, and is based on 8.1 million such journeys in the year.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group, which represents operators, said \"rail companies are working together to improve punctuality\".\n\nAnother 660 trains per day were cancelled.\n\nIt was the highest figure for cancellations since comparable records began in 2011, according to Which?, which used Office of Rail and Road data to compile its results.\n\nPassenger groups are keen to avoid last year's chaos, when thousands of trains were cancelled amid a change of timetables.\n\nWeather, strikes and signalling failures last year also brought down train reliability.\n\n\"Passengers have faced a torrid time on the trains since the beginning of last year where the rail industry has fundamentally failed on punctuality and reliability,\" the group's head of campaigns Neena Bhati said.\n\n\"People then face a messy and complex compensation system which puts them off claiming when things go wrong.\"\n\nMuch of the information needed for a claim is on a standard rail ticket.\n\n1. Class of seat | 2. Peak or non-peak | 3. Single, return, or monthly | 4. Date the ticket is valid | 5. Ticket number, and adjacent reference number | 6. Where ticket is from and to | 7. End date | 8. Price | Other details can include the fact it is a paper ticket, any connections, proof of purchase, and how it was paid for\n\nWhich? said that 36% of passengers do not claim delay compensations they are owed, and suggested that the payments should be automatic.\n\n\"We know that services on some routes weren't good enough last year and rail companies are working together to improve punctuality and tackle delays across the country,\" said Robert Nisbet, regional director of industry body the Rail Delivery Group.\n\n\"Train companies want to make it simple and easy for customers to claim compensation if they've experienced a delay.\"\n\n\"Half of the franchises managed by the Department for Transport pay compensation after 15 minutes and some operators have introduced automatic refunds, helping claims to increase by 80% over the last two years.\"\n\nA review of the rail industry was commissioned last year, following criticism of the way the franchising model is run.\n\nIt is being led by former chief executive of British Airways, Keith Williams, who said it will consider all options, including renationalisation.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said the Rail Review is \"focused on reforms to put passengers at the heart of the railway and will consider all submissions closely\",\n\nPassenger satisfaction with rail services fell to a 10-year low, according to a report published in January by the independent transport watchdog, Transport Focus.\n\nA survey of 25,000 people found 79% were satisfied overall with services, the lowest since 2008, with more than one in five passengers not satisfied.", "The good will of nurses in England is being abused by politicians who have failed to get to grips with a desperate shortage of staff, nurse leaders say.\n\nRoyal College of Nursing general secretary Dame Donna Kinnair will call for safe staffing levels to be enshrined in law in a speech on Monday.\n\nThere are currently nearly 40,000 nurse vacancies - one in nine posts.\n\nHowever, the government says it is committed to increasing the number of nurses in training.\n\nBut Dame Donna, in an address to the RCN's annual conference in Liverpool, will say this is not enough.\n\nA report earlier this year by three leading think tanks warned vacancies could rise to 70,000 within five years and 100,000 in 10 if action was not taken.\n\nDame Donna will say the situation has been made worse by the removal of a student bursary for trainees and the introduction of tuition fees in 2016.\n\nShe will also say the good will of nurses is being abused - and that ministers need to consider the financial and human cost of leaving jobs unfilled.\n\nShe will demand tougher rules on safe staffing be introducing, criticising the \"vague metric\" currently used which does not distinguish between care provided by registered nurses or healthcare assistants.\n\nDame Donna will point to the new staffing law in Scotland, which cleared its final parliamentary hurdle earlier this month, as evidence of how legislation can be introduced.\n\nScotland is now the second country in the UK to set staffing accountability in law after Wales became the first in Europe to legislate in 2016.\n\nShe will say: \"We will not stop until people are held to account for the desperate shortages each and every one of us has witnessed. Politicians must stop short-changing the public.\n\n\"They must stop the rot and put an end to the workforce crisis in nursing.\n\n\"Rather than only looking at the cost of educating and employing nurses, the government must think about the true cost - financial and human - of not doing it.\n\n'Employers, decision-makers and ministers with the power to change things should not let individual nurses take the blame for systemic failings.\n\n\"The goodwill of nursing staff is being abused and politicians must know it is running out. I will not stand by while this profession is denigrated.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care has already announced plans to increase training places by 25% - and the NHS in England is now working on a long-term plan for the workforce.\n\nA spokeswoman praised the \"commitment\" of nurses and said the government would \"secure\" the staff the service needed.", "A survivor of the Columbine High School shooting who later became a prominent advocate for fighting addiction has been found dead at his Colorado home.\n\nAustin Eubanks, 37, was shot in the hand and knee in the 1999 Columbine attack, in which 12 of his classmates and a teacher were killed.\n\nHe became addicted to drugs after taking pain medication while recovering from his injuries.\n\nOfficials say there were no signs of foul play in his death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Columbine changed my life: Samantha Haviland was a student at when the 1999 shooting happened\n\nEubanks's body was discovered on Saturday at his home in Steamboats Springs, Colorado, Routt County Coroner Robert Ryg said.\n\nA post-mortem examination to establish the cause of death was planned for Monday.\n\nHis family said he had \"lost the battle with the very disease he fought so hard to help others face\".\n\n\"As you can imagine, we are beyond shocked and saddened and request that our privacy is respected at this time,\" they added in a statement reported by local TV station KMGH.\n\nEubanks told the BBC in 2017 of how the attack, which killed his best friend, led him to addiction.\n\n\"I was medicated on a variety of substances that were intended to sedate and to relieve pain,\" he said.\n\n\"I became addicted before I even knew what was happening.\"\n\nEubanks later worked at an addiction treatment centre and travelled the US telling his story and working to improve addiction recovery and prevention.\n\nThe Columbine High School shooting took place on 20 April, 1999 when two students killed 12 fellow pupils and a teacher. They then killed themselves.\n\nIt was, at the time, the deadliest school shooting in US history.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says Labour is not defining voters on how they voted in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, he rejected claims that his party does not have a clear position on Brexit.", "The boss of Lloyds Bank in Scotland has predicted traditional branches will still be around in 30 or 40 years, as he announced a digital expansion.\n\nPhilip Grant said the banking group was creating 500 high-skilled tech jobs in Edinburgh because customers wanted more access to financial services online.\n\nMr Grant said he understood concerns about branch closures.\n\nBut he said Lloyds was committed to maintaining face-to-face services for vulnerable and other customers.\n\nThe bank's new tech hub will be based at its Scottish Widows headquarters, with the new jobs phased in over the next 18 months.\n\nThe hub will develop technology for a number of the bank's brands\n\nIt will develop new technology for Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, Halifax and Scottish Widows customers.\n\nThe announcement comes after a £3bn investment was announced last year to overhaul digital services.\n\nMost high street banks, including Lloyds, have been shutting branches in recent years as more customers conduct their banking through apps or on the internet.\n\nLast year, the group earmarked more than 60 branches for closure, while in 2017 it closed dozens of Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and Halifax branches.\n\nMr Grant told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that Lloyds Banking Group ran one in five UK bank branches, but now also operated Britain's biggest digital bank, with 16 million users.\n\nAnd he said 70% of new products offered by Lloyds were acquired online.\n\nPhilip Grant said the group's tech labs were \"designing what customers will need in the future\"\n\nOn branch closures, Mr Grant said: \"While I understand the concern at a local level about changes we're making to that part of our service, we have a responsibility to invest in our new growing part of our business at the same time.\n\n\"The move towards digital is helping us be much more efficient, but there are lots of times when our customers need a space to come and talk to us.\n\n\"We have vulnerable customers who need that attention, and there are 'moments of truth' in our life experience where you need to speak to an individual.\n\n\"We're also making that available digitally as well, through digital videos on our app.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think there is still a place for branch and if I was a betting man, I would say in 30 or 40 years, we'll still have bank branches in Scotland.\"\n\nMr Grant, who has just been named as the new chairman of the industry body Scottish Financial Enterprise, said Scotland was a great place to grow a business, despite some challenges.\n\n\"Right now the whole sector is focussing on readiness for Brexit - supporting customers in whatever the next weeks and months bring,\" he said.\n\n\"Beyond that, the biggest challenge we have is skills and talent and ensuring in the rapid changes in our business that we can anticipate them.\"\n\nMr Grant said there was now a drive to attract software engineers, designers and other people with technology skills who would not have previously thought of a career in financial services.\n\nHe said: \"I think that's one of our biggest challenges - keeping pace with that.\"\n\nFor the latest business news as it happens, follow BBC presenter Andrew Black's updates each weekday morning on BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme between 0600 and 0900.", "MPs who want to deliver the referendum result should vote for the government's Brexit bill and worry about the detail afterwards, a senior minister has said.\n\nA vote on the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - the legislation that will implement Brexit - is expected early next month.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said MPs should back it \"no matter the details\" they want in a future relationship.\n\nBut ex-Brexit Secretary David Davis says if the bill passes, the PM's successor will \"have their hands tied\".\n\nTheresa May announced last week that MPs would vote on the bill in the week beginning 3 June. If it is not passed, the default position is that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says the vote \"really is the last roll of the dice\" for the prime minister, who has had her withdrawal agreement with the EU rejected three times in the Commons.\n\nMrs May last week promised to set out the timetable for her own departure after the vote.\n\nMr Hancock told BBC Radio 4's Today: \"If you want, as an MP, to leave the European Union and deliver on the result of referendum - no matter the details you want to see in terms of the future relationship - you need to vote for legislation and then have the debate in the committee stages later on exactly what the details are.\n\n\"No doubt there will be votes on really big issues, on whether to have a 'People's vote' or whether to have a customs union, both of which I'm against.\"\n\nThe committee stage is where a bill is considered line-by-line by MPs and is an opportunity for changes to be made to the wording or new clauses to be added.\n\nAny fresh demands that Parliament came up with at that stage - for example, for a customs union with the EU - would then need to be taken back to Brussels.\n\nThe EU has said it will not re-open negotiations on the withdrawal agreement, but could make changes to the political declaration - a non-binding document that sketches out the shape of the future relationship between it and the UK.\n\nTheresa May insists that the Brexit plan she'll discuss with her cabinet on Tuesday is \"new\" - and not to be confused with the deal that went down to defeat three times in the Commons.\n\nAnd some of it will represent a fresh approach - further moves on workers' rights to try to appeal to Labour MPs, for example. But some of it will be familiar, including the controversial Northern Ireland backstop which the DUP and Conservative Brexiteers, in particular, loathe.\n\nIrrespective of the specifics, Matt Hancock gave a sneak preview of the argument the prime minister will make herself.\n\nShe plans to deliver a speech later this week spelling out that this could be the last chance of leaving the EU with a deal.\n\nVote down the latest legislation, and both no deal and no Brexit at all become more likely.\n\nThe trouble is, some MPs find the former attractive and others are willing to gamble on the latter.\n\nMr Hancock, who is tipped as a potential centrist candidate for next Tory leader, insisted Mrs May's Brexit plan would include \"new proposals\" for MPs to vote on - those are expected to include enhanced protection for workers' rights and the environment.\n\nBut prominent Brexiteer Mr Davis, who is firmly on the right of the party, told BBC Radio 4's Today he would not support the bill and rejected the idea it was \"a great new offer\".\n\n\"If we pass that act, it opens things up so that a successor to the prime minister, the next prime minister, will have their hands tied,\" he said.\n\n\"I think the next prime minister must have the right to reset the negotiation on their terms.\"\n\nChange UK's interim leader Heidi Allen told Today she believed the issue of Brexit was going \"around and round in circles\" and Mrs May's plan would fail in the Commons once again.\n\n\"I just don't believe that deal will go through, nor have we for many, many months now,\" she said.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he would consider any new proposals \"very carefully\", but he said what was being talked about did not appear \"fundamentally different\" from what was already on the table.\n\nAs things stand, Labour MPs will vote against it, he said.\n\nTalks between the government and Labour - to see if they could find a compromise Brexit deal, despite differences over issues including membership of a customs union and a further referendum - lasted six weeks before ending on Friday without agreement.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer blamed the collapse of talks on the inability to \"future proof\" any agreement against an \"incoming Tory leader\", and said although the two sides had conducted the talks \"in good faith\", they were \"a long way apart\" on substance.\n\nBut Mrs May blamed the lack of a \"common position\" within Labour, and said she would consider putting different Brexit options to MPs to see which ones \"command a majority\".\n\nDowning Street said the cabinet would discuss the merits of holding such indicative votes at its meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives jostling to be the next prime minister\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock, when asked whether he would run for Tory leadership, said he didn't \"rule out\" standing in a future contest but added: \"There isn't a vacancy as yet.\"\n\n\"I find it flattering that a lot of people have asked me to put my name forward,\" he said.", "The Wikileaks founder was holed up in Ecuador's London embassy for seven years to avoid extradition to Sweden\n\nEcuador has seized some of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange's possessions left behind following his stay in its London embassy.\n\nAn Ecuadorean judge authorised the seizure after a request for assistance by the US.\n\nWikileaks said Ecuador was allowing US prosecutors to \"help themselves to Assange's belongings\".\n\nThe material includes manuscripts, legal papers, medical records and electronic equipment, Wikileaks said.\n\nMr Assange's lawyer called it \"completely unprecedented in the history of asylum\".\n\n\"Ecuador is committing a flagrant violation of the most basic norms of the institution of asylum by handing over all the asylee's personal belongings indiscriminately to the country that he was being protected from,\" added lawyer Aitor Martinez.\n\nForeign Minister José Valencia said last week that the decision which items to share with US authorities should be taken by the Ecuadorean prosecutor's office and that any handover would be carried out \"in full compliance with the law\".\n\nWikileaks' Editor-in-Chief, Kristinn Hrafnsson, said in a statement that there was \"no doubt that Ecuador has tampered with the belongings it will send to the United States\".\n\nThe US is seeking Assange's extradition from the UK over his alleged role in the release of classified military and diplomatic material by Wikileaks in 2010.\n\nMr Assange is serving a 50-week sentence in Belmarsh prison for skipping his extradition order to Sweden\n\nAustralian-born Assange faces a charge of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion in the US. He is accused of participating in one of the largest ever leaks of government secrets, which could result in a prison term of up to five years.\n\nThe 47-year-old whistleblower is already facing moves to extradite him to Sweden.\n\nIn 2010, a Swedish woman accused him of rape after they met at a WikiLeaks conference in Stockholm. Assange has always denied the allegations, and sought refuge in Ecuador's embassy for seven years to avoid a British extradition order to Sweden.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London\n\nThe charges were dropped in 2017, but on Monday prosecutors issued a renewed request to hold Mr Assange on suspicion of rape - a first step towards seeking his extradition.\n\nSwedish deputy director of public prosecutions, Eva-Marie Persson, said in a statement a request had been filed with the Uppsala district court to have Assange detained in his absence.\n\nShe added that once the court had granted the request, she would then ask British authorities to transfer Assange to Sweden.\n\nMr Assange was arrested on 11 April after being handed over to British authorities by Ecuador. He is serving a 50-week sentence in Belmarsh prison for skipping his extradition order.\n\nCorrection 21 May 2019: A previous version of this article stated that Julian Assange's possessions had been handed over to the US. This has been amended to clarify that they have been seized by the Ecuadorean authorities following a US request.\n\nCorrection 4th June 2019: This article has been amended to remove a reference to \"rape charges\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rory Stewart: \"Part of the bold offer will be around workers' rights\"\n\nTheresa May has said a \"new and improved\" Brexit deal will be put to MPs when they vote on the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill in early June.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Times, Mrs May said the bill will be a \"bold offer\".\n\nCabinet minister Rory Stewart told the BBC he hoped extra guarantees on workers' rights would enable \"sensible\" Labour MPs to support the government.\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn said Labour would oppose the bill and it was \"very difficult\" to see it making progress.\n\nWhile he would consider new proposals \"very carefully\", he said what was being talked about did not appear \"fundamentally different\" from what was already on the table.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said support in Scotland for staying in the EU had strengthened since the 2016 referendum - when 62% of voters backed Remain - and voters should send a clear message about this in Thursday's European elections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"Every other party is ...defining everybody on 2016. We're not\"\n\nMrs May announced this week that MPs would vote on the bill - which would bring the withdrawal agreement into UK law - in the week beginning 3 June. If the bill is not passed, the default position is that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal.\n\nLabour has said it will vote against the bill after talks with the government on trying to agree a compromise acceptable to its MPs broke down.\n\nThe bill risks failing to clear its first parliamentary hurdle, with many Conservative Brexiteers, as well as the DUP, SNP and Liberal Democrats, also opposed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"The SNP has been clear and straight with people: We want to keep Scotland in the EU\"\n\nBut in her Sunday Times piece, Mrs May said she will \"not be simply asking MPs to think again\" on the same deal that they have repeatedly rejected - but on \"an improved packaged of measures that I believe can win new support\".\n\nThe PM said she wanted MPs to consider the new deal \"with fresh pairs of eyes - and to give it their support\".\n\nWith any sales pitch that sounds like it's too good to be true, it's important to check the small print.\n\nAnd so with Theresa May's promise of a \"new and improved\" Brexit deal - MPs will be wondering what exactly has changed.\n\nA promise of a further referendum would win plenty of support from Labour but Downing Street's ruled that out.\n\nChanges to the Withdrawal Agreement, including the Northern Ireland backstop, would sway the DUP and many of her own MPs, but the EU won't agree to that.\n\nAdditions on workers' rights and environmental protections might be enough to sway a few Labour votes.\n\nAnd there may be - after a series of votes in Parliament - some movement on the UK's future customs relationship with the EU, but that is as likely to turn off Tory MPs as it is to woo the opposition.\n\nNot for the first time there appear to be no good options for Theresa May.\n\nBut a \"bold offer\" is quite a promise to make, and if her deal has a hope of passing, she will somehow have to live up to it.\n\nRory Stewart, who is the international development secretary, suggested the two main parties were \"about half an inch apart\" on the three main issues under discussion - protecting employment rights and environmental standards and having a strong trading relationship with the EU and the rest of the world.\n\n\"None of us want to remain in the European Union, none of us want a no-deal Brexit which means logically there has to be a deal,\" he said.\n\n\"We're in the territory of a deal and where we need to focus is Parliament and particularly getting Labour votes across - maybe not Jeremy Corbyn's vote but there are many other moderate, sensible Labour MPs that we should be able to bring across.\"\n\nWhile Labour \"reserved the right\" to consider new proposals, Mr Corbyn said the official talks were at an end and he would not hand ministers a \"blank cheque\"\n\nAny agreement, he said, must include the scope for future governments to exceed the EU's employment and environmental standards not just keep pace with them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Vince Cable: \"It's absolutely clear that no Brexit is where we should be going\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chuka Umunna: \"Faced with no-deal or revocation, you've got to revoke\"\n\nOn the issue of another referendum, he said Labour had kept the option on the table but any vote would have to be on a \"credible\" deal - which he suggested did not exist right now.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said he would be prepared to support the bill if the government agreed to give the public the final say on the terms of exit in a referendum.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr his party had discussed the \"practicalities\" of holding another public vote and it was possible before the 31 October deadline.\n\n\"We need a proper referendum that will come to a resolution on the issue, with remain on the ballot paper.\"\n\nBut Change UK spokesman Chuka Umunna said there was \"simply not enough time\" to hold a referendum before 31 October.\n\nGiven it was \"almost certain\" the Withdrawal Agreement Bill would be defeated, he said the only option was for the the UK to stop Brexit by revoking Article 50.\n\n\"We are facing a national emergency,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\n\"What would be undemocratic would be imposing a no-deal Brexit on the British people that there is not a mandate for.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives jostling to be the next prime minister\n\nA cabinet meeting on Tuesday is to consider plans for another series of \"indicative votes\" by MPs to establish which proposals could command a majority.\n\nAsked if he would accept anything backed by Parliament, which has so far failed to unite behind an alternative, Mr Corbyn said it was \"very unlikely\" to resolve the impasse.\n\n\"The government has to come up with legislation, through negotiation with the EU,\" he said.\n\n\"The idea that they can produce a bill at the beginning of June and get it through all its stages by the end of July is very very unlikely.\"\n\nBrexit had been due to take place on 29 March. But the UK was given an extension until 31 October after MPs three times voted down the withdrawal agreement Mrs May had negotiated with the EU - by margins of 230, 149 and 58 votes.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Royal Mail has announced plans for the UK's first-ever parcel postboxes.\n\nThe company said 1,400 of the new postboxes would be installed across the country in more than 30 locations over a six-month period, starting in August.\n\nCustomers will be able to post parcels in the same way that they currently post a letter, provided that postage has been pre-paid using Royal Mail's own online labelling service.\n\nExisting letter postboxes were introduced in the 1850s and Royal Mail said the new move represented the first major change in the system since then.\n\n\"The launch of parcel postboxes is also one of the biggest innovations in parcels since the launch of Parcel Post in 1883,\" it added.\n\nThe rollout follows a successful trial of the idea last year.\n\nRoyal Mail will be converting existing meter boxes, which it said had a larger aperture and a secure design.\n\nMark Street, head of campaigns at Royal Mail, said: \"We hope that the wider roll-out gives added flexibility to online sellers who might be running a business in their spare time and not keeping regular office hours.\"\n\nPeople will also be able to return parcels using the system, as long as they have a Royal Mail barcode attached.\n\nThe full list of locations is:", "Jude Morrow found it difficult to understand his son Ethan's facial expressions.\n\nBecoming a parent for the first time is a life-changing moment for anyone but it can pose extra challenges when you have autism.\n\nJude Morrow has Asperger's syndrome, a type of autism spectrum disorder, and he struggled with becoming a father when his son Ethan was born.\n\nThe Londonderry man has trouble interpreting and expressing feelings, as well as experiencing sensory issues and he dislikes disruption to his routine.\n\nThat posed a big challenge when he found out he was going to be a father.\n\n\"Adapting to and managing change isn't easy for me at the best of times,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I would always try to avoid any change but I couldn't avoid becoming a dad.\n\n\"I just wanted to know everything right away that was going to happen. I spent hours dwelling on it and thinking about what I could do to prepare for it.\n\n\"It was a drastic life change - it was a downward spiral and I had a very tough time.\"\n\nJude Morrow had just qualified as a social worker when his son was born\n\nAn unpredictable sleeping and eating pattern is expected with a newborn but some people with autism like Mr Morrow depend on a strict sense of order.\n\n\"The constant change with a new baby is something I really had difficulty with because it went against my routine and it really unsettled me.\n\n\"The worst thing is it was hard for me to tell how Ethan was feeling by looking at him because I don't pick up facial cues.\n\n\"I kept staring at him and wondering if he was OK.\"\n\nAlthough becoming a parent was one of the darkest times in his life, it helped the 28-year-old to accept his autism.\n\n\"At that time, my condition was so difficult to live with and I was so difficult to live with that Ethan could see it,\" he said.\n\n\"I kept thinking I would grow out of it but I had to come to terms with it and make peace with myself.\n\n\"I now see it as a difference to be celebrated - I'm proud of my autism now.\"\n\nHe has developed many coping mechanisms since becoming a dad but he still experiences daily challenges with parenting.\n\nJude Morrow hopes sharing his experiences can help new parents who have autism\n\n\"It's things most people don't even consider but I can't handle chaotic situations like children's play areas because of my sensory issues.\"\n\nHe said he still finds it difficult to explain how he is feeling.\n\n\"It can overwhelm me,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't always have an appropriate response to a situation.\"\n\nAlthough his family and friends have been very supportive, Mr Morrow found very few resources for autistic parents.\n\n\"There is a wealth of information for parents of children with autism but not much for parents with autism themselves.\n\n\"I couldn't find anyone who is on the spectrum using their voice to support other people like them so I decided to write a book about my story.\"\n\nMr Morrow has dedicated the book to his son and took the title from something Ethan asked his grandmother.\n\n\"My mum was looking after Ethan and he asked her: 'Why does daddy always look so sad?'\n\n\"I decided to use that as the title for the book.\n\n\"Even at the age of five, Ethan had picked up that I have trouble showing emotion and often have a blank face.\n\n\"Autism is something I never thought I would talk about but I am glad I did because I want it to be a beacon of hope for parents who have autism.\"\n• None 'I was diagnosed with autism at 32'", "The world's biggest salmon farming company is one of a number of firms under investigation for possible misreporting of chemical use.\n\nThe BBC can reveal Mowi, formerly known as Marine Harvest, is among those being investigated by Scottish regulators.\n\nFarmed salmon are treated with medications to ward off disease and infestations, such as sea lice, but there are limits on how much is used.\n\nMowi denied any wrongdoing and said it used medications sparingly.\n\nChemicals such as hydrogen peroxide, used to wash the fish, and emamectin benzoate, which is put in the salmon's feed, are used across the industry to tackle problems such as sea lice, which has become a major issue for producers.\n\nFarmed salmon has become one of the UK's biggest food exports\n\nThere are concerns that the large amounts of pesticides, as well as faeces and food waste coming from the thousands of salmon in the fish farm nets, could be damaging the environment in some of Scotland's lochs.\n\nMowi, the Norwegian-owned global company which produces up to 60,000 tonnes of salmon each year in the UK alone, said it had \"confidence\" in the numbers it had provided on medication use.\n\nIt said it was supporting regulators with a six-month audit.\n\nWe have confidence in what we're reporting for medications, it is used sparingly\n\nThe BBC's Panorama has been examining the salmon farming industry.\n\nIt learned that Mowi is one of a number of companies under investigation by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa).\n\nThe BBC has been told Sepa's enforcement team removed documents during an unannounced inspection of Mowi's UK head office in Fort William earlier this month.\n\nThe company said the visit was part of an audit and was not unannounced.\n\nMowi's head of communications, Ian Roberts, said: \"We have confidence in what we're reporting for medications, it is used sparingly.\n\n\"We, of course, vaccinate our fish to protect them from fish health challenges.\"\n\nSepa is increasing its inspections across the industry and taking a tougher approach following criticism of how salmon farming is regulated.\n\nIt will publish new guidelines on salmon farming in the next two weeks.\n\nSepa chief executive, Terry A'Hearn, said: \"If companies do the right thing, then they have nothing to worry about.\n\n\"If companies do the wrong thing, we are there to find that out and make sure they improve their game. If that's going to take tough action, you can be assured we'll take it.\"\n\nMowi produces up to 60,000 tonnes of salmon each year in Scotland\n\nScotland has more than 200 fish farms in sea lochs around the west coast and Orkney and Shetland, where hundreds of thousands of salmon are reared in open-net pens.\n\nEach farm has a licence restricting the total weight of fish it can hold and the amount of chemicals it can use at any one time because too much harms the environment and kills creatures on the seabed.\n\nSepa uses samples from the seabed to test the impact of salmon farms.\n\nThe industry said salmon farming was a sustainable way to produce food and a great way to provide jobs in remote rural areas.\n\nMr Roberts, of Mowi, said: \"I wouldn't be doing this if I thought that we had a strong negative impact on the environment.\n\n\"It is farming at the end of the day, so, no matter what you're farming, you have some level of impact. We also need to manage these local impacts around the farms.\"\n\nJulie Hesketh-Laird said sustainable growth was in everybody's interests\n\nJulie Hesketh-Laird, from the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation, said sustainable growth was in \"everybody's interests\".\n\nShe added: \"We want consumers, we want the public and anybody with an interest in Scottish salmon to be confident that the salmon farming sector is doing absolutely everything that it can to grow sustainably.\"\n\nThe industry plans to double in size by 2030 but campaigners wants it to pause and consider alternative ways of farming.\n\nThey believe the damage to the environment of open-net farming is too high.\n\nSally Campbell, a marine ecologist and campaigner, told Panorama: \"I certainly think we need to feed people healthy food. I have no problem with that.\n\n\"What I do think is that healthy food should not be produced at the cost of our environment on which ultimately we all depend.\"\n\nA spokesman for Sepa said an enforcement unit was created in November to review data and carry out \"enhanced environmental monitoring\" across the industry.\n\nHe said it advised Mowi of an audit on 23 April and carried out an \"unexpected inspection\" on 1 May.\n\nA further \"announced\" inspection was conducted on 7 May to obtain more information.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"Sepa is unable to comment further on its current audit and unannounced inspection programme under way at present.\"\n• None Is there a problem with salmon farming?", "The boy was found injured in the Somerford Grove area of Hackney\n\nA teenage boy has been stabbed to death in an attack in Hackney, east London.\n\nThe 15-year-old victim was found injured in Somerford Grove at about 21:00 BST on Wednesday and died shortly after, police said.\n\nA shopkeeper said a boy ran into his store pleading for help, saying he had been stabbed in the back.\n\nA second boy, aged 16, found nearby Shacklewell Road, was also stabbed but did not sustain life-threatening injuries.\n\nA man from Elif Food Centre, who did not want to be named, told BBC London he tried to help one of the victims.\n\nHe said: \"One boy came running into the shop last night saying 'I have been stabbed in the back. Help me. Help me.'\n\n\"We called an ambulance and now police have seized our CCTV.\"\n\nTwo friends of the victim spoke of their shock after visiting the crime scene.\n\nOne said: \"It came as a surprise to us because he was a good guy.\n\n\"We did music together. He didn't only produce afrobeats, he made drill music as well. He also sold some beats to some big artists.\n\n\"I never thought that any of my friends would be murdered. I'm shocked.\"\n\nThe other friend added: \"I saw him the day before yesterday. He was a good friend, a nice lad.\n\n\"I'm so done. It doesn't feel safe any more.\"\n\nThe 15-year-old boy is one of the youngest victims to be stabbed to death in London so far this year\n\nPolice said a Section 60 stop-and-search order had been put in place for the whole of Hackney. No arrests have been made in connection with the killing.\n\nMet Commissioner Cressida Dick described it as a \"terrible, terrible thing\" as the force revealed statistics showing a drop in homicides compared to the previous financial year.\n• None 311Fewer knife crime victims under the age of 25\n\nSpeaking about the latest stabbing in Hackney, Ms Dick said the two boys were with a group of other boys and a girl, adding there was \"some sort of confrontation with another group\".\n\nAnother boy, aged 16, was found stabbed near the crime scene\n\nJust off a busy main road there is a huge cordon surrounding the Somerford Grove estate.\n\nElif Food Centre, a 24-hour off-licence, is also taped off as police officers stand guard.\n\nRight in the middle of the cordon a big blue tent can be seen - the spot where the victim died.\n\nResidents have been telling me they are shocked and scared as only six days ago another person was stabbed to death in Hackney.\n\nHours later, officers were called to another, unrelated, stabbing near Camden Town Tube station.\n\nA man suffered \"life-threatening\" injuries in the attack on Camden Road shortly after midnight.\n\nSo far this year, more than 40 murder investigations have been launched in the capital by the Metropolitan Police and British Transport Police.\n\nTwenty-nine of those cases are stabbing investigations.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said he was \"deeply saddened\" by the latest killing.\n\n\"This horrific violence has absolutely no place on our streets,\" he said.\n\nMotives and circumstances behind killings have varied - as have the age and gender of the victims.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A guide to voting in the local elections\n\nThe polls have closed in the elections for 462 new members of Northern Ireland's 11 district councils.\n\nEarlier the Electoral Office described voting as \"steady\". A total of 819 candidates were standing.\n\nPolling stations opened at 07:00 BST and closed at 22:00 BST in the proportional representation election.\n\nTurnout reports from polling stations at 17:00 BST ranged from a low of 15% in east Belfast to as high as 36% in one venue in the north of the city.\n\nThe final turnout in the last council elections five years ago was just over 51%.\n\nFull lists of the candidates standing in each council area can be found on the Electoral Office's website.\n\nA total of 1,305,553 people were eligible to vote.\n\nThe single transferable vote (STV) system is used in council elections, in which voters rank candidates by numerical preference.\n\nVoters marked their ballot with 1, 2, 3 and so on and could indicate as many or as few preferences as they wanted.\n\nVoters will decide who takes the 462 seats that are available across 11 councils\n\nCandidates are then elected according to the share of the vote they receive.\n\nIn advance of this election there had been some concern expressed that the turnout might be down, perhaps due to public disenchantment with politics, perhaps because for the first time in more than two decades these council elections were not happening in tandem with another contest.\n\nIn the event the good weather seems to have brought the voters out in force, with reports of people having to queue to get into some polling stations.\n\nSo it may be we will match the turnout in the last council election five years ago, which was 51%.\n\nCounting begins in the morning, and results will start to be declared during the afternoon. But the full makeup of our new councils won't be clear until Saturday.\n\nThe number of candidates was down from the 905 people who put their names forward for the previous council elections five years ago.\n\nCounting in the elections will begin on Friday morning.\n\nBBC News NI will cover the latest election results and analysis on its website, mobile app and on Facebook and Twitter on Friday and throughout the weekend.\n\nThere will also be special election programmes on BBC Radio Ulster from 16:00 on Friday and 10:00 on Saturday and on BBC Radio Foyle from 17:00 on Friday.\n\nTelevision coverage will be on BBC One Northern Ireland at 15:30 on Friday, BBC Two Northern Ireland at 19:30 on Friday and 10:00 on Saturday, with an hour-long Sunday Politics programme on the same channel at 11:00 on Sunday.", "Charlotte was born at London's St Mary's Hospital on 2 May 2015\n\nPrincess Charlotte's birthday has been marked with the release of three photographs taken by her mother.\n\nCharlotte, who turns four on Thursday, was captured by the Duchess of Cambridge at Kensington Palace and their Norfolk home of Anmer Hall.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex sent their best wishes to their niece.\n\nThe couple, awaiting the birth of their own child, replied to a Kensington Palace Instagram post: \"Happy Birthday Charlotte! Lots of love, H and M.\"\n\nIn one of the new images, Charlotte can be seen in a blue flower-print summer dress as she sits on grass at the palace.\n\nThe other pictures show her running and smiling as she holds a flower and sitting on a wooden fence.\n\nCharlotte, who is fourth in line to the throne, was born at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, west London, at 08:34 BST on 2 May 2015.\n\nTwo photographs were taken at Anmer Hall, on the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has released pictures she has taken of her three children on a number of occasions in the past.\n\nLast week, she released three images of her youngest son Prince Louis to mark his first birthday.\n\nAnd she broke with tradition in 2015 by issuing the official photographs of her newborn daughter.\n\nThe series of four pictures were taken just weeks after Princess Charlotte was born and showed her being cradled by her elder brother Prince George.\n\nPrincess Charlotte is the second child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pacer Liz Ayres says slower runners were called \"fat\" and \"slow\" by contractors.\n\nOne of the official pacers at the London Marathon has said she and fellow runners were treated \"horrifically\" during the race.\n\nLiz Ayres was asked to run the course in 7.5 hours to aid participants.\n\nShe said runners were called \"fat\" and \"slow\" by contractors and volunteer marshals - and one woman received chemical burns from the clean-up operation that began around them.\n\nMarathon organisers said they were \"very sorry to hear\" of her experience.\n\nLike many other marathons, London asks volunteers to run at specific paces during the race as a timing aid for those participating.\n\nThis was the first year the London Marathon had recruited people to run at paces slower than six hours.\n\nMs Ayres said the clean-up operation had begun before all runners had passed\n\nMs Ayres told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that organisers had intended to make the run \"more inclusive\", with about 200 runners finishing the course at the same time or later than her.\n\nBut, she said, despite running at the requested speed, the clean-up operation had begun around her and other runners and they had been \"told to hurry up\".\n\nShe added that abuse had also been directed towards them by official marathon representatives, such as cleaning contractors and marshals.\n\nThis included comments such as: \"If you weren't so fat, you could run,\" and: \"This is a race, not a walk.\"\n\nLiz Ayres says some runners wanted \"to go home and quit\"\n\nMs Ayres said she would \"rather the race was cancelled than people being spoken to like that\".\n\n\"I had runners that were crying - ones saying they were going to go home and quit,\" she said.\n\nThose affected had been running for charities.\n\nSome had been slower due to injuries, or not having been able to train due to family circumstances, Ms Ayres added.\n\nMs Ayres said similar issues had also been reported by other pacers ahead of her.\n\n\"The 6.5-hour pacer said she experienced this, too,\" she said.\n\n\"If you look at the timings of people who finished, that means about 1,000 people were affected.\n\n\"That's almost one in every 40 runners.\"\n\nMs Ayres said runners on Tower Bridge had also had to \"dodge round sewage collection lorries\" and run through chemical spray used to clean the streets.\n\nOne woman, Sarah Benjafield-Clarke, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that her GP had confirmed that a blister she had developed from running during the race had developed into a chemical burn.\n\nMs Ayres also said that as early as the three-mile mark, water stations had been packed away and she had called the London Marathon team only to be told she was lying and that the water stations were still open.\n\nMs Ayres said water stations along the course had been packed away by the time she had reached them\n\nJames Miller, 35, had been running for a dementia charity.\n\nHe finished in just over eight hours and told the BBC it was \"really demotivating to see the course being dismantled around us\".\n\n\"The worst part was the clocks and timing mats being taking away, so when I passed the 30 and 35km points my time wasn't recorded and I wasn't able to keep track of the progress I was making towards the finish line.\n\n\"I even had to ask for directions at a couple of points as the route wasn't obvious.\n\n\"It was like you were forgotten about.\"\n\nLondon Marathon event director Hugh Brasher said: \"We work hard to provide the best possible experience for every runner in the London Marathon and we were very sorry to hear about the experience of Elizabeth and a small number of other runners on Sunday.\n\n\"A senior member of our team called Elizabeth yesterday to find out more and we are now looking into this in detail as part of a full investigation.\n\n\"We'll be talking to the people involved to find out what happened and we'll also be contacting the runners who were in the group being paced by Elizabeth.\"\n\nThis year's marathon was completed by a record 42,549 runners.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Tuesday, before he was sacked by Theresa May, Gavin Williamson said in a BBC interview that he had never leaked anything from the NSC\n\nGavin Williamson has been sacked as defence secretary following an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting.\n\nDowning Street said the PM had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" and Penny Mordaunt will take on the role.\n\nThe inquiry followed reports over a plan to allow Huawei limited access to help build the UK's new 5G network.\n\nMr Williamson, who has been defence secretary since 2017, \"strenuously\" denies leaking the information.\n\nIn a meeting with Mr Williamson on Wednesday evening, Theresa May told him she had information that provided \"compelling evidence\" that he was responsible for the unauthorised disclosure.\n\nIn a letter confirming his dismissal, she said: \"No other, credible version of events to explain this leak has been identified.\"\n\nResponding in a letter to the PM, Mr Williamson said he was \"confident\" that a \"thorough and formal inquiry\" would have \"vindicated\" his position.\n\n\"I appreciate you offering me the option to resign, but to resign would have been to accept that I, my civil servants, my military advisers or my staff were responsible: this was not the case,\" he said.\n\nThe inquiry into the National Security Council leak began after the Daily Telegraph reported on the Huawei decision and subsequent warnings within cabinet about possible risks to national security over a deal with Huawei.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said sources close to the former defence secretary had told her Mr Williamson did meet the Daily Telegraph's deputy political editor, Steven Swinford, but, she pointed out \"that absolutely does not prove\" he leaked the story to him.\n\nAccording to Sky News defence and security correspondent Alistair Bunkall, Mr Williamson swore on his children's lives that he was not responsible for the leak.\n\nSecurity correspondent Frank Gardner said the BBC had been told \"more than one concerning issue\" had been uncovered regarding Mr Williamson during the leak inquiry and not just the Huawei conversation.\n\nDowning Street has made a very serious accusation and is sure enough to carry out this sacking.\n\nFor the prime minister's allies, it will show that she is, despite the political turmoil, still strong enough to move some of her ministers around - to hire and fire.\n\nMr Williamson is strenuously still denying that the leak was anything to do with him at all.\n\nThere is nothing fond, or anything conciliatory, in either the letter from the prime minister to him, or his reply back to her.\n\nThe National Security Council (NSC) is made up of senior cabinet ministers and its weekly meetings are chaired by the prime minister, with other ministers, officials and senior figures from the armed forces and intelligence agencies invited when needed.\n\nIt is a forum where secret intelligence can be shared by GCHQ, MI6 and MI5 with ministers, all of whom have signed the Official Secrets Act.\n\nThere has been no formal confirmation of Huawei's role in the 5G network and No 10 said a final decision would be made at the end of spring.\n\nHuawei has denied there is any risk of spying or sabotage, or that it is controlled by the Chinese government.\n\nMrs May said the leak from the meeting on 23 April was \"an extremely serious matter and a deeply disappointing one\".\n\nIt is vital for the operation of good government and for the UK's national interest in some of the most sensitive and important areas that the members of the NSC - from our armed forces, our security and intelligence agencies, and the most senior level of government - are able to have frank and detailed discussions in full confidence that the advice and analysis provided is not discussed or divulged beyond that trusted environment.\n\n\"That is why I commissioned the cabinet secretary to establish an investigation into the unprecedented leak from the NSC meeting last week, and why I expected everyone connected to it - ministers and officials alike - to comply with it fully. You undertook to do so.\n\n\"I am therefore concerned by the manner in which you have engaged with this investigation.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the prime minister had no alternative but to sack Mr Williamson, but he said on a personal level he was \"very sorry about what happened\".\n\nWhen asked whether there should be a criminal inquiry into the NSC leak, new defence secretary Ms Mordaunt said: \"The prime minister has made her decision.\n\n\"What I'm focused on is getting on with the job.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson has called for a police inquiry to investigate whether or not Mr Williamson breached the Official Secrets Act.\n\nThat sentiment was echoed by former national security adviser Lord Ricketts. He told BBC Newsnight that on the face of it, the leak was a breach of the official secrets act and therefore the police ought to be considering an inquiry.\n\nLib Dems leader Vince Cable said Mr Williamson's sacking was \"absolutely extraordinary\" and the PM did it in \"such a forthright way\".\n\nHe added that he believed it was \"clearly a police matter\". His deputy, Jo Swinson, has asked the police to open an investigation.\n\nBut Scotland Yard said in a statement that it was a matter for the National Security Council and the Cabinet Office, and it was not carrying out an investigation.\n\nDefence Committee chairman Julian Lewis told the BBC that Mr Williamson's sacking was a \"loss\" when looked at \"purely\" from the point of view of defence.\n\nHe said he thought \"very highly\" of Ms Mordaunt - the first woman to take the role of defence secretary.\n\nRory Stewart has been confirmed as the new international development secretary, taking over from Ms Mordaunt.\n\nMr Stewart said he believed the prime minister and national security adviser had \"made the right decision\" in sacking Mr Williamson.\n• None Inquiry to be held into Huawei leak", "The Xiahe mandible was found in 1980 in Baishiya Karst Cave\n\nScientists have found evidence that an ancient species of human called Denisovans lived at high altitudes in Tibet.\n\nThe ability to survive in such extreme environments had previously been associated only with our species - Homo sapiens.\n\nThe ancient ancestor seems to have passed on a gene that helps modern people cope at high elevations.\n\nDetails of the study are published in the journal Nature.\n\nThe Denisovans were a mysterious human species living in Asia before modern humans like us expanded across the world tens of thousands of years ago.\n\nUntil recently, the only fossils came from a few fragments of bone and teeth from a single site in Siberia - Denisova Cave.\n\nBut DNA had shown that they were a distinct branch of the human family.\n\nNow, scientists have identified the first Denisovan fossil from another site. It's a mandible (lower jawbone) discovered in 1980 at Baishiya Karst Cave, 3,280m up on the Tibetan Plateau.\n\nA technique called uranium-series dating was used on carbonate deposits on the bone. This yielded a date of 160,000 years ago for the mandible.\n\nCo-author Jean Jacques Hublin, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, said finding evidence of an ancient - or archaic - species of human living at such high elevations was a surprise.\n\n\"When we deal with 'archaic hominins' - Neanderthals, Denisovans, early forms of Homo sapiens - it's clear that these hominins were limited in their capabilities to dwell in extreme environments.\n\n\"If you look at the situation in Europe, we have a lot of Neanderthal sites and people have been studying these sites for a century-and-a-half now.\n\n\"The highest sites we have are at 2,000m altitude. There are not many, and they are clearly sites where these Neanderthals used to go in summer, probably for special hunts. But otherwise, we don't have these types of sites.\"\n\nAn autumn view of Jiangla River Valley, where Baishiya Karst Cave is located\n\nOf the Denisovans on the Tibetan Plateau, he said: \"It's a plateau... and there are obviously enough resources for people to live there and not just come occasionally.\"\n\nWhile the researchers could not find any traces of DNA preserved in this fossil, they managed to extract proteins from one of the molars, which they then analysed applying something called ancient protein analysis.\n\n\"Our protein analysis shows that the Xiahe mandible belonged to a hominin population that was closely related to the Denisovans from Denisova Cave,\" said co-author Frido Welker, from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.\n\nThe discovery may explain why individuals studied at Denisova Cave had a gene variant known to protect against hypoxia (oxygen deficiency) at high altitudes. This had been a puzzle because the Siberian cave is located just 700m above sea level.\n\nPresent-day Sherpas, Tibetans and neighbouring populations have the same gene variant, which was probably acquired when Homo sapiens mixed with the Denisovans thousands of years ago.\n\nIn fact, the gene variant appears to have undergone positive natural selection (which can result in mutations reaching high frequencies in populations because they confer an advantage).\n\n\"We can only speculate that living in this kind of environment, any mutation that was favourable to breathing an atmosphere impoverished in oxygen would be retained by natural selection,\" said Prof Hublin.\n\n\"And it's a rather likely scenario to explain how this mutation made its way to present-day Tibetans.\"", "Craig Orr is the only male nurse on his ward\n\nCraig Orr used to be a police officer but after retiring early he retrained as a nurse.\n\nHis new career means the 46-year-old, who works at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, is \"surrounded by women\".\n\nCraig told BBC Scotland's The Nine: \"There are approximately just over 50 members of staff and I'm the only male nurse here.\"\n\nIt is a similar story at hospitals across Scotland.\n\nLast year the number of male nurses fell to a seven-year low, accounting for about 10% of the 65,000 nursing staff across the country.\n\nCraig's ex-police officer colleagues can't believe his new career\n\nStudies have suggested that men view nursing as a worthwhile career with good progression opportunities.\n\nBut they perceive a strong societal link between nursing and femininity which deters them from taking it up.\n\nAn NHS study last year said there was still a \"stigma\" attached to men in nursing and there were not enough role models to challenge this.\n\nIt also said that focus groups suggested men take longer to mature than women and do not realise that nursing is a suitable career for them at a young age.\n\nCraig Orr says that when he bumps into ex-colleagues from the police, they ask what he is doing now.\n\n\"They say 'Oh really, I didn't expect that'.\"\n\nLee Ormiston is one of five men on his university nursing course\n\nHe is one of just five men in his year at Dundee University's School of Nursing in Fife.\n\n\"I think it is seen as a primarily feminine occupation,\" he says.\n\n\"Every TV programme or film you see, it is always a female nurse and you are not so 'macho' being in a nursing profession.\"\n\nLee says nursing is not considered 'macho'\n\nOver the past decade the number of male nursing students across the country has remained stagnant at about 10%.\n\nRecent figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) show male applicants for nursing courses in Scotland were up this year to 410 but they are still down from 460 in 2010.\n\nLee says: \"Because there are not a lot of males already in the profession, that is causing the ones that want to do it not to come into it, because they feel it is not for them.\"\n\nDundee University School of Nursing lecturer Richard Craven has been doing research into why men are not applying to do nursing.\n\nUniversity lecturer Richard Craven asked football fans about their attitudes to males in nursing\n\nLast weekend he went to Raith Rovers against Brechin City to talk to male football fans about nursing.\n\nSome said the career was considered feminine and they would not go into it but others agreed there should be more men involved.\n\nMr Craven said: \"From a person-centred care point of view, it gives people choice.\n\n\"I'm thinking particularly of experiences I have had in care of older adults, for example, where men of older generations, perhaps affected by things like dementia, might identify more strongly with younger men than they would with a woman carer.\"\n\nGlasgow Caledonian University is also campaigning to address the gender imbalance in nursing.\n\nThe message could not be simpler - men are nurses too.\n\nStudent nurse Lee Ormiston says: \"You can be a man, you can be empathetic, get a career in nursing, help people. Definitely.\"\n• None School of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Dundee The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Windsor and Maidenhead are selecting their councillors, and Finn the cocker spaniel \"wanted to show his snout at the polling station\"\n\nIt is that time of year when our canine friends take centre stage.\n\nAs voters in England and Northern Ireland go to the polls our dogs often join us for the walk and, sometimes, a photo opportunity.\n\nElections are being held for 248 English councils, six mayors and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland. There are no local elections in Scotland and Wales.\n\nSince the polls opened at 07:00 BST many a dog has been snapped outside a polling station and, as has been popular on polling days over recent years, shared across social media.\n\nLabradoodles Hotch and Penny were up early this morning for a trip to the polling station at Folkestone Central in Shepway\n\nMartha from Brighton says five-year-old Nelly, a border terrier cross, was \"promised cheese\" if she stood nicely for a picture\n\nBarney the Labrador \"exercised his democratic right\" this morning in Wallasey, Merseyside, according to owner Ben Murphy\n\nAnne Rawson's cockerpoo Scooby is \"a friend to all\" whose favourite kind of polling station is one where he gets petted and given treats\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nDarren says his dog Woody the dachshund \"had fun voting\" and \"was welcomed by the team\" at the polling station in Brighton\n\nSam says Phoebe the pug \"just loves the taste of democracy in the morning\" in Chorlton, Manchester\n\nMichi is a Japanese spitz and \"a very friendly and convivial chap, and everyone smiles when they see him,\" according to owner Inbali\n\nPoppy the chocolate Labrador joined Louise at a polling station for a \"walk in the sunshine\" in Hull this morning", "Hundreds of people may have missed out on voting in this year's council elections because of pilot schemes requiring them to prove their identity.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said the trial project saw 2,083 voters refused a ballot paper because they weren't carrying the necessary ID, with up to 758 of them not returning to cast their vote.\n\nBroxtowe, Derby and North West Leicestershire were three of the 10 areas involved in the pilot.\n\nCraig Westwood, director of communications, policy and research for the Electoral Commission, said \"nearly everyone\" in the pilot areas was able to vote and showed the correct ID \"without difficulty\", but said government needs to \"consider carefully the available evidence about the impact of different approaches\".\n\nQuote Message: Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\" from Craig Westwood Electoral Commission director of communications, policy and research Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\"", "Mr Vincent's relatives arrived in South Park Crescent with flowers, cards, balloons and a banner\n\nRelatives of a burglar who was killed during a raid on a pensioner's home have marked his birthday at the crime scene in south-east London.\n\nA group of women brought flowers, balloons and a banner to where Henry Vincent was stabbed in South Park Crescent, Hither Green.\n\nHomeowner Richard Osborn-Brooks, 78, was arrested on suspicion of murder but released with no further action.\n\nTributes to Mr Vincent have sparked outrage in the community.\n\nBut one relative said today: \"We don't want to cause any violence.\"\n\nOfficers tried to stop people stapling banners and balloons to the garden fences of homeowners\n\nMr Vincent, who would have turned 38 on Sunday, is suspected of burgling Mr Osborn-Brooks's home on 4 April with Bill Jeeves.\n\nThe women marking his birthday were escorted by five police officers, who tried to stop them stapling the banners and balloons to the garden fences of homeowners.\n\nEventually, the tributes were attached to a street sign and a lamp-post.\n\nA 37-year-old woman, who did no want to be named, said: \"We're here because it's his birthday, we just want to lay flowers. We don't want to cause any violence.\n\n\"We're not all criminals. We don't all do wrong.\"\n\nAnother woman said: \"We all loved him.\"\n\nHenry Vincent was under investigation over a separate burglary involving an elderly victim\n\nSince his death, residents have branded the tributes left to Mr Vincent an \"insult\" and repeatedly tore them down - prompting Met deputy commissioner Sir Craig Mackey to appeal for respect on both sides.\n\nMr and Mrs Osborn-Brooks are reportedly living in a safe house and plan to sell their property.\n\nFloral tributes were pulled down from a fence opposite the home of Richard Osborn-Brooks last week\n\nMr Vincent, who was from the travelling community, would have turned 38 on 15 April\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "London's Gay Men's Chorus performed outside the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho to remember the victims of a deadly nail bomb attack on 30th April 1999.\n\nThe attack, which killed three people and injured 79, was the third bomb attack in a fortnight by a self-confessed homophobe and racist.", "The ship is reportedly the Freewinds, shown here docked in Aruba in 2014\n\nA US cruise ship has been placed in quarantine by the Caribbean island of St Lucia after a case of measles was reported on board, the island's chief medical officer said.\n\nDr Merlene Fredericks James said there was a confirmed case of measles on board and \"thought it prudent that we quarantine the ship\".\n\nNo-one aboard was allowed to leave.\n\nThe ship is reportedly the Freewinds, which is said to be owned and operated by the Church of Scientology.\n\nDr Fredericks James said in a video statement posted on YouTube on Tuesday that the ministry learned of the confirmed measles case from \"two reputable sources\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nShe cited the fact that measles was a highly infectious disease as a factor in the decision.\n\n\"One infected person can easily infect others through coughing, sneezing, droplets being on various surfaces, etc. So because of the risk of potential infection - not just from the confirmed measles case, but from other persons who may be on the boat at the time - we thought it prudent to make a decision not to allow anyone to disembark.\"\n\nShe also cited the current situation in the US, where cases of the disease are at a 25-year high, as another factor.\n\nNBC News, citing a St Lucia Coast Guard, reported that the boat is the Freewinds, a 440ft (134m) vessel owned and operated by the Church of Scientology, thought to have some 300 passengers on board.\n\n\"The ship's doctor has the confirmed case in isolation on the ship,\" Dr Fredericks James was quoted as saying by NBC. \"The individual is in stable condition.\"\n\nThe St Lucian authorities do not have the authority to keep the ship from leaving, and it is currently due to leave the island at 23:59 (03:59 GMT) on Thursday, NBC reports officials as saying.\n\nThe ship-tracking website MarineTraffic.com shows a ship called SMV Freewinds docked in Castries, the country's capital.\n\nThe Church of Scientology has so far not publicly commented on the case.\n\nEarlier this week, US health officials reported that more than 700 people had been infected by measles this year, marking a 25-year high for cases of the infectious disease in the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCases had been recorded in 22 states and were mostly affecting unvaccinated children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday.\n\nOfficials said the increase in cases is the largest since 1994, including 78 reported in the past week.\n\nSome parents are said to have chosen to leave their children unvaccinated due to the unscientific claim that vaccines cause illnesses such as autism, or on religious grounds.\n\nMost cases occurred in 13 outbreak zones, including in New York City's orthodox Jewish communities.\n\nAre you on the ship? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Last updated on .From the section Leeds United\n\nLeeds striker Patrick Bamford has been banned for two matches by the Football Association after being found guilty of \"successful deception of a match official\" in the draw with Aston Villa.\n\nBamford went down as though he had been hit in the face by Anwar El Ghazi after Leeds' controversial opening goal.\n\nReplays showed Villa's Dutch winger had made no contact with the head of the 25-year-old.\n\nEl Ghazi was sent off but had the red card rescinded on Tuesday.\n\nBamford will miss Sunday's Championship trip to Ipswich and the first leg of Leeds' play-off semi-final tie.\n\nLeeds said in a statement that although Bamford did not deny the charge they had requested a hearing to \"contest the penalty imposed on the player\".\n\nThey added: \"The club felt that given the circumstances surrounding the incident, including the extraordinary act of sportsmanship which saw our head coach Marcelo Bielsa demand our team to allow Aston Villa to score an uncontested equaliser, we could have a sensible discussion around the sanction.\n\n\"We acknowledge that the FA panel did not feel that to be reasonable and the club therefore joins Patrick in accepting the two-match ban.\"\n\nThe melee, in which the Bamford incident occurred, was sparked after Mateusz Klich scored for Leeds with Villa players appealing for the ball to be played out after Jonathan Kodjia had gone down injured in the centre circle.\n\nAfter clashes between the players and an exchange between the two benches, Leeds boss Bielsa ordered his team to allow Villa to walk in an equaliser from kick-off, which was scored by winger Albert Adomah. Sunday's game finished 1-1.\n\nOn Tuesday both clubs were charged with failing to ensure their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion in the aftermath of Leeds' goal. They have until 18:00 BST on Friday to respond to their respective charges.\n\nLeeds' failure to win saw Yorkshire rivals Sheffield United promoted to the Premier League and they will now feature alongside Villa in the play-offs.", "Police found the women's remains at a flat in Vandome Close\n\nA man has been charged with preventing the lawful burial of two women whose bodies were found in a freezer.\n\nThe pair's remains were found clothed and on top of each other at a flat in Vandome Close, Canning Town, east London, on Friday.\n\nDetectives have said it may take a week before the women are formally identified.\n\nZahid Younis, 34, of Vandome Close, is due to appear at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Thursday, Scotland Yard said.\n\nHe faces two counts of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a dead body.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Det Ch Insp Simon Harding said a chest freezer, measuring a few feet wide, had been removed from the crime scene.\n\nWork to identify the women was ongoing, he said, and post-mortem examinations would be carried out on Friday.\n\nThere are fears for Mary-Jane Mustafa, 37, who went missing last May.\n\nThe Met has appealed for anyone who has visited the flat in the last year to contact them.\n\nA 50-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Grassfires spread quickly, especially during the dry summer months\n\nArsonists were responsible for a 75% spike in grassfires in the past year, new figures have shown.\n\nA total of 2,850 fires were started from April 2018 to March 2019, compared with 1,627 in the 12 months previously.\n\nFire chiefs said these figures were \"very disappointing\", and attributed it to last year's hot and dry summer.\n\nWales' fire services have developed an educational programme in a bid to tackle the problem, resulting in 60,000 speeches to schoolchildren.\n\nKelvin Griffiths, 65, a farmer from Carmel, Gwynedd, lost grazing land in a grassfire on Cilgwyn Mountain last year, which shares common land on Ywch Gwyrfai.\n\n\"There was a huge fire stretching for a mile long. I have cattle and sheep that graze there,\" he said.\n\n\"There are houses on the common nearby who were really worried.\"\n\nLisa Jones - who lives nearby - took this picture of the fire in Carmel\n\nOperation Dawns Glaw was set up in 2016 to tackle deliberate grassfires, involving all three of Wales' fire services.\n\nThe UK heatwave of 2018 - one of the driest and warmest summers in Wales since 1995 - also meant more fires.\n\nThe operation's chairman Mydrian Harries said: \"Sadly in the last year we've seen that increase and predominantly attributed it to the hot weather in June, July and August.\n\n\"When the weather starts drying, any fire that commences does spread rapidly.\n\n\"Add to that some warm currents and prevailing winds and we do find the fire spreads rapidly. Unfortunately there's a sector out there who do see this as opportunities to burn.\"\n\nMr Harries said about 50% of all last year's grassfires were recorded as deliberate.\n\n\"While these statistics are very disappointing, they should not take away from the overall success of Operation Dawns Glaw,\" he said.\n\nFire officers are also looking to tackle fly-tipping and countryside rubbish fires, which can spread to grassland, starting huge fires.\n\nNatural Resources Wales says land can take \"decades\" to recover from severe grassfires\n\nLand owners and farmers are allowed to do controlled burns on their land between October and March, but only if they have created a specific plan for starting and containing the fire.\n\nAnyone carrying out one of these burns outside of these months or without a plan is committing arson.\n\nHowever, Mr Griffiths believes these strict regulations mean farmers' land becomes overgrown, making it more at risk of spreading grassfires.\n\n\"Now there are so many restrictions on burning, if you want to burn, you have to inform the police, create fire barriers and have an army of people,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not feasible. It overgrows and then it becomes a threat and cattle and sheep can't access the grazing.\n\n\"Once you ignite it just goes 'whoosh' and if there's a strong wind behind, it takes no time at all.\"\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it was not its legislation to police.\n\nA spokesman said: \"What we're doing with the Welsh government and partners in Dawns Glaw is to tell people to burn within the prescribed periods.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was \"irresponsible\" to set a fire in open land \"without proper controls and safeguards, or outside the permitted season\".\n\n\"Such fires can very easily spread out of control, for example if the wind strengthens or changes direction, and can take days or even weeks to extinguish, especially if they spread into peat,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"This in turn ties up fire crews who might well be needed to attend other incidents. The regulations are designed to greatly reduce these risks.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Beyond Meat boss Ethan Brown is not worried about the competition\n\nShares of vegan burger maker Beyond Meat soared on their Wall Street debut as investors bet on the growing popularity of plant-based foods.\n\nThe stock closed up 163% on the first day of trading, valuing the California company at close to $3.8bn.\n\nBeyond Meat's shares were priced at $25 each at the start of trading, but touched $72 during the trading day before closing at $65.75.\n\nThe company has aggressive plans to expand sales outside the US.\n\nMoney raised from the listing will give Beyond Meat the firepower to compete with other rivals in the increasingly crowded fake meat market, which includes Silicon Valley start-up Impossible Foods.\n\nSpeaking at the stock market launch on the Nasdaq exchange, Beyond Meat founder and chief executive Ethan Brown called plant-based meat an \"enormous opportunity for economic growth in rural America and throughout the world\".\n\nHe said: \"We understand the composition of meat, we understand the architecture and year after year we collapse the gaps between our product and animal protein.\"\n\nBeyond Meat counts actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Microsoft founder Bill Gates among its investors.\n\nTyson Foods, the biggest US meat processor, owned a 6.5% stake in Beyond Meat, but last week said it sold its holding, as it looks to develop its own line of alternative protein products.\n\nBurger King and Impossible Foods last month started selling their vegan burger Impossible Whopper in 59 stores in and around St. Louis, Missouri, with nationwide sales expected by the end of the year.\n\nBeyond Meat creates substitutes for meat by using ingredients that mimic the composition of animal-based meat, like proteins from peas, fava beans and soy.\n\nAbout 70% of the company's revenues are generated by its flagship Beyond Burger patties, and it also sells imitation sausages and vegan ground beef.\n\nBeyond Meat, which has yet to make a profit, has started selling products in the UK as more supermarkets fill their shelves with meat alternatives. Beyond Burger was originally due to be introduced in the UK at 350 Tesco stores last August, but that was delayed by three months because of supply issues.\n\nWaitrose started a dedicated vegan section in more than 130 shops last year and Iceland reported sales of its plant-based foods rising by 10% in a year.\n\nResearch conducted by the Vegan Society in 2016 estimated there were around 540,000 vegans across the UK, compared with around 150,000 in 2006.\n\nIn 2018, some $50m of Beyond Meat's revenues came from retail sales, including at Amazon's Whole Foods Market and Kroger Co supermarkets, while some $37m was generated at restaurants.\n\nAccording to regulatory documents ahead of the stock market debut, Beyond Meat's net loss narrowed marginally to $29.9m in the year ended 31 December, from $30.4m a year earlier. Net revenue more than doubled to $87.9m in the same period.", "Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has been sacked by the prime minister after information from a National Security Council meeting was leaked to a newspaper. Here is Theresa May's full letter dismissing him.\n\nThank you for your time this evening. We discussed the investigation into the unauthorised disclosure of information from the National Security Council meeting on 23 April.\n\nThis is an extremely serious matter, and a deeply disappointing one.\n\nIt is vital for the operation of good government and for the UK's national interest in some of the most sensitive and important areas that the members of the NSC - from our Armed Forces, our Security and Intelligence Agencies, and the most senior level of government - are able to have frank and detailed discussions in full confidence that the advice and analysis provided is not discussed or divulged beyond that trusted environment.\n\nThat is why I commissioned the cabinet secretary to establish an investigation into the unprecedented leak from the NSC meeting last week, and why I expected everyone connected to it - ministers and officials alike - to comply with it fully. You undertook to do so.\n\nI am therefore concerned by the manner in which you have engaged with this investigation.\n\nIt has been conducted fairly, with the full co-operation of other NSC attendees.\n\nThey have all answered questions, engaged properly, provided as much information as possible to assist with the investigation, and encouraged their staff to do the same. Your conduct has not been of the same standard as others.\n\nIn our meeting this evening, I put to you the latest information from the investigation, which provides compelling evidence suggesting your responsibility for the unauthorised disclosure.\n\nNo other credible version of events to explain this leak has been identified.\n\nIt is vital that I have full confidence in the members of my cabinet and of the National Security Council. The gravity of this issue alone, and its ramifications for the operation of the NSC and the UK's national interest, warrants the serious steps we have taken, and an equally serious response.\n\nIt is therefore with great sadness that I have concluded that I can no longer have full confidence in you as secretary of state for defence and a minister in my cabinet and asked you to leave Her Majesty's government.\n\nAs you do so, I would like to thank you for the wider contribution you have made to it over the last three years, and for your unquestionable personal commitment to the men and women of our Armed Forces.\"\n\nIt has been a great privilege to serve as Defence Secretary and Chief Whip in your government. Every day I have seen the extraordinary work of the men and women of our armed forces, who go to incredible lengths to defend our country.\n\nI am sorry that you feel recent leaks from the National Security Council originated in my department. I emphatically believe this was not the case. I strenuously deny that I was in any way involved in this leak and I am confident that a thorough and formal inquiry would have vindicated my position.\n\nI have always trusted my civil servants, military advisers and staff. I believe the assurances they have given me.\n\nI appreciate you offering me the option to resign, but to resign would have been to accept that I, my civil servants, my military advisers or my staff were responsible: this was not the case.\n\nRestoring public confidence in the NSC is an ambition we both share. With that in mind I hope that your decision achieves this aim rather than being seen as a temporary distraction.\n\nAs I said there has been no greater privilege than working with our armed forces and I will continue to stand up for our service personnel and the superb work they do.\"\n• None Inquiry to be held into Huawei leak", "Julian Assange pumped his fist at photographers as he arrived at Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday\n\nWikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has said he does not consent to being extradited to the US over charges related to leaking government secrets.\n\nHis extradition hearing came a day after he was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching the Bail Act following his arrest last month.\n\nThe 47-year-old appeared by video link at Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe court heard that the \"extradition process will take many months\". The case was adjourned until 30 May.\n\nAssange told the court: \"I do not wish to surrender myself for extradition for doing journalism that has won many awards and protected many people.\"\n\nOutside the court dozens of his supporters, many holding posters and banners demanding his freedom, blocked the road in protest.\n\nAssange took refuge in Ecuador's London embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, which he has denied.\n\nThe UK will decide whether to extradite him to the US in response to allegations that he conspired with former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to download classified databases.\n\nAustralian-born Assange faces up to five years in a US prison if convicted.\n\nWikileaks has published thousands of classified documents covering everything from the film industry to national security and war.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Star Wars star Harrison Ford has paid an emotional tribute to Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew, who has died aged 74, saying: \"I loved him.\"\n\nFord, who played Han Solo, praised the \"kind and gentle man\" for his \"great dignity and noble character\".\n\nMayhew died at his home in Texas on 30 April with his family by his side, a statement said.\n\nThe British-US actor played the giant Wookiee warrior in several Star Wars films from 1977 until 2015.\n\n\"He put his heart and soul into the role of Chewbacca and it showed in every frame,\" his family said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Mayhew This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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-born Mayhew played Chewbacca in the original Star Wars trilogy, episode three of the prequels, and shared the role in 2015's The Force Awakens.\n\nFord and Mayhew's characters were close friends and piloted the Millennium Falcon. \"We were partners in film and friends in life for over 30 years and I loved him,\" said Ford.\n\n\"He invested his soul in the character and brought great pleasure to the Star Wars audience.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, described Mayhew as \"the gentlest of giants\".\n\nHamill said: \"What was so remarkable about him was his spirit and his kindness and his gentleness was so close to what a Wookiee is.\n\n\"He just radiated happiness and warmth. He was always up for a laugh and we just hit it off immediately and stayed friends for over 40 years.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Hamill: Peter Mayhew was 'as kind and gentle as a Wookiee'\n\nStar Wars creator George Lucas had wanted a tall actor to play Chewbacca and initially considered 6ft 6in (1.98m) David Prowse for the role.\n\nHowever, Prowse wanted to play Darth Vader, so Lucas then turned to Mayhew, who at 7ft 2in (2.18m) was chosen purely for his height. His face was never seen.\n\n\"He fought his way back from being wheelchair-bound to stand tall and portray Chewbacca once more in Star Wars: The Force Awakens,\" his family said.\n\nMayhew also consulted on The Last Jedi, released in 2017, in an attempt to pass on the secrets of the role to his successor, Finland's Joonas Suotamo.\n\nMayhew's family said \"the Star Wars family meant so much more to him than a role in a film\".\n\nLucas said: \"Peter was a wonderful man. He was the closest any human being could be to a Wookiee: big heart, gentle nature - and I learned to always let him win. He was a good friend, and I'm saddened by his passing.\"\n\nLucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy added: \"Peter's iconic portrayal of the loyal, lovable Chewbacca has been absolutely integral to the character's success, and to the Star Wars saga itself.\n\n\"When I first met Peter during The Force Awakens, I was immediately impressed by his kind and gentle nature.\n\n\"Peter was brilliantly able to express his personality through his skilful use of gesture, posture, and eyes. We all love Chewie, and have Peter to thank for that enduring memory.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Joonas Suotamo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSuotamo played Chewbacca's body double in Force Awakens and went on to play the Wookiee in 2017's The Last Jedi and 2018's A Star Wars Story.\n\nHe added to the warm tributes, saying Mayhew was \"an absolutely one-of-a-kind gentleman and a legend of unrivalled class\".\n\nRobert Iger, head of The Walt Disney Company, tweeted that the \"beloved\" star was \"a gentle giant playing a gentle giant\".\n\nThe Force Awakens director JJ Abrams and The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson added their voices.\n\nIn a handwritten note posted on Twitter, Abrams said: \"Peter was the loveliest man... kind and patient, supportive and encouraging. A sweetheart to work with and already deeply missed.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Rian Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Elijah Wood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by KevinSmith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shared a photograph of himself with the star.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Justin Trudeau This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSan Diego Comic-Con said he was their \"beloved companion\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 7 by San Diego Comic-Con This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe family's statement also said the actor had been \"heavily involved\" with non-profit organisations and had launched his own foundation, which they said supported \"everything from individuals and families in crisis situations to food and supplies for children of Venezuela\".\n\nThey did not reveal the cause of death. A memorial service for friends and family will be held on 29 June, while a separate memorial for fans will take place in December, the statement said.\n\nThe actor is survived by his wife Angie and three children.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Hundreds of wives and children of former Islamic State group fighters who are detained in camps in northern Syria are stuck as their countries of origin are reluctant to take them back.\n\nIn many European countries, their relatives are campaigning for their return.\n\nFatiha, 47, is the grandmother of 6 children aged between 1 and 7 who are being kept in Ain Issa camp in Syria, years after their parents left Europe to join the so-called Islamic State group.\n\nShe hopes she will soon be able to welcome the children back to her home near Antwerp in Belgium.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCaster Semenya has lost a landmark case against athletics' governing body meaning it will be allowed to restrict testosterone levels in female runners.\n\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) rejected the South African's challenge against the IAAF's new rules.\n\nBut Cas said it had \"serious concerns as to the future practical application\" of the regulations.\n\nOlympic 800m champion Semenya, 28, said in response to the ruling that the IAAF \"have always targeted me specifically\".\n\nNow she - and other athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) - must either take medication in order to compete in track events from 400m to the mile, or change to another distance.\n\n\"For a decade the IAAF has tried to slow me down, but this has actually made me stronger. The decision of Cas will not hold me back,\" said Semenya in a statement.\n\n\"I will once again rise above and continue to inspire young women and athletes in South Africa and around the world.\"\n\nPreviously, she had said that she wanted to \"run naturally, the way I was born\".\n\nCas found that the rules for athletes with DSD were discriminatory - but that the discrimination was \"necessary, reasonable and proportionate\" to protect \"the integrity of female athletics\".\n\nHowever, Cas set out serious concerns about the application of the rules, including:\n• None Worries that athletes might unintentionally break the strict testosterone levels set by the IAAF;\n• None Questions about the advantage higher testosterone gives athletes over 1500m and the mile;\n• None The practicalities for athletes of complying with the new rules.\n\nCas has asked the IAAF to consider delaying the application of the rules to the 1500m and one mile events until more evidence is available.\n\nSemenya is still eligible to compete at the Diamond League meet in Doha on Friday and can make an appeal against the Cas ruling to the Swiss Tribunal Courts within the next 30 days.\n• None 'Nobody has truly won - one side has just lost less than the other'\n\nWhat are disorders/differences of sex development (DSD)?\n\nPeople with a DSD do not develop along typical gender lines.\n\nTheir hormones, genes, reproductive organs may be a mix of male and female characteristics, which can lead to higher levels of testosterone - a hormone that increases muscle mass, strength and haemoglobin, which affects endurance.\n\nThe term \"disorders\" is controversial with some of those affected preferring the term \"intersex\" and referring to \"differences in sex development\".\n\nThe new rules come into effect on 8 May, which means athletes who want to compete at September's World Championships - also in Doha - will have to start taking medication within one week.\n\nThose affected by the rules will have to have a blood test on 8 May to test their eligibility. A statement from the IAAF said that no athlete \"will be forced to undergo any assessment\" and that any treatment was up to the individual athlete.\n\nAthletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) have higher levels of natural testosterone, which the IAAF believes gives them a competitive advantage - findings that were disputed by Semenya and her legal team.\n\nHer lawyers had previously said her \"genetic gift\" should be celebrated, adding: \"Women with differences in sexual development have genetic variations that are no different than other genetic variations in sport.\"\n\nThey have also suggested that Semenya \"does not wish to undergo medical intervention to change who she is and how she was born\".\n• None Semenya Q&A - why is this case so pivotal?\n• None What Semenya ruling means for women and sport\n\nWhat are the proposed changes?\n\nThe rules, applying to women in track events from 400m up to the mile, require athletes to keep their testosterone levels below a prescribed amount \"for at least six months prior to competing\".\n\nHowever, 100m, 200m and 100m hurdles are exempt, as are races longer than one mile and field events.\n\nFemale athletes affected must take medication for six months before they can compete, and then maintain a lower testosterone level.\n\nThe rules were intended to be brought in on 1 November 2018, but the legal challenge from Semenya and Athletics South Africa caused that to be delayed until 26 March.\n\nThe United Nations Human Rights Council has called the plans \"unnecessary, harmful and humiliating\" and South Africa's sports minister called them a \"human rights violation\".\n\nWhat next for Semenya?\n\nOn Friday, Semenya won 5,000m gold at the South African Athletics Championships - a new distance for her, and one outside the scope of the IAAF rule change.\n\nIt was only the second time Semenya had run the distance and she finished more than 100m ahead of defending national champion Dominque Scott.\n\nHowever, Scott said she was unsure whether Semenya could be a serious Olympic contender over the longer distance.\n\nSemenya is national and Commonwealth champion at 1500m, and also broke the African 400m record in August.\n\nWhat is the difference between transgender and intersex?\n\nWe have heard a lot about transgender over the past year. Obviously that's a natural discussion that's going to take place, but Semenya is not transgender.\n\nIntersex is a term used to refer to differences of sexual development in individuals. It can relate to men and women and can manifest itself externally, with varied external genitalia or characteristics, or internally in relation to chromosomes and testosterone.\n\nIt can have health repercussions on athletes. Individuals can live their life not knowing they have any DSD.\n\nTransgender describes a person whose gender is not the same as, or does not sit comfortably with, the sex they were assigned at birth.\n\nThey may have reassignment to make that transition or they may wish to identify themselves as male or female without making any physiological transitions.\n\nEighteen-time Grand Slam champion Martina Navratilova: \"The verdict against Semenya is dreadfully unfair to her and wrong in principle. She has done nothing wrong and it is awful that she will now have to take drugs to be able to compete. General rules should not be made from exceptional cases and the question of transgender athletes remains unresolved.\"\n\nMarathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe: \"I understand how hard a decision this was for Cas and respect them for ruling that women's sport needs rules to protect it.\"\n\nMegha Mohan, BBC Gender and Identity reporter: \"The spectrum of identity stretches far beyond the binary, say human rights activists, so shouldn't Semenya's physical abilities be celebrated the same way as Usain Bolt's height and Michael Phelps's wingspan are? Either way this verdict does not signal the end of the debate.\"\n• 31 July 2009: 18-year-old Semenya runs fastest 800m time of the year to win gold at the Africa Junior Championships.\n• August 2009: Semenya undertakes a gender test before the World Championships in Berlin. She is unaware of the purpose of the test, with Athletics South Africa president Leonard Chuene telling her it is a random doping test.\n• 19 August 2009: Semenya wins 800m world gold, breaking the world-leading mark she set in July. After her victory, the news of Semenya's gender test is leaked to the press.\n• November 2009: There are reports that Semenya's test has revealed male and female characteristics. The results are not made public.\n• 6 July 2010: Semenya is cleared by the IAAF to compete again.\n• 22 August 2010: Semenya wins the 800m at an IAAF event in Berlin.\n• 11 August 2012: Semenya wins 800m silver at the 2012 London Olympics. This is later upgraded to gold after Russian winner Mariya Savinov is given a lifetime ban for doping violations. Semenya is also upgraded to 2011 world gold.\n• July 2014: India sprinter Dutee Chand, 18, is banned from competing after a hormone test shows natural natural levels of testosterone normally only found in men.\n• 27 July 2015: Chand is cleared to compete; the Court of Arbitration for Sport suspends, for two years, the introduction of an earlier version of IAAF rules requiring female athletes to take testosterone-suppressing medication.\n• 20 August 2016: Semenya wins 800m gold at the Rio Olympics, but the decision to allow her to compete is\n• 4 July 2017: Research commissioned by the IAAF finds female athletes with high testosterone levels have a \"competitive advantage\".\n• 26 April 2018: The IAAF introduces new rules for female runners with naturally high testosterone.\n• 19 June 2018: Semenya says she will challenge the \"unfair\" IAAF rules.", "Adam Price said Wales \"doesn't matter one bit\" in Westminster's corridors of power\n\nEuropean elections are a chance to draw a line under \"grief\" over the current \"lack of leadership in politics\", Plaid Cymru's leader has said.\n\nLaunching the party's campaign, Adam Price urged anyone in Wales wanting another EU poll to back Plaid Cymru.\n\nHe said the party was targeting Welsh Labour voters who felt let down on Brexit.\n\nPlaid was the only Welsh party \"with a chance of winning seats\" unequivocally backing a further referendum, he said.\n\nPlaid says Wales should hold an independence referendum if Brexit occurs without a further EU referendum.\n\nLast Friday's announcement by Mr Price on an independence vote went further than his party conference speech in March.\n\nAt the Plaid Cymru campaign launch for the European election in Cardiff on Thursday, Mr Price said thousand of Labour supporters across Wales were living in a \"state of permanent despair\".\n\nEuropean elections, on 23 May, offered a chance to draw a line \"under your grief\" over the \"lack of leadership in politics in general at the moment\", he said.\n\n\"These elections are a bridge across which thousands of people can venture to make the change that Wales needs,\" he said.\n\n\"If we want a European future for Wales we have to vote for Plaid Cymru - the only party that unequivocally in that future.\"\n\nA vote for Plaid Cymru was \"our chance\" to \"make Wales matter in Europe and the world\" he said.\n\n\"We know that Wales matters. Wales matters to millions of our people, in their daily lives. But in the corridors of power in Westminster it doesn't matter one bit.\n\n\"This election is not just about putting Wales - our lives, our problems and our dreams - at the heart of Europe, but bringing in Wales from the margins, out from the cold.\"\n\nLead Plaid candidate Jill Evans said Wales needs a voice in Europe \"more than ever\"\n\nPlaid has previously said that a cross-party deal between anti-Brexit parties \"could have been an opportunity to offer the voters the clearest possible choice at the ballot box\" and blamed the Greens in Wales for the two parties failing to work together in the European election.\n\nThe Green Party has said no approach had been made to it by other parties.\n\nIn the last European Parliament election in 2014, the four Welsh seats were split between Plaid, Labour, UKIP and the Conservatives.\n\nMr Price said: \"We are the only party in Wales with a chance of winning seats in the European Parliament that is unequivocally supporting a People's Vote.\n\n\"For that reason we are appealing for support across the parties. We are saying to progressive people across the political spectrum - join us.\n\n\"Our appeal is especially to [Welsh] Labour supporters who, for years, have been in a state of permanent disappointment with the leadership of their party.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's lead candidate, Jill Evans, first elected an MEP in 1999, said she was \"proud and thankful\" to be standing for a fifth time.\n\n\"Because now, more than ever, Wales needs a voice in Europe and because there is so much potential to build a better future for our nation in Europe.\"\n\n\"We are the only realistic choice for voters who are looking for a different and a constructive way forward,\" she added.\n\nThere are eight parties fighting for four Welsh seats in the planned European elections on 23 May.\n\nWelsh Labour, the Welsh Conservatives, Plaid Cymru, the Welsh Liberal Democrats, UKIP and the Green Party are joined by Change UK and the Brexit Party.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drake gave a Game of Thrones shout-out while accepting one of his awards\n\nDrake has broken the record for the number of Billboard Music Awards received by an artist - after picking up another 12 at Wednesday's event.\n\nIt means the rapper now has a total of 27 Billboard Awards to his name.\n\nHe won the biggest prize of the night - the award for top artist - beating the likes of Cardi B, Ariana Grande, Post Malone and Travis Scott.\n\nDrake thanked his mum for her \"relentless effort\" in his life during his acceptance speech.\n\nHe said: \"No matter how long it took me to figure out what I wanted to do, you were always there to give me a ride and now we're all on one hell of a ride.\"\n\nDrake also won top male artist, top streaming songs artist, top rap artist and top Billboard 200 album for Scorpion as well as seven others.\n\nBTS were named social artists of the year for the third time in a row\n\nOther winners on the night included Ariana Grande, who picked up the award for top female artist, BTS, who took home the top duo/group award, and Luke Combs, who won top country artist.\n\nCardi B won 12 awards, including the top 100 song prize for Girls Like You - which features Maroon 5.\n\nHer speech is well worth a watch.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by XXL Magazine This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEd Sheeran and Ella Mai were among the British winners. Ed won top touring artist while Ella Mai won top R&B artist.\n\nPicking up her award, Ella - who was born in London - thanked God and her fans, as well as her family.\n\nShe said: \"My mum, my brother and my grandma, for always being my number one supporters.\"\n\nElla Mai's song Boo'd Up was a massive hit in the US\n\nImagine Dragons won the award for top rock group and its lead singer Dan Reynolds used his acceptance speech to speak out against the use of gay conversion therapy in the US.\n\nHe said: \"I just want to take this moment to say that there are 34 states that have no laws banning conversion therapy.\n\n\"And on top of that 58% of our LGBTQ population live in those states.\n\n\"This can change but it's going to take all of us talking to our state legislation, pushing forward laws to protect our LGBTQ youth.\"\n\nMariah performed a medley of her greatest hits at the event\n\nThe event saw performances from a range of artists including Taylor Swift, Jonas Brothers, Madonna and Mariah Carey - who won the icon award,\n\nDuring her acceptance speech, Mariah said she'd \"always felt like an outsider\" and \"someone who doesn't quite belong anywhere\".\n\nShe added: \"Icon? I really don't think of myself in that way. I started making music out of a necessity to survive and to express myself.\"\n\nClick here for the full list of winners.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The pair of 100-year-olds are still in love after 76 years\n\nNellie Graham is celebrating her 100th birthday and she is in good company.\n\nHer husband, Joe, marked the same milestone last August.\n\nThe County Antrim pair, who still live independently at their Randalstown bungalow, are thought to be Northern Ireland's oldest married couple.\n\nMarried on 23 September 1942 in the middle of World War Two, this year marks their 77th wedding anniversary.\n\nThey met at school and have been inseparable ever since.\n\nMrs Graham celebrated her century at a family party at the weekend - surrounded by her 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.\n\nSo what's the answer to the question everyone wants to know - the secret to such a long and healthy life?\n\n\"I don't know any secret, just hard work,\" she says.\n\nA keen baker, Mrs Graham still does all the cooking and cleaning for the couple, but takes a break every Friday to get her hair done.\n\nMrs Graham says she and her husband always make up after a row\n\nShe has spent just one night in hospital for a minor ailment in her 10 decades.\n\nMr Graham is in poorer health, so his wife cares for him every day, and gets up at 07:00 every day to make him porridge for breakfast.\n\nDoes she have any tips for a long and happy marriage?\n\n\"I hear tell of these ones saying that they never had a row, but I couldn't take that in,\" she says.\n\nThe couple have 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren\n\n\"There could be a row between now and bedtime.\n\n\"But you always make up, certainly you do.\"\n\nOn how she feels to be one of very few married couples to have reached 100, Mrs Graham says: \"Well anyone we would talk to have never known a couple, they've known one, but not a couple, so this will go down in the records.\n\n\"It doesn't make us feel any different - doesn't make us feel any younger or any older.\n\nDavid Graham says he has picked up some advice from his mother and father on living a long life\n\n\"You're as young as you feel,\" she adds.\n\nThe couple's eldest son David is a very youthful looking 76.\n\nHe says he couldn't be prouder of his parents: \"I suppose we're one of the most unique families in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nOf his parents' marriage that has spanned more than seven decades, he says: \"Father has slowed down a bit, but he never gets a chance to talk, she does all the talking for him and her both.\"\n\nMr Graham says he has picked up some advice from his mother and father on living a long life.\n\n\"Just keep going no matter what befalls you, just keep motoring on, do what you do every day and get on with it,\" he says.\n\n\"A doctor told me one day I'd live to 150.\n\n\"I said: 'I don't think so, unless there's a miracle cure along the way.'\n\n\"But I suppose the genes are quite strong.\"\n\nCould living in Randalstown be the secret behind those strong genes?\n\n\"I don't know if there's something in the air or what, but it seems to work for this pair anyway,\" says Mr Graham.\n\n\"They're unbelievable and we don't know how lucky we are to have them.\"\n• None Secrets of living to a ripe old age", "Ella Kissi-Debrah lived 25m from the South Circular Road in south London\n\nA fresh inquest will be held into the death of a nine-year-old girl whose fatal asthma attack may have been linked to air pollution near her home.\n\nElla Kissi-Debrah, who lived near the South Circular Road in Lewisham, south east London, died in 2013 after having seizures for three years.\n\nThe High Court granted a new inquest after Ella's mother said more evidence had come to light.\n\nRosamund Kissi-Debrah said she was \"delighted\" by the ruling.\n\nIn a statement, she said she was looking forward to \"finally getting the truth\".\n\n\"The past six years of not knowing why my beautiful, bright and bubbly daughter died has been difficult for me and my family, but I hope the new inquest will answer whether air pollution took her away from us,\" she said.\n\n\"If it is proved that pollution killed Ella then the government will be forced to sit up and take notice that this hidden but deadly killer is cutting short our children's lives.\"\n\nElla had 27 visits to hospital for her asthma attacks\n\nElla was first taken to hospital in 2010 after a coughing fit and subsequently admitted to hospital 27 times.\n\nAn inquest in 2014, which focused on Ella's medical care, concluded her death was caused by acute respiratory failure and severe asthma.\n\nBut a 2018 report said it was likely unlawful levels of pollution, which were detected at a monitoring station one mile from Ella's home, contributed to her fatal asthma attack.\n\nRuling with two other judges that the 2014 conclusions should be quashed, Judge Mark Lucraft QC said: \"In our judgment, the discovery of new evidence makes it necessary in the interests of justice that a fresh inquest be held.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said Ella's family's lawyers had argued the new evidence demonstrated there was an \"arguable failure\" by the state to comply with its duties under the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects the right to life.\n\nElla may become the first person in the UK for whom air pollution is listed as the cause of death.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online coverage of election night comes from the BBC newsroom in central London\n\nThe BBC, like other broadcasters, is not allowed to report details of campaigning or election issues while polls are open on Thursday for elections in England.\n\nThe BBC is required by electoral law to adopt a code of practice, ensuring fairness between candidates, and that is particularly important on polling day.\n\nThe code of practice is contained in more detailed election guidelines which are written and published for each election, and they include guidance about polling day.\n\nOn polling day, the BBC does not report on any of the election campaigns from 00:30 BST until polls close at 22:00 BST on TV, radio or bbc.co.uk, or on social media and other channels.\n\nHowever, online sites do not have to remove archived reports, including, for instance, programmes on iPlayer. Any lists of candidates and the guide to parties' policies remain available online during polling day.\n\nCoverage of what is happening on the day is usually restricted to uncontroversial factual accounts, such as the appearance of politicians at polling stations, or the weather.\n\nIt tends to focus on giving information that will help voters with the process of going to polling stations.\n\nSubjects which have been at issue or part of the campaign - or other controversial matters relating to the election - must not be covered on polling day itself; it's important that the BBC's output cannot be seen to be directly influencing the ballot while the polls are open.\n\nThe BBC, however, is still able to report on other political events and stories which are not directly related to the elections.\n\nNo opinion poll on any issue relating to politics or the election can be published until after the polls have closed.\n\nWhile the polls are open, it is a criminal offence to publish anything about the way in which people have voted in that election.\n\nFrom 22:00 BST normal reporting of the election resumes.", "Henry Vincent and another man broke into Richard Osborn-Brooks's home in Hither Green\n\nA 79-year-old man who killed an armed burglar with a kitchen knife acted lawfully, an inquest has decided.\n\nRichard Osborn-Brooks stabbed Henry Vincent with a knife in Hither Green, south-east London, in April last year.\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks told Southwark Coroner's Court the 37-year-old had threatened him with a screwdriver, then \"rushed forward\" and \"ran into the knife I was holding\".\n\nSpeaking by videolink, Mr Osborn-Brooks told the inquest he still believed the intruder was \"intending to do me harm\" during the break-in on 4 April 2018.\n\nHe said two men had knocked on his door, grabbed him and pushed him inside.\n\nBoth then demanded money as one then shoved him toward the kitchen and the other ran upstairs.\n\nHe told the hearing that when he grabbed the knife, Mr Vincent's accomplice fled out of the front door but the intruder came down the stairs holding the screwdriver and saying \"get out of my way or I'll stick you with this\".\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks said he had then warned Mr Vincent that his weapon was \"bigger than yours\".\n\n\"I thought he would look at my knife... and he would take the opportunity to run out the front door which was open.\n\n\"He definitely didn't try to get out of the front door, he came towards me,\" Mr Osborn-Brooks said.\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks said Mr Vincent threatened him with a screwdriver during the raid\n\nMr Vincent's cause of death was given as an incised wound to the chest.\n\nHis sister had told the hearing her brother was \"not a violent person\".\n\n\"He was a father, he was a son, he was a brother. No one deserves to die,\" Rosie Vincent said.\n\nIn a statement, the pathologist who carried out the post-mortem examination said a toxicology report indicated \"a recent use of both cocaine and heroin\".\n\nHe said Mr Vincent \"may have been experiencing the effects\" at the time of the raid.\n\nSenior coroner Andrew Harris said: \"The interaction that led to the stabbing was the simultaneous approach of the deceased with a small screwdriver and the forward movement of the householder with a kitchen knife, leading to moderate force being applied by the knife to Mr Vincent's chest, and its penetration.\n\n\"The householder was terrified and asserted he acted in self-defence after an assault by the other intruder. He was close to, but not obstructing, the exit by the intruder.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The future of 1p and 2p coins may be in doubt - but it seems their use goes way beyond simply paying for things.\n\nTreasury officials are seeking views on the future mix of UK notes and coins as we increasingly move towards digital and mobile payments.\n\nIt conjures up the image of people throwing their smartphones, rather than coppers, into a fountain for good luck - although Downing Street has backed away from a plan to scrap copper coins.\n\nAccording to BBC News readers, viewers and listeners there are many other uses for these coins, from home improvements to baking. Here is a selection.\n\nMany flower sellers and lovers swear by the use of pennies in a vase to keep them from drooping.\n\nReader Chris Stone says: \"The question the government should really be asking is if they end copper coins, what will we put in our vases with tulips? Is this part of their strategy to restrict growth?\"\n\nThey say the copper is important, and it is unlikely they would want to dunk a fiver in the vase - even though the new polymer banknotes are waterproof.\n\nFrom pretty penny to penny-wise, there are dozens of phrases in the English language in which pennies play a part.\n\nA number of people have said this is part of British culture.\n\nIf they are replaced by digital payments, will the language become less elegant?\n\n\"A crypto-currency for your thoughts\" just isn't poetic.\n\nVarious uses have been found for pennies among DIY enthusiasts.\n\nSome have used thousands of pennies as flooring or to tile walls, although it takes quite a bit of patience and glue to achieve the desired effect.\n\nOthers have found more practical uses.\n\nOn Twitter, DogKick says they are \"great as a standby screwdriver for slot-headed screws\".\n\nTeachers swear by coins when it comes to helping youngsters learn to count and add up. It is best to start with ones and twos, and considerably more challenging if they could only use fives and tens.\n\nBBC News website readers have also expressed their worries over the future of games using pennies.\n\nPaul Watts says: \"I save 2p coins during the year and my family use them to play the card game Newmarket at Christmas.\n\n\"There is a lot of joy in everyone's faces when the kitty builds up. But when it is won it, only amounts to around £2.40, but then it hasn't cost anyone a lot of money if they lose!\n\n\"Imagine no 2p coins and having to play with 5p coins. That would then be potentially an expensive card game at Christmas -unless you won.\"\n\nOthers have spoken of switching coins to play the game variously known as penny up, or penny up the wall, or penny pitching - where players try to rebound their coins onto the coins of their opponents.\n\nThe leisure theme continues with an appeal from one reader over the future of a traditional game in the UK's amusement arcades.\n\n\"Snooker Bob\", from Aylesbury, writes: \"We love the 2p coin and save them up every year for our trip to the seaside. These would not be the same without a visit to the arcades with their 'penny falls'.\n\n\"A couple of pounds of these coins can give pleasure to adults and children alike. What is the alternative? Five pence pieces are too small and 10 pence coins too expensive. Please do not take this pleasure away and also jeopardise the jobs of those who work in them.\"\n\nJohn White, chief executive of the amusement industry trade body Bacta, agrees, saying that other coins would not work in these machines.\n\n\"Generations of British families know and love them. This will destroy the product and a number of seaside arcades in the UK,\" he says.\n\nThere is another geographical concern, expressed by Linda Wooldridge on Twitter.\n\n\"Cities can work with contactless cards, rural and village shops not so - they work on real money,\" she says.\n\nThe phrase \"unexpected item in the bagging area\" remains one of the most annoying in the English language.\n\nSo, to get their revenge, or simply for good money management, many shoppers use their stock of pennies to pay at a supermarket self-service checkout machine.\n\nMariama on Twitter says: \"I only ever use the self-service checkout.\"\n\nOthers worry about the effect on prices.\n\nBBC News website reader Denise Ellis says: \"I would be sorry to see the 1p and 2p go - it would be yet another sign of inflation if all prices were rounded up to the nearest 5p or 10p. Having said that though, the pricing of lots of things at £x.99 is annoying.\"\n\nDavid Barber, from St Neots, Cambridgeshire. says: \"We must not get rid of 1p and 2p coins. It would be another kick in teeth for those in our country who have very little income, be it pension or benefits. Price increases would need to be a minimum of 5p if there are no lower denomination coins.\"\n\nBut Gillian Crawley, from Kingswood in Surrey, says: \"Of course 1p and 2p coins should be discontinued - they are now pointless, weigh down purses and pockets, and their loss might discourage the ridiculous habit of pricing most things at, for example, £2.99 rather than £3. That fools no one and has been going on for far too long.\"\n\nMike Cherry, the national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, says: \"It is important for a proper impact assessment to be carried out before any actions which might restrict the availability of 1p and 2p coins.\n\n\"While growing numbers of transactions are paid for electronically, cash is still an essential part of the mix for many small businesses. A retailer wanting to charge 99p should still be able to hand a penny change to a customer who pays with a £1 coin.\"\n\nSarah Fox, on Twitter, says pennies are \"good for blind baking\".\n\nBBC Good Food explains that this is the process of pre-cooking a pastry base - a sure-fire way to avoid the dreaded soggy bottom.\n\nApparently, the unbaked pie crust is lined with scrunched-up parchment, which can then be weighed down with pennies.\n\nMany readers were concerned with the potential loss for charities, as many pop coins in a jar and donate when the jar is full.\n\nThomas says: \"How many other people also deposit this 'shrapnel' into charity tins and if we withdrew the coins, how much would income would they lose?\"\n\nAndy, from Marlow, says: \"I put all my 1p and 2p pieces in charity jars. It isn't much, but everyone doing it would surely make a difference.\"\n\nCharities do face the cost of processing coins, so would no doubt prefer donations by direct debit or in bigger denominations. The question is, whether this would make up for the money lost if there were no coppers to donate?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nThe Conservatives have lost 1,334 councillors, with Theresa May saying voters wanted the main parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nLabour also lost 82 seats in the English local elections, in which it had been expected to make gains.\n\nBut the strongly pro-EU Lib Dems gained 703 seats, with leader Sir Vince Cable calling every vote received \"a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThe Greens and independents also made gains, as UKIP lost seats.\n\nAll 248 English councils holding elections have now announced their full results.\n\nWhile the scale of the Conservative election losses is larger than expected, Labour had predicted it would gain seats, having suffered losses the last time these council seats were contested, in 2015.\n\nThe Green Party has added 194 councillors, while the number of independent councillors has risen by 612.\n\nResults from Northern Ireland's 11 councils are also being announced. No local elections are taking place in Scotland and Wales.\n\nAfter nine years in government it's not surprising that the Conservatives have lost a significant chunk of seats.\n\nBut the sheer number that have disappeared and the loss of control of authorities will hurt - especially with so many activists identifying Theresa May's handling of Brexit as a root of the problem, not just a general malaise.\n\nThe perceived personal nature of the failure is more of an indignity than an encounter with a heckler in tweeds.\n\nAnd for Jeremy Corbyn, it is surprising and disappointing that Labour has simply failed to make any significant capital from such a divided and chaotic government.\n\nHowever ardently his devotees swear loyalty, the party has fallen back - on this set of results at least - seeming further, rather than closer, from winning power in a general election he so often claims to crave.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nMPs have yet to agree on a deal for leaving the European Union, and, as a result, the deadline of Brexit has been pushed back from 29 March to 31 October.\n\nWhile local elections give voters the chance to choose the decision-makers who affect their communities, the national issue has loomed large on the doorstep.\n\nMrs May, appearing at the Welsh Conservative conference, said voters had sent the \"simple message\" that her party and Labour had to \"get on\" with delivering Brexit.\n\n\"These were always going to be difficult elections for us,\" the prime minister added, \"and there were some challenging results for us last night, but it was a bad night for Labour, too.\"\n\nA heckler shouted at the prime minister: \"Why don't you resign?\" He was then ushered out of the conference hall in Llangollen, North Wales, as the audience chanted: \"Out, out, out.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vince Cable: Lib Dems are \"success story of the night\"\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said that while the Conservatives had lost \"more than 10 times as many councillors\", it was \"remarkable\" that Labour, \"around the mid-term of a not-very-popular government - has not made net gains\".\n\nSpeaking in Greater Manchester, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he \"wanted to do better\" and conceded voters who disagreed with its backing for Brexit had deserted the party.\n\nBut Lib Dem leader Sir Vince, attending a rally in Chelmsford, Essex, where his party took control of the council, said it had been a \"brilliant\" result and that \"every vote for the Liberal Democrats was a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC projects that, if the local election results it analysed were replicated across Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would get 28% of the total vote.\n\nThe data, based on 650 wards in which detailed voting figures were collected, suggests the Lib Dems would get 19% and other parties and independents 25%.\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said the days of the Conservatives and Labour dominating the electoral landscape, as happened in the 2017 election when they won 80% of the vote between them, \"may be over\".\n\nHe said it was only the second time in history that the two main parties' projected national share of the vote had fallen below 30%.\n\nThe only other occasion was in 2013, when UKIP performed strongly in local elections.\n\nProf Curtice also said the Conservatives and Labour had both lost ground since last year's local elections when both were estimated to be on 35%.\n\nWhile the Lib Dem figure was the highest since 2010, when they agreed to join the coalition government with the Conservatives, he said it was still well below the 24% the party regularly achieved in the 1990s and 2000s.\n\nGreen Party co-leader Sian Berry told the BBC the Greens were not simply benefiting from a protest vote over Brexit - their gains reflected \"huge new concerns\" about climate change as well as the strength of their local campaigning on a range of issues.\n\nFor UKIP, Lawrence Webb, a former London mayoral candidate who is standing in this month's European elections, said the party's \"fortunes were on the up\", despite the fall in its number of councillors.\n\nThis is the biggest set of local elections in England's four-year electoral cycle, with more than 8,400 seats being contested. A further 462 seats are up for grabs in Northern Ireland.\n\nSix mayoral elections have also taken place, with Labour's Jamie Driscoll winning the contest to become the first ever North of Tyne mayor.\n\nLabour candidates also won in Leicester and Mansfield but the party out lost to independents in Middlesbrough and Copeland.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.", "Trans woman Stephanie Hayden claimed a Catholic journalist harassed her in a series of tweets\n\nA judge has told a transgender lawyer and a Catholic journalist involved in an \"out of control\" Twitter row not to mention each other online.\n\nTrans woman Stephanie Hayden has been granted an injunction against Caroline Farrow after a \"barrage\" of tweets.\n\nAt a High Court hearing in London, Mr Justice Bryan also asked Ms Hayden to not mention Mrs Farrow, and she agreed.\n\nThe judge said tweets sent by mother-of-five Mrs Farrow, whose husband is a priest, had \"crossed the line\".\n\nAn interim injunction bans Mrs Farrow from mentioning Ms Hayden, in particular from \"misgendering\" her, by referring to her as male when she is legally female.\n\nThe judge said: \"The tweeting… has got out of control. Each have said things in those tweets which, in the cold light of day in this court, I would anticipate they would rather wish they had not done.\"\n\nRepresenting herself, Ms Hayden told the judge the debate with Mrs Farrow had been going on since January.\n\nShe claimed Mrs Farrow harassed her in a series of tweets, suggesting she was violent, misgendering her and posting a photograph of her.\n\nMrs Farrow denied this and her lawyers argued she had been subjected to \"a positive avalanche of abuse over a number of months\" from Ms Hayden.\n\nThe two have previously been involved in Twitter rows over similar issues, the court heard.\n\nMrs Farrow was investigated by police after the founder of transgender support charity Mermaids, Susie Green, accused the commentator of misgendering her daughter on Twitter.\n\nMs Green later withdrew the complaint and Surrey Police announced in March they would take no further action.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe aerospace firm, Bombardier, is putting its Northern Ireland operation up for sale as part of a reorganisation of the business.\n\nThe Canadian aircraft manufacturer employs about 3,600 people across several locations in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe company said it would be working closely with employees and unions, through any future transition period.\n\nUnions said it caused \"uncertainty\" for workers at Northern Ireland's biggest manufacturing employer.\n\nIt is selling off its aerospace operations in Belfast, Newtownabbey, Newtownards and Dunmurry. The company's Moroccan operation is also being sold off.\n\nIn a statement, Bombardier said it was consolidating all aerospace assets into a \"single, streamlined and fully integrated business\".\n\nThe statement added: \"Our sites in Belfast and Morocco have seen a significant increase in work from other global customers in recent years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The history of Bombardier in Northern Ireland\n\n\"We are recognised as a global leader in aerostructures, with unique end-to-end capabilities - through design and development, testing and manufacture, to after-market support.\"\n\nIt said Bombardier was committed to finding the right buyer.\n\nIt added: \"We understand that this announcement may cause concern among our employees, but we will be working closely with them and our unions as matters progress, and through any future transition period to a new owner.\n\n\"There are no new workforce announcements as a result of this decision.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark spoke to representatives of the company before the announcement was made.\n\n\"The Belfast plant is one of our most important aerospace facilities in the country and a vital asset in the UK's leading aerospace sector,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"The government will work with potential buyers to take this successful and ambitious business forward.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC News NI's Talkback programme, Gavin Robinson, MP for East Belfast, said that, in recent years, Bombardier workers have not been able to \"get a break\".\n\nHe said that \"government has a role to ensure that all avenues are explored\" in relation to the sale.\n\nIt is not yet clear who could buy the Belfast operation but it may be attractive to global engineering firms who are 'Tier 1' aerospace suppliers.\n\nIndustry watchers point to firms like Spirit Aerosystems or GKN.\n\nThe Belfast plants don't just make parts for Bombardier, they also supply external customers such as Airbus.\n\nBombardier Belfast director, Michael Ryan, previously said the Belfast factory would be capable of functioning as an outside supplier to Bombardier's business-jets division.\n\nSusan Fitzgerald, the regional co-ordinating officer with Unite trade union, said that the Bombardier workforce have been \"bracing for a shock announcement every morning\".\n\n\"The sale causes significant uncertainty for workers and members,\" she said.\n\nStephen Kelly of Manufacturing NI warned that, between workers and Bombardier suppliers, the sale will have a direct impact on 12,000 jobs in the Northern Ireland economy.\n\n\"It's deeply worrying for the suppliers... and it is deeply worrying for the workers,\" said Mr Kelly.\n\nBombardier, which is based in Montreal, has more than 68,000 employees in 28 countries.\n\nLast month, it slashed its full-year revenue forecast from $18bn (£13.7bn) to $17bn (£13bn) due to timing of aircraft deliveries, production challenges in its train-making division and unfavourable currency conversions.\n\nThe rail unit is meant to generate $10bn (£7.6bn) but Bombardier has cut its full-year revenue forecast for the division by almost 8% to $8.75bn (£6.7bn).\n\nBombardier's president and chief executive Alain Bellemare said that the company expected to meet its aircraft delivery and financial performance targets for the year in its aerospace businesses.", "The polls have just closed. A phrase we're perhaps quite accustomed to these days.\n\nAll day, voters in many parts of England and in Northern Ireland have been casting their ballots, expressing their views on the politicians who had put themselves up for scrutiny, stepping forward for the chance to be part of important decisions about our communities - on housing, the transport we use, the care provided to the youngest and oldest in our society.\n\nEach and every area will have its own many stories, each of us our own motivations for which box, or none, we tick. What happens in towns, villages and cities, and the decisions made by town halls and councillors has a huge bearing, of course, on these results.\n\nThese elections are not taking place everywhere, so the results can't and won't give us a complete geographical picture. Turnout tends to be low in council elections, so in that sense too, the results are not representative of the whole voting public in the same way as a general election, where many millions more of us take part.\n\nNot all of the parties are even standing. Neither of the two new arrivals, Change UK and the Brexit Party, are taking part.\n\nAnd quite fittingly in a country like ours, there are plenty of quirks. In one Surrey borough for example, the residents' association party has held control for years and years and anyone else can pretty much forget their chances of getting a look in. In Cheshire West and Chester, the kind of area where general elections are traditionally won and lost, the lines of the map have been redrawn this time round, so it's still a fight between Labour and the Tories, but in a different way.\n\nWhatever happens in the next 24 hours as the results emerge, bear in mind that the results of these local elections are not a beautifully clear, let alone reliable, crystal ball that will reveal the future. But these contests are an enormous set of elections, much bigger than the normal set of local ballots, and an important chance to test how the craziness of our national politics right now is going down with the public.\n\nPolling matters of course, and goodness knows, there is plenty of that about. Recent surveys are certainly not pretty reading for the government, nor do they suggest their main opponents, Labour, streaking ahead. They are a useful but only hypothetical guide to the currents of the public's thinking.\n\nReal votes in real elections are what count, and tonight's a real chance to get a flavour of what the Great British voting public really thinks.\n\nWe'll be on air as the results come in overnight, on BBC One and BBC News, with loads of coverage online too.\n• None What to look out for in the local elections", "Clashes have broken out between police and protesters as \"yellow vest\" demonstrators and labour unions held a traditional May Day rally.\n\nDozens of people were injured and more than 300 arrested, as so-called \"black block\" protesters in dark clothes and face masks also took to the streets.\n\nSome protesters smashed shop windows and threw projectiles at the police, who responded with tear gas and water cannon.\n\nIt follows months of demonstrations by the \"yellow vests\" or \"gilets jaunes\", whose original protests about fuel prices have expanded to wider complaints about economic inequality.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has made a series of concessions to the movement - most recently with a wave of tax cuts.", "With the results for Waverley and Mansfield now in, every council in England has declared.\n\nThe Conervatives have suffered huge defeats, losing more than 1,300 councillors and 44 councils.\n\nAnd Labour, who had been expected to make gains, instead lost 81 councillors and six councils.\n\nTheresa May has said the results show the public want both parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nBut the strongly pro-EU Lib Dems gained 700 seats, with leader Sir Vince Cable calling every vote received \"a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThe Green Party - who are also pro-EU - have picked up an additional 194 seats in comparison to 2015.\n\nYou can read a full breakdown of all the results here.", "New International Development Secretary Rory Stewart has said he intends to stand for the Conservative leadership after Theresa May steps down.\n\nHe told the BBC's Political Thinking With Nick Robinson podcast he could \"help bring the country together\".\n\nMr Stewart also said he wanted to move \"beyond my brief\", laying out his opinions on \"other issues\".\n\nMrs May has told Conservative MPs she will stand down if her Brexit deal is passed by Parliament.\n\nBoris Johnson, Michael Gove, Sajid Javid, Jeremy Hunt, Dominic Raab and Andrea Leadsom are among those who have been touted as possible replacements.\n\nIn March Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss told The Sunday Times if she were leader she would use money saved by Brexit to fund tax cuts for businesses and young people.\n\nJustine Greening told the same paper she would be tempted to enter the race to ensure the Conservatives bring a modern approach and equality of opportunity.\n\nAnd Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has said it is \"entirely possible\" she will launch a bid for the Tory leadership once Mrs May steps down.\n\nMr Stewart was promoted to international development secretary, his first cabinet role, on Wednesday, having previously served as prisons minister.\n\nThis followed the sacking of Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson, who was replaced by Penny Mordaunt, who moved from the international development job.\n\nSpeaking to Political Thinking, Mr Stewart said: \"I think it's important at this time when the prime minister's said she's going to step down to have a voice that's arguing for being radical - but radical in the centre of British politics, not radical on the extreme right of British politics.\n\n\"A voice that's prepared to say I do want to bring this country together.\"\n\nMr Stewart campaigned for the UK to remain in the EU during the 2016 referendum campaign. But he told Political Thinking that \"of course I accept Brexit; I'm a Brexiteer, but I want to reach out to Remain voters as well to bring this country together again.\n\n\"And the only way I can do that is by moving beyond my brief and beginning to lay out, whether it's on climate change or any of these other issues, what I think it would mean to be a country we can be proud of.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Stewart said he had \"to get the balance right because my primary job is to look after my department and that's what I really want to focus on day-in, day-out.\n\n\"But ultimately the prime minister is going to step down and if we're going to have a leadership contest we might as well be open about it and candidates might as well explain what they're about.\"\n\nMr Stewart also paid tribute to Mr Williamson, who was sacked by Mrs May after she said she had information that suggested he was responsible for leaking details of a National Security Council meeting.\n\nHe called Mr Williamson \"an extremely energetic secretary of state for defence\", adding that \"whatever happened in those last days and whatever he did wrong at the end, we owe him huge respect for what he did before that\".\n\nMr Williamson strenuously denies being the source of the leak.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nAthletics South Africa (ASA) says it is \"reeling in shock\" after Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya lost a landmark case against athletics' governing body.\n\nThe South African, 28, challenged new IAAF rules which attempt to restrict testosterone levels in female runners.\n\nAthletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) must now take medication to compete in some track events or change to another distance.\n\nASA said the decision \"goes to lengths to justify\" discrimination.\n\nSemenya had challenged the IAAF's new rules at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) but on Wednesday it announced it had rejected the appeal.\n\n\"We believe their decision is disgraceful,\" ASA added.\n\nAnd it said by justifying discrimination, Cas had \"seen it fit to open the wounds of apartheid\" - the South African political system which enforced white rule and racial segregation until 1991 - which it pointed out was \"condemned by the whole world as a crime against humanity\".\n• None 'Nobody has truly won in Semenya case - one side has just lost less than the other'\n• None Semenya Q&A: Why is her case pivotal?\n\nCas found the rules for athletes with DSD, like Semenya, were discriminatory - but that the discrimination was \"necessary, reasonable and proportionate\" to protect \"the integrity of female athletics\".\n\nBut, in making the ruling on Wednesday, Cas said it had \"serious concerns as to the future practical application\" of the regulations.\n\nSemenya, a multiple Olympic, World and Commonwealth champion, said she believed the IAAF \"have always targeted me specifically\".\n\n\"We are reeling in shock at how a body held in high esteem like Cas can endorse discrimination without flinching,\" said ASA in a statement on Wednesday.\n\n\"For Cas does not only condone discrimination but also goes to lengths to justify it, only undermines the integrity that this body is entrusted with.\n\n\"We are deeply disappointed and profoundly shocked.\"\n\nSemenya is still eligible to compete at the Diamond League meet in Doha on Friday and can make an appeal against the Cas ruling to the Swiss Tribunal Courts within the next 30 days.\n\nASA said it was \"encouraged to take the matter further\" because of some of the observations raised by Cas in the ruling.\n\n\"ASA was confident of a favourable outcome given the human rights, medico-legal and scientific arguments and evidence that we believe invalidated the regulations,\" it added.\n\n\"It is these facts that have left ASA shocked that Cas rejected these compelling factors in favour of the IAAF.\n\n\"ASA reiterates that this may not be the end of the matter.\"\n\nWhat are the proposed changes?\n\nThe rules, applying to women in track events from 400m up to the mile, require athletes to keep their testosterone levels below a prescribed amount \"for at least six months prior to competing\".\n\nHowever, 100m, 200m and 100m hurdles are exempt, as are races longer than one mile and field events.\n\nFemale athletes affected must take medication for six months before they can compete, and then maintain a lower testosterone level.\n\nThe rules were intended to be brought in on 1 November 2018, but the legal challenge from Semenya and Athletics South Africa caused that to be delayed until 26 March.\n\nThe United Nations Human Rights Council has called the plans \"unnecessary, harmful and humiliating\" and South Africa's sports minister called them a \"human rights violation\".\n• 31 July 2009: 18-year-old Semenya runs fastest 800m time of the year to win gold at the Africa Junior Championships.\n• August 2009: Semenya undertakes a gender test before the World Championships in Berlin. She is unaware of the purpose of the test, with Athletics South Africa president Leonard Chuene telling her it is a random doping test.\n• 19 August 2009: Semenya wins 800m world gold, breaking the world-leading mark she set in July. After her victory, the news of Semenya's gender test is leaked to the press.\n• November 2009: There are reports that Semenya's test has revealed male and female characteristics. The results are not made public.\n• 6 July 2010: Semenya is cleared by the IAAF to compete again.\n• 22 August 2010: Semenya wins the 800m at an IAAF event in Berlin.\n• 11 August 2012: Semenya wins 800m silver at the 2012 London Olympics. This is later upgraded to gold after Russian winner Mariya Savinov is given a lifetime ban for doping violations. Semenya is also upgraded to 2011 world gold.\n• July 2014: India sprinter Dutee Chand, 18, is banned from competing after a hormone test shows natural natural levels of testosterone normally only found in men.\n• 27 July 2015: Chand is cleared to compete; the Court of Arbitration for Sport suspends, for two years, the introduction of an earlier version of IAAF rules requiring female athletes to take testosterone-suppressing medication.\n• 20 August 2016: Semenya wins 800m gold at the Rio Olympics, but the decision to allow her to compete is\n• 4 July 2017: Research commissioned by the IAAF finds female athletes with high testosterone levels have a \"competitive advantage\".\n• 26 April 2018: The IAAF introduces new rules for female runners with naturally high testosterone.\n• 19 June 2018: Semenya says she will challenge the \"unfair\" IAAF rules.", "The boy told the inquest he did not know how serious allergies could be\n\nA boy who flicked a piece of cheese at a teenager with a dairy allergy who later died did not mean to harm him, an inquest has heard.\n\nKaranbir Cheema, 13, who also had other allergies and asthma, suffered from a severe reaction at his school in west London on 28 June 2017.\n\nHe was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition and died two weeks later.\n\nAn inquest into Karanbir's death heard a piece of cheese landed on his neck.\n\nA boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told Poplar Coroner's Court he did not know why he threw the cheese, describing it as \"immature behaviour.\"\n\nThe court heard he was given it by a friend during break time at William Perkin Church of England High School in Ealing.\n\nHe then threw the piece of cheese at Karanbir - but said he was not specifically his target.\n\n\"After that he just said 'I am allergic to cheese',\" the boy said.\n\n\"I apologised and went to class after.\"\n\nThe boy admitted he did not know how serious allergies could be and thought they could simply cause a rash or fever.\n\n\"I didn't mean to hurt him and obviously I feel bad now\", the boy said.\n\nIn a statement, Karanbir's mother Rina said her son was \"extremely diligent\" at managing his allergies.\n\nInformed that cheese had been put down his neck, she said a consultant at the hospital questioned this because contact through the skin would not cause such a bad reaction.\n\nGiving evidence, Rajvnder Saini who worked at the school, said an Epipen kept in the school for Karanbir had expired in July 2016.\n\nAn email was sent to the boy's mother in February 2017 to inform her, the court heard.", "A public inquiry has been hearing from victims of the contaminated blood scandal.\n\nThroughout the 80s and 90s thousands of people developed hepatitis C and HIV as a result of 'the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS'.\n\nStephen Nicholls and Carolyn Challis are just two of hundreds that are expected to give evidence.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emergency services attend the scene of the fatal accident near Ecclefechan\n\nThree men have died in two separate crashes in the space of less than 10 hours on the A74(M) motorway.\n\nCraig McLaren, 22, from Eastriggs, was killed in the first accident at about 21:05 on Wednesday near Ecclefechan.\n\nA 57-year-old van driver and his 17-year-old passenger died in a second crash at 06:15 near Kirkpatrick-Fleming.\n\nThe road was closed for several hours after both accidents but has since reopened.\n\nCraig McLaren died in the first accident near Ecclefechan\n\nEmergency services were called to the first accident involving a Ford Fiesta on the southbound carriageway on Wednesday night.\n\nThe driver Craig McLaren, who was a serving soldier, died and an 18-year-old male passenger was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.\n\nTwo female passengers were taken to Dumfries Infirmary. All three passengers suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries.\n\nThe road was in the process of being reopened when the second crash took place at about 06:15.\n\nThe road was closed for a second time following the van and lorry collision\n\nIt happened near Kirkpatrick-Fleming and involved a van and a lorry on the northbound carriageway.\n\nThe van driver and his passenger were killed. The lorry driver was unhurt.\n\nThere were significant tailbacks in the area for some time as the route was closed and accident investigations were carried out.\n\nTraffic Scotland reported that the road had fully reopened by about 12:30.", "There is no clear understanding of what is needed to deliver welfare payments to Scotland's expected 1.4 million claimants, Audit Scotland has said.\n\nThe warning from the spending watchdog comes as the Scottish government prepares to take over control of 11 benefits from the UK government.\n\nSo far almost £90m has been spent on delivering the new benefits system.\n\nHowever, Audit Scotland said it was still unclear what the overall cost would be.\n\nIn its report, the spending watchdog said that while the delivery of the first two benefits to be taken on by Social Security Scotland had gone well, the real challenge lay ahead.\n\nThe new benefits - the carer's allowance supplement and best start grants - began being given to claimants in 2018.\n\nFigures from Audit Scotland show that £33m was paid to 77,000 people receiving the carer's allowance supplement, while £2.7m was paid to 7,000 people receiving best start grants.\n\nThe Scottish government has also spent £87m implementing the new system.\n\nHowever, in the report Scotland's auditor general Caroline Gardner warned that while the Scottish government had done a \"good job\" delivering the first two benefits, its second phase of delivery included the most complex and highest risk benefits\n\nShe also highlighted the difficulties that Social Security Scotland, which is headquartered in Dundee, had encountered employing adequately skilled staff, both in project management and in IT.\n\nSocial Security Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said seven benefits would be implemented by the end of 2019\n\nMs Gardner said the vacancy rate was 30%, prompting a reliance on agency staff and contractors and pushing up costs.\n\nShe said: \"The government has done well to date but has had to work flat out to reach this point, leaving little time to draw breath and plan for the challenges ahead.\n\n\"The social security team is doing the right things to address that issue, but it hasn't yet got a clear understanding of what's needed to deliver the more complex benefits to come, or how much it will cost.\"\n\nShe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"To put it in context, the benefits that have been delivered so far are about 2% of the total £3.5bn that will be involved when it's fully rolled out.\n\n\"The government deliberately focused on the benefits that were easier to implement first of all - the one-off payments, the relatively small caseloads and where people's eligibility is easy to assess, new parents for example.\n\n\"The disability benefits are very different. More people are involved, assessing eligibility is much more complex and there are regular payments that people will rely on for their living costs, so scaling that up really is a very significant move from the success that has been achieved so far.\"\n\nMinisters have previously denied their timetable for implementing the new benefits' rollout was unrealistic.\n\nSocial Security Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said that the government was already taking action to respond to the Audit Scotland report.\n\nShe said that they aimed to have delivered three of the 11 devolved benefits by the end of 2019, as well as four new ones to the Scots in most need.\n\nShe told Good Morning Scotland: \"I very much welcome the report from Audit Scotland. It has recognised that we've done very well to deliver at that very high pace and with significant challenges.\n\n\"The evidence from last year shows that we have been able to establish a new public service for Scotland, we are delivering benefits - there's over £197m delivered by Social Security Scotland already directly to low income families and to carers.\n\nMs Somerville said that she recognised there were challenges ahead for the service but that plans to meet them were already well underway.\n\nShe also said that progress was being made on the department's vacancy rate, which had dropped from 30% to 15% in mid April.\n\nOn the overall costs of the service, Ms Somerville said: \"The financial memorandum from the social security bill, that was only passed last year, show that the implementation costs were around £308m.\n\n\"The steady-state running costs for the agency were estimated to be between £144m-£156m and that replicates and shadows very well what happens within the current system.\"\n\nThe Scottish Conservative spokeswoman for social security, Michelle Ballantyne, said the SNP had spent years complaining about the UK government's approach to benefits but was now finding out how difficult it was to create a fair and sustainable welfare system.\n\nShe added: \"This report shows that 98% of the annual expenditure on devolved benefits have yet to be delivered.\n\n\"They have spent a fortune just to get to this point, and the costs appear to be rising still.\"\n\nMark Griffin, Scottish Labour's social security spokesman, said: \"This damning report means that vulnerable people in Scotland will continue to suffer at the hands of the Tories while they wait for a devolved system that was meant to bring dignity and respect.\n\n\"The SNP have already chosen to leave Scotland's social security powers at the whims of a Tory government, with some disabled people having to wait up to 2024 for their payments to transfer.\"", "Voters are continuing to head to the polls for council and mayoral elections across England and Northern Ireland.\n\nElections are being held for 248 English councils, six mayors and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland.\n\nPolling stations for the votes - spanning metropolitan and district councils and unitary authorities - are open until 22:00 BST.\n\nNo local elections are taking place in Scotland and Wales.\n\nThis is the biggest set of local elections in England's four-year electoral cycle, with more than 8,400 seats being contested.\n\nA further 462 seats are up for grabs in Northern Ireland.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nVoters in 10 local authorities in England need to either show ID or produce their polling card before they can vote as part of a trial scheme.\n\nThose in Braintree, Broxtowe, Craven, Derby, North Kesteven, Woking and Pendle have to show ID before they can vote.\n\nVoters in Mid Sussex, North West Leicestershire, and Watford local authorities are required to show their polling card.\n\nEveryone else in England can vote as usual, with no need to bring along a polling card or any proof of ID.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland, voters need photo ID, the polling card received through the post being for information purposes only.\n\nResults for about 108 English councils are expected to be declared before 06:00 on Friday.\n\nThe remaining 140 are scheduled to come in throughout Friday, mostly between midday and 1800 BST.\n\nThe Northern Irish results will take longer to come through because of a more complicated voting system.", "Fiona Onasanya was expelled by the Labour Party after her conviction\n\nDisgraced Fiona Onasanya has become the first MP to be removed by a recall petition.\n\nMs Onasanya, 35, was jailed in January for lying about a speeding offence.\n\nShe was expelled by Labour after her conviction and had been representing Peterborough as an independent.\n\nPeterborough City Council said 19,261 constituents had signed the petition. Ms Onasanya will be allowed to stand for re-election.\n\nThe council said the signatures represented 27.6% of eligible residents. The threshold required to remove Ms Onasanya was 10%.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow confirmed the recall petition had been successful.\n\nHe told MPs: \"Fiona Onasanya is no longer the member for Peterborough and the seat is accordingly vacant.\n\n\"She can therefore no longer participate in any parliamentary proceedings as a member of parliament.\"\n\nMs Onasanya, who was jailed for perverting the course of justice, has become the first MP to be removed by the recall process, introduced by David Cameron in 2015.\n\nShe was first elected to Parliament as a Labour MP with a slender majority of 607 in 2017.\n\nThe process by which the electorate can remove an MP before the end of their term was introduced in the UK in 2015 in response to the 2010 MPs' expenses scandal.\n\nThe recall procedure can only be triggered under certain circumstances, including if an MP is convicted in the UK of an offence and sentenced or ordered to be imprisoned or detained - and all appeals have been exhausted.\n\nFor a recall petition to be successful, 10% of eligible registered voters need to sign the petition. It remains open for six weeks.\n\nIf successful, a by-election is called and the recalled MP is allowed to stand as a candidate.\n\nThe first recall petition against an MP was triggered in July 2018 against North Antrim MP Ian Paisley after he failed to declare two holidays paid for by the Sri Lankan government.\n\nThe petition was unsuccessful, as it was short of 444 signatures, and Mr Paisley remained an MP.\n\nThe petition against Ms Onasanya is the first time a recall petition has been held in England.\n\nA third MP, Chris Davies, Conservative member for Brecon and Radnorshire, is facing a recall petition in Wales after he was convicted for a false expenses claim.\n\nLabour Party chairman Ian Lavery said: \"Labour campaigned hard for a victory in this recall petition.\n\n\"Labour will vigorously fight the by-election here in Peterborough.\"\n\nNigel Farage said his new Brexit Party would contest the by-election, but a spokesman said no decision had yet been taken on whether Mr Farage would be the candidate.\n\nThe by-election in a city which voted 61% Leave in the 2016 EU referendum potentially offers the former UKIP leader a route to a seat in Parliament after seven unsuccessful attempts.\n\nMeanwhile, the former MP George Galloway - a Brexiteer - also declared on Twitter his intention to stand in the by-election.\n\nConservative parliamentary candidate for Peterborough Paul Bristow said: \"The people of Peterborough deserve a better MP who will vote in Parliament to deliver Brexit.\"\n\nFiona Onasanya made her first and last speech in the Commons last week following her release from prison\n\nThe by-election in Peterborough will come in the middle of one of the most tumultuous times in modern political history.\n\nBrexit has shaken up political alliances like never before, but we don't know what impact that will have, and who it will favour.\n\nThe by-election could be an opportunity for the new parties to test the popularity of what they're offering, but the question is what party will they be taking voters from?\n\nAnother possibility is that Brexit has made everyone so fed up with politics that people in Peterborough will just decide not to vote at all, and we will see a very low turnout.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Milo Yiannopoulous, Alex Jones and Louis Farrakhan have all been banned\n\nFacebook is banning several prominent figures it regards as \"dangerous individuals\".\n\nThe social network accused Alex Jones, host of right-wing conspiracy website InfoWars, its UK editor Paul Joseph Watson and ex-Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos of hate speech.\n\nLouis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who has expressed anti-Semitic views, will also be excluded.\n\nFacebook has already banned anti-Islamic UK groups like Britain First.\n\nThe latest ban also applies on Instagram, which Facebook owns.\n\n\"We’ve always banned individuals or organisations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology,” the company said in a statement.\n\n\"The process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and it is what led us to our decision to remove these accounts today.\"\n\nThe banned group also includes Paul Nehlen, a white supremacist, and Laura Loomer, an anti-Islamic activist with a large social media presence.\n\nIn November, Ms Loomer handcuffed herself to a Twitter building in New York in protest at being banned from that platform.\n\nLaura Loomer is among those banned from the platform\n\nWhite supremacist Paul Nehlen, right, has twice run in Republican primaries\n\nHowever, Facebook has been criticised for giving forewarning of the bans, giving those affected a chance to redirect their followers to other services.\n\nFor a brief time on Thursday, Alex Jones was broadcasting, on Facebook, about his impending ban.\n\n“I’m about to be banned,\" wrote Mr Yiannopoulos to his followers on Instagram. \"Please sign up for my mailing list before this account disappears.\"\n\nA spokesperson at Facebook said the ban will apply to all types of representation of the individuals on both Facebook and Instagram.\n\nThe firm said it would remove pages, groups and accounts set up to represent them, and would not allow the promotion of events when it knows the banned individual is participating.\n\nIn an email, Facebook explained its rationale for banning the users:\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Nicola Sturgeon has condemned the \"reprehensible\" security leak from the National Security Council as she accused Gavin Williamson of behaving for his \"own selfish political ends\".\n\nThe Scottish first minister said the leak from the National Security Council was a \"sign of the complete dysfunction at the heart of the UK government\".\n\nAsked, during today's First Minister's Questions, whether anyone who breaks the Official Secrets Act should be prosecuted, she said it should be a matter for the police.\n\nShe added: \"I think any minister that has been found guilty in such a way I think that they lose their job.\n\n\"All politicians in government should recognise the responsibility and the privileges we carry and should not be behaving in the way it appears Gavin Williamson was behaving - for their own selfish political ends.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The drone had to be custom-built\n\nA donor kidney has been delivered to surgeons at a US hospital via drone, in the first flight of its kind.\n\nMany see huge potential for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) delivering medical products, with some drones already doing so in Africa.\n\nThe US flight required a specially-designed drone which was able to maintain and monitor the organ.\n\nIt is hoped that it can pave the way for longer flights and address safety issue with current transport methods.\n\nThe recipient, a 44-year-old from Baltimore, had waited eight years for the transplant.\n\nShe said of the unusual delivery method: \"This whole thing is amazing. Years ago, this was not something that you would think about.\"\n\nAccording to the United Network for Organ Sharing, which manages organ transplants in the US, in 2018 there were nearly 114,000 people on waiting lists, with 1.5% of organs not making it to the destination and nearly 4% being delayed by two hours or more.\n\nThe drone took off at night\n\n\"Delivering an organ from a donor to a patient is a sacred duty with many moving parts. It is critical that we find ways of doing this better,\" said Joseph Scalea, assistant professor of surgery at University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), and one of the surgeons who performed the transplant.\n\n\"As a result of the outstanding collaboration among surgeons, engineers, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), organ procurement specialists, pilots, nurses, and, ultimately, the patient, we were able to make a pioneering breakthrough in transplantation.\"\n\nThe three-mile journey required a lot of new technology, including a custom-made drone capable of carrying the additional weight of an organ, which also needed on-board cameras and organ tracking, and communications and safety systems for a flight over an urban, densely-populated area.\n\nIt also had a parachute recovery system in case the aircraft failed.\n\nThe drone's mission was a success and the patient has now left hospital\n\n\"There's a tremendous amount of pressure knowing there's a person waiting for that organ, but it's also a special privilege to be a part of this critical mission,\" said Matthew Scassero, part of the engineering team based at the University of Maryland.\n\nCharlie Alexander, chief executive of The Living Legacy Foundation of Maryland, a charity working to increase organ donation, said: \"If we can prove that this works, then we can look at much greater distances of unmanned organ transport.\n\n\"This would minimise the need for multiple pilots and flight time and address safety issues we have in our field.\"", "Free-to-use cash machines have been disappearing at a rapid rate across the UK, according to a study by Which?\n\nNearly 1,700 machines started charging for withdrawals in the first three months of the year, with the majority starting to charge in March, according to the consumer lobby group.\n\nCardtronics, which runs most of those, and fellow provider NoteMachine are both likely to charge at more machines.\n\nThat could mean the country losing 13% of its free ATMs in only a few months.\n\nThe changes come after a reduction in the fee operators receive from banks each time an ATM is used.\n\nLink, which oversees ATMs, began to cut the fee, known as the interchange rate, last year. So far it has reduced the charge from 25p to 23p per withdrawal.\n\nLink said at the time that the move was aimed at protecting the ATM network. It left the fee for free-to-use ATMs - which are 1km or more from the next nearest cash machine - unchanged.\n\nAshleigh Cooper from Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire has seen the number of cash machines dwindle from six down to two.\n\nMr Cooper, aged 60, said: \"It causes real problems especially on bank holidays. There are no banks here anymore. We have a mobile bank that visits every few weeks but that's no good to me.\n\n\"Hebden Bridge is quite a touristy area and there's usually a problem with one of the cash machines going out of order because it's run out of cash.\n\n\"The local cinema here was always a cash business but they're now having to accept digital payments or lose punters.\n\n\"For me it's like going back to the dark ages, it's crazy.\"\n\nATM operators receive the interchange fee from banks each time one of their cash machines is used.\n\nNoteMachine, which operates 7,000 cash machines across the UK, said the cut in the interchange rate meant it was considering introducing fees at up to 4,000 of its machines.\n\n\"Unless urgent action is taken to reduce the pressure on ATM operators by reversing the interchange fee reductions, NoteMachine will be forced to begin converting ATMs to surcharging,\" said chief executive Peter McNamara.\n\nRival ATM machine operator Cardtronics has said it is likely to convert another 1,000 of its ATMs over the coming months. It said it \"had been forced into charging a fee for cash withdrawals on some of our machines where Link's cuts have left us with no choice\".\n\nThere were about 52,000 free cash machines in the country at the start of the year.\n\nGareth Shaw, head of money at Which?, said: \"Communities are being stripped of free access to cash at an alarming rate that could hit the most vulnerable in our society the hardest, while denying millions of people free withdrawals.\n\n\"A regulator is desperately needed to get a grip of these rapid changes across the cash landscape and ensure all those still reliant on this important payment method aren't suddenly shut out from accessing the cash they need in their daily lives.\"\n\nReported charges range from 50p to £1.99 and the situation angered some of the respondents to the Which? survey.\n\nAnita Brakewell, from Blackpool, said: \"Being disabled means I don't have the option of walking to the next free cash machine, so these charges shut me out of cash that's important to my daily life.\n\n\"My town has also suffered from bank branch closures, making it hard to access the cash and financial services I need.\"\n\nAnd Robin Farnsworth, from Kirkcaldy, said: \"I stopped using the local cashpoint when it started charging me just to access my cash. I'm on a very tight budget and can't afford to be spending out just to get the money I need for everyday life.\"\n\nBank of England figures show that 2.2 million people are almost entirely reliant on cash.\n\nAnd last year's Access to Cash study, published in December, found that more than eight million people would struggle to cope in a cashless society, which would present real challenges for 25 million UK residents.\n\nHowever, cash use has halved in the past 10 years and in 2017, debit cards overtook notes and coins as the UK's most popular payment method.\n\nThere is a fierce, three-way, struggle going on over the future of our network of free-to-use cash machines.\n\nThe upstarts are independent operators like Cardtronics and Note Machine which now have the most ATMs.\n\nThen there are the banks. They have to pay the operators each time their customers use a non-bank machine.\n\nFinally, we have Link which runs the network and has been trying to get the operators to accept lower payments from the banks.\n\nTwo cuts to the payments have been pushed through, prompting Cardtronics to say it is being \"forced\" to charge the customer instead.\n\nAnd the backdrop is that we are using less cash, which means fewer withdrawals and less chance that a cash machine will pay its way.\n\nSo it's not clear where this will end.\n\nBut more charging will cause anger and frustration amongst those who depend heavily on cash.", "MPs have approved a motion to declare an environment and climate emergency.\n\nThis proposal, which demonstrates the will of the Commons on the issue but does not legally compel the government to act, was approved without a vote.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who tabled the motion, said it was \"a huge step forward\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove acknowledged there was a climate \"emergency\" but did not back Labour's demands to declare one.\n\nThe declaration of an emergency was one of the key demands put to the government by environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion, in a series of protests over recent weeks.\n\nAddressing climate protesters from the top of a fire engine in Parliament Square earlier, Mr Corbyn said: \"This can set off a wave of action from parliaments and governments around the globe.\n\n\"We pledge to work as closely as possible with countries that are serious about ending the climate catastrophe and make clear to US President Donald Trump that he cannot ignore international agreements and action on the climate crisis.\"\n\nThousands of Scottish school pupils took part in climate protests last month\n\nDozens of towns and cities across the UK have already declared \"a climate emergency\".\n\nThere is no single definition of what that means but many local areas say they want to be carbon-neutral by 2030.\n\nSome councils have promised to introduce electric car hubs or build sustainable homes to try to achieve that goal.\n\nIt's a much more ambitious target than the UK government's, which is to reduce carbon emissions by 80% (compared to 1990 levels) by 2050.\n\nLabour's motion also calls on the government to aim to achieve net-zero emissions before 2050 and for ministers to outline urgent proposals to restore the UK's natural environment and deliver a \"zero waste economy\" within the next six months.\n\nThe Welsh and Scottish governments have both already declared a climate emergency, along with dozens of towns and cities, including Manchester and London.", "Network Rail's former properties are home to a wide variety of businesses\n\nNetwork Rail only considered tenants of its arches \"late in the process\" when it sold its commercial property portfolio, the spending watchdog says.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) said the £1.46bn generated by the deal in September was \"more than expected\".\n\nBut it said that tenants got no legal guarantees on the amount of rent they pay from the new owners.\n\nThe government says all tenants' rights have been protected - but campaigners warned firms could be priced out.\n\nLeni Jones, director of Guardians of the Arches, said: \"[The NAO's] report confirms that tenants' interests were only considered during the sale process because we forced Network Rail and the government to listen.\n\n\"That was a major dereliction of duty by both Network Rail and the government,\" she said.\n\nMs Jones added: \"If [the new owners] try to impose further crippling rent increases at the scale suggested by Network Rail, they can expect organised opposition.\"\n\nAccording to the NAO, Network Rail valued the portfolio at £1.17bn prior to the sale, but a competitive bidding process meant it fetched more.\n\nIt said the track operator also sold the property on a leasehold basis, so it could continue to safely maintain the UK's railway infrastructure.\n\nBut the NAO also said that Network Rail had \"not explicitly\" considered issues such as tenant protection or community regeneration during the sale.\n\nAnd while the new owners - Blackstone Group and Telereal Trillium - have adopted a charter to guide their dealings with tenants, it has no legal basis.\n\nAmyas Morse, head of the NAO, said: \"Network Rail achieved value for money in terms of the price paid... However, it is concerning that tenants as stakeholders did not form part of the aims of the sale and that they were only fully considered late in the process.\"\n\nBlackstone and Telereal have taken on Network Rail's existing lease agreements, meaning tenants' contractual obligations are unchanged.\n\nBut National Rail has always set rents based on market conditions and the new owners plan to continue this practice.\n\nPrior to the sale, Network Rail suggested buyers could expect a 54% rise in rent over the next three to four years.\n\nMs Jones said this was what arches tenants \"feared the most\".\n\n\"We are the backbone of our communities, driving local economic development and bringing variety and vitality to urban neighbourhoods all over the country. Big rent increases will kill that vitality stone dead.\"\n\nDavid Biggs, managing director at Network Rail Property, said: \"Our role is to safely run, improve and grow the railway for everyone that relies on it.\n\n\"The sale has enabled us to deliver a number of schemes, while at the same time tenants and communities will benefit from investment in the estate by the new owner.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Transport said: \"The rights of all tenants have been protected and all current agreements fully honoured. A charter commits the new owner to engage in an open and honest manner with their tenants and the community, as well as work with long-standing small business tenants to resolve financial pressures.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The tables turned on the online trolls\n\nTottenham striker Harry Kane has invited a fan subjected to online abuse to be a mascot at the club's last Premier League match of the season.\n\nNeil Markham posted a video of his daughter Ella dancing at the club's new stadium after Spurs lost to West Ham.\n\nAs a result Ella and her father received a slew of online abuse from fans upset about the result.\n\nBut that was followed by messages of support that Mr Markham said left him \"overwhelmed\".\n\nOn Saturday Mr Markham, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, posted a video of Ella dancing at the stadium on Twitter with the caption \"the result is never the most important thing\".\n\nAfter posting the video Ella, who has Down's syndrome, was ridiculed online, and Mr Markham was also subjected to abuse for posting the video.\n\nHe said: \"Ella was being called all sorts of names, [people were] laughing at her in terms of the way she was dancing and the way she looked.\n\n\"I was getting abuse in terms of having a child with Down's syndrome.\"\n\nBut Mr Markham said the response from people in support of Ella \"has been absolutely phenomenal\".\n\nMost importantly for Ella, her favourite player Harry Kane sent his own video of support to the family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lilywhite Spurs This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn it he said: \"I just want to thank you for your amazing support. Your family are proud of you as well.\n\n\"We know you're a big fan and we'd love for you to come down and be a mascot for the last game of the season.\n\n\"Keep dancing and keep doing what you're doing, lots of love.\"\n\nA Tottenham Hotspur spokesperson confirmed Ella would be a mascot at Spurs' final Premier League game against Everton on 12 May.\n\nThey added the club was doing all it could \"to identify those responsible for these posts and take the appropriate action\".", "That's all from Holyrood Live on Thursday 2 May 2019.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has signalled she could ditch plans to cut air departure tax.\n\nThe Scottish government has promised to legislate to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2045.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was challenged on proposals for a devolved air departure tax - which would be 50% lower than the current air passenger duty.\n\nAlison Johnstone and Richard Leonard both called on the first minister to scrap the plans.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the government would have to review every policy in order to meet the new climate change targets.\n\n\"Setting targets is one thing, having the policy programme in place to meet them is what matters,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The king is seen pouring sacred water on the head of Queen Suthida\n\nThe king of Thailand has married the deputy head of his personal security detail, and given her the title of queen, a royal statement has said.\n\nThe surprise announcement about his long-time consort comes before his elaborate coronation ceremonies begin on Saturday.\n\nKing Maha Vajiralongkorn, 66, became the constitutional monarch after the death of his much-loved father in 2016.\n\nHe has been married and divorced three times before and has seven children.\n\nA royal statement said: King Vajiralongkorn \"has decided to promote General Suthida Vajiralongkorn Na Ayudhya, his royal consort, to become Queen Suthida and she will hold royal title and status as part of the royal family\".\n\nQueen Suthida is King Vajiralongkorn's long-term partner and has been seen with him in public for many years, though their relationship has never before been officially acknowledged.\n\nThe king is seen pouring sacred water on the head of Queen Suthida\n\nFootage from the wedding ceremony was shown on Thai TV channels late Wednesday, showing other members of the royal family and palace advisers in attendance.\n\nThe king is seen pouring sacred water on the head of Queen Suthida. The couple then sign a marriage registry.\n\nShe and others are prostrated before the monarch, as is customary in Thailand.\n\nIn 2014 Vajiralongkorn appointed Suthida Tidjai, a former flight attendant for Thai Airways, as the deputy commander of his bodyguard unit. He made her a full general in the army in December 2016.\n\nThe previous king, Bhumibol Adulyadej, ruled for 70 years, making him the longest-reigning monarch in the world when he died in 2016.", "In World War Two members of the Royal Sussex Regiment got the chance to film messages to their loved ones back home.\n\nThe film was screened at cinemas in Brighton and was eventually archived at the Imperial War Museum.\n\nNow North West Film Archive and Screen Archive South East are collaborating to try and trace the families of the veterans featured in the film.", "Sir Gavin Williamson is in the spotlight again, after he resigned from the government amid accusations of bullying and harassment.\n\nFormer chief whip Wendy Morton has handed over a series of expletive-laden text messages from Sir Gavin to Parliament's bullying watchdog and made a complaint to Tory HQ about his conduct.\n\nFollowing a report in the Guardian that Sir Gavin told a senior civil servant to \"slit your throat\" and \"jump out of the window\" when he was defence secretary, No 10 said it would be conducting its own informal investigation.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Sir Gavin said allegations about his \"past conduct\" were becoming a distraction for the government - even though he \"refutes the characterisation of these claims\" and has apologised to the recipient of some text messages.\n\nThis is the third time Sir Gavin has had to leave government, having already been sacked from cabinet twice previously - as education secretary and defence secretary.\n\nHis rise through the Conservative ranks has been blown off course by a number of separate scandals.\n\nHowever, he has been widely seen as a political survivor, serving under four different prime ministers.\n\nThe 46-year-old was raised near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, by Labour-supporting parents.\n\nEducated at state schools, he became involved in Tory politics while studying at Bradford University and later went on to become a county councillor in North Yorkshire.\n\nA former fireplace salesman, he also ran a pottery firm, making and selling ceramic tableware, before being elected as MP for South Staffordshire in 2010.\n\nSir Gavin began his parliamentary career as a ministerial aide to David Cameron, acting as the then-prime minister's bag carrier and eyes and ears at Westminster.\n\nHe remained in this important role until Mr Cameron left office in June 2016.\n\nAfter Theresa May became prime minister, he was made chief whip, responsible for keeping MPs in line and enforcing party discipline.\n\nIn the aftermath of the disastrous 2017 election, he played a crucial role in paving the way for the Conservatives' agreement with the Democratic Unionists to prop up Mrs May's minority government.\n\nSir Gavin Williamson (right) shakes hands with the DUP's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, after the party signed a deal to prop up Theresa May's government\n\nIn his role as chief whip he was known for keeping a tarantula called Cronus on his desk.\n\nDescribing his methods in the whips office, he told the Conservative Party conference in 2017: \"We take a carrot and stick approach... Personally I don't much like the stick, but it is amazing what can be achieved with a sharpened carrot.\"\n\nNick Timothy - a senior adviser to Mrs May - described Mr Williamson as an \"excellent\" chief whip, who was \"a shrewd tactician\" and \"a judge of character\".\n\n\"Even MPs who don't like him admit that he was the best chief whip the party has had in decades - and he did it through some of the hardest years,\" he said in a tweet.\n\nSir Gavin's promotion to defence secretary in November 2017 came as a surprise to some within the Tory Party and the armed forces. He had no military background and little opportunity to build up a public profile because his role in the whips office meant he did not speak in Parliament.\n\nWhile at the Ministry of Defence he lobbied successfully for more funding for the military, often to the irritation of the Treasury.\n\nBut he was derided in the press for telling Russia to \"shut up and go away\", and for suggestions the UK should respond in kind to \"acts of warfare\" by the Kremlin.\n\nHis downfall came after an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting about whether to allow Chinese firm Huawei to help build the UK's 5G network.\n\nSir Gavin denied leaking information from the meeting, but Mrs May said she had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" and sacked him in May 2019.\n\nSir Gavin faced protests from pupils in the summer of 2020 after their A-level results were downgraded\n\nHe was not on the backbenches for long and returned to cabinet as education secretary in July the same year, when Boris Johnson became prime minister.\n\nWhen the Covid pandemic broke out in 2020, the role became even more high profile, with Sir Gavin responsible for tricky areas including home-learning and managing the return to classrooms and exams when schools fully reopened.\n\nHe was widely criticised for U-turning over getting all primary school pupils back in school after lockdown and there were also clashes with footballer Marcus Rashford over his campaign to provide children with free meals during holidays.\n\nPerhaps the biggest debacle was the chaos of the 2020 school exam period, with multiple U-turns over how to grade pupils after examinations were cancelled because of the pandemic.\n\nThis resulted in his department's most senior civil servant and the head of the exams watchdog both leaving their roles.\n\nSir Gavin stayed put until September 2021, when he was replaced by Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nSome argued he had been made a political fall guy - used as a lightning rod for the criticism of how the government had dealt with the challenges Covid posed to education and taking the blame for decisions that were never down to an individual minister.\n\nBut in March, the news he would receive a knighthood for his political and public service prompted anger from some teachers and parents, who blamed him - at least in part - for the mistakes on schools policy during the pandemic.\n\nSir Gavin returned to cabinet as a minister without portfolio under Mr Sunak in October. But it took less than two weeks for concerns to be raised about his appointment following claims he had bullied a fellow Conservative MP.\n\nIn texts sent to then-Chief Whip Ms Morton in the run-up to the Queen's funeral in September he appeared to complain that MPs who were not favoured by Prime Minister Liz Truss were being excluded from the ceremony at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIn the messages, published by the Sunday Times, Sir Gavin reportedly warned Ms Morton \"not to push him about\" and that \"there is a price for everything\".\n\nHe was quoted by the paper as saying he regretted \"getting frustrated\" and was happy to \"work positively with [Ms Morton] in the future as I have in the past\".\n\nNo 10 described the messages as \"unacceptable\" but the prime minister's official spokesman insisted Mr Sunak had full confidence in Sir Gavin.\n\nWhen he resigned, the prime minister said he accepted his resignation with \"great sadness\" but understood his decision to step back.\n\nSeparately an unnamed official at the Minister of Defence said Sir Gavin \"deliberately demeaned and intimidated\" them.\n\nThe official said they raised concerns to the Ministry of Defence's human resources department, but did not make a formal complaint at the time.\n\nSir Gavin did not deny using the language attributed to him but said he \"strongly\" rejected allegations of bullying.\n\nHowever, the pressure of multiple accusations and inquiries became too great, and Sir Gavin was forced to step down.\n\nWriting in his resignation letter, he said he would \"clear my name of wrongdoing\" but it remains to be seen if this consummate Westminster operator can, once again, bounce back.", "Richard Osborn-Brooks had been held on suspicion of murder\n\nA man arrested on suspicion of murdering a suspected burglar has been released without charge.\n\nRichard Osborn-Brooks discovered two intruders at his home in South Park Crescent Hither Green, south-east London, on Wednesday.\n\nThe 78-year-old was arrested after Henry Vincent, 37, from Kent, was fatally stabbed during a struggle in the kitchen.\n\nThe Met said Mr Osborn-Brooks had been released and would face no action.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said: \"This is a tragic case for all of those involved.\n\n\"As expected with any incident where someone has lost their life, my officers carried out a thorough investigation into the circumstances of the death.\"\n\nHenry Vincent was under investigation over a separate burglary involving another elderly victim\n\nPolice said they were called at about 00:45 BST to the property over reports of a burglary when they found Mr Vincent collapsed in nearby Further Green Road.\n\nA witness said an accomplice dragged Mr Vincent toward a van before leaving him for dead. A second suspect fled the scene and is still being hunted by police.\n\nWhen we look at the law it is all down to what is considered to be \"reasonable force\" when someone is defending their home.\n\nThe law was clarified in 2013 to say if it was a highly stressful situation and if someone was under a great deal of pressure, then it would not be against the law to act using reasonable force.\n\nIt's always debateable what reasonable force actually is. But there was an assumption that if someone entered your house and if you were genuinely petrified and you did take some action, such as we had in this case, then that could be considered reasonable.\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks was held on suspicion of murder and released following a consultation between Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nHis arrest had provoked outcry from neighbours and an online fundraising campaign.\n\nDet Ch Insp Harding said: \"While there might be various forms of debate about which processes should be used in cases such as this, it was important that the resident was interviewed by officers under the appropriate legislation; not only for the integrity of our investigation but also so that his personal and legal rights were protected.\"\n\nForensic officers investigate the drains near the scene in South Park Crescent\n\nIn January, Mr Vincent was named and pictured by Kent Police investigating a distraction burglary on a man in his 70s.\n\nFamily and friends paid tribute to him on social media.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As a relatively new defence secretary, Gavin Williamson once said that Russia should \"go away and shut up\".\n\nWell, the prime minister has told him to go away because in her view, he did not shut up.\n\nIn a leak investigation, that has broken the precedent of most leak investigations that end up with precisely no result at all, a rapid hunt of just a few days has resulted in the sacking of one of the most senior ministers in government, and one of the few ministers frankly, that the prime minister could more or less rely on.\n\nMr Williamson was for a while chief whip too, the keeper of the government's secrets.\n\nAnd, crucially, one of the few ministers who had good relations with the DUP. Indeed, brokering a deal on Theresa May's behalf in the wreckage of the 2017 general election.\n\nBut there was also a lot of resentment and frustration in government circles at how he sometimes behaved, suspicion often that he was too quick to seek his own political advantage, too interested in his own future, too entertained by the dark arts of Westminster.\n\nThat meant that as soon as the Huawei story broke, fingers were being privately pointed to him as the source of the leak. \"Operation get Gav\", as one of his allies described it.\n\nMinisters were quick to write to Number 10 demanding a full inquiry, some of them privately fuming that \"it must have been Williamson\".\n\nNumber 10 now says there was \"compelling evidence\" to prove that it was him.\n\nOfficials carrying out the inquiry did look at his phone.\n\nHe did, by his own admission, have a conversation on the particular day with the journalist who broke the story.\n\nDowning Street has made a very serious accusation and is sure enough to carry out this sacking.\n\nFor the prime minister's allies, it will show that she is, despite the political turmoil, still strong enough to move some of her ministers around - to hire and fire.\n\nMr Williamson is strenuously still denying that the leak was anything to do with him at all.\n\nThere is nothing fond, or anything conciliatory, in either the letter from the prime minister to him, or his reply back to her.\n\nAnd having had a fractious relationship with the National Security Adviser and Cabinet Secretary, Sir Mark Sedwill, some of Mr Williamson's friends believe that those looking into the affair were simply too quick to conclude the former defence secretary was responsible, treating him differently in this short investigation, compared to others who were on the list.\n\nOne senior Conservative also points out a rich irony here, saying: \"A government that governs by open leaking then sacks someone for not being open about their leaking. We have surely moved from the incompetent to the theatre of the absurd!\"\n\nThese are strange times indeed.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nPedro scored an away goal as Chelsea recovered from an early setback against Eintracht Frankfurt to set up an exciting Europa League semi-final return leg at Stamford Bridge.\n\nEintracht took the lead through their top scorer Luka Jovic, who superbly steered in Filip Kostic's ball.\n\nThe Blues, who started with Eden Hazard on the bench, equalised when Pedro thrashed home just before half-time.\n\nDavid Luiz also went close when his dipping free-kick came off the bar.\n\nThe draw means that Chelsea become the first team to go 16 successive Europa League matches without defeat, breaking the record set by Atletico Madrid from 2011 to 2012. They will have the chance to make it 17 in next Thursday's second leg.\n• None Football Daily: Arsenal and Chelsea close in on Baku final\n\nDid leaving Hazard on the bench pay off?\n\nThere was a great deal of surprise when the Chelsea teamsheet showed Hazard's name among the substitutes.\n\nManager Maurizio Sarri told BT Sport that he rested his 19-goal forward because of fixture congestion, with the Belgian having played 10 matches in a row. So it was a penny for Hazard's thoughts when he was shown watching his team struggle and a goal down after 23 minutes.\n\nHowever, Sarri did not rush on his key attacker and instead kept faith with what he had on the pitch, and was repaid with an excellent display thereafter.\n\nRuben Loftus-Cheek, brought back into the XI, led the fightback. After Pedro went close with a strike that drifted past Kevin Trapp's left-hand post, the England player kept the goalkeeper on his toes with a strike that also flirted with the woodwork.\n\nThe pair then combined for the goal. Eintracht's defenders lost possession after dawdling on the ball in the area, and Loftus-Cheek carved out an opening for Pedro to do the rest.\n\nThe Blues midfielder went close twice more, first with an effort that swept over the bar and then with a stinging shot with the outside of his boot that tested Trapp.\n\nBrazilian Luiz went even closer with an blockbuster of a free-kick that dipped wickedly and crashed off Trapp's bar. Hazard, who came on in the 61st minute, then set up another opportunity for the defender, but this time he headed straight at the German keeper.\n\nThey should have won the game but will no doubt be content with how they began their ninth major European semi-final since the Roman Abramovich era began in 2003. A repeat display at Stamford Bridge should see them reach their sixth European final.\n\nPrior to kick-off, Eintracht supporters produced a spectacular display by holding up black and white cards in the team's colours, while at one end a giant tifo covered the entire stand.\n\nCoach Ade Hutter's team lived up to the lavish introduction in the opening half hour, and underlined why they were unbeaten in 11 home games in the competition.\n\nKey to their success so far has been the forward combination of Kostic and 21-year-old Serb Jovic, who is likely to be courted by several top European sides in the close season.\n\nJovic has been in outstanding form this season, during which he made his move from Benfica permanent, and gave Bundesliga's fourth-placed side the lead with a deft header from Kostic's delivery.\n\nHowever, as Chelsea grew into the match, his team-mates appeared to lose their way. Eintracht's only clear-cut chance after the break fell to captain and defender David Abraham, who headed over from eight yards.\n• None Chelsea are unbeaten in their last 16 Europa League games, a record in the competition since it was rebranded in 2009-10.\n• None Eintracht Frankfurt have played 11 Europa League games at home, winning eight and drawing three. They haven't been behind for a single minute in those games.\n• None Just one of the six teams to draw the first leg of a Europa League semi-final away from home has been eliminated, Celta Vigo in 2016-17 (knocked out by Manchester United).\n• None Chelsea have scored the most goals (31) and had the most shots (217) in the Europa League this season.\n• None Pedro has been directly involved in seven goals in his last six starts for Chelsea in the Europa League (four goals, three assists).\n• None Jovic scored his ninth goal in this season's Europa League, only Olivier Giroud (10) has scored more.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. Kepa Arrizabalaga tries a through ball, but Olivier Giroud is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gonçalo Paciência (Eintracht Frankfurt) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. David Abraham (Eintracht Frankfurt) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Sebastian Rode with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Voters have delivered a stinging rebuke to the two main parties at Westminster in the local elections in England, with ballots still being counted in Northern Ireland.\n\nSee the results below in our interactive map.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nBy-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nWith all the results declared in England the Conservatives have lost over 1,300 councillors while Labour has also seen dozens of losses. The Lib Dems and Greens have both made significant gains, with the Lib Dems gaining more than 700 councillors and the Greens nearly 200.\n\nIndependent candidates have also made unusually large gains, as shown by the rise of \"Others\" in the above chart.\n\nProfessor Sir John Curtice has calculated how Thursday's vote would translate across Britain. This projection of the national vote share puts Labour and the Conservatives both on 28%.\n\nThe Lib Dems were the big winners in terms of councils, taking over 10, seven of which were at the expense of the Conservatives. Their most impressive victory was in Chelmsford where they flipped a majority of 23.\n\nThe Conservatives saw big losses in the south west, particularly the new councils of Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole and Somerset West & Taunton. Labour suffered its biggest loss in Ashfield, where it lost 20 councillors and the control of the council passed to Independents.\n\nLabour won seats in many parts of the country, and the party's largest gain was 16 councillors in the former UKIP stronghold of Thanet. The Conservatives' largest gain was in North East Derbyshire.\n\nSupport for the major parties fell more heavily in their heartlands, according to Prof Curtice, with Tories losing most seats in the south of England and Labour in the north.\n\nThe Green Party were one of the beneficiaries of the main parties' misfortune, gaining nearly 200 new councillors across the country and only failing to defend seats in two areas.\n\nMeanwhile, UKIP lost councillors in many areas. The biggest loss came in their old heartland of Thanet, where former-leader Nigel Farage campaigned unsuccessfully to become an MP in 2015.\n\nSeveral mayoral elections have also taken place across England. Middlesbrough and Copeland returned independent mayors, while the North of Tyne returned a Labour mayor as did Leicester. 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